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WILD INFLATION
SEEN BY ALDRICH
IN BANK MEASURE
Chase National Chairman
Says Reserve Bill Is One
of Insecurity.
POLITICAL EXPANSION
OF CREDIT FORESEEN
New Yorker Says Plan Can Wipe
Out “Practical Value of So
cial Security Program.’’
By ths Associated Press.
Opposing any further experiment
ing with currency and credit, Win
throp W. Aldrich, chairman of the
Chase National Bank of New York,
asserted today the omnibus banking
bill was a measure “not of security,
but of Insecurity,” and held possibili
ties of an “uncontrollable conflagra
tion” of inflation.
Testifying before a Senate banking
•ubcommittee in opposition to pro
visions centralizing currency and
credit control in the Federal Reserve
Board, the quiet-spoken banker read
a long prepared statement, in which
he asserted the machinery provided in
the bill “corresponds closely with the
machinery which was utilized at the
time of the German inflation and the
French inflation, with most serious
consequences to business life and the
Welfare of the people.”
“Imperils Social Security.”
“This bill.” he said as Senators and
spectators crowded about him listen
ing intently, “is a measure not of se
curity, but of insecurity, for the ex
ercise of powers freely granted under
It can wipe out the practical value of
all social security legislation off the
slate and make benefits granted to the
aged or the unemployed mathematical
expressions only.
"In saying this. I do not imply that
any man or group of men would draw
plans intentionally to such ends. Nor
do I offer any criticism of planning as
6uch, If by planning we mean the ex
ercise of national foresight and pru
dence.
“But I am opposed to planning if
we mean experimentation with one
powerful instrument after another
upon the credit and currency of the
United 8tates, or if we mean the rid
ing of one superficial, simple theory
after another through the vast com
plex of American economic life.”
Fean Despotic Control.
Aldrich said the omnibus bill would
convert the Federal Reserve System
"into an instrument of despotic au
thority.”
The financier said the three “ex
periments" in the last few years to
obtain a higher price level by “manip
ulating credit and currency have
failed” and "further experimenting
might bring on a vicious and perhaps
Uncontrollable conflagration.”
The experiments he referred to were
the purchase of Government obliga
tions by the Federal Open Market
Committee, devaluation of the dollar,
coupled wth purchase of gold at prices
above the old gold parity, and the
•ilver-buying policy.
Would Permit Politics.
After recommending a long series of
changes in the bill's provisions cen
tralizing control in the Reserve Board
over banking, credit and currency.
Aldrich said the measure as it stands
"Impaired” the principle of local self
government in the reserve system, held
possibility of danger and application
of politics in permitting the board to
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FLORIDA ADOPTS BILL
AGAINST CHAIN STORES
House Amendment Provides for
Referendum July 23—Plurality
of Stores Barred.
By the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 15.—The
Florida House approved an anti-chain
•tore bill which declares chain stores
to be “evils” and says they are the
"major cause” of the economic de
pression.
The bill was adopted yesterday, 73
to 14, after the Representatives had
made several changes in the Senate
approved bill. One amendment pro
vides for a referendum on July 23. The
measure goes back to the Senate for
consideration of the amendments.
The bill provides that all retail mer
chandise business in this State would
be on a license permit system and only
one permit could be issued to a person,
firm or corporation to allow for the
operation of only one store.
Mrs. Rogers Absolved in Death
Which Caused Her to Kill Self
When Mrs. Mattie E. Rogers is laid
to rest tomorrow she will have as a
pathetic and paradoxical epitaph her
exoneration by the grand jury In the
fatal automobile accident which led
her to take her owm life.
Monday afternoon a coroner’s panel
of six men bound her over to the
grand jury. Two hours later she com
mitted suicide after writing that “the
eoroner’s verdict makes it impossible
for me to live.” Yesterday the case
was presented on its merits to the
grand Jury at the request of her hus
band, Maj. Wilbur Rogers, U. 8. A.,
retired, and tomorrow, it is under
stood, the Jurors will report they have
ignored the homicide charge.
