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(U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight, probably ending tomor- row morning; not quite so cold tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 35 de- grees. Temperatures—Highest, 46, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 35, at 3 a.m. to- day. Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages 17,18&19 ond class matte: post office, Washington, D. Entered as s No. 33,214. IOORALD 10 10N SION N STRES TALKS THS WEEK Conference With Italy and France Will Start Thursday. CAPT. EDEN STRICKEN; IS ORDERED TO REST | §ir John Emphasizes Austrian Situation in Addressing House of Commons. Br the Associated Press. | LONDON, April 8.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced today | Full report on page A- 11, r Soviet Children Made Liable to Penaltigs of Law Those of 12 and Over In- cluded in New Decree by Government. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.. April 8.— Children 12 years of age and over will be tried for crimes and be liable for the full penalties of the law, including capital punishment, the same as adults, the Soviet government an- nouncd today. A decree instituting this drastic de- parture from the previous Soviet prac- tice was issued by the Central Execu- tive Committee and the Council of | Peoples Commissars as part of the | campaign to stamp out crime in the Soviet republic. | “To end crimes among children.” the decree said, “all minors over 12 who commit theft, violence, mutila- tion, murder or attempt to murder will be held responsible before the Criminal Court and will be subjected to all measures of criminal punish- | ment.” The existing laws provide for exe- ch WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1935—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. HOUSE LEADERS 10 SEE PRESIDENT ON SECURITY BILL | Approval in Present Form Sought Before Deciding on “Gag.” LONGER CONSIDERATION IS DESIRE OF SNELL Republican Leader Says Measure Is Full of Dynamite and Analysis Is Important. By the Associated Press. An agreement was reached today by leading House Democrats to consuli President Roosevelt before deciding whether to apply a no-amendment ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SPECIAL JURY SEEN 10 SPEED ACTION IN LYDDANE CASE | Montgomery May Call March Panel to Hear Evi- dence. | TWO OTHERS SOUGHT | FOR ‘PLOT’ QUESTIONING | Fourth Man Is Grilled by Police on Knowledge of Rockville “Conspiracy.” A special session of the Montgomery | County grand jury may be called to| | hear the Lyddane case in which pretty, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. g Star FH¥ Now M Too BUSY To SAY YES OR NO,DEAR LI‘EI’LE SPRING SATURDA Cireulati *s 125,226 2 me Returns Not Yet Recel (#) Means Associated Press. INDAY'S eulation, WE 00 OUR pant 135,995 ived. TWO CENTS. RODSEVELT DUE 10 SGN RELEF MEASURE TODAY Will Go From Florida to New York for Robbins Funeral. MAY RETURN HERE TOMORROW AFTERNOON Plans for Setting Up Machinery for Administering $4,880,000,000 Funds May Be Given Out. President Roosevelt probably will sign today the $4,880,000,000 work re- | lief bil! which he received in Jackson- ville, Fla. at noon on the special that he and Sir John Simon, foreign | secretary, would form the British | delegation to the conference with Italy and France at Stresa Thursday. | The prime minister made the an- cution by shooting of persons con- victed of murder and in recent weeks many persons have paid with their 29-year-old Anne Lyddane. Rockville | vsag rule” for consideration of the | pank secretary, and three Washington | social security bill. h d of lives for less serious offenses. Under | They will not ask a direct decision | POlice characters are aceused of con today's decree, adults who encourage on the “gag rule” idea. but will at- | SPIring to murder her husband an minors to commit crimes or become | tempt to get his approval of the se- | MTS. Josephine Beall of Darnestown. vagrants are liable to prison sentences | curity bill in its present form. [ rvAnie fofictal b confizmation.’ wes | train which is bringing him North after his fishing vacatien. The President sent word to the White House immediately upon land- ing in Jacksonville from hnis cruise | that instead of coming directly to | Washington, he will continue on to nouncement himself in the House of | Commons in Teply to & question b Austen Chamberlain, former lort | of no less than five years. Another regulation passed recently | ubjected parents who neglect the | home education of their children to privy seal, who referred to the sudden illness which has sent Capt. Anthony | Eden, the present lord privy seal, to bed for a complete rest. Chamberlain said to the prime min- | fster: “May I express what is the trial and punishment. ROOSEVELT T0 GET general feeling of sympathy with the | 5 acking, it was learned from an author- Would Determine' Course. itative source that the State is con- With his approval—which will be sidering recalling the grand jury which sought in a conference tomorrow—the | served during the March term of Cir- leaders feel it would be easier to take ‘ cuit