Evening star., 1932-07-31
DOCTORS TOF|GHT
u. S. COMPETITION
Civil Engineers Also to Pro-
test Before Shannon House
Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, July 3o.-Spokesmen
for the American Medical Association
and the American Society Of Civil En-
gineers will complain against Govern
ment competition when the Shannon
House Committee resumes hearings here
Thursday.
The medical association contends dis
abled World War veterans could be
treated more efficiently and at a great
saving Of money by physicians outside
Government employ. The organiza-
tons complaint will be voiced by DR.. z.
H. Skinner. The Society of Civil En-
gineerS will be represented by A. E.
Everingham.
Veterans to Get Hearing.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Ameri-
can Legion and the Disabled American
Veterans. presumably advocates of the
service men. will be given the opportu-
nifty Of reply to DR.. Skinner Friday.
Thereafter the hearing. which al
ready has found its way from Kansas
City to Leayenworth, Kans., and st.
Louis, will venture far afield.
At the request of Senator Elmer
Thomas Of Oklahoma. the committee
will hear the complaint of Lawton,
Okla, merchants against the post ex-
change at Fort Sill.
Representative Joseph B. Shannon,
the chairman, will conduct the inquiry
at Lawton and will hold similar hear
ing at Fort Riley, Kans.
Objections of the Lawton merchants
already have found their way into the
committee records, five merchants hav-
ing flown from the Oklahoma town to
lodge complaints against the post ex-
change. which they termed big Gov
ernment department store"
Another member of the committee,
probably Representative E. E. Cox Of
Georgia, may carry the inquiry to
Wash; Tacoma, San Fran
of August.
At South Bend, Ind, Representatives
Rich Of Pennsylvania and Pettingill of
Indiana will inquire into the Govern
ment Barge Service. The committee
will meet In the National Capital In
September.
Wide Competition Charged.
At the outset of the inquiry July Is,
M. w. Borders. sr., attorney represent
ing the Federation of American Busi-
ness, filed a brief with the committee
alleging the Government competes with
95 industries.
Complaints have been registered by
of the grain, trade,
produce and live stock commission men,
bankers, publishers, the wool trade, and
others.
Particularly bitter was the attack on
the agricultural marketing act, the
Farm Board and its subsidized CO.
operatives. 1t was voiced by grain
growers, elevator men and commission
companies.
foreign market for wheat, erection of
tariff barriers and ruinous wheat prices
were charged to the Farm Board and
to Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M
Hyde.
c. D. Sturtevant, director of the
Omaha Grain Exchange, declared en-
forcement Of the order closing the Chi
cago Board Of Trade for so days would
mean the closing of banks, still more
ruinous prices for wheat and a large
panic.
Declared RepriSaL
The order was issued, he declared
as reprisal for barring the Farmers
National Grain Corporations trading
unit, the Updike Co., for alleged viola
ton Of rules
Frank Theis. representing the Grain
Committee on National Affairs, declared
wheat would be selling for 81 bushel
except for the Vaccinations of the
Farm Board.
The testimony Of Sturtevant and
Theis brought from Secretary Hyde a
statement in which he termed their
declarations 'the squawking Of the
grain trade" because the Farm Board
had shown them up"
Publishers centered their attack on
the printing of return addresses on en-
velopes by the Post once Department
at rates they described as "murderous"
and "cut-throat."
Produce and livestock commission
men professed to see the approach of a
time when Government co-operatives
would force their private companies
from the field. They testified to favor
itiSm on the part Of governmental agen-
cies toward the co-operatives, financed
with Government funds at advanta-
geous rates.