Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1935, Page 2

NEW DEAL SCORED IN ROPER COUNCIL Sév_eral Members Threaten to Quit on Suppression of Criticisms. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt has challenged the right of the Chamber of Commerce to speak for the business and industry “of the country and has sought to give the impression that the Business and Advisory Couacil, which was formed under the guidance of Secretary Roper of the Department of Commerce, is more friendly to the administration than was the Chamber of Commerce. But it was reported today that sev- | eral members of the Roper council were threatening to resign because of what they termed privately a lack of candor between the administration and the public in suppressing parts of | the report submitted by the Business and Advisory Council to the President on Thursday. Whenthe Chamber of Commerce adopted a set of resolutions opposing some of the New Deal policies, it was announced that the Roper council would meet with the President and that the meeting had been arranged et the request of the council. Many prominent business men who are known to hold views similar to those expressed in the Chamber of Commerce resolutions are on the Roper council and there was surprise, therefore, when administration pub- licity sought to make it appear that business men were divided and that the Roper council had a different idea from the Chamber of Commerce. The facts are that the Roper council submitted three things to Mr. Roose- velt. One was a suggestion that the N. R. A. be extended for two years in exactly the form in which it is now on the statute books, but not with the enlarged powers inserted in the ad- ministration bill. The second item was an indorse- ment in principle of social security legislation, but a pointed comment on the difficuities of the pay roll tax. The third was a comprehensive statement about the dangers to re- covery and to the investors in public utility holding and operating com- panies if the Wheeler-Rayburn bill were passed. Utllity Reference Omitted. All reference to this utility legisla- tion was omitted from the information made public by the administration, and it is understood the objections raised to other parts of the President’s program were also withheld. The members of the Roper council who feel this is a distortion of their true position were busy explaining to various members of the Chamber of Commerce that they were not parties to the one-sided statements issued by the administration, and that, unless the full reports were made public, there would be resignations. Talk of resignation as a group was heard, but this step is unlikely. The statement on public utilities laid before the President has been carefully guarded and copies of it were unavail- able today, but it is known that the document pointed out the burdens that would be placed on operating com- panies if the section of the proposed bill referring to Federal regulation of operating companies were retained. Also it was declared that the Federal Government should confine its regu- latory power to the cumpanies that <were engaged in the transportation of electricity from State to State. Most pointed, however, was the declaration that holding companies were essential to the safety of opera 4ng companies, not only when ini grated in units on a geographical basis, put also when giving financial support | Yo operations of utilities in different | parts of the country. Mystery Shrouds Silence. Just why the White House made no | ~mention of the attack on this most “Amportant part of the President’s pro- gram remained a mystery today. It| was generally believed that the Presi- dent was shocked and astonished by the intensity of the opposition to his Eognm at the meeting of the Cham- | r of Commerce. In meeting the | ress Friday. the President indicated | is doubts about the representative tharacter of the Chamber of Com- imerce of the United States. This probably will be met by a referendum throughout the country on the atti- tude of local chambers of commerce . toward pending measures. © It is a serious thing for the Presi- dent of the United States and the business and industrial leaders of the country to get into an open conflict, especially when it is so important that all elements should co-operate to bring recovery. The business spokesmen say, how- ever, that ever since last September they have been trying to co-operate, and have appointed committees to confer and have tried in every way to present their point of view to the administration, but the result has been either a pigeon-holing of recom- mendations or an outright refusal to take into account the proposals made for the economic improvement of the country. The real difficulty, of course, is that Mr. Roosevelt has a political mind and the business men think in -gtraight