Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1933, Page 2

o e FEDERAL AID ASKED - OND.C. HGHWAYS Board of Trade Spokesmen Charge City Is Being Treated Unfairly. Although the District of Columbia is a heavy contributor of Federal taxes to Uncle Sam, it is the only section of the country left out of the highway program in the administration’s indus- trial recovery bill, representatives of the Board of Trade told the Senate Finance Committee today, asking the committee to include the District in that part of the bill. Robert J. Cottrell, executive secre- tary, and Dr. Llewellyn Jordan, chair- man of the Streets Committee of the trade body, were accompanied to_ the hearing by District Auditor D. J. Don- ovan and Engineer of Highways White- ‘hurst. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippl, chairman, gave Donovan permission o file a brief in which he will show that, While the District is included in another section of the bill dealing with public works other than highways, there are only two local projects on which the District government could be given as- sistance under that section. Negligible Help Seen. The auditor will emphasize, there- fore, that unless Washington is plmedl on a parity with the States in_ the highway section, it can only benefit to a negligible degree in the program by | which the Government hopes to stimu- | late employment and industrial recov- ery throughout the Nation. The committee will weigh the argu- ments on behalf of the District when it into executive session later in the ‘week after the hearings. - Mr, Cottrell called the committee's attention to the fact that, on the basis of receipts for the fiscal year 1929, 25 States paid less in Federal taxes than the District of Columbia, and that 10 of these States paid less in the aggre- gate than the City of Washington. He emphasized also that Federal taxes are to be increased to meet the interest eharges on the public works program and the District will have to join in these taxes. p“mfbouuh the District will be called wupon to pay these increased taxes, they are not permitted, under provision of section 204 of the bill to share in ex- penditures proposed thereunder,” Mr. Cottrell added. Secton 204 contem- plates distributing $400,000,000 to the States and Hawaii for highway con- struction, according to &rea, mileage and population. To leave the District out of this program would be “highly unfair,” Cottrell said. He emphasized the District collects about $2,000,000 & year through its local 2-cent gas tax for highway work, in addition to which it pays $1,000,000 into the Federal Treasury through the 1- cent Federal gas tax. It is estimated, he said, that on the basis of 1931, the NHE EVENING Japan, okio said a truce had been signed at ‘The document provided for withdrawal of Chinese troops behind a line drawn from EPORTS from Shanghal and T Miyun to put an end to hostilities in North China. Nankow, 50 miles north of Peiping, to Ninghohsien, 50 miles northeast | of Tientsin. be permanently demilitarized. PRESIDENT LAUDS YAGHT SEQUDA Pleased With Way Boat Weathered Storm on Potomac Saturday. President Roosevelt was back at his desk today greatly refreshed after a week-end cruise aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia and loud in his praise of the seaworthiness of this 300-ton craft that has been fitted out for the use of the Chief Executive. Just before dark Saturday night the trim little yacht, nearing Blackistone Island, ran into & heavy squall which tested the strength and merits of the Sequoia. For more than half an hour the storm raged, but at no time was the District. would pay & larger amount in the form of the 1-cent Federal gas tax than 13 States. “There passes through the District of Columbia from the adjoining States of Maryland and Virginia several main Federal-aid routes,” Cottrell stated. “All of these routes are partially im- proved, some are in need of widening, some are in need of repaving and prac- tically sll require the removal of cer-| tain hazardous conditions. Practically all routes terminate at the zero mile- stone south of the White House. The main routes of the Ellipse and their - connection into main thoroughfares of the city streets are urgently in need of rebullding and widening. Under terths of the bill as proposed, the City of Washington and the District would be the only jurisdiction within the United States that would not be eligible toh:h-n under the highway portion of tl act.” Some of the streets that fall in the Mne of Federal highway routes and that could be improved if the amend- ment is allowed were listed for the " committee. Asks Equal Help. In_emphasiging that there is little benefit in the bill for Washington unless this city is given the same consideration as the States in the highway section, Maj. Donovan will point out in his brief that a contagious disease ward at Gal- linger Hospital and & junior high school in Anacostia are the only two District projects for which the Federal Govern- ment could advance funds under the general public works section of the bill. This is because construction projects for ‘Washington have to be authorized by Congress before they can be started and the foregoing are the cnly two in that categoiy at present. Cottrell and Dr. Jordan left with the Finance Committee the wording of amendments needed to include the Dis- trict in the Federal highway program. In a statement filed with the Senate comniittee Mr. Cottrell declared: “The District of Columbia contributes nearly two and a half times as much Federal money through Federal taxes as it receives in Federal money through the present lJump sum ($7,775,000). The District contributed in Federal taxes in 1920 $17,094,719. 