Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1933, Page 2

PRESIDENT BACKS NELFARE EFFORTS fiflers Hearty Co-operafion Zin Raising $100,000,000 Needed in U. S. Behind News in Capital. Mystesious Activities of Two Professors Stir Curious. ki thiah “President Roosevelt has given sssur- BY. PAUL MALLON. . doorways here for two weeks. s in Care of Nurse] |HME LOAN BANK'S EVANGELIST ‘BACK TO HOSE two new brain trustees, the Profs. Warren and Rodgers, have been ducking into departmental ‘They do not even permit shadows FACE DIVORCE ACTION. OPENING DELAYED Stevenson Appeals to Mort- gage Holders to Accept Bonds in Defaults. Although office. space for the District Home Owners' Loan Corporation has not yet been obtained, Charles A.! Jones, Washington manager for the or- ganization, is working out other details on the formation of his headquarters, 1 EASE ANDAGENCY PROHIBITION ASKED Campaign With Newton D. Baker in Oil Trade Prace tice Develops. By the Associated Press. A campaign around Newton D. Baker as spearhead developed today to write into the oil trade practice plan a pro- hibition against the “lease and agency” arrangement whereby retail dealers are The-President’s interest in campaigns ) raise funds through community chests and councils and other organiza- . as_well as the 1933 Mobilization Human -Needs, was expressed to n D. Baker, former Secretary of , ciisirpian of the 1933 Mobilization Muman Needs, and Allan T. Burns, itive director of Community Chests Counclls, 1nc., during a conference \White House last night. . President promised to co-operate to follow. them. They stay out of the sun. A thousand rumors have been con- jured around their overly mysterious activities. TLe one most widely be- lieved is that they are planning dollar |/ revaluation. 80 that when the office is opened he{ will be prepared to proceed with his | dutles. Delayed again yesterday through in- abllty to ain an sudience with the||), §, STARTS DRIVE *| final approval of his office selection, AGAINST KIDNAPERS WITH FOUR ARRESTS | bound to handle exclusively the products of one company. He appeared as a representative of i the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Asso- ciation in hearings before Hugh 8. John- son, the industrial administrator, on varied proposals to formulate a code for the petroleum industry. Price Fixing Urged. L ! That one phase of their work, | but their real job has been to devise a way to make the public works pro- gram function. What they have found f Jones was to go before the board toda; In a radio address last night, Chair- F is not encouraging. 3 H every way poseible in the efforts to the total $100,000.000 needed for regular welfare services throughout the country. He promised to have the first session of the National Mobiliza- tion Conference of Community Welfare Campaign leaders held at the White o egntributions. “This meeting will be on September | believe there is nothing to investigatc. 18. and probably will be held on the ! Mr. Ickes wants to put a million men House lawn. to work by October 1; four to five e o | million within a year. Spresident Roosevelt alo consented to | e . s series of Nation-wide brondcasts| That makes a nice headline, but the beginning of the intensive cam- | those on the inside know it is easer =nkn- p;;:od for commun:: b.'el‘h.r! | to say than do. ese broadcasts wi given The confidential figure worked out o five '1‘;”2":" Bul:“l’: ”.Td" ’{fi: by the professorial duette is three -October lo November 12, w o million to work if and when possible. e e e ok o nempls| hat seems to be the mazimum ex- m..m. Eylr.l:{n :t?onnl Jeaders :’cw"” ," mithe p';b"c e sz; from business, professions, Government ;mrm'.fl & —— and ph! 2 During thi ‘will speal e i Mr. Baker, The maximum expenditure can hard- his conference wit! the President sx::gud'nuon( convi 3‘ be reached before next Summer if | the: tan that the voluntary welfare agen- dlec, of Am dlxpénsabl Comparative Figures. The census of 1929 showed nearly 1 $5,000.000,000 was spent on construc- | tion that year. Only 828,000 men were four ralief oper: tlomal Governments, < | employed.” How they can get Need Concerted Effort. | times ‘as many men to work by spend- .In requesting President Roosevelt's|ing half as much money now is the in this forthcoming campaign | inner problem. Costs are lower but support for funds, Mr. Baker stated “The $500.