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N.R A WAGE LEVEL BILLS ARE PLANNED Committee Plans to Meet During Recess on U. S. Contract Measure. By the Associated Press. Spurred by President Roosevelt's warning of a tendency toward ‘‘seri- ous impairment” of N. R. A. wage and hour standards, a congressional com- mittee today began planning legisla- tion to make such standards manda- tory for Government contractors. Two bills toward this aim were lost in the adjournment rush. Introduced by Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts and Representative Walter, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, the measures would have required manufacturers of Government supplies to adhere to wage and hour standards established under N. R. A. In an effort to comply with the President’s suggestion that “a well- considered program” be ready for con- gressional action at the opening of the next session, members of the commit- tee—headed by Representative Healey, Democrat, of Massachusetts—planned to confer with N. R. A. legal advisers today and to arrange meetings during the recess. “We are going to see that the hu. man element is written into Govern- ment contracts in the future,” said Walter, a member of the committee, “instead of only the property element, as in the past. “I aim to see to it first that the new legislation provides that no child labor’ shall be employed on Govern- ment contracts, and then that Gov- ernment contractors maintain a de- cent standard of hours and wages.” Indications were the committee also would strive to reconcile the provi- sions of the Walsh and Walter bills. The major difference between them was that the Walter bill would not re- quire the principal contractor to con- sider the wage and hour standards of subcontractors. The Walsh bill would | have applied to all processes of mate- { rials used on Government contracts. Walter contended his bill was “more workable” and asserted the American Federation of Labor concurred with him. HOPE TO PRESERVE BODY OF LENIN FOR 100 YEARS Becret Embalming Fluid Used on Father of Communism Proves Success. BY the Associated Press. | MOSCOW, August 27.—Prof. Boris | Tlyich Zbarsky sald today that the body of Nikolai Lenin, father of com- | munism, may be preserved for the next 100 years. | He is one of the inventors of the | secret process of embalming by which | Lenin's remains were treated 11 years | ago. The professor said that he and | his colleague, Prof. Vladimar Petro-| vich, were satisfied beyond all ex- pectations. At the time the body originaly was ! treated, said Prof. Zbarsky, he and| Petrovich had feared it could not be preserved more than two years, but | that today it still is in “perfect con- dition.” Thousands of persons have viewed the body in its marble tomb in Red Square. The inventor said the secret of its preservation might be made public in 10 or 15 years. GANDHI AIDE’'S HUSBAND | 1S HIRED AS BARTENDER| Cabin Boy in Miss Cook's Ro-| mance Works at Water- front Bar. By the Assoclated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., August 27.— “Whispering Joe” Marland, proprietor of a waterfront bar on South Beacon | street, spoke up in his fog-horn voice. “What'll you have?” he demanded of a little man, who timidly edged up to the bar. { “I'll have a job—if you've got one,” said the little man. And so Albert Nathaniel Hutchins, who once was in the headlines when, & cabin boy aboard a steamer, he married Nile Cram Cook, once & disciple of India’s Mahatma Gandhi, went to work as a bartender. Miss Cook and Hutchins separated less than three months after their marriage in March, 1934. He said neither has obtained a divorce. Roosevelt (Continued From Pirst Page.) Commission $765,000 for the utility bill. Others were: Interstate Commerce Commission, bus and truck regulation starting Oc- tober 1, $1,250,000. Civil Service Commission, examina- tion of new postal employes under 40-hour week, $500,000. Steamboat Inspection Service, $50,- 000. The bill also carried $300,000 for setting up the new division of aiconol control in the Treasury, and hope was expressed that some plan could be worked out for this. At present, the outlawed Federal Alcohol Control Ad- ministration is holding on with re- covery act funds. Funds Will Be Sought. Of the Social Security Board appro- priation, $73.868,250 was allotted for its various features and $2,216,500 for administrative expenses. Presumably, the principal effort now will be di- yected toward getting money for the administrative expenses, to lay the groundwork for carrying the whole plan into operation as soon as possible after Congress next convenes. In ad- dition to old-age pensions, the expen- ditures to be made include those for child welfare work, aid to the blind, mothers’ assistance and public health. The $75,000 appropriation for the World Power Congress was designed to finance the expense of holding the 1936 session in the Capital. Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the Fed- eral Power Commission, recently went to The Hague to extend on behalf of President Roosevelt an invitation for the power experts of other countries to come here. At the conclusion of the deficiency appropriation conference Chester Davis, administrator of the A. A. A., and other representatives of the or- ganization will see the President, and Controller General McCarl has been about the Capitol steps. Visitors to the Capitol yesterday got an unexpected thrill when they saw what appeared to be the reincarnation of President Lincoln walking The man who bears such a striking resemblance to the Civil War President is Raymond Carr of Sewell, N. J., who says he is related to the Lincoln famity. —A. P. Photo. | Democratic Leader Says Congress Has Aided Humanity by Work. ! BY SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON | (Democratic Leader of Senate) (Written for the Associated Press.) The achievements of this session of Congress will be memorable. Practi- cally every problem that touches human interest has beep made easier of golution by the legislation acfed. As a co-ordi- nate branch of the Government the executive and truly said that the Congress has done its part to crisis. en- a grave Legislation acted in the Seventy-third Congress and rein- forced by the legislation of this session, was enacted with the expectancy that it would help every phase of human and industrial endeavor. Salient features of legislation are the appropriation of $4,880,000,000 for work relief, purposely proposed to sub- stitute for the dole. whole-heartedly co-operate with the Government in this great enterprise, we should hear the increased hum of industry. Lending Powers Expanded. Industry has been materially aided also by the extension of lending powers to the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Home Owners Loan Corp. and Farm Credit Administration, thus making it possible for the self-reliant to re-establish themselves and con- tinue with Government loans instead of direct Government relief. A Dbill declaring a moratorium on farm mortgages, coupled with the in- creased powers to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, will fur- ther promote the comeback that agri- culture has made and give to the farming interests, additional courage. The Senate has voted to assist the tenant farmers and share croppers. The social security bill, providing & system of old-age pensions and un- employment insurance, is an out- standing enactment that, working in co-operation with the States, will give a definite feeling of security to the aged and unemployed. Labor and Finance. The law revising the central bank- ing system will improve o\ banking methods and give further security to financial interests. The extension of deposit insurance continues the faith of the individual small depositor in our banks. The establishment of bar- gaining rights for labor has been pro- vided in a law creating the National Labor Relations Board. The regula- tion and etabilization of the soft coal industry has been provided for in the Guffey bill and a national strike in the industry thereby averted. The raflroads have been aided by a revision of the bankruptcy law and steps have been provided to pension their old employes. The regulation of motor carriers (bus and truck trans- portation) has been provided. The World War veterans last ses- sion had restored the benefits they were recelving before the enactment of the economy act and I have made definite arrangement for a vote on the bonus bil in the Senate at the beginning of the next session in Jan- uary. The Spanish-American War pensions have been restored to full former rates. Provide Pathway. Enactment of a law placing public utility holding companies under Gov- ernment regulation gives further se- curity to the investing public and consumers. Congress in these enactments, coupled with those of a former Con- Senator Robinson. spirit, so nobly exemplified in our 150 years, having been shown the way by Government co-operation, has but to exhibit its usual courage and de- termination to regain full restoration of prosperity and happiness to which this Nation is justly entitled. As the President very aptly sald his letter to the Congress, “Much asked to stay for this meeting also, indicating that financial matters wilt be discussed. Stephen Early of the Roosevelt sec- retariat, said today he did not believe ‘Mr. Rooeevelt would call Congress back. mmflmemmqhmm has been accomplished for the per- Building Booms in Mexico. Mexico, D. F,, has shbuflding boom. en- | co-operating with | judicial branches, | I think it can be! carry on through | If the people | Robinson Lauds Achievements; Dickinson Raps Legislation | Republican Thinks Fu- ture Will Prove His View of ‘Raw Deal.’ BY SENATOR L. J. DICKINSON, Prominent in Republican Councils. Written for the Associated Press. The first session of the Seventy- | fourth Congress will be remembered | appropriation and $4.000,000.000 for | work-relief waste. & No Congress in | 3 American history has made such a record. This rec- ord has been made under the direction of Pres- ident Roosevelt. Congress has ini- The President has directed ev- erything. | ‘Whatever re- sponsibility there 5 is must rest with | him and with a Congress that has surrendered to his wishes. To me ‘it | has been almost pathetic that so many Representatives and so many Sen- | ators would surrender their individ- uality and co-operate in a coercive program such as has been put | through. Senator Dickinson. | for work-relief. To date nobody has | been put to work and relief rolls have | not been materially decreased. Raps T. V. A. Powers. Increasing the powers of the Ten- | nessee