Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy and cooler tonight; tomorrow increasing northeast winds, becoming fresh tomorrow. peratures—Highest, 85, at 4:30 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 65, at 6 a.m. today. Tain and cooler; Full report on page A-! Closing New York Markets, Page 18 Entered as second class matter ‘ashingtor No. 33,742 post office, Wi STORM WARNING SIGNALS' INCREASE AS HUARCANE 1S NEARNG ATTERS Curve to North Less Pro- nounced and Forecasters Fear Force May Strike Carolina and Virginia. PLANES FROM LANGLEY COMING TO BOLLING Norfolk National Guard Troops| Ordered to Stand by—40-Mile| Wind Reported, With Seas High Along the Carolina Coast. Py tbe Assoclated Press. The Weather Bureau today ordered | hurricane warnings displayed from Wilmington to Beaufort, N. C., ef- fective at noon, Eastern standard time, as a severe tropical storm ap- proached Cape Hatteras section of the Atlaniic seaboard. Two hours earlier the forecasters at the hurricane reporting station at | Jacksonville, Fla., ordered hurricane | warnings displayed from Beaufort to | Manteo and storm warnings displaved | from the Virginia capes to South- port, N. C. ‘The storm, described by the weather observers as of full hurricane inten- | sity, winds of more than 75 miles an hour), continued to move closer to the mainland without slackening its #peed or losing any of its fury. | The noon advisory said: “Warn- | ings changed to hurricane nortn of Wilmington to Beaufort, N. C. Hurri- | cane warnings now displayed north of Wilmington to Manteo. Storm warnings elsewhere from the Virginia | capes to Southport, N. C. | May Hit Cape Hatteras. | Forecasters said early morning indi- | eations of a north-northwest curve in the hurricane’s movement appeared less pronounced in later reports. This means, they said, the storm center may hit the coastline in the Cape | Hatteras area instead of nortn of there. | The entire coastal section covered | by the hurricane and storm warnings | probably will be swept by heavy | squalls and unusually high tides, they added. Meanwhile Langley Field, Va., planes began to leave their base for Bolling Field, Washington, Mitchell Field, N. Y., and Wright Field, Day- ton, Ohio. The planes were ordered | out as precaution against the ap- proaching hurricane. Red Cross work- ers have been ordered to stand by for any emergencies. 40-Mile Wind Reported. Cape Hatteras reported at 10 am. a northeast wind of 40 miles an hour with the sea surging over the beach | in low places from Oregon Inlet to Hatteras Inlet. Barometers were falling and winds | were becoming stronger. Some places | | altered so it bears less resemblance | | the fhet that another lawyer, seated LETTUCE STRIKERS | you,” ‘Tem-= 19, n. D. C. His Back to Su Painting Outside Office Recalls Warning to New Deal Lawyer. EPARTMENT OF JUSTICE lawyers—and it is rumored even Attorney General Cum- mings himself —are lifting eyebrows and scratching heads over | a striking mural by the noted artist, Henry Varnum Poor, depicting an at- torney, presumably Cummings, argu- ing the gold cases with his back to| the Supreme Court. Legal experts recall that in one of the New Deal cases heard by the high court, a lawyer, who turned his back to the court in much the same attitude as that shown in the Justice Department mural, was cautioned to direct his remarks to the bench in- stead of the spectators. At Entrance to Office. Poor’'s mural, a striking fresco panel at the right of the entrance to the Attorney General's office, is one of a group flanking the entrance and facing it, in the fifth floor corridor of the Justice Building. Each panel is de- signed to represent a special phase of department activities, although some visitors are having a little difficulty in immediately identifying them. ‘The gold case panel is in two parts— the upper showing a scene in the Su- preme Court chamber during the gold arguments and a small bottom sec- tion supplying a key to the picture in the form of money bags, stacks of coins and gold bars and a folded news- paper with headlines concerning “Gold” and “U. S. Government.” Done in strong, deep blacks, blues, yellows and other colors, the court | scene shows Chief Justice Hughes and two associates, thought to be Brandeis and McReynolds, looking down on the back of a frock-coated attorney arguing the gold clause cases. Resemblance Is Altered. In the original sketch, it is under- stood, the attorney’s face was un- mistakably that of Cummings, who led the Government's arguments in the celebrated gold cases. For some reason