Evening star., 1937-11-01

1t saves time, money and mental wear
and tear for all concerned.
AZ
BY the will of the late Ogden L. Mills.
former Secretary of the Treasury, lust
filed for probate in New York, 5000, 900
is left to Harvard College, 100000 to the
New York Home for Incurables, 100000
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
s25,000 apiece to the New York Charity
Organization Society and the National
Cathedral at Washington. Mrs. Mills
receives the residuary estate, except
$4,000 and $4,000 annuities to former
wards of the deceased Mills office en-
ployes in Wall Street are bequeathed
sums ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 each.
Annuities of 81 200 are given to Mr.. Mills
butler and chauffeur, $4,000 to his gar
dener and $2,500 each to domestic
servants in his employ for at least seven
years. Everything 'else, including the
Long Island estate. the Fifth avenue
mansion and the testators holdings in
the New York Herald Tribune, goes to
the widow. The Mills lawyers say they
cannot estimate the exact value of the
estate, which runs into millions.
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One phase of my Son Jimmie"
RooSevelt's appointment as liaison
officer between the White House and 18
independent Federal agencies, which is
likely to be the target of torrid con-
gressional attack, is the allegation that
the appointment is the latest form of
Executive "encroachment" and "usurpa-
tion."> 1t will be contended that the
Interstate Commerce Commission, Fed
eral Trade Commission, Securities and
Exchange Commission, Social Security
Board and other agencies which must
now approach the throne cap in hand
through the crown prince, were created
by acts of Congress and endowed with
supposedly sovereign administrative and
quasi-judicial powers. How these are
going to fare under the new son-to-
father dispensation is a matter on which
opinion differs and bitter doubts pre-
vail.
Viscount Cecil of ChelWood, better
known throughout Europe as Bob"
Cecil, may hit Washington 10 days hence
as the Presidents White House guest
at psychological moment, if Brussels
meantime sprouts anything Savoring of
economic sanctions against Japan. AS
minister of blockade in Britain's war
time government, the lanky, stoop-'
shouldered, scholarly third son of the
late Marquis of Salisbury became a
world figure and outstanding authority
in the field of trade embargoes. An
ardent war-maker while the fray was
on, Lord Robert Cecil is today an aggres-
sive apostle of peace. 1t was mainly due
to his leadership of the British League
of Nations Union two years ago that the
country voted overwhelmingly by plebi-
scite in favor of John Bulls whole
hearted adhesion to Geneva and it's
program for collective action against
international lawlessness of the Italo-
German-Japanese brand.
There arrived in Washington last week
letter from Shanghai merchant, who
Is ChiEa's greatest exporter Of furs. He
writes that while the war has ruined
business everywhere in China, prince
and pauper, capitalist and coolie, are
grimly united in the national resolve to
fight Japan, no matter what the cost or
end may be.
President Roosevelt is a resident of
New York City as we'll as upstate
Dutchess County. Having migrated to
the Hudson until after tomorrows elec-
tions, = Capital wag wonders whether