Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight, probably clearing tomor= row morning; colder tonight and tomor- row: lowest temperature tonight about 38 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 76, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 9 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages No. 33,182 RICHBERG OFFERS N. R, A PLAN FOR ONLY INTERSTATE INDUSTRY GROUPS Proposes Strict Code Limit| in Testimony as First Witness Before Senate| Investigation Body. WOULD COVER OTHERS ON WAGES AND HOURS | Asks Two-Year Extension of Ma-| chine—Denies Small Enter- prises or Consumers Injured. | Lays Labor Troubles Under| Law to Union Weaknesses. By the Associated Press. A New Deal chart for revamping | N. R. A. to limit codes to “trades and | industries actually engaged in inter- state commerce” was given Congress today by Donald R. Richberg, but it | did not satisfy Blue Eagle critics. For two hours the easy-talking di- rector of President Roosevelt'’s Na- tional Emergency Council outlined his views on the future of N. R. A. to an eagerly listening Senate Finance Com- | mittee. He was surrounded by ad- visers and aides, including S. Clay ‘Williams, retiring chairman of the Recovery Board. Specific List Requested. In the end, the committee, still somewhat in the air as to which codes the administration proposed to drop, | asked Richberg to submit a specific list. He returns to the stand tomor- TO%. | Richberg said he was recommend- ing extension of N. R. A. for two years “substantially in present form.” | but he proposed tiglitening up the anti- | trust laws, strengthening enforcement powers, limiting codes to businesses en- { 15,16 &17 Entered as second class matter p;a: office, Washington, D. C. Sentenced EDWARD C. BELL. —A. P. Photos. BELL IS CONVICTED OF POISONING WIFE, RECEIVING 3 YEARS Sentence Is Agreed Upon in Trial Before Judge Without Jury. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, REBELS THREATEN | 10 BOMB PIRAEUS, ATHENS PORT CITY Immediate Capitulation Is Demanded of Loyalists in Ultimatum. {ARCHEOLOGICAL RELICS WOULD BE ENDANGERED {80,000 Greek Troops Advance in Struma Valley to Attack .in Saloniki Area. | (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) GHEVGHELLI, Greek - Yugoslav Frontier, March 7.—Reports reaching this frontier town today said Admiral Demestichos, commanding the rebel fleet, had wirelessed the Greek cabinet that he would bombard Piraeus, the port of Athens, unless the government capitulated immediately. (The British battleship Royal Sov- ereign and the Prench destroyer Ver- dun are in the harbor threatened by bombardment.) Meantime the rebels showed no | signs of surrender. ‘To add to the government's worries it was reported today that unem- ployed in the great tobacco growing districts of Kavala had issued a proclamation against the government. Many American tobacco companies | have offices, works and warehouses in Kavala. If Admiral Demestichos carries out By the Assoclated Press. FREDERICKSBURG. Va., March 7. —Edward C. Bell, 60-year-old Fredericksburg business man, was convicted today of poisoning and at- tempting to poison his invalid wife, Mrs. Madge W. Bell, and a sentence of |three years in the penitentiary was |agreed upon. Judge Frederick W. Coleman, who |tried the case without a jury, post- and at Corinth. This had a reassur- | | poned execution of the sentence until business affairs before going to the penitentiary. | Albert V. Bryan, prosecutor, recom- court, saying he did so because of | Parthenon his threat of bombing Piraeus, tne and other archeological | treasures would be in danger. The government declared itself con- fident of its ability to repel such an ! attack, but advices indicated that the population in Piraeus and Athens were highly alarmed ' Despite the threatened bombard- | ment of Athens the American arche- | ological expeditions decided to con- | tinue excavation around the Acropolis 1 ing effect on other Americans living | March 15 to permit Bell to wind up in Greece. i American and other foreign corre- | spondents at Athens were informed by | the government that only dispatches | control of the country and the situa- gaged in interstate commerce, empow- | the poor physical condition of the de- tion in general would be allowed to | ering the President to impose limited codes regulating hours and wages, and | giving legal backing for the Blue Eagle | insignia. Defending the administration of N. R. A, Richberg