Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1931, Page 4

LA FOLLETTE RAPS HOOVER ON SESSION Refusal of President to Call Congress to Legislate for Jobless Scored. By the Assoclated Press. The refusal of President Hoover to call Congress into special session was criticised yesterday by Senator La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, as a “continuation of this do-nothing policy.” The Senator presented a six-point program for congressional action in a special session, but there was no doubt in the minds of those in Congress that Mr. Hoover's announcement Friday that he would not call an extra session was final. Raps Hoover Stand. “This policy,” said Senator La Fol- Jette, “condemns millions of our fellow citizens to privation, want, starvaticn even, and inevitably will result in a lowered standard of living and the deg- radation of citizenship.” The program he proposed was as T mmediate nssistance to the_cities, counties and States in relleving distre of the unemployment and their d pendents. Asks Public Works. “Adoption of a great public works pro(rnnl: to provide a substantial amount of employment and to contribute toward maintenance of wage standards. The necessity of such a program to stiumulate recovery was recognized months ago by the President’s Emerg- ency Committce on Employment of which Col. Arthur Woods was chairman. “Enactment. of legislation to enable agriculture to handle its surplus through the equalization fee or the export de- ‘benture, thus affording & meaure of prosperity to the basic agricultural in- dustry without which there cannot be t recovery. pgrmmmenm of yeertlln inordinately high duties in the Grundy tariff law “to stimulate a revival of our export trade. Sees Time for Action. “Increases in the income and inherit- ance tax rates to meet the deficit, pro- vide funds for the Government's con- struction program and to enable it to assist in relieving actual human suffer- ing among our citizens. “Enactment of legislation to create & national economic council to assist in the stabilization of indusiry and agri- culture.” ‘The Senator added: “We have waited 20 months for some miragle to bring the country h:t’ic( all fronts to arrest the con. action on ron! con- 4inual slide toward further depression lnddfio bring about recovery upon a soun PAPAL NUNCIO EXIT FROM SPAIN LOOMS AS RUPTURE NEARS . (Continued Prom Pirst Pag Jueta, but what was said was being secret. “All T can say” President Alcala said, “is that there is yet no Ambas- the Vatican and we are \waiting Lerroux’s return.” Ro i i §;§ z I ! i § i i g § i i g d o} ‘addition to the religious tion, the government is faced situa- with will icans want a federal state under the federal Spanish republic, while others have advocated complete sutonomy. Election Head Protested. Many Republicans today expressed at the appointment of Joa- Cahaprieta, former monarchist, as r of the June elections. They complained of the government's con- ciliatory attitude toward former mon- archists and expressed the fear the new Tegime would thrust Spain back into monarchistic hands. Diego Tortosa, head priest of the Madrid Cathedral, today called on Pres- ident Alcala Zamora and denied he had | hed against the republic. He of- ;ered to support the government. Pew monks and nuns are seen on the streets here. Dispatches from the bor- der say more than 1,000 of them have crossed into France, many disguised, Rev. Eliseo Barizo, 2 priest in the village of Corbe, was fined $10 today on & charge of preaching politics from the pulpit. CARDINAL REACHES ROME. ROME, May 23 (#).—Cardinal Pietro Segura, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain, and the first Spanish bishop to come to Rome since the anti-religious riots in his country, arrived this afternoon He was greeted by Mgr. Ottaviani, of the office of the papal secretary of state, and other clergymen who inquired anxiously about the state of affairs of the church in Spain “Pray for Spain!” was his only com- ment. He will see Pope Pius tomorrow after- noon and give the Pontiff a full report of the recent happenings in his country. MARTIAL LAY DECLARED. VELENCIA, Spain, May 23 () Martial law was declared in the city of Elda today after a group of workers presented themselves before the city hall demanding liberty for several - workers who were arrested as leaders in the recent disorders. It was reported from Madrid that Minister of Interior Maura said tonig! the declaration of martial law in Elda Wwas “merely a precautionary measure to skow a handful of Communists that the government means business 3t says it will preserve public order.” Msaura said the Communists were trying to incite workers to paralyze 1actories producing $5.000,000 worth of 8oods annually. ALCAZAR TAKEN OVE SEVILLE, Spain, May 23 (#)—The Alcagar, former residence of finest her. it 100-Year-Old Man Returns to Typing Job From Vacation By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fia., May 23.