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WEATHER.
(IT. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) ,
Loral thundershowers this afternoon or . 1 lie Only evening paper
tonight: not quite so warm tonight; to- }n Washington with the
morrow fair; gentle to moderate winds. » . , ,6 n XT
Temperatures—Highest. 90. at 5 p.m. yes- Associated PreSS iSeWS
terday; lowest. 67. at 4 a m. today. and Wil'ephotO Services.
Full report page A-19. 1
Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 Yefterday’i Circulation, 139,635
83th YEAR, No. 34,001. ®0TSicV. ' WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY", JUNE 3, 1937—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. *** <*> M..n. A..oci.t.d Pr.„. TWO CENTS.
DUKE OF WINDSOR WEDS
WALLIS WARFIELD IN
PLAIN DUAL CEREMONY
-
Ex-King Happy
as He Takes
Bride.
COUPLE LEAVES
FOR AUSTRIA
‘‘Poor Man’s*’ Vicar
Presides After
Church Dispute.
By the Associated Press.
CHATEAU DE CANDE, MONTS,
Fiance. June 3.—The radiant Duke of
Windsor took Wallis Warfield as his
bride and duchess today in two serene
and dignified marriage ceremonies.
Just 25 weeks ago today he gave up
his crown of England and empire be
cause she could not be his Queen.
“I will," the duke, supremely happy,
answered in a firm, loud voice to the
Anglican poor man's parson, who gave
him the unsanctioned blessing of the
Church of England.
I/Oud Voice Startles Guests.
He raised his voice so high in his
eagerness to take'the “woman I love"
as his wife that he startled the 34
guests in the flower-banked music!
room of this old chateau.
After him. his blue-eyed lady an
swered “I will." Her voice was just as
firm as Edward's, but more hushed.
There was silence when the parson
challenged:
“If any man can show any just
cause why they may not lawfully be
joined together let him now speak or
else hereafter forever hold his peace."
The religious service ended at 12:14
p.m. (6:14 am.. E. S. T.i after the
wedding party had come in from high
balls and cocktails on the terrace.
No member of his royal family was
present at the ceremonies.
Pastor Defies Bishops.
This burst of gavety followed roly- \
poly Dr. Charles Mercier’s civil service I
as mayor of this hamiet. The Angli
can preacher who defied his bishops |
was Rev. R. Anderson Jardine, “poor ;
man's" vicar of Darlington, England, i
The duke gave his bride a beautiful
diamond diadem to wear on the brow
no crown may adorn.
The duke and duchess left their
Tourame retreat tonight at 6:20 p.m.
il2:20 a m., Eastern standard time)
for the “haunted castle of Wasserleon
burg’-’ to spend their honeymoon trip
in Austria.
The Ameriean-born Duchess of
Windsor, a member now of the British
royal family, although by royal decree
she must not style herself “her royal
highness." was clad in light “Wallis
blue"—her husband's favorite shade—
from head to foot.
Her blue costume was complemented
by sparkling sapphire bracelets and
earrings. From her small straw hat
stemmed blue and pink feathers.
Rreakfast Served on Terrace.
After the religious ceremony the
duke and duchess led their guests
back to the terrace. There, a buffet
wedding breakfast had been spread.
Edward made a short speech, thank
ing “all of you people for coming on
this occasion so important to us.”
The breakfast was a friendly, in
dormal gathering of those who had
stayed by the former King's side after
the December crisis in which he left
his throne.
The bridal couple disappeared for
« brief time and then returned to
their company.
The duchess had changed to an
other costume and the duke had
.ioffed his cutaway for a blue serge ,
suit.
Jut five minutes after Monts’ |
country physician-mayor began the
French legal ceremony in the chateau
salon Wallis Warfield was the Duchess
nf Windsor, wed to the man who laid
aside a crown to share that moment
with her.
That was 11:47 a.m. (5:47 a.m., E.
£. T. i.
The next few minutes were spent
in signing civil documents to comply
with the French law.
Dr. Mercier, bedecked in his red,
white and blue sash of office, self
consciously handed the papers to the
Monts town crier, who stuck them
in an old leather case and bicycled
feverishly back to the town hall.
