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PERIL OF FASCISM SEENINAAA.BILL Tugwell Declared Manipu- {ating Measure to Coerce Business. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘Whether or not Rex Tugwell, the king of the brain trust, is on his way out of the Department of Agri-| culture, he has succeeded in seling to Secretary Wallace and Chester Davis, agricultural administrator, the most astounding piece of legislation in the whole New Deal. If Congress accepts the bill—which closely resembles German fascism— there will be no further worlds in agriculture for Mr. Tugwell to con- quer and he will be free to turn his attention to the other branches of American industry which his economic views have not yet encompassed. Under the guise of “clarifying” amendments, Mr. Tugwell’s proposals have been introduced into Congress. They are fully indorsed by Wallace and Davis and they would make it necesary for all businesses, directly and indirectly related to agriculture, to have a Federal license, This would affect concerns with a volume, it is estimated, of $20,000,000,000 a year. “Clarifying” Means Expanding. The device is & simple one and unless comparison is made, paragraph by paragraph with the existing law, it is not apparent how far-reaching is the new legislation. I Unquestionably the word “clarifying” 4s right. The old law is clarified so that vague language is made clear and unequivocal. Where heretofore there was no sure evidence of a desire to put all agricultural businesses under the thumb of the Secretary of Agri- culture, the new bill removes all doubt. Clarification in this case means ex- pansion in power. With characteristic indifference for the views of Congress—indeed, bear- ing every evidence of a belief that members of Congress will not have brains enough to see the true meaning of the “clarifying” amendments—the measure makes it possible for the Secretary of Agriculture to coerce every business related to the farm, and also every article competing with any farm product. Instead of requiring that 50 per cent of a given group in any business must agree to the Secre- tary’s plan for marketing or before the remaining members of a group can be compelled to accept it, the new bill makes it possible for the Secretary to threaten the withdrawal of a license and thus coerce anybody who dis- sents from his decrees. Bolsters A. A. A. Powers. Originally the licensing power was granted to the President in the na- tional industrial recovery act as a means of making minorities come into line on codes, but the power lapsed last year and Mr. Roosevelt didn't ask for its renewal in his message thic week. As for the A. A. A., how- ever, the licensing power not only remains, but is strengthened in such & way that majorities can now be coerced as well as minorities. Here is the new paragraph which would put the Federal Government in complete control of the food industry and all by-products and all competing products. The Secretary of Agricul- ture, it says, shall have power: “After due notice and opportunity for hearing and upon a finding by the Secretary that such action will tend to effectuate the declared policy of the act, to issue licenses to pro- cessors, associations of producers, and others engaged in the handling of any agricultural commodity or prod- uct thereof, or any competing com- modity or product thereof, in the cur- rent of or in competition with or so as to burden, obstruct, or in any way affect, interstate or foreign commerce, which (that is the licenses) provide that such handling may be engaged in by the licensees only upon such terms and conditions not in conflict with the existing acts of Congress or regulations pursuant thereto, as may be necessary.” Sees a Sep to Farmer. Then the bill goes on to say that refusal or failure to sign market- ing plans advanced by the Secretary makes it .possible for the Secretary to determine that the issuance of a license is “the only practical means of advancing the interests of the pro- ducers of such commodity.” There is in the measure a sop to the farmer in that it is stipulated he cannot be given a single license as a producer, but he is to be treated as a handler of each of the com- modities he raises so that conceivably he may have five licenses instead of one. The new bill also makes it possible for the Secretary to get a 50 per cent agreement, for instance, with wheat producers and that would give him authority to coerce the millers and all retailers into accepting the prices dictated by the Federal Government all along the line from the farm to the store. He may favor producer, or middleman or retailer at will. Compared With Hitler Plan. It is possible that the Federal Gov- ernment could make prices fair to all interests, from the producer and middleman to the consumer, but such wisdom has not yet appeared in these precincts with respect to other ad- ventures in price-fixing. It is possible also that the Depart- ment