contended the “noise of the complaints was nothing to com- | pare with the amount of satisfaction | which is, of course. silent.” ! Most of the complaints, he said, come from five codes, which were named as the restaurant, retail food and grocery, trucking, hacking and | retail motor sales agreements. | Asked by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah if the codes had not fostered devices tending to suppress competi- tion, Richberg said tne demand for cost-protection devices chiefly from the small enterprises and | had operated to their benefit. Runs Into Difficulties. He ran into difficulties when mem- bers of the committee sought his defi- | nition of interstate commerce. He | said his plan would probably ellm-: inate many codes covering local or | service industries, but later said the service trades were the only ones he | could name that definitely were not interstate commerce. | Critics of N. R. A. on the commit- | tee immediately told reporters they | were not satisfied with the recom- | mendations. { “The recommendations for modifica- | tion are very good. but they don't go far enough,” Senator King said, | adding: | “If all he asks for should be granted it looks to me as though N.R. A. will be perpetuated with many of its obnoxious features and pro- | visions intact relating to individual | liberty, private initiative and the right of an individual to run his own busi- | ness.” Few Codes to Be Dropped. | Senator Nye, Republican, of North | Dakota, one of the authors of the in- | quiry in which Richberg was the first | witness, said few codes would be dropped under the administration plan and that the recommendations were “to justify what has become a great national racket.” Senator George, Democrat, of Geor- gia, also said Richberg “did not go quite as far as I hoped,” but said his | recommendations were open to inter- pretation. | Chairman Harrison commended Richberg's testimony as “a very fine statement.” Senator Hastings, Republican, of | Delaware, representing the regular | Republican viewpoint, said he judged | “they are only going to abolish a few | codes,” and added that he was dis- appointed. Richberg began with a prepared statement, listing 17 specific sugges- tions for legislation. It was Richberg’s first appearance before a congressional committee as ® representative of the President. He recommended that the pres- ent exemption from anti-trust laws should be restricted to apply only when the codes themselves have been written “in compliance with the anti-monopoly requirements of the act” and urged the committee to retain section 7-a, labor's guarantee of collective bargaining rights. Among his 17 suggestions was one | to permit “proponents of voluntary | codes” * * * to withdraw their con- sent from codes so modified (by the President) as to be unacceptable to them.” Eighteen Senators Were grouped around the witness' chair seat as he made his statement. All spectators’ seats were filled and a number stood around the walls of the large hearing room in the Senate Office Building. He paused occasionally in the read- ing of his statement to make aside remarks or to answer questions. Admits Variation in Views, His proposals, Richberg told the committee, were prepared by repre- sentatives of the N. R. A. and other fendant. | Partially Paralyzed. | Judge Coleman rendered his de- cision without delay immediately af- ter the conclusion ofithe short trial and after asking Bryan's recommen- dation. The court said it believed the ends of justice would be served by the three-year sentence, since phy- sicians had said Bell was suffering from Bright's disease and was par- tially paralyzed. Testimony today was virtually the same as in the first trial, held in De- cember. when the jury disagreed. It was testified that Mrs. Bell's health is much better at the present had come | time and her physicians testified that | a complete recovery might be possible. Bell Shows No Reaction. Bell showed no reaction to the ver- | dict, staring down at the floor, and | slumped in a chair as he had been | throughout the entire morning. | In his first trial the State produced evidence that Bell had sought to poison his wife over a period of nine | months, tracing purchases of deadly | poisons to him and finding some of | these substances in medicine from which his invalid wife was treated. Bryan presented evidence to show that Bell had clandestine relations | with Mrs. Mary Ella McMullin, Rich- | mond divorcee, who testified on the stand to receiving gifts from Bell. The jury of 12 Fredericksburg men was deadlocked at seven for convic- | tion and five for insanity, whereupon | Judge Coleman discharged the jury | and committed Bell to the Marion Hospital for mental examination. On February 25 hospital author- ities reported Bell was sane and he was returned here last Thursday for a second trial, being released on $10,- 000 bond and warned to stay away | from his wife’s home. BRITISH WILL PROPECT | CITIZENS IN AR RAIDS| Plans to Spend About $460,000 Annolinced to Cover Early | Expenses. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 7.—Following the lead of continental countries in pro- tecting civil populations in the event | of air warfare, the British government today announced plans to spend £92,000 (approximately $460,000) on | “expenses connected with air-raid | precautions.” { The projected expenditures were included in home office estimates pro- viding for salaries and traveling ex- penses and for respirators to be used by air-raid personnel in research and | as still highly dangerous. be sent. LOYALISTS ATTACK. 80,000 Move Through Struma Valley as Skies Clear, l i (Copyright 1933. by the Assoclated Press.) ATHENS, Greece, March 7.—A floodstream of government troops, | their ranks bristling with heavy lr-} tillery, poured through the Struma! Valley today intent on crushing Lhei embattled East Macedonian rebels. ’ At Piraeus the 29.000-ton British battleship, Royal Sovereign, steamed into port and dropped anchor. Baffled by heavy rain and mist for | the last 24 hours, the loyalist forces hailed clearing skies as the signal for launching the mass offensive they hope will exterminate the revolutionary ac- tivity in the Salonika section. The troops, estimated to .otal 80,000 men, outnumbering ,the insurgents eight to one, were deployed along a wide front for their offensive. Bridges Being Rebuilt. As the army moved up to the battle | line, the rumble of its progress was punctuated by a staccato hammering | on the banks of the Struma. where military engineers were reconstructing | the bridge the rebels burned to cover their retreat. The rebels awaited the “zero hour” knee deep in mud in weather-beaten old trenches which have. striped the Salonika plain since World War days. | The possibility that insurgents on land might receive aid from the sea arose as the cruiser Averoff, flagship of their fleet, anchored off the Island of Mytilene and landed marines. The island is off the Turkish coast and within easy reach of Kavalla, held by the rebels. Rebels Also at Lemnos. Another portion of the rebel fleet was reported to be at Lemnos Island, off Salonika. Both Premier Tsaldaris and Gen. George Kondylis, minister of war, confidently forecast the uprising would collapse as soon as the government forces unleashed their attack. Among many neutral observers in the coun- try, however, the situation was viewed The civil war's toll of lives, the exact extent of which has been con- cealed by government censorship, (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Mrs. Frenchan Murdered. SHANGHAI, March 7 (#).—Mrs. B. C. Frenchan, wife of a slain Aus- tralian missionary, was learned defi- nitely today to have been murdered by the Communists who captured her and her husband last month. Until experimental services. Fight Black By the Assoclated Press. HAICHOW, Kiangsu Province, missionaries, both men and women, plunged today into a silent fight against a mysterious scourge of Ori- ental black fever, which is causing thousands of deaths. The medical pesonnel of the Amer- ican Southern Presbyterian Mission, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., comprise thé group that is trying to save the hordes of poverty stricken fever victims. An area of 25,000 square miles, con- taining & population of 5,000,000 Chinese is affected. The “resbyterian Hospital here is under the direction of.Dr. John 8. Reed, jr., of Richmond, Va., formerly resident surgeon in the Richmond interested Government departments, but he added that “when it comes to details there may be various divisions - of opinion as to exactly what provi- 4 (Continued on Page 4, Column 18 Memorial Hospital. ° At Tsingkiangpu, 100 miles south- west of here, are three more Ameri- can doctors fighting the epidemic, James B, Woods of Charlottesville, China, March 7.