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HAGUE COUNSEL
ASKS FOES DATA

NEWARK, N. j., June 20
G.N.SJ.-Mayor Frank Hague,
key figure in injunction-suit hear
ings against him and other Jersey
City officials, stepped aside today
while counsel argued motions seek
ing to quash subpoenas ordering
production Of membership rolls
and other data of the CIO, the
American Civil Liberties Union,
and other such groups.
Hague forces, opposing the in
junction sought by the groups, who
charge suppression Of free
speech in Jersey City, seek the
subpoenaed information to sub
stantiate their contention they are
controlled by Communists.
Tomorrow the mayor resumes
his testimony, which has been
characterized by his bitter denun-
citation Of Communists and an
avowed determination to keep
Jersey City free from all forms Of
"iSrnS."
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Final Session
Bethesda Women to
Hear Candidates

BETHESDA, Md, June 20.
The Women'S Democratic Club Of
Bethesda will meet Wednesday
night at 8 O'Clock in the county
building here, it was announced
today by Mrs. Eliot Middleton,
chairman Of the organization.
Those scheduled to address the
meeting include John B. Diamond,
Of GaitherSburg, a candidate for
county commissioner from the
north central district, and Thomas
Earle Hampton, of Bethesda, an
other candidate for the board
from the western suburban dis
trict.
Those arranging the evenings
program announced there would
be no business to come before the
club and that the session would
be the last before fall,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-20
Fish Loses Out
I ESSON in politics:

ESSON in politics:
- Republican Representative
j. Ham Fish had a personal am
bition to be member Of the New
York World Fair Commission,
for the sentimental reason that
one Of his ancestors was q com.
missioner of the first New York
fair. He went to the extent of
getting the House Republican
caucus to endorse him as the
Republican candidate.
But just about that time he
was beating his fists against the
New Deal and all its works daily
on the floor Of the House.
Speaker Bankhead went to Re
publican Leader Smell, asked
him to suggest another Republic
an candidate. Smell declined,
saying he was bound by the
caucus. Bankhead observed that
he was not. He appointed New
York Representative Jimmy
WadsWorth.
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Trade Gains
36 Cities Report
Increase in Week

Reports from SO key cities
showed that "a slightly better
tone" was apparent in retail trade
throughout the country during the
week, the Department Of Com
merce said today.
'It would be going too far to say
that these improvements were
based on better fundamental con-
ditions, as the larger activities
seemed to be entirely seasonal,
with better weather playing a
strong part in the proceeding.
the department said.
Practically all cities reported
increases in retail trade over the
previous week and the margin OF
decline from the comparable week
last year was narrowed to approx
imately IL per cent. Part of thi
decrease in dollar volume wa
accounted for by lowered prices
the department said.
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CON GRESSMEN'
CHECK.
IN TRUST PROBE
Theorists of New Deal.
Face Rocky Road
BY EARL GOODWIN

Left-wing New Dealers are ready
to start an investigation into mo-
nopolies and trusts that probably
would scare every big business
man in the country into a con-
niption fit.
But there will be much comfort
in the fact that for every New
Dealer engaged in this witch hunt,
there will be compromising con-
sentative Representative or Sen
ator to offset the classroom ideas
Of the current Brain Trust.
In other words, Congress re-
fused to give the President half
a million dollars for a trust inves-
tigation-Umless Congress was rep
resented in the matter. So in the
closing hours of Congress, that
body o. KID a trust investigation
with a purse of 100000. The
hunt for monopoly this summer is
to be conducted by six members
Of the executive branch from the
SEC, Department of Justice, etc.,
and six lawmakers-three from
each end Of the Capitol.
SIX PROBERS NAMED
Senators King, O'Mahoney and
Borah; Representatives Summers,
Reece and Eicher-these are the
legislators. Down deep in their
hearts they know they are on the
committee to keep the radical left
wingerS from starting something
too drastic in the way Of anti
trust Of antibig business.
Already the makeup of the
Legislative end of this committee
indicates Stone-wall fence against
any extreme ideas. Senator King
offers no help to new thought" in
trust legislation; and it will be re-
called that on certain impressive
occasions, such as the Supreme
Court and reorganization fights,
Representative Summers, Of Texas,
chairman Of the Judiciary Com
mittee Of the House, has been q
tower Of strength for the opposi-
ton to the administrations plans.
SEE POLITICAL GAIN
When the President, or his
friends, suggested a sweeping in
vestigation into trusts and monop-
oies, some of the New Dealers
leaped on the idea with a whoop.
believing they could work up a
grand case against Big Business
in the next Congress and 60 to
town, politically speaking, for the
next Presidential campaign.
A crusade for a Presidential
campaign sounded good. However,
they had to get the money and the
o: K. from Congress, in which
there are several veterans with
deep-Set convictions on the trust
question which might be likened
to a steel pillar set in concrete.
Such are Senators Borah and
O'Mahoney, the latter author of
a bill to settle the trust problem
by federal licenses on all corpora
tons. The idea is to take the
license away when the corporation
strayS from the straight and mar
row path.
These old timers certainly do
not relish the idea of these new
and unknown brain truSterS rush
ing out with a lot Of new tangled
trust busting ideas, with a Presi-
dent and a half million dollars be-
hind them.
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JOAN BASS Wed
TO FIELD TODAY

