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Evening star., 1937-06-23

borrowers, and 1t would short-circuit
the johnson act by conjuring debts
into investments.
That happened once before in WASH
ington. when Eugene Field was there.
writing daily column. Victor lawson.
publisher Of the Chicago Daily News,
dropped In and suggested that Field
make some kind OF modest beginning
In paying back sundry debts, extending
over period Of years. The next day
Field had line in his column "Vio
Lawson Of Chicago was in town today,
looking after some OF his permanent
investments"
Premier Van Iceland has grown
greatly In political stature in Europe
since he defeated the Fascist boy won.
der, Leon Degrelle, who had Belgium
jittery for year or two. Many
dle-of-the-roaders consider him
the white hope Of capitalism, which
seems to be just as dead in Italy and
Germany as it is in Russia. His de-
vices Of internal adaptation are the
~ AA'o VA AAAS dbdi iOlC Va LullhCI dllu
theorist-a director of the Bank Of
Belgium and professor Of law at the
University of Louvain. While Bel
gums new deal has taken in much
less territory than ours, NJ Van Zee
land is decidedly an experimenter and
innovator and quite daring quarter.
back in his own way.
Word from Washington is that he
will feel out the ground for another
financial and economic conference
next Fall. Gold has them all wor-
ried just now and Premier Van Zee.
land has some interesting ideas on
world currency and credit stabiliza-
ton. 1t is indicated that he and the
President will talk these matters over
on their boat ride on the Potomac.
He holds both an honorary and
earned degree from Princeton having
taken his master of arts there in
1921. He is the son of a wealthy
merchant Of Soignes He doesn't like
war, having put in three years In q
German prison camp in the World
War.
(copyrisht. 1872
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suggest under exactly what circum-
stances he would be prepared to sign
a contract with this or any other labor
organization. He says that the c. I. O.
is irresponsible, and seems to imply
that there is no possible way of making
it responsible. That is not only to
admit that law is not operating at
present-which is true-but to imply
that it Is not going to operate again,
which Is to invite the continuance
Of civil warfare.
However, 1t is presumptuous to
suggest what either Of the two con-
tending parties should do in the
present impasse A bloody, destruc-
tive, costly warfare has been going
on, with the c. I. O. and its silent
partner, the Federal Government.
plus a certain number Of the steel
workers on one side; and the COM
panies, plus certain and apparently
larger number of the steel workers,
plus armed citizens and, apparently,
most of the local police, on the other
side It has been waged viciously.
The atmosphere is surcharged with
hatred.
No Suitable Agency.
The impasse occurs because there Is
no agency capable Of applying clear
law with reason and detachment and
seeing that it is enforced. The issue
comes straight back to the lawmaking
hCN,y If fhn 10 which hoe coed
law that isn't clear, provides no
machinery for objective arbitration,
establishes no code Of fair practices
for unions, provides no protection
for minorities, establishes no incon-
trovertible means Of determining
what constitutes a majority for COL
lective bargaining, and sets up no
safeguard against today's majority
establishing itself in perpetuity for
ever.
The history OF the breakdown Of
democracies is incipient in this kind
Of fight. At each extreme are aggres-
sive forces In between are the vast
majority OF a peace-loving people
who wish to see justice through law
But bit by bit they become drawn
into the melee, on one side or the
other, or become exterminated by
both sides, If there is obviously no
means Of obtaining justice through
law.
Needs Two-Edged Sword.
The Wagner labor relations act
must be modified to a form and ad-
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Inc Government instead OF paying
agreed to pay the cities for Service The little
including the work of school teacher policeman
ecor, have to be paid somebody
Recently an official from Washington made
called meetings the
bankers business and other dgntaries
names to the projects h
no longer contribute his serce The
general
Violent repercussons being along Mr. 1kes
alr-cooled corridors
What will the
One city has already done" water
Al the
scnool Public Affairs here the
mail and averaged it for two typical
The total
Congress n
by the North
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recognize or treat with or negotiate
with representatives Of the workmen,
then they are violating the Federal
law.
If the Workmen who are loyal to
the steel companies insist they are in
