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A-2 SEAWAY OPPOSED TR | | BY MIDWEST BODY | Mississippi Valley Meeting Rejects Plea of Dern for St. Lawrence Treaty. By the Assoclated Press ST. LOUIS, November 28.—A sweep- ing majority of delegates to the an- nual Mississippi Valley Association convention late yesterday rejected a plea of the national administration for ratification of the St. Lawrence waterway treaty The action of the organization, composed largely of middle western shippers, followed by a few hours a plea by Secretary of War Dern for support of the treaty, which failed of ratification in the last Senate. President Roosevelt has announced intention of resubmitting the treaty to the next Congress. Text of Resolution. The convention resolution read: “We oppose and will continue to op- pose the ratification of the St. Law- rence treaty, which was rejected by the Senate at the last session of Con- gress, until its inequalities shall have been corrected; until the rights of the United States shall have been pro-; tected; until the markets for United States agriculture and industry shall have been safeguarded; until a com- mercially useful lakes - to - the - gulf waterway shall have been made se- cure: until provisions be made where- by United States money goes to United States labor and the United States sovereignty over Lake Michigan is preserved Complete harmony did not prevail on the treaty resolution. Some sup- port of a minority resolution report was voiced. Principal officers. including Robert Isham Randolph, president, Chicago, were re-elected. Would Change Policies. The convention, in another resolu- tion, called on Secretary Dern “to| amend the policies enunciated in the 1933 report of the Inland Waterways Corp. with regard to the private oper- ation of inland waterway craft.” The 1933 policy, Lachlan MacLeay. execu- tive vice president of the association, explained, subordinated the develop- ment of private carriers to Federal barge lines. Other resolutions declared for: Unobstructed transportation facili- ties, and an unobstructed opportunity for each to develop all of the econ- omies of which it is capable. Ample steamship lines, including a | goodly number of the United States lines, plying between the Gulf and Southeastern Atlantic ports, and the ports of the world Cleared channels of world trade, so the surplus-producing garms and fac- tories of the Middle West and South may freely export on an international trade basis. SCHULTZ GIVES UP ON TAX CHARGE Reputed Gang Leader Put Under $50,000 Bond—Surrenders at Albany. By the Ascoclated Press ALBANY, N. Y, November 2i Arthur Flegenheimer, better known as Dutch Schultz, mentioned often as a New York gang leader, surrendered here today to United States Commis- sioner Lester T. Hubbard to answer to a charge he evaded Federal income tax payment. Schultz, accompanied by his attor- ney, James M. Noonan of Albany, pleaded not guilty to the Federal charge. He was held in $50,000 bond and remanded to jail Schultz’s alleged was in 1929 Schultz had been the object of a search by police and Federal agents since a Federal grand jury returned an indictment against him and three| others for alleged income tax evasion income violation January 25, 1933. YULE DANCE CONCERT T0 BE GIVEN DEC. 15 Lisa Gardiner to Present Group Under Auspices of Center. Variety Is Offered. A Christmas dance concert will be presented by Lisa Gardiner and her dance group in the Central High School auditorium on December 15 under the auspices of the Community Center Department. One of the features of the program will be a dance pantomime to music by Strauss of “Christmas Eve.” Many new numbers by Miss Gardiner and the group will be included in the program among which will be a ballet, “Souvenir,” “Gavotte Directoire,” “The Mazourka” and “The Blue Danube.” By request Miss Gardiner will offer an arrangement of George Gershwin's second prelude. Tickets will be on sale beginning December 1 at the Community Cen- ter Department, Miss Gardiner’s studio, A. A. A. headquarters, the Wil- lard Ticket Bureau and the Washing- ton Hotel newsstand. —_— LABOR RELATIONS BOARD | ACTS IN TROLLEY STRIKE West Is Or- dered to Los Angeles to Seek Settlement. Coast Supervisor By the Associated Press. The Labor Relations Board today | ordered P. A. Donoghue, its West Coast regional supervisor, to go to Los Angeles immediately to attempt to settle the street car strike there. Donoghue has been in Seattle. The board said he likely would arrive in Los Angeles tonight. The National Mediation Board will go to Los Angeles by plane Saturday night to try to avert a threatened strike on the Pacific Electric Railway, an interurban line. PHILANTHROPIST DIES Clifford Bagley, 90, Founded Ajax Iron Works. LOS ANGELES, November 28 ().