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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Zakon dopadl ma zenu, ktera
dopadla ma policistu.


Marlyn Dare, znama tez po-
de jmenem Katherine Lewis
souzena byla ma dstTedni poll
cejnf stanici z napadenf poll
cisty, Phillipa Spicer.
Tento svedcil, re konal sluz-
bu ma Calvert a Lexington uli-
cfch. Dare, jemu zcela nezna-
ma, pTisla k nemu a tfikrate
jej uderila do tvaTe.
Dare, 38leta, vysetfovana
byla dvema lekaTi, kteTi vypo-
vedeli, re mysl jej byla tax sill
ma jake silnou byla ruka .jejf.
Ku otazkam proc fackovala
policistu, odpovedela, re Sc
zmylila v policistovi, ktereho
znala pred osmi roxy a re o.
myl svdj poznala teprve kdyz
|spadl mu policejnf klobouk z
hlavy.
|Soudce ulozil il pokutu S11.45
zena penfze nemela. Sla "a
mrfze pokutu 81 odsedeti.
Marlyn Dare, jez behem pc
ii dnf sfackovala diva policisty.
zadrzena byla V pondelf, ably
vysetfen byl jeff stav dokto-
rem Nejvyssiho soudu.
zena tato podruhe zatcena
byla v pondelf, kdyz dala fac
ku policistu Mervin Barker,
ridicimu jfzdu ma Charles a
Fayette ulic1ch. We stredu mi
nuleho tydne zaplatila pokutu
$12, re dala policistu Phillipu
Spicer trifacky.
V pondeli kdyz vyslychana
byla pro druhy vypad, donna
la, re new proc tax ucinila.
= zena stotoznena jake Ma
RE Stella Hart, 36leta z Bello-
ma avenue We Woodbrook, Eat
cena byla v utery, re dala fac
ky policistovi, Charles w. Bre-
denberg.
Tento zaloval, re volan byl
z Park avenue a Saratoga uli-
ce ku kostelu sv. Alfonso, kde
poboznost prerusena byla re
nou touto. Kdyz il vedl ku po-
licejnf budce, dala mu dive
facky.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Pc oloupenf obchodnika sam
se uda1

Padesatilety muz prepaid We
stredu obchodnfka s lahndka-
mi, {. 2 w. University Park
way. Pc wet $75 z cash re-
gistru, sedl 81 a cekal ma prf-
Jed policie. Kdyz tri policis-
te S naprazenymi ~revolvery
vrazili do obchodu, muz klidne
jim rekl: "Zde jest to-, a po-
dial Jim uloupene penfze.
Ma severnf stanici udal, re
Sc jmenuje John w. Richmond
a re vnikl do obchodu, ably mel
mfsto "kde by sc najedl a W.
spal."
Do Baltimore pfijel z Vir-
ginie v pondelf. Nemel praci
a zebrati nechtel. Hledal pra-
CT We statni zamestnarne ma
darmo. To vnuklo mu myslen-
ku ma prepaid. Revolver, kite.
ry u sebe mel, nebylo mic jine-
no neil kousek dreva.
PTepadenym obchodnikem
byl Alexander Randall.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Diva hlavni krizkove zapasy
ma programu pristi tyden.

Prfstf 1tery, 9. srpna ma
kffzkovych zapasech porada-
nych v Carlins Park ucast bra
tt budou: Emil Dusek, 22O ID.
z Omahy, Neb. VS.. Paul Bosch
235 ID. z New Yorku; Cliff
Olson, 218 ID. VS.. Nike Mazur-
XII, 225 ID. Tyto zapasy URGE
ny jsou ma 1 porazku.
Nasleduj1cf 3 zapasy ktere
urceny jsou ma dobu 80 minut
aneb 1 porazku 1cinkuji:
Ed (Strangler) White VS..
Bibber Mccoy; Frank Brono-
wicz vs.. Al Martin; Bob Ma
nagoff VS.. George Kondyles.
Minute 1tery v hlavnfm "a
pase krajan Ernie Dusek pora-
I'll sveho soupeTe Hanka Bar
Der V 81 minutach. Zapas ten
to byl velice zajimavy a udr-
zoval obecenstvo We velkem
rozeilen1 Cd sveho pocatku az
do konce.
V druhem zapase Emil Du-
SEX, bratr Ernie Duska porazil
Jacka League v 20 minutach.
Vitezstvf jeho prekvapilo vet
Sinu pfitomnych, jez doufali
re Dusek porazen Dude.
Bob Managoff porazil Eve
retta Kibbonse v 20 minutach
Zapas mezi Ed Meske a Mike
Mazurkl pc 80 m%inutovem
kf1zkovan1 byl prohlasen "a
nerozhodnuty.
Bibber Mccoy zvftezil mad
Eddie Newman.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Asi marina nadsje ma americke
miliony.

