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WAGNER ACT GIVEN
SUPPORT IN BRIEF
Associated Press Case Hit
by Cummings’ Argument
in High Court.
By the Associated Press.
A detailed defense of the constitu
tionality of the Wagner labor rela
tions act was presented to the Su
preme Court by the Government yes
terday In a brief filed in the case
brought by the Associated Press against
.the National Labor Relations Board.
’The Government argument denied
the legislation, guaranteeing collective
bargaining to labor, violated freedom
of the press and insisted it was within
the power of the Government to regu
late interstate commerce.
The brief, signed by Attorney Gen- i
eral Cummings, also denied the act'
violated the "due process" clause of
the Constitution or deprived litigants
of the right to trial by Jury. The case
will be argued during the week of
February 8.
Says Issues Limited to Two.
* Cummings’ brief also contended
only two issues were before the court
and that the Associated Press had no
standing to assert the act’s uncon
atitutionality on any other.
"It is difficult,” it asserted, “to un
derstand petitioners contention that
the act applies to’ all industry and all
employes. The act is, in terms, lim
ited to the prevention of unfair labor
practices ’affecting commerce.’"
"The argument is based upon a
complete misapprehension of the
facts.” the brief continued, because
"the board has never assumed that
the act was one of general applica
tion.”
Referring to an order by the Labor
Relations Board directing the Asso
ciated Press to reinstate Morris Wat
eon. a discharged employe in the New
Tork office, the brief asserted:
"The order of the board does not j
violate the guarantee of the freedom 1
of the press contained in the first
amendment. A valid statute of gen
eral application does not become in
valid when applied to the press.
^ ^’Clearly the present act does not
'discriminate against the press, nor
-■constitute a device to limit its free
iddm under the guise of a regulation
of commerce.
. , "Nor does It curtail the privilege of
.petitioner to discharge employes who
exhibit actual bias in editing the
news. Petitioner (the V;ociated
Press), is accordingly reduced to the
contention that a member r* labor
organization must be conclusively pre
sumed to be biased, a proposition
Which is obviously unsound. • • •
"We admit without qualification that
petitioner has a privilege, unaffected
by this act. to discharge an employe
because he exhibits bias in editing the
news. Certainly the free circulation
of opinion would be seriously Impaired
If the press could not discharge em
ployes who have exhibited bias in
news writing.
Privilege Held Same.
-But neither the act nor the order
here involved constitutes the slightest
infringement of petitioners privilege
in this respect. The statute goes no
further than the requirement that pe
titioner refrain from interfering with
r its employes In their self-organization
for collective bargaining, and conse
quently that petitioner refrain from
discharging an employe for the reason
that he belongs to a labor organiza
tion.
“The order of the board imposes no
further restriction on the freedom of
petitioner to discharge an employe for
bias in editing news than does the act.
‘Watson, the only employe ordered
to be reinstated, was never claimed by
petitioner to have been discharged on
account of bias. Ostensibly he was
discharged ‘on grounds of his work
not being on the basis for which he
has shown capability/
"The board found that in fact
Watson was discharged because of his
activity as a member of a labor or
ganization (the American Newspaper
' Guild). • « • ^
Act Held Free of Blame.
* “There is thus no basis for the con
tention that either the act or the order
<ln any way restricts petitioner’s free
, dom to discharge employes for bias
in editing news. The board has made
i no attempt so to construe the act and
if any such application of the act were
to be made in the future, the guaran
tees of the first amendment could be
Invoked.”
The Government contended the
business of the Associated Press, "A !
world-wide news gathering and news j
transmitting association composed of !
, newspapers or persons representing
newspapers, plainly constitutes inter
state and foreign commerce.”
"The power of Congress over inter
state commerce,” the brief continued,
‘‘is sufficient to cope with problems
raised by each new form of inter
communications among the States.*•*
* “Industrial strife in petitioner’s New
York City office would seriously and
directly burden interstate commerce
and involve at least difficult and ex
pensive rerouting of news, and at most,
a paralysis of much of petitioner s
•ygtem.”
150 “Laid Off”
lit W.P.A.Slash
Of Personnel
■ Clerical and Super
visory Employes
Given Surprise.
Approximately ISO clerical and
supervisory employes of the W. P. A.
Sre were notified yesterday that they
d been placed on “Indefinite fur
lough" in line with a personnel re
duction program ordered in the Pail
by Relief Administrator Hopkins.
The lay-offs were In addition to 100
others affecting relief workers under
the W. P. A. since the middle of this
month. The clerical and supervisory
furloughs were given employes on the
basis of efficiency ratings, it was said.
The relief workers were laid off
alter social service investigators made
reports on their economic condition,
according to Otto J. Cass, acting
deputy administrator of W. P. A. for
the District under Commissioner
George E. Allen.
: Some of the furloughed clerks and
supervisors said their notices were
handed them shortly after they paid
$2.50 each for tickets to the President’s
birthday celebration tonight. They
said they were asked some time ago
to buy tickets and did so before they
knew what the pay they received yes
terday was the last they could expect
for an indefinite period.
