Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1933, Page 2

50-YEAR-OLD SC0T WINS BRITISH TITLE Conqueror of George Dunlap Never Headed in 36- Hole Final. By the Assoclated Press. HOYLAKE, England, June 24.—The Honorable Michael Scott, 55-vear-old | internationalist and member of & prom- fnent Scottish family, today ceptured the British amateur golf championship for the first time, defeating Thomas A. | Bourn, 4 and 3, in the 36-hole final | match. Scott was the conqueror of the last | | i | American challenger, George T. Dunlap. 3 Naw York, in the semi-finals. He | has been the winner of golf champicn- | ships in Austraua and France over al period of 30 vears, but the nearest he had previously come to capturing the national tile was in 1920, when he was & semi-finalis Five Up in 18 Holes. i Scott was never headed in the final; after taking the first hole from Bourn. ! 30-year-old Englishman. ‘The | | new | champion was 5 up after the first 18| Tholes and this margin was sufficient to | weather a rally by Bourn in the after- hoon. Scott succeeds John de Forest, 1932 titleholder, who was eliminated in his | first match | Scott drove the better ball at the first | hole and won it when Bourn's second | was wide of the green and he was, dead to the pin. | They halved the second but Bourn again_was in the rough on the third | and Scott holed a 6-yard putt to take the hole and go 2 up. ! Bourn took the fourth with a par| 3 as Scott lost his putting touch, but | the Hon. Michael immediately got back | the advantage as Bourn toured lhe‘ bunkers on the fifth, and he went 3 up on the sixth, playing a great mashie | to the green after being outdriven by | 40 yards. H Bourn Wins the Ninth. i Bourn missed a foot-and-a-half putt on the eighth and was 4 down as Scott ! holed out one from 3 yards, but he won | the ninth with a fine mashie shot dead | A THE Honored by Harvard AL SMITH AWARDED HONORARY DEGREE. LFRED E. SMITH was one of the distinguished men awarded honorary degrees at Harvard commencement exercises. He is shown shaking hands with Gov. Ely of Massachusetts, who was also honored. back are Andre de Laboulaye (left), French Ambassador, and Sir Ronald ! Standing in Lindsay, British Ambassador, who, with Smith and Ely, were made hon- orary doctors of law. —A. P. Photo, HULL SEES EFFORT T0 DISRUPT PARLEY. PROBED BY POLICE NEWSPAPER FIRES to the pin to cut Scott's advantage| Asserts References to U. S. Blazes in News and Times- to three. The tenth and eleventh were halved, but Scott went 4 up sgain on the twelfth as Bourn missed a 2-yard putt for a half while Scott was sinking! one from 3 yards away. Bourn holed a 4-yarder at the mext hole to save his half and won the fif- teenth by sinking one from 5 yards away to cut Scott’s margin to 3 up. Both were in trouble on the fifteenth and Scott had to sink one from 2 yards to save a half and his lead. Both were on the green at the six- teenth in 3, but Bourn was a foot short with his first putt and Scott rammed one home from 7 yards to go 4 up again. Smiling broadly, Scott doffed his cap to the tin cup. The seventeenth was halved, but Scott then went 5 up on the eighteenth, as Bourn was in the rough from the tee and sent his second in a bunker. Scott found his opponent somewhat steadler starting the afternoon round and his margin was reduced to 4 up through the twenty-third hole. He reached the turn still 4 up, with nine 80. Bourn took three of the first four outgojng holes in the afternoon as he threatened Scott’s big margin. Both ‘were erratic but Scott managed to pro- tect most of his lead. Bourn’s last bid to prolong the match came on the thirtieth hole, which he won to reduce Scott’s margin for the last time after the Hon. Michael had gone 5 up at the twenty-eighth. They halved the last three holes and the match ended on the thirty-third green. Scott's Victory an Upset. Scott, 55-year-old scion of & famous family, contributed an astonishing up- set by eliminating the last American threat, Dunlap, in the semi-final round, 4 and 3. Bourn, at the same time, sprang another surprise by putting out Cyril James Hastings Tolley, twice holder of the crown, 1 up at the twen- tieth A wealthy gentleman playing simply for the fun of it, Scott himself did not think he had a chance against Dunlap, who twice won the United States in- tercollegiate champlonship while & stu- dent at Princeton. And when Dunlap gained a two-hole lead in the first six holes, it appeared the slim New Yorker was certain to reach the finals. But Scott squared the match before the turn was reached and then won four of the five holes between the eleventh and fifteenth to end the battle summary fashion | Tolley came from behind three times | to square his match with Bourn, but ' the latter finally ended matters at the | second extra hole with a par 4. Tolley won the title in 1920 and 1929 and was | Tfavored to reach the finals with Dunlap. | PRICE-FIXING TO AID