—Charles W. Eldredge of Worcester, Mass., who claims the title of the oldest active typist in the world by virtue of the fact that he will be 100 June 29, ended a vacation here today and started home to resume work. He saild he is employed as a typist and bookkeeper by & Worcester firm. FARRELL'S STAND ON WAGE PRAISED {President Green of A. F. of L. Sees Benefit in Opposi- tion to Reduction. | By the Associated Press. | The leader of organized labor .and |the head of one of Amarica’s greatest industrial corporations stand aligned | against employers who attempt wage re- { ductions | nt Green of the American Fed- eration of L.b val to charges of Pr.sident Farrell {of the Uniled States Steel Corporation | that “big standard companies” had not | maintained wage scalss. He said Far- rell’s statement should have a most “sta- bilizing and profound :ffect.” | “Mr. Farrell classifies the action of those who are reducinz wages as a "pl"!" cheap sort of business,’” Green said. “Labor charges them with violat- ing the agreement made with the people of the United States tRrough their Chief Executivethe President * * * Iam glad President Farrell exposed this snip- {ing in wagss. No one could bring it out | into the open quite as effectively as he. Understanding of Public. “Through such exposure the public is given an opportunity to understand with what little regard some ~mployers hold a solemn covenant made with the peo- ple.” The federation previously had charged that certain intcrests were contemplat- ing a general reduction in wages, despite the agreement obtained in 1929 by Pres- ident Hoover from labor and capital that wag:s would be kept on the same level during the depression. eanwhile, the railroads, which Sec- retary Doak of the Labor Department anderstands plan no gen-ral reduction in Wi , went forward in a move to seek rate readjustments to increase revenues. They contend additional funds were needed to meintain the wage scales. Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- timore & Ohio Rallroad, today discussed informally with members of the Inter- state Commerce Commission the study being made by Eastern carriers looking to the rate readjustment. On Executive Committee. ‘Willard is a_member of the Eastern Committee of Executives appointed for that section after heads of most of the Nation’s larger lines announced their decision to ack the increase. The conference was held with Com- missioners Aitchison, Meyer, Lewis and Portzr, with Willard outlining to them the general financial condition of the roads. From the Labor Department came a report that 68 controversies between employers and employes now are pend- ing. ~five were strikes and 23 disputes of lesser character. During the week 14 new disputes were knmr ldjuaunenu‘maiie. major controversy pending, involv- ing 2,400 men at the Mishawaka (In- diana) Rubber & Woolen & Manufac- wmfi Co,, centered upon proposed wage MEDIATOR FELLED BY SHOT MEANT FOR ANOTHER IN ROW (Continued From First Page.) up again Thursday. He was held until 9:30 o'clock last night, two hours be- fore Zirkle was shot. Unable to discover any motive for a feud between Martz and Hawks, police were at a loss last night to ex- plain the shooting. According to witnesses, the youth entered the pool room and walked up to Hawks, who was leaning against the wall. He struck at him and then drew the pistol, police said. Zirkle, whose brother, Ben, operates the pool (room, attempted to quiet the dispute by stepping between the two. As he did so, Martz fired. The bullet, after passing through his body, struck Milton Knight, who lives on New York avenue near Ninth street. Police were told the bullet struck Knight in the back, drawing blood, but he made no report at the first precinct, where Martz was locked up. Martz was seized and disarmed im- mediately after the shooting by Melvin Zirkle, ancther brother of the wounded | man, who was standing in front of the pool room when the shot was fired, Makes No Effort to Escape. Aifter the shooting Martz walked out of the posl room, police said, and smashed a pint of gin in the street. He was arrested by Policeman A. B. Clark. | . At the station house Martz, who gave his_occupation as a commercial pho- tographer, said he was willing to talk to police. No statement was taken im- mediately, however, because of his in- toxicated condition. ! He said he wouldn't talk to news- paper reporters because they never “gave his guys a break.” At Emergency Hospital physicians sald Zirkle was in a serious condition from loss of blood. A call for volun- teers for a transfusion was sent out and 10 of his friends responded within a few minutes. Seek Companion. Pirst precinct Detectives A. D. Mans- field and J. A. Mostyn and Sergt. Horace {W. Lineberg were looking for another man believed to have accompanied Martz to the pool room. Half an hour after the shooting Mos- | tyn went to the pool room and searched about 40 men who were in the place, He found no weapons on them. | Police records showed Martz had been arrested previously on charges of pos- | sesston of liquor, but had been acquitted on March 2 Jast. It was learned also that he had beerr involved in an automobile fatality on December 26, 1929, when the automobile occupled by him and James A. Mc- Go M street, collided with a car | City Radio Studio, Ward died shortly after the collision, which occurred at Sixth and K streets northeast at 4 o'clock on the morning after Christmas. Martz and McGowan subsequently were held for grand jury action after it was testified before a coroner’s jury that a bottle of alcohol had been found in Martz's car. ; No action was taken by the grand ury. Asks Petition of $18,831, MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 23 (#).