Court and presenting the alleged either of two proposed courses: murder plot for consideration. Mean- | Apply a “gag” forbidding any but | while, it was discovered, that police | committee amendments, or bring the | have a “star” witness undercover and | bill up under procedure allowing | are keeping him out of the spotlight amendments to be offered and then | focused on the case, which has no vote them down. precedent in Montgomery County | Chairman Doughton, after a meet- | police annals. | | | APANESE LABOR Spectacular Fire ] Damages Ancient Paris Court House! ‘RESIGNATION'DATE HEAD DENED ih TowerFromW hichMarie lord privy seal and also express the | hope that he will speedily recover?” Regrets Eden’s Iliness. MacDonald replied: ‘The British representative will be the foreign | secretary and myself. I need hardly tell the House how happy I am to associate myself with Mr. Chamber- n in regretting that the lord privy seal cannot also go to Stresa as one of the representatives of the govern- ment.” Before MacDonald spoke Sir Juhn‘ told the House that both the political | and economic aspects of the Austrian | situation must be borne in mind at | any discussion of the powers regard- ing that country, but that Great Britain's policy at Stresa on the Aus- trian question could not be divulged for the present. Premier Mussolini will head the | threatened strike in the rubber indus- TIRE STRIKE PLEA Sheriff Says Deputies to Bar Picketing If Mayor Decrees. By the Associated Press AKRON, Ohio, April 8.—Either Coleman Claherty, president of the United Rubber Workers' Union, or William Green, American Federation of Labor president, will appeal to President Roosevelt to avert the Italian delegation and reports from Paris indicated Premier Pierre- | Etienne Flandin would the | French diplomats. Cabinet Meets Two Hours. The British cabinet was called to | 10 Downing street for a two-hour | session, and it was said that Sir John and MacDonald outlined for the min- isters & plan for a European security | system in which all nations could, if they wished, participate. The French and Italians are re- gérded as still unsatisfied with what | thus far is known of the British pro- | gram, but the cabinet was hopeful | the plan would meet with their ap- proval at least on the main premise of a general security system. Capt. Eden’s illness was not diag- nosed as critical, but his physicians ordered that he have complete rest and not be bothered by affairs of | lead | against mass picketing, said: try, Claherty said today. A reply by Sheriff James Flowe: to- | day to union officials who announced an intention to defy a proclamation | My corps of special deputies 'm! enforce the proclamation as soon as | Mayor 1. S. Myers makes it.” Goodyear tire departments went on a five-day a week production basis to- day. They had been working four. | Both Sides Firm. | The unions and the rubber com- | panies squared away today for a bitter struggle, which appeared certain to begin before the week is over. While the huge plants operated at high speed, union leaders mapped picket lines, planned flying squadrons, food supplies and the enlistment of volunteers in the impending struggle The companies, too, have been pre- paring. Workmen in overalls from the Fire- state. | stone and Goodrich plants stood in Personal Report Prevented. !line at union headquarters with bal- 4 7 lots in their hands. Union leaders Eden’s indisposition prevented him | p,ye predicted heavy majorities In from making a personal report on his : favor of a walkout. As & formality Furopean trip at today’s crucial cabi- | the votes will be counted Wednesday net, session. ! J | and announced with the result of the It also will eliminate him from the | list of Great Britain's representatives at the tri-power conference and the important sessions of the League of Nation's Council next week. | Ever since his return from his breath-taking fortnight's tour of five continental countries from Paris to | Moscow the lord privy seal's report has been anxiously awaited by his colleagues in the government. | After a conference with his private | physician and a heart specialist yes- terday, however, the 37-year-old diplomatic ace learned he musi take & complete rest for at least a month. RUSSIAN WARNING SOUNDED. Reservation on Decisions at Stresa Is Given. MOSCOW, April 8 (#).—Notice that Soviet Russia will not consider any decisions reached at the Stresa Conference binding upon her in case they collide with her views of Eu- rope’s peace needs was delivered by ! the official newspaper, Izvestia. | Taking a suddenly pessimistic view of the peace negotiations and charging there was a “conscious” effort to bury the project of an Eastern security pact, Karl Radek declared in a signed article in the newspaper: “Soviet Rus- sia will consider as binding on her only decisions arising from negoti- ations in which she has taken part.” The question of security in Eastern Europe, he stated, “refers to the na- tions of Eastern Europe and can hardly be regulated at Stresa with- out them.” He charged that efforts to sidetrack the Eastern pact had taken form in the proposal to substitute a general European