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BOOK BY SHOUSE FLAYSNEW DEAL Expresses Regret Party Hasl Broken Pledge Made in 1932, BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. “You Are the Government,” a new book by Jouett Shouse, president of the American Liberty League, while not a blanket indictment of the| Roosevelt New Deal, scores much that has been done in its name. The volume has just come from the press | of Little, Brown & Co. of Boston. | Mr. Shouse, as former chairman of | the Democratic National Executive Committee, expresses keen regret that | his party has violated its pledge,| contained in the Democratic national platform of 1932, to make an immedi- ate and drastic reduction of govern- mental expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and’ offices, con- | solidating departments and bureaus, | and eliminating extravagance. i “An official chart of the Govern- | ment organization issued by the National Emergency Council,” he| wrote, “shows more than 30 agencies, | nearly all of them responsible only | to the President, which have been created since the passage of the economy act. i Citizens Bewildered. ! “Bureaucracy has flourished as| never before. There is a greater over- lapping of functions than at any previous stage in the history of the Government. Waste and inefficiency are flagrantly in evidence. The aver- age citizen is utterly bewildered by the muitiplicity of bureaus, adminis- | trations and boards. The subject of Government reorganization again deserves attention. In the reorgani- zation which must take place, there will be greater need than at any previous time for the checking of the powers of bureaucracy.” Mr. Shouse demands a balancing of the governmental budget at the earliest possible date, and called at- tention to President Roosevelt's fore- cast in January a year ago that the budget would be balanced in the fiscal year 1936. There should be rigid economy and a resolute resist- ance to any schemes that involve large outlays. He questions the ef- fectiveness of huge public works pro- grams. In the light of President Roosevelt's plan for a super public works program, designed to give 3,500,000 unemployed work. announced in his message to Congress, the attitude of Mr. Shouse is particularly interesting. While Mr. Shouse speak only for| himself, for him to dis- associate from the presi- | dency of American Liberty ideas are also the | eague seems entirely | this mean that the himself the Shouse Supports Dole. e conceding the neces ty for a iture o m. The President has just ranged himself in opposition to the dole. demanding that “work relief” jobs for the unemployved be sub-| stituted by the Government as far as may be necessary The social objectives of the New | Deal have Mr. Shouse’s sympathy. But he insists the people should guard against any infringement of the Con- stitution. He believes it is proper to bar child labor and to control hours and wages for a temporary period as part of the N. R. A. codes, But he is opposed to writing these provisions into a permanent law, and would only continue the N. R. A. for another emergency period, and would have restrictions on the N. R. A. written into the law. The Government, under the New i Deal, has invaded too far the field of private business, Mr. Shouse @sserts. It should retire gradually from its banking operations. Praises Roosevelt. The president of the American Liberty League gave praise to Presi- dent Roosevelt for embarking upon a program of action to overcome con- ditions existing when he crme into office. However, he insists that this program should not overstep proper bounds. He commended the adminis- tration, too, for having resisted de- m: ds for currency inflation. Any resort to the powers given under the Thomas inflation amendment would be a confession of weakness and might prove disastrous, he says. In his book Mr. Shouse goes at length into the question of popular government, emergency powers, the partisan system and the obligations of the citizen to his government., He emphasizes the significance of the constitutional provisions which assure individual liberty and property rights and which set up a dual form of government in which the States and the Nation are equally sovereign in their respective spheres. SANDBERG BURIAL 70 BE IN ARLINGTON Brown and Other Officials Laud Service of Former Identi- fication Expert. Funeral services for Lieut. Fred Sandberg, 64, former head of the Police Department Bureau of Identi- fication, who died in Walter Reed Hospital Friday night, will be held tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Deal funeral home. 816 H street northeast. Rev. Howard E. Snyder, pastor of the Church of Atonement, Lutheran, will officiate. Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery, with military honors at the grave. Members of the Spanish War veterans will be pallbearers. Lieut. Sandberg was recognized as one of the country’s outstanding fin- gerprint experts. He installed the fingerprint system in the Police De- partment in 1906. He was retired from the force, Oc- tober 31, 1933, and lived at 164 U street northeast. Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown yesterday praised Lieut. Sandberg’s service to the Police Department and his efficiency as an expert in methods of criminal identification. He was similarly praised by Assistant Supt. of Police L. I.-H. Edwards, Inspector PFrank S. W. Burke, chief of detec- tives, and others in the department. - Dakota Bank Looted. HUDSON, S. Dak., January 5 (#).— Between $1,000 and $1,500 was ob- tained by three daylight gunmen, who held up the First National Bank here early today and then fled. One rob ber was apparently wounded in an exchange of shots with a bank em- ploye. [ Streets of Long Beach, Calif., THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 6, 1935—PART ONE. * Wirephoto Shows West Coast Flood Damage were turned into lakes when nearly an inch of rain fell there yesterday, causing streets and low places to be flooded, although no serious damage or suffering was reported. Photo and Walnut avenue. " taken at Long Beach late yesterday snows —iake” at East State street —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. 'FILM MONOPOLY PROBE LAUNCHED BY GOVERNMENT ___ (Continued From First Page.) corporations. ‘The Government will be | represented by Russel Hardy and | Harold L. Schilz, special assistants to the Attorney General from the enti-trust division of the Department | of Justice. They were in St. Louis| yesterday conferring with Federal district attorneys. Mr. Hardy was a star witness before the Darrow | board and sought to block approval of the motion picture industry’s N. R. | tory basis on the ground that the leaders of the industry had failed to comply with requests for certain in- formation requested by the Depart- ment of Justice. In a major anti-trust case brought | during the previous (Theodore) Roose- velt administration, the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana was fined $29,000,000 in the United States Court for the northern district of Illinois. The fine | was imposed by Kenesaw Mountain Landis, now base ball commissioner, who was then a Federal judge. The engagement of former Senator Reed as counsel for motion picture people injects an interesting personal LIVING AND DEAD PLACED, ON TRIAL BY BRUNO DEFENSE (Continued From First Page.) understanding that he get out of the | country, he having entered illegally, they said. So “Red” Johnson, once considered a “hot lead” in the case, departed. Johnson Mentioned. angle. It confronts Attorney General | Cummings with an old political enemy. | .ounsel, injected Johnson into yester- | Mr. Cummings was temporary chair- | A. code by President Rooseveit. | man of the San Francisco Democratic The current action differs from the last previous Government attack on the industry, in that several corpora- tions are accused of conspiring to violate the Sherman anti-trust act.| Three years ago the Trade Commis- sion lost a fight against Paramount- ! Famous-Lasky Corporation in which | the practice of block-booking was | the central issue. Although the action is being insti- tuted in Missouri. the Government's decision to proceed with the investi- is the outgrowth of repeated ints to the Justice Department and the Trade Commission by groups of independent exhibitors. Similar charges have been filed with Attorney General Homer S. Cummings by in- in New York. Chicago and who contended that agreements” between major producer-distributors prevented them from obtaining high-quality films. ‘ Roosevelt Is Informed. | The investigation is regarded in many quarters as calculated in part| to head off criticism by Senators William E. Borah of 1daho and Gerald P. Nve of North Dakota, both insur gent Republicans, who have protested | against suspension of the aenti-trust | statutes to permit negotiation of codes | of fair competition. President | Roosevelt, it was reported, is thor- | oughly acquainted with the Justice Department’s plan of action and has | withstood political pressure to inter- cede. Senator Nye has condemned the film code repeatedly since the Darrow board report was published and has threatened to initiate an in- vestigation of both the code and the entire industry. In presenting the case, the Gov- ernment will contend, it was indicated, that practically all major producers have entered into agreements to give preferential exhibition rights to theater chains under their control. The charge will be made that when- ever one producer owns & theater in any important city, all other major companies refuse to lease their films to independents until the affiliated house has been given an opportunity to acquire virtually the entire Holly- wood product. Then when an independent comes along, it is contended, the major pro- ducers are prepared to say they are already committed to deliver their product to other theaters in that ter- ritory. “Big Five” in Control. Mr. Hardy, appearing before the Darvow board last year, testified that the number of independent theaters had dropped considerably since 1919 and that the “big five” of motion picture industry was not only con- trolling the making of the pictures, but also the distribution and the ope- ration of the theaters. He said that the situation had been brought to the attention of the De- partment