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ROOSEVELTSEEKS
N.RA ALTERNATIVE
White House Favors Each
State Legislating for*
Itself.
•t the Assorts ted Press
Ways to bring about adoption of
minimum wage and maximum hour
standards in all the States, rather
than attempting another N. R. A.,
are being studied within the admin
istration.
Members of Congress, arriving in
4 greater numbers today for the session
to convene next week, found that sub
ject among the foremost at the Cap
itol.
While President Roosevelt has kept
his views to himself, some leading
Democrats evidently do not expect
him to side with advocates of an im
mediate attempt to amend the Con
stitution or to curtail the powers of
the Supreme Court.
' Committed to N. R. A. Goals.
They predicted he would discuss the
problems of spreading employment
and purchasing power at least broad
ly in his opening message to Congress
or in his Inaugural address, but
might let detailed recommendations
await reports being prepared.
Committed to pursuit of N. R. A.
objectives, the administration has met
difficulty in devising specific methods.
The White House preference ap
parently is for each State to legislate
for itself on labor standards and fair
business practices, and establish Fed
eral jurisdiction when problems be
come interstate or national in char
acter.
Success of such a plan would be con
tingent on conformance by virtually
all States. Up against the same handi
cap on unemployment Insurance, Con
gress imposed a uniform pay roll tax
under which the co-operating States
get back almost all they put in. The
non-co-operating States lose their
chare.
37 States Join Program.
At least 37 States will have joined
that program by the end of this week.
Some officials have suggested a similar
plan might work for business regula
null.
Senator O'Mahoney. Democrat, of
. Wyoming proposed a different line of
attack today. Pointing to the recent
Supreme Court decision upholding the
subjection of prison-made goods to the
laws of the State into which they may
be transported, he said his revised bill
for a Federal charter act would provide
similar protection for States banning
child labor and instituting wage and
hour standards.
Under it. no goods could be sold in
a State unless produced under stand
• ards enforced in that State.
' One purpose.” he said, “is to en
courage a better distribution of the
national income. The need is illus
trated by the recent report of the
Securities Commission, indicating that
'insiders’ hold about 21 per cent of all
capital stocks to the detriment of the
interests of the 79 per cent.”
Plane
(Continued From First Page.)
where their Northwest Airlines plane
crashed December 18.
List of Passengers.
Others aboard the plane were:
A. L. Markwell, Los Angeles dia
mond broker.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Ford, jr„
San Marino, Calif. Ford is a son of
the president of the Grace Line
Steamship Co.
John Korn, believed to be from El
Centro, Calif.
H. S. Teague, Los Angeles.
Mrs. W. A. Newton.
M. P. Hare.
A. Novak.
Miss E. Valanoe.
Co-Pilot Robert McLean, Oakland.
Stewardess Yvonne Trego, Hastings.
Mich.
The airline sent a squadron of
planes aloft at daybreak and searched
by land with a caravan of automobiles. !
» John Kimmel, operations field man
ager, said the search would be con
centrated within a 40-mtle radius of
the Union Air terminal.
At 7:36 p.m.. Pacific time. Pilot
Blom asked the control tower at the
Burbank Airport for a radio beam.
Previously he had reported he would
be seven minutes later than his
•chedueld landing time of 7:30.
When the tower operator requested
his position, Blom replied, "Wait a
minute,” and nothing further was
heard from him. The fact that he
used his day frequency was taken as
evidence his radio was out of com
mission.
Search Begun.
Other United Air Line planes In
the air during the evening were or
dered to land at Bakersfield to keep
the radio channels clear for contact
with the lost plane. Ground stations
In Western Arizona and Southern
California made repeated efforts to
reach it. broadcasting weather condi
tions. There were low-flying clouds
at the time and frequent rain squalls.
Regular transport planes flying up
and down the Pacific Coast were in
structed to maintain a sharp lookout.
All airports, emergency landing fields,
weather bureaus, forestry stations and
other possible points of contact were
asked to keep watch.
In the possibility that the plane
(night have crossed the Sierra Mad re
Mountains into the Mojave Desert, the
search also was extended there.
Plane Heard Over Lake.
One report, received by air line offi
cials from the Weather Bureau station
at Lebec, between here and Bakers
field, said a large plane had been heard
circling over Quail Lake, In the
Tehachapi Mountains. 100 miles
northeast of here, about 9:30 p.m.
