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"A-2 & THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TAX BILL TERMED ATTACK ON STATES Representative Plumley of Opinion It Injures Levy System. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The “spite” tax bill, which has just passed the House as a measure to punish business men and other oppo- nents of the New Deal, may also pun- ish the States and dry up important sources of their revenue, and thus in turn punish holders of real estate and | others who will have to pay more taxes to the States ir which they live in order to make up State deficits. | Representative Charles A. Plumley of Vermont, who is one of the fore- most tax experts in the House of Rep- resentatives, is authority for the state- ment that the proposed inheritance taxes may insidiously break down the whole system of State taxation. Mr. Plumley, who was a specialist in inheritance tax law before he came to Congress, has made 'an exhaustive analysis of the rights and powers of the Federal Government and the rights of the States. He comes to the conclusion tha’ the Federal Govern- ment has really no constitutional | power over the passing of property What’s What Behind News In Capital Patronage Dream Mere Bubble—But Ickes May Play Ball. BY PAUL MALLON. ‘The calsomine job which Secretary Ickes recently ordered in his Interfor- P. W. A. departments is not as thick as it seemed. The grain of old wood | is already beginning to show through. For instance, the appointment of | Edgar Puryear as P. W. A. personnel | man a few days ago was loudly halled | as the rosy dawn of a new patronage era. Mr. Puryear was formerly secre- tary to the late Senator Cutting. His appointment was supposed to end the latest warjare between Mr. Ickes and Democratic politicos which has been causing a major disturbance within the administra- tion for two years. The Burlew independent P. W. A. patronage dynasty was supposed to be super- seded. But what the Democratic polmcac; have found out is that Mr. Puryear is | not handing out the important jobs for Congressmen. Some say his jurisdic- PHILIPPINES FACE T0KI0 ABSORPTION Gradual Control of Islands Under Independence De- clared Inevitable. (Editor’s note: This is the final article of a series describing the attitude of the Filipinos toward their approaching independence, the problems that lie in their path, and how they are likely to meet these prodlems.) BY JUNIUS WOOoD. MANILA, P. I. (NANA)—A few years ago apprehensions of possible | internal disorders or probable smzure} of the islands by Japan were a part | of every discussion of independence in the Philippines. The fear of Japanese encroachment now has the stage to itself. It was feared that the many tiibes, or peoples, of the island, so dislinct | that each has its own language, would | chafe under government by tagalogs, | whose Manila-bred politicians are in most of the high offices. That 1s not | so vivid today, chiefly because the other peoples are more largely rep- resented in the government and again Closes Door Copyright, A. D. ¢, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1935.. to Successor P. Wirephoto. C.C. C. ALLOTMENT FOR YEAR IS MADE President Roosevelt Trans- fers $200,000,000 of Work-Relief Funds. By the Associnted Press. President Roosevelt today allotted $200,000,000 of work-relief funds to help carry the Civilian Conservation Corps through the current fiscal year. The money will be used mainly to | expand the C. C. C. to full strength | of 600,000, the announcement said. | ‘The enrolled strength now is 425,000. No definite date was set when the | 600,000 peak is expected to be reached. ‘There have been reports that some | difficulty was being experienced in | | finding enough young men to take | jobs in the C. C. C. Among otner] reasons given was the seasonad open- ing up of work on farms. Park Improvement Work. Part of the new funds will be used to finance forest and park improve- ment work in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Approximately 4,400 men will be given employment on these projects, officials said. In ad- dition, they expressed the intention | [ of putting 12,500 Indians to work on Advanced VANDENBERG TILT WITH DICKINSON Reaction Within G." 0. P. Watched as Possibilities of 1936 Clash. By the Assoclated Press. Political observers speculated to- day over the likely long-range conse- quences of a Senate clash besween Senators Vandenberg of Michigan WALTER S. PRATT, JR. —Harris-Ewing Photo. PRATT NEW HEAD ‘and Dickinson of Iowa, both often | mentioned as Republican presidential possibilities in 1936. In the Senate yesterday Dickinson attacked the Senate Munitions Com- mittee’s report and its counsel, Stephen | Raushenbush. Vandenberg, a member | of the committee, vehemently replied that the Iowan did not know what he was talking about. While Democrats enjoyed the spec- tacle, Republicans wondered whether the bitterness engendered by the ex- change might