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ALY e MEANS AND FOX . PLAGED ON TRIAL Lindy on Way to Testify. i Rich McLean Jewels to Be Shown. (Continued From First Page.) negotiations; Charles B. Burhams, G. F. Tudor, Ralph W. Brickerd, Adelaide Williamson, Will A. Ritchie, Charles H. Mitchell, Willlam H. Wright, Ingrid Lagerqvist, Clarence D. George, George éenz and F. L. Fulmer, all of Aiken, C. Dr. Charles H..Mitchell is the county physician in New Jersey who performed an autopsy on the body of the Lind- bergh baby. He will be asked to testify 88 to the length of time the child had been dead. Attorneys -for Defense, - J. William Tomlinson is attorney for Means and Joseph Turco for Whitaker. Assistant United States Attorney Robb 15 aiding Rover in the prosecution. The court also asked the jurors if they knew Norman S. Bowles, disbarred attorney and reputed friend of Means and Whitaker; Roland Whitaker, brother of the defendant, or Ralph M. Easley of New York, with whom Means .and Whitaker are alleged to have had ‘some dealings. * . The prisoners, debonair as usual, are being tried under an indictment charg- ing an attempt to defraud Mrs. McLean of $35000 after Means already had ~ hoaxed her into giving him $104,000 . With which to ransom the Lindbergh “baby. "The additional $35,000 was in- : tended, Mrs. McLean testified in the © previous trial and conviction of Means, i to redeem the “hot money" paid by : . Lindbergh through “Jafsie” to a « mysterious “John.” * By Col. Lindbergh's personal story the prosecution expects to show that while Whitaker, allegedly posing to Mrs, McLean as “The Fox,” chief kidnaper of + §h8 Lindbergh baby, was, according to : Mrs. McLean's story, telling her he had « Just held the kidnaped child in his arms, « the baby’s body was wasting away in a thicket near Sourland Mountain. Necklace Has 72 Diamonds. ‘The gems, consisting of a magnificent necklace of 72 diamonds and two glit- tering diamond bracelets—all valued at from $100,000 to $200,000—will be dis- played to the jury in connection with Mrs. McLean's statement that she was about to pawn them to raise the $35,000 allegedly asked by the de- fendants. ‘The rope of diamonds alone is said to have cost about $100,000 some years ago. Of the six dozen diamonds which compose it, the smallest is 3 karats in size and the two largest in the center are 12 karats each. One of the brace- lets, of checker board design, studded with scores of large diamonds, cost originally $25,000. The other, a circular band one inch wide, literally encrusted ‘with sparkling blue-white stones, with four larger diamonds as the central motif, is worth even more, it is under- stood The celebrated Hope diamond, which Mrs. McLean recently turned over to a CYRIL BUCK. —A. P. Photos. turned, was in good shape, and he asked the nurse to let him listen to her voice 80 he would know it again over the telephone. Mrs. McLean, at this time, signed a paper authorizing Means to turn the $100.000 over to the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby. A few days later, Rover continued. Whitaker phoned Mrs. McLean from New Jersey and wanted to get in touch with Means. Means told Mrs. McLean he would get in touch with “the Fox" and there followed a series of visits and phone calls through which Mrs. McLean was advised of various delays in get- ting the baby through the lines. On March 27, which was Easter Sun- day a year ago, Rover said, a woman telephoned to Mrs. McLean at Aiken and said she had the Lindbergh baby in her custody, using the words, “the book,” to refer to the baby under the code adopted by Means, ‘woman said the baby was all right and that she was anxious to get in touch with Means. A day or so later Means phoned Mrs. # pawnbroker to raise money, was not in- scluded among the gems which she s sought to pawn at the time of her negotiations with Means and Whitaker. Rover intends by the jewel display #to show that Mrs. McLean was acting “in the best of faith when she dealt with the men whom Government offi- cials declare to be among ‘“master swindlers of all time.” Means' Beard Shaved. ‘The portly Means, & recent Van Dyke ~ beard shaved off just before the open- ing of the trial, sat near Whitaker ntl ~the counsel table and listened atten-} tively as Rover outlined the Govern- ment’s case against the defendants. At . times Means' face was wreathed with i the familiar dimpled smile with which he has greeted other phases of the Gov- ernment’s indictment and prosecution of him. The wives of both defendants lfl:x with spectators near the attorneys’ Tail. Rover’s account of the negotiations which he sald the Government would prove that Means and Whitaker carried on in their alleged efforts to dupe Mrs. McLean sounded more like detective fic- tion than a serious summation of facts. Rover described the negotiations as “most fantastic.” The prosecutor declared Means car- ried on secret negotiations