Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Cloudy today and tomorrow, probably occasional rain, little change in temper- ature; moderate winds, mostly east and southeast. Temperatures—Highest, 60, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 44, at 5 am. yesterday. Full report on page 9. No. 1,465—No. 32,492. PARLEY 1S GALLED 10 CUT 920,000,000 FROM ARMY COSTS Secretary Dern and Douglas| Due Tomorrow Morning at White House. REORGANIZATION ORDER EXPECTED LATE IN WEEK | New Action Would Reduce Fed- eral Costs $30,000,000 More Than Billion-Dollar Goal. | | ™ rounding out his final plans for reoi,. “izetion of the Goverrment, President Rocsevelt will confer tomor- row morning with Secretary of War Dern and Budget Director Douglas with & view to cutting the War Department’s | 1934 appropriation by approximately' $90.000,000. . | This was learned vesterday from a| ranking source in Democratic circles. The conference was reported as being the last of a series to be held by the President. with cabinet members and Budget Director Douglas. In all probability he will sign his reorganization order the latter part of this week, reducing the running ex- penses of the Government for the com- | ing year to approximately $30,000000 second class matter Washington, D. C. Entered post offl Girl Coming to See President, a Fellow Paralysis Sufferer By the Associated Press. ORLEANS, Mass., April 15.—A 17-vear-old Orleans High School girl left for Washington today to accept an invitation of a former fellow sufferer from infantile paralysis — President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She is Miss Louise Dean, and with_her she took a letter from the President, congratulating her on the gallant fight she has made against her affliction, and invit- ing her to come to see him in ‘Washington. HULL PLANS MOVE 10 PACIFY CUBANS Sugar Al'otment Is Crux of Proposed Policy Designed to ' Avoid Intervention. The New York Herald-Tribune today prints the following dispatch from its Washington bureau: While it watches the rising tide of political terrorism in Cuba with the closest interest, the administration is quietly feeling its way toward a new Cuban policy which it hopes will fur- nish a solid foundation for the pacifica- tion and economic restoration of the island without American intervention. ! The mainspring of the new policy which has been under discussion for several months, is the allotment to more than the administration’s billion- | Cuba of a definite quantity of the sugar dollar goal. : | needed for American consumption. This he 1934 budget estimates submitted | gjjotment. would be made as part of a gress totaled approximately $4,000,000,- | comprehensive scheme for controlling 000. They provided for the actual run- ning expenses of the Government and | included the $725,000,000 public debt | interest. Deducting the fixed public | debt item from the total estimates | would leave $3.275,000,000 in current | expenditures which could be reduced. During his campaign, Mr. Roosevelt pledged himself to reduce Government expenditures by 25 per cent, but if the +economies now in sight are ap-| proved, the President will have lowered | the running expenses of the Govern- ment by approximately 31 per cent. | When the reorganization plan was placed before the cabinet shortly after | March 4, it was explained to the mem- | bers by Director_Douglas, who was| called in by the President, how much | money could be spent. It was empha- | sized that expeditures must be held | within the amounts allotted if the| President’s plan of aiding the unem- | ployed by Federal credit were to be carried through. NewEsifnates Made. It was learned authoritatively yester- day that several days ago the cabinet | members_submitted “their estimates to | Director Douglas. and that they did not come up to either the views of the Presi- dent or the Budget Bureau. Douglas promptly rejected them, and it is under- stood a new set of estimates has now been drawn up. Because of the terrific pressure now being brought to bear by patriotic so- cieties, it is understood the President summoned Secrctary Dern and Director Douglas to the White House tomorrow to confer on the proposed $90,000,000 slash in the War Department’s appro- priations High ranking sources stated yesterday the administration proposes to bring about the War Department curtailment by eliminating for one year citizens' military training camps, reducing Na- tional Guard drill periods by 50 per cent and dispensing with field training: eliminating reserve officer training camps, affecting 20,000 officers; elimin: tion and consolidation of posts and sta- tions, amounting to about a 50 per cent reduction; withdrawal of all support from the R O. T. C.; retirement of about 4,000 Army officers, which are to be selected through qualification tests and according to age-limit requirements. It also is planned to weed out non- essential activities among the civilian | personnel, cut down fleld equipment and reserve supplies. In attacking the problem of what can be done to bring expenditures inside the fizures suggested bv Director Douglas | many of the departments set up four | classifications. They embrace the fol- lowing activitie: 1. Those which are no longer nec- essary under present-day conditions, even if the country were prosperous. 