Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional rain followed by clearing and colder this afternoon and tonight; tomorrow, fair and colder. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 47, at 3 p.m.; lowest, 25, at 6 am. Full report on page A-2. ) Means Associated Pre No. 1,707—No. 34,186. " FARM BLL DEBATE CURBED AS SENATE SEEKS EARLY VOTE Leaders Hope for Passage This Week, but Recommit- ment Is Possible. SUBSTITUTES EXEMPTED FROM LIMIT ON TALKS King Denounces Measure, Declar- ing It Will Make Wallace “a Dictator Over the Farmer.” BACKGROUND— Legislation to help the farmer is the most important item on the legislative calendar of the special . session of Congress, but with only two weeks left the farm bill is far Jrom becoming law. One of the principal stumbling blocks has been the question of financing, with the President threatening by implica- tion to veto the measure if it is to cost more than half a billion dol- lars, unless means of raising the additional revenue are provided. By the Associated Press. The Senate wound up two weeks of wordy debate on the farm bill yester- day by agreeing to limit future speech- making on the measure. By motion of Majority Leader Bark- ley, & unanimous consent agreement was reached to cut debate on amend- ments to the bill to 15 minutes for each speaker, with 20 minutes allowed on the bill itself. Senators will be permitted to speak only once on each amendment and only once on the bill. . Senator Barkley told the Senate that the two weeks of debate had given |. full opportunity for discussion and that it was desirable to avoid any un- necessary further delay. Lee’s Substitute Exempted. A substitute farm program proposed by Senator Lee, Democrat, of Okla- homa was exempted from the debate limitation agreement, after the Okla- homan had protested that he had no opportunity for a full discussion of his measure. His bill differs from the pending Agriculture Committee meas- ure in that it would be entirely volun- tary. Senator Barkley agreed to exempt any other substitutes that may be of- fered. He also said the limitation would not apply to any motion to send the farm measure back to the Agri- sulture Committee. The agreement will go into effect fomorrow afternoon. Vote Possible This Week. Democratic leaders expressed hope that the bill would pass the Senate this week. There was sentiment, however, for recommitting the farm bill to the Ag- riculture Committee for further study. Benators favoring this move argued that objections to the legislation raised by Secretary Wallace could be more #xpeditiously met by committee action. With the House in recess until to- morrow, the Senate yesterday heard Benator King, Democrat, of Utah de- nounce the pending farm bill as a “‘monstrous measure” which “will make the Secretary of Agriculture a dicta- tor over the farmer.” “We will have a Stalin,” King shouted. “I have never seen more power concentrated in a Government agency. If this keeps on we won't have a republic any longer—we will have & one-man Government.” Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan broke in to compare the fpolicies of President Roosevelt with Bhose of President Vargas of Braszil. Quoting newspaper reports telling of the dissolution of Brazilian po- litical parties and the burming of Bra- mlian state flags, Senator Vanden- berg said: “That is very interesting in the Sight of the fact that when the dis- tinguished President of the United Btates visited Rio de Janeiro on his good neighbor journey last year, ac- .cording to the New York Times, he said that two people invented the New Deal—the President of Brazil and the President of the United States.” Senator King said the farm bill was A part of a “movement on foot to soncentrate: power in the hands of the Federal Government and make the States mere geographical expres sions.” Would Revamp Taxes. The Utah Senator said Congress should act during the special ses- sion to revamp the controversial un- distributed profits and capital gains taxes. He said that this would aid in ar- resting the business recession, and would end “the fear that is gripping business and, the laboring man.” ‘The House Agriculture Committee has agreed to support an amendment to the farm bill which would deprive the Secretary of Agriculture of dis- cretionary power to apportion the $500,000,000 annual soil conservation benefit payments among commodities, 5,000 CAPITAL FANS TO SEE REDSKINS Five Special Trains Will Camry Them to New York for Title Game. More than 5,000 Washington