Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair with lowest temperature about 48 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy and continued cool, followed by showers in afternoon or night. Temperatures—High- est, 72, 4t 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 49, at 6 am, today. Full report on page 4. l Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15. No. 33,254. OVERTY CLAIMS BY CITIES FEARED IN WORKS SET-UP Pressure to Get Grants as Gifts Believed Sure to Increase. ROOSEVELT MAY DEAL WITH WAGE ISSUE SOON Stand Likely With Decision on First Batch of Projects Waiting Approval. By the Assoclated Press. A vision of cities throughout the land hastening to take a sort of figurative ‘“pauper’s oath” so they could claim outright donations from | the $4,000,000,000 work - relief fund caused concern in some Government quarters today. They expressed some worry lest in- dividuals, as well as cities, rush to declare themselves poor. Officials were seeking to work out methods of preventing such a stampede. Meanwhile, & billion dollars worth of work-relief projects waited Presi- dent Roosevelt’s approval and a de- cision as to wage rates. Mr, Roosevelt let it be known that he intended to pass on the long list of enterprises early next week. In some quarters, it was predicted he would deal at the same time with the highly controversial wage question, announcing the wages to be paid relief workers and the number of hours they will be required to labor per month. Logical Protests Visioned. The Roosevelt administration has laid down the policy that fairly pros- perous cities must repay a substantial share of the money spent on projects, while cities that have no borrowing power left are to receive 100 per cent grants—that is, gifts. An official who would not permit use ©f his name for publication said “ob- viously one city will protest having to pay back some of the money while another doesn't.” A somewhat similar policy has been laid down for individuals. In general, it has been said, unemployed persons not on relief rolls will not be given direct work on the Government- financed projects. Officials, however, have expressed the hope they will be absorbed into jobs with concerns sup- plying materials and equipment. But one official said he believed un- employed who had managed to stay off relief rolls because they had not en- tirely exhausted their private resources would make a strong effort to get di- Tect employment in the $4,000,000,000 program. Financial Status Known. Data on the financial capacity of Btates and communities already has been assembled by Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress chief, in his drive for larger relief contributiops. But jusi how ke, Secretary Ickes and Frank C. Walker, head of the Applications Di- | vision, wollld decide Federal contribu- | tions was not disclosed. In some quarters the suggestion that the Federal Government donate 50 per cent of allotments on all non-Fed- eral projects and loan the remainder was advanced to replace the present 30-per-cent grant 70-per-cent-loan idea, but the President reiterated yes- | terday that each State and city would be bargained with separately. Projects in cities receiving 100 per cent grants are to be administered by Hopkins' Progress Division. ‘Wage recommendations will be made to the President by Hopkins. 30 Per Cent Less Pay Talked, he has considered, work-relief em- | ployes would be paid 30 per cent less than the rates prevailing in private industry. Senator McCarran, Demo- crat, of Nevada, who led an unsuc- | cessful fight to make the work-relief bill require the payment of prevailing ‘wages, planned to make a speech pro- testing this plan. Hopkins had sev- elral other proposals under considera- tion. Until the wage question is settled | officials of the dozen agencies waiting 1 to begin actual work said little be- | yond preliminary preparations could | be done. It was explained that the | rates will have to be included in spec- ifications submitted to bidders on those projects which are handled under contracts. Public roads officials said it would take two weeks after the labor regu- lations are completed to approve proj- ects submitted by State Highway cam-} missions. Army engineers asserted that work could start within two weeks on some of the projects in- cluded in a proposed allotment of $112,186,500 for rivers and harbors. Housing officials said they believed con- tracts would be let on 15 projects by August 1, but that they did not ex- pect all of the 67 housing projects now before the President to be under | construction until December. The billion-dollar batch of projects was recommended to Mr. Rooseyelt earlier this week by his Works Allot- ment Board, —_—— FATAL FIRE IS PROBED Bisters Praised for Heroism in Saving Lives. JOLIETE, Quebec, May 18 (#).