Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1940, Page 2

U.s. Chamber Is Told Spending May Lead To Tax on Savings President of Investment Bankers Sees Government As Monopolizing Capital Believers in a “gigantic and ap- parently perpetual spending-lending program” are manufacturing a “perfect buildup for a tax on sav- ings” the United States Chamber of Commerce was warned today. Emmett F. Connely, president of the Investment Bankers Associa- tion, declared the way to recovery “is to work for resumption of the flow of savings into business enter- prise—savings which are now stag- nating in banks and other reposi- tories. It must be through the reg- ular investment banking mechanism that has proved satisfactory through generations and not through untried methods devised by theoretical gov- ernment planners.” Asserting that the securities law had hampered the free flow of sav- ings into investment through inter- minable red-tape and delay, he said that, according to the “Government- must-do-it boys, if people are al- lowed to save in the future, those savings will be sterile. The saver will be performing a disservice by withdrawing the amount of his sav- ing from the flow of money spent for consumption. There wiil be no means for him to put the money back to work by investing it.” Sees U. S. Governing Loans. The Government, he said, will “take the savings from the people” and use it for the spending-lending | program while the businessman, in- | stead of going to investors te raise | money, “would have to go, hat in hand, to a Government lending agency.” There is “no shorter road,” he asserted, to “state ownership and socialism” than the strong possi- bility that many firms which bor- row from the Government may be foreclosed upon. “The mortgagee at times must take over and op- erate the property. In fact, the plans for the Government banks | that have been outlined suggest that | they would furnish capital through stock investments as well as loans.” | Sees Committee Waste. | The recent questioning of indus- trialists by the Temporary National | Zeonomics Committee on their views | of the need for more capital, he said, was a “shameful waste of tax- | payers’ money to build up a one-| sided case—a case already decided | in the minds of the ‘experts’ who prepared it long before the hearings were started.” The S. E. C,, he declared, should ask Congress to review the securi- ties laws and modify them. The law, he contended, was rushed through “in reckless haste” and ha: a tendency to thwart all enterpris in order to forestall a relatively small amount of fraud. Indicative of the chamber's stand on the administration’s “easy-money policy” was an announcement by the Resolutions Committee that| there will be a discussion from the floor on the President's fiscal poli- | cies. See Burden on Thrifty. ' | “The prolongation of the easy-| money policy which has been im- | posed upon the country for 11 years | is operating to weaken the economic structure at most essential points and this policy should now undergo the gradual but determined correc- ! tion appropriate te so fundemental and all-pervading an influence,” the Resolutions Committee announced. ! “By obscuring the burdens resulting | from a mounting public debt it pro- motes indifference where there is| every reason for grave concern and | shifts burdens to the thrifty. who find the returns from their savings proportionately reduced, and who, in seeking security for their de- pendence, must pay more for pro- tection.” The whole system ings and private threatened, Particularly sion is the bill “which would dis- | mantle the well-established system | of Federal Land Banks with their | principle of borrower participation.” | “That there may be protection | from such proposals in the future, the Farm Credit Administration should be separated from the De- partment of Agriculture and placed under an independent board free from political or other extraneous domination.” | Du Pont Opposes F. C. A. Shift. In the discussion which followed the Resolution Committee's an- nouncement, Lammot du Pont of | Wilmington, president of the Du| Pont Co., declared opposition to sep- arating the Farm Credit Adminis- tration from the Agriculture Depart- | ment. “It sounds to me as if they| would be setting up another board. We already have too many.” Harper Sibley of Rochester, bank- | er and owner of a 15,000-acre farm | in Illinois and former president of | the chamber, declared “all farm or- ganizations are opposed to weaken- ing the farm loan system.” and the Government'’s proposed action would | “jeopardize the system.” Silias H. Strawn, Chicago lawyer end also a former president of. the chamber, declared: “I den't see how any one can resist. this resolution.” There was no further discussion from the floor; Frank Mayfield Speaks. “Business has been greatly at fault in permitting many of the practices of the administration to arise in the last decade” Frank M. Mayfield, president of the Scruggs Vandervort-Barney Dry Goods