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WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Probably light rain and slightly colder today; tomorrow cloudy, preceded by rain in morning; moderate northeast winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 74, at 4 p.m. yes- Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. terday; lowest, 50, at 4 a. Full report on page A-9. . yesterday. {#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,570— No. 33,227. RODSEVELT RISKS BLAME OR PRAISE IN HUGE SPENDING Aides See Desire to Take Front Trench Action on Relief Program. TIME OF DISTRIBUTION FOCAL POINT IN PLANS | Brakes Seen Necessary If Cash Is to Last Beyond 1936 Cam- paign Season. BY EARNEST K. LINDLEY. (Copyright. 1935.) President Roosevelt has informed | his closest associates in the Gov- ernment that he intends to take the actual, as well as the implied, resp~n- sibility for the execution of the $4,- 000.000.000 works program. He has made it plain to them that his pre-| Entered as second class matte post office, Washington, D. C. he TON, Byrd Discoveries Are Hailed As Greatest in Last Century Planes Enabled Wide Exploration of Antarctic, Chief Pilot Reveals, Telling of Dangers. BY RUSSELL OWEN. NEW YORK, April 20.—The most complete season of exploration in the Antarctic since the days of Scott is described by Harold June, who was the chief pilot and in charge of transportation for the latest expedition of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. New Zealand to take part in winding two ships carrying most of the crew are now on the Pacific nearing Panama. A map that June has brought with him to sho tion makes it evident that, despite difficulties, much more was accom- plished this time than on Admiral Byrd's former trip ‘Scuth. The pos- sibility of land was eliminated from the ice-covered sea north of Marie Byrd Land, the coast line was de- lineated for about 300 miles to. the east of the Edsel Ford Range, the Queen Maud Mountains were extended far to the east until they blended into a plateau and this plateau was traced at a height of 4.000 feet from the coast to the Queen Maud Range. This final accomplishment makes it certain that there is no channel be- tween the Ross and Weddell Seas, and that the Arctic continent is a single land mass. The area explored, most of which June has just returned to the United States from up the affairs of the expedition. The w the work of the expedi- is so large that it is about equal to the exploration of all other expedi- tions of the Ross Sea sector of the | continent. This was made possible, | of course, by the use of planes, which were flown, ever. in bad weather, much more than they were on the former expedition. When the area explored at sea is 5 D. REGIONAL PARLEYS GET INDORSEMENT! OF G.0.P. LEADERS Plan Agreed .Upon at Lunch- eon to William Allen White at Capitol. C., SUNDAY FLETCHER SEES REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN PARTY Senator Vandenberg Advises Against Early Discussion of Presidential Candidates. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. added to that on ice or land, the re- , sults of the expedition are more far- | reaching, so far as geographical work | | is concerned, than those of any ex- | i pedition since that of Ross about 100 | | years ago. | The work was the logical result of the discoveries of Admiral Byrd on his first southern trip and, as it was viously announced intention to sit| was new territory even to Byrd and Planned by him in its broad outlines, as chairman of the Allotment Com- mittee for the Works Committee was not merely a device to smooth over rivalries in his administration or to appease Representatives and Senators who did not want to place the money in the hands of Harold L. Ickes, pub- lic works administrator. The primary significance of the President’s decision is' political, in the view of his chief aides. Its effect will be to put him out where he will be the main target if the program fails to function properly. In a broad sense, of course, the President must accept responsibility for everything that his administration does. But. as| & matter of fact, the general public| realizes that no President can be fully aware of everything that goes on in his administration, that he must dele- gate responsibility. Popularity Staves Off Attacks. The personal popularity of Mr. Roosevelt has served to shield him | from direct attack from the political | opposition to a greater extent than! was the fortune of some of his prede- cessors. Thus. Gen. Hugh S. John- son took the main punishment for his men, who had been there before, | «Cont Nations Expected—Tone Held Mild, By the Associated Press. Europe vesterday refused to get ex- cited about Adolf Hitler's curt birth- day note. sent to 14 powers repre- sented on the League of Nations Council, rejecting the Council's cen- sure of Germany's rearmament. Rome was surprised only at the sharpness of the note, although of- on Page 2, Column 5.) POWERS UNMOVED BRODKINGS .. A BY CURT NAZINOTE REPORT ASSALED Hitler’s Rebuke to League Richberg Charges Institution‘ With Playing Politics in " Releasing Data. By the Associated Press. Donald R. Richberg yesterday charged the Brookings Institution with playing polities in publishing an un- ! favorable report on N. R. A. just when | the Senate Finance Committee con- cluded hearings on new recovery the N. R. A.; Henry A. Wallace, Sec- | ficials said something of the sort had legislation. retary of Agriculture, is taking the brunt of the attacks on the A. A. A.; James A. Farley has taken the blame for various political decisions, and | other members of the administration | have been the main targets of the| opposition to various other New Deal policies. But now, as his associates see it, | the President is getting ready to put | himself out in front in the handling of the huge work-relief appropriation. | ‘While the actual administration of the program will be in several hands, | the President will pass on every allot- | ment, according to his announced | plans, The protective line of whlp-’ ping boys between him and the public will be cleared away. In the words of | one of his lieutenants, Mr. Roosevelt 1 is prepared to “stand or fall” on the * successful administration of this fund, out of which he has promised to create direct employment for 3,500,000 able- bodied unemployed on the relief rolls. The President’s decision was made over the protests of most of his advis- | ers. They have urged him against | taking an unnecessary risk, holding | that if all goes well, he will get the | credit anyway. while if anything goes wrong it will be convenient to let as | much of the criticism as possible be ! absorbed by his lieutenants. They have argued. also, that he should not | add any more burdens to his dally work. Plans Not Revealed. The President has not yet com- | pletely revealed his plans for handling | the money to his close associates, ac- cording to people who should know. | There is still a considerable amount | of hauling and pulling for position ‘among the men who expect to have some of the administrative responsi- bility. When the President has his plan completely worked out, he ex- pects to announce it himself, possibly at a special press conference compar- able to his annual reviews of the budget for the Washington corre- spondents. Under direction from the White House, Harry L. Hopkins, Federal emergency relief administrator, Ickes and other officials are clearing the way for the new program. Mr. Hopkins intends to have the| aged and miscellaneous unemploy- ables back on the hands of State and local governments by Midsummer. This in accordance with the plan outlined by the President in his an- nual message to Congress. Apart from farmers in the drought areas and farmers who are being rehabili- tated with the aid of small loans in non-drought areas, there are only about 3,500,000 physically and men- ble heads of families on the Column 1)~ U. . MAN IS FOUND SLAIN IN MEXICO Consul Asks Thorough Probe of | Killing—Outlaw Band Is Blamed. b By the Associated Press. BROWRSVILLE, Tex, April 20— The bullet-riddled body of Raymond 8. Bengson, 27-year-old American geologist, was found early today in the brushland southwest of Mata- moros, Mexico. He apparently was killed by an outlaw band in a robbery. United States Congul Herndon Go- forth asked Matamoros civil and mili- tary authorities to make a thorough investigation. Bengson had about 800 pesos with him and was on his way to the camp of the Titania Oil Co., Standard Oil _subsidiary, when he was killed. He ‘was alone, Bengson was a native of Colorado, ‘where his mother lives, and came here Jast August with his wife and young daughter from McAllen, Tex. Several weeks ago three armed men stopped him on the highway south- west of Matamoros, but let him go Whflnfluhfl. i carrying no editorial comment. been expected. British opinion was summed up in the comment: “Nothing to get excited about.” Frenchmen termed it “essentially platonic.” No power, it appeared, planned an immediate reply to the Hitler com- munication, even though advices in- dicated he would await their enswer before listing his specific objections to the League resolution. Approved in Germany. BERLIN.