Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1933, Page 2

" A—2 RUSSIA ASSALLED Noted Speakers Oppose Rec- pgnition at Capital’s Larg- est Mass Meeting. Before what was described as greatest patriotic mass meeting ever held in the Capital,” nationally known leaders of the mfi:-fommunm cam- aign last night cal upon more g.o‘%mpme‘x‘iuuvu of 150 national or- ganizations to oppose recognition by the United States of the Soviet government of Russia. Addressing delegations from patriotic, Jabor and fraternal organizations from many Eastern cities, which crowded the Washington Auditorium, the speakers marshaled arguments against the aban- donment by the United States of its non-recognition policy of 15 years stanaing. The speeches were broadcast over a nation-wide radio hook-up of the National Broadcasting Co. Under the sponsorship of the Ameri- can Legion, the mciiing was addressed by Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J., Vice president of Georgetown University, and William Green, t. of the American Federation of Labor. Louis ‘A. Johnson, national commander of the Legion, presided. Igt was a colorful gathering, which heard vigorous protests voiced against the reported consideration by the Roosevelt administration of the recog- nition of Russia’s government. Colors of the many patriotic and fraternal or- ganizations represented were massed and many of the delegations were in prilliant uniforms. Letter From Colby Read. In opening the meeting, Comdr. 'Juhnsonperefid a letter from Bainbridge Colby, President Wilson's Secretary of State, outlining reasons which led this country to deny recognition of Russia a5 years ago. 'The original refusal, ac- cording to the Colby letter, had noth- ing to do with debt repudiation, Com- munism or any internal matters, but “was predicated upon the fact that Russia was an enemy state. “To concede recognition as s friend to a nation that protests she is not & friend, but on the contrary is dedi- cated to the overthrow of our institu- tions and sworn to conspire lnlm'! our peace and security is unthinkakde,” Mr. olby wrote. e “Teasons _which led _President wilson and Colby to refuse récognition 15 years ago still hold good, ch_l}dr. Johnson declared, adding that ‘the sanctity of our Government and its in- stitutions is more important than a few dollars in foreign trade with any country.” Reprxyesenmuvc Fish, leading congres- gional advocate of mnon- ion, opened his speech with a statement that Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of State, is studying the question of recog- nition. “He is seeking grounds” Fish sald, %on which it could be shown that recog- nition would be especially bereficial to the United States. If he succeeds with- in the next eight weeks, the President Will informally approach the Soviet government on the question.” Fish characwflized the 13““&“}‘! “:( -anting diplomatic recognition - glra as “one of the most important and Far-reaching issues before the United States.” He denounced “distinguished foreigners with Communist inclinatons' who, he said, “have made the American people the target for advice and prop- ®ganda,” saying: “It is now time that American citl- gens cease aping and applauding promi- nent foreigners such as George Bernart Shaw and Prof. Einstein, when they Tidicule and condemn our country and uphold and commend Communism. Comrade Shaw, once a brilliant litera- teur, has in his dotage become nothing but a mere Communistic propagendise, and Prof. Einstein mizes relativity with Stalinism wherever h# goes. Russia Meddling With U. S. “I would gladly support recognition ©of Soviet Russia tomorrow,” Fish con- tinued, “if it had & Socialist govern= ment or any kind of a government that did not insist on interfering and med- dling with our domestic and internal institutions by urging, through the Communist Internationale with head- quarters at Moscow, strikes, riots, sabo- tage and industrial unrest, and the overthrow of our republican form of government by force and violence. In the midst of our economic crisis, Fish said, “it would be foolhardy to Tecognize Soviet Russia and thereby Dermit the Communist Internationale, under diplomatic immunity, to e established in our industrial cities, in the farm belt, and among the Negroes of the South to provide organized Jeadership to revolutionary activities in the United States.” Father Wllshknélintlflmed ofizfl! should be grant only upon al proof of “Mg;scow‘s willingness to desist from the unethical, the illegal and ut- table hostility to non- Communist states which has been her undeniable practice heretofore.” He sharply criticized Alfred E. Smith, Sen- ator William E. Borah, Shaw an others who have advocated recognition, “The acid test of Moscow’s sincerity, he said, “lies in her willingness or re- fusal to banish the Third Internationale from her territory, disassociate herself from the offensive international con- spiracy to which she is now partner and Tespect the inalienable sovereign rights of other nations and governments. He referred to Shaw as “that vener- mble comedian” who, in the recent New York speech, “put on & one-Ting circus again, in whic}x