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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight, followed by showers to- morrow; cooler tomorrow afternoon and night; Thursday probably fair. Tempera- tures—Highest, 86, at 2:30 p.m. yester- day; lowest, Full report on page A-11. Closing N. Y. Markets Pages 17, 18, 19 No. 33,264. , at 5 am. toda Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ Foenin ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ADMINISTRATION RENEWS FIGHT TO ATTAIN NEW DEAL OBJECTIVES; SIBLEY PLEADS FOR N. R. A. WAGE < Roosevelt Orders Surveys to Learn Shifts Demanded by . N.R. A. Decision. CONGRESSIONAL TO RESHAPE LEGISLATION Amendment of Constitution One Means Speculated Upon, With Quick Action Held Unlikely. By the Associated Press. New Deal officialdom today Supreme Court with an evident new tack for the objectives embodied in the defunct N. R. A. Studies were instituted by President Roosevelt. his Capitol chiefs and by various business, determine what shifts were demanded by the epochal decision | In the Schechter poultry case. On virtually all sides. t which have been created Administration.” Whether this meant an immediate pressure for legislation within the bounds of the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling, and possibly a move to amend the Co! say for sure. The President ordered a wide research by legal and Govern- ment aides to determine the breadth of the court action and the means to rebuild from it. President May Make Radio Talk. A brief announcement by Stephen Early, a secretary to the President, called for a change in the press conference at the White House for this week. Tomorrow's am., has been changed to 4 p.m. and the time for Friday's interview switched from 4 to 10:30. When the President. has something to say it was generally believed he will say it either personally to Congress or to the Nation as a whole over the radio, Secretary Perkins, President Green of the American Federa- tion of Labor, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, planned to go to the White House for a | conference. New Deal chieftains in Senate and,, House already were going ahead with™ their own studies. Some expressed doubt that varied pending New Deal legislation, such as the A. A. A. amend- ments, the utilities holding company and banking bills and the social se- curity legislation. could withstand the ! force of the Supreme Court’s unani- mous ruling. Commission Considered. | Several members of the National In- dustrial Recovery Board were consid- ering recommending the creation of a Government commission to study the problem, with a view to legislation at the next session of Congress. Proposals were made for a study by some members of the Recovery Board of the advisability of appointing a Government commission, but these still were tentative. The major problem for the consid-| eration of such a commission would be whether a constitutional amend- ment is necessary, it was said. It might also be empowered to co-op- erate with industry on a strictly vol- untary basis, whereby members of in- | dustry would contract individually | with the Government, it was said. It was suggested that uniform contracts might be drawn for this purpose. The National Labor Relations Board | virtually suspended operations “pend- | ing determination of some future pol- icy” in the light of the invalidation of the 731 N. R. A. codes. American Federation of Labor offi- cials and their counsel gathered with President William Green in a special | | hese words of Donald R. Richberg | last night were taken to show no surrender of broad objectives: “We face now the question of maintaining the gains which have been made in the last two }gzars and retaining the values under | meeting to map a policy. There was | #ome talk of strikes. | It was decided to have the House recess, in view of prospective Repub- | lican assaults on the New Deal as unconstitutional. | Snell Sees New Deal Out. | Representative Snell of New York, | the Republican leader, told news- | paper men, “The whole New Deal is | out the window. i “If President Roosevelt now would | forget all this experimenting and go back to the beginning as he did when he sent up the economy act, and put things back on a business basis, the country would come back.” A complete rewriting of the A. A. A. amendments to conform to the Supreme Court decision was decided on today by Senate and House leaders together with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. Attorney General Cummings, Solici- tor General Stanley Reed, Donald Richberg. N. R. A. head, and Chair- man Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, selected the Justice De- partment for another of the many conferences under way. No Quick Action Likely, 1t generally was agreed that no ae- tion was in immediate prospect. Lead- ers pointed out that the power of the President to make codes had been held unconstiutional and that it would be an impossible task for Con- gress to enact legislation stipulating codes for each industry. Furthermore, their opinion was that the court’s ban against regulation of intrastate business would handicap (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) M'GEE TRANSFERRED McElroy Kidnaper Is Taken to Missouri State Prison. KANSAS CITY, May 28 (®).