— Funeral services for Clifford Bagley, 90, philanthropist, who died of a heart attack at his home Monday, will be held today. Bagley was a native of Green County, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the Ajax Iron Works at Corry, Pa. and was president of the corporation until his retirement 15 years ago, when he came to Los Angeles. He was & member of the First Federal Reserve Bank at Cleve- land, Ohio. i | What’s What |; Behind News In Capital Roosevelt Silences Aides’ Wrangling Over Bureaus. BY PAUL MALLON. HE public crack which Mr. Roosevelt delivered across the knucklcs of Messrs. Ickes and | Moffett was meant to be a les- | son to a lot of other sub-bosses in the New Deal. If you had listened in on the long-distance telephone from Warm Springs you would have learned that Mr. Roosevelt was not par- ticularly excited about the Ickes- Mofett scrap. What perturbed him was the rumor he hai been hearing from Washington about a rather genmeral similar situation which has arisen inside the New Deal. It happens every time the head man | goes away. The bureau chiefs plant a lot of inspired stories in the news- papers hinting that the President is going to do this or that thing which they want him to do. The air is so full of trial balloons that most people are left in a total eclipse as to what to | believe and what not to. The results, this trip, were worse than usual, because the bureau bosses had wind of reorganization plans. | Each has the idga that the proper reorganization would be an enlarge- ment of his particular bureau. That is natural. It has not been disclosed, but at the same time as the Ickes-Moffett spat, Mr. Ickes was caught with his hand on Mr. Wallace's Forestry Bureau. For some time Mr. Ickes has looked with longing eyes on the forestry service. Agricultural Secretary Wallace was | asked about the matter recently, and | with significant evasion replied: “Mr. Ickes and I are the best of friends.” Also, the reliefer, Mr. Hopkins, had his hand in the same housing grab bag with Messrs. Moffett and Ickes. but he got it out before they got caught. One Happy Family. Since the teacher corrected the two | toughest boys, all the rest have been | acting as cherubs. They have all | taken their tune from Wallace. They | are the best of friends. None feels | hurt. They deny ardently that they had their hands in the jam pot anyway Just the same, it would be wise for the average news reader, the business | man and the speculator to keep one eye closed in mental reservation while reading much of the Washington ma- | terial these days. | The real decisions will come when | the boss returns. ‘White Meat. As interesting a scrap as any is the one between the Federal Trade Com- | mission and the Commerce Depart- ment over the white meat on the old Blue Eagle. That is an old scrap! which has lately been renewed. | A certain eminent carver for the administration would cut the bird up into two parts. One would be administrative and the other ju- dicial (something like the old Johnson idea). The administrative end would be given to the Com- merce Department. Any disputes would be tried before the judicial body, called the National Code Ad- ministration, The Federal Trade Commission would get nothing. Erxisting N. R. A. boards would be | few months. | sored by the paralysis patients. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,” WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934, DOLE SYSTEM HIT | LORDASHLEY WINS | Star Ex INROPER REPORT President Told Business Is Opposed to Breakdown of Worker Morale. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 28 —After-two days of intensive work | on his 1935 legislative program, which called for conferences with Senators Robinson and Harrison and a confer- ence yesterday with Secretary of Commerce Roper) President Roose- velt 1s today devoting the greater part | of his time to an accumulation of | mail. He had not received any mail from | the White House in Washington since | last Saturday because planes were de- | layed by bad weather, but today three bulging pouches greeted his eyes when he arrived at his desk. How- ever, he went about his task of dis- | posing of this mail with his usual | good humor, and with the angounce- ment that he hoped he would have as few interruptions as possible unllli he had finished, and could turn again to his study of his 