Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, slightly colder tonight: minimum temperature about 26 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy, slowly rising tem- perature. Temperatures—Highest, 39, at noon yesterday; lowest, 31, at 3:30 a.m. The only evening paper. in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 33,170. VAR PROET CURB N PRCE CONTRL AND VY STUDED Senate Munitions Probers to Hear Bethlehem Offi- cials Monday. l LETTER EXPLANATION | BY NAVY WILL FoLLOW/ Ickes Denies Knowledge of Grant of $109,000,000 for Warships Late Last Year, By the Associated Press. Proposals to curb war profits by price control and to gnaw at them | with income taxes were studied today by the Senate Munitions Committee as it neared the time for showing the | Senate what it has accomplished with | its $100,000 appropriation. With examination of two shipyards completed, the committee will begin Monday to question officiaic of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., headed by Eugene Grace, who will be the major witness. Afterward the investigators plan to call Navy officials to explain a letter attributed to Assistant Secretary Henry L. Roosevelt and saying $109,.- 000,000 in warships had been put un- der contract late last year with public works funds. Secretary Ickes, in gen- eral charge of the P. W. A. program. denied yesterday any knowledge of &uch a sum being made available in addition to previous allocaticns of about $278,000,000. Letter Sent Last August. The letter was addressed to William J. Ditter, former Representative from Pennsylvania, and sent last August. “The matter was not cleared up by Mr. Ickes’ testimony,” Stephen Ra shenbush, committee counsel, com- mented. Earlier Chairman Nye had anncunced naval officials wouid be called as soon as questioning c¢f the Bethlehem officials was complete. Under terms of its second appro- Full Teport on page A-16. Entered as second class matte post office, Washington, D. l Who C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C., Man’s Boast,“ICanKill AnyOne turned Lost Bonds Goes on Rampage. Shouts “I Am God” and Guest in Hotel Drops Over Dead. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 23.—Frank Greges, the 67-year-old sandwich- sij gn man, who gained fame and a better job by finding bonds worth | $42,000 and returning them to the owner, went on a rampage early to- day in the hotel where he lives. “I am God,” he shouted. “I can kill any one who looks at me.” ‘While police and a doctor were at- tempting to restrain him, Michael J. Grycwacz, 40, of New York, walked into the rocm and complained of feeling ill. “I am God,” Greges shouted again, glaring at the newcomer. “I can kill any body.” Grycwacz dropped dead. Greges already had sent one man Looks at Me,” Is Fulfilled | Ex-Sign Carrier W ho Re- | | FRANK_GREGES. to a hospital with a push down a flight of stairs. , i ‘The man who had given Bowery | | bums their greatest inspiration of | the Winter was taken to a police | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) SHIPS IN DISTRESS; PLANE LOST INSEA BIG DRIFTS OF SOI INWAKE OF WINDS ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Four Vessels Trapped by Gale in Bay of Biscay—2 on Japanese Shoals. {Tons of Valued Top-Loam Swept From Fields—Dust Kills Man. By the Associated Press. | By the Associated Press. Six vessels were In distress today. DODGE CITY, Kans., February 23. with the possibility that one of them e had gone to the bottom after its crew | —Huge drifts of soil, wind-swept was rescued, and an airplane was re- fields and dust laden homes and of- ported to have crashed in flames into| fices were the marks left today by the sea. Four of the ships were trapped by a gale in the notoriously stormy Bay of Biscay and two by shoals off the coast of Japan. The plane, uniden- tified, was said to have plunged to destruction in the Dutch West Indies. priation of $50,000 made by the Sen- | ate in January, the committee was re- | quested ‘o submit not later than April | 1 a report of progress and proposed | legislation aimed at taking the profits ' half off Bosso Peninsula, outside Tokio Wakeeney, Kans, died of s lung out of war. | While Senator Nve expressed oppo- sition to the McSwain bill in the House | carrying a proposal to put a “cfl]ing"[ on prices at the outset of war, it was indicated in other sources that some sort of price control legislation was in the program studied by the committee. Nye advocated an income tax to trim profits of the war industries, coupled with a general industrial draft. Incentive Will Be Gone. “It is my idea,” he said, “that if the profit is taken out of war, much of the incentive to war will be gone.” | Secretary Ickes, in his testimony | yesterday, declined to say whether he | himself approved the idea of allotting $238,000,000 P. W. A. funds to warship building, which has been criticized by some Senators. He did say that such work did not procuce as much em- ployment as some cther undertakings. He let it be understood the funds were allocated by