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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Snow, probably heavy this afternoon, ending early tonight; lowest temperature tonight about 14 degrees; tomorrow fair and colder. Temperatures—Highest, 35, at noon yesterday; lowest, 24, at noon today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 11, 12, 13 Full report on page A-9. — 33,139. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. @b WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935—THIRTY PAGES. WOOD IN LADDER CAME FROM BRUNO’S HOUSE, REPORTS ATTACK U. 8 EXPERT TESTIF TE S|BY JAPANESE ARMY Board Fitted in Departments Close as Snow Attic, Says | Calls Thou Trooper. Bruno Is Expected to Take Stand Tomorrow. (Covsrisht, 1935, FLEMINGTON Associated Press.) | sands to Work CHINESE PROVNCE Invasion of Chahar Troops Is Disclosed by Dispatches. by \Colddest Night in Prospect—Elementary 3 TOWNS NEAR JEHOL PAPER OF NOTE K Schools Let Out at 1 P.M., Others HELD IDENTICAL at 1:30—Nation With the District Government and | virtually all Federal departments clos- | ing at 3 o'clock. and the season’s cold- | est night in prospect. Washington put | several thousand men to work this | afternoon digging out of a seven-inch | snow in the wake of floods, gales and | freezing temperatures over the Nation. | J., January 23.— Treasury Department, requested the | departments in Cold’s Grip. A Weather Bureau prediction of heavy snow ending early tonight set 44 District plows to clearing the streets at 10 o'clock this morning. Officials believe the equipment is ade- quate to cover every street BORDER ARE BOMBED Artillery Shelling Revealed—U.S. Not Surprised—Knew of Five Weeks' Preparation. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, January 23.—Chinese dispatches from Kalgan received here From 1.000 to 1500 emploves of | today said 2,000 Japanese and Man- F. A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the | the highway, water, refuse and sewer | choukuan soldiers had attacked three were The wood in the Lindbergh kidnap | Capital Transit Co. to revise its rush- 'begin shoveling and trucking snow ladder came from the home of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a Government expert testified today. Arthur J. Koehler of Madison, Wis., | an expert on the identification of wood | for the Government. followed a string of ladder witnesses to the stand in Hauptmann's trial for the kidnaping and murder of Baby Charles A. Lind- bergh, jr., and added to their tracing 8 final conclusion that the ladder | came from Hauptmann's home [ Nail Holes Corresponded. | After acknowledging that he had| examined an upright from the ladder} wn as “rail 16." Kohler said: found the nail holes in the attic) Jjoists corresponded and the grain ot‘ the wood was the same as the board | there.” | The board he referred to was an exhibit in the evidence. It came from the attic of Hauptmann's Bronx home and had been next to the place from | which the State charges the ladder | upright was sawn. 1 Defense pique at the testimony was manifested by Frederick A. Pope of defense counsel. He leaped up. “He is not qualified.” he cried. “We gay there is no such animal known among men as 2 wood expert.” Justice Thomas W. Trenchard dis- | agreed, but informed the defense it| could cross-examine Koehler on his qualifications. Luncheon recess pre- vented this being done immediately. Trooper Lewis Bornmann of New Jersey and two New York police car- penters testified that “rail 16” fitted into a space from which a board had been sawed in Hauptmann's attic. The mails, they said, could be pushed into the relating holes with the fingers. May Delay Case. Prosecutors feared the defense fight on Koehler's qualifications, if pro- longed, might delay their case and prevent their resting until tomorrow. There are, the prosecutors said, some more witnesses to be heard. One of them is expected to be an expert on | paper to identify cheap writing paper found in Hauptmann's home as coun- terpart of paper used in the 14 ran- som notes sent to Col. Lindbergh after the kidnaping. The piece of paper from Haupt- mann’s home was put into evidence today with Inspector John J. Lyons | of New York police on the stand. ‘ Pope said: “I might cross-ex amine Koehler two or three days,” | but added that much depended upon | the direct testimony given by the expert. State Produces Drama. ‘ The defense produced its own drama | to start the day off by interrupting the | State's case long enough to make a | New Jersey fingerprint expert, Trooper | Frank Kelly, demonstrate his method | of taking fingerprints. ! Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the slain baby, watched the demon- stration with interest, and once leaned forward to one of the prosecutors to | whisper. Immediate the prosecutor brought out a technical point—that a silver of nitrate fingerprint system had not been discovered until shortly after the date of the kidnaping. Edward J. Reilly, chief of the de- fense legal staff, challenged the police efficiency when Kelly testified in his (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) JOINT ACTION SEEN IN ETHIOPIAN CRISIS| Italy Seeks French Views in Be- lief Diplomatic Solution May Be Possible. By the Associated Press. ROME, January 23.