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Weather Forecast
Increasing cloudiness; lowest tempera
ture about 35 degrees tonight; tomorrow
cloudy; probably rain by night. Tem
peratures today—Highest, 55, at 2 p.m.;
lowest, 35, at 7:10 a.m.
Closing New York Markets, Page 16.
First in Washington—
First in the news coverage that
builds public confidence—First in
circulation and advertising that
reflect public confidence.
^ M«*n# Aimciitid Pr*»».
CftfVi YP AT? QJ. Entered as second class matter
OUU1 AXL^AV. JJNO. OX,(JclO. P05t office, Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1938—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. ***
THREE CENTS.
Black's Charge
Against! V. A.
Given Probers
'Violation' of Act in
Location of Base
Offices Alleged
BACKGROUND—
Tennessee Valley development
was first major social experi
ment of the New Deal. Although
flood control was cited as pri
mary purpose of project, the gen
eration and distribution of elec
tric power has had much great
er importance. Feud within
three-man administrative board
resulted during past year in re
moval of Chairman Arthur E.
Morgan and precipitated cur
rent congressional investigation.
BULLETIN.
A Tennessee Valley Authority
official rejected today the pro
posal of Wendell L. Willkie that
T. V. A. and the Commonwealth
& Southern Corp. submit dis
puted C. & S. properties to the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission for valuation. J. A.
Krug. T. V. A. power planning
engineer, told the T. V. A. In
vestigating Committee “the Will
kie proposal is entirely unwork
able.”
He said he was “authorized to
speak not only for myself, but for
the T. V. A. board of directors.”
By the Associated Press.
An opinion once expressed by
Senator, now Justice, Hugo Black
that Tennessee Valley Authority
directors were guilty of a “plain,
palpable violation” of the T. V. A.
Act was offered today to congres
sional investigators by Senator
Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama.
Senator Black expressed the
opinion in correspondence with Dr.
A. E. Morgan, since ousted from the
T. V. A. chairmanship, just before
leaving his Senate seat for the
United States Supreme Court.
In the correspondence Mr. Black,
then Alabama senior Senator, pro
tested against location of T. V. A.
headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn.
Senator Black contended the law
required location of the headquar
ters in Alabama. Senator Bank
head and Senator Hill, Democrat,
who succeeded Mr. Black in the
Senate, asked the congressional
committee investigating T. V. A.
to find if there had been non-com
pliance with the law.
$20,000,000 Revenues Seen.
The Alabama Senators inter
rupted testimony by J. A. Krug,
chief of T. V. A.’s Power Planning
Division, that T. V. A.'s proposed
10-dam system would produce an
nual power revenues of $20,000,000.
Mr. Krug added that this .would
leave a balance of more than $3,000.
000 a year after deduction of all
direct and allocated power costs.
This amount, he said, would be
available toward liquidating the cost
of the Authority's navigation and
flood control program. The Krug
estimates were based on existing
rates.
The planning engineer, a power
fully-built, youthful-appearing man,
testified that these revenues were
sufficient to cover all of the cost of
producing and marketing the power,
Including all of the special costs of
power operations, a fair portion of
the common costs of the dams and
reservoirs, depreciation, taxes and
interest on the Government's in
vestment,
Costs Cover “Losses.”
“These costs will be covered,” he
continued, ‘with a safe margin for
contingencies and to offset losses
occasioned during the development
period. These development losses, I
might add, were .brought about
primarily by the obstructive tactics
of the privately-owned utilities.”
Mr. Krug said the rates at which
public agencies were reselling T. V.
A. power covered all distribution
costs, with a substantial margin of
safety. _
‘‘It is now apparent, in fact, that
the present schedules are too high
for urban communities having rea
sonable densities and a reasonable
opportunity to develop their mar
kets,” he added.
The engineer said the output of
the four dams now in operation—
Wilson, Norris, Wheeler and Pick
wick—had a combined capacity of
420.000 kilowatts. The Authority, he
said, now is selling or has committed
for sale all the energy available from
the four-dam system.
