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"RADIO SPY” FINDS
New Navy Device to Be
Given Test in Pacific
Maneuvers.
■r Mi* Associated Press.
Navy Department officials disclosed
yesterday the development of a
"radio *py" by which enemy warships
can be located fit tracked long dis
tances at sea.
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen,
engineer in chief of the Navy, first
reported development of the device
by the department's radio direction
finder experts to congressional ap
propriations committees which handle
Navy funds.
Bowen declined to make public de
tails of the ‘‘radio spy," filing such in
formation with the committees under
a ‘‘confidential supplement."
Development Secret.
Navy officers, while saying the de
velopment was "secret” and could not
be discussed, added that it was pos
sible it would be given its first com
prehensive test in naval maneuvers
in the Alaska-Hawaii sector in the
Pacific this year.
Under the same "confidential sup
plement" Admiral Bowen also re
quested funds for the development of
a system of cryptography by which
Warships can transmit signals to an
other vessel in the fleet which cannot
be deciphered by an enemy vessel.
Bowen said the Navy was bringing
Navy vessels up to the minute in
radio equipment by replacing old sets
with the newest modern apparatus.
Obsolete Receivers.
"There are about 2,000 radio re
ceivers in the Navy, and about half
of them are obsolete, insensitive, and
can be interfered with easily," he
•aid. "We have requested funds to
replace them with modern equipment.”
Two types of portable radio equip
ment are now being installed on
warships. One type, which requires
nix men to handle, will be used to
maintain communication between
•hips and advanced bases by landing
forces. The other set. designed to be
carried on a man's back, is to be used
by landing forces in action and for
Inshore operations.
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COURT PLAN SCORED
BY SENATOR BURKE
Strikes Held Phase of Disrespect
for Law Caused by Presi
dent's Proposal.
•5 the Associated Press.
BOSTON. April 5.—Senator Edward
R. Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska, op
posing President Roosevelt's proposal
♦o change the Supreme Court, yester
day said attacks on the courts led to
disrespect for- law. evidenced "In the
Jllegal sit-down strikes and many other
ways ”
"The attack on the courts, led by
♦he President,’’ said Burke, "has al
ready done incalculable damage to
the cause of constitutional democracy,
which cannot be made to function
without respect for an independent
and fearless judiciary.
"That there is a widespread and
growing disrespect for la wand order
none will deny. It evidences itself
in the illegal sit-down strikes and
many other ways.
"That this condition is due in no
email measure to the unrestrained
attacks upon our courts, and the
Judicial process, will, I believe, be
the verdict of history.”
Burke used a quotation which he
aaid was from Thomas Jefferson as
his theme in criticizing the Presi
dent's plan to change the court's
membership.
"A king, hated and distrusted,” the
Nebraskan said, “was indicted by a
freedom-loving people through the pen
•f the immortal Jefferson in these
Words:
“ 'He has made judges dependent
cm his will alone.’
"Today the descendants of those
freemen are rising to challange a
President, beloved and henored, be
cause of a heart-gripping fear that
he is making judges dependent on
feis will alone.”
Judiciary
(Continued From First Page.)
recommendation. Now he comes for
ward, after boasting of his success,
and makes that a ground for an at
tack on the court.
‘'The Government cannot be heard
to complain that the court has de
nied petitions that it requested the
•ourt to deny. The court cannot be
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“Never Felt BetterHe
Replies to Chiding
by Friends.
Richard B. Hayden, 44-year-old boat
repairer and odd-job carpenter, walked
out the back door of his river-side
shanty yesterday morning, down to the
edge of the mist-covered Potomac and
began picking money off the water.
First it was a $5 bill, then two or
three tens, a twenty and then a whole
bundle held together with a rubber
band.
Hayden, his water-soaked treasure
held high, ran back into his home, a
loosely thrown together shack near
Gregory’s Boat House, Sixth and
Water streets southwest, and excitedly
called to his wife, ‘'Look!"
With their three children looking on,
the couple assorted the collection.
There were 23 fives, 37 tens and 4
twenties—$565 in all.
"A lot of money,” said Hayden.
"I bet it's counterfeit,” said his
wife.
