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A—c x¥ WALSH WOULD ADD 10F.T.C. POWER U. S. Reorganization Issue to Fore as Brookings Re- ports on Publicity. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The issue of Government ganization again was to the fore in Congress today as Senator Walsh, | Democrat, of Massachusetts proposed | legislation to broaden the Federal | Trade Commission’s authority to reg- ulate certain trade practices in in- | dustry and the Brookings Institution | reported to the Byrd Committee that the Federal Government paid $521,- 080 in the 1936 fiscal year to persons engaged in full-time or allocated part- | time publicity work. reor- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON MONDAY JUNE 14, 1937, Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. OLSENS. F ANDREW OLSEN of Kimberly, Idaho, who seems to be in town for a while, wonders where all those Olsens who appear with him in a certain guest book came from, we can tell him. They came right out of the imagination of a localite who thought Andrew might get a pleasant surprise if he wandered back, | after dinner, to take another squint at the guest book. These developments opened a week | in which threc different committees from Senate and House are planning | to consider reorganization measures. Senator Walsh's Trade Ci n proposal is the second advanced for | that agency Last week Senator | Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, chair- man of the Senate Reorganization Committee, introduced le ion to | enlarge consider owers of the Trade Comr nsferring certain ju fon from Agriculture and Justice Departments—as a semi- judicial agency acting for Congress, based on recommendations of the | Brookings Institution, which is mak- ing a series of ¢ ting studies for the B: group 1933 Bill Revised. The new Walsh bill is a revision of one he introduced on May 1, 1933, about two weeks before the introduc- tion of the national industrial recovery act. He explains that he had pre- pared revised draft several weeks ago before the Supreme Court had rendered its decision on the Wagner national labor relations act and that he used a broad tion of “inter- state commerce™ which seems to him td be entirel tutional under the opinion handed down by the Chief | Justice in the labor relations cases. Tt 1 bill would increase the | five to nine | fil duties nition of plifies the n ad it am- | “unfair and prohibits tate commerce, definition of of compe practices. ize governmental | ts the comx co-operative agree- after a hearing, s are reason- mically sound, Senator | s, and will not resuit in price fix g price in | excess of a fair and reasonable figure. | This basis would take into consid- | eration the necessity and | reasonable cc ducers and dist efficiency Prompt Action Not Seen. While the President is said insistent with both Senate and House gommittees tha reorganization proposals 1d be acted upon at the | t se ankly itted that g the to be | But, since the | under considera- | ast laws, un- | fair trade practices and unfair methods | of competition in indus he hopes | that his proposal may be considered by the Department of Justice con- | nection with its own studies, so that | its provisions may be embodied n any | islation prepared along thes> lines. The Brookings Institution report agencies cited the law ng that no money appropriated by Conzress shall k» used for pay- ing any city expert unless spe- | cifically jated for that pur-| pose. | “No specific appropriations for pub- have been made,” the but it is safe to say this an end to any pub- nor has it prevented nnel for that | istration has of anti ap licity acti employme; purpose | The report differentiated between | two types of information service— | public reporting, including annual re- ports, repo on expenditures and re- search repo and publicity activity, which it ‘gathering, writ- | Ing or edit rial for dis- tribution to papers, magazines end nother non-governmental publi- | €ations.” Information Incomplete. The report emphasized it was based on incomplete information, including bnly answers to questionnaires re- teived from agencies operating in the District of Co the | Tennessee Valley re- the in- | Aut on any phase of Administration Works P Zormation services The reports received showed upward of 300 pers emploved, wholly or partly, in publicity work in Washing- ton at salaries ranging up to $5,000 | 8 year, and ti three months | énded September 1936, Federal agencies here released 4794 articles and printed a combined total of §.139,457 copies Publicity expe Yolls under oth port said Furnishing facts is