“I’m glad,” said,Maj. Rogers, "but
it came too late—such a short while
too late. She's gone now.” And he
repeated over and over again as if
the words were beating on his mind:
•"Too late, too late.”
Mrs. Rogers drowned herself In the
bathtub of her. apartment, at 1707
Columbia road, brooding and grief
stricken that her car had killed Mrs.
Sarah Bowerman. A sensitive, 41
year-old woman, she was confined to
the hospital immediately after the
accident from its shock.
Her husband had to support her as
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World’s Largest Diamond Sold
In New York for $700,000
Jonkers Stone Weighing 726 Carats]
About Size of Hen Egg, Will Be
Offered to U. S. Purchasers.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 15 —Harry Wins
ton. New York diamond merchant, to
day announced his purchase in Lon
don of the Jonkers diamond, the
largest uncut diamond in the world,
for a sum "in excess of $700,000.”
The stone weighs 726 carats and is
approximately the size of a hen's egg.
It will be brought to America within
a month or so and displayed to pro
spective purchasers.
If a buyer cannot be found for It,
the diamond will be cut into several
smaller stones, according to Winston.
The Jonkers was unearthed in the
South African field on January 16.
1934. by a colored digger for Jacobus
Jonkers, a 62-year-old poverty-stricken
Boer prospector, who had worked the
field for 18 years without any ap
preciable success.
Jonkers, according to Winston, sold
his discovery to the Diamond Corp.
at a reported price of £75,000. It was
taken to London, w’here it was viewed
by King George and Queen Mary, A
move to buy the diamond by public
subscription for the British rulers for
the King's silver Jubilee failed to ma
terialize.
According to its new owner, the
diamond is by far the largest ever to
be brought to America. He estimates
that if it is cut in one piece the fin
ished stone will weigh about 425
carats.
The Star of Africa (cut from the
Cullinan diamond and now part- of
the British crown Jewels) is the larg
est cut diamond known. It weighs
425 carats. ^
The second Cullinan stone ranks
next, at 309 carats. The famous
Kohinor diamond weighs 106 carats,
and the Hope diamond, celebrated for
the bad luck that is supposed to have
followed its owners, only 44 carats.
The St. Paul Fire & Marine In
surance Co. of St. Paul, Minn., has
insured the stone for $1,000,000, ac
cording to Mr. Winston.
BATTLE REVIVED
ON WAGNER BILL
Industrialists and Labor
Forces Arrayed in Sen
ate Outbreak.
By the Associated Press
Surprising everybody by its burst of
speed, the Senate raced today straight
into one of the warmest of current
controversies—the one surrounding
the Wagner labor relations bill.
Arrayed for the bill are labor lead
ers, including the American Federa
tion of Labor; against it are many In
dustrialists.
Offered by Senator Wagner. Demo
crat, of New York, it is now the Sen
ate's pending business. Wagner, a
New Dealer who has been an adviser
to the administration on social prob
lems. has hoped to get White House
support for the bill. What success he
has met has not been announced.
Claims of Backers.
The bill’s backers say it would bul
work the collective-bargaining pro
visions of the recovery act. and out
law "company-dominated" unions.
They hoped the speed signal raised
in the Senate yesterday would mean
quick passage. Hitting its fastest pace
of the session the chamber rejected
the Long resolution for an investiga
tion of Postmaster General Parley,
62 to 20; passed the Norris bill to
strengthen the Tennessee Valley Au
thority act, and passed the bill ex
tending the life of N. R. A. for 10
months, with sharply curtailed au
thority.
It was a highly gratifying accom
plishment in the eyes of Democratic
leaders, who counted only three more
major bills on the Roosevelt preferred
list before an adjournment for the
Summer, These three are the utility
holding company, social security and
omnibus banking bills.
Senator Wagner was ready today to
fire the opening salvo for his measure,
which was side-tracked last session.
Provisions of Measure.
