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0. C. HEADS PARLEY
WITH CONFEREES
ON EOCAE TAX BILL
' Prospects for Other Meas
ures Fade as House Can
cels District Day.
' COMMISSIONERS PLAN
ATTACK ON LAND LEVY
Resolution for a Temporary Loan
Must Now Wait Until August
9 for Action.
BACKGROUND—
In lace of deficit of'about $7,000 -
OOO looming for present fiscal year,
Congress decided to impose new
taxes on District residents rather
than increase Federal contribution
to support of Nation's Capital.
Rouse passed tax measure many
weeks ago: last week Senate pushed
through bill. Many important dif
ferences indicate lengthy confer
ence consideration.
Efforts to whip together a mutually
satisfactory revenue bill for the Dis
trict were ready to begin in earnest
this afternoon with the District Com
missioners scheduled .to go into ses
sion with House and Senate conferees,
but pros|>ects of other desired legisla
tion for the Capital were dimmed
when House leaders decided to cancel
the District day scheduled for today,
With the Hou.se and Senate tax bills
widely divergent in character, the
Commissioners were planning to direct
their first opposition to the 1 per cent
land tax provision which the Senate
Inserted. Favoring rather some sort
of business privilege tax. the Commis
sioners are bearing statistics in sup
port of their contention that the land
tax would force local property owners
to bear 70 per cent of the impending
UCiillb.
The action of canceling today's pro
gram in the House means that four
District bills on the calendar must
await consideration until the next
scheduled District day. August 9. ii
Congress does not adjourn in tilt
meantime.
Loan Bill Delayed.
The principal measure on the Dis
trict calendar would authorize the
Commissioners to borrow Federal funds
to tide the municipal government over
it* prospective period of insolvency
between August 1 and October 1. Ma
jority Leader Rayburn pointed out a
similar loan authorization is contained
In the District tax bill now in confer
ence. and there is no necessity of sep
arate action on the loan measure.
The three other District bills on
which action was delayed were de
signed to amend and liberalize the
liquor control act, license and control
barbers and to provide stricter regula
tion of adoption proceedings.
The Drineipal alteration in the
liquor control act would permit the
sale of hard liquor by the drink over
bona fide lunch counters. Another is
Intended to stop the flow of riirect-to
consumer tax-free liquor into the
District.
The House named as its conferee;
Chairman Palmisano of the District
Committee and the following mem
bers of that group: Representatives
Kennedy of Maryland and Nichols of
Oklahoma, Democrats, and Dirksen
of Illinois and Short of Missouri. Re
publicans. Kennedy. Nichols and
Dirksen were members of the special
subcommittee which framed the origi
nal tax bill.
Senate Asks Parley.
The Senate named its conferees last
week.
A few minutes after the House con
vened at noon the Senate sent formal
word of its passage of the tax bill last
week and requested a conference.
Action on this request was delayed
for 40 minutes, however, by a roll call
of the House forced on a point of no
quorum, raised by Minority Leader
Snell.
Senator King said he is optimistic
ever the prospects of the conferees
reaching an early agreement on con
troversial provisions of the tax bill,
which has been in dispute since last
March.
The House conferees are expected to
insist on inclusion of a business priv
ilege tax in the bill. This provision
was approved in the House bill, but was
eliminated by the Senate.
The Commissioners are prepared to
argue, it was learned, that an increase
in the real estate tax from $1.50 to at
least *1.70 seems inevitable and it
would be unfair in the face of this to
saddle property owners with an addi
tional 1 per cent tax on their land.
The Commissioners have pointed out
that taxes from real estate already
constitute 60 per cent of the city’s gen
eral revenues and the Increase pro
posed by the Senate would add an
additional 10 per cent to this burden.
DR. J. H. HAWKINS, 55,
FOUND DEAD AT HOME
Biological Chemist Is Believed to
Have Been Victim of Heart
Attack.
Dr. J. H. Hawkins, 55. was found
dead on the floor of the kitchen of his
home, at 3515 Livingston street, this
afternoon by his colored maid. Police
believe he died of a heart attack.