undoubtedly a proper duty of a Government agency.” the report concluded, expendi- ture of over a half million doliars for personal services and ance of 4,- %04 separate releases in four montns geems to indicate that, if poasibl eome controlling mechanism sho: be set up.” g Executive Control Suggested. The report suggested “budgetary gnd administrative control by a su- perior executive authority” as the nost feasible method of keeping *publicity agencies within reasonable limits.” While the Brookings investigators Yeport that “so far as is known tac Government has not made any ex- Penditures for the purchase of radio tithe,” they state that “it has made extensive use of the radio and con- siderable amounts have been spent 1 | connection with the preparation of programs and the manufacture of €lectrical transcripts.” The extensive use of motion pictures also is cited. Recommendation that development find printing of all motion picture films and the awarding of all con- tracts for the making of motion pic- tures be transferred to and central- ized in the Supply Branch of the Di- Yisipn of Procurement in the Treasury Department. for economy and effi- @iency, is made by the institution. There are 125 library units with more than 4,000,000 volumes, in addi- tion to the Library of Congress and the Library of the Government Print- dng OfMce, the report cites. It con- cludes that “after the reorganization of executive agencies is completed it may be worthwhile to consider the library question in the"ight of con- | the least. The local man is a guest-book en- thusiast. He never goes to the fa- mous rural eatery in question with- out scanning the names of those with whom he may be eating at a given moment. The other night the last name on the list was that of Andrew Olsen, Kimberly, Idaho. The Wash- ington man got a big kick out of rais- ing Andrew seven Olsens, whatever his whim may have done to the sanc- ity of the guest book. The fact that the original Olsen in the book might never have seen the list again didn't bother our man in | left a permanent record of an Olsen | reunion which subsequent guest book lookers will see and find touching. * ok % % GUESTS. Incidentally, if Andrew Olsen is curious about such things, the woman of the other party who signed herself “Olga Olsen” (she's a slave to alliteration) is the fa- mous sister of one of Hollywood's most famous divas. The others were a pair of housewives (fancy, not plain), an architect, a successful advertising man, an artist and a columnist. ® % ¥ X WHEN. \\'HATE\'ER other glories they may behold, Larry Lloyd's eyes have seen that of a man who yielded to an impulse to see what would come of | mixing inks of several colors. The possibility that the dignified author of the experiment might sud- ly have gone mad occurred to Mr. | Lloyd, but he could not take his eyes off the chap. He watched the latter | pour ink after ink into & single recep- tacle, a little bit from this bottle, a little from that, until it seemed that business never would get under way again. Finally, however, the thing was fin- ished. “What have you got?" asked Mr. Lloyd. “The most beautiful blue in the world,” said the man, writing his name in the most beautiful blue in the world on a snow-white pad in front of him. * % ox X PROGRAM. \\/'HEN two hostesses take one out- | of-town guest in tow in Wash- inglon, it is likely to be pretty tough on the poor guest. It happened here the other night and, after an hour of the dizziest planning in human his- tory, & curious and pitying listener took the guest aside to ask: “Now do you really know what you are doing Monday?" “‘Sure,” said the guest. “We're going swimming at Smithsonian in the morning, shopping for a dress at Folger in the afternoon, we are having dinner at Corcoran in the evening, and doing whatever they do at the Roadside in the evening ‘But,” he added significantly, “it certainly upsets my old ideas of what was around Washington.” * X ox x REWARD. H. Clark, genial and learned Smithsonian Institution biologist, may now wear the cross of a knight of the Order of Danne- borg, awarded him 10 years ago by the kingdom of Denmark for distinguished services. An American citizen can't ac- cept a foreign decoration without express permission of Congress Congress just got around to it last week. Austin * % ok x FILLER. ATTORNEY GENERAL CUM- MINGS walked into the press room of the Justice Department one recent day chuckling audibly over a newspaper clipping he held in his hand. “Look at this” Cummings said, holding out the clipping, but covering | the end of the story with his thumb. “It is really