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2 % BUSINESS FACES DILEMMAINN.RA Courts Void Codes, While Roosevelt Commantis Obedience. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. A dilemma of unparalleled com- plexity faces American business today with respect to obeying codes under the N. R. A. President Roosevelt issues the com- mand to obey. The Federal courts tell business men to disregard the N. R. A. The Department of Justice itself publicly admits it has not de- veloped a good test case and asks for the dismissal of a suit which it had itself engineered through the lower courts for the purpose of having the issue defined. Under these circumstances it is not to be wondered that all the codes have | become the subject of widespread concern and that the whole struc- ture erected by the N. R. A. has be- come wobbly. Weirton Case Cited. The Department of Justice says that the Belcher case under the lum- ber code was unsatisfactory for test purposes because of a technical point which eliminated the taking of evi- dence on the nature of the business jnvolved. The department adds that it wants to present a case “in which full evidence of the facts has been given.” The Weirton case is just such a case. It was argued thoroughly and comprehensively with all sorts of data on the business of manufacturing and on the matter of employer and em- ploye relations. The Federal Court held the national industrial recovery @act in that case to be unconsfitu- | tional. The fact that the department has not selected the Weirton case as its battleground may or may not be significant. But the opportunity to have & decision rendered by the Su- preme Court of the United States be- tween now and the time of adjourn- ment of that court this Spring would now seem to be out of the question. New Deal in Unique Position. ‘The result is that, without a de- termination by the highest court of the land, the administration is in the position of threatening business men with court action with respect to a law that has again and again been declared unconstitutional. Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught, at Oklahoma City, has advised business men from the bench to refuse to an- swer N. R. A. questions about their businesses, and has said that the Congress has no right to decide what is commerce within a State or be- tween States and that this is solely & matter for the courts. Meanwhile, Donald Richberg, di- rector of the National Emergency Council, and now acting chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Board, has notified the President that violations have been increasing on the wage and hour provisions of the | codes “because of a mistaken feeling that N. R. A. may not be extended and that the Government may not be inclined at the present time vigorously to enforce code requirements.” Issue Up to Courts. Mr. Roosevelt's letter in reply, just made public, reiterates an intention | to have the Department of Justice “give every assistance in maintaining compliance with the codes” and ad- vise district attorneys throughout the country “to take prompt and vigorous action to prevent or to punish such violations.” As a practical matter, it depends on how the Federal judges in a given Jjurisdiction will handle the prosecu- tions. If they follow Supreme Court precedents on what is or is not com- merce within Federal jurisdiction, they will dismiss all indictments or requests for injunctions that relate to businesses within a State, just as did Judge Nields in Delaware in the Weir- ton case. If, however, testimony is taken comprehensively on the novel theory expounded by the New Deal that certain kinds of business within & State substantially “affect” com- merce between the States or constitute & burden “on the flow of interstate commerce,” it may be that & good test case will be obtained. The Department of Justice knows 1t is up against a difficult legal battle and one that apparently now will not reach the Supreme Court of the United States until next Autumn at the earliest. In the meantime, the admiaistration hopes Congress will have extended the present national industrial recovery law for two years and that a favorable Supreme Court decision may somehow increase the area of Federal jurisdiction over wages and hours of employment. Labor Bill at Stake. Another issue at stake is the Wagner labor disputes bill. If the Supreme Court this Spring had thrown out the Belcher case, as may be inferred from the action of the Department of Jus- tice 1n dropping voluntarily its appeal from the declsion of Judge Grubb of Birmingham, Ala., there might have been considerable doubt cast on the validity of the proposed Wagner labor disputes bill, as well as on the measure Pproviding for a work week of 30 hours. Clearly, the administration is pro- ceeding with one eye on the courts and one eye on the passage of time, in the hope, deubtless, that, when recovery comes in earnest, the need for codes and the various unconstitu- tional laws will have, even in its judg- ment, passed from the scene. A spokesman for the administration not long ago revealed this kind of philoso- phy when he remarked that the law containing the oil code had been de- clared unconstitutional, but it had for more than a year served a useful purpose in cutting down the traffic in illegally produced oil. (Copyright. 