Dr. Hawkins, a biological chemist,
connected with the Navy Yard, had
been dead apparently three hours
when the body was found. A wound
W'hich police thought was suffered
when he fell caused considerable loss
of blood.
Dr. Hawkins' wife and three chil
dren are vacationing in New Hamp
shire.
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Col. E. M. House Is 79.
MANCHESTER. Mass., July 26 (/P)
—Col. E. M. House, wartime adviser ol
President Wilson and a close friend ol
President Roosevelt, observed his 79th
* birthday anniversary quietly at hi
Summer home today. His activities
were restricted by a slight Illness.
, *
/. J. Dooling, Tammany Head9
Dies in Midst of Political War
I - <
Stroke Fatal at 44 to
Copeland Backer and.
New Deal Foe,
By ihp Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 26.—James J.
Dooling, 44, leader of Tammany Hall,
died of a stroke early today in the
midst of the bitterest political fight of
his organization's 151 years of ex
istence.
Dooling. although already stricken
and knowing his death might come at
I any time, had just successfully
blocked an ouster movement against
him, put through his own anti-New
Deal candidate, United States Senator
Royal S. Copeland, for the New York
mayoralty against an unprecedented
revolt, and brought about indirectly
a split- in Mayor Fiorello H. La Guar
dia's fusion party ranks.
Dooling had had several strokes.
The final one ended in death at 7:30
this morning at his peaceful home at
Belle Harbor, in the Rodkawavs, sur
rounded by his relatives. Dooling was
unmarried, but closely attached to his
relatives, especially his three sisters.
William P. Kenneally, chairman of
the Executive Committee of Tammany
Hall, automatically succeeded to the
leadership of the organization by vir
tue of his office. He will hold office
until the Executive Committee selects
a permanent leader.
No comment was forthcoming im
mediately from Tammany members on
what effect Dooling's death would
J. J. DOOLING.
have on the approaching mayoralty
campaign.
Immediate speculation among polit
ical observers as to who might succeed
to the Tammany chieftainship brought
forth two names. Christopher D. Sul
livan and John J. Kelly, long Dooling
associates, but frequently opposed
within the organization. In the re
cent fight, Sullivan supported Cope
land and Kelly supported Grover A.
Whalen.
It was predicted in some political
(See DOOLING. Page A-3>~~
, Insurgent Push Menaces
Pivotal Towns—60 Die
in Barcelona Raid.
BACKGROUND—
Goaded by fall of important cit
ies in northern Spain and French
picas for show of strength in face
of ineffective non-intervention de
liberations. Loyalist government
made brilliant effort to lift siege of
Madrid. Recapture of Brunete
marked beginning of determined
counter-offensive to regain large
area of lost ground.
By the Associated Press.
| MADRID. July 26—Crack Spanish
government troops massed before the
| vital communications center of Villa
neuva de la Canada today to halt the
shattering drt “ ■uiat swept victorious
insurgent troops into Brunete. spear
head of the government's western sal
ient.
Locked in battle for command of the
siege lines west of Madrid, insurgent
and government commanders threw
into combat the greatest war machines
yet assembled in the year-old civil war.
Military observers believed the fate
of the government's attempt to lift
the Madrid siege might hinge on the
Villaneuva battle. The town. 18 miles
west of the capital, is the key to com
munication lines in the 100-square
mile wedge driven by Gen. Jose Miaja
into the insurgent lines.
The government announced Brunete
fell before a withering insurgent at
tack yesterday after a battle that see
sawed back and forth across the shell
raked village.
"The enemy displayed formidable
resistance and with the aid of its
aviation and artillery succeeded in
foiling our advance, and captured Bru
nete,’’ said a government communique.
Driven Deep Into Salient.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's
reinforced army seat of Brunete drove
deep into territory won by the gov
ernments two-week offensive and
forced Gen. Miaja's troops back with
heavy casualties.
