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T A—2 ¥ SEABURY DISPUTES - ROOSEVELT STORY Denies Asking Probers to Act on Farley and That They Refused. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 6.—Samuel Sea- bury, counsel of the Hofstadter Legis- lative Committee, today contradicted a statement by Gov. Roosevelt that Sea- bury had asked the committee to act in the removal case of former Sheriff Thomas M. Farley and that the com- mittee had refused. At the same time Seabury indicated he would follow with respect to Mayor James J. Walker the same procedure he followed in the Farley case. He sald he regarded Gov. Roosevelt's statement calling for immediate action as directed at him, rather than at the Hofstadter Committee. Asked if it was a fact the committee refused his request to act in the Farley case, Seabury said he had never dis- cussed the matter with the committee, but that he had personally presented the evidence to the Governor, without making any direct charges. Commenting on the charges made | against him to the district attorney by Senator John A. Hastings, that he trav- eled to Bermuda and back in $1.010 accommodations but paid only $460, Seabury said an officer on the ship had moved his blg%nge to a larger suite ‘without asking his permission and told him he might as well occupy it since the ship was carrying few passengers. Seabury said he was not a public officlal and that, therefore the section of the Constitution to which Hastings in his letter to the district attorney re- ferred. did not apply to him. The sec- tion of the Constitution forbids public officials to accept free transportation or preferential rates. Meanwhiley Seabury analyzed 700,000 words of testimony relating to the ‘Walker administration. The City Affairs Committee, through Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Stephcn 8. Wise, issued a statement denouncing Gov. Roosevelt for the representations of his views, expressed through an unidentified spokesman, that Seabury was “playing politics.” The statement said “this is the tra- ditional Tammany Hall policy of at- tacking venomously when cornered.” POLICE FIGHT 3,000 JOBLESS AT PLANT Fifty Detroit Officers, Armed With Tear Gas Bombs, Repulse Demonstrators, By the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 6.—About 3,000 men attempting an unemployment demonstration at the gates of a plant of the Briggs Manufacturing Co., were driven back at 11:30 a.m. today after a brief struggle with 50 policemen ‘rn;:n with tear gas bombs and riot clubs. Four policemen were nigfiy in- Jured by bricks and stones thrown by the demonstrators. Several demon- strators were knocked down. No a Tests were made. The demonstration, called by John| Bchmies, one-time Communist candi. date for or of Detroit, began shol ly after 11 a.m., when nearly 3,000 gath- erzd. demanding -unemployment relief, a 10 per cent increase in wages of Briges workers and slowing down of the production line. Police were called when the mob u;lemprefl to rush the gates of the plant. REVOLT STARTED AGAINST CHILE’S SOCIALIST REGIME (Continued From First Page.) Davila, former Ambassador to Wash- ington, intends to proceed more slowly with foreigners than with domestic capitalist enterprises in fulfilling its pledge to establish Soclalism. Decrees Prepared. ‘The revolutionary Junta was moving swiftly today to set up its proposed Socialist regime. It prepared a number of decrees enabling the “first Soclalist republic of Chile” to take over imme- diately the productive forces of the country, to redistribute wealth by the imposition of confiscatory taxes and to seize various privately capitalized in- terests. . ‘While the program was not completed, it was learned from a reliable source that it probably would include: Organization, distribution and contrel of foodstuffs by the state; use of all means in its power to feed everybody in Chile; heavy taxes on large fortunes and incomes; a convention to write & new Socialist constitution; division and colonization of large estates; recognition of Soviet Russia; progressive steps to- ward full socialization of credits; pro- vision of employment for everybody, and granting to the poorer classes “the health and welfare to which they have a legitimate right as the builders of all Tiches.” ‘The program also would include State monopolies for oil, matches, to- bacco, lodine, alcohol, sugar, foreign commerce and possibly internal com- meree, it was learned, and prohibition of the importation of articles classed as luxuries, such as silks, automobiles and perfumes. ‘The new cabinet includes: Gen. Puga, Interior; Louis Barriga, foreign affairs; Dr. Pedro Fajardo, jus- tice; Alfred La Garrigue, finance; Vic- tor M. Nevarrete, industry; Carlos A. Martinez, lands; Col. Marmaduke Grove, defense; Dr. Oscar Cifuentes, welfare; Ramon Alvarez, laber; Guil- lermo Azocar, agricuiture, and Eugene Gonzalez, education. PERU REVOLT FORECAST. Apra Agent Says Move Led by Party Will Start Soon. NEW YORK, June 6 (#).—Alejandro Rojas Zevallos, New York representa- tive of the Peruvian Apra movement, predicted today that a revolution sim- ilar to that which overthrew the gov- ernment of President Montero of Chile Saturday would occur in Peru within 60 days. The Apra party, he said, would lead the revolt against President Sanchez Cerro and would count on ald from the Tank and file of the army and navy. He claimed the party has thousands of followers in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia, and that its ob- jects are similar to the socialistic prineiples of the new government in Chile. It seeks to unite 20 Latin Amer- ican nations in an economic federation. DEMANDS A WET G. 0. P. Woman Delegate to Withhold Support If Pledge Is Refused. NEWARK, N. J., June 6 (#).