lines, This leads to a rigidity on the part of business men and perhaps too much flexibility where the President is concerned, especially as #t relates to left wing and radical pressure upon him. Understanding Keported. ‘There is a report, for example, that, @ few days ago, while conferring with What’s What | Behind News In Capital Confusion Follows Yes and No Attitudes on N. R. A. Compromise. BY PAUL MALLON. \HE atmosphere is not the only thing which has been balmy around here lately. The boys who have been negotiating the N. R. A. compromise have been at least 20 degrees hotter and dizzier than the temperature. For instance, congressmen emerged from President Roosevelt’s office one day and announced they had been un- able to agree about an N. R. A. com- promise. Shortly thereafter, efficient Senator Pat Harrison announced to his Finance Committee that the Presi- dent would accept the compromise. Chairman Doughton, at the other side of the Capitol. immediately implied the President would not. New Dealer Roper praised the com- promise, indicating it had administra- tion approval. N. R. A.-er Harrimar® in a press conference then railed against the compromise, indicating it was unacceptable. When Harriman was told what Roper had said, he decided to see Co-ordinator Richberg, who ap- parently was co-ordinating some- thing else at that moment. Mr. Harriman returned with the news that Mr. Richberg would not utter a word and implied that Richberg was in a condition of silent dejec- tion about the compromise. But when New Dealer Roper learned what N. R. A.-er Harriman had said, he sent out word to cancel his original approval of the compromise. It was canceled by newspapers between edi- tions. To top it all off, the administration Senators then approved the compro- mise in the Senate Finance Committee and reported it to the Senate. This jeft nearly every one in a complete state of confusion as to who was for what, if anything. President’s Attitude. The answer to all this unco-ordi- nated commenting is simple. What | Mr. Roosevelt actually said in the first place was that he did not approve the compromise, but he wouwd not| veto it, if Congress approved it. This was the same as telling Congress to go ahead and approve it, because Congressmen were ready to grasp any | way out. It did not take them long to catch on, but some of the New Dealers required a little longer time. As every good prisoner knows, it is sometimes necessary to create con- | fusion in order to escape. That is what seems to have been done in this instance. The confusion, however, has only | started. Those who favor the N R. A. | and those who are against it appar- | | ently believe they are accomplishing | their purposes in the compromise. One side is going to be fooled. | The best inside opinion is that the compromise is merely a side-step. It does not mean anything, except that N. R. A. prestige may suffer. The compromise proposed two | “changes”: (1) Abolition of price con- | trol, and (2) withdrawal from intra- State business. What those two changes amount to will depend on who interprets them. And the an- swer to that is the N. R. A. will in- terpret them until the Supreme Court | does. ‘This means the Supreme Court and not Congress will decide the future of the N. R. A. The inside on abolishing price= fizing is this: The N. R. A. out- lawed price-firing, as such, siz months ago. It abolished direct price regulations in several codes at that time, and more recently in the lumber code. But it did not abolish the steel basing point sys- tem and similar little devices which it does mot conmsider to be price- fzing. These little devices will be retained if = compromise is adopted by Con- gress, although they are certainly in- direct price-fixing. { Possible Destruction. Also you may suspect it means de- struction of the N. R. A. if you abolish its control over intra-State business. The secret of that is the N. R. A. never considered any of its activities as influencing intrastate business. It has always agreed that it never had any influence over business conducted purely within a State. It stretched its legal imagination somewhat when it adopted the service codes (for hotels, restaurants, etc.), which do not appear to be in inter- state commerce. But it can still PEACE ADVOGATES HEARDOVERWORLD League Sponsors Broadcast world yesterday as the Women’s In- ternational League for Peace and Freedom sponsored simultaneous radio broadcasts from five nations. Fifteenth and K streets, members and guests of the league took occasion to honor famous peace crusader, and to hear representatives of four other nations in person and by radio. This year is the league’s founding. Becretary of the Interior, and ehair- man of the Anniversary Committee of the league, presided at the observ- ance yesterday. As first of the guest speakers, Mrs. Ickes introduced S8ir