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(U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon and tonight; to- morrow partly cloudy, slightly warmer; lowest temperature tonight about 40 de- grees. Temperatures—Highest, 57, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 42, at 3:30 am. today. Fyll report on page A-7. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. No. 33,210. MUTUAL AID PAGT REVIVING GENEVA PROTOCOL OF 194 SEEN IN PROSPECT Change in Great Britain’s Attitude Toward Peace Guarantee Results From Threat of Air Invasion. ‘AGGRESSOR’ DEFINITION EXPECTED TO BE GIVEN | Czechs Give Britain Assurance of Support in Sat‘eg\m-dingl Against War—French Seek C. N.R. A. Step to Mason Tells Senate Probers! Ex-Counsel of Darrow Board Predicts Soar- ing Prices. By the Associated Press. Senate investigators were told today by Lowell Mason, former counsel for the Darrow Review Board, that N. R. A, is the “first step” toward a Fascist state, comparable to the Ital- | ian “march on Rome” or the German | “beer hall putsch.” Mason, & youthful;appearing Chi- cago attorney, compared the N. R. A. set up with the Fascist corpor-xe: state, saying they were modeled on the same lines. | Reviewing the findings of the Re-| view Board headed by Clarence Dar- | Tow, Mason also predicted to the | Senate Finance Committee that if N. R. A were extended without restoration of the anti-trust laws, | “the sky will be the limit” op prices | and “the consumer will be the vlc-; tim.” | Ch ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935—FIFTY PAGES. #x% Fascist State, LOWELL MASON. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Darrow Board investigation,” he said, “shows that under the N. R. A. the practice of monopoly by large indus- United Front at Stresa to| A resume of the findings of the | (Continued on Page 4, Column 6) Frighten Germany. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, April 4—Spurred to ac- tion by Germany's rearmament, Eu- rope is believed by Geneva observers to be headed toward a pact of security against war which would contain pro- visions for mutual assistance against aggressor nations. Advices arriving at the League of | Nations headquarters indicate a ten- dency toward a general treaty of mu- tual assistance which will in a sense revive the famous Geneva protocol of 1924. This named as an aggressor any ' nation which refuses to arbitrate and provided penalizing action ranging from economic and financial action to military force. Great Britain refused to ratify that protocol on the grounds that it meant the British Navy would have to guarantee the peace of Europe. But England now apparently has | been convinced that, with a certainty | of air attacks in event of war, she is ro longer isolated and that as was sald by Stanley Baldwin, lord presi- dent of the council, England’s frontier is now the Rhine. | Since the World War. the Eastern and Western Hemispheres have sought | feverishly to devise peace systems | which would reduce to a minimum | the chances of another and more ter- rible holocaust. | The Washington Naval Conference | of 1822 not only halted a naval build- | ing race but concluded treaties de- signed to promote the peace of the | Facific. The famous Locarno pact of 1925 provided for peace on the Rhine. That pact, signed by Germany, Bel- gium, France, Great Britain and Italy, provides that if any of the first three | attacks another, the remaining sig- natories shall attack the aggressor | nation. It was suggested that this pact might conceivably form the basis for the protected general European se- curity pact which would implement and strengthen the Covenant of the League of Nations. It would, of course, be open to Germany. Indications in League circles are that the proposed treaty would pro- | vide: 1. Non-aggression. | 2. The definition of an aggressor | along the line proposed by President Roosevelt of the United States and by Soviet Russia. 3. A penalty system against proved aggressors. UNITED FRONT SOUGHT. French Aim Is Declared to Fl’l‘hl.ell{ Reich. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) PARIS, April 4.—High sources said today that France, while eager for a general European security pact to in- | clude Germany, hopes for a united front with Great Britain and Italy to | “frighten” the Reich. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, it was disclosed, will seek to embody these two objectives in a program he will present at the conference of the powers at Stresa April 11. The first point in his program, it was said, will be a clear-cut document signed by France, Great Britain and Italy setting forth their determination to resist any threat to European peace. His second objective, the high sources said, will be an understanding on essentials of a general European security pact to which Germany will be invited to adhere. Failing to obtain an agreement on the general security pact, it is re- lizbly stated Laval probably will seek (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) MAN ENDS L.IFE IN PACT BUT WOMAN RENEGES Victim Identified as New York Bond Trader—Companion Says She Lost Nerve. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 4—A man identi- fled by Police Lieut. Andrew J. Hurley as Harry B. Van Allen, 35, New York bond trader, plunged to death from the twelfth floor of the Hotel Statler early today. in what Hurley described as a “double suicide pact.” An hysterical red-headed woman about 25, Hurley said, was found in the hotel room from which Van Allen apparently leaped. He said she de- clined to identify herself further than to admit that she signed a note found in the room as “Bea Ryan.” Hurley said she told him she “lost her nerve” and failed to carry out her part of the pact. Guide for Readers After Dark .. Amusements .. Comics .... Women’s Features. Finance ........ Lost and Found Radio . Serial Story Short Story . LRSS '$100,000 H NUMBER 10000 Modern Guns and Sup- ply System. By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 4— A modernly equipped Ethiopian army : of 100000 men is swarming to the Eritrean and Italian Somaliland bor- ders, authoritative sources said \oday.‘ Concurrent with this disclosure of | the size of the army Emperor Haile Selassie has mustered, the government reasserted its contention that the mili- tary movements are merely “precau- tionary.” The latest types of rifies have been placed in the hands of the warriors, | in contrast with the spears and sabers | which Ethiopian tribesmen carried in their previous battles with Italy. | The forces are under the command | of Ethiopian chiefs. Although some | European officers are serving as Id-‘ visors in aviation and other branches | of the army, the Ethiopians, recalling | with pride their successes against| Italian troops 40 years ago, have en- | trusted the direction of their military | operations to their own leaders. | ever its nature—was to have occurred | The army is said to have a plentiful supply of machine guns, ammunition and other stores. In the past the im- | portant function of accumulating food | supplies and transporting them to the troops was left in the hands of women. | This primitive custom of warfare no | longer exists. ! The government has taken over the task of organizing the commissary and establishing lines of communication from the sources of supply to the ad- | vance posts. Provisions already have been accumulated at many strategic points, EART BALM GIVEN FORMER WIFE, Jury Rules in Favor of Mrs. Bed- ford-Jones Against Second Wife. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, April 4—"Heart balm” of $100,000 was awarded by a Fed- eral court jury today to Mrs. Helen Bedford-Jones of Evansville, Ind., in her suit over the affections of her former husband, Henry Bedford- | Jones, fiction writer. The jury or- dered a payment of this amount by Mrs. Mary Bernardin Bedford-Jones, the writer's present wife. Defense Attorney Earle Ewins an- nounced after the verdict was read that he would seek a new trial be- cause the first and the second wives were residents of different States. Neither Mrs. Bernardin Bedford- Jones. the loser, nor Mrs. Helen Bed- ford-Jones, the winner, were in court to hear the verdict. It was returned sealed, the jury having spent only 2 hours and 32 minutes in consider- ing the affair. The amount awarded the first wife was half of what she had asked. Bedford-Jones and his first wife were divorced in 1928. He married Mrs. Bernardin, the widow of an Evansville manufacturer, in 1929. On the witness stand he charged his first wife with “constant nagging,” which drove him, he swore, to the verge of suicide. But attorneys on the other side| called the writer “just a playboy, who led his wife on until she was 50 years old, making believe that he loved her.” MISs BOOTH. REVEALS CARE OF 3 CHILDREN Salvation Army Head Denies De- siring Marriage—Tells of Rearing Charges. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 4—A Daily Mail dispatch from Sydney, Australia, said today that Evangeline Booth, head of the Salvation Army, revealed that she raised three children as her own and described them as “the secret love of my life.” She indignantly denied reports which appeared in an overseas news- paper, the Dispatch said, attributing to her a statement that she longed for children of her own, had been in love several times, and that something always prevented her marriage. She told today how she raised three children, “whom I loved as my own.” “One, poor boy,” she said, “is dead; another is a brilliant Salvationist; the third, is an invalid. That other myr is all wrong.” FTHIOPIN FORCES SCAENE T0 SPARE - LYDDANECLAIED Army Guarding Bbrders Has Boland Says Alleged