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U. . AGENTS JOIN HUNT FOR KILLERS Entire Force Put on Job Fol- lowing Massacre at Kansas City. (Continued From First Page) Nash” Vetterli said in recounting the | details of the slaughter, apparently | staged by four men armed with ma- | chine guns who had hidden themselves | near the officers’ car and calmly waited | for them to group themselves about the | automobile. i “We went to the station to meet the | officers who were bringing Nash back | from Hot Springs,” Vetterli_continued “Raymond Caffrey and I drove to the station in his car. The two Kansas City detectives, Hermanson and Grooms drove to the station in their car. We met the Missouri-Pacific train and started over to Caffrey’s car, headed south on the station drive across from the east door of the station. “There were eight of us, including | Nash, the prisoner, and seven officers. ! We were to enter Caflrey's car and the Kansas City detectives were to follow | us to Leavenworth in their car. | “I was standing at the rear and west | side of Caffrey's car. In the back seat were Lackey and Smith, the agents | from Oklahoma, and Otto Reed. chief of police at McAlester, who came up with the prisoner. Put 'Em Up Command Heard. “Caffrey was to drive. Nash had sat fn the driver's seat temporarily until the car was loaded and then he was to move over into the other front seat which was folded up to allow the three men to enter the rear seat. “Caffrey stood on the pavement be- side Nash on the east side of the car waiting for Nash to slide over into the | folding front seat. Hermanson and Grooms were standing on the west side of the car and toward the front. Sud- denly I heard a man say ‘Put ‘em up, , Up. up"I p]ooked and ‘saw & man blazing sway with a machine gun from near | the southwest corner of the car. Be] seemed to be standing on something—; perhaps the running board of a car.: I don’t know exactly. But he was| very close to us. “T crouched under the murderous fire. | 1 believe there were other machine guns | working, too. Hermanson and Grooms | fell to the pavement in front of me, their bodies riddled. The windshield cf‘ Caffrey’s car was splintering. The men inside of it were powerless before the | red fire from the { “I fell to the pav 3 stinging pain in my left arm. When the firing ceased—and it was all over in a flash—I leveled & pump gun at the escaping car, which roared west- | ward out of the station parking lot.” Three or Four Assailants. | Prom accounts of the ambush, offi- cers believe three or possibly four men fired upon the officers from the mm‘ and left at the same time. They be-| lieve the death car was parked near that of the officers in anticipation of | their appearance and that the assassins | were concealed among other automo- | biles nearby. | Across the plaza stood the shattered ear. On the pavement beside the car ‘were the bodies of Caffrey, Hermanson and Grooms. The two Kansas City detectives had fallen together, on their backs, their heads riddled with machine gun slugs. Nash was a friend of Harvey Bailey, @ leader of the 11 convicts who escaped from the Kanses prison in the Memorial day break. He had been sought by Federal offi- | plot for the release of Nash, probably engineered by Harvey Bailey, who may nct have been present at its execution. Floyd Participation Doubted. ‘The chief said he doubted that Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, another Oklahoma killer, was involved although Floyd released a kidnaped sheriff near Lees Summit, Mo., about 20 miles from Kansas City, last night. ‘The sheriff, Jack Killingsworth of Bolivar, Mo., who was with Floyd 14 hours yesterday, declared his belief that Floyd and his companion, Adam Ric- chett!, who kidnaped him at Bolivar esterday, had nothing to do with the dllings. Officers received a report that the | ear used by the killer had been seen | driving on Mission road, a route that ieads toward Oklahoma. Armored cars cruised in pursuit. A rumor filtered | into police headquarters that the assas- | sins had followed the train to Kansas | City from Oklahoma last night. The slayers were the object of prob- | ably the most intensive search this | city has ever witnessed. Hundreds of | police and Federal authorities were | scouring the city and peace officers from every nearby community were guarding highways. It was Federal agents who ended the violent career of Nash's chief, Al Spencer, when they cornered the robber | and killer in the Osage Hills of Okla- homa 10 years ago. i Nash Member of Foursome. Caffrey arrested Bailey, former com- panion of Fred (Killer) Burke, as he was playing golf on & Kansas City course & year ago. Arrested with Bailey were Thomas Holden and Francis Keating. train