Hayden pondered for a moment
then announced, ‘‘I think I'd better
give it to the police.”
Mrs. Hayden agreed.
At harbor police precinct, Hayden
turned the money over. A glance
at the records showed that the Nor
folk & Washington Steamship Co.,
located a block away, reported a $645
bundle of bills stolen from an office
Thursday. Odell Smith, secretary
treasurer of the company, was sum
moned and he identified the soaked
RICHARD B. HAYDEN.
—Star Staff Photo.
bundle, while Hayden stood by amazed
at the barrage of questions fired by
reporters and photographers, but satis
fied that he had done "what any
honest man would do."
Police yesterday arrested a colored
porter for the company In connec
tion with the theft.
Hayden reported on time for work
with a construction company this
morning. Some of his fellow workers
told him he was crazy, but Hayden
only smiled, "I never felt better in
my life.”
criticized for granting the requests of
the Government.”
Cropley’s figures, Austin said,
showed that in 91 per cent of the
cases where the Government opposed
granting writs of certiorari, the court
denied them.
The Vermont Senator contended
that the law governing granting of
writs of certiorari was “no mystery.”
“It was enacted to do just this
thing,” he said.
In his testimony, Dean Sommer
said:
' Surely, we cannot—we dare not—
lightly pave the way to a return of
conditions of those days when the
Federal judicial system was so drawn
into the vortex of partisan politics—
when the Federal courts were re
garded by a large proportion of the
people to be a political adjunct of
a political party. Yet that is what
this bill may do.”
Asserting there was some justifica
tion for charges that the Supreme
Court had "distorted the Constitu
tion by tortured construction” in some
cases, Sommer contended:
"The President's constitutional
theory as to the powers of Congress,
however, would if an augmented court
gave it effect, not only result in de
parture from sound principles in ex
ceptional cases, but would make the
departure universal.”
“What is proposed,” he said, "is
that Congress by deliberate affirmative
action seek to effect through an
‘invitation’ having the characteristic
of 'spiritual coercion,” the retirement
at one fell swoop of two-thirds of the
judges now constituting the court
* * * with the declared purpose to
bring the judgments of the court into
harmony with ‘a present-day sense of
the Constitution.’ ”
Suggests Amendments.
If Congress believes aged justices
should retire, Sommer asked, “why
not proceed in constitutional mode to
guard at least against recurrence of
this situation by amendment limiting
the holding of judicial office by future
appointees to attainment of the age
of 70 or 75 years?”
Other amendments he broached in
cluded :
Covering the essence of the pending
bill, but effecting the court changes
gradually.
Simplifying and clarifying the pro
cedure of constitutional amendment.
Authorizing declaratory judgments
by the court, at least on some types
of legislation, on request of the Presi
dent.
In conclusion, Sommer suggested
that Congress establish an agency
to study social and economic prob
lems confronting the country and rec
ommend remedies to be effected "un
der the Constitution as interpreted by
the court.”
Senate opponents of the court meas
ure renewed their attacks on the
President's official family last night,
with Senator Holt, Democrat, of West
Virginia charging Postmaster General
Farley with “meddling” in the con
gressional fight on the bill.
An address by the Postmaster Gen
eral Saturday at Spring Valley, N. H.,
forecasting enactment of the measure,
was the target of Holt’s broadside.
“The bold declaration of Postmaster
General Farley.” he said, "that ‘we
will call the roll’ of Congress is a dead
give-away to the situation on the ju
diciary reorganization plan.
“It was stated Saturday night by
Senator Wheeler that the Department
of Justice is trying to close the hear
ings on the bill.
“Has it come to the place that the
cabinet officers are to tell the Senate
when to close hearings on a bill and
then have the cabinet officers ‘call
the roll?’ ”
Holt recently accused Assistant At
torney General Keenan of trying to
influence his vote with an offer to
permit him to name a new Federal
judge for West Virginia. The accusa
tion was denied by Keenan, who said
he had merely followed the usual
custom of consulting a Senator in
whose State an appointment was to
be made.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis
souri, warned administration officials
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tempts on their part to try to in
fluence Congress on pending legis
lation.
