Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast) Fair; continued cool tonight; minimum temperature about 34 fair, slowly rising temperature; moderate Temperatures—High- est, 50, at noon today; lowest, 35, at 6 northwest winds, am. today. Full rep Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 degrees; tomorrow ort on page 4. Entered as seco; 29 195 32,125, " i"ohle e No. nd class matter shington, D. ( h WASHINGTON, ¢ Foening” Sta WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “Prom Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carri every city block af tion is delivered to | ier system covers nd the regular edi- Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 125,809 D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES (#) Means Associated ——— TWO CENT Press. PRESIDENT WOULD EXENPT §1.200 PAY IN REDUCTION PLAN Hoover Advances Suggestion in Effort to Reach Agres- ment With Committee. COMPROMISE IS SOUGHT TO BRING ABOUT SAVING Disapproval of Proposal May Force Foes to Back Original Fur- lough Propositicn. of Exemption all civil employes of the Federal Government receiving less than $1200 a year salary from the proposed compulsory furlough-without- pay plan of reducing the Government's pay roll is understood to be outstand- ing among the compromise suggestions now being considered by the House Economy Committee. This exemption idea, at the Capitol today, was advanced personally by President Hoover during his three and one-half hours’ confer- ence with the Economy Committee at the White House yesterday afternoon. Speaker Garner in his conference with newspaper men today stated that he favored a flat-rate cut in principle rather than a furlough system without pay for Government employes. At the same time it was learned that Mr. Hoover's exemption proposal met with distinct favor and is known to have strengthened considerably original plan for a staggering forced furlough without pay. Whether cr not the favorable impression of his exemp- tion idea was sufficient to cause those members of the committee holding out for a direct salary cut to drop the latter plan and get behind the furlough pro- posal could not be learned definitely. Would Prevent Discharges. In some circles at the Capitol today there were indications that the Presi- dent’s exemption proposal may prove to be the winning argument in settling this controversial part of the general economy program for the Covernment. One of the strong features of the Pre=ident’s exemption propesel was his assurance that the exemotion wovld save at least 10,000 emploves of the Zovernment from being dropped under the congressional appropriation cuts and would actually provide part time employment to about 25,000 or 30,000 others. Pevelation of the President’s exemn- tion proposal today also produ: fact that after its presentation at ves terday's meeting the conference shifted immediately to the best method it was learned his | ced the r o Image of Garibaldi, | Who Fought Pope, Carried to Vatican By the Associated Press VATICAN CITY. April 14.— The image of Garibaldi, who made war against the Pope, was carried into the Vatican today on a series of stamps commem- orating the fiftieth anniversary of his death. The Italian minister of com- munications sent the stamps to the Governor of can City according to the om of ex- changing new commemorative serie. DARRT 10 REVEAL PLANS OF DEFENE ATTODAYSHEARING Counsel for Mrs. Fortescue Keeps Both Court and Public Guessing. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 14 —Enmeshed by many threads of the prosecution’s story of she lynching of Joseph Kaha- hawai, four persons accused of the kill- ing watched today for Clarence Darrow to go into action for their defense with | tactics shrouded In secrecy up to the | last minute. Except for one witness, Public Prose- cutor John C. Kelley finished his case yesterday with testimony that broke the frigid composure of the accused soclety matron, Mrs. Granville Fortescue. Her shoulders moved expressively [ when two neighbor women testified to | hearing a shot from the direction of | her home at 9 am. January 8, when | Kahahawai allegedly was killed there to avenge a criminal attack on Mrs. | Thalia Massie, daughter of Mrs.