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Proceeds to Be Used to
Establish Memorial to
Shakespeare.
The library of the late Herman
Henry Bernard Meyer, former chief
bibliographer for the Library of Con
gress, has been turned over' to the
National Home Library Foundation
for a future private sale, proceeds of
which will go toward the establish-'
ment of’ a Herman Henry Bernard
Meyer Shakespeare memorial, his
widow, Mrs. Helen Harris Meyer, an
nounced yesterday from her home at
J701 Massachusetts avenue.
Said by experts to be one of the
finest collections in the country, the
Meyer library consists of more than
10,000 volumes and contains a num
ber of rare items in Americana. Amer
ican English first editions and many
of the finest specimens of printing
from Bruce Rogers, Mosher, Rudge,
Nash and other presses.
At the foundation, where the col
lection is being catalogued, R. S.
Thurman, director, said a local uni
versity had expressed a desire for the
library but that plans for the actual
•ale were indefinite.
He also said the space used by the
foundation in the Dupont Circle
Apartment building is too small to
permit public exhibition of the col
lection.
A Shakespearean enthusiast, Meyer
collected many different prints of
the bard's works during the 50 years
In which he assembled the library.
"It was his lifelong purpose to
encourage a broader understanding
through a wider distribution of the
works of the world's greatest poet
and playwright,” Mrs. Meyer re
marked.
Meyer died on January 16 last, hav
ing retired in 1935 as head of the
legislative reference service, Library
of Congress.
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What You Would Pay and How Under
the Bills Proposed in the House.
Article No. 6—Local Income Tax (Continued).
ESTIMATED YIELD—$6,000,000.
PURPOSE—To substitute for present tax on intangible property.
AFFECTS—All locally derived corporation income and personal
incomes of $1,000 or over for single persons; of $2,500 or over for
married persons. Would exempt Congressmen and other Federal
officials elected or appointed for stated terms who are not resi
dents within definition of act.
This is the third of a series of
four articles on the income tax.
Friday’s article discussed some
of the curious inequities and dis
criminations arising under the pro
visions of the bill exempting Con
gressmen and certain Federal of
ficials from that tax, while leaving
other Federal officials subject to the
tax. Today's article discusses some
additional complications in col
lection of a local income tax, re
sulting from conditions peculiar to
the District of Columbia.
Attempting to collect an in
come tax from non-resident
individuals and “foreign" cor
porations, located in other
States, the new D. C. income tax bill
now before Congress, promises to run
into a veritable morass of difficulties
in administration.
Thousands of persons working in
the National Capital, but living in
Maryland and Virginia, will be taxed
because their income is derived from
sources here in the District of Co
lumbia.
The problem of collecting this tax
from -non-residents is complicated,
from an administrative point of view,
by reciprocal credit provisions incor
porated in both the D. C. bill and the
Virginia law. Maryland has no in
come tax act, so Marylanders earning
their living here simply will have to
pay the entire income tax to the Dis
trict, plus what they pay in other
forms of taxation to Maryland.
Tax on Foreign Corporations.
Even more difficult to enforce, how
ever, according to experts, will be the
complex provisions of the bill which
attempt to extract a tax from all "for
eign” businesses and corporations
which own property here or which
transact any kind of profitable busi
ness in the District, although their
principal headquarters and operations
are elsewhere. Efforts of many other
States to do this have resulted in
confusion and difficulty, leading to
reversals in the Supreme Court of the
United States, forced amendment of
State laws, disputes among tax col
lectors of the various States and, of
course, double and triple taxation.
Designed to operate to the benefit
of the taxpayer, both the District of
Columbia bill and Virginia law have
credit provisions which uld prevent
both jurisdictions collecting their total
income tax. Should a taxpayer be
forced to pay a District tax, a Vir
ginia tax and a Federal income tax a
perfect example would be established
of triplicate taxation, against which
tax experts throughout the country
are now protesting. But even with
the reciprocal credit between the Dis
trict of Columbia and Virginia the tax
payer still is faced with duplicate tax
ation on his income by both Federal
and local tax collection agencies. The
District bill allows no credit for pay
ment of Federal income taxes, allowed
by some States.