Briefly the bill would:
Establish a permanent National
Labor Relations Board, a quasi
judicial body with powers to order
elections to determine collective bar
gaining representatives. Any orders
promulgated by it after an election
would be reviewable in court.
Lay down five unfair labor practices
making it illegal for employers to:
1. Interfere with, restrain, or coerce
employes, in the exercise of collective
bargaining through representatives of
their own choosing.
2. Dominate or interfere with the
formation or administration of any
labor organization or contribute finan
cial aid or other support to it.
3. Encourage or discourage member
ship in any labor organization by dis
crimination.
4. Discriminate against an employe
for filing charges or giving testimony
under the proposed act.
5. Refuse to bargain collectively with
representatives of their employes.
Bargaining representatives chosen
by a majority of employes in a par
ticular unit would represent all em
ployes in such units.
Gold Shipped to U. S.
CHERBOURG, Prance, May 15 (/P).
—The Majestic sailed today with 125,
000,000 francs ($8,300,000) in gold
shipped to the United States by Amer
ican banks. The gold, in 217 cases,
weighed 23,290 pounds.
she heard the coroner’s jury bring In
its verdict, which she said in a fare
well note was more than she could
bear.
Realizing her precarious state of
mind, Dr. George P. Bowerman, pub
lic librarian, husband of the accident
victim, and Mrs. Bowerman’s brothers,
had gone to Mrs. Rogers, expressed
their sympathy and asked her not to
let the tragic death of their wife and
sister ruin her life.
In usual procedure, the case would
have gone to the grand Jury from
the coroner’s inquest and would have
been closed without hearing because
of Mrs. Rogers’ death.
Maj. Rogers, however, through his
attorney, James Kirkland, asked that
it be presented on its merits, even
though posthumously, and this, it is
understood, was done. The grand
jury's action will not become a matter
of record until tomorrow, but Maj.
Rogers made known its decision today.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rogers will
be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the
Church of the Pilgrims, Twenty
second and P streets. Rev. Andrew
R. Bird, pastor, will officiate. Burial
will be in Arlington Cemetery, in the
plot of Maj. Otto M. Lawrence, her
first husband, who died several years
ago.
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4,500 Here Hail President’s
Pledge That Aid Will
Continue.
BY BLAIR BOLLES.
Jubilant sons of the soil from 25
States wandered about Washington's
downtown streets today. wrell pleased
at having heard President Roosevelt
speak to them personally in severe
condemnation of the “specious lies-’
told by “high and mighty” opponents
of the A. A. A.
The bronzed farmers, still excited
and tense from the day full of
speeches, cheers and demonstrations
that ended only with the close of a
dozen banquets at 2 a.m. today, made
ready for sightseeing tours of the city
most of them never saw before.
“The President shore told them big
fellas what’s what,” a lanky Texan
commented today on the White House
address.
While the 4.500 visitors late yester
day packed the green south lawn of
the Executive Mansion, the President
stood on the portico and. amid hand
claps and hurrahs, made a fighting
talk in which he lashed at New Deal
critics:
“The crocodile tears shed by the
professional mourners of an old and
obsolete order over the slaughter of
little pigs and other measures to re
duce surplus agricultural inventories
deceive very few thinking people and
least of all the farmers themselves.”
Farmers Cheer Speech.
In the shade of magnolias and
maples, the pilgrims, many of them
shirt-sleeved, set up a noisy outburst
of enthusiasm at this unrestrained at
tack from on high against the group
whose denunciations of the processing
tax and the A. A. A. the farmers had
come to answer.
Despite a declaration by Senator
Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa, that
the “march” was an administration
inspiration, the pilgrims to a man
scoffed at this contention and said
emphatically they themselves decided
it was time to present their wishes
to the Government.
But Agriculture Department county
agents, paid by Federal, State and
county governments, and members of
the County Production Control Com
mittees aided the organization of the
march, called meetings to choose
county delegates to the show and
helped arouse the farmers to finance
the expedition by contributions,
although the Government gave no
financial aid itself to the demonstra
tion.