- Dot that much. 000,000 appropriated for relief from The naval building phase of the Federal funds, plus an equal amount | program will bring the quickest resul ecoming from local and State appro- | The Government will spend $238,00f tions, are a great financial and|000 directly. But when the first man anitarian asset. but an !qulllyi'fll g0 to work is yet in doubt. It great psychological lability. The human | takes two years to build a battleship tendency to ‘let George do it’ inclines| The keel is rarely laid until months the Fflnu giver to use these Govern- after bids have been called for. ment emergency relief funds as an| You can readily imagine the de- alibi for not supporting those other| lays fo be emcountered with loans welfare services needed more than ever| g0 States and municipalities. If in these distressing times. Community they want to give three billions ‘welfare services will be supported the‘I away, they can put men to work to- eoming year only to the extent that our | morrow. But if a sensible plan is fellow citisens understand that this| 15 be jollowed (and it will be), you “mm‘ ’“‘:ml:m“r-‘xg;l' ':orl:c:' the Na-| need not erpect any miracles. The 1933 mobilization for human m";"yfi;g& meen, thelt b?n'ly‘:;':' ds under Mr. Baker's chairmanship. FA6, e Hotose. X means oy that Ww g'”nm‘.'l wel- | Dowadays are to be taken' with a grain back community | Of salt. Under normal conditions 40 per cent M AIMEE PROTESTS | SHE LOVES HUTTON RS. AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON HUTTON (left), Los Angeles evan- gelist, walking deck with her nurse, Bernice Middleton, as her steamer reached Norfolk from Paris, where she underwent an operation. learning her husband. David Hutton, is suing reporters she still loves him * On for divorce, Aimee told ing else in the world.” A. P. Photo. SLAIN MAN'S 80DY IS FOUND IN RIVER ‘more than an; band’s Suit for Divorce, | She Says. ' Badly Beaten on Head. Clues Are Lacking. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va. July 25.—Aim Semple McPherson Hutton, the m; ORANGE, Va., July 25.—The body of Angeles evangelist, returned td America | Phillip Milford. 20. of Somerset. Va., today, protesting she still loved her hus- | who apparently had been murdered and band, David Hutton, “more than any- | then stripped of his clothing to prevent thing in the world. | identification, was found floating in the Asked about_his recent action insti- Rapidan River near here today. t: divorce proceedinge, she said: | The youth had been badly beaten “Oh, I can’t believe it. Of course I about the head. and Town Police Sergt. By a 8taff Correspondent of The Star. tut Evangelist Shocked by Hus- Somerset Farm Worker Was' organisations to Jorts to suppart their hospitals, nurses, ehild walfare organizations, family wel- fare societies and institutions for pre- wventing delinquency, guiding youth and of the total expenditure will go for |labor and 60 per cent for materials. | That means the Government itself s becoming & big purchasing power. stlll am in love with him.” Attended by a nurse, she lay on a bunk in the captain’s quarters ‘of the | liner City of Havre to recelve news- Graeves declared it is his theory that the man had been attacked with a blunt instrument cr a rock and then tossed into the water after his clothes wholesome occupation for $he greatly increased leisure. PANIC PREVENTION | MEASURE FORECAST Semator Steiwer Sees New Lq-hl.." tion to Restrict Abnormal Shrinkages. | This power should furnish indirect employment which cannot be measured. ‘The chief benefits, however. are ex- pected from the infiationary angle. Skeptics doubt that the - Government duld float three billions in bonds now. That is beside the point. The flota- tions probably will in small bond issues at different times. The first one need not be more than five hun- dred millions. The whole three billions probably will not be out for a year yet. The Government can issue money instead of floating bonds. That would be direct inflation of the kind Mr. Roosevelt has been trying to | @void. It would surprise every ome After asking Ferdinand Pecors, com- | here if he did anything like that. mittee counsel, to determine causes of | Nobody here is weeping about the the recent stock slump Stelwer-proposed | stock ‘market except the few who had that business leaders and economists money in it. study three propositions for considera-; Underneath there seems to be an air sion next session. They were: ‘of elatien. The drop diminishes the “Preparation of a simplified form | probabilities of a collapse later. It of corporate returns to be used by all | came at the right psychological moment &orporations, reporting to the Treasury, | to stimulate business and financial co- ‘B0, that the reader could tell approxi- | operation in the recovery schemes the :::3 :he lln‘\tx;d-!