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TEST OF NEW LAWS NEEN BY 156 Supreme Court Not Expect- ed to Get Cases Until After Election. Mallon on Vacations Resumes Column in The Star Sept. 24 Paul Mallon’s column, “What's What Behind News in Capitol,” will be resumed as a daily fea- ture in The Evening Star Sep- tember 24, when he returns to Washington from his vacation. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although seven out of ten of the re- cent acts of Congress are believed by | competent attorneys to be unconsti- tutional, the chances are that not one of them will have been passed upon by the Supreme Court of the | United States between now and the | presidential election in November, 1536. | This arises out of the fact that the | average time elapsing between the | passage of New Deal legislation and | decisions by the Supreme Court pass- | ing on their constitutionality has | been 15 months. It is possible, of course, with the proper zmount of co-operation and with the elimination of dilatory tac- tics on both sides, for an issue to be | presented to and decided by the high- est court in from six to eight months. But it took 20 months and 15 days from the passage of the gold clause default for the cases to be brought and argued and decided through the | lower ccurts to the Supreme Court | and it took 23 months and 11 days | | wife, whe v e nolitical | Mfe. whe rocketed into the nolitical | 10" eation or existence of a State WOMAN 1S BACKED FOR G. 0. P. OFFICE Mrs. G. B. Simmons, Farm| Wife, Advocated for Vice Presidency. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 12 -—Mrs. George B. Simmons, Missouri farmer’s spotlight with a “grass roots” speech in June, was proposed for the vice presidency today as the Republicans’ | best hope of beating the New Deal in 1936. Her name was advanced by another | woman, a figure in the stecl irdustry, Mrs. Jean O'Haver Shassere. Her nomination would be the “out- | ‘gin beneficial operation, the program THE EVENING STA R, WASHINGTON, Old-Age Aid Administration Linked With Grants for Blind Program of Federal Designed to Be Payments to States First to Begin Beneficial Operation. (This is the second of a series of articles discussing the social se- curity program.) BY JOHN C. HENRY. Designed in such a way that it would be the first of the plans to be- of Federal grants to States for old- age assistance was placed in title 1 of the act. For purposes of admin- istration from the Washington end, this program is to be placed under the same central division as the program of grants to States for aid to the blind, as outlined in title 10. In their major respects both of, these programs are the same. Both, | for instance. are founded upon actual | need of the beneficiaries; both call for plan which must earn the approval of the Social Security Board: both provide for Federal grants to the | States to an amount equal to 50 per | cent of each individual pension up to | $30 per individual per month. In| other words, the Federal Government | will contribute as much as $15 per month per individual coming under tiom the time of the passage of the Of-the-ordinary something” that the | ;. state plans. national industrial recovery act for a test to be made in the Schechter case. The Roosevelt administration was{ inclined at first to ward off tests, but | did help finally to expedite the Schechter case and the gold clause Republican party will need to carry | its ticket, Mrs. Shassere predicted in | an interview. | In addition to the “women’s vote | down to the last woman,” Mrs. Shas- | sere said Mrs. Simmons could com- | | mand the ballots of the “farmer and | Will Seek Delay. | his wife because she is one of them” | There are indications that the ad- “She knows her cows and chickens, ministration will try to avoid as long | not from theory, but from actual ex- as possible a test on the Guffey coal perience.” Mrs. Shassere. famous as law and on the Wagner labor rela- | the only woman salesman of steel, tions act. This is because organized | declared Jabor wants to get the machinery of “She would appeal to the city house- the laws grooved so as to obtain the wife in her plea for lower food costs, suits. I be required maximum benefit from the acts irre- | spective of the outcome of the suits on constitutionality. { Politically, 1t will be important if there are no major questions of con- | stitutionality added to those already established by the seven acts of the Rooscvelt administration which vio- lated the Constitution. Those who have been hoping that the Supreme Court would furnish a basis for the introduction into the next presidential campaign of a constitutional amend- ment that could be been approved in Roosevelt regime is the polls are doomed ment. T. V. A. and A. A, A. Pending. ! There are pending. of course, for ! decision in the October term of the Supreme Court this year two impor- tant cases affecting constitutionality One is the Tennessee Valley Authority act, which has been upheld by the | Circuit Court of Appeals and in which | the New Deal probably will be sus- tained, and the other is the Agricul- tural Adjustment