Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1933, Page 1

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Johnson, already slated .to administer the extraordinary industrial | control legislation, was named authori | tatively today as also in line to direct | its companion measure—the ~$3,300, | 000,000 public works-employment pro Bond Sale Earnings| for Period Exceed Those of 1929. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 29.—Ferdinand gram. Coincident with Senate hearings on | the bill passed by the House, in which | witnesses raised objection to Federal Pecora, counsel to the Senate ‘l’t’gulnflon of the oil industry—as pro-| Banking Investigating Committee, |posed to be inserted in the industrial announced today he would be unde- | bill—Johnson moved into new quarters terred by attacks on his character. |in the Commerce Department Building “I am going right through with |to shape his organization. #” he said. “I have no fears | It was sald that—with approval of about the attacks on me, and they |the administration—he has chosen won't stop me.” | Donald Richberg, attorney for the As- Of a man who was reported to |sociation of Rallway Labor Executives, have made charges concerning his | as general counsel for the new agency. character to Senator Couzens of the Richberg was one of the foremost Senate committes, Pecora said: “Let | drafters of the bill, sitting with John- him come along.” | son, Director of the Budget Douglas Pecora said he would return to |and Senator Wagner of New York at ‘Johnson in Line to Head Two Phases of Recovery Program Richberg Chosen Counsel for New Agency—O0il Dictatorship Is Fought by Texan and Californian. the final conferences which drew up the legislation for President Roose- velt's approval. In Senate committee testimony, Jack Blalock of Marshall, Tex., asserted, ‘There 1s no emergency that justifies Federal dictatorship” over the oil in- dustry. Control of pipe lines by the big com- panies, he said, forms a “strangle- hold on independent producers.” Separate the pipe lines from the com- pany, he went on, “and you solve this so-called emergency in the oil busi- ness.” Referring to a telegram from Gov. Ferguson of Texas, put into the com- mittee record by Secretary Ickes in urging regulations, Blalock said: “The Governor of Texas, has nothing to do with regulating ofl. That is done in the State Railroad Commission.” John B. Elliott of Los Angeles told the committee he came ‘“‘with a man- date from the people of California (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ‘Washington. tomorrow. to be ready to resume the Senate committee hearing on Wednesday. He said he would call “five or six” more part- ners of J. P. Morgan & Co. before he was done with that phase of the investigation. He said he was “sat- isfied with the progress” of the hearings so far. By the Assoctated Press. President Roosevelt told mem- PARTY INSTRUCTED vestigation of J. P. Morgan & Co. | and other private bankers to be| pushed forward “without limit.” In an official source it was as- serted that the President “re- newed his expression of desire to Republican Senator May Bei Added to Delegation have the investigation go through | without limit and indicated his| complete confidence in the com- | mittee.” of Four Members. | By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt gave his final in- Members of thev committee said ' g oione today to the American dele- they regarded this as an indica- gation leaving on Wednesday for the | tion that the President was satis- London Economic Conference. fied with the manner in which It was said at the White House after | Ferdinand Pecotda, committee 'the parley that the delegation still con- | counsel, has been conducting the | sists of only four, but there was an indi- 1 B | cation that a fifth might be added be- | At the beginning of the inves- fore tonight—probably a Republican = i member of - the Senate. Senator La! tigation into private bankers, | % President Roosevelt gave the com- J ::::;'; g‘;‘::w'm L {’xg‘fng‘é:f:?g‘:;%‘ggegn%h“1 Mr. Roosevelt went exhaustively into | three-hour meeting. Glass to Seek Showdown. | ) As a matter of fact, it was said today | Told to “Do Best.” In the words of one of the delegal in an informed quarter the Presicent | suggested to the committee at that time | that its activities be turned toward the | the gist cf the instructions is “Do | | best you can for success of the confer- Senator Glass, a member of the com- | ence.” mittee, told réporters this afternoon | Senator Pittman (Democrat) Nevada, that at tomorrow's committee meeting | one of the delegates, said he expected he would ask fos & showdown on the | the question of pfocedure to be the first investigation. , . | subject considered at London, and in Tre President’s indorsement of the | this connection he would move to limit investigation. tes, the private bankers. inquiry