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N. L. R. B. Promotes
Industrial Peace,
Says Madden Report
Chairman Cites Figures
To Show Impartiality
Between C:I.O. and A.F.L
The National Labor Relation
Board, involved in three differen
congressional investigations, was de
fended vigorously in the annual re
port which its chairman. J. Warrei
Madden, submitted to Congress to
day.
He quoted figures showing, hi
said, that the board had promote!
Industrial peace during the foui
years of its existence.
A former employe of the boarc
testified yesterday before the Housi
committee investigating the agencj
that some of its Washington offi
cials and its Indiana regional offlci
were partial to the C. I. O. and dis
criminated against the A. F. of L.
"The board,” Chairman Madder
reported, "recognizes that industria
relations are still deeply disturbec
by the controversy between the A
F. of L. and the C. I. O. Its recorc
during the fiscal year shows that tin
board has followed the obvioui
course in this dilemma by handlinf
as expeditiously as passible al
charges and petitions filed with it
whether by one or the other of thf
rival organizations.
Impartiality Claimed.
“During the 12-month period A
F. of L. filed 4.176 cases, C. I. O
filed 5.025 cases. The manner ol
handling these cases—in terms ol
percentages settled, dismissed, with
drawn and disposed of by the boarc
—shows no essential variation be
tween the two.
“The benefits of the act likewise
seem to have fallen impartially t<
both organizations. In numbers o:
unions recognized, contracts writter
and workers reinstated with back
pay, the comparison between A. F
of L and C. I. O. follows closely the
respective proportion of cases which
each filed with the board.”
The chairman reported that dur
ing the fiscal year the board dis
posed of 6.569 cases, involving rights
of more than a million workers
under the Labor Relations Act.
“Nearly half a million of these
employes,” he said, "had engaged
in disputes charging their employers
with unfair labor practices. Through
informal conferences, the great ma
jority of these disputes were settled
dismissed or withdrawn. Only a
sixth of them required formal ac
tion.
Workers’ Elections.
“More than half a million work
ers selected their representatives
through board elections and by cer
tification. or else had their petitions
dismissed or withdrawn as not pre
senting grounds for board interven
tion.”
Out of 4.230 cases closed during
the year came employer recognition
of 923 unions. 635 written and 134
oral labor agreements and the post
ing of 903 employer notices not tc
engage in unfair labor practices, Mr
Madden said.
“These figures,” he added, “mark
many steps in the progress toward
universal acceptance of the col
lective bargaining procedure as the
basis of American industrial rela
tions.
“That the board brought about
the reinstatement of 7.738 worker!
who had been unfairly discrimi
nated against, and that a total o:
$658,523 was paid in back wages t(
3.063 workers shows that the act ii
effective in providing a remedy foi
employes whose only deviation frorr
being satisfactory workers was theii
intnrfsct- in cplf_nro!ini7Qtifin ”
"46 Elections.
There were 746 secret-ballot elec
tions among employes to determine
their agency of collective bargain
ing. The chairman added:
“In an over-all picture of the fiscal
year, these trends may well be
linked: Workers in organizatior
disputes have turned to board pro
cedure rather than to strikes; there
were more board decisions in repre
sentation cases than there were
cease and desist orders (a reversal
of board experience during its first
years); there was a rapid and
healthy growth in labor agreements
and in the renewal of contracts en
tered into the year before."
In addition to the special House
committee at present holding hear
ings on the Labor Board, the House
Labor Committee and the Senate
Labor and Commerce Committee
have taken up phases of its work,
though these hearings are in recess.
The Senate committee plans to re
sume hearings next month. The
House Labor Committee has post
poned its inquiry of the board indefi
nitely.
Carol
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stiff and apparently unexpected re
sistance there and try to regain her
lost prestige by an easier offensive
in Bessarabia.
Another Rumanian worry is the
possibility of a German drive east
ward, as was the case in the last
war, to get Rumania’s rich resources
and possibly to block “friendly’
Russia in the Balkans.
To meet this contingency Ru
mania is trying to satisfy German
demands for supplies without im
pairing her own reserves or na
tional economy and without offend
ing Britain and France, who have
guaranteed her frontiers.