1935.) DOG CAUSES LAWSUIT Jury Absolves Man of Responsi- bility for “Community” Canine. OKLAHOMA CITY (#)—Just be- cause a dog hang's around a man's house is no case if some one is bitten, & jury held. Damages of $5,000 were asked for Frances Leclair, 13, whose lawyers contended William F. Spencer was to blame for her bites because the dog spent most of its time at his house. Spencer held it was a “community dog.” L HICCOUGHING TO END Miss Moskowitz of Cl-veland Promised Relief in 10 Days. CLEVELAND, March 27 (#)—After hiccoughing intermittently for 16 days, Miss Lillian Moskowitz, 32, was cheered by her physiclan last night. He sald the attacks would cease within a week or 10 days. She has lost 10 pounds and a lot of sleep because of the hiccoughs, which occur at irregular intervals. The physician said a nervous condition started the | the Senate before adjournment. |fact that the New Dealers let him What’s What Behind News In Capital Labor and New Dealers Agree to Stop Fighting. Richberg to Quit N.R.A. F burg. In the Augsburg peace (A.D. 1555) two religious factions agreed to cease religious warfare and to recognize the supremacy of the German state. In the Richberg peace (March 14, 1935) labor and the New Dealers agreed to stop fighting each other and to recognize the supremacy of the N. R, A. state. In both cases it was more of an armed truce than a real peace, and no cne knows how long this one will last. Very little publicity attended the Richberg event, because no one was extra proud of it. The deal was made by the New Deal mereiy for the purpose of getting its mild N. R. A. reorganiaztion bill through Congress. ‘The man who fixed it was not Rich- berg, but Averill Harriman, the in- visible manager of the existing N. R. A. organization. He went to Presi- dent Roosevelt and submitted the basic plan which caused Messrs. Richberg, Green (A. F. of L)), Lewis (United Mine Workers) and Hillman (N. R. A) to be called into the White House. BY PAUL MALLON. ROM Augsburg to Richberg is not very far. The labor peace of Richberg is essentially the same from an inner viewpoint as the religious peace of Augs- | Harriman's part is being kept quiet for fear of disturbing the truce. Labor does not like him and might withdraw if it suspected his part. Lewis Hardest to Sell. | It was as clever a bargain as ever | | He likes Richberg even less than Gen. Johnson likes Huey Long. In pre- | liminary conferences he flatly asserted | he would have nothing to do with |N. R. A, as long as Richberg was | connected with it. Yet under the| | truce-peace Richberg is to be chair- joyed. There are two reasons why Mr. Lewis now will concede that perhaps | Richberg has a kind face. The main | (Phillip Murray) was put N.R. A. Board of Administration. This | appointment was, of course, made | publicly. What was not made public was the | fact that Mr. Lewis also got an under- | Across Arcetic New Epic Written Laplander Tells of 5-Year Trek | With Reindeer in Man’s Struggle With Frozen Northland as Herd Is Delivered After Andrew Bahr, Laplander who is called * best reindeer man in the world,” describes here his ez- periences in the unprecedented drive of reindeer jrom Western Alaske to the MacKenzie River delta in Northwestern Canada. The reindeer had been bought by the Canadian government for delivery to the Canadian Eskimos, who were facing starvation. Bahr's story is told here by Miller, the newspaper reporter who came suddenly into fame with the publication of “I Cover the Waterfront.” BY ANDREW BAHR, As Told to Max Miller. EDMONDTON, Alberta, March 27 My boys and I may have bitten and bruised, snow- blinded at times and starved, but the reindeer herd at last has just been delivered and that's the main thing, mister. It's a long way from the West Coast of Alaska to Canada, you know, and it's three times longer when you're trying to keep 3,000 reindeer together, and I would say that, for every deer in the herd, we traveled a mile, count- ing the many times the deer were stampeded by wolves and we had to| back-track. The time I mighty near had to give up was the time I mighty near died. 1t seemed all over, it did. I was in the | middle of a flat ice country, a hun- dred miles across, that had no mark- ings. The blizzard had hid the moon and