peace agreement for the projected regional pacts. Such a general pact, according to the plan as “revealed” by Radek, would require action by the League of Nations Council before assistance could be rendered a country which was the victim of aggression. LOCARNO CHANGE SOUGHT. | | 1 N Duce Expected to Seek More Teeth in Treaty. (Copyrisht, 1935, by the Associated Press.) ROME, April -Well-informed sources said today one of Premier Mussolini’s projects to be submitted to the conference at Stresa Thursday will be the scrapping or complete re- writing of the Locarno treaty, so as *“to put more teeth into it.” The exact changes that Mussolini to have in mind were not stated, but one of them was en- visioned as the inclusion of an air pact. Another would be a clause for the armed guarantee o;“fi‘t'nm in- dependence. A third w & more precist definition of what constitutes Diplomatic _circles, however, said recent union poll at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. factory. “The fight is here; it's either us or them.” said Coleman C. Claherty, president of the United Rubber Work- ers of America. In Washington, William Green, president of the American Federation | of Labor, put the responsibility tor‘\ the threatened strike, which he called “imminent,” on the companies. “It could be avoided,” Green said, | “if the companies would permit their employes to hold an election and de- termine for themselves the union to which they wish to belong, as ordered and directed by the National Labor | Relations Board.” | A possibility that another attempt at intervention might come from Washington was seen in a statement Claherty made to a mass meeting of Goodyear workers last night. Claherty said, “We want the presi- dent of your local to stand with us and present our case to the President of the United States in no unem- phatic terms.” Plan First Aid Corps. At the same meeting John House. president of the Goodyear local, asked for strike volunteers, particularly “workers of military experience,” to enroll, along with “women with train- ing in first aid.” An emergency fleet of 50 automobiles was planned. ‘The Firestone, Goodrich and Good- year factories employ 34,000 men and women. The Rubber Workers’ Union claims 12,000 members in the three plants. Company officials say the per- centage of union members is much smaller than this. For that reason they have refused to deal with the ‘unions. The union is asking agreements calling for a 30-hour week, recogni- tion of collective bargaining and the withdrawal of company financial sup- port from so-called “company unions.” A fight against a National Labor Relations Board order for collective bargaining elections in the factories has been carried to court by the com- panies. When the board moved to enforce its order last week the Fire- stone Co. obtained a tmporary in- junction. OFFICIALS WATCH AKRON. White House Attaches Say No Reporis Received. By the Assoclated Press. Goverrnynent officials kept close watch on the Akron, Ohio, rubber the threatened walkout. At the White House it was said no official reports on the strike had been received. Whether President Roosevelt would take & hand in the situation would continue to defend to meke any further commitmen the continent, tmlmmomtytndwuuldmm;i ing with Ways and Means Committee | Democrats, told reporters “if the Presi- dent doesn't approve the bill as it is | now, it would weaken the argument | of those who want to forbid amend- ments.” Decision Is Delayed. Ways and Means Committee mem- bers had been scheduled to ask the Rules Committee for a *“gag rule’ permitting only committee amend- ments when the bill comes up on the floor. But their appearance was postponed | until tomorrow. forecasting delay aintil Thursday of initial debate on the | social security bill. Ways and Means Committee mem- | bers want the “gag rule,” while Speaker Byrns and other Democratic leaders oppoce it because of doubt as to whether the House would accept it. Meanwhile, Capitol Hill heard a re- port that President Roosevelt plans to put pressure on Congress to get busy | on his legislative program, of which the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill is | the only major one so far passed. ‘While House leaders hope to get the security bill through Congress next week, & demand for longer considera- | tion came from Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader. “This bill is full of dynamite,” he said. “T believe that the general pub- lic is becoming old-age-insurance minded, but other features of the bill will not receive public approba- tion. Ample Time Desired. “f hope that newspapers and other orgens of public intelligence will be given at least until May 1 to analyze and comment on the measure so that the country as a whole may under- stana what it is all about before there is a vote in_Congress.” With the Roosevelt program going through Congress at a slower pace than in previous sessions, some Demo- cratic leaders were considering advis- ing the President to put aside some measures for a later session. They believed that if an attempt is made now to put through the whole list— which includes social security, exten- sion of the N. R. A, the utility hold- ing company bill and the omnibus banking bill, the session probably would last late into the hot months. GIRL, 7, KIDNAPED AND SLAIN IN BARN Body Found by Possee of Okla-, homans—Head Badly Battered. By the Associated Press. DRUMRIGHT, Okla, April 8.