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Evening star., 1938-06-15
the legal fighting is over, the economic
damage will have been done anyway.
Damare Suits ProYided

damage will have been done anyway.
Damage Suits Provided.
There's another provision Of the law
which may have escaped attention gen.
orally. It may raise more havoc than
the Wagner labor relations law and
give the courts plenty to do. It pro-
vides that any employe or group Of
employees may sue in any Federal court
to recover damages from an employer
who violates the minimum wage pro-
vision. Some Senators thought this
would open the way to endless suits
by labor unions harassing employers.
Senator Walsh Of Massachusetts, tried
to have an amendment inserted to
limit this right to sue, but he was de-
feated on the issue at the last minute.
The whole piece Of legislation, while
an improvement on some Of the earlier
drafts and a more workable law than
either the Senate or House bill, Is
nevertheless a hastily devised statute
which will lead to all sorts of chiseling
such as the N. r. A. witnessed, and q
big army Of enforcement agents will
be needed. Mostly, 1t will lead, as it
has in other countries, to a freezing
Of wages at minimum levels for long
time to come till industry can obtain
from the consumer the extra costs
arising out Of what really constitutes q
law-made subsidy.
Copyright, 1o38.)
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Thousands Give All.

Thousands are giving away every
thing they possess to join q new re-
Igious movement which is sweeping
through Yugoelavia. In the ranks are
army officers, judges. lawyers. doctors
and wealthy men and women. These
are being Joined by peasants. More
than 400 local brotherhoods have been
organized and tens of thousands en-
rolled. according to q Belgrade dis
patch. They call themselves "Bugu-
moljci," or "Godseekers." They ad-
vocate q return to the original primi-
tive life Of the Evangelists, free from
the burdens" Of earthly possessions,
because they declare that Christianity
has been going in the wrong direction
for centuries.
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SHOE COMPANY WINS
LABOR BOARD APPEAL
Court sustains Agreement With
Old Observation-Disclosures

Court Sustatns Agreement With
Old Employes-Discrimination
Charge 'Unwarranted.'
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 15.-Asserting there
apparently was nothing in the national
labor relations act preventing an EN-.
ployer from making an agreement with
q labor organisation formed Of old
employees, the United States First Cir
cult Court Of Appeals yesterday sci
aside N. L. r. B. order in the
case Of . Lynn shoe company.
The courts decision. written by
Judge Scott Wilson and concurred II
by Judges George H. Bingham and
James M. Morton, jr., said the boards
finding of unfair labor practices by
the Lion Shoe Co. was without SUBJ
stantial evidence"
The court also termed "unwarranted'
the N. L. r. B. ruling that the COM
pany Disseminated against the United
Shoe q Leather Workers Union, ar
affiliate Of the Committee for Indus.
trial Organization.
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Wide Effect
From Pay
Act Seen
Business Everywhere to
Feel Impact of
Restrictions.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

IF EMPLOYERS throughout the
United States who are paying Is
sents an hour think that the
= new minimum wage and maximum
hour law has no effect upon them, they
will have another point of view just as
soon as their various trade associations
begin explaining to them in detail just
how far-reaching the measure just
adopted by Congress really is.
Business everywhere, notwithstand-
ing the specific exemptions, is going to
be affected. Nothing since the N. r. A.
has cut across the whole economic
system to leave in its wake q greater
number of rules and regulations and
restrictions than will the new wage and
hour law.
For one thing, the South did not
come off as well as some of its spokes-
men have been led to believe. Northern
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Washington Observations
New Defaults Find Out of 10 U. S. Authorities
Despairing of War Debt Collections.