with Col. Guggenheim and Mrs. McLean at the same time, shortly after the Lindbergh child was kidnaped, but when Means obtained $100,000 from Mrs, McLean, he dropped the dealings with Col. Gug- genheim and told him to “ki quiet.” Rover charged that Means made re- peated promisés to produce the kid- naped baby, making arrangements first to return the child to Mrs. McLean's JLome, “Fairview,” here, then at Aiken, «8. C, and sgain at El Paso, Tex. Each ®time, the jury was told, Means or ‘Whitaker, or both, gave weird excuses for their failure to bring the child to Mrs. McLean. Outlines Evidence. ‘The district attorney said he would prove that Mrs. McLean gave Means $100,000 at her home on Massachu- setts avenue on March 7, a year ago, and that he carried the money away in 2 box under his arm; that Means told her he would bring the baby to “Fair- view” on Matgh 10; that Mrs. McLean waited in vain all that night and that Means finally explained that he had been unable to break through police lines and that there would be some delay. In the meantime, Rover said, Means tad told Col. Guggenheim he would turn the baby over to him and the lat- ter should arrange for a diplomatic car to get the child. Col. Guggenheim ob- tained permission to use the private car of the Austrian Minister. When Means failed to keep in touch with Col. Guggenheim, the Army officer is said to have been advised that the kidnapers wanted negotiations to con- tinue through the agency of a Catholic t and that Col. Guggenheim should remain inactive and silent. Mrs. McLean, the nurse, Miss Nelson, and Father Hurney waited all night at Fairview on March 15, but neither Means nor the baby appeared. Means. Rover declared, finally phoned and ex- plained that a decoy car, equipped with electric signal lights, had been sent ahead of the automobile returning the “aby and that the decoy car had McLean and sald: “Things are getting straightened out,” and that Curtis, the Norfolk shipbufider. was not desling with the right people, but with hi- Jackers. Advised to Visit Texas, On April 1, & year ago, the prosecutor sald, Means told Mrs. McLean “the Fox" was on his way to El Paso with the baby, and that if Mrs. McLean would 80 1o Texas she could have the child. Mrs. M sent Miss Nelson with Means to El Paso and followed later her- 3elf. Before Mrs. McLean left, how- ever, Means is alleged to have phoned from El Paso saying that everything :vhu OK., and that he had the baby ere. Mrs. McLean, on arriving at El Paso, is said to have been told the baby was ill and that “the Fox” was double- crossing Means, and it might be neces- -r{el:)n"b'ump him (the Fox) off. Mrs. Mc didn't want any killings and gave Means some sleeping powders with which to drug “the Fox” while the baby was being taken from him. The continued excuses and delays, Rover said, flnally exasperated Mrs. McLean and she returned to Washing- ton, leaving Miss Nelson at El Paso to get the baby in the event it was re- turned. Means then began to negotiate, it is alleged, for Mrs. McLean to give him an additional $35,000 to rep] 49,000 of marked money which he said Col. Lindbergh had given the kidnapers. Mrs. McLean proceeded to attempt to Taise the $35,000 by pawning her jewels | D¢ and shortly thereafter, the whole case exploded in the newspapers. “The Government will show,” de- clared Rover in conclusion, “that the Lindbergh baby never was delivered by the defendants to Mrs. McLean, Col. Guggenheim, Admiral Land, or any others involved in this case, but that the dead body of that baby was in fact delivered to its father.” WEATHER DELAYS LINDY. Flying Colonel and Wife Decide to ‘Wait in Columbus, Ohio. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 8 (#).—Heavy weather between Columbus and Wash- ington held Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh here this morning. They had planned to start for the National Capital shortly after 9 o'clock (Eastern standard time), but after looking over weather reports they decided to remain here until the weather to the East cleared. None the worse from battling s severe sandstorm that forced them to land in an isolated section of the Texas Panhandle and sleep overnight in their plane, they landed here last night and had hoped to reach Washington today. They expressed regret that their delay had caused concern. “People shouldn’t worry; it is liable to happen any time in the Western country,” Col. Lindbergh said Texas experience. It was better to land. he added, than attempt to go through a sandstorm. The Lindberghs were forced down in the blinding sandstorm a few hours after they left Albuquerque, N. Mex., Saturday. The land was_described as “somewhere north of Amarillo, Tex., and, as Mrs. Lindbergh put it, “we a very comfortable night” in the flashed 8 warning of danger and the car bearing the baby had been forced to turn back. = Later, Mrs. McLean allegedly was ~ advised that it would beé necessary