not echo through the Republican campaign of 1936. First Break. It was the first open break in the ever-widening fleld of Republican presidential possibilities. Though the party convention is less than 12 months off, prospective candidates through death. He says this is pri- because any popular government. by have refrained from criticism of each | tion is limited to those paying less than Indian reservations. This, they said, marily a State power and may lead if exercised by Washington, to re-| prisals by the States. He argues that all a State needs to do to prevent | the Federal Government from sapping | its tax revenues from inheritances is to pass a law declaring that all prop- erty passes upon death to the State, | and then the State can remit such | portion as it desires to a beneficlary. | Cites Justice White's Opinion. | “Now as to the validity of any Fed- eral death tax,” says Mr. Plumley, | “whether estate or inheritance, this is | generally believed to have been con- | clusively settled by the decision of | Knowlton V. Moore. I am perhaps | imprudent in venturing to doubt that | decision and the soundness of the rea- soning of the opinion. “Chief Justice White wrote a 67- page opinion in which he discussed the matter of death taxation from every conceivable angle. When, however, he came to the main point, namely. whether the Federal Government had any power, under the Constitution, to levy any sort of a death tax, I venture to doubt the soundness of his reason- ing. He seemed to base his decision on the fact that the Federal inher- itance tax of 1797 wms passed at a time when Congress was full of men ‘who had participated in the formation of the National Government and of the constitutional convention which had preceded it. His argument is that these men presumably knew what was within and what was without the pow- er of Congress and that if they en- | acted a Federal inheritance tax 1t | must have been within the power of Congress, and that consequently it was not up to the Supreme Court, & cen- tury later, w0 doubt the validity of that action. { State Gives Right to Inherit. “It seems to me that this is rather & tenuous argument. At bottom it depends on the theory that the sub- ject of inheritance or estate taxation is not the right or privilege granted by the sovereignty to transmit or inherit, but is the transmission or | receipt. This seems to me, with the | greatest respect to Mr. Chief Justice White, a metaphysical distinction without any real difference. Indeed, I believe it can be demonstrated to be wrong. It is universally admitted that it is the States and not the Federal Government which grant the | right to inherit property from the | estates of deceased persons. I think | no one will doubt this proposition. | If so, it is within the power of any | State to defeat any Federal death | tax as applied to its own citizens.” It was here Mr. Plumley suggested that the States take over all prop- erty and then transfer what they think is a right pmpportion. | “When all is said and done” he | added, “notwithstanding the legality | of the course that has been pursued | and is proposed, it is wrong. The" Federal Government as such has no moral right to levy an inheritance | tax, call it excise or otherwise, which | indirectly puts an additional tax upon | the property of every citizen of each | and all of the several States under the guise of redistributing the| wealth.” When Mr. Plumley discussed this subject recently in the House of Rep- Tesentatives, the administration bill | had not yet been introduced but the | President's message gave as the ob- | Jective the redistribution of wealth. | Hence Mr. Plumley quoted the fol- lowing from President Coolidge's | :;nzt;mem to Congress in February, | Opposes Tax Disguise. “I do not believe that the Govern- | ment should seek social legislation in | the guise of taxation. We should ap- proach the question directly, where the arguments for and against the proposed legislation may be clearly presented and universally understood. “If we are to adopt socialism, it &hould be presented to the people of this country as socialism and not under the guise of a law to collect | revenue. The people are quite able to determine for themselves the desir- ability of a particular public policy and do not ask to have such policies forced upon them by indirection.” Mr. Plumley also quoted from sev- eral speeches and comments of tax experts on the subject of estate taxa- tion, the general tenor of which is that if the Federal Government in- vades extensively the estate tax fleld, the States will gradually be deprived | of their main sources of revenue and | will become vassals of the Federal | Government. It would not be surprising if the va- Hdity of the forthcoming tax law were tested in the courts on the ground that it amounts to confiscation. There aze all sorts of collateral issues in in- heritance tax controversies on which the courts might pass, and the out- look is for considerable litigation as well as friction between the States and the Federal tax departments. (Copyright. 