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black African kingdom met with
a cool reception in official quar-
tiers here today.
The State Department did not
welcome any move to embroil the
United States in the Italo-Ethi-
opian dispute, which was consid'
cred a purely European problem.
Officials we're particularly re-
luctant to have this nation placed
in the position of having to state
whether or not it would partici.
pate in economic sanctions against
Italy, as repeatedly suggested by
Britain, or whether or not it would
take the lead in calling Italy'S at.
tention to its obligations under the
Kellogg anti-War pact, as requested
by the Ethiopian Emperor.
British Report Lacking
No official report had been re-
ceived from London concerning
the British governments reported
intention to sound out this Gov
eminent on it's attitude toward
joining in any economic sanctions
against Italy.
Or had any report been re-
ceived yet from Adds Ababa con-
corning the emperor's action in
appealing to this country, through
American Charge d. Affaires Will
liam P. George, to invoke the
Kellogg pact.
Pending receipt of official re-
ports from London and the
Ethiopian capital, officials were
reluctant to comment on what
action this Government might
take.
Although privately the sympathy
of officials was entirely on the
side of Ethiopia, they we're hes
liant to predict that this country
under any circumstances would
go so far as to participate in
economic sanctions against Italy.
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Jacob Graft, a German brick
layer, married in 1774. purchased,
the following year, a plot Of
ground on the southwest corner
If what is now Market and
Seventh Streets, Philadelphia. On
it he built for himself and bride
a fine three-story brick dwelling
and settled down to make both
ends meet.
Shortly thereafter Thomas JET
ferson, commissioned by the Con-
tjnental Congress to draw up a
Declaration of Independence, paid
Jacob Graft IS shillings per week
for the use of two rooms on the
second floor and there-it was $50
High Street then-was born the
nucleus of what has since become
the most significant document in
the history of the United States.
In 1898, the Graft homestead
became a warehouse and in 1888
it was RACED. What should have
been a museum is now bank.
Lee introduced 1t
On June 7, 1776, Richard
Henry Lee, a Virginian delegated
to the Continental Congress, in
troduced to his colleagues the res
olution with which this story be-
gins. Until July / this resolution
was holly debated and on the next
day it was passed. On July A.
159 years ago today-it was for
mally adopted, signed by John
Hancock, president of the Con-
greSs, and sent off to the Gov.
eminent printer for official tran
scription.
This resolution became the last
paragraph of the Declaration of
independence as drawn up by
Thomas jefferson.
It was not, however, until Au-
gust 2 of that year that the Sc
Signers gathered in Independence
Hall to affix their signatures to
the piece of parchment which to-
day may be seen at the Library
Of Congress.
Treason Preferable
Writes Thomas Jefferson of this
historical scene:
"The day was OppreSsively
warm and the room. hard by
. stable, whence hungry flies
swarmed thick and fierce, alight-
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ing on the legs of the delegates,
and biting hard through their
thin silk stockings.
Treason was preferable to
discomfort and the members
voted for the Declaration :.
and escaped from the horse
fly"
Mr.. Jefferson humorously
stretched a point in his vivid de-
Scription. It was not merely a
case of Great Britain versus the
horsefly, with the latter victorious.
Those Sc men signed what they
knew to be their death warrants
if failure attended the ReVolu-
ton.
They Hung Together
Twenty-four lawyers, IA farmers,
four doctors, one minister, and
three who had studied for the
ministry but had adopted other
vocations, together with one man.
ufacturer and nine merchants,
constituted the group who as
sembled that day to proclaim us
a free and independent nation.
They kneW-and Said-that If
from that time on they did not
hang together" they would "hang
separately" They hung together
and the United States of Amer
lea is the result.
And yet, as Thomas Jefferson
later pointed out. the Declare
ton of independence was not
prepared for the purpose of pro-
claiming independence. T h a t
had already been done. Its pur-
pose was to announce to the
world and the coloniStS at large
why independence had been pro-
claimed.