— Police officials began an inquiry to- day into a fire fatal to three—an elderly nun and ‘two firemen—which laid waste an eighteenth century manor converted into a convent. That the death toll was not greater was credited to the bravery of the sisters of the congregation of Notre Dame who, in night attire, hurried 150 pupils of the convent and the sadjoining normal school out of the burning buildings. Butler Pleads for Bonus. PHILADELPHIA, May 18 (#).— Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler advises Congress to “turn to Washiogton and Lincoln” for guidance on the soldiers’ bonus. Neither would have vetoed the Patman bill, Butler asserted in a broadeast last night. If Congress fol- lows their precepts, it will over-ride President Roosevelt’s expected veto and “vote to give the veterans their back pay, now 17 or 18 years over- due,” he added. A Entered as second class matte; post office, Washington, D. C. Mother and Son Saved as Fire Sweeps Four-Floor Building SENATE W||.|_ GH Woman Shields Child With Own Body, Ignoring Cries A mother and child were rescued from a flame-swept balcony high over Connecticut avenue early today while firemen battled a four-alarm blaze which resulted in serious injury to one of them. Shivering hundreds jamming the broad avenue looked on while spec- tators advised the woman to jump and firemen commanded her to wait while they raised a ladder four stories through the swirling smoke. Mrs. Mae Nemiroff, 40, and her son, Bobby, 5, were taken from the balcony, to which they were forced by«he intense heat inside the burning building. Mrs. Nemiroff, wife of the proprietor of a night club in the bullding at 1643 Connecticut avenue, held her | child over the balcony railing in an effort to protect him from the heat, which already had scorched her body. While the ladder was being thrust ch WASHINGTON, D. C, to Jump While Firemen Raise Ladder. upward through the smoke, firemen spread a life net on the sidewalk be- low, lest the mother heed the advice of the spectators and leap from the balcony. The child was taken down the smoke and fire swept ladder by Fire- man G. T. Reardon of No. 2 Truck Co. and the mother by Fireman R. Gray of the same outfit. The fireman seriously injured was Eugene Hiess, 26, of No. 23 Engine Co., who suffered concussion of the brain when struck on the head by & falling beam while battling the blaze on the second floor. Fireman Charles E. Btellars of the same engine company was severely cut about one hand. Both men were taken to Emergency Hospital. An investigator from the fire mar- shal's office said the blaze probably started in the dining room on the “(Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) NEW MOVEHINTED FORSTABILIZATION Action by International | Bank Seen Possibility in Currency Situation. | By the Assoctated Press. ) With British authorities turning a cold shoulder toward hints that this | Government might welcome overtures | looking to international currency sta- | bilization, financial circles wondered today if the lead in such a move might come from another quarter. | Some observers said one possibility was that stabilization advocates might | seek to persuade the Bank for Inter- | national Settlements to submit a plan | which could be used as the basis for | & lasting agreement. An international parliamentary con- ference recommended recently that | the world bank make a study along these lines, holding that an end to | would contribute to a revival of trade. | _Only a few days ago, however, Leon | Fraser, retiring president of the bank, | declared stabilization was “squarely up to Great Britain.” Belgian Premier Mentioned. It was said in some quarters in the Capital that the next move might | possibly come from Premier Van Zee- |land of Belgium, who recently an- | conference on the problem. Secretary Morgenthau's recent re- marks on stabilization, followe dby those of Secretary Hull, have been widely construed as an invitation to Great Britain to stabilize the pound in its relation to the dollar. Morgenthau took the position that the dollar already was steady and that, while the United States would | not take the initiative in seeking world | foreign exchange stabilization, Wash- | ington would not be an obstacle to | such a proceeding. | In the face of that hint, well in- | formed British quarters said last night that their government would recog- nize an American invitation to stabi- lize currencies only if it is made di- rectly through the British embassy | here. | Until that s done, it was stated, all statements and speeches by Secre- tarfes Morgenthau and Hull will be just so much water flowing over the | cerned. Treasury Observer Abroad. This followed a statement by Neville Chamberlain, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, that world conditions were not yet advantageous for stabili- zation. A fresh indication of the United States Government's interest in the foreign monetary situation came yes- terday with the revelation that a Treasury observer has been secretly gathering financial statistics in Europe. The observer, Dr. Harry White, for- merly a Wisconsin college professor, sailed for New York Thursday. In London, international financial circles sald they understood that White had gathered the impression that France, while anxious for stabilization, con- sidered an understanding between the United States and England essential before negotiations may be started. High Treasury officials denied, how- ever, that Dr. White had been a thorized to discuss stabilization ques- tions with foreign officials. It was reported earlier that he had sought privately to learn Great Britain's stand and had been told that war debt and other concessions were necessary before England would nego- tiate toward tying the pound. — Auto Strikers Vote to Work. CINCINNATI, May 18 (A).