for her to go to her home at Aiken, where the baby would be delivered to her by the chief kidnaper, alias “The Fox, No. 19,” and Neil Williams. Mrs. McLean ‘went to Alken and, Rover asserted, was met by Means and Whitaker. “The Fox,” it was related, wore gloves and off the dust on a table and some a-brac which he had fingered so that even the glove marks would not be_left. Later, Whitaker, according to Rover, asked Mrs. McLean: “How about the money? You know ‘we are ip this to get money.” Arrangements Told. ‘Mrs. McLean is said to have ex- Ellned that she had given $100,000 to eans two weeks before and “The Fox” said that was “O. K.” Rover said “The Fox” pointed out & blind street near Mrs. McLean’s home where the baby ‘was to be delivered in & car protected b{kt;o wnvuydurl bristling with ma- ¢ Yesvvinasensns ronnsinrass glx red and black monoplane they have equipped for sleeping. There was food enought for 30 days. The colonel is returning from an in- spection tour for Transcontinental & Western Airways. . At Washington, he will testify at the trial of Gaston Means and Norman Whitaker. FORMER SUSPECT JAILED. Norman T. Harvey of Lindy Probe Now Faces Slaying Charge. ROANOKE, Va., May 8 (#)—Norman T. Harvey, 26, whose name was linked in the city and Federal investigation of an attempted plot to extort $50,000 from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh here three months ago, is back in the hands charge of murder growing out of the fatal shooting of Raymond Edwards, 23, of Roanoke County, and is lodged in itors was - S5 Mhmlfl? B.|his feet and attempted to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933, ' KIDNAP SUSPECTS. |COMMITTEE HEARS PLEAD NOT GUILTY Buck Brothers Held in $100,- 000 Bail in Mchth Abduction. (Continued From First Page.) week to permit him to obtain & lawyer. Cyril wanted an immediate hearing, de- glaring he had no retscn for withhold- ing any knowledge it He did ask, however, that he be vided with a lawyer, explaining t, while he was willing to testify, he knew nothing about court procedure. Judge Welsh declared a three-minute recess to give the brothers an - tunity to confer and decide what they wished to do. District Attorney Cross- ley told the court that he believed it would be fairer to the brothers if their Cases were together. Cyril finally . to have his case heard with that brother. While sitting in the glonm‘ ‘box awaiting arraignment, nneth Buck told reporters that there was some one else involved in the crime who ran away and left him to take the blame. Kenneth was asked: “Is it true th there is some one else in on this case?” Begins to Sob. “Yes, there is,” he replied, and began to_shake with sobbing. “I am between them and my wife,” he continued, “and I don’t know what to do. I know I didn’t do it and she knows I didn't de it. .I am between tg:lrln and my wife aud I can't say any- thing.” Kenneth was then asked if he meant the “some one else” went away and left him to take the blame. “Yes,” he saild, “they ran away and left me.” Asked if the “some one else” was a resident of Harwich, he replied in the negative. At this point Kenneth was sobbing violently and unable to answer other questions. Before his statement Kenneth said he felt sick. “I feel sick,” he sald. “I have had no sleep. I want a lawyer and I don't want to say anything until I do get a lawyer.” The Bucks were brought here from the Barnstable County Jail shortly be- fore 11 o'clock under guard. The court reom, & medium sized chamber in the town hall was crowded to capacity Iung before the arrival of the brothers. Chief of Police John C. Williams and three special officers, permitted in the room only a sufficient number to fill the seats. The remainder overflowed into the corridors and onto the Jawn in front of the building. Denies Statement. Ernest Bradford, lieutenant of State police, told newspaper men after con- versing with Kenneth Buck, that the prisoner denied any one else was impli- cated, although Buck had told reporters otherwise only & few minutes before. ‘When newspaper men confronted him with the conflicting stories he stuck to his denial, Bradford said complaints were being drawn up charging Kenneth with kid- naping and extortion and Cyril with simple extortion. Bradford added that while the State knew of no third man implicated in the case it would con- tinue its investigation until “every scintilla of evidence” had been scanned. Grand Jury Called. The lleutenant announced & special sitting of the Barnstable County grand jury had been asked for within 10 days. He added there was evidence in posses- sion of the police to show Kenneth had once been “mixed up in the rum run- ning business.” Later Kenneth called newspaper men over to the pen where he was confined and told them they had published an incorrect version about the recovery of the $60,000 ransom on Saturday. Ken- neth insisted he had personally given the money to