Try Reading It Aloud. 1
The system of credit is complicated.
To obtain an idea of the apparent
complexity try reading and under
standing this:
“Whenever a non-resident taxpayer
of the District of Columbia has be
come liable to income tax to the State
where he resides upon his net income
for the taxable year, derived from
sources within the District of Colum
bia and subject to taxation under this
act, the assessor shall credit the
amount of income tax payable by him
under this act, w’ith such proportion
of the tax so payable by him, to the
State where he resides, as his income
subject to taxation under this act
bears to his entire income upon which
the tax so payable to such other State
was imposed, provided that such credit
shall be allowed only if the laws of
said State (1) grant a substantially
similiar credit to residents of the Dis
trict subject to income tax under such
laws, or (2) impose a tax upon the
personal income of its residents derived
from sources within the District and
exempt from taxation the personal in
comes of residents of the District. No
credit shall be allowed against the
amount of the tax on any income tax
able under this act which is exempt
from taxation under the laws of such
other State.”
Virginia has two kinds of reciproc
ity. First, it provides that residents
of Virginia liable to income tax in
other States shall be credited with
amounts paid to such other States on
their Virginia returns.
Secondly, Virginia provides that non
residents subject to taxation in their
State of residence on income earned
in Virginia shall receive proportional
credit for taxes paid, provided the
State of residence grants similar cred
its to residents of Virginia or exempts
from taxation the income of residents
of Virginia.
Reciprocity Provisions Confusing.
These reciprocity provisions present
the taxpayer who earns something In
the National Capital and lives in Vir
ginia with a whole flock of questions
as complicated as the ones involving a
Federal income tax return.
One thing is cleared up for the Vir
ginian working in Washington. He
must make his return to the Federal
Government in March. He must make
his return to the District of Columbia
before the last day of April, and he
must file his Virginia return by June
1—a month later. Thus if he has a
simple case, and earned al his .in
come here in Washington, he can
credit the tax he paid here in April
on the Virginia return filed a month
later. At any rate, he must devote a
quarter of the year to filing income
tax returns.
If the Virginian earned part of his
income in Washington, part of it In
Virginia and perhaps some of it in still
another State, his return becomes sub
ject to the complex!ties of the pro
portional credit principle. Taxpayen
may be expected to take full advantage
of this provision, but admittedly it
will be difficult to apply.
For the Marylander the matter will
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be more simple. He will merely pay
all his income tax to the Federal Gov
ernment and the District and then pay
his regular taxes in Maryland, with no
credit whatever for his District tax.
Problems presented by attempts to
tax “foreign” corporations, the prin
cipal offices of which are outside the
District, are expected to puzzle the
wisest officials and perhaps provide
loopholes through which big corpora
tions doing substantial business here
might escape.
The broad scope of the bill’s at
tempt to collect such a tax is shown
by its definition of a “taxpayer” to be
"any person, corporation, partner
ship, trust or estate” subject to the
act. The term “corporation” is de
fined to include “corporations, joint
stock companies, associations and all
enterprises operated by trustees, the
interest in which is evidenced by
shares of stock, whether with or with
out par, face or nominal value.”
In the case of corporations whose
entire business is transacted within
the District, the tax of 5 per cent will
be levied on the entire net income.
If, however, the business of a cor
poration is transacted both within and
without the District, the tax Imposed
enters a field over which there has
been complex State legislation, long
litigation and many reversals in higher
tribunals.
The District bill will attempt to col
lect a tax from corporations operating
both inside and outside the Dis
trict, “upon the portion of such en
tire net income for each taxable
year as is derived from sales, wher
ever made, of goods, wares and
merchandise, manufactured or which
originated in this District and from
other business done or property located
within this District, which may be de
termined by an allocation and separate
accounting when the books of the cor
poration show income derived from
business done and property located
within this District.”
“Otherwise,” the bill further pro
vides, if data in this first method is
insufficient, the tax imposed shall be
on “such proportion of the entire net
income of such corporation as the fair
market value of the real estate and
other physical assets in this District
on the date of the close of the taxable
year and the amount of the gross re
ceipts in this District during that
year of such corporation bears to the
total fair market value of all the real
estate and other physical assets within
and without this District on the date
of the close of the taxable year and
the amount of the total gross receipts
within and without the District during
that year of such corporation.” This
could be applied to big outside corpo
rations doing business here.
