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Reciprocal Trade
Foerin Senate Seek_
To Kill Program
Bi-partisan Drive
Develops With Act
To Expire in June
By the Associated Press.
Ar bipartisan drive to kill the ad
ministartion’s reciprocal trade pro
gram Is developing In the Senate.
Pour Senators—Borah, Repub
lican, of Idaho; O’Mahoney, Demo
crat, of Wyoming; McNary, Repub
lican, of Oregon, and Adams, Demo
crat, of Colorado—declared today
the program had operated to the
disadvantage of American agricul
ture.
Senator McNary. the minority
leader, told reporters ‘‘a substantial,
perhaps a majority, membership of
Congress will vote against contin
uance of the trade agreements pro
! gram.”
The reciprocal trade statute, orig
inally enacted in 1934, will expire
next June 12. Unless Congress votes
to continue it. the State Department
will be unable to write any further
agreements after that date. Secre
tary Hull has advocated the plan
staunchly, contending it will operate
to bring about increased trade and
better understanding throughout
i the world.
iii Agreements in roree.
i The United States already has
trade agreements with 20 nations. |
Negotiations for new or revised
agreements are under way with Ar
gentina. Chile. Venezuela, Cuba,
j Uruguay and Belgium.
I Senator Adams said he thought
! the Trade Agreements Act was un
1 constitutional—first, because it in
i volved a delegation of the taxing
power to an administrative depart
ment, and second, because it did not
require Senate ratification of the!
agreements. The-agreements, the1
Coloradoan contended, actually are
treaties which could not be valid
without Senate ratification.
Meanwhile, a Supreme Court test
of the act's constitutionality ap
peared in prospect. Gov. William
H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island indi- !
cated lie would seek such a test on
the ground the agreements should
be acted on by the Senate.
Gov. Vanderbilt objected, more
over, that the trade agreement with
France hurt the Rhode Island lace
industry. Assistant Secretary of
State Henry Grady replied that al
though there has been an increase
in lace imports, the total value of
United States lace production in
1937 was almost that of the boom
year 1929.
Mr. Gray said the State Depart
ment had no objection to any "prop
er and appropriate legal proceed
ings. ’
^uicign tumpruuon nil.
Senator Borah said American
farmers should not have to compete
with countries where production
costs are less.
"The American market belongs
exclusively to the American farmer
to the full extent of his ability to
| supply it,” he said. "I know he is
able to supply the American market
today, and unless he is given the
American market, he cannot hope
to recover the position where he
has any degree of prosperity.”
Senator McNary contended that
while some industries had benefited
from the trade program, American
agriculture had suffered. He said
late reports indicated this country
would buy more agricultural'prod
ucts abroad this year than it would
sell to foreign nations.
John Burroughs P.-T. A.
Will Meet Tomorrow
The John Burroughs Parent
Teacher Association will hold an
executive meeting at 1:30 pun. to
morrow at the school.
Two classes in home economics
have been organized by Mrs. D. E.
Haering, home economics chairman,
which are open to all parents. One
of these, a sewing group, meets at
1:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the school
and a class in interior decorating
which meets Thursday's at 7:30 p.m.
at homes of members of the class.
F. V. Harper to Speak
[ Fowler V. Harper, general counsel
of the Federal Security Agency, will
speak on “Law Schools and Lawyers
in the Government Service'1 at a
luncheon meeting of the Federal
Bar Association tomorrow at 12:30
p.m. at the Army Navy Club.
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Third Term
(Continued From First Page.)
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slated to be excluded from the con
ference.”
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana, told reporters he had
‘‘heard rumors of this so-called pro
gressive conference.”
‘‘I just assumed,” he said, “that
it was being promoted by some of
the over-zealous young men in
Washington without the President’s
knowledge to try to draft him for a
third term.”
Senator Wheeler said he had never
believed Mr. Roosevelt wanted to
run for another term.
