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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) tomorrow, fair; moderate northwest and west winds Temperatures—Highest, 65, at 7 p.am. yesterday; lowest, 58, at 4 am. Fair and warmer today; today. yesterday. Full report on page A-T. () Means Associated Pr No. 1,487—No. 32,646. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D CUBAN REGIME STIRS ANTI-U. S. SENTIMENT AS TENS Americans PRchind Strikes, Cabinet Member Says. MOB SHOUTS FURY AGAINST WELLES U. S. Citizens Prepare to Evacuate Island in Emergency. (Copyright, 1033, by the Associated Press) HAVANA, September 16 —While thousands marcheu Havana’s streets late today shouting against the United States Government and its Ambassador, Sumner Welles, the secretary of war and interior in the Grau San Martin cabinet accused American business interests here of seeking the new government’s overthrow. The secretary, Antonio Guiteras, charged American and foreign business interests “are reducing wages, turning workmen loose anu provoked them * * * to strike,” in a statement urging the “work- ing masses” to back the new ad- ministration. “Workmen induced by American | enterprises are unwisely lending themselves to the overthrow of the government,” Guiteras’ state- ment said. Mob Shouts Defiance. Meantime shouts of “down with Sum- ner Welles,” “‘down with American i tervention” and “down with Yanke: perialism” were resounding at Havana’s | malecon as 8000 Cubans paraded in| tribute to Mexico's recognition of the Grau San Martin regime. This demonstration was staged in front of the Hotel Presidente, where Mr. Welles has resided since moving from | the Hotel National, in which several | hundred former army officers have as- | sembled to back their demand that President Grau San Martin resign. The Ambassador was not in the hotel at the time. Guiteras issued his statement just be- fore leaving the interior department for the Mexican embassy. He warned Cuba’s National Confederation of Labor that | it would be “responsible in history for | the backward step the working masses | would take in their battle if America is given the pretext to declare interven- | tion” in Cuba. Asks Aid of Workers. He urged workers to collaborate with the new regime “so as not to be an in- strument in the service of imperialist enterprises.” His statement was the first of an official nature directly charg- | ing American interests with working against the government. Interest centered at the same time on a gathering of Cuba's important business interests assembled to consider | resolutions urging the Grau San Martin | regime to step aside in favor of a “con-| centration government.” 5 This joint commission of economic interests also was reported to be con- sidering suspending all busines activi- ties to protest “acts of violence by the laboring classes” which are compeling employers “to accept agreements im- possible of execution.” Dectaring themselves opposed to in- tervention, the business men condemned the “propaganda of enmity toward the Government of the United States which now goes beyond that and is interpreted as an attack on the American people.” They condemned the present adminis- tration’s appeal for national solidarity, for which “the only reason given was the possibility of United States inter- vention.” Meanwhile Americans in Cuba took added precautions tonight in the face of continued unsettled conditions as the | government of President Grau San Martin finished its first full week, ha- | rassed by labor conditions and de- mands for its abdication. o Speculation was rife as to the new regime's stability or the lack of it. The seriousness of the strike situa- tion throughout the island, in which a number of Americans were concerned, occupied official attention. Reports from the interior were not encouraging. At Santiago, where conditions have been disturbed for some time, American women left the city and took refuge across the bay at Puerta Del Sul. The situation at Cristo, where 12 Americans were held virtual prisoners of striking Manganese miners for several days, still was reported tens Cristo is a few miles from Santiago. It was reliably learned that Ameri- | cans in the Santiago area have worked = (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) LEAGUE INVITATION 70 U. S. CONSIDERED | Participation in Economic Discus- sion Would Depend on Wash- ington Initiative. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 16.