Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers and cooler tonight, tomorrow probably fair; gentle shifting winds, be- coming northerly tonight. Temperatures —Highest, 73, at noon today; lowest, 59, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-7. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, 1) . PROBE OF FARLEY | [ b e ] FARNERS' SESSIN o. 33,250. ISVOTED DOWN BY SENATE, 6210 20 Ballot Taken After Long Offers New Affidavit Ac- cusing Postal Head. MOVE TO RECONSIDER IS QUICKLY SPIKED ‘Wheeler Is Lone Democrat on| Record for Inquiry—Rifling | of Files Charged. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. By a vote of 62 to 20, the Senate | today defeated the resolution calling for investigation of Postmaster General | Farley, as proposed by Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, antagonist of the Roosevelt administration. Only one other Democrat supported | Long's resolution—Senator Wheeler of | Montana, who was paired for it. The resolution was defeated after the Louisiana Senator had introduced a second affidavit in his campaign | against the Postmaster General and | Chairman McKellar of the Post Offi(‘ei Committee, which had adversely re- ported the resolution, had assened' Long was “trying to destroy the character of a man who doesn't agree | with him.” Long had charged Farley, who also is chairman of the Democratic Na- | tional Committee, with seven specific | acts of alleged wrongdoing, including | the use of his influence to change Government contracts with private | firms and of benefitting indirectly through public works jobs. Reconsideration Defeated. | In a last-minute switch in an effort | to keep his resolution alive, Long changed his vote from aye to no, plan- ning to move a reconsideration of the | vote by which the resolution was| turned down. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, was too quick for him, however. As soon as the Vice President announced the result of the vote, Robinson was on his feet moving a reconsideration of the vote. Senator McKellar promptly moved to lay Senator Robinson’s motion on the! table. The McKellar motion then was adopted vive voce, removing all chance | of Long's doing anything about this particular resolution. | Two Republicans, Senators Borah of Idaho and Johnson of Cnh!omh,; voted against the Long resoluuom’ Benator Borah, in a speech in the Benate yesterday, had insisted that the Senate would not be justified in ¢on- ducting an investigation of a cabinet officer unless it were for the purpose of legislation. The Long resolution was merely to investigate the personal | acts of Farley and had nothing to do; with legislation, Borah said. Resolution Amended. This brought an amendment to the | resolution offered by Long and ac- cepted today by the Senate. This amendment sought to show the in- vestigation was for the purpose of determining whether a law should be passed preventing a national chair- man of a political party from hold- ing a cabinet office. The amendment, however, apparently did not satisfy Borah. The 20 Senators who were recorded as voting for the investigation were all Republicans except Senator l.ni Follette of Wisconsin, Progressive. | Senator Norris of Nebraska, who has | frequently insisted that Farley either | should give up his national chairman- ship or his job as Postmaster Gen- eral, voted for the investigation. The roll call showed 59 Democrats, 2 Republicans and 1 Farmer-Laborite, Shipstead of Minnesota, voting against the resolution. Included in the 59 Democrats was Long, who had changed his vote. McCarran Against It. Senator Wheeler, the other Demo- crat who announced his support of the resolution, was paired with Sen- ator King of Utah, who is absent. Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, who yesterday urged the Sen- ate to conduct the investigation so as to clear Farley and the Democratic | party, voted “no” on the roll call. The vote showed the Senate dividing al-| most strictly along party lines. The vote today climaked a heated debate between Long and McKellar. The Senate met at 11 a.m. today, an| hour earlier than usual, with thej understanding that a vote would be taken on the resolution at 12:30 o'clock. The affidavit which Long produced today was signed by Miss Lottie Koch, a former employe of James A. Stewart & Co. She charged that A. M. Stew- art had called upon her to bring all the letters on file from Farley in 1934 when there was talk of Federal investigators going into the files. Miss Koch was employed by the com- pany as file clerk from 1918 to No- vember, 1934. Miss Koch stated that she knew Mrs. Helen Humphreys, former tele- phone operator in the employ of Stewart & Co., whose affidavit was presented by Senator Long yesterday. May Call Witnesses. The Post Office Committee of the Senate may yet call Miss Koch and Mrs. Humphreys and question them about the affidavits they gave Senator Long. Senator McCarran