’*'***'
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
COMMENT.
A YOUNG woman in Government
service who rather leans to
the plump side has about de
cided to get up earlier so she
won’t have to taxi to work every
morning.
After more or less difficulty she had
succeeded in dodging a jehu who
writes—and recites—poetry, and was
secretly congratulating herself on one
of the morning trips, when seized
with a fit of coughing.
The new driver turned around.
“So you’ve got a cough?" he in
quired sympathetically.
Yes, she had a cough.
‘ That's bad, that's bad. My mother
got a cough and it ran into pneumonia
and killed her. She was fat, too."
• SYSTEM.
"Horse sense” carries a neto
meaning to a resettlement worker
recently returned from a field trip
to one of the country’s most "back
woodsy” areas.
Interviewing the father of 10
children she found that he knew
the age of only one of his off
spring.
"How docs it happen you know
Margaret is 4 but can't tell me the
age of any of the others?" she
asked the man.
"Oh. I can always remember
Margaret's age.” he explained.
"She and my horse fanny were
bom the same day."
* * * *
REWARD.
A WASHINGTON lawyer, who live*
in nearby Virginia, purchased a
steak for his dinner yesterday eve
ning and left the same on the front
seat, of his car while he went into
another store to purchase some read
ing matter, the machine being double
parked. Thinking to let any policeman
know he was nearby, he left the door
of his machine open and when he
came out of the store got in the
machine and drove off.
About two blocks away he happened
to look into his rear view mirror
and learned that he had company
on the back seat of hi' closed car
in the person of a large English bull
dog. He says it took him all of 10
seconds to figure out that he had better
keep driving and not make any false
moves. He rode the dog around the
several blocks, stopped at the curb
and in a very courteous manner asked
the dog to leave. The puzzling thing
is that the dog did not ofTer to dis
turb the steak. However, the lawyer
says there are methods other than
tickets of breaking up double park
ing and—never again.
* * * *
OLD.
"FV> Y0U have a P**111117" Inquired
Pvt. R. W. Mower of the ninth
precinct when he arrested James
Harley.
“Sure have ” replied Harley as he
proudly passed a worn once-whlte card
to the officer.
Puzzled, Mower took the card and
examined it. It was ar. operator's
permit, all right—Issued 18 years ago.
Whereupon Mower told his prisoner
he could not drive on that.
“Don't know’ why not,” said Harley,
“I've been using it for 18 years and
it seems to work just as good now—
or did until a few minutes ago—as it
did when it was new.
Traffic Judge Edward M. Curran
released the defendant on his personal
bond to secure a later edition of the
required card.
* * * *
BAG.
JF street car and bus passengers ad
dicted to reading tnystery stories
would turn their attention to the
bulging brief cases and leather port
folio* lugged back and forth day after
day by a well-established contingent
of commuters, they would find a fer
tile field of mystery and conjecture.
There is a well-defined conviction
on the part of many fellow passen
gers that these carriers contain some
thing other than weighty official
business to be mulled over far Into
the night. In fact, the opinion has
been ventured by more than one keen
observer that these brief cases serve
the purpose of a Boston bag, a small
hand satchel indigenous to the Massa
chusetts metropolis. Therein the com
muters carry their lunch, newspapers
and other reading matter, and take
home laundry, groceries and supplies
not obtainable at the community
stores.
Maybe some Ingenious soul will ap
ply an electric eye to some of these
emblems of official business and get
a true inventory of their contents. In
the meantime you can draw your own
conclusions, based on the appearance
of the owner and his luggage, and
decide whether he guards documents
of International importance or is Just
"bringing home the bacon.”
a a a a
CANKS.
If Frank Jaeger were given to
tinging, his song might be "hand
me down my walking cane, the one
of shark’s vertebra, please ..."
for Frank is a collector of walking
canes. The thark’t spine cane is
the most unusual of the lot, being
of standard proportions, smooth
and unvarnished. The trick is to
fit the many segments over a steel
rod and then turn on a lathe until
only the final one-sixth remains.
If, however, you art more inter
ested in an Irish shillalah, hand
carved, Frank could show you one
of those, too.
Prohibitioniit Splits Ticket
KANKAKEE, HI. OP).—A recount
of election votes here revealed one
voter put friendship ahead of prin
ciple. He voted the straltht Prohibi
tion ticket with one exception. His
choice for coroner was a tavern owner,
Robert McKenna, a Democrat
n i
IN TRADER PROBE
Divorce Suit Co-respondent
Among Those Called Be
fore Grand Jury.
Mf the Associated Free*.
SNOW HILL, Md., January 30.—
Moving under a cloak of secrecy, State
Police Sergt. Marlin Brubaker late
yesterday brought Samuel Smith, 63,
of Puncoteague, Va., to Snow Hill,
where the elderly man was served with
a summons as a State witness in the
grand Jury probe of the Trader death
mystery. Altogether 22 persons have
been summoned.
Smith was named co-respondent In
divorce proceedings filed last Decem
ber by Clarence J. Trader, local utili
ties operator, whose fatal shooting will
be investigated by the grand Jury when
it gathers on Monday. The divorce
case was to have reached Circuit
Court on January 19, five days after
Trader's lifeless body was found at his
wife’s home In Stockton, nine miles
from here.