Greetings From Mayor.
“By one of those whims of destiny,”
the Mayor told the bridal couple, “it
is under the blue sky and among the
flowers of the garden of France, in
the laughing valley of the Indre, that
(Sc TWINDSOR. PagrAir)
TREASURY TO OFFER
$800,000,000 NOTES
Will Meet $300,000,000 Maturity
and Supply New Working
Balance.
By the Assoclated'Press.
Secretary Morgenthau said today he
would offer $800,000,000 of notes Mon
day to meet a $300,000,000 maturity
and put new cash in the Treasury's
working balance.
The $300,000,000 in discount bills
falls due June 15.
With the remaining $500,000,000 al
lotted to Treasury working cash, the
national debt will climb to about $35,
700.000.000, a new all-time peak.’
For several weeks, the Treasury's
working balance has been around
$500,000,000. The new borrowing will
bring it to $1,000,000,000.
In the past, Morgenthau has said
he hopes to keep this latter sum in
the cash balance because of "unset
tled conditions” abroad,
*
This radiophoto from London shores the Duke of Windsor
and Mrs. Wallis Warfield as they appeared today prior to their
wedding, in the same clothes worn for the civil and religious
ceremonies at the Chateau Cande.—Copyright. A. P. Wirephoto.
DRIVE DN BILBAO
BELIEVED PLANNED
II Duce and Von Bamberg
Discuss Joint Military
Action in Spain.
BACKGROUND—
Threatening a blockade of Span
: ish government ports, following
bombing of German and Italian
varcraft. the two Fascist nations
have combined fleets in trouble area
and have withdrawn from Son
Intervention Committee. In re
taliation for bomtjing of Deusch
land, German cruisers shelled Al
meria last Monday, killing 30 per
sons. Britain, fearing spread af war
to Europe, moved quickly to in
crease force in Spanish waters and
bring Germany and Italy back into
fold.
_
Ej the Associated Pres'.
ROME, June 3.—Premier Mussolini j
and Field Marshal Werner von Blom- !
berg, German minister of war, were j
reported today to be co-ordinating
Italian and German forces in Spain [
for an intensified drive under |
insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco against besieged Bilbao.
The new development was believed
to be the outgrowth of an hour's con
ference with II Duce, acting as his
own war minister, and Germany's first
ranking war lord on the tense Euro
pean situation arising from German
bombardment of Spanish Alnieria.
The two were said to have agreed
the insurgent offensive against the
capital of the semi-autonomous Basque
republic on the northern coast of
Spain must be pushed vigorously.
Gen. Emilio Mola's army has been
hammering at the gates of Bilbao more
than a month, blocked by a deter
mined defense of the northern Basque
allies of the Madrid-Valencia govern
ment along a miniature "maginot line”
of fortifications.
t Informed circles considered it likely
Mussolini and Von Blomberg had
studied possible joint military action
if further reprisals were occasioned by
attacks on German or Italian war
ships in Spanish waters.
To prove Italy's ability to back up
with armed might any fateful decision
she and her Nazi ally might make, II
Duce displayed his country's military
resources for Von Blomberg.
The German war minister began
his day with a visit to the huge ex
perimental aviation station at Guidona,
and from there was taken to the mil
itary airfield at Furbara.
Best informed circles here doubted
that direct intervention in Spain,
where Germany and Italy recognize
Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco as true head of the govern
ment, formed any important part of
the conversations Mussolini and his
foreign minister, Count Galeazzo
Ciano, had with Von Blomberg.
Fascist circles generally considered
such action had been made unneces
sary by the strong stand taken by the
two powers.
Authoritative circles appeared anx
ious to minimize the importance of
previous declarations that Italian war
vessels, despite their withdrawal from
the international control set-up, would
halt Russian vessels carrying muni
tions to Spain.
_Political circles expressed belief this
iSee SPAIN Page A-4.)
Cardinal Pitching Ace Re
mains Under Indefinite
Suspension.
| B' the Associat'd Press.
