Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1937, Page 2

¥R hed THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C RAILS INJUNGLE EAD T0 AIRPORT Earhart Plane Rounds All Curves in Scenic Trip to Paramaribo. Amelia Earhart completed an- other stage of her leisurely flight around the world at the Equator with Capt. Fred Nooman as nav- sgator. In the following dispatch, she tells of a 750-mile trip in her Lockhecd-Electra monoplanc from Caripito, Venezuela, to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana BY AMELIA PARAMARIBO, 4 —Ra Cari We flew over jungle most of and then played RHART. The Star. Dutch clou Guiana, hung thick morning as June ahout ito vesterday we left the way to the coast hides of forego An but 1-seck showers ided T had better the scenery and climb up on top ide of 8.000 with rain unti! nltit teet tr topped all hest clouds. first Georgetown, Br Guiana. When were out at sea irty miles away, gated fields along we the coast Sty again cut the 148 miles, &peed to Arn n luded do whi i cannot and make fast ide, other condi- me, for it is too open the the ground, A take-off an efficiency ly would not mistreat my faithful ones. geography required the pment for safety Laid Course by Rails. As T neared Paramaribo, the clouds ed and 1 be descend 1-seeing again. There was an bitable swampy shore, with back of it. Many little the paddy fields could se¢ h the cl ed Paramaribo ) s 25 miles from t ions were t row gauge road track ing very low, we rounded every eve Casey Jones did ngle and rice fields the track. I tried from smoke I ex- Then to except Modemn houses among be A pected to find only & clear the field An orange pole. V Zeption flew rked ng. As a bonfire was the wind dir A man waved a white flag to { attention to one of the best landing areas I have ever dery” name, which : as 1 can see, e kind for from the so00n n best we came touched off nto view 7 is As space of t the only We by Commissary Wempe and Capt. Sluyter, in com- mand of troops. and James Lawton, n Consul at Paramaribo, and others who had come out Soliders stood by to pump from s and guard Coffee, orange juice and iwiches were ready for hot and starving flvers. Never did I have better service anywhere. Plane Is Staked Down. After the tanks had been refilled and the propellers greased, the plane was staked We embarked on we had followed to Paramaribo. . chickens and goats moved off ack at our approach. Women baskets of fruit on their heads the car when we stopped of the way the road ran Burma cattle, burros s of boats and, now and then, automobiles were varied means of locomotion noted For today we plan a jump to For- talez. Brazil, though it depends on the weather and field conditions. It rained heavily here Wednesday, but the officials have promised to arrange " wind a take-off and dry ground in the early morning as part of their good service. If so, we can Jift enough fuel for a longer journey. Miss Ear began her world flight on May 27 at Oakland, Calif., proceeding to Burbank, Calif.: Tuc- &an. Ariz, (May 28) New Orleans (May 29) and Miami, Fla. (May 30). On June 1 she flew from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico, a distance of | 1,033 mil in 7 hours 34 minutes end on ne 2 from San Juan to Caripito. Venezuela, 750 miles away, in 4 hours 32 minutes.) | were welcomed plane down which for fleet good ACTOR PRESSES CLAIM | can tradition is aborning. ! no importance. large settiement secn was | Nothing | | T say you got to do now. HE MARRIED MAE WEST | New Court Has Share in Community Property. Br ke Associated Press LOS ANGELES, June Wallace, New York actor, filed court action vesterday repeating his contention he is the husband of blond, buxom Mae West The new complaint nvalidated recently when Superior Judge Robert W. Kenny sustained ' demurrer Wallace's new suit panied by two letters. In one he asked the actress to recognize him as her husband and spoke of his “love and affection.” In the other he stated he bad a legal claim to community property listed at $100,000 Wallace contended he wed Miss ‘West April 11, 1911, in Milwaukee. replaced one was accom- Congress in Brief TODAY. Kenate: In recess Joint Committee calls William Green | and Secretary Perkins wage and hour bill. Appropriations Subcommittee con- widers $1,500,000,000 relief bill. House: Pays tribute to late Speaker Byrns. Rivers and Harbors Committee con- tinues hearings on Bonneville Dam project Interstaie Commerce Committee considers railroad retirement legisla- tion. TOMORROW. | Neither Senate or House will be in pession Appropriations subcommittee on the Eenate meets to act on the 1938 Dis- s witnesses on | Action Contends He | 4 —Frank 22| trict supply bill. o) FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. TOUCHSTONE. N THE house that was once the home of the Duchess of Windsor. nee Wallis Warfield, over