—Germany's fervent cele- bration of der Fuehrer's 46th birth- day provoked almost universal ex- pression of approval of his military program, which gained impetus as Storm Troops and veterans' associa- tions presented him 41 new airplanes. ROME —Afternoon newspapers gave the German note scant display, meanwhile, started what officials called the “biggest annual recruiting of avi- ators held in the world” as the air ministry began receiving applications for 1,300 posts as pilots and 4,750 as specialist mechanics. PARIS.—The government was de- scribed as believing no further action necessary in connection with the Ger- man note, which political circles re- garded as reiteration of the Reich's decision to destroy the Versailles treaty. Received in London. LONDON.—While most government officials were away from the city on Easter holidays, the note was com- mmumcnled to them from the foreign office. __COPENHAGEN.—The note sent to (Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) GURLEY IS DEFIED BY EDITOR AT QUIZ Newspaper Executive Risks Jail to Protect Confidential Informant. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 20.—A Boston news- paper editor who declined to disclose the source of a news story was threat- ened tonight by Gov. James M. Cur- ley with jail over Easter, but after consideration, the Governor deferred action on contempt proceedings until Monday. ‘The newspaper man was William G. Gavin, city editor of the Boston Trav- eler, who earlier had been given an hour by the Governor to reveal who supplied him information on which an articlr in today's Traveler was based. On advice of counsel, Gavin de- clined to name the source. The Governor and his Executive Council then set 1 p.m. Monday as the time at which the editor and his counsel should appear for a hearing. The Traveler report, based on in- formation Gavin said had been given him personally and in confidence, said Councilor Edmund Cote, Republican, of Fall River would vote to oust Eu- gene C. Hultman as chairman of the Metropolitan Commission. The coun- cil and the Governor have been sit- ting in a judicial capacity at ouster proceedings brought by the Governor against Hultman. Curley, Cote and other members of the council were incensed over the STRIKE SABOTAGE FAILS DANVILLE, Il April 20 (#).—Ten- sion in the Central Illinois utility strike area increased today when spe- cial guards the of six sticks of dynamite above the Texas Panhandle pipe line bringing natural gas into this city. County officials were told an at- tached fuse had burned out several inches from the dynamite. Employes of the Illinois Power & Light Corp. have been on strike here #nquu!. Italy, | Any one reacing the report of this institution for research and study, the N. R. A. chief said. would see “that it has been designed as political | propaganda in order to influence con- gressional action in support of the pet | theories of a few reactionary econo- | mists.” Terming the Brookings statement “another pied piper for the front pages, dressed in academic robes but | piping a tune that will lead us to | destruction.” Richberg said: “The publication of this intemper- | ate, emotional document in aid of a | political attack upon the N. R. A. and the timing even of advance | publicity apparently in an effort to | ‘blanket’ Gen. Johnson's testimony (to the Pinance Committee and favorable to N. R. A.) are actions quite unworthy of an institution assuming the char- acter of scientific impartiality.” Richberg to be Called. Coincident with Richberg’s six-page attack on the institution was Senate Finance Committee study in closed session of the findings of expert in- vestigators into thousands of N. R. A. complaints. Afterward Senator Clark | Democrat of Missouri, an N. R. A. foe, said Richberg would be called before the group to submit an opinion he was reported to have written re- garding N. R. A’s jurisdiction over intrastate commerce. Another N. R. A. senatorial critic, Nye of North