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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, colder tonight, minimum temper- ature about 20 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy. slowly rising temperature; mod- erate winds. Temperatures—Highest, 44, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 30, at noon today. Full report on page A-2. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12, 13, 14 ch Entered as seco post office, Wa No. 33,151 nd class matter shington, D. C. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated ~ Press News and Wirephoto Services. SATURDAY'! Circulation, SUNDAY'S Circulation, ® 127,160 135,487 Some Returns Not Yet Receivec. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1935 —THIRTY PAGES.xxk% COMPANION SAYS BRUNO|MACCRACKEN AL WAS AT HOME NIGHT SENTENCE UPHELD JAFSIE PAID RANSOMIBYHEGH TRIBUNAL Lindbergh, 33 Today, Spends Played Guitar With Friend, He Swears. | STUDENT TELLS | LADDER STORY 1 Admits Carpenter “Looks Like” Man He Noticed. (Copyrisht. 1935, by the Associated Press.) FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 4 — Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s defense | today produced support for one of | his important alibis. but lost an at- tempt to establish definitely that he | | for the kidnap-killing of the colonel’s Anniversary By the Associated Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 4. —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh observed his 33d birthday anniversary !odayl by returning to his accustomed seat | in the Hunterdon County court room ! where Bruno Hauptmann is on trial | first-born son. Little more than three years ago | the Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, seek- ing the privacy they so much desired, came to this same Sourland hills re- gion where the spotlight of world interest has focused for the last five weeks. The tall fiver, dressed in the cus- tomary light business suit without a vest, has been an unfailing spectator since the trial began. Daily he has sat behind the prose- | cution table, watching witnesses, | and giving whispered information to | in Court Room his attorney and close friend, and Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who as head of the New Jersey State police has labored unceasingly to find the Lindbergh baby kidnaper. Col. Lindbergh, it was learned to- day, has schooled himself to look upon the trial anu the defendant dis- passionately and without animosity— the attitude of the dealer in exact sciences. At the start of the trial, he con- | sulted the State’s attorneys to de- | termine whether his constant pres- | ence would affect adversely the prose- ! cution, but offered all facilities at his command. When Hauptmann gave his alibi on | the witness stand, to the effect he was in a Bronx bakery the night of the | kidnaping, Lindbergh never took his eyes off the defendant. Hauptmann, his eyes turning to every part of the | listening intently to their testimony, | court room, for the most part re- frained from gazing directly at the! was Dot a man seen in an automobile | giate's attorneys on phases of the silent watcher in front of him. with a ladder near the Lindbergh home on the day baby Charles A. Lindbergh, | jr.. was kidnaped and slain. Hans Kloppenburg, a friend of ; Hauptmann, testified he and the ac-| cused man were at Hauptmann's home playing music the whole evening of April 2, 1932, when Dr. John F. (Jaf- sie) Condon says he paid to Haupt- mann in a Bronx graveyard the futile $50,000 Lindbergh ransom Sebastian Benjamin Lupica. testified he saw a man in a dark blue or black sedan with Mercer County, N. J, license plates, near the Lind- bergh estate on March 1, 1932. He said the car had a ladder in it and that it was the same ladder which police exhibited later as the kidnap ladder Princeton preparatory student in 1932 ’ “Resembled” Bruno. He could not. he said. identify the man as Hauptmann. On cross-ex- amination he testified the man had a resemblance to Hauptmann. ! Cross-examination of Kloppcnburz,\ who also testified that Isador Fisch | brought a package to the Hauptmann case, with which he is familiar. He is one of a triumvirate which | played a large role in the tragic hap- | penings since March 1, 1932. The | Only once has the colonel’s atten- tion been observed to relax, during the testimony of J. M. Trendley. the defense handwriting expert. Then other two are Col. Henry Breckinridge, ' he suppressed a yawn. PERJURY CITATION |ROOSEVELT CALLS LIKELY IN INQUIRY in