—Mrs. George H. Miles, president of the Wom- en's State Republican Club and one of the seven delegates at large to the Re- publican National Convention, today stated she would not go to the conven- tion and vote for President Hoover for renomination unless he pledges him- White House Statement $500,000,000 in Loans Declared Made by Finance Corporation—Many Small Banks Shown to Have Benefited at Conference HE text of the White House state- ment after President Hoover's l conferences at his Rapidan camp dealing with the relief question follows: & “The following are the conclusions of the Rapidan conference between Presi- dent Hoover and the directors, Gov. Meyer (of the Federal Reserve Board), Gen. Dawes, Messrs. Jones, Couch, Mc- Carthy, Bestor and Ballantine of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. “They spent some Fours yesterday and this morning reviewing the work which has been accomplished since the corpo~ ration was establsihed on the 2d of February and discussed the board's plans and recommendations for the future. They also discussed methods further to co-ordinate all economic ness, employment and agriculture. $500,000,000 Loans Made. “The review of the work of the cor- poration showed that in the 14 weeks of its life loans of about $500,000,000 were authorized to something like 4,000 banks, agricultural credit corporations, life insurance companies and other fi- nancial institutions, and in addition thereto about $170,000,000 to railroads “An analysis of the institutions and the purposes served showed that: “First. Of nearly 3,000 borrowing banks, more than 70 per cent are located in towns of 5,000 in population or less; while 84 per cent are located in towns of 25,000 in population or less: and that only 45 per cent ¢f money loaned to banks has gone to institutions in cities of over one million in population. “In all these communities these banks | have been able to meet the demands of their depositors and to minimize the necessity of forced collections, fore- closures and sales of securities and have thus contributed to protect community values. One hundred and twenty-five closed banks have either been reopened or their depositors paid out. And bank failures which amounted to nearly 100 a week when the corporation began are now down to about the casualties of normal times. It is estimated that al- together over 10 million individual de- positors and borrowers have been bene- fited by the margins provided by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to | these banks. Other Benefits Declared. “Second: Over 250 building and loan associations have borrowed from the the one hand to make their routine payments to their depositors and par- ticipants, and on the other to avold the foreclosures of mortgages. The result |aga'n has been benefits to hundreds of thousands of individuals. { “Third: In the agricultural fleld, the corporation has underwritteA or sub- | scribed for issues placing $68,000,000 of the Federal intermediate credit bank debentures, the whole of which sums are loaned directly to farmers for pro- duction and marketing purposes. Loans have been made to a number of agri- cultural, market and live stock finance corporations, which in turn has en- | abled them to extend and continue loans | particularly upon live stock and loans to a great number of farmers. Beyond this, loans to the extent of $75.000,000 | have been made directly to about 450.- 1000 farmers for seed purposes through the Department of Agriculture. Alto- gether probably one million individual farmers have been directly or indirectly | helped. “Fourth, the net result of approxi- mately $170,000,000 authorized loans to railroads has been on cne hand to in- crease employment by continuing nec- other hand by preventing receiverships ments of the trustee institutions such {as insurance companies, savings banks, {etc. The deterioration of service and | other standards which accompany re- | cetverships have also been avoided. {agencies engaged In assistance to busi- | .4, corporation in order to enable them on | essary_construction work, and on the | and thus safeguarding the great invest- | With President Hoover. “Generally about $670,000,000 of loans authorized to date have filtered through to the use and protection of a very large segment of the whole coun- try. An encouraging feature is that the repayment of loans has begun, some $30,000,600 having been repaid. “The conference conclusions as to immediate policies necessary to speedy economic recovery embrace four prin- cipal items affecting the Reconstruction Corporation. “l. In order at once to stimulate employment and to stiffen the whole agricultural situation, to extend the av- thority to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to increase its issues of its securities to the maximum of $3,000,- 000,000 to enable it (a) to buy bonds from political subdivisions or public es or corporations so as to start construction of income-producing or self-liquidating projects which will at once increase employment, (b) to make loans upon security of agricultural com- modities 50 as to assure the carrying of normal stocks of these commodities and thus by stabilizing their loan value and thereby at once steady their price levels, (¢) to make loans to the Federal Farm Board to enable extension of loans to farm co-operatives and loans