Death | Order Was to Be Ignored in Robbery. ‘The “plot” to murder Francis S. Lyddane, Montgomery County liquor dispensary employe, actually was to have been only a highway robbery, Maryland police have been advised by John Martin Boland, held at Rockville under a charge of conspiring with Mrs. Anne Lyddane to murder her husband. The weird crime that police charge was to have been a slaying, but which Boland allegedly claims was to have been “just a shakedown,” was to have taken place along the East-West High- way on the county pay day March 26 last, it was learned today. Earlier reports were to the effect that Lyddane was marked for “bump- ing off” in a faked hold-up of the liquor dispensary at Silver Spring, Md., where Lyddane is a bookkeeper. Questioning of Boland, who is alleged to have signed a confession, has de- veloped that the “overt act”—what- while Lyddanc was driving to his home in Rockville. Woman In Seclusion. Boland was still in the Rockville jail today, along with his alleged con- fessed “liaison man,” John Henry Car- nell, who will be a State’s witness against Boland and Mrs. Lyddane. The latter is in seclusion at her father's home on the outskirts of Rockville, having been released in custody of her attorneys. Washington police were conducting | a city-wide search for a third man, | whose identity is known. and who| was named by Boland and Carnell in their alleged confessions es the man they had told Mrs. Lyddane was a “Philadelphia gunman.” Meanwhile Attorney Kenneth Lyd-; dane, cousin of the intended vietim | of the alleged plot, announced he located “Rat” here last night and thet the man indicated willingness | to testify in the case, providing he is not arrested. According to Stedman Prescott, associated with Attorney Lyddane in defense of Mrs. Lyddane, “Rat” told the lawyer he did not know Mrs. Lyddane and had never seen her, but that he was acquainted with Boland end Carnell. Claims Part Payment. The story that Boland is alleged to have told investigators who have been quizzing him in jail was to the effect that while he, Carnell and “Rat” allegedly had received part payment for the “job” of Lyddane, it was the scheme of the trio to trick their alleged employer and stage a hold-up of Lyddane, instead. How the hold-up was to be ex- plained to their alleged employer was not made clear in the alleged state- ments. Boland is said to have de- clared he had no intention, at any stage of the alleged conspiracy, of committing murder for any one. The warrants issued against Boland and Mrs. Lyddane, on the basis of al- leged confessions by the former and Carnell, charge, however, that the pair “deliberately, wickedly and feloniously” conspired to murder 2 CONVICTS SHOT IN CAMP MUTINY Guards Wound Pair When 15 * Refuse to Leave Cells—Gas Is Used. By the Associated Press. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C,, April 4— Disorder broke out among colored convicts in a cell block at the Wood- ville Prison Camp near here early to- day. Guards shot two men and hurled tear gas bombs in an effort to quell it. Capt. J. M. Tolar, superintendent of the prison camp, said 15 men were involved in the mutiny. ‘The sullen convicts declined to leave their cell block this morning to work and threatened guards who sought to force them to leave in pairs. Neither of the men shot was hurt seriously. Woodrow Purdy, 30, a life- term prisoner, suffered a flesh wound, &nd Albert Hardy, also a life termer, ‘was struck by bird shot. Tear gas was brought to the camp by Sheriff Charles Carmine of Pas- quotank County. It was soon exhaust- ed without driving the prisoners from the cell block and more gas bombs were ordered from Farboro, tries is bold and aggressive. Small | SLAIN PAIR'S AUTO FOUND ABANDONED AS UNREST GROWS Rural Folk Bar Doors and 0il Weapons Following Coleman Murders. MUD-STAINED VEHICLE LOCATED IN RICHMOND Men Seen Near Gas Station Sus- pected—Torture Theory Denied by Coroner. BY W. H. SHIPPEN, JR, 8taff Correspondent of The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 4— The trail of the slayers of Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Coleman led to | Richmond today with the d!scovery‘ of their mud-stained automobile, abandoned in a colored residential | section of that city, as uneasiness grew in the Virginia farm community where the murder is the one topic of con- versation. Locks long in disuse were bolted on the doors of rural homes and farmers | took advantage of the damp spell to oil their rifles and shotguns. All day neighbors filed into the ample yvard of the Coleman residence to gaze at the ransacked home and into the depths of the 40-fcot well, where the bodies were found early yesterday. Commonwealth Attorney E. R.