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WEATHER. (U 6:15 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages 15,16&17 No. 33,231 HOPKINS IS SLATED FORKEY POST WITH WALKER IN RELIEF F. E. R. A. Chief and Ickes Expected to Sit on Im- portant Board. ALLOTMENT UNIT TO BE APPOINTED BY TONIGHT Admiral Peoples May Be Given Job of Purchasing for Huge Works Program. Ay the Associated Press. As the outlines of President Roose- velt's vast work relief set-up became clearer today, the Capital heard more definitely that Frank C. Walker and | Harry L. Hopkins are destined to| share the most direct responsibility with the Chief Executive in directing | the task of getting 3,500,000 persons; Walker recently was recalled fmmf private business by the President w‘- reassume that directorship of the| National Emergency Council. He also | will handle applications for allotments | from the $4,000,000,000 job-making 9. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; lowest tempera- ture tonight about 46 degrees; northerly winds. Temperatures—Highest, 72, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 47, at Full report page A-12, gentle Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Roosevelt Plans To Give Fireside 'Radio TalkSunday | Speech to Be Principally Devoted to Program for Making Jobs. By the Associated Press. . President Roosevelt will go on the air Sunday night in a resumption of his fireside radio talks to the Nation to discuss the new works-relief program. He will speak, beginning at 10 p.m., for half an hour. ‘ Although the President’s speech will be devoted principally to the program for making jobs, he is expected also to | discuss generally his stewardship of office. It will be the first time Mr. Roosevelt has talked to the people since last September 30. ‘Throughout his recent disputes with some congressional factions over his work-relief bill, the President was urged by some advisers to present his problems to the country via the radio, but he put these suggestions aside. With the bill finally enacted and about to be put into operation, the President was represented today as feeling it vital that he explain the vast undertaking to the Nation. Meanwhile, | he will unfold his organization plans in further statements to the press. RELIEF HEADS USE 1., 0B REGITER ah WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1935—FIFTY PAGES. YOUTH CONFESSES HE SLEW PARENTS 10 GET “REVENGE” Refuses to Elaborate Rea- son for Slaying of Texas Jurist. SHOOTS SELF IN ARM TO BACK HOLD-UP STORY |Killed Mother First, Then Shot Both Through Head, He Declares. | By the Associated Press. | AUSTIN, Tex. April 25.—Howard | | Person, 20, clean-cut and handsome, | said today he killed his father and { mother, Associate Justice William A.| Pierson of the Texas Supreme Court, | and Mrs, Pierson, for “a reason.” After Deputy Sheriffs Sam Rogers‘ and Paul Blair announced he had | confessed, Plerson told newspaper | men he shot his parents to death late | yesterday on & lonely country road | about 15 miles from Austin, where | he had lured them on the pretext of ! viewing a scenic drive. | First he shot his mother. he said, then his father, then he sent a bullet | through the head of each “to make sure they were dead.” Next he shot himself in the left fund, and is descrived generally as|Civil Service Has Eligibles arm, concealed his father's watch and the President’s “personal representa-‘ tive” in that work. i ‘Hopkins, who will continue to ad- | minister direct relief under the new program as long as necessary, is understood to be in line also for a key place on the all-important Allot- | ment Board under the new program. | Appointments Expected. H An announcement will be made to- | night of appointments to this board, | the agency to parcel out the money. The President himself is expected to head this group. | Hopkins’ experience in setting up the | 4,000,000 Civil Works Administration | job in 10 days was said to have made him an almost certain choice for membership on the board. Secretary Ickes, the public works administrator. also has been mentioned for a place, along with several others. The machinery which Mr. Roosevelt {s setting up to spend the work relief fund drew praise and criticism today from opposite sides of the political fence. “It shows,” said Speaker “that he is going to carry out his to Fill Al Positions in Work Drive. ‘The Civil Service Commission can furnish eligibles for all positions to be created for administration of the $4,880,000,000 work-relief fund, it was stated definitely today as plans went forward for gearing up the operating machinery, under the direction of Frank C. Walker. The commission already has before it the first request for personnel, the | Treasury planning to take on by de- | grees some 1,000 additional employes for disbursing activities. Terms Up to President. | To what