for export of agricultural commodities to quarters unable otherwise to purchase them, (d) the authority to loan up to $300,- 000,000 to such States as are unable to finarce themselves for distress. Committees Proposed. “It was considered desirable that tem- | porary non-partisan committees should be set up to pass upon loans to States for distress and of engineers to pass upon loans for income producing works. Both of these committees to function in much the same way as the Interstate Commerce Commission now acts in passing upon loaas to railroads. “2. The enactment of the legislation which has been recommended creating the system of home loan discount banks. Surveys by the buflding and loan asso- clations and the Department of Com- merce show that these institutions would not only protect great numbers of homes from foreclosures, but that they would immediately stimulate from five hundred million to a billion dollars of construction work in new homes in many under-built localities and in reno- vations. It was considered that these institutions were a necessary comple- ment to the Reconstruction Corporation and could well be financed by the cor- poration frem its funds if the legislation creating that system is enacted. Co-ordination Planned. “3. The Joint Committee of Industry and Finance now being created by the Federal Reserve System in each district for the purpose of organized application of the credit facilities now available through the system to be developed in other cities and co-ordinated with the work of the Reconstruction Corporation. “4. That Government expenditures must be held down absolutely to within the tax income now provided and that no programs of expenditure should be undertaken which cannot be paid for from current tax income. Expansion of non-productive public works requir- ing the issuance of Government securi- ties for any other lines of expenditures would at once create a deficit and again unbalance the budget and would render financing of the operations of the Re- construction Corporation extremely dif- ficult, if not impossible, and wouild in- cfélie rather than decrease unemploy- ment. “The board presented to the Presi- dent a high tribute to the thousands of members of committees and of the staff of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, working in every city and located in every part of the Union, who have given their undivided time and service to enabling the corporation to function on sueh an enormous scale and s0 effectively in the short period of less than three months.” DEMOCRATS IN ROW ON CHAIRMANSHIP FOR CONVENTION (Continued From First Page.) MORRISON TRAILING WET IN SENATE RACE IN NORTH CAROLINA (Continued From First Page.) did consider them, apparently they held that these votes were not to be permit- ture as permanent chairman. Tariff Involved. speaker of the convention was, in effect, to throw overboard the tariff issue in the coming campaign, which many of the Democrats hope to raise against the Republicans. With Senator Walsh as permanent chairman also entitled to be heard by the convention, the Roosevelt forces seemingly have decided there is little to the talk about the effect of Democratic votes in favor of the “tariff taxes.” According to information obtained here today, the determination to substi- tute Senator Walsh for Mr. Shouse was not reached hastily, but after the situ- ation had been given fareful consider- ation. Senator Walsh himself was con- sulted, it was said, and it was learned he would accept the chairmanship. Chairman in 1924, ‘The Montana Senator was permanent chairman of the Democratic convention of 1924, when, at Madison Square Gar- den, New York, the religious and pro- hibition issues were fought out. The convention took 103 ballots before it was able to nominate a candidate for President. The Montana Senator made an enviable record as chairman at the convention during those troublous times. As & presiding officer he was entirely fair. Roosevelt supporters in Washington today said they had been particularly aroused by public report that Mr. Shouse, if he were made permanent chairman, would prepare and deliver a spesch to the convention which would, in effect, be a keynote speech, dealing with the prohibition issue and other controversial matters without consulting Gov. Roosevelt, who is recognized to be a leading candidate for the presi- dential nomination. Shouse Friends Critical. Friends of Mr. Shouse were critical of the Roosevelt leaders, insisting that in their efforts to eliminate Mr. Shouse as permanent chairman they were go- ing back on promises made at a meet- ing of the Arrangements Committee in Chicago, when Senator Barkley was picked for temporary chairman and Mr. Shouse for permanent chairman. The Roosevelt people insist they will have 691 delegates’ votes in the con- vention, far more than a majority. Furthermore, they expect to have ccn- trol of tl:;eyfi\:llu ctommltue'b "Vrlyhltlz they say 0 not expect break down the two-thirds rule under which Democratic conventions nomi- nate presidential candidates, they inti- mate that if a deadlock ensues, in the coming convention, they may undertake to bring in a majority rule for nomina- tion. The Rules Committee could bring in such a rule and present for adoption by the convention at any time, and it would require only a majority vote to adopt such a rule. —_— SIX STARS TO ARRIVE Six Metropolitan Opera stars, ex- pected to take part in the presenta- tion of “Aida” in Griffith Stadium ¢ June 12, will arrive in Washington Wednesday. They are Miss Leonora