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fae SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1935 —NINETY-SIX PAGES. iy S WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer today, followed by rain this after- noon or tomorrow; tomorrow, rain and colder. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 38 at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 22 at .m, yes- terday. Full report on page A- Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. h : WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, ) No. 1,555—No. 33,122. Means Associated Press. TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. [ -3 T STATE DEFIES DEFENSE TO NAME KIDNAPERS OF BABY IMMEDIATELY < German’s Alibi Living and Dead Go on Trial Claim Argued in Recess. REILLY TO BARE FOUR ACCUSED Plan to Summon| Hauptmann First Revealed. (Copyright, 1935, by the Assoclated Press.) FLEMINGTON. N. J., January 5.— | The fuse leading to the bomb of promised sensations in the Hauptmann trial sputtered with new life tonight. The explosion, according to Haupt- mann'’s counsel, will occur next Thurs- day. The announcement of Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, that he would name four persons then as the “actual kidnapers” of the baby Lindbergh, evoked from Prosecutor Anthony M Hauck, jr., a challenge to name the persons immediately. Reilly. in New York for the week- end recess of the Hauptmann trial on a charge of murdering Charles Augus- tus Lindbergh. jr.. announced he would disclose the names of the four per- sons, probably on Thursday. Silent on Betty Gow. Hauptmann, he said, was not one of them. He would not comment when asked directly if Betty Gow, the baby's nurse, was one of the four he intended to name. “If Mr. Reilly knows any other per- sons connected with this case. as a member of the bar and as an officer of the court, he should disclose their identity to the prosecution authorities of Hunterdon County immediately,” Hauck said. Hauck stated further that if Reilly can produce the persons he believes are actually the kidnapers, he can- not understand why the defense at- torney desires to wait until the prosecution advances its case further. He added he was glad to hear that the defense intends to put Hauptmann on the witness stand, and indicated cross-examination of the German carpenter would be thorough. Condon to be Called. Dr. John F. Condon, the Bronx pedagog who offered to negotiate with the kidnaper and whose aid was en- listed by Lindbergh. probably will take the witness stand Tuesday to tell of his connection with the $50,000 ransom money, Attorney General David T. Wilentz said. Condon, a retired school teacher who advertised his notes to the kid- naper under the name of “Jafsie,” will go to Trenton Sunday night for a conference with prosecution counsel, Wilentz said. The State will produce early a wom- an witness, a friend of the Hauptmann family who will testify, prosecutors | said, that she examined the $400 radio | that Hauptmann bought in May, 1932, | shortly after the kidnaping. The radio also will be brought into court. Testimony on Radio. The woman will testify, it was said, that she and Mrs. Anna Hauptmann found a large roll of bills when they opened the radio. When she turned to Mrs. Haupt- mann in surprise for an explanatlun,! she was told: | “Just some money my husband made in the stock market and put| there for safe-keeping. He thinks| it’s safer than banks.” State authorities have been investi- gating reports that three defense handwriting experts have been pre- paring notes in handwriting similar to Hauptmann’s in an effort to show it is easily duplicated, it was learned. The State believes the defense will try to prove that a gang kidnaped the child and then tried to make Hauptmann the scrapegoat of the crime. State police had shadowed the handwriting experts. Reilly Outlines Plan. With the trial in recess from Fri- day until Monday, Reilly called a press conference at his Brooklyn, N. Y. | offices today and announced: | “On next Thursday I shall name four persons, and I shall charge them with the kidnaping of the baby, Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. “Two of those I shall name are women. Two are men. “Neither of the men I shall name is Bruno Hauptmann. The florid Brooklyn lawyer declined to say whom he would name. To a specific_question as to Betty Gow, (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) R R BRUNO PERSECUTED, MOTHER BELIEVES Says Enemies Want to Destroy Him Because of His Happy Marriage. By the Assoclated Press. KAMENZ, Germany, January 5.