h? gmnerrulously commit- ted intellectual suicide.” He spoke of Borah's “habitual dis- regard for the actualities” in an asser- tion during a Senate speech that since Stalin became Russian dictator there had been no attempt whatever cn the part of the Soviet Republic to interfere Wwith American governmental affairs. The Soviet leadership, he sald, “pro- poses, as a government policy, to abolish universally every shred of the demo- cratic ideal embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of .t’he TUnited States and the Bill of Rights. Rights of Russians, Opponents of recognition, he declared, do reg? question the right of the Rus- sian people to set up “any fon_i’l of government they sce fit to endure. “What we do question and refuse to tolerate,” he said, “is the insupportable arrogance of the Communist party, which came into power an November 7, 1918, and which assumes to dictate to us the form of government we shall have in these United States. Our mo- tive is not fear, which is the only jus- tification some advocates of recognition can find for our present policy. The motive is self-respect and a decent re- gard for soverejgnty under international law.” The opposition of organized labor was presented by Green with the declara- tion: “Labor holds that the l};tuem- tion of the vnncl&lu of self-govern- ment, the right live unmolested, ‘without the threat and menace of world revolutions, 15 of greater value than the creation of material wealth or the en- Jjoyment of profits gained t-hrmu"h the uleofgoodsco-!oreun nation. The hope that restoration of diplo- matic relations would it terly unace bring any great increase in trade with Russia is with- out justification, he added, declaring that “no profitable increase in trade ‘with Sov!e:‘ lmxuh e:‘n possibly follow ernmental recognition.’ ‘U'thor holds,” he said, “that the So- wlet government is not entitled to nor should it be accorded recognition until it disavows its declaration of world Tevolution as made through the Third Internationale.” The Reception Committee for uh: : AS AMERICAN FOE Two Counties May Save $18,000 a Year By Consolidating By the Associated Press. ALMA, Wis., April 19.—Some- thing new in economy moves—a proposed consolidation of Buffalo and Pepin Counties—is gaining support following an estimate by ‘University of Wisconsin professors that taxpayers would be saved $18,000 annually by the merger. The situation became acute faced the expense of having to re- place their dilapidated jail and ocourt house at Durand. Then J. M. Axtell a Pepin editor, fostered the proposed merger, which would eliminate one set of county s, and As- semblyman_ Arthur Hitt prepared to push a bill through the State Legislature providing for a refer- endum. AGENCIES UNITE T0 FIGHT RACKETS Dalrymple and Doran to Get Together Following New Jersey Beer Shootings. By the Associated Press. The Prohibition Bureau and the Justice Department were united today in a determined effort to keep beer racketeers and gangsters out of the legitimate brewing business. This was the upshot of & controversy involving A. V. Dalrymple, the new prohibition director, over the issuance of permits in New Jersey, one of which went to a man listed as a gangster and who was killed in a shooting affray. Dr. James M. Doran, commissioner of industrial alcohol, who is charged with responsibility for issuing brewing per- mits, asserted that some of the New Jersey permits had been rushed through at_the request of Dalrymple. ‘The prohibition director in a stormy meeting with reporters dictated a state- ment in which he said haste had been urged to get revenue flowing in from beer and that it had been the intention to avoid showing favoritism. Cummings Launches Probe. Saying he would not enter a dispute with Dr. Doran, Dalrymple asserted that in the future “this department shall insist that no brewery, winery or distillery application be approved until it has been passed upon by this office.” Dalrymple also said permits would be revoked if it is found that “fraud, deceit or misrepresentation has been practiced.” Just before that Attorney General Cummings announced he had started an independent investigation into the issuance of permits all over the country, declaring the Justice Depart- ment would use every resource to keep known offenders and those with crim- inal records out of the beer business. Cummings said he would give Dal- rymple and Dr. Doran every chance to agree on a policy for handling the per- mits, but if they failed he would step in more forcefully. Dalrymple flatly declined to discuss with reporters Cummings’ statement that the prohibition director’s move in demanding the resignation of Willlam G. Walker, administrator for Northern California and Nevada, and appointing & successor had been made without the knowledge of the Attorney General. Gives Heated Statement. Dalrymple dictated a heated state- ment—his first since taking office—in reply to what he termed “slight criti- cisms” of his office. ‘Then, flatly declining to answer any questions about his actions since he has been director, he pounded his desk and told those gathered about him that he would not be interrogated and