Dakota, told a radio au- dience the anti-trust laws must be re- stored. He demanded that if N. R. A. was to be reformed, the reforms should be written into the law and not left to Administration. Referring to Gen. Johnson's statement that the baby should be scrubbed up, rather than thrown down the drain pipe, Nye said: “As a friend of the alleged purpose of N. R. A. but as an enemy of the accomplishments of selfishness under its months of actual operation, I can | but say that there is not in existence a drain pipe of sufficient size to carry away the unfair things which N. R. A. has permitted, that the so-called N. R. A. baby is going to require many scrubbings in a legislative way before it is presentable again, and that there is going to be but little reform after (Continued on Page 8, Column 1.) TENANT UNION CHIEF FEARED KIDNAPED Justice Agents Asked to Locate Organizer Missing Since Thursday. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 20.— Clarence Senior, national secretary of the So- cialist party, said tonight he had asked the Department of Justice to investigate the disappearance of E. B. McKinney, 60, of Marked Tree, Ark., vice president of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, in the belief the missing man had been kidnaped. Senior said McKinney, colored, left Memphis, Tenn., Thursday by bus to attend a conference in Chicago Fri- day, but did not arrive here. $ D. M. Ladd, acting agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here, said he was unable to comment on Senior’s report. McKinney, the Socialist secretary said, had been active in organizing the “share-croppers,” or tenant farm- ers, of Northeastern Arkansas, and had been threatened with harm by groups opposed to such organization. Hi-Jackers Kill Driver. HARVEY, N. Dak., April 20 (P)— Don Leismeister, reputed bootlegger, was shot and killed today for a cargo of 100 gallons of alcohol, according to the story told police by F. H. Stock- man, a witness. Stockman said two men who had arranged to meet Leis- meister killed him a8 he cargo. Republican regional conferences, to | stimulate party activity and to lay the | groundwork for the national campaign next year, were heartily indorsed by | leading Republicans from the East | and West at a luncheon given yester- day at the Capitol in honor of the Republican sage and veteran editor, | William Allen White of Kansas. The roster of guests at the lunch- eon, which was given by Representa- tives U. 8. Guyer and Clifford R. wnd DAILY EVENING EDITION 21, W <yl <Y Hope of Kansas, included several Re- publicans who have been prominently | mentioned as “presidential possibili- ties,” the chairman of the Republican | Naiional Committee, Henry P. Fletcher | of Pennsylvania: former Vice Presi- dent Charles Curtis of Kansas, the chairman of the Republican Congres- sional Committee, Representstive Chester C. Bolton of Ohio, and Gov. Harry W. Nice of Maryland. Among the presidential possibilities were Sen- | ator Arthur H Vandenberg of Michi- gan, Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, Republican leader of the Sen- ate; Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. Senator L. J. Dickinson of TIowa and Representative Betrand H. Snell of New York, minority leader of the House. Agree on Major Points. there should be no early commitments | to candidates for the presidential | nomination and that the writing of the Republican platform of 1936 also | should be delayed until next year. | The idea expressed was that the plat- form should be written in the lizht of the conditions confronting the country next year and what the !Democrluc administration does or | | does not do. | Mr. White, while disclaiming respon- | sibility for the origin of the proposed | Midwest Regional Republican Con- ference slated for May, gave his ideas of what the conference should seek | to accomplish. He strongly urged | party unity and that young Republic- ans should play a prominent part in | the deliberations. He even went so far |88 to suggest that the conference | might be confined to Republicans un- der 50 years of age. New England Represented. | New England was represented at | the luncheon by Joseph W. Martin, Representative from Massachusetts, and Ralph O. Brewster, Representa- 1 tive from Maine. New England, by the | way, is to hold the first Republican | regional conference in Boston the end [o( April. Chairman Fletcher welcomed