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A—2 ¥ SCHAGHT' REBUKE IS SOFT PEDALED Appeal for Savings Replases Warning Against Anti- Semites’ Actions. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 19.—The stinging rebuke to window-smashing Jew- baiters by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, was to- day withheld from the masses of Gérman people. The official German news bureau which supplies newspapers with texts of speeches made by members of the government glossed over Schacht's warning that anti-Semites “inflamed and undisciplined action” against Jews constitute a serious menace to Germany's business. Savings Encouraged. Instead, better investment than placing one'’s savings at the disposal of the Reich as a loan for a job-creation program.” Similar excerpts from the speech, delivered at the cpening of the East Prussian Fair at Koenigsberg, were | made conspicuous to readers by use of display type. “Every individual must in his own interests,” said one quoted passage, “contribute to the continuation and completion of Heichsfuehrer Hitler's gigantic reconstruction works by put- ting his savings in this vital service until the world economic conditions shall be restored to normalcy.” Judging from the emphasis given that part of Schacht's speech which deals with the loans by German sav- ers to the state, it is indicated that the Government’s contemporary loans will be consolidated with its short- term obligations estimated by bank- ers to total 9,000,000,000 marks (about $3,936,000,000. | Urged to Behave. The chief of police of Koenigsberg exhibited a willingness to profit by Schacht's admonition against acts which might disturb business rela- tions with other counties. all his fellow townspeople to “behave in a model manner.” “This applies, above all things, to | your attitude toward foreigners, irre- spective of their nationality or their racial affiliation,” the chief’s warning | continued. An expression of anti-Jewish feel- ing was made today before the dele- gations of other nations at the open- ing of the eleventh quinquennial | (every five years) Penal Penitentiary Congress. Hanks Frank, minister of justice, ! told the 400 delegates of 50 nations, including 22 from the United States, | that Germany’s jurists and delegates would enter the battle for new penal legislation, under the slogan: “Save the world spiritual culture from the | menace of international Jewry and | bolshevism.” The Soviet Union was | not represented at the congress. Sterilization to Be Discussed. ‘The question of sterilization is ex- | pected to come up for thorough dis- cussion. In this connection the Reich Supreme Court report found that the sterilization treatment provides no cure for cases of unnatural attach- ment. The court holds, however, that the consideration of the possibility of failure cannot stand against a court order for sterilization for certain crimes because “the common weal weighs heavier than the problematical non-success of the operation. Only if the failure is definitely indicated can the sterilization order be rescinded.” The task of the congress falls under four heads: Legislation, administra- | tion, prevention and youth. Three | official reports will be made of each ' division by eminent European jurists. Sanford Bates, chairman of the Bu- reau of Prisons in Washington, D. C., is among those attending. KILLED ON REFUSAL T0 BUY GIRL DRINK Dishwasher, 50, Fatally Beaten When Young Woman Returns With Gang. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 19.—Alexander | Borel, 50, is dead today because he | ‘wouldn't buy a strange girl a drink. Borel and his roommate, George Bapounsedes, 35, both dishwashers, went to a Bronx bar last night to have a few beers. A girl entered and proposed that thoy buy her a drink. They refused. Jessie Mulligan, owner of the sa- Joon, said the girl screamed that she would get her friends to beat them up. Then, throwing a glass that missed and hit an electric light, she ran out. The two dishwashers remained for & few minutes. As they went out four or five young men set upon them. Borel received blows that killed him. Sapounsedes escaped and ran to his room. Sally Donahue, 21, was taken to Morrissania f lice station for ques- tioning. “RAFU ONDO” IS LATEST DANCE STEP ON COAST 800 Pretty Kimona-Clad Japanese Girls Introduce It at Los Angeles Nisei Festival. By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 19.—The newest thing in dance steps, if you please, is the “Rafu Ondo.” The title may be unfamiliar, but the words of the dance song are tra- ditionally American. They are “Hot- cha-cha.” The dance, based on Japanese folk steps, with a trace of American synco- pation, was introduced Saturday night by 300 pretty kimona-clad Japanese girls at the local Nisel Festival. In three lanes, the girls trod the measure on Pirst street, in the heart of the *“li' Tokio” of Los Angeles. “Rafu,” in Japanese, means Los Angeles. “Ondo” means folk dances. ‘The dance was created for the fes- tival. DROWNS IN LILY POND Infant Victim of Accident as Parents Chat Nearby. PARIS, Tenn., August 19 (#).