‘mt value of u;:: Government has under way. X of securities in any corpora 2 % at the time the return was made. | ‘Ballyhoo" Rouses Ire. “An adequate curb on short seuin:.i If you want to see a man tear his “A prohibition of the directors of | hair out, just tell Gen. Johnson that sny corporation increasing., decreasing his industrial recovery drive is “bally- or suspending the payment of dividends hoo.” His indignation is justified In- without first securing from the stock- ' siders and outsiders believe the plan is holders a 60-day prior authorization.” assured of a degree of success. They . . also believe it will make purchasing S;TTLE TO MAKE | power where the public works set up | cannot, ‘STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT | <] : C 0 2 v IN CHICAGO ALONE The consumption goods industries . (Continued Fyom First Page.) were the first to cheer it. Men who | rely directly on purchasing power know the problem. Departnfent of Justice sleuths are quietly investigating bootl g in gold. They have been tipped that transac- tions were recently made at a bootleg price of $103 for double eagles. The traffic -is supposed to he small. Dlnfen are great and the reward not particularly attractive except for misers. Mr. Roosevelt 1s almost as secretive about governmental business as Mr. Hoover was, but he seems to get away with it better. He has Government of- ficlals fly down the river to see him on the Sequoia and no one hears about it. When he is confined to his room at the White House. callers come and | g0 without any one being the wiser. | In between times, however, he talks more frankly with the press. The 15 per cent soldier pay cut was even worse than . ivates are supposed to get $17:85 a month, but they do not, get it. Deductions of $1.75 By the Associated Press. Senator Steiwer, Republican, of Oregon, & member of the Banking Committee, today forecast legislation by | the next session of Congress to minimize | the possibilities of a recurrence of “the panic of 1929 and the past week's ex- | perience with its abnormal shrinkage | of prices.” WHO SAIDT BALLYNOOT o apparatus will go aloft in the gondola 0 bring back data for scientific study, | has approved the solo flight by Settle With his instruments. SETTLE IS HONORED. Chesen Without l'l:I“ll".I in Balloon | E ce. i ‘Balloon racing precedents have been upset by the announcement that the | Navy Department, at the invitation of | the National Aeronautic Association, has appointed an entry in the Gordon | Bennett international balloon race with- omt the formality of a national elimi- | nation contest. ~ ‘The honor fell to Lieut. Comdr. ‘Thomas G. W. (Tex) Settle, native of the District of Columbia, winner of last ‘year's international race and pilot chosen for the stratosphere flight soon 1@ be started at Chicago in an effort te climb 12 miles above the earth's sur- face. " Settle is one of the few men in the world to hold licenses permitting him té fiy all types of aircraft. He not enly is one of the world's greatest bal- *.3¢on pilots, but also is qualified to fly atrships of all sizes, up to that of the TU. 8. 8. Macon: airplanes of all serv- ite types and gliders. He is one of the two men who have flown gliders from a Navy dirigible, having made Mis flight from the Los Angeles, cut- ting loose over Washington and landing &t the Anacostia Naval Air Station. Comdr. Settle now is in 'Chklh(lo maeking final preparations for s phere flight. He is regularly as- to duty as naval inspector at the Goodyear Zeppelin factory, Akron, * ©hio, and was inspector in charge there * during construction of the Macon. ‘The international balloon race is to »~ Pecision not to hold the national elimi- “ mation race, flown annually ever since the Gordon Bennett was established as | damage & means of selecting American entries | drop in the international meet, was in line [ ern part Federal economy plan. mained parched heat-stricken, ational Aeronautic Association ( Temperature ampmuu invited the Army Air Corps to the Goodyear interests to appoint | areas which received the rainfall, byt to represent this country | elsewhere temperatures were again re- Gordon Bennett race, brought to | corded between 90 and 105. ited States this year as s result | deaths ‘bave been attributed 's victory last year in the race)-heet wawe in various.: Basle, Switzerland. State. ees are usudlly taken out. This makes he minimum wage in the- Army about $15.85, which is not very much pur- chasing power. They are not taken in under Gen. Johnson’s blanket code. (Copyrisht, 1938.) . RAIN AIDS PART OF OHIO Helps Northern Sector, but South- ern Territory Unrelieved. { ‘COLUMBUS: ONo, July 25 (#).