it was as dark as if there were no moon, and my Eskimo boys and I had separated to find some of the deer if we could, but we couldn't, and | we had been up on our feet for 60| hours straight with the temperature 50 or 60 below and blowing right through us. Guide Lost, Too. I had hired an Eskimo guide of the locality, but he was lost, too, he was, but he wouldn't say so. “How much farther?” I asked him. | “Three hours.” he said. We were trying to find an island which had some provisions on it, and | much farther?” “Three hours,” he said. I'm not a youngster no more, you ! know. I'm past 60, and when my face and wrists began to lose all feeling, and when my legs stopped | moving through the snow the way |man of N. R. A, and Lewis is over- | they should, I sald to myself: “Well, | of the five years. Andrew Bahr, it's all over, isn't it?” I yelled through the wind to the guide: “How much farther?” “Three hours,” he said. This was one is that Lewis’ right-hand man|ga) he knew and that 3 hours was | home. onto the place, meaning 25 hours added to the previous 60 when driv- | ing herd. Christmas, 1929, when we started | standing that Mr. Richberg will re- linquish the N. R. A. chairmanship June 16 and have nothing to do with N. R. A. thereafter. | So all it really amounts to personally | is that Mr. Lewis has agreed for a consideration to stop hating Mr. Rich- | berg until noon, June 16. | What it amounts to politically is that Mr. Roosevelt’s N. R. A. reorgan- | ization plan is rescued from the brink | of the congressional Niagara. At least the Borah-Nye opposi- tion group suffered a major loss of strength when the Green-Lewis A, F, of L. gang walked out on them. The truce is supposed to include a specific understanding that Green and Lewis will co- operate in getting the administra- tion bill through the Senate. The radical N. R. A. reorganization bill (30-hour week, etc.) is to be dropped by Mr. Green. ‘What Mr. Green gets for being so| kind is supposed to be the Wagner | Labor Board bill. There seems to be | some disagreement about how definite | the White House promise was about that, but the labor groups are now saying privately that Mr. Roosevelt | will either come out openly for the | bill or attempt to jockey it through Regardless of that, Mr. Green also will get some representatives on code authorities which were hitherto made up only of industrialists. Richberg Solid as Ever. All this criticism you have heard and will hear of Richberg has not hurt his standing inside the White House. His job is to take criticism from all quarters which might otherwise be directed at a higher source. There- fore, in a way, the more he is criticized, the more he fulfills his real mission. Today his standing is as solid as ever. Caution should be exercised by busi- ness men and speculators in inter- preting current activities in Congress. The Thomas silver amendment to the relief bill was adopted by the Sen- ate merely to save time. It will be dropped in the first handy waste basket by the conferees and will not prevail in the end. Neither will the inflationary aspects of the House bonus bill, or, in fact, any pending in- flation proposals. Similar false moves will be made from time to time until adjournment. No decisive action is in the wind now, beyond what you have already heard about. The published threats of a coal strike are not taken seriously by those who know. Incidentally, in the Richberg truce, the New Deal- ers made mo commitments on a new coal wage contract to replace the one expiring April 1, or on the Gauffey bill. N. R. A. sentiment in Senate pro- gressive ranks began to change about the time of the truce. Progressive Senators report that their mail is turning in favor of N. R. A. Certain personal animosities were left behind by the Senate relief bill vote. Senators La Follette and Wag- ner have definitely fallen out with Senator McCarran. ‘The greatest tribute which ever will be paid Senator Glass was the handle their relief bill. He was against the bill and voted against it, but they have no complaint over his handling of it for them. (Copyright 1935.) .— BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band Symphony Orchestra, in the band auditorium, Marine Barracks, this evening at 8 o'clock. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader. Arthur 8. Witcomb, second leader, | get mixed up and take our reindeer the drive to Canada from Elephant | Point, Kotzebue Sound—that's way | on the other edge of Alaska, you | know—the experts figured we either would get the 3,000 reindeer to Can- | ada in two years or would not get| them there at all. Well, she’s been a good five vears and some, mister. | And of the original herd which | started out, I can't say how many | finished. Fawns were born each | Spring, and those which lived had | more fawns. so I would say much of | - = told the boys to keep on with the herd | the 2,370 deer we delivered were not |, Camdflv}m mm‘;, what happened. | here yesterday, those we started out with. Wolves and Ice Toll. A lot went to the wolves, a lot ran | off with the wild caribou, and once, in a blizzard, a lot of head got | stranded on a big piece of ice which | broke off and carried them out into | the Arctic Sea to be drowned, and shere was a sad sight to see, let me tell you, but all of us were fighting for our own lives at the moment, so the best we could do was watch them go. Whenever we could we avoided wild caribou country, for, in their way, these caribou can deplete a herd uicker than wolves can. There was | no telling when a herd of wild cari- tou might come out of nowhere at full speed smack into our own herd, off at a gallop with them. My Eskimo | herders would then have to go out end try to get them back again, which meant a matter of many days. But, in one of the worst Winters of all, even the caribou for some rea- son cleared out. It was too tough a Winter even for them at this spot and that time. The wolves had been living off the caribou somewhat, and now, with the caribou gone, the wolves closed in on our deer, and what & mess that was! They took from 150 to 200 animals that Winter, I'd say. But it was the way they scared the deer which was the worst. Attack in Small Bands. The wolves usually would wait un- til a blizzard was on before making an attack, They were not in large bands, but ran in bunches of from 4 to 12 mostly, and, when the snow was so thick we couldn't see anything, it was just then that they would close in. The herd would take fright and scatter so that we would have to spend the next two or three days try- ing to round them up. Sometimes they would run 30 or 40 miles, and, when we did find them, they would be so exhausted we could not travel with them next day. Miss Perkins Copyright, A. Long Journey. Once, in trying to round up a big herd that had broken away, we were gone so long that our food ran out, and we lived for six days on one cup of flour and the hard dough broken from the sourdough pot. This was chipped from the pot, and we each took nibbles. But up close to the Arctic Coast, when we began to think that every- thing which could happen to us had already happened to us, my two Eski- mos asked to have their wives join them from Kotzebue Sound. The men's clothes were all in shreds by then, and so were their muk-luks (Eskimo boots), and they needed the women along to make new outfits. We got the request through somehow by way of some trappers in Northwest Canada, and the families were brought around in a little trading boat through the Arctic Ocean. Baby Born and Died. After the wives had been with us a long time, a baby was born. It died later, and is now buried beneath the snow up there. ‘Tom Wood, one of the Eskimos, was lost for three days and was sure he was going to die. The temperature was 70 degrees below. When he could go no further he fell down into the snow and began to pray. That's what he did. And a long distance off he thought he saw a person in the storm. Tom’s nose, chin, cheeks and wrists were frozen, and he could not talk. But he stumbled on toward the person, and there it was, a woman, and a white woman. She was stand- ing in front of an igloo. She turned out to be a strapper's wife, who had Just gone outside for a minute to study the storm, and that's why Tom feels 50 sure that God answered him. He feels so sure about it that when we finally reached the Mac- kenzie Riven long afterward, and a Canadian visitor asked Tom what he would like given to him from the out- side, the only thing Tom asked for was four hymn books and two Bibles. The request was forwarded down to Edmonton and took a long time gew- ting there, but the ministers did not has been made by five poker players. | after we tramped in the dark four|gnow what kind of a Bible Tom could | __The hardest man to sell was Lewis. more hours, I asked him again: “HOW | read, so they finally decided to make sure by sending him one printed in English, one in Laplandish and a third in Eskimo English. Lets Boys Go. ) These two Eskimos, Peter and Tom Wood, were with me more than three When the herd reached the west bank of the Mac- kenzie and help began to reach me from the other side, I thought the boys had had enough, so let them go A trading boat took them to on the gyretched into 25 before we stumbled | Point Barrow. These boys admitted afterward that never in their lives had they gone through anything like that before, and no wonder. On regular days the shifts at herding would be 24 hours long, and more often than not twice as long as that. To keep the deer to- gether they would have to ski fast around the herd and the