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A2 » UTILITY LOBBY QUIZ IS FAR FROM OVER Both House and Senate In- vestigators to Press Hunt for Facts. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Despite impending adjournment of | Congress, the exhaustive investiga- tions of lobbying against the Wheeler- Rayburn holding company bill, under- taken independently by committees of the Senate and House, will be con- tinued far into the Fall. Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama and Representative O'Connor, Democrat, of New York, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and House | Lobby Committees, announced last night that the two inquiries would | not be relaxed until all possible in- SPEED IN STRATD 10 BE “TERRIFIC” iCommercial Planes Being Developed for Greatest Flying. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 2¢.—Pre- liminary work looking toward regular commercial flights at terrific speed through the stratosphere was disclosed today. C. R. Smith, youthful president of American Alrlines, told of the study. He predicted mail planes will be cross- ing the continent at super-altitudes within two years. In five years, he believes, passenger planes will hurtle from coast to coast in nine hours or less. 14 Hours Now Fastest. formation relating to the efforts of the utilities interests to defeat the bill had been uncovered. | Neither committee, however, has| made definite plans for resumption of | public hearings. Black indicated there is a probability his committee will| swing into action for several days next | week, but O'Connor said he had been | too busy with the Rules Committee, | which he heads, to map out a definite program. Probers to Keep Busy. Senator Black pointed out that even though hearings may not be held by | his committee for several weeks, spe-| cial investigators would continue to | dig up information to form the| foundation for future public hearings. ©'Connor, on the other hand, plans to| assign various phases of the investiga- tion to four special subcommittees. As soon as Black’s committce re- sumes its hearings it will concentrate on the activitles of the Cities Service | Co. in fighting the utilities bill. Evi- | dence already has been given the committee that $200,000 was spent by this giant holding company and its subsidiaries in stimulating protests against the measure, but committee members think the amount may have been greater. Black's investigators now are mak- ing a careful examination of the voluminous records of Cities Service and, as soon as they finish, the com- mittee will resume its investigation into this company's lobbying actlvities, as well as those of its numerous sub- | Smith said. | more speed, but he predicted: From 14 to 18 hours is required for a transcontinental flight under pres- ent commercial schedules. American Airlines, Smith said, 1s doing research study on the theory of stratosphere flying—a fleld in which Wiley Post blazed a trall in four un- successful attempts to span the Na- tion. ‘We have just about reached the peak of perfection in airline design, construction and motor for speed,” “There are a few points we can| ‘polish off’ which will give us a few | more miles per hour. “But the only other avenue we have | for developing greater speed lies in the stratosphere.” | Smith sees no urgent, immediate de- mand from the country’s skyriders for As time goes on, and within a few years, the cry _or more -peed will increase, just as it has mounted since time began. Pressure Supplies Air. Problems to be overcome, he said, include the supplying of air by pres- | sure to occupants of the piane, an airtight, sealed cabin and cockpit and | | the development of a motor super- charger that will function to meet | changed flying conditions of the va- | rious altitude stages—much- a- an automobile is geared to travel at con- | trolled speeds. | Th entire study and perfection of stratosphere flying will proceed during | the next few years under the best sidiaries. The Senate committee has virtually completed its inquiry into the fight of Associated Gas & Electric Co. against the bill, although the two principal witnesses, Howard C. Hopson, its re- puted dictator, and Bernard B. Rob- inson, Chicago securities salesman, who was engaged by that corporation to lobby against the utilities bill, have not been discharged as witnesses. Hopson Still on Spot. The House committee, however, has # few more questions to ask Hopson. It has requested him for a detailed re- port as to his income since he has been connected with the Associated Gas & Electric Co. and the names of various banks which lent that con- cern $1,000,000 with which to fight the utilities bill. When this data is furnished Hopson will be recalled to the witness stand. The House committee also has asked Hopson for a complete report showing the expenses of the Associ- technical experts in the world. he said. | The finished job—flying through the | stratosphere—will not be a theory, but a carefully executed step forward in | the development of aviation. SEGREGATION ASKED FCR REFORMATORY \ | Barnard Report Sees Need for Keeping First-Time Of- fenders Separate. Facilities for segregating first of- | fenders from hardened criminals at| the District Reformatory at Lorton, | Va., were urged yesterday by Capt. M. M. Barnard, general superintend- ent of penal institutions, in his an-| nual report to the Commissiopers. He also asked funds for modern | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 25 1935—PART ONE. The Human Side of the Impending War 4 WOMAN PILOTS IN SPECIAL RACE Will Compete Against 6 Men for Ruth Chatter- ton Trophy. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 24.—Four daring woman flyers and six men will hop for Cleveland tomorrow $1.000 air derby sponsored by Ruth Chatterton. flying actress. The start of this rac: will mark the opening of the airplane racing season. Friday before dawn some of the world’s swiftest racing craft—one pi- loted by a woman, Jacqueline Coch- rane—will split the wind out of Union Air Terminal, Burbank, in the fifth annual Bendix Trophy event. Course Is 2,197 Miles. Cleveland, 2,197 miles distant, 1s the goal in both derbies because of the national air race meet there, which will end September 2. There are 12 scheduled stops in Miss Chatterton’s sportsman pilot der- ated’s campaign against the utilities quarters for women prisoners, saying: by. The race will consume six days. bill, giving a detailed account of all items and the names of persons who were compensated. | The Senate committee has not yet| definitely decided whether to call| Marvin H. Mclntyre, one of Presi- dent Roosevelt's secretaries, who has twice been reported in company with Robinson. Senator Gibson, Repub- | lican, of Vermont has branded Robin- son as a “social lobbyist.” Robinson told the Senate commit- | tee the other day that McIntyre was a guest at a cocktail party he gave at | the “F Street Club” and had also | stopped in his apartment at the Shore- | ham Hotel several weeks ago, when Senate Sergeant at Arms Jurney was searching for Hopson. His Presence Demanded. Senator Gibson has demanded | MclIntyre's presence before the com- mittee. Mclntyre, however, is not the only person with New Deal connections ' whose name has been drawn out in the two lobby investigations. The Senate committee was told Fri- day that Raymond Moley, the Presi- dent’s former “No. 1 brain truster” at- tended a luncheon in New York last week at which representatives of vari- | ous shipping interests discussed the re- vised Copeland ship-subsidy bill. Moley | has been quoted as saying, “What of it?” ‘The name of Assistant Secretary of Treasury L. W. “Chip” Robert also has been brought into the inquiry and Robinson has testified that this official had attended several of the parties he lavished on Government authorities while he was in Washington lobbying against the utilities bill, MANY ON WAITING LIST OF COLONIZING PROJECT By the Assoclated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 24.— If any more families want to quit| Uncle Sam’s Matanuska Valley colony, | officials needn't worry about replace- ments. More than 600 families, it was di- vulged today, are on the waiting list—hoping others will follow the few who have returned to the United | States. Nearby farming territory is attract- ing attention because of the publicity given the Matanuska Valley. Fifty farm families already are established around Seldovia, said to have a milder climate and to be fully as productive as the site of the colony. About 20 other families are reported to have established themselves in the lower Cook Inlet area, on the Kenai Penin- sula. Cats on Gold (Fish) Standard as Rains Burst Dam at Pond By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, Mass, August 24 —Manchester cats were on & gold (fish) standard tonight and thoroughly enjoying it. Heavy rains of the past few days burst the dam of a private pond on the estate of Charles Cobb Walker, Boston broker. When the water receded, many thousands of goldfish were left stranded on the bed of the drained pond and over several acres which had been flooded. Today many of the feline”inhabitants | inebriates apart from other inmates. “It is a disgrace and shame that | we should have to draw attention | again to the need for modern quar- ters for woman prisoners. In these | fire-trap buildings we are housing | close to 100 women, 30.” Capt. Barnard also asked funds for a building to house drug addicts and During the past fiscal year, Capt. Barnard reported, a total of 20,590 prisoners were committed to the Dis- trict Jail, many of these later being transferred to the reformatory or work house. Of the total, 12,679 were| charged with drunkenness. MOVIE PICKETING RIOT CAUSES MANY ARRESTS | West 424 Street Scene of Bedlam, and Several Policemen Suffer Bruises. Sy the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24 —A clash | between police and motion-picture theater pickets turned West Forty- second street into a bedlam of con- fusion tonight and ended with whole- | sale arrests. | The outbreaks spread to other sec- tions in the vicinity of busling Times Square, but after 65 arrests were made the pickets were called off.