Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair, continued cool; lowest temperature to- night about 48 degrees, gentle north and northwest winds. Temperatures—Highest, 75, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 54, at 4:30 a.m. today. Full report on Page A-9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 17,18&19 No. 33,259. post uffice, Wa Entered as second class matter - shing*on, h WASHINGTON, SIK NAVAL FLYERS KILLED AS BOMBER PLUNGES INTO SEA DURING WAR GAME Plane Bearing Two Officers‘ and Four Men Was Calling Surface Craft to Aid of Craft Foroed Down. ‘ TRAGEDY KEPT SECRET | SINCE TUESDAY NIGHT Secrecy of Maneuver Forgotten in 24-Hour Search for Bodies. Only Bits of Wreckage Are Found—Fleet Is Ordered to Hawaii. Br the Associated Press ABOARD BATTLESHIP PENN- SYLVANIA IN MID-PACIFIC FLEET MANEUVERS. May 23.—Six naval fivers on a mercy flight were killed when their huge patrol plane crashed | during the United States Fleet ma-| neuvers in mid-Pacific. commanding officers revealed today aboard the ! flagship Pennsylvania. The six aviators, forming the crew of the seaplane 6P7, went to their deaths without knowing what hap- pened. officers said. after shattered remains of the craft had been picked u P The tragedy occurred Tuesday | night, but was not disclosed until to- day. after all hope for the men’s lives had been abandoned Victims of Crash. The victims and their home ad- dresses: Lieut. Harry A. Brandenburger. 37, executive officer of the flight squad- ron, Belleville, IilL Lieut. Charles Joseph Skelly, San Prancisco. P. C. Litts, aviation chief machin- ist'’s mate, Ocean View. Va. Chief Radioman F. R. Derry, Gloucester, Mass. P. J. Proteau, aviation machinist's mate (first class), Wrentham, Mass. Q. A. Sharpe, aviation machinist’s mate (third class), Heavener, Okla. The tragedy brought the fatalities from the unprecedented maneuvers to eight. Lieut. Mathis B. Wyatt was killed when his single-seater fighter crashed into the sea from the aircraft car- ner Saratoga. In the destroyer colli- sion Richard Chadwick was lost over= | board from the Sicard. Both fatali- ties occurred before the fleet reached Pear]l Harbor from the mainland. | The 6P7, one of the giant bombing | patrol planes that made the first haz- ardous flight from Hawaili to Midway Island, crashed at night 50 miles gouth of Midway and 4,000 miles from the Pacific Coast. | Was on Mercy Mission. | She had pulled out of a flight for- mation to call nearby surface craft to the rescue of her sister ship, the | 6P10, which had been forced to land on the heavy seas. It was while circling over the 6P10 during the night that something suddenly went wrong—no one knew what—and the huge bomber crashed into the ocean, apparently in full flight. All that remained of the craft when the area was combed by warships and airplanes was her smashed gas tank, a shattered wing tip and a seat cushion. i The scene of the crash was searched for more than 24 hours by deslroyers.‘ air squadrons and cruisers, but Rear | Admiral Alfred W. Johnson, com- manding the patrol planes, reportad the quest was fruitless. He said all| Tope of recovering the bodies had been | given up. \ The fleet was ordered to return to | Hawaii, where the advance units were | due Saturday morning. | The 6-P-7 and the 6-P-10 were in one of two squadrons of big fiying | patrols which flew out of Midway Tuesday to make a mimic attack on Vice Admiral Harris Laning'’s White | Fleet. One squadron flew over the advance | SOVIETS SEE WAR HITLER'S PROGRAM Collective Efforts for Peace Re- | jected, Radek Asserts in Izvestia. 30, By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 23.—The Soviet press declared today Reichsfuehrer Hitler's foreign program as expounded in his speech Tuesday night is one of war in both Western and Eastern Europe. The first comment in the Soviet eapital came 36 hours after the ad- dress was delivered. In the meantime official quarters, withholding any statement, gave close study to the text of the discourse. Karl Radek, whose writings fre- quently reflect government opinion, broke the silence with an article in Izvestia in which he said Hitler has clearly rejected collective peace efforts. Pravda said the Nazis were trying to get support “in certain circles in | England and Japan” in her war plans and hoped for assistance from Hun- | gary, Finland and Poland. State Forest Bill Passed. ‘The Fulmer bill, authorizing an ap- propriation of $20,000,000 for use in connection with the establishment of State forests, was passed yesterday by the House and sent to the Senate. i A | By the Associated Press. l Found Guilty COL. ALEXANDER E. WILLIAMS, —Harris-Ewing Photo. | Former Assistant Quartermaster WILLIAMS GULTY; DISMISSAL FROM ARMY IS ORDERED Convicted of Soliciting Loan | of $2,000 and of Giving False Testimony. CLEMENCY IS URGED BY MILITARY COURT General Is Acquitted of Charge Alleging Sum Received. MDONALD LIKELY | T0 60 BY JUNE9 Eye Weakness Requires Strain Be Eased—Shift With Baldwin Seen. By the Associated Press LONDON, May 23.