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A2 % THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE IMISS PERKINS WILL | ' DISCUSS RECOVERY! Labor Secretary to Speaki Tuesday in National Radio Forum. On the eve of the Federal Govern- ment starting its machinery to going July 1, to battle thrcugh vast legis- lative powers for restoration of this country’s economic_position, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins will discuss in the National Radio Forum Tuesday night, June 27, just how the adminis- tration expects to boost buying power and stabilize prices through the Indus- trial Control Board. This forum is arranged by The Wash- ington Star and Miss Perkins' speech will be broadcast over the coast-to- coast network of the National Broad- casting Co. Problems of Labor. Miss Perkins has selected for her subject “The Problems of Labor and Industries.” She will explain the functions vested in Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, industrial control admini: trator, through the national recovery act, and the part labor and industries are expected to take in this vast meas- ure. One of the vital factors of the pow- #rs given Gen. Johnson is to elevate the Jong-depressed purchasing power of the dollar to above the curve on the Na- tion’s price chart. The administration | expects this to be accomplished by in- dustrial trade agreements stipulating wage increases and shorter working ! hours for labor, which will stimulate purchasing power not only by pay roll | b::u. but placing more workers on Jjobs. Miss Perkins is the first woman to hold a cabinet portfolio in this country and is an international authority on labor and industrial questions. She was named by President Roosevelt as a member of the advisory board to aid Gen, Johnson in administering indus- trial control. ‘Won International Fame. Shortly after taking office in March Miss Perkins planted the seed from which the national recovery act grew. She was the author of the rider to the Black five-day bill which sought to es- tablish boards to regulate the problems of industries and labor. Her plan was superseded by the administration’s re- covery measure. She also to0k & prom- inent part in the drafting of this act. Prior to entering President Rocse- velt's cabinet she was for years com- missioner of labor of New York State. ‘The manner in which she administered this offce in the largest industrial State in the Union gained for her in- ternational fame. THOMPSON ELECTED TO SUCCEED BRIGGS Galveston Business Man Defeats Eight Candidates in Con- gress Race. By the Assoclated Press. GALVESTON, Tex, June 24—Clark W. Thompson, Galveston business man, was the winner of the seventh district congressional election, incomplete but apparently decisive returns indicated Jate tonight. ‘Thompson had & commanding lead in & field of nine candidates when nearly 14,000 votes had been tabulated. Ap- proximately half of these were from Galveston County, the remainder from all of the nine other counties in the district, served for several terms by the late Clay Stone Briggs, whose death made & special election unnecessary. Totals tabulated shortly before mid- night showed: R. E. Biggs, Liberty, 1,133; Jake B. Clegg, Trinity County#967; Thomas D. Dent (colored), Galveston, 705; Julian P. Greer, Elkhart, 586; Nall Colson, 155; Nat Patton, Crockett, James -D. Pickett, Palestine, 2,27 Theodore Stubbs, Galveston, 2,380; Thompson, 3,801. POLICEMAN ADMITS HE AIDED HOLD-UP; DESPERATE, HE SAYS (Continued From First Page.) Involved in the robbery, Inspector Burke summoned six policemen from the first, second and tenth precincts to his office at headquarters shortly before mid- night. The six filed in in full uniform, & roll was called by the inspector and the men were disarmed and ordered to march upstairs after him. As they reached the third floor, Detective Sergts. A. D. Mansfield and Richard Cox, who had been ordered to permit no officer to leave the floor, closed in after them at the head of the stairs. In the squad Toom six witnesses were waiting, one of them, James Mason 25, colored, also charged with the rob- bery, and the six policemen filed in to_face them Four of the witnesses polnted out Patton as the officer they had seeu enter a house with two colored men shortly sfter the hold-up. The two other witnesses were not certain in t r identification, but tentatively agr with the majority. Inspector Burke then ordered all the | officers except Patton to follow him | downstalirs to his office. A few moments | later, Cox and Mansfield escorted Pat- ton into the room Patton Tells His Story. “Do you know this man’’ Burke asked Patton, pointing to Mason The officer replied he had kn the colored man for about two week “Then I will let him tell you his | story, and you can say whether it is | true or not.” the inspector said { “There 15 no g that.” said Patton. “I wi you everything The officer then told how after being relieved from special duty at the ve eran’s parade 10 pm. Wednes- day, he picked up the two colored ac- complices in his car and drove by to make @ survey of the hold-up scene. | 1 nearby. he related. he talked | while to sattendants at| and then returned to | the colored men the | | coast was ¢ They wer drawn son pi mana helpers, Cli Edwards. They the automobfle awaited them, away Immediately afterward, with the of- ficer accompanying them, the hold-up men went to & house and divided the spoils. It was there that the identi- fying witnesses saw the o, y said. Mason, the colored man arrested. said he came here from Detroit about three years ago. The hold-up victims identified himg but the second colored man has not feen apprelic ded The five other officers called 10 head- quarters with Patton were singled out Inspector Burke explained, because of slight resemblance to Patwon Patton was appointed to the force in September, 1930, and signed to the tenth pr lives with his wife and two small chil- dren in the 600 block of Gallatin street Tt was said at the tenth precinct sta- tion that