The President, in a review of the
course of farm legislation during re
cent years, cited three possible courses
the New Deal might have taken to re
habilitate America's agriculture, and
dismissed price-fixing and dumping as
unfeasible.
Holds Policy Successful.
Production control and adjustment
answered the problem the President
declared, and went on in the face of
a bedlam of whoops and prairie yells:
"I think that you and I are agreed
in seeking a continuance of a na
tional policy which on the whole is
proving successful.
“The memory of old condtions un
der which the product of a whole
year's work often would not bring
you the cost of transporting it to
market is too fresh in your minds to
let you be led astray by the solemn
admonitions and specious lies of those
who in the past profited most when
your distress was greatest.”
He drew laughs from his audience
when he poked jokes at the agricul
tural ignorance of the banker who
thought Winter wheat was harvested
in the midst of snowfalls and of the
editor who mistook a field of cotton
for a raspberry patch.
His listeners, full believers in the
equality of man, injected remarks of
their own during the speech. The
name of Gov. Eugene Talmadge of
Georgia, A. A. A. opponent, who was
derided earlier in the day during the
farmers’ Constitution Hall meeting,
was shouted from the crowd when the
President mentioned that among the
A. A. A. critics were a "few leading
citizens who have gone astray.”
From Atlanta Talmadge commented
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QUAKES CREATE PANIC
Five Shocks Damage Village Near
Shikarpur, India.
KARACHI, India, May 15 (^.—In
habitants of the Village of Garhlya
slng, near Shikarpur, were thrown into
a panic today as five severe earth
shocks shook the vicinity.
Several houses were damaged, but
there were no immediate reports of
deaths or injuries. Crowds in the
village bazaar flung themselves to the
earth In terras.
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ITALY CONFIDENT
WARNING WORLD
ON INTERFERENCE
II Duce Claims 900,000 Men
Can Defend Nation in
Africa and Europe.
BRITAIN TO CONTINUE
MEDIATION EFFORTS
Reassurances for Austria on In
dependence Are Seen by
Vienna in Address.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, May 15.—Italy faced with
confidence today a world which
weighed Premier Mussolini's declara
tion that he would brook no interfer
ence in the Ethiopian situation.
The 900,000 modernly equipped men
he has called to arms can assure
Italy’s security not only in the colo
nies, but in Europe as well, II Duce
announced in a surprise speech before
the Senate yesterday.
Every war industry in Italy, he said,
has been working full time for months.
"Gathering of Force*.”
There has been "a gathering of
forces on land and sea and in the sky,’’
he informed the enthusiastically ap
plauding Senators.
Mussolini's address, always vigorous
and at times ironic, was both a warn
ing against interference in Italy's pro
gram in East Africa and a defiance
of implied criticism of his policy.
"Let no one take upon himself the
intolerable judgeship of cross-exam
ining us as to the character and vol
ume of our precautionary measures,"
he said. “No one except Italy can be
the judge in such a most delicate mat
ter."
Diplomatic circles in Rome ex
pressed the private view that II Duce,
by his comments, had "beaten France
and Great Britain to the punch” in
regard to any formal move affecting
Italy's Ethiopian policy.
Mussolini indicated the foreign
powers had taken no definite step in
connection with the East African
situation, but it waa understood that
British officials here and in London
have carried on informal conversa
tions with Italian representatives.
Any formal joint move now would
be little short of an unfriendly act in
the wake of yesterday’s speech, it was
pointed out.
Home Strength Not Reduced.
Mussolini assured the other nations
of Europe they need have no concern
Italy's military operations in the col
onies would diminish her strength at
home.
"It is in order that we may tran
quilly secure Europe that we intend
to have our back completely secured
in Africa.” he declared. “• • * I wish
to add immediately, and in the most
explicit and formal manner, we will
send all the soldiers we believe nec
essary.”
The address was transmitted by
radio throughout the kingdom. It
came soon after mobilization orders
had been sent to parts of the class
of 1912, which Mussolini said would
be held In reserve. The classes of
1911, 1913 and 1914 already have been
called to the colors.