Fierceness of the fighting at Brunete
was confirmed, but government sources
minimized the importance of the ad
vance, saying the insurgents won
ground only at the expense of many
~(See !SPANISH, Page A-3.)
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Lakes on Honeymoon.
SAN SIMEON, Calif., July 26 (>?*).—
Arthur Lake, screen dancer, went
honeymooning today with the former
Patricia Van Cleve. They were mar
ried yesterday at the ranch of Wil
liam Randolph Hearst.
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Defeat Tuckey and Wilde in
4 Sets to Give U. S.
2-1 Lead.
By ihe Associated Press.
WIMBLEDON. England. July 26 —
Overcoming surprisingly stubborn re
sistance, Don Budge and Gene Mako
whipped C. R. D. Turkey and P. H. D.
Wilde in the doubles today, 6—3, 7—5.
7—9, 12—10. and gave the United
States a 2-1 lead over Great Britain
in the Davis Cup challenge round with
two more singles matches yet to be
played.
With that one point advantage.
American supporters now are confident
Budge will whip enrv Wilfred
(Bunny) Austin in the final singles
matches tomorrow for the clinching
point even if Frankie Parker bows to
Charles Edgar Hare in the opener.
Have Tough Match.
Budge and Mako, the all-England
champions and conquerors of Ger
many's crack combination of Gott
fried von Cramm and Heinrich Henkel
in the interzone finals, gave their fol
lowers many anxious moments today
before they finally pulled the doubles
match out of the fire.
After sweeping through the first two
sets in rapid style, the Californians
appeared headed toward an easy
triumph. But with the veteran
Tuckey performing brilliantly in sup
port of the untried Wilde, the British
came roaring back to win the third
set and almost snatched the fourth
as well.
Finally Crack Turkey's Service.
By a strange quirk. Tuckey captured
every one of his service games until
the tw'enty-flrst game of the fourth
set. And when Budge and Mako
broke through then, it spelled curtains
for the British. Leading 11—10 then,
Budge served a love game in the
twenty-second game for set and
match.
Three great smashes by Mako ana
an ace by Budge gave the Americans
their winning points in the closing
game.
In the long run, it was Wilde's weak
play that helped the Americans to win.
Budge and Mako broke through his
delivery in the eighth game for their
decisive advantage in the opening set;
i See TENNIS, Page A-37)
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Capone's Nemesis Dies.
KANSAS CITY. July 26 (/Pi.—David
Nolan, Internal Revenue agent cred
ited with obtaining, evidence which
helped send A1 Capone, Chicago gang
ster, to Alcatraz Federal Prison for
income tax evasion, died here yester
day of a complication of diseases. He
was born July 28, 1882, at Peru, Ind.
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Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Comics _B-14 Radio _B-7
Drama _B-16 Serial Story..B-8
Editorials_A-8 Short Story.-B-U
Finance _A-13 Society __B-3
Lost & Found B-l 1 Sports ...A-ll-12
Obituary_A-10 Woman's Pg. B-10
FOREIGN.
Madrid troops mass to prevent fall of
communication center. Page A-l
Budge and Mako give U. S. 2-1 lead
in tennis. Page A-l
Gates of Peiping reported under Jap
anese attack. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Roosevelt expected to name Supreme
Court justice soon. Page A-l
J. J. Dooling, Tammany chief,
dies. Page A-l
Senate ponders whether freight trains
should have 70 cars. Page A-l
Senate to consider wage-hour bill as
step to adjournment. Page A-l
Reorganization legislation this session
believed unlikely. Page A-2
Ford employe accuses attorney of La
bor Board. Page A-2
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Remaining program for Congress to be
announced soon. Page A-l
Model for Little Lord Fauntleroy dies
a hero. Page A-5
Twenty-seven-year-old mother drown
ed at nearby beach. Page B-l
Hearings on May airport bill scheduled
tomorrow. Page B-l
Treasury projects face new delays in
painters' strike. Page B-l
Soviet flyers are received at White
House. Page B-l
J
Commissioners against five-day week
bill for firemen. Page B-l
EDITORIALS AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Washington Observations. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Constantine Brown. Page A-9
Headline Folk. Page A-9
SPORTS.