Patton's wife is understood to have been {ll for some time. His two <l , & boy and a girl, were sald to be about 5 years and 18 months old. ik and Harry rushed back to which Patt made their get- then and Speaks in Forum SECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS. 54 MIDSHIPMEN WILL ENTER ARMY’S “WEST POINT OF AIR” (Continued From First Page.) is composed of 150 candidates, the Naval Academy graduates accounting for a third of the group. In addition there are 18 enlisted men of the Regu- lar Army Air Corps, four enlisted men of other branches of the Regular Army and 74 civilians, all college graduates and all members of Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units in college. The group of new student Army pilots includes two Naval Academy graduates from the District of Colum- bia—Robert C. H. Hird, 1650 Harvard street, and David Richard Stephan. One clvilian appointment was made from the National Capital, that of Joseph McG. Michaelson, 2548 Univ- ersity place. Four From Maryland. Maryland is represented in the new class by four midshipmen—George P. Koch of Ruxton, Thomas Edwin Norris and Frederick W. Sheppard of Annap- olis, and Nelson T. Samuels of Severna Park—and four civilians, John R. Forsythe and Carlton W. Gibbs of Baltimore, Walter Bonnet of Cottage City and George R. Hargils, 3d, of Frederick. From Virginia the new class gets a midshipman, Lawrence Robert Neville, of Portsmouth; five civilians, Douglas E. Williams of Blacksburg, Julian P. Fox, jr., of Chester, Leonard R. Mason of Lynchburg, L. J. Kilby of Peola Mills, and Henry C. Kerlin of Roanoke; and an enlisted man, Sergt. Ernest F. Williams, on duty with the R. O. T. C. unit at the Virginia Polytechnical Insti- tute, Blacksburg. All the new students, midshipmen, Army enlisted men and civilians alike, will undergo training as flying cadets and those who successfully pass the eight months of training in the Pri- mary Flying School at Randolph Field and four months at the Advanced Fly- ing School, Kelly Field, Texas, will be rated as airplane pilots, commissioned as second lieutenants in the Army Air Corps, and placed on extended active duty with Air Corps squadrons, so far as appropriations permit. Provisions of Regulation. Under the newly amended War Department regulations, priority in the appointment of flying cadets will be given in the future as follows 1. Graduates of the United States Military Academy, West Point, 2. Graduates of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. 3. Graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy. 4. Enlisted men of the Army Air Corps and other branches of the Army with at least six months of service. 5. Officers and enlisted men of the National Guard with at least six months of service with Air Corps units. 6. College graduates who are grad- uates of Air Corps R. O. T. C. units and similar units of other arms or services. 7. Graduates of recognized colleges and universities. 8. Officers and enlisted men of Na- tional Guard units who have had at least six months of service. 9. College students who are members of R. O. T. C. units and who have completed their junior year | 10. Reserve officers and enlisted men | of at least six months of service 11. Students who have completed two years ut a recognized university. In appointing fiying cadets for the new July class it was not possible to g0 beyond the sixth category, the War Department exg graduates of the ) West Pointers who have just graduated will not be eligible for training at Ran- dolph until the next, or Fall class. No Coast Guard Academy graduates were certified for appointment The new policy will make it possible for the Nation to take advantage of training given at Annapolis and New L g men who, because 1 tuation, cannot be or Coast would be of Pot increased specimens hood wi ol tments t the PP will be even further g that the finest ion’s young man- ailable fortraining as country’s combat TO PRESS MATTERN HUNT | Business Agent Will Seek to Co- Relief Work. June 24 (#)—Jack entative of ordinate th Mattern's co-ordinating ching parties. is & good chance lark said, “and we are going to do everything we can to lo- cate him. He b s led an outdoor life and an ad he made a forced landing somewhere { between Stberia and Alaska 1 am sure { he has been able to adapt himself to whatever conditions he has found.” the ac o of findir. Say Girl Was Kidnaped. LOS ANGELES, June 24 () —Al- |legedly kidnaped while attending a |purty” today 'in Alhambra, Dorothy Jar orth, 23, of San Gabriel | was sought by sheritl's officers tonight | sts at the party asked the au- ities to locate Getchell Dow, 26, an ant, who they said they under- stood had proposed marriage recently to the young woman Sherifi’s deputies said they had been informed Miss Hollingsworth was dragged from the house to a motor car parked at the curb, and tRat the driver sped away with her in the machine, regulations the caliber “West | nturous one, so that if | NORRIS RIDICULES POLICY ON RUSSIA Declares Soviet Would Make Purchases Which Would Aid Jobless. i Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- { braska, in & formal statement ridicul- ing America’s failure to recognize the Soviet government, said yesterday he was reliably informed Russia wanted to buy millions of dollars’ worth of Amer- ican meat, cotton and machinery- which would give employment to thousands of jobless. Reccgnition of the Soviet republic is understood to be an open guestion with President Roosevelt, with informed quarters-of the opinion that no action will be taken at least before the close of the London Economic Conference. Speculation over Russian recognition flared high recently when President Roosevelt included the Soviet republic Iin the list of mations to which he sent his disarmament proposal. Former Senator Brookhart recently said that as a trade counselor for the farm administration he found there were great possibilities for the develop- ment of trade with Russia. Would Raise Farm Prices. ~Norris, who heretofore has played little