RECOVERY SOUGHT BY TRADE LEADERS| (Contin i | in | ted From First Page.) commission has that have s ¢ ave re- | hief amor have been v petition. inclu ‘The us practices fair com- of Coal Associu National Coa ania group ly on Mony ar- Pa Johnson industry p: operators the coal Llem! 1 week to talk over the results o work with Johnson or his assistan One of the questions raised b operators was whether ison permit separate co rrying varying minimum wage the different districts. ‘The South the ern_producers have indi- cated they felt they could not meet the wages paid at Northern mines, while several operators at the Central Associ- ates meetng yesterday suid their could be no code o! fair competition without equalization of wages Th- Northern operators, headed b: Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland. who at- tended the Central Associates meeting. completed their code after a lengthy seselon, but refused o reveal its pro- Recovery Plan May Be De- signed to Confuse Body. (Continued From First Page) | Hendryk Colijn, Dutch premier, re- tired to his beloved Holland. The Subcommittee of the Economic Commission, which has been drafting & scheme for the co-ordination of pro- duction and marketing, finished its work, and today issued a draft which embodies the broad principles of what they consider a workable plan. It laid down the riecessity of raising wholesale prices of primary products to & reasonable level, and the desirability of adopting plans for production and marketing of certain products. Subcommittee Drafts Plan. The subcommittee suggests that any agreements to give effect to the plan should conform generally to the fol- lowing conditions: = world importance in which there is | such excess of production or stocks as to call for special concerted action. | “2. Any.agreement should be com- prehensive and not so narrowly drawn as to exclude related or substitute | products if their inclusion is necessary or desirable to insure the successs of the plan. | “3. It should be comprehensive as regards producers. It should command a general measure of assent among | exporting countries and within these countries & substantial majority of the producers themselves. It should pro- vide for the co-operation of non-export- | ing countries Wwhose production is considerable.” ‘The commodity must be one of Herald Buildings Are Be- | | lieved Incendiary. ! Small fires in the basements of two ‘Washington newspaper buildings early today, breaking out at about the same time and under somewhat similar cir- cumstances, led police to suspect in- cendlarism | The first blaze was in the Washing- ton Daily News Building, and the | other followed about half an hour later | in the Washington Times-Herald Build- ing, only a short distance away. | According to Detective Sergt. Joseph | Waldron, who, with Detective Sergt. | J. E. Kenney, is investigating both fires, the Times-Herald blaze apparently was deliberately set off. Because of the | similarity of the ilews fire, Waldron | believes it, too, was the work of an | incendiary. ‘The Times-Herald blaze broke out in a Dewsprint storage room adjoining the press room. There was every in- dication, Waldron said, that some one had jammed a wad of waste paper into the center of one of the newsprint rolls and put a match to it. Employes discovered the fire almost before it got started, however, and it ( was extinguished without the aid of firemen. The blaze broke out about | 4:40 am. An errand boy discovered the News blaze and summoned firemen, who quickly extinguished it. The fire broke out in a waste paper room, adjoining the press room. Damage was slight. The detectives expressed the opinion both blazes were started by “an ama- teur, who didn’t know his business.” Public Building Program District of Columbia Scheduled to Get $2,707,856 in Army Projects—Maryland and Virginia Plans Made. Virginia were included in the § i HE following items for work in the District of Cclumbia, Maryland and 135,000,000 building program submitted by the War Department yesterday to the public works section of lhei Naticnal Recovery Administration DISTRICT OF Army Medical Cen Non-commissioned officers’ quarters. . Non-commi Officers’ Nurs T 1 Medical Center Boiling Field Non-commissioned ~ officers’ n-commissioned officers’ quarters quarters tion building. . , insulation J. improving landing field and building areas and storehouse Columbia joned officers quarters, apar COLUMBIA. $4,167 | 125,000 | 424,200 | 40,404 9,352 | 2,500 ‘Ument 18. . $470.810 64,000 29,902 115.948 44.959 361 38.703 242,317 88,000 348 010 128.000 4,949 40,151 615,000 14,694 1.961 4764 40,000 7.509 5,000 76,500 098 3,000 $1.9 $2,012,098 $430,700 07,856 MARYLAND. | Fort { Fort loyle s | Fort Washington | Fort George C. Me | Fort McHenry N Antietum ca Total for Humphrey i Royal quartermaster Field | Fort | Front Langley | Port Monroe | Port Myer ] | Nansemond ordn; { Port Story 5 et | Arlington~ (restoration of Tee Man | Arlington National Cemetery Culpepper National Cemetery. . | Alexandria National Cemetery Hampton National Cemetery. . Staunton National Cemetery.. Predericksburg and Spottsylvania Petersburg National Military Park Virginia. ice depot sion ‘Total for $518,300 61,000 199,500 1,087.9: 59.500 466,500 7.000 18,500 $2,831,510 ..