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-ESPIONAGE PROBE
MAY BE CONTINUED
Senate Group May Act Re
gardless of Outcome of
Contempt Trial.
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The Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee probably will continue its in
vestigation of industrial espionage
work by the Railway Audit & Inspec
tion Co., it was learned today, regard
less of the outcome of contempt ac
tion brought by the committee against
six officials of the company for fail
ure to obey subpeonas last August.
This probability was disclosed as
the trial of L. Douglas Rice, vice presi
dent and general manager of Railway
Audit, on the charges of contempt,
„ was nearing a close in District Court.
Rice's defense was concluded this
morning when counsel decided not to
place the defendant on the stand, but
to rest their case on documentary
evidence and testimony of aids to the
* district attorney regarding efforts by
Rice to seek a court ruling on valid
ity of the subpoenas.
During presentation of the de
fense, Harry Underwood, assistant
United States attorney, testified that
Rice went to the hearing room with
him on the morning of August 21, the
date of his ordered appearance, while
the committee was informed of issu
ance of a show cause order restraining
the defendant.
With the show cause order still in
effect, any new efforts by the commit
tee to call Railway Audit officials for
testimony would be dependent on con
clusion of proceedings initiated last
August in connection with the order by
Rice.
Although committee attaches were !
hesitant to discuss the attitude of the |
committee toward further inquiry into
Railway Audit, it was learned that a
check has been made on the extent
and nature of business now being han
dled by the company.
D. C. Bill
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$7,500,000 figure, because that cost has
already been taken into consideration.
Meanwhile Chairman Kennedy of
the House tax group was proceeding
under instructions from his colleagues
to prepare a tentative draft of a tax
•program to be submitted for decision
at a meeting of his subcommittee early
next week.
As the appropriation bill left the
House, carrying $45,228,000, of which
the Federal share would be $5,000,000,
the local community faced the neces- j
sity of raising $6,100,000 of additional
taxes to meet the District share.
Thomas for Taxation.
Senator Thomas believes the Dis
trict should balance its budget for the
coming year through taxation, and is
understood to be considering the pos
sibility of having the supply bill itself
carry the tax amendments to make it j
balance.
The views subsequently expressed
by Representative Kennedy and Sena
tor King indicate, however, that the ■
question of committee jurisdiction
may check any move to make the tax
bills a part of the appropriation
measure. In the regular course of
i events new laws, such as new forms
of taxation, pass through the House
and Senate Legislative Committees.
Senator Thomas indicated last
night he would consider adding tax
proposals to the supply bill only if it!
Is found possible to do so in a con
stitutional and regular way. He sug
gested, for instance, that if there is
any provision in the appropriation
bill as it came from the House relat- !
ing to the raising of taxes the door I
would be open and the Senate could
consider amending such a provision, j
At the same time, he made it clear :
he had no desire to force an issue of
* jurisdiction as between the legislative :
and appropriating committees, but was '
seeking only to be of assistance in
expediting a settlement of the Dis
trict's impending fiscal problems.
Jurisdiction Question Before.
. It was a similar question of juris
diction that led to the elimination by
the House of a list of legislative pro
visions the House Appropriations Com
mittee had written into the District
supply bill two months ago. On the
floor members of the House District
Committee had most of them stricken
out on points of order.
ine umt element, meanwhile, is
beginning to enter into the situation.
Although Congress may be in session
mo6t of the Summer, less than six
weeks remain to complete the Dis
trict’s budget problems in time for
the beginning of the new fiscal year.
In this connection, District officials
Indicated today they are somewhat
, concerned over how long it would take
to get the collection machinery in
operation, even if the tax bills to
meet the anticipated deficit are en
acted between now and June 30.
Because of this concern the Com
missioners suggested to the Senate
subcommittee yesterday that Congress
restore to them the authority they had
for many years prior to 1927 to obtain
advances from the Federal Govern
ment to meet monthly operating ex
penses of the city early in the fiscal
year and return the money to the
Treasury as local taxes are collected
during the year.
Reserve Fund Ordered.
This arrangement prevailed for a
„ considerable period of time, but in
1922 Congress directed the District to
build up within five years a reserve
fund sufficient to enable the city to
^•tart each fiscal year on a pay-as-you
go monthly basis after 1927.
The Commissioners explained yes
terday that, with the District facing a
large deficit under the pending ap
propriation bill, if it should take sev
eral months or longer to get the new
tax bills into operation, the city might
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Twins Confuse Husband
Inability of Husband Harry Brown Cook to tell his wife,
Mary Jane Swank Cook, from her twin sister Jean caused resent
ment between the blond sisters, Wife Jane’s attorney says.
Therefore she seeks an annulment of her marriage to the mem
ber of a well-known Pennsylvania family. To further confuse
Cook, the couple lived with his wife’s mother and sister. The
tivins are shown. —A. P. Photo.
find itself unable to get through the
early part of the fiscal year.
When the suggestion in regard to
temporary advances was first advanced
yesterday it was construed by some as
a proposal to meet the deficit by bor
rowing. This was cleared up later
in the day, however, when local offi
cials explained they were not propos
ing that the city borrow as a substi
tute for new taxes, but merely that
Congress re-establish the arrangement !
by which the District could obtain '
Treasury advances for brief periods be
fore tax collections come in.
