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No. 1,497—No. 32,716. | » WYNEKOOP AGMITS CONFESSION HOAK T0 SAVE MOTHER Husband Re-enacts Slaying, but Later Tells Police He “Was Fooling.” ALIBI WITNESS CALLS YOUNG WIDOWER “LIAR” Tale Includes Point He Forced Slain Wife to Drink Chloro- form Before Shot. | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, November 25 —Booked on | a charge of murder for the operating table death of his wife, Rheta, 23, Earle ‘Wynekoop, 27, today ‘“confessed” and “re-enacted” the slaying only to later tell police he “was fooling” in order to save his mother, Dr. Alice Wynekoop. Assistant State's Attorney Charles S. Dougherty, who at once had branded the “confession” fantastic, ordered ‘Wynekoop locked up for further ques- tioning tomorrow after the husband agreed he was faking. Mother Still Prisoner. His 62 year-old mother, recommended | held yvesterday for murder after she admitted firing the bullet into her daughter-in-law's half-clad body—al- ready a victim, she contended, to cidental overdosage of chloroform—was a prisoner in the hospital of the coun- ty jail, She collapsed when her re- quest for a habeas corpus writ was con- tinued to next week. Dougherty said Earle first told au- thorities that at 3 p.m. Tuesday—at a time, his friend, Stanley Young, claimed they were en route by auto- mobile to Kansas City—he went to his home and killed his wife. Young was quick to declare the “con- fession” false and after the widower confronted him. Wynekoop grinned af Police Sergt. Thomas Kelly. an ob. server of his “re-enactment” of the slaying, and said: Wanted to Clear Mother. “The only reason I was fooling in| this confession was to make you believe it to take my mother out of it. But Young's too smart. He remembered dates and places better than I do. I know that mother couldn't have done it and neither did I. We ought to beat this case easily in court.” In the house of death, with Detec- | tive Bert Gray taking the role of Rheta, Earle had acted out his ver- sion of the death a short time pre- viously. Gray stood on the scales and then swung_his legs over the edge of the operating table in the mansion base-| ment office as he sat down. ! “After Rheta undressed,” Earle told | him and Sergt. Kelly, “she sat on the | edge of the table for a moment, swing- | 1,000,006 Shifted From Relief Rolls ToC.W.A. Work Hopkins Hopes to Put Four Times as Many on Own Resources. By the Associated Press. Figures from State officials yester- day indicated that the newly-created Civil Works Administration had trans- ferred more than 1,000,000 persons from relief rolls to pay rolls. Eventually, the administration headed by Harry L. Hopkins, who is also Federal relief administrator, hopes to put 4,000,000 men and women on & self-supporting basis. Civil works officials said yesterday they had no estimate of the number actually put back to work and that figures would not be available until next week. It was added, however, that the pro- gram was going forward satisfactorily, although there had been some diffi- culty in finding projects on which work might be started immediately. The State estimates showed _that (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) e 250000 1S DAILY CHEST DRIVE GOAL ASCAMPAIGN LAGS Failure Threat Gives Workers Huge Task in Final Days of Work The fate of a pathetic host of Wash- ington’s victims of want, sickness and old age hangs in the balanz> today, with lagging Community Chest contri- butions foreshadowing failure of this years campaign to reach its goal un- less extraordinary progress is made in the final stages this week. More than a million dollars short of their goal of $1,945,000 on the basis of last night's tabulation of returns, | the 6,000 Chest solicitors were con- fronted with the problem of raising $250,000 a day between now and Thanksgiving day. When it is considered that the aver- age daily total of gifts during the past week was approximately $155,000, the extent to which the campaign pace must be stepped up becomes poignantly apparent. Total Now Is $932,063. Yesterday only $95700 in pledges was reported by the workers, bringing the grand total to $932,063. On the ing her legs. Suddenly she lost her balance and fell. I noticed how frail | ahe1 was, and put her back on the table.” | Details of Confession. “As she lay there I went to the cab- inet and picked up a bottle of chloro- | form and poured some in her mouth | and held my hand over her lips. She struggled for a while and then lay still. | Then I took the gun and shot her.” | He said, he flew afterward to Kansas | City by private plane and met Young in the lobby of a hotel. | “But Young's