Operator of the Stockton Electric &
Power Co., Trader had been separated
from his wife, Mrs. Jeanette Trader,
whose name was not on the list of
witnesses given to Sheriff Ernest C.
West for appearance before the grand
Jury. The panel was summoned in
special session by Judge James M.
Crockett to consider the case.
Smith was questioned here shortly
after his arrival by State's Attorney
Thomas P. Johnson. The elderly Vir
ginian was served with the summons
as he alighted from an automobile in
front of Johnson's office by State
Policeman Charles R. Parker, dep
utized to this duty In the absence of
county police.
Others on the jury witness list
include:
Three sons of the couple, Estel. 21;
Richard. 18. and Roy, 13; other rela
tives were Allen Trader. 19-year-o!d
relative of the operator, and Mrs.
Emma Trader, the deed man's foster
mother.
TANKER SINKS, 3 SAVED
BREMEN, Germany, January 30
(/»>).—The 1,100-ton tanker Ollfer
sank with all but three hands yester
day in the raging waves off the small
island of Borkum. In the North Sea,
while the liner Europa stood by vlr
I tuslly helpless to aid. Three men
! were rescued by the Europa's life
boat.s. The number lost was not
known.
i- ■
Ten Years Bereft
Of Wife and Baby,
Man Gives Layette
Red Cross Workers Sur
prised by Donation for
Flood Victims.
By the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.. January
JO.—A man walked Into Red Cross
headquarters and deposited a handbag
among other flood relief donations.
Workers opened the bag and found
a complete baby's layette, of good
material.
"Why this Is perfectly new," an
astonished worker exclaimed. "And
it was made with the greatest care.”
"Yes, it was made by my wife, but
she and the baby died," the donor
said. “I kept these things 10 years,
but now I believe these people need
them.”
_
Seeks to End Bitter Fight
Between Army and Po
litical Leaders. *
Br the Auoclated Praia.
TOKIO, January 30 —Gen. Senjuro
Hayashi prayed to the spirits of
Japan's dead soldiers and sailors today
for success in his efforts to form a
cabinet and end the crisis over the
bitter fight between army and po
litical leaders.
Hayashl. twice minister of war. was
ordered to assemble a government
after the army had forced the Liberal
Kazushlge Ugakl to fail.
Considered agreeable to the ex
tremist elements in the military
bureaucracy, his efforts were believed
almost certain of success.
Some circles, however, condemned
the new premier, designated by the
Emperor last midnight, as an out
right militarist. The Japanese press
accepted dissolution of the Diet as
a certainty, as well as formation of
a strong Rightist party to support
the Hayashl government.
Financial quarters felt Hayashi
would extend the Hirota cabinet's
financial policies to final national
control of trade, industry and public
utilities. They also expected Hayashi
would strongly support the army's
policy on the continent, promoting
economic penetration of North China
and building up the Manchoukuoan
' and Japanese armies.
SUSPECT IS HELD
Confession of Extortion At
tempt is Reported by
i. Edgar Hoover.
BT BEX COLLIER.
An alleged extortionist who this
week chose as his victim Edward O.
Bremer, 8t. Paul banker, for whose
release three years ago his family paid
$200,000 to the late Karpis-Barker
kidnap gang, today faced the same
swift path of justice down which
G-men led more than a score of per
sons involved in the 1934 “snatch.”
Captured In St. Paul Thursday when
he allegedly aought to extort $10,000
from the financier under threat of
injury. Fred Eiden was held in St.
Paul today on a charge of violating
the Federal extortion statute. Accord
ing to J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Eiden confessed when arrested by
F. B. I. agents.
Letter Mailed Monday.
Undismayed by the record of the
G-men in rounding up every partici
pant In the kidnaping of Bremer,
Eiden Is alleged to have mailed a
letter last Monday, demanding money
from Bremer, who is president of the
Commercial State Bank in St. Paul.
The letter, turned over to F. B. I.
agents by the banker Immediately, in
structed Bremer to carry the $10,000
in his pockets and to be ready to
hand it over to a person who would
approach him on the street and give
him an envelope marked “Hello, Ed.”
Before the pay-off occurred, how
ever, a phone call was received by
G-men Investigating the letter, pur
porting to give Information about the
case. They traced the call to an ad
dress in St. Paul, where Eiden was
arrested.
Bremer Kidnaped Jan. 17, 1934.
Bremer was kidnaped January 17,
1934, carried to Bensenville, HI., and
held for 21 days by members of the
Karpis gang. His captors collected
the ransom on a lonely Minnesota
road after signaling to the inter
mediary with colored flashlights.
Fingerprints found on a gasoline
can used by the kidnapers resulted in
identification of Arthur ("Doc”)
Barker as a member of the gang. The
purchaser of flashlights was Identified
as Alvin Karpis. Karpis. “Doc" Barker
and five other participants are serving
life sentences, three of the gang were
killed by G-men. 2 were murdered by
underworld enemies and the remainder
were given prison sentences of various
lengths.