of Agriculture will be fair and reasonable about revoking licenses, but the principle ~f the new legisla- tion clearly vests in the Federal Gov- ernment comprehensive control over food businesses of all kinds, and textile and other commodities grow- ing out of the products of the soil. ‘They have tried it in Germany under Hitler, and Mr. Tugwell observed something of the same kind in Italy under Mussolini last Autumn. But Congress hasn’t gone Fascist yet and the “clarifying” amendments are in for some severe scrutiny. The industries involved: are meat packing, canning, dairying, milling, cottonseed crushing, soap making, sugar refining, textile industry and all businesses handling raw materials or finishing products originaily com- ing out of the soil. (Copyright, 1935.) DARROW TO AID LANGER Attorney Will Assist in Appealing Conspiracy Conviction. CHICAGO, February 22 (#).—Clar- ence Darrow, noted Chicago criminal attorney, yesterday said he will aid in appealing the conspiracy convic- tion of former Gov. William Langer of North Dakota before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Kansas City March 19. Langer was removed from office as & result of his conviction in the Bis- marck, N. Dak., Federal Court of de- frauding the Federal Government in connection with the use of relief monies. He was fined $10,000 and sentenced to serve 18 months, 3 4 What’s What Behind News In Capital No Free Hand for Congress — Strategy Delays N. R. A. Bill. BY PAUL MALLON. HE President’s N. R. A. message seemed to hand Congress some primary paints and tell the legislators to make their own future picture of the N. R. A. That is what Congress thinks, Gleeful legislators are actually telling themselves that they are going to compose some important legislation for the first time since the New Deal started. They really believe President Roosevelt failed to send up a drajt of an adminis- tration bill because he was moved by all the talk about Congress be- coming just a rubber stamp. If that were true, every one might as well dig in here and prepare to remain indefinitely. If congress is going to have a free hand in remak- ing the N. R. A, it probably will take years. There is no need for any such preparations just yet. There are facts beneath the surface which in- dicate that Mr. Roosevelt has pri- vately arranged to keep the situation well in hand. In about three weeks, you probably will seen Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee shake from his sleeve the draft of an ad- ministration N. R. A. bill. It may not be called that, but that it will be. There are several reasons why it was inadvisable for Mr. Roosevelt to offer a bill now. Senators Too Excited. Presidential strategists agree it would be foolish because of the in- ternal situation in the Senate, for one thing. Senators are all excited, clamoring for an investigation of this or that phase of N. R. A. They would surely tear any administration proposal to shreds in a moment. After the administration gets through presenting all its facts to the Senate investigators, the internal sit- uation may clear. The New Dealers may know exactly how far they may safely go; at least, they can expect to have a better chance. And all the time the Senators will be think- ing they have written the legislation themselves. So the underlying fact seems to be that all Mr. Roosevelt really did in his N. R. A. message was to de- velop a new way to make Con- gress take bad medicine, without knowing it. The strategy seems to represent a studied variation rather than an actual change in the White House method of handling Con- gress. For which, all may be grateful. If you think this plan is slightly too smart to be true, consider what has already been done in the matter of the Senate investigation of the N. R. A. No more delicate inside job was ever attempted than the one by which the New Dealers are trying to keep the investigation out of un- sympathetic hands. Not New Dealers, The inquiry was demanded by Nye and McCarron. They could hardly be called New Deal leaders. They wanted the investigation conducted by the Commerce Committee. In charge of that committee is Senator Copeland, whom the White House also has failed to enumerate among its leaders. Word was spread among the New Deal faithful that they could not afford to let the N. R. A. investiga- tion fall into any such hands. The administration already had made one mistake like that when it let Nye conduct the munitions investigation. ‘The first thing it knew Nye was in- vestigating all the Democrats in a most unsympathetic way. Rather openly, the arranged to send the investigation to the Finance Committee. A stretch of the imag- ination was needed to believe that the N. R. A. had anything to do with finance. The stretch was accom- plished by the bright idea that down deep in N. R. A. somewhere there is something about tariffs, and, of course, the Finance Committee han- dles all tariff legislation. But if