assertion he could prove | by witnesses that at the time of the | killing they both were en route to Kansas City, having left at 10:30 a.m., brought Wynekoop’s repudiation of his Jatest story. Because of Young's in- | sistence that witnesses would vouch for the story. police said they might check | filling stations where he said they | bought gasoline. Young, stating he didn’t want to be a party to a “pack of lies,” was released into custody of his uncle, George E. Q. | Johnson, former United States district | attorney, after assurance that he would be glad to talk to police at any time. | All the best minds of the police, the | State's attorney and the coroner’s of- | fice were concentrating upon a solution of the enigmatic death of Rheta,| Earle's 23-year-old wife. They asked tiese questions | Was she, in truth, dead, as her mother-in-law asserted. when Dr. Alice fired a shot into her back to save the | doctor's professional reputation? { ‘What was the purpose of Earle’s se- | cret tryst with his mother the night before the girl's strange death? Had they a motive to kill her? Young Wpynekoop was formally charged with murder late_today, and held without bond. The State’s hand had been forced by the order of Judge " (Continued on Page 3, Column QUOTAS FOR WHEAT EXPECTED TO STAND Export Limits Generally Unsatis- factory, but Parley Delegates Doubt Revision. By the Associated I ress. | LONDON, November 25.—The belief that international wheat export quotas set by leading producers last Summer are definitely fixed and will undergo no change at meetings next week of the World Wheat Advisory Committee was expressed tonight in American delega- tion quarters, “Of course, nubody is satisfied,” one American. “The United States cer- tainly is no more pleased thaa any other nation, with 200,000,000 bushels of wheat cn hand and an export limit of only 47.000.000 bushels, but sacri- fices must be made all around.” Efforts will be renewed, it was indi- cated, to bring Soviet Russia into the world agreement, under which the pow- ers set 560 000,000 bushels as the tenta- tive figure for wheat exports. In their review of market cnd crop developments since their meeting two months ago, members of the committee will consider changes in crop prospects in the Southern Hemisphere, Russia’s continued refusal to enter the pact be- cavie of an insufficient allotment, snd Premier Mussolini’s recent decree ban- umi1 wheat imports. These changes were seen as compli- | cations in the problem of solding down exports and thereby maintaining a cer- tain price level. Delegates declined to express a view #s to whether the export agreements said | could work without the Soviet Union's sdherence, same day last year the total was $1,- 187,271 Frank J. Hogan, campaign chairman, last night issued a call for redoubled efforts by the solicitors during the re- mainder of the drive. “There are no N. R. A. rules applying to Chest workers, unless N. R. A. means ‘no rest allowet he declared. must forget everything else in our struggle for human welfare in Wash- ington. “Work Sunday and Monday morning until time to report. 1 trust that you will bring in a splendid report at Mon- day’s meeting. “We face the fact that the gifts to the Chest must be larger and more nu- merous if we are to reach our goal, and I cannot feel there is any person in Washington who does not want to see our 60 agencies equipped for the impor- tant work that they perform. The need is here. It is most evident on every hand. It must be met.” Donovan Makes Plea. An urgent plea for a better response from Federal employes was made yes- terday afternoon by Col. Daniel J. Don- ovan, acting head of the governmental unit, in the absence of Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d. “We Government employes, Federal and municipal, are just as much citi- zens of the District as any other class, and just as much responsible for the welfare of our city,” Col. Donovan de- clared at the report meeting of can- vassers in the Willard Hotel. “It is our duty to support welfare needs of the city through the Com- munity Chest. The metropolitan, group solicitation and special gifts units are far ahead of us in the percentage of quotas raised so far, and every one of us should start out now with a firm de- termination to change that standing.” Yesterday was judiciary day at the Chest meeting and Chairman Hogan introduced Justices Charles H. Robb, (Continued on Page 4, Column 1. CITED FOR CONTEMPT General Motors Corporation Named in Federal Court Order. DANVILLE, I, November 25 (P).