not known, the face was!' to the Attorney General. Comment has been created also by at a table right close to the justices, is resting his head on his arm as though quite bored with the whole proceedings. The panel on the opposite side of the entrance represents T. V. A. It shows a valley farmer and his wife @h ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. preme Court In Mural Puzzles Cummings on the electrically lighted porch of their home. Across the corridor is a somewhat mystifying panel which Poor has explained depicts “G-men in action,” flanked by panels de- signed to represent “the poultry racket” and scientific crime detection. The art in the new building is be- ing supervised by the division of | sculpture and painting of the Treas- | ury Department. FEAR MASSACRE Citizens Who Quelled Riots “Have Gone Haywire,” Leader Asserts. By the Associated Press. SALINAS, Calif., September 17.—| Saying that a “massacre is awaiting | A. S. Doss, secretary of the| Fruit and Vegetable Workers’ Union. | today ordered pickets to remain off | had rain squalls, The hurricane—first reported east| of the Leeward Islands last week—has | moved slowly northwestward. It caused serious damage to one steamer | about 500 miles northeast of Puerto| Rico and fos a time threatened to| advance on the British resort island | of Bermuda, 580 miles east of the| North Carolina coast. | A change in its course to the west | northwest saved Bermuda, but headed | the hurricane toward Cape Hatteras. | As it neared land it iacreased its for- | ‘ward speed. Virginia Mobilizes Troops. Mobilization of certain units of the Virginia National Guard to stand by for possible storm rescue work was| ordered this afternoon by Col. Will H. Sands, commanding the 111th Field Artillery of Norfolk, acting on in- structions from Gov. Peery and Adjt. | Gea. S. Gardner Waller. Gen. Waller will go to Norfolk to direct National Guard activities should the troops be called into action. Units ordered to report to their armories at 2 o'clock this afternoon were the Regimental Headquarters Battery, Battery B and the Medical Detachment of Norfolk, the 1st Bat- talion Headquarters Battery and Bat- tery C of Portsmouth. Hampton and Newport News artil- lery units and Maj. Frank H. Bondurant of the 1st Virginia In- fantry have been ordered to be ready for call if necessary. Hundreds of residents of Willoughby (See STORM, Page A-2) —_— CAPITAL MAY FEEL STORM LATE TODAY Weather Officials Lack Sufficient Data, However, to Fore- cast Course. ‘Whether Washington will feel any effects from the tropical hurricane now racing toward Cape Hatteras, N. C., | may be decided before mid-afternoon, when the storm center is expected to begin curving either to the West or to the North and Northeast. If the storm begins moving northward, Washington may feel more of its force than if it turns to the West from Hatteras, in the opinion of officials at the Weather Bureau. Meanwhile, the local forecast is cloudy and cooler weather tonight, with rain and cooler tamorrow. In- creasing northeast winds, becoming “fresh” tomorrow, are forecast. Along the Maryland coast rain is expected tonight with increasing northeast winds, reaching gale force on the coast late tonight at the time of high tide. Virginia also is ex- pected to get rain tonight in the southeast section, with rain tomorrow and increasing northeast winds, with gales and high tides on the coast to- A | strikers: “The disorders have aroused the streets to prevent possible repe- | tition of bloody clashes with officers. “Do not assemble in groups, as it means wholesale murder to do s0.” Doss said in a pamphlet issued to| strikers. As officers prepared to cope with any further disorders, the Citizens’ Association of Salinas also warned the public indignation.” Doss charged that the grower-ship- per association was keeping workers | in the sheds under duress and alleged that officers fought with those inside the sheds. ‘The pamphlet issued by the Strike Strategy Committee, through Doss, said: “The trap is set and is waiting for you with wide open arms. In a con- ference late last night with Vic Bar- logio, city manager, the Strategy Com- (See STRIKE, Page A-3.) PARACHUTE JUMPER HIT BY PROPELLER Raymond T. Morders, 19, of Capi- tal, Ihjured at Tetotum, Va. Struck in the back by the propeller of an airplane he was cranking at Tetotum, King George County, Va. Raymond T. Morders, 19-year-old Washington exhibition parachute jumper and student airplane pilot, was seriously injured today. According to an Associated Press dispatch, Morders was struck by the whirling blades when he tried to stop the airplane, which started moving as he cranked it by hand. Morders was taken to Mary Washington Hospital, Predericksburg, Va., 30 miles from the scene of the accident. It was said that he stopped at Tetotum to visit friends. Morders makes his home here with his mother at 4533 Wisconsin avenue. Although be has been under instruc- tion as an airplane pilot for more than a year, Morders has been known as an exhibition parachute jumper locally for about three years. ALCAZAR REBELS | GETLAST WARNING Fortress Blasting Delayed in One More Chance. to Surrender. (Copyright. 