of Justice and that depart- ment had twice warned these interests that they were in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. He testified that independent oper- ators of theaters had to buy in blocks (like a block of 10 pictures by number) and they would know in advance in some instances the name and quali- fications of only one picture in that block. It is understood that the present National Convention of 1920 which | refused to seat Senator Reed, a bitter | opponent of President Wilson on the League of Nations issue. | Mr. Reed, in the past, has been aligned with Senators Borah and Nye | in vigorous insistence that the Gov ernment deal sternly with monopolies under the Sherman law. MRS. EMMA RILEY, 0.E. S. LEADER, DIES| Charter Member of Esther Chap-| ter and Native of District Sue- cumbs Suddenly. Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Riley, 65, a | native of the District and.one of the few remaining charter members of Esther Chapter. Order of the Eastern Star, died suddenly at her home, at 4111 Emery place, Friday morning. Mrs. Riley, wife of Harry F. Riley, a patent attorney, was a past matron of the Esther Chapter and was among those who organized the chapter 39 years ago. She was matron in 1920 and had been active in affairs of the Eastern Star for more than 40 years. She was born here January 24, 1870, and educated in private schools. | She was also active in organizations | connected with St. Columba Church, of which she was a member. | Surviving are her husband and | Eber F. Riley, all of Washington. | Funeral services will be held at 2:30 | p.m. tomorrow in St. Columba Church. | Burial will be in Prospect Hill Ceme- tery. STATE HIT FOR CALLING MRS. LINDBERGH FIRST Prosecution Refuses to “Apolo- gize” to Defense for Con- duct of Trial. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J.,, January 5.— Former County Prosecutor George K. Large, now associated with the prose- cution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, “refuses to apologize” to Hauptmann's | counsel for the manner in which the State is conducting its case. Asked to comment on a recent criti- cism offered by a member of the defense counsel to the effect that “the prosecution committed an un- forgivable tactical error in introduc- ing Mrs. Lindbergh as a witness so early in the case” Large remarked: “We refuse to apologize to the de- fense counsel or any one else for our conduct of the case. We shall intro- duce our witnesses in their proper chronological order to give a smooth, clear, sequential story of what actu- ally happened. “And that goes, even under pain of criticism by the defense.” . Man, 147, Is Dead. Sidi Ben Matti, who died recently at Midelt, Morocco, at the age of 147, was action was started on an investig: A Bank for INDIVIDUAL The Morris Plan Bank offers the INDIVIDUAL the facilities of a SAVINGS BANK with the added feature of offering a plan to make loans on 8 practical bas which enables the borrower to liquidate his obli- gation by means of weekly, semi- monthly or monthly deposits. 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Reilly mentioned the milk bottle and the fact that Johnson had been questioned | concerning his friendship for Miss Gow and his whereabouts the night of the abducion. Little was said about the mysterlous “Swede” Anderson. Reilly introduced his name to the case when he asked Lindbergh: “Did yo uever know an aviator known as ‘Swede’ Anderson?" The colonel replied: “I do not re- call such a person, at least by that name.” Reilly—Isn't it true that there was bad blood between you and this “Swede” Anderson, and that he had made threats against you? The colonel renewed his denial of ever having known such a person. The unspoken implication beneath this line of questioning was that there were several persons who might con- ceivably have had some knowledge, | before or after the fact, of the tragedy of the Sourland Hills. Questioning is Suave. Reilly's questioning is suave, un- hurried but earnest. He lets his voice rise to drive home a point. then drops that particular line of interrogation, seemingly satisfled not to pursue the insinuated suspicion farther. In so far as Dr. Condon was con- | | three sons, Harry C. Robert F. and cerned, however, Reilly pushed the |policemen waited below stairs to re- questioning determinedly. Dr. Con- don, the “Jafsie” of the ransom nego- tiations, handed over $50,000 to a mys- terious “John” in a Bronx cemetery— the money that led finally to Haupt- mann’s arrest. Reilly brought out that Condon was unknown to Lindbergh at the time of the murder, but that Condon had gone to the trouble (on his own re- sponsibility) of advertising in the Bronx Home News that he would act as intermediary if the kidnapers wanted him to. He received an an- swer to his advertisement, and the answer was marked with the same e et L OO T Special Sale of Colonial Baby Grands BRAND-NEW AND THE LATEST. MODELS 310 Including Bench and Delivery ON TERMS arrived too late for the moderate-priced T e T TR T O T T HOMER L. Knabe ]330 Pianos At an unusually low price We bought these pianos with the intention of using them as a special Xmas value, but they than