Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1933, Page 2

BRITAIN WINS LEAD INRYDER CUP PlAYl! Only 2 Spectacular Rallies | by American Forces Avert a Rout. (Continued From First Page.) winning streak to win the fifteenth and go 1 up. At the thirteenth, Arliss holed a 4- yard putt to cut the Americans’ lead to one hole, At the fourteenth, which the Britons also won to square the match, Hagen was bunkered while Arliss’ ap- proach shot was dead, withimr 2. yards of the hole. On the next hole, Sara- zen's putt went in and then out of the cup and Arliss and Whitcombe won the hole, 3—3, to taxe the lead. ‘Wood and Runyan locked in a ding- dong battle. with Davies and Easter- brook, with the Americans finally gain- ing a 1-up lead as the turn was reached. Dutra and Shute trailed Mitehell and Havers by two holes going to the fif- teenth tee. Walter and Gene increased their ad- vantage to 2 up as they took the twelfth with a birdie 3, but the Eritons then took four straight holes and after halving the seventeenth, finiished out the round with a 4 on the home hole to go to lunch 3 up. Dutra and Shute squared theirfmatch at the tenth, but didn't win another hole and the Englishmen moved serenly along taking the eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth holes, the short fifteenth with a birdie 2 to end the morning round 4 up. ‘Wood and Runyan lost their one hole advantage at the eleventh, where they went 1 over par'and went 1 down at the fourteenth as they again slipped 1 over perfect figures, but they squared the match with Davies and Easter- brook at the long sixteenth, where they got a birdie 4 and halved the next two holes to finish all square for the best American showing. Dudley and Burke started out by los- ing the first hole named “the trial to a birdie 2, but they won the next to square the match and went 1 up on the fifth. They could not stand prosperity, how- ever, and lost the last three holes of the first nine to make the turn 3 down. The first three holes of the incoming nine were halved in 4s, but Padgham and Perry then got into action again and took 3 of the next 6 to finish the morning round 4 up. Dudley and Burke won the fifteenth to reduce Padgham and Perry’s margin to 3 up. Hagen and Sarazen won the twen- tieth with & birdie 4, becoming only 2 down. Meanwhile, Dutra and Shute failed to take advantage of a chance to gain on Mitchell and Havers at the outset of the afternoon play. The Americans took three putts. for a half, after Mitchell was bunkered. ‘ Hagen’s short approach and Sarazen’s equally weak chip shot cost the Amer- jcans the twenty-first, where Whit- comhe’s long putt for & birdie lipped the cup and Briton's 4 was good enough for a win. Sarazen then got down & 5-footer for a half in 4s on the twenty-second. Americans Break Deadlock. Davies and Easterbrook, starting the afternoon round with Wood and Run- yan, broke the deadlock and went 1 up when Davies holed a 12-foot putt for & birdie on the short nineteenth. Mitchell and Havers went 5 up at the twentieth, where the former laid a long iron 2 feet from the pin for an eagle 3. Shute meanwhile topped the Americans’ second shot and Dutra flubbed his chip. ‘They halved the twenty-first in 4s, Dutra’s approach hitting the pin ahd Shute then failing to hole a short putt. Runyan ran down & putt clear across the twentieth green for a birdle 4, squaring the match agdin with Davies and Easterbrook. They halved the twenty-first in 4s. After halving the twenty-third, Sara- zen got down a 25-footer to win the twenty-fourth, where Whitcombe missed & 5-footer. Arliss and Whitcombe quickly drew away again, taking the next two holes, the twenty-fifth with & birdie 4 and the next, a short one, in par, as the Americans got into trouble. A birdie for Sarazen and Hagen on the twenty-seventh left them 3 down with 9 to go. Gallery Stampedes. ‘The gallery following the featured match got out of control on the twenty- sixth and stampeded while 50 stewards, ‘waving long flagstaffs, tried desperately to_check rushing spectators. Hagen and Sarazen gave the crowd & thrill by winning the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth with par fours. Whit- combe was bunkered on the twenty- eighth and missed and 18-inch putt on the next, leaving the Britons only 1 up. Dutra and Shute won the twenty- fourth, after halving the two previous holes, but promptly lost the twenty- fifth on a stymie laid by Mitchell. Shute holed a 24-foot putt for a birdie duce on the twenty-sixth. They halved the next in par and the Americans made the turn still 4 down, having failed w0 make any headway on the outgoing nine. A birdie 3 for the Davies-Easterbrook team put them 1 up at the ewenty- second and they went 2 up at the twenty-fourth, where Wood and Run- yan got off the line to the “gap hole.” The Americans, after halving the next two, back a hole with a birdie on the twenty-seventh, making the turn only one down. Both sides cracked par on the outward journey, the British by 2 strokes and the Americans by 1 Hagen and Sarazen, fighting gallant- ly. halved the next three ho through the thirty-second, in par figures Meanw Ed Dudley and Bill Burke, the fourth erican combination, staged another sensational rally. They ‘won three straight holes at the outset of the afterncon round. from Alf m and Alf Perry, then squared h at the twenty-fourth. ar Dutra deficit to m_-gxe‘ known. of Commerce Aeronautics Branch sev- probably was responsible, Corps reserve officers and two enlisted men to their deaths. dicate the plane ran out of fuel while mond to avold mists and low visibility along-the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. ‘with its chain of powerful beacon lights and intermediate landing fields, been in doubtedly would have followed it di- rectly into Langley