—Ap- proximately 2,200 employes of the Chevrolet and Fisher Body Co. plants in suburban Norwood today to return to their jobs a strike of nearly four weeks. They voted last night to go back | to work pending a .settlement of dif- ficulties. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 18.—Armed speed boats, capable of attacking grim men of war, are said by foreign naval ex- perts to be the Reich’s hope today for protection of her coast. Confronted with the necessity of devising some sort of defensive naval weapon both cheap and effective, the German inventors busied themselves. The result is speed boats which can show their sterns at 60 knots, carry four torpedoes each, and require a crew of only five men. Experts say 450 of them have been constructed. The boats are believed able to ap- proach great battleships and cause the [ o) international monetary uncertainties | nounced his desire to call a world| | Under one of the proposals which | 95 S0 far as the British are con- 1. RESERVEBAN OHNERSHP URCED [Thomas to Attempt to| Amend Bill in Effort to Concentrate Control. By the Assoclated Press. The Roosevelt administration's in- dorsement of the idea that the Gov- ernment should own the stock cf the | 12 Federal Reserve banks lent support | ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SOCIAL SECURITY REPORT MONDAY Finance Committee Head to Present Program With Approval. VARIETY OF U. S. GRANTS CONTAINED IN MEASURE Inclusion of La Follette Amend- ments Is Principal Change Made in House Bill. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The administration’s broad social security program, approved by the Finance Committee yesterday, will be reported to the Senate Monday by Chairman Harrison, but several other measures remain to be disposed of before the social security debate begins. Although it is expected the social security bill will take considerable time in the Senate, Senator Harrison predicted it would pass in substan- tially its present form. The amend- ments the Senate Committee made to the House bill bring it nearer to the program as first recommended by the President’s Advisory Committee. Continue Admendment Fight. Senators George of Georgia and Clark of Missouri, both Democrats, probably will renew in the Senate their amendments to allow industries to retain their own retirement and welfare systems, provided these sys- tems come up to standards to be fixed by the Social Security Board. Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, who was defealed in com- mittee in a move to strike out the today to congressional advocates of | further centralization of banking control in Washington. | Senator Thomas, Democrat, of | Oklahoma, has a bill for purchase of | the Reserve banks, and he was said to| | have decided to make a determined attempt to attach it to the adminis- tration’s omnibus banking bill when | it reaches the Senate floor. Morgenthau Testifies. The stock ownership proposal, put forward yesterday by Secretary Mor- genthau and indorsed by President | Roosevelt at a press conference, is not | contained at present in the bank bill., The bill centralizes control over the Reserve banks and over credit and money in Washington, but leaves the banks themselves in private hands. | Secretary Morgenthau. testifying yesterday before & Banking Subcom- | mittee of the Senate, did not actually | | suggest that his new proposal be in- corporated in the bill. But he said | he was a member of the school which | | the stock of the Federal Reserve | banks. Urges “Supreme Court.” | 'To this, he added a suggestion that | the Federal Reserve Bcard be given | full power to control the flow of cur- rency and credit, free from political influence. It would be patterned after the Supreme Court, he said, and would be independent except that the Presi- dent would retain the appointive power. Later reporters asked President | Roosevelt about the bank stock own- | ership suggestion. the plan certainly would solve a great many questions. — o 15 ESKIMOS INTERRED BY MINISTER-PHYSICIAN Influenza Epidemic Spreads as Assistance Is Rushed North From States. By the Associated Press. POJNT BARROW, Alaska, May 18. —Having buried 15 victims of an in- fluenza epidemic in frozen ground, Rev. Dr. Henry Greist today returned to his hospital to save the remainder of his Eskimo charges from death. Down in Seattle, he was