— Mrs. Pauline Hauptmann, the aged mother of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, wept today as she asserted her belief in his innocence. “He must have enemies who want destroy his life because they envy happy marriage,” she said. It was evident that fear for the life of her son was shadowing the white- haired peasant woman's life. Frau Hauptmann said she spent many sleepless nights thinking over her son's fate in the courtroom at Flemington, N. J. She says she be- lieves American justice is fair and has high hopes that her son will be ac- quitted. Some Kamens townsfolk, who knew Brunp in his youth, are avidly follow- ing the reports of the trial but others say they are “sick and tired of talking about the case.” P |Servants in Lindb (Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press.) FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 5.— The baby murder trial of Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann has turned, in three short days, into a trial not of the chalk-faced German carpenter alone, but of many othets—men and women, persons alive and persons dead. That is the now apparent strategy |of Edward J. Reilly, the shrewd | | Brooklyn lawyer who is directing the | attempt to save Hauptmann from the chair. With double-edged questions, ‘Reilly has waved the pointing finger | (sometimes subtly, sometimes boldly) in the direction of various persons whose names have long been familiar in the Lindbergh case, as well as | some whose names have not. | Reilly is seeking more light? There is, for one, “Red” Johnson. for the Charles A. Lindberghs at the time the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped | Lindberghs’ housekeeper, arises spirit- edly to defend her husband’s name. There is the shy, doe-like Betty | Gow; and Violet Sharpe, the maid Who are they concerning whom | There is Ollie Whateley, the butler | | and murdered, nearly three years ago. | | Whateley is dead. His widow, the | As Defense Broadens Scope ergh and Morrow Households and Mysterious Friend Mentioned in Reilly Questioning. who committed suicide while the in- quiry was at its height, no one knows why. And there is the New Jersey State police force. It, also, is on trial. And the venerable Dr. John F. Condon. One more, “Swede” Anderson. Who is “Swede” Anderson, an aviator who held a stick on the early airmail planes and “had trouble” with Lind- bergh. These persons, and some others, are finding themselves unexpectedly “on trial” as the case of the people of the State of New Jersey vs. Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann for murder of a baby moves steadily along. For instance, “Red” Johnson. There vas a time of the investiga- tion that Johnson found a question- ing finger pointed at him. He was a friend of Betty Gow, the baby's nurse. He had driven an automobile into New England the night of the kidnaping. | In the car was founi a milk bottle. | To feed a baby? Police wondered, and | they questioned him. The milk, they found, was for “Red” himself, he being In the habit (it was explained) of drinking milk during the night. Finally they let him go, with the (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 1L DUCE AND LAVAL HOLD PEACE VITAL |Early Italo-French Accord Indicated on Austrian Independence. By the Associated Press. ROME, January 5.—Benito Musso- lini and Pierre Ladval, representatives nations, tonight publicly pledged them | to friendship and active collabora- | tion in the cause of peace. “The peace of Europe remains pre- carious,” France’s foreign minister said at the brillilant banquet I Duce | “and requires the attentive care of | statesmen.” The continent’d peoples, Laval said, “are not willing to wait any longer” for peace. In stirring speeches, Mussolini and his French guest foreshadowed the signing of Italo-French accords de- signed to ‘guarantee Austria’s inde- pendence, fortify the structures of peace and wipe out long-standing differences between the two nations. Laval Praises Mussolini. “We have given rise to great hopes,” Laval said. “We will not deceive them. Peace must be maintained end consolidated. “Our civilization cannot disappear. Listen to the lesson of the past. It is: Always in war is it that civiliza- tions sink. “Are we to be at the moment in the hislory of man where he dreams of destroying with brutal hands that which his genius has created?” ‘The French foreign minister praised his host as “writer of the most beau- tiful page in the history of modern Italy.” Mussolini said he and Laval hope not only to bring about “an arrange- ment of particular questions concern- ing our two countries, but also a con- secration of the ideals which come from our community of origin, and of which people have the greatest need in time of uneasiness and incertitude like the present.” Invites Aid of Others. The Franco-Italian conversations are not designed to cause renuncia- tion - of their respective friendships in Central Europe, the premier said. “It is a question of harmonizing in the Danubian Basin the interests and vital necessities of each state,” he explained, “with the exigencies as a whole for the purpose of European peace. “Seen in this larger sense, our accords cannot