part in Russian recognition talk, said he had “just learned on reliable authority that the Russian government desires to buy in the American market $10,000,000 of meat products, 1,000,000 bales of cotton and $400,000,000 worth of machinery.” The Soviet government, he added, would make payment partially in goods and partially in money over & period of several years. “Her purchase of meats, cotton and machine Norris said, “would not only raise the price of hogs and cotton to a remunerative figure, but it would give employment of thousands of un- employed Americans and business to manufacturing concerns. “What is the objection to this pro- posed deal? “We do not like her form of govern- ment. We disagree with her on re- ligion. Our people are shocked at the easy manner in which divorces can be obtained in Russia. For these and simi- lar reasons, we refuse to trust her, or to have any official relation with her. “What are the facts?” Has Never Defaulted. Norris then contended that the Soviet government had never default- ed on a single obligation, while all but one of America’s allies have re- pudiated their obligations in whole or in part, “The Russian government has no official religion,” he said. “Neither have we. We do not like the religion of Japan, or even of poor old China, but we still recognize them. “Divorces are easy and cheap in Russia. easy but expensive. The only differ- ence is in the expense. Statistics show that divorces are increasing in America and decreasing in Russia. government. Neither do we like- the governmental activities in Germany, or in Italy, or in Japan, but we still do business with them. ' recognize them, and negotiate with them in interna- tional affairs. “Ever since the war we have been trying to get rid of our agricultural surplus. Russia wants to buy it. We refuse to sell to her. We compel our farmers to struggle along, producing the food we eat and the clothes we wear at a financial loss to themselves. How long will we continue to hide our heads in the sand?” Requests Recognition, ‘The United States Board of Trade yesterday issued & statement requesting President Roosevelt to restore “full diplomatic relations with the Soviet government.” Charles W. Hunt, former member of the Federal Trade Commission, presi- dent of the United States Board of Trade, said he was elected head of the organization at the first meeting he attended several months ago. He said it had no member associations, but it was planned to extend its scope later. He said former Senator Brookhart, counsel for the organization, asked him to attend the meeting. Rudolph Spreckles of California is listed as the chairman of the board. Former Repre- sentative La Guardia is vice president VETERANS’ OWN FUNDS FINANCED FORT HUNT BONUS CONVENTION (Continued From First Page.) the pockets of veterans, should be de- posited in the Federal Treasury. 1t stipulated. however, that no with- drawals should be made from the fund except in time of war, when it could be expended by the Secretary of War for the “recreation, amusement, com- fort, contentment and health of the enlisted personnel of the military es- tablishment.” Congress Took Action. . Several weeks later, however, Con- gress decided to take these trust funds of the veterans of the World War period to bear the cost of the bonus convention. The way independent offices appropriation act of June 16. It took the funds entirely out of the hands of the Secretary of War and turned them over to the Vet. erans’ Administrator, and made avail- able for “reimbursement to the Vet- erans’ Bureau for all expenses (includ- ing transportation to bona-fide resi- dence) incurred in connection with indigent veterans in attendance at the | convention of the rank and file organ- ization of World War veterans.. . . . The decision of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in connection with such expenditures shall be final and conclusive,” the new law declares. Inquiry at the Veterans' Bureau yes- terday threw little light on the situa- tion. beyond the existence of such & fund. Whether the full $788,068 was used in defraying expenses of the bonus convention, or whether only a portion was used, could not be learned. The report on expenditures has not been | completed Under Army spervision, the fund had been carefully conserved and used only for special purposes, where the needs demanded it. The Army had nothing to do with the recent bonus conven- tion, ment at the request of the Veter Bureau. Discovery of how the expense money was obtained came as a bit of concerting news to the War Depart- nt WASHINGTON MAN FOUND | DEAD AT ASHEVILLE, N. C. | Body of Donald Cassells, 50, Is Discovered in His Room at Country Club. By the Associsted Press ASHEVILLE, N. C.. June 24 —Donald Cassells, 50, of Washinglon was found dead in his room st the Biltmore For- st Country Club here today. H. A. MacFayden, manager of the club, said two notes were found in the oom, one addressed to Mrs. Cassells nd the other to MacFayden MacFayden said the note addressed to him requested him to take charge of Cassells’ personal property and to notify his wife and other relatives. Mr. Cassells had been in Asheville for 10 days In the United States, they arey “We do not like Russia’s form of ; y for this was paved in thej except to furnish tents and equip- | Baby Is Fatally Burned by Sparks From Incinerator By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE. R. T, June 24. —Mosquito netting draped over a baby carriage caught fire from smoldering rubbish in an_incin- erator and fatally burned a 2- month-old baby here this after- noon. A youth who carried the child out of the burning carriage suffered burns on the hands. The baby, Joseph F. Lima, ir., had been put out in the yard for 2 nap. FIX GGENT LEVY ON LEAF TOBACCO Placed in Effect to Fi- nance Acreage Cut. (Continued From First Page.) to put into immediate application the methods which Congress has prescribed to improve this situation. “I have every confidence that the cotton producer will face the facts