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N. R. A, COERCION CHARGE DENIED Minnesota Compliance Di- rector Places Responsibil- ity in Washington. By the Associated Press. Intimidation and coercion charges were denied before Senate investi- gators today by Mrs. Anna Dickie Olesen, Minnesota N. R. A. compli- ance director, who placed responsi- bility for her actions on Washington recovery headquarters. The charges against Mrs. Olesen’s administration had been made in previous testimony before the Senate Finance Committee by George Tracy, president of the Perkins-Tracy Print- ing Co. of St. Paul, and Smith Scog- gin, spokesman for the St. Paul Typographical Union. “I have been charged with persecu- tion, intimidation, coercion and col- lusion,” Mrs. Olesen told the commit- tee warmly. “I deny all the charges. We have persecuted no one. We| have intimidated no one. We have coerced no one. We are in collusion with no one.” Quizzed hy Committee. Mrs. Olesen was questioned closely by comimittee members about details of the Perkins-Tracy controversy. She told the committee she had acted throughout in the Perkins-Tracy case on directions from N. R. A. head- quarters in Washington. Testimony on the case was for- warded to Washington, she said, and the Perkins-Tracy Co. was found guilty of violating the graphic arts code by using the wrong cost ac- counting system. Senators Clark, Democrat, of Mis- souri, and Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama, tried to get Mrs. Olesen to concede the cost accounting system demanded by Washington was unfair, but she insisted it was not her re- sponsibility. Moves for New Test. Meanwhile, the administration moved suddenly to put up a new N. R. A. constitutionality test case for Supreme Court determination. Be- labored by critics for dropping its o previous test case, that involving the Belcher Lumber Co. of Alabama, the latest move was made yesterday with en air of urgency by the Justice De- partment. It evidenced a desire to get a de- cision by the present term of the court before the N. R. A. act expires | on June 16 and before Congress ad- Journs. The Government picked the Schechter poultry case—involving | wage, hour and sales provisions of | N. R. A. codes—as the strongest case | it could find. The high court has\ twice been concerned in recent years | with operations of New York City | poultry market concerns. In another quarter of the Capitol, | House Republicans loudly applauded | Representative Cox, Democrat, of | Georgia, when he said the Justice De- | partment’s withdrawal of the Belcher This Changing World Nations Prepare for War as England Prac- * tices Cue-ism. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Great Britain's peace dove, Capt. Anthony Eden, has returned to Lon- don to roost, after having flown all over Europe. The members of the British cabinet are confirmed adepts of Coue-ism. They believe that even today if Eu- rope’s statesmen can be induced to think “there shall be no war,” the im- pending European catastrophe will be averted. They may be right after all. But in the meantime the armies of the nations of the continent are marching to occupy positions provided by the general staffs “in case of threat of war.” The various A and B plans are being put into effect. * ok K K The French government has not called any of its reserve classes to the colors. This is not as necessary at this time as it was in 1914, because the mobilization preparations have been completed for a number of years. But the classes which should have been sent home this month are being maintained in the barracks. The main difficulty which the French govern- ment was afraid it would meet in case | of a general mobilization was the possible reluctance of the people to answer such a call. It was generally believed in France and abroad that the French people would not fight unless France was invaded. This was a mere illusion. The French Chamber has voted with an overwhelming ma- jority the two years military service. | This, next o increased taxes, would | have overthrown the most popular government in France in ordinary times. Yet the Flandin cabinet sur- vived and obtained a tremendous vote of confidence. No other proof is nec- essary that the people of France are willing to carry the pack and the rifle | to the trenches again. * ok kX The Italian mobilization—it is not called by that mame—is pro- ceeding rapidly. Whether the troops will be used against Abys- sinia or in Europe depends entirely on the development within the next few months. Mussolini is tak- ing no chances, however. Regular army reservists and Black Shirts are all ready to answer the govern=- ment’s call within @ few hours. The German Army is ready t0o; so | are the enormous reserves which | have been trained as brown shirts | and other semi-military organizations which have existed in Germany since the end of the war. Reinforcements | are being sent to the western borders of Germany together with an enor- | mous quantity of war material. Specu- lation is ripe in the general staffs | of all nations as to what new death | | devices