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WEATHER. v (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) ‘ Cloudy, probably occasional rain to- night and tomorrow; not much change in temperature, minimum tonight about 33 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 46, at noon today; lowest, 34, at 7 am. today. Full report on page A-2. Closing N. Y Markets, Pages 12 & 13 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,708 Some Returns Not Yet Received ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @b WASHINGTON, D. C, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. PLAN T SEPARATE AID FUND FROM WORKS IS DROPPED No. 33,156. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 —TWENTY-SIX PAGES. MRS. MORROW IN COURT [BANKING BILL LINE AS CLIMAX TO REBUTTAL |0 DEBATE FORMS FIGHT ON BRUNO ALIBIS|ON ECCLES LEAD THEY AINT EVEN GONNA BE NO CORE! Anne Returns D. C. Expe rt Offers to Appear to Court With ' For Bruno Defense Next Week Mother. MAID TO FIGURE IN TESTIMONY| Three Others Will Clear Servant of Guilt, (Coprright, 1935, by the Associated Press) FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 9.— Anne Morrow Lindbergh came back to court today with her mother, Mrs. | Dwight W. Morrow, who was called as a rebuttal witness for the State in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. It was the first appearance of the bereaved young mother since she | testified on the second day of the trial. | The two women—mother and | grandmother of the kidnaped and slain baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr— slipped in quietly after court opened for the twenty-ninth day of the trial. | Louis Bornmann, a New Jersey State trooper, was on the stand to| rebut defense witnesses whose testi- mony was offered to cast doubt upon the State's ladder evidence agaist Hauptmann. To Clear Violet Sharpe. Mrs. Morrow's testimony was sought by the State to rebut defense nsinua- tions involving her late maid. Violet Sharpe. The maid committed suicide just before she was to be quesnoned for the fourth time in connection with the kidnap investigation. The defense used two witnesses, who said they saw her or saw a woman resembling her on the kidnap night, March 1, 1932. One sald she carried a gray blanket and was near a Yonkers, N. Y., ferry early in the evening—before the time of the crime—and another said he saw a woman resembling her carrying a Loney Sends Offer lo‘ Give Opinion on Wood to Reilly. BULLETIN. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 9 ().—The defense of Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann does not expect to call Arch W. Loney, P. W. A. wood expert, as a sur-rebuttal witness, | it was said at noon today. | Frederick A. Pope of defense | counsel said he expected sur-rebut- 1 | tal to be completed this afternoon so that summations could get under way on Monday. i By the Associated Press. | Arch W. Loney, Public Works Ad- ministration wood expert. said today he would testify for the defense in | the Hauptmann trial next week even it he had only a little time to examine the kidnap ladder. | Edward J. Reilly, chief Hauptmann | | counsel. telegraphed Loney last night | asking him to come to Flemington to- day, but Loney replied he needed | more time. In his telegram, Loney reiterated his opinion that the lumber, which the State contends it has identified as that sold to Hauptmann, could not be traced by planing marks. ! Even a “jackleg” carpenter. he said, | would make the sides of such a lad- | ARCH W. LONEY. —A. P._Photo. der stronger, and would not weaken it by using a smoothing plane, Loney's telegram said: “The State’s wood expert has been allowed about two years to study and report findings as to ladder. “The time now allowed me is not equally fair to make intelligent inves- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SHIP RACES AID TO“SETH PARKER” Phillips Lord, Radio Star, Abqard Ship Wallowing in Heavy Seas. baby wrapped in a blanket and being | assisted onto a street car by a man | who resembled the late Isador Fisch. | This incident was alleged to have | taken place later, in the early hourt | of the next morning. i Bornmann's rebuttal testimony at- tacked the opinion of a defense wit- | ness who qualified as an exnert and | said that an attic floor board ir evi- dence showed no tool marks which | should have been present if the Loard was ripped from its joists. { Naiis Are Identified. The trooper said he pulled the board up with his bare hands. He| also identified nails taken from it} and they were put into evidence. The defense expert had said he believed the nails never had been used. Arthur J. Koehler, Federal wood | expert, followed Bornmann. He was | considered the State's star witness in | its case in chief, for he testified it/ was his positive opinion that a left- hand upright of the Lindbergh kid- | nap ladder was ripped from the floor- | ing of Hauptmann's attic in