and co-operate fully in the reasonable and practical plan that is proposed.” Two Payments Provided. In connection with the tobacco plan, for agreeing to take out of produc- tion 50 per cent of his base acreage, each cigar filler and binder tobacco grower will receive, first a cash payment for each acre of his reduction. plus a second payment of 40 per cent of his average returns per acre on all tobacco harvested by him in 1931. ‘Administrators explained that be- cause of the variations in yield and quality of tobacco produced in the vari- ous areas a special effort has been made to make the plan equitable as be- iween growers in all areas and that special provisions would cover each of them. : On this basis, Wisconsin farmers who agree to the program will receive as the first payment $20 for each acre of the 50 per cent I base acreage. The first payment to growers in Ohio and Indiana districts will be $15 an acre, and the first to farmers in the Pennsylvania-New York districts $24 an acre : PFirst payments to growers in New England will be $47 for each acre of the 50 per cent reduction from their base acreage. In all cases the first payments are to | be made as soon as possible and nu!J later than September 1. Based on “Fair Exchange” Value, The rate of payment for the different areas will represent about 20 per cent of the “fair exchange” value of the roduction per acre. P e fair ‘exchange value of tobacco under the farm act is a price for their current output which bears the same Tatio to the average farm prices of tobacco from 1919 to 1928 as the cost of living on farms now bears to the Cost of living during the 1919-1928 period. In the case of other farm prod- lcts the base period is the pre-war era, 1909 to 1914. The second payment to growers. 40| I cent of the grower's average returns | Per ‘acre of tobacco harvested in 1933.| Will be paid within 60 days after proof | as to the returns per acre and the ful- fllment of the terms of the agreement to reduce acreage. In no event will the second payment | be less than 60 per cent of the first) yment. P&eo d Florida growers will be| ‘Georgia an ments for reducing the | peGrEdi e harvested this | amount of their crop | year. Payments will be made to those | farmers there who co-operate by leaving | unharvested an average of four stalk Jeaves of each tobacco plant grown. In addition, the farmer must agree, to market not more than an average ot | 960 pounds per acre harvested of this year's crcp. For fulfilling these condi- ticns the growers will be paid $60 per acre. Wallace Given Option. Payments to Georgia and Florida growers will be made in two parts, the | first $30 an acre after it has been de- termined that the specified portion of the crop has been left unharvested. This will be made between August 1 and | October 1. The second payment will be $30 an acre to be made within 60 days after preof that the grower did not market Iore than 960 pounds of this year's crop. The plan also provides that an option be given Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace dealing with the planting and harvesting of tobacco in 1934 and 1935. This provides that if the supply and demand situation is still unsatisfactory on December 1, next, for Georgia and Florida shade tobacco or unsatisfactory for cigar filler and binder tobacco on March 1, 1934, Wallace may exercise this opion and require limitation of next year's acreage and similarly for 1935 acreage. In the case of cigar filler and binder tobaccos, if this option is exercised the 1934 payments would be on the same basis as those this year. The rates per acre would not be less than two-thirds of those tliis year. Administrators said plans for reducing stocks of those farm- ers who accept the plan to reduce pro- duction are being considered. The processing tax will be collected from the manufacturer using cigar-leat tobacco and will apply to imported as well as domestic cigar types, The pres- ent prices of cigar leaf tobacco are about 6 cents under the fair exchange value and a tax at this rate may be levied, the date to be determined finally next week. Change in Cotton Plan. An important change in the cotton plan was announced by Cully A. Cobb of Atlanta, the cotton production .chief, who left for the South to direct per- sonally the campaign to be carried on through extension workers under which every cotton farmer is to be in- terviewed. This change provides that farmers, will be permitted to offer to destrcy up to 50 per cent of the area they have planted to cotton instead of a maxium of 40 per cent, previously announced. ‘The minimum each must offer in, crder to become eligible to benefit pay- ments remains the same, 25 per cent. Thousands of contract forms were shipped to extension directors in the cotton States Administrators expect that about | $100,000,000 will be paid to farmers in rentals if the response to the cam- paign assures Wallace that a large area will be taken out of production. The $100,000,000 will be advanced from the Treasury and payments made to farmers after action on the offe has been taken, the amount to be re- turned to the Treasury later from proceeds of the processing tax on cot- ton which will go into effect on Aug- ust 1. In addition the administrators are using about $54,000.000 from $200,000, 000 in appropriations provided by Con- gress to get the program under wa With this they are cbtaining title to about 2.400.000 bales of cotton on which the Government has made loans and on which the options will be offered W. C. T. U. Meets Thursday. COLESVILLE, Md., June 24 (Spe- cal)—The Women's Christian Tem- perance Union will meet in the W. C. T, U. Hall here Thursday at 2 p.m. Officers for the coming year will be elected and plans will be laid for the convention here in Ji Processing Program to Be eduction from their | { ects with the statement: ID.C. OFFICIALS ASK USE OF §1,500000 Appeal to Budget Bureau for Gas Tax Funds for High- way Projects. (Continued From First Page) funds of private agencies are exhausted and their cases are