act, with its pro- cessing taxes, on which the New Deal seems certain to lose. The Roosevelt administration is trying to have the cases brought on the agricultural con- ! trol law before it was amended at the last session tied into the cases that will be brought under the A. A. A. amendments but it appears doubtful that the courts will care to decide anything but the issues arising out of the original law. The administration has in effect conceded the unconstitutionality of the A. A. A. as originally drawn, be- cause the amendments recently pressed upon Congress clearly show the an- ticipation of an unfavorable deci- &ion. The farmers. however, will net be deprived of the A. A. A. even if the original law is declared invalid be- cause the present machinery of the A. A. A for the collection of proc- essing taxes will require a separate attack on the lower couris before any “final cases can reach the Supreme Court, something that may happen a year and a half from now and cer- tainly not before the November, 1936 election. Separate Ballot Best. From the standpoint of national progress, it is much better to have a constitutional amendment, if it is to be proposed, acted upon separately from other elections and contro- | versies. It would not be surprising, on the other hand, if the opposition | to the New Deal raised the issue of not plowing under or destroying, but | raising more cf everything.” Borah Favored. ‘ A man to lead the Republican slate | to the White House was more dl(flcu]t! to find in Mrs. Shassere's opinion. | Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho seemed the best of available mn(erlal‘ to her. | Aside from putting new blood into the party leadership, Mrs. Shassere said Mrs. Simmons’ election would have a salutary effect on Congress. With a woman presiding in the Sen- ate, she said. “There’d be less clown- She said she had already suggested George F. Getz of Chicago. treasurer of the Republican National Commit- tee, that Mrs. Simmons’ campaign | “be left up to the women.” including the question of funds. “Let each woman give a dollar, and there’ll soon be a couple of hundred thousands,” she said. “There's going to be a woman Presi- | dent or Vice President some day. so why not do something about it now. It would be a smart stroke.” Mrs. Simmons Rakes New Deal. Yesterday Mrs. Simmons raked the Democratic administration with new broadsides. “I look across the land I love with a feeling of desolation,” she declared. “knowing how in Washington there are soft-handed sophisticates who would scorn to touch a plow handle, | vet who have been given the power to tell my farmer husband what and how much he can raise.” Her thrusts at the New Deal. couched in the plain language of her Marshall, Mo., neighborhood, evoked rounds of applause from Chi- cago G. O. P. leaders gathered at a luncheon “They taunt us for a plan for agri- culture.” she said. “Has it not been enough that in the years when farm people built a great Nation that every farmer made his own plan? We do not need any imported plan that regiments us and ruins our oppor- tunities. We need to regain our foreign markets, less and lower taxes. an end to the unrest that this admin- istration has so immeasurably in- creased. Hits Potato Control. ! “I cannot see how putting the mark | of the beast of bureaucracy on our white potatoes can contribute to pros- perity.” She branded the A. A. A. “part of a vast Communistic design” and said constitutionalism anyway in the next | she saw “forces capable of destroying campaign. Should the President be | re-elected, would he consider then | that he had received a mandate to | prepose an amendment to the Consti- | tution permitting a strong centralized | control over manufacturing, agricul- ture and production generally? | The answer to that question will de- pend to a large extent on whether | there are any aggravating circum- stances that force the President to the Constitution when the pieces are put together.” She added | “When the Third Internationale in | Moscow told American Communists o vote for the New Deal it put the President in quite a lather. His at- titude was: ‘Comrades, it's all right | for us to understand each other, but | you play in your own alley. Don't ring my doorbell.’ " Referring to “New Dealers’ " reports take a position in favor of changing|Of better business she asked: “Is the Constitution. His friends and ad- | & Man or business better off because | visers are divided both as to his in- | MOTe taxes have been levied?” tentions and as to what course should _ The speaker was rushed off to a re- be pursued. Certainly the invalidation | CePtion at the swank Hamilton Club. | of the A. A. A. alone is not calculated | to bring out from Mr. Roosevelt a concrete proposal for a new amend- men; to the Constitution, because the | new A. A. A. amendments will not | have been passed upon and no such . administrative confusion will result (from the invalidation of the oid A. A A statute as occurred when the N. 1. R. A was declared unconsticu- tional | May Resort to Parables. . Mr. Roosevelt may, of course, deal with the issue by implication. In his | recent