NEW YORK, June 3.—Dizzy Doan
\ today refused to sign any statement j
! of apology to,the National League for
! his actions on and off the field and
j remains tinder indefinite suspension.
| Disciplined yesterday by Ford Frick,
j league president, for “conduct detri
j mental to the best interests of base
ball,'’ the famed right-hander of the
St. Louis Cardinals, together with
Manager Frank Frisch, held a two
hour conference with Frick today.
Dean issued a flat denial that he
ever had made statements attributed
to him, which reflected upon the in
tegrity of the National League's officers
and the umpires. He declined, how
ever, to sign any statement refuting
them.
Frick Issued this formal announce
ment at the conclusion of the con
! ference:
“At a conference this morning be
tween Manager Frank Frisch, Secre
tary Clarence F. Lloyd and Player
Dean of the St. Louis club and the
I president of the National League, all
statements, purported to have been
made by Mr. Dean and quoted in the
press, reflecting upon the integrity
and honesty of the National League
office and umpires, were discussed
thoroughly.
"Mr. Dean made a blanket denial of
ever having made any of the state
ments and said he had not. at any time
made such statements to the press.
“He refused, however, to sign a
public statement refuting the alleged
remarks, or any other statement that
he was misquoted. As a result, it is
the ruling of the National League office
that Player Dean remain under in
definite suspension."
— - ■ m
Red Cross Aids Flood Victims.
ALBUQUERQUE. N. Mex.. June
3 </P).—The Red Cross assisted 100
distressed families in the Roswell vi
cinity and cared for 20Q perons in
the Socorro area today as the after
math of rainstorm floods which cost
10 lives in New Mexico.
Diplomat Here
Reports $14,000
Coupons Stolen
Negotiable coupons worth $14,000,
clipped from United States Govern
ment bonds, were stolen today in a
billfold taken from his coat, Enrique
Carlos de le Casa, Counselor of the
Spanish Embassy, reported to the
police.
De le Casa said he placed his coat
; on a counter in Garfinckel"s Depart
ment Store while he was making a
j purchase and that the billfold was
j gone when he picked up the coat
| again.
He said there were 10 coupons, cash
able on June 15 for $14,000, and $600
in cash in the billfold.
De le Casa is second in rank at the
Spanish Embassy.
Detective Sergts. J. K. Baker, Prank
O. Brass and Steve Brodie were as
signed to the case by the Police De
partment
' , *
INTANGIBLE TAX -
ALLOWED CREDIT
IN INCOME LEVY
Subcommittee Acts, Though
Rate Boost May Be
Necessary.
RETAINS PROVISION
TO TAX CONGRESS
Question Whether Members
Would Assess Themselves
Is Raised by Cole.
BACKGROUND—
As Federal contribution gradually
decreased and expenses of local gov
ernment acre pushed up by in
creasing population, District has
come face to face with deceit esti
mated at more than $6,000,000 for
coming fiscal year.
Situation brought decision to im
pose new tax schedule, now center
ing around proposal for income
levy. Sales tax previously was sup
ported as principal new tax, but
increased real estate levy is now
being gii'en consideration.
lPictures on Page B-l.)
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
The special tax subcommittee of
the House District Committee today
definitely decided to allow credit on
income tax payments for Intangible
property tax payments.
The subcommittee approved the
credit arrangement despite a previous
warning from the Commissioners it
would necessitate an Increase in the
proposed income tax rate schedule if
adequate revenue is to be raised to
meet the anticipated $6,149,000 budget
deficit.
The subcommittee also decided to
retain in the income tax bill a pro
vision which would force members of
Congress as well as all other persons
whose salary is earned in the District
I to pay the tax.
Representative Cole, Republican, of
New York seriously questioned whether
members of Congress would vote to
tax their own incomes. But Repre
sentative Dirksen, Republican, of Il
linois. champion of the income tax
legislation, declared:
"Leave that provision in the bill and
let the members fight it out on the
floor of the House."
$‘>.000,000 Additional.
The Commissioners had estimated
the income tax would produce about
$2,000,000 in additional revenue. The
tax on intangibles is estimated to in
clude $2,200,000 in the coming fiscal
year, but with the “teeth’’ the sub
committee has written into the exist
ing law it is believed the income from
this source will jump $1,000,000 tc
$3.200 000. With a credit allowance
for intangible payments on the income
tax, however, the District, it was said
will receive a net gain from the twc
taxes of not mere than $1,000,000.