be interpreted as con- trary to, or exclusive of, the in- terests of other powers who desire to bring their collaboration to the work we wish to begin.” Mussolini ~ declared Italo-French rapprochement of “vast European significance.” He ended by toasting an entente between the two govern- ments as “the first meeting point in the policies of two great Latin coun- tries.” > African Question Discussed. It was understood Laval and Mus- solini made particular progress on colonial questions, instructing their experts to work out the details of con- cessions France will make in Africa. A final communique summing up the accomplishments of the conversa- tions was not expected before Monday. More than 1,000 guests—the pick of Italy’s officialdom and aristocracy— gathered in the Palazzo Venezia to- night for the elaborate reception and dinner given for Laval. Police sources revealed this after- noon that more than 700 plain clothes men have been brought to Rome to help guard Laval. A two-hour conversation between Laval and Il Duce in the Venezia this morning carried them well along toward agreements con- cerning Italo-French issues in Furope and Africa. At its conclusion Laval told newspaper men the two men had made great progress. An Italian government spokesman said Laval and Mussolini would meet again tomorrow morning, and indi- cated still another conference might be necessary Monday. - Laval plans to return to Paris of two of Europe's most powerful | gave for him in the Venezia palace, ! SAAR PLEBISCITE DELAY 1S WEIGHED Officials Await Possible Out- breaks at Rival Meet- ings Today. (Copyright, 1935, by the Ascociated Press.) SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter- ritory, January §.—A possibility that | the Saar plebiscite may be postponed several months was seriously discussed {in official quarters tonight as rival Nazi and anti-Nazi factions prepared | for mammoth open-air demonstra- | tions tomorrow. Permission was given the two | groups to hold the mass meetings in | Saarbruecken the same day. | I the gatherings cannot be held peaceably the final Sunday before the | balloting, it would be dangerous to | attempt to carry out the plebiscite |one week later, officials saic thev believed. Troops in Barracks. The task of preserving order during the test of the Saar discipline will be left to police, troops of the league's international army being kept in barracks. Nazis from all parts of the terri- tory, swarming into Saarbruecken aboard 80 special trains, will gather in the morning on a hill south of the Saar River, while those advocat- ing retention of League of Nations’ government will march during the afternoon to an athletic field north of the river. Between the contending factions will be not only the river, but police barracks and railroad tracks. To the east are the barracks of the British regiment of the League army, and near the Nazis' meeting place the newly arrived detachments of British ar- mored cars and the batallion of crack Netherlands marines are quartered. To the west, across town, are the Italian tanks. Machine Guns Withdrawn. International military officials were careful to keep bayonets and machine guns off the streets tonight, and Saarbruecken had much the appear- ance of any normaily policed city. In the first trouble since New Year disorders, several men distributing pamphlets in Steinback, small town near the German border, were beaten up last night, and several shops set on fire. No one was injured. Expulsion of Prince Hubertus Zu Lowenstein, German exile and violent anti-Nazi, was rescinded today when the prince, who has been publishing a weekly newspaper favoring the status quo, promised to refrain from future political activity. RADIUM USED TO CURE DIONNE GIRL’S TUMOR Capsule Is Taped to Thigh of Baby Marie in Treatment by Baltimore Doctor. By the Associated Press. CALLANDER, Ontario, January 5.— A minute quantity of radium in its protective capsule was taped on the thigh of Baby Marie, smallest of the Dionne quintupiets, today, to complete the work of healing a troublesome tumor, Dr. Edmund Kelly, Baltimore specialist, administered the treatment, the second which has been given, and the belief was expressed it was the last the child would have to undergo, The five little sisters were 7 months and 8 days old today, and all healthy despite the bitter cold of this North country region. Butte Relief Strike Ends. BUTTE, Mont, January 5 (B~ Butte’s walk-out of relief workers was The strike, prompted by demands for increased wages, a 30-hour week and other changes in working conditions, was terminated by the local union of relef workers when but two votes opposing & return FILM MONOPOLY PROBE LAUNCHED |Justice Department Sends Experts to St. Louis for Grand Jury Inquiry. BY THEODORE C. WALLEN. In the first major enti-trust action | in seven years, the Roosevelt admin- | istration has started an extensive