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« their differences to the national board.” . Approximately 5200 Have Joined Walk- | ' ing the establishment after destroying ' $450 damage to machinery. " mchmidt were treated for bruises after ! & fight. * fered to by police as agitators, were . artested. ' worke i A2 ¥¥» DREDGING PROBED INWRECK INQUEST Coroner Seeks to Learn if Operation Could Have Weakened Bridge. The coroner’s inquest ingo the death of two tralnmen, killed when the Cres- cent Limifed was wrecked near Kenil- worth iast- Thursday, was opened at noon today with testimony on the ques- tion of whether dredging could have washed earth away from the piers of the bridge where the wreck occurred. The two men killed were the engi- neer. A. H. Bryde, 217 E street south- east. and the fireman, J. H. Faye, Perry- wville. Md. Thirteen other persons were injured when the train was derailed as the bridge collapsed, weakened by der questioning by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDopald, Ezekial J. Merrick, War Department engineer in charge of the dredzing operation in the Anacostia River, testified that dur- ing March last year a basin was dredged within 50 feet of the lower plers of the railroad bridge. This basin was 7 fect deep, he said, and by Jan- u. of this year silt washed down by the stream had raised its bottom to an average depth of 3 feet. This ac- counted for a deposit of 4 feet of earth where the dredging had been done. Rail Officials Testify. Railroad officials, following Merrick on witness stand. testified that the train probably was not traveling at more than 40 miles an hour when it crossed the bridge. ) Themas L. Grady, Baltimore, division trainmaster, told the jury the train as short of water and Engineer Bryde probably was proceeding slowly in order to conserve his remaining supply. He said the express was 38 minutes late when it left Baltimore and at Landover, Md.. it had lost an additional 7 min- utes. Sergeant Quotes Johnson. Benjamin W. Johnson, assistant road foreman of engines, Wwho was in the cab ©f the engine at the time of the wreck and is now in Emergency Hospital re- covering from his injuries, was quoted by Detective Sergt. Walter S. Beck of the homicide squad, as saying the train was going about 40 miles an hour when jumped the track and the engine f in a mud bank. He said ported he had told Engi- nees y to slow down in order to conserve his water supply. Rainfall preceding the wreck totaled 6.44 inches. William E. Donaldson, chief examiner of the Weather Bureau, said on the stand. TWO DIE AS POLICE BATTLE STRIKERS; 18 OR MORE HURT (Continued From First Page.) action of Gov. Arthur Seligman in de- claring martial law here, where coal miners are cn strike. The Governor proclaimed martial law after requests from city and county au- thorities, mine operators, non-striking | miners and others. Roberts said the New York lawyers asked to aid were Joseph Brodsky. A. G. Hayes and an attorney named Lieb- owitz, Striking members seek recognition of the unicn committees, permission to join any union they desire, overtime pay for Sundays and holidays and re- mureration for “dead work.” Mine operators refuse to deal with them be- cause the National is not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. WRIT FORBIDS PICKETING. Conducive to Violence, Brooklyn Su- preme Court Justice Holds. NEW YORK, August 31 (#).—Holding ting to be a “nulsance to the pllb-‘l d conducive to malicious mischie? and violence, Supreme Court Justice +-lah Strong in Brooklyn yesterday en- ;0ined menbors of the Bakery and Con- Jectionery Workers International Union Trom picketing shops of members of the Specialty Bakery Owners of America. Six pickets were arrested in Brooklyn early in the week after Grover Whalen, national recovery administrator in New York, declared picketing of code estab- lishments was a criminal offense. “The mere walking back and forth on a sidewalk with placards,” the court’s opinion declared, “is sufficient to annoy the public and creates a public nui- sance.” Justice Strong’s decision also observes the striking union workers and the bakery owners had been given an oppor- tunity to settle their differences under the N. R. A, but added that “this, it seems, is impossible.” SILK WORKERS WALK OUT. Tnion Men Say Paterson Strike Will Involve 40,000 in U. S. PATERSON, N. J. August 31 (#).— Several hundred silk workers walked out today in a strike which union lead- ers say will ultimately involve 40,000 persons throughout the country. Strike leaders said they would be unable to estimate the strikers’ num- bers until later in the day, but ex- pressed the belief this city's 7,000 silk employes would eventually join the walkout. In the walkout union leaders ignored he appeal of President Roosevelt's National Labor Advisory Board that they “maintain a status quo and refer POLICE SEIZE STRIKERS. outs in St Louis. ST. LOUIS, August 31 () —Arrests | of striking garment and hat workers | were continued by police who have taken 86 men and women into cus- tody. About 5200 unionists have Joined walkouts. At the Davis Stavin Hat Co., police arrested seven men they said were leav- $600 worth of felt hat bodies and doing Miss Mary Bishop and Miss Ann Eight men and women, re- The International Ladies' Garment Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union and the millinery division of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Union have called strikes be- cause of differences over pay and work- ing conditions. WOMAN SLAIN WITH AX Accused Husband Is in Hospital, Victim of Neighbor. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. August 31 (P). —Wounded by a shotgun charge, A. Nelson Hansard, 44, farmer, was under guard at & hospital today charged with hacking his wife to death with an ax during & rsmy:.u;z‘e1 at his home, near rragut, last night. m’rhaegubody of Hansard’s 46-year-old wife, her head nearly severed from the body, was dragged from & burning bed which the Hansard children said their father set on fire.. Officers said J. W. Kelly, a neighbor, shot Hansard twice after the latter had left his home and attempted to set the Kélly home on fire. Hnnpsurd's wounds were ‘described as *aerious.” a What’s What Behind News in Capital. Surveys Differ Widely on How the N. R. A. Is Going Over. 1 | A wanted to find out for his own business how Mr. Roosevelt and the N R. A. were getting over with the people. He covered half the representa- tive States outside the Democratic Soul BY PAUL MALLON. N IMPARTIAL business executive recently went on, a political His report sounds as if it were « written by a Democratic publicity man. 1t says Roosevelt is as popular with his supporters as Gandhi with his. He pictures the President as commanding the same sincere loyalty as a religious prophet. Cheering for Engineer. This scout pictured the voters—the bodys politic—as being on a train, not knowing exactly where they are going. | but cheering like thunder for the engi- neer. ‘The demand for inflation, he thought, was growing weaker. That is because retall business is definitely better than had been hoped for. . Farmers have not beer helped to the degree believed in the East. Higher prices were not as beneficial as most cbservers think, because the crops are He thought the farmers were | postponing their debts and using their {little cash to buy lower class cars, or putting a few dollars i the sock for | Winter. | Popular loyalty to the N. R. A. also |was stressed by the investigator. He |found it more marked in the small ‘towns which comprise the great bulk lof the country. Also among working | people who comprise the masses. | _These classes are ostracizing any one {who declines to subscribe to the Blue : Eagle. Gets Opposite Results. Another confidential inyestigation on the same subject was undertaken by a |large investment securities house with headquarters in Wall Street. It was equally sincere. A questionnaire was sent out to all employes in all branches, even sales- men on the road. Every large city in the country was reached through this method. The answers were unanimously pessimistic. The N. R. A. pro- gram was said to be moving with elephantine slowness. Very few results in actual purchasing power could be seen. Mr. Roosevelt was described as still popular, but not as popular as he was in March. A third investigation of the same sub- ject was undertaken in Washington. | The leading financial journal of New | York sent its columnist here. The idea | was to get a_fresh close-up of the re- | covery machinery. from a favorable | standpoint if possible. The columnist spent five days inter- | viewing people outside the prejudiced ! administration circles. He was unable to find one enthusiastically optimistic | about the N. R. A. { Compoesite Picture Needed. The real answer does not lie in any one of the three investigations but in a composite of all. If you fit the pieces together you will get a more accurate picture than they spent thousands of | dollars for. e < N ZEX T The first report deals with pey- | chology. not statistics. It may be a little over enthusiastic, but not ma- terially so. The second is tainted with the fact | the investigators are thinking in terms of selling stocks and bonds. Their pessimism in that respect probably is justified; but they have muffed the factor of popular psychology. The third shows Washington opinion does not always accurately reflect the view of the country. Just as no man is a hero to his valet, no administration is herolc to those who see it close-up. Post Office Has No Steps. A small Eastern town has a new post office without steps, but don't mention the fact to the Gpvernment contracting authorities unless you have a catcher’s mask on. It came about this way: The Government let the con- tract for constructing the build- ing, and forgot about the steps unti] the building was completed. The' project manager rushed through a separate contract for steps on a cost-plus basis. ‘The board of awards turned down the proposition on the ground it would not sanction any cost plus work. Citizens must use stilts or grow legs. Another factor in those investiga- tions is that the favorable one touched the whole countryside while the pessi- mistic one centered in cities. Also, the pessimistic one hit mainly the financial strata in cities. N longer Those in_charge of the open market purchases have now great confidence in their ability to spread commercial credit that way. They are trying to think up other ways of making the banks lend money. No one yet has been able to think of a good way to make sane bankers lend money on doubtful prospects. The coming Amer- ican Bankers’ Association convention would be a good place to take that mat- ter up. -— ASSISTED IN ARREST- Members of Police Squad Errone- ously Mentioned in Gaming Story. In an account of the arrest of Morrls Joseph Daniels, on a charge of operat- ing a numbers game, The Star yester- day stated thgt John Auffenberg and C. R. Blick were arrested as witnesses. Apffenberg and Blick are members of the police gambling squad and assisted Lieut. N. O. Holmes in