1835.) — SUES FOR SCAR Laundry Worker Asks $50,000 From Plastic Surgeon. CHICAGO, August 6 (#).—A $50,000 damage suit was filled yesterday against Dr. Jean Paul Fernel, a plastic surgeon, on behalf: of Lillian Burry, 27-year-old; Detroit, Mich., laundry worker. The bill, filed by Attorney Mark D. Yellon, alleged Miss Burry was per- manently scarred when an infection developed after a facial ‘ operation August 26, 1934. Miss Burry, the bill set forth, remained for two weeks in a hospital here and was confined for four more weeks in Detroit. | International Congress at Moscow was $2500 a year. At any rate, a confi- dential order has gone out that on all major posts he must consult ex-Crzar of Personnel Burlew—and Mr. Ickes. Thus, instead of caviar, the Con- gressmen are getting peanuts. l QRDERED Saviar 7. U ‘The stories that Mr. Ickes has de- cided to play ball with Democratic Congressmen and Postmaster General | Farley, is. however, half true. At least he is making an effort, for the first time. How great an effort is not yet publicly known, but if you investigate closely you will probably find that ong of Postmaster General Farley's closest henchmen is now on the Ickes pay roll. As a result, you may expect Mr. Ickes to get more credit publicly here- after for the work he has been doing. Note—Honestly (say Mr. Ickes’ friends) he never investigated Gen. Farley in connection with those P. W. A. contracts, mentioned by Huey Long. ‘.\ T PATRONAGE. . TADLE- Roosevelt Repulsed. ‘The President’s close participation in the drive to upset the House majority | against him on the utility bill was kept under cover, but he advised and agreed to each step of the way. For instance, when the advertising man Cramer testified about the health whispering campaign. House Chairman Rayburn leaped to the telephone and called the White House. Immediately thereafter Mr. Rayburn announced he | would seek another test on the issue that day in the House. The White House was surprised and chagrined at the résult. It found 57 per cent of the House voting against | far that every Filipino is aware of Edwin P. Cramer, the President. teller vote showed 59 per cent against. | It was far more of a personal repulse than the public record indicates. All the usual reasons are being mentioned for the current obduracy of the House. They range upward from the low hints by lobby com- mitteemen that House members were bought. An old-time lobbyist (not connected with the utilities) has offered a logical reason. He won considerable money | betting 1 to 3 that the House would not change. His long experience in handling State Legislatures proved to him that legislators look on a changed vole as a confession of error which must be avoided at all costs. A wrong stand is easier to defend politically than a public admission of a mistake. A month earlier the | | NOTHING. DOIN. NY WORKS RELIEF PROBLEM AURRAY Certain prominent personfkes inter- ested in inaugurating a coalition polit!- cal movement against President Roose- velt are supposed to have sounded out | Gen. Johnson lately. They thought he might be interested in leading it. He declined. His associates say his main reason was that he is a.Democrat who still cheers occasionally for F. D. R, | although differmg about many New | Deal policies. Also. he suspects the move may prove to be impractical| politically. | Most Republicans here would like to | see an independent conservative Demo- | cratic ticket enter the field next year, but not through the Republican Na- tional Convention. Convention Grapevine, Gen. Farley's right-handers have | already passed out some private un- official assurarces that the Democra- tic convention will be held next year at Atlantic City. The main reason is the seasore resort is raising some big money to get it Also, the Democratic bosses figure that they can afford to disregard the usual geographical re- quirements They expect to control the conventior. completely, no matter where it is held. Republicans are talking about going to San Francisco, but probably won't. For one thing, it is too close to Paio Alto. For another, they need a Mid- west background. | An official report protesting against | the propaganda activities of the Third prepared inside the State Department last week, but was not announced. The reason it was suppressed was that a ranking official thought there was considerable doubt whether the pro- test was justified. American Communist speakers at the congress talked about fomenting a Pacific Coast dock strike of “un- precedented scope” next Fall. The question here was whether this was a violation of Moscow’s promise not to indulge in domestic propaganda. (Copyright. 1935.) Larry Rich Succumbs. NEW YORK, August 6 (#).