the idea of the regional conferences. He | said that the idea had not come from “headquarters,” but had come from | the “grass roots,” a sign of revival of party interest. Mr. Fletcher said that the national committee would place | anything it has at the disposal of the | conferences. Senator Dickinson, speaking in a militant vein, declared that it was “‘never too early to challenge a wrong,” that it was time to call a spade a spade, and that 90 per cent of the | time should be taken up pointing out the fallacies of the New Deal. “We must assure the country,” he said, “that those things which are being done under the New Deal will be changed. The contest of tomor- row will be between State economy and Federal socialism.” Middle Ground Urged. | Representative Snell said that he | was willing to go “two-thirds of the way” on any program that the Re- publicans can get together on. “We can't elect a conservative or a radical Republican national ticket next year,” said Mr. Snell. “We will have to get into the middle of the (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) Rk PACT DELAY EXPLAINED France Insists Russia Give Pledge to Halt Propaganda. GENEVA, April 20 (#).—Soviet Rus- sia’s refusal to give an “air-tight” pledge no Communist propaganda would be circulated in France, said re- ports current in Geneva today, was one of the things delaying an agree- ment on a Franco-Russian pact of | mutual assistance. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, who had been ex- perted to go to Paris, stole off mys- teriously from Geneva yesterday by automobile and is supposed to have taken a train at Basle for Moscow. | | ‘ Ina fra There was general agreement that 8nd cherry blossoms, Washington to- U r M, MORNING, APRIL 1935—104 PAGES. LOOKS LIKE | OUGHT To HATCH FIVE CENTS IN_WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS EN CENTS ELSEWHERE lT OUT SOMETHIN' I /i Efiste{ }Sggs. EASTER ATIRACT Roosevelts Slip Off for Ride Alone BORAH WARNNG 'GRAND JURY PROBE | | | | | INLYDDANE: CASE (RDERED BY JUDGE |Wife and Former Gambler Held in $10,000 Bond After Hearing. |WOMAN MUST FACE COURT AGAIN TOMORROW Accused of Conspiracy to Slay Mrs. Beall, Who Named Her in Divorce Suit. BY W. H. SHIPPEN, JR,, Staff Correspondent of The Star. THOUSANDSTOD., e Betmy weatter -HEARDBY EDITORS Sunrise Services to Mark Joyful Festival of Resurrection. grant setting of Easter lilies | day welcomed some 100,000 visitors to its joyful festival of the Resurrection. | The President and Mrs. Roosevelt | planned to lead the Nation to its | Easter church services by attending | | St. Thomas® Episcopal Church, Eight- | | eenth between P and Q streets, at 11 | o'clock. Rev. C. Ernest Smith will| | deliver the sermon. i | 1 | Mrs. Roosevelt also-indicated her |intention of attending the sunrise service at Arlington National Ceme- tery, where thousands of Washing-| | tonlans each year celebrate the Resur- rection of Christ. These services, be- | ginning at 7:30 a.m., are under au- spices of the grand commandery of | | the Knights Templar of the District of Columbia and members of the order | from nearby States. White House Decorated. | ‘The Roosevelts make much of Easter, as they do of Christmas, and from the White House gardens gifts | lof stately lilies have been sent this | year to an intimate circle of friends. | Decorations of lilies and syringa in | the formal downstairs rooms symbolize | the spirit of the day. The Easter fam- | ily party includes Mrs. Hall Roosevelt of Detroit, sister-in-law of Mrs. | Roosevelt, and her small daughters, Amy and Diana, two young Roosevelts who have never seen a White House | Easter egg rolling, but who will stay | over tomorrow to witness that annual fete. Walter Reed Hospital was also to be | held at 7:30 o'clock. All of the local | churches have arranged special pro- | grams of music and many will hold sunrise services and early fectival masses, some beginning as early as 6am. Monastery Expects 50,000. At least 50,000 visitors are expected at the Franciscan Monastery in Brookland, where nearly that many guests were entertained yesterday. Twenty pilgrimages from other cities are expected. Masses are at 6, 7. 7:30 and 8 o'clock, with a solemn high mass of the resurrection at 9 i o'clock. | Father Bertrand. In Washington Cathedral, Bishop | James E. Freeman will deliver the ser- mons at the festival service of holy communion at 11 a.m, and the fes- | tival evensong service at 4 o'clock. | Special Easter music will be rendered “(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) D. C.