— -4 1 %E:Eé sia g8 & papermen as the City of Havre pulled into port. “Tremendous Sheck.” “It is all s0 hasty that I don't know | what to say,” she said.. “His last word was-that he was -ooun! the hours until I returned. It has s tre- mendous shock.” . She was pale and her lips_trembled as she talked. On one occasiob, after she had talked a few minutes her nurse, Miss Barnadette leton, pro- tested Mrs. Hutton was unable to con- tinue. The interview was resumed after a brief E-uu ned say what Aimee dec! to cpul she would take. “I feel.” she said, “that I am incompetent to make s state- ment. It is like & bolt out of the biue. The City of Havre remained in folk part of today, and then is to continue on to Baltimore, where Aimee is to disembark. She is e to na%hnn Baltimore several days. e evangelist has been abroad since January, and recently underwent an ration in Paris. While on board the ty of Havre she was informed about her husband’s divorce action. Cablegram Net Discussed. The interview was terminated before | she could be questioned about the cable. :g‘nm to Hutton from Paris, informing | him she had a baby, which proved to | be untrue Members . of her party, which included her daughter, Mrs. Ro- berta Smythe, and her nurse, declined to comment. Aimee declined to say what she thought of Hutton's recent abandon- ment of his work in the Angelus Tem~ ple in Los Angeles, built by Aimee, to o e T e s “I wouldn't like to say anything un- lkind.” she sald. During the trip from Havre, Almee left her state room only to go to meals and take a brief, occa- sional walk around the boat deck, After the wireless was received, she did not_leave her quarters. ‘The divorce action followed the baby hoax telegram, which Aimee said in Paris was to trace leaks in her méssages to the temple. Hutton asserted he was a “pet had been removed to eliminate any hope of identifying the victim through his_wearing apparel. | The body was found by a group of colored youths fishing in the river and | was identified by a number of resi- dents of Orange who were acquainted | with Milford when it was brought-to & local undertaking establishment. The | body had been in the water for about five days. police said. Milford, who was single, was em- .mn the farm of E. Lee Goss of | t and had nct been seen for | nearly a week. Mayor Frank B. Perry. who serves as a justice of the peace here, said th while police are confident the man w: ‘| murdered, they have no clues as to who i o e e e o hare 'COMMUNITY CHEST TO HELP RECOVERY Drive to Restore Em- ployment. | son why any one might have killed him. —— e | B ¢ iStreet Promises Aid to President's | Chest's co-operation with the en | industrial recovery code, Elwood Street, director of the chest, today asserted the greatest challenge. faced by the Nation and its relief agencies is unemployment Community Chest working hours, M Btreet said, are in compliance with the blanket code. tinued, “are low as compared w. ernment, business and other professional groups, but lowest salaries exceed the minimum wages set by the National Re- covery Administration.” “The Nation's greatest problem now,” Mr. Street. asserted, “is the increase of Pledging the Washington Community ; Presid for laundry and 25 cents for athletic | dle,” with plenty of affection but no “privileges " He had tired, he said, of being the husband of a celebrity, contending his life had been “no bed of roses.” After remaining aboard ship for less than an hour Mrs. Hutton accepted an invitation to spend the day at Virginia employment, cutting down so far as possible necessity for relief of the unemployed. The national recovery pro- g:ln has the hearty co-operation of the munity Chest, not only as a matter of patriotism, but as a matter of hu- manity. “No form of rellef is so important or Beach. Leaning heavily on her com- | desiiable as jobs themselves, which the panions, she walked from the boat to a waiting car and was driven away. . ONE ARMADA PLANE FORCED TO ALIGHT AT ROCKLAND, ME. (Continued From Pirst Page.) launch which carried him to his plane he turped, saluted again and then cried “Viva America, Viva Italy.” Col. Mario Infante, Gen. Balbo's rep- resentative at Floyd Bennett Pleld, an- nounced that special mail and valuahle papers were on the 8. 