foot- bell fans will invade mYork City today to see the Wash Redskins battle the New York Gisnts this afternoon for the Eastern division championship of the National Pro- fessional Football League. Five special trains were scheduled to begin leaving Union Station at 7:50 s.m. to carry most of the Capital fans. Approximately 5,000 tickets for the Entered a. second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Mixing Adults he WASHINGTON, D. C, and Children At Glenn Dale Is Upheld Advisers Back Dr. Ruhland, but He Will Make No Change Pending ‘Ruling’ BACKGROUND— Criticism of Gallinger Hospital and Glen Dale Tuberculosis Sana- torium operations has resulted in Health Department requesting counsel of Advisory Committees and United States Public Health Service in eflorts to improve and co-ordinate entire District health program. Hospital administration was transferred to Health Depart- ment from Board of Public Welfare last July. ‘The Tuberculosis Advisory Commit- tee of the Health Department last night upheld Health Officer George C. Ruhland’s action in housing adult and child patients in the same build- ing at Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sana- torium as “in the best interests of the community.” i The committee was called in by Dr. Ruhland to review the Glenn Dale situation after charges that treatment of communicable adult cases in the children’s bullding involved dangers of cross-infection had caused him to revoke his original policy last Satur- day and order separate housing of the by Seal. adults and children pending final settlement of the controversy. Despife the committee report, Dr. Ruhland said last night he would make no immediate ‘change in the revised /policy. He said he would await a ruling from Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal on legal problems involved, and probably the completion of a survey by the United States Pub- lic Health Service of general health conditions in the District before de- termining his final action. Predicting that “much good” would come from the Public Health Service survey, Dr. Ruhland moved to co- ordinate all the current studies of the municipal hospital situation. The health officer announced he had invited representatives of the Federal agency, the District Medical Society and other groups which are studying the health program to meet with him next Friday at 10 am. to outline plans for co-operation. The Federal survey will go into all phases of the Health Department factlities and services and is expected (See HOSPITAL, Page A-4.) TAX QUIZ PLEDGED IFHOOVER DESIRES U. S. Will Act if Former President Believes He Has Been Persecuted. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau yesterday promised a “most searching investiga=- tion” if former President Hoover “be- lieves that he has been harassed or improperly dealth with” by revenue agents. . The Treasury Secretary said a com- plaint from any other taxpayer, “whether prominent or obscure,” would result in a similar inquiry. “If I find that there has been perse- cution, I shall see that the persons responsible for it are dismissed from the Government service,” Secretary Morgenthau said in a formal state- ment. Prof. William Starr Myers of Princeton University has been quoted as saying Mr. Hoover's income tax returns have been investigated for three weeks “to try to get something on him.” M!ecxetuy Morgenthau said he did know whether Mr. Hoover's tax returns had been sudited in recent years, “but it would be a surprising omission if they had not been.” Text of Statement Given “A high proportion of the returns of persons having taxable income have been examined and audited in that time,” he said. ‘The Secretary said “no stigma what- ever was attached to the mere investi- gation of a taxpayer’s return, The text of the Morgenthau state- ment follows: “The routine examination and audit of the income tax returns of promi- nent persons seems often to evoke sur- prise and concern among those who are ignorant of the ordinary procedure of Federal tax collection. “Persons of a suspicious turn of mind may at once conclude that perse- cution is involved if the individual whose returns have been investigated in the usual course is a political oppo- nent of the administration. This con- clusion is illustrated by statements attributed by today’s newspapers to Prof. William Starr Myers of Prince- ton University as to investigation of the tax returns of former President Hoover. Many Examined and Audited. “I do not know whether Mr. Hoover’s tax returns have been audited ‘within the last four years, but it would be a surprising omission if they had not been. A high proportion of the returns of persons having taxable income have been examined and audited in that time. “The revenue agents of the Treas- ury Department investigate many (See HOOVER, Page A-16.) LUDENDORFF BETTER In No Immediate Peril, Says Ger- man War Leader. MUNICH, Dec. 4 (#)—Gen. Erich Ludendorf!, seriously ill of a bladder infection, today was reported by his physicians to have taken a distinct turn for the better. Physicians said the German World ‘War leader’s mind wag lucid and that he was in no immediate danger. 