the arrest. The Star regrets the error. scouting tour of the country. Ho THE EVENING ICRAWFORD SEEKS EXTRADITION BAN lisley Murder Suspect Asks| Supreme Court to Set Aside Ruling. George Crawford, colored, under in- the murder of Mrs. Agnes Iisley and! her maid, Mina Buckner, asked the/ Supreme Court today to set aside an order of the first Circuit Court of Ap- peals requiring him to be held at Bos- ton for extradition and trial. Crawford’s action marked the second | move to prevent his return to Virginia. | The first attempt attracted Nation-wide attention when Federal Judge James A. Lowell of Boston ordered Crawford's release on the ground that Negroes did would not serve on the trial jury. Judge Lowell's ruling provoked a bit- ter denunciation from Representative Smith of Virginia, who succeeded in| having the House adopt a resolution o dering an Investigation of the jurist's conduct in office by the Judictary Cdm- mittee. The committe, however, has not yet undertaken the inquiry. J. Weston Allen and Butler R. Wil- son, counsel for Crawford, urged the Supreme Court to pass on whether Vir- | ginia’s practice of excluding Negroes | from grand juries constituted such an infringement of the constitutional rights of Crawford as to warrant refusal to extradite him. They declared the question had never been passed upon by the high court, insisting that the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, in ordering Cra ford held for extradition, had acted on unwarranted assumptions and assertions and had failed to consider the real grou‘;xds on which the District court had acted. The lawyers pointed out that the! correct determination of the questions at issue were of “grave public concern,” and declared the Supreme Court should review the case for the additional rea- | son that impeachment resolutions had been presented against Judge Lowell's action, ‘The petition also set forth that since the impeachment resolution was intro- duced, Negroes had been included in the list for jury service in three States where previously they uniformly had | been excluded. STORM WARNING GIVEN IN OKEECHOBEE AREA Improvement Board Engineer Or- ders Those “Not Securely | Housed"” to Seek Shelter. | By the Associated Press. TALLAHASSEE. Fia, August 31— {Fred C. Elliot, engineer for the State Internal Improvement Board, today ad- vised residents of the Lake Okeechobee area “not securely housed” to seek tem- porary shelter in substantial buildings | because of possible danger from a storm now in the Bahamas region. Elliot sald his reports from the Jacksonville and Miami Wesather Bu- | reaus indicated no substantial evacua- tion of the Okeechobee area was neces- sary at this time, and stressed that his advice to “seek temporary shelter in substantial buildings” was only for those persons “not securely housed.” R GEN. PATRICK QUITS UTILITIES BOARD IN SURPRISE MOVE (Continued From First Page.) time and energy in a conscientious effort to serve the best interests of all | | of the people of Washington. | “Now, however, I am rather tired, the confinement in this office is rather irksome and therefore I have decided to leave it. “I have no plans whatever for future ‘empluymem. I am going away from ‘Washington in October for a rest and | change of environment, the date of my return being very indefinite.” Acted on Transit Merger. The commission. under Gen. Patrick's | regime, successfully piloted through | Congress the joint resolution authoriz- ing a merger of the District’s trans- portation companies, and initiated valu- ations of the street car companies and the Washington & Georgetown Gas Light Cos. Another important activity under his leadership was the investi- gaticn of the foreign control of the gas companies, resulting in the consent de- cree under which the out-of-town hold- ing corporations were ordered to make certain changes in their financial set-up. Gen. Patrick also has taken an active part in a movement to readjust Wash- ington's muddied taxicab situation, and repeatedly urged Congress to give the commission authority to put an end to the “rental” cab system, which since has been condemned by a District Su- preme Court judge. The commission, in addition, ac- tively supported a bill to authorize a merger of the two gas companies, which was blocked in both the Senate and House, largely due to the opposi- tion of Richmond B. Keech, who saw no benefits accruing to the public unless “going concern” was eliminated as_an element of valuation. The resignation had placed before President Roosevelt, another problem in the selection of a major District' official. The President has not yet named successors to Commissioners Reichelderfer and Crosby, whose terms expired April 9. _ Gen. Patrick came to the commission from the retired ranks of the Army. At the time of his retirement he was chief of the Army Air Service. Supervised Bordeaux Docks. During the World War Gen. Patrick was chief engineer of all lines of com- munication for the American Expedi- tionary Fotce, a post in which he dem- onstrated his ability as a utilities ex- pert. It was under his supervision that the great docks at Bordeaux were con- structed. He also directed other con- struction projects that paved the way for efficient movement of supplies to the American forces. ‘When complications developed in connection with organization of the American air forces in the battle zone, Gen. Patrick was called his attention to air trafic. He was then made chief of the air service, and served in that capacity during the re- mainder of the war. As the American