''Waal, they hired the money, didn't
they?" seems to typify a diminishing
body Of opinion.
Hungary proposed in February to pay
the face value Of her post war ad-
vances from the United States aggre-
eating 81 1.685 1886, II the United States
would cancel all interest. The offer
was taken under consideration by the
Treasury and later submitted to Con-
gress, without any recommendations,
by President Roosevelt. A special act
Of Congress would be needed to accede
to Hungary's wishes. No change Of
any kind in war debts may be made
without the joint approval of House
and Senate.
While President Roosevelt and Sen
ator Gillette were smoking the pipe Of
peace at their White House luncheon
this week. it's Just possible the survivor
Of the purge that went wrong In the
corn belt may have told Mr.. Roosevelt
something about the soul-trying emo
tions which agitated the Senator dur
ing the Supreme Court battle, and
after. It is Of record that Gillette,
whose devotion to the President and
New Deal humanitarian objectives Is
rock-ribbed, paced the floor Of his bed
room many q night before persuading
himself it was his duty to be guided
exclusively by his political conscience
Perhaps the Iowa Democrat also i'm
parted to his luncheon host that there
was time, during the late unpleasant
ness, when Gillette was ready to sub
NIT his resignation from the Senate,
II such action would calm the troubled
waters and cause o minimum Of party
friction.
Without benefit of fanfare, q couple
Of comely young Portias, sisters, were
ON May 2 admitted to practice before
the Supreme Court Of the United
States. The twain occasion Is believed
to have been unique. Nebraskans and
about q year apart in age, they were
sponsored by Senator Edward r. Burke
Democrat, leading toreador in combat
ing the New Deal bull when it sought
to undermine the independence OF the
Federal judiciary 16 mad months ago.
The sister pair consists Of the Misses
Helen and Grace McGerr, both natives
Of Victor, Colo, and now in Govern
ment service at Washington. Helen,
IL. B., Of Yale Law School, is a junior
attorney in the Department of Justice,
and attached to the Bureau Of War
Risk Litigation; Grace, who got her
IL. B. at the University of Nebraska,
Is In the legal division of the Farm
Credit Administration. A third sister
has just been graduated from the
Pulitzer School Of Journalism at Co.
lumbia.
Because Of the Swedish American
note that viii be conspicuous at the
end Of the month in connection with
the tercentenary celebrations in VIII
mington, Del, it is appropriate that
among the first Washingtonians to re-
ceive one of the honorary university
degrees annually bestowed at this sea-
son is Walmar Bostrom, Sweden's min
lister to the United States since 1925.
Rutgers has just given him an IL. D..
for his distinguished service in cement
ing international fellowship"
(copyright. 193s.)
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661,670, fell due
without attention
In any quarter.
except gall a n t
Finland, which
came across, as
usual, with its
payment Of $751;
935. Great Britain
once more went
MT o arrears on
her h alf-yearly
o b i g q { ! o n OF
$l,08 0,157,l32;
Fran c e ignored
er irstallment
Of $545,951,725;
Yk.y- A,,o1rnA hn~
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multfarious Quck-change act.
Kentucky
battlefield the country In the primary contest between
Majority Happy"
prestige the Deal bound As Chambers
wholly dependent holds
From the Federal officials have been the the
Barkey side The Kentucky collector internal
Glenn and the Kentucky administrator George
Goodman
Of laying campaign. Competent
unanimously described the Kentucky w. a
carefully coordinated political machine
who have reported is warm friend to the New Deal
Possibly Hunters head whrled bit
whether he Judge jury investigator criminal
he of the things which every has
spenddy dcous prologue to the Hunter report spoken by
Senator Baky when
itics In his organization absolutely unfounded
But the Hunter report still louder
ingenuity than worthy Of Joe Cook Hunter began by setting
standards political activity The Hunter
political the discharges threatened discharges opposition
workers padding rolls with friendly taking
tons from the complete
Hunter might well added bkackns opponents
to the polls.
All observers state that the Kentucky
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stipend of $100, 1851, $50, and other de-
faulting countries, in the order Of the
size Of their culpability, are Belgium,
Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania and Hungary. Ger
many is not classified among World
War doctors, but she has also stopped
payments on the $855, ZOO, 900 which
she owes us for claims Of various sorts
and for costs Of our Rhineland army
Of occupation.
Collection of any substantial amount
of the rapidly graying war debts is,
in the estimation Of nine out Of ten
authorities at Washington, both In
the administration and in Congress,
an iridescent dream. On June 10
Senator James Hamilton Lewis Of
Illinois told the Senate that he was
particularly pleased to ind out and
to know, and to be able to inform
this honorable body. that there will
be presented to the Senate and to
Congress, from the Secretary of State,
who in his perseverance and states
manship quietly, unobtrusively, but
effectively, has brought to some con-
clusion the suggestions which have
been made to us, a proposal looking
to the complete adjustment Of these
obligations (the war debts)." II the
bewhiskered fashion model Of Con-
gress has knowledge that debt settle
ment is Just around the corner, he
has a flrst-class scoop. Nothing is
known about it at the Treasury, which
IS chiefly at interest in the matter.
Senator Lewis may be talking about
the thing just mentioned by Lord
Stamp Of Shortlands (untfl recently
the well-known British financier-
economist, Sir Josiah Stamp. On ar
rival in New York this week Stamp
said that, as far as Britain Is con-
cerned, there can be no question Of
even resuming token" payments on
her original debt Of $4,277, 900 900 un-
less they are linked up with the
reciprocal trade agreement now in
negotiation at Washington.
Our British and French friends
whose attitude toward the debts pitches
the key in which virtually all the other
defaulters sing from time to time, have
more or less openly hoped the time
would come when "Uncle Shylock," +"
as We were once called "over there u
would face the music, and, realizing
the impracticability Of enforcing COL
lection In part or In whole from an
economically dislocated Europe, would
sooner or later call the whole thing of
According to the American Institute
Of Public Opinion, reporting on con-
ditions here three months ago, there
has been significant change in Amer
ican public sentiment regarding the
war debts, q change which might well
prove to be an opening wedge in set
Ting the 20-year-old issue. The insti-
tute poll, dated March IT, showed that
the majority Of voters reached are in
favor Of collecting the sums owed the
United States. AS Of the spring of
1888, the institute revealed that 54 per
cent Of the people polled want COL
lection in full; 81 per cent are for
reduction and Q per cent for cancel
lation. The cancellation argument
was that half q loaf is better than nc
bread" As compared with 1887, there
was a drop Of per cent among the
collectionists; gain of 5 per cen,
among the reductionists and gair
Of q nor rent among the cancella
tionists. Calvin Coolidge's famous
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members of an
industry will be
able to urge the
"a d m | nistrator"
to put into ef-
feet right away
W a g e schedules
higher than the
25 cents an hour,
and if the "ad-
m i n i S ira t or''
wants to do SO, he
can put the new
scales into effect
above rs cents an
hour and up to 40
cents any time he
Evening star., 1938-06-15
The Capital Parade
Kentucky W. P. A., Acting as Own Judge and Jury,
Acquits Itself of Charges of Politics.
By JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT KNTNEE

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER
biggest political been pretty
good farce from start to nish) the
assistant works administrator solemnly denying the exist
Of politics in Kentucky relief younSish former
social worker Of the usually but
has rich talent for deadpan comedy concealed him
To be Hunter the reports
first came Kentucky that
Barkleys commite
Works Progress Administrator
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ing tn the group which directing intricate
learned
attitude they multiply their
horns and action
FeoeaI support and beter-tmed politics
rarely favos the haearted
1901 rather than to the loud Of
method applied however Of Henry
Waaces changed position New another story
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GIRL ACCUSES DIRECTOR
Singer Heard by Grand Jury in
$4,000, 900 Suit.

LOS ANGELES, June is R.-Elois<
Spann, n, singer, who named Miltor
Beecher. musical director ut M. @. M
Studio. in u, 900, 900 suit alleging at
tack, told the county grand jury yes.
terday details Of the events she said
caused her action.
The singer said she was attacked By
Beecher two years ago. His studio
also Is named in the suit,
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ports the New Deal lies outside Of
the Democratic party organization.
The point is simply noted for
future reference that when q New
Deal Democrat wins q senatorial
contest 1t Is not considered OF any
significance. while the defeat Of q
New Deal liberal by q conservative
Democrat, in q small minority
group. is hailed as q great blow to
the Roosevelt administration.
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3 Graduated From Lehiph,

