Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder today and tonight; to- morrow fair, slowly rising temperature in afternoon, warmer Tuesday. Tempera- tures—Highest, 30 at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 19 at 3 am. yesterday. Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys Full report on page A-9. (#) Means Associated Press. he No. 1,558—No. 33,143. Entered as second class matter vost office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1935—N LONG TROOPS ROUT ARMED REVOLTERS AS COURT PROBES PLOT TOKILL HIM 100 Square Dealers Give Up ' Before Militia’s Attack ' With Rifles and Machine | Guns—Gas Used on Mob. | OIL FIRM TO BLAME, DICTATOR CHARGES | Investigation of Alleged Conspir- acy to Assassinate “Kingfish” Ends When He Announces In-| ability to Find Conspirators. Plans to Return to Washington. ACopyright, 1 by the Associated Press.) BATON ROUGE, La, January 26. —Senator Huey Long’s dictatorship rode out an armed uprising here to- | night as more than 100 Square Deal- ers surrendered or fled into ipe woods before machine guns and rifits of Na- | tional Guardsmen. One man was wounded. A threatened pitched battle between | the militia and anti-Long forces | came as a climax to an exciting day | which saw martial law declared in this parish and city by Gov. O. K. | Allen, and Senator Long charging in court that antagonistic public officials | plotted his death. It was only a short time after the Senator abruptly ended his inquiry into the alleg=. conspiracy against his life when Square Dealers started to assemble at the airport. At first they were unarmed, but guns soon ap- peared. Troops Prepare for Action. As the anti-Long men began to | form their battle line, a company of Guardsmen under Col. E. P. Roy reached the airport. unslung their weapons and prepared for action. ‘The opposing forces were only about 500 yards apart. The Guards- men deployed in a line about a quarter of a mile in length and lying flat on | the ground began advancing slowly. | The armed citizenry, carrying pistols, | rifles and shotguns, backed up against the woods nearby. Ernest Bourgeois, president of the anti-Long Square Deal Association, was in command of the citizens. It | looked for a short time as if neither side in the impending struggle would | weaken. Both forces maneuvered | cautiously, their guns poised. | Then suddenly. finding themselves | outnumbered and surpassed in equip- | ment, most of the Square Dealers sur- | rendered to Col. Roy. They were dis- | armed, placed under technical arrest end freed. The citizen shot and wounded was | identified at the hospital as George N. | Allessi, 36, of Independence, La., 31 member of the Tangipahoa Parish | police jury. it Physicians said buckshot had en- tered his body just above the heart, in the abdomen and in the back. An emergency operation was performed. Disorder at Airport. Disorder broke out at the airport tonight as Guardsmen still deployed | over the field. A hundred or more men, women and children had collected about the field after the surrender. Suddenly, some one yvelled: “There he is! There is the spy!” He pointed to a short, man. The crowd believed he was respon- sible for notifying the Guardsmen that the citizens were gathering on the air fleld. The crowd rushed at the man, knocked him down. tore his clothing and trampled on him. Guardsmen | charged to the rescue, but were finally ordered to fall back and shoot gas guns at the crowd. The gas barrage finally drove the crowd back and it left gradually, By 6 o'clock practically every one was gone and the Guardsmen were pack- ing up to leave. Senator Long, at his short court hearing today, charged that the revolt against his “kingfish” regime was %eing fomented by the Standard Oil! 0. Their_dispute arose over a_barrel “(Continued on Page 5, Column 2,) (Wirephoto on Page A-2) stoutish CUTTER RUSHES AID TO OYSTER FLEET 25 Reported Marooned by Ice in Open Boats in Potomac River. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 26.—The Coast Guard cutter Apache left here tonight with supplies for 25 oyster- men marooned in the Potomac River, lower Chesapeake Bay. Guard headquarters here were in- formed members of the Tangier Is- land (Va.) oyster fleet had been tied up in the Potomac since last Wednes- day’s snowstorm, which brought zero temperatures and caused ice to form in the bay. ‘The Navy proving grounds at Dahl- gren, Va., reported the men were in distress and without shelter in their open boats. It was believed 8 or 10 boats were caught in the ice. The Apache carried food and cloth- ing for 25. Earlier today Charles F. Thompson, Baltimore aviator, had sighted several missing upper Chesapeake Bay oyster- men while attempting to rescue a mother and her two children, snow- bound on their Eastern Shore estate. R Passenger Record Set. CHICAGO, January 26 (#)—United Air Lines claimed a new commercial gviation record today with the re- port it has flown its 500,800th revenue nger. Officials said the line was !he first to pass the half million mark in passenger traffic. 