Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and continued warm, pos- sibly showers; tomorrow mostly cloudy, followed by showers and cooler. Temper- atures—Highest, 92, at 4 p.m. yesterday; Full Associated Press . News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and lowest, 75, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-10. (P) Means Associa No. 1,639—No. 33,710. d Press. 1,200 FACE DEATH BY DYNAMITING OF TWO SPANISH SHIPS IF REBELS ATTACK Fascist Captives Reported Loaded Onto BoatsatSan- tander—Blast Ready at First Shell From Cruiser. RIGHTISTS BATTLE WAY TO THE GATES OF IRUN Popular Front Militia Men and Women Man Barricades in Bis- cay Port in Preparation for Siege—Inhabitants Hasten to Evacuate City. BACKGROUND— ) Spanish civil war, mnow in twenty-ninth day, finds privileged classes—army officers, landowners, capitalists and clergy—arrayed against the workers and peasants, Conservatives fighting to over- throw Popular Front government | elected February 16, charging that Spain is in danger of becoming thoroughly communized. Fascist insurgents bottled up in interior of Spain, with exception of contact with Morocco across Strait of Gibraltar. Madrid and San Sebastian successfully with= stand onslaught of insurgents, Bv the Assoclated Press. HENDAYE. France, August 15.— | Loyalists at Santander have impris- | oned 1200 Fascists in two .smps.‘ laden with dynamite ready to be blown | up at any moment, refugees asserted | here. The explosives were planted in vital points throughout the ship, they #aid, with wires by which they could be set off running to shore. First Shell to Be Signal. Seven hundred hostages have been held for some time on one of the prison ships, and it was asserted here that new arrests had swelled the number. The signal for blasting the prisoners to death, it was asserted, would be the first shell from the rebel cruiser Al- mirante Cervera stationed off San | (trip was to avoid pressure from the Sebastian. Advancing rebels tonight occupied Endarlaza, gateway to the Northern Spanish city of Irun, after long, furi- ous fighting. They stopped, however, before the town of Behobia, which is on the out- skirts of Irun. First reports coming across the border had said they seized Behoria, but it was learned they had halted between Endarlaza and Be- hobia. Government forces battling desper- ately in the northern mountains sent an armored train to cut off the stream of Leftist refugees going toward France. Hundreds already had crossed the international bridge French border city as the insurgents pushed toward Irun. The long campaign to smash gov- ernment resistance around Irun was culminated in a drive by 1,500 rebels | who won a day-long battle. At least 50 were killed and 100 were reported wounded on both sides. Many Casualties in Gijon. Some of a group of 42 refuges who reached here aboard the Italian freighter Giorgio Ohlsen said many casualties were suffered in the Loyal- ist-held city of Gijon, which rebels bombarded. & They related reports that Leftists et Gijon had shot great numbers of suspected Rightists whom they held Pprisoner. The tide of battle swung in favor of the government forces for a while this morning, when the insurgents were driven back even as their war- planes dropped bombs inside Irun. The second rebel attack was launched during the evening under cover of a heavy thunderstorm. The Leftists were routed from the gorge et Endarlaza Pass. They retreated from the positions gained earlier in a disorderly rout with rebel infantry pursuing them down the highway along the Bidassoa River. Counter-Attack Fails. Government leaders attempted a vain counter-attack on the outskirts of Behobia. They were driven back. While men and women members of the Popular Front militia manned street barricades constructed weeks 8ago against the apparent long siege which awaited Irun, other inhabitants gathered their possessions and fled. Some hurried westward toward San Bebastian, where the Leftists were (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) HEAT WAVE STAYS UNTIL TOMORROW Forecast Amended as Continued Warm and Possible Showers Are Seen. Amending an earlier forecast, the Weather Bureau last night predicted cooler weather would not be forth- coming before tomorrow. Today will continue warm, the forecaster said, although the skies. will be partly overcast and there is a pos- sibility of showers during the after- noon. ‘Tomorrow is expected to be mostly cloudy and cooler, with more showers in the afternoon, The mercury went above 90 for the third consecutive day yesterday when & “high” of 92 was recorded at 3:30 pm. The excessive humidity that has been responsible for the sultriness during the last few days continued and showed no signs of decreasing last night. . At 10 p.m., with the temperature around 80, the humidity was about 65 per cent, far above normal, into this | Constitutional he of French Premiers as Return to Old Order Is Seen Sundy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION LEMKE INDORSED ASN.U.5. . NAMES Former Heads of Government Ready u.) EUUGHI_IN AS HEAI] Jump Into “Melee.”