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The Washington times., 1937-08-03

They were Attorney Generals
fancy, LIE Care, Mason and Bates;
and, in the case of Bates, PreSi.
dent Lincoln consulted him as to
the legality of a recess appoint
ment for the Supreme Court.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
MAYOR FLAYS
DRIVER STRIKE

PHIL ADELPH IA, Aug. 3
N.SD.-Angered by an outbreak
of violence in which many taxi
drivers were pulled from their
cabs and beaten, Mayor S. Davis
Wilson today declared he was pre-
pared to take drastic measures
in the city-wide drivers strike, a
walkout which virtually paralyzed
trucking here.
The sympathy strike involves
more than 5000 drivers whose
idlenesS seriously affects whole
sale food markets, where more
than 100000 worth of perishable
foodstuffs will rot unless the sit
uation is relieved at once. The
mayor said:
''If the union does not take
advantage of my offer for a
peaceful settlement propose
to take drastic action. This
situation can and will be
brought to an end today"
At the same time, Mayor Will
son instructed policemen not to
take sides in the controversy.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
PROPAGAND|ST
CURB is VOTED

The Mccormack bill, striking at
all foreign propagandists operating
in the United States, was sent to
the Senate today following passage
in the House by a unanimous vote.
Representative Mccormack Cd
of Massachusetts predicted the
measure would have far-reaching
effect if accepted by the Senate.
Under its terms, persons re-
ceiving funds from foreign agen-
cies for propaganda in this coun-
try in connection with any for
eign political movement, would be
compelled to register with the
State Department. Such registra-
ton would disclose the nature Of
their work and the identity of all
persons connected with it. Nc
Cormack said:
"The measure was proposed as
. result of the Investigation
made into subversive and un-
American movements two years
ago. 1t would compel those en-
gagged in the Nazi movement in
this country, who have cOnnec-
ton with the NaI party abroad,
either directly or indirectly, to
register. If they fail, they would
be subject to prosecution"
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
HOUSE HOLDS Up
PAY BILL ACTION
TO AVOID SPLIT
President Asks Delay
After Green Objects
By WILLIAM s. NEAL


Action on the Black wage-hour
bill was temporarily delayed by
the House Labor Committee today
at the request OF President Roose.
welt.
The delay was sought in an
effort to avert a threatened split
between House and Senate and
to meet objections Of President
William Green Of the American
Federation Of Labor to the Senate
bill.
Compromise Sought
The Labor Committee after .
brief session and over the objec-
lions of several members voted
to adjourn it's session until to-
morrow.
Meantime, Administration leg.
islative experts, representatives Of
labor and the congressional COM
mittee will seek to work out .
COLAAHLO Ik14oC "d6CAAOuA JILL
Green Makes Request
The request for delay was car
ried to the House committee by
Green himself, after the White
House was unsuccessful in an eff.
fort to contact Chairman Mary T.
Norton CD Of New Jersey by
telephone last night. Mrs. Nor
ton was en- route to Washington
for the specially called meeting.
Green disclosed in conferences
with members of the House Labor
Committee that he feared the
Black bill, as passed by the Senate.
would permit the wage-hour board
to deal heavy blows at collective
bargaining by fixing minimum
wages and maximum hours in In
dustry different from those agreed
upon by organized labor with some
employers.
Bill Hit in House
Some members Of the House
Committee assailed the bill. as
passed by the Senate, on the
ground that so many exemptions
were voted that the bill is virtually
meaningless.
Amendments designed to insure
supremacy Of collective bargaining
were drafted at Green's behest for
consideration by the House labor
Committee. called into secret ses-
sion today.
While favoring a wage-hour bill
and expressing willingness to COM
promise on many points. Green in
formed committee members the
right of collective bargaining
must be maintained.
Wood Gives Views
Modification Of the 35-hour-week
-70-cent-an,hour m n d m e n t
voted by the House committee
may be accepted by Green, in an
effort to obtain other concessions
in the bill.
Friends Of the legislation pre-
dicted passage in the House In
spite of strong opposition from
Southern and Western groups.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
BrattOn, Reed Lead
In Court Post Race
By EARL GOODWIN

he the idea of Southern Western man
for the udgeshp made Justice Van Devaner retire
the Supreme Court President Roosevelt has his eye
Federal Judge Sam g. Braon of the Federal Circuit Court
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
FUNDS AID MORE
A|L|NG CHILDREN