Pield, with ample s | and its Crash Victims LIEUT. LEWIS HORVATH. THE EVENING FRICTION REPORTED IN RECOVERY UNIT Aides Are Declared at Odds Over Authority to Ad- minister Act. (Continued From Pirst Page) ministrator for the industrial control section, but Secretary Roper has made it clear to newspaper men that his com- mittee must approve all plans con- templated by Johnson. In outlining his policies in the early stages of his administration, Johnson said he expected to keep production costs down to allow buying power through spreading of employment to gain momentum. Industrial leaders immediately pro- tested, contending that they as well as | labor should be allowed to enjoy the | fruits of the first upturn in business. ‘The administrator also ruled that dustry could submit trade code pro sions on minimum wages, without re- sorting to collective bargaining. Labor leaders immediately joined the rank of | protestants, ‘The first break came last week, ac- cording to reliable reports, when Secr tary of Labor Perkins was said to have | informed the administrator that she did not like his attitude on collective bargaining, and that a child labor pro- vision must be written into all codes. Miss Perkins is & member of the Cabi- net Advisory Committee and the Re- | covery Labor Advisory Board. Later in the week, Secretary of Com- merce Roper announced he had sub-| mitted to Johnson a suggestion that he use the commodity division of the Com- LIEUT. H. W. MACKELCAN. BODIES TRAPPED IN ARMY PLANE Divers in James River Seek to Free Remains of Four Drowned Flyers. By the Associated Press. LANGLEY FIELD, Va., June 26— Divers sought today to remove the bodies of four Langley Field flyers from the plane in which they crashed to their deaths in the James River near Rush- mere Saturday night. The bodies were found by searchers last night in the partially submerged craft, but no attempt was made to re- move them pending the arrival of a boat today. cause of the crash remained un- In the ship were Second Lieut. Lewis Horvath, Air Corps Reserve, a native of Honey Creek, Wis.; Second Lieut. H. W. Mackelcan, Air Corps Reserve, a na- tive of Baltimore, and Pvts. Charles C. merce Department as a nucleus for his organization set-up. Johnson is re- ported to have turned down the sugges- tion of the chairman of the Cabinet Committee and was reported to have threatzned Commerce Department o cials that he would move his organiza- tion out of their building. The Advisory Committee was in ses- sion today presumably to rule on the price fixing and collective bargaining provisions. A member of the commit- tee, however, let it be known that a decision on the organization set-up would also be reached. It was reliably reported also that the Johnson organization would not move out of the Commerce Building. Swope Named Chairman. ‘When the industrial leaders recessed their executive session early this after- noon for a short luncheon period, it was announced that Gerard Swope of the General Electric Co. had been named general chairman of the Committee of the Whole. John Fahey, Massachusetts | publisher and member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck Co., were named vice chairmen. The other members of the General Organization Committee are Henry M. Heimann of the National Credit Association, who was named secretary; Henry I. Harri- | man, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Austin Finch, ‘Thomasville, N. C., manufacturer; Ed- mund C. Van Diest, president of the General Service Corporation, and O. Max Gardner, former Governor of North Carolina, Besides organizing, the main part of the morning session was taken up by an address of Secretary Roper, who explained the functions of the national recovery act. He suggested a few of the long-time problems that have devel- oped during the depression, and asked Sayre of Philadelphia and Albert C. Oliver of Smithfield, N. C., both of the 49th Squadron. DARK AIRWAY BLAMED. Air Corps Officials Call Economy Move Fatal. Darkening of the Washington-Norfolk airway, discontinued by the Department eral months ago for lack on:- funds, officers said today, for the crash in the James River of the Army bombard- ment plane which carried two Air Preliminary reports on the crash in- taking & round-about course to Langley Field from Baltimore by way of Rich- Had the Washington-Norfolk airway, operation the pilots of the lost ship un- fuel for the trip, it was said. It was not believed the mists were heavy enough at any point to have ob- cured the powerful revolving beacons, though they were too heavy for the safe navigation of the big bomber in the absence of any ground 2ids. Instead of picking up the Washington- Norfolk airway at the Potomac, as was the universal practice of Langley Field Army pilots coming in at night when the airway was in operation, Lieut. Horyath, believed t0 have been at the confrols of the bomber, was forced WI‘ continue on to the west to skirt the bad weather area. He is believed to| have continued miles out of his way to pick up the Washington-Richmond airw following it sround the bad | area, probably nearly to Richmond, and | the turning down the James toward Langley Field. The detour, however, proved too long | and appareutly the last drop of fuel was burned as the plane came within sight of the lights of Norfolk and Lang- | ley Field and, with dead engines, it | was forced into the James, trapping its crew at their posts as it sank. The plane is said to have been one of the new high-speed Army bombers cost alone would have kept the darkened airway in full operation for; several years at an exciting nine. After both on the lip of th second for 3s. the third, & hole Whitcombe’s putt for & 2 of the cup and bounced ot at th Whitcombe's and I cans wer thirty-fif back to W to square ®ood enou ag 6 feet. T} the rough on the hole, but y-sixth and last | 1. A par 4 was| gh, 8s Arliss missed & hole- | able putt on the home green As the Ryder Cup rules call for no playoff of matches all-square over the | regulation route, the outcome gave | each side & half point 4 Dutra and Shute failed to sustain their uphi ing three of the first g holes, to become only . deuce for | Mitchell and havers on the short thirty-third put the Britons 3 up again and they ended the match with a half | on the thirty-fourth. . URGES THIRD PARTY . N. C., June 26 (®).