— ‘While his parents chatted on the front porch of their home, John Alexander Brown, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Brown, Paris, drowned in a lily porid in the back yard of his par- ents’ home yesterday. Members of the family said a col- ored servant watching over the baby fell asleep and the child crawled into the pool. fi the papers high-lighted | Schacht’s assertion that “there is no | He warned | What’s What Behind News In Capital Ohio Political Test Avoided-—and Not Quite Subtly. BY PAUL MALLON. F YOU get Ohio politicians here off in a corner you will have no difficulty learning why Gov. Davey is in no hurry to have an early congressional election in the State which has mothered many Presidents and smothered several others. Best Democrat seers will candidly tell you they have had their fingers crossed on Ohio since the Rhode Island election. You could not get a real bet out of any of them that they would carry the State today. On the other hand, Republican crys- tal gazers see the possibilities of a Republican majority ranging from 100,000 to 300,000 votes. There has rarely been a show like the one Gov. Davey put on when he came down here to wheedle twenty million public works dollars out of President Roosevelt. Davey has been here many times before, traveling alone. This time he was accompanied by two mili- tary aides in uniform, the Demo- cratic State chairman and the publicity man for the Democratic State Committee. Those who saw the well-chosen group that the Governor wanted to make | more of a political impression than a financial one. At least no financial authorities accompanied him. Got Millions Quickly. But he could just as well have saved himself the trouble. As soon as he got | inside the door, and before he even saw Mr. Roosevelt, he was handed a letter from the President, awarding him the twenty millions. This is the fastest award ever made through the usually cumbersome red tape of Mr. Ickes’ P. W. A. It stimu- | lated Gov. Davey co much that he made one of his fastest decisions—to draw up at the White House judged | | himself, a | Roosevelt in 1936. refrain from calling a special State election to choose a new congressman. Apparently it is too hot these days to try to be subtle about such things. The Black committee slipped an unnoticed fast one over on Senate Republicans the other day. Under the guise of getting additional au- thority from the Senate to haandle the errant Mr. Hopson, it broadened its general powers sweepingly. A resolution was proposed by Chairman Black and adopted by the Senate, permitting the investigators to police the financial and political operations of all corporations, not only public utilities and holding com- panies. | The legal excuse offered was that it would affect only corporations attempting to influence public activities, but that is broad enough to cover nearly any corporation resisting the New Deal. This may become highly important at the beginning of a presidential | | campaign in which industry appar- ° ently has political intentions. Unofficial word has been slinped to some administration political | strategists to talk up Mr. Hoover for | the Republican nomination. | Republican authorities here are so excited about it that they are seriously considering what may happen under | possible lax enforcement of primary | registration laws next Spring. They | foresee the possibility of Mr. Roose- velt's followers voting for Mr. Hoover in the Republican primaries in the| belief that he would be the easiest | Republican candiadte to beat in (he| | election. | Chances Still Scouted. ! This situation seems to be the| source of much current talk about the growing strength of the Hoover candidacy; that Mr. Hoover will get all the votes he got last time and many more; that the other foremost | candidates will kill each other off; that Mr. Hoover still controls a ma- | Jjority of the Republican National | Committee. | The best authorities do not believe | these developments have altered the situation. They concede Mr. Hoover's chances are still about one in four billion. | There was real mourning around here among politicians and statesmen at the news of the death of Will Rogers. He knew them all, and they admired his exceptional character. They would get peeved at him once in a while for his comments, as, for in- stance, the time last Winter when he gave an unreported speech at a big dinner here. It did not get out, but the President was upset because Will lampooned the World Court. Some others were offended because he spoke of the Supreme Court as “some old gentlemen in kimonos.” When Will heard about the reaction to his speech he was ap- parently more distressed than at any other time in his life. He worried about