in Bal- timore, we suspect a great Ameri- The fact it has French antecedents is of Virtually everything that else gum and gangsters had antecedents of foreign nationality While a group of tourists were being conducted through the old Warfleld home, at $1 per head, the other day, they arrived at the second-floor bath. Thereupon a Frenchman, the only male in the party, suddenly screamed “Voila!!” or “Eureka” or something, vaulted over the side of the tub and | sat down in it. fortunately.) The guide wanted to know what all that was about. Frenchman explained that visitors to Versailles often sit in Marie Antoinette’s bath tub, just for good luck. (We don’t get the connec- tion here, considering what swell luck the tub brought Marie.) Was it not true that Mrs. Warfield was the closest thing to an American queen this coun- trv has known since the Revolution? “True,” said the guide. ‘Well,” said the Frencnman We now want to know if all the cus- tomers are going to be encouraged to jump in the tub, or will the incident be interred in a dignified silence? * * % BARGAIN. After trymg all known devices to prevent his fine liquors from disappearing during the day, a fellow from Hawaii, who is here on business, has at last concocted a plan to preserve the cellar. He entered info a formal agreement with his hotel maid—she leaves his alone during the and each Saturday he gives her a bottle all her own, with a smail diwidend of headache powder. * x MAYOR-STUFFS ]N ALASKA there is an all-Eskimo town that has a Mayor, a City Council, dirty politics, ward heelers and other modern equipment which we usually regard as blossoms of our own peculiar civilization. Recently the town held an election, and a fellow named Adams was chosen Mayor by a majority cf 1 vote, al- though there is some evidence to the effect that three of his voters each voted for him three times, which is O. K. with us Upon the solemn occasion of his as- sumption of office. the Mayor made a speech, which was reported to the Indian Bureau here by a school teacher who lives in the frozen North. give you Hizzoner For two years now vou been after me to play in this thing—this politics and City Council and all them kinds of stuff. I don’t want to be in it because I seen it other places and always trou- bles comes up. Sometimes one way. sometimes something else again, it comes that makes trouble and all them things. “Well, now you got me. I'm elected Mayor and I didn't want to git it. But you went and got me anyway. So now I'm Mayor. Now you do what I sav. And you do it too. If I tell one man to do something, he do it: if I tell some one else you do something, you do it pretty quick too. Now I'm Mayor and boss and all them things and I'm going to see that some things is done right and some of these kids that's running round nights and doing things what ain't right, they kin look out plenty because I'm going to see about them things too. “And now this week I want every man in this village to haul one load of woods to them orphans. And what And one load of woods from every mans this week. “Then and another thing. This City Council is going to meet and make some rules about what time all them kids got to be at their own homes at night time so we got not so much troubles all the times.” “The Mayor,” says our correspond- (It was minus water, stock week | ent. “ended with a flourish amid great applause. Every one agreed that just the right man had been elected Mayor. Some special music was rendered and the meeting ended.” * ok ox o ZONE WORK J. Raymond Bell, the cinema publicity man, had brought his car to a stop in front of the theater where he has offices the other morning, when a lady in a large sedan suddenly cut between him and a street car loading platform missing him by inches. J. Raymond was glaring down the street after her, thinking noth- ing we can publish, when another lady suddenly shouted at him from the loading platform “Why didn't you go ahead and cut her in two?” said the pedes- trian lady Mr. B. was somewhat startled by this one, too, and showed it “Sure, why didn't you? You're just the kind of driver that causes accidents. Makes people get killed.” “Madam,” said Mr. B., “I- was standing absolutely still when that car cut in front of me.” “Yah,” said the lady on the plat- jorm, “yowre just the kind that goes around crippling people. Why didn’'t you cut her in two? The poor woman.” This was about enough for Mr. B. “Listen, madam,” said he. “I've heard of back-seat drivers. I've heard of over-the-shoulder drivers. I've heard of people who almost pushed through the floorboards trying to put on brakes where there aren’t any brakes. They're all nuts. But I'm darned if I ever heard of a safety-zone driver. You're the first I ever saw,-and I hope the laat.” And with that, Mr. B. drove off EY in this country except chewing | We | FORD