Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 19

. COUGHLIN DFFERS | “PROOF” CHARTERS New Deal Linked to Dela- ware Instruments—Ryan Answered in Address. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 10.—Rev. Charles E. Coughlin tonight reiterated his sssertion that President Roosevelt has “Communistic tendencies” and of- fered “as proof” the charter of a cor- poration which, he said, was formed in Delaware under New Deal auspices. Replying to an address by Right Rev. John A. Ryan of the Catholic Uni- versity, taking exception to Father Coughlin’s criticisms of the New Deal, the priest said that this corporation’s charter contained authority to “man- age and maintain projects and struce tures of every kind, nature and description.” In addition, he said, the charter empowered the corporation to “acquire, by purchase, exchange or otherwise, all or any part of, or any interest in the properties, assets, business and good will of any one or more firms * + ¢ organized under the laws of Delaware.” Charter Held Withdrawn. * THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO Offers Self as King ARGUMENTS HEARD TV, A FIGHT Dismissal Motion Under Ad- visement of Tennessee Federal Judge. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 10.—A legal fight between the Tennessee Val- ley Authority and private utility in- terests over the Government’s vast Tennessee River power program moved nearer to the Supreme Court today with completion of a hearing on & T. V. A. motion for dismissal. At the conclusion of arguments in which former Secretary of War New- ton D. Baker presented the power companies’ case and John Lord O'Brian of the T. V. A. legal staff up- held the Authority’s motion, Federal District Judge John J. Gore declared he would lose no time in giving his decision. “I appreciate the importance of an early decision in this case,” he said, “for we never know what the law is until the Supreme Court tells us.” There was some belief the opinion would be ready in about two weeks. Several Resulfs Possible. Attorneys said any of several results were possible: D. C, T.V. A POWER SAL ACGORD EXTENDE Way Paved for Creation of Electric Pool in Southeast. By tne Associated Press. Paving the way for possible crea- tion of an electric power pool in the Southeast, the Tennessee Valley Au- thority and the Commonwealth & Southern Corp. yesterday announced agreement to extend for three months their present contract for sale of T. V. A. power to the private company. Officials of the two organizations, along with representatives of other PFederal and private power interests initiated the study of the power-pool- ing idea September 30 at a White House conference. Agreement Announced. Their agreement to extend the Commonwealth & Southern-T. V. A. contract to allow time for & power pool “study was announced tonight through the White House. The con- tract would nave expired November 3. The announcement said mainte- nance of the “status quo” in the Ten- nessee Valley area was necessary dur- ing the period of the study. During the three-month period, the | OCTOBER 11, 1936—PART ONE. MRS. LANDON JOINS D.A.R. ‘TOPEKA, October 10 (#) —Mrs. Alf M. Landon, wife of the Republican presidential nominee, was a guest of honor todsy at the fortieth anniver- sary luncheon meeting of the Topeka Chapter of the D. A. R., of which she is & new member. Mrs. Landon traces her ancestry back to John Vincent, & leutenant in the Revolutionary foroes. Use Gas on Rabbits. Poison gas is being used to stop & rabbit pest near Carnarvonshire, Wales. “EXILE” FROM INDIA’ VISITS WHITE HOUSE Leaves Message to Roosevelt on Beginning Return Trip to Native Land. By the Assoclated Press. Sallenora Nath Ghose, Wwho Tre- cently announced he had been granted 20-year exile, called “at the Wiiite T o ey R Tt Ghose two decades ago was affiliated with a number of “freedam for India™ movements. The British government told him he could return, Ghose said, on condition that he refrain from revolutionary or violent sctivity against the government. In the absence of President Roose- velt, Ghose left a message with White House secretaries. In a statement he sald that “America was the only country which gav2 me asylum in those 20 years” and that he wanted to “ex- permission by the British government | press my appreciation for all things to return to his native India after a done for me.” BUY AT GEOTGES AND SAVE! PRICE CUY/ we s & Though the New Deal ad- ministration has withdrawn this hid- | den charter from the files of Dela- ware,” he said, “the deed was done. Acquisition of private property by any means whatsoever was manfested as part of its program.” Father Coughlin listed six corpora- | tions, charters for which, he said, | were filed in Delaware between Octo- | The court could uphold the motion | to dismiss the suit, in which event | the 19 complainant power companies | would appeal. The court could overrule the motion | contracting