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A2 1) COLEMAN MURDER SUSPECT JAILED Colored Ex-Convict Held in New York—Watch of Victim Found. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 13. ~—With the arrest last night in Haver- straw, N. Y., of John Shell, 37, colored ex-convict, charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Coleman, Spotsylvania County officers are con- fident that they have solved the most brutal crime in the history of the county. Joe Jackson, colored, also is under arrest here, charged with the murders, having been in custody since Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, prominent elderly citizens, were shot and beaten to death in their farm home 12 miles from here on the night of April 2. ‘Their bodies were thrown into a deep well, where they were discovered the next morning. The murderers searched the house, taking a small amount of money and some jewelry before mak- ing their escape in the Coleman auto- mobile, which was abandoned in Rich- mond the next day. ‘When arrested last night by Sherift M. L. Blaydes and Deputy Walker Burgess after being trailed through several cities, Shell had in his posses- sion the gold watch case owned by Mr. Coleman. The works had been removed. Shell refused to return here volun- tarily and immediate request for ex- tradition is to be made to Gov. George C. Peery. A reward of $700 is payable for the arrest of the Coleman murderers. Shell is said to have served two terms in the State Penitentiary. He came to Spotsylvania last year with » road construction gang but more recently had been employed at a Fredericksburg store, having been dis- charged on Saturday night preceding the crime. He is understood to be a native of Halifax County. Jackson, who comes from Gooch- land County, was employed on road work in the county last Fall. He had been given temporary employment on the Coleman farm shortly be- fore the murders. It is expected that Judge Frederick W. Coleman will order a quick trial immediately upon the return of Shell from New York State. U. S. DUST FUNDS CHEER ARID REGION AS WHEAT HITS $1 (Continued From First Page.) Eastern Colorado, the Texas and Ok- lahoma Panhandles and Eastern New Mexico combined with & Dun & Brad- street prophecy of a sharp business advance to force May wheat to the dollar mark in Chicago for the first time since January 11. San Fran- cisco marked up $1.02. Food Price Rise Due. A Minnesota agricultural expert said anonymously: “If the Southwest wheat crop is no better than pros- pects indicate, it is certain to have a stimulating effect on foods. Wheat will be higher; consequently bread prices will be higher. In all probabil- ity, meats also will be higher because of poor grazing conditions.” R. O. Cromwell, a Chicago expert, on a tour of Kansas, estimated the State’s prospective wheat crop at from 3,000,000 to 8,000,000 bushels below the 178,000,000-bushel Federal report of April 1. A well-defined line divided the storm belt area west of Plains, Kans., an Associated Press dispatch from Dodge City reported. Between Dodge City and Plains there are thousands of acres of green wheat fields undamaged. From Plains through Liberal and into the Pan- handle the dust has covered highways and, in places, destroyed nearly all the wheat and blown millions of tons of top soil away. Dust Reported Elsewhere. While soil disturbances subsided in the affected region, dust clouds were reported in the East, West and South. The crew of the German steamship ‘Vogesen, docking at Beaumont, Tex., said the yellow veil enveloped the ship 50 miles at sea. “Muddy rain” fell in the Clinch Valley area of Vir- ginia. Dust settled at Augusta, Ga. Arizona also experienced the murky haze, which lessened visibility and hampered fiyers. The faith of thousands in a re- vival of the dust-drought area of the high plains is reflected in the de- termination of Ralph Stapleton, 55- year-old farmer of near Sublette, Kans. He is going to stick through another crop season on a farm where he now has to “scrape to find enough feed for three dozen chickens.” “Something tells my wife and me,” Btapleton said today, “that this coun- try isn't going to be a desert. We've seen it produce big crops too many times.” “Wheat King” to Stick. State Senator Simon Fishman of Greeley County, Kans., once known as “the wheat king” of his State, scoffed at those who predict the af- fected areas is turning slowly into a desert. “It has been tough on all of us the last three years,” he said, “but it will Tain again as it has in the past. “There will again be bountiful wheat crops and the East