FOreSees Its Value
ForeSeeing the value which
time would bestow upon anything
connected with those early days
of our country's being, Thomas
Jefferson, in bequeathing to a
friend the desk upon. which the
Declaration was written, wrote:
"SmalI things may, perhaps,
like the relics of the saints,
help to nOuriSh our devotion to
this holy bond Of our union
and keep it longer alive and
warm in our affections"
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Curb on Initiation
Held Inadequate
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Under the Nations present ma
chinery the Government cannot
stem the tide of an unbridled
wave of credit initiation, a high
Administration official declared
today in discussing pending bank
ing legislation.
AS reported by the Senate Bank
ing and Currency Committee Title
2 of the bankig act Of 1885 does
little more to make possible the
curbing of credit initiation than
the present law, this official be-
1ieves.
Complete centralized control Of
bank reserves was advocated. The
excess reserves of the member
banks of the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn are now at the record high
level of two billion five hundred
million dollars. Under the ten
time year turnover that means
a potential credit of twenty-five
billion dollars.
Gold and silver imports are
continuing heavy. Unless the
European situation clarifies. the
gold supply will exceed ten billion
dollars this year.
Exchange sterilization opera
tions might we'll boost the excess
reserves to six billion dollars or
a potential credit initiation Of
sixty billion dollars.
One official remarked, some
what facetiously:
eve might welcome a little
Initiation. Some people rebel
against initiation and at the
same time are afraid we won't
have it."
The 1929 speculative boom was
held out as an example of the
inability of the Federal Reserve
Board, the credit governor of
business and industry, to control
the situation once the movement
got under full Roadway,
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Declaration Adopted
lust 159 Years Ago

United Colonies and Of right ought to be free
Independent that all political connection beteen
Great Britain and ought to be totally dissolOed
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Ends 2-Day Camp

Colored United Spanish War
Veterans will begin their twenty
fifth annual encampment to
close tonight with a reception at
Miner Teachers College.
With approximately 100 dele
gates in attendance the encamp-
ment opened yesterday with regis
tration at the Twelfth Street
Y. M. C. A., and memorial services
last night. Edward A. Ridgeley is
commanded of the veterans.
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tire program is to put people to
work."
About half of the projects that
have been carried on as work re-
lief projects under the FERA will
be continued, where they are
found worthy, and provide en-
ployment. The Government will
provide necessary materials to
carry on such projects, where the
communities cannot provide the
materials.
President Incensed
Incensed by charges that the
four thousand million dollar work
relief fund had degenerated into
another boon-doggling orgy, Presi.
dent Roosevelt spent an hour yes
terday reading off to newspaper
men detailed lists of useful" prof.
ects to be undertaken.
The eighty-one million dollars
allocated to start the jobs drive in
New York city, the President de-
clared, will be spent for such prof.
ects as school Fairgrounds, air
ports, college buildings, libraries,
municipal golf courses, public
baths and art museums.
II Projects Ready
There are IT projects of this
kind ready to go in the city, he
said. They will provide jobs for
70,500 men.
In even greater detail, the Pres
ident described 2,196 projects, COST
ing more than seventy million dol
lars already approved for Georgia,
Alabama and Indiana. These in
cluded rural schools, road build
ing, water works and community
houses.
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RESERVE HEAD.
Halls POWER
GIVEN BOARD
Expresses Belief, However,
Portions of Measure Can
Be Improved in Senate
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Expressing the belief that Title
II of the pending banking act in
the Senate could be improved
upon, M. S. Eccles, governor Of
the Federal Reserve Board, today
declared that nevertheless it rep
resented "long step in the direc-
ton of intelligent management of
our monetary system" He said:
Gas between the bill enacted
by the House and as proposed
by the Senate committee, 1
have every reason to believe
that a reasonably satisfactory
measure will be worked out"
The broad authority conferred
upon the board to change reserve
requirements of the member
banks was hailed with particular
satisfaction. Mr.. Eccles pointed
out that under the existing law
this power can be used only after
the declaration by the President
Of an emergency every time a
change is necessary. For all prac.
tical purposes an unavoidable ar
rangement."