it for weeks, writing letters to dozens of statesmen, ez- plaining that he had intended no offense. Whenever a public man dies, his friends always say what a loss it is to the Nation. This time their words mean something, because they realize Rogers was the only national force for good humor in politics, at a time when it is needed. At last a name has been found for the waif-like tax bill. It will be known forever after as “the whale oil tax bill.” A Senator dubbed it that in the cloakroom, after an amend- ment was adopted repealing the 3 cents a pound duty on sperfi oil. The amendment will be lost later, but not the name, because the bill at least aims a harpoon at'the whales of business and industry. Also, whale oil is quite a greasy substance. (Copyright, 1935.) Recreation Group Grows. Italy’s National Worker's Recreation Institute now has 2408,227 members. | ference of Democratic THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1835. Laval’s Daughter Weds Mlle. Marie Jose Now U, S. Citizen. LANDON SHOWING ELATES KANGANS Governor, Third in Presiden- tial Poll, Too Busy to Discuss It By the Assoclated Press. ‘TOPEKA, Kans., August 19.—If Alf M. Landon, budget-balancing Gov- ernor of Kansas, is excited over plac- ing third among Republican presiden- tial possibilities in the “Lucas poll,” only he and his intimates know it. “Right now I am too busy with State affairs even to discuss na- tional politics,” Gov. Landon said today. . He made no effort to hide the fact he considers it highly complimentary that his two terms as Governor of Kansas have attracted favorable na- tional attention, but he declined to add to the “Landon talk.” Friends Are Delighted. Friends, however, were delighted with results of the recent poll of presidential timber taken among county G. O. P. chairmen by Robert H. Lucas, former director of the Re- publican National Committee. Landon placed third in a field of more than a dozen. Only Senator Borah of Idaho and Col. Frank Knox, | publisher of the Chicago Daily News, received more votes. Landon Not Active. A source close to Landon pointed out the Kansas Governor never has hinted he will be a candidate and has made no move to draw support to and termed the results of the poll “significant.” Landon followers feel that his elec- tion as Governor twice in the face of unusually heavy Democratic pres- sure—in 1932 and 1934—and his record of economy in office, make him logical opponent for President DEATH IS FORECAST FOR FARM AID BILL | Moratorium Move to Die in House, Those at White House Parley Say. By the Associated Press With the Senate moving today into debate on the Frazier-Lemke farm moratorium bill, some Democratic leaders predicted it would not become a law this session. Legislators who did not wish to be | quoted by name, but who were famil- iar with the eleventh-hour legislative drive mapped at a White House con- leaders last night, forecast that the bill would | pass the Senate, but that the House would not act on it now. The measure, intended to replace moratorium Supreme Court ruled unconstitu- tional, would permit bankrupt farm- | ers to retain their lands three years. It is distinct from another Frazier- Lemke bill, which would authorize $3,000,000,000 in new money to re- finance farm debts. Representative Lemke, Republican f North Dakota, referred to fore- closure riots in Missouri in urging passage of the bill, of which he is co- author. “That's just the beginning.,” he said. “Unless Congress acts before adjournment, there will be disturb- ances that this country has never expenienced.” Lemke outlined the bill's provisions as follows: A farmer dissatisfled with concilia- tion proceedings could file in bank- ruptcy. A court then could permit him to remain in possession of his property up to three years by paying a “reasonable rental” fixed by the court. After taxes and insurance were paid, any surplus from this rental would go to creditors. During the three years, or at the end of the period, the farmer could reacquire his property by paying the appraised value. If a creditor was dissatisfied with the appraised value, he could seek another appraisal, or demand that the farm be sold at auction. Secured creditors could bid up to the appraised value, or the principal that the property secures, whichever was higher. For 90 days thereafter, the debtor would have the right to redeem the property from the sale. ZIONIST COURT TO ACT ON AMERICAN BALLOT By the Associated Presa LUCERNE, Switzerland, August 19 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).