—Political circles | declared today the resignation of | Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and the elevation of Stanley Baldwin, | lord president of the council, to that post will take place not later than Whitsuntide, June 9. | Sources close to the government said a general election will most likely take place in the early Autumn. | A new urgent warning by the prime | minister's oculist that he must not | continue to subject his eyes to the strai1i inseparable from his office, led to the widely circulated report that MacDonald's resignation is imminent. | It was believed that MacDenald would remain in the goverament set-up, taking over Baldwin's council presidency. A big shake-up of the| cabinet under Baldwin, however, was | forecast in cvder to present the| strongest combination possible in the coming elections. ETHIOPIAN PLAN SPURNED BY DUCE| Eden and Laval Seek New Method of Solving Con- troversy. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 23 —Premier Mus- solini of Italy was understood today to have rejected Anglo-French sug-: gestions for a compromise mediation | procedure between Italy and Ethiopia. As a result, Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, and Plerre| Laval, French foreign minister, occu- | pled themselves in attempts at ob-| taining & new method of solving the dispute between Italy and Ethiopia. The precise nature of the sugges- tion was not announced. LONDON, May 23 (P)—Italian charges that Britain is effecting mili- tary preparations within Ethiopia as | well as along the frontiers of the Sudan were authoritatively described as “absolute nonsense” today at the war office and the Egyptian depart- | ment British officials “deplored” the| statement made yesterday at Rome in the Giornale D'Italia that England is sending arms to Ethiopia “‘destined for use against Italy.” It was understood that despite the semi-independence of the native au- thorities of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, they would not take any military steps without the knowledge and approval of the war office at London. EIGHT GORK.Y PLANES CONSIDERED BY SOVIET MOSCOW, May 23.—The Soviet government today took under consid- eration requests from soldiers and workers for the construction of eight instead of three already authorized airplanes of the Maxim Gorky type. The newspaper Pravda declared last Saturday, on the day after the Gorky crashed with 48 deaths, that the Soviet Union had facilities to con- struct these gigantic machines in large number:. ‘The possibility of making the cabins of the planes detachable and equip- ping them with huge parachutes for separate descent in case of an ac- cident in the air is being studied. | The members of the court ) Col. Alexander ‘Williams, former ¢ Foem WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DG, THURSDAY, HOPKINS T0 NAME ADVISERS ON PAY FOR WORK RELIEF Plans Follow Union Chiefs’ Warning of Strikes on Roosevelt Rates. $19-T0-$94-A-MONTH PAYMENTS HELD JUST Wages Will Be Higher on Some Projects, With Adjustment in Total Hours. By the Associated Press. assistant quartermaster general of the Army, was found guilty today by an Army court-martial and sentenced to be dismissed from the military service. | Col. Williams was found guilty of “soliciting and obtaining a loan of $2,000" in connection with War De- partment contracts from the repre- sentative of an automobile tube con- cern and of giving false testimony by denying the loan before a House com- mittee. | Announcement by Army. The War Department’s official an- nouncement said: “The War Department anounced to- day that a general court-martial had reached findings of guilty of two of the | three specifications on which Col. | Alexander E. Williams, Quartermaster Corps, had been on trial for the last three days at the Army War Cnllezei and had