—Law- rence Jossenberger, known in vaude- ville as Larry Rich, died of a heart ailment at his Jamaica, Queens, home, it was learned last night. He was 41. Jossenberger, under the Rich name, had led his own orchestra and headed his own act in theaters throughout the country. He, had appeared several times as the star comedian in musical comedies. ) |at the end of 10 years, will be so acting promptly, can suppress an in- surrection at home. Some jittery prophets still theorize that back of the all-embracing na- tional aspiration for independence is| a determination, hidden deep in the | heart of the Tao, or toiling peasant, to rise up as soon as the restraining hand of the United States 1s with- | drawn, and sweep the land clear of statesmen, land owners and all others who have profited from his labor. The | slogan, “every Filipino a lsndo“ner_"‘ will answer that if the commonwealth | is able to carry it out. How to avoid the menace of absorp- | tion by a stronger nation, with Japan's expanding empire coming nearer and nearer, is not so clear. Japan Will Face U. §. Protest. | ‘That Japan will not come with battleships and armies and forcibly take possession in the next 10 years, ai least, not without a protest and possibly resistance by the United States, is assured. That Japan, 10 years hence, will not make possession an accomplished fact before the next sun- set, is not as certain. Many changes will come to the Philippines in the next 10 years, and | they they have been going on for several | years. By November 15, 1945, probably even before, the invisible ties of com- merce, finance and mutual sympathy which now bind the Philippines tu the United States, 8,000 miles away, will be sadly frayed or entirely broken, and these same ties will link the Philip- pines with Japan, only a few hundred | miles away. The United States is shoving the Philippines out and Japan is leading them in. SRR It may be part of the inevitable march of history. | Japan’s occupation of the Philip- pines will be by the quiet but steady process of the yen replacing the dol- | lar as the Filipino's necessity for ex- istence. It has already progressed so it. Last year, the Philippines had | an extremely favorable trade balance for these times. It was entirely due to free trade with the United States. | With the United States being closedl to him, he must accept other mar- kets. He may not like them, but it is 2 necessity. Japanese Trade Growing. In March of last year, 832 ‘per cent of Philippine trade was with the United States and 4.6 per cent | with Japan. In the same month | of this year, 71.8 per cent was with the United States, and 9.8 per cent | with Japan, despite the rush to ship ! to the United States before new tariffs and quotas became effective. The trend had started before inde- pendence was granted, and every in- centive is for it to continue faster from now on. Close to half of the islands’ hemp | is produced around Davao, on the | Island of Mindanao. Japanese colon- ists, according to studies made by | the American Chamber of Commerce | Journal here, produced 70 per cent of the Davao crop and Japanese | dealers handled 73 per cent of it. Protaction of similar Japanese in- terests and colonists was the justi- fication Tokio gave for taking posses- sion of Manchuria, The same result may not follow in the Philippines, but the trade ex- | pansion is quite evident. Of the Davao crop, 469,000 bales went to| Japan and 172,000 to the United States and Europe. Japan bought a third of all the Philippine hemp, for Japan buys where it sells and makes its commercial friendship worth while. The largest hemp ex- porter in the Philippines is a Jap- anese firm, then an American, next a Japanese, and fourth, a British. ‘When China boycotted Japanese goods, the predominant and firmly en- trenched Chinese merchants in the Philippines followed suit. Japan pro- tested and pleaded without result. ‘Then Japan tried other tactics. In Cebu, almost in a night, two Japanese bazars blossomed into nine, and it ‘was similar in other cities, many more in Manila. The Japanese stores &till are here and growing, and the Chinese, or even the Filipino, stores are not getting back what they lost. Japan May Underwrite Bonds. In the past the Philippines have needed loans, and the United States has supplied them. If they do again, Japanese banks may underwrite the bonds. At the present pace, Japan, much a part of every throbbing artery of the islands that making them a part of the growing empire on this Philippine side of the Pacific may be merely an official gesture. Thus, the future of the Filipino is forecast for the years at hand and in wider circles for the decades to come, but, according to Walter Robb, the islands’ philosopher, that is merely part of a greater story of the ages, the story of a once great race and its last opportunity. In bygone centuries, when Europe was in darkness and America was unknown, the Malays, uncanny navi- gators, brave warriors and powerful rulers, spread over the Pacific and built their empire. The days of the outrigger proa, the kris and spear passed; European nations came to rule, and then the United States, ich, in a few years, tried to raise Filipinos, a Malay people, to cope with the present day. Whether succeeded, whether the race can meet the problems of a changed civilization or whether it is destined to be for- ever ruled, is up to the Filipinos. The next generation will know. . 