V Brnu "Moravske noviny''
prinesly zpravu z Prostejova
Jak jsme oznamili, zemTel pred
Vanocemi m. r. v Americe
Macmillan Spada, ktery pc Of
ci Juliu Spadovi, jenz Sc vyste-
hoval do Ameriky v r. 1866,
zdedil 80 milion1 dolarG.
Pc smrti Maxmiliana Spady
prisla do CSR zprava o dedic-
tv1, jez representuje castku asi
los milionG Kc. Hlasl Sc asi
II dedicG, z nichz 4 jsou z Ii
tovle, 6 z Prostejova a 2 osoby
z Olomouce. Jde O bratrance
a sestrenice zemreleho.
Pokud jsme zjistili, z Proste-
jova jsou to stolar Josef Bla-
housek, soukromnice A. Ere
harova, manzelka obuvnika
Ant. Rottrova a sestra Freha-
rove. z litovelskych dedicI
jsou to bratri Ant. a Alois Spa
da, v Olomouci manzelka ma
jora S. Jmenovanf pozadali
jiz csl. konsulat, ably jejich
jmenem jednal s americkymi
1fady o vydani dedictvi.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Well, small Sc il pro jeji
kuchareni

Jednou z pTfcin, proc robin
ne patalie Sc odehravaly mezi
Jessy E. Parry a jej1m name
lem, ktery Sc smaval kuchaf-
skemu umeni manzelky sve,
bylo, Re teto povolen byl roz-
vod.
Parry svedcila, re oddana
byla "a manzela %. listopadu
1929 a re nucena byla cd neho
odejfti 3. ledna 1888 ponevac
k nj byl "kruty, nevlfdny, stale
vyhledavaj1cf chyby a posm1-
vanf Sc j."
Ke vsemu mic il medal. Ne
koupil il zadne saty. Use CO
dostavala cd neho bylo trochu
j1dla a z toho manzel 81 delal
blazny.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05

John w. Davis, 29lety z Car
ney, Md, odsouzen byl ma 80
dnf do vezenf, re vylakal pc
SIS ma pohrobn1cfch: Walter B.
Bradley a George w. Little.
zalovany pohrobnikdm hal,
re manzelka zemTela mu We
Washington, re jim sv6Ti uspo
radiant pohTbu a re ocekava
pojistenf v obnosu $500.
Oba jak Bradley tax Little
pGjcili mu pc SIS, jez slfbil "a
platiti z pojistky manzelky.
Smrt JEFF byla vylhanou.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
StTeleny policistou zemrel.

Muz, jenz byl v hadce Sc
svojf dcerou ma Milton avenue
a Fayette ulici, strelen byl v
nedeli policistou, jenz tam byl
Sc dvema jinyma straznfky.
Zranenym byl Anthony Poggi,
42lety z prvn1ho blocku N.
Wolfe ulice, jenz tr1mal v ruce
sve revolver. Strelil jej poll
cista Louis Williams. Policis-
te prichvatali ku mistu, kdyz
oznameno, re tam Poggi "a
stfeliti chce dceru svoji, 18le-
tOu Catherine. V nemOcnici
stfeleny zemrel pondelf.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Jak gumovy mic.

