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LAND fMUSING
Entire $160,000,000 Pro
gram in 40 Cities at Stake,
Ickes Believes.
LOUISVILLE DECISION
IS UPHELD ON APPEAL
Taking Land for Projects Held
Not Within Government’s
Specified Powers.
Br th* Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. July 15—The sixth
district United States Circuit Court
of Appeals held today the Federal
Government has no power to con
demn land for use in public housing
projects.
The court acted in sustaining Judge
Charles I. Dawson of Louisville, now
retired from the bench, who on Jan
uary 4 held condemnation for such
a purpose to be illegal, through fail
ure to come within the Government’s
power to condemn lands for public
buildings, parks, fortifications or ar
senals.
Directly affected is a $1,618,000
housing project In Louisville. Ky. In
directly. however. Secretary Ickes has
said, the suit here affected the entire
$160,000,000 housing program In some
40 cities.
Taken to Supreme Court.
Originating In Louisville, the suit
normally would have come to the
court here on appeal, but Secretary
Ickes instead had it carried dtrectly
to the Supreme Court. On March 11,
however, the Government sought and
obtained dismissal of its petition in
that court in order to return the case
here for decision, its attorneys later
appealing for early action by this
court on the ground delay would
"create a chaotic condition in the
carrying out of the entire program
of the Federal emergency adminis
trator of public works.
Judge Dawson ruled in sustaining
a demurrer filed by Edward J. Gem
ert to condemnation proceedings seek
ing title to 120 parcels of property in
Louisville valued at $347,668. The
project there contemplated housing
for 460 families.
xne taxing oi any cuxzeix »
erty for the purpose of improving it
and gelling it cr leasing it to another,
or for the purpose of reducing unem
ployment.” the court ruled, “is not. in
our opinion, within the scope of the
powers delegated to the Government.”
Three Judges Hear Case.
Judges Charles H. Moorman, Xeno
phon Hicks and Florence Allen heard
the arguments In the court here.
Judge Allen dissented from the opin
ion. however.
“The Government of the United
States is one of delegated powers.”
the court here said, “and there Is no
constitutional provision expressly au
thorizing it to exercise the power of
eminent domain. It is nevertheless
well settled that this power belongs to
the Government as an attribute to its
sovereignty. • * *
"Equally wcli settled is it that the
right can be exercised where the prop
erty Is to be taken for a public use.
The contention of the Government is
that the property here sought to be
condemned is to be devoted to a pub
lic use because, first, the construction
of the project will relieve unemploy
ment during the period of construc
tion, and secondly, the leasing or sell
ing of the new' buildings at reasonable
prices will give to persons of low in
come an opportunity to Improve their
living conditions.
"We do not think the first of these
purposes, if made effective, could be
said to constitute the use to which
the proptrty is to be put.”
Judge Allen Dissents.
Judge Allen, dissenting, wrote in
part, “I cannot agree that the con
demnation prayed for is unauthorized
tinder the United States Constitu
tion. * * *
“The problem of slum elimination
throughout the Nation lies within a
domain which the individual States
cannot reach and over which the
Congress alone has power. This is an
argument for—not against—the legal
ity of this enactment so far as it
constitutes an exercise of the taxing
power to provide for the general
welfare.”
"There Is nothing in the act under
which the apoellant is proceeding.”
Judges Moorman and Hicks obiected,
“to serve as a guide to the President
In exercising the power conferred
upon him—no requirement that his
actions be conditioned upon hiding
of facts made by himself or the ad
ministrator, no standards supplied
with reference to low-cost houses and
glum clearance project* Nothing is
said as to what shall be deemed a
glum or a low-cost hi use or nousing
project. There is no designac on as
to the cities or counties or States in
which such projects shall be estab
lished, nor any standard fixed by
which the administrate! is to deter
mine where they are to be established.
Neither is there any limitation or re
quirement imposed upon the admin
istrator with reference to the spend
ing of money a opropriated for these
purposes. All of this is left to the
unfettered discretion or choice of the
President through his administrator
without any standarl by which he is
to act.”
