Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, occasional rain tonight and prob- ably tomorrow; minimum temperature to- night about 34 degrees; slightly warmer tomorrow. Temperatures—Highest, 40, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 32, at 12:15 a.m. today. Full report on page A-11. @h Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 No. 33,161 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star " WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1935—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. #%* The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 134,462 Wi 55 ouR pART Some Returns Not Yet Receive: (UP) Means Associated Press. d. TWO CENTS. APPEAL RUSHED TO SAVE BRUNO DEATH SENTENCE FIGHT TO GO TO HIGHEST COURT; HAUPTMANN IS BROKEN <« Delay of Many Months in Exe- cution, Set for March 22, E Seen in Defense Moves. REILLY DENOUNCES DECISION AS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE Lindbergh Declines Comment on Vel'-| dict—Vife of Pr isoner, Crushed, Still Hopeful. (Copyrisht, 1935, by the Assoclated Press.) FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 14.—Death has been decreed | for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of Killing the Lindbergh | baby, but his counsel drafted today a fight through high courts! which may last months. Prison precedent combined with judge and jury to fix the| night of March 22 as the tentative date for Hauptmann's elec- |y, trocution. He was sentenced to “suffer death” the week of March 18, and Friday is doomsday in the death house at Trenton. While Hauptmann wept in his cell, Edward J. Reilly, chief | degree. of defense staff, said an appeal States Supreme Court if necessary. would be carried to the United | | the court % Dramain Trial Climax Rivals Theater Scene Hauptmann Hears Jurors’ Verdict One by One. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J. February 14—Here is the dramatic, verbatim record of the court proceedings at the imposition of the death sentence on Bruno Hauptmann: Court Clerk Fell—The jury will rise. (All jurors rose.) Clerk Fell—Members of the jury—— The Court—Let the defendant stand. (The defendant rose.) Clerk Fell—Members of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdict? The Jurors—We have. Clerk Fell—Who shall speak for you? The Jurors—The foreman. Clerk Fell—Mr. Foreman, what say Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty? The Foreman—Guilty. We find the defendant, Richard Bruno Haupt- mann, guilty of murder in the first The Court—One moment. No per- son will leave the court room until is finished. Stay right Reilly, after having taken kreakfast in the Union Hotel this | where you are. morning, stated to the press: Clerk Fell—Members of the jury, ! you have heard the verdict, that you “The fight to save Bruno Richard Hauptmann has just begun. find the defendant, Bruno Richard “Tt is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice when mob psychology overcomes judicial calm. | | “With all the handwriting experts, wood experts and fancy | pattern makers introduced by the State, millions of Americans are | polled? asking the questions, ‘Was Hauptmann in the nursery?’ and ‘How | did he get there?’” C. Lloyd Fisher, another of Hauptmann's attorneys. who prac- ' tices in Flemington, spoke highly its members and shook hands with several as they departed from the hotel. “This,” Fisher observed, “i5 an honest jury. I was shocked to learn their verdict; and I-believe The first tribunal expected to hear the plea, the State Court of Errors and Appeals, méets for Court of Pardons will not hear it The jurors who sentenced him showed more emotion than did Hauptmann as he stood before them at 10:45 p.m. yesterday. With a look of affection, the 36-year-old prisoner turned to | seated. his faithful wife and said: “It’s all right, Annie.” Back in his cell, out of the gaze of the curious, Hauptmann burst into tears. Hauptmann will be taken to thesr | death house at State priscn in Tren- ton Saturday, Sheriff John H. Curtiss said at noon today. Jury Out 11 Hours. ! The jurors required more than 11 hours to reach their verdict. They were closely guarded after the case ended, but a court house repori was that two of the four women had held | out for a recommendation of mercy That would have meant a life sen- tence. | There was no mention of mercy | when the jury was polled. | With stuttering words Fcreman Charles Walton announced the ver- | dict. He who had listened io the evidence for more than six weeks even twisted the defendant’s name in | his effort to remain calm. | “Guilty,” he announced. “We find | the defendant, Richard Bruno Haupt- | mann, guilty of murder in the first degree.” An insignificant piece of paper rustled in his trembling hands. He glanced at the paper with unseeing | eyes in pretense of consulting it. | A few strides away stood Haupt- | mann, jaw set, face so pale and hag- | gard it was ghastly in the electric light. Sharply