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\WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and not quite so warm; probably occasional thundesshowers to- night and tomorrow; gentle variable winds. Temperatures—Highest, 96, at 3:30 pam. yesterday; lowest, 73. at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 he No. 32,924. post office, ARMY'S CONTRACT WITH SILVERMAN HELD REVISED AT WOODRING ORDERS Col. McMullen Tells House| Probers He Changed Terms of Deal Upon In- structions of Superior. SAYS DEBARRED DEALER DICTATED AGREEMENT Meetings at His Home and in| i Hotel of O'Neil Described by; Officer Who Earlier Refused to Testify—Declines to Admit | Procedure ““Peculiar.” BY REX COLLIER. | Harry H. Woodring, Assistant | Secretary of War, ordered the drawing up of a contract in ac-§ cordance with terms requestecu‘ by Joseph Silverman, later barred from War Department| business deals, the House Mili- | tary Affairs Subcommittee was told today by Lieut. Col. Joseph | 1. McMullen of the Judge Advo- cate General’s Office. | Col. McMullen, agreeing to testify today after once declin- ! ing on constitutional grounds, | told an interesting story of con- | ferences arranged, he said, by Woodring in connection with | Silverman’s efforts to buy and | sell surplus Army goods. | Asked by Chairman Rogers if | he did not consider these ac- | tivities “peculiar,” the sandy-! haired Army officer said he did | not think they were, but sug- gested that Woodring could an—! swer that question more com- | pletely. i Woodring will be “invited” to ap- | pear for questioning by the committee | regarding the Silverman contracts, Chairman Rogers announced this | afternoon. He said the committee de- | sired to give the Assistant Secretary | “an opportunity to tell his side of the | story.” Drew New Agreement. At Woodring's direction, given by‘ telephone, while McMullen was on leave at his home in Battery Park, | Md., the colonel said he drafted a “supplemental contract” eliminating a Testriction which had prevented Sil- verman and several other dealers from selling Army surplus in the United | States. \ Woodring, McMullen testified, sent Ralph T. O'Neil, former national| commander of the American Legion and attorney for Silverman, and Robert Jackson, then secretary of the Democratic National Committee and | attorney for a Boston firm, to Mc-| Mullen’s home on a Sunday morning | and the contract desired by Silverman and the others was drafted in ac- cordance with Assistant Secretary’s instructions, McMuilen also told the committee Woodring sent him to O'Neil’s apart- ment, at the Mayflower Hotel, to “get the contract signed by Silverman” and that he also carried out this order. Previously, the officer said. he had paid another visit to O’Neil's apart- meni because O'Neil was ill at the time and unable to come to the War De- partment to discuss Silverman's con- tract. Much of the testimony disclosed as the committee threw open its doors today had been given secretly last February before the grand jury which investigated charges of lobbying before the War Department. ‘Woodring, O'Neil and McMullen were among about 40 witnesses questioned by the grand jury, but no indictment resulted. Instead the jury sent to President Roosevelt and Secretary of ‘War Dern a caustic report criticizing lobbying conditions at the War De- partment. “Did you take a contract to O'Neil's apartment at the Mayflower Hotel?” Chairman Rogers asked. “I did.” replied McMullen. “I took It to his door. He was sick at the time. I just handed it to him.” “Had you been there before in con- nection with the same contract?” “Yes; a day or so before.” Silverman Present. “Who was there on that occasion?” “Joseph Silverman was there once, and O'Neil's law partner—I think he'’s from K was there.” McMullen said the contract had to do with what amounted to an ex- change of, surplus materials between ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) MARION DAVIES PICTURE OBJECTED TO IN EXHIBIT American Works Will Be With- drawn in Venice Unless Por- trait Is, Removed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22—The Whit- ney Museum of American Art an- nounced today that Mrs. Julianna Force, director of the museum, at present in London, has sent an agent to Venice with instructions to with- draw the entire American exhibit at the current Venice biennial exhibi- tion unless the portrait of Marion Davies, movie star, is removed. Mrs. Force’s objections to the painting were not announced. It was painted by Tadestyka, a Polish artist. The Whitney Museum has charge of the American division of the ex- ‘hibit, which is held every two years and is considered important in the world of art. The exhibit opened May 12 and will close October 25. Executed for Wife Murder. RALEIGH, N. C., June 22 (#).