| | Fortescue. | Previously she had burst into tears at the mention of Mrs. Massie’s name | | by & jail matron who testified she had | | asked Mrs. Fortescue if her daughter | | had recovered from the attack. | Mother Last Witness. | With gruesome exhibits — bloody sheets, a strip of one sheet taken from Mrs. Fortescue when she was arrested | in & motor car with Kahahawal's body. and a coil of rope found in the Fortes- | cue home—the prosecutor wove his case, ; | aided by many witnesses. Then he turned to Circuit Judge Charles 8. Davis. “We need about 15 minutes more, Judge,” he said, “but would like to have lOpens Fight on ‘Demagogic #fpre= senting the economy legislation. Wheth- | jt tomorrow. We may have one more er or not the economy plan would be embodied in one omnibus bill rather | than in several bills is known to have | developed into the prime question of | discussion towerd the conclusion of yesterday’s White House conference. Opposes Several Bills. ‘The President was represented as having expressed very plainly his oppo- sition to the committee’s proposal of putting out the plan in piecemeal by using several bills. This method, he ‘was represented by one member of the committee today. as regarding a “pot- shot” method of handling the legisla- tion which he feared would resuit un- questionably in various details of the plan being defeated. On the other hand, he advocated the practicability of one omnibus bill as a me- dium of securing the enactment of this legislation quickly and without impairing its complete effectiveness. If one such bill is drafted and presented, the administration feels it will have the support of the entire country and would successfully pass both Houses of Congress. After a stormy session cf the Economy Committee this morning the Democratic leadership decided not to bring the Delay Is Explained. Chairman McDuffie of the Special Economy Committee was recognized for a 10-minute speech immediately after the District appropriation bill was taken up in place of the legislative appropriation bill which has been be- fore the House. Representative Mc- Duffie explained to his colleagues the situation in which the Special Economy Committee finds itsoif with its own program includirg pay reductions and other economies through co-ordination (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BROKER IS FOUND DEAD FROM POISONED COFFEE Orders Pot in Fashionable Hotel Room, but Fails to Answer Call Placed at Desk. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK. April Shour, tenanting a room 14 a fashion- telephoned for a pot of coffee last night and asked be called at 11 p.m. was delivered. At 11 s room was called, but he did er. A house detective, enter- d him dead cup from which ker in Wall K. n the bottom of aces of deadly poison PLEDGES FREE 40 witness.” “We will be ready” said Darrow quickly, and court adjourned. The remaining witness is Mre. Joseoh Kahahawai, sr., mother of the slain 2th- lete, who wept silently as Kelley reached | | the climax of his effort to send Mrs | Fortescue and three Navy men to prison for the killing. She probably will be called to identify a cap found in the Fortescue home as that of her son. | What Darrow would do for a de- fense had the presecution as well as the public guessing. Time and again ke dismissed prosecution witnesses with | “that's all; no questions.” | Line Forms Early. His apparent passivity served to build | up a belief he would seek t> free Mrs Fortescue, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie. E J. Lord and Albert O. Jones by flatly | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. POLICE SEIZE FIVE WITH $300,000 GEMS | | salary-slashing question to a Vite t0day. Glemby Jewels, Stolen January 21, | Found as Gotham Officer Poses as Seattle “Fence.” By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 14—The Gleml gems, worth $300,000, have been re- covered, The gems, stolen on the morning of last January 21 by men who forced | their way into the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Glemby, were taken | from two women arrested last night as they sought to dispose of the jewels for $50,000 to a policeman whonr they believed to be a Seattle “fence.” Three men also were arrested. Even when the women believed they were about to dispose of the jewels to the jence,” they tried to rob him. too, for the jewels were in a paper bag car- ried by one woman, and another bag, identical in appearance, but containing crockery, was in the hands of the other. Police said the women, after showing the jewels and receiving the $50,000, in- ided to switch the bags and give the the one containing crockery. jewels were located only after eral “detectives had taken jobs in tel where the women lived. After satisfying themselves that these were the persons wanted, the officers called in ansther detective, who posed as a Seattle jeweler and became attentive