—The Court of the World Zionist Congress is today considering the challenge to the validity of the American elections to the congress, which opens to- morrow. The Jewish state party, dissident faction of the extreme right wing revisionist group, charges that the elections “were improperly conducted at the polling places.” Letters supporting the charges were submitted by Morris Margulies, secre- tary of 'the Zionist organization in America, and Max Shulman, presi- dent of the Chicago Zionist group. By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Takes up Frazier-Lemke moratorium bill. Lobby Committee calls Howard C. Hopson, utilities man, again. House. Votes on Guffey coal stabilization bill. Moves to vote on omnibus banking bill conference report. farm ings on Walsh bill to compel con- tractors for Government orders to comply with N, R. A. standards, ‘TOMORROW. Senate., Probably will work on railroad pen- sion bill and conference reports. House: Program uncergh. legislation which the | BORAH INCREASES 6.0.P. POLL LEAD Westerners Continue Favor- ites as Another Week’s Results Are Shown. By the Associated Press. ‘Westerners, paced by Senator Borah of Idaho continued to lead the parade of potential Republican nominees for the presidency as another week's re- turns in the Lucas poll were an- nounced. The picturesque Idaho liberal gained 67 votes during the last week and now has a total of 313. His closest competitors are Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, and Gov. Landon of Kansas. These two gained §1 and 25 votes, respectively, to give them totals of 218 and 152. Coincident with this trend came the announcement from Republican Na- | tional Committee Chairman Henry P. Fletcher that the committee soon will establish joint headquarters in Chi- cago with the Midwest RepubNcan Conference, the agency that promoted the June “grass roots” gathering at Springfleld, Il Program Worked Out. “A program of intensified and co- ordinated Republican activity in the Western States has been worked out,” he said. Details were reserved. Robert H. Lucas, director for the | National Committee in the Hoover | administration, tabulated the stand- ings of his independent poll of 2.600 | county G. O. P. chairmen and others as follows: | August 12. | Borah _-248 Knox 167 | Landon -1 | Frank O. Tllinois - Senator Vandenberg cf | Michigan .. 97 © i Herbert Hoover 52 68 | | Ogden Mills of | - 40 54 | Theodore Roosevelt of | New York 4 53| Representative Pish of New York ... 38 46 | Senator Dickinson of | Towa 28 33 | Representative Wadsworth | | otNew York - -1 0% 17 107 Other Votes. There was a scattering of suppor: | for others unnamed In the Lucas| | statement, amounting now to 107 votes. He said sentiment of 1286 counties was represented, but offered | no other comment. Previously he nad | said the poll was carefully impartial. | | In charge of the new office in Chi- | | cago will be Harrison E. Spangler, | John Hamilton and George A. Ball, | national committeemen for Iowns, Kansas and Indiana respectively. | | Each also is a member of the “Gracs | Roots” Executive Committee. Today. 313 218 152 88 114 | Until activities of the national or- ganization are expanded, that head- quarters will serve the Pacific States as well as those that comprise the Western division. DALE WILL DEPART | ON MAIDEN VOYAGE Comdr. W. A. Corn Will Com-| 1 mand Destroyer, Leaving for Europe Tomorrow. | Commanded by Comdr. William A. Corn of the United States Navy, who was on duty recently in Washington in the Navy Bureau of Engineering, the Navy's newest destroyer Dale will | sail tomorrow for Europe on her | | shakedown cruise. | The vessel was completed recently | at the New York Navy Yard and the department today announced her | itinerary for her maiden voyage. | She will sail out of New York | tomorrow for Southhampton, Eng- land, where she is scheduled to |arrive August 30. She will leave | there September 7. arriving a week | later at Naples, Italy, where she will | stay for six days. From that port, she will go to Leghorn, Italy, remain- | ing for six days and on September 28, the Dale will arrive at Viliefranche, | France, where she will stay until Ocgober 4. | The Dale will go to Valencia, | Spain, on October 5, staying there for four days. On October 19, the de- stroyer will arrive in Newport, R. I. The seventh of the new destroyers | to be completed, the Dale is of 1,500 | tons displacement. An act of Con- | gress of August 29, 1916—before the United States entered the World War —authorized her construction. She 'was commissioned on June 17. ROBERT L. STEVENSON ‘STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR 1Mothet Believes Youth, Who Ran | Away 15 Times, Eventually Will Return Home. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 19.—Robert L. | Stevenson is still absent and unac- | counted for. On his fifteenth runaway journey, the bright-faced 11-year-old lad had sent home no word of his whereabouts late yestrecay, more than 24 hours after his departure. His mother, Mrs. William H. Sickles, said she wasn't worried much. Last June Robert was absent six days. Two years ago he began his impromptu wanderings, which have taken him over much of Eastern Long Island. 