—Jean Bergery and Jaques Doriot Appeal to Masses. - BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PARIS.—And if Blum fails, what will happen? ‘Who-will succeed him? This is the question which many a thinking Frenchman is asking himself these days. Logically, it would seem that Leon Blum is the last politician who has taken over the reins of goverament because the popular the exereme Left. vote gave a majority to the parties of ‘Those who will follow him will have to rule unconstitutionally, without a Parliament. They cannot have a majority, and another election is unthinkable. Logically again, by & process of elimination, Blum should be the last constitutional premier. Since February 6, 1934, France has tried all its politicians, be- ginning with a government of national con- centration under old Papa Doumergue who, for several months, was acclaimed by the masses (paid at 5 francs apiece from the secret funds of the police) to Leon Blum, the idol—until he became premier—of the proletarians. Doumergue's government was succeeded by the Laval cabinet—a miixture of reactionarism and socialism—then by the Sarraut adminis- Constantine Brown. what? Chaos, say many. tration—a mixture of socialism and reactionar- ism. Now Blum is in power. “No,” say the old tried politicians. And after Blum, “We shall start from where we left; another cabinet of national concentration, followed by a government of national front, then followed by another government of patriotic Communists and so forth.” Laval, Daladier, Herriot, Chautemps, Sarraut are out of the running at the present moment. But they are ever present to jump into the “melee” at the right moment La Patrie. and offer their disinterested services to They will sing the “Marseillaise” and the “Internationale” at the same time and France will go on—provided she is not attacked from outside. Two Young Men Appear. So say the skeptics who are convinced that the old French slogan, “Plus ca change, plus c'est la Meme chose” are the same), can be a (the more things change the more they lied to politics better than to anything else, \See BROWN, Page A-4) LEWIS' TRIPHALTS POLITICAL MOVES House to Soft Pedal Labor Fight. BY ALBERT L. WARNER. John L. Lewis’ sudden and previous- ly unannounced departure for Europe was followed yesterday by reports in labor circles that one reason for his ‘White House to soft pedal the activi- ties of the Committee for Industrial Organization and to defer his battle with the craft unionists until the American Federation of Labor con- vention on November 9. The conven- tion begins six days after the presi- dential election. Democratic friends of the President in labor ranks, not associated with the Lewis cause, have been suggesting ad- ministration effort to help bring about a modus vivendi between the Lewis group of unions and the opposing Executive Council of the A. F. of L. in order to patch up temporarily the labor rift. Their objective has been based on the thought that as Lewis widens the rift he also forces his opponents in organized labor away from the Roose- velt banner because of Lewis’ close po- litical alliance with the President. Lewis is due to return to the United States on September 3, which is just two days before the order of the Exec- utive Council suspending the 10 Lewis unions becomes effective. This leaves almost no time for the peacemakers to attempt arranging some sort of C. I. 0. action which would supply ground for the A. F. of L. council to rescind or postpone the effective date of its suspension. Pressure Now Impossible. Among the associates of Lewis, who is chairman of the C. I. O. and presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, no ope believes that his stand against dis- solving the C. I. O. would have been altered. But White House pressure conceivably might have induced him to show willingness to accept some (See LEWIS, Page A-5.) ADDED LEAGUE POWERS TO BAR WAR PROPOSED French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos Opposes Sacrifice of Central Principles. By thie Assoctated Press. GENEVA, August 15.