was understood to have been commimicated to members of the com- mittee who have defended Pecora’s con- duct against the.criticisms from Glass. Members gf the committee said they had xecelvz§ heavy mall reaction to <heir attitudes in the investigation, shoWing wide pubilc interest. Soon gfter, the House sentatives mel, Representative Tread- way. challenged the contention by his | fellow Massachusetts Republican— Tinkkam—that Congress should look int acts by Norman H. Davis, the Roosevelt ambassador-at-large in Eu- ,rope, whose name, like Woodin's, was among those loaned money and favored by Morgan with securities at bargain rice P Norman H. Davis' life is an open book,” Treadway said. “He is a highly regarded citizen. The fact that he has borrowed money is of no consequence. “He maintains a Summer residence in my home town “The Government is very fortunate ng such a high type gentleman Although he is & Democrat, he is a high type citizen and I hope no such resolution _as introduced by Refre- sentative Tinkham is passed by the House.” Tinkham was not on the time. 1930-31 Profits Bared. Reports to the £how the Morgan fi 000,000 on cale securities in 1920 and 1931, which the bank’s partners paid only $48,000 income tax to the United States s startling evidence, brought out the Banking Committee esti- gation of the Morgan House remained in recess until Wednesday, gave a hint of the amounts the 20 partners must the ficor at ¥ of Repre- | opening speeches to one for each dele- | gation of not more than 10 minutes in length. Secretary’ Hull McReynolds and Representative | (Democrat), Tennessee, | | cef | back to ECONOMIC PARLEY 5% Death tor Criticizing Pecora |Persists in Demand for Line on Morgan Inquiry. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, | who has criticized the manner in which | Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Sen- ate Banking Committee, has conducted the investigation of the house of Mor- gan, revealed today that he had Te-| jved several letters threatening his 1ife and a number of other letters and telegrams attacking him. “Of course, none of the letters threat- ening my life was signed” said the Senator. “That kind of cattle never He did not appear to be disturbed in e slightest by the threats, and he in- sisted he would continue his demand that Pecora keep the committee in- formed as to what line of investigation he (Pecora) proposed to proceed. One of .the telegrams received by | the program for the conference in the Senator Glass came from & man in| | New England. | severely _critical that Senator It was signed and so Glass wrote on the telegram, “I pay no at- tention man. Senato lass said he held no brief | for J. P. Morgan & Co. and reiterated | his former statements that his bank reform bill, now in conference between the two Houses, struck at the operations |of the private bankers more drastically than any other legislation ever proposed in Congress “I intend,” said Senator Glass, “that mermbers of the Banking and Currency | Committee shall know what Mr. Pecora is driving &t in his examination of the members of the Morgan firm or any | were at today’s meeting, but James M. | other witnesses that may come before | Cox of Ohio, the other delegate, was unable {0 be present. R. W. Morrison of San Antonio, Tex., | | was in the conference, but whether he | is going to London as a delegate or | member of the advisory staff was not | divulged. Plans for the delegation to leave Washington early Wednesday morning | | for New York where it sails on the | President Roosevelt at 2 o'clock that afternoon (Eastern standard time) are nearing completion at the State De- partment. The delegation, led by Secretary Cor- dell Hull, would leave at 7:55 am., Eastern standard time, special train, under present arrange- | ments. Besides probably by | By the Associated Press. Morrison, those that committee. None of them has known in the past, nor have they been in a position to ask the witnesses in- telligent questions.” BURGLARS INTERRUPTED TAKING $100,000 LOOT Police Capture Six Men After $70,- 000 Worth of Goods Had Been Stolen. NEW YORK, May 29.—A $100,000 who sat| burglary was interrupted early today down with the President today were | by detectives who seized six men. Secretary Hull, Senator Pittman, | Democrat, Nevada; Representative Mc- Reynolds, Democrat, Tennessee, State Department experts. Watch World Developments. World cevelopments meanwhile were gravely surveyed by Secretary Hull and his fellow officlals, all of whom re- frained from cptimistic public predic- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. | | Long Arrives in Rome. ROME, May 29 (#).