The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1936, Page 1

b a2. | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 Fake Call BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1936 i America’s Neutral Lures Doctor to Death Skillful Children’s Physician Found Slain in Rear Seat of His Car Chicago, Jan. 4.—(7)—A new and savage twist was given Saturday to the mysterious murder of Dr. Silber . Peacock when coroner’s physicians reported the child specialist's slayer had apparently attempted to scalp him. : Police Capt. Martin McCormick, who received the coroner's report, said nine knife wounds were found com- pletely encircling the victim’s head. This apparently was done, Capt. McCormick said, after the 40-year-old pediatrician had been killed by & revolver shot through the forehead. Woman oned Dr. Peacock, lured from his fashion- able apartment hotel late Thursday night, after a woman had telephoned, was found last night in his sedan, three miles from his home. While making efforts to identify the mysterious woman caller, who told the physician a child was in dire need of his attentions, police set out to hunt for another suspect, a chiroprac tor. Dr. Peacock’s widow said an angry man stormed her husband’s offices | ..4 three months ago to charge that Dr. Peacock had performed an illegal ope- tation upon the caller’s wife. Some evidence pointed to the chiro- practor, McCormick said, as this fur- lous visitor. Found in Car Almost 24 hours after the doctor hurried from his home in the fashion- able Edgewater Beach apartments, his body was found in a pool of blood slumped in the rear of his automobile. He had been shot once through the head and his skull was crushed by blows from some weapon, probably 8 pistol butt or a hatchet. Each theory for the slaying was rejected as rapidly as the next could be hazarded, ‘The first-auggested. was. robbery but . this was abandoned promptly because while his wallet was missing, his jewelry was undisturbed. Another suggestion was that gang- sters might have shanghaied him to treat a wounded companion. The pos- sibility of revenge on the part of a disgruntled patient was investigated. Discredit One Theory The possibility that a narcotic ad- dict might be the slayer was partly discredited when it was pointed out Dr. Peacock, a pediatrician, seldom used narcotics in the treatment of children, Acting Capt. Marin McCormick of the Summerdale police station said he had learned the slain physician was connected with the federal narcotic division and that addicts might have lured him to his death to prevent his testifying against them. Dr. Peacock, 40, was regarded as a skillful member of his branch of the medical profession. He had been prac- ticirig for 10 years since his graduation from Rush Medical college. Sick Family Will Be Flown to Medical Aid Port Arthur, Ont., Jan. 4.—(#)—An airplane mercy flight to bring an ail- ing family here for medical attention from its isolated home was planned Saturday. Airmen took weather observations fn connection with the plan of Dr. J. W. Cook of Port Arthur to send a plane to the Lawrence Major family on_Saganagons lake. Dr. Cook Friday visited the home, 70 miles inland from Grand Marais, Minn., and found Mrs. Major and one child ill. Several days ago, Es- ther, 5, a daughter, died from an un- diagnosed malady. Hauptmann Watched For. Possible Story Trenton, N. J., Jan. 4.—(P)—State officials are watching closely for any possibility of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann's shedding light on some of the unexplained phases of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, With Hauptmann scheduled to die the week of Jan. 13 for the kidnap-murder of the infant, Col. Mark O. Kimberling, state prison warden, disclosed he is making fre- quent trips to the death house “in case Hauptmann has to tell.” ’ Cloquet Wood Plant Under Troops’ Guard St. Paul, Jan. 4. — (®) — Adjutant General E. A. Walsh said National - Guard troops Saturday were mobil- ized and ordered to Cloquet, Minn., to intervene in a labor dispute at the Herbst Forest Dixfield company. One hundred men from the 125th Id Artillery under command of Elmer McDevitt, Duluth, were route to Cloquet this morning,; Walsh said, following threats of strik- ts to burn the plant Friday night. company is a manufacturer of products. ICKES RAPS FDR FOES . hester, N. Y., Jan. 4.