Co., St. Louis, said. “Dishonesty in high places and the attendant publicity stimulated the movement. Busi- ness lacked a social viewpoint and opposed many reforms. “T think it js easily demonstrable that Government regulations have come most severely in those indus- tries which could not or did not clean their own houses.” Ellsworth C. Alvord, a Washing- ton attorney and tax expert, recom- mended to the chamber’s 28th an- nual meeting the “adoption of a reasonably permanent tax system, designed to remain in force over a period of years” as a solution of tanz problems. “Emergency levies and annual tinkering with the tax laws ghould be avoided,” he de- clared. “We should adopt a stable, equitable revenue system imposing reasonably certain tax lizbilities, at rates designed to promote business activity and expansison and thus to produce maximum revenues over a period *of 1) years.” Mr. Alyord suggested a more effec- tive confol by Conggess of the ex- of private sav- enterprise is the statement declared. | singled out for discus- | & P FORECASTS HEADACHE FOR NEXT PRESIDENT—Charles G. Dawes (right), former Vice President, told members of the United States Chamber of Commerce last night the next Presi- dent will have to fight the “largest army of Government spenders, wasters and patronage-dis- pensing politicians” in history. With Mr. Dawes are Senator George of Georgia (left) and Ches- ter C. Davis, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. —A. P. Photo. ecutive budget. Creation of budget committee in the House and Senate, he believed, could fix ceilings and maximum figures on allowable ex- penditures for any given year. The Ways and Means Committees in the House and Senate could then devise tax legislation to fit the expendi- tures. The budget director, with an j adequate staff of experts, should be given more effective, businesslike controls over all the expenditures of the executive agencies in order to promote efficiency and economy in government, he added. Prentiss Deplores Name-Calling. Declaring “short-sighted radicals in government * * * are really a very small minority,” H. W. Prentiss jr., president of the Armstrong Cork Co., Lancaster, Pa., pleaded that “both business and government be patient and forebearing.” “Let name-calling cease,” he said. “Let both do all that they can to quench the fires of class conscious- ness and hatred. Let both groups generate faith, hope and charity. * * * For the crucial problems of un- employment can be solved and solved it must be in the near future —not in antagonism and hatred— but only in the spirit of mutual sym- pathy and understanding.” ‘William K. Jackson, general coun- sel and vice president of the United | Fruit Co., declared at one of the six { round table forums that in surrend- ering neutral rights the United States “lost some of our own respect and that of much of the civilized world.” Heavy losses were suffered by American ship companies when they were forced to surrender the right to travel trade routes. Amer- ica should profit from the treachery of the Norwegian invasion by exer- cising greater care in the type of men signed aboard American ships, he added. Arbitration Leader Speaks. Arbitration machinery, which is expected to prove immensely helpful in settling commercial disputes arising from the European war, is already in working order, Franklin E. Parker of New York, president of the American Arbitration Associa- tion, declared. Benjamin H. Namm of Brooklyn, N. Y., department store proprietor, declared many consumer organiza- tions cannot be regarded as bona fide, but merely are fronts for other organizations. The consumers’ best | guarantee of quality is not an elab- orate label or a grading system, he said, but the honor and integrity of the merchandiser. The United States will be the one strong anchor in economic realities among the democracies at the con- clusion of the war, George E. Quis- enberry of New York, vice president of the Business Publishers Interna- tional Corp., said. He pictured an exhausted world, depleted of nearly | all the amenities and many of the necessities of life, and said the United States, as the major neutral nation and leading industrial power, will be in a position to serve the weary world. Loans From Gold Favored. C. M. Wynne of Chicago, manag- ing director of Overseas Indus- tries, Inc.. declared the United States’ gold hoard could be made the basis for extensive foreign loans which could be placed‘ on a self-liquidating basis. Foreigr trade changes already have begun, he said, and the United States can fall heir to muc% of the trade which is being sacrificed by the belliger- ents because they are industrially preoccupied with the production of war supplies. National planning by the Gov- ernment is nothing more than a cloak for a movement toward Gov- ernment ownership and political dic- tatorship, at least in the realm of natural resources, said George Al- fred Hill, jr., oil company execu- tive of Houston, Tex. Tracing the growth of the oil industry, Mr. Hill declared future