| Several policemen received bruises. Pickets, before two theaters off Times Square began mass picketing, crowding pedestrians into the street and tying up traffic, Police, after & 20-minute struggle, dispersed the group, which then reassembled In front of a (Globe) theater at Forty- sixth street and Broadway. Another melee with police ensued. A few minutes later an outbreak threatened in Columbus circle. Police said striking motion-picture | theater employes and sympathizers | numbering 500, after a meeting, de- cided to take advantage of the Sat- urday night crowds to picket before various theaters. INFANT DEATH RATE FOR 120 YEARS SHOWN Figures for New York City in 1810 and 1910 Same, Sur- vey Reveals. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24.—A unique picture of New York City’s infant mortality for 120 years past—showing a death rate at the start of the nine- teenth century no greater than that at the start of the twentieth—was presented today by the Department of Health. Drs. Charles Bolduan and Louis Weiner, who made the study, said it was the first complete presentation for such a period in any city Although the mortality rate in 1810, their chart showed, was only about 110 per 1,000 births—the same as in 1910—a peak of about 230 was reached shortly after the Civil War. orts to give babies better atten- tion followed and the death rateifell. In 1930 it was less than 60 and still falling steadily. The physicians noted that the birth rate, calculated at 40 in the first half of the nineteenth century, had fallen to 18 in 1930. of the town were having a field day. The London County Council now controls 74 hospitals and other in- stitutions. [ The actress will fly her own plane supervisor. one-day affair. 4 Col. Roscoe Turner, holder of the| in dilapidated | ¢ranscontinental air speed record, will | ace” buildings designed for no more than pne entered in the big race, lured|the letter struck back at the Presi-dr with six other airmen by prizes to- | dent's critics all along the line. | lowing a gradual change in the Presi- | dent’s attitude toward the press, Mr. | proceeding on to New York and break- | Michelson ridiculed, in general, inter- taling $10,000. An sdditional award of $2,500 is offered for any pilot ing Turner’s cross-country record of 10 hours 2 minutes. Woman Contestants. Woman contestants set for tomor- row’s take-off are Gladys O'Donnell, winner of the women’s air derby in 1931; Mrs. Ethel Sheehey, Fontana, Calif.; Cecile Hamilton, Santa Monica, Calif., and Mrs. Grace Prescoit, San Diego, Calif. The men are: Everett Wedell, Los Angeles; Earl D. Ricks, Hot Springs, Ark.; Grant Nicholls, El Paso, Tex.; Neill McGaffey, New York City; Le- land Hayward, Hollywood, and Bill Williams, Los Angelesy DOYLE, KARPIS EX-AIDE, Written Confession Names Seven as Robbers of Bank in Ne- braska in 1933. By the Associated Press. FAIRBURY, Nebr, August 24.— Jess Doyle, one-time member of the Barker-Karpis gang, was sentenced today to serve 10 years in State prison for his part in the $152,000 robbery of the Pirst National Bank here in 1933. Doyle pleaded guilty. As he was be- ing sentenced Federal opreatives in St. Paul made public a written confession they said Doyle gave them. In it he named himself as one of the seven participants of the sensational robbery of the Northwestern National Bank of : Minneapolis in December, 1932. Two police and a St. Paul motorist were killed. Doyle’s statement, the St. Paul of- ficers said, listed Arthur Barker, now serving a life sentence at Alcatraz Federal prison for the Bremer kid- naping; Fred Barker and Verne Miller, dead gangsters: William Weaver and Alvin Karpis, the current public enemy No. 1; and Lavrence Devol, serving & life sentence in Minnesota for the rob- bery, as the bank looters. COUNCIL’S PLAN DRAWS ZIONIST SPEAKER'S FIRE Palestine Government Proposal - Declared Certain to Retard Jewish Progress. By the Associated Press. LUCERNE, Switzerland, August 24 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).— The World Zionist Congress resumed its sessions tonight after the Sabbath re- cess with speakers assailing the Pales- tine government’s avowed plan to establish a legislative council to rule the country. Opposition to the plan was voiced by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleve- land, Ohio, and Robert Stricker, mem- ber of the Jewish State party and delegate from Austria. Dr. Silver's attack on the council plan was accompanied by a demand that the Zionists devise s modus vi- vendi with the Arabs. posed council was established, Jewish schievements would be retarded for many generations te come. Q on af Publicity Director Michelson Ridicules ‘Democrats Attack Critics In Weekly Letter Series Interpretative Writers on Congress and President’s Mind. The Democratic National Committee, in the first of a series of weekly along the route as pace-setter and | letters to newspaper editors, undertook yesterday to discredit in advance The Bendix race is & unfavorable newspaper