Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair, warmer tonight, minimum tem- perature about 36 degrees; tomorrow cloudy and warmer, probably followed by rain. Temperatures—Highest, 43, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 24, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-11. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,395 Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages 17,18&19 ch No. 33,168. SENATOR WAGNER INTRODUCES BILL TOBOLSTERLABOR Measure Would Strengthen Collective Bargaining in Settling Disputes. RICHBERG DISPATCHES DATA TO LEGISLATORS Recommendations as to N. R. A. Extension Sent to Com- mittee Heads. By the Associated Press. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York introduced today his labor dis- putes bill, which would outlaw “com- pany-dominated” unions, provide for majority rule in collective bargaining and create a permanent National La- bor Relations Board with power tc enforce its findings in the Federal courts. He sald it was designed to make the worker a “free man” and would “clar- ify the industrial atmosphere and re- duce the likelihood of another con- flagration of strife.” Contending there had been a “‘break- down” of section 7-A, the labor section of the recovery act, Wagner said his measure would “give notice to all that the solemn pledge made by Congress when it enacted 7-A cannot be ignored with impunity, and that a cardinal principle of a New Deal for all and not some of our people is going to be supported and preserved.” Richberg Suggests N. R. A. Changes. Meanwhile recommendations on how administration agencies think Presi- dent Roosevelt’s proposed two-year Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Grieving Girls Plunge to Death From Chartered British Plane;i l [ Father, Consul, Once Lived Here Elizabeth,23,and Jane Du Bois, 20, Drop 1,500 Feet as Workmen Watch. Flying Fiances Recently Killed. (Copyright. 1035, by the Associated Press.) UPMINSTER, Essex. England, February 21—Two beautiful American girls, Elizabeth, 23, and Jane Du Bois, 20, only children of a United States consul general, plunged from an airplane to death today. Friends said they started on their last fight heartbroken over the recent crash-deaths of two men of the Royal Flying Corps. They fell from a commercial airplane speeding to Paris at an altitude of 1,500 feet. Horrified witnesses, looking up, said they plummeted to earth “clasped hand in hahd in a last embrace.” London friends said the girls’ grief had been uncontrollable since the big British plane crashed near Messina on February 15. The girls' father 1s Coert Du Bois, United States consul general in Naples. Grieving for Fiances. A report from Naples said Elizabeth had been engaged to marry Flight Lieut. Henry Longfield Beatty, commander of the Ace of Diamonds, and Jane | had been engaged to Fiying Officer John A. C. Forbes. Both were killed out- right with seven companions in one of the Flying Corps’ worst peacetime disasters. The Misses Du Bois, said the friends, were often with the two officers when the Ace of Diamonds was in Naples during January and the early part of February. RECORDS BROKE ON FLIGHT HERE = | (The dead in the crash of the Ace L. S. Andrews Flies From of Diamonds were Flight Lieut. Henry Longfield Beatty, Flying Officer John Coast in 10 Hours and | A. c. Forbes, Lieut. Willis, four other 22 Minutes. Grief Attracted Notice. ‘The girls had been living in a West | End hotel in London for the last four or five days, coming to England only 'a short time after the funeral of the British crash victims in Italy. Their tears and hysterics excited the interest of attendants at the London @ | | officers named Allen, Bailey, Rees and \WBgan, Sergt. Wallace and a civilian named Penn:) extension of N. R. A. should be writ- ten into law were rushed today to Capitol Hill by Donald R. Richberg. ‘The Emergency Council he directs acted as a clearing house for all sug- gestions on the controversial subject of industrial codes as compiled by such units as N. R. A. itself, the Labor Relations Board and Federal Trade Commission. | Just what Richberg sent to the| Capitol was held confidential for the moment as congressional lines formed for sharp controversy on such major issues as monopoly, application of the anti-trust laws, “oppression” of the | business “little fellow” and other topics which have been subjects o dissension since early Blue Eagle days, Doughton Receives Report. Chairman Doughton of the House | ‘Ways and Means Committee said that | 80 far as he knew, the Richberg rec- | ommendations had been sent only to | himself and Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee. | “They're on my desk now.” Dough- ] ton said, “but I can’t tell you what | they are because they did not come | up until today and I have not even read them.” He added that as soon as he could spare the time from consideration of | | York in an effort to break the pres- | The girls flew out to death alone ‘Two air transport speed