advised, two doctors were speeding North on a 9,000-mile mission of mercy, carrying serum to combat the plague. They were Dr. Sergeant Peppér and Dr. Hor- ace Pettitt, bacteriologists of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, flying up to isolate the germ that had stricken 300 Eskimos. Dr. Greist held a brief Presbyterian service at the open graves, some of which were in clear glacial ice. “We fear that the influenza will be- come more of an epidemic,” said Dr. Greist, “because of reindeer herders coming North and spreading the dis- ease. Eskimos have not the intelli- gence to warn people away.” NAZI EMBASSY IN CHINA| NANKING, May 18 (#)—German diplomatic authorities today informed the Chinese nationalist government that the foreign office in Berlin had decided to elevate the legation here to the rank of an embassy. Germany thus becomes the fourth nation in a week to take this step, Japan, the United States and Great Britain having announced the ele- vation of the legations to embassies within the past few days, Germany Builds Speed Boats Capable of Attacking Warships commanders no end of worry—possibly send giant craft to the sea bottom. The details were most .carefully guarded, but the craft were said to be strictly defensive. The experts said another naval de- velopment along similar lines is a boat which is twice the size of the five- man-crew type and has & cruising range of nearly 2,000 miles. ‘The advantages of the tiny craft, naval experts said, lie in the fact that they cost little to build and operate; are so speedy they can change direc possibly do serious damage with the four torpedoes, , at the worst, only five men on each boat could be lost, . & | the expected | sibility that regulation of public utility He replied that | sections setting up the permanent contributory old-age pension and un- employment insurance systems, indi- cated a minority report will be filed. The motion to eliminale these sec- | tions was based on the theory that | | these permanent plans for industry | | should be taken up separately from | the other emergency weltare features of the bill. The Senate at present is working | on the Navy supply bill. Then will | come the quetsion of disposing of | veto of the Patman| soldiers’ bonus. Leaders also indi- | cated today the proposed changes in | the A. A. A. law would claim the Sen- ate’s attention after that, with a pos- holding companies might also precede debate on _social security. Programs Embraced. One of the most comprehensive wel- fare measures ever put forward, the| social security bill embraces the fol- | lowing programs: | believed the Government should own | Direct Federal aid to the States {or‘, the immediate payment of old-age | pensions to those in need at the pres- ent time. The Federal Government would pay $15 toward a $30 pension, with the State free to go above that limit out of its own funds. This is in the nature of an emergency pro- gram and is separate from the perma. nent contributory old-age benefit s tem which would retire in future years those now at work. For the year | | beginning July 1 the bill would appro- | priate $49,750.000 for the Federal aid to the States in pensioning its present- | | day needy. The permanent contributory pen- | sion system would be established by | building up a reserve oyer an extended | period of years, obtained by a tax on | ‘wage earners and employers. 1 The permanent unemployment in- | surance plan also would involve a | pay-roll tax on employers. These Federal pay-roll taxes are designed to induce the States to enact old-age | pension and unemployment insurance ! laws by providing for deductions from the Federal tax for similar taxes levied locally. Variety of U. S. Grants. The remainder of the bill consists of a variety of Federal grants to the States to aid them in providing for home care of dependein children, maternal welfare, public health work and similar activities. One of the principal changes the | Senate Committee made ig the House bill was.to include the La Follette amendments, allowing industries to establish their own company reserve for unemployment insurance, as dis- tinguished from State-wide pool funds, wherever the State law per- mits either method. This is intended (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CANADIAN GIRL, 10, SLAIN Farmer's Daughter Beaten to Death With Iron. NAICAM, Saskatchewan, May 18 (#).—Discovery of the battered body of 10-year-old Anna May Denton, half a mile from her father's farm home, sent police today on & search for her slayer, believed to be a maniac. Missing since Thursd: afternoon, the girl's body was found by search- ers late yesterday. Police said she had been assaulted. The body was found in a hole under a deserted shack. She had been ap- parently beaten to death by a piece of iron from a stove found nearby. Readers’ Guide Amusements .. Church News . Comics Crossword Puzzle Editorials Finance .. 