Failure of the subcommittee to com
I plete the tax program caused post
ponement until Tuesday of a previous
ly scheduled meeting of the full Dis
trict Committee, at which it had plan
ned to pass on the proposed new tax
legislation.
The subcommittee met at 9 a m , an
hour early than usual, hoping to pul
the finishing touches on the tax pro
gram by 12:30, the time set for thf
full committee meeting. But at 10:3C
the subcommittee sent word to Chair
man Norton of the full committee it
would be unable to make its reporl
until later in the day. The meeting
was then postponed.
The delay in completing the ta>
increase program is due to the thor
oughness with which the subcommit
tee is going over the details of thf
income tax plan recommended by thf
Commissioners. Every sentence of the
proposed income tax bill is being
studied and analyzed, and its poten
tial effect discussed.
Indicative of the careful study being
made of the income tax plan is the
fact that the subcommittee spent three
(See TAXES, Page A-5^>
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements Obituary_A-12
C-6-7 Radio _C-10
Comics __C-14-15 Short Story___C-5
Editorials ...A-10 Society _B-3
Finance _A-17 Sports _C-l-4
Lost & Found A-3 Woman’s Pg. C-8
FOREIGN.
Windsor and Wallis Warfield married
in dual ceremony. Page A-l
Intensive Italian-German drive on
Bilbao seen. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Youthful industrialist indorses wage
and-hour legislation. Page A-l
Industry representatives testify at
wage-hour hearing. Page A-l
Byrnes urges cut in national relief to
*1,000,000,000. Page A-2
Judge delays decision in Ford chal
lenge. Page A-2
House members argue over income tax
publicity provision. Page A-4
Southern States celebrate birthday of
Jefferson Davis. Page A-7
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Property tax credit on income tax is
given approval. Page A-l
Bullet again prominent in Keene mur
der inquiry. Page A-l
Colored boy's death brings traffic
fatality list to 49. PageA-15
Newest disease of eyes described at
graduate clinic. Page A-16
School board adopts "policy” following
“red rider” repeal. Page A-20
National representation for District
aim of trade body. Page B-l
Zoning Board to hear Benning argu
ments. Page B-l
26 Annapolis graduates get Marine
Corps commissions. Page B-l
Nine-year-old boy dies after fall to
sidewalk. Page B-l
Fire chiefs told of Texas school
blast. Page B-l
f
319 Middies get diplomas. 289 are
commissioned. Page B-l
Transit company asks token fare in
crease. Page B-l
Senators to meet Commissioners on
D. C. appropriations. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-10
Stars. Men & Atoms. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-ll
Mark Sullivan. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Delia Pynchon. Page A-ll
SPORTS.
Rivals threaten Turner and Ahearn
as promoters here. Page C-l
Nats debacle in Detroit revives talk
of trade. Page C-l
Dizzy Dean tells Frick he doesn't in
tend to apologize. Page C-2
Young, new marathon star, due to run
in event here. Page C-4
FINANCIAL.
U. S. bonds narrow (table). PageA-17
Power output gains. Page A-17
Stocks mark time (table). Page A-18
Curb list mixed (table). Page A-19
Clearings uneven. Page A-19
Steel rate slumps. Page A-19
MISCELLANY.
Young Washington. Page B-5
Dorothy Dix. Page C-8
Betsy Caswell. Page C-8
Nature's Children. Page C-14
Cross-word Puzzle. Page C-14
Bedtime Story. Page C-15
Letter-Out. Page C-15
City news in brief. Page C-16
Service Orders. Page C-16
Vital Statistics. Page C-16
Traffic Convictions. Page C-l*
Shipping News. Page C-16
I
Lew Douglas
Financial Facts
; A SPECIALTY. .
I
Just a Little i
conception
of my owvy
BULLET IN KEENE
DEATHCASETESTED
i _
Maryland State Policemen
Move Into Scientific Lab
oratory to Solve Mystery.