parties agreed to make no efforts to solicit customers in terri- tory now served by the other. In ad- dition, Commonwealth & Southern agreed to sign no contracts for service and the case would continue to fur- | for a period longer than one year “in | ther hearings, the next one possibly | the general wcinity of the authority C L E A N E R S ’being on a utilities’ plea for a tempor- | operation.” Another change affected » ary injunction against expansion of | the amount of power T. V. A. might . Y Henri, count of Paris, heir apparent to the non-existent throne of France and scion of 40 Bourbon kings, offers himself to France as its eventual monarch—as a champion of liberty. He is shown above with his wife. ~—A. P. Photo. . [ ber 4, 1933, and January 2, 1934. He said they were: The Federal Surplus Relief Corp, the Commodity Credit Corp., the Pub- lic Works Emergency Housing Corp., the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corp., the Electric Home and Farm Authority Corp. and the Public Works Emergency Leasing Corp. Speaking of the sixth, he said: “Per- mit me to read for you excerpts from the charter of this Communistic, un- American organization.” He then read excerpts which, he said, were from the charter. Given Various Titles, In the course of his speech, deliv- ered by radio preliminary to an ad- dress before a Maryland rally of the National Union for Social Justice, Father Coughlin referred to Msgr. Ryan as “the ecclesiastical spokesman for the Democratic National Commit- tee,” and as “the right reverend New Dealer.” “Read the history of the first or second or third international conven- tions of the Communists,” Father Coughlin continued. “Scrutinize the economic laws or edicts which have emanated from Moscow since 1917 and I challenge you to discover a more comprehensive theoretic onslaught against private property than was ex- pressed in these paragrphs which I have just read—paragraphs conceived in Washington and executed in Dela- ware, paragraphs which legalize the theoretic confiscation of any private property, paragraphs which prepare the way for the commissars of com- munism to acquire ‘in any manner whatsoever'—the words of the char- ter of the corporation.” At another point in his address Father Coughlin said: “May I point out that the right reverend clergyman did not see fit to attack even .one of the principles ad- vocated by the National Union for Social Justice. May I regretfully draw your attention to the fact that he compromised himself by speaking under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee, which paid fer the costly radio time which was em- ployed in castigating me. This has so colored his utterances as to render their validity questionable, even at the outset. Charge Called Straw Man. “Inferentially, I was classified by this right reverend gentleman as one who either cried ‘Communist’ at Mr. Roosevelt or as one who accused him of leaning toward communism. my knowledge, no reputable person in public life has yet classified Mr. Roosevelt as a Communist. Thus, when the ecclesiastical spokesman for the Democratic National Committee raises this point, he is merely build- ing up a straw man to be blown down by the blast of a radio utterance. “However, I do belong to that group of persons intemperately character- ized as ‘cowards’ by this right rever- end Democrat, who maintain that Mr. Roosevelt and his agents both Communistic tendencies. “To clarify the attitude of the Na- tional Union for Social Justice and myself toward the New Deal adminis- tration, I have supported all salutary reforms advocated by the New Deal administration.” WALKER DOUBTS HE WILL CAMPAIGN “Nobody Has Asked Me to Make Any Speeches,” Former Mayor Says. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, October 10.—Former Mayor James J. Walker said today he probably would make no speeches in the political campaign, but that he would vote for President Roosevelt ‘because he did not want the country *“to go back to what we had from 1928 to 1932 “Nobody has asked me to make any speeches,” he told reporters as he vegistered for his first vote since 1932. “Any time my party has a candi- date who makes good, I'm going to vote for him,” Walker said. Asked if he had broken with for- mer Gov. Alfred E. Smith because Smith was supporting the Republican candidate for President, Walker said: “I have no quarrel with him. He has & right to make up his own mind what he wants-to do just like anybody else.” : A young woman Democratic work- to pin s Roosevelt button xing: “Show you're for the button say- ‘Want Woman Police. Dublin, Irish Free State, may soon have s trained force of women police under a woman chief. The Council has adopted & recommendation from [ committee which has been mmn!:nl the merits of the project. A petition has been sent to the ‘Minister of Justice asking that the force be established, To | President’s Expense Allowance Goes to Pay for Special Train \Taxpayers May Not Pay Entire Cost, i BY BLAIR MOODY. ‘ EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, October 10.