. Judge Allen, only woman member
of the appellate court bench in the
Nation, argued, however, that "the
power of eminent ditnain may be ex
ercised wherever necessary and proper
“ (See HOUSING, Page 4.)
< Pombo Continues Flight,
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, July
15 OP).—Juan Ignacio Pombo, young
Spanish trans-Atlantic flyer, set out
from Port-of-Spaln today on another
leg of his leisurely flight from Brazil
to Mexico.
H« hopped off for Caracas. Vene
zuela. 300 miles twgy, planning thence
to follow the coastline to Mexico.
Program of Resources Board
Abandoned in Drive for Jobs
Lack of Money and Need of Speed
Blamed by Officials for Elimination
of Plans of Ickes’ Board.
By ths Associated Press.
High officials said today that elab
orate plans prepared by the National
Resources Board—on which President
Roosevelt originally based the $4,000.
000.000 work-relief program—have
been abandoned so far as the present
jobs drive is concerned.
Lack of money and the need for
speed in getting started toward the
goal of 3.500.000 jobs were given as
the chief reasons.
With Secretary Ickes as its chair
man, the board submitted to Mr.
Roosevelt last year a co-ordinated
public works program to improve land,
water and mineral resources. It sug
gested a permanent w'orks program
which might involve expenditure of
*) 25.000.000,000 in the next half cen
tury.
Explaining some of the delays in
! the present works program, one high
j official said today that it was not
, until May. after the work-relief act
j was passed, that any plans for spend
-
I ing the huge appropriation existed ex
j cept for those prepared by the board.
Earlier, when the Senate demanded
information on how the fund was to
be divided, the administration based
its classification entirely on the board’s
program, this official added,
j He said that although the Public
Works Administration had collabo
rated in drawing up the program, it
had no plans of its own. Neither,
he said, had Harry L. Hopkins' Relief
Administration, because neither Hop
kins nor Ickes knew until two weeks
after the works-relief act was signed
which would be in charge.
After Hopkins was given the prin
cipal role, it was said, he found that
two difficulties would prevent carry
ing out the National Resources Board
■ program:
1. Much of the work, it proposed,
in particular for rivirs and harbors,
erosion control, ar.d rlghway construc
tion. would be !n ipar:fly settled areas
I i See RESOURCES, Page 3^1
9 IN HOUSE ASK
Seek to Testify in Brewster
Cochran Dispute on
Project.
By the Associated Press.
Nine House members today asked
the House Rules Committee to hear
them in its investigation ot the utili
ties lobby.
i All wanted to testify on the asser
j lion by Representative Brewster. Re
publican, of Maine, that Thomas Cor
; coran. R. F. C. attorney, told Brew
ster work on the Passamaquoddy
project in Maine would be stopped
unless Brewster voted for abolition
of •'unnecessary” utilities holding
companies. Corcoran has denied he
said that.
The nine. Representative Rankin,
Democrat, of Mississippi said, were
present at a conference before the
House voted on the utilities bill.
They were, he added: Representa
l tives Knute Hill. Democrat, of Wash
| ington; McFariane. Democrat. of
, Texas; Maverick. Democrat, of Texas;
Mareantonio. Republican, of New
York: Schneider. Progressive, of Wis
consin: Moran. Democrat, of Maine;
SauthofT. Progressive, of Wisconsin;
Zioncheck. Democrat, of Washington,
and himself.
Lobby Curb Rejected.
A bill looking to a decrease in lob
bying before Federal departments was
tentatively rejected, meanwhile, by the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Introduced by Senator Wagner,
Democrat, of New York it would con
fine appearances before the executive
departments in connection with
claims, taxes and the like to practicing
1 attorneys.
Senator King. Democrat, of Utah
was authorized to make an unfavor
able report on the bill after consult
ing one or two absentees. Members
reported the bill was almost unani
mously opposed on the ground it would
bar many experts in the tax, customs
and other fields from carrying out
legitimate tasks before the Federal
departments.