perspiration | would freeze their clothes, making the clothes as hard as planks. Two of my Eskimo crews were going, and once in the camp, when I was 8o sick I thought sure I would pass out before morning, I worried about what would happen to the herd, so “These deer are for your own people, who are starving over there” I told the boys. “The deer will save them | the same as it saved your own broth- | the Friends' ers in Alaska.” The boys knew thatI spoke the truth, so promised to try to continue on, no matter what hap- pened to me before morning. Fate Helps. The final crossing of the Mackenzie | Delta this time was not as tough as when we had tried to cross it that time before. but it was tough enough, for, if a wind should have come up and cleared off the snow from the ice, the deer would all have been stranded out there, slipping all over themselves and breaking their legs and necks. It's about 100 miles across, you know. But Dan Crowley, the American who came from the east side of the river to help me, staked out & route ahead of time across the ice so we! could see where we were, and onto | some of the frozen islands out there he packed in sacks of moss for the | deer to eat, in case we were caught in the middle. As it was, we had to hurry the deer so fast that some of them dropped in their tracks and had to be carted the rest of the way on our sleds. It was dark all the time, you see, except for the moon, which shone all through what would be your daytime here. And a month or so before, when we were about all set for the final dash, imagine how we felt when an unexpected blow not only cleared the ice of snow, but the moon also right up and had a total eclipse on us. That's what it did. (Copyright. 1935, North Newspaper Alfiance. In Threes Fill Womaa's Life. MEXICO, Mo. (#).—There's & crowd of threes in the life of Miss Emma Gibson. She is the third child, the third daughter, a third grandchild, a third granddaughter, and her birth- day is on the third day of the third month in the year. American e.) Views Bridge P. Wirephoto. Secretary of Labor Perkins (center) 8s she viewed construction of the San Francisco tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Secretary was impressed metal helmet, designed l.tm,m by the care taken to avold accidents. She is shown wearing & to prevent injuries by falling Left to right: G. A. McClain, bridge superin foreman, tools and material. tendent; the Secretary and £ HARRIMAN URGES LABOR BILL DELAY Asks Wait on Wagner Meas- ure Until Court Rules on Bargaining. By the Associated Press. Henry I. Harriman, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, urged the Senate La- bor Committee today to hold up the Wagner labor disputes bill until the Supreme Court interpreted the re- covery act’s collective bergaining clause. “It would ve unwise,” he said, “to plunge further into the morass of doubtful legislation.” ‘The Wagner bill would outlaw the company-dominated union, create a permanent Labor Rclations Board with added powers and give the labor organizations chosen by the majority of employes in a plant the right to speak for all employes. Harriman asked “why unfair labor practices should be limited to the employer?” Cites Other Abuses. The employe, he said, needed pro- tection from the “flying squadron” and the labor racketeer, as well as from employer coercion. | Representatives of “inside” labor organizations from the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., American Sheet & Tinplate Co., Carnegie Steel Co. and the Acme Sieel Co. told the com- mittee employes in those plants were content with their employe repre- sentative plans. William B Hadden of the American Sheet & Tinplate Co.—whose state- ment was typical of all—said: “I want to go on record with your committee as opposed to the Wagner labor relations act. We are opposed to any legislation that would effect the fine co-operation we have with |our employers, and we believe this | bill would stir up conflict in indus- try.” Jurisdiction Challenged. L. W. Litchfield, president of the | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and speaking for the rubber manufactur- ers, association, questioned the Gov- ernment’s power to take jurisdiction | in labor disputes. “The premise upon which the bill | is constructed seems to presuppose the existence of an unalterable, an- tagonistic attitude between employer and employe which cannot be changed, compromised or abated in any manner except through the agency of the Fed- eral Government,” he said. “We cannot agree that this premise is sound or that it can be substan- in the industries of this country.” . POLICE UNDER FIRE AFTER DERN VISIT Arrest of Two Quakers But One Incident Greeting Plea ! for Army. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 27.