—Breckenridge | Long, new United States Ambassador 1o | | Italy. arrived today. He was welcomed | by the American embassy staff, headed | | by Counselor Alexander Kirk, and by | foreign representatives. Bales of Irish linens, silks from Paris | and Japan and imported velvets were and | being carried through a large hole cut | in the wall of the republic warehouse | when the police burst upon the scene. Loot valued at $30,000 was recovered, but the rest had been carted away. Two men, fleeing the detectives, ran across the roof of a two-story garage, with bullets rattling about them, and leaped to the ground. They were se- riously hurt. The other four were captured in a truckman’s office nearby. Working from the roof of a tene- ment house, the burglars cut a hole in the warehouse at the fifth story, con- cealed the opening with expensive drapes, then carried the loot out and lowered it to the ground. have been able to deduct from their in- e tax returns under the law per- ng capital losses to be subtracted profits. From these earnings also deducted the running or overhead OF VIRGI st as surprising was evidence the great banking house made e on sale of securities and its under- ting business, in each of these two ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 1)~ TWO HELD IN KILLING OF GANGLAND WITNESS By the Associated Press. ABINGDON, Va, May 20.—A “new| deal” for the words “ham” and “actor”— long -associated cnly with uncompli- mentary intent—is promised here this Y | Summer of gang- | “'yere to arrange for the opening of By the Assoclated Press. QUINCY, Mass., May 20.—Two men were held by police today as they pushed their investigation ang land’s execution of Thomas G. (Red) | " Curran, 25-year-old retaimer of the | ¥hat he calls the countrys, fret batter Gustin mob and recent Government | Robert Porterfield, actor, announced ",ie witness. Curran's body bearing & num- | ;100 ot gdmission would be 30 cents ber of bullet wounds, was taken from | i, "tne equivalent in rations.” Vegeta- more than 100 feet of water in & QUATTY | yiec ‘honet fresh eggs, chickens, canned here yesterday | goods, jams and Virginia hams are some Harold E. Daley, 37, married, said bY | 5f the ‘victuals acceptable. With vege- police to have been the driver of the | taples “that you cannot sell you can sutomobile in which Curran traveled to | buy s good laugh,” he says. a New Hampshire hideout not long ago| Those who come to stay at the inn was held on a charge of suspicion of | sre offered “a theater for the actors, murder. | pianos and practice rooms for the mu- The second man held was John | sicians, models and easels for the paint- Falvey, 40, in whose name, police said, | ers, all furnished without fee.” "They wes registered a car in which the dying | also are informed “the barter theater | man was placed betore it was toppled | will have tryouts for Fall producticn @ver a 60-foot cliff into the quarry hole, | on Broadway. Original Tfl will be HAM FOR THE ACTOR IS BASIS NIA’S BARTER THEATER Inn Also Part of Summer Resort Project of Robert| Porterfield. used as well as popular plays covering the past three seasons, including some well known revivals.” Making use of the campus and build- ings of Martha Washington College, the project lists among its sponsors Arthur Hopkins, John Golden, Stuart Gibbony, Tom Powers, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, Miss Jane Cowl, Miss Dorris Ulmann and Representative J. J. Flannagan of Vir- ginia. Porterfleld said Golden had permitted the use of his play “After Tomorrow” as the season cpener June 10. Several days before that the cast is expected to arrive, headed by Miss Margaret Perry and Charles Francis and with Prentis Abbott as director. Some 50 members of assoclated arts groups are expected to arrive on or around June 15. After a season spent on tcur with Walter Hampden in “Cyrano de Ber- gerac,” Porterfield conceived the idea of founding this Summer colony only a few miles from Saltville, where he was 1" blackguards,” and mailed it | HOUSE DEBATE CUT] 10 THREE HOURS ON Democratic Strength Limits Time Further With Passage Foreseen. MEASURE STILL OPEN FOR AMENDMENT MOVE Report From Banking Committee Backs Constitutional Power of Congress to Enact New Law. By the Associated Press The House Democratic strength shoved the bill killing the gold clause in all contracts toward quick enact- ment _today. having that congressional branch authorize procedure for its con- sideration under which only three hours' debate will be permitted. On a voice vote, after but an hour's debate, the rule was approved. The bill is open to amendment, how- ever, and_indications are that action will come late in the day. Adoption of the rule for considera- tion indicated the resolution would have little difficulty in receiving House ap- proval, although Republicans vigorously assailed the proposition as repudiating both Government and private obliga- tions by banning the gold clause from ail present and future contracts. Inflation Praised. In the House debate, Rankin, Demo- crat, of Mississippi, praised inflationary moves, saying that in the few weeks since the President’s