extent the commission will | be called on will depend primarily on President Roosevelt, who is empowered ‘ by the new law to prescribe the terms of employment—either under civil However, as he has expressed himself purse, his own purse, the .38 caliber revolver and a pasteboard box con- taining eight discharged cartridges in bushes several miles away and re- turned to Austin with a story that two robbers had perpetrated the crime. Leads Officers to Scene. Subsequenty, after nine hours’ grill- ing. he led officers to the place where he had hidden the watch, purses, pis- tol and box, all of which were re- covered. Officers found two other discharged cartridges in the pistol and three at the scene of the killing. In charging the youth formally with ,murder Sheriff Lee Allen said, “We have found the motive.” Pierson told newspaper men he had “a good rea- | !son,” but officers quoted him as say- | | ing he did it for “revenge.” Deputy Blair quoted him as saying he purchased the revolver in Galves- ton last Saturday, driving 100 miles | out of his way to obtain it. Pierson made the confession after | & wild night in which he twice was Byrns, | Service or exempt from its provisions. | taken to the scene, once to direct offi- | cers to the Lodies and again to recover promise to handle the money through | in favor of using commission regis- | the gun and other articles. He also, existing agencies. He is keeping an- other promise by remaining person- ally responsible for expenditures.” Taber Caustic. Representative Taber of New York, ranking Republican member of the Appropriations Committee, which han- dled the relief bill, fired this comment at the job-making set-up: “It is well under control—of the Democratic National Committee!” One official predicted that the com- pleted organization for giving work to 3,500,000 now on relief rolls would include these men and these assign- ' ments: Hopkins, chief of F. E. R. A.. to con- tinue direct relief in communities un- able to care for their destitute unem- ployables, and to take a hand gen- erally in the transfer of 2,500,000 now on work relief to jobs in the New York program. Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples, Treas- ury procurement officer, to supervise purchase of all work relief materials and set up a central agency to buy gome of them. Secretary Ickes, to have a hand in administering more than $1,600,000,- 000 set aside for public works—includ- ing $450,000,000 for low-cost housing. Walker already has taken office as director of the National Emergency Council to maintain a clearing house | for information and application forms | and to check proposals against em- ployment needs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Undersecretary of Agriculture, has been named to direct the resettlement of stranded farm and city families in rural-indus- trial communities and on farms. In addition, Robert Fechner, direc- tor of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Thomas H. McDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, were men- tioned as possible members of the Al- lotment Board. New Agencies Forecast. ‘Tugwell was designated by the President yesterday to direct rural re- settlement projects. Mr. Roosevelt disclosed he would create new agencies to handle grade-crossing elimination and rural electrification, but did not immediately announce who would head them. He named 43 existing governmental agencies to help carry out the work | program and indicated some of these would have to increase their staffs temporarily. Treasury officials said they would need 1.000 extra men to write the checks that will go to those benefitting from the huge program. MILLENS’ KIN HELD IN JAIL-BREAK PLOT Brother and Sister of Condemned Pair Taken on Secret Indictments. By the Associated Press. DEDHAM, Mass., April 25—A ther and sister of Murton and Irv- Millen, who now are awaiting el rocution at State Prison for the slay g of a policeman, were arrested to- ay at their Boston homes for con- piracy to deliver their kin from Ded- | am Jail last January. The brother, Harry, and the sister, rs. Mary Goodman, were taken at eir home on secret indictments rought by the grand jury three weeks go. The conspiracy charges resulted from the attempt of Edward C. Frye to de- liver the brothers January 10. At that time, Prye fired through the jail win- dbw as one of the Millens threw pep- per in the face of a guard. The attempt was unsuccessful. Frye, arrested the same day, pleaded guilty and was due to be sentenced today. ’ | ters, these are expected to constitute the principal source of supply. In going to the commission for its new personnel, the TYeasury was fol- lowing a policy established for han- | dling public works disbursements two years ago. This method of selection | was preferred there even though pub- lic works funds could be expended for hiring non-civil service workers. Some other groups adopted the same prin- | ciple, but there were old line agencies, however, which made patronage ap- pointments. Pay Question Raised. the question was raised today as to whether rate of pay would coincide with the regular Government scale or | be fixed on what might be called a ! | subsistence basis. This matter, how- ever, is one that must be decided by | the President. Unless instructed to the contrary, | the Treasury is proposing to pay the | classification scale just as is‘done for their regular employes. This was the procedure for those workers hired under P. W. A. funds, but it was not followed uniformly throughout the Government. 