—Joe Dalton, middle-aged white man of Hendersonville, was electrocuted at State’s prison today for murdering his wife, Zula, in 1933. Dalton died Wthout making any statement other than “Lord, I'm on my way." | On the stand before the House Mili- | in Recovery Action Against e Entered as second: class matter ‘Washington, D. C. LIEUT. COL. J. I. Mc(MULLEN tary Affairs Subcommittee today. —Star Staff Photo. PARK SAVINGS SUIT REMAINS IN COURT Depositor Wins First Round Directors. Mrs. Fannie Crittendon, 1708 New- ton street, a depositor in the Park| Savings Bank, today won a pr:nm-i inary victory in her suit against seven | directors for losses of more than | $4.000 when Justice Jesse C. Adkins refused a plea of the defendants to suspend action in the case. This keeps Mrs. Crittendon's case before the court along with the complicated equity case in which the liability of directors is being established, and in which Justice Adkins rendered an important decision yesterday. In his decision yesterday the court held the directors were liable as liquidating trustees for assets coming into their hands before the charter expired in August, 1929, but could not be held liable as co-partners for the assets coming into the bank after the charter expired. Mrs. Crittenden put her money in the bank after the charter expired and sued seven of the directors for losses of $4250.38. The directors filed a plea to have the case abated, or suspended because of the fact that the receiver was liquidating the bank, and the court was without jurisdiction. Mrs. Crittenden, through her attorneys, E. Hilton Jackson and William E. Richardson, who are counsel for the Depositors’ Commit- tee, filed a demurrer, and asked the court to keep the czse before it with- out suspension. Demurrer Sustained. Justice Adkins in sustaining the demurrer of Mrs. Crittenden said: “In my opinion the plea (ot the di- rectors) does not state & good defense or cause for abatement or suspension of the action. Therefore it is over- ruled and the demurrer sustained. Neither party has suggested that this demurrer has opened up the record. I have assumed that it does not and have not passed on the sufficiency of the declaration.” Mrs. Crittendon charged the di- rectors with misrepresentation, be- cause they were running the institu- tion as a going bank when as a mat- ter of -fact under the Alabama law. they were supposed to be liquidating trustees liquidating the bank. She also charged them with being co- partners operating a partnership. Further litigation in the Park Sav- ings Bank case is expected to follow the decision of Justice Adkins yester- day, which split the liability of ai- rectors by the date of the expiration of the bank's charter. Justice Adkins held the directors were liable as liquidating trustees for assets coming into their hands before the charter expired, but not for assets (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) . E. A. T. DROPS LINE Disposes of Interest in New York Airways. NEW YORK, June 22 (P—E. R Breech, president of North American Aviation, Incorporated, stated today that the company’s subsidiary, East- ern Air Transport, Incorporated, had disposed of its entire interest in New York Airways, which formerly op- erated a line between Atlantic City, New York and Washington. WASHINGTON, D. ROOSEVELT SEES SON'S CREW LOGE TOYALE FRESHMEN Franklin D., Jr., Stalwart of Harvard Shell, Unable to Avert Defeat. ELI JAYVEE CONQUERS CRIMSON IN 2D EVENT President Enjoys Program, De- spite Twin Defeat Adminis- tered Alma Mater. By the Associated Press. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Star C., FRIDAY, JUNE IPRESIDENT DROPS PAY REQUIREMENT 10 CHECK TANGLE Roosevelt Temporarily Sus- pends Bacon-Davis Law Provisions. KICK-BACK PAY CHARGES ADMITTED AND DENIED Difference of Opinion Is Ex- pressed Before Walsh Sena- torial Committee Probe. While the Senate Labor Committee NEW LONDON, Conn. June 22.—¢Was continuing hearings today into The presence of President Roosevelt, riding on the foredeck of the referee’s launch, failed to inspire his son and the rest of the oarsmen of his alma mater, Harvard, as Yale swept to de- cisive victory in the freshman and junior varsity races opening the sev- enty-second regatta this morning. Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr. a stal- wart, 180-pound youngster, 6 feet 4 inches tall, pulled a manful oar at No. | 6 in the Harvard shell, but the Elis won the opening 2-mile brush by slightly better than a length in some- thing of an upset. Yale’s Jayvee Also Wins. ‘Then Yele's favored junior varsity, taking the lead at the half-mile mark, rowed steadlly away from Harvard's jayvees to win by three full lengths. The official times were announced as follows: Preshman race, Yale 9 minutes 473 | 9:51. seconds. Harv. . Yale, 9:40%; Har- Junior varsity: vard, 9:483%;. It was a triumphant day for the President, regardless of which crews won, for his own graduzation from Har- vard many years ago was topped earlier this week by an honorary de- gree from Yale, bringing him into the |Eli fold just in time to share the hilarity of the double victory, prelimi- nary to the 4-mile varsity classic this evening. While the President failed to see his big son's crew win, he did see the boy row a terrific race under perfect weather conditions. Billow- ing over his oar at No. 6, Franklin D., jr. was the power house of the Crimson shell, and his father, his battered white fishing hat atop his head, waved him on excitedly from the Dodger III, referee’s boat, that followed a few short lengths back of the shells. President Enjoys Races. The President seemed to be having a marvelous time, though he sat far quieter in a folding chair almost on the prow of the launch as the Yale Junior Varsity broke Harvard's streak of two straight in this race in 1932 and 1933. President Roosevelt had no chance to hail his son or speak with him as the Harvard Freshman shell jumped by Yale at the start, pulled up almost on even terms at the half mile slipped a length back at the mile, cut the lead to half a length again in the third half mile and then faltered in the final drive as the Eli yearlings staged a magnificent spurt. President’s Son Exhausted. Young Roosevelt slumped over his oar, rowed completely out, as the Harvard shell crossed the finish line, but after resting a few moments he reached into the blue Thames and splashed his own face with water, then doused the fellow ahead of him, and became again just one of eight oarsmen in a boat. The freshmen rowed back up the river to see the Jayvees come down and, as the shells passed their drifting craft, young Roosevelt was waving and cheering Harvard on harder than any of his mates. The President returned to his ship here today after the morning program and remarked “They were both aw- fully good races.” With an enthusiasm that carried back to his own college days at Har- vard, Mr. Roosevelt was up early, scanning the weather and waiting for the referee’s launch, in which he fol- lowed the races. Anchoring here yesterday off the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) EX-KAISER DENIES PLAN TO RETURN TO GERMANY Household Says Former Ruler Does Not Wish to Visit Country Now. By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, June 22.—The residence of the former Kaiser Wil- helm of Germany today issued a cate- gorical denial of a statement printed in a London newspaper that the Kaiser plans to return to Germany. It was stated no representative of the London newspaper (the Herald) which printed the report has been in Doorn. It was further nointed out Wilhelm can always go back to Ger- many, but does not wish to do so under present circumstances. BIRD SANCTUARY IS APPROVED ALONG MT. VERNON HIGHWAY A bird sanctuary, characterized by C. Marshall Pinnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, as having possibilities for being “the greatest in the East,” will be con- structed at Roaches Run on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway under plans approved today by Robert Fechner, head of the Civilian Con- servation Corps. PFinnan announced that this project will occupy 100 enrolled in the C. C. C. for three months. Work will be and other . enemies. Pollution = ot Roaches Run will be prevented by ! carrying off the water that now empties into it through culverts and pipes into the Potomac River. and a lood gate will be installed to prevent wide a variation in the ti Within the run. 3 A parking area for motorists, to ac- commodate 100 automobiles, will be built. Finnan emphasizza that this will not be tor fishermen, but for those wishing to watch the wild birds. The National Park Service, last November decided to stop fishing at Roaches Run for a year. but Pinnan conceded today that construction of the wild bird sanctuary materially lessens the chapees for permitting fishing there again. All types of Eastern migratory birds are expected to be attracted to Roaches “This does offer being probably the greatest East.” saio Finnan. The National Parks Service tablishing the wild bird here, has the advice of the President’s Wild Life conditions on public building projects it received word of a proclamation |issued by President Roosevelt sus- | pending