—As Pl‘esl-‘ dent Roosevelt, with a dozen or two | | secretaries, Secret Service men, | | stenographers and other aides, travels | through the West on his drive for farm votes, who is paj)ng the ex- penses? When, on his recent tour of the | drought region, the President took | another swing around the same gen- | eral area, who paid the bills? | Well, not as you might suspect, | either ‘Mr. Rcosevelt or the Demo- | cratic National Committee, but the taxpaying public. { It would be unfair to imply that this stumping of the country at pub- lic expense to collect votes is a sym- |bol of what the Republicans call | “Roosevelt extravagance.” | It's just an old presidential custom, which has been followed by the last seven Presidents and probably will be followed by the next seventeen. All of the expense of Mr. Roosevelt's | current tour may not come from the | | taxpayers. It may not because, while | the fact is a closely guarded secret, the President's $25,000 expense al- | lowance for this year is insufficient to cover all his expenses. The chances | are that the Democratic party's treasury will have to pay a fraction | of the cost of this trip. | { Acting as Chief Executive. | | White House attaches explain that, even while he is campaigning, Mr. Roosevelt is still acting as the Gov- | ernment’s Chief Executive, directing {its departments and answering his | presidential mail. This “official” job | ot the President, his attaches say, | would justify the major part of the trip’s cost coming out of the $25,000, if he had to justify it, which he doesn’t. The money is his to use as he wishes—so much so that, instead ot getting two checks monthly, one on the basis of $75,000 salary a year | and the other on a $25000 basis, he gets one check. And keeps it all. The very thought of hiring a special train would doubtless give the man on the street a sharp quiver in the region of his pocketbook. But if | you are a President, it isn't so expen- sive. Most of the cost of the trains of both candidates is paid by news- ! papers, photographic services, broad- casting chains and other corporations which find it necessary to have per- | sonal representatives along to report and picture the doings and sayings of the President and would-be President. These correspondents, with the itin- erant politiclans who board the train to ride a few miles through their own State, basking in reflected presidential glory, foot their own bills. In fact, they make it profitable for the rail- road companies to run the trains. Even the chartering of the two cars reserved for the President and his immediate party does not impese much of a strain on the Treasury. There is no charge for the car, as such. The President pays for precise- ly the number of p=ople In his party at regular rates, for the space they occupy. All but the Secret Service men, who submit their own expense accounts to the Treasury. The usual minimum number of fares required for a private car is 18; for a special train, 100. Train Rental Once Charged. The “straight-fare” basis for the hire of a special train did not always exist. In the old days, Presidents paid full fare for every one on the train and, in addition, the equivalent of 60 tickets for “rental” of the special train. For the abolition of this charge, sub- sequent Presidents can thank Calvin Coolidge. He tipped well, but he balked at paying a premium on a train ride. ‘There was nothing, the railrcads said, that could be done about it. But they didn’t know Mr. Coolidge. On his next trip, he bought a drawing room, the same as any other citizen PIANOS for RENT $3 monthly and up. Rental paid applies to purchase price if you decide to buy later. Call NAtL 4730 KITT’S 1330 G St. However, Balance Being Made Up by Democratic National Committee. might do, and told the railroad that would be all right with him. A great dither arose immediately. Would the President of the United States be safe. traveling in such close proximity to the public? Would not there be danger of some crank getting into the same car and causing trouble? That possibility did not trouble Mr. Coolidge, and the reason was soon evident. The railroad was soon en- gulfed with demands for tickets on the same train he was taking. Secret service men, newsmen, photographers and politicians all wanted to get on the train, and all had the same right to buy tickets as any other citizen. ‘What it really amounted to was that Mr. Coolidge got his special train without asking for it. It raised hob with the railroads—once was enough. The Interstate Commerce Commission decided, at the railroads’ request, to waive the special 60-ticket regulation and ruled that “for the protection of the President” a special train could | be assigned at the regular fare. Most of $25,000 Usually Spent. Presidents who have not spent their expense allowance