to one of the women CONVICTS St a OF HANDCUFFS ON LONG TRIP Barnard Accepts Prisoners’ on Journey Fro Capt. M. M. Barnard. superintendent of District penal Institutions, believes a4 man can be trusted—even when he knows he must spend the rest of his life in jail Acting on this bellef, Capt. Barnard returned here yesterday from the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kans with 40 long-term prisoners, 5 of them “lifers.” He didn't shackle or hand- cuff them, because they had given him their word they wouldn't try to escape. Capt. Barnard took with him his five deputies, but he had no occasion to call upon them for assistance. The 40, men were placed in a day coach and during the dz-mur ng‘e to ‘ashington no more than three officers were with them in the car at a time. “Before we left Leavenworth,” Capt. Word and Has No Trouble m Leavenworth. Barnard said. “T told the men I would not handcuff them if they would promise to be orde They promised, and I took them at their word. Their past records proved they were worthy of trust.” The five men serving life sentences are William Poland, Joseph Hawkins, Benjamin H. Ycung, John Middleton and James Alphenso Prye. Some of the others with long terms are Isaiah Hawkins, 25 years; Wil'lam J. Carroll, 30 years: Herbert Lentheier, 30 years; Jam-s L. Jackson, 19 years; Charles R. Proctor, 20 years; Albert Roce, 20 years; Joseph J. Jefferson, 20 vears; Thomas DEssex, 20 years; James | H. Garfield, 20 years, and Alonzo Green, |20 years. " The men will be kept at Lorton Reformatory. 4 | against any candidate. | American day In most of the nations of | | | | SMITH LAUNCHES! “STOP ROOSEVELT” MOVE AT DINNER Appeals’ at Jefferson Day Meeting of Democrats. DRY ISSUE TO PEOPLE Ex-Governor of New York Proposes to Write Off Debts in Propor- tion to Trade With U. §S. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Democrats stood astounded today at | the fireworks touched off at their Jeflerson day dinner last night at the Willard Hotel. With Alfred E. Smith threatening to fight to a finish the candidacy of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency and at the same time de- manding a 20-year moratorium on the debts owed the United States by foreign nations, the Democrats were wondering just where their party was headed in the coming campaign. | Added to these astonishing happen- | ings at a dinner which promises to be- | come an historic affair in the annals ! of the Democratic party, was a declara- tion of former Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who has been in the past | a leader of the dry forces in the party, for a submission of the national pro- hibition issue to the people themselves. Smith Out in Open. Smith’s attack on Roosevelt—al- though he did not use Roosevelt's name —left the diners gasping. He labeled Roosevelt a demagogue. No longer will | any one wonder whether Mr. Smith is | for or against his old friend, the Gov- ernor of New York. His threat to fight Roosevelt to the last ditch was interpreted by some of the Roosevelt followers as a final effort to head off the nomination of sevelt at Chicago, a notice to the Democrats that Smith is not going to support Roosevelt if he ' be nominated. It was as though the | standard bearer of 1928 had said to his | party “Why nominate Gov. Roosevelt when | I will not support him? Without my support he cannot be elected.” What effect this threat to split the Democratic party will have remains to be seen. At first blush it would appear to make the supporters of Roosevelt more determined to go through with the to nominate their candidate and perhaps to strengthen their hands, James A. Farley, leader of tne Hoose- velt campaign for the presidential nom-~ ination ana chairman of the Demo- cratic State Committee of New York, 2 guest at the dinner last night, de- clined to comment on the Smith attack on Roosevelt. He said, however: “Gov. Roosevelt will be nominated on the first ballot at Chicago. He will have every delegate west of the Mis- sissippi River except those from Texas and Oklahoma, who are supporting favorite-son candidates.” Demagogic Appeals Scored. “Will Mr. Smith be able to support Rocsevelt, if Roosevelt is nominated, after the attack Smith made on him?" Mr. Farley was asked. “Mr. Smith is a Democrat,” replied . Farley. “After the convention is | reld and out of the way Democrats will get together.” Even more spectacular than his demand for a 20-year moratorium on the foreign debts was Smith's declara- tion of war egainst any candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination who makes demagogic appeals to the masses of the working pecple. His threat was interpreted as di- rectly intended for Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who in a re- cent radio address, charged that the “little fellow,” the common citizen, has been forgotten. Said Mr. Smith: “I have recently stated that while I would accept a nomination for the presidency if it were tendered me by the convention, that until the conven- tion assembled I would not be for or “I announce toni that statement, I will take off my coat and vest | and fight to the end against any can- | (Continued on Page 5, Colunmn 1.) PAN-AMERICAN DAY | ASSAILED IN MEXICO. Anti-Imperialists Propose Removal of Union's Offices From Washington. ght an exception to By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, April 14 —Mexican ! “anti-lmperialists” united today in op- | position to the celebration of Pan- the New World. The Anti-Imperialist League planned a large public protest meeting. Dr. Pedro De Alba, director of the National Preparato; School, a division of the National University of Mexico, demanded removal of the offices of the Pan-American Union from Washington }cha .fitzmn&enl he sald, “There is noth- ig 83 dead in the New Wi - Americanism " palates | “The only means of saving anything of the present structure,” he said, “is to correct old offenses and eliminate the wholly bad imperialistic policy of the dominant nations “One mecessary step is to remove the offices of the Pan-American Union from Washington. Move the headquarters to Brezil or to Ecuador or Costa Rica “I fear pan-Americanism at present DISNEY RETAINS SEAT - D:sullnws Re- House count Asked by O'Conmor. A House Elections Committee today voted to disallow a recount asked by Charles O'Connor, Republican, and declare Wesley E. Disney, Democrat, electzd as a member of the House from the first Qklahoma congressional dis- trict. o5 = Committee The committee vote was seven to one, Representative Schafer, Republican, of Wisconsin, hclding O'Connor should be allowed a recount before the result was ecided. He will file a minority ALFRED | You'LL CATCH |-~ COLD % ¥ i TR s - _ M > LINDBERGH RANSOM BILL SEARCH FAILS | Officials Find Difficulty Trac-| ing Note Paid by New York Bank. By the Assoclated Press HOPEWELL, N. J, April 14—A needle-in-the-haystack chore faced secret service men today in the Lind- bergh kidnaping mystery. Persons who executed a $50,000 hoax on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh by falsely promising to return his stolen bnby‘ have already begun to spend the money. ‘That much is definite, but tracing the | ,cash to the criminals is proving most | difficult. | A $20 bill turned over to a mysterious individual in a Bronx cemetery by “Jafsie” came to light yesterday in the possession of David Isaacs, retired clothing merchant of -New York. Hel obtained it from a branch of the East River Savings Bank in New York, where it was paid either April 4 or 5, two or three days after the ransom trans- action. Strain Tells on “Jafsie.” On April 4 and 5 many hundreds of deposits were made at the bank branch, so discovery of the bill helped 1ittle. “Jafsie,” otherwise Dr. John F. Condon, retired Bronx school master who still hopes to get the buby back from the kidnapers, continued his mysterious movements—and showed signs that the strain is beginning to tell. Returning home after one of sev- | eral unexplained trips, he found a| crowd around his stoop “Get off my property,” he said. “I don't know you. You might be the kidnapers.” He made a gesture toward his right | hand pocket and then dashed indooss. | During yesterday, Col. Henry Breckin- ridge, closest adviser of Lindbergh, called at Condon’s home. In Norfolk, Dean H. Dobson-Peacock disclosed he had had secret messages from two other Norfolk men acting with him in attempts to recover the baby. The other two, John H. Curtis and Rear Admiral Guy Burrage, are away from home, apparently trying to contact the kidnapers. The dean is hopeful Vienna Search Pressed. Maj. Charles H. Schoeffel, New Jersey State police official who went abroad in connection with the kidnaping, ar- rived in Vienna, and police there were searching for the missing Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. Conflicting reports that Harry Fleischer, former member of Detroit's purple gang, had fled to Hal to ship to England and that he had been in upstate New York gave police plenty to check. Fleischer is wanted for ques- tions about his movements at the time of the abduction _ One of Col. Lindbergh's automobiles was driven into his Sourland estate late | last night, but troopers said it carried cnly a New York City detective, and not Col. Lindbergh. SCHOEFFEL IN VIENNA. VIENNA, April 14 (#).