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A—2 wx¥ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935. . 4 REAL WAR CAUSES DECLARED [ENORED Proposed Laws Are Based on Prevention by Ban- ning Profits. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Preparation for theoretical war between the United States and some imaginary power, and, at the same time, prevention of such war by taking the profits out of it is the basic reason for the amount of time being given by the Senate and House these days to proposed legislation as to how pri- vate industry and profits shall be reg- ulated in war time. The underlying theory of the pro- ponents of the legislation is that wars come because munition makers and shipbuilders and others make a profit and that, therefore, they may in a sense have a ghoulish desire to bring about war so that they can make money. The possibility that America, for example, entered the European war in defense of American rights of travel| on the high seas or because of public resentment against the murder of American citizens by sibmarines does not seem to have been taken into consideration as likely to happen again, though, to be sure, some of the pending legislation would give the President the right to prohibit Amer- ican travel on the high seas. Air Attack Conceivable. 1t is assumed that if American citi- 2ens do not travel abroad there will be no other provocation for entry into a war in which European belligerents, for example, are engaged. Just what is to be done about an embargo on American exports during war time has not yet been developed. Thus, resentment on the part of a Euro- pean country, whose enemy is being supplied with foodstuffs or raw mate- rials from America with which to make munitions, might conceivably lead to an air attack on the United States. This means that the only sure way to preserve neutrality would be to abolish all forelgn trade which di- rectly or indirectly might aid either side. The committees of Congress have not gone comprehensively into the subject of possible war profits— or losses, for that matter—because, What’s What Behind News In Capital More Men at Work and More on Relief—Con- gress Won’t Hurry. BY PAUL MALLON. OMETHING is wrong about this relief business. It was started in order to care for the un- employed, but the connection is becoming increasingly ob- scure. The more men go back to work the more there are on relief. That paradoxical tendency was no%ed in some degree several months ago, but recently the disparity has gone beyond the bounds of casual ex- planations. For instance, last De- cember unemployment increased about 300,000, while relief rolls jumped 960,000 (disparity 660,000). In Jan- uary unemployment decreased by 330,000, but relief rolls increased by 520,000 (disparity 850,000). ‘These disparities were not wide, but unofficial figures for February show that, while unemployment decreased further by 250,000, relief rolls jumped 2,000,000 and hit the all-time high of 22,500,000 (disparity 2,250,000). The private estimates for March have not lessened the apprehensions of those in charge of this situation. Of course, those in charge have all kinds of explanations. You may take | your choice. The best one is that | the unemployed finally have depleted | their personal savings and belatedly are seeking Government help. The relief officials can almost prove this by a survey indicating that the new | arrivals on relief rolls come from white-collar classes (clerks, teachers, professional people). Part Time Given Some. Another excuse is that some unem- | ployed have been given part-time Then there is the one about the large number of old folks and unem- ployables who are on relief, but are Furthermore, it is contended unem- work but still must remain on relief. | not listed among the unemployed. while profits and salaries of industry | ployment figures are not exact. are to be limited, there is nothing to | (Those used here are by the A. F. of insure a holding down of the prices L. and are as good as any.) of foods, which will be in great de-| It is admitted unoficially that | mand and hence increase in retail | there is considerable grajting on value, bringing large profits to some | relief. Even the relief directors con- and causing hardships to others. cede there are many persons get- ting relief who do not need it or [ValuabiopEenis MncinNes who have jobs. There is an un- Both the House and Senate bills| spoken suspicion here that perhaps ‘would place unlimited power to fix this is as good an explanation as prices in the hands of the President | any of those officially given. | in war time, and, while some very If you can get a Congressman to valuable suggestions have been Writ-| i\ Yrankly, he will admit this is ten into the pending measures, the | (he' gowest and dullest session of | Army and Navy, who know more|gongress within the memory of Cap- about the scientific side of war prep- | ;o) antiquarians. aration, are not likely to look with| “poth Houses have been in session | favor on any proposals that seek t0|oyactly three months and are just| embarrass the war machine in the | ompleting the first major item of | event of a sudden outbreak of hostili- Further- | upon appeal preparations by New Jer- | | sey counsel. MRS. HAUPTMANN DISMISSES REILLY Fisher Named Successor as Result of New Yorker’s $25,000 Bill. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 14—Edward J. Reilly's dismissal as chief of counsel for Bruno Hauptmann was:in the mails today. Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife of the man condemned for the Lindbergh baby's kidnap-killing, announced she had dispatched the letter of dismissal. She is campaigning in the Middle ‘West for funds to wage Hauptmann's appeal from the death sentence. As the successor to Reilly, veteran of 2,000 metropolitan homicide cases, Mrs. Hauptmann designated C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington, N. J, Mr. Reilly's associate in the vain effort to free Hauptmann. $25,000 Bill Climax. Fisher and Rellly said they had re- ceived no word of the change. The New Yorker expressed surprise. It was Reilly’s bill for $25,000 which climaxed months of discord between counsel and defendant, Mrs. Haupt- mann said. She called it “exorbitant” and premature. “That bill is for 13 weeks” said Reilly, “and I think it is reasonble.” Mrs. Hauptmann said the defense fund had reached from $12,000 to $15,000, and she had turned over $5.000 of this money to Reilly. The lawyer asserted he had received | only a mortgage which he sold for $2,900, giving $500 to Fisher. Next Stop Milwaukee. Frederick A. Pope of Somerville and Egbert Rosecrans of Blairstown were the New Jersey attorneys assoclated with Reilly and Fisher during the | trial. Both will be retained, Mrs. Hauptmann said. Mrs. Hauptmann, meanwhile, planned the next stop in her fund- raising campaign at Milwaukee. From there she expected to go to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. APPEAL GOES FORWARD. New Jersey Counsel Continue Plans | For Plea. { TRENTON. N. J.. April 4 (#).—Dis- missal of Edward J. Reiilly from Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense staff apparently will have little effect ' Judge Frederick A, Pope asserted | he and the other New Jersey counsel] were continuing plans to argue the appeal before the Errors’ Court June | 20. C. Lloyd Fisher, named chief de- fense attorney by Mrs. Hauptmann, was conferring on the appeal yester- | day with Pope when reports of Reilly’s removal were brought to him. He also said he “knew nothing about it.” Egbert Rosecrans, the third Jersey counsel, absent from his home in Blairstown for several days, was not reached for comment. ties. So far as present-day conditions are concerned, vast sums are being | spent for war preparation by the | United States. Large portions of the public works money, which was to aid the relief of unemployment, were used to build up the Navy or to strengthen the Army. It is apparent that the Civilian Conservation Corps, | for which nearly $600,000,000 is to be | allocated out of the u,aoo.ooo,ooo; work-relief bill, will be an auxiliary arm of the military establishment if | legislation, the relief bill. more, most of the other jmportant legislation (N. R. A., holding com- pany, -banks, railroads) is not any- where near ready for floor considera- tion and probably will not be for some time. There is more behind this delay than laziness. The real reason is that congressional resistance to the Roose- velt program has taken this new form. While there is no general tend- ency to thwart the President's pro- gram openly there is a rather wide- spread inclination not to hurry. This |CAPITOL EXTENSION | BILL REPORTED OUT Hope Expressed President May { Allocate Funds Out of Work- | Relief Appropriation. SARAZEN IN VAN INMASTERS COLF Shoots 68 in Augusta Play. | Jones to Start Round Later Today. By the Associated Press. AUGUSTA NATIORAL GOLF CLUB, AUGUSTA, Ga., April 4— Gene Sarazen, former open king and prime tournament favorite, helped set Scene of Brutal Double Slaying s < L in Fee System Still -In Vogue to Curb Fishing for Bass {Act of Congress Gives Half of Fine to Officer. The fee system, often termed the most obsolete manner of remunera- tion in law enforcement, still is in rcflect in the District. This was brought to light by As- sistant Corporation Counsel George D. Neilson in Police Court today when officials of the harbor precinct asked instructions as to enforcement of an HIEHER MEAT ST POLICY CONTINUE | Scarcity Grows,While A.A.A. Signs Million