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Torres, whom a House committee accused of attempting to intimidate Mexican Catholics to keep | them from holding a religious parade | in San Bernardino, Calif., was an- nounced today by the State Depart- ment. Both it and the Mexican E.\'nbssy] described the transfers as merely rou- tine Torres, who has been consul at San Bernardino, was shifted to Denver. | The embassy said this was a move to- ward solution of Mexican labor trou- bles in Colorado. Reports here indicated Torres, who has been in Denver for some time, ready had conferred with Gov. E. Johnson and progress had been made toward a solution of the problem. Alexandro V. Martinez has been relieved of his post in Los Angeles and moved elsewhere. | Information was not available here as to whether he and the other seven had been transferred. Martinez also was recently under fire of Catholic organizations in Cali- fornia for alleged propaganda activi- ties supporting the Mexican govern- ment’s religious policy. Since the inauguration last Decem- | ber 1 of President Cardenas consular | officials have been shifted in a general | |tences After Supreme Court | Huge Soviet Plane Reported Wrecked By Air Collision By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 18.—An automobil- | ist reported today, but the report was not confirmed from any other | source, that he had seen a small plane crash into the Maxim Gorky, largest | landplane in the world, and sent it | hurtling to the ground at the Moscow airport. i LITHUANIA SPARES 4 NAZI PLOTTERS President Commutes Sen- LAWRENGE INJURY STIRS WILD RUMOR Famed World War Figure, Still in Coma, Linked to Military Secrets. By the Associated Press. WOOL, Dorsetshire, England, May 18—Wild rumors flitted about Col. TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT MAY HIT INFLATIONISTS INVETOING BONUS |President Speeds Message for Personal Delivery to Capitol. PATMAN BILL BACKERS GLOOMY OVER PROSPECT Democratic Leaders Confident Ac- tion Will Be Sustained and Some Foes Give Up Hope. BULLETIN. Patman bill leaders in Congress agreed today to vote immediately, without debate. on whether to over- ride President Roosevelt’s veto after the Chief Executive delivers his message in person next week. The decision was reached at a * conference of the bill's friends this morning. They conceded they did not have the Senate votes to override the veto, but expressed hope of a swing to the measure, | By the Associated Press Some administration leaders ex- pressed the belief today that President Roosevelt would set forth his views on currency inflation when he snatters precedent by reading his veto of the Patman bonus bill to Congress next | week. One objection raised against the $2.- | 200,000,000 new currency bill in admin- istration quarters has been that the value of currency inflation is ques- tionable. Just what language the President will chose to deal with the new money aspect of the bonus issue was a question of much interest in the Capital. The President’s announcement late yesterday that he would go to the House chamber in person 40 read his message and his declaration tnat “I T. E. Lawrence today as the famed hope with all my heart the veto will World War figure lay for the fifth |be sustained” seemed to create gloom day unconscious from a motor cycle‘flmmfl the friends of the Pstman accident. | measure. Some acknowledged pri- The reports were more fantastic than | vately that they had insufficient votes many of the legends linked to Law- | to override a veto. rence’s Arabian adventures. One was that Britain would be in| _Demecratic Leaders Confident. peril if Lawrence died because his Democratic leaders in Congress pre- brain holds the country's war plans | dicted the personal delivery of the Another was that the man in the hos- | Yet0 message—an action without prece- pital is not Lawrence becsuse the|9°ht o far ss a hasty searching of colonel is on a secret mission in the | PCD howed—would assure that the Far East. resident’s stand against the measure | would be sustained, though even be- agents caused mysterious fires near the lonely Dorsetshire cottage where Lawrence lived in an effort to obtain or destroy invaluable documents. A. W. Lawrence, brother of the man who changed his name to T. E. Shaw when he joined the Royal Air Force Upholds Convictions. By the Associated Press. KAUNAS, Lithuania, May 18.