Evening star. [volume], June 19, 1937, Page A-4, Image 4

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Senate Members See Little
Chance for Action This
Session.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.
As far as the 8enate la concerned,
there is little likelihood of any action
on a general reorganization bill at
thia session, it was disclosed yester
day in the executive session of the
Senate members of the Joint Reorgan
ization Committee, headed by Majority
Leader Robinson.
Senator McNary, the minority lead
er, who is a member of the com
mittee, is said to have stated he
could see no chance for action now
and that he felt there should be no
attempt to force through this legis
lation at this time. There was no
defense offered and the sentiment of
the committee seemed to be that the
proposed legislation is practically laid
aside for this session.
Senator Robinson announced that
on Monday or Tuesday he will intro
duce a revised bill to carry out the
President's program. This will be the
fourth draft. The memorandum which
was considered by the committee yes
terday contained only one change,
namely, to strike out proposed changes
regarding confirmation of appoint
ments and to restore the present law,
under which appointments are made
by the President subject to Senate con
firmation.
Another strong indication that re
organization plans have been laid
aside definitely is the fact that after
Senator Robinson has introduced his
bill, copies are to be sent to cabinet
and other administrative officers for
their comments. Leaders pointed out
the replies of these administrative
officers will not be returned to the
Senate committee for some time. Fol
lowing that, Senator Robinson said,
extensive public hearings are to be
held to give everyone who desires an
opportunity to express their views on
this important matter.
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LIBERTIES GROUPS
OPEN CONFERENCE
Round-Table Discussion* Are
Scheduled for Today With
Well-Known Speakers.
The International Labor Defense,
In co-operation with 13 other or
ganizations concerned with civil lib
erties, opened a three-day national
conference today at the Washington
Hotel.
Various round-table discussions were
scheduled for today. Rockwell Kent,
well-known illustrator, spoke at a
discussion on "Criminal Syndicalism
and Related Repressive Legislation,”
beginning at noon. Two round ta
bles were to begin at 2 p.tn., one oil
'The Present Situation in Puerto
Rico” and the other on "Prison Con
ditions in the United States.” At 3
p m. a conference was to be held on
"Events in Spain Today and Their
Significance to the American Peo
ple.” At 4 the Tom Mooney case was
to be discussed, and there was to be
a round table on "Anti-lynching
Legislation."
The final conference is to be at
T pm. on "Civil Rights in America
Today.” Two eyewitnesses of the
Memorial day strike deaths in Chi
cago will speak.
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Traffic Convictions
SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
William H. Powell, Maryland. $10.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Eugene D. Ziekler, Maryland, $10.
Prank X. Jordan. 615 Oglethorpe
Itreet northeast, $15.
John R. Taylor, 40 Franklin street,
*10.
Frank J. Lambiasi. Maryland. *10.
Theodore R. Sherman, 2230 Eighth
Itreet, $10.
Lawrence E. Wahl. Maryland. $5.
Lucille Tushln, 4943 Massachusetts
• venue, $5.
Isaac Jones, 12 N street. $5.
William J. Winter, 1205 Fifteenth
itreet, $5.
Anna Conard, 4628 Forty-ninth
Itreet, $5,
Joseph Collins, 721 Nineteenth
Itreet, *5.
Edison V. Olmstead, 1710 C street
aortheast, $5.
Edward J. Rourke. *5.
Benjamin Llff, 1023 Tenth street, *5
^Leo T. Warren, 1735 Eighth street,
Eleanor B. Wales, 2709 Thirty
fourth place, $5.
George P Riggins, 800 B street
northeast, $5.
Clara M. Oappage, 5515 Hawthorne
place, $5.
Leslie D. Meaaell, 3205 Oliver
Itreet, $5.
Fred E. Roberts, 1747 Columbia
road. $5.
David Ehrlich, 925 Fourth street
Northeast, $5. -
PERMITS SUSPENDED OR
REVOKED.
Harry B. Goodrich, 5527 Fourth
Itreet, 45 days.
Albert S. Halley, 4305 Fourth street,
•evoked.
Charles O. Iseli, 4136 Thirteenth
place northeast, 30 days.
Edward G. Millar. 315 Anaeostia
place southeast, suspended.
Joseph A. Moseley, 617 Webster
Itreet, 30 days.
Lillian Richards, Bull Run, Va.,
•uspended.
Wayne C. Spiggils. 504 Eighth street
northeast, suspended.
Francis Conoly, Oxford, Pa. sus
pended.
Frank H. Lawrence, Baltimore, Md.,
*0 days.
Robert C. Talley, SUver Hill, Md.,
*0 days.
Bill Davis, 1626 Nineteenth street,
suspended.
Stephen J. Lamme, jr., 1713 Lanier
place, suspended.
Escar L. Lucas, 208 Upehur street,
suspended.
Laurence A. Libby, 221 Eleventh
Itreet southeast, 30 days.
Ova D. Norman, 57 S street, re
voked.
Charles W. Proctor, 1826 G street,
revoked.
Thomas L. Reed, Camp Springs,
Md., revoked.
George D. Renkoph, Army War
College, suspended.