growth of the industry must depend on freedom from what he .called collectivism under Federal control. Insurance Commissioner Speaks. George A. Bowles of Richmond, insurance commissioner of Virginia, declared the growth of insurance in size and complexity had caused commissioners to call for more de- tailed information. Insurance companies have main- tained the confidence of the public during the last 10 years, said C. A. Gough of Trenton, N. J., deputy in- surance commissioner of New Jer- sey, declaring: “I am convinced that this confidence has been promoted by intelligent supervision of the States. * * *” The Bituminous Coal Act is “rigid, arbitrary and dfbtatorial” in its price-iXing provisions, and more effective conservation of the Na- tion's natural resources could be achieved more . easily by “building of efficient, progressive, financially sound natural resource industries,” J. D. A. Morrow, president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., declared. Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice Presi- dent of the Umwismu and first Tax Rate Is Reduced To 30c by Section 4 0f Chevy Chase Retention of Old Rate Rejected as Qualified Voters Hold Session Property owners of section four“ Chevy Chase, Md., last night voted {renl property, with the result that the $16.000 budget for the area will be curtailed by about $2400 during the coming fiscal year. More than 100 voters met in the | school on Rosemary street to reject | a recommendation of the Citizens' | Committee that the present special tax rate of 35 cents be retained. Chairman Willlam R. De Lashmutt | of the committee explained that re- tention of the existing 35 cents levy | was believed necessary by the gov- erning body. | George A. Finch first moved that | | the present rate of 35 cents be re- tained. Clarence E. Dawson intro- duced an amendment to substitute | |25 cents for the rate, and John B. Ecker then amended the amend- ment to provide for a 30-cent rate. A question of the legality of last night's action was raised by John Imirie, who pointed out that the Montgomery County Board of Com- missioners had already assessed | property owners in section 4 at the | old rate, in accordance with an act of the State Legislature passed at the 1939 session. The new law ad- vanced the assessment date from May until April 1. —_— budget director, last night at the | Willard Hotel presented to the chamber a plan for balancing the budget. “The Federal budget can be balanced,” Gen. Dawes said. “If the next President is a fighter and will, without qualification, pledge himself in his conscience and before his people—and before Congress — to fight for a balanced budget, he | should not fail. But he must be | made of stern stuff.” Most important,” he continued “is a return to the firmly established | system of Government co-ordination and executive -control that was established in 1921 and operated successfully until abolished in 1933.” Budget Director Holds Key. First, he said, the budget director would create, by executive order, an organization to gather impartial in- formation for use of the President in making decision of business policy. Second, the “President would make it a condition in appointing any man to his cabinet” that he pledge sup- port to a plan to reduce govern- mental expenditures and balance the budget. A similar pledge would be made by departmental heads. Third, the President would call together in the first month of his term the budget director, cabinet members and heads of independent government establishments, who rank “as would operating vice presi- dents in private business,” to discuss their needs and ferret out economies. The fourth step, only to be taken in the first year of his administra- tion, is to begin reduction of Gov- ernment expenditures immediately. With Government expenses approx- imately $9,000,000,000 annually, he must attack them immediately, the speaker said. It must be partially secured “in the first six months, during which the President will be least equipped for the task,” he emphasized. > R. H. Geist, chief of the State Department’s division .of commer- cial affairs, told another group last night that the system of ex- change in foreign trade—of which Germany has been the chief ex- ponent—has in practice become a “delusion and failure.” * Holds Troubles - Multiplied. “The system has not worked smoothly from the day of its in- ception, and the difficulties which were inaugurated with tbe first re- strictions have muitiplied in propor- tion to its development,” he said. If it had worked, he pointed out, it would have led to the content- ment of nations which developed that type of trade. “We stand in the midst of events which may have very serious and prolonged effect upon our exports and imports,” Mr. Geist said. “One thing is certain, and that is if the course of events should persuade nations to collaborate on a re- establishment of international good will, the principles adopted and pursued by American business and by our Government in foreign trade must find general acceptance for the ml.rdllloufl:’rfldoim" N. L. R. B. Official's Inferestin C. 1. 