will be send- ing out photographers to take pic- tures of immense piles of wheat for which we have no elevator space.” “Stick-it-out” farmers predominated, but some dissenters, numbering more than 100 families, already had de- parted from Northwestern Oklahoma, Union County, New Mexico and a patch of Western Kansas. On the road to Dodge City were numerous trucks loaded with cows, chickens, horses, furniture, apparently belonging to farmers leaving the country. - DUTCH DEMAND INQUIRY AS JAPANESE TOW SHIP By the Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 13. —The Dutch government instructed its Minister at Tokio today to inquire of the Japanese government goncern- ing the Dutch tanker Juno which was reported being towed to Takao by a Japanese cruiser. The Juno was reported to have taken refuge in a Japanese fortified zone off the coast of Formosa dur- ing a severe storm early this week. The Juno incident recalled similar eircumstances encountered by the American tanker Elisabeth Kellogg re- cently. The vessel was held in port at Yokohama by Japanese authorities for investigation on suspicion of espionage after she had gone aground in a fortified zone off the coast of Japan, near Tokio. The American tanker was later released. L] What’s What Behind News In Capital RooseveltInflates Chests of Politicians by Silver Move BY PAUL MALLON. HENEVER silver comes in contact with a politician, a chemical reaction takes place in both. The polit- icos here handle gold or wheat issues as cooly as if they were handling a sack of potatoes. But, whenever the silver isiue gets near them, they are transformed into whirling prophets of an ecstatic realm of grotesque exaggerations. This was what happened again on the latest silver action by the Treasury. It was advertised in some quarters as a step to boost commodity prices. Also as a move toward inflation. None of the re- sponsible Government officials said such things out loud. But they did drop hints in quarters which would give these interpretations the widest circulation. ‘The simple truth seems to be that the Treasury had to boost the price of silver again to keep above the world price, It was an automatic step, required when the world price passed above the domestic price. And the reason why the domestic price must always be kept above the world price is that the silver Senators would raise glory hallelujah if it wasn't. That is the whole story in a paragraph. The only commodity price which will be increased is that of silver. The only inflation which will be caused is in the chests of sil- ver Senatoys and in the pockets of the speculator who shrewdly have peen buying abroad. Future Probabilities. silverites now see certain future prob- abilities more clearly. The most important one is that the next time the world price goes above the domestic price, President Roosevelt will hike the ante again. When that will be, no one can tell, except Mr. Roosevelt. He controls the world price as well as the domestic price because he is the biggest purchaser in the world market. It was he who forced his own hand this time by actively buying world silver and bidding the world price up over 64 cents an ounce. Now he can buy and bid up the world price again over his new 71-cent price, hike the domes- tic price again and work himself up to $1.29 an ounce. It seems to be a new kind of New Deal card game, in which Mr. Roose- velt plays all the hands and gets the only peek at the kitty besides. From these facts, you may conclude that the best way to get rich is to take your relief check and buy silver in Montreal. It looks like easy money, | but there are several unknown fac- tors. The main one is Mr. Roosevelt. May Be Long Wait. price of $1.29, he can take 50 or 100 years to arrive at it, which would be too long for most speculators to wait. During the last 16 months, he has raised silver from 45 cents to 71 cents, but you cannot accept that speed as any indication for the future. Fur- thermore, he could turn around to- morrow and devalue the silver dollar commensurate with the gold dollar and cause the world price of silver to go down. No one expects him to do that, because he has gone too far to back out that way profitably. What the best authorities here guess is that he may hike the price once or twice more, possibly sometime next year, because that is a political cam- paign year. After that, he may not care what the silver Senators say. ‘This, of course, is purely an expert | guess, based on the way the thing has gone this far. There are other ramifications, ex- tending all the way to China. The Chinese have suffered