Tecords fell |\ ",y from the airplane's pilot, today when Pilot Leland S. Andrews, former Army fiyer and crack Ameri- can Air Lines pilot, landed at Wash- ington Airport at 1:22 p.m. today, only 10 hours 22 minutes and 54 sec- onds after leaving Los Angeles. Andrews not only established a new all-time transcontinental air transport record but also an intercity record between Los Angeles and Washington. After hurriedly refueling Andrews took off from Washington for New | | eight-passenger ship. The Misses du | Bois had reserved and paid for every | seat in the plane, apparently in order |to be by themselves on the channel ! crossing. The plane’s pilot, J. Kirton, did not notice his passengers’ disappearance | until an hour later when he was well | out over the channel. Letters Found on Seats. Scotland Yard detectives were im- ent official transcontinental record of mediately sent out from London on 11 hours and 59 minutes, established |the case for two sealed letters were 1ecently by Maj. James H. Doolittle | found on one of the seats in the plane between Los Angeles and New York. | after the horrified Kirton took it back v i . |to Romford Airport. Andrews is fiying the same ship Dod- | ™ noialg gescribed the dual deaths little used in his record dash. I ATt UM igady in Butope Good Weather Encountered. since Capt. Alfred Loewenstein, the “It was a good fligh all the way,” | famous Belgian financier, disappeared Andrews said. “The weather was good July 4, 1929, from a cabin plane until we approached Washington, | over the English Channel. The two letters were said to have when there was a slight overcast. The ship is functioning perfectly.” been addressed to the girls' parents, Mr. end Mrs. Coert du Bois. Their Andrews carried a barograph in- | father is United States consul general | there was no other person on the, |AGGRESSIVE PLANS CHARGED T0 REICH ANEW BY SOVIETS Press Pictures Nazis Hun- gry for War—London Pacts Are Approved. |ENGLAND ALSO TARGET OF JIBES IN COMMENT Germany Accused of Attempting to End French Rapprochement With British Aid. | By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, February 21.—The offi- cial organs of Soviet opinion up- braided Germany today with accusa- | tions of plans for aggression in both | Eastern and Central Europe. On the heels of the approval of the London agreements extended by Maxim Litvinoff, commissar for for- eign affairs, on the condition they are made effective in their entirety, the authoritative press pictured the Nazis as hungry for war under the disguise of “diplomatic chattering.” General display was given charges | by the Czechoslovakian newspaper Narodni Politika that Japan, Ger- many and Poland weie preparing for war against the Soviet Union. The influential Pravda and Izvestia, how- ever, concentrated, their attacks on Germany, with incidental jibes at ' England. Preparations for War. “German Fascism,” said Pravda, “is | getting ready to occupy East and Cen- tral Europe in order to prepate for war on the western front. That is why it 1s against the eastern pacts and mutual assistance. “Further, it is trying with English help to destroy Franco-Soviet co-| operation. The English bourgeoisie ! must take into account that the mass | of English toilers does not want war | and does not approve of encouragmg; Ithe adventuristic plans of German { Fas sm. “The English government has taken | to complicated maneuvers, but is now | faced by the general conclusion that | it is necessary to accelerate the com- pletion of regional pacts, above all the | Eastern pact, and that it is up to the English ruling circles to promote this | | end.” “The Germans are maneuvering,” | said Izvestia, “to avoid all except the air pact in order to leave their hands | untied in the East, and even the| | realize this. “Situation Very Tense.” “It is necessary to look the facts | in the face to prevent those aspiring ' }ln war from passing from words to, i action. The situation is very tense; | Europe demands decisive measures.” | Soviet Russia has lined with France and Great Britain in an effort to obtain from Germany unqualified ad- | British press is now compelled to| | direct relief from the Government or | the pending cocial security bill, he giajied at Los Angeles by National would study the suggestions, but re- | aeronautical Association officials. minded xg'ewmen that “we’ll draw our | The barograph was removed here own bill. by William R. Enyart, secretary of Expects Roosevelt Su 3 | the Contest Committee of the National Tntr odfinz his bill :ll:;‘ upon | Aeronautical Association, for checking President Roosevelt's recommendations | Y the Bureau of Standards. at Naples. | The bodies landed in a cabbage patch, close to'the edge of town. The | don agreements | Pmpact drove them a foot into the| Russia's views were contained in | soft soil. The first police on the scene | Messages sent by Maxim Litvinoff to 1 W |the French and British governments 'ggélslned the spot with rows of wooden and made public last night. i