—Joint diplo- matic action by Italy and France against Ethiopia as a result of African border clashes was hinted by a gov- ernment spokesman today. Italy has been in communication with Paris to learn the official reac- tion there following the killing of French subjects in French Somaliland, he disclosed. The spokesman said joint action ‘would mean either a united diplomatic step at Addis Ababa or a united move before the League of Nations, and was not to be interpreted as involving mil- itary action. Official Italian opinion blamed Ethiopia today for the slaying of 97 residents of French Somaliland, as- serting that government is incapable of controlling the situation on its bor- ders. (Pgris dispatches said French offi- cials were extremely anxious to ab- solve the Ethiopian government of any blame in the matter). The official view, as published in the puthoritiative I1 Messagero, expressed Italy’s indignant sympathy with France and said Ethiopia would have & hard time making her “alibi involv- ing lawless tribesmen stick before the world.” e FIRM HEAD DIES ON TRAIN STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, January 23 (#).—Alfred L. Hartridge, 49, pres- ident and general manager of the A. L. Hartridge Co., New York, died on a Pennsylvania passenger train today shortly before it reached here. Hartridge also was vice president of the Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., New York. He suffered a heart attack and died within a few minutes. hour schedule to accommodate home- | from the streets later in the after- | key to the rear doors of the truck was | chine into which they first forced him. | ward-bound Government workers two | hours earlier than usual. noon As the snow depth mounted sev- Earlier in the day Dr. Frank W. eral thousand Emergency Works em- | Ballou, superintendent of schools, had | ordered the elementary schools closed | to aid regular District at 1 pm. and all junior and senior high schools, the vocational schools | af 1:30. | ployes of the District were assigned laborers in snow removal. Authority to use the Emergency Works clients for thjs |and the teachers' colleges dismissed | Purpose was given at 1_o'clock by (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) 2300015 SEIZED IN MAIL HOLD-UP Bank Notes and Silver Are Taken From Truck in Fail River, Mass. By the Associated Press. FALL RIVER. Mass., January 23.— Four bandits held up a United States mail truck today, bound its driver ond escaped with registered mail which police said contained approxi- mately $129.000 in bank notes and | silver. The shipment was being taken | to a Fall River bank from a train | which previously had arrived from | Boston. Postal authorities at Boston, who earlier said the amount was in excess |of $40,000, confirmed the report of | police here and said the money had | been sent from the Federal Reserve | Bank in Boston. Two men with revolvers held up the | small mail truck in the northern sec- | | tion of the city and forced its driver| and lone occupant, Herbert B. Reid, 43, to enter a sedan in which two other bandits were seated. One of the hold-up men drove the mail truck across the Taunton River | into Swansea, while Reid. tied hand | and foot with adhesive tape, was forced | into the rear seat of the bandit car and blindfolded. Truck Driver Threatened. Reid, in the employ of the Postal ROOSEVELTSCORNG NORRIS PROPOSAL Views Court Plan Definitely Limiting President’s Prerogatives. By the Associated Press. Flat opposition to the proposal of Senator Norris, Republican. of Ne- braska that a two-thirds Senate vote { | | under orders 1| towns in Eastern Chahar Province. The report said Tuhsikou, a town near the Chahar-Jehol been bombed from the air and shelled by artillery. Other attacks, the ad- vices said, were launched against Kuyuan and Tungchetze, described as “places within Chahar Province.” border had Recent reports from China have ex- pressed uneasiness over the military situation in Chahar province. Raids Charged. The Japanese announced that Sung Chen-Yuan, provincial chairman of | Chahar, had sent forces under his command across the Manchoukuan border into Jehol Province, formerly part of China, but captured by the Japanese three yvears ago when they | created Manchukuo in Eastern China. Chahar joins Jehol to the westward. A Japanese military spokesman at Shanghai said recently: “We will clear the district within a reasonable period unless the Chinese withdraw.” Fighting Recalled. A Japanese communique stated that | a squadron of Sung's cavalry raided | a Manchuoukuan outpost near Patan | January 15 and carried off 40 Man- choukuans, On January | 20 an official Chinese ' ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION be required on any proposition affect- | hokesman said there had been sev- ing this country to be submitted to | era] hours of fighting on the Jehol- | . (v o Star FHH %’Eggm MAKE MUCH IMPRESSION, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 128,176 Some Returns Not Yet Received (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. GANGSTER ADMITS ST. VALENTINE DAY KILLING OF SEVEN Five Others Named by Kar- pis Aide in Massacre, Says Paper. CONFESSION REPORTED UNDER SCRUTINY HERE Byron Bolton Says He and Three Others Manned Guns in Chicago Garage. | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, January 23.