—Maj. Ruel Ebersole, now in Government hospital at Norfolk, Va. filed suit in Chancery Court here today against Mrs. Mabel Freudenberg of Memphis, his former secretary, for the recovery of $18,831.25 he claims was inf with He contends she has in him Jost tn stock transactions, yesterday gave his ap- | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHI (CLAUSE RELIEVES FORCED LABOR BAN Large Portion of $700,000,- 000 Imports to Be Saved by Tariff Act Provision. The State Department announced yesterday that vital import lancs had | been kept open and a British monopoly of the American rubber market averted by the use of facts in a memorandum | prepared by the United States Tariff | Commission during the pendency of | the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill in Con- | gress. | The memorandum indicated that the clause to exclude all products of con- vict, forced or indentured labor would affect United States imports, which in 1928 reached a total of nearly $700,- 000,000. The indicated effect was so impres- | sive, the State Department intimated, | that Congress wrcte into the law the qualifying clause which nullifies the restrlctlpm on goods uot produced in | the United States in sufficient quan- tities to meet the consumptive demand. { This qualifying clause was construed today by the State Department as froe- ing most of the imports in the $700, | 000,000 1st. | British Monopoly Recailed. | With the State Department satisfied | that involuntary labor no longer exists | in British Malaya, while it does prevail | in rubber-producing Sumatra, an out- | standing effect of the reservation, as seen. by the State Department, i to keep the American rubber markeét open to both the Dutch and British product. Dutch rubber would be admitted on the | ground that no rubber was produced in the United States. It was recalled that the British when in control of the | rubber market raised the price to | American importers about $300,000,000 | The State Department’s interpreta- tlon of the qualifying clause was that it virtually took the teeth out of the provision which had been written into the tariff law at the demand of Amer- ican labor for the protection of the domestic labor markat, The result was to reopen the whole controversy over excluding the products of involuntary labor at a time when the Treasury Department is faced with the problem of framing regulations to carry into effect January 1 the restric- tions against products of forced or in- de:;%red] labor. or leaders were quick to challenge the State Department interpretation and indicated that they would insist upon rigid epplication of the clause by the Treasury Department. It was contended that a liberal defi- nition of whether American products were “insufficient” to supply the do- mestic demand would let down the bars to Russian lumber admittedly of con- uc!t pl;‘cduct{_‘cnv n_the light of the qualifying clause the State Department was inclined to | minimize the effect of the new ex- clusion clause, which enforces virtually the same restrictions against products of forced and indentured labor as the old law did against convict-made goods. | Complications Feared. | It is-on the question of what is “needed by our manufacturing indus- | tries” or what is “produced or manu- factured in the United States in suffi- clent quantities to meet the American needs” that the agitation before the Treasury and possibly before the next | sesslon of Congress is expected to hinge. With organized labor and American producers demanding protection for th American market, the situation .was regarded as confronting the adm traticn with a delicate problem. Loosely construed, the qualifying clause was be- lieved to hold possibilities for domestic trouble; tightly construed, it was be- lieved to hold possibilities of diplo- matic complications, EDITOR DELAYS LINER BY REQUEST FOR WAIT Toledo Confused About Sailing Time, So Ask Line to Hold Ship. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 23—The Cunard liner Samaria delayed its departure for Liverpool 15 minutes today because | two passengers, Charles T. Lucy, city editor of the Toledo News Bee, and his wife, became confused about the sail- ing time. When they discovered their error the telephoned the Cunard Line and officials obligingly agreed to hold the Mner un il they arrived. Pifteen minutes after the scheduled | sailing time they arrived at the pier, with baggage half packed. Luc kets were stuffed with articles of clothing which he had not had time to pack. A pair of shoes protruded from the pocket of his topcoat. Couple Become BUENOS AIRES, May 23 () —Jose Uriburu, for many years Ambassador | from Argentina to London, resigned to- day without giving a reason. “Of Inestim from a gentleman w in which he said: “If granted, this with