Mr. Krug told the committee
T. V. A. had contracts with 62
resale organizations, of which 43
were municipalities and 19 rural co
operatives.
"Our contracts with municipalities
and co-operatives have pioneered
in establishing a fair relationship
between the taxpayer and the rate
payer in municipalities rendering
electric service. They have helped
to establish a new and higher stand
ard of public service in the growing
(See T. V. A., Page A-5J
-m ... ■ -
Gets Navy Contract
Joshua McShain, Inc.. Baltimore,
was awarded a $586,400 contract yes
terday by the Navy Department for
construction of hospital buildings at
the Naval Academy.
Did You Know?
There are student councils in
the elementary public schools.
Listen in on one of their
meetings tomorrow and learn
how they operate and what
they deal with. Tune in on
radio station WMAL at 4 p.m.
tomorrow on the Modern Lit
tle Red School House—a series
of programs on the public
schools presented by The Star
with the co-operation of the
National Broadcasting Co. and
the school authorities.
| (Se* story on Page A-5.) ^
THE CHIEF JUSTICE LIKES A JOKE—And apparently Norman
H. Davis (left), chairman of the American Red Cross, was the
recipient, judging from the outburst from the usually austere
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. They met today at the
annual meeting here of the Red Cross. Mr. Hughes is vice presi
dent of the organization. —A. P. Photo.
Roosevelt Talks
About Europe With
4 Top Diplomats
Bullitt, Welles, Wilson
And Phillips Are
Summoned
Bj the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt called in four
of the Nation's first-line diplomats
today for the second successive day,
presumably for another discussion
of European problems.
1 He asked Acting Secretary of
■ State Sumner Welles and William C.
! Bullitt, Hugh Wilson and William
Phillips. Ambassadors respectively
; to France. Germany and Italy, to
confer with him early this after
noon.
White House officials declined to
disclose the nature of the discus
sions, but there were indications
they would touch on the European
i Jewish problem, the new Paris
Berlin accord and continental arma
ment programs.
The President talked with the
same group an hour and a half yes
terday and had consulted with some
of the diplomats earlier during his
recent stay at Warm Springs, Ga.
Meanwhile a dispatch from Lon
don said Ambassador Joseph P. Ken
nedy plans to sail for New York Sat
urday aboard the liner Queen Man
for a series of conferences with
President Roosevelt.
The Ambassador, who is to remain
in the United States until the end of
January, will give the President a
detailed report on the German-Jew
i ish refugee problem. He is also ex
pected to discuss the new United
! States defense program in the light
of his experience in the London post.
Mr. Kennedy's son Jack will ac
; company him. The rest of the
j family will spend January in Switz
erland.
Embassy Reported
Asking Instructions
BERLIN, Dec. 7 (/Pi.—The United
States Embassy was understood to
day to have sent a detailed report
to the State Department expressing
! belief that the anti-Jewish property
decrees announced Monday by Eco
nomics Minister Walter Funic may
affect American property rights.
The embassy was said to have
asked Washington for instructions.
Since publication of the Funk de
crees United States officials have
been trying to obtain official German
interpretation of them.
Funk's decrees made certain sec
tions of the law—forbidding Jews to
acquire, pawn or sell precious metals
and jewels without official permits
and requiring them to deposit all se
] curities in banks—applicable specif -
! ically to German and stateless Jews.
No Distinction in Realty.
But American officials found no
such distinction in the sections for
bidding Jews to acquire real estate
and empowering German officials to
compel Jews to liquidate or sell their
real estate and industrial enterprises.
Therefore it was believed that
American Jews owning property in
Germany might be affected.
It was understood the British Em
bassy had called attention of the
German foreign office to London's
apprehensions lest British interests
be involved.
Meanwhile Das Schwarze Korps,
organ of the S. S. (Elite Guards),
demanded revision of the Nurn
berg racial laws of 1935 so as to
make women as well as men liable
to punishment for extramarital re
lations between a Jew and non-Jew.