—American medical | IIl. now, her fate had been in doubt. U. S. Medical Missionaries 'Fever in China .; Nelson Hall of Waynesboro, Va., and Paul K. Gieser of Highland Park, At Sutsien, a short distance to the north of Tsingkiangpu, Dr. Norman Patterson is leading a corps of Chinese doctors. Dr. Patterson was born in the area where he is serving, but he maintains a residence at Staunton, Va. At Suchowfu, on the railway, two American women doctors are direct- ing the mission’s oyercrowded women'’s hospital. They are Nellie Grier of Greenville, Pa, and Gladys Smith- wick of Henderson, N. C. ‘The mission’s men's hospital in Suchowfu is in charge of Dr. A. A. McFayden of Radford, N. C., with Mrs. McFayden assisting in the work. ‘The exact number of sufferers from the scourge is not known, due to the absence of statistics. The deaths are likewise unchecked. The missionaries stated that* although their medical facilities l: w. “the largest portion erers never Teach un” d o WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION COMMITTEE 23 FOR VINSON BILL House Group Agrees Pat- man Measure May Be 0f- fered as Substitute. By the Associated Press. The House Ways and Means Com- mittee voted 23 to 1 today to submit the Vinson bonus payment bill to the House, but agreed to procedure under which the Patman currency expansion method of payment may be offered as | mended the three-year sentence to the | which said the government was in | A substitute on the floor. Chairman Doughton said, however, that the formal report on the bonus would not be submitted to the House until next Monday. Therefore it would be Tuesday or Wednesday before the question could be brought to a vote. Payment Method Test. The committee today. by a vote of 14 to 10, instructed Doughton to ask the Rules Committee to let the House have a direct vote on whether it pre- ferred the Patman or the Vinson methods of payment The Vinson bill, which has the sup- port of the American Legion, simply authorizes an appropriation out of general Treasury funds, whereas the Patman bill would direct the issuance of sufficient new currency to buy up adjusted compensation certificates. Strategy aimed at preventing the House from voting on the currency expansion method was discussed by flation. Democratic leaders meanwhile stuck to their promise that the House will be given an opportunity to choose between bills. ‘The House Ways and Means Com- mittee voted, 14 to 11. vesterday to prepare the Vinson measure for sub- mission to the House. Sees Advantage in House. But some of the foes of inflation privately expressed the opinion today that ordinary parliamentary procedure would give the currency expansion plan an advantage on the floor. They said the usual procedure would be to let the House vote first on a motion to substitute the Patman biil for the Vinson proposal. They added that they fear the House will approve the first bonus measure on which it has an opportunity to vote. This group talked of using unusuai parliamentary tactics, if an oppor- tunity appears, to prevent a direct vote for or against the currency ex- | pansion plan of payment. As the Ways and Means Committee | went ahead with preparation of the | Vinson measure some Patmanites in- | terpreted the committee’s vote on it | as an indication that their bill finally will win out. They said 10 committee Democrats and one Republican voted | for the Patman proposal against eight Democrats and six Republicans for the | other plan. They argued this line-up | indicated the Patman measure will be supported by a large majority of the | 321 House Democrats plus Republican | liberals, Progressives and Farm- | Laborites. Belgrano Sees Victory. Frank N. Belgrano, jr.. national commander of tNe American Legion, said in a statement last night that “the committee voted for the veterans” by approving the Vinson bill. “We are confident that this action means that the adjusted service cer- tificates will be paid at full face value in this session of Congress,” he added. Although calling the committee’s vote a “long stride in the right di- rection,” James E. Van Zandt. com- mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, criticized some members of the committee, who, he said, voted for the Vinson bill “because they felt it was the easiest way to kill all so-called bonus legislation at this session.” WILENTZ MAY FIGHT BRUNO PAUPER PLEA Indicates Objection Will Be Con- sidered Because of Soliciting of Funds for Appeal. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., March 7—At- torney General David T. Wilentz in- dicated today the State may object to, Bruno Richard Hauptmann de- claring himself a pauper while his attorneys solicit funds to finance his appeal from his conviction of the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder. The attorney general, returning to his office after a two-week vacation in Florids, announced he would ask defense attorneys to a conference in Trenton Monday to discuss the lub-l s 5 L ¢ Foenin THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935—FORTY-SIX No.v_l‘ ISNT THAT RI.J;CULOUS! N NN DN NN RENNNSNANNT ¢ }Roosevelt Plans | To Visit California Paci fic Exposition Assures Group He Will Attend Some Time in Summer. President Roosevelt is going to the Pacific Coast this Summer to attend the California Pacific International Exposition at San Diego. Calif This assurance was given by Mr Roosevelt today to members of the California congressional group, who came to the White House to witness his signing of the resolution of Con- gress authorizing $350.000 for the Fed- eral Government’s participation in | the_exposition. The President said he felt certain he could not arrange his affairs so as to be on hand for the opening of the exposition, May 29, but that they could count on him attending some t:me later. The fair will run for 10 months. | Mr. Roosevelt intimated that while | in the West he will arrange his itin- | erary o as to be on hand for the offi- cial dedication of Boulder Dam. SHEPPARD BACKS - INCREASED ARWY Senator Lewis Also Sup-| some Representatives opposed to m-; ports Army Bill as De- bate Opens. BY. J. A. O'LEARY. Declaring the size of the American Army “has been whittled down to a mere handful of men” Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Military Af- fairs Committee came to the support today of the provision in the pending War Department bill to add 46.250 to the enlisted personnel next fiscal year. Although the authorized strength of the Army in the national defense | act is 280.000. Sheppard pointed out | that this increase will still leave only | | a skeleton force. At the present time | the Army consists of 118,750, so that | the pending bill would bring it up only | to 165.000. Sheppard said the whit- | tling down has left the Army insuffi- | cient in size even for peace-time re- quirements. Backed by Lewis. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Demo- crat, of Illinois also supported the bill, calling attention to potential dangers in world affairs today, particularly in Asiatic problems. Lewis told the Sen- ate the way to avoid danger is to be prepared to meet it. The debate was started by the an- nouncement of Senator Clark, Demo- crat, of Missouri that he would move to strike out the proposed increase in personnel. Senators Vandenberg, Re- publican. of Michigan, and Dickinson, Republican, of Towa criticized the fact that the bill does not definitely appro- priate the $20,000,000 needed for the propesed increase in enlistments, but requires the costs to be met from other expenditures in the bill. The Senate already has approved the committee amendment making the increase definite, and Senator Clark’s first move will be to seek reconsideration of that action, after which he will move to strike out the provision for the additional enlist- ments. In order to open the way for fur- ther discussion of the question, Sen- ator Copeland, in charge of the bill, will not object to reconsideration of the committee amendment. It is ex- pected, however, he will oppose the move to strike out entirely the in- creased personnel. Proposal by Frazier. Senator Frazier will propose an amendment to the bill to preventthe use of War Department runds to support military training in any civil schoel or college where such training is made compulsory. Senator Frazier saild his proposal would not affect schools that are essentially militafy, or other schools if the training is not com- pulsory. The Senate probably will reach final passage of the bill, which carries $375,074,654 for all expenses of the War Department for the com- ing fiscal year. Although the Senate bill is $4,000,000 under the estimates submitted, it is still $45,605,000 above current appropriations. After it passes the Senate the measure will have to go to conference for settlement of changes in House | get. provisions. The House bill exceeded the Senate measure by several million 5 X n Star PAGES. FINAL PLANS MADE FOR HOLMES RITES Favorite Sonnet of Vener- able Jurist Will Be Read at Church. A sonnet expressing Oliver Wendell Holmes’ philosophy of life—and death —will be intoned at funeral services tomorrow for the venerable soldier, scholar and jurist. preceding solemn military rites on a Spring-tinged slope of Arlington National Cemetery. The poem, “Mysterlous Night." by the Spaniard, Joseph Blanco White, was one of which the late retired justice of the Supreme Court is said to have been particularly fond. It will be read by Rev. Dr. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, pastor of All Souls’ Unitarian Church. who will preside at the pre- liminary services in the church at noon. Likening death to the falling of the | “glorious canopy” of night. the poem asl “Why do we. then, shun death with anxious strife?” Unafraid of Death. Holmes, who died peacefully from bronchial pneumonia yesterday. loved life, his sorrowing friends said today, but he did not fear to die. To him, they pointed out, life was lyric, and | death was restful. | He will be laid to rest on the 94th anniversary of his birth—an anni- versary to which his host of friends had looked forward with a view to| | celebration instead of mourning. | President Roosevelt will lead a com- pany of mourners made up of persons from highest official circles and a cross-section of people of varying de- grees of importance, which will wit- ness the soldier’s burial at Arlington. | Mrs. Roosevelt will attend the serv- ices at the church and later will join | her husband at the freshly-turned grave across the Potomac. The entire membership of the Su-| preme Court, led by Chief Justice Hughes, will serve as honorary pall-| bearers for a colleague who endeared | himself to his associates as well as| thousands of unknown admirers by his memorable, clear-thinking opinions. Ex-Secretaries Ushers. Another group of men—some thirty graduates of Harvard Law School | whom Holmes honored with one-year appointments as private secretary— | will officiate as ushers at the church. Many of this group later became prom- | inent in their own right. Among them Column 1.) |~ (Continued on Page 7, CABINET RESIGNS ‘Urugunynn Body Acts to Permit Reorganization. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March 7 | (#)—The cabinet resigned today in | order to give President Gabriel Terra a free hand in reorganizing the min- | istry. “new law expected to be passed by | Congress within a few days provid- ing for the creation of two new | portfolios and the elimination of one. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. kg | that her finger action was oad. Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,557 Some Returns Not Yet Received (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. WITNESS REVEALS|LONG PICKS FOES SUIGIDE THREAT FOR DENUNCIATION BY MRS DAVIDSON IN SENATE TODAY | Testifies Heiress Said She Gen. Johnson Heads List of Would “Go Into Garage Those Due for Public and Turn on Motor.” Lashing. ROOSEVELT LEADERS READY FOR ASSAULT MONOXIDE GAS CAUSE J OF DEATH, SAYS DOCTOR | Louisiana Dictator, Storm Center for Several Days, Shows No Signs of Subsiding. Eminent Pathologist, However, Scouts Suicide and Acci- dent Theories. By the Associated Press. Huey P. Long reached for more am- munition today to fire at friends of the Roosevelt administration who, he said, were plotting to wreck his share- the-wealth scheme. Roosevelt leaders in the Senate ap- parently stood ready to whale away ! at him whenever he started an attack BY JOHN H. CLINE [iR e came Staff Correspondent of The Star. e Louisiana dictator, center of & PINEHURST, N. C.. March 7—The furor for several days, gave no signs investigation into the strange death Of subsiding. Names tossed at him in of Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson, heiress 'the Senate and elsewhere—“dema- to the Statler hotel millions, came gogue,” “madman,” “plausible punch- to a close at 1 o'clock today after a inello"—led him to swear vengeance. witness had testified she threatened , First on the list of those he planned to “go out to the garage and turn on to attack in a speech was Hugh S. the motor” three weeks before her Johnson. Administrator Johnson de- body was actually found there. nounced him a few days ago. The jury is expected to announce He has encountered Democratic its verdict late today Leader Robinson and others in sev- The 22-year-old bride of H. Brad- | eral Senate bouts. ley Davidson, jr. of Washington. D. “Since Johnson made his speech, it C.. was found dead in her