1035 North American (COPTTIERY: webaper Allianos. Tnc.) (The end.) 3 have already started—in fact, | veloped the fact that Mr. = Otto F. Aken (above) wouldn 't retire as superintendent of Cook County, Ill, schools yesterday when Noble J. Puffer (below), elected in November, tried to tike office. Ak en is shown barricaded in an inner office while Puffer sleeps in an outer office with his head resting upon important school records as he prepared for an all-night vigil at the barricaded door. CRANER DESIES T0 BE FORGOTTEN ‘Whispering’ Campaign Au- thor Loses Position With Edison Co. By the Associated Press WEST ORANGE, N. J, August 6— who suggested a “whispering” campaign against the New Deal, has lost his job and new he wants to be a “forgotten man.” Cramer said he holds no il will against the Thomas A. Edison Co. which discharged him-as editor of a | house organ yesterday because of his “advocacy of so repreheusiole a plan” as the covert attack on President Roosevelt he suggested as a means ci combatting the utilities bill. LINDBERGH . 0. P. SENTIMENT GROWS Flyer Supported in Various Sections as Presidential Nominee. By the Associated Press. Support in various sections for seeking to invalidate processing taxes. | and is a member of the bar, Charles A. Lindbergh as Republican presidential nominee next vear was reported today by Robert H. Lucas, | former executive director of the party's national committee The aviator would not reach 35, the minimum age required by the Consti- tution for service in the presidency, until February, 1937, four months after election time and a month after inauguration. Others Mentioned. “I want to be forgotten,” Cramer | said, “I've been smeared all over the front pages of the newspapers. I want to drop out of sight.” He said he hoped to find a new job with one of the advertising or pub- licity clients for whom he worked before he joined the Edison company two years ago. He added that he had “no hard feelings.” “I don't blame the Edison company for dismissing me,” he said. “I would have done the same thing in Mr. Edison’s place.” Charles Edison, president of the company and son of its founder, the late inventor, issued a statement ex- plaining Cramer's discharge. “A careful investigation has de- Cramer, acting wholly on his own initiative and on his responsibility as a private citizen, has written letters to certain ' public utility interests recommending, among other measures, a ‘whispering campaign’ against the President and other national officials,” the state- ment said. “Although we have obtained no evi- dence that Mr. Cramer actually en- gaged in such a‘ campaign, we feel his+ advocacy of so reprehensible a plan is sufficient to warrant his re- lease from this company. Thomas A. Edison, Inc, is not a public utility, has no interest in the Wheeler-Ray- burn bill and no interest in Mr. Cra- mer's political views.” DOOMED FOR THREATS HAVANA, ®ugust 6 (#).—Felipe Garcia Gener” and Ramiro Aguirre were sentenced to death by the Ur- gency Court yesterday for threaten- ing to kidnap and kill Dr. Abilio Val- des Daussas and his wife, They were convicted of attempting to extort $15,000 from the physician to finance alleged revolutionary ac- tivitles. Both were arrested June 7 after a pistol battle with army intel- ligence agents. Senate: Considers conference report on air- mail bill. Takes up copyright bill. Finance Committee studies tax bill. ‘House: Considers private bills. Rules Committee resumes lobby in- quiry. TOMORROW. Senate: Probably will work on gold clause bill. Finance Committee continues work on tax bill. House: Considers miscellaneous Post Office bills. Military Affairs Committee resumes investigation of War Department business deals. District Committee meets at 10:30 am. to consider miscellaneous bills. { Two other names written in on a questionnaire sent by Lucas to party workers to sound sentiment on nom- ination possibilities were those of for- | mer Gov. Winant of New Hampshlre‘ and former Gov. Caulfield of Missouri The Lucas letter named some of those who have been frequently men- tioned to oppose Roosevelt, seeking re- action. He told reporters today the replies had not yet been tabulated. so he could give no indication of who was leading in the poll. He doubted that he would make \ public the poll standing of the candi- dates as he wished to avoid any in- Justice, R Possibilities Declared Scattered. “The possibilities for the nomina- | tion are very scattered” he said. | “Lindbergh has been named lots of | times.” | “About 1,500 replies have come in. The correspondents say in most cases that the Roosevelt administration’s popularity is dwindling. % “Of course, Mr. Hoover has a fol- | lowing in every State.” Lucas expressed doubt that Lind- bergh would ever be a candidate, say- | ing that the flyer d discouraged | persons wishing to give him political | preferment. ¥ JARDINE FEARING CHAOS IF A. A. A. IS INVALIDATED Would Be Disastrous for Farmers. Admits Act Not Entirely Sound. By the Associated Press. DENVER, August 6.