1935 legislative program. Roper Tells of Business Study. For more than an hour yesterday afternoon the President listened to Secretary of Commerce Roper give an accounting of a swing through the South and Midwest, which he had | just concluded. The President was especially interested in what this cab- inet member had to say about the | mental attitude of business men with whom he had talked. | According to Secretary Roper, busi- ness men with whom he talked feel| that unless relief rolls are lessened there is danger of the Government increasing taxes. He told the Presi-| dent that business would welcome a tapering-off of Federal _expenses. There is an immense reservoir of busi- ness he said which will move forward anyway, but business will move far more rapidly if given assurances that an attempt is to be made to trim | expenses. In his opinion the huge amounts spent auring the last year| on relief and the possibility of e continuing f this drain on the Treas- ury during the forthcoming year, was having a disturbing effect upon busi- ness. Dole System Not Liked. Mr. Roper gained the impression | during his traveling that the dole system of relief was unpopular with business and that it was the im- proper method of meeting the unem- | ployment situation, because of the ex- istence of “glaring” abuses. He said there is a feeling among many peo- ple with whom he talked that there | is growing in this country a class content to live on the bounty of the} Government rather than seek work. This latter observation was par- ticularly interesting to the President because he has been receiving reports of a similar nature from others who have reported to him during the past While there is a strong belief here that ihe President is con- templating a change in the method of extending relief to the unemployed. which would remove considerable of | the present dole stigma, nothing defi- nite regarding such a move has been forthcoming from the President. It is expected that his ideas in this respect will be revealed in the annual message he is preparing for the next session of Congress. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt | last night attended a party at the Warm Springs Foundation and spon- The evening’s fun was closed with a dance and the President and his wife re- mained until the end. arriving back | at their cottage a few minutes after midnight. In the afternoon they wit- nessed a play. entitled, “The Sailors' Sweetheart.” in which the younger abolished or at least reorganized into a new setup. It sounds like a good idea and there are indications that the general theory is acceptable to Mr. Richberg as well | as to Commerce Department officials. No decision has been made. i Authoritative New Deal balloons, | floated in the last six weeks by the | boss himself, or under his confidential supervision, have met mixed winds. The inside on that situation now might be thumbnailed fairly as fol- | lows: Labor—Roper's speech calling for union guarantees of the right to work. Swatted by labor. Widespread favor- able letter reaction from business. | Something on it may be worked out. No decision. Public works—the $12,000,000,000 P. W. A. program was shot down before it got off the ground and is now out on the junk pile of broken dreams. A much more conservative plan is being formulated. Utilities—The Walsh report and Mr. Roosevelt'’s Tupelo speech frightened the power companies out of their wits. Utilities stocks went down fool- ishly, because the St. Lawrence project cannot possibily be completed for 10 years, if then. Utilities magnates now secretly organizing their anti-aircraft guns (publicity and others). The ad- ministration will sail to victory, but the landing is a long way off. | N. R. A—Richberg’s speeches advo- | cating discontinuance of price fixing, as well as production control, brought encouraging reaction. Matter prob- ably will be worked out on general lines outlined above. A. A. A—Chester Davis' speeches advocating eventual discontinuance of scarcity idea were snowed under by farm demands for continuance of ex- isting Government subsidies for cur- tailment. The farmers have won for the present. Favor Relief Probe. Most returning congressmen favor a congressional investigation of relief| and public works administrations, not | as a graft hunt, but as a sincere effort to develop the best policy for those two agencies. An investigation is in- evitable. The administration may take hold of it, so the opposition can- not conduct it. The only New Deal agency mak- ing any money is the Commerce Department cafeteria. About once a month it deducts a dime from all luncheon checks in order to keep from piling up a surplus. One major Tennessee Valley prob- lem is the removal of 5,000 graves in the path of the dam under construc- tion. [Each grave must be photo- graphed three times so it can be placed in the same relative position elsewhere. It takes a New Deal to move heaven and earth. (Covyright. 