sentenced the officer to be dismissed from the mlitary service. unani- mously joined in a recommendation of clemency on account of the long and aithful service of Col. Williams. “The specific allegations on which Col Williams was found guilty were the soliciting and obtaining of a loan of $2,000 while he was a brigadier general and assistant to the quarter- master general in charge of the transportation division of the quarter- master generals office in November, 1933, from the representative of an automobile tube concern whom he knew was attempting to favorably interest him in this tube in order to secure War Department contracts and £)80 of giving false testimony by deny- ing the loan, before subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee of Military Affairs of the House on December 10, 1934. Acquitted on One Charge. “He was acquitted of a specifica- tion alleging the receipt of another sum of $2,000 of which there was no documentary evidence. “The charges were preferred as & result of a very thorough invrstiga- tion made by the inspector general of the Army at the direction of the Secretary of War, and the cowt. with one exception, was composed entirely of general officers stationed in Wash- ington “The proceedings row go to the judge advocate general for review by him and the Board of Review, a statutory board of three officers of the judge advocate general's aepart- ment. The holding and opinion of the Board of Review and the recom- mendations of the judge advocate general are then transmitted to the Secretary of War for the final action of the President.” Will Appeal at Once. J. Leonard Townsend, law partner of A. Mitchell Palmer, former Attor- ney General, and chief defense coun- | sel, announced that Col. Williams will | appeal at once to the Board of Re- view of the judge advocate general’s office. He said Col. Williams had no statement to make at the present time. The attorney disclosed that Col. Williams testified in his own behalf, but because of the executive nature of the trial the lawyer refused to reveal details of the testimony. He said about 10 or 12 witnesses in all testi- fied, including those for prosecution as well as defense. Maj. F. G. Munson of the judge advocate general’s office of the Army, was prosecutor. The chief witness against Col. Wil- liams was Frank E. Speicher, leak- proof automobile tube salesman, who previously had told the Department of Justice and the House Military Affairs Committee about a $2,000 loan he had made to Col. Williams. It is known the defense sought to attack the credibility of Speicher. The salesman disappeared on the eve of a grand jury investigation of Army lobbying conditions more than a year ago, but was located last December in New York by Department of Justice agents. He returned voluntarily to testify betore the House group. The defense cited the long and dis- tinguished record of Col. Willlams since his graduation from West Point in 1898. Col. Williams went into immediate nc‘t{on after graduation from the military academy and won the silver Readers’ Guide Page. ..B-10 .C-2-3 .C-7 After Dark .,. Amusements . Comics .... Cross-word Puzzle . .C-7 Editorials .... v..A-8 Finance . .....A-17-18-19 Lost and Found.. .A-9 Paul Mallon . .A-2 Radio .C-8 Serial Story . .B-8 Short Story ...C-3 Society .. .:..B-2 Sports Vital Statistics .. A-11 Washington Wayside ....B-16 Women's Features....C-4-5-6 ) star citation for gallantry during the Spanish-American War. During the World War he served as chief quartermaster for the 3d United States Army at Coblenz and .was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally gallant and meritorious service. DANA RESUMES FLIGHT Youth Leaves St. Louis, Continu- ing Quest for Record. ST. LOUIS, May 23 (#).—Nineteen- year-old Peter Dana, great-grandson of Richard Dana and Henry W. Long- fellow, took off at 4:20 a.m. (C. 8. T.) today after an overnight stop on ais San Diego-to-Boston transcontinental flight. Flying a low-winged monoplane, he is attempting to establish a record for junior sportsman pilots. Jack Fisher, a private pllot, is with him. | Warned by union leaders that the | work-relief wages fived by President Roosevelt may lead to strikes, Harry L. Hopkins, works progress adminis- trator, moved today to set up a board of business and labor representatives to advise him on the problem. It was indicated the board will be asked to make recommendations which ! might be carried out under Hopkins’ authority ‘o raise or lower the sched- ules 10 per cent or to reduce the num- ber of projects to which they will ap- ly. p"K'he works progress administrator, replying to critics, said the $19-to-$94- a-month payments were substantially will rest on those trying to change them. Strikes Are Foreseen. ‘William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and other union leaders have protested that such wages will tend to tear down wage scales generally and result in strikes. Hopkins saic at his press conference yesterday that the $19-to-$94 rates will not be followed on public works, highways and street construction, grade crossing elimination and in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Hourly rates on these projects will be higher, he said, but whether enough hours will be worked to make workers' monthly payments larger was described as a question. Meanwhile, the Works Allotment Board was called to a session this ternoon to consider recommending | additional projects to Mr. Roosevelt, | Chairman Ickes was in Cincinnati, but | he said before leaving the Capital that | he expected the board to make some | recommendations. i Approval Announced. The President at his press confer- | ence yesterday announced approval of | the billion-dollar batch of projects recommended to him by the board a short time ago. The possibility was suggested in in- formed quarters that some additional | Federal projects, like rivers and | harbors works. might be recommended | by the Allotment Board at its meet- ing today. It was believed some public works projects proposed by cities would get consideration despite the |fact the President has not yet acted |on the recommendation of Secretary Ickes that the basis of loans and grants for such enterprises be changed |to increase the amount contributed outright by the Government. In the work-relief mill also, as the | Allotment Board met, were applica- tions from the Veterans' Administra- tion, the War and Navy Departments and the Smithsonian Institution seek- relief money for improvements to their properties in different parts of the country. Veterans’ Unit Asks Funds. Applications for 40 new Veterans' Administration projects, aggregating $15,000,000 and scattered through 24 States and the District of Columbia, were made public last night to the Applications Division. Earlier yester- day 22 recommended veterans’ con- struction projects had been announced, along with 121 sought by the War and Navy Departments and the Smith- sonian Institution. These requests called for expenditures of nearly $55,000,000. The division, headed by Frank C. Walker, emphasized in its statement that an application “in no way indi- cates that the proposed undertaking will be carried out.” It was unable to.predict when the first non-Federal applications will be announced. Rules for procedure under the $4,- 000,000,000 work fund require that these applications receive approval from the Budget Bureau and the Works Progress Division, before ‘Walker presents them to the Advisory Allotments Committee which makes recommendations to President Roose- velt. On another subject, Hopkins an- nounced with obvious satisfaction yes- terday that the April relief population in 32 States had declined 3.7 per cent from March. This indicated, he said, that the total relief population had dropped below 20,000,000. Decline 15,000 Families. In these States, he said, the decline totaled 15,000 families “plus,” some of these being farmers given work in planting. Obviously concerned at what he called a “misunderstanding” of the wage schedule, Hopkins acknowledged that the schedule was drawn up with- out consulting national labor leaders, and that it might contain some “in- justices.” He defended the rates, how- ever, with the contention that they doubled the present average relief pay- ments. Hopkins acknowledged that in a “yery few instances” payments might be iess than wages of those already at work under the Relief Administra- tion, but said he had received com- plaints that the schedule is too high. Those on the existing work relief are paid prevailing wages, but hours of work are limited. A 40-hour week will prevail generally under the new program. n just and that “the burden of proof” ing approximately $70.000,000 of work- | MAY. 23, 1935—FIFTY-FOUR PAGLS. i, | FEEL LIKE THE KID IN A TRANCE! | HEAR ALL BUT CANT SPEAK! b SR o Star The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,240 % Kk K Some Returns Not Yet Received MR PRESIDENT ASS OF HMSELF | LONG ENouG! H | THINK THE GALLERY IS ENTITLED To LAUGH AT The SENATE MONKEYS' | RESENT THE INSINUATION Thar MY GooD FRIEND 1S A MONKEY N'T KNOW THE TruTH \\F HE RAN INTo 1T RUSH HOLT'S SUSPENDED ANIMATION! SENAT THE GENTLEMAN et HAS MADE AN 5 ~"~‘ o How LONG HAVE | ™ WE GOTTA PUT UP WITH SUCH PERSONALI TIES? Mrs. Villapiano’s Denial of Abandoning Son*Up- | held by Judge. 