John Bruce, 13 mes1cG stare
cernosske d1tko je pry nejno-
vejs1m kandidatem nazvu cid
sky gumovy m1c". D1tko spa
do S okna druheho poschodi
domu, {. 1000 w. Fayette uli-
ce a narazilo hlavou ma chod-
nix. Rodice spechali S MIN do
nemocnice. Lekari shledali, re
sc John ami neskrabl.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05

V Prince George okresu mi
cena byla stodola naplnena ia
bakem We Weston. Majitelem
je Hal G.. Clagget.
Stodola byla stara $50 rokd.
Tabak, V nj ulozeny, mel cenu
S1.750. Vedle zficeniny male
zena byla pGlgalonova nado-
ba, v n1z bylo trochu petroleje.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Zachraneni z vodv.

Diva mlade parky stezf- wy
hnuly Sc utopen1, kdyz jejich
clun Sc S mimi prevrhl v Rock
rece u Fort Smallwood.
Frank A. Lovicki, hl1dac v
m1stech tech "a pomoci w.
Hovise je zachranil. Mary O.
lift, kdyz polozena ma bTeh,
byla v bezvedomf. Jeji spolec-
nicf byla 16leta Mary Pike
nitz, John a Thomas Breeder.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Automobily.

Manyon A. Cronhardt po-
dial zalobu ma odskodne V OBJ
nosu $4,000 prot Williamu
E. Bozman, ktery automobilem
svym srazil sc 80. kvetna S BIZ
cyklem, ma nemz jel syn .jeho,
Charles A. ronhardt ma Green
Spring avenue v Baltimore O.
kresu. Hoch pc srazce druhe-
no dine zemrel.
- Nora Lavelle z Pittsburgh
zabita byla automobilem ma
National Highway, asi osm mil
cd Hagerstown. Ku nestesti
doslo, kdyz vystoupila re sve-
no automobile. Automobil RI
dill John Hull z Ragerstown.
- Ctyri cernosi poraneni
byli v nedeli, kdyz automobi-
lem sym srazili sc S karou e.
lektricke kary ma moste Ham
burg ulice.
- Ma Governor Nice silnici
a Edgewood road usmrcen byl
automobilem 14lety George A.
Starr z Edgewood. Soudruh
jeho, Andrew E. Burns, tezce
zranen byl. Automobil z mis-
ia nestestf ujel. Mladfci stall
ma pokraji silnice rozdelujice
letaky pro jisty restaurant v
Aberdeen. Automobil jel sme-
rem ku Filadelfii. Jak sved-
kove udali, jel prudkosti asi
pres 70 mil v iodine. Tito u
dali cislo license automobile.
Statni polici1 nekolik hodin DO
nehode zatcen byl Henry Gu
banski, 22lety We SVEN domove
V 1000 blocku Grundy ulice.
Automobil jeho slime poskozen
byl.
= w. H. Costing, 76lety,
jenz zranen byl automobilem
%. cervence ma Washington
Boulevard, zemTel v nedeli We
zdejs1 nemocnici. Automobil
ridil Carleton w. Parks z Wa
shingtonu.
- Benjamin Jones, 83lety z
Willow ulice Baltimore okre-
SUI, zranen byl automobilem v
nedeli ma Belair road. Rame-
no bylo mt prerazeno.
- Automobil, do nehoz We
stredu vrazil jiny ma rohu
Mount a Lombard ulic, vrazil
do domu a vyryl v mem otvor
II ku Is stop. V dobe te man
zele George O'Hara hrali kar-
ty S n~avStevnic1 Marcus Corco-
ran v kuchyni domu. O'Hara
vrazil do predn1 svetnice, kde
uvftan byl svetly automobile.
Automobil r1dil Milton E.
Conner.
- Truck, ma nemz brzdy
nepracovaly, sjel S kopce ma
Gun Hill mezi Gainesville a
Relay. V trucku vezeny byly
zasoby pro tabor CCC ma Ava
Ion Station. Truck vrazil do
sloupu a prevrhl Sc. Ride,
Robert E. Caldwell poranen
byl.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Kradeze.

- Zlodeji vnikli v dobe ne
pf1tomnosti rodiny do domu
Williama J. Moran We 5000
blocku Alameda boulevard, a
wall odtud malou pokladnic-
ku, v n1z uschovany byly kle-
noty rodiny.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
UdeFil matku.

William Stanffer, 36lety,
zatcen byl v pondelf. zalova-
no nan ma zapadni stanici, re
uderil svoji IA rok1 starou
matku, Mary Stanffer v 100
blocku Scott ulice,
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Primal sazky.

