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of politics choose personal friends
and political supporters to oc-
cupy the stuffed shirt chairman
ship with all its attendant pub
licity and kudos. Mabel Board
man remains secretary.
&&k
This year her friends are put.
ting in q tDord for her NTH Pres
ident Roosevelt and hoping that
F. D. R., tUho has chosen so
many womer for high place,
will name Miss BoGrdmGn to
succeed the late Admiral Cary
GraySon as Red Cross chairman.
In appearance Miss Board
man resembles the Queen
Mother of England-So much
so that the present Duke OF
Windsor said upon eSpytng her
at White House reception a
decade ago, my God. there's
mama"
Miss Bodrdmdn is also q
founder and present president
of the exclusive SulgrGve Club
for ,Domen, corresponding to
Ne,D York's Colony Club, where
only the best people may inter-
tain.
A lady recently admitted to
Sulgrave membership was duly
grateful, and upon reading the
club rules, somewhat amused to
find that one stated firmly and
morally:
mo room in the Sulgrave
Club shall be used for COM
mercial purposes"
~
The Uhole German embassy
celebrated "G1schluss" Saturday
at I p. m. 10tth a family party
of the staff from Ambassador
Dieckhott on dotDn to the jGni.
tor, 1Dho Is, BY the 1D1y, q Ger
man too, coming from BGvartG.
All gathered in the drawtng
room OF the ancient red-brtck
embassy to hear His Ercellency,
the ambassador, make a speech
on the historic importance of
the day to all Germans. Finale
UnS a toast to Der Fnehrer In
which all Joined. Then a holt.
day for all 1DGS declared. By
3 p. m. a 1Uedry Dotce replied to
telephone inquiries to the en-.
bGSSy that no one DouId be
available in the embassy until
Monday morning.
*
The great McNutt canape.
caviar-and-cocktailS soire is
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Bankers Group
Asks Capital Data

NEW YORK, March IA GNSO.
Investment Bankers Conference,
Inc, has sent a QUESTIONABLE to
more than 5000 companies
throughout the country in an ef-
fort to determine forces now af-
fecting capital markets.
This survey is directed mainly
at small businesses and it will at
tempt to get facts behind the pres
ent recession with emphasis on
methods leading to rehabilitation
OF the long term capital market,
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ended but the anecdotes linger
on.
1t seems that a scornful young
gentleman attacked the pretense
that one came to this affair by
invitation only and charged that
any one could get in who might
be deemed to have a vote to
cast for McNutt in 1910. "Don-
aid Duck could crash that
party" averred the scoffer, who
promptly bet on his convictions.
And so, as the reception
waxed and the throngs filed by
to shake the hand that seeks
to rule the nation, the major
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newspaper syndicate form.
stenographic transcripts of 16
carefully selected press confer.
ences between March 8, 1888, and
December 29, 1886, were made
available to the washington press
corps in advance of publication of
excerpts therefrom by a magazine.
Mr.. Roosevelt's net profits from
his magazine and newspaper
syndication will go to an as yet
unnamed charity, the White House
has indicated.
Primarily, the 16 transcripts
give an interesting insight on q
president at work, and emphasize
the single-mindedness with which
he has fought for all major New
Deal objectives.
Ten single-spaced pages alone
are devoted to the historic press
conference Of May 81, 1884, when
President Roosevelt "deplored" the
"horse-and-buggy Interpretation of
interstate commerce" by the Su-
preme Court in the NRA annul-
lment decision. The Presidents
remarks, which ran steadily for
two hours that day and wore re-
portorial hands down to the wrist,
were reported in full at the time
but it now becomes possible to
put in direct quotes his assertion
that:
"A constitutional amendment
has got to come in the final
analysis"
Thus was spread on the record
a verbatim account of Mr.. Roose-
velt's first statement in the cam
paign he later was to launch-un-
successfully - to reorganize the
Supreme Court. 1T is a national
ISSUE" he said.
The voluminous stenographic
notes in question-and-answer form,
some of them "off the record" up
to now, portray man who wants
action-and gets it when humanity
possible. They show President
Roosevelt as a man Of high good
humor-albeit capable of biting
irony in adroit phrases when dis
cussing his adversaries-and pos
sessing an amazing knowledge of
the minute details of government
from the days Of the founding
fathers up.
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President Asks Legal Curb
On Timber Land Ravagit1g

