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" A4 wx¥ TAX BILL PARLEY RESULIS SECRET Harrison Declines to Reveal Action, but Virtual Re- writing Is Hinted. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Behind a wall of secrecy, the Senate Finance Committee wrestled for two hours this morning with the adminis- tration tax bill, but declined to re- veal the result, if any, of their ex- ecutjve consideration. Decliring the committee had voted | againsc issuing any statements on progress until completion of their | consideration, Chairman Harrison re- | fused to make any statement when the committee recessed at noon. | Indirectly, however, it was learned that new schedules of rates forqone THE EVE\I\’G STAR WASHI\’GTO\T D. C., What Would Happen the Ford Company Senator Vandenberg and Internal Revenue Counsel Jackson Differ Over Effect of Proposed Inheritance Levies. HILE discreet silence prevails at the center of the Henry Ford industrial empire, friends and foes of the pending administration “sogk-the-rich” tax program fight sharply worded battles over the or more major provisions of the mweas- ure had been requested of Treasury | officials, thus indicating the possibility of virtually complete rewriting ot the measure from the form approved by the House. It also was learned indirectly that | Senator La Follette, Progressive, of ‘Wisconsin, supported by one or two other of the so-called liberal mem- bers of the committee, had remained | insistent on revising the measure in| such a way as to broaden its applica- tion and raise greater revenue. Attendance Increases. The presence of a nearly full com- | mittee, in contrast to the few who had been regular in attendance at hearings, bore out early predictions that the regular Democratic members of the committee would have some | trouble in holding the group in line to support the administration pro- | gram. Most of those who attended | today for the first time are among | the group who might be expected to follow administration leadership. On recess of this morning's ses- sion, Senator Harrison, looking some- what harassed, announced that a sec- ond meeting will be held this after- noon at 4 o'clock. Further meetings will be held again tomorrow, he said. with the committee objective still be- ing to report the measure to the Senate by Monday morning. Republican members of the com- mittee, bound by the decision to reveal none of the committee deliberations in advance, lodked considerably more pleased at the trend of events than did the chairman. Senator Hastings of Delaware, one of the minority lead- ers, declined to comment on the meet- ing, but laughed heartily as reporters | quizzed Harrison, and made the re- mark vell, you got yourself into this trouble, Pat.” Long Suggests Change. An indication that Senator Long Democrat, of Louisiana may carry to the Senate floor a fight to include the £3.000.000.000 Frazier-Lemke farm- debt refinancing proposal in the pend- ing administration tax legislation was given this afternoon by the Louisi- anan, He asked in the Senate if his under- standing was correct that amend- ments were to be banned during con- sideration of the tax bill On explanations of Senators Bark- | ley of Kentucky and Glass of Virginia that such is not the case, but that it is the hope of administration lead- | ers to prevent extraneous riders from being attached to the measure; Long called attention to the Frazier-Lemke bill. “I think,” he said, “it would be very appropriate to add this proposal to the tax bill” The Senator made no further ref- erence at that time to his intentions, proceeding from there to discuss the | pending Government contract bill, Ethiopia (Continued From First Page.) favored the widest possible economic | ccncessions to Italy, but that it was doubtful that even this could satisfy | 11 Duce. Ships Insured for Service. After the disclosure that two Ca-! nadian and three German ships passed recently to Italian ownership, the Herald and Mail said these old vessels | were not going to the ship breakers, as was intended, but have been in-| sured for service in the Mediterranean | and the Red Sea. The Mail said Italy has spent $2,500,000 on ships for conversion into troop transports in recent months. The latest purchases were the Ca- | nadian-Pacific liners Melita and Min- nedosa, of 15,000 tons each, and the North German Lloyd ships Sierra Cor- doba, Sierra Ventana, 11,000 tons each, and the Werra. 9,000 tons. Three British liners and one Danish ship | were reported to have been bought earlier, WAR DELAYS LEGATION. Japanese Says Establishment in Ethi- opia May Wait. ‘TOKIO, August 9 (#).—A foreign | office spokesman said today that out- | break of an Italo-Ethiopian war be- fore the end of the year m:eht compel | postponement of the establishment of a Japanese legation at Addis Ababa. CRASH SHOCKS ITALY. ROME, August 9 (#).