carry a whole carload of pianos in our regular stock, we’re greatly reducing the price in order to close them out as soon as possible. By far the best value we have ever offered in a ;itrand. price, so don’t delay coming in. strange symbol that was used on the note which was left on the window sill of the Lindbergh home the night of the kidnaping. | Reilly—Did it ever occur to you, Colonel, that the master mind of the kidnapers might insert an advertise- ment offering to act as intermediary, and that he then could answer his own advertisement and carry on ne- gotiations with himself, thus getting | the ransom money? Believes in Condon. Lindbergh smiled and said that every possible angle had been gonsid- ered, but that he had finally become convinced of Dr. Condon’s full re- liability. . Reilly—Have you ever studied sym- bols, Colonel, and do you know that they are a part of theosophy? Lindbergh said he had given the symbols “much thought,” but had no special knowledge of them. Reilly—And do you not know that Dr. Condon was a student and teacher of these matters in which symbols | play a part? The colonel smiled much of the time that this line of questioning went on. Reilly wanted to know if Ollie ‘Whateley, the butler, had not been {overly friendly with Violet Sharpe, | the maid employed at the home of Mrs. Lindbergh’s mother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow of Englewood. Here the ques- | tioning suggested that Whateley and | Miss Sharpe carried on an affair, and when late yesterday Mrs. Whateley was called to the stand, one of the first things she did was to state that | during all the years she and her hus- band had worked for the Lindberghs her husband had never gone out | without her, and that any such friendship between Whateley and Miss Sharpe, as the defense implied, was | impossible. Police Included. | The Jersey State police, too, are finding themselves on trial. The de- fense is operating on the assumption that there exists an antipathy among New Jersey farm folk to the blue- | uniformed policemen, who have warred on speeders and otherwise irked many persons. Anything un- favorable to the State police is psy- chologically favorable to the defense, Reilly feels. | Why did Violet Sharpe commit suicide at the Morrow home while {new their questioning of her? Reilly apparently intends to make much of Violet Sharpe before the case is through. The whispers that the State has | some important fingerprints to show | has been dissipated. There were none | either on the note or elsewhere, s0 far as the State police could learn. Gold Salvage Planned. An attempt to salvage gold from Russian ships sunk off the coast of Latvia during the World War is to be started shortly. holiday rush, so rather They’ll sell fast at this KiTT Co. G St. rie Pianos “JAFSIE" PRAISES - GOL. LINDBERGH Declares Flyer Is “Bravest Man in the United States.” By the Associated Press, TAUNTON, Mass,, January 5.—Dr. John F. Condon, the sie” of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, presum- ably was on his way back to New York tonight, atter having spent uv-: b eral hours here in the course of which he characterized Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh as “the bravest man in the United States.” As to whether Bruno Hauptmann | was the man to whom he passed $5 000 in & Bronx cemetery in a vain| effort to effect the return of the baby, Dr. Condon was resolutely silent. He would neither affirm nor deny he had identified Hauptmann as the recipient of the ransom cash, “Jafsie,” who has been visiting Brockton with his son-in-law, an ar- chitect interested in the rebuilding of a burned high school at Abington, passed out dozens of requested auto- graphs while being interviewed. . Insinuations about Dr. Condon’s part in the kidnaping case, made by defense counsel at the Hauptmann trial, were met by the aged educator with the assertion: “I fear no man or tribunal, for I have done no wrong.” He asked the public to “give the trial & fair break,” and declared he would “do anything I could for the United States Government or the State of New Jersey.” Dr. Condon said he expected to be called as a witness at the trial. Early this afternoon he departed with his | son-in-law, Halph E. Hacker of Fort Lee, N. J, and disappeared in the direction of Providence. It was be- lieved he was en route tohis home in the Bronx. BRAKEMAN ARRESTED MIMICO, Ontario, January 5 (). —Edward E. Lynch, brakeman on the Christmas night special Canadian National Railways passenger train that was wrecked at Dundas, was ar- rested here today on a charge of manslaughter. Fifteen lives were lost in the wreck. A coroner's jury last night found him responsible for the collision, which | occurred after he erroneously opened | a siding switch and routed an on- coming express into the rear end of | his own train. Sheriff Will Conduct Sale at Court House With Trial in Session By the Associated Pre: FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 5.