Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1935, Page 4

PARKS IS HISSED - INARMY DEFENSE Draws Town Hall Derision for Denying U. S. Fought Aggressive War. A Town Hall audience which hissed Representative Tilman B. Parks of Arkansas for his assertion last night that no American soldier had ever fired a gun in an aggressive war heard Sir Norman Angell, noted British Laborite and author, point out the path of collective security as the path ©f peace. Parks, a member of the panel quizzing Sir Norman on his address, alternately drew hisses and ap- plause when he launched into an oration in de- fense of the American Army and preparedness. His plea for a “satisfactory and sufficient army to defend these shores,” and hope that “American boys will never have to fight again on foreign soil” won the teady approval of his listeners. Sir Norman, who spoke on “Why & World Wanting Peace Gets War,” declared that when such a degree of Rep. Parks. organization has been reached that | an attack on any one member of the {nternational community would be an attack on all, there would be no at- tack on any. Britain’s course at Geneva in the Ttalo-Ethiopian crisis was spiritedly defended. Imperialists Oppose Course. “England has been charged with pursuing a selfish and imperialistic | policy with regard to Italy,” he de- clared, “but sight is lost of the fact that all the imperialists in England, the old guard, are bitterly opposed to the present course at Geneva, and the main support in Britain, as in France &nd the Irish Free State, is the parties of the left, the working class.” He attempted to spike justification of Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia for economic reasons, denying that the problems of Italy can be solyed by the | acquisition of new colonies. “African colonies are not going to provide an outlet for any European state,” he declared, “for Africa already has a native population of low stand- ard of life with which Europeans can- not compete.” Indorsed by Lewis. Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1935 A. A. A. Foes Meet for Court Battle prepared today Left to right: J. L. Sullivan, J. Farm (Continued From First Page.) the flow of benefit payments to the farmers and, of greater long-time significance, tor some delineation of the scope of the Government’s powers. Many political leaders are awaiting the decision with keen anxiety, for they believe it may determine the tide of the 1936 presidential election. Ruling Due Next Month. Although arguments will be com- pleted some time tomorrow, a ruling is not expected before the middle of January. Lawyers for the Government and the Hoosac Mills Corp. of Massa- chusetts, which filed the suit at- tacking the law, completed their final preparations for the momentous battle last night. Their briefs, already filed with the | nine justices who unanimously struck | down N. R. A, have raised not only | the question of the validity of process- | ing taxes—life-blood of the A. A. A— but also of Congress’ latitude in legis- lating for the Nation's “general wel- | tare.” The “welfare” power, never defined by the high tribunal, has recently be- come the constitutional peg on which many New Deal laws are being de- fended. Its scope has been debated since the days of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, whose widely- conflicting views have been cited. Pepper to Lead Assauit. George, Wharton Pepper, former Republican Senator from Pennsyl- vania, will lead the assault on the legislation, contending among other things that it is an invalid delegation of power and does not directly affect interstate commerce. Those were the reasons the court gave for overturn- ing N. R. A. Another farm-relief act—the Bank- head law for control of cotton pro- duction—will be argued as soon as the pros and cons of A. A. A. are debated. eorrespondent of the London Times. | was a member of the panel and heartily indorsed everything his countryman | said, but pointed out that a nation’s| foreign policles are a generalization | of its nistory and experience, ac- | quired in an anarchic world, and the | problem is to reconcile these fruits of anarchy with the new system based on international order. Other members of the panel were Frederick J. Libby, executive secre- tary of the National Council for Pre- | vention of War, and Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, in command of the 9th! Corps Army Area. John W. Studebaker, chairman of | as each side expects to talk two hours on A. A A Arguments will be heard December 16 on the petition of Louisiana rice millers for a permanent injunction against collection of processing taxes under A. A. A, as amended. .:yte;:— v porary injunction was granted e ;:S‘;nu;ae“}_}f:::;;“l night for the | 5upreme Court pending the hearing. Next Sunday mgh-t, Gaetano sfl_;The rice millers filed & brief today vemini, former member of the Italian | oo enOIg Bl R e leg?s leion) 8 Parliament and opponent of Fascism, | upheld State lines will be “important * only for the purpose of permitting the will speak on “The Ways of Dictator- | % - ship.” use of vari-colored maps in geogra | That probably will be late tomorrow, | ACTOR TAKES ROLE IN SPITE OF BURNS| Montgomery Player Plays Com- edy Part After Gas Seared Arm. By a Staff Cor-espondent of The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md., December 9.