—Italy, shocked by destruction of one of its most mod- ern airplanes and the death of Public ‘Works Minister Luigi Razza, applied | itself with undiminished zeal today toward perfection of its military poWer. The disaster to the tri-motored craft | which crashed on an Egyptian desert | ‘Wednesday night while on an inspec- tion flight to Eritrea, killing seven per- sons, was viewed with particular con- cern since the plane was of the type | designated for East African service. | Aeronautical circles contended the | accident was the result 6f something | other than defective material or con- | struction, asserting this type of Dlnne‘ had demonstrated its efficiency under the most exacting conditions. | The death of Raimondo Franchetti, 46, in the accident deprived Italy of the services of an invaluable expert on East African geography. Franchetti, a noted explorer, had placed himself | at the government's disposal for ad- vice on African problems. With the time drawing near for ex- tensive military maneuvers in North | Italy, near the Brenner Pass, it was learned some Fascist militia units of | approximately 300,000 men would be called out for the mock warfare and would not be demobilized afterward. Instead, informed circles reported, they would be held under arms for additional training in preparation for action in the colonies. The steamship California, converted into a hospital ship, sailed from Ta- | day. ranto” for East Africa with a contin- gent of Red Cross nurses and surgical supplies. A inheritance taxes, which are almost confiscatory in the higher brackets. Stepping forth as administration spokesman. Robert H. Jackson. counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, submitted to the Senate Finance Committee his conception of the possible fate of the Ford Co. At the worst, he claimed, the busi- ness would pass “to the public, which has figured so heavily in building the enterprise. In the eyes and words of Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi- . gan, however, the fate of the Ford probable fate of the company upon application of the proposed | | which has made it what it fis, | status of the vast groups of labor | | contemplation | eral Government, but also to Btate | mount | into the trade streams of & pros- estate is not to cently regarded. be so compla- Here are the opinions of these two men about what would hnppen to | the Ford Co. Take your choice: Senator Vandenberg : | “There need be no speculation as‘ to what will happen to the great | Ford industrial enterprise under this | proposed tax confiscation. “It will cease to be a tremendous | industrial unit, governed by an anxi- ety singularly dedicated to the pros | duction of high-grade commodities at | lowest possible cost to the ultimate | consumer, and to the employment of | hundreds of thousands of highest paid artisans. “It will be robbed of the integration ownership which can come only | through enormous ultimate stock sales | to the public. “It will be forced out of the close control which has preferred the rrea- tion of a vast and effective instru- mentality of employment and com- merce rather than the disbursement of personal dividends. “It wil be robbed of the integration the employer of 100,000 persons in Wayne County, Mich.,, alone, the indirect employer of countless hundreds of thousands of others whose tasks de- pend upon Ford operations, the best | ‘ customer of a thousand other factories | in communities scattered all over the | land, a gigantic patron of our sail- | roads and our mines. Driven to Wall Street. “Bluntly, it will be driven mrc} the hands ef Wall Street, or equivalent; and the money chanxers who have striven vainly in years past to achieve this end and ' hom this administration says it proposes to drive from the temple, will have been | handed the dominion which in no other manner could be obtained. “How could it be otherwise? Con- sider the known mathematics. Assume that Mr. Henry Ford owns a majority of the Ford Motor Co. stock. Assume that the Ford Motor Co. is worth half a billion dollars. Assume that Mr. Ford's total estate will be $300,000,000. The proposed inheritance tax, on top of the existing estate tax, would take $270.000,000 of this $300,000,000. “Most of the $300,000,000 is repre- sented by factories which house es- | sential industry and by equipment which provides jobs for thousands | upon thousands of employes. “Where do you get your $270,000,- 0007 You cannot take the factories. Without the motivating genius behind them they are futile brick and mortar. Threatened Unemployment “You cannot sell off the machinery unless you sell off the livelihood of the greatest single group of high-paid workmen in the world. “You cannot take the Government title to the stock and submit the in- stitution to political control and management. That would be the final absurdity. “Whence comes this hypothetical $270.000,000?7 Counsel for the In-| ternal Revenue Bureau has itself vol- | unteered the only answer. You must | sell Ford to the bankers and then to | | the public. | “Suppose this happens in an hour of economic depression when mvesl-‘ | ment funds are not available? You| have sacrificed vast values by forced | sale. No matter when it happens, you | have destroyed the dynamic integra- | tion, the personality, the dedication of | | the instituticn. You have substituted a quest for dividends for the inspira- tion and objectives which have pro- duced this vast reservoir of values You have forced a liquidation wmch is calculated