Ronald Lindsay, Great Britain, who, in turn, intro- duced Viscount Cecil and Arthur Henderson, who spoke by radio from London. Ambassador, next addressed the as- sembly here, radio greetings from Mme. Krupskaya, widow of Lenin, and Mme. Litvinoff, both speaking from Moscow. ner at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A., last night, Miss Elizabeth Wheeler presid- ing. Later in the evening a visit and informal meeting was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Phillips. “APE MAN” GETS DEATH Los Angeles Man, However, Is| By the Associated Press. | Dugger. called the “ape man” because of attacks March, was convicted of kidnaping robbery, burglary and criminal as. sault and his punishment fixed at death by a Superior Court jury yes- terday. the jury of seven men and five women | with no display of emotion. guilty by reason of insanity, and is yet to have a hearing on the latter plea. charges, Dugger's attorney, C. V. Rude, explaining the case would rest on the question of his sanity. was beaten so severely by Dugger that she was confined in a hospital for 12 days. the beating she received at Dugger's | hands cost her the sight of one eye. Mrs. Evelyn Johnson was reported the | third victim. DR. S1Z00 TO BE GUEST Plans for Interchange of Minis- By the Associated Press. announced last night for sending 17 ministers abroad during the coming Summer to represent this country in the annual goodwill interchange of preachers France and the United States. Avenue Presbyterian Church, Wash- jogton, D. C., will represent America in the leading churches of Great Britain as guest of the British Coun- cil of Interchange. Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, Rev. Frank Jennings and Right Rev. Warren L. Rogers of Cleveland: Rev. Albert B. Coe, Oak Park, Ill; Rev. Hugh S. Mackenzie, Chicago; Rev. Clarence A. Spaulding, River Forest, Ill, and Rev. Harry C. Rogers, Kansas City, Mo. will bring six English and Scottish preachers to North America, were made jointly by the World Alliance for International Friendship, the Fed- eral Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and the Church Peace Union, the latter acting as executive agency. stretch its imagination after the com- promise is adopted. FURORE OVER MILITARY President Puts ‘‘Closed Incident” of Leaders Featuring Miss Jane Addams. Voices of peace echoed around the Gathered in McPherson Square, Miss Jane Addams, world twentieth anniversary of the Mrs, Ickes Presides. Mrs, Harold L. Ickes, wife of the Ambassador from Ambassadors from England, Russia and Japan yesterday attended a celebration in honor of Jane Addams and the Twentieth Anniversary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, in McPherson Square here. Left to right: Japanese Ambassador, Hirosi Saito; Russlan Ambassador, A. Troyanovsky: Mrs. Han- nah Clothier Hull, president of the Women’s International League; Mrs, Harold L. Ickes, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, and British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay. Alexander Troyanovsky, Russian prior to reception of Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador, introduced Prince Tokugawa, speaking in Tokio. Paris after his introduction here by Jules Henry, counselor of the French Embassy. Paul Boncour spoke from Miss Addams Speaker, From New York came the greetings of Norman Davis and finally, upon in- troduction of Miss Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, came a radio address from Miss Ad- dams. After the outdoor observance a group of delegates visited the White House to present its plea for “scholar- ships, not warships.” The league held an anniversary din- FOR ATTACKS ON WOMEN Yet to Have Hearing on Plea pal of Insanity. LOS ANGELES, May 4.—Edward on three women last Dugger recelved the verdict from by He had pleaded not guilty and not No defense was made to the Miss Lela Embree, 55, testified she | its yet Mrs. Eugenia Quickenden said —_— on IN ENGLISH PULPITS| ters of U. 8. and Britain This | of Summer Announced. mul NEW YORK, May 4.—Plans were among Great Britain, Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo of the New York Others going abroad include Rev. of Plans for the interchange, which TESTIMONY HELD ENDED Label on Sensation Created by House Committee. tain today. ing gun was awaited. and officlals of eager States and FO0D MAY RAISE W WORSS PAY Rising Cost of 11 Per Cent in 6 Months Brings Study of Proposal. By the Associated Press. As President Roosevelt called for a list of projects to be submitted next | week for consideration in the work- relief program, authoritative sources | said today that officials were studying | the higher than the $50-a-month average | previously mentioned. Rising food prices were said to be behind this move. creased 11 per cent in the past six months, according to official