Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1935, Page 8

" A—8 u# . BUSINESS UPTURN - SEEN BY FARLEY Cites Increasing Postal Re- _: ceipts to Prove Trade Is Climbing. BF the Associated Press. % CHICAGO, September 34.—Stead- fly rising postal receipts as a reliable DEATH RULED SUICIDE Navy Radio Technician’s Body Was Found in Room. A certificate of suicide in the death ‘of Jesse B. Byrd, 45, Navy Department radio technician, who was found dead Sunday in a gas-filled room at his home, 18C3 G street. was issued by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald yes- terday. Byrd, a former resident of Hatteras, N. C., where his wife and four children live, was sald to. have been ill. His body was found by the landlady, Mrs. A.'G. Stanfield, who summoned police. Byrd was pronounced dead on arrival of physicians from Casualty Hospital. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1935, LANDIS ASSUMES RULE OVER S.E.C. Former Professor Asserts . Policies of Kennedy Will Be Continued. By the Associated Press. James M. Landis today took over chairmanship of the Securities Com- mission, the Government's agency to supervise security exchanges, finan- cial issues and utility holding com- panies. Landis was elected chariman yes- terday to succeed Joseph P. Kennedy, resigned. Soon afterward, he told reporters there would be “no change in our policies.” One of the New Deal's original supporters, Landis formerly was & Harvard professor. He is 35. His choice by the commission first was predicted from the White House steps yesterday by Kennedy, who came from Wall Street to organize the commission and résigned last week. He termed his successor as a “damn good man” A little later, | Landis formilly was elected chairman by his colleagues. Prom New York financial quarters came reports that brokers had ac- quired much respect for the ability and fairness of the new chairman. At his first press conference as ch‘l{mln, Landis praised Kennedy's ‘worl “There will be no change in our policies,” he said. “There is no need for change. He was & very successful chairman.” Kennedy broke in to say: “Good-by to you, Jim—knock ‘em over.” Landis discussed organization prob- lems in connection with administra- tion of the holding company bill and estimated 170 employes will be added to the present personnel of 730. Landis 'has been on the commission since its creation and before that helped write the securities law. At Harvard he was a teacher of legislative methods. He became a full professor after having served as sec- | retary to Justice Louis Brandels of the Supreme Court. Landis was born in Japan, the son of a Presbyterian minister, who taught in Tokio missionary schools. He came to America when 13 years old and, after attending lower schools in Mich- igan, went to Princeton for a year. ‘When only 17 he joined the Y. M. C. A. snd worked for that association in Ewope. Returning to Princeton, he virtually paid his way through by tutoring. He took his law degree at Harvard, where he became a close friend of Felix Frankfurter, the law professor | who has sent many of his former | puplls to New Deal posts, | LIGHTNING KILLS YOUTH Bolt Also Burns Wife and Mother- in-Law in Home. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., September 24 (#)—A ligntning bolt which fol- lowed an electric wire into the home late yesterday killed James Paul Rice, 17, and severely injured his wife and mother-in-law at Stevens Pottery, 9 miles from here. Mrs. Rice and her mother, Mrs. Tom Finney, although badly burned, are RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. A Rendezvous with Health! HOTEL DENNIS ATLANTIC CITY Spend happy days beside the sea, directly on the Boardwalk . supremely served and attended with the intimate comforts of your home. SUN DECKS « SOLARIA + GARDEN TERRACE | SEA WATER BATHS > TEMPTING CUISINE 3 blocks from Auditorium Unmion Statson LTE AMSHIPS. | BERMUDA VIA FURNESS, $50 up, round trip. with private bath. P L !nlnlllfl ngs expected to recover. e direct' 1o dock at Hamiiton — Farness Bere muda Line. 34 Whitehall 8t.. New York. barometer of business conditions were termed evidence of “returning pros- perity” by Postmaster General James A. Farley in an address prepared for = Beginning Tomorrow..Our Semi-Annual in's business. The curve of postal teteipts almost exactly parallels the upcurve of prosperity during the past f. three years. “I have no doubt that all of you have been reading a great deal about the alleged breaking down of the New Deal and the alleged unconstitutional characteristics of the legislation passed by the Congress just adjourned. This sort of matter is just plain politics. Cites 1932 Counditious. %I think the whole country knows that when the presert administra- tion came in our country was almost o derelict ship. Factories were idle from the Pacific. to the Atlantic, farms were being lost under fore- closure proceedings, banks were tumbling at the Tate of 15 a day, credit had almost ceased to exist, and nobody saw anything but further calamity ahead. “President Roosevelt took command of the derelict craft and pulled us . off the reef. Things are looking zo fine that the old crew that led us into the shipwreck is now straining every nerve to get back in power. “That is the real meaning cf all the assaults on the New Deal. That is the reason the men and corpora- tions who begged Roosevelt to save them by any process three years ago are now assailing him and the meth- ods he pursued to get them out of the hole. They did not worry then about the constitutionality of what hé was attempting. Sees Historic Era. #T believe history wil. record this @s one of the greatest, most construe- tive and most successful administra- tiens in our history.” The Postmaster General said postal income had Increased {rom $588,000,- 000 for the fiscal year ending June, 1932, to $630,000,000 for the past fiscal year, despite the reducticn in rates for local postage which, he said, resulted in a loss of income of $21,000,000 a year. Revenues for July and August showed an increase over a year ago, he said, of more than 8 per cent. “In the 12 largest cities ravenue from September 1 to 15 shows an increase of more than 10 per cent,” he added. Replics on Subsidies. Answering critics who contended the Post Office Department showed s deficit instead of a surplus, he said, “By this they mean that if I should For a peried of over 80 years, Ostermoor has been . and is today . . . Amer- iea’s Quality Mattress. 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Standard sizes included in this Catl |full size 4 foot 6; 4 foot; 3 foot 6; and 3 include among the regular Post Office expenses the expenditures which the Government i* making in airmail and merchant marine subsidies, we would be in the red. : “Actually, the airmail suisidy is for the purpose of developing aviation. It might be properly chargeable to the War and Navy Departments or the Department of Commerce. “The steamship subsidies are de- plaredly for the upbuilding of the merchant marine in order to afford this country adeguate ships to trans- port its commerce and to give the Navy an adequate supply of trans- port and reserve vessels in the event of war.” WOMAN STRIKERS FIGHT IN STREETS Garment Workers in Outbreak at Dallas—Four Are Jailed. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., September 24— Street fighting broke out again amorg striking garment workers and em- ployes here today, four woman strikers being hurried off to jail after a hair- pulling and fist-fighting scene in front ©of a downtown garment factory. The four strikers protested to po- Yce that the fight started after two workers at the Sheba Ann Garment Co. had cursed them as they alighted from an automobile. ‘Two workers, Mrs. G. C. Farrill and Mrs. Thelma Boone, said the four ‘women, walking along the street, at- tacked them. Two dozen other garment strikers, all members of the International Gar- ment Workers’ Union, now demanding union recognition, higher wages and the establishment of an arbitration board, witnessed the melee but did Dot participate. Honored PHONE COMPANY EMPLOYE GIVEN EMBLEM. All Ostermoors are built to the full dimensions specified. 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