robbers escaped from Leavenworth Officers said they had positive in- formation Nash was a member of that foursome. but managed to elude the officers who arrested the other players Frank Smith, the agent from Okla- homa City who arrested Nash in Hot sat unscathed through the “T guess it just wasn't " he said. he continued we weren't killed when we took Nash in Hot Springs. He had been there for some time and was sur- rounded by his own gang of outlaws and criminals. Our method was to work fast an; n out of the coun- try before any could get hold of “that on of us. Nash has been a nortorious bandit, train robber in the Al Spencer gang ther gangs, for years. & as been one of the desperate killers and bandits of the Middle West We knew that. That's why we acted cautiously. That's why, when I learned that Nash was in Hot Springs. 1 asked Chief Reed to go with Lackey and me Woman Describes Shootnig. Mrs. Lottie West. Travelers' Ald worker at the Union Station here, gave the following account of the slayings: | 1 saw the killers of the Government agent, city detectives, the Oklahoma | police chief and Frank Nash in front of the Union Station this morning | gave him more power than he exercises | | eral Cummings has ordered all avail- THE SUNDAY Garner on Way Home, to Remain Until First of Year Vice President Refuses to Talk Politics, and Says He Likes Job. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, June 17.—Willing to dis- | cuss chickens, vegetables and grapes, but | shunning the subject of politics, Vice | President and Mrs. John Nance Garner | passed through St. Louis tonight en | Toute home to Uvaide, Tex. | “Politically speaking, I've been deaf. dumb and blind ever since March 4, chuckled the Vice President. “All T want to do is just to hibernate in the bushes for a_while—become & modern Rip Van Winkle.” he explained. He did comment that he had discov- | ered his tenure as Speaker of the House | as Vice President. “I've had a very pleasant 100 days as Vice President and anyway all that any of us care about is helping out President Roosevelt any way we can,” he_concluded. The Garners expect to remain in Texas until January 1. tion platform, watched them walk across the street and saw them direct Nash to get in the front seat of the motor car. Some of the officers on each side of the car. The two carry- ing sawed-off shotguns leaned these guns against the left-hand fender of the car. | “Just at that time a large man, who would weigh about 200 pounds, stepped out from behind the lamp post beside the concrete bus landing. He was carry- | ing one of these guns with a cylinder on top of it. He started shooting right | into the backs of the two officers. | “At about the same time two men stepped out from behind my automo- | bile, which was parked a little west of the officers’ car and facing north. | Both were small men. One had what | appeared to be a shotgun and the other a machine gurr. They started shooting at the other officers. The officers fell to the ground, except one on the east side of the car in which Nash was sitting. Sisters Warned to Flee. “He started shooting at the two men | ck of my car- He was shooting right | Nash and I believe he shot Nash. “There were six Catholic sisters on | the platform. I called to them to run | inside out of danger. Four did, the other two stood still. | “When I looked again I saw Mike | Fanning, motor cycle patrolman as- | signed to the station. running through | the station doors. | ““There he is, Mike, get him’ " I| shouted pointing to the big gunman. | “Fanning started shooting, firing three shots. The big man dropped to the | ground and I thought he was hit. I 1an back into the station then and did not see how the killers escaped. RELENTLESS SEARCH ORDERED. bay by, Cummings Says Wholesale Slaying Challenges ‘Law Enforcers, Characterizing the Kansas City ma- chine gun massacre of a Federal offi- cer and three policemen as a direct challenge flung at Government law enforcement authorities, Attorney Gen- able investigators under his command into & relentless search for the slayers. The ruthless murder of Special Agent | Raymond J. Caffrey of the United States Bureau of Investigation and three po- | lice officers by men apparently | seeking release of their prisoner, Frank | Nash, reputed Capone henchman, came | ments by President Roosevelt and his Attorney General denouncing racketeers and gangsterism. Cummings = several days ago pro- claimed warfare aainst ‘gangdom and terrorism, announcing a plan to effect Detter co-operation between municipal, State and Federal authorities in the drive on crime. The President, in a statement Friday night, declared legal businesses must be protected from racketeers. Federal Statute Lacking. FPull