detectives and h: - tended in any ®case to hand over the money to a Harwich priest if he had not been arrested. Kidnaping Re-enacted. Kenneth was inclined to jauntiness yesterday as he ieft the jail for a drive through the countryside to re-enact the kidnaping. He was even “muleish.” to use the words of Gen. Daniel C. Needham, head of the State police. Accompanied by State detectives, Crossley and Gen. Needham, he was driven to the small white school house from which he enticed the girl. Then the party moved to the cranberry shack at the edge of the town's golf course and through & nearby fleld, across & brook to Kenneth’s mother’s ouse. It was under the reéar wall of his mother’s house that Kenneth held the girl prisoner from late Tuesday night until Friday mmmfife Kenneth showed the police the small vertical trap door through which he| ided the child into the small soace tween the ground and the first floor. There was only 3!, feet between the earth and the first-floor boards and there was a dry cistern about 20 feet from the entrance. Shocked by Hiding Place. Crossley termed it “an awful place to put a man, never mind a child,” and sald that had the girl rolled 3 feet she would have fallen into the cistern. Even the bolled State detectives were taken aback by the “terrible” hiding place. While standing in front of his home, handcuffed to a detective, Kenneth said he'd like to go in and see his wife. “I don’t know whether she would want _to see you,” Lieut. Detective Jos- eph Ferrarl answered. He was not allowed to see her. More question| and more explana- tions, and Kenneth was driven back to the Barnstable County Jail. It had been warm as a Midsummer day and the Cape Cod countryside was beautiful. As the jail was reached, Kenneth took & long look at the sur- rounding country —then two State troopers, who had returned with him, led him inside the granite walls. REPRESENTA*IVE KNOCKS OUT BURGLAR CAUGHT RIFLING HIS ROOM __(Continued From First Page) investigate, Roberts leveled the Rep- resentative’s own gun at him and or- hands. to the young bandit’s jaw that floored him with a thud. All but unconscious, Roberts rose to Faddis graj him until search of the youth's clothes revealed Le already had pocketed a wrist-watch of Faddis’ secretary, John H. Weiner, and several articles of jewelry belong- ing to the Representative. According to Weiner, Roberts entrance to the apartment by stealing in the House, was cited by Gen. John J. Pershing for conl?lcumu bravery the war, in which he served as [ and major. He now holds a lonel in the buuhlyu'ch-fi Roosevelt and cause of the rain. A new date v:sullednfl’h; S RAILROAD PROGRAM In Wake of Storm at Belton, S. C. TOWN HARDEST RIT BY GALE THAT TOOK 16 LIVES. Seoretary Roper Appears Be-l fore House Commerce Group in Hearing. By the Associated Press. Outlining the manner in which the administration expects President Roose- velt’s raflroad plan to work, Secretary ping. | of Commerce Roper told the House Commerce Committee today that, upon the results of the measure, depend the future of railway transportation. “And the results” Roper emphasized, “will depend not so much on the Fed- eral co-ordinator as on the railroad executives themselves. For what they accomplish they shall deserve full credit.” The Secretary t0ld of the studies leading to the recommendation, of work done by a special committee headed by Joseph Eastman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and of sugges- tions received from a railroad commit- tee—F. E. Williamson, president of the New York Central; Carl Gray, &m' dent of the Union Pacific; J. J. Pelley, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and Henry Bruere, spokes- man for savings banks. Committee Plan Rejected. Roper said the plan of the Railroad Committee wits rejected as putting “too much authority of Government in rail- rou_};muuvu:‘ T e “The pi of the bill is to the rlflrm help themselves and is essentially experimental,” he said. “The mechanics of operation consist of regional co-ordinating committees, with whom a Federal officer called a co- ordinator will co-operate for & period of not more than two years. This co-or- dinator is to divide the roads of the country into three general regions and maintain contacts with the roads of each region through committees of five members for each region. These com- mittees are to be selected by the roads themselves, the right of selection being based on road mileage. “Labor organizations are not repre- sented on the regional co-ordinating committees, but they are safeguarded in their rights of collective bargaining, and all the rights they now have under State and Federal laws are preserved to them.” In addition, the bill gives the In- terstate Commerce Commission super- vision over holding companies and repeals the recapture clause of the Interstate Commerce act. Confined to Co-ordinator. Before Roper began, Chairman Ray- burn explained