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Evening star., 1934-05-15

Politicians talk about that situation
whenever they gather. and they seem
to agree that once again Al Smith
was too far ahead of his time.
Just as he was four years too soon
in advocating repeal. he jumped into
a critical role against the administra-
ton before any considerable number
of people was ready to follow him.
If he had held back until now, and
moderated his words as some other
skeptcS did. he would be riding the
same surfboard as, for instance,
Senator Garter Glass.
President Roosevelt had an idea for
solving the war debt muddle few
days ago. but Congress romped all
over it in the cloak rooms and it now
will probably never see the light OF
day.
The scheme called for ne,c agree.
ments All interest. past and
future. tUould be Uoiued. The
principal 1Could be paid in full.
1t Uds based on the logical fact
that debtor is lucky to get his
principal back these days Without
eLpeCtHy uHy tHLefe eSLs
A trial ballon was sent up for the
White House idea by Speaker Rainey,
He pointed to our successful settle
ment with Finland on that basis
CFinland is the only debtor paid up
to date). Rainey offered the plan as
a model for those, like Britain, in
partial default
cto Of
Congressional rifiemen figured that
the scheme would lop $4,000, 900, 900
off The debt. They are not willing to
give up single cent. At heart, most
of them really want to force the
debtors into default. At any rate,
they would rather force a default
than give in.
Proposal to Be Dropped.
After a few days the administra-
tion let it be known it was highly
unlikely" that the plan would be Off
cially offered.
The administration also quietly
sounded out the debtors on plan
whereby they would make substantial
token payments on their June IS in
stallments. The debtors we're led to
believe that, in case they paid enough,
the administration might hold that
they were not in default.
Then the johnson act would have
no application to them. That act
bars only defaulting nations from
borrowing money in this country.
The trouble ,Uith that offer was
that none OF the nations cares
hoot about the johnson act They
knoto 1DeH enough they cannot
borro1D any money in this country
any,Day Nobody here wants to
lend more money to Europe, eUen
il London and Paris are offered as
collateral
The result is that one of the high
est administration war debt men says
privately the situation is miserable. >
What he means is that we do not
expect to get a thin dime on the
June Is installments.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
U. S. LOTTERY APPROVED

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May IS
R.-A government lottery will be
operated under the American flag be-
ginning July /.
Gov. Blanton winship last night
signed a new law restoring the insti-
tuition which long was operated under
the Spanish regime, but was abolished
when Puerto Rico became United
States territory.
Gov. Winship said although he was
opposed to all forms of gambling. he
had signed the lottery law because he
believed the public in general ap-
proved of the government lottery and
because the proceeds will 60 to COM
bat tuberculosis.
Evening star., 1934-05-15

With so many matters up in the
air. no solid guess can be made about
adjournment of Congress. Congress
sional leaders have been thinking
about quitting June 9.
Predict Pinchot Victory.
Soothsaying politicians here figure
that Pinchot will defeat Reed in the
Pennsylvania primary. but have their
doubts about Pinchots ability to de-
feat the Democrat, Joe Guffey, in
the Fall.
The White House still insists it is
taking no part in the primaries, but
it went to the extent of having
Pinchot as an overnight guest re-
Gently. The insiders say it was not
because Mr. Roosevelt likes Pinchot
more, but Reed less. The Democrat,
Gui1ey, will probably sleep in the
White House before the November
election.
tCopyright. 1934.D
Evening star., 1934-05-15


old stand pat. ultra conservative label,
in the coming congressional cam
paign and in the reorganization Of
its National Committee when that
reorganization should take place.
Everett Sanders, who has oeen chair
man of the Republican Natiooal Com
mittee since June, 1882, when he
issued the call for the meeting of
the committee in Chicago brought
the matter under the spotlight. Some
of the Republicans now are sorry that
the issue has been forced at this time
But they must either pick a new
chairman. or agree to keep Mr..
Sanders on for a while. They are
busy canvassing the situation now,
but while many of them have prefer
ences" and candidates. so far there
has been no crystalization on the man
who is to be the next chairman.
In some quarters there has been
talk of Macy himself for national
chairman. But Macy has trouble
enough on his own hands in New
York, where the Republicans are by
no means united. The demand for
a young and liberal Republican chair
man is gaining ground, and Macy's
talk here is merely an expression of
that demand To place one of the
old party wheel eforses at the head
of the National Committee would be
putting the country on notice that
the G. o. P. plans to get back for
mer conditions. There are lot OF
Republicans who fear that this would
be political suicide. With a congress
sional campaign already under way,
they would like to avoid, if possible,
a stand-pat label in the shape OF
new, conservative chairman.
Up in Pennsylvania today, the Re
publicans are engaged in a bitter
struggle, with Senator David A. Reed
running against Gov. Clifford Pinchot.
Reed Is a conservative. Pinchot a lib
eral. If Reed wins, it may give the
conservative element in the party
boost. If Pinchot loses the reverse
will be the case.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
What's What
BehindNews
In Capital
"Razz" Declared to
Have Made Al Smith
Quit Critics Role.
BY PAUL MALLON.