from our pur- chases of world silver, which have depleted their silver currency back- ing. Further purchases will deplete it still more. For this reason the insiders here are now talking again about the prospects of an international loan to China. Sums around $100,000,000 are being mentioned, with Great Britain, and perhaps France, taking a share. A peculiar angle of this silver busi- ness is that the Treasury recently has been minting more silver dollars. It does not need them, because it has more than $500,000,000 of cartwheels now in its vaults. Nevertheless, it minted about $3,500,000 more last year. Some more were minted the other day at San Francisco. It is a very economical pastime, costing only one cent for each silver dollar. You may have noticed that the quarterback handed the labor ball to the halfback a few days ago—Miss Perkins. She has been sitting on the sidelines for many months, while fullback Richberg has been running all the labor plays. The inside on that is that Miss Perkins took up her benching pri- vately - with Quarterback Roosevelt in New York recently. It is understood that she pointed out (not, perhaps, in detail) that Richberg acted as ball carrier on the automobile code over labor’s protests, the mewspaper code mat- ter before the National Labor Re- lations Board, and the cigarette code. Miss Perkins was not only ignored in all these cases, but actually overruled on the cigarette code. This is at least one good reason why she was given the rubber in- dustry ball on the threatened strike lay. it (Copyright. 1935.) C. D. Bainbridge Dies. ELMIRA, N. Y, April 13 (#)— Clementine Duncan Bainbridge, 83, one-time member of the Chicago and Metropolitan Opera Companies and a well-known dramatic actor during the 80s, died here last night. He retired from the theater 20 years ago. His widow and two nephews, including Bainbridge Colby, former Secretary of State, survive, Those who are neither politicos nor | While he is committed to a silver | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1935. SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES OPPOSED Roosevelt Against Eliminat- ing Unemployment Insur- ance From Bill. By the Associated Press. Seeking to ward off attempts to dismember or drastically change his sociel security plan, President Roose- velt was on record today as strongly orposed to eliminating unemployment insurance from the bill. With tue social security fight in the House growing hot, it was disclosed at the President’s press conference late yesterday that he has informed House leaders he also is against the idea of freeing States from contributing a share to the old age pension plan. Would Aid Budget. Both of these segments of the bill, he suggested, would help toward bal- anang the budget by reducing the number of persons drawing relief aid from the Federal Government. When the act becomes effective, it was said at the White House, relief recipients who are over 65 will go on the pension rolls and stop drawing relief money. The view also was expressed that un- employment insurance would tend to prevent the relief rolls from swelling in the future. Meanwhile, leaders in the House. expressing the view that they could turn back the Townsend drive for $200- a-month pensions, laid plans to permit it to be brought to a direct vote. Their view was that the vote would settle the issue for this session of Congress. Fears had been expressed by the | Townsendites that when they tried to | tack their plan onto the administra- | tion bill the leaders would rule it out of order. But Speaker Byrns dropped & hint that there would be no attempt tv | rule the move was “not germane.” ‘Will Face Situation. Another Democratic leader, Chair- man O'Connor of the Rules Commit- tee. said, “We are going to meet that situation when it arises.” but added that he, personally, would favor adop- tion of a special resolution making the ‘Townsend bill in order “so I can vote against it.” The intention to eliminate tax-ex- empt securities was brought out by | Representative Sam B. Hill of Wash- | ington, ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee. He pointed out that the pay roll | and earnings taxes—raising money to pay old-age annuities to persons after they reach 65—would build up a fund | of more than $32,000,000,000 by 1970. “In time,” he said, “that money will be used to absorb all outstanding | Government bonds. The people who | now have that great volume of money | invested in tax-exempt bonds would not then be so fortunate.” | ‘The present public debt of around NEW ENGLANDERS PUSH TARIFF PLEA Cotton Textile Mer Fail