— A capacity audience attending the Montgomery Players’ presentation of “Bird in Hand” Saturday night, wit- nessed, but were not aware, of a real drama. Handicapped by severe burns of the hand and arm, suffered in an illumi- hating gas explosion at his home a short time before, J. A. Bishop never- theless gave an impressive performance in the comedy role of Banquet. | Bishop was burned at his home, Eest Woodbine street, Chevy Chase, on Saturday afternoon when he ignited & match to examine the oil burner, which had gone out during his ab- sence Saturday morning. Unaware that members of the family had not turned off the gas pilot light, Bishop struck a match and his arm and hand was seared when accumu- lated gases exploded. NEW CLIPPER POISED ALAMEDA, Calif., December 9 (#). —Pan-American Airways officials set take-off time for the Philippine Clip- per’s initial flight to Manila for 3 p.m. (6 p.m., Eastern standard time) today. The big seaplane is a sister ship of the China Clipper, which completed & round trip to Manila last Friday. Overnight stops will be made at phies.” They also contended the amendments to the act, “instead of curing its constitutional defects, have simply emphasized them.” T. V. A. Act Up December 19. Three days later, the Tennessee | Valley act will be attacked and de- fended before the court. The re- maining New Deal case before the justices, involving the right of the Government to condemn land for & slum-clearance project, will be argued early next year. While expressing confidence that the farm act. will be upheld, admin- istration leaders say they are ready for any eventualities flowing from the court’s final ruling. President Roosevelt has hailed the principles of A. A. A. as a permanent program and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has asserted acceptable sub- stitutes will be ready if any or all of the props under A. A. A. are knocked out. A general sales tax and higher in- 9 | come taxes have been mentioned by Wallace as possible alternatives to processing taxes to raise money for paying farmers to curtail acreage planted to basic agricultural com- modities. Senator McNary, the Republican leader, has announced that he will offer on the opening day of Congress a bill providing for the optional ap- plication of either the equalization fee, export debenture or domestic allot- ment plan. Although the Hoosac case has to do directly with the validity of process- ing taxes, the entire act is at stake. The decision of the Court of Appeals was sweeping. The case originated in the refusal of receivers of the Hoosac Mills to pay $81,604 in processing and floor stocks taxes on cotton. The Federal District (;cun for Massachusetts upheld the X. Honolulu, Midway, Wake and Guam. The Hoossc Mills case involves A. Montgomery, George Wherton Pepper and E. M. Toland, member of a Washington firm. William N. Butler, receiver for the Hoosac Mills of Massachusetts. is shown with his attorneys as they to leave their hotel for the Supreme Court to contest validity of the Roosevelt farm program. Bennett Sanderson, E. R. Hale, Butler, former Senator —A. P. Photo. processing taxes levied before the act was amended last August in an at- tempt by Congress to meet possible legal objections to the original legls- lation. To Pass on Amendments. Some lawyers say the court can pass only on the original law, but Government attorneys have asked the | justices to consider whether the amendments “ratified” the initial leg- islation. In any event, the tribunal will have an opportunity to pass on the amendments in the rice millers case. The amendments provided that if the act were held unconstitutional, processors could not recover the tax unless they proved they had not passed the expense on to the con- sumer. Approximately $1,000,000,000 of processing taxes has been collected thus far, but an estimated $150,000,000 has been impounded by Federal courts until the act is passed on by the high tribunal. i Fourteen briefs totaling approxi- mately 275,000 words were presented to the court to aid it in deciding the Hoosac case. For the next two weeks the court will be busy each day hearing argu- ments. Then it will recess for three weeks until January 13. That interval will give it an opportunity to prepare opinions. Thus a final decision might come at that time. The opinion rendered in the case by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston is before the Supreme Court. Here are some excerpts: = “The power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce does not authorize it to do so by taxing products, either of agriculture or industry, before they enter interstate commerce, or other- wise to control their production merely because their production may indi- rectly affect interstate commerce.” “It is clear, we think, that under the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the Schechter Poultry Corp. case (which held N. R. A. invalid) | Congress at the outset has attempt- ed to invade a field over which it | had no control, since its obvious pur- pose, viz, to control or regulate the production of agricultural products in the several States by the meth- ods adopted in this act, is beyond the power of Congress.” “The issue is not, as the Govern- ment contends, whether Congress can appropriate funds raised by general taxation for any purpose deemed by Congress in furtherance of the ‘gen- eral welfare, but whether Congress has any