Markwell. one of the plane passen
gers, was returning to Los Angeles
from a business trip and a visit with
relatives In Hayworth, Calif. A
pioneer aviation enthusiast, he habitu
ally used planes for travel and former
ly piloted his private ship.
Ford and his wife, the former Char
lotte Hall of Pasadena, were married
■ix months ago. They were returning
from a holiday visit with his father
In San Francisco.
Weary snowshoed searchers finally
located the bodies of pilots Joe Liver
more and Arthur A. Haid in the
Horthwest Airlines plane on a moun
tain aide, but searchers for the Utah
plane said concealing snows might
hide its fate until Spring. All seven
of its passengers were believed dead,
if not from injury, then from ex
posure.
Bags of Christmas mail were re
covered from the Idaho plane which
vanished December IS.
Women of Transvaal, South Africa,
are urging compulsory voting.
Oppose Bill for Sunday Liquor Here
These photographs were snapped at the District Building today as representatives of dry and
other reform groups appeared en masse to oppose the Dirksen bill, which ivould permit the
sale of hard liquor here on Sundays. J. R. O’Neal is shoivn at the left and Wilbur La Roe at the
right. Both men criticized the measure. —Star Staff Photos.
Berlin
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offered Germany’s support ’for a
British proposal to halt the influx of
volunteers, but coupled with it a de
mand that financial assistance to the
Spanish fighters likewise cease.
Russian Collections Made.
Nevertheless, the Germans again
contended. Soviet Russian collections
to assist the Spanish Socialists con
tinued.
Der Fuehrer, among his inner cir
cle of advisers, often has repeated that
1 Germany must try to come to some
arrangement with Britain—cost what
it may.
Hence, although the volunteers may
well continue from Germany to Spain,
informed persons believed Hitler had
no desire to risk losing British sym
pathies for good by going to war on
Madrid with regular soldiers and war
ship guns.
A definite announcement -on naval
plans, growing out of the Palos in
cident. is expected soon.
In shaping a. policy to aid Gen.
Francisco Franco, the insurgent dic
tator-designate in Spain, without act
ually declaring war. Gen. Wilhelm
Faupel the German charge d'affairs
to Fascist Spain, is credited with a
major role.
With true Prussian devotion to duty,
Gen. Faupel decided to be his own
courier and bring important informa
tion personally to Berlin.
His decision was made, it was dis
closed. after a German Lufthansa
plane carrying an extensive report to
Berlin on the Spanish situation
crashed near Annecy, in the Alps, on
December 4.
Since his recent arrival here, Gen.
Faupel has been in almost continuous
conference with the German general
staff. Especially, it was said, he
stressed the dearth of non-commis
sioned officers in Franco's insurgent
army.
Meanwhile Germany formally gave
the Spanish Socialists just a day to
free the captured Palos. The exten
sion of the German ultimatum to in
clude today came after an official
spokesman had declared:
"We are awaiting the Madrid gov
ernment's next move.”
Earlier it was announced "neces
sary measures for obtaining the re
lease of the steamer have been taken.”
Chancellor Hitler was at his holi
day retreat of Berchtesgaden in Ba
varia when the British and French
Ambassadors paid a Sunday call to
the foreign office with notes de
manding a halt of volunteers for
the Spanish insurgents.
The notes caused speculation on
possible colonial and economic con
cessions for Germany if she would
guarantee peace.
SIX-POWER PATROL STUDIED.
LONDON, December 28 VP).—A six
power naval patrol, designed to “keep
volunteers and arms out of Spain," is
under consideration by British officials,
informed sources asserted today.
Germany, Russia, Italy and Portugal
may be invited to join Great Britain
and France in forming the coastal pa
trol. they said.
Ships of the fleet would carry foreign
observers as a guarantee of impartial
ity in blockading shipments of mu
nitions and men to either side in the
Spanish civil war, reliable persons de
clared.
In authoritative quarters the plan
was described as scrapping all pre
vious efforts of the International Non
Intervention Committee and making a
new start to isolate the Spanish con
flict.
Earlier hope was held in the for
eign offices of Europe's great powers
for diplomatic solution to the threat
ened spread of the Spanish civil war
through German intervention.
The continent focused its attention
on snow-covered Berchtesgaden in
Bavaria, where Adolf Hitler pondered
problems which may decide the ques
tion of peace or war for Europe.