'TRADING IS RESUMED ON CHICAGO BOARD Market Is Quiet After Holiday Forced by Difficulties of Grain Firm. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 25.—Trading was resumed without excitement today in the grain pits of the Chicago Board of Trade, closed Wednesday by the financial difficulties of the Rosenbaum Grain Corp., one of the biggest firms operating on the Chicago Exchange. ‘Wheat and corn quotations opened slightly higher than Tuesday’s close, but dropped in the first few minutes. Officials of the board predicted the holdings of the Rosenbaum Corp. could be disposed of in half an hour and would cause no disturbance of prices. No definite figures were made public as to the market commitments the corporation had but they were reported to total 4,000,000 bushels. ‘The Rosenbaum Corp., one of the largest grain storage firms in the Nation, put its affairs into the hands of Federal Judge William H. Holly Tuesday, applying for reorganization under section 77-b of the amended bankruptcy act. Its market positions in grain, com- modities and securities were closed out today under rulings of the court. Yesterday plans were worked out to cushion the shock of liquidating the Rosenbaum firm’s business. Navy to Retain Serving on Good news came today to 207 young ensigns when Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of the Bureau of Navi- gation, announced that all have passed their examinations and will remain in the service. Secretary Swanson has approved the findings of the Naval Examining Board, which retains the whole class. ‘The ensigns are of the Naval Acad- emy class of 1933, and since they were handed their diplomas at Anna- polis, Md., have been serving under two-year revocable commissions, in ac- cordance with the present law. They will now be made permanent and take » Along with the new employment, ! was taken to the morgue to view the bodies, during which has calm was not | broken. | “How long had you been planning the killing?"” he was asked. “Not very | long,” he replied. Q. You don't deny that you did it? | A. No. Q. Your mind didn't suddenly go | blank out there, or something of that | sort? A. I remember it all. Q. How many shots were fired? A. I don't know. . Why did you tell your mother and father you were taking them out that road? A. Just to show them a scenic drive. Q’. How did you get them out of the car? A. T told them I wanted to show | them an old Indian grindstone. Q. What do you think your brother will think? (His brother is a gradu- ate student in the University of Chi- | cago.) A. I suppose some one notified him. | He understands my troubles. Q. Did you hit your father? (Judge Pierson had marks on his head as though he had been struck.) Young Pierson’s eyes flashed as he answered: “I didn't do that. fallen.” Q. Why did you shoot your mother first? A. Because she was closest to me. Deputies Rogers and Blair said the former Texas University student told them that after he had killed Justice and Mrs. Pierson, he felt of their bodies and then sent a bullet into the head of each “to make sure they were dead.” * “What did you kill them for?” | Rogers said he asked him. “For re- venge,” he replied. “Do you mean you killed your mother for revenge?” asked Rogers. ‘“Yes,” Pierson said. Bleeding profusely, young Pierson brought the first news of the tragedy to Austin, making his way to a hos- pital in the Pierson automobile. After his wound was dressed he accom- panied officers to the place where the bodies were found. The youth slept soundly about two (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) . TWO SHOT ON BORDER One of Lithuanians Is Reported Killed by Germans. LONDON, April 25 (#).—The Reuter’s correspondent at Kaunas re- ported today that two Lithuanian brothers, Karl and August Einikis, were shot, allegedly by German sol- diers, while crossing the frontier. Karl, he said, was killed outright and August was wounded and taken to a hospital. August was said to have stated that they were crossing the frontier in & legal manner. 