This requires skillful dealing, foi
German commercial demands are
heavy. In her latest agreement
with Germany, signed December 21
Rumania yielded to Nazi demands
for a bigger quota of oil and gave
Germany a better price, increasing
the value of the Reichsmark ir
clearings from 41.5 to 49 lei.
Hold Onto Railway Cars.
Rumania held firm, however, ir
her refusal to send her tank can
and freight cars into Germany
This wTas important to Germany
because her main problem in get'
ting supplies from Rumania ii
transportation, now that the Brit'
ish-French blockade has closed thi
Constanza-Hamburg sea route ant
the Danube is frozen over.
Only the rail route is left open
and Germany is short on rollinj
stock for the long trip to Rumanit
and back.
At present Rumanian oil tank;
and freight cars go only to thi
frontier. Vast stores of goods wait'
ing to be loaded on other cars havi
piled up at frontier points in re'
cent wpcIcs
Russia has shown little dispositior
to help Germany out of this pre>
dicament.
PALM SPRINGS—SURPRISE WEDDING—William Powell, film
star, and 21-year-old Diana Lewis, actress, Thursday before
they motored to Las Vegas, Nev., where they were married
yesterday. They are honeymooning at a dude ranch near Las
Vegas. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Board Critic Charges
Partiality to C. 1.0.;
Quiz Resumes Monday
Former Examiner Says
Indianapolis Office
Antagonistic to A. F. L.
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.
The special House committee in
vestigating the National Labor
Relations Board, in week-end recess
| today until Monday, had before it
two new lines of evidence developed
I yesterday—both critical of the
board's methods and the attitude
of certain of its employes.
Just before adjournment late yes
terday Theodore H. Freter, formerly
a field examiner for the board, now
a guard at Occoquan Workhouse,
testified that the Indianapolis
' regional office always favored the
C. I. O. and opposed the A. F. of L.
Whenever a union affiliated with
the Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions won a case, he said, there was
“something in the nature of a cele
bration" in the Indianapolis office,
and the staff would exclaim, “we
won.” If the American Federation
of Labor won a union election in a
plant, he added, the N. L. R. B. em
ployes would say, “We lost.”
“Sometimes,” he explained, “they'd
. say, ‘We beat them 2 to 1,’ always
referring to the C. I. O.”
iiivcMigauon Diamea,
! | Mr. Freter said that in a couple
of cases where his findings of facts
did not sustain union charges, the
regional director, Robert Cowdrill,
i had said it was the fault of his in
vestigation, not of the facts. "Be
cause,” he said, “the union would
not have filed charges against the
company unless there was a basis for
| them.”
He mentioned the Roy S. Bailey
Co. of Peru, Ind., and the George
H. Rudy Coal Co. cases as two
that probably came in this category.
In reply to a question by Repre
sentative Healey, Democrat, of Mas
sachusetts the witness said he did
i not know that complaints ever were
I issued in these cases. Mr. Healey
said he had information that none
ever was.
! “I don't know what became of
! them,” Mr. Freter said.
He testified that Mr. Cowdrill
usually referred to charges filed by
an A. F. of L. union as “one of
: those damned A. F. of L. cases.”
He added that most of the Indiana
| regional staff spoke of the organiza
I tion as "the damned A. F. of L.”
J. Thomas Watson, trial examiner
at Indianapolis, had an attitude
; similar to that of Mr. Cowdrill, the
witness said.
“In some cases,” Mr. Freter said,
“where I did try to get the parties
together, I was criticised for it.”
Charges Kept From Firms.
Indiana employers never were al
lowed to see a copy of charges
which employes filed against them,
Mr. Freter said.
“In some instances,” he added,
"we were told not to contact em
ployers at all and sometimes to use
precautions to keep them from
knowing that we were investigating
them.”
Mr. Freter, who said he had prac
ticed law in Chicago, been an
auditor for the General Accounting
Office and an agent for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, denied, in
response to a question from Repre
sentative Murdock, Democrat, of
Utah that he had any prejudice
against the N. L. R. B. because he
had been let out.
In Indianapolis Mr. Cowdrill said
last night that there was not a
"word of truth” in Mr. Freter’s tes
timony concerning alleged favor
itism for the C. I. O. Mr. Cowdrill
asserted that Mr. Freter was "dis
charged for inefficiency,” the Asso
viObtU X A CaO l/CU.