— Kathryn Cline, 7-year-old daughter of an oil field worker at Crow, near here, was kidnaped and slain early today. Her body, the head smashed by a blunt instrument, was found in a barn one-half mile from her home by searchers, who started a hunt an hour after she was reported missing. A hastily formed posse of citizens and county officers sought a stranger after the girl's body was found. Doc- tors, meanwhile, were making a com- plete examination. Deputy Sheriff Vergil De Shan said the girl had gone early to the home of a neighbor about & quarter of a mile from her own dwelling, leaving the neighbor’s house at 8:15 a.m. Her mother, Mrs. A. C. Cline, became worried when the girl failed to appear in time to go to school. No weapon was found in the barn, 8 deserted building on an oil lease, located a short distance from a high- ;‘-‘3;’ trunnln; between Crow and Drum- e GUARDS ORDERED OUT IN LOS ANGELES DELUGE Streets Flooded and Canyons Transformed Into Rivers by Downpour. By the Almll&;d Press. LOS ANGELES, April 8—Forty- Long Beach areas early today after the city was deluged by torrential ‘The torrential downpour struck the Los Angeles area after midnight, flooding streets in the lower sections of the city and its suburbs. He is a Washington man, who, police admitted this morning. voluntarily came forward and offered to tell what | he knew regarding the alleged con- | spiracy. Police say that while he is not a key witness in the entire case, his testimony will corroborate an im- | portant statement furnished by one | lzr the men under arrest. Officers | would not disclose his identity. Two Others Sought. A new search was instituted dur- |inz the week end for two additional pecple, whom investigators are anxious | o question. “We have a good case without | them” said Policeman Joseph A. Nolte, who with Policeman James S. McAuliffe, 1s directing the investiga- | tion, “but we are overlooking no bets and intend to run out every lead we discover.” i Mrs. Lyddane and the three Wash- | ington men are scheduled to be ar- raigned for a preliminary hearing in Pelice Court April 20, but The Star |learned the State is considering an atempt to abandon the hearing and | submit the case directly to the grand | Jury i It was said that if this plan fails,| the grand jury in all probability will | Le recalled immediately after the! Police Court hearing to consider the| evidence against any of the defend- | ants who might be remanded to the! jurv as a result of the hearing in/ { Pclicc Court. | The grand jury is scheduled to re- | ! port back to the Circuit Court on May | 20, but’ Maryland laws provide that | the jury may be recalled at any time | its services are required. Statutes | visa has been definitely refused, it is | from the tower. Kanju Kato Visit to U. S. Antoinette Went to Guil- Is Held Up, at Least | lotine Loses Roof. Temporarily. ' | By the Associated Press i PARIS, April 8—4A fire broke out | | foday in the ancient St. Louls tower | of the Central Paris Court House, now of the Women's Detention By Radio to The Star. TOKIO, Japan, April 8.—Because of | part fhe momentary refusal of Washington ; Pf:'m-” e 5 W to grant a visa, the Japanese liner |, FERYY forcer of firemen were rushed | i te fight the blaze, which had got a| Chichibu Maru sailed from Yokohama ' head start before it was discovered. | today without Kanju Kato, foremost. Court records going back for cen- | labor leader of Japan, for whom a|iuries are stored in the tower, one of | radical American labor group had re- ' the most historic spots of old Paris. served a second-class cabin to take|Ii once formed part of the old con- him to the United States for & dis- | cjergierie where prisoners of the cussion of Japanese labor questions.| French Revolution, including Marie with all expenses paid. | Antoinette, were housed. It was from Kato was unable to sail because the | there that they went to the guillo- | American consulate, acting on instruc- | tine. i tions from Washington. is holding up | Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz, his passport visa. Though the Rengo | the Americans who are charged with | News Agency is circulating an anti- | espionage. are now on trial in the | American report 1o the effect that the | building. but a point some distance | understood that it is still under con-| Before the fire was brought under sideration and is likely to be arranged | control it destroyed the wooden when Washington is satisfied that|shingled roof of the tower. Kato realizes who is inviting him and To get,to the biaze, the firemen what 1t implies. { climbed ladders extended up 150 feet Ingtation From Radicals. |and worked in showers of blazing Kato's invitation was written seem- | “pees and e o e et ingly on a letterhead of the American | (rocteq to the banks of the Seine to Federation of Labor, but actually it | waten the spectacular blaze. is