Dx FAUL MhLLON.
~ VEN the administration insiders
here never understood why Al
Smith bowed himself so quietly
L. out Of the national political
picture.
Flimsy excuses were offered at the
time for cessation of his picturesque
criticism of certain administration
policies. The most widely advertised
one was that he differed with his
magazine publisher about the airmail
matter. That Is what Smith would
have called baloney.
Those who have talked with him
recently have a new idea about it.
They uhiSper that his attacks
on the administration dreD
strong personal reaction on him.
He did not mind abuse from
section of the press and public.
But Uhen his closest friends, and
euen members OF his ot0n family,
began to call him Sorehead, he
thought it tDas about time to With
hold his fire.
An example of the ridicule heaped
upon him is told by one of his close
friends.
A pal called Smiths Office on the
telephone one morning after Smith
had made a strongly critical attack
on the administration money policy.
AIS secretary answered the. phone, in
formed the caller that Smith was tied
up In a conference and asked if there
was any message. She recognized the
voice of the caller.
Given Bronx Cheer.
Eyes" said the voice, Il do want
to leave a message. Are you ready?"
"All ready" replied the woman with
pencil poised
well, tell him-spplllhhhh!"
That is a sound which has never
been accurately reduced to language,
but AL no doubt recognized it as a
Bronx cheer. or what is commonly
called the bird
Evening star., 1934-05-15
PIT. A. PLANS LUNCHEON
West School to Have Benefit To-
morrow at Noon.

The Parent-Teacher Association of
the Joseph Rodman West School will
give a luncheon tomorrow in the au-
ditorium of the school on Farragut
street, between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets. Mrs. Irving Coggins is
general chairman of the benefit which
will be held from noon until 1880 pm.
The proceeds will 60 to the school
library.
Evening star., 1934-05-15

tributed in two classes, as follows:
For homes with an assessed valua-
ton of $4,000 or more-First prize,
$3.50; second prize, 500; third prize
$50, and four honorable mention
prizes of $25 each.
For homes with an assessed valua-
ton of under .000-First prize.
$3.50; second prize. 500; third prize.
$50, and four honorable mention
prizes Of $25 each,
Evening star., 1934-05-15
NAVY PLANS FLIGHT

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May Is P).-
Nine naval patrol planes, comprising
"the wright's wing" of the base air
craft, are scheduled to fly from the
air base at Coco Solo, C. z, reaching
here the evening Of May 27, Navy
officers announced today.
The flight will be made by easy
stages, no hops longer than one day
being planned.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
Plans Publicity Campaign.

A big Government publicity cam
paign is planned to awaken the home
owner to the possibility of getting his
home remodeled or reconditioned on
easy payments. Here is the way 1t
would work:
John Smith wants a new bathroom,
to repair the roof. to build an addi-
tional wing. II he can do this with
in $4,000 he is within the plan.
He goes to bank, a building and
loan association or some other insti-
tuition and lays out his program. The
institution looks up Mr.. Smith, finds
he has a steady job and pays his bills.
and decides to put up the whole $4,000.
The bank charges him 5 per cent
and divides the payments on a
monthly basis over flve-year period.
the limit under the Governments
plan. With interest this would amount
to some $40 a month the first year
and less as the $4,000 was reduced
and the interest charge declined.
In the meantime the lender of the
money has informed the Government
proposed s2o0,O0000o insurance cor
poration that it wishes the loan
guaranteed, and the Government
agrees to pay the lender up to 20 per
cent OF the loss.
Should Mr. Smith fall down on his
payments after turning back 81 900.
the Government would pay the lender
20 per cent on the second 81 900 and
the lender would lose the other $500
Careful investigation Of those pro-
curing loans is planned, and since
many probably will be well below the
$4,000 maximum, officials believe the
total of defaults will be small.
The expected effect o. the guarantee
will be to make lenGei5 more willing
to lend, since they need have little
fear of loss running as high as 20
per cent.
In the case of projected new homes,
il Mr.. Smith has $4,000 the Govern
ment plans backing for a loan OF
So 5000 more. His period of repayment
could run to 20 years.
The Government lends no money,
but would set up a huge insurance
fund from payments made by the bor-
rover 1t would fully insure the lender
up to 80 per cent Of the value OF the
house-or $4,000 in this case.
The interest to the lender would
run about per cent. while an addi-
tional l per cent would go to the in
surance fund.
Getting the money may not be as
simple as the example sounds because
the Government will not insure a
mortgage not made according to its
restrictions. These have not yet been
set out. In addition to investigating
the prospective borrowers ability to
pay, his house will have to conform to
certain standards.
Evening star., 1934-05-15