the investigation finally goes there, it will be reasonably safe and constructive. It will most assuredly be handled with sympathy. An added complication made the greasing of the N. R. A. investi= gating skids even more difficult. It was offered by Senator Borah, who has been the New Deals severest N. R. A. critic. Borah stimulated a desire within the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee to have the investigation conducted by that body of which he is @ member. He is as bad as Nye, from an N. R. A. standpoint, and, of course, much worse than Copeland or McCarron. Of course, these personal difficulties were mentioned only in innermost senatorial circles. The New Dealers managed to put up a good front for the Finance Committee by basing their fight on the fact that the orig- inal N. R. A legislation was sent there, which is true. A New York public utility boss came down here for the opening of the holding company hearings and ran into Ben Cohen, the New Deal author of the bill, whom he knew. Cohen inquired politely about his health. The utility man said he had not been feeling well, that he got up out of bed to come here, and felt, when he passed the White House, as if he were going to meet his maker. o Whereupon Cohen slyly suggested: “You mean your remaker, don't you?” They agreed on that. (Copyright. 1935.) Bank Robbers Get $4,000. FULTON, 8. Dak., February 22 (®). —Three robbers who held four persons prisoners for an hour until a time lock opened the vault, took $4,000 from the Fulton State Bank late yes- terday and then forced the quartet to accompany them for six miles'in their flight. They were released un- harmed. 3 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Where Girls Plunged From Plane GIRLS NOTES HOLD SUIGIDE: SECRET Du Bois Rushing to London to Receive Last Message From Daughters. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 22.—Two fare- well notes, their contents undivulged, held the death secret of Jane and Elizabeth Du Bois today. Coert Du Bois, Unjted States con- sul general at Naples, father of the I attractive young women who plunged to their deaths yesterday from an air- plane, was en route here with his grief-stricken wife to receive his daughters’ messages. The two notes, found on a seat of the airliner after the sisters had leaped from it at an altitude of 3,000 feet over Upminster, Essex, were in the custody of the American consul here. He declined to divulge the contents to any one except the parents. Meanwhile, a witness of the sisters’ horrifying death leap disclosed further details of the strange dual suicide. The source of the information was Frank Solomon, who was standing in a cabbage patch at Upminster when the two human plummets hurtled from the sky and struck the ground near him. Hands Clasped in Death, “I was standing drinking my tea,” he said, “when something flashed past my eye and I heard a violent thump. I looked around and saw what ap- peared to be two girls lying asleep, faces downward. “They lay side by side, hands clasped, and looked just as if they were taking a rest. The force of their fall had driven them 8 inches into the ground, but there was no blood.” i The notes addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Du Bois, which Jane and Elizabeth left behind, were reported to have ex- plained that they wished to die be- cause two young Royal Air Force avia- tors in whom they were interested per- ished in an air disaster at Messina, Sicily, last week. The young women were said to have been “informally engaged” to the two fiyers, Flight Lieut. Henry Longfield Beatty and Flying Officer John A. C. Forbes. | (Dr. S. Blakeley of Bedfordshire said his daughter Kathleen was en- gaged to Forbes and that their mar- riage was to have taken place after the aviator’s return from Singapore in | April. Mrs. Harold Lett, mother of Beatty, said in Dublin that her son had written of his acquaintance with the Du Bois girls, but that she knew nothing of any romance.) Letter Still Sealed. Despite rumors concerning the pur- ported contents of the two farewell notes, both the American consulate and Scotland Yard officials denied the envelopes had been opened. They would remain sealed, they said, until the coroner’s inquest. A new angle to the death leap came to light with the disclosure of the woman manager of an apartment house where the sisters lived last Spring that the sister she knew as Jane Du Bois had told her she was married. “The girl I knew as Jane,” the wom- an told police investigators, “said she was married and gave me a married name. but I have forgotten it. She wore a gold wedding ring. They asked me to call them both Miss Du Bois, however.” | The apartment house manager de- scribed the sisters as happy and full of life. A strange epjsode {llustrating the deep feeling which the sisters felt for their reputed sweethearts was dis- closed last night. Among the last to see the girls alive was Thomas Dedman, who said: “I was standing outside the Labor Exchange Wednesday at 4 p.m. when a taxicab drew up and two girls in ; fur coats stepped out. “The elder had a bagful of silver and went up to several people, hand- ing out half crowns (about 60 cents), saying: ‘This is from Lieut. Forbes." “Seldom have I seen two women who looked so obsessed with grief.” SUICIDE NEWS WITHELD. Mother Does Not Know Details of Deaths. ROME, February 22 (#).