A trio of Washingtonians was grad
uated from Lehigh University at final
exercises there yesterday. They are
Lawrence c. Buckles, 4707 Connecti-
cut avenue NV; George B. Cushing,
4521 Fifteenth street NV, and Daniel
r. Frantz, 6l0 Lexington place NE.
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&@StA~oScs
This comes about from the fact that,
120 days after the law Is signed, the
administrator can appoint and convene
an Industry Committee" in any in
dustry, whether or not it is paying
more than Is cents an hour, and can
have that committee recommend mini
mum wages for immediate operation
up to 40 cents an hour and without
waiting for the seven-year period to
elapse.
Administrator Has Last Say.
The Industry Committee must, of
course, make an investigation, but
need not hold hearings of the type re-
Gently described by the Supreme Court
opinion. The law does say, however:
THE committee shall recommend to
the administrator the highest mini
mum wage rates for the industry which
1t determines, having due regard for
economic and competitive conditions,
will not substantially curtail employ
ment in the industry"
But the bill also says no classifica-
tion can be made solely on a regional
basis, which means that, while the In
dustry Committees composed of men,
bers from all sections will recommend
what they think is the right minimum
wage, the administrator is under no
obligation under the law to accept the
committees findings
Now, although public attention has
been focused on the minimum wage
provisions, yet equally important and
penetrating Is the provision about max
imum hours. The first year, which
means 120 days from this week, the
maximum hours worked must be A
per week and then AZ hours the second
and 40 hours week during the third
year. Any business which employs
workers above any Of these limits must
pay time and half" This applies to
all business engaged in interstate COM
merce and the Department Of Labor is
to decide who is and who is not en-
gagged in interstate commerce.
Impact on All Business.
Specifically exempted from the oper-
ations Of the law are workers in retail
trades, fishing, agriculture and the first
processing Of farm products, but there
are indirect effects on all businesses.
Thus, the products Of child labor are
barred from commerce, which means
that boys and girls under 16 cannot be
employed, except that under certain
conditions employment of 14-year-old
persons is permitted if school work is
not interfered with.
As for economic effects, all busi-
nesses will feel certain impact
Where additional shifts of workers are
needed to conform to schedules of the
law and costs rise, the labor price
structure will naturally rise. Where
costs cannot be increased, efforts, no
doubt, will be made to cut the wages
Of those who earn above the minimum
In unionized industries this may lead
to strikes. In non-unionized operations
1t may lead to wage cuts. But, in
many instances, 1t may also lead to a
shutting down of those businesses
which cannot make the grade. and here
consequently unemployment will ensue
Big business will not suffer so much
because, with its huge money surpluses,
the storm can be weathered, butesmall
businesses may find it hard shedding
It's true these employers may try to
fight the battle out in the courts, for
the new law is plainly in contradiction
Of precedents hitherto established by
the Supreme Court but, by the time
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the W. P. A. would investigate Itself
and pass Judgment on its own
doings. Lewis Carroll thought he
had reasonably funny line in:
"Ill be Judge, I'll be Jury,
Said cunning old Fury"
But Administrator Hopkins
went cunning old Fury a good long
step better, giving his w. P. A. the
parts Of prisoner in the dock. court
clerk, stenographer and marshal as
well as Judge and jury. As the w.
Evening star., 1938-06-15
By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

A MOTHER June Is has come,
~ leaving our IL World War
~ debtor nations in uncur-
a tailed default to their long
suffering Uncle Sam to the tidy
tune OF $22, ,259, ,070.0 Today's semi
annual installments, totaiing $780,
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tlle 11tlllOeI StanuaIuS, Out that, OF
course, Is not important. The i'm
portant thing Is that olouting q
man over the head is not the only
way to hornswoggle him into vot-
ing for you.
y \ Il
The real meat Of the great
Hunter. joke was the Hunter ad-
mission that the officials of the
Kentucky w. P. A. take a deep
interest in the outcome" of the
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HE opinions Of the ters this page are their oton not
nsscsssa,y sa TIE Stars Such opinions presented n
The Stars eUoT TO gDe az sides OF questions interest It's
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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curious paradox by the Catholic archbishop
Gillette
70 the Judiciary reform bill He best Mr. Wearn
But hs the joke In order head OH
We Senator Gillette had to make abject professions
PRESIDENT Roosevelt and the New Deal During the
the administration packed the
the National Labor Relations
senator Gillette The only he possibly
nus ory opponent to convince the Of Iowa liberals
Dealer Otherwise the State machine will simply primary
in order to lose the
While all this primary
una There the conservative State machine backed the
ana mills lined behind Representative
district IN order to punish Senator Robert Reynolds
liberalism 1t was power drive developing from hdden-ban
widely advertised
money and absentee a
O1 southern
80 MI Reynolds the full advantage sentiment
Iowa Democrats Gillette
TOTAL state electorate That's what make
Northern and Western States where voting
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mission to intervene in the pending
suit. The case will be heard before
Judge Charles w. Woodward in Cir
cult Court.
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We, the People
Marshals of Battle to Liberalize Democratic Party
Mapping Vigorous State Policy.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