The publication declared that
women in such partnerships deserve
the same severe punishment—simple
imprisonment or penal servitude—
now meted out to the men involved.
Medieval Badge Revived.
Jews doing compulsory labor on
construction jobs in Gaenserndorf,
near Vienna, were ordered to wear
On their right arms a yellow badge
similar to the badge worn by Jews in
the Middle Ages.
The order was issued by Joseph
Buerckel, Nazi commissioner of
Austria, to avoid “contamination”
of Aryans who recently have been
put to work with the Jews.
The Jews working on the project
have been at Gaenserndorf since
the anti-Semitic campaign started
November 10. Most of them were
handicraftsmen and they had been
conducting a camplike school for
young Jews learning trades pre
paratory to emigrating.
Profit-Sharing Like
'Kissing Your Wife,'
Senators Told
Promotes Good Relations
If Not Supervised,
Witness Remarks
the Associated Press.
A Senate committee heard today
that business profit-sharing is like j
kissing your wife in the morning—
it promotes good relations, but it
wouldn't be very effective If a
Government agent was standing by ;
to see that you did it.
T. M. Beavers, vice president of
the People's Drug Co., with head
quarters in Washington, gave the
Senate Profit-sharing Committee
this interpretation of the difficul- j
ties he saw in the path of attempts j
by Government to encourage em- !
plovers to share profits with em
ployes.
Supervision Not Effective.
“If I may be slightly facetious,”
Mr. Beavers said, “profit-sharing is
like kissing your wife in the morn
ing. It improves domestic relations,
but I doubt that it would be very
effective if you had a Government
agent standing over you to see that
you do it.”
“I'm surprised." commented Sen- ;
ator Vandenberg. Republican, of
Michigan, “that they haven't !
thought of that."
To Mr. Beavers’ remark that
profit-sharing should come voluntar
ily from business. Senator Vanden
berg said the committee had no j
thought of recommending any com- j
pulsory system.
Mr. Beavers testified that his com
pany pays out about 20 per cent of its
net earnings yearly in various
bonuses and wage dividends.
Ford Suggests Lower Taxes.
Business, as represented by Edsel
Ford and other employers, told the
committee yesterday that lower
taxes would go a long way toward
promoting industrial recovery.
Mr. Ford, president of the Ford
Motor Co. and son of Henry’ Ford,
its founder, said he believed a re
duction of taxes would be “as good an
incentive to business as any.”
Walter Schwartz, Philadelphia
textile machinery manufacturer, ex
pressing similar view's, suggested
that taxes be lowered immediately to
a rate which would balance Gov
ernment revenue and expenses if the
national income were $80,000,000,000
or $90,000,000,000 a year.
Willard H. Dow, president of the
Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich.,
attacked Government spending and,
responding to a question from Sen
ator Vandenberg. agreed that the in
centive he preferred would be to
“have Government mind its own
business.”
Daladier Plans
Demand for
Parliament 0. K.
Premier's Chances
Of Victory
Are Good
BACKGROUND—
Under decree powers granted
by Parliament after Munich
agreement, which cut up Czecho
slovakia, Premier Daladier of
France inaugurated three-year
program of economic recovery
based upon abandonment of the
40-hour week and new taxes.
Left parties have declared war
on his administration, and a
week ago the powerful General
Confederation of Labor called a
general strike, which proved
abortive.
B» the Assocltted Press.
PARIS, Dec. 7 —Premier Daladier,
continuing his strong action to halt
strikes by manning the liner Paris
with navy men, whipped together
today demands for parliamentary
approval of his administration.
"You wanted a strong govern
ment—you've got it,” will be the
essence of his words to the opening
session of Parliament tomorrow.
Political observers said the Pre
mier stood a good chance of smash
ing through the Chamber of Depu
ties with a margin of 100 votes in
favor of his regime, which he has
pledged to the rehabilitation of a
weakened French economy and the
strengthening of armaments. The
Senate appeared to be almost
unanimous for him.