| Carmer of Spottsylvania County left | immediately for the Virginia capital ! to obtain an examination of the car for possible finger prints. Two colored men who may have | stolen the car were seen by attendants near a filling station at Thornsburg | 4 miles south of the Coleman farm where the pair stopped for gasoline and cigarettes. In Heart of Farm Area. The prosperous farm where the elderly couple was murdered, pre- sumably by robbers, is situated in the | heart of the Spotsylvania farming area 12 miles south of here and about 2 miles from Massaponax. Coleman had lived his 77 years on the productive acres which spread over gently rolling hills about Hickory Point the Coleman homestead for five gen- erations. | He and his 65-year-old wife had a | reputation in the community for in- | dustry and great thrift. There were stories that they secreted large sums | of money about the farm house which i is half a mile from nearest neighbors. Early rumors that the couple had been deliberately tortured in an effort | to make them hand over their valu- | ables were refuted by the coroner's examination. There was every indication that the elderly pair had been killed in great | haste. Both had fractured skulls from a brutal clubbing and both bodies contained charges of bird shot, evi- dently fired from Coleman’s gun which was missing from its accustomed corner beside the door. Former Murders Recalled. While local authorities debated the advisability of asking in a Washing- ton or Richmond fingerprint expert, farmers of the community took steps for their own protection. The double murder had a disquiet- ing parallel in the murder and at- tack upon a young couple in Lovers lane about a mile south of Fredericks- | burg last May. The girl died within a week and the young man survived with a blank memory after a brutal clubbing. There was evidence that the Cole- man murder was perpetrated by men who know the habit of the pair. Coleman inyariably hid his automo- bile key in a' side pocket of the car. | He also had a secret gasoline cut-off. The murderers apparently waited until the colored hired man had per- formed his evening chores and gone home. Supper Had Been Prepared. ‘The Colemans had prepared a sup- per they never had a chance to eat. There was food on the stove and the table set for two. Strangely, the old farm house where five generations of Colemans have lived, and the rain-soaked yard held (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) \ROOSEVELT TRIES LUCK | OFF CONCEPTION ISLAND Fishing Base Shifted 40 Miles From Long Island, Secre- [ tary Advised. By thie Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, April 4.—President Roosevelt fished off Conception Island in the British Bahamas today. After almost a day without word for publication from the President, tem~ porary White House headquarters here was advised late last night by Mr. Roosevelt of the shift in base from Long Island to Conception Island, 40 miles away. Mr. Roosevelt waited until his vaca- tion yacht Nourmahal had weighed anchor and was underway for the new base before releasing word of his move- ments. Marvin H. McIntyre, presidential secretary established at Miami, main- tained contact with Mr, Roosevelt throughout the day. OH BOYS, 04 BoYs' : IF | EVER DECIDE To MAKE A NOISE, You'tL KNOw IT? | TELL YOU THAT NOISE IS The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,162 Some Returns Not Yet Received. (F) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FOURTH ATTEMPT | | Man, 77, Avenges Long Torture By Slaying Jealous Wife, 64 Feet Burned With Matches, Stabbed With Dagger, Often Tied and Beaten, |Senate Munitions Body Also eral sersions of its terms. Crazed Killer Asserts. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY. bullet wounds inflicted by her of hidden wealth. April 4 —Mrs. Nellie A. Hurd. 64. died early today from vear-old husband, Herbert, who said he had | been tortured by his wife in an effort to make him disclose the hiding place Mrs. Hurd died at General Hospital after an operation to remove four bullets from her body a railroad crossing watchman he said had been wife “because spirits told her I had a hidden fortune I was giving to the woman next door.” Detectives gasped last night when Hurd, stripping off his clothing, dis- closed the evidence of Mrs. Hurd's alleged inquisition. His story, City Detectives Fred Greene and John Cos- tello said, probably was true. Miss Nellie A. Hurd. adopted daugh- ter of the Hurds, denied her step- father had been tortured and insisted that he signed of his free will a “con- fession” of infidelity with a neighbor woman and of his giving her $15,000. ‘The purported “confession,” found by police in the Hurd home, was re- pudiated by the 77-year-old husband. ' In andther ward of the hospital lay her husband. crazed by knife and flame wounds, inflicted by hise — which He charged it had been obtained “while she was standing with a gun at my head” | “We've had trouble ever since we | married 12 years ago,” Hurd said at | police headquarters last night. “Then she got the idea that spirits had told her I was having relations with this other woman, and that I had given | the woman $15,000. All I own is two | little houses. “My wife was killing me by inches.” | he cried as he began removing his clothes. “Sometimes she beat me all night. She chained me to the bed and I was too ill to fight back. She (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | INVESTING PUBLIC HELD VICTIMIZED Commission Hearing Told Customers of Certain Group Denied Voice. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 4—Charges that| certain individuals under investigation by the Federal Securities and Ex- change Commission had taken mil- lions of dollars from the public, that they owned palatial yachts and that they lived “on the fat of the land,” while thelr customers never had a chance to be heard, were made today by John L. Flynn, special counsel for | the commission. Flynn said many connected with the cases at present under investiga- tion were “fugitives from justice,” and that no later than a week ago he knew the location of one of the number— hidden in a hotel near Boston by a member of the Massachusetts bar. The Securities and Exchange Com- mission counsel said the fact-finding hearing now in progress before Re- gional Administrator Edmund J. Bran- don was the first time customers of some of these firms had had oppor- tunity to be heard. Flynn's statements were made dur- ing the hearing today in reply to alle- gations by George V. Alpert, a lawyer, appearing as counsel for the Win- chester Institute of Finance of Win- chester, Mass,, that the constitutional rights of clients had been violated | through a denial of the right to cross- examine. “BLUE LAW” EDICT Foe of Voliva Will Attempt to Enforce Old Statute. ZION, II, April 4 (#) —Folks in Zion will have to “watch their step.” William M. Edwards, newly elected mayor, and opponent of Wilbur Glenn Voliva, religious leader, says he's go- ing to try to enforce the “blue laws"— no smoking, no gum chewing, no short skirts, no card playing, no dancing and no movies. Texas Convicts Mimic Barrouw, Chop Off Feet to Avoid Work By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., April 4—The late desperado, Clyde Barrow, was blamed today for introducing the self-mutila- tion idea at the Retrieve Prison farm, where several convicts have chopped off_their feet. The Barrow influence at the Angel- ton, Tex., institution was disclosed by Lee Simmons, general manager of the State prison system, after Gov. James V. Allred ordered an investiga- tion into reports that prisoners had muti “We found six convicts who had chopped off their feet with axes or mutilated themselves in other ways,” Simmons said in making public a re- port on physical examinations of all the inmates. “The convicts have doing that ever since Clyde Barrow thopped off his toes, while he was in prison, to get out of work. It is a form of rebellion by the convicts.” 2 Barrow, a killer and- bank robber, and Bonnie Parker, his cigar-smoking woman companion, were slain by officers lngf 2KILLED, 5 HURT IN EVCTION RiOT Sheriff and Miner Shot to| Death in Gallup, N. Mex., ‘ Outbreak. By the Associated Press. GALLUP, N. Mex., April 4 —Sheriff | M. R. Carmichael and an unemployed €oal miner were shot to death, and five persons, including one woman, were wounded today in a street riot precipitated by a shouting crowd of | more than 300. | Disorder flamed when the crowd | rushed sheriff’s _deputies removing prisoners from a hearing in a Justice of the Peace Court growing out of an eviction case. | The jobless man slain was identified | | as Ignacio Velarde, 37, a World War | | veteran. Sheriff Shot in Head. Deputy Sheriff B. W. Roberts said either Velarde or another unemployed miner, Solomon L. Esquibel, 37, shot Sheriff Carmichael through the head and the deputy then opened fire and shot both Velarde and Esquibel. Two other sherifl's deputies, Edison L. (Bobcat) Wilson and Roy Bogges, were wounded in the fighting. Wilson suffered a bullet wound in the chest and Bogges was stabbed in the chest. The rioting crowd gathered as 8| hearing proceeded in the court of Jus- tice B. W. Bickel for three men on charges of breaking and entering a house from which one of the trio had been evicted. The three were Exiquito Navarro, Victor Campos and Jenny Lavato. Hearing Preliminary. The hearing was a preliminary one and as the officers and prisoners left the building on one of Gallup’s main streets by a rear door the crowd ran around and charged. The .entire State motor patrol of 10 men was dispatched from Santa Fe | toward Gallup and State Attorney General Frank Patton, a district at- torney and a detective accompanied the detail. Gallup with a population of 6,000 is the scene of the State's largest coal mining enterprises with five separate camps. It was the scene of a strike in 1933 which lasted for five months. National Guardsmen were called to duty at that time. GIRL FOUND DEAD Grandmother Near Death From Effects of Poison. SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 (#).