explained he had voted against the passage of the Long resolution because: “My understanding is that the Post Office Committee intends to call those women who made the affidavit before it and question them. I certainly would not believe they would allow these affidavits to go uninvestigated. That's the reason I voted no.” Senator Connally of Texas, & strong supporter of the administration, said, “I think the committee ought to call those women in and sweat them out.” The valedictory on his resolution ‘was pronounced by Senator Long after the vote had been taken. He said that he had taken the customary step so0 that he could move a reconsidera- tion of the vote by which the resolu- tion was turned down, when he changed his vote from aye to no. “Ordinarily the sponsor of a reso- lution makes the motion to " said Senator Long. “But I (Continued on Page 3, Column HARRISON McK. KAISER. KILLER HANGS SELF IN DEATH CELL Kaiser Binds Own Hands ah Before Stepping Off Cot { in District Jail. Unable to face the prospect of death in the electric chair, Harrison Mc- Kinley Kaiser, convicted of the mur- der of a union official during a labor dispute in September, 1932, and sched- uled to die in the District Jail June 11, early today hanged himself with strips | of torn bedding. Kaiser's body was found hanging | from the bars of his cell in death row at 6:45 o'clock this morning. Before stepping off his cot, Kaiser had pin- ioned his hands behind his back with loops of cloth, connected to the same noose that strangled him, so that any struggles to escape would only tighten the loops about his throat. In a farewell letter to his mother, Mrs. Lucy Kaiser, of Portsmouth, Ohio, Kaiser confessed that he was “a killer of man by nature” and declared that he never felt remorse for any- | thing that he had ever done. “I go to my long sleep with an un- troubled mind,” he wrote. Like Plans for Journey. He likened his preparations for death to “getting ready to go on a dis- | tant journey” and described his relief at the thought of escape in death from | his “dreadful dungeon” and from “man’s inhumanity to man.” Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, Dis- | trict coroner, who was summoned by Thomas M. Rives, superintendent of the jail, issued a certificate of suicide by strangulation. Kaiser’s mother and wife, Mrs. Mae Kaiser, both of Portsmouth, Ohio, are at a rooming house at 943 K street. Last Fall Kaiser went on a hunger strike for more than a week. He | was placed under mental observation at that time, but was returned to the death row to await execution. Hit Prisoner With Slat. Some time ago Kaiser, during the course of a violent quarrel, tore a slat from his bed in the death cell and struck a fellow prisoner. Kaiser last was seen alive at about 5:30 this morning, when a guard no- ticed him sitting quietly on his cot. Passing the cell on another inspection round at 6:45 the guard found the condemned man hanging. He was de when cut down. The noose was ontinued on Page 4, Column 1.) GEORGIA PREPARES FOR DRY LAW VOTE | Twenty-Eight-Year-01d Statute at Stake Tomorrow—Both Sides Claim Victory. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, May 14—For the first time since it was adopted, 28 years ago, Georgia’s “bone dry” prohibi- tion law will be put before the voters in a referendum tomorrow. Both repealists and anti-repealists claim victory. Prohibitionists predicted a land- slide vote for retention of the dry law. Repealists maintained a 30,000 ma- jority for their cause would come out of the 382,650 eligible votes. Milton L. Fleetwood, director of the Georgia Temperance League, said: “We will smash this liquor business for good.” fEqual confidence was ex- pressed by Spence M. Grayson, chair- man of the Georgia Association for Local Option. The referendum, a three-sided mat- ter with wine, beer and liquor before the people, was authorizéd by the Legislature in March. | stood on its feet, waved hats high, | Lindsay Warren's 1,500 tobacco-grow- | Dean of Mason City, Iowa, got up ooi WASHINGTON, BECOMES JUBILEE OF A. A A. PRAISE Cheers Throw 4,500 at Meeting Here Into Frenzy of Enthusiasm. DELEGATES SCHEDULED TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE Wallace Constantly Interrupted by Admiring Listeners Sound- ing Hog Calls. BY BLAIR BOLLES. With loud cheers and handclaps 4,500 farmers, tanned and excited, jammed Constitution Hall this morn- | ing and shouted for the New Deal and the A. A. A. At the appearance of every speaker, with Secretary Wallace at the head of the program list, the holiday crowd screamed prepared yells and sang snatches of songs. At 5 o'clock this afternoon the farmers will troup into the rear grounds of the White House to be addressed by the President. The meeting in Constitution Hall this morning was constantly inter- rupted by shouts from the audience as the farmer delegates, feeling free to express their own minds, injected amendments and additions to the for- mal speeches. Farm Bloc Cheered. Chairman W. H. Robertson of Ala- bama whipped the men into a frenzy of loud excitement when he intro- Juced from the stage Senators and Representatives interested in the agri- culture program. Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, wear- ing the blue iapel ribbon carried by | the 200 Mississippi delegates to the conference, made his bow in a midst of long applause. The hundreds of cotton farmers present cheered for five minutes at the appearance of Senator Bankhead, co-author of the | cotton control act. Representative ing constituents from North Carolina whistled, stamped the floor, hit their neighbors on the back and set up an endless racket when he made his bow from the speakers’ platform. When Representative Kerr, also of North Carolina, author of the tobacco control bill, was introduced, a bull- voiced tobacco grower in the audience yelled: “Why, there’s that rascal!” Hog-Calls Greet Iowan. Loud hog-calls came from every part of the auditorium when Earl explain the corn-hog program and tell the farmers what benefits it had brought them. Deen'’s trouble in getting his speech finished reached its height when 650“ Texas farmers, delayed in transit from St. Louis, swarmed into the meeting hall, singing loudly: “The eyes of Texas are upon you, All the livelong day. The eyes of Texas are upon you, ‘You cannot get away.” Louisianans Cheer for Tax. The Louisiana delegation, 320 strong, entered the auditorium shout- ing their cheer: “The tax, the tax, “We've got it. “Let’s keep it. “Don’t lose it."” Wallace brought forth loud cheers practically every time he finished a sentence. After constant interrup- tions from the excited audience who gave him eager support, he admon- ished his hearers to be serious and listen to him explain the economics behind the farm program. But before he could get much further florid- faced W. A. Shiver, a white-haired (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) NEWSPAPER ADS GAIN 2.2 PER CENT FOR APRIL Printer’s Ink Lists Most Im- portant Increase for Any 1935 Month. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 14.—Newspaper advertising in April recorded the most substantial gain made in any month so far this year, according to Printer’s Ink. The publication’s index of news- paper advertising stood at 78.7 at the end of the month compared with 770 at the end of March, & gain of 22 per cent after adjustments for seasonal variation. ‘The April index shows an increase of 7.1 per cent over the same month last year, the largest gain recorded in any month this year over the com- parable period of the preceding year. Woman, 44, Stricken Dumb Only When Facing Her Father Spectal Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE SPRINGS, Iowa, May 14 (N.ANA.).—Never has Miss Min- nie Wall spoken to her father. Throughout the 44 years of her life she has been utterly silent to him. She talks normally with others. Her father, Charles Wall, explains her apparent inability to talk with him as a “birthmark.” No psychol- ogist, psychiatrist, physician or sur- geon ever has had her case. Neighbors cannot explain it. Miss Wall cannot either. Mr. Wall told of the incident he believes “birthmarked” his daughter. He and Mrs. Wall, now dead, were to go “away on the cars,” but Mrs. Wall didn't want to make the rail- road journey. He remonstrated with her, and they finally started for the station. “We got about a block from the depot, and she had been talking of a sudden she stopped and choked down,” he said. That was a few months before 20| e talked to men and bo Minnie was born. Sometimes after that, old residents of College Springs said, Mrs. Wall would not talk with her husband for many days. Mr. Wall swears it is not “orneri- ness” that keeps his daughter from speaking to him. “She tries, and tries hard,” he said. , sometimes she’ll be right before ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ‘women. (Cop! t. 1935. by the D. C, MORGENTHAU TALK ON DOLLAR SEEN CONFIDENCE SPUR U. S. Held “Not Unwilling to Stabilize” Under Right Conditions. FIGHT DECLARED BEGUN BY OTHER COUNTRIES Roosevelt Policy Credited With Averting Disaster—Hoover Administration Hit. By the Associated Press Secretary Morgenthau’s speech de- claring that the American dollar is “absolutely sound,” and that the United States is “not unwilling to stabilize” under certain conditions was widely regarded today as an official New Deal reply to critics who assert that an end to monetary uncertainty is needed to restore confidence. In Wall Street, as here, a principal question talked over today was the probable effect of the speech on the much-discussed restoration of assur- ances as to the future of the dollar. In New York's financial community some bankers and economists said the speech should help restore con- | fidence, while others said they saw little meaning in it. l What, if any, future moves the speech