erect, he tottered slightly as he heard the foreman's words. A few minutes later Justice Thomas ‘W. Trenchard quietly imposed sen- tence. Long Trail Comes to End. Bo ended the long Lindbergh kidnap trail. It began in Featherbed lane, Hopewell, the night of March 1, 1932, when the wind was howling over the lonely Sourland Mountain on which | Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made his home. It ended in a prosaic, rural | court room littered with pespers and | cigarette stubs. Thirteen times the death-dealing verdict was recited, on the thirteenth day of the month, After ‘Walton had made known the decision, the court clerk asked: “Members of the jury, you have heard the verdict—that you find the defendant, 3runo Richard Haupt- mann, guilty of murder in the first degree—and so say you ali?” “We do.” Shadows from photographers’ flares outside danced weirdly on the win- dows. The shouts of the crowd in- truded the court room hush. The clerk polled the jurors, asked each by name: “What is your verdict?” One after the other fell the answers: “I Find Him Guilty—" “I find him guilty of murder in the first degree.” “I find him guilty of murder in the first degree.” “I find him guilty—" Hauptmann seemed not to hear it once. Justice Trenchard was the personi- fication of judicial decorum. He bent a look on Hauptmann, and directed: “The defendant may be seated.” Turning to Attorney Genreral David ‘T. Wilentz, he continued: of the jury. He knows most of | they were mistaken.” its next term late in May. The before October. LINDBERGH QUIET ONBRUNO VERDICT Colonel Plans Flight to China—Mrs. Morrow to Go to Mexico. By the Associated Press. ENGLEWOOD, N. J., February 14.— The Hauptmann murder trial has| written the closing chapter in the | tragedy of their firstborn son, and Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh have no intention of adding a post- script, be it ever so short. Col. Lindbergh had “no comment nor statement on the case whatso-| ever,” 1t was stated at the home of| Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, where the | colonel had gone hours before the ver- dict was announced at Flemington. As long as the prosecution thought he could be of any help, as long as there were servants of the Lindbergh’s and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow to be Qefended, the aviator attended the trial. As soon as the judge had charged the jury he left. Last night's session was the only | one he had missed in the 32 days the trial gvas under way. Mrs. Lindbergh attended only two sessions, the early one at which she testified and one during the rebuttal when her mother took the stand. Col. Lindbergh now is to make a trail-blazing airplane flight to China and Mrs. Morrow plans a trip to Mexico. Harold Nicholson is writing a biog- raphy of Dwight Morrow, late Senator | Hauptmann, guilty of murder in the | first degree, and so say you all The Jurors—We do. Mr. Reilly—May we have the jury The Court—Yes. Clerk Fell—Do you want each one individually? The Court—Yes. (As his name was called each juror replied: Guilty of murder in the first degree.) The Court—You may be seated and the verdict may be recorded. There is no objection now to any person leaving the court room that desire to leave, if they will do so quietly. But they must depart from the court room quietly and must do S0 at once. Court Crier Hann—Pass out quietly, please. The Court—The defendant may be It seems to the court that there is nothing remaining except to impose the sentence provided by the statute, and I am asking now the attorney general if he moves sentence. Mr. Wilentz—If your honor please, the State moves for sentence of the defendant at this time. The Court—Let me have the indict- ment. (Indictment handed to the court.) The Court—The statute requires, apparently, that the court shall fix a | time within which the sentence is to | be executed and within a certain week, which must begin not less than four weeks and not more than eight weeks after the issue of the warrant. The court will, therefore, now pro- ceed to impose the sentence. The defendant may stand. Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann, you have been con- victed of murder in the first degree. The sentence of the court is that you, the said Bruno Richard Hauptmann, suffer death at the time and place and in the manner provided by law. And the court will hand to the sheriff a warrant appointing the week beginning Monday, the 18th day of March, 1935, as the week within which such sen- tence must be executed in the maner provided by law. You are now remanded to the cus- tody of the sheriff. You may retire. (The defendant retired in the cus- tody of the sheriff at 10:50 p.m.) The Court—The people will remain seated where they are. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury— The court desires to thank you most " (Continued on Page 4, Column 6. DESERTED BY SPOUSE SHE AIDED, WIFE SAYS Divorce Granted Chicago Woman, Mother of Two, Who Tells of Paying for Education. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 14.—Is it the ‘woman who pays? Mrs, Beatrice Anderson, testifying in Judge Finnegan's court, said that it was. She asserted that after spending be- tween $5.000 and $10,000 to send John Carver Anderson to school for three years, he deserted her and their two children. She was given a divorce. 1In another order the court directed J. Francis Bulger to sell his Board and Ambassador to Mexico, and Mrs. fof Trade membership so he can pay Morrow plans to assist in research work in Mexico. alimory and attorney fees to his for- mer wife, Florence. Garbled Radio Code Signals Caused Wrong Verdict Report By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 14. —A misunderstanding of code signals last night resulted in the Associated Press flashing an erroneous verdict in the Hauptmann case. ¢ In transmitting the report, the de- cision was garbled and the first word to reach waiting newspapers was that the jury had found Hauptmann guilty, but with a recommendation for life sentence. The correct verdict was guilty, with the death penalty. “It _seems to the court that there (Continued on Page 4, Column r Short-wave transmission, employing code, was set up to cover the verdict. The staff had been cautioned not to confuse signals and to be certain that the signals received were from the Associated Press representative. When word came from the court room that the jury was ready to re- port, however, the Associated Press man on the receiving end picked up the wrong code signal, resulting in the erroneous and premature flash. The court room being closed, min- utes passed before knowledge of the error was learned. The flash and bul- letins were killed exactly 11 minutes (Continued on Page 4, gflm 1] TTALY TODISPATCH | TRODPS SATURDAY Forces Will Leave Sicily‘ for Eritrea and Somali- | land. ' | (Copyrisht, 1935, by the Assoctated Press) ROME, February 14—The first de- tachment of Italy's African expedi- tionary force will leave Sicily for | Eritea and Italian Somaliland Satur- | day, a government spokesman an- nounced today. This information was divulged as | Premier Mussolini prepared to confer | with the Fascist Grand Council to de- termine his policy in view of the defi- | ant comunication sent him by King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. The official spokesman said other expeditionary contingents would fol- | low the first unit on Sunday and suc- | ceeding days. | Reinforce Garrisons. He emphasized this move does not necessarily presage war, but the troops | are being dispatched to reinforce colo- nial garrisons and obviate the danger of further Ethiopian attacks. | The number of troops scheduled to leave was not disclosed, but it was learned 15,000 will be on their wgy | before the end of next week | *“This shows definitely our mobili- | zation was not merely a bluff,” the spokesman said. 3 He added his government had not yet received any information about the neutral zone settlement reported to have been effectd at Addis Ababa, | or about reports of a new Ethiopian | attack. 1,000 Arrive in Rome. More than 1,000 troops with full | equipment arrived i Rome this morn- ing from northern cities. They were to spend the day here in barracks, undergoing inspection of their equip- ment and then were to move on to Sicily. Italy’s final reaction to King Selas- sie’s communication, the official spokesman said, is that it is “ridicu- lous.” s “The Ethiopians said they could not have attacked Afdub,” he said, “be- cause the Italians had already evacu- ated it, but that they, however, did not_enter. . “How, therefore, could they have known the Italians had evacuated it?” With announcement of the intend- ing troop departure, all eyes turned to the Grand Council meeting tonight in the expectation that a definite statement of policy would be forth- coming. FRENCH SEND TROOPS. Precautions Taken Against Frontier Trouble. PARIS, February 14 (#).—Troop reinforcements were ordered to French Somaliland today to guard against trouble. connection with the Italo-Ethiopian any further frontier incidents in Ethiopia agreed to a French de- mand for indemnity for the killing of the colonial official, Albert Julien Bernard and 18 Somali police, Jan- uary 18. Coincident with the ordering of the additional troops to the French col- ony the government announced the Ethiopian government would be held responsible for the pacification of the border tribes. The police were massacred while defending 200 French Somalis against 2,000 Nomad raiders from the Ethiopian province of Aoussa, January 18. Seven Fishermen Drowned. OSLO, Norway, February 14 (#).— Seven fishermen were drowned today in a hurricane which swept the At- lantic Coast in the vicinity of the Island of Froya. Several fishing craft capsized. Thirteen houses were de- "slfoyed. Bomb Wounds Soldiers. CAMAGUEY, Cuba, February 14 (#)—Several soldiers were wounded today when a bomb was exploded at the Estrella, § destroying the army’ barracks NEW DEAL VALENTINES! ARTHUR W. CUTTEN. WILSON EXPRESSES U. 5. ARMS DESIRE Tells Special Committee at Geneva of Hope for General Conference. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, February 14.—Hugh Wil- son, United States Minister to Switzer- land. told a special committee of the Disarmament Conference today that the dearest hope of the United States is a general convention for the limita- tion of armaments. ‘The committee, which will attempt to hit at the evils of arms manufac- ture and traffic. was just opening its session when Wilson spoke. Alluding to negotiations with Ger- many for a European air securities pact and to other anti-war projects, the American representative called them “important,” and said he be- lieved success in handling a specific subject such as the arms traffic “would materially aid the success. which we all ardently desire, of general nego- tiations. “The American Government,” said Wilson, “attaches peculiar importance to the success of the three-fold project now before us: For the regulation of the arms traffic and manufacture, for the establishment of a supervisory body, and for the publicity of expendi- tures. “It is conceived as something which will not only be a definite contribution itself, but will facilitate the prepara- tion of a general convention on the limitation of arms. It has never been our (the United States’) intention to divert the work of this conference from a general convention on the limitation of arms.” He then moved the adoption of this plan as a basis for the future discus- sions on the committee meetings. The committee accepted this Amer- ican plan as a basis. Joins “Maturates” at 111 Years. OKLAHOMA CITY, February 14 (P)—The Maturates, a society for persons more than 70 years of age, opened their ranks today to a new member old enough to be the father of most of them. He was John J. Allen of Davis, Okla., 111, who claims he recently cut his fourth set of teeth. Davis has 15 children. Guide for Reader: After Dark . Amusements Comics Features Finance .. . Lost and Found Radio ... Serial Sto! Service Orders Short Story .C-5-6-1 A-17-18-19 ONGRAINMARKETS CUTTEN 1S BARRED Found Guilty by Commission of Price-Manipulation Attempt. By the Associated Press. Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago trader, today was prohibited by the Grain Pis+ tures Commission from trading on-any | grain market for a period of two years. | The commission found Cutten guilty | ior violating the grain futures act “by | | attempting to manipulate” prices by | concealing his transactions on the Chicago Board of Trade. The decision was reached Febru- ary 12, but was not Wnnounced by the 1 | commission—composed of Secretaries | ‘Wallace and Roper and Attorney Gen- | 1ernl Cummings—until Cutten had | | been advised of the findings. | Eight Firms Used. | The commission found Cutten hnd‘ ransacted his business through eight | commission firms, split his tradings into 35 accounts and carried some of them in the names of relatives and ascociates for the purpose of conceal- | ment It also found that during 1930 he made no reports of his transactions, | as required under the grain futures act, although he controlled in excess of 500,000 bushels of wheat on 130 days during the year. “During the year 1931,” the commis- | slon said, “respondent (Cutten) made | reports irregularly to the Grain Futures Administration, none of which was true or correct, as a statement of his net position on the market on the day covered by such report.” On 110 days during 1931 Cutten was found by the commission to have traded wheat futures in excess of 500.- 000 bushels and that on “a great many days” he made no reports. Transactions Distributed. Cutten’s purpose “in concealing his position in the market was to manipu- late the price of grain and thereby to make large profits,” the commission said. “He systematically allocated purchases and sales of wheat futures to the various accounts in order to keep them under 500,000 bushels and thus to avoid detection.” The two-year disbarment is effec- tive March 1 and administration offi- cials said the action would definitely break Cutten’s activities in the market since it would be difficult for him to resume operations in 1937. It was understood Cutten’s attor- neys would *appeal the case to the Circuit Court. Such action would pro- vide the first test of the grain futures act, passed in 1922 Cutten Is Resigned. CHICAGO, February 14 (#).—Fellow traders on the Chicago Board of Trade quoted Arthur W. Cutten, reputedly the country’s biggest market operator, as greeting news of his disbarment today with the remark: “I'm not going to do anything about it “What's the use of trading?” said Cutten. “The market doesn't move.” ‘The Chicago trader laid the basis for an appeal to the courts when his grain operations were under investi- gation here last year. At that time, his attorneys said he would fight a disbarment order to the Supreme Court, believing that the grain futures act, used against him, was unconsti- tutional. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, February 14.—Feodor Chaliapin, the Russian basso, 62 today, thinks maybe he'll sing for five more years and then have a jubilee—50 years of singing. “I feel fine,” he said. “My heart is good, my breath is good, my liver is good. I'm all right.” Chaliapin explained all these bless- ings with appropriate gestures and said he thought he would continue to sing “maybe for several years.” “My voice is not—what is it you say? —irritated,” he said. “I was afraid. | the naval board of inquiry | Orin G. Murfin of the U ‘Heart, Breath and Liver Good,’ Chaliapin to Keep on Singing MAGON DISASTER CAUSE 1S SOUGHT BYINQUIRY BOARD Full Details of Craft’s Last Losing Battle Will Be Revealed. WEATHER FACTOR HELD | MINOR IN SHIP LOSS| Structural Defects Hinted—Per- manent Abandonment of Program Looming. | By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 14— The cause of the “shudder” which meant death to two men and the sen- sational end of the giant dirigible Macon was sought today by a naval court of inquiry in the first of a series of promised governmental investiga- tions. Even the surviving 81 officers and | men of the silver sky queen which crashed and sank in the Pacific Ocean | Tuesday night were not what caused that quiver to run the length of the Macon and subsequently rip away two of her vital gas cells. Lieut. Comdr. H. V. Wiley, vivor of the Akron disaster and master of the Macon. had “some ideas” about it but declined to discuss them. He began questioning the crew when they returned to the Macon's vacant hang- ar at Sunnyvale yesterday and called them to assemble at noon today. Board to Get Report. His findings will be placed before Whether testimony before the board will be made public immediately was to be determined after it assembled aboard the U. 6. S. Tennessee in San Fran- cisco Bay at 9:30 am. (12:30 pm. Eastern standard time). Three proposals to investigate the crash were made in Washington as President Roosevelt said there would be no immediate move to replace the | greatest airship the world has ever seen. ‘There were a few dissenting voices. but official Washington was inclined to view the Macon's loss as indi- | cating a halt in the Navy's develop- ment of the dirigible, temporarily, if not permanently. As to the original cause of the crash, survivors and observers were agreed on only one thing—that the ' squally weather played only a minor part. There were hints of some possible structural weakness in the stern of the $2,450,000 ship, but naval officers would make no definite statement re- garding such a possibility. Board Members Named. The Navy Board of Inguiry. an- neunced by Admiral J. M. Reeves. commander in chief of the United States Fleet, consists of Rear Admiral S. S. New Mexico, Capt. W. R. Van Auken of the U. S. S. Oklahoma, Capt. H. E.| Shoemaker of the U. S. S. Northamp- | ton and Comdr. T. L. Gatch of the | New Mexico as judge advocate | Investigation proposals were an- nounced in Washington by Chairman Vinson, Democrat. of Georgia. of the House Naval Committee; Chairman McSwain, Democrat, of South Caro-! lina, of the Military Affairs Commit- | tee, and Chairman Sirovich, Democrat, | of New York, of the Patents Com-| mittee. Vinson said the naval committee would make “a thorough investiga-| tion” in open public hearings. | MITCHELL UTTERS WARNING. | | sur- Tells House Investigators Lighter- Than-Air Craft Needed. By the Associated Press Congress was warned today by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, retired, that “it would be very foolish to give up our airship development, particularly in view of conditions in the Far East at this time.” Testifying before the House Patents Committee in what Chairman Siro- vich, Democrat, of New York, an- nounced as an investigation into the loss of the airship Macon in the Pacific, the commander of the United States Air Force during the World War abroad championed the lighter- than-air creft in the midst of criti- cism on Capitol Hill and elsewhere | following the Macon disaster. | “If we continue to disarm.” he said, | (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) — e Guards Patrol Glove Strike. MILLAU, France, February 14 (#).— | Reinforcements of mobile guards pa- | trolled Millau today following last night's rioting by striking glove mak- ers. Feeling was running high as the strike entered the eighth week, the laborers striking in protest against cuts in pay. I was stupid to have smoked so much, maybe 40 cigarettes a day. “But I stopped smoking three or four years ago. I don’t smoke now. I drink only—what is it?