program had been put in motion the price of wheat had gone up, that corn had increased nearly three times and cotton almost two_times. “This is the greatest step that has ever been taken by a government in all the history of government,” he said. “It will bring a new day, new hope and new prosperity.” In the Republican attack on the bill, Representatives Mapes of Michigan told the House: “This constituted a decla- | | ment of the United States does not in- tend to keep its word; that it repudiates contracts and obligations made, issued nd accepted in good faith.” “The United States is not bankrupt,” Mapes said. “We've got more money now than we've ever had.” “Yes, inquired Parsons, Democrat. of Illinois “We have a hundred million dollars in securities payable in gold How are you and a half billion dollars?” Wants Permanency. “Oh,” Mapes replied, “we don't have to do it that way. This is not a tem- porary resolution, but a rmanen! one putting us off the gold standare forever.” “Isn't it true that this resolution in- tends to cheat the creditors of the Gov- ernment?” asked Representative Lehl- back (Republican) of New Jersey. “Exactly,” Mapes replied. Representative Busby (Democrat) of Mississippi, an inflationist, declared: “This is the day I have long hoped we would reach.” The first Republican to support the resolution was Representative McGugin of Kansas, who said: “It does not make much difference whether Congres; passes this legislation or not. Public and private debts in this country are never going to be paid in gold. “There are only two courses. Either repudiation and bankruptcy for the country, or honestly, openly reducing the value of the dollar. I prefer the Iatter.” ‘The House was swept into fast action today by a report from its Banking Committee, upholding the constitution- | al power of Congress to enact such leg- islation. The bill was approved speedily Satur- day by both Senate and House Banking Committees. Meanwhile Undersecretary of the Treasury Acheson urged the bill's en- actment, saying it was necessary for the Government's program. Senator Glass yesterday reiterated his belief that the administration move was “frank repudiation” and was un- constitutional. He plans to fight it on the Senate floor. Prepared with the assistance of Acheson, the committee report on the bill's constitutionality said the admin- istration proposal accomplishes three purposes: “First, it declares the clauses in pub- lic and private obligations, stating that they are payable in gold or in a spe- cific coin or currency, are contrary to public policy. “Second, it provides that obligations, public and private, expressed to be pay- able in gold or in a specific coin or currency, may be discharged dollar for dollar in legal tender. It also pro- vides that no future obligation, public or private, shall be expressed as pay- able in any specific coin or currency. “Third, it makes certain technical amendments to the Thomas (inflation) amendment | which are necessary to carry out the | intention of that legislation regarding | what shall be legal tender in the United States.” The report said: “The occasion for the declaration in the resolution that (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) pe t ld d St s 'SENATORS ASK FUNDS FOR HARRIMAN PROBE | Committee Seeks Total of $1,000 to Inquire Into Delay in Prosecution. By the Associated Press. ‘The Senate Judiciary Committee de- cided today to ask the Senate for addi- tional funds-to carry on its inquiry into delay in prosecution of Joseph W. | Harriman, New York banker. The committee agreed to ask the Senate to double the original appro- priaticn of $500 for the inquiry into many months of delay in prosecuting Harriman, former president of the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., on charges of falsifying accounts. One of the purposes of the additional money is understocd to be to enable the committee to inquire into a pool through which most of the bank's directors dealt |in stock of the institution. | Evidence before the committee has ! shcwn that some of the funds Harriman is charged with taking from depositors’ | accounts was used to support this pool. | but it has been testified that the direc- tors did not know of his activities. Since the committee’s last Harriman escaped from the where he was being cared for and attempted suicide when fcund the authorities. His trial at New York was postponed today next Monday, - | THIS 1S THE ration to the world that the Govern-| NEW DEAL No BARE CUPBOARD THIS TRIP! THE “UP: DEMOCRATS' FIGHT O VETERAS CUT TO-DA MOTHER HUBBARD! FOUR-POWER PAGT iSubject Completely Domi- nates Arms Parley—Op- posed by Poland. By Cable to The Star. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. | GENEVA, Switzerland, May 29.