Corons and "Miss Dreda Aves, Pasquale Amato, Guiseppe Creatore, Pasquale Ferrara and Nino Ruisl. ~ ted to keep Mr. Walsh out of the pic- | | Reynolds. The critics of Senator Barkley have | insisted that to make him the keynote | election day in November until the be- ginning of the full term. On the face of reports from 865 election precincts in this race Senator Morrison had a margin of more than 5000 votes over The tally was 75771 to 70,062. Repeal of the prohibition laws was advocated by Reynolds. He described himself as a “temperance candidate.” In addition to his opposition to the eighteenth amendment. he advocated full payment of the soldiers’ bonus. In the contest for the governorship J. C. B. Ehringhaus piled up a long lead over his two ponents, but fell short, on the basis of returns recorded. of the majority necessary for election on the first ballot. The count for 1457 precincts stood: Ehringhaus. 150,084; Maxwell, 87,614; Fountain, 93,252. Races for House Seats. Renomination of the two Democratic Representatives in Congress, Zebulon B. Weaver and Charles L. Abernethy, seemed certain. In the sixth district W. B. Umstead had 8484 votes with 86 of 116 pre- cincts listed. Norman Boren was sec- ond with 6,328. In the lone Republican contest scat- tering returns showed Jake Newell, nominated by the State convention for the United States Senate, piling up an overwhelming lead over George W. De- priest, a wet. Newell is a dry. HELIUM SUPPLY FOUND Trinidad May, Become Important Bource, Scientists Believe. PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, June 6 (#)—Hellum is re] to have been discovered in Trinidad, rewarding a search which began after oil drillers accidentally tapped a source of the reports said that Trinidad portant source there was a possibilif might well become an of supply. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, National League of Repub- lican Women, Willard Hotel, 3:30 p.m. Meeting, Abraham Lincoln-Circle, No. 3, Ladies’ G. A. R, Willard Hotel, 8 pm. Moonlight cruise, Joppa Lodge Chap- ter, No. 27, O. E. S. Boat leaves Sev- enth Street Wharves, 8:45 p.m. Moonlight cruise, Bethlehem Chap- ter, No. 7, O. E. S. Boat leaves Sev- enth Street 8 pm. FUTURE. Luncheon, Board of Directors, Rotary Club, Willard Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 pm. Luncheon, Board of Directors, Lions Club, Mayflower Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 pm. Luncheon, Washington Credit Men's f;;gglnum. Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, :30 p.m. Luncheon, Better Business Bureau, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Card party, benefit Nativity Church, 6000 Georgia avenue, tomorrow, 1:30 pm. Luncheon, Department of Justice, University Club, m“?& 12:30 pm. EARTHQUAKE JLTS WEST COAST AREA Woman Killed in California. Strong Tremors Felt in Oregon. By the Associated Press. EUREKA, Calif, June 6.—One woman {was killed and three other persons in- jured in a severe earthquake which shook Northern California and South- ern Oregon early today. Mrs. Walter McCutcheon of Eureka was fatally injured when the chimney of her home toppled over and crashed through the roof upon the family. Mr. McCutcheon suffered a brolen leg and their three-year-old daughter, Loulse, was slightly injured. ‘The other known victim was a bakery employe whose wrists were broken when the temblor jarred two bread trays together. i ‘The quake was reported ‘“very strong’ in Klamath Falls, Oreg; 155 miles northeast of Eureka, and was felt in San Prancisco, 285 miles to the South. R , 85 miles east of Eureka, re- ported it “severe” A number of shacks in Arcata, a vil- lage 7 miles from Eureka, were razed. Four distinct shocks were felt here, all coming in rapid succession at about 12:40 am. Property damage in Eureka was con- fined largely to fallen chimneys, broken water mains which flooded basements of homes, broken windows and crockery. Telephone and telegraphic communica- tion was temporarily disrupted. ‘There were numerous reports of gas leaks and one chimney fire, which was checked. Old residents here compared the shock to the 1908 earthquake which rocked the coast and caused the fire which de- troyed S8an Francisco. SHOCKS FELT IN CUBA. Second One Sends Residents of Santi- ago Scurrying Into Streets. BANTIAGO, Cuba, June 6 (#).—Two earthquakes struck Santiago early to- day and sent residents of the city scurrying into parks, streets and open m., was & light one, but the second at 4:05 am., was strong enough to remind the peo- ple of the disastrous quake of last February. MEXICO ORGANIZES RELIEF. Jalisco Governor Reports Thousands of Homes Destroyed. MEXICO CITY, June 6 (#).—All Fed- eral Government agencies in the State of Jalisco were ordered today to co- operate with Gov. Sebastian Allende in relief work following Friday's earth- quake, which took a heavy toll in lives and property damage. The governor reported that a consid- erable section of the State was in a bad way. Thousands of homes were destroyed. he said, and at least 400 dead and injured were reported from widespread areas. Medical corps and food brigades were hastily organized. QUAKE RECORDED HERE. Observers Watch to See If Shocks Follow Belt of Activity. The earthquakes which struck the town of Eureka, Calif, early today were sufficiently violent to shake the earth for more than 2,500 miles and were re- corded distinctly on the seismograph at the Georgetown Univelsity eartbquake observatory. The Eureka shock was one of four registered at the local observatory in the last 48 hours. two of