Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1935, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935. CHAIRMAN N HID FACES RELIEF QUIZ Alleged Loss of Million Pounds of Meat Is Probed | by Jury. i By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 22.—A| Federal investigation of alleged relief waste, involving nearly a million pounds of meat, was under way today as a grand jury resumed its inqui into charges of “corruption” in t administration of Ohio relief. ‘The food scandal developed as Harry L. Hopkins, breaking the silence he has maintained since Gov. Martin L. Davey charged the Federal relief sdministrator with criminal libel, de- clared: “Politics has no business in relief, and whenever it gets in we intend to get rid of it damn fast.” | Charles C. Stillman, who took| charge of Ohio relief upon order of President Roosevelt, said an investi- gation of the surplus commodities di- vision of the Ohio Relief Administra- tion disclosed that 499.000 pounds of spoiled meat lay in a Toledo storage plant more than a month and then was destroyed. He said also that an inspector of the United States Division of Animal Husbandry has been sent to Toledo, where 452,000 more pounds of meat are believed to have spoiled Waiting to testify today at the grand jury inquiry was Francis W. Poulson, Demodratic State chairman The grand ju is looking into what Hopkins submitted as “incontro- vertible evidence” that the Campaign Committee of Gov. Davey “shook down"” for $8,000 firms having busi- ness dealings with the rellef admin- istration. LAFFOON RAPS EXTRAVAGANCE. COVINGTON, Ky., March 22 (#) —Gov. Ruby Laffoon charged vester- | day that Federal relief administration in Kentucky fs “cluttered up with in- efficiency, extravagance and so much red tape that it can never be handled | for the best interests of those who| are dependent upon it “Johnny” MRS. HAUPTMANN SEEKS CHILD'S HISTORY. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. This boy, known only as “John- ny.” was found by police at De- troit July 16, 1933, and is now with a family for adoption. He is the central figure in a new Hauptmann “clue” being investigated by Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, who said she received an unsigned letter which declared the Lindbergh baby was abandoned in Detroit shortly after being kidnaped, and identified only | q|by Col | MRS. HAUPTMANN Seeks History of Foundling, Identified in Letter as Lindbergh Baby. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, March 22—Mrs. Anna Hauptmann began a search through police and Welfare Home records yes- terday in an effort to corroborate an | unsigned letter which declared Bruno Richard Hauptmann was not guilty of the kidnaping of Charles A. Lind- bergh, jr., and described a “living ‘Lindbergh by” in Detroit. The letter described in detail the | “plot” and listed the kidnapers. It also stated that the body identified Lindbergh as “that of his son had been exhumed from a Bronx cemetery, clothed in the Lindbergh baby's clothing, and left near Hope- well, “to throw a scare into Lindy, who was known to have marked the | ransom money.” Discounted by Officials. Teceived by a New York | the letter, man who covered the | newspaper | clined to discount it* “Further” one official said, “there is no doubt the body found in New Jersey was that of the Lindbergh baby. I witnessed the identification mysel Frederick A. Pope, associate counsel | for Hauptmann, said he recently re- ceived a ‘lefter from Detroit which | contained “information” about the kidnaping, #nd which he regarded as “highly important,” because he felt it might support Hauptmann's decla- ration of innocence. Mrs. Hauptmann came to Detroit by plane Wednesday to start a tour {of 13 cities to raise funds for her husband’s appeal from the death | sentence. | The search started first in welfare department records, in an effort to trace the baby who, the letter said, told officers when he was found that his name was *Johnny.” A check of records of abandoned | children showed a boy whose only | name was given as “Johnny” PROBESNEW CLUE | New Jersey officials who examined | h | and light brown, unruly hair. Hauptmann trial, said they were in- | BARKLEY’S CHARGE BRINGS SUBPOENA FOR FOE OF N. R. A (Continued From First Page) the new friendliness between the la- | bor organization and the administra- tion, observes agreed the A. F. of L. would be delighted if Mr. Roosevelt gave his support to the pending Wag- ner bill. This bill, strongly denounced by a spokesman for industry before the Senate Labor Committee yesterday, would ban company-dominated unions, create a permanent National Labor Relations Board with extended pow- ers and provide for “majority rule” in collective bargaining. Green contends the measure is necessary to carry out the collective bargalning guarantees of the recovery act. James A, Emery, general coun- sel for the National Association of | Manufacturers. says it would be un- constitutional and would “merely ex- | cite firritation, resentment and bit- terness in employment relations.” As President Roosevelt announced Richberg’s appointment, he issued a found by police in Cadillac Square July 16, 1933. At the children’s home where he was placed it was | said he is now out for adoption. | “Johnny's” age in July, 1933, was | estimated as between 2 and 3 years. He had blue eyes, a fair complexion The child’s clothing was good, the officers said, and at that time they | believed he had been kidnaped from | a well-to-do family, perhaps in | another city | The letter explained that the Lind- sergh baby had been taken from Hope- | well on the night of the kidnaping, | March 1, to Brooklyn, and from there | to Petros, Tenn. | The baby was brought to Detroit n | an automobile trailer, the letter re- | lated, and abandoned in a theater. * | The letter mentioned a member of | the notorious “Purple Gang™ of Detroit | as the purchaser of the information | from one of the kidnapers, on the | agreement that the information would | not be used until after the kidnaper's | death. | Newspaper files revealed that a man, identified with thé “Purple Gang,” whose name was similar to that used in the letter, disappeared in Decem- ber of last year. The letter stated he had been “taken for a ride” Decem- was | ber 24, 1934 statement saying new N. R. A. legis- lation was “urgently needed to retain and to advance the industrial recovery | program.” The retirement of Chair- man Willlams, tobacco company ex- ecutive, became effective today. Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers, and William P. Witherow, Pittsburgh steel manufac- turer, were named to serve with Rich- berg. Murray's associate, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, charged before the Senate Labor Committee only a few days ago that Richberg, who was a lawyer for the Railroad Brotherhoods in Chicago before he became a leading figure in the New Deal, had “sold labor down the river.,” Witherow, the new industrial repre- sentative, is a Yale graduate, Idenfl-‘ fied with a number of civic organiza- tions and member of half a dozen clubs. He has been a director of the | Pittsburgh Coal Co., & Mellon interest. | Besides Richberg, Witherow and | Murray those on fhe Recovery Board are Walton Hamilton and Leon Mar- shall, college professors; A. D. 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