air chief in France, he directed a pro: gram of aircraft procurement that ex- tended into England and Italy. At one time he had under his command more than 78,000 men, 6,364 airplanes and 300 balloons. Native of West Virginia. Gen. Patrick was born in Lewisburg, W. Va., December 13, 1863. He was raduated from West Point in 1886 and rom the Engineering School of Appli- cation three years later. He was pro- moted from second lieutenant through the various grades to colonel, receiving the latter grade in 1916. During these | years of service he was assigned to numerous engineering jobs undertaker by the War Department in connection with river and harbor work. He also was a member of the board in charge of the U. S. 5. Maine from the bottom of Havana Harbor. Gen._Patrick’s war service won for him s Distinguished Service Medal and various other citations, which include & commander in the Legion of Honor, & enmmnmer,tn_tueoflunfst.lflufl§ d Lazarus, knight commander me Order of tbel!rm-h ‘Empire and 8 commander of the Crown of dictment in Loudoun County, Va. for to turn | AR, W. Defiies Sock HINGTON, D. C, COUZENS' CHARGES DENIED BY MILLS Messages Asking Loan, Said to Have Been Sent to R. F. C., Read at Quiz. P ¥, | By the Associated Press, | DETROIT, August 31.—A denial of charges made recently by Senator lames Couzens that he prevented an R. F. C. loan that would have permitted Henry Ford to open two new banks |here was made todey by Wilson W. % | Mills, former chalrman of the board of not serve on juries in Virginla and|: Who hit Huey Long? A Brooklyn aper answered the question, saying it learned through an authoritative source that Chief of Police Steve Webber (above) of Port Washington, a former boxer and Army drill sergeant, smacked Long &t a fashionable party on Long Island. Chief Webber, when asked abcut the matter, smiled and denied he had struck the Senator. —A. P. Photo. U. 5. WOMEN ASKED 0 HELP QUST LONG Mrs. Hammond of New Or- leans Says He Is Nation’s Problem. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 31—Mrs. Hilda Hammond of New Orleans, today dis- Closed a campaign to “make the whole United States Long-conscious and Sen- ate-conscious.” Mrs. Hammond, chairman of a New Orleans women's committee, said her organization is sceking and finding help from women throughout the United States in their movement to oust Sena- tor Huey P. Long. “This is & national, not a State mat- | ter,” Mrs. Hammond said. “Charges of ‘dishonesty, corruption and immorality on the part of Senator Long were hurled | into the Senate by John M. Parker last April. They still lie buried in the Ju- diciary Committee.” She said her organization had been told repeatedly in Washington that this a State matter, “but I insist,” she added, “it concerns every man and woman in the United States.” Meanwhile, over long gistance tele- phene from New Orleans, Senator Long denounced the move of the women's committee of Louisiana as “ousted poli- tictans hiding behind the skirts of women.” LONG UNDER GUARD. “Kingfish” Dashes- for Home, Staves Off Shiner Quiz. NEW ORLEANS, August 31 (#).—Sen- ator Huey P. Long, back home after a stormy and eventful trip N Te- mained silent today about the cut over the eye he got at a New York club and everything connected with it. From a guarded train, the self-styled “Kingfish” of Lou- isiana politics stepped last night to the guarded platform of a suburban raiiway station, dashed to an automo- bile and sped away home—followed by " Senator's protectors saw to it T! that no pictures were made and those | who shoutcd questions about the in- jured optic and the offer of a Coney Island side show to star the Senator at $1,000 a night rereived only an angry glare in repiy. Moie Deny Sock. NEW YORK, August 31 (#)—The list of men who did not punch Senator Huey P. Long lengthened today as the saga of the Kingfish and the shiner remained & mystery tale, without a denouncement. Noted fiyers, a polite chief, soclally| prominent professional men—all have | been named as the person who scored the knockdown in the Sands Point Club’s wash room—but ail have declined the nomination. Here are some of them: 1. Alford J. Williams, 6-footer, for- mer crack pilot for the Navy, former | ace foot baller for Fordham. Told by | the Dally News of a belief that he was | the socker, he replied very calmly: “It's | news to me. Furtherfore, it's news to me that any of my friends would think such a thing to me.” 2. Clarence Chamberlain, another famous fiyer, said he was in the wash {room at “just about” the critical mo- ment. But did he do the hitting? Oh, | no! Did he see it done? Oh, my, no! 3. Police Chief Steve Webber of Port | Washington, Long Igland, weighs 2320 and has a large rignt fist with what some newspapers called a bruise on its knuckles. Denying “officially” that he be popular. I'd rather hold my job. I was in the wash room, but you've got to say I didn’t do it.” 4. Robert B. Thomas, Park avenue lawyer, as quoted in the New York Herald Tribune: “I'd be perfectly willing to take credit if I'd done it, but I wasn't ere.” prominent architect, was quoted in the | same paper as saying he didn't do it, {but knew what happened and thought | the man who did the punching “deserv- |ing of commendation.” The New York Times said Philadel- | phia_Jack O'Brien expressed sympathy | for Senator Long over the skepticism with which some quarters greeted his story of being “ganged.” O'Brien said that when he was knocked out by Joe ‘Walcott in Boston 30 years or so ago, ringside customers saw only one oppo- nent standing