speeches he has shown a tendency to refer back constantly to the days of Washington, Jefferson and | " Hamilton, as if to contend that tne Constitution needs “modernization.” | The strategy of the New Deal will be | to argue that modernization doesn't | mean destruction. The other day Mr. Roosevelt, in his parable about tre| repairs to the White House, took trat | point of view, insisting that rewiring | of the Executive Mansion didn't| H change its exterior appearance or its | framework. | Muct. will depend on whether the . admiaistration consents to the presen- + tation of a concrete proposal to amend ! the Constitution. Until such a pro- { gram is announced, the debate will be on rather general grounds. It is ! important to note for the present | « that those who had hoped for a back- ! fire from public sentiment in opposi- ‘ tion to Supreme Court decisions and + had believed that this would furnish an excuse for a constitutional amend- ; ment proposal in the next congres- «sional and presidential campaign have not reckoned on the natural de- lays that attend the bringing of suits through the lower courts to the Su- » preme Court of the United States. The American people will, there- . fore, not know about the constitu- tionality of the recent acts of Con- » gress till some time after they will + have elected a president. (Copyricht. 1935.) i | promise not to display the Stars and | Bars at the Gettysburg meeting was | PERSHING 7 | brate his 75th birthday anniversary | of the American Battle Monuments Commissi 6. AR ACCEPTS BID TO MEET WITH U.C. V. Bitter Floor Fight Precedes Votes on Pennsylvania’s Invita- tion, However. By the Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., September 12.—The Grand Army of the Republic voted today, after a bitter floor fight. | to accept Pennsylvania's invitation for a joint meeting of Union and | Confederate veterans in 1938 on Get- | tysburg battlefield. Alfred E. Stacey, commander in | chief of the Grand Army of the Re- public, withdrew his objections last | night to the proposed joint reunion | with the United Confederate Veterans. | Stacey said he had changed his opinion on the proposal and would | raise no objections to a display of bat- tle colors by veterans of the Confed- eracy. | The convention chose Washington, D. C, for next year's encampment. A resolution by James W. Willett of Tama, Iowa, which would have required the Southern veterans to voted down. 5 TOMORROW Gen. John J. Pershing will cele- tcmorrow in France, where 18 years 2go he led the first of the American Expeditionary Forces into action ml th. World War. Gen. Pershing 1s in France in con- | nection with his position of chairman » Requirements Tmposed. Both impose certain minimum re- | guirements which the State laws must | meet; from that point on the States | may be as liberal or as individual as they choose. Among these require- ments is one that a State plan may not impose any citizenship require- ments which would exclude any United States citizen. Another is that the State residence requirement may not exceed five years in the last | nine years: one vear of residence im- | mediately preceding application may | In both, it is stated that aid eligible to extension from the Federal fund must be given only to needy individ- vals In the two groups who are not inmates of a public institution. Blind | pensions must not be given to those | receiving old-age assistance. Ap- | proved State plans in each case must | ccntain provisions assuring a hearing | to any person whose clailn for assist- ance is refused. In the old-age title it is specified | $2,250,000. { and started its operation in 1930, with | | 12 persons on the list and expendi- | tures amountii | from $904,939 in 1931 to $5.628.492 in | $49,750,000, this to be distributed in the matching grants. For a nine- month period the dead deficiency bill cerried an appropriation of $37312,- 500. Title X authorizes a yearly appro- priation of $3.000.000 and provision | was made in the deficiency bill for A superficial study of some of the | State plans shows how old-age assist- ance has increased during recent years. California, for instance, en- acted a law in 1929, put it into effect in 1930 and distributed $1,634.423 in aid of 7,205 persons. In 1934 the total expenditures amounted to $4,288508, | with 16,619 on the rolls. Growth in Maryland. Maryland enacted her law in 1927 to $1.800. In 1934 there were 267 drawing pensions and | the cost amounted to $65,228. Massa- | chusetts increased her expenditures 1934, while the pension roll jumped | from 11,076 to 18,516. New York showed the most con- sistent operating statistics, with ex- penditures in 1931 being $12,007,352 and those in 1934 being $12,650,828 | The pension list for the first year was 47,585 and that for the most recent year 51,834. | D. C., SCHEDULES GIVEN FOR BUS SERVICE Connecticut Avenue Line to Garrett Park Will Begin on Sunday. Shedules for the Capital Transit Co.’s bus service, which is to begin operation Sunday over Connecticut avenue between Garrett Park and Chevy Chase Lake, in Montgomery County, disclosed today that headway will be on an hourly