Valley Authority means the confiscation of private property, of | many independent and municipally | owned electric light plants. I know |of one instance where the Public | Works Administration is loaning near- ly one-half million dcllars and refus- ing to consider the property of the independently ovned plant located in that city. With reference to the A. A. A. mendments, it must be admitted that the cotton situation is most chaotic. Just now we have the taxpayer sub- jected to the necessity of paying a subsidy out of the general funds of the Treasury to the cotton producer. This is simply an indication of what will be proposed in behalf of the many other producers of raw products. In other words, if this proposal is to be carried on, it means that in the end we will be subsidizing not only the farmer, but the farm owner, the miner, the mine owner and many other lines of industry. . R. F. C. “Octopus.” The authority of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corp., the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. and the Farm Credit Administration to extend loans has been signed. This simply means that, if the program is continued, the Re- construction Finance Corp. will own the banks of the country and will Ppractically control many industries. Severa! of the gew acts are of ques- tionable constitutionality. The Wagner labor disputes act heads the list. To me there can be no excuse to head up in Washington a clearing house for all labor disputes. It is my purpose to give due credit to this administration for the passage of the ceantral banking act. This is & constructive piece of legislation. However, it was not constructive in the way it was sent to Congress for consideration. - +With reference to the social security act, the old-age pensions provision may be workable and will probably receive the indorsement of mest of the States. On the other hand, the unemployment insurance provided is subject to serious question. If this legislation imposes upon industry an additional charge that industry is not able to assume, undoubtedly recovery will be retarded and unemployment increased. . Reform Prime Motive. ‘Throughout the session reform and not recovery has been the real pur- pose. Instead of appraising the ex- periments, every effort. has been to niake them permanent, the Constitu- tion of the United States to the con- trary, notwithstanding. ‘The President turned on tremendous heat for a public utilities bill which rides rough shod over thousands of citizens who had invested their sav- ings in utilities securities. In the clos- ing hours of the session, he forced for ill-advised legislation, extravagant | |ican cause in the Revolution. tiated nothing. | | Custard Pie Movie Era Comedian The $4,800,000.000 was put through 34 B“_'_s VHUED New Industry and Farm Laws NEW U"L"Y I_Aw DURING SESSI0 President’s Address to Con- gress on Soldier Bonus a Precedent. By the Associated Press. The veto—keen weapon sheathed in the White House —had killed 34 measures up until last night of this session of Congress. Opposition to the Patman inflation- ary bonus bill led the President to the Capitol to deliver a veto message personally to & joint session for the first time in history. The measure, which would have set the presses rolling out $2,200,000,000 for veterans of the World War, passed the Senate by a vote of 55 to 33. The House passed it 318 to 90. President Roosevelt vetoed it May 22. “Discrimination” was the President’s watchword on the flery issue. In his message he declared the credit of the United States “cannot ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of yleld- ing to each and all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special consideration. Overridden by House. Hardly had the Executive concluded the address before the House voted, 322 to 98, to override. The Senate two days later upheld the President by & vote of 54 to 40. Many of the vetoed bills were of & private nature, some involving tax claims and others designed to erase the blots of the military records of soldiers, sailors and Marines. The President singled out the latter group for special attack. Nearly a score o0f times he expressed his attitude as these bills came be- fore him. Most of them would have granted or increased pensions to the men involved. Of these the Executive said at va- rious times “* * * this bill would sin- gle him out for special reward,” or “» & would be discrimination against many others.” While Congress kept pushing the private bills on to the White House, it made no attempt to override the vetoes. Class Legislation Opposed. Legislation to allow certain tax re- funds to several building and loan associations which had not submitted claims within the specified period likewise were vetoed as selecting “a small class of taxpayers for special treatment,” with “the whole body of Federal taxpayers thus discriminated against.” Early in the session the President returned without approval a resolu- tion to set aside an annual day in commemoration of Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for the Amer- The first bill disapproved this ses- sion would have authorized the ex- penditure of $500,000 to investigate and wipe out the natural enemies of the pest-ridden oyster. In vetoing a bill to permit religious periodicals that publish local infor- mation