—The Chi- | cago American in a copyrighted story “mda\' asserted that Byron Bolton, Karpis-Barker gangster, had admitted taking part in the St. Valentine's day massacre of 1929—the bloodiest crime JUST ONE SNOWFALL AFTER ANOTHER! | TWO BOYS FREED BY JUDGE BENTLEY Judgment Set Aside on Al- leged Theft—Guilt Pleas Can Be Denied. Arthur Thruston Penn and William Frederick Fanning were freed from the National Training School for Boys today, a short time after their re- lease was ordered by Juvenile Court Judge Fay L. Bentley, who had com- mitted the 15-year- old youngsters to the institution on charges of stealing an automobile. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fanning, par- ents of one of the boys, and Mrs. the World Court was expressed today ! by President Roosevelt. At his press conference the Presi- dent said he regarded the proposal as | a definite limitation of the constitu- tional prerogatives of the President. As for other proposed reservations to the World Court pending in the Senate, the President offered no com- ment. He said the Constitution placed the conduct of foreign affairs entirely in the hands of the Chief Executive with two limitations. Limitations Are Cited. One requires that when a foreign ! vincial troops and forces composed of Chahar border between Chahar pro- | arhur Penn. mother of the other, | went to the school to get the young- Japanese and Manchoukuans, | sters and take them to their homes. Today’s dispatches were the first| "coincident with ordering release of reports, however, of any organized fighting using airplanes and artillery. | Had Reported Peace Near. granted the motion of Attorney Ralph the boys, Judge Bentley this morning | | A. Cusick to vacate and set aside her | The reported hostilities came as a‘ startling contrast to recent news of ‘ the situation in Chahar, which de- scribed the dispute over the territory | as settled, with only diplomatic ques- | tions remaining for decision before a ! final understanding could be an- nounced. ! Only this morning Wang Ching-Wei, settlement is entered into involving | president of the executive council of appropriation of money it must be passed upon by both branches of Con- gress. approval by the Senate of any treaty entered into with another country. Meanwhile, Senate leaders were said authoritatively to be prepared to accept the Vandenberg reservation to the World Court resolution. That action would make United States en- trance into the Court virtually certain The Michigan Senator’s reservation, Department for more than 20 years.| said he attempted to catch a glimpse ' of the bandits from beneath the blind- | fold. but was ordered: “Don’t look at me or I'll let you have it.” He said a gun was held at his ribs| by men on either side of him. The, taken from Reid’s pocket and the bandits opened the truck, took the mail and disappeared in a third car after leaving Reid tied up in the ma- It was believed at least five men were involved in the hold-up because of the fact that two cars were used. Bandits’ Trail Lost. Police of Massachusetts and Rhode Island spread a dragnet about roads in Southern Massachusetts, but no trace of the bandits was found after a search of more than an hour. Reid was abandoned in the rear of the bandit’s car a few minutes later. Russell Ainsworth of Pawtucket, R. 1, driving by the spot where the bandit car was abandoned, found Reid standing in the roadway. $10,000 REWARD OFFERED. Bandits Face Mandatory Sentence of 25 Years in Hold-Up. BOSTON, January 23 (#).—John J. Breslin, chief of the New England Postal Inspection Division, today an- nounced a $10,000 reward for in- formation leading to capture and conviction of the five bandits who | the same that was approved in 1926 asserts that American participation in the international tribunal shall not | entangle this Nation in the internal} politics of another country and shall| Chahar caused no surprise in official | not mean relinquishment, of America’s | quarters in Washington. exclusive right to deal with purely| domestic questions. Concession Represented. Acceptance of this condition will | represent a concession to the Court opposition. Administration leaders believed the Senate would vote adherence without the reservation, but were certain that with it, the proponents would marshal 70 votes or more, well over the required two-thirds. . S. FOREST CHIEF IN RIFT WITH ICKES Silcox Opposes Secretary's Plan to Assume Rule of Con- servation. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 23.—A juris- dictional dispute between Secretary Ickes and the Forestry Service flared into the open today, when F. A, Sil- cox, chief of that agency, took issue with Ickes over supervision of forest and game conservation. Silcox, in an address prepared for ‘The other requires two-thirds | took approximately $129,000 in the | delivery to a game conference, dis- mail truck robbery at Fall River. Breslin said that $2,000 would be paid for conviction of each of the five participants. He said the ban- dits would face a mandatory 25-year term in Federal prisen if convicted. TRIO SOUGHT FOR BOLD $125,000 JEWEL THEFT Three Robbers Snatch Diamonds From Salesman as He Steps From Taxi. By the Associated Press. agreed with a suggestion acvanced by the cabinet officer yesterday that all Government conservation activities should be concentrated within the In- terior Department in the interest of harmony and efficient administration. Transfer of the Forest Service from the Agricultural Department to the Interior Department has been a bone of contention for some time within the administration, but Silcox’s address today marked the first time that both officials concerned had discussed it publicly. He asserted that the Forest Service was undertaking its own program of co-ordinating the use of national forest resources, and intimated that grazing activities of the Interior De- SIOUX CITY, Iowa, January 23— | partment have not always fitted in Authorities searched today for three | With use of other resources. robbers who snatched diamonds from | It has been impossible, Silcox said, Sol Roseman he said were worth | “under existing conditions to secure $125,000 and escaped in a hail of | co-ordination between the supply of police bullets after a running battle | national forest forage and the num- for 15 blocks. ber of game animals dependent upon Roseman, a New York jewelry|it,” since some forest areas are over- salesman, was attacked as he stepped | 8razed by domestic stock and game from a taxi in front of a hotel. | combined, while others are overgrazed When he resisted one of the rob- | by game alone. bers struck him over the head and g:;“’:‘d a brief case containing the | Roya] Couple Sails for U. S. Hastily summoned police ex-| SOUTHAMPTON, England, Janu- changed fire with the robbers, but | 8ry 23 (#).—Prince Allessandro Tor- they escaped in a car bearing Illinois | lonia of Italy and his bride, the In- license plates. Roseman told author- | fanta Beatriz of Spain, sailed today ities the men apparently were familiar | on the S. S. Aquitania for New York. with his movements, The jewels| The journey is part of their wedding were msured, he said, © | trip, n i | adopted by the State Department is the Chinese Nationalist government, | told the government's central political | council in Nanking prospects for peaceful settlement of the Chahar question were bright. Negotiations, he said, were proceeding satisfactorily be- tween Sino-Japanese representatives | at Kalgan. U. S. EXPECTED TROUBLE. Preparation for Invasion Known Here for Five Weeks. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘The news of a pending attack on For the last five weeks the Japanese military authorities in Jehol have been preparing for an invasion of that sec- tion of China, which lies on the Jehol | border, claiming, as in the past, that | the bandit incursions were causing Testlessness and insecurity throughout the province. It was known here that there had been conversations between the Jap- anese authorities and the local Chinese military commanders with the view of settling the dispute amicably and the latest reports which reached Wash- ington officially during this week in- dicated that an agreement was in sight. The experts on Far Eastern affairs, who are familiar with the methods adopted by Japan in its Far Eastern policy, doubted, however, that an i agreement was possible, since Tokio believes that the Chahar Province forms an integral part of Jehol and consider the occupation of Chahar as an important part for the pacifica- tion of the whole region. It is unlikely that any active steps will be taken by the United States in connection with the Japanese pene- tration of Chahar. The attitude to leave alone things which do not concern this country directly, and there is no doubt that the interest of America in that distant province of China is nil. — Gold Consigned to U. S. CHERBOURG, France, January 23 (#)—A shipment of gold valued at $2,000,000 was placed aboard the Aquitania today, consigned for New York. judgment in the case. By this deci- sion the court gave the attorney for the two boys until January 30 to file whatever pleas or motions he may consider advisable. Judge Bentley, making known her decision in an open session of Juvenile Court, read a prepared statement ex- pressing her views on the much-dis- cussed incident. Opportanity for New Trial. The statement follows: “The Government making no ob- jection to counsel's motion to vacate the judgment. the court has decided | to