Manuel Bransky, ktery vlast-
nj cukrarnu We $500 blocku
Reisterstown road, drzan jest
pod zarukou $500 pro velko-
porotu. PTijfmal sazky ma
konske dostihy.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Zranen byciklem.

Sedmdesat sedm rokI starry
Frank Kibiceza zranen byl v
utery bicyklem, ma nemz diva
hosi Sc prohaneli Latrobe
parku. Starci pTerazena byla
stehenni kost. .
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05
Cernosti policiste We sluzbs.

Pc prve v historic mesta u
stanoveni byli do policejni
sluzby tri cernosi We ctvrtek
minuleho tydne. Jeden stall Sc
detektivem, jiny v zapadnim
distriktu a tTet1 v severozapad-
MIN.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-08-05

Lewis L. Smallwood, 37lety
zastrelil Sc v sobotu v horejsi
mistnosti sveho domu We 300
blocku Yale avenue.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06

ering and permit labor to present
united front.
The secretary defended the ma
tional labor relations board and
urged employers to get rid of their
misconceptions of the Wagner act.
The Ford Motor company, ordered
by the labor relations board to re-
instate 90 discharged employees and
to cease anti-union activities, pre-
pared a legal campaign Of resist
ance, and it also spurned overtureS
from the United Automobile Work
erS of America.
From Kansas City, Homer Mar
tin, international president of the u.
A. w. A., telegraphed a request to
Harry H. Bennett, Ford personnel
director, for a conference to pro-
mote industrial peace and proper
labor relations.
IF l answered Martins telegram
which I have no intention of doing
my reply would be phooey." Ben
nett commented.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
Tax Load Is Heavy

Out of every national income dol
~ lar in 1888, the tax collector will
take 20 cents. This is the ratio which
has been regarded as the danger sig
nal.
This is the declaration of a spe-
cial committee of the United States
Chamber of Commerce which has
been studying taxation. The report
estimates that the nations tax load,
federal, state and local, this year
will reach a new all-time high of
131z billion dollars. The national in
come, it is figured by the govern
ment, viii be slightly less than the
SO billion dollar estimate for 1887.
Tax collections for 1888 on the
basis of tentative estimates made
by the committee, include billion
400 million dollars for the federal
government and billions 100 mil
lion dollars for state and local gov
erments.
Although the revenues for the fed
eral government are estimated to
reach an al-time high in 1888,
there is doubt in congress that the
budget can or will be balanced for
the fiscal year beginning next July
/, the latest goal set by President
Roosevelt.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
Convention Book OK.

a TTORNEY GENERAL HOMER
"A S. CUMMINGS said that Grim
inal prosecutions against the Demo-
cratic national committee for sell
ing souvenir convention books to
corporations would not be war;
ranted." He made this decision in
reply to Representative B. H. Smell
who complained that the committee
had violated the corrupt practices
act when it sold such books, auto
graphed by President Roosevelt, for
as high as $3.50 each and obtained
more than S40O,oOO for the party's
Golfers.
Cummings said, however, in his
letter to Smell, that the act was too
lax and that shortly he would rec
ommend to congress amendatory
legislation to make it more effective
in important particulars.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
American Dictator

TALK of the possibility of Amer
L ica'S having a dictator, such as
is heard from time to time these
days, is nothing new. One hundred
and sixty years ago there was being
circulated in this country a report
that congress had conferred upon
George Washington the powers of a
military dictator and that American
liberties were in greater danger
than they had been when the coun-
try was ruled by George III.
So alarming did the runors be-
come that John Adams issued a
statement which said: This is as
false as the other stories. Congress,
it is true, upon removing to Balti-
more, gave the general power to
raise Is battalions in addition to
those which were ordered to be
raised before, and to appoint the Of
fcers, and also 5000 horse (cavalry)
and to appoint their officers, and
also to take necessaries for his
army, at an appraised value. But
no more. Congress never thought Of
making him dictator or of giving
him sovereignty. wish could find
a correspondent who was idle
enough to attend to every report
and write it to me-"
1t is doubtful if any correspond
ent, no matter how idle, could have
attended to every such report.
There were too many Of them-all
of them set loose by British propa-
gandists to weaken the Patriot
cause by shaking the confidence of
the people in their leaders. And of
them all this one about dictator
ship was the most dangerous for it
added greatly to the difficulties
Washington was having in that cru
cial year of the Revolution.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06