—Maj. Charles H. Schoeffel of the New Jersey police, | today | _The French pian Woman Arraigned In Husband’s Death sterNortmp . (4] NE BT Accused of Ending Row Over Bid With Pair of Scissors, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 14.—Mrs. Sadie Oster, 38, was arraigned in Brooklyn on a charge of manslaughter which had its roots in a bridge bid of no-trump without sufficient trick sup- port. It is charged she caused the death of | her husband, Sam Oster, 45, by throw- | ing a pair of scissors at him. Oster | died on April 4 of meningitis of the | was killed and another wounded. brain due to infection. Mrs. Oster was | released in bail of $2.500 and ordered to appear for examination on April 29. The bridge game was played on the night of March 29. Mrs. Oster bid no- trump and was set. Oster upbraided | her because, police said, she did not‘ held the proper cards to warrant the bid. The guests Jeft. The argument con- tinued and fnally, police said, Oster | began to beat' his wife, whereupon she | threw the scissors. which struck him In the eye. He was taken to a hospital, where the infection developed. Shortly before he died Oster called detectives to his bedside and told them one of the guests threw the scissors. However, the detectives said, Mrs. Oster | told them it was only an attempt upon | | the part of her husband to shield her. | U5, PLAN MAY BE FIRST AT GENEVA Bureau Must Decide Order for Discussions of Four Main Proposals. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, April 14.—The Bureau of the Disarmament Conference will meet tomorrow to decide which of the four Soutneastern field when disorders oc- | Mittee main proposals, the American, the Rus- sian, the French or the Italian, shall be dealt with first. The only concrete decision of the conference 5o far has been the rejection of the previous Russian proposal for im- mediate total disarmament. But there is now a new Rus:ian proposal based on | Workers called a strike in the Eastern | 1O €Xpanding credit will not reach the what Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov calls the principle for progressive-| portional reduction. Turkey and Per- sia_are supporting this Russian plan, for an armed (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PACIFIC PRESIDENT UNION P PREDICTS TONNAGE GAIN Cperating Income in March Better Than in February, He Asserts. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 14—Carl Gray, president of Union Pacific Railroad, sald today that he thought that road, |In common with other western carriers, would have an upturn in tonnage traf- fic after August, although he was not | sure this would be translated into sub- stantial increases in revenues. “The most hopeful sign in our ter- ritory no moisture condition of the soil. The wheat movement so far is only mod- crate. However, there is more wheat on who came here yesterday presumably in connection with the search for the Lindbergh baby, said today he had no new clues ‘ He spent the morning examining lh(j ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) COLD CANCELS GAME Washington_nnd Boston Teams to Resume Series Tomorrow. The Washington-Boston base ball game was postponed today because of cold weather at Boston. The teams will resume their series tomorrow. and this wheat must be moved some time." Union Paclfic’s net railway operat- ing income in March was better than in February, Mr. Gray said. AARRRARRARAARSRLRARAAT “TANGLED LIVES” THE STRANGE STORY OF JOYCE ALLEN By Ann Forester Author of “Spite Wife" BEGINS ON PAGE C-¢ OF TODAY'S STAR he added, “is the good | T | their automobile to an old stable in the | |the farms than at this time last year | TROOPS MOBILIZED Adjutant General Studies Re- | quest for Guardsmen at Goodyear Pits. By the Associated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 14.