— Walter McGee, kidnaper whose death sentence was commuted to life im- prisonment on the second anniversary of the abduction of his victim, Mary McElroy, was taken to the State Prison at Jefferson City today. It was his 30th birthday anniversary. McGee has been in high spirits since Gov. Guy B. Park yesterday heeded Miss MCEIroy’s plea that the Jeader of her abductors not die on the gallows. The daughter of Kansas City’s city manager, d. F. McElroy, ° CHIEFS ACT surveyed its setback from the determination to start out on a‘ industrial and labor forces t,o\ the National Recovery nstitution eventually, none could conference, usually held at 10:30 possibly Sunday night. A.A. A. Amendment . Revision _Decided. | OnN.R.A.Decision By the Associated Press. A complete rewriting of the A. A. A. | amendments to conform to the Su- preme Court decision 6n N. R. A was decided on today Ly Senate and House | leaders and Secretary of Agriculture | Wallace. ! Finding the far-reaching licensing | provisions provided in the act affected poth by the interstate commerce prin- | ciples and the requirement that stand- | ards be set up in delegating authority, | the administration leaders decided to | recommit the bill ‘o the Senate Agri- | culture Committee. Those attending the conference in- cludea Senator Robinson, majority leader; Chairman Jones of the House | Agriculture Committee, Chairman Smith of the Senate Agriculture Com- | mittee, Secretary Wallace, Chester Davis. A. A. A. administrator and Seth Thomas, counsel for A. A. A. Recommitting Is Tentative. “A tentative conclusion was reached that the bill should be recommitted in order that the amendments may be given further studyeand such changes in them may be made as are essential to have the bill conform to the prin- ciples of the decision,” Senator Rob- inson stated. “It is thought that several days will be required to do this work. The bill probably will be ready for report to the Senate and further action there within two weeks. It is believed that both features of the N. R. A. decision, namely, the standards to be set up for licensing and the clear limitation of the operations to interstate commerce or to transactions that directly affect interstate commerce, are involved.” Before the court handed down the N. R. A. decision yesterday, it appeared likely the House and Senate both would act on the changes in the A. A A law this week. One section in the present bill would permit handlers or processors of 50 pe cent or more of any farm commodity to come to a voluntary marketing agreement under which the Secretary of Agriculture could issue licenses. With that majority agreed, the minor- iity handlers could be compelled to accept the licenses. License Impesition Approved. Another provision would give the Secretary authority to impose licenses upon handlers of certain commodities —milk and its products, tobacco, sugar beets, wool, mohair, fruits and vege- tables —in event two-thirds of the growers of these products asked it, and the President approved. “It is evident from the decision,” Senator Smith said, “that these sec- tions must be greatly modified or elim- inated. You can't use coercion to dominate a minority to come to agree- ment with the majority.” He was optimistic that many phases of the bifl could be rescued, however, and for that reason fought off yester~ day all efforts to have the bill sent back to committee from the Senate floor. He declared he preferred to have “this body of lawyers consider it in all its legal and constitutional phases.” Licensing Vitally Affected. Representative Jones yesterday had made & quick decision not to bring the bill out before the House pending a study. He said it “vitally affects” the licensing and marketing provisions. He planned to call his committee soon to study revisions. He was optimistic that other phases of the bill could be salvaged, notably the use of customs receipts to finance foreign marketing of farm commodi- ties and to build up domestic markets; the broadening of the base for de- termining farm parity prices, and sec- tions permitting payment of benefits was kidna May 27, 1933, and re- leased unhl:";ned 29 hours later after 'ymncomo.noommsmun for to farmers during the of 4 Court Decisions Hazard Future Of the New Deal Democratic Congress Throws Up Sponge on Pending Bills. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Democratic Congress threw up the sponge today on New Deal legislation—for the time being. The leaders in both House and Senate admitted there was no use going ahead with the enactment of more New Deal measures until they had been studied in the light of the decisions of the Supreme Court declaring the N. R. A. and the Lemke-Frazier farm mortgage act unconstitutional. 