1t contributes more in Federal taxes than any one of 25 of the 48 States in the Union. It receives Jess in proportion to what it contributes than many of these States. Five of the States receive more from the Federal ‘Government in bounties and subventions than they contribute through their Ped- eral taxes.” PERSHING T0 RADIO | MEMORIAL MESSAG General to Speak in Behalf of Far-Scattered War Veterans. Over a nation-wide network of the National Broadcasting Co. stations, Gen. John A. Pershing will address a special Memorial day message tomor- Tow afternoon from 4 to 4:30 o'clock to and on behalf of the far-scattered army of World War veterans he led in France. While he has not given out the spe- cific text of his address, it is under- stood the former commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces will discuss the effects of the admin- istration’s economy act on disabled veterans and on national defense in general. He will speak from station WRC during the half hour dedicated to the American Legion. Since President Roosevelt is taking a silent part in the annual service at Arlington National Cemetery, the ad- dress of Gen. Pershing, from a national outlook, undoubtedly will be the most important on the Memdrial day pro- gram. Through the network of sta- tions his words will be #arried to thou- sands of disabled veterans, who are acutely affected by reduction of allow- ances in the economy program. Na- tional interest also centers on what Gen. Pershing also might say in con- nection with economies now being worked out in the Army and Navy. The Army Band will play patriotic selec- tions during the American Legion's gadio program tomorrow, and Gen. Pershing will be introduced to the radio audience by Frank Samuels of Indian- apolis, Ind., national adjutant of the American Legion. Two Plungea to Death, REGENT, N. Dak., May 20 (#).—Two persons were killed yesterday when one wing of the airplane owned % John yacht in peril, according to the Presi- dent and other members of the cruising party. No one in the party, however, attemped to minimize the severity of the storm. The heavy rains and dark- ness made it difficult to see any distance ahead, but the Sequoia went gallantly through it all and later safely anchored ; 1“:‘)“ distance this side of Piney olnt. Craft Not in Danger. Capt. Walter N. Vernou, chief naval aide to the President, who was in the | party, said today that the storm was one of the worst of its kind he has ever experienced in all of his naval service. He said it grew so black and the rain was so heavy that it was vir- tually impossible to see any distance. The President, who is no ordinary mariner himself, and who has sailed in many rough waters, was represented as being delighted at the manner in which the yacht performed during the storm and was high in his praise for its| staunchness and seaworthiness. Fish Wouldn't Bite. ‘The Sequoia lifted anchor early Sun- day morning, after the Sunday morn- ing newspapers had been delivered by & Navy plane from Washington, and cruised about the waters in that vi- cinity for several hours before starting on the return journey to the Capital. Before heading back to Washington members of the party cast lines over- board with the hope of landing some fish, but none was successful. The yacht went from one reputed good fishing spot to another, but without success for the fishermen. Besides Capt. Vernou there was in the President’s week end party Secre- tary of the Treasury and Mrs. Woodin, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, retired, former personal physician to President ‘Wilson, and Mrs. Grayson and Miss Marguerite LeHand, President Roose- velt's private secretary. = REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOCRATS’ FIGHT ON VETERANS’ CUTS (Continued From First Page) _ 225,800 veterans to receive $64,802,000, a difference of $156,826,010. The Veterans’ Admistration said 6,314 of the emergency reserve officers now receiving pensions amounting to $10.- | 029,827 would be cut to 2,000 officers to receive $3,300,000, a saving of $6,729,- 827. The administration said adjusted compensations of World War cases now total 107,325 beneficiaries drawing $39,- 389,837. They will be reduced to 71,000 beneficiaries to receive $23,700,000, & saving of $15,689,837. The number of disability allowance claims now being ?&ld by the adminis- tration total 501,724 at & cost of $101,- 652,326. After July 1 the Veterans' Ad- ministration estimated that only 48,500 would draw this compensation and will cost the Government $9,884,000. This is & saving of $91,768,326. The Spanish-American War veterans’ service-connected claims will be ‘n- creased, according to this statement, from 600 cases to 19,400, an increase in appropriations of $11,508400. The Spanish-American War widows now total 1,175, drawing compensations amounting to $330,175. The adminis- tration estimates that after July 1, 2,300 claims will be paid at the cost of $700,000. Spanish-American War non-service- connected claims now total 187216, amounting to $107.026277. According to the statement, this number will be reduced to 82,600 claims, amounting to $12,800,000. Second Committee Meeting. This was the second meeting of the Democratic Committee. On Saturday the members met in an all-day execu- tive session with the national officers of the American