Thomas A. Robinson, 1827 Bel
mont road, suspended.
John B. Smith, 411* ElUcott street,
suspended.
Joseph J. Witkin, 1613 Benning
road northeast, suspended.
Charles R. Thomas, Dupont, Md..
mpended. J
Garner Visits Son
Vice President Garner pictured upon arrival at the residence,
in Amarillo, Tex., of his son, Tully Garner (right). The Vice
President is telling his son and T. E. Johnson (left), local News
Globe reporter, the experiences he had during a long auto drive
from Missouri during the day. Tully Garner is president of the
Amarillo First National Bank. —Wide World Photo.
GARNER DENIES RIFT
WITH ROOSEVELT
Vice President Says He Will Re
turn Immediately if He Is
Heeded.
AMARILLO, Tex, June 19
(N.A.N.A.I.—Vice President Garner
took occasion here yesterday to spike
definitely any rumors let loose from
Washington in regard to a break with
President Roosevelt.
“The dates for this trip were set
weeks ago.” he said. “We left on our
trip as originally scheduled and I told
the boss (Mr. Roosevelt) that I would
be subject to call and would return
immediately if he needed me. There
is no basis to the rumor."
All other questions in regard to
rumored rifts between himself and
“the boss.” Mr. Garner refused to
answer. Apparently he felt deeply on
the question because his face became
rosy and his shaggy eyebrows lifted
several times as if the question had
bothered him considerably.
(Copyright, 1937. by the North Americas
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
HERMAN IS NAMED
V.F.W. COMMANDER
District Department Closes An
nual Convention With Elec
tion of Officers.
The District Department, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, closed Its annual
convention last night with the elec
tion of David B. Herman u depart
ment commander, succeeding Lieut.
Col. Wallach A. McCathran.
Other officers elected were Philip
R. Belt, senior vice commander;
Stephen T. Nichka, Junior vice com
mander; Thomas F. Campbell, quarter
master; George G. McLelsh, judge
advocate; Dr. John L. Dc Mayo, sur
geon; Rev. Howard E. Snyder, chap
lain; Homer C. Kelso, deputy adjutant;
Oscar W. Hollingsworth, department
relief officer. Millard Rice, national
legislative representative, awore in the
new officers.
Citations were given to Dr. De
Mayo for his medical work at the
time of the bonus army's march on
Washington, and to Hollingsworth for
his relief and welfare work.
4-H Club Youth, 19, Started
Being Champion at Age of 10
Raymond Fisner is only 19, but;
he is a champion farmer. The first '
thing he remembers seeing when he '
was a baby was his father's pasture
in Lone Gum, Ark. When he learned
to walk, he held on to a pitchfork
and stumbled along the path to the
Fishers’ cotton field.
For this week only Fisher is living
under an Army tent on the edge of
Tidal Basin, a non-agricultural
neighborhood which is playing host
to 160 sons and daughters of the
soil organized as the 4-H Club.
These youths are the cream of 1.000,
000 club members who plow, plant
and keep house in every State in the
Union.
Fisher is interesting because for
the last couple of years his family
has lived on a Resettlement Admin
istration project, Plum Bayou Home
stead, near England, Ark. His father
and mother accepted the Govern
ment's aid because the drought had
burned out the usefulness of their
own property, but young Raymond
goes right on the championship road
he started down at the age of 10,
when his barred Plymouth Rock
chicks won prises at two county
fairs.
"This year.” he said, with no ap
parent pleasure in discussing his own I
successes, ‘T won first place at the
Arkansas State Pair In the 4-H Club
10-ear exhibit. I also sold 10 bushels
of seed corn, -which I field picked,
for $2 a bushel"
In eight years of farming Ray
mond has raised eight corn crops, two
cotton crops, one sweet potato crop
and one oat crop and one family of
chickens. In 1935, off 1 acre of land,
he mad $67.20. A year later he had
net profits of $334.23 from 5 acres of
corn, 12 acres of cotton and three
eighths acre of sweet potatoes.
Prom all his agricultural projects
he has undertaken as a member of
the 4-H Club of Logan County, Ark.,
Raymond has had a gross income of
$960.70 and a net profit of $513 87.
In 1934 he lost $5.15 on a cotton crop,
but he has been In the black on
everything else he raised, despite the
fierce* droughts of 1930, 1934 and
1936.
Fisher and the 159 other 4-H'ers
here for a week's encampment planned
to spend today in tours of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, the Pan-Amer
ican Union and the Lincoln Me
morial. The boys and girls will give
their own circus tonight on the
camping grounds just south of the
Washington Monument.
REAL ESTATE TAX
INCREASE PROTESTED
Takoma Park Citiseni' Aasoeia
tion Acta on District
Proposal.
Opposition to the proposed increase
in the real estate tax from $1.90 to
SI.70, as provided in the District tax
bill, was voted last night by the
Takoma Park Citisens’ Association,
meeting in the Takoma Publle Li
brary.
The resolution was presented by
Burt W. Andrews, who protested the
additional burden on reaklents of the
District, especially the small home
owner. An amendment by L. ft.