the German technicians may | have discovered during these 15 years | of “peace.” &k ok The Russians are not idle either. Their general staff is incomparably | diction. THE EVENING SHIPS HELD TRAPS BY PROBE WITNESS Builder Says Other Mail Vessels Carry Same Threat as Morro. By the Associated Press. Laurence R. Wilder, a shipbuilder, declared before the Senate Munitions Committee today the Morro Castle was a “fire trap,” but it might easily have been built sc there would have been “no necessity for loss of life.” *“There are plenty of other ships at sea of similar nature with mail con- tracts that have no further protec- tion,” he added. “In other words, the lives of our citizens are being risked.” Wilder, heavy set “independent” in the shipbuilding business, has re- peatedly told the committee he was ‘not popular” with other ship builders. He employed a graphic chart to illustrate his declaration the Morro Castle was “a fire trap.” McSwain Vote Near. Meanwhile, the House neared a vote on the McSwain bill to take excess profits out of war, and the House Military Committee received testi- mony on increasing the Nation's air defenses. Backers of the McSwain bill sought to show critics it would be possible to write stern tax provisions into the measure. Some of the severest com- plaints against the proposal are grounded on the fact that, unlike the rival measure nurtured by the Senate Munitions Committee, it provides for no taxes on war earnings. Chairman McSwain of the House Military Committee, author of the bill, said it would be possible in conference to tack on provisions to take all ex- cess profits by taxation, then obtain rules in both Senate and House to make the addition in order. Such a procedure, of course, antic- | ipates House and Senate passage of the measure. McSwain, who would be one of the conferees, answered “certainly” when asked whether he would work toward the change. Would Take Higher Gains. The Senate plan contemplates taxes to take half of corporation profits up | to 6 per cent on capital investment | and all profits over 6 per cent, as well | as holding individual incomes to a | maximum of around $10,000 a year during war. While expressing desire to obtain a tax schedule to go along with its bill, the House Military Committee has considered the matter outside its juris- Members hald that was the prerogative of the Ways and Means Committee. In its report on the McSwain bill | the Military Committee directed atten- | tion specifically toward that point and toward “our deliberate conviction that 100 per cent of all profits shown to be due to war-time business condi- tions shall be taxed out of the person, firm or corporation earning such excess profit.” Three important changes appear al- most certain to be incorporated in the bill before final action by the House. Acceptable to the Military Committee and McSwain, the amendments would STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1935. Girl Falters in Suicide Pact where photographs were taken. MRS HENRY B. VAN ALLEN. When Henry B. Van Allen, New York bond broker, leaped to his death from a Boston hotel window yesterday, he left behind his widow, at the left, and Miss Bryan, New York manicurist. leaped with him, “but couldn’t take it” and decided to keep her grip on life. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. NAMES OF ALABAMA NEGROES ORDERED ON LIST OF JURY (Continued Prom First Page.) \luphold them in letter and in spirit. * ¢ ¢ Will Observe Law. | “Alabama is going to observe the supreme law of America. | “The Governor is the chief law- | enforcement officer of the State and | the conservator of all laws. All laws, | of course, include the supreme laws | of the land. | “It is unusual for the Governor to | undertake to suggest to the judicial | department things which under our‘ State policy are peculiarly within its | | jurisdiction. However, I have a duty | to perform and an oath to abide by. | “I am writing our trial judges, in- closing a copy of this opinion and saying that I do not assume or inti- | | mate that the contents of their jury | boxes in anyway fails to conform to | all legal requirements, but suggesting that in the event there be any non- conformity they speedily take proper | steps to remedy any defects, and call their attention to the jury law of Loses Fight VOLIVA DEFEATED IN PLAN TO CHANGE ZION. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA. Voliva’s plan to reorganize Zion, Ill, Industries and Institutions, Inc., with himself in control, was | torch singer, MISS LENORA BRYAN. The latter said she was to have Mrs. Van Alien flew to Boston, BLUES SINGER FILES 40,000 VOLUNTEER FORITALY'S ARMY Soldiers Ready for Service in Colonies, but Plans Are Unknown. By the Associated Press. ROME, April 5.