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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather’ Bureau Fol Fair tonight and tomorrow morrow, lowest temperature tonight about 20 degrees; moderate Winds. Temperatures—Highest, Full report on page A-9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 16,17 & 18 29, at noon today; lowest, 20, at 10 p.m. yesterday. recast.) ; colder to- Entered as seco post_office, Wai o. 33,145. nd class matte; shington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1935—THIRTY-FOUR . PAGES. BRUNO’S OWN' LANGUAGEHOUSE MAY PASS HURLED AT HIM TO SHOW!|PAY RESTORATION SIMILA RITY TO NOTES| I - Foreign Form Mrs. Hauptmann’s Faith Strong in Sentence | As Ever, Despite Revelations Stressed. EVASION OVER | FUND CHARGED “Mystery Witness” Hinted in State Cross-Quiz. The running account of the Hauptmann questioning is on Page A-6. (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 29. ~Bruno Richard Hauptmann on the witness stand today uttered a phrase almost exactly similar to phrases used | in 2 of the 14 Lindbergh ransom notes. | His prosecutor immediately seized upon the incident to-emphasize the method of speech. Hauptmann’s phrase on the witness stand, in answer to a cross-examining question about an intended trip to Germany after payment of the futile‘ $50,000 Lindbergh ransom, was: | “Oh, that is planned for over a year already.” Attorney General David T. Wilentz seized a sheaf of kidnap notes and | read from two of them these phrases: | “This kidnaping was planned for a | year already.” And: “This kidnaping was prepared for a | year already.” Finances Described. | Hauptmann was still undergoing | eross-examination as luncheon recess halted his trial for kidnaping and | murdering Baby Charles A. Lind-| bergh, jr. | The “year already” phrases were | the high light of a morning of cross- | questions about his personal habits and financial transactions during the period between payment of the Lind- | bergh ransom April 2, 1932, and his arrest on September 19, 1934. Wilentz brought in the name of Pritz Hahn, restaurant man, and Hauptmann denied queries designed to make him admit that Hahn had seen large packages of money concealed in Hauptmann's phonograph. He also denied ever telling Mrs. Hahn that he ‘was giving Mrs. Hauptmann $1,000 for a trip to Germany. He denied the prosecutor’s charge | that he had signaled Mrs. Fauptmann in the court room several days ago so that she shouted “you are lying” to a State witness. Admits Spending Ransom. He admitted spending 12 to 15 of the Lindbergh ransom bills, which he said Isador Fisch had left him, for liv- ing expenses, and said that he had in- tended to send the balance, less $2,000 Fisch owed him, to Pisch’s relatives. He admitted that after the time of the ransom, which he denied collect- ing, he took a trip to Florida, his wife quit her job and took a trip to Ger- many and he purchased several ex- pensive articles, such as a canoe, a radio and a pair of field glasses. Hauptmann appeared at a loss for words when Wilentz brought up the | similarity of his “year already” phrase | with the ransom note phrases. Defense Objects. ‘Wilentz said: “Well, you can say, ‘planned for more than a year,’ ‘planned already for a year,’ ‘planned a year ago.’” “How you would say,” Hauptmann Tetorted. Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, leaped to his feet and charged that Wilentz was trying to leave an unjust inference with the Jury. The State indicated it had an im- portant rebuttal witness to say that Hauptmann was mysterious and | evasive about money in his home. | He was made to answer numerous prying questions about his home and his habits, and especially about a phonograph in which Wilentz hinted much money was kept. “Isn’'t it a fact that during some of those months, particularly after April 2, 1932, that you opened that victrola, and when you opened it in the presence of Fritz Hahn, the res- | taurant man I spoke to you about yesterday, that there were in that vic- trola right on top two envelopes about 11 inches long, maybe 14 inches long, a few inches thick, of money, two packages, two envelopes?” Wilentz asked. “Is it not a fact?” Bruno Laughs Aloud. Hauptmann laughed aloud. “No, absolutely not,” he said. ‘There was confusion and laughter | in the court room after Wilentz asked: “Didn't he say to you, ‘my, this is & swell radio. It must have cost a lot of money’?” | “I got the impression,” Hauptmann (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) RENEWED DISORDERS IN COMMONS FEARED Unusual Precautions Are Taken to Prevent Repetition of Gallery Disturbance. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 29.