- ation of a third political party in North Carolina—the Fa 1 Labor party—was contained in a reso- lution adopted yesterday by the joint convention of the North Carolina Un- | employed League and the Progressive Farmers’ Ledgue of North Carolina. "The resolution calied upon farmers and laborers “to fight with every avail- able weapon for progressive economic reconstruction, which shall gain for them Social justice and economic se- eurity.” r | T n‘- % 2 . : Nazi’s Revolution| Called ‘God’s Hour’| {For German People {Choice of Hitlerites for| Keich’s Bishop Favors Snappy Services. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 2¢6.—Protestant church services in Germany will be short and snappy with martial music if Dr. Lud- wig Mueller should become Reich's bishop and takes as & norm for divine services the service he himself con- ducted yesterday. Preaching in the ancient Koenigs- berg Schiosskirche, Dr. Mueller limited his sermon to only 15 minutes, during which he described the Nazi revolution as_God's hour for the German people. In dismissing the congregation he pronounced a new form of apostolic blessing and also changed the Lord's Prayer in several respects. A uniformed storm troopers’ band played martial tunes. The entire serv- ice took less than an hour. (Twenty-nine Protestant groups elect- ed Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, a non-political candidate, to_the post of bishop last May 27. The German Christians, a Nazi group, sought the that they be given serious study. “In first place,” Roper said, “there is the major problem of whether or not we cannot effect adjustments and devise controls which avoid the violent periodic oscillations in employ- ment and income which have been be- coming more extreme and disastrous with the advance of our industrial system.” 5 In regard to revising production meth- ods, Roper asked the committee to study what bearing does the accumulation of indebtedness incurred for finaneing pro- ductive equipment have on this prob- lem. He also asked the committee to determine the proper relation between the growth of debt structure and the in- crease in national income. Growth of Internal Debt. He said statistics indicate that this country’s internal long-term debt has grown from $37.000,000,000 in 1914 to 000,000 in 1929. The committee was asked to deter- mine whether the country has mort- gaged the future at a more rapid rate than can be adequately absorbed and advertised by increases in current in- come. He also requested an investiga- tion as to whether there should be a legal requirement that long-time funded debts should all contain provisions for their amortization or retirement within a short period. As to short-time credit, he asked that the committee investigate if there is any way in which it could be regu- lated 50 85 to avoid alternating perfods | of speculative activity and of liquida- tion. In conclusion, Roper said: “The problems I have so far been suggesting relate to our dcmestic econ- cmy alone, There are others of great magnitude presented by the interna- tional economic situation. “Assuming that the different nations will attempt to set their own economic | systems in order by some sort of plan- | ning, is it possible to effect interna- tional economic adjustments between the planned economies of diffefent na- tions? Can a substitute for tariff walls and prohibition be found which would permit a larger flow of international trade without impeding national ex- | periments toward a higher standard of living?” Swope said it is likely several of the | subcommittees to be appointed will re- main in session here for several days, studying these problems. In the meantime, the National Retail Dry Goods Association has notified the recovery administration unofficially that it may file its trade covenant this week. A tentative code, as announced in The Star yesterday, is now being studied by the association’s membership, Commenting on this tentative code, which was drawn up by a committee and the directors of the association, Lew Hahn, president of the organiza- tion, said yesterday that retailers in affiliated lines were worling through the Retailers’ National Council to per- * fect a unified program for all branches of retail trade, “The other council associations” he said, “are now working on codes to cover their own trades’ needs and con- ditions, which we believe will shupe up much the same &s our own does. It is expected that these will be completed in time to permit the blending of these separate codes into one national retail code pricr to the time that the National Retail Dry Goods Association will be required to submit its code to the re- covery sdministration.” Minimum wage scales of $12 to $18 a week for experienced male workers, | and $10 to $12 for experienced women employes would be establisted by the code, according to Hahn. The e rates are based on a 48-hour work week, and are graduated according to the population of the traded area in which retail establishments are located. | Makes Radio Appeal. | Meantime, Johnson took to the radio | last night to inaugurate a direct ap- | peal campaign because he was slightly | | ruffied at the fact that the big indus- ! tries apparently are waiting to see | what happens to the cotton textile election of Dr. Mueller and refused to accept the vote. Dr. von Bodelschwingh has returned his commission because of the Nazi government's appointment of a church commissioner.) 