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Vol. 101, No. 136.
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Washington
Lowdown
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Rodney Dutcher
Tough on Producer
l Shakedown Crackdown
Worth a Guffaw
(Banner-Herald Washington
Correspondent)
WASHINGTON — The billion
gollar baking industry’s squawk at
the NRA bakers’ code as amended
py President Roosevelt's executive
order has been widely construced
as the first defiance of a code by a
major industry.
pon't take it too seriously.
Everything will come out more
or less all right and there’ll be
no mighty test of strength between
the administration and privatg in
dustry.
president Henry Stude of the
vational Bakers' Council was
peved. He was especlally peeved
by weeks of delay in getting the
wde approved by General Johnson.
He had had a terrible time getting
%,000 bakers—ranging from huge
paking corporations to tiny cerner
storekeepers—organized for code
purposes.
Delay had caused some disorgan
zation. The delay was largely
caused by a fight over wages and
hours.
Stude was further peeved be
cause Johnson’s office had pre
rared the White House eXecutive
order staying the code's ban on
prizes and premiums for bread sale
promotion, eliminating the five
day open-price waiting period, and
reopening the labor provision for
%0 days.
So Stude wrote Roosevelt that
the council couldn't take respon
sibility as a code authority for en
forcement and bitterly complained
that bakers were paying millions
for processing taxes, in higher ma
terial prices and increased wages
which they couldn't charge to the
consumer in higher prices.
That gave Dr. Fred Howe, AAA
Consumers’ counsel, a chance to
swing back with figures that con
sumers were paying 142 cents
more for a loaf of bread than last
year, whereas ingredientg cost but
.87 cents more.
Now there'll be some kind of
compromise—probably a restora
tion of the ban on premuims and
extension of the 90-day period.
But no rebellion against a code
and no, crackdown.
Hog farmers and cattle men who
have their suspicions of the meat
packers may be interested to hear
that the lowest revised marketing
agreement submitted by the indus
try to AAA bore the following ti
tle:
“Marketing Agreement for the
Meat Industry, including Slaugh
tering of Livestock and Processing
and Wholesaling of all Producers
of Livestock.” The document was
studied in AAA for days before
anyone caught the full implication
of that title.
For many vears the Civil Service
Commission has been specifically
rcommending punishment of fed
eral officials engaged in “shaking
‘down” employeg for campaign con
ributions, or employes engaging in
‘{rorblduen political activities.
~ Such recommendations wsually
‘have been ignored or suppressed.
Now it appears that federal em
toves can depend on protection
from Washington if politicians try
to shake them down, They can,
it least, if they work for the Trea-
Siry Department under Secretary
Morgenthau—as about 50,000 do.
Roosevelt’s demand for resigna
tion of Internal Revenue Collector
Alvin T. Fix of Philadelphia re-
Vealed that. Fix, appointed through
fforts of Democratic Boss Joe
Guffey of PFennsylvania, gets the
xe along with other officials of his
oftice, accused of levying § per cent
n salaries of employes. (Republi
‘ans used to charge them but 3%.)
Minor recommendations by the
“ommission for action have been
Wrned down, even under the New
Deal. Usually they've invelved a
fural mail carrier or some such
Persan, The Philadelphia case was
the first “shakedown” instance to
be put up to this administration—,
nd Morgenthau and Roosevelt. de
tided it shouldm’t be hushed up.
The Oriental mindreader who
erformed after Vice President
Garner's ginner for the Roosevelts
"as mindreading things which
fuests had written and sealed in
fnvelopes, = .
. Who,” he demanded, “wrote
Who will be" President in 1936—
Hé}m Fish or Huey Long? "
] T dia,” cried Roosevelt, with a
irge guffaw.
Three Athenians Are
Honored by DeMolays
COLUMBUS, Ga.— A#) —Three
Atheng bovs were among ‘hose
¥ho were elected to state offices
'Y the DeMolays in their annual
“nclave now in session here.
Those honored were Guy Smith,
“ho was made junior deacon; La-
Mar Green, named sentinel; and
Bily Drewry, who was selected
frst preceptor. i g
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
"NEW DEAL” CONGRESS BECOMES HISTORY;
NEARLY SEVEN BILLION IS APPROPRIATED
SCOTLIND YARD ON
TRAIL OF ENELIND'S
WIERDEST MYSTERY
Dissected Parts of Woman
Found in Different
Places Monday
CLUES ARE MEACER
Body Not That of Missing
American Lawyer,
Police Say
| By P. E. HARRIS
| Associated Press Foreign Staff
LONDON —(AP)— The discov
|ery of a woman's legs in London
and a woman's torso in Brighton
put Scotland Yard on the trail to
day of one of England’'s weirdest
murder mysteries.