OF the War Department, who was
elected president Of the Federal Bar
Association at a meeting Monday
night in the Department of Com
merce auditorium.
Other officers elected we're william
H. Bonneville, first vice president;
Addison T. Smith, second vice presi-
dent; Comdr. Harold Dodd, third vice
president; Herbert H. Rice, secretary;
Robert E. Freer, treasurer. and Keith
E. Meyer, financial secretary.
Albert E Stephan spoke on the
necessity for creating an independent
communication system.
Harris Ewing Photo
Evening star., 1934-05-15
CONGRESS PUSHES
HOME RENOV|z|NG
Efforts to Spur New House
Building to Follow
Later.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
The congressional machine took an
initial turn today on a key designed
to unlock financial doors to the would
be home owner or modernizer.
As the Senate Banking Committee
opened work on the big housing bill
introduced yesterday at President
Roosevelt's request, officials disclosed
plans to push the home renovizing
campaign The efforts to spur the
building of new homes will follow close
after.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
INDUSTRIAL LOANS
AGREEMENT REACHED
BY HOUSE COMMITTEE

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u. S. AGENTS RAID
RACE "NEWS" SHOP
AS GUARD WATCHES

Continued From First Page)
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SEEKS
$1,322,0)O,0)O SUM
Asks Congress to Make Ap-
preparation for Relief
and Public Works. 4

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-05-15
Municipal and General Legislation.

Thus, universal usage and legisla-
ton recognize the preservation Of
public order, morals and health, the
regulation of markets and places of
amusement and repair Of streets, and,
as an incident to the others. the
levying of general taxes and special
assessments. as appropriate powers Of
municipality"
ION the other hand, titles to prop
erty, its transfer and transmission, and
the form and effect Of judicial pro-
ceedings, the formalities and effect
Of contracts, the law Of commercial
papers, the whole subjects of crimes
and other subjects of equally general
interest, one would naturally assign
to the highest legislative authority
in State"
"These conclusions will apply to
Congress in its relations with the
District of Columbia"
Municipal Authority Limited.
There have been a number of sub
sequent decisions in the District
courts, the effect Of which has been
sharply to limit the Commissioners
powers of regulation to subjects con-
cerning which Congress has specifl-
cally authorized them to make regu-
lations. When. in 1905, the Commis-
sioners issued a regulation on remov.
ing snow and ice from the sidewalks,
for instance, and called it a police
regulation, the court (Coughlin VS.. the
District of Columbia, IS Court of Ap-
peals D. c. 2s1), in holding the regu-
lation void declared:
THAT various municipalities may
have exercised such power as appears
from various municipal regulations
collated in the brief on behalf Of the
appellee is not to the point. Munich
Evening star., 1934-05-15
PRESIDENTIAL TALK
MENTIONING STONE
STlRS REPUBLICANS

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-05-15
Award of Prizes.

The Stars ST 900 in cash prizes, to
be awarded at the conclusion of the
contest for the best examples of home
improvement. as selected by the Silver
Star Model Homes Committee, sitting
es a committee of judges, will be dis
Evening star., 1934-05-15
Bill Ciping City Heads Po'oer
To Make and Enforce Rulings
May Be Passed This Session
Extent to Which Congress May Go
in Delegating Functions to
Commissioners Is Not Clear.