3 trade agreement before presenting their own. His thesis in the plea to the people, and to business, was that the program “can succeed enly if the whole Nation ! appraisement, the Commissioners de- | later date and that, in any event, they AGTION OF DISTRICT HEADS 5 UPHELD Right to Abandon Condemna- tion Proceedings for School Approved. ‘The Court of Appeals today upheld the right of the District Commissioners to abandon condemnation proceedings against land for the proposed new Jef- ferson Junior High School. The property in question was owned by Johnson & Wimsatt, Incorporated. The first condemnation proceeding in District Supreme Court resulted in an award of $105,797.90 for the land. The owners of the property were dissatis- fled with this valuation and instituted proceedings which resulted in a re- hearing. The second jury, on Novem- ber 20, 1931, fixed the value of the property at $294874.88, nearly three times as much as the first award. Instead of filing objections to this cided to abandon the condemnation proceedings against the Johnson and ‘Wimsatt property. Additional property was involved in the entire proceeding. but the Commissioners did not aban- don as to this. Counsel for the property owners, in contesting the abandonment, asserted the Commissioners intended to revive the condemnation proceedings at a could not abandon the condemnation as to part of the property only. In affirming the decision of the Dis- trict Supreme Court that the Commis- sioners were within their rights, the Court of Appeals said: “But it is not to be assumed that the District Commissioners abandoned MONDAY Start of 475-Mile Ocean Race JUNE 26, 193 | FORTY-TWO YACHTS AS THEY LEFT NEW LONDON FOR CHESAPEAKE BAY. f AIR skies and sparkling waters formed a perfect setting for the start, shown above, of the yachts as they swung Off for the 475-mile ocean race from New London, Conn., to Gibson Island, in Chesapeake Bay, Md. comprised 42 yachts, the largest number ever to start on an ocean race. The fleet —A. P. Photo. TESTIMONIAL PN BREAKS P IN RIOT }.heu]condenmltlon proceedings in bad aith.” Quoting from an earlier case, the opinion continued: “It must be re- membered that the Commissioners, oo, occupy & position of important public trust, as well as a position of impar- tiality; they are commissioned to stand between the public interests and wel- fare, on the one hand, and private indifference and selfishness on the oth- er.” Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride and Vernon E. West represented the Commissioners. VINES WINS OPENING WIMBLEDON MATCH U. S. Champion Defeats British Star—Other Americans Triumph. By the Assoclated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, June 26— Ellsworth Vines, jr., United States and Wimbledon tennis champion, today be- gan defense of his title in the famous Wimbleon play with a 6—1, 6—2, 6—0 victory over G. R. D. Meredith of Eng- land. Clayton Lee Burwell, former Caro- linian, now a student at Oxford, who had a first-round bye, defeated H. Kleinschroth, unranked Germarn vet- eran, 6—0, 6—1, 6—2, to advance to the third round. Cliff Sutter, third ranking United States star, continued the straight-set American advance as he polished off E. Itoh, Japanese Davis Cup spare, 6—2, 8—8, 6—1, in another first round match. David Jones, former Columbia Uni- versity star and now the ranking play- er of Cambridge, was given a stiff con- test by J. D. Patrick Wheatley, veteran English Davis Cup player, but finally prevailed, 6—4, 6—2, 3—6, 6—3, to join Vines in the second round. . Fred Perry, Britain’s main hope, kept pace with Vines as he defeated A. L= Crofx, ranking player of Beigium, 6—3, W. L. Breese, former Harvard star, also advanced through the first round with & 3—6, 8—6, 6—4, 6-—4 victory | over H. Keats Lester, British veteran. | $72,000,000,000 in 1920 and $134,000,- gets behind it with both zeal and de- termination—every man and woman.” Already he has received proposed codes of fair competition from around 30 small industries, but except for cot- ton textiles the other big ones haven't come through. One reason, he said,| was “ill-informed conjecture” t.hall labor first should organize or that in- dustry should form company unions to cut off labor organizations. “Both sayings are wrong and very harmful,” he summarized. To forestall possible “peace profiteer- ing,” he added: “This is a deadly serious matter— this danger of run-way prices. There are still about 12000000 unemployed | in this country and even those who | still have jobs are largely on much re- duced incomes. “Any wild cat price lifting will have its first bearing directly on the very | creature necessities of these unfortu- | nates—their means to keep out hunger, | thirst and cold. This administration | will not stand for that, and we do not | expect to have any trouble about it.” Declaring that the granting of higher wages ordinarily would tend to result in higher prices, Johnson said “if we do a thing like this and do not also put some control on undue price increases 5o that prices will not move up one bit faster than is justified by higher costs, the consuming public is going to suffer, the higher wages won't do any good, and the whole bright chance will just turn out to be a ghastly failure and another shattered hope.” “This does not mean selling below cost,” the administrator added. “The first effect of this plan will be to in- crease business and bigger business is a ‘bofler way to profit than is higher price. Hits “Get Rick Quick.” “Our best people understand that this | is no time