1 Mrs. Helen Virginia Villapianc to- day was awarded custody of her 8- vear-old son, Albert J. Sardo. jr.. although the boy says he has lost his love for his mother. | In recognizing the right of the mother to have her child, District Supreme Court Justice Oscar R.| | Lubring said the expressed desire of | the boy to remain with his grand- | father is not controlling in a case of this kind. Justice Luhring dealt summarily with the first contention, declaring | the facts in the case clearly showed | | Mrs. Villapiano hed not abandoned | the boy. | Then, taking up the assertion that the child had no love for his mother |and did not want to live with her. Justice Luhring pointed out that the wishes of an 8-year-old child are not conclusive under circumstances such as these. He also called attention to | letters the boy wrote to his mother up to the time of his father's death, expressing his love for her. Justice | Lubring also cited the childs testi- {mony in which he said one of the | reasons for not liking Dr. Villapiano | was that “he took my mother away | | from my father and left him with | @ broken heart.” In this connection | the opinion of the court said: | It is to be noted here that when | the grandfather was asked why he did | | not want the mother to have the child, | | he replied in similar language, ‘Well, she brokeumy boy's (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) Mother Granted Right to Boy ' Who Says He Doesn’t Love Her Mrs. Helen Virginia Villaplano and her 8-year-old son, Albert J. Sardo, jr. ~—Star Staff Photos. CLEVELAND STRIKE RANKS INCREASED | National Carbon Is Fourth Major Plant Closed. 5,500 Affected. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 23.—With three | major strikes already in progress, a | fourth walkout took place in Cleve- !Ilnd today, forcing a shutdown of | the National Carbon Co. Officials said 1,200 employes we affected. L Other Cleveland plants shut down by strikes are the White Motor Co., the Addressograph-Muitigraph Corp., and the Industrial Ravon Corp. | Members of the Union Strike Com- mittee at National Carbon said the union is asking a 10 per cent wage increase and recognition of seniority rights Approximately 5500 men are af- fected by the shutdowns of the four factories. Conciliation Commissioner W. H. Rogers of the Department of Labor took a leading part today in efforts to settle the White Motor strike, con- ferring with company and union officials. Officials of the rayon company said approximately 150 non-strikers re- mained virtual prisoners inside their plant, because of the large number of pickets outside. The 150 have been in the plant since Monday. Sheriff’s deputies expected the ma- rooned employes would be conducted safely through the picket lines today. The officers planned to serve writs of injunction. limiting the number of pickets to two at each of the factory's doors. A rough encounter between several hundred pickets at the Addressograph- Multigraph plant and 25 policemen developed today when the pickets sought to prevent about 200 office workers from entering the building. No ome ‘was seriously injured. STEEL MEN START FGHT ON UNONS Wagner Bill Called “Vicious’ by Grace as Institute Opens Meeting. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 23.—Leaders of | the steel industry launched a con- | certed attack on the closed shop la- bor union activity and the Wagner bill at the forty-fourth general meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute today. “We stand squarely for the open shop,” declared Eugene G. Grace, president of the institute, in his key- note address. Grace called the Wagner bill “vi- cious.” T. M. Girdler, chairman and president of the Republic Steel Corp., termed it “the outstanding legislative | monkey wrench which today threat- ens to jam the wheels of recovery.” “Business is ready to go forward,” said Grace. “It is being halted by un- due emphasis on reform; unsound, biased and perhaps even unconstitu- tional legislative proposals; political