EXECUTIVE TOAPPEARINQUIZ ;Edsel Ford Also to Testify| in Riot Probe—Load of Tear Gas Is Seized. | BS the Assoctated Press. DETROIT, June 4—Harry H. Ben- nett, personnel director of the Ford Motor Co., notified the Wayne County prosecutor’s office today he would ap- pear Monday to testify before a one- man grand jury investigating a riot outside the Ford Rouge plant in sub- | urban Dearborn. Bennett, who directs the company's police, telephoned Bernard A. Boggio, chief assistant prosecutor, that he was not trying to avoid service on a sub- poena. The subpoena was issued by Com- | | mon Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy, who | | is sitting as a one-man grand jury in | the case. | Tear Gas Seized. Members of the prosecutor's staft | | seized an automobile load of tear-gas | | equipment today at the gates of the | Great Lakes Steel Corp. here and de- | talned the driver, who was registered as Harold Richter. Harry Colburn, chief investigator for Prosecutor Duncan € McCrea, | said the cargo consisted of tear gas | guns, grenades, cartridges and gas | masks. Richter, who identified himself as a former Great Lakes Steel employe, said he did not know what was in the automobile. He was taken before Judge Liddy. Colburn said a list of Great Lakes Steel employes who are members of the United Automobile Workers of America, affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Organization, was in Rich- ter's possession. The list also con- tained the name of Richard T. Frank- | ensteen, director of the U. A. W. A. | campaign to organize Ford workers. Edsel Ford Sought, Too. | Process servers had been unable to | locate Bennett, who was reported to | have been at his home near Ypeilanti | recovering from severe sunburn. Another subpoena has been issued for Edsel Ford, president of the com- pany. He was said to be in the East | on business and Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said he had little hope of | serving the summons | The testimony of Bennett and of the | son of Henry Ford is wanted in reply to charges of the United Automobile Workers that “service men” who guard the vast Ford industrial empire had beaten and forcibly ejected from | the vicinity of the main River Rouge | plant union members seeking to dis- | tribute handbills to workmen during a ! change of shifts. 9 CLEARED OF FRAUD | INP.W.A.CONTRACTS St. Louis Contractors and Labor Leaders Acquitted by Jury in 51/, Hours. Br the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, June 4 —Five plaster- ing contractors and four Jabor lead- ers, charged with conspiracy to de- fraud the Government on P, W. A.| contracts, were acquitted by a jury | in a verdict returned yesterday in United States District Court | The verdict was reached after the jurors had deliberated nearly five and one-half hours The vy found that the Govern- ment failed to substantiate charges that the United States was defrauded and its activities impaired and ob- structed by the defendants on four jobs, partly financed by P. W. A funds. Defendants acquitted were Peter Anderson, president of a plastering company; Harry Niehaus, plastering contractor; Frank B. Rowan, secre- tary of the contractors' association: George F. Robertson, jr, head of a plastering firm; John F. Carroll, sec- retary of a plastering company: Vin- cent Lee, member of the plasterers’ union; Irving Lee, member of the same union; William Anderson, busi- ness agent of & union. and Harry Hagen, business agent of a union. 'HOME TOWN CHEERS QUADGIRLS' RETURN Graduated From College, ‘‘Bunch of Keys” Preside at Ban- quet of Class of 1933. Br the Associated Press HOLLIS, Okla. June 4—Today is | quad day in this Southwestern Okla- homa town | The Nation's first college-lettered | quadruplets—Roberta, Mona, Mary | and Leota Keys—presided on their | 22d birthday anniversary at the early | annual breakfast of their high school | | class of 1933. | The whole town turned out for the | alumni parade, first of a series of | “welcome home” functions honoring | the quads since their return from | Baylor University at Waco, Tex This afternoon the four poured at | the annual alumni tea for about 300 | guests. Tonight at a banquet the “Bunch of Ke accomplished musicians, are to sing several popular songs. The traditionally quiet family | birthday dinner was set for noon. The | color motif was pastel. Each girl had her own cake and lighted candles. in a high dudgeon, wheeling. with free * x x % | DEBATE. TFE and labor being what they are | in this kind of weather, a bunch | of the boys in a certain Govemmenti | agency got themselves into a stupend- | |ous debate the other day. Between | yawns and groans they buzzed on and | on about it—subject: Resolved, that | a cow has no teeth. | One faction argued that cows had plenty of teeth of all sizes and shapes. The other insisted that they (cows, not