basis during normal plan during rush hours. In addition to the busses operating between Garrett Park and the Rock Creek loop, an additional line will | operate from Chevy Chase Lake to | the loop to serve the heavily popu- lated residential area of Chevy Chase, d. These busses will begin cpera- tion at 5:23 am. each day, with 15 minutes headway during normal pe- riods and eight minutes headway dur- ing rush hours. Busses will leave ‘rom Garrett Park, the northern terminus of the line, beginning at 5:45 a.m. on week days and other busses will follow at 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 8:45, 9:45, 10:45 and 11:45 am, 12:45, 1:45, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:15, 5:45, 6:15, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:45 11:45 pm. and 12:45 am. North Bound Route. On the north bound route from Rock Creek loop, where the suburban commuters will change from busses to street cars, the busses will leave each periods and & half-hourly | day at 5, 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 9, 10, 11| With beneficiaries from these State | am., 12 o'clock noon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4:30, that the age limit at which old-age | not be assistance may begin may | over 65, excepl during the five vears up to 1940, during which a 70-year level may be in force. 35 States Have Age Laws. In connection with both of these programs considerable work already is under way in the individual States A recent compilation showed that 35 | States, Alaska and Hawaii had old- age. pension laws, while 27 States had blind. pension laws. Since then | Congress has enacted such laws for the District of Columbia. Beneficiaries of these old-age State Jaws totaled about 235000 persons in 1934. In addition. the F. E. R. A. estimates that about 750.000 persons over the age of 65 are on their rolis. These two groups, all under the clas- sification of needy. indicate that Title I of the new act will bring di- rectly beneficial results to about 1,000.000 persons. Similar compilations reveal that the State systems of blind pensions are adminisiering to about 30.000 persons. with an approximate maxi- mum list for the whole country of about 100,000. Because of their character, some of widely varyving the State lsws for these two types of relief probably | will not conform in their present structure to the requirements of the Social Security Board. During hear- ings before the House Appropriations Committee A. J. Altmeyer, since | named a member of the board, esti- mated that about 18 of the old-age laws and about 7 of the blind laws probably would require no revisions. With the inducement of substantial Federal aid, however, the others are expected to make the required changes as soon as possible. | Old-Age-Law States. A complete list of those having old-age laws follows: Alaska, Ari- plans totaling about 235,000 last year, the States expended about $32.000,000, ! the average expenditure per pensioner | per year being about $136 on the basis | of these figures. Appropriations al- | ready made for the present fiscal year, | however, approach the $50.000,000 mark. tion expense factor the actua: pen- | sions range from an average of $6 13| per month in Indiana to $29.90 per month in Maryland In the case of the State blind pen- sions. total expenditures in 1934 were about $6,500,000, with the pensions ranging, roughly, from $12.50 to $50 per individual per month. (Tomorrow's article will deal with the Federal old-age insurance program. a plan entirely apart from the Federal-State co-opera- tive system just discussed.) Rome (Continued Prom Pirst Page ) Eritrea and Somaliland. and an Ital- ian fleet in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean “in case of hcstilities of any-so-ever nature.™ There were persistent reports that Premier Julius Goemboes of Hungary would visit Mussolini soon to discuss with him problems affecting the two states. Duce Calls on Allies. Mussolini has been calling upon Ttaly's smaller allies and friends for co-operation in his preparations for an Fihiopian war, and has received a friendly answer. especially in the Danubian area, where Italy's allies are Austria and Hungary. 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 pm, | 12 midnight and 1 am. The busses supplant the Kensing- ton-Sandy Spring Railway, which operates between Kensington and Chevy Chase Lake, and the Connecti- cut avenue car line, operated by the Eliminating the administra- | Transit Co. from the Lake to Chevy | Chase Circle. It was said today that the last street car to be operated by the Kensington- Sandy Spring Railway will Jeave Ken- sington at 1:06 am. Sunday morning and the Capital Transit Co.'s last car is to depart from the Chevy Chase Lake car barns at 1:12 am. Running Times Given. Robert Dougan, executive assistant | of the Capital Transit Co.. who pre- pared the bus schedules, said the run- ning time of the busses in all in- | stances will be four minutes between Garrett Park and Kensington, seven minutes, between Kensington and Chevy Chase Lake. seven minutes be- tween Chevy Chase Lake and Chevy Chase Circle and 16 minutes