Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Probably occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight, mini- mum temperature about 33 degrees. Tem- peratures—Highest, 36, at 3:! day; lowest, 23, at 2 am. Full report on page A-11 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 30 p.m. yes- today. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. b WASHINGTON, D. C BRUNO DEFENSE RESTS AFTER SURPRISE WITNESS GIVES NEW LADDER ALIBI Saw Couple in Car, Claims Neighbor. STATE BEGINS 1TS REBUTTAL Lumbermen Last to Appear for Hauptmann. (Copsrisht, 1025 by the Associated Pres: FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 8. — Bruno Richard Hauptmann today rested his defense against the charges | that would send him to the electric chair for the kidnaping and murder of Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, ir. The defense case ended at 12:10 pm. after sensational testimony de- =igned to place the Lindbergh kiduap ladder in the possession of a man other than Hauptmann 20 hours be- fore the crime. The defense also used two practical lumber men to dispute the tes‘imony of a State wecod expert that part the kidnap ladder came from flaupt- mann’s Bronx attic One of these was the last witness. Edward J. Reilly. fense counsel, waited for th of the jury after a brief re announced loudly “The defense rests!™ Rebuttal Immediately. The State immediately began rebu tal with Joseph J. Farber. a New Yo jnsurance man on the stand. His testimony was sought to refute that of a defense witness who said he saw the dead Isador Fisch leap over a Bronx cemetery wall where and when the $50.000 Lindbergh ransom was paid. The defense used, in all, 53 wit- nesses, many of them alibi witnesses, and required 11 court days to give its answer to the State’s charges The defense case, in brief. was: Hauptmann was in a Bronx bakery. more than 60 miles from the scene of the crime, when baby Lindbergh was stolen: the dead German furrier, Isa- dor Fisch. and not Hauptmann, got the $50.000 ransom money: Hauptmann innocently took $14,600 of ransom money from Fisch for safekeeping: a nan resembling Fisch and a woman resembling the dead maid Sharpe, were seen With a baby shortly after the kidnaping: none of Haupt- polling then | Violet | DAVID T. WILENTZ. Their Final Test Draws Near EDWARD J. REILLY. 4 FACE ARREST - INWHISKY PROBE Virginia Include County Attorney. | By the Associated Press ROCKY MOUNT. Va.. February 8 —A squad of Federal agents who combed the mountains of Franklin County to gather evidence of a gigantic moonshine ring re-entered those mountains today temporarily clothed with the authority of United States deputy marshals. They seek to serve capiases issued yesterday against 34 individuals and {a corporation in the county charging conspiracy to violate various sections of the internal revenue laws relating to the distillation of whisky. | Their prisoners will be brought be- fore a United States commissioner here. who will set bail for their ap- pearance before Federal Judge John Paul of the Western Virginia district on March 4. In addition to the 34 principal conspirators, the document returned by a Federal grand jury in Harrisonburg, Va., yesterday named | 55 persons as co-conspirators. Ends Probe Lasting Year. The indictments ended more than a CLASS ATTACKS * UNWANED G Moonshine Ring Charges in Resents Being Classed asi | Against Banking Bill Be- fore He Read It. By the Associated Press. An attack by Senator Carter Glass of an unnamed critic and a replyl by former Senator Robert L. Owen | served today to keep the debate over the Treasury's banking bill to the forefront. Glass, who had said earlier in the week that a promise was broken when the bill was offered on Capitol Hill without his seeing a copy fust, ! jssued a statement last night saying he resented being classed as against the bill before he had an opportunity | to read it | said. had charged him with proceed- ing on “undeserved prestige”” With- out mentioning any names, the Vir- | | ginian declared: | “I may say that whatever prestige, | of the Banking and Currency Com- WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDl‘l‘mNg FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935—FORTY-FOUR PAGES He opened fire on a critic who, he | | if any. T may have was not gotten | ‘b_\' using my position as a member | L 4 en AUTO CODE FACING CHANGE IN' LABOR CONDITIONS FIGHT Expectation Based on N. R. A. Report, Painting Dark Picture. PRESIDENT AWAITING BROADER AUTHORITY Production Demands Are Found Raised by Capability of Men to Produce. S — By the Associated Press. Expectation that the controverted automobile code wculd be reopened near its