—Unusual Guards were prepared to cope with & repetition of last night's disorders, " tomorrow night,” m':d-dmmmtorl be- L] n|21 when it comes to birthdays), the ., | York State Senator in January, 1910. e | House By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 9. —Mrs. Anna Hauptmann said today her confidence in the character of her husband and in the possibility of his acquittal remains unshaken. Hauptmann admitted under cross- examination yesterday that he with- held savings without the knowledge of his wife. The prosecution also brought out statements that he frequently took morning coffee at the home of a woman friend, Mrs. Greta Henckel. “Richard is & good man,” Mrs. Hauptmann said. “I know that he will get out of all this in the end, because he told the truth.” Defense counsel said she would follow her husband to the stand. The treatment she is accorded under cress-examination, commented Attor- ney General David T. Wilentz, “de- pends entirely on whether or not she lies.” 750,000 DEMAND BY°HIXER" BARED Munitions Probe Hears A. F.| L. Official on Ship Con- tract Offer. By the Associated Press. Testimony that a “fixer” had of- | fered ship construction contracts to | L. R. Wilder, as head of Gulf Indus- tries of Pensacola, in return for a consideration of $250,000 was re- ceived today by the Senate Munitions Committee ‘The statement was made by William Calvin, secretary-treasurer of the | Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor. Calvin was called to the stand to give the committee additional in- formation about a “sealed envelope” purported to contain advance informa- tion on successful bidders on a 21- | ship program put under contract Au- gust 3, 1933. Fixer Not Named. The “fixer” was not named by the witness, but he declared the proposi- tion had been submitted to Wilder in a hotel room in Washington on be- half of the “fixer” by a Mr. Gravem. This man, Calvin said, he understod to be a Washington attorney. In reply to a question Calvin said he could not say whether the attor- ney referred to was Alex B. Gravem of the Shoreham Hotel here. | Calvin said Wilder warned that a | Senate investigation likely would fol- low any indication of collusion, such | as Calvin implied was carried in | the “sealed envelope.” | The “sealed envelope” was deciared by Calvin to have been received by John P. Frey, president of the Metal Trades Department of the Labor Fed- | eration, from Wilder and contained | a purported list of the ship builders to get contracts on August 3, 1933. Call Gravem Tomorrow. Frey testified last week the list was given him by Wilder, 10 days in ad- vance of the contract letting. Calvin said Wilder told him he had bid low on three destroyer jobs, but, neverthe- less, did not get the contract. The meeting in the hotel room, Calvin said, was held the night after the contracts were let. He quoted Gravem as saying the “fixer” could secure $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 in business for Wilder for $250,000, provided his yard at Pen- | sacola was able to undertake the work. Calvin said Wilder rejected the prof- fer, and Gravem left after describing the “fixer” as one of the “most influ- ential” men in Washington. Gravem was called to testify tomor- row by the committee. Reached by telephone, Gravem told reporters he had conferred with Wilder, but denied making any finan- | cial offer to the shipbuilder. REHABILITATION STARTS AS H|GH WATER RECEDES Toll Stands at 28 in Mississippi Flood and 25,000 Are Esti- mated Homeless. By the Associated Press. MARKS, Miss, January 29.—The | worst of north Mississippi’s flood be- | lieved at an end, American Red Cross | officials regarded their future work to- d‘ay as one principally of rehabilita- tion. Early estimates of 25,000 rendered homeless and possibly penniless doubt- less will be increased, said George Myer, national assistant director of disaster relief for the Red Cross. Meanwhile, the toll of known deaths from floods in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee has risen to 28. Water was receding rapidly near Marks and many refugees werg re- turning to their homes. LONG FOES BRING FIGHT TO GAPITAL Square Deal Member to Plead With Roosevelt for Association. By the Alociated Press. BILOXI, Miss., January 29.—Carry- ing the Square Deal cause directly to President Roosevelt, James L. Mehaf- fey of Baton Rouge, La., a member of | the Square Deal Association seeking ' | to oust Senator Huey P. Long from his dictatorship, ‘Washington. Mehaffey said the purpose of his trip was to appeal to the President left yesterday for | through Representative Sanders of Louisiana, in behalf of the Square | Dealers. “I will stay there as long as neces- | sary, even if I have to camp on Cap- | itol Hill until Congress adjourns,” Mehaffey said. FOES GUARD PLANS. Undercurrent of Hostility Noticeable in Several Parishes. BATON ROUGE, La, January 29 | (#).