between I that point and the Rock Creek loop. Dougan explained that the subur- ban commuters may either ride the busses directly to Rock Creek loop and change to street cars at the off- street terminal or they may change at Chevy Chase Circle to direct local or express busses operating to all | sections of Washington. Bus service from the circle o down- town Washington will be on a 15- | minute basis in normal periods of the day and five minutes during rush hours, —_— ~ MACVEAGH, IN COURT | FIGHT, PLEADS POVERTY Hungary and Austria are furnish- | ing Italy with much material needed for the African campaign. Hungary is supplving wheat and live stock Austria is sending lumber, Gl f (Continued Prom First Page) Haas scored a 4 and 3 verdict to gain the quarter-finals with Joe Lynch, this year's Georgetown captain. as his opponent. Lynch put out a local star, Oliver Transue by the .same score. Johnny Goodman of Omaha, for- mer national open champion. ad- vanced with an easy 6 and 5 victory | over Eddie Meister, jr.. The Cleveland City champion, and faced Charley Kocsis, University of Michigan star, jor the afternoon play. Kocsis rout- zona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, | ®d Tommy Goodwin, New York, 7 Connecticut, Delaware, District of Co- lumbia, Florida, Hawaili, Idaho, Illi- | nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland Massachusetts, Michigan, Mimnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ne- | braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New | Jersey. New York, North Dakota, Ohio, ‘ Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, | Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Of this group, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Rhode Island and West Vir- | ginia had no blind pension laws when | the latest check was made by the | Bureau of Labor Statistics. As an indication of what the Fed- | eral Government plans to do finan- | cially under these two titles, their ap- propriation authorizations may be noted. For old-age assistance, Title I authorizes a yearly appropriation of | Irvin S. Cobb || | Says: 1 Small Fry Scrambles.for Place Vacated by | Leviathan. SANTA MONICA, Calif., September | 12—In the ocean, the whale is at- | | tended by a whole school of infinitely lesser creatures that bask in the mon- ster's wake and | feed on the| scraps of his for- aging. But when the harpoon plerces his vitals, | these parasites | scatter to find them a new mas- ter. With the | human sprats and sardines, it's a different tale. Hardly does the Kingfish put out for those un- charted depths from which no adventurer ever re- turned to tell us what magic isles, what grim headlands may lie beyond, | than the small fry that lived on his leavings come thronging. out of the | shallows to fight for the places he filled and the powers he wielded. We measure a vanished leviathan not by the fast-fading memories of that vast bulk, but by the puniness of the minnows that skitter and scram- ble in the swell of his passing. ‘Wyrltag':flfib 'bz the ’lar& )A-tflufl [ | the T A R MORGAN GROUP SUED| FOR HALF MILLION Gross Negligence in 1930 Deal Charged by W. T. Snow of Massachusetts. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, September for half a million doliars against J 12—A suit P. Morgan and 19 associates was| filed in United States Court today by William T. Snow of Brookline, | Mass., as executor of the estate of his father, Frederic E. Snow. The suit alleges “gross negligence” in an in- vestment transaction in December, 1930. Papers giving notice of the suit were served on Morgan and his son, Henry S. Morgan, several months ago when they attended the launching of a new United States cruiser in Quincy, Mass. Snow alleged that his father in- vested $250,000 on the strength of a statement issued by the J. P. Mor- gan Associates. L DAUGHTER TO TESTIFY Colorado Jury to Hear of Fiance's Slaying by Father. FORT MORGAN, Colo., September 12 (4).—Elsie Elam, 19, was summoned as the principal State witness today at the murder trial of her father, who is charged with the slaying of her fiance, Ernest Miller. Sheriff R. A. Johnson said the girl had refused to visit her father, David Frank Elam, since he was arrested for the fatal shooting of Miller last June 2. Elam’s attorney indicated the de- fendant would plead self-defense. —_— STRIKE IS SETTLED NEW YORK, September 12 (#)— Settlement of one strike in New York's garment industry yesterday was ac- | companied by a complete stoppage of work by the Ladies' Garment Workers' | | | Son of Former Treasury Secretary Says Late Father Lost $7,000,000 in 1929. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 12 —Eames MacVeigh coupled a plea of poverty | with his counsel’s charge of extortion vesterday in the Chicago socialite’s court fight against the breach of con- tract suit brought by Miss Louise Hagen, New York artist MacVeigh. 