0. Steel Drive Told Investigating Committee Sees Blankenhorn Note to Sidney Howard By CARTER BROOKE JONES. Heber Blankenhorn, a special in- | to reduce their special tax rate to 30 | vestigator for the National Labor | | cents per $100 assessed valuation of | Relations Board, wrote in a letter| that he had been “mixing in plans” for organization of the steel work- | ers by the C. 1. O, the Smith com- | mittee learned today. Edmund M. Toland, counsel for | the House group, produced a letter | which Mr. Blankenhorn wrote lhei late Sidney Howard, a playwrigl®, June 6, 1936, stating: “Meanwhile I am most anxious to see all emphasis shifted from thp‘ political to the economic field. So| have been mixing in to plans for| steel organization, which as you see | took a mighty step forward. Steel| is the place for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” Tried to Be “Guillotined.” The Supreme Court in April of that year had upheld the Wagner Labor Relations Act, and Mr. Blan- kenhorn started his letter to hi friend, Mr. Howard: “The threat of the guillotine and the nine old women on Capitol Hill has the opposite of any terrors for me. And I am as noble as Sidney Carton. In short, the policy I have advocated for the National Labor Relations Board is that its duty is to join the suicide club. So we have done our darndest to be guillotined this year along with the rest of the alphabet. instead of next winter, but instead we are con- demned to live.” “Did you mix in union activities in behalf of the C. I. O. while you were on the pay roll of the Gov- ernment?” Mr. Toland demanded. “I did not,” said the witness. “Are you telling the truth now or when you wrote that letter?” “I have always tried to tell the truth,” said Mr. Blankenhorn. Mr. Blankenhorn, who attended C. I. O. conventions as an observer, reported that he saw the attitude of John L. Lewis’ organization to- ward the board change from hos- tility to admiration, the Smith Com- mittee learned earlier. Mr. Blankenhorn reported to the board on October 18, 1937, after the C. 1. O. meeting in Atlantic City, that it would be “very much of a mistake to underestimate the feel- ing against certain board decisions.” The investigator added: “To the C. I. O. leaders their move in criti- cizing the board was part of their fight with the A. F. of L. They saw themselves throwing brickbats through the board’s plate glass win- dows straight at Bill Green.” (Wil- liam Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor.) Attitude Changes in Year. But a year later, after the Pitts- burgh convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Mr. Blankenhorn informed the board: “The attitude of delegates to the board was of sweeping support and continuous praise. I made many private inquiries along the line. ‘Yes, the board seems to be doing pretty well, but how do the boys really regard it in your area? Give me the lowdown on the kicks.’” ‘There was only one complaint at the . Pittsburgh convention—delays. “In short,” Mr. Blankenhorn added, “the C. I. O. sentiment is that if anybody is going to save the law and the board it is the C. I. O,, and they are organizing to do so. You would think the law was their personal possession. The decisions reinstating large numbers of men with back pay are what the dele- gates talked about.” Mr. Blankenhorn admitted, un- der questions by Mr. Toland, that he furnished the board with informa- tion which the La Follette Senate Civil Liberties Committee had sub- poenaed but never placed in the record. Mr. Blankenhorn acted as arliaison man between the commit- tee and the board. Asked if he had been 2 “propa- gandist” before joining the board, the witness said he objected violent- 1y to the word, Mr. Toland inquired whether Mr. Blakenhorn had not taken part in overseas propaganda for the Americans during the World War. Mr. Blankenhorn explajned that he was a captain attached to the general staff and had been commis- sioned to arrange for leaflets to be dropped on the enemy lines. But President Wilson, the witness said, had vetoed any of propa. ganda and insisted that the leaflets be confined to news bulletins. Some of the war¢fime President’s speeches Tests Will Be Made For Improvement 0f Park Grass Dr, Monteith Will - Direct Experiments In Numerous Cases v Extensive tests to learn how best to improve Washington park grass will be started this month, the Office of National Capital Parks said today. The tests are to be conducted by Dr. John Monteith, jr., director of the greens section of the United States Golf Association, who has been appointed collaborator at large for the National Park Service. ‘The tests will include those . of fertilizer, methods of renovating established turf, chemical weed con- trol, adaptability of grais for special purposes, soil texture improvement, the effects of mowing at different heights and the influence of differ- ent rates of frequency of watering on the