—| Still another was that forelgn g %, 0 h o ot they had de- clared they had the necessary votes in the Senate. Congressional leaders, who obviously had not expected such a dramatic | move, were hastening preparations to- | day for a joint session of the House |and Senate, before which the Presi- | commuted to life imprisonment the | President Antanas Smetona today | death sentences of four Memel Nazs | in 1927, said the reports were “utter nonsense.” “He was not connected with any | | dent will make his appearance, prob- ably Monday. condemned by a Lithuanian court f0r | goyernment work.” said the brother, plotting the return of the Memel ter- ritory to the Reich. The President himself took the ini- tiative in commuting the death ver- dicts after the four defendants had refused to appeal for clemency. Their lawyers had asked mercy but legally the request was invalid as it did not | | move to reorganize the service. | Emphasis has been laid on the fact | Mem- that recent changes do not imply the | Today's decree provided that the closing of consular offices and all posts men would lose their citizenship and have been or will be refilled with |that their property would be confis- bear the signatures of the condemned | other transferred officers. ROOSEVELT T0 PASS WEEK END ON YACHT May Fish for Hardheads Off Solomons Island—Party to Include Friends. | ‘With a small party of friends, Presi- dent Roosevelt will spend the week end aboard the presidential yacht Se- quoia. Mr. Roosevelt left by motor from the White House shortly after 11| a.m. for Quantico, Va., where he and his companions will go aboard the yacht and immediately start on a Jjourney which will probably take them out into the bay and possibly to Solomons Island, where the craft will anchor for the night, In the event the President does voyage to Solomons waters, it is| thought likely he may be tempted ti | cast his line for hardheads, which are said to be running favorably in those waters. He intends to return to Wash- ington after dark tomorrow. At some point along the Patuxent River tomorrow morning, Mrs. Roose- | velt will join the yachting party. She | was forced to remain at the White House this afternoon to act as hostess at a garden party. Instead of returning to Washing- ton, the Sequoia will carry the presidential party to Annapolis, where White House automobiles will be wait- ing to bring them back to the city. The yacht will remain at Annapolis 10’ be ready Saturday for the Presi- dent’s use while viewing the boat races between Harvard and the Naval Academy cadets. His son, Franklin, Jr., wilk participate. In the yachting party will be Judge and Mrs. Samuel Rosenmann, old friends of the President from New York; Col. Edwin Watson, the Presi- dent’s military aide, and Mrs. Watson, and Miss Marguerite Le Hand, the President’s personal secretary. The prospects during the forenoon were that Mr. Roosevelt may have to devote some of his time during the week end to the completion of the drafting of the bonus message he is to personally read to Congress probably Monday. VISIT WHITE HOUSE Two women whose mountain-top workshop has been visited by three Presidents’ wives—Mrs. Calvin Coo- lidge, Mrs. Herbert Hoover and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt—made their first visit to the White House yes- terday. They are Miss Eleanor Vance and Miss Charlotte Yale, toymakers and woodcarvers, of Tryom, N. Q. n ) cated. They will be confined in | Kaunas jail. The 83 other prisoners, | similarly charged, who were recently sentenced to terms of imprisonment of from 6 months to 18 years, will be transferred to provincial prisons. The Memel territory police today were reinforced by border patrolmen to discourage any possible anti-govern- ment demonstrations. ® Strong forces of police patroled the Kaunas streets and double guards were mounted at the prison gates. N.LRA. FUNDTIED UP BY M'CARL RULING Money Must Be Used Only for Public Works, Controller Declares. In a decision which will have the effect of tying up certain unexpended | appropriations made under the na-| tional industrial recovery act after June 30, Controller General McCarl has held in effect that this money may be used only in public works. The decision was rendered to the acting director of the budget and | made public today. At the Budget | Bureau it was said that not a great deal would be involved, although no estimate would be made as to the pos- sible sum. McCarl's decision was in direct con- flict with that of the director of the legal division of the Public Works Administration, who said all N. R. A. moneys would be available until Juns 30, 1937—the date of expiration of the new omnibus work-relief legis- lation. The Budget Bureau will make a check of executive orders under which various recovery funds have been administered to determine what comes under public works category. “and had only private papers in the cottage in addition to valuable books he_collected.” | The tales followed on the heels of | reports that the crash Monday, when | Lawrence was travelling at high | speed, resulted from an attempt on his life. One story said that a mys- terious motorist, possibly a foreign agent, sped away after ambushing Lawrence. The colonel’s condition was com- | plicated today by a congestion in the right lung. CUMMINGS URGES LIFE FOR HARRIS Recommendation of Commutation of Death Sentence Sent to Roosevelt. Life imprisgnment instead of the death penalty for Charles Harris, convicted of the slaying three years ago of Milton (Milsie) Henry, local gambler, has been recommended to President Roosevelt by Attorney Gen- eral Cummings. This was learned today at the Justice Department, where the case has been under study. The Attorney General's recommendation for this commutation of sentence, accom- panied by a long review of the case made by assistants in the depart- ment, was placed on the President’s desk this morning and will be taken with him on his week end cruise this afternoon for reading. Inasmuch as the date set for Har- ris’ execution is June 10, it is thought the President will not rush his study of the case. It is felt he will act in accordance with the recommendation of the Attorney General. BELGIUM PREPA—HES Army Enlistment Period Raised and Conscription Recommended. BRUSSELS, May 18 (#).