Donations totaling $113 came In
the mail today to send two more
youngsters to the tuberculosis AS
sociation's health camp at Bald
Eagle Hill for the balance Of the
camp period.
The money is sufficient to send
the 114th and 115th children to
the camp. to enjoy the benefits
of life in the open, good food and
rest for the balance of the sum-
mer, and leaves $27.48 toward
sending the next ailing youngster
on the list to the camp.
The camp will remain open for
the next five weeks, Mrs. Ernest
Grant, director of the association,
announced today, and those who
wish to aid may send contribu-
lions to the association, or tele-
phone National 4748.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03

~
Judge Bratton, better known in
this city as former Senator from
New Mexico, is in the same cate
CORY as Stanley Reed, Solicitor
General of the Department Of
Justice, who halls from Kentucky
and can be credited geographically
and politically to the South.
The President is represented as
wanting to select a justice from
the West or South; because there
are already four justices on the
highest bench from the EaSt-and
three of them are from New York.
Given Wide Range
It is not generally known, but
President Roosevelt was glad to
get from Attorney General Cum
mings an opinion as to the legal
ity Of recess appointments Of SUI
preme Court justices, because he
has now a wide range Of author
ity and does not have to be tied
down to making a nomination at
any special time.
The President is glad to
learn that there is legal and his
torical precedent for making a
nomination whenever the Senate
is in SeSSion-or making a recess
appointment" if the Senate is not
in session.
When a recess appointment Is
made the appointee goes right to
the job-which is good until the
end of the next session Of the
Senate, inaSmuch as the ConSti-
tuition provides that when the
Senate is in recess:
"The President shall have
power to fill up all vacancies
that may happen during the re-
cess of the Senate by granting
commissions which shall expire
at the end of their next session."
The appointment of Supreme
Court justice in a recess of the
Senate is by no means unique.
Supreme Court officials state that
nine or 10 justices have been ap-
pointed under recess conditions.
Opinion of Writ
The opinion from Attorney
General Cummings, which the
President is so glad to receive be-
cause it gives him unlimited time
to look over the narrowing field,
is said to be based on the original
opinion of Attorney General Writ
in 1928 in which the matter of a
recess appointment was decided
on the Attorney Generals interpre-
tation of the phrase in the Con-
Stitution Quilted above) par
ticularly the word happen" The
opinion said:
eff we interpret the word
happen to be merely equivalent
to happen to exist las 1 think
we may legitimately dO) then
all vacancies which, from any
casualty happen to exist at a
time when the Senate cannot
be consulted as to filling them
may be temporarily filled by the
President and the whole pur-
pose of the Constitution is COM
pIeteIy accomplished"
Four subsequent Attorneys Gen
eral acquiesced in this opinion
based on the meaning of word.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
VOTE IN SENATE
ON HOUSING BILL
TODAY
Few Amendments
Yet to Be Debated

1.N.S0.-Only a few controver:
Sial amendments remained to be
considered today before the Sen
ate votes on the Wagner 100000
low-cost housing bill.
The principal amendments were
offered by Senator Walsh CD OF
Massachusetts, They would:
Guarantee the program be de-
voted to slum clearance as well
as to low-cost housing, admit per-
sons to the program with income
under three times the rent, instead
Of five as provided in the bill, and
set interest rates on loans to limit
dividend corporations to AZ per
cent, the rate the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation is now charg-
ing.
An amendment by Senator
Austin (RO Of Vermont, would
give the United States Comptroller
General authority to audit allot-
mentS before they are turned over
to the proposed United States
Housing Authority. This amend.
ment is backed by a bipartisan
group which includes Senator
George CD of Georgia. George
termed the provisions Of the bill
pertaining to rural low-coSt hous.
ing a fraud" He complained the
bill is designed for large industrial
centers only.
During a bittle verbal clash with
George, Senator Wagner CD of
New York, asserted the program
is nationwide, and there is no
preference between cities AMI
rural districts" Wagner said that
in addition to its principal bene-
fits the program will "re-employ
over 100000 workers in the build
ing trades"
The Washington times., 1937-08-03