to be classified as second-class mail matter, the President sald that any exception “would constitute a precedent under which other social organizations * * * would no doubt re- quest legislation conferring upon them similar benefits.” During the previous session of Con- gress the President disapproved or killed by pocket veto 72 measures. He was overridden on the principal bill he vetoed, one lberalizing vet- erans’ allowances. MACK SWAIN DIES Succumbs. HOLLYWOOD, Cslif., August 27 (). —Mr. Ambrose is dead in Tacoma. As “Mr. Ambrose” Mack Swain was one of the colorful figures of the pio- neer days of movies when custard pies and wild action were the vogue. Those who recall the Nickelodeon deys may remember the wild antics of Mr. Walrus and Mr. Ambrose. Ches- ter Conklin was Mr. Walrus. Swain was Mr. Ambrose—the hulking and usually ferocious 300-pounder whose wild chases usually ended in disaster before a custard pie, a mixing trough of cement or in a lake. He played the part of Marie Dress- ler's father in “Tillie’s Punctured Ro- mance.” L French Elections Fatal. Four candidates have taken thelr lives since the announcements of the results of recent municipal elections in Prance, two through joy and the others through disappointment. One man, a councilor for 30 years after being unseated by the voters placed his head in a gas oven. One of the elated ones, a newly-elected councilor, had a nervous breakdown and shot himself. signed }e articles of surrender to the White House by giving him the 84.- $880,000,000 work-relief appropriaf as a big stick to drive through the rest of his program. When it really understands what has been done, I am convinced that the public will call it a raw deal, all around. $3 450 daily CHICAGO CALIFORNIA AIR- CONDITIONED Chair Cars on fast trains [ ] —Liberal Baggag® Allowance. —Fred Harvey Lunch counters, also Tray Service on certain trains save you money. G. C. DILLARD, Dist. Pass. Agent SANTA FE RY. 303 Franklin Trust ius 1500 Chestnut St. at 1 PHILADELPHIA, P, & Phones: wu-u-,iuo‘-’:m - Congress Adds to Regulation of Coal, Railroads, Utilities, Shipping, Airlines, Oil, Trucking, Beanking, Liquor and Agricutlure. By the Assoclated Press. The first session of the Seventy- fourth Congress passed much legicla- tion affecting industry and agriculture. Some high spots of these lawa: Coal. Created a National Bituminous Coal Commission to draft codes containing wage, hoyr, fair-practice and price- fixing standards: Railro#ds. Revamped bankruptcy laws; extend- ed office of railroad co-ordinator for one year; set up pension system, with & tax on both arriers and workers, for benefit of employes. Utilitiest Passed bill to regulate utility com- panies, giving Securities Commission suthority to outlaw certain holding companies, but permitting the erection of two holding firms upon one “inte- grated system” of operating companies, Also approved amendments to the Tennessee Valley Authority, intended to give the Government express power to sell surplus electricity. Shipping. Pixed more definitely responsibility of ship owners for loss of life at sea; extended until March 31 President’s authority to cancel ocean mail con- tracts. Airlines. Enacted new airmail law vesting regulation of rates in the Interstate Commerce Commission. oil Approved voluntary compacts for !.!ul control of ofl produced in exceas of quotas. Busses and Trucks. Placed Federal control of interstate bus and truck movement in the In- terstate Commerce Commission. Banking. Reorganized Federal Reserve Board and gave to a new open market com- mittee—composed of the board and five banker representatives—control over national credit resources. Liquor. Created new Federal agency to su- pervise the industry. in Industry general: Extended skeletonized N. R. A. until April 1, with power to help in draft- ing voluntary wage and hour codes. Created new Nationfl Labor Board to deal with labor disputes. Set up contribution pension system, with taxes on employers and em- ployes to pay the benefits to workers. Approved expenditure of $4,800,000,- 000 to provide jobs for 3,500,000 and stimulate capital goods industries. Agriculture. Passed A. A. A. amendments to give Farm Administration new powers to adjust crop production. Enabled farmers to apply to Federal Courts for as long as a three-year moratorium on mortgages. Snell Contends Second Session Has Begun, but Lacks Backing According to Representative Snell of New York, House minority leader, the Seventy-fourth Congress opened its second session yesterday, but the offi- cial journal will not back him up. Snell contends that in the parlia- mentary tangle resulting from the fight over the third deficiency bill and the wheat-cotton loans, the first ses- sion actually ended Saturday night. Here is his reasoning: ‘The House adopted and the Senate later adopted and sent back to the House a resolution calling for final adjournment of the session at mid- night Saturday. After a lot of wrangling, the Senate adopted a second resolution asking the House to send back the adjourn- ment resolution for reconsideration. | Then 1t sent this message to the House: “Ordered, that the secretary (of the | Senate) be directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has rescinded its former action to recall from the House concurrent resolution No. 38, providing for