There were only meager clues.
Both the legs and the torso were
wrapped in brown wrapping pa
per and authorities were virtually
|certa.in they belonged to the same
person. i p
Four letters, “F-o-r-d” written
on a paper at Brighton with a
blue pencil, detectives ' believed,
might serve as a signboard in the
search for the slayer.
Scotland Yard said, however,
valuable information had been di
vulged by a person ‘“sworn to se
crecy.”
Plan Examination
After an examination of the
legs, found in a suitcase which had
‘been left at King's Cross railway
station here, June 7, Sir Bernard
Spilsburg, noted home office path
ologist, planned to examine the
‘torso in Brighton and decide
whether the legs helonged to the
‘body.
' The chief of police of Brighton
‘after another examination of .the
torso said today there was no pos
sibility it was that of Miss Agnes
Tufverson, missing American law
yer. !
No scars, birthmarks or wounds
other than those caused by the
removal of the head, legs and arms
were found the officer said.
The theory that the body might
be that of a Brighton woman who
has been missing for some time
was rejected.
Miss Margaret Wardy, Brighton’s
grey-haired spinster - mayoress
who directs the official life of this
city of 25,000 inhabitants, said “the
case belongs to London, you can
be sure of that.”
Searches Being Made
In the hope of discovering other
possible clues all railway stations,
cloak rooms, and luggage deposits
in London were combed without
success.
The torso at Brighton, dismem
bered by a saw, was stuffed into
a cheap canvas trunk, with wool
wrapped about it.
The frightful discoveries came ‘;
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MAN KILLS WIFE
WITH ROLLING PIN
Argument Over $5 Shop
ping Trip Results in Chi
cago Tragedy .
CHICAGO.—(®)—With a single
blow from a rolling pin, Samuel
Miller, 43, crushed his wife's skull,
and as she slumped to the floor,
dying, he called their three chil
dgren and told them to dress. He
confessed early today to a state’s
attorney.
In the back seat of the family
automobile, he placed his wife and
started off with his three daugh
ters, Beatrice, 14, Lena, 4, and
Clara, 2, to dispose of the body,
he said.
When he reached a deserted al
ley on Chicago's south; side, he
wrapped the still living body in a
planket and tossed it to the ground,
warning his children never to tell.
Starting home, he stopped at a
lunch counter and ordered ham
burgers. The children ate theirs,
but he threw his away.
«Qhe was alive when I left her
in the alley,” he told police. “T
saw her move.”
That happened Sunday night.
The body was found Monday by a
‘rag picker. Police thought she
was the victim of a hit and run
driver.
But Joseph Hagertv, a neigh
bor, had heard the Millers quarrel
ing Sunday night and identified
the bodv at the morgue.
The oldest daughter, Reatrice
was the first to disclose the glay
ine. TFaced with this information
Miller confessed.
An argument over a %5 shopping
trip his wife had made was on®
of the features of the slaying, he
told wnolice.
“Qhe started throwing dishes at
me.” he said. “T npicked up the
rolling pin and hit her. just once.”
The children, he said, dozed on
the drive through the city.
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ful judge s, austere, caustic
tongued George M. Bourquin,
above, has resigned from the U.
S. bench to run for the U. S.
Senate from Montana as a Re
publican. A terror to liquor de
fendants in dry days, he .was
noted . for his impatience with
petty cases and his motto was,
*This court may be in error, but
never. is in doubt.”
PLOPLE OF GEORGIA
WIRK AT BEER SALE
Criffin Judge Says State
Dry Law Should Not Be
Disregarded
GRIFFIN, Ga. —(AP)— A gsly
wink has been the general answer
of Georgians to the sale of beer in
this legally dgy - state but Judge
W. E. Searcy, jr., says the law is
the law and a man's distaste for
any statute gives him no right to
disregard it.
Several months ago, when Ilegal
beer began to flow throughout the
nation, people in Georgia decided
to have their beer, too, in spite of
one of the most stringent dry laws
in the country. So the city licens
ing plan was adopted and 3.2 beer
was sold in many municipalities.
Judge Searcy charged the
Spalding county grand jury that
there is no doubt it is against the
state lJaw to sell beer or even near
beer in the state—and his voice
echoed by the city fathers of Grif
fin, who refused to license beer
here. .
The argument was made by beer
proponents that the sale of beer
would result in revenue. Judge
Searcy says that if revenue was
the only consideration, much more
money could be raised by selling
immunities to gambling houses,
burglars and murderers.
The jurist told the grand jurors
that no one has a right to disre
gard a law because he doesn’t like
it. If that were the case, he said,
every criminal would have a right
to single out the law he didn’t care
for and violate it.
- At the last session of the Geor
gia legislature a beer bill reached
the floor of the house but the
house table was as far as it got.
While dry Georgla winks and
drinks its beer to assuage a large
thrist, the Spalding county judge
says the law is the law and the
grand jury is working under in
structions to return indictments if
the evidence shows beer was sold.
Athens Lions Club
Will Hold “Ladies
Night”” This Week
The Athens Lions club will hold
a “ladles night” meeting at the
Holman hotel Thursday at 8 p. m.
All Lions club members are invi
ted to bring their wives, and, if
they are not married tobring a girl.
Members of the Pilot club, a
civic club for women which was
recently organized here, will be
guests of the Lions. .
The program for the affair will
be a musical one, and will follow
the dinner. 4
Both of these civic clubs have
been very active here for the past
few months. The Lions have in
stallad many new clubs in the va
rious towns in this section, and
recently entertained Roderick
Beddow, the international presi
dent here.
The Pilot club, newest of ecivic
organizations in Athens, has been
host to the international wice
president on several occasions.
{There are more than 20 local
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Athens, Ga., Tuesday, June 19, 1934
Georgia’s Delegates In
Congress Head Homeward
To Account for Actions
MEMBERS OF CODE
AUTHORITY RESIGN
Charge ‘‘lnsincerity and
Vacillation” in Letter to
Roosevelt
ATLANTA — () — The seven
members comprising the code au
thority for the motor vehicle Ftor
age and parking trade have resign
ed and in a letter to President
Roosevelt charged the recovery ad
ministration with “insincerity and
vacillation.”
Walter T. Candler, of Atlanta,
a member, announced the resigna
tions in protest against the NRA
order eliminating price fixing ele
ments from the code. Members
sald this order would abolish pres
ent NRA hours and wages.
The members in their letter said
the code had been accepted with
the understanding that ‘“cut-throat
competition” would be abolished.
The code provided for higher
wages and hour reduction. ¢
The letter said the code author
ity had performed every duty pre
scribed, ‘“but after sgix months of
frustration, confusion, contradiction
and total inaction on the part of
the recovery administration’s order
of May 26 attempts to wipe out
with one stroke of she pen al] that
is of possible value in the code to
the trade, retaining only its bur
den, the labor provisions, thus at
tempting. to repeal half the code
which made the other half possi
ble. Such action, if legal, must ab
rogate the entire code and will in
fact. if not in theory, abolish the
other half as to hours and wages,
“There is strong and uncontrol
lable oninion amone the comnlying
members of the rode that while for
nver six monthe thev have fullv
kent to their oblications in waged
and hours, the administration’s an
nouncement practicallv. amonnte tn
notice that the eovernment will
rnt nerform its part of the har
eain.”
- FORD’S PERSONAL
PROPERTY EVALUATED
AT EIGHT MILLION
DETROIT. — (AP) — The
Wayne county Board of Tax
Review—admitting it is large
ly guessing like most other
persons -— has valued Henry
Ford’s personal property at
$8,000,000 an increase of $2,-
000,600 over the valuation fix
ed by the city assessor of the
motor magnate’s home town,
Dearborn.
Kenneth J. McCarren, De
troit city assessor and a mem
ber of the board, sought to fix
Ford’'s personal property at
$15,000,000 which, he said,
would be a ‘very conservative”
figure, but his motion to that
effect found no support and
the lower figure was adopted.
Board members said they
attempted to obtain a state
ment from Ford, himself, but
were unsuccessful.
Ford frequently is listed
among the world’s richest men,
and the Ford family income
at one time was reported to
be $100,000,000 annually.
Members of the review
board =said that if Ford con
sidered unfair the appraisal
placed upon his personal prop
erty, he could file a protest,
like any other taxpayer.