—Senator Huey P. Long sat in Washington today holding the key to the Louisiana situation while hun- dreds of his National Guardsmen en- camped in the State Capital and angry anti-Long citizens secretly planned their next move against his dictatorship. A formal demand upon the elected State officlals to “renounce the dic- tatorship of United States Senator Huey P. Long” was issued today from headquarters of the Square Deal As- sociation of Louisiana. Reports flew over the city last night that Long planned to call a special session of the Legislature to carry out his bidding Thursday night, but high officials of the State administration flatly denied the reports. In Washington Senator Long said that he was “too sleepy” to discuss the situation. In Baton Rouge the executive man- sion of Gov. O. K. Allen said he “didn't care to say anything about it.” Movements Guarded. Meanwhile, northward in the hilly woods of the anti-Long Felicianas, Iberville and West Baton Rouge par- ishes and among the citizenry of sec- tions of the “Florida” parishes of Southeastern Louisiana in which sen- timent hostile to Senator Long runs rampant, movements of members of the Square Deal Association deter- mined to end “Kingfish dictatorship” were carefully screened. ‘Where the headquarters of the asso- ciation, removed from Baton Rouge Saturday, were located was not known. Neither was the place where Ernest J. Bourgeois, Square Deal president, met his followers after he disappeared fol- lowing a clash of his forces with militia divulged. Anti-Long citizens were reported to have met in secret conclave to de- termine a future course of action. There were approximately 700 Na- tional Guardsmen and scores of State police still mobilized in Baton Rouge, to carry out the dictator’s orders. The military forces had an “intelligent unit” of State police to supply infor- mation about the movements of the Square Dealers, but what they learned, it anything, they kept to themselves. Gov. Allen, when asked whether martial law would be extended, was non-commital. Long’s forces so far have assumed practically all the government of the City of Baton Rouge, the State Capital and the surrounding Baton Rouge. His faction has won over Chieff of Police King H. Strenzke into close affiliation with Long’s State political machine. President Is 53 But Cake Will Have 21 By the Associated Press. Messages of felicitation began to pour in today as Franklin D. Roose- velt, one of America’s younger Presi- dents, reached the eve of another birthday. Despite the fact that there’ll be only 21 ¢andles on the White House cake (for the Roosevelts can’t count beyond President will be 53 tomorrow. Not only that. It is almost exactly one-quarter century since Mr. Roose- velt, & young man a few years out of entered public life as a New But as he presides over the White party tomorrow night and friends gather at birthday balls throughout the country to -do him honor and aid infantile paralysis vic- tims, the President can reflect that [ - Tomorrow, Candles few men his age have attained the country’s highest post. He was 51 when he took office. Of the 31 men who have held the presi- dency, only eight were younger than that when inaugurated. Among the eight, the youngest was the other Roosevelt—Theodore. He was some- thing of a “child prodigy” among chief executives, for he was only 42 when he took the oath. The oldest of all the 31 was Willlam Henry Har- L1 PEEDY Amendment Made by Senate Expected to Be 0. K.’d Without Debate. DELIVERY OF MEASURE IS DUE THIS AFTERNOON Motion Probably Will Be Made by Chairman Woodrum of Subcommittee. BULLETIN. No action will be taken in the House today on the Senate amend- ment to the deficiency bill restor- ing the 5 per cent pay cut on April 1, it was announced this aft- ernoon. Confidence that the House would accept without debate the amendment made by the Senate yesterday to the deficiency bill restoring full basic sal- aries to Government employes on April 1, was expressed today by lead- ing House members. The motion probabi$ will be made by Chairman Woodrum of the House subcommittee which handled this ap- propriation bill to concur in the Sen- ate amendment. There is no- other controversial amendment. The bill is expected to reach the House early this afternoon. Representative Sabath of Illinois, chairman of the House Steering Com- mittee, who discussed the general leg- islative program with the President at the White House today, said later there was strong likelihood that the House would approve the amend- ment. Representative Sabath