the sine die adjournment of the first session of the BSeventy-fourth Con- gress.” Literally, that meant just what it sald—that the Senate had voided its action in asking the Housg to return the adjournment resolution. There- fore, the adjournment resclution | stood. But Lewis Deschler, House parlia- mentarian, got the Speaker to recess the House and the Senate clerks to bring another message. That read: “Ordered, that the secretary be di- | rected to inform the House of Repre- sentatives that the Senate has recon- sidered its action in agreeing to House | MOST SEVERE YET Friends and Foes Admit Restrictions Set Pace for Regulation. By the Associated Press. ‘The most stringent Federal regula- tion of one of the country’s biggest industries is spelled by the utilities law signed by President Roosevelt last night, it is agreed generally by both proponents and foes of the measure. Scores of carefully phrased restric- tions, largely lost sight of by the pub- lic during the battle over whether holding companies should be dissolved or merely regulated, are to be found in the bulky text of the act. Each one definitely circumscribes the bounds within which private enterprises may deal in electric energy. Here are a few of the things the law does affecting utility corporate setsups, management, service and rates, investments and other activities: Holding Company Barriers. First, as to holding companies: Bans, beginning January 1, 1938, and subject to two-year grace, holding companies more than twice removed from operating companies, with those | in the second degree continuing only at the Security Commission's discre- tion, and with each limited to in- tegrated utility systems not too large | to impair Jocal management and ef- fective regulation. Squeezes out so- called “intermediate” holding com- panies. Requires services and sales for hold- ing companies by subsidiaries to be without profit. Embraces all companies except those whose electric business is only incidental to their primary business, and defines a holding company as one with 10 per cent voting control of an- other utility company, or a& person with controlling influence. Moust Register With S. E. C. Requfres holding companies to reg- ister with the 8. E. C. by December 1 next, and permits them to do so after October 1. Prohibits registered holding com- panies from selling securities except | as provided in the law and permitted concurrent resolution No. 38, provid- ing for the sine die adjournment of | the first session of the Seventy-fourth | Congress.” | But the second message was not re. | celved by the House until after mid- | night. Therefore, said Snell, the ses- ‘ sion automatically ended at midnight. | Speaker Byrns' answer: | “It isn't what Bert Snell says, but what the official journal of the House | shows that counts.” | And the official journal shows that all the phenagling took place before | midnight. Mother, 80, Gives Plane. “No doubt, I have the world's most modern mother,” said Gosta Frenckel of Gothenburg, Sweden, as he received an airplane as a gift from his 80- year-old parent on his 50th blnhdnyl anniversary, by the commission, from agquiring in- terest in another electric or gas util- ity company in substantia]ly the same territory without State approval, and from acquiring utility or other busi- | ness assets without commission sanc- | tion. Makes the 8. E. C. trustee, with its| own consent, of reorganized holding companies. Stops loans from subsidiaries to| holding compantes, gives the 8. E. C. power over their loans to subsidiaries and bars dividands out of capital stock or unearned surplus. Bars contributions to political cam- | paigns or parties. | Requires 8. E. C. registration of representatives before Congress or the 8. E. C. or power commissions. officers or directors of banking similar firms. 5 Directs the S. E. C. to make cur- rent studies of utility companies as well as investment companies. Interstate Restrictions. Interstate electrical transmission restrictions include: Directs the Power Commission to district the country and work out “interconnected and co-ordinated elec- tric facilities.” Permits it 10 order one company to make connections with another upon application of 2 State or company, or In war or other emergency, but not in the former cases if plant enlargement or impaired service of the original company is involved. Requires Power Commission ap- proval for transmission of energy to foreign countries. Prohibits sale of facilities above $50,000 without commission approval. Bans “write-ups” in capitalizations. Rates Must Be “Just.” Requires rates to be “just and rea- sonable” and provides for filing of rate schedules wifh the commission, which the commission may change if it considers them unjust, unreason- able or discriminatory. Authorizes the commission to force adequate service. Prohibits interlocking directorates. Provides for the Power Commission likewise to keep up a current investi- gation of the utilities fleld. Amends the Federal water power act with a view to making indisputable the Power Commission’s jurisdiction over navigable streams and those af- fecting navigable waters, . OWEN D. YOUNG HOPEFUL Believes That Business Is Show- ing Improvement. SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 27 (P).— Owen D. 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