that he was under instructions from ;};e Attorney General to give no inter- ews. Dalrymple said that before the per- mits were issued Aaron Sapiro, a Cali- fornia attorney, had called on him as the representative of two of five brew- eries New Jersey which have been cited by Doran to show cause why their license should not be revoked. Later, Bn"l.rymple said, Sepiro called on an, The prohibition director said that “we have and will instruct our men to expedite issuance of permits where it is demonstrated that it is a proper case for a t to be issued.” He added that it was his under- standing that the rule of having pro- hibition officials pass upon applications to the Alcohol Bureau had not been followed and that in the future they would be scrutinized by his department. WALKER AND BRIDE TOUR PICTURESQUE PROVENCE d | Honeymooners, Following Cannes Ceremony, Visit Historic Town Near Marseille. By the Associated Press. AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, April 19.—Former Mayor James J. Walker of New York and his bride, Betty Compton, the former actress, were on a honeymoon trip today through pic- turesque Provence. ‘They spent last night in this historic Roman town, 17 miles north of Marseille. They came here by auto- mobile from Cannes, where they were married yesterday. The couple were continuing to Vichy, in Central France, one of Europe’s most famous watering places. ‘The Walkers had a late breakfast in their hotel room and then departed for Avignon, their next stop. SEEKS PERFECT AMITY Field Marshal Lord Allenby Speaks at Y. M. C. A. Dedication. JERUSALEM, A 19 (P).—Field Marshal Lord Allenby, speaking at the dedication ceremony of a Young Men's Christian Association Building here, yes- terday expressed & has)e for a perpetual amity among all peoples on . “Let us 'f‘onifldenztl‘y belueve we sre witnassing the inception of an accord— liberal and without reserve—destined to extend, unceasingly and illimitably, its power, until it brings together, in perpetual amity, all the peoples on earth,” he said. Lord Allenby was former high missioner to Egypt and commands chief of the Egyptian expeditionary force in the Palestine campaign of the Great ‘War. — Gurnee, Mrs. , Mrs. ‘William H. Cudworth and Mrs. David J. Rumbough. "lt-%e r was called to order by Hugh T. Willlams, chairman of the ?he erl‘me!nmnn h exphln::mo: American , who mt\l{’; t;‘lgtv.ht:‘mmm ‘The in Rabbi J. T. Loeb. Mrs. 5. A. raovbun resident of the American , led in the to was Revo- Dorothy , and AT g et com- er in |9 TIENTSIN KEY CITY Lwanchow Is Bombarded as Troops Press South Into China, By the Assoclated Press. ‘TIENTSIN, China, April 19.—Japanese bombing planes and artillery' were re- ported attacking Lwanchow, largest city between Chinwangtao and Tientsin in the North China coast ares, today. The Chinese military headquarters for operations in that region is located there. While Chinese defenses were lbe!.n' thrown up to the southwest, the fall of Lwanchow would considerably facilitate & Japanese advance on Tientsin, the international commercial center with one of the largest Amerfcan colonies in China. Lwanchow is less than 100 miles from Tientsin, Planes Drop Bombs, Japanese planes were reported bomb- ing the southern outskirts of the city, while big guns poured shells into it from the north bank of the Lwan River. The flight of Chinese troops to Tangshan, farther southwest along the railroad leading to Tientsin and Peiping, began even before the big attack was reported under way. The combined Japanese and Man- chukuan armies were said to be crossing the river under protection of the aerial and artillery bombardment. When the Japanese first started their push into the undisputed Chinese territory south of the Great Wall, the Lawn River was set as the limit. Will Fight Resistance. But the Japanese command now has announced that they will continue the pursuit as far as the Chinese continue to set up defenses. American mission- aries, who are numerous in the region, have been advised to leave. Whether m{exenerxl American evac- uation would ordered has not been decided. In the Tientsin area, the ques- tion is up to the United States consu- late to decide. The 15 th United States Infantry area has its base at Tientsin under treaty provision to keep Peiping's route to the sea open to traffic. IMPOUNDED FUNDS HALT PARK WORK; WORKERS DISMISSED (Continued From First Page.) development, means, the officials ex- plained, that the Government has a great investment tied up which is prac- tically worthless unless these gaps are filled in by the Federal Government acquiring the land. In-the future, they said, the price of this unpurchased land for the fort drive will probably rise, making it more expensive than now for the Government to acquire it. In_ addition to the Maryland Valley development and the Fort Drive pro- gram, playgrounds and _recreational centers throughout the District are Jeopardized. This, officials said, means that the Northeast Playground, planned to serve a large section of the city and to replace the playground wiped out in the Union Station Plaza develop- ment, will not be realized in the near future. Several