1934.) d | ment of Poderjay, wanted in connec- patients participated. U. S. DEMANDS PODERJAY VIENNA, November 28 (#).—The United States Government made a formal demand upon the Austrian government today for extradition of Capt. Ivan Poderjay on charges of bigamy. A previous request for the remand- tion with the disappearance of his bride, Agnes ‘Tufverson, New York and Detroit lawyer, had been denied because swearing falsely is not a crime in Austria unless the oath is taken before a court. (America ac- cused Poderjay of perjury in his mar- riage to Miss Tufverson. since he al- legedly already had a wife.) Austria is expected to be only too glad to give up Poderjay as his lengthy maintenance has been a source of considerable expense to the government, which also considers him an undesirable alien. American authorities here have al- ready made arrangements, it was un- derstood, with the Austrian govern- ment to transport Poderjay over the | |the Hyde Park Hotel Edwards was | asked | the bed room?" | of a reconciliation between Fairbanks Austrian frontier into Germany. SUIT FOR DIVORCE Fairbanks, as Co-respond- ent, Must Pay Costs of About $10,000. By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, November 28 —Lord Ash- ley was granted a divorce decree nisi today from Lady Ashley and costs of the action were assessed against Douglas Fairbanks, sr., named as co- respondent. The decree, which gives the young nobleman a final divorce after six! months if contrary cause is not shown, | was handed down shortly after the case came before Sir Boyd Merriman. The suit was not defended and.serv- ices of a jury were not required. Lady Ashley is the former Sylvia Hawkes, musical comedy actress. ‘The court action today required ex- actly eight minutes’ time. Neither Lady Ashley nor Fairbanks was in court, but Lord Ashley was there, smartly attired in a gray suit. Fairbanks’ Secretary Called. Ashley gave evidence supporting his petition and called as a witness a “Mr. Edwards,” who he said had acted as private secretary to Fairbanks from September, 1933. The nobleman testified he and his wife had lived together in comparative happiness after their marriage, Febru- ary 3, 1927, until Lady Ashley went to America in January, 1928, con- trary to his wishes. and they had not lived together since. Subsequently, Lord Ashley con- tinued, he received information of Lady Ashley’s association with Fair- banks. He charged misconduct at the | Hyde Park Hotel and a house known as “North Mimms Park” which Fair- banks had taken in the country. Fairbanks’ wife, Mary Pickford, also an American screen star, filed suit for divorce last December. H Lawyers said it would require sev-; eral days to fix the costs of the case, which Fairbanks is to pay, but esti- mated the figure probably would be| about £2,000 ($10,000). During the hearing Sir Patrick asked Edwards if Lady Ashley was a frequent visitor. “Yes,” replied Edwards. *“I often received instructions not to disturb them. She was very frequently there." In further questioning concerning “In October do you remember Lady Ashley coming to his suite about 11:30 in the morning soon after Fair- banks returned from Paris Octo- ber 2 “Yes,” Edwards answered. “Where did they go?” “To his bed room,” Edwards testi- fied “Wer “ye “Did you ou in the suite all day?” see them come out of Again Edwards answered “yes." Edwards then testified Fairbanks Was wearing a gown over his pajamas. | He said Lady Ashley wore a fur coat. Took House in Country. Edwards added that Fairbanks took a house in the country, where he and Lady Ashley went to live for a long period. He said he left the actor’s service May 26, 1934. The 34-year-old Lord Ashley. whose family is one of the most aristocratic and wealthy in England, married Miss Hawkes, once a favorite of London's Midnight Follies, despite parental ol jections. He is the heir of the ninth Earl of Shaftesbury, former lord mayor of Belfast and a prominent churchman. There have been recurrent rumors and his estranged wife, but nothing came of them, although the couple saw each other when Doug made a recent trip to California. London also has heard rumors Fair- banks intended to wed Lady Ashley. Charges of continued