Some members of the committee
headed by Senator Black. Democrat,
of Alabama display a desire to pro
duce as much data as possible before
the final decision is made by Con
gress on the utilities bill.
The bill is now in Senate-House
j conference, which is attempting to de
cide the question whether utility hold
ing companies termed "unnecessary”
shall be subjected to mandatory
abolition.
While the committee hearings have
been temporarily halted, the mails in
a few days will bring the returns from
questionnaires sent to companies be
lieved to have taken a part in the
fight against the utilities bill.
Who supplied money for the battle,
and who spent it, are the answers
sought. The committee members as
sert they want to know if any of the
expenditures eventually will be tacked
i on the bills of power companies’ cus
j tomers.
Schall Raps Roosevelt.
Meanwhile Senator Schall. Repub
lican, of Minnesota assailed the Roose
velt administration for raising “bogy
cry of lobby.”
“Liberty is not at stake.” he de
clared. “in any country where the
citizens thereof are welcome guests at
the seat of legislation and a free lobby
maintains their rights.”
Schall said “liberty is in danger
where an autocratic executive is able
to drive away all ’lobbies’ of citizens,
control the legislative function from
the executive throne, administer gov
ernment through an executive star
chamber, as during the Stuart tyranny
in England 300 years ago. and as to
day in the New Deals here, and in
Rome. Berlin. Moscow and wherever
bureaucratic dictatorship is In the
government saddle.”
Future Uncertain as Black
Flags Wave for Frau
Schuschnigg.
By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, July 15 —Thousands of |
black flags put Vienna in deepest
mourning for Frau Herma Schusch
nigg today as her Husband. Chancellor
Kurt Schuschnigg, clung to the lead
ership of the government.
The body of the young matron lay
in state at a district church near his
toric Schoenbrunn Palace, awaiting
burial tomorrow.
An undertone of apprehension pre
vailed that the automobile accident
in which she was killed might have
injured the Chancellor more severely
than was first apparent. This possi- |
bility held prospects of far-reaching i
political consequences.
The Chancellor was depressed and !
visibly shaken on his return from his
ill-fated holiday. Those near him re
ported he feels confident he wiil re
cover speedily.
Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhem*
berg, leader of the Fascist home guard
and vice chancellor, who would step ,
into Schuschnigg's place, hastened [
back from a holiday In Italy.
The cnancellor s spiritual adviser,
Msgr. Stefan Matzinger. asserted at j
Unz that Schuschnigg is determined i
to maintain his post. He was with
Schuschnigg for many hours after
the chancellor's automobile plunged
from the road near Linz Saturday and
crashed into a tree.
Physicians there announced that '
the chancellor's physical condition
was satisfactory.
Police said they believed sabotage
was not responsible for the accident,
but persisted in an investigation, send
ing the wreckage to Vienna for in
spection.
The chancellor's 9-year-old son,
Kurt, still is in a hospital. He asked
repeatedly for his mother and was
finally told of her death.
Through his bandages the boy said:
“Good soldiers are not allowed to cry.
I am not crying."
U. S. MIDSHIPMAN
HUNTED ABROAD
Charles Kenneth Barr Sought
After Being Reported Hiss
ing From Battleship.
By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN. July 15—The aid
of Danish and Norwegian police was
enlisted today in an effort to find
Midshipman Charles Kenneth Barr,
missing from the United States battle
ship Wyoming. The battleship, which
left Oslo Thursday, la now at Copen
hagen.
ANNAPOLIS." Md..' July 15 fAP).—
Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis, command
ing the midshipmen's training squad
ron. has notified the Naval Academy
that Midshipman Charles Kenneth
Barr was missing from the battleship
Wyoming when the battleship left
Oslo. Norway, Thursday.
Barr, the son of Emmett D. Barr of
Wellsburg. W. Va., was promoted into
the third class at the Academy in
June.
He was one of the 798 midshipmen
who left the academy on the Wyoming
and Arkansas on June 7 for a practice
cruise In European waters.