—(#)—Se- Ickes Saturday accused critics ithe Roosevelt administration's tax lation of advocating “soak the program. “Everyone capable of thinking knows that a sales & graduated income tax in re- It bears most heavily upon able to pay.” What Others Think of Talk (By the Associated Press) Expressions of opinion on Presi- dent Roosevelt’s address to congress Tange from “wonderful and cour- fageous,” to “rabble-rousing.” Reaction to the annual message for se most part was cleft by party 68, Senator Robinson, Arkansas, ma- Jority leader: “The president defends the New Deal and challenges its opponents in words that ring with confidence and defiance.” Fletcher, chairman, Re- publican national committee: “It did not give to the congress in- formation of the. state of the union, nor recommend to their considera- tion such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. It was a Political harangue; it was a challenge to a straw man to submit to a sub- servient and gagged congress the fa- vorite socialistic features of the New not the opening of congress. It is the opening of a political cam- paign which will be hot, rabble-rous- ing and intolerant.” Senator Nye (Rep.-N. D.): “Fine appeal. A challenge to the old guard in the Republican party.” Senator Barbour (Rep.-N. J.): “He has announced his candidacy in the best bedtime story on the state! of the nation ever delivered.” Norman Thomas, Socialist leader: “The speech of a clever political ! New York Herald-Tribune—(Repub- lican): The unconscious irony of the| message lay in the sharp contrast: between.its devotion to peace abroad! and its incitement to hatred at home. | . . . In his message he for the first | time made the fomenting of hutred among Americans his open goal. New York Times — (Democratic): His defense of his own administra-/ tion was, as had been indicated in advance, a challenge to his political enemies and a rallying summons to his supporters. . . . But the grave and weighty words which he employs with regard to international affairs give to his address an which will be instantly recognized. New York Post (Independent Lib- eral): The president’s mesgeife was challenge to autocracy.... Last night Mr. Roosevelt was in a fighting mood. «+. To @ morally and politically bankrupt although highly vocal tory opposition, he threw down the gaunt- let of combat. . . Despite tory clamor, he has the overwhelming majority of the American people whole-heartedly behind him. Washington Star (Independent): In the president's address, which was} ® masierpiece of words and excel- lently delivered, it was difficult to discern a recommendation, with the exception of a commendation to the congress of American neutrality and; a@ new law on that subject. Missed More Detail Cleveland Plain Dealer (Independ- ent, Democratic): ‘The nation would have welcomed a message with more (Continued on Page Three) 1 Roosevelt Lashes Foes Far and Near ity Policy Heightens European Crisis PRONOUNCEMENT OF (Crosson Again Awaits FRESH PEACE ACTION INTRIGUES CAPITALS U. S. Oil Export Ban to Force League to Follow Suit Is British Belief RED CROSS WORKER DIES Italy Sees Hope in Elasticity of Neutrality Measure Pro- posed in America (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) Addis Ababa, Jan.4—The Ethio- pian government ‘announced Sat- day six Italian airplanes had from the head of the hospital to Dr. T. A. Lambie, head of the Ethiopian Red Cross, mentioned no casualties. (By the Associated Press) Italian bombs rained anew on ex- plosive-pocked Ethiopia Saturday as proposed changes in America’s neu- trality policy heightened a rapidly returning European crisis. An Ethiopian communique announc- ed a fleet of Italian planes bombarded heavily the region south of Makale, on the northern front, killing 10 per- sons and wounding 15 in the sector where Emperor Haile Selassie’s de- fenders have been waging their first major offensive. Far from the zone of war, in Wash- ington, a pronouncement of a fresh neutrality policy, subject to the will of @ newly convened congress, caused a sensation in European capitals. , League to Ape U. 8. ‘The general belief prevailed in Lon- | don that if the Roosevelt administra- tien restricted exports of oil as a war material, the League of Nations would follow suit. Premier Mussolini has warned in the past that an oil em- bargo would mean “fight.” Further adding to the European imbroglio over factors tangent to the war in East Africa was the death of Gunner Lundstrom, one of the Swed- ish Red Cross workers wounded dur- ing an