expiration date on June 16 was disclosed today among President Roosevelt's N. R. A. advisers. This belief was based on the “rather dark picture” of the industry painted in a N. R. A. research report and on the general opinion that new weapons to make stronger labor codes would be welded into the new recovery legisla- tion. Although the President overruled both the N. R. A. Research and Plan- 'nmg Division and the National Re- covery Board in renewing the cecde with but one of N. R. A's recom- mended changes for helping labor, ! some officials said they believed he ! still intended to adopt some of those other proposals. Reopening Date Not Set. The date of the reopening has not | been set. The President extended | the code to June 16, and this may | preclude change prior to that time. The President was represented by his advisers as wishing to avoid con- troversy with the powerful automobile industry until he has new powers ex- | pected in the revised recovery statute. New labor legislation would not | necessarily involve change of Section | 7-A. which guarantees the right of | | collective bargaining, but might gl\'c! the President unquestionable and elaborate authority to impose labor ccdes. | The N. R. A Research and Plan- ning Division's report criticized labor ! conditions in the auto industry. Spies Watch Workers. | It said the speed-up had raised | “production demands beyond human | capability to produce day after day”; i that spies keep watch on workers ! ‘day and night,” and that men are virtually forced to quit work at the | | age of 40 i “Labor unrest exists to a higher de- { gree than warranted by the depres- sion,” the report added. “‘The unrest flows from insecurity. low annual earnings. inequitable hiring and re- | hiring methods. espionage. speed-up. i | | year of investigation by agents of the alcohol tax division and nearly five months of study by a grand jury formed of residents of the Upper | Shenandoah Valley country. The case was taken over 100 miles from Frank- lin in order that any opportunity for nann'’s fingerprints were found: Haupt- mann did not build the ladder used in the kidnaping: money which swelled his assets after the ransom payment came, unrecorded, from Fisch for stock investinents: Hauptmann was at a musicale in his home on the night of i s April 2, 1932, when Dr. John F. (Jaf- | juoiencing the jury wouldithe: e, sie) Condon says he paid him the |30 0 ¢ oce indicted were Charles ransom money in a Bronx graveyard: | ouiter Lee, commonwealth's attorney Hauptmann was at home for his own | mittee of either House of Congress|gang gisplacement of workers at an to gamble in foreign exchange With & extremely early age.” prison-convict partner nor in any at- | The long-awaited report. signed by tempt to influence the action of the !1eon Henderson, recommended e Federal Reserve authorities for my ! mavimum 40-hour week, with a 48- own pecuniary bmrfil} hour maximum permitted for not Former Senator Owen, now presi-/ more than eight weeks in a year, dept of the National Monetary Con- | ang time-and-a-half pay for all work ference, had made a statement on | over 40 hours. Tuesday saying Glass was “using an| The code, as amended and extended | | undeserved prestige as an expert inipy the President, provides for time | monetary science against the public | and a half for all work over 48 hours | about 20 automobiles and trucks in birthday party on November 26. 1933, when a theater cashier says he spent a Lindbergh ransom bill, and persons other than Hauptmann were seen in an auto with a ladder near the Lind- bergh home before the crime. State Refutes Alibis. The State had time before the noon recess at 12:38 pm. to call three re- buttal witnesses. Farber, Arthur Lar- son and Oscar Christiansen. The first ed he was involved in an auto dent with Benjamin Heier on the night of April 2. 1932—the ransom night—when Heier said he sat in an auto with a girl and saw Isader Fisch leap over the cemetery wall. Larson swore that Elvert Carlstrom spent the night of March 1, 1932—the kidnap night—with him in a house at Dunellen, N. J. Carlstrom had testi- fied he saw Hauptmann in a Bronx of the county and member of a family long prominent in Virginia. He is | accused of having received protection ! money. a charge he denied. | The indictment charges 68 overt | acts on the part of the persons listed. | Among them are | Sheriff Indicted. ]‘ That Sheriff D. Wilson Hodges had | protected rum runners for money con- | sideration and had sold untaxed spirits seized by county officers. | That county officers had removed | olockades so that rum-carrying auto- | mobiles could get safely through { That the sheriff had directed his |deputies