purchases remain to be made in the proposed Northeast Play- ground before it becomes a continu- ous ?rn suitable for the new develop- ment. Contracts Tied Up. In the far-reaching order of the Bu- reau of the Budget officials see that the move takes money away from con- demnation awards recently made, and tles up funds for contracts which have been approved by the President, as is required under the law. Many of these were signed by Herbert Hoover when he was in the White House. ‘Washingtonians were insistent that the lm&oundmz of the $840,000 will not assist in balancing the Federal budget. They said that the $840,000 is in reality District of Columbia money, as the municipality, under the Capper-Cram- ton act, is liable to the Federal Govern- ment for these funds, and must pay them back at the rate of $1,000,000 a year. This money is not permanently coming out of the Federal Treasury, they asserted. REICH JEWISH BAN BEGUN IN SCHOOLS Aryan Law Invoked on Eve of Celebration of Hitler’s Birthday. ‘By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 19.—The Aryan law which bars nearly all Jews from civil service and reduces them to second class citizenship is invoked in all Ger- man universities under action being taken today by the German cabinet. Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Nazi minister of the interior, has drafted a law regulat- ing admittence of Jewish students to universities and other institutes of the Reich according to their ratio of the entire population. Another law will as- sure Nazl leadership of student organi- zations. Chancellor Hitler's newspaper, Voel- kisher Boebachter, announced the action was being taken to save the uni- versities from “excessive foreign con- trol,” meaning Jewish. The Aryan clause defines any person having one Jewish grandparent as a Jew. The only exceptions made under the civil service ban were Jews in state service before August 1, 1914, or those who served in the World War trenches or whose fathers or sons were killed in the war. The cabinet’s action establishes the new Prussian student code, made pub- lic a week ago, as law. ignations many heads of universities were in- evitable under the new “cleansing” lecrees. All Germany has already commenced a jubilant celebration of the 44th birthday anniversary tomorrow of Chancellor Hitler. exer- of cabinet members toda; Goering, who have been c:g&xermum in Italy, will start the fete in earnest. ‘The chancellor will tlnu‘vl:r'lfi\1 ad- Pre] chancellorship, promised this program for.the majority support he won in the elections a month later. He has made no definite disclosures of details of the plan since then except his statement that compulsory manual labor for all would be provided to “wipe out class distinctions.” Measures to widen markets for products of German farmers also were planned. PAYMENT IN G00DS Mussolini Says Oblioatio/ns Cannot Be Settled by Transfers of Money. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, April 19.—Premier Mussolini suggested the payment of international debts with exchanges of goods or serv- ices in a speech today at the inaugural meeting of the Interparliamentary Com- mercial Conference, presided over by King Victor Emanuel. ‘The meeting was attended by numer- ous notables, including Capt. Hermann Goering, Nazi minister without s port- folio in the cabinet of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who has been conferring with the Pope and the Italian premier. “A good sign is the recognition that is being reinforced everywhere that it 1s not possible to pay international debts merely with transfers of money,” the premier said, “but that the debts them- selves must be paid above all with ex- changes of or services.” Complex and Delicate. Signor Mussolini, who spoke at the capitol, said that the question was “one of the most complex and delicate because it embraces problems of an economic and financial nature not only as regards debtor countries but also creditor countries.” ‘The opinion of Il Duce was regarded 8s most important here because his pronouncement was made less than a week before the departure of Finance Minister Guido Jung, the Italian dele- gate to the preliminary world economic conference at Washington. A better international economic sit- uation depends upon a better political situation, the premier assured his hearers. “Solution of ti® economic problems you are called to discuss,” he said, “is conditioned on reaching a better po- litical atmosphere, toward which all statesmen in every part of the world are working, and on arriving at a profound comprehension of the prob- lems and difficulties of others by the men who direct the economic destinies of the various countries.” Opposed to Quotas. Il Duce said that Italy was opposed to quotas on imports and rut?cumu on foreign exchange which “raise a heap of obstacles to commercial move- ment, contracting its volume: notably and creating a harmful disequilibrium between internal and external prices.” He said Italy adopted such measures only with modest limits because she was forced to do 50 by other countries. Speaking on the disparity between wholesale and retail prices, Signor