Surprising Griflmen return for long
home stand. _PageA-H
Boston's busy Bees win 22 of last 30
games. ' _.PageA-ll
New 14-club rule is worrying golf
pros. Page A-12
Budge earns good will for U. S. on
British courts. Page A-12
FINANCIAL.
Corporate bonds up (table). Page A-13
Steel activity mounts. Page A-13
Stock traders cheerful. Page A-13
B. & O. earnings rise. Page A-14
Stocks hesitant (table). Page A-14
Curb list gains (table). PageA-15
MISCELLANY.
Young Washington. Page B-S
Winning Contract. Page B-7
Shipping News. Page B-9
Dorothy Dix. Page B-14
Betsy Caswell. Page B-10
Nature's Children. Page B-14
Cross-word Puzzle. Page B-14
Bedtime Stories. Page 1I-1S
Letter-out. Page B-1S
I
CHINESE ENSNARE
JAPANESE TROOPS,
THEN FIRE ON THEM
500 Soldiers Enter Peiping,
Gates Are Closed and At
tack Is Begun.
DEFENDERS CLAIM FOE
ATTACKED ENTRANCE
Assault by Machine Guns and
Hand Grenades Inflict Heavy
Casualties.
BACKGROUND—
Most recent Fnr Eastern crisis
resulted from Japanese clash with
Chinese at Marco Polo Bridge, near
Peiping. July 1. Several truces
failed to bring settlement of dis
pute. which centers around Japan's
demand for economic dominance in
North China.
6T the Associated Press.
TIENTSIN, China, July 26 — Japa
nese army headquarters reported to
night that a battle was raging at a
gate In Peiping's outer wall after
Chinese permitted half a column of
Japanese troops to enter the gate and
then fired on them
The Japanese column of about 50(1
men intended to enter Peiping by the
southwest gate to "protect Japanese f
citizens." The Japanese here said
■ the Chinese announced they would
; permit the entry, then let half the
Japanese troops come in and opened
up with machine guns and grenades.
Heavy Japanese casualties were re
ported both inside and outside the
gate.
bassv guard of about 500 men in
Peiping.)
Chinese reports said the Japanese
attacked the gate shortly after a Jap
anese ultimatum demanded that Chi
nese troops quit Peiping and its en
virons or face drastic action.
Reports of the new clash followed
Japanese air bombardment of the 38th
Chinese Army Division at Langfang.
midway on the Peiping-Tientsin Rail
road.
The Chinese government Central
News Agency declared in a Peiping
dispatch that Japanese used machine
guns and light artillery in the en
j gagement just outside Peiping walls.
Chinese defenders patrolling the
j walls called out reserves, opened the
| barred gale, rushed them out and
fought off the attackers, the report
said. Chinese estimated the attackers
numbered about 500, and said they
came from Fengtai, Japanese field
headquarters southwest of Peiping.
Probers Go to Langfanr.
Tw o Chinese and two Japanese Army
officers left Tientsin on a special train
for Langfang to investigate the main
Sino-Japanese encounter.
i At Nanking. China's capital, the
foreign office expressed indignation
at the "Japanese attack " The cap
ital heard reports that Chinese
were taking up new positions and
strengthening their forces south of
Peiping, indicating there was no
intention to bow to the Japanese
ultimatum.
(The Japanese Embassy con
curred with Chinese officials in
viewing the situation as ‘most
grave.1’ both factions professing to
believe that "war is inevitable.")
At Langfang, Japanese bombs and
machine guns were believed to have
taken a terrific toll of Chinese lives.
Reinforcements Arrive.
Early this morning, after a battle
had raged for several hours. Japanese
reinforcements of men and planes ar
rived. Chinese officers said that 17
Japanese war planes subjected the
Chinese Langfang garrison of about
1.000 troops to such punishment they
were forced to withdraw after 12 hours.