—France to- night expressed her belief the League of Nations should be endowed with greater powers to institute preventive action against war. There should be no sacrifice of any of the central principles of the League, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos assert- ed in an official communication of France's view. ‘The basic principle of “responsibility and collective action” should be ad- hered to vigorously, Delbos’ com- munique contended. 5 Amendment of the League’s Cove- nant to achieve this would not be necessary, Delbos held. Avoids Pressure From White | ROOSEVELT A0S FOIDAREATOL {Returns to Hyde Park to Re- sume Business—New York Plan Favored. BT the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y. August 15.— Equipped with a picture of huge proj- ected dams and levees, President Roosevelt returned to his home here tonight after a three-day trip in which he viewed flood damage in Pennsylvania and New York. He expected to remafn here a week, conferring daily on a muiltitude of subjects and looking after details of administration business that piled up during his tour of the flood areas and the side trip to Cleveland and its Great Lakes exposition. He capped the trip with a tour today through the center of Pennsyl- vania's anthracite coal region, where, at Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, shout- ing and waving people massed. so tightly into the streets that at some points his automobile could scarcely pass. $2,568,000 Program Approved. The flood area tour developed ap- | proval of a $2,568,000 flood-control | program for South Central New York | State, one of the areas most severely | ravaged by last Spring’s floods, dams | | and channel improvements were listed | | by Tom R. Hutton, member of the | | Flood Control Council of Central Southern New York, among the proj- ects to be pursued. At Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, dem- onstrations by spectators taxed the powers of troops and police seeking to keep them clear of the President’s route. Driving out upon a levee project close to Wilkes-Barre's busimess dis- trict, the President viewed approxi- mately 1,000 Works Progress Admin- istration employes lined up in front of scores of automobile trucks. After hearing progress reports from officials in charge, Mr. Roosevelt, with a quick smile, remarked: “A pretty good boondoggling sam- ple.” Passes Flooded Mines, On his way from Scranton, the President saw many evidences of flood damage. He passed mines into which had poured millions of gallons of flood waters backed up in the Lacka- wanna River by the rampaging Sus- quehanna. Pumping out of the flooded (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.) HOPE FOR 31 ABANDONED Steamship Oranaise Was Sunk by ‘Waterspout Off Algeria. ALGIERS, Algeria, August 15 (). — Hope for the rescue of 10 passengers and 21 seamen who were aboard the steamship Oranaise when it sank last night off Algeria was virtually aban- doned tonight. Two survivors of the crew said the vessel, which once was called the Westmoreland, was caught in a north- west swell and smashed by “an enor- mous waterspout.” It sank very rap- idly, they related. American Woman Kisses Hitler, Foiling Guards in 3d Attempt By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, August 15.—The “Olympic kiss,” which a woman spectatdr plant- ed on Adolf Hitler's cheek during the swimming finals after obtaining the Fuehrer's autograph, was the talk of the boulevards tonight. The woman disappeared into the crowd shortly after the episode, which delighted the multitude in the stadium as much as it startled Germany's bachelor chancellor, but later she was reliably identified as a woman who lived in Los Angeles some time fol- lowing the 1932 Olympics. Uncon- firmed reports gave her name as Carola De Vries., At any rate she achieved distinc- tion despite the vigilance of at le:n two score Blackshirts, as Hitler's bodyguard is known. She twice at- tempted unsuccessfully to approach | J Hitler, who was seated in the front :'w at Atlll:e edge of the Olympic pool ore slipping past the gua third time. i Hitler readily gave his autograph, then was startled as she leaned over the low railing and kissed the unsus- pecting German leader. At first embarrassed, the chancellor | port in what you have done here. took the incident good-naturedly while his aides looked on Gumbfounded. Field Marshal von Mackensen, sitting beside Hitler, appeared to enjoy the situation. The guards gently but firmly escorted the woman away while she waved triumphaatly to the crowd. Candidate of Union Party Cheered by “Social Jus- tice” Delegates. TOWNSEND AND SM|TH CITE PARALLEL AIMS “Guests” Promise Their Support in Making President “Serv- ant of the People.” By the Assoctated Press. CLEVELAND, August 15.