which were after shocks of the Mexican earthquake June 3, it was announced in a bulletin issued by the observatory today. The Eureka earthquake was recorded at Georgetown at 3:51!; a.m., Wash- ingtan time, today. “It is interesting to note.” the ob- servatory stated in its announcement, “that all this recent activity has oc- curred on a circle, the points of which are approximately 2,500 miles from Washi 0 The earthquake epicenter, according to experts at the observatory, apparent- ly is moving to the northwest. “While predictions of further dis- turbance are outside the range of seis- mology,” it was announced, “observers will watch with interest to see if suc- cessive quakes follow the well known belt of activity which continues farther North and West through Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and the Kurile group, bending South to Japan.” _ MAN BLAMED FOR SHIP BLAST IS REARRESTED Duquesne Corpus and Seized Again as Being Escaped Prisoner. By the Assoclated Pr NEW YORK, June 6—Fritz Joubert Dugquesne, who was arrested recently as a fugitive from justice and the alleged murderer of three British seamen, was freed from the extradition charge in Federal Court today. This action was taken when the court was informed that the British govern- ment did not oppose a writ of habeas corpus sued out by Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. Dugquesne, who is also known as Fred- erick de Trafford Craven, was imme- diately rearrested on a charge of being an escaped prisoner. The murder charge relates to the death of seamen who were killed in the explosion of the steamer Tennyson in 1916. B BLIND J"'<TICE FLOUTED Thief Enters Court and Steals ~lock. PARIS (/).—Justice being blindfold- ed, has lost a timepiece. While a case was being heard in the law courts a man entered with a ladder and took down the wall clock. “It needs fixing,” he told the judge, but it hasn't been seen since. Hardly a day passes without a com- plaint of depredations by sneak thieves or pickpockets in the court’s building. Released on Habeas Each Dollar Invested in Your Home Now Will Save Many Later KEEPING A HORSE LIABILITY TO THE LIKE A HORSE, MUST BE USED TO KEEP CIRCULATED MONEY EARNS MONEY, SO WE REPEAT— ITS VALUE . . EACH DOLLAR HOME NOW WiLL Davila, former Ambassadc ‘The Presidential Palace at Santiago, Chile, which was taken by rebels Saturday as » revolutionary jun lor to Washington, overthrew the Montero government. dent, is preparing to set up a socialistic government. SLIM HOPES HELD HAUSNER IS SAFE Ocean Flyer Carried Fue|~Suf-‘ ficient to Last Only to Noon Yesterday. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, June 6.—The wife of Stanislaus Hausner, the priest who| blessed him as he started his flight into | the east, and the friends to whom he | confided his detailed plans were trying hard today not to give up hope for the fiyer's safety, though admitting the chances of his being alive were slender. By the most optimistic allowances the fuel supply Hausner carried for his New | York-to-Warsaw flight would have last- | ed no longer than Sunday noon. The| oare possibilities that Hausner may have landed and been unable to communi- | cate word of his safety, or that he | may have fallen into the sea and been | | picked up by a vessel not equipped with | | wireless were the only basis for hape‘ of his being alive Mrs. Martha Hausner, to whom the movie operator-amateur fiyer had been married but a year, remained much of | the time near the telephone at the home of her husband's friend and | spiritual adviser, Rev. Father Paul Knappek of Newark, N. J. | Hausner started for Warsaw frem | Floyd Bennett Field at 8:56 a.m., East- ern standard time, Friday. “ EUROPE IS ANXIOUS. Calls to European Air Fields Give No | Clue to Fiyer. i LONDON, June 6 () .—European anxiety over the fate of Stanislaus F. Hausner, Polish-American fiyer, deep- cned today as no word of him had been heard since he took off from New York last Priday. Air authorities made frequent calls to | European alrfields seeking possible word of the fiyer. |FURLOUGHING PLAN MAY BE AMENDED IN PAY CUT FIGHT | (Continued From First Page.) less than $1,00 a year takes out of the | bill about $2,000,000 of estimated savings. Some think the exclusion of | salaries under $1.000 would take out nearer to $4.000,000, in which case the flat 10 per cent cut on all other salaries would amount to $117,000,000. Sup- | porters of the furlough substitute said today that it wou'd amount to $88,000,~ 000 in the form in which it was intro- | duced. There is no certainty that it will be amended to include also a small gradufted pay cut in salaries above | | $3,000, but if this should be done it | would increase this figure of estimated | savings. | No Dismissals Argued. Supporters of the furlough substitute | will argue that it leaves the Govern- | | i ! ment salary schedules undisturbed and | eliminates the neecssity of dismissing | any employes as the result of greatly | reduced appropriations being granted by | Congress for the coming fiscal year. | Members of the bipartisan subcom- | mittee who drafted the economy bill | also contend, however, that their plan for a flat 10 per cent pay cut avoids the necessity of dismissing any Government workers, They argue that the economy bill permits the money saved by the economies to be used for the payment of salaries to help make up for reduced appropriations, and that they also have included in the pendifg bill a para- graph which would enable a department head to utilize the furlough method in- stead of