Freed of Cruelty Charges.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. July 15 —
Verdicts of acquittal for two of five
former prison camp officials charged
with mistreating two colored prisoners
were directed by Judge Wilson Warllck
today when the State closed Its case.
Harlem Negroes Gird for Fight
To Save Africa for Africans
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 15.—Today’s in
creasing prospects of armed conflict
between Italy and Ethiopia found
Harlem girding for participation in
a defense of “Africa for the Africans.”
The Pan - African Reconstruction
Association, with headquarters in New
’York’s colony of 400,000 Negroes, an
nounced plans for a "gigantic" rally
in which residents will be given a
chance to pledge their lives in the
service of Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia. No date has been set. '
Samuel Daniels, founder and presi
dent of the association, said it is il
legal for Ethiopia officially to recruit
soldiers here, but said conversations
with an Ethiopian representative at
Washington had convinced him “if
you want to voluntarily organize,
you'll be welcome and accepted ”
Transportation, he declared, would
be "guaranteed,” but he did not ex
plain who would be the guarantor.
A “prelude” to the rally drew a
crowd of a few score yesterday—the
day was hot—and certain of these
stood to support Ethiopia’s resistance,
keying their remarks to the slogan of
"Africa for the Africans.”
“I'm not a public speaker,” said
one shy youth, “and I’m speaking what
I feel in my heart. But Ethiopia is
the country of our forefathers and I
feel somehow that if we help them
now, that some day they'll help us.”
Daniels charged all white countrlee
are secretly backing Italy against
Ethiopia.
«
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Must Meet Increased Mili
tary Activity of Ethio
pia, Duce Says.
EMPEROR TO RESIST
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
Rome to Remain Cool to Efforts
of Other Powers to Inter
vene, Europe Hears.
By the Associated Press.
ROME. July 15.—With war between
Italy and Ethiopia Increasingly re
garded as Inevitable, Premier Benito
Mussolini today ordered the mobiliza
tion of another regular army division
and the creation of an additional di
vision of Blackshirt militia.
II Duce also ordered the immediate
construction of 10 new submarines.
An official communique, which an
nounced the new preparations for pos
sible hostilities in East Africa, said
"the accelerated rhythm of military
preparation by Ethiopia forces us to
proceed with additional measures of !
military character."
Today’s orders brings the number !
of regular army divisions destined for 1
East Africa to five. Five Blackshirt
divisions also have been created. This
means Italy will have at least 250.000
men for service against Ethiopia,
should war begin.
The communique said II Dure had
called out specialists and technical
experts of the classes of 1909. 1910 and
1912, and summoned new quotas of
pilots and specialists for the air force.
Confirms Rumors.
The communique, issued through the
ministry of propaganda, confirmed
rumors of further mobilization orders
current here for the last six weeks.
Ordered to Africa was the Sila di
vision of the regular army, under the
command of Gen. Bertini. A new >
regular army division, to be known as
Sila II, will be created to take its |
place in the national defense forces, i
Gen. de Michelis will command the
new unit.
The new Blackshirt division will be
called the "1st of February"—the
date of the founding of the Fascist
Militia. It will be commanded by
Gen. Attilio Teruzzi, long Mussolini's
general commander of the Blackshirt
division.
Earlier the opinion was expressed
that war was certain after Emperor
Haile Selassie s statement that Ethio
pia would not accept an ItAltan zone
of Influence or construction of a rail
road through Ethiopia.
Authoritative sources pointed out
that Italy wants much more than
these two concessions—namely, a total
protectorate—but that If the Ethopian
emperor refuses small concession, he
would also reject the larger one.
Earlier Protest Recalled.
Emperor Haile Selassie's statement. j
made Saturday to the New York Times,
aroused recollections of his protest to
the League of Nations over the Anglo
Italian treaty of 1925. granting Italy
a zone of Influence in Ethopia and
the right to construct a railroad from
Somaliland to Addis Ababa.