—The Na- tional Union for Social Justice for- mally named the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit its first president late today and indorsed Representa- tive William Lemke of North Dakota and Thomas C. O'Brien, candidates of the new Union party, for President and Vice President, respectively. Indorsement of Lemke and O'Brien occasioned a noisy demonstration by the delegates, but the election of the Detroit priest was made quietly by ac- clamation, Father Coughlin maintained com- plete control of the organization under a constitution adopted today. He ap- points the nominating committee whose choices for other officers are final. Father Coughlin, immediately after his election, appointed a nominating committee of 23 members to name candidates for secretary, treasurer and the board of trustees. Makes Election Address, In an election address, Father Coughlin said, “I realize the respon- sibility which is mine—primarily the responsibility of a teacher, because I disagree with many practices of the present civilization.” “I will never turn my back on you and I will never sell you out,” he said. “We will succeed, not necessar- ily in driving the money changers from the temple, but in driving the money changers’ servants from the | temple.” Fatner Coughlin then im.roduced] two guests, Dr. Prancis E. Townsend, founder of the Townsend old age pen- sion plan, and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, lieutenant of the late Senator Huey P. Long, to address the conven- tion, . Father Coughlin composed protests against the appearance of the speak- ers by ruling that Dr. Townsend and Smith would not speak at a regular session but at a recess meeting which followed immediately. Townsend Introduced. He introduced Dr. Townsend first as “a really great American whose heart is so big that he does not refrain from bearing on his shoulders in his late years the burdens of the aged, the cross of the aged.” ‘The white-haired Dr. Townsend said “I am happy to lend you my sup- “Your program,” he said, “is slight- ly different from ours, but you want the same things we want. You want the Presideént of the United States to be the servant of the people, not the master. “I heartily concur in all the points of ‘he platform enunciated by you people. “I also approve of the governmental changes advocated by William Lemke and those advocated by the late Huey Long.” Townsend said: “As an American citizen I'm going to announce until the polls close in November that I pro- test against the form of government we have in this administration.” Delegates Welcome Smith. ' Father Coughlin then introduced Smith, with the request, “I ask you to welcome him as he should be wel- (See COUGHLIN, Page A-5.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-4. Washington Wayside—A-2. Lost and Found—A-3. Death Notices—A-10. Melcher in Hollywood—A-12. Sports Section—Pages B-6, B-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-9. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1, -3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Political Round-up—D-3. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Aviation—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Nation- al Guard, Organized Re- serves—D-4, D-5. Cross-word Puzzle—D-5. Stamps—D-6. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1, E-12. Resorts—E-11. Well-Known Folk—E-12. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-12. PART FOUR. . Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1, F-4. ohn Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Happy Days, by Dick Mansfield—F-2. Radio News and Programs—F-3. Stage and Screen—F-5. Automobiles—F-6. Children's Page—F-T. High Lights of History—F-T. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financigl News and Comment, swckm. Bond and Curb Sum- marjes—Pages C-1, C-5. Classified Advertising— Pages C-5, C-13. Stat WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1936—106 PAGES. #% Blum May Be Last THESE ARE OUR BABIES AND WE noir INTEND To HAVE Ickes Sees “Unfair Politics” In Troubles of His Foster Son “If He Was Drunk, Why | Wasn’t He Arrested?”’ l | | Secretary Asks. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes yesterday broke his silence con- cerning the troubles of Robert H. Ickes, 24-year-old P. W. A. worker who bears his name and yet, as the cabinet member reluctantly admitted, is not his son. Told that records of the Probate 11, show that | n betveen himself and the young man recently | charged at Woburn, Mass., with cper- ating an automobile while intoxicated, Mr. Ickes said: “I always have treat<d him as though he were my own boy, and that is all that he public needs to kncw about the matter.” The Secretary, lLowever, exphined that he beleves that politics are in- volved in the Woburn.affair. “Had the same sort of mishap occurred to anybody else,” he sald, “it would have gone unnoticed. But because it hap- pened to Robert, everybody makes the most of it. Apparently, there are people who would rather ruin a young fellow’s life than miss the chance to try to beat in his father's brains. I only hope that they don’t hurt him in their effort to hit me.” Robert Ickes became a nember of ROBERT ICKES. —Harris-Ewing Photo. the Secretary’s household when he was only 8 years of age. His parents were dead, and Virs. Ickes was inter- ested in him. He had the same care and devotion that freely were given his foster brothers and sister. The family was a unit and nearly two decades passed before any shadow fell upon the group. Then, Mrs. Ickes was (See ICKES, Pige A-5) TYPHOON SWEEPS OVERNORTH LUZON Two Ships Driven Ashore as Winds Snap Wires to Stricken Area, By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I. August 16 (Sunday) —The Weather Bureau announced to- day a severe typhoon swept over northern Luzon Island late last night severing communications with the stricken region. ¢ Calls for help previously had been received from two ships driven aground by advance blasts of the storm which was reported by the Weather Bureau to be moving at high speed into the China Sea. The United States Coast and Geo- detic Survey ship Fathomer ran ashore on the northeast tip of Luzon. The Tewated (not listed in available ship- ping records) was the other distressed vessel. Starting 100 miles out in the Pacific, the typhoon moved west-northwest at high speed toward the Luzon coast. Second Typhoon in Week. It was the second typhoon to hit the northern area within a week. Seven persons drowned in the Cayagan River Valley last week when the first storm struck. Early last evening the Fathomer reported: “At present out of center of typhoon passing. Don’t know whether need assistance.” Later both vessels sent calls for help. ‘The storm moved 80 miles toward the coast in about four hours. fear- ing heavy damage, officials broadcast warnings to fishing craft and the re- cently flood-stricken Cayagan Valley. The vessels were warned against leav- ing harbor. Coast and Geodetic Survey officers said Aparri, being somewhat to the north of the typhoon belt, usually was a safe harbor during storms. (Pan American Airways sofficials said they had no planes closer than 2,500 miles from the stor The (See TYPHOON, Page ) e $40,000 FOUND ON FARM Woman, 79, Lea: Cash and Bonds Hidden in Many Places. ROYAL, Nebr, August 15 (P).— County authorities said today more than $40,000 in cash and bonds had been found in the nearby farm home of Mrs. Josie Hackett, 79, since her death three weeks ago. While searching for a will which would dispose of the woman's prop- erty, relatives discovered the money, hidden in old boxes, purses and pock- etbooks. County authorities took pos- session of the money. No will was found. ‘ YANK SWIMMERS TOP IN OLYMPICS Men, Women Save Lead in Final Day as Rallies by Rivals Fail. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Sports Writer. BERLIN, August 15.—Japan’s men and Holland'’s women closed their Olympic swimming campaigns with a terriffic rush today, but thanks to & big lead piled up or previous days, the United States managed to squeeze home ahead in both divisions under the unofficial point scoring system. A first place, two seconds, a fourth and a fifth on the final tumultuous day enabled the American men to nose out the Japanese, 83 to 77, and smash the monopoly the little brown scooters gained at Los Angeles four years ago. A third and fourth in the 400-meter free-style final gave Uncle Sam'’s girls a 55 to 5212 margin over Holland's great team led by Rita Mastenbroek. Victory in all four men’s and wom- en’s diving championships, with a sweep of the first three places in two of them, proved the deciding factor irr the Americans’ triumph. Winning three out of six speed races, Japanese again proved them- selves the world's best at getting through water in a hurry, but they did not come near duplicating their sensational showing in 1932, when they won everything except the 400- meter free style. Victories by Jack Medica of Seat- tle in the 400, Adolf Kiefer of Chi- cago in the 100 - meter backstroke and Ferenc Csik of Hungary in the 100-meter free-style championships proved sad blows to the defending champions. Impressive wins today by Detsuo LETER AN SEEDTOLS. 