outright dismissals in any bu- reau where salary appropriations might become inadequate to cover existing personnel. The bill carries another pro- vision permitting interchangeability of appropriations within a department with a limitation that no appropriation may be increased more tian 15 per cent by this process. When the Senate met today the economy bill was temporarily side- tracked to permit action on the confer- ence report on the billion-dollar tax bill. It is impossible to predict how long the tax bill conference report will be discussed, but as soon as it is acted on the economy bill comes back to the center of the stage with the furlough substitute as the pending question. IN THE STABLE IS A OWNER . MONEY., INVESTED IN YOUR SAVE MANY LATER. ta led by Carlos Inset: Senor Davila, Provisional Presi. Army Strangely Mute Orderly Bonus Marchers Seem to Be Impelled by Supreme Escape Gesture, Struggling Against Grip of Cruel, Mysterious Forces. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. HE strangest army that ever de- | scended upon a peaceful Ameri- can city was gathering momen- | tum tocay. Dusty and weary, some in tat- | ters and some in trim uniforms, some in trucks, some in battered cars and some on foot, some with flags flying and some unobtrusively, contingents of the bonus-seeking army of World War veterans were arriving continuously at the big Anacostia field that rapidly is taking the form a military camp. They came in groups of threes and fours, in small companies of 30 or 40. Finally. just before noon, the big New York group of about 200 came marching in double file, flags drooping over weary shoulders, down the dusty road to the camp. It is no mob down there in Anacostia—far less so today than was the case Saturday. Everything is or- derly, and rapidly is being organized into still more orderliness. The army seems to be a fair cross section of middle-class America. The are truck drivers and blacksmiths, steel workers and coal miners, ngnoznghen and common laborers. They are black and white. Some talk fluently of their woes. Some hardly can muster enough English to tell where they came from snd why. The soft Georgia drawl mingles with the characteristic patois of the New York sidewalks. Like Great Escape Gesture. What started it all? What common impulse moved these men almost simul- taneously in Harlem and Salt Lake Chicago flop houses? What impelled colored street laborer and bow-legged cowboy to leave everything familiar behind them and start out together on the open road? Curiously enough, little can be gained from conversations with the men? The | East Sicer and the fellow “who used to have a good racket” in Miami tell stories that are almost indistinguish- able except that both talk in the char- acteristic speech of their sections. Both are vague. It is obvious that this strange social phenomenon is something that transcends the individual. But nearly all have one thing in common— a curious melancholy, a sense of thel futility of individual struggle, a con- sciousness of being in the grip of cruel, incomprehensible forces. Their pres- ence here is a supreme escape gesture. Following are a few random glimpses into the reasoning of these men: A Chicago Pole, about 40 years old, phlegmatic after the fashion of the race —stolid, hopeless, difficult to get started | on his story: He used to be a truck driver and served in the 38th Division in France. He hasn't worked, he says, for three years, except for odd jobs now and then. He had a wife, but “she ain't ve no more.” He has three children. His mother, who lives in a little town in Indiana, is caring for them. He sleeps around in “flop houses” with lots of other fellows he knew in the army. How did he get started to Washington? He shakes his head. Somebody had read about it in the papers. They got to talking about it in the flop houses and the next thing he knew he was on his way. Men Just Got Together. A burly, bronzed Texan in a sombrero. He is a horseshoer by trade. Jobs are scarcer for horseshoers than for most men. Besides, he has spent a lot of time in service hospitals—two opera- tions for hernia. He was in Ogden, Utah, looking for a job. The ex-service men “hung around together” in that lit- tle Western city. Most of them were out of work, married and with hungry families. There were no meetings, no previous organization. The fellows got to talking about it on the street and, the next thing they knew, they were on the way to Wi 4 A Chicago colored man: For three years he has had an cdd job now and then distributing handbills on the streets and such work for 75 cents a day. His wife is a charwoman. She has supported him and his two children, but “she’s just about ready to break down.” The word spread around that the fellows were coming to Washington and he with them. There was no previous organization that he knows of. "He used to be a truck driver in the 92d Division. A glass blower and coal miner from Morgantown, W. Va.: He served in the Rainbow Division. Conditions among the coal miners are worse than any- where else, he says. Even if he could get an occasional day in the mines, he would be barred from his union if he accepted. This, he believes, is just. Two of his brothers are out of work. His father and mother are living and have kept them from starving thus far. It has been 18 months since he has had work for more than two days at a time. There is no real organization of needy veterans in West Virginia, that he knows about. The papers tell of the ?Ol'l‘ou mfixch ol:l Wumg‘mn. A few fellows each town happen