who was ac- companied during his discussion of legislation at the White House by Speaker Byrns and the members of the subcommittee of the Steering Committee, indicated very strongly that he personally approved of the | restoration of the remaining 5 per cent pay slash and expressed the be- lief that the proposal would meet with no serious obstacles in the House Mr. Sabath added, however, Representative Buchanan of Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, thinks the legislation as it has been passed in the Senate is not in order and that he may raise a point of order when the time arrives. He added that Mr. Buchanan contends that the Appropriations Subcommittee could not accept the Senate pay amendment inasmuch as it constituted a legislative rider on an appropriation bill. Therefore, according to Mr. Sa- bath, the appropriations chairman contends that the House would have to vote directly on the question. No Senate Opposition. The pay restoration amendment went through the Senate quickly and without a word of opposition yester- day afternoon, as soon as Senators McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, and Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, had agreed upon the new date of April 1. Senator McCarran, who for more than a year has taken a leading part | in the fight to get the salaries of Gov- | ernment workers back to the basic level, originally offered his amend- ment yesterday to take effect as of January 1. Senator Byrnes said he had no desire to raise a point of order, but hoped McCarran would accept a date eliminating the retroactive feature, and suggested April 1 because it is the beginning of a quarterly period. Byrnes pointed out there would be administrative difficulties in going back to January-1, such as the send- ing of pay checks to persons no longer working for the Government. Says Conditions Warrant It. “It has been my desire all the time to make to the toiling masses of the country a full restoration of their pay,” McCarran replied. “I believe the conditions prevailing in the coun- try today warrant full restoration of pay. I believe the call which has been made, and legitimately made, by the administration upon private con- cerns and private industry for an in- crease of pay warrants an increase of pay to Federal employes. Neverthe- less, I am never so content with my position, however secure I might feel myself, that I would not yield to a h&r.'letxmmnw and honest compro- mise, am wil to accept modification.” e e With no objection being raised, the amendment was approved promptly by unanimous consent. Anoth'zr amendment then was agreed to, making available whatever, additional funds may be needed by ahat |t Capitol Hill Asked if he has talked with the | any department or agency to comply : with the April restoration. The re- turn of this last 5 per cent of the Parish of East|DPay cut for the three months from April to July is estimated to amount to $15,000,000 for all Government em- ployes, including those throughout the country. It was not necessary, how- ever, to write any specific amount in the bill, but merely to include general appropriating language. It is pos- sible. for instance, that some depart- ments may have sufficient leeway in their present appropriations for per- sonal services to help meet the res- toration. Amendment Changed Slightly. ‘The regular appropriation bills for the fiscal year, beginning July 1, are ny Star Y Now LisTEN, CHIEF, You've GOT To DO ALL THE GLASS RESENTS ROOSEVELT SNUB President Failed to Confer With Him on Work- Relief Bill. By the Assoclated Press. Resentment that President Roose- velt has not conferred with him on the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill, was evidenced today by Senator Carter Glass, Democrat, of Virginia Glass, who is chairman of the Sen- ate Appropriations Committee now | i considering the lump-sum measure. was not among® the congressional | leaders with whom the President dis- cussed the measure before sending it President about the measure, Glass told reporters: “I have not. The President does not seem to think it desirable to talk to the chairman of the Senate com- | mittee about the bill.” Glass’ statement followed an ex- ecutive session of the committee in which Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples, chief of the Treasury's pro- curement Division, urged that the bill be approved as it passed the House. “There were many questions relat- ing to the desirability of delegating authority to the President and in turn authorizing the President to delegate them to others,” Glass said. Other members of the committee said Peoples told of some of the gen- eral purposes for which the money might be spent, but