100 PROJECTS TO START HARRISBURG, Pa., August 19 (). —Edward N. Jones, works progress administrator, said he hopes to have th: first 100 P. W. A. projects under way in Pennsylvania this week. The projects have been approved by President Roosevelt and about $2,600,000 for labor costs has been allocated. Materials and equipment, which must be furnished by sponsors of the projects, will increase this fig- ure to about $3,000,000. The first group of projects will give employment to between 14,000 and 15,000 mer for approximately three ‘months. VOLKS-FEST TONIGHT pices of the Ladies’ Sodality and the Holy Name Society of St. Mary's. Rev. William H. Hoffman, assistant ROOSEVELT STAND ON UTILITES HIT Demand for “Death Sen- tence” Held Playing Into Hands of Foes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt is unwittingly playing into the hands of the utilities. One word from him and the conferees of the House and Senate could reach an agreement and there would be legislation at this session regulating holding companies in the electric light and power field. But Mr. Roosevelt is represented as feeling that unless he can get the con- ferees to accept the Senate bill, which provides for the “death sentence,” he should make an issue of it next year. The utilities, on the other hand, would be pleased if even the House bill, which has the contingent “death | sentence” in it, were to fail to become law, too, and thus assure no legislation | at all, 8o in a sense Mr. Roosevelt is doing the very thing which the utilities want done—blocking any legislation. It might be argued that the utilities are the ones to make concessions if they want to avold more drastic legisla- tion next year. But they are con-| vinced that public sentiment is rising | against the New Deal and, also, as| between a “death sentence” and a | chance to live as granted in the| House bill they have no choice lnd‘ can offer no compromise. | Confident Bills Will Die. | | COUNT AND COUNTESS RENE ALDEBERT DE CHAMBRUN. | By the Associated Press. PARIS. August 19.—Mille. Jose Laval. daughter of the premier, was married to Count Rene Aldebert | de Chambrun in a civil ceremony to- | day, and by that action became a citi- zen of the United States. | Count De Chambrun, a nephew of | the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth, | holds not only French but American | citizenshin under an old United States law which confers that honor upon all descendants of Gen. Lafayette, of whom he is one. | Under French law a wife follows her husbar.d’s citizenship, so both now are citizens of two countries. | The ceremony was performed in the | Sixteenth Ward City Hall, guarded by | two lines of police who held the pub- lic back whnile the 100 invited guests entered. The religious ceremony will be celebrated tomorrow in the little | Church of Sainte Clothilde. Premier Laval was smiling as he| came to the City Hall, although he had just left his office, where the| Franco-British-Ttalian negotiations for | o\ peace in Ethiopia had brcken up. The bride wore a bottle-green velvet as his secretary. dress with 2 matching toquet trimmed United States with a brilliant feather. Contrary to rumor, no dowry was given her by| dent Hoove: her parents —Wide World Photo. and numerous family and political Marie | friends. The two families of the 28-year-old bridegroom and the 23-year-old bride, the witnesses. and a few of their closest friends afterward went to a wedding luncheon in the premier's apartment in the foreign office. Hailed throughout France as a love match, the marriage today followed a long friendship between Mile. Laval and Count Chambrun. A comely brunette, the bride had been wooed by many young Frenchmen, all whom she hail previously refused be- cause she suspected their attentions were inspired partly by political am- bitions. Count Chambrun, a member of the New York and Paris bars, is just start- ing his iaw practice in the French capital. His mother is the former Clara Longworth of Cincinnati. His | father woa distinction as commander of colonial troops in North Africa prior to his retirement a year ago. Mlle. Laval, familiarly called “Jo- sette,” has interested herself in her er’s officia; affairs, often accom- panying him on diplomatic journeys She visited the in 1931, when the ferred with former Presi- T. The French Federation for Large ‘amilles expressed the hope the mar- premier con Roosevelt Longworth, Count Charles riage would result in many children. de Chambrun, the French Ambassador | Its members adopted a resolution to to Italy and brother of the bridegroom, that effect. SEEK T0 SAVE 30 ~ NAVY YARD J0BS peal to President. Averting a strike movement yester- day at che Washington Navy Yard, union officials propose to ask Presi- dent Roosevelt and Secretary Swan- son, as well as chairmen of the Sen- prevent discharge of 50 toolmakers | August 31. This was the result of a mass meeting of protest, held yester- day in a three-hour session at the Avenue Grand