3 Included in the list of New Deal bills thus temporarily delayed were the joint resolution extending the N. R. A, the amendments pro- posed to the A. A. A, the economic security bill, the administration banking bill and the railroad bill. Confusion Everywhere. The utmost confusion of ideas reigned at the Capitol and the un- certainty of the congressional lead- ers went beyond the legislation now in the making. It extended to the New Deal laws already en- acted. Democratic Congressmen as well as Republican were in- clined to the view that the A. A. A., with its processing taxes, would not stand the test of constitu- tionality. Furthermore, it was pointed out that if the administration’'s plan to boost prices and wages in in- dustry fails, then the converse of the proposition, to boost farm prices through the A. A. A, would leave a lopsided economic situa- tion. There was even talk of the pos- sibility of a court attack on the huge work-relief act on the the- ory that Congress has delegated powers to the President in that act without properly defining them. Amendment Is Discussed. A constitutional amendment, making it possible for the Pederal Government to have greater con- trol over business, including intra- State business, was suggested as & . The difficulty about such & proposition was the time that would be required to get it ratified, In adjourning the House imme- diately after it met, Speaker Byrns shut off the possibility of Repub- lican speeches in that body at- tacking the New Deal. Minority Leader Snell clamored for recog- nition. The Speaker turned a deaf ear, however, and recognized the acting Democratic floor leader, Representative Taylor of Colorado. Taylor first asked unanimous con- sent that when the House ad- journed it adjourn uatil Friday and that when®it adjourned Friday it should not meet again until Monday. Unable to obtain recognition or to win the right to speak for five minutes, Snell objected. Taylor pressed then a motion to adjourn immediately. On a division, 101 voted “aye” and 49 “no.” A roll call was demanded and the House ther. adjourned at the conclusion of the call until tomorrow. Senate Debates Ruling. While debate was shut off in the House by quick adjournment, dis- cussion of the court’s decision burst out in the Senate with little delay. Senator Lewis of Illinois, the Democratic whip. started the ball rolling when he declared there had been no disposition on the part of any high administration efficial to dispute the decision of Su- preme Court. Senator Robinson, the majority leader, told the Senate that in his opinion the decision had been such as to “impair and embarrass” the administration of the N. R. A., but not to destroy it. “It is entirely practical” said Robinson, “to revise the statute so it will conform to that decision. The present Speaker, however, does not see how it will be possible to regulate and control, through Con- gress, maximum hours of labor and minimum wages.” Senator Black of Alabama, author of the 30-hour work week bill, promptly disagreed with Rob- inson. “Having read the opinion of the Supreme Court,” said Senator Black, “I believe that it will be im- possible to revive the N. R. A. It is my belief that the court has clearly said that it is impossible to delegate power in such a way as to permit any group of business- men to legislate. “I do believe that Congress has the right to protect the workers of (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) PARLIAMENT TRADITION BROKEN BY MEMBER Speaker Unwittingly -!'.lu on Line That Once Separated Sword-Bearing Gallants. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 28.—A member’s unwitting step today sent the House of Commons back hundreds of years. Sir Lambert Ward was speaking from the front government bench when he was interrupted with cries of “order, order,” and the House rippled with laughter. He hesitated and looked around, then with an amused glance at his own feet he moved back. He had stepped from the carpet into history. Back in more stirring days, when gallants were wont to come to Parlia- ment wearing swords, conflicts were oot unknown. So red lines were drawn down the floor on both sides of the House, just two sword lengths apart. A strip of red carpet still marks the old lines. No member may, while g:lml. stand beyond the carpet 'U.S.Chamber’s Chief Appeals to Business. LABOR TO FIGHT FOR CODE GAINS |Green Summons Aides—Strikes Threatened. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 28—In an appeal for the preservation of wages and hours established under N. R. A, Harper Sibley, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, today urged business men to uphold the levels of the codes. “I call upon all employers of labor who are members of the chamber and its constituent organizations.” Sibley urged, “to mage no immediate changes in hour or wage schedules. “I am corfident that this will be the policy of American ousiness.” pared manuscript, addressing about 500 persons at a iuncheon of the Merchants' Association of New York. s Faith at Stake. Sibley said he spoke “to settle at once any question as to the attitude | of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.” “This is & moment of great oppor- tunity, but also of great responsibility, for the American business man,” he warned. “This is nis moment to prove his good faith. “The Chamber of Commerce has long been on record in favor of fair trade practices, the abolition of child labor, the maintenance of minimum | wages and maximum hours of labor. “Moreover, the chamber has been on record in favor of the principle ]lhlt employes must be protected in | their rights to collective bargaining.” Roosevelt Strength Predicted. “Sit tight” was the advice today of several of those who played an im- | portant part in the events leading up to the proclamation of the N. R. A. One prominent Democrat declared the President “is in a stronger posi- tion today than he has been for some months.” This man, who talked with the ‘White House by telephone during the morning, said: “Both big business and labor will | holler their heads off now. They'll be pouring into the White House in | bunches. Public opinion, too, will ' react favorably to the President. | “One of the strategic spots is the | market. I think it will slump, stocks and commodities alike. This will add |to the demands of busines and labor that something further be done. and | | done quickly. It was very foolish, I think. for some Wall Street men to hail the Supreme Court decision with shouts of glee.” It is known several persons in this group of frequent advisers urged the White House to “sit tight for a few days at least and wait for the favor- able reaction.” One of those who shared in the preparation of N. R. A. is Raymond Moley, one of the original “brain trust.” GREEN CALLS LABOR PARLEY. Two Big Unions Voice Strike Threat. Gird for Wage Fight. By the Associated Press. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, sum- moned the members of the federa- tion’s Executive Council in Washing- ton to a special meeting today to con- sider what the Federation should do to preserve labor's gains under N. R. A. Its legal staff was called in. Green declined any statement. Earlier leaders of two large unions —the United Mine Workers and the United Textile Workers—had said they would order strikes if employers attempt to return to wages, hours and working conditions which prevailed "(Continued on Page 7, Column 4) STOCKS GO DOWN IN HEAVY SELLING Many Off $1 to $3 and Few Lose as Much as $6—Metals Are Hardest Hit. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 28 —Despite Wall Street’s efforts to put a long-range bullish interpretation on the Supreme Court's N. R. A. decision, intermittent flurries of heavy selling engulfed the stock market today. . By midafternoon, many issues were off $1 to $3 a share and a few were down $3 to $6. The ticker at times fell in arrears. Early gains of $1 to $2 a share in rails, utilities and mis- cellaneous issues were virtually can- celed. The market was erratic and active and dull according to its swiftly changing moods. Metals were hardest hit. U. 8. Smelting, following a drop of 1!; cents to 77 cents an ounce in the world silver price, got down as much as $6 to $107. Cerro de Pasco fell more than $4 to $54. J. I. Case de- clined as much. Oils weakened de- cisively with Standard of New Jersey down $1.50 to $47, and Standard of California off more than $2 to below $36. Miscellaneous issues off $1 to $1.50 included U. S. Steel, Bethle- hem, American Telephone, Chrysler and others. Traders were confused over the probable effects of the N. R. A. deci- sion upon business conditions in the near future, The Prench financial crisis was also a cloud on the market horizon, §everal sections of the share list, including rails and utilities, how- ever, close to yesterday’s final Sibley spoke from & hurriedly pre- | | to march on Washington to demand | DRIVE 1S RESUMED FOR PATMAN BILL |Leaders in Congress Decide to Sacrifice Inflation if Necessary. By the Associated Press. | Patman bill leaders in Congress de- cided today to go forward with their | drive for cash payment of the bonus at this session and to sacrifice the inflationary provisions of their bill if | necessary. | | At a joint session of House and | Senate supporters of immediate pay- ment it was agreed to poll the s«n-i ate to determine what cash payment | bill would have the best chance ta succeed and then push for action on it, regardiess of whether it should | | be the Patman bill recently vetoed by President Rooseveit, the Vinson | bill or some combination of the two. No Compromise on Payment. | It was decided definitely there would | be no compromise on their demand for cash payment, but only on the method of financing. The decision, it was believed, vir- tually killed any chance of an agree- ment between the administration and | the cash-bonus bloc at this session. | An appeal was broadcast by the | Patman leaders also for veterans not | | the bonus. They expressed the fear that instead of helping the cause 2| bonus march would harm it. ‘The strategy meeting was held de- spite introduction in the Senate yes- | terday of a new bonus compromise. The new measure, introduced by Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Ne- vada, calls for 80 per cent payment of | the bonus certificates. Pittman of- fered nis bill with an expression of | hope that President Roosevelt might | be_persuaded to sign a measure more | liberal than the Harrison compromise, which the Senate turned down. The bonus bloc had consistently re- fused to accept the compromise bill of Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mis- sissippi, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which was ad- vanced several weeks ago with assur- ance that President Roosevelt would sign it. It proposed to pay $770 on the average $1,000 certificate, or $180 if the veteran had borrowed up to the full limit of the law. The Pittman bill would deduct 20 per cent from the face value of the | certificate and pay the balance. In- terest on loans since March 1, 1931, would be canceled. This would mean | about $800 for the average veteran who had not borrowed or $300 for | | those who had. | “This is & bill introduced for con- | sideration of the Finance Committee in an attempt to reach a compromise on the bonus question,” Pittman told the Senate. | “I think it has been demonstrated quite clearly, at least it is plain to me, that. there will be no so-called bonus bill passed at this session unless & compromise can be reached which will be satisfactory to the President of the United States. I am satisfied that there was an attempt to reach such an agreement through the so- called Harrison bill, which wes, of course, totally unsatisfactory to the ex-service man. Six Methods Allowed. “I do not believe, however, that we have gone beyond the point where we can win the President to a very much more liberal bill than the so-called Harrison bill.” Pittman would provide six methods for financing the payments, giving the President authority to use any or all of them. He could exchange 2! per cent bonds for the certificates, raise the money through a bond issue, issue Treasury certificates, use the money in the adjusted service certificate fund, take the money from the $4,- 000,000,000 work-relief fund, or use profits from seigniorage on silver pul by CONDITION OF H. M. TATE IS REPORTED IMPROVED I C. C. Chairman Was Taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital After Stricken in Friend's Home. By the Associated Press, BRYN MAWR, Pa., May 38.—Con- tinued improvement in the condition of Chairman Hugh M. Tate of the He was taken to the hospital Sunday seriously ill after he was stricken at F. W. Conner, assistant traffic passenger manager of Pennsylvanis Rallrosd, ) | eight counties of Mississippi. o Star TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1935—FORTY-SIX PAGES. ks Dynamite Necklace | | Is Used in Suicide; Blast Uproots Tree | By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 28— Robert M. Yeatman, 31-year-old | | oil worker, selected a “dynamite necklace” as his means of com- mitting suicide. Police said he slung two pounds of dynamite around his neck and exploded it with an electric plunger. The blast uprooted a tree. 37,000,000 ASKED FOR D. C. HOUSING Ickes Low-Cost Projects Proposal on Two Jobs Adds to Confusion. Disclosure today that Secretary Ickes is proposing to spend $7.000,000 in low-cost housing projects in the | District of Columbia served to throw the local housing situation in more confusion. Housing officials in the Interior De- partment said the budgetory set-up represents an increase of nearly $3.- 000.000 for local projects. Heretofore. Secretary Ickes had budgeted $4.200,- | 000 for two projects, one for white and the other for colored familes. The applications made public today n Ickes' absence from Washington include $4.000.000 for one develop- ment and $3.000,000 for anotper. For many months housing officials have been negotiating for two sepa- rate sites in Washington. one for white families on Rhode Island ave- nue northeast, between Twelfth and Seventeenth streets, the other in the vicinity of the Washington Barracks, in the southwest. Officials Silent. Housing officials could throw no | additional light on the local situation as a result of the two new applica- tions for funds. Fear was felt in official circles that the proposal to spend an additional | $3.000,000 in the District of Colum- bia would serve to boost land costs | and retard and setback the entire housing project. Protests