amusing.” Puzzled re- porters looking over his shoulder read a news item describing status of the Attorney General's anti-trust suit against the Aluminum Co. of America. “That's my story,” confessed one of the men, his face getting redder and redder. “What's wrong with it?” “Look,” said Cummings, and re- moved his thumb. Some printer, trying to fill a hole at the bottom of a column, had added a couple of lines of “filler.” It made the last paragraph of the story read as follows: “Snake venom is sometimes used as a cure for cholera.” “I'm still trying to figure out,” Cummings said as he returned the clipping carefully to his pocket, “just who is meant by the snake. venience, specialization and flexi- bility. Centralization of statistical service is impracticable, the report concludes. House members, meanwhile, mulled over a phase of the reorganization proposal submitted by another com- mittee named by President Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt, in transmitting to Congress the report of his commit- tee, urged that chiet executives be given a larger White House staff. Legislation now before Congress would provide six additional assistant secre- taries. Some House members said today they thought each of the new assistant secretaries should be a $10,000-a-year man, but Chairman Cochran, Demo- crat, of Missouri said recently, how- ever, that $40,000 probably would be enough to pay the entire six. Cochran, in a speech prepared for delivery to the House, said the Repub- lican membership there “has gone out of its way" to oppose ‘wo recommenda- tions of the President for reorganiza- tion, which Cochran contended were “advocated repeatedly by the last Re- publican President in his messages to Congress.” He said he referred to the proposal for a single personnel administrator to replace the Civil ervice Commis- sion and to the recommendation for separating “the administrative aspects of independent regulatory commis- sions, and make these aspects, such as budgeting and personnel, subjeet to the review and supervision by the executive.” He feels that he sort of | INQUIRIES HELD UP FOR RELIEF BILL Steel, lobless Studies Put Aside to Dispose of Meas- ure—Battle Expected. BACKGROUND— Relief appropriation bill has been center of controversy for months as blocs in both Senate and House have fought against $1,500,000,000 request of President. House committee cuts total once, membership later tried to earmark one-third of sum. Administration leadership prevailed, however, and bill went to Senate about as desired. BULLETIN. The Senate approved today a proposed Nation-wide study of un- employment and relief by a com= mission” to be appointed by the President. By the Associated Press. Two Semate inquiries, those of un- employment and relief and of the steel strike situation, were shoved aside to- day to allow disposition of the con- troversial relief appropriation bill. De- | bate is expected to begin tomorrow. | Now calling for $1,500,000,000 as re- quested by President Roosevelt, the measure also carries a committee amendment by which community | sponsors of W. P. A. projects would | be required to advance 40 per cent of their cost. Both of these points are expected to arouse controversy on the Senate floor, while adoption of the latter provision would make certain a new fight in the House, where the bill was passed without any such qualification. | Paul V. Betters, executive director | of the United States Conference of | Mayors, said today the proposal to| shift 40 per cent of the relief hurden to State and local communities would mean “collapse” of the Federal relief policy. Contract Abrogation. Betters declared in a statement that adoption of the proposal would also | mean “abrogation of a contract and pledge entered into by the cities and | States with the Federal Government.” | “Since 1935 it has been accepted | that the proper division of responsi- | bility for meeting the relief problem in this country was that the Federal Government should take care of the | employable relief cases and the cities and States should provide aid to the unemployables,” Betters said. “This | was a contract proposed by the Fed- eral Government itself and accepted by the cities and States. * * * It was what other countries. particularly Eng- land, had found to be a correct solu- tion. | As attention turned to Federal relief | devices, Public Works Administrator | Ickes said today the P. W. A. had | proved that “public works can be used as an effective weapon” against de- pressions. Two More Years Needed. Looking back on four years of P. | W. A. activity, Ickes said he felt the country