1167 Acres of Famous Estate in Virginia to Be Used for Park. (Pictures on Page B-1.) BY NELSON M. SHEPHERD, A deed conveying as a gift to the Government the 40-room mansion an 167 acres of the large Virginia estate of the late Joseph Leiter for use as a Federal recreation center and park. was recorded yesterday at Fairfax County Court House. Located 2 miles above Chain Bridge, opposite Glen Echo and Sycamore | Island, the prqperty eventually will be absorbed as a part of the George Washington ~ Memorial Parkw which is being extended gradually from Mount Vernon to Great Falls As soon as the deed was actually re corded, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which ac- qQuired the land after months of nego- tiation, transferred title to the Office of the National Capital Parks as cus- todian. This week, squads of C. C. C. men will be put to work on the estate clearing the brush, making bridal paths, walks and picnic grounds, so the Washington public may benefit from the new park at the earliest op- portunity. With its mile and a half frontage on the Potomac River, boat- ing and bathing facilities also will be provided. Park officials said it was the largest single acquisition of land since Con- gress passed the Capper-Cramton act | of 1930 authorizing the development | of the Memorial Parkway. Consideration is $1. The gift was made to the Govern- ment, cording to the deed, in con: sideration of the sum of $1 and o the “benefit” that the improvements will be to the adjoining acres of the Leiter estate and “the desire of the parties of the first part to assist in carrying out the purposes” of the parkway act. The estate of the Chicago and Washington millionaire, who died April 11, 1932, comprises about 452 acres, with the huge frame and stucco mansion which Leiter erected short- ly before the World War for enter- taining a host of friends. This acre- age, in woods and pastures, eventually will be subdivided and sold by the executives and trustees of the Leiter estate. For some years, the upkeep of the Virginia farm has proved a costly burden. The house and 167 acres acquired by the Government was given in fee simple, free of encumbrances. Be- fore then, officials said, it was heav- ily mortgaged. For months the National Capital Park and Planning Commission had the beautiful acres of the Leiter farm, one of the show places outside Wash- ington, in extending the Memorial Parkway above Chain Bridge. It hap- pened that the Leiter estate was in- volved in negotiations with the Treas- ury Department over the payment of income taxes allegedly due from 1922 to 1930. Tax Case is Settled. In settlement of the Government’s claim against the Leiter estate for taxes, it had first been proposed to include the land as part of the agree- ment. _ Later, however, this was changed. The land was separated from the tax case and was turned over as a gift to the Government on the payment of the nominal fee of $1. The tax case was settled for payment of $70,000 in cash. Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the Park and Planning Commission, said (Continued on Page B-8, Column 1.) (See LEITER, Page A-3.) Convict Confesses Murder For Which Doctor Is Serving By the Asscciated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, August 15.—A 36-year-old convict whose crime career began at 13, tonight confessed to the murder for which a retired Kansas physiclan is serving a life prison term, Warden J. M. Sanders of Missouri Penitentiary announced. “I am doing this in order that Dr. (8. 0.) Netherton, an innocent man, might be vindicated and sent home to _his family as I feel he should be,” S8an- ders quoted the convict, Charles Bunch. Netherton smiled broadly when told at the Lansing, Kans, prison of Bunch's confession, but prison officials declined to permit him to comment. Bunch sald the crime occurred April 24, 1928, but Sanders said it was in Pebruary instead. Bunch is serving 25 years for robbery. Sanders quoted Bunch’s confes- sion as saying Bunch and an uniden- tified companion were committing burglary at the Netherton home in Olathe, Kans, when Mrs. Netherton emerged from the basement. “She screamed and grabbed me,” the confession was quoted. “She was shot three or four times.” Netherton twice was convicted, but won a retrial from the first convic- tion on an appeal to the Kansas Su- preme Court. He pleaded innocence, contending he found his wife, an ex- pectant mother, dead when he re- turned from & ‘lp FIVE CENTS |TE ND_SUBURES! _prsm Every Afternoon. N CENTS SEWHERR RODSEVELT ORDERS BUREAU TO PROBE W.P.AANDP.W.A Investigation May Result in Scrapping One of Rival Agencies. SURVEY IS REPORTED NEARING COMPLETION Report for Personal Use of Presi- dent—Officials Are In- terviewed. BACKGROUND— For more than a year ¢ bitter difference of opinion has ezisted between Harry L. Hopkins, ad- ministrator of W. P. A., and Secre= tary Ickes, administrator of P. W. A., over