to Get Action at White House. By the Associated Press. After being told at the White House that imports of Japanese textiles are less than 1 per cent of American pro- duction, New Englanders seeking a higher tariff and removal of the cot- ton processing tax held conferences today to determine the next step in their campaign. Eastern cotton manufacturers con- tend their business is menaced by Japanese manufactured textiles, which they say are sold in the United States at less than the cost of do- mestic production. One immediate effect of yesterday’s developments was expected to be a fresh concentration upon measures and movements in Congress toward correction of what the textile group calls a critical situation. In support of their stand, they point to the num- ber of cotton mills recently closed. New Demands Arise. Meanwhile, new demands for & higher tariff on cotton products were raised today with publication of offi- cial reports that imports of cotton- seed oil had jumped 15,000,000 pounds in one month. These demands came from Chester Gray, Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion. Despite a 3-cent duty, Com- merce Department complications dis- closed that 30,000,000 pounds of cot- tonseed oil had come into this coun- try since November as against no im- ports last year. Senators George, Democrat, Georgia, and Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, attributed the inflow of cottonseed oil—used mainly in the manufacture of compounds and veg- etable shortenings—to the A. A. A. crop reduction program. They saw nothing alarming in the situation. Gray Sees Farm Protest. Gray took a different view, saying | it appeared to be a “replica” of the | wheat, corn, rye and butter export business, in which foreign products were creeping in over American tariff walls. He added: “The American farmers are not go- ing to give up their foreign markets.” Mr. Roosevelt and four cabinet members heard the pleas of three New England Governors yesterday and promised further studies but, in the opinion of textile men, offered little hope of immediate action. It was finally decided that confer- ences with Secretary Roper should continue. However, Mr. Roosevelt said Japanese imports, based on 1933 | $30,000,000,000 is represented by Gov- |ernment bonds or short-term securi- | ties. Persons who invest in them do | not have to pay taxes on the income | | from those bonds. But under the new | | system, the $32,000,000,000 reserve for | old-age pensions would be used to | buy the Government bonds, forcing | present investors to put their money | into something else, probably taxable. ELECTION D.EATH SIXTH | Kelayres ‘“Massacre” Spectator One of Score Wounded. ‘ HAZELTON, Pa,, April 13 (#).—The | Kelayres “massacre” of last Novem- | ber's election eve claimed its sixth victim yesterday with the death of William J. Jacoby, 32, who was shot | down in the gunfire that raked a | | political parade. Jacoby was a spec- | | tator, and was among the score | wounded. Seven men, all kinsmen, are in jail facing murder charges in each | (of the five previous deaths. | THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy and | continued cold, probably light frost with lowest temperature about 38 de- gress tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature; moderate northerly | winds. Maryland—Partly cloudy and con- tinued cold, probably light frost in west and central portions tonight: tomorrow fair with rising temperature. Virginia—Partly cloudy and con- tinued cold, probably light frost in north and west portions tonight; to- morrow fair with rising temperature. West Virginia — Cloudy. slightly colder in northeast, and probably light frost in northwest portion tonight; tomorrow fair with slowly rising tem- perature, Report for Last 48 Hours. Temperature, Barometer. Degrees, Inches. . 46 29.83 29.82 29.79 Yesterday— 4 pm, 8 pm. Midnight . Today— 4 am. 8 am. 29.79 Noon . 29.80 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 49, at noon today. Year ago, 56. Lowest, 43, at 5 am. today. Year ago, 36. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 80, on March 21. Lowest, —2, on January 28. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 89 per cent, at noon yes- terday. Lowest, 72 per cent, at noon today. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow. 4:03a.m. 4:55am. 10:49am. 1142am. 4:21pm. 5:12pm. .11:09 pm. 11:58 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. ... 5:36 29.76 Moon, today..... 1:59 pm. 2:56a.m. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month 1935 Average Record January ... 