Chinese casualties were believed sev
eral hundred. Japanese officially listed
fewer than 10 dead.
Lieut. Gen. Kiyoshi Katsuki. com
mander in chief of the Japanese North
China Army, demanded of Gen. Sung
Cheh-yuan. Chinese warlord in the
Hopeh-Chahar district:
1. That all units of the 37th Division
of the 29th Chinese Army withdraw
southward to Changsintien from the
Lukouchiao-Wanpinghsien area south
west of Peiping before noon Tuesday.
2. That all other 37th units now in
Peiping or in the west barracks gar
rison withdraw west of the Yungting
River by noon Wednesday.
Otherwise, said the Japanese general,
there will be drastic punitive action by
the Japanese Army. Already, Gen.
Katsuki let it be known, all available
Japanese strength was drawn up for
such a punitive campaign.
Resistance Reported Ordered.
Gen. Sung, the Chinese warlord who
commands both the 29th Army and
the Hopeh-Chahar Political Council,
was reported without confirmation to
have refused the Japanese ultimatum
and to have ordered his men: "Resist!”
Chinese said the Langfang battle
started when Japanese attacked troops
of the 38th Division en route to Peiping
to take over the Chinese garrison from
the 37th in accordance with Japanese
demands.
Japanese, however, declared the at
tack was in reprisal for a Chinese
assault against a Japanese signal corps
detachment which was attempting to
restore military telephone service.
Chinese positions at Langfang were
reported blown to bits. Hundreds of
Chinese soldiers and civilians were re
ported killed.
The Japanese ultimatum followed
efforts of the Hopeh-Chahar Political
Council to reopen truce negotiations
wdth Japanese after the Langfang
clash.
Chinese proposed to suspend hostil
ities immediately, Domei (Japanese)
news agency said.
Gen. Katsuki was quoted as de
scribing the Chinese overtures as a
"makeshift attempt.” He refused to
negotiate until Chinese 37th Division
troops were withdrawn from their
positions.
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TASTES GOOD. BUT HOW ABOUT ITS HEALING PROPERTIES?
Police Break Picket Lines
as 1,000 Strikers Mass
Around Gates.
1} the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. July 26 —Steel strike
violence broke out anew today. At
least 20 persons were injured in riot
ing at Republic Steel Corp's Corri
gan-McKinney plant in Cleveland; 11
were arrested.
Clashes occurred when police broke
through C I O picket lines.
Tom Glowacki. 51-year-old picket,
suffered critical injuries when he was
run down by a car containing four
men trying to enter the plant. Two
policemen were hurt.
Some 1.000 strikers and sympathiz
ers. witnesses said, massed around one
of the approaches to the plant's main
entrance. About 100 officers, many
on horses and on motor cycles, at
tempted to clear a path.
At first only boos and cat calls
came from the crowd, but as more j
cars carrying non-strikers passed <
through the line rocks flew from the j
strikers, police said.
“I'll Fill the Hospitals."
In melees which followed. Mounted
Patrolman Rowley Oker was hit on
the bark of the head He remounted
and charged a crowd of 300 on the
sidewalk, witnesses said, bringing his
night sticky down on the head of a
striker, Matibida Manguos, 35, who
collapsed under the blow.
After the violence, first here since
Republic reopened its Cleveland plants
July 6 the strikers marched on City
Hall in a mass protest against police
action. Their ranks swelled and the
milling crowd was estimated at almost 1
5,000 persons.
- * W..IUIIVW.I i a inuiru a piULcSl
to Mayor Harold H. Burton.
"I'll fill St. Alexis' Hospital with
you people today if you don't get out
of here." James Quinn, financial di
rector of the C. I O. Steel Workers'
Organizing Committee, quoted Police
Inspector Martin A. Horrigan as sav
ing. Horrigan denied making the
statement.
One of those arrested was William
Johnson, said by police to be the
driver of the car which ran down
Glowacki. Held for questioning, he
said he lost control of his car when
rocks were hurled, breaking two win
daws. and that he then drove into the
crowd surrounding him.