portends was not made known. All indications from administration sources have been that stabilization was a topic for some time in the fu- ture rather than the immediate pres- | ent. Morgenthau's speech was taken as a sign that the United States does not intend to act singly for interna- tional stabilization. Did Not Start Fight. “The world should know.” he said last night, “that when it is ready to seek foreign exchange stabilization Washington will not be an obstacle. Our position was that of an innocent bystander who suffered untold loss in a fight that we did not start, and from which we could not escape. “Why should we be singled out and admonished that the moral duty to| restore order is primarily ours? Be- | fore we make any commitments we must be sure that we will not lose what we have just regained. “We are not unwilling to stabilize. However, if the great trading nations | elect to continue under the present | absence of rules we are no longer at | a disadvantage. We have revalued our currency no more than was neces- sary and we can go either way. Our hands are untied.” “So far from engaging in & com- patitive devaluation race with the oth- er nations, we hold out to them a cur- rency of such stealliness that the nor- mal tendency may very well set the | rest of the world to move gradually toward practical exchange stabiliza- tion. If that can be achieved, the final step should come easily and almost of its own accord. Unless ! somebody rocks the boat that would be the natural course. Easy to Get More Paper. “In estimating the future of our foreign trade in relation to our mone- tary policy, we may as well face the question whether we wish to sell abroad vast quantities of goods that the buyers cannot vay for, unless we lend them the money. Of course, if we want more paper there are plenty of international bankers to arrange the details. We felt rich on that paper during the roaring 20s. Now we know better. “In.place of paper, under the opera- tion of our new monetary policy, we have been receiving !arge shipments of gold and silver. E£ome of it came to settle trade balances, and some represents capital seeking refuge in our sound currency. Vari~us econo- mists will tell you that this policy is likely to end our foreign trade: that first we strip the world of gold and then our foreign trade dies. But we are not stripping the world of gold. We have more goid «han ever before, but the world’s suppy of monetary gold is also increasing rapidly. Pro- duction now proce:ds at the rate of about $1,000,000.00) annually, and will continue to increase. The great ha- tions are restoring their reserves. Meanwhile, percentages Jf the total (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) COL. WADE H. COOPER COLLAPSES IN COURT Experiences Fainting Spell as Arguments on Bank Case Are Begun. Col. Wade H. Cooper, scheduled for trial tomorrow on charges of mis- applying funds of the Commercial National Bank, collapsed in the Court of Appeals today and was removed to Garfleld Hospital. Shortly after his arrival there, at- tendants said his ailment apparently was nothing more serious than a fainting spell, and he was responding to treatment. Col. Cooper, who had been listen- ing to arguments before the appellate court in & case in which he was in- terested, was stricken in the court room. Court attaches summoned ambu- lances and the fire rescue squad after the former bank president was taken ill. ‘The rescue squad took him to the hospital. Cooper allegedly misapplied more than $400,000 of Commercial National Bank funds to give fictitious credits to the Continental Trust Co., while serv- ing as president of both institutions. In view of the attack today, his trial in the District Supreme Court on these charges probably will tinued. Time Cut by Airline. CHICAGO. May 14 (#).—Trans- continental & Western Air, Inc., yesterday. announced & second 3 hour- 58 minute flight schedule ew York, the plane to leave here ataF'p.m. (Cen- tral standard time) daily. n o Sfar TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935—FORTY PAGES. EVERYBODY 'S DOIN’IT! = Clerk of the House Complains Because Members Carry All the Typewriters Away. | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yestérday’s Circulation, 130,194 Some Returns Not Yet Received Ll L P.W.ATOSETUP OFFICES IN STATES Ickes Moves to Decentralize | Work by Sending Out Branch Staffs. Speeding up P. W. A. procedure under the new program, Administrator | Ickes today completed plans for the | decentralization of the Public Works Administration in Washington by ap- | proving the setting up of offices in | each State, with a director and a complete staff. Simultaneously, Ickes ordered that the pending transfer of approximately 175 lawyers, engineers and finance examiners, as well as an undetermined number of trained stenographers and clerks to the State headquarters be accomplished as quickly as possible. Selection of the