8, Bremen, ar-| riving tomorrow, and that a l%eod piane would be chartered in an effort to get this mail to Balbo before he leaves Shediac. REBEL PLOT NIPPED. Anti-Mussolini Papers Found on Italisn Cruiser Aiding Balbe. 5 LISBON, Portugal, July 25 (#).—Po- lice ‘stopped the distribution of Com- munist pamphlets today among the crews of four Italian cruisers in these waters for duty if Gen. Italo Balbo’s air ada takes the southern rcute across the Atlantic. & The pamphlets advocated revolution inst the Mussolini Fagcist regime, e authorities declared there was a um-mhmmmaum-unau made and the from which the ey Seven izations viduals not I ly within the scope of public ‘welfare authorities, for orphans and old folks, for the sick and the injured, and ties holesome ‘opportuni for wi leisure time activities. ““We are glad to do our utmost in ad- herence to the President's code and ih every other way to mitigate the evils of unemployment and to help the Na- tion back to industrial and human re- ‘covery.” — - WILL HONOR WARTIME LEADER AT FUNERAL 29th Division Representatives to Attend Burial of Gen. Morton at Arlington. Representatives of the 29th Division Association and of Washington Post, No. | iasues. 29, of the ‘wartime Fourth .y, man Willlam F. Stevenson of the Home Loan Bank Board made an appeal to the holders of mortgages on American homes to exchange them for bonds of the $2.200,000,000 Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in defsulting eases. $200,000000 Cash Available. He explained that if all the mortgage holders insist on being pald in cur- rency, the corporation’s cash fund of $200,000,000 “will go only a little way toward relieving the situation: “The general acceptance of the bonds will do & wonderful work and assist to a remarkable fee the recovery of business, the stability of the home and 3:1 Jruemuon civilization,” he “If the mortgagee will just consider the situstion he will be in, if such recovery shall mot occur. I am sure my ples and join hands with the Presi- dent to accomplish this most laudable aim, probably the most humanitarian and far-reaching in importance of any of the wonderful moves which he has projected in this stupendous work he is doing to rehabilitate the prostrate business structure of the premier nation of the world.” Stevenson said it wili cost the Gov- ernment $20.000,000 & year to bring aid to the distressed home owners of the nation ll':rmlflh the Home Owners’ Loan ation. is money, he explained, will be spent for salaries and expenses. ht Limitations Set Up. ‘The chairman sald eight limitations were imposed an loans under the law, as follows: 1. The lien must have been of rec- ord on the house on June 13 when the legislation was enacted. 2. The property must not exceed $20,000 in value. 3. The loan cannot exceed 80 per cent of the appraised value if the loan is made in bonds. nor can it in any event exceed $14,000. 4. The loan if made in cash (where the creditor will not take bonds) can- not exceed 40 per cent of the value of the property. 5. If the loan is made solely to pay { taxes, where there is no other lien. it cannot exceed 50 per cent of the value. 6. The borrower must be unable, in | the judgment of the corporation, to ob- tain relief elsewhere. 7. The loan must be secured by a first lien on the home. 8. It must be occupied by the owner as & home or held as a homestead and a«: designed for more than four fami- SECOND SUIT FILED IN ROAD OUSTER CASE {7. W. Barnett Asks That I. J. Mangham Be Removed From Highway Board. | By the Associated Press. BUCHANAN. Ga., July 25.