Monetary Powers
The purpose of Title II, it
stated, is aimed at placing re-
sponsibility for the exercise Of
monetary powers in lone body re-
moved from the pressure of par
tisan, political or private banker
influences
Mr.. Eccles was understood to
have been disappointed at the
provisions of the proposed bill
requiring that not more than
four members Of one political
party should be named on the
board.
Curb on Initiation
Attention was called to the
proposed open market control
system, vested in the board and
five governors of Federal Reserve
banks, representative of various
sections of the country. Mr..
Eccles said:
"This would make it possible
for the board and the open
market committee to function
in the national interest by
using these powers so far as
they may be effective towards
the achievement Of stability in
our economic system and the
avoidance of disastrous infla-
tiOnary and deflatiOnary cycles"
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1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner" the
featured speaker.
The Whittier Street playground
is holding an athletic program
from to p. m.
The main event" of the day,
the exercises at the Monument
Grounds, will open at ISIS with
a Marine Band Concert and an
address by Sen. Harry Flood Byrd
of Virginia.
Police and National Guardsmen
are preparing to handle a crowd
of more than 100000 at the Monu-
ment Grounds tonight.
Special traffic regulations have
been ordered in the vicinity. Au-
tomobileS will not be allowed to
enter the area after 6 p. M, ex-
cept on the south roadway north
Of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, west of Fourteenth Street
where traffic will be permitted
westbound along the roadway in
the rear of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing. Both sides of
Fifteenth Street will be available
for parking.
One-Way Traffic Rules
There will be one-way traffic
only from the east side of the
Tidal Basin from Fourteenth Street
west to the John Paul Jones
statue. Traffic bound south from
Constitution Avenue will be di-
rected west around the Tidal
Basin, and parking will be per-
mitted on both sides of the Tidal
Basin roadway, the Polo field, Con.
Stitution Avenue west of Seven
tenth Street to the river, and in
the rear of the Navy Munitions
Building.
One-way traffic will be in effect
on the Ellipse road in the rear
of the White House, where park
ing will be banned after p. m.
Police pleaded for a "safe and
sane" Fourth, reiterating their
warning that adults will be ar
rested for shooting fireworks in
the city and children will be
taken to their homes for parental
discipline.
A surprisingly small number of
offenders of the police regulations
involving the discharge of fire
works were arrested.
Out of a total of seven cases,
five forfeited collateral of SIS
posted at the time of the arrest
and two were convicted at the
court hearing.
Those who forfeited were Jo-
seph c. Dyer, Charles G. Taylor,
Ernest A. Terrell, Bentley Hayes
and Jerry Zanelotti.
Bern jackson was fined IS and
Carlton Alexander was convicted
and the sentence withheld while
Judge Given considered the case.
Premature celebrations in the
District sent two young cele-
orators to hospitals here late
yesterday. the first casualties of
the 1885 observance of the
Fourth.
Gus Amdrakes, 4, of the 100
block G st. N. w., was treated at
Casualty Hospital for powder
burns when a firecracker he was
holding in his mouth exploded.
Physicians injected an anti-lock
jaw serum.
Nine-year-old Doris Cohen was
burned on the body when her
clothing was ignited by a spark
Ter. She lives in the 1000 block
Quebec Pl. N. w. Casualty Hos
pital physicians said her condi-
lion was not serious.
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY JOHN TRUMBULL
July 4 Program

:OOp m.-Takoma Park swimming meet, Van Buren,
Street pool.
BOP m-Start of District of Columbia Takoma Park
citizens annual marathon on Mt. Vernon
Memorial Highway, railroad bridge.
2:2Op. m-Frst marathon runner due to arrive at en-
trance to Van Buren, Street swimming pool.
to p m.-Athletic program at the Whittier Street
playground
7:15 p m-Marine Band concert opening civic ceebra-
ton on the Washington Monument Grounds.
8:OOp m.-Takoma Park fireworks display at Phia-
delpha Avenue playground
SIT D. m-Reading of the Declaration of independence,
by Col Edwin A. Halsey, secretary to the
u. S. Senate.
835 D. m-Dsplay of set pieces and aerial fireworks
on the Washington Monument Grounds.