207 Ensigns Revocable Basis rank in the order in which they have passed their examinations. . ‘Topping the list of those taking | the examinations are Robert B. Mad- den, Robert A. Gallagher and Ray- mond W. Thompson, jr. The son of former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, Ernest L. Jahncke, jr, was fifty-fifth on the Lst. Another of the fortunate ensigns is William V. Pratt, 2nd, son of Lieut. Col. H. B. Pratt, now on duty at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station at Boston, Mass, and nephew of Rear Admiral Willlam V. Pratt, now re- He must have ¢ Foenin tired, but formerly Chief of Naval Operations | (. WITH SUNDAY MORNING E HARRISON BONUS PLAN VOTED QUT, OTHERS REJECTED Connally Affixes Clause to Provide Cash in Place of Bonds. NO RECORD BALLOT AS BILL IS REPORTED Vinson and Patman Measures Are Turned Down, 12 to 8 and 13 to 4. By the Associated Press. The Harrison bonus compromise, liberalized to provide cash instead of bonds, was approved today by the Sen- ate Finance Committee after the two full-cash-payment proposals had been overwhelmingly rejected. The compromise, for which admin- istration support is claimed, was voted out by the committee without a rec- ord vote after an hour and a half executive session. Previously. the committee had voted. 12 to 8. to substitute the compromise plan for the Vinson cash-payment bill, after the Vinson proposal had been substituted by a 13-to-4 vote for the inflationary Patman bill passed by the House. The major change in the Harrison bill was an amendment by Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, which was supported by Chairman Harri- son, to permit veterans to exchange their adjusted service certificates for cash instead of negotiable bonds as originally proposed. $880,000,000 Needed. ‘The amendment was adopted with- out a record vote. Preliminary esti- inates were that it would require about $880,000,000 in cash, but the total would depend entirely upon how many veterans wanted to hold their certificates until maturity. Arnother amendment adopted by the committee would permit the President in his discretion to pay the cost of the measure out of the recently en- acted $4.880.000,000 work-relief fund. This amendment by Senator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma carried by a vote of 11 to 7. Chairman Harrison predicted. how- ever, President Roosevelt would ";w\er in the world” take advantage of it. ‘The committee also adopted an amendment by Senator Harrison to permit veterans to apply for adjusted service certificates until Janaary 3, 1937. This would be an extension of two years. The original period ex- pired last January. Twe proposals to refund or cut down interest on previous loans oy veterans against their certificates were rejected. An amendment by Senator | Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky to | refund all interest on loans since 1931 was beaten, 14 to 5. A pro- posal by Senator Connally to cut down the interest to 2 per cent was de- feated, 12 to 7. Policy Declaration Refused. Before reporting the bill, the com- mittee overwhelmingly rejected an amendment by Senator Black, Demo- crat, of Alabama to eliminate the pro- posed declaration of policy against | & future pension law for World War by | veterans. Another amendment Senator Gore to refund the World War debts and pay the bonus out of them was rejected, 11 to 7. By its swift action today the com- mitiee disposed of an issue which has been gathering strength in Congress since before the session began. Its action, however, merely transfers the battle to the Senate chamber, where it has been concluded from the first that the veterans’ issue finally would be settled. Sentiment for the cash-payment plan -is known to be proportionally stronger in the Senate than in the committee, but administration leaders were confident the Harrison bill would be the final choice of the Senate. Harrison immediately introduced the compromise measure in the Sen- ate. Patman Bill Beaten. The committee began its delibera- | tions today by taking up the Patman | bill, which passed the House by an overwhelming vote. The first motion, by Senators Clark, Democrat, of Mis- souri and George, Democrat, of Geor- gia, was to substitute the Vinson bill for the Patman measure. The vote, 13 to 4, follows: For the Vinson bill: King, Walsh, ! (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) s M’El;y Girl Plans Plea to Governor To Save Kidnaper | Appeals Tomorrow for| Commutation in McGee Case. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, April 25.—Mary MCcElroy, striking brunette daughter of City Manager H. F. McElroy, said today she would make a personal appeal to- morrow to Gov. Guy B. Park for the commutation of the death sentence awaiting her kidnaper, Walter McGee. She and her father will drive to Jefferson City tomorrow morning, she said, and will present her appeal to Gov. Park some time before noon. Miss McElroy should suggest that justice would ve served and her own life made easier if McGee’s death sentence—set for exe- cution on May 10—were made life im- prisonment. Both Miss McElroy and her father Lave steadfastly refused to comment on the case in any way while it was before the courts. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 25 (#).—The Supreme Court, Division No. 1, today denied a rehearing to Walter H. McGee, under sentence to be hanged in Kansas City May 10 for the kidnap- ing nearly two years ago of Miss Mary MCcEloy, 26, daughter of the city man- ager of Kansas City. One legal pathway still lay ahead for McGee's attorneys—an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. indicated that she | DITION | | Report on Activities Is Turned Over to Cummings. Secretary of War Dern has admin- istered his “‘deepest censure’ 'to Col. Joseph I. McMullen, chief of the patents section, judge advocate gen- eral's office, for “scandalous” business activities and has called these al- legedly improper actions to the at- tention of Attorney General Cum- mings. The rebuke to the Army lawyer | climaxes a long investigation of his activities and those of certain other Army officers by the House Commit- tee or Military Affairs. Chairman McSwain of the committee today dis- closed the War Department’s action in the case when he made public & “(Continued on Page 5, Column 4) n Sfar 1T DOES LOOK News Note—Taxpayers were alarmed at the sight of a steam shovel working in the Treasury grounds. Dern Censures Col. McMullen, | Terming Business ‘Scandalous’ COL. JOSEPH I. McMULLEN. JUDICIARY SQUARE TERMS ACCEPTED | Senate Conferees Approve Clause for $100,000 Hospital Fund. Early enactment of the bill author- |izing the Commissioners to borrow $3,000,000 from the Public Works Ad- | | | ministration to put up several urgently | needed court buildings in Judiciary | Square was made possible this after- | noon when Senate conferees sdccepted the House amendment authorizing a | $100.000 loan for Children’s Hospital. | As soon as the House and Senate ratify the conference report, which is expected within a few days, the bill will be ready for the President’s signature. The conferees who worked out the | agreement this afternoon were Sena- | tors King of Utah, Glass of Virginia | and Capper of Kansas; Representa- | tives Norton of New Jersey. Ellenbogen of Pennsylvania and Dirksen of Tllinois. The bill does not raise the bor- rowing limit of $10,750,000 in the year, but authorizes the Commission- | ers to apply to the Federal agency for loans for these additional pur- poses out of the balance remaining under the present law. The plan of the Commissioners is to erect in Judiciary Square three buildings to house the Police, Juvenile and Municipal Courts, and the record- er of deeds’ office. This program is the firsj step toward modifying the original municipal center plan, which has been held to be too elaborate | for the District to undertake under existing conditions. Under the orig- inal plan, the District was 1equired to buy four squares north of Pennsyl- | vania avenue, between Third and Sixth streets. | It is the hope of District officials | that by placing the small court build- | ings in Judiciary Square, it will be | possible at some later date to dispose | of half of the large Municipal Center site, leaving enough ground in that area for a new District Building whenever the Federal Government requires the District to vacate its present building in the Pennsylvania avenue Mall Triangle. The Children’s Hospital amendment is intended to make possible necessary repairs and improvement. Advocates of the amendment in the House pointed out this will be merely an advance to the hospital toward pay- ment for the treatment of cases that are being sent regularly to the Chil- dren's Hospital by the District | government. v’ — PETRIFIED TREES FOUND Forest Dating From Dim Past Discovered in Russia. TIFLIS, U. 8. 8. R, April 25 (#).— Discovery of a petrified forest dating from & prehistoric age on the slope of the Adshar Mountains was an- nounced here today. Prof. Vinogradov of the Tiflis For- estry Institute, who made the dis- covery, said he found trunks of \many different species of trees, some of gigantic proj ns. ‘The forest was buried beneath the volcanic ash of some unrecorded erup- tion, (3 District’s P. W. A. loan law of last | U.S. CONCERN GETS BIG: SOVIET ORDER $3,000,000 Contract for Metal Sheeting Is Largest of Kind in 15 Years. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘The Soviet government has placed, through the Amtorg Corp., an order | for $3,000,000 with the United En- | gineering & Foundry Co. of Pitts- burgh for metal sheeting. This is the largest order of the kind placed in the United States by aay foreign country in the last 15 years. Amtorg officials state that further orders will be placed in the course of the coming Summer, despite the fact that the trade and debt nego- tiations between the Soviet govern- ment and the United States have failed. | Russian factories which are equip- ped with American machinery are expanding at present and the Soviet | government intends to continue the | purchase of American machinery de- | spite the deadlock which exists in the debt negotiations. U. S. Not Involved. ‘The purchases are paid partly in cash and partly on credit, but the United States Government, is not in- ‘}volved in these transactions, which | concern only the Soviet purchasing agency 1n this country and American industrialists. ‘The State Department lcoks favor- ably upon these transactions without assuming any responsibility. Despite the desire of the Soviet government to negotiate a reciprocal trade agreement on the pattern of those negotiated with Cuba. Belgium, Haiti and other countries, it is point- ed out at the State Department that such negotiations are impossible. The Soviet government has a trade monopoly and consequently there are no tariffs on merchandise which are purchased abroad. There are certain taxes for handling the goods in the Soviet ports of entry and that is all. Oonsequently it is impossible for this Government to negotiate a trade agreement based on reciprocal tariff concessions with a country where there are no tariffs. FH¥ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 30,503 Some Returns Not Yet Received. 3 =z ) ‘T\\\ NN N\ | HAMILTON T0 HELP £.0.P.SET-UPHERE | Kansas Committeeman to Come to Capital to Push Campaign. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. In line with its revival of fighting spirit, the Republican National Com- | mittee is planning to bring to Wash- | ington headquarters John Hamiiton, | nationai committeeman for Kansas and general counsel of the commit- tee. Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the ! national committee announced today | that Hamilton would join the head- quarters staff here. He will assist the chairman in organization work, and is to take up his residence here, s Associated Press. TWO CENTS. TIGENTQUOTATION REVEALED AS STEP FOR §1.29 SILVER Treasury Intent on Building Up Stocks to One-Third Ratio With Gold. GOVERNMENT FAR SHY OF 25 PER CENT BASE Morgenthau Points Out New In- crease Is in Accordance With 1934 Act. By the Associated Press Secretary Morgenthau said today the Treasury would continue to buy silver until it reached $1.29 an ounce, or until Treasury stocks equaled one-third of the total gold. The Treasury head said last night's action in boosting the Federal price for domestic mined metal to 77.57 cents an ounce, as well as previous actions in elevating the price, was simply carrying out a mandate of Congress. Unless total stocks reach the stipulat- ed point first, price boosts are slated to continue until the world price reaches $1.29. Morgenthau was referring to the silver purchase act passed last Sum- mer, which required that the bullion base should be in the proportions of 75 per cent gold and 25 per cent silver. Far Shy of Silver Base. He pointed out that there was no time limit set for building up the stocks to the required levels. Treasury statistics show the Gov- ernment stil is far shy of its required 25 per cent silver base. ‘The latest Treasury statement., as of April 23, reveals that silver stocks of $2.900,046,727 would be necessary to equal one-third of the gold assets of $8700.140,182 on that date. As against this the Treasury had stocks of only $931.414.722, or $1.968,632.005 short of the required total. The Treasury's silver assets con- sisted of $801.891,201 in silver and silver dollars, listed as “silver assets": $4.253.601 of subsidiary silver coin, | which means dimes, quarters and half dollars; silver bullion of a cost value | of $114.566.895. and silver bullion with a recoinage value of $10.703.025 Silver Senators said Morgenthau's announcement was in compliance i with the silver purchase act. Under it, they pointed out again. the Treasury is compelled to continue | but will be available for work in the Pt sty | buying silver until the price reaches 18120 an ounce. or until the si- Mr. Hamilton was in Washington | ver monstary stocks #n the Treasury yesterday. in conference with Chair- | are at s ratio of 1 fo 3 With the gold man Fletcher. Today he had break- | monetary stock fast with Senator Capper of Kansas ' p, < : nd then left by plane to return to j, m‘l“‘imfl :‘n‘fie?t‘:fdgg;%o: a } Al Kans chases, the law is man [ Senator Capper expressed ‘PP“""‘:u)mm(e effect. Andatocy ot China Shows Concern. | an assistant to the chairman at head- | certainty was the possibility that point of view. of conditions in Kan- | of sijver would continue to rise after Hamilton expects to return 10| present price of gold, would be above Senator King, Democrat of Utah, | he is comparatively a young man,‘saxd. on the other hand. that if the | of the appointment of Hamilton 8S| " gjjver Senators said the only un- g‘e“m:‘mh;;'-“‘mg"e :loartk.m should | Congress might change its mind. Bation Reougit fo Wakinglon = They did not !orssee_any such change. o the emeanean | . 