$1,375,087 6,960 3 1) . 2,500 780,032 314,884 A I O A R MRl 77 EVENING { unions prevail was already under way, | August . STAR, | | IWORKERS EXHORTED BY GREEN T0 UNITE Urges Organization to Share Fully in National Re- covery Act. B the Assoctated Press An appeal to unorganized workers of the Nation to unite to obtain “all thei rights and benefits” of the National | Tecovery act went forth today from President William Green of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor Meantime, officials indicated that a general movement to organize in indus- tries where the open shop or company and directed by the federation. “The hour has arrived when labor can be free, free to organize,” Green's open letter addressed to “wage earners and salaried workers everywhere” said. “Congress has established your legal right to organize. Workers every- where should avail themselves of the opportunity thus presented.” He based his appeal upon the section of the act holding that in every cods of fair competition presented in- dustry “employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing and shall ‘be free from inter- ference, Testraint or coercion of em- ployers of labor, or their agents. in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other con- certed activities for the purpose of col- lective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection: (2) that no employe and no one seeking employment shall be re- quired as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining. organizing or assisting a | labor organization of his own choosing.” Led by the National Association of Manufacturers, many industrialists volced vigorous opposition to this sec- tion during consideration by Congress, contending it was designed to disturb satisfactory employe-employer relations. George L. Harrison Returns. NEW YORK, June 24 (#)—George L. Harrison, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, returned | yesterday on the Bremen from London He declined to discuss his activitics in England, but described them merely as conferences with members of the cen- tral banks. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy, with local showers and thunderstorms late tonight or tomorrow; continued warm; moderate south winds. Maryland—Partly cloudy, followed by local thundershowers late tonight or tomorrow; not much change in tem- perature. Virginia—Showers and thunderstorms probably tonight and tomorrow; slight- ly warmer in extreme southwest portion tonight. West Virginia—Partly cloudy, with thundershowers in north portion to- morrow and in south portion tonight or tomorrow; slightly warmer in south- east portion’ tonight. Outlook for June 26 to July 1. North and Middle Atlantic States— Showers and thunder storms early part of week and again about Friday. Nor- mally warm temperatures, except cooler about Wednesday. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear this morning. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature, Barometer, Degrees. Inches. s 29.94 29.97 3003 8 pm... Midnight Today— 4 am 8 am. Noon 30.03 30.07 30.08 (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 89, 4:15 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 80. Lowest, 69, 6 a.m. today. Year ago, 58. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to moon today.) Highest, 89 per cent, at 3:45 p.m. yes- 37 per cent, at 4 am. today. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 100, on June 9. Lowest, 14, on February 9 Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. . 8:48am . 3:14am. . 9:24pm . 3:55pm. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches ir the Capital (current month to date) Month, 1933 Averag®. Record Jenuary ... 355 709 '82 February March Tomorrow. 9:27am. 3:54am 10:04 pm 4:34pm High Low High . Low September October N: .56 December 3 us Cities. Weather in Variol Stations Weather. | . Clear Pu cloudy Ruln ¢ | B | Eoston. Mass Buftalo. N. ¥ Charleston, 8.C. 241 vo. T linati. Okio Cleveland. Ohio. Columbia, 8. C Denver. Detroi El Paso, Galveston Helena. Mont Huror Cloudy Cloudy Clear Ptcloudy Cloudy WASHINGTON, i ¢ Philudelphia ¢ Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Portiand Raleigh. M Salt Lake Ciiy Sun Antonio, o ¥ Tampa. WASIL, 000 NG C FOREIGN. Stalions Tem London, England France . France < Z . Switzerland. Stockliolm, Gibraltar No Horta (Fayal). v Current St Georges. Bermu San Juan._Puerto Rico. Havana Oolon, res observations.) da.. 76 4 R 80 a1 P Cul ‘canal Zone loudy Clewr PLcloudy Ruin lear (7 am.. Greenwich time. today.) ture. Weather. ™ Cloudy Gloudy Rain Cloudy