Grabill provided that other methods
be used to raise the necessary funds.
The necessity for a suitable waiting
station for patrons of the new bus
line at Laurel avenue and the Dis
trict line, Improvement in bus trans
portation facilities, more busses and
lack of proper designation of termi
nals on the front of the busses were
discussed at some length.
Secretary Chester C. Waters mad*
a report of the special meeting of
the Takoma Park Chamber of Com
merce, called to discuas the trans
portation problems In the Takoma
area. It was pointed out that if
adequate service were established
many auto owners would patronise
the bus lines. Opposition was also
r
. 1
expressed to the terminus of the bus
line st fifth and Dahlia streets The
association "Indorsed a movement for
Improved service and a waiting sta
tion and urged signs on street ears
lndloating connection with Takoma
Park busses.
Grabill reported a resolution re
questing the District Commissioners
to Include condemnation of Eastern
avenue from Laurel street to New
Hampshire avenue extended In the
list of condemnation Items for 1938.
Another resolution favored exten
sion of one-way traffic during the
morning and evening rush hours on
Thirteenth street southward from
Colorado avenue to Spring road.
The association Indorsed the move
ment closing all stores during July
and August In the Takoma area on
Wednesday at 1 o'clock.
The meeting concluded with the
election of the following officers for
the ensuing year: President, Dr. Ouy
Clinton; first vice president, Reed P.
Martin; second vice president, Mrs.
Mary Lamond White; secretary. Dr.
Waters; treasurer, Arthur P. Gordon;
delegates to Federation of Citisens'
Associations, Walter Irey and Martin.
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Barnacles on Sal*.
Natives of Eshowe, South Africa,
have been buying barnacles from an
herbalist who advertised that he had
a new variety collected from the backs
of whales. He gathered his stock in
Durban. The natives of the Eshowe
district believe that the barnacles
make “good medicine.”
How Big Is Business?
Small Banks Found to Be Weak Link in Business
Structure With u Inadequate Profits ”
Study Shows,
Thit is the last of a teriee of
etoriet on the profiti of big busi
ness.
B? the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 18.—A warning
that small banks art weak links in
America’s business banking structure
was Included today in the report of
the Twentieth Century Fund’s study
of big business.
More than half of all national bank
ing Institutions which have less than
$500,000 In loans and Investments
have “Inadequate profits," a report
on the two-year study asserted.
The minimum level of “adequacy"
was set at 0 per cent return on the
bank stockholder’s Investment, the as
sumption being that any lower per
centage Is “probably not sufficient to
enable a bank to pay dividends and
set aside adequate reserves."
The proportion of banks which fell
below this figure grew greater as the
else of the banks grew smaller.
Return of Smaller Banka.
Institutions operating on between
8350,000 and $500,000 in loans and
investments failed to produce a 0 per
cent return in 52 per cent of the cases.
In the $150,000 to 1250,000 class, 62 per
cent fell below the minimum standard.
The very smallest banks, those with
less than $160,000, made the worst
showing, with 74 per cent reporting
less than 6 per cent profit.
Banks above the $500,000 line grew
increasingly prosperous with slae.
Forty-five per cent of those with
loans and investments between $500,
000 and $750,000 were still falling to
make the required 6 per cent. But
the proportion of “Inadequate” banks
dropped to 20 per cent in the very
biggest institutions—these with $50,
000,000 or more loans and investments.
"Safest” Shewing.
Numerically, the $1,000,000 to $2,
000,000 banks made the “safest" show
ing with 797 of 1,330 institutions In
the “adequate” category.
The weakest situation, in point of
numbers of banks, existed In the
(250,000 to $500,000 division, the big
gest group In the study. Of its 1,619
banks, 853, or 53 per cent, were below
the specified minimum.
"A better way to show the poor
record of the smaller institution,” the
report Mid, -Is to point out that while
In the smallest class 35 per cent of
the banks made no proms,” the larger
banks had Increasingly fewer deficits
as the size of the institution grew.
In the $150,000 to $500,000 groups,
the banks with deficits mad# up 33 per
cent of the total; In the $500,000 to
$1,000,000 class, 14 per cent; in ths
$1,000,000 to $5,000,000 class, 10 per
cent; and In the $5,000,000 and over
class, 6 per cent.
When the report examined the
country geographically, it was found
that ana 11 banks prosper best In the
Northeastern States and make their
worst showing in the West.
Tlie study (which covered only na
tional banks) showed that big banks
and little banks together are begin
ning a poet-depression come-back.
After reporting deficits ranging
from 4.3 per cent to 10.1 per cent in
1932, 1933 and 1934, they earned net
profits of 3 3 per cent in 1935 and 7 6
per cent in 1936.
OPERATION KILLS DOG
WAYNETOWN, Ind., June 19 UP).—
Trixie, a little white dog which gained
considerable prominence two years ago
by delivering three puppies in a Cae
sarian operation, Is dead, the victim
of an anesthetic administered for a
similar operation.
A puppy born before the operation
began also died.
E. E. Llvengood, Trixie’s owner, said
the triplets born with the first oper
ation are still living.
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