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PRESS CENSORSHIP CHARGED BY A. P. News Association Files Brief in Fighting Labor Board Ruling. By the Assoclated Press. Independence of the American press and the maintenance of an unbiased news report for readers of American newspapers woxld be destroyed should the United States Supreme Court de- cide the national labor relations act is constitutional, it was asserted in a brief filed with the court yesterday by counsel for the Associated Press. The brief contened that the Asso- eiated Press could not freely or im- partially perform the functions dele- gated to it by its 1,300 newspaper members if the selection of Associated Press news writers became subject to supervision of a Government board. | Such a regulatory control would be established, it was stated, if the Su- preme Court granted the petition of the N. L. R. B. to enforce its order requiring the Associated Press to re- smploy Morris Watson, a discharged news employe of the New York office. Argument Slated February 8. Argument on the case, appealed from a decision of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, has been scheduled for the week of February 8. “Impartiality and freedom from any bias is the fundamental aim of the Associated Press,” said the brief, “and largely through its efforts this also is the aim of the American press at large. Freedom of the press and freedom of | speech mean more than freedom from | censorship by government; it means that freedom of expression must be fealously protected from any form of jovernmental control or influence. “To name the men who shall choose and write the news for publication is no different either in principle or in result from naming what shall be written or published. Here the author and the product are one and insepara- ble. If one is to be free, so must the other.” Interference Deplored. “How can accuracy and independ- ence survive an attempt by the Gov- ernment to impose upon the Asso- ciated Press a requirement that its news employes be union men?” the briet continued. ‘“Interference with the internal management of any pri- vate concern is inconsistent with due process of law. Where, however, the private concern is not dealing in ordinary commercial commodities but is engaged exclusively in the formu- lation and dissemination of news for the press, such interefernce is still more intolerable in that it constitutes an encroachment upon the manage- ment and the policy of the press it- self. “Whenever a union editorial em- ploye of the Associated Press is dis- charged, a case is at once made for the board by the claim, rightly or not, that membership in a labor organiza- tion has been discouraged or that the employe has been discriminated against. The question of editorial per- sonnel then becomes a question for the board to determine and the man- agement of the editorial affairs of this great news service of the American press is displaced by the board which Congress has created.” Charges Rights Usurped. The brief declared the authority claimed by the board under the act was non-existent under the following | general constitutional clauses: The act violates the first amend- ment, which guarantees to citizens freedom of speech and freedom of the press; that it was an unrestricted attempt to regulated the relation- ship between all industrial employers and employes by imposing ‘collec- tive bargaining” upon them, in viola- tion of the tenth amendment; that its terms are arbitrary, unreasonable and capricious, having no real and substantial relgiion to the accom- plishmets of legitimate ends, in vio- lation of the fifth amendment; that it denies the right to trial by jury in violation of the seventh amendment; and that the relation between the As- sociated Press and its editorial em- ployes is not interstate commerce, does not directly affect such com- merce and is not subject to Federal control. £ Sy, Births Reported. D‘Ji’i H. w-nd Virginia Pc wuson boy, g kG al!lfl‘h!lhn Adfl m @ "Alice C. Stevens. boy. . . -nd Mary M. aner. l“‘l and Deaths Reporled. Michael Devitt, 91, Garfeld Hosptal Hlll’m w m mont l Georg 56 85, lm ncy Ho: 3 Smels B Bonmiar . 1611 Hol Ehnosth Blachor- 80, 802 Clarence G. Goodloe. 76, 18000!10 tol st. G!rlr\lfla B Danforth, 75, the Seward e’nna “MicIntosh, 74, 3830 Veasey at. iliam 8. Hibbs, 72. 733 15th st. Allenfa B. Pisher, 1538 Monroe Wllll Hlnnlker 71. U. 8. sof'uu "50“ “l 5. Gnm-m scfi?”m ‘1 R fadw xelklrk 5 ms 148 Euclid at. ;: Simons, 6° -nl A m ithorp. 07 wndmln Park 60. 8. Soldiers' Home. !lJlilner BEO nnscerml:y ng;rlllL ible: flolp ital. T 43 3! 312 Levis ::' 9. ‘1 0 New York Bears, Children’s Hospital. e chudnnl l(ox mx ml ‘Donald P. lhnub 10"5 "2 d st lllhm and Fay Ewing, Colum- dem‘.. Hns.e’tk.\nfl Bella Boswell. Provi- hl t to leth and Bella Boswell, Provi- Lou! . 70, 220 H st. u-nag‘ ] .‘.