misconduct by Fairbanks and Lady Ashley were filed by Lord Ashley in July, two weeks after the actor and the bobbed- haired Lady Ashley had flown to Paris together and visited Monte Carlo with her sister. HUSBAND OF NOVELIST MAY SURVIVE SURGERY Will D. Miller's Chances of Re- covery Held Better After Brain Operation. By the Associated Press. WAYCROSS, Ga., November 28— After experiencing a comfortable night at the Ware County Hospital, Will D. Miller of Baxley, Ga. was reported “better” early today. Hospital at- tendants said more hope was held for his recovery than had been heretofore. Miller, the husband of Caroline M ler, author of the Pulitzer prize-win- ning novel, “Lamb in His Bosom,” had been confined to the hospital after undergoing a brain operation there early this week. He is a newspaper- man and was formerly superintendent of Baxley Schools. Life’s Like That BY FRED NEHER. (Copyright, \Y% Y/ . N\ il Z \\ i N 7 YA l 10y P By 22D NeEnER “GUESS WHERE I'VE BEEN?" (Copyright, 1934.) Here are members of The Star expedition as they looked when they stopped off at Ottawa, Canada yester- day. on the homeward flight with the moving pictures made in the land of Santa Claus_which will be shown here at the Metropolitan Theater for one week beginning tomorrow. From left to right: Pilot “Red” Garland, Radio Operator Hans Larsen, Capt. Kleinschmidt and Mrs. Kleinschmidt. Star Expedition Air piune Nears Home Port With Films Party Over Canada on Last Leg of Homeward Flight—Movies to Be Shown Here Editor's note to the boys and girls of Washington—The Star's expedi- tion airplane. carrying Capt. Klein- schmidt and Mrs. Kleinschmidt and members of the party. and bringing back a remarkable moving picture made at the home of Santa Claus, is winging its way toward Minneola Airport. in Long Isiand The party expects to reach there tonicht, and the films will be rushed to Washington by special train, to be shoun here tomorrou at the Metropolitan Theater. Last- minute dispatches before going to press indicate that the plane ts well on 1ts way and making good Prog- ress. Capt. Kleinschmidt wirelessed the following message from the plane after his departure from Ot- towa, Canada. BY CAPT. F. E. KLEINSCHMIDT. By Wireless to The Evening Star. N ROUTE TO MINEOLA. Long Island, November 28.—Yester- day I told you about hopping | off from the little Hudson Bay | village and getting started back to Ottawa. Today I am forced to tell you that we have encountered the most serious difficulty of our | entire trip. | As we were speeding along this | morning I noticed that our plane was | acting queerly. It didn't respond to the controls as it should. I got Mrs. Kleinschmidt to take over the con- trols for a few moments while I made | a very hurried investigation. I found that one of the most important wires | had snapped, probably due to the in- tense cold and the great strain under | which the entire ship has been throughout the trip. There was only one thing to do— land as quickly and as easily as pos- sible. I took over the controls again | and began looking for a place to land. And I want to say right here that landing fields are not the most plenti- ful things to be found in this region. In fact there aren’t any regular land- ing fields at all and if you have to| come down you must pick the spot that looks not the smoothest but the | least rough | After limping along for a bit I|than the 40 per cent reduction promul- | dents includes: gated for this year, but it is lhe' sighted a fairly level plateau and headed for it. The plane handled a | good bit like a dead weight, for it is | very heavy, loaded as it is. Somehow I am not just sure how we man-| aged to land without doing any se- | rious damage, although the fabric on | one wing was torn. | We were somewhat shaken up as we landed, but thankful to be all to- gether. Mrs. Kleinschmidt got out her | work basket and started at once to/ fix the wing fabric, while the pilot and | I got busy with the wire. If you have | ever tried to tie your shoestrings with | your mittens off and the mercury at zero, you can imagine how we must have felt when we tried to fix this wire with the mercury far below zero | and no fire within hundreds of miles. | Finally we had to build a fire and | thaw our hands a bit before we could | g0 on with our work. It was a tedious Jjob, for this kind of repair work must ! be done with great care. Much de-| pends on the accuracy with which it | is done, you see. | It took us several hours to complete | all the repairs and test them, but | finally the task was completed and | we were