BRITAIN CONTINUES EFFORT.
Sir Eric Drummond Seeks Further
Consultation.
LONDON, May 15 (/P).—Great Brit
ain will continue her efforts to keep
Italy and Ethiopia from drifting to
ward war despite Premier Benito
Mussolini's "hands off" dictum yester
day, well-informed quarters said to
day.
It was understood Sir Eric Drum
mond, the British Ambassador to
Rome, was seeking further consults^
tion with Italian authorities, although
his efforts thus far had not met with
success.
It was considered virtually certain
discussion of the Italo-Ethiopian dis
pute would take place at the League
Council session next week.
VIENNA IS REASSURED.
Intention to Guard Austrian Inde
pendence Is Seen.
VIENNA. May 15 (/P).—Government
quarters today said they took Premier
Mussolini's "preparedness” speech at
Rome yesterday as evidence that Italy
remains fully determined to protect
Austria's independence regardless of
commitments elsewhere.
DISCUSSIONS REPORTED.
PARIS.* May 15 (A5).—Semi-official
French sources today said France and
England had been discussing the
Ethiopian situation with Italy, but in
sisted the discussions were “just
friendly conversations not constituting
diplomatic action."
While Premier Benito Mussolini's
speech on the issue yesterday was re
garded here as largely for internal
consumption. Informed observers as
serted their belief II Duce would carry
through whatever plan he has regard
ing Ethiopia.
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P.W.A.HAS BLACKLIST
NEW YORKER ADMITS
State Engineer Says Some Firms
Are Prohibited From Get
ting Contracts.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 15.—The New
York Herald Tribune says Arthur S.
Tuttle, State engineer for public works
in New York State, ‘‘admitted’’ yes
terday the existence of a Government
blacklist of contractors who were pro
hibited from receiving P. W. A. con
tracts.
The Herald Tribune says Tuttle was
loath to discuss the list, to which they
quoted him saying names were added
from time to time.
The list is ‘‘a highly confidential
matter between the public works ad
ministrator in Washington and the
various State offices,’’ Tuttle was
quoted.
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GEORGETOWN GARDEN PILGRIMAGE.
Grand Jury at Philadelphia
Denounces P. W. A. In
spectors in Report.
By the Associated Pres*.
PHILADELPHIA. May 15—A
sweeping beneficial effect for the en
tire country was seen today by Fed
eral Judge George A. Welsh in the
indictment of 12 builders, contractors
and supervisory employes for alleged
•'kickback’’ practices in paying work
ers on public works administration
projects.
After a six-month investigation, a
Federal grand jury turned in the in
dictments late yesterday with accusa
tions of "inhuman exploitation of
labor.”
Praising the jurors, Judge Welsh
told them they had rendered “as
great a public service as any grand
jury in the history of the United
States.”
Pay Return l barged.
The grand jury reported that in
many cases workers on the high speed
line extension over the Delaware
River Bridge and the new Naval Hos
pital in Philadelphia had to return
part of their pay to contractors to
keep their jobs, while other skilled
workers were paid in lower classifica
tions.
Of the 12 indicted six are con
nected with Builders, Inc. They are
Mandes Golder. president; Samuel
Golder, vice president: James C.
Golder. secretary, and three employed
in supervisory capacities, Perry J.
Goldman, Joseph V. Collins and Carl
Pearson.
Others are Frederick Massiah, sub
contractor for the cement work at
Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia: John F.
McCarthy, electrical subcontractor on
the new Naval Hospital here: Albert
G. C. Chaney and John R. Wenrich,
his superintendent and foreman: Dan
iel J. Keating, plumbing and heating
contractor at the Naval Hospital,
and Leroy A. Hilsey, his superin
tendent.
P. W. A. Inspectors Criticized. ,
The report sharply criticized P. W. A.
supervisors and inspectors for laxity.
The indictments were founded on
the testimony of scores of mechanics
and laborers, who told the jury they
were chiseled out of a considerable
part of their wages by "kickbacks."