temporarily operation of the | prevailing wage requirements in the Bacon-Davis law because of confusion | between ihat law and the require- jments under the recovery act. Engineer Commissloner Gotwals had Jjust returned to the witness stand to complete explanation of various com- plaints the District Government has received concerning the “kick-back” practice and other wage questions during the past year or so. He laid before the committee the proclama- tion, which he said had been received at the District Building this morning. The preamble of the presidential | order quoted the sections of the Ba- con-Davis law and of the industrial recovery act which late to wage standards to be required on Govern- ment building projects. Confusion Created. After quoting these two laws, the order stated that “the Secretary of Labor and the administrator of pub- lic works have informed me that the concurrent operation of the aforesaid provisions of the Davis-Bacon act and the national industrial recovery act caused administrative confusion and delay which could be avoided by sus- pension of the provisions of the Davis- Bacon act.” The suspension is to apply to all| contracts entered into on or after June 16. Charges that two painters on a con- tract job at the National Training School for Boys on Bladensburg road had to “kick back” part of their pay during the past two months were re- peated and denied at today's hearing. Richard A. Winfleld, one of the painters told substantially the same story testified to yesterday by Frank Kneas that they were paid $1.37'; an hour, but gave back at the rate of 3713 cents an hour. Paul Lauderbach, foreman on the paint job, and Benjamin S. Nash, superintending the contract work, both took the stand this morning and denied they had ever received any “kick back” payments from Kneas or Winfleld. Kneas and Winfield also have al- leged in their testimony that Nash told them the money they were turn- ing back was being given to the in- spector at the school. This charge was vigorously denied late yesterday by Bryce P. Holcombe, an employe of the training school, who acted as in- spector of the painting work. Denies Receiving Money. Nash told the committee today he had never received any money from the two painters, or from the foreman, and also denied having made any statement about Holcombe. The testimony of the painters was that on all except one occasion they turned back the money to Lauder- bach, after Nash had discussed the subject with them. Lauderbach testi- fied today that he never discussed wages with the men, because they had to be paid at the ate required by the Government on that work. Asked by Chairman Walsh if he had ever received any money from the two painters, Lauderbach replied that he had not, and added that the only money he had received from them was a small amount he had loaned them and that they paid it back. Near the close cf yesterday's ses- sion Chairman Walsh made the fol- lowing announcement: 3 BERLIN THREATENS BREAK OVER DEBTS Warns Protesting Nations Com- mercial Relations Would Be Severed. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 22.—A warning that she would sever commercial relations was Germany's answer today to threats of other nations to enforce collection of interest on her foreign debts. Dr. H. Jalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, said bluntly: “It is no use to threaten or scold us.” Following the Reich’s recent six- month moratorium on its obligations Prance and England have creating clearing houses which would impound German commercial funds to meet payments frozen by the ‘moratorium. “I should not wonder, however, but what this nonsense of clearing ar- rangements - must be gone through with, too,” Dr. Schacht said, “after all the rest of the nonsense the world has had to face.” He explained the Reichsbank’s stand to foreign correspondents and diplomats yesterday. a re- turn to Germany of her former col- onies as a possible solution of the debts problem. Guide for Readers 22, 1934—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. FRP N N \ OUR DRAGON LIZARD— \ \ NN \‘gg\“‘“‘\“ \\»\\\ \ W YouRe SURE The only evening paper in Washington with the Ausociated Press News service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,501 (UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. APPALACHIAN FIRM DEFIES POWER ACT BY BUILDING DAM Company to Continue Vir- ginia Project Despite High Court Ruling. > N\ N - L 4 \ N N N AN I7'S GOOD AND FRESH, DOC? ACTION CHALLENGES FEDERAL BOARD ORDER Electric Concern Refuses to Seek Major License Under Water Legislation. By the Associated Press. In a new challenge to the Govern- ment, the Appalachian