ready to start again. | Mrs. Kleinschmidt once more dem- onstrated her abiltiy as a cook by pre- paring a hot meal that certanily tasted good. There is nothing like hard work in a cold atmosphere to make one appreciative of good warm food. Behind Schedule. We were late getting into Ottawa— though we had made up some of the | hours we had lost by flying at top speed and with a tail wind to help us along. As I am sending this we have just taken off again from Ottawa and are now on the last leg of our flight to Mineola airport. Although we are behind schedule due to the mishap, I feel that we can make up enough time to get to Long Island late to- night, in time to rush the films to Washington for the opening of the Metropolitan Theater tomorrow morn- ing. In fact, the pilot has just told me to inform The Star that the pictures will be there without fail. We are determined not to disappoint the boys and girls in Washington—for we really have a big surpise for them. It is & special message from Santa Claus which you will hear him deliver in his own cheery voice when you see him on the screen tomorrow. Hugh Walpole Il HOLLYWOOD, Calif., November 28 (#).—Hugh Walpole, English writer, who has been doing film adapations here, has been confined to his apart- ment several days with rheumatic fever, it was disclosed last night. The {llness was not regarded by his phy- sician as critical, 4 Tomorrow. ALL D. C. POOR CHILDREN TO GET NEW TOYS FROM CHRISTMAS MATINEES. On December 15 The Star and Warner Bros.' Theaters will hold their fourth annual Christmas toy matinees, to make sure that every needy child in Washington will receive a new Christmas gift Last year 30,000 new toys and gifts for Washi dren were brou theaters where the toy matinees were held. The:e were distrib- uted to the needy by the Christ- mas Planning Committee of the Council of Social Agencies. This vear it is The Star's hope that the number of new toy contribu- tions will be greatly increased and that all children in the Dis- trict of Columbia will be made happy in the knowledge that Santa Claus will not pass them ¥. 1935 ACREAGE CUT ON COTION LOWER Planters, However, to Get Benefit of Increased “Par- ity” Payments. By The A. A. A. is ready to call on cotton planters to hold their 1935 acreage down to 75 per cent of the 1928-1932 average. This 25 per cent cut, which Secre- tary Wallace planned to announce between 3 and 4 p.m. today, is smaller the Assoclated Press. maximum slash the A. A. A. can make under existing contracts. At the same time, the officials pre- pared to announce an increase in “parity” payments, which go directly to the actual producers of cotton, and a decrease in rental payments, which are divided between landlords and tenants. This probably means 11, cents per pound will be taken off rentals and added to parity payments. Thus rentals would stand at 2 cents and parity payments at 213 cents. The Secretary's announcement was timed to come immediately after to- day’s report showing A. A. A. pay- ments to Southern farmers for con- trolling production in 1934 totaled $75,969.192 as of November 22. Under the 1934 program, farmers actually reduced their acreage 35 to 45 per cent below the average for 1928-1932. The A. A. A. would prefer to ask for next year a reduction larger than 25 per cent because of the large supply of American cotton and the declining export demand. However, it is re- stricted to this figure under a two-year contract with farmers. MISSION PLANS DINNER 400 to 500 Persons to Be Given Thanksgiving Turkey. Some 400 to 500 persons will be fed on Thanksgiving day at the Gospel Mission, 214-18 John Marshall place There will be a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Services will be conducted by Har- vey V. Prentice, superintendent, dur- ing the meal. The mission will serve dinners from noon until 4 o'clock. Today between 300 and 400 per- sons who usually come to the mission every day for food will recetve bas- | kets of provisions in sufficient quan- | tity to feed their families. receive gifts this Christmas.” Santa Claus Editor of The Star. It will be fine to win that pri: other awards. your letter. third prize is $5. night of Saturday, December 15. .Please write on one side of in early. z $30 IN PRIZES FOR WASHINGTON BOYS AND GIRLS. Now is the time, boys and girls, to write your letter, “Why I know there is a Santa Claus and why every poor child in Washington should DON'T DELAY, send it in -—Star Expedition Photo. P £ HLL RELIEF PLAN (PPOSEDBY YADEN Attacks Organization Community Groups for Neighborhood Advice. of ‘The announcement