grant the motion to afford oppor- tunity for a new trial. “It is the purpose of the Juvenile Court to protect children. At the trial, these boys were arraigned in the presence of their mothers and acknowledged taking the car. The only question then was to determine what was the best course to pursue for the future of the boys. pended to a large extent upon their past histories and their development. It was known to the court that one | of the boys had been before the court on many charges, and that both of them had recently been convicted of attempted theft of another automobile in Virginia. “The court in the exercise of its | best judgment committed the boys to | the National Training School where a careful planning for their needs was assured them. A new trial will permit opportunity for full disclosure of all the evidence.” Informing Mr. Cusick that her rec- ords showed pleas of guilty to have (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) FASCISM STUDY URGED Yale News Suggests Courses to Understand Changing World. NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 23 ().—The Yale News says editorially that courses dealing with fascism and communism should be given by the university so students may be pre- pared to face the changing political situation throughout the world with clear understanding. “Needless to say,” the paper says further, “the study of our own Gov- ernment ‘and of more nearly related systems must be in no way be sacrificed. Indeed, it can be made the more significant in the light of contrast.” B —— Italy Signs Uruguayan Pact. ROME, January 23 (#)—Uruguay and Italy signed an accord today designed to “unfreeze” Italian com- mercial credits in Uruguay. Rap at Cabinet Officers And Senator Causes Stir By the Assoclated Press. Officlal Washington puzzled today over the circulation in one Govern- ment department of an article in The Nation assailing two other cabinet officials and a leading Democratic Senator. Secretary Ickes, already a fouchy subject on Capitol Hill; Attorney General Cummings, Postmaster Gen- eral Farley and Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, were the personalities involved. A reprint of the magazine article was distributed in Ickes' Interior De- partment. Cummings, Farley and Harrison came in for the attack. Given out first as a “memorandum for the press” and “for the informa- tion of correspondents,” the arucle later was recalled. But the only ex- planation for the recall was that it ] had been intended solely “for offi- cials.” ‘There still were those in the Capital, however, who wondered why a criti- cism of two brother cabinet officers should be circulated—even if only to officials—in the department of a third. And there were more attempts to supply the answer at the Interior De- partment today. Michael Straus, publicity director for the Public Werks Administration, said that as soon as he learned of distribution of the ar- ticle “boys were sent out to collect all the copies.” . But nobody said just why it was re- printed as a press release in the first place. The article, by Raymond Gram Swing, criticized the appointment of (Continued on Page 2, Colugn 13, This de- | Clause to Extend U. S. Agencies Is Signal for Fight !Torronl of Objection Is Heard to Section of Works-Relief Bill. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. When the administration forces | | wrote into the President’s $4.000,000.- | 000 work relief bill a provision per- | mitting the Chief Executive to ext t until June 30, 1937, the life of “a existing governmental agency (in cluding a corporation), they stirred up a hornets’ nest. This particular paragraph in the | bill, it is contended by members of | the House, among them Representa- tive Cox of Georgia. would permit | the President to keep in full force | and effect the Public Works Adminis- | tration, the National Recovery Ad- ministration and any of the other | governmental agencies set up under | the recovery program, without further legislation by Congress. Under the terms of the national industrial re- | covery act both the P. W. A. and the | N. R. A. come to an end June 16 next. | Members of Congress—and others— who do not like the administration of public works by Secretary Ickes are objecting strenuously to the bill as it | stands. The same is true of opponents of the N. R. A. i Secretary Ickes has incurred the| hostility of some members of Con- gress, a considerable number of pol- iticians. and some of the big interests "(Continued on Page 6, Column 5.) | —_— | STAGGERED HOURS /F.H.A. Employes Begin Test on Recommendation of White House. Employes of the Federal Housing Administration in the old Southern Building, Thirteenth street and Penn- | sylvania avenue, today went to work | on an 8:30-to-4 schedule, as officials there decided to make an actual test of the suggestion to stagger hours, fol- lowing a request from the White House for recommendations on this plan. The White House is understood to have called on all establishments lo- cated, or to be located, in the area between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, and Constitution and Penn- | sylvania avenues for their views on similar working hours. Recommenda- tions also are sought from all other departments. Federal Housing au- thorities, it was said, believed an actual test would be the only way to determine the feasibility. Incidentally, the Federal Housing employes would not be affected by the stagger plan, which originated with the District Commisisoners, as they are moving in a few days to the old Department of Justice Building at Fifteenth and K streets. In the Twelfth-Fourteenth-Consti- tution-Pennsylvania area are Post Office, Labor and Interstate Com- merce buildings, which not only house .