maneuvering, unrestrained public ex- penditures, currency tinkering and in- creased tax burdens.” Holds Company Plan Better. He cited the record of the steel in- dustry’s experience with employes’ representation plans and said: “We know that this method of co-operative collective dealing is better for all parties concerned than is the old out- worn idea of strife and conflict.” Grace continued: “Now we are faced with a vicious legislative pro- posal that seeks to discredit these plans, gives legislative backing to na- tional, irresponsible labor unions and invites the closed shop. I refer to the national labor relations act, common- ly called the Wagner bill.” “The signs show good times ahead,” said Girdler, “and I think we are going to have better times, unless economic experimenters keep on throwing more monkey wrenches into the machinery.” BALL GAME OFF Today's ball game between Washington and the White Sox | was postponed this afternoon on account of wet grounds. NAA. SUPPORTERS STORMING CAPITOL \ Business Men Bear De- mands for Act’s Exten- | sion Two Years. : Business men stormed the Capitol | today armed with resolutions demand- | ing the two-year extension of the N. R. ’A, and unclipped wings for the Blue Eagle. The inner circle of the Industry and Business Ccmmittee for N. R. A. ex- tension, which staged yesterday’s r | eovery act rally at Constitution Hall, this morning buttonholed Senators and | Representatives in a drive for adop- | tion of the Doughton resolution. More than 1,000 industrialists, code authority members and trade associa- | tion executives listened to a round of | speeches at the D. A. R. auditorium in the meting planned by Ward Cheney, Connecticut silk manufacturer and chairman of the Extension Committee. Overshadowed by Bonus. Cheney led his delegates to the Capitol yesterday, but the issue of the bonus overshadowed the pleas of the well-dressed business men. who were calm, collected and undemonstrative in their meeting. Leaders of the rally had planned a “taxicab march” for the trip to the Capitol, but most of them had to walk blocks for a cab when they streamed from Constitution Hall. N. R. A. officials and other adminis- tration representatives adopted & strict “hands-off” policy in connection with the rally. New Dealers still smarted | from the charges of critics that last | week's farmers’ march was in reality | arranged by the A. A. A. | Confident the rally had been a suc- cess, Cheney was ready today to pre- | sent to congresisonal leaders a reso- | lution adopted unanimously by his | group to the effect that the Clark | nine-month extension resolution 1is “destructive of the national industrial recovery act and should not be en- | acted into law.” Trouble Is Predicted. At the same time, Walter G. Crich- ton, representing a committee of 50 bituminous coal producers operating in 21 States, told the House Ways and Means Committee soft coal operators would have trouble if N. R. A. is al- lowed to expire. He added his group was ready to make a contract with United Mine Workers no matter what action is taken on the recovery act. “I believe Congress will give heed | to the viewpoint we have expressed.” | Cheney declared. “They will not know what lies ahead if the plea for a two- year extension of N. I R. A. is refused. “We have given Congress a mag-[ nificent demonstration of the view- | point ot business. We intended no spectacular ‘show,’ planned no ‘march’ and we attempted nothing of the cir- cus type of demonstration. “We came here as men actually in business to deliberate in calmness and to express a reasoned verdict upon an institution that has given us new life, a new sense of order and &n out- look that gives hope in place of the despair that was so prevalent and frightening and alarming two years ago.” Fight in Dark Alternative. The serious men and women yes- terday were as calm as Cheney could have wished as representatives of eight trades and industries talked to them of the benefits of the N. R. A. has brought. | Cheney himself led off with the re- mark that the alternative to N. R. A. would be for business “to blow out the light and fight it out in the dark.” Then one by one delegates from the general retail business, the alloy | casting industry, the men’s clothing trade, the retail tobacco trade. the | textile industry, the retail drug busi- ness, the coat and suit trade and the retail auto trade testified to the ad- vantages brought business by the