should be proud of its 25.117 | Projects involving expenditure of $3,- | | 142,554,487 as of May 1. | | He predicted it would take two | more years to complete projects still | under construction, but added that the agency now is “curtailing its activities and husbanding the Nation's credit. Chairman Byrnes, Democrat, of | South Carolina, of the special Senate | committee, said investigation. of un- employment and relief was “indefi- | nite.” The inquiry was urged by | Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New | Mexico | | Representative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas proposed the creation of a permanent unemployment commission to make a study of relief and unem- | ployment In a statement accompanying his legislative proposal, the Texan said | “To continue making large appro- | priations on unemployment without | knowing what we are doing is not only slip-shod and ignorant, but a grave dereliction of duty.” The House tomorrow will debate the $194,000,000 appropriation for flood control, river and harbor projects, Panama Canal operations and other non-military activities of the War | Department. On Thursday, if the way is clear, the House will tak> up a bill to provide a method of impeach- ing Federal judges through some form of “trial board” to be set up by the Supreme Court. Impeackment now reposes alone with the Senate, Services for Col. Keeler Will Be Held at Fort Myer. Funeral services for Lieut. Col. John Patrick Keeler, U. S. A., retired, who died Saturday of wounds received at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, will be held in Fort Myer Chapel at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow. Capt. John F. Monahan will officiate. Burial will be in Ar- lington Cemetery, with full military honors. Authorities at St. Elizabeth’s, where Col. Keeler was a patient, said the wounds apparently were self-inflicted with an instrument fashioned from a metal coat hanger. No verdict has yet been rendered by the coroner. Elected at Bowie. BOWIE, Md., June 14 (Special).— Newly elected Bowie town commis sioners have assumed their duties. They are Willis J. Lancaster, Joseph G. Kline, jr., and Aaron Horwitz. Wil- liam H. Thirles and Steele McGrew, present commissioners, were defeated. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: May take up $1,500,000,000 relief bill, Joint, Labor Committee resumes ‘wage-hour hearings. House: Considers District legislation. Interstate Commerce Committee holds hearings on amending commu- | | nications act. TOMORROW. Senate: Relief bill due for consideration on floor. Joint committee resumes hearing on wage and hour bill, 10 a.m. House: Considers War Department appro- priation bill. Flood Control Committee considers projects for Ohio and Upper Mississippi River, 10 am. - Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee begins public hearings on “water carrier” bill, 10 am. Subcommittee of District Commit- tee resumes hearings on bill providing for retirement of judges of Police, Municipal and Juvmue Courts, 10 a.m. EXCE o Pickets at the Franklin plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., at Johnstown, Pa., Five were injured before police dispersed the combatants. (Story on Page A-1). shown battling yesterday with non-strikers. | —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ABORBOARDCITES . L. Pack, 80, Dies n Nete Won Fame as Conserva NLAND STEEL FIRM Complaint Charges Refusal to Bargain, Coercion. Hearing Set June 21. B3 the Associated Press, The Labor Relations Board today ' had announced issuance of a com- plaint against the Inland Steel Co., charging refusal to bargain with the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee. The citation accuses the company | of refusing to sign an agreement cov- ering hours, wages and working con- ditions. A hearing on the charges will be held in Chicago June 12. The board also complained that the | steel company promoted a labor or- ganization among employves known as Steel Workers' Independent Union and interfered with employe self-organiza- | | tion. The latter charge said the com- pany warned its workers aga join- ing outside unions. The S. W. O. C is an affiliate of the John L. Lewis Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. The complaint contends these com- pany acts resulted in strikes at Inland plants at Indiana Harbor, Ind, and Chicago Heights, Ill. The strikes were called May and are still in effect. of emploves of the two | plants, the board said, have designated the S. W. O. C. as their representative for collective bargaining The complaint declared that the S. W. O. C. asked the company on June 8 to fix a date for bargaining negotiations Jooking toward a signed contract. works manager, replied that the com- pany would be willing to meet with | S. W. O. C. representatives, but “did not propose to make a signed contract.” By its actior company ‘“has shown that of the terms proposed by the S. W. O. C, it would not enter into a signed agreement.” Negotiations with the unon, the board added, have been con- ducteq “in bad faith.” SS RATE CASE JUDGMENTS UPHELD Paper Mills Win Point in U. S.