herence to the principles of the Lon- | Litvinoff's notes stressed particular- for extension of the national recovery act for two years, Wagner told inter- viewers he was “confident” of admin- Istration support. The President in his message to Congress yesterday did not mention by name section 7-A or the Wagner bill. He merely recommended that “the right of employes freely to or- | ganize for the purpose bargaining should be fully protected.” | New York. Meets Elliott Roosevelt. ‘While his plane was being refueled, Andrews received the congratulations of Elliott Roosevelt, other leading aviation officials and members of the Senate and House. Andrews had more than 1 hour and The plane was operated by Hillman Saloon Coaches & Airways, Limited, | which runs passenger services from | Romford to Paris. The witnesses who saw the plunge | to death said that the bodies first ap- peared to be “pieces of paper” blown in the wind. Kirton said the sisters appeared to 20 minutes after taking off here in & collective | which to break the Dolittle record to It was estimated this | The Wagner bill is a redraft of a | would require less than 50 minutes. measure which he proposed at the last | 'PATMAN M session of Congress, but which was lost in the closing legislative jam in the face of a Nation-wide assault from industry. Wagner Answers Critics. 1n placing the bill before the Senate ‘Wagner charged it had been the tar- get of “misleading propaganda” that it would create a “labor dictator- ship.” He denied the measure would favor any particular union, create a closed shop, or force any employe to join & union against his will. One major change in the measure establishes the principle of majority rule which has been adopted by the temporary National Labor Relations Board. This provides that a majority of employes may select representatives “(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) ————— CZAR RELICS SOLD Soviet Said to Have Disposed of Last of Imperial Treasures. LONDON, February 21 (#).—The 1ast of the Russian imperial treasures, consisting of 2,000 jeweled pieces once owned by the former czar, were re- today to have been sold by the Soviet government to a London use. The articles were said to include diamond-studded Easter ‘“eggs” de- signed by Fabere, gold ikons, jeweled orders and other relics of the “little father.” e OVES FOR BONUS VOTE Texan Petitions to Balk Possible | Death of Bill in Com- mittee. By the Assoclated Press. A petition to force consideration of the Patman bill for paying the $2,100,- 000,000 bonus in new currency was filed in the House today as a precau- | tion against possible blocking of the measure in the House Ways and Means Committee. The petition was filed by Represent- ative Patman, Democrat of Texas, who was the first signer. In less than 10 minutes more than 20 of the required 216 had signed, gathering in the well of the House around the clerk’s desk. Among the early signers were Rep- | resentatives Colmer, Democrat of Mis- sissippi; Cannon, Democrat of Mis- souri; Lunden, Farmer-Labor of Minnesota; White, Democrat of Idah Mitchell, Democrat of Tennessee; Kel ler, Democrat of Illinois; Lambertson, Republican of Kansas; Maverick, Democrat of Texas; Sweeney, Demo- crat of Ohio; Withrow, Progressive of ‘Wisconsin: Stubbs, Democrat of Cali- fornia; Johnson and Lee, Oklahoma Democrats. Two Handsome ““Registerites” In Hollywood to Pick Wives By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 21. ~Two well-to-do handsome young men, who say they were formerly members of the social register, were in Hollywood last night—hoping to find wives. . ‘They were, they said, Preston Lewis ©of New York and his cousin, Marshall ‘Worcester of Newark, N. J. Registered at an exclusive apart- ment-hotel, they stated they plan to make Hollywood their home. They said they would prefer to marry actresses. “We've both been married,” Lewis said. “We married society, and it ,dn‘t work. Now we're going to to find some one as different from a society girl as possible. “Society girls are more interested in themselves than in their husbands. You can get pretty fed up with cock- tail parties and concerts and 4 o'clock in the morning as a retiring hour.” “Main thing,” Worcester said, “is Park avenue girls have no personality. They all come from the same mold. They go to the same schools, run with the same crowd, get married about the same time, look alike and act alike.” Lewis said he and his cousin are in- separable companions. “We usually go to Palm Springs about this time of year. But it’s noth- ing but a hunting ground now.” “Which wouldn’t be so bad,” inter- posed Worcester, “if there was any at- ctive bait.” L be agitated when they reached the airport preparatory to boarding the plane. Consul Franklin C. Gowen of the United States consulate in London tock charge of the case on behalf of the United States’ officials. The in- quest, which will be conducted under the supervision of Coroner C. E. Lewls, Brentwood, will probably be held next week. Doors