you, and thru wi to me.” |ize t | level, security |“just around the corner,’ Lots Will Be Sold For Non-Payment of U. S. Income Taxes ‘The Government has moved to take from Nelson C. Hubbard, understood to be a resident of a Midwestern State, several pieces of property in the District, which will be sold at public auction June 12 for “non-payment of as- sessed Federal income taxes,” ac- cording to an advertisement to- day by Galen L. Tait, collector of Internal revenue. The lots are numbered 836 and 846 in square 3559, all unim- proved, on Rhode Island avenue between Third and Fourth streets northeast, and as 806 in square 3561, on the southwest corner of Third street and Rhode Island avenue northeast. The property has been seized from the owner under warrant for distraint. SHIPSTEAD FIGHTS HIGHER RAIL RATES Writes Commission to Let Railroad Take Losses With Others. Holding that higher railroad rates will constitute an additional burden on commerce anrd agriculture, Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, og Minne- sota, yesterday suggested that the Inter- state Commerce Commission _counsel patience for the rail lines and mean- while let them ake their losses with the rest of us. Writing to Chairman Ezra Brainerd, jr. of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission in refcrence to the contem- plated plea of the Eastern lines for freight rate increases, Senator Ship- stead said that “many thoughtful peo- ple” are inclined to blame the present depression on the rail rate structure. Hits Railway Views. Noting that’ the Eastern executives sought rates to guarantee the “integ- rity” of railroad securities, Shipstead said that he “cannot believe that the integrity of railroad securities is more sacred than the securities of industry and agriculture.” “A general increase in railroad rates at any time is an attack upon the in- come of commerce and agriculture. Be- cause of the present low pricg level the | burden of present railroad rates on ag- riculture and commerce is far heayier now than when these rates were inaug- during the preceding high price evel,” he said. “Indeed, many thoughtful people be- lieve that our present depression is to some extent due to a 10-year attack upon the money income of the factors of production and distribution through the- operations of the Esch-Cummins law, resulting in the present high rates for ‘the benefit of railroad securities. Claims Favoritism. “When Congress passed the Esch- Cummins law including section 15-A, Congress delegated its power to tax the mass of the people through railroad rates for the benefit of a special cless of security holders. The integrity of values thus created is at least doubtful. To enforce collection of rates high |enough to yield a return on artificial . ues of railroad securities will pauper- mass of the people to enrich the few “With the constantly descending price alues of all classes are disappearing. I acsume that the hold- ers of railroad securities still believe that the prosperity that we are told is is coming, therefore I suggest that your commis- sion request them to be patient and in the meantime take their losses with the | rest of us.” |BIBLE CLASSES URGE GANSTER FILMS CURB | National Men’s Federation Resolu- tion Tells Hays Tendency Is to Create Crime. By the Assoclated Press CANTON, Ohio, May 23—The Na- | tional Federation of Men's Bible Classes tonight adopted a resolution asking Will Hays, head of the Motion Picture roducers and Distributors of America, 0 curb the making of gangster films, charging that they “contribute to crime.” The convention, claiming to repre- ent more than 1,000,000 church mem- bers, demanded that the film industry n up the screen for the sake of e youth of the land.” Guy P. Leavitt of Cincinnati, editor of the Outlook, was elected president. Regional vice presidents named in- clude: W. O. Florian of Bridgeport, Conn.; W. F. Norris of Mount Vernon, N. Y., N. Ellsworth Bunce of Balti- more, Md.; John Russell of Memphis, Tenn.; A. D. Scott of Omaha and T. J. Clark 'of Kansas City. able Value” We received a letter some time ago ho had availed him- self of the credit facilities of this bank, ill be my fourth loan same I have been able to furnish my home, and centralize my debts. All of which has been of inestimable value Thousands of Washingtonians have availed themselves of the services of this bank. GI0N, D O, A UL.S.ENVOY CONFERS ON CRISIS N CUBA Guggenheim Believed to Have Broughf Long - Awaited Message From Stimson. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, May 23.