Farmers for Hog Benefits. l | The housewife’s bill for pork and +SLAIN PAIR’S AUTO i’ Virginia - The Virginia farm home in Spottsylvania County, near Fred- ericksburg, where the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Coleman were discovered stuffed in the well yesterday. The home had been robbed. Upper left is Ernest Lunsford, who descended the well at the end of a 40-foot rope to re- | cover the bodies of the murdered couple. Above is the death well | and below the Coleman home, where the couple lived alone. —Star Staff Photos. FOUND ABANDONED AS UNREST GROWS | 3 | {no clue to the struggle. The well| | water was tinged with crimson, but | 1o blood or bullet marks or foot prints | could be located. | The hired man, Tom Braxton, dis- | covered the bodies when he reported | | for duty early yesterday. | He ran two miles to the home of Coleman’s daughter, Mrs. Oscar Scott. MELLON EXPLAIN STOCK TRANSFER Tells How Son Acquired Bank Securities He Disposed Of. By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, April 4.-—Andrew W. Mellon, insisting he did not own any part of $10,000,000 worth of bank stocks while Secretary of the Treas- ury, explains how his son Paul ac- quired the securities 10 years after the father says he disposed of them. The question was brought up by Robert H. Jackson, counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau, who called the 80-year-old financier back to the stand today for his fourth day of cross-examination. Quizzed on Note. A $10,000,000 note given by the late R. B. Mellon for the stock when his brother Andrew went to Washington in 1921 was the subject of long cross- examination yesterday by the Govern- ment attorney, who has contended the former Treasury Secretary actually dominated the Union Trust Co. and thereby was able to bring about “a commodation sales” of stocks. The Government claims Mellon should pay $3,089,000 additional on his 1931 in- come. The white-haired witness testified concerning his contention he had qual- ified himself as Treasury Secretary that he had “absolutely sold” the stock to his brother. It previously had been stated that Paul Mellon, grandson of Banker Thomas Mellon, founder of the family fortune, had assumed re- | sponsibility for the debt in 1931. Explains Transaction. Asked for details on just how Paul happened to take over the stock. Mellon said: “As I understand it, my brother said to Mr. Johnson (Howard H. John- son), my secretary, that he would like to be relieved of this indebtedness and to dispose of the stocks. He thought that I would be agreeable to having Paul acquire those stocks and take his place and assume the liability to me. “Then the matter was brought to my attention and it was agreeable to me and I arranged to have the transfer.’ Jackson in his questions brought out that interest on the note Mellon took from his brother was increased from 5% per cent to 8 per cent during the 11 years it was outstanding. The witness also testified that R. B. Mellon who notified the commonwealth at-|gave him about $370,000 when the | torney. Coroner William A. Harris | stock was taken over by Paul. the | took charge of the investigation. He amount representing the dividends had the curious held back while he paid by the stocks which had not went over the place for clues. Not a been paid to Mellon as interest. one was found, coroners said. | —————— to he out of the county. ?fié"’éflfl’i S’ COURT LIMITS {DIPLOMAT IMMUNITY On his return he and the Common ealth Attorney mad | Holds Business Offices and Homes le a second ex- amination of the premises, by this of Envoys Are Not Extra- territorial. | time overrun by curious hundreds. Seek Clues at Richmond. Blaydes and the coroner went to Richmond today to review their search for fingerprints and other clues. The Coleman’s represented a sub- stantial element of the community. Their homestead on Hickory Point | commands a prospect of many miles. By the Associated Press. The house is shaded by giant oaks | and the boxwood on the Coleman | front yard was rooted there 100 years | ago. The farm well and prosperously stocked with horses. cows, chickens, beef today was still mounting as the | Bureau of Agricultuzal Economics re- | ported hogs and well-finished beef cattle are becoming dally more scarce. | a fast pace for the fleild today by|old act of Congress prohibiting fish- carding a 68, four under par, in the | ing for bass in the Potomac River ! first round in the $5.000 Augusta na- | during the spawning season from | tional invitation event, also known! April 1 to May 29. as the masters’ tournament. | Under the act. any officer arresting Tommy Armour, the “Silver Scot” |or causing the arrest of any violator from Chicago, had a 73, one over par. is entitled' to half the fine imposed. Sarazen’s chances of