the debators) cropped grass with their tongues and chewed their cuds with the gums. Finally somebody called a dairy. That was not much help at first, the dairy clerical help arguing among themselves for about 10 minutes before & Mr. Hendricks came to the tele- phone and reeled off a little speech about bovine dental equipment. Cows, saild he, have no front teeth, but they're well equipped with molars—provided they're young enough. That Jeft the Government boys no- where in particular, so they went back to chewing their cuds. lvears, | held poitions as | Boston, | Saranac. SEMTE RAL QU ADDSTHREE LINE New York Central and Vir- ginian Roads Will Be Investigated. BACKGROUND Under leadership of Senator Wheeler of Montana, a Senate commtttee for scveral momths has been investigating the financial set-up of the Nation’s railroads. Recently the inquiry has centered around the huge Van Sweringen aystem, the country's largest and most intricate holding company network. When that is completed, the Pennsylvania Railroad and its afliates may be studied next By the Associated Press Th Senate Rallway Finance Com- mittee announced today it would ex- tend its inquiry to three new lines, | the New York, New Haven & Hartford; | the New York Central and Virginian Rallways. A survey of transportation consoli- dations, loans and security issues, | under way for six months, previously | had been limited to a list of 25 roads recommended for study by the Inter- | ‘ Members of the graduating class to | state Commerce Commission. Extension of the investigation the New England area will make pos- sible A thorough scrutiny of typical major railways in every section of the country, committee experts said Roads Investigated. They already have dug into the re- cent history of three of the four main Jor them. roads in the East, three in the South- | west, two in the South and one tran- continental line—the Chicago, Mil- waukee, St. Paul & Pacific Committee attorneys indicated their inquiry into the New Haven would not overlap a series of other investiga- tions of that road. beginning nearly 25 years ago when Louis D. Brandeis, | now of the Supreme Court, criticized the carrier'’s financial management. Banking relationships of the New Haven and New York Central with J. P. Morgan & Co. were expected to receive special study. Investigation of the Virginia Rail- way will center on its sition by & holding company, which committee officials indicated was dom- | inated by Andrew W. Mellon, former Secretary of the Treasury Hearings to Be Delayed. Committee officials sald they had not decided whether Mellon would be summoned to the witness stand Public hearings on the three lines probably will be delayed several months, they added The acting chairman of the commit- tee, Senator Truman, Democrat, of Missouri, said yesterday that Congress should legislate quickly to halt the ooting” of railroads and ‘glaring misuses of the public’'s money” by New York financiers. Truman made his statement on the Senate floor prior to & session of the Investigating Com- mittee Six months of inquiry has disclosed he sald, that laws have been “delib- erately evaded and sometimes broken by railroad holding companies.” He said such companies were “devices” to “go around regulation by the Inter- state Commerce Commission.” SUS. GORDOF'U IS NAMED HAMILTON'S MANAGER ! Well-Known Local Hotel Man Appointed to Succeed Rich- ard Butler. Appointment of Stanley 8. Gordon well-known local hotel man, as man- ager of the Hamilton Hotel was an- nounced today Gordon is said to have an outsiand- ing background of experience and contacts in the hotel field. For the last eight he has assistant man- ager at the Ham- | ilton and Ambas- sador Hotels. Pre- viously, he was employed by the Statler Hotel, and the Saranac Inn, . He has spent the ast 14 years in Washington Gordon succeeds who recently resigned to become man- ager of the George C. Clark prop- erties here. Stanley S. Gordon. 3D CORPS COMMANDER WILL REVIEW TROOPS B> & Siafl Correspondent of The Star. FORT MEADE, Md.. June 4.—A re- view in honor of Brig. Gen. Charles D. Roberts, commanding general of the 3d Corps Area, will be held here tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. on the parade grounds. The review is to be staged by the 16th Brigade in observance of Gen. Roberts’ impending retirement. He formerly commanded the Washington | Provisional Brigade. | Post_officials announced the public, is invited to view the review from parked cars or stands on the parade grounds, locaied south of the Balti- more road and just west of Vale Hill Democratic Luncheon Guests. Senator Radcliffe and Representa- tive Lewis of Maryland will be guests at the Democratic League Juncheon in the Grafton Hotel at 1:30 p.m. tomor- row. Arthur Clarendon Smith, presi- dent, will preside. Richard Butler, | recent acqui- | Ensign