NOW M b1um, CIl6 recently re-
tired Premier, has let it slip that
Europe was within an inch of it's
worst war during this last year.
He told his Socialist party mem
bers at MarseilleS:
People will realize how mar.
rOwly they escaped war when
the archives Of the period are
published"
DANGER PERIOD STRESSED
Solemnly, the walrus-mustached
ex-Premier warned that the con-
tinent is on the threshold Of newer
and graver dangers. He said:
II realize we are now entering
q still more dangerous zone in
international politics.
ut is essential to preserve
Frances vital interests, and to
maintain her historic role as a
great nation and as q patron of
European demOcracieS.
Everything must also be done
to avoid war;"
INTERNATIONAL CONTROL
Blum frankly admitted that he
Is apprehenSiVe about Frances
suspension of international con-
troll along her Spanish border,
which almost all observers agree
may be followed soon by lifting of
other restrictions which will per-
nit the free flow of war materials
into Republican Spain.
He agreed that suspension of
control was necessary. But he en-
phaSized his firm disagreement
with the bold dangerous thesis of
making war in order to prevent
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
SUPREME COURT
POST MENACES.
AUGUST RECESS
Congress Split Over
Procedure
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
Already confronted by squabbles
over pending legislation, Congress
today faced a new adjournment
obstacle in a Senate row over
the right Of President Roosevelt
to name a Supreme Court justice
after Congress goes home. The
vacancy was caused by the re-
tirement Of Justice william Van
Devanter.
An informal opinion by
Attorney General Cummings that
the President could name new
justice during the recess OF
Congress provoked widespread de-
nunciation on Capitol Hill.
Senator Vandenberg CR) OF
Michigan, sponsored a resolution
which would declare it is in the
sense Of the Senate that the
President shall fill the vacancy
during the current session.
Authority Denied
Representative Hatton Summers
Cd of Texas, veteran chairman
of the House Judiciary Com
mittee, declared the President
was without constitutional
authority to name a successor to
Van Devanter during the recess:
He said the President would
have to name Van DeVanter S
successor before Congress ad-
iourned or wait until it re-
convened in January.
The Vandenberg resolution split
Democratic ranks. Senator Con-
nally CD Of Texas, denounced IL
as an invasion of the Presidents
prerogatives." Senator Burke CD
of Nebraska, concurred in Vanden-
bere's contention that the ConSt1-
tuition required the President to
fill the vacancy while Congress Is
in session.
Administration leaders feared
consideration of the resolution
would provoke a lengthy and
party-shattering debate.
Two Clauses Cited
There were hints from Admins
trative quarters that the President
might not follow Cummings ad-
vice and fill the vacancy before
Congress quits.
The whole controversy revolved
around two clauses in the Consti-
tuition. One gives the President
power to nominate, and by and
with the advice and consent Of
the Senate, to appoint" Su-
preme Court justices. The other
gives the President power to fill
up all vacancies that may happen
during the recess of the Senate,
by granting commissions which
shall expire at the end of their
next session."
There was no argument over
the President filling vacancies
that "happen" during recess. It
was protested, though, that he
had no power to make any tenn
porary appointment to a post
made vacant while the Senate was
in session.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
DEBATE SLATED
ON SUGAR BILL

The Jones sugar bill, which
has caused a bitter dispute be-
tween three Cabinet officers and
the congressional sugar bloc,"
will be called up in the House
for debate on Thursday, Chair
man O'Connor CD of New York
of the rules committee, predicted
today.
The issue-restrictions on. re-
filming of sugar in Hawaii and
Puerto Rico-thus would be
fought out on the floor Of both
House and Senate.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
Tan1many ':FaAs in Line"
Behind Ne1U Leader

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 Q.N.S0.
With wounds from internal strife
apparently healed, the Braves Of
Tammany Hall today lined up be-
hind their new leader, Representa-
tive Christopher D. Sullivan, and
pushed their mayorality drive for
U. S. Senator Royal S. Copeland.
Sullivan, 66-year-old very
boss, was elected unanimously.
Asked if he planned to resign his
seat in Congress, he replied:
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
CUSTER OF NLRB
URGED AT meet

LOWELL, Mass, Aug. 3 Q.N.S).
The fifty-second annual Massachu-
sets Federation of Labor conven-
ton today considered a resolution
demanding removal of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board on
charges it was dictated to, con-
trolled, and supervised by John l..
Lewis and his C. I. o.
One high official of the fedora.
ton predicted the resolution would
be either drastically revised or
killed.
The resolution would bring to
the convention floor proof" that
Lewis and the C. I. o. appointed
an examiner of the National Rela-
lions Board in connection with a
Massachusetts, case, from which a
shoe-workers union withdrew after
charging prejudice and bias.
The resolution asked organiza-
ton of a new board that will rep
resent America and American
ideals"
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
Van OrsdeI Still
Is Critically iii