the| Bronx; also that the plane marks on | the ladder had been made by Haupt- | mann’s own plane. | The defense attacked the plane evi- | dence with a demonstration to show | that nicks in a blade left different marks when the plane was held at a different angle. Koehler’s rebuttal to this was that the marks, though closer or farther apars according to the angle of the plane, were still telltale. He directly disputed one of the de- fense experts who brought to court two pieces of wood, and said they were of different origin though their grains matched. Koehler said tney were of the same piece. The object of the defense had been to show that the matching of the ladder rail with the attic floorboard could be coincident, and not necessarily incriminating. One of the points made for the| defense by two practical lumbermen was that the attic board could not be a part of the ladder rail because it had more knots than the rail. Both said it was a butt board, from the base of the tree, and that the rail | was a top board from the top of the | tree. Koehler said the opposite. The | attic board, he testified, was above the rail in the tree. “It 1s common knowledge,” he said, “that when a tree gets to be of a size 80 that lumber can be cut from it,| there are practically no limbs near the bottom of the tree, but the limbs “(Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) PRESIDENT DELAYS ACTION ON PAY BILL Friends Seek to Dissipate Rumor That Roosevelt Will Veto Measure. President Roosevelt now has before him for study the deficiency bill, g the amendment providing for restoration uf the 5 per cent pay cut of Government employes, but will not take action on it _for several days. The fact that Mr. Roosevelt, in dis- eussing the bill at yesterday’s press conference, insisted upon using the word “act” instead of “sign,” has caused a few persons to doubt whether he will sign the measure. However, those close to the Presi- dent and others who have discussed it with him, feel that when the time comes, he will sigr. it. It was pointed out that when administration Sena- tors succeeded in changing the bill 80 as to bring about the pay restora- tion as of April 1 instead of January 1, as originally proposed, there was sssurance the President was favorable toward it. The bill was reviewed by the Bud- get Bureau after its passage and reach e hands of the President muri.w . | cluding Phillips Lord, sent out con- | she was in “extreme danger” and high | over her decks. At 7:10 am. (10:10 B the Associated Press. SAN FRANCIS_CO. February 9.—| One of the strangest calls for aid the | Pacific has known sent an Australian cruiser with the third son of King | George hurrying to the aid of an/ American radio entertainer aboard the four-masted schooner Seth Parker in | the South Seas today. | The schooner, carrying 13 men, in- | tinual calls throughout the night that seas were hurling solid walls of water am. Eastern standard time) the ship sent a message to the naval radio that conditions were “about the same, but don't believe rolling as badly as were.” No S O S Sounded. ! No S O S was sent and no damage | to the ship or injury to its crew was reported. The Seth Parker reported winds of near gale force, but all| nearby ships and island points re- | ported fair weather. | The only exception was from the| cruiser Australia, which reported a| cyclonic depression west of the schoon- | er. The cruiser turned aside from her course to Fiji, *Wiere she was taking the Duke of Glourester after he had | toured Australia on behalf of the crown, to speed to the side of the Seth Parker, 300 miles north of Tahiti. Cryptic Message Sent. The Australia was expected to pull alongside the little schooner this morning. Shortly before 5 a.m. (8 a.m., East- ern standard time) the Seth Parker sent out a cryptic message, “Things | the same,” apparently meaning strong | winds continued to drive seas over her | side. SAILED AWAY IN 1933, PORTLAND, Me., February 9 (#).— The schooner Seth Parker, former West Coast freighter, was fitted out more than a year ago by Phillip Lord for a projected world cruise. ‘The entire Maine Legislature and Gov. Louis J. Brann assembled here to bid Lord farewell as the ship de- parted on December 6, 1933. The ves- sel was in command of Capt. Con- stantine Finks, an Esthonian, and former navigator in the imperial Rus- sian navy in World War days. The cruise, originally sponsored by a national concern, soon ran into “rough waters” through reputed with- drawal of support by the sponsors. It ended at Kingston, Jamaica. Later reports said Lord and the Seth Parker, | named after his radio character, had been engaged in the production of a motion picture. (Picture*on Page A-2.) Victim of Many New York Man By the Associated Press. VICTOR, N. Y, February 9.