that since his com- mittee already had approved legislation dealing with repeal of the re;aa?ture clause and the regulation of ding companies, it would confine its hear- ings to the co-ordinator of the bill. Roper said the bill was “really an answer to the plea of railway man- agement to be permitted to work out their own salvation or at least be granted a reasonable time in which to do so_under Government management.” “There is no effort in this bill to|braska, deal with railroad rates or with new and unregulated forms of transporta tion.” he said. “It is permissive to the rallway man- agements to go ahead regardless of anti-trust laws and similar statutes for a limitéd time and to effect econ- omies which can be accomplished un- der the plan set forth in the bill.” Dr. Walter M. W. Splawn, commit- tee eéiplert. Tollowed Roper and analyzed the bill. Representative Huddleston, crat, Alabama, objected that the bil did mot provide horizontal rate de- | bol creases. Asks About Fund Use. Representative Cooper, Republican, Ohio, asked about the disposition of any funds resulting from savings. “If there were large and appreciable sums saved,” Splawn replied, “I pre- sume they would be shared with all participating in transportation—includ- ing_shippers and employes.” “If the savings were not passed on,” Cooper asked, “who would get them?” “The bondholders, I presume,” Splawn said. Representative Wolverton, Republi- can, of New Jersey, asked: “These savings would be at the ex- pense of labor?” he asked. “Pdrt would result, no doubt, in lay- ing off trains and employes,” Splawn replied. “Part will result from trans- ferring some of the ex) . “If very substantial economies are realized, some men and some roads will lose their jobs. I do not think very large economies can be unless some men lose their jobs.” “Then the effect of the bill is to in- crease the purchasing power of bond- holders and decrease the purchasing power of employes,” Wolverton com- men = o ROBBER CAUGHT IN ACT POSES AS POLICEMAN Tells Victim He Is Investigating Robbery and Returns for Blackjack. By the Assoclated Press. LYNCHBURG, Va., May 8.—Police here believe they have a counterpart of the fictional “Raffies” in a prisoner charged with robberies here and in Danville, Va. Returning from s dance Saturday night, A. D. Barksdale, attorney, found a man of medium height and distin- guished appearance fumbling with arti- cles on a dresser in his bed room. The l;;fruder expfhl!llwd p(:uh“ he was “Officer rguson” of the ce department and had come to investigate a robbery tak- ing place early in the evening. Mr. Barksdale recalled no such officer, but let the man go when he explained he was an “under-cover man.” Shortly afterward the man returned for s black- Jack he had forgotten and which, he said, as he picked it up with & hand- kerchief, * prints.” Later a cdll to police headquarters revealed there was no “Officer Perguson"” and during the night a man giving the name of Thomas J. Burns was arrested and identified by Mr. Barksdale as the visitor. Jewelry in his possession was identified as belonging to the Barksdale family. The suit and overcoat he wore were identified as having been stolen last month from the home of H. L. Boatwright, of Danville. JULIAN TO STAY IN CHINA TO DEVELOP OIL WELLS Promoter, Wanted in Oklahoma, lay\ Gov. Murray Is Hound- ing Him. By the Associated Press. LFHANOKAX. May 8—C. C. Jul oll promoter wanted by the Federal authorities in copnection with & fraud case. sald he intended ELTON, 8. C, suffered the greatest damage resulting from the windstorm that struck upper South Carolina May 8, killing 16 persons in several counties. This picture of Belton, where 13 were killed, shows destruction of the Blair mills. CONFEREES T0 GET SHOALS MEASURE House Rules Committee Re- jects Rankin Demand to 0. K. Senate Bill. By the Assoclated Press. The Roosevelt Muscle Shoals-Ten- nessee basin development bill will be sent to conference tomorrow under pro- cedure approved today by the Rules Committee. The Rules Committee rejected a de- Representative Rankin, of Mississippi, to force House conferees to accept the Senate bill without change. Instead, the House will be asked to disagree to all Senate amendments and send the bill to conference. However, under the rules, Rankin will have the right to move that the conferees be instructed before they are named. Rankin had demanded that the House be given an opportunity to instruct its conferees to accept the Senate Muscle Shoals bill and said the proposal of Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- it Pproposa McSwain of the House Milif Com- mittee to send the Hill bill to confer- ence, Rankin sald “power trust lobby- ists favor the House bill and that's the Teason you don't hear so much about | it “I want & rule to instruct the con- ferees to Norris, with minor amendments,” 5 know the Norris bill is what the Pres- ident wants. I make that statement ldly. “It is preferred by President Roose- velt over the House bill, because the House bill will paralyze his dream of %Ihe development of the Tennessee A House bill will throw the Gov- ernment into litigation with the power trusts. It will compel the corporation, created under the measure, to dicker with the power trust for the leasing ;rn purchasing of their transmission es. “The power trusts will be enabled to block the bullding of any additional dams, other than Cove Creek Dam, in the future.” MRS. PINCHOT JOINS PICKET RANKS AGAIN Wife of Pennsylvania Governor Marches in Interest - of Child Workers. By the Associated Press. ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 8.—Clicking cameras recorded Mrs. Gifford Pinchot marching with youthful strikers today in what she said was an attempt for maximum publicity of conditions among child workers in garment factories. As she with some 200 shout- ing boys and girls before the D. & D. shirt factory in suburban Northampton, she 'l‘;ulold that her ;uogport ‘l’;ym; ers’ al encouraged employes of 3)‘: Clyde Shirt Co. there to walk out ay. Ske wore the same flaming red velvet coat and hat that was a rallying point for marching strikers in the vicinity " Atter siaying only 16 min 15 uf she returned to her Milford home. 5 “I am anxious ]:hnt the efforts of working itions be gi! possible publicity,” the sylvania’s Go.v:urnw mhl:‘?unad a3 her automobile pped ore cheering picketeers. I ited ‘: ““For sal "teen ht contain valuable finger | shop’ ities. 'he investigation brought testimony from young workers of long in- sanitary conditions and pay en ng wages as low as 57 cents for a six-day week of nine hours a day. wife of Penn- | the Marriage With Jews I Not Prohibited, Says German Racial Expert By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 8.—Dr. Achim Gerke, racial expert of the min- istry of the interior, announced in a statement today that no new legislation on mixed race mar- ohibition ‘The government’s its officials, therefore it is await- ing the effects of the law for- bidding, with certain exceptions, Jews or others whose grand- parents had Jewish blood from remaining or becoming officials. This law is regarded as suffi- cient protection against Semitic influence in state affairs. terference with people’s private i s "mot "intenaed, Dr, Gerke said. REPORT 10 SENATE ONRELIEF 150.X.D | Wagner-Lewis Bill fo Go to President Roosevelt After House Approval. ‘Without & word of debate the Senate today adopted the conference report on the Wagner-Lewis $500,000,000 emer- gency relief bill, under which the Fed- eral Government will make grants to the States, Territories and the District of Columbis to aid in caring for fam- | ilies in distress. All that remains to complete con- mhnu‘ctwnonmbmumrzhfl House to ratify the report, following which it will go to the President to be | signed. Senator Fletcher, Democrat, of Florida, chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, called the report up in the Senate and it was agreed to by unsnimous consent. D. C. Would Get $135,000, The District of Columbia would be entitled to an immediate grant of about $135,000 under that portion of the bill which providesythat each jurisdiction is to be allowed $1 of Federal money for every $3 of public money spent locally du the past three months, Half of the $500,000,000 is to be allotted 1o the States and Territories on this This section of the bill provides that each State, Territory and the District of Columbia will be entitled to quar- terly payments equal to one-third of the public money spent locally in the preced! quarter. The remaining $250,000, is to be allotted by a Federal administrator to those States which are still in need of further re- lef after receiving their quota under the one-third ratio plan. The assistance which this bill would give the Board of Public Welfare in the District is urgently needed at this time because of the large number of families in need of assistance due to unemployment. Differences Ironed Out. The differences between the House and Senate were of a minor nature and were quickly ironed out in conference. As agreed to in conference, the bill provides that employes needed to ad- the fund could be appointed without civil service ents. The bill retains the Senate amendment to give the Federal relief administrator a basic salary of $10,000, which will be $8,500 after the 15 per cent cut is ap- lied. The House bill allowed a smaller CARDINAL CERRETTI DIES Former Auditor of Apostolic Dele- gation Here Expires. - ROME, I‘f‘:‘y'l o(‘l’L—Mflnll former au the apostolic delega. 