Munitions Probe Jus- tifies Action. By the Associated Press. Citation of one or more witnesses for perjury in testimony in connec- PARLEY ONN.R. A | Vandenberg Says Evidence | Some of Functions of Agency May Be Shifted to Com- merce. By the Associated Press. Administration N. R. A. advisers were summoned to the White House home during a farewell party, was di- tion with shipbuilding contracts Was | to4ay for another of the conferences rected toward showing that his memory | contemplated today by the Senate gut of which President Roosevelt seeks was hazy. Kloppenburg was made | tc admit that he had told police after | Hauptmann’s arrest he could not re- | member when he saw him in either | March or April of 1932. | The defense contends the package which Kloppenburg saw under the arm of Isador Fisch, who died in Germany, | was a shoe box containing the block | of Lindbergh ransom money which was found in Hauptmann's garage. Peter H. Sommer left the stand early in the day after the State accused him of being a professional witness and vigorously attacked his story that he had seen two men and a woman with a blond baby on the night of the kidnaping. Sommer had identi- fied a picture of Fisch as one of the men he saw. and said a picture of the maid Violet Sharpe closely re- sembled the woman. Didn't See Fisch Leave. Kloppenburg had to acknowledge on cross-examination that he could not say whether or not Fisch had taken away with him the package he brought to the farewell party. His testimony ended at the noon recess. Lupica had been subpoened, but not called. by the State. He was chided about newspaper articles written under his name, in which he was supposed to have said Hauptmann was the man he saw. He said he was paid for the articles, but never wrote them. “You told everybody in the world that the man you saw on March 1 in an automobile with a ladder in it looked like Hauptmann. Isn't that right?” a prosecutor asked Lupica on cross-examination. “He has a resemblance, yes,” Lu- | pica said. “Resembled” Accused. “And you have always said that he resembled Hauptmann, haven’t you?” “Yes, it is the truth.” “And you say so today, don't you, Ben?” “Yes.” “Have you at any time said to any- body that you can definitely recognize the defendant Hauptmann as the man you saw in that car?” defense counsel asked Lupica. “No,” he testified. “Can you identify Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the man you saw in the car that night?” “I cannot,” he said. Saw Thin Man of 40. Lupica said the man he saw was | thin, about 40 years old. In the rear of his car, he testified, he saw two Iecté‘ons of ahladder. and said the sections were the same as those show! to him later by police. Wi He also testified he was at the trial under subpoena by the State, which did not call him. He said on the afternoon of March 1, he stopped at a letter box at the gate of the Lindbergh estate to get his _mail. “I had my mail and I was interested in reading my mail” he said, (Continued on Page 3, Column s MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS HURT IN 1,000-FOOT SLIDE Two Plunge Down 80-Degree “Ice Shoot” Near Peak of Mount Hood. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Ore., February 4—Two mountain climbers, who were report- ed to have lost their footing and plunged 1,000 feet down the 80-de- gree “ice shoot” near the peak of Mount Hood, were rushed here for medical treatment today. After examination physicians said both men—Bill Blanchard, 24, and Joe Daniels, 26, both of Portland— would recover. A would-be rescuer, Lester Smith, 25, was reported still imprisoned in an ice canyon, but he ‘was not believed in immediate danger. Reports from Government camp at the base of the mountain said Blanch- ard and Daniels were rescued by a party of four which included Miss organza Maxine Faircourt, a Portland nuru.. suits in beige, brown and blue. ‘on tulle and with & full, s Munitions Committee. i “There is before us,” declared Sen- ator Vandenberg, Republican, of Mich- | igan, a committtee member, “suffi- cient evidence to certify the record to the United States district attorney to | learn whether perjury is involved.” The statement was dictated into the Record immediately after the Michi- gan Senator read a letter from Charles H. Hyde of Port Washington, N. Y., an attorney, in which previous testimony of Axel B. Gravem, Washington at- torney, was in part contradicted. Clark Seconds Statement. Senator Vandenberg's statement was immediately seconded by Senator | Clark, Democrat, of Missouri. Barely had the