on traveling, have spent it on entertainment. They are given $25,000 a year for these pur- poses jointly and all of them have spent virtually all of it. ‘Theodore Roosevelt put through the appropriation, though he spent only $6,000 in the first year of the money that was voted, less than $10,000 the second and only slightly more than that the third year. He ended the custom of the railroads in providing free presidential trains. William Howard Taft, his jovial successor, loved to travel. Mr. Taft was known among the veteran attaches of the White House and Treasury as the ‘“greatest traveling President”— until the second Roosevelt came aleng. Whether Taft or Franklin Roose- velt has covered more miles has been kept a close secret. -Total mileage figures are available—but not to the public. President Hoover overran his ex- pense account by $3.000 in 1930 and | toll of more than 300 Arab, Jewish | by nearly $4,000 in 1929 and had to dig down in his pock2t both years to make up the difference. The only other instances of this kind were in the last year of President Harding's term, when he spent $33,500, and the last year of Taft's term, when he spent $28,600. (Copyright 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) ADVERTISEMENT T. V. A. power activities. The court could decide the ques- tion of constitutionality as a means | of ruling on the issue of jurisdiction | and this would throw the case imme- diately into a higher tribunal, since in such an instance, attorneys said, whichever side lost no doubt would appeal immediately. In a hearing on the motion a month ago Judge Gore said he tentatively held the belief that the question of | dictional issue. Constitutionality Issue. | If the T. V. A. act is constitutional, | he said, it was his opinion the suit | could be heard only in the northern district of Alabama, as the motion | contends. tional, he continued, then the Au- thority could be sued anywhere. Section 8-A of the act sets out the | legal domicle of the T. V. A. is the | northern district of Alabama. O'Brian told the court today “the ! main question is whether the Ten- | nessee Valley Authority is a valid and | constitutional agency and whether the | Tennessee Valley Authority act is a valid enactment.” The other question, he said, was the question of jurisdiction. The bill of allegations fiied by the | utilities, O'Brian said, “does not allege | the act to be unconstitutional in its entirety,” but is “confined to a single fleld of activity, namely, the genera- tion and transmission and sale of electricity.” This statement was not challenged in subsequent arguments made by Baker, who described the T. V. A. 1". free booting agency.” A spokes- | man for the utilities counsel said that contrary to a widespread impression { the bill challenged only certain sec- | tions of the act. This left open to question whether the validity of sec- I tion 8-A was involved at all. { |ARABS SEEK TO END | STRIKE IN PALESTINE By the Associated Press. JERUSALEM, October 10.—A call | for peace in the blood-soaked Holy | | Land, torn by 173 days of strife and | terror, was issued tonight by the | Arab Higher Committee in a procla- mation asking for the end of the Arab general strike. | The proclamation. signed by four | Kings and Princes of Arabia, was ex- pected to terminate the reign of bit- | ter dissension, which has taken a |and British lives and property dam- | age estimated at $12,000,000 since last April. After two days of conference, local "committees tonight agreed to abide by the request of the Kings as a sign of their fealty, and informed sources said the strike would probably be de- clared ended on Monday, on the eve of the Moslem holiday. ADVERTISEMENT, constitutionality would have to be set- | tled as a means of deciding the juris- | If the act is unconstitu- | sell to other customers besiass Com- | monwealth & Southern. | The announcement was authorized | by Chairman Arthur E. Morgan and | David Lilienthal, director of T. V. A"i land Wendell L. Willkie, president of | Commonwealth & Southern. Representatives to Meet. | A specific paragraph was included 1in the agreement that representatives of the two organizations “will meet | at an early date with the Federal| Power Commission for the purposes of | planning and carrying out the com- | pilation of data necessary for the ex-| ploration of the possibilities of pooling transmission facilities in the territory | {in which they are interested.” | President Roosevelt, in calling the | original pooling conference, expressed | the hope that experience gained in| the projected Southeastern pool would | lay the groundwork for similar ar- | rangements in the areas of the Boone- ville and Boulder Dams and other large Federal power projects. oite 'CHARLES J. DAVIS RITES TOMORROW | Veteran Motion Picture News Cameraman Will Be Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Charles J. 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