1936, by the Assoclated Press.) TOLEDO. Spain, September 17.— Execution by explosion of 1,700 men, women and children in Toledo’s Al-| cazar was postporied at the last min- ute today, the Mayor of the city told the Associated Press, to give the be- sleged Fascists one more chance to surrender. The postponement also was ordered to put finishing touches to the mining of the shell-battered citadel, the Mayor asserted. However, he said. the Alcazar is like- ly to be blown up “soon.” Government forces warned the 1,700 | defiant insurgents and the non-com- batants last night that refusal to sur- render would mean destructiop of the | historic fortress with probable death to all inside. (Although the government set dawn, Spanish time, as the deadline, late re- ports today from London declared the situation at Toledo was unchanged— apparently meaning the blast had not been set off.) Each Charge Ton of T. N. T. Socialist laborer-soldiers, working in cramped quartets in tunnels under the Alcazar, completed laying the charges of T. N. T. yesterday. Each charge consisted of more than a ton of the high explosive. ‘The mines were placed on either side of the southwest tower of the ancient fortress-palace under the Pu- erta de Carros (carriage gate) and under the Puerta Capuchinos (gate of the Capucines). Electric cables connected the charges along 100 yards of underground wires to two switches in the office of Mayor Perez Agua in City Hall. The wires, which may carry death to the voluntary prisoners, were strung along Juan Labrador and Bis- cuit Oven streets. Lieut. Col. Luis Barcelo, military commander of the Socialist forces in Toledo, asserted he would give the deflant Fascists a final opportunity to surrender. He said he might allow them two hours to make up their minds. Defied Attack 2 Months. Then, he declared, if the warning were not heeded he would press the switches to blow the Alcazar sky- high and end the siege of insurgents who have defied all government efforts to dislodge them for two months. BITTER STRUGGLE RAGES FOR TOLEDO IN MADRID ATTACK Million Men Promised by Fascist Chief in 3-Point Attack. DAREDEVILS RECRUITED TO MAN NEW AIR FLEET Insurgents Converge on Capital From North—Gen. Amido Dictator Choice. BACKGROUND— Revolt of Spanish conservatives against popularly-elected coalition of Leftist parties directed in early stages at capture of capital, Madrid, but government defense stemmed tide of insurgent conquest. Realizing weakness by dispersion of forces on several fronts, Fascist insurgents turned to concentrate attack on northern key cities before returning to Madrid assault. Irun and San Sebastian have fallen; Bilbao is besieged. Government controls wedge- shaped area extending from eastern sea coast to a tip at Toledo. Rebels hold Northern and Southern Spain and strip along the Portuguese Jrontier connecting the two. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, September 17.—Fascist attackers and Socialist defenders clashed today in a bloody engagement near Toledo, which was described as “the fiercest battle since the outbreak of the revolution.” Government military commanders rushed several thousand troops to Toledo, as the insurgents were re- ported to have begun a three-pointed drive on the Spanish capital. The Fascist forces in the Talavera sector west of Toledo, led personally by Gen. Francisco Franco, commander in chief of the insurgents, renewed a driving attack against reinforced Socialist columns. Advices reaching Madrid said the battle was taking place “several” miles from Toledo, once the capital of the kingdom of Ferdinand and Isabella. Reports to the war ministry de- clared simultaneous Fascist move- ments were begun from the northeast, the north and the northwest. Insurgent militia moved on the cap- ital from Siguenza, Guadalajara Prov- | ince, and fresh attacks were ordered in the mountainous Guadarrama passes, where government troops heid fortified positions. The Fascist