Cloudy today.) Part cloudy oudy Bart cjouds art cloudy Cloudy' D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 19 Winning Their Way to Leads in Hollywood THIRTEEN ELEVATED TO HIRTEI Thi do Beach, Calif.; Lorena La Mann of Fort Worth, Pat i D.C. GETS $1918.469 FOR ROAD BUILDING Army Asks Additional $2,- 707,856 to Repair Service Quarters Here. (Continued From First Page) a reservation that it could require con- struction of roads desired by the United States railroad co-ordinator to provide adequate “year-round highway service in replacement of branch-line raflroad service proposed to be abandoned.” Designed to get as much manpower to work with pick and shovel as possible, the regulations announced “it will be required that the maximum of human labor be used in lieu of machinery wherever practicable and consistent with sound economy and public advantage.” As another point in the program to see that as many unemployed as can be used are given jobs, the board ruled “no convict labor shall be employed and no materials manufactured or produced by convict labor shall be used on any project constructed under this act.” Contracts, the board decided, shall prescribe minimum wage rates, to be determined by the State highway de- partments, and the minimum rates shall be announced in asking for bids for the construction. Contracts for all projects under this act shall contain a stipulation that “except in execulive, administrative and supervisory positions, so far as practi- cable and feasible, no individual shall be permitted to work more than 30 hours in any week,” the board went on. Exemptions Allowed. This requirement, it explained, would permit working time lost because of bad weather in one week to be made up in another. and permit a limitation of not more than 130 hours of work a month to be substituted for the 30-hour week requirement on projects in localities where there was not sufficient labor available. Neither of tHese requirements would hold in areas where work camps are remote and inaccessible and it is nec- ry to house and feed the labor, the | said, but this must be determined by the State highway departments and the Federal Public Roads Bureau, with a flat stipulation that even in these cases no employe may work more than 40 hours in one week. ‘The board held that projects must be initiated by the States and submitted to it in the same manner as other Federal-aid highway projects, and of the distribution in the State of the funds allocated said: “Not more than 50 per cent of the funds apportioned to any State under this act shall be applied to projects on the Federal-aid highway system outside | i of the corporate limits of municipal- <; not less than 25 per cent of such s shall be applied to projects on extensions of the Federal-aid highway system into and through municipali- | ties. and not more than 25 per cent of such funds shall be applied to sec- ondary or feeder roads until provision has been made for the satisfactory completion of at least 90 per cent of the initial limiting Federal-aid highway system in such State.” R. F. C. Makes Report. the works program and in- ial and farm price-lifting pushing forward fast as possible, the Recon- struction Finance Corporation yester- day gave Congress a report for May showing & peak in that month for its of allocations. They totaled around $500,000,000, including $300,000,000 to the new Federal Farm Credit Agency for refinancing farm mortgages, while $5.- 050.000 went to increase Federal sub- scriptions to the capital stock of the Federal Home Loan Bank. Relief and loans to financial Jinstitu- tions took $152,005,000, around $12,500,- 000 of this going to States for sup- port of the unemployed. Of the loans authorized to banks, etc., some of the biggest were: $14,000,000 to the Anglo- California National Bank, San Fran- cisco; $13.230,000 to the receiver, Cana- val Bank & Trust Co, New Orleans, and $9,000,000, Hibernia Bank & Trust Co., New Orleans. The conservator of the Harriman National Bank, New York, was down on the list for $6,- 585.000. Qther sizeable amounts were distributed in stock subscriptions for reorganization of closed banks. 1,000 CHINESE REDS ARE REPORTED SLAIN Canton Military Authorities Tell of 3-Day Battle in Kwang- tung Province. By the Associated Press, CANTON, China, June 24—Canton government military authorities said today 1,000 Communists were killed in Southern Kiangsi Province in & three- day troops, who los! (Advices received at Shanghai today said a number of Americans were among the missionaires in Northeast Szechwan Province, Western China, who have been forced to leave their stations because of Chinese Communist activities.) 