500,000 MAIL THEFT BAFFLES' OFFICERS ‘Almost Perfect Crime’ May Be ‘Very Simple,” Police Declare. (Picture on Page A-2.) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Crack sleuths of Uncle Sam’s famed Post Office In- spection Service tonight grimly sought & clue that would lead to the solution of “an almost perfect crime”—the theft without violence of $50,000 worth of registered mail from a double- locked truck in transit. “We'll find out how it was done,” said Inspector James J. Doran. “When we do, it will turn out to be very sim- ple.” Here is the mystery he was trying to .solve: In New York's great general post office behind Pennsylvania Station three men, all trusted postal employes, checked and double-checked packages of registered mail, destined for small cities in New Jersey, as they were put into ‘s standard truck. Truck Doubly Locked. In the glare of floodlights, under the eyes of vigilant guards, the list was checked off. The thre¢ men closed the iron truck doors, slammed up the heavy tailboard, ran through an iron- lock bolt, and on its end, fastened a Government padlock. There were only two known keys for that lock—one was in Pennsylvania Station, the other in the Lackawanna Terminal at Hoboken. In the bags in the truck were many registered parcels—in one little sack was $7,000 in currency, en route from the Federal Reserve Bank in Phila- delphia to a small Pennsylvania bank —in another, & $400 piece of jewelry. In other packages addressed to banks, business firms and individuals were packets of money, of checks, of se- curities, some negotiable, mostly non- negotiable. Easy Run to Ferry. ‘The truck had an easy five or ten minute run across the dark and gloomy West Side streets—old lair of the famed Hudson Dusters gang—to make the 9 o'clock ferry at Twenty-third street and the Hudson River. But at Twenty-ninth street and Tenth avenue a freight train pulled slowly by. The postal truck waited— exactly four minutes by the wrist watches of the impatient three men in the armored front compartment. When the train had rattled past, the truck sped on, made the ferry, and the men got out to stretch their legs. The cautious railway mail clerk looked behind the truck. The undamaged padlock—open— was hanging at the end of its chain. Eleven sacks were missing. Five of the eleven sacks, four of which contained registered mail, were found, stuffed into burlap sugar bags along with discarded, looted letters, floating in the East River, on the other side of Manhattan, yesterday, by an unemployed fisherman. ‘The other known facts are few: The three employes are not under suspicion, although they admittedly may be mistaken in believing the padlock was securely fastened. For a Happier Christmas— Secretary. of State Indorses The Star’s Campaign 7 “The Evening Star, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Parent-Teacher Auoclntlim, the National Broadcasting Co. and the Warner Bros.’ theaters, in undertaking to collect donations of food, clothing and gifts for distribu- tion among the less fortunate people in the District, are performing a worthy Christmas deed in which we can all share, “Many of us, absorbed as we aref§ in our daily round of activity, are apt to forget our neighbors, and it seems to me that by contributing to this cause we have a great opportu- nity to bring cheer to those who -most| need it. “Sincerely yours, “CORDELL HULL, “Secretary of State.” WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION §16,164102 LEGAL VIGTORY IS WON BY SN O ST Title to Rich Square Mile - in Elk Hills Confirmed Along With Damages. $1,654,766 IS ALLOWED FOR TAXES AND EXPENSE Case Hinged on Mineral Status at Time of 1903 Survey—Stand- ard to Appeal. By the Associated Press. FRESNO, Calif., Dec. 4—The Gov- ernment won a $16,000,000 legal vic- tory over the Standarc Oil Co. of California today when Federal Judge Leon R. Yankwich confirmed