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THE INDUSTRY FIGHTS | [ 0= vost Prane | NELSON'S PALHELD INSURANCE GOAL Compulsory Contribution |s| Sure to Fail, Asserts Analytical Study. By the Associated Press. ‘The National Association of Manu- facturers yesterday stepped into the approaching congressional battle over social security with a denunciation of any unemployment insurance system ; involving compulsory contributions by industry. | It made public what it termed an analysis of British experiments in this | field of sociology, and asserted the major conclusion to be derived there- from was that “no system of unem- ployment insurance has any chance whatever-of success unless it is on a contributory basis.” The association is on record as favoring the general idea of such in- surance, but is ready to campaign against any plan, such as that ad- vanced by prominent administration advisers, for a tax on pay rolls to pro- vide & fund for payments to the Jobless. Bill May Be Modified. This idea was the kernel of the Wagner-Lewis bill—subject of a pro- tracted dispute at the last session of Congress—which had the outspoken support of Secretary Perkins and of organized labor. The measure died in committee, but is to be reintro- duced, although it may be modified. The measure called for the Federal tax on pay rolls, with exemptions for employer contributions to State un- employment insurance pools, as a means of encouraging and increasing the latter, In opposing this and similar plans, the National Association of Manufac- turers had, and will have, the co- operation of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States and other big business organizations. They favor some plan whereby all em- ployer support of insurance pools would be entirely voluntary. Studied Two Months, ‘The association’s study of the British system was made by John C. Gall, its associate general counsel, who spent two months this Fall in England. His report, issued in booklet form, was made available to members of Congress and other public officials. “Social service is costing Great Britain approximately one-seventh of the total sum paid in wages,” the as- sociation said in summing up the report. “Unemployment insurance consumes one-half of the total social service cost. “After a quarter of a century of operation unemployment insurance .atill is recognized by England as an experiment, and 25 amendments of this act in 24 years have failed to reduce it to what leading English statesmen consider a practical fixed policy.” RECOVERY ON THE WAY, STORE GROUP IS TOLD Robert Nathan Points Out Past Progress to Hecht Co. Executives. Movement for recovery is definitely on its way, Robert Nathan, until re- cently consultant on unemployment statistics for the President’s Commit- tee on Economic Security, told a breakfast given to executives of the Hecht Co. yesterday at the Willard Hotel. ) “There is ample evidence to indi- cate marked progress during the past year and a half,” he said. “It is now necessary to build on that progress which has been made, and, fortunately, the present situation embodies cer- tain favorable elements which will fa- cilitate business recovery. Inventories are lower now than a year ago, prices are more firm, Government loans and expenditures continue to result in in- creased purchasing power, bankers and industrial leaders are falling in line with the recovery program, and expansion in the use of the huge credit reserves appears imminent.” BALANCED COMMITTEES URGED BY G. 0. P. WHIP Representative Englebright of Cali- fornia, the Republican whip, said last night that a fair representation of the minority party on House commit- tees was necessary for the safety of the country. There had been indications that some Democratic House members were considering a plan to increase the Democratic membership of com- mittees at the expense of the Repub- licans. “The Appropriations and the Ways and Means Committees should have liberal representation of the minority for safety’s sake” Englebright said. “The Republican party represents about 46 per cent of the people. As the opposition, it should have its voice heard on matters to which there is opposition.” KIWANIS TO INSTALL President H. N. Marsh and Others Take Office Thursday. New officers of the Washington Ki- wanis Club will be installed at the luncheon meeting Thursday at the Mayflower Hotel. Harold N. Marsh, the new president, will succeed Lewis T. Breuninger. Bynum E. Hinton and George P. Mangan are first and second vice pres- dents, respectively; Edward