Evening star., 1938-05-23
PRESIDENT SCANS
EUROPEAN CRISIS
Arranges for Long ParIey
With Hull and Sees
Congress Leaders.
By ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

By ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.
The European situation and legisla-
tive problems on Capitol Hill occupied
most of President Roosevelt's atten-
ton today.
The President arranged for long
talk with Secretary Of State Hull to
review the State Departments last
minute reports from Germany and
Czechoslovakia. Even before Secretary
Hull's arrival at the White House,
however. the President received ad-
vices from the State Department on
the European crisis.
As usual on Monday morning. the
President devoted an hour to the So
called big four" from Capitol Hill
Vice President Garner, Speaker Bank-
head, Senator Barkley Of Kentucky,
majority leader of the Senate. and
Representative Rayburn Of Texas. ma
jority leader of the House. The dis
cussion centered principally about the
voting in the House today on the ad-
ministration'S wage-hour bill and the
relief and recovery measure before the
Senate today.
Adjournment in Mid June.
The congressional leaders also dis
cussed prospects for adjournment Of
Congress. Mr.. Rayburn. talking to
newspaper men afterward, said that
as matters stand now it looks as
though the adjournment might be
some time between June II and TO-
Mr.. Roosevelt announced he will go
to Annapolis June to participate in
the graduation exercises at the Naval
Academy, 1t is possible he will deliver
brief address to the graduates and
hand out the commissions.
Prior to the Annapolis trip the
President will travel from Washington
to inspect resettlement project near
Reedsville, w. Va, Friday morning
and go on to Hyde Park, N. Y, for
the Memorial Day week end.
An aide said Mr.. Rocsevelt's summer
vacation and other plans were being
held up until Congress adjourns. but
that he still was thinking of second
voyage to South American waters.
Might Go in July.
1t was said that If he could get
away he would like to leave sometime
in July. going across the country to
the Pacific Coast and taking off on a
cruiser for the West Coast of South
America and for some fishing around
the Galapagos Islands, west of
Ecuador.
En- route to the Coast he might
make brief stops in Kentucky and
Oklahoma where Democratic Senators
Barkley and Thomas, respectively.
face primary contests, and then visit
his son, Elliott, near Fort Worth, Tex.
The President would go first to
Gettysburg, Pa, July 3, for the cele-
bration OF the 18th anniversary cele-
bration of the Battle of Gettysburg,
and to Marietta, Ohio, July 8, for the
l50th anniversary of establishment of
the Northwest Territory.
Would Take Month.
The Southern voyage. if made, would
take about a month. The return trip
probably would be through the Panama
Canal up the Atlantic to some South
Atlantic port
The Presidents son and secretary,
James Roosevelt, who has been suffer-
ing for some time with a stomach
ailment, will leave Washington tonight
for Rochester. Mimi, for a check-up
at the Mayo Clinic. From there, he
will go to his grandmother home at
Hyde Park, N. Y, to rest for several
days before returning to his duties
at the White House.
Other conferences held today were
with Jesse Jones. head of the Recon-
struction Finance Corp; James A.
Moftatt, former head of the Federal
Housing Administration and now head
Of an oil company. who has just re-
turned from q four month business
tour around the world; Senator Walsh
Of Massachusetts,. who discussed naval
matters; Representatives Hill of Wash.
ington and Patman Of Texas, and Sec
retary OF the Treasury Morgenthau,
the latter being the Presidents
luncheon guest.