-NEW YORK BUS HIT | | Driver Hurt, 34 Passengers Shaken in Collision. PHILADELPHIA, April 20 (#).— ‘The driver of a Washington-New York | bus was seriously hurt and 34 pas-| Was taken to the hospital by Archie sengers were shaken today in a col- lision with a truck in nearby Upper Darby. The bus came to a halt at the curb less than 10 feet from the Upper Darby Muncipal Building. Joseph Boyd, 34, the driver, col- lapsed before he could leave his seat at the wheel. Arthur Emery, the| truck driver, escaped injury by jump- ing. Police held him for an investi- gation. Bug By the.Associated Press. MEXICO, D. F., April 20.—Bugs get. in your eye, Amelia Earhart found to her sorrow today, and spoil non-stop flights from Los Angeles to Mexico. _ A tiny Insect so blinded her, the famed conqueror of two oceans said as she arrived here today 13%2 hours after taking off from the California ‘city, that she could not read her maps and had to land 60 miles short of her goal to get her bearings. A cow pasture at Nopala, State of Hidalgo, an emergency land- ing field. There she found she was 100 miles off her course. She removed the m fixed hern;!e. m‘her bear- again for Mexico ings hopped Mo Earhart herself was disap- as her the - | in Eye Halts Non-Stop Flight of Amelia Earhart tended to increase good will between Mexico and the United States. As soon as she sees something of Mexico, she said shortly after landing at 1:27 p.m. local time (2:27 E. 8. T.), “I will try to do a better job of flying non-stop to New York.” She also said she hopes to attempt the Los Angeles-Mexico flight again. ‘Wildly applauded at her arrival by the largest crowd at the airport since Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in 1927, Miss Earhart said the forced landing delayed her at least half an hour. She averaged about 140 miles an_hour. The chief feature of the trip for her, Miss Earhart said, was the stolidity of Mexican cows, which re- fused to move when she circled the | nip) field at Nopala. The cows in Ireland, commented, were much more (WHM&W,IJ | " The traditional sunrise service at| ‘This will be celebrated by Presidential Pair Goes in Small Car, With Guard in Rumble Seat. By the Associated Press. With Mrs. Roosevelt as chauffeur. President Roosevelt slipped away from the White House late yesterday for an automobile ride through the Capital's balmy Spring weather. The presidential couple rode in Mrs. Roosevelt's small blue roadster. In the rumble seat sat Gus Gennerich, the President’s personal attendant. Another car full of Secret Service men trailed behind. ‘Throughout most of the day, Mr. Roosevelt Jenied himself to callers and worked uninterruptedly on an ac- cumulation of mail and special re- ports. He remained away from the ' executive office for the week end and | devoted himself almost exclusively to private business which piles up during | even the quietest White House week. (AB DRIV ERHELD Edgar B. Smith Killed by Alleged Hit-Run Car Downtown. INBROKER'S DEATH |ing political parties during the last|she had faked the kidnap story to (Picture on Page A-2.) fatality. The cab driver is Mickey M. Har- rison, 29, of 3008 Thirteenth street, who walked into the Traffic Bureau about 4 hours after the accident and said he understood he was being sought. Earlier, the night driver of the cab, identified by witnesses as the one which struck Smith at Eleventh street | and New York avenue about 4 p.m. | was apprehended, but was released | | when he explained he had taken the | machine from his company’s garage more than half an hour after the | accident. Harrison, police were told, had | turned the cab in at the garage at| First and M streets northeast about | 20 minutes after the accident. | A look-out was broadcast for the | | cab after witnesses furnished police | with a description and license num- bers of the car and said it failed to stop after the accident. Smith, who was formerly connected with E. P. Murphy Co. and lived at 330 Peabody street, died in George Washington University Hospital about 8:30 pm. of a fractured skull. He P. Fletcher, 2802 Rhode Island ave- nue northeast. Mrs. Virginia Smith, a teacher at| Roosevelt High School, was not| located for several hours after her| husband was injured. She was/ notified too late to reach the hospi- tal before he died. It was the thirty-sixth traffic ARABS SEE ITALIAN AID Leader Confirms Rumor’ of Agree- ment With Il Duce. JERUSALEM, April 20 _(Palcor Agency).