—A | threat of legal action against police for arresting two Quakers was thrown | forced to quit because of the tough | t0day into the controversy over the subject of war which has marked | almost every hour of Becretary of | War George H. Dern’s visit to Phila- delphia. Even before the Secretary arrived the protests began. Long after he finished a plea for a larger Army, Navy and Air Corps, pickets led by Miss Mildred Young of yearly meeting paced back and forth on the sidewalks in | front of the hotel where he spoke. | In his address, delivered as a part of the seventeenth anniversary cele- bration of the establishment of the Philadelphia Ordnance Department, Dern termed the United States Army | parable with those of Turkey and | Portugal. | He was the guest of the Philadel- phia Post Army Ordnance Association | and the Chamber of Commerce, which ments on Reyburn Plaza, | City Hall opposite tiated by actual conditions prevailing | of today as “microscopic” and com | | destroyer Farragut. | Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad- | jointly sponsored an exhibit of arma- | | real vacation. | The two Quakers, Matthias Shall- | cross, 20, and John Adams, 21, were arrested qn the outskirts of a crowd of several thousand spectators when they reputedly created a disturbance and distributed anti-war handbills. ‘These bore the names of several Friends and other peace organizations. Overhead soared an airplane, char- | tered by the Pennsylvania Committee | for Total Disarmament, which drop- | ped other leaflets. ‘The threat of legal action was made by Sophia H. Dulles, executive secre- tary of the latter organization, who said she had consulted an attorney after reports that the pickets had been “manhandled” by police. In his address Dern called Govern- ment ownership of munitions plants impractical. He declared “a reasonable defensive posture” for America would necessi- tate & Navy second to none and a small but highly efficient Army, in- cluding- an air force comparable to that of any of the other leading na- tions.” MOTHER’S FITNESS QUESTIONED IN SUIT Mrs. Lydia Simpson Challenged in Custody Case Involving ‘Washingtonians. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, March 27—Fit- ness of Mrs. Lydia Simpson to rear her children was questioned yesterday in a district court hearing to de- termine whether she or her husband, Dr. G. G. Simpson of New York, should have custody of Patricia Gay- lord, their 8-year-old daughter. Dr. Simpson is assistant curator of the Museum of Natural History. Depositions containing testimony as to the health of the four children of the couple, both before and after they were in Mrs. Simpson's care, were introduced by Roland Boynton, attorney for Dr. Simpson, and Mrs. Simpson’s mother, Mrs. Mary Pedroja, ,who is opposed to her daughter in the case. The depesitions were made by Dr. Simpson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Simpson of Washington, who now are caring for three of children, and Dr. Joseph Jefferies of Washington, their physician. All testimony was to the effect the children were sickly, undisci- plined and ill-mannered when they first went to live with their grand- parents, but that both their health and obedience had improved since. Mrs. Pedroja also testified Patricia was in poor health when she first came to the Pedroja home two years 2go and that she is in much better | Joshed wiih members of the party | | who accompanied him from Washing- | M. Howe, secretary to the President, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Photographed as he waved farewell from the deck of the destroyer Far- ragut at Jacksonville, Fla., when he started his vacation fishing cruise yesterday. ROOSEVELT SALLS TOWARD BAHAMAS Staff at Miami Awaits Word of His Joining Astor Party. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 27.—President Roosevelt looked today for old clothes and fishing rods out on the Atlantic where the game fish play. | Keeping his annual rendezvous in | this region for a few days of rel tion, he headed southward along the | coast line with the Bahama Islands | as his objective. He put ot sea in a Midsummer heat ' vesterday afternoon from Jacksonville. His staff, establishing headquarters | | here today, awaited word of his board- ' ing the yacht Nourmahal of Vincent ing. i Mr. Roosevelt made sure of his work-relief plans before boarding the He talked with | ministrator, who was confident of a | quick start once flnal congressional | approval is given the $4,000,000,000 | program. | Marvin H. McIntyre, a secretary to | the President, came here to establssh wireless contact between the Chief ! carry into the campaign. But there is | Executive and the White House, where | no intention to bring forth individual | the regular staff carries on under | Stephen T. Early, another