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Equalization Fund Owns $933,590,000 and Bank $2,584,470,000. BACKGROUND— Last week it teas proposed to in crease British exchange equaliza tion fund from $1,750,000,000 to $2,750,000,000 to help Britain fulfill its agreement with France and the United States to maintain equilib rium of their three currencies. The increase, Sir John Simon said, was needed because of unsettled world money situation and recent dump ing on the market of large amounts of hoarded gold. Most of this gold was sold in the United States to get the higher price there. Bs the Associated Press. LONDON, June 28.—Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, lifted the veil from Britain's tremendous exchange equalization fund today to disclose in the House of Commons . that it owned 26.674.000 fine ounces of gold on last March 30—roughly equivalent to $933,590,000. He said also that the Bank of Eng land. on the same date, owned 73. 842.000 fine ounces of gold—about $2,584,470,000. That made a British-owned gold total of $3,518,060,000. The chancellor made these state ments in connection with a proposal to increase the resources of the equali sation fund. In doing so, however. Sir John said the British gold position was much better than formerly. "We are much better secured,” he t said, "and our resources are now fairly abundant. It is unlikely that any sudden or sustained losses of gold cot^ld occur now which could seriously embarrass us." Holdings Held Not Excessive. British policy is in accord with that of the United States, the chan cellor added. He said the treasury did not regard the government gold holdings as excessive and that there was no reason why present disturbed world conditions should be perma yient. Sir John agreed to publish a semi annual report on the amount of gold and other assets held by the equali ration fund. This, however, will be three months old when issued, he said, because of the need for keeping recent operations secret. He explained: •‘Anything like a contemporary dis closure of what it was doing would be a heaven-sent.opportunity for currency speculators. It would enable them, by plunging in at the right moment, to amplify and exaggerate the very undulations which the fund is en gaged in reducing.” Sir John said enormous movements » of short-term capital flow in and out of London, threatening to upset the relationship between the pound and other currencies. “The exchange account, under pres ent circumstances, must be prepared to add to our gold holdings," he added. New Influx Hinted. Some financial quarters expressed belief Simons was warning Commons to prepare for a new flood of gold into ■» Britain from the United States. Sir John disclosed a crisis "several years ago” when the fund lost $250, 000.000 of gold in three weeks and another $125,000,000 in the next eight weeks at a time when “the total gold resources of the country were com paratively small.” Congress <Continued From First Page.) would vote against a motion to recom mit. He is for the compromise. A new angle of the fight over the court bill today was the decision of the Senate Judiciary Committee to take up for consideration all proposed constitutional amendments relating to the Supreme Court now pending be fore it. The committee, which met to day, agTeed to consider these proposed amendments two weeks hence. Proposes 11 Justices. > There are half a dozen of these pro posed constitutional amendments. One offered by Senator Andrews of Florida provides for voluntary retirement of members of the Supreme Court at 70 and compulsory retirement at 75. It provides, also, that the Supreme Court shall be composed of a Chief Justice and one associate justice from each of the judicial circuits. There are 10 circuits now, which would mean a court of 11 members instead of 9. A , third provision is that every appointee to the Supreme Court must be a na tive-born American. Senator McAdoo of California has •n amendment providing that for 25 5'ears after its adoption the Supreme Court shall be composed of 15 mem bers and thereafter Congress may stipulate by law the number of mem bers of the court. The amendment slso permits voluntary retirement at 70 and provides for compulsory re tirement at 75. A constitutional amendment pro posed by Senator Wheeler of Mon 1 tana and Senator Bone of Washing ton would authorize Congress by two thirds vote of both Houses to re-enact and hold constitutional a law held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. A proposed constitutional amend ment by Senator Burke of Nebraska provides that the Supreme Court shall be composed of a chief justice and eight associate justices, as at present. It also provides that no act of Con gress shall be held unconstitutional unless at least seven members of the , court concur. It also provides for voluntary