power to control or regulate matters left to the States and lay a special tax for that purpose. “If Congress can take over the con- trol of any interstate business by a declaration of an economic emergency and a public interest in its regula- tion, it would be difficult to define the limits of the powers of Congress or to foretell the future limitations of local self-government.” D. C. YOUNG DEMOCRATS RE-ELECT R. J. WALTER Attorney Also Chosen Chairman of State Central Committee. Clubs Plan Dance. Unanimous fe-election of Raymond J. Walter as president of the Young Democratic Clubs of the District of Columbia and as chairman of the State Central Committee was an- nounced today. He will direct the activities of the Young Democrats dur- ing the 1936 campaign. He is an at- torney and was N. R. A. complisnce director for the District. The clubs will hold & campaign dance at the Mayflower Hotel Decem- ber 17. Miss Ruth Madden has been named chairman of the General Com- mittee in charge, with John Mattern as vice chairman. Other committee chairmen are Mrs. Braddish J. Carroll, §r., box; Walter Bramhall, music and decorations; John Sobotka, publicity, and Godfrey Wickware, floor. ‘Walter today anounced the appoint- 0 ment of John Bracken as chairman of | the Jackson Day Dinner Committee. UTILITY SPLIT-UP LOSSES ARE BARED U. S. Power Body Advises 3 State Units of Line Cut- ting Results. By the Associated Press. The power commissions of three States have been advised by the Fed- eral Power Commission that the Con- necticut Power Co. is suffering “se- rious economic losses” as the result of severing interstate lines to avold Federal jurisdiction. ‘The power company cut its trans- boundary lines when the holding com- pany act was passed, admittedly to remain under the authority only of State commissions. The commission, in announcing its communication to New York, Con- necticut and Massachusetts agencies, also released correspondence between itself and Samuel Ferguson, Connecti- cut power chairman. Willing to Experiment. A letter from Ferguson said that “at present I am out from under and can afford to stay so, but, as I hate to see unavoidable waste going on day by day, I am quite willing to make the experiment of a ‘trial mar- riage.’” Ferguson, the correspondence show- ed, had suggested a commission inter- pretation where the lines might be rejoined, but the commission replied it did “not think that any business is entitied a ‘trial marriage’ with its government.” Writing the three State agencies the Federal Commission said: “It would appear that the severance of these interstate connections is now causing and must inevitably cause se- rious economic loss to all of the com- panies involved and ultimately to the people of the States which they| C o Sk Cost Increase Feared. “While these economic losses would appear, for the present at least, to fall primarily upon the stockholders of the companies, the destruction of these interstate connections will im- pair the reliability of service and in- crease the cost of power supplied to domestic, commercial and industrial consumers.” The severed lines were between the Connecticut Power Co., the Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co. in New York and the Western Massachusetts companies. ENVOY IS WELCOMED Lithuanian Society Holds Recep- tion for New Minister. An informal reception was held by the Washington Chapter of the Amer- fcan Lithuanian Society in the Wash- ington Hotel yesterday for the new Lithuanian Minister, Povilas Zadeikas, and his wife, and the secretary of the legation, Mikas Bagdonas. John F. Brazinsky of Georgetown University, toastmaster at the recep- tion, suggested that the Washington and Baltimore socleties join in ob- servance of Lithuanian day February 16, which has been officially set aside by Gov. Nice of Maryland. L. J. Esunas, president of the society, pre- sided. Men and Women Employed or Unemployed Accident Insurance $5,000 Doubling to $10,000 $500 All Medical Expenses Cost $10 Semi-Annually Folder on Request M. Le Roy Goff 1036 Woodward Bldg. Nat. 0340 REAL ESTATE LOANS now being made on terms as low as Per Month EXPOSITION GIVEN ONHORAGE WORKS G. U. Sophomores Translate Writings and Quizzed on Background. Examined by visiting professors of the classics, five sophomores of Georgetown University before an audi- ence in Gaston Hall last night gave an unusual exposition of the complete works of Quintus Horatius Flaceus, known to thousands of American col- lege students simply as Horace, great- est of the Latin lyric poets. The was arranged by Rev. John E. Grattan, 5. J., dean- of the College of Arts and Sciences, in cele- bration of the bimillenium of the birth of the Roman poet. Translate into English. Prof. Joseph G. Dwyer, 8. J., assisted in arranging the program, which was divided into sections, dealing with Horace's Satires, the Epistles, the Epodes and his Odes. After reading selections in the original Latin, the students translated into modern English, and then were questioned by the professors regarding their poetic appreciation and the classical and mythological background of the vari- ous works. John L. Keenan, jr, of Rochester, N. Y., was examined in the satires by Rev. James J. Lynch, 8, J., pro- fessor of the classics at St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia. The epistles, which enrich the poet’s moral re- flections and his