WALPoLE, Mass, June 20
GN.S0.-Preparations were COM
pleted for the wedding this after
noon Of Miss Joan Bass, daughter
Of the former governor of New
Hampshire, Robert P. Bass, and
Marshall Field, jr., Harvard senior
and son of the wealthy Chicago
financier.
The couple will be married at
Union Church in East Walpole
near here. Young Field, a close
friend and classmate of John
Roosevelt, had asked the Presi-
dents son to be one Of the ushers
! but John withdrew just before his
marriage Saturday to Miss Anne
Clark at Nahant. Mass.
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It is too early to guess how
important they will be in the next
Presidential contest. But they at
least stand out with a sharpness
not likely to be obliterated in the
two years intervening.
SPECIAL SESSION TALK
Already there is talk of a
special session of Congress in the
fall. No one seems to know why
Legislative leaders saw no neces
sity for it as Congress quit. The
President has not suggested it
Yet the feeling was there-that
for one reason or another, Con
gress will be back in Washington
before the heavy SHOWS.
Meanwhile there will be the
elections. The congressional con
tests will show the direction OF
the wind. BY common consent
the Republicans will make some
gains. They will not capture
either the House or Senate
couldn't capture the Senate, Sc
large is the Democratic majority
will not capture the House, Sc
great is the country's faith in the
Roosevelt magic.
But there will be trends. Parti
san trends, basic trends. The STRAIT
egists will look to November to tell
whether the country is going con
sentative" and if SO how rapidly
If New Deal Democrats beat con
sentative Democrats, they'll know
it isn't going conservative at all
If its a stand-off the analysis will
be more difficult.
SUBJECT TO ANALYSIS
If New Dealers go down to de
feat in substantial numbers
which Washington hardly expects
looking through its shortrange
glasses-you will see some shifts
in 1910 plans.
However the elections go, they
will be raked over, pulled apart,
examined infinitely for the fac.
tors Of victory or defeat.
And whether there is an extra
session of CongreSs-and if there
is it will not be called until after
the electionS-what the soothsay.
erS and Strategists conclude from
what they see will play their part
in the events to follow.
There are issues ready at hand
for the fall contests. They are
hardly new. Some of them were
shopworn in 1886. They were not
worth much then. They may not
be worth much now. But they're
still present. looming larger all
the time, as raw material for a
campaign two years hence which
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whether the investigation will
produce the new economic plan
for which it is searching. The
way things are going on the in
side for the moment, it appears
more certain to develop into a
free-for-all brawl Of economists.
Indeed, the downtowners al
ready are into two general
camps and several sub-campS.
The big division is between the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. aXemen
who want to chop the trusts into
small particles and the Berle-
Currie- Patterson school Of those
who want Government regula-
ton and price control. The sub
camps reach into Semi-socialism
advocating Govern ment pur.
chase Of the railroads, utilities
and natural resources.
The result will certainly be
100 volumes of testimony if
nothing else.
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Reilly Is Doomed
For Pay-HOur Post