“B “u-m th & Lawrence tal. hf-m to Albert and Adessa Colter, 1838 Vermont ave. WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW Second Semester Begins February 1 New Olasses Co-llinfiou’“ Krasins ”OOGSM Wood's School 710 14th St. N.W. Introducing a special five months’ Skeretarial Bartenders Favor Sunday Beer Ban, But Patrons Don’t Dispensers Want a Day Off, But Drinkers Demur. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, January 23.—The el- bow-benders and the bartenders, us- ually pals with a single spirit, took op- posite sides today on a new city ordinance prohibiting sale of beer on Sunday. The elbow-benders frowned on the new law. The white-coated bartenders, many of whom have worked seven days a week since 1933, when sale of brew | was licensed, were elated. Georgia still prohibits sale of hard liquor. V. F. W. POST TO DANCE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. party and dnneo, Ohio Girls’ Olub ml‘h Hotel, 9 pm. Marriage Licenses. Wlllllm H._ Bedford, 10 and Alms M. Pitcher. 31. bo'.h n.mmnre- Judge Nathan Cay! ‘Thomas 2 Bmv/n 52. nd Anna E. Jones, 42, 48 L nnln Pro %’5";:'-:“:‘."'"'9.25 51418, 's.gnth. Meeting, District Division, Rainbow C. L. Smaliw | Veterans, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Donald 3, erun. ‘a1, 2800 Onum d. and Alice 8 gmh . Chevy Chase, | Dance, United States Forest Service, = Willard Hotel, 9 pm. Walter M. Edwards, 28, 4807 Connecticut fre é‘.?..m"h" Worrall. 27, North- = William 28, mw York Sz Sorority, .nl d m'cw;am"m ternity, La Fayette Hotel, 10 p.m. frord, e ARtaall T Bard, 23 5583 And Abieall Lo onn Crocker Dinner-meeting, Washington Gyne- Angelm Rothschild, 22 and Sylvia n Niemetz. 21 both of 425 Qurn 351258 Holbrook ter.. and Pglnl 32, 1367 Newton John J. Hassler, 30, Oklahoma City. Okla., d Pauline A. Di k. l. Stillwater, Brow G. M. l(l James R Hobinsent 31, 1304 South Capi- tol st. southwest, 'and Ruth G. Small- Food." 10 640 Pickforil pl. n.e Re Raiph O'Neal, 21, 1073 Tenth n and Thelma M. Btewart. 10. 708 "Pe; t. ne.: Rev. G. H. ett. a Junior Cuthbertson, % and, Nannie M N Wil B Bundy, 1540, mmg st A Lania A Sefferson. B2, % rd. Rev, C. T. Murray. Third Annual Affair Tonight at Potomac Boat Club. Washington Post, Veterans of the Foreign Wars, will hold its third an- nual mid-Winter dance tonight at the Potomac Boat Club, near Chain Bridge. Music will be provided by Silver- flerg’s Vagabonds, and Archie Turner will present the vaudevile entertain- ment. The affair lasts from 10 p.m. to3 am. rorCOLDS u/IODY IIIII.DING FATHER JOHNS |\ MEDICINE g i PROVEN MERIT Announcing New Store Hours In co-operation with the District Commissioners, the Traffic Bureau and the Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association to so arrange store hours as to relieve congestion in traf- fic, our store will Beginning Monday, January 25th Openat 9 AM. and Close at 5:30 PM. We are sure the public will be sympathetic with this effort to relieve a situation that is continually grow- ing more acute. A Georgian cological Soclety, Carlton Hotel, 7:30 pm. Dance, Ladies of Cedars, Capital Forest, No. 104, Raleigh Hotel, 10 p.m. Dinner, District Chiropractic Assc- ciation, Willard Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Banquet, District Education Assocla- tion, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Dance, Lodge No. 31, American Fed- eration of Government Employes, Wardman Park Hotel, 9 p.m. Banquet and election, 1930 Order of 23, 1937. the Eastern Star, Admiral Club, 1640 Rhode Island avenue, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, Delta Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Third General Assembly, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Meeting, League for Larger Life, 1414 Sixteenth street, 8:15 p.m. Meeting, Blological Soclety of Wash- ington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. ‘Banquet and dance, Safe Way Em- =loyes' Association, Broadmoor Hotel, pm. 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A-S Traffic Convictions RECKELESS DRIVING. ‘Walter Andrew Leeds, 1508 V street southeast, $25 or 25 days. FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Clarence M. Mackall, 1926 Twelfth street, $5. Harry Abramson, 1030 BSeventh street, $10. Jake Brown, 2211 F street, $5. Albert O. Sappington, 219 Eighth street southeast, $10. 530 Willlam B. Edelbert, 3607 South Deakota avenue northeast, $15. Thomas A. McClinton, Maryland, $5. Frank M. Black, 238 Twelfth street southeast, $5. Harry B. Goodrich, 5527 Fourth street, $10. Maurice Sorrell, 35 Florida avenue, $5. Willlam 8. Ford, 5509 Ninth street, 5. John F. Cremen, Maryland, $5. Bernard F. Barnes, Maryland, $5. Napoleon Harris, 631 Orleans place northeast, $10. James Guess, street, $5. e ——— 1134 Nineteenth Sty Special Savings in the Semi-Annual Selling Six-Way Indirect B With Silk Shade $| 4.95 Floor Lamp Six degrees of light to accommodate every lighting need. Three-candle style with scientifically designed diffusing bowl. 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