not to serve warrants on liquor law violators. That members of the business house listed in the indictment had guaran- teed protection to distillers and rum runners if their supplies were pur- bakery on the kidnap night. Christian- sen, owner of the Dunellen house, | presented a record book which he | said showed Carlstrom was in Dun- | ellen that night. | Brevoort Bolmer, filling station owner and graduate civil engineer, | testified he saw and examined the | ladder at 1:15 am. March 1, 1932— | about 20 hours before the kidnaping. | The auto was at his filling station, he said, to be serviced with gascline and its occupants were a man and a woman. The State contends Hauptmann, | alone, kidnaped, killed and collected | ransom for the baby. | Bolmer’s sensational recital inter- rupted the defense's attack on the | State’s wood' evidence against Haupt- "(Continued on Page 5, Column 4. | Running account of today’s testimony, Page A-4. . RAKOSI GIVEN LIFE IN HUNGARIAN PLOT Communist Charged With 21 Homicides to Be Exchanged With Russia. By the Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary, February 8. ~—Mathias Rakosi, people’s commissar in Hungary's short-lived Communist regime in 1919, was sentenced today to life imprisonement. Rakosi was brought to trial after 16 years of investigation, the last nine of which he has spent in prison. The charges against him included high treason, 21 cases of homicide and 489 other offenses. He denied he had been an active leader in the Bela Kun chased through the firm in question. BYRD PASSES INLET L Exploration Party Takes Final Leave of Antarctics. S. S. JACOB RUPPERT, EN ROUTE TO DUNEDIN, New Zealand, February 8 (via Mackay Radio) (#).—Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd and his second Antarctic expedition steamed through the mouth of Discovery Inlet at 2:55 am. today. taking leave of the Antarc- tic continent. Both the Ruppert and the Bear of Oakland passed through the inlet dur- ing a dense fog. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 8.—A new automobile in which a George | Washington University student and | A A. A worker was taken on a wild | ride through Mississippi by two men, | mond Hamilton. Texas desperado, was found abandoned on a highway near here today. Recovery of the automobile by po- lice was announced by Sheriff W. J. Bacon, who communicated the good | news to Edward Hewett Davis, 20 | who had been stranded in Memphis. “I don't believe Hamilton had ary part in this affair,” Sheriff Bacon said. “I imagine that Davis was a victim of two crooks of less reputa- tion. Hamilton would have bumped him off. Certainly, he would not have left his victim within walking distance of a telephone.” Strandea in Memphis, Davis waited for funds to return to Washington, |one of wnom he described as Ray- | interest.” Last night. after the Glass attack, Owen issued a further statement, say- ing: “Of course, I would not charge Carter Glass with the undeserved | prestige of ‘gambling’ with a ‘prison- | convict partner,’ or, for that matter, of compounding with the two thieves | upon the cross. to sup with them in | paradise. I hope, however, that para- dise will be his destination. There may be left scme shred of charity in | his_heart. “But if I have attempted to in- fluence the action of the Federal Reserve authorities for the restoration ol property values * * * it was in behalf of the property of the entire people of the United States. No one will accuse Mr. Glass of such ad- vocacy.” Owen was a Senator from Okla- homa from 1907 to 1925 and during part of that period served as chair- man of the Senate Banking and Cur- rency Committee. Meanwhile, some Senate conserva- tives were reported authoritatively to | be laying plans for a determined drive | to forestall provisions in the bill which | they contend would concentratc too much power in Washington over the Nation’s currency and credit system. | tion giving the President power to remove the governor of the Federal Reserve Board at will and were under- | stood to be prepared also to press | for removal of the Secretary of the Treasury from membership on the board. D.C. Youth’s Car, Taken by Pair After Mississippi Ride, Found me he was Raymond Hamilton, ac- costed me and forced me back into my car at the point of a pistol,” Davis said. ‘He then told of a hectic night as the prisoner of the two men. who, he said, called each other *Jack” and “Al” At the sheriff’s office here, Davis identified a picture of Hamilton as “Jack.” “They let me out of my car just after we crossed the Mississippi- Tennessee line near here and told me I could find my car in New Orleans,” Davis said. “I couldn't tell in which direction