The question, long a topic of po
litical speculation, was raised
> afresh last week when Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace said at San
Francisco that the European war
had made it clear another term for
Mr. Roosevelt was desirable. White
House Secretary Stephen Early then
declared Secretary Wallace should
have “consulted the victim before
he spoke.”
Mr. Early told reporters today the
White House knew nothing about
Mr. Lewis' letter or the third-term
conference.
The Lewis letter to Gov. Olson
follows:
"During our personal conference
in San Francisco on October 15, we
discussed the proposed conference
of progressive leaders of 11 Western
States, then being organized by Mr.
Norman N. Littell, assistant to the
Attorney General in charge of the
Lands Division, Department of Jus
tice, and Mr. Marshall E. Dimock,
Second Assistant Secretary of the
Department of Labor. You will re
call that we were in substantial
agreement were pursuing an un
wise cource of their secret meth
ods of organization and their ex
clusion of labor participation.
“Since our conference. Messrs. Lit
tell and Dimock have continued
their work in secret and are pre
1 pared to Issue the call and assemble
PRESENTATION TO BIBLE LEADER—Page McK. Etchison,
president of the Organized Bible Classes of the Y. M. C. A., shown
last week as he received a grandfather’s clock from George
Harris (left) as a testimonial for 25 years’ service.
—Star Staff Photo.
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Chrysler Talks Hit
Snag as Union Spurns
All Firm's Proposals
Conference Produces
New Exchange of
Charges Between Two
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 31.—Contract
negotiations between Chrysler Corp.
and the C. I. O. United Automobile
Workers’ Union reached an apparent
impasse today following the union's
blanket rejection of corporation pro
posals.
Union officials described as “de
cidedly unsatisfactory’’ a contract
proposed yesterday by the corpora
tion as the basis for further nego
tiations, and the conference pro
duced another exchange of charges
and countercharges between spokes
men for the two groups.
James F. Dewey, Federal labor
conciliator, scheduled another con
ference in an effort to effect a com
promise which would send an esti
mated 100,000 workers back to their
jobs.
R. J. Thomas, U. A. W.- C. I. O.
president, said “the so-called con
tract offered to the Chrysler work
ers by the corporation revealed the
complete insincerity of the corpora
tion in the present negotiations and
betrayed the corporation's hope to
destroy collective bargaining in the
plants.”
Herman L. Weckler, Chrysler vice
president, said the union had re
newed its demand for a closed-shop
clause in the contract.
“Whatever the C. I. O. union says
for public consumption about the
closed union shop,” Mr. Weckler
said, "its negotiators still insist upon
that demand or its equivalent. That
is the purpose of the ‘slowdown’
strike and other similar activities of
the union since 1940 production be
gan.”
French Finances Declared
Best Since War's Start
Bt the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 31.—France’s foreign
exchange reserves, Finance Minister
Paul Reynaud asserted today, are
“stronger today than when war was
declared,” despite “gigantic expenses
incurred abroad in two months.”
M. Reynaud, addressing a national
committee charged with co-ordinat
ing moral and economic rearmament
with military, said “the return of
capital, begun a year ago. con
tinues.”
He called this war “psychological
perhaps more than military,” in
stressing the need for “moral re
sistance" of the nation.
"I do not know if future historians
will say that German financial col
lapse has been the underlying cause
of the war, but I know that you can
tell this country her finances are in
order.”
He appealed for the French to buy
armament bonds to “make the war
shorter and victory certain.”
the conference for some time in
January, in Salt Lake Citv or some
other convenient city. The secret
agenda for the conference has been
completed and the organizers of this
conference are awaiting disposition
of the neutrality bill by Congress
before the issuance of their public
call for the conference.
Reason for Opposition.
“Labor's Non-Partisan League is
opposed to the holding of this con
ference for the following reasons:
“A. The source of its conception
and the surreptitious manner in
which its organizers have worked.
“B. The doubtful source of its
finances. An anonymous individual
in California is counted upon to
provide a plentitude of money.
“C. The questionable legality un
der the Hatch Act of the activities
of Littell and Dimock.