letter been read | than the committee's only woman witness this session. Miss Judy | Kitchen, secretary to Laurence R. Wilder, himself a shipbuilder, was re- called. | Gravem had denied discussing with | Wilder the services of a “fixer” who, | | for a fee of $250,000, was declared | i to be in a position to bring $10,900,- | 1 000 to $15,000,000 worth of shipbuild- | | ing contracts to Wilder's company, | Gulf Industries of Pensacola, in the | | Summer of 1933. In his letter Hyde, listed previously as a witness at the meeting in Wash- | ington at which the “fixer” services were said to have been offered, de- clared: “He (Gravem) was very bold in his assertion that a man he repre- sented was so influential that he took part in framing specifications and conditions for warship contracts.” Meeting Held With Wilder. Gravem, under committee ques- tioning, declared a meeting had been held with Wilder at which he had discussed employing A. P. Homer, a Washington marine architect, to get | business, but denied any fee or “fix- ing” had been discussed. | Testimony of another witness, | Thomas M. Cornbrooks of Collings- | wood, N. J., executive vice president of Gulf Industries, was contradicted in part by Miss Kitchen. Testifying Friday, Cornbrooks de- nied he had discussed with his brother, Emest T. Cornbrooks, a meeting in Washington in July, 1933, at which the committee claims a 27- ship program was divided among sev- eral ship companies by agreement on bidding. Statement Challenged. “Mr. Cornbrooks (Thomas) dis- | cussed the meeting with Mr. Wilder immediately after the contracts were let,” Miss Kitchen testified. She added that Cornbrooks quoted his brother as mentioning details of the conference. In turn, Miss Kitchen's statement | was challenged by Ernest T. Corn- brooks, who took the stand this morning. “You say you never discussed this meeting with your brother, Ernest Cornbrooks?” Senator Vandenberg asked. “I did not,” he asserted. “I never discussed the ship business with my brother.” By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 4.—“Psycholog- ical” styles to fit the moods of modern woman as well as her figure are next in the varied Spring fashion picture. Declaring that in every 24 hours the modern woman indulges in more ac- tivity than her grandmother would have undertaken in a month and that the multitude of activities bring on a multitude of moods, Lelong has launched a wide variety of 1935 clothes ready for everything from business to a flirtation. For the analytical mood in business or shopping he displayed trim tweed to evolve a permanent policy for the Recovery Administration. Authorative sources said definite action on the problem was expected within two weeks. That Mr. Roose- velt was pressing his aides toward conclusions was evidenced by a meet- ing of the Recovery Board mambers with Donald R. Richberg today prior to the White House call. There was increasing talk of a trans- fer of some N. R. A. functions to other Government agencies, possibly the Commerce Department. The drive of the American Federa- tion of Labor for a 30-hour week was describea as one reason for an early presidential definition of the admin- istration’s intentions. Another reason was a desire to relieve business of uncertainty that might be attributed | to indecision about the Blue Eagle’s future. May Ask Flexibility. Some officials felt it was still neces- | sary to work out N. R. A. on an evo- lutionary basis, with a maximum of administrative flexibility, so changes may be made at any time within the present framework of N. R. A The only things regarded as certain in the new law were a continuation of collective bargaining, minimum wages and maximum hours and the ban on child labor. Secretary of Commerce Roper told a House appropriations subcommittee during hearings on the department’s appropriation bill that reorganization and expansion of the department’s activities are under study. Transcripts of the hearings were made public today. Studies Reorganization. Asked by Chairman Oliver, Demo~ crat, of Alabama, of the subcommittee whether further reorgani contemplated, Roper assert: “We are pursuing this study con- tinuously. We have not gone as far in working out this organization as we feel we might have done but for the fact that the several recovery agencies are, in our opinion, likely to develop functions and activities which will be brought into the department under the normal set-up. “I refer, among other things, to the N.R.A” Roper said he had in mind shaping the department into three large