they drove.” Davis said Hamilton and his com- panion took $5.50 from him, but when they released him near here they returned 50 cents. Davis, 20, a Government employe from Austin, Tex., started for his home in the car a few days ago. On leaving, Mrs. Compton, with whom he makes his home at 300 West Wilson ‘They cbjected particularly to a sec- | | It retains the clause saying the work | week shall average no more than 40 hours through the year. Improving Board Urged. The National Industrial Recovery Board, in a letter transmitting the report. recommended & more com- prehensive Labor Board than the present one headed by Dr. Leo Wol- man. The President continued the present board. On an idea for spreading work he and the N. R. A. officials were in accord. He amended the code to pro- vide for bringing out new motor car | models in the Fall rather than in the Winter. The code renewel brought a break between the American Federation of (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) SOVIET WAR MENACE FLAUNTED IN JAPAN Gen. Hayashi Tells House Huge Appropriation Is Needed to Counter Arm. By the Assoctated Press. TOKIO, February 8—The possi- bility of war with the Soviet was flaunted before a House of Repre- sentatives Committee today in an at- tempt to whip the members into line in support of a proposal for the biggest army appropriation in Japanese his- tory. Gen. Senjury Hayashi, minister of war, told the committee Soviet mili- tary activities in the Far East compel Japan to arm, “regardless of financial considerations.” “It is a great mistake,” the general said, “to think that just because the Soviet is willing to sell the Chinese Eastern Railway, she has lost her hostile intentions in the Orient. “Russia is still increasing her mili- tary establishment along her Far East- ern borders and greatly improving the Trans-Siberian Railway.” LEO J. KEENA CHOSEN HONDURAS MINISTER Consul General at Paris Is Nomi- nated by Roosevelt—Sur- vey Posts Filled. President Roosevelt today nomi- nated Leo J. Keena of Michigan to be Minister to Honduras. Mr. Keena has been in the foreign service for a number of years and is a consul general at Paris. At the same time the President | Refugees regime, asserting he was only an in- | D. C., where he is an audit clerk for tellectual revolutionary. the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- Throughout his two weeks’ trial | tration and a law student at George Rakosi maintained a stoical calm. -|Washington University. It was learned authoritatively that| Davis said he was driving to Austin, instead of being imprisoned to serveITex.. to visit his parents, Mr. and his sentence, Rakosi will be sent to | Mrs. E. J. Davis, when he stopped in Russia in exchange for Hungarian | Gulfport, Miss, Wednesday night to officers the Soviet is holding as host- | ask the direction to New Orleans. fges. “Two men, one of whom later Ly Boulevard, Clarendon, cautioned him | sent the following nominations in the not to pick up any strangers. He| Coast and Geodetic Survey: Walter told her to get in touch with his| H. Bainbridge of Texas, now a junior Representative, under whose patron-| hydrographic and geodetic engineer, age he holds his Government posi-|to be hydrographic engineer; Edward tion, if anything happened. Bunyan Brown, jr, of South Caro- He had been In Washington for|lina, to be a junior hydrographic and about two years, and was going home | geodetic engineer; William N. Martin to recuperate from an illness, she|of Oklahoma, now a deck officer, to said. . be an aide. > f - SHO Y @\/),C/TOR»’Ss Star ke GO-GET-'EM GEORGE! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 32,416 Some Returns Not Yet Received (#) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. LINER HITS FERRY; 100 ARE REGCUED British Boat Crashes Into! Craft Plying Between Phil- adelphia and Camden. | Boundary Study Is Continued by Committee Report Additional Data Needed. Bill Provides Fund of $10.000. A favorable report was ordered to- | day on the Smith bill extending for By the As#bciated Press. PHILADELPHIA. February 8. —Nine persons were injured and more than 100 rescued as the London Corpora- tion of the Furness-Withy line, col- lided with the Reading Railroad ferry boat Cape May in the Delaware River. A heavy line, thrown immediately | from the London Corporation. lashed the two vessels together and prevented the ferry from sinking. The British boat struck the ferry amidships and buried its prow 6 feet into the Cape May's sides. The collision occurred as the Cape May crossed the London Corpora- tlon’s course on its regular ferry run from Philadelphia to Camden. The injured and rescued were taken | from the ferry boat by tugs. which rushed to the scene of the crash. 