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TREASURY POSITION
WASHINGTON.—(#)—The po
sition of the Treasury June 16
was:
Receipts, $63,072,927.21; expen
ditures, $61,179,627.45; balance,
$2,761,498,823.01; customs receipts
for the month, $11,§10,214.60,
Receipts for the fiscal year
(gince July 1), $2,968,052,435.97;
expenditures, $6,729,318,049.15 (in
cluding $3,773,835,990.34 of emer
gency expenditures); excess of ex
pendtures, $3,761,265,613.18; gold
assets, $7,831,470,621.07.
BARBECUE AT BRAY’S CAMP
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For Men and Women—Tickets 50¢ each
Get Tickets by Thursday Noon
Six Members of House
Must Campaign for
Re-election
FOUR ARE UNOPPOSED
Senators Ceorge and Rus
sell Do Not Face Voters
Of State This Year
BILL IS LOST
WASHINGTON — (AP) —
The bill by Senator George
(D., Ga.,) Lo establish a coast
life-saving station at St. Si
mons Island wea lost in the
house as congress shuffled off
to adjournment.
Representative Deen (D.,
Ga.,) said he was informed
the senate had passed the bill
too late to secure house action.
The house interstate com
merce committee declined to
act on the bill so near ad-
Journment, Senator George in
troduced the measure in Feb
ruary, .
i WASHINGTON —(AP) — With
congressional labors completed,
the Georgia delegation charted a
‘homeward course today to give an
accounting of its part in the pro
ceedings of the history making
73rd congress.
Six Georgia house members, op
posed for renomination in the
geptember primaries, welcomed thn
opportunity to start homeward
for political fence mending. The
dominant issue in most primaries
held in other states has been the
n;easure of support for the admin
igtration’s Recovery program and
&h the exception of the vote
‘which overrode President Rogse
velt on raising veterans benefits
and government workars pay, the
Georgia delegation can claim unity
of action on the matter of backing
the Roosevelt program.
Senators Walter F. George and
Richard B. Russell do not go be
fore voters in this year's primary
and four horuse members;
Vinson of the Sixth district, Rob~
ert Ramspeck of the Fifth, Paul
Brown of the Tenth and E. M.
Owen of tke Fourth, are unoppos
ed.
‘Georgians who have opposition
are Homer Parker, of the first
district, E. E. Cox, second, Bry
ant ‘T. Castellow, third, Malcolm
C. Tarver, seventh, Braswell
Deen, eighth and John 8. Wood,
ninth,
The delegation threw its weight
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BRITISH STEAMER
REPORTS PIRACY
Stripped of Valuables and
26 People Along China's
“‘Spanish Main”’
ICHEFOO, China.—(#)—The Brit
ish steamer Shuntien, stripped of
valuables and 26 passengers and
officers, arrived in Chefoo this
afternoon with a story of daring
piracy along China’s “Spanish
Main.”
One officer of the vessel was
shot and gavely wounded in res?;t
ing CHinese brigands who com
mandeered the vessel at 10 p. m.
Sunday night off the Yellow river
and heid her passengers and crew
under pistol point for 24 hours.
The captain of the steamer said
the pirates fled in junks after
abandoning the Shuntien and land
ed jn the almost inaccessable
swamps of the Yellow River del
ta, defying pursuit by British and
American warships.
The Shuntien’s captain said the
pirates were gkilled seamen and
navigated the ship themselves. The
pirates boarded the vessel as pas
sengerg at Tientsin, and later took
charge.
For 50 years warfare has been
waged against pirates along Chi
na's “Spanish Main” with varying
success. Foreign gunboatg aid
China in the fight. An official
Japanese estimate in 1932 was that
in one district alone 50,000 men
were engaged In piracy in Chinese
waters.
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The greatest thrill of her life
will come to Elizabeth M. Far
ley, above, 11-year-old daugh
ter of James A. Farley, post
master general, on July 10. On
that date she will be sponsor,
by appointment of Claude A,
Swanson, secretary of the navy,
for the destroyer Aylwin, to be
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RODSEVELT STUDIES
BRITISH SUGBESTION
Proposal Made to Im
pound GCermany’s Trade
Profits For Debts
WASHINGTON -—(AP) —Pras
ident Roosevelt and the state de
partment are inquiring into the
proposal of Great Hritain to im
pound the trade p;'ofits of Ger
many to offset the refusal of that
government to pay foreign debts.
It has been decided definitely
that the government has the power
to do this, but whather it will take
action has not bean decided.
This was made known today at
the president’s semi-weekly press
conference along wth word that
Mr. Roosevelt had arranged a
meeting with Secretary Perkins
and Senator Wagner (D., N. Y.)
to organize the new labor set-up
under the . emergency legislation
passed by congress.