—The ques- tion of inviting the United States to participate in the forthcoming as- sembly of the League of Nations for discussion of international economic problems has been raised sharply in League circles. The question arose following an an- nouncement that the heads of the economic and financial sections had left for London to consult with Premier Ramsay MacDonald, president of the ‘World Economic Conference. It was stated that if Washington in- timated a desire to come to the League, an invitation undoubtedly would be issued, as was done in the case of the opium and disarmament conferences. Mr. MacDonald summoned A. Love- day, director of the financial division of the League, and Dr. Pletro Stoppani, chief of the economic division, to con- sider the future of the World Economic Conferénce and whether committeel will be convoked on the rush of work begun in London. League circles understood the di- yectors would tell Mr. MacDonald that eneral discussion of economic prob- ’zml was_certain in the assembly be- September 25, and that it might be beet (o cva't the trend then displayed. ION GROWS AMBASSADOR WELLES, U. 5. AIM TO KEEP OUT OF CUBA FACES TEST IN 48 HOURS Possibility Welles’ Talk Will Lead to Coalition Rule Arouses Faint Hope. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The test of America’s non-inter- vention policy in Cuba will be made within the next 48 hours. This was the feeling last night in high official circles in Washington. While news from Cuba continues to be disquieting, there was a slight ray of hope, however, that the result of a talk between Ambassador Sumner Welles and the Cuban students may lead to the formation of a concentration government which may be in a posi- tion to claim recognition by the United States. Following the friendly talk between the students and the American Ambas- sador, the former got in touch with Dr. Grau San Martin and suggested that he consult leaders of the old Cuban po- litical parties. Gen. Menocal and Mr. Mendieta were summoned to the presi- dential palace, where, together with other Cuban political men, they dis- cussed possibility of forming a coalition government which would have the sup- port of the majority of the elements of the Cuban population. Debt Cancellation Advocated. Welles is reported to have told the students the Grau San Martin admin- istration represents nothing but the radical elements of Havana. If a rec- ognition by the United States and other powers is desired, it is essential that all the sections of the country, the workers, the farmers, the industrialists and the business men, should have their representatives in the govern- ment. It is on this basis that last night's conversations proceeded. Reports frcm Cuba indicate, however, that it will be well-nigh impossible for such a combination to take place now. The sovietization of Cuba is making rapid strides. The minority, which is in control, is proceeding to a wholesale confiscation of private property, is ad- vocating the cancellation of all debts, public and private, in short, it endeavors to make out of Cuba a miniature Soviet Russia. Menocal and Mendieta are both tried politicians who do not believe in this new system. They are glad to have Machado out, but they want to main- tain the old social order, even though they would like to see a substantial re- duction of the Cuban external debt. They are determined, however, to re- spect private property and refuse any kind of compromise on this matter. Agreement Improbable. Because of these fundamental differ- ences, it is considered highly improbable that Grau San Martin's students will come to any agreement with the old political leaders. 1t is believed in official quarters here that the next 48 hours will be decisive in our relation with Cuba. Reports from the interlor are dis- tinctly bad. The Cuban “proletariat” is almost fanatical in its anti-American feelings and demonstrations follow demonstrations. The populace shouts hysterically “death to the Americanos, and it may be only a question of time before the words are changed into facts. The only hope of putting an end to these demonstrations is the coming into office of some sort of a strong govern- ment to deal energetically with such manifestations. The situation of the Americans out- side Havana is described in advices re- ceived here as precarious. In some sec- tions of the country they are within (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HAMILTON OPENING SEPTEMBER 25 WILL RELEASE §7,900,000 Listing of Assets at Seven of | by (oh Merged Banks to Begin Tomorrow. DIRECTORS TO OBTAIN CHARTER THIS WEEK President Graham Tells Depositors in Letter Goal Is Great Insti- tution for Greater City. Seven and one-half million dollars, tied up for six months in seven closed Washington banks, will be available once more to depositors when the Ham- ilton National Bank opens its doors Monday, September 25. The opening date was selected by directors of the bank yesterday. To- morrow the mechanical task of listing assets at each of the seven banks going into the Hamilton merger begins. Each note, bond or mortgage must be listed, and its value as of the opening date calculated during this week. Some time between now and the opening date the board of directors will visit the Treasury Department and take out a charter for tne new bank. Treasury examiners will count every dollar of the bank's subscriptions to| capital stock ($1,250,000) and see that | all details are in order. Depositors 75 Per Cent Loyal It was estimated yesterday that about 75 per cent of the depositors in the seven banks have agreed to become depositors in the new bank. For those who have signed the agreements noth- ing remains to be done in order to open up their accounts. They can call at the bank and get pass books as soon as it is open. Those who do not wish to do busi- ness with the new bank will apply to the conservators of the closed bank in which they have their deposit and the money will be forwarded to them as soon as_possible. ‘The $7,500,000 in deposits in the new bank represents one-half the deposits in the merging banks. The deposits are being made available by the sale of liquid assets by the merging banks to the new bank. The remainder of the assets of the merging banks even- tually will be liquidated by the con- servators and additional amounts paid to_depositors as liquidation proceeds. Bank officlals yesterday obtained ap- proval of the District Supreme Court of the leases of the seven properties where the new bank is to do business. ‘The properties, and the basic rentals which are to be paid, are: Federal-American Bank, Fourteenth and G streets, $28,000 per annum for $17,000,000 deposits or less; Federal- | ¢jopn American Branch, Twelfth and Newton streets, $2,500 for $300,000; Federal- American Branch, Twentieth street and Pennsylvania avenue, $3,000 for $500.- 000; Potomac Savings Bank, $5.000 for $1,500,000; Seventh Street Savings, $2,500 for $750,000; Woodridge-Langdon Savings, $2,000 for $250,000, and North- east Savings, $2,500 for $750,000. In the case of the first named prop- erty, the rental will increase $3.50 per $1,000 for each $1.000 deposits above the minimum specified. In each other case, the rental will increase $2.50 per $1,000. All leases are for five years. All of the banks owning the leased property are joining the Hamilton merger. The new bank, in addition, will include the District National Bank, but will not use that bank’s real estate. Letters Sent Depositors, After the decision on the opening | date, President Edwin C. Graham of the new bank yesterday sent a letter to all depositors who have agreed to take out accounts there, which, addressed to “Fellow Depositors,” said, in part: “It gives me great pleasure to an- nounce that the Hamilton National " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) — e PAPAL NUNCIO’S LETTER IRKS CZECH CABINET Decide to Ask His Recall to Rome for Explanation for Mis- sive. By the Associated Press. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, September 16.—The cabinet, indignant over a let- ter written by the papal nuncio, Pel Cirfaci, to the Slovak autonomist leadet, Andreas Hlinka, today decided to mand the nuncio’s recall to Rome by the Pope for official explanation. The nuncio’s letter praised the devo- tion and loyalty of the Slovaks to the church and complained bitterly of the opposite sort of treatment accorded to the papal representative by the Czechs. “Wheteas in Praha the holy father, particularly in the person of his repre- sentatives, is insulted in a manner vio- lating all international rules of cour- tesy, you Slovaks have observed the proper reverence for high authority,” the letter said. The communication was particularly objectionable to the Czech government because it was addressed to the autono- mist leader, and therefore seeming to encourage & revolt. VICTIMS OF HOLIDAY ACCIDENT HAVE LEGS SEVERED BY TRUCK By the Associated Press. ARAB, Ala, September 16.—Holiday outing was converted into tragedy near here today as & truck in attempting to pass another such vehicle loaded with 30 persons sideswiped it and ‘brought death to three, probably fatal injuries to three others and serlous hurts to two e dead 8 e de are: Mrs. Eva_ Aldredge of Blountsville, Ala.; Miss Willle Mae Denny, 20, of Rock Springs, Ala., and Mrs. Earle Mitchell of B‘Iimmfsvfl.le, Ala. ‘The injured: /Miss Lydia Nations, 19, both legs amputated, may die; Mrs. Bessle Mc- Adee, one leg amputated, may die; Earl Mitchell, both legs broken, condition critical; Harvey Pritchett, both legs broken, kigndmml m;:-?klénm Mrs. J. ‘T. Hawkins, one leg . ‘Willis Black, driver of the truck that sideswiped the machine loaded with & holiday crowd, was charged with murder | this afternoon in a warrant sworn out | died. ( - by County Solicitor Claude Scruges. y“w were sheared off of some of the victims as the two trucks slammed into each other,” Solicitor Scruggs said. Homer Baker, driver of the truck on which the injured were riding with & score of friends from Rock Springs and Blountsville, told Solicitor Scruggs the partly left Blountsville early this morn- ing for Huntsville to spend the day at Four miles north of Arab, Baker said the truck driven by Black swung out in front of him and as it passed side- swiped his truck, breaking and mangling the legs of eight of his passengers. All of