"D. The slight to Senator Burton
K. Wheeler and other great liberals
in the West who have not been
consulted and who are slated to be
excluded from the conference.
“E. The exclusion of labor from
the privilege of making suggestions
for a legitimate program.
“F. The secret plans to use the
conference to launch a third-term
boom.
Doubts President's Approval.
“I doubt that the President has
knowledge of or would approve the
plans of these overzealous indi
viduals responsible for this program.
Aside from his recent public utter
ances, his rebuke of Secretary Wal
lace through a White House sec
reary, Stephen Early, should carry
: conviction.
“You are advised that Labor’s
Non-Partisan League has issued in
structions to its various chairmen
in the 11 affected States to refrain
from any participation in the pro
posed conference if later called to
assemble in Salt Lake City or else
where.”
Senator Wheeler said he was glad
Mr. Lewis regarded him as “a lib
eral, even though he and I have
disagreed on several Issues.”
A
Etchison Is Honored
For Y. M. C. A. Service
i Page McK. Etchison, one of the
founders of the Washington Or
ganized Bible Class Association, was
honored last night by Bible class
men and friends who gathered at
the Epworth Methodist Church to
give him a testimonial celebrating
his 25 years of service with the
Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Etchison, president of the
Organized Bible Classes of the Y. M.
C. A., has seen the Washington as
sociation grow from 22 members to
15.000.
A grandfather's clock and a cash
gift were presented to Mr. Etchison.
Mrs. Etchison was praised for her
loyalty and help to her husband.
Attending the presentation were
Mrs. M. R. Etchison and Bruce
Etchison, mother and son of the
Bible leader. Mrs. W. E. Shannon,
Mr. Etcliison's mother-in-law, was
also present.
Among those w'ho spoke praising
Mr. Etchison were Dr. W. L. Darby,;
executive secretary of the Washing
ton Federation of Churches; Leon
ard De Gast, general secretary of
the Central Y. M. C. A.; H. C. Mc
Clintock, president of the National
Federation of Men's Bible Classes;
Dr. Charles E. Resser, president of
tire District of Columbia Sunday
School Association, and Dr. Henry
Adams, a close friend.
Group Health Plans
Celebration Tomorrow
Members of Group Health Asso- ,
ciation, Inc., will celebrate the sec
ond anniversary of the local or
ganization's founding at 8 p.m. to
morrow in the auditorium of the
National Museum. Tenth street and
Constitution avenue, C. G. Garman,
association president, announced to
day.
Principal speaker at the meeting
will be Dr. Michael Davis of New
York, chairman of the national or
ganization's Committee on Research
in Medical Economics. Local offi
cials appearing on the program will
be Dr. Mario Scandifflo. medical di
rector, and Perry R. Taylor, ad
ministrator.
Among items to be discussed dur
ing the business session of the pro
gram are amendments to the asso
ciation's by-laws. Membership of
G. H. A. is made up of more than
2.300 employes of the executive
branch of the Government, who,
with their dependents comprise a
group of more than 5,400 persons
who are receiving medical and hos
pital service cooperatively through
facilities of the association.
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Odorous Polish Ham
Made Exhibit 82
In Fair Trade Case
F. T. C. Begins Hearings
On 'Good Housekeeping'
Institute and Bureau
By me Associated press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 31.—With an
odorous Polish ham as “Exhibit 82,'
the Federal Trade Commission be
gan yesterday a series of hearings
on Its complaint charging Hearst
Magazines, Inc., publishers of the
magazine Good Housekeeping, with
unfair trade practices.
The complaint is based upon the
magazine's issuance of certain guar
antees of products it advertises and
"seals of approval” through the
Good Houseeping Institute and the
Good Housekeeping Bureau after
tests in mechanical departments
and laboratories maintained by the
magazine.
The commission has alleged that
the general guaranty covering ad
vertised products "is not in all in
stances the result of a scientific test
of a product, but frequently is based
upon general investigation thereof
by a stafT member.”
Says Guaranty Is Permitted.