QN.S.i In an unexpected
special message to Congress, Presi.
dent Roosevelt today called atten,
tion to the forest land problem
and recommended appointment OF
a joint committee to draft legisla.
ton for enactment in 1899.
The public has certain re-
sponSibllities and obligations
with respect to private forest
lands" the President advised
Congress, but so also have
private owners with respect to
the broad public interests in
those same lands.
SPECIAL STUDY NEEDED
Particular considera ton
might therefore be given in
these studies. which I hope will
form the basis for essential legis-
lation during the next session
of Congress to the situation
with respect to private forest
lands"
Four.f1fths Of Americas fores,
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Short Change
N. Y. Man Sentenced
In 22-Cent FGyp'

ROCKVILLE, Md, March IA.
Dapper Charles Edwards, so, of
Brooklyn, said by police to have
a record in four States as short
change artist" was given his
choice of paying a $525 fine or
serving six months on the Mont
gomery county roads, in Rockville
police court today.
Edwards appeared before Judge
Harold C. Smith on a charge of
shortchanged a Sanitary Grocery
clerk last Wednesday. He is
alleged to have ordered cake Of
yeast costing 3 cents, showing the
clerk a quarter, but instead giving
him a nickel. The clerk returned
him % cents.
Police said Edward served time
in California, Georgia, Connect
cut and New Jersey on similar
charges.
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Mrs. Duck and Welcomed her,
held out his hand to her escort
and said, "Mr. Duck it's grand
to see you"
The gentleman collected his
bet.
Sparkling Mrs. Josephine Fos.
ter Black, toite of the Supreme
Court Justice, is from Tennessee
and Is a niece of former Gover'
nor Patterson of her native
State. This makes her quite
some pumpkin in the TVA
State and led one of her Ten.
1,eSsee Gunts to feel that it UGS
quite out of order for her to
marry an obscure young IGUyer
named Hugo Black.
For years this aunt intro
duced Mrs. Black as "the niece
of Gouernor Patterson" and not
euen after Black entered the
United States Senate did she
alter the Introduction. The
aunt died recently-before the
Senator's eleUGtion to the Su.
preme Court. Mrs. Black thinks
no1-bnt she can't be sure
that her aunt might haze been
milling to introduce her as the
Dite OF Supreme Court Justice
Black instead of as Governor
PGtterSon's niece.
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AIRCRAFT EARNINGS UP

HARTFORD, Conn.,, March IA
N.S0.-United Aircraft Corpor.
alton and its subsidiaries today
reported earnings Of $3,S56,272
for 1887, equivalent OF $1.52 per
share of stock. This compared
with $1,926,442 for 1885, amount
ing to 76 cents a share. The an
nual stockholders meeting will be
held here March %.
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Rail Probe
Called by
President

GN.S) President Roosevelt
will tackle the tangled railroad
financial problem in White
House conference tomorrow al
which he will assemble congres
sional leaders, interested govern
ment officials and representatives
of finance, management and
labor.
Secretary to the President
Marvin H. Mcintyre, in announc'
ing that the conference would be
held tomorrow at noon, said it
would be a policy discussion go,
ing into the broad aspects of the
railroad problem.
CONFEREES INVITED
Invitations to the conference
were sent out some time ago by
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chairman Walter M. w. Splawn
at Mr.. Roosevelt'S request. A
definite date was not fixed, how,
ever, pending the 1CC decision
in the railroads petition for a
freight rate increase.
Those who will meet with the
President include Senator Burton
K. Wheeler CD Of Montana,
chairman of the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee; Senator
Harry S. Truman Cd of Mis-
souri,, ranking member Of the spe,
cial Railroad Finance Committee;
Representative Clarence F. Lea
CD Of California, chairman OF
the House Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee: ICC Com
missioners Splawn, Joseph B. East
man and Charles D. Mahaftiei
RFC Chairman Jesse Jones
Assistant Secretary of Commerc'
Ernest Draper; SEC Chairman
William o. Douglas; w. w. Alex
ander, head of the Farm Security
Administration; George H. Harri
son, head of the Association o1
Railway Labor Executives; Car.
R. Gray, vice chairman Of the
board Of the Union Pacific, and
Henry Bruere, president of the
Bowery Savings Bank, Of New
York city.
CONCERNED OVER LINES
President Roosevelt long has beer
concerned over the financial con
dition OF the roads. Over-capital
ization, useless competition ano
many other factors enter into the
picture. He has stated that only
as a last resort would the carriers
be taken over by the Government
It was not known whether the
Chief Executive contemplated any
legislation at this session. He has
stated, however, that he has nc
further major recommendations
to make to this Congress.
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his principles
but his choice
of menus gave
h er a severe
h e a d a C h e.
The great con-
stitutionalist's
idea of a nice
snack b e fore
a hard day on
the S e n a t e
floor:
Six slices Of
u n d e r d one
bacon, a sliced
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PROBE OF iva
EXPECTED after
NORRIS DEMAND
Nebraskan to Offer Bill
For Inquiry