to be a liquidation nan only of property but of potential com- | merce and employment. You have killed the goose that lays ,the golden egz. This is not social or economic progress. It is the short-sighted de- | struction, not the distribution of | wealth, “Henry Ford and Edsel Ford are but incidents in the exhibit, al-| though they are anything but “inci- dents” in the development and in | the perpetuation of this stupendous | | reservoir of public as well as pri- | vate values. “The vital thing is the reservoir itself. The important thing 1s the | and trade inevitably dependent upon Ford operations. The para- mount concern, from a social stand- point, is the uninterrupted continu- ation of the Ford enterprises, and | if you would honestly assess that let yourself imagine what would be the effect today if the Ford enterprises ceased opera- tions. “The paramount concern, from a | revenue standpoint, is the uninter- rupted continuation of operations which shall uninterruptedly pay | current taxes not only to the Fed- and local governments. The para- concern, from a national standpoint, ds that we shall not make it impossible ever again for self-made men, devoted to an in- dustrial idea, to build from gero and .create great instrumentalities that shall bless countless others with highly profitable employment and that shall pour their needed impulse | perous American commerse)’ EDWIN PRATT TO WED Son of Former Representative En-| gaged to Massachusetts Girl. NEW YORK, August 9 (#).—The engagement of Ailleen Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fhaun Kelly, of Pitts- field and Richmond, Mass., to Edwin H. Pratt, son of Mrs. Ruth Sear Baker Pratt, former Represeniative from New York, was announced to- Mrs. Pratt, who has been seriously ill at her Long Island estate, was re- ported “greatly improved” today. A Mzr. Jackson: Seemingly far from worried about the fate of any ‘“goose” that “lays golden eggs,” Mr. Jackson, in his pre- pared statement before the Senate committee, concerns himself only with that portion of the Ford estate still | of Henry | under immediate control Ford. Slightly more than 40 per cent of the Ford Motor Co. stock, Mr. Jackson sald, was passed over to Ed- sel Ford in 1919. Mr. Jackson remainder as follows: . “An estate of $354,000,000, the bal- ance sheet value of the remaining 59 per cent of the stock which we will assume Mr. Henry Ford still owns, is abnormal by any test we know. The House bill intended to cover most normal estates, stops graduation en- | tirely at $10,000.000 and the Ford | estate, on these figures of rates ceases. The largest estate | so far returned to the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue was $140,000,000. It is obvious that the hypothetical applica- tion of this law to the Ford fortune would be a distortion of its usual ap- | plication. Surplus Not Distributed. “Moreover, while the Ford Motor Co. has been accumulating its surplus at an average rate of $20,000,000 a vear, this amount has not been dis- tributed to stockholders where it would be subject to surtaxes. The in- crease in value of the holdings of | Henry Ford, if realized upon by a sale in his lifetime, would pay heavy indi- vidual taxes. If it now passes by in- heritance, it will have escaped all! surtaxes. Thus, if the heirs of Henry Ford shall now find themselves in high inhertance tax brackets, it is in part offset b the advantages of accumulating weaith without paying surtaxes thereon.” In contrast to the use of a definite figure as the approximate inheritance tax to be levied against the Henry | Ford estate of something over $300,- | 000,000, Mr. Jackson declares: “It is impossible, on the basis of published figures, to arrive at a re- liable estimate of the tax that might be imposed upon the estate of Henry Ford. We do not know how much of his holdings will remain in his indi- vidual possession and subject to tax, or how much of them will pass to or- ganizations that are exempt from tax, | nor what part of them will pass to his son and what part to others. Surplus Built Up. “The inheritance tax, whatever its | amount, would not be a tax on the Ford Motor Co., nor a claim against it. According to public statements, the Ford Motor Co. began business in 1903 with $28,000 in cash actually | paid in, and its net worth of $600,000,- 000 in 1934 represents the accumula- tions after the payment of dividends. Over this period the Ford Motor Co. has added to the book value of its stock through accumulation of sur- plus an average of, roughly, $20,000,- | 000 a year. It is obvious that a corporation with this record is not to be abandoned or closed because of any tax on the right to inherit its stock.” Sold to the “Public.” ‘What Senator selling Forfl to the bankers, to Wall Street. to the money changers and then to the public, Mr. Jackson de- scribes as follows: “The utmost to be would be that some part of the equity now represented by the common stock would be sold to other interests or to the public. This equity might be disposed of in part through a bond issue or through preferred stock or by a sale of a portion of the com- mon stock. The effect of this would be to convert what is now