The authoritative newspaper L*1
Stampa of Turin, often chose to echo
the government viewpoint, summed up
the Italian position on possible com
promises with Ethopia thus:
"We recognize the absurdity of
making most-honeyed maneuvers to
conduct the emperor of Addis Ababa
into circles of interest to compromise
"With Selassie and his feudal lords
the tender means of persuasion are
condemned to failure by the unfaith
fulness which is the constant and
traditional form of those barbarian
chieftains."
Authoritative sources asserted that
any further efforts by outsiders to
moderate Italy's poUcy toward Ethi
opia were sure to meet with coolness
from the government of Mussolini.
Aggression Continues.
They were convinced that the ag
gressive policies toward East Africa
remained intact, despite Ethiopia's
appeal to the United States for invo
cation of the Briand-Kellogg pact and
British moves toward further League
jurisdiction.
The pronouncement against war by
Secretary of State Cordell Hull of the
United States was received w'tth re
serve. The controlled Fascist press
was cautioned not to lead the public
into too great an expectancy of Amer
ican friendliness for the Italian cause.
Italy is not indifferent to her future
status with the League of Nations,
authoritative sources said, but feels
that France and England should agree
to Ethiopia's expulsion from Geneva,
or at least a modification of the
African kingdom's independence.
Joseph A. C. Avenol, secretary gen
eral of the League of Nations, said at
London the Council will meet July
25 to discuss the Italo-Ethlopian dis
pute. unless arbitration is introduced
in the meantime.
UNION PACT PLANNED
AS N. R. A. SUBSTITUTE
Federation of Hosiery Workers
Seeks Legal Agreement to
Cover Working Conditions.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 15.—Plans
tor “a legally enforceable union agree
ment” to replace N. R. A. control were
before the American Federation of
Hosiery Workers at the opening ses
sion of Its twenty-fourth annual con
vention today.
The federation announced the
agreement proposed would cover wages
and working conditions and provide
for arbitration in labor disputes.
In a pre-convention statement,
William 8mith, secretary-treasurer of
the federation, said union representa
tives from 18 States will be asked to
make "a widespread attack” on wage
problems of lesmless hose workers.
Jim, Do you know
Harry Hopkins
f WELL ENOUGH TO ,
l GIVE ME A GREEN
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S JoH1M!
CLOSING AIRPORT
SEEN UNDER PACT
Agreement to Sell Military
Road to County Is Reached
at Capitol.
Closing of Washington Airport to
all air transport operations and the
wiping of the National Capital off
the airline map of the United States
was taken under advisement today by
the Department of Commerce as a re
sult of an agreement at the Capitol
today under which Military road will
be kept open and transferred to Ar
lington County.
The only possible alternative. It
was indicated, will be the erection of
automobile-proof barriers to supple
ment the traffic lights and sirens i
which now protect the Military road
and airport runway crossing. Com
merce Department officials, however,
hold the bariier arrangement is at
oest only a temporary expedient and
will not condone It as a permanent
arrangement, it is believed.
The Bureau of Air Commerce has
served an ultimatum on Samuel J.
Solomon that unless complete pro
tection of air transport planes can be
guranteed they will be forced to bar
the local airport to airline operations.
Agree to Sell Road.
The agreement to keep Military road
open was reached at a conference be
tween Chairman McSwain of the House
Military Affairs Committee. Represent
ative Smith of Virglhia. Roy S. Braden,
Arlington County manager, and mem
bers of the Arlington County Board,
held in the office of Smith at the
Capitol.
The group agreed on an amendment
which will permit the Government to
sell Military road to Arlington County
for $1 and will authorize the county to
maintain and keep the road open.
The agreement virtually nullifies the
pending McSwain resolution to close
Military road, upon which McSwain
had been expected to request a special
rule from the House Rules Committee.
The Rules Committee had been told
that three Government departments
had united in urging action by Con
gress before adjournment on account
of the grave peril to human life in
keeping the Military road open be
tween two halves of the airport.