—Haj Amin El Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem, assured Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, high com- missioner of Palestine, today there was truth in the publication Thursday of a letter quoting Benito Mussolini as saying he would guarantee the Arabs national independence in the event of a new world war. An Arab newspaper published the letter, allegedly confirming an agree- ment among Arab leaders to conduct pro-Italian propaganda among Arabs in Palestine and Syria. Sy % Earth Shock Causes Panic. LISBON, Portugal, April 19 (delayed by censor) (#).—A series of violent earth shocks lasting intermittently about an hour and 30 minutes caused panic in the vicinity about Oporto to- t. 2ht Residents hastily left their dwellings as the quakes began. No damage or injuries were Senator Calls on Press to Defend Constitutional Rights of People. The press of the Nation was called on last night by Senator Borah, Re- publican, of Idaho, to protect the people against Governmental en- croachment on their constitutional rights. In a general criticism of the trend of the New Deal, he told the Ameri- can Society of Newspaper Editors at | its Willard Hotel banquet that his wrath was stirred “to find men in re- sponsible positions bringing forward again the shameless betrayal of free speech found in the old alien and sedition laws.” Borah termed as a “dangerous ex- ROCKVILLE, Md., April 20.—Mrs. Anne Lyddane and an alleged confed- erate were held under $10.000 bonds each for the grand jury late today following & prolonged hearing on charges that they participated in a - fantastic plot upon .the life of her husband, Francis Lyddane. Mrs. Lyddane, 32-vear-old secretarv te the president of a leading bank here, and member of a pioneer Mont- gomery County familv. was ordered held by Judge Daniel A. Delashmutt along with John Martin Boland, 42, | described as a former Washington gambler. Another Hearing Monday. Boland was described by Mrs. Lyd- dane’s accusers as the man who was to have hired an assassin to do away with Lvddane during a faked hold-up. After the arguments, the court said: | “My holding these two defendants | for the grand jury will in no way prejudice their case. From this evi- dence I am firmly convinced that they should be held for the grand jury, and I so order.” State’s Attorney James H. Pugh of Montgomery County obtained a sever- ance in hearing the charges against M:s. Lyddane and on Monday at 1 | o'clock she will appear again before Judge Delashmutt on charges that | she conspired with John H. Carnell, Rockville bartender and former Wash- ington bootlegger, and Edwin J. Davis to assassinate Mrs. Arthur Beall, of Darnestown. Mrs. Beall named Mrs. Lyddane as corespondent in a divorce suit against her husband; a suit that was withdrawn, ‘The accused woman’s husband, ‘Pranris Lyddane, took the stand as a | defense witness late today and told periment” and “exploded theory” the | the court that he had not lived as effort to “control opinions and belief by laws.’ Declares Public Holds Key. “This trend away from constitu- tional methods can never be arrested in any other way than by aroused | |“man and wife” with Mrs. Lyddane | for more than a year and no longer loved her because he knew she was | “going about with another fellow.” Back’s Wife Testimony. Lyddane, however, corroborated his and well-sustained public opinion,” he Wife's earlier testimony that she told said. “In other words, it is distinctly the people’s fight. him she paid $200 to two men, un- There is little to known to her, after they had threat- be expected from political parties. ened to kidnap him. Mrs. Lyddane They are prone to subordinate every- explained to the court she was being thing to party success or to party ex- blackmailed by Carnell, who knew pediency. The history of the two lead- about “Arthur Beall and me,” and that 30 years gives little evidence of any Spare her husband's feelings. serious differences as to the most pronounced tendencies in matters of | packed Government * * * Perhaps the calmest woman in the court room today, Mrs. | Lyddane repeated her story to the “The practice which has grown up court in a level, low pitched voice. She of authorizing departments