—The routine duties of John J. Curtiss, “high sheriff of Hunter- don County,” cannot be inter- rupted by such things as the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. While the trial, arresting world attention, proceeds Monday, Cur- tiss will conduct sheriff’s sales at | his boxlike office outside the court room door. Two preperties will be auctioned. one to satisfy a judgment, the other to foreclose a mortgage. Guilty GIRL CONVICTED OF BE- TRAYING FATHER. HELEN BAKUTIS Of Chicago who, because she be- trayed her own father to robbers, was sentenced Friday to 1 to 20 years in prison. ‘She had her father robbed to avenge a beating. —Copyright A. P, Wirephoto. STATE MAY DEMAND JURY BE ISOLATED | Fear Members May Overhear Comment in Hotel Lobby and Dining Room. é By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, January 5.— A demand for complete segregation of the Hauptmann trial jurors from the milling crowds in the lobby and din- ing room of their hotel was considered | today by State authorities. The jury has been eating in an alcove of the hotel dining room, with | tables of newspaper men and other guests in close proximity. Comments by reporters and others about the Lindbergh murder trial can be over- heard by the jurors, who were admon: ished by Justice Thomas W. Trench- ard to avoid reading or listening to any outside discussion of the proceed- ings. During a march through the hotel lobby, after a short walk about the town, the jurors were approached by them newspapers. The jurors’ diversions are few and | the exercise is light, in comparison with their customarily active lives. The hotel fare is plentiful and specu- lation on their average increase in weight has begun already. Some of the jurors do not contemplate the prospect with relish. CABANISS WIDOW DIES Husband of Former Baltimore Woman Aided Geronimo Capture. SAN FRANCISCO, January 5 (®). —Mrs. Sophia Patterson Cabaniss, 75. U. S. A, who aided in the capture of the Apache chief, Geronimo. died at the Letterman Army Hospital to- day. Mrs. Cabaniss lived formerly in Helena, Mont., and Baltimore, Md. Funeral services will be held at the Presidio. newsboys, shouting the outstanding de- | | velopments of the trial and offering widow of Maj. Archibald A. Cabaniss, | FRANCIS ADDISON " DIESINHOSPITAL Security Savings and Com- mercial President’s Fa- ther Was il a Week. Francis G. Addison, 84, whose son, Francis G. Addison, jr., is president of the Security Savings and Commercial Bank, died yesterday at Garfield Hose pital after an.illness of about a week. He had been in good health until re- cently, when an operation became necessary and he came from his farm home, near Collington, Prince Georges County, Md., to the hospital. Mr. Addison, born in Arkansas, re- ceived his education at private schools at Alexandria, Va. He was active for years in the hotel business here, and knew many of the prominent political figures of his day. At various times, he was associated with the Old Shore- ham Hotel, Grafton Hotel, Riggs House and the National Hotel, from which he retired as auditor years ago. His wife, Ellen Bowie Addison, died last July. Surviving are two sisters, Miss Elizabeth F. Addison and Miss Mary Addison of this city; four sons, Francis G. Addison, jr, Walter D. Addison of Annapolis and Joseph Addison and F. Bowie Addison of Bal timore. Six grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held tomor- row at 2:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Epis- copal Church, near Collington, with burial from the farm home, Maple Shade, Md. Rev. Dr. F. A. Cook, rector of Holy Trinity, will officiate. DEATH OF YOUTH PUZZLES POLICE | Young Man Found, Bound, Stabbed and Beaten in Kansas City Hotel. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 5.—Seem- ngly without significant clues, police struggled tonight to solve the mysteri- ous death of a young man found bound, stabbed, beaten and without clothing in his locked hotel room The youth died today after telling police he “fell in the tub.” | There was not one stitch of cloth- | ing in his room. Police reported after |a minute search that they had dis- | covered only a necktie label, an une smoked cigarette, four small finger= prints stained in blood on a lampe | shade, and a hairpin. | Roland T. Owen of Los Angeles was the name he registered under at the hotel Tuesday. He was without bag- gage. Los Angeles police said they were unable to identify him. On the meager results of their search and on the statements of a man and woman who occupied the adjoining | room Thursday, police started th | investigation. The neighboring cou- ple. whose names were withheld, toid of hearing loud voices of at least four persons, including a woman’s. of & scuffle and (later) of a gasping sound | which they believed at the time to be a snore. Animals to Be Listed. Zoologists of Soviet Russia are list- ing all animals found in the country, | and expect to include about 95,000 spe- ! cies, the listing to fill 150 volumes. Castelberg’s Offers You Your LAST CHANCE To Buy Sterling Silver At The Old 1934 Prices! The prices of sterling silver flat- ware were increased 10% to 15% by the various manufacturers on or about January 1st, 1935, Castelberg’s, as a special induce- ment, offer for immediate sale their remaining stock on hand at the old 1934 prices. 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