It was on this basis that Chairman
O'Connor and members of the Rules
(8ee AIRPORT, Page 3.) I
INDIA’S “DEATH CITY”
AGAIN ROCKED BY QUAKE
Mysterious Gurglings Accompany
Heavy Temblor in Quetta,
Where 26,000 Were Killed.
By the Associated Press.
QUETTA, India. July 15.—An earth
shock of great intensity, lasting 15
seconds, was felt here at 11 a.m. to
day. It was accompanied by strange
gurgling sounds.
Quetta, the “city of death." was
already In ruins from an earthquake.
May 31, in which 26.000 persons died.
The total number of deaths through
out the Indian area devastated by
that temblor has been estimated at
about 60.000.
More than 100 villages were de
stroyed throughout a surrounding dis
trict about 130 miles long and 20
miles wide.
Another severe earth shock was felt
at Quetta, June 15.
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Parachute Juniper
Falls,Hits Another:
Both Land Safely
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. July 15—A jumper
whose parachute was torn away In
midair was saved by a fellow para
chutist in a thrilling episode at the
Moscow military airfield today.
Soldier NoskofT caught on the
stabilizer of an airplane after leap
ing from the wing, lost his chute, and
hurtled down. In midair he struck
another parachutist. Soldier Krasi
koff, and clutched him desperately.
Kr&sikofT's chute was not enough
to support the two men and they
began to fall rapidly. Unable to move
his arms, KrasikofT shouted to Nos
kofT to open the reserve chute. It
had slipped from its place, however j
Three hundred feet above the earth
NoskofT finally found the cord of'
KrasikofT s reserve chute and opened
it in time to check their fall. Both
landed safely.
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To Invade North on Speak
ing Tour—Denies He
Is in Race.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. July 15.—Gov. Eugene
Talmadge said here today he planned
a series of speeches in the North this
Fall to "prevent the renomination of
President Roosevelt."
.On his return from Jacksonville,
where he visited the Georgia Na
tional Guard now in annual encamp
ment. the Governor was asked about
reports that he had said there he
planned to seek the Democratic nomi
nation for President and would open
his campaign in Illinois in September.
"I didn’t say that," the Governor
said. "Somebody's got me wrong.
I'm going up there to prevent the
nomination of President Roosevelt, If
you get what I mean."
QUOTED ON CANDIDACY.
Governor Held Seeking Democratic
Nomination Next Year.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla., July 15 UP).
—The Jacksonville Journal today
quoted Gov. Eugene Talmadge of
Georgia as saying he will seek the
Democratic nomination for President
and will open his campaign in Illinois
in September.
“I'm saving Florida until last." the
Governor in red galluses was quoted
as saying. "Florida will be all right.
We're neighbors. Sure I’ll get her
vote at the national convention."
The bitter foe of President Roose
velt's New Deal was here to Inspect
Georgia National Guardsmen at Camp
Foster.
He said he had not mapped his
entire campaign for the presidency,
but would open in Illinois in Septem
ber for a series of speeches in the
Midwest. He expressed '‘gratification”
at the reception he said he was given
in New England recently when he
spoke there.
Describing the New Deal as a
"fairy tale," Talmadge said. “Let them
tell another story, but when is this
ABC business going to stop?"
He dismissed questions about his
political connections with Senator
Huey P. Long of Louisiana with "Oh.
Huey’s all right, but Florida and
Georgia don’t believe id shaie-the
wealth.”
COOL WAVE HERE
AS WEST SIZZLES
Comfortable Weather Is
Promised Washington for
Next Three Days.
While the Far West roasted today
under a new heat wave, which sent
records tumbling and shot tentacles
of heat north of the Arctic Circle,
Washington, following a freakish show
er yesterday, is destined for three
days of below 90-degree temperature,
the Weather Bureau forecast today.
Should the sun break through for
any length of time today, the maxi
mum temperature probably will be
near 90 degrees, but it may be followed
by further showers early tonight
Fair weather tomorrow, without much
change in temperature, is forecast.