practices involving virtually the entire to criminal indictments against lead- ing producer-distributors, the Depart- ment of Justicé has sent experts to St. Louis for a grand jury inquiry which is to open tomorrow in a test case. ‘The Government will present -evi- dence in a specific instance to show a conspiracy to deny first-caliber films to independent exhibitors. The case is considered the most important of {its kind since the breaking of the “radio trust” in 1928. Subpoenas for nearly 100 corpora- tions and individuals, executives of some of the industry’s leading com- panies, have been issued as the conse- | quence of a complaint that Allen L. Snyder, an independent exhibitor, was unable to lease films from any major producers. The Government contends that all important distributors acted in concert in an attempt to curb in- | dependent competition in the exhibi- | tion fleld in St. Louls. | Among the corporations understood to have been subpoenaed in the action are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, Radio - Keith - Orpheum, Paramount and Warner Bros.-First National. Several officials of these | corporations have been served person- | ally with subpoenas. Independent Balked. The specific case selected by the Government as typical revolves around the reopening of three St. Louis the- | aters which Warner Bros. had va- cated, allegedly in protest against a landlord’s refusal to lower the rent. It is alleged that Snyder, an independ- ent, sought to operate the same three theaters, but was frustrated by an inability to buy a suitable supply of pictures from any source. Following closely on the heels of repeated assaults against the N. R. A. motion picture code, the Govern- ment’s contentions represent substan- tially a repetition of charges brought against the industry last spring by the N. R. A. Review Board, headed by Clarence Darrow. Assailing the film control countenanced by N. R. A, the Darrow board contended that the competition agreement permitted ma- Jjor producer-distributors to stamp out independent competition through the suspension of the anti-trust law by the industrial recovery act. ‘The case is expected to involve the legality of the block-booking method of film distribution, despite the fact that the Federal Trade Commission several years ago was blocked by Fed- erpl courts from outlawing this sales practice. Reed Retained as Counsel. A bitter contest on the part of the industry is assured since James A. Reed of Missouri, former United States Senator and a present critic of the Roosevelt administration, has been retained as counsel for the defendant (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) BOLIVIAN FORTRESS FALLS TO PARAGUAY Capture Endangers Villa Montes, Principal Army Base, and 0il Fields. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, January 5.— A smashing Paraguayan offensive to- day brought the fall of Fort Cap- irenda, one of Bolivia’s two major strongholds, dispatches from Asuncion tonight said. Fort Villa Montes, principal Bo- livian Army base and Paraguay’s chief objective in her latest drive, was placed in serious danger, together with the oil flelds lying behind it, by the fall of Capirenda, the advices. said. The captured fort, situated between and Carandayty, was investigation of alleged monopolistic | motion picture industry. With an eye | code as an example of monopolistic | Gutenberg Bible Guards Draw Fire | Of Senator Bilbo By the Associated Press. Asked yesterday why he had requested assignment to the Li- brary Committee, Senator Bilbo of Mississippi said: “I want to investigate that Gutenberg Bible that Ross Collins bought.” Former Representative Ross Collins was an unsuccessful can- didate in Bilbo's race for the Senate. The famous Bible is kept in a glass case in the Con- gressional Library here. “I want to find out,” Bilbo said, “why three guards, work- ing 8-hour shifts and each paid $1440 a year, have to stand guard over that Bible when the library has iron doors that even a Dillinger couldn’t get through.” He added that he studied bib- | | liography while in college and always had & “hankering for books.” SLAYER OF GIRLS IS GIVEN DEATH { Mountain Jury Convicts Col- ored Man of Murdering Clifton Forge Sisters. By the Assoclated Press. FINCASTLE, Va, January 5.