directors of the vari- ous State headquarters will be an- nounced in a few days. In some cases the State engineer will be named director, he said, but in other States, where the volume of work is great, the director will be added to the staff. The creation of these P. W. A. head- quarters in the States, Administrator Ickes pointed out, does not mean an enlargement of P. W. A.'s staff. De-; centralization is to be accomplished through the transfer of P. W. A. em- ployes in Washington, not through the hiring of additional workers. Tenta- | tive arrangements call for the trans- fer from Washington to the States approximately 100 lawyers, 50 engi- neers and 25 finance examiners. No estimate was mad® of the number of clerical workers who may be supplied | from Washington. Ickes is expected to approve these final lists with their new assignments in a few days. To Halt Congestion. The main effect of decentralization, he pointed out, will be the removal of the congestion caused in Washington by thousands of applications for loans and grants descending upon P. W. A.'s | central headquarters. Under the new | system the State headquarters will re- ceive and examine applications and note their recomendations. With no trained force available when P. W. A. first was set up, this work, of necessity, had to be done in ‘Washington. Hereafter, applications for projects will be sent to P. W. A. in Washington with examinations al- ready completed. In Washington they will be given a final check be- fore being handed on the Division of Applications and Intormation, un- der Frank C. Walker, and from there to the Advisory Committee on Allot- ments which Ickes heads. As 25 P. W. A. attorneys are already in the field, the lawyers sent from Washington will bring the legal field force to approximately 125 men. The number of lawyers transferred to the State headquarters will vary in pro- portion to the size of the non-Federal applications in the various States. Every P. W. A. headquarters will be 1‘ complete unit on a miniature scale, Posse Hunts Escaped Patient. ORANGEBURGH, N. Y., May 14 {®).—A large posse of State troopers, local police and citizens searched the countryside today for an escaped men- tal patient believed to have started several fires in this vicinity. Since the patient disappeared from the Rockland State Hospital 48 hours ago, several barns have been burned, apparently by an incendiarist. Readers’ Guide Page. Amusements ...........B-20 Comics ......... viiess..B-16 Cross-word Puzzle B-16 Editorials . A-10 | the steady stream of troops pouring Man Seeking Divorce Asks Custody of Dog And Sewing Machine By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Kans,, May 14. —Charles Moore's divorce peti- tion, on file in Wyandotte County District Court today, asks not only severance of the martial ties but custody of the family dog and permanent possession of the sew- ing machine. Moore declares he had the dog before he married his wife in 1925, but that she took it with her when they separated last November. The sewing machine, he says, is an heirloom. [TALY PREPARED, IL DUGE DECLARES Assures France and England | Country Can Meet “Any Eventuality.” By the Associated Press. ROME, May 14—Premier Benito Mussolini, in an unexpected npeech‘ before the Senate on the Ethiopian | crisis this afternoon, declared this na- tion “ready for any eventuality.” | Great Britain and France, Italy's good friends, need have no fear les!i into Africa weaken the country, he said, sinee “with three classes under | arms and a fourth in readiness Italy is ready for any eventuality.” Even as Il Duce spoke thousands more young Italians, members of the class of 1912, were receiving orders for mobilization. It was indicated Italy would have close to 100,000 men, under arms by Friday. A ‘tremendous ovation preceded and followed Mussolini’s brief, impromptu address, which came just after Un- dersecretary of Colonies Alessandro Lessona told the Senate it could be “certain the Fiscist government will carry out its duty” in the Etniopian crisis. Ethiopia Blamed. In Mussolini’s presence Lessona re- peated the charge that Emperor Haile | Selassie of the African empire had mobilized his troops in the regions fronting Eritrea and Italian Somali- land. This the Ethiopian King of Kings stoutly denied in the latest of his several appeals for League of Na- tions action in the border controversy. “A grave problem is growing worse Ethiopian relations to prove his con- tention that Ethiopia had repulsed all Italy’s efforts toward economic and political co-operation. England’s Stand Criticized. Meanwhile, it was learned British pressure to force conciliation and pre- vent the issue from embarrassing the League of Nations Council was far from pleasing to Premier Mussolini, but that he finally acceded to the con- ciliation proposals, when France backed them. ‘The British were said to have made it clear that every possible move should