| Court of Appeals Here. The United States Court of Appeals affirmed today five judgments totaling approximately $96,000, representing excess charges by railroads over a period of years on clay shipped from North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia to paper mills in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The dispute between the paper com- panies and the railroads began more than seven years ago. In 1930, the Interstate Commerce section of the country were excessive and ordered the railroads, which in- cluded a large number of the major carriers in the section, to make repa- rations. After a rehearing, the commission | affirmed its order in 1933. It was necessary, however, to sue in District Court to enforc® the order. The rail- roads appealed from judgments ob- tained there by the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., the Caftanea Paper Co., the New York & Pennsylvania Co., the | D. M. Bare Paper Co. and the Empire | Floor & Wall Tile Co. The principal point raised on appeal | was that the I. C. C. established lower rates from the Southern clay areas to Central United States than to the Eastern seaboard, and that the reason was it took into consideration the ele- ment of water competition on the Atlantic Coast. The roads contended consideration of competition furnished by water transportation was improper. The Court of Appeals said there was nothing in the record to show the commission considered water compe- tition. BOAT REPORTED SEIZED Boviet Patrol Stops Japanese Ship, | Tokio Hears. TOKIO, June 14 (#).—The Domei (Japanese) News Agency said today in a dispatch from Sapporo that a Soviet patrol boat had seized the Japanese training ship Osharo Maru, which belongs to the Hakodate Fish- eries School. The report said the ship was seized June 10, 9 miles off the west coast of Kamchatka Peninsula on a charge of violation of Soviet territorial waters, and thag the captain and crew were arrested. Kamchatka Peninsula is s part of siber It addeq that J. H. Walsh, | . the board said. the | regardless | Commission | found that the rates to the Eastern | Advised Planting of Gardens to Help Win World War. Charles Lathrop Pacx, 80, founder and president of the American Tree | Association, died today in Doctor's Hospital, New York, following an emergency operation, it was announced at the organization's headquarters at 1214 Sixteenth street. | Mr. Pack, whose home was in Lake- wood, N. J., is remembered by many as the man who told them to help win the World War by planting gar- dens. | Mr. Pack wrote the “War Garden Primer” and conducted a publicity campaign which was estimated to have inspired 3.000,000 new gardens the idea being to permit usual food supplies to flow to the Army and Navy | in Europe. A former Cleveland banker, Mr. Pack had been a leader in forest con- | servation work since the days of Presi- | dent Theodore Roosevelt. | Funeral services, the association | said, would be held Wednesday morn- ing at Lakewood. He will be buried in a spot of his own choasing in the Chades Lathrop Pack Demonstration Forest, which skirts the Hudson River near Warrensburg, N. Y | Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Alice | Gertrude Pack: two sons. Randolph | G. and Arthur N. Pack, and a dsugh- | | ter, Beulah Pack of Lakewood, N. J., and two sisters, Mrs. Amos McNairy, Manchester, Vt, and Mrs. Philip Ashton Rollins of Princeton. To make the American people “forestry-minded” was Mr. Pack's ambition and life work. “All weaith comes from the soil” he once told | his friend. the late John Hays Ham- | mond. “and this country must realize that fact and save the soil and thus perpetuate the wealth that soil pro- duces. | War Garden Primer. His first primer was the war gar- den primer and the next the forestry primer. His tree-planting books, given away by thousands to mark the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington and another to mark the sesquicentennial of the formation of the Constitution, are widely known. He gave away 3,000,000 war garden primers and the free distribution of the forestry