sec- tions, each with an assistant secre- tary over it. One would handle scientific activities, another transpor- tation and a third business. Would Increase Staffs. With more employes being sought all along the line, the Secretary said with reference to the Bureau of For- eign and Domestic Commerce that “this increase is necessary on ac- count of general business improvement and the consequently increased de- mands for service.” The department asked for more funds to add an employe or two in its district offices in Buffalo, Detroit, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco and Seattle. Psychologists Design Styles ToFuM ilady’s Various Moods the same mood were simple and slen- der wool coats, having a small reverse, worn over plain, two-piece frocks of wool and printed crepe with “no non- sense” in de . For the gay humor of sports there were dashing black and white plaid capes topping black skirts, while for flirtations and the cocktail hour there were suits with black and white pail- lettes of brown and pink flowered taf- feta accompanied by sheer organdy blouses. For evening hours, when the mod- ern Eve wants to look as feminine as a flower, the designer displayed a plaid of flowered taffeta wm:flvl”:l" that ! Supreme Court Rules Con- gress Has Power to Punish. CASE INVOLVED RIGHT TO IMPOSE PENALTIES Former U. S. Aviation Official Had Failed to Heed Re- quest for Data. By the Assoclated Press. | Marking another significant mile- | stone in the development of jurispru- dence, the Supreme Court held today that Congress—as well as the courts— has power to punish for contempt. The decision afirmed a 10-day jail | sentence imposed by the Senate on William P. MacCracken, jr., former | Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, for failure to *produce data requested by its Airmail Investi- gating Committee. MacCracken was found guilty after | testimony that he had permitted cli- ents to withdraw some of the sub-| poenaed records from his office and | to destroy others. ‘ The same sentence was imposed on L. H. Brittin, former vice president of] Northwest Airways, Inc., but he served | it without appealing to the courts. Sinclair Case Recalled. In 1929, Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy ( oil operator, was sentenced to 90 days iin Jail and fined $500 for refusing to answer questions during the Senate’s famous Teapot Dome oil investigation. The District of Columbia Supreme Court—and not the Senate—imposed the sentence. however. ' Attorney for the Western Air Ex- press, the Pan-American Airways, the Transcontinental & Western Air and other corporations interested in air- mail contracts. MacCracken appeared before the Senate committee, but de- clined to produce the papers demand- ed, taking the position he must, as‘ | counsel, respect the confidence exist- | | ing between him and his clients. | _ At the suggestion of the committee i he telegraphed numerous clients ask- | | ing zuthority to produce the docu- | ments. Harris M. Hanshue, presi- {dent of Western Air Express, re- plied he could not decide until he had an opportunity to examine the papers relating to his company. He sent Gilbert Givven, his Wash- ington representative, to do that. MacCracken permitted Givven to ex- amine the files and take from them papers, some of which related to air- mail contracts. In the absence of MacCracken, one of his partners permitted Brittin to have access to the files. Brittin re- moved six papers, which he tore into bits and threw in his waste basket. Senate Ordered Arrest. The Senate ordered MacCracken's |arrest. Then began a game of hide and seek, during which MacCracken presented himself at Sergt. at Arms Chesley W. Jurney's apartment, re- maining overnight as an uninvited guest and insisting that Jurney ar- rest him. Jurney refused, however, for technical reasons. On February 12, MacCracken was |arrested, and at once applied to the { District of Columbia Supreme Court | for release under a writ of habeas corpus, challenging the authority of the Senate to punish him for con- tempt. In opposing his release, counsel for the Senate contended it was acting in its constitutional legislative func- tion, and had authority to try for contempt and punish any one ob- structing those functions. The court dismissed the petition and MacCracken appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. There PFrank Hogan, his counsel, argued the only recourse open to the Senate was to cite the circumstances to the United States attorney, leaving that official to decide whether Mac- Cracken