triumph in the | The minimum fine is $10 and the event, featuring the second annual maximum $100, with an alternative At the same time the A A. A. an- nounced 1,000,000 farmers have agreed to continued artificial limitation of the hog output by signing applica- tions for 1935 corn-hog contracts. Claude R. Wickard, chief of the A. A. A. corn-hog section, deciared: “It is essential that we avoid a hogs and sheep and the Coleman barns have been the, fullest of the neighbor- hood at harvest time. MAN, 77, AVENGES YEARS OF TORTURE BERLIN, April 4—A short item on the inside page of a newspaper made the offices of foreign correspondents buzz with excitement last night. The item said: “The Supreme Court has decided that business rooms and dwelling places of foreign envoys accredited to the Reich are not to be regarded as extraterritorial.” Inquiry at the ministry of prop- aganda brought the reply that ex- traterritoriality has not been abolished, but the spokesman was unable to ex- plain the reason for the published war comes in the next two or three | was obvious backstage on the relief | mp, long-pending plan to extend comeback try of Bobby Jones, were of not more than six months in jail. Neither could the years. Army officers supervise these | bill. You may recall that the White C. C. C. camps, and, while there is | House originally insisted it must have no militarization of the camps, still | the bill by February 10. It is now get- America is doing what European coun- | ting the bill in desired shape, two | tries are doing with the same type of | camps—maintaining them in such | ways and giving the youth such phys- | fcal training as to make possible a simple conversion to military needs. Laws Can Be Repealed. If war does come the Army and Navy will tell the country what is immediately necessary, and, if the legislation then existing is a barrier or appears to make the war ma- chinery cumbersome and slow in starting, instant repeal can be ob- tained coincident with the passage by Congress of a war resolution, What then is the value of the leg- islation, especially as it is being pressed at this time when there are 80 many other matters of far more immediate importance pressing for attention? It is that the very ex- istence of drastic legislation will put a curb on all influences that seek to embroil America, so that, if there is anything in the theory that munition makers think of nothing eles besides how to get various countries into war 80 they will make money, it will be disproved once and for all. Curiously enough, nobody in Wash- ington, nobody in either House of Congress, for instance, is giving any time or attention to an investigation of the causes of war, especially those seeds of economic friction, such as are present in the Far East, which heve always led directly or indirectly to nearly every war in history. (Copyright. 1935.) LIVERMORE BALKED IN COMEBACK MOVE Chicago Board of Trade Postpones | Action on Petition for Reinstatement. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 4.—Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday put & check to the attempted finan- cial comeback of Jesse L. Livermore, 57, the “boy plunger of 1907,” by in- definitely postponing action on his pe- tition for reinstatement on the ex- change. The directors did not explain why the postponement was voted. Livermore, who won and lost mil- lons in spectacular grain and stock operations, was suspended from the Board of Trade last year after he entered voluntary bankruptcy. His petition for reinstatement in- dicated he had completed a settlement with his creditors, a requirement be- fore full membership privileges could be restored. Liabilities of the veteran operators, known in both La Salle and Wall Btreets as a daring trader, were placed at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 when he went into bankruptey last June. Believed 2,000 Years 01d. Believed to be 2,000 years old, an earthenware pot has been unearthed months late. | This is a tip on what to expect from Congress regarding the re- mainder of the program. President Roosevelt can get what he wants generally, but he will have to work long and hard on each item. The White House is now privately insisting that it will keep Congress in | sesston until the whole program is cleaned up. The idea is to get it out | of the way so everything will be quiet for the presidential campalgn next year. It is & good idea, but it will not work out. Already the leaders are dis- cussing what will be scrapped. There will be more discussion along this line when Mr. Roosevelt returns. Government Ownership. | Conservative railroad men here are | talking now about Government owner- ship as if it were an established pros- pect (three to five years). The only question they now discuss is how