—William M. retary of Agriculture, said yesterday he ‘“fears agricultural conditions would be chaotic if the Supreme Court were to invalidate the A. A. A" “Sudden abandonment of the A. A. A. would be disastrous to+ farmers,” said the man who was in the cabinet of the late President Coolidge. “I know farmers; in fact, I'm some- what of a farmer myself, and I would say that 90 per cent of them are strongly in favor of the A. A. A. “I don't believe the act is entirely sound. But some such measure was absolutely necessary. It is too late to go back to conditions before the A. A. A, We must hold' on to the progress that has been made until ‘we can evolve a long-time plan.” it it STRIKE CALLED OFF UXBRIDGE, Mass., August 6 (P)— Nearly 3,000 employes of the Uxbridge Woolen Co. returned to work in three New England States today affer vot- ing last night to call off ' § strike sponsored by the Unif "Textile ‘Workers of America. In Uxbridge and Woonsocket, R. I., workers reported for the first time since the strike began, June 29, in Pascoag, R. I; Putnam, Conn, and Lowell, workers returned yesterday. Final settlement of demands made would bring the number at work on conservation projects to more than | 650,000. Since April 1, a total of $521,734,000 has been allocated to the C. C. C. Officials said the work to be done this year would be similar to that already in progress—forest protection and improvement projects in forests and parks, soil erosion prevention work, wild life conservation, drafnage and reclamation projects. Today's allotment followed the allocation of more than $50,000,000 of ;work funds yesterday to assist farm | directors yesterday afternoon. | families in resettling on better land | the past nine years he has been sec- | and to conduct a census of aged per- sons eligible for pensions. 30,285 Families to Be Alded. ‘The Rural Resettlement Division | said it would aid 30,285 farm families find new homes. The Commerce De- partment said it would employ 72,000 white collar workers in listing the aged, making a census of business | | and studying retail distribution. | Presidential approval, the Commerce Department said, has been given for | the expenditure of $9.881,948 of relief money for use in taking the new census, REPRISALON A. A. A. SUITS IS FORECAST Head of Farm Federation Cites Boycott Victory in Wichita, Kans By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, August 8.—Edward A O'Neal, president of the American | Farm Bureau Federation, today fore- cast retaliatory measutes by farmers against packers. millers and others who have filed suits against the A. A. A. He referred to a reported boycott of a milling concern in Wichita, Kans., | _which he said resulted in the with- drawal of the suit recently, and to the action of Alabama Farm Bureau Fed- | eration in adopting resolutions calling for constitutional amendment, necessary, to continue the A. A. A | the Bankhead cotton act and the | processing tax. “There are 900 packeds in the United | States, including many small but reputable concerns, who have not joined with the 300 larger corporations in attacking the processiny tax,” O'Neal said. | “It seems only fair and ethical that | these 900 packers should get a the business which farmers can give them. Organized agriculture should | support its business allies and those who co-operate with it. wherever it is physically possible to do so. |~ “It might be an excellent thing for farmers to inquire, before selling their | live stock, if the firms to whom they | expect to sell have instituted suits. The same procedure can readily be followed in selling grain and other farm products. “By their actions these 300 packers, and other large corporations buying | grain, milling flour, manufacturing | cotton, buying tobacco and processing it, have clearly demonstrated their | opposition to the recovery program | for agriculture, and for the Nation | 8s & whole,” he said. “There is no longer any justification for agriculture to place any further confidence or itrust in this group. From now on | it's a fight to the finish.” A A. A. BILL CLEARED OF GORE AMENDMENT | Proposal Requiring Senate Con- firmation of Appointments Is Eliminated. ‘The Gore amendment to the A. A. A. biil, which would have extended greatly the list of Government a pointees requiring Senate confirma- House and Senate conferees late yes- terday. Although apparently intended to be confined to non-Civil Service jobs, fear had been expressed in Govern- ment circles that the amendment was £o drafted it might have affected some Civil Service positions as well. It was not limited to