Legion, Veterans of | Foreign Wars and Disabled American War Veterans and James O'Conner Roberts, solicitor of the Veterans' Ad- ministration. The far-reaching cuts now being made by the Veterans' Ad- ministration were laid before the com- mittee, it is understood, by Roberts. From an authoritative source, it was learned that the commitiee was told that the veterans’ section of the na- tional economy act was drafted at least two months before Inauguration day. Orders were issued to those placed in charge of drafting the measure to cut $400,000,000 from the total amount ap- propriated in the 1934 independent offices bill vetoed by President Hoover. In order to meet this cut the regula- tions were drafted to give the President sweeping powers to cut all pensions. Crosser said this morning that the ap- peals members of his committee have Jungers, 23, buckled over Regent and plunged to the earth from a height of . 800 feet. The Arlene Hannam, lived received from veterans from all sections of the country “have been pitiful.” He dead are Jungers and declared he was informed today that | still a mem one Spanish-American War veteran in # Midwestern State' had committed sui~ It is predicted that the shaded area shown in map will < FORMAL CHINESE Both Countries Have Agreed to Name Delegates to Conference. Special Dispatch to The Star. PEIPING, China, May 29.—The for- mal execution of & Sino-Japanese truce appeared nearer today, as the result of an announcement by Chinese mill- tary authorities that both Chinese and Japanese have agreed to appoint dele- gates to a formal conference. Chinese authorities indicated that only military matters would be dis- cussed by the conference, including the demilitarized area south of the Great Wall, in which neither side would be allowed to station troops. Chinese in Contrel. Despite reports to the contrary in the foreign press, Chinese troops and police continued in active control of the Pelping situation, the Japanese legation guards merely sending an oc- casional small patrol through the eastern section of the city, where the majority of the Japanese population resides. ‘This action by the Japanese, of which Col. Mason Gulick of the United States Marines and other foreign legation guard commandants were notified in advance, was taken on the ground that {it was necessary for the safety of | Japanese nationals. With conditions | rapidly becoming normal again, the special patrols are likely to be discon- tinued shortly. Saturday the Japanese staged a route march for the benefit of American mo- tion picture men, but otherwise Japanese troops were unobtrusive and so far no clashes have occurred. The United States Marines are also | sending mounted patrols to reconnoiter | the city as a routine measure. | Japanese Treaty Troops. ‘The only Japanese troops in Peiping | are the legation guards, placed there with those of foreign powers under pro- visions of the Boxer protocol of 1901. A dispatch from Peiping on May 23 said the Japanese guard, consisting of only 300 troops, was reinforced by 600 troops, sent from Tientsin to Peiping. Latest advices from Washington said the United States legation guard in Peiping comprised 554 Marines. LEADS CHINESE. | “Christian” General Takes Over Anti- Japanese Forces. SHANGHAI, May 29 (#).—Feng Yuh- Siang, the so-called “Christian” Chi- nese general, announced yesterday at Kalgan his assumption of the post of “commander in chief of the peoples’ anti-Japanese forces.” The general sald he was leading an army to the defense of the Province of Chahar against the Japanese “to regain the lost territory.” Feng's declaration, while, not ex- pected to result in any change in the North China military situation, may further complicate the political line-up, rendering it increasingly difficult to conclude a formal Sino-Japanese truce. Both Chinese and Japanese troops yesterday continued to withdraw from the Tungchow area, apparently in ac- cordance with terms of the truce, the provisions of which have not yet been revealed. PRISONERS BREAK JAIL. | 200 Reported Escaped From Manchukuo Prison at Changchun. TOKIO, May 28 (#).—A Rengo (Japanese News Agency dispatch from Changchun, Manchuria, reported yes- terday that 200 Chinese prisoners, mostly political prisoners, effected & wholesale delivery from the Manchukuo | jail at Changchun. ‘The prisoners are said to have over- powered the guards and smashed doors and windows to make their escape. It was learned later that two of the Chinese were slain and 45 recaptured. One prison guard was killed when the break occurred. | INSTITUTE GETS GIFT | A gift of $60,000 to the Brookings Institute, to finance a completion of a series of analyses on the relation be- | tween the distribution of wealth and income and economic progress, has been made available by the Maurice | and Laura Falk Foundation of Pitts- burgh. In anouncing the gift today, Harold | G. Moulton, president of the Brookings | Institute, pointed out the $60,000 is | the fina'installment of a $125.000 grant made in favor of the institute last year by the Fulk Foundation, | cide immediately upon receipt of notice | that his pension had been cut off. | The committee also received from the State of Arizona, it was authoritatively stated, a communication in which & speech of Budget Director Lewis Doug- | 1as was inclosed. The speech was reported to have been delivered when Douglas | was seeking re-election to Congress last | year. The budget director was quoted | as saying he was opposed to cutting veterans’ pensions. The