Firm refusal of the Spanish So
cialist government to heed a German
ultimatum to free the captured
steamer Palos in the face of Nasi
threats of ‘‘reprisals’’ was believed to
have placed the immediate decision
of backing the insurgents to the limit
up to Hitler.
Adding to to the seriousness of the
question were the reported demands
of the Fascist leader, Gen. Francisco
Franco, for 60.000 troops to aid his
drive on Madrid.
But France and England hoped
offers to aid Germany's economic and
colonial needs in return for non-in
tervention would weigh heavily.
SPAIN DEFIES GERMANY.
PARIS, December 28 (**).—The
Spanish government spiritedly defied
German demands today for the release
of the captured freighter Palos and
charged the ship was bearing contra
band of war to aid Insurgent Fascists.
Resisting both threats of German
action and diplomatic pressure from
other nations desiring to calm the
crisis, the Basque Nationalists an
nounced through the Spanish Em
bassy:
“There is no question of releasing
the Palos."
The French government, fearing
the incident would upset its efforts
to enforce neutrality in the civil war,
summoned the Oouncil of Ministers to
meet tomorrow.
DEFIEOJBY HOLT
Senator Says He Will Not Be
Controlled by $370 Worth
of Jobs.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Holt, Democrat, of West
Virginia, deprived of three patronage
appointments by party leaders, today
explained the action against him by
saying. *T have told too many truth
ful things to suit their bitter par
tisanship."
Senator Hayden. "Democrat, of Ari
zona, chairman of an unofficial party
committee controlling certain Capitol
patronage, notified Holt last week
he would lose an elevator operator
and two Capitol police jobs.
Holt has been a bitter critic of the
W. P. A. During the election, he
campaigned against Senator Neely,
Democrat, of West Virginia and was
charged with being friendly to the
Republican presidential candidate.
Gov. Landon.
In a statement released through
his office today. Holt said. "I am
not going to be controlled by $370
worth of patronage"—the total of the
monthly salaries of the three jobs.
•'The control of legislators by pa
tronage is a most dangerous mroad
against good government,” he asserted.
"Too many men in official life are
controlled in this way.
"This will not discipline me. It
makes me realize that I have told
too many truthful things to suit their
bitter partisanship. It is the truth
that hurts.”
Holt is now at his home in Weston,
W. Va.
HOLT ASSAILS PRACTICE.
By the Associsted Pres*.
WESTON, W. Va , December 28 —
Senator Rush D. Holt. Democrat, of
West Virginia asserted today Senators
he declined to name ' seem to be more
interested in finding jobs for three
friends than in finding jobs for mil
lions of unemployed.”
He made his remark in saying he
had been informed by Senator Carl
Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona that “in
all probability” Holt would lose "pa
tronage positions now assigned to
you."
Holt added:
“If they (the unnamed Senators)
were to spend more time on unem
ployment problems than in releasing
three men to punish me the country
would have a higher opinion of the
Senators involved.”
Holt said he would oppose any op
position to his right to recommend ap
pointees for Federal posts.
JOINT DRIVE PROPOSED
TO CURB BOOTLEGGING
By the Assocleted Press.
Repeal Associates yesterday In
vited prohibition organizations to join
in a campaign against post-repeal
bootlegging “and the crime it sup
ports.”
W. H. Slayton of the repeal organ
ization said the invitations were ex
tended “despite a fundamental dif
ference in our philosophy as to the
best methods for handling the liquor
problem.”
The letters, he said, went to the
Anti-Saloon League of America, the
State Anti-Saloon Leagues, the Wom
en's Christian Temperence Union,
the United Dry Forces, the Methodist
Board of Public Morals, the Depart
ment of Social Service of the Federal
Council of Churches and others.
» — --—.
Liquor
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would lose respect for myself,” John
R. O’Neal, retired farmer, told the
, Commissioners. ’’When a man comes
here to destroy the Sabbath, he comes
like the reds of Russia ”
Edward C. Potter of the Forest Hills
Citizens’ Association said people who
must have liquor now’ have six days
each week in-which to procure it. and
there is no necessity for extending the
sale to Sunday.
“Liquor is doing terrible things i i
our city." declared Rev. Charles H.
Butler of the Interdenominational Re
form Federation. He said he had been
told on good authority that small boys
go around the city with wagons col
lecting empty whisky bottles from
which they drain the dregs.