commander was re- ported to have claimed mobilization of 175,000 men north and west of Madrid. If necessary, he was said to have asserted, he could rush almost 1,000,000 men to the battlefield for a definite attack on Madrid within two weeks. Government artillery batteries in the Guadarrama passes opened deadly fire of shelle as the Fascist forces at- tempted to scale the jagged peaks and drive the Socialists from the moun- tain posts. An insurgent air squadron bombed the Trubia gun factory in Oviedo Province, it was reported, while So- cialist fighting planes on the Arago- nese front routed six Fascist ships, forcing one to land. The grounded plane was reported to be of foreign manufacture and piloted by a foreign flyer. Daredevil Pilots Enlisted. The government, meanwhile, be- gan recruiting foreign “daredevil” pilots to launch a desperate aerial attack against Fascist insurgents with a “huge fleet of new bombing and fighting planes.” Delivery of the new air armada from improvised factories at Barce- lona is expected soon, officials said, to strengthen the sky forces of the defending Socialists. The ships will be placed in the hands of foreign pilots and machine gunners, now being organized by the Madrid air command, military au- thorities declared, Weakness of its air squadrons has been acknowledged by the new Social- ist-Communist government. Many flyers supporting the Madrid adminis- tration have been shot down by the superior air forces of the Fascist in- surgents. Government lines in the civil war sectors, meanwhile, are concentrating on repulsing enemy advances, the war ministry said, awaiting the moment when the reinforced flying formations begin a definite offensive against the Fascists. Developments in War. The ministry reported officially tflt;::e developments in the civil con- On_the Talavera front, Central (See SPAIN, Page A-3.) MRS. ROOSEVELT ILL WITH GRIPPE Confined to Bed in White House. The government's “terrible deci- sion”—considered such because of the possible death of the women and chil- dren—was reached after 10 days of (8ee TOLEDO, Page A-3.) Gibbons, 2 Other U. S. Newsmen Are Held by Rebels in Spain (Picture on Page A-3.) By the Associated ess. SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, Prance, Sep- tember 17.—United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers said today he was using his good offices to obtain the release of three American newspaper correspondents reported “detained” by Spanish insurgents at Carceres. The three were said to be John T. Whitaker of the New York Heral mmmmmunfifi feature writer and radio commentator, and H. R. Knickerbocker of Interna- tional News Service. toward obtaining their release would necessarily be indirect and unofficial, since the United States does not rec- ognise the insurgent government, Reported Running Slight Temperature. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevell was con- fined to her bed in the White House today with an attack of grippe. M_ .. Roosevelt was reported running & slight temperature, such as usually accompanies grippe, and Dr. Ross T. Mclntire, White House physician, ad- vised her to cancel all imme liate en- gagements and remain in bed until her recovery. Mrs. Roosevelt was to have attended & Mobilization for Human Needs Con- ference with the President today and later to have addressed the officers at the White House and to have at- tended & luncheon of the organization. Mrs. Roosevelt became ill Tuesday morning and her condition has since become worse. It is the first time she has been ill since coming to the White House. ! - r\ (‘\ — ( \ The only in ook 3 ok PLENTY OF DEFENDERS—NOW ! Du Pont Is Linked to Arms Trust In Germany by Senate Probers Reported Owner of “Amaszing Contract” With Spy Giera Is Cited in Final Report. By the Associated Press. A report asserting that E. I. du Pont De Nemours & Co. owns $892,- 671 worth of stock in 2 giant German armament trust has been made public by the Senate Munitions Committee. ‘The report showed the Du Pont company controlled 7.98 per cent of the voting stock of the Dynamit Actiengesellschaft — largest German explosives manufacturer—and had in- vested $1.159,904 in another German chemical firm, the I. G. Farbenindus- trie. An informal agreement between the Dynamit company and the Du Pont firm providing for the exchange of information and patents and the di- vision of sales territory also was dis- closed by the cdmmittee, The Senate Investigators, headed by Stock in Company. Senator Nye, Republican. of North Dakota, declared in its final report that “the