the majority and their representatives
should be recognized, then the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board can be
compelled to conduct an election
If the leaders Of the c. I. o. have
been issuing instructions to interrupt
the shipment of goods from plants
and have been endeavoring to tie up
plants that furnish coal and supplies
to the steel companies, they have been
violating the Federal statutes which
forbid restraints of trade"
The Mediation Board. consisting of
Messrs. Taft, Garrison and McGrady,
is a fact-flnding body. Their duty
is to expose violations of law no mat
ter where the chips may fall. Once
violations Of law have been found,
whether in tampering with the mails
or with the property of citizens in the
strike area, the duties of the Federal
and State enforcement officers become
plain.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States in unanimous opinion rem
dered by Chief Justice Taft just IL
years ago dealt with a John Lewis
union which destroyed property and
attempted to interfere with the ship
ment of coal in interstate commerce
The court said:
when the intent of those unlaw-
fully preventing the manufacture or
production is shown to be to restrain
or control the supply entering and
moving in interstate commerce, or
the price of it in interstate markets,
their action is direct violation Of the
antitrust act"
Effort to Stop Commerce.
This is the supreme law of the
land. Newspaper articles have pub
lished the intent of the c. I. o. to
paralyze interstate commerce. The
President Of the United States is
charged under the Constitution with
the obligation to see that the laws
are faithfully executed. Once law
violation is countenanced the whole
structure OF legal procedure breaks
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down and anarchy is substituted. II
the steel workers want to go back to
work and are willing to fight the
pickets, it is because they have lost
faith in the desire of Federal or State
Governments to protect them in their
right to work. The solution OF the
strike trouble is for the President to
retrace his steps and insist on the
equal enforcement of the laws against
employers and employees who may en-
gage in unlawful acts. 1t is the Roose-
welt administrations direct PARTISAN
ship in behalf Of the c. I. o. which Is
breaking down faith in the integrity
OF government itself and breeding the
confusion that begets anarchy and ul-
timately the iron hand Of fascism.
tCopyright 1879
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something which
he has no legal
right to demand,
and threatening
further terror
and bloodshed If
he doesn't get it.
And Mr.. Girdler
is taking = purely
negative position:
He is saying that
he will sign MOTH
ing with the c.
I. o.
He might be
making a real
contribution to
c&aAocn,a.,cl,in fn
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AFFECTS not only the Of the individuals but
ability
diminishing
On the other her allies especially the Danubian
quickly
all their surplus wheat cattle OIL interesting
but the sale OF countrys products
Hitler having time After having excited the
the visit of Foreign London
minister to call the trip OF.
This decision has been taken after the captain Of the
Berlin
presence a
the Valencia
because that question neekly the
foreign official
London.
n diplomatic quarters taken
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Hjalmar Schacht
Of Germany. with
the later interest
and approval Of
important British
statesmen. T h .
idea seems to b
to sell Uncle Sam
a bigger cut in
the Bank for IN
ternational s e t.
Elements. T At
W ould increase
the ba nk's lend
ing res our e $,
with more Ameri.
can money avail
oh1o for r,rNoao -
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second. He was appointed to an un-
expired term on the power commits
sion by President Roosevelt.
Associates at the commission pre-
sented the retiring commissioner with
silver and an embossed testimonial.
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Attorney General handling power
cases for the Public Works Admins
tration.
Drane entered the Sixty-fifth Con-
gress from the first district Of Florida
and served through the Seventy
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eASAA VI IllC RUE
or reason in
American affairs,
1t Is today. Mil
lions of citizens,
especially women,
will plead and
work against in
ternational war,
but they stand
by nowadays be-
" ! d cred and
seen1ingly help
less as domestic
war tears aSunder
the foundatio
Of government.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
This Changing World
Bonnet Expected to Become French Premier and to
Keep Jules Henry Here as Ambassador.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