— Nerve-racked and haggard, Raymond Vangrol, 25, keeps a shotgun vigil for his mysterious “silver ball” at- tacker—a figure weird enough for & detective thriller. His assailant, described as wearing a long black coat, a black mask and carrying & blackj: tipped with a heavy silver ball, has struck Vangrol down several times in the past few weeks. Near collapse from mental strain and physical maulings, Vangrol prowled about his home last night carrying a shotgun and waiting for the knockings which have heralded other attacks. “Vangrol is jumpy, worn and tired looking,” a police official said this morning. “At night he never goes out of the HANNA APPEALS BAN ON BUS BID Petitions Court to Void Rul- ing on Purchase of Rapid Transit Co. Contending the Public Utilities Commission acted arbitrarily and un- lawfully in refusing to approve a con- tract for the purchase of 21.237 shares of stock in the Washington Rapid Transit Co.. John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Transit Co., asked Dis- trict Supreme Court today to reverse the action of the commission. The Capital Transit Co.. under a joint resolution of Congress providing for a street railway merger, took over the assets of the Capital Traction Co., and also was authorized to acquire the stock of the Washington Rapid Transit Co., at its “fair value.” The stock in question formerly was owned by the late Harley P. Wilson, utilities magnate, but had been ac- quired by Joseph E. Baker of New York City. The 21,237 shares of stock owned by Baker constituted all but 375 of the total outstanding stock issue of the Rapid Transit Co. On September 8 last, the Capital Transit Co. made an agreement with ‘Wilson to purchase his stock for $516,- 000 and also to buy up a note of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. for $327,253.87. ter. the Public Utilities Page 2, Column 7.) HIGH COURT RULE ASKED IN SLUM CASE U. S. Land Purchase by Condem- nation Taken to Supreme Court. By the Associated Press. ‘The Government asked the Supreme Court today to determine immediately whether it can condemn land to ac- quire property for low-cost housing and slum clearance projects. ‘The case involves a $1,618,000 hous- ing project in Louisville, but the At- torney General's petition said that un- less. the constitutional question in- volved is settled quickly a ‘“chaotic condition” will occur in carrying out “the entire program of the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works.” The Public Works Administration already had sought to bring the Louis- ville case directly to the Supreme Court. Following a decision by a Federal judge there ruling unconstitutional condemnation of land for the project, Secretary Ickes ordered an immediate appeal to the Circuit Court of Ap- peals, with a request for a change of procedure to bring the case directly to the Supreme Court. In the only other decision on con- demnation for low-cost housing proj- ects, a Cleveland judge upheld the constitutionality of the step. Weird Attacks, Nears Collapse house without his shotgun and he is worried about when the next attack will come. It is the uncertainty and the apparently devilish cunning of the stranger that has us all worried.” The most brazen attack against Vangrol came last week as county and village police hid in the house. The knockings were heard and when police rushed to the kitchen Vangrci was unconscious on the floor amid glass from a shattered window. Police as well as Vangrol are ccm- pletely mystified by the strange at- tacks. Although the victim has twice seen his assailant slinking away in the darkness and once has fired a shot at him he cannot provide any clue to his identity or advance any reason for the attacks. Chief Willlam De Long considers the attacker “demented.” » Glass Silent on Views of Conservatives After Plea for “Control.” LEGISLATION DEEMED VITAL FOR RECOVERY Reserve Head, Speaking for New Deal, Admits Aim to Regu- late Money. By the Associated Press. The lines for the debate over the New Deal's banking bill were forming today as Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, went on record with a delcaration that “conscious control” of the monetary mechanism 1is necessary to business stability. The one-time Mormon missionary and lumberjack, who rose to become a leading business man and banker of the West, thus emerged today as a chief advocate of the bill. The measure, which his agency helped the Treasury to draft, has been interpreted as increasing Washing- ton’s control over the Nation’s credit and money. Eccles, in a statement late yesterday, upheld the proposed legislation as necessary to accelerate recovery. From Senator Carter Glass of Vir- ginia came this comment: “Mr. Eccles may discuss his bill in the newspapers as much as he pleases, but we wil discuss and settle it in Congress.” Glass Silent on Attitude. The Virginian, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, is looked to by conservatives to furnish the leadership for their opposition to the measure. position on the bill as yet. however. Eccles declared yesterday that the to stand up under the