2. Those which can be suspended un- til normal times. 3. Those which can be curtailed. 4. Those which are absolutely neces- sary to the functioning of government. ‘ Navy Faces $45,00,000 Cut. | is understood that Secretary of It the production of sugar in this country and its insular possessions with the equalizing of supply and demand and a moderate rise in the price of sugar as its main objectives. The stabilizing of Cuban economy, which rests almost entirely upon sugar. is regarded as necessary to the return of Cuba to more nearly normal political conditions. Although no member of the administration can say as much for ob- vious reasons, it is tacitly admitted by well informed persons that the partial inclusion of Cuba in the American closed sugar area would be made con- tingent upon arrangements for an early free election in Cuba. It has been sug- gested that a short period of orcerly transition might be furnished by agree- ment between the Machado government and leaders of the opposition on a neu- tral provisional president chosen out- side the ranks of active politicians. No Thought of Intervening. Because of the extreme delicacy of i's situation, the administration is sayirg | as little as possible about Cuba. In response to questions, Cordell Hull, | Secretary of State, said yesterday ‘hat the administration is giving no thought to intervention in Cuba. He empha- | sized that the relations of the United | States to Cuba were those of one sover- | eign nation to another. The administration’s desire to avoid | intervention in Cuba, if it is possible |is attributable partly to the cost, but preponderantl to its hope of maintain- ;mg and imprcving friendly relations be- | tween this country and Latin America as a whole. A disruption in Cuba which would bring the question of :n- tervention to a head would be most unwelcome at this time when the ad- ministration is conducting conversations preliminary to the world economic con- | ference. Allotments Suggested. Although President Roosevelt has not taken official cognizance of the fact. persons close to him have been dis- cussing the possibilities of controlling sugar production with representatives of al' the leading sugar interests. In (Continued on Page CURB EXCHANGE FACES PROBE INTO “ABUSES” New York Attorney General De- clares Private Inquiry Has Shown Need for Action. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 15.—Attorney General John J. Bennett announced to- night that a private investigation into alleged abuces in the trading in unlisted securities at the New York Curb Ex- change had convinced him “that the the Navy Swancon has submitted an|pyplic interest requires that the inves- estimate calling for a reduction in the running expenses of his department by $45,000,000. These economies would in- clade the curtailment of civilian per- sonnel and of maintenance and repair work by navy yards, curtailment of re- cruiting service and elimination of year’s pay for Annapolis graduates fail- | ing to recei> ~ommissions. Postmaster General Farley is under- | stood to have submitted an es!lmltei calling for retrenchment of approxi- mately $75,000.600 in his department Other department officials have sub-‘ mitted their estimete, which it is un- | derstood will bring about a total depart- mental savings of $250.000.000 when the | jodged in connection with the trading In the Motor World—! ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | tigation be continued.” |~ Accordingly, he said, the first public | hearing will be held Tuesday. The first | and perhaps the only witness will be | Austin K. Neftel, member of the Com- mittee on Listing of the Exchange and former chairman of the Subcommittee on Unlisted Securities. He will be ex- amined privately Monday. A subpoena served on Neftel cills for the production of papers, records and other data regarding the “listing, trad- ing and suspension irom trading of the securities of Whitcnigh.s, Inc., and Standard Public Service, ~lass A" Benneit said compisints had be:n in these stocks. CAPITAL CHILDREN WILL ROLL EGGS ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN TOMORROW Attendance at Annual Affair Expected to Set Record If Weather ‘The rear grounds of the White House tomorrow will be the scene of the an- nual egg-rolling fete when thousends of ‘Washington youngsters will be on hand to romp and play in celebration of Eas- ter Monday. If the wgllber is fair a record-break- 4ng crowd is expected. Last year heavy rain and cold air prevented many of the children from attending. Moreover. the interest in the new President and First Lady and the hope on the part of many Washington children of seeing “Sistie’ and “Buzzie” Dall, the Roosevelt grand- children taking part in the egg-rolling games, is expected to attract an un- usually large number. This method of cbserving Easter Mon- day