ing in the main Japan's amends for
the destruction of the Panay and
three American merchant vessels.
The American note, however, re-
fused to accept Tokyo's explanation
that the bombing of the Panay was
the result of a mistake" prefer
ring to rely on the findings of the
naval board of inquiry. The report
of the board said the identity of the
Panay and the three American oil
tankers was unmistakable; that the
attack was deliberate; that the
weather was clear and the visibility
perfect; that the japanese naval
planes swooped down and released
their death charges on the ships
flying the American flags and then
fired on them with machine guns;
and that japanese river craft di-
rected machine gun fire on life boats
carrying the wounded from the
Panay and other vessels.
Under a Japanese decree estab-
fishing strict regulations for the con-
quered areas in China, Americans
and other foreigners were made SUBJ
ject to the death penalty for crimes
against the armed forces of Japan.
This seems to raise the question of
treaty rights of foreign powers in
China.
The spokesman for the japanese
embassy in Shanghai announced the
complete occupation of Tsinan, cap
ital of Shantung province.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
Your shape and Weight.

Just as no two faces in the whole
world are exactly alike so also no
two bodies are exactly alike. For
tunately, however, the different
kinds of bodies are not large in
number so that it is possible to put
them into three main types.
DR.. Joel E. Goldthwait, Boston,
in an address delivered to the Hos
pital for Joint Diseases, New York
city, some time ago, stated that
there were three types, the text
book normal or average type), the
slender type, and the stocky or
thick-set type.
The slender type has a small skel-
eton or bony frame, with flexible
Joints, small muscles and highly
organized nervous mechanism or
makeup. This type, adjusted for
quick moving as well as quick think
ing, should weigh as its normal fif-
teen to twenty pounds less than the
so-called normal.
The stocky or thick-set type has
a heavy skeleton or bones, joints
less flexible, muscles large with
coarser fibers. This type should
weigh from fifteen to twenty pounds
more than the normal or textbook
type.
l believe by studying these two
types described by DR.. Goldthwait
we can get fair idea of why some
are overweight, and others under
weight.
For instance, a small intestine
that is only ten feet long lin the
slender type) will naturally be less
able to absorb all of the food values
than one of forty feet-some justif-
cation for the individual easily
growing fat, or the one remaining
thin.
Further, 1.-The slender, quick-act.
ing individual should have a more
rapidly responsive physiological
mechanism (nerves and muscles re.
spending to impulse-acting more
quickly) than would be required for
the slower-moving heavier type
This being the case, the slender
should be expected to be able tc
iberate the energy more rapidly
and is, therefore, the hyper (more
than normaD glandular individual
In this type the basal metabolism
(rate at which the body processes
work. would be fifteen points above
the zero as its normal" ."
The slower-moving or stocky type
should have as its normal a basa
metabolism of fifteen points below
normal. Psychologists consider l0(
plus Is, or 100 minus Is as withiI
normal limits.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
Monopolists Blamed

PLAME for the business slump
IL was placed at the door of mon
opolists by Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Robert H. Jackson, and he ut
tered a warning that government
spending would be increased unless
prices are brought more in line with
consumers income.
Jackson, head of the Justice de-
partments antitrust division, said
that the impression that steep price
increases are traceable to wage
boosts resulting from the growth Of
labor unions is mot accurate-or at
the most, only half accurate" AS
an example he cited the steel in
dustry, where wages, he said, were
increased 10 per cent and prices
were tilted q per cent from De-
cember !, 1886. to March l, 1897.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
Historic
HOaXeS
g
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
g Western Newspaper Union.
One Born Every Minute
Bv ELMO SCOTT WATSON