200 men battle with Kwangtung Province | of Mount Vernon, s of St. Louis, Renee Whitney “JUNIOR STARS"” OF THE SCREEN. EN young actresses were recently elevated by T:ck L. Warner, film producer, to the rank of junior stars, ynn Browning of Kansas City, Ann Ho s of Waycross, Loretta Andre . Ind.; Maxine Cantway of Chicago, Bar- of Chicago, Margaret Le Marr of Redon- on of Miami, Alice Jans of Creston, Iowa: Geraine Greer of Minneapolis, Helen g of Richmond and Helen Foster of Independence, Kans. —Wide World Photo. BANGS HEADS CLUB Elected President of Reciprocity Organization Last Night. Ralph Bangs was elected president of the Reciprocity Club of Washington at | the annual meeting last night. Arthur C. Smith, first vice president of the | national organization, addressed the group. Other officers ehosen included Jack Mullane, first vice president: Edmond Baltz, second vice president, and S. Hil- ton, treasurer. NAZI 'WAR' THREAT - MET BY DOLLFUSS | Leader of Party Seized at | Border—“Air Raids” Stir Austria and Berlin. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, June 24—The Austrian government answered the deflance of | the Nazi party today by arresting Al- fred Frauenfeld, leader of the party, at | Villach in Carinthia where, it was al- | leged, he planned to cross the border | | into Italy. | This action was taken after the bom- | bardment of the city of Linz yesterday | by Nazi handbills dropped from air- planes. These handbills threatened a :new fight on the regime of Chancellor | Engelbert Dollfuss in which the Nazis | would “employ whatever weapons | deemed necessary to achieve the goal.” | Leader Frauenfeld, who heads a party | which has been officially banned by the | government, is to be brought to Vienna from Villach. { The announcements of the new revo- | | lutionary offensive against the Dollfuss | | government excited the Vienna press. | | “The fight which now begins will be | | waged onthat plane to which it has Leen forced by the Dollfuss govern: ment,” the handbills declared. | News of the occurrence crowded the | chancellor’s own speech at Linz off the | "mtn page of the semi-official Reichs- | post. Chancellor Dollfuss replied with spirit | to the Nazi threat. “It is no use trying to frighten us, not even with death threats, such as myself and my wife have been getting —a whole sheaf of them,” he said. “A man who risked his Afe for 37 months | at the front during the World War isn't going to be afraid to fulfill his| duty toward his homeland now. “Not only we members of the Gov- ernment, but the entire law enforce- ment organization, with the police and | the gendarmerie, are ready to defend the homeland with the last drop of their blood.” Minister of Security Emil Fey and representatives of the army. police and gendarmerie held a conference to dis- cuss preparedness measures. “AIR RAID” ON BERLIN, By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 24—Police reports of an aerfal “pamphlet attack” on the German government by “unidentified | forelgn airplanes” gave rise today to | renewed Nazi objections to the Ver- ‘sallles treaty, which. denied Germany |an air force. | “A number of unidentified foreign airplanes of a type unknown to Ger- many, encirciing the Wilhelmstrasse | (where the foreign office is located) and | the workers districts, dropped handbills | insulting to the government,” the police | 1‘ report said. DESERTIONS DROP INFORESTRY ONTS Applications for Discharge | Also Have Been Greatly Reduced. y the Associated Press. Desertions from the Civilian Con- servation Corps have fallen to a little more than half the original percentage and applications for discharge also have been greatly reduced, according ‘to Teports of corps area commanders to the War Department. The latest | statistical reports, received here yes- terday, are accompanied by praise for the manner in which the city-bred for- esters are tackling their outdoor work. Robert Fechner, director of the proj ect, expressed himself as “very gra fied at the reports” concerning his | 240,000 charges of whom 160,000 are | now in work camps. He was told the | latest reports will show a smaller de- sertion rate than the 0.9 per cent of some weeks ago. | showed 1.5 per cent of desertions. Men Well Behaved. Throughout the bulky mass of reuorts by corp units, in each of which there | are from 30 to several hundred men, | | ! B! | there were few that did not have the | word “none” written after the heading ‘disciplinary action.” Often the Army officers in command set down “none was needed.” “The men are always willing to do their work to the best of their ability,” was the notation often scribbled or typewritten on the individual unit re- ports. Statements have been received by Fechner from eight of the nine Army corps areas. Only the 4th Corps Area remains to be heard from. This covers Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and North Carolina. ‘The dates of the various reports differ, but the reports received showed the ollowing _enrollments and discharges: First Corps “Area, Boston, 10,500 enrollments; 14 discharges. Second Corps Area, New York, 18,000 enroliments; 20 discharges. ‘Third Corps Area, Baltimore, 15,000 