—A special army commission today recommended compulsory military service and at the same time raised the enlistment period maximum to 18 months. The present enlistments range from eight months to one year. ‘The commission also investigated Belgium's frontier defenses. California Frogs Jump Today For 1935 World Championship By the Associated Press. ANGELS CAMP, Calif, May 18.— Many California swamps will be strangely silent this week end, denud- ed of their usual quota of croakers. For it’s frog jumping time in Angels Camp—that unique festival of days of *49 inspired by Mark Twain's tale of a frog which didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Each frog entered will be allowed three jumps, and the winner will be declared the world’s champion jump- ing frog for 1935. There is a report the champion may have to defend his of Louisiana frogs are in training in New York as part of the Mark Twain Centennial there, and the winner of the Eastern elimination contest is to be brought West. Chief threat against California-bred frogs today is Chief Hagler, North Carolina importation entered by John Carpenter of Maiden, N. C. The Chief is a ham-fed hopper, who his owner reports has been reared from tadpolehood almost exclusively on ham. 's frog jumping will be broad- ationally (over Columbia) from 1:45 pm, (Eastern standard P i Tod: cast 1:30 to time.) It will be necessary for the Senate and House to pass a joint resolution for the two bodies to meet in the House chamber. Speaker Byrns ex- | pressed the hope that late Monday or Wednesday would be agreeable to | the President. | “We will have to find out when he wants to come up,” he said. “This | apparently means that he wants to remove any doubts as to whether he hopes Congress will sustain his veto.” “I am very glad that the President | will appear and present his message | in person. I cannot help but believe, in view of the success that has at- tended his presentations over the radio and to Congress, it will have a beneficial effect on the position he takes on this question.” Meanwhile, a new bonus march threat was voiced in California as | Royal W. Robertson, disabled veteran and leader of that State's marching | delegation here in 1932, called upon his comrades to mobilize for a new invasion of the Capital. Declaring that 5,000 Californians | will join him, Robertson announced that the start would be made as soon | as President Roosevelt vetoes the Pat- man bill. Transportation will be by way of freight trains, he said, adding | that the “army” would remain this time until the bonus is paid President Roosevelt worked until | after midnight last night in an effort }w complete the writing of his bonus | veto message, but he was compelled to retire without finishing. He re- | turned to the job early today, but the outlook during the forenoon was {that he probably would be forced | to take the job along with him on his week-end cruise aboard the yacht | Sequoia, so as to have the message | completed and ready for reading Monday in the event he goes to Con- gress on that day. At the press conference late yes- | terday, when he announced his de- | cision, the President had a little fun with reporters. As the President sat puffing a cigarette and pondering queries on other matters, a diminutive newsman popped this one: “Mr. President, when do you expect to send up your veto?” Grinning, and assuming an air of mystery, the Chief Executive said he |did not think he would send the veto message. Reparters Bewildered. There was a pause while reporters | stared in bewilderment, for he already had said he would veto the bill. Then he took another puff and said slowly that he intended to carry the message himself. He emphasized three points: 1. That he would veto the bill. 2. That the language would be as strong as possible. 3. That he hoped it would be sus- tained. The last point was stressed more than once, as if in reply to rumors that the administration was indiffer ent about the fate of the bill after it was vetoed. ‘The bill, which had been passed by both the Houses of Congress, reached the White House shortly before the press conference. The last formality on “The Hill" had been completed (Continued on Page 3, Column 1J Japanese Launch Destroyer. YOKOSHUKA, Japan, May 18 (#). —The destroyer Shigure, of 1,368 tons, was launched today, with Admiral Nobumasa Suyetsuru, commandant of the naval base, presiding at the cere- monies. »