—Mrs. Coert Du_ Bois, mother of Jane and Eliza- beth, who plunged to their deaths from an airplane yesterday, is not yet aware that the circumstances of her daugh- ters’ deaths indicate suicide. This information was discloged as Mr. and Mrs. Du Bois passed through Rome today en route to England. The | parents of the two young women stopped here long enough between trains to obtain British visas for their passports. They spent the time with an old friend, Alexander Kirk, chancellor of the United States Embassy, who ac- companied them from Naples, where Mr. Du Bois is the United States con- sul general, ‘TODAY. Senate. Continues consideration of work- relief bill. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee studies coal conservation bill. Munitions Committee meets to hear Secretary Ickes and Willlam B. Shearer. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee hears testimony on amendments to communications act. House. Considers War Department appro- priation bill. Banking Committee conducts hear- ing on administration banking bill. Naval Committee opens hearing on bill to authorize additional public works for Navy. Interstate Commerce Committee re- sumes holding company hearing. Ways and Means Committee studies economic security measure. YESTERDAY. Senate. Adopted McCarran prevailing-wage amendment to work-relief bill. N. W. Roberts told Interstate Com- merce Subcommittee the bituminous %onl industry needs Federal regula- on. Munitions Committee heard com- parison of cruiser costs in private and Government yards. House. Received petition to force considera- tion of bonus. Judiciary Committee approved bill to permit Supreme Court justices to retire at full pay and serve on other courts. Naval Committee approved measure to provide more pilots for naval planes. Ways and Means Committee voted to amend economic security bill so as 30 exempt small. employers from tax lor unemployment. o D. C, Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935. Spot at Upminster, England, where the bodies of Jane and Elizabeth Du Bois were found after the girls leaped from an airplane yesterday. Poljce used wood pegs to outline the spot. The bodies had been buried a foot in the ground by the impact. Picture radioed from London and wirephotoed to Washington. TUBWELL TOSTAY IN SPITE OF FEUD Carries Woes to Roosevelt. May Be Waiting for New Post. By the Associated Press. Rexford Guy Tugwell let it be known today that he will continue as Undersecretary of Agriculture despite the hard, hard knocks his school of thought has encountered in the A. A. A. recently. Weary of disagreements with more conservative officials in A. A. A, Tug- well visited the White House late yes- terday. Earlier he had been thinking of quitting his present post to re- turn to a professorship at Columbia University or to enter the relief and social security branches of the Gov- ernment. But after talking with the President he told newsmen he would stay where he was. Speculation immediately arose as postponing his departure from Agri- culture until another post is ready. Relief and social security legislation, which might provide a new assign- ment for him, is taking a slow course through Congress. Davis May Go First. The possibility was suggested in some quarters also that Chester C. Davis, the farm administrator, who | favors more concessions to processors and distributors of foods than Tug- well, eventually might be the one to go. However, Secretary Wallace, who likes Tugwell, recently upheld Davis in a shake-up which swept several of the liberal leader's foremost followers | out of the A. A, A. This shake-up began while Tugwell was in Florida a few weeks ago. Its repercussions continued yesterday even as he conferred with the President. | Davis appointed Dr. A. G. Black, for- merly chief of the corn-hog section of the Agriculture Administration, to head the Division of Live Stock and Feed Grains. The latter division had been under Victor A. Christgau, a member of the liberal group, who re- signed Wednesday. Christgau’s quit- ting was attributed to sharp differ- ences with Davis over milk and other policies. Frank Takes R. F. C. Post. Jerome Frank, A. A. A. counsel, who was asked to go at the outset of the reorganization, yesterday accepted ap- pointment as assistant railroad coun- sel for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. It was recalled that Tugwell flew back to Washington from Florida and talked with Mr. Roosevelt im- mediately after Frank's resignation was made public. Tugwell has been telling