interpretations of the record of the adjourning session of Congress and President Roosevelt's dealings with it. Under the signature of Charles Fol- pretative-writing Washington corre- spondents and in particular Frank R. Kent and Mark Sullivan, syndicated commentators of the Baltimore Sun and the New York Herald-Tribune. In the Democratic National Com- mittee’s first apparent attempt to cap- italize the ‘“whispering campaign” against the President’s health, the Jetter also struck sharply at “the numerous crew of business letter | writers who affect to tell firms and corporations the low-down, deep in- side, of what is going on in Washing- ton.” Revealed by Lobby. In the face of Mr. Kent's conten- tion that the “whispering campaign” incident was “a straw man to be | knocked down for campaign purposes,’ SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS | | ing campaign was real enough so that Mr. Michelson insisted the whisper- “the propaganda artist who recom- mended the campaign to the holding companies” was turned up by the Senate Lobby Investigating Commit- tee. In dealing with this subject, Mr. Michelson ventured that Mr. Kent must have written his idea on that subject after “studying the tea leaves in his cup at some 5 o'clock.” Mr. Roosevelt, quoted by White House callers who profess to have discussed the whispering campaign with the President, is credited with having made a somewhat similar reference recently, naming two newspaper com- mentators. Even Jouett Shouse, Mr. Michel- son’s former employer in Democratic national headquarters, and a general in the “stop Soosevelt” drive of 1932, was not spared in the broadside at- tack on New Deal commentators and critics. - The statements of Mr. Shouse, as president of the Liberty League, on the constitutionality of New Deal measures, were scored in the Michel- son letter along with the similar attacks by others. The letter was regarded as the opening of & systematic defensive | campaign on behalf of the Presi- dent, whose press conferences Mr. Michelson regularly attends. Opportunity for Critics. Mr. Michelson’s letter follows: “The end of the congressional session furnishes a grand opportunity for the critics of the Roosevelt administration. In analyzing the accomplishments of the session, they can take such meas- ures as Congress has adopted at the suggestion of the President and make a perfect case proving that the na- tional Legislature is a rubber stamp Congress, and that the President has assumed dictatorial powers. On the other hand, they can take the in- cidents where Congress has refused to follow the presidential commendations and from that deduce the waning of the President’s power and influence, with incidental tribfite to the legisla- tors who have shown their independ- ence, courage and statesmanship by refusing to be dictated to. “It might seem difficult to explain how a President might be a despot one day, be turned down by his Con- gress the next day and resume. his dictatorship ‘the day following. But such a little thing is not going to | ject is involved. Michelson, the President's *“publicity and nominally “director of publicity, Democratic National Committee,” what the President thinks about each of the congressional performances. “Really the mind-reading by dis- | tinguished writers of the thoughts, impulses and purposes of the President of the United States is an amazing development in political journalism. {No personal contact with the sub- For example, Mr. Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sun, who could hardly be classed as one of the White House intimates, will tell you any morning that the President regards a Supreme Court decision as a personal challenge, and will go on to explain in detail just what Franklin Roosevelt is going to do about it. “Any other morning Mr. Mark Sulli- van will reveal to you that the Presi- dent is requiring Congress to pass laws he knows to be unconstitutional in order to arraign the people against the Supreme Court. Mr. Sullivan also explains that the holding companies bill represents a feud by Mr. Roosevelt against certain individuals in the holding company business. “Now these distinguished column- ists do not say they think this, or have been advised that, or have heard the other, but state flatly the inner secrets of the President’s mind. “Those of us who have closer con- tact with the Chief Executive are envious of this capacity to know so much, and know it so positively. Really, the matter of thought trans- ference, as exemplified by such writers, eties devoted to psychical research. Mind-Reading Amiss. “For example, Mind-Reader Kent | the other day, after looking into a crystal ball, or perhaps studying the | tea leaves in his cup at some 5 o'clock, revealed that there was no whisper- ing campaign against the President, | but thst the campaign emanated o thiet OICE, Boteey -olak haies only means that Presidents are no more | up a straw man to be knocked down for campaigning purpcses. True, a little later on, the propaganda artist who recommended the campaign to | the holding companies turned