re- covery act. ' | Hatch, Lewis, Logan, Long, | Barbour, TWO CENTS. SENATE SUSTAINS BONUS VETO 24 MEASURE IS KILLED BY 4010 VOTE AS FOES EXCEED EXPECTED MARGIN Galleries Crowded as Final Argument Is Conducted Under Rigid Time Limit to Hasten Decision. BORAH REVERSES PAST POSITION ON MEASURE Speaks in Its Favor on Ground of Nation's Need for More Cur- rency—Backers Prepare to At- tach Payment Plan as Rider to Other Legislation. BULLETIN. By a vote of 40 to 54, the Senate today sustained Presi- dent Roosevelt's veto of the Patman soldiers’ bonus bill. The action of the Senate killed this particular bill. Supporters of immediate cash payment of the bonus planned to offer other bonus measures as amendments to the naval appropriation bill or the A. A. A. bill immediately. The Senate originally had passed the Patman bill, 55 to 33, Senator Pope of Idaho was the only member to switch his vote. ‘The roll call: To Override the Veto. Democrats—Adams, Bachman, Bank- head, Bilbo, Black, Bone, Bulow, Byrnes, Clark, Copeland, Costigan, George. aloney, McAdoo, McCarran, McGill, McKellar, Minton, Moore, Murphy, Murray, Neely, Overton, Reynolds, Rassell, Schwellenbach, ~ Sheppard, Smith, Thomas, Oklahoma:; Thomas, Utah: Trammell, Truman, Van Nuys, Wheeler. Total, 41. Republicans—Borah, Capper, Carey, Davis, Dickinson, Frazier, Gibson, Norris. Nye, Schall, Stiewer. Total. 11 Progressive—La Follette. Total, 1. Farmer-Labor—Shipstead. Total. 1. Grand total, 54. To Sustain the Veto. Democrats—Ashurst, Bailey, Bark ley, Brown, Bulkley, Burke, Byrd, Chavez, Connally, Coolidge, Deiterich, Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, Gore, Guffey, Harrison, Hayden, King. Lonergan. 0'Mahoney, Pittman, Rope, Radcliffe, Robinson, Tydings, Wagner Walsh. Total, 28. Republicans to sustain: Couzens, Hale, Hastings, Johnson, Keyes, McNary, Metcalf, Townsend, Vandenberg, and White: total, 12. ‘Grand total, 40. Senator Norbeck, Republican, South Dakota, was the only absentee. He was announced as favoring to over- ride the veto. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Early action sustaining President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman sol- diers’ bonus bill was looked for this afternoon by administration leaders as the Senate pushed toward a vote which will decide whether the measure is to become law or be rejected. Prac- tically all of the bill's supporters eon- ceded defeat. As the Senate debate progressed the ‘White House announced Mr. Roose- velt had received more than 1,000 messages in response to his veto. which was speedily overridden yester- day by the House, 322 to 98. Only 30 of these messages opposed the presi- dential stand. The prospect of an early vote was Austin, | enhanced by the statement of Sena- tor Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, leader of the Patmanites, that there was no disposition among his forces for delay. He said he expected action on the veto this afternoon. Thomas opened debate shortly after 10 a.m. under the unanimous consent agreement entered into yesterday, whereby each Senator who wishes to speak is limited to one 30-minute interval. Veterans in Galleries. Only one Senator, Norbeck, Repub- lican, of South Dakota, was absent when the debate opened. The galleries were crowded and there were many veterans—some in khaki—sprinkied among the throng. After Thomas concluded his speech by asserting that “when 80 per cent of the Congress and the country is in favor of legislation it is impossible to prevent it,” the debate for the administration forces was opened by Senator Dieterich, Democrat, of Illi- nois. Contending the issue had been “mis- understood,” the Illinois Senator, who rarely participates in debate, said the bonus was only incidental to the monetary provisions of the Patman measure. He argued that not more than 3 of the 322 members of the House who voted to override the veto understood the monetary provisions of the bill. Borah Supports Bill. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, whose opposition to the pay- ment of the bonus in the past was quoted by the President in his veto . message, next took the floor in sup- port of the bill. “I offer no apology,” he said, “for believing that this country needs a larger volume of currency. It is for that reason I believe this bill har- monizes with the interest of the en- tire country. I realize its impor- tance to the veterans. But I believe “(Continued on Page 3, Columa 1. ¢