Easy to Open. A Hillman official said the doors on their cabin planes lock from the in- side. “A cabin door could easily be opened from the inside,” said the offi- cial when he was questioned as to whether the pressure from the slip- stream of the propeller would be suffi- ciently strong to hold the door shut against the strength of two women. | The two letters found in ‘the plane | were addressed one to the father and one to the mother. The police took | charge of the letters, then sealed the airplane’s doors ‘after they had ex- amined the 40 pounds of baggage ap- parently left on the plane by the sis- | ters. The airplane is a biplane with two | engines and with seats for eight pas- | sengers. Coert Du Bois, 54, father of the | girls, is a native of Hudson, N. Y., but now with his legal residence at San Francisco. His wife was the former Miss Margaret Mendell of Bos- ton. They were married August 1, 1910. The two daughters were their only children. Out over the English Channel, he looked back into the cabin, saw the girls were missing and that a door ‘Was ajar. He immediately notified Croydon (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) One-House Bill in Minnesota. ST. PAUL, February 21 (#).—Under | provisions of a bill for a unicameral Legislature introduced in the Minne- sota Senate yesterday, the one House would be made up of 60 men and 60 | women. There are but two women legislators in the present session. -{ Bahaman ly the necessity for regional security pacts if the peace of Europe' is to be maintained His emphasis on this point was aimed directly at German alofness from the proposed Eastern | Locarno pact which France has spon- | sored and Russia heartily favors. ANTI-REICH MOVE SEEN. Soviet Seen Resisting New Concessions to Germany. LONDON, February 21 (#).—Diplo- | matic quarters today viewed Russia’'s unexpected and shrewdly timed note demanding that Great Britain and France stand stolidly behind their eo- tire pacification program as an adroit move to forestall any further conces- sions to Germany. ‘The note arrived only a few hours after the cabinet had debated the question of sending Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, to Berlin for (he direct conversations suggested by Reichsfuehrer Hitler. Despite the Soviet's warning that “disregarding” any one of the re- glonal agreements projected at Lon- don would be “open encouragement of a breach of peace in the region concerned,” British officials remained luke warm toward the proposed East- ern Locarno pact. Russia favors an Eastern security agreement as spon- ' sored by France, but Germany has been hostile to it. TWO YACHTS LOST WITH 15 ABOARD Entries in Miami-to-Nassau Race Unreported on Return to U. 8. By the Associated Press. l MIAMI, Fla, February 21.—Two sailing craft, with 15 persons aboard, which participated in the recent Mi- ami-to-Nassau yacht race, were re-| ported unaccounted for on a return trip to Miami today, Coast Guard offi- | cials announced. ! The Ketch Esperanza, carrying its owner, S. W. Parish of Beaumont, Tex.; Capt. Carl Holm of Miami, and" a crew of seven, first was listed as missing yesterday. Today the auxiliary cruiser Lanaki, owned by Alexander C. Howg of Port Washington, Long Island, and carrying a crew of five, was unreported. Lieut. G. H. Bowerman, who con- ducted an unsuccessful aerial search for the Esperanza yesterday in a Coast | Guard seaplane set out again today in an effort to find a trace of the two ' Both yachts left Nassau Sunday en route to Miami. Coast Guard officials expressed be- lief that neither yacht need necessar- ily be in danger and said it is possible they are lying in the lea of one of the many small islands t dot the- waters, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. ¢ Foening Star FHP BOYS, Dont KILL THE BIRD TUAT LAYS THe GOLDEN EGG. RELIEF BILL VOTE DELAYED BY HALE Senator Sees Credit of U. S. Endangered—Holds Floor for Attack. Asserting the “credit of the Govern- ment demands the utmost economy in our appropriations,” Senator Hale, Republican, of Maine, debate on the administration $4.880,- 000,000 relief bill today by advocating | Brave Casey Jones Not Engineer in Locomotive Driver as Engineman Proposed by Professional Group. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 21.—Casey Jones, that undaunted railroader, probably would turn over in his grave to hear this rhymeless version of the old ditty: to hear A story about a brave engineman.” Locomotive engineers are not to be Some Returns Not Yet Received. @ m BRUND IS GRANTED | New Titte Plans GTAY ( SENTENCE Court Order in Case May Delay Execution Until Early Next Year. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J. Pebruary 21.