over him. O'Brien said {he saw four or five, but could get no one to believe he’d been ganged. Mayor T. S. Walmsley of New Or- leans, as mild as Long is fiery, would rather not comment on the recent eye- brow injury. ‘The mayor, in New York on a pleas- ure trip after being in Washington for labor arbitration in connection with the Huey Long bridge at New Orleans, described himself as politically a friend of the Senator by virtue of a truce between their respective organizations. He said his only information on the imbroglio came from published stories tement which said ‘ganged.” “I ‘can’t understand how gangsters got into that club,” the mayor said. “Huey's enemies in Louisiana will be- lieve the entire truth—that is. I mean, the stories as published. His friends will belleve he was ganged up.” Convicts Like Gridiron. JOLIET, Ill. () —Thirty-five burg- bezzlers and other wrongdoers 8 out, for the first call for candi- niols State Penitentiary at Siateville, was the man, he said: “I don't want to | there.’ 5. Kenneth M. Murchison, a socially | the Nation's largest closed bank. Testifying before the one-man grand jury investigating the closing of the bank, the First National Bank, Detroit, jas well as the Guardian National Bank of Commerce, Mills read messages which he said were both telegraphed and telephoned to Charles A. Miller, then head of the R. F. C., asking that the loan be granted. Opposed Ford Plan. The witness testified he never favored the proposed Ford plan for cpening two new banks on the assets of the closed institutions, saying he knew it meant only & 35 per cent pay-off to depositors and also #d not believe Ford would give the depositors of the old banks the right to subscribe to the stock of the | new banks. Senator Couzens, in testimony last week, declared Mills was “taken up on & high hill” by George P. Davison, chairman of the board of the Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. of New York, and promised he would become head of a bank to be established here | by New York interests. He declared | Mills phoned Miller at the Washington | Reconstruction Finance Corporation of- fices after the application for a $20, 000,000 loan was made, and said th: although his directors had asked him to | request the loan be granted, he did not favor it and hoped it would be refused. The Ford plan, previous witnesses have testified, failed when the $20, 000,000 loan upon which it was condi- tional could not be obtained. ‘The Senator, in his testimony, had asserted that Mills was guilty of “dou- ble-crossing” other directors of the bank in asking that the lcan be refused. Mills read a statement in which he said he had proof he was not guilty of “double- crossing.” Mills characterized as “absolutely false” the statement of Senator Couzens , that he was “taken up on a high hill" :by Dawvison and promised the presi- | dency of a local bank to be established by New York interests. | Charges Hearsay Evidence. | “I think I can prove that this state- | ment is absolutely false.” said Mills. “Even while Couzens was testifying, | Davison wired a denial of the Senator's testimony, and denied it again later in a telephone conversation with Couzens. Nevertheless the Senator continued to repeat the charge.” “Senator Couzens in his testimony has impugned my honor and integrity in varlous respects,” said Miils. “T think that practically all of it was hear- say. stated in this court what in his opinion | may happen to a person's honor if | hearsay evidence is admitted.” |CONGRESS THOUGHT D. C. WOULD GET GAS FUND, KING HOLDS rat Page) should become a part of the appropria- tion act for 1934. | “When the bill was under considera- tion in the House, Chairman James P. Buchanan of the Appropriations Com- | mittee offered amendments which car- (Continued From stateroom on his ' ried an appropriation of $1.500,000 from | the gasoline tax fund to be allocated |for such projects and purposes and |such amounts as the director of the | Bureau of the Budget approved. and | | also an amendment carrying an appro- | priation of $635.000 to be taken from the revenues of the Water Department for additional extension, improvement and repair of the water distribution system. “Both the Senate and the House recognized that in completing the projects work would be furnished to the unemployed. Formal Application Made. “The Commissioners of the District | of Columbia have made formal applica- | tion to the director of the budget for his approval of the expenditure o these |1unds. including $575,000 for beginning construction of the new Calvert Street Bridge and $502,000 for Water Depart- | ment work. | “Unfortunately no action has been | taken by the director of the budget. As | & result, the Water Department of the | District on July 1 of this year was com- | pelled to drop 456 employes from the yroll due to lack of appropriations. ;’rnthz director of the budget approved | ¥ the expenditure of the $502,000 re- quested by the Commissioxers, these 456 men could be put back on the pay- roll at once. If he should not approve, these men would be unemployed, and they and their families will constitute an additional burden upon the unem- ployment fund which has been pro- vided for the District. Unless the di- rector of the Bureau of the Budget gives approval for the expenditure of the $1,500,00C from the gasoline fund, particularly that part for street main- tenance, amounting to $420,000, the District of Columbia will be compelled to discharge 250 employes on Aug- ust 16.” Senator King said he had been ad- vised there are