vigor of grass in competition with weeds. Numerous Areas Chosen. Numerous areas in the parks have been chosen for the tests. Fertilizer and mowing tests will be conducted in the area bordering the Arlington National Cemetery approach and in West Potomac Park adjacent to Constitution avenue. Experiments with different types of grass, differ- ent rates seeding and different times of sowing to establish seedling grass in old turf and the value of low growing legumes will be made in the Mall between Maryland avenue, Adams drive, Third and Fourth streets and in the Washington Monument Grounds. Chemical removal of weeds where turf is so sparse that seeding is necessary will be made in West Potomac Park adjacent to the Lin- coln Memorial. This will cause tem- porary discoloration of lawn areas, the parks office said. Along the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway tests will be made of the use of chemicals for improvement of turf by a combination of weed removal and fertilizing without reseeding. Adaptability to Conditions. Small quantities of special grasses, produced by Agriculture Depart- ment, will be tested for adapta- bility to conditions such as heavy shade, excessive heat, heavy wear |and excessively dry or wet soils at various suitable locations in the park system. Soil texture using peat moss. leafmold, manure, cinders, sand, etc.. will be carried | on between curbs and sidewalks in | poor soil areas in the Mall, West! Potomac Park and at other loca- tions. Watering experiments will be | conducted in various panels of the| Mall. where automatic sprinkling equipment will facilitate the opera- tions. two tests for park lawn improve- ment during the last year have shown that it would be advisable to adopt Zoysia metrella grass, an importation bred to .take a beating, intensively used park areas, and that increased use of chemical fer- llllims is beneficial. f— were included, Mr. Blankenhorn dded. Evidence that an N.L.R. B. region- | al office tried to discourage an inde- l pendent union at the National Cash | with the C. I. O., was given yester- | day. | Several witnesses—officers of the | union and an official of the com- | pany—testified that Philip G. Phil- the organization which admittedly had a majority of the 5400 employes { at the plant. | Union Attorney Testifies. | Irwin Carl Delscamp, attorney for the union, testified that Mr. Phil- iips suggested that he attempted to “sell your union” on the idea of withdrawing for three months and then reorganizing. Mr Delscamp said that when he threatened to file with the Labor Board a petition to compel the com- pany to recognize the union, the regional director retorted: “If you do, I will dismiss it in- stanter.” William Harry Creamer, president, and W. O. Shiveley, secretary, of the National Cash Register Inde- pendent Employes’ Union, testified | that Mr. Phillips refused them any information when they sought board certification as the valid collective bargaining agency. He described their organization, they said, as an {llegitimate union, using a more pro- fane epithet. Files Disclose Phillips Worried. Yet Mr. Phillips, the committee learned from board files introduced in evidence by Mr. Toland, wrote the board. December 8, 1938: “I am extremely worried about this case. A couple of months ago the company agreed to dis-establish its old employe representation plan. Notices were posted on the bulletin boards to that effect and letters written to the officials of the com- pany union. “Immediately thereafter the same group who were officials of the com- pany union, together with new block, set out to form a streamlined in- dependent. There is no evidence whatever of company interference in the formation of the new union; there is no evidence whatever of Sunday at 8 p.m. tions of the Great Lake region. Tempera- | » ~Temp.— Rain- any favoritism shown by the com-[at 608 E street A unoer MISRipal and. lower MIssour] | Apijene D010 Bleh Low. fall. Wenther. pany to the new union; there is no| N.W. Valleys and the Southern Plains. Albany 3 4 evidence upon which to predicate a| Adjt. Strand- FiEs 5 violation of the act (the Wagner | berg has been :;lu‘nc;’g e Act), unless we can argue that be- | secretary of the bl 48 28 cause there are among officials of | National Ex- BoHa a3 the new organization several who |change Club for Charleston 75 64 were leaders in the old, that there|the past six ol el has not been sufficient dis-estab- [ months in At- Cleveland ._ 75 57 lishment of the old. The new group | lanta, Ga. He (T 5 has signed up approximately 4,500 | succeeds Ma j. (Prom noon yesterd Denver 3 85 %‘t of 6,000 emr:;ltouyes of the plant. Gfl:elrt l;e';:e; i s “,“",‘,3“ A0 Side Do weateraay: i Yous De:fl:?nln,l 2 gz e company ses to Adjt. nd- .. 0. 60, , RS the new group until they are cer- | berg has served as uc;etnrry of the] argot. 6L 5:30 am. todey. Year s tified by the board.” Men’s Executive Club of Socia Record Temperatures This Year. uron 4R Reciting that the C. I. O, also| Workers in Atlanta for two years| mignest. 