Mus.sol.iné remarke;i flall the “contin- uous and progressive decline in prices dflm:g:n&m ’pxctzl\:ctmn and produces a reduction in the purchas wer of the various cuumr}::." =it “Every reduction in sales” he con- tinued, “Is a step toward stoppage of productive activities and therefore a greater stimulus toward unemployment, while, on the other hand, it places debtor countries in a condition where they find ever greater difficulties in satisfying their obligations. Jung Attends Meeting. “We believe that to get out of the vicious circle in which we find ourselves it is necessary to work simultaneously in various fields—that is the fields of credit, production and commerce.” Referring to the problem of economic reconstruction in the count of Cen- trT‘l’ and Eastern Europe, the premier said: “Italy is inspired by the principle that above all it is necessary to pro- vide adequate liquidation of the past on the financial terrain, monetary re- habilitation and assistance to the eco- nomic-agrarian field.” Finance Minister Jung was in the audience. FACTOR KIDNAPING SOLUTION AWAITED Gangsters Aid Jake the Barber in Hunt for Son's Ab- ductors. Bs the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 19.—Hints that the $50,000 Factor kidnaping case was near- ing a solution came from various un- official sources today as police and re- puted gangsters worked on clues and three men were held in custody. Events moved swiftly yesterday as police locked the six men engaged John (Jake the Barber) Factor to down the abductors of his son, Jerome, 19, Northwestern University junior, in a cell for six hours with the suspects. Later the six, identified by police as Capone gangsters, were released on bond to go ered about the busi- ness of solving the kidnaping. ‘The suspects, brothers-in-law, were Ted Patterson, Archie Brown and Ed- ward Strauss. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Leonard Marcus, former wife of Factor, said she recognized Brown and Strauss as men she had seen loitering near her apartment before the boy was kid- naped from in front of it & week ago last night. Early today Factor returned to his apartment atop a skyscraper hotel the worried and distracted air Marcus also sppeared s it e oo BROTHER’S SLAYER HELD 15-Year-Old Said to Have Ended Quarrel With Revolver Shot. TACOMA, Wash, April 19 (®.— Officers arrested Robert Templeman, 18, last night after, they said, he had shot and his brother, Oliver, 20, in & quarrel at the farm home of their par- ents,*Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Templeman. Sheriff Fremont Campbell said the while bringing in the brothers quarreled of | cows from pasture for Txllx:tu Sherift youths re- house and obtained his father’s revolver, walked into the yard and shot his brother in the head. HOOVER ON TRIP HOME SANTA Calif,, April 19 (P)~—Former President Herbert Hoover left here last night by automobile for his home in Palo Alto. Mr. Hoover came here for a one-day visit with Mark L. Requa, Repul national committeeman, at his Monte- cito estate. Weather Halts Search. W, Ariz., April 19 m.—n'g turn to while the hunt continued on foot and volunteers horseback by large groups of ma&mm"mmmum point m: 'med“-dy haning for Phocnts, but H EAVILY guarded due to the hostility voiced against him by certain Mexican factions, Josephus Daniels, Secre- tary of the Navy in the Wilson administration, is shown here with Mrs. Danlels as he arrived in Mexico City to take up his new duties as the American Ambassador to Mexico. —Wide World Photo. ECONOMISTS FINISH REORGANIZINGPLAN Regrouping of Commerce De- partment Submitted to Controller General. President Roosevelt's economy ad- | visers today completed their first ex- ecutive order calling for reorganization of Government departments and have submitted it to Controller General Mc- Carl for legal examinafion before send- ing it to the White House, The order deals exclusively with the | new structure of the Commerce De- | partment. It is understood authorita- tively that unless it strikes a legal snag | in the controller’s office it will be before President Roosevelt for his signature tomorrow. The reorganization plans for the Com- merce Department were submitted to the White House for a general study by President Roosevelt last week. Predicts Prompt Action. Secretary of Commerce Roper, rank- ing reorganization adviser to the Presi- dent, said he expected Mr. Roosevelt would take prompt action when the executive order reached him. Ranking tic sources asserted that the advisors’ plans call for mak- ing the department a 6-bureau agency instead of 10 as at present. Included in the new structure is s transporta- tion section which will have super- vision over land, air and sea commerce. Should President Roosevelt approve the plans as submitted by his advisers, it would constitute a major part of his reorganization scheme. Four of the Department’s _bur eaus—Aeronautics, Lighthouses, Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey, Navigation-Steamboat Inspection— would be consolidated into parts of the d divisio? ns of the trans- portation section. One bureau—Mines—would be trans- ferred to the Interior Department, while the Bureau of Forelgn and Domestic Commerce will be drastically curtailed. The other bureaus—FPishers, Patents, Census and Standards—would be re- vamped to permit the doing away with what Secretary Roper d¢ lbed as non- essential activities. L. C. C. Transfers Seen. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion Bureaus of Statistics, Accounts, Service, Locomotive Inspection, Safety and Finance, would be transferred, ac- cording to reliable sources, to the land division of the tra tion section. Other agencies to transferred to the Department include the Federal Commission, Naval Observatory, Shippls Board, Agricultural Depart- ment’s t's Inland Waterway Corporation l::: :.he Interior Department's Geo- logical Survey and map repgoducing section. In the meantime, the advisers are reported working for the reduetion of the d ent's 1934 app: tion. The conference gave depart- ment $36,000,000 for runn'l!;’ expenses. Secretary Roper has stal sum would be reduced by $10,000,000. No estimate could be obtained today as to the affect the department’s reorganiza- tion would have on the department’s esent personnel or those being trans- ?Xerred into the new structure. The Interstate Commerce Commission is to be reduced from 13 bureaus to seven uun result of this proposed re- lon. ‘The new structure of the commission, however, would be entirely separated from the activities of the Commerce t. reliably understood that the re- ornnl" o l;{mu do not include commission’s big bureau of valuation, either in the Commerce Department’s new transportation set-up or in the revamped structure of the commission. This bureau has approximately 500 em- ployes. An effort was made to abolish this bureau during the last two sessions of Congress by eliminating its appropria- m’l‘i‘b'wu. M’m:m“i fights left the 's ces ct. w’::e“%mm’: advisers refused today to comment as to what was the bureau's fate. Interior Plans Taking Form. It is also understood the Interior Department’s reorganization s now shaping into definite form. It is known bitter opposition has arisen over the proposal to transfer the Agriculture De- partment’s Bureau of Roads and For- ests to this department. All the of- fices also mm:mwn w“l: m’”nd'n: ht against proposal consoli gh‘:lr rivers and_harbors section from the Engineering into the proposed Public Construction Division of the In- iblican | late agal lomy program, the President offered no comment at his press conference today on the plan. The department offices were likewise silent, 1t was assumed, however, that the Army chieftains pointed out just what effect they have and left proposals with the President. - g A cut of B 5 e, 5, 2 work has been decreed, 2 Arrest Asked REPRESENTATIVE F. H. SHOEMAKER, Accused of punching eye of apartment neighbor. CONGRESS MEMBER ACCUSED OF HITTING NEIGHBOR IN EYE (Continued From First Page.) to Cohen. The remarks were accom- panied by profane language, the com- plainant said. Cohen said he went downstairs and to Alex Bolker, clerk on duty at the desk in the apartment hotel lobby, that he had received the com- plaint. Cohen told Bolker there was no undue noise in his apartment and he did not believe there was any justifi- cation for the complaint. Cohen went back to his apartment and rejoined his guests. A few min- utes later, he said, Bolker came to the door with Representative Shoemaker. ‘The Representative said that he ob- Jjected to the noise and gave Cohen's guests “30 minutes to get out,” accord- ing to the story told by Cohen at the Court House. “I am the only ex-convict in Congress and I am hard-boiled,” Cohen quoted the Congressman as saying. He also quoted the Minnesotan as remarking, “I'm another Hitler.” Cohen said that he stepped forward | BOS1 and told Shoemaker, “This is my - ment and you have no business here. ‘You must get out.” Shoemaker is alleged to have gunched Cohen in the right eye and ked him sprawling into the arms of his roommates. The Representative then turned and walked down the hall, Cohen eather Bureau, War Depart-| said. Physician Is Summened. A ?hyficlm was summoned and it was found Cohen’s eye was badly cut. While the physiclan was engaged in sewing up the cut, it was stated, Shoe- maker returned with another employe of the hotel, William Malone, watched the physician at work a moment and observed, “It served tective Sergt. Howard Ogle, who lives in the apartment building, a little later, told him of the affair and asked his advice. He told them they could swear out a warrant for the arrest of the Rep- resentative, Representative Shoemaker served nine months in Leavenworth Penitentiary as a result of his conviction on a charge of sending scurrilous matter through the mails. When the new members of the House were sworn in at the beginning of the present session, he was asked to asids and was seated only after an step the | hour of debate in the House and after a commijttee investigation of his citi- senship and a final determination of the rights involved had been made. GUARD UNIT CALLED TO PROTECT DYKES Troops Put on Duty After Band Breaks Levee With Dynamite. By the Assoeiated Press. CLARKSDALE, Miss, April 19.