President Roosevelt and that the expenditure was com- mitted before he became P. W. A. chief. He said he believed the de- cision was reached after due and care- ful consideration. The allotment, he pointed out, was | made by executive order on the day the public works fund was created by Congress in 1933. Ickes said that of the amount set up, only $66,500,000 had been spent by January 1, although he “understood” all of it and an additional $40,000,000 alloted later was under contract. While he was testifying before the Senate committee, Rear Admiral N. M. Smith, chief of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, told the House Naval Committee of a plan to build up Pearl Harbor and other Pacific ports for use in event of an emergency. Shearer Anxious to Testify. Devoting all of yesterday’s session to Secretary Ickes, the Senate com- mittee dashed the hopes of William B. Shearer that he would be able to reply at once to testimony that he once threatened death and scandal to shipyard officials for failing to pay him $250,000 he claimed due as a rep- resentative of their interests at the naval limitations treaty in Geneva and later in Washington. He advanced toward the witness chair as Ickes left it, only to be told by Chairman Nye that he could sub- mit any records he had, but would not be questioned until they had been ' examined. Secretary Ickes told the committee the executive order put the $238,000,- 000 under control of the Navy and out (Continu SIX KILLED, 5 HURT IN FRENCH STORM Violent Blow Causes Heavy Dam- age in Bordeaux Area—Many Buildings Shattered. By the Assoclated Press. BORDEAUX, France, February 23.— Six persons were killed and five injured today in a violent windstorm which swept & wide path of destruction a~ross Southern and Central France. Five children were burned to death in flames fanned by a wind which de- stroyed & home at St. Quentin, and & worker was electrocuted and another seriously burned while repairing a line near Moulins. Falling chimneys injured four per- sons at Angouleme, including two girls, who were hurt when a chimney plunged through the roof onto a bed. Buildings were unroofed, trees blown down, and communications, including railroads, were disrupted from the coast near Bordeaux to the Alps. Bor- deaux bore the brunt of the storm. Heavy damage was reported at such widely scattered points as Bonneville, Vesoul, Sables Dolonne, Creusot and Auxerre. 4 So severe was the storm that port of Bordeaux was closed until wreckage could be_cl An oyster sloop went aground in a gale off Delaware. The 5590-ton British steamship Catherine Radcliffe was the biggest victim. It struck a reef a mile and a Bay, late yesterday. Most of Crew Removed. Fishing beats and larger craft, in- cluding a Japanese destroyer, hurried to answer its cry: “Lying in dangerous position. Need immediate assistance.” A plane which flew over the ship re- ported that the fishing boats had taken off most of the crew. The Catherine Radcliffe, ‘which was built in_ 1925 and owned by the Clarissa Radcliffe Steamship Co., was described as leaking badly in a mes- sage intercepted 11 London. No clues were found during the night to the identity of the plane reported lost near the Island of Saba, 150 miles south of St. Thomas. Fears that it might have been a Pan-American air liner bearing James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, proved ground- less, the Roosevelt ship landing safely at St. Johns for the night. A dispatch from St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, suggested that the lost plane might have been from a squad- ron of 25 British warships maneuver- ing in St. Kitts roadstead. The 1744-ton Ottinge, a British steamer, became the fourth victim of the storm in the Bay of Biscay when its steering gear broke. The French salvage tug Abeille No. 22 and the British naval sloop Pathan were going to its aid. Meanwhile the tug Seeflake forged toward the Caterina Madre, which lost its propeller off the northwest tip of Spain and the S. S. Galea, a Spanish vessel, continued its journey with the fescued crew of the Taide. The Juventus, which said it had lost a man overboard yesterday, reported no further trouble. Italian Freighter. Shipping men assumed the Taide had gone to the bottom. It was an Italian freighter, as are the Caterina | Madre and Juventus. Inside Tokio Bay, the American freighter Elizabeth Kellogg remained aground, but her crew had been cleared of the suspicion that they de- liberately grounded the vessel to spy on Japanese fortresses. A boat which put out in the teeth of a 45-mile wind was reported to have saved three men from the oyster sloop, aground off -Bowers Beach. Coast Guard craft put out from both the Delaware and New Jersey sides of Delaware Bay in a race to the scene. W. C. HAMILTON WED KINGMAN, Ariz., February 23 (#).