This Is the fourth and conclud-
fng article of q series discussing
proposed reorganization OF the
Municipal Government.
Evening star., 1934-05-15

(Copyright. 1934.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-22

HE NORGE a0 after running constantly for your SUM- h
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-10-12
Thirty-Hour Week Is Main
Recovery Hope A.F. Of L. Told
GREEN DECLARES ALL IDLE
MUST BE GIVEN WORK
Labor Head Challenges Opponents of Shorter Week To
Offer Better Remedy, and Charges Employers Force
Strikes

San Francisco (ILNS)-Labor ac-
cepts President Roosevelt's dictum
that this country should not resign
itself to the presence of permanent
group of unemployed, President Will
liam Green, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, told the opening ses-
sion of the federation's 54th annual
convention here.
The most important problem con-
fronting labor is unemployment,
President Green said, in making an
emphatic declaration for the 30-hour
week. Hearty applause greeted his
declaration.
"Those opposing the 30-hour
week offer no other remedy" he
said. 81 can only repeat the chal
lenge / have made before-let
them offer something better as
remedy
He said it was not enough to reduce
the "army of the unemployed by
100000"
owe must overcome this problem sc
that work will be available, for every
worker willing to work." Green said
Only One Practical Remedy
eve cannot" Green continued, "re.
sign ourselves to huge army Of un.
employed which will constitute ar
ever present menace to our social or.
der.
"There is only one practical remedy
hours of work must be reduced to {
point where the slack in unemploy
ment will be taken up. We stand un
flinchingly for the six-hour day anC
the five-day week.
''The American Federation of La
Dor is unqualifedly committed to thi
great economic reform"
Green then attacked the Nationa
Association of Manufacturers. He sai'
that two days after the Nationa
Labor Relations Board upheld labor
right to bargain collectively, the as
sociation had advised members to dis
regard the decision.
Places Blame for Strikes
81 hold that any man who refuse
to obey such a decision is not GOO
citizen" he Numbered.
He cited labor decisions upholdinl
the right Of collective bargaining an
union recognition.
What more must we do to win on
rights he asked. "If these employ
ers will not accept the decisions 0
duly constituted governmental agen
cies labor's only alternative is to e
out on strike and enforce the deci
sions.
Eve do not want to do this. w
want to meet around the conferenc
table and talk it over until we reac
q settlement. But no red -blooded me
will aubit to tyranny? Labor ha
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-10-12
Strikebreaking King Bewails
100000 Loss" in Georgia
Bergof Says Gov Talmadge "Gyped" Him When Private
Guards Were Chased from State-"Unfar Competi
tion' He Means, Telling Of Use of Militia in Textile
Strike

W.'D Anderson sent for those men,
said Bergoff, looking out of the win
dow gloomily. "He's chairman of the
Southern Textile Mems Association,
and a power among big mill owners
down South. Well, he wanted these
men and told me to send 'em down
there. When / done that, and when
everything's goin' good, Talmadge up
and chases 'em out"
Bergoff frowned and edged nearer
the window.
His Thugs Always Prepared"
"The governor said we was securing
Atlanta for machine guns and the like.
That's the bunk. We didn't want no
machine guns. We always go prepar-
ed. We got them things aplenty. Why,
/ shipped some gas down there by
airplane, but that's nothing. ship
ped gas all around by airplane. That's
part of our business too. Then on Mon
DAY CHlS ROVcTIlOT TOdSCS uS diid uiiS
US out"
Bergoff showed fear that his guards
might be distressed by the governors
action.
"When my men left Porterdale,
where Anderson's mill is, and went to
Atlanta, all the people thanked 'em.
Sure they did, and they had band
playing, and it warn't no funeral
march. 1t was a grand occasion and
everybody turned out. And then my
men had to leave Atlanta with the
governors words ringing in their
ears. It sure was tough"
Something like tears came into Ber-
goff's voice as he recounted the prob
able injury done to the feelings of his
sensitive "thugs" at the hands of 9
scurrilous governor. "It sure was
tough" he ended
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-10-12