the injured were on the left side of the truck, sitting with their legs dangling. Other passengers on the truck, many of them women, became hysterical as they attempted to give aid to their in- Jjured friends. “I am sorry, but it won't give them back their legs or their lives,” Black sobbed when told by Solicitor Scruggs that three of the accident victims had SUNDAY 0000 ALLOTTED FOR WORK ON MALL Sund WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION X AN UNION SQUARE| ~ Planning Commission Wil Use Public Works F'unds for Four Roads. TEMPORARY BUILDINGS WILL BE REMOVED LATER Square Will Be Developed Upon Site Formerly Occupied by Botanical Gardens. A great central park for the National Capital—first conceived by the French engineer, Maj. Plerre Charles L'Enfant, more than a century ago—came nearer reality yesterday, when the Public Works Administration allotted $600,000 for improvement of the Mall and Union Square, in the shadow of the Capitol. ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission before terminating its two-day meeting yesterday learned of the allocation, for which it had pre- viously asked, and expressed gratifica- tion that blue prints and century-old dreams are at last to take tangible form. The commission decided it will build those portions of the four great high- ways that are to traverse the Mall that can best be done now, for there are temporary buildings standing in the way of the full realization of the proj- ect. Parts of the roadways already have been built out of an appropriation for $100,000 made available by a recent Congress. Union Square will be built upon the former site of the Botanical Gardens, now moved into new and commodious glass-covered quarters to the southward. The Mall, for which Union Square will prove a fitting easterly terminus, runs from near the Capitol to near the Washington Monument. Temporary Buildings in Way. The commission will build those of the Mall roads that can be constructed without interfering with temporary buildings, now in use. Now standing in the way of the complete project are ‘Temporary Bulldlng:oc. E and F, as well as the Smithsonian Institution. When the new Government buildings, now under construction in the triangle, are completed early next year, the temporary structures can be vacated and demolished. The Public Buildings Commission has tentatively reserved on its maps of future development, south of the Mall from Four-and-a-half street to Twelfth street southwest, space for future de- velopment of the Smithsonian Institu- . When the present red building of the Smithsonian Institution, stand- ing in the way of completion of the en- tire south highway on the Mall, will be demolished is problematical. For the present this will not complicate mat- ters, as the development can go forward regardless. The present program does not con- template development of the roadways westward of Fourteenth street. Con- struction of the two outer and two inner roads along the Mall, as far as the absence of obstructing build- ings is concerned, will be undertaken as soon as possible. Eilms to Be Planted. Out of the $600,000 allocation will come the cost of the four highways and the planting of eight rows of American elm trees, four rows be- tween each of two outer roadways. The space between the two inner road- ways will be left open to afford a grand vista between the Washington Monument and the Capitol. Union Square will include the pres- ent monuments to Generals Grant and Meade of Civil War fame. De- velopment of Union Square will be based on the original plan of 1901, officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission asserted vesterday. Second street is to be ex- tended from Maryland to Pennsyl- vania avenue, thfough the grounds of the erstwhile Botanical Gardens, which will all be cleaned out. There will be suitable landscaping treatments in Union Square, giving the proper set- ting to the Grant and Meade statues and forming a suitable terminus for the east end of the Mall. Already constructed out of prior pub- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) CHICAGO GANGSTERS SOUGHT ON COAST Twenty Men Who Disappeared in Tllinois Believed to Have Gone to Los Angeles. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 16.