of property owners on Rhode Island avenue have embar- | rassed negotiations of the housing sec- tion in that district. No explanation was given today why the two applications were di- vided into $3,000.000 and $4.000,000. | No decision has been reached as to how the funds ultimately will be separated racially. Total Is $317,849,150. The $317,849,150 batch of applica- tions announced by the Emergency Council’s Division of Applications and Information also included requests for $44,739,200 to finance 29 munici- | pal construction projects in 12 States, and $44,313,000 for flood control in Minor groups of applications asked | $6,250,950 for 30 projects classified “(Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Summer Buying Warmer weather from now on will result in a flood of buying, as people naturally failed "to provide for their Summer needs during the cold spell. Buyers naturally turn to The Star as a guide to their Summer shopping. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News FLANDIN DEMANDS Gold Reserve Falls Nine () Means Associated P and Wirephoto Services. Yesterdey’s Circulation, 132,549 Some Returns Not Yet Received. ress. TWO CENTS. NEW APPEAL MADE BY WEYERHAEUSER FOR BOY'S RETURN “We Are Ready,” Says No- tice Printed in Seattle Paper. DICTATOR POWERS Billion Francs—Rate Is Boosted to 6 Pct. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) | PARIS. May 28—With a govern-| ment demand from Parliament for full | power to restore France's finances, | Louis Germain-Martin, minister of finance, revealed to the Chamber of Deputies today that the gold reserves of the Bank of France had been diminished by 9.000.000.000 francs— about $594.000,000—in the last two months. The finance minister told the leg- islators that the rhythm of with- drawals was steadily increasing. the bank losing three billions between March 29 and May 17, three billions more during the weck ending May 24, and an additional three billions in the last three days. His plea to Parliament followed by a few hours an announcement vy the Bank of France that it was making an increase in its rediscount rate |to 6 per cent from 4 per cent. the bank's third raise in the rate since last Thursday. At that time the rate | was raised to 3 per cent from 2!; per cent, and it was boosted again to 4 per cent last Saturday. Devaluation Denounced. Germain-Martin denounced the de- | valuation campaign in France and | declared for economies and a bal- anced budget as the way to restore finances. He declared it “unjustifi- able and dangerous o devalue simply because the treasury is temporarily in difficulty.” “There is not a state in the world.” he said, “which devalued before hav- | ing tried to balance its budget’ The minister warned that devalua- tion ‘without balancing the budget would threaten “the coliapse of cur- rency” and insisied that devaluation means “catastrophe tor the vast ma- jority of the coun:ry.” The Bank of France also increased the loan rate on gold bars to 7 per cent from 5!, per cent, on securities to 6'2 per cent from 4!7 per cent, and on 30-day rate to 6 per cent from 4 per cent. Action Follows National Appeal. The bank’s challenge was issued immediately after the full cabinet ap- pealed unanimously to the country to stand by the franc and after Premier Flandin had taken a strong stand against devaluation. A heavy outflow of gold reserves is known to have drained more than 3.000.000.000 francs from the bank's 80.000,000.000 stock in recent weeks and barkers estimated that on Thurs- day the Bank of France statement would reveal that more than 500.000,- 000 francs in gold had been lost daily during this last week. (The French franc today is worth about 6.583 cents.) Flandin issued & statement while the cabinet was in session, shortly be- fore noon, asserting that there was no peril in the “technical” situation of the franc, but nevertheless, the Bank | of France took drastic technical mea- | sures to discourage speculators. All ernment to cease making loans that might be used for speculation in the franc. “No Sign of Peril'” Seen. In his statement, the premier said the government “affirms that the technical situation shows no sign of peril to money in the situation created by the brusque and violent assault of the speculators” and that the gov- ernment “declares itself hostile to de- valuation and appeals to all French- men to defend France.” President Lebrun, meeting with the council of ministers in the premier’s office, signed a “full powers” bill while the opposition in the Chamber Yesterday’s Advertising. (Local Display.) Biiise. The Evening Star. 36,191 2nd Newspaper. .. 11,729 3rd Newspaper..., 9,159 4th Newspaper..., 5,039 5th Newspaper... 