Meanwhile, Chairman Madden of
the Labor Board said in a review
of the board’s activities during the
last fiscal year that it had dealt in
even-handed fashion with the af
fairs of the A. P. L. and C. I. O.
”In terms of percentages,” he said,
the record disclosed "no essential
variation” in the manner of dis
posing of the two labor organiza
I tions’ cases.
Committee Counsel Edmund M.
, Toland introduced in the record
; yesterday letters from board officials
. praising Mr. Freter’s service and an
other from the Indianapolis office
i asking for some "bright, labor
i minded” additions to the staff.
Earlier in the afternoon Mrs.
Elinore M. Herrick, New York re
gional director, who was on
the stand most of the day, was
asked to identify some “personal
and confidential” correspondence
between her and Nathan Witt, the
board's executive secretary. She did,
laughing at some of the more pung
ent phrases which Mr. Toland read.
One letter from Mr. Witt said
Chairman Madden had asked him
to direct her attention to a note
from Ed S. Herwig, described as an
editorial employe of the Providence
(R. I.) Journal. Mr. Herwig had
written the chairman:
“The Albany situation is one in
which I suggest you take a personal
look; labor in upstate New York is
wavering in its faith in your board
as a result of the Albany regional
district's constant delays and
favoring of industrial interests.”
Mrs. Herrick, incensed, answered
that the "very request is an insult,”
and declared:
“If I operate on the basis of a Tin
Box Farley, Mr. Madden should
fire me pronto.”
Tlie exchange referred to a News
paper Guild case involving the Press
Co., Inc., and Gannet Co., which,
the committee was informed, is
pending in the District Court oi
Appeals.
“As a matter of fact,” Mrs. Her
rick wrote, “this case was advanced
out of its turn on the hearing calen
dar by at least two and a hall
months. There are older cases still
awaiting hearing. It's the last time
I'll give preference to a guild case
if this is the kind of thanks I get.’'
She also wrote: “I understand
Herwig is a crackpot and is not a
guild member.”
secretary itepnes.
The board secretary retorted ir
another letter that he did not see
why she should “carry out any re
prisals against the guild simplj
because Herwig is not a guild mem
ber. That simply ain’t fair.”
In her earlier testimony, Mrs. Her
rick explained her outspoken criti
cisms of the labor board, made ir
reports to its Washington office
j for alleged dilatory tactics, which
she said, encouraged strikes instead
! of preventing them. She explained
! however, that this was a condition
j obtaining a couple of years ago
! which she believed had been cor
rected to a large extent.
Mrs. Herrick said she sent a tele
: gram to Chairman Madden protest
j ing against “OGPU” methods of the
j board because two investigators had
searched her office and questioned
her staff in her absence.
In a report to the organization of
regional directors, of which she was
secretary, Mrs. Herrick wrote: "Are
you all as fearful of what Congress
may do to emasculate the act as I
am?”
She denied that the regional di
rectors had a “union,” though she
said they had taken up the matter
of a minimum salary, suggesting
$6,000.
Mrs. Herrick also denied that an
elaborate dinner which she and
other board officials attended with
officers of a New York company in
volved in a labor dispute had any
effect on the decision. She pointed
out that the decision went against
the company.
“Was $500 spent for food and
drinks by the company that night?”
the committee counsel asked.
“I don’t know what it cost,” she
replied.
John N. Auth, 64, Dies;
Headed Provision Firm
John N. Auth, 64, former presi
dent of the N. Auth Provision Co.
died yesterday of a heart ailment
at his home, 405 Sixth street S.W,
He had been in ill health almost a
year.
A native and lifelong resident ol
Washington, Mr. Auth entered busi
ness with his father, the late Nich
olas Auth, more than 40 years ago
He was active in business until the
Auth Co. suspended operation under
that name.
Mr. Auth was a member of the
Knights of Columbus, the Holy
Name Society, the Windthorst Club
of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the
Elks’ Club of Washington and the
Washington Board of Trade.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Emily
Hammer Auth; two sons, Lawrence
and Andrew Auth, both of Washing
ton; two daughters, Mrs. Dionysia
A. Folliard of Edgemoor, Md., and
Mrs. Emily A. Hurley of Los Angeles
Calif., and a brother, Henry Auth
of this city.
