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WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness followed by rain late tonight or tomorrow; lowest tem- perature tonight about 42 degrees. Tem- peratures—Highest, 57, at 3:30 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 39, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages No. 33,224 17,18&19 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C Ch WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1935—SIXTY PAGES. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TOWNSEND PLAN | Admiral Byrd to Land Here __ H(ISF BODY'S (UT| - SSNOWED NDE B HOSE, 2636 Much-Advertised Project for 0ld-Age Pensions Meets Defeat. REJECTION IS GIVEN BY STANDING VOTE Mrs. Greenway's Proposal for More Liberal Payments by U. S. Taken Up. BULLETIN. ‘The Lundeen bill providing more liceral payments to the unem- ployed, offered as an amendment to the economics security bill, was de- feated by the House in committee of the whole by a vote of 158 to 40, today. The vote was taken by tellers. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Townsend old-age pension plan, offered as an amendment to the administration economic security bill, was snowed under in the House to- day, 206 to 56. It had been offered | in revised form by Representative Monaghan, Democrat, of Montana. No record vote was taken, but the standing vote effectually ended the much-advertised drive for Townsend's plan for this session. ¢ Immediately after the defeat of the amendment a proposal by Repre- sentative Greenway, Democrat, of Ari- zona, a close friend of Mrs. Roose- velt, was taken up. Mrs. Greenway's amendment provides for a more lib- eral Federal contribution for old-age pensions, with a limit going as high as $25 a month, to be supplemented by a $5 contribution from the States. Only 20 minutes of debate preceded the ballot on the Townsend plan, the first test of administration strength to prevent rewriting of its bill. Administration Confident. Administration leaders, supremely confident of passing this measure in form satisfactory to the President, were perfectly willing for the show- down on the Townsend plan, as well as on the Lundeen unemployment Insurance bill and other amendments to be proposed later today. As offered by Monaghan, the Town- send plan called for old-age pension- ing to be paid out of special taxes. None of these pensions would exceed $200 a month. It was estimated, however, that the average pension during the first year at all events would be about $50 a month. Monaghan said the Townsend- McGroarty bill had been revised at the suggestion of some of its friends to meet objections raised by the Ways and Means Committee. One point of criticlsm, he said, had been that the tax imposed would not raise the | amount of money needed to pay $200 a month to all persons over 60. This point, he said, had been met in the Tevised bill. The Montanan said adoption of the Townsend plan would be a long step on the road to recovery, and argued it ‘would put men and women to work. Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Committee twitted supporters of the Townsend and Lundeen bills who had predicted that under the special rule for consideration of the security bill their plan would he turned down on a point of order. Thought It “Wide-Open” Rule. “I thought this was a wide-open rule,” said O’Connor, “but these gentle- men insisted they would not be able to offer their amendment.” Unless some unforeseen coalition | proves effective, the bill, as revised by the Ways and Means Committee, is expected to withstand all assaults in the House. With the 23 hours of “general de- bate” allowed under the special rule for consideration of the security bill behind it, the House took up the measure for amendment under the 5-minute rule. | Besides the Townsend and Lun- deen proposals, amendments offered | to reduce or knock out the pay roll taxes to support the old-age pension and unemployment insurance features of the bill will suffer defeat beyond doubt, it was predicted. Republicans in the House, while many of them look with disfavor on these taxes and also prefer to leave to the States this matter of economic security legisla- tion, will vote in considerable num- bers for the passage of the bill. Rep- resentative Snell of New York, mi- nority leader, will be among those supporting it when the final show- down comes. The Republicans, meeting in party caucus last night, were unable to agree on any definite and united | course of action with regard to the security bill. They are left to their | own devices. FARM FINANCING BILL IS APPROVED House Committee Assents to Frazier-Lemke Bill, Op- by Leaders. By the Associated Press, The Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage refinancing bill—to which administra- tion leaders are opposed—was ap- proved without a record vote today by the House Agriculture Committee. ‘Whether it reaches a House vote de- pends on the attitude of the Rules ‘Committee—which decides what meas- ures shall be debated—or on the pos- -sibility of obtaining unanimous con- sent for consideration. Committes approval also was given s bill by Chairman Jones to establish what would amount to a Federal Re- serve bank for agriculture. Intermediate credit banks would be able to issue notes to lower the cost of money lent to farmers by eliminating the extra charge of floating bond issues “through which the Farm Credit Ad- ~ministration now raises the funds. The Prazier-Lemke bill provides for Government refinancing at low. inter- est and amortization rates through s $3,000,000,000 note issue, A On Return From Antarct at Navy Yard u Former Revenue Cutter Bear Will Dock May 10 to Be Greeted by President. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, homeward bound from his second Antarctic expedition, has selected Washington for his official landing in the United States. On Friday afternoon, May 10, the former revenue cutter Bear, used by the noted explorer on this expedition, at the Washington Navy Yard, where will steam up the Potomac and dock the admiral, his officers and members of his exploring party will be greeted by President Roosevelt and other officials, Admiral Byrd's selection of Washington instead of New York, where he disembarked after his first expedi-<- tion to the South Pole, was announced at the White House today. At the same time, a radiogram sent March 26 by the President, felicita- ting the explorer and his associates upon the success of the expedition, also was made public. This message, as read to newspapermen by Secre- tary Early, follows: “As you near the Panama Canal, I am glad to welcome your safe return to American waters and congratulate you on the successful completion of another adventure. The execution of your carefully worked-out plans will be applauded by the American people and your further contribution to science will be highly valued. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to welcoming you and your officers and members of the crew in your expedi- tion when the Bear reaches Wash- ington.” It is President Roosevelt's plan | formally to extend this welcome to Admiral Byrd and his associates upon !the deck of the Bear. Afterwards | the President will receive personally 1every man in the party. With this | ceremony completed, Mr. Roosevelt !and the members of his own party will go upon the presidential yacht Sequoia, which will be docked close to the Bear. There Admiral Byrd and his officers will be received in- formally. President Roosevelt has followed closely and with genuine interest Ad- miral Byrd's second Antarctic trip and several times has sent him congratu- latory and encouraging messages. Just prior to from America, President Roosevelt had him and Mrs. Byrd as week end guests at the White House. Besides the natural interest associ- ated with the arrival of Admiral Byrd here, the citizens of Washington will have their first opportunity to look upon the Bear, which was first com- missioned in 1874, and, after spend- ing most of its time in Alaskan | waters, was retired only a few years |ago. This famous vessel figured in i many heroic rescues in the icy waters | along the Alaskan Coast. HITLER DENOUNCES BRITAIN FOR VOTE “Sizzling” Note Sent Lon- don—League Return Talk Seen at End. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 18.—A British em- bassy spokesman revealed today that | Reichsfeuhrer Hitler had sent Great Britain a diplomatic note which he described as “a sizzler,” although he declined to divulge the note's exact contents. He said the note, clothed in the strongest possible language, was re- layed to Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador, from Hitler through Ber- | nard W. von Buelow, foreign under- | secretary, yesterday. | The central argument expressed was | said to be that yesterday's action by the League of Nations’ Council posi- | tively means the end of any talk of | Germany returning to the League. | Britain's Action Resented. | 1t is known that Hitler bitterly re- sents Great Britain's action in siding with France and Italy, German circles saying _he was led to believe that Great Britain would stick to her role of “honest broker.” These sources said Hitler felt strongly that Great Britain did not play the game in ranging herself on the side of France and Italy following the conversations here between himself and the British statesmen, Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, and Capt. Anthony Eden, lord privy seal. In foreign office quarters resentful remarks were made to the effect that Sir John merely drew the Germans out and got them to lay their cards on the table, then used this knowledge against Germany by Geneva. Undersecretary von Buelow also re- ceived the Italian Ambassador yester- day, as the German government is desirous of knowing from England and Italy, as guarantors of the Locarno treaty, whether they still consider their duties two-sided or whether, as a result of the Stresa Conference, they feel obligated hereafter to help en- force the Locarno treaty only if it should be violated by Germany. Both Ambassadors assured Von | Buelow their governments would quite (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) REILLY DEMANDS BRUNO FUND PROBE Accuses Fisher in Bar Inquiry Request—Latter Answers Warmly. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK,. April 18.—Edward J. Reilly, ousted chief counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and C. Lloyd Fisher, who succeeded him, came into open combat today, following Reilly’s demand for a bar association in- vestigation of defense funds held by Fisher. Reilly, asserting Fisher had failed to give accounting for defense funds over which he is trustee, was met with an angry attack by Fisher, who declared from his Flemington, N. J., office that Reilly is “disgruntled and disappointed” because he was ousted | almost three weeks ago by Hauptmann and his wife. Fisher accused Reilly of “trying to run the defense into debt” and of seeking to “pay personal obligations” with money raised for the purpose of saving Hauptmann from the New Jersey electric chair for the slaying of the Lindbergh baby, In a letter to Chancellor Luther A. Campbell of Trenton, Reilly asked permission to withdraw formally from the case. In another letter to the bar asso- clation, Reilly charged Fisher with having failed to give an accounting of funds raised by solicitation and contribution toward financing Haupt- mann's appeal. Reilly has not been paid his defense fee of $25,000. Venizelos Visits Paris. PARIS, April 18 (#).—Former Pre- mier Eleutherios Venizelos, leader of the unsuccessful uprising in Greece, arrived from Rome today to visit his two sons. He was guarded by. police detectives. MEDIGAL SOCIETY and Cites High Cost of Project. Charging that an endowment of | from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, in | excess of the contemplated cost of |in Washington, the Medical Soclety of the District of Columbia last night definitely frowned upon the proposal and called upon the Commissioners’ Committee to name the promoters of the project. ‘The soclety adopted & nine-page report by its Committee on Medical Economics, in which strong argu- ments were advanced against the pro- posed Medical Center, to replace the present hospitalization system of the city. The report pointed out that the society still had an open mind in the matter, provided the Commissioners explained how such a project would name the promoters and the form of gaurantee they offered the public and the medical profession that they were capable of carrying the plan through. It was also shown in the report that the present per patient per day cost in the local hospitals is about $4, while the cost per patient per day in the medical centers in New York and in other cities is $8.50. Questions Seen Phrased. The report stated that the Com- missioners’ Committee had so couched | their questions in their questionnaire sent to the society, to civic and other groups, for answer that any public- minded citizen must answer in the affirmative. They pointed out that one question intended for answer by civic groups was: “Would a modern and well equipped medical center be beneficial to Washington?” They contended that this question was mis- leading in that it did not cover the subject. “Experience in other localities has clearly demonstrated that the original cost of large medical centers is a small item in comparison with the continu- ing cost of their successful operation,” the report said. “This is particularly true if they are to function as cen- ters for medical and nursing educa- tion and, above all, for medical re- search. It has been shown that their normal budgets run as high as 75 per cent to 100 per cent of their initial cost and that their cost per patient- day is very high—$8.50 per day in only large New York center. One of the main arguments ad- vanced in favor of the plan was scored by the report—that certain savings to be affected through uni- fied and enlarged purchasing power and reduction of overhead are to be passed on to the consumer in the {;arm of lowered costs for hospitaliza- | tion, Non-Profit Talk Criticized. “It has been publicly suggested that another part of the savings to be passed on to the consumer would be realized from the non-profit basis of operation of the center,” the re- port continues. “The suggestion is peculiarly misleading and unfortunate, (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) BAN ON NEW LOANS TO EUROPE SOUGHT Borah Introduces Measure to Restrict Lending to This Admiral Byrd's departure *SHES AT CENER Calls for Backers’ Names| $6,000,000, would be necessary to | | maintain the proposed Medical Center | (acilitate hospitalization and that they | IN NAVY PROGRAM FOREGASTS FIGHT Entire Building Plans to Be Held Up if Advice Is Followed. ITEM FOR 24 NEW SHIPS IS SLASHED ONE-HALF| Members Want to See What Is Outcome of Next Parley on Disarmament. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Announcement that the House Ap- propriations Subcommittee has cut in half the President's naval con- struction program is expected to precipitate a battie in the House next week when the naval appropriations bill comes up. It has been sched- uled by Speaker Byrns to follow the social security bill. ‘The entire new ship-building pro- gram will be held up if the recom- mendations of the subcommittee are followed. The program provides for | 24 new ships and continuation of work on 68 already under construc- tion. The expected construction of the 24 new ships with an appropri- ation of $29,380,000 has been cut by the subcommittee to exactly half and with the proviso that contracts for those cannot be let until February, 1936. The reason is to await the possibility of a new naval confer- | ence to see what the disarmament de- cisions may be. The projected new vessels are really replacement ships to be substituted for wornout and obsolete ships now in service. ‘This delay in the construction pro- gram is contrary to the President's program to have the Navy brought up to treaty strength by 1942. It will mean that Chairman Vinson and | other members of the House Naval Affairs Committee will be pitted against the Appropriations Commit- $25,000,000 Cut Off. ‘The original budget estimate of $488,000,000 for this bill has been cut some $25,000,000 by the House sub- committee headed by Representative Glover H. Cary of Kentucky. The shipbuilding item, which is the larg- est single reduction, was disallowed on motion of Representative William B. Umstead of North Carolina, but he was supported by Chairman Cary, Representative Willlam R. Thom of Ohio and Representative James G. Scrugham of Nevada. For & essive building program to bring the Navy up to treaty strength by 1942, these 24 ships should all be placed under construction promptly, advocates say. The United States has not kept up its quota in the 5—5—3 ratio—largely as a gesture of big-heartedness. Now, since it has lagged far behind in an orderly build- | ing program, friends of the fleet say | it is essential to have an intensified shipbuilding program to have the | Navy at treaty strength by 1942, as the President earnestly desires. That is one reason why the National Indus- trial Recovery Administration made an allocation of $238,000,000 for con- struction work on the 68 ships, for which an additional $55,508,000 is rec- ommended in the department esti- mates for the bil about to be re- The total estimated cost for the new ship building program is $197,- 427,000, but of this amount only $29,- 380,000 was asked in the 1936 appro- priation bill. Under the 5-5-3 treaty the life of capital ships is placed at 20 years, destroyers at 16 and sub- marines 13 years, The treaty powers are permitted to keep capital ships in an up-to-date condition. U. 8 Could Have Best Navy. If the United States should now speed up on its building program to full treaty strength it would have a better Navy in 1942 than the other powers who have built to their limit each year—Great Britain and Japan— some of whose ships will be three to six years old. The argument in support of the Appropriation Committee’s decision not to place any new ships under construction before February, 1936, and then only 12, is that if in the meantime a new navy treaty is agreed upon, calling for the scrapping of ships, the United States would have saved just so many million dollars. The budget estimates called for 11,000 additional men in the enlisted \ \ \\\ o Star FH¥ AUNTIE. I'LL JUST BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH YOU AFTER THIS! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 32,473 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved. UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. LR A EXEASON ASKEDBY OHASON CONGEDNG FLANS Throng Hears Probe Wit- ness Take Blame for Errors of Code System. SEES CAPITALISM FAIL DA RASKSDRNE ON FOES F U . Would Make It Crime to Urge Violent Change of Government. i tl lot- | D e N oy wo M Rena P Gira ing to select the officers who will lead | them for the next three years, the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion today demanded legislation to | declare it “a crime to advocate tne overthrow of the Government of the Urited States by force or violence.” By afternoon today 1,000 delegates had voted in the balloting, accord- |ing to the Credentials Committee, |ning Star;Leroy Anderson, a pho- which reported that delegates were present from every State except Nevada. In another resolution, which ep- parently was based on reports of sub- versive influences at work American college students, the D. A.R. decided to deny the benefits of its student loan fund to certain specified students. “An organized effort is being made to persuade American youth to pledge themselves never to fight for coun- try,” said the resolution, “while unit- ing themselves with those who work for its destruction.” The national society then called upon the various State societies to deny the benefits of