his =zd- vanced economic and social ideas to Mr.. Roosevelt for a number of years, having given him advice when he was Governor of New York. Even since- his seeming loss of ground in the A. A. A. few weeks have passed when he was not in conference with the President. He attends White House discussions on a wide range of subjects. Congress in Brief| | Dorothy Sayers to Contribute To New Sunday Star Magazine {Mystery Short Story, “Dilemma,” Appears in First Issue. An Oxford Graduate, Specializes in Medi- eval Literature. A minister's daughter. One of the first women to take a degree at Oxford. A specialist in medieval literature. If you were looking around for one of the world’s best writers of murder mystery stories, you would not pick a person who qualifies for all three titles. But that’s Dorothy Sayers, whose mystery short story “Dilemma,” will come to the readers of The Sun- day Star in our new Sunday color- gravure magazine, This Week, which will appear for the first time with next Sunday’s issue. Dorothy Sayers is the only name to appear twice among the writers of mystery yarns whose books were chosen for the White House library this year. Daughter of the scholarly head- master of Cathedral Choir School, Oxford, Rev. H. Sayers, Dorothy was one of the most brilliant scholars of her year and was graduated from Ox- ford in 1915. 5 Miss Sayers insists she “cannot dance, play games— particularly bridge—but that she is that way about the greatest game of all for her, which is making mysteries that will keep her readers guessing down to the to whether Tugwell might be merely By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 22— | The mystery of the coral-gall crab | exceeds the mystery of the vanished | Empress of the old convict Isle of Charles. So say the Smithsonian Institu-| tion scientists, back today after two and a half months in the seas of romance, mystery and adventure, the | Western equatorial Pacific. | The Empress is gone. The strange woman, who for two years ruled the | Galapagos Garden of Eden, attired in pink silk pantles, the scientists| | said, probably perished last March | with her companion, Robert Philipson, | at the hands of an outraged castaway companion, Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, | who later died of thirst on a lonely | waterless rock a hundred miles away. Think Grave in Cave. ‘This Baroness Eloise Bonsquet de Wagner, the scientists believe, is to- day interred in one of the lonely vir-| | tually inaccessible caves of Charles Island. But the greater mystery is the| | coral-gall crab. This is a tiny crusta- | cean, about a quarter of an inch| long. It is an irritating little animal. | It irritates the coral to which it | clings to such an extent that the coral | secretes a growth which eventually | surrounds and imprisons the crab, and so it perishes. 'MACON CRASH BLAMED TO DEFECTIVE DESIGN\ No Responsibility Fixed by In- quiry for Disaster Which Cost Two Lives. | By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 22 | 4. —The plunge of the dirigible | Macon into the Pacific was attributed | today in the summary of a naval | board of inquiry to a defect in design. | The defect was described in the | summary of Comdr. T. L. Gath, judge | advocate, as being “in that forward | part of the upper fin which was not | sufficiently secured against lateral | pressure.” The court said it could fix no responsibility for the disaster which cost the lives of two men. | At the same time, Comdr. Gatch | expressed the opinion the loss could be converted into profit in the nature of experience should the Navy build another airship. Secretary Swanson of the Navy re- cently said he would oppose construc- tion of further naval dirigibles, ex- pressing the opinion they might be | useful for commercial, but not Jor military purposes. Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, skipper of the Macon, expressed the hope, however, the Navy would under- take immediate construction of an- other airship. Sl e Construction Increases. Building construction in Italy is greater than last year. DOROTHY SAYERS ,-— last three paragraphs. Her recreation is reading otHer writers’ detective yarns, She is known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, who unravels most of her mysteries. “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club,” “Lord: Peter Views the Body,” “Strong Poison,” “Suspicious Characters” and partic- cularly “The Nine Tailors” are her best known successes. Other prominent writers who will appear in the first issue of This Week are Sinclair Lewis, first American to others, Galapagos Mystery Exceeded By Origin of Coral-Gall Crab Smithsonian Institution Scientists, Back | to West Coast Base, Puzzled How Tiny Pinchers Got Into Pacific. That makes the branch coral most beautiful, giving it nodules. The coral-gall crab is well known in the Indo-Pacific. The mystery, says| Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, research chief | of the exploration cruiser Velero III's party, is how it ever got in the Western Pacific. That's 10,000 miles from its | previously known habitat. Yet Dr.