Maryland State policemen today I
moved into a scientific laboratory in
Baltimore as they sought a solution of
the death of Charles F. Keene. sr„
whose bullet-torn body, weighted down
with a iron-filled brief case, was found
Monday in Chesapeake Bay.
The bullet removed from Keene's
brain is undergoing tests to determine !
if it is the same type of ammunition i
as the three unfired 32-caliber bul- j
I lets found in the Washington real es-J
J tat^ man's vest pocket, Detective Sergt.^
! Marlin Brubaker said. Earlier tests j
showed the lethal bullet was 9'2 grams I
lighter than the lead pellets in the un
j fired bullets.
j Meanwhile, other State policemen
were searching Prince Georges County
garages for Keene's automobile, which
was sideswiped and wrecked near
i Marlboro last December. The police
men want to determine whether a
jack, hammer and tire iron—imple
ments which were found in the brief
case tied around Keene's neck—are
missing from the car.
| Mrs. Keene is positive that the iron
I tools did not come from her husband's
| car. She said he did not return to
the automobile after it was wrecked
and left it stored in a garage while
I he awaited a settlement from C. C. C.
| adjusters.
"Of all things, why should he bring
a heavy jack.and hammer all the way
back to Washington,” asked Mrs.
Keene.
Did Not Tie Knot. Says Wife.
Mrs. Keene also said she is positive
' her husband could not have tied the
j intricate seaman's knot in the rope
1 which held the brief case around his
[ neck.
| "Mr. Keene could not even tie the
j most simple knot,” his widow said.
| “Every knot he ever tied always came
undone. I had to tie all of his
packages for him It is absurd even
to surmise that he might have tied
that knot around his neck.
Mrs. Keene and her son, Charles F
Keene, jr., declared they are positive
the brief case which was tied around
Keene's neck was not his own. Keene
owned only one brief case and he left
it in his office when he started for
Norfolk, his widow said.
Detective Sergt, J. J. Cassidy left
Baltimore this morning to bring the
brief case and other articles to Mrs.
(See KEENE, Page A-13.)
400 Men Strike
As Labor Board
Reinstates HO
Leaders of Independ
ent I nion Deny
Plans to Picket.
Ef the Associated Press.
McKeesport. Pa. June 3.—More
than 400 employes of the Columbia
Radiator Co. went on strike today pro
testing reinstatement of 80 workers, !
ordered by the National Labor Re
lations Board.
The reinstated men were members,
of the Internationa! Brotherhood of
Foundry Employes, an affiliate of the
American Federation of Labor, and
had charged they were dismissed be
cause of union activities.
Leaders of the striking employes. !
members of the Independent Radiator
and Boiler Workers' Association, aaid
there would be no picketing.
John B. Mason, jr., vice president !
of the company, said:
"The National Labor Relations
Board issued the order to rehire the
men, and we had to comply. The
plant is practically shut down There
is nothing for us to do so far as the
company is concerned."
WAGEBILL BACKED
B¥ INDUSTRIALIST
Proposed Pay-Hour Act
Does Not Go Far Enough,
He Says at Hearing.
BACKGROUND—
Black-Connery bill is administra
tion effort to curtail sweatshop
working conditions as concerns
wages, hours and child labor. Meas
ure would establish administrative
board vested with wide discretion
ary power in connection with ethls
noted in so far as they involve
interstate commerce.
N. R. A. had similar objectives,
but fell before Supreme Court;
present measure contains legal safe
gtiards based upon more recent de
cisions.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Telling of his failure to find "a
sympathetic group of colleagues in
business.” Robert Johnson, youthful
appearing president of the medical
supply firm of Johnson & Johnson,
added a voice of industry today in
support of Federal wage-and-hour
legislation, indorsing the pending
Black-Connery bill in joint hearings
before the Senate and House Labor
Committees.
Johnson's only qualifications in ''p
port of the legislation were that it
did not go far enough. He placed
himself uncompromisingly on record
in favor of a six-hour day and 30-hour
week eventually.
The young industria'ist explained
that his own firm had experimented
with the 30-hour week and found it
profitable, in both the northern and
southern textile divisions of the com
pany.
As the head of a company employing
5.000 persons in plants scattered
through the East and South, Johnson
(See WAGE-HOUR, Page A-8.)