Death Claims E. D. Godfrey, 95,
On Eve of Birthday Observance
—
Was Oldest of Oldest
Inhabitants and Civil
War Veteran.
On the eve of his ninety-fifth
birth anniversary, which was to have
been celebrated today by a gathering of
relatives and friends. E. D. Godfrey,
well known Civil War veteran and
oldest member of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants, died yesterday
afternoon at his home, 1411 Monroe
street.
Plans had been completed for
birthday celebration today, when Mr.
Oodfrey would have been 95. From
Puerto Rico had come a daughter,
Mrs. Marion B. Bennett, to help him
observe the occasion. Arrangements
had been made for him to receive
friends from 2 to 5 and from 7 to 10
p.m.
Long Active in Church.
In unusually good health for his
age. Mr. Godfrey for years had been
active in Hamline Methodist Church,
of which he was the only surviving
charter member; in the Grand Army
of the Republic and the Association
of Oldest Inhabitants.
He had suffered a slight sickness in
December, however, which prevented
his customary attendance at the an
nual banquet of the Oldest Inhabitants.
He recovered, but was taken ill earlier
this month. Peeling much better he
had personally made plans with his
family for the birthday celebration and
had hoped to receive his friends both
afternoon and evening. But a heart
attack came Thursday night, followed
by complications yesterday, which re
sulted in death yesterday afternoon.
Bright and cheerful almost to the
last, Mr. Godfrey was remarkably pre
served for his age. Only a few days
ago he dictated a letter concerning
finances of the Department of the
Potomac of the Grand Army of the
Republic, of which he was an officer.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day morning at 11. at Hamline Meth
odist Episcopal Church. Sixteenth and '
Allison streets, with the pastor. Dr. ;
H. W. Burgan. assisted by Dr. Chesteen
Smith, officiating. Interment will be
in Glenwood Cemetery.
Fought at Chaneellorsvllle.
Bom In Olean, N. Y., Godfrey vol
untered as a private and joined
Company C of the 154th New York
Infantry. One year later, at the battle
of Chaneellorsvllle, he was officially
listed as "killed in action." but ex
plained that, wounded during the
fight, he fell unconscious on the field
among hundreds of dead and wounded.
He was taken prisoner when the Con
federates returned to the field to bury
the dead, was held for some time be- I
E. D. GODFREY.
—Star Staff Photo.
fore being paroled and sent back to
Washington by boat.
He was In the field service of the
Pension Office in the West after the
war. Returning to Washington with
improved health In 1891, he was active
In the War Department until 1920
when he was retired.
Mr. Godfrey was one of the charter
members of Hamline Methodist
Church, which was founded at Ninth
and P streets. He served for years on
the Board of Trustees, finally as trus
tee emeritus. He was adjutant and
quartermaster of Kit Carson Post, O.
A. R, and assistant adjutant general
and assistant quartermaster general of
the Department of Potomac. G. A. R.
He was in the parade of the annual
encampment of the G. A. R. here last
year, and sat In the reviewing stand
with the commander in chief of the
organization.
Attended Celebration*.
As a member of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants he attended spe
cial celebrations, auch as July 4 and
the annual banquet. He was photo
graphed last July 4. shaking hand*
with Christian Heurich. 94. who is
now the oldest surviving member of
the association.
As a Mason. Mr. Godfrey had the
distinction of being the oldest in point
of membership In the city, having
been a member for 72 years of Wash
ington Centennial Lodge.
Surviving are three daughters: Miss
Mary J. Godfrey, Mrs. Abbie B Nickle
of this city, Mrs. Marion B Bennett
of Puerto Rico, one granddaughter,
Mrs. Julia M. Goggins, and one great
granddaughter. Marjorie Mary Gog
gins of this city.
Reich
(Continued From Firs* Pairs.)
demand lor colonies will again anti
again be voiced as something seif•
evident.”
The future of the German nation,
he proclaimed, lies in "practical bases
of continuous production” rather than
in "assurances of foreign statesmen
of some sort of international aid.”
To support his point, Herr Hitler
used the synthetic production of
benzine and rubber from coal.
"What statesman.” he asked, “can
' guarantee to find for Germans the
equivalent of work involved in mining
20.000.000 or 30,000.000 tons of coal?”
Der Fuehrer finished his speech at
3:15 p m., exactly two hours from the
moment he began.
Dictatorial Powers Renewed.
Before he spoke the eager Reichstag
1 renewed Herr Hitler's dictatorial
powers.
That was necessary. Der Fuehrer
said, because of his fear the “rest
of Europe may become more infected
j with bolshevism."
Blaming "the splendid democratic
i revolutionaries in Spain"—he referred
; to the Spanish Socialist government—
‘ for causing the loss of 170,000 lives,
i Herr Hitler compared this with his
own "beautiful” system of government.
He said:
“The Spanish revolution has already
chased 15,000 Germans out of that
country and done heavy damage to our
trade.
"Should this revolutionizing process
extend to other European states this
damage would not be diminished but
augmented."