retirement at 70 and com pulsory retirement at 75. Would Require "Two-Thirds.” An amendment proposed by Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming, provides that no law of the United States or of any State shall be held unconstitutional by any inferior court and not by the Supreme Court unless two-thirds of the members "shall specifically and by separate opinions find it so beyond a reasonable doubt.” Senator Bilbo of Mississippi has pending an amendment providing that Congress shall have the power to re enact by a two-thirds majority ol each house any law declared uncon stitutional by the Supreme Court. The motion for the consideration of these constitutional amendments was made in committee by Senator Logan of Kentucky, a supporter of the Pres ident's court bill and also of the pro posed compromise. The decision to take up these amendments for consideration in the committee does not necessarily affect consideration of the court bill in the Benate. [ Majority Leader Robinson said on ^ hla return from Jefferson Island last Bight that a motion to take up the * _ Arkansas Scout Flics to Jamboree To Amaze Brother The last person Jimmy Den ton of Tuckerman. Ark , saw at the railroad station when he boarded a special train for the .iamboree was his brother Graham. The first person Jimmy saw when he arrived at the en campment here was his brother Graham. It seems that Graham aban doned the plan of following on a later train and took a plane in stead He arrived many hours ahead of Jimmy. ! 1 ■ court bill probably would not be made until after the Fourth of July recess. Apparently some day next week, how ever, the administration forces will seek to get up the court bill and press for an early vote. With the opposition still determined to prevent a vote on a compromise court bill, the prospects for early ad journment of Congress are faint. The administration seems determined to have final action, if possible, on a farm bill—the "ever-normal-granary" plan of Secretary Wallace—and on other measures the President has rec ommended. The Committee on Edu cation and Labor went to work in i executive session today on the wages and-hours bill. There has been much opposition to this measure since it was introduced with the backing of the administration. Jamboree (Continued From First Page.) be the building of a frontier town and its destruction by a “tornado." Buffalo Bill, Gen. Custer, Sitting Bull and other notable figures of the early West will come to life for the occasion. About 3,000 new recruits were ex pected today by train and bus. Dr. James E. West, commander in chief of the epochal march on Washington by American youth, inspected the far flung city of canvas and announced that "all is well.” Dr. West, one-time Washington orphan who became founder and leader of millions of clean-cut, ambi tion-fired boys, today took personal command of the mobilization, now well under way. Adequate Preparations. His general headquarters staff, he found on arrival from New York yes terday, had done a good job in seeing that every possible contingency was taken care of in advance of the influx of Scouts. Today, despite rainy weather that caused a sea of restlessness to rush over the penned-up campers, he saw that the macninery for receiving, transporting, registering and assign ing the new arrivals was functioning as smoothly as ever. Fourteen “jamboree specials" will have emptied their cargoes of boyhood at three railroad terminals by night fall—a comparative lull in compari son wuth the inpouring due tomorrow, when 40 special trains will bring noisy but well-behaved delegations from many distant points. ■■ * > u iiuiui auvti A little rain did not seem to bother the campers much, from the physical standpoint, although it was hard on pent-up enthusiasm. Rain was one of tne contingencies for which jamboree officials had pre pared, and today the big headquarters tents at the foot of the Monument took on the appearance of a circus grounds, with sawdust scattered in side the tents and planking stretched along the pathways. Most of the tents already had been carefully trenched against water seep age, but in several instances further ditching was found to be necessary today. Of course, there was plenty of mud in less-frequented spots about the camp, causing Scouts to bring out their overshoes—if they were thought ful enough to have them. Many boys seem to dislike overshoes, on general principles, however, and the jamboree campers were no exception to the rule. A few of the cots were damp after the night of drizzling rain, an in spection revealed, but, as one Scout remarked, “You won’t get wet if you put your tent up right.'’ Some of the mess tables had to be dried this morning before breakfast could be served. Canvas was stretched to shield the weather side of the tents. Raincoats and brightly colored slickers were in evidence all over camp. A group of boys from New Haven, Conn., dazzled their fellow campers with startling red slickers, emblazoned with their troop insignia. Drying clothes became a problem as the drizzle continued through the morning. Many lines, stretched from tent pole to tent pole, were weighted American Boy Scout Movement Born in D. C. February 10,1910 Here at the personal invitation of President Roosevelt, who is a Scout in his own right. America's Boy Scouts come this week to celebrate at its place of birth a gigantic delayed "sil ver jubilee" of the organization. The great character-building move ment for American boys was born in this city on February 10, 1910. The birthday anniversary party was to have been held two years ago. but threat of an epidemic caused its post ponement. Chosen for their achievement in every State, the boys now in Wash ington are outstanding members of a movement that got its start here when Lord Baden-Powell came to America some years after the South African Wars. With Lord Cecil. Baden-Powell had organized the boys of Mafeking as a Scout corps in the campaign of 1899 1902. The Scout movement got its start in England in 1907. Three years later Baden-Powell came to Washington and enlisted Dr. James E. West in the work, making him chief Scout executive. At present close to 2.000,000 boys are wearing the khaki-colored uniform. As Americans they have fine tradi tions to guide them—the lore of the cowboy and the American Indian; outdoor people who knew their way around in the great often spaces. That is why you find the Scout pa trols bearing such names as Black foot, Beaver, Triple-X and Redfeath er. That's why a newcomer to the ranks is a tenderfoot—and also why a boy, when he touches the highest point of Scoutdom, becomes an Eagle. From tenderfoot to Eagle is a long, hard path, too—and no mistake about that. A boy. to become an Eagle Scout, has to do just about everything the manual calls for. Even before he can get out of the tenderfoot class he must pass 12 tests. Like the American Legion and the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts of America hold a charter from Con gress. They boast of the fact that the late President Taft was their first honorary president and that each suc ceeding President of the United States has served in like capacity. unui^ Oiiii iu«na euiu uuicr articles. 5,000 Arrived Yesterday. It was estimated that more than 5.000 Scouts arrived yesterday, most; of them aboard 39 special trains. The New York unit arrived with flags1 given them by Mayor La Guardia. There were Catholic. Potestant and non-denominatioi>al religious services \ in various parts of the camp. Lack of formality marked these meetings. While many boys were rom posing •'having-a-fine-time — wish-you-were here” letters to friends and relatives baek home, one boy went them one better. He released a carrier pigecn with a message to his parents in Houston, Tex. This enterprising lad is Norman Speck, who hoped the bird would fly the 1.500 miles by tonight or Tuesday morning. Long Bicycle Trip Completed. British Columbia's only representa tives—Philip La Fortune and Arthur Freeman—who made the entire trip from their homes on bicycles, arrived on the scene last evening and spent the night at the Laurel, Md., home of Charles E. Phelps, general agent of the Canadian-Pacific Railroad. Phelps is a friend of the boys' scout master. with whom he was associated on a world cruise several years ago. The two youths have been pedaling toward Washington since April. They stopped off in New York before com ing here. A night horse show has been ar ranged for the final night of the jam boree, on July 9, It was announced to day. The show will be staged in the arena at the Monument by the In ter-American Horse Show Associa tion. Fort Myer Cavalry troops will perform daring stunts for the boys, and there will be fancy jumping and other events. A percentage of the proceeds of the show will go toward the expanse of bringing an Irish team to compete with the United States Army team at the international horse show next Fall. Cotton (Continued From First Page.) commerce, to provide funds for pay ing additional benefits under the agri cultural adjustment act, and for other purposes.” The act was limited to the crop year 1934-35 and fixed the quota for that year at 10.000.000 bales, imposing a $25 per bale tax on all cotton pro duced in excess of the allotment. Provision was made for issuance of tax exemption certificates to farmers for the amount of their allotment. In case they did not use all their certi ficates, they were empowered to de posit them in a pool, from which they had to be purchased by other growers who raised cotton in excess of their allotment. Thus the excess production ta: of $25 a bale could be avoided. However, the price charged by the pool