The Premier's Radical-Socialist
party, through its Legislative Com
mittee, today rejected a government
suggestion that the question of elec
tion reforms be brought up immedi
ately when Parliament convenes.
They insisted instead that the 1939
budget and economic decree laws
take priority over a Rightist cam
paign for election changes.
Accepted Election Proposal.
M. Daladier, counting on Rightist
and Center parties to give him a
Chamber majority, had consented
to make the election proposal one
of the main issues of the session.
Some parliamentary circles called
the committee action a "severe de
feat” for M. Daladier although only
; 49 of the 114 Radical-Socialist dep
uties atttended the meeting.
Bitter criticism was expected from
Communists and Socialists on three
points of the Daladier program —
his use of mobile guards and police
to crush strikes he held to endanger
an upward economic climb, decree
laws imposing new taxes, and the
French-German friendship agree
ment.
His creation of a committee to re
duce government jobs, ban creation
of new ones and effect other econo
mies was another salient point.
The strike question was the most
dangerous, however, since Social
ists and Communists have charged
M. Daladier with using dictatorial
methods.
Some Strikes Continue.
Chamber circles held M. Daladier
had the upper hand because of his
victory in crushing the cne-dav
general strike last week, although
other strikes continued.
French naval specialists, all
trained to handle merchant ships
in war-time, filled out the crew of
the liner Paris last night and sailed
her from Le Havre, where French
Line employes are on strike.
French Navy officers were pleased:
they long have advocated the use of
navy specialists on subsidized trans
Atlantic liners.
The crew of 659 men included 2
navy officers. 178 navy sailors, 42
officers and 437 men of the French
Line. Many of the French Line
group were stewards and others
formerly employed on the liner La
fayette, which burned early this
year.
Le Havre strikers came as close
to the water front as mobile guards
would permit to watch the Paris de
part for Cherbourg to pick up pass
engers for the trip to New York.
The strikers strongly resented the
use of the naval crew, M. Daladier's
refusal to talk things over until the
men returned to work, and his
intimation the Navy would run the
merchant marine so long as wasN
necessary.
The Paris’ passenger list included
150 American volunteers returning
from the Spanish government war
front.
Summary of Today's Star
Page. Page.
Amusements, Obituary A-10
B-14-15 Radio_A-12
Club News B-5 Sports_D-l-3
Comics __.D-8-9 Society _B-3
Editorials .. _A-8 Santa Story B-9
Financial . A-15 Woman's Page,
Lost and Found, B-12
D-3
Foreign.
Daladier prepares demand for Par
liament O. K. Page A-l
Anti-French clamor raised by press
in Naples. Page A-4
Lebrun aid in raid on Soviet house
is revealed. Page A-2
France and Reich discuss troubles
facing pact. Page A-4
Panel of 100 drawn for canal espion
age trial. Page A-4
French minister snubs Germans in
pact ceremonies. Page A-4
Japan to expound “open door” atti
tude to powers. Page A-5
National.
“Service establishments” defined in
wage-hour ruling. Page A-l
Profit-sharing plan likened to “kiss
ing your wife.” Page A-l
Roosevelt talks on Europe with
chief diplomats. Page A-l
Mrs. Hahn to die tonight; last plea
fails. Page A-l
Manufacturer urges closer American
co-operation. Page A-2
Pay-as-you-go policy for defense
planned by President. Page A-5
Pageant of news part of rites for new
A. P. building. Page A-12
I
Washington and Vicinity.
Senator’s secretary, unwilling wit
ness, hits policeman. Page A-l
Mary Brown kidnaping investigation
at standstill. Page B-l
Traffic victim dies from complica
tions following injury. Page B-l
Roberts urges 3-point fight for
D. C. suffrage. Page B-l
Editorial and Comment.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
Letters to The Star. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-9
Frederic William Wile. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Lemuel Parton. Page A-9
Sports.