150 yards from the Philadelphia side of the river. The Wilson line steamer. City of ! Wilmington, coming up the river be- hind the 3.0¢0-ton London Corpora- tion, assisted in the rescué operations. Tugs towed the ferry boat to shallow water. The ferry boat was carrying addition to the passengers. REFUGEES PLAN RETURN' TO FLOOD-SWEPT AREA 300 Families fornia Cheered by Forecasts | in Southern Cali- of Clearing Weather. By the Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif., February 8.— of Southern California’s | severest flood of the year saw a| figurative rainbow in weather fore- | casts today and prepared to return to | their homes. A lake half a mile across and so deep 1n places it reached the roofs and covered parts of the State street | area during the storm, which began early this week. More than 300 families were driven from their homes. The Weather Bureau forecast partly cloudy skies today. CHACO FORT DOOMED Paraguayan Army Closes Ring Around Last Bolivian Base. BUENOS AIRES, February 8 (#).— The Paraguayan Army appeared to be tightening its grip today on Villa Montes, last of Bolivia's great Chaco strongholds. Paraguayan sources said Gen. Jose Estigarribia, with 40,000 troops at his command, was gradually encircling the fortified position by his time-tried tactics of capturing first one Bolivian outpost and then another. The fall of Villa Montes is regarded as inevitable by many military ob- servers. EARL OF DEVON DIES Henry Hugh Courtenay, 62, Held One of Oldest Titles. EXETER, England, February 8 (#). —Henry Hugh Courtenay, 62, the Earl of Devon, holder of one of the oldest titles among all of England’s peers, died today after a three-week illness. The earl, whose home here was Powderham Castle, was a clergyman, serving as rector of Powderdam for 23 years until his retirement in 1927. He was widely known as a hunting enthusiast and attended many meeéts. EEmn e o e FOOD POISONING PROBED Dozen Families in Los Angeles Suburb Are Stricken. LOS ANGELES, February 8 (#).— A widespread, but not serious, out- break of food poisoning was under in- vestigation today by County Health Officer H. J. Pomery. A dozen families living in Los Angeles suburbs were reported by physicians to have been affected after eating chocolate eclairs. None of the victims was in a serious condition. . one vear the life of the commission studying the boundary the District and Virginia. The bill carries an appropriation of $10,000 for necessary expenses The report was ordered by a sub- committee of the House Judiciary Committee presided over by Repre- sentative Miller of Arkansas. Members of the commission are Charles Brough. former Governor of Arkansas, appointed by the Presi- dent: William C. Gloth, appointed by the Governor of Virginia. and Mal- colm McConahe, elected by the other two. The commission was to have expired in March. Representative Smith explained that this commission had convinced him 1t could not possibly complete its work and that there was considerable study yet to be made. He said he believed the commission was making an honest effort to finish the job as soon as pos- sible. The bill will be favorably re- ported at the next meeting of the Juciciary Committee. . COLLIERY BOMBED INSTRIERS WAR South Wilkes-Barre Explo- sion Follows Restraining Order Against Men. | By the Associated Press WILKES-BARRE. Pa., February 8.— A dynamite bomb smashed windows of the fan house of the Glen Alden Coal Co.’s South Wilkes-Barre col- liery today as a strike of the miners | entered its fifth day. The explosion occurred about 3 a.m., when the yard of the colliery, scene of several skirmishes, was practically deserted. No one was injured, police said. Two men were reported seen in the vicinity. The dynamiting followed oy a few | hours a far-reaching restraining order issued against the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, who issued the strike call to force recognition of their union by the operators. In the decision handed down yes- hat the strike was “an unlawful act” and issued an order restraining officers and members of the union from in- ducing employes to leave their work, from interfering with men now work- ing or looking for work and from trespassing on property of the com- pany. Minor disorders have been reported every day since the strike began and yesterday Wilkes - Barre policemen opened fire on an automobile contain- ing men said to be striking pickets. The United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania have been struggling for supremacy with the United Mine Workers of America, an older union. —_— Kulak Given Death Sentence. KOSYN, U. S. 8. R, February 