—The | State today was asked by Harrison iCOunly authorities to send Naticnal | Guard troops into that region to help control the mine strike situation. request came after a strike riot Adena early today in which one ‘The near man In & telegram to Adjt. Gen. Frank D. Henderson, Sheriff Maurice Woo- ster said there was an urgent need of troops because there had been blood- shed and rioting and danger to life and property and the situation was be- yond his control. The adjutant general, who planned to go to the scene of the rioting at the Somers mine of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. by airplane” Jater in the day, said he would answer the sheriff’s | appeal personally. He ordered soldiers | mobilized at Akron and Columbus, but said he did not want to send thex into the strike field unless it was absolutely necessary. | 500 Men Storm Mine. Henderson said that before leaving for the Somers mine, he would contact C:l. Don L. Caldwell of Cincinnati, | guard officer in charge of 10 observers in the field. Caldwell reported to Henderson that | between 500 and 600 men stormed the Somers mine today in an effort to prevent working miners from reaching the pit. The sheriff, he added, called ¢n the guards to aild him, and during | the rioting one man was killed. First reports were that a guard officer killed the man, but the colonel said an in- | spection of pistols after the invaders were driven off with tear gas disclosed | that none of the officers’ guns had | been fired. Trouble in the Ohio soft coal fields dates from the announcement of wage cuts several months ago in the Hocking and Sunday Creek districts. United Mine Workers' leaders claimed the cut was 25 per cent, the new scale being $3.50 for day work and 38 cents for tonnage. Guard Observers Present. Guard observers were sent int 0 the curred at the Millfield mine and other points. After several bombings at Mill- field, and attacks on working miners, | Gov. White served an ultimatum on | the strikers that he would send in | soldiers if the disorders continued. Most | of the Southeastern district mines were closed down by the operators, and quiet reigned. On April 1, the United Mine | field. This was followed by rioting at the Muskingum mine near Zanesville, ‘and several marches on the Somers mine, during which attempts were made to convince the working miners they should strike. They refused to lay down their tools, and when they reiterated this stand today, the rioting followed. TWO BROTHERS ESCAPE FROM TRIO OF KIDNAPERS | Boy, 14, Gets Away After Being Locked in Stable—Second, 12, Fights Off Abductors. By the Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA, April 14—Edward | Walsh, 14, was kidnaped by three color- | ed men while on his way to sehool in | West Philadelphia today and was later | found by two motorcycle policemen on | the South street Bridge over the Schuy | kill River, some distance away. The boy said the men took him in city and locked him in, but he escaped | by_climbing out a window. His brother, Thomas, 12, was also | forced into the automobile by the men but he fought them and escaped before | they drove away. | HARRIS “NOT SO WELL" Physician Describes Senator's Con- dition as “‘Quite Serious.” The condition of Senator Harris of Georgia was described by his physician this morning as “ouite serious.” The 64-year-old Senator was pro- nounced “not so well today.” His pulse rate had increased and he suffered con- siderable pain during the night. A consultation of doctors was held this morning. He is suffering from an intestinal ailment and his heart has shown signs of weakening under a long siege of illness. BabiitLg Do Turkey May Join League. GENEVA, April 14 (#).—It was learned on good authority today that Turkey is' Ecague 'tnd an mavitation probabiy wil an be issued year, 10 MAINTAIN ORDER AT BONUS HEARING Persistent Veteran Spokes- man Stirs House Ways and Means Committee. CHAIRMAN’S WARNING FAILS TO SILENCE HIM | | Declares Stenber “Strays From the Truth” When Delegation Finally Is Heard. | By the Associated Press. With policemen standing close at hand, the Ways and Means Committee today listened to appeals for full pay- ment of the bonus from a delegation | that a little earlier had interrupted the | session with demands to be heard. | J. W. Ford, colored, who said he was a candidate for the vice presidential | nomination on the Communist ticket, | said the veterans “get no sympathy | from the millionaire Congress of today.” Samuel J. Stenber identified himselt as representing the Workers' Ex-Service Men's League. He said Henry L. Ste- vins, national commander of the Amer- | n Legion, “lies when he says the ma- ity of the men do not want the bo- | aus."” Remarks Amended. At the insistence of Acting Chairman Crisp. he amended his language to say that Stevens “strays from the truth.” | The police were called shortly after | Stenber asked when his delegation | would be heard. | . Stepping forward in the midst of the | hearing, a man who identified himself as Ssmuel J. Stenber, a_representative |of “the Workers' Ex-Service Men’s | League, asked