co-operation of Federal agents in the hunt for the fugitive killers Alaskan Airmen, However, Are Not Alarmed—Personal Top: Scene at the finish line yesterday of The Star marathon on the set a new record for the 26-mile course to take first place. Additional pictures and news storie. is about as far as the Government can go in this crime, because, strange to relate, the killing of Agent Caffrey does not violate any Federal law more severe than “obstructing justice” the penalty for which is but a few years in prison. s Lack of Federal statute against murder of a Government officer was deplored at the time of the slaying of Special Agent Shanzhan of the Bu- reau of Investigation by Martin Durkin, notorious “sheik” gunman, sev- eral years ago. There was agitation at the time for a Federal law against murderers of Government men, but the movement is said to have been lost in a controversy in Congress over ac- tivities of prohibition agents. The chief clue in the hands of the authorities at Kansas City is the tag numbsr of the black sedan from which the machine gunners poured a deathly fire of lead into the group of Federal officers. and police transferring Nash from a train to an automobile at the station. The tag numbers may turn out to be “d¢ad” or to be those of a stolen car, it is thought. At least one of the gunmen, s stout man who pumped a submachine gun from a point on the sidewalk and then jumped to the running board of the fleeing car, is believed to have been hit by the return fire. Hospitals and physicians’ offices are being checked to | see if this man applied for treatment. Lackey Formerly of Capital. Francis J. Lackey, who fell with the | first burst of fire from machine guns behind him and who is in a serious condition from his wounds, is a former resident of Washington. A graduate of George Washington University, he married an Alexandria girl, who was employed in the Department of Jus- tice—Miss Caroline West. Mr. and Mrs Lackey have resided in Oklahoma City for several years. Lackey took & prom- inent part in the investigation of the Virginia McPherson murder-or-suicide mys some years ago. Cafirey had never been stationed in Washington. but was well known in law enforcement circles here. He leaves a wife and young daughter. The widow will receive a small pension under the Fedcral workmen's compensation act, it is understood Department of Justice officials were preparing @ press release about the cap- ture of Nash in a bloodless coup &t Hot Springs. Ark., Friday night, when word arrived of the slayings at Kansas City. Nash had been the object of & Nation- wide search since his escape from Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1930. He and his close companions, Thomas Holden and Francis L. Keating, Capone gangsters, had been possible suspects in the Lindbergh kidnaping at one time. Holden and Keating. also escaped con- victs, were returned to Leavenworth | last year after their capture on a Kan- |liam A. Moffett, jr sas City golf course by Agent Caffrey and another Federal officer. INVITES FLYERS TO FAIR Chicago Newspaper Awaits Official calmly awaiting their victims to group Acceptance From Spanish Premier. themselves about the motor car which was to take them to Leavenworth “I then saw them step out of hiding and deliberately open fire. The first men to fall were officers. Nash was obe ©of the last to be killed. CHICAGO, June 17 (#).—The Chicago Tribune said yesterday it awaited official ! acceptance from Premier Arzana of Spain, of its invitation to two Spaniards who last week crossed the Atlantic to “Sitting st my desk. 1 watched the Visit Chicago and the Century of Prog- oup of officers take Nash through the | ress Exposition. §oors from the trains, march him across The newspaper said it had tendered the lobby. Two of the officers carried an offer to Capt. Mariano Barberan and sawed-off shotguns. Another kept his Lieut. Joaquin Collar shortly after their hand on his hip, ready to draw his re- |landing in Cuba and had sent a sec- volver. The group crossed the station |onG and formal invitation to Premier fan shape, Nash in the center. Nash Azana. J was handcuffed. | At Madrid yesterday, the premier said “He must be pretty bad,” I remarked he might ibly authorize the trip. %0 a friend. “Maybe he is (Pretty Boy) | The Tribune. with Century of Prog- | ress officials offered to defray the fyers’ Chicago, the group out to the sta~ expenses to Representative Optimistic. NOME, Alaska, June 17 (#).—Jimmie | Mattern, Texas aviator, who left New York two weeks ago on & solo globe- girdling flight, was still missing today | somewnere petween Khabarovsk, Siberia, | and Nome, his destination when he left | the Siberian town at 2:30 pm. Wednes- | day, Eastern Standard Time. | Failing to receive word of Mattern, in the opinion of Alaska airmen, is not | necessarily alarming, as he might have | set his ship down on some island or | some portion of the Alaskan coast | where communication is difficult. 