be made to avert an open clash at Geneva or any action in Africa which might lead to hostilities. The action of Great Britain and Prance drew a sharply critical re- sponse from the semi-official press. The Giornale D'Ttalia asserted it “would be contrary not only to the legitimate right to defend her menaced PHILIPPINES CAST BIG FREEDOM VOTE, IHuge Majority Registered | By the Assoclated Press. { majority for the proposed Philippine in Election Unmarred by Serious Disorder. MANILA, May 14—A tremendous consttution, under which the Philip- pines will be weaned from American supervision, was shown in early re- | turns tonight from & nation - wide | plebiscite. Twenty-nine Manila precincts voted 5,403 for ratification of the common- wealth charter, to 106 against it. The vote, cast without a show of the ru- | mored violence from Sakdalista ex- tremists represented about half the | electorate in the precincts. | ‘Women, voting for the first time | in the history of any Oriental coun- try, seemed to display much more en- thusiasm than the men. Although | there were six times as many men | eligible to vote as women, the femi- | nine ballot exceeded the masculine | vote in some Manila precincts. No Disorder Reported. Balloting over the thousand-mile archipelago was completed without reports of serious disorder. Authorities, however, their vigilance after the polls were closed, as it was rumored the ex- tremists might attempt to destroy the | ballots. Telephone lines between Santa Rosa | and Cabuyao in Laguna Province, cen- ter of the May 2 riots, were cut early in the day, but there was no further report of trouble. Guards were stationed at all polls and constabulary detachments pa-| troled towns where the Sakdals were believed to be most numerous. In San Pablo, capital of Laguna Province, some 200 armed “vigilantes” stood maintained | guard. . | The Sakdalistas demand immediate | independence, rather than the 10- year transitional period under the commonwealth. Nearly 600 of them, | including & number of leaders, have been jailed since the May 2 outbreak. Election to Be Called. The next step after the plebiscite is for the Legislature within 30 days to canvass and certify the results to Gov. Gen. Prank Murphy. He is re- quired by the independence act to call an election of officers for the com- monwealth, to be held in from t.hreel to six months. ‘The Filipino leaders hope to have the election in September and be ready to start the new regime before the end of the year. There will be a Filipino president instead of an American Governor Gen- eral, but an American high commis- sioner and the United States Army and Navy will remain on the scene until the arrival of complete independ- ence. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate and dominant po- litical leader, is the outstanding candi- date for President and hopes to be unopposed, but Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the 1899-1900 insurrection, for weeks has been hinting that his hat would be in the ring. Chaliapin Leaves Hospital. PARIS, May 14 (#).—Feodor Chal- iapin, noted singer, left the American Hospital here today after physicians pronounced him “completely cured” of an attack of grippe he suffered | while en route from the United States to France recently. Mme. Chaliapin, who was con- stantly at his bedside during the 1ll- ness, said he plans to rest indefinitely interests, but also to_the purpose of (Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) Paris Scurries to Don Masks In Fancied Gas Attack by Air By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 14—Screaming sirens sent rescuers with gas masks speed- Finance ..... A-17-18-19 Lost and Found ing to the scene of & fancied air at- tack by “enemy” sirplanes today as Paris held its first air-raid drill Residents and office workers in the district around Carrefour de L'Odeon donned the masks and matched steel- tinguish were carried off in ambulances after they had been “wounded.” Soclety ............. B-2-3-4 A-15-16-17 Vital Statistics . Washington Wayside Women's Features. .. .B-14-15 Police cleared all thoroughfares leading to the areas for the exclusive use of firemen in speeding motor The firemen about by threes in motor cycles with sdecars at his Paris apartment. to quench fires supposealy ignited by incendiary bombs. The ability of the siren system to spread an alarm of an approaching air attack was demonstrated peyond question. The shrieking horns in the rehearsal area could be heard through- out the city. The public was informed that to- night it would be expected to ex- tinguish all residential lights in prac- ticing defense against a night raid. Future measures for protecting the civilian population against an attack from the air will based on the results of today’s experiments. Police were charged with the task of seeking likely spots for the con- struction of underground shelters. One project col plates the use of () Means Associated Press. | session. TWO CENTS. BONUS BILL DUE FOR WHITE HOUSE DELIVERY TODAY Senate Prepares to Send Patman Measure Into Teeth of Veto. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE EXPECTED TOMORROW Administration Forces Confident of Marshalling 35 Votes to Sustain Roosevelt. BULLETIN, Cash bonus leaders in Congress decided suddenly today against sending the Patman currency- bonus bill to President Roosevelt vet, because “we're not ready to have it vetoed.” Just when it would go was undetermined. By the Associated Press. A stream of messages urging Presi- dent Roosevelt to approve or veto the Patman cash bonus bill continued to pour into the White House today as the Senate approached a roll call on sending the disputed legislation to the Chief Executive for formal disap- proval. The White House reported a larger proportion of the messages received in the last 24 hours favored a veto. No figures were given. The ratio of the first messages received was de- scribed as about 8 to 1 in favor of signing. Administration leaders, meanwhile, predicted that a presidential veto would end the bonus issue for this session of Congress. On the other hand. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma declared “we have a better chance now to pass the bill over a veto than we had two months ago to pass it at all.” It was Thomas who was to move to send it to the Presi- | dent’s desk during the day. Veto Expected Tomorrow. Roosevelt leaders on Capitol Hill expressed confidence that the $2,200.- 000,000 currency expansion measure would be vetoed tomorrow. They said they expected the message to be strongly worded. The decision to send the Patman bill immediately into the teeth of the expected veto was reached at a con- ference called by Senator Thomas. Those attending included representa- tives of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin’s Na- tional Union for Social Justice and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana; Mc- Carran, Democrat, of Nevada and Neely, Democrat, of West Virginia and Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, author of the measure. Members of the group said after the conference that they had received in- formation reviving their hopes of passing the bill over a veto. Senator Thomas, however, did not claim suf- ficient votes to assure this result. Ad- ministration leaders in the Senate said they counted on at least 35 Senators voting to sustain a veto. Thirty-three votes would be enough to uphold the | President’s expected stand. May Stress Money Feature. The Democratic chieftains said they expected the veto message to stress the monetary features of the Patman bill and to reiterate Mr. Roosevelt's previous contention that the destitute unemployed nhave first claim on the Treasury. Speculation continued in the Cap- ital as to what course the bonus pay- ment forces would pursue if the Pat- man plan to pay the veterans with new currency is killed. Some Republican leaders, who pro- posed a few days ago that the Vinson cash payment plan advanced by the American Legion should be pushed in the event the Patman bill failed, said privately that a Senate vote up- holding a veto might put an end to bonus agitation generally at this Another Drive Draws Favor. The Vinson bill, which both the House and Senate rejected in favor of the Patman plan, would pay the bonus immediately and in full, but would leave the method of payment open. Most advocates of the Vinson plan said it probably would have resultec in the issuance of Govern- ment bonds to raise money for the veterans. Some Senate advocates of bonus payment favored a drive to put over still another plan in the event the Patman bill is vetoed and the veto upheld. This measure would pro- pose alternate methods of financ- ing, under which the President could choose between issuing new currency or raising the money from other sources. TRANSIENT BUREAU ~ DIRECTOR RESIGNS Commissioners Accept Gebhardt Resignation Submitted on April 22. Richard Gebhardt, director of the Transient Bureau of the District, re- signed today at the request of Aubrey Williams, assistant to Harry L. Hop- kins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Officials of the F. E. R. A. declined to make any statement about the mat- ter and Williams could not be reached. The resignation was submitted to the Commissioners April 22, but not disclosed until today. Pending the selection of a new hea? for the bureau the administration will be placed in the hands of David G. Linden, who is now superintendent of lodges. Gebhardt was brought here from St. Louis, where he had been in transient work, and took the place left by the resignation of Arthur S. Ro- sichan, who went to/New York to take charge of Jewish welfare institutions. Unofficially, i was said, Gebhardt's subway tunnels, %hich would be pro- vided with gas-jght partitions. resignation to do with his pre- vious work in Missouri.