appointments under the A. A. A. law, but sought to re- quire presidential appointment and Senate confirmation in filling certain positions in Washington, under that and other acts of Congress, if the salary was $6,000 or more. 1t also sought to require Senate ap- proval of appointment of State and regional administrators in the field, where the salary is $3,600 or more a year. —— KNITTING MILLS BURN Philadelphia Structure Razed by Early-Morning Blaze. PHILADELPHIA, August 6 (A — Fire destroyed the Queen Knitting Mills early today and the dense, choking smoke sent scores of gasping | nearby residents to the street. ‘Two alarms, turned in in rapid suc- cession, brought fire apparatus from a wide section of the north central | city, but the mill, a two-story brick | structure, was wrecked. by the U. T. W. A. would be settled by arbitration, under the workers’ decision. i An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Goldie 1a it Jardine, Republican and former Sec- | Hon, was knocked out of the bill by‘ OFBUILDING GROUP Succeeds John Joy Edson as‘ Equitable Co-operative Association President. Walter S. Pratt, jr, today assumed the presidency of the Equitable Co- operative Building Association, whose employ he entered as a boy of 19 nearly 37 years ago. | retary of the institution, at 915 F street. In taking office, Pratt emphasized | that the Equitable would proceed along the lines directed by Edson. “There will be no change in policy,” he said. McAleer New Secretary. Edward L. McAleer, who has been tant secretary, becomes secretary Pratt, member of an old Washing- ton family, entered the service of the Equitable as a teller. The position was procured through Mr. Edson, & close friend of Pratt's grandfat™er A. 8. Pratt, founder of A. S. Pratt & Son, bankers. In his years with this institution he has become identified with numerous others. He is a direc- tor of the Washington Loan & Trust Co, Columbia National Bank, Na- tional Union Fire Insurance Co., Cor- coran Fire Insurance Co., Washington Sanitary Housing Co., and both direc- tor and secretary-treasurer of the ‘Washington Sanitary Improvement Co. He elso is treasurer and director of the Washington Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and a frustee of the National Homeopathic Hospital. Member of Bar. Pratt was educated in the District having attended Columbian College, now George Washington University, He is | married and has three children. In addition to Pratt and McAleer, the official roster of the Equitable is as follows: | Harry G. Meem, first vice president; Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, second vice president; J. Harold McDowell, as- | sistant secretary, and the following . | directors: Arthur B. Heaton, Robert | L. Lewis, Ralph P. Barnard, Charles | H. Doing and Frederick V. Coville. | The officers also are on the board. FREED WEINMAN .| OF STRIKE CHARGES Judge Holds Alexandria Plant Head Was Not Given Protection. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 6.— Declaring that he did not believe Sid- | ney Weinman, young president of the Century Manufacturing Co., had been given adequate police protection, Judge James Reece Duncan dismissed four warrants charging him with minor a | sault and using abusive language | & melee which occurred at the plant | here last Thursday, shortly after nodn in Police Court today. | The warrants had been obtained against Weinman by four woman strikers, who claimed to have been struck in the fracas by the young | company head. | dismissed charges of disorderly con- duct placed against George Arnold, 19, and Bernard Hammill, 34, strike sympathizers, who also were arrested | at the scene Thursday afternoon Duncan stated in giving his deci- | sion that there was doubt in his min that Weinman had struck any one | except in his efforts to fight free from the mob that crowded about him when he attempted to leave the plant. iANTISEPTlCS HELD AID | IN DISEASE PREVENTION Report to American Pharmaceu- tical Association Cites Effec- tiveness of Mouth Washes. | By the Associated Press. | tensive studies to prove the effective- |ness of antiseptics in protection | against infective diseases were re- | | ported to the American Pharmaceuti- cal Association today. The assurance is made certain, said Dr. George F. Reddish, chairman of the sclentific section of the Proprie- tary Association, by the Government regulations for testing antiseptics. He said that mouth washes passing the Government’s tests have killed an average of 96.7 per cent of the mouth’s bacteria by rinsing. Gar- gling resulted in similar bacterial mortality in the throat. “These extensive studies,” he said, “proved conclusively that antiseptics when used under practical conditions | kill significant numbers of disease- | producing bacteria and by so doing aid“materially in preventing infection and in mitigating disease.” Five Killed in Mosque Raid. RANCHI, Bengal, India, August 6 (#).