today by Miss | | Alice Hill, emergency relief director, ' | that community committees of citizens | | would be organized to aid and advise | in neizhborhood and relief problems | | met with a vigorous attack by James | | G. Yaden, presidert of the Federation of Citizens' Asosciations | Told that Miss Hill had announced | the committees would co-operate with citizens' associations and civic a ciations, the federation head imme ately declared he would have nothing to do with the committees Plan Called Smoke Screen. “I am not going to help them to throw out a smoke-screen to hide in- | efficiency,” Mr. Yaden said. “Tell ' them I will have nothing to do with | them until they have a house cleaning | at headquarters. “They know what I mean. I want| them to get out from there persons who lived outside the District and who | have been imported here. If they sa: they haven't any there, I can show | them where they have.” ! Of the committees, three already have been formed. Miss Hill announced, two under the Southeast district of- fice and one in the Banneker office. | The committees are to be organized in | each of the nine divisional relief of-| fices. Miss Hill said the committees have three purposes To interest residents In conditions in their communities and to inform them of relisf matters: to afford re- lief officials of the advice of residents on relief problems and to stimulate residents of communities to aid in improvement of conditions in a neigh- borhood. Southeast Committee. The committee of white residents | of the Southeast area, formed under | direction of Mrs. Isabel Carter, in- cludes Miss Lydia Burklin Dr. James | Bradley, Dr. T. David Gates. Miss Mil- dred Taylor. Miss Irene Donovan, A | Blondheim, Mrs. Mary E. Pye, Charles Jenkins. Mrs. Mcrgan Otterback, Phii- lip Werner, sr.; Mrs. J. P. Green and W. Earl Nair. A colored group of Southeast resi- Mrs. Louise Sedgwick, Mrs. Joseph- | ine Scott. Dr. Frank Gray, Dr. F. D. | Whitby, Mrs. Caroline B. Day. Rev. Walter A. English, Mrs. Annie H. Smith, Mrs. Matteil Taylor, Mrs. | Bessie Dunlap, John H. Wilson, Mrs. | Ollie M. Cooper. Carroll L. Miller and Dr. George H. Butcher, INITIAL VICTORY IS WON IN CODE SUIT AGAINST ROBERTS CO. (Continued From First Page.) United States Attorneys David A. Pine | and John J. Wilson, contended & na- | tional emergency exists and that in | such circumstances Congress may ex- | | ercise extraordinary powers. Justice ! Bailey took judicial notice of the| emergency and said: “An acute emergency exists and the means employed by Congress to relieve the resulting conditions and the law passed to that end appear to have a reasonable relation to its pur- | pose and is neither arbitrary nor dis- criminatory.” Powers Not Exceeded. The court also held Congress did not exceed its constitutional powers ! under the commerce clause, pointing | out that it is vested with exclusive power to legislate for the District of Columbia. He expressed belief that a provision | of the N. R. A. might be unconstitu- tional as to an industry located in a State and still be valid as it affects a local concern. The Government's suit charged the Roberts company with violating code provisions relating to straight min- imum wage scales, overtime wage scales, working hour provisions and with failure to post a copy of the code provisions in its shop. The case will now be set for a hearing on the appli- cation for a permanent injunction. NOW to the ze of $15 offered by The Star for the best letter. and maybe little brother or little sister will win one of the Don't forget, you must not be more than 12 years old if you write The best letter will win a prize of $15, second prize is $10 and the Your letter must be at the office of The Star not later than mid- Announcements of the winners, with their letters, will be made one week later. the paper only, and get your letter pedition Homeward Bound at Ottawa MUN'"UNS PRUBE ASKS ‘SHOWDOWN Senate Coromittee to Meet Monday—Hope to Examine Any U. S. Documents. | By the Associated Press. New sensations were said to be in the making today as the Senate Muni- tions Committee prepared to resume next Tuesday its inquiry into the in- ternational trade in implements of war. While keeping the nature of the evidence a secret, committee investi- gators sought more co-operation from certain other Government depart- ments. They say these departments are hampering the inquiry by with- holding information. Seeking a “showdown,” the eom- mittee, headed by Senator Nye, Re- publican, of North Dakota, will gather in special session next Monday. It