60, vestryman. business executive and son of a former cabinet member, took the witness stand in Municipal Court while the 47-year-old woman with whom he engaged in a 20-year romance listened attentively. was worth between three and four million in 1929." the defendant testified. “My father (Franklin Mac- Veagh, Secretary of the Treasury in the Taft administration) was worth between six and seven million. But it was all lost in the market crash. My father died insolvent in 1934 and 1 If now owe a bank $80.000." His attorney, State Senator James J. Barbour, declared: “Illicit relations do mnot constitute legal consideration. This attempt to collect on the contract is extortion.” The controversy centers on agree- ments entered into by Miss Hagen and MacVeigh in 1930. Judge Joseph McGarry reminded him that his con- tention did not constitute a defense. 'CHICAGO-NEW YORK w TRAIN TIME IS CUT tral Begin 1614-Hour Schedule September 29. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 12.—Both the | Pennsylvania and the New York Cen- | tral Railroads last night announced | their crack Chicago-New York trains | to 161% hours, effective September 29. The new schedule will mark the | fastest regular train service in his- tory between the two cities and will be placed in effect on the Twentieth Century Limited of the New York | Central and the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania. Both trains will leave Chicago at 3:30 pm. and will arrive in New York at 8 am. (Eastern standard time). The East- West run will begin in New York at 5:30 p.m., arriving in Chicago at 9 jam. Officials of the two roads also an- nounced reductions in‘ running time for their other New York-Chicago trains. U. S. JOBS ANNOUNCED The United States Civil Service Commission has announced the fol- lowing examinations: Physiotherapy aide, $1,800 a year; physiotherapy pupil aide, $1.440 & year. Optional subjects for physio- therapy pupil aide are: Hydrotherapy, massage, remedial gymnastics and general physiotherapy. Closing iate Union and the threat of “the greatest | September 30, 1935. .strike they veer saw” if dress goods manufacturers ignore demands for far-reaching cha ‘The Shipping Clerks’ Union reached a compromise on minimum wages of $15 and a work week of 44 hours, and clerks were ordered to feport for ‘work this morning. Senior safety engineer, $4,600 & year, Division of Labor Standards, Department of Labor. Closing date September 30, 1935, Full information may be obtained at the office of the Civil Service Com- mission, Seventh and F streets north- west, W D.c. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935. They Admit It, Now are engaged now,” said Toby. Chaplin's comedy of that name, said that's right. one of the Hollywood studios. HOLL 1S SLENT N NN CAS Diplomat Reported to Have | Blamed U. S. Interests in Russia for Transfer. By the Associated Press The State Department maintained silence today on published reports that the self-slain George C. Hanson, veteran diplomat, blamed American interest in Russia for his transfer to an obscure post | Hanson committed suicide aboard the S. §. President Polk. Earlier he had been transferred from Moscow, where he was consul general. to Ad- dis Ababa, Ethiopia. In this move some observers saw indications that Hanson, with a reputation as a “trou- bleshooter,” was being sent to East | Africa to watch American interests in the event of Italo-Ethiopian hos- tilities. i Suffers Breakdown. But while Hanson was at sea, Ethiopia bound. he was shifted again, | this time to the comparatively o0b- | scure Salonika, Greece. There, it | was said. he suffered a nervous break- | down. It was while he was en route home September 2 for treatment that he shot himself. His body was taken to Bridgeport, Conn., his native city for burial today. The Bridgeport Times-Star, in a copyrighted -article, said the Amer- | ican-Russian Chamber of Commerce in New York had filed charges against Hanson late last year with the State Department. These charges, the news- paper said. were brought after Han- son delivered a speech at a chamber | meeting at which he discussed Soviet ! Russian affairs. The charges, the newspaper con- | tinued. were followed by a secret hear- ! ing of the State Department's Person- nel Board. The board’s subsequent ‘action, the Times Star said Hanson believed, was responsible for the | transfer. Gave Talk Reluctantly. | The newspaper published a letter ! which it said Hanson wrote to Wilbur {J. Carr, Assistant Secretary of State, | December 9, 1934. The letter said, in | part: “I was shocked when the personnel board * * * charged me with having given an anti-Soviet talk. h | “I received repeated invitations | from the American Russian Chamber of Commerce to give a talk before its | committee members. After I was as- | EDISON INSTITUTE TOFIGHT NEW LAWS John W. Davis and Newton D. Baker Among Attorneys Retained by Trustees. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 12.