1 Heroic Rescuers Press Search For Homeless in Icy Flood As Toll in Mississippi Mounts At Least 27 Die and 25,000 Are Driven From Plantations as High Waters Sweep Through State. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) MARKS, Miss., January 26 (#).—Numerous families remained marooned in their homes after four days of rampaging flood as small rescue craft tonight pushed along the shore of great areas of water to bring them to this town of refugees. The number of dead from the Tennessee-Arkansas- Mississippi flood was at least 27, and was mounting. The homeless, marooned or suffering were estimated at 25.000. Damage to property was said to be more than $5,000,000. Four Mississippi counties are partly covered with floodwaters of the Coldwater River. Marks offered a haven for the hundreds who were driven from their homes as far north as Darling and Sledge, about 15 miles from Sundlay Stare NETY PAGES. NEW HANDWRITING EVIDENCE AGCUSES BRUNO AS DEFENGE STRESSES ALIBI Wilentz Says He Will Use Samples From Europe to Strengthen Case and Force Admission of Guilt. NN W MONTREAL MAN TO SAY here. Hourly the number of refugees was increased by boatloads. The Red Cross is giving them stew. pork and beans and coffee. Practically every boatload has three or four children and a mother with a baby swaddled in the best wrap- pings that could be snatched from the greedy waters. ‘The children present a pathetic picture. Some of them are bare- foot. Others have cheap shoes witl no stockings. Many are wea | clothing too light for freezing weather. | At Sledge, where hundreds are housed in box cars and each car | jammed with five and six families | five to ten cases of pneumonia ver reported and several cases of influ- enza, wDx'. N. C. Knight, sent here after (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) RELIEF BILL FACES BATTLE N SENATE ON-MAJOR POINTS Republicans Demand Full and Open Hearings on Jobs Measure. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt's work relief bill, carrying $4.880.000.000, faces a brisk barage as it goes into the Senate, Before the measure passes the up- per house efforts will be made to|moned yesterday to meet February 6 | amend it in many particulars. Ad- ministration forces will have a fight on their hands to beat off some of the proposals. No gag rule is possible in the Senate and whether the rule that | “legislation” is not in order on an | alleged appropriation bill can be effectively raised against some of the proposals under consideration by various Sen- ators is a question yet to be answered. As was the case when the work re- lief bill was about to come up in the House, word came from the White House yesterday that the President himself would handle the work relief appropriations. Open Hearings Demanded. Republicans of the Senate in a conference yesterday determined to ask for full and open hearings on the bill. ‘The Appropriations Committee, which is to handle the bill, has been called by Chairman Carter Glass to meet tomorrow at 11 am. The com- mittee will decide then on the pro- cedure to be followed. The bill could be handled by the full committee or referred to a subcommittee. If Sen- ator Glass desires he can take charge of the bill. While he has not ex- pressed himself on the measure, it i understood that some of the provi- | sions of the bill as it passed the House do not meet with his approval. Sen-| ator Byrnes of South Carolina, strong supporter of the administration and the New Deal, is considered a likely man to have charge of the measure in committee and on the floor should the Virginia Senator waive control. Power Grant Faces Fight. Here are some of the lines of at- | tack developing against the House bill: Strenuous efforts will be made to| eliminate the extraordinary powers granted the President, While the Re- publicans are likely to be divided on various amendments and even on the bill itself when the final vote comes, it is expected they will stand united in opposition to these grants of power and that some Democrats will join them, ‘The provision which authorizes the President to make loans to needy in- dividuals is one of those that will be attacked. Another provision that gives the power to thé President to fix the com- pensation of officials and workers em- ployed in administering the work re- | lief fund, is the subject of criticism. Efforts will be made to increase the appropriation for work relief. Instead of $4.880,000,000 amendments are un- der consideration which would raise the amount from $6,000,000,000 to (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) - Pedestrian Dies in Colliston. PEORIA, Ill, January 26 (#).