Other Opponents.
Others who opposed the bill in
cluded Elizabeth M. Cox of the Wom
an's Council of the Federation of
Churches. R. H. Miller. Executive Com
mittee. Federation of Churches; Dr.
Everett M. Ellison, United Dry Forces
of the District: Mrs. Simon McKinney,
Parkview Citizens’ Association: Mr*.
A. L. Baldwin, president. Chevy Chase
W. C. T. U.; Rev. R. W. Brooks. Inter
denominational Ministers’ Alliance:
Mrs. H. F Stephens, president. Gospel
Mission W. C. T. U.: Mrs. Charles H
Schaffer, Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church: John B. Hammond. United
Dry Forces, and Jesse C. Suter.
The second bill on the proposed leg
islative program, designed to strength
en the existing gambling laws, was
briefly considered. This measure is
aimed particularly at control of the
so-called "numbers racket.” It would
make possession of numbers slips
prima facie evidence of guilt.
Suffrage Leader Is Dead.
ROME. December 28 <^).—Senator
Amedeo Sandrini, 70, a champion of
woman suffrage, died today.
Senator Howard
Is Here for Term
Ending January 5
- ■ -
Minnesotan Was Elected
to Complete Tenure
of Schall.
Guy V. Howard. Republican, of
Minnesota, who was elected November
3 to one of the shortest senatorial
terms on record, is on the job. but
will hardly have time to see the sights
of the Capital before his period of
service ends.
In fact, his term will expire before
he has a chance to take a seat in the
Senate—or introduce a bill. He was
elected to finish the rest of the term
of the late Senator Schall. and the
day Congress convenes he will be suc
ceeded by Senator-elect Ernest Lun
deen. Farmer-Laborite, elected for the
new six-year term.
Howard is not a stranger in Wash
ington, having served as a page in the
House of the Fifty-fifth Congress, and
later as an employe of the House post
office. But when he arrived for his
brief sojourn as a Senator he found a
vastly different city. Commenting on
the improvements that have been
made in the National Capital in re
cent years, he said:
“Every dollar that has been spent
here has been well spent. This is a
great city.”
Howard brought a secretary, James
W. Nash, to Washington with him.
They will remain until after the Sen
ate convenes on January 5, and then
return to Minneapolis.
I
Spirit of 1929 Is Resurrected
For New Year Eve in Gotham
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 28 -Ootham
will watch the old year out and the
new year in with the old sky-larking
spirit of 1929, say the impresarios of
after-dark entertainment along Broad
way.
The cash registers will clink to the
tune of a higher fee than they did last
New Year eve *in most of the bright
spots, and Jack Demosey—an author
ity on many subjects—estimates that
there will be 1,000,000 celebrants in
and about the city at midnight In
paper hats.
Some of the night club managers
have saluted the new “era of good
feeling” by announcing the same cover
charge they made last New Year eve.
and a half dozen did the dramatic
thing, and reduced the price.
The average rate for the night's cele
bration, however, is from $1 to $5 more
than when New Yorkers bade farewell
to 1935.
An example is the Broadway Dance
Palace, which offered the most reason
able New Year eve available on Broad
way last year—81.50 for floor show,
dancing and noisemakers. This year,
it’s $2 more.
One club in the theater belt en
gaged a bigger and better floor show
than last year's, and upped the price
from $5 to *20.
One smart night spot which charged
(35 last New Year eve cut the fee *10
this year.
To skylark in Park Avenue's largest
hotel and in the town’s loftiest night
club will cost the same as it did last
year.
Almost every hall which has as
many as two chairs is advertising a
celebration. Some of the larger
hotels expect 3.000 or 4,000 guests and
will have from five to seven parties
going at the same time.
A good average New Year eve will
cost *15 a couple, with supper, paper
hats, noisemakers and souvenirs for
the weaker sex Included.
Several places announce a quart of
champagne—America’s favorite New
Year drink—to a couple or a table
for four. Many say, “Entertainment
til dawn, with breakfast.”
The goings-on will extend to the
suburhs. A Coney Island hotel adver
tises "an eight-course supper, with all
the trimmings.”
All the bright spots offer special
diversion. At one there will be Scot
tish bagpipers to pipe in the New Year.