—A National Guard unit of 50 men was rushed by train to the Mississippi delta today to patrol levees of swollen streams | Co. of e ares. called were ] commanded bymm Virgll = Adthns and s, Lieut. Conwell 8 KENNETT, Mo., April 19 (#).—While the 8t. Francis River it the reduction would | souri BRITISH EMBARG0 PLAGED ON RUSSIA Government Quickly Retali- ates for Convicting Sub- jects in Sabotage Trial. (Continued From First Page.) sentences imposed on L. C. Thornton and William L. MacDonald, two of the Britishers who were tried in Moscow, would be commuted. Precedents for such action were said to exist. The Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Equipment Co., which sent the men to Russia, considered today what action to take in connection with its con- tract with the Soviet government. The directors issued a statement de- claring they had “no faith in the so- called evidence produced” in the trial “or in the validity of the alleged con- fessions.” It expressed confidence in the integrity of all the employes of the company in Russia. Further Break Likely. The embargo may further strain Anglo-Russian relations, foreign ob- servers closely watching the situation believed today. A complete embargo of Russian goods would block £18,000,000 worth of Russlan imports, as based on the 1932 figures. At the present volume of business, the 1033 Russian trade would be esti- mated at about £12,000,000. It was expected the embargo will be accompanied by a licensing system which will give Great Britian a whip- hand for control of Russian trade, per- mitting imports of products Great Britain needs while excluding others. ‘The official Gazette was to list a wide range of Russian goods today | which will be banned. European countries which already have relations with the Soviet republic and American officials in London have watched the Moscow trial with special interest in view of & possible United States decision to establish relations with Russia. They are informing their respective governments of the effect of the Moscow trial on Anglo-Russian trade. ‘With the expiration of the Anglo- Russian trade agreement last Monday, the three chief members of the Rus- sian Trade Commission, who hereto- fore had diplomatic immunity in Great Britain, automatically toook the same tions as any other group of foreign citizens doing business in this country. Effect in Other Countries. An important aspect of the Anglo- Russian situation is the effect of the trial on Russian trade in other coum- tries and also on the question of Rus- slan credits aboard which have financed Russian developments. The Anglo-Russian break will termi- nate British credits which are estimated at £13,000,000 on an 18 month basis. Of this amount about £10,000,000 credit was guaranteed by the British government. The rest is extended through such firms as the Metropo- litan-Vickers Co., whose employes were principals in the Moscow trial. Metropolitan-Vickers, one of the largest firms extending credits to Rus- sia, was said to have £1,500,000 involved in Russian contracts. That Russian authorities were seeking to avoid en- dangering such foreign credits was in- dicated by the payment a few days ago to the company of all the money due. Observers believed Russian author- itles desired above everything else to avold endangering foreign credits sources. SENTENCES TO BE APPEALED. Further Action Will Be Taken in Espionage Case. MOSCOW, April 19 (#).—An appeal will be made against the prison sen- tences imposed early today on L. C. Thornton and Willlam L. MacDonald, British engineers, convicted of espion- age, sabotage and bribery. ‘The pair were held incommunicado in prison. Four other Britons who were tried on the same charges were leaving Russia tomorrow, presumably forever. f these—, as was expected. ‘They were not allowed to see the two condemned men with whom they had in Russia of the Metropolitan-Vickers . of England, was given a three-year term, and his crippled assistant, Wil- liam H. MacDonald, a two-year sen- tence. Immediately afterward they were hustled off to prison. Eleven Russian co-defendants were given prison terms up to 10 years and one was acquitted. Bkt | EMPLOYMENT OFF FOR LAST MONTH Beverage Industry Gains, but Industry as Whole Shows - Decrease. ‘The Labor Department said today anticipated enactment of beer legisla~ tion in March was responsible for & “substantial increase in employment in the beverage industry.” Although the beverage industry Jum 175 per cent over February's employment statistics, the department reported a decrease of 4.2 per cent in the number of workers in general in- dustries during the month, At the same time President Willlam Green of the American Federation of Labor estimated there were 13,000,000 ‘wage earners unemployed at present. ' Pay Rolls Drop Off. 3 Secretary of A l.ab;:r Perkins ewspaper men t from figures com- piled by the department’s Bureau of fito.l‘:l&sflrix a decline uol 8.2 per cent was n pay roll earn: March, by g dunie Miss Perkins said the decreases in SO b aniritted ety s e B uted larvely to the bank- ing holiday. 