— General Motors Corporation was cited for contempt of court in an order is- sued today by Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley. The citation held that General Mo- tors had continued to manufacture and sell parts of a radiator shutter in | wid violation of an injunction granted the Detroit Motor Appliance Co. of De- troit. The decree ordered that General Motors pay $6,000 damages within 30 days. “We | BORAH CALLS FOES OF MONEY PLAN T0 OFFER SUBSTITUTE Battle Rages With Moore Be- hind President and Fess Standing by Critics. RESERVE-TREASURY RIFT IS DENIED BY BLACK Senator Holds Return to Gold Un- satisfactory Solution to Currency Problems. By the Associated Press. Senator Borah, Idaho Republican, jumped into the free-for-all battle over President Roosevelt's monetary pro- gram yesterday with a direct challenge to critics of the price-raising plan to offer something in its place other than “the policy under which we arrived at our present disastrous condition.” Borah's challenge was made in a fermal statement directed at Alfred E. Smith and others who have recently attacked the President's monetary Ppolicies. It was the high spot of another barrage of comment on the money ques- tion, in which R. Walton Moore, As- sistant Secretary of State, lined up with the President; Senator Fess, Re- publican, of Ohio, attacked the pro- gram, and Gov. Eugene Black denied a Tift between the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury. No Change in Domestic Gold. While the controversy raged, the ad- ministration made no change in the | prevalling price of domestic gold of $33.76 an ounce, though the dollar strengthened abroad and Agriculture Department statistics showed a rise in the farmers’ purchasing power from an index figure of 60 to 61. Borah said as he issued his statement that the monetary issue was not one of “sound” or “honest” money. “The gold dollar is the most dis- honest dollar ever created, except ab- | solutely irredeemable paper money,” he | said. “The farmer is just as much interested in sound money as anybody.” His formal statement was a direct reply to Smith, James P. Warburg and O. M. W. Sprague, who have led the recent attack on the administration’s program. “I doubt if the critics of the Presi- dent’s monetary policy will succeed in winning public opinion away from the President unless they are prepared to offer an afirmative, constructive pro- gram,” he said. Will Ask for Alternative. “The thing that holds the people to the President is the belief that he deeply desires to lift them out of their desperate troubles. The people will naturally ask those who object to the | President's monetary system, ‘What have you to offer in lieu of the Presi- dent's program?’ " Borah said neither Smith, Sprague | nor Warburg offered anything but a| return to gold, and he did not believe | that would suffice. “I wondered the other day when I| read Mr. Sprague’s statement that he never had an opportunity to tell the President what the President ought to do, just what he would have told him had 'he been given an audience,” Borah | added. The Borah and Fess statements em- | | phasized the difference between thenr‘ two wings of the Republican party. Fess, returning to the Capital, strongly commended Smith’s stand on the money | question. } | Lauds Smith’s Statement. The former chairman of the Repub- | lican National Committee and now as- sistant Republican leader of the Se: | ate, announced he was “positively op- posed” to inflation, adding he was| “profoundly impressed by the signifi- | cant_utterances of former Gov. Smith | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) |REICH FIRE '.I'ESTIMONY HEARD FOR LAST TIME | Political Ramifications Will Be In- vestigated Monday in Trial of Five Men for Arson. By the Assoclated Press. LEIPZIG, Germany, November 25— | The German Supreme Court concluded the taking of testimony today regarding | | the actual burning of the Reichstag Bullding in Berlin last February and on Monday will begin investigating po- litical ramifications of the blaze. Several witnesses were heard today. Five men are on trial in connection with the arson. HOLD GANGSTER’S BODY Re- San Francisco Police Refuse quest of Widow's Attorney. SAN FRANCISCO, November 25 () —Police today refused to turn over the body of Samuel Dougherty, asserted Philadelphia gangster, found shot to death last Monday on an outlying highway, to Sidney Robinson, Reno at- torney, who sald he represented the low. Officers informed Robinson, however, that if Mrs. Dougherty would come here and furnish proof of being the widow and would submit to question- ing they would surrender the body. 