committee mem- bers said they had been reliably in- | formed that the Jump cut of $400,000,000 | in veterans’ appropriations was ordered | by the budget director while he was r of , but after t Roosevelt's oceuples, he had accepted Presi ofludhwflh’ - TRUCE IS NEARER': . Maj. Peyser, His IHOUSE DEBATE CUT ON GOLD MEASURE Democratic Strength Limits Time Further With Passage Foreseen. (Continued Prom First Page.) the gold clauses are contrary to pub- lic policy arises out of the experiences | of the present emergency.” “These gold clauses render ineffective the power of the Government to cre- ate a currency and determine the value thereof,” it continued. “If the gold clause applied to a very limited number of contracts and se- curity issues, it would be a matter of no particular consequence, but in this country virtually all obligations, almost as a matter of Toutine, contain the gold clause. “In the light of this situation, two phenomena which have developed dur- ing the present emergency make the enforcement of the gold clauses in- compatible with the public interest. “The first is the tendency which has developed internally to hoard gold; the second is the tendency for capital to leave the country. “Under these circumstances, no cur- rency system, whether based upon gold or upon any other foundation, can meet the requirements of & situation in which ‘many billions of dollars of securities are expressed in a particular form of the circulating medium, particularly when it is a medium upon which the entire credit and currency structure rests. Dispute Is Anticipated. “There can be no substantial ques- tion as to the constitutional power of the Congress to make this legislation l[r)rllclbla to all obligations, public and private, both past and future.” Anticipating & whirl of dispute over suthority to do as the President wants case, committee proponents contended: . “The power of Congress to issue a currency and determine the value thereof, and to provide for the bor- rowing of funds by the Government, is express and undoubted. It also is un- doubted that Congress has all powers necessary to make the exercise of these two express powers effective. “Contracts of private individuals, past or future, are valid and enforce- able only in so far as they do not conflict with the public policy as enun- clated by Congress in the exercise of its constitutional powers. “When, therefore, as is declared in this resolution, the enforcement or making of gold clause provisions ob- structs the proper exercise of the con- gressional powers, such provisions must yield. “Nor does the fact that outstanding obligations of the Government are ex- pressed as payable in gold coin impose a limitation, under the circumstances obtaining, upon the exercis¢ of the powers conferred by the Constitution.” “The Government cannot, by con- tract or otherwise,” the report went on, “divest itself of its sovereign power. All contracts of the Government are made in the light of this inalienable power to legislate as the public interest may demand, “It is too well settled to admit of controversy that contracts or provisions of contracts, even though not incon- sistent with the public policy when made, may subsequently become con- trary to the public policy, as authorita- tively announced by the legislative branch of the Government, and that, in such event, they become invalid and unenforceable.” ‘The report sald that, so far as the future is concerned, the power of both the Government and of private interests to borrow would be “seriously impaired unless outstanding obligations and fu- ture obligations were placed upon the same footing in respect of the medium of payment.” Representative Luce of Massachusetts, ranking republican on the committee, in a minority report assailed the pro- posal as renouncing obligations of the United States and prohibiting future obligations of the same sort. Luce said “‘are now asked to declare that, because such provisions (of the gold clause act of 1869) obstruct the power of Congress to regulate the value of the money of the United States, the faith that we solemnly pledged 64 years ago is to be, repudiated. Recalling that the first, second, third and fourth Liberty Loan acts during the war period contain the gold clause, Luce said: “Millions of our people bought these bonds with. this pledge. Whether all gave equal weight to it is irrelevant where honor is involved. The pledge alone counts, though no more than one man gave it heed” Luce said “this bill ought to be known throughout history as the ‘repudiation bill of 1933." " RITES FOR MRS. MYERS Funeral of Chevy Chase Woman Held at Residence This Morning. Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie B. Mvers, wife of Louis H. Myers, who died Saturday at her home, 121 Hesketh street, Chevy Chase, Md., were held this morning at th€ residence, with Rev. Russell J. Clinchy officiating. Inter- ment was in Rock Creek Cemetery. Bride ATTORNEY'S DAUGHTER WEDS FATHER'S ASSOCIATE. . MRS. AARON W. JACOBSON. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. Aaron W. Jacobson, who figured actively in the Department of Justice investigation of the P. H. Smith Co., was married at noon yesterday to Miss Victoria Prince Peyser, daughter of Julius I. Peyser, prominent local at- torney. ‘The ceremony was performed in Maj. Peyser’s apartment at Wardman Park Hotel by Rabbi Solomon Metz. Only close relatives of the bride and groom were in attendance. After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson left by auto- mobile for a trip through New York and some of the New England States. They will make their home at Wardman Park upon their return, Jacobson, who is 30 years old, i associated in the practice of law with gfldl,u 1830028 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, BORROWING FIRMS MUST CUT PAY ROLL R. F. C. Orders That Salaries of Executives Be at Reasonable Figures. By the Associated Press. Without waiting, for enactment of pending legislation, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has decreed that corporations coming to borrow from the Government must cut the salaries of their executives to reasonable figures, The new policy, announced last night, actually went into effect last week on the Southern Pacific, giving loans total- ing $23,200,000, on condition that sal- aries above $100,000 be reduced 60 per cent and others proportionately. The road has been noted for paying its officers well. A Dbill now nearing passage in Con- gress originally barred from borrowing all companies paying salaries above $17,500, but it was amended to require that the earnings of executives must be reasonable. The R. F. C. scale for the Southern Pacific provides 50 per cent cuts be- tween $100,000 and $50,000; 40 per cent from $50,000 to $25,000; 25 per cent from $25,000 to $15.000; 15 per cent from $15.000 to $10,000, and 10 per cent for those receiving down to $4.800 a year. Pay cuts already imposed may be included. The Southern Pacific men al- ready have taken cuts around 25 per cent. Wages of railroad labor are not affected. Meanwhile, the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation today depleted the $300,000,000 fund provided last July by Congress for emergency relief loans. The last $1,468 was alloted to Arizona for use during the latter part of May in caring for relief needs. The corporation’s relief division goes out of existence Wednesday afternoon. Under the emergency relief law passed at this session of Congress, an emer- gency relief director has been created to act independently of any other agency. Harry L. Hopkins of New York took that office last week. JOHNSON IS SLATED TO HEAD TWO PHASES OF RECOVERY PLAN (Continued From PFirst Page.) against any Federal control of the oll industry. Elliott recently led & dissenting fac- tion during the recent Governor's oil conference with Secretary Ickes and other Federal officials. “The United States should conduct an inquiry into the oil industry,” Ellott said, “the .sccond] l,l;[:;t lndx:’ll‘try— the largest monopoly e world.” Elliott and Blalock said the section of the independent oil industry for which they spoke approved of prohibi- tion of interstate shipments of oil pro- duced in violation of State conservation and proration laws. Until today Johnson has had a small office in the State Department, near that of one of the President’s closest advisers, Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley. The importance with which Mr. Roosevelt views the legislation has been shown by the setting up of machinery to administer it even before enact- ment, so vital action can be initiated within & few hours after he can sign it into law. An early Senate vote s being sought. Roberts Will Aid Johnson. The legislation provides for an ad- ministrator of public works and a sepa- rate agency for the new regulation of industry by relaxing the anti-trust laws and permitting agreements through trade associations. L. W. Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in charge of public build- ings and one of the outstanding con- sulting engineers of the South, is to be » principal adviser to Johnson. It was said authoritatively that an Army engineer would be assistant in charge of rivers and harbors work. Bids for $50,000,000 of new Euhllc buildings will be called for imi ately after the bill is enacted into law, and Roberts sald another $50,000.000 prob- ably would be ready within 90 days. In addition, exploratory work is now being done on possible construction projects throughout the country. ‘The administration intends to start the wheels moving as soon as possible with the view of synchronizing new purchasing power with the upturn in business shown in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Johnsen has been con- ferring in New York and Washington with key men in industry and he is understood to have pledges of co-opera- tion from & number of industries which are now going through the processes necessary to effect the new agreements. Gerard Swope is understood to have brought the electrical supply industry into line more or less definitely, & men's clothing association was formed here last week and some half dozen other industries are reported moving in the direction of co-operation with the Gov- ernment to make jobs and raise wages while reducing working hours, STORIES OF DESTITUTION AND BERI BERI RELATED Crew “of Packet Returning From Labrador Coast Tells of Starva- tion and Death. By the Assoclated Press. CURLING, Newfoundland, May 20.