— SIGNING IMMINENT |Congress Can’t Cut Gongrese Cant G | ) IGHIRFY'S High Court Rules 7|11 10 BUILDING |Opinion Holds Tribunals Were Created by Constitution. District Appeals Court Af- firms Ruling in The Supreme Court held today that | Swartzell Case. Congress could not reduce the salaries of judges of the District of Columbia Supreme Court and District Court of ygppE:LS during their service on the ench. The Shoreham Office Building, Fif- teenth and H streets, one of the storm- centers of the Swartzell, Rheem & Hen- ing to do it with three | The X of the ruling w Talk of Italian Premier Benito Musso- | coun§ c;?,‘e °c,eafe§“ lb?gl;e” é;‘,:;,tfifi lini’s four-power treaty revision pact| tion and were not legislative courts | today completely dominated the Dis-| C*eated by Congress. The judges in- | | | v eclared their willingness | armament Conference. [ Voluntartly to- contribute their utmost | Great Britain, Germany, Italy and| during the depression in the spirit of | | Prance are said to be virtually agreed | the provisions of the ecenomy act, but | on the new text and its signature is | they had insisted—and their contention e e was upheld—that ' their salaries could nent. not be reduced for the period for which Qpposca) by, Telasd O Chier Tamiee fidghes and Just ef Justice Hughes and Justices Poland is bitterly opposed. It threat- | van Devanter and sCnrdom dissented. ens that it will even quit the League of | The Chief Justice said the Congress Nations if this pact is adopted. This|had power at its pleasure to change sey Co. investigation, was held to be the property of Patrick J. Hurley, for- mer Secretary of War, and Joseph I Cromwell, & business associate, by the District Court of Appeals today. ‘The ruling of the higher court afirms a decision by the District Supreme Court, which was reached after a lengthy hearing in which Mr. Hurley was an important witness. The case was brought by Martha V. Rhoderick, Henrietta - 'W. . Moore and (to the farm relief bill), | !vlct means, according to the Poles, ithat the four-power concert would | henceforth be substituted for the gue. They suspect, moreover, that the only possible meaning of the pact is an attempt to revise the Polish cor- ridor. Russia also looks with profound sus- | picion on this pact. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov is coming to Geneva | tomorrow. The little entente, after first oppos- ing the pact, now seems to be resigned to the new text, but this will be clari- | fied in a public statement promised for | tomorrow. | France Must Sign. France never liked Mussolini’s pro- | posal, but felt obliged to avoid reject- | ing it. France then sought to kill it by drastic revision. Great Britain, Italy and Germany seem to have accepted | Frances revised text, thereby making it impossible for France to refuse to sign : The exact meaning of the four-power \pact, as it now stands, is difficult to estimate. It is certain, in any case, that the clause providing for a united Euro- pean front in extra-European affairs has been dropped, thereby reassuring the American circles. (Copyright, 1933.) TWO UNKNOWN MEN Mutilated Bodies Found on South- ern's Track Near Ravensworth. By a Staff Corresnonden: ¢ The Star. ANANDALE, Va, May 29.—Believed to have gone to sleep on the tracks of the Southern Rallway, the mutilated bodies of two unidentified men were found near Ravensworth Station today by the crew of a freight train. Deputy Sheriff Hcnry Magarity and Acting Coroner R. E. Feagans cxamined the bodies and on one found an address book in the front of which was the name “Bob Williams, Grand Prairie, Tex.” This man also had a billfold in which were pictures of a middle-aged woman and two young girls. Numerous otHer adaresses in his book ranged from Cali- name of “Marcus L. Luther, Bladens- burg, Md.”; the address 1418 Eight- eenth street. Washington, and the name of “Dr. Hamrick, 408 Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.” ‘There was nothing on the body of the other man that would give any clue to his identity and both bodies were so badly mutilated that it was believed it would be impossible for any one to identify them by sight. ‘When discovered, the body of one man lay in the middle of the track and the other just beside it, -indicating, raillroad officials said, that men had been prostrate when struck. The section at which they were found is a remote one, there being no road other than an old log trail. Railroad officials took the bodies after their examination by the coroner to Burke Station on & hand car, where they were to be called for by an undertaker. Dr. Feagan stated he believed the age of the older man to be about 45 and that of the other to be about 18, or possibly younger. -—— PAY PARLEY TO RESUME Longshoremen and Dredge Com- panies Differ on Size of Cut. CHICAGO, 29 (#)—Officials of y h““’ w‘fl dredging ‘ the tenure of the judges of both courts | and could at any time, if it desired, | reduce their salaries. | "Most Federal judges, under the in- | el | terpretation