The indictments are based on al
leged violations of the Federal anti
kickback law of June 13. 1934. If con
victed the men could be fined from
*5,000 to *10.000 and imprisoned from
two to five years.
GEORGIANS BALLOT
ON LIQUOR TODAY
Counties Must Decide on Hard
Drinks Later if Repeal Wins
at Polls.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, May 15 —Georgia, legally
“bone dry” for 27 years, voted today
on the prohibition issue.
Even if prohibition of hard liquor,
the major issue of today's wet-dry ref
erendum, is repealed, the voting will
not of itself bring State-wide change.
Before whisky can be legal in the
counties, each county must decide.
Defeat of repeal, however, would not
affect the lighter beverages, beer and
wine, since they are separate issues.
Beer and wine will be legal imme
diately if accepted by the voters.
There were 382.650 voters eligible
for the referendum.
Readers’ Guide
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Comics .C-4
Cross-word Puzzle.C-4
Editorials .A-8
Finance .A-17-18-19
Lost and Found.A-9
Paul Mallon.,..A-2
Radio .B-12
Serial Story.B-6
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Short Story.B-5
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Srnd-a-Dime Letters
Bring Cash to G.O.P.,
Treasurer Reports
By the Associated Press.
From George F. Getz, treas
urer of the Republican National
Committee, came the disclosure
today that the Republican party
is receiving financial contribu
tions as a result of the "send
a-dime" chain letter scheme.
Meeting here with Chairman
Henry P. Fletcher and Assistant
Treasurer C. B. Goods peed, Getz
said:
"I have received several send
a-dime letters and some send-a
quarter letters as well. For the
life of me I don’t know exactly
how I am to report these con
tributions to the House of Repre
sentatives. but I certainly am
glad to get them.”
Getz, a Chicagoan, said the
conference was discussing whether
efforts to raise money should be
run on a centralized or decen
tralized basis.
Asked whether the party could
produce a candidate of sufficient
strength to defeat Franklin D
Roosevelt, Getz said, -,We're hop
ing with our fingers crossed."
By FORCE MB
Foes of Utilities Urge Roose
velt to Declare Govern
or’s Office Vacant.
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON. May 15—Removal from
office of Gov. James M. Curley by the
armed forces of the United States
and the vacating of that office on
constitutional grounds were asked to
day by two foes of the public utilities.
Frank H. Sullivan of Waban. who
has fought the utilities in several rate
cases, asked President Roosevelt to
remove Curley by use of the country’s
armed forces.
He attributed the continued failure
of the State to receive $600,000,000 in
Federal funds to the belief of the
President that Gov. Curley was not
properly sworn into office.
Wyclifle C. Marshall, Boston rate
attorney, on the other hand, took
Attorney General Paul A. Dever to
task for alleged failure to answer
letters complaining that Curley was
not properly sworn in as governor.
Marshall argued Curley’s inaugural
was unconstitutional because the State
Senate was not present when he was
sworn in. He. too. termed the present
State administration a defacto gov
ernment.
KINGSFORD-SMITH
LANDS MINUS MOTOR
850 Miles at Sea, He Wins Fight
to Save Plane After En
gine Falls.
By the Associated Press.
SYDNEY. Australia, May 15.—Sir
Charles Kingsford-Smlth, hero of
aeronautical adventures over both the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, brought
his veteran tri-motored plane, the
Southern Cross, to a safe landing to
day after a desperate struggle to
avoid plunging into the stormy Tas
man Sea.
Misfortune overtook the Southern
Cross when it was 850 miles out to
sea en route to Wellington. New Zea
land, with a cargo of special jubilee
mail.
The propeller and part of one of
the three motors tore loose from their
fastenings and hurtled into the water.
The remaining two motors sputtered
and coughed under their added load.
As the flyer sent out an S O S the
freight was dropped in an effort to
keep the faltering craft aloft. Then
the Jubilee mall was tossed into the
Tasman in a final effort to avert
disaster.
The plane finally was maneuvered
to a safer altitude and nursed back
to the mainland.