— Storles of destitution, starvation and death by beri beri in Labrador were told by the crew of a steam packet which returned here last night after its season’s first trip along the Labrador coast. While the ship was at Battle Harbor, the crew said, a small boat put in from Bolters Rock, & settlement further north, and reported that five persons had died of beri beri and that many others were incapacitated by the dis- ease resulting from malnutrition. Seal meat and mussels comprised their only food for the past two weeks, they said, and one family of seven was obliged ;10 subsist for 15 days on 50 pounds of our. Destitution was acute in many places both north and south of Battle Harbor, the crew of the packet said. URGES PROMPT ACTION ON REORGANIZATION Representative Expects Roosevelt's Plan to Be Pro- mulgated This Week. By the Associated Press. Representative Byrns, the Democratic leader, today told newspaper men that in all probability Congress would adopt & Tesolution making President Roose- velt's order reorganizing the Federal Government immediately effective. He expects the order to be promul- gated this week, Unless action is taken by Congress, under the economy act, the reorgani- zation would not become effective until next session of Congress. ‘The economy act provides that the order has to be before Congress 60 days before it becomes pffective. A two-thirds would be necessary Byrns oty to override the MAY 29, 1933. Mother Slain MICHIGAN YOUTH MISSING SINCE CRIME. BALFE McDONALD, YOUTH STILL MISSING IN MOTHER SLAYING Balfe Macdonald Hunted for in Every Known Haunt by Police. By the Associated Press. FLINT, Mich.,, May 29 —Every known haunt of 17-year-old Balfe Macdonald was searched in vain by State and county police yesterday seeking to ques- tion the youth concerning the slaying yesterday of his mother, Mrs. Grace B. Macdonald, 54, wealthy and socially prominent widow. Mrs. Macdonald, her head crushed in with a heavy book end, was found dead in her bed room. The son, said to have quarreled violently with his mother the day before, had disappeared. Numerous telephone reports that young Macdonald, whom his mother ng late hours, us places were investigated without result. As the hours passed without trace of the youth, police began to give more serious consideration to a threat he made Fri- day to kill himself because of his mother’s criticism. To offset the suicide theory, however, police said was the fact that the youth was accompanied by another boy, Wil- liam Terwilliger, 15 years old, when he stopped at a gasoline station shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday not far from his home. If young Macdonald had taken his own life, the officers said they be- lieved his companion would have re- ported it promptly. * ‘The search also discloses compara- tively little money in the house, al- though the maid and n said Mrs. Macdonald was accustomed to keeping large sums on hand. Mrs. Macdonald planned to leave the day she was slain for her Summer cottage at_Topinabee, on Mullett Lake. Funeral arrangements for the slain woman were awaiting the arrival of her daughter Gweniaurie, 20-year-old stu- dent at the University of Southern California, who started for home by plane upon hearing that her mother had “died suddenly.” FAIR GROUNDS WATCHED. Police Search Hotels, Garages and Parking Lots. CHICAGO, May 29 (#)—Hotels, ga- rages, parking lots and the Century of Progress grounds were “mr- day-as police sought Balfe d, 17-year-old Flint, Mich., youth, wanted in connection with the slaying of his mother, Mrs. Grace Macdonald. Mrs. Macdonald was found beaten to death in her palatial home Saturday. Another youth was reported with young Macdonald traveling toward Chicago, officers here said. BANDITS SLAY ONE IN BANK HOLD-UPS Thieves Escape With $16,000 in One of Robberies, $7,000 in Another. By the Assoclated Press. RENSSELAER, N. Y., May 20.—Six bandits lined up s dozen clerks and customers at the Rensselaer County Bank at noon today, but fled after shooting two detectives who arrived in answer to an alarm. One of the de- tectives died a few minutes Ilater. Police say $7,000 was taken. The detectives were James A. Stevens and Fred Rabe, both members of the city police force. It was not immedi- ately learned which one was killed. Noonday crowds were in the streets when the hold-up alarm was received at police headquarters. The two de- tectives were sent to the bank, where three of the men were brandishing sub- machine guns toward the frightened customers and clerks. The detectives opened fire and were met by a blaze of bullets. They crumpled up at the bank entrance. Other police rushed up just as the car roared away with the six men. PARIS, Ark, May 29 (#).—Bandits held up the PFigt National Bank of Paris early today and in a gun battle with officers seriously wounded Andy Cannaughton, city marshal. First re- ports said Dolf Guthrie, teller, was also wounded. The amount of money taken was not immediately determined. A customer caught and held one of ‘the robbers as he attempted to get into an automobile. The other man escaped in another car. CULVER, Ind, May 29 (#.—The State Exchange Bank of Culver was held up today by five men, who escaped with $16,000. The robbers escaped after an exchange of shots with Culver citizens. Carl Adams, assistant cashier of the bank, and Glenn Mattix, & cus- tomer, were forced to accompany the robbers as they fled, both being held on the running board of the bandits’ car as a shield against the fire of towns- people. Adams and Mattix were re- leased after being carried a few miles into the country. Neither was injured. ECONOMIC PARLEY PARTY INSTRUCTED Delegates Get Final Advice From President at White House. __(Continued_From Pirst Page) _ tions and privately conceded that plenty of hard work and headaches are ahead at London. They noted particularly: New mutterings in Great Britaln and France against paying the war debt installments due June 15. Renewed feeling abroad against the United States monetary policy because of the administration’s bill to abrogate the gold clause