Solicitor Gerard D. Reilly Of the
Department Of Labor is being
doomed for the post Of admin
istrator of the new wage and hour
Law. Representative A t h u r
Healey Cd, of Massachusetts,,
chairman of the House "wage-hour
bloc" which forced a vote on the
measure in that body, advanced
Reilly'S name. Reilly, formerly Of
Boston, 10 q Harvard Law School
graduate.
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II Die IN AERIAL
ACCIDENTS OVER
U. S. ON SUNDAY
Four Perish in Crash
In Mississippi

(I.N.S.) A series of plane crashes
at widely scattered points in the
nation over the weekend left II
persons dead today.
Four persons died in one acct
dent in Mississippi. In another
accident a pilot had to sit help
lessly in his plane while watching
his brother crash to death.
Those killed when plane
crashed near Louin, Miss, Sunday
were identified as Jack G. Forsh-
ner, P. s. Stubblefield, John D. Roe
and r. D. Portwood, all Of Green.
wood.
ARMY PLANE CRASHES
Two other accidents each claimed
two lives. At Asheville, N. c.,
Lieut.. S. v. Stephenson, Army
flier from Chanute Field, ILL.,, and
DR.. David M. Buck, jr., were killed
when their plane went into tail
spin and crashed in a pasture. Leo
Rinke, 26, and Kenneth Kullman
81, died near Detroit, when their
ship attempted a forced landing
because Of motor trouble.
At San Mateo, Cal, a Naval Re
serve plane plunged into the bay,
carrying its pilot, Lieut.. William
M. Holenbeck, jr., of Georgia, to
death. His mechanic was hurt.
HOMEMADE SHIP
At Milwaukee, Oscar Gallatin,
q, was instantly killed when his
homemade plane crashed on a
highway, narrowly missing two
cars. A brother, Harold, flying
another ship overhead, watched
him die.
At Lake Geneva. Wis, Saturday,
Mrs. jeanette Peterken, Sc, wife
of a Chicago millionaire, was
drowned when she was trapped in
the cabin Of a plane which her son
piloted when it plunged into the
lake.
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herSpringmann
Celebrates Mass

The Rev. Louis A. Springmann,
o. P, celebrated his first solemn
high mass yesterday in st. DOM
mics Church. He was ordained
in that church last Wednesday
by Bishop John M. Mcnamara
Father Springmann, son Of Clar-
ence Springmann, 713 Sixth st.
s. W., received his primary edu-
cation in st. Dominic's School.
Later he studied at the Dominican
House of Studies here.
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promises to be less lopsided than
those of 1882 and 1886.
ISSUES LISTED
AS Of today, they could be cata-
logued as follows:
l. A 40-billion dollar national
debt.
2. One-man government. The
dictatorship" issue, famed to
red heat in the struggle over
the Supreme Court, and to white
heat in the reorganization battle.
3. Spending versus saving
public works versus private
works.
4. Absorption of surplus
credit by the Government, di-
verting it from business outlets.
S. Politics in relief.
6. Continued business tinker.
ing.
7. Foreign policy.
There is no criticism from any
responsible quarter or partisan
source of the national defense pro-
gram. The country has OK'd the
Army's plans and wants q big
Navy. So that's out as an issue.
But it wants no war. Not now,
perhaps not for a long time. And
it doesn't want any Government
in Washington that will deliber-
ately lead the country into war
by overt acts. That's equally clear
in the minds of leaders of all par
ties. This feeling could make
Washington's foreign policy an
issue in 1910 If it looked as If it
we're heading the country for war.
It doesn't now.
SETTING STAGE EARLY
The other things-spending, the
need for restoring business con-
fidence, efforts to coerce relief re-
cipients for political purposes, the
question whether the Government
shall be permitted to pile up the
national debt through unbalanced
budgetS-are obvious.
Dictatorship, worthless IN 1885,
looked like a fair issue in the
Supreme Court fight. It looked
like a better one in the reorganiza-
ton row. It was strengthened by
the Gillette victory in Iowa-aS
was the politico-relief issue. The
November returns should show
Just how good it Is then, and how
good it might be in 1910.
Presidential nominees will be
named by both parties two years
from the present month. But the
stage will be set long before. The
Seventy-sixth Congress will supply
the overture.
Garner and Wheeler are worth
watching on the Democratic side,
Vandenberg across the aisle. There
are others. but they stand out at
the moment.
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Senator Minton may do con-
siderable talking about investi-
eating the press, but darned
little investigating. The Sen
ate disbursing office books show
he has 81, 400 left in the COM
mittee purse, hardly enough to
hire a single investigator long
enough to seize the private files
Of a single newspaper.
Talk, however, will serve his
purpose. Idea Is a political
buildup to discount any DAM
aging facts or attacks in the
press during the coming cam
paign.
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the New Deal
fold on the
Court issue
and has now
returned to
stay, an anti
m o n OPP oliSt
plus.
S e n a tor
Borah, tn e
r e p u blican
originator Of
the anti-mo-
nopoly issue
back in the
! 8 3 6 c q M
p a i 6 n, an
honest -. to .
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A. A. Berries Theories