Pass dominance, controlled kicking
feature grid year. Page D-l
Cubs acquire punch, lose afield in
trade with Giants. Page D-l
Santa Anita Handicap draws record
list of nominees. Page D-2
New York warming up to pro grid
title battle Sunday. Page D-Z
Silver Spring Ladies’ League backs
Star’s pin tourney. Page D-3
Miscellany.
Vital Statistics. Page C-l
Nature’s Children. Page C-l
Bedtime Story. Page C-l
Cross-Word Puzzle. Page D-8
Letter-Out. Page D-f
Winning Contract. Page D-9
Uncle Ray’s Corner. Page D-9
*
FATHER, \NE REALL\
SET NOW TO GIVE YOU 1
SOME. REAL
PUBLICITY /
-J1NHY
Illh-Hour Plea Made
For Mrs. Hahn, Due
To Die Tonight
Attorney Seeks Writ
After Governor Refuses
Clemency
A 32-year-old blond born in
Bavaria and never admitted to
United States citizenship. Mrs.
Anna Marie Hahn teas convicted
of administering poison to 78
year-old Jacob Wagner, a Cin
cinnati gardener. Prosecution
charged that he uas only one
or four elderly men poisoned by
Mrs. Hahn so she could obtain
their meager sitings to pay her
race track losses.
(Picture on Page A-4.)
By the Associated Press.
, COLUMBUS. Ohio. Dec. 7 —Coun
sel for Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn,
scheduled to die in the electric
chair tonight, sought a writ of man
■ damns in Federal Court today as
the last legal step in the fight to
; save her life.
Joseph Hoodin, the condemned
slayer's attorney.‘contended she was
not given proper opportunity to
defend herself. Juclg.1 Mell G. Un
derwood said he would hear the
application later today.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Hahn fought for
composure in her cell after col
lapsing last night.
The nerves of the condemned
' poison slayer crun^led and she sob
1 bed hysterically fitter Gov. Martin
I L. Davey declined to intervene in
I the electrocution, scheduled for
; about 8 pm.
“I had no idea he would do this
to me," moaned Mrs. Hahn, re
peatedly kissing a ptcture of her
12-year-old son Oscir. Finally she
collapsed and fell in a faint in her
penitentiary “death row” cell. Two
matrons placed her on a bed and
revived her with spirits. She sobbed
until she dropped into a fitful sleep.
Warden Says She Still Hopes.
The matrons expressed the belief
that Mrs. Hahn had given up all
hope of escape from becoming the
first woman to die in Ohio's electric
chair. But Warden J. C. Woodard
said of condemned prisoners:
“They're always expecting some
thing to happen that will save
them."
Oscar will be permitted to remain
with his mother until her last meal
is served, about i>:30 p.m. Her last
hours probably will be spent with
the prison's Catholic chaplain, the
Rev. John A. Sullivan, for whom she
has been embroidering altar cloths.
Mr. Hoodin yesterday had
asked permission to confront the
Governor with the condemned
woman’s son in a last desperate pba
for clemency, but Gov. Davey said
he would not see them. The Gov
ernor pictured Mrs. Hahn as a
“cold-blooded” killer who slew in
"remorseless deliberation for money.”
No Clemency Reason.
He said the case gave him more
concern than any during his four
years in office and that he had tried
to find a reason that would satisfy
his own conscience for commutation
of the sentence to life imprison
ment.
“But,” he added, “one opposing
thought always surged forward:
What could I say to the mothers
whose sons have had to die in the
electric chair for committing only
one murder, and then perhaps not
quite so cold and calculating as the
several murders committed bv Mrs.
Hahn?”
At Cincinnati, Philip Hahn, teleg
rapher husband of the 32-year-old
convicted prisoner, commented only
“I am very sorry, friend, I have
nothing to say” when a newspaper
man advised him of the Governor’s
decision.