to make Was smartly dressed in a black suit, a rules and regulations, the violation of A tiny black Spring hat and white glove which constitutes a crime, is one of | The accused woman said Carnell the most objectionable practices with | and a man she did not know came There is scarcely any instill fear and confusion in the mind of the ordinary person and to finally undermine all freedom of action than to subject him to countless rules and regulations by numberless depart- ments, or bureaus, the violation of | which burdens his property or re- strains him of his liberty. It is a species of tyranny that is foreign to every concept of constitutional Gov- ernment. Sees Peril in Bills. Senator Borah reminded his hear- ers that in recent months “a deluge of bills” has been introduced in State Legislatures and Congress, some of which “enter the domain of opinions and beliefs and would seek to restrain or control such opinions and beliefs by punitive measures.” He termed such measures “a dan- gerous experiment” and “at war with the first principles of democracy,” and held they meant “spies and provo- cateurs” and revived the spirit of the old alien and sedition laws. He defended the great body of the American people from the idea that they are carried away with “strange isms.” He denied they are ready for “communism or fascism.” The Senator summed up his re- marks, in urging the press to be on guard for the rights of the American people, as follows: “The Constitution is the rule which | (Continued on Page 3, Column 6. fatality since January 1 in the District. ?Two MORE DIONNE BABIES ARE SICK Yvonne Alone of Quintuplets “Takes Air” on Veranda Free From Colds. By the Associated Press. CALLANDER, Ontario, April 20.— ‘The sick ward at the Dafoe Hospital today held four young patients, two more of the Dione quintuplets, An- nette and Cecile, joining Emilie and Marie, suffering with slight head colds. Yvonne “took the air” on the veranda alone. Marie became ill yesterday. Like Annette and Cecile, her temperature hovers around 100 degrees. Emilie’s temperature was normal and she was well on the way to complete re- covery. Dr. A. R. Defoe, physician to the children, said there was still no cause for alarm, adding that the head cold was “running its course.” A few hours after an alleged hit- | Which the citizen has to contend. This | to her apartment in December to and-run accident which cost the life | Practice has been denounced by both ' talk over a “business deal” but that | of Edgar B. Smith, 67-year-old re- | Parties when out of power and adopt- | she refused to talk to them. tired stock broker, a taxicab driver was | ed and extended by both parties when | arrested last night and held for in- |in power. vestigation in connection with thesScheme imaginable more calculated to Carnell, she explained, had been threatening her and extorting small sums of money, no larger than $6 at a time, because he knew about her affair with Beall. Later, Mrs. Lyddane testified, she received two telephone calis from a man she did not know, demarding money. The first time, she explained, she did not have any money, and the second time she agreed to pay the following day. The demand was for $200 and Mrs. Lyddane said she overdrew her ac- count and borrowed $25 to make up the amount. On leaving the bank at the lun-h hour, she said, she saw two men, one standing beside an automotile bear- ing Ohio tags and the other seated | behind the wheel. Mrs. Lyddane said | she handed over the money to them. She expiained she later told her husband and he dffered to zeport to the State's attorney's office. She said she told her husband: “I spent $200 “(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) SECOND EXTRADITION TRY {FOR INSULL IS UNKNOWN Canadian Government Declares No Application Received From Washington. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, April 20.—The Canadian government has received no applica- tion from Washington for a second extradition of Martin Insull to stand trial on charges arising from the col- lapse of the Insull utilities companies. Insull, who retained his British na- tionality all the years he lived in Chicago, was extradited from Canada some months ago, but was acquitted on embezzlement charges. In March he was deported to Canada as an “un- desirable alien” and is living quietly in Orillia, Ontario. 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