to get rich quick. It is time | to pull our country out of a hole. We need every good man on the ropes and nobody is going to do a thing that makes him a peace profiteer by taking advantage of the patriotic unselfishness oL his fellows.” Johnson said the entire problem of economic securily simmered down to the Jjob of keeping the purchasing power of workers in step with the price and quantity of the things they make and added that “nobody in the world ever had the nerve and the power seriously to tackle it until Franklin Roosevelt began to tell the country last July what he was going to do about it | if he became President.” “The whole effort comes down to one | single question,” the administrator said, “and all anybody who wonders whether the national recovery act will work has to ask is ‘can we get all employers in America to do about the same thing about the same time when they know that by doing it they can bring this country of ours out of this depression and lift this deadening load of fear irom people’s hearts? “Well, we can't say yes until it is done, but the President has had people | in touch with employers of all kinds— big and little—for a period of several weeks. We are making neither prom- ises nor boasts but we can tell you one thing very definitely and surely—em. ployers in this country want to do this thing harder tnan they ever wanted to do anything and in one bj strong pull at any time since the war, |of Charles City, Iowa, pilot of the plane; 19 Arrests End Fete Staged for Representative Mul- downey. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, June 26.—A testi- monial picnic for Representative Michael J. Muldowney broke up early today in a free-for-all fight which brought police cars racing to suburban Mount Lebanon in answer to a riot call. Nineteen persons were arrested and placed in jail overnight, most of them bruised and with their clothing torn. They were charged with disorderly | conduct. Police sald 25 barrels of beer were provided for nearly 2,000 guests, most of whom had left before the call was | sent. They said the trouble started over an automobile accident in the picnic grove, one piznicer bumping into | another’s automobile while attempting to get his car onto the highway. | Beer bottles and stones were hurled and clubs and fists were used Indis- criminately, police said. | Muldowney, telephoned at his home after the meeting, refused to comment. | He was elected from the thirty-second | congressional district last Fall over Mrs. | Anne E. Felix, Democrat, who is con- testing the decision. Muldowney is a | Republican. ‘ Nearly two score indictments have | been returned against municipal elec- tion officials, charging mishandling of ballots in a Federal investigation of | the_election | ‘The picnic was held in a wooded | grove near the Eddie Ray Farm. Police | | said they were telephoned about 1:30 / {am by two men giving their names | as R. K. Muldowney and Frank Leahy, | who sald a fight was in progress and | { they had “better come out there.” | They said Muldowney is not related | to the Representative. Muidowney and | | Leahy figured in another automobile accident, their car striking a concrete | abutment on the highway. They were | ! among the 19 arrested. i 'SOLDIERS WATCHING BULGARIAN GUNME Martial Law Invoked to Rid Conn-i‘ try of Hoodlums Who Have | Killed Several. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 26—Strict military surveillance of suspected hood- lums continued today as an aftermath of a period of martial law invoked to rid Bulgaria of Macedonian gunmen. So thorough was the military action taken yesterday that even diplomats | were compelled to stay off the streets, tourists were practically prisoners in | their hotels, and all traffic ceased for several hours. All buildings were searched for ‘weapons and suspected assassins. Nearly 120 persons not possessing identifica- tion papers were detained. Many weap- ons, including 600 pistols and 200 rifles, were confiscated. Similar raids were conducted through- out Bulgaria as a sequel to a new par- liamentary measure providing the death penalty for political assassinations or- dered by any organization. Since October 10, 1927, when & Yugo- slavian general was shot, allegedly by & Macedonian revolutionary organiza- tion, there have been many bloody clashes between political factions in Bulgaria. The Impro, & revolutionary organization of Macedonians, seeks to | discourage the rule of Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Late in December, two men believed to be members of one revolutionary fac- tion, the Protogerovist, started a gun fight before the royal palace, and killed two men. A few months ago 60 mem- bers of another band, the Mihoilovisis, swooped down on a train and killed | three Macedonians accused of slaying a Mihailovist. | TRUCK STRIKES CHILD Matthew Gunther, 5, Seriously Hurt on River Road. Matthew Gunther, 5, of 4348 River road, was injured seriously shortly after neon today when he was struck and | knocked down by s paving company truck as it backed into an alley near | his home. The child was taken to Georgetown Hospital where & preliminary examina- tion showed he had received possible internal injuries g The truck was driven by Edward | Carter, colored, of Congress court. THREE DIE IN CRASH Pilot and Two Passengers Killed | at Cresco, Iowa. CRESCO, Iowa, June 26 (#).—An aeroplane pilot and his two passengers were killed yesterday in a crash at the local airport. The dead were: Allen T. Rideout, 24, Bernard Staebell and Alvin Weinkauf, both of Cresco. Persons in the crowd that saw the accident said Rideout was preparing to land when the motor of his ship went dead. He had been carrying passen- §ers on sight-seeing trips. | pressed and to suggest to the committee | ously nerformed. Couzens’ Text Senator Urges Easing of Individual Debt Load At London Parley. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 26.—Following is the text of Senator James Couzens’ speech l:;g:re the World Economic Conference y: “For the last few days I have list- ened with much interest to the debate on problems of price level, credit poli- cies and external debt structures. To my mind these problems are so inter- woven that they can only be treated as a whole, even though each of them presents in itself a series of com- plexities. “Last week I introduced a resolution, which the United States delegation was instructed to present, setting forth the American Government's view on the above subjects and, in addition thereto, | recommendations for a synchronized program of governmental expenditures ! by the different countries along parallel | lines, designed to stimulate the natural sources of employment, to restart the wheels of industry and commerce, and to restore the willingness of the in- dividual again to assume he normal | risks of trade. Bring Together Views. “I believe the debate now has reached a point where it should be possible for the drafting sub-committee to bring to- gether the various points of view ex- a series of resolutions for adoption. “There are, however, a few points I wish to make in amplification of my Government’s attitude in respect to these matters. “Pirst, I do not believe prices can be raised by monetary means alone. Rais- ing the price level is only part of the oblem of restoring economic equi- ibrium. There is necessity of adjust- ment of the debt structure. I agree with much Mr. Neville Chamberlain, (British chancellor of the exchequer) has said about the desirability of restor- ing prices from their abnormally low level, but I do not belive prices could or should be raised sufficiently to bring abcut that equilibrium with the structure of indebtedness now existing. “Prices must be raised, but at the same time the burden of debt must be lightened. We must attack both prob- lems simultaneously to achieve success. Not Invitation to Default. “This is in no sense to be construed as an invitation to debtors able to pay to scale down their obligations; cer- tainly it is not an invitation to default. “It emphasizes the necessity for or- ganizing creditors throughout the world, of establishing some form of permanent body to act in an advisory capacity between organized creditors and organized debtors to study by what means the necessary adjustments may be brought about with the minimum of delay and injustice. “To shirk from this task means| further postponement of the problem | | | and further delay in world recovery. |t My government has exhibited cour- | country to bring about the composition of debts between debtors and creditors. Increasing yylu Power. “The second point that I desire to make is in support of my statement that prices cannot be raised by mone- tary means alone. My country is act- ing in that conviction by adopting | measures to increase purchasing power. | This was ably pointed out the other | day by the German delegate who said: “Given an increase in the world’s purchasing power by providing work for | the unemployed, the price problem would right itself naturally.” “We are in a period when too much has been said about confidence and too little has been done. Enterprise will not recover its courage until it receives a lead from government. We believe we are in a for a period during which government will have to take the lead to see if private enterprises cannot again take over the functions it previ- U. S. Setting Example. “My Government by example is prov- ing its convictions by undertaking the largest program of public works ever undertaken in the history of the world. | This undertaking will energize produc- tion and consumption everywhere. Adoption by other countries of such a in_concert with the DODDS AND NEELY NEAR FIST CLASH Former Resents Senator’s “Whitewash” Accusation During Harriman Probe. (Continued From First Page.) more liquid position than it then was. They told me of the impending prosecu- tion of Harriman. They told me they held no brief for Harriman and I ered they felt he was culpable and felt he should be gunuhed eventually. “They said, however, that if an in- dictment was found the bank was not liqid enough to stand a run which would undoubtedly follow. Bisbee said a run on the Harriman Bank and the consequent clos! of its doors, be- cause of its non-liquid condition, might well result in runs on a half dozen other institutions and bring about a major banking crisis in New York and “I was impressed. I thought they were right, and I still think so. I con- ferred with the and learned that the Treasury Department wanted the prosecution delayed and also re- quested that before we do anything about the matter we give the Treasury Department advance notice.” Holds Action Was Proper. Dodds said we considered the facts and decided it was proper to delay presecution. Accordingly, he said, he gave such instructions to his own office force and suggested to Assistant United States Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in New York that whatever steps neces- sary to bring about the delay be taken in New York City. “What I had done,” Dodds said, “was not an unusual thing. It was a proper thing. As it came up, it was a matter that didn't even merit much time or attention. I so felt at the time and I feel so now. “Any unnecessary action in the way of prosecution would have been a ruth- less and savage thing to do as far as the rights of the depositors were con- cerned. This was a very common thing. It was done frequently, not only at the request of individuals and clear- ing houses, but of Representatives and Senators. Some of the Senators on the | committee have made such requests.” After Dodds had testified for about an hour, Senator Ashurst asked: “I have drawn this conclusion from your testimony, whether your action was ill or well you appear to assume all blame. Is that right?