Electric Power Co. has served notice on the Pederal | Power Commission that it was going ahead with the construction of a dam on the New River, in Virginia, in defiance of the commission's order compelling it to seek a major license, it was made known today, The company'’s move was made BULDERS TOSLASH HOUSING AID COST Industry Spokesman Re- i veals Plan—Hopkins May | Head Set-Up. By the Associated Press. Downward revision of building ma- | terial prices under N. R. A. codes, to | reinforce the administration home | building and repair program, today was said by an authority in the con- | struction industry to be planned | within the next fortnight. | Not even awaiting President Roose- velt’s signature of the housing bill, the industry was depicted as contem- | cent in its charges. The spokesman, who did not want his name used, was While components of the industry have insisted that present cost-pro- tection prices have been the minimum at which plants could be operated and employment maintained at maximum, it was said leaders in the business ex- pect the housing program to so in- crease volume that there will be no decrease in employment and net | profits will suffer but little. Drive Long Under Way, A drive to reduce building costs has been under way for some time. The reduction has two main objectives: To increase activities under the housing proeram_which is designed to encourage building of new homes and the repairing of old. And to carr, out the announced policy of the N. R. A. to keep prices from mounting to excess. Increased volume of buflding ac- tivity will permit a narrower margin between production costs and selling pricess It was predicted also that it will more than offset the increased costs of labor, which in some of the build- ing industries, especially lumber, has risen from 50 to as high as 400 per cent. Hopkins May Take Charge. Harry L. Hopkins, Federcl relief chief, is expected to take charge of the housing program unless he per- sonally signifies a contrary preference to the President. This he may do, in view of his liking for present dutjes. Plans are being made to dramatize the program with celebrations, simi- lar to those under which the N. R. A. was launched with huge parades throughout the country, the inform- ant said. The building materials industry will be among the first to “get on the band wagon,” it was added, with their announcement of price slashes The lowered prices will have th« rom- plete sanction of the Government. T P NEW JUDGES OF HELL BOMB SCARES PARIS Sent to Cafe Owner, It Fails to Explode—Mailed in Labor District. By the Associated Press. . PARIS, June 22—A twelfth bomb was found in the mails today in the sinister campaign of terror revived yesterday by “The Three Judges of Hell.” After several days of inaction police believed the criminal they call a mad- man had been scared off. Resump- tion of deliveries revived widespread fear here. The latest bomb was found with mail taken from a box in a populous workers’ district near the Place Voltaire. Police and postal authorities were in a fever of activity, examining all suspicious bundles. Scientists studied owner. but which did not explode Authorities are convinced an in- sane person, brooding over the Stavisky scandal. is responsible for the fiendish campaign in which sev- eral persons have been injured The first bombs carried notes threatening President Lebrun, Pre- mier Doumergue and other officials, signed “The Three Judges of Hell.” American firms have received the deadly packages, and one was sent to Andre Citroen, “the Henry Ford of France.” Germany Bans "Flnu." BERLIN, June 22 (7).—The official journal. Rei , announced today that the motion picture “Tar- zan and His Mate” has been barred from Germany. The "s office refused to state the for the action. ".be bomb sent yesterday to a cafe | Prisoners Protest, But Metal Eater Remains in Jail By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 22 —If Robert E. Buckley wants to eat light globes, stray bits of metal and such things be- tween meals, other prisoners of the Los Angeles County jail will have to | put up with it It's his stomach and his diet, al- theugh some of the metal he munches may belong to other prisoners. And the county’s psychiatrists insist his unorthodox taste is no sign that he is insane. So Superfor Judge Charles 8. Burnell overruled the protests of Buckley's annoyed cellmates, and sent him back to jail for six months for receiving stolen property. Buckley ate that sort of thing in a | circus act. e plating cuts of from 10 to 15 periH 0 I. c MAY BUY in a position to know the facts. Ve ke U - OFFICE STRUGTURE 'Has Overflowed New Quar- ters and Faces