that, they were members PrOPErYY. They purchased these notes | of constitutional courts not created by | through the now defunct Swartzell, Congress, were exempt from the pro- Rheem & Hensey Co. A paragraph in visions of last year's economy act, the deed of trust provided these notes | slashing the salaries of most Govern 3 ment employes and office holders. Only | ©0uld be released upon payment of the three or four voluntarily returned to full amount of the loan secured by the the Treasury the amount that would trust at the office of the Swartzell | have been deducted had Congress been ! company. | enabled to slach their pay. | other holders of notes secured by an original mortgage on the Shoreham Sold to Two Employes. . > ‘When the building was nearly com- | pleted it was sold to two employes of | | the Swartzell concern. At a later date | | the Swartzell company entered into a contract with Mr. Hurley to exchange the Shoreham Building for the Hurley- Wright Building. Mr. Hurley and Mr. Cromwell formed the Shorenam Corpo- ration to take title to the property when | the sale was completed. KILLED ON TRACKS \Virginian ~ Sends | Charge Into Victim’s - Stomach. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va, May 29.—Henry Norman, 45, prominent horseman who lives with his father, C. E. Norman, near Unison, according to authorities, PANTER I FELD Shotgun| Under the agreement it became ‘nec- essary to refinance the existing first mortgage on the property for $2250,- 000. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. agreed to advance $1,600,000 for this purpose, but stipulated enough money to pay all the notes under the original mortgage be placed on deposit in a bank for the benefit of the note- holders. The check for $1,600,000 and another one for $150,000 were deposited in the Riggs National Bank in an ac- ccunt earmarked for the benefit of the noteholders. Rheem Borrowed Funds. Edmund D. Rheem, executive head of the Swartzell company, then bor- rowed from the bank the additional fornia to Connecticut and included the shot and critically wounded Thomas Harris, 55, this morning following an old grudge between the two. The original deed of trust was then According to Commonwealth Attor- | released. The note holders were ney John Galleher, Norman, who is now | credited with the amount due them lodged in the Leesburg Jail, in a state- | on the books of the Swartzell company, | ment to him said that Harris, a painter | but the holders of approximately and tinner, came to Norman's father's | $800,000 of the notes never actually house this morning to see about some | received payment. work. The elder Norman was in a field | The plaintiffs, members of the un- at work and Henry was in an adjoining | paid group, brought suit to have the field planting corn. When the younger | new deed of trust set aside, and the Norman saw Harris he went 2o the orignal deed, which protected their house and got a shotgun, loaded it, put | investment, reinstated on the ground it three shells in his pocket, and hid be- | had been fradulently released. :’;:}xdt:e“s.ence where he' knew mm-xs1 Failed to Study Deed. According to the story, he waited an| The Court of Appeals pointed out hour while Harris was talking with | that, although the Swartzell company When ‘Harris finally came | may have converted the $800,000 to its own use, both the noteholders and the Shoreham Investment Corporation were innocent parties. Declaring the acts of the noteholders in investing money with the Swartzell company and in failing to study the deed protecting their invest- ment made the loss possible, the court funds necessary, and the entire amount was placed in the account. | | | | his father. |along, Norman told him to stop as he wanted to talk to him. Harris ran | and Norman shot him in the leg, ac- | cording to the statement given Galle- her. He fell and Norman went over to him and took the gun and attempted to strike him over the head. Harris | tried to protect himself with his hands |and, according to Norman, the gun was accidentally discharged a second held they must bear the loss rather | than the investment corporation, which | had no notice of the fraud and was not | responsible for it. The investment corporatinon was rep- resented by Attorney Louis Titus, while Attorneys F. D. McKenney, John S. | Flannery and G. Bowdoin Craighill of | Washington and Albert Wright of New York appeared for the life insurance. company. The trustees of the mort- gage was represented by Attorney Joseph D. Sullivan. | time, the charge hitting Harris in the | abdomen. The story told by Harris, Galleher said, confirmed that by Norman, with | the ' exception that Harris said that Norman deliberately fired the shot that | hit_him in the abdomen. | Harris is in the Loudoun Count; | Hospital, where doctors szay he wil not _live. NEW TYPE FLYING WING PLANE FLOWN IN FIRST PUBLIC TEST jInventof Claims Craft Will Revolutionize Aeronautics. I 15 Fott Lovg. By the Associated Fress. SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 20.