in all contracts, public and private. Slow progress at the Geneva Arms Conference following Japanese demands for a new naval ratio and virtual aban- donment of hope for success at Geneva before the opening of the London Con- ference June 12. Will Enlist Help. Besides seeking stabilized exchanges and universally lowered trade barriers at London, President Roosevelt's repre- sentatives will seek action to accom- plish on a world-wide scale what is already under way here. ‘The United States will endeavor to enlist other nations in the bold price raising program launched in this coun- try by virtue of the Roosevelt monetary, rlrmh relief and industrial recovery Although there will be no attempt to dictate details of domestic measures to foreign governments, the Roosevelt poli- cies are regarded here as requiring either unified international action or a new and mighty significant policy of isolation in order that this country may work out its domestic plan without in- terference. Accordingly, the administration is oqu.lpptn& itself with legisiative mea- sures with which it may either co-oper- ate with the rest of the world, if the other nations are so inclined, or may rear new barriers around this country's far-flung economic frontiers. The most powerful weapon to be wielded by the United States during the conference is yet to be forged, the administration tariff bill. Indications last night were that it would be two- , carrying authority for the ex- scutive either to raise tariffs or to lower them. The President plans to send it to Capitol Hill this week. ‘The view has been advanced in in- fluential quarters that the vast indus- trial control bill now in the House will require higher tariffs to protect the higher American wage and price standard it would foster, but the Presi- dent does not bellev€ this al | Squally widh those here. Other points in the American plan are vast public works construction pro- grams in all countries similar to the steps being undertaken here, credit ex- pansion through central bank action along the same lines as the Federal Reserve Banks' purchase of Govern- ment bonds, and control of production of basic commodities, wheat, for example—by some such governmental action as that made ible here by the new farm relief bill. These moves are aimed at simultane- ous world-wide attack on unemploy- ment and low prices. Also is improvement in the price of to revive purchasing power in Orient and increase trade. BANDHI ENDS FAST OF THREE WEEKS Knows God Will Give Him Strength for Whatever Is Ahead, He Says. silver the By the Associated Press. POONA, India, May 20.—“In God's name I began this fast, and in God's name end 1t” sajid the Mahatma Gandhi today as he broke a three-week voluntary abstention from food in the "untouchable” cause by sipping a glass of orange juice. He began the fast at noon May 8. 'l‘ll;‘e‘end was as impressive as its begin- ning. The Mahatma concduded his absti- nence at 12:40 p.m., and thus he was wholly without food for 3 weeks and 40 minutes. Long before he broke his fast the residence of Mme. Sarojini Naidu, poet and lecturer, where he was cared for, was besieged by his friends of all castes, Hindus, Mohammedans, Parsees and Europeans. Mme. Naidu stood at the top of the stairway, relentlesslly selecting those to be admitted. No credentials and no amount of money could obtain entrance. Pinally 150 men and women friends and a score of newspaper men were admitted into a big white hall. In a smaller room, behind open glass doors, the Mahatma lay motionless on a bed with wet cloths on his head. Beside him was & half glass of yellow fruit juice. A faint cloud of incense rolled over the assembly. Gandhi’s bed then was brought into the larger room, where he voicelessly acknowledged the greetings of all present. On declaring that his fast was ended as it was begun, “in God's name,” the Mahatma continued: “My faith is not less, but more, on this occasion, and I sing the glory of God. “I cannot forget the doctors and my other friends who poured attention on me during the days of my privilege and my grace. I cannot but refer to them in these words, because their kind serv- ice was part of God's mercy. “I have nothing but thanks to give them, and God alone can give them a fitting reward. “I am glad the untouchables are here with us. I do not know what God ex- ts from me now, but whatever it ma; e, ‘{ know he will give me nren‘t{ ‘The statement was dictated while his secretary supported him, but the effort was too much, and the Mahatma had a recurrence of nausea, from which he has suffered recently. After a ceremony which included Oliver Shilling, a Culver resident, said he belleved he wounded one of the robbers. 700 TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGE Conference Between Men and Mill Management Arranged for Later. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, 8. C, May 29.—Pro- tested against failure to obtain a wage increase, approximately 700 employes of the Columbia Mills Co., a textile plant here, struck today shortly after reporting for work. Spokesmen of the workers said had received cuts of between 30 per cent since the “depression” and had been granted no increases since “conditions have been e A conference between worker repre- sentatives and the mill management was arranged for later in the day. L. C. Smith, general mnu?r of the no statement to make conference, mill, said he before the Hindu and Parsee hymns and the sing- ing of “When I Survey That Wondrous Cross” by a small party of Christian followers, Mrs. Gandhi handed him a glass of fruit juice, which he took with ]-‘ trembling hand and raised to his ips. . Gandhi's three weeks’ ordeal has left its mark upon him. His eyes are sunken, his cheeks emaclated and his arms are thin. . A feature of the ceremony was the reading of a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, written for the occasion. —_— Political Battle Reported. DANZIG VOTE GIVES MAJORITY T0 NAZIS City Celebrates New Control, Leader Wants Peace With Poland. By the Associated Press. FREE CITY OF DANZIG, May 29.