never yet submitted to it and never
will"
Replies to Manufacturers
In the midst of his address, Presi-
dent Green was told that the National
Association of Manufacturers had
urged a truce during which neither
group will attempt to change exist
ing relationships by force" The
manufacturers proposal was made in
endorsing the plan of President
Roosevelt of a Specific trial period of
Industrial truce" proposed in a radio
speech October /. In his speech, the
President assailed the idea that this
country is doomed to have a perma-
nent army of the unemployed.
"This is subterfuge," Green told
the convention, in answering the
manufacturers proposal. "Let them
first publicly announce that they are
willing to accept the decisions of the
duly constituted authorities set up by
the government to decide such mat
ters."
Through the "wider distribution of
the earnings of industry through the
payment of higher wages the buying
power of the masses of the people
would be increased and we would have
q balance between consumption and
the facilities of production" Green
asserted.
Not Opposed to Progress
"It would have been better that we
never had scientist or inventor than
to have created vast army of un-
employed.
but do not mistake the attitude
Of the American Federation of Labor.
1t is not opposed to progress or to
the mechanization of industry. 1t is
opposed to the displacement by ma
chinery of thousands of workers"
Assailing enemies of democracy
Green said:
eve believe in our free institutions
in democracy and liberty. For that
reason we are opposed to all these
subversive forces that are constantly
attempting to undermine it; to de-
stroy it. For that reason we are op-
posed to communism in any form
whatever. We are equally opposed to
Fascism in any form"
Planning for Future Urged
"A new vision of Ameican living
standards" and reorganization of the
national recovery administration as
a longtime, rather than as an emer-
gency program, was advocated by the
4 A. F. Of L. executive council in it's
annual report.
4 I'VE must have living standard
which will use the capacity of our in.
dustries and the capacity Of our mar
power" said the executive council.
report.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-10-12
TOBACCO MAN
Named to NRA Hit as "Slap
in Face For Labor

San Francisco (ILNS)-Sharp criti-
cism with threats to bring the matter
onto the floor of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor convention was voiced
in the hotel lobbies here over the ap-
pointment of Clay Williams and A. D.
Whiteside to the governing body of the
national recovery administration.
Williams was formerly head Of the big
anti-union r. j. Reynolds Tobacco
Company.
Charges that Williams worked his
employees full time for 81 week even
in boom times were voiced and his
appointment, coincident with the exec
utive councilsaSo-5c : 20U' U'eacaSCEra
utive committees demands for fuller
labor representation in NRA affairs
was termed a "slap in the face for
labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-10-12
Garrison Quits Post
AS Labor Board Head

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Lloyd
Garrison, chairman of the National
Labor Relations Board, announced on
October he had resigned to return
to the University Of Wisconsin as
dean of the law school.
Garrison resigned despite the ur-
gent request of President Roosevelt
that he remain. The University of
Wisconsin granted Garrison a three
months leave of absence to head the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-10-12
Truce Prevents Strike
OF 10000 Longshoremen

New York City ULNS)-A strike
of 10000 longshoremen in Atlantic
ports from Maine to Virginia was
stayed when representatives of the In
ternational Longshoremen's Associa-
ton agreed to accept a proposal by
the steamship operators that they
await the outcome of deliberations of
President Roosevelt's Arbitration
Board, now considering the situation
on the Pacific coast. The strike had
been expected to be called October l.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-10-12

New York (ILNS)-P. L. Bergoff,
self-acknowledged "king of strike
breakers" is man with grievance.
Georgia's martial law governor and
exponent of terrorism in strikes, Eu-
gene Talmadge, has "done him dirt" !"
Bergoff split with Talmadge when the
latter ordered 800 of his armed guards
out of Georgia's mill towns within "a
hours.
Talmadge, to Bergoff's way of
thinking, felt his own armed guards,
the state militia, could do the job, and
further, that dependence on them by
the mill owners would put the latter
under larger political obligation to
Talmadge. Bergoff feels Talmadge
had no desire to share his place in the
strikebreaking sunlight with Bergoff.
Bergoff, faced with the necessity
Of paying off his guards on their re-
turn to New York, charged Talmadge
with double crossing him. "The gov
ernor practically gyped me out OF
$1OO O0O," said Bergoff.
When this interviewer showed some
sympathy over the loss OF so much
good coin of the realm, Bergoff rose to
his feet proudly.
Guards CHASED Out"
"Oh, we didn't lose no money" jab-
bing thumbs into waistcoat armholes
"You can say everything is 0. K
financially with Bergoff."
Bergoff's annoyance was due to tive
trainloads of his armed guards drift
ing into New York from Georgia, anc
with a bar suddenly raised against
them by the governor of Connecticut
they were coming into Bergoff's office
to claim their Sc to $40 day in the
cause Of open shopism in Georgia.