Funeral services will be held
Monday at 11 am. at the home
with requiem mass at St. Mary’s
Church. Burial will be in St. Mary’s
Cemetery.
Trip to Fredericksburg
The Capital Hiking Club tomor
row will tour 25 historic homes and
landmarks In Fredericksburg, Va.
and visit the Chancellorsville bat
tlefield. Bob Shosteck will lead the
hikers through Fredericksburg and
a Park Service guide will take them
over the battlefield. Buses will leave
at 9 am. from 1416 F street N.W
and return early in the evening.
William Powell
Is on Honeymoon
With Third Bride
Actor, 47, Weds Starlet,
2T, 3 Weeks After Meeting
Her, in Surprise Elopement
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 6—The
super sleuth of the cinema, William
Powell, 47, was honeymooning on a
Nevada dude ranch today with his
third bride, 21-year-old rising movie
starlet Diana Lewis.
She’s comely, auburn-haired,
blue-eyed, weighs 100-even, is the
daughter of vaudeville veterans, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Lewis of Asbury Park,
N. J„ and not so long ago was the
No. 1 heart interest of that gay
young blade of the films, Mickey
Rooney.
The surprise elopement and mar
riage of Mr. Powell, who has been
on the screen for 20 years, and Miss
Lewis, whom he had known only
three weeks, created quite a stir in
the film capital.
Mr. Powell returned to movie work
only recently after a year’s serious
illness. He again is essaying the
detective roles that brought him so
much popularity in the "Thin Man”
and similar roles.
Miss Lewis must be back in Holly
wood Monday morning to start work
in an Eddie Cantor picture in which
she has the feminine lead.
Yesterday’s marriage was per
formed by Justice of the Peace E. D.
Hickman before an improvised altar
set up amid a grove of trees on the
Hidden Well ranch near Las Vegas,
Nev. Witnesses included Edna Best,
estranged wife of Herbert Marshall,
and Nat Wolfe, Hollywood radio
agent, who announced recently he
intended to marry Miss Best when
she divorced Mr. Marshall.
The bride, a sister of Singer Max
ine Lewis, herself formerly was a
singer with Larry Leeds' Orchestra.
Actor Francis Lederer noticed her
in a musical comedy chorus here in
1933 and introduced her to studio
agents through whom she eventually
w'on motion picture contracts.
Mr. Powell's second wife was
Actress Carole Lombard. After their
I divorce he became interested in Jean
| Harlotv, and they were engaged at
the time of the "platinum blond”
actress’ death in June, 1937. Miss
Lombard now is the wife of Actor
Clark Gable.
Trooper to Face Court
In Slaying of Girlr 14
By the Associated Presa.
j MAUCH CHUNK. Pa.. Jan. 6.—
Benjamin Franklin, suspended State
motor police corporal, goes on trial
Monday in this century-old county
seat for the slaying of 14-year-old
Joan Stevens as she sat in the back
of a police car.
Seldom has a case created such
a stir in this hill country bordering
Pennsylvania’s anthracite region.
Since the shooting on the night of
last June 5. Franklin pressed for
' a change of venue from Carbon
| County while counsel engaged by
the "Joan Stevens justice fund’’
! sought speedy prosecution.
I The change of venue plea was
I denied, but it checked plans for the
I trooper's trial last October 6.
| Franklin has said that while he
■ and Pvt. Edward Swatji were seated
j in the front seat of their police car
1 on a deserted street in Joan's home
i town, nearby Nesquehoning. she
pulled a pistol from a purse and
threatened to "blow your brains out."
The girl died from a volley of shots
from an automatic pistol. Her
weapon proved to be a toy imitation.
Attempt to Assassinate
Shanghai Official Fails
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 6.—C. Godfrey
Phillips, commissioner general and
secretary of the Shanghai Munici
pal Council, escaped injury today in
a daring assassination attempt.
As he was being driven in his auto
mobile on Avenue Haig, in the
French concession, two men pulled
jinrikishas into the path of the
machine.
When the car swerved and slowed
down, the men fired pistols from
both sides, six bullets piercing the
car.
Phillips dropped to the floor and
his chauffeur sped ahead.
Chicago Grain
E» the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Extending
the wheat market's setback since
Tuesday to 3 to 4 cents a bushel,
prices resumed their downward
course today with losses of almost
a cent.