strain of the port in the fight against it.” banking system has proved to be an element of weakness in our economic structure that has aggra- vated and prolonged the worst phases of the depression and it still impedes the rate of recovery. * * ¢ “The fact that the banking system has proved to be inadequate is to be explained, in large part, by the fact that our banking structure has remained essentially unchanged throughout an epoch of far-reaching economic changes, both in this coun- try and in the world at large.” Objectives Outlined. He outlined two Jectives” of the monetary policies: “Assuring that a recovery does not result in an undesirable inflation and assuring that a recovery is not fol- lowed by a depression.” He expressed a conviction that the banking bill would serve to remedy present difficulties wherein the Fed- eral Reserve Board, although re- sponsible for developing and carry- ing out monetary policies, now lacks clear-cut authority over them. Eccles stressed what he considered the relationship between the volume of credit and money upon general spending and, therefore, upon the general economic condition. Control, involving adequate support when needed, he said, was necessary. Advisory Status Held Weak. He described the present system of open market operations, through a committee of Reserve Bank governors which may only recommend, as “cum- bersome and unwieldly.” It had, he intimated, prevented the proper furic- tioning of the Reserve System. “It is, therefore, obviously neces- sary,” he said, “to concentrate the authority and responsibility for open- market operations in a body repre- senting a national point of view. This is provided for in the proposed legisla- tion without in any way impairing the autonomy of the Federal Reserve banks in matters of local or regional concern.” The present arrangement for nam- ing Reserve Bank governors he termed “another anomoly,” stressing their im- portance to the system and the fact that the original reserve act made no xmentlon of them. “It is therefore proposed to recog- nize the office of governor in the law,” he said, “to combine this office with that of chairman of the board and to make the appointment subject to the aproval of the Federal Reserve Board.” —_— STUDENTS KILLED IN 500-FOOT PLUNGE Three, En Route to Basket Ball Game, Die, While Fourth Is Injured. “immediate ob- administration’s By the Associated Press. BEDFORD, Ind., February 9.— Three high school students were killed last night as their automobile, creep- ing along a fog-shrouded road, plunged over Devils Backbone, a 500-foot cliff 12 miles southeast of here. A fourth member of the party en route to a basket ball game escaped with lacerations and bruises. The dead are: Roscoe Duncan, 18, of Campbelisburg; Miss Mildred Dixon, 16, of Near Fort Ritner, and Miss Lucille Lysinger of Near Fort Ritner. The injured youth is Melvin Wil- liams, 18, of Fort Ritner, who was brought to a hospital here. Williams told Coroner R. E. Wil- liams that Duncan, who was driving the coupe in which the four rode, had slowed the car to 15 miles an hour because of heavy fog, but lost sight of the road at the crest of Devils Backbone. The headlights of the car failed to show the brink of the cliff, and the machine plunged over, falling near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Duncan and Miss Lysinger were illiams rifles killed_instantly, Wi ssid, ‘and Meanwhile, the Military Committee | 4o Miss Dixon died soon after the accl- dent. He has not outlined his| banking system had “not been able | depression or to lend effective sup- “On the contrary,” he said, "lhk‘l FUND FOR AR BASE BL 1 PROPOSED 000,000 Army Project in Hawaii Held. BULLETIN. The House Appropriations Com- mittee was advised today by Rep- resentative McSwain, Democrat, of South Carolina that his Military Affairs Committee has indorsed an $11,000,000 appropriation for an air base in Hawaii. The money is to be tagged in a $300,000,000 ap- propriation for normal Govern- ment construction expenses not in- cluded in the works relief measure. By the Associated Press. There were indications from Con- gress members today that the proposal to build an $11,000,000 Army air base {in Hawall may soon find its way to | the House in bill form. A suggestion to establish such a military arm in the United States’ furthermost point of defense in the Pacific was discussed in secret meet- |ing yesterday by the House Military Committee, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, | chief of staff, and osaer high officers | of the Army. Chairman McSwain emphasized that any action taken by the com- mittee on the proposal would be for “defensive purposes” and that it would have been considered even if Japan had not taken steps to scrap the Washington naval treaty. “Nothing offensive” shouid be im- plied in the measure, he said, adding that: “It is so easy for some people to | misinterpret. Purely defensive meas- {ures