'DEALER CHARGES U. S. OFFICIALS SEEK TO BAR PRODUCTS OF FORD By the Associated Press A “studied effort” by Government officlals to determine means of elimi- nating Ford Motor Co. products from consideration for Federal purchases was charged yesterday by the North- west Motor Co. of Bethesda, Md., & Ford dealer, in a complaint to Secretary of War Dern. Terms and specifications contained in the War Department’s recent invita- tion for bids for motor equipment were described as having been rewritten “with the specific intent and purpose of eliminating bids of products of the Ford Motor Co.” ‘The , by R. L. Sabine, presi- dent of the Northwest Motor Co., said that after an effort had been made to rule out his bid on equipment for the Civilian Conservation Corps on grounds of non-compliance with the N. R. A, he ) protested and “took the matter ‘up with the controller general of the United States, who ruled with us without equivocation or evasion.” “However,” he added, “s fair and correct interpretation of the law has not seemed to please those in authority anc there has, apparently, been a studied effort made since that time to find some means whereby the law could be ignored, circumvented and avoided.” ‘The Department of Agriculture, which has jurisdiction over purchases for the Conservation Corps, has taken no action on award of contracts since the ruling of Controller General McCarl on No- vember 10, to which Sabine referred. Sabine sald a November 21 “to discuss putting_out s proj ilian (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | down, meeting was held on| thejr SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1933—NINETY-EIGHT PAGES. ##% OH,AL,HOW CAN You SAY ¢ oLp AUNTY? (W ARMY OVERCOMES VALIANTNAVY, 121 All Scoring Done in First Half of Gridiron Clash Seen by 79,000. BY ALLAN GOULD. Associatea Press Sports Editor. PHILADELPHIA, November 25— Navy's gallant warriors boomed a sen- sational challenge to Army's foot ball | supremacy today, but it wasn't quite enough to break down the vaunted pow- er of the Cadets, who ralied to win an unexpectedly close game, 12 to 7, before a capacity crowd of 79,000 spectators at Franklin Field. Favored for the second straight year by Indian Summer weather, the biggest and most colorful crowd of the Eastern gridiron season saw the service rivals put on a spectacular scoring battle in the first half, then stand off all opposing threats in the last two periods. Clark’s Kick Checks Army. Navy's sturdy, aggressive line fought Army’'s hard-charging forwards to a standstill, while the strong right foot of Fullback Bill Clark gave the Mid- shipmen repeated advantages in the kicking exchanges, but Navy's fleetest pair of backs were unequal to the job of offsetting the dazzling running of Paul Johnson of Ashland, Ohio, the Soldier quarterback, and his Texas run- aing mate, Speedy Jack Buckler. Johnson, in the first few minutes of the game, dashed 81 yards on the run back of a punt for Army’s first touch- yard drive in the second period, romped 25 yards for the second and deciding score after Walter Baumberger of Glen- dale, W. Va., hero of the Navy attack, had run 39 yards to cross the Army goal and a substitute lineman, Dick Bull of Pittsburgh, had booted the point that put the sailors in the lead. Closest Game Since 1926. Not since their 21-21 tie at Chicago in 1926, have these ancient rivals put | on so exciting a series of attacks and counter-attacks. It was the closest game they have played since then and the Navy, although whipped for the fifth straight time, gave a brilliant ac- count of themselves and came close to springing one of the greatest upsets of the year. (Continued on First Sports Page.) . LINDBERGHS TO FLY T0 VILLA CISNEROS| Marine Officials Report They Will Leave for African Coast Today. By the Associated Press. LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, No- vember 25.—Marine officials said to- night Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh planned to leave early tomorrow for Villa Cisne- ros, on the West African coast, about 300 miles southeast from here. Villa Cisneros is used as a refuelling and an emergency landing station by pilots in the French South American Airmail Service, and is about 600 miles due north from Cape Verde, the point where Col. Lindbergh has indicated he may start a westward transatlantic hop. Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, who flew here yesterday from Ponta Oelgada, the Azores, were royally welcomed at a meeting today in the town hall, where the council voted Lindbergh the title of “guest of honor.” Lindbergh spent much of today over- hauling the motor of their_ seaplane, in which they set out from New York on July 9 for an aerial survey tour of the Atlantic and parts of Europe. JEWS IN CUBA WORRIED OVER GOVERNMENT EDICT Armed Soldiers Reported Holding Up Members of Race and Rob- bing Their Homes. HAVANA, November 25 (Jewish Tele- graphic Agency).