to together, talk o thing they know they are on the way :hmy sort of transportation they can Jobless for Three Years. A sheet metal worker from Columbus, Ga.: He hasn't worked for three years and there is no pom.h‘ ility of got gt job. He and his family “ha just by somehow.” During the ::r’lu tryman with the 1st Division. bonus army. He hasn't worked for two years. He and his two children have been supported by his wife, who works |as 4 charwoman in office buildings. | They have just got by without starving. For 17 years this man drove a truck for one employer. The employer was a |good, square man. The veteran's job | was waiting for him when he came back from the war. Two years ago the €irm went broke. The employer is now in an insane asylum. “I might as well | be here as sponging off my poor wife,” the man says sadly. “She won't be able | to stand it very long.” My brother has helped us keep the rent paid, but he’s got a family of his own and is likely to be out of a job any day.” He Had a “Good Racket.” A fellow from Miami! “I had a good | racket with the American Legion there,” | he says. “I was in the Fife and Drum Corps and we won prizes all over. 1 ‘ didn't need a job. But when the Legion down there went against the bonus, I I couldn't stand see- Ap- threw it all over. ing s0 many fellows go hungry.” | parently there was not much prelim- | Inary organization in the Florida cities. both Miami and Jacksonville the veterans “just got started.” | Practically the same story could be repeated a hundred times. There is | one common element. The men have been out of work for a long time. They have been “just getting by somehow.” Few can tell a connected story of how they have been “getting by.” In most | cases, it is fair to assume. they have | survived going without. Somehow or | other—none know just how—this im- | City, on the Texas plains and in the | piice struck them to come to Washing- ton. It seemed to be on the lips of many men, gathered in American Legion or V. P. W. club rooms. simul- taneously. They read the stories in the newspapers. The next thing they knew | they were on the way to Washington. | After talking with many men from all parts of the country—not the lead- ers, but the rank and fille—we are as far as ever from any logical localiza- | tion of the widespread intangible. sub- conscious forces that have shoved this growing host of dusty, weary, melan- choly men on the District of Columbia. Perhaps & psycho-analyst might ex- plain it. They are in a struggle which is too | severe for them. They have come to | the point where they recognize the futility of flghungxldvelse fate any longer. They are fixating on a symbol —the symbol of the security and plenty | of happier days. This symbol happens to be Uncle Sam and the war period with its military reliei from responsi- bility. It is becoming analogous to the infancy period of the psychotic. This |as a flight from reality—a flight from | hunger, from the cries of the starviug children, from the humiliation of ac- women, from the harsh rebuffs of pro- spective employers. It is very like the peace of infancy there in the warm June sunshine of the Anacostia field. Perhaps this may explain the orderli- | ness—the way in which these very di- verse elements of the American popula- tion have fallen into a semi-military organization without leaders in author- ity. Orderliness is a part of the symbol of security to whose protection they have fled from the mysterious, heartless forces that are crushing them in the outside world. {SABATH POSTAL NTEASURE APPROVED IN COMMITTEE Early Vote in House Expected on Construction and Leasing Con- tracts Resolution. By the Associated Press. The Sabath resolution authorizing the House Post Office Committee to investi- gate the post office construction and leasing contracts was approved today by the House Rules Committee. ‘This assures an early opportunity for the House itself to vote on it. ‘The committee; under the resolution ntative Sabath, would be directed | | | i sponsored by Democrat, of Illinois, to investigate ocean mail contracts; prices pald post office building sites in the past 10 years and all contracts for construction ?{oomooo office buildings in excess of FOUNTAIN PEN EXPLODES Accidental Tear Gas Blast Causes Hold-Up Scare in Store. PORT JERVIS, N. Y., June 8 (). — ‘The accidental discharge of a fountain pen tear gas gun in the pocket of & man who said he was G. E. Hayward, a deputy sheriff of Harlan County, Ky., precipitated a hold-up scarce in a Port Jervis store yesterday. Hayward was leaving when the weapon discharged. Hayward e diszy and sooned. After being ques- tioned by police he was allowed to de- TROOPS TO BE SHIFTED . Japan. Will Send Cavalry Units to Manchuria. ‘TOKIO, June 6 (#).—The war office announced today it had decided to re- place an m&eclned number of Japa- nese troops Manchuria by cavalry units because of special tactical needs of the campaign to put down Chinese loyalist insurgents. ‘The it did not say how E announcement many cavalry units would be sent or mmmquannmm- total Jaj penese military bonus march might well be described | cepting money from worn, querulous | railroad, airmail and' for evening at the east front of the Capitol NKNOWN GOLFER LEADS TITLE PLAY Sarazen, Mac Smith and Ar- mour Among Leaders in British Open. By the Associated Press. SBANDWICH, England, June 6—A. R. Bradbeer, little known professional {rom Somerset, today led a fine inter- national field, including three ranking American players, in the first round of qualifying play of the British open golf champlonship, with & par-shattering 70 Bradbeer finished with the late play- ers over the par 72 St. George's course }:‘) ll;;g Afld,hg: l;lavers, British winner , and the last Briton to mg, by Sone stroke. P ene Sarazen, MacDonald Smith Tommy Armour, defending Chlmpln:lrLd the three leading American hopes—were right up in the van, Sarazen and Mac Smith with 735 and Armour with a 75. Marcell Dallemange of France and several native Britons were just in front of the Americans with scores of 72, ‘whjle Robert Sweeney, American stu- jdent at Oxford, scored a surprising 75 w,;;:y With the leaders. 