5.27 3.55 709 '82 February 2.37 3.27 '84 3.39 3.75 91 322 3.27 . 3.70 413 471 4.01 3.24 2.8¢ 237 333 production, would be only seven- tenths of 1 per cent of the American output this year. The delegation, consisting of Govs. Curley of Massachusetts, Bridges of New Hampshire and Brann of Maine, and Representatives O'Connell and Citron, representing the Governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut, pre- sented three specific requests, Processing Tax Opposed. ‘These included elimination of the cotton processing tax. building tariff walls equal to the cost of American production, plus 10 per cent. and equalization of mill wages in North and_South. “They presented a very interesting case, but no solution,” Secretary Wal- lace commented as he left the White House. Wallace, who has aroused the ire of New England interests by his de- fense of the processing tax, said he had not altered his position, In a fdrmal statement left with the | President, the Governors said cotton- mill wages in Massachusetts dropped | from $115,000,000 in 1923 to $31,000.- 000 in 1933, and the number of work- ers fell from 114,000 to 45,000 in the same 10-year period. OLD PARTIES REVIVED HAVANA, April 13.—A decree per- mitting reorganization of old political parties, such as former President Gerardo Machado's Liberals, and al- lowing them to participate in forth- coming elections, was approved by the Cuban cabinet yesterday. The decree gives the Liberals, Pop- ulars and Conservatives, formally dis- solved after the successful revolution against Machado in August. 1933, the right to display their historic in- signia and reform the parties on the old basis. Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. Senate: In recess. Finance Committee continues N. R. A. hearings. House: Debates social security legislation. Banking Committee works on omni- bus bank bill. YESTERDAY. Senate: Passed H. O. L. C. bill making $L- 750,000,000 more available to home owners. Munitions Committee heeded Presi- dent’s request to withhold inquiry into Colt Firearms strike. Finance Committee heard George A. Sloan urge two-year extension of House: Debated economic security bill Interstate Commerce Committee re- ceived denial that Treasury stabiliza- tion fund was used to peg utility se- curities. e, L N Price $1 : at The Evening Star Business Office, or by mail, postpaid of | I NamME cceesioceconsscocnssccsancan U 82rest cocinencsanesconcasnesesases President’s Son Watches Peace Strike Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. John Roosevelt, youngest son of President Roosevelt, pictured as he mingled with the crowd of students during the anti-war demonstration at Harvard yesterday. Young John is a freshmen at the college. HOOVER AROUSES RUMORS BY VISI [Former President Leaves Maryland After Meeting G. 0. P. Stalwarts. | By the Associated Press. THURMONT, Md, April 13.—His plans cloaked in silence, former Presi- dent Hoover left here today by auto- | mobile to “see some friends in West | Virginia” on a swing across the con- tinent to his home in California by the way of Chicago. Whatever political significance at- | tached to his journey or an “acci- dental” meeting here with Republican leaders remained hidden. Hoover made | no definite announcement of his itinerary, but Lawrence Richey, his former secretary, with whom he visited | here, said he probably “would strike | West Virginia around Wheeling.” Visit Declared Unexpected. Richey said the former President’s | overnight visit to his Catoctin Manor estate for trout fishing was unexpected |and his meeting here with such party | leaders as Theodore Roosevelt, jr.,and | Gov. Harry Nice of Maryland was “purely accidental.” Richey had previously invited the visit him, but said he was told the trip did not fit into Hoover’s plans However, he had ted Gov. Nice and a group of friends and advisers. Lawson’s Presence Unexplained. ‘He gave no explanation of the pres- ence of Willlam P. Lawson. chairman | of the Republican State Central Com- mittee. is ested in trout fishing and it was plain- ly stated that “no political signi- ficance” was attached to the meeting, which occurred “purely by accident.” However, Hoover, titular head of his party, and Gov. Nice spent several hours together. Nice controls eight votes in the Republican National Con- vention. Hoover has bcen mentioned as a 1936 presidential possibility. Since the Governor was elected over Albert C. Ritchie, the State's Demo- formation of “Nice for President clubs” has been suggested. But Nice has said “such talk is a little early.” No statement as to the significance of the meeting was