by the children of this city, is a tra- dition of the Capital, which was started several generaticns ago and which grows in popularity with each succeeding year. The year of 1930, when President and Mrs. Hoover were in the White House, lds the record for the largest Easter nday crowd in the White House Is Fair. grounds. That year 48.463 children and grown- were officially recorded. The year beiore that 47,280 were on hand. But the figures for each year's attend- ance show clearly that the number de- almost entirely upon the weather. nmndu;:' u{“ tom o "u)ghh:t:;e for orTow's _cel n with confidence that the 1930 record will be broken with fair weather. The grounds will be thrown open the children at 9 am. and the - rol'ing fes'i~ities will continue until 3°30 pm., when it is expected that the youngsters will have had their fill of eggs and play. Then the gates will be open to the general public. At this hour the U. S. Marine Band in full dress uniform will start a band concert in the rear grounds which will last until 5§ pm. During the 6% hours allotted for -rolling only adults accompanying :fldren will be admitted. &ldrel{ _(Contied on Pre- 2, Colgmn 5. he Swundiy Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, BRITON ABANDONS FRAME-UP CHARGE IN MOSCOW TRIAL Monkhouse in Night Session Fails to Renew Demand for Right to Speak. ADMITS OGPU GRILLED HIM ONLY 12 HOURS Apologizes for ‘“Making a Mis- take,,” While Thornton Insists It Was 18 Hours. By the Associated Press. MCSCOW, April 15.—Allan Monk- houce, highest ranking of the aix British engineers on trial for spying and sabotage, provided a double sen- sation in court today by charging that the case was & frame-up and then failing to follow thrcugh with a de- tailed explanation of his accusation. At the morning session Monkhouse had interjected an unhesitating state- ment that the case was a “frame-up based on evidence of terrorized pris- cners.” The court shut him off before he had his full say, but when he was called to the stand as the first witness anti-climax by fajling to renew his de- mand for permission to make the dec- laration. The court room was crowded to capacity with a hand-picked Rus- slan audience in anticipation of the statement. Monkhcuse did, however, repeat | complaints that he had been subjected to 18 hours’ continuous questicning. The prosecution had been attacked on similar grounds by L. C. Thornton, another of the British defendants. Attacks Collapse. ‘These attacks collapsed when Prcse- | cutor Andrey Vishinsky, in a Dbitter arraignment of their statements, pro- duced documentary evidence to show that the Ogpu (secret police) interro- gation was not nearly so protracted as the Englishmen had represented it. Mcnkhouse apolog.zed to the prose- cutor for “making a mistake” in say- ing that he had been questioned 18 hours without a let-up. Thornton ac- WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION of the night session he provided a flat | cepted the prosecutor's presentation of the evidence in silence. Exchanging what amounted to al- most_go-d-natured banter with Vishin- sky, Monkhouse denied he ever had re- | ceived any information from Metro- politan-Vickers employes except that which referred to the opcratizns of his company's machinery. He flatly con- tradicted the prcsecution’s charge that ARE YoU SUNDAY MORN NG, APRIL STER SUNDAY. SAYS RACKETEERS £OT BEER PERMITS Judge Charges Gangs Run Breweries in Jersey—Do- ran Orders Probe. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., April 15.—An in- quiry into reports that permits for some New Jersey breweries to manufacture 3.2 per cent beer had fallen into the hands of racketeers was ordered today in Washington by Commissioner James M. Doran, chief of the United States Bureau of Industrial Alcohol. The investigation was prompted by letters sent to Doran alleging several New Jersey breweries now legally operating were in the hands of racke- teers. Onme of the letters came from Federal Judge William Clark who had | also written critical letiers on the sub- the firm fostered sebotage activities at a rumbcr of Soviet electric stations sll.:}:nately!smllénx at the prosecutcr an e court, and answering questions gyl Vi with @ grave mien, the witness replied | = Doran ey TR oo o Newark, e téoe (:t:;fltmngxy tt;:];'mz‘;?; t;‘!' ;bewf:;\;:ll:nd‘ the integrity of the Federal authorities was involved. Papers regarding the defects of Metropolitan-Vickers. mac | Dreweries have bets surneq over 5o the chinery on ~instructions from repre- | Department of Justice and lawyers for sentatives cf the firm. | the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol now It is almost impossible for any one |are examining them. to hide faults in equipment.” he sad, | wour equipment did have some defects. | Errors Held Likely. ll):a tnhoe‘y werebvder:cts of construction| It ixhnkely, Coran said, that errors assembly. migit have been made in the issuance Rising from his chair Prcsecutor of the permits since agents in New | yflshmsky interjected good-naturedly, | Jersey were handicapped, because in- ! “I