—The board of trustees of the Edison Elec- tric Institute has retained John W. Davis to aid in contesting the consti- tutionality of the public utilities act of 1935, it was announced today The institute has also retained New- ton D. Baker to participate in a case which will contest the validity of | gifts and loans of Federal money to enable municipalities to compete with private companies. It has retained the services of Forney Johnston and James M. Beck to argue before the Supreme Court in the case now pending on the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority. McCarter Gives Reasons. g of the Following the meeti of trustees of the institute Thomas M. McCarter. preside a statement saying, in part “In addition to the imposition largely increased and di taxation, recent Federal le attacked the electric industry | different ways as follows “First, the public ut v Pretty blond Toby Wing and Jackie Coogan, young screen stariets, have confirmed their romance and often-reported engagement And Jackie, who was “the kid” “We really VR A4 Y Meddling in Internal and Foreign Affairs Charged by Texan. | By the Associzted Press. Questioning its efficiency and ac- cusing it of “meddling” in internal and foreign affairs, Representative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas, wants a congressional in- vestigation of the Navy. The Texan. him- self a World War veteran, put for- ward his demand for an eight-point inquiry in the final edition of the Con- gressional Record —just released. a Congress- man.” he said, "1 am willing to give our arms of de- fense adequate ap- propriations for that purpase. I am willing to help them in their morale, in their efficiency and in their dis- cipline. “I am not, however. wiliing. to make huge appropriations and permit the efficiency of our fighting arms 0 go down, nor to let the military run the civilian population. meddle in in- ternal affairs and stick their noses in foreign affairs.” | Question of Waste. | An investigation, Maverick said, would disclose whether the half bil- lion being granted the Navy Depart- ment annually is being wasted and harms rather than benefits Navy. Maverick said the inquiry should cover 1. Peacetime espionage of the Navy. 2. Connections with foreign affairs and State Department duties. 3. Any connection of the Navy or any officer with munitions makers and shipbuilding lobbies. 4. Naval educational cluding culum. 5. Discipline, | officers. 6. Number of officers on duty in Washington, officer lobbying and their distaste for and non-wearing of uniforms. 7. Character of mechanical | fighting equipment. 8. The “Navy miund.” Rep. Maverick. policies, in- the Naval Academy curri- particularly among and Pennsylvania and New York Cen- | sured that the committee desired just | a plain man-to-man talk, that the | meeting would be a closed one at | which no Soviet citizens would be jpresent, and that my remarks would not be divuiged outside, I reluctantly “Thogh delightful fellows socially.” [conemae s : | he explained, “at least a few have “I gave my impressions of life, work straight-jacket minds—heads straight- Patriotism Unquestioned. Declining to challenge the patriot- | ism of officers, Maverick said. never- theless, they had acquired what psy- chologists call the “Navy mind.” they wjll cut the running time of | |and industry in Soviet Russia in a | rambling way. * * * At the end of | |my talk I was applauded, congratu- | lated and thanked by those sitting | nearest me, including Mr. Sly, the | | chairman and toastmaster, and Col. | Cooper. Mr. Sly Brought Charge. “During the meeting with the per»‘ | sonnel board Mr. Moore (R. Walton | | Moore, Assistant Secretary of State) | | remarked that the disparaging re- | | marks against the Soviet government | were brought to the “attention of the | department by Mr. Sly and that I could | jacketed with real thick insulation against reasonable thought.” The duty of a soldier or sailor, the Texan asserted, is to fight for his gov- ernment, not interfere with its af- fairs. Yet the Navy, he said_ is “meddling in foreign affairs” and “secretly and by underhand methods and intimida- tion,” trying to push through a bill to forbid attempts to incite members of the armed forces to disaffection and disobedience of rules and regu- lations. That bill, he said, will take away (Central standard time) | expect no help from Col Cooper. * . | “The sources and motivation of | censorship and make the military su | liberties of the people, set up press | | these charges I can only conclude are I not disinterested. I would hesitate | to believe that the Chase National | Bank is attempting to interfere with | American Government appeintments | | abroad. But I can see no other re: son for Mr. Sly's attack on me. I would hate to imply that Col. Cooper, | an ex-employe of the Soviet, is willing to attack unjustifiably the character of an American foreign officer to fur- ther Soviet propaganda in this coun- try. I can detect plan and method in these attacks. * * *” “Sly” May Be Schley. NEW YORK, September 12 (#).