New York Liquor Prices
Slashed by Dealers
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—A price
cutting war sent liquor prices tum
bling 70 cents to $1 a fifth or quart
bottle today.
The Metropolitan Council of Liquor
Package Store Associations, warning
it would sue any retailer guilty of
slashing prices, predicted the reduc
tions would be short-lived.
Department store spokesmen, how
ever, thought the battle might last
several days. Abnormal stocks re
sulting from special seasonal dis
counts to retailers were said to have
caused the price war.
ft
Commuter Carols
To Ring Out at
Rail Station
By the Assofftted Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 7 —Caroling com
muters will be introduced to Boston
Maine Raihoad patrons during
the week before Christmas.
The railroad announced today it
would hold the carol singing ,;essiona
each evening on the North Station
concourse. An electrical organ will
be installed and radio stars will lead
the songsters.
-«- —
First Radio Newspaper
Is Regularly Broadcast
E<- Ihe As»ciated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7.—W9XZY. ex
perimental radio facsimile statfcn
operated by the Post-Dispatch, to
day inaugurated the world's first
regular broadcast on ultra-high
frequency of specially prepared fac
simile newspapers.
No. 1 of volume 1 of the Post
Dispatch's first radio edition con
[ sists of nine pages, each 81 i inches
' long and four cpomps wide, using
! the newspaper's regular 7-polnt
type. It takes 15 minutes to trans
mit one page.
The range of W9XZY, using 31.600
kilocycles, is from 20 to 30 ntiies.
The broadcasts will fee continued
daily and Sunday at 2 p.m. (Cen
tral standard time).
At present, 15 receiving sets have
been placed in the homes of mem
bers of the station's staff.
McAdoo Ordered to Bed
For 24-Ho«r Period
William G. McAdoo. war-time
Secretary of tfle Treasury and re
cently SISiator from California, was
under physician's orders today to
remain abed for at least 24 hours
as treatment for an attack of in
digestion suffered last night.
Dr. George W. Calver. Capitol
physician who was treating Mr. Mc
Adoo. described the illness as slight
and predicted that the brief stretch
in bed would bring recovery. Mrs.
McAdoo returned here from Chi
cago last night.
Mr. McAdoo, who is 75. has had
a long and varied public career.
Following his defeat this fall in
the Democratic senatorial primary
in California, he resigned his Sen
ate seat and a short while later was
named president of the President
Line, successor company of the
widely-known Dollar Steamship Co.
He had returned to Washington
on a business trif> about three weeks
■ago and has been living at the
Shoreham Hotel.
....
Woman Is Beheaded
For Murder of Four
Bs tfce Associated Press.
VIENNA, Dec. 7.—The first woman
to be executed in Austria since 1900
was beheaded yesterday for the
murder of her husband, daughter,
aunt and a woman boarder.
She was Martha Marek, crippled
and nearly blind, whom the prose
cutor called a “human cobra’’ and
whose Jewish ancestry was stressed
by Nazi newspapers.
She denied all charges, including
one that she chopped off her hus
band's leg with a butcher knife to
get $30,000 insurance.
Senator's Secretary
Punches Policeman,
Forced to Testify
Mrs. Lela Leeth Locked
In Cell After Trying to
. Aid Accused Veteran
Mrs. Lela E. Leeth. secretary to
Senator Donahey of Ohio, today was
locked up in the cell block of Police
Court after the allegedly struck a
policeman sent to inform her that
! the United States attorney s office
| wanted her to appear as a Govern
ment witness in a petit larceny case.
Mrs. Lw*h then was obliged to
testify In Police Court against a man
accused of atealing $15 from her
purse in the Senate Office Building.
Tearful and indignant at the
: necessity of testifying against an
| unemployed World War veteran
whom she had befriended. Mrs.
Leeth was kept in the Police Court
! lock-up for about a quarter of an
hour until tfce petit larceny case
could be called before JKdge John
P. McMahon.
Poltoman P. £ Bendure of No.