One of the admitted worst features
of State taxation, according to tax
experts, is this attempted “allocation"
of the amount of income derived with
in a State. Preliminary study of the
District of Columbia bill points to a
suspicion that this provision may at
tempt to attribute too much income to
this city from goods, wares and mer
chandise, manufactured or which orig
inated, here.
Reference to North Carolina Case.
The bill might fall under the scope
of a line of Supreme Court rulings
which held that a State is not al
lowed to attribute too much income
either to manufacture or sale. In the
case, for instance, of Hans Rees Sons
Co. of New York State against the
State of North Carolina, the Supreme
Court held the North Carolina income
tax law unconstitutional on such a
point. It was unconstitutional, the
high tribunal said, because the stat
utory method of apportionment “as
applied to the appellant’s business for
the years in question operated unrea
sonably and arbitrarily in attributing
to North Carolina a percentage of in
come out of all appropriate proportion
to the business transacted bi the ap
pellant in that State.”
No State has been able to work a
perfectly satisfactory rule on the dis
puted problem of “apportionment,"
according to the history of State in
come tax legislation. In many cases
specific rules which have been devel
oped have been found by the Supreme
Court to be unconstitutional. Big cor
porations would be wary of such a
District income tax and keen to pro
test and fight any tax which they
think can be successfully defeated.
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OF MEDICAL ADVANCES
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Clinical demonstrations, lectures and
round table discussions are scheduled
for the five days of the convention
opening Monday.
John Dewey, professor emeritus of
philosophy at Columbia University, •
New York, will address the convention
Wednesday night on "The Unity of
Man."
His address will follow the presenta
tion of the John Phillips Memorial
Medal, given for outstanding work in
the medical field, to Richard E. Shope
associate member in the department
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CHIEFS 10 DISCUSS
LABOR POLICIES
Miss Perkins’ Parley and
A. F. L. Session Sched
uled for Week.
Industry and labor will watch the
Nation's Capital closely during the
coming week as developments of im
portance to both shape themselves
here.
Possibly the first in importance will
be the one-day round table conference
called by Secretary of Labor Perkins
for the purpose of fashioning general
rules and principles of procedure in
furthering the application of collec
tive bargaining.
Approximately a score of leaders of
industry, labor and government have
definitely indicated their Intention of
meeting with the Secretary Tuesday,
with fully as many more expected to
attend in response to invitations.
Such varied interests as the American
Federation of Labor, the Committee
for Industrial Organization, the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers,
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, the National Labor Relations
Board, and the oil, steel and railroad
industries have been invited to send
representation. All are expected.
With no fixed agenda, it is the broad
purpose of the conference to develop
a meeting of minds on the matter of
bringing employers and employes of
the Nation together in the stages of
conciliation or mediation which may
precede the necessity for calling on
the Labor Board. It is believed there
are numerous employers and employes
who are not sufficiently familiar with
the instrumentality of collective bar
gaining to assure full effectiveness of
a right now granted by law and ap
proved by the courts.
Might Prevent Work Stoppage.
In brief, many stoppages of work
might be prevented by intelligent
reasoning on both sides of a con
troversy and without recourse to the
outside authority of the Labor Board.
If such can be accomplished, it is
the reasoning of Secretary Perkins
that industry, labor and the Govern
ment are the beneficiaries.
Second scheduled event of interest
and importance is the special meet
ing of the Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor, sum
moned for tomorrow and likely to
last several days.
Two major issues stand on the
council’s docket, first being the ini
tiation of an intensive membership
drive under the favorable auspices of
the validated labor relations act and
second being the question of expelling
outright the insurgent unions of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion.
Authority for the council to take
the latter action was voted by the
federation convention in Tampa last
November, 10 C. I. O. unions at that
time being under suspension. Since
that date, the break between the two
principal factions of the labor move
ment was widened, with the C. I. O.
followers of John L. Lewis adding to
their strength in unions and in in
dividuals.