Police Car Injures Man.
Smaller groups of pickets were on
duty at the four other gates leading
into the plant. While most of the
rock-hurling occurred at the main
gate, it was at one of the other en
trances that Glowacki was run down.
Joe Blonk. 23, treated at a hospital
for a bruised leg, reported that Hor
rigan’s cruiser knocked him under the
fender of a car parked near the main
gate.
Since the reopenings of Corrigan
McKinney and Republic's three other
Cleveland plants sporadic window
smashing, assaults and other vandal
ism has occurred. State troops, on
hand for the reopenings, were with
drawn recently.
Today's new drive to keep non
strikers out of the plant followed an
order by Sheriff Martin L, O'Donnell
removing a ban on picketing and a
statement by Mayor Burton that po
lice had no right to bar pickets from
zones around the plants without a
court order.
WHEAT GOING TO SEED
IN SOVIET’S FIELDS
Old Heaping Methods Too Blow
to Cut Bumper Crop, Iz
vestia Claims.
Br the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 26.—Wheat going
to seed in the fields is cutting heavily
into the Soviet's bumper crop, the
government newspaper Izvestia de
clared today.
It ascribed most of the loss to
use of old-fashioned reaping methods
for 46 per cent of the crop. Modern
combines had been expected to har
vest 75 per cent of it.
Only 234.000,000 bushels were har
vested, while 30,000,000 more remained
in the fields up to July 30. Izvestia
said the harvest, up to then, was
13.500.000 acres behind the corre
sponding date in 1936.
i
Newspaper Ban
At Coney Beach
Brings Protests
Pttlice Yank Journals
From Owners in
Clean-Up Drive.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 26 —Freedom of
the press was a burning issue today to
1.100.000 persons who were denied the
right to read newspapers on the sands
of Coney Island.
They were told they not only
couldn t read them—but they couldn't
sit on them either.
The edict was issued by New York
City's department of sanitation in a
drive to keep Coney Island's beaches
clean.
Yesterday 100 members of the de
partment's litter squad walked meth
odically through a crowd of 1 100.000
week-end sun worshippers, yanking
their newspapers right and left. There
were many protests, but all to no
avail. The law had decreed clean
beaches Newspapers litter beaches
Newspapers must go. They went,
lafoTEeiteseen
Senator and Brother Are
Guests of Roosevelt on
Cruise.
BACKGROUND—
Desirous of placing younger men
on Supreme Court bench. President
last Winter suggested sweeping re
organization of Federal judiciary.
Revolting party members have
forced abandonment of plan in so
far as it affects highest tribunal.
One opportunity for pro-Roose
velt appointment arose during
Spring, when Justice Van Decanter
retired and death of Senator Rob
inson left no conservative with
prior "claim."
Bf the Associated Press.
The general expectation that Presi
dent Roosevelt will fill the Supreme
Court vacancy before adjournment of
Congress renewed speculation today
over his possible choice.
The latest name mentioned in the
Capital was that of Senator Robert
A. La Follette. progressive, of Wis
consin. The 42-year-old Senator and
his brother. Gov. Phil La Follette of
Wisconsin, accompanied Mr. Roose
vejt on a week end cruise.
Nothing was said on their return
last night to indicate whether • suc
cessor to Justice Van Devanter, who
retired in June, had been discussed.
The President told his press confer
ence Friday that he had not yet con
sidered the appointment.
Some persons suggested Gov. La
Follette, as well as his brother, might
be receiving consideration. Senator
Norris, independent, of Nebraska,
commented at his Summer home at
Waupaca, Wis., that Robert La Follette
was too valuable a member of the
Senate to be spared for another posi
iSee COURT, Page A-4.)
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Promises Statement in
“Day or Two” as Ad
journment Is Urged.
BACKGROUND—
Administration seeks to accom
plish many industrial reforms
through omnibus labor standards
bill; measure deals with regulation
of wages and hours, elimination of
child labor in industry and mainte
nance of other desirable working
standards.