| Schmitt found colonies of them. Strait Indicated, This may be eventually solved with | a degree of interest to the story that some little shrimps told Dr. Schmitt on this cruise. They told him that the geological theory that the conti- | nents of North and South America once were separated by a strait some- | where in the vicinity where the Pan-| ama Canal is located is a correct one. | They do not talk, but Dr. Schmitt says the fact that he found specimens on the west coast of Central America, | precisely the same as those on the other side of the isthmus, makes this story plain. Maybe the secret of the coral-gall| crab mystery is linked up with the theory of continental drift, that once the Asiatic and oceania areas were| united with North and South Amer- ican continents somewhere down near the South Pole, while all the area| north of the Equator was the great sea. l Escapes Chair ‘ (Story on Page 1.) BIRTH OF SEXTUPLETS IN AFRICA IS REPORTED University of Pennsylvania Pro- fessor Says He Is Informed Babies Are Still Living. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 22— Dr. Edward Schumann of the medi- cal faculty of the University of Penn- sylvania, told a medical groufi here last night that he had learned a set of Negro sextuplets were born recently on the African Gold Coast. Dr. Schumann exhibited a photo- graph of the asserted sextuplets, which he said had been sent to him by a medical missionary in Africa. He said that when the picture was taken the sextuplets were 8 days old and still living. e Seek Lasseter Gold. To search for the rich gold reef dis- covered by Lasseter, who carried to his death its exact location, an expedi- tion has left Adelaide, Australia. Price $1 at The Evening Star Business Office. or by mail, postpaid N.R.A.‘MONOPOLY' | GAPITAL T0 ROCK. HIT BY DARROW Says Agency Is lllegal Now. Lauds Decision on Gold Clause. By the Assoclated Press. & CHICAGO, Feb/uary 22—Clarence Darrow says he believes the N. R. A. in its present form will never work, because, he contends, it permlu‘ monopolies and price fixing. “There is no doubt the N. R. A. is illegal the way it stands today,”| asserted the venerable Chicago crim- inal lawyer. Commenting on President Roose- velt’s plea to Congress to extend the N. R. A. two more years, Darrow re- called the report the National Recov- ery Review Board, of which he was chairman, made to the President in 1934 upon executive order. Price Fixing Hit. ‘The board advised changes in the codes, Darrow said, because each per- mitted monopolies for big business and price fixing. The board’s report was attacked by Donald Richberg, then general counsel for and now head of N. R. A. “N. R. A, the way it operates, takes care of the big fellows by price fix- ing,” asserted Darrow. “The little fellows have to take care of them-| selves by cutting prices.” | The controverted Section 7-A of | N. R. A. will not work without a| change, contended Darrow, “because labor can't have its cake and eat it, too. After all, when employer and workman sign an agreement they should stick to it. There shouldn't be | outside interference.” Discussing the Supreme Court’s de- cision on gold, Darrow termed it “ex- tremely sensible.” “No Intrinsic Value.” “Gold hasn't any intrinsic value worth mentioning,” he said. “Value | comes from the stamp of the Govern- ment as it marks one, five or twenty | dollars, and the stamp could be put on anything else besides gold, such as silver or paper.” Senator Huey Long, opined Darrow, is & bigger man politically than most people think. He said that when the Louisianan spoke at the Democratic national convention here he held people spellbound with plain, un- flowery language which was forcefully | delivered. “I heard him talk several times afterward, and ? conversed with him on other occasions. He's a man of action. Ard—he has ideas. Dorn't forget that.” e ne CRASH AT CROSSING | DERAILS FAST TRAIN| Passengers Escape Injury When Crack Flyer Hits Motor Car in Illinois. 1 By the Associated Press. ROXANA, Ill, February 22.—The Black Hawk, crack Alton Railroad | passenger train, en route to Chicago from St. Louis, hit a motor car here at 1:44 o'clock this morning, derail- ing the engine and four coaches. Railroad employes reported no one was injured. The names of the occupants of | the motor car were not obtained. The wreck occurred at a grsde;‘ | crossing near here. No injuries were | | suffered by those in the motor car, so far as employes of the road could | ascertain. e | The passengers were placed on i another train and taken to Chicago. REMARRIED BY PROXY AFTER DIVORCE REPEAT Writer and Lecturer Gets Decree in Mexico When One Obtained in Poland Is Questioned. By tHe Associated Press. JUAREZ, Mexico, Pebruary 22— Hundreds of miles away in California, Ludwig Lewisohn, writer and lecturer, was remarried yesterday by proxy after he had been granted a divorce | from his first wife, Mary Arnold | Childs. | Lewisohn received a rabbinical divorce from his first wife more than 11 years ago in Warsaw, Poland, but obtained the decree yesterday after its validity had been questioned. The proxy marriage reunited him with Thelma Bowen Spear. Justo Salaizes, Juarez civil register, performed the ceremony, in which Salvador Franco Urias, Lewisohn's a! torney, acted as groom, and his secre- tary, Jesus Navarro, represented Mrs. Lewisohn. e JAPAN PROBES U. S. SHIP Sailors to Be Grilled on Suspicion of Espionage. TOKIO, February 22 (#).