Italian air raid last Monday on the southern front. Dr. Fried Hylander, chief of the Swedish Red Cross unit in Ogaden province, himself wounded, described the Fascist air raid as an “utterly de- liberate act.” Called War Stimulant President Roosevelt's internationally broadcast annual message to congress was received in Paris as possibly increasing, instead of hindering, war preparations. Im- position of an oil embargo was be- ‘a | lieved possible now because Mr. Roose- velt’s program to restrict exports to belligerents of essential war materials to peacetime levels. The European crisis incident to the war, relieved for a time by the intro- duction of the ill-fated Franco-Brit- ish scheme for peace, was regarded in Ronson: as rapidly coming to a head agi The question of an oil embargo will be revived in Geneva in about a fort- night, and informed sources said Great Britain, a leader in the League of Nations, would be influenced by the American attitude in determining its own stand on the controversial question. See Hope in Elasticity Rome regarded the “elasticity” of the Roosevelt neutrality policy as its most hopeful feature, but apprehen- sion was expressed in informed quar- ters lest the American program should Fargo-Minot Bus Is Missing Near Harvey Fargo, N. D., Jan. 4—(#)—Unre-' ported for more than 24 hours, an overland bus operated by the Checker | company of Fargo is believed to be snowbound somewhere between Har- vey and Fessenden. It was last heard from at Harvey when it pulled out for Fessenden at 9:30 a, m. Friday. Besides the driver, Ray Martinson, it is believed there are not more than one or two pas- sengers in the seven passenger Buick car. The bus runs from Minot to L. T. Stensland, company man- ager here, said he had checked all along the line and believed it had pulled into some farm yard where no phone was available when the storm drove it off the road. He did not be- leve there was reason for serious con- cern, Better Business Seen By Armour Managers St. Paul, Jan. 4.—(®)—G. D. Cur- rie, South St. Paul, district manager for Armour & Co., sald Priday night generally improving conditions were reported by house managers holding | their annual conference here. They come from North and South Dakota Wisconsin and Northern Michigan as well as Minnesote, ETHIOPIA ASKS PROBE Geneva, Jan. 4.—(?)—Ethiopia offi-' cially asked the League of Nations! Saturday to send a commission of iv- quiry to the African battlefields to in- be susceptible to the “influence of Great Britain and fanatical sanc- tionists.” Informed Italian sources said limt- tation of American oil exports to peacetime levels would mean Italy would receive from America only about ie cent of its normal oil consump- The British public listened in on President Roosevelt's annual message to the congress with an anxious earnestness such as has not been given to any n_ since the World War year, 1918. Many sat up until 2 a. m. to hear the voice of the American president, broadcast across the Atlantic. The Japanese press, while giving Prominence to the Roosevelt message, in geyeral declined to consider Japan as one of the militarist nations de- scribed by the president. Some high German sources saw Roosevelt’s neutrality policy as sim- ilar to that of Germeny, and news- Papers interpreted the speech as in- dicating “the end of dollar diplo- macy.” Norbeck to Support Borah’s Candidacy Senator Borah the “outstanding lib- eral candidate,” Senator Peter Nor- beck (Rep. 8. D.), placed himself definitely on record for Republican nomination of the Idahoan for presi- dent. ens LEAGUE AID SOUGHT Geneva, Jan. 4.—(?)—Soviet Russia appealed to the League of Nations against Uruguay's breaking of diplo- matic relations with the U. 8. 8. R. asking that the dispute be heard at vestigate war conditions and establish responsibility for “war crue! the mid-January scesions of the League courcil, Washington, Jan. 4.—(#)—Calling | JOE CROSSON Mercy Flight Orders Two Doctors Fighting to Halt Spread of Scarlet Fever in Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska, Jan. 4—(?)