It is expected in quarters close to
the council that expulsion action may
take place during the coming week,
although the net result of such action
would no more than place a stamp
of finality on a situation that has
existed in fact since last Summer.
Continuing its summary of the
effects of the recent Wagner act de
cisions, the United States Chamber
of Commerce yesterday advised em
ployers generally to testify when the
National Labor Relations Board insti
tutes proceedings involving them, but
set forth a large number of rights
in dealing with employes which it
believes employers retain in spite of
the Supreme Court decisions.
Rights of Employers.
The chamber emphasizes that the
decisions on the Wagner act and on
the railway labor act as amended in
1934 confirm certain rights of em
ployers. It cites three in particular:
The right to maintain an open shop.
The right to discharge an employe
for non-performance of his contract
or inefficiency due to any reason, "in
cluding failure by reason of activities
in connection with an employe’s
organization,” and excepting only
membership in a labor union. It
emphasizes that “writhout the em
ployer’s consent there can be no
activities of an employe during work
ing hours in connection with an
organization.”
The right to discontinue an opera
tion and have the work done by some
one else under contract, in that way
removing various activities from the
scope of Federal regulation. It points
out that the Supreme Court in its
March 29 decision upholding the
railway labor act said that the "back
shop” employes of the Virginian Rail
way were in interstate commerce and
so subject to Federal regulation, but
pointed out that the. management had
the right to have this work done by
an independent contractor.
Other rights- not mentioned in the
recent cases “undoubtedly continue,"
the chamber reports, citing as an ex
ample “the right to limit access to
premises to employes.”
The decisions on the Wagner act,
the chamber states, left open for
future determination what it calls
"rights of employes” to bargain
through minority groups despite the
principle of "majority rule” embodied
in the Wagner act and upheld in the
Virginian Railway case.
The recent decisions, it says, also
leave open to determination later "the
right of an employer in production
to maintain the privacy of his busi
ness against internal investigation by
the Labor Relations Board, when the
employer believes in good faith that
his business does not come within the
decisions of April 12, at least until
there has been a determination on
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Editors’ New President
A. H. Kirchhofer (left) of the Buffalo, N. Y Evening News,
yesterday was elected president of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, succeeding Marvin H. Creager (right) of the
Milwaukee, Wis., Journal. —a. P. Photo.
the facts that the business does come
within those decisions.”
It warns, however, “that findings of
the board as to the facts will have an
important effect upon decisions in the
courts, and that it consequently may
prove unwise for an employer to fail to
offer testimony before the board in the
event it starts any proceeding.”
Harlan County Charges.
Meanwhile, of importance to both
industry and labor, both practically
and psychologically, are the continued
hearings of the La Follette committee
on the repression of civil liberties
In “bloody Harlan” County, Ky.
Long recognized as the toughest
stronghold of anti-labor industry, the
rich soft coal district is being sub
jected to a barrage of organizers of
the United Mine Workers, while the
Senate committee is throwing the spot
light of publicity on the practices of
operators and employer associations of
resisting unionization by strong-arm
methods of intimidation.
With dozens of witnesses under
subpoena, and scheduled to remain in
that status as protection against
reprisals by those against whom they
have testified, the commitee plans to
reopen hearings Tuesday morning.
Chairman La Follette and Senator
Thomas of Utah are considering with
Counsel John J. Abt the possibility
of taking action against Ted Creech,
mine superintendent, who was accused
Friday of threatening one of the com
mittee’s witnesses.
The accusation was made by R. C.
Tackett, former. Harlan County
deputy sheriff, who said Creech ap
proached him outside the hearing
room and told him he would see that
Tackett got a long jail sentence back
in Kentucky for his testimony against
the operators. Although Creech de
nied the accusation, it was substanti
ated by United States Deputy Marshal
Robert Bonham, in whose custody
Tackett was being held.
Creech, son of one of the Harlan
County operators, previously was ac
cused of threatening the lives of union
members.
On other capital fronts, progress is
possible during the coming week on
development of wage and hour, child
labor and anti-sit-down legislation.