With Sir Charles and his cargo of
34,000 pieces of mall and other
freight were Capt. P. C. Taylor, navi
gator, and J. Stannard, wireless
operator.
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STM DELAYS
NEXT BONUS MOVE
Backers Await Senators’
Return—Garner Silent on
Rumored Support.
By the Associated Press.
A delay of several days In sending
the Patman cash bonus bill to the
White House for a veto appeared
likely today as backers of the meas
ure awaited the return to Washing
ton of absent colleagues favoring the
legislation.
Meanwhile, Vice President Garner
refused to comment on published re
ports that he was advising Sena
tors it would be good politics to over
ride the President's veto.
Earlier this week, it had been re
ported that the Vice President, at the
week end conference between Pres
; ident Roosevelt and congressional
leaders, had advised that it would be
a wise course to settle the bonus ques
tion by letting the Senate over-ride
the veto.
Senator Thomas. Democrat, o/ Ok
lahoma. who had been quoted as say
ing Gamer was for the bill, told
newspaper men he had heard only
rumors.
Party Leaders Confident.
Administration leaders were per
fectly willing to let the bonus issue
ride indefinitely. Though they had
the power to call up the Thomas mo
tion to reconsider the vote oy which
the Senate passed the Patman bill,
they were satisfied with the strategy
of the cash bonus leaders, because
they were confident they could keep
enough votes to sustain the veto.
Also, the Democratic leadership took
the view that the longer the Patman
bill was delayed, the less time there
would be after the veto was sustained
in which to organize a new drive for
bonus legislation at this session.
Reynolds Returning.
Senator Reynolds, Democrat, of
North Carolina is returning from the
Virgin Islands, where he went to con
duct an investigation of the admin
istration of Gov. Paul Pearson. Other
Senators backing the Patman bill were
out of the city, and the measure was
not expected to go to the White House
until the last of this week or early
next week.
Bonus leaders also were waiting for
Dennis Chavez, newly appointed Sen
ator from New Mexico, to arrive and
be sworn in. They were informed that
he had not yet left his home State,
indicating that the bill would be held
up probably until next week.
CAMDEN VOTE TIED
Fifth Place Undecided—2 G. 0.
P. and 2 New Dealers Win.
CAMDEN, N. J.. May 15 (A*).—'The
ballot battle for control of Camden's
City Commission ended in a stalemate
today on the face of complete unoffi
cial returns, with two Republicans and
two New Deal Non-Partisan Fusion
ists in office and the fifth place dead
locked in a tie vote.
Demands for a recount were heard
on both sides as Judge Frank Neutze
ordered ballot boxes impounded under
police guard.
President Reports Loss of Bill,
Asking Congress for Duplicate
President Roosevelt has had all
sorts of annoyances since becoming
President, but today he was forced to
notify Congress that a bill sent to
him for his signature had been lost.
and he wants Congress to send a
duplicate.
While the President sent the mes
sage under his name, it was the In
terior Department which lost the bill.
In a brief message to Congress on the
subject, Mr. Roosevelt made known
this fact by quoting a letter from the
Secretary of the Interior advising him
of the loss.
Fortunately, the bill was not highly
important. But, according to some of
the oldest authorities of the White
House, this is only the second time
in the memory of any one that such
a thing has happened. No one re
called what President was responsible
for the first offense.
The President’s message follows:
• "To the House of Representatives:
“I am in receipt of the following
letter from the Secretary of the Inte
rior advising me of the loss of en
rolled bill H. R. 6084. authorizing a
bond issue for the town of Ketchikan,
Alaska:
"‘I regret to report the loss of en
rolled bill H. R. 6084, authorizing a,
Us
N. H A EXTENSION
DEADLOCK SEEN IN
NOOSE ATTITUDE
Lower Branch Reported Fa
vorable to Two-Year Plan
of President.
FIGHT MAY CONTINUE
PAST JUNE 16 LIMIT
Miss Perkins and Swope Urge
Roosevelt Program After
Conference.
By the Associated Press.