MR.. RS new economic adviser,
AVA A. A. Berle, is bringing to
the inner councils a more prac-
tical economic slant than some
Of the other classroom econo-
mists who have preceded him.
Significant is an article by him
in the current University Of Vir-
ginia quarterly. He says class
room economics must be bal
anced hereafter by considera-
ton Of the human element, i'm
plying this is the reason eco
Monies has failed before. He
argues that wage and hour eco
nomic calculations, for instance,
are no good unless they con-
slider the resistance Of labor to
decreases and employers to in
creases, which may upset the
best Of theories.
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Special Session?
Nobody Knows Why
By THEODORE HUNTLEY

There signs Congress closed which pointed plainly to
940 Individuals and issues shouetted against the back
ground of congressional conflict They will remain in the pub
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ANTITRUST PROBE
WILL BE PROLIFIC
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
By PAUL MELLON

"od Copyright
Reproduction Prohibited)
MR. GARNER, the Vice President, apparently under
A the deluson that the antimonopoy investigation
going to be antimonopoy investigation He appointed
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Real Importance

THE extraordinary wording of
l. the resolution gives this set
up an Importance beyond sur.
face indications. The resolution
authorizes any investigator to
choose an alternate who will be
able to vote his proxy. Like
wise, a majority Of the COM
mittee constitutes a quorum. AS
most Of the congressional ap-
pointeeS will be busy getting re-
elected or mending disaffection
at home this summer, this fur
nisheS an adequate device for
downtown operation Of the in
quiry in their absence. In fact,
when they get a proxy from
Mr.. Eicher, the other five con.
gressional appointees become
immaterial.
And, as to the exact spot
downtown where control lies,
the resolution is equally specific.
The investigators can spend the
first 100000 themselves, but
they must get authority from
Mr.. Roosevelt for the other
100000.
Incidentally also the resolu-
ton dropped, in its final form,
any pretense that this was to
be an anti-monopoly inquiry.
The committee was called "the
Temporary National Economic
Committee"
\ 4
Free-FOr.AU BrdlDl
DESPITE these favorable aus
~ piceS, some doubt is begin
ming to develop downtown
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-20

Senator O'Mahoney, nominal
author Of the joint resolution
authorizing the inquiry, who left
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DESPITE these favorable aus
~ piceS, some doubt is begin
ming to develop downtown
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-29
MARION ALLEN
 TO WORK HERE
South Carolina N a n to Assist Rev. MT. Gaines
 at Baptist Church

Upon the invitation Of tho First Baptist church. Yale Divinity school has assigned Marion 6. Allen, c sec- ond year student, to work in this parish during the coming church season, commencing immediately. it was announced this morning by Rev. David P. Gaines, pastor.
 MT. Allen comes from South Caro- lina. He is c Baptist and Q graduate of Furman university and is c fflin- isteriai licentiate. He was in town here last Sunday and was introduced to the First Baptist young people.
 William J. Hamilton, who last year was associated with the First Baptist Young Peoples work under the direction of the Hartford The. ological Seminary, has been given on assignment with mission station In the state of Washington for q year and 70 will be unable to return te the local Baptist Church. Ho had been invited to remain another year and had consented to do 50, but the Seminary thought he was needed for the western work and was par- ticularly fitted for 1t.
 The Overlook Group will meet to.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-29