were under consideration.” $90,000,000 Air Fund Asked. | The Army command recommended | appropriation of $90,000,000 for 800 armored airplanes to builc the Army’s air armada up to a proposed 2,320 strength. Also discussed was a pro- posal to spend $2,000,006 on a new program of coast defenses, including artillery for Hawaii, Alaska and else- where. Gen. MacArthur said 175 pursuit, 200 bombardment, 130 attack, 140 ob- servation, 100 training and 65 cargo planes were needed immediately to expand the new general headquarters air force, consisting of fighting units based on the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Sixteen million dollars for pur- poses of Army mechanization was an- | other request made by the Army in what was interpreted as the first steps to write a bill to put betore Congress a $405,000.000 modernization plan. Besides Gen. MacArthur, the War Department was represented by Brig. Gen. Charles E. Kilbourne, assistant chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, Chief of the Air Corps, and Lieut. Col. Frank M. Andrews, com- mander of the G. H. Q. air force. In addition to the $11,000,000 Hawalian airdrome project, the dis- cussions embraced a $2,000,000 pro- gram for new coast defenses including in Hawali, Alaska and elsewhere, and $8,000,000 for Army posts. Request Seen Reasonable. Representative Rogers, Democrat of New Hampshire, chairman of the Military Subcommittee for aviation, said he thought the request “is reas- onable.” Gen. MacArthur, in discussingair- craft procurement, said the 1936 ap- propriations will permit purchase of 488 planes, which, with an annual depreciation and loss of around 400 to 500 would allow little progress on the air expansion program. He emphasized the $16,000,000 for mechanization of the Army would equip one regiment with medium weight tanks, one with light tanks, mechanize a brigade of cavalry, a battery of fleld artillery, seven troops with armored cars and seven infantry companies with light tanks. MacArthur said this force would necessitate acquisition of 285 light- weight tanks, 162 medium tanks, 48 armored cars, 44 combat cars, 33 scout cars, and 76 half-track cars. Al would be equipped with .30 and .50 caliber machine guns. To supply the Army with modern weapons, he recommended an appro- priation of $8,000,000 for Infantry mortars; .50-caliver machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, .30-MM. guns, communication equipment, and gas masks. The is still using the 1903 model Springfleld rifles. MacArthur contended regular Army and National Guard units should be equipped as quickly as possible with the newly developed rapid fire semi-automatic _(Gonflilud on Page 2, Column 7.) 4 \ | Secret Conference on $11,-| | | | Farmer Frightens Crow to Death by Mimic Pistol Shot | | By the Associated Press. EL RENO, Okla—While plow- ing William Lee McKinster was annoyed by a flock of crows | | which flew low over him and cawed derisively. For no reason at all he pointed a finger at the birds and yelled | | “Bang.” | A crow fell dead at his feet i DECISIONON GOLD POSSIBLE MONDAY |General Public May Be Ex- cluded From Court on [ Eventful Day. By the Associated Press. The long suspense over the gold | clause cases appeared to be near an | ernd today as all surface indications ! led observers to believe the Supreme | Court probably would announce Its cecision Monday. | The regular Saturday conference of | the justices this afternoon in a base- | | ment room at the Capitol was watched | | closely in the hope that Chief Jus- tice Hughes might emerge with defi- | nite word of a decision date. There was no expectation in fn- formed circles that the opinion it- | self might be announced today. Late | yesterday the court adjourned over | the week end. It could change its | mind and meet in formal session to- | day. but there has been no sign that an administration official’s recent ad- vocacy of such procedure avpealed lc the tribunal. The official felt that | | 1f the gold cases were decided cn a | Saturday, after stock exchanges | closed, it would give the Government | more time to take any action ceemed necessary. The demand for seats in the court | | room Monday is fully as great as it was a week ago, before Chief Justice Hughes made his unprecedented an- nouncement that the decision would not be handed down then. The present plan is to exclude the general public from the court room. A few persons are to be admitted through the marshal's office to the space ordinarily set aside for casual | visitors, it was said reliably, but none | | will be permitted to stand. Space for | | 170 lawyers is available and a few | more lawyers may be permitted to occupy standing room. The question up for decision is whether the Roosevelt Government | acted within its rights in nulh!ymgl the gold payment clause in an esti- | mated $100,000,000,000 of public and | private contracts. Should the court upset the administration and declare the gold clause to be still in effect, officials have calculated it would re- quire $169,000,000,000 of the present devalued currency to meet these ob- ligations, — EXTRA GAS TAX ASKED LINCOLN, Nebr., February 9 (#).