82. on April 30. Sermeite 2 in the plant, would oppose a consent | and has been chairman of the local | Lowest. 7, on January 29. {'R‘}.‘.‘el‘i‘" oos 5 election to determine the bargaining | and non-resident committee as well Mumidity for Last 24 Hours. Louisville. 29.65 7 agency, Mr. Phillips added: “I don't | 88 a8 committee member of the| (Prom noon vesterday to noon today) | Miami 7570 see how we' would help ¢ Family Child Care Section of the | [ishest T ot b e Ditder: 8 them if we held a hearing, yet I |Social Planning Council. He belongs | terday. 4 g 85 2 query, under the circumstances | to thé Viking Club of Atlanta and Precipitation. 70 45 aforementioned, whether a hearing | the Atlgnta Socisl Workers' Club, coMonthly precioitation in inches in_ the e should be held; Yet, if we do dismiss - e 92 8 socused of parciatiy " "*®%W| Congress in Brief W o 88 The company had been charged TODAY. 33 i b with two violations of the Wagner | Senate: ho pats 33:83 % 8 Act—alleged dismissal of three| Considers bill to end foreign &il- i Ll .87 C. 1. O. employes because of union | ver purchase program. 2 B4 56 48 activity and asserted domination of | House i 5;31 L1 an independent union. The latter| Continues debate on wage-hour | December 332 56 82 61 charge eventually was settled by|amendments. The Sen and Moen. GN_ STATH stipulation. One of the di Smith Committee resumes Labor T L octa TS apeanich ting employes was reinstated with back | Board hearings. zfi improvement tests, | Register Co.’s plant at Dayton, Ohio, | hoping its members would affiliate | lips, regional director at Cincinnati, refused to have anything to do with pay. The case of the other two still The Maryland Radcliffe Challenges Bruce to Announce National Viewpoints By JACK ALLEN. A challenge to Howsard Bruce to set forth his position on national matters for the voters of Maryland to see today rang through one of the strongholds in his campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination. Invading Prince Georges County, where the powerful Democratic or- ganization is backing his rival, Sena- tor Radcliffe, and his colleague, Sen- ator Tydings, defled Mr. Bruce to tell the people where he stands “on these matters.” Nearly 1,000 county residents heard the Senators last night as from two platforms they flayed Mr. Bruece for “failure” to show where he and Mr. Radcliffe “differ on the problems confronting the country.” One rally was staged in the court- house at Upper Marlboro, home town of Representative Sasscer, one of the county organization’s leaders, while the other was in Mount Rainjer, not far from where T. Howard Duckett, another head of that faction, resides. Political Trickery Charged. On the stand with them.was Rob. ert McCullough, county manager of the Radcliffe campaign, who branded as “a cheap piece of po- litical trickery” reports that Sena- tor Radcliffe is opposing the re- nomination of Representative Sass- cer. “An attempt is being made to turn the Senator’s followers in Prince Georges against him by spreading rumors that he. does not want to see Representative Sasscer re-elected,” Mr. McCullough said: “That is not s0. Senator Radcliffe has no differ- ences with Representative Sasscer. Every sample ballot that will go out from Radcliffe campaign headquar- ters will be marked for Representa- tive Sasscer as well as Senator Rad- cliffe.” Mr. McCullough commented on Gov. O'Conor’s support of Mr. Bruce, the Governor's chief finan- cial backer and adviser in the 1938 fight. and said, “The Governor is obligated to him and he's too fine a gentleman to shirk an obligation.” In opening his speeches Senator Radcliffe confirmed Mr. McCul- lough's remarks with regard to the assertion that he is on the “friend- liest of terms” with Mr. Sasscer, and added: supporting Mr. Bruce because he is | Campaign Bruce Will Answer Tydings’ Charges in Broadcast Tonight By WILL P. KENNEDY, Star Staff Correspondent. BALTIMORE, Md., May 1— Howard Bruce today announced he intends to answer Senator Tydings’ «charge that the Bruce campaign is “silly” and is one “of camoufiage and smoke screen.” His answer will be made tonight when he speaks at 7:30 o'clock over Station WFBR, Baltimore, and in- vades the fifth election district of Baltimore. The district is said to be most strongly entrenched for Senator Radcliffe and in at least: 10 local rallies Mr. Bruce plans to attack, in detail, his rival's record in the Senate for the past five and one- half years, denying Senator Tyd- ings’ statements that Mr. Bruce supported and approved that record. Mr. Bruce was greeted enthusias- tically at nine rallies in the 1st elec- tion district here last night in which his supporters say he is certain to receive the seven convention votes. He spoke principally of his own labor record for the last 30 years during which he built nearly a dozen in- dustrial plants, employed hundreds of thousands of workers and met pay rolls aggregating more than $100,000,000. At each of these ral-| lies groups of his former