Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1935, Page 5

“HONOREDS BT NEW DEAL ADVCE President to Find Many Re- plies to Clergy Letter on Return. By the Associated Press. A cross-section of public opinion on the New Deal, both unique and comprehensive, will be ready for President Roosevelt's study when he returns from his vacation cruise next Wweek. Hundreds of replies to the Execu- tive's circular letter to the Nation's 2 clergymen, seeking “advice and coun- sel” “better serve our people,” have been received at the White House and care- fully sorted. All States Heard From. The President’s request for views was sent from the White House Sep- tember 23 in a single large shipment * of letters. The exact number of re- plies has been guarded, although it is reported to run well into the thou- sands. Every State has been heard from. Before leaving on his Western trip September 26, Roosevelt left word that the replies be filed away by States for his inspection on returning to Washington. In addition, political observers feel ocnfident the material gathered from “representative clergymen” ultimately will be considered by New Deal strate- gists mapping plans for 1936. Some administration officials say it .« 1 possible the answers may be re- garded as of such poiitical value that they will ultimately be placed in county categories. Secrecy at White .House. The White House, however, has thrown strict secrecy around the han- dling of replies. It will not even say who is in charge of sorting them, nor whether a digest will be made public later. Officials at tne Executive Man- sion also have declined to discuss what, if any, political significance might be attached to the move. While nundreds of replies have come to Washington, only about 50 * have been made public and these by the senders themselves. Most of those published have hit at one or more phases of the New Deal, but whether this is representative of all cannot be determined. v Letter « Continucdir‘rom First Page) ‘s session and with the blessing of his party’s leaders, heckled and took his Democratic colleagues to task on the ground they were becoming “just a bit too demagogic.” He also intro- duced a resolution inviting the Presi- dent to address a joint session of the House and Senate “to explain why the solemn covenants and pledges made with the people in the Demo- cratic national platform of 1932 and by himself as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States 3 have been broken.” Questions Mailing List. Eaton said he would “like to know where the mailing list” for the presi- | dential letter was obtained. “I feel certain,” he said, request to me for advice and com- ment would be the last thing in the mind of any member of the admin- istration. “Yet, however inadvertent the re- quest, it seems to me that the best reply I can give the President is to send him a copy of my resolution, now smothered by the Democratic A majority of the House Rules Com- mittee, and suggest the best thing he could do would be to seize the first opportunity to have the com- mittee discharge that resolution and accept the invitation to explain. It would be most helpful and health- ful.” The resolution, a copy of which is being sent to the President by Eaton, o Tecalls that the 1932 platform pledged “maintenance of the national credit by a Federal budget annually bal- anced on the basis of accurate ex- ecutive estimates within the revenues raised by a system of taxation levied on the principle of ability to pay.” Extravagance Condemned. It also recalled that the platform condemned the administration then in power for its refusal to curtail “the extravagant expenditures of the Gov- ernment” and advocated “an imme- diate and drastic reduction of govern- mental expenditures * * * to ac- complish a saving of not less than 25 | per centum in the cost of the Federal Government.” Eaton asserted in the resolution that the President, while a candidate, said “The platform is a promise binding on the party and its candidates. I have accepted the platform without equivo- cation and without reserve. Let us have the courage to stop borrowing to meet continuing deficits.” Contending the President had not kept his promises, Eaton submitted that the expenditures of the Govern- ment from 1789 to 1913 were $24,521,- 845,000, as against expenditures of $24,206,533,000 for 1934-35, as esti- mated by President Roosevelt himself. “Since my advice has been sought,” Eaton said, “I urge that the President accept the invitation to explain and to do so without ‘equivocation.’ And, having explained, to go back and start over by rededicating himself to and actually following the precepts which he s0 heartily indorsed when he took over the reins of office.” DISTRICT PROHIBITION DECLARED MORAL ISSUE George W. Offutt Tells Business Men’s Associations Economic Aspect Is Secondary. Addressing a banquet of the Dis- trict Federation of Business Men’s As- sociations at the La Fayette Hotel, George W. Offutt, chairman of the Al- coholic Beverage Control Board, ex- pressed the opinion last night that re- sumption of prohibition in the Dis- trict hinged more on a moral issue than on the economic aspect of tax dividends, Continuing, he pointed out that speaking entirely from the business point of view an estimated $3,000,000 is paid annually to 2,000 employes in liquor stores—employes who before re- peal were without work. Officers were elected as follows: Curtis E. McCalip, president; Clar- ence Donohue, first vice president; Frank McLaughlin, second vice presi- dent; Theodore 8. Grape, third vice Phillips, president; Eugene Minoux, treasurer, | Vertis Watts and Sylvester Spears, all | be no and Milton Vollmer, secretary. n < on how the Government can| “that a | tween sessions. Geneva (Continued From First Page.) ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1935. Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy, at left, shown discussing proposed sanctions against his country while drinking coffee between League ses- sions October 9. The League voted sanctions the next day, despite his plea. Anthony Eden of England chatting with a woman acquaintance be- —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. Britain (Continued From First Page.) | to be exported to Italy was not decided, | pending further consideration. The League came today to a crisis. | Observers believe that the next 24 hours might tell whether the sanc- tions campaign to crush Italian war- fare against Ethiopia would proceed ;dhectly against Italy, or whether it would fall into futility. ‘The obstacles facing two of the | chief economic sanctions proposed—a | | ban on exports of key products to | | Italy and a boycott on all goods com- ! |ing from Italy—were discussed dili- | | gently. A prohibition on shipments, its ad- vocates believed, sooner or later would hamper seriously Italy’s operations in | East Africa. 'The “buy nothing from Italy” boy- cott, urged by Eden, if rigorously ap- | plied, would deal a crushing blow to | Italy’s exports, 70 per cent of which go to nations in the League. Vigorous Action Needed. Officials feared, however, that diffi- | culties were enough to frustrate its | application unless both Britain and | France backed the scheme vigorously. Uncertainty over the ultimate atti- | tude of France, therefore, made some | smaller League states doubly anxious | | over the repercussions of e boycott, to their own national economies | should they throw themselves into a | sanctions campaign which failed to, { meet quick success. | British sources expressed hope that | both the key products embargo and the “buy nothing from Italy” boycott | would be voted definitely by tomorrow night. Should vigorous and united action by the major powers put the sanctions through, League leaders foresaw a | “quick and effective” application of pressure on Italy. If dissension appeared among the key powers, however, these leaders feared eventual formal approval of the economic sanctions would be only | the beginning of a long struggle to obtain their actual enforcement. Aid Promised for States. The Drafting Committee, which was instructed to submit definite proposals for mutual aid for states which suffer unduly from the cessation of pur- chases by Italy, completed its work. Among its recommendations, offi- cials say, is one by which countries would increase their quotas on im- portations from nations which would be affected by an Italian boycott. Another suggestion would arrange for a special banking mechanism to provide credits for affected nations if that eventually were found neces- sary. A third suggests a scheme by which distressed countries could place their exports elsewhere than Italy. The jurists decided the countries which do not join the economic boy- cott against Italy could not claim favored-nation rights if preferential treatment were accorded by some states to others which were hard hit by the boycott. This means, for example, if a coun- try has a treaty with Germany or Austria containing the favored-nation clause, and that country receives lower tariffs from some League states, Germany or Austria could not claim the same treatment. —— GIRL DIES IN BUS CRASH MERIDIAN, Miss., October 18 (#).— One child was killed, four persons se- riously injured and 10 other -pupils Alightly hurt today when a Laurel Hill school bus with 30 passengers en route to the State fair at Jackson turned over twice and crashed into a tree. The child killed was Emma Jean Hammond, 15, hter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hammbnd, of Laurel Hill Those seriously injured were Mrs. Ada Sharp, Mrs. of Laurel Hill, talked to Laval, was reported to be considering going to London to aid Laval's conciliation effort, since he was educated in England and has close contacts there. He can speak for the little entente of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, which is vitally concerned in the present tension. Laval indicated he would delay until Wednesday at least his answer to Great Britain’s question in the hope that he would have the reply from Mussolini by then. The British Ambassador was re- ported authoritatively to have told Laval that if France shirked obliga- tions under the League Covenant, Britain might consider itself unable to aid France automatically under the Locarno treaty in the event of a Ger- man attack on the continent. Another unconfirmed report said Laval inclined farther toward support- ing Britain after Gen. Maxime Wey- 1gand told him a split with Britain would lead to a German attack on the continent within two years. ANGLO-FRENCH TENSION GROWS Britain Plainly Intimates Paris Failing League. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 18.—Tension be- tween the British and French mounted today as the British govern= ment let it be known plainly that re- cent events have shaken the British public confidence in Prance's loyalty to the League of Nations. The restoration of this confidence, authoritative sources said, hinges upon an unconditional affirmative French reply to the British query as to whether France wiil back up Great Britain if the British fleet in the Mediterranean is attacked by Italy. Hoare Speaks Tuesday. This reply, it was stated, is expect~ ed before Tuesday, when Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, will go be- fore the House of Commons to out- line international developments. Officials bluntly refused to discuss what might happen if the reply from Premijer Laval of France was not an unconditional affirmative. Official quarters, however, expressed & plain spoken belief that the answer would be satisfactory. British Policy Restated. To pave the way toward making this kind of answer possible and to simplify Premier Laval’s position, au- thoritative sources explained the Brit- ish policy again. They declared today that Great Britain has never suggested military sanctions against Italy in the present dispute, has never proposed any block- ade of Italy and has not suggested closing the Suez Canal or the Red Sea to Italian ships. These authorities stated the Italian and French press had created dan- gerous, erroneous and absurd concep- tions of the true British policy. Deny Laval Answered. Officials hastily denied the points expressed were in answer to conditions Premier Laval of France insisted on having cleared up before ne replied to Great Britain’s query as to whether French support could be relied upon in case Italy attacks the British fleet. An authoritative source said the French reply was expected Monday or Tuesday in time for a debate in the House of Commons. The debate will be inaugurated by Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary. Authorities refused to discuss news- paper suggestions that the future of the Locarno pact was tied up with the present situation, - although, signff- icantly, it was pointed out that the Locarno pact falls within the frame- work of the League of Nations. (Under the Locarno pact France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Belgium guarantee that there shall aggression between France and ) » HGHWAYS HEAD RELIEF PROET C. C. C. Second and School Buildings Third Largest Enterprises. By the Assoclated Press. An official accounting of approved work-relief projects said today that highway and street construction had become the largest single cog in the Government’s job-making machine. The amount set aside for such work was calculated at $855,000,000. Other big items in the summary of Federal allotment: for approved enterprises were: Civilian Conservation Corps, $522,- 084,000. School buildings, $174,243,000. Other public buildings’ included in the Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration pro- grams, $113,475,000. Parks, athletic fields and similar projects under W. P. A., $156,610,920. ‘Waterworks, sewers, drainage and related work under W. P. A, $142,- 603,767. Community Service Projects. “Community service” and “miscel- laneous” projects under W. P, A, in- cluding sewings centers to produce clothing for persons on relief, relief garden projects, clerical and library work and other “white collar” enter- prises, $80,931,506. Bureau of Reclamation, for power plants, dams, drainage projects, mapping, irrigation and the like, $79,650,000. For projects under the War Depart- ment’s Engineering Corps, including flood ' control, harbor dredging and preliminary work on the Atlantic- Gulf Canal, $144,716,169. Resettlement Administration, $38,- 000,000. Navy Department, $17,370,470, most- ly for improvement of buildings and grounds at yards and docks. Sanitation projects under W. P. A, $22,654,540. Afrport work under W. P. A, $17,- 399,624. Erosion surveys and control work under the Soil Conservation Service, $25,000,000. National youth movement, $27,056,- 268. Projects for unemployed artists, writers, musicians, actors, directors, etc., $27,315217. Division of Road Work. The large amount of approved high- way and street projects was shown to be made up of $391,000,000 adminis- tered by the Bureau