much the Government will pay, if| anything. | This talk partially reflects the de- spondency of the highest rail officials | regarding their earnings prospects. But most of it is due to the inside rumor that Rail Co-ordinator East- man is more or less privately encour- aging the Government ownership cam- paign being planned by Chairman | Wheeler of the Senate Interstate Com- merce Committee. Wheeler is going to delay his in- quiry into rail finances until August, when news will be dull. Obviously this is to arouse public interest in| his Government ownership bill. ‘The | | here believe Government ownership is | an ultimate necessity, but that it is not yet near enough to warrant the current despondency of the rail chiefs. best disinterested authorities ‘The reason Huey Long fought against the relief bill so hard is that he knows the New Dealers will admin- ister it in Louisiana so as to hurt him and help themselves. He is not far wrong about that. Don’t look surprised if a Federal photostating truck drives up to your place of business soon. The Government has been spending so much time and money looking over ledger sheets, pay rolls, etc., in its various private inquiries that it is planning to buy a photostating truck. This would do away with the fleld state of investigators. More than 100 flield investigators are now employed in one bureau. A few weeks ago, Mr. Roosevelt adopted a habit of going over his guest list each morning to decide which callers he wanted t§ see, and for how long. His secretaries take the blame with dissatisfied cdllers, and | thus have aroused a lot of people against themselves, as all good secre- taries should. | expressed by some members of the | committee that President Roosevelt and complete the east front of the | old central portion of the Capitol appeared nearer to being carried out than at any time in the pest when the Senate Public Buildings and Grounds Committee made a favorable | report yesterday on the Connally bill. The question has been debated in Congress for many years. Hope was may allocate funds out of the new | work relief bill for this project. Sen- ator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts, chairman of a special sub- committee, discussed the matter with the President recently. In a state- ment issued yesterday, Senator Con- nally, Democrat, of Texas, chairman of the Building and Grounds Com- mittee, said: “It will be recalled that the central part of the Capitol was constructed at a much earlier date than the two wings. The material of which the central portion is constructed is sand- stone, while the two wings are of marble. The central portion was burned by the British in 1814 and, because of discoloration, has had to be painted from time to time. The plan involves the extension of the east front and the possible construc- tion of that front of marble to har- monize with the two wings. The extension is also deemed desirable in order that it may more completely harmonize architecturally with the Senate and House wings.” The cost is estimated at not to exceed $3,500,000. ALLEGED HIT-RUN CAR SEEN IN GARAGE Auto Believed to Have Struck Taxi Said to Be Owned by Representative. A damaged automobile, which United States park police said belonged to Representative John J. Delaney of New York, was found early this morning on the second floor of the garage of the Broadmoor Hotel, follow- ing an accident at the intersection of East Executive avenue and Treasury place with a taxicab, in which & ‘woman passenger was injured. Witnesses told the police that the car which hit the taxicab did not stop. but continued north on East Executive avenue and was followed as far as H street by George W. Beall of 1122 Park place northeast, where he lost sight of it. Beall told the police the tag number was D. C. 300. Mrs. Helen Enders of Aberdeen, Md., a passenger in the cab with her hus- band, Fred Enders, received injuries to her knees, but refused hospital treatment, police declared. Representative Delaney could not be located, but House Sergeant-at- Arms Kenneth Romney sald he had told him early today that he had been in a “bumper” accident last night and did not stop because the impact was 80 slight that he di¢ not believe any so highly regarded overnight that | odds on him were cut to 4': to 1 Jones, scheduled to start at 1 pm., in company with Horton Smith. the 1934 tournament winner, remainer an 8- to-1 secord choice. | Other scores for the first round were: | The Harbor Precinct was instructed to enforce the law and was informed that persons fishing from the Virginia side also are subject to arrest, since the Potomac is District property to the high-water mark. Virginia au- thorities have promised co-operation in enforcement. Mike Turnesa, Elmsford, | NoX Soaosiviaies 34—38—12 .. 37—38—15 . 