It's service of Church and state everything that 1t bas been able to glean from the Catholic masters who have embellished every de. partment of life"
 "The great answer lies in study clubs and If some or oil Of you go out of here resolved to form or join study clubs. in order to learn Catholic principles or foster Cath. olic thought, then we will have . group which will be starting to do real constructive Catholic Action"
 "A study cluh is simplicity it- self. Cooperative study. A small group of people band themselves together around c table to discuss some phase of Catholic doctrine. Discussion Is the kernel of the meeting"
 People must learn to talk: then must become articulate. Their religion will not be just sens timentality unsupported by solid Catholic convictions, and knowl. edge. People are very often afraid to speak. When at c meeting you are asked about your faith, you look fiSh-eyed, suspicious, afraid. Whereas you should welcome this opportunity as . challenge to spread the faith or clear up some difficulties and make the Cath olic Church better known and res Spected.
 Catholic Action
 "JuSt what k Catholic Action7 It Is "the active participation of the iaity in the apostolic mission of the hierarchy" The priests must share their priesthood with the laity. share the very functions with the priest"
 we know that today there are governments. who do not confine their activities to their lands across the Atlantic, which outlaw God, defile His temples, strip His aitars and kill c peoples soul. Testimony there is abundant which no sane person can gaifisay that they are making increasing inroads among our people. We need leaders among the laity to stem back this tide of unbelief, which masquerades under some Ism, often . collection of organs ized absurdities and contradic. tions. Study clubs will provide lis with bataliions of defense for the Catholic church against these iiefarious powers"
 "Education, like patriotism, must put first things first. Edu- cation, Catholic education is q futile thing if 1t fails to impress women with the responsibilities Of courageous Catholicism. know you will not fail to answer this appeal. It is in your blood"
 Chairman
 Father Doucette will set as co chairman of the meeting deaiin with discussion In the Congress sec ton of the Confraternity Of Chris tian Doctrine. He has addreSse' many Catholic groups about th state in recent weeks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-29
Republicans To Name
 Probate Candidate
List of Possibilities Growing as Date For Convention Is Seected..U .Upson Remains as Compromise Nominee

one week from today, Oct. 6, has been agreed upon as the date for the Republican probate convention and the situation aS regards candi- dates remains much the same as 1t did last week when Republican Town Chairman J. Warren Upson was undecided about his candidacy.
 Urged to run by Republican lead- CTS, the town chairman has held out with the presumed opinion that he prefers to look over the field of prospects to weigh strength up to the eve of the caucus with view to some personal determination which of the candidates would make the best run for the party.
 List Growing
 From the long list of potential tiles, a few are avowed candidates, several more would accept the nom- ination. Recently the name Of Frederick W. ChesSon, vice-pres-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-29

tend the congress. Many thousands of persons will take part In the various meetings and discussions. The figure is set at S5,000 by Rev John F, Harmon, registration chair man.
 Congress headquarters will be at st. Joseph's Cathedral and at the Hotel Bond. Other registration ceii- ters will be the Bushnell Memorial and the Aetna Life Insurance Com pany building.
 No less than 30 temporary altars have been erected at the Bond and in the basement of st. Patrick's church for the accommodation of visiting priests. Altars will also be available at the Cathedral and sev- eral other Hartford chrches. It is estimated that close to 500 masses will be offered daily by visiting clergymen.
 The congress will consider many phases of the problems confronting the Catholic of today. Necessity Of the spread of Christian doctrine will be emphasized as well aS the need for a strong offensive against anti religious and irreligious organiza : tions.
 Waterburians attending the con- gress during It's five days of session will include priests, nuns, students at Catholic schools, and members of parish societies and Catholic frater- nal organizations.
 Schools To Close
 All parochial schools In Water bury and throughout the diocese will be closed Monday and Tuesday, the