Windsor
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the fact neighboring peasants say the
ancient halls are haunted.
State's Attorney Maurice Carcassone
of Tours removed the last remaining
obstacles to the marriage today. As
representative of the French ministry
of justice, he granted the duke's wed
ding application, including permission
to dispense with pasting banns and a
special authorization for a civil cere
mony at the Chateau de Cande.
The papers were delivered to Mayor
Charles Mercier of Monts, who imme
diately notified the man and woman
he expects to marry.
Carcassonne said such extraordinary
relaxations of the French marriage
laws were granted only in the cases
of high diplomatic dignitaries.
The invitation list and names of the
wedding witnesses were expected to
be announced late today or tomorrow,
now that the last legal hurdles have
been cleared.
The eligible guests were thought
likely to include Mr. and Mrs. Her
man L. Rogers of New York, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Bedaux of New
York and Paris, owners of the
chateau; Mr. and Mrs. Grafton W.
Minot of Boston and New York,
Lord Brownlow. former gentleman
in-waiting to Edward, and Lady
Brownlow, Baron and Baroness Eu
gene Rothschild, his Austrian hosts; j
Capt. Michael Wardell, London pub- I
lisher; A. G. Allen, his attorney; j
Mrs. D. B. Merryman of Washington, !
D. C.. Mrs. Warfield’s aunt, and
household associates of the duke.
These associates were expected to
be the present equerry, Dudley For
wood, and four former equerries, MaJ.
Edward Dudley Metcalfe, Capt. W.
D. C. Greenacre, Col. Piers Leigh and
Comdr. Lamp.
Beyond the wedding date and the
fact that the royal family would not
be represented, Rogers fixed one other
fact in his announcement yester
day of the royal plans—that the wed
ding would not be held in the chateau
chapel on the grounds of the estate.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Giles,
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Their son, Clinton Giles, and
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the celebration.
—Harris-Ewing Photo.
HEARINGS STARTED
ON VETERANS’ BILLS
House Civil Service Committee
Calls Witnesses on Starnes
Measures.
The House Civil Service Committee
started hearings today on the bills
sponsored by Representative Starnes,
Democrat, of Alabama to give prefer
ence in civil service and other Govern
ment jot* to war veterans. These
hearings will be continued indefinitely,
with more than a score of witnesses
invited to testify.
The witnesses at today's hearing
were Representative Starnes, Col.
John Thomas Taylor, legislative rep
resentative of the American Legion,
and Prank Matthews, the Legion's rep
resentative in civil service matters.
Among the witnesses to be heard later
will be Gen. Hines, director of the
Veterans’ Bureau, and members of the
Civil Service Commission.
Representative Starnes emphasized
that the main purpose of his bills is
to write into the basic law the veteran
preference granted under rules and
regulations of the Civil Service Com
mittee and by executive orders.
WELLES. MOORE
TOBETNEWPOSTS
Nominations as Undersec
retary and Counselor
Sent to Senate.
President Roosevelt today sent to
the Senate the nominations of Sumner
Welles to be Undersecretary of State
and R. Walton Moore to be counselor
of the State Department, an office
created in' an act signed yesterday by
the President. Both offices are equal
in rank and salary.
Welles and Moore are now serving
as Assistant Secretaries of State. 1\te
office of the Undersecretary has been
vacant since William Phillips was
appointed Ambassador to Italy last
year.
The President sent to the Senate
three other nominations affecting the
State Department. One transfers
John Cudahy of Wisconsin from Min
ister of Poland to Minister of the
Irish Free State, and another trans
fers Alvin M. Owsley of Texas from
Minister of the Irish Free State to
Minister to Denmark. The third was
the nomination of Edwin L. Neville
of Ohio as Minister to Siam.
No indication was given at the
White House as to when the President
would fill the two assistant secretary
ships now held by Welles and Moore.
Welles has been connected with the
diplomatic service approximately half
of his 45 years. He began his career |
as secretary of Embassy at Tokio and
has been Assistant Secretary since
April, 1933, except for eight months
of that year as Ambassador to Cuba.
Welles lives at Oxon Hill, Md.
Moore, a resident of Fairfax, Va., is
a former Democratic member of the
House, having served from 1919 to
1931. A graduate of the University
of Virginia and William and Mary
College, Moore entered law practice
in 1880. He later specialized in cases
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and from 1918 to 1919 was
assistant general counsel for the
United States Railroad Administra
tion.
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Stuart, who lives at 1375 North
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day, he began to lose consciousness.
"AH at once it felt as if there was
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"I couldn't breathe. I worked myself
back a few feet and started calling
for the projection operator. Then
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CHURCH BOARD TRUSTEE
United Brethren in Christ Vote
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Budget for Year.
By the Associated Press.
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., May 19 —
An annual benevolence budget of
$650,000 was adopted yesterday by del
egates to the thirty-second quadren
nial conference of the Church of the
United Brethren in Christ.
Rev. S. S. Hough of Dayton, Ohio,
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Columbus, Ohio; E. S. Nuding of Chil
licothe, Ohio; E. E. Ullrich of Dayton,
Ohio, and Dr. L. Walter Lutz of New
Cumberland, Pa.
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