their student loan funds to students who thus pledge or affiliate themselves. Cummings Is Thanked. In another resolution it formally expressed its appreciation to Attorney General Cummings for his address on crime earlier in the week. A telegram of congratulation was sent to the Boy Scout headquarters at New York congratulating its leaders on the 25th anniversary of the found- ing of that order, “whose program of good citizenship, Americanism and character training,” said the message, | “is outstanding in value.” Voting started at 8 o'clock this morning in Memorial Zontinental Hall to select a president general from the two candidates, Mrs. William A. Becker of New Jersey and Dr. Flora Myers Gillentine of Tennessee. These rivals and their tickets were nomi- nated at the session last night in (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) R “HOT DOGS” POISONED | Crank Spreads Scores of Contami- nated Frankfurters. SCOTTSBURG, Ind,, April 18 (#).— The Scott County grand jury has con- vened to investigate the scattering over the town of scores of poisoned “hot dogs” by a dog poisoner. Learning children might pick up some of the poisoned frankfurters, the town marshal issued a warning to frightened citizens to ‘search their premises for the “hot dogs.” " (Continued on Page 6, Column 2. s BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Assoclated Press Science Editor. PHILADELPHIA, April 18.—Full vel tion of existence of a precocity el t, one of the most unbelievable discoveries of science, was - day to the American Philosophical Soclety. The extract comes from the thymus glands of calves. It causes young rats to grow up, physically and mentally, in half normal time without shorten- ing their adult lives, which begin so much sooner. The extract is ready to be tried out to learn what human uses it possesses. There is no expectation, said Leonard G. Rowntree, M. D, of Philadelphia, ‘who reported it, of the thymus extract doing to humans the things predicted on the basis of its action on rats. include babies An expectation of real fulness is based on the fact that all glands, the same as young mammals. It formerly was thought the thymus gland dried manner yet L The thymus gland effects were first reported s year ago as something “al- -an—nluld‘mu- 5o Extract From Calves May Makei Nation of Youthful Adults jected daily with the thymus extract. These generations were the equivalent of 100 years in human terms. Today’s report verifies the previous finding on another five generations of rats. ‘This second set repeated everything, the young born_heavier, getting teeth their first day, opening their eyes the third day instead of the sixteenth day, their fur grown, themselves weaned and self-supporting as rats in the third and fourth days of their lives. But no giants developed. The young rats simply matured in about half- time. Their “control” cousins, with no thymus extract, eventually caught up to them in all respects. Virtually all this effect came indi- rectly. It was due not to thymus extract given to young rats, but to the extract given to their parents. The effect was cumulative. The un- believably fast development came after the second or third generations. Stopping it ee:ten for one generation ‘The extract was made in 1930. A new one made in the same way in 1934 failed almost altogether to show precocity effects. This is considered due probably to some slip in separa- . | tion, but indicates difficulties not al- together solved. The work was done by J. H. Clark, M. D, of Philadelphia; A. M. Hanson, M. D, of Pairbault, Minn., and Arthur Steinberg of eration with Dr. . | & bonus D.A.R. Uses Force Bt s Fre W A FUNDFRAT PRESSED BY LONG |Legislature Rejects Peace of its faults on his own shoulders, he Trio From Hall Two Photographers and Reporter Ejected by Officer. i Suppressed excitement at the D. A | R. convention over the intensity of | political activities reached a high mark | | ton, chairman of the House Committee | of the meeting. took the law into her own hands and attempted forcibly to evict two photographers and a woman newspaper reporter from the hall where balloting for officers was go- | ing on { The three actually handled roughly by Mrs. Claughton were Miss Margaret | Poe Hart, representative of The Eve- | | tographer of the Washington Herald, |and Randolph Burruws, a photo- | grapher for Underwood & Underwood. | ‘Mrs. Claughton finally summoned a detective on duty at Constitution Hall and had them ushered out by the officer. Hurls Ridieule Charge. graphers had made pictures of the | Mrs. Claughton arrived on the scene escorted by a member of the official | Publicity Committee for the conven- tion. Such sponsorship was insuf- | ficient, however, as Mrs. Claughton barred the way and declared: | ridicule the D. A. R.” "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) PATMAN OPPOSES BONDBONUSPLAN Harrison Compromise_ Hit by Friends of Cash Payments. By the Associated Press. Earlier this morning other photo- | | balloting and the group