international commercial in- terests of such large organizations as du Pont and Imperial Chemical In- dustries may precede in the minds of | those companies the importance of | national policy. * * *” “Such considerations of commercial interests were apparently foremost in | the rearming of Germany, beginning in 1924,” the report continued, “and in the sale of a process which cnuldl be used to manufacture cheaper mu- nitions in Japan in 1932, shortly after Secretary of State Stimson had taken steps to express the disapproval of this Nation for Japans military ac- | tivities in Manchukuo.” When the United States arms em- bargo prevented direct Du Pont sales (See DU PONT, Page A-16) PROSECUTOR'S AID IN PROBES URGED |Police Head Suggests At- torney Be Assigned to Major Crime Inquiries. With a view to bringing about a better coordination of police and prosecutive functions, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, to- day suggested to United States Attor- ney Leslie C. Garnett the advisability of assigning an assistant district at- torney to aid police in investigating major crimes in Washington. The proposal, made in a letter, fol- lowed receipt of information by Maj. Brown that the United States attor- ney's office had indicated interest in such a plan. In his letter the police superin- tendent is reported to have called at- tention to the fact that New York and other cities have assistant prose- cutors assigned to work with detec- tives in homicide and other impor- tant investigations. Garnett, questioned by The Star prior to Brown's action, said that while such a plan had never been pro- posed to him, it “might be a good idea.” He indicated reluctance to ini- tiate a proposal to that effect, how- ever. The proposal by Brown follows re- curring rumors of police dissatisfac- tion over handling of some criminal cases by the United States attorney’s office. Criticism has been voiced in some quarters over delays in bring- ing cases to trial, bond reductions and nolle prossing of charges. Although the plan might not pre- vent delays in trial such as have oc- curred in the negligent homicide case of Morgan Glaze, colored motorist, who was arrested more than a year ago and whose trial has been post- poned five times, it is considered a definite step toward more effective administration of justice. Garnett, in an interview with The Star, declared he has received no com- plaints from the Police Department regarding the conduct of his office and denied emphatically there have been any unavoidable delays, improper bond reductions or unjustified nolle prossing of cases under his regime. Cites Record of Convictions. He pointed to his record of con- victions as substantiating his conten- tion that cases have been vigorously and effectively prosecuted. In all .| cases, he asserted, bonds have been recommended high enough to insure, in the opinion of the prosecutor, ap- pearance of the defendants when called. Bonds are not intended to keep defendants in jail, merely to prevent them from leaving the juris- diction of the court, he said. There —_— (See PROSECUTOR, Page A-2,) Colored Men on Carolina Jury. ROCKINGHAM, N. C., September 17 (#).—Two colored men were drawn for service on the Federal grand jury which convened here this week. Court attaches sgid it was the first time since the court was established here 10 years ago a colored man had served. [ 3 “N TROLLEY AND AUTO CRASH, ONE KILLED Contractor Dead, Compan- ion Injured in Nearby Vir- ginia Collision. (Picture on Page B-1.) By & Staff Correspondent of 1he Star. WEST FALLS CHURCH. Va., Sep- tember 17.—One man was killed and | another slightly hurt when their au- | tomobile and a Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Co. street car col- lided here this morning. No passen- | gers on the street car were hurt. Claude E. Wheeler, 60, a building contractor of Vienna, driver of the automobile, was killed when the trolley dragged his small car 95 feet up the tracks. The top of his head was cut off. His companion, Wayne Snyder, a painter employed by Wheeler, was thrown clear of the wreckage to escape with minor cuts and scratches. The street car was en route to Rosslyn in charge of Motorman W. H. Fox, 33, of Sterling, and Conductor J. T. Keys. Fox was released under a $1,000 personal bond for his ap- pearance at an inquest tomorrow. No charge was placed against him. ‘The accident occurred where the railway company’s tracks cross West Broad street on the Leesburg pike. The automobile was en route to Wash- ington. Dr. E. C. Shull of Herndon, acting coroner, said he