| these organizations, but a number of independent agencies. With these employes going to work at 8:30, the others in the Triangle would continue to come on at 9 as at present. The plan is being considered as a means of facilitating transporta- tion. The Board of Trade approved the plan last November. TARRED AND.FEATHERED, MAN WILL LEAVE TOWN Prisoner Seized With Girl by Mob Will Heed Warning to Quit Elkins. By the Associated Press. ELKINS, W. Va., January 23.—Peter Rimo, one of two persons tarred and feathered by a group of maskea men, says he is going to take his assailants’ warning and leave town by Saturday. The 57-year-old man and a girl, listed by police as Sylvia Tinger, 19, were taken from the Elkins Jail yes- terday and on an old tennis court near Davis-Elkins College were tarred and feathered. ‘The couple had been serving terms on _charges of disorderly conduct. Police later released the couple and because no complaints were made, au- thorities seemed ready to drop the matter, | Foes at Capitol Are Jubilant! " PLAN BEING TRIED ASWORKS ARBITER at Compromise on $4,- | 880,000,000 Bill. BULLETI The liberalized “gag” rule for consideration of the $4.880.000.000 public works resolution was passed today by the House. The proced adopted permits offering of amen ments to limit the President's power. but bars- any right to administer the fund as a lump sum. By the Associated Press. | The foes that Secretary of the In- terior Ickes has made on Capitol Hill claimed a victory today after hearing reports that he would not be the arbiter of the $4.000,000,000 fund to transfer the destitute from the dole | to public works. This was a major development in a “revolt” in which dissenting House Democrats wrung a compromise from the party leadership on a plan to rush a $4,380,000,000 relief-and-works measure through Congress under strict “gag” rule. It was a compromise in which both sides said they gained a measure of success. As the result of a caucus agreement last night. Democratic leaders predicted the gigantic bill would go through tomorrow in a “lump sum” without ear-marking any of the money for specific projects. Thus President Roosevelt would be | granted his wish for free discretion in | spending the money. Three Sections Thrown Open. But in answer to demands of in- | surgents, it was agreed that three | sections of the bill, giving the Presi- dent broad power, would be thrown |open to amendments on the floor. Opponents of the powers were trying | to determine today if they could | muster enough votes to gain their ends. The caucus voted, 190 to 35, for a modified “gag.” to be introduced today, which limits discussion to four hours. | amendment would empower President Roosevelt to continue Ickes as public works administrator until June 30, 1937, about two years beyond his pres- ent term. Speaker Byrns, who is seeking to press the administration program | through, had told the caucus he had received assurances from the White ! | House that President Roosevelt him- self would distribute the works money | and see that all projects got consid- | eration on “an equal basis.” | The word was passed. though not by Byrns, that the President had said neither Ickes nor Harry Hopkins, re- lief administrator, will become head of the new agency that will administer the vast fund. What that means for the future of these men—both known as leaders in the more “liberal” camp of the New Deal—the Capital was trying to figure. Both are now powerful figures in the administration, directing two of the New Deal’s most gigantic enterprises. | Under the new plan public works and | | relief are to be merged and placed | under a new agency. 