G.N.SO A far-flung investigation
of the IVA by a special Senate
committee of five became virtual
ly assured today when Senator
George w. Norris Cd of Nebraska
announced he would sponsor such
a resolution.
Norris, the Father of IVA" has
hitherto contended that any in
vestigation should be conducted
by the Federal Trade Commission.
InVe estiga t IN of the
Tennessee Valley Authority from
A to z" was advocated today by
Senator George L. Berry CD of
Tennessee, in a defense of claims
by him and others for alleged dam
ages to their marble lands in the
IVA flooded area.
Berry made public a letter he
sent to Senator George w. Norris
1) of Nebraska, father of the
TVA," charging the IVA had re-
sorted to "cruel procedure" in
dealing with citizens who owned
marble lands.
NO CONDEMNATION
"The Tennessee Valley Au-
thority," Berry said, developed
the Norris dam and built it
without consultation or con.
demnation proceedings being
brought against by associates
and self"
No specific amount of idem-
nifty for alleged marble land
damages ever has been pre-
sented by Berry and his group,
he said. All they asked was a
settlement, he said. Prior to the
flooding, marble actually was
sold to fabricators at Knoxville,
Tenn, according to the Senator.
Attempts have been made by
IVA ito cover up their failures
by attempting to develop a great
and in this mystery they
make the effort to desmirch the
record and the character of the
gentlemen associated with me by
the injection Of the claim Of bad
faith and an attempt to defraud." I"
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d o m o a n
nounced that
"Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Duck"
h a d arrived.
T he micro
phones echo
ed the name,
the h a n d.
6 m e silver
haired Hoo
Sier BIO W e d
fr o m tn e
waist, shook
hands with
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tor, thinks Of Tea for vitality.
"When me and the Morrissey set
SAIL" he says, ''you can bet your
boots there's enough Tea slowed
aboard to see all hands through.
After a gruelirg trek over the ice
fields, a spot Of Tea hoists up my
vitality keeps me fit. And good
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NAVAL PROGRAM.
URGED AS BEST.
FOR PEACE.
u. S. Can Quarantine
Self, vinson Says
BY ROBERT HUMPHREYS

UN.S.O The billion-dollar nava,
expansion program was pictured
to the House today as enabling
this nation to quarantine" itseli
from the wars of strife-torn Eu
rope and Asia.
Taking for his text President
Roosevelt's famed Chicago "quar
antine" speech, Chairman Vinsor
of the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee opened congressional de
bate on the huge expansion bill
by giving that much-diScussed ad
dress a new Interpretation.
QUARANTINE SELVES"
1--WE propose" he said, ito
quarantine ourselves from catch
ing the grievous disease Of war
and by that method not become
involved in any alien quarrels.
In other words, we apply the
quarantine to ourselves"
Debate in the lower chamber
scheduled to last a week, promised
a complete airing Of the interna'
tional situation and this Govern
ments relations with other powers
Oddly enough, 1t conceded with
mobilization of the fleet in San
Diego today for the 1888 war
games in the Pacific.
SEES QUICK PASSAGE
Speaker Bankhead, while term
ing rearmament "regrettable, u
fatty predicted quick House ap
proval Of the expansion measure
with votes to spare"
1.-THE bill will be passed by the
House by a substantial majority
and without any changes Of con-
sequence" he declared. II be-
lieve most Democratic and Re
publican members alike are con-
vinced that if this country Is to
maintain peace, we must match
the naval building Of the other
powers"
46 MORE SHIPS
Calling for a horizontal increase
Of 20 per cent over treaty limits
in the authorized strength Of the
Navy, the measure would provide
for the construction Of 46 add
tional fighting craft, including
three new battleships; % auxiliary
vessels; $50 more planes; a $4,000,
900 dirigible to replace the de
commissioned Los Angeles; and
necessary overhauling and mod
ernization Of all Navy Yards re
quired for the increased building
A coalition Of Democrats, Farm
Laborites, Progressives and a hand
full Of Republicans mapped plans
to fight the bill to the bitter end
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"Man alive,
I've lived on
good hot Tea
and hard tack
in the frozen
north!" That's
what Captain
Bob Bartlett,
famous explor-
er and naviga-
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TREASURY CONDITION
COST COMPARISON ASKED