employes‘, acted as escorts of honor when he took the platform. Round of Rallies Held. | The heavy artillery of the Bruce forces swung into action in this round of rallies. Besides the candi- | date the campaigners included Gov. | O’Conor, Wiliam Curran, Demo- | cratic leader in Baltimore; Repre- sentative D'Alesandro and Charles E. Moylan, who is chief of the speak- | ers’ bureau. | Mr. Bruce reviewed his life for the past 33 years in Baltimore where, | he said, he “started from scratch” | |and even had to bofrow money to | take him to his first job. He said | that in all his industrial experience he had never had a strike, that he | had been the first employer in Bal- | timore to establish an eight-hour | day, that under his management sal- | aries had been increased three-fold, | that his was one of the first com- | found any fault with my record in Congress. I never have found any on his record—as he has a perfect right to do—and so do I, as I have a right to do. I am entitled to renomination on my record. No other consideration is involved.” The parks office announced tmtgsnow Brings Win'er Back fo Five States for use in playgrounds and other | In Middle wes' May Storm in Chicago Fourth in 63 Years; Ball Game Canceled By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May | were in vogue for May pole dancers in several Middlewestern States to- day as April's farewell, | turned to wet, swirling snow. The May Day snowstorm centered over extreme Northern Illinois, ex- treme Eastern Wisconsin and West- ern Upper Michigan. Flurries were general over Minnesota, Iowa and extreme Northern Wisconsin and snow was expected to move into | Northern and Western Lower Michi- gan later today. The Government Weather Bureau reported this was the fourth time in 63 years that a measurable amount of snow had fallen in Chi- cago in May. The fall was meas- ured at .3 of an inch at 9:10 am. Flurries occur in May about once every four years. Fair and rising temperatures were forecast for to- morrow in most of the Middlewest, the showers moving eastward, event- ually to the Atlantic Coast. The snow, which followed a rain of 98 inch in Chicago, forced post- ponement of the National League baseball game between Boston and Chicago. There was a heavy rainfall at Meridian, Miss., with 2.78 inches, but amounts exceeding an inch also were reported in Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, Washington and Oregon. In the East warm weather con- tinued for the fourth day. The temperature was expected to reach 70 again today in Newark, N. J. In New Jersey 35 forest fires de- stroyed 2447 acres of woodland yes- terday. Monday 45 fires burned 1,114 acres. Strandberg Appointed To Salvation. Army Post Adjt. George G. Strandberg, a Sal- vation Army officer for 10 years, has been named public relations and welfare secretary of the army here, it was announc- ed today. He will arrive here today and be installed b 1. — Galoshes | showers | panies to insure its employes and | | a pension system for his workers. | | He se1d this is the first time he has | | doesn’t want to win unless the people | feel he is the best man for the job. The Republican camps of former Gov. Nice and former Baltimore Mayor “William F Broening which have been quiet, in comparison with the Democratic organizations— showed litt'e activity. Headquarters of both Mr. Nice and Mr. Broening said nc major talks were scheduled today and that the |two candidates were having only “organization conferences.” Rocflkesfilts {Jamaica By the Associated Press. FIRST RACEPurse. $1.200: eclaiming: 2-year-olds: 5 furlonss Highl'd Queen (Durando) 7.80 4.60 4.00 Old Priend (Steffen) 720 5380 Powdered Heels 9.80 (8chmidl) Time, 1:00 1-5 - ran—Button Bush. Staid Lady. Ariel Rose, Gallant Wind, Nutmeg Lass, Peace Day, Our Grace and ‘Stingal. | SECOND RACE —Purse. $1.200: claim- | ine: 3-year-olds and up: # furlongs | Maeace (Longden) R.80 520 370 | Innuendo (Weber) | Chin Music (W. D. Wright) Time. 1:134% Also ran—FPlying Waters. Anti Air. Sun Lark. Tonev Pandy. Briar Bird, Neddie Lass and Red Meadow. 600 470 6.30 THIRD RACE—Purse. $1.200: claiming: | maiden 3-vear-olds and up: 1 mile and 70 yards Count Sneezy (Longden) 4.00 Nijinsky (Meade) 4-vear-olds and up: 6 furlones (chute) Bun Antioch'(G. Smith) 4.80 280 230 Jock's Betsy (Johnston) 380 290 Charmed One (Mastrianni) 350 1 Also Wise_Plaver. Screen. Dreel. Bucks Image and Bilboquet. 0 Tetratown, (Tavior) me. 1:13's. Also_ran—8axons Bride. Pour o' Four, Wood Blare and Noodles. s (Daily Double paid $56.70.) 8 RACE—Purse. $1.000: elaim- | ing: 3-year-olds: & furlongs: ehute. _ Tramp 8hio (Richard) 15.80 .10 3.30 Queens Advice (Ross) §00 310 Germans Infensify Aerial Warfare in Northern Norway Planes Attack Train With Swedish Volunteers And Ambulances By J. NORMAN LODGE, Associated Press Porelgn Correspondent. FORMOFOSS, Norway (near Namsos), May 1.