— Th> “Mr. Sly” referred to in a letter which the Bridgeport Times-Star says the late George C. Hanson, American diplomat, wrote to the United States State Department, presumably to Reeve Schley, vice president of the Chase National Bank and president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. The “Col. Cooper” named in the letter was believed to be Col. Hugh L. Cooper, American engineer who completed the Dnieperstroy hydro- electric and navigation project within the first five-year plan, < preme as in Germany before the war. Fairness of Inquiry. The proposed inquiry by Senators and Representatives should oot be made by individuals subject to the Navy's “social lobby,” who can be “teaed down" by the admirals, Ma- verick continued, adding: “My conclusions are should be a dignified investigation of the United States Navy, not a pub- licity hunting affair where naval offi- cers are brought in to be humiliated or embarrassed, where sensational charges are made and where a circus is held for the edification of the pub- e Actress Hurt in Crash. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Sep- tember 12 (#).—Gertrude Michael, beautiful motion picture actress, suf- fered severe lacerations in a motor car accident here yesterday. Physi- | that there or, as it is familiarly called | Wheeler-Rayburn holding compar | act. This act will injure the interes | of the consuming public. directly af- | fect the security of the present em- | ployment of 250000 people and may injure, perhaps to the point of de- struction. the rights of a large portion The amendment i practically management of a loca hands of Federal bur gton. To a large extent use the stock of the local companies doing a local business. is owned by » holding company. domiciled in other State provides for Federa domination of matters subject to St jurisdiction. es Unfair Competition. in the t and pe om - thus legalizing and perpetuati unfair competition against private owners Dictates to Investors. “The enactment gives to Federal reaus broad a stricted powers a consuming whose right may dissipated according to fancy of such bureaus. enacted despite the fact that the total money value of the interstate powe: at present unregulated amounts only 0 about $4.000.000 a year. The Fed- eral bureaus have initially asked for approximately one-h: t for administration also add ) ns of dollars the annual expenses of operation the companies, which expense woul in the main part, be borne by ihs consuming public. and certair retard. if not preven.. a c of the record of progress duction made by the indus period of years. Second—That portion of the na- tional recovery act which purports to give the Government the right, gift or loan, to a i erecting powe existing fac many millions of dolla been expended or appr Governmen Puts U. S. in Power Business. “Third—The Tennessee Valley Au- thonity legislation, which seeks to pu the Government directly in the power business, involving the construction of existing facilities. “In the opinion of eminent counse the greater part of this legisiation 1 unconstitutional. The power prn- gram of the Federal Government ir es the expenditures of S h. in the main destroy private operatior in the electric light end power indus- try in the United States, despite the fact that the people of this country enjoy the most efficient and wide- spread electric service at reasonable rates of any people in any cou Such service is the envy of the e | world and has resulted from privat initiative without Government sub- sidies “That the industry is well buil is best attested by the fact that it never borrowed from the R. F. C. I not suffocated by Government med dling the industry will continue it< splendid record. It is inconceivabl that this wasteful and destructive ex- penditure of the taxpayers' money should be continued. Counsel Is Retained. McCarter continued that the insti- tute trustees had determined that the question of the constitutionality of these statutes should be presented the court at the earliest opportunity. | To that end it has retained the services of Davis, former Democratic candidate for President, New York, to participate in the conduct of the case or cases which will contest the va- | lidity and constitutionality of the pub- lic utility act of 1935. It has retained the services of for- mer War Secretary Baker “to partici- | pate in the conduct f the case or cases which will contest the validity and the constitutionality of the gift and loans of Federal money to induce or enable municipalities to competc with private companies now rendering efficient service through the United | States.” The services of Forney Johnston of | Birmingham, Ala., and of James M | Beck, former United States solicitor general, “to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case | now pending, the constitutionality of | the act under which the Tennessee | Valley Authority is spending huge sums of the taxpayers’ money in its effort to further the doctrine of the abolition of private business for profit.” o! determined This The law v y over a illions of France Convicts Girl as Spy. BREST, September 12 (#)—Frau- lein Lydia Oswald, the “girl with the green eyes,” was convicted yesterda: cians said, however, that her injuries | of attempted espionage and sentenced were not serious. Miss Michael, 23, | to nine months in prison. The naval formerly of Talladega, Ala, was re- | court refused to believe her story that turning from Lake Arrowhead when | she quit spying when she fell in love her car hit the rear of another car, police said, then swerved intc a tree. A | with a French lieutenant, | Porceville. A Jean de 3