—Another law suit growing out of Gov. Eugene Talmadge's martial law ouster of two highway board members was filed here yesterday by J. W. Barnett of Athens. who asked that J. J. Mangham of Bremen be removed from the board and | be required to deliver pcssession of the office to Barnett. The legal action was set for a hearing at 10 a.m. August 2 in Buchanag by Judge James R. Hutcheson of the Haralson Superior Court. Barnett. who was ousted from office along with W. C. Vereen of Moultrie, afte; the two board m-mbers had en- budget dispute, said he is the chairman, sand a lawful member of the v Board.” He was “phys- | ically deprived” by Adjt. Gen. Lindley {c;mp of his “right to go on the premises of the highway department. A copy of the commission issued to Barnett by former Gov. L. G. Hardman, dated to begin April 1, 1930, and to ex- pire June 5, 1935, was attached to the petition as an exhibit. The Governor has said all along that Barnett's term does and will expire on December 31 of this year. Attorney General M. J. Yeomans of Georgia is expected l::a represent Ma POLITICAL AM.NESTY BILL PENDS IN CUBAN HOUSE By the Associated Press. HAVANA, July 25.—A bill granting amnesty for political offenses since 1927 and descril as & forerunner of a pre- dicted restoration of suspended consti- tutional guarantees in Havana Province was set for consideratign today by the House of Representatives after the Sen- ate it, 20 to 4. AMM from President Machado introducing the measure said new ten- dencies toward peace and reason have | now appeared, so he can again ask for amnesty and '.heufl m] mr:‘t‘:xgn" to their civil status of . Opposition lg:udan indicated that with the return of civil rights they would be willing to consider steps in the media- tion program of United States Ambas- Sador Sumner Welles. —_—e———— NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ORDERS SATURDAY CLOSING (Continued From First Page.) Stoeks closed above their lows, but losses of $1 to $3 or more were nu- ‘merous, - among the Pinal quetations of some leaders in- cluded Anaconds, $17, off $1; General Mo- tors, , off 50 cents; Santa Fe, $1.25; New York Central, off $2; W , $42.50, off off $1.25; 3 off $1; Ameri- can , $122, off $1.75; Indus. $61.50, $41.75, .25; he will give favorable consideration to | 1 ___(Continued From First Page) | Hospital, Capt. Richard Oliver, com- | manding the New York City detectives | working on the case, uttered the thmyl that the kidnapers are of the hard, calculating homicidal breed. He went on to explain that fn their bargaining for the life of 24-year-old O'Connell the abductors have been cold-blooded, slow, deliberate and de- | termined to hold out until their terms are met. 1 The time element, the veteran detec- | tive pointed out, is extremely importani.| in kidnaping cases. O'Connell has been_ held captive 19 days. “It 1D ingly dangerous for the boy as the days go by and ,nn,l.dhln‘ comes of the negotiations,” he satd. Oliver probably will leave the hospital | today. He went there last Priday with | his bedside twice daily. MORAN GANGSTER HELD, | Loss of Beer Revenge Scen as Cause of Kidnapings. | CHICAGO. July 25 (#).—Pederal agents working on the Government’s probe of the kidnaping racket today brought in Leo Mongoven, public enemy and a member of the “Bugs” Moran gang. Melvin H. Purvis, Bureau of Investi- gation chief, sald he would question | playing bridge with Mr. and Mrs. W. | | | The fashionable residence of Mr. and a throat infection. His men report to Mrs. Charles F. Urschel at Oklahoma | outlets. City, Okla., from which Urschel (below) was kidnaped Saturday night while R. Jarrett. The kidnapers took Urschel and Jarrett at the points of machine guns, but Jarrett was later released. —A. P. Photos. | Federal price fixing and regulation was urged by a majority group through E. B” Reeser of the Barnsdall Oil Cor- poration and former president of the . American Petroleum Institute. Price fixing is necessary, he contend- ed, to save the smaller figures in the in- | dustry if production ‘costs are “going to be increased by providing more employ- ment and higher wages to workers.” He supported the position taken in a code prepared under the auspices of the Pe- troleum Institute. A faction of independents who have | submitted a substitute code under the leadership of Jack Blalock of Marshall, Tex., opposed to price fixing. Baker told Johnson that to permit | continuation of the “lease and agency” arrangement would permit the major companies “to maintain a monopoly.” saying the device is one “for the sup- pression of competition and to dry up “Labor would be adversely affected because it permits a major company to own a station, but frees them from the obligation to maintain minimum hours | and maximum pay.” | Members of the Emergency National Committee of the industry set up in the code advocated under the leader- ship of the Petroleum Institute have recommended, over the opposition of | SWINDLE