—A mountain jury in this ancient Vir- ginia county today told Philip Jones, | colored, that he must die in the elec- | girls near Clifton Forge and an at- | tempt to ravish one of them. It took the jury 55 minutes to de- cide the case after Jones’ counsel had completed his arguments for mercy on the grounds of insanity. Judge Benjamin T. Haden fixed March 11 as the execution date. Jones took the verdict, delivered by silver-haired Jury Foreman Noff- | singer, without blinking an eye. He ! was seated, unable to stand, because of a shot gun wound in his leg which he received on the night of the crime, November 18. State officers were placed around the prisoner at the or- der of Judge Haden, who feared- he might attempt to do himself bodily harm. State troopers guarded all doors and gates. They had been sent here as a result of the mob violence threats which caused the change of venue from Covington, the Alleghany County seat. There was only & small crowd to witness the condemned man’s exit. The verdict was the jury’s answer to the defense plea for mercy. The jurymen had been told by Defense Counsel T. Warren Messick that “elec- trocution is what the mob would have you do.” The lawyer asked mercy if the jurymen thought Jones guilty and commitment to an asylum if they be- ligved him insane. — ALLEN SUIT ASKS ACCOUNTING BY CITY Allies of Long Would Tie Up New Orleans Functions Pending Hearing. By the Assoclated Press. ~ - NEW ORLEANS, January 5—On the allegation that the city of New Orleans has used funds illegally, Huey Long's forces today went into court to obtain an accounting of millions of dollars handled by the city under the administration of Mayor T. Sem- mes Walmsley, who said the action might temporarily halt every function of the city government. The suit filed on behalf of Gov. O. K. Allen and Attorney General Geaston L. Porterie, asked that city funds be tied up pending a hearing. The Supreme Court appointed Judge A. L. Ponder of Amite to sit on the case and January 15 was set for the hearing. Before the scheduled departure of Long tonight for Washingtén, Long charged that the city of New Orleans books, “two sets of them, one which says one thing and the other another,” are so “messed up” that his auditors who have been checking them in his tric chair for the murder of two little | PAY RESTORATION PUSHED INHOUSE Raise Retroactive to January 1. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. ‘The fight for pay restoration for | Government employes retroactive to January 1 has started in the House. Representative John J. Boylan, Democrat of New York. a member | of the subcommittee which drafted | the independent offices appropria- | tion bill, the first to come before the House, yesterday introduced his bill for paying the full basic salaries dat- ing from January 1. The President and the Appropriations Committee have recommended the restoration as fiscal year. Representative Boylan is prepared mediate restoration and will be sup- ported by some of the outstanding men in the House. Representative Boylan yesterday gave the following explanation of Sec- tion 1 of his bill: “1. It eliminates all those salary reductions of officers and employes of the Government which are made under Section 2 of Title II of the act to maintain the credit of the United States approved March 20, 1933, as amended and continued for the fiscal year 1935. These salaries are re- stored as of January 1, 1935, and payments will be made on the basis of full salary if the available ap- propriation is adequate. The restara- | tion is effective by terminating the | authority for reduction. The only | salaries not affected by Section 1 ere the salaries of the Vice President, the Speaker, Senators, Representatives | and persons on the rolls of the Senate jand House. Others Included. “2. Corporations in which the | United States holds a majority of the | stock which applied the salary reduc- tions provided for in the credit act to their officers and employes would | be obliged to restore these salaries | to the full rate, for the amendment is made to the credit act and by the terms of that act such corporations | their officers and employes. “3. It has the indirect effect of restoring to their full rates the sal- aries of officers and employes of the emergency agencies, such as the A. A. A, N.R. A, F. C. A, and others, for under the terms of the executive order of June 21, 1934, the ‘rates payable to employes subject to the (Continued on Page 10, Column 2.) REDUCED CO.NSUMPTION OF SUGAR SEEN IN 1935 Wallace Estimates Total for Year at 6,359,261 Short Tonms, 117,000-Ton Cut. Secretary Wallace yesterday set the estimated total United States sugar consumption for 1935 at 6,359,261 short tons. The estimate, which is approx- imately 117,000 tons less than last year, will be distributed as follows: Domestic beet areas, 1,550,000 tons; domestic cane areas, 260,000 tons; Cuba, 1,857,022; Philippine Islands, 991,308; Puerto Rico, 783,959; Hawaii, 894,992 Virgin Islands, 5341; full- duty countries, 16,639. Roosevelt’s Son And Decides to Store His Auto By the Associated Press. ORANGE, Conn., January 5.