— Two doctors battled to halt the spread of scarlet fever Saturday while Alas- ka’s famed “mercy pilot” awaited or- ders to speed serum here by plane. Ten persons suffering from the dis- ease and numerous others suspected of having it were in the town’s Gen- eral hospital. The only two physi- cians in the town were handicaped by lack of facilities, including an ade- quate isolation ward. Pilot Joe Crosson, 32-year old ve- teran of many northland emergency flights, was ready to take off for Jun- eau where a sufficient supply of ser- um was believed available, but no plane to carry it could be found. Un- less one is located Saturday, Pilot Crosson will be called upon to make the round-trip. | j Bismarck’s firemen were called out Saturday, not to put out a fire, but to prevent one. ‘The call came from the state regu- latory department laboratory in the Bank of North Dakota building, Soot in a ventilating flue caught ‘fire and began to heat the cooper pipe which encased the flames. Culver 8. Ladd, laboratory chief, feared the heated pipe might fire to the tar roof “and if that happened Firemen Called to Prevent Blaze, Not | to Put Out One I wanted the fire department to be handy,” he commented. ‘The fire department came and watched but the roof did not catch |fire, Saturday afternoon they were wondering whether or not to classify the call as a false alarm. ‘The firemen also answered a call jto the George Kaiser residence, 709 Third 8t., where they extinguished a blaze in the basement wall, which had been ignited by the hot chimney. There was little damage but consider- able smoke. ! 944108 GAIN IN 33 Receipts at Local Postoffice To- tal $239,218 for Last 12 Months Stamp sales for 1935 at the Bis- marck post office showed a $14,103.21 gain over 1934, according to figures ireleased Saturday by Postmaster Walter Sather. In 1934, the previous banner year at the local post office, receipts-total- | ed $225,115.64 as compared with $239,- 218.85 for the 12-month period just | ended. Postage collections have been stead- ily increasing since the low point reached in 1932, Sather pointed out. Sales totaled $213,283.91 in 1929, fell off to the lowest point in the five- year period in 1930 when they amounted to $185,882.80, rose again to $208,130.30 in 1931 and then slipped back to $198,212.88 in 1932 before be- ginning the steady upward climb. Post office officials here are look- ing ‘forward to the New Year with a little trepidation. With the proposed construction of a new north wing to the federal building a virtual certain- ty in 1935, the business of moving to temporary quarters and carrying on business in unfamiliar surroundings promises to divulge a considerable amount of extra work upon both clerks and officials. ‘The prospect of a remodeled build- ing with adequate space to handle the increasing volume of business, how- ever, will more than compensate the Post office heads for the inconvenience of moving and establishing new quar- ters. The new $235,000 addition is expected to be ready for occupancy in 1937. A comparative summary by quar- ters of postal receipts for 1934 and 1935 are shown in the following table: 1934 1935 - $ 66,310.22 $ 65,326.85 - 53,696.11 59,010.30 - 57,787.34 63,005.53 41,321.97 51,876.17 Totals .. $225,115.64 $239,218.85 NEW FARGOAN DIES Fargo, N. D., Jan, 4.—(F)—L. O. ‘Wampler, 57, of Minneapolis, died in Fargo Friday. He had resided here about four weeks. With $30,000 New York, Jan. 4—(7)—An aged recluse, trembling with palsy, lay near death Saturday, too weak to explain ;how his sister-in-law died of star- vation in their barren, icy home when they had a $30,000 fortune and plen- tiful food available. ‘The body of Mrs. Anna Cloutier, 60, was found in bed Friday night in an unheated room. A physician said death had occurred at least three days before. Amodee Cloutier, lay in an ad- Joining room, comatose from cold and hunger. He was taken to a hospital where physicians said it was doubtful | floor he would live. In kitchen cupboards was sufficient bread, milk and meat to feed them for several days. Beside a kitchen lstove was ample fuel STAMP SALES SHOW |LINDBERGHS COMING ~ HOME BEFORE APRIL Family En Route to Wales for Short Visit Only, Spokes- man Says Llandaff, Wales, Jan. 4.