Joint hearings were held oil bill,
after which Senate committee re
vised it greatly: House committee
has not yet reported tts version.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
A promise that "within a day or
two" he would make a statement to
the Senate regarding the program for
the remainder of the present session
was made to the Upper House today
by Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the
new Democratic leader.
Senator McNary of Oregon. Repub
lican leader, brought up the matter
of adjournment on the floor soon
after the Senate met. Arising in his
place, he said he had noticed in the
: morning newspaper that Senator La
Follette of Wisconsin was quoted as
saying Congress should stay here and
complete the administration's program
' of legislation.
McNary said he realized the Sen
ator from Wisconsin, who is very in
fluential with tite administration,
might be considered a leader. He said,
however, he would like to hear from
the other leader, who had been on a
week-end trip with la Follette and
with the President. He was referring
to Senator Barkley.
Speedy Adjournment Sought.
McNary said many of the Senators
believed the Senate should conclude
its business now that the court bill
is out of the way. He said that per
sonally he had purchased a ticket
good for August 5 and he hoped to
be able to use it. So he asked Senator
Barkley what the prospects were for
adjournment.
"The press this morning.” McNary
: said, "carried a very interesting state
I ment issued by the senior Senator
j from Wisconsin, who is a powerful
and influential force in this adminis
tration, to the effect that we are to
have a rather ambitious program the
remainder of this session of Congress.
I doubt not that he spoke the voice
of the President.
"Accompanying the President with
the Senator from Wisconsin was the
Senator from Kentucky, our new
leader. I am very anxious to know,
and I shall be listressed to learn, that
we are to follow the leadership of the
Senator from Wisconsin and remain
much longer during the session. 1
have felt, since the capitulation which
occurred last week under the manage
ment of our able Vice President, that
we would probably adjourn, at any
(See CONGRESS, Page a73 )
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El Centro, Calif., Shaken.
EL CENTRO, Calif., July 26 </P>.—
A minor earthquake was felt in El
Centro at 11:37 o'clock last night, but
no damage was reported.
ECONOMY ORDER
President Serves Notice to
Congress to Hold Down
on Construction.
JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
DELAYED INDEFINITELY
Post Offices and Other Proposed
Federal Structures to Be
Sidetracked.
BACKGROUND—
President Roosevelt has made
several recent suggestions for econ
omy in departmental expenditures
as tax returns fell below expecta
tions and expenses remained, at
high level
At his suggestion departments
are to hold 10 per cent of appro
priated funds in reserve during
present fiscal year. Meanwhile,
legislation to plug tax law loop
holes is expected.
BY J. Rl'SSELL YOl'NG.
President Roosevelt wants Congress
to hold down the matter of spending
money for new Government buildings,
not only in Washington but elsewhers
throughout the country.
The President wants first to make
sure where the money is coming from
and in the meantime he wants Con
gress to put a "soft pedal" on this
form of spending.
This viewpoint of the President was
made rlear today to Representative
Woodrum. Democrat, of Virginia,
member of the House Appropriations
Committee, during a conference at the
White House. Mr. Woodrum said that
he would carry the Presidents ideas
back to Capitol Hill. He was of the
opinion that Congress will endeavor to
postpone making appropriations for
new buildings except where it is
thought that the new buildings are ab
solutely necessary.
The Virginia Representative said
that appropriations for the public
building program for the next year
were to be provided for in the third
deficiency bill which is being prepared
by the Appropriations Committee and
which will be passed within a few days.
New War Building Doomed.
According to Woodrum. the policy
outlined by the President will mean
that the proposed Thomas Jefferson
memorial, which was to have been
erected on the south side of the Tidal
Basin, will be postponed indefinitely,
as will the new home for the War
Department, which it was claimed
would cost about $26,000,000.
The general building program was
gone over by the President and Rep
resentative Woodrum during their
conference today, and it was not de
termined whether or not the proposed
building to house the Social Security
Board, which has such a tremendous
I office foree. could be postponed.