; 5 precinct Station'„.m a statement to
United States Attorney Karl Kin
delberger, said Mrs. Leeth hit him
on the left side of his neck with her '
fist after he stopped her in a Police
Court corridor outside Mr. Kindel
bergers office at tht latter’s request.
United States Deputy Marshal
Clarence Swan, who is in charge of
the cell block on the third floor, had
Mrs. Leeth in custody during her
detention as a witness.
The defendant in the case. Robert
S. Cummings, 45. pleaded not guilty
on the petit larceny charge although ]
admitting from the stand that he
took $15 from Mrs. Leeth’s purse and
later was unsuccessful in trying to
return the money.
Had Befriended Veteran.
Mrs. Leeth told the court she did
not wish to testify because the de
fendant was an unemployed war vet
eran. The witness replied that she
left her office yesterday to answer |
a telephone in another room and :
when she returned she found that !
$15 had been removed from her1
pocketbook. She was asked if she
had seen the defendant take the
money and replied that she had not.
Mrs. Leeth explained that she saw
the defendant next when he was
being searched by Germano Ciroli
of the 400 block of Shepherd ^reet
tSee LEETH, Page A-4.) ,
-•
Ohio Democrats Fail
To Elect Leader
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. Dec. 7.—
Fifty-two times they voted and yet
Ohio's eight Democratic State Sena
tors-elect were without a floor
leader today.
Meeting yesterday to select a
spokesman, their futile balloting
continued far, far into the night.
Then they adjourned to try again
another day.
The awarding of patronage—two
stenographers and two pages—was
understood to be the cause of the
difficulty. The last election re
sulted in heavy Republican majori
ties after several years of Demo
cratic rule.
Results in Press Yule Drives
Hailed in Magazine Article
“You can bank on your newspaper
Christmas charity as helping those
who need it most and seeing that
every penny you give goes directly
to the destitute.”
So states an article describing
newspaper Christmas campaigns in
hundreds of American cities which
appears in the current issue of the
magazine Commentator. The au
thor is William F. McDermott of
the Chicago Daily News staff, Yule
tide campaign veteran, who declares
that “the biggest single volunteer
Santa Claus in America is the press.”
“Whether you live in a great or
small city,” Mr. McDermott says,
“the chances are your home news
paper sponsors each Yuletide a
Christmas fund or benefit, a Christ
mas tree or party, Christmas baskets
or clothing for the destitute—with
children holding the spotlight and
getting the lion’s share of the
‘goodies’ on the tree • • •.
“In at least 500 cities and towns
you'll And new^apers taming San
ta Claus as winter rolls around. By
December 1 they have begun to
jingle-bell their Christmas benefits,
and by Christmas week they are
clanging like cathedral chimes. It's
a ballyhoo age, so why shouldn’t
they shout about their charities all
over the lot? Especially when they
bring in about $1,000,000 in cash,
shoes, groceries, dolls, crutches,
radios, wheel chairs, toys, clothing,
food and summer outings.”
Methods Get Results.
The daddy of all the journalistic
Santa Clauses is the New York
Times and its famous “Hundred
Neediest Cases.” according to Mr.
McDermott. A “Mile of Dimes”
brought in enough money for the
Akron (Ohio) Times-Press and Bea
con-Journal to give a dollar each
to 7,500 poverty-stricken youngsters
for toys.
“Newspapers know the communi
ty needs,” writes Mr. McDermott
(See YULE CAMPAIGN, Page A-3.)
I
Wage-Hour Rule
Lists Service
Institutions
Exemption Claims of
Varied Concerns
Are Denied
In a ruling having the effect of
defining “service establishments,"
the Wage and Hour Division to
day denied claims of exemption
under this category by banks, in
surance companies, newspapers,
telephone companies, radio stations,
utilities, stock brokers and security
dealers.
The ruling was prepared by the
general counsel s office of gie'divi
sion as a guide for the administra
tion and was made public by Paul
Sifton, deputy ac^piinistrator.