forthcoming, how- | ever. Hoover merely said that he | would “visit friends in West Virginia” today. Nakian’s New Deal |“Hall of Fame” to Be Opened Today Sculptures of President and Other Leaders in Corcoran Exhibit. The New Deal's “Hall of Fame,” handiwork of Reuben Nakian, noted New York sculptor, will be opened to the public today at 2 pm. at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Sculptured portraits in plaster of President Roosevelt, Secretaries Ickes, Hull and Wallace; Harry Hopkins, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Denald R. Richberg, Rexford Tugwell and Ed- ward F. McGrady are included in tge special exhibition, which will con- tinue through April 28. Although special invitations to the opening view today have been issued to a number of persons interested in the gallery, those without invitations also will be admitted this afternoon. The inspection period today will close at 5:30 p.m. The Nakian display is being held coincident with the Fourteenth Bien- nial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, now under way at the Corcoran Gallery. ¢ Euening Htar Oflcn Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. (oo e e Order FOIM — = o e e Order today. | oAt it s i, Gt | | former President and Roosevelt to | All were apparently deeply lnter-' cratic standard bearer for 15 years, | ONE-MAN STRIKE BARS LOADING OF STEAMER Radio Operator Forms “Picket Line” and Union Longshoremen Are Unable to Pass. By the Associated Press LONGVIEW, Wash., April 13.—The one-man maritime strike of J. Hens- ley vesterday ~blocked loading of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co. steam- ship Hanley. Mr. Hensley, a young radio operator dissatisfied with wages, posted a sign yesterday, stating he was on strike. The burly union longshoremen came down—five crews of them—to load the ship. There was a picket line. It was Mr. Hensley. Union longshore- ‘men do not pass picket lines, so they quit trying to load the boat. The picket line marched up and down all day. The ship was not loaded. D.A.R HEADHOLDS OFFICIAL SESSION Mrs. Magna Has Pre-Con- vention Meeting With Administration. | With two candidates active in the field for president-general of the at the forty-fourth meeting of the or- | ganization opening Monday night, Mrs. Russell William Magna, retiring president general, held the last meet- ing of her official administration today | in Memorial Continental Hall. ‘There a luncheon was given in honor of the retiring president general in the banquet hall. | Preliminary functions will include | the National Chairmen’s Association annual breakfast tomorrow at the Wil- lard Hotel and special Palm Sunday | services at 4 p.m. at the National Cathedral. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop | of Washington, has extended a special | invitation to the members of the D. A. R. ‘Tomorow night, & meeting of the | Constitution Hall Committee will be | held in the president general’s re- | ception room in Constitution Hall, when Mrs. Magna hopes to announce | payment of the debt on the audi- | torium. Meantime, the opposing candidates | for President general, Mrs. William | A. Becker and Dr. Flora Myers Gil- | lentine, continued their campaign, but met socially yesterday as fellow mem- bers of the “National Officers Club.” | Only those who have been high D. A. R, officers can belong to this | club, which meets each year in ad- vance of the continental congress to reminisce and elect directors. ELECTRICIAN QUELLS 2,000 Students Unaware of Bad Fire as Nix Risks Life at Eastern High. More than 2,000 students at Eastern High School attended classes yesterday afternoon unaware that the school electrician, Louis G. Nix, 33, of 1312 Maryland avenue northeast, was risk- ing his life to prevent the spread of a fire in the motion picture projection room from spreading to other parts of the building. - Nix, who was slightly burned or his face and hands, fought the flames single-handed when one of the films caught fire from a lamp and the blaze spread to numerous other films in the chamber. He was given first- aid treatment by the school trained nurse and later taken to Providence Hospital. Nix said he was working in the projection room testing the film “The Cyclone Kid” when flames suddenly shot up. He attempted to put the fire out, he said, and being unable to extinguish the highly inflammable film, he tried to carry it from the room and away from other films. Although the other films caught fire, Nix battled the blaze alone and was able to put it out before arrival of firemen. Charles Hart, principal of the school, said pupils in the school did not know there was a fire until the fire engines arrived. — MARRIAGE BILL DROPPED Canadian Plans to Seek Ban | Later on Divorced Persons. OTTAWA, April 13 (#).