Acute Space Problem. | The Home Owners' Loan Corpora- { tion, whose rapidly expanding activi- | ties already have filled to overflowing | its recently assigned quarters in the | new Post Office Building, is negotiating for the purchase of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building at 101 Indiana avenue, it was learned by ‘The Star today. Faced with an acute problem with respect to office space, the corporation has been “dickering” for the lease or purchase of other office buildings and even an apartment house has been considered, it was said. Recently, the H. O. L. C. sent a representative to Baltimore to survey the space situation there with the probability of moving some of its divisions to that city. Units Need Space. It was understood the corporation does not intend to move its exeeutive branch from the new Post Office Building, but additional space must be found for various other units, such as the legal. statistical, a home-reconditioning unit in the H. O. L. C. alsc has added tremendously to its activities. ‘The corporation already occupies all available space in the Standard Oil Building and withir the past month ::ok over space in the Mather Build- g Negotiations for purchase of the Acacia Building were expected to come to a head within the next few days. Officials of the company de- clined to comment on the deal other than to say that they had been ap- proached, and that their building might change hands if details could be satisfactorily ironed out. The Acacia Building, appraised at about $1,000,000, has 10 floors. Executive Order Needed. Funds for the' acquisition of a building for H. O. L. C. probably would come from the appropriation for the corporation, but it is uncer- stood a presidential order woula be required. A bill had been introduced in the Congress appropriating $1,000,- 000 for the construction of a buiidine for the corporation, but failed of action. P. W. A. funds, it was pointed out by officials of that administration are not available for acquisition of exist- ing buildings, but for the construc- tion of new buildings, providing em- ployment. i technical and | other branches. The establishment of | despite the loss of its suit in the Ped. eral Courts to test the Power Com- mission’s authority. In this case Huston Thompson represented the Government as spe- cial counsel, with Newton D. Baker |nppur1ng for the power corporation. STEEL MAN KILLS WFEAND HINSELF 25522 Wounds Two Others of |of the Federal water power act was foreshadowed by the company's de- Family—Packing Official |cision to go ahead with the dam in e violation of the commission's order Ends Life in Home. The famous test case was instigated i several years ago when the Power Commission issued an order prohibit- ing construction of the dam without & permit under the water power act. The company sued George Otis By the Associated Press. MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, June 22.— Sidney R. Rectanus, 46. former vice S R Agre mith, then chairman of the com- president of the American Rolling LT N S et s Mills Co., today beat and shot and | pody, as individuals, saying they had killed his wife, Alma, 42, shot and | entered an order beyond their powers. wounded two other members of his' The case went through the various 1 | courts to the Supreme Court, which | peal from a decision of the Circuit law, Mrs. Elesa Rathman, 76, sbot{ oo “nolging it had no jurisdiction in the neck, whose condition is sal to be serious; and a daughter, Shirley, 12, wounded in the right side, condi- tion fair. Two other children, a daughter, Jane, 18, and a son, Daniel, 16, said they were struck by their father in his rampage and fled from the housc The daughter, Shirley, despite her wound, was making her way to the reached the scene. Resigned Two Years Ago. Rectanus has been a member of the engineering staff of the American | Rolling Mills Co. since 1910. He re- signed as vice president in charge of operations in 1932. temporary known cause. The children, still horror-stricken, said that as far as they knew, their father arose from his sleep early to- day and began striking his wife, Alma, | 42, with his fist. Her screams aroused | other members of the family. Crowding into their father's bed room, they found he had shot their mother through the heart with one of three pistols he owned. Jane and Daniel were struck by pistols in their father's hands and brushed aside. Shoots Self in Head. Then, they said, their father shot down Mrs. Rathman in her room across the hall, wounded Shirley and then, returning to his own room, shot himself through the head. The two wounded were rushed to a hospital. Mrs. Rathman’s condition was