>—moderately. I feel very well.” Chaliapin has been singing for 45 years now. After singing five more years for the jubilee he wants to open a special academy of theatrical arts, he said. “It is only in my dreams,” he said. “A special art theater maybe.” He is also thinking a little about the motion | Green, PRESIDENT ASKS BUSINESS GROUP 10 SHAPE RELIEF, Names Sears, Roebuck Head to Form Committee to Advise on Work. SENATE REPUBLICANS OPEN ASSAULT ON BILL Steiwer Declares Measure “Radi- cal Perversion of American Concept of Government.” By the Associated Press Formation of a business group to advise on spending the proposed $4,~ 000,000,000 work relief fund was directed by President Roosevelt today as a Senate publican termed the bill “the most radical perversion of the American concept of Government ever to come t¢ my personal atten- tion.” Senator Steiwer, Republican Oregon made this statement on the Senate floor only moments after Mr. Roosevelt chose Gen. Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., to organize a committee to advise on allocating the elief money. Secretary Roper, who took Wood to the White House, said the “ad- ministration is happy to have this advice from businessmen.” Wood's advisory group will be organized out of Roper’s Business Planning and Ad- visory Council Opens Assault. Steiwer opened the Republican as- sault on the huge money bill, which contains also $880,000,000 for tapering off direct relie ly after Chair- man Glass forn reported the mease ure to the Senate from the Appropria« tions Committee, with Senate action hoped for within a week As passed by the House, he said, the huge fund could be expended in “every way the fancy may conceive” and could even be it or “used” for gifts or loans person une known" to be named by the President, “If the Supreme Court doesn’t hold this bill invalid and unconstitutional,” Steiwer said, “the whole character of government, as far as the expenditure of this $5,000,000.000 is concerned, will be determined by this unknown per- son under a plan not even outlined in detail in the message of the President.” Wood will serve on a volunteer basis, as will members of the committee he is to select. With Wood and Roper at the White House conference were H. P. Kendall. ¢ rman of the Com- merce Departm Advisory and Planning Council Roper explained the Wood committee would act simply in an ad capa . and would not allocate the mu or direct the program Committee to Be Consulted. This committee will be consulted by the President and whatever ad- ministra organization is established by him to allocate the $4,000,000.000 work fund ‘A committee of the planning coun= cil is being formed.” Roper said, “with Gen. Wood at the head to act in an advisory capacity to the Presi- dent's board. or whatever instru- mentality is agreed upon. to handle the allocation of the proposed $4.- 000,000,000 work relief program. The administration is happy to have this advice from business men.” Committee Approves Changes. Finally extracted yesterday from an Appropriations Committee, where critics had sought to change it beyond recognition, the bill bore nearly a score of alterations. most of them considered comparatively minor. The critics sought reinforcement in the Senate at large in an attempt to continue their fight. Administra- tion forces saw stiff contests to keep the $4.880.000,000 fund from being chopped down to $2,880,000,000, to maintain intact the broad discretion« ary powers which the bill would con- fer on President Roosevelt and to prevent the “prevailing wage” idea from winning over “security wages.” There was sharp difference of opine ion over whether the committee vote of 12 to 11 against the amendment of Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo- rado, to cut the appropriation to $2.- of | 880,000,000 was an index of Senate | sentiment as a whole. Most Senators agreed Senator Mc- Carran, Democrat, of Nevada, would have a better chance for his amend- ment to require the Government to pay wages prevailing in private industries instead of the “security” wage of around $50 a month planned by the administration. This amendment first was aproved by the committee, 12 to 8. It was then reconsidered, 14 to 9. Substitute Approved. By a like vote, a substitute offered by Senator Russell, Democrat. of Georgia, was approved yesterday. This says the President may fix different wage rates for various types of work. If he finds such pay is threatening to tear down the wage prevailing in the locality, he must increase it. William president of the American Federation of Labor, called on “friends of labor” to fight this compromise. Another amendment provides that all rivers and harbors, public build- ings, roads and reclamation projects shall be undertaken under the direc- tion of departments concerned With such work. STABBED TO DEATH WILKES-BARRE, Pa., February 14 (#)—One man was reported dead and another dying from stab wounds after a street fight in nearby Larksville to- day, attributed by State police to labor trouble between miners. The fight occurred at Nesbit Cor- ners, almost in the heart of the little mining community and about a mile and & half from the Woodward col= liery of the Glen Alden Coal Co., Larksville police said. 4