statistics. Officials declined to be quoted by name, but acknowledged that a sur- vey lected in an attempt fo present & cross-section of the Nation’s munici- | BREMER KIDNAPING advisability of paying wages ‘They have in- of living costs in 59 cities, se- ities, is now under way. The idea is to check these figures against re- gional wage scales prepared for the Works Allotment Board. Wages Vary in Sections, Wages are expected to differ in va- rious sections. Some time ago officials said that though they might average $50 & month, they might range from $20 for some types of labor in South- ern States to $100 for some classes of skilled work in New York City. The Works Allotment Board, headed Secretary Ickes, is to be called into session Tuesday to consider projects that have been presented. President Roosevelt There was no indication, however, of where work would start first. The time when the huge $4,000,000,- 000 fund will be swung into action in disclosed this yesterday. manifold phases remained uncer- Mr. Roosevelt has not issued the executive orders giving legal status to the boards headed by the “big three” of the drive—Ickes, Harry L. Walker. Rural electrification is ready to start, the President said yesterday, while the Civilian Conservation Corps will begin construction of new camps Hopkins and Frank C. May 15 and enlistment of addi- tional members on June 15. Officials Seek Funds. ‘The lines of callers in the offices works officials grew as the start- Job seekers nicipalities were here to do what they could to push their requests. President Roosevelt said the ap- plications division, headed by Walker, has acted informally on some of the| requests for money that have poured into Washington. ‘Word came from Morris L. Cooke, head of the rural electrification divi- sion, that organization of the division had started and tions are being analyzed. The President disclosed that munici- palities which have no funds will get help on easier terms than those which have money in their treasury. Earmarking of money for high- ways has struck a snag as a result at project sugges- a congressional rule that popula- tion and mileage are to be considered | as well as the number of unemployed in the area. ALUMINUM COMPANY SUED FOR 150 MILLION Infringement on Patent for Tem- pering of Light Alloys Claimed by Iowa Man. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 4—Suit for $50,- 000,000 actual damages and an addi- tional $100,000,000 punitive damages was on file ih United States District Court yesterday against the Aluminum Company of America in behalf of Glen Lenardo Willlams of Scott Caught HARRY SAWYER. SUSPECT CAPTURED BY FEDERAL AGENTS _fCoptinued From First Page.) recently located by Justice agents. He was released after a bundle of $200,- 1 000 in currency had been tossed into a ditch in response to the flashing of signal lights by the kidnapers. | Sawyer was to be arraigned today | before a United States commissioner | nreparatory to his return to St. Paul. He has been indicted on charges of | conspiracy to kidnap Bremer. There are now only four other al- leged members of the Karpis-Barker kidnap syndicate at large, Hoover said. They are Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell, who shot their way out of an Atlantic City hotel several months ago when police tried to, arrest them, and Volney Davis and Wilile Weaver. | All are wanted for conspiracy to Kid- | nap the St. Paul banker. | Karpis and Campbell fled from the { Miami_fortress in which Fred and | “Ma” Barker died a few hours before the place was raided by Federal men. It is possible that Sawyer also had been at the Miami hideout. In Pass Christian Sawyer was using the name “Wright.” He had not at- tempted to disguise himself otherwise. Sawyer has a long criminal record, | dating back to 1914, when he pleaded guilty to robbing offices of the Stand- ard Oil Co. at Lincoln, Nebr. He was paroled immediately under a 3-year- sentence. Subsequently he was con- victed of grand larceny and has been arrested from time to time on charges {angmz from robbery to bond jump- ng. The bureau declares he fled from tors. When arrested in Mississippi tag. —_— POLISH SPY, RELEASED BY REICH, IS HIDING Whereabouts Unknown Even to farents, Who Work to Keep Minds Off Son’s Fate. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, May 4.—The where- abouts of Baron George Sosnowski, Polish spy who was given his freedom by Germany in exchange for three German spies held in this counatry. was unknown today even to his own parents, Sosnowskl was belleved in hiding, fearing possible attacks on his life. His parents, who live at Milanowek, cear Warsaw, busied themselves with work to keep their minds off his fate. Well-to-do, they live in a_handsome villa and ere interested in charity and social work, Such communication as the parents have had from the baron indicated —Wide World Photo. APARTMENT BLAZE: TAKES FIVE LIVES Seven Also in Hospitals. Three Playing Boys Are Blamed. By the Associated Press. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 4— Five persons are dead and seven in hospitals today, the victims of a fire which trapped them in a four- story frame apartment house. Police said the fire was started by | three small boys playing near an out- | side stairway. The first stream of water turned on the blaze knocked | over a can of gasoline and sent the flames racing through the building. Those killed were: | Herbert E. Seifts, 34; his wife, | Mary, 30; their two children, Joan, 3, | and Rose Marie, 1, and Shirley El- more, 7. ‘They were found huddled together on the floor near a front window of | the Seifts’ third-floor apartment last | night. A coroner said he believed all | died of asphyxiation before the flames reached them Firemen carried Mrs. Clifford El- more, mother of Shirley, and three of her children from the top-floor apart- ment. Her other child was visiting | the Seifts. 1 | 'The buildings on either side of the | apartment house, two brick stores, | were destroyed. Damage was esti- | { mated by Fire Chief Christ W. Noll | at $25,000. | Police Capt. Joseph V. Shelly said | the three boys had confessed setting | the fire. Because of their ages, rang- ing from 3 to 7 years, he would not reveal their names. = |GARNETT IS DEFENDED BY BAR ASSOCIATION St. Paul about February 7, 1934, the | date of Bremer’s release by his cap- | he was driving a car with a Nebraska | AND BARRISTERS’ CLUB (Continued From Pirst Page) | as the reason for postponement ut’ { action on the committee report last Wednesday. Several members insisted they were totally unfamiliar with the developments during the investigation and were not in a position to pass on the committee’s recommendations. Business and civic leaders rallied to the defense of Police Superinten- dent Ernest W. Brown. Three justices of the District Su- preme Court—Jennings Bailey, James M. Proctor and Oscar R. Luhring— representing the entire bench of that court—called on Attorney General Cummings in Garnett's behalf yes- terday. . Interview Confirmed. The delegation declined to comment, but Henry Suydam, special assistant | to the Attorney General, made the following announcement: - “A delegation of three justices rep- resenting all of the justices of the District Supreme Court called on the Attorney General and made strong representation for Leslie C. Garnett, United States attorney for the District of Columbia. No other statement will be made.” Later, reporters discovered Repre- sentative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, leaving Cummings’ office. He told them the purpose of his visit was to present the Attorney General with a “May day bouquet.” Active for Headley. Blanton has been active in the de- fense of Inspector Albert J. Headley, the only police official singled out by the Crime Committee for censure. Headley, under the so-called “gentle- men’s agreement” between Blanton and Maj. Brown, would have been advanced to the rank of assistant su- perintendent upon the retirement of Inspector Thaddeus R. Bean. Bean, incidentally, has changed his plans about retiring June 1, and is expected now to wait until July 1. He sald he had been invited to lead the Shrine parade in June and did {GARNETT 1S HELD |oday issued a statement, in which he NOTELESSVICTIM E..' Hilton Jackson, Former Associate, Protests to Cummings. ‘The Crime Committee report was sharply scored, todsy by E. Hilton Jackson, attorney, former associate of District Attorney Garnett, as another evidence of “injustice” foisted on this city because the District has no | voice in Congress. | Jackson formally protested agaipst the report, by writing a letter to| Attorney General Cummings and to- stoutly defended Garnett. “Not until the citizens of the Dis- trict of Columbja are given the in- alienable right of having a vote in their own affairs,” said Jackson, “can these or other items of injustice be remedied.” In his letter to the Attorney Gen- eral, Jackson said, “It is with pro- found regret and amazement that I read the report of the Crime Com:- mittee, which bears evidence on its face of being largely the work of one who was both prosecutor, judge | and executioner. Protests Process. “It is hardly conceivable that we have fallen upon times where char- | acter may be assassinated with im- punity and reputation blighted with- | qut some semblance at least to due process of law.” | Declaring that since the Attorney | General appointed the district attor- rey and had supervision of the office, Jackson said any such investigation would more properly have been made by the Department of Justice itself. “If the committee had contemplated an impartial investigation of Garnett's office,” said Jackson, “it is not under- HUNGARY WANTS EQUALITY IN ARMS Participation in Danubian Pact Is Conditioned on Grant of Parity. - By the Assoclated Press. VENICE, Italy, May 4.