a family industry into a widely owned one, and to permit the public to share in the future earnings of an enter- prise to the building of which public patronage has made a substantial contribution.” * Adjournment (Continued From First Page.) | though they had agreed all the time. Other signs of approaching ad- | Journment are night sessions of com- mittees, reviving talk of vacation | plans, compromise arrangements for postponing troublesome issues until next session, and short tempers. Four-Day Record. Following are some of the things Congress has done in the past four days to clear its decks: House approval of tax bill, comple- tion of Senate hearings. Final approval of the big second deficiency appropriation bill and the bus and truck regulation measure. Agreements between House and Senate conferees.on the troublesome social security and A. A. A. bills. Senate passage of the copyright, gold clause, Mississippi flood control damage and other bills. Senate approval of the airmail re- vision bill. Following are among the steps which the leaders generally consider essential before Congress can ad- | journ. Senate gction on the tax bill and the report on the social security bill. Action by both houses of the A. A. A. bill agreement. Negotiation of differences between the two houses on the bank bill, the utflity holding company bill and the gold clause resolution. Rail Spending Planned. Railways of India will spend $5,- 000,000 for new eguipment. \ then deals with the | would be 35 | | times the point at which graduation Vandenberg cails | i anticipated | RELIEF PROJECTS Action Is Designed to Pro- vide Jobs for White- Collar Persons. By the Associated Press. Decision to increase P. W. A. proj- ects providing employment for white- collar persons was announced today by Harry L. Hopkins. He said 528,000 persons of this class are on relief, and studies in 13 cities showed the proportion increasing. One-half of the people applying for relief between January and April had never before asked public assistance, he added. The work-relief act earmarked $300,000,000 for assistance to needy educatidnal, professional and clerical workers. Hopkins has set up four di- visions to handle employment for mu- sicians, actors, artists and writers. Already the Allotment Committee has recommended expenditure of $27.315,217 to provide jobs for 25,000 such people. The Treasury and the Census Bu- reau have received funds for surveys and tax studies. ins Criticizes States. The blem of inducing States and cities to provide for their own “unem- ployables” was declared meanwhile to be a major one confronting officials conducting the shift from the “dole” to the $4,000,000,000 work-relief pro- gram Reiterating that after November 1, the Federal Government would put up money only for jobs, Hop- kins yesterday aimed sharp criti- cism at States he contended were not making provision for those unable to work and so excluded from the new Federal program. Every State, Le insisted, is able to care for its un- fortunate unless 1s is “unsocial- minded.” Hopkins estimated that States and cities would put up $600,000,000—com- pared with the Federal Governmeut's $4,880,000,000—during the 12 months beginning July 1 to provide for unem- lief projects. With works progress projects held to around $800 Federal expenditures for each job created, money for ma- terials for durable construction has ilarly, the community must borrow 55 per cent of the cost of Public Works Administration projects, on which the cent. Speaking shortly before President | Roosevelt allotted $939,884 and $185,- 306. respectively, to the Works Progress Administration for projects in Ten-| nessee and South Carolina, respec- tively, Hopkins listed what he termed | two signs of progress: 1. A decline in the relief popula- tion from 19,250,000 in May to 17,- 937,000 in June. 2. An increase in the number of | work relief jobs provided to 550,000, | including 425,000 members of | Civilian Conservation Corps, 105,000 ‘cn works projects, and 20,000 on | other Federal activities. | Hits Relief Strikers. Hitting at work relief “strikers” in New York City, the Works Progress | administrator emphasized that nobody | had to accept the $19 to $94 monthly | wage scale who didn't want to, but that if he refused he would have to look to local governments for support. | He again defended his administra- tion against the charge that politics | nad gotten into relief, observing sap- castically, that it was a New Deal candidate in a Rhode Island election lost because other- wise the charges of buying votes 'wuuld have been that much louder. VoW TO OUST ROOSEVELT 108,244 Sign Pledge Cards in Chicago to Work for G. 0. P. CHICAGO, August 9 (#).