— The execution of Bruno Richard resumed the ~Come all you rounders if you want Hauptmann, convicted murderer of Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was stayed indefinitely at 12:15 p.m. today when the reduction of the appropriation to | called engineers any longer if the Na- a certified copy of a writ of error | $1,000,000,000 and limiting its use to “direct relief.” | Administration hopes of reaching a vote by nightfall on the McCarran prevailing wage amendment were dim- med when the Senate listened for an hour and a half of argument stirred | up by the gold standard statemen of former President Hoover. “What I object to and what will ause me to vote against the measure, unless the Senate shall see fit to amend it,” said Senator Hale, “is the | proposition to spend $4,000,000,000 for | work relief to keep up the morale of the 3,500,000 unemployed, when for & fourth of that amount, or less of di- | rect relief, we could easily carry them | through the coming year. ‘Whether a man who is out of work receives | is given a job by the Government on work that the Government does not need to have done and certainly can- not afford to have done, he is in both cases receiving a dole from his Gov- ernment. The delicate discrimination | tional Society of Professional Engi- neers can get the designation changed. The society maintains that its members. civil, mechanical and elec- trical engineers, have exclusive right to the title. Locomotive drivers should be called ‘“enginemen,” or “engine . UNFIT DWELLINGS RENTS FOUND HIH D. C. Women Voters’ League Holds Rates 45 Pct. Above Average. Hundreds of dwellings unfit for oc- | was filed with the clerk of the State Prison. Heuptmann had been sentenced to die the week of March 18. Defense Counsel Frederick A. Pope and C. Lloyd Fisher presented the writ to Irving Bleam, the prison clerk, | within an hour after they had filed | the original writ with the clerk of the Court of Errors and Appeals, State’s highest tribunal. Long Delay Possible. Argument on the writ will be heard either in May or October term of the | court. The defense has indicated it will seek to have the argument post- poned until the latter date, which, with the time required for handing down the decision and the further possible appeal to the Court of Par- | dons would delay the execution of the | death sentence until some time early next year. Pope filed the writ personally at 11:20 am., and it was signed by Ernest Kerr, chief clerk of the Stace department, in behalf of Thomas A. Mathis, secretary of State and cleri between the two kinds of dole does not | cupancy in Washington are renting | ©f the Errors Court. warrant the strain to the credit of the | at rates at least 45 per cent higher | country that the borrowing of the | $3,000,000,000 will inevitably bring about at this time. Assails Regulation. “Neither is it a benefit to the future | of our people to build up the feeling | families to a section of East Wash- that the Government owes a Govern- | ment job to all of its unemployed | { citizens. It never has had that duty | and it can never assume such an obligation for the future with any | possibility of carrying it out unless the Government also is given the right to regulate the birth rate in the coun- try, a form of Government measure that I do not believe even the New Deal would stand for.” Senator Hale pointed out that other countries, including England, has tried out the experiment of public works to meet the unemployment situation, -without success. The Senator from Maine said that salready “we have spent on work relief more than $2,- 800,000,000, and, as I have said, I cannot see any signs of business re- vival.” “Lack of business confidence is what ails America, and great and expensive building programs, which must neces- sarily add to the national debt and which must be pald for by increased taxation, are not conducive to build- ing up business confidence. “Since the panic of 1929 it has been the fashion to run down big business, and the confidence of the people in the judgment and integrity of the managers of industry has been de- liberately broken down. This feeling has now spread to the extent that all successful businessmen are looked on with suspicion.” —_— VANDERBILT HEIRESS FILES SUIT IN RENO Mrs. Earl E. T. Sw'th Accuses Husband of Extreme Cruelty. Trial Due Today. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev., February 21.—Charg- ing extreme cruelty, Mrs. Consuelo ‘Vanderblt Smith, heiress daughter of socially-prominent Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, filed suit here today to divorce Earl E. T. Smith of New York City, a grandson of the late Edward N. Tailer. Smith filed an answer making a general denial of the charge, which indicated the case would be set for private trial without contest later today. Details were not disclosed. Provisions for settlement of property rights and future custody of their two minor children, Iris Ada, 8, and Vir- ginia, 4, were made under an agree- ment kept secret. The former Consuelo Vanderbilt, granddaughter of the late James G. Fair, bonanza king and United States Senator from Nevada, was married to Smith at a fashionable New York City wedding January 1, 19. Hauptmann's execution was tech- s Associated Pre: the than in other cities, it was found