— Gov. R. L. Cochran has called upon the Nebraska Legislature to levy an additional 1 cent tax on gasoline to jed by finance State relief expenditures in | accordance with F. E. R. A. demands. N.R. A.TOPUBLISH IAHJMINUM REPORT Auto Code Under Labor Fire | to Stand Until June 16 for Further Study. By the Associated Press. After putting the automobile een- troversy into the headlines again with | a critical study of conditions in that | business, N. R. A. prepared today to| publish a report on the aluminum in- dustry. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt took | | the position that the automobile code. under fire by American Federation of Labor leaders, will stand until June | 16. the expiration date of the pres- ent N. R. A. He added at his press conference late yesterday that further studies would be made in the mean- time with a view to making any nec- essary corrections. Future Action Possible. In renewing the code the President did not include several recommenda- tions suggested by N. R. A, research, but officials held that he did not fore- close future action. W. A. Harriman, N. R. A. administrative officer, said it was “obvious” the code would be “re- viewed” before the next production | period in the Fall. | The aluminum code must be re- newed before June 16. When it was | renewed last time the President point- ed out that the N. R. A. study of the code’s effect on small industry had not been completed. It is now finished and N. R. A. is preparing to release it shortly. Small aluminum companies have charged that the Aluminum Co. of America. in which the Mellons of Pittsburgh are heavily interested. has monop- olized the industry. The report is to make findings on this question. The N. R. A. report on labor condi- tions in automobiles. made by the Planning and Research Division, head- Leon Henderson, was seized upon by A. F. of L. leaders as am- munition to continue their fight against the code and the Automobile | Labor Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman. Support Seen by Green. President William Green ascerted that the report “supports the position | | of the American Federation of Labor with regard to the Wolman board. “In effect, the report and the letter of transmittal to the President say the Wolman board is dead and done. What the industry needs is a statu- tory board giving automobile workers the same rights which workers in other industries enjoy.” He said the A. F. of L. had “de- nounced many times” the same labor conditions which the N. R. A. research report criticized. Harriman objected to any interpre- tations that the President had rejected suggestions of the National Industrial Recovery Board, which sent a letter of transmittal to the President along with the Henderson report. Harriman said the board’s suggestions were ac- cepted generally, and that it had em- phasized it was not setting a time for putting its recommendations into ef- fect. He said the Henderson report was “one thing” while the board's plans were another. There is no doubt, he asserted, that “sweeping changes are needed in the automobile industry on the basis of the report.” By the Assoclated Press. ARLEY, England, February 9.— ‘While market gardener John Pucker~ ing looked at death through rose- colored glasses today, and regretted that the world to come had gone again, the British Medical Journal described the surgical processes during Puckering’s 4'2-minute departure from “life.” Puckering is convinced he died on the operating table because, “I saw many villagers .from Arley. I knew them before they died. They were all happy and I was happy, too” He painted a rosy picture of “smiling faces in a bank of hazy, shining clouds.” He underwent a serious abdominal operation. The Medical Journal de- clared all those present in the operat- ing theater believed the patient was dead. Dr. G. Pereival Mills said: “I siipped my hand under his dia- phragm and found his heart had stopped. I could feel what appeared be an empty, flabby heart without a flicker of pulsation. The head, of ' Doctors Reveal Methods Used To Save Man W ho Liked Death course, had already been lowered and artificial respiration started.” ‘The heart was massaged and adren- alin injected directly into the ven- tricle, the physician related, causing “a faint flicker in the flabby organ I was compressing.” ‘The surgeon hurriedly completed the operation as the heart beat vigor- susly. The “timetable” for the operation, as told by the British Medical Journal, stated, in part: “At 31 minutes there was no pulse anywhere. A stopped heart was felt through the diaphragm. Heart mas- sage was begun. At 34 minutes adren- alin was injected in the heart. At 35 minutes the heart started beating. At 45 