—A bill to prevent divorced persons in Canada from marrying again—except to their former spouses—was withdrawn yes- terday by Senator J. J. Hughes, Lib- eral party member, but he announces he would toss it back in again at the next session. Hughes got his chief support from & member of the opposition, George P. Graham, Conservative. | Daughters of the American Revolution | SCHOOL FILM BLAZE ™™= | 'MORGENTHAU DENIES RICHBERG MAY GET ARMS PROBE CALL 'Senate Group Reserves De- i cision on N. R. A.—Colt Arms Co. Issue. By the Associated Press. Senate investigators reserved deci- slon today as to whether Donald R Richberg must appear before them eventually to give his reaction to a statement that he was slow to use an N. R. A. enforcement weapon against the Colt Arms Co. At the request of President Roose- velt the Senate Munitions Committee agreed yesterday not to press for “im- mediate light” regarding the situa- tion developing from a strike of Colt company employes. Chairman Nye appeared determined, however, to insist upon a sweeping public inquiry unless the strike is )semcd promptly and in a manner that seems satisfactory to him. Intervened to Aid Settlement. Mr. Roosevelt explained at his press conference late yesterday that he had intervened to halt the proposed in- vestigation because of the status of negotiations for settlement of the strike. He said he hoped for an early agreement and that he was willing to have a full study of the Colt affair made later. Nye has contended that Richberg | for more than a week pigeon-holed a notification of withdrawal of the Blue Eagle from the gun-making company. This notification, he explained, would prevent the Army and Navy from making further purchases of machine guns and other arms from the com- pany. Turning away—at least temporari- ly—from the Colt Co.’s labor difficul- ties, the Munitions Committee pre- pared to hear testimony Monday frol Ben Smith, Wall Street operator, whose name was drawn sometime ago into its investigation of shipbuilding. Will Explain Partnership. Thin and weakened by a long ill- | ness, Smith faces questioning regard- | ing operations which gained for him |and his partner, Tom Bragg, a large interest in the New York Shipbuilding Corp. early in the Roosevelt adminis- tration and shortly before P. W. A. funds were put into naval shipbuild- ng. The committee has heard testimony that stock of the shipbuilding com- pany rose from about $3 a share at the outset of the Roosevelt adminis- tration to about $22 a share as the company prepared to share in the building program beginning in Au- gust of 1933. Recently the committee sought to learn from L. B. Manning, chairman of the board of Cord Corp., whether Smith and others had advance in- formation of administration plans to turn over a quarter billion dollars to the Navy Department for shipbuild- ing. Advance knowledge of the Gov- ernment'’s plans was denied. Says Use of Stabilization Fund to Buy Utilities Holdings Would Violate Law. By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Morgenthau denied yes- terday before the House Interstate Commerce Committee that he had used the two-billion-dollar stabiliza- tion fund for buying public utilities securities. The Secretary’s statement, made by telephone to Chairman Rayburn, was requested ‘Wolverton, Republican, of New Jersey had said during hearings on the hold- ing company regulations bill that | there was a rumor to this effect. | Rayburn communicated with the | Secretary during the noon recess, and immediately on opening the afternoon session announced: “I just talked to the Secretary of the Treasury and he said if he had done this it would have been in vio- lation of the law. And, of course, he did not do it.” Utility opponents of the semi-ad- ministration measure to abolish their holding companies have contended the pending legislation has driven utility securities down on the market. Solicitor Dozier Devane of the Power Commission opened the rebuttal to- day with an elaborate presentation of figures designed to show that utility securities hit bottom before the Roosevelt administration, and have risen in market values since introduc- tion of the controversial bill in PFebruary. DANCER’S FAN STOLEN DALLAS, Tex, April 13 (#).