Referring to British Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden's request that Ger
many join other nations in cement
ing political and economic friendships,
the chancellor said:
“Mr. Eden may rest assured we will
seize every opportunity to strengthen
our economic relations with other
peoples, and equally every possibility
of improving and deepening the in
ternal cycle of our economic life.
Eden’s Statement Quoted.
"Mr. Eden emphasized that the
British government desires under no
circumstances to see Europe split into
two factions (fascism and com
munism).
“It seems to me that nobody In
Europe—at least not formerly—ap
parently had that desire.
“Today this desire is only an il
lusion. For actually, the division Into
two factions, not only of Europe but
of the world, la an accomplished fact.”
It is unfortunate, Der Fuehrer added,
that Britain did not express some
years ago its desire to forestall the
division of Europe into two camps—
“for in that case the Versailles treaty
never would have happened.”
He pledged Germany was “ready to
do anything possible to restore orderly
conditions in Spain” and promised the
Reich would not "in the hour of weak
new of another people take something
from It or extort anything in the
future.”
rnu8 ne reiterated his renunciation
of territorial desires in Spain.
Outlines Belief*.
In the rearrangement of the world,
he said he believed natural life and
its necessities must be taken into
account.
He explained:
"If. for instance, the sole task of
the league of Nations should be to
guarantee the existing status of the
world and safeguard It for all eter
nity, then one might as well assign
the task to it of watching ebb and
flood, or in the future to regulate the
course of the Oulf Stream."
Der Fuehrer cloeed the foreign sec
tion of his address with a series
of "recommendations" directed to
Europe:
"l- It is to the Interest of all na
tions that individual states domesti
cally enjoy stable and ordered polltloal
and economic conditions. These con
stitute the most important prerequi
sites for paving the way to lasting and
solid economic and political relations
among people.
"3. The necessities of life of an
individual people must be reaognlied
open mindedly tod admitted freely.
Only If there Is respect for these essen
tial needs can ways be found for sat
isfying life and necessities for all.
Calls far Reorganisation.
“3. The League of Nations will, if
it desires to fulfill its mission justly,
have to reorganize Itself Into an organ
of evolutionary common sense and not
reactionary laziness.
"4. Relations of nations among
themselves can only be regulated hap
pily if based upon mutual respect and
absolute equality.
“5. It is impossible to blame, at will,
now one and now another nation for
the Increase or limitation of arma
ments, but it is necessary to envisage
this problem within that total frame
work which creates its pre-conditions.
“6. It is impossible to attain real
pacification of peoples so long as con
tinued instigation by an international
and irresponsible clique of 'well pois
oners' and opinion falsifiers is not
stopped.
“7. It has been proved that settle
ment of European problems can always
beet be accomplished within the limits
and extent of the Individual powers.
Germany is happy today to have es
tablished such close and friendly re
lations. May it prove possible to fos
ter such relations in a similar manner
with other European nations I
See* Aid te reace.
"8. It will aid European peace In
its entirety if. in the treatment of
nationalities which are compelled to
live among strange people as minor
ities, mutual consideration is shown
for the rightful feelings of national
pride and consciousness.”
Asserting that Germany's resump
tion of military sovereignty was a mat
ter affecting only the Reich, the Nazi
chancellor told his Reichstag:
“We have taken nothing from any
nation—nor have we done any na
tion wrong.”
Then he added:
“I hereby declare that through these
actions, that part of the Versailles
treaty which deprived our nation of
equality and degraded it to a position
of an inferior people, has found Its
natural end.
Not quite a year ago, the self-same
Reichstag which Der Fuehrer ad
dressed today—on the fourth birthday
anniversary of Nasi power—remili
tarized the broad Rhineland in viola
tion of the treaty of Versailles.
Wildly cheering, the Reichstag arose
in applause of the chancellor’s state
ment. His address was halted for
several minutes aa the members
“helled” and whistled their approval
of his course.
When the chamber quieted down,
Hitler went on:
"The time of so-called surprises
is thereby ended.
“As a state with equal rights. Oer
many, mindful of her European task,
will loyally co-operate in solving the
problems which stir us and other na
tions.”
Der Fuehrer swung suddenly Into an
exposition of Germany’s national posi
tion In the European family of na
tions, declaring:
“It is a mistake to claim Oermany
has any intention whatsoever to isolate
herself, to ignore unfeelingly the hap
penings in the rest of the work! or to
leave out of consideration the necessi
ties common to all.
"We Germans neither wish to be
isolated nor feel ourselves isolated.”
He characterized Nasi relations
“with moat European states” as “nor
mal” and declared German dealings
with “a number of states” were “very
friendly.”
“Germany in the past few years has
inaugurated or resumed or improved
a considerable number of political re
lations,” Der Fuehrer explained.
"And—I dare my-—we have estab
lished close and friendly relatione
with a number of states. From our
point of view our relations with most
European states are normal and with
a considerable number of states very
friendly.”
Hitler listed these nations In con
nection with Improved Nasi relations:
Poland, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Yugo
slavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal and
Pscist Spain.