up on the witness stand before the Lobby Investigating Committee of the Sen- ate. He was confronted with his let- ter, obtained presumably from the files of the recipient, and was forced to admit that he had proposed a ‘whis- pering campaign'—using those very words—conveying to the public that the President of the United States was losing his mind. There had showed up chain letters, carrying this idea. “One of the numerous crew of busi- ness letter writers who affect to tell firms and corporations the low-down, deep inside, of what is going on in ‘Washington, included the story of the President’s mental and physical break- down in one of his confidential ‘tips to his clients. The tale was so generally circulated that finally one of the reg- ular press correspondents brought it up at the semi-weekly conference which President Roosevelt holds with the newspaper men. “The President, sitting at his desk among the men who see him con- stantly, bronzed and hearty, smiled back at the newspaper group that had been bombarding him with questions for half an hour, and asked them what they thought about his health. Expressions of Horror. “Then there is the persistent bar- rage by Republican speakers, and the spokesmen of their affiliated agencies, like the Liberty League, expressing A | the Supreme Court would do. | as Senator Lewis of Illinois presented | bezzlement charges growing out {in ' Senate speech, the Court pro- | the closing of his Paris -and London | nounced unconstitutional seven acts | banking establishments. | the rest of us. 3 Left: An Italian priest in earnest conversation with his soldier broth- er on the quay at Naples before the soldier leaves with his regiment for Africa. —A. P. Photo. Right: Another touching scene at Naples as an Italian mother and son bid goodbye as he takes s transport from Eritrea.—Para- mount News Photo from A. P. Circle: The youngest daughter of Haile Selassie, holding a chrysan- themum (Japanese emblem) sit- ting In her perambulator in Addis Ababa. She apparently is enjoy- «ing life, sublimely unaware of the fateful position of her father. —Wide World Photo. LIBERTY 1§ ISSUE, | HYDE DECLARES JEWISH FILM BAN ISASKED BY NAZIS Letter Hits at Non-Aryan Agents in Other Lands. Opera Called Off. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 24—The Reich Film Chamber urged a bax upon Jewish agents abroad for German films today as new domestic anti- Semitic restrictions made their ap-| pearance. In a round-robbin letter the presi- dent of the chamber said, “As re- .| sards the export of German films, I expect, every German producer to make every effort to deal abroad with Aryan firms only and to eliminate non-Aryan employes in case he main- tains sales organizations abroad.” Although the Berlin state opera had intended to bring out Richard Strauss’ latest opera, “The Silent Woman,” here in the coming season, theater circles reported it would not be pro- duced. They expressed belief this was due to objections from Nazi cir- | cles to the fact that a Jew, the author, Stefan Zwelg, wrote the libretto of the opera. Screen Cast Spoken. Movie fans attending the premier of “Episode” last night were surprised to find the cast of characters did not .| appear on the screen, as is usual, but was spoken. Men on the inside of the film industry said the reason was that the manuscript was by Walter Reisch, a Jew. Those who attended the premier said Reisch’s name was hardly audi- ble and that music made it difficult to be understood. | Jews were barred from trolleys to- day in Magdeburg and at Karschin meat dealers were forced to make de- liveries to Jews at night and secretly. | In some provincial towns many Jews were reported depending upon mails | and freight from Berlin for necessi- | ties. Inquiry Offices Challenged. ‘The newspaper Der Angriff, owned by Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, said most commercial in- quiry offices in the United States are in Jewish hands. “That used to be the case in Ger- many and the rest of Europe,” the article said. “In America the best- known inquiry offices are in Jewish hands. If a) information concerning a possible business partner, say in Singapore, he may be pretty sure that, because of international relations, the inquiry { will proceed at least once through Says President Is Responsi- | ble for “Impatience” With Constitution. By the Associated Press. VIRGINIA, Minn, August 24— Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agri- culture in the Hoover cabinet, said to- night President Roosevelt's impatience with the restraints of the Constitution presents the issue of individual liberty | versus collectism which the Republi. | can party gladly accepts. Speaking before a group of 500 men and women, gathered at Lake Eshquaguma for the eighth district | Republican picnic, Hyde expressed | satisfaction that “after more than two | ing street car workers—still seeking ' years of camouflage, of sham and pre- | to win their demands after four| tense, the true nature of the New Deal has been dragged out of the dark corner in which it has lurked and been brought into the open.” | “We rejoice, t00,” he said, “that the veil has been torn asunder and the Issues tendered not by the brain trust- ers, or presidential assistants, but by | Mr. Roosevelt himself.” Harmony among all groups opposed | ;tn the New Deal was urged by Mrs. | George B. Simmons of Marshall, Mo., | farmer woman firebrand of the Re- | publican Grass Roas Conference at | Springfield, Il “The present is not an honest, nor even a clever administration,” she | Jewish hands. “In the hands of these Jews, then, at times rests the honor, reputation and standing of German firms and German persons.” OMAHA PICKETING TO BE RENEWED Police Warn Car Strikers What- ever Force Necessary Will Be Used. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr, August 24.—Strik- months of strife—made last-minute plans tonight to take to the picket lines again Monday. | As they went forward with their preparations, Police Chief Robert Samardick issued a stern ultimatum that he was ready to use “whatever force necessary” to enforce the State law. A Nebraska statute forbids picket- ing. An effort to compel obedience to it several weeks ago was followed by an open clash in the streets and three bloody riots in South Omaha. Two men were killed before the National Guard was ordered into the today a merchant wants | b. 0. P. JUNIORS URGED TO ATTACK Fish Outlines 8-Point Rem- edy for Present Party ““Shadow Boxing.” By the Associated Press. YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wryo, August 24.—Representative Hamilton Fish of New York told Westsrn Young Republicans today the party must quit its shadow boxing and pulling its punches. The Easterner, addressing a econ- ference of representatives of the Re- publican party from 11 Western States | described the New Deal record as on | of squandermania, blundermania and | powermania and as the greatest fail- ure in American history. Lists Eight-Point Program. He proposed an eight-point program which he said the party should de- mand: 1. A return to Congress of powers surrendered to the President. 2. Withdrawal of the Governmen: from competition with private indus- try. 3. National economy. a balanced budget, a soundly backed, stabilized currency and abolition of tax-exempt securities. 4. A new farm program, including minimum prices for domestic con- | sumption, adequate tariffs or embar- goes, export financing, abolition of | processing taxes and refinancing of | farm indebtedness. | 5. Retention of the American wage | scale and standards of living, together with enactment of a reasonable and | adequate old-age pension plan withot political advantage and development | of an unemployment insurance | under State control. For Freedom of Speech. 6. Freedom of speech and press, ex cept where used to urge overthrow of the republican form of government. 7. Provision for national defense, but not aggression, prohibition of mu- nitions profits and loans to foreign pations. 8. Reaffirmation by the Republican party that human rights are superior to property rights and labor prior to capital. Earlier, Lester Lusby of Des Moines, secretary of the National Young Re- publican organization, urged ‘he Northwestern group to place strength behind a movement for new aggressive party leadership. TEXANS PLAN SUIT T0 ENJOIN TARIFF3 Reprisal Against Attacks o Processing Taxes to Be Made for Farmers By the Associated Press BROWNWOOD, Tex., August 2 H. G. Lucas, president of the T Agricultural Association, said tod a suit to enjoin collection of pro- | tective tariffs would be filed within | a week in reprisal against attacks on the processing taxes. Former Gov. Dan Moody and | Thomas B. Greenwe f Austin have been retained to resisjggttacks on the processing taxes, agaf<st which 1,000 or more suits have been filed, Lucas declared. “The processing taxes are the farm- ers’ ‘tariffs’ " he said, “and if they are discriminatory, as claimed in the suits against them, then the tariffs are likewise discriminatory and were enacted to enrich the East at the expense of the general public.” | GIVEN 5 TO 10 YEARS | Man Who Broke Murderless Seven-Month Record Must Serve Term. said, “for one wno does wrong not | City by Gov. R. L. Cochran. He com- | By the Associated Press only loses in the end but loses, lfke- | wige, in judgment of others.” | | horror at the President’s deflance of the Constitution. Now the Pregdent may have in mind a constitutional | amendment extending the Federal power to legislate as to what does and what does not constitute interstate | commerce. He had never said so,| and I, having neither a crystal ball| nor the equipment necessary to read the future in the tea leaves, cannot tell whether he purposes such an amendment or not. I was present at the newspaper conference at which the President analyzed the Supreme Court deciston on the N. R. A. and| explained whet its probable effect | would be on the various emergency | enactments. Obviously and naturally, he was disappointed at the court's verdict, but he merely set about forth- with to preserve as much of the New | | ought to be looked into by those soci- | Deal principles as the decision ap- peared to permit. “Most of his critics find fault be- | ored the French government's request | cause he did not guess right on what | Well, signed by President Harding, seven manded a settlement of the strike by virtue of martial law, but a new dis- pute arose over re-employment of strikers. The strike was originally last April. FRENCH INTERFERE_NCE BLAMED BY NEIDECKER Banker Says Efforts to Halt Franc Short Selling Caused Troubles. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24 —B. Coles Neidecker, Paris banker, whose extra- dition to France is sought, told a referee in bankruptcy today that his financial troubles were due to inter- ference by the French police in their efforts to halt short selling of the franc. A Federal court already has hon- called for extradition of Neidecker, an American, to confront him with em- of Aubrey C. Neidecker, a nrother, | MILWAUKEE. August 24—The man who ended Milwaukee's 1935 record of seven murderless months | was sentenced today to serve from 5 to 10 years in the State Prison at Wau- pun. Last night a Municipal Court jury | convicted Casimir Kowalski, 34, of second-degree manslaughter in the slaying of his wife Mary, 29. The State accused him of beating her to death on August 11 and charged him with second-degree murder. The verdict was sealed and opened in court today. | Kowalski contended his wife was | killed in a fall when she resisted his | effort to lead her from the kitchen of their home during a quarrel. 'HUEY LONG TERMED A “NOTORIOUS SCAB” Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Refuses Invitation tc Be Joint | | Speaker at Celebration. By the Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Terming Senator Huey P. Louisiana a “notorious scab,” August 24— Long of W. A signed by President Coolidge and three | Whose extradition also is sought, de- Murphy, State labor commissioner, signed by President Hoover. ground it might incriminate him. ‘Which | clined to answer questions on the refused today an invitation of the Oklahoma City Trades and Labor expert at forecasting such things than | Referee Oscar W. Ehrhorn adjourned | Council to be a joint speaker with Taft Veto Incident. “Then there is the classical incident of the veto by President, afterward Chief Justice, Taft of the Webb-Ken- yon act on the ground that he consid- ered it unconstitutional. Congress passed the bill over his veto and the Supreme Court sustained its constitu- tionality and it remained good law un- til the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment. “So when such eminent jurists as Chairman Fletcher of the Republican National Committee and President Jouett Shouse of the Liberty League— neither of whom, so far as I know, ever shined in any law court—deliver posi- tive statements as to the constitution- ality of pending legislation, it might be well to keep in mind how often really recognized experts have gone wrong in reading the Supreme Court’s mind in advance. I suppose Messrs. Fletcher and Shouse might say they based their prophesies on opinions furnished by great legal firms. Well, I seem to re- call that in the instance of Charlie Dawes’ $80,000,000 loan back in 1932 some great lawyers advised Gen. Dawes that the loan was legal, and that when the Government sought to collect the loan the lawyers gravely furnished him an opinion that the Government could not enforce collection because the loan did not, in the first place, conform to legal requirements. All of which ap- pears to mean that a competent lawyer can give you the opinion you pey for.” b the hearing until next Wednesday. Be Beautiful! TRUE BEAUTY IS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP—IT REQUIRES MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE. Good health, mental alert- ness, charm and scientific care must blend to complete the per- fect picture. Elsie Pierce Noted Beauty Authority Will tell Washington women how to achieve the cherished goal of feminine loveliness in a SERIES OF DAILY ARTICLES Beginning Tomorrow ™ ; THE EVENING STAR Long at a Labor day celebration here. | " “I've carried a union card 35 vears, and T'll be damned if I'll participate in or even be near a Labor day cele- | bration with that notorious scab. I | have information he never hired a union man in his life,” Murphy de- | clared. Long has accepted the invitation. VINCENT SHEEAN WEDS | U. 8. Writer Marries Daughter of Famous Actor. LONDON, August 24 (#)—A dis- patch from Vienna to the Reuters (British) News Agency said today Miss Diana Forbes-Robertson, young- est daughter of Sir Johnstone Forbes- Robertson, the actor, and James Vin- cent Sheean, American writer, were married today at the City Hall. They immediately left for Salzburg on a honeymoon tour, the dispatch re- ported. — DIVORCE SUIT FILED Mrs. Fedora Jonas Lewis filed suit in Reno, Nev.. yesterday for divorce from Dr. Harry 8. Lewis, 1714 Rhode | Island avenue, according to the As- sociated Press. She charged desertion since August 20, 1934. The couple was married in Nashville, Tenn, June 22, 1921, 4