resisted by | “You press have done nothing but | Miss Hart protested, explaining that | | | | Move and Pushes Measure for Control. By the Associated Press. After the State Senate killed a peace move in Senator Huey Long’s “war” with the national administration over supervision of P. W. A. expenditures, the Legislature settled down today to push his measures for control of Fed- eral work funds. Long gave no intention of relaxing his fight with Washington over ad- ministration of P. W. A. money in Louisiana. One of his supporters, however, and Secretary Ickes not to withhold work funds for the State. The upper chamber quickly turned thumbs down on the proposal, 23 to 7. The Senate's action started specu- lation in Washington as to the future | course of Harry L. Hopkins, F. E. R. A. administrator. Hopkins Names Long Foe. Hopkins has given no indication as to his plans, but his action in naming s bitter Long foe, Senator Frank Peterman, to the post of State relief | director was said in some quarters to mean he already has moved toward federalizing Louisiana relief. Peterman’s selection indicated a favored by Long naming Gov. O. K. Allen as relief head. | Senator John J. Wingrave of New | Orleans introduced the peace resolu- tion which described the dispute over | the work funds as a “political quar- ¥’ refrain from “inflicting any punish- | ment on the people of Louisiana” be- cause of it. the Federal Government might with- draw the relief funds from Louisiana because of the “quarrel.” Ickes Threatens Cancellation. Secretary Ickes, P. W. A, adminis- Representative Patman of Texas, whose bill to pay the bonus with new currency already has passed the House, appeared today to be the most bitter opponent of the compromise ator Harrison, Democrat, of Mis- sissippi. Patman lashed out harder than other critics at the proposal of the Mississippian, who predicts his plan will gain President Roosevelt’s approval. Ex-service men would rather lose the bonus battle than accept the compromise, Patman contended. He coupled this with a prediction that the House would stand by his bill. Advocates of cash payment were generally hostile to the Harsison measure, which would offer the vet- erans negotiable bonds in exchange for their bonus certificates. But most of them withheld comment pend- ing further study of the bill, or pro- fessed to see some good in it. Calls Move “Step Only.” “The Harrison bill is a step in the right direction, but only a step.” said a statement issued by James E. Van Zandt, commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. “As it stands, the measure would fall far short of what World War veterans consider an equitable settle- ment of their adjusted service pay.” The V. F. W. leader reiterated sup- port of the Patman measure. Prank N. Belgrano, national com- mander of the American Legion, which has backed the Vinson bill to pay the bonus in full but leave the method of payment open, declined immediate comment on the compro- mise plan. He said at Oolumbla, S. C,, that he was sending for a copy of the bill to determine if the Legion could support it. Could Cash or Hold Bonds. Experts who aided in drafting the Harrison bill explained, meanwhile, that under its terms a veteran holding certificate which would ma- ture under the present law at $1,000 bonus bil! offered yesterday by Sen- | money grants to Louisiana if Long's | pending legislation goes through. | Senator Coleman Lindsey. adminis- | tration leader, objected to the resolu- tion. “Whether the Government with- | draws the funds from Louisiana is | its own business,” he said. “I am not going to ask them to change their method of business.” Senator Long said his plan was for the Legislature to wind up its session Saturday. He intends to leave at once for Washington after adjournment. Today’s program called for a Sen- at Finance Committee to report fa- vorably Long’s batch of 22 bills al- ready approved by the House. The House was summoned to adopt six more measures the Senator was late in introducing. During the afternoon the Senate was to receive the 22 approved bills from the committee and send to the group the six bills the House was certain to vote in the meantime. Despite bitter opposition, the House adopted the primary election bill giv- ing the Long administration control of commisisoners at polling places on election day. S S WAR HERO SENTENCED Vienna Court-Martial Convicts 20 of Treason. VIENNA, April 18 (#).