Reports of rain and snow in many
sections of the grain belt, particu
larly in the Southwestern drought
zone, attracted selling. The official
forecast indicated further precipi
tation can be expected in the hard
winter wheat belt over the week
end and possibly by the middle of
next week.
Early declines carried May wheat
to around $1.03 while July fell to
around $1.01. Subsequently the
market developed more strength
and at times showed power to rally.
Some buying was credited to mil
ling interests. Winnipeg prices
also dipped and then steadied.
Many points in the area where
fall and winter drought has pre
vailed reported good snows, with
rain south into Texas. The snow
was regarded as important, not only
in supplying much-needed moisture,
but in protecting wheat against cold
weather.
A private report from Washington
indicated the Tariff Commission,
which is investigating the current
grain trade situation with respect
to possibility of imports of Canadian
wheat into the United States, may
recommend import quotas if neces
sary. This step would be taken only
if the spread between United states
and Canadian prices widens so far
that these importations will be pos
sible despite the 42 cents a bushel
riut.v
Corn prices dipped about V2 cent
at one stage, but then rallied.
Another cargo was reported sold for
export, but some interests in the
East claimed Great Britain is not
in the market. Ireland has taken
some corn recently.
Oats showed little change, while
rye and soy beans were higher.
Lard also had a higher tendency.
At 11 a.m, wheat was %-% cent
lower, compared with yesterday’s
finish, May, 1.03%; July, 1.01%, and
com was %-% off, May, 59; July,
59%.
Taft Offers 5-Point
Plan to Balance
Federal Budget
Tells Nation Program
Would Reach Goal
Within Two Years
By tbe Associated Press,
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Senator Robert
A. Taft of Ohio left a five-point
program at the President’s doorstep
today and contended it would bal
ance the Federal budget within two
years. v
The Senator, a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination,
disclosed his budget-balancing plan
in an address last night to the Chi
cago Bar Association and a na
tional radio audience.
Entitled "Mr. President, Here’s
How to Balance the Budget,” the
speech was a reply to President
Roosevelt’s offer to award the Sen
ator a prize if he could show how
to balance the budget.
The President’s challenge, said
Senator Taft, was an admission that
"he is unable to get the Government
or the country back to normal.”
Taft’s Program.
Mr. Taft contended the books
would balance at approximately
$7,000,000,000 within two years if
this program were followed:
1. The President must wish and
be determined to balance the budget.
2. Eliminate bureaus, reduce num
ber of employes, reorganize.
3. Change method of handling re
lief, housing, agriculture, Govern
ment loans.
4 End grants for local public
works, reduce Federal public works,
reduce subsidies.
5. Play no favorites, subject Army
and Navy estimates to critical analy
sis.
A budget balanced under those
provisions, he said, would still pro
vide ‘‘a reasonable allowance" for
relief, old-age pensions, housing and
soil conservation.
The present tax system, he added,
should provide \1,000.000,000 in
revenue "if prosperity returns"; i
otherwise "we will have to Increase 1
taxes, undesirable as that is, for the I
alternative is worse.”
Genuineness Questioned.
Mr.' Taft said the last budget
message to Congress “moves very
gingerly in the right direction," but
that he questioned the "genuine
ness of the President s new-found
desire to reduce spending." He as
serted there was "no evidence that
the President wants to stop spend
ing."
The Senator suggested that bu
reaus could be eliminated through a
small committee of men “with prac
tical experience in business and gov
ernment" which would plan the
Government's housekeeping "in the
light of what the people are willing
to pay their housekeeper.”
He advocated administration of
direct relief and work relief by a
single local agency, with Federal
assistance equal to about two-thirds
of the ontiro one!
Mr. Taft said all Federal grants
for local public works should end,
asserting that no community or
group would refuse to join “in a
general movement to avoid national
bankruptcy if they can be assured
that every other group is required
to go along.”
“If the present administration as
serts, as apparently it does, that the
budget cannot be balanced,” the
Senator asserted, "then it cannot
appeal for a vote of confidence to
the people of the United States, for
the only alternative to balancing the
budget promptly is national bank
ruptcy.”
Deficit Spending Assailed.