—Miss Claudette Graves, Fort Worth, Tex., is looking for a very necessary plece of professional equipment. While changing to street clcthes after piving s fan dance before an engineering | soclety her fan, SECURITIES RUMOR after Representative | PEAGE BY NIGHT 1S STRIKE HOPE Miss Perkins Prepares for New Round of Rubber Dispute Parleys. By the Associated Press. Hope that the tnreatened Akron, Ohio, rubber strike would be called off by nightfall was expressed today by Secretary Perkins. Preparing for a new round of con- ferences with Goodyear, Goodrich and | Firestone executives and American | Pederation of Labor officials, the La- bor Department chief said, however. she thought the parleys should not be “hustled.” As an indication of how far she thought the negotiations had pro- gressed, Miss Perkins disclosed that she had called off a proposed trip to & Middleburg, Va., race meet today, but was sorry she had “declined a dinner | invitation. The federation has threatened to call the strike in protest against the Goodrich and Firestone Cos.’ refusal to allow Labor Relations Board elec- tions in their plants. Arguments Monday. After the board ordered the elec- | tions, the companies carried the orders | to the Circuit Court of Appeals for re- view. Argument on the motion to re- view is to be heard Monday in Cin- cinnati. The Goodyear Co. also is in< volved in the strike threat proceedings. What proposals the manufacturers advanced and how much of them the | federation accepted at yesterday's and last night's conferences with the Sec- retary had not been disclosed this morning. One question being discussed, how- ever, Miss Perkins said, was whether elections should be held with the com- |pany going ahead with its court action. There were many “ifs” involved, she added. One of these was whether the Labor Relations Board should super- vise the elections if they were held. President Roosevelt and William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor. kept in close touch with the negotiations. Secretary Per- kins conferred with Mr. Roosevelt yes- terday both by telephone and at the cabinet meeting. Green was consulted by phone. Coleman Claherty, federa- tion organizer at Akron, spoke for the federation at the parleys. With him were the presidents of the union locals at the three plants. Last Side Consulted. The labor side was the last con- sulted in the conferences, which were prolonged through last night into the early morning. At midnight, Miss Perkins advised the manufacturers to g0 to bed, and returned to the office of Charles Wyzanski, department solici- tor. where she, Wyzanski and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary, had talked with the union officials from early evening. That conference lasted until early this morning. Claherty told news- paper men he had no statement. | Miss Perkins sat in with the manu- illcturers twice during yesterday, the Jflrsz time before noon and again late in the afternoon. At this second con- ference, they submitted the proposals | which Miss Perkins carried to the federation officials last night. Between the employer conferences Miss Perkins talked with Claherty in McGrady's office. Passing reporters in the hall outside her office after the manufacturers’ proposals were submitted, she turned, smiled and said: “Now we're getting somewhere.* MOTORIST IS KILLED AT B. & 0. CROSSING West Virginia Insurance Man's Car Hit by Passenger Train. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., April 13 ‘—Clrl Liller, 42, assistant district superintendent of a Washington life !insurance company. residing here. where he had headquarters, was killed |about 7 o'clock last night when a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train | struck an automobile in which he was riding with a companion, G. W. Pritz of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., on a grade crossing in the town of Paw Paw, Morgan County, 50 miles west of here. Liller died while being brought by train to this city. Pritz, 33, rep- resentative of the same company, is at a local hospital. This morning attendants said he appeared to be suffering principally from shcck. No decision had been made this morning as to an inquest pending | further investigation. Liller had been residing here five years. He was a nativ> and former | resident of Kitz Miller, Md. The | body will be taken there for buriai. Surviving are the widow and three children. . Sobers Up Fast in Jail. PORTLAND, Oreg., April 13 (#).— Fred Wentzel asked to be placed in jail for 10 days to “sober up.” The judge was obliging. After a night in jail, he appeared before the judge, saying: “I think I can make it now.” He was given a chance to see if he How to be beau- tiful . . ad- vice by a foremost expert. SEE PAGE B-6