for exemption certificates was $20 a bale. It was to recover money paid into the pool by growers who had exceeded their allotment for exemption certifi cates that the present suit was brought. The protesting cotton growers—J. Wood Thompson, A. W. Fisher of Mississippi, and D. S. Hopson and S. J. Ward of Alabama—asked the court to enjoin disbursement of the $3, 500.000 held by the pool and to direct its payment to the purchasers of the exemption certificates rather than to the depositors of the certificates, to whom it would have gone under the provisions of the act. During the argument in the appeals court Government counsel said that all but a comparatively small part of the fund had been distributee, during the pendency of the suit, but that •couch hAd bMc retained to pay naims asseriea dv me iour piainuns, which amounted to about $8,500. Speaking for the appellate court, Associate Justice D Lawrence Groner said, however, that he considered the action a class suit and that if the four plaintiffs were entitled to recover, all farmers similarly situated should be paid their money back. Suit Not Against United States. He said the suit was not against the United States, but against the in dividual defendants as trustees of the fund. Although the plaintiffs nad the election of buying the certificates or paying the tax, the economic pressure put upon them amounted to coercion by the Government, the court de clared. "The Government had no right to iimit the production of cotton or to use :he taxing power exclusively to ac ■omplish that end," the court stated. We are not saying that a tax on the processing of cotton is objectionable, put the Bankhead act did not impose i true tax and was not designed to raise revenue. It was—as it was in tended to be—only a coercive measure supplemental to the agricultural ad justment act. * • * "Here the plan, as we have shown, was to control the amount of produc tion, at 10 cents a pound, which, until :he recent advance, was considered a lair return for the farmer. The tax imposed by the act was equal to 50 per cent of the value of the cotton pro duced. This was itself confiscatory. No farmer, therefore, was in position :o refuse to sign the agreement which the act required and to accept his allotment as the Secretary made It. Had Hobson's Choice. "Having accepted the allotment and py good husbandry and diligence, or py the fertility of his land, grown and harvested a crop in excess of the allot ment, he was faced with the alterna - - When Time Hangs Heavy It teas on long, dull day in the jamboree camp yesterday for the thousands oj restless Scouts awaiting formal opening of the jamboree whirl Wednesday. This group, from Port Arthur, Tex., gnawed pencils and fidgeted over letters to the home folks: read and rc-rcad the Sunday papers and otherwise maiiaged to make the most of the inclement weather. —A. P. Photo. LABOR ORGANIZER Blast Wrecks Car of A. F. L. Official in Detroit—Sus pect Hunted. E> the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 28.—A bomb's ex plosion wrecked the automobile of an American Federation of Labor organ izer early today and hurled sleeping women and children from their beds. The bomb, which police said con tained dynamite, shattered the front of the car of Joseph O'Laughlin, A. F. of L. organizer and business agent of a truck drivers’ local and rocked the neighborhood. Authorities began a search for an unidentified man who, a witness said, had driven up to O’Laughlin's car and tinkered with the hood. A few mo ments after he had driven away came the explosion, about 2 a m. Scores of windows were shattered by the blast, which occurred only a block from the Northside scene of a street fight last week when three organizers for the Committee of Industrial Or ganization, A. F. of L. rival, were hurt. O'Laughlin told authorities he was in Lansing, lobbying befoie the Legis lature, at the time of the fight, believed a development from spirited C. I. O. and A. F. L. membership drives among dairy employes. Police took a statement from Alfred Hurska, who said he saw the man who approached O'Laughlin's car. -• Buddhist Leader Resigns. TOKIO, June 28 (/Pj.