Unless the Federal Government
makes both ends meet, Mr. Taft
warned, inflation will result such as
that in Germany when “a pair of
shoes cost $1,000 to $100,000."
Mr. Taft constantly assailed the
administration policy of deficit
spending and “pump-priming" as
"a policy which will destroy all the
good that may come from the re
forms he (Roosevelt! has initiated.”
Mr. Taft said the President
should have used his veto power
on congressional appropriations,
saying, “he has not vetoed a single
spending bill since the bonus bill
in 1935.”
Although suggesting a detailed
study of the subject, Mr. Taft ques
tioned the worth of a number of
New Deal agencies. He mentioned
thpsp •
The Electric Home and Farm
Authority. Central Statistical Board,
National Resources Planning Board,
National Power Policy Committee,
Disaster Loan Corp., Codification
Board, Office of Government Re
ports (formerly known as the Na
tional Emergency Council), Mari
time Labor Board, United States
Employes” Compensation Commis
sion, Division of Cultural Relations
and various boundary commissions
in the State Department, Puerto
Rico Reconstruction Commission
and Bituminous Coal Division in
the Interior Department, various
consumers’ counsel and various in
formation services of the different
departments.”
U. S. Pay Roll Increase Cited.
The New Deal, he charged, "has
increased the number of Federal em
ployes from 563,000 in 1933 to 932,000
today” at an additional pay roll cost
of $1,200,000,000.
Federal farm employes were said
to be "scattered all over the United
States, wasting the substance of the
farmer like a plague of grasshop
pers.” The farm program, Mr. Taft
said, "must be changed so there
is no detailed regulation of the indi
vidual farm.”
Describing the relief program as
a "hot potato,” he said it had been
"misused to justify expenditures for
every kind of bureaucratic activity.”
He suggested that all relief should
be “administered by a single local
agency * * • with Federal assistance
equal to about two-thirds of the en
tire cost.”
If these changes are made, Mr.
Taft estimated, "the cost of relief to
CHICAGO. —TAFT OFFERS BUDGET-BALANCING PLAN —
Senator Robert A. Taft (right), a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination, looks over his text prior to offering a
five-point program in an address last night which, he said,
would balance the national budget within two years. Shown
with the Ohio Senator is Henry A. Gardner, prominent Chicago
Republican. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Miami Air Show
Gives Preview of
1950 U. S. Aviation
12 Fast Planes Poised
For Cross-Country
Races to Resort
Br th* Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 6 —Aeronautical
United States of the future went on
display with Mr. and Mrs. America
at the controls of low-priced air
planes today, while 12 fast stock
model planes were poised for cross
country races to Miami.
A preview of about 1950, when
the Federal student training pro
gram has taught new thousands to
fly and inspired hundreds of others,
was made in slightly concentrated
form with more than 300 flivver
type planes ready for the second
day of the annual all-American air
maneuvers. The pilots were boys
and girls, men and women—far out
numbering the veterans.
fcmpnasis on siock moaeis.
Dashes of more than 1,000 miles,
from New York, Rochester, Detroit,
St. Louis and Houston, were post
poned a day yesterday due to poor
flying conditions along the route.
The entrants sought $8,250 in prize
money posted by Bemarr Mac
fadden.
The emphasis here was on stock
model planes and private flyers.
The races and other events were
for the light planes and ordinary
folk who have learned to fly.
A generous sprinkling of old-time,
the Federal Government can be re
duced to about $750,000,000 in 1941,”
compared with a total of about twice
that amount during the last year.
Regarding grants and subsidies,
the Senator said all that was re
quired was “leadership toward in
dividual self-reliance and common
sense government.”
As to Army and Navy appropria
tions, he asserted that $1,775,000,000
now was being spent annually in
peacetime, while the President
sought to expand the military forces
about one-fourth again.
"We were told in 1938 and 1939
that the increased Army and Navy
then provided were adequate for de
fense, and I see nothing which has
changed the situation since,” he
said.
Mr. Taft charged that “a good
deal of the new spending is pro
posed. not for the sake of defense,
but for the sake of spending.”
Y/heeler Calls Program
Mere Generalities
Bj the Associated Press.
The suggestions of Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio for balancing
the budget were criticized by a
Democratic colleague today as gen
eralities.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana said of the five points Mr.