— Wilbert C. Hamilton, 45, Los Angeles attorney, and Mary E. Reeman, 33, of Pasadena, were married here yester- day. . The bridegroom is the son of th late John W. Hamilton, senior Meth- odist Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D. C. The bride'’s grandfather was an Episcopal rector in England 65 years. the season’s first dust storm in the West and Southwest. The mustard-shaded clouds. carry- ing thousands of tons of valuable top soil, had moved southward after lsweeping over Western Nebraska, { | Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma. | One death was attributed to the choking clouds. Herman Ehricks, 59, | hemorrhage when he attempted w‘ | fight his way through the storm. Last night the storm hovered over | | El Paso, Tex., tying up air traffic and | hindering other means of transporta- | tion. Trainmen completing their | runs at Denver reported they were forced to walk ahead of locomotives with fusees to light the way for en- ! gineers. i A check on the damage to Western Kansas wheat has not been com- pleted. ONLY ONE EXAMPLE. Interior Department Asserts Waste to Wind Staggering. By the Associated Press. Reports on severe dust storm dam- age to approximately 60,000,000 acres of land in arid regions of the United States today were coupled by the soil | erosion service with a warning such | storms will continue until farmers take | | adequate steps for their prevention. | Of the damaged area, the Interior Department service said. about 5.000.- 1 000 acres have been rendered utterly | useless for crop purposes by the loss of top soil or by the deposit of wind- | blown sand on once fertile areas. | “The intense dust storm now sweep- | ing across the Mid West is a grim ob- Jject lesson in the destructive power of | wind erosion and a graphic illustration | of the imperative need for its control,” said H. H. Bennett, director of the service. Must Prevent Losses. “Continued storms of this sort can be expected until adequate steps to prevent their recurrence are taken by farmers in the great plains region where the topography of the land and improper farming methods make soil blowing a constant menace.” He said dust storms could be averted to a large extent by mainte- nance of an adequate cover of vege- tation on the ground and by scien- tific and practical methods of culti- vation. At Dalhart, Tex., in the Panhandle region where the current dust dis- turbance originated, Bennett said, the erosion service is now conducting an actual demonstration of the most effective measure of wind erosion con- trol. Similar projects are about to begin in Eastern Colorado and Cen- tral South Dakota. “The significance of this and simi- lar recent dust storms is appalling,” Bennett asserted. “It means that jtee met in St. Louis last month. our conquest of America has been achieved at reckless cost in land re-! sources. We have dealt heedlessly by wind and water as an act of nature over which man has no con- trol.” (Picture on Page A-3.) Teacher-Student Strike Grows; Cuban Government in Danger By the Associated Press. HAVANA, February 23.—Sweeping into the thatched-roof school houses of rural areas, the student-teacher strike grew steadily today as its lead- ers exhorted the public to unite against the government of Carlos Mendieta. The definitely revolutionary move- ment was apparently the best organ- ized campaign since the overthrow of the dictator-President, Gerardo Ma- chado, a year and a half ago. Strike leaders estimated 300,000 students angd teachers were out. They coined attractive names for the strike and appealed to the populace through newspapers and the radio. “The crusade of dignity for the re- establishment of peace and social jus- tice,” was the way the Strike Com- mittee of Havana University referred to the walkout. Citizens were “exhorted” to *“col- laborate in the rude and difficult task of creating s new Cuba through the re-establishment of the most elemental democratic principles.” While the strike was directed from Havana, powerful groups were evi- dently functioning ir the interior, es- pecially at Camaguey. Police arrested several teachers at- tending a strike meeting late last night in the interior city, where dele- gates from Matanzas and other points decided to continue the strike indefi- nitely. An assembly of strikers from all parts of the country was called for tomorrow at ey. Several points reported demonstra- tions and disorders. Observers attributed the lack of general disorders to the government’s apparent plan to refrain from using force. Jose Capote Diaz, secretary of education, and Rafael Santos Jiminez, secretary of commerce, quit the cabinet yesterday under pressure the strikers. Both are members of Havana University faculty, with our land, looking upon erosion | 8Ta! YOUNG “LIBERALS” SEEK GONTROL OF REPUBLICAN PARTY Would Elect Enough Pledged Delegates to Dictate to 1936 Convention. REVOLT IS REVEALED IN KANSAS CITY SPEECH Country Divided Into Regions of Three States Each for Pur- poses of Organization. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, February 23.