said to be serious. An emer- gency operation on the youngest child brought successful removal of the bullet. ARMOUR OFFICIAL SHOT. Dies of Wound Believed to Have Been Self-Inflicted. CHICAGO, June 22 James Reynolds, 53, vice president of | Armour & Co., in charge of purchas- | ing, was found fatally wounded in the | bath room of his Glencoe home today. He died at Highland Park Hospital a few minutes later. His wife, Margaret, found him prostrate and summoned police and a physician. but Reynolds died without | regaining consciousness. Apparently he had taken his own life. A revolver was found on the floor beside the shot, but Mrs. Reynolds detected a noise in the bath room as she walked Rast the door and tried to open it. Her husband had fallen against it, however, and she was unable to force it wide enough to enter until the police arrived. The officers said Reynolds had been ill for some time. Besides his widow, two daughters, Muriel and Dorothy, survive. Officlals of Armour & Co. said Reynolds had suffered a nervous breakdown some time ago. He had been an employe of the packing firm for more than 30 years. BRILLIANT PACEANTRY of the MARYLAND TERCENTENARY . and other seenes in the celebration at St. Marys City of the landing there 300 years ago of Leonard Calvert and his colonists are shown in a Full Page of Photographs in the Rotogravure Section of Next Sunday’s Star 2 garden of their home whern police Coroner Cook ascribed the act to| insanity from some un- (). —Fred | None of the family had heard the ' Claims Improper Procedure. ‘The contention of the Appalachian firm now is that the case was not heard on its merits previously, when its challenge was directed at the juris- diction of the Federal regulatory body. | Under the law, the commission and Attorney General now have the right to go into court and seek to halt con- struction of the project, but it was not certain today just what move would be made. ! The Appalachian case now has been | hanging fire for nine years, and has tied up a development estimated to cpst $11,000,000. The commission has insisted that the company acquire & major license, which would impose Federal regulation over its financial | structure. and give the Government or State the right to recapture of the property in 50 years. The company has disputed the right of the com- mission to require this, holding that * ew River is non-navigable, and that | theretore Federal regulation does not | apply. It has been willing to give a | guarantee against interference with | navigation in tributaries, but to go no ! further. Another Case Up. ‘The decision of the Appalachian to | go ahead with the project puts it in the same category with the Electro- Metallurgical Co., a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon, which the commission now is seeking to keep from buiiding & dam for a $7,000,000 { hydroelectric project on the New jRiver at Hawks Nest in West Vir- ginia. The Electro-Metallurgical has denied the right of the commission to come in under any circumstances, | and the commission recentiy went into Federal Court in West Virginia and asked for a restraining order to halt construction operations, pending is- suance of a major license. H Paradoxically, in appearing now in behalf of Appalachian, former Secre- i tary of War Baker is fighting against | operation of a law which he helped frame while in his capacity at the head of the War Department he held membership in the old Power Com- | mission composed of cabinet officers, |WAR DEBT DELAY SCORED IN BRITAIN Parliament Hears Demands That U. S. Be Paid—Lump Suggested. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 22.—New demands that Great Britain pay her war debts to the United States were made on the floor of the House of Commons | today. | Members of the Labor and Con- servative parties joined in an attack = the delay in the settlement of the problem, which some members as- serted was harming Anglo-American relations. Col. Josiah C. Wedgwood, Laborite, took advantage of a debate on the finance bill to declare: “I1 want from the chancellor a defi- nite assurance that England is going to meet her bond in the long run and pay her debt to America.” Capt. Victor A. Cazalet, Conserva- tive, suggested that the government consider a lump-sum payment offer, stating that some quarters had men- tioned a payment of $1,000,000,000. e “DILLINGER IS ALIVE” Outlaw’s Sister Gives Information to Ohio Woman. GALION, Ohio, June 22 (#).—Mrs. Eulalia Callender of Galion today re- ceived a letter from Mrs. Audrey Han- cock of Maywood, Ind., sister of John Dillinger, saying, “John is alive.” The letter also said is John Dil- linger's 32d bix anuiversary. |