transferred to the District rolls. “In the fiscal year 1932 the District of Columbia will expend approximately $1,390.000 for emergency relief,” Maj. Donovan said. “Of this amount, $1.150,000 repre- sents appropriations made in the annual appropriation act for the District for 1933 and subsequent deficiency acts. $100,000 is the amount turned over to | the Commissioners by the Communit Chest to tide over the work of rel during the period between the exha tion of the initial appropriation of $35 000 and the granting of the first defi- clency appropriation in the first defi- ciency act, 1933, and $140,000 has been paid over to the District under the pro- visions of the act approved May 12, 1933, entitled ‘An act to provide for co-opera- tion by the Federal Government with the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia in relieving the hardship and suffering caused by unem- ployment, and for other purposes.” Ap- proximately 80 per cent of the total expenditures for relief under the fore- going sums is paid in wages under ‘made work' programs. $500,000 For Quarters, “For the fiscal year 1934 the District of Columbia_appropriation act carries an appropriation of $1,300,000 for emer- gency relief. It is the opinion of officers of the Board of Public Welfare that in the first quarter of the fiscal year 1934 the expenditures from this appropria- tion will amount to $500,000, covering all purposes, wages on ‘made work,’ di< rect relief and administrative expenses. “For the second quarter of the fiscal year 1934 the estimated expenditures are $650,000. This would leave only $150,000 on January 1, 1934, remaining of the entire appropriation of $1.300,000. It is believed that there may be ob- tained under the act of May 12, 1933, referred to, the further sum of about $170,000. This amount, with the unex- pended balance of the appropriation of $1,300,000, would be enough only to cover the period up to January 15. 1934. Whether any further additional funds will be paid over to the District of Columbia under the act of May 12, 1933, is at this time problematical. “It would appear, therefore, at this time, that at the belt the appropriation of $1,300,000, plus probable additional moneys paid over under the act of May 12, 1933, will cover a period not ex- tending beyond February 1. 1934, thus apaprently leaving the District without relief funds for five months of the fiscal year 1934. $750,000 Less for Relief. “Last vear the appropriations made by the Community Chest to relief or- ganizations operaiing through the Chest were about $1,2290,000. This calendar year, 1933, those same agencies are Te- ceiving $525,000. In other words, they will have about $750,000 less than they had last year to carry on their relief work. Some of this relief work has al- ready been transferred to the emergency reiief division of the Board of Public Welfare. Most likely all of it will have to be taken over by that division within the next month or two. This, of ccurse, adds a further burden which in past years has been provided for from pri- vate relief funds. “The total number of men now em- ployed on ‘mede work’ on wages paid from the emergency reliel appropriation under the Board of Public Welfare is 6000, employment being given every other week, or an average of 3,000 men per week. Fifteen per cent of this num- ber work five days every other week, with a daily wage of $2.80. Forty per cent work two days every other week at the same wage and 45 per cent work tiree days every other week at the same wage. In addition to this there are about 1,100 women receiving wages from the emergency relief appropriation weekly.” Fund Will Lie Idle, Maj. Donovan concluded his argu- ment for approval of the proposed proj- “It should be borne in mind that faflure to expend this fund of $1,500,000 will result in ac- cumulation of a surplus of approxi- mately $1,800,000 in the gasoline tax fund, which will lfe idle in the Treasury without use to the District of Columbia. “These monies, which belong wholly to the District of Columbia, and are in no way participated in by the United States, should be released, where need | | 1 shown, both from the viewpoint of work projects and the relief of unemplo ment, for expenditure to the extent au- thorized by the fund provision of $1 500,000." Approval of the items for the bridge and for the section of Constitution ave- nue would obligate $620,740 of the $1 gasoline tax surplus, leaving 0 for other purposes. These two comprised a first group recommended by Capt. Whitehurst. $275,000 for Current Work. The second group was made up of an item of $275,000 for current work for repairs to streets, alleys and sidewalks; $75,000 for construction of curbs and gutters or concrete shoulders for ma adam roadways. and $70,000 for the re- surfacing or replacement of asphalt, granite block or concrete pavements. In justifying expenditures for this class of work, Capt. Whitehurst declared the increased sums over those appro- priated in the 1934 District supply bill “are vital to the maintenance and eco- nomical salvage of existing structures.” Also, he declared, unless .this expendi- ture is approved more than 250 em- ployes of the Highway Department would have to be let out, as well as about 50 tradesmen and truck drivers of the shops and transportation unit. The budget director was asked to ap- ing $341,360, for major thoroughfare projects: Reservoir road, from Foxhall road to Conduit road, widening and paving, to cost $42,600. Michigan avenue, from North Cap- itol street to Columbia road; Park place, from Hobart place to approxi- mately 200 feet north of Columbia road; Hobart place, from Fifth street to Michigan avenue, and Fifth street, from Harvard street to Hobart place, cost $57,000. Benning Project Listed. Benning road northeast, from Lake Kingman culvert to Kenilworth ave- i nue, widening and paving, to cost $69.