Theater, Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, and attended by some 1,000 workmen. While the Navy Yard workmen ex- pressed fear that the lay-off of the 50 toolmakers was but the prelude to a program of sizable discharges, Capt. Wilhelm L. Friedell, senior inspector at the naval gun factory at the yard, declared today: “It is not the start of a lay-off program, except where we find that we have more men than we can handls for the particular work in hand.” Tools Are Made First. He explained that when the navy yard gets a project to make new guns, the tools sre made first. Then the machinists take hold. It is manifest, said he, that the work of the tool- maker gives out before that of the machinist. N. P. Alifas, president of District No. 44 of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, who addressed the meeting, said today that the workers’ case had been laid before Rear Ad- miral Henry E. Lackey, in charge of naval shore establishments. Alifas explained that the introduction of machine operators is worrying the men. This means, he said, that a lower grade of mechanics is used to operate machines that are more or less automatic. The Washington Navy Yard, he declared, requires a higher type of workmanship. Provisions for Toolmakers. The union officials want the tool- makers, slated for discharge, to be absorbed in the plant and given ma- chinists’ billets. Newton P. Weathers- by, president of Columbia Lodge, No. 174, of the Machinists’ Union, laid a report before the meeting on the situ- ation that gave rise to the protest. Answering the workers’ charge that work at the yard is being let out to private concerns, thus tending to lessen employment at the gun factory, Capt. Friedell sald: “The work that has been let out to private concerns is work which the Washington yard is not equipped to do. Work trans- ferred to the Army was necessary in order to meet the dates of completion of the ships. It is necessary to have the guns ready to put on the ships when the builders are in a position to accept them.” —_— Premier Speaks Gaelio. ‘The Hon. Angus Macdonald, prime minister of Nova Scotia, who claims to be the only Gaelic-speaking premier in the world, attended the recent Empire thmen‘ur! Conference in London. ate and House Naval Committees, 0 oo g jagt 3,000 troops swelled the | 31000 . 5. TROOP READY FOR ATTACK Mobilization Is Completed for Great Army “War” Maneuvers. By the Associated Press. PINE CAMP, N. Y., August 19— | The foreboding grimness of war in the feld settled over this greatest of peace- of | Actually, however, the utilities are | making no effort at reconciliation, | being confident that the House and | Senate bills will die for this session. | For several days that has been the word on Capitol Hill as to the probable fate of the measures. This is most unfortunate from the viewpoint of the country. The House bill ought, of course, to have been amended to make it conform to the Constitution in all its provisisions, but since it al- | ready is in conference this cannot be | done, so the only alternative is to | have the Senate conferees accept the | House bill. The House bill has been defended by Representative Huddleston, Demo- | crat, of Alabama, leader of the ! | House conferees, as in keeping with | the Democratic national plaform of 1932, which advocated ‘“regulation” | of holding companies and did not say “abolition.” ' The Senate by a margin of one vote passed the “death sentence” so it would not be unprecedented for the Senate to give in to the House in order to make it possible to have some legislation instead of none on this very controversial question. But the President controls the Senate | . conferees. 1 Would Eliminate Evils. | Also. it is a fair statement of . what the House bill contains to say | that if it were held valid by the | Supreme Court it would effectually rid the country of the “evil features of holding companies,” as the term was used by the’ President in his first | message to Congress. He did not until later in the session insist on | abolition of holding companies, but ! he did call for the extinction of “un- necessary” holding companies, some- thing that cannot be determined con: | stitutionally by a Federal eommis- sion to which the power would be | | | | & ‘delegnted to say what is and what | is not necessary because the Con- | | gress itself has no right to order | | holding company destruction in the | | first place. | What the American people un- doubtedly want is an end to the pyramiding by holding companies and the manipulation through financial | wizardry of the earnings of operating | companies. Also they desire the break- | |ing down of those elements of monopolistic control, whereby engi- | neering fees, financial fees and man- | | agement and service charges are un- | reasonably fixed by holding companies | | by reason of their stock control of | affiliated companies. Regulations Are Necessary. There is need, too, for legislation | regulating the flow of electricity across State lines and a tightening up of | ! feated In the primaries LPARTY SYSTEM URGED IN'VIRGINIA G. 0. P. State Treasurer Says Split Shows Demo- cratic Confusion. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, August 19.—Claiming Randolph Leigh's announcement he will oppose Senator Carter Glass for the Democratic nomination in 1936 denotes a confused condition of Demo- cratic politics in Virginia, Oliver K. Brooke, treasurer of Virginia Young Republican Clubs, today spid the State needs a “purging,” made pos- sible by two strong parties. He said the Fairfax citizen's state- ment that the Democratic party in Virginia is a house divided against itself was a frank indictment of these conditions and a hopeful sign for the future of Virginia. “It is apparent that Mr. Leigh's entrance into the political arena on the issue of party contradiction will add only rage to confusion,” said Mr. Brooke, who also is secretary of the Richmond City Republican Com- mittee. Two-Party System Urged. “With his indictment of the party he should be too proud to join its ranks. Mr. Leigh, proud of his Vir- ginia heritage, should remember the independence and pride of opinion which placed Marshall and Jefferson in different political parties and which so0 marked his ancestors. “In a most expedient manner, Vir- ginia gave the Nation the principles of the two-party system. Today, Vir- ginia needs to know again these very principles. Virginia needs the purg- ing which will come when a union of the bona fide forces of opposition is effected, providing a channel for progressive political action.” In his announcement Saturday night, Mr. Leigh, who is director gen- eral of the International Oratorical Contest and former newspaper pub- lisher and editorial writer, said: “If Roosevelt is to carry Virginia in the general election, Glass must be de- No one can consistently support both Glass and Roosevelt.” Thinks Glass Is Sniper. Mr. Leigh termed Senator Glass “one of the most devastating of snipers” at administration policies. saying “his shots have been doubly | damaging because fired at the close range which his party uniform give him.” Mr. Brooke today went further by asserting. “Both Byrd and Glass are irretrievably committed against the New Deal. “Republican leaders in the State have continuously pointed out to the voters of Virginia the inconsistency of the one-party system so blindl; | followed. “Such men as Henry Anderson, H B. McCormack and Fred W. McWane have stood on these issues in the face of traditional party loyalty and blind sectional prejudice. The real fight of 1936 will come in the general election and not in the primary of the Demo- cratic party.” D. C. SECURITY BILLS ACTION DUE TODAY Ellenbogen Expects to Offer Mo- tions on Conference Reports on Three Measures. House action on conference reports on three social security bills for the District of Columbia was expected today. Representative Ellenbogen Democrat, of Pennsylvania, expected to be recognized to offer the motions. ‘The unemployment insurance mea- sure was entirely rewritten in the Senate, where the House bill was stricken out after the enacting clause Representative Ellenbogen, who spon- sored the House measure, objects to two important features of the bill as | it passed the Senate. One of these eliminates a District contribution. This reduction in funds would cause the cutting down of the weekly bene- fits from a 26 to a 16 week period time Army camps today 8s the scrivel | EStrictions as they relate to the sale | of securities. concentration along the lines of the | But If there is no legislation at this Black and Indian Rivers to 37,000 men. One troop train and three motor convoys disgorged troops, who re- enacted in miniature the major troop arrival scenes of the last two days, Wwhen 28,000 men caused an overnight city to grow where before were only pine-studded sand plains. With the full camp complement assembled, the troops awaited orders that will send them into “battle” this week against a mythical enemy in a gruelling test of Uncle Sam's modern military strength. MILITIA IN CAMP. Specialized Problems Are Studied for Maneuvers, INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa., August 19 (A).