—Dis- trict Attorney Buron Fitts sald today a Chicago detective, name not dis- closed, has been here two weeks alding local suthorities in attempts to “spot” Chicago gangsters and racketeers who may be in Los Angeles. ‘The itor said been going on here for the past fort- night for 20 Chicago gangsters who have disappeared from that city and that the detective has located some of them. Fitts announced he had agreed to release two men arrested in a_ raid on a Hollywood mansion early Thurs- day. He saild that after talking to their lawyers, he believes the men, Edward J. Smith and Morris Lewis, are Eastern ofl men here on a legiti- mate deal, as they insisted they were at the time. The men were arraigned yesterday on charges of conspiracy to commit vagrancy and their bonds fixed $50,000 each. a search has —_— ROOSEVELT STAYS HOME Storm and Business Keeps Presi- dent From Cruise. Business and the weather combined yesterday to keep President Roosevelt from his planned week end Potomac ceal code. r i Y Shar MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1933—106 PAGES. * “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and morning to city and suburban Sunday homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS CUBA’S CONCEPTION OF THE THREE MONKEYS OF NIKKO. SCIENTISTS RISK OF SLEEPING LIVES IN QUEST SICKNESS SERUM Emulate Yellow Fever Heroes by Submitting to Bite of Mosquitoes, Now Suspected of Transmitting Mysterious Malady in St. Louis Epidemic. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 16.—Scien- tists who have struggled with animal experiments for weeks in an effort to solve the mystery of “sleeping sick- ness” finally have dedicated their lives to the study. ‘The United States Public Health | Service at Washington announced to- | day three unidentified scientists had submitted to bites from mosquitoes, which previously had bitten “sleeping sickness,” or encephalitis, victims. Ex- perts have given prominence to a theory that the disease h‘tmsmllud by insects. Since the outbreak of an epidemic in Greater St. Louls the latter part of July, the Federal, Statae, county and city health officials have co-operated in their study. The fatalities have grown to 150. Only three deaths were reported to- day, and it is agreed generally the epidemic is slackening, but little has been learned of now the disease is transmitted or how it may be com- bated effectively. Attempts have been made by the Central Laboratories, by individual scientists and by a group of Army ex- perts to transmit the disease to ani- | mals. Mosquitoes have been allowed to bite patients, then been introduced to_monkeys and rabbits. Today Dr. Paul J. Zentay, assistant | city health commissicner, said no suc- cessful reports had been made in con- nection with any of the experiments. First word of the human experiments SENATOR WHEELER HURT IN CAR CRASH Wife, Three Children and Servant Treated at Mon- tana Hospital After Spill. By the Associated Press. GLASGOW, Mont., September 16.— United States Senator Burton K. Wheel- er suffered a slight concussion and other injuries when his car careened wildly and overturned on a highway 24 miles west of Glasgow today. Tonight he was seemingly out of danger. The senior Montana Senator, Mrs. Wheeler, three of their children and a Filipino servant, all suffering injuries of varying degree, were treated in Glas- gow. Senator Wheeler was unconscious when removed from the wreckage of his sedan. Recovering consciousness he was unable to say what occurred. A shattered rear tire, however, was be- lieved to have thrown the heavy ma- chine out of his control. Aided By Passerby. Charles Dawley, a passerby, brought the party to this city for medical at- tention. The Wheelers were motoring from their Summer home on Lake McDonald to Washington. The car overturned twice and landed upr&ht. throwing May Ann Wheeler, 8, to the und. She, however, escaped with only slight abrasions. An extensive examination of the Sen- ator here disclosed a head injury and cuts, and a bruised leg. His two sons, Richard, 14 and Edward, 19, were cut and bruised. Mrs. Wheeler escaped with a wrench- ed back and cuts, and the Filipino house boy, Simeon Arboleda, was merely shaken. Dawley, former Great Falls police chief, came upon the scene immediately after the crash. Planned Trip to Capital. Senator Wheeler, vigorous advocate of remonetization, had planned to drive directly to Washington for conferences on monetary problems and to meet with others of the Montana Co ional delegation. The family spent night at Havre. When & complete examination indi- cated there were no grave injuries suf- fered by the party, Senator Wheeler announced they would rest here until the sedan is repaired and then would 80 on to Williston, N. Dak,, for a day and thence to Washington. Trevino at Laredo. LAREDO, Tex., September 16 (#).— Gen. Manuet Perez Trevino, former president of the National gevolummlry General News Editorials gmu&emenu . Phvancial News Magazine " (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) . LASONCONVICTED:; JURY ASKS DEATH Campus Publisher Receives Verdict in Wife’s Mur- der With Calm. By the Associated Press. SAN JOSE, Calif, September 16— tive wife, Allene Thorpe Lamson, in last Memorial day by a jury which recommended the death penalty. The 3l-year-old executive of the Stanford University publishing house was convicted approximately eight and one-half hours after the jury of seven ! men and five women received the case. In dead silence the verdict was read at a night session of court hastily called. Then there was a scream from the direction of where Lamson's sisters, Dr. Margaret Lamson and Mrs. Willis Thoits, sat. Lamson Remains Calm. The convicted man never moved. He was slightly pale, but there was no im- mediate sign that the verdict had af- fected him. The jury required three ballots, said G. Peterson of Saratoga, the foreman. He said there was no doubt about the verdict from the first ballot_and that (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) VETERAN ENDS LIFE Victim of Economy Act Shoots Self to Death. RENO, Nev., September 16 (#).