—(7)— The Charles A. Lindberghs ar- rived Saturday night at the home of J. L. Morgan, father of Mrs. Lindbergh’s brother - in-law, by automobile. Llandaff, Wales, Jan. 4—(#)—The Morgan home offered a welcome Sat- urday to the family of Col. Charles 'A Lindbergh, but a spokesman an ‘nounced the visit would be only tem- porary and that the Lindberghs in- tended to return to America before April. “There is no question of their re- maining. after the Hauptmann case is disposed of and the publicity dies down,” said the spokesman for the family of J. L. Morgan, father of Aubrey Niel Morgan, brother-in-law of Mrs, Lindbergh. Colonel Lindbergh, his wife and 3-year old son Jon, rested by.a four- day stay in the seclusion of a suite in Liverpool's Adelphi hotel after their 10-day Atlantic crossing from New York, journeyed through the Welsh mountains by automobile toward this suburb of Cardiff, on the coast of southern Wales. After stopping overnight at an un- disclosed inn between Liverpool and Cardiff, the Lindberghs were expected to arrive here late Saturday or Sun- day. “They intend to remain about six weeks and then go to London, the south of France, Sweden and finally return to the United States,” the Morgan representative said. | A Welsh girl was engaged to serve |as nurse for Jon, second son of the Lindberghs. Aubrey Morgan, husband of Mrs. Lindbergh's sister, the late Elisabeth | Morrow Morgan, accompanied the famous flier and his family when they set out from Liverpool Friday on the first stage of their English trav- els in quest of “quiet and rest.” The Morgan family expected the) Lindberghs to be in this peaceful re- treat during the week of Jan, 13—the time set for the execution at Trenton, N_J., of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted slayer of the kidnaped Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Near, Recluse Is Found Dying of Hunger Police believed the pair had become so feeble they were. unable to keep the fire going or to feed themselves’ The shabby three-story bureau draw- ers concealed unusual wealth for the modest neighborhood. Police found 14 bank books, issued by New York and Canadian banks. showing deposits of more than $30,000 and no withdrawals. All except one issued to Cloutier, were in his sister- in-law’s name. With them were about 50 pieces of jewelry. Neighbors told the police the Clou- tlers were so determined to keep to themselves they lived on the ground and would not rent the two upper floors. Their plight. was discovered when police were summoned after cracked, thawing pipes flooded the cellar and water seeped into adjacent REPUBLICANS BACK VETS’ BONUS PLAN ROR FULL PAYMENT Administration Maneuvers for Bill That Will Be Accept- able to President DOUGHTON FAVORS SPEED Roosevelt's Advisors Do Not Be- lieve He Will Accept Two Pending Measures ashington, Jan. 4.—()—Powerful Republican support for the veterans’ plan for ful] payment of the bonus was prol Saturday while the ad- ministration’s own leaders in congress maneuvered for a compromise bill ac- ceptable to President Roosevelt. The latter ignored the issue in his annual message. Minority support for the measure advanced jointly by the American Le- gion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans was foreseen in a statement by Sena- tor McNary, the Republican leader. He declared he would vote for the proposal “so long as there is no infla- tion in it.”. Gets First Consideration Prime consideration will be given to the bonus by the house ways and means committee, probably on Mon- day. Chairman Doughton (Dem.- N. C.) declared he was in favor of; “expediting it,” but would not pre-; dict definitely the time of action by | the committee. Administration chieftains eagerly | sought to hold enough votes in line to assure the kind of measure they, believed the president might sign, al- though strong sentiment appeared in Democratic ranks for full payment. The basis for negotiation was the Byrnes-Steiwer plan calling for 97! per cent cash payment, despite esti- mates that this proposal would cost $2,213,000,000,. which is in excess of the cost estimated for the vetoed Pat- man plan. Bills Not Acceptable Close advisors of the president were confident he would not accept the veterans’ bill introduced by Repre- sentatives Vinson (Dem.-Ky.) and McCormack (Dem.-Mass.). Flat opposition to all of the cash bonus measures came Friday from the chamber of commerce of the United States. “While the credit of the govern- ment is still good,” the chamber added, “there are distinct limits to the amounts which it can safely bor- Tow.” RANCHERS PROTECT HERDS WITH PLANE Southwestern N. D. Men Killing Coyotes From Air Under New Association Wi Bowman, N. D., Jan. 4.