did not attempt to itemize all the purposes for which it was intended. They said he suggested no changes in the bill as it passed the House. “HOT OIL” INCOME | TAXES INVESTIGATED Government Acts After Supreme Court Rules Against Reg- ulation. Barred by the Supreme Court from exercising Federal control of the “hot oll” industry of the Southwest, the administration will delve into financial operations of leaders of the industry through income tax channels, it was learned at the Treasury today. A large squad of income tax inves- tigators has been ordered to Texas for a round-up of suspected tax evaders there, and later the inquiry may extend into Oklahoma, officials said. A temporary field headquarters has been opened by the Internal Revenue Bureau at Tyler, Tex., under direction of Elmer L. Irey, chief of the bureau’s intelligence unit. A Treasury official, while refusing to disclose names or numbers of per- sons to be investigated, said the “whole siutation looks bad down there.” A thorough inquiry into income of prom- {pent “hot oil” operators and others assoclated with the industry has been ordered. A recent Supreme Court decision favored the operators in their fight against Federal intervention. As a result of the decision, Ernest Thomp- son, head of the Texas Railroad Com- mission, assumed charge of regulat- ing “hot oil” in absence of any Fed- | eral authority. WINS AFTER DEATH- Boy Awarded Rushmore Prize Was Killed Last Month. CHICAGO, January 29 (#).—Wen- dell Tarkoff, 19, of Chicago won a four-year scholarship at $300 a year as a prize for second place in a con- test to write an inscription for the Mount Rushmore Memorial, but death ,| intervened to prevent him from re- ceiving the honor. The Award Committee for the con- r | test, which was sponsored by a chain change in the McCarran amendment, intended to make sure that it would construed by Congress two years ago in the basic salaries of a limited number of officials. of newspapers, made its announcement yesterday, but Tarkoff and six com- panions were killed December 26 by a train. —_— BOND BILL-APPROVED $9,000,000,000 Measure Passes Senate Committee. ‘The administration bill to authorize issuance of $9,000,000,000 of addi- tional bonds by the Treasury, includ- ing small ones for “the man on the WORK New Deal Ready To Meet Any Rule On Gold Policies Morgenthau and Cum- mings Prepare Series of Quick Moves. By the Associated Press . Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- | thau and Attorney General Cummings | were authoritatively represented today | of suggestions for governmental action in any eventuality that might result from the Supreme Court’s decision in the gold cases. A ranking departmental officer said disturbance that might arise from the | | high court’s ruling on Federal abroga- | tion of gold payments on gold clause contracts. mendations made. possibility that the court might dif- | ferentiate between private and public contracts. Lawyers have speculated on such a | decision. They also have considered ;the question ef reconciling present | regulations which declare the holding | | of gold unlawful, with the possibility | that the court might rule gold pay- | ments legal. MOHAWK SHOWN 0T OF CONTROL Man at Wheel Temporary Gear Failed to Function. | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 29.—The man who handled emergency steering gear of the liner Mohawk the night it collided with the freighter Talis- man testified today that. given a ‘specinc order of “15 degrees star- | board,” he would not know which | way the ship’s rudder would turn. | to carry out such an order, Stephen John Snyder, deck engineer of the | tion as I moved the handle of the | telegraph.” Just before the Mohawk careened suddenly from her course off the Coast of New Jersey last Thursday | night and into the path of the Talis- | man, her automatic or telemotor steering apparatus failed, witnesses | have told the inquisitors, and the | temporary device was employed to | guide the vessel. | The change from telemotor to “frick” steering was not made before the collision, which sank the Ward | liner, so far as he knew, the witness testified, adding, however, that it might have been done while he was engaged in tracing a glycerine line of the automatic steering system. That could hardly have been pos- sible, Snyder said, although the shift would require only about half a minute. Snyder said directions for operating the “trick” wheel were given him by the first assistant engineer, Mack Smith, one of 35 persons who died in the disaster. Ten others are missing. The only evening in Washington wit Associated Press and, Wirephoto se aper the News rvice. Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,440 Some Returns Not Yet Received UP) Means Associated Press. WERT FRONCTON URGEDFORPOLE Schulte Favors Abolition of Present System in Crime Probe. Abolition of the present civil service as having virtually completed drafts | suciem of promoting metropolitan po- lice officers and the substitution of a merit plan was advocated today by | Representative Schulte, Democrat, of | Indiana at the second day's hearing Government experts had made plans | ©f the special House Crime Investi- to forestall or minimize any economic | §8ting Committee. Schulte declared he opposed the present system because it is unfair, particularly to the older men on the force. The system. he said, also has The system likewise, Schulte explained, is not fa- | Another point considered was the vored by the officers themselves. None Favor System. “I have talked with a number of |the men,” he declared, “and haven't | | found one vet who favors the civil service rating system.” Maj. Emest W. Brown, superin- tendent of police, who was on the wit- ness stand. agreed with Schulte that the system is not the best of select- The only way he knew in which | | Mohawk, testified today at a Federal | | hearing, would be to move the bot- | tom of the wheel “in the same direc- | ing the best men. | l As an illustration, Brown cited the | | case of Lieut. George M. Little, head | of the Police Department's special} | gambling and vice squad, who failed to ' make a high rating in a recent exami- nation for promotion. “Lieut. Little,” Brown said, “is doing more than any other individual officer to prevent crime. Yet he fell down in an examination. He is dis- Quizzed About Box System. Schulte also questioned Maj. Brown about the police patrol box system and asked whether the officers were “cheat- ing” by having their friends report them on duty. Brown said such an arrangement is possible and if the men are caught dis- ciplinary action is taken. Brown also explained that some times when a sergeant and several men are detailed as a “plant” the sergeant reports in for the men. ‘When Brown resumed his testi- mony he reviewed his efforts to get 141 additional men. He explained in his original estimates for the 1936 fiscal number needed to fill existing va- cancies. The Budget Bureau approved | that inlrease, he said, but the House Appropriations Subcommittee elimi- nated the recommendation. ‘The Washington Board of Trade and every civic afd business organi- zation in the District, Brown told the committee, favors an increase in police personnel. Crime statistics were discussed in detail by Brown, who showed that in the last three years three of the murders in Washington had been committed by out-of-town gangsters. year he recommended that One occurred in 1932, another in 1933 and the third in 1934, The increase in murders, Brown pointed out, is due to some extent to en increase in population. Maj. Brown Quizzed. Later the committee questioned Ma). Brown about the numbers racket, and he explained it is being promoted in Washington by “two or three indi- viduals” whom he did not name for the record. M: Brown also described efforts "(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. ‘The opinion that “there is not a returned doughboy in the land thg would not enjoy seeing Mr. Andrew Mellon or others of his ilk walking home in a Washington rainstorm with one of those sievelike raincoats that were issued to men in PFrance” was expressed before the House Military Affairs Committee today by George K. Brobeck, national legislative rep- resentative of the Veterans of Foreign ‘Wars. “The Veterans of Foreign Wars,” he said, “have expressed the definite thought that the way to make those who spend so much of their time spreading a gospel of hate feel the ef- fects of war like the man who has served this Nation in the armed forces is to urge the adoption of a plan which will have the purpose of dorcing the & Capital and Industry Control ‘Without Profit in War Urged same individuals to suffer at least some of the economic stringencies of war.” Having suffered “economic prostitu- tion” to make the world safe for the “money changers,” the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Brobeck said, want a new plan for conflict that would give the Government positive control over capital and industry as well as man | power. “We ask the conscription of capital and industry without yoflt in time of war,” he said. ican Federation of Labor, said the Na- tion “need not fear labor in time of war or any other time.” The A. F. of L. would not object to the freezing of prices and wages in time of war, if it could be done con- stitutionally, Hushing said. ¢ TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT GALLS FOUR