- 000, and building of one-half of the culvert at Lake Kingman, $32.000. Thirteenth street, from Massachusetts avenue to Logan Circle, widening to 70 fect and repaving, including necessary replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, trees, fire alarm and police patrol boxes, $75,000. Conduit road, from Reservoir road to District line, for grading north side and building culverts in advance of paving, $65,760. ‘The fourth class contained the fol- lowing 20 local street paving projects, having a total estimated cost of $117.- 900. All these items have been re- quested at one time or another by in- terested property owners and the High- way Department has on file requests for more than double the amount of local paving here recommended. They are Oliver strect, Broad Branch road to Nevada avenue, $8,200; Nevada avenue, Ncbraska avenue to Thirty-sixth street, $7,200; Walbridge place, Park road to Adams Mill road, $6.900; Twelfth street, Rittenhouse street to Sheridan street, $5,800; Twenty-sixth street, Virginia and justification for the expenditure is | prove the following expenditures, total- | widening, straightening and paving, to | I INNEUTRAL AREA Sino-Japanese Differences Over Zone Grow and Bring Serious Charges. B i o Lo L] By the Assoclated Press. TIENTSIN, Chins, June 24.—Sino-' Japanese troubles over the control and | administration of the newly established North China neutral zone, set up by the Tangku agreement of May 31, have become increasingly entangled. | ‘The Japanese military authorities now | are demanding that the Chinese ex- | plain why they have not established a | zone of a@ministration, in accordance | with terms of the truce, and why the | Tientsin-Shanhaikwan rallway service has not been resumed. “Brazen Effrontery.” Chinese politicians and military lead- ers characterized the Japanese demands as “brazen effronter¥ and they charged that the Japanese are responsible for preventing establishment of a competent administration in the neutral area and for blocking resumption of the railway traffic. ‘The Chinese alleged today that the Japanese are pouring Manchukuo troops into the neutralized territory and that they have incited Chinese ir- regulars within the zone to oppose the representatives of Nanking's authority. These irregular troops under the | leadership of a group of military offi- cers who do not bow to Nanking’s au- thority have declared independence of the area along the Lwan River, saying that this part of China is henceforth not subject to the authority of the Hopei (Peiping) provincial government. “Instigated by Japan.” Representatives of Nanking in North China branded this independence move- ment as “instigated by Japan, and meaning nothing except to reveal the bad faith of the Japanese in regard to the Tangku truce.” Chinese spokesmen assert that the ir- regulars within the zone are “either Chinese forces, or they belong to-Japan. In the first instance it is for Japan to drive them out in the same manner as the Japanese expelled Chinese troops. In the latter event, the Japanese should withdraw them to the Great Wall.” Claim Japanese Control. ‘The Japanese further demanded that a portion of the irregular troops in the vicinity of the Lwan River should guard the railroad line through the neutral zone. The Japanese maintained that these forces belong to the Chinese army (and are suitable for railway duty. The Chinese military chiefs declare these irregular units are under Japa- nese control. “If they guard the railway line, Japan thereby gains control of the railroad from Mukden to Tientsin, a situation which China cannot accept,” the Chi- nese protested. SHOTGUN WOUNDS TWO | Weapon Accidentally Discharged by Prisoner of Deputy Sheriffs. HARRISBURG, Il June 24 (#)—A shotgun in a motor car driven by Deputy Sheriffs Hal Bynum and Mur- ray Stinson was discharged accidentally here today, allegedly by James Marel, charged with intoxication, and two women were injured. The officers were bringing Marel here from Herrin. As their automobile passed a shoe store the shotgun was discharged. Mrs. Frank _McDonald, Harrisburg, and her niece, Rosalie Wil- son, of Pontiac, Mich., each was wound- ed in the leg. avenue to New Hampshire avenue, $9.800; Fourteenth street, Juniper street to Kalmia road, $15,000; Rittenhouse street, Georgia avenue to Twelfth street, $3,000; Park place southeast, Twenty- fifth street to approximately 300 feet east, $2,800; Palmer place southeast, ‘Twenty-fifth street to approximately 350 feet east, $3200; Twenty-third place northeast, E stret to approximately 300 feet south, $3.500; E street northeast, Twenty-third place to alley east of Twenty-fourth street, $5.200; Seventh street,” Nicholson street to Oglethorpe street, $2,900; Nicholson street, Sixth street to Seventh street, $4,000; Long- fellow street, Second street to Third | street, $8.100; Tuckerman street, Second | place to third street, $3,500; Tuckerman street, Eighth street to Ninth street, $5,200; Dahlia street, Georgia avenue to ninth street, $2,900; Eighth street, Aspen street to Butternut street, $4,600; Ninth street, Aspen street to Butternut | street, $4.600; Randolph street north- east, Bladensburg road to Twenty- fourth street, $11,500. Quotes From Hearing. To show the need for immediate re- placement of the Calvert Street Bridge Maj. Donovan quoted the following from the executive hearings before the Senate appropriations body: Senator Copeland: “It has been rep- resented to us in this committee and in the Legislative Committee that that bridge is dangerous and should be re- placed, and it was because we had that in mind that we voted the money for it this year, besides the question of em- ployment.” Again, { Senator Copeland (addressing | Commissioner Gotwals): “Do you share the view that others have held before, |that the Calvert Street Bridge is un- safe?” A Maj. Gotwals: “I certainly do.” Again, Senator Copeland: “I want to \know for myself about the danger of | that bridge. When you say it is dan- | gerous, is it in such condition that if some heayy truck were to go over it it might fall through, that the bridge might fall down? Is it actually a men- ace to the public welfare as you see 