5 “Hundreds of co-operating establish- ments,” she explained, “made various comments on their March employment Teports, such as ‘reduced hours due to bank restrictions,’ ‘cut production on account of banking situation’ and ‘funds tied up.’ “A few additional firms in the Cali- fornia earthquake area reported tem- porary suspension of activities due to the 'quake. Nine boot and shoe fac- tories in Massachusetts reported that fi‘rfléesdo ‘were resp:ansible for a complete u wn or reduced forces establishments in March.” e Commedity Prices Up. She said there was a falling off in March in the number of eml‘:nughmenu reporting wage-rate decreases and the number of employes affected by these reductions; compared with reports for the first two months of this year. Meantime, the department ‘announced the first advance since last September for the index number of wholesale com- modity prices from February to March. The gain as computed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics brought the average to 60.2 for March as compared with 59.8 for February, with the index num- ber, including 784 commodities or price series, based on_the average prices for 1926 as 100. Th ae 6610 e March, 1932, figure AKRON’S HULK STILL MISSING AS SEARCH AT SEA CONTINUES (Continued From Pirst Page.) told anchored in the center of the search- ing area. Naval authorities were of the opin- jon that if the Akron’s hulk is not found now it will be because the wreck- age has been broken up into smaller pleces and carried in many directions by tricky currents. The section of the control car found by divers yesterday was pulled to the deck of the Falcon together with pleces of fabric as large as 20 feet square. No trace has been found of the bodies of the 67 missing members of the crew. MORE WRECKAGE FOUND. Beach Patrols Off Delaware Coast Recover Parts of Akron. LEWES, Del, April 19 (#).—Beach patrols of the Coast Guard stations at Lewes and Cape Henlopen today picked up pieces of wreckage belleved to have come from the Akron. At the Cape, what is believed to bz a piece of catwalk, 101: feet by 8 feet, was found. Nearby was discovered a table top, 2 feet by 6 feet; also star- board window No. 13, 20 by 25 inches in size, At Lewes the patrol found a mattress or large cushion with a string attached. The Lewes Coast Guard station also reported that an aluminum gas tank was found at Smith’s Island, Va., about 150 miles south of the Delaware Capes. It had a capacity of 120 gallons and weighed about 10 pounds. It bore the date “December, 1930.” ‘Washington authorities were notified. AKRON WAS RATED SAFE. Expert Says Craft Was Twice as Strong as Los Angeles. By the Associated Press. Comdr. Garland Fulton, & naval lighter-than-air expert, today told the court of inquiry investigating the dis- aster of the, Akron that the ship was twice as strong as the Los Angeles and me times as strong as the Shenan- The Los Angeles is now out of com- mission at the Lakehurst Naval Air Sta- tion, retired after years of safe service. The Shenandoah fell in Ohio in 1925. Lieut. Comdr. Ralph G. Pennoyer, judge advocate of the court, questioned Fulton about the theoretical factors of safety in the ship's construction, elicit- ing a statement that the factor of safety of the Akron was rated at “2” in a condition where the airship would be struck by a vertical gust of wind and at “3 and 4" under any other condi- tions. He sald these high factors of ssafety were based on the elastic proper- ties of the materials in the ship and ability to absorb more strain than it O peeibie B dsign o - an air: to withstand all forces of the n'.m”;?- ph:erg encountered in fiight?” Pennoyer asl “I think I can say certainly,” Fulton replied, “that we can build an airship as strong as we like. “It is difficult to know, though, what conditions would be encountered. It can always be assumed there are certain conditions in the atmosphere which would wreck airships, airplanes, bridges or other structures.” Inclement weather conditions today off the New Jersey Coast halted the work of divers investigating the wreck of the dirigible Akron that lies on the ocg;; m‘)'or, e Navy Department today an- nounced that the cruiser U. S. S.IPanA land, which has been supervisi the search for the Akron, will be withdrawn tely and permitted to continue her shakedown cruise. The Portiand was recently placed in commission. The new senlor officer in command of the operations will be Capt. Robert A. White, commanding Destroyer Squadron 10, aboard the flagship U. 8. 8. Ellis, & destroyer. The department asserted that all the Coast Guard vessels, which have been assisting in the search, will like- wise go about their regular duties. Only four destroyers and six tugs will be left at the scene of the wreck to continue dragging operations. $12,954 PAY ROLL TAKEN Two Store Messengers Held in Probe After Reporting Hold-up. NEW YORK, April 19 (#).—Two mes- sengers for a Byooklyn department store sent to the bank to cash a $12, roll check, reported to police ye that three men held them up in busy to both | Union Square, forced one of them enter the bank and and and fled. Haimowitz, 23, ‘The messengers, Harry and Sidney Kriegman, 21, who have been employed by the store about twe yoara, vore detained for questioning,