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HOUSE LEADERS
FEAR RICH TAX
INADEQUATE
Roosevelt to Be Asked For
Specific Program as Aid
In Revenue Hearings
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GNO"b SVENlC0
Challenged by Republicans to
frame a tax bill that will yield
real money" House leaders on
taxation today considered an ap.
peal to President Roosevelt to
chart the limits Of his new tax
program.
Preliminary studies by experts
have disclosed that relatively lit.
tie money can be obtained through
the tax program urged by Mr..
Roosevelt.
To carry out a program that
will aid substantially in balancing
the budget, the So-called "Share-
the wealth" taxes must be carried
far below the millionaire class,
according to the tax experts.
When Senator Harrison CD OF
Mississippi, chairman of the Sen
ate Finance Committee, hastily
prepared a schedule of inheritance
and gift taxes, graduated corpora
ton taxes and higher income
taxes on incomes over one million
dollars a year, he estimated the
yield at three hundred and forty
million dollars a year.
Seek Specific Directions
This estimate is said to have
been revised downward, some ex-
perts predicting that not more
than one hundred million dollars
a year would be raised by such a
levy.
After leaving the White House
last week, Senator Harrison pre-
dicted that the tax program, if
changed from his tentative pro-
posals, would be revised down
ward.
While some Senate Progressives
have urged that individual income
taxes be raised, even to incomes
of $1,000 a year, in order to help
pay expenses of the Government,
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee had opposed this course.
Confronted with this situation,
Ways and Means Committee
Democrats may ask President
Roosevelt for specific directions
before hearings on his tax pro-
gram are opened.
While hearings on the new tax
program are tentatively set to
open Monday by the House COM
mittee,. a postponement is pos
sible. The committee has the i'm.
portant Guffey-Snyder coal bill
and the Federal Alcohol Control
Administration bills before it with
action on them unlikely this week.
Committee members insist the
tax program will be en-
acted during the present session.
Senate Leaders Worried
Senate leaders are worried over
the prospects of enacting the tax
program at this session. Reports
were current that the Treasury
would not have their figures com.
pleted by Monday for committee
consideration.
One Republican Senator pre-
dicted that six weeks would be
necessary to work out the pro-
gram proposed.
There is considerable Senate
agitation for more stringent tax
schedules. Louisiana's Senator,
Huey P. Long, called the New
Deal proposals a mere pittance,"
as other Democrats predicted they
would yield little revenue.
On Monday, Senator Hastings
(RO of Delaware, will start his
drive to postpone action on the
whole new program until a special
tax session of Congress next fall.
He asserted that it was unfair"
for the President to send to Con-
gress the tax proposals he sub
mitted this late in the session.
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Bethesda Rotary
: Headed by Walker

CHEVY CHASE, July 4.-Curtis
Walker has been reelected presi-
dent Of the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Rotary Club, according to an an
nouncement made today. Other
officers elected are: Harry WEIGH,
vice president: Claude Hyson,
secretary: Leslie B. Bell, treasurer,
and Walter Kolb, sergeant at
arms.
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MOORE TO SPEAK
FOR CRUSADERS
Local Banker to Make
Radio Address on
Depression

Attorney Thomas F. Moore will
speak on "Recovery-The Only
Way" tonight from WILKES. At
torney Moore is prominent in the
Crusaders, a newly formed organ
l. ton, and is trust officer of the
Citizens and Manufacturers Ma
tional bank. He was originally
scheduled to talk two weeks ago.
When the local Crusaders spon-
sored a banquet here a few weeks
ago Attorney Moore was among
the speakers. At that time Fred
G. Clark, national commander Of
the Crusaders, visited Waterbury
and addressed a large gathering
at The Elton.
In m sihddrsae
In his address this evening,
which will take place at 7:3c
o'clock, Attorney Moore will out
l.ae> his ideas of how the country
can fight its way out OF the de-
preston. He will express the view
OF the business man on the recov.
cry question.
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Winnie Mae, Queen Of The Air, Retires
Around : the World
Records Stand

himself badly cut up.