GREAT HARRINGTON, Mass,
Aug. 3 Q.N.SO.-Josiah Alexander
Van Orsdel, 76, associate justice of
the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals, was critically i'll today at
the Cabin-in-the-Pines, summer
home Of Mrs. Margaret Zimmele,
Washington. Mrs. Zimmele said
the jurist suffered a general physi-
cal breakdown.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
mot for the present. I'd miss
that Chack

wv Tue VIC PA OSOAAV' u AAHSS
that check"
He plans to commute between
New York and Washington, taking
the midnight train to the Capital
when important legislation comes
up, and flying back.
A politician of the old school,
"Christy" is known as somewhat
of a sphinx. Politicians here and
in Washington cannot remember
when he ever made a speech. He
succeeds the late James ]. Dooling
as leader of the Hall.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03

some future war. Growth Of this
thesis in liberal circles of England
and France since the days of the
Abyssinian war, has been one Of
the political phenomena of this
decade, he said.
The Washington times., 1937-08-03
France Reduces
Discount Rate

PARIS, Aug. 8 G.N.S0-The
bank discount rate today was re-
duced to 4 per cent from five,
where it has stood since the recent
financial crisis.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Tomorrow, Lynch will face
Howard, Latona will meet the
winner Of the Farrin- Goeltx
match, and Contreras will play
either Breese or Stocklinski.
Pro Matches Here Offer Golf
Duffer Chance to Get Pointers

good players in action, and incidentally
to spread around 4 little flrst-class
competition.
I'VE don't mind people asking US
questions or getting up close to see
the Shots" says Cox.
Washington golfers have turned out
for the matches, too. They had 400
or 500 people watching them three
weeks ago at Manor, and several hum
dred more at Columbia a week ago last
Sunday, and they'll probably pull an
other couple of hundred out at Indian
Spring next Sunday. While none of
the boys have held the national open
championship, and probably won't,
they are darned good golfers, in every
sense of the word.
Roland Mackenzie and Cliff Spencer
are two Of the longest hitters In the
game; Cox is one OF the ranking golf
ers Of the land; Treder, Shorey and
Diffenbaugh are two Of the finest chip
pers and putters you'll find anywhere,
and Leo Walper and Bob Barnett don't t
need an encomiums. The game they
play speaks for itself.
Those Sunday matches have gone q
long way to boost public interest in
the game, and at the same time give
John O. Public gander at some good
golfers doing their stun, without get.
ting showed around By gallery mar
shaN.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Too Many Waggles Ruin Golf
Scores, hjure Game for Pro
And Duffer Alike, Says Jones
FEW days ago We plaved twc

FEW days ago We played two
n rounds Of golf with a young
~ fellow by the name Of Robert
4 A T. Jones. In the course of
this double march over the famous
wind-swept national links, we stepped
into a golf lesson that not only the
average golfers-the 81 per cent
but also most Of the pros could profit
BY
The main part of this lesson had
little to do with grip or stance, pivot
Ing or foot action. The main part
was the manner in which Jones
stepped up to his ball on every shot,
placed the head of his club behind it.,
and then started his smooth. flowing
swing without waggle or any other
preliminary motion
Here was the answer to the golfers
curse-tension-and to the games
curse-waste Of time.
In this respect many OF the leading
or well-known pros are as bad as any
duffer They wiggle and waggle-
walk back and forth-and finally turn
the game into cross between q
nightmare and St. Vitus dance.
In one of the recent big tourna-
ments I saw one of the best known
pros in the country, one of the lead
ing winners, leave wide open gap OF
40 minutes or six open holes between
himself and the pair ahead That is
the type Of golf that should be
stopped.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Motion and Tension.

IN following Bob Jones around the
course. several members OF the
gallery complained that he played
with so much speed they couldn't see
what he did.
Bob always has been full of ten
sion. He has the temperament more
fitted to foot ball, base ball or ten
mis- than to golf. Knowing that mo-
tion Is the enemy Of tension, the best
cure for this poison, he has forced
himself to eliminate "the fixed post"
position over the ball force where
tension gathers. and control.
Once he has taken his stance you
see the clubhead start back as smooth
ly as light breeze-no hurry-no
rush-no sudden jerk.
Against this you see most golfers
get set over the ball-you see their
feet planted-you see their legs and
body begin to stiffen-and there they
stand wiggling and waggling until
suddenly the clubhead pops back like
something shot from Navy gun.
BY the time the average golfer starts
his backswing he hasn't a chance to
do any swinging. He Is tied up in
so many knots that four sailors
couldn't get him out.
His legs are locked-his body is
locked-his wrists are locked. All
that can happen later is q semi con-
vulsion.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