— An 11-year-old girl was found dead and her grandmother in a dying con- dition here early today. Deputy Coroner Michael Brown said slight burns in the mouth of the girl, Margaret Hill, indicated she may have swallowed poison. Her grandmother, Mrs. Mark L. Cohn, 66, who was found writhing in agony on the floor when her husband returned home, was not expected to recover from the effects e poison, . | shipbuilding LARGER AR FORCE IS URGED FOR . §. Hears Charge Against Hoover. By the Associated Press. Pleas for a larger air force for the United States were voiced today before & House committee, while a Senate group listened to a letter which said former President Hoover would “yield” on giving naval construction to private yards “only if there is an advantage to | be gained in the way of political trading.” Before the House Military Commit- tee, Maj. Jame H. Doolittle, celebrated aviator, asserted that the “present establishment is woefully weak” and it would be highly desirable to double the strength of the Army Air Corps. Previously, Charles H. Brough. re- tired Army general and war-time Gov- ernor of Arkansas. said that “if we are vulnerable anywhere, we are cer- tainly vulnerable on our upper flank. He urged more planes. Builder Discloses Letter. The statement about Hoover was| contained in a letter written December | | 28, 1931, to Joseph W. Powell, presi- dent of United Dry Docks, Inc., by | Robert W. Malone. the corporation’s | ‘Washington representative. In addition, Powell told the Senate Munitions Committee that for more | than a year he shared an apartment in Washington with Anning S. Prall, until recently New York Representa- tive. and had ordered part of his in- surance given to Prall's son. Prall now is chairman of the Communica- tion Commission. Powell had testified his company had gone to Prail, then a member of the House Appropriations Committee. for assistance in an eflort to obtain a con- tract for building a destroyer for the Government. He explained one of the company's vards was in the Staten Island dis- trict represented by Prall and that was the reason the effort was made. Chairman Nye Aroused. ‘The Senate Committee had turned from testimony that a friend of James Roosevelt had written to the White House in an effort to influence naval awards, and looked further into evidence purporting to show a former member of Congress had solicited business from a ship- building firm while he was in office. | A letter written by G. W. Edmonds | of Philadelphia, the former Repre- sentative, to the Bath (Me.) Iron Works aroused Chairman Nye. He said there was reason for additional inquiry into the assertion contained in it that Edmonds had formed a company which did business with the Government and with shipyards. Despite the Investigating Commit- tee’s advocacy of another plan which would limit war-time profits by heavy taxation, there were predictions the House within the next day or two will pass the McSwain bill against war profits. House opponents of the McSwain measure denounced it as a “farce” and “a futile thing” yesterday, but that body promptly voted. 258 to 71. against permitting amendments to it. Veritable Utopia Seen. In House debate over the bill by Representative McSwain, Democrat, South Carolina, Representative Kvale, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, charged | | that “a guarantee of war-time profits” was a dangerous possibility under the measure, “Instead of eliminating profits it would create a situation that would extend a veritable Utopia to power- ful units of industry.” he said. The McSwain bill would put a ceiling over prices at the outbreak of war, empower the President to com- mandeer “material resources, industrial organizations and public services,” and authorize him to set up a license sys- tem for any class of industry. The bill favored by the Munitions Committee provides for taxes which would limit industrial profits to 3 per cent of investment and salaries to $10,000 a year, with corporation offi- cers drafted and subject to transfer to combat units in case of failure to co-operate. Four Drown in Auto. FLORENCE, 8. C., April 4 (®.—A crew of workmen today sought to ex- tricate the bodies of four persons drowned when their automobile plunged into Lynch’s River near here late last night Leston Powell and Alford Jones es- caped. Those drowned were Mrs. Janie Jones, 60; her two daughters, Verline and Rosa Jones, and J. R. Hannah, 3]l residents of Florence 10 BREAK RELIEF DEADLOCK FAILS Glass Presses Compromise Given Last Night to House Conferees. “DIRECT” WORK ISSUE PROVES AN OBSTACLE Virginian Argues Plan Would Bar Loans to Cities to Buy Power Plants. By the Associated Press. The fourth meeting of the Senate and House conferees on the $4,880.