—The Jewish com- munity of Havana exp: grave anxiety tonight over reports that the Cuban government was planning a new serles of regulations governing gration and activity of aliens. The restrictions, it was understood, would impose serious difficulties in the path of Jews and other foreigners seeking employment. Provisions were expected to reduce the number of Jews allowed entry to 10 a year. Armed bands of soldiers, on a pretext of searching for arms, were reported holding up Jews in Cuba and robbing homes. A Hungarian Jew named f| Harbin was robbed of $8,000 after sol-| Those death | llam McKinley Van Pelt and Clarence diers had threatened him with in his home. } Buying of Surplus Milk Proposed as Relief Move Here {Crosby Plan Calls for Purchase of 40,000 Gallons Daily. A plan to buy up to 40,000 gallons of surplus milk daily, to accomplish the double purpose of feeding Washington's unemployed and aiding distressed dairy farmers, has been presented to the Fed- | eral emergency relief administrator, Harry L. Hopkins, and turned over to District Commissioner Allen for con- sideration, it was learned last night. | Representative Crosby, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who said he had suggest- ed the plan to Hopkins. told newspaper | | GRAU SAN MARTIN SOON 10 RESIGN Approves Plan to Step Out Before Election on Feb- ruary 24. _mmss PE——— & Buckler, as the clima:x of a 71- | By the Associated Press. HAVANA, November 25.—A plan contemplating Ramon Grau San Mar- tin's withdrawal from Cuba’s presi- dency some time before elections for | |the 1934 constitutional convention is being studied by the government and its opposition, it was learned today on | high authority. | The plan already has the tentative }npprovnl of President Grau and the | factions supporting him, and the sev- eral opposition sectors, although they have not yet approved it in detail, are agreed in principle. Negotiations looking toward concili- ating differences between Grau's back- ers and his hydra-headed, powerful op- position—conducted by such outstand- ing men as Benjamin Fernandez de Medina, Uruguayan Minister; Dr, Ger- man Wolter del Rio, publisher-lawyer, and Dr. Come de la Terriente, once Cuban Ambassador to Washington— apparently are moving steadily forward toward concentration on the proposal for Grau's withdrawal. L Check Executive's Power. tive of all factions would be formed at once, under the “formula for cordiality” being studied, which would be given Executive. Thereafter a period would be fixed, at the end of which Grau would step down from the presidency in favor of another man to be chosen by consul- tation among the various factions, The new President is to preside over elec- tions for the constitutional convention, now scheduled to be held February 24. The constitutional convention under present plans will convene in May. While no direct contact between gov- emnment and opposition has yet been established—all informed sources deny- ing the report that President Grau con- ferred last night with Carlos Mendieta, leader of the Nationalist Union, or with Torriente—conferences between them were expected to begin within the near future. Details of the plan “will be thrashed (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) COUNTERFEIT CHARGES HOLD TRIO IN CHICAGO One Hundred $5 Bills Seized When Men Are Said to Have Divided Spurious Possessions. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 25—Two In- diana men were held today on charges f and conspiracy to possess of possession 100 counterfeit $5 bills. A third defendant, Milton Werling, icials as Cir- cuit Ind., had been released on $5,000 bond. He denied complicity in the case when arraigned before United States Com- missioner Edwin K. Walker. Federal officials indicated no coun- terfeit money was found in Werling's possession, but Capt. Thomas J. Cal- laghan of the Secret Service said Werling was in an automobile in which the bogus money was being divided. held gave their names as Wil- Kinty, both of Fort Wayne, Ind. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) | A coalition government representa- | powers sharply limiting those of the| IRATE DISTILLERS | STUDY REPRISALS | Consider Fight for State Con- trol in Anger Over U. S. Restrictions. By the Associated Press. | Resentment over the administration’s | policy for strict Federal control of liquor after repeal caused distillers and brewers yesterday to discuss starting a Nation-wide campaign to return the question of regulation to the States. The talk revolved around creation of an organization similar to the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend- | ment, which was a leading unit in the | fight for repeal. The new set-up, 1f created, would have as its purpose advocacy of State control of all phases of the liquor busi- ness instead of supervision from Wash- gton. Under codes proposed by the Govern- ment for distillers, brewers, importers, rectifiers and venders, a Federal Alcohol Control Administration appointed by President Roosevelt from five high Gov- ernment officials would regulate prices, production and importation. Distillers Oppose Plan. This plan was fought unsuccessfully by the distillers at hearings on their code and marketing agreement which were concluded yesterday. The liquor manufacturers were told frankly by the President’s Special Alco- hol Control Committee that the admi; | istration intended to continue Federal control of liquor under the code policy until Congress could enact legislation looking to a permanent control policy. There was some discussion among the | manufacturers about having the Asso- ciation Against the Prohibition Amend- ment start a Nation-wide campaign for State regulation. Jouett Shouse, pres- | ident, of the ascociation, when ques- tioned, said the future of his associa- tion was to be decided within a few weeks by the board of directors. He said there was some talk about the reg- ulation move, but said plans were nebu- lous. Amendment Forecast. In a second effort to get the distillers to approve the Government-proposed code, the President’s Committee met with' a representative group of eight from the industry. One member of the limiting production to distilleries in operation on the date of repeal—De- cember 5—undoubtedly would be amended to include distilleries under construction and contracted for by that date. | “However, it was indicated the Presi- dent’'s Committee would reject the dis- tillers’ proposal for a code authority created by it to supervise the industry. The Government-drafted marketing agreement for distillers was laid aside temporarily because of the split be- tween grain and molasses alcohol manufacturers over a pgovision that whisky and alcohol for blending pur- poses must be made from American | grain. |~ Government officials announced Presl- dent Roosevelt wanted codes for all (Continued or Page 2, Column 1.) D. C. ATTORNEY FINED John W. Staggers Pleads Guilty to Stock Dealing Charge. NORWICH, N. Y., November 25 (). —John W. Staggers, Washington and Baltimore attorney, was fined $250 to- day when he pleaded guilty to viola- tion of the general business law con- cerning notice of intention to deal in stocks. A grand larceny indictment returned in October, 1932, was dismised by Judge Brown with the consent of the dis- trict attorney. Government Committee said the code | BULLITT WILL SAL FOR RUSSIA NOV. 23 T0 OPENEMBASSY Ambassador to Return Soon| to Report on Staff Or- ganization. DIPLOMAT WILL FACE HOUSING PROBLEM FIRST Ickes Arrives at Warm Springs To- day—President Has Chance to Survey Program. By the Associated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 25. —President Roosevelt tonight ordered | Ambassador William C. Bullitt to pro- | ceed at once to Russia to establish the | new relations with the Soviet govern- ment. Necessity for finding adequate housing and other embassy facilities was given by the President as the reason for sending Mr. Bullitt on the immediate mission to Moscow. ‘The Ambassador left Warm Springs | —to sail next Wednesday—with orders to return “as soon as practicable to re- | port on the problem of the permanent | establishment of the embassy and con- sulates and to organize the stafls.” This action, announced late today, as all that was forthcoming from the presidential vacation retreat despite the array of financial and recovery| leaders here. To all appearances the President gave no other serious attention to Govern- ment business on this Saturday. To- morrow Secretary Ickes, the public| works administrator, arrives. | And, thus, tomorrow Mr. Roosevelt will have with him the leaders of the recovery and financial programs. It offers ample opportunity for a thorough check-up on the domestic situation, in- | cluding the complex commodity dollar monetary program, and to all appear- | ances the President is well satisfied | with the trend of events. There is no | | sign of a joint conference. | | “Henry Morgenthau, jr., the Acting | Secretary of the Treasury; Gen. Hugh | S. Johnson, the N. R. A. administra- Secretary of Labor, were here toda: with Mr. Bullitt. The latter was the only one who got in a real business