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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr, slightly warmer today, followed by local showers late tonight; tomorrow showers, gentle to moderate southeast and Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and south wind; at 6 pm a.m. yesterday. terday; lowest, 59, at (P) Means Associated Press. No. 33,269. ARMY OF OFFICERS HUNTS KARPIS AS KIDNAPED BOY 1S SAFE AT HIS HOME Yan Sedan Described by . George Weyerhaeuser as " One Used by His Abduc- tors Believed Seen Speed- ing Through Oregon. 1,576—No. $200,000 RANSOM PAID; SERIAL NUMBERS TAKEN Victim Tells How He Was Se- creted in Trunk and at Times Shackled to Keep Him From Running Away, but Says “Chains Didn't Hurt.” (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) TACOMA, Wash, June 1.— Grim officers hunted the kid- napers of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser. fleeing with $200,- 000 ransom, in the wheat and| cattle country of Northeastern | Oregon tonight. A tan sedan, darting about the | countryside at high speed, drew ! swift pursuit as the curly-haired | young timber heir slept “safe| and apparently” well at the home of his parents, Mr. and | Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser. He was freed on a counrty road today. Every law enforcement agency of the Pacific Northwest joined in an attempt to blocade all Temperatures—Highest, 79, Full report on Page A-5. Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. Thrilling Story Is Related by he WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1935—112 PAGES: of Kidnaping Boy Victim During Ride Home in Taxi Says Abductors “Treated Him Welt” but [\ PLAINS STATES Kept Him in Trunk and Shackled His Hands and Feet. Following is the story of John H. Dreher, Seattle Times reporter, who returned the kidnaped George Weyerhaeuser to his parent’s arms. BY JOHN H. DREHER. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) “George, we sure are glad to see you,” said the Seattle Times’ oldest staff correspondent as we made ourselves comfortable. