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HEARING DELAY DENIED

Company Presents Witnesses to Disprove Intimidation Charges.

Thomas Hutson, state labor commissioner, today predicted a settlement of the Indiana ~ Railroad strike at Arson before tomorrow.

Bowman Elder, receiver, was scheduled to meet at 2 p. m. today with. officers of the Amalgamated Association of Electric Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees. . He already has agreed to increase wages of Anderson employees, who have been on strike since March 19, by 7! per cent. Last week he said he would not include the closed shop and checkoff agreements, and union officials said they would consider no proposal that excluded those provisions. Meanwhile, receiver's attorneys were denied a continuance until tomorrow of the hearing before a National Labor Relations Board examinér of charges brought by the union that the company had violated the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Merle Wall, receiver's attorney, said he wanted the continuance because some of the witnesses he had intended to call were in conference in an effort to end the strike. Deny Intimidation Examiner William Seagle pointed out that there were some witnesses who still were to be examined and were not in the sessions. Representatives of the company and the union were to ‘meet this afternoon with Robert Crowdrill, NLRB. district head.In testimony presented at today's NLRB hearing, the company sought to show employees were not intimi‘dated to prevent them from joining a union and that an organization of nonunion employees was formed without company approval. At the conclusion of testimony, the trial examiner, William Seagle, is to take the transcript of testimony back to Washington. He i$ “to review the’ evidence and send his findings to the National Labor Relation$ Board for final approval. The receiver's attorneys have the right to appeal the NLRB findings to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.

COUNTY TREASURERS GETS 150 BAD CHECKS

A total of 150 Marion County persons owning taxable property paid this spring installment of the taxes with bad checks that have bounced right back at Treasurer Frank McKinney, he said today. Total for checks was about $50,000, he said. Treasurer McKinney said he would give the authors of the bad checks until Wednesday either to pay the taxes or to give a satisfactory explanation. He would then throw away the checks and list the rroperty at tax delinquent, he said. liecuion for the spring instailment (was $8,717,000, he said, which is $417,000 greater than the spring installment last year. Collection of delinquent taxes was $300,000 less this time than the same a year ago because there were few delinquencies, he said. : :

ELECTION JUDGE CONFESSES FRAUD

By United Press | > KANSAS CITY, Mo. May 17.— George Arnoid, 58, Democratic judge in the 7th Precinct of the 12 Ward in the November election here, pleaded guilty to vote fraud conspiracy charges today as his trial was scheduled to start in Federal Court. It was the first guilty plea entered by any defendant indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in the investigation of voting irregularities. Several others have pleaded no defense and testified for the Government in previous trials.

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wood today.

musicians, cooks and waiters gone.

union shop and hiring hall.

rants and second-rate hotels, 2000 kitchen. @ Hotel chefs famous the world over were’ displaying their art to fellow strikers and head waiters from the same swank hotels were catering to pickets. Meanwhile ‘a strike of 2000 St. Louis hotel employees was ended after the St. Louis Hotel Association agreed to recognize five labor unions. E

Actors Sign Labor Peace

In Hollywood, movie actors and’ producers were bound today by a new contract that prohibits strikes, for the next 10 years. The higher-salaried stars gave a

few concessions, won about 30 in return, and their demands for better salaries for minor players, over which they had threatened to strike, were granted in full. Two thousand actors turned out last night for the decisive meeting of the Screen Actors’ Guild. The executive committez announced it had ratified the 10-year contract and that practically all major studios had signed it.

Steel Strike Threatened

In Pittsburgh, five of the nation’s largest independent steel companies today faced the prospect of having their plants closed by strikes unless

they sign contracts with John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers Organizing Committee within 10 days. These companies — Bethlehem Steel Corp., Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Inland Steel and Crucible Steel—employ 190,000 of the nation’s 500,000 steel workers. In an emergency session Saturday, the executive committee of the Lewis union, headed by Philip Murray, organized its forces for a “showdown” fight and gave nonsigning companies 10 days to accede to union demands. i National Labor Relations Board officials are to conduct a hearing today at Lewiston, Me., to determine whether the four largest of the 19 factories involved in the 53-day shoe workers’ strike violated the Wagner act by refusing to bargain with employees. Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers Union, announced today a meeting of delegates from General Motors Corp. locals would be held in June to draft new proposals to be made to the corporation in a revised agreement. . Officials of General Motors and

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sporadic strike outbreaks in General Motors plants. . Briggs Body Corp. closed its Meldrum Ave. plant today when maintenance men struck in a dispute over wages.

5 INJURED AS ROLLER DERBY STANDS FAL

West Bleachers Collapse at Coliseum.

Five persons were injured last night when bleachers collapsed at the roller skating derby in the Fairgrounds Coliseum.’ All were treated at Methodist Hospital and sent home. None was seriously injured. They were sitting on the top row of the bleachers, eight or: 10 tiers high, according to-witnesses, when the west end of the bleachers collapsed. ' > Those injured were Miss Frances Dine, 19, of 935 N. Keeling Ave.: Miss Louise Yount, 42, of 102 E. Pleasant Run Blvd.; Miss Pauline Shellenberger, 28, of 506 E. Washington St.; Miss Beulah Haet, 24, also oi 506 E. Washintgon St., and Mrs. Fredereca McDoweH, 35, of 4150 College Ave. Fair Grounds officials declined to comment on the mishap.

SOVIET PURGES UNIONS By United Dress MOSCOW, May 17.—The “purge” of alleged Trotskyists from official life has hit the trade unions, it was disclosed today, and seven lead£rs in the unions have been arrested.

By United Press COATESVILLE, Ind., May 17.— Wade Millman, 88, was prepared for death today. He has imported and set up his own tombstone, fashioned his own coffin, and yesterday he preached his own funeral sermon. Even his pallbearers have been paid off—a fact in which he takes particular pride. Five thousand persons attended his funeral services yesterday in tiny Canaan rural church. Three hundred jammed. into the pews and the et. gathered outside to listen throu open windows. .

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Strikers Dine Royally, Public Second Class in Hotel Strife on Coast

Musicians, Cooks and Waiters Walk Out of Los Angeles and Frisco Hostelries; Actors and Producers Sign Contract.

. By United Press A hotel strike threatened to spread through Los Angeles and Holly-

Two main dining rooms were closed at the Beverly-Wilshire, with

Ray Finnelli, leader of the Cooks,

Waiters and. Bartenders Union, said he would meet operators of the Ambassador and Biltmore Hotels to make the same demands for a closed

In San Francisco, while wealthy visitors took their food at restau-

strikers from the 16 leading San

Francisco hotels dined sumptuously today at the world’s finest soup

WRONG WEATHER WRONGS CROPS

Truck Growers Delayed; Mercury May Reach 75 Today.

TEMPERATURES 85 10 a. m... 60 11 a. m... 62 12 (Noon) 64 1 p.m...

LOCAL oY... 65 68 68

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May, it seems, hasn’t done right by the farmers of Marion County, and {ruck growers already have been delayed so long that few of them will participate in the first or premium markets, Horace Abbott, county agricultural agent. said today. There has, the Weather Bureau said, been a deficiency of temperature for the month so far of 44 degrees, and there have been cnly 114 hours of sunshine. Fifty-four per cent of the daylight hours have been sunny, good for -crops, but the month-long average for May is 61 per cent. And even though there has been a precipitation deficiency for the month, the excess for the year so far has been 1.15 inches. Mr. Abbott said that there is virtually no. corn planted yet, whereas usually some corn is in by May 1, and that some of the ground for corn isn't even broken yet. On the brighter side, he said octs and wheat have made wonderful improvement in the last couple of weeks and that pastures are now better than normal. Temperatures of around 75 were predicted for today bythe ‘bureau.

W. WASHINGTON ST. PROJECT RESCINDED

Taxpayers Win Against Repairs.

Fight

Following protests of between 75 and 85 property owners at the first hearing this morning, the Works Beard rescinded action on the proposed improvement of four blocks of W. Washington St., between Traub Ave., and Tremont St. The warnings from City Engineer Henry B. Steeg that the sector is “practically beyond repair.” He said that permanent improvement is necessary. y Under the proposed plan which has been turned down, property owners were to have to pay only 25 per cent of the total cost, estimated at $2.32 per lineal foot. The city was to bear the remaining 75 per cent of the cost. The chief objection of the protesting property holders was that the widening and other permanent repairs would increase safety on the Street and would be of benefit to the state generally but that they would not increase the abutting property valuaticn.

PAYMENTS ON JOB BENEFITS TAX FREE

By United Press , WASHINGTON, May 17.—Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering ruled today that employer and employee contributions under . state unemployment insurance laws approved by the Social Security Board are deductible in Federal income tax returns. These contributions may be deducted as business expenses except in such states where they are classified as taxes. In, the latter case they must be deducted as taxes and

not as business expenses.

Helvering ruled further that such contributions paid to the state fund are deductible in the employer's

Federal income tax return for the

taxable year in which they are paid.

complaint was that he found it difficult to preach at his own sermon —something he believed hg was the first to attempt, “If a man had lived a nice, moral life it is no task for him to preach his own sermon, but for a bad man it is difficult,” he said. “I have lived a moderately moral life, so I don’t know how to preach my own funeral.” : With watery eyes and a fired, strained voice he made the best of his situation with personal and classical anecdotes. Fires burned in the church's two iron stoves, kerosene lamps flickered on walls, the old piano stood silent in its corner as Millman

action was. taken despite.

MONDAY, MAY 17,

15 AUTO DEAD INCLUDE 8 IN TWO FAMILIES

Week-End . Traffic Toll Heavy as Sunshine Lures Drivers.

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POLICE VETERAN KILLED

Sellersburg Couple and Child, 2, Die as Train ~ Strikes Car.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

May 15 and 16

Accidents Injured

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

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Fifteen Hoosiers died in traffic this week-end as beautiful weather lured thousands to the highways. Nine were killed in the state, six in adjoining Ohio. Two persons were injured seriously in Indianapolis traffic. : ‘George Hanicn, veteran Hammond policeman, was killed when: struck by an automobile as he was | directing traffic around a telephone pole which had fallen across a street intersection. John Orr, 36, Indiana Harbor, driver, was arrested. Three Sellersburg residents were killed at a crossing near there when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train. The dead are Russell McCoy, 33; his wife, Mary, 27, and their 2-year-old daughter, June. Woodrow C. Powers, 21. Boonville, and Miss Elva Long, ELE /2:15ville, were killed when tie au.omobile in which they were riding plunged into a ditch on State Road

45 near Evansville. . Terre Haute Man Killed

Aetna L. Whitecotton, 36, Terre

Haute, was killed when his automobile plunged into a culvert. Herbert V. Wardle, 54, Terre Haute, died from injuries when his truck overturned, pinning him heneath the cab. ; Mrs. Royce Middleton, 54, died from injuries received in an automobile accident near Lincoinviile Friday. A woman and her four children, all residents of Scipio, were killed near Hamilton, O., when their auto was struck by a train. The dead are Mrs. Marion Campbell, 54, and her children, Martha, 16; Paul, 12; Vinie, 8, and Lena, 19. Another child, Mary, is in critical condition. Mrs. Truman Wolgamuth, 48, Logansport, was killed and three other persons injured, one seriously, when two cars crashed head-on six (Turn to Page Three)

FAMILY TO ATTEND ROOSEVELT WEDDING

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 17. — The entire Franklin D. Roosevelt family plans to attend the wedding of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Miss Ethel du Pont at Greenville, Del, on June 30, Mrs. Roosevelt disclosed today. Younger members of the family, including Mr. and Mrs. John Boeitiger of Seattle, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt of Ft. Worth, Tex., plan to go to Greenville the day before the wedding, while the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, and the President's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, will arrive on the wedding day.

POPE ORDERED TO REST By United Press CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, May 17.—It was learned today that Prof. Aminta Milani, personal physician to Pope Pius XI, had ordered the Pontiff to cancel all audiences until Wednesday “at least,” and take a “much needed rest.” 2 ORATOR BREAKS LEG LANGLEY, S. C, May 17.—Louis Togneri, candidate for county superintendent, has always been proud of the fervor of his political oratory. He became so fervent yes- | terday that he walked off the edge of the platform and broke his leg.

Hoosier Farmer Preaches On Funeral; Gala Thousands Join 8-Minute Prayer

preached “everything was better in the old days,” and “you must know ‘how to do things to do them.” He wore his gray felt hat most: of the 42 minutes he talked, and nibbled frequently from an orange. He related how a famous man stood up an egg by bashing its end, attributing the classic incident to Benjamin Franklin. ‘When the audience snickered at his difficulties, he invited them to go ahead and laugh if I say anything to amuse you.” _He told how he married his wife because she owed him $600. Mis wife’s sudden death, two weeks ago,

caused a. temporary postponement (Tum to Page Three) |

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Race Starter

Dick Merrill (waving) and his copilot, Jack Lambie, are seen above at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, as they climbed from their silver, dual-motored plane after completing a flight from London with pictures of the coronation of King George VI.

MERRILL NAMED TRACK OFFICIAL

Trans-Atlantic Birdman to Fly Sports Writers Here For Classic.

Dick Merrill, .who flew from New York to London and back last week to return pictures of the coronation, has been named official starter for the 500-mile race here May 31, T. E. (Pop) Myers, general manager of the Speedway, announced today. Merrill is expected to arrive from New York several days before the race, flying a group of Eastern sports writers, and will return the following day. He is arriving early to acquaint himself with the identity of each of the 33 starting cars. The young flier made his first attempt at a round-trip New YorkLondon flight last summer when he flew Harry Richman, songster, over the Atlantic and back, bogging down in Newfoundland on the return. Last winter Merrill saved passengers and crew of an air liner lost in fog, landing them safely. in Port Jervis. N. Y. He is to be assisted at the Speedway this year by Seth Klein, veteran official.

ATTEMPTS TO FORM GABINET FOR SPAIN

Dr. Juan Negrin Called to Organize Ministry.

By Uniled Press VALENCIA, Spain, May 17.—Dr. Julian Negrin, Socialist and Finance Minister in the retiring Cabinet, attempted the formation of a unified Spanish Government today to insure victory in the Spanish civil war. With rebels hammering at the zates of Bilbao, with Madrid besieged, with Catalonia torn by internal quarrels, the Loyalists for the moment were without a cabinet. Factions which made up the Loyalist coalition government split wide apart on a bold move by Francisco Largo Caballero, Premier and War Minister, to centralize power under him for a drive to win the war. As result, Largo Caballero, militant left wing Socialist leader, refused to continue efforts to reorganize his ministry.

Loyalists Rout Albanian Rebels

By United Press _ TIRANA, Albania, May 17.—Government troops advanced today against rebels who seized -Argyrokastron, chief city of southern Albania, and neighboring towns, the official news agency asserted. Government forces routed the rebels after a skirmish on the Va-lona-Tepeleni road, and continued to pursue them southward toward Tepelini. Government sources attributed the revolt to men inspired by “communistic tendencies.” Etem Toto, minister of interior in a previous cabinet; an officer of ‘the gendarmerie and e former Army captain, led the rebels.

Edict Against Veils Blamed for Revolt

ZAGREB, Jugoslavia, May 17.—A decree by King Zog ordering Mohammedan women to stop wearing veils in public was believed today to have precipitated the revolt in southern Albania.

By United Press BERLIN, May 17. —- Fuehrer Adolf Hitler may propose to, Pre-

complete neutrality in Spain, it was reported today. Mussolini is expected to visit Hitler next month.

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POLICE CLAIM MOTHER SLEW OWN DAUGHTER

Confession Reported, Blaming Killing on Lack of Room for Children.

SON SURVIVES ATTACK

N. Y. Woman Reveals Two Youngsters Stood in Way Of Love Affair.

By United Press NEW YORK, May 17.—Mrs. Helen Tiernah, 28-year-old pleating factory employee, confessed today, police announced, that she kiled her