At any rate, besides the Jefferson
Memorial and the new home for the
W'ar Department, any number of post
offices and othfr Federal buildings
propospd for various parts of the
United States will be sidetracked un'il
the time the President feels that the
Government has the monev to spend
and can afford to spend it for these
! purposes.
This proposed retrenchment is in
line with the President's announced
determination to save money wherever
possible wilh a view to bringing about
a balanced budget within the next
year or so.
Reaction Unpredictable.
Representative Woodrum. who was
selected by the President to earry
the message of retrenchment to the
Capitol, intimated that he was heart
ily with the President's policy, but
that he was unable to say just what
the ultimate action would be in Con
gress.
The Associated Press reported
meanwhile that fiscal officials weie
passing the word that the President
may instruct Government credit
agencies to tighten their lending and
collection policies in an effort to bal
ance the budget this fiscal year.
This move, they said, would supple
ment the administration's announced
program to curtail expenditures.
Mr. Roosevelt already has asked de
partment heads to impound 10 per cent
of many appropriations. Officials ex
pressed belief that this order, plus in
creased receipts from credit agencies,
will materially reduce or eliminate the
$418,000,000 deficit forecast for this
fiscal year.
They said that the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. and similar agencies
could improve the fiscal picture by
restricting lending policies, by declin
ing to grant extensions of outstanding
loans and by liquidating assets.
Rest Loans Already Liquidated.
These persons added, however, that
it may be difficult for some agencies
I to increase receipts appreciably be
cause many of their best loans al
ready have been liquidated.
The R. F. C.. for instance, has
collected $4,640,086,000. or 71 per
cent of all loans other than those
to governmental agencies. Railroads
now have replaced banks as the big
gest R. F. C. debtors, owing $354,
320.000.
Thus far this fiscal year, repay
ments to lending agencies have fallen
short of last year. Since July 1
collections have exceeded outlays by
only $17,087,000, compared with a
$204,066,000 excess of collections in
the corresponding period last year.
A $75,000,000 decline in direct
spending for "recovery and relief'’
has been offset partially by a $55.
000.000 increase in expenditures for
ordinary government operations.
The deficit already has reached
$194, 549.000, compared with $62,
729,000 in the same period a year ago.
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Old X-Ray Burns Fatal.
LOS ANGELES,"July 26 O-P).—Bums
suffered 10 years ago when he was
manufacturing X-ray machines caused
the death yesterday of Thomas B.
Rider, 62, electrical engineer.
A
Senate Argues Freight Trains
Of Only 70 Cars, Plus Caboose
Possibly to demonstrate its versatil
ity, the Senate skipped from the size
of the Supreme Court to the size of
freight trains today.
The freight-train issue sneaked into
the Senate last January, ahead of the
Supreme Court proposal, when Sena
tor McCarran, Nevada, Democrat, in
troduced a bill to limit the length of
such carriers to 70 cars, exclusive of
caboose.
The proposition was referred to the
Committee on Interstate Commerce,
where Senator Wheeler, Montana
Democrat, who agrees with McCarran
that (he Supreme Court should be let
alone, also agreed with him that
freight trains should be shorter. Ac
cordingly, the Senator reported the
bill with recommendation for passage,
and it was at the top of the calendar
when the lawmakers returned from
week-ending today.
tl
Arguments on behalf of the move
ment for shorter freight trains center
mostly about safety. The committee
report cited tests conducted by the
American Railway Association, show
ing that a half-minute lag exists be
tween the time of effectiveness of
brakes applied on the first car and
the last car of a 100-car train. In
one test, it was reported, on a 150-car
train there was no braking effective
ness from cars 50 to 149.
Other tests, it was reported, showed
that 33 out of 35 signals given from
the caboose of a 60-car train were
understood correctly in the locomo
tive, but that only 13 were correctly
transmitted in the same manner in a
70-car train and only 3 out of 35 for
an 80-car train.
The best solution, the committee
contends, is to have less train between
the cabooee and the locomotive.
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