- 000,000 relief bill ended today with no agreement on the deadlocking “di- rect works” amendment Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, chairman of the Senate man- agers, emerged from the conference, which lasted a little more than an hcur, with the statement: “There is no agreement yet. The conference adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. I don't know vhen there will be another confer- ence.” ‘The two groups of conferees met in a private room of the Senate Appro- priations Committee suite. If leaders had received any new word from Presi- dent Roosevelt, they kept it to them- selves, Senator Glass still pressed the compromise he offered last night to the House conferees. There were sev- Question of “Direct Labor.” One was that the President would be authorized to determine what con- stitutes “direct labor” under the pro- vision requiring that one-third of the money allocated to States from & | $900,000.000 fund be spent for direct work, and that labor used in producing and transporting materials for a proj- ect could be counted as direct labor. Glass and his associates have stood out for the 33'; per cent requirement in the belief no money should be spent for purchasing existing power or other plants. Secretary Ickes. supported by President Roosevelt, has contended the labor restriction would disqualify many State projects such as P. W. A has aided in the past Today was the seventy-fourth day since the record-making appropriation measure was introduced in the House It passed that branch four days after introduction. Since then it has been pending in Senate Committee, Senate and conference. House members on the Conference Committee appeared to be in a con- ciliatory moed. They declined to ac- cept the compromise after a meeting last night. however. asserting they wanted to study it overnight and to receive assurances that it was satis- factory to the President. Glass Would Limit Loans, Glass had argued that his amend- ment would prevent Public Works Ad- ministrator Ickes from making loans and grants to cities for purchase of existing power plants. The proposed substitute. although | relaxing the original requirement re- | garding direct labor, still would provide | that a third of the loans and grants be spent for labor of one kind or an- other. This, it was said in Capitol circles. would be a formidable barrier to the use of work-relief funds for light plant purchases in which payments to | labor was a small factor. | Before the unsuccessful meeting to- day, Senator Robinson of Arkansas. | the Democratic chief, had visited Vice | President Garner’s office and left smiling broadly. He said at that time | that the dispute had not been settled, | but that he was hopeful of an early accord. Good News Is Hailed. The leaders’ avowed expectation that the work relief bill would be sent | quickly on its way toward a final roll | call was good news at the Relief Ad- | ministration | With present relief activities cost- | ing $5,000,000 a day, offiicals reported | only $4.000.000 on hand and $9,000.- | 000 available for borrowing in the P. W. A, Harry L. Hopkins, the relief admin- istrator, reported yesterday that the number of families on relief had dropped from 4,544,933 in January to 4,485,076 in February. He said also that relief costs dropped | 8 per cent—from $196,630,787 in Janu- |ary to $180,952,466 in February—but added this was due primarily to the brevity of the latter month and the fact that in many localities February outlays included four work relief pay rolls, while in January there were five, 'U. S. AGENTS ARREST ‘PURPLE’ GANGSTER Victor Cannellan, One of Last of Mob, Held on Counterfeit- ing Charge. By the Associated Press. NEWARK. April 4 —Treasury secret service agents disclosed today the ar- rest of Victor Connellan, 35, de- scribed as “one of the last of Detroit's Purple gang,” in a Hoboken saloon two days ago. F. William Morris, Treasury agent said Connellan, also known under the aliases of O'Brien, Cross and Maxwell, had been sought since last November for alleged counterfeiting. He was surprised by Federal men and local policemen Tuesday, Morris sajd, and was captured without a struggle. A loaded .45-caliber auto= matic was strapped to his leg inside his trousers, Morris stated, and sev- eral .38-caliber bullets and a shield from a private detective agency were found in his pocket. Two Die in Wreck. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ill, April 4.—The engi- neer and fireman of a Rock Island train were killed and three others in- jured early today when the truck of a westbound tank car broke, hurling the tank into the path of another | treight train bound east. - )