" Pending the talk with his labor
aides, the president said he expec
ted the elections by workers to se
lect representatives for dealing
with employers to start as fast as
practicable. ;
However, he does not expect the
election to be held in all plants
simultaneously or even within ten
days, but they are to be as fast
a 9 time and facilities permit.
The labor legislatiop, just enac-
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Men’s Bible Class of
Prince Avenue Baptist
Church Plans Barbecue
The Men’s Bible class of Prince
Avenue Baptist church, one of the
largest religious organizations in
the city, will give a barbecue Fri
day evening at 6:30 o'clock at
Bray’'s Camp in Barberville.
Friends of the church, as well as
men and women members are in
vited to attend the barbecue, tick
#»ts for which will be fifty cents
each, and can be secured from the
‘church office. J. €. Parham is
president of the class.
The Prince Avenue Bible class
is more than twe years old, and
during that period it has grown
by leaps and bounds. The barbe
cue is an annual event for the
members and their friends, and has
come to be recognized as one of
the most interesting social events
of the year.
LOCAL WEATHER
Fair tonight and Wednesday.
The following weather report
covers the 24-hour period end
ing at 8:00 a. m. today:
TEMPERATURRE
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LIOWEEE. ... Ciis nrnv véoracdL®
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NORBL . i i i vnvi D
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
Total gince June 1...¢0000.0 5.28
Excess since Jung 11........ 2.66
Average June rainfall...... 4.10
Excess since January 1.... 3.02
Total since January 1......30.34
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Highlights of 73rd
Congress, Busiest in
Peace-Time History
By CECIL B. DICKSON
WASHINGTON.—(#)—The 73rd
congress, in performing the most
stupendous legislative task ever
faced in peacetime, kept in step
with President Rcosevelt most of
the way but now and then took a
path all its own.
Onceé it over-rode the President's
veto on an important matter, shell
ing out $223,000,000 to restore
some federal pay and veterans
benefits that had been slashed by
the economy act.
Again, it saw that amendments
to the agriculture adjustment act
——highly ' desired by the farm ad
ministration—got lost in the shuf
fle after some legislators, notably
Senator Byrd (D.-Va.) attacked
them as giving Secretary Wallace
a ‘“‘czar's” power,
This first New Deal congress
gave the executive more power,
appropriated vaster sums, and
adopted more experimental and
regulatory ' legislation than any
other peace time legislature.
During the second session qf
five and a half months it enacted
a multitude of recovery proposals
touching almost every phase of
the nation’s economie, industrial,
social and political life. The out
lays it authorized ran into bil
lions.
Since congress met and the
President addressed a joint ses
sion in January, it has delegated
some of its powers over tariff and
appropriations to the executive.
Congress widened control of ag
riculture by enacting the Bank
head cotton bill, the Kerr tobacco
bill, and ' the measure giving the
government power over domestic
production 'and importation of
e e
It enacted banking measures to
thaw frozen credit, stimulate loans
‘to industry and protect depositors.
- The house passed the soldiers
cash bonus bill over the adminis-
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STEEL WORKERS
OFFER PROPOSAL
Representatives of Union
Suggest Plan in Letter
To President
| WASHINGTON - (AP) — Rep
resentatives of the Steel Workers
union Tuesday placed before Fresi
dent Roosevelt in a lefter their
proposal for settlement of the
threatened strike in the steel in
dustry. i
Word came from Hugh 8. John
son simultaneously that he was
“very hopeful” of acceptance by
the steel industry of the union’s
four-point program for avoiding
strikes.
The NRA chief said the proposal
drawn by Willlam Green, president
of the American Federation of La
bor, seemed “very similar” to the
plan previously accepted by the
industry itself.
“I'm very hopeful about it,”” said
Johnson.
The proposal as get forth in the
letter to President Roosevelt would:
Set up ah impartial board of
three members to be appointed by
the President to handle complaints
and to mediate disputes.
' The board would be clothed with
authority to order and hold elec
ltions in plants to determine who
‘shall represent the. employes with
the organizations selected by the
majority of the employeg to rep
resent all,
Grievances and complaints, re
garding wages, hours and condi
tions of employment would be get
tled through direct negotiations be
tween the managements and rep
resentatives of the workers.
- In the event all parties accept
the proposais, the threatened steel
strike would be declared off with
the undersanding that questions in
controversy would be handled by
the board.