conference. The President’s statement on Bullitt follows: “Because of the difficulty of establish- ing adequate quarters for an American embassy and consulate and the staffs thereof in Moscow, where there is a housing shortage and a complete lack of American Government offices and residences, I have ordered Ambassador Bullitt to proceed to Moscow to present his credentials, study the problem and make such preliminary arrangements as he may deem wise. “Mr. Bullitt will embark on the steamship President Harding on No- vember 29, and will proceed direct to Moscow. “I have ordered Mr. Bullitt to return | to the United States as soon as prac- | ticable to report on the problem of the permanent establishment of the em- bassy and consulates and to organize | the ‘staffs.” | LITVINOFF SAYS GOOD-BY. Commissar Pleads for Peace in Last Message to America. tor, and Edward McGrady, Assistant PRESIDENT ORDERS BAIG PAY RATE IN EMERGENCY UNITS 10 Recovery Agencies Told to Fall in Line With Regu- lar Employes. CONSIDERATION GIVEN T0 15 PER CENT SLASH 18 Grades Set Up to Compare With Those Established Under Classification Act. President Roosevelt yesterday directed the new emergency agencies to bring the pay of their thousands of employes into line with the scale provided for the regular Government establishment by the classification act, inciuding the 15 _per cent pay cut In an executive order disseminated through the State Department, the 10 branches affected were instructed to take this action as soon as “practie cable.” They are: National Industrial Re= covery Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Public Works Administration, Emergency Conservation Work, Recon- struction * Finance Corporationi, Farm Credit Administration, Home Emerg- ency Relief Administration, Home Owne ers Loan Corporation, Agricultural Ad- { justment Administration and Federal | Co-ordinator of Transportation. Will Raise and Lower Pay, The law creating these had provided for employment of personal services and fixing of compensation rates without regard to the classification act. Further, a ruling by Controller General McCarl had held the employes concerned were not subject to the statutory pay cut, on the ground there was no basis against which it cou'd have been levied. | “The appiication of the new schedule. | it was said in informed quarters, will serve in some instances to raise the base pay and in others to reduce it. It was not possible, it was added, to say whether increases or decreases would predominate. but the effect will be a “leveling off.” It was explained that by bringing all the Government agen- cies into line, “bidding” between the various branches for workers would be eliminated. | In addition to ordering that the cut be taken into consideration in setting up the pay scale, the President also specified there should be no deviations unless he should specifically authorize | such changes. | To Fix Basic Pay Rate. ‘Where the order would be productive | of reduction in the rate of pay, however, | administrative officers are empowered | to fix the basic rate at a figure not to exceed 20 per cent above the scheduled rate in the higher brackets, and they | also have the same latitude to protect | the salary scale of any Civil Service employe. ‘The executive order, designed “to secure greater uniformity in the rates of compensation of employes engaged upon the same or similar classes of work,” sets up 19 grades to compare with those established by the classifica- tion act. In some few instances, there are differences, where revisions—either upward or downward—were made in the old, established rates. For instance, the minimum pay—for messengers—is fixed at $840, instead of $600 under the classification’ act, while at the other end of the scale, those employes graded as professional 9 and clerical-adminis- trative-fiscal 16, where the base is above the $9.000 level will start above the $8,000 mark. There also are two ad- | | By the Associated Press. ! NEW YORK, November 25—With a message of peace for America, Maxim | M. Litvinoff embarked today for Mos- cow—taking with him that long desire of the Soviets, the recognition of | America. “In saying good-by to the people of America,” the Soviet commissar for forelgn affairs declared, “I vant to state that the predominant feeling with me " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ART AUCTION CLOSES | Thomas Fortune Ryan's Collection Brings Total of $400,354. NEW YORK, November 25 () —The Gothic and Renaissance art collection of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan brought the estate $394,937 at the end of the three-day auction today. With the etchings and