8-year-old daughter on tried

to kill her 5-year-old son James, because she had no room for them in her three-room apartment. Inspector Francis J. Kear of the 47th Street Police Station, where Mrs. Tiernan was questioned for several hours after first saying a “strange man” attacked her children, announced that “we have a complete confession from this woman.” Inspector Kear said-that “she was in love with a man and because she had only a three-room apartment, she” thought the two children were in the way.” ‘I Did It Alone’ The officer said that Mrs. Tiernan “insists she did it alone.” A -story told by the injured boy in Community Hospital, Patchogue, indicated, however, that two men, “George” and “Carman,” were with Mrs. Tiernan before the attack took place in the woods east of Brookhaven, on Long Island. The boy, recovering from head bruises and a cut in his throat, told officers his mother took him and the girl “on the train” to a station where two men met them. He described the men as “my two dadies.’ The men, he said, drove them some place in a blue automobile. Police said they knew the identity of “George,” but said he was not in custody. Fo The alleged confession came 24 hours after a Brockhaven boy and girl, taking a Sunday afternoon stroll in the woods, came upon the body of the girl. Officers found the blood-stained handle and head of a hatchet and discovered evidence that the killer had attempted to destroy the body by fire. Autopsy physicians said the girl was severely (Turn to Page Three)

SINGLE SWAT NOW

In Other Words, Kill Those Pesky Flies at Once.

This is the time of the year when a person can kill 1,000,000 housefliss with one well-aimed blow of the swatter. Frank Wallace, State Entomologist, said today that during the last two weeks there has been a stirring of houseflies who hibernated during the winter. : He said each of these are potential founders of fly ‘dynasties, which, before the summer ended, would contain approximately 1,000,000 flies each. This is why a fly swatted now ends all that before it is begun, he said. Mr. Wallace said he has killed two and now he's resting a while:

‘NONE INJURED’ IN WRECK THAT KILLS 1

By United Press PAOLA, Kas., May 17.—An accident in which none was injured, was blamed today for two more in which one woman was killed and another was hurt. On Highway 169, near here, a car in which 0 youths were returning from Osawatomie failed to make a curve and turned over. A few minutes later Miss Ardith Resh, 22, Paola, was killed when a car struck the side of a machine in which she was sitting by the roadside. Later, another car, swerving to avoid the second accident, struck Mrs. W. W. Hunt of Paola, crushing one leg.

THREE KILLED AT RACE LANGHORNE, Pa., May 17.— Three youths were killed and four other persons injured in a racing automobile accident at Langhorne Speedway yesterday.

FATAL TO MILLIONS

PRICE THREE CENTS

Before June 1.

‘Windfall’ Levy Found Valid for Suits Under AAA.

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 17.— The Supreme Court today virtually assured decisions on constitutionality of the unemployment insurance and old-age pension phases of the New Deal Social Security Act by June 1 when it announced that date as ending its present court term. Announcement that the term will end June 1 came after a session

which brought several decisions of significance, but no ruling in the important pending social security tests. * - Decisions of the Court today included: An opinion in which the Court declined to strike down the “windfall tax” provisions of the 1936 Revenue Act and approved the procedure set up by Congress for bringing suits to recover taxes paid under the invalidated agricultural adjustment administration: ' Chain Store Act Upheld A decision upholding the farreaching tax provisions of the Louisiana Chain Store Act. The act imposes graduated taxes upon chain store concerns with -the number of stores operated by the chain anywhere—even outside Louisiana—bea-

‘ing the factor which determines the

amount of the tax. An opinion condemning the new Washington state law which provides for sentencing of convicted criminals by the Parole Board rather than the trial judge, in an appeal brought by E. R. Lindsey, Seattle attorney, and his son, Elbert B. Lindsey. An opinion approving orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission which directed carriers serving large industries to discontinue delivering cars to specified places within plant properties or making an allowance in rates for those industries maintaining their own rail service. The Court also denied the motion of the State of Texas for dismissal of the appeal of the United Gas Public Service Co. from rate orders fixing gas rates to be charged domestic consumers in Laredo, Tex.

Significant for New Deal

The processing tax decision was regarded as of major importance to the Government, although the Court indicated it would examine each case brought before it. The Louisiana decision had wide

implications. The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., one of the chain organiza-

the Supreme Court, contended operation of the heavy tax would virtually make it impossible for - the large chain concern to do business in the state. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes read the processing opinion with Justice James C. McReynolds dissenting. Justices - Harlan PF. Stone and Benjamin N. Cardozo concurred in the decision but reserved their opinion on some phases of the case. The -tax recovery provisions upheld bythe Supreme Court provide that in any suit for recovery of taxes -paid under the invalidated" AAA the processor must show proof thdt he did not pass the tax on to either consumer or producer.