minutes the operation was ended. At 30 minutes there was a faint breathing movement. “At 22 hours there were the first voluntary movements. From the ‘ourth to sixth days the patient was very noisy and getting out of bed. In the third week he was discharged, Couzens Abandons Move When Hopkins Finds An- other 50 Million. ADMINISTRATION BUSY ON PAY PROVISION Roosevelt Calls Glass on Phone in Effort to Wage Section. Eliminate By the Associated Press. Moves to separate the $880,000,000 direct relief authorization from the administration’s $4,880,000,000 work- relief bill, today were reported aban- doned upon receipt of word that the Federal Relief Agency had found an- other $50,000,000 it could use. Harry L. Hopkins, relief administra« tor, had informed the Senate Appro- priations Committee that existing funds would become exhausted by temorrow. When the committee be- came entangled in a long controversy over the measure, suggestions were made that the $880,000,000, to come from unexpended balances of appro- priations already made, be incorpo- rated in a separate bill and rushed through. Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, one of those who was plan- ning such an amendment, said today he had abandoned the idea because $50,000,000 of public works money had been dug up for the relief adminis- tration to carry on until Congress acts. Other Reserves Available, Couzens added the emergency was not as great as at first thought since the relief administration had other reserves to tap if its funds ran low. The Appropriations Committee, in the throes of a controversy over the McCarran amendment requiring pay= ment on public projects of wages pre- vailing in private industry, planned no meeting today. The week end was expected to be utilized by -administration forces in an effort to muster strength to re- verse the 12-to-8 vote by which ap- proval was given the wage provision against President Roosevelt's wishes, Glass Is Called. The Executive has been in touch with Chairman Glass, Democrat. of Virginia by telephone in an effort to have the wage provision eliminated. One report today was that Mr. Rooses velt had sent a written communica- tion to the committee to be read at Monday's session. but Glass said he had no information to that effect At his press conference late yester- | day, the President said all he knew about the differences in the Appro- priations Committee was what he read casually in the papers. Admiral Christian J. Peoples, Treasury procurement chief who is slated for an important post in the new relief set-up. had told the Appro- priations Committee: “This 15 an emergency measure to put the dole-relief people to work; | make them work for their wage, at !'a less rate, intentionally so. than the | prevailing wage, so as tc compel the individnal. or form an inducement for | him, to seek work when he can find | it elsewhere in private employment.” On the other hand. Peoples said, the permarent public wcrks program, for which the President has asked | Congress to appropriate $300,000,000, will be done under contracts provid- ing prevailing wages. MecAdoo Seeks Reconsideration. Senator McAdoo, Democrat, of Cal- ifornia, voted for the McCarran amendment. but now seeks a recon- sideration. Administration leaders ex- press the belief the amendment can be deleted. but McCarran said today he would be “very much mistaken™ if it does mot win. Whatever the committee does with it, he intends to carry his fight before the whole Sen- ate. “My primary motive,” he said, “is to sustain the wage structure of America * * * Inclusive in that thought is that the greatest employer of labor, namely, the Government, should not lend itself to tearing down a wage structure which eventually might bring us to the point where our toilers will be in competition with Russia and *1c Orient and the other countries where there is no estab- lished wage structure.” Meanwhile, the United States Con- ference of Mayors took a fling at pri- vate contractors for asking that all the public works be done by contract. This, said Paul V. Betters, director of the conference, “runs counter to the practice in many cities which, ever since this country was founded, have carried on public improv.ments by force account—that is by their regular city forces and personnel.” “These cities, at any rate,” he added, “would never countenance any work in their communities under a system which has been outlawed by them for over a hundred years.” —_——— Maj. Ballentine Mies. TACOMA, Wash., February 8 (#).— Harlman Ballentine, 60, a major at Fort Lewis, died unexpectedly Thurs- day night at the fort hospital. He served two years overseas during the war as chaplain with the 6th Infan- try, Massachusetts National Guard unit. Burial will be in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. Amusements .. Church News . Comics .. Features Finance . Lost and Found. Radio Real Estate News. Serial Story . Service Order: Short Story