Editors
(Continued From First Page.)
known 5-to-4 majority. By this thin
majority the authority of the board
has been upheld.
The Wagner act decisions, Sibley
said, affirmed the right of the em
ployer "to refrain from reaching an
agreement through collective bargain
ing. as well as continuing his right to
make individual contracts of em
ployment. The right of an employer
to maintain an open shop is sus
tained."
The final speaker before the editors
was Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of
the Federal Maritime Commission
and formerly head of the Securities
and Exchange Commission. He dis
cussed his new duties and emphasized
the necessity for elevating standards
of government service by attracting
brains to government positions.
Trend Has Become Tide..
"The trend toward centralization
in government has become a tide,”
Kennedy said, "the explanation of
which is interwoven with the analy
sis of the kind of society we have
developed.
“If there were any doubt, the
developments of the last few years,
particularly the political develop
ments, the vote of the people, the
vote of Congress and more recently
the decision of the Jones & Laugh
lin Steel Co. case—are a convincing
demonstration of this phase of our
national life. The commerce clause
has had to be expanded to permit
the assumption by the Federal Gov
ernment of powers heretofore un
dreamed of.
Kennedy believed “the first and
primary task of the commission is to
tell the American people what it will
cc»t to construct or to have con
structed a merchant marine of a given
capacity, what it will cost for this kind
of a vessel, what it will cost for that
kind of a vessel—not only what it will
cost to place them on the sea, but what
it will cost per year per ship to main
tain them as part of our system of
transportation and defense.”
Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo
(Ohio) Blade, presided over the final
session, held with a luncheon at the
Willard Hotel The convention opened
Wednesday and all sessions but the
last were held at the National Press
Club.
New officers elected by the editors
were: President, A. H. Klrchofer,
Buffalo (N. Y.) Evening News, suc
ceeding Marvin H. Creager, the Mil
waukee Journal, who becomes an ex
officio member of the board of di
rectors; first vice president, D. J.
Sterling, Portland (Ore.) Journal; sec
ond vice president, Tom Wallace,
Louisville (Ky.) Times; treasurer,
Dwight Marvin, Troy (N. Y.) Record,
re-elected; secretary, M. V. Atwood,
Gannett newspapers, Rochester, N. Y.,
re-elected.
New directors named were W. S
Gilmore, Detroit News, and John S.
Knight, Akron Beacon-Journal. At
wood and Wallace were re-elected to
the board which in turn names the
officers. The only director to retire
this year was Paul Bellamy, Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The society passed several resolu
tions affecting the press. One de
clared the group “sees no impropriety
in organization of newspaper workers
in editorial departments, but feels that
it is not suitable for journalists to
affiliate with trade unionists. We be
lieve they (editorial employes) are pro
fessional people, not artisans.”
News Source Laws Indorsed.
Other resolutions deplored "hound
ing and persecution by newspapers of
persons mentioned in connection with
crimes but not formally accused of
crimes," indorsed State laws to guar
antee newspapers the right to hold
their news sources in confidence, and
deprecated efforts in Congress "to pre
vent newspapers from owning radio
stations.”
A graphic story of the civil war in
Spain was presented the editors by
Webb Miller, famous war correspond
ent. European news manager of the
United Press, at the yesterday fore
noon session.
"The Sunday Newspaper” was dis
cussed by Count Raoul de Roussy de
Sales, New York correspondent for
the Paris-Soir, one of France's great
est newspapers, and W. G. Vorpe,
Sunday and feature editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Vicinity.
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making a total of 20 open to graduates
of the high schools of Washington and
vicinity, were announced by George
Washington University yesterday fol
lowing their recent approval by the
Board of Education.
Under the new arrangement, two
scholarships to a boy and girl are
awarded to each of the seven high
schools in divisions 1 to 9, as well as
to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Wash
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ton High Schools. Awards will be
made on the basis of scholastic
achievement.
The university also announced five
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A. N. F. A. Observes 50th
Anniversary—Associated
Press Meeting Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press,
NEW YORK, April 17.—The first
of more than 600 newspaper publish
ers and executives expected to attend
the annual meetings of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ Association and
the Associated Press next week began
gathering tonight.