—Ed- ward Von Harris, 40, formerly of Ell, Ky., was killed today when he crashed into the side of an automobile while running across the street with his head lowered. TOKES ADS IN AL FOR GRAND JRY First Special Panel Since Teapot Dome to Sift Graft Charges February 6. Based on information furnished Federal prosecutors at the direction | of Secretary Ickes, the first special District grand jury since the Fall- | Doheny-Sinclair oil cases was sum- to investigate charges of graft in the handling of P. W. A. funds. One or more Public Works Admin- istration officials and a number of private contractors, it is reported, are to be connected with the charges which involve a $4,000,000 project in Texas. | Secretary Ickes, who admitted his own investigators had uncovered the alleged graft, refused to identity the project or to say whether any public works officials were implicat ! Other Jobs May Be Involved. | The grand jury investigation, he said, is “confined as far as I know to I the situation in Texas.” Asked if any other projects are likely involved, he admitted that “there may be ramifica- tions” as his agents have been inves- tigating projects all over the country. Although officials at P. W. A. r fused to discuss the matter, it was reported the contract for the Texas project was withdrawn after investi- | gators assigned to the case by Secre- | tary Ickes had uncovered evidence of an alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States. It was said that 8 or 10 persons, including one present Public Works Administration official and at least one other who has since resigned as chief engineer of the proj- ect. are involved Further information disclosed last night indicated that the graft charges consist of changes allegedly made in specifications for the project to reduce construction costs, although actually maintaining the original contract prices. An agreement was said to have existed among private contractors en- gaged in the project to maintain a high level of prices on materials. In this way, certain P. W. A. officials were alleged to have received a “cutback” | from contractors. United States Attorney Leslie Gar- nett has assigned his assistant, John W. Fihelly, to present the evidence to the grand jury. It is expected the presentation of the Texas case will (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) FEAR TEAMS.TER STRIKE Union Officials Say Water Front Is in Danger. NEW YORK, January 26 (P).— Michael J. Cashal, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, said tonight he feared an unauthorized strike re- ported to have been called for Mon- | day morning by teamsters and chauf- | feurs might tie up the entire water front. “If the strike starts, my judgment is that it will spread to the 75,000 workers-on the water front in the en- tire port of New York,” he said. He blamed the reported strike call on an opinion handed down in a Brook- |lyn court, relating to non-union | truckers handling shipments on docks on which only union men worked. Commission to Bar Practice Of Employes By the Associated Press. Spurred by senatorial criticism, the Communications Commission yester- day barred all former employes from practicing before it for a two-year period after quitting their jobs. It also ordered an investigation of George Hill, an examiner, after charges by Senator Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi that he had traveled to Mississippi to seek his defeat in the last election. Bilbo had charged that Chairman Eugene O. Sykes had “shuttled back and torth” between Washington and Mississippi trying to help defeat him and also had sent Hill, described by Bilbo as one of the “captains in crime.” At the same Interstate Commerce Committee hearing on the nomina- tions of the commissioners, Bilbo said he knew of one instance where Hill had paid a voter $50 to cast his bal- lot for Ross Collins, Bilbo’s opponent. ‘The motion for Hill's investigation was made by Anning S. Prall, former New York Representative and the only one of the commissioners who i Who Quit Jobs has been confirmed by the Senate. Approval was unanimous, with Sykes, whose confirmation is being fought by Bilbo, voting for the motion but excusing himself from participating in the inquiry. “In view of the charges lodged against George Hiil, examiner, by a member of the United States Senate.” Prall's motion said, “I move that the commission immediately investigate the charges made.” ‘The motion governing practice be- fore the commission was made by Commissioner George H. Payne, who had promised such action to Chair- man Wheeler af the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Likewise unanimously approved, Payne's reso- lution would forbid any employe from appearing before the commission in any capacity save that of witness for & two-year period after leaving his position. It would become effective “when the rules and regulations gov- erning practice and procedure before this commission are adopted” but would not apply to employes who leave 60 days before the r.fle%\ve date, INQURY OF P. W.A. HE SAW FISCH AND CHILD Witness for Reilly Will Testify Hauptmann Was Seen in Auto in Bronx With Dog on Night Lindbergh Baby Was Kid- naped. | By the Assoclated