when his delegation would be heard. Crisp rapped for order and said they would not be heard at all unless they observed the rules of the committee. | . Representative Patman, Democrat, of | | Texas has charge of witnesses in be- | half of the legisiation calling for pay- ment of the two billion dollars out- .:vfianduég nr;nlheh bonus certificates, and e order which they are present | is decided by him. o e o | Crisp Pounds for Order. | Despite Crisp's warning, Stenber per- | ! sisted, | | "We have been waiting here several aays and want to know when we'll be | heard?” he said. | | _ Crisp pounded for order and warned | Stenber his group would receive mo hearing unless he obeyed the rules. He then instructed the committee clerk to ;call a police guard. » Jeft the corridor told-newspaper men the dele gation had been waiting since Mon- CRISP CALLS POLICE D.C. APPROPRIATION BIL, T MILLIONS REPORTED IN HOUSE Measure, Slashed to Bone, Carries $39,913,810—Lean« est Fund in Years. EMERGENCY RELIEF ITEM OF $600,000 IS OMITTED Amendment Removes Public Utili- ties Jurisdiction Over Taxi Rates and Meters. Slashed to the bone, the District appropriation bill for the 1933 fiscal year was reported to the House today by the Appropriations Committee. The bill carries appropriations totale ing $39,913,810—85,797,825 less than ap= propriated for the current fiscal year, and $4,173,109 under the amount rece ommended for 1933 by the Budget Bu- reau. The bill was taken up for considera= tion in the House immediately when reported by Chairman Cannon of the subcommittee, Aside from the drastic cuts, which confronts the District with the leanest appropriation in many years, the com- mittee wrote into the bill a provision reducing the Pederal contribution from $9,500,000 to $6,500,000. Salary Curb Placed. The full Appropriations Committee in executive session today struck from the bill limitations placed by the sub- committee that no part of the appro- priations should be used for the pay- ment of salaries to Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Utili- ties Commission, or to William A. Rcb- erts, assistant corporation counsel Instead a committee amendment was authorized which would remove from the Public Utilities Commission juris- diction over rates for taxicab service and regarding the Installation of meters. This action, it is believed, was taken to indicate the displeasure of some members of the House over the order of the Public Utilities Commission, re- quiring the installation of meters on taxicabs. Reduction of $3,000,000 in the Fed- eral contribution was a foregone con- clusion in view of previous action of the House when it passed the four Mapes tax increase bills. What tr committee did was to divorce the ap Rikpes tax bils by’ cuting the appronet, apes the appropri- ations chargeable against the general m of the District by fore than day for a hearing. Relief Fund Killed. Later, Crisp called on Ford and Sten- | ber, who had returned to the chamber | and were sitting in the rear. Crisp said the clerk had promised the group a hearing and allowed each 10 minutes to | | advocate payment of the bonus. Sev- eral policemen stood in the room. Coxey Last Witness. Jacob S. Coxey, mayor of Masillon, Ohio, and one time general of the fa- mous march of the unemployed in the | 1890s, was the day's last witness for the bonus. Exhibiting various kinds of money, both paper and metal, to the commit- | tee as he testified, Coxey said the coun- | try has been doing business on 97 per | cent of checks and 3 per cent of cur- | rency. | “We have been on a credit system,” he said. “We should get off that and | |80 on a currency system by printing | 25 or 30 billions in currenc The first witness at today hearing was Willford I King, an instructor in | economics at New York University, who | reviewed recent economic developments, beginning with the stock market crash of 1929, Patman Exhibits Appeals. Representative Patman _introduced King after first exhibiting to the com- “several thousand telegrams I | have received since yesterday morning favoring payment of the bonus.” | “These come from both veterans and business men, especially small business One of the important omissions in the bill was an item of $600.000 for emergency relief work in the District, which was to have been made immedi- ately available from public funds to supplement_inadequate private contri- butions. Such an appropriation was strongly urged by President Hoover, the District Commissioners and organized welfare and charity workers. A cursory analysis of the bill