Charles L new “burdens new epaulets as- his mother All are 2 MIDDIECLASSES PACKING SEA BAGS Graduates Head for Homes as Undergraduates Make Ready to Sail. ANNAPOLIS Cheered by the | President Roosevelt, 319 graduates of the Naval Academy headed for their homes shortly after they had received ay from Rear Admi; Adolphus Andrews, chief of the Bureau of Navigation Two hundred and sixty-three of the graduates, commissioned ensigns 1n the line of the Navy, and 26 who donned the uniform of second lieu- tenants in the Marine Corps. will re- {port for duty with their ships or | regiments after a month's leave. After the exercises, mothers sweethearts attached the black shoul der markers, with the stripe of an ensign on ! shoulders Members of the new senior and sophomore classes finished packing for & Summer practice cruise on the | battleships New York, Arkansas and Wyoming. About 1,000 midshipmen embarked on the ships today Kiel, Germany, visiting Athens, Greece, and Livorno, Italy, before re- turning to Hampton Roads, Va, on July 28 The 600 members of the new junior class will remain at the academy dur- ing the Summer. They will study aviation and make short training cruises on the gunboat Erie and a di on of destroyers. Md June congratulat G-MAN MURDER CASE TRIAL SET FOR JUNE 2 By the Associated Pres | KANSAS CITY, June 4 —Robert Suhay and Glen John Applegate, ac- | cused New York bank robbers, pleaded | innocent yesterday to charges of mur- | dering a Federal agent in the Topeka. Kans,, post office April 16. Their trial | was set for June 21 at Topeka The gunmen were captured at | Plattsmouth, Nebr., several hours after |8 gun battle in the Topeka post of- | fice in which Agent Wimberly W | Baker was fatally wounded ‘ Suhay had three attornevs in court, and Federal Judge Richard J. Hop- | kins appointed one for Applegate. | Suhay and Applegate also are un- der Federal indictment for robbing the Northern Westchester Bank at Katonah, N. Y., of $18,000 on March 12, the crime for which they were sought when Baker was slain. i 1 Justice James M. Proctor of District Court today ordered the American Security & Trust Co. to permit open- ing of the safe deposit box of Miss Mary H. Daingerfield, wealthy Alex- andria, Va, woman, said to contain $245,000 in securities. Miss Daingerfield has been adjudged insane by the Corporation Court at Alexandria, and the action today end- ed the lengthy fight by Albert V. Bryan, appointed by the Alexandria court to manage her estate, to secure the contents of the box. Miss Daingerfield disappeared from her Alexandria home more than a month ago. Justice Proctor ordered Thomas F. Burke, attorney for the trust company, to admit Bryan to open the box today. The trust company had objected to removal of the securities, its attorney ‘ToMissing Woman’s Legal Aide ‘sts!#d_ because of an attachment against the box secured in a Munici- pal Court suit against Miss Dainger- | | field’s estate by the O'Day Investiga- | tion Bureau. The attachment was | granted May 20. The O'Day suit is | for approximately $900. ‘The trust company also contended | the court order appointing Bryan “committee” for the Daingerfield estate did not specifically authorize it | to turn over Miss Daingerfield's assets | to him and that Bryan had posted no | bond here to protect local creditors | claiming against her estate. | Justice Proctor held today, however, | that the order did authorize turn- | ing over of the safe deposit box and | that there was no need for Bryan to | post a bond here, since he posted | $10,000 with the Alexandria court | when appoifited & commm‘u_ Browning, a graduate Mrs. J. A. Brouning from Hopkinsville, Ky. for | They’re in the ‘Navy Now of the Naval Academy f ¥ finds his shoulders left I'raveler LEAVES HOSPITAL RBY THIRD-FLOOR WINDOW | | | FRANK HALL. JR., Seven - year - old Emergency Hospital patient, who disap- peared from his sick bed yes- terday morning. Four hours later his father brought him back. He had gone to Alex- andria by bus to see a “boy friend” after leaving the hos- pital by a third-story window and descending to the street by fire escape. He was to have been discharged yesterday as cured of his head injury, but his father asked the hospitai to keep him until tomorrow. —Star Staff Photo. TRUGE IS SOUGHT ONTAX QUi SPLT ‘House Leaders Have Par- leys on Fight Over Pub- licity for Evaders. Ty the Associated Press. Administration leaders attempted | today through a round of parleys to | compose deep-set differences between | House committees over a projected investigation of tax dodging The disagreement ments by the House Rules Committee to a ‘resolution creating a Senate- House Investigating Committee. They 1. Make public information on the financial affairs of private citizens. Chairman O’Connor said the action was unanimous and $hat he personally would stand by