—Alexander Eisler, Austrian World War hero and the recipient of many decorations for valor, was sentenced to 18 years' im- prisonment today by the court-mar- tial which tried him for tregson. The charge resulted from Eisler's activities as chief of staff of the So- cialist Republican Guards at the time of the February, 1934, rebellion. Six of Eisler's associates received sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years, and 13 others lighter sentences. One was acquitted. Lost and Found dio ... : D-1-2-3-4 omen’s !'utl;rel‘ ..C-8-9-10 7 ed. { jolted the Senate last night by pro- | | posing & plea to President Roosevelt possible intention to ignore legislation | It asked that national officials | Wingrave said it was reported that | trator, has threatened to cancel all | IF LEFT UNRESTRAINED Warns of Communism—Denies Small Man Hurt—Says Labor Gains Too Small. By the Associated Press. In blunt, colorful words for which he is famed, Hugh S. Johnson told Congress today that N. R. A. was “the first intelligent attempt” by the Gov- ernment to curb monopoly and con- centration of industry. Candidly, the former Blue Eagle boss admitted errors in N. R. A, but he contended forcibly they were mis- takes in his own administration of the recovery unit, not of the law and argued that to abandon N. R. A. would be “like burning down your house to get rid of a few rats in the attic.” “Clean up N. R. A" “Don’t destroy it.” While the man who built the vast code structure took the major share Johnson plead- asserted frankly that “one of the most valid criticisms against the whole New Deal is the fact that from time to time it sorely lacked co-ordination.” As an example, he said the Justice Department agd Federal Trade Com- | mission “did not” co-operate in & ! vigorous enforcement of the recovery BATON ROUGE, La, April 18— law. Final Witness at Probe. ‘The picturesque former Cavalry of- ficer appeared as the final and star witness in the Senate Finance Com- mittee’s N. R. A. investigation. A huge crowd heard him. Almost the entire membership of the committee was on hand, as John- son talked into a loudspeaker system, with Frances Robinson, his secretary | through all the turbulent months at N. R. A, close beside him. With few interruptions, he read an { 88-page statement in which he con- tended N. R. A. was necessary because the profit system had broken down “like the collapse of an empty shell.” In general, Johnson recommended extension of the present law, but he proposed the creation of “some ad- ministrative agency” to permit some “necessary” relaxation of the anti- |trust laws, without allowing the “"nbu.m" they were designed to pre- vent, As the general proceeded with his reading he became increasingly em- | phatic. Repeatedly he struck his | hand upon the witness table. Derides “Big Shots” | He squirmed about on his chair until at one time he actually nad one | shoulder braced against the table while | his voice poured out derision of “the | big shots of industry” for opposing codes he said were meant to help “the little fellow.” He virtually snorted his disgust at the “grand and glorious doctrine of laissez faire.” “Price fixing under N. R. A,” he said scornfully, “is just a big buga- |boo.” He contended that only nine |codes had any price-fixing provisions and four of them had never been put | into effect. On the whole, Johnson said em- phatically, N. R. A. has “brought & vast balance of good.” He contended it had helped the little man, by pre- venting his destruction, and had helped labor. He conceded, nowever, that the law had not given labor “all the rights intended.” On the controversial subject of pro- duction control, Johnson said “if we |can’t regulate this economic engine the next step will be abolition of the profit system and page Mr. Stalin.” “No more explosive act of destruc- tion could be committed than to kill | it now and go back to the utter fu- | tility of the system we had here be- | fore 1933,” Jehnson testified. ‘Warns of Yielding Now. ‘The hard-hitting former cavalry officer warned that it was a “fallacy” to contend the old capitalistic system could not be improved upon and that “if we go back to that fallacy, the capitalistic system is on its way out in the very near future.” | Reviewing the developments in in- dustry after the war, Johnson said they disclosed “a slow and implacable disintegration of the profit system, and (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) PRESIDENT CALLED EXTREME RADICAL Talmadge Predicts Third Party ‘Will Appear in 1936 Gen- eral Election. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, April 18—Gov. Tal- madge today referred to President Roosevelt as “a radical in the extreme form” and predicted a third party ticket in the 1936 general election. “Any man who condones the N. R. A, the A. A. A and other things going on in this country is a radical in the extreme,” the Governor said. “The greatest calamity to this coun= try is that President Roosevelt can’t walk around and hunt up people to talk to. He can only talk to those his secretaries -and assistants allow to come in to see him—and 90 per cent of this crowd is the ‘gimme’ crowd.” “The next President who goes into the White House will be a man who knows what it is to work in the sun 14 hours a day.” Talmadge said. Asked directly if he would head a third party, the Governor replied: “The real fight in this country is Americanism versus communism mixed up with some kind of crazy ‘gimme.’” He declined to elaborate further. The Governor has been a repeated critic of the national administration policies. <