53 DEAD IN SHIP BLAST By United Press LONDON, May 17.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Hong Kong today reported that 53 Chinese, Indian and Japanese passengers were killed in a boiler explosion aboard a Japanese steam

launch, and that 30 others were missing. 3

By United Press : MONTREAL, May 17.—Three of Canada’s second quadruplets of 1937, born two months prematurely yesterday, died today and the other had less than an even chance of surviving. The children—three boys and a girl—were born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martel. The husband, driver of a bakery wagon, jokingly told his wife .rly yesterday: J “Maybe we’ll beat the Dionnes.” Three hours later a girl, first of the four, was born before a doctor arrived. Dr. J. A. Barrette, who had attended Mrs. Martel, arrived in

time to delivew the three boys. girl. while the father

3 of 4 Quads Die With 4th Barely Clinging to Life

hunted frantically for a doctor. When Dr. Barrette arrived he had no time to sterilize his instruments or hands before he wenf to work. There wasn’t any hot water available, but neighbors managed to get some heated before the second child arrived. Two of the quads, the girl and one of the boys, died in St. Justine Hospital. The second boy died just before daybreak. Hospital officials said the survivor had less than a 50-50 chance of living. The first Canadian quadruplets of 1937 were born Jan, 21 to Mr. and Mrs. Aracade Dondeau of St. Thomas de Joliette. One, y is alive in St. Justine Hospi

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FARLEY TO LEAD CONGRESS FIGHT | FOR COURT BILL

President Is Irked by, Verdict Expected | Senate Opposition /

On Judiciary.

Observers See White House Concessions As Likely.

(Editorial, Page 10) By United Press» . | WASHINGTON, May 17.— The lash of White House dis pleasure snapped over the Senate today and Postmaster General James A. Farley took command of the Administra

tion drive to expand the Sue

preme Court from nine to 15 members. The Court met at noon possibly to render an opinion on the constitutionality of unemployment insurance. The Senate Judiciary Committee meets tomor=

row to vote on President Roosevelt's Court expansion plan. Rejection of the Court program

by the Committee is practically cer~

tain. Various substitutes are before the Committee but some of the “compromise” Senators who backed substitutes against Mr. Roosevelt's original proposal are believed now to prefer a straight test and an alle or-nothing decision. . This strategy is attributed to ree sentment against Mr. Roosevelt's re« fusal to compromise, and Mr. Farley’s week-end intimation that the pressure of White House displeasure would scorch recalcitiant Demo= crats. Compromise Expected

Belief, however, persists here that Mr. Roosevelt will agree to come promise when the time is ape propriate, possibly on an increase of the Court by two members. The Committee’s action tomorrow will carry the Court debate to the Senate floor. Mr. Farley's attitude promises to arouse stormy protest. Emerging from a conference with Mr. Roosevelt at-the White House, Mr. Farley said there would be no compromise on. the Court bill. “The bill is going through,” Mr. Farley said. “When Senator O’Mahoney comes down here wanting help on a sugar bill, his conscience

when Pat McCarran wants aid for: his state? view.” Wait Senate Objection

ator from Wyoming and formerly one of Mr. Farley's assistant poste master generals, and Mr. McCarran, Nevada Democrat, both are oppose the Court bill. There is some confusion as to Mr. Farley’s frank statement of Administration strategy. I} was heard by several newspapermen, most of he Postmaster General's words were “off the rece ord.” But the remarks were printed, nevertheless, and protest is expected

tion that pressure is to bs exerted as the Court plan nears debate on the floor. Mr. Farley met Mr. Roosevelt ‘in Indiana en route from gulf fishing waters and was able to get his encouraging words in the President's ear before the Congressional lead ers could meet with the President.

Amendment Proposed Senator Logan (D. Ky.) ane nounced today he would offer three modifications to the judiciary reore ganization bill. ;

The compromises provide: That the Supreme Court shall be

.| fixed permanently at nine members,

but this number may temporarily be increased “from time to time.” To achieve this increase, he would pro= vide that justices shall be eligible for retirement at 75 years if they have served 10 years on the Court, If, within six Months after bee coming eligible, a justice fails to re tire, the President may appoint an aditional justice to the Court. Such additional justices may be appointed for each justice who fails to retire as permitted, but the Court would not permanently be increased. 2

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CHAIN TAX WINS ‘NO COMPROMISE’

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