approximately 40,000 persons in the District who are recipi- ents of a relief fund and that there is a weekly expenditure for relief of more than sgo.ooo. (The figures have in- | creased materially since Senator King wrote his memorandum). Can’t Understand Motive. “T am unable to comprehend the rea- son for the attitude of the director of the budget,” continued Senal King, “regarding these funds which belong to the people of the District of Columbia and not to the National Government. “Even after the expenditure of the $1,500,000 from the gasoline fund and the $502,000 from the waier rev- enues, sul balances will then remain to credit of both these funds. If the Federal Treasury were to be called upon to meet the cost of these improvements, & different question would be presented. The refusal to util- ize these two funds which belong to the District of Columbia, obvicusly will in- crease the burdens of the Federal Gov- ernment. Because of the serious unem- ployment situation in the District, larger demands will be made upon the Federal relief fund.” e FAIR TO CLOSE ON TIME . CHICAGO, August 31 (#).—A Cen- tury of Progress Exposition will close definitely October 31, President Rufus C. Dawes said yesterday despite requests from all sections to continue it next YE%Ti wil be tmposstble for us to hold the fair over,” Dawes said. jturned f datas for the foot ball team of the Illi- |‘They Judge Lacy (Arthur J. Lacy) has| | | E fallen during the night. DEER EVADES LARIAT OF INDIAN TRYING 'RESCUE FROM CLIFF| (Continued From First Page.) his try today at liberating the buck when all other methods failed by rea- son of the deer's distrust of the bridge | and its fear of close human approach. ‘The big buck is skeptical about eat- | ing the luscious ears of sweet corn, one | of his favorite foods, because they have been placed there by man; he prefers | to slake his thirst with the dew from foliage rather than drink the water | lowered over the cliff to him: he spurns the bridge which was thrown across the chasm in the hope that he would ven- ture across it to safety. It was such an attempt on the part of a motion picture photographer y terday that almost ended the drama. Frightened at the camera man. sus- pended from a cliff high above. the ani- mal, its head high in the alr. dashed across the ledge and gave the specta- tors a thrill by leaping over the end of the bridge. He again became calm when park officials ordered the pho- tographer hauled back ‘The bridge across the gorge is 25 feet long and between four and five feet wide. The buck, however, has given it safety than do the park officials, the NGINEERING skill and technical knowledge of park authorities so far have failed to devise a means of freeing a deer trapped on a narrow | ledge in Watkins Glen State Park in New York. 200 feet to her death several days ago. drink has been foliage growing from the rocky walls and dew which has The deer’s matej fell The animal’s only food and —A. P. Photo. State Conservation Department animal experts and the speetators. \ Apparently accustomed to the crowds | along the rail watching him, he nibbles the scant herbage most of the time and shows no signs of hunger or thirst. Oc- casionally he is frightened by a pebble tossed when park authorities are not looking. The officials still have a few plans they expect to try out. They were considering trapping him with a net or lassoing him or possibly lowering a fence along the ledge to form a corral. Another suggestion that has been ad- vaneed is to administer a potion of some sort by putting it in water which is lowered to the animal. The theory is that the deer would be put to sleep by the drug and removed from the ledge while helpless. Meanwhile, attendance at the park confinued to advance as the story spread. Park offizials have vetoed the suggestion that the park be closed. Favors Routing People. ALBANY. N. Y. August 31 Deputy Conservation Commissiol John Gibbs said today he thought the Finger Lakes Park Commission “should order all of thoce people out of the park” so a deer trapped on a ledge since Saturday will have an opportunity 10 escape. Gibbs said he was informed tourists {rightened the deer and its companion @— a few distrustful sniffs and left it alone. Saturday, causing the mate to go over| He appears less concerned about his the falls to its death and the other| deer to leap to the ledge. RVERS, HARBORS GET STO 00000 Fund Turned Over for 90 Projects by Public Works Office. By the Assoclated Press. The Public Works Administration today turned $70,000.000 over to the ‘War Department for rivers and harbors | work on 90 projects in all parts of the country. It was as a lump sum from the, $3,300.000.000 public works fund and in addition to $43,000.000 already set aside for flood control and previous separate allotments of $11,500,000 for rivers and harbors work on the upper Mississippi River and $14,158,000 for channel work on the Missouri River as far as Sioux City. ‘War Department officials expected to announce the specific allotment for the 90 individual projects later in the day. | ‘The projects include 13 on rivers, 1 ocean inlet, 7 intra-coastal water- ways projects, 6 Great Lakes connect- | ing channels, 19 seacoast harbor proj- | ects on the Atlantic Coast, 12 seacoast ! harbor projects on the Gulf, 11 sea- coast harbor projects on the Pacific | Coast, 17 harbor projects on the Great Lakes, 3 seacoast harbor projects in g’f Hawalian Islands and one in Puerto | ico. The Army chief of Engineers said the | 1 $70,000,000 will provide® 40.000 man- | ears