—Sonyu Otani, overseas minister in the Japanese cab inet, today renounced the leadership of the powerful Hongana Buddhist sect to continue his political career. He ex plained he did not want to contam inate his religion with politics. tive of paying to the Government In the form of a tax half the value above the allotment or purchasing certificates at a sacrifice of two-fifth. Failing one or the other of these courses, he could not sell his cotton without subjecting himself to the penalty of fine and im prisonment." The District Court, in which the suit originally was filed, had dis missed it. The appellate court ordered that the judgment of the lower court be reversed and the case remanded. Associate Justice Harold M. Stephens entered a dissenting opinion. "Conceivably, if under the Bank head act,” he declared in explaining his dissent, "the Government inflicted a wrong, it should have created a remedy by submitting itself to suit in respect of certificate payment, as it has concerning erroneous collection of taxes. But to create such a remedy is for the Congress, not for the courts; and the sin of omission of the Con gress, if there be such, ought not be visited upon the depositors of cer tificates. Groups Held Equally Innocent. "The Congress not having seen fit to provide a remedy in respect of certificate- payments, I think the courts should, as between the de positors of certificates and the pur chasers thereof, both of which groups were in my view equally subject to the asserted duress and equally in nocent thereof, leaves the loss where it has fallen and the moneys where they are.” The cotton growers were represented by Attorney John C. White of Wash ington and Jerome S. Hafter of Green ville, Miss. „ ~~1 ■ Scouts Qo to Church Gordon Englehart Reports Activities. Routine Already Established. in oraer 10 get me story oj me jamboree from the real Boy Scout angle, The Star has arranged with Gordon Englehart, 16-year-old Western High student and mem ber of D. C. Troop 666, to attend the encampment and write of the jamboree as he sees it. BY GORDON ENGLEHART. THOUGH the official opening of the National Jamboree is still two days off. a regular routine has been established in several of the more settled sections of the camp. The first regular meal for the Scouts was served Saturday night at 6 o'clock. The Scouts tore into the meat, pota toes, peas, celery, mine ana peacnes with a will. After eiinner announcem e n t a were made by the various Scout masters, preceded by singing. All Scouts turned in at 10 o'clock, aft er an hour of freedom. All troops draw their already t_ one indiv i d u a 1 _ . _ , . . . . . . ,, Gordon Enilthart. cook tent. A half hour before meal time, a flag is raised | over the tent, summoning the various ' troop cooks. To eliminate dishwashing | the food is served on paper dishes. All garbage and trash is disposed of at one spot. Program for Smuts. The program to be followed here after oy these sections is as follows: Reveille, 6:30 a.m. Breakfast, 7:45 am. Lunch, 12:30 pm. Dinner, 6 pm. Taps, 10 pm. A medical examination was given at 2 p.m. to all Scouts in Divisions R and S, where the boys from Wash ington and vicinity are stationed. A medical examination was required for everybody before entering camp, however, this serving merely as a check. The Sabbath was observed yesterday ! by all denominations. Mass was held ' at 7 a.m. and again at 9:30 a.m . I with Father Graham of Cincinnati ! as the celebrant. Church call for Protestants was I . .....I sounded by division buglers at 9 a.m., followed by the troops’ meeting for Sunday school. At f:25 all troops in the divisions assembled on the banks of the Potomac for a nonde nominational church. The program included the singing of several Negro spirituals by colored Troop 10, under the direction of B. F. Kersey, scout master; singing of hymns by the en tire group and the reading of the Scripture lesson by Mr. McGarvey. Church was closed with the scout master’s benediction. The first radio program from the jamboree grounds featuring a Scout was broadcast over WOL from 4:45 to 5 p.m. Richard Ruddick, life Scout from Norfolk, Va., was interviewed by Walter Compton, WOL announcer. Compton, a former Scout, questioned Ruddick on his record in scouting, his desire to come to t,he jamboree, and his viewpoint on the camp. Ruddick, a senior patrol leader in Troop 1 of Norfolk, has been in scout ing less than two years. He arrived in camp yesterday morning. Also inter viewed on the program was Arthur Shuck, an executive in the camp, who gave some interesting information on the jamboree. The program was held in a radio tent during a driving rainstorm. As soon as the program signed off, Rud dick heaved a tremendous sigh of re lief, and Shuck broke through the ring of admiring Scouts around the mike, at a gallop, in order to attend a meeting of camp officials in Chief Executive James West's tent. ° ** nk-sJ COTTON PLANTS GROW ALONG POTOMAC SHORE Cotton plants are blooming along the Potomac. They are real plants from Dixie, brought in pots by 1,200 Scouts from Arkansas. Tennessee, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana and Florida. The boys from ''Swanee” are down on Hains Point. They plan to swap the cotton plants for souvenirs from other parts of the world. "See Eta and See Batter” Don't run the risk of spoil ing your vacation—be sure that you have an extra pair of glasses in yoyr grip— better order them today. ETZ Optometrists 608 13th N.W. 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