G.N.SO Treasury balance
March II: $2,O6O,339 1851; in
ternal revenue, $5,912,068.s5; Gus
toms receipts, $9,865 ,657, 10; ex-
penditures $4,O31,64 ,491; receipts
S5,l85 ,3O5,558.
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from the
ranks Of the
famous cliff
dwellers who
are the last
W o r d in
w as hington
society. Year
in, year out,
Miss Board
man carries
on. Presidents
ho vanish
on the winds
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Bermuda onion heavily Sprinkled
with salt, two hunks of ginger
bread, a glass of sweet milk and
a dish of vanilla ice cream.
What, no Idaho potatoes, Sen
ator?
+ 4 4
The revered secretary Of the
American Red Cross for 35 years
is stately Miss Mabel Boardman,
The Washington times., 1938-03-14
'ReOrganize'
Foes Lack
6VOtes

UNSJ Senate forces fighting
to exempt the Civil Service Com.
mission from the far.reachins
Federal reorganization bill today
we're six votes short of a majority,
according to their leaders private
polls.
Claiming they are gaining
strength, the bipartisan coalition
planned to hammer away on their
demands this week. The first
major test of the bill was expected
to come on the provision to sub
stitute single director for the
present three-member commission.
CLOSE VOTE SEEN
Administration leaders privately
admitted the vote would be close.
President Roosevelt was reported
to be keeping close tab on the
battle in the Senate over the re-
organization bill, which would
give him power to abolish, consoh-
date and define functions, for
nearly every bureau, board and
commission in the government
agencies created by Congress.
Forty.three votes, six short Of
majority Of the SO Senators. were
claimed by the opposition. Senator
David I. Walsh Cd Of Massa-
chusetts, has offered an amend.
ment to exempt the commission
from any revision by the President
in revamping the executive hranch
Of the Government.
NyTrEYm SrScRnN1c VRv
The Washington times., 1938-03-14

The young lady who sat near
Senator Borah at lunch in the
Senate restaurant this week ad-
mires his oratory and most Of
The Washington times., 1938-03-14
By JOHN o'DoNNELL AND DORIS FLEEsoN

There is such thing Roosevelt geography Describing
her current lecture tour to friend Mrs. Roosevelt
paned "Oh it's very long tour. It begins with Elliott
The Washington times., 1938-03-14
Hull Spurns Plant
Of New Englanders;;
Begins Trade Pact
Declares LOWering of Tariffs Essential
To Both Prosperity and Peace

GNS) Secretary of State Hull today fay refused the
quest of New England members of the House for abandon
ment of Americas trade treaty negotiations holding they
the greatest single factor for peace in the world.
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tentlon That a halt IN the trade
treaty program at this time would
invite worldwide economic war
fare and mortally injure this ma
tions foreign commerce.
COST COMPARISON ASKED
The New Englanders proposed a
delay in the negotiations until
foreign production costs were
ascertained.
Hull's letter was made public
at hearings preliminary to nego-
tiations for a trade agreement
with Great Britain, which got
underway here today.
Members of the House from
New England and other affected
sections carried their fight against
concessions to the hearings. They
foresaw dire results from Amer
lean competition with foreign
products produced by low-paid
foreign workers.
In his letter, Secretary Hull ad.
dressed first to specific New Eng
Land interests, he pointed out
that to abandon the trade-treaty
program would injure the North
east States just as much as other
parts of the country.
CLAIMS HELD UNJUSTIFIED
New England, far from being
able to justify its protests that
the treaties discriminate against
that highly industrial section,
reaps large benefits from exports
Of manufacturers through the
treaties already in effect Hull
said.
Forign trade diminished rapidly
after 1929, and the high-tariff
barriers of the Hawley-Smoot pact
provided the heaviest pressure for
this drop, Hull pointed out. Only
since Inauguration of the trade
treaty program has this foreign
commerce started increasing again,
he added. To suspend the treaty
program now, he contends, would
start this nation backward eco
nomically.
AGRICULTURE CONSIDERED
While New England'S industrial
products are Of vital Importance,
Hull asserted, it must be remem-
bered that the prosperity Of agri-
culture, which has been greatly
benefited by the trade treaties,
vitality affects the prosperity Of
industry.
There could be no greater
Illusion" wrote Hull, than to
suppose that New England's es-
sential interests can be divorced
in this manner from those OF the
rest of the country. No more
than the rest of the country can
New England profit from a mar
row policy of embargo protec-
tionism. A policy of that sort
leads inevitably to the ruina-
ton of the domestic, as well as
the foreign market for products
Of American industry"
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lands are owned privately. the
President pointed out.
This privately-owned forest
land at present furnishes SO per
cent Of all our forest products"
he said. "It represents 80 per
cent of the productive capacity
of our forest soil.
DRAIN EXCEEDS GROWTH
There is a continuing drain
upon commercial forests in saw
timber sizes far beyond the
annual growth. Forest opera
tions in them have not been,
and are not now. conducive to
maximum regrowth. An alarm
ing proportion of our cut-over
forest land is tax delinquent.
Through neglect, much Of it is
rapidly forming a new, but
almost worthless no mans
land"
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NIGHT SESSIONS KEY