—(7)}—A new type of patrol, an airplane rifle crew, has been formed in western North Da- kota to guard sheep and cattle of the ranchers in this area. The ranchers, who had been losing livestock through depredations of coyotes, believe they have successfully solved their problem by resorting to modern attack by air. J. 8. Sagmiller and Donald Strand- ness formed the Bowman Coyote as- sociation consisting of membership of cattle and sheep owners in Bowman and part of Slope counties in North Dakota, and the northern part of Harding county, South Dakota, raising funds to purchase a small plane. With Sagmiller at the controls, Strandness picks off the animals from the air, and after less than two months’ effort has killed 37 coyotes. Recently the two were called and informed there was a coyote a mile south of Bowman chasing a calf about the prairie. They jumped into the plane and flew to the scene where the calf was in distress and shot two coyotes. Coal Levy Payments Few in North Dakota Fargo, N. D., Jan. 4.—(P)—H. H. Perry, collector of internal revenue for North Dakota, Saturday reported the receipt of scattered soft coal tax pay- ments from various North Dakote lignite producers. Although North Dakota has some- thing like 500 lignite producing mines, the major producers, embracing in all some 30 companies, have obtained injunctions against the government, restraining it from collecting the tax) under the Guffey coal act, now un- dergoing constitutional tests. State Champs Lose To Wahpeton, 35-26: Grafton, N. D., Jan, 4.—(?)—Wah- peton high school’s traveling basket- ball team won its second straight road game here Friday night by turning back the state champion Grafton crew, 35-26, The game was a fast, free-scoring fray in which Grafton led until late in the third quarter, then was un- At 62, Al Smith — Begins New Fight The Weather Snow tonight and Sunday; rising temperature tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS RAPS DICTATORSHIPS, * ‘CHALLENGES CRITICS TO REPEAL HIS ACTS : Branded as ‘Political Haran- * gue’ and Praised as Cour- ageous Exposition LEVELS GUN AT AUTOCRATS No New Taxes Advisable on Basis on Existing Laws, President Declares roms aS a The complete text of President —————————————————— \fred B. Smith, 1928 Democratic Presidential nominee, celebrated his 62nd birthday by cutting s cake and tssuing a double-bar- relled statement that disputed White House comment anent th invitation extended to him to bea Roosevelt guest on his trip to Washington to address the Lib- erty. League, He made it clear he wouldn’t be a Roosevelt sup- porter: Democratic nominat- GHANGE OF VENUE DENIED HRS, HAGA Fairview Woman to Stand Trial Monday for Murder of Her Husband Schafer, N. D., Jan. 4—(?)—A mo- tion for @ change of venue in the case of Mrs. Emma Haga, “self de- fense” slayer facing first degree mur- der charges for shooting her husband, was denied defense attorneys by Dis- trict Judge A.J. Gronna at a hear- ing here late Friday. Defense Attorneys, A. L. Knauf, Jamestown, and Lief Erickson, Fair- view, filed the motion asserting “a fair and impartial trial could not be held in McKenzie county.” Attorneys for the state, W. A. Jacob- son, Watford City, and Assistant At- torney General Thompson, filed 35 counter affidavits taken from Mc- Kenzie residents throughout the county, Forty jurors had been impaneled for a special court term to open next Monday when 12 will be selected for duty. Judge Gronna expects testimony will be opened Tuesday morning. Mrs,~Haga, at liberty on $15,000 bonds, has confessed to shooting her husband, John Haga, Fairview beet farmer, in their home last Nov. 9, fol- lowing a heated argument. She as- serts she fired a .22 calibre revolver in self defense. SCHOOL TEACHER'S Victim of Spurned Suitor Will Recover From Bullet Wounds, Doctor Thinks Minot, N. D., Jan. 4.—(?)—Miss Emma Schneider, 23-year old rural school teacher of Garrison vicinity who was shot in the head and body Thursday by a spurned suitor who afterwards committed suicide, was re- ported improved Saturday morning at Trinity hospital. The attending physician said that she has no infection in her wounds, and hopes for her recovery. He said it 1s impossible at present to tell whether or not she will retain the sight of her left eye. Puneral services will be held at 1/ p. m, Sunday for Robert Eslinger, the 28-year old farmer who killed him-, self with @ .22 calibre rifle after | shooting the teacher. Services will be at Garrison at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Eslinger, retired farmers. For many years Eslinger had been an | active church worker. He is survived by his parents, eight brothers and six sisters, ‘WISCONSIN CHEESE , Wis., Jan. 4—(P)—Cheese quotations for the week: Wisconsin Cheese Exchange: Twins 17. Farmers