The Reich's position was “no less
oordieL” he asserted, "with a whole
series of states outside Europe.”
"The agreement Oermany reached
nism Is a living proof of how little
Germany dreams of isolating itself,
and by the same token, of how little
it feels Itself to be isolated.”
Urges Peaee With France.
Hitler reiterated his previous decla
ration that Germany wants peace
with France.
"In addition." he continued, "Ger
many has assured Belgium and Hol
land that it is prepared at any time
to recognize and guarantee these
states as incontestlbly neutral terri
tories.”
Denying that Germany favors a
policy of economic isolation, Hitler
said:
“I do not believe, however, that
economic co-operation between peo
ples can succeed lastingly on any
other plane save that of mutual ex
change of goods.
"Let there be no doubt, however,
that our determination to carry out
the four-year plan (Of national self
sufficiency) permits of no change.
•"The reasons which led to our de
cision are compelling. I have been
able to discover nothing recently that
might dissuade us."
Der Fuehrer, declaring that his Nazi
movement “la the most beautiful and
most perfect Democracy.” shouted
that, by contrast, 170.000 deaths were
the "achievements of the splendid
Democratic revolutionaires in Spain.”
In a setting of wildly enthusiastic
Nazi rededication, the German fuehrer
hailed the work of his own regime,
belltted "democratic world citizens”
and cried out that the most "exalted”
task of the Third Reich was the pres
ervation "of a race based cm blood—
as God gave it to us.”
Power* Extended Four Year*.
The Reichstag voted to extend Hit
ler'! dictatorial powers for an addi
tional four years as Der Fuehrer
opened Nazidom'< celebration.
By acclamation, the Parliament ap
proved a motion by Minister of the
Interior Wilhelm Frick shortly before
Der Fuehrer mounted the rostrum for
a declaration on the future course of
national socialism.
Quickly and without debate, the
Reichstag assembled, devoted 5 min
utes to election of officers ar.d placed
Col. Oen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering,
the chancellor’s chief assistant, in the
chair.
Fifteen minutes after the gavel fell,
Hitler walked to the reading stand,
surveyed the packed chamber and
launched into his address.
"It Is Impossible within the limits
of this short meeting to enumerate
all that might be put down as re
markable achievements in this most
surprising epoch in the life of our
people,” he began.
"Who can deny that during the four
years now past a revolution of the
most powerful extent swept over Ger
many?
"This National Socialist revolution
was first and foremost a revolution
of revolutions.
"By that, I mean that hitherto it
was considered a characteristic feature
of every true revolution that it must
consist of bloody annihilation of previ
ous incumbents of power and in con
nection therewith, destruction of
public and private institutions and
property.”
Ministerial party Enters.
The Nazi ministerial party, headed
by Col. Gen. Goering and Dr. Paul
Joeeph Goebbels, minister of propa
ganda, filed into the cabinet section
shortly before 1 p.m.
Seats in the diplomatic gallery were
filled and the public galleries crowded
with military and naval officials, party
representatives and spectators.
An international broadcast of the
parliament proceedings started a few
minutes before the arrival of Hitler's
chief aides.
Oennan, English and French an
nouncers described the scene over a
hook-up which Included all Nasi
stations.
For the first time since Hitler came
to power four yean ago, the aadio
network was extended to most Euro
pean countries and also was rebroad
cast in Asia, Africa and the American
Continents.
Great crowds of cheering Germans
massed outside the Kroll Opera House
where the Reichstag assembled. Be*
guards. Der Fuehrer walked slowly
into the building.
Burst Into Repeated Cheer*.
The spectators, chilled by cold, crisp
Berlin Winter, strained at the guard
lines and burst into repeated cheers at
the sight of their party and national
leader.
Turning to events of the first four- j
year period of his chancellorship,!
Hitler asserted:
"The Nazi revolution occurred prac
tically without bloodshed.
'That does not mean we were not
sufficiently manly to see blood. For
more than four years 1 was a soldier
in the bloodiest war of all time.
"In no situation and under no con
ditions did I ever lose my nerve. That
was also true of my co-workers.
"I doubt whether there ever has
been a revolution of such fundamen
tal character as the national So
cialist Revolution, which nevertheless
permitted an uncounted number of
| former political functionaries to go
: about their tasks unhindered and
which even went to the length of al
lowing numerous of its most bitter
enemies—often in the state's highest
I office*—to enjoy completely the pay
and pensions due them.”
Refer* to British Citizens.
Hitler then referred sarcastically to
British citizens who have tried to
intervene with him on behalf of a
person he called “one of the most
criminal of Moscow's subjects in Ger
man concentration camps.” He did
; not further identify him.
He also asked whether these same
persons objected to revolution ac
cording to "democratic ideals" such
as is now going on in Spain.
More than 170.000 persons have been
slaughtered in the Spanish civil war,
he asserted. He added:
"According to these achievements
of the splendid democratic revolu
tionaries in Spain, considering our
population, which is three times
greater (than that of Spain), we would
have had the privilege to kill some
400,000 or 500.000 persons.