The letter asked the President
to submit the union’s counter pro
posals to the management of the
'iron and steel industry for their
answer at the earliest possible
date,
Mcintosh Speaks Here
Twice This Afternoon
City planning for Athens will be
discussed before the Athens ILea
gue of Women Voters this eve
ning at 6:15 when this group and
the Citizens Council hold a joint
supper meeting at the Georgian
hotel with Henry T. Mclntosh,
district chairman of the national
planning board of the Federal
Emergency administration of public
works, ag guest speaker.
Leading the discussion with Mr.
Mclntosh will be Raymond Torras,
engineer-secretary of the Atlanta
city planning commission, and J.
Houston Johnson, state engineer of
FINISH OF SE3SION
COMES LIST NIGHT
WITH LONE'S SALLY
Surprising End Comes
After Independents
Smite Opposition
GOOD WILL PREVAILS
House Members in Big
Celebration Despite
Resolution
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WASHINGTON—(®)—The seven
ty-third (New Deal) con%
which, among other things, appro
priated an estimated $6,800,000,000,
passed into history today. i
Its finale, which came at lfit;i} .
o'clock last night( eastern stand
ard time), was marked by a dra
matic coup by insurgents m‘fi&
uprorious farewell sally by Senator
Huey Long. o
The congress, besides amfi'
ating nearly seven billion dollars—
a sum without peacetime equal,
probably, in the records of any
congregs or parliament in the his
tory of the world—guaranteed an
estimated seven billion dollarg in
home mortgages and farm bonds,
sét up a two bilion dollar stab
ilization fund, passed thousands of
bills, approved between six and
eight thousand nominations and
ratified a score of treaties..
The surprising end came last
night after party independents
’arose in the seng{e and smote op
position to the Dill-Crosser bill to
set up a national hoard to cmfi'
ate labor and employers in their
disagreements in the railway in
dustry. e
‘ President Roosevelt and party
leaders had wanted the bill to go
over to the next congress, for they
feared final action would mean a
prolonged session. The insurgents,
however, with' such senators as
Wheeler (D., Mont) and La, Fol
lette (R., Wis.) in the forefront.
'kept driving ahead for action,
overcoming a one-man filibuster
by Senator Hastings (R., Del) and
finally winning against the opposi
tion of administration leaders.
~ The administration’s housing pro
gram, providing for partial govern
‘ment guarantees of loans for home
‘building and _repair, and d%
‘measures to set the construction
‘ball rolling, was the last major
item to go through. i
~ Barller the Frazier-Lemke bill
permitting a virtual six-year mor
atorium on farm mortgages had
‘passed the final stages of enact
‘ment. A filibuster by Senator
Long (D., La) in favor of this
made the galleries roar with laugh
ter,
~ He said a conference report on
it was missing and suggested that
John Dillinger would do well to
‘hide with the lost papers. G
~ “These city slickers who don't
want nothing done for the !armgl
are taking us country boys for a
snipe, hunt,” he gaid, “it’s enough
to make a man cry right here on
the floor.”
After the paperg turned up, con
ference committee clerks said Long
had them in his pocket all the
time. . ;
The day saw final action on the
huge deficiency bill, carrying more
than $2,000,000,000 for relief and
other purposes: A controversial
banking bill, making many changes
in the banking laws, went over to
the next session, thereby helping
break the long jam that thwarted
congress from winding up its bus
iness last Saturday.
“There has been more action
and less talk in this congress than
in any of my recollection,” Sena-
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Convicted Governer
" Of North Dakota to
Seek Another Term
.~ BISMARCK, N. D. —(AP) --'
Governor Willlam Langer, convies |
ted on federal conspiracy charges,
campaigned for _eelction today
while his opponents sought to
throttie his present term. &
’ Langer holds the governor’s of
\Vflce by virtue of possession—he
has ordered the Burleigh county
sheriff to s2e that only employes
are admitted. To back him up
Langer has the ruling of his at
torney general, P. O. Sathre, that
the ex=cutive powers are lawfully
his. o
'The opposing camp, seeking to
seat Lieutenant Governor Ole H.
Olson, contends Langer’s continu
ued incumbency is illegal
of his conviction with four others
on charge of consplracy to aud
the United Statss. Har o
‘Langer and the four co-defend
ants were convicted Sunday on the
charges involving solicitation es
funds from federal employes for
support of an administration
aetkly newmiae e B
; nces will be passed June./ s