Press. | FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 26 — | A New York policeman, returned from Germany with relatives of the late Isador Fisch to testify at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for mur- der, has also given the State new handwriting evidence, it was iearned tonight, to be used against ihe Bronx carpenter. s Hauptmann's counsel moved to bolster Hauptmann's main hope—an alibi—the State announced that Lieut Arthur Johnson of the New York City police, recently returned from Ger- many, had brought back several sam- ples of Hauptmann's handwriting. “We want not only a conviction of this man,” zaic Attorney General Wilentz, “but we want to pile evidence upon evidence so convincingly that Hauptmann will break under it and make a full statement of guilt.” | To this a member of Haupumann's counsel said: “We are more confiden* than ever that Hauptmann will be acquitted.” Fisch Family Here. | Lieut. Johnson also for possible appearances on the wit- ness stand relatives of the dead Isador | Fisch—the man Hauptmann by im- plication accuses of the Lindbergh baby murder—who will testify that Fisch died in poverty. This testi- mony will be used in rebuttal to tear down defense claims that Fisch was the money man of the Hauptmann- Fisch fur business partnership and the actual kidnaper of the baby. In this connection came a dispatch | from Montreal _tonight_stating_that (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) SHIP SURVIVORS " THLES CONFLIT U. S. Marshals Members of Crew as Double Quiz Is Started. By the Associated Press. 3 NEW YORK, January 26.—Surviv- ors of the Mohawk disaster, still | shaken by the tragedy that took 45 | lives, offered sharply conflicting testi- | mony today on the liner's reputedly icnppled steering gear, previously blamed for the collision. The Federal Government swiftly swung into a double investigation of | the disaster, marshaling surviving | crew members to get at the bottom of the puzzling crash. Graphic stories were told of fright- ened passengers plunging from the ice-covered decks of the liner into the sea; of the terrific impact; of life- boats tangled in ropes because of ice; of the bitter cold and suffering. Wang First Witness. In the Customs Building, Capt. Ed- mund Wang of the Norwegian freight- er Talisman, whose bow crushed the steel-sheathed side of the Ward | " (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Boy Hikes 24 Miles Daily on 60 Days’ Robbery Sentence Judge Allowed Reform- atory Choice, but Ban- ned Hitch-Hiking. By the Associated Press. ANDERSON, Ind., January 26.—A bit footsore and wind chapped, 16- year-old Edward Foster trudged the 12 miles from Anderson to Alexandria | today, bui his hike brought him only a little nearer the end of a long trek imposed on him by Judge Charles E. Smith, When the boy pleaded guilty this week to participation in the robbery of a grocery store at Alexandria, his home city, he was sentenced by Judge Smith to make the round trip between Anderson and Alexandria daily for 60 days, except Saturdays and Sundays, when he is to hike one way only. The trip is to be made on foot and no hitch-hiking permitted. Edward made the first round trip Friday. He spent Friday night in jail here and today hoofed it back to Al- exandria. He spent the night at home and after attending church tomorrow he will walk back to this city, where he will remain until Monday, when he is to resume the daily hike between the two cities. He was given the alternative of making the daily hike or accepting a reformatory term. He must carry a 20-pound load, representing the weight of merchandise alleged to have been taken from the grocery. ‘Two other youths pleaded guilty and were sentenced to reformatory terms, brought back | YOURE DOING GREAT WORK, OLD MaN FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS lTEN CENTS ELSEWHERE | COLLUSIN DAL OF JNSON HT 'Labor Leader Says Former N. R. A. Chief’'s Memory Fails Him, By the Assoclated Press. A vigorous denial by ruddy-faced | Hugh S. Johnson that he had known of alleged collusion among bidders for naval construction yesterday brought from the man who first made the charge word that the former N. R. A. chief’s “memory fails him.” Johnson said that if he hac known of any agreement in bids he would | have used the information as a (l\lb‘ to force through the shlpbm]ders'i code, which was pending at the time. John P. Frey, president of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, mean- while reiterated a statement that he | | had made Friday before the Senate Munitions Committée that he had | shown Johnson a sealed envelope which he said was turned over to him by Lawrence Wilder, former head of the | New York Shipbuilding Co. Frey said the letter contained names of the low | bidders for the naval program. | “I don't like to find myself in di- rect opposition with him,” Frey said | of Johnson's testimony yesterday. “but if his memory fails him. mine is very clear and definite