—Two more impor- tant conferences bearing on the Cuban political situation were held today in an effort to avert the threatened crisis. One of these, held between Ambas- sador Harry F. Guggenheim, just re- turned from Washington, and President Machado, was the subject of much speculation. The American Ambassador was closeted with Machado for more than two hours and, although absolute se- crecy was maintained, it was popu- larly believed the long-looked-for “mes- sage” from Secretary of State Stimson had been relayed to the Cuban Chief Executive. There was nothing official, however, to indicate there had been such a message, Optimism Strengthened. The long session was fruitful in one respect—it provoked a feeling of op- timism among government officials and opposition leaders, who are exerting every effort to prevent a revolt. It is generally expected an important announcement, based on this confer ence, will be forthcoming within a d: or s0. The enticipated announcemen Is expected to give some inkling of the atiitude of the American State De- partment toward the Cuban situation The other meeting regarded as im- portant was a conference between An- tonlo Mendoza, government mediator in negotiations for peace, and former President Mario G. Menocal, Tension Is Eased. Menocal yesterday dispatched mes sengers to all parts of the republic to urge the people not to revolt and the Unlon Nacionalista likewise broadcast a statement in which it made clear the Union neither authorized nor supported a revolutionary movement The tension, while still high, is vastly loxkso than at the first part of the week. 75 CHILDREN DANCE Seventy-five children, pupils of Lo- AY 24, 1931—PART ONE. COURTMAY BREAK RULE N FAL CAE {0il Man May Seek to File Appeal Tuesday or Wednesday. The Supreme Court may have no opportunity to pass on the appeal of EAlben B. Fall, former Secretary of | the Interior, until after it begins its ! next term in October. Should action be delayed there is some doubt whether Fall would be able; in the event of adverse action, to re- port then for the one year’s imprison- ment imposed on him. He has been in poor physical condition for years. | _Fall and Harry M. Blackmer, retired Colorado oil operator, convicted of fail- ing to appear as a’ Government wit- ness in two of the naval oil reserve prosecutions, have given notice of their intention to appeal. | They have failed, however, to per- |{fect appeals in time to be submitted |to the court on Monday, the last day of this term at which the court will, under its rules, accept such papers for consideration and action at this erm. | In Blackmer's case the validity of | fines aggregating $60,000 is involved, |and as the Government holds $100,000 |of his bonds it will be able to satisfy | the judgment should the highest court permit it to stand. The Supreme Court in its practice | of ‘expediting criminal cases has broken ts rules and acted on cases filed dur- ing the last week of its term. It is understood the Fall appeal will {be filed next Tuesday or Wednesday. The court has announced it will re- | cefve no more cases at its present term after Monday. Should the papers he docketed by the middle of the week there is a pos- | sibility, it is thought, the court may ake them up and announce on June |1. when it ends the present session. | whether it will receive the cases. | TWO HELD AS BANDITS | S |Pair Seized in Toronto Will Be Returned to Michigan for Trial ‘TORONTO, Ontario, May 23 (, Two officers arrived today from Pontiac, Mich., to take back the two aleged bank robbers who were arrested here last night as they stepped off a train from IKIRKLAND MURDER TRIAL | ARGUMENTS TOMORROW | Starts Week End of Waiting for Verdict of Culpability tn | Killing of Girl. 1 By the Associated Press. | VALPARAISO, Ind., May 23.—Virgil | Kirkland today started a week end of waiting for a verdict on his culpability in_the killing of Arlene Draves. The recard of the two weeks of testi- ' mony was closed before noon after a brief rebuttal by both sides, and the | docket was cleared for closing argu- | ments at the start of court Mondas. i Two days of appeals to the fury. with the six attorneys on both sides turns and talking for one hour each, were all that stood between placing the fate of the Gary boy into the hands of a jury a second time. c Counsel for the athletic Gary youth | interposed several motions after con- | clusion of testimony, but Judge Grant Crumpacker overruled them. They asked that the jury be taken to visit several street interesections In Gary | that figured in the State’s evidence and that the jury be instructed immediately to bring in a verdict of acquittal. U. S. TO BUY PROPERTY The District Commissioners yesterday authorized puichase of three properties in the arca to be developed as the new Municipgl Center, bounded by Third and Sixth streets, Judictary Square and Pennsylvania avenue. The properties are lot 7 in square 533, to be ‘bought from the E. B. Adams Co. for $25,000; lot 802 in reservation 10, to be bought for $50,000 from Joseph I. Weller, agent for the owner, and lot 24 in the same reservation, to be bought from Thomas E. Moyer for $21,000. A number of items of land purchase ip for consideration, but in keep- the commission's customary these were not made public. retto Murphy, gave a studio dance re- | Chatham, where they had left an air- cital last night at Wardman Park|plane in which they had flown from Theater before a large attendance of | Pontiac. parents and friends. | The priconers, Adam Morgan and Seventeen dance numbers were given, Louls Kis: will rémain in jafl here including military tap dances, acrobatic | until the United States detectives take waltzes, tangoes and pantomimes. 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