4 YHATS going here, anyhow?
M So far as can the honors s in the battle Of
the New in
less fragrant Tory Democratic liberals won
IN Alabama Pepper Florida OREGON
was beaten by New Dealer the
During the
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D. Wearin, was stacked up against
the conservative Senator Guy M.
Gillette. Mr.. Wearin got White
House encouragement. but very lit
tie administration support, in his
drive for the Senate. Mr.. Gillette
got the backing Of the whole DEM
ocratic State machine In q region
where the New Dealers are mainly
Republicans. He was indorsed by
the Railway Brotherhoods, the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-22
lob PLACEMENTS
DECLINE IN MAY
sc Given Work Here, With
283 Registrations; State
Figures Given

Job placements declined in the Ra-
leigh district of the North Carolina
State Employment Service in May
according to the statement from the
Raleigh office of the service, just re-
ceived here. There are three offices
in the district-Raleigh Durham and
Henderson.
Henderson had 80 place ments in
private and 81 in public work jobs,
and there were 283 registrations here
in May. For the district as whole,
the report showed 1865 registrations
in May, ia more than in April this
year. Of this total, 612, or 81 per cent
had been employed in manufacturing
Placements during May were $40, a
drop of 22O from April. The active
file is now 18,4O9 in the district, or
1920 more than on April 30, the re-
port said.
For the State as a whole each sue
cessive month of 1888 has shown an
improvement over the previous month
in placements, with 1892 in May, the
best month since last October, the re-
port of R. Mayne Albright, director,
said. Prevate industry absorbed 65 per
cent of these, with building construc-
ton taking 2,464 as the leader.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-22
SEABOARD STARTS
D|ESELS |NFALL
New and Modern Equip
ment for Main Line To
Handle Fast Trains

Nine new 1900 horsepower Diesel
electric locomotives recently bought
by the Seaboard Air Line railroad
will be put into service on the COM
panys main line in the late fall, ac-
cordng to word received here today
from official sources.
Announcement was recently made
by the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poraton in Washington of loan to
the receivers of the Seaboard in the
sum of something more than $2,000,OO0
to purchase these new high speed
Diesel locomotives. Talk in railroad
circles since then is that they will
lie put into operation on the Orange
Blossom tourist trains next fall and
winter and that others of the ia.
trains carrying the tourist trade Will
be equipped with thig new power. and
speed. Zone report was that fully
three hours will be. cut from the
schedule between New York and
Florida resort points as the result of
the addition of these. powerful new
locomotives.
In making this new change, the
Seaboard Us following a policy of
modernization of its service and max
Ing a fresh bid for the winter tour
ist trade to the far south.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-22

London, June o. (AP) Silent
guards watched the stately mansion
of Countess Barbara Hutton Haug-
witz-Reventlow from behind locked
gates today after reported kidnar
threats against the baby son of the
five and ten cent store heiress who
fled the United States because "I'm
afraid of American kidnapers."
The countess merely said she had
taken certain precautions" to guarl
the child, two year old Count
Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, London's
wealthiest baby, against reported
threat.
She was understood to have re-
manned up until 2 a. m. today. Her
attorney said it was impossible to
make a statement at the moment
"for legal reasons"
Scotland Yard was said to have
posted guards at all ports and all
fields to watch for the arrival from
abroad of a suspected person" Of
ficials were said to have photo
graphs and a full description.
The main gates of the Woolworth
heiress' new home were locked. Sew
eral plainclothesmen, patroled the
grounds and tradesmen were admitted
only if they could show credentials.
Despite the precautions, however, .
nurse wheeled the sandy-haired baby
around the grounds in his big black
carriage during the morning.
An official said he had mo con
firmation" that police had been mo-
bilized, but he did not directly deny
the report. In March, 1896, a month
after Lance was born, reports of slS1
liar threats were denied. Later, how
ever, a man was sentenced to foul
months imprisonment for demanding
money from the countess for expos
ing" an imaginary plot.