— The Danzig Free State, protege of the League of Nations which was carved out of German territory after the ‘World War, has accepted the creed of Chancellor Hitler of Germany by giv- ing the Nazi party a majority in the Volkstag (Parliament). ‘The Nazs, according to the tabula- tion of the Wolfl's (German) News Agency, polled 107,619 of the 215,135 votes cast yesterday in selecting the 72 members. With their allies, the Young German National Socialist party, in- votes, a percentage of 50.8. ‘The Nazi poll was an increase of 323 per cent over the last election on No- vember 16, 1930. The platform of the Danzig Nazis resembles in broad fashion that of the German national Socialist party, in- ciuding anti-Semitism, which has caused Jewish business men to leave. Victory Celebrated. The Nazi victory made possible the selection by the party of the new presi- dent of the Senate, which is the gov- ernment, including, besides the presi~ dent, the heads of the various govern- mental departments. Hermann Rausch- ning is slated as the Nazi choice. Large crowds surged into the streets last night to celebrate the victory. The Free City itself was free from disorders, but minor clashes were reported outside. The duty of the Danzig Nazi party recently was outlined by Albert Forster, its chief leader, as guiding “the Pree State so gently that ultimately it would, without violence, drop back into the lap of the mother country, Germany.” ‘The scope of the Nazi victory was re- flected in this line-up of the Parlia~ ment, as compared with the old group: New. Old. National Socialists (including ¥ Centrists Hold Ground. Only the Centrists, who showed a slight increase, were able even to hold their ground against the Nazi ‘The Communists dropped 6,000 votes, the Nationalists 12,000 and the So- cialists 10,000. ‘The Free State was created under the treaty of Versailles to give a port to Poland. A high commissioner acts as the agent of the League of Nations in administration of the state's affairs. It has an area of 754 square miles, with a population as reckoned in 1929 of 407,629. Nazi leaders conferred this afternoon outlining their plans in_anticipation of the first session of the Volkstag, which probably will be held June 5. The con- stitution sets a 30-day limit for the cal of the néw Parliament. It is ex- that the call will be issued as soon as possible. Because of the intricate system of calculating representation on the basis of votes polled, the Nationalists lost six mandates, although showing a consider- able increase in votes. A much-commented feature of the election was the absence of serious dis- orders despite high tension and nerv- ousness. TREATIES TO BE RESPECTED. Leader Selected for Danzig Senate Will Respect Status Quo. BERLIN, May 29 (#)—Hermann Rauschning, who is slated to be the president of the Senate as & zig Free State will respect its constitu- tion and its treaties under all circum- stances. Herr Rauschning came to Berlin for s Benriu of omfe'renh ces. “Measures which were ible in Germany after the nnt.ionnlm::’voluthn can be adopted lation,” Herr Rauschnin, Jewish problem plays no role. “We Nazis are ready to clear the at- mosphere with reference to all Polish- Danzig questions, but only on & basis nf_l.;‘nuwllltyf’ e success of the Nazis in the Danzig elections was taken quietly by the en- gre Pdl.lhA Drull,dt.:l:diwnlfl (German) ews Agency sa. in s dispat ImPl‘:;lu!wl;mlW. i D papers, the dispatch said, ad- mitted that Danzig’s policy would in the future run along Nazi lines, but they expressed confidence that the Dan- zig constitution and the treaties with Poland would be respected. Emphasis was given by the newse papers to the losses of the Nationalists, Wwhose leader, Senate President Ernst Ziehm, always has been anti-Polish, Journalistic commentators said. Ziehm was re-elected as a deputy. DECISION IS NEAR IN JELKE DIVORCE Expected by Tonight if Testimony Is Completed by Noon Today. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, R. I, May 29.—A writ- ten decision in the divorce suit of F. Frazier Jelke, 52, against his wife, Mrs. Eugenia Woodward Jelke, 28, was ex- pected tonight if testimony was come plsug bycxkx:ox‘: today. Judge rles A. Walsh told eounsel for both sides he would file his de- cision late in the day if the case is comu&leud early. If not, he said, he W wait until Wednesday to make known his findings. Counsel for Jelke announced they would need less than two hours for re- buttal testimony today. Mrs. Jelke's counsel said they virtually had com- pleted their case when court adjourned Friday. Jelke, New York broker, is seeking an absolute divorce from the former Bire mingham, Ala, society woman. His wife has filed & counter action, URGE CIVIL SERVICE AMENDMENT TO BILL Federal Employes to Ask Stipulae tion in Industrial Recovery Meas- ure of Senate Committee, Officials of the National Federati of Federal Employes will urge the g,'f: ate Finance Committee toda e Tmstcial Tecovery Ml aes mend in