JUST as most Americans believe
- that it was Abraham Lincoln
who first said, You can fool all the
people some of the time and some of
Of the people all of the time; but
you can't fool all the people all the
time" so are 90 per cent Of them
convinced that P. T. Barnum origi-
mated the saying that there's
sucker born every minute" The
great Snowman built fortune on
the essential truth of that state
ment but he didn't originate it.
The man who did was another IA
nous circus proprietor-Adam
Forepaugh, one of the founders of
the old Sells-Forepaugh circus. That
saying dates back to the days when
there was the bitterest rivalry
among a number Of competitors in
the circus field for John Public's
dollar.
Destruction Of each others
Sheets" (posters), hiring rowdies
to try to break up performances,
pitched battles between circus
crews and frequently bloodshed
marked that rivalry. Added to such
direct action" methods was the
custom of spreading false reports
about a competitor. So Forepaugh
thought he could injure Barnum by
circulating the story that Phineas
had once sneeringly declared,
There's a sucker born every min
ute." Such propaganda, however,
proved to be a boomerang.
The public, instead of resenting
this insinuation against its intelli-
gence. chuckled appreciatively over
the alleged remark of "Old P. T."
and declared that he had it sized
up just about right" Thereby the
public proved the truth of another
saying attributed (also wrongly to
Barnum. 1t was that the American
people like to be humbugged."
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
The Nantucket Sea Serpent

lust as regularly as the bathing
y season comes round each year,
just as certainly will there appear
newspaper reports that some bather
has been startled by the sudden ap-
pearance of "sea serpent" one Of
those fabulous monsters which hu-
man imagination has conjured up
out Of the deep for centuries.
Back in 1881 such a monster was
reported seen in Lake Erie and the
'Sandusky Sea Serpent was front
page news for several days. Then
it was revealed that it existed only
in the minds of two carnival men
who wanted to attract crowds to a
popular Ohio summer resort.
Last summer bathers in the At
lantic on the coast of Massachusetts
really saw one and the Nantucket
Sea Serpent became even more ia
nous than its Ohio relative. For it
was genuine" to this extent: it
was an inflated rubber monster, de-
signed by famous artist who is
the creator of other such figures
used by a New York department
store in its annual Thanksgiving day
parade in that city.
The appearance of the sea serpent
was exposed as a publicity stunt
by ]. J. R. Indio, a reporter for the
New Bedford CMass.) Standard.
Times, after which several of those
who were ''in on the stunt wrote
an open letter to the Nantucket In.
quirer and Mirror telling how it was
planned to publicize Nantucket is.
land first and the department store
incidentally. Nantucket was select
ed as the hoax spot because the
artist has summer home there and
the founder of the store was born or
the island in 1922
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
WheeIer's Rail Plans

GEN. BURTON K. WHEELER Of
- Montana said in Washington that
he would soon lay before President
Roosevelt a plan to stabilize" the
railroads.
Wheeler, who is chairman Of the
senate interstate commerce com
mittee which has been investigating
the railroads, said his proposals will
be based on the committees find
ings. He did not indicate what
would be proposed. but said he
would call on the President to "see
il we can't work out some construc-
tive legislation" Recently Wheeler
said it might be necessary to broad
en- the powers Of the interstate COM
merce commission so that it could
force coordination and consolda-
ton of railroads.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-06
Byrd in Battle Early

ONE of the big fights scheduled
~ for the regular session Of con-
gress is to be over the President S
reorganization bill, which aims,
among other things, at abolishlng
the office Of comptroller general,
popularity known as the watch dol"
on federal spending. This officer
is the agent of congress in seeing
that expenditures are made only In
accordance with law.
Senator Harry f. Byrd Of Vir-
ginia, one of the Democrats who in
sist on economy, projected himself
into the battle over this measure
early by issuing public statement
in which he pointed out that the new
auditor established in the measure
would report to congress only after
money had been spent and accounts
settled.
This would be like locking the
stable after the horse is stolen, Sen
ator Byrd declared.
This proposal to give the spend
ing branch of the government free
hand with upwards of $4,000, 900, 900
a year strikes viciously at the vital
elements of good government, good
business and the general welfare. I"
said the senator.
In the committee hearings" he
continued, 1.-The only complaint of
consequence against the comptroller
general was that this official at
times delayed the quick spending of
public money and compelled the de-
partment heads to show that the
funds were to be disbursed in ac-
cordance with the laws enacted by
congress. No proof, however, was
given that any expenditure was
prevented when authorized by con-
gress and made legally"