enrollments; 41 discharges. Fifth Corps Area, Columbus, Ohio, 10.000 enrollments; 2 discharges. Sixth Corps Area, Chicago, 20,000 enrollments; 21 discharges. Seventh Corps Area, Omaha, 16,000 enrollments; 22 discharges. Sixth Corps Report. | The report for the 6th Corps Area | said that at the Brinks Camp at Wash. burn, Wis., 80 out of 147 in the unit re- fused to worl® one day because one man was discharged who wouldn't work, and that 37 deserted as a result. Fragmentary reports from the 8th Corps Area, at San Antonio, covering about 2,500 out of around 20,000, failed to show any discharges or desertions. The 9th Corps Area, at San Fran- cisco, which on June 18 had 54,000 in or en route to camps, had about a hun- dred deserters or absentees who were | discharged. The prevailing penalties for infrac- tions of rules were disclosed as extra duty, kitchen police, revocation of passes from the camps or reprimands. U.S. TO PROTEST PACT MADRID, June 24 () —An American | protest is expected to be made against a new Franco-Spanish trade agreement | giving French automobiles preference over those produced in other countries. More than 80 per cent of automobiles used in Spain came from the United States. LINCOLN’S CABIN | Worl Reconstruction of H By the Associated Press. DISAPPEARED d’s Fair Authorities Centering Efforts Now on istoric Log Building. in storage for safe keeping when the The first report | BARUCH GOES BA HOME TO NEW YORK “Unofficial President” Shuns Publicity of His Work. Doesn’t Want Title. BY REX COLLIER. | shrinking from the limelight of pub- | licity which greeted his arrival and somewhat appalled by press reports that | he had become “unofficial President of the United States,” Bernard M. Baruch, veteran financier and friend of Presi- dents, slipped out of the Carlton Hotel | yesterday and returned to New York | without having performed a single act | to justity bis unsolicited title | Not once since his informal appoint- | ment as a “Government adviser” and | “liaison officer between President Roose- velt and the American delegates at the London Economic Conference” has the { tall, white-haired economic expert set { foot in the office turned over to him at the State Department: nor has he been seen anywhere else in the gray stone building vacated by Secretary Hull and | Assistant Secretary Moley. Shunned Glare of Publicity. | Apparently the first blaze of publicity | occasioned by Moley’s announcement of | Baruch’s assignment caused the sedate New Yorker to shun the press-besieged | Department of State in favor of a well secluded suite in the Carlton Hotel, some biocks north of the White House. From there he sent word to department aides that he would not need Assistant | Secretary Moley's cffice, which had been | offered him. He would get in touch with the department when and if necess: officials were advised. Up until his hasty departure today was said at the State Department that no cablegrams from London had been | sent to the department’s “adviser” and that so far as was known Mr. Baruch hfd not begun to function officially or unofficially in his extraordinary role. ‘Whether this was because no cable- grams had been received from the Lon- | don_delegates—which seems unlikely— | or because Mr. Baruch wanted time to orient himself in a job that has no precedents in the memory of State De- partment officials, was a matter of speculation. Just a Lot of Hooey. “It's just a lot of hooey,” was the way one official facetiously passed off published assertions that Baruch was | “Acting President” or a “super-cabinet | officer without portfolio.” State De- partment attaches are known to have delivered at least one telegram to the | financier. It was a congratulatory mes- sage addressed to him as “Unofficial | President of the United States.” | Baruch himself has been “too busy” at his hotel to receive members of the | press desiring enlightenment on his duties. An efficient secretary fends off | all prospective interviewers with the polite explanation that Mr. Baruch just | hasn’t the time to talk to newspaper men. That Baruch has been busily occu- pled in conference with numerous. in- | dividuals and groups is certain, but the identity of these visitors is being care- fully guarded. Having been flitting in and out of Washington since World War days, he is widely acquainted in the Capital, especially in official eircles. Given Great Power. Despite the persistent denials that Barulch has b:gn ;esud with any un- usual powers, the State Dej ent direction of the Pruldmm s given permission to extend to Baruch a privilege apparently never before ac- corded a private citizen—the right to open confidential cablegrams and let- | ters of grave international importance. | _ Furthermore, according to the an- | nouncement of Assistant Secretary Moley, Mr. Baruch, although entirely without official status, will maintain a confidential liaison with the President, | with the London