IN GRAIN Mongoven in connection with the kid- nap plots hatched recently against sev- eral Chicagoans, Purvis sald the Moran gang remnants | | have turned to kidnaping to replace CHARGED TOBUCK . |Edith Freas, Clerk, Convicted Mo i ’ . s gansicrs who escuped ‘Gentn m whe | With Him Here, Indicted in Baltimore Also. oody warfare they waged with the | Capone gang for underworld power in 1929, which culminated in the seven murders of the St. Valentine's day mas- sacre, Benjamin R. Buck and Edith Fress WINE FIADGES WORD. were indicted in Baltimore yesterday in | | connection with an alleged $300,000 grain brokerage swindle, three months | after their probation expired in the Dis- | IOMA CITY, July 25 UP).—"T | trict on a somewhat similar offense. Mrs. Urschel Promises Not to Prosecute Kidnapers. OKLAH! will deal with you myself.” a group of major companies, including | the Standards of New Jersey and In- | diana and the Texas Co.. a marketing | rule prohibiting the “lease and agency” system. | " Meanwhile, spokesmen for Governors ! and State regilatory commissions from the ofl States conierred over the part, they will play in the oil program. Indorse Recovery Steps. By a unanimous vote they indorscd the administration’s recovery steps and regulations promulgated by Secretary of Interior Ickes to prohibit interstate movement of ofl produced in violation of State conservation orders. E. O. Thompson of the Texas Rail- road Commission was elected chairman of an organization set up by the grou» with A. S. Hecht of Spencer, W. Va.. . s secretary. 5-CENT DAILY LIMIT ON PRICE CHANGES These terse words comprised the mes- sage Mrs. Charles F. Urschel asked the Associated Press tcday to offer the| criminals who kidnaped her husband | ‘The two had pleaded guilty on charges of conspiracy growing out of bucket shop activities here and were from the family home Saturday nignt. |57 tWo-year suspended sentences In | To her husband, if the kidnapers District Supreme Court during May, allow him to fead newspapers. Mrs. 1931. Urschel asked that these heartening ' words be sent: % - * “I am not prostrated. We are doing -everything that is humanly- possible to bring about your return.’ Anmagingly self-pcesessed. Mrs. Urschel | sat.in the sun parlor of her tragedy- shadowed mansion—the same. room from which two men abducted her hus- band Saturday night “We have let the kidnapers know in every way we can that we are ready | to negotiate with them,” she sald. “I| want you to tell them' that they can| get in touch with an; | here in the house. “If they don’t want to do that, tell them that I will deal with them my- | self, and I can do ft. | Twe Complaints Against Them. “Tell them the officers will remain ‘They are accused in the presentments | completely away from the case. Tell| of obtaining $20,528 from Dr. Paul Allis, them they are not even keeping a| Lewiston, Pa. and $7.921 from Harry secret watch on the house. They can|M. Rosenbaum, Easton, Md. both of | safely get in touch with us. | them complainants. “He must know it already, but I| ~The latter told police they purchased | would like for Charles to know that we| grain futures for sale to legitimate | are going about this as calmly and as| houses and expected large profits on the | quietly as we can. We are doing every- | transactions. Allis and Rosenbaum | thing possible. | found the office closed when they at- | She spoke quickly, directly. in an tempted fo collect on their investments. | even voice that revealed no strain. Only, The trio is alleged to have opened | dark rings beneath her eyes told of | an office in Baltimore shortly after Buck | sleepless worry. | and Miss Freas received suspended sen- | “I want them to believe me when I tences in District’ Supreme Court. | nday we will make no ‘egflon}:a nmdm“} | S lown or to prosecute,” she said. “ yant nothing but the return of Charies,| Typhus Closes Dance Halls. | unharmed.” |'_ SANTIAGO, le, — | Urschel and a friend, Walter R. Jar- | public a.n“c"g .SE eproflmuis by au- | rett, were kidnaped from the Urschel thorities yesterday and billiard halls | home Saturday night as they were and indoor swimming pools ordered | playing cards. Jarrett later was re-|closed on account of the prevalence | leased and was reported to have identi- | of typhus. Sanitation officials ex- fied a police photograph as that of one | pressed the opinion -that the number of i of the kidnapers. The name of the man cases was decreasing, but determined ) Was not made public. 