—The famous Roosevelt smile was on display in the Orange Town Court late today as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, jr., the President’s tall son, was fined $10 and costs on a speeding charge. Arriving here from New Haven with Prosecutor David N. Torrance, after a train trip from Boston, the Harvard sophomore was immediately brought Robert J. Woodruff. Prosecutor Torrance read the charge—speeding—and Judge Wood- ruff asked, “Guilty or not guilty.” $10,” said Judge Woodruff, that's what I am fining you.” shook hands with the town officials and others present. “Well, that's the last time I'm going whulnlnneourt* Tooms en & charge OPENING OF SCHOOL POSTS T0 POLITICS SEEN IN NEW BILL Commissioners Reported . Seeking Power to Se- lect Superintendent. !Boylan Bill Would Provide, of July 1, the beginning of the next‘ to take the floor and fight for im-| are obliged to apply its provisions to | CONTROL WOULD EXTEND TO NAMING OF TEACHERS Dr. Johnson Believes Board of Education Should Be Exempt- ed From Provigions, Control over the appointment of the superintendent of schools is one of the several objectives of the pro- posed bill to increase the powers of the District Commissioners, The Star was informed yesterday by an au- thoritative source at the District Building. S The term of the present superin- tendent, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, expires June 30, At present it is expected he will be reappointed by the Board of Education. The statement of the purpose of the Commissioners * served to stimulate fears of those opposed to that feature | sioners veto and directional power over the Board of Education and other citizens' boards in the District. Such a step would open the door to injection of politics and patronage into the school system. The Commis- sioners have been subjected to heavy pressure from political leaders to make | political appointments in the District service itself, a fact which the Dis- trict Commissioners freely admit. Would Affect Teachers. If granted by Congress, such con- trol conceivably could extend to ap- pointments of teachers, principals, clerks. janitors and school matrons, now made by the Board of Education, | it was asserted, if not by the present | | Commissioners, by their successors in | office. | The matter will come to a direct | issue within a few days before the Commissioners take final action on | the bill, which was tentatively draited | for them by Corporation Counsel E. | Barrett Prettyman. To date, the Dis- | trict heads have approved the bill only in principle. | Dr. Hayden Johnson, president of the Board of Education, let it be | known last night he believes the Board | of Education should be included among | other agencies which would be ex- empted from provisions of the bill. | Purthermore, the subject is to be [nken up for action at the meeting of the Board of Education Wednes- | day. Members of the board now are | studying a draft of the bill. The | board will resist the efforts of the | Commissioners to cbtain any sort of } control over the schools, aside from | the existing authority over the budget | estimates, The Star learned. Would Curtail Boards. The whole subject is involved in a | which would give to the District heads power to prohibit any action by any | of the various governmental agencies financed out of District revenues, or to direct an action by such a board. The beneficial results of having citizens' boards in charge of special- | ized phases of municipal operations have been stressed by those con- cerned over the new proposal. It is emphasized that this is the only di- rect part District taxpayers now have in the actual management of their government. To place the school sys- tem under the control of politically appointed Commissioners, it is ar- gued, might tend to remove this sem- blance of citizen representation in the District government. ‘When asked ebout the question of controlling the appointment of the superintendents of schools, and pos- sioner Hazen said significantly: “I believe the Commissioners should Board of Education as well as some of (Continued on Page 7, Column 2.) —_— (WOMAN AWAITING TRIAL FOR MURDER KILLS SELF Makes Good Boast She Would Never Face Trial as Slayer of Husband. By the Associated Press. RAWLINS, Wyo., January 5.—Mak- ing good her frequently repeated as- sertion that she would “never go to trial” for her husband's slaying, Mrs. Hazel Combs hanged herself with an electric iron cord in jail today. Her trial on a charge of murdering S. S. Combs, former city attorney of Casper, was to have begun Monday. She had insisted she had nothing to do with the death of Combs, who was found shot to death in an automobile near his ranch last June 10. Combs was the woman's fourth husband. Pays $10 Fine arising through my use of my car,” asserted Franklin. “My father has enough troubles without being both- ered by mine. “Just as soon as the car is repaired in Wayne, Pa., I am going to put it up for the Winter and possibly until the Summer, since I expect to be too busy trying to make the Harvard crew.” ‘The President’s son was in an auto- mobile accident at Wayne, Pa., New ‘Wear morning when his car skidded into another. Franklin doesn't expect any prosecution to arise from his accident, he