which organization had the proper money-spending theory. Hopkins, who advocated spreading small sums among great numbers of laborers on projects cagable of quick completion or unnecessary of completion, fisually has been the victor, with President Roose- velt as arbiter, In May and June Ickes suffered his most serious rebuff, at the hands of Congress, with Hopkins given control over spending the 1937 relief appropriation of $1,- 425,000,000. President Roosevelt has ordered a private investigation by the Budget Bureau of the relative merits of his two rival agencies, the P. W. A. and the W. P. A, it was disclosed yese terday. The findings may influence their future when the question of next year's budgetary plans comes up, along with a possible issue of scrapping one or the other. While the definite scope and purpose of the inquiry was not made clear, Budget Bureau officials acknowledged that a survey of the work of the two | agencies was nearing completion. In the course of the study several ene gineers and State administrators have | been interviewed. At the Budget Bureau it was stated that the report was being made for the personal use of the President and | would not be made public by the | bureau. Matters under survey are understood to include costs and rela= tive efficiency of works undertaken y each agency. Activities of Agencies. Hitherto the activities of the two agencies had been conducted on widely different planes. The P. W. A. has carried on heavy public works in which costs of materials have figured high. The projects have been carried on by private contractors working either for the Federal Government or for the local governmental units which have received grants and loans from the P. W. A. Workers were not neces- | sarily drawn from relief rolls. | The W. P. A, on the other hand, has been limited almost completely in its employment to relief-roll meme bers and its public works has been of a light nature, with a very high proportion of labor costs in compars ison with the money devoted to ma= terials. The purpose of the W. P. A. has been to make work for the needy unemployed, while the P. W. A. has ought to put up durable works with ,the purpose of stimulating seconde | degree employment in production in- dustries as well as giving first-hand employment in actual construction. It admits that the lattef employment is less than that provided by the W. P. A | The survey comes as Secretary Ickes, P. W. A. administrator, cons tinues to voice irritation over the ‘White House brakes applied tc his program. First he was given a back seat to Harry Hopkins, W. P. A, ad- ministrator, in the works program as it reached a new development a yeat 2go, and now he is being shunted aside even further. Only $25,000,000 Approved. Although the last Congress provided $300,000,000 for the P. W. A, Presi. dent Roosevelt has approved the ust of only $25,000,000 of this fund thus far. 'This is largely because the White House has instituted new regulations which put the Ickes organization ale most on a par with the W. P. A. a3 far as procedure is concerned. Ickes must now get his P. W. A workers from relief rolls. Where costs of construction are judged to be toa high in proportion to workers ems ployed, the President would make th4 P. W. A. require the local governments to put up more than the 55 per cent of the entire cost of the project which is at present their share under thq loan and grant system.” Absence of sufficient skilled labor on the relief rolls hampers the proposals of P. W. A, projects in many communities. If Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected, he is expected to be under pressure from his own Democratic ranks to cut down the number of alphabetical agencies, Senator Byrd of Virginia is chairman of a special Senate committee on re« organization of the Government. One of the proposals of the committee may look to revamping the direction of governmental works by scrapping one or other of the agencies. (Copyright, 1936, by the New York Heralde ‘Trioune.) TEN FAMILIES QUSTED Pine Mountain Valley Corpy Charges Antagonism. PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY, Ga., August 15 (P).—W. T. Bennett, project manager of the Pine Mountain Valley Corp., said last night 10 of the 22 fama ilies here have been asked to leave this Government-founded community. “They are in an organized minority group working against the interests of the community,” Bennett stated. “They are very unhappy and dissatis- fied here.” Bennett said he, as project manager, and the board of directors had asked the families to “wind up their affairs here by next Saturday. ““The other families are happy and contented here,” he sald. {