of Public Roads, $100,000,000 to pay for Federal high- ways previously authorized under the Hayden-Cartwright act, $183,729,913 for street work under the jurisdiction of W. P. A, approximately $164,000,000 of secondary or farm-to-market roads to be handled by W. P. A. and $15,- 989,743 of P. W. A. grants. The accounting issued today cove ered more than $900,000,000 of ap- proved W. P. A. projects, $1,396,966,- 759 of projects under various Federal departments and agencies, and P. W. A. grants amounting to approximately $330,000,000. In addition, the Presi- dent has approved P. W. A. loans amounting to $182,095,581. P. W. A. grants for various utilities— sewers, sewage disposal plants, water systems, electric distribution systems and the like—were placed at $100,- 197,626. Other approved allotments made to different Government agencies in- clude: Bureau of Animal Industry, mainly for tick and pest control, $1,- 682,900; game protection, $266,289; Bureau of Entomology and Plant | Quarantine, $16,559,817; Forest Serv- ice, $13,827,500; Census Bureau, for | & survey of retail trade, a survey of | business and preparation of an alpha- betical index of the 1900 census, $9,- 881,948; construction of fish hatch- | erles and improvement of spawning grounds, $230,996; road construction in | Alaska, $671,500; occupational survey "under the United States. Employment Service, $900,100; boats, telephone systems, repairs and improvements for the Coast Guard, $5,263,995; public health inventory, $3,450,000; survey of tax collections and tax investigations, $6,313,126; improvements and repairs |8t Army posts and national ceme- | terles, $12,947,766; Rural Electrifica~ tion Administration, for power dis- tribution lines, $4,818267; Veterans' Administration, for improvement of buildings and grounds at veterans' hospitals and other institutions, $1,234,120. LICENSEES URGE SUNDAY CLOSINGS Groceries With Class A Liquor Permits Targets of Reso- Iution. Sunday closing of all grocery stores holding class A liquor licenses was urged last night in a resolution adopted by the Washington Food and Liquor Dealers’ Association at a meet- ing in the Hamilton Hotel. George W. Offutt, chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, pointed out today that the board some time ago urged that the liquor supplies in the stores holding the class A licenses be locked up on Sunday. At the same time, he sald, the Commis- sloners were informed the voluntary closing of the stores on Sunday would be desirable. Isaac Gans, member of the A. B. C. Board, addressed the association at its meeting, urging that members make every effort to see that all laws gov- erning the sale of liquor here are observed in order that every.one may enjoy the privileges they now have. Morris Blumenthal, president of the asociation, presided. « 9% More Hea This Winter if you install a DEVICE STUNS PORKERS ABOUT TO MEET DEATH Humane Education Society Head Approves Method in Chi- cago Yards. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 18.—The grunts and squeals of condemned porkers were silenced by a device ‘demon- strated in the stock yards yesterday before members of the Chicago Hu- mane Education Sosiety. “It's a big step forward,” approved Mrs. Elsle Dow, the soclety president. An electric stunner painlessly, or nearly s0, knocks the hog unconscious before it is dumped inio a shackling pen where the shackles are adjusted preparatory to the fatal blow of the sticker. Mrs. Dow said her organization had been working three years to induce packers to install more numane meth- ods of killing animals. Corrosion of Steel. Corrosion of steel by water contain- ing oxygen and carbon dioxide in solution is closely related to the con- ceatrations of these gases, according to New York chemists who have studied the phenomensa of corrosion quantitatively. Their findings, says Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, are of importance in heating systems aad as confirming modern theories of corrosion. N\ \ \ 4 ) 7/ ke % 1 W.P. A. JOBS GOAL FAR FROM REALIZED 184,479 Given Work in Two Weeks—1,839,267 Shy as Deadline Nears. By the Associated Press. A gain of only 184,479 work-relief jobs during the past two weeks was reported today by Aubrey Williams, acting Works Progress administrator. ‘With less than two weeks before the November 1 deadline for employing 3,150,000 persons, he reported that 1,310,733 now have jobs. This included 594,427 on W. P. A. projects, 582,648 in the Civilian Con- servation Corps and 133,658 on other Federal projects, Two weeks ago there were 1,126,234 at work under the program, including 452,739 on W. P. A. projects, 559,640 in the C. C. C. and 113,855 on other Federal activities. BRITISH PILOT KILLED LONDON, October 18 (#).—Piliot Officer Nevil Fisher, 21, the son of Admiral Sir William, Fisher, com- mander in chief of Great Britain's Mediterranean fleet, was killed yese terday in an air crash at Brauncewell, Lincolnshire. 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