2y’s quMifying rounds were pla; both at St. Georges and Princes cpmu!;i Where the tournament proper will start Wednesday. Sarazen, Mac Smith and Hovers played their fine rounds over the more difficult tournament course, where par is 74. Armour played at St. Georges with Bradbeer. Old Favorites Remain. It was a great day for the British | galleries, with such old favorites as Ted Ray with a 73; Abe Mitchell, with a like score; Ernest Kenyon, Tom Dobson jand Pred Taggart with 72s and Duncan McCulloch with a 76, more than hold- ing their own with the invading Ameri- cans, where the title has gone 10 of the last 11 years. Havers’ 71 at Princes equaled Jock Hutchinson's record for the course. He was 2 under 4s on the first nine of one of England’s most difficult golf tests. Frank Sweeney, brother of Robert, and the tenth American to finish of the 12 entered, scored an 85. Walter Pursey, Seattle professional, carded a mediocre 81. Gordon Smith of Palm Beach, Fla. fared even worse in the high winds and needed 88. Joshua Crane, veteran amateur from Brookline, Mass., needed 89, practically eliminating him. Ellsworth ~ Augustus of scratched. Sarazen Putts Well Sarazen, American open champion in 1922, was cut in 37, one over par. and in with an amazing 36, two under par to shade “perfect” figures by a stroke. Sarazen had five 1-putt greens and his touch was almost perfect all the way. He rolled his ball up on the windswept greens with beautifully gauged taps and didn't have a single 3-putt green. The American admitted he was ex- perimenting on several of his shots through the fairway, but even so, he had few bad shots. He pulled a mashie shot to the seventh green almost out of bounds and was short with a long putt at the eighth. Otherwise, his golf on the outward nine was errorless. Gene failed to allow for the wind at the tenth and his tee shot was trapped short. but two 3s at the thirteenth and fourteenth put him in a good fin- ishing position. He half topped a bras- sie at the seventeenth, where he might have had a birdie 4. but needed par 5 and a long putt for an eagle 3 at the last hole hung on the lip of the cup. Mac Smith was the medalist at Car- noustie last year and finished fifth in the tournament proper. He reversed Sarazen's figures, taking 36 out and 37 in. Like Sarazen, he finished with a birdie 4. 'RELIEF MEASURE UP "IN HOUSE TOMORROW | Drastic Procedure Is Set, With | Debate Limited to Three | Hours. leveland By the Associated Press. The struggle between the adminis- tration and the Democrats over relief legislation—one of the prime contro- versies to be settled before adjourn- ment—will burst forth in the House to- morrow over the two-billion-dollar measure sponsored by Speaker Garner. An an 8-to-4 vote the Rules Commit- tee agreed today for the bill to be brought up under drastic procedure, with debate limited to three hours. The Democrats are pledged to support it. Meanwhile, the Ways and Means Committee, approving the measure for the second time due to technical changes, sliced $39.050.000 from the total allocated to public buildings. Representative Rainey, the Demo- cratic leader. said the changes were “made because of the decreased build- ing costs.” Instead of allotting $83,090.000 for post offices. costing $70,000, the bill now will allow $52.200,000 for $50,000 buildings: The $55.000 class, for which the bill previously had allotted $22,440,000, was decreased to a maximum of $35.000, with a total allocation of $14.280,000. The vote by the Rules Committee was strictly along party lines. No amendments or points of order can be presented and only one motion to send the bill back to the Ways and Means Committee is to be allowed. Wheelbarrow Has Tires. LILLE, France (#).—A wheelbarrow de luxe was shown at the Lille fair. It had a pneumatic tire with broad tread, | but the chassis was the same old vl’ltbern. e BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Navy Band this at 7:30 o'clock. Lieut. Charles Benter, ! leader; Alex Morris, assistant leader. March, “Comairons”........ ....Benter Dedicated to le; .;dn&inl H. V. Butler, Overture, “Mignon™ Solo for cornet— | “Centennial Polka". Bellstedt Musician Birley Gardner. ‘Valse of the Flowers” "schatkowsky Potpourri, “Hits of 1931,"- arr. Koelkebeck Solo_for clarinet— | “Carnival of Venice".......Jean-Jean i Musician Charles Brendler. ,Gnnd scenes from the opera | “Madam Butterfly” Puccini | Excerpts from the musical comedy “The Cat and the Fiddle". Kern Rhapsody, “Second Hungarian”...Liszt “Anchors Aweigh." “The Star Spangled Banner.” 1 By the United States Marine. Band this evening at the Marine Barracks at 8 o'clock. Capt. Taylor Braneon, leader. Grand marck, “Pan American,” Orzture— “Merry Caprice, * Entr'acte, “XI' Man River’ Cornet sol “Fantasie Capriccioso”. Musician Winfred Selection— “Hawailan Nights' Saxophone solo— “Beautiful Colorado s Musician Kenneth Douse. ‘Tone poem, “Skyward”........Schilkret Grand scenes from Nicolai .Roig