—German bomb- ing planes have ranged this north- ern war front from the coast to the Swedish frontier during the last 24 hours, strafing allied communi- cation lines with an intensity that has led observers to wonder whether a new Nazi land offensive is in the making. An almost complete lack of ac- tivity by German infantry patrols has accompanied these aerial op- erations, intensifying rather than relieving the alert expectancy of allied outposts. Two Nazi patrols which ventured out on the Norwegian-held sector of the front were captured yesterday, but there was little movement in front of the British and French lines, Planes Attack Ambulances. Among the objects of the latest German air attacks, according to information received here, were a truck train filled with Swedish vol- unteers and a Red Cross ambulance train being brought into Norway by British Quakers. Dr. Richard Early, commander of the Red Cross unit, said the Ger- mans twice swooped down on the ambulances as they were nearing Formofoss. One of the ambulances was raked with machine-gun fire, he said, but there were no casualties. German planes sighted the truck column of Swedish volunteers on the narrow winding road that leads from Gaddede, Swedish frontier town, and swept it with their ma- chine-guns, but again they failed to do any serious damage A T-truck supply convoy, bringing food from Sweden to residents of this community of Snasa Lake, also was attacked. Airmen Visit Namsos. Namsos, British debarkation point which has been raided repeatedly from the air, was visited again ves- terday by German planes, but they were forced by newly installed anti- “Representative Sasscer never has | that he was one of the first to start | aircraft guns to fly at a high altitude. From Namsos the Germans swung over Grong, 30 miles to the east, fault with his. Mr. Sasscer stands | sought public office and now hpidruppmg a number of bombs and | strafing the area with machine-guns | without causing extensive damage. | The Nazis also flew over Formofoss, /but did not attempt to attack. One of their planes, “hedghopping” a clump of trees near the head- quarters, passed overhead at an altitude of not more than 75 feet, and through my field glasses I could clearly see the smiling faces of the two men in the front cockpit. i‘Slriking Students’ Parents | Plan Reopening Suit By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH. Tex. Mayv 1— Parents of striking students of Lake Worth School said today they would go to court in an effort to | have the institution re-opened. The board closed the school in- | definitely after 72 of its 75 stu- | dents walked out in protest of the board’s action in not retaining the principal, V. R. Ramsey. ‘Three girls declined to walk out. They accussed Mr. Ramsey of mak- ing “embarrassing remarks” con- cerning Adolf Hitler's re-popula- tion program in Germany. The striking pupils erected a wire fence acros the entrance to the school grounds. Officers removed the wire. Closekin (Durando) 3200 The school board met behind Also ranetjth Stuart, The Knife. Baba, | locked doors to make its decision Chalpegey. Bright Rebel and Hide. vesterday. Parents and students. waiting outside, hissed and booed Norrogunsett the board members as they emerged. By the Associated Press. The school had four weeks of the FIRST RACE—Purse. $1.000: claiming; Semester to run. 'T. 0. Davidson Dies NEW YORK. May 1 (#—T. O. Davidson, 68, dean of press-syndi- cate men and manager of the special | service departments of United Fea- | ture Syndicate, died Monday night lof a heart attack at his home in Bayside, Queens. He was a native of Ausable Forks, N. Y. Weather Repo cloudy and cooler. Virginia—Cloudy and cooler; and continued cold. The disturbance that was centered over the middle Mississippi Valley Tuesday eve- ning was centered at 7:30 this morning over extreme Northeastern Indiana with greatly increased _intensity. South Bend. 9895 millibars (29.22 inches). Pressure ‘continues high off the Plorida coast and general rains in the Central Valleys and the Gulf States North Pacific States and showers in por- Ralns occurred over the | Lo! rt (Purnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia—Showers, tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler; lowest temperature tonight about 48 degrees; fresh southwest. shifting to northwest, winds Maryland—Showers, followed by cooler late tonight; tomorrow partly followed by cooler late tonight; showers in east and north portions tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; cooler in east and north portions. West Virginia—Cloudy and cooler tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy o L R A O P River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy at Great Falls today. 1o . Dressure is high and rising over the Plains e Tagion How B Biates Bismarck. N. Dak. 1033.0 millibars | (Purnished by the United States Coast ani (30.21 inches) and coniinues high over Geodetic: Surver ) " 1 the Platesu region Salt Lake City. Utah. Coday. Tomorrow. 10254 millibars (30.28 inches). During 3 dam 41ram the last 24 hours theére have been rather 08 am 1113 am! 10:35pm. 11:26 p.m. Weather in Various Citles.