1 | ~ One report is that the agency may | | be headed by a board. Whether Ickes | Gus ICKES IS BARRED | tion with One section of the bill opened for | in Chicago gangland annals—and had named his five associates in the slaughter of seven men The killers, according to the ad- mission attributed to Bolton, were Fred “Killer” Burke, Claude Maddox. Winkler, Fred Goetz, Murray Humphreys and Bolton. The actual machine gunners who mowed down their rivals in & North Side garage. Bolton was said to have declared, were himself, Maddox, Hum- phreys and Winkler. Burke and Goetz Named. He named Burke and Goetz as the two men in police uniforms. armed with sawed-off shotguns. whom wit- nesses reported seeing leave the North Clark street garage after the mass murders. Bolton. the American said. has given his story in a detailed formal statement to the United States Government. which now being studied in Washington. Bolton was seized January 8 in a raid on an apartment hideout on the northwest side. Russel Gibson. his companion, was killed by the raiders. Bolton is now in St. Paul in connec- the $200.000 ransom kid- ng of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul ver. Before entering crime he was an ex- pert machine gunner in the United States Navy. na Youth Among Victims. It was in the Navy. his alleged cone fessior said. that he gained the knowl- edge which enabled him to handle one of the weapons which spat wholesale murder on February 14. 1929, The seven killed that day were Peter Gusenberg, ex-convict: Frank Gusen- berg. his brother; Adam Heyer, alia$ Arthur Hayes, former convict; James Clark. brother-in-law of George “Bugs” Moran, North Side gang lead- er at the time: John May, garage me- chanic; Albert Weinshank and Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer. May was a youth who happened to be in the garage when the killers en- tered. Dr Schwimmer was said to have been associated with the gang- sters for the “kick” he got out of it The other five were members of Moran's once-powerful gang, then en- gaged in a fight for “territory” with Al Capone’s South Side gangsters Plotted in New York. ‘The slaughter, Bolton's statement | was said to have asserted, was plotted in New York. Frank Uale, notorious Eastern gangster later slain, wanted a “piece” of a dog track which was operating with Capone backing at Lyons, Ill. Although Uale had been associated with Capone, Bolton said, Capone refused to “cut him m” on the profits. Uale, the statement went on, threate ened to have the track, burned down through Joe Aiello, Moran gangster, who later was killed. Those in con- trol of the track, Bolton said. retained | Burke and Goetz for protection and put them in police uniforms. 1 Burke since has been sentenced to | life imprisonment for slaying a police- ! man at Benton Marbor, Mich. Goetz, | a former University of Illinois athlete, was later slain by gangsters. { The order then went out. Bolton said, to “get” the Moran gang Bolton was alleged to have said he was assigned to keep a watch on the North Clark Street garage, known then as the Moran headquarters. Tells of Summoning Killers. A week before the killings he rented | & room across the street. His instruc- | tions, he said, were to summon the | killers when the entire gang, includ- | ing Moran, was present ; On the morning of St. Valentine's day, he said, he saw Moran enter | the garage with Terry Druggan and he sounded the alarm. A short time later two men dressed as policemen drove up to the garage in an eutomobile resembling a squad car. Burke and Goetz, Bolton’s alleged statement recounted, ordered the | seven men they found inside to line and Hopkins would have places on it | up with their faces toward a stone and whether that would mean less | wall. Moran. the chief target. and | power for them, were questions yet | Druggan had left only a few minutes unanswered. | before. i B e When the victims were line p Ickes Has Bitter Foes. Bolton, Maddox., Winkler and Hum- Ickes is known to have made enemies | phreys entered through a rear door, in Congress in his expressed determina- carrying two suit cases containing to direct public works along lines he | machine guns, Bolton said. considers best. Encounters between A deafening roar resounded and him and some members of Congress seven bodies slumped to the floor. have led to bitterness. One House | St Wi leader, declining to be quoted, said | : Ickes “has taken the attitude that all Robinson Thought Seen. Congressmen are trying to do the] COLUMBIA, S. C., January 23 (#). Government out of something.” + —A. R. Ward, assistant chief of high- Insurgents claimed another victory way law enforcement, today said he when Chairman Buchanan of the believed a mannish-looking woman Appropriations Committee agreed to an | seen in an automobile near Winnsboro amendment under which the works bill| with a machine gun was Thomas H. would specify no particular project.| Robinson, jr., 26-year-old Tennessean As originally drawn, it mentioned al wanted for the kidnaping of Alice long list, but left out irrigation, rivers| Speed Stoll. and harbors and other projects which, in the past, have been close to the hearts of members of Congress seeking Federal aid for their home districts. Guide for Readers Among phases of the measure thrown open to amendment are those giving the President power to abolish or| Amusements merge any agency, guarantee loans 0! comies .. needy persons and exercise right of Fealure§ eminent domain over property. } Finance Lost and Found . Radio Serial Story Short Story Society ... SPOIts seecescenssne 11 Coal Miners Drown. CALCUTTA, India, January 23 (#). —Eleven miners were reported drowned today when a coal mine was ficoded at Loyalbed, near Patna.