1t is a 2,500-mile flight from Khabarovsk to | Nome. It was raining here today, some ! fog was reported at Dutch Harbor in | the Aleutians and snowfall at Point | Barrow. NEW YORK, June 17 (P).—Jack | Clark, personal representative of Jimmie | Mattérn, round-the-world fiyer, today | said he felt “there is better than a 50-50 | chance that Jimmie is safe somewhere in Alaska.” |, “There were at least eight landing | fields 1n obscure sections of Alaska that Jimmie knew about.” said Clark. “We feel confident he has landed and is | unable to communicate his ‘;rme 1 think some of his pilot friends in Alaska will locate him.” MOSCOW. June 17 (#).—Definite in- formation from America that James Mattern, Ameri flyer, had not been reported there since he left Khabarovsk Siberia, occasioned serious alarm here today. The Tass (Soviet) News Agency sent urgent inquiries both to Khabarovsk and to Petropaviovsk, Kamcialka peninsula, | seeking word of the aviatoi At & late hour tonight no replies to these inquiries had been received ang this accentuated the belief here that Mattern may have been borne down either in the Sea of Okhotsk or the Bering Sea by ice accumulations on the wings of his airplane. or at best forced down on some isolated island | in the vicinity of Kamchatka, By pclated Press | “Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations. last night ordered all | naval vessels and airplanes in Alaskan | waters and in the vicinity of the Aleu- | tian waters to search for Jimmy Mat- tern, round-the-world fiyer, missing on | a hop from Siberia to Alaska |~ The Navy Department said the re- pair ship Argonne. in command of Capt | Harry Dact, was in Alaskan waters and that at least two Navy fiyers also were !in the vicinity. They were Ensign Wil- . son of the late Ad- miral Moffett, and Lieut. John Vest A request for the Navy's assistance | was made by Representative Thomason | of Texas, a personal friend of Mattern, whose home is in San _Angelo, Tex | Thomason talked with Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of the Bureau of | Aeronautics, and later with Pratt. ‘Virgininn in Search of Work Dies | in Covington Hospital. COVINGTON, Va. June 17 () — wWilson Bradley, 30, of Buena Vista, died in a Covington hospital today several | hours after a flat car had rolled over | both legs. Bradley, who was searching for work was said to have drawn under a flat car on the yards of a paper mill where he went to sleep. Both of his legs were mangled when a shifter pushed other cars into the yards, hmi;ilhe one un- der which he was sleep where- | bouts. When weather conditions im- | Lower right: STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 18, 1933—PART ONE. ‘ Throngs at Finish of Star Marathon Ellipse behind the White House. Lower left: Dave Komonen, Finnish athlete. who A view of the runners stretched out along the course. s describing the Marathon will —Star Staff Photos. KING TRIES IN VAIN TO FIND | HULL FOR TALK AT GARDEN FETE M|SSING |N N[]RTH George V Tells Morgent};:f{e Appreci- ates Roosevelt's Acceptance of Partial Debt Payment. BY F. G. VOSBURGH. Copyr 1943, by the Associated Press. George V of England told Henry Mor- genthau, sr, an adviser to the Amer- jcan delegation to the World Economic | Conference, today that he very much appreciated President Roosevelt's ac- tion in accepting part payment of the British war debt. The sovereign also expressed the hope Americans will co-operate to the fullest extent in attacking the economic prob- lem. At the same time the King expressed the desire for a private talk with Sec- retary of State Hull, but the American delegation chairman was nowhere to be found, and representatives of the King hunted him all over the grounds of Windsor Castle, where the delegates afternoon, without avail. Previously Mr. Hull and other Amer- ican delegates had been formally pre- sented to the King and Queen. Realizes Hull Is Busy. ‘When efforts to find Mr. Hull proved futile. because he was apparently in a remote section of the grounds or al- ready had left, the King asked his secretaries to make an appointment for him with the American leaders for & talk on Monday. “I know Mr. Hull is very busy.” Mr. Morgenthau described the King as say- ing ‘The distinguished New Yorker and | former American Ambassador to Tur- key said he “replied that Mr. Hull was not too busy to see the King.” The King said he preferred to talk to Mr. Hull at the garden party to avold taking gp the latter’s time on a day of work, when the conference