Nv December OF the next year,
however. they had q new job Tor
me. WHEY Post wanted TO bring
the altitude record back to the
United States. European RECORDS
OF around $4,000 feet were made
with new special downing JOBS
but Wiley : faith in me.
was glad to try 1t. OF course
what he wanted was not to break
the altitude record as such, BUT
to learn whether unheard-of speed
Is possible high up where the air
Is thin, Post designed his now
famous "air divers suit" and
was stripped down to minimum
weight and new engines built
in me.
made many such flights, ct Day
ton, Chicago, and Bartlesviiie.
C..;la. Several times we thought
we had broken all altitude rec
ords. but when the Paragraphs
were celebrated which we used In
the official record attempts at
Bartleyyille we found we had just
missed. Post was pleased at what
/, a standard ship. had been able
to accomplish. We must nave
come awfully close.
Four Gallant Efforts
Now came an effort to translate
these experiments into practical
use. During the spring OF this
year. Post groomed me for an
effort to break the transconti-
mental record at high altitude.
Plenty Of ships are much faster
than / by now, but Post said !
was like an old hunting-dog to
him, and wanted me to try.
we made our first try In Feb
ruar-... but broken OIL line sent
us down in Muroc Dry Lake in
the Mohave Desert. Post brought
me down with utmost skill on the
belly -skids" which had been
fitted to the bottom of my fuse
lage, the landing gear having
been dropped after the takeoff TO
reduce wind resistance.
In March, we got as far as
Cleveland, but the oxygen sup
nv N Posts "diving suit" failed
him and we had to skid to an
other landing. The point was that
at 30,V00-foot attitudes Post was
able to drive me $40 miles an
hour, though my speed at ordi-
nary heights would not be above
1870. We proved our point.
Well Done!
We tiled again in April and June,
being forced down at Lafayette,
Id, and Wichita, respectively.
All these were ''belly landings"
without wheels, but Post hardly
scrs .cned my fuselage.
II he tries again 1t will be in
another ship. know by best
days are done, and that he flew
me on those last attempts only to
add to my glory. If he flies to
Siberia this summer 1t will be in
a new ship. For me it's retire.
ment, and the best I could hope
for would be that quite place in
the Smithsonian.
But don't mind. I guess I've
done about all for aviation that
you could expect from one small
standard-modei ship.
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GARDNER BECOMES
GENERAL MANAGER
Brown University Grad
uate Elevated By w. 7.
Grant to Position

B. A. Rowe, president of the w.
T. Grant Company announced to-
day that Karl d. Gardner. vice
president and director of merchan-
dising has been appointed to the
newly created position of general
manager in charge of store opera
ton and personnel, sales promotion
advertising and merchandising. He
has been with the company for
twenty-five years.
Mr.. Gardner started as a floor
man in the Grant store at Fall
River, Mass, in 1913, Immediately
after graduation from Brown Uni
versity.
After serving as manager in sew
eral stores, he was promoted to
superintendent of the Southern
District in 1924, District Manager
Of the Western District in 1926, Di-
rector Of Sales Promotion in 1928
and subsequently Director of
Merchandising.
He has been director of the
company since 1880 and a vice.
president since 1888.
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seeks transcontincntal record in
after two worId-clrcling flights
lp) Wiley Post, shown at left,
suit" during numerous altitude at
Nain, top left, for whom the ship
Exploits.
have me rebuilt and re-quipped
for another 'round-the-world
flight, was thrilled. New gas
tanks, new motor, and the now
famous Iron Mike" or Sperry
automatic pilot were installed
within me. Post and flew to
Mexico City to test this new equip
ment. 1t was o. K. We did IS
hours of flying with the automatic
pilot before we were ready to
make tn big jump.
So in mid-July, 1898, we were
off again, just Post and and the
Iron Mike" 1t was another case
of 1--WE" This time we made a
beautiful nonstop first leg clear
to Berlin, despite clouds and rain.
We did seven hours of blind
flying while east of Moscow
and had to cross the passes of
the Urals knowing that the peaks
on either side Of US were 5000
feet higher than we were.
Miners Fix Ship
But there was no real trouble
until we reached Alaska, where
we got lost and had to make an
unscneduled landing at Flat. The
field was rough, and ! nosed right