Congress Urged to Place
All But Policy-Forming
Jobs Under Service.
BACKGROUND—
Discussion of wider application
of civil service laws throughout
Federal service has been live topic
in Congress for past year or two,
but legislation to carry out the idea
has not reached final passage. One
bill to apply civil service to post
masters has passed the House, but
is still in Senate committee. Presi
dent urged wide application in re
organisation message earlier in the
session.
President Roosevelt today urged j
Congress to place all but policy-form
ing positions in the Government under
the merit system.
He made the suggestion in a letter
to Vice President Garner transmitting
a report in which the Civil Service I
Commission frowned on the increasing
number of bills in Congress exempt- j
ing appointments from the merit sys- j
tern. The President wrote:
"I have received a communication
from the Civil Service Commission
which states that, in addition to nu- j
merous other bills exempting from the
merit system all but minor positions,
there have been more than 70 bills in
troduced In this session of Congress
which propose complete exemption for
a\l positions affected thereby.
Commission's letter.
"A copy of the commission's letter
Is herewith:
'• 'Aside from the undoubted fact
that the merit system affords the best
method for administration of Govern
ment business, the particular feature
of the system which has the greatest
appeal is the open competition it pro
vides to the taxpayers to seek the
public employment for which they
pay. Please let me urge upon the
Congress the desirability of placing all
but policy-forming positions under the
merit system.’ ”
The accompanying document- from
the Civil Service Commission de
clared it Is "greatly disturbed by the
increasing number of bills containing
provisions which completely exempt
from the merit system employments
thereunder.
Business Administration.
“The merit system without ques- [
tion is good business administration,
making for the utmost in economy ,
and efficiency, and the commission
therefore, urges that the President
take whatever steps are necessary to
place his great influence in public i
opposition against the continuance of
such proposals and their enactment
into law.”
Many of the laws creating,new and
emergency agencies during the past
four years have contained clauses
providing for selection of personnel
without regard to civil service. In
this same connection a proposal was
advanced yesterday at the House end
of the Capitol to select outside of
civil service any personnel the Dis
trict government may need to ad
minister the proposed new tax bill.
Honor for Mrs. Roosevelt.
JERSEY CITY. N. J.. June 3 (/P).—
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will receive
an honorary degree of doctors of laws
from John Marshall College of Law
June 16, in recognition of her work
in the interests of wider education.
Daughter Keeps Dead Body
Of Mother in Barricaded Room
By the Associated Press.
CHURCHTOWN, Pa.. June 3 —
Margaret Gretna Tiffany, 59, lived in
a remodeled home with the dead body
of her mother, Mrs. Lydia B. Tiffany,
99, in a barricaded upstairs room.
Deputy Coroner Charles S. Dutten
hoffer said Mrs. Tiffany had been
dead at least three weeks.
Constable W. S. Sweigert and Jus
tice of the Peace G. W. Ravert dis
covered the woman's body and six
dead pups yesterday. The officers
went to the residence, on the out
skirts of this Eastern Lancaster
County town, with a court order for
a sanity hearing.
Ravert said the search of the house
was authorized by Mrs. Isabelle Miles
Lippincott of Philadelphia, whom he
said was a relative.
Mrs. Tiffany was seen alive May 17
4
by an electric meter examiner. Neigh
bors said they had not seen the elder
woman since that time and that the
daughter had not left the house for
several weeks.
Ravert disclosed that Miss Tiffany
recently refused to sign for registered
mail that contained checks from a
Philadelphia bank. He said she ap
parently had not obtained groceries
for many days.
Nearly every room was baricaded.
Windows were barred. A door to a
stairway to the second floor was
nailed shut.
The dead pups were found in a
barricaded room. In another six other
dogs were near death from starva
tion1. Ravert said they had gnawed
the furniture and chewed rugs in a
search for food.
Miss Tiffany was held for a mental
! examination.
♦
NATIONAL POLICY
Congress Is Asked to Create
Seven Regional Boards
for the Work.
UNITS WOULD COMBAT
DUST, FLOOD, DROUGHTS
Hydro-Electric Development as
Well Is Aim—Norris Intro
duces Bill.