will hold .an inquest at Herndon at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Wheeler's body was removed to a funeral home in Vienna. Wheeler is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Helen Warren, Vienna, and Mrs. Evelyn Clause of EXERCISES MARK Document Is Adaptable to| Changed Circumstances, Cummings Says. Attorney General Cummings views the Constitution, 149 years old today, as an elastic document, subject to a variety of interpretations and adapt- able to changed circumstances. He said so today at a luncheon | meeting of the Kiwanis Club of | Washington. His address was broad- cast over a National Broadcasting Co. network. “It would be erroneous to assume,” Cummings said, “that our people have domestic difficulties or that the Con- stitution sets forth the criteria that will resolve every doubt. “As civilization has advanced and modern conditions have displaced the practices of earlier days, innumerable questions have arisen presenting as- pects of great difficulty.” Meanwhile James C. Wilkes, chair- | man of the Republican State Central | Committee in and for the District, | issued a Constitution day statement | contending Gov. Alf M. Landon “stands for constitutional honesty and | the New Deal for constitutional de- | generation.” He described the Con- stitution as “the very heart and soul of our American form of Govern-| ment,” and condemned President | Roosevelt for recommending legisla- tion “without regard to its constitu- tionality.” Upset of Laws. Attorney General Cummings’ only mention of New Deal laws that have been upset by the Supreme Court and of untested legislation that has been challenged as unconstitutional was to | old story. “The marked differences of opinion which have been made evident in more recent cases,” he said, after cit- ing a dozen instances of constitutional controversy, “are but characteristic of the entire history of constitutional in- terpretation.” “It is not my purpose to comment on any of these decisions,” he added. “I advert to them merely for the purpose of directing attention to the fact that learned and patriotic men may honestly take differing views of constitutional questions when new problems of a perplexing nature are presented.” * * * “Within the great house of the Con- stitution there are many mansions. * * * The questions which are left open within its four corners are fre- quently susceptible of more than one interpretation based upon reason.” Expressing confidence that sane treatment of the Constitution will en- able that document to continue beat- ing actively as the heart of the Na- tion's fundamental law, the Attorney General corcluded with the statement that: “Many difficult problems confront us. In a growing Nation this must inevitably be so; but we propose to solve them within the framework of our existing institutions, which it is | our dearest purpose to preserve.” In addition to the Kiwanis pro- Oklahoma, and a son, Victor V. Wheeler, of Florida. gram, which also included tableaux (See CONSTITUTION, Page A-2.) Senate Probers Hunting Secrets In Jig-Saw of Torn Letters By the Assoctated Press. ‘Working in a secret, draftless office, 12 Senate investigators are complet- ing a jig-saw puzzle composed of thousands of scraps of torn paper. For three weeks, they have been piecing together letiers they said were seized from the waste paper baskets of two companies, accused by the La Follette Senatorial Committee of de- stroying records soughts by its agents, investigating alleged violations of civil liberties in labor disputes. ‘The committee has asked a District grand jury to consider a “contumacy” indictment against six officers of the Railway Audit and Inspection Co. and the Central Industrial Service and Affiliated Firms. . ‘They refused either to produce their records or to testify at the commit- tee’s first open hearing August 31. Tuesday they petitioned a Federal court here to enjoin disclosure of their correspondence which had been trans- mitted by the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Cos. Investigators visited the companies’ offices in seven cities last month and seized a stack of shredded letters. A crew of letter “pasters,” mostly girls, has been working in three shifts ever since, reconstructing the mass of correspondence. Because the slightest draft might scatter the fragments and ruin a week's work, windows of the sorting room are tightly closed and electric fans are barred. Robert Wohlforth, committee secre- tary, said some of his employes had become adept, quickly recognizing the related scraps through