Board Call: Daisies 17's; Americas able to match the Wops’ brilliant jclosing drive, 1% cent less ‘ 17's; Horns 17'%. “All standard brands CHANCES IMPROVED, _jmvcro-waves af, hame, Roosevelt's annual message will be found on Page 3. Washington, Jan. 4. — (P) — New Dealers and their foes leaped to the campaign wars Saturday under the spur of a defiant speech in which President Roosevelt slashed at his _ opposition as “entrenched greed” ‘ seeking to “enslave” the people and compared {it to foreign “autocracy” plunging toward world strife. \ Echoes of the executive's voice, cas- L tigating dictatorships abroad and challenging his critics to try to wipe out the whole New Deal, had hardly 1 i died away Friday night in a house of representatives crammed with a color-splashed assemblage, than a mingled chorus of praise and de- nunciation was heard in the capital. ‘ Democratic supporters hailed it in such terms as “a wonderful, courage- , ous and aggressive address unmask- ~ ing and revealing the opposition’s character.” The Republican leadership ham- mered it as a “political harangue.” To Republican Chairman Henry P, Fletcher the speech was “a challenge to a straw man to submit to a sub- servient and gagged congress the fa- vorite Socialistic features of the New Deal.” " Almost overshadowing in cance the president’s denunciation of his domestic enemies as “political puppets” preparing “shackles for the liberties of the people” was the critic- ism of authoritarian regimes abroad. This criticism, sharper than is usually levelled at foreign governments by a nation’s head, pref the presi- dent’s outline‘ of ® neutrality policy except Ports to them in time of peace;” 3. “Adequate defense to save ourselves from embroilment and attack;” 4. “Legitimate assistance” to Persuade foreign nations to be Peaceful. ~ Speaking to a chamber alternately hushed and ringing with the applause of his supporters, President Roose- velt said many rulers in Europe and Asia “have not pointed the way” either to peace or good-will.” Some. nations, he said, are “domi- nated by the twin spirits of autocracy and aggression” and their people, de- prived of democracy, “follow blindlyand fervently the lead of those who seek autocratic power.” Did Not Name Foes The president did not name the domestic foes he accused of “stealing the livery of great national constitu- tional ideals to serve discredited spec- ial interests.” But some of his sup- porters immediately said his targets were such critics as the American Liberty League, the National Manu- facturers association and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The scene was like an operatic “first night” as the president arrived to make his speech, clad in stripec trousers and cutaway. The diplomatic corps, in splendor, looked down from one gallery. Mrs. Roosevelt, decree- ing afternoon dress as the correct at- tire for the unusual occasion, sat gravely following her husband’s words from an edvance text. She wore a black hat, dress of dark blue, with collar of lighter blue. At the door there was a disturbancs when police barred an eager throng which tried to crowd in on the heels of the long procession of senators. Did Not Mention Bonus With veterans’ organizations press: ing for quick action on immediate cash payment of the bonus and some New Deal leaders in congress seeking a “compromise,” the president did not mention the bonus issue. Referring only briefly to legislative and fiscal affairs, he said that business prospects were good; that the nation is approaching a balanced budget; that there is prospect of cutting relief ap- propriations and that on the basis of “existing laws” no new taxes are ad- visable. One passage of the speech led some quarters to expect that the New Deai may possibly seek some method of preventing its legislation from being tied up in lower federal courts. This passage said: “The carrying out of the laws of . the land as enacted by the congress requires protection until final adjudi- cation by the highest tribunal of the land. The congress has the right and can find the means to protect it: own prerogatives.” Complaints Recalled The justice department has com- plained of the “multiplicity” of suits in these lower courts, which have tied up enforcement of much New Deal legislation. (Continued on Page Three) MARCONI STAYS HOME 4—(®)—Guglielmo Saturday his plan to join the Italian, forces in East Africa, deciding instead’ to resume his experiments with w & f