"That we did not do this almost
seems to be considered an omission
and incurs very ungracious comment
from these democratic world citizens,” ]
he said.
"All the principles of the new Reich
were principles of thoughts and -
fundamental theories of the National
Socialist party.
"From the moment our seizure of
power to secure I took it for granted
that revolution must be transmuted
into evolution.
Lauds Race "Based on Blood.”
“For the first time perhaps since
human history was recorded, our
understanding of events has been
turned to this direction:
"Of all tasks set before us the most
exalted and therefore the one that is
most sacred for mankind is that of
preserving a race based on blood as
God gave it to us."
Insisting that national socialism is
“the most beautiful and most perfect
democracy,” the chancellor declared:
"I, the Fuehrer, called by the con
fidence of the people, came from the
people.
"All the millions of German workers
know that at the head of the nation
there is not a foreign literary man or
an international apostle of revolution,
but a German from their own ranks.
"The greatest revolution of national
socialism consists in having forced
open the gate of realization that all
errors and mistakes of humankind
are limited to time, and hence are
capable of Improvement with some 1
exceptions.”
Reviews Accomplish menu.
The Fuehrer then launched into a
review of the accomplishments of his
regime.
Justice, he said, has been placed
on an entirely new basis.
The number of unemployed has
been reduced, he declared.
The farmer has been saved from
ruin. Hitler added.
All this wu possible, he averred,
because of his own infinite -faith in
the German people.
"Besides, I have never in my lift
been a theoretician, especially not if
economic matters.
"It was perfectly clear to me that
I the salvation of our people was hot
a problem of finances, but exclusively
I a prMrb * me and AimnsiUnn
1
of existing labor and power on one
hand and existing soil and resources
on the other hand."
“The only loss which the state can
not stand economicslly." Hitler told
hia audience, is "the loss of 12.000.
000.000 hours of labor annually"
through unemployment.
“Beal Basis" ef Wealth.
“This working power is the rest
basis of ell wealth." he said. "For
the Nation does not live from the fic
titious value of money but rather from
the actual production through which
money itself gets value.
“This production is the real basis
of our currency and not a bank or
treasury full of gold."
In pursuance of this economic
policy. German production in all fields
has been stepped up. he said, "for the
benefit of the whole people.”
“If. for example, countless millions
more tons of coal are produced today,
it is not for the purpose of heating the
rooms of a few millionaires to an
astronomical temperature but rather
to raise the consumption quota of mil
lions of German citizens."
The chancellor compared “peaceful
labor conditions” in Germany with
strikes in other nations.
"In Germany, millions of toilers are
working according to the highest law—
namely the law of common sense," he
said.
He emphasized—his hearers thought
proudly—that Jews have been entirely
removed from Germany's educational
system, the press, theater, motion pic
ture Industry and literature.
“Our films are better than ever be
fore: our theater performances stand
on a giddy world pinnacle," Hitler as
serted.
The festive day began early for the
citizens of the Reich. The blare of
trumpets and brass bands and the
.shrill fifes of the marching Storm
Troopers and uniformed Hitler Youths
roused them from their beds Just after
dawn.
They were ready at 9 am. to tune
In their radios for the first scheduled
oratory of the day. Propaganda Min
ister Goebbels’ address to the school
children of Berlin.
That and a parade of Hitler's crack
body guard regiment past the chan
cellory during the forenoon were but
a preliminary to Der Fuehrer’a
triumphant progress to Join the cabi
net on the terraced rostrum of the
Reichstag.
Torchlight Parade Set.
Beside that flamboyant display of
Nazi ceremony, even tonight * torch
light procession, designed to recall the
historic moment January 30. 1933,
when Hitler reviewed his victorious
party troops from the balcony of the
chancellory, was expected to pale from
comparison.
Dr. Goebbels keynoted the triumph
ant motif of the day when he told the
school clBldren of the Reich that Hit
ler’s greatest achievements were "res
toration of Germany's internal peace
and Germany's honor among nations.”
"Soon you will be grown up," the
propaganda minister declared, ‘‘and
then you arill be the nation."
The address was a simple historical
review of the past four years of Oer
man history since the inherently shy
Bavarian house painter took over the
destinies of 66.000.000 Germans and
led them through successive repudia
tions of the Versailles treaty to throw
off the restrictions imposed after the
World War.
Couched in language familiar to
childhood. It was designed to make
clear to them the significance of their
Fuehrer’s rise to power in 1933—when
many of them bad not yet reached
kindergarten age—and their own place
as the future hope of the Third Reich.
Fladgaa of Devotion Reaffirmed.
Through the preas, all sections of
the government reaffirmed their
pledges of devotion to the bachelor
chancellor.
Col. Gen. Werner von Blomberg. In
a message deemed significant because
of recent reports of army opposition to
Nasi extremists' ambitions in Spain,
declared the military's loyalty:
“Hitler, from the first day of his as
sumption of power, gave the army hla
fullest confidence.
"He has shown him.*If one of the
greatest army creators In German hia
and talk about dluiipnUi ba*
FORCED 10 LEAVE
Evacuation Order Compels
5,000 Die-Hards to
Abandon Fight.