vas meeting. Interview Described. Describing his informal talk with the King in the historic setting of the cas- tle grounds, Mr. Morgenthau, who was singled out among Americans for a special conversation after the formal handshaking was over, said: “The King remembered I represented Great Britain in Turkey during the war. (The United States never de- clared war on Turk as did England, with the resultant withdrawal of her envoy.) He spoke very graciously about it. “The King said the President’s posi- tion on the debt guestion was very much appreciated. wheat problem and seemed to know a | great deal about it. He also spoke about Secretary Hull and said he would like to see him but supposed he was very busy. His representatives tried to find Mr. Hull, but he was not around. “The King is arranging an interview with him for Monday. a secretary and arranged it.” King in Cutaway Suit. J ‘The King wore a cutaway suit, as did his guests, and also talked informally | with former Prime Minister Lloyd George and Premier Bennett of Canada. James A. Wilson of Cincinnati, | American Federation of Labor repre- | sentative, had a chat with Mr. Lloyd | George, meeting him for the first time | since the Welshman headed the British government in war days. “It takes a great many conferences to settle the world, doesn’t it?” ob- served Mr. Lloyd George, who with Pres- ident Wilson and former Premier Clem- enceau of France was a leading figure at the Versailles Peace Conference. | Americans presented to the King and | Queen were Secretary and Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Paul Hayes, former Gov. and Mrs. Cox, Senator Pittman, Representative | McReynolds and his daughter, Senator | Couzens and his wife, Ralph W. Mor- | rison and Mrs. Bingham, wife of the | American Ambassador, WINDSOR, England, June 17.—King | were attending a garden party mu& He spoke about the | | “The King and Queen were wonder- ful,” Mrs. Couzens said later. “They are real people.” “It was all very pleasant and quite lacking in the stiffness one sometimes meets in such affairs,” sald Mr. Mor- rison, Texan member of the American delegation. Guests were served sandwiches, cakes, strawberries and cream, hot or iced tea, | orange or lemonade, cider, unfermented wine and ice water. The Americans said nothing alcoholic was served them. | Once rain drove the guests to the | shelter of pavilions, but the sun quickly | reappeared. The guests enjoyed wan- dering about the grounds and halls of the famous castle. FORMER FOLLIES BEAUTY VANISHES FROM TRAIN | Helen Lee Worthing Reported | Missing—Police Make Search Along Tracks. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 17.—Helen Lee Worthing, once a Follles beauty and | former wife of Dr. Eugene G. Nelson, colored physiclan, was reported today as missing since Thursday. Special Agent Fred Phillips of the Santa Fe Railroad said Miss Worthing, who had been under treatment for a nervous disorder at a Santa Monica rest home, had boarded & train here Thurs- day for New York. She was missing, he said, when the train ‘reached Pasa- | | dena 35 minutes later and her baggage still was in her compartment. Police of Los Angeles and Pasadena were searching arroyos along the rail- road right of way, fearing, they said, Miss Worthing may have leaped or fallen from the train. Miss ' Worthing obtained a divorce from Dr. Nelson May 25, 1932, but an annulment was granted last November 18 which superseded the divorce. A few weeks after the annulment an insanity complaint was filed against her and Su- perior Judge Thomas C. Gould commit- ted her to the rest home in the custody of Dr. Nelson. He was at the train here Thursday to bid her good-by and was notified to- | day by Phillips that she was missing. | ROPER STEP RAISES ' J0B STATUS ISSUE Removal of 250 Foreign and Domestic Employes Civil Service Problem. By the Associated Press. A move by Secretary of Commerce Roper toward removing from civil serv- ice approximately 250 jobs in the Bu- reau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce !that were “blanketed in” by executive order of President Hoover yesterday | raised the question of the future status of such positions in all departments. President Hoover added to the civil | service scope 1,150 Federal positions by | executive order. President Coolidge added 4.746; President Harding, 344; President Wilson, 954. All these positions were “blanketed in"—that is, simply placed under civil service classification, incumbent and all, with the requirement that thence- forth each job when vacant should be filled by competitive examination. | Often the incumbents were given non- competitive examinations. Since they were given civil service status by executive order, they can be | removed from civil service by execu- tive order, which would put them back on a patronage basis. A rumor has been going the rounds that enough executive orders would be rescinded so that most of those “blanketed in” by the last three Re- publican Presidents would lose their obs. X One of the first studies conducted un- der the new administration was the compilation, in March, 1933, of a book- let on “authority for and development of the classified civil service.” Since then. various departments have been compiling lists of the employes placed under civil service status that way. Kmong those President Hoover added to civil service were 147 Federal em- ployes in the Philippines as the result of an inspection trip that showed lack of close contact with the Civil Service Commission in island employment; 184 attorneys in the Veterans’ Administra- tion; 234 in the Department of Justice who had been hired under a “confiden- tial” clause protested by the Civil Serv- ice Commission; 339 in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, the group now under discussion, and 164 mounted inspectors in the ‘customs service, removed from examination un- der Theodore Roosevelt and carried on the rolls that way until Hoover's time. 'RESCUERS AND RESCUED HURT 1 He called over | IN STRING OF THREE ACCIDENTS Nine Hurt, One Seriously, as Car Bearing Crah Victim Collides; Second Relief Car Also Wrecked. An automobile accident in which one |man was seriously injured In Arling- |ton County, Va., early today resulted in two other mishaps which sent eight | other persons to Georgetown Hospital. Emmett Anderson, Alexandria, victim of the first accident, was the most se- 13, and Robert, 16, and a friend, Miss Margaret Wilson, all were injured. None was required to remain at the hos- 1, however, except Anderson, who was sald to be suffering from a frac- tured skull. The occupants of the other machine, Helen and Marie Higdon, aged 17 and riously injured. After his car ran into 19, respectively, of Herndon, were cut, & ditch about two miles south of Falls but the driver, Lewis A. Bodmer, 519 | Church, Va., he hailed a machine Third street, escaped injury. driven by T. E. Pillingame, 3102 M| A short time later Bodmer started street, and asked to be taken to the for the hospital, in the automobile of hospital. Led by a Falls Church po-|a friend, Sammy Hurst of Vienna, Va., liceman, Fillingame headed for the| to see the two girls. At Thirty-fourth hospital, but had not gone very far street and Prospect avenue the car col- when his automobile collided with an-| lided with another machine, resulting | other car on Lee Highway, in Arling-| in injury to Bodmer, who also was ad- ton County. 4 | mitted .to the hospital. Fillingame. his wife, Mrs. Bessie .| The driver of the other car, a woman, Fillingame; their two children, Alms,: failed to stop, according to police. ROOSEVELT FARM PROGRAM TESTED President Worked Out Many Agricultural Problems on Georgia Estate. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, June 17.—President Roose- | velt's experimental farm—the place | where he went into the business of | | practical agriculture to find out actual | | problems of the man in the fur- | | row—is within a few miles of Warm | | springs, where the President bas a home. The Atlanta Constitution, in a copy- righted article today describes the 2,000 acres owned by the President as “prob- ably the most famous farm in the agri- cultural history of the Nation.” The | President’s acres constitute a working | man’s farm where many of the agricul- | tural problems of the Nation were put to | a test. There the President personally supervised many of the experiments and with the aid of his overseer, E. B. Doyle, | now a United States marshal, and ex- pert advice from the Georgia Extension Service of the State University, other problems have been worked out. Started Tests in 1925. Experiments started in 1925 when the | President acquired & small tract and employed Doyle to manage it. He grad- ually added to the acreage. The Presi- dent wanted a farm that any good farmer | might imitate and make a good living | on it and with this in mind he tried | various crops. | There was a large peach orchard, but prices were low and it cost a great deal to keep the trees free from disease, | so several thousand of the trees were destroyed and the profitable ones left. Cotton, the South’s big money crop, was also given its chance. But there { was little profit and so eventually he turned to beef cattle and today has a herd of about 120, with few of the original stock of scrubs, left. Cattle have been profitable. Grapes of the Concord variety have also shown a profit and there are many other cash crops, including tomatoes and potatoes. Most