said. “Something funny happened on the train coming to New Haven,” asserted young Roosevelt. “The conductor asked me if I was a son of the Presi- dent, and said he was sorry the train couldn’t make as fast time as my car.” 4. P wtfw'hata on Page A-2. CONGRESS STUDIES 0000000 DOLE FUNDS THIS WEEK Roosevelt to Request Sum to Taper Off Direct Aid Tomorrow. WORK RELIEF PROGRAM IS NEXT ON SCHEDULE Special Message for New Set-Up to Handle $4,000,000,000 to Be Sent Later. By the Assoclated Press. of the bill which gives the Commis- | | paragraph of the proposed measure, | sibly other school officials, Commis- | have power to veto actions by the| With majority leaders already have ing pledged approval by their fole | lowers, Congress this week will tackle | an $880,000,000 appropriation to taper | off the dole and then turn at once to a work -relief program embracing | more than four times that amount Conferees of President Roosevelt disclosed this line,up yesterday as | the lead-off for a 20-point program to be submitted piecemeal from the | White House. Work will be started immediately, after receipt on Monday |of what they described as an $8,000,- /000,000 budget message. These same leaders predicted that | Congress would approve the relief | measures without undue delay and | with probably only slight change. Relief Request Tomorrow. Probably tomorrow Mr. Roosevelt is to send his request for the $880,000,- | 000 emergency relief appropriation de- | signed to taper off direct handouts by | next November. Later in the week he is scheduled to transmit a special message calling for the creation of & new set-up to handle some $¢,000,000.- {000 in carrying out his work-relief | program until private industry ab- | sorbs some 3,500,000 employables and for the return of around 1,500,000 | unemployables to local relief. Some House members who have followed the tax situation closely, though declining to be quoted, yes- terday discussed where the money for this huge program was coming from. Some even went so far as to say it might be necessary to enact new taxes. At any rate, they were preparing to re-enact $416,000,000 in “nuisance” | taxes which expire at the end of the present fiscal year, as the President ‘rrquesud at a meeting with leaders Friday night. Security Program to Follow. In short order, after the relief moves, the President's plan for & broad social security program, com= bining unemployment insurance, olde age pensions and other welfare prope | ositions, will be given Congress. While some members yesterday took | the attitude that these subjects should | be handled separately for legislative purposes, it was agreed by leaders to follow Mr. Roosevelt’s plan to lump them into an omnibus bill. Final decision on how these meas- | ures will be administered has vet to be made. It was suggested in more than one quarter that a new executive department of welfare be created, but there was some objection among the leaders to this. However, it was de- | cided that at least a central co-ordi= nating agency should be set up to unify administration. Details Are Withheld. Details of the social security pro= gram have not yet been given Demo- cratic chieftains, particularly with ref- erence to how large a percentage of contributions is to be made by industry for unemployment insurance. It was made clear, however, that the admin- istration was prepared to propose the Government create a fund to aid con- tributions until they were sufficient to | meet demands. The Government | would be repaid this money out of fu- | ture contributions. While members of Congress digested | the President’s message and studied | reports of the conference attended b HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER | KILLS BARCROFT BOY { Charles Martin, 8, Struck on Co- lumbia Pike—Police Seek Witnesses. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BARCROFT, Va, January 5.— | Eight-year-old Charles Martin was | killed here late today by an automo- bile which failed to stop after striking him. The lad was found lying on Columbia Pike a shert time after he had left his home to go to a nearby store, according to police. An auto- mobile wheel had passed over his head, crushing his skull. He was pro- nounced dead on being taken to Emergency Hospital in Washington by his half-brother, Joseph Garrison. Police were making an effort to find some one who had seen the acci~ dent, but at a late hour had found no traces of the hit-and-run driver. PATROL WAGON STOLEN Driven Away While Parked in Front of Station. The seventh precinct patrol wagon was stolen from in front of the station house early today. The person who drove off with the wagon took advantage of the al sence of the driver, who was in the station house helping handle an un- ruly prisoner, William Brown, 45,. colored, who had been arrested on a drunkeness charge. . 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