garage here / has developed that it was just the be- last Wedaesaay ginning of a plan’by that gang to try Dr. C. C. Carpenter. noted pathol- and wreck the share-our-wealth ogist, told the jury today the imme- movement.” Long told newspaper men diate cause of her death was carbon as he planned his campaign for today. Monoxide gas poisoning, and that To Make Radio Speech. there was no trace of any other 5 1 He also said he would make a radio poison in her body. He said he did p - not believe her death could have been | SPecCh tonight in answer to Gen. Johnson that would “cover all the an accident and discussed at length brigands.” the strange position in which the " body was found and numerous bruises | He added that since Johnson made it a speech attacking him and Father One such mark. he said. might have Cnaries B Coughlin, Detrolt priest, he “, earnes at Johnson's a 58 resulted from “a bite or a pinch with was the start of a “planned out plan a hard object.” . ¢ v The startling testimony concerning ':m:t“,’fk the share-our-wealth move- Mrs. Davidson's suicide threat came “I have 45 minutes on the radio at the very end of the case from " r . tonight,” he said. ‘“Johnson took 40 Herbert Vail of Pinehurst. one of the minu to tell them what I was. I'm dead woman's close friends. | going to take 40 minutes to tell them Stormed From Room. what all of them are and then 5 “I was having dinner with the Da- minutes to tell them what Johnson vidson's on the night of February 8" ijsn't.” he told the jury. “She was first up = Long first was scheduled to speak and then down—gay for a while and for half an hour, starting at 11:30 then moody. She sat down at the pm. However, he telephoned the piano and started a tune. Then she ' National Broadcasting Co. today and BULLETIN. PINEHURST, N. C., March 7 (#)—A coroner’s jury today ruled the death of Mrs. H. Bradley Da- vidson, jr., 22-year-old millionairess bride of two mionths, was due to carbon monoxide poisoning under circumstances not known to this Jury. | stormed f{rom the room. complaining obtained an additional 15 minutes “There will be 25,000,000 people “Following her out, I found she Was listening to me tonight.” he told an in one of her sudden moods of deep official. “Give me 15 more minutes depression. Suddenly. she turned t0 and I'll have the whole world listen- me and said: ‘It's no use Herbie. ing.” might as well go out in the garage | Long said he would answer over the and turn on the motor.”” radio any questions which were tele- It was almost exactly three weeks graphed into the studio during his later that the young bride's lifeless |speech. body was found sprawled across the | Asked if a report that Father floor boards of her 12-cylinder car— | Coughlin was here was true, he said her life snuffed out by caroon monox- | “No.” ide gas from the motor. | He denied “collaborating” with Vail said he didn't pay much at- | Coughlin in his political movements, tention to the remark at the time |but expressed admiration for the ra- because Mrs. Davidson was in one of |dio priest. her usual moody conditions. “We have a lot of ideas in common. Under cross-examination he ad- | He agrees with me about my ideas and mitted he had first expressed the T ggree with him about most of his.” opinion her death was “unquestionably | an accident.” He said he expressed | this false view because he “wanted to see it that way for the family's sake.” ate record yesterday a long list of The witness said he was “now testi- charges against Postmaster General fying it was a suicide.” because he be- | Farley.. After these were received, the lieved the possibility of an accident committee which is considering his had been eliminated. demand for a Senate investigation of Asked as to her mental condition, | Farley decided to request reports from he replied: | the agencies mentioned in the charges “I think she had been mentally un- | —the Justice Department, Public balanced ever since I had known her.” | Works Administration and Recon- The physician said there was only struction Finance Corp. A decision two-tenths of 1 per cent of alcohol in | as to whether an investigation shall be her system, not enough to produce | conducted was not expected today, al- intoxication. though the committee planned to Asked whether the body would have | meet. remained in the knelling position in | During the hub-bub yesterday. the “(Continued on e 3, Column 1.) | “Kingfish” announced definitely he i Ees | would be a candidate for the Senate Files Charges Against Farley. The Louisianan filed into the Sen- The move was made in view of a | ICE JAM DYNAMITED, | FLOOD WATERS RECEDE By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March 7.