—De- spondent, friends said, because his compensation as a World War veteran had been cut off in the economy pro- gram, Charles S. Luscombe, 53, shot himself to death here today. A sister, fiinil.m Cummings, lives in Kalmazoo, c! By the Associated Press. In biting language and closely clipped sentences, Secretary Ickes asserted yes- terday that neither red tape nor bureaucracy was involved in the dis- tribution of public works mane{. Unvarnished language marked his statement to newspaper men in a press con{lmce in rep:g to what l‘;e c:lmled “pol sharp shooting” and “snip- ing” reports that his Public Works Administration was responsible for the 8' ~ness with which some of the job- glving money, allotted, was being put to work. “We have taken it out by the hands- “The major delays now are caused by political sniping and by the inability otlocalng:mluwmwvorkm money we have already allotted. “T 8 letter from a Governor rais- then in that same letter he stated that “all contracts had to go back to review llor a local committce under a State A Davis A. Lamson was convicted tonight | on a charge of murdering his attrac- | their Stanford University campus home DEATHS NEAR 10 INAREA RAVAGED BY GALEANDRAN Capital Escapes Entirely as| Storm Veers Out to Sea From Virginia. While Washington escaped entirely the hurricane which ravaged the At- lantic seaboard yesterday and was heading seaward today, the death toll in the tropical disturbance of the past two days mounted toward 100 late last night. At least 91 persons were reported dead in the hurricane that struck Tampico, Mexico, and spread death and destruction 300 miles inland. De- layed dispatches from San Luis Potosi, 175 miles west of Tampico, reported at least 80, possibly 100, drowned in a flood following the breaking of a dam in the Santiago River. In the raging seas of Chesapeake Bay, the steamer Exporter was adrift | early today with a crew of 40 on board. Two men were drowned on the Caro- lina Coast. Two lives were lost as floods raged with the storm in Penn- sylvania. As the tropical gale hugged the At- lantic shores in its northward course last night, it appeared the center of the disturbance Sunday would be around Nantucket. (Copyright, 1933, by the Associated Press.) NORFOLK, Va., September 16.—A vicious tropical hurricane raked the | Virginia coast tonight after pounding | the North Carolina seaboard with dev- astating effect. | And inland at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one | man was known dead, four were trapped and many were marooned by flood | waters that swept down the Wyoming | Valley. A sailor and a fisherman were drowned in the Carolina hurricane. But there was no news from many fishing villages that sprawl along the coast. They _were isolated and in the wake of the storm. This city had been warned to get ready for a terrific blow, but the hur- ricane changed its course before its force reached here, and headed north- | ward. Coast Flashes Danger. Big craft plowed through moun- tainous seas all along the seaboard and small boats sought refuge. Hurricane warnings flew as far north as New Jersey and danger lights flashed from South Carolina to New England. The Export Line Steamship Exporter tonight wirelessed Coast Guard head- quarters she was adrift in Chesapeake Bay. Coastal residents of Virginia fled to safety. The Weather Bureau gave steady signals of warning that the hurricane’s fury was growing as it moved northward. A small ship, the steamer Beckwith of Reedville, Va, was in distress and in tow of a Coast Guard cutter. Off Cape Hatteras—graveyard of the “Where is the red tape?” he asked.|fi Atlantic—the barometers fell below 29. (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) POLITICAL “SNIPING” BLAMED FOR PUBLIC WORKS DELAY “I am not responsible for delays of this kind, nor for anything except my own administration. “The bureaucracy charged is not found here, but is spread out through other agencles over which I have no control. “There is a lot of political whiz- 10k of persoms SEvn 30 Make B record a a recor memm'rheynntwbeml position, in case the program fails, to say ‘I told you so.’ It is absurd. There is no red tape connected with this is of- slow- say the hard as he can. President with a list of projects and he approves Sometimes he ice. “As for charges that there ness at the White House, I can President is pushing just as I go over to the them in 15 minutes. approves them before they are officially 1t to under- stand what happens to the allotments ing hell about red tape and delay. And | Presented. after we have made them. Road build- (Ccntinued on Page 3, Column 6.) TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE COAL CODE SIGNED BY OWNERS, ENDING LONG DISPUTE OVER WAGES AND PACTS Troublesome Negotiations Had Thrust Innumerabld Obstacles in Way of N.R. A, and Resulted in Strikes. JOHNSON INDICATES ALL MINES WILL BE INCLUDED Administrator Smiles Broadly in Telling of Success—Final Ace tion Comes Soon After Rooses velt Issues Wamning to Ope erators, By the Associated Press, The bituminous coal code, fraught with controversy through all the negotiations for its formue lation, was signed last night by the operators of the various pro« ducing regions. The ceremony made the docus= ment of strife ready for promule gation by President Roosevelt, All the way through the trouble« some negotiations it had thrust innumerable difficulties before the administration, obstacles that haq been reflected in strikes in the coal fields themselves. t'l‘wo nights ago, after an outbreak of fif Ve various leaders of the industry and of= ficials of the Government to the White House for a long conference and allotted 24 more hours for formulation of the code. The 24 hours ended Friday, with the operators still far from their More time was granted. £ Wage Disputes Settled. Through long conferences in hotel rooms, the work went on throughout yesterday. There were lengthy debates over wage differentials among the varie ous coal fields. Wage disputes were tq be settled. Marketing agreements, come pany houses, innumerable details to be e draft of the code was complete but still there were more polnupto I;‘e' settled. Contracts had to be signed with the United Mine Workers of America for labor. Hugh S. Johnson, the administrator, went into a series of meetings with the operators shortly before nightfall. Through several hours the conference room debate went on. Finally, the administrator emerged from a conference room at the Shoree ! ham Hotel to say the compact would bq signed at his office at 7 p.m. A little after the time set, the opera ators began filing into Johnson's office, By two's and in groups, they went ine side to put their names on the document. The‘ work was mot entirely come pleted ‘when they left. J. P. Francis, one of the operators who had been working on the code for weeks, said the wage agreement between the operas tors and the United Mine Workers of &menn hald nothbeen completed, buf ey were In such a stage that onl minor details were left. J % Predicts Ratification. He predicted these contracts. which would unionize completely the soft coa} fleles}.mwould b]e;a;xficd soon. ohnson smiled broadly as the opera« tors left his office. He said every S*oup of producers in the country except those from Alabama and Western Kentucky had put their names to the compact. The administrator called Presiden§ Roosevelt as soon as the task was done, informed him of the result and wag told by the Chiet Executive to get some rest before bringing the code to the ‘Whiie House for formal signature and promulgation today. It will take effect on the second Monday after the Prese ident’s signature. Johnson said the Alabama operator§ had signified approval of the code as drafted finally and he did not know the reason for their non-appearance when time came to sign. He had no indication, he said, that the group did not intend to comply. In answer to questions, he pointed out the code governed the entire sofg coal industry. Applies to All Mines. “It is & code for the United States® he said. meaning non-signers were jus§ as much subject to its provisions as the operators wh> put their names to the document. __Johnson _disclosed the issue that had (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) POLICE CLUBS HALT MEETING AT SCHOOL Several Reported Manhandled ad Session Protesting Previous Action of Bluecoats. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, September 16.—Six highy school students were arrested and seve eral persons reported they were mane handled as police today broke up @ scheduled meeting of teachers, parents and pupils meeting under auspices of the “Save Our Schools” Committee. Mary Harris, 19, said she wi flck in the eye by a policeman’ club, Police declared the meeting was dise solved because it had no permit, Nearly 2,500 persons were made to lehve th grounds at the Hertz High Sch where the meeting was planned o doors. ‘The meeting was called in protes against reported police interruption of a meeting last night on the Lawndale School grounds. Members of the come mittee said at that time police escorted Prof. J. M. McNaul of the University of Nebraska from the speakers’ stand, where he was scheduled to make the principal address. The “Save Our Schools” Committee has protests against the School rd’s economy program, which resulted in curtailment of courses ang ousting of several hundred teachers,