am not judging the Metropolitan- formation held by the Department ol ject of the breweries to Dr. Ambrose | Hunsberger, supervisor of industrial alcohol in this district, and to W. L. J. Vickers firm, but Monkhouse.” | Vishincky, who was unusually mild | with the Englishman, in comparison | with his piercing examination cf the | Russian def:ndants, maintained the the examination. Cushny Hurls Lie. John Cushny, another of the British | defend-nts, tcstified at the earlier ses- sion_thst mistakes by Russian workers " (Con‘inued on Page 2. S| ol e Sy | TODAY’S STAR | PART ONE—16 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign PART TWO—8 PA(;ES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Schools and Colleges—Page 4. Community Chest News—Page 4. American Lepion—Page 4. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 4. Spanish War Veterans—Page 4. Marine Corps Reserves—Page 4. | American War Mothers—Page 4. | The Home Gardener—Page 5. Stamps—Page 6. i{D. A. R News—Page 6. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 6. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 6. Serial Story, “Luxury Liner"—Page 7. Disabled American Veterans—Page 7. i = PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society Section. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amuscment Section—Stage, Screen and Music. Army and Navy New:gu Organized Rescrves—Page Fraternities—Page 5. District National Guard—Page §. Aviation—Page 6. Yews of the Clubs—Page 6. Radio—Page 7. 3 Marine Corps News—Page 8. ¥. M. C. A. News—Page 8. 4. ge 4. 4 PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. immncm News and Classified Adver- tising. Public Library—Page 12. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 12. Community Centers—Page 12. D. C. Naval Reserves—Page 12. Amcrican Legion Auxiliary—Page 12. + Italian War Veterans—Page 12. | PART SEVEN—16 PAGES. Magazine Section. Reviews of New Books—] 11. Notes of Art and Artists—] Crossword Puzzle—Page 13. Boys’ and Girls' Page—Page 14. Highlights of History—Page 15. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. 12. GRAPHIC SECTION—é PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—S PAGES. Holly ot Hollywood; the Joneses; Mrs.; Tarzan; Little WMans =" S'Matter Pop, Justice into racketeering in the State | had not been made ava:lable. The inquiry is in part the aftermath | of the slaying of Max Greenoerg, New | York_and former St. Louis gangster, | same good humor as his prisoner during and Max Hessel, beer baron of Read- | to the U. ing, Pa. The men were shot to death | Wednesday afternoon in a hotel in| Elizabeth. | Judge Clark in Washington today certain breweries “inexcusable.” “Everybody in New Jersey,” he said, “knew what sort of places these brew- eries were. There could not have been any investigation of the character of (h:dm!n to whom the permits were is- Su Hunsberger Replies, “Prohibition will be back in full force if the Government continues issuing permits to persons of this character. | There can be no excuse for such action. | These breweries have been involved in litigation in my court for many months.” At Philadelphia Dr. Hunsberger, su- pervisor of industrial alcohol in this area, said he had sent a three-page reply today to Judge Clark. Bandit Gets $1,400, But Fails to Get Far With Bicycle By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 15.—A bicycle bandit held up the Hyde Park branch of the Benk of Inglewood and pedaled away with $1.400 today. The cashier and a guard were bound and gagged Policemen set out in an auto- mobile looking for the -culprit among a whole host of cyclists. One of the cyclists kept looking back. The officers chased him and recovered the money. He was identified as Wilfred McCloud, 24. "JAKE THE BARBER'S SON 15 KIDNAPED Police Reveal Jerome Factor, 17, Is Being Held for $100,000 Ransom, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 15.—Jerome Factor. 17, son of John *“Jake the Barber” Factor, 1s being held for $100,000 ran- som, police revealed tonight. ‘The son of the internationally kngwn | speculator was overpowered and spir- ited away from in front of his home on Chicago’s South side last Wednesday, Capt. Daniel Gilbert, chief of the Sfate attorney’s police, said. A letter demanding $50,000 ransom was delivered Friday to Factor at his hotel suite where he has been living in seclusion pending outcome of his appeal S. Supreme Court from an order extraditing him to England on charges of swindling British investors of $8,000.000. Another letter raising the ransom de- | called the issuance of the permits tc mand to $100.000 was sent later. ac- cording to Capt. Gilbert. who conferred with Factor tonight concerning it. Pactor denied himself to all callers and refused comment on the abduction. Capt. Gilbert said he was told that the boy, a student at Northwestern Uni- | versity, was entering his home at 11:15 p. m., Wednesday when four men drove up in an automobile, forced him to enter and drove him away. Previous to the abduction, Capt. Gil- bert said, numerous attempts had been made to kidnap the boy who is a bene- ficlary of a huge trust fund established by Factor. previous attempts, planned to withdraw him from school as a means of pro- tection. The father, following the | FISHERMEN TO BRING PLEA HERE ON FAMOUS RACING SCHOONER xee&( ‘With Reg'lar Fi rl:ux!'