SENATORS 10 LINE UP VICTORY FOR WORLD COURT Donahey, Cutting, Gerry and Walsh, Said to be Opposed or Boubtful on Issue, Are Summoned. NETWORKS CRACKLE WITH FINAL DEBATE Robinson Departs From Text of Talk to Answer Radio Priest’s Slashing Attack—Vote on Con- troversial Proposal Is Expected by Tonight. BULLETIN. Administration forces showed signs of weakness on the World Court this afternoon by offering a reservation to prevent the United States from using the tribunal ex- cept after negotiation of a treaty between this country and the other one engaged in a dispute. Senator Johnson, leader of the anti-World Court forces, told the Senate he was not asking its adoption. In what was construed as a last- minute effort by the administration to win Senate approval of American adherence to the World Court this afternoon, President Roosevelt this morning called to the White House four Senators regarded as opposed to ratification or doubtful on the issue. Those invited to individual confer- | ences with the Chief Executive before { the Senate met were Senators Dona- hey, Ohio; Gerry, Rhode Island, and ‘Walsh, Massachusetts, Democrats, and Cutting, New Mexico, Republican. |~ Prior to announcement of the White | House engagements word passed around the Senate that the Court ad- vocates needed a couple of votes to | swing ratification of the adherence protocal. | The radio lanes of the Nation : ! crackled last night with bitter last- | Should the court hold this action |demoralized the force because it has 8! é invalid, a broad series of moves ‘,,;‘flg enabled younger officers to advance | minute debate by outstanding critics | be undertaken on the basis of recom- | ahead of the veterans. | and defenders of the proposal to enter ‘] the Court. Priest Opens Barrage. In the very storm center of the oratorical battle of the air was Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin, militant radio priest, who started the unprece- dented outburst with another of his attacks on the proposal in a scheduled broadcast Sunday. Aroused by Father Coughlin’s “mis- statements” in the radio speech, Sena~ tor Robinson of Arkansas, leader of administration forces marshaled in support of Mr. Roosevelt’s Court plan, departed from the text of an address . prepared for the National Radio | Forum last night to flay the priest for | having “impugned the intelligence of Senators.” The forum address was arranged | by The Star and radioed over a coast- to-coast network of the National | couraged, but if I could pick a new ! Broadcasting Co, Meanwhile Fatner | captain tomorrow, I would promote Coughlin had made hasty arrange Testifies ™™ | ments with the broadcaster for a 10- { minute “rebuttal” speech, in which he lashed forth with another atiack. Others Broadcast. As if in reply to the second blast from the radio priest, Msgr. John A. Ryan of Catholic University and Rev. Father James R. Cox of Pittsburgh | took the air to let the radio listeners i know “that all Catholics of the coun- ! try are not opposed to ‘bur entrance ! into the World Court.” Others who defended the Court plan on the radio last night were Gen. John F, O'Ryan, « former New York police commis- sioner; Senator Bailey, Democrat, North Carolina, and Newton D. Baker, war-time Secretary of War as indicated in statements from both sides. Senator Robinson expressed | confidence the resolution would be adopted, though perhaps witi. but a few votes to spare over the two-thirds required. Only a few days ago. the opposition | had conceded their outlook was dark. » Today they are claiming a chance. | From Senator Borah, Republican, of | Idaho, who has battled down the | years alongside Senator Johnson, Re- publican, of California, to defeat the proposal, there came the prediction the resolution might lose by two or three votes. In the Seuate today, a half dozen more reservations are to be disposed | of before the final roll is called. Only | & normal majority is required to re- Ject them and Democratic leaders said none would be approved. | One of them would keep America i officially out of the court until other ‘members who owed this country war debts had paid up their arrears. ‘The latest reservation to go down to defeat was that of Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, which would have declared American adherence would not affect this Nation's policy (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) Full text of Semator Robinson’s speech on Page B-8. Seven Hurt in Rail Wreck. NEWARK, N. J, January 29 (#).— Seven persons were injured, at least one of them seriously, in a collision of two Delaware, Lackawanna & West- ern Railroad trains at-the Harrison Station today. Guide for Readers Amusements .. Comics ...