— | | Dynamite blasts loosed the ice jams‘ in the Grand River today and flood | waters, which had driven 90 families | | from their homes, rapidly receded. Volunteers worked throughout the night, blasting away at the jams in | the river, and. with the crumbling of the last one, at the Anne Street Bridge here, the slush-thickened water rushed | through the channel. By the, Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 7.—More radio | “canned music” and more d’“}?“::nd studio programs with fewer orchesf numbel?a were predicted by New York band leaders today as the Musicians’ Union warred for the fourth day with local managers. The controversy arose when the union sought to enforce an old tax of $3 a musician for each broadcast, the levy to be paid by hotels from which orchestras broadcast and applied to the union’s unemployment fund. ‘The union estimated that about 100 New York orchestras would be af- fected. Since enforcement of the tax few hotel orchestras have gone on the air. Orchestra Leader Fred Waring ob- served: “If this affair is not settled and hotel orchestras are off the air per- manently, I think it will seriously in- jure broadcasting. “If we are off only for the time be- ing and if orchestras broadcast at more infrequent intervals in the future, it will probably do radio a lot of good. The radio audience will want to hear more music and appreciate what they “"rhueprobnblywlllbe-eompm- mise between the union and Hotel- m‘lm&s“mmuhm ‘More “Canned Music” on Radio Seen Result of Orchestras’ F ight an- broadcasts,” said Ozzie Nelson, other leader. “This will give the unemployed musicians and other artists a break in more and better contracts with the studios. It will hit the small stations pretty hard. “There may be less music, but there will be plenty of variety of what there is. The stations may use more records.” “Most of us are on the air too much anyway. We'll probably have less music and the best will survive,” assertde Jack .Denny. Isham Jones said: “This is going to be tough on the orchestra leaders. I know that the individuals in the band aren’t going to pay the $3 a broadcast, and I know that the hotels don't want to pay it. “It may wind up wtih the leaders digging into their pockets for the tax, which will be rather difficult for the | small band leaders.” Edward Canavan, president of the | musicians’ union, said: “Some hotels | have been paying the tax for years some for as many as 10 and 12 broadcasts a week. The contractors | will have to fork over this tax. We ! are out to stop the chiselers and | help our unemployed.” Hotel men have given no indication l of saying = again next year. The Senate was in an argumenta- tive mood and Senator Hastings, Re- publican, of Delaware at the very vutset drew fire by the comment that those who heard a recent addresc by Secretary Roper on administration ac- complishments thought they “were listening ‘o the children's hour.” Long !ater added to the ensuing dis- turbance oy sayince he could prove his sweeping accusations against Far- ley, but Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, whos2 Post Office Com- mittee for the third day in a row dis- cussed without a decision Long’s reso~ lution for an investigation of Farley, ripped 1mto the outspoken “Kingfish.” McKellar said the Senate was getting tired of his “constant nagging.” Then, when Long filed into the Record a lengthy list of public utility corporations advertised as clients of Senator Robinson’s law firm, the Ar- kansas Senator turned loose on Louisiana’s dictator. He said it would be a “Godsent’ 'to leave the Senate if he thought he had to face the certainty of hearing Long “three or four times” a day. Makes Long Change Mind. This prompted Long to announce he was certain now he would run for the Senate again next year and not for Governor, as he had said last week in Louisiana. After Long had a clerk at the Sen- ate desk read a list of charges against Farley, largely a repetition of thcse cited in his investigation resolution, the McKellar committee discussed (Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) After Dark Amusements Comics ... Features . Finance .. Lost and Foun Radlo ...occoe Serial Story ... Service Orders . Short Story . goclety cens ports ...r