it. The Ways and Means Committee opposes the amendments, however, and O'Connor agreed to take the own committee. Representative Rayburn, Domocrat. of Texas, the majority leader, spoke adjustment that would prevent a floor fight. So did Chairman Dough- ton of the Ways and Means Commit- tee, who introduced the resolution to establish the joint committee. O'Connor wes less optimistic. The three, with Representative Vin- son, Democrat;, of Kentucky, Cooper, Democrat, of Tennessee, con- ferred at length yesterday. said. Some of those at the meeting gave the distinct impression that President Roosevelt would not favor the amend- ments. They indicated he is eager that publicity be brought to bear on wealthy individuals who he charged are avoiding taxes. ollowed tradi their commencement yesterday by tossing their caps in the air. cording to tradition—is privileged to and Miss Molly Albritton | involved amend- | would deny that group the right to: | 2. Hand over to any Treasury em- | | ploye its powers of investigation. matter up again with members of his | of a possibility of working out some | and ; ‘We didn't get very {s2,” O'Connor | WAGE BILL URCED BY MISS PERKING Labor Secretary Tells Com- mittees New Measure Will Benefit Industry. BACKGROUND— Removal of sweatshop working conditions is broad objective of pending wage and hour bill Labor Standards Board would be empowered to set marimum work week and minimum wage, also to prohibit in interstate commerce “unfair” goods produced by child labor or under other oppressive working conditions Foes have dubbed it ney in more ertreme form deny charge. N.R. A sponsors BY JOHN C. HENRY. American industry, particularly that part of it boasting efficient manage- ment and high standards of produc- tive quality, will be a principal bene- ficiary of Pederal legislation to stabi- | lize wages, hours and working stand- ion at the end of Who gets the cap—again ac- eep it, and there were many feminine hands reaching | nomist broad enough to stand these pin on his —A. P. Photos. HOUSE UNITVOTES P A EXTENSI Bill Would Give Agency Two More Years of Life and $256.000.000. hie Associated Press The House Appropriations tee recommended legisl extend the Public Works Adm tion for two vears and authorize it to use approxi ely $256.000.000 loans and grants he measure, although priation from t the agency's use the $95.000.000 unobligated bal- ance ir ng fund for grants and to sell an ad $40,000,000 purpose A sim day to a Senate App commiftee by Senator Hayden, Demo- crat, of Arizona He would have the Finance Corp. cash P. W. A.'s rev ing fund. so as to provide $325.000.000 for continuing P. W. A. on an actite basis B for easury, wo power to of Reconstruction Depends on President. Availability of the $256,000,000 pro- posed in the House bill would depend on President Roosevelt's revocation of an administrative order restricting their use. Majority Leader Rayburn told the House earlier in the week the President had agreed to revoke the order in return for withdrawal of %n amendment earmarking $300,000,000 of the $1,500,000.000 relief fund for WA | In addition to 35.000.000 which the committee recommended for grants, P. W. A. already has available for loans a total of $124,000,000 against which applications are pend- Ving from communities which have authorized bond issues to finance their share of the cost of their proj- ects. About 1.100 projects to replace so-called “fire-trap” school houses also would be available for loans from this fund. | Expiration Set for 1939. Only projects already spproved by P. W. A’s examining division would be eligible for either loans or grants under the extension measure s P. W A. on June 30, 1939 “With the funds provided in the bill,” the committee said, “the United States will be able to discharge all of the obligations that any com- munity can reascnably expect in con- nection with Public Works Admin- istration activities.” NUISANCE TAX REPORT HELD BREACH OF FAITH Reed Assails House Committee for Voting to Extend Emer- gency Levies. Bu the Associated Press Representative Daniel A. Reed, Dunkirk, N. Y., Republican said today | Democrats on the House Ways and | Means Committee “broke faith with | the people” when they voted to con- } tinue the so-called nuisance taxes. | Reed said the committca's action | yesterday was “strictly on a party di- | vision,” the Democratic members vot- | ing to continue the taxes, while me’ Republicans voted to abolish them. | “When these taxes were adopted” he said, “it was with the understand- | ing they were emergency measures | only. They do not bring in sufficient | revenue to compensate for the annoy- | ance they cause.” ‘The taxes are levied on such prod- ucts as gasoline, lubricating oil and | sporting goods. The bill provides for expiration of | vigerous | Robert Johnson, president of the med- ical supply