of work, meaning employment of 40,000 men for a year. BASE PRICE OF 5V, CENTS ON WHOLESALE GASOLINE PLANNED (Continued From First Page) companies and the Atlantic Refining Co., among others. ‘Tentative tables for allocating na- tional production to meet national de- mand. understood to call for between 2,100,000 and 2,300,000 barrels daily outflow from the fields, with approxi- mately 900,000 to Texas, were ready for the committee’s perusal. INCREASE HELD TOO LOW. Continental Head Holds 10-Cent Boost on Crude Inadequate. NEW YORK, August 31 (®—D. J. Moran, president of the Continental Oil Co., declared yesterday that the 10- cent-a-barrel price increase on Mid- continent and Texas crude initiated this week by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey subsidiaries “is not high enough.” “It is regrettable that leaders in the last price advance seemingly hold the opinion that a 10-cent advance will be enough to meet the code provisions as to hours of labor and employment with- out evasion,” he said. “This company is making effective all provisions of the oil code and on September 2 it will give consideration to a more adequate price for crude, unless it has been axn:d by the President prior to that DOG WITH BROKEN LEG SAVES FAMILY FROM FIRE BUFFALO, August 31—Limping to his master’s bed, despite a broken leg, an 11-week old Irish setter today gave ,the alarm which saved four persons mflm 8 fire which was sweeping their LABOR HELD MAIN * G NPAESTHE President of Zionist Body Declares Worker Is Back- bone of Projeot. By the Associated Press. PHAHA. Czechosiovakia, August 31 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).—Nahu Sckolow, president of the World Zioni: Organization, addressing the Eighteenth World Zionist Congress, last night de- fined his views on the position of labor in the upbutlding of a Jewish national heme in Palestine. “In the center of the national up-! building must stand the worker who has achieved more than any cther section, ferming the backbone of the movement and of the Palestine upbuilding,” he de- clared. He urged that all Jewish workers in Palestine be enrolled in the Histadruth, Palestine Jewish labor federation, to ‘x;;s\-ent the formation of a second such 7 “Hitlerism,” Dr. Sokolow stated, “en- ables us to convert all Jewg to Zion- ism, which is a dfficult, but not impos- sible, task.” Pessimism over the Jewish outlook ! during the next five to ten years was expressed by Prof. Selig Brodetsky, British member of the Zionist Executive, | speaking on behalf of the Executive. He | asasiled Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise of New York for attacking the policies of the laborite faction and for “the spirit of warfare he injected” in criticizing Dr. Chaim Whizmann, former president .of the World Zionist Organization. “Changes,” he asserted, “are taking place now in the world of politics which affect also those with whom the Jews are allled. Therefore, it is important not only to speak of unity, but also to create unity.” Berl Locker of New York, member of the Executive, pointed out that the most serious problem of the organization department of the Executive had been to keep the organization united in the face of an internal fight within Zionist organization ranks. A petition was presented by Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum, Polish Radical Zion- ist, demanding that all delegates to future congresses must have command of the Hebrew language. The petition aroused a storm of protest. AIRWAYS ECONO';Y— PROGRAM ATTACKED BY AIR CORPS CHIEF (Continued From Pirst Page.) Army's chief “feeling toward this de- partment is one of 100 per cent co- operation in the interest of promoting aviation, it appears to me that his statement will cause people to be un- necessarily apprehensive.” “Beacon lights were put on a sched- ule, of part-time operation as a result of an order issued by Col. Clarence M. Young (former Republican Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics) in"m effort to economize,” Martin said. 1 nor any one else connected with the present administration had nothing whatever to do with this action. As a matter of fact, I have extended the time of the operation of lights on some of the airways and have plans whereby full-time operation may be restored on the principal routes. As far as radio beacons are concerned, there has never been any thought in my mind of elimi- mt;ng“ these nmgemhl G ve proposed that their operation be discontinued when the cemncpeh un- limited and the visibility is 10 miles and all the leading airline operators peration ?n‘fl'm‘m to this. suc‘l: L no way endanger the life of a single individual, whether he is travel- him | ing in an Army or civilian plane. “You may say for me that the air- ways will continue to operate in entire safety, but they wnclo:geuu on an eco- nomical be is, in formity with the rdministrs’ ion promise of reducing the cost of Government to the taxpayer.” CHINESE GUARDING THREE AMERICANS State Department Informed Priests in Red Zone Are Safe. i By the Associated Press. Three Americans in the danger zons of Communistic civil war in Southeast China were reported today to the State Department to be safe under the care of Gen. Liu Ho-Ting, commander of the forces opposing the Chinese Reds. The information came from the American consu! at Foochow. Gordon L. Burke, who reported receipt of telegram from Father Paul Curran at iningfu indicating he. and Father Bernard C. Werner and Father Grace, whose first name was not given, were safe. Father Curran's telegram said: “Returned Kienningfu under Gen. Lius care who promises help, advises wait few days.” The Foochow consulate requested Gen. Liu to afford all possible assist- ance and protection to the three Amer- icans. With the American naval vessel Sacramento scheduled to reach Foochow today, Burke reported the situation there was unchenged. At first fears had been felt that the city might be threatened by Ccmmunists, but later information disclosed this danger was not so imminent as had been felt. HALT RED ADVANCE. Chinese Authorities Tell U. S. Danger Is Averted. FOOCHOW, Fukien Province, China, 1 August 31 (#).