—Hungary insisted that some guarantee of her claims to arms parity must be made before she could sign a Danubian | pact today as she opened a three- power conference with Italy and Austria. Appealing to the other two for sup- port of her claims, the Hungarian delegate said he would be contented at first with recognition of a theoreti- cal right to arms equality, Meet in Hitler's Former Room. ‘The three powers met in Adolf Hitler's former room in' the Grand Hotel to map the course of action they will take when the Danubian conference is held in Rome in June, at which 10 powers will attempt to settle rearmament problems. The irony of history demanded that the very room where Hitler stayed while studying his papers for & meet- ing with Premier Mussolini, should be | selected for a conference made neces- sary by the Reichsfuehrer's growing power. The room looks out in the Grand Canal, directly facing the beautiful centuries-old palace bought by Prince Alexis Mdivani with money supplied by Barbara Hutton, now divorcing him. Suvich Inspects Room. At the same time Fulvio Suvich,. stood why they should have selected | as the ‘prosecutor’ of this committee | an inexperienced former assistant of | Garnett. whose separation from the | office was precipitated by & contro- versy between him and one of the | judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Regardless of | the merits of such separation, an im- | partial mind is not able to grasp the | propriety, under the principles of | Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, of select- | ing & potential enemy to act in the dual capacity of prosecutor and judge, a situation implicit in the investiga- tion and findings of the Crime Com- i mittee, Knew Garnett Long Time. “I have known Mr. Garnett over a long period of years and for several years he was associated with me in | my office suite in the practice of law, both in the District of Columbia and in Virginia. During this period I was associated with Mr. Garnett in litiga- | tion of the first importance in both jurisdictions, and throughout was in constant conference with him with re- spect to the most complicated legal matters. As a result of this contact, I formed the opinion, which I now en- tertain, that Mr. Garnett was a lawyer of unusual ability, both in the trial of cases and in conference, and that his approach to all legal questions was characterized by the highest in-| tegrity.” In his statement Jackson further praised Garnett, declaring that the office of district ‘attorney in this juris- | diction “is primarily of an ldmlnls-l trative and semi-judicial character, and that qualifications for the dis- | charge of its cuties do not necessarily { involve a meticulous memory as to the | penalties imposed by a multitude of criminal statutes or the incidental rules of court procedure.” Charges Petty Questions, | The examination of Garnett by the committee, Jackson charged, “was art- | fully designed to disclose a lack of knowledge of certain details on the part of the district attorney, having nothing to do with the larger and more fundamental aspects of the ad- ministration of this important office.” Explaining the office was adminis- trative and semi-judicial, Jackson declared: “It is not commonly real- ized that the district attorney is must be decided the question as to what cases shall be prosecuted and what cases shall be dismissed. He has to examine the evidence and de- termine in & great many cases, whether the evidence shall be pro- duced to the grand jury for an in- dictment, and after indictments have been made by the grand jury, he has to weigh the evidence to determine whether it is proper to prosecute or to enter a nolle prosequi.” Turning to the voteless condition of this city, Jackson tied this di- rectly with the “injustice” of the Crime Committee report. Rights Ignored. “The situation brought to the front by this report” he said, “has more far-reaching results than its immedi- ate subject matter. The deprivation of a population now equaling about one-sixth of the population of the original 13 Colonies at the time of the Revolution, of the right of suf- frage has resulted in endless contro- versy in and out of Congress over the administration of strictly local affairs. The exclusive jurisdiction of Congress in the realm of legislation over the District of Columbia has been too often, though unwittingly. used as an excuse for ignoring the rights of a population much larger than many of the 48 States of the Union. The ever increasing exemp- tion of real estate from taxation, due to the large property holdings of the national Government, has already re- sulted in the removal of at least 40 largely a judicial officer, for by him’ Italian