by | hically stayed by the filing of the writ. a committee of the Voteless District | Actually, it will not be stayed until a of Columbia League of Woman Voters, | ©0Py of the writ is served on Col. which has just completed a survey of Mark O. Kimberling, the prison housing conditions. | warden, later today. This condition has driven several Attorneys to Confer, ington where land is cheap and there ‘The original writ will be forwarded they have built “shanties” which are inadequate, according to the report. These shanties lack water and toilet | facilities and the area threatens to | develop into & new slum, the report | states. | Alley dwelling in the District was hit by the committee as a focal point | | of disease, crime and immorality. | | The report points out that Washing- | | ton has had an alley dwelling prob- | | lem since the days of the Civil War | | and that- these abodes retain thelr; characteristics as hidden communi- | ties. Alley dwellers are estimated to | number up to 10,000 persons in the | District. Several recommendations were made by the committee for bettering the housing conditions in the city, chief among them being the contin- | uous study by a central official agency of plans which take into ccnsiden-‘ tion the entire housing needs of tne District and adequate appropriations for this purpose. TUGWELL MAY QuIT AS WALLACE'S AIDE| | Might Also Accept New Job With Government, as Course Is Undecided. | By the Associated Press. Rexford G. Tugwell is considering resigning as Undersecretary of Agri- culture, but possibly may take an- other Government post. Tugwell—sometimes referred to as the President’s No. 1 brain truster— has been undecided about his course of action since February 5, when one of his associates, Jerome Frank, was ousted as general counsel of the Agri- cultural Adjustment Administration by Chester' C. Davis, farm adminis- trator. Frank was named today as assist- ant railroad counsel of the Recon- struction Pinance Corporation. Tugwell was represented authorita- tively today to be confronted with the problem of deciding whether he can continue to function as Under- secretary and carry out his liberal policies in the face of resentment and opposition to his ideas from the con- servative elements in the Department of Agriculture. He was sald by friends to be con- sidering three courses—continuing in his post and fight a battle against heavy odds for his advanced ideas, resigning to return to Columbia Uni- versity or transferring his activities to the problems of relief and social security, in another branch of the | Government, 2 to C. Lloyd Fell, clerk of Hunterdon County, and commands him to for- | ward to the Court of Errors and Ap- peals by March 12 the records of the case. The court will open its next term May 21, but if it is found impossible to prepare the voluminous trial record by that time, the attorneys | may make an application before the court March 28 for a postponement of argument until the October term. Pope filed the writ before going to a Trenton hotel for a conference of the defense attorneys, at which they hope to iron out long-standing differ- ences. Edward J. Reilly of Brooklyn, chief of the defense staff; C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington, Egbert Rose- crans of Blairstown and Pope were to confer. Meanwhile a former defense in- vestigator said today counsel for the body in murder case could not have been that of the Lindbergh baby. Identity Questioned. Seven autopsy experts were ready to show, declared George H. Foster, that | the body found 5 miles from Hopewell, | |N. J. and identified ty Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as that of his son in reality was: (1) More than 4 inches taller than Charles Lindbergh, jr.; (2) Decomposed more than would have been possible in the mild weather _| after the kidnaping, and (3) Embalmed. Foster is chief investigator for James M. Fawcett, who was replaced as Hauptmann's counsel before the trial. Disagreement among counsel was understood to be due in part to the failure of Reilly to attack the State's identification of the body. Advices from Trenton predicted a "(Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) TWO CENTS. DEMOCRATS SPLIT BY HOOVER PLEA FOR GOLD RETURN Glass and Connally Engage in Hot Debate on Floor of Senate. |CHEAT AND REPUDIATION, VIRGINIAN TERMS BILLS Texan Argues Currency Already Is on Metal Standard—DMor- genthau “Satisfied.” By the Associated Press. | Former President Hoover's pro- | posal for an immediate return to the gold standard stirred up a hot debate among Senate Democrats today, in ‘\\hx(‘h Senator Connally, Democrat, | Texas, contended the Governme: | was already on a gold standard, but | Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, a: serted, “We are on a fiat currency basis.” The controversy flarred shortly after Secretary Morgenthau, the ad- ministration’s financial spokesman, said he was “satisfied” with the pres- ent program and saw no reason to change, though