believed to have come from a radi- " 3 cal Pacific Coast labor group headed by Bridges. Kato is chairman of the Executive | Committee of the National Council of | Japanese Labor Unions and believes GAY NOMINATED NEWS 10 FARLEY Latest Report Is He Will Leave Cabinet “When Copgress Closes.” BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. James A. Farley, Postmaster Gen- eral, is just losing another of his lives as a cabinet officer. The latest re- port is that Mr. Farley will be on his way out of the Post Office Department “after Congress closes.” After Con- gress closes, however, in the opinion of well informed Democrats, is a pe- riod that stretches out indefinitely. Also no one knows yet just how soon | Congress 18 going to adjourn and, judging by the speed it has made with the President’s legislation up to date, it may be here until well into the Summer. Farley is in New York today. but it is reliably reported that if there is to be any immediate change in his cabinet status it is news to him. If the White House—which means the time for Farley to step out of the cabinet has arrived, or will arrive during the Summer months, Farley, of course, will leave the Post Office | Department. More than a year ago the President | said Farley would leave the job as chairman of the Democratic National Commitiee as soon as a proper suc- cessor to him could be found. That | was when a drive was under way to | pry loose from their places in the Democratic National Committee men |also set forth that a defendant in |that the American Federation of La- | any case is entitled to a prelimmary ' bor invited him for the purpose of Thomas Questioned. | Nolte said this morning the police have virtually completed their inves- | | tigation of the case with the arrest | | of Harry E Thomas. who was cap- | tured by Washington detectives in Baltimore Saturday night and later lodged in the Rockville jail for in- vestigation. Authorities questioned Thomas for the second time yesterday and he re- iterated a statement aliegedly made | on his apprehension that he had been | “approached” and offered a part in a plan to rob a Rockville bank. John H. (“Googy”) Carnell and John Boland. who are held in the Rockville Jail on conspiracy charges, for police in which they claim they were to have recelved the keys to the Farmers' Banking & Trust Co., where | Mrs. Lyddane is employed, as part of the consideration for murdering Fran- cis 8. Lyddane, husband of the bank secretary, and Mrs. Beall, who named are said to have signed a statement | hearing if such is requested. negotiating what he calls a Japanese- American labor entente. Kato's prominence as a labor leader | in a country where Communistic no- tions are rigorously suppressed is con: sidered sufficient proof of his per- sonal innocuousness. Moreover. the Japanese government itself, entirely | willing to allow him to visit America, | New Leader Forecasts el S oanar | More Activity. Involves Question of Face. | Because Kato collected petitions | from 417 labor organizations in Japan | to present to American labor and be- | | cause he attended numerous farewell | functions and talked much about the | importance of his mission, delay in the | visa is highly embarrassing and in- volves the question of face. American consular authorities are | | understood to be sympathetic and de- sirous to do whatever they can to save his face. Provided the visa is grant- ed Kato plans to sail on Wednesday wearing overalls and carrying a long suitcase containing shoes which | | ~ Whitney Named for Board. | TOREADEXCHANGE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 8.—The formal nomination of Charles R. Gay as, the new president of the New York Stock Exchange was announced today. At the same time it was announced that Richard Whitney, the president of the exchange for the last five years, had accepted nomination for a place on the governing board. The posting of Gay's name on the bulletin board had been foreshadowed | and women who had come to Wash- ington to take official positions or occupied such positions in their States. Now. it appears from the latest reports, Farley is not to leave the post of Democratic national chair- man, but he is to give up his cabinet job. It looks as though it had been impossible to find a successor for him | as national chairman. Te Conduct Campaign. Indeed. the plan now 1s to have Farley conduct the preconvention campaign for President Roosevelt; to line up the delegates for the President at the next Democratic National Con- vention, which will take place in June next year. It does not seem likely that there will be much opposition to the renomination of the President. In fact it would be a miracle if sub- stantial opposition should arise to the renomination of Roosevelt by his party. Presidents invariably are re- nominated for a second term. Even the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, knocking at the door of the Repub- New York City to attend the funeral there tomorrow of Warren Delano | Robbins. Mr. Robbins. who died in | New York yesterday, was the Presi- dent’s last remaining first cousin. | Mr. Roosevelt sent word to the White House he would