1t2" Maj. Gotwals: “There are two waysi in_which it is dangerous. The deck it- ! self is not capable of holding more than a 9-ton truck on the street-car tracks | themselves. Were a truck heavier than |9 tons to get on a part of the bridge }* * * it could go through, and could {bring down the whole bridge, and we have a great number of vehicles run- ning in Washington heavier than 9 tons. We have the bridge limited to 9 tons and we supervise it in every way we can Holds Testimony Shows Need. Senator Copeland—Then, Major, you are impressing upon this body that we are permitting an unsafe structure to ccentinue and your recommendation is that scme action be taken to replace it speedily? Maj. Gotwals—Yes. sir. Senator Capper—I do not believe Congress can afford to take the chances of letting that bridge go any longer without some action. This testimony, Maj. Donovan con- tended, presents ample justification for the $575,000 item for starting at once | the construction of & new Calvert Street Bridge. He said this project would give employment for about 150 men directly engaged on the bridge con- struction itself over a period of 12 months. He pointed out also that all the items contained in the program, except lccal street paving, were included and ap- ! proved in the conference report on the | District bill for 1934 in the Seventy- second Congress. This measure failed of enactment. . ‘The estimate that the program a- outlined would provide employment f r more than 6,500 men did not includ~ the estimate for the bridge nor for a large number of men needed for under- ground work, for which no estimate could be mat Kenneth Buck, convicted of McMath | kidnaping and sentenced to serve 24 years. Cyril Buck, acquitted of abduction. CYRIL BUCK FREED, KENNETH GIVEN 24 YEARS AS KIDNAPER (Continued From First Page.) —(conpnued Tom. = S after $60,000 ransom had been paid. The ransom later was recovered in the home of Kenneth. The kidnaper was blacked to look like a colored man, and after leading the child into the automobile, he bound, gagged and blindfolded her and hid her in a cranberry shack until midnight. He then took her to a vacant house al- most opposite the home of the Buck brothers and held her there until after midnight the morning of May 5 when she was turned over to her father on board a boat in Wychmere Harbor in Harwichport upon the payment of the $60,000 ransom. Two Brothers Arrested. ‘The arrests of the Buck brothers came later that day. During the trial Cyril testified that he at no time knew where “Peggy” was being hidden and said as far as he knew his brother was the only person implicated in the kidnaping. K:nneth, however, said a mysterious “Bill,” a Hyannis bootlegger, concocted the plot and had told him “Peggy’s” father was behind it and would “take care” of Kenneth if he was arrested. - The State contended during the trial that Cyril was a party to the plot from the time of its inception and his role as “go-between” for McMath and the kidnapsrs was an assumed one and he really was representing himself and his brother during the time the ransom negotiations were being carried on. Kenneth is the father of a young son, and District Attorney Crossley ex- | pressed sorrow for the family, but told the jury not to allow sympathy to af- fect their decisions. Defends “Bill” Story. Through eyes that appeared near to shedding tears, Kenneth heard his counsel, Ellas Burwick, make his final plea for him. Burwick said that “fantastic” as the story of “Bill” seemed, it nevertheless was true. “There may have been discrepancies in his story on the witness stand,” said Burwick of Kenneth, “but he stooi there, chin out, and matched wits with the district attorney.” Burwick recalled a statement, ad- mitted by Daniel Needham, State com- missioner of public safety, that “this case was a Godsend to the State po- ice." Raising his arms above him, Burwick shouted: “The gift from God—Ken- neth Buck riding in a train—to State Prison.” Burwick demanded that the Gov- ernment prove that McMath was not involved. The manner in which Chief E. C. Hall of Harwich obtained a confession from Kenneth was attacked by Burwick. ‘The confession was admitted as evidence and was considered by the State as one of its most fcrmidable weapons. Willard Carleton, Cyril's counsel, briefly reviewed his client’s life and said of his alleged part in the kidnaping case: “He was a sap. He was trying to help his brother. He did not take the money.” Carletan pleaded with the jury to send Cyril “back to his wife, who has stocd by him all through this thing.” Crossley asked the jury to serve notice to the world that such “a heinous crime cannot go unpunished on Cape Cod.” Later, Crossley said he was satisfied with the outcome of the case. “I feel that the real guilty party has been punished,” he said, “and I am glad the case was completed, from the time of the kidnaping to the actual s;‘ntence. with such satisfying expedi- tion.” The prosecutor, whose fiery cross-ex- amination of witnesses was one of the features of the case, said he thought it had been best to “leave Cyril's fate in the hands of a jury rather than to use him as a State witness.” As Kenneth was being led from the court room, Cjyril, free once more, reached out to shake his brother's hand. Kenneth glared at him, however, and brushed by. OPERATE ON MRS. HUTTON Paris Docto‘rs’l;\d éé\lnd Condi- tion Grave—Now Improves. PARIS, June 25 (Sunday) (#)—The Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune today quoted Dr. Charles Bove, surgeon and gynecologist, as saying that Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton un- derwent a stomach operation 10 days ago after coming to Paris in a grave condition. The Los Angeles evangelist is con- | valescing at the American Hospital and it is expected that she will be there for another week. Shot Defending Pay Roll. MONTICELLO, Ind., June 24 (A).