CONSTANTINE BROWN
upto-date Ambassador France has
this left this morning for Paris It doubtful
i h as
~ tonal economy a time. He Is aiming higher
Chautemps detonae ,UH not remain
remarkable orator but outside that he has
cabinets especially the last
1885, failures NTH
formation ministry nobody else waned
job
expects Of the red possible will
possibility that he
cabinet Of
latest the Fall.
minister qualities which
essential succeed in politics He extremely shrewd and
know the uind going bow
not renqushed abassadorshp Washington
port He left Jules the youno
diplomat In charge the Embassy It's that
premier, Henry
Ambassador
for
this important post his
officials
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BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

n YEITHER Mr. Girdler nor Mr.
nj Lewis deserves commendation
for the actions they are taking
before the Mediation Board, In
one Of the most perilous situations
which this country has been in for
many years Mr.. Lewis Is asking for
Evening star., 1937-06-23
Headline Folk
and What
They Do ,
Many Consider Van
Iceland White Hope
of Capitalism.
BY LEMUEL PARTON,

n YEW YORK, June 23-Judging
nj from London and Paris news-
papers, Premier Paul van Zee
land is sort Of general Euro.
pean financial envoy as he visits the
President today. He brings plan, said
to have been suggested to him and to
former Premier Blum OF France by DR..
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He looks bdyhoo
about the symphony conductor consider
act during inemisston BeethoDens
He doesn't believe
its enforcement activities the testimony
bring to the front He
simply that could lawyer that
would bring in
Then the other hand there ophan
Somebody sold somebody a bill
Mr. Oiphant
tax expert He
Morgnthau Alexander
Hamitons job
Down Capitol Hill applause Mr. Magiu than
cheering for
One this Before
up Mr. Magl then just adviser"
committee through
Doughon and the other members They
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offense on purpose. The Leipzig in
cident is not sufficient to prevent
visit of such great international
political importance. Hitler, it Is
believed, wanted to show the Brit
ish he does not care much whether
Neurath was received with due
honors in London or not. He does
not care whether the British want
a political agreement with Ger
many. He follows an independent
policy to the best interests Of the
Reich, and thinks he is really doing
Evening star., 1937-06-23

There is sound in the vicinity
Of the offices which house the In
terror Departments housing ac-
tivities that suggests that the roof
Is coming down on somebody's ears.
There are number Of rather
sizable housing projects built with
P. w. A. money in cities through
out the country. Perhaps 80 or 40.
Many were organized under the
sponsorship OF a local housing au-
thOritv connosed of loo dino citi,op.
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this fault. He himself Is only At
years old.
Nobody envies these days the
task Of any French prime minister.
On one hand, the economic
and financial situation Of the coun-
try Is bad. Expenses are high and
the income is low. The cost Of pro-
duction has increased considerably
in the last IL months, and with it
the prices OF all commodities. This
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CHE opinions OF the 1Drtters this oun not
necessarily The Stars such opinions presented IN
all sides questions Interest to It's
readers although such opinions may contradictory AMONG
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
H. J. DRANE is RETIRED
FROM POWER BOARD
Florida Ex-Representative to Be
Succeeded by John w. Scott
of Indiana.

Herbert J. Drane Of Florida retired
last night from the Federal Power
Commission to which he was ap-
pointed four years ago after serving
eight terms in the House.
To succeed Drane, President Roose-
velt has named John w. Scott Of
Indiana, who has been an Assistant
Evening star., 1937-06-23

In the first place, Urdersecretary
Roswell Magill has indicated no
intention of walking out In the
middle Of the show: and, secondly,
1t is unlikely that the administra-
ton would let him. But sooner or
later something will have to be
done.
There are two elements in
the Treasury which don't mix.
There is Mr.. Maoill, Dho
IL Il fnr crnerf nnd HE snnnorf.
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Labor Policy
Seen Road to
Fascisrn
President Could Stop
Menace by Enforcing
Law, Observer SAYS.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

n NERVOUSNESS and apprehen-
M sion run through the whole OF
Y officialdom as the crisis pre-
cipitated by the steel strike
uakes on the character Of battle
between anarchy and law.
II ever there was a time for dis
passionate thinking and the applica-
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What's Back of It All
Magil's Resignation Held Unlikely Despite Con.
flicting Views in Treasury Department.
BY H. r. BAUKHAG

10 FAR revelations IN the tax evasion hearing not be getting
very not but revolution just out Of earsho
Alarms already saying that the Treasury
another Undersecretary for the
parted-because he disagrees with New Deal policy
This isn't likely,
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/ he condesnds
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Bilbao
Continued From First Page)

Guernlca toward Bermeo had been
freed Of Basque gunf1re. Both BASQUE
and lnsurgent reports said tanks and
alrplanes had been used In heavy
fighting.
Ihe French cruiser Empire Fertin
and the destroyer Fantasque sailed
from Brest, France, toward Bilbao tn
join the French destroyer Terrible In
cooperating in the evacuation of the
refugees.
While fiery Basque militiamen held
their net around the trapped insur-
gents at Bermeo, 16 miles northeast
OF Bilbao, second column drove
southeastward along the Durango
road, meeting the insurgent advance
and capturing important positions.
Basques Control Summit.
A slashing foray of the Durango
road column gave the Basques contro,
OF the summit of Urrumendi-"m noun
tain OF gold"- just east Of Anore-
beta and commanding the main
highway gateway into Bilbao. Anore.
beta is II miles east of Bilbao,
Basque commanders said the tsola.
ton OF the Bermeo force-completec
yesterday-would have been a "seconc
Guadalajara" if their air force had
been strong enough to take full ad.
vantage of the land success.
The encrclement drove hundreds o1
Italians Down the steep hills and into
the Bay OF Biscay, where they per.
lshed. The trap was closed by thu
Evening star., 1937-05-05
JUVENILE COURT
BILL IS ENDORSED
Senate Committee Makes II
Amendments in Taking
Favorable Action.