—Cook | County (Chicago) Republicans today | displayed 108.244 cards, signed by voters who pledged themselves to “work and vote” to oust President Roosevelt and Gov. Horner of Tllinois from office next year. The pledges were turned in at a | reorganization rally last night, which | party workers termed the most en- | | thusiastic Republican round-up here in bhe last six years. Scouts (Continued From First Page.) | eral’s office attended by health officers lina and Dr. George H. Ruhland, Dis- trict health officer. Only a week ago health officers from Eastern States met with the surgeon general and District health officials to consider calling off the jamboree. At that time, however, conditions in Vir- to warrant cancellation. Representative Rankin, Democrat, of Mississippi, who demanded on the House floor several days ago that the jamboree be called off, said in a state- ment today “the American people owe dent Roosevelt for call gz off” th! meeting. Meanwhile, the Navy said “ Norrolk was an infected port” and Naval Academy midshipmen on annual cruise will not touch there. How- ever, the War Department said a prevalence of infantile paralysis had resulted in “no change” in the sched- ule for artillery training for West Point first classmen beginning Mon- day at Fort Monroe, near Norfolk. Dr. Cumming said today: “The primary reason for calling off the jamboree was an increase in the epidemic of poliomyelitis outside of Washington, particularly in Virginia, where 91 additional cases were re- ported during the past week.” “There is no danger in Washington, itself, where there have been only 24 cases reported since January 1, in- cluding three this month.” Danger to Children, Dr. Cummings also minimized any fears that might be entertained in connection with other conventions scheduled in Washington this Sum- mer. The disease, he pointed out, is more dangerous to children than to adults and about 85 per cent of the cases of infantile paralysis in the country’ are among children. “The centers of the epidemic in Virginia,” Dr. Cummings said, “are Richmond and Charlottesville, only an hour or two from Washington. The cases appear to be spreading in Albe- marle, Lunenburg, Green and Bruns- wick Counties. The danger lies in the inability to prevent visitors from Vir- ginia entering Washington from these sections and spreading the disease among the Scouts. “New York City has had a grad- n ployables and help pay for work re- | depended on local contributions. Sim- | Federal Government donates 45 per | the | “just as well” | followed a meeting at the surgeon gen- | of Maryland, Virginia and North Caro- | ginia and affected States did not seem | a lasting debt of gratitude to Presi- | Above: and removing equipment. Brodie, jr., ual increase in infantile paralysis cases and the disease also is mildly prevalent in New England, thus adding to the danger of cases being brought into the National Capital “The District health officer tells me | that some of the cases here were brought in from Virginia and Mary- | land.” That the decision to cancel was not just an “overnight” decision was in- dicated by Dr. Cumming when he ex- plained that a week ago, Scout officials were asked when would be the last hour they could cancel the jamboree | if the epidemic became worse. “We were told we could make a final decision either yesterday or today, as| the Scouts would hardly be entraining from the Pacific Coast before then,” ! he said. Tent City Activity. Headquarters of the city of tents along the Potomac was the scene of fevered activity last night as officials | dispatched messages by telephone, wire and radio, halting Scouts en route to | Washington from every State and many foreign countries. A-score of trucks and several car- loads of last-minute camp equip- ment were halted in New York, Phil delphia and Baltimore. Today offi- |.cials canceled bids they had asked from Washington grocers, produce | houses and dairies for $200,000 worth of commissary provisions. It was estimated that the tented city extending from Four Mile Run, | va., to Lincoln Memorial, along the | Potomac. and in East Potomac Park, | represents an outlay of $250,000. The whole jamboree was to have cost ap- | proximately $650,000 The entire investment, ecutive said, is covered by insurance, and refunds will be given the 2},000 New York headquarters for their ex- penses at the jamboree. In all, about big meeting here. United States on sight-seeing tours preliminary to the jamboree. Many on Way to United States. A group of 55 Scouts already has sailed from England, and others are on the way from Spain, France, South | America, the Philippines and India. The deserted city of 1.400 tents will not be pulled down until Army officers arrive to supervise the packing, it was said. The tents were loaned by the Army, and were left over from the World War. Scout officials posted a heavy bond for the safe return of the | | fleld equipment to a Quartermaster Corps depot at Philadelphia. | Meanwhile, a small army of 350 Scout ex- | Scouts who have posted $25 each with | $£500.000 had been collected for the | The cancellation came too late to| halt many foreign delegations who | were on the seas or already in the | FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935. Harvey A. Gordon, director of engineering for the Boy Scouts of America, who has been on the ground planning the city of tents since December, confers with his staff as to plans for striking the 1.400 te: Gordon is seated, while, left to right, are Warren Platt, surveyor; ney, sanitation engineer; B. B. Dawson, engineer; Raymond H. Bryan, assistant engineering director; William H. chief talley man, and H. W. Oldfield, survey