New Record Set.
The heat wave, which set up new
alMime records all along the Pacific
Coast, also sent records toppling in
the Far North. At the mouth of the
Mackenzie River, north of the Arctic
Circle, a temperature of 84 degrees,
an all-time record, was reported to
the Weather Bureau. The Western
States were having above normal tem
peratures everywhere, but a little dis
turbance over Minnesota last night
temporarily blocked the eastward
march of the heat wave. The Minne
sota disturbance, drawing showers and
cooler air from the North, promises
cooler weather tonight for Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania.
Yesterday's shower here developed
right over the city, the Weather
Bureau reported, and was the only
shower in the Midle Atlantic States
or northward. South of Norfolk, how
ever, there was continued rain extend
ing to Florida. Charleston, S. C., had
five inches of rain in 24 hours and in
other places it was heavy.
The showers forecast for early to
night in the Washington area will be
scattered and variable in amount;
some may be quite heavy. Just where
they will develop in this general area
is problematical, and Washington will
have to "take a chance” on its rain.
89 Degrees Yesterday.
Yesterday the local temperature
lose from a minimum of 69 degrees
at 5 a m. to a maximum of 89 de
gif es at 1 p.m. The heavy shower of
yesterday afternoon drove the read
ing down 10 degrees and during the
night the Weather Bureau thermom
eters continued down to a minimum
of 71 degrees at 5 o'clock this morn
ing.
Blistering heat was recorded along
the Pacific Coast as a new heat wave
there w>ent into its second day. The
Associated Press reported from San
Francisco that high temperatures had
increased the forest-fire hazard over
a wide section of the Far West
One heat death was recorded at
Portland, Oreg., and three drownlngs
were reported.
Idaho, which has been without rain
for 40 days, sizzled, with the mercury
up to 116 degrees at Lewiston, an all
time record. Temperatures of 110 at
King Hill. 107 at Weiser and 105 at
Bqise were reported. The Grand
Coulee Dam site in Central Washing
ton. had 111 degrees; the Dalles.
Oreg., 109; Portland and Salt Lake
City, 100, and Spokane. 99
One fire raged through brush and
timber on the Sierra Nevada slope
near Reno, Nev., and three small
blazes were reported in Washington
Forest Service officials said condi
tions were "bad” and Civilian Con
servation Corpa crews were held in
readiness to fight any outbreak of
fire.
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450 Fraud Orders Are Issued
By Post Office in Lottery War ■,
A double-barreled offensive against
foreign lottery operator* was launched
today by the Post Office Department.
In one of the largest—If not the
largest—blanket fraud orders on
record, the department closed the
malls to some 450 individuals and
concerns distributing tickets from
half a down countries. At the same
time it was announced the depart
ment was moving to balk operators
using express service to get lottery
tickets into the United States from
neighboring nations.
The fraud order named 395 distrib
utors In Canada. 43 In Cuba, two In
the'Irish Tne State, two In Luzern
< . . .
burg, three in Prance, two in Ber
muda and two in Mexico.
The express service, which it is
sought to break up, apparently is a
new development. Postal officials
learned that the operators have been
making huge shipments to central
points in the United States where the
agents receiving them then have put
the tickets In the malls. The depart
ment has no supervision over the
express packages, but have been ad
vised as to the destination of these
bulk shipments and set a watch on
the distribution points. This permits
selsures as soon as the tickets find
their way into the malls.
*
BY WHITE HOUSE
“Nuisance” Repeal, Tariffs
and Sales Levy to Be
Sought.
REPUBLICANS REFUSE
LIMITING AGREEMENT
t ______________
Possibility Looms Revenue May
Be Earmarked for Pub
lic Debt.
By the Associated Press.
Legislators predicted today that vig
orous attempts soon will be made to
write into President Roosevelt's new
tax plan several proposals unwanted
by the White House.
Drives for a general sates tax, tariffs
and repeal of some of the present
"nuisance'’ levies were mentioned as
some of the tilings the President's
supporters must fight before they can
get the tax program out of the House
Ways and Means Committee.