3 to continue precautionary measures. Bail Fixed at $15,000. Buck and Miss Freas were indicted in | Baltimore with L. Williams. Buck is now in jail at Baltimore in de- fault of $15.000 bail fixed following his | arrest last week. The .woman and Wil- | liams are believed to have come to Washington and were being sought by | local police. Williams also was indicted here, but the charge was nolle prossed. According to Baltimore police, Buck | and Williams operated under the name | = of the Del-Mar-Va Grain Co., and the | y one of the men| woman served as a clerk in their office, | | which closed after the investigation opened several weeks ago. | GIVE POST'S PLANE TO MUSEUM, EDITOR WHO BACKED TRIP URGES FIXED FOR WHEAL ___(Continued From Pirst Page) the grain situation as of an emergenc" nature and waive part of the customary notice period. Peek yesterday submitted this groun of questiors, which he sald indicated some of the elements in grain marke:- ing which administrators beleve are in need of correction: 1. What was the cause of the recent collapse in grain prices? 2. What were the means at hand by | which the grain exchanges had hoped to prevent overspeculation and a crash of prices such as occurred on July 19 and 20? 3. Why did these means fail? A. Were the re on short selling and open trades received by the Chi- cago Board of Trade of any value? B. Were the reports carefully scruti- nized for dangerous lines? Was short selling & factor? C. Could not the rule limiting fluctua- tions have been invoked to advantage before the crash instead of rward? 4. What steps are now proposed by the grain exchanges to prevent similar occurrences in the future? Secretary Wallace, who joined the conference briefly, told the conferees that President Roosevelt “is e ially interested in your efforts to solve the roblems in the grain trade, and the President is especially anxious that the movement cf values proceed in an or- derly fashion.” Peek’s threat to invoke the powers given him by the farm act to prescribe a code if the group were unable to agree caused a stir among more than 30 representatives of exchanges, terminal and country elevators and millers who attended the meeting. Under the farm act, administrators have authority to lay down rules gov- erning the marketing of farm com- lmodmn and to enforce them if neces- sary by invoking a licensing power wiich would make any concern. violat- ing their rules subject to a daily fine of $1,000. Charles .J. Brand, co-administrator, told the group that the Nation “is not going to invest more than $100.000,000 wet” are Walter Harrison Would Put Craft Along- side Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in Smithsonian. Oklahomans, proud of the feat of an adopted son, Wiley Post, in his solo flight around the world, pro- pose that Post’s plane, the Winnie Smithsonian E proposal is outlined in the following dispatch by the managing editor of the Oklahoma City Oklahomsn, which helped fi- nance Post's flight. BY WALTER M. HARRISON. NEW YORK, July 25 (NAN.A)— Post's old | 49,000 feet. the globe, ) ht to be strung up to the| r'onl the ‘:‘miunoniun Institution in 5 e i 13 tagw T S| the pilot.” “Why should it?” said he. “Records are made to be shot at. This one won't last because I know a faster trip in good weather would be a cinch. The next| fellow who makes a round-the-world | cruise will follow radio around. He will | go through all kinds of weather and land and take-off blind. We can see that for next year, sure. “High-altitude ships for speed will be the next step. Stratosphere planes will be jamming through the. high ether four and five miles up sooner than you know. I can visualize a plane of 400 horsepower doing 800 miles an hour at This will be accomplished by big, three-bladed propellers of va- riable pitch, super-charged ' mtors, sealed cabins with oxygen supply for Only One Mark on Hull. substituted alongside. the mechanics cleaning up the name Fiat in the in production control and let the mar- keting of grain go in the same old wa “This country will not spend $100, 000,000 on production control if the re. jult is to stimulate speculation. We are going to have orderly production and we must have orderly marketing. “This is the chance of a lifetime to put the entire grain trade from growers right on through to the consumer into an orderly position that they have never had in the past.” Ay V., ' |Safe Driving Hint