Evening star. [volume], January 03, 1940, Page A-13, Image 13

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Perkins Foe Calls
Report on Bridges
A Whitewashing
Thomas Plans Bill
To Deny Benefits to
Unions Under Aliens
Mt the Associated Press.
Representative Thomas, Repub
lican, of New Jersey asserted yes
terday that James M. Landis had
‘‘applied a thick coating of white
wash" in his finding that Harry
Bridges, West Coast labor leader,
was not and never had been a
member of the Communist party.
(Landis, dean of Harvard law
school, made an investigation at
the request of the Labor De
partment in connection with de
portation proceedings against
Bridges.)
In a statement distributed by the
Republican National Committee,
Mr. Thomas said he was not “sur
prised" at the Landis report.
“I did not suppose he would in
any way embarrass Secretary of
Labor Perkins, who long ago threw
the protecting arm of the Federal
Government around this Pacific
Coast labor agitator,” Mr. Thomas
said.
The New Jersey Republican in
troduced a resolution at the last
regular session of Congress for the
Impeachment of Secretary Perkins.
Mr. Thomas said he would intro
duce a bill at the forthcoming ses
sion to provide that no labor or
ganization “numbering among its
officers or directors any person not
an American citizen shall enjoy the
tsfnto/ifinn onrl hpnpfits nf t.hft Nft
tional Labor Relations Act.”
Mr. Bridges, Representative
Thomas asserted, is not an Ameri
can citizen, although he has been
in this country for almost 20
years.
"Here is a case,” Mr. Thomas
*aid of Bridges, “where an alien,
with the encouragement and sup
port of the Roosevelt administration,
has harassed American commerce,
business and shipping through his
position as a labor leader.
Legion Commander Hits
Report and Bridges
LOS ANGELES, Jan.3i7P).—Nation
al Comdr. Raymond J. Kelly declared
today that the American Legion
did not concur in the Landis report
on the Harry Bridges deportation
case and still regards the labor
leader as “a menace to American
Institutions.”
Dean James M. Landis of the Har
vard Law School, acting as special
examine.- for the Department of La
bor, found that Mr. Bridges was
neither a member of nor affiliated
with tne Communist party. The de
partment has yet to rule whether
the Australian is deportable.
“That the determination of Mr.
Landis was not in accord with what
the American Legion still believes to
be the correct appraisal of the evi
dence against Mr. Bridges is a source
of disappointment to the American
Legion,” Mr. Kelly said in a pre
pared address to the Los Angeles
Breakfast Club.
“We fear it cannot but help lend
encouragement- to others of Mr.
Bridges’ un-American convictions.”
The Legion, he added, would press
for the enactment of legislation
which would assure the deportation
of undesirable and conspiring aliens.
Man's Internal Organs
Found on Wrong Side
B> the Associa. 'ress.
HARRISBURG. Pa.. Jan. 3.—A
43-vear-old man with his heart,
liver, spleen, and appendix all on
the wrong side was discovered yes
terday by Dr. Paul S. Herr, assistant
city health officer, in a routine
examination of municipal employes.
“The most unusual case I ever
saw,” the physician said. “I've read
about them but never saw one.”
He declared the case, which he
described as “situs inversus viscer
um," is found “once in a million.”
The man, whose name was with
held, works eight hours a day and
Is "normal in every other way,” the
doctor said.
Prison Inmates
Read More Books
Than Outsiders
By the Associated Press.
Perhaps a Federal prison sentence
is just what you need to catch up
on your reading.
James V. Bennett, director of the
Prisons Bureau, reported to Congress
today that the average inmate of
a Federal penal institution reads
from 5 to 10 times as many books
as the average citizen who uses the
public library.
Federal prisoners, he said, bor
howed more than 800,000 books, ex
clusive of magazines and news
papers, from institutional libraries
during the 1939 fiscal year. The
average circulation per reader was
85 books, of which one-third was
non-fiction.
As for Alcatraz Prison, Mr. Ben
nett said it was “indicative of the
morale of the general inmate body”
that they submitted 16 of the 173
manuscripts received in a short
•tory contest open to all Federal
prisoners. Furthermore, Alcatraz
took two prizes.
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Naval Engineer Society
Elects Officers
The election of Capt. .Henry
Williams, assistant chief of the Con
struction Corps, U. S. N., as presi
dent of the American Society of
Naval Engineers was announced yes
terday. He succeeds Rear Admiral
S. M. Robinson, chief of the Navy’s
Bureau of Engineering.
Lt. Comdr. Guy Chadwick was
elected secretary-treasurer, and the
following were named council mem
bers: Capt. Hollis M. Cooley, Capt.
Lydrand P. Smith, Comdr. Frederick
W. Pennoyer, Comdr. Edmund E.
Brady, Comdr. Charles D. Odendhal
and Harold Beck.
The Chinese character fu, mean
ing happiness, is generally written
or printed on diamond-shaped red
paper, and is 'common on the doors
of Chinese dwelling houses.
Ir =■
Activity of F. B. I.
Heaviest in 15 Years,
Hoover Reports
1,651 Espionage Cases
Handled in 1939,
Congress Told
Br the Aifociated Preu.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, re
ported to Congress today that de
mands on the bureau In the 1939
fiscal year were the heaviest In 15
years, largely as the result of es
pionage Investigations.
He attributed part of the Increase
to inquiries Into anti-trust law viola
tions and the Federal judiciary.
Mr. Hoover said espionage cases
totaled 1,651 during the year, com
pared with 250 in the 1938 fiscal year
and an average of 35 in each of the
five preceding years.
As many as 200 F. B. I. agents
worked simultaneously on an investi
gation of the fertilizer Industry for
the anti-trust division of the Jus
tice Department, Mr. Hoover said.
He added the judicial Investigation
occupied “scores" of agents.
Attorney General Murphy, making
his first annual report, described
Federal criminal procedure as “high
ly unsatisfactory" and urged Con
gress to enact legislation giving the
Supreme Court power to revise the
rules.
Additional Personnel Needed.
Thurman Arnold, chief of the
anti-trust division, said his unit
needed additional personnel to han
die complaints. At the end of the
fiscal year, he noted, the division
had more than 650 complaints on
which it was unable to do any work.
Another urgent need of the Justice
Department, according to the report
of James V. Bennett, director of the
Federal Prisons Bureau, is “a broad,
long-range prison building program."
By June 30, 1941, he said, it is es
timated there will be 2,790 more
Inmates than Federal prisons can
house.
Attorney General Murphy said he
felt that “considerable confusion and
lack of uniformity” resulted from
the present laws governing handling
of criminal cases. He suggested the
high court be given rule-making au
thority similar to that conferred on
it in 1938 with respect to civil pro
cedure.
The Attorney General recom
mended:
That Congress not consider legis
latlor. concerning administrative law
until a special committee appointed
by Mr. Murphy reports on its study.
More F. B. I. Funds.
Additional funds for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation to provide
for greater activity against espion
age and sabotage.
Increased facilities lor housing
Federal prisoners.
Legislation to require registration
of all firearms and a small transfer
tax for Informative purposes.
Mr. Murphy said "the honest law
abiding citizen” should no more ob
ject to registering his firearms
(which would include sporting wea
pons) than he would object to regis -
tering his automobile.
Placing of referees in bankruptcy
on a salary instead of a fee basis.
Bringing deputy United States
marshals into the competitive classi
fied civil service.
Establishing the office of public
defender in Federal courts.
Brazil now has more than 600
hydroelectric plants.
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