Republicans flatly refused to be
bound today by any agreement to
limit the tax bill to the levies Mr.
Roosevelt suggested.
Representative Jenkins. Republican,
of Ohio, was one of those who refused
to be bound: in fact, he did not even
know that the committee had voted
to limit its heanngs—and tacitly its
tax bill—to the matters outlined in
the President's message.
“I certainly didn't vote that wav."
Jenkins said.
Republicans Present Refuse.
Even the Republicans who were
present at the secret meeting when
that agreement was reached refused to
I vote.
Representative Treadway of Massa
chusetts. ranking Republican on the
committee, long has advocated two
measures and he is likely to offer then:
as amendments.
They are the sales tax and the idrp
of forbidding the Federal Government
to issue any more tax-exempt secur
ities. President Roosevelt has proposed
a ban on future issuance of tax-exempt
bonds, but he wants it done by a con
stitutional amendment. His supporters
say the amendment should apply to
the restriction to Federal and State
bonds simultaneously, giving neither
an advantage over the other.
The Democrats generally feel tha:
they are bound to vote only for (1) new
taxes on inheritances. (2) increased
taxes on g'ifts. (31 stiffer levies on large
incomes, probably those above $100,000
a year: (4) new taxes on some kind of
corporation Incomes. (5) levies on
dividends received by corporations, to
prevent "evasion” of the'corporation
income assessment.
Specific Rate Decision Lags.
There has been no decision by the
Committee on Specific Rates, and there
is no prospect of one for several
days. The Democrats are divided on
whether they should decide first what
rates to fix or how much money to
raise. They have drafted, for pur
poses of the hearings, 29 schedules
which would apply varying rates and
raise from $118,000,000 to $901,500,000
a year.
Today, while tax and bill drafting
experts worked on a measure for the
committee to consider, members talked
informally about the proposals. They
also met to give final approval to a
bill setting up a Federal alcohol con
trol administration as a division in
the Treasury. The agency would ad
minister laws which, in effect, would
continue codes that existed under the
old F. A. C. A.
A possibility developed meanwhile
that money raised by the tax bill might
definitely be earmarked for payments
on the $28,660,000,000 public debt.
Two Reasons Cited.
Some members of the House Ways
and Means Committee disclosed they
had such an idea in mind for two
reasons: First, to show that the
measure really was designed to help
the budget situation, and second, to
make sure that the money was used
for that purpose.
The usual piocedure is for tax bills
simply to raise money which go into
the Treasury’: "general fund." It can
be taken from that fund and used
for any purpose.
Revenue selc om has been earmarked
for particular purposes. One occasion
was inclusion in. the national indus
trial recovery act of taxes to finance
the $2,200.000 000 public works pro
gram it authorized.
Morgenthau Statement Recalled.
This time committeemen recalled
that Secretary Morgenthau said when
he opened the hearings on the new
tax bill:
"It would be * * * unwfse not
to call on sources of revenue which
would reduce our borrowings and
later reduce the national debt without
interfering with recovery. * • •
"As Secretary of the Treasury, it is
my conviction that it would be peril
ous to regard any part of these new
revenues as available for new types
of expenditures or as justifying any
increase over our carefully budgeted
plans for Federal outlays.”
That, said the ear-marking advo
cates. was fine, but it did not go far
enough. As a result, they argued, op
ponents of the tax bill are insisting
that its primary purposes are social
rather than financial.
SMUGGLING *JAILS MONK
Father Given 2 Tears and Fine.
Took Money From Germany.
BERLIN. July 15 (A>).—Father Julian
Allais. dominican monk of French na
tionality, today was sentenced to two
years’ imprisonment and fined 3.000
marks for smuggling money across
the border.
The French father, who lived in
Germany by teaching languages, ad
mitted smuggling out 4.000 marks "to
make even a stock exchange loss.”
His case had no connection with
the series of trials of German monks
and nuns for similar offenses.