secretary. Apparently satisfied of congres- slonal progress, Mr. Roosevelt cruised into the Atlantic unaccompanied by | official aldes and determined on a | Smiling broadly from the rail of the foredeck of the Farragut, he ton and rcturned the farewell wave of the crowd lining the dock. Capt. Wilson Brown, naval aide, and Comdr. Ross T. McIntyre, White House physician who attended Louis through the crisis of his illness, boarded the Farragut with the Presi- dent. Once the President boards the Nourmahal, the Farragut, one of the newest of the Destroyer Fleet, will trail by. Another destroyer, the Claxton, which moved down the coast last night behind the Farragut, will head for the Florida coast to main- tain wireless contact with the presi- dential party. BULLET WOUND SERIOUS Prof. Pierce of Yale Said to Have Attempted Suicide. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 27 (®). —Prof. Frederick Erastus Pierce, 57, associate professor of English at Yale University, was in a critical condition in a hospital last night after what was described by Coroner James J. Corrigan as an “attempted suicide.” The coroner said he had received & report from Dr. Frank Toole that Dr. Plerce had fired a .22-caliber bullet into his mouth. Dr. Plerce was found lying uncon- scious on the floor of the bath room at his home by members of his family, who were forced to break down the door. Coroner Corrigan said the pro- fessor had been melancholy. He wi believed to have been worried over an iliness. <« | | —Wide World Photo. MEETING OF G.0.P. T0 QUTLINE AINS Midwest Republicans Will Start Perfecting Party for 1936 Campaign. By the Associated Press. In the Midwest, stronghold of the Republican party, will come Spring the first organized step to “condition” tbe party for the 1936 campaign. Sponsored by national committee- men from many States in the area, leading Republicans will meet in Kansas City to draft their plans for movement into the national political arena a year hence. A visit this week of Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas to Washington aroused Capital interest in the meet- ing. It was in Topeka that the meet- | Astor, from which he will do his fish- | lns. had its conception January 29 at the annual Kansas day celebra- tion. Gov. Landon stressed the fact the gathering will not be in the interests of any individual presidential candi- date, but rather that it will devote | itself to a “statement of principles.” “The idea is to lay the foundation for an efficient preprimary organiza- tion,” Landon said. “It will give the Republicans a chance to revitalize the party and to formulate a program to candidates for consideration at the meeting.” Definite plans, he added, were still in the making and that no date had been set for the meeting. Farmers to Ask Shelter Belt. DENVER. March 27 (#).—A delega- tion of Eastern Colorado farmers de- cided yesterday to ask Federal public works funds for the planting of a shelter belt of trees to supplement the huge north-and-south belt planned by the Government to tombat soil- shifting winds. The farmers conferred here with Clifford Noxon. registrar of the State Public Lands Board. Roosevelt to T}y New Rod on Quest For Smaller Fish Gulf Stream Abounds in Game Variety Sought by President. By the Associated Press. On his fishing trip in Florida waters President Roosevelt is carrying a new rod, built to handle “1 and 2 pounds of fish.” Apparently the President seeks small game instead of the whoppers that called to Herbert Hoover when he fished off Florida in 1930. Mr. Hoover's record catch was a 45-pound sailfish. Mr. Roosevelt's catch last year compared favorably in quantity with other presidential efforts, but his fish were smaller. There are plenty of the smaller game fish in the Gulf Stream waters, including Spanish mackerel, the king- fish, the wahoo and the cabio. These fish’ travel in small schools, and are lured with a trolling spoon hook. The Euvening Star -Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK this | at The Evening Star Business Office, or by mail, postpaid It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet | Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. (e s | | | | Name R BN soiariemihoisaises bonininon FEDERAL SPENDING PASSES 5 BILLIONS $2,574,490,000 of Outlays Classed “Emergency” in Treasury Statement. By the Associated Press. Government spending in the cur- Tent financial year has passed the $5,000,000,000 point. Today's Treasury stetement, cover- ing operations through March 25, showed outlays since July 1 of $5,- 006,456,143, More than half this anount went to expenditures classed as ‘“emer- gency” which took $2,5674,490,002. General Government expenses amounted to $2,431,966,140. Total expenditures for the corre- sponding perjod last year were $4,- 709,435,397 