—Premier Mussolini’s Blackshirt militia began in earnest to- day to show Il Duce the organization would not mark time while army reg- ulars were being sent to East Africa. In every Fascist secretariat through- out the kingdom, Blackshirts who vol- uhteered for service in Italian Somali- land and Eritrea presented themselves in answer to notices of mobilization. ‘The men came from every rank of life, ranging from youths of noble families to peasant veterans of the World War. According to notices of mobiliza- tion issued yesterday, there will be enough of these volunteers to form at least five divisions, totaling more than 40,000 men. Whether all these men will be sent to the Italian colonies as | a result of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis | was not immediately made known. While Italy went ahead with her NOW 1 EAT Cabbage Upset Stomach goes | in Jiffy with Bell-ans. BELLANSIAHED LAWYERS’ BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS trinkets, jew- elry and watches into MONEY at A.Kahn JIne. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. |43 YEARS at 935 F STREET own military plans, she learned with | composure Austria’s decision to re- | organize her army on a basis of “se- lective conscription.” Pending the conference at Stresa | when it is understood Mussolini in tends to present concise suggestions | for rearmament in Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, both the government spokesmen and the press refrained from comment. BILL HITS C;IAIN STORES ACTION FOR DIVORCE | crain siores, commissaris wnc. ner- Helen Morgan Starts Suit for Separation From Ohio Attorney. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 5.—Helen Morgan, the dark-eyed blues singer and actress who seems to do her best singing perched atop a grand piano, filed suit yesterday for divorce against | Maurice “Buddy” Ohio, attorney. Miss Morgan, who sang ‘Wants Me” to gain prominence as a charged her husband forced her to work to support herself, Maschke, Cleveland, | called her uncomplimentary names, exhibited jealousy and caused many embarrassing scenes. | The filing of the suit did not come | as a surprise. It had been rumored for months that Miss Morgan would seek legal separation from the Ohio attorney. They were married May |15, 1933, at Newcastle, Pa., and sep- arated June 20, 1934, the complaint | disclosed. Attached to the divorce complaint filed in Superior Court was a state- “Nobody | ant merchants were called “evils” and would be put out of business by a bill | introduced in the Senate yesterday. An “emergency productive of wide- spread unemployment and distress,” which the bill claimed existed in Florida, was blamed upon “what is commonly known as the chain store evil” * *X k. % | | * * ment that a property settlement had‘ been effected out of court. Water With T. S. A. and Fuel 0il * » the Spring Battle of the BLUE & GRAY ...is on! Just as surely as Spring rolls around ....we see the battle of the Blue and Gray! Gray has always had a slight edge . . . the many shades and pat- terns give it a more case “clearly indicates either an un- | willingness to let the Supreme Court act, or that the national industrial recovery act is ready for the discard.” At the same time, Donald Rich- berg, N. R. A. chief, in explaining at his press conference the withdrawal 1931. The Governor, on receipt of official copies of the Scottsboro opinion, im- mediately conferred with Attorney General Albert A. Carmichael and Assistant Attorney General Thomas S. Lawson, who assisted in the prose- “Springy” effect. However, the craze ’ for Navy, plus a bat- | bIERE 1 % tery of new lighter 18 ’ blues makes the com- more efficient than in 1914 and nothing is left to chance. If there is another war, there will be no longer a lack of rifles and ammuni=- tion as in the last war. The lack of adequate transportation which make the bill state positively that labor | is not to be conscripted in event of war, that the selective draft is only. for the purpose of recruiting man- power into the armed forces and that | the measure shall apply only when | rejected yesterday by Federal Judge J. H. Wilkerson. The over- seer of the North Shore religious community near Chicago was over- whelmingly defeated when his po- litical machine was toppled from —_— E FARMS SURVEYED ANCHORAGE, Alaska. April 5 (P). i —A Government-conceived Arcadia took form in fertile Matanuska Vullq yesterday. of the Belcher case, said it was not the best test of N. R. A. that could be found. Justice Department offi- cials expressed the same view. The case, involving wages and hours | provisions of the lumber code, the| department called “peculiar,” “un-| satisfactory” and “involving no find- | ing of facts.” | United States and Company to Appeal. The appeal in the Schechter case is to be carried to the court by both the Government and the Schechter Poultry Corporation of New York. On Mon- day, the Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a District Court’s conviction of the corporation on 17 counts of violating the poultry code’s sales provisions, but reversed the lower court’s conviction of the company for violating wage and hour prm isions on two counts. The company is going to appeal the part of the conviction the Circuit Court upheld. The Government will appeal the wage and hour provisions zeversal. SPECIAL NOTICES. ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS Washington ~ Permanent Building Associ- ation will be held st the office . aw., 93 election’ of emcers open from 10 a.m HERS AN . BERGMANN. Secretary. DR. CHAS. F. CONRAD, CHXROPODLBT. now associated with Drs. Thompson. 705 1! trict 0453, 8:3 WANTED—RETURN LOADS Shester. Providence, Albany, “murTal: Mem- phis. New York, Deirolt. SMITHS TRAN FER & CO 1313 U st. nw. 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The Germans refuse to participate in such a general treaty and advocate bilateral agreements between “pairs of nations,” using a formula expressed in 1932 by the former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. The German theory is that there are problems which are par- ticular to two nations and these do not affect others. Consequently, it is unfair to ask France, for in- stance, to promise to use her army in, say, an Italian-German or in a Russian-German conflict and vice versa. Hitler says that if agreements be- tween nations interested in some par- ticular problems are solved, and their differences are ironed out satisfac- frame of the existing agreements | might conceivably be reached. Xk The French and the Russians do not believe in this diplomatic philos- ophy. They maintain that the exist- ing problems interest all nations alike and a weaker nation should not be left to discuss its problems alone with a stronger nation—that the former must necessarily get a rough deal. The E | problem which is interesting the world today is the problem of peace and that must be settled within the frame of existing treaties and by all nations together. ‘The British are taking a middle course. They believe in regional pacts. Sir John Simon is convinced that if the Western European question can and Great Britain agreeing sincerely not to attack each other, peace can be maintained by force, if necessary, in Eastern Europe. * K K K King Carol of Rumania believes, de- spite the dark clouds which are cov- ering the political horizon, especially in the Balkans, that his dynasty is sure to remain at the helm of the Rumanian ship of State. Despite his ‘weakness and his shortcomings, he is keenly interested in the education of his son and heir, the young Prince Michael. The boy is only 14 years old and receives a real democratic educa- tion—none of the King stuff for him. The young prince is in high school. He does mot actually go to a public school, but has 12 young boys attend courses in the Royal Palace with him. These 12 boys are taken from all the social classes of Rumania. One is the son of a humble peasant, another is the son of an army officer, a third is the son of @ mechanic, a fourth the son of a lawyer. Then there are children belonging to parents representing the minorities in the kingdom, a German and @ Hungarian. These children play and learn to- gether. And their play is as free as that of the ordinary children playing a bleeding nose or a black eye. father did not sympathize with him, but got an instructor to teach him how to swing his left fist. He is less bruised now. war is declared. Some opposition spokesmen contend- ed that a provision making the bill effective when a national emergency | is declared by Congress would permit its application even in an economic crisis. YOUTH HELD FOR CHECK FORGED ON DETECTIVE By the Assoctated Press. ST. PAUL, April 5—Police Detec- tive Prank Mondike, whose specialty is running down check forgers, was not so mad today. The check passer who allegedly | forged Mondike's name on a check for $5.50—and Mondike has no check- ing account—was caught last night, He is a 16-year-old youth who at- tempted, the police said, to pass an- other piece of worthless paper—with Mondike's name—at a drug store. The druggist had just finished read- ing a newspaper account of Mondike's wrath about the first rubber check and his vow for vengence, when the youth tried to cash another. The druggist called police and the young man was taken into custody. He will be arraigned in Juvenile Court. cution of the cases, on the course to | pursue. He termed the holdings the most revolutionary since the war betweenv the States. Rtfllling jury boxes will place Ne- | groes’ names on jury rolls and in thel boxes for the first time since recon- | struction days in many counties, MAY CHANGE SYSTEM. | | Southern States Possibly May Call More Negroes in Cases. ATLANTA, April 5 (#).—Alabama’s action in ordering new jury lists drawn to conform with the United | States Supreme Court decision in the Scottsboro case may be followed by other Southern States calling more negroes for active jury duty. No negroes are barred by law from | jury duty in the South, but few have actually been called to sit on cases. In most of the States jurors must be qualified voters, and this in itself has kept a great many off the jury list. An editorial in the Richmond News Leader supported the general belief that some negroes had been called for Jjury duty in that State since the trial of George Crawford, colored, who was convicted of slaying Mrs. Agnes ! Iisley, wealthy sportswoman. | Distriet Supreme Court Gives power at the polis. 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