10 fact, Senator Wheeler, Democrat . | of Montana, predicted that the price g;t‘ndfle‘»“:‘; tshl:fi’rg:idlel::x :;g::f | reaching the American statutory price | it papinity whs e e wews dis- | of $1.29 an ounce. He would like to tinetly in that section of the country. Lot kgl s o gt -{of 16 to 1 with gold, which, at the Washington in a few weeks and to $2 an ounce. remain here for a year. i { As an organizer, Hamilton has had | both experience and success, although | | There was a definite drive to make | price went above $1.29 the Govern- him chairman of the national com- | ment would begin to sell, but would | mittee at the Chicago meeting last | always hold the price up to $1.29 un- { June when Everett Sanders of In-|less the law was changed. | diana and Washington was stepping | Meanwhile the continued concern out of that office. When the roll was | of China over this Government's silver called, Hamilton received a very cred- | policy was informally given to Secre- itable vote, particularly when it was | tary Hull by the Chinese Minister, Dr. considered that the controlling and Sze. That Government has previously key men in the committee had ! protested the policy as detrimental to reached an agreement on the election | Chinese economic affairs. of Chairman Fletcher, China is now faced, Sze said, with Aids Parley Plan. | Hamilton was a prime mover in the | plan for a Midwest regional Republi- | can conference, which has been so prominently mentioned in recent weeks as a sign of a resurgence of Republican spirit and sentiment. He “(Continued on Page 4, Column 1. 'BELTSVILLE FARM OFFICIAL IS OUSTED {Earl W. Sheets Discharged by Agriculture Department After Probe. Earl W. Sheets, co-ordinator of the 1 Beltsville, Md., experimental farm, was | discharged by the Department of Ag- riculture today, effective May 15. The action against the former chief | of the department's Division of Ani- mal husbandry is the culmination of a three-month probe of charges of “neglect of duty, maladministration and misfeasance.” | Sheets was implicated in certain al- | leged irregularities concerning a P. | W. A. $1,000,000 construction program at Beltsville. “25 Years of Robbery,” Shout Communists at King’s Jubi By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 25.—King George's silver jubilee was described today as “25 years of robbery” in a manifesto issued by Communist leaders of the so-called “London Pirst of May Com- mittee.” The manifesto urged work- ers to join in a monster May day demonstration. “On May 6 the ruling class will celebrate 25 years of robbcry of workers in which millions of our brothers have been slain, mutilated, gassed and tortured,” the mamfesto says, - “Let them have their Alay 6 and their jubilee; we have n» cause to rejoice. Our day is May 1. March on that day to give s clear and de- termined reply of the working class.” The Communist newspaper, Dally 4 lee 1 Worker, declared all but the chpapest seats at vantage points from (which | to view the procession are |going begging. Meanwhile electricians swarmed about London’s historic spots. Famous landmarks, freshly scrubbed/ and made gay by decorations and flowers, will be illumined from dusk dawn for periods varying from a fgrtnisht to a month, beginning with a¢ccession day light to flower beds, and shrubs. Famous Whitehall is now helping Harrison Spax}glzr_.‘ the same situation as existed in the United States in 193 (Continued o | PR L 'STOCKS SWEPT UP IN BUYING WAVE | Silver Issues Take Leadership | With Rise of $1 to $6 a Share. Industrials Also Gain. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 25—A fresh buying wave, with silver stocks on its crest, swept through the New York Stock Exchange today. Some of the non-ferrous metal is- sues rose $1 to $6 a share and a num= ber of industrial shares advanced $1 to $2, in the most active trading in months. Many issues reached new | highs for 1935. The upswing in shares was a con- | tinuation of the movement which has been under way since March. Fresh momentum was provided by the rise in the Treasury's silver price to 77.57 cents an ounce, from the 71.11 cents fixed a fortnight ago. Speculators ¢omplained, however, that there were Yut a -handful of the stocks that might be called silver is- sues listed, and that most of them had the bulk of their production out- side the United States. While some quarters saw inflation- ary implications in the silver pro- gram, markets generally failed to fol- low a distinctly inflationary pattern. United States Government bonds held up well and commodities were mixed. Guide for Readers After Dark.... Amusements Comics Finance ... Lost and Found Radio ...... Serial Story Short Story. 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