its titie to a fabulously rich square mile of 1and in the Elk Hills petroleum field. Besides the land, which was valued at $10,000,000, the court ordered the company to pay the Government $6, - 164,102.42 as damages inflicted by years of oil drilling there. The Government had asked $7,818,- 868.63 in addition to the title, but Judge Yankwich held the company was entitled to a credit of $1,654,- 766.21 for paying taxes and other ex- penses incidental to operations. Company to Appeal. Company officials announced the decision would be appealed. The case was decided on a single issue—whether the land was known to be mineral bearing when it was surveyed in 1903 prior ,to its being conditionally turned over by the Gov- ernment to the State as school land. The tract, known as section 36, went into private hands when the State began selling school land to settlers, Standard Oil bought it piecemeal from the settlers in 1908 and thereafter. The company as- serted it was not until 1911 that oil was found “within many miles of section 36.” Part Retained as Naval Reserve. When Elk Hills blossomed into a potential rich oil field the Government retained other domain sections there- in as a naval petroleum reserve, which eventually figured in the leasing Scandal centering about former In- terior Secretary Albert B. Fall. In 1914 the Government's General Land Office started a move to reclaim section 36, but Fall dismissed the pro- ceedings without determining the title on the mineral-bearing issue. A sec- ond attempt was made and Interior Becretary Harold L. Ickes in 1935 held in favor of the Government. Standard Ol resisted the Ickes nndrttn‘ and the Government went to court, QUIZZED ON PHOTOS NEAR NAVAL PLANES Oriental Discovered Making Pic- tures During Air Maneuvers at Miami Airport. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 4—An Oriental whose identity was not disclosed was Questioned by Federal Bureau of In- vestigation agents tonight after he was discovered making photographs at Mu- nicipal Airport, where Navy planes were participating in air maneuvers. The man was asked by Capt. H. O. Enwall to submit to questioning and voluntarily accompanied him to a ho- tel, where the F. B. I. agents were summoned. Army officers said Capt. Enwall acted in civilian capacity and the Army had placed no charges against the man. Whether he was Japanese or Chinese was not immedi- ately determined. " KILL BUCK BY ARROWS WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Dec. 4 (P).— Hunting with bows and arrows, Dr. M. G. Colvin of Williamsport and C. O. Samuelson of Cogan Station today killed an 8-point buck that weighed 150 pounds in the special State archery preserve atop North Mountain, about 45 miles from Wil- liamsport. The men hit the deer at a dis- tance of 20 yards. One arrow pierced the lungs and heart of the animal, and it died within two minutes. S0RRY You HAVE ATOOTHACHE, CHIEF, Sunday Star SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1937—138 PAGES. N BUT I'M S0 GLAD You'RE COMING Sergeant Looks for Oculist In M’s, Campbell Pays $100 (Picture on Page A-5.) B3 the Associated Press. KINGSVILLE, Md. Dec. 4.— The magistrate-barber of Kingsville, who doffs his white coat for a black one while sitting on the bench in a cor- ner of his shop, shaved $101.45 today from the bankroll of Alan Campbell, actor-scenarist husband of Dorothy Parker, author and wit. Campbell, in better humor than yesterday when he went to jail rather than pay the fine against himself af- ter paying one of $101.45 for his driver, Louis Bohlman, grinned during the hearing and paid the dne. His attor- ney gave notice of appeal. Magistrate Harry D. Probert, who gets 35 cents for haircuts, 15 cents for shaves and $1.45 costs for hearing speeding cases, found Campbell guilty of allowing his chauffeur to speed 70 miles an hour through a 25-mile zone, despite Campbell's pleas that: He was on his way to Baltimore for treatment for an eye allment, had put “drops” in his eyes, was wearing dark glasses, kept'his eyes closed to avold strain, and couldn't see the speed- ometer. He had never ridden in the light truck before and didn't know “the feel” of it at high speeds. “To test his eyes,” testified Sergt. E. 8. Haddaway, who arrested Camp- bell, “I looked under the M's for | oculists (when Campbell asked that he look up the telephone number of his oculist). “He said: ‘I think you'll have more success if you look under the O's. Then he said he would call informa- tion for the telephone number. That's my case.” “Then,” said