In such cases, the complaint con
tended, the advertiser is permitted
to use the guaranty and the phrase
“guaranteed by Good Housekeeping
as advertised therein” upon the
products in question.
“Because of the similaritv of the
verbiage and the universal use of the
name ’Good Housekeeping’ in all the
aforesaid seals and symbols,” the
complaint added, ‘ many of the pur
chasing and consuming public are,
or may be, confused and misled into
the belief that all products bearing
any of the several seals have been
scientifically tested and are guaran
teed by Good Housekeeping Maga
zine."
James L. Fort, attorney for the
commission, offered the Polish ham
along with exhibits of many other
food articles, and while saying that
the ham had not borne a "seal of
approval” he asserted it had been
advertised in the magazine.
With his pencil he pressed the
tin. and the hiss of escaping gases
followed. Exlaminer Charles F.
Diggs wrinkled his nose and ordered
the ham taken from the room. Then
he allowed it to be accepted as evi
dence.
Miss Elizabeth Mohler, a depart
ment store employe, testified that
purchasers had returned “two out
of every three" of a certain make of
washing machine which bore seals
of approval of the magazine. She
gave "mechanical defects" as the
reason.
Air Group to Be Shifted
The 20tli Pursuit Group, Army
Air Corps, will be transferred from
Shreveport, La., to Sunnyvale, Calif.,
about November 15, the War De
partment announced yesterday.
The group, commanded by Lt. Col.
Ross G. Hoyt, consists of 66 officers
and 335 enlisted men.
I
Permits Expired,
Fair Closing Due
To Be Dry
By the Aiioclated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Drizzling
skies forecast a wet closing for the
1939 New York World’s Fair tonight,
but roisterers were more uneasy
over the prospect it might be a dry
affair—alcoholically speaking—for
them.
This arose as a result of the dis
covery that 53 of the 54 bars on the
exposition grounds had obtained
only six-month liquor licenses when
the fair opened April 30.
The licenses expire promptly at
midnight tonight. Bar owners said
they would seek permission to serve
drinks a few hours beyond the dead
line to large Halloween crowds ex
pected to help put the fair in win
ter mothballs.
Hundreds of extra police were as
signed to guard fair property against
souvenir hunters. Many of the ex
hibits were expected to be boarded
up early.
Rain held down the attendance
to 73,610 yesterday, increasing the
total paid admissions to 25,760,127.
Officials hoped last-day crowds
would swell the_ final first-season
attendance figure* to 26,000,000.
A retreat parade by Army, Navy
and Marine Corps units will feature
the closing ceremonies. The fair
will reopen May 25, 1940. A skele
ton staff will maintain it through
the winter.
Australia Turns Tables
Australia, which had to depend
on Britain for munitions in the
World War, now has so many gov
ernment and private factories that
it will be able to send large quan
tities to the allied armies.
Mrs. Howard Leaves
$1,528,443 Estate
An estate valued at $1,528,443 was
left by Mrs. Grace Adams Howard,
2829 Woodland drive, who died on
October 2, a petition for the probate
of her will on file today in District
Court disclosed. Justice Oscar R.
Luhring signed an order admitting
the will, drdwn April 12, 1937, to
probate.
Mrs. Howard left real estate val
ued at $92,000 and personal prop
erty, mostly in securities, worth
$1,436,443. Attorney Harry K. Hick
ey represents the estate.
The petition for probate was filed
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Samuel H. KaulTmann, executor*
and trustees under the will. The
court was advised that Mrs. How
ard, whose estate was left to mem
bers of her family, is survived by
three children—Mrs. Edythe H.
Hickey of this city, Mrs. Margaret
H. Remey of New York City and
Mr. Howard of this city.
The court was told that Mr*.
Howard’s real estate was located at
2829 Woodland drive and 1410 Six
teenth street N.W., both estimated
to be worth $90,000, and about 4
acres Li Fairfax County, Va., worth
about $2,000. Debts of the estate
will total around $5,000.
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