the policy still was on a day-to-day basis Connally, a Texas Democrat who was one of the first to advocate de- valuation of the dollar, started the Senate discussion by contending Mr. Hoover was proposing to return to | the system that “brought his admin- istration tumbling to ruin about him. Challenges Texan. ; Glass, a conservative Virginia Dem- | ocrat who has been critical of New | Deal monetary policies, listened in | silence at first. but finally leaped to his feet to challenge the Texan and charge: “We are on a fiat currency basis and following the decision of the Suprcme Court on a flat bond basis.” Connally said the Supreme Court had answered Glass “No, it hasn't answered me,” Glass retorted. “The court said that what was written on those notes was a cheat and a repudiation and has said that in spite of this cheat and repudia- tion if a holder of a note undertakes ;lolget what is due him he can go to ell.” While *he debate waged warmly on the floor, Democrats in their com- ments outside the chamber contended Mr. Hoover's proposal was “impos- sible,” while Republicans mostly were silent. Referring to Connally’s statement | that holders of gold clause Govern- ment bonds might go before the Court of Claims or some other | agency “on the theory they may have suffered damage,” Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, entered the | floor discussion by suggesting that Congress itself was always available to persons wishing to file claims and it would be willing to hear them. Connally agreed and said the more speedily the “doubt” was removed as |a result of the court decision the quicker it would help “stabilize the currency and encourage business.” Hoover's Statement Admitted. Senator Austin, Republican, of Ver- mont obtained consent to have Hoover's statement printed in the Congressional Record behind Con- | nally’s speech, which drew this com- ment from the Texan: | “Thats all right. The more he talks, the better off we are on this side of ‘he aisle.” | Thomas agreed with Connally that |the United States “is on the gold standard today,” saying the dollar to- | day contains 15 grains plus of gold. After Thomas finished, Glass rose | from his chair to ask how any one | could redeem his gold dollar. | “He can't go and get gold,” Con- nally agreed. “But why does he want {it? "Can he eat it?> No, he can't eat |it. Can he wear it> No, he can't, unless he reverts to barbaric customs.” “Gold Demonetized.” “No, he can't eat it,” Glass inter- | rupted hotly. “He can't wear it. And | he can't get it. In other words, gold has been demonetized. We are not on a gold standard.” | Connally insisted that gold was “a yardstick” and that “you don't con- | sume it “You don't get it” Glass inter- rupted again indignantly. | “No” Connally agreed, “you don't | Hauptmann had ignored evidence that | Nave to get it. Gold ought to be the Government's property and not the property of those who seek merely to | use it to hold up the Government and, | as the Chief Justice said, to ‘enrich themselves.’ " Glass interrupted again to say that Connally had “passed the amusing part of his speech and gotten to the | rhetorical part.” | Then, waving a paper bill before | the Senate, Glass shouted: | “I hope the Senator will agree that | when the Government has control over our money it will not break its | word and not swindle the people and write a lie on every note it issues. “The Senator knows a lie is printed on the face of this bill.” Glass then read from the bill the | statement that it could be redeemed | in gold at the Treasury. | Senator Lewis of Illinois, Demo- |crat, got into the debate with a | reference to report that gold bloc |” (Continued on Page 4, Golumn 3 400-Pound Y outh, Over 8 Feet - Tall, Nearing 17th Birthday By the Associated Press. ALTON, Il., February 21.—Robert Wadlow, Alton’s biggest citizen, will celebrate his 17th birthday anniversary tomorrow. Three inches taller than a year ago, Robert measures 8 feet 15 inches from his toes to the top of his head. He can only estimatc his weignt—he hasn't been able to find scales big enough to find out exactly. Last year he weighed 365 pounds, & gain of 25 pounds over the previous year. In that year he grew 2 inches taller, so if the ratio has been main- tained he should weigh more than 390 pounds. Physicians who have examined him predict he may, reach an ultimate | height of more than 9 feet before he |attains his full grewth in about five years. His extraordinary size is at- tributed oy them to overactivity of the pituitary gland, a tiny endocrine gland at the base of the brain. He wears a size 36 shoe, but is not sure just what size suit he wears. Robert doesn't expect to celebrate his birthday, being too busy study- ing for his classes at Alton High School, where he hopes to graduate in June. He is carrying five and a half subjects, compared with the nor- mal limit of four, including two Ger- man courses. He expects to enter Shurtleff Col- lege, where he has been awarded & | scholarship, uinudv law,