>” “Ungquestionably, absolutely,” Dodds replied. “I had it in my hands to say to the United States attorney here whether to go ahead or not. I said he should not. I alone was responsible. In fact, I didn’t even refer the case to he Attorney General.” Senator Neely asked Dodds whether | ageous willingness to face the facts in | he was aided in reaching his decision | that it has set up agencies within our | by the assurance that the New York Clearing House was in some way sup- porting the Harriman Bank. “That impressed me very much,” Dodds said. Tells of Prosecutions. “Don’t you think,” Neely asked, “A great deal of the disaster that has come to the banking world is because inside interests have been wrecking banks?” “A statement could not be made so far from the facts,” Dodds answered. Neely then demanded to know how many defaulting bank officers had been | put in jail during Dodd’s tenure. Dodds said there were 255 presecutions in 1930; 475 in 1931, of which 80 per cent were convictions, and 394 in 1932, of which 297 were convictions. Senator Neely inquired whether these convictions were of bookkeepers and tellers or whether as many as 10 per cent were of bank presidents and cashiers, I would be shocked to find that any- thing like 10 per cent were the offenses of presidents and cashiers,” Dodds an- swered. Medalie Gives Testimony. Medalie was sworn and genator Ashurst asked: “Were you United States Attorney at | the time of any failure promptly to | | policy, moving | prosecute violations of law in connec- PLOTTO‘GET' FORD CHARGED N PROBE Detroit Banker Gives. View That Wall Street Was Behind Closings. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, June 26.—Herbert R. Wil- kin, Detroit banker, told the one-man grand ‘ury investigating the closing of two national banks here today that “the sole reason for closing of the banks was, in my opinion, to ‘get’ Henry Ford.” Wilkin, former executive vice presi- dent of the Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc., holding company for & number of banks, declared he was of the opinifon that “Wall Street lieved it had a chance, by tylng up Ford's deposits in the banks, to so deplete his working capital that he must deal with them or go broke.” Ford, he said, had more than $65,000,000 on deposit in Detroit banks at that time. Just before he made the statement regarding Ford, Wilkin had startled the open grand jury session by decl more than $4,000,000 had been cleare through the Detroit clearing house be- tween the time of the actual declara- tion of the State banking holiday, Tuesday, February 14, and the follow= ing Thursday. Withdrawals, he said, were made on behalf of Mrs. James Couzens, wife of the Michigan Senator, and the Second National Bank of Houston, Tex. New Yorker's Plea Cited. “The first man to spring the idea that the two old banks (the First Na- tional Bank-Detroit and the Guardian National Bank of Commerce) must be closed to give way to one new bank was George W. Davison of the Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. of New York,” Wilkins testified. “Davison told a group of Detroiters at the Detroit Club on the morning he arrived that Detroit must have one new bank. The Detroit bankers, after hear- ing him, came away with the idea that through Davison Wall Street was trying to control the credit of the whole State of Michigan.” In discussing the check clearings, Wil- kins told Circuit Judge Harry B. Keidan, presiding at the hearing, that “nearly all the personal account” of Mrs. Cou- gens was withdrawn “the day before the holiday.” He mentioned only two other with- th, | drawals both by the Houston bank, one for $100,000 and the other for $65,000. ‘Wilkin said that Houston is the home town of Jesse H. Jones, then managing director and now chairman of the Re- construction Finance Corporatidn. Jones Denies Connection. ‘The Detroit News today sald that Jones, reached by telephone at his Washington office. said he has no con- nection at all with the Houston bank, and declares the bank did not get any information from him regarding condi- tions in Detroit. Wilkin said he was unable to recall the amount of money Mrs. Couzens withdrew from the bank, but declared is item was “among a great many” hat were put through the clearing house after the declaration of the State- wide banking holiday by Gov. William A. Comstock. Judge Keidan asked the witness if in his opinion the post-holiday clearing was proper. | “Idon't think so,” said Wilkin. “That | is a legal matter, but the banks were closed. I don't think that clearing should have taken place.” Under Michigan law a single judge may sit as a grand jury for an inquiry when requested by the prosecuting au- thorities. The present hearing, unusual in being | public, was asked by the State attorney | general, Pagrick H. O'Brien. TEACHERS MAY STRIKE MILWAUKEE, June 26 (2)—Amer- |ican school teachers, alarmed by pay- |less pay days and retrenchment in school administrations, may forget about | ethics and go on strike, said Mrs. Flor- ence Curtis Hanson, Chicago, executive secretary of the American Federation of Teachers, today. Mrs. Hanson was here for meetings preliminary to the seventeenth annual | convention of the association, opening | tomorrow. The teacher becomes more militant | and proposals to strike in cases of great aggravation are sure to be discussed by the convention, she said. |{ARMY’S AIR CORPS FACES HUGE TASK IN FOREST CAMPS (Continued From First Page.) officers are pitching wholeheartedly into the great task of co-operating with the Forestry Army