of the produce from the Roosevelt farm is sold on the local market, for the President believed in selling at home. No Expensive Equipment. | Carrying out his idea of an ideal| farm on which the average farmer | | could make good, the President built no | | expensive buildings and bought no ex- pensive machinery. He told Mr. Doyle when the cattle herd was established: “Be good farmers and good neigh- bors. Let any farmer who wishes help | from us on the cattle question get it. | Ask him, however, that in event he | decides to sell that he give us the ;opuon of buying. Write me frequently in detail.” Doyle did just that and the President | has followed closely the experiments | which have influenced his national pro- gram. The article says the President has been known to prune young pines ! himself and about 5.000 more trees are to be planted this Fall. 'WALLACE POSTPONES | ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT | COTTON CUT PROGRAM '_c, (Continued From Pirst Page.) i SmsemT— e | Peek, chief administrator, went to Chi- cago to confer informally with repre- sentatives of the corn and hog indus- try there over the week end. partmental officials had | Southern members that | tl | Smith sald Peek and the n‘t:‘ede— Am¢ | | the $100,000,000 provided for leasing | t; ls.ndhndbeenuudwryemnfluhdd by others in cotton taken over by the Government at various times since the Farm Board began stabilization oper- ations. Wants 10,000,000 Acres Retired. The departmental officials, Smith said, told the conference there would not be sufficient cash to pay rental on the amount of land they wanted taken out of production of cotton. | _The department, Smith said, thought | that at least 10,000,000 acres should be | retired from &roductlon out of the ap- | proximately 38,000,000 acres total cot- | “Smithcontended that by taking th mith con e $50,000,000 and using the cotton owned by the Government, which could be re- sold to the farmer at 6 cents a pound, 10,000,000 acres could be retired. The $50,000,000 fund would be used to give | the farmer a rental payment equal to the expense to which he had been put ‘gp etg the time the acreage was aban- oned. “Everybody knows that the farmer is going to pay this processing tax,” Smith said. “The farmer has no control over the price.” Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla- homa, in letters to Wallace today, pro- tested against levying a processing tax on cotton. He wrote: “It is my interpretation that any proc tax on cotton will | come directly out of the farmer’s ket. If the tax should be 4 cents per mm. then the levying of such tax is a direct levy of $20 per bale against the cotton farmers of the South. In addition to forcing the cotton farmers to pay this direct tax, he is required to pay pro- portionately higher price for the finished :n:l manufactured products from cot- on. Unwilling to Indorse Plan. “Representing a State which produces approximately 1,000,000 bales of cot- ton annually, I am unwilling to indorse a program which assesses such a tax against the cotton planters of Okla- homa. Likewise, I am unwilling to in- dorse a project which, in addition to assessing this exorbitant tax against the cotton farmer, compels him to pay his proportionate share of the higher price to t.‘r;e‘ consumer. “The assessing of a processing tax, instead of h!lgm‘ the t‘:rmer, will al- most, if not wholly destroy him. Since practically every other industry is re- ceiving direct subsidies from the Fed- | eral Treasury, and inasmuch as the| Congress has provided a direct subsidy for financing a reduction of acreage g:grggknlthe representative of a cot- must prof assess- ment of such tax.” B o HARVARD WILL CONFER DEGREE ON AL SMITH By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 17.—Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, who many times has remarked in the presence of distin- guished educators and scholars that his first degree was an “F. F. M."—stand- ing for Fulton Fish Market, in which he worked as a youth—is to re- ceive a doctor of laws from Harvard University. It was learned at his office today that he will go to Cambridge, Mass., to have the honor conferred upon him next Thursday. Although the one-time tenement boy's good-natured reference to his early education has brought innumer- able smiles, his self-conferred “F. F. M.” is not the wllylde(’reew which he has been ;‘m&“ to 18y claim. | e hol loctor of laws d from | Dublin University, in lrellnmd Co- lumbia University, in New York. He also has a doctor of letters degree from Catholic University, Washington. The former Governor attended a parochial school near his Oliver street home, was four times chief executive of his State and in 1928 was the Demo- i | INDUSTRIES