—Five persons were killed today when police fired 30 rounds into 3,000 Hindus attempting to raid a Moslem mosque in the village of Phenhera, in Eddelman, blind and deaf, was led to safety from her bedroom. f the Champaran district of Bihar Prov- ince. Seven others were wounded. 'y At the same time Judge Duncan d | PORTLAND, Oreg.. August 6.—Ex- | other. Neither Vandenberg nor Dickinson has formally placed his hat in the ring | for ’36, although both have been named frequently among those who might be chosen. Vandenberg, in fact has publicly discounted the talk about him. The Michigan Senator's prominence has resulted from his triumphal re- election in doubtful Michigan last vear, when the Democrats were sweep- ing the country. He has been far less critical of the New Deal than Dickin- son, though increasingly so of late. Dickinson 1932 Keynoter. The Iowa Senator has been one of its most outspoken opponents in the Senate from the outset of the Roose- | velt administration. Keynoter in the 1932 convention, he has been more closely identified with the Hoover fac- tion in the party than Vandenberg. | The clash between the two came on the subject of war profits and neu- trality. Dickinson contended the Munitions Committee had chosen Raushenbush as chief investigator despite “socialistic” tendencies and that its report was shaped by him. “If we let a Communist into the War Department and Navy files of confidential information,” Dickinson said, “he could give the committee what information he desired but re- serve the rest for other use.” Jumping to his feet, Vandenberg | replied to the Iowan: “I give him credit for not knowing what he is talking about. The Senator from Towa has sought deliberately to create the impression that all the Munitions Commiitee has produced is either socialistic of communistic in result.” The Michigan Senator said the Munitions Committee had evolved legislation aimed at reducing - war profits and at preserving neutrality in event nations war, and added to Dickinson “If his purpose is to make it im- possible to proceed with war pro- fits and neutrality legislation, then | T protest.” | Clark Assails Iowan. | Senator Clark. Democrat, of Mis- | souri, was equally bitter, assailing the Iowan's speech as “a valiant effort to come under the wing of the muni- | tions manufacturers and to become a candidate of the American Liberty Pratt was chosen to succeed the late John Joy Edson at & meeting of the For League for the presidency of the United States.” Dickinson left the floor before either Vandenberg or Clark could reply to him, and the Missourian in- sisted he had done so every time the issue was raised “either from choice or prudence.” Clark went on to describe the munitions makers as “among the most liberal of contributors to presi- dential campaigns.” Vandenberg insisted Dickinson was “unaware” of the evidence disclosed by the Munitions Committee of the “explgtation of the American people and soldiers in the trenches” by the | munitions makers. Dickinson backed his attack by reading extensively from writings of Raushenbush in which the attorney | had advocated “boring from within" | by young Government employes in an effort to set “Government control over | industry.” | Quotes Philosophy. In one instance, Dickinson quoted | him as saying, “one good man, with | his eyes and ears alert inside the | (Government) departments, can do | more to perfect the technique of Gov- ernment control over industry than | 100 men from without.” - ‘Weeks ago Dickinson criticized the Senate Munitions Investigating Com- mittee for retaining Raushenbush as its principal investigator. He was denounced for his words by Senato: | Clark as “marching under the banner |of that unspeakable scoundrel, Wil- B. Shearer.” a big navy advocate In the debate yesterday the Iowan | flatly denied he was “under the in- fluence” of Shearer, insisting he never | had met him. RIDES ALdNG RIVER | Roosevelt Accompanied by Welles on Motor Trip. President Roosevelt took a motor trip along the Potomac River last | night. The President was accompanied by Sumner Weiles, Assistant Secretary of State, who is in charge of questions aealing with Latin America The presidential cars followed a route along the Maryland shore of the Potomac River. 4 KILLED IN CAVE-IN 20 Are Severely Injured in Ger- man Basalt Quarry. LIEGNITZ, Germany, August 6 (#)—Four persons were killed, 29 severely injured and six others were missing today in the cave-in of a basalt quarry. Although rescuers were attempting {to reach them, hope was virtually | abandoned for the six missing men. | The works employs about 200 men, | but only 39 of them were standing on or below the ledge which caved in. Bandits Beat Burglar Alarm. MAYSVILLE, Okla., August 6 (#).— Fast-working bandits robbed the First National Bank of $800 in less than a minute yesterday. Walter Caudlll, president, said two young men scooped up the money and were back in their car speeding away before & burglar alarm could be heeded. Posses took up the chase. §