entrzin imme- | diately after the funeral and probably would be back at the White House late tomorrow afternoon. Allocations Expected. Also, while en route, Mr. Roosevelt | will take the initial step for starting | In_motion the machinery for spend- | in2 this huge appropriation by assign- ing two or three allocations to recov- | ery agencies which need funds im- mediately. It is understood that the Civilian Conservation Corps, which is without authorization for funds to carry on, will receive one of these al- | louments. It was the opinion today of asso- | ciates of the President here, who have | communicated with him during the {last 24 hours. that when he leaves his special train at the Union Sta- | tion early tomorrow he will have with | him the work-relief bill bearing his signature. The President's train will arrive early enough for him to have break- fast at the White House. There will ! be no demonstration to welcome him back as was the case last Spring, whefy & large number of Senators and Rep- resentatives, with the Marine Band at their head. were on hand to greet him. There will be a number of members of his official family at the I‘Pruidcnb—hn determined that the 'Platform to extend their greetings. A certain amount of secrecy still surrounds the President's plans for setting up the machinery to ad- minister the relief ‘money. The im- pression at the White House today was that the President may be ready shortly after his return tomorrow to | make public the major features of this plan. In any event, announce- ment will not be delayed beyond Wed- nesday. Meanwhile the Capital heard Re- publican attacks against the man generally expected to be a chief as- sistant to the President in the huge enterprise. Hopkins Is Target. Harry L. Hopkins, the reliel ad- ministrator. a frequent White House | visitor while the’ job-making program was in the making. drew criticism from two leaders of the minority | group. “It is extremely fortunate for Mr. Hopkins that. if he is going to be the lord high distributor of the money, the bill is so drawn that he | won't have to be confirmed by the | Senate.” said Senator Vandenberg, Republican. of Michigan. Vanden- | berg has been mentioned possible | presidential nominee in 1936. Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader in the House, | declared 1t was “a sad commentary that a man like Hopkins.” who had termed critics of work relief methods “damn dumb,” should “appear to be | in line to be clothed with extraordi- | nary grants of power over the greatest lican National Cohvention in 1912 and 5 backed by all the progressives in the | m of money ever appropriated.” Some officials have expressed con- | friends presented to him. This former Mrs. Lyddane co-respondent in a divorce suit filed against her husband several years ago, but which was dropped two days later. | Boland and Carnell are said to have | told police Mrs. Lyddane offered to | (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 300 STUDENTS STRIKE Farley's High School Revdlts at # Base Ball Ban. HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., April 8 (#).—About 300 pupils of Haverstraw Righ School, heckling their instruc- | tors and shouting protests against the Board ot Education, went on strike today. ‘lehye walkout, which left about 25 non-strikers at the doors, was against a recent edict of the school board banning varsity base ball The school has been Rockland County foot ball, base ball and basket ball champion for several years. Its most famous former first baseman is Postmaster General James A. Farley. metal worker expressed his belief that | ‘Washington is afraid of his presence |on May day, when he had planned | to address labor meetings. because the N. R. A. has created a great tur- moil in labor ranks. (Copyright. 1935.) HOOVER AND. AL SMITH TO SPEAK ON PROGRAM Both to Take Part in Opening Salvation Army Drive Tonight in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 8—Former President Hoover and his 1928 oppo- nent for the presidency, former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, are on the program as speakers tonight at the opening of the Salvation Army’s campaign for $500,000. Mr. Hoover is here to attend a meeting of the board of the New York Life Insurance Co. on Wednesday. All Food Costs The price of food, especially meat, is going to keep on climbing, perhaps for another year, Dr. Calvin B. Hoover, consumers’ counsel of the A. A. A, predicted this morning. Bacon, lean or fat, soon will be a dish for & king, Dr. Hoover admitted. He said that unless the -vm fi his budget unevenly, m well include bacon in his t. “ mi)r. Hoover made his forecast at same time the A. A, A. issued & explanation of the upward- ting price level, which, however, lEZcon Soon to Be Regai Dish; Go on Climbing sumers, which have exerted varying degrees of influence on the various commodities, are the various recovery programs and the drought of 1934. “Three-fifths of the rise took place during the first year of recovery, two- fifths during the second. During the first year the rise in prices was chiefly due to monetary and industrial re- covery programs; during the