't‘l:l; at Washington, died of pneumonia y. THREE TELL OF ARCTIC AGONIES —A. P. Photo. MARCHERS SHOUT SCOTTSBORD PLEAS 2,000 Join Parade to White House—Capitol Visit Set Later. The “free - the - Scottsboro - boys” parade reached the White House at 2:30 pm. today. While Jame: W. Ford, colored, Communist candidate for Vice President in the last elec- tion, chose a delegation of 25 to attempt to present to President Roosevelt petitions demanding the release of the nine condemned youths, the procession continued moving pest the Executive Mansion, swinging into West Executive avenue and heading around the ellipse as and heading around the Ellipse as boro boys shall not die.” Secret service men and White House po- licemen escorted the delegation in- side, where they were taken into the office of Col. Louis McHenry Howe, secretary to the President. Raising hundreds of banners de- manding “freedom for the Scottsboro boys,” 2,000 demonstrators marched on the White House this afternoon to pre- sent a petition to President Roosevelt alleged racial discrimination. demonstrators formed a rude column of fours shouting continuously as they moved through the streets of Washington under a heavy police guard. ‘They planned to send a delegation of 25 into the White House grounds, later to march on the Capitol, where the delegation was to be divided into three parts to present the petition to Vice President Garner, Speaker Rainey and olli:prfle'ntlflvf Oscar De Priest of Cold Rain Falling. When the marchers left their as- sembling point on New York avenue opposite Union Market northeast a cold rain was falling. The demonstra- tors came to Washington in about 150 busses, automobiles and trucks which formed a line over half a mile long on New York avenue. Police had not expected such a large turnout for the demonstration and ad- ditional reserves were called out to help maintain order. Almost 50 large busses came from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other large Eastern cities, while numerous other truck loads ar- rived from Virginia and West Virginia. Police said that the ranks of the march were filled to a large extent with the same persons who staged the last hunger march here. Ruby Bates Near Front. With Ruby Bates, star defense wit- ness in the Scottsboro case, well up to- ward the front of the parade, the marchers s along toward the White House, shouting over and over “Free the Scottsboro boys!” At the head of the procession was a truck equipped with an amplifier, too, kept velling demands that the Scottsboro boys be freed, interspersing their shouts with the “Internationale,” “Solidarity Forever” and similar songs, sounded into the amplifier by a grapha- phonic device. - All along the line of march crowds gathered on sidewalks, while others leaned rr&m ;&;flowl dor stood in door- 'Ways. and N streets the already long procession was joined by a group of about 200 additional marchers. TWO TAXI COMPANIES SEEKING CONCESSION Diamond and City Firms Negotiate for Lease Which Will Expire at Union Station. n now is in the hands of the Black & White and Yellow Co., but the midnight May esent concession holder also is negotiat for a renewal of the lease was not definitely known. Since the recent order of the Public Utilitles Commission barring conces- slons at hotels, the Union Station con- AFTER 20 GO DOWN WITH SHIP| ™" Soviet Survivors Drift Five Days in Bitter Cold—Captain g o i g R.BEE 75, ;fi% CONFEREES RECEIVE i § ] ¥ B i il i g i H §E g 5%%; 1 H { gl i % i i i ES i b i i ; i Bt i % i is : L i ] E E § g ] % B2 i Fiat ! i i i 8 g 8 . i FARM-INFLATION BILL FOR CHANGES (Continued Prom First 3] levied on 2 enthusiasm QUOTA PR3 - CHANGEIS DENED through which leaders of the demon- | stration addressed the marchers. They, | Committee Fails to Act on Personnel Clause in Offices Bill. With the independent offices priation bill scheduled for consideration in the House late today, the Appropeia- tions Committee met in executive ses- sion this morning and refused to make any. change in the bill regarding the paragraph which says: “In making re- ductions of personnel, due regard shall be given to the apportionment of ap- pointments as provided in the civil serv- ice act.” ‘The refusal of the Appropriations Committee to follow the recommenda- tion of the Defiiciency Subcommittee was & big surprise. One of the veteran Democriatic members, in explaining this change of front on the State quota question, said: “The half dozen or more members who wanted this provision in the bill changed apparently could not agree among themselves on the proper wording and the rest of us didn't much care. So, after they had gotten into a tangle, the majority said ‘we will let l‘cl}teriough alone and let the bill stand as it is’ " Unsuecessful Fight. Several amendments were proposed and the fight to protect employes in the departmental scrvice in Washing- ton from being loped off wholesale under this State quota provision. which would hit with particular force those from the District of Columbia, Mary- land and Virginia, was led unsuccess- fully by Representative Woodrum, Dem- cerat, of Virginia Another amendment which seemed to carry even stronger support provided, “Hereafter in meking