—The Japanese Navy today ordered the American tanker, Elizabeth Kellogg, to submit to a rigid examination Satur- day to determine whether its crew is guilty of espionage on the vital fortresses at the mouth of Tokio Bay. The tanker, although chartered by the Japanese Mitsui Co., is manned by an American crew. En route from ‘Yokohoma toward Kobe, with its tanks half full of crude oil from California, it grounded this morning near the mouth of the bay. It's skipper expected to refloat the ship with the next high tide, but be- cause the ship had spent the day close to the fortresses, the suspicions of Navy officials were aroused. The Evening Star Offers Its Readers HUEY LONG WARNS Farley Called “Crook” as Louisianan Forecasts Disclosures. By the Assoclated Press. Huey Long, warming up for a new onsluught on Postmaster General Farley, has warned the Capital it is going to be “rocked.” A “common, ordinary, unscrupulous crook with no defense whatever to be made for him” was the description Senator Long applied to Farley on the Senate floor yesterday as he continued his efforts to obtain an investigation of Farley’s administration. “What I have to show in the next few days will rock this Capital” he said, adding that the Postmaster Gen- eral is “on the way out.” Long said his charges would involve bank law violations in Tennessee in which he contended Farley had inter- fered. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, interrupted to say he believed he knew what the Louisianan had in mind, but that he was “wholly misinformed.” Cement Deals Aired. As Long spoke, Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, told news= men the F. E. R. A. had canceled a contract with a New York company for 84,000 sacks of cement and given 20,000 sacks of the order to the Gen- eral Builders Supply Co. of which, Long says, Farley formerly was presi- dent. Hopkins said the original contract with the City Builders Co., calling for $47,880, had to be canceled because N. R. A certified the company was not complying with its code. He said that the price finally paid five com= panies for the cement was $52,864. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, challenged Long's reading of a speech he said Farley planned to deliver tonight. Robinson declared it was unfair to obtain a copy of a speech given out to the press in advance and that “a question of fair desling” was involved. Challenges Use of Money. Replying that the speech had been “improperly printed” by Farley through the Democratic National Committee, Long said he had been a cortributor to the party, and the Postmaster General, therefore, Wweas preposing “to use my money to an- swer me.” Reading from the speech, he said Farley contended attacks on him really were attacks on President Roosevelt Laughter in the gallery greeted Long's assertion that he sleeps with his right ear to the pillow because it is a little bad, but keeps his left ear “up in the air” so he can hear what is going on. Senator Norris of Nebraska, who wanted to smoke and hear Long at the seme time, solved the problem by propping the cloak room door open and puffing away just outside. Smok- ing in the Senate chamber isn't per- mitted Meanwhile, the Senate awaited re- ceipt of data promised by Secretary Ickes in response to its request for any information he had regarding Farley. Ickes has denied conducting any in- vestigation of the Postmaster General. LONG HELD FRIGHTENED, Telegram Reported Cause for Ending “Plot” Hearing. GONZALES, La., February 22 (#)— | An assertion that Huey Long aban- doned his recent “murder plot” hear- ing after being frightened by receipt of a telegram was made last night by Chester P. St. Amant of Baton Rouge, in addressing a meeting of | the East Ascension Parish unit of the anti-Long Square Deal Associa- tion. Accusations renging from extrava- gance of State expenditures to ase serted attempts to induce colored peo- ple to vote were made against Long by a string of speakers at the meeting. St. Amant, secretary of the asso- ciation, said Long “turned as white es a sheet” at reading the telegram he said the Senator received, and immediately postponed further prese entation of evidence in an inquiry into what Long said was & cone spiracy to kill him. 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