— ROUBLE IMPENDS || rviat knas | CUMMINGS REPLIES INSEED LOAN CASE Declares Accuser Was Re- lieved Because of Dissat- isfaction in Alabama. By the Associated Press. Attorney General Cummings said yesterday that the handling of the Ala- bama seed loan cases by Harry S. Barger, representing the Justice De- partment under the last Republican administration, caused such widespread dissatisfaction that he was replaced. Cummings made his statement in an- swer to published charges by Barger of irregularities in dismissal of some of the cases. Barger was represented as criticizing the dismissals of the cases which arose through alleged irregularities in obta’ - ing seed loans from the Government ! and the conduct of certain bank cases by the department and the office of the controller of the currency. He also was said to have alleged that political influence hampered his work. He was replaced b{vgummmgs. who ap- pointed Sam E. itaker of Chatta- nooga to take charge. “The Alabama seed loan cases have | been a source of considerable irritation for a long time” Cummings said. “They originated during the previous administration, and the manner in which they were conducted by Mr. Harry S. Barger, who had charge of them, gave rise to widespread dissatis- faction.” The Attorney General said Whitaker had brought practically all the cases to a close, some by trial, some by pleas of guilty and some by dismissal, and that his handling of them had been commended by the presiding judge and approved by the United States district attorney and the Department of Justice, He added the department resented any criticism based upon the idea that Whitaker “was actuated by any improper motive.” 60 ARE INDICTED. Alabamans Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Seed Act. DOTHAN, Ala,, June 24 ().—More than threescore citizens ol( Houston County, including county officials, were named in indictments charging conspiracy to violate the national seed loan act in November, 1931. Fourteen of these persons were brought to trial in March, 1932, among them Circuit Solicitor J. Norton Mullins, Henry Witherington, country farm demonstration agent, and others. After a six-day trial the jury failed to reach an agreement. Thomas L. Hutchins, seed loan col- lector and supervisor, was the princi- pal witness. Hutchins entered a plea of guilty to embezzling some of his collections before he was called as & witness. After the second trials had resulted in jury disagreements, most of the defendants named with Witherington and Mullins on conspiracy charges entered pleas of guilty. Witherington was sentenced to two years in the Federal Penitentiary and the others ranged down to 60-day jail sentences and nominal fines. In all more than 100 persons, in- cluding bankers, secretaries to county officials, merchants, attorneys, plant- ers and tenant farmers, were named iin_indictments in Houston County. Most of these indicted were chargel with fraud in the applications for th loans and then applying the funds t purposes other than the purchase ¢ seed and feed. BOY FOUND SLAIN, YOUTH' ARRESTED Brutal Crime Bared in Philadelphis Section After Lad Dis- appears. By the Associated Press. PMILADELPHIA, June 25 (Sunday). —A 9-year-cld boy was found brutally slain” in Cobbs Creek Park, just over the city line in Delaware County, early last night and, within five hours, & | 16-year-old youth had been arrested today. reputedly confessing. was Willlam H. Reilly, jr. Philadelphia. The one under arresf is Richard Ragone, a neighbor. Little William had been slain in & most vicious manner. His head had been crushed with a rock, and an ice pick used to inflict innumerable pune- ture wounds on the chest and body. The motive was not immediately dis- ¢ though police previously an- nounced “the killer must have been morally deranged.” The arrest of the suspect was the re- sult of an overhcard conversation. Po- liceman John Yoblick, patroling his beat, saw a young man talking with two women near the spot Wwhere the slain boy’s body was found. “I might know something about the murder,” Yoblick claims he heard Ragone sdy. TAX EXEMPT BONDS HIT Declares Almost Half of U. S. Wealth Is So Invested—Says Body Working to Oust “Goldbrickers.” By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. June 24— Louis Johncon, national commander of the American Legion, said today the crganization was trying to keep “gold- brickers” off the veterans’ list so that truly_disabled men would be respected by the people. “These ‘goldbrickers’ are continually being paraded to the detriment of the truly disabled,” he told an audience at the Community Center. “At the same time let us not forget that all ‘goldbrickers’ in America were not on the veterans’ list. “If there is going to be economy in America at the expense of the veteran, then let’s have some economy in other places where it is worse needed. “To me, the greatest crime of the World Was was the issuance by our Federal Government of tax-exempt se- curities. * * * It is known that $72- 000.000,000, almost half of the wealth of this country, is invested in tax- exempt securities, and it is notorious that some of the wealthy men of Amer- ica have invested practically all, if not all, of their money in these tax-exempt securities.” AUTO COLLISION FATAL TO MARYLAND MAN Five Others Injured Near Halls Station, Including Son of Victim, G. B. Holland. George B. Holland, 52, died in Casualty Hospital yesterday of a crushed chest | and cther injuries received early Thurs- day, when his automobile collided -with another car at the intersection of the Crain_highway and Central avenue, near Halls Station, M Meanwhil>, Holland’s <till wes in a serious condition et hospital, sufferine from interna d cuts about the head ons were slightly hurt n son Charles, 19. 1 Fisher, bookkeeper for the thread™" company, was shot here today vhon he succeeded in frustrating an at- tempt by two men to steal the company’s weekly pay roll. Pisher was rushed to a hospital at Logansport with & bullet in his groin. Samuel V. Haowkins, colored. Vi Md., driver of the other mech -, wes arrested by Prince Georgss ‘mty police. The Hollands’ home is at English Consul, near Baltimore.