will seek the right to examine all de- partment documents bearing on muni- tions transactions. State Department Gives Aid. One informed source said the State Department has given the inquiry more co-operation than other Gov- ernment agencies. Since the seres of public hearings last Spring. the de- partment has proposed that world powers approve ' international super- vision of the arms traffic Committee employes are known to have reported that they had been re- fused permission in several instances to examine department documents bearing on munitions deals. A fur- ther complaint will be that the use of data already furnished has be prohibited, so far as the actual hear ings themselves are concerned In this connection a usually well informed source said a State Depart- ment report on the German arms ituation was “suppressed” during the arings last Fall. The committce members, nevertheless, placed some evidence into the record showi: sharp increases in German importa- tions of American aviation materials. Senators asserted openly that Ger- many—with the aid of American munitions firms—was rearming is violation of the treaty of Versailles The State Department report on the German arms situation was studied by committee members. but its in- sertion into the record was forbidden for fear of augmenting tensity abroad. Previously the State Department received a series of protests from several countries, Argentina, Mexico and Great Britain among them, over testimony in the arms inquiry. The diplomatic representations followed mention of high officials in connec- tion with negotiations for arms sale In land's case, a witness said King George V had intervened per- sonally to block ile sale of American guns to Poland. Denials followed from abroad. Pressure was immediate- ly brought to bear on the committee, and several explosive bits of testimony affecting other countries were with- held from the record by mutual con= sent. Several Conferences Held. Officials of the War, Navy, Com- merce and State Departments were mentioned during hearings, which be- gan last September and continued three weeks. Secretary Hull held sev- eral conferences with committee members. Although an arms inquiry in Eng- | land seems likely, as the result of Senate disclosures, opponents of the inquiry insist that thus far the inves- tigation has intensified. rather than checked, arms competition At its meeting Monday the com- mittee also will discuss the schedule for the hearings which begin Tuesday. “MYSTERY WOMAN” EXPECTED TO NAME DEAD GIRLS TODAY (Continued From Pirst Page.) | located a Horace Hughes in a depart ment store, who said he did not know Carney. Bus Party Found Alive. State police announced last night they had found a woman and three children, reported by bus drivers as travelers from Boston to Cresson, Pa., “alive and well” at their home in Portage, 7 miles from Cresson. Thg¢ woman, Mrs. Doris Plummer, and her three sons, aged 18 months, 3 years and 4 years, were met at the bus by the husband and father, Frank Plummer, and a friend, said Maj. C. M. Wilhelm, deputy superintendent of State police. Norman Shafer, Lancaster, said he recognized the man found at Dun- cansville as “John Reichs,” itinerant magician and rope expert. New death masks were made and some investigators watched this de- velopment with keen interest for new traces of the scar on the forehead of the oldest of the three girls. Belief the children might have been slain by a cult or sect, or by a religious paranoiac, was expressed by Dr. Wilbur H. Norcross, head of the department of psychology of Dickinson College. He suggested they may have died at the hands of parents motivated by an urge to perform a religious sacrifice. “Many persons are in the habit of opening their Bibles at random and then attaching significance to the first words upon which their eyes fall. “These parents could have done this and, say, happened to read the pas- sage where Abraham was called by God to sacrifice Isaac. “Or they might have labored under the obsession their children would be ‘better off’ in heaven than alive and summarily took their lives.” Others held that the scar was the result of a wound. ASKS $25,000 DAMAGES Local Man Claims Injuries in Bus Accident. Claiming he was seriously injured when his automobile was struck by & bus of the East Coast Stages, Inc., John C. Kelly, 718 Sixth street, filed suit in District Supreme Court yes- terday for $25,000 damages. Through the law firm of O'Shea, Burnett and Goldstein, he charges the accident occurred near Fredericksburg, Va., on July 23, 1933. ing days