shows that scarcely an item recommended by the Commissioners and the Budget Bu- reau escaped a cut. No increases were allowed, and virtually all new con- struction, with the exception of a start on construction of a new Benning bridge and school buildings, represent- ing a cost of less than §1,500,000, was eliminated. In effect. the bill would lace the District strictly on a main- tenance tass in 1933, and nothing else. Many Projects Suffer. Specifically, some of the larger items removed during the pruning proc included the Georgetown Branch L. brary, the first unit of the municipal center group, a new bridge over Rock Creek at P street, the New Hampshire avenue grade crossing, the widening of Constitution avenue from North Cap- itol to Sixth streets, the proposed sew- age treatment plant, and approximately $800,000 in street and road improve- ments. The committee also disallowed funds for using private automobiles in public work, abolished out-of-town jun- kets for park planners, denied an ap- men,” Patman said. Patman and other advocates of the | legislation are determined to press the i proposal to a vote, taking the attitude | the plans of the Federal Reserve Board masses of the people. They argue that the placing of 1$2,000,000,000 into the hands of the vet- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SHORT MAN ADMITTED BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 14 (P —Antonio Bertone can live in Argentina even if he is only 4 feet 6 inches tall, the Supreme Court ruled today ‘The ruling reverses a decision by the immigration authorities that Bertone was too short to hold a regular_job. Immigration inspectors wouldn't let Bertone in when he came back re- cently from a visit to Italy. The court | propriation for shirts and ties for mem- bers of the Fire Department, and cut in half the usual fund for mosquito eradi- cation work. There are also reductions in the work to be done out of tre special gasoline tax fund of $388,900 uncer current ap- propriations and $288,900 under the budget recommendations, and in the " (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) JAPAN SEEKS MARKET Negotiations for Trade Pact Begun With Uruguay. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 14 (#). Shigheti Kubata, Japanese commer- cial representative, began negotiations today for a comercial agreement based on an interchange of products between Japan and Uruguay. He said, owing to the Chinese conflict, held today that if he had a regular job Japan was seeking new markets for the before he went to Italy he could get | purchase of raw materials and fertils | another one now that he is back. izers. 'WHITE MAN IN BRAZIL JUNGLE MAY PROVE LOST U. S. WRITER Recluse Believed Ambrose Bierce, Missing Since 1914, Instead of Col. P. H. Fawcett. B the Assoctated Press. | ‘The man gave Johnson a bundle of BUENOS AIRES, April 14.—A possl- | manuseripts, he said. askdng him to ity th: S/ | mail them to an address scri ed on bility that Ambrose Bierce, American | oy “pug the manuseripts rotted from writer and adventurer, who disappeared | the hide in which he carried them and mysterizusly in 1914, might be the white | the address was indecipherable when |man seen by Stephan Rattin, Swiss | he returned to civilization. trapper, in the Brazilian jungle, was dis-| The narrator of the tale here said | cussed here today. | Johnson showed him some of the rotted Rattin said he belleved the man wes | manuscripts and that they appeared to Col. P. H. Fawcett, missing British have been written between 1913 and explorer. 1916. But a former soldier of fortune here, | Ambrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico who asked that his name be withheld |in 1914. There have been stories that on account of his present position, tcid he died in battle at Torreon, Mexico, of hearing from an aged guide named | With Pancho Villa's rebel forces; thaf Johnson in 1924 that on an expedition | he was seen in South America after his into the interlor several years befcre |disappearance in Mexico; that he was he encountered a white man named | driven frem Villa's camp and shot and Pierce, or Pearce, with the Murcielago | that he deliberately walked to death by Indians. | heading into the enemy lines at Chi- The man, he said, was fairly tall and | huahua City. thin, with ‘a fair mustache and long | hair reaching to his shoulders. He car- ried spectacles, but seldom wore them, the guide said, and the Indians called him “the four-eyed man.” He would be more than 85 years old if he were alive now. -— Radio Programs on Page D-4 ¢ ¢