36—39—75 40—36—76 | John Dawson, Chicago Dick Metz, Chicago Al Espinosa. Akron, Ohio Walter Kozak, New York 38—40—79 | Henry Ciucl, Flushing, | N. Y. . 39—40—79 Andy Ka < . 4137178/ Ralph Stonehouse, Indian- | e R R 41371 NEWTON ESTATE VALUE PLACED AT $150,000 Widow Files Petition for Admin- istration Letters on Fortune of Patent Attorney. James T. Newton, patent attorney, who died March 14, left an estate valued at approximately $150,000, it was disclosed yesterday when his widow, Mrs. Helen B. Newton, filed a petition in District Supreme Court for letters of administration on his estate. The petition, filed through Attorney D. Edward Clark, disclosed he left personal property valued at $94,062 and real estate worth $55,280. An estate valued at $340,387 was left by Mrs. Jenevra E. Nairn, 1344 Jefferson street, who died March 9. Her will left the entire estate to her son, Wilson B. Nairn, local attorney. —_— C. U. DEBATERS LOSE PROVIDENCE, R. 1, April 4 () — Providence College defeated Catholic University of Washington, D. C, in a debate here last night on the ad- visability of Federal control of the sale and manufacture of arms and munitions. Representing Catholic University in upholding the affirmative were David F. R. James, Edward E. Egan and Joseph Spitzig. ROYALIST JUBILEE HIT BY LABORITE - Parliament Votes $250,000 for Event After Attack on Monarchical System. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 4.—The British government had parliamentary ap- proval today for a $250,000 appropria- tion for the royal silver jubilee cele- bration, but the price paid for it was another embarrassing attack on the British monarchical system. The sensational outburst of John McGovern, Laborite member, in the presence of King George on the oc- casion of the opening of Parliament more than a year ago was recalled as his lean, hollow-eyed Glascow col- league, James Maxton, denounced the lavish jubilee plans as “‘monarchist propaganda.” Although the little radical group from Glascow opposed the bill, the regular Socialist ranks, sometimes called “his majesty’s official opposi- tion” were split on the issue. Sir Stafford Cripps and other Laborites registered their opposition by abstain- ing from voting. Stocky McGovern, who recently re- newed his attacks on what he called “this kinging business,” described the jubilee expenditures as a “disgrace.” HELD IN ALLEGED PLOT COLUMBIA, Pa, April 4 (A.—A check of former students who learned a particular type of hand printing at Elizabethtown College led to the arrest of Leroy Eshleman, 21, in an alleged attempted extortion plot. The Evening Star Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK return to the excess production of corn and hogs which would result from a ciscontinuance of adjust- ! ment.” | The number of signers shows a | slight decrease from last year, with small operators dropping out of the program. Farm Income Increasing. Meanwhile the Department of Agri- culture disclosed the farmer’s income | 18 steadily increasing, due chiefly to the A. A. A. benefit payments. ° The total cash income from mar- BY SHOOTING WIF (Continued From First Page.) E | announcement. | official news agency explain it. | In diplomatic quarters it was ex- | plained that a foreign envoy cannot 3 | be touched personally, but that this | tied my feet with wire. Look at this| does not apply to his home or arm where she beat me with a strand | office, excepting where his country’s of wire.” | escutcheon is displayed witn the ap- “Look there,” he continued, point- | proval of the foreign office |ing at one leg. “She has a double-| " Thus no extraterritoriality can be edged dagger and plunged it into the‘ claimed by members of legations at muscle by the shinbone every time I| their private dwellings. refused to sign that confession” | Diplomats expressed belief the | Near the shinbone of his right leg | supreme Court’s order was due to a was a cluster of wounds nearly an| gesire to prevent undesirable foreign |inch deep. On the calf of the leg | rerygees f: 1 vl hei | was a gash about 4 inches long. The | mlsssnn:. O It (g Gyt Shete | soles of his feet were blistered. J st laughter, he shouted: $412,000,000 the same month & year “You two were trying to get those | damage had been done. He sald he was much surprised to learn from a8t Midzumoto-mura near Osaka, —_— 3 the morning papers that s passenger Sepen: «Copyrisht. 