had committed an offense and if so to bring the matter to the attention of the grand jury for in- dictment. He argued the Senate was without power to sentence a person for a past contempt and held MacCracken had purged himself of the charges by seeing to it that the missing papers he had were returned to the com- mittee. Opinion by Brandeis. The appellate court decide three to two for MacCracken. The opinion was by Justice Bran- deis and no dissent was announced. The opinion said “The main con- tention of MacCracken is that the so- called power to punish for contempt may never be exerted in the case of a private citizen solely qua punish- ment. “The argument is that the power may be used by the legislative body merely as a means of removing an ex- isting obstruction to the performance of its duties; that the power to punish ceases as son as the obstruction has been removed or its removal has be- come impossible, and, hence, that there is no power to punish a witness who, having been requested to produce pa- pers, destroys them after service of the subpoena.” APRIL 1 PAY RETURN ACTION COMPLETED Legislative action for restoration of full basic salaries to Government em- ployes on April 1 was completed today when both the Senate and House approved the conference report on the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, which now goes to the White House to be signed by the President. ‘When Senator Adams, Democrat. of Colorado called up the report, he ex- plained that the House had instructed its conferees to accept the McCarran amendment providing for the April pay restoration. The deficiency measure also con- tains $4,000 additional for the ex- penses of the District of Columbia- Virginia Boundary Commission. It also carries operating expenses for sev- eral independent agencies, including $900,000 for the Securities %m,mluhn. » LONDONACCORDS SHUNNEDBY REICH Aviation Clause Is Only New Feature, Officials in Berlin Declare. (Copyright. 19115, by the Assoclated Press) | BERLIN, February 4.—Authorita- tive quarters said today that Germany | on the basis of a preliminary examina- | tion, was unable to accept the new Franco-British accord as it stands. | Reichsfuehrer Hitler, a French non-committal.” “The best that can be said about the accord.” it was stated authorita- tively, “is that it does not appear to Roman pact. | Given Chance to Choose. ; “Heretofore we have always been presented with cut-and-dried agree- | ments, while the London pact gives | us a chance to choose what we want | “This naturally pleases us, but the/ accord itself is not acceptable.” | German officials called the Anglo- | French agreement “old stuff,” and indicated there was little chance of | Germany accepting it now or later| in its present form. | “With the exception of the value of the aviation clause, the Anglo-French accord presents nothing new,” said these officials. “Germany’s return to Geneva is thrown in with the other questions. whereas we hold it apart | from the other things. | “There is no chance of Germany's | going back into the League until after we are certain that equality in all respects has been actually granted.” Reichsfuehrer Hitler received a copy of the agreement yesterday from | Ambassador Phipps of Great Britain. The Ambassador earlier had given Foreign Minister von Neurath an out- line of the draft. The foreign ministry, it was indi- cated, will likely take considerable | time before giving its official view of | the accords. | In addition to the air clause, it was | felt here that England's adhesion to | the Franco-Italian accord at Rome was also unclear. since “England al- ready had agreed to consult over the question of Austrian independence.” “The question now is,” an official said, “whether England stands ready not only to consult but to lend mili- ;.lry assistance to keep Austria as she g The foreign office appeared con- cerned over the Austrian angle of the Rome pact and has asked Germany's ambassadors to find out whether the ‘hands-off policy” applies also to Italy and France or whether it is en- | tirely directed against Germany. “However,” said officials, “there are some good things in the London ac- cord and we will study it carefully.” Germany Adamant. Although the foreign office declined to be officially quoted until it had | examined the full text of the London | agreements, one spokesman said: “The German government has not yielded one inch of its standpoint that Germany must have its equality ac- knowledged in practice as well as in theory before it will return to the League or join any conference what- ever. That is final.” ALLIANCE BIDS ISSUED. Belgium and Italy Are Invited to Join. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 4 —The British government today invited Germany, Belgium and Italy to join with Great Britain and France in a military svia- tion alliance. This alliance, agreed to in conver- sations over the week end between leaders of the British and French governments, would provide a union of military air forces by four of these signatories, provided the fifth signa- tory should suddenly attack any other member of the alliance. Even as they formulated this plan for European peace, the Franco- British leaders agreed to support a move for the general recognition of Germany'’s right to rearmament, pro- vided Germany returns to the League of Nations from which she resigned nearly two years ago. The British invitation to the other three powers concerned to enter ne- gotiations toward the military air pact was made through .Great Britain's diplomatic envoys in Berlin, Brus- sels and Rome. Authoritative British quarters said today the first official reactions from the three other powers on the new Anglo-French agreement were “not unfavorable” to the scheme for re- gional air alliances. It was understood, however, that Italy was opposed to taking on come mitments to defend England from "(Continued on Page 3, ‘Cflm i Germany, RECKON | LooK %KE.A Airmail Decision 1 Upheld, But Action Is Ruled Breach Appellate Body Holds Lines May Sue Court of Claims. in Action of the District Supreme Court in dismissing injunction suits brought by five airline companies attacking Postmaster General Farley's order canceling airmail contracts was upheld today by the District Court of Appeals, but that tribunal decided the Postmaster General's action amounted to a breach of contract giving the airmail lines the right to sue the ! source reported, “is very reserved and | Government in the Court of Claims. The injunction suits were brought by the Boeing Air Transport Co., the Netional Air Transport Co. the Pa- cific Air Transport Co., the Varney ! be directed against us as does the Air Lines, and the Pennsylvania Air Lines. | ‘Their contracts for carrying airmail | had been cancelled by the Postmaster General after an investigation of al- leged fraud in the obtaining of the | (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) | 1 FLOPING COUPLE HERE FORHEARING Chauffeur and Chevy Chase | Bride Return to Face Mother’s Wrath. “Happy as larks” they announced laughingly, end “vi much in love,” youthful Mr. and . George Scar- | lette returned from a run-away | honeymoon today, ready for an ac-| counting in court with the bride's mother, Mrs. Howard de Walden Cooke of Chevy Chase, Md., who has | sworn out a warrant charging her son-in-law and former chauffeur made off with $5000 worth of her Jewelry. But for the unobtrusive yet firm presence of Deputy Sheriff Talmadge Zipper of Savannah, Ga., who accom- panied Scarlette from the South, the couple might have been any other happy honeymooners returning home as they stepped down smiling amid their luggage this morning from a Pullman car under the Union Sta- tion sheds. Hearing Likely Today. True, the Cooke family was no- ticeably absent, and the Reception Committee consisted of a lone pho- tographer and reporter, but this cir- cumstance did not dampen the spirits of the 2l-year-old Scarlette or his bride, the former Miss Jane Cooke, who is 20. Before stepping into a taxicab which was to take them to Rockville, Md., where young Scarlette probably will be given a preliminary hearing today, the couple embraced several times with convincing enthusiasm and announced they were here “to stick together” and “to settle the family differences.” The bride’s father has been anxious to have the warrant dropped, )artic- ularly since he was informed late Saturday night that his danughter and son-in-law had been in an automo- bile accident at Savannah. The car in which the elopers and Jane's elder sister, Anne, 22, left here Friday a week ago, had been struck by a loco- motive, although Scarlette and his wife escaped injury. Extradition Waved. Deputy Sheriff Zipper happened to witness the accident, and his subse- quent_questioning of the couple led (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) U. S. May Send Business Envoys Abroad to Drum Up Trade The administration is considering an effort to inject mew life in the foreign trade staff, riddled in the economy wave of 1933, by sending abroad prominent business men to drum up markets for American goods. This became known today with the publication of testimony before a House subcommittee which heard Sec- retary of State Hull explain estimates of his department for 1936. The State Department joins in trade promotion with the Commerce Department, whose once expansive Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce was the agency that felt tue ax, » (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. PLOT BY RICHBERG | WITH AUTO HEADS CHARGED BY LEWIS U. M. W. Chief Accuses Him of Trying to Deceive the President. ATTACKS ON SECTION 7-A HELD SCUTTLING N. R. A. Talk of Possible Auto Strike Is Continued Here, but Goes Unconfirmed. By the Associated Press. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, said in a state- ment today that Donald Richberg “secretly conspired with leaders of the automobile industry to deceive the President and bludgeon labor.” | The committee stepped the Bureau | | and $95.100 under budget estimates. | INCREASES VOTED IN'4 DEPARTMENTS State, Justice, Commerce | and Labor Total Below | Budget, However. By the Associated Press. The House was advised by its Ap-! propriations Committee today to| provide the State, Justice, Commerce | and Labor Departments a total of | $98,185,500 for expenses in the fiscal ! year beginning July 1, 1936. This| is $6.164,417 more than was allowed | them this year. | The bulk of the increase repre-, sented restoration of salaries to ihe| {fulf 100 per cent level, but the con mittee's hearty approval‘of the Ju tice Department’s anti-crime drive | and the Labor Department’s work in| gathering statistics led to other im-| portant boosts. of Budget's estimate work up $300,000 to & $5,000,000 total, or $620,000 more than 1935, To the Bureau of Labor Statistics it gave the largest increase for ad- ditional personnel, $356,600 more than the $528,000 appropriation this year. It also approved $200,000 to continus a cost-of-living inquiry. Less Than Recommendations. The $98.185,500 total for the four departments was only $1.449.257 less! than budget recommendations. Of | this the State Department drew $13,- | 789,000—$1,650,484 less than this year | The Justice Department’s share was $34.550,000. an increase of $3,528.791 over current funds and only $182,120 | under the budget. For the Commerce | Department, $34.486,500 was recom- | mended, an increase, likewise, of $2.- | 960,915 over 1935 appropriations but $250,215 under the budget figure. The Labor Department's allowance for | 1936 of $15,360,000 was $1,325,195 larger than that granted this year, though $921,822 under the budget. Concluding that the criminal “is on the run,” the committee asked the House to overrule President Roqsevelt in fixing a $5,000,000 appropriation for the Justice Department’s famed division of investigation. | President Roosevelt sent a budget message asking $4,700,000 for the agency. Hoover Cites Work. The committee told the house: “Under the able leadership of thei Attorney General, remarkable results have been and are being attained in the apprehension and conviction of desperate criminals.” J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the di<i | vision, told the committee how the work had been increased by the last Congress. To summarize just one new law—making it a Federal offense to rob a national bank—he reported there were 80 robberies. The results were, 18 persons convicted, 52 await- | ing trial and 4 killed by local officers. Out of 32 kidnapings since the Fed- eral anti-kidnap law was enacted. he| reported that all had been solved. But| (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) FLAMING SHIP HUNTED Coast Guard Fruitlessly Seeks Vessel Reported Burning. MIAMI, Fla., February 4 ().—A re- | port of a ship afire off Miami Beach | sent three Coast Guard vessels and a | marine ambulance on a fruitless search of the area last night. The report came just before sun- down, and Coast Guard officers said | they thought the woman had mistaken | the reflection of the sun's red rays and galley smoke for a blaze. They had responded to similar alarms in the past. 1and maintain the Lewis’ statement was the latest blast in the verbal duel between Richberg and American Federation of Labor chieftains over renewal of the auto code last week. Lewis Saturday told a Senate com- mittee that Richberg, a former labor lawyer, was “a traitor to organized labor.” The federation is dissatisfied with the renewed code and angry be- cause no federation official was con- sulted during the negotiations toward renewal. Martyr Role Denied. “Mr. Richberg cannot accept the role of a martyr by saying that he is condemned for being loyal to the President and supporting the Govern- ment,” Lewis said today. “As a matter of fact, he has be- trayed the President by his betrayal of the National Recovery Administra- tion. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson handed Mr. Richberg the N. R. A. as a func- tioning institution with a record of accomplishment. Mr. Richberg has systematically scuttled it with his con- stant attacks on Section 7A and his personal entente cordiale with the leaders of the steel industry, the au- tomobile industry and other powerful interests. “His latest act in the automobile industry represents his crowning achievement in the interests of those before whom he fawns. He has de- stroyed the confidence of the workers in the N. R. A. because his self-seek- ing personality seems to dominate it." Working for Public Interest. Richberg, in a statement yesterday, reminded the A. F. of L. that he was a public servant, not a representative of organized labor, and that he "-as working for the public interest as he saw it. Lewis’ answer today added: “It is not loyalty, either to the Government or the President, for a trusted advisor to practice deceit, in- trigue, misrepresentation and chicane ery against a great mass of citizens who are equal before the law. “Neither is it loyalty to the Presi- dent to destroy a great instrumentality like the N. R. A., which was fashioned by the Congress and set up by the President to aid the common people stability of the Government. “Mr. Richberg has betrayed and dishonored his father's house. He has brought embarrassment to the Presi- dent who honored him “If Mr. Richberg has tears let him shed them now.” Strike Threats Heard. Meanwhile talk of possible aute strike threats continued to be heard in union circles here, but wen: un- confirmed. For several days Frank Dillon, A. F. of L. organizer in the industry, has kept in contact with William Green, president of the A, F. of L. When Green was asked, however, whether there was any pos- sibility of a strike call, he ceplied: “Does a good general ever reveal his plans in advance?” The subject of the A. F. of L's strength in the auto industry was touched upon in a statement by Green and also in the one by Richberg. The co-ordinator pointed out that elections so far held by the Auto Labor Board, ]headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, showed only 2253 of 46,211 ballots favoring A. F. of L. representation. Green said the federation can “speak for and represent the membership of 170 automobile local unions composed of thousands of members.” Richberg declared emphatically that labor was consulted in the auto code discussions and that the amendments to the code were “wholly beneficial” to labor. Sought to Determine Desires. “All the Government representa- tives, including myself,” he said, “tried to ascertain to the best of our ability the desires of labor in weeks of in- vestigation and conferences in which every one concerned. including all the officials of the A. F. of L, had full and complete opportunity to express their views, and they did so, orally and in writing.” Green said “labor feels that Mr. Richberg betrayed it in a crucial (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) 30,000 DIE OF MALARIA Physicians Make Desperate Effort to Curb Ceylon Scourge. COLOMBO, Ceylon, February 4 (#). —At least 30,000 persons have died in the malaria epidemic throughout Cey- lon since last November, A. C. Stew- art, editor of the Ceylon Times, esti- mated today. Physicians have experimented with a variety of treatments in a desperate “There has been brought to our attention,” said Chairman Oliver, Democrat, of Alabama, at the hearing “that probably the President might need some additional fund, to be ex- pended next year, at his discretion, in the furtherance of your efforts. “In other words, he may find it necessary to select some outstanding business men from time to time to go abroad and to be of aid to the foreign service staff in both State and Com- merce Departments in carrying on! your negotiations.” “So, if on further study, you feel that it would be a wise precaution for Congress to provide funds for this (Continued o%hse 3, Column 2.) effort to check the disease. Attention at the present time is centered on a new drug, “atebrin-musonat.” b’[l;nrm. traffic has declined notice- ably, Amusements Comics Features 5 Finance ..........A-12- Lost and Found ......... Radio Serial Story Short 8tory .. Society ..... Sports ...