And the entertainment impresarios
predict there will be—as usual—some
gay lad who will hand the hat check
girl 11.000. l
COLLEGE HYGIENE
Progress of Health Prob
lems in Higher Institutions
of Education Reported.
Five years of progress In health
and hygiene In higher Institutions of
education were reported at today’s
session of the Second National Con
ference on College Hygiene, which
opened a four-day meeting in the
Wardman Park Hotel.
More than 500 representatives from
colleges throughout the coutnry were
In attendance to hear committee re
ports.
Dr. Livingston Farr and, president
of Cornell University, presided over
the conference. Dr. Hugh 8. Cum
ming. former head of the United
States Public Health 8ervice and now
director of the Pan-American Sani
tary Bureau, was chairman of the
local committee on arrangements.
Thg meeting was sponsored by the
American Student Health Association,
•he National Health Council and the
President’s Committee of Fifty on Col
lege Hygiene.
Dr. Storey Speaker.
Among speakers are Dr. Thomas
A. Storey of Stanford University,
whose book on the status of hygiene
in colleges and universities published
10 years ago ted to calling of the first
national conference on the problem
In 1931 at Syracuse University.
"Authorities in our higher institu
tions of education have come to realize
that health and hygiene are more than
a question of providing a physician to
treat a student who is taken ill while
he happens to be attending their
schools.” said Dr. Storey.
••The value of preventive measures
ia being stressed and we are attacking
the problem on a much wider front
than heretofore. We hope to inculcate
a general knowledge of health prob
lems and their solution during the stu
dents’ college course. To do that re
quires a more closely integrated pro
gram that was thought necessary a few
years ago, and we are attempting to
outline policies which cali for co-op
Beach Wear for 1937
OLGA CORNETT
Of Los Angeles wearing an attractive outfit that proved a sensa
tion at the Sunshine Fashion Revue held at Miami recently. The
ensemble features white poinsettias on a black ground, with cut
out flowers for trimming. The set also has a long princess coat
split up the back and trimmed in rick-rack. A white shell neck
lace completes the outfit. —Wide World Photo.
eration from all departments of the
college or university.”
Dinner Tonight.
A dinner for visiting delegates will
be held in the hotel tonight with Dr.
Kendall Emerson, managing director
of the National Tuberculosis Associa
tion, presiding. Speakers will include
Dr. Cumming. Dr. Farrand. Dr.
Thomas Parran. director of the United
States Public Health Service: Dr. Fred
C. Kelly, chairman of the division of
higher education of the United States
Office of Education; Dr. M. A. Bigelow,
professor of biology at Teachers' Col
lege Columbia University; Dr. E. Lee
Shrader of St. Louis University, presi
dent of the American Student Health
Association, and Dr. John Sundwall,
director of the division of hygiene and
public health of the University of
Michigan, who is president of the
American Association of School Physi
cians.
*
Rayburn, O’Connor, Rankin
Promise “Tie-Up” on
First Ballot.
Br the Associated Press.
The list of active candidates for
the House Democratic leadership nar
rowed to three today as friends of
Representative Mead. Democrat, of
New York, said he was out of the
race.
Still In the battle, the bitterest for
many a session, were Representatives
Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, and
O'Connor, Democrat, of New York,
with Representative Rankin, Demo
crat, of Mississippi, claiming enough
votes to "tie up” the scrap on the
first ballot.
House Democrats will caucus next
Monday to elect their floor leader and
renominated William B. Bankhead for
Speaker.
Both O'Connor and Rayburn hava
been claiming sufficient votes to win
on the first ballot. If all 333 House
Democrats take part, 167 votes will be
needed for a victory.
So many moves and counter moves
have entered into the contest that
many neutral observers are willing to
go no further than predicting the race
probably will be close.
Mead had not been an aggressive
candidate for the second highest posi
tion in the House. O'Connor sup
porters contended his withdrawal
would solidify the 29 New York votes
for their candidate.
Rayburn forces, nevertheless, were
counting on some New York strength.
They were figuring, too. on 26 of 27
votes from Pennsylvania, although
1 Representative Nichols, Democrat, of
| Oklahoma, an O'Connor campaign
manager, has asserted the Texan will
get no more than 10.
Some Representatives looked for new
discussion of a possible "dark horse"
selection. An outsider might have a
chance, they said, should neither Ray
burn nor O'Connor win on the initial
ballot and a threat of a deadlock
I arise.
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