handwriting, typewriting print_and color of the paper. He added that the work virtually will be complete before the committee resumes hearings Tuesday. The in- vestigation was authorized during the last Congress into charges that em- ployes were being intimidated by spies hired to prevent the formation of e ) Washington wi Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. (#) Means Associated Press. CONSTITUTION DAY reached a final solution of all their | say that such occurrences were an old, | evening paper the Yesterday’s Circulation, 133,643 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT ASKS BIGGER AID SHARE BY PRIVATE FUNDS Relief Load Must Shift as U. S. Income Grows, He | Says. DOUBLE 1933 FORECAST ! FOR NATIONAL REVENUE Confidence Has Returned to All but Few, Human Needs Dele- | gates Are Told. Text of President Roosevelt's speech on Page A-5. BY JOHN C. HENRY. President Roosevelt today charged private charitable organizations with a responsibility increasing in the ratio of returning prosperity as he addressed delegates to the 1936 Mobilization for Human Needs from the south portico of the White House. Building his greeting around a story of business and humanitarian progress during the years of his administration, the Chief Executive predicted national income soon would be double the de« pression low. “Nearly six million more men and women are now at work in private ine dustry,” the President said. “Three million others are engaged in useful work provided or assisted by the Government. Factory pay rolls the first quarter of this year were more than $70,000,000 greater each week than they were in the first quarter of 1933. “Systematic. and successful efforts to raise the buying power of wage earners and farmers have increased the business of merchants and brought orders to manufacturers.” 1 Fearful Called Profit-Seekers. At this point Mr. Roosevelt die rected a barbed reference to his polie tical foes in the statement that “cone fidence has returned to the great masses of our people, confidence on the part of all except a small minore ity who seek to profit from the preache ing of fear.” Making his charge to private chare itable efforts, the President declared: “Returning prosperity, however, | means that a vast amount of ime | portant work which all had to defer | during the depression years, can and must be taken up anew. “Happily, private organizations are now in a better position to accomplish greater things than for many yeard The reply for the delegates was made by Gerard Swope, chairman of the conference. Tells of Responsibilities. Concurrence in the picture of returne ing prosperity was expressed by Swope, who at the same time confirmed the grave responsibilities facing the cone ference, “The prospect of a brighter outlook on our economic horizon has been more than justified in the past 12 months,” Swope said. “Not only do we have the statistical evidences of our increased business activity, but our most intimate knowledge of conditiors in our own communities gives cone tinued testimony to the industrial and business advances that have been made | since last we met. | “But if we are to approach a real recovery, the achievements of our social services must show corresponding | progress. “The maintenance of individual morale, the prevention of individual and family breakdown, the construce tive effort to assist people to achieve their maximum potentialities have ever been the underlying objectives of privately financed agency services. Nineteen thirty-seven sees such a need for this type of service as never before.” Serving as a national rally for Community Chest campaign in 330 cities, the mobolization this year is planning to pay particular attention to the matter of establishing fixed standards for corporation contribu~ tions to community welfare. Dispute last Winter over the issue of tax exe emption for corporate contributions to organized charities made more evie (See HUMAN NEEDS, Page A-4.) —_— EDEN LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR LOCARNO SESSION Ey the Assoclated Press. LONDON, September 17.—Recove ered from an attack of chickenpox, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden re- turned to the foreign office today and began drafting a note to Locarno power representatives in London in an effort to centralize diplomatic exchanges preliminary to a five- power meeting. Germany and Italy have asked for “adequate” diplomatic groundwork before a date is set for the session, originally planned for next month. 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