and, without specific orders from Washington and in antici- pation of the growing needs of the C. C. C., are engaging in widespread and increasingly vital communications, ! transportation, supply and photographic | activities As the forestry companies penetrate farther into the wilderness of the great nationzl and State forect areas, the work of the. Air Corps is bacoming hourly of greater imporiance. Some of the camps already are to far from the beaten path that they can be supplied and kept in communication effectively cnly by air. In addition to transportation of for- estry personnel, medical officers, sup- plies and equipment and the mainten- ance of communications, the Air Corps is co-operating with the C. C. C. by rending out photographic missions to prepare maps, assist in the location of camp sites and obtain information upon whiech the work of the forestry workers can be planned. “The Air Corps is behind the C. C. C. project to the limit of its ability,” Gen. Foulois said. “The full extent of our United States, would exert a steadying influence upon foreign exchanges. My country’s undertaking so large a public works program and other measures to energize industry seems to have led to a misconception of my Government's monetary policy. “My Government believes the funda- mental objective is to bring about an increase in production and consump- tion. Higher price levels will follow and are collateral to an increase in | production and consumption. i “We believe that no considerable re- duction in unemployment can take place except through an increase in | [ | | the output of goods and services for | home consumption in every country. In my country it will mean increased | imports of raw and other materials of which in excess of two-thirds comes into my country without tariff duties. “We believe this will be an energizin, force throughout the world, and cer- tainly it is our opinion that world re- | covery must in the main be through an analogous increase of demand in ! the principal industrial countries. | “An increased demand for raw ma- | terials induced by the American pro- gram offers, in my opinion, far more | hope of world recovery than can pos- | sibly be expected merely from the re- duction of tariff duties on & number of manufactured articgs which are highly competitive between‘the nations.” Wins Hitler Award. MUNICH, Germany, June 26 (#) Joseph Moeritz yesterday piloted his [and that the tion 'v_vllh the Harriman National | job is just beginning to develop. I Bank? believe ot only that the Air Gorps “I should not call it a failure” |is going to be essential to the success Medalie replied, “but if you refer to the jof the forestry project, but that the fact that I was United States Attorney ' Air Corps itself is going to benefit im- when the Department of Justice re- ceived word of violations of the law the answer is yes.” Medalie testified that December 23, 1932. he was informed by L. K. Rob- erts, chief bank examiner, that Bisbee “intended to take up with the Depart- ment of Justice the matter of withhold- ing from prosecution certain matters in connection with the Harriman National Bank.” The United States attorney”said he left that evening for a vacation cruise, | and when he returned a day or two after New Year, Dewey told him a letter regarding the Harriman case had been received. Medalie said the ietter, sent by the Treasury Department, was dated July 9, 1932, but was not mailed until December 23 and was received the fol- lowing day. “‘Dewey also said,” Medalie continued, “that he had received a telephone call from Dodds, the substance of which was that he had been visited by certain per- cons, including Bisbee, and had been in touch with responsible officials of the Treasury Department, and that on ac- count of the delicate banking conditicns in New York and throughout the coun- try, Dodds was of the opinion that we should accede to the request that prose- cution be temporarily withheld.” Medalie said it was pointed out to him that the statute of limitations would not prevent prosecutions later. persons against whom | motor cycle and side car over a 10- charges were made could be pi kilometer course at the rate of 75.7 kilometers an hour to win the “golden ';mlm " donated by Chancellar Adolf er, 2 against “when the air cleared.” of e i edalie testified, - P mensely from the task imposed upon it.” Although hundreds of Air Corn offi- cers have been sent into the foests as company and camp commanders in the C. C. C.. forcing the laying up of Army combat planes and putting entire squedrons on inactive status, it is ex- pected the immediate recall of many of these officers will be required so that they may be put on flying duty. Establishment of temporary Army airdromes in some of the more remote forest areas is being planned to obviate the delay, expense and difficulty of hauling focd, medical supplies, cloth- ing, tools and the transportation of personnel over miles of forest trail and to make unnecessary the building of roads for supply purposes. The setting up of such airdromes and the flying of the scores of missions necessary to maintain the forest camps is expected to provide training of the greatest value to Air Corps pilots and personnel. It not only wnf give the Air Corps its greatest air transport problem to solve, but will provide training very similar to that required for corps ob- servation and other Air Corps per= sonnel. The fullest possible use of the Air Corps also is planned to keep down sickness and to maintain mcrale in the isolated forest camps. Through use of Army airplanes, medical inspectors can be sent regularly to inspect the forestry workers and to examine sanitary and medical arrangements at the camps. The sick or injured can be evacuated mg the least possible delay and hard-