primer has now reached 4,300,000 copies. Mr. Pack did not believe the United States could keep out of the World War and believed food would win that war. Some months before President Wilson went before Congress and de- clared war, Mr. Pack organized the National War Garden Commission to distribute his War Garden Primer. At the end of the war Mr. Pack again turned his attention to forestry education. As a result, Great Brit- ain, France, Belgium and Italy will| be largely reforested with American | trees. Remembering the success of the war | garden army Pack organized the tree | planting army. Through the Amer- 1 an Tree Association, with headquar- ters here Pack called upon the schools, Scout organizations, women's clubs, civic societies and everybody else to plant a tree and register the action | on the national honor roll of the | American Tree Assoclation. Dedicated Primer to C. C. C. One edition of the Forestry Primer Pack dedicated to the C. C. C. and the last one, marking the 60th an- niversary of the first step in forestry by the Government, he dedicated to the memory of Franklin B. Hough. | the Nation's first forest agent in 1876. Under Pack’s direction, the asso- ciation also published the Forestry News Digest containing up-to-date news on forestry. This is distrin- uted free. Before retiring from business Pack was an organizer of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and one of iis early presidents. The span of his business activities reached from a Michigan lumber town, where he knew Thomas A. Edison as & “news butcher” on a train, to becoming orc of the leading citizens of Cleveland, where Pack organized the Cleveland Trust Co. He also spent some time in Asheville, N. C., where Pack Square and Pack Library are named for his father. Born at Lexington Mich., May 7, 1857, son of George Willis and Fran- ces (Farman) Pack, Charles Lathrop Pack’s first paternal American an- cestor was George Pack (1634-1704), who emigrated from England and set- tled near Elizabeth, N. J., and was one of the original founders of Elizabeth Town. Studied in Germany. Educated in Brooke School, Cleve- land, Pack went abroad to study for- estry in Germany. On his return he | spent several years in explorations throughout Canads, Northwest Louis- ians and Mississippi, and was among 3 | 1916 to 1922, he was president of the | | | tionist the first to discover that the yellow pine forests of the South were im-| mune from injury by forest fires } ‘With Walter Hines Page. Dr. Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University and | others, he organized the National Con- servation Congress and was elected | president of the Congress in 1913 and | re-elected the following year. From American Forestry Association and | was a director of that organization for | a longer period. Mr. Pack held many honorary de- grees. The Societe Nationale d'Ac- climatation de France awarded him | its grand medal of honor in 1919. The | same year the National War Garden Commission bestowed the great medal upon him while the National Institute of Social Sciences gave him its Libe: Bervice Medal and France the decora- tion of La Merite Agricole. Mr. Pack was chairman French Agricultural Committee and the American Committee for De- vastated France and in 1915-1918 was president of the World Court League. the aim of which was the creation of | a court of justice of nations to adjudi- cate international controversies and make war impossible. Established Forestry Trust. He established the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry trust (1927) with funds | to be used for any purpose which | promotes progress in forestry, the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation at Yale (1930), the Charles Lathrop Pack Forest Education Board (1930) and the George Willis Pack Forestry Foundation at the University of Michigan (1930). Through these | and other agencies he donated | demonstration forests to Syracuse, | Yale, Cornell, Washington and Michi- | of the | gan Universities, provided numerous | scholarships in forestry, and endowed 12 colleges with funds prizes for forestry. He was a life member of the Amer- ican Scenic and Historic Presgrvation | Soclety and was & member of the New | Jersey Conservation Development | Commission and of President Hoover's | Timber Conservation Board (1930). | He was a member, also, of the Society | of Colonial Wars, the order of De- scendants of Colonial Governors, the | Royal Geographic Society (fellow), | the Royal Philatelic Society, the | Royal Arboricultural Society of Eng- | land and the Beta Theta Psi Fra- ternity. Trustee of the Walter