The House-approved bill to mod
ernize and humanize Juvenile Court
procedure was placed on the Senate
calendar today after its Endorsement
by the Senate District Committee.
After making dozen amendments
In the bill the committee late yester~
day ordered it favorably reported. The
principal changes are designed to pro-
vide additional safeguards for delin-
quent children and to restrict the
power Of the Judge of the Juvenile
Court.
The amendments were sponsored
by Senator Copeland, Democrat, of
New York. In approving these changes
the committee ignored a proposal of
Corporation Counsel ElWood H. Seal
that member Of his Office be restored
to the court staff
One Of the amendments provides
that whenever the court appoints a
social worker as commissioner to hear
a case, the appointment must be ap-
proved by the District Commission
ers.
Another change, approved on mo-
ton of Senator Overton, Democrat, Of
Louisiana. would prevent children
from being taken from parents ex-
cept as a last resort The record of
the court, under another amendment,
would be opened only to defendants,
their parents, guardians or their au-
thorized attorneys on order of the
United States District Court.
Chairman King appointed several
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La Toilette
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Der of a gang Of mine guards" ordered
to hunt down union men and bump
them off"
He told La Toilette he did not mean
to be evasiVe" and explained that since
the hearings started he had given Or
derS mot to dismiss any workers be-
cause they join union and had
stopped requiring employees to sign
yellow dog contracts" pledging them
selves never to join union.
Says Policy Changed.
He readily acknowledged he might
have hired gang of gun-thugs to
run off union organizers" until few
weeks ago, but assured the committee
he recently had abandoned his policy
Of firing all union men"
During four hours of insistent cross
examination, Bassham repeatedly
shifted his testimony and pleaded a
faulty memory.
Shortly before he took the witness
stand Bassham listened to two thin
faced, gum-cheWing mountain young
sters testify that they had seen four
OF his mine guards ambush a carload
OF union organizers, severely wounding
one of them with burst of rifle fire.
One Of Bassham's former employees,
Jasper Clouse, also told the committee
that mine guards had beaten him un-
conscious and shot his brother Lloyd
TO death on the main street of Verda,
the company town, only 10 days ago.
Report From Harlan.
In Harlan County Bert Howard.
county attorney, was quoted as saying
that Lloyd Clouse was shot only after
he himself had opened fire.
Bassham conceded that, 80 far as
l know the deputy sheriffs involved
in both shootings we're still on the pay
roll of his firm, the Harlan-Wallins
Coal Co.
He first asserted that he believed
the shooting of Lloyd Clouse was "iust
drunken quarrel" and that he had
not discussed it with any Of the depu-
ties involved.
When confronted with conflicting
testimony, however, he agreed that he
had discussed the shooting at some
length with Deputy Bill Lewis, named
by Jasper Clouse as one of the four
officers who attacked him and his
brother.
Bassham refused to comment on the
testimony of Thug" Johnson on the
grounds that II have nothing to dis
prove it."
Evening star., 1937-05-05
PRESIDENT AWAITS
FISHING WEATHER
Roosevelt Finds Winds Not
in His Favor at Port
Isabel, Tex.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GALVESTON, Tex, May 5.-Presl-
dent Roosevelt waited on the weather
man today to decide where to cast his
line next in the choppy waters of
the Gulf of Mexico.
Running down to Port Isabel, near
the Mexican border yesterday for a
change of fishing grounds, the vaca-
tioning Chief Executive found the
winds unfavorable for tarpon The
biggest catch was a catfish, less than
a foot long, by Col Edwin M. Watson,
military aide.
The yacht Potomac, with the Presi-
dent aboard, steamed out of Brazos
Santiago Pass at $40 am. today, ap-
parently returning to Aransas Pass.
After snagging IA silver kings near
the Port AranSas south jetty Monday,
the presidential party decided to seek
a little more privacy yesterday and
cruised 100 miles down the coast near
the mouth of the Rio Grande.
From shore, residents of the Port
Isabel area watched Elliott Roosevelt.
the Presidents son, and other members
OF the party fish from small boats
lowered from the Potomac They
didn't see the President, but under
stood he, too, was near the jetties in
Q dory.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
subcommittee to consider measures
pending before the committee.

