Evening star., 1935-04-16
WALLACE IN THICK
OF BITTER ATTACK
Sentiment Grows to Curb
Proposed A. A. A. LiCenS.
ing Amendments.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Sentiment for rigid restriction OF
Secretary Wallace's proposed A. A. A.
licensing powers developed further on
Capitol Hill today to intensity the
feud over the administrators farm
program.
Despite word that Wallace and Ad-
rninistrator Chester c. Davis insist
they must have the clarifying"
licensing amendments now locked in
the House Agriculture Committee, one
congressional farm leader said bluntly
they have a "fat chance of getting
them"
This authoritative spokesman, who
would not be quoted. predicted that
any licensing powers given the A. A.
A. would be limited to milk and non
basic crops-a sharp curtallment OF
Wallace's original request that he be
empowered to impose licensing and
marketing agreements if so per cent
of the professors wanted them, or
if two-thirds the producers in given
area desired it.
Once already the House committee
has approved the licensing amend
ment after excluding all basic COM
modities except sugar, tobacco and
milk Strenuous opposition forced the
bill back into committee. Today's de-
velopmentS indicated that when the
measure comes out again, sugar and
tobacco also will have oeen eliminated.
Blanket Licensing Secuted.
Also, the committee was regarded as
certain to assure retailers they will
not be licensed in any blanket fashion.
Facing organized defiance by cot
ton manufacturers in the North, new
drought dangers in the West, bit
ter attack by Gov. Talmadge OF
Georgia in the South and congress
sional dissatisfaction with his A. A. A.
amendments, Wallace was in the
midst of the battle of his life.
The A. A. A., fighting back, gave
indications of counting heavily on the
support of farmers to prevent its
policies from being altered beyond
recognition. Chester c. Davis, farm
administrator and one of Wallaces
right-hand men, declared he expected
farmers to come to A. A. AS support.
Though without referring specifical-
" to any critics, Davis said that since
the farm program is a developing
thing, probably it would be the health
lest move to bring this whole fight
into the open right now"
Textiles to Go to Court.
Meeting in Boston yesterday. North
ern cotton manufacturers planned lie
gal action" against the processing tax
which Is levied on manufacturers to
get money to pay cotton planters for
curbing production. The manufac-
turers maintain the resultant higher
prices are ruinouS to the industry.
The same meeting of the Policy
Committee of the National Cotton
Manufacturers Association assailed
Wallace for "inciting the farmers of
the South and West to combine
against an industry"
Apparently striking back at attacks
on the processing tax, the A. A. A.
cited figures today to support the ar
glment that the agricultural adjust
ment program is restoring the farm
market for industrial goods. Davis
said In statement that waybills of
four Southeastern railroads showed
shipments of industrial commodities,
exclusive Of coal, from Is industrial
States of the Northeast and Midwest
to 10 Southeastern agricultural States
ianrao sn4 frnv,1 EQE dc
in the year preceding the recovery
program, to 2,920887, ,439 in the year
Immediately after its adoption. At
the same time, the statement con-
tinued, the cash income of farmers
in the Southeastern States increased
500 per cent.
Talmadge Takes Issue.
After Wallace had reiterated that
the cotton textile industry was in
difficulties in past times when there
was no processing tax, and that re-
moval of the tax would not benefit
the mills materially, Gov. Talmadge
attacked the tax in particular and
Federal spending in general.
THAT brain truster crowd in Wash
ington called us radicals" he
said, in speech at Murphy, N. c.,
and the last SpaSm we had was the
spectacle Saturday night of Secretary
Wallace speaking to farmers at Wes-
ley Memorial Church in Atlanta, where
the only farmers that ever go are
those who have Offices in big buildings.
HE said that anybody that criticized
them for killing hogs and blowing up
cotton were radicals. We people in
the South know you can't borrow
yourself out of debt, make water run
up hill and drink yourself sober"
Mass Interview Planned.
Meanwhile the textile bloc in the
House gathered statistics for presenta-
ton to the President at mass inter-
view to be held late in the week,
probably on Friday, at which between
80 and so House members are expected
to be present.