the judge, “in your opinion he could see the speedometer.” “Yes. If he could see the M's in the telephone book, I see no reason why he couldn't see the speedometet.” His attorney, E. H. W. Harlan, in- terjected: “It would be a gross mis- | carriage of justice if Campbell were | blamed for taking precautions to pro- tect his eyesight.” “On that basis,” Haddaway put in, “Campbell would be allowed to come through here at any rate of speed when he wanted his eyes treated.” “Not at 100 bucks a throw,” Camp- bell said dryly. Testimony completed, Judge Probert sat in silence for a few minutes, rubbed his chin reflectively and an- nounced: “I find you guilty and fine you $100 and costs.” TIRE SHOT FOL DRIVER'S ESCAPE Detective, Thrown Off Car, Shoots Straight—Chase Ends After 5 Blocks. Fifteen years on the police force have taught Detective Sergt. Howard E. Ogle the value of quick thinking and straight shooting—two attributes he put to good use last night. The story, as related by Sergt. Ogle, follows: He and his partner, Detective L. M. Wilson, were sitting in a police car at Sixth and G streets S.E., shortly before 8 o'clock last night. Their attention was attracted by the screams of & woman in an automobile that drove past them and stopped in the center of the street. Drive Frightened at Badge. Sergt. Ogle got out and walked over to the automobile. As he did so, the right front door swung open and he saw the woman, still screaming, on the front seat. The detective ran around to the other side, but the left-hand door was locked. So he stepped up on the running board and exhibited his badge. The driver took one look, threw his car into gear and sped away. As he did s0, Sergt. Ogle was thrown (See CHASE, Page A-5.) “A Rector Kisses Some Girls—” How Many? Page Einstein! Annual Brain Twister in M. I. T. Alumni Journal , Leads Into Baffling—and Discour- ’ aging—Mathematical Fields. By THOMAS R. HENRY. ASHINGTON alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are on the spot. concerned with such un- tory engineering which is taxing their tratned wits to the utmost. Fortunately—or unfortunately per- haps—certain aspects of the problem are subject to experimental verifica- tion and, purely in the interests of the event by having a tea party to which, besides themselves, only the rector is invited. At this function they all kiss each other, but the rector kisses only those among the girls who are his daughters. There are 109 kisses all told. How many girls were there and how many were daughters of the rector?” In just that form the problem seems innocent enough—and probably not very difficult for & competent mathematician. It's lucky the good Tector didn't kiss any girls except his daughters. Very slight variations soon carry it far beyond the poesibilities of integral calculus, The assumption must first be made that one kiss doesn’t mean two kisses, and even rectors some times have been known to be addicted to the two- ROSS, CONVICTED, 10 FIGHT VERDICT _Facing 10-Year Sentence, Davidson Killer Is Taken to Fredericksburg. By a Staff Correspondent ot The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Dec. 4 — Walter L. Ross, 17-year-old marine who was convicted at Stafford Court- house this aftermoon of second-de- gree murder in the slaying of Elmer J. Davidson, Washington, D. C., at- torney, was brought to the Fred- ericksburg Jail late today and will be held there while his attorneys fight the verdict, which prescribed a 10- year prison sentence. A motion by Frank P. Moncure, chief of the defense legal staff, to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and evidence will be heard at a later date, Judge Frederick W. Coleman advised counsel. The trial judge ordered young Ross held here during the 60-day period granted the defense for its appeal. ‘The slender marine heard the jury pronounce his conviction with no show of emotion. He had main- tained his self-assured air through- out the trial and up until the time of the jury’s return about 3:20 p.m. The jury had deliberated 58 mlnuoes. before reaching a verdict. 10 Years’ Punishment. Jury Foreman St. Clair Brookg read this decision of the nine farmers, & merchant, a stone mason and a county supervisor: “We, the jury, find the within (See ROSS, Page A-8.) San Francisco Shaken. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (#).