n YEVER will a better chance be
nj given any perspiring duffer to
observe the comparative styles
4 Of . bunch of good golfers
than those little pro matches now 60
ing on at the local clubs, with the
third edition Of the series scheduled
for Indian Spring Sunday afternoon
1t 2:40 and 2:45.
Witty Cox had great thought when
he called the lads together four weeks
ago at Kenwood and organized a series
of pro team matches that will run
through part of September, with inter-
vals out for tournaments. As the
matches now stand WIFI himself is the
top scorer, with an average of II, and
the guy who has grabbed most of the
dough.
At any open championship. or at a
major tournament of any kind there
are too many gallery marshals getting
In the hair of your casual golf bug to
get close look at the players on all
their shots. But 1t isn't 50 in these
little Sunday matches. You can stand
a. close as you want and see all details
OF grip. stance and swing.
"Just give US room. to swing" says
wny.
The main idea Of the whole thing Is
70 promote public interest In the game
o6 golf, to get people out to see eight
Evening star., 1937-08-05

Balestri Of Beaver Dam, both had net
6Ss, but got no slice of the prizes
because Of the small entry. Only q
dozen turned out for the tournament
and none Of the pros competed.
Bobby Brownell, the District champ,
scored 76, but Bob only had a four
handicap, giving him net of 72,
R1LL HARDY'S well-earned repu-
tation as a maker of fine golf
clubs, Is spreading. Such well-known
pros as TED Turner and George Smith
have placed orders with Bill for
wooden clubs. The Hardy man, who
works in the Chevy Chase golf shop
is one of the last survivors of the old
school of club-makers, a group Of
men who were and are fine workmen.
Most of the clubs NOWADAYS are
turned out by machinery with a few
hand touches added.
EO WALPER, the new Middle
Atlantic P. G. A. champion, plans
to play in the Lake Placid and Glens
Fails open tournaments, to be staged
the latter part of this month. The
Lake Placid affair. for a purse Of
3 grand, will be played August 20. 2l
and %, while the Glens Falls tourney.
for $1,000, will be held August n, %
and 20. The Hershey open comes of
week after the Glens Falls open, and
several Of the local pros plan to play.
The Maryland State Golf Associa.
ton today announced an amateur
pro tourney, next Wednesday at Five
Farms, in addition to the regularly
scheduled amateur affair. Following
the tourney, the pros and newspaper
men will get together for a gab-fest
at dinner at the Roland Park club
house.
Evening star., 1937-08-05

decide upon the line and the speed of
the greenland then try to stroke 1t
correctly. If the putt doesn't drop I
can't help it. That's the way Horton
Smith puts, and, to my mind, he is
the finest all-around putter, long and
short, that I ever have seem
Jones. Sarazen, Cooper Fast.
GENE SARAzEN agrees in every
detail with Bobby Jones. Gene
says: Il can't see these fellows who
fume and fuddle and worry over every
shot-especially every putt. On my
way to the ball I decide on the line,
the speed of the green-then I concen-
trate on smooth stroke and let ma
ture take its coursce. Sometimes they
drop-sometimes they don't-but they
drop oftener the less you worry or fret
about too many things. The less time
you take in golf, the less you tighten
up. And that's the greatest curse in
golf for every one The longer you
stand over the ball the tougher Job
you have. Golf isn't an easy game, but
1t isn't nearly so hard as most golfers
make it. BY the time they are ready to
start a swing they haven't a chance
to swing"
1t might be noted here that three of
the fastest golfers, outside Of George
Duncan, ever saw we're Bobby Jones'
Gene Sarazen and Harry Cooper. And
they've all done a fair job.
(Copyrieht, 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-08-05
RAYMOND CAPTURES
PLAYGROUND MEET

0UTSCOR1NG its nearest competi-
tor by better than 2 to /, Ray
mond Fairgrounds track team cap
tured the public recreation sectional
meet held yesterday in the Roosevelt
Stadium
The Raymond thin-clads ran up a
total of 120 points, Park View being
next in line with 58
Hamilton and Barnard had a spirit
ed scrap for third place, which went
to the latter by 2 points. Roosevelt
and Twin Oaks brought up the rear
with Is points apiece
Two more sectional meets were to be
held today, at Central Stadium for
the Johnson Powell area and at Dun
bar for the Dunbar recreation area.