RUSH RECOVERY SET-UP Half Dozen Nearly Ready to Submit Agreements to Gen. Johnson. ___(Continued From First Page) from reports received from all sections of the country. Automobile, steel ingots and electric power production increased during the week, the report said. It also noted réceipts of the major farm products at principal markets were larger and above a year ago. . Retail trade reports, the department said, were generally favorable, and bank debits. outside of New York City, in- creased over the preceding week. Both stock and bond prices moved upward. Control board officials were con- cerned over the continuous rise in wholesale prices for their aim is to keep prices stable, while wages and employ- ment go up. The department reported the rise in non-agricultural prices more than offset the reduction in the com- bined index of agricultural products. Wheat prices advanced and copper prices were marked up further. The composite iron and steel price was reported higher and cotton prices were steady. Gen. Johnson has let it be known that industry will be asked to carry for a time some of the load of increased costs until buying power is stimulated. In normal times, it was explained, the curves of production and buying power travel almost paraliel. However, in days of depressed markets buying power falls faster than production. Production Curve Higher. Today the relative position of the two curves, according to Government econo- mists, finds production considerably above the power of the dollar. Through the Industrial Ccntrol Board the down- ward sweep of the purchasing power curve is to be brought back across the production curve. While it is hoped that the movement will be purely voluntary on the part of industry, Johnson has let it be known that the board will insist that while in- creasing wages and shortening the work week the higher costs be left untrans- lated for the time being. A rise in prices while buying power is attempting to climb above the pro- duction curve would bring industries near calamity, it was stated. Therefore, it was stated, the success of the recov- ery act depends on whether the Federal Government will be able to peg prices while wages are being increased. Johnson’s hopes are to avoid a re- lapse in present business activity, and that by October 1, 2,000,000 workers will be absorbed in industry itself and 1,000,- 000 more on public works. He believes that with the usual seasonal pick-up in they will be brought under s scrutiny. With the administrator sit representatives of labor and acturers’ Association. PRODUCERS OF OIL VOTE PRICE FIXING IN RECOVERY PLAN (Continued Prom First Page.) be accomplished as soon as possible be= cause “the industry is in an emergency; it is losing staggering amounts and % be unwarranted to delay any longer.” QUARRIES BACK CONTROL. Indiana Limestone Indusiry Approves New National Act. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 17 (®). —The Bloomington Evening World said :Ddl! m{‘nd'h:ry $100,000,000 ll?':adhli:. imestone industry was swung e almost 100 per cent with President Roosevelt’s national recovery program. A code of ethics, the newspaper said, conforming to provisions of the new national industrial recovery act has been drawn up, signed by practically every operator in the oolitic belt and sent to Washington for approval. In the code the operators pledge them- selves to abide by the minimum wage scale and maximum schedule of hours to be set by the Government and to refrain from bidding on contracts at prices under the cost of production. Approximately 30 companies will be bound by the terms of the industrial control act. CONFERENCE SUGGESTED. ‘Wholesalers Asked to Meet in Capital to Fix Control Policy. NEW YORK, June 17 (#).—Flint Garrison, director of the Wholesale Dry Goods Institute, has suggested to associations representing wholesalers in 10 other industries that a conferéence be held in Washington to formulate a statement of the wholesalers’ case in to the new national industrial recovery act. Letters suggesting the conference were sent to organizations representing wholesale druggists, grocers, jewelers and dealers in millinery, shoes, hard: received from the grocers, jewelers and shoe dealers. ‘The purpose of the meeting would be to obtain official ition “of the function of wholesaling” and a state- ment fidthe‘:h:hlemm' case would be present 2, e proper agency” in ‘Washington. e BEER IS SEIZED Canadian Customs Regulations Are Declared Violated. SARNIA, Ontario, June 17 (#).—Two Courtright, Clair, Mich.,, motor ferry are under seizure here by Royal Canadian Mounted Police for al- leged violation Cai of nadian cus- regulations, it was learned today. cratic candidate for President, He went to collega,