—A slight earthquake was felt in the out- lying residential districts here at 7:09 am. (10:09, E. S. T.) today. Residents reported they felt an- other shock, somewhat stronger, about 7:19 Supreme Court Sympathy for Toy Campaign The - justices of the Supreme Court, with characteristic magnanimity, yes- terday demonstrated their sympa with the aims of The Star’s Christmas Full Associated Press - News and Wirephotos Sunday - Morning and POLICE BUILDING FUNDS APPROVED Budget Bureau Also Favors Re-Establishing Second Precinct Set-Up. BACKGROUND— District budget for nert fiscal vear ending June 30, 1939, has been subject of ertended hearings be- fore Bureau of the Budget and goes officially to Congress with President’'s budget message a few days after Congress convenes Jan- uary 3. A House subcommittee in charge of District appropriations already is considering next yeer’s needs, however. Funds for beginning construction of & new building for the Police De- partment and to re-establish the old second police precinct have been ap- proved by the Budget Bureau, it was learned yesterday after the House sub- committee in charge of District ap- propriations inspected sites of the two projects. The subcommittee, headed by its chairman, Representative Collins, Democrat, of Mississippi, also in- spected several proposed school and playground sites, as well as the old Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur streets N.W. the old Police Court Building at Sixth and D streets N.W., and the retaining wall around McKinley High School at Second and T streets northeast, which has bulged in one section. The new police headquarters build- ing, estimated to cost about $1,000,000, is to be located on property in vicinity of John Marshall place and C streets N.W, which the District acquired some years ago as part of the munici- pal center site. To Shift Woman’s Bureau. Re-establishment of the old second precinct is to be done at a minimum of cost. Plans contemplate shifting the Woman’s Bureau of the Police De- partment, now located in the old sec-' ond precinct station on Fifth street, between M and N streets N.W. to the old Police Court Building, which is to be vacated as soon as the new building in Judiciary Square is com- pleted. The budget, it is understood, will provide funds for remodeling both of the old buildings and allow Police Superintendent Ernest W. Brown a moderate increase in the police force to staff the new precinct. For several years, both Maj. Brown and the Commissioners have urged re- establishment of the old second pres cinct, which was consolidated with the old eighth precinct during the admin- istration of the late Commissioner Crosby. Police statistics show the present second precinct is the “crime center” of the District. By splitting it, officials believe the territory can be more effectively patroled. Boundaries of Precinct. The second precinct now covers the area lying between North Capitol street on the east, Fourteenth street on the west, K street on the south and Florida avenue on the north. Its original boundaries before merger with the old eighth precinct were North Capitol street on the east, Seventh street on the west, K street on the south and Florida avenue on the north. These boundaries probably will be retained wher the precinct is re-established. The budget estimates, it was said, will not allow more than 25 additional policemen, but members of the Ap- (See BUDGET BUREAU, Page A-16.) Demonstrates if they wish. Mr. Green will super- vise the Supreme Court division of the Christmas campaign under the gen- eral guidance of the justices them- selves. The placing of the posters in the Supreme Court Building is & part of the drive to enlist the support of on, | all men and women on the Federal pay rolls to this campaign of giving— toys, food, clothing, money—so that nowhere in Washington this Christ- mas will there be a house lacking in Christmas cheer. ‘Thomas Burke, ‘chief of the spe- cialties division of the Buerau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, De- partment of Commerce, is the co- ordinstor of the Government division (8es TOY OAMPAIGN, Page A-3) Every Afternoon. TEN CENTS SFEWHFRE NEW WAGE-HOUR DRAFT COMPLETED BY A.F. L. COUNCIL Would Provide 40-Cent Min- imum and. Maximum 40-Hour Week. GREEN HITS ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY OF SOUTH Peace Conferees to Resume Delib- erations December 21, but Outlook Seems Dark. BACKGROUND— Despite opposition of American Federation of Labor and lukewarm indorsement of C. I. O., the wage and hour bill was dislodged from the House Rules Committee by petition ajter long struggle for needed signatures. Already passed by Senate, the bill probably will