—Chinese authorities in- formed the United States consulate today that provincial troops had checked a Communist advance between Yen- ping and Foochow and had caused the invaders to retreat. The American consul said he con- siders the danger of a Red attack on Foochow is lessene Japan Ready to Act. TOKIO, August 31 (#)—A Commu- nist invasion of Fukien province, South- east China, was said today to be threat- ening to enguif the strategic port city of Amoy. on Formosa Strait in Fukien. The navy office ordered warcraf: at | Mako, on Formosa Island, to e p! pared to hasten to Amoy. Three war ships already have been dispatched (0 Foochow, north of Amoy and capital of Fukien. The Japanese government instructed {its nsular officials and al officers |in Fukien to co-operate with American | 2nd British authorities for the protec- | tion of foreigners. | S Bare Bomb Plot. TOKIO, August 31 (A —A plan to F ficulties was benind attempts made May 12 to bomb the American and British rgnsular UENL‘ES i: Mukden. a Rengo (Japanese) News Agency dispatch fr Mukden said tod: y\ gy _ Bombs were discovered in the resi- dence of Myrl 5. Myers, American co sul-general. and in the British consu- late-general. They were removed with- out exploding. The Rengo dispatch said the plot was engineered by Maj. Gen. Shang Chiu- Hsiang, a follower of Chang Hsiao- Liang. whom the Japanese ousted a governor of Manchuria at the beginnin of their campaign in that province. D. C. GETS $1,750,500 FOR SEWER WORK FROM FEDERAL FUM (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) heavy rains in the vicinity of Fifth an. In streets. %}‘eh?:#mnl letter of notification from Administrator Ickes read as follows: | _“In accordance with the provisions of | the national industrial recovery act of 1933, an allotment of $1,759.500 has been made to the Board of Commis- sioners, District of Columbia, for sewer construction. A list cf the approved projects showing the amount allotted for each is attached. “Instructions regarding provisions to be incorporated in contracts, progress reports and cther detailed informaticn will be issued shortly. “A tequest, copy herewith, is being forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury to transter $1.759.500 to your credit for the performance of these works." The letter to the Treasury Depart- ment was a request to the Secretary to meke a transfer cf funds under the ]na!kmll industrial recovery act as fol- lows: “Transfer to: District of Coi Board of Comm e : bis, C ioners. 1933-35 (Fed- eral project). Amount, $1,759,500. | Purpose, sewer construction. Apply against authority of August 19, 1933.” ROOSEVELT SAIIAS‘ HOMEWARD; ENDING VACATION TUESDAY (Continued From First Page.) announced the name of the new weekly would be Today. They explained that they had been given permission to use his name by Arthur Brisbane, who uses it for his daily newspaper column. Mr. Moley said that he expects to get to work right away and try and have things ready to bring out the | maiden issue about the first of October. Besides members of the Roosevelt family and close friends and ne end camera men on hand to see the huge yacht sall away with the President and his cruising party were a large number of citizens of Poughkeepsie. The President, wearing a panama hat, with the brim turned down in the back, and wearing a dark gray tropical suit, steod at the rail on the after-deck waving and smiling as the boat pushed off. Besides the President and Mr. Astor, others in the yachting party are Judge Frederic Kernochan, Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President Teddy Roose- velt; Lytle Hull, George St. George and W. R. Stewart, all of New York, and Dr. Leslie Heitler of Mobile, Ala. With one exception the cruising party is the same as made up the party on the Nourmahal last Winter just before the life of Mr. Roosevelt was attempted in Miami, Fla. The Nourmahal sailed away with the U. S. 8. destroyer Manley as a convey. When it reaches New York Harbor late this afternoon the Manley will be joined by the destroyer Twig. The Nourmahal is only about 4 years old, and is one of the largest yachts of its kind in this country. It is 263 feet long and is of 3,000 gross tons. It has a high speed of 16 knots and a cruising speed of 14!; knots. 1t is an oll-burner and has fuel capac- ity sufficient to travel 18,000 miles. It carries a crew of 46. Only two secret service men are making the trip with the President. Stephen T. Early, the President’s sec- retary, is aboard the destroyer Manley, as is Capt. Walter Vernou, the Presi- | dent’s naval aide. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt yesterday afternoon attended the Dutchess County Fair at Rhinebeck, about 14 miles from Hyde Park. They had the pleasure of the Presi- dent’s horse New Deal, with John, the Roosevelt buyl‘.iin the L Sacate vt 'a° o lding HOE. failed to with Mrs. Dall in the win prizes. 0 { involve Manchukuo in international dif- . 9]