delegates and with | Government heads here. He is empow- {ered to study the confidential reports from London and make recommenda- tions anent the course of events there and on this side of the water. In view of this blanket verbal “com- mission,” Mr. Baruch, if he cared to, could wield much greater influence be- hind the scenes of Government than has fallen the lot of any other private citizen—not excepting Col. E. M. House, close adviser to President Wilson and now assuming some prominence in a | similar role with the present admin- | istration. Gen. Johnson Baruch Man. In this connection it is of interest to note that two “Baruch men"—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson and George Peek— have been appointed to positions of commanding prominence in the Presi- dent’s recovery program. Gen. John- son, former economic adviser in Ba- ruch’s organization, is administrator of the national recovery act and Peek, another former associate, is administra- tor of the agricultural adjustment act. Baruch'’s counsel has been coveted by men in high places for many years. President Wilson had a high regard for his advice, and he was called to the White House frequently during the | regime of President Hoover. | His creed is best summed up in & statement he made some weeks ago before the Senate Finance Committee: “Balance budgets. Stop spending money we haven't got. Sacrifice for frugality and revenue. Cut Govern- ment spending—cut it as rations are cut in a siege. Tax—tax everybody for everything. But take hungry men off the world’s pavements and let people smile again.” AGUINALDO FIGHTS. VOTE ON AUTONOMY Leader of 1901 Inmsurreetion At- tacks Plebiscite Agreed On by Factions. | | B the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, June 24—Emilio | Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine in- surrection of 1901, today attacked the proposed plebiscite on the independence act to which rival political leaders | have tentatively agreed. | By this stand taken in a speech in CHICAGO, June 24.—Last pages of 1 World’s Fair was postponed a year, and | Isabela Province the dynamic little head a book, telling all that may be told of the mysterious disappearance prior to he last Chicago World's Fair of the Abraham Lincoln log cabin, were writ- ten today by the sole survivor of the | | assoclation formed in 1890 to preserve | it as a memorial. | Forty years since then have served to {kill all hope that the cabin Lincoln split rails for and helped build, and which was the home of his mother for 30 years, would ever be found. Efforts noW center on reconstruction of the cabin, by the measurements and de- tailed description made when it was | taken apart in 1891 and brought to | Chicago from its original site in Coles County. Mrs. Eleanor Gridley, 87, who super- vised the removal, and has written her | second book about the cabin, said John Hall, Lincoln’s cousin, received $10,000 for it. In Chicago it was reassembled in the ex@asmon building of the interstate fair, ending the opening of the Co- Mrs. Gridley went to Europe. When she returned, she related, she | | was appalled to find the storage room | empty. And from Mr. Gunther, the | storage house proprietor, all she ever | learned was: “Perhaps you may find vour cabin in the bottom of the sea!” “Loss of that treasure entrusted to my care.” Mrs. Gridley sald, “preyed on my mind. I tried to convince myself the cabin had never been brought to Chi- cago; that I had been dreaming.” Later she said a man at the storage house told her he had helped move the cabin. “All T have gained throughout the years is circumstantial evidence, she said. “All I could do to solve the mys- tery is ask ‘Why was the cabin de- stroyed”” and ‘Who wanted it de- stroyed?’ " Finally she said she had come to be- lieve that the persons responsible, neces- sarily of powerful influence, were those ashamed of the humble origin of Abra- ham Lincoln, and eager to prevent the exhibition at the World’s Fair of the lumbian Exposition. Finally, it was put cabin He helped build for his mother, of the insurrecto veterans’ tion became the sole outstanding advo- cate of outright rejection of proffered terms of independence. “If I were the leader,” he said, “I would not submit the law to the people or to a convention, but decide myself.” Manuel Quezon, presient of the Sen- ate, who has been attacking the terms of the act, recently agreed to a plebiscite in a conference with Senator Sergio Osmena and Speaker of the House Manuel Roxas, champions of acceptance. The plebiscite, to be held after the Legislature convenes July 17, would serve as a guide in reaching the final decision, either at & convention or by the Legislature. organiza= Alleged Spy Found Slain. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 24 (#).—The body of a young man who had been strangled was found today on a Sofia street. A note -Emned to his coat said: “Thus perish Serb spies.”