—With the revolt of Young Republicans from present party leadership thrust into the open by a speech at Kansas City of their National Committee chair- man, George Olmstead of Des Moines, the plan for seizing control was dis- closed today. Briefly, said Letcher Lusby of Chi- cago, regional director of Young Re- publican activities for Illinois, In- diana and Wisconsin, it is: Elect enough delegates pledged to Young Republican “liberal” parties to gain control of the party's national convention in 1936. Concentration of efforts leading up to the election of delegates at next year’s primaries will get under way in a month or six weeks, Lusby said, with the establishment of national headquarters for the Young Repub- licans, probably in Chicago. “The present membership of the Young Republicans is estimated by Lusby at 10,000,000, based on “honor rolls” sent out prior to the 1932 na- tional election and returned signed. Cannot Fail in Goal. Figuring that 40 per cent, or 28,- 000,000 of the electorate, is under 36 vears of age, hoping to recruit vast numbers from that group not now ! members and asserting many dissat- isfled Republicans and Democrats in- terested in a liberal constitutional Re- publican party would join up, Lusby declared the Young Republicans could not fail to reach their goal. Tracing the history of the Young Republicans, Lusby, who is 31, ac- tive, forceful and a typical representa- tive of his group, said Olmstead was selected in August, 1932, by Everett Saunders, then chairman of the Re- publican Nationa! Corumittee, to or- ganize young voters. In the very short interim before the Democratic landslide in the following November, Olmsted organized 10.000,- 000 young Republicans in 40 States, and the powerful group has remained intact. Came July, 1934, Lusby continued, and the Republican National Commit- tee, by then under Henry P. Fletcher, its present chairman, called a meeting of the young Republican National Cominittee and inquired as to its policies. Recommendation Scorned. Lusby asserted the younger group i advocated liberation of Republican | policies, but that none of its recom- merndations has been heeded. The young Republicans waited until the November elections, he related. then decided action was necessary. So with Olmsted as temporary chair- man, the Executive Committee of the young Republicans National Commit- Ten State—Washington, Utah, Iowa, Illincis, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, New | York, New Jersey and Alabama—were represented. The policy report conceived was: ‘We recommend the rehabilitation of the Republican party through the elimination of selfish, predatory, re- actionary interests; the organization of the citizenry who believe in a liberal philosophy of government by laws and not men; maintenance of the economic system which preserves the rights of the individual, and the honest profit motive in agriculture and industry, but fulfills its social obligations, the promulgation of a program of national recovery through re-employment in private industry and the elimination of wholesale expenditure of public funds resulting in an ever increasing burden of public debt; the return to constitutional government as between the individual, State and Nation, to the end that free institutions and in- dividual opportunity may be pre- served.” Platform to Form Naturally. The committee decided, Lusby said, upon no issues or platform, feeling that those were subjeets not to be hur- riedly attacked, and that the proper platform would form naturally in the ensuing year. The committee favored, said Lusby, retaining the identity of the organiza- tion as the National Organization of ‘Young Republicans, to exist independ- ently of the Republican National Com- mittee but free to co-operate with it, and invited citizens of all ages to co- operate in the younger group’s pro- m. It proposed that the Young Repub- lican National Committee be composed of a chairman and co-chairman for (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) e GREEN DENIES STRIKE IS PLANNED Declares A. F. of L. Is Thinking Only in Terms of Peace. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 23.—William Green, American Federation of Labor president, said today organized labor has no plans for a strike in the auto- mobile industry. “We are thinking in terms of peace —in terms of collective bargaining and independent workers,” the A. F. of L. chieftain said upon his arrival in the heart of the motor car industry. “We are not talking about a strike. We haven't made any such plans.” A. F. of L. efforts to organize auto- mobile workers into one :sr:;!unkm reen to Detroit. He was brought Gi = a | dead, grabbed the pistol self. She died ROOSEVELT SIGNS OIL CONTROL BILL Measure Aimed to Prevent Shipment of lllegal Products. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt signed the new oil control bill into law last night. Designed to fill the gap made in the New Deal when the Supreme | Court held section 9C of the industrial | recovery act unconstitutional, the legislation was completed by Con- ! gress only yesterday afternoon. It is aimed against shipment of | illegally-produced oil in interstate | commerce. The Supreme Court had invalidated the previous control mech- | anism on the ground that it con- stituted too great a delegation of power to the President by Congress. | Connally Sponsor. The signing. anmouncement of | which was withheld until after the President left the city this morning for Boston, followed by a short time | the arrival of the bill at the White House in the hands of Senator Con- nally, Democrat, of Texas, author of the measure in the Senate. The legislation provides penalties for the oil operator who may find an out-of-State market for crude he pro- duces in excess of a vald order of a | State regulatory body. The Ol Administration began today | to set up again the machinery dis- solved by Secretary Ickes after the | Supreme Court ruled on the previous | mechanism. State Ouster Upheld. ! The law regulates interstate ship- | ment of oil produced in excess of State quotas. In other States en- | forcement had been attempted under | production sections of the oil code, but no Federal regulation had been prossible in Texas, largest producer, since the decision. The law declares shipments of con- traband oil illegal, instead of merely | giving the President power to regu- late as under section 9-C, confiscation of shipments is authorized. Ickes said recently he did not be- | lieve the law went “far enough.” -nd’ reiterated his desire for Federal regu- lation of production. o KIN OF FUGITIVE IS FOUND SLAIN| Discovered on Porch of House Where He Asked to Warm Himself. By the Assoclated Press. GALAX, Va. February 23.— The bullet-riddled body of Dowe Leonard, kinsman of Howard Delp, sought by authorities as_the slayer of Chief of Police Posey Martin in a jail break, was found this morning on the porch of the dwelling of Jim Brady in East Galax. ‘There were no clues as to the slayer of Leonard, who was in the town jail Thursday night when the jail break occurred. Leonard was being released at the time to make bond. Brady said Leonard called at the house at 3 a.m. today and asked per- mission to come in and warm himself, Brady said he had no fire and closed the door. Immediately two shots were heard, Brady says. Leonard is said to have told friends that partisans of Delp followed him on the streets all day Friday with threat- ening looks. Frank Dotson. patrolman, who was badly cut about the face and head at the same time Martin was slain, is resting well at a hospital here. A posse is still on the trail of Delp in nearby mountains of Carroll County. CATSUP SHOOTING HOAX ENDS IN WIFE’S DEATH Policeman’s Bluff Nine Days Ago Following Quarrel Is Cause of Suicide. By the Associated Press. ol YONKERS, N. Y., February 23.—A ‘woman is dead as a result of her hus- band’s bluff that he was shot. Mrs, Mildred Rosendale, 25, quar- reled nine days ago with her husband, Policeman John Delehanty, 34. He daubed catsup on his head, fired a bullet into a pillow- and dropped to the floor, where his wife found him. Mrs. Rosendale, he was shot her- she was .| in & hotel here yesterday by detec l o Sfar SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. Legless Veteran Is Found Dead of | Gasin WorkshopL UF]’ *. . . The little silver crucifix that keeps a man from harm!” .« » That keeps . . . man . .. from harm . . . that keeps . . . Ralph Grimm . . . from harm . . . A good tempo, that line of Kipling, for a tiny silversmith’s hammer, tink- ling for hours at a stretch, year in and year out, in Grimm’s little bnse-l ment workshop. It was the fatal “Ballad of the Fisher's Bearding House” in a scarcely less sinister setting. For Grimm was haunted with dark memories, with a knowledge of pain and futility. Only his ceaseless industry, his pre- occupation with the exquisite little | silver crosses he created, could beat back an overwhelming sense of defeat. There were days when nothing could shake off the dark humor. Lost Legs in War. But mestly Grimm was cheerful, hard-working, determined to salvage and turn to useful purpose the wrecked | body he brought back from France. A high-explosive shell had deprived him of both legs during the A. E. F. final assault in the Meuse-Argonne. Grimm came home to Walter Reed Hospital after fighting as a private, first class, with Company I, 355th In- fantry, through battles at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne. He had gone “(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) 200 ARE STALLED ONROAD BY SNOW Scores of Cars and Four Busses Trapped by Drifts in Pennsylvania. By the Associated Press. BLAIRSVILLE, Pa. February 23.