4,400 Total ( &, ) 30,327 The circulation of The Star is entirely in the afternoon and largely concentrated in the city and suburbs with a growth of more than 15,000 in of Deputies organized an ominously hostile movement. ‘The government asked for an im- mediate discussion of the bill in Par- liament and the danger of a cabinet overthrow was freely discussed in Parliament’s lobby. NAZIS HOLD TWO MONKS Catholics Accused of Smuggling’ Money to Netherlands. KASSEL, Germany, May 28 ().— Two more Roman Catholic monks have been arrested in Germany charged with smuggling money to the tentiary sentences against nuns May the city proper within the past few years. 17 and May 22, secret police jailed Leo Boeschen, called Epiphan, and Walde- mar Wurth, called Pankratius, both r o | nie.” banks again were advised by the gov- | Netherlands, it was announced today. | While 48 nuns and monks await | trial by the court which passed peni- | SECOND RANSOM NOTE REPORTED DELIVERED Search Reaches Across Border. Karpis and Kelly Bands Seen Possibilities. (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) TACOMA, Wash., May 28.—Ready to negotiate with the kidnapers who have demanded $200,000 ransom for the return of their 9-year-old son George, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyer- haeuser, jr., spoke to the abductors again today through the classified ad columns of a Seattle newspaper. The brief advertisement appearing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today informed the kidnapers: “We are ready. Percy Minnie.” The five-word message was the exact wording which the kidnapers specified in their ransom note delive ered to the distracted parents by special delivery letter Friday night, | six hours after George disappeared. Sunday the Weyerhaeusers had ad- vertised in the specified paper: “Ready to come Monday. Percy Min« A second “personal” also ap- pearing Sunday urged the kidnapers to hurry and relieve Mrs. Weyers haeuser’s anguish. There was no sign of unusual ac- tivity at the Weyerhaeuser house to- day, although it was illuminated upstairs until after 1 o'clock this morning and a Seattle automobile was parked in front until that hour, when a man entered and drove away. Second Ransom Note. Reports were current at police headquarters a second ransom note had been delivered to the family ! made wealthy by lumber. One of the Weyerhaeuser cars left the garage late yesterday afternoon and had not returned this morning. The garage doors were kept open all night as if to be ready to permit quick entry. No mail is being sent to the house, It is examined at the post office. The search for the kidnap gang reached across the international boundary today. with officers pointed to “remnants of the Alvin Karpis and Machine Gun Kelly gangs” as possible suspects. In one of the few partially dis- closed moves in the hunt for the gang that demanded $200.000 ransom two Tacoma detectives hurried to Van- couver, British Columbia. Vancouver police said the detectives ! believed the kidnapirigs were effected by members of the two gangs. who had banded together. British Columbia | officers refused to disclose the identity of the Tacoma detectives. Boy Reported Seen. | The officers went north in response to a woman's report of seeing a boy who resembled the kidnaped youngster riding with four men in a travel- stained automobile last Saturday. That was less than 24 hours after George was abducted from a Tacoma street. | _ A similar t:;p met with failure to- day when a posse of officers returned to Port Angeles, Wash.. after an un- successful effort to trace an automo- bile containing a boy resembling the missing lad. Although they found no trace of the machine. with its three men and a woman, after combing all resorts in | the Lake Crescent area. Port Angeles officers remained on the alert on the | possibility the kidnapers had sought refuge in the sparsely settled forests of the Olympic Peninsula. Simultaneously, authorities here be- came even more silent in their move- ments, perhaps ip response to & plea from the distracted parents. Offices of the captain of Tacoma police detectives were closed to every one but officers. The State patrol locked doors leading to its headquar- ters, and for the first time since the “(Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) | \VETERAN FLYER FOUND DEAD IN WRECKED PLANE Al Lucas’ Death Blamed Stormy Weather—Missing Since Yesterday. | By the Associated Press. | CHEYENNE, Wyo, May 28.—Al | Lucas, veteran fiyer, was found dead on | today in the wreckage of his mail | plane about 13 miles south of Glendo, Wyo. Lucas, who was flying a regular | schedule of Wyoming Air Service from Billings, Mont., to Cheyenne, had been unreported since 4:10 p.m. yesterday. Apparently Lucas was the victim of stormy weather. He was about 34 years old. Officials of the Wyoming Air Service | declared this was their first accident in five years. Readers’ Guide Amusements ... Comics .. Cross-word Puzzle Editorials Finance Paul Mallon . Radio Serial Story ... Service Orders Short Story . Society .. Sports .. Vital Statistics Washington Wayside Women's Features .. ...B-2- ..C-1-2-3-4-5 .A-11 .B-11 C-6-7