The act provide., exemption from
the wage and hour provisions for
"retail and service establishments,
the greater f!art of whose selling
or servicing is hr intrastate com
merce.” In its interpretation to
day, the division said:
"Service establishments are usually
local in character and render a
service to the ultimate consumer
for direct consump^n. The service
is usually purchase^ in small quan
tities for private use rather than far
industrial or business purposes.”
Cited'Entep’is^i included.
Remarking jh ihe exemption
claims placed by the broad industry
categories n#ned #bove, the ruling
acknowledge.) that theee enterprises
perform ""service." but contends it
is not the type eif "service" that
Congress intended to exempt from
the act.
i The ruling was issued at the same
| time as was a warni® to employers
; against “wink^ig" at unrecorded
; overtime work gj- their employes.
- Typical exs^p>s of service estab
lishment which are exempt from
the law, the exemption ruling said,
1 include restaurant*, hotels, laun
dries. fgsrges. barber shops, beauty
parlor., and funeral homes.
The list of business types the gen
eral counsel held were not e/rtuded
from the act, despite their claims to
be service establishments, also in-%
eluded building and loan associa
tions. personal loan companies toll
bridge companies, water supply com
panies printing *nd binding con
cerns. Advertising agencies, com
mercial art firms, investment coun
sels, compilers of mailing lifts credit
rat ing agencies, legal firms account
l in firms, engineering firms, com
panies engaged in making geological
surveys, concerns compiling and dis
j tributing information to lawyers, i
construction equipment and rental
companies, concerns supplying
i watchmen, guards and deteettyes for
i industry, building contractors, ware
house companies, machine shops and
foundries, drydock companies and
concerns engaged in contract oil
, well drilling, dental laboratories and
supply houses.
Loopholes Left Yet.
The general counsel said his opin
ion with respect to the non-exemp
| tion of these companies ‘‘is not free
from doubt in respect of somo of
such classes of businesses and does
: not purport to embrace all possible
subclassifications.”
‘‘In a broad sense,” the ruling said,
j “every business performs 'service.'
! yet no one would seriously urge that
all types of businesses were eligible
for exemption under section 13 (ex
emption section of the act). It would
I be surprising, indeed, if Congress
had intended by the one word ‘serv
ice,’ as used in the phrase ‘retail or
service establishment.’ to grant an
exemption broad enough to include
all of the above-mentioned classes
i of businesses, and there is nothing
! in the legislative history of section
13 to support such a conclusion.”
In his warning on overtime Dep
uty Administrator Sifton said:
: “If an employe is in fact allowed
to work overtime, even though with
out express official authority, the
I hours so spen* * * * must be taken
: into account.”
If no record of such hours is kept
on the pretext that no express offi
cial authority to work overtime has
been given, he added, the employer
will be violating the law.
‘‘It is not allowable,” Mr. Sifton
said, “for an employer or his su
pervisory representative to forbid
overtime wwk without express offi
cial authority on the one hand and
wink at actual overtime work on
the other.”
Discussing the keeping, of wage^*"
hour records by employers, he said a
record is required for each employe
of “hours worked each work day
and each work week.”
Labor Dispute Angers
Juneau Businessmen
Bi the Associated Press
JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 7.—One
hundred angry Juneau businessmen
warned today they would take mat
ters into their own hands unless a
labor dispute which has tied up
building here is settled immediately.
The businessmen summoned the
City Council to a mass meeting last
night and demanded an anti-picket
ing ordinance. The Council then
held a secret session, the result of
which was not announced.
All construction was stopped be
cause of a dispute between C. I. O.
and A. P. of L. unions over the dis
charge of cargo intended for build
ing jobs.
Delinquent Tax List
Notice of sales of property
in the District of Columbia
for default in the payment
of general and special taxes
levied thereon and in arrears
on July 1, 1938, and a list of
said property will be found
in a Special Section in
TODAY'S STAR
Pages C-l to C-10
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