undersecretary for foreign af- fairs, was looking over the conference room. Suvich arrived from Rome, spent several hours at the hotel, and then went to the station to meet Kolomon von Kanya, Hungarian min- ister of foreign affairs, and Egon Ber- ger-Waldenegg, Austrian minister of foreign affairs. The three statesmen later visited the Titian exhibition before the meet- ng. Eight persons are sitting at the con- ference table. They include the three men, each with an assistant, and the Hungarian and Austrian Ministers to Rome. Differences Reported. Diplomatic quarters said there were differences of opinion among the dele- gates on the cve of the conference The fundamental one was said to be the question of whether the three na- tions should present & united front at the Danubian conference Hungary, it was said, wants Austria and Italy to line up with her in her desire for rearmament and parity of rights. Italy is opposed to a united front on the ground it would serve to unite the Little Entente against the other three nations. Austria, it was said, would like to support Hungary, but does not wish to offend Italy. BRAZIL SHUNS DEBTS President Getulio Vargas Reports None Recently Contracted. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 4 (#).— | President Getulio Vargas in a message | to Brazil's first regular session of Con- | gress since 1930 said yesterday the | government had contracted no new | foreign debts during the past year and accords had been reached with ilh? United States and England tc thaw frozen commercial credits. He remarked on cotton's rise to second place among Brazil's exports and emphasized the governmentt pacific policy in foreign affairs, { PHILIPPINE ;REBELS | SEEK JAPAN'S AID AGAINST AMERICA (Continued From First Page) the Ipo gold mine in Bulacan Frovince today, indicating their rebellion. whick | claimed 60 lives, was still simmering A constabulary detachment was dis- | patched from Manila about the same | time to investigate a report several | nundred of the extremists had en- | trenched themselves in a hill cave in the same province. Provinces to Be Patrolled. Authorities said provinces arounc Manila ‘which were the scene of thir week's abortive insurrection will be well patrolled through May 14. date of the plebiscite on the new Philippine commonwealth constitution, which the Sakdalistas oppose. They advocate immediate independence, whil> under the commonwealth government com- plete independence would be delayed 10 years. Quintin Paredes, Speaker of the in- sular House of Representatives, an- nounced the Legislature would inves. tigate the activities of two Sakdalista members of the House for whom sedi- tion warants were issued. Ramos Is Blamed. Constabulary officers declared they | nad evidence Benigno Ramos, reputed | head of the Sakdalistas, directed the uprising from Tokio, where he has been living since December. The officers said they had inter- cepted a letter in which Ramos prom- ised to senc a “shipload” of munitions to_the rebels from Japan. Insular authorities scouted reports County, Iowa, formerly of Detroit, Mich. The bill, filed by Attorney Adolph H. Kohlhammer of Rock Island, Ill, al- leged the defendant company in- fringed on a patent for “tempering of light alloys” held by the plaintiff since November 17, 1925. not want to leave the department until after that event. SRR 105 ARE SENTENCED 11 to 14 Months’ Terms Given for Rudeness to Police. NAPLES, Italy, May 4 (#).—Penal sentences ranging from 11 to 14 months were given yesterday to 50 persons held on an “exile island” off Naples. The island’s total popula- tion 'of 268, including many women, was placed under arrest recently. Pifty-five others previously had been given prison terms for dis- to police officials and other infractions of rules, an important group of Democratic Senators, an apparent understanding was reached, only to have a contrary viewpoint expressed by Senator La ‘' Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, and the President is reported to have immediately changed to the La Fol- lette side of the controversy. On Capitol Hiil, this is bein, referred to as one of the difficulties in insuring co-operation betwéen the Executive .and the leaders of his own party. As for the business men, they real- {ze that cynical remarks about their suj lack of interest in human rights doubtless will continue to be issued by the administration as a ‘means of adding to a public opinion . already colored by administration at- . tacks heretofore, but that, as bil- lions upon billions have been and his despair at the fact he could not die with one of the two German womea of noble birth who were be- headed for complicity in his opera- tions. They were the Baroness Benita von Berg and Frau Renate von Natz- mer. He is sald to have loved Baroness von Berg. per cent of the real estate from tax- | the uprising was backed by Japanese. ation, according to a recent report of Commissioner Hazen, with the con- stant wrangle between Congress and the District as to a just contribution of Congress to the expenses of local administration. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt has put the label “closed incident” on the furore which ensued from an Army officer’s testimony before congressional com- mittee that plans were to establish an air base on the Canadian border and to seize nearby British posses- sions in the event of war. At _his press conference, yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt expressed hope that his Jetter rebuking the House Military Af- fairs Committee for making public testimony given in secret session had been widely read, not only in Canada but other countries as well. And he added that the United States would do nothing to arm itself offensively or defensively sagainst Canada. Imagine the embarrassment of a certain Representative when a House attendant walked up and handed him 2 wad of money during a roll call the other day. What made it worse was the Representative had publicly an- mounced he would vote one way on the roll call and then voted the opposite way. The vote was on the question whether Secretary Ickes should have another $10,000 as- sistant. No lawyer could ever pine for .a better circumstantial case showing that Mr. Ickes was paying off promptly jfor wvotes, but, like many another circumstantial case, Remedy Possible. “The lack of suffrage of this rapidly increasing population has deprived the citizens of the District of any effective instrumentality of presenting its cause on the floor of the Congress, with the inevitable result that com- mittees casually selected and mem- bers of Congress from distant States are called upon to make investigation and report on local matters with which too often they are unfamiliar, with the result that conclusions are A Citizen’s Handbook The Euvening Star Offers Its Readers A complete description of + are being spent by the. President, with the relief rolls growing instead of diminishing in expense, the country will begin to expect tangible results on recovery rather than more con- troversy or invective. The Treasury figures show that the deficit is running at the rate of nearly $3,500,000,000 and the F. E. R. A. it was all wrong. ‘The Representative had arranged to cash a personal check and sent a House attendant downstairs to bring him the money from the disbursing office. It was true he changed his vote, but he did so because Mr. Ickes had recently been made head of the relief aliotment division. The Rep- NOVELIST FACES CHARGE Gouverneur Morris Accused of Driving While Drunk. LOS ANGELES, May 4 ().—Gou- the Federal establish- ment—470 pages, illus- trated. “I wish it were possible for every home in the Nation to possess it.” necessarily reached without adequate consideration of the problems in- volved. Congress now has it within its power to remedy this situation and provide for representation on the part of the District in both Houses of Congress without the necessity of a constitutional amendment, accord- ing to the well considered legal view. A New ‘Short Story every day by a Noted Author ALBEN W. BARKLEY, United says the unemployed on relief are | resentative will get money later from | Verneur Morris, novelist, was charged = e i about 20,000,000 persons. These two| Mr. Ickes, but it Will be relief money [In & complaint filed yesterday at the ) By the Associated Press. B Ao s < e, ; facts suggest that, as compared with | for his district. district attorney's office with driving TODAY. Btk TRt of It R otk in See Section B, Page 14 last year, when there were about| (Note: The name of the Representa- | While intoxicated. Senate. their own affairs can these or other 13,000,000 on relief, the New Dealers | tive is being omitted, because some| He Was arrested April 2 and is at In recéss. - | jtems of injustice be remedied.” \ might well try to give the bm nugl:ll, 13'vmer pe:tnu;‘n‘: h:ittrlct ";m.: l‘;“:"‘ge:‘“ 'll":::nl;md P’"‘m““m“‘;”; Appropriations subcommittee studies en’s program a chance to deve sus actually afternoon B }';.empfia;'éi‘m. fince 1t coud haraly Lr:;& D L L Price $1 fi'“"‘-’mfim o Son Born to Iraq Rulers. increase the rel y per- of New qQ The i . % , May 3 —4 centage which has resulted from New | opening up an office here, apparently | 8utomobile into another, which then “Bu s E'g;" Star Debates omnibus banking bil. .,,: ’;‘,’{:“;‘,‘3 wlr::‘ lnq’thro@ "A, % Deal “reform” legislation, with its| preparing to get its share when Mr. |struck a third. . JANED SoMEs OF born. yesterday to Queen Aliyah and | * multitude of uncertatnties and ob- | Roosevelt opens the $4,000,000,000 re- | L. E. Erickson, caught between two by mail, postpaid Ghasi. Crowds gathered outsid (ommh.am.) ; 1935 legs. :