D. Shaw is secretary and Bruce Baird treas- urer. Directors for the coming year are Eugene G. Adams, Bert Brewood, Charles H. Frame, William N. Free- man, Joseph R. Harris, Dr. David L. Maxwell, John E. Moore, Edward S. Pardoe and Albert B. Van Voorhees. o CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Reception and tea, District Division, ‘Young Democratic Club of America, ‘Willard Hotel, 4 p.m. Outing, Red Triangle Outing Club, meet Fifteenth street and Connecticut avenue, 2 p.m. TOMORROW. Meeting, National Society of the Army of the Philippines, Soldiers, Bailors and Marines’ Club, Eleventh and L streets. Dinner dance, Amity Club, Shore- ham Hotel, 9 p.m. Lecture, Miss Janet Richards, Wil- lard Hotel, 11 am. New Year eve dance, Filipino Com- munity of Washington, Willard Hotel, 10 pm. Dance, Chi Sigma Sorority, May- flower Hotel, 10:30 p.m. Dance, Delta Sigma Fraternity, Mayfiower Hotel, 10:30 p.m. ' -~ R. W. HAMBROOK. FLARES SPUR HUNT FOR PLANE LOST IN SNOWBOUND HILLS (Continued From First Page.) danger from exposure. There was no food aboard the Curtis Condor. How- ever, the men said they had built a fire and were huddled over it. The problem of the Department of Commerce radio direction finders at Boston, Albany, Newark and Buffalo was to converge beams on the plane before its battery went dead. After- ward, trigonometry, a slide rule and a contour map would point out the spot sought. Signals Come Too Late. But each time the signal came too late. The radio fingers had groped too far and the work had to be started all over again. Late today all stations simultaneously sought to pick up the weakening radio on the plane, but only a sputtering static came from the loud speakers. The State tonight sent its National Guardsmen, game protectors and fire rangers into the search. Planes of the New York and Massachusetts National Guard were ordered into the air. On snow shoes, the hardy game wardens and fire observers, who know every acre of the lower Adirondacks, headed parties of searchers. Guards- men carried Very light pistols to signal their progress. Bert Kreuzer, a farmer at Hoff- meister, in lower Hamilton County, was the only one to report hearing a crash. He said he heard an airliner over his home about 11 o'clock last night, followed by a muffied crash which he estimated to be 2 miles from his place. . That region is heavily wooded and mountainous. A party of searchers trudged into that area. Primitive Status. When Ernest Dryer, pilot and three others stepped out of their wrecked giant air transport “on a mountain top” somewhere in the Adirondacks, they also stepped out of the luxurious twentieth century into the midst of conditions prevailing in the days when man was young on the earth. They found themselves without food, in a wilderness as wild as that roamed by the first American savages, with snow that was to turn into a blizzard swirling down upon them. They found, in brief, a problem of coping with man’'s ancient enemy— nature at her worst. It they could obtain food, they could last it out until searchers found them, or keep up their strength to try to make their way out. One in the party, according to air- port officials here, had & gun. There might be a chance of shooting wild game, and again, there might not. But the blizzard was setting in. Snow at this season at depths of 3 to 4 feet is not unheard of in the bleak mountain fastness. Whipped by such a wind as was reported lash- ing over the mountains tonight, the snow flakes build drift walls that bar passage as effectively as walls of stone, save to those on snowshoes. HAMBROOK U. S. WORKER. Man Marooned in Plane Lives Near Alexandria. R. W. Hambrook, listed as one of the passengers aboard the airliner reported down on a mountain in New York State, is agent for trade and industrial education in the United States Office of Education, He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gospel Union Mission and for several years has conducted a weekly Bible class at the mission. Hambrook, who has been employed in the Office of Education since Oc- tober, 1927, lives with his wife and small daughter in Lincolnia, Va. a small subdivision about 3 miles north of Alexandria. | side road. AS AGENTS' KILLER Most-Wanted Public Enemy, John Chase, Seized in West. (Continued From PFirst Page.) Francisco. Officials would not say if the prisoner made a statement. How Chase was identified right after the shooting as the companion of the Nelsons was not divulged by department officials. It is believed that fingerprints found on Nelson's