Current Deficit Reduced. ‘The current deficit of $2.179,290,383 was almost a quarter of a billion dol- |lars under the comparable figure of |last year, when the Government was | “in the red” to the extent of $2,428,- 241,684. Increased receipts accounted for the lower deficit. Through March 25, the Govern- ment had collected $2,827.165.760 as | compared with $2,281,193713 last year. The largest increase was shown by income taxes which were $195,000,- | 000 ahead of last year's figures. Meanwhile, compilation of figures from the principal lending agencies of | the Government disclosed that it lent $2.907,000,000 more in 1934 than it | did in 1933. This increase was em- phasized by a report of the Federal | Reserve System showing its member | banks lent $800,000,000 less in 1934 | than the year before. | Another important factor in eon- | sidering Government lending figures was the low ebb to which capital se- curity issues dropped during 1934. Only in recent weeks has the Secur- ities Commission noted an appreciable break in capital market offerings, with Swift & Co. of Chicago apparently starting the trend with a large re- funding bond issue. New registration of issues for March now approach $200,000,000. ’ Long-Term Loans. It was into the long-term capital | loan market that most of the Federal money flowed, as compared with the | short-term loans, which make up the | greatest volume of commercial bank | advances. | The Federal Reserve loan figures, however, did not reflect the lending of some 9,000 State banks, which are not | members of the Federal Reserve and |1 which do not report their activities to | Washington. Upward of three-fourths of the Nation's banks are members of the Federal Reserve, however, and | officials regard it likely that the opera- tions of non-members followed a simi- | lar trend. ‘The four principal lending agencies of the Federal Government, the Re- construction Finance Corp., the Pub- | lic Works Administration, the Farm Credit Administration and the Home Owners' Loan Corp., lent $3,154,000,- 000 in 1933 and $6,161,000,000 in 1934. The last report of the Treasury fig- ured that a total of $7,479,000,000 of loans were outstanding. Their fig- ures included several smaller agencies vhose loans were not included in the “big four” group of lenders. |BYRD'S PILOT PREFERS LIFE IN LITTLE AMERICA Civilization'’s Foods Are “Nice,” but Flyer Still Wants to Re- turn to Icy World. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 27.—Fresh vegetables and fruit are “nice,” but | William 3. McCormick, 32-year-old fiyer who piloted Admiral Richard E. Byrd's autogyro on the Little Amer- ica expedition, prefers the world of ice. He said so yesterday. | “There’s something about that part of the world which grips a fellow,” McCormick said. McCormick spent 13 months “on the ice” 'n Little America without seeing & newspaper or receiving a letter from home. He ate out of cans, froze his hands and face | cracked up his autogyro and broke an | arm—but he still wants to go back. He landed here last Saturday with seven other members of the expedi- tion. lCongress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Resumes debate on pink slip repeal. Munitions Committee hears Bernard | M. Baruch. Joint House-Senate Cenference Committee studies work-relief bill, House. Debates naval legislation. Ways and Means Committee works on economics security bill, YESTERDAY. Senate. Passed $007,000,000 Post Office- ‘Treasury appropriation. Debated pink slip repeal bill. Labor Committee heard attacks by industry on Wagner labor bill. House, Sent work-relief bill to conference over opposition of silver inflationists. Foreign Aflairs, Committee hearing on withdrawing Russian recognition ended abruptly when Representative Tinkham, Republican, of Massa- chusetts, would not agree to keep testi- mony secret. TOMORROW Senate. On floor: Routine bills on calendar, or agriculture appropriation bill, if proposed repeal of income tax public- ity is disposed of today. Senate District Committee, 3 p.m., on small courts building bill. Probable meeting of Senate Sub- committee on District appropriation bill. House. Special District day it the House for consideration of auto liability bill and three cther measures regarding demolition of unsafe buildings, con- demnation of unsanitary buildings and excess condemnation bill. Labor Committee, 10 a.m., open— Labor disputes bill. Indian Affairs Committee, 10 am., open—Subcommittee on administra- tion bill for settlement oi grievances. Rivers snd Harbors Committee, 10:30 am. open—Across-Florida Canal. Education Committee, 10 a.m., open —Bill for meeting ‘mmediate crisis in public education. Agricultire Committee 10:30 a.m.— | Executive, to consider amendments to A A A Irrigation Committee, 10 a.m., open -Moratorium bill. e