books in the Ryan collection, the grand total was $409.354. A sculptured Neapolitan marble bust of a princess of Aragon made in Flor- ence about 1475 by Francesco Laurana brought the highest price of the sale today. It was sold to Lord Duveen of Millbank, British art connoisseur, $102,500. RAIL MEDIATORS NAMED President Designates Three to Act in Mobile & Ohio Row. President Roosevelt last night named a commission of three to handle the dispute between the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and the Locomotive Engineers, Conductors, Firemen and several other brotherhood groups. It was the second Board of Media- tion appointed by the President in two days to handle rail labor disputes. One was named PFriday to mediate a contro- | versy between the Southern Pacific and brotherhood organizations. | The names of the board members were not given out. Pointing_out that waiters and wait- resses in Washing may be paid as little as 223 cents an_hour ling;:t:he code proposed by the National U= fiu o, e Gl a7 ey, or of ey 3 = nounced last might that she and cer- tain allied restaurateurs would “fight the code for all we're worth” when it comes up for its first hearing before th;_en)‘i. = l;ond code, Mrs. Do e pro 3 wney disclosed, is the product of the Code Committee of the National Restaurant Associatiop, which? she contended, now is dominated by large chain restaurant operators. A member of the board of directors of the association until its Chicago convention in September, when in protest against the code’s measures, Mrs. Downey said last night that if adopted, the code would 2 INN PROPRIETOR TO FIGHT LOW WAGES UNDER RESTAURANT CODE place restaurants “very definitely in the sweat-shop _class. As framed by the National Restau- rant Assoclation, the proposed code sets up wage scales which take into account tips given by patrons and meals con- sumed by employes. In cities of from 300,000 to 500,000 population, located in the Southern States—and Washing- ton is classified in this group—employes who receive gratuities would receive a minimum hourly wage of 11 cents. De- ductions allowed for two meals a day lower the minimum wage to 5 5-9 cents an hour, and if deductions are made for three meals, the minimum would be forced to 225 cents an hour. ‘Where the employes do not receive gratuities, the minimum wage would be 22 cents an hour if no meal deduc- tions are made. If two meals are de- for | | vances and’ three decreases in other brackets near the top. On pay adjustment, the order says: | 20 Per Cent Rule Explained. | “In making the initial adjustment of lsalm-les under this order, where it is necessary to reduce the present rate of (an employe to conform to the rate | scheduled for the grade to which his position is allocated under the salary schedule herein approved, the head of the department, establishment, or agency concerned may fix_such_basic , Column 2.) BOYNTON IS CHARGED IN KANSAS SCANDAL House Votes to Accept Impeach- ment Articles Against At- torney General. By the Associated Press TOPEKA, Kans., November 25.--By action of the House of the Kansas Legislature, which today accepted four articles of impeachment, Attorney Gen- eral Roland Boynton of Kansas stands formally charged with complicity in the State’s $1,000,000 bogus bond scan- dal and neglect of the duties of his office. Adoption of the articles, by votes ranging from 93 to 15 on article 1 to 87 to 19 on article 3, resulted from investigation of Boynton’s dealings with Ronald Finney, young broker facing various criminal charges in connection with the bond disclosures. The first article charges Boynton with “a want of reasonable fidelity” as a trustee of the State school fund in purchasing municipal bonds from Fin- ney at more than the market value. Article 3 charges a conspiracy be- tween Boynton, Finney, Tom B. Boyd, resigned State treasurer, and others, al- leging the attorney general aided Fin- ney and the rest “in defrauding the ssxtate of Kansas and its political divi- ons.” No definite date for Boynton's trial before the Senate was s!t.y but several members expressed the opinion it might be delayed until after the first of the year to give the attorney general time to prepare his defense. A resolution urging impeachment of Will J. French, State auditor, on charges of misdemeanor in office In connection with the bond scandal is scheduled for consideration by the House Monday. General News Editorial . Society ... Amusements . Sports .. Finance . Magazine .. Part Seven .Part One .Part Two .Part Three .Part Four (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Lost and Found......Page A-9 Civic Activities. . .Page 3, Part 4 A