— At least four busloads of travelers and some 200 motorists, caught in 10-foot snowdrifts piled by a 36-mile wind, crowded into temporary refuges or | huddled in their vehicles along his- | toric William Penn Highway today | as snowplows slowly tried to clear the way. Four Greyhound busses, two east- bound and two westbound, were buried in drifts on steep Pennview Mountain, 6 miles east of Blairsville, and the Blairsville station said another | bus was unreported and probably stalled somewhere further east. Driver of a wrecking car who made his way down the perilous grade re- ported he saw some of the occupants of two busses still in the stalled vehicles. None was suffering any discomfort, he said. Highway workers and wrecking crew men said they had no reports of accidents or of any casualties. * In Pennview Inn, a road house on the mountain top, 100 or more strand- ed motorists and some of the bus pas- sengers found temporary safety from the howling blast that kept sweeping snow in blinding gusts along the high | ridge. The State highway department ordered hundreds of men into the region with all available plows to help clear the main artery. Punxsutawney reported 18 inches of snow, the heaviest fall in 50 years. Yesterday’s Circulation, 119,388 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved. (UP) Means Associated Press. ! | TWO CENTS. RELIEF BILL SEEN DEAD AS SENATE FIGHT CONTINUES Capitol Hears President May Carry Work Issue to Country. REVIVAL OF MEASURE IN DOUBT, BYRNES SAYS Wage Amendment Supporters Be- lieve Administration Aide's Statement “Threat.” By the Associated Press. The huge Roosevelt program of work relief, set back to where it was nearly a month ago, faced an uncertain future today. Talk on Capitol Hill ranged all the way from hints the President would carry the fight to the country to a prediction the bill is “dead” and the “dole” must go on. It was Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, an administration supporter, who had said the bill had met its death, but some proponents of the McCarran prevailing wage amend- ment answered today they believed this was merely a “threat.” | " Byrnes amplificd today the state- i ment he made yesterday after the $4.- 1880,000,000 bill, to which the McCare { ran amendment had been tacked over llh(' strenuous opposition of adminis~ L o tration forces, had been sent back COURT BANS SALE from the Senate floor to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Insisting he was expressing his own belief and not talking for the Presi- dent, Byrnes said “there is no pros- pect” of reviving the works program and “the committee probably will do nothing about it.” “Bill Gone,” Says Byrnes, “The President stated that if the | Quick Appeal From Decision | of Alabama Judge Seen. i Concern Is Felt. By the Associated Press. The New Deal moved today to de- fend its vast electric power develop- ! ment in the Tennessee Valley against {a formidable legal threat. Friends of the administration an- ticipated a quick appeal from a rul- ing yesterday by Federal Judge W. I. Grubb of Alabama that the Tennes- | see Valley Authority has no legal au- thority to dispose of surplus powPr: generated at hydro-electric plants on | i the Tennessee River. The decision struck squarely at an important link in the enterprise which | | President Roosevelt has fostered to | provide a “yardstick” for private power rates. Judge Grubb's challenge to the | T. V. A’s plans came in the midst | of congressional agitation for addi- | tional Federally-financed authorities | to develop and market electricity in the Missouri, Arkansas, Columbia and | | other river valleys. | Loans Restrained. | i i Pondering the implications of the ruling, the Capital noted especially | that the court made permanent an ! injunction restraining 14 North Ala- bama cities and towns from negotiat- | |ing with the Public Works Admini- | stration for loans to build electric distribution systems. There was spec- | ulation as to what effect, if any, this| | might have nationally on P. W. As | | | | policy of giving financial encourage- ment to municipal power develop- | ments. Judge Grubb's ruling was handed ( down in a suit brought by preferred shareholders of the Alabama Power Co. They contended T. V. A.'s plans for an extensive electrification pro- gram in Northwest Alabama were un- constitutional. Judge Grubb previously had provided material for a Supreme Court test on another New Deal agency—the N. R. A. He ruled not long ago that the recovery act and & | lumber code. established under it were invalid. The Government appealed that case directly to the Supreme Court, where it is pending. Some Gravely Concerned. In discussion of the setback to T. V. A., Capital circles referred fre- juently to a statement by Judge Grubb that “I have never been able to bring myself to see that the United States had any right to go into a retail busi- ness.” The decision was regarded with “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) 8 MISSIONARIES SAFE London Cable From China Follows Report of Attack by Reds. LONDON, February 23 (#)—The Methodist Missionary Society here re- ceived a cable today saying the eight English missionaries stationed at Chaotung, Yunnan Province, in Southern China, are safe. They were | reported attacked by Communist yes- terday. The cable said they were ‘“pre- | pared to leave should there be any danger,” and added that the Com- munists had been checked by Yunnan | provincial troops. D. A. R. Regent to Face Charge Of Violating “Blue Sky” Laws By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, February 23.