A deadlock threatened today over
extension of the N. R. A.
Senate administration leaders in
sisted they would hold out for the
10-month extension approved by the
Senate. House Democratic chiefs
gave no indication they would accept
anything less than the two years de
sired by President Roosevelt.
"I feel certain ” Speaker Byms told
reporters, ‘‘that the House is disposed
to Insist upon a two-year extension.
"The attitude as I see it is this: If
the N. R A. is worth extending at all,
it is worth extending two years; if it
isn't, it ought to be junked.
“We will take the bill up in the
House as soon as the Ways and Means
Committee finishes with it. I hope
the committee will report it in a prop
erly-modified form in a few days.
"There will be no necessity. I feel
sure, to use a gag rule to get it
through the House."
Support for a two-year extension
and revision of N. R A. was given
today at the White House by Secre
tary Perkins and Gerard Swope of
the Business Advisory Council after
a talk with President Roosevelt.
Will Press for Action.
There was every indication that the
administration would press for the
House to substitute the presidential
two-year recommendation for the
Senate resolution adopted yesterday
merely extending N. R. A in its pres
ent form until next April.
Miss Perkins and Swope submitted
the report of the Business Advisory
Council to President Roosevelt, rec
ommending the fundamental prin
ciples of the social security program,
but proposing some changes in the
legislation passed by the House.
The Secretary of Labor described
the. council’s report as “constructive”
and said she concurred in the recom
mendations of many of the change*
proposed.
Swope said the council would make
public the report in a day or so.
He added that he knew of no crit
icism within the council of delay in
making public the report.
On Capitol Hill a deadlock threat
ened over N. R. A. extension.
Harrison Stands Pat.
Chairman Harrison of the Senate
Finance Committee had warned that
if the House changed the Senate's 10
month extension to two years, and the
measure went to conference, he would
refuse to accept the change and let
the Senate vote on the issue.
Indications were that the House
would not pass the bill for a week or
j 10 days. That would leave three weeks
or less for final action before the
June 16 dead line, the day the N. I.
R. A. expires.
| The Senate measure, exempting
! wholly intrastate business from the
codes, was discussed at a conference
! of Democratic members of the
! House Ways and Means Committee
and Charles H. West, former Ohio
i House member, who is now a "con
tact man” for the President.
Donald R. Riehberg. chairman of
the governing board of N. R. A..
I was reported 10 be drafting a defini
j tion of interstate business, for sub
I mission to the committee, which would
I permit application of codes to busi
nesses competing across State lines.
There was no indication, however,
that the House members would try to
make the new N. R. A. applicable to
the thousands of small establishments
(Continued on Page 5, Column 5.)
HITLER SPEEChTwAITED
Reichstag to Hear Foreign Policy
Address Next Tuesday.
BERLIN. May 15 <&).—An official
communique today revealed that the
Reichstag would meet at 8 o'clock
(2 p.m.. Eastern standard time) Tues
day evening to hear Chancellor Adolf
Hitler's address on foreign policy.
The sole business before the legis
lators. according to the agenda, is "to
receive a statement from the Reich's
government."
bond issue for Ketchikan, Alaska,
which was delivered to my office on
May 3 by a messenger from the White
House. The bill was receipted for by
a messenger at my door, who has no
recollection,, however, of this particu
lar document. The practice is for the
messenger to deliver enrolled bills to
the man in charge of the incoming
mail for my office, who sends them to
the file room for recording. There is
no record of the receipt of this bill
by the recording clerk. In fact, a
thorough search of the entire de
partment, including Public Works, has
failed to discover the bill, and no one
has any recollection of having handled
it. I have caused every one to search
all papers in and on their desks, but
without result.
“I am chagrined to have to re
port the loss of this bill, in spite of
the care with which enrolled bills
are handled within the department.
I recommend that you ask the Con
gress to authorize the preparation of
a duplicate. The last approval day
is tomorrow. May 15.
‘In the circumstances. I recommend
that a duplicate bill be authorised by
concurrent resolution.
(Signed)
"FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT."
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