8 (#). —Andrey Kulaokoff, a Kulak, was sentenced to death today and three associates were given long prison sentences for the murder of 15-year- old Nikita Senin, who had informed authorities of their anti-Soviet activi- tit line between | MENINGITIS DEATH | . SPURS OFFICIALS ’City and Federal Authorities Act to Prevent Spread Among Transients. With epidemic spinal meningitis diagnosed as the cause of death of one of the transient relief lodge resi dents here, the District and Federal Governments swung into action today to prevent a general outbreak among 700 of the 2.000 transients on relief Shortly after the death last night of James Ophinger, 23, of Shick- ! shinny, Pa., a quarantine was ordered for two of the lodges and a police | guard posted to prevent any one leaving the buildings. ‘The quarantine will remain in effect | as long as there is any danger of the | disease spreading, according to Acting Health Officer James Cumming. General Conference Called. Meanwhile, a conference was ranged for this afternoon in the offic of Deputy Federal Relief Administra- tor Aubrey Williams, at which an im- mediate program of action will be decided upon to curb the possibility ar- of a general outbreak throughout the city. Six transients now are in Gallinger | Hospital, four of them known to be suffering from the dread disease and | two others suspected of having it One of the latter two was taken to the hospital after the death of Ophinger. who succumbed shortly | after seeking hospital treatment. Those known to be afflicted are | Harvey Bouton. 23: Cleo Richardson, 16; Oscar McDaniel. 20. and James King, 20. The suspected cases are | Charies Welch, 23, and a_young man | | as yet identified only es “Haynes.” | Dr. Cumming. the Health Depart | ment’s expert on contagious diseast who is acting health officer in t absence of Dr. Edward J. Schwartz, took immediate command of the sit- uation. and after conferences this morning with Ross Haworth. admin- | istrative assistant to Commissioner the transients would be undertaken. This plan is expected to be the crux of the conference this afternoon in Williams’ office. Among those who | will attend are Dr. Cumming. Ha- worth, District Auditor Daniel J. Don- | ovan, Dr. C. E. Waller, Public Health Service, who is medical adviser to the F. E R. A, and Transient Relief Di- rector Richard Gebhardt. | Division of Control. come before the conference is the di- vision of control over the situation All expenses of the Transient Relief | Bureau are borne by the Federal | Government. However, it was point- ed out, the District health officer has a definite duty under the law to pro- tect the health of the citizens of Washington, and Dr. Cumming said | he did not intend to agree to any plan not in keeping with that duty “But we must work without dela Haworth said. “There is danger of a | general outbreak and we must act im- mediately to curb it.” It was expected Williams would au- thorize the expenditure of additional funds to obtain more and smaller quarters. Gebhardt now has his assistants scouring the city for avail- able buildings. Probably from 20 to 25 men will be housed together. Under present arrangements hundreds are living under the same roof. Suggestions that the transients be moved to Fort Hunt, Va. close to Alexandria, met with protests by civic leaders of that city today. Prison Surgeon Reveals Aid Given Medical By the Assoclated Precs. RICHMOND, Va., February 8—So- ciety erased Robert Mais, but tke Tri- State gangster before his death made a contribution to medical science by indicating that cancer cannot be transmitted through the blood stream, Dr. Herbert Mann, prison surgeon, said today. Eight months before his electrocu- tion, Mais was shot six times as he attempted to escape from Baltimore police. He was dying when officers in the raiding party volunteered sev- eral pints of blood. The transfusion Science by Mais was successful and the gangster re- covered. A few weeks later when the police- man was discovered to have a ma- lignant lung tumor, physicians im- mediately raised the point whether it was possible to transmit a disease of this kind through the blood stream. If Mais had shown any sign of can- cer, it was pointed out, the method of examining prospective blood donors would have to be altered. Dr. Mann said, however, that an examination showed Mais to be en- tirely healthy although no autopsy was made on orders of the gangster’s mother. ' Allen, who is out of town, he said a| | modified plan for decentralization of | terday Judge W. Alfred Valentine held | An important question expected to| PUBLIC WORKS PAY INNEW CURRENCY PROPOSAL BEATEN Wheeler Amendment for $4,000,000,000 in New Money Fails Badly. FAVORING OF VETERANS ALSO MEETS DEFEAT Byrnes Hopes to Rally Enough Strength to Delete “‘Prevail- ing Wage” Clause. By the Associated Pr oreed a ong bi- partisan opposit, ad; ration the Senate Appropriation today beat back a series endment. £4.880.000.000 -relief bill, including a proposal for the $4.000.000.000 work itures in new currency mmittee failed to reach a vote, however, and called an- other meeting for Monday. Senator McAdoo, Democrat, of Califor) who voted with the ma- jority rd. for the McCarran | amendm requiring wages on public | work be those prevailing in local pri- | vate industries served notice he would ) move to recor 0-8 ballot j.