Wage
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for women and minors and to prose
cute employers who fail to pay them.
The proposed new board will not be
required to follow the wage schedules
which were in effect until 1923.
While it functioned, the first Mini
mum Wage Board laid down salary
schedules which it estimated bene
fited 12,500 persons.
At their meeting tomorrow the
Commissioners will consider names of
possible appointees to the board. The
law requires that the board must com
prise one representative of employers,
one of employes and one of the gen
eral public.
The Commissioners also will con
sider asking for a deficiency appro
priation to defray administrative casts
of the board for the remainder of
the current fiscal year. Commissioner
Hazen said the Senate District Appro
priation Committee probably will be
asked to include funds for the board
in the pending supply bill.
Can Conduct investigation.
The board, under the resurrected!
law, is given full power to conduct
investigations, as to ascertain the
wages paid women and minors in the
various Industries; to examine books
and pay rolls, and to require state
ments from employers as to wages
paid those affected by the law.
The law applies to women 18 or
over and to minors, both boys and
girls. The term "occupation" applltvi
to a business, industry, trade or branch
thereof, except domestic service.
The law empowers the board to
ascertain and declare “(a) standards
of minimum wages for women in any
occupation within the District of Co
lumbia. and what wages are inadequate
to supply the necessary costs of living
to any such woman workers to main
tain them in good health and to pro
tect their morals; and (b) standards
of minimum wages for minors in any
occupation within the District of Co
lumbia and what wages are unreason
ably low for any such minor workers."
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PERMANENT C. C. C.
Would Limit Total Enroll
ment to 315,000,
However.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roosevelt today recom
mended to Congress that the Civilian
Conservation Corps be made perma
nent.
In a special message pointing out
the accomplishments of the C. C. C.
since it was established four years
ago today, he urged that legislation
establishing the corps as a permanent
Government agency be worded to
provide for only 300,000 youths and
war veterans, in addition to 10,000
Indians and 5,000 enrollees from
various territories and insular pos
sessions.
There are two reasons for the Presi
dent's insistence that the permanent
corps be limited. First, it would be
difficult now to create new classifica
tions of enrollment, inasmuch as
300,000 youths are about the max
imum that could be obtained from
families now on relief throughout the
country. To go beyond that figure
would be alien to the C. C. C. policies
of the administration.
Expense Held Too Great.
Second, the expense would be more
than he thinks the National Treas
ury should be called on to bear; he
believes any additional cost would
seriously affect the financial position
of the Treasury.
The President's message was not
unexpected. He has frequently an
nounced in the past year that he fa
vored making the corps permanent,
and in his budget message of January
5 last he indicated he would later
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recommend legislation to this effect.
Under the present law the Civilian
Conservation Corps would expire June
30 next.
In his message the President In
formed the Congress that he is con
vinced that there is ample useful work
in the protection, restoration and de
velopment of our national resources,
upon which the services of the C. C. C.
may be employed advantageously for
an extended future period.
As an added argument the President
pointed out that this program will
not in any respect reduoe normal
employment opportunities for adult
workers, but that it will, through the
purchase of simple materials, of food
and clothing and other supplies re
quired for the operations of the corps,
tend to increase employment in in
dustry.
Robert Fechner, director of the
C. C. C., reported meanwhile that his
branch of the emergency program had
supplied 2.000,000 jobs and supplied
$360,000,000 to needy at home since
April, 1933.
Anniversary Celebrated.
The anniversary of the founding of
the corps was celebrated today at Fort
Du Pont with the company there hold
ing open house. Fechner and 20 of
his staff were luncheon guests.
The open house program was being
observed from 9 a m. to 6 pm. Re
ceiving the visitors are Capt. John L.
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Joyce explained that the open house
is being held to acquaint the people
of Washington and vicinity with the
work of the boys. This has included
construction of the Port Drive in the
Port Du Pont area, the building of
picnic areas and other improvements
to the Washington park system.
The company at Port Hunt, Va„ on
the Mount Vernon Highway, held open
house yesterday.
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Mac Lean, reported to police today
that $3,600 in jewels were stolen from
a car she parked in front of a hos
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time. Those suspended were both
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