—A :P!an 'to Oppose Adjournment Until President Reverses His Stand. COMMITTEE CALLING ON ROOSEVELT TODAY Will Tell Him Larger Appropria- tion Is Impcrative and Offer Data. House Republicans joined with Demo- crats today in the fight against re- ductions in compensation for disabled World War veterans. While a special Democratic commit- tee was preparing to go to the Presi- dent with a warning that a revision is “absolutely imperative,” six Repub- lican members who served in the war signed a round robin against adjourn- ment “until the President has reversed his position.” The Republican signers were Sena- tors Reed of Pennsylvania and Steiwer of Oregon; Representatives Fish of New York, Swick of Pennsylvania, Bol- ton of Ohio and McGugin of Kansas. “Reports from every section of the country on the effects of the President’s regulations under the authority of the act of March 20 show the utter horror of this ‘new deal’ for disabled veterans,” the round robin statement said. “All of us Republicans who voted broad powers to the Chief Executive did so in the sincere belief that marked econo- mies could be effected without doing grave injustices to the disabled vet- eran. | “However, the regulations under this i authority were so drastic and indefensi- ! ble that every Senator and Representa- tive in Congress now has scores of spe- cific cases that unmistakably ine‘cate | the effect had been utterly brutal.” Either an increase in veterans’ allow- ance must be made in the independent | offices bill, which is expected to be called up in the Senate this afternoon, Or a new measure revising the regula- tions effecting veterans’ pensions will have to.be introduced, Chairman Rob- ert Crosser of the special Democratic committee said. ' The Ohio Representative madé this mediately at the mee tee this be. to the President were drafted and the group prepared to call at the White House shortly after the vote on. the gold ;ltlndlrd resolution is taken :in the ouse. May Go Above Figure. |, It is understood the committee con- | templated recommending to President Roosevelt an increase of from $60,000,- | 000 to $110,000,000 in funds for pen- slons for the combat-wounded. How- ever, it was intimated today the com- mittee would go above the $110,00:- 000 in order to obtain an increase { the funds now allotted to Spanish- American War veterans. Crosser would not make public the amount the committee would recom- mend until after the call on the Pres- ident. “This will be an entirely friendly visit with Mr. Roosevelt,” the chairman stated. “We plan to lay the entire cass before him and we have made a ver? thorough study of the matter during the short time we have been organized.. “The facts that we have obtained a amazing and the temper of the ma- jority of the members of my party is in favor of a revision.” Committee Named for One Week. The committee was named last week immediately following the caucus held by the House Democrats when it became known that pensions of combat-wounded would be reduced 50 per cent. The committee was instructed to lay before the President recommendations easing up the regulation affecting veterans au- thorized in the National economy act. Meantime, when the House convened today, Crosser inserted into the record statistics submitted to the committee by the Veterans' Administration and never heretofore made public. The statistics are a “breakdown” of the lump sum fixed in the independent offices bill appropriation for veterans of all wars. The statement which was discussed at the meeting of the commiitee this morning at which time it was decided to insert it in the record shows that the number of World War veterans drawing disability will be reduced from 380,648 veterans now receiving $221,728,010 to “(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) i statement im: of his commit ‘CHILD, 6, IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Police Say Girl Was Victim of Hit-and-Run Driver—Doc- tor Disagrees. A 6-year-old girl died in the office of a Washington physician today, the victim of what police described as & hit-and-run automobile accident. The child, Doris Shegogue of Oxon Hill, Md.,, was struck near her home, while on her way from school during the noon lunch hour. She was picked up by H. L. Andles and E. W. Cowan, both of Oxon Hill, who took her to the office of Dr. Rus- sell K. Hollingsworth, 2015 Nichols avenue southeast, where she died & short time later. Although Dr. Hollingsworth said ne understood the woman driver of the car that struck the girl stopped im- mediately after the accident, eleventh precinct police described the mishap as a hit-and-run case. The police said they would make a search for the ma chine, which was said to have borne@ District license plates.