The A. N. P. A., celebrating its fif
tieth anniversary, will open its four
day session Tuesday. The Associated
Press meeting will be held Monday.
More than 600 reservations already
have been made for the annual lunch
eon of the Associated Press. The
luncheon speaker will be Secretary of
Commerce Daniel C. Roper.
The remainder of the day will be
devoted to business sessions. One of
the principal actions will be the elec
tion of three new directors to repre
sent papers in cities under 50,000 pop
ulation as provdied at last year’s an
nual meeting. In addition directors
will be elected to fill five directorships
which are expiring.
The question of creating associate
memberships in the Associated Press,
which was scheduled for last year's
meeting, but which did not reach the
floor, is again on the program. Under
this proposal newspapers, admitted as
associate members, would receive the
news report without protest or other
rights.
Other subjects scheduled for dis
ciission include the membership de
partment, which was created last year,
and wirephotos and the photo depart
ment, which have expanded greatly in
the last year.
The first day of the A. N. P. A.
meeting will be devoted to discussion
of topics concerning newspapers in
cities of less than 50,000 population.
The general sessions will open Wednes
day, when the publishers will be ad
dressed by Senator Bennett Champ
Clark of Missouri and John Stewart
Bryan, president of William and Mary
College and publisher of the Rich
mond (Va.) News-Leader.
Subjects on the A. N. P. A. pro
gram include discussions of labor
problems and the rising cost of news
print. Newspapers, according to Editor
and Publisher, the trade publication,
face a $30,000,000 increase in the co6t
of newsprint in 1938.
J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, and Maj.
Norman A. Imrie, editor of the Co
lumbus (Ohio) Dispatch, will speak
at the A. N. P. A. Bureau of Adver
tising banquet Thursday night.
-•-—
Luther
(Continued From First Page.)
truth. Germany today Is a nation
actuated by a single purpose which
is to recover from the fetters placed
upon her by the Treaty of Versailles.
Germany wants to live in friendliness
and amity with other nations of the
world. But such a peace must be con
structive peace if we are to achieve
the friendly co-operation among na
tions which you seem so much to de
sire here.”
Ambassador Luther’s remarks were
interpreted by some listeners as a
reference to Mayor La Guardia of New
York, who recently precipitated a series
of diplomatic incidents between Ger
many and the United States by anti
Hitler statements. Luther, however,
did not mention the New York mayor
by name.
Shortly after the La Guardia inci
dent, the Berlin Foreign Office an
nounced that Luther would be re
placed by Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, acting
undersecretary of foreign affairs. Dr.
Dieckhoff is expected to assume his
new duties shortly. No new post has
been announced for Dr. Luther.
Before the Ambassador’s surprise
speech, the gathering had stood and
drunk a toast to him propc*ed by
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari
zona. Ashurst referred to him as a
man who met all the definitions of th#
word “gentleman.”
After the envoy’s remarks, Ashurst
rose again and said:
“Gentlemen, you have Just listened
to an historic speech."
The Ambassador has made It a
practice since his arrival in the United
States to entertain newspaper men
and a few Congressmen at an annual
party celebrating the arrival of Bock
beer in the Spring. The Invitations
described the affair as a “Fockbiera
bend."
Numerous officials of the State De
partment, Including Richard South
gate, chief of the Protocol Division
and Joseph Flack, in charge of Ger
man affairs in the department’s West
ern European Division, were present.
Other guests Included representa
tives of the general staff of the War
Department.
A Bavarian orchestra, attired in
native costume, furnished the accom
paniment to numerous voluntary
"quartet,” composed of various groups
among the guests, which made the
staid red brick Embassy resound with
the notes of favorite drinking songs.
Representative Knutson, Republican,
of Minnesota made the closest ref
erence to Mayor La Guardia when he
said in a brief talk at the conclusion
of Luther's remarks that he had been
gratified to learn that "the mayor of
a big city had finally decided to per
mit the State Department to conduct
this country’s relations.”
He asserted that as the result of re
cent occurrences, German citizens felt
free again to visit America’s largest
city. Knutson, however, did not men
tion La Guardia’s name.
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