10355 in the eab had bees hurt. N 2 - It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. j=—==—=Order Form-————" I NOME ccociceciveccoceccassssccene 2y Price $1 -at The Evening Star .. Business Office, or & by mail, postpaid = | ago. | But only $379,000,000 of this Febru- ary’s total came from marketings, a | drop from the $384,000,000 of Febru- ary, 1934. The rest came from bene- fits. | “Marketings of many important | crops in February were the smdllest | for that month in 15 years,” the de- | partment commented. “There was an unusually large advance in prices of truck crops, prices of meat animals. dairy products, poultry and eggs also increased. “The sharp advance in retail meat prices in recent months is attributed by the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics to greatly reduced slaughter supplies of hogs and of well-finished beef cattle. Further Dwindling Seen. “Pork supplies are expected to con- tinue far below average the remain- der of this year; supplies of the better grades of cattle are expected to con- tinue small for several months.” Buy lamb, the department advises. “Lamb supplies have been reduced relatively little. The early Spring lamb crop now moving to market is estimated to be only slightly smaller than that of last year.” Credit-barren farmers today re- ceived the first of $60,000,000 worth of checks from the Farm Credit Ad- ministration in the 1935 emergency crop-loan program. The maximum to any one farmer is $500, with which to buy seed, fertilizer, supplies, food, fallowing and live stock feed. 17 COLLEGES INCLUDED IN NEW FLYING CLUB 65 Students of 20 Schools Or- ganize—Amherst Pilot Is Chosen President. Organization of & permanent na- tional intercollegiate flying club was completed by a group of 65 college students representing 20 colleges at the closing session of & two-day con- ference here late yesterday. Representatives of 17 of the col- leges signified they will seek charters in the new club for their college flying clubs. The national club is to act as a medium for exchange of experiences, standardization of college flight training programs and methods and for promotion of under- graduate and civil aeronautics in gen- eral. William D. Strohmeier, secretary of the Amherst Flying Club and one of the principal movers in creation of the national club, was elected first president of natiohal body. ] | | houses I've slaved all my life for. | | You helped my wife torture me. You | | went into the kitchen and brought | the matches that she lit to burn the | bottom of my feet. When she wanted | | to stab me with that dagger you | brought it to her.” Miss Hurd denied the accusations. Hurd was arrested early yesterday | as he fled from his home clad only in | pajamas. He was carrying a pistol. | Going to the home, police found his wife with a bullet wound in the chest, | another in the abdomen and two in the arms. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate. Debates Copeland food-drugs bill. Munitions Committee questions offi- cials of United Drydock Co. House. Debates McSwain anti-war profits bill, Military Committee opens hearing on air defense bills. YESTERDAY. Senate. Found opposition to food-drugs bill. Vice President appointed committee to investigate Virgin Islands’ admin- istration. Munitions Committee heard that a friend of James Roosevelt sought White House support in award of ship contracts to Bath Iron Works. House. Adopted rule for consideration of anti-war profits measure. Immigration Committee heard tes- timony Secretary Perkins was not en- forcing immigration laws. i TOMORROW. House: On the floor: Legislation to take profits out of war. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 10 a.m. open consideration of bill for utility holding compsnies. Subcommittee health and sanitation of House District Committee 10:30 a.m. hearing opens caucus room of old House Office Building on smoke elimi- nation bill. Senate. ' On floor: Food and drug bill, or possibly District appropriation bill. Interstate Commerce Committee, ex- ecutive session, on bus and truck regu- lation bill. Military Affairs, routine business. PFinance, continuing N. R. A, hear- PATIENT HELD IN DEATH AT ST. ELIZABETH’S George Shlump Must Face Trial for Fatality Only if Judged Sane. George Shlump, 37, a patient in the building for the criminally insane at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, was held for grand jury action by a coroner’s jury today in connection with the death of a 78-year-old person at the hospital yesterday. The dead patient, George Smyniaids, was pushed to the floor on March 25 by Shlump, receiving injuries which resulted in his death, it was said. In the event the grand jury should indict Shlump, he would have to stand trial on the charge under which indicted only in the event he might be judged sane. Shlump did not appear at the inquest, it being explained to Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald that the man has not spoken for many months. Police said the case is the first of the kind that they can recall. What’s What Behirid News In Capital BY PAUL MALLON A uth oritative comments . . . on what goes on backstage in your city.