—The crack of rifies and spat- spat of machine guns rattled in the valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains today, replacing the confusion of the arrival and organization of Pennsyl- | vania and Maryland National Guard ;I:".l for their annual two-week train- 8. Each regiment tackled a specialized problem, concentrating its efforts on the perfection of each unit to build teamwork for mass maneuvers later. In the first week regiments will go on the firing range and into mountains to practice the theory they were taught in armories for 50 weeks of the year. Yet these soldiers, with a week's in- fensive preparation, are expected to blend themselves with regular troops and to function efficiently as part of an Army. The 28th Division, made up of Pennsylvania Guardsmen, join the 29th, composed of Maryland regiments, and the 176th Field Artillery of Pitts- burgh, and Regular Army units to weld into 3d Corps. PFirst and 2d Corps troops from New England and New Jersey train simultaneously at Pine Camp, N. Y., and act as the first Army. In theory the three corps are¢ maneuvering in unison, although there is no actual contact. Pennsylvania and Maryland troops are acting as strategic reserve to the others. Virginia Educator Dies. sesslon, who suffers? The investors are entitled to know what is going to happen to their properties. Un- | | certainly means economic loss. if cer- | | tain provisions of the House bill are unconstitutional, the sooner the courts | adjudicate the matter the better it is for all concerned, including the regu- latory bodies of the States and the Federal Commission, which is to be vested with authority over utility prob- | lems of an interstate character. | To let the two bills lie over till | next session means an opportunity in | | the interim for speculators and gam- blers to manipulate the stocks and bonds of holding companies and even operating companies to the disadvan- tage of innocent investors. But apart from this the greatest ob- jection to an abandonment of the leg- islation is that the utility industry can- not very well make plans for con- struction or extensions with a sword of Damocles hanging over its head. And the country needs the employ- ment which the utilities ordinarily give. It has been estimated, for in- stance, that 5,000,000 of the unem- ployed workmen today used to be en- gaged in what are known as the | heavy goods industries. In that group the utilities are large spenders and indirectly they are large employers. An expenditure of $1,000,000,000 a year is not unusual as an average for the utilities, which buy copper wire, motors and plant machinery and other raw materials directly related to busi- ness recovery. Also, lower electric light rates can be sought when prop- erty extensions have increased con- sumers. Delay Serves No Good Purpose. To postpone enactment of an im- portant bill in order to try it out as a political issue serves no good pur- pose, for even if Congress eventually passed a bill ordering all holding companies to be dissolved, the Su- preme Court would never sustain it. ‘The precedents are clearly against Federal confiscation. If the utility controversy is to be made an issue the question might well be asked: “Against whom?” Would the President campaign against the 258 members of the House of Repre- sentatives, the majority of them Dem- ocrats, who voted against the “death sentence?” What would be the po- litical advantage of producing dis- sention on the eve of another presi- ‘The right course plainly ward enactment of a utllity bill by s He objects also to the provision in the Senate bill for a local administra- tive board and supports a proposal for a national board of administra- tion. He will ask that the bill be sent back to conference. Minor amendments in both the bill providing pensions for the blind and old age pensions are acceptable to the House conferees, Mr. Ellenbogen said, and he will ask the House to approve the conference agreement on both these measures. WIFE SUES CARLIN; ASKS MAINTENANCE Action Charges N. R. A. Em- ploye Deserted Family in Richmond in 1933. Suit for maintenance against Charles Keith Carlin, 2008 Sixteenth street, was filed in District Supreme Court today by Mrs. Annie Macon Carlin of Richmond, Va. ‘The husband is a son of C. C. Car- lin, prominent in Virginia politics. ‘The suit, filed through Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins, says the couple were married June 24, 1914, and have three children. Mrs. Carlin says she was de- serted by her husband in 1933. Since that time, according to her suit, he has not adequately supported the children and her, although he has “maintained himself in an abundant state, includ- ing persistent overindulgence of in- toxicants and the entertainment and association of other women.” Carlin is said to be employed by the N. R. A. at a salary of $430 & month. In addition to maintenance, Mrs, Car- 1in asks custody of the children. Meeting at Merrifield. MERRIFIELD, Va., August 19 (Spe- cial) —Merxifield Improvement Asso- ciation will meet tomorrow evening at 8 pm. with Mrs. D. N. Carleton, it has been announced. or amendment this can be done at the next session. To leave the entire controversy, which has been intensively considered by Congress for months, while irsist- ing coincidentally upon a tax bill that has been given scant considera- tion is an example of poor political Jjudgment, doubtless born of an over- emphasis on pride of position when, in actual fact, the practicalities of the legislative situstion call for skiliful leadership. (Conyright. 1035.) ‘