undergo extensive revision in lower body, but few believe it will become law during special session, After hearing and keeping secret the inside story of the break-up of the Lewis-Green labor war conversa- tions, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor com- pleted yesterday the draft of a sub- stitute wage and hour bill for intro- duction in Congress this week. The Federation’s bill would provide & Nation-wide 40-cent-an-hour wage and a maximum 40-hour work week, leaving enforcement to the Depart- ment of Justice and porviding a $100 fine for each violation. The Federation's “distressing experi- ences” with the National Labor Re- lations Board moved the council to oppose setting up any administrator or administrative board as a means of making a wage-hour bill effective. In discussing the proposed legisla- tion intended to make Southern man- ufacturers provide as high a minimum wage as those in the North, East and West, with equal hours, William Green. president of the Federation, strongly criticized the prevailing economic philosophy and practice of the South in a press conference yesterday aft- ernoon. South Has Wrong Idea. “The South has got the wrong idea,” he said, “an idea that ‘because we are in the South, conditions are different and we have the right to take a different stand’ Somebody has got to move them from the rigid position they have assumed and maintained, Somebody has got to persuade South- ern manufacturers that if they are going to sell their goods they must develop a market by increasing pur- chasing power among thelr own people. “As long as they keep wages down to $6 and $8 a week in the South, it will be poverty-stricken. They must choose between poverty and buying power and help industry create a mar- ket in the South for the sale of man- ufactured goods. In this plan you are wiping out the argument of un- fair competition.” Mr. Green was asked if he antici- pated such a wage-hour bill as his executive council had proposed would mean wholesale violations and bring upon the Department of Justice a tremendous problem of enforcement, After expressing the belief that the general run of industrialists were law-abiding, he said it was “reason- able to assume the Government will arrange the necessary machinery to make the law effective.” Proposal Much Simpler. The federation's proposed legisla« tion would be simpler, he argued, than the Black-Connery bill, which provides a five-man board to admin- ister the wage-hour law. In setting 40 hours a week as the maximum, Mr. Green said the federation was not abandoning the policy of seek- ing a 30-hour week, but was merely acknowledging the fact that such a Utopian schedule was not yet prace ticable.’ From the federation's wage-hour bill, agricuitural workers would be exempted. So would air transport pilots, fishermen and several other classifications of workers. The bill would also prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce and the sale of goods produced by child labor or convict labor, One of the first things Mr. Green did upon meeting with his colleagues of the council yesterday morning was to recount his third meeting with Mr. Lewis which ended in a com- plete break-down shortly before 10:30 o'clock Friday night, with no con- clusions arrived at and no recom- mendations decided upon by either leader to make to their embattled labor armies, enrolling almost 4,000,- 000 members each. Peace Outlook Dark. The committees from the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. which had car- ried on exploratory conversations be- fore Messrs. Green and Lewis were brought together will reassemble De- cember 21, but unless there are new developments in the meantime, the outlook for a truce or a peace treaty that would reunite the two factions under one tent seemed to be dark. Mr. Green, who looked unusually glum when he left Mr. Lewis' pres- ence Friday evening, had resumed his usual cheerfulness yesterday. “‘Hope springs eternal,” he remarked. “We will keep on hoping that some- thing will come out of all this.” One of the biggest stumbling blocks in the Green-Lewis conversations, it was learned, was the different terms each man proposed as to the manner in which the C. I. O. unions should return to the A. F. of L. Mr. Green offered an immediate “welcome home™ to the 10 suspended unions which first took & walk with Mr. Lewis, and & similar reception to the two others— the Newspaper Guild and the Fur- riers Union—which later jumped the traces. (Copyright, 1937, by New York Herald Tribune.)