. and | reaching Gloucester Orphan Annie; New England Skippers Will APpeal to Roosevelt and Congress to Save Industry From Ruin. By the Associated Press. GLOUCESTER, Mass, April 15— Manned by a crew of weather-beaten | New England fishing skippers, the schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud will sail from this old port early next week for Washington to carry a plea to the President and Congress to save New England’s oldest industry—her fisheries. The Thebaud will sail up the Po- tomac, where no other New England fishing schooner ever before has gone, and her hook will be dropped almost in the Capitol's back yard. The crew of veteran skippers will row ashore the dories which have seen years of serv- ice on the banks. The skippers will be their own spokes- men. They will try to show the Presi- t and Congress that only immediate denw can save the fishing indus- disaster. will try from that a large -burdened New Eng! fleet already is tled up and that if conditions do not improve a like fate awaits in_the fishing grounds. If additional duty cannot be pro- vided to bar huge quantities of Japanese dian fish now reaching Amer- apprehension to Gloucester. tains also hope be willing to extend to the fisheries the assistance given farmers. ‘The trip to Washington is sponsored by the Master Mariners’ Association of Gloucester. intended to send two or three represent- atives by rail to call upon the Presi- dent, but so many other fishing ports sought permission to send delegates that the schooner Thebaud was decided upon as a solution of the transportation probiem. In Gloucester's delegation will be Capt. Marty Welch, who has spent many years on the fishing banks. Welch won undying fame among sailing ves- sel men by winning the first contest for the International Fisherman’s- Trophy by defeating the Canadian schooner Delawanna with the Esperanto, since lost at sea. Capt. Cla; Morrissey, also of international race fame, is an- other. Capt. Ben Pine, who sailed the Thebaud once to defeat and once to The cap- deck to their death, will be her skipper on this trip. He is only 33 and most of the oth:;lbelnmthf delegation are old ‘enough ather or grandfather. After lea Gloucester, a stop will be made at c'ned!anlwgztn? ites from Southern New lend. A second call will be made for a similar purpose at Cape May, N. J. that the Nation may The association originally 16, 1933.—NINETY PAGES. * W 0.A.RTOPUTBAN ON CONTROVERSIES Board Sets Policy for Forty-Second Annual Ses- sion Opening Tomorrow. With the National Board of Manage- ment deliberately planning to keep “hands off” all controversial matters outside the broad program of patriotic education to which the Daughters of the American Revolution are dedicated, the forty-second congress of the National Society will convene in Constitution Hall tomorrow morning for a five-day session. ‘This vear's Continental Congress cul- minates a year of policy under the new administration by which, according to the president general, Mrs. Russell Wil- . liam Magna, the governing board h: | avoided entangling alliances and has | sought strictly to “mind its own busi- ‘ness." The business of the D. A. R, i Mrs. Magna said yesterday in dsuussml’ | the forthcoming session, is close ad- herence to the traditional purposes for which the society was founded and “to assist the United States Government, trom which it received its charter, in- stead of seeking to dictate to that Gov- | ernment.” From all appearances the program for the forty-second congress—this being an off-election year—is similar to those of former years. National defense, immi- gration, Soviet Russia and Americanism loom as the principal topics of guest speakers, who include prominent Gov- | ernment officials of the Roosevelt ad- ministration. ‘All these are part and | parcel of patriotic education, Mrs. Mag- na pointed out, and are matters on | which the attitude of the D. A. R. is well known. * Hysteria Modified Down. | There will be this marked difference in the approsch of the present D. A. R. administration to these and other ques tions of governmental policy. Mrs. Magna stressed, however, in calling tention to the fact that the governing board has “modified hysteria down to a sane course.” Any attempt to affiliate the D. A. R. with any outside organi- zation, the president general challenged, would be stoutly resisted during the coming session. “The D. A. R. will stand on its own feet,” she declared. Mrs. Magna, who is completing her first year in office, will sound the key- note of the congress at the opening 10 (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) JURY TAMPERING CHARGE FORESEEN Scottsboro Case Defense Will Make Plea for Venue Change This Week. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 15—The News “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburbén homes by The Star's exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. UP) Mea! FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS GREEN T0 PROPOSE “SPEAR-HEAD' UNION IN FIVE-DAY* FIGHT Would Select One A. F. of L. Unit to Press for Short Working Week. NEW GOVERNMENT POLICY DEFENDED AT CLEVELAND Labor Leader Convinced Public Ownership of Railroads Is Nearer Than Ever Before. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, April 15—The selec- tion of one labor union to lead an eco- nomic fight for the six-hour day and the five-day week will be recommended to the executive council of the American Federation of Labor by William Green. The president of the federation told the Cleveland City Club today he was making the recommendation “as an evi- dence of the militant, moving, aggres- sive attitude of labor.” The speaker confined the statement of his plan to a single sentence: { “As an evidence of the militant, mov- | ing. aggressive attitude of labor, I am recommending to the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, lI‘hen it meets at the headquarters of | the American Federation of Labor this month, that one of the international | unions affiliated with the American Fed- eration of Labor be selected and au- thorized to serve as a spearhead and to lead in an economic fight for the estab- lishment of the six-hour day and five- 1 day week.” In a discussion of the Government's new policy of partnership in certain pri- thing but the Government, and he urged a Government guarantee of bank de- posits. He said he felt the Government | tha'r;he\'er before. “This (new) governmental policy,” he | went on, “may be classified as socialistic and as transgre i our capitalistic form of government. “Be that as it may, the facts are that the events which have transpired would not have occurred if capitalism had stood the strain placed upon it in a na- tional emergency.” idle, Green reiterated that labor stands behind a program to appropriate not less than $1,000,000,000 for immediate relief and the establishment of at least & $5,000,000.000 public works project. “Labor will not longer be sa .’ he said later on, “with the crumbs which be accorded economic justice and must be permitted to chare equitably in the earnings of industry.” . BOYLAN MADE HEAD OF NEW YORK POLICE Mulrooney's Successor Joined Force When Theodore Roosevelt Was Commissioner. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 15.—One of the late Thecdore Roosevelt's “pavement- pounders,” James Boylan, succeeded to- night to the job which Roosevelt him- self once held—police commissioner. The 60 fect cop,” he was once called—takes over the command of nearly 20,000 bluecoats. He steps into an office vacant for days while a suitable successor was be- ing sought for Edward P. Mulrooney, who resigned during the week to head the State Alcoholic Beverages Control Board. Back in 1896, when Police Commis- sioner Roosevelt was at the start of his climb to the presidency, he issued a call for alert, trim young men to re- vitalize the force. Up stepped two youthful volunteers— Mulrooney and Boylan. Boylan then was just 23. He had | come from his native city of Worcester, | Mass.. 10 years before. were made “harness bulls” and put to “pave- ment pounding.” PAGES GET ;JOST MONEY |Oklahoma Legislators Paid $2 a Day While Boys Receive $3. OKLAHOMA CITY, April 15 (#).— Pages in the Oklahoma Legislature are the “monied men” of that body these days, drawing $3 a day, or 50 per cent more than the legislators themselves. The $6-a-day pay of the lawmakers was_automatically cut to $2 after the 60-day limit E:ucrlbed by law. The | Assembly has been in session 77 days. vate enterprises, Green asserted that the | people have lost faith in almost every- | | was nearer ownership of the railroads | essing the principles of | Noting that 13,000,000 workers were | fall from the rich man’s table. It must | -old bachelor—the “per- | ns_Associated Pr TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE CONGRESS LEADERS SEEKING TO SPEED LAGGING PROGRAM Many Bills Are Piling Up as Legislators Fail to Agree. ;FAHM RELIEF MEASURE LATEST TO MEET DELAY | Senator Robinson Unable to Limit Debate as Fight Goes on for Amendments. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Administration leaders in Senate and House are faced today with the fact that the administration’s legislative Pprogram is making less speedy progress. The Senate has had before it tne farm relief bill for more than a weex. When that body quit work last night the prospects for early action on the | measure were not good. It may take | another week to pass it. | In the House—which was idle yes- terday —the machinery had slowea down because none of the administra- tion's more recent proposals were reaqy for consideration but awaited action by the committees to which they had bees referred. In this category were tne securities bill, the Muscle Shoals bilt, the Wagner relief bill, the home mort- gage bill and the bank reform bill, on which Chairman Steagall has been working for some time and over which the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Steagall and the Glass subcommittee ot the Senate Banking Committee have gone to the mat. Prolonged Session Seen. | It was frankly admitted that unless the machinery was geared higher than in the last week or 10 days to turn out | the laws proposed by the administra- | tion the Congress might be here untu August. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader of the Upper House, sought in vain yesterday to obtain unanimous consent to limit debate on the farm bill, beginning tomorrow, so that Senators should be limited to 1a- minute speeches. Senators Long of Louisiana and Wheeler of Montana, who have silver remonitization amendments to . farm bill pending, took exception to | the proposal, although Senator Robin- son explained that if Senators wished to make long speeches on the subject of currency inflation they would have all of the day in which to be heard. Scnator Thomas of Oklahoma has " | offered an amendment {0 the farm bill, seeking currency inflation, too, which proposes alternative steps which the President, in his discretion, could take. The first of these is the issuance of United States notes in denominations of 81, 85 $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000 and $10,000—fiat money, green- backs or whatever they may be called— with the credit of the Government backing them. The second proposal in the Thomas amendment looks to free coinage of gold and silver on a ratio to be fixed by the President. A third pro- posal would authorize the President to reduce the gold content of the dollar, and a fourth would look to the estab- lishment of a “dollar stabilization board” to maintain the ‘“stabilized purchasing power of the dollar.” Defeat Forecast. Unless Senators sponsoring these currency inflation amendments are themselves deceived, none of these amendments will be added to the farm bill. They are advancing them at this stage of the game with the idea of writing them into the farm bill. What they want, however, is a full discussion iof the inflation proposals, hoping to guin strength through the debate in the | Senate and the consequent publicity. | _There is a firm convicticn among many Democratic Senators other than | those now advancing inflation amend- ments to the farm bill that before the present Congress closes some measure designed to inflate the currency will be adopted. They expect it to come, however, either as a separate measure or as part of one of the bills other than the farm bill. The farm bill is to-be used as the sounding board for the inflation idea. While the proponents of silver pur- chases and the remonitization of that metal, among them Senator Wheeler of Montana, insist that their proposal is the most practical and wisest, there are other Senators who hold that the best plan is the reduction of the gold con- tent in the dollar. The big bond issues by the Govern- ment for a public works p and relief of various kinds, will, it is in- sisted in other quarters, give a consider- able measure of inflation, and some of the Senators would prefer to confine inflation to that course. Senator Wheeler, who is strongly | supporting remonitization of silver on the 16-to-1 basis, said yesterday: “One word from the White House and we could put through legislation to remonetize silver.” As a matter of fact, the Democrats (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) says Samuel S. Lelbowitz, chief of the Scottsboro defense counsel, will charge jury tampering in the retrial of Hay- wood Patterson, one of seven Negro youths once sentenced to die for &r. ai- bama. The jury tampering, the News says, will be averred in a motion for a change of venue from Decatur, Ala., in the re- ‘ trial next week of Charles Weems. Leibowitz, reached at his Brooklyn home before he went to a mass meeting at Arcadia Hall to speak in behalf of the Scottsboro defense, refused to affirm or deny the tampering charge. “I don’t know where the information came from,” he said. “I cannot say until we make our motion for a change necessary protection and that this surely in- dicates without doubt that we cannot leged attack on two white girls in Ala- | Men of Cult Meet Every Friday During Period and Give i Themselves Unmerciful Beatings. T8e | the towering Sangre PENITENTES COMPLETE 40 DAYS By thie Assoclated Press. | DENVER, Colo., April 15.—The holy zeal of the Penitentes will be splashed in blood on jagged rocks in the wilder- ness of Southern Colorado and North- ern New Mexico tomorrow as their de Crist 3 this strange cult that has kept a_foot- hold amq the Indians in the West- ern Unif States for 350 years will ys of worship OF SANGUINARY RITES TODAY with broken glass before beginning | fl-ls;llldm. : | these Fridays they march in pro- | cession to a cross, set on s hill hun- He falls three the destination and time until he rises. ‘When the trip is concluded the bear- er of the cross is hoisted to his recent and tied there wit™ Seayy ropes. these men wer: 1eft “cruci- hours, sometimes to die. Now removed & short time and