firm of Johnson & John- | son, disgust.” f ards, Secretary of Labor Perkins told the Senate and House Labor Commit- tees today as she appeared to indorse the Black-Conmery wage and hour bil Perkins' declaration supple- mented an estimate made yesterday by Leon Henderson, Government eco- to the effect that “more than 6,000,000 employes would be potential candidates for reduced hours or in- creased wages” if the proposed bill is passed. Estimating it would affect in- dustries employing some 12,000,000 persons, Henderson declared approxi- mately 1,500,000 would be taken from the relief r and put into private emplovment the measure ap- proved Wants General Application Under questioning today, Miss Per- kins declared the act should be applied to every employer, regardless of num= ber of employes, coming within the interstate commerce nterpretation. Other proposals would exempt em- ployers of fewer than 15 or fewer than 8 Asked if she though five would be sufficiently handle administration of the 1 Secretary said emphatically “It's too many. 1 think three wou) be better. The fewer there are Jess chance for argument and agreement a board Points to Benefits. In her reference to the bencfis industry Miss Perkins expresse the committee “will not be deter; by the objection raised from some quarters that a which contains merely Jabor provisions is one-sided " “In my opinion.” she added, “one of the lessons which o N. R A periences taug is that 1t is n necessary * bestow upon pr vate v the legal right to p! production and to for late codes of fair trade practices a mistake to think of wages or maximum hours clusively labor measures nece the grant of some corresponding ilege to industry These labor visions are themselves general nomic me s One of the objects of such this is to make certain that competi- tion will work in favor of efficient management and high standards of productive quality The overwhelm- ing majority of American bu men will gain & new sense of security if the law provi that basic labor standards be stabilized and hence re- moved from the arend of unfair com- petition. Only where there is some definite ntee of uniformity ot labor standards can management be assured efficiency will be warded her element of security uence which the hment of fair labor conditions have in avoiding labor disputes With the removal of oppressive wage and long hours of employment likelthood of strikes should d b ex- . * o ces icti 1 It minimum as ex- ating p pro eco- a bil] as re- Committee Cautioned tioning the committee that t versial issue of wage differe most difficult question nt of the suggested be performec han set legislation that the administr specific figures in the bi It is very importan said that no differential be wi would give compet advantage tion of the coun- he same market as high labor standards’ d labor pro- the Secretary he effort ta the child-labot * she set try se industries hibitions of the bill added, however, that secure ratification of amendment by the favorable actior of eight additional States should pros ceed with vigor, whatever action the Congress may take with reference tc the proposals we now have before us.® Favors Advisory Committees. Miss Perkins directed specific com mendation the contemplated u of advisory committees of industry and labor in determination by the board of minimum wages for different industries, and likewise supported the prohibition against the proposed board exercising jurisdiction where collec- tive bargaining between industry and independent labor unions is adequate to establish fair standards of wages and hours. The Secretary gested, however, that a provision be inserted to “make it certain that the minimum wage should be established on the basis of occupation and not on the basis of sex.” Yesterday's session of the committee were marked by the appearance of one successful young industralist in support of the legislation, to sug told the committee a 40-hout week and $16 minimum wage should be imposed on " only as a beginning of efforts to improve work- ling conditions and relieve unemploy- ment As soon as practicable, and imme- | diately in some industries, he added, there should be a 30-hour the same wage Johnson declared his own company had found itself able to run a textil mill profitably on a 30-hour week ir competition with other manufacturers even though the others went beyonc the 40-hour limit. John G. Paine, industry representa. tive in the National Council for In- dustrial Progress, appeared to indorse the bill and suggest it be made ap- plicable to employers of eight or mor¢ persons From the same group, however, Pat S. Hanway. executiye secretary of the National Fiber Can and Tube Asso- ciation, appeared to criticize the legis. lation, declaring it unworkable an¢ destined to be stigmatized by “re¢ tape, detall, slow progress and, finally [ week al