subcommittee to consider measures
pending before the committee.
One of these subcommittees made
up of Senators Capper, Republican, Of
Kansas; Tydings, Democrat, Of Mary
land, and Overton, will handle two
measures providing for compulsory
mechanical inspection Of motor We
hicles. Another, composed Of Sena-
tors Hughes, Democrat, of Delaware;
Bridges, Republican, OF New Hamp-
shire, and Capper, was named to con-
slider a bill recently passed by the
House to license and regulate real
estate dealers and statesmen through
a commission appointed by the Com.
missioners.
Senator Reynolds, Democrat, O.
North Carolina was appointed chair.
man OF still another subcommittee
which will study bills to name undes.
ignated streets In the Mall area. HI
made arrangements for a hearing tht
afternoon at o'clock.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

buildings in the business section were
reported. Up to 10 am, May 4, these
advices said, the situation still was
| not under control.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
d. C. Rector Tells
Of Embarrassing
Moment in Pulpit
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press,
CHESTERTOWN, Md, May 5.-The
Rev. Howard Wilkinson, rector Of
st. Thomas Protestant Episcopal
Church, Washington, where President
Roosevelt frequently worships, yester-
day related an embarrassing moment"
in the life of clergyman.
1t took place the day after President
Roosevelt had outlined his proposal for
revamping the Supreme Court. DR..
Wilkinson told delegates to the Easton
Diocesan Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church
DR.. Wilkinson said he had chosen as
his subject for sermon The New and
the Old Unexpectedly, the President
and party entered to attend services
The clergyman said he proceeded
with his sermon. which dealt with
advocacy Of return to the "old order
OF things" from q theological stand
point.
After he had completed his sermon.
DR., Wilkinson drew the Chief Ex-
ecutive aside and assured him that il
had no political significance.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
ANARCHIST, FLARE GAINED.
Cataian-Valencia Uprising is Reported
Settled.

Cataian-Valencia Uprising is Reported
Settled.
PERPIGNAN, Franco Spanish
Frontier, May 5 P.-A government
radio broadcast from Barcelona an
nounced peaceful settlement today of
the anarchist uprising against the
Catalan and Valencia Spanish re-
gimes.
The brief, bloody rebellion Is re-
ported to have cost 100 lives and split
the forces fighting the Spanish in
surgents
The radio announcement tersely re-
ported that Juan Garcia Oliver. min
lister OF justice in the Valencia govern
ment and spokesman for the revolving
anarchists, had arrived at a peaceful
solution with President Luis Com
panys of autonomous Catalonia.
The announcement OF peace came az
two British warships, the cruiser De-
spatch and the destroyer Hostile, sped
to Barcelona as precautionary
measure" because Of the violence
there.
U. S. ASKS REVOLT DATA.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
GERMANS DENY CHARGE.

basque Statement of Guernica Attack
Typical Atrocity Tale"
BERLIN, May S (P)-An Official
spokesman reported today to new
BASQUE charges that German pilots
had bombed and machine -gunned the
sacred Basque city of Guernica with
this statement:
1T is a typical bolshevist atrocity
tale by which the Reds try to hide
their own crime-the towns destruc-
ton
Evening star., 1937-05-05
U. S. ASKS REVOLT DATA,
Consul at Barcelona Instructed Il
Follow Developments.


Follow Developments.
The anarchist revolt at Barcelona
prompted the State Department today
to instruct its consul general there to
keep this Government constantly ad-
vlsed.
The consul general, Mahlon F.
Perkins, and the captain Of the Amer
lean cruiser Raleigh, now in French
waters, were said to be keeping a
close watch on events in the Cata-
lonian capital
Latest advices to the department
We're that all Americans in that city
were safe. Officials here had no
knowledge of the exact number.
Diplomatic circles here heard that
local hostilities began in Barcelona on
the evening of May 3 when the gov
ernment attempted to take over the
telephone building.
During the night Of May and the
morning Of May 4, intermittent ma
chine gun and rifle firing from