second year, chiefly to the adjustment pro- and $1,720 in 1929, $1,181 in 1933, the re- said. th $618 hlflim war,” by word that issued last week from authoritative, if not official, quarters. nation was regarded as signifying the termination of inter-factional strife which had raged in the membership since strong opposition developed against the re-election of Whitney. Renomination Urged. Although he did not commit himself publicly, Whitney was believed to be willing to serve another term, and many of the members who supported his candidacy were vociferous in their demand for his renomination. Formal election will take place May 13. Until last week Whitney's sup- porters had intimated that he might be persuaded to run on an independent ticket and make the election a real fight, instead of the mere formal ac- ceptance of the Nomination Commit- tee's choice that it has been in the past. { In an acceptance statement, Gay said the exchange was alive “to the necessity of proving” that it performs “a vital public service.” Pointing to the present low volume | of transactions, Gay said, “I am convinced that we are on the eve of better times, that business men are anxious to go ahead.” Points to Slow Market. Gay'’s statement follows: “The Nom- inating Committee of the New York Stock Exchange has honored me with the nomination for president, and I have accepted. My decision is based upon the representations of the com- mittee, which under the chairmanship of R. Lawrence Oakley has made a studied and conscientious effort to ascertain the sentiment of members and non-members, the reaction to a change of administration at this time and its effect upon the public and the press.” | | One Dead, Five Hurt in Wreck. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 8 (#)—One dead, 5 dying and 57 less seriously injured was the toll today of a collision between /two railroad Erroneous first re- ports of the lcddq“llld 12 had been Whitney's acceptance of the noml-; G. O. P. found it impossible to pre- vent the renomination of the late President William Howard Taft. Far- |ley's real task will come when the national campaign gets under way for the re-ele tion of the President, | in the Summer and Fall of 1936. ‘The assumption is that Farley will | give up his place as Postmaster Gen- | eral when he begins his more press- | Ing political activities for the . re- nomination and re-election of the President. It would be more “ethical,” it is held, for him not to serve as | political manager and head of the time. Holds Both Jobs. time eliminatéd Farley from the cab- inet or from his job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He has continued, however, to hang on to both jobs, although willing at all times to relinquish either at the behest of the President, with all the persistence of the leaves on an ever- green shrub. The President came into office more than two years and one month ago. Farley, who was | chairman of the National Committee, | became a member of the cabinet at the same time. Not so long ago Senator Huey Long of Louisiana undertook to dislodge Farley, bringing charges against him before the Senate Post Office and Post Roads Committee. The committee turned down Long's charges and his demand for a public investigation of the cabinet officer. The President would scarcely take Farley out of his cabinet while he was under fire of Long, it is said. So Farley’s retire- ment from the cabinet has been post- poned until after Congress shall have departed from Washington this com- ing Summer. As » matter of fact, there are those here who do not believe that Mr. Far- ley will leave the cabinet until the first of next year. — U. 8. Consul Succumbs. GIBRALTAR, April 8 (#).—Charles E. Allen, 34, of Kentucky, United States consul here, died today of mephritis after 1 weeks’ iliness. Funeral services will be tomorrow. | Post Office Department at the same | A lot of people have from time to | | cern over a tentative ruling by Con- | troller General McCarl's office that the bill would not permit purchase fo( unproductive land which the Gov- ernment wants to retire from farm- |ing and use for parks, forests, game | sanctuaries and the like. Rexford G. Tugwell, Undersecretary of Agri- culture, was said to be ready to pre- | sent the matter to the President on | his return. “White-collar Prospects.” | The Relief Administration was said, to be planning a large expansion of projects for “white-collar” workers | with the $300,000,000 earmarked in the oill for such activities Hopkins last week warmly defended “(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) | DANZIG JAILS WRITER Dispatch to Manchester Guardian by Pole Held Inimical. FREE CITY OF DANZIG, April 8 (#).—Joel Cang, a Polish citizen and Warsaw correspondent for three Brit~ ish newspapers, was arrested today in the central post office after filing a dispatch to the Manchester Guardian, Police said he was taken into cns-/ tody for sending a message regarded 2s contrary to Danzig's interests. Kazimere Papee, the Polish com- missioner in Danzig, asked the Senate to release Cang and explain why he was arrested. 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