about the matter.” May Face Committee. Johnson told House members that perhaps he should go before the Sen- ate Munitions Committee to catch the “dead cat thrown at me.” He added that Frey told him over the telephone yesterday morning he was willing to go before the Senate in- quirers again and refute published reports of what he had said. He said, however, that at the time he talked with Frey he was working | 16 hours or more a day and that it | might be understandable if he failed to recall the entire conversation be- tween them. After being advised of Johnson's | testimony, the labor official again | guoted the general as saying with re- spect to the collusion evidence: “That is too hot for me. I not | going to have anything to do with it. I have troubles enough of my own.” “The facts are as I stated them at the hearing yesterday,” Frey said. “I can’t help about testimony of anybody else, just my own | In his testimony before the House | Military Committee, Johnson, who| worked out the conscription plan which drafted manpower for the World | War, said Government operation of industry in war time would be imprac- | ticable, but that Government control | would be desirable. Early Approval Seen. He was testifying on the McSwain measure to take the profits out of war. He sald profiteering should be removed from war wherever it could | be done. Chairman McSwain, Demo- crat, of South Carolina said the com- mittee probably would approve the | bill early this week. In its final form, he added, the measure probably would include pro- vision for taxing away excess profits, recommended by Johnson yesterday and by Bernard M. Baruch Friday. The McSwain measure seeks to ac- complish this fixing prices in time of war and by drafting all needed re- sources, human and material, into the armed forces. Hearings are to be completed Tues- | day, with Secretary Dern and As- | sistant Secretary Woodring yet to testify. __ Meanwhile, the Senate Munitions Committee called off its scheduled trip in its investigation of asserted collu- sion by shipbuilders on naval con- struction when it was informed the witness, Ernest I. Cornbrooks, would come to Washington this week. Johnson said the McSwain bill would stimulate other Nations to similar action, and thus remove in them the profit incentive to war, He added that it would serve internationally as a deterrent to war. Johnson recommended that wages and salaries be fixed the same as other prices in time of war, that sup- plies of essential materials not avaii- able in the United States be stored up, and that the Army be increased, S Blast Blinds Boy in One Eye. STERLING, Colo,, January 26 (). —Herman Ford, 16, of Indianapolis, d., lost the sight of his left eye today when a shotgun shell with which he was playing exploded. Tips of three fingers of his left hand and two of his right hand were empu- tated, SN G § | set to New Jersey to question a witness | Board Proposed To Aid Oklahoma Ex-Office Holders By the Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY, January 26.—A “Board of Supercargoes. consisting of 15 to 20 members to be paid $5,000 annually “to meet all ships entering the State of Oklahcma,” would be set up un- der a bill prepared by State Rep- resentative Walter Johnson He explained “the board would provide a haven for ex-office holders and so-called economists who look wise.” FORTUNE IN GEMS TAKEN BY BANDITS CHEVY CHASE GIRL WEDS CHAUFFEUR Mother Feared Abduction.i | Accused Bridegroom of ROOSEVELT ORDER ASSURES RIGHTS OF CONSTITUTION 10 CODE SIGNERS Decree, Signed Jan. 22, but Not Made Public, Designed to Restore Confidence of Business Groups. BASIC LAW DECLARED COMPLETELY DOMINANT All Trade Agreements Under N. R. A. Affected by Implicit Ruling of President—Confused Situation Regarded as minated by Action. Ter- (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) Full retention of constitutional rights for all past and future signers of N. R. A. codes was disclosed yestere day to have been assured by Presi- dent Roosevelt in an executive order, signed early last week but not ane nounced publicly. The order, actually a modification of the terms of approval whereby the Chief Executive gave force to all pre« vailing codes said “It is understood that neither the Government nor any member of in- dustry waives, or can properly insist that the other has waived, any con- Stealing Gems. The former Miss Jane Cooke, 20, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Howard de Walden Cooke of Chevy Chase, Md., | and George S. Scarlett, 3d, 21, the| family chaufteur, were reported by the Associated Press early today to | be returning to Washington. where they were married Friday night, after & wedding trip to Winston-Salem, N. C. Meanwhile, Washington and Montgomery County police were look- ing for the bridegroom on a larceny charge brought by Mrs. Cooke. New York Woman Bound in Hotel Room—Estimates | Loss at $250,000. _ (Wirephoto ®i Page B-3.) By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., January 26.