car established the identification. “ The Federal men had been hunting Chase for months prior to the deaths of Cowley and Nelson. They had trailed Nelson to California after he had killed Agent W. Carter Baum and escaped from the Little Bohemia Inn on April 22 last. There they learned that Nelson, whose real name was Gillis, had been associated with Chase in bootlegging prior to repeal of pro- hibition. Bought Automobile. Investigation disclosed that on Jan- uary 22 of this year Nelson purchased an automobile in San Francisco under the name of James Rogers and when delivery could not be had on the spot, he had told the dealer to notify “John Chase” when the car was ready. It- was learned that Nelson and Chase had used the car in bootleg- ging operations in Northern California and Western Nevada during the early months of this year. During the first part of April the pair proceeded to Chicago, where, agents found, Chase had purchased a new car, using the name of & brother-in-law of Nelson. This car, it is believed, was bought for Nelson's use, but before he could obtain possession of it justice agents raided the Little Bohemia Inn and scattered the Dillinger gang with gun- fire. A week or so after agents killed Dillinger in Chicago, Nelson fled to California and, according to justice officials, resumed criminal operations with Chase. During the latter part of August Federal agents picked up a “hot trail” which led them close to Chase and Nelson, who, with their women, were traveling eastward with an automo- bile trailer and camping outfit. Chase and his woman companion left Nelson and his wife in Elgin, Ill, and con- tinued on to New York City. Established Hideout. Investigators claim that Chase and the woman remained in New York City for about three weeks, after which the woman flew back to San Fran- cisco and Chase returned to the Chi- cago area and met Nelson. Federal agents located Chase’s woman com- panion in California the first part of October and questioned her secretly. Chase and the Nelsons established 2 hideout in the Southern Wisconsin lake region, it is asserted by officials, and the three were en route from the hideout when Cowley and Hollis acci- dentally spotted them near Barring- ton. Cowley and Hollis gave chase and finally overtook the fugitives, who were forced to turn their car into a All dismounted and en- gaged in a machine-gun battle at close range. Hollis was killed at the scene and Cowley died a few hours later at a hospital. The Federal men assert .hat Chase and Mrs. Nelson helped the dying Nelson into t* - «gent-’ automobile and fled. When i .son died shortly after- ward, his body was dumped, unclothed, in a ditch near a cemetery on the out- skirts of Niles Center, Il Mrs. Nelson was arrested under cir- cumstances that have never been fully disclosed. Chase secretly became the Govern- ment’s public enemy No. 1,” and the hunt for him has occupied major at- tention of Hoover's agents ever since. MRS. COWLEY PLEASED. “Seems to Round Up Gang,” Widow Says. Quiet satisfaction at news of the arrest of John Paul Chase, whom the Justice Department charges with slaying Samuel P. Cowley and an- other Government agent, was ex- pressed last night by Mrs. Cowley. Shortly after the deaths of Cowley and Herman E. Hollis in a battle with Baby Face Nelson and another gang- ster in Chicago, Mrs. Cowley came to Washington. am pleased,” Mrs. Cowley said. “That seems to round up the Dillinger gang.” She added she would son make her home with her parents in Salt Lake City. FACES MURDER CHARGE. 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Chase will undoubtedly be prose- cuted in the Federal District Court here, the Government assuming Jurisdiction where an attack on its own officers is involved. It convicted he faces death—the penalty fixed by recent act of Con- gress for the murder of Federal agents. It was generally believed here that Nelson’s wife had earned herself a lenient punishment by “talking” to the Federal investigators, that talk resulting in the hunt being focused upon Chase. ‘The. gangster’'s widow was held se- cretly and questioned intensively for days after the Barrington battle. ‘Then, instead of being indicted on the serious charges of accessory to mur- der, aiding a fugutive and stealing the Government agents’ automobile, she was merely sent back to Madison, Wis., to be resentenced on the old charge of harboring her husband and his chums of the Dillinger outlaw band at the Little Bohemia resort in Wisconsin. 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