BACKGROUND—
For past year President Roosevelt
has been intensively studying
problem of conservation and power
development, assisted by National
Resources Committee and members
of Congress. Reorganization mes
sage earlier this year urged cre
ation of national planning board
to manage program. Plan mean
while has centered on regional de
velopment with suggestion that
local autho'ities be patterned after
Tennessee Valley Authority.
(Text of President s message on
page A-2.J
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roosevelt today urged
Congress to adopt a national policy to
guard against such calamities as
floods, dust storms and drought and
to develop national conservation.
In a special message he recom
mended specifically that seven region
al authorities or agencies be created
to administer. Federal power projects,
to study local' conditions and make
reports and recommendations to the
Congress through the President. The
authorities would not have executive
authority, however, over the con
struction of public works or over
management of completed works.
The President would, according to
his message, finally create, a national
planning board to work out a na
tional planning program. He would
expect to use this agency to co-ordi
nate the development of regional plan
ning to insure conformity to national
policy. The President pointed out in
this connection that there should b»
the closest co-operation between the
Government and the various local
agencies in the field.
Seven Regional Boards.
The President suggested in his mes
sage that the seven regional authori
ties. or agencies, should be distributed
as follows: One for the Atlantic sea
board. a second for the Great Lakes
and Ofiio Valley, a third for the drain
age basin of the Tennessee and Cum
berland Rivers, a fourth embracing the
drainage basins of the Missouri and
Red Rivers of the North, a fifth em
bracing the drainage basins of the Ar
kansas. Red and Rio Grande Rivers, a
! sixth for the basins of the Colorado
River and rivers flowing into the Pa
( cific s&uth of the California-Oregon
line and a seventh for the Columbia
1 River basin.
The President said that apart from
j the Tennessee Valley Authority, the
Columbia Valley Authority and the
! Mississippi River Commission the
..duties of the regional bodies, at least
I in their early years, would consist
| chiefly in developing integrated plans
to conserve and safeguard the pru
dent use of waters, waterpower, soils,
j forests and other resources of the
j areas entrusted to their charge.
Hydro-Electric Work I'rged.
The President said also that pro
visions should be made for the effective
administration of hydro-electric proj
ects which have been or may be under
taken as a part of a multiple purpose
watershed development. In this re
spect he expressed the opinion that
the waterpower resources of the Na
tion must be protected from private
monopoly and used for the benefit of
the people. The President reminded
Congress that thus proposal is in the
interest of national conservation as
well as economy and the abolishment
of overlapping developments.
According to his plan. Congress is
left wholly free to determine what
projects should oe undertaken after
getting a complete picture not only
of the needs of each one of the regions,
but of the relationship of each of the
regions to the whole of the Nation.
Senator Norris, independent, of
Nebraska, proposed the Senate legis
lation designed to carry out the Presi
dent's recommendations.
His bill, the Associated Pre.ss re
ported, would set jp six more regional
authorities like that which admin
~ (See PLANNING?Page A~8l
SHOWERS FORECAST
TODAY AND TONIGHT
Heat Wave Blamed for One
Drowning and Four Prostra
tions Yesterday.
Local thunder showers this after
noon and tonight, followed by cooler
weather, were forecast today by the
Weather Bureau following the heat
wave which resulted in one drowning
and four heat prostrations here yes
terday. Tomorrow is expected to be
fair.
The drowning victim was George
Walker, colored. 16, of Arlington, Va ,
who sank while swimming in the
Airport Basin about 20 yards from
shore. J. Lawrence, also of Arlington,
leaped into the water and pulled
Walker out on the bank. Firemen of
No. 1 Rescue Squad were unable to
revive the youth.
William Cook, 46. colored. 223 F
street southwest, remained in an un
determined condition at Casualty Hos
pital today after he was overcome
by the heat yesterday while at work
in a junk yard.
Three other persons were treated
for heat prostration at hospitals and
sent home. They were Douglas
Saunders, 35. colored. 1013 T street;
Richard Sisson, 38, of 228 V street
northeast, and Samuel Washington,
colored. 65, of 1403 East Capitol street,
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