reductions of per- I:onr.nl. an employe from a State in ex- cess under the apportionment pro- vision cf the civil service act, shall be separated before an employe from a State in arrears, who has the same standing on the separation list.” Another amendment discussed was to add to the present provision the words “and based on efficiency.” Slight Change Made. Only one slight change was made in the bill as a committee amendment and that had nothing whatever to do with the dismissal question. The bill says “no part of the appropriation contained in this act or prior appropri- tion act shall be used to pay any in- crease in the salary of any officer or employe of the United States Govern- ment by reason of the reallocation of the position of such officer or employe to a higher grade since June 30, 1932 by the Personnel Classification Board or the Civil Service Commission.” The committee today changed the word “since” to “after” and added these words: “And salaries shall be paid accordingly.” ECONOMIC TALKS SHIFTED TO ORIENT; SOONG ON SCENE (Continued From First Page.) be carried on through regular diplo= matic channels, as will the conversa- tions with some 42 other nations not specifically invited to send special lrgpr:eenmuve: to confer with the Pres- ent. Phillips told reporters Belgium would adhere to the tariff truce, hoping thas other nations would do the same and no_reservations were specified. In his talk to the Nation last night, Mr. Roosevelt reiterated his world parly aims toward reduction of trade barriers, disarmament, stabilization of currencies and the “re-establishment of friendly relations” between all nations. He said “the world demands” that the conference succeed. Soong, today's White House visitor, | carries degrees from Harvard and Co- |lumbia and is the brother of Mme. Sun | Yat-Sen and Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek. He is under 40 and much younger than lany of the six foreign leaders previ- ously received by the President. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbank president and chief German represen- tative, who began discussions with Mr. Roosevelt Saturday, also is continuing his conversations with American offi- cials today. Alberto J. Pani, Mexico's finance minister, is expected in Wash- ington Wednesday. Viscount Ishii, now on the Pacific between Japan and San Fancisco. will reach Washington late this month to give the Japanese version of the Man- churian squabble in which the League of Nations powers and the United States are siding with China. Dr. Schacht has already indicated Germany’s willingness to join in a tariff truce before the London confer- ence and to undertake reduction of tariffs, but the broad political ques- tions of Germany's equality at arms | with her neighbors and boundary .re- | vision await discussion with the Prési- dent. Belgium's agreement to the tariff truceu:'ns made known by Ambassador May and Paul van Zeeland, director of the National Bank of Belgium, who visited Undersecretary Phillips shortly after the department opened for busi- ness. No Information or Report. Their initial conversation followed the lines of those held previously and em- braced efforts to enlist support of an American program of stabilizing cur- rency, reducing trade barriers and alle- viating tension between nations. Phillips said in answer to questions that he had no information concerning the basis for a newspaper dispatch say- ing the British were holding back on the tariff truce proposal to demand a truce on war debt payments in return. In the German-American attack upon world economic problems, resumed today with a conference between Secre- tary of State Hull, Dr. Schacht was assisted by Dr. Hans Luther, the Ger- man Ambassador, and Rudolf Leitner, counsellor of the embassy. Secretary Hull had with him Herbert Feis, economic adviser; Willlam C. Bul- litt and James Warburg, also of the State Department economic staff, and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rex- ford G. Tugwell. On the basis of unofficial reporis that the President might, appoint He L. Stimson, thc Hoover Secretary State, as & member of the American delegation to-the Economic Conference, Representative Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts, yesterday issued a statement saying this “would be an af- front to the Republicans of this coun- try.” He asserted Stimson is “an ex- treme internationalist.” ‘The American Federation of Labor in its monthly survey of business yester- day praised the Roosevelt conversations preparatory to the major economic meeting and suggested international bi- metallism as a solution of the currency problem. If the President mu to the powerful anti-debt sentiment Capitol Hill, America’s European be faced with their choice defaulting. Although the them my in silver under & plan which might ock off about 30 per cent, no great has been shown. the feel- ‘with danger to 1 ition