judgment upon lit- erature, were taken up by Francis A. Pinnegan of Bangor, Me,, who, as a freshman, last year won the Horace Medal for the best translation of the odes. He was examined by Rev. Denis A. Comey, S. J., professor of dogmatic theology at Woodstock Col- lege and formerly professor of the classics at Georgetown. ‘The epodes and “Carmen Saeculare” were translated and discussed by George A. Dies of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was questioned by Rev. Frank A. Sullivan, 8. J,, graduate student of the classics at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. Owing to the length of the odes, this phase of the program was divided into two sections. Blair M. Bennett of Washington took up the first two books, being examined by Rev. James Marshall Campbell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Catholic University. The program concluded with exam- ination of William J. Corboy of Winnetka, IIL, in the third and fourth | books of the odes by Prof. Lester K4‘ Born, executive officer of the Depart- ment of Classical Language of George | Washington University, —— DURAND IS APPOINTED TO TARIFF COMMISSION By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt yesterday an- nounced appointment of Edward Dana Durand to the Federal Tariff Com- | mission to fill the vacancy created by | the resignation of John Lee Coulter of North Dakota, a Republican. Born in Romeo, Mich., in 1871, Du- rand was graduated from Oberlin in 1893, receiving a Ph. D. degmee from Cornell three years later. He served as director of the United States Cen- sus, with the United States Food Ad- ministration, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and the Commerce Department’s division of {Mrs. Dorothy L. Figures in Hoeppel Trial Upper: Representative John H. Hoeppel (left) and his son, Charles A. Hoeppel, are shown leaving Dis- trict Supreme Court, where they went on trial today on charges of conspiring to sell a West Point ap- pointment for $1,000. Lower: James W. Ives, the Baltimore ath- lete, with whom the Hoeppels are alleged to have made the “deal.” —=Star Stafl Photo. Hoeppel (Continued From First Page.) with Hoeppel for the latter’s Annap- | olis appointments. It was one of | these, according to the Government, | that Hoeppel plotted to sell to Ives. Pine pointed out, however, that Burke | was not a party to the alleged con- | spiracy. The jury, composed of 10 men and two women, was selected in rapid| time after both the Government and the prosecution had eliminated eight members of the panel on challenges. | Every precaution was taken by both | prosecution and defense to select a jury | unprejudiced against the member of | Congress, Army men, or legislation in | which Hoeppel is interested. | The prosecution sought particularly | to ascertain whether any member of | the panel was interested in the Town- | send old-age pension plan, which| | Hoeppel has supported. Since Hoeppel | is a retired enlisted man in the Army, | the defense questioned the panel about | their relationship with service men,| and especially whether any of them have relatives who ever sought admis- sion to the Military Academy. | The jury follows: [ G. Gordon Bailey, Roy F. Carty, Gordon, Sewell | Shreve, Benjamin J. Nyce, George H. | Heine, Mrs. Marie K. Hayes, Charles | E. O'Daniel, Marvin W. Peers, Sheri- | dan S. Kleindienst, Oscar W. Logan | and Woodson G. Martin. | The alleged connivance is said to have occurred between May 26 and | June 6, 1934, after which time Ives was | within six months of the maximum age | limit for entrance to West Point. He previously had been a member of the lacrosse team which represented the United States in the 1932 Olympi¢ games and had been an almost unani- mous choice for the all-America la- crosse team while at Johns Hopkins University, where he also played foot ball. Both Hoeppel and his son have been at liberty under $500 bail each IHURTASPOLE HAT CAROROTS Students Stone Busses and Damage Lights in Anti- British Display. By the Assoclated Pres:. CAIRO, December 9.—Twenty-one youths were placed in hospitals today after police fired into a mob of stu- dents in a renewal of anti-British rioting. In half a dozen sections of the city scores of students were arrested after stoning busses and damaging street lights. Several police were wounded by stones hurled from roofs and balconies. Machmud Abdel Hakim, who, al- though not a student, had joined a crowd of 500 who attacked two truck- loads of police, was shot through the chest and was said to be in a serious condition at a hospital. Some reports said he was shot by Constable Markens, a British member of the Egyptian police force, which includes a number of Britons. Several thousand students, well sup- plied with rocks, barricaded them- selves at the new Rhoda Hospital and defied the police after a stiff fight in a street, Officers fired a round of birdshot in an attempt to drive away rioters who set fire to a bus. . A survey of a mile-long street in the Rhoda section revealed that every street lamp was shattered and that the rioters had set fire to the escaping ign.s at each post. Ornamental trees in the center of the street had been uprooted. Women Tell Age. FREMONT, Nebr. (#).—When cost only 50 cents to be listed on ol age pension rolls as simply “over 21,” | Dodge County women hastened to 4| pay. 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