Hines Page Memorial School of Interna- tional Relations, member of the Board of Institute of International Educa- tion, business trustee of the Tropical Research Foundation, honorary mem- | ber of the Society of American For- esters, National Institute of Social Sciences, Ohio Society, American Uni- versity Union in Europe, Royal Scot- tish Arboricultural Society. He long had been an enthusiastic collector of stamps. His specialized | collection of Canadian “cent” issues, 1868-9, includes more than 2,000 | stamps. He won many international | prizes in philately, including Craw- ford medal England (1923); Hinden- burg medal Germany (1926); Col- lectors’ Club medal, New York (1924), and was known the world over as one of the leading collectors and students. H:s clubs included Union, Cleveland; Union League, Lotus, National Arts, New York; Country Club, Lakewood, N. J.; Authors, London and National Press Club, this city. Miss Gibbs to Speak. GLEMN DALE, Md., June 14 (Spe- cial)—Miss Maude Gibbs, Prince Georges County schools supervisor, will speak at closing exercises of Glenn Dale School tonight in St. George's Hall. Those to receive certificates are Thomas Marcos, Charles Rifenbark, Vingenza Cipriano, Michael Cipriano, Donald Shutz, Donald Lamphier, Edith De Priest, Peggy Murphy, Richard Bradford, Harold Simpeon, Carol Darow :'d Wilson Darrow, for annual | essays and articles on | Suvich Transfers Note Ex- | By the Associated Press | United States. 'POSTAL DRIVE HITS ALY ANNOUNCES .. BT DEFAULT pressing “Polite Regret” Over Inability to Pay. Italy defaulted again today on semi-annual war debt payment to the | It amounted to $81,- its 978.163 Ambassador \ t mitted to the State Department note from his government ex ing “polite regret” over its continued | inability to meet the war-time obliga- | tion. The note said Ttaly was unable at this time to advance any proposal looking toward a possible future se tlement. The war debt i ments from European countries fall due tomor- | row. They total $1.500.000.000 . Besides Italy, Latvia and Yugo- slavia already have defaulted Only Finiand, owing $163.143 announced its intention of promptly as usual. Al countries have been in defaul 1933. Recent expressions in France and An; 2 ess- n: ; | of | arts degrees at Dartmout CONNELLEY EAGER FORPARSONS AGE Ace of G-Men Sleuths Heads Agents Waiting at Stony Brook. the Associated Press STONY BROOK, N. Y, Jun The will-o-wisp of the G-men, spector Earl J. Connell for the word that w the hunt he likes best fugitive kidnaper. Dapper, slight, silent, the ace oper= ative of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation has been “i the kul” of almost every major case of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since Melvin Purvis resigned n years ago. He heads a squad of ag by in this the missing Alice Parse gotiate for her release It was Connelley who flew when the Weyerhauser boy was Kic naped. Barlier he led a squad Federal agents to a y gravel near Chicag U lime-inc ton to officially end r mob. e In- v, 15 waited send him on —the trail of & ons seek o0 Saattle p John Hamil- ne saga of zed around a welil- hidden cottage Fl “Ma” ker and her boys f to the death. Connelley w firing line Federal agents sprung well-pla traps in half a dozen ci Nation to arrest members Barker-Karpis gang—and at almost eve Connelley appeared as the spokesman for the G-men. fast travel a silent the mustached, well-atti won his sobriquet as 5 his surprising widely separated paris Almost every ar pearance—usually the operative trate #Is by airplane—is followed by a flurry f official activities and the jailing of another of J. Edgar Hoover's list of public enemies Inspector Connelley i in the best Bureau of Investigatio; 0 comment,” is & frequently expression as he answers qu about the progress of likes to let his record of arrests speax for him. Soft s a dozen he can beat t draw if necessa Fireworks are frequent in the work the G-men. And spector Connelley who i of ces § of the country shuns ons of pud- {DARTMOUTH GRADS LIST SIX FROM D. C. Chevy Chase, Md., Senior Is Sev- enth From Area to Win Bachelor Degrees. Six Washingtonians were amonz the 490 seniors receiving bachelor of h College ex- ercises today. The six are Charles M. Adams, 391 Great Britain—the largest debtors— of hope that something might be done | soon about a possible settlement of | the war debt problem have not been | followed as vet by any official action. | The United States has voiced its| willingness to consid® any refunding | proposal. | Of tomorrow's total $205.338,- 754 is the regular semi-annual in- stallment and $1,314.821.109 repre- | sents payments in arrears Advances by U. S. ‘The debt represents advances this Government for the purchase here of munitions, clothing and food by the various countries after the World War. It will amc to $22.000,000.000 with accumulated interest and principal at the end of the 62-year period of payments estab- lished in the original funding agree- ments, Before the general default began, payments to this country on the total debt had amounted to $2,602,385.400. | Apprehension regarding the finan- cial condition of Germany, on whose reparations payments most of the debtor nations counted to pay their obligations to the United States. prompted President Hoover to declare a moratorium in 1931. ‘This postponed payment during the fiscal vear 1932 and apportionad the deferred payments over a 10-year period. Total Amounts Due. The following table shows the total amounts due from the debtor nations on June 15: Country. Belgium Czechoslovakia Estonia Finland Due June 15 - $56,657 631 163,143 700,850 871,815,601 416,433 81,978,163 1419144 Lithuania 1,231,760 Poland Rumania Yugoslavia 7,390,000 1,875,000 INSURANCE RACKET “Liberal" Life Policies Often Nul- lified by Exceptions, Depart- ment Says. Charging that “fake” protection organizations mutual life are costing the public hundreds of thousands of | dollars annually, the Post Office De- partment today announced that a vigorous campaign was being under- taken against. these througn Postal Inspection Service. A department announcement that .complaints indicate there are about 100 of these groups which pur- port to offer liberal “insurance,” and that their fraudulent nature always | is determined too late. ‘The promoters, it was explained. take advantage of the fact that very few persons read their certificates, “particularly the fine print on the | inside containing many exceptions | and limitations,” and it is these that | nullify any obligation of the organi- zation. i Miss Marbury Graduates. LAUREL, Md., June 14 (Special).— Among the graduates of Bryn Mawr College this year was Miss Anne Tasker Marbury, daughter of Ogle Marbury, counsel to the Prince Georges county 46,173,107 | the | said | Bryant street: Hen F. Broadben ir. 1427 Hemlock street; George S. Elmore, 3601 Connecticut avenue: Joseph W. Kiernan, 1213 M avenue: W. m V. Pettengi Yard, and Eric Rafter avenue. was gradu class s a member of e Glee Club, Casque and Gau r Society and Psi Upsilon Fra- e graduates was 110 East Bradley Chevy Chase, Md., who former led the McKinley High School Dartmouth he was a Phi Beta | Kappa student and a member of German Club and now en: in the Amos Tuck School of Adminis- tration and Finance. INVESTMENT TRUST CURB INDICATED |S. E. C. May Ask Congress to | Forbid Corporations Becoming | Holding Companies. By the Assoctated Press Securities Commission officials Indi- cated today they may ask Congress s0on to forbid investment trusts be- coming holding companies This. it was explained, might be done by putting a percentage limitation on the investments in other companies David Schenker the investment | | | last week's study of the ®oldman Sachs | Trading Corp. to the effects of ity | ownership of controlling interests in 1929 in a $1.694.494.103 empire of banks, investment companies, real estate firms, a lic ut a bus company, a barge line, department stores and a salmon fishery He contended the cor ligations to its possessions made more difficult to weather the 1029 crash, and claimed it lost 90 per cent of its capital in three years. An indication of the com attitude on investment trusts was seen in Schenker's frequent comparison of investment trusts with mutual savings banks. Investment trusts usually are formed with the idea that they enable small investors to pool their savings in a common fund for investment in diversified securities under expert ad- vice and thus make safer and more profitable investments than if they operated individually ration's ob- ission’s UTILITY PLANS APPEAL INBUZZARD ROOST CASE Charlotte Newspaper Reveals Duke Power Co. to Continue Fight on Project. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTE, N. C. June 14—The Charlotte News says attorneys for the Duke Power Co. hade begun preparation of an appeal from a rul- ing of Federal Judge J. Lyles Glenn holding the Public Works Administrae tion may provide funds for construce tion of a hydro-electric project at Buzzard Roost. The power company objected to the construction of the $2,700,000 proj= ect on the grounds it was not nece essary venture and would hurt pri= cogimissioners, and Mrs. Marbury. She r;vtd high I . ‘m enterprise. A