Taft enumerated in an address to
the Chicago Bar Association last
night:
"Those are a lot of generalities
that mean very little. Every Demo
cratic platform and every Repub
lican platform has laid those down
as fundamental principles of gov
ernment in the last 40 years.
"He doesn’t say where or how
much he would cut expenses. How
much he would allot for the Army,
Navy, public works; how many men
he would add to the unemployed.
We all want to balance the budget,
and the way it will be done is for
business to pick up, to get money
into the hands of the consumers
who can buy the surpluses we now
have.”
bronzed “name” pilots was to be
found, but, unlike former days,
when they hogged the limelight at
every aviation meet, they were out
numbered 50 to 1 by youngsters
who were in swaddling clothes when
the veterans learned to fly.
Even the featured Macfadden
Trophy race was for stock aircraft.
Fourteen pilots were slated to take
part, but after the postponement
two became impatent and started
ahead. They were Tom Reaveley, |
flying young James Donahue's am- ;
phibian with the owner as a pas
senger, who landed at West Palm
Beach, and Guy A. Ham, jr„ of
Hatchville, Mass., who landed at
Savannah. Both took off from New
York.
Miss Bobby Lupton of Detroit,
acrobatic flyer, and Virginia Snod
grass of Waterloo, Iowa, illustrated
the future day when most any
man’s wife or sister may climb into
her plane and go for a spin. Miss
Lupton, calling herself an “ama
teur,” put on a thrilling aerobatic
show yesterday. Miss Snodgrass,
piloting a tiny plane, earned $100
by winning the 25-mile race for
women.
Flyers Leave New York
And Head South
NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (A3).—Russell
Holderman and Jack Scherer, Ro- ]
Chester, N. Y., entrants in the Mac- ;
Fadden cross-country air races to ;
Miami, took off from Roosevelt Field
at 9:20 am. today and headed
southward. They were flying a
Lockheed 12 owned by the Gannett
Newspapers of Rochester. They
were second in last year’s race.
Five Flyers at St. Louis
Start Macfadden Race
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6 (IF).—Five of
the 12 entries in the $8,250 Bernarr
Macfadden on-to-Miami race took [
off from the St. Louis Municipal 1
Airport this morning.
First to depart was George C.
Pomeroy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., at 7:21
am. He was followed by Homer
C. Rankin, Wichita, Kans., at 7:48;
Anthony King. Red Bank. N. J„
8:05; Mrs. Arlene Davis, Cleveland,
8:11. and Raymond C. Lloyd, St. !
Louis, at 8:47.
Maj. Ralph Page, starter of the
St. Louis leg of the race, said good
flying conditions prevailed. I
:arm Fund Inaction
Would Affect 1941
Incomes, Officials Say
$225,000,000 on Hand
For Summer and Fall
Parity Payments
By the Associated Press.
Administration farm officials ex
plained today that, if Congress
made no provision for farm parity
payments in the Agriculture De
sartment appropriation bill, the ab
sence of such subsidies would not
show up in producer incomes until
:he summer and fall of 1941.
In his budget message. President
Roosevelt made no provision for
parity payments, saying he was in
fluenced by the hope that prices
would advance to a point where
farm income would not be lowered
if the payments were not voted.
Officials said that $225,000,000 ap
propriated last year for parity pay
ments would be distributed during
the coming summer and fall among
producers of cotton, wheat, corn,
rice and possibly some types of to
sacco. Only those farmers co
operating with crop control pro
grams will be eligible.
Parity payments get their name
from a farm price goal set up in the
1938 Crop Control Act. This legis.
ation authorizes programs designed
to raise and maintain prices of
major farm products at a level
which would give them purchasing
power, in terms of non-farm goods
md services, equal to that they held
n the 1909-14 period.
Parity prices for major crops in
mid-December, as determined by
Government economists, compared
with actual average farm prices,
were: Cotton, 15.6 and 9.7 cents a
pound; wheat, $1.11 and 83.5 cents
a bushel; corn, 80.9 and 50.3 cents
a bushel; rice, $1.02 and 76.8 cents
a bushel; flue-cured tobacco, 18.2
and 12.7 cents a pound; burley to
bacco, 16.9 and 15.3 cents a pound,
and dark air-cured tobacco, 8.5 and
6.3 cents a pound.
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