BV ROBERT B. PHILLIPS. JR., 1
Staff Correspondent ot The Star
PADUCAH. Ky., January JO.—X
have taken my last ride through ths
city of desolate night. After today
the cross currents that harassed us
will swirl on undisturbed. The fog
that hid long rows of deserted homes
and made eerie the lights that shone
out from others will be cursed only by
officers in patrol boats, roaming an
empty city.
The order for forcible evacuation of
every citlsen In the flooded area of 1
this town came last night. Half ex
pected and wearily discussed for days,
the action was taken after a confer
ence with State health officials. Tha
edict will compel some 5.000 die-hards
to surrender the forlorn hope that
they might stick It out here.
Local officers, the Coast Guard and
a National Guard company will write
finis to the siege. Those who still In
sist they can lick the Ohio, no matter
how big she grows, will be arrested,
removed and then offered the oppor
tunity to avail themselves of all relief
facilities.
Await Day ef Return.
The lucky few who have homes or
friends on the high, dry ground at
the edge of town will settle down to
a period of comparative peace, the
first rest they have known since the
waters came. The refugees—they are
called rivergees now because an aged
colored man so described himself—will
Uve In their makeshift quarters in the
hospitable towns that have offered
them haven. And all will await the
dread day when they may return to
open the doom of their ravaged homes.
I think there anil be more tears shed '
on that day than ever were set flowing
by bank crashes, wars and tornadoes.
Our last trip through the town was
not for rescue or relief. With Arthur
Martin, reporter for the local paper,
which is now under water, but print
ing daily on the presses of a small
town plant 35 miles away. I get out
in a wobbly outboard craft to trace
down rumora about persons who were
supposed to have been drowned or
were missing—mostly people that w#
knew
All rescue craft were fogbound, and
we had the waterways to ourselves.
For my part, from now on the said
waterways can have themaelves to
themselves. It was a dismal buslneaa,
even though we found not one of the
dire rumors to be true. Docking on
the doorsteps of one’s friends and
neighbors Is a sport to be recom
mended only to veteran houseboatera.
And I cannot say It Is any particular
fun to slosh about the library of one’a
own home, kicking up flooring with
every step and breasting tidal waves
filled with the works of Charles Dic
kens and William Shakespeare.
Head to Dry Dork.
When we had checked every name
on the lUt. we headed we*t to tha
city'* dry dock, and our pilot an
nounced that. Inasmuch as he couldn't
aee a darned thing for the fog. maybe
It would be well if we concentrated
on watching out for telephone poles
and other dangerous objects. Tha
trip was long and chilly and morose.
We hit a snag or two, but the rip*
were not low enough to let in water.
The last traffic light on the main *
street, still working overtime, was ac
commodatingly green as we came
through, and shortly before midnight
we were at emergency workers' kitch
en, where an amiable girl brought
us food and said she was sorry we
were cold and wet and talked to ua
while we finished cigarettes and coffee
end kept our minds only veguely on
the conversation.
MOTHER FINDS INFANT
DYING IN CRIB FIRE
Had Stepped Out to Protect Chil
dren of Neighbor Prom Bon
fire Dangers.
B) the Associated Press
CHELSEA. Mass., January 30 —Mrs
Louise Pitt*. 19, made certain today
that two small children, neighbors,
didn't harm themaelvea at a rubbish
fire they had lighted. She put out
the fire and warned their mothers.
Then ahe returned to her own home
and found her 22-month-old ion,
Arthur, wrapped in flames. Ths in
fant. ill. had been swathed in blankets
and placed near the kitchen atove for
warmth. It was while tucking him in
that Mrs. Pitts saw the rubbish fire
that endangered the other children.
Little Arthur died tonight in Memo
rial Hospital.
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.
Today.
Senate.
Senate receives favorable committee
report on deficiency-relief bill.
House.
House in recess.
Teeter day.
Senate.
Senate created committee on Gov
ernment reorganisation.
House.
House extended special Wild Life
Resources Conservation Committee.
tween the army and the party we ean
safely leave to emigrant* and Ger
manophobes abroad.”
Representatives of Italy, Austria,
Poland and Japan joined In the lauda
tory chorus.
Two galleries were reserved in the
red-draped opera house on the
Koenlgsplat* for diplomatic repre
sentatives and distinguished visitors.
On the rostrum seats were placed
for Hitler and his cabinet with a
special chair reserved for Rudolf Hess,
the chancellor's personal deputy, be
side him.
Slightly to the rear and on a high
level was the high-backed leather
chair of Oen. Goerlng. the assembly's
president, with the battery of micro
phones for the Fuehrer’s speech.
All attention was centered on the
climax of the meeting with little in
terest In the preliminary order of
business, three routine functions of
formal constitution of the body, elec
tion of a presiding officer and re
enactment of the empowering law.
With that out of the way the stage
was set for the long-awaited moment,
built up through the greatest advance
publicity ever attendant on any of the
epochal Reichstag sessions, the signal
for Der Fuehrer's address with the
terse announcement by Ooering:
"The Reichstag meets to receive a