director. Below are laborers awaiting word to strike the tents and begin the removal of the equipment. | | laborers awaited word to strike camp. Most of the tents erected are kitchen and mess tents, equipped with elec- tric lights, plumbing and fixtures | The Scouts themselves were to stake out light tents about the central shelters. The tent city has been in the making since last December. when Harvey A. Gordon, director of engi- neering for the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica, and a staff of assistants arrived and began to lay out plans. Several years ago Gordon super- vised the construction of “Ten-Mile | River Camp” for New York City Scouts, a $1,100,000 permanent proj- | ect in which President Roosevelt, then | | Governor of New York, was active. | At the District Building today, Dr. | James G. Cumming, assistant city ‘hesllh officer in charge of commun- ‘xtabl\ diseases, was busy answering queries from anxious parents here about the “epidemic.” Parents Are Advised. Both Dr. Cumming and Dr. George | C. Ruhland, District health officer, | insisted there was no occasion for alarm. They advised parents to call & physician if and when their chil- | dren develop ailments, but not to | eap to conclusions” that they had | infantile paralysis simply because of | a fever, headache, stiff neck ors stomach disorder. 2Dr. Ruhland explained that “quite consistently” with the advent of cool | weather the number of infantile paralysis cases declines sharply. | The District now has 10 cases of | infantile paralysis under treatment. Since January 1 there have been re- | ported here a total of 23 cases, 18 of which were reported since July 1. There have been 5 deaths, including | one reported yesterday by Children’s| Hospital. That was a case of a child | brought there from Silver Spring, Md. Also one new “suspected case” was brought in today from Bethesda, Md. | Five of the 23 known cases were brought here for treatment from Vir- ginia or Maryland, officials said. The high peak in poliomyelitis cases here for any one full year was re- corded in 1921 when there were 40 cases and 7 deaths. In 1915, when compilation of such statistics wu' started, there were 6 cases and 2 deaths. In the next year there were | | 39 cases and 6 deaths. In 1928 there were 36 cases and 5 deaths. In 1932 | there were 39 cases and 6 deaths. In| AVE your Mattresses and Pillows remade during your vacation like new. Modest charge. | Serving Washingtonians Since 1864 | H.A.Linger,925 G St. I GUARANTEED BY WILKINS COFFEE I BEAT THE HEAT WITH MIXED or ORANGE PEKOE .. contentsof each package plainly marked DRCHED? ECONOMIC REBUFF 10 TALY IS URGED Catholic Peace Group Says U. S. Sidesteps Duty in Crisis. By the Associated Press. Economic measures against Italy as an aggressor nation were called for today in a petition sent to Secretary of State Hull by the Committee on International Law of the Catholic As- sociation for International Peace. Declaring “Ethiopia has made every possible effort to obtain a peaceful solution, while Italy has spoken in terms of conquest and has tried to frustrate the collective opinion of the community of nations,” the commit- tee's petition recommends “construc- tive action” by the United States. Statements on the Italo-Ethiopian crisis already made by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, the committee declared, do not go far enough toward carrying out American obligations to the pact of Paris. “We are not prepared to advocate the extreme remedy of resort to in- ternational force.” the petition said. but added the United States “must support its policy of consultation by an agreement to take economic meas- ures against a nation flagrantly vio- lating the Kellogg pact.” The committee suggested “the Unit- | ed States call for a conference of all the Nations that signed the Kellogg pact” to plan “an international boy- cott against any nation found after consultation to have violated its agree- ment to use only peaceful means to | settle its aisputes.” (Conti ued From First Page.) {8 virtual failure today. picket line was maintained Pickets claimed 90 men struck and fNa\y officials said all but 10 of the 316 workers were at their jobs. The strike order was a protest against the wages because they are less than prevailing rates. McGRADY TACKLES STRIKE. —_ LEVELAND, August 9 (#).—As- ant Secretary of Labor Edward F. | McGrady concentrated his attention today on efforts to settle a threatened ke of union W. P. A. workers. , Who had been laying the groundwork for a permanent labor peace plan for Cleveland, abandonea that activity and instead scheduled a conference with W. P. Westphal, labor ons counselor for W. P. A. Union leaders have served notice on W. P. A. officials that no union bu ing mechanics will work on relief pro ects unless the rrevailing union scalc of wages is paid Work on 90 Cuyahoga County pro. ects which will employ 4,000 men anc cost $2,000,000 was expected to star: next week, following their approval in Washington yesterday. A small William A. McKin- —Smr Staff Phetos. 1933, 12 cases and 2 dezrhs, 1934, 10 cases and 3 deaths. 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