— Mrs. Sidney Johnston Dudley, regent of the ©Old Dominion Chapter, National So- clety of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, will face a Police Court hearing on “blue sky” charges here Tuesday. With a man giving his name as Harry D. Morman, 63, of 1 North Sixth tives said Morman attempted to sell stock in & firm to produce gas- motors for agricultural use. Mrs. Dudley, the detectives said, holds pat- ent rights to the device. ‘The couple were taken to police headquarters and and the warrant issued after a conference be- tween police and Assistant Common- wealth’s Attorney Charles T. Tinsley. held, telling police that she was to participate in in memory of George who them line She was de- tained, however, untll ball was pro- s i McCarran amendment were adopted he would not sign the bill,” Byrnes “The Senate adopted it. There« fore, so far as the works part is con= cerned, the bill is gone.” He expressed the thought the com- mittee would report out an appropria- tion of $880,000,000 or $1,880,000,000 to carry out the present relief program for six months or a year. This pro- gram, strictly speaking, is not a dole pure and simple, but a combination of dole and work relief. Such a move by the committee would mean at least a major delay in the President’s plan to put 3,500,000 “em- ployables” to work on public works at “security wages” of about $50 a month. The forces behind the McCarran amendment, which include the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, want the payment of wages prevailing in private industry. The works bill, facing half a dozen other drives to alter it, was sent back to committee on motion of Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, and with the advice of Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, who had fought in vain against the McCarran amendment. Glass thought the committee should report out a bill “that will not be quite so controversial.” Senator McNary, the Republican eader, meanwhile asserted the Sen= ate’s action was strange procedure, coming from those in charge of the bill. However, he promised co-opera= tion with the understanding a separate measure would be reported promptly providing funds for direct relief. Pressure From States, Some other sources on Capitol Hill were saying today that no hasty effort would be made to bring the works part of the bill out of committee for some time. It was said that certain ad- ministra‘ion strategists believed that States and municipalities which had been counting on public works projects would bring pressure to bear on Con- gress to pass the bill in a form that would not face a presidential veto | threat. A tentative plan to have the $880,~ 000,000 separated from the $4,000,- 1000,000 and reported out quickly so | the Relief Administration will not be ! without funds is expected to be con- sidered by the Appropriations Com- mittee next week. i With President Roosevelt away over ithe week end. administration chief- i tains expect little to be accomplished immediately in the way of a possible compromise. Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo~ rado, is expected to submit to the Appropriations Committee his pro- posal to slash the whole measure to $1,880,000,000. Around this idea are rallying Senators who want to cut $3,« 000,000,000 out of the bill permanently on the ground that the huge expendi- | ture would be dangerous to the public credit. They claim additional strength for their drive. Senator Adams said that witn the | Federal Government plan to return } 1,500,000 “unemployables” back to the | States and cities, £1,880,000,000 would 180 much farther and would be suffie cient until the next Congress meets. | At present, he said. the Federal relief | program is costing about $150,000,00 a month. | NOMINATIONS ASKED 'League Requests Nations to Proe pose Adachi Court Successor. GENEVA, February 23 (#).—The | League of Nations requested the gove cured. Later in the day she could!ernments of the world today for nomi= not be reached. At her hotel she was | nations to fill the seat in the Perma- said to be out. Other D. A. R. leaders | nent Court of International Justice here, including Mrs. Charles Keesee, ' made vacant by the death of Viscount State regent, were attending exercises | at Williamsburg. i The arresting officers reported to Detective Capt. A. S. Wright that Mrs. Dudley told them of the motor, for use as a tractor to pull agricultural im- | plements, and that Morman offered them the stock. They said Morman, who is not licensed by the State Corporation Commission to sell securities in Vir- ginia, told them that if they would invest $1,000 in stock in the concern it would be returned in 90 days with $12,000 additional. The officers said that they had| checked Morman's record and found he held a stock salesman’s license at one time, but that it had expired in 1928. - The arrést was made under provi- sions of the Vi law prohibiting the sale of securities by unlicensed persons. Mineichiro Adachi of Japan. 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