\Ifmda'v' The administration is op- his change, p ning to pay ge , who jocularly ane nounced he had been authorized by the committee to make full announce- | ments of the executive proceedings be- cause of “inaccuracies” in prior an- { nouncements members, said inks he made a forces in rop Committee to the | mistake.” Wheeler Proposal Beaten. The amendment to issue $4,000,000,= 000 of Treasury notes to meet the ex- | penses of the works funds was proe | posed on behalf of Senator Wheeler, Democrat of Mon Glass said { was “beaten badly” without a record vote. Another amendment rejected with- out a roll call would have provided that preference be given war veterans in the employment of men to adr ister the bill. This was proposed Senator Metcalf, Republican of Rhode Island. | The committee rewrote the penalty clauses and made it a misdemeanor | punishable by a fine of $2,000 or & year in prison. or both. for fr: lent practices in obtaining contracts and $1.000 instead of $5.000 for violation of presidential regulations. | Three Senators absent heretofore J\\err present at the executive meeting | —McKellar, Democrat. of Tennessee, and Tydings. Democrat, of Maryland, ust returned from the Philippines, nd Nve, Republican, of North Dakota. who has been busy with his munitions inquiry. Just how they voted was not announced. Nye Loses Amendment. Nye lost an amendment, 10 to 9. to | prohibit any of the money being used {for building naval craft in private vards. He announced afterward Pres- ident Roosevelt had assured him none of the money would be utilized for that purpose. The committee eliminated the Phil- ippines from the bill benefits “only in the United Stat its territories and possessions.” Senator Steiwer. Republican, of Oregon, .ost, by 10 to 9, an amendment which would have required all public works projects to be carried out under the direction and supervision of the ermanent Government departments i concerned with the various projects Another amendment rejected. 10 to 6, by Senator Copeland, Democrat. of New York. would have prohibited the Government engaging in any competi- tive enterprise in any community where the existing private industry was working under normal conditions This proposal was advanced by the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers. Senator McAdoo, explaining elimi- nation of the Philippines, said the is- lands should not have been included in the bill “in the first place.” “They nave a special status,” he said “They have more or less of a separate government of their own (under the independence act) and really have no relief problem.” Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South | Carolina, who is seeking to steer the bill through the committee, said he iexpected to rally enough strength to ide]»tr the “prevailing wages” amend- | ment Treasury experts had contended the amendment, calling for at least “pre- i vailing wages” for 3,500,000 “employ- ables” the administration has an- nounced it will put to work, would “defeat the very purpose of the bill itself.” They contend it would cost $6,000,000,000 or $7,000,000,000 instead of $4,880,000.000. The President has taken the stana wages should be higher than the dole, but lower than the pay in private in- dustry so workers would not be dis- couraged from taking private jobs. Fear Lowering of Scale. Backers of the fight for prevailing wages reply that to pay less would tear down the wage scale in private industry. The American Federation of Labor is insisting on prevailing scales. Another amendment. suggested by the National Association of Master Plumbers, was adopted yesterdey. It provides that all work requiring 10 per cent skilled labor be performed by contract and awarded to the lowest bidder. Another, by Senator McCar- ran, provides that “full advantage (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Guide for Readers Amusements Comics ..... Features Finance Lost and Found Radio Serial Story ... Service Orders Short Story Society Sports . @ BTN DD =D a0