Evening star., 1934-01-26

A charge that Secretary of Labor
Perkins is trying to weed OUT of
congressional immigration committees
members who favor restriction was
made this afternoon at the Ninth
Women's Patriotic Conference on Ma
tional Defense, held in the Mayflower
Hotel.
This allegation was made from the
floor by Mrs. Margaret Coblenz Bal
t!more. chairman of the National De-
fense Committee, Daughters of the
Revolution. Her organization is sepa-
rate and distinct from the Daughters
Of the American Revolution
The attack came after Mrs. Lowell
Fletcher Hobart, past president general
OF the Daughters of the American Revo-
lutlon, demanded that a resolution urg-
ing registration of aliens be sent to
President Roosevelt before it reaches
Miss Perkins. She said that Miss
Perkins has been quoted in the press
as opposing such move.
Urge Identification Cards.
In addition to registration of aliens,
the women urged that all aliens be
required TO carry Identification cards,
be finger printed and report each
change of address.
VA D. GuliIOiIO INSISOll OulgIey OF
Washington said that registration of
changes Of address would prevent some
OF the Mldwestern "Socialistic Congress-
men" transporting aliens from one
town to another to allow them to vote
several times.
The conference came to the defense
OF Assistant Secretary of War Wood
ring. whose resignation has been de-
manded because of his national defense
policies. A resolution was adopted
commencing him and asking President
Roosevelt to stand behind him.
Rule Against Dictatorship.
In another resolution, the conference
went on record as opposed to changes
Ii the law OF the land which would
weaken the independence of our people
and make possible Government dicta-
torshlp through executive control of
Congress"
Other highlights at the conference
were a two-year ban on immigrants
seeking remunerative employment and
provision that no alien could be en-
ployeA out OF public funds.
An ambition to give the United States
tne greatest air force on earth was dis
closed by Chairman McSwain of the
House Military Affairs Committee in an
aodress earlier in the dav.
He referred. apparently with Ger
Ianty OF expectation. TO the next
major war"
AT the same meeting. Assistant Sec
retary OF the Navy Roosevelt said he
stood for "a Navy second to none-a
Navy built to the limit of our treaty
commitments. to the last rivet, the last
COB and the last Marine"
McSwain said this country was in
OartlrlIldr mead NJ o;-
force because of its political and geo.
graphical location as a protector of
the Western Hemisphere.
Called Powerful Factor in War.
THE airplsne is bound to be the most
powerful, If not the decisive factor in
that future war, to which we look for
ward with trepidation,' he asserted.
1t is impossible for any treaty to con-
troll these engines of destruction, or to
control any other engines OF destruc-
ton
strong air force could be safely in
trusted to the United States with world
wide confidence that it would not be
used in an aggressive war, McSwain
said. emphasizing the point that only
In the United States is the consent Of
the national legislative body required
for declaration of war.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt said "a
second-beSt navy is like a second-best
poker hand-worthless when called"
If We are going to have any navy at
all. We ought to have an adequate one"
Roosevelt continued.
He said this country is going ahead
with building program which will
raise its Navy to treaty strength.
Maj Gen. Hugh Drum, deputy chief
OF staff OF the Army spoke on the civil
activities of the Army and the part it
has played in this country's develop
ment.
Charges Personal Attack.
w. B. Shearer, whose activities at the
Geneva Disarmament Conference were
the subject of Senate investigation in
1929, following charges that he was en-
ployed by ship building interests to dis
open forum" of the conference late
yesterday and demanded a rehearing'
of his case.
He charged that the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee had made a per-
Sonal attack on him, and had then
abruptly ended the investigation with
out having put into the record all in
formation placed in their hands" He
demanded that either report be made
or that the committee reconvene to
take additional testimony.
Shearers appearance before the con-
ference followed an address by Rear
Admiral c. H. woodward, U. s. N, de-
nouncing anti preparedness propa-
ganda," and it was during that portion
Of the program where comment was In
vited,
Fertile Soil for Propaganda.
Admiral Woodward said there was q
spider web" of propaganda weaken
ing the country.
Because of our naivete in world
diplomacy" he stated. foreign gov
ernments have quite naturally taken
full advantage of the fertile soil our
country so innocently provides for the
sowing of propaganda Seeds"
He called attention to the seizure In
Honolulu of 1850 copies of "a jap
anese pamphlet, outlining methods to
be employed IN waging and winning q
-"-r with the United States"