Though Administration chief
tains were pressing for passage Of
the bill by the end Of this week, 1t
was generally agreed that unless
night sessions are ordered the
fight win go into next week.
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President Offers
Public Preview of
His State Papers
transcripts of rs Press Conferences
Released in Advance of Publication
By GEORGE DuRNo

QNS President Roosevelt today offered the newspaper
reading public free prevew of the state papers is about
pubshwith accompanying comment-n book magazine and
The Washington times., 1938-03-14

Son Elliott resides in Fort
Worth, Tex; Daughter Anna in
Seattle, Wash.
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CAPT. BOB BARTLETT, ARCTIC HERO,
TELLS HOW TO keep UP VITALITY

hot Tea lets me turn in later for
my full share Of sleep!"
M/M62zzs~
Bob Bartlett
Drink Tea often-for vitality, for
delicious flavor. See if you don't
feel the cheering stimulus almost
at once. And no let-down laterl
For real flavor and vitalizing
effect, remember that good Tea
(Orange Pekoe and Pekoe) comes
from SndlaU csyIOn, and Java.
Sumatra. These good black Tess
are especially suited to the Amer
lean taste. For economy and full
enjoyment, buy quality Tea.
The Washington times., 1938-03-14

In a six page letter addressed to
the Representatives, the Secretary
put into strong language his con-
tention that a halt in the trade
treaty program at this time would
invite worldwide economic war
fare and mortally injure this ma
tons foreign commerce.
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Published Daily at 1917 H st. \. W.
With Sunday Issue as the Washington
Herald Times
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-16
Wine Festival
In Palace

PARIS QN.S). - The famous
medieval palace Of the Popes at
Avignon, which once was the
world center of Christianity. will
be the headquarters of the ma
tional wine festivals this summer.
There the Queen Of French
wines will be elected and receive
from President Lebrun the Royal
Wine Standard" of the year.
From July 2 to 5 the Inter.
national Wine Congress. with dele.
gates from II countries, will meet
in the Provencal city of the Popes,
and wine pageantS, wine exhibit
lions, banquets and other fetes
will probably make it the jolliest
international congress of the year
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-16
3 men DROWN
AS YACHT SINKS

NEW YORK, May 16 dN.SJ.
Coast Guard planes today cruised
over Long Island Sound searching
for the bodies of two men drowned
when the 60-foot yacht, Quits, Of
George woodward, jr., socially
prominent Philadelphia, capsized
off Harris Island.
The men are Harry Larson and
Andrew Peterson, shipyard en-
ployes. The body of a third
victim, Samuel Cochran, At, has
been recovered. The men were
members of a crew of six who set
out to salvage the Quita after she
went aground. Without warning,
the ship suddenly slipped into
deep water and plunged to the
bottom,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-16
Russia Executes
IL as Wreckers

MOS co w, May Is Q.N.S0
Eighteen alleged Trotzkyists were
executed throughout Russia last
week on charges Of wrecking, re-
ports to the Soviet capital revealed
today. Included in this group
were nine coal mine employees who
were reported sent before firing
squads in the Siberian cities OF
IStalniSk and Novosibirsk for al
legedly having caused nine wrecks
fires and explosions in the mines
over the past three years.