—Against a friend's counsel, Mrs, Margaret Bell of New York wore jewels she valued at “probably a quarter of a million™ to the Hialeah Park horse races this afternoon and was stripped of them tonight by two masked men who en- tered her elaborate hotel suite, pis- tols drawn. Mrs. Bell, wife of J. E. Bell, former New York stock broker, and Harry Content, an active New York broker, were tied hand and foot, but not hurt. She listed her losses as four pearl necklaces and two rings, a bracelet and a wrist watch, all platinum and with diamonds. They were in- sured, she told police, for $350,000. One Diamond Huge. A member of Mrs. Bell's party de- scribed the diamona in one ring as “one of the largest square stones in the world.” M®s. Bell, with Content and Dr. Howard W. Blake, New York dental surgeon, and Mrs. Blake, had returned from Hialeah to the hotel in suburban | Coral Gables only 20 minutes- earlier. “I was in my sitting room reading when the two men walked in. I thought it was a joke,” she related afterward. Content said he heard talking in the room and entered to see Mrs. Bell stripping her jewelry. He yelled at the men, but Mrs. Bell pleaded with him to let them have the jew- elry. “They forced her to lie face down on the settee and tied her hands and feet with rope.” Content said. “I was forced to lie face down on the floor and they tied me.” Maid Spreads Alarm. Mrs, Bell's maid, in the adjoining bed room, heard what was going on. She locked herself in the bath room and pounded on a wall between Mrs. Bell's suite and the suite of Dr. and Mrs. Blake. “There’s & robbery going on in here,” she shouted. Dr. Blake telephoned to a clerk, but the pair meanwhile fled. “I had advised Mrs. Bell against wearing her jewels to the track,” he said. Mrs, Bell said her valuation of the jewelry was “probably what it could have been sold for—not what it could be bought for,” hence the higher in- surance figure. Johnson May Direct Prize Air Race Around Americas The world’s greatest airplane race, over a course of more than 18,000 miles around the United States and South America, probably starting and finishing in Washington, may be flown under the direction of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former N. R. A. adminis- trator. Plans for the race are being con- sidered by a group of National Aero- nautic Association offictals, headed by Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, | it was learned yesterday. ‘The possibility that Johnson might assume ground direction of the great international race developed after a conference between Roosevelt and Eugene L. Vidal, director of air com- merce, Department of Commerce, Johnson admitied to the Associated | Press that he was considering the proposition, The race would exceed by 50 per ecent the distance flown by contestants s The marriage was disclosed in Win- ston-Salem, N. C., last night by the bride’s sister Anna. 22, who disap- peared with Scarlett, his bride. two | automobiles and two dogs sometime | Friday night or early yesterday from the home of the girls’ parents. Scarlett and the two sisters were located last night at the home of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. | E. S. Scarlett. in Winston-Salem. The | eloping couple denied themselves to interviewers, leaving Anna to do the talking, and she told reporters her sister and the chauffeur were mar- ried yesterday in the Capital, ac- cording to an Associated Press dis- | patch. | A check here disclosed that the chauffeur and Miss Cooke oblained a license yesterday and were mar- ried in the early afternoon by Rev. John C. Ball in the parsonage of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, at 516 A street northeast, Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Cooke could | be reached last night after the mar- | 1iage was disclosed, a member of the servants’ staff explaining that they had “retired” and could not be dis- turbed. Mrs. Cocke had sworn out a war- | rant at the Bethesda station of the Montgomery County police force last night charging Scarlett with the theft of $5,000 worth of her jewels, but | Anna denied to Winston-Salem re- porters that any of them had her mother’s jewels, Montgomery police were told by | | | "(Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) | el 'U. S. ASKED TO FIGHT CHINCH BUGS IN WEST Intensive Campaign to $2,500,000 Sought as Aid to Infested Farms. | By the Associated Press. KEOKUK, Towa, January 26— Resolutions to seek $2,500.000 from the Federal Government to carry on an intensive Midwestern campaign Cost stitutional right pertaining to the Government or to any individual by approving, assenting to, or co-operate ing under a code of fair competition.” Clarifies Situation. Thus the Chief Executive acted to clarify a confused situation resulting from the fact that some codes con- tained a clause specifically asserting no waiver of such rights was involved while others did not. Some signers of the latter codes are understood to have been perturbed by this circum- stance. Mr. Roosevell's view, repeatedly stated, has been that under no inter- pretation could a code signer be held 1o have foregone any constitutional right by the act of assenting to the code, that the Constitution, of course, took precedence over any such in- strument. However, some business organiza« tions, including the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers, have main- tained this was not implicit. They said that in case of a conflict between code and Constitution the courts might easily hold that the signer had spe- cifically waived the rights conferred upon him by the latter. Order Signed January 22, The order was signed on January 22, the day that Mr. Roosevelt upheld the newspuper publishers in their con- tention over the case of Dean S. Jen nings, a rewrite man discharged by the San Francisco Call Bulletin for, the board had held, activities in con- nection with the American Newspaper Guild. The publishers contended, the case must go before the Industrial Rela- | tions Board established by their code. Otherwise, they maintained the code was violated by the Government and their constitutional right of freedom of the press infringed. Mr. Roosevelt upheld them. It was recalled, too, that when the | President approved the newspaper | code, the product of protracted nego- tiations in which the publishers in- sisted that the right of free press be , safeguarded by stipulation, Mr. Roose- | velt referred to the clause which did so as “pure surplusage” in the exec- utive order of approval, and said: “Of course, also nobody waives any constitutional rights by assenting to a code. The recitation of the freedom- of-the-press clause in the code has no more place here than would the recitation of the whole Constitution, or of the Ten Commandments.” Text of New Order. | The text of the executive order fol- lows: “By virtue of and pursuant to the this year for 2xtermination of chinch | guthority vested in me by title 1 of | bugs were voted here today at & |the national indusirial recovery act | seven-State conference of entomolo- | of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 195), and gists and State agricultural ieaders.|in order to effectuate the policy of Delegates at the conference, called | said title and to eliminate any con- by Iowa Agricultural Secretary Ray | fusion or misapprehension which may urray, selected Dr. Carl M. Drake | have arisen concerning the effect on of Ames, and Secretary of Agriculture | constitutional rights of assent to or McLaughlin of Ilinois as a committee | co-operation under codes of fair come | to present the request to Federal of- | petitjon, I hereby order that: ficlals at Washington. A third mem- | “1. It is understood that neither the | ber of the committee will be chosen Government nor any member of in- by Drake and McLaughlin. | dustry waives, or can properly insist Murray warned the conference that | that the other has waived, any con= the inroads of chinch bugs on agri- | stitutional right pertaining to the | culture in Middle Western States must | Government or to an individual by be battled on a co-ordinated program | approving, assenting to or co-oper- | among infested States if the spread of | ating under a code of fair competition. the pests is to be halted. “2. The approval orders of all such codes herelofore approved are hereby modified to the extent necessary to make this order a condition thereof, and this order shall operate as a con- dition of the approval of any such | code hereafter approved.” . Woman Is Found Slain. | . CHICAGO, January 26 (#).—In her | disordered flat, where & radio played | blatantly, the body of Mrs. Lucretia Hughes, 60, apparently beaten to | death, was found tonight by Proter by organizations or individuals repre- W. Hayes, a member of the church senting American industries. | where Mrs. Hughes taught Sunday Officials of the association said they | school for many years. A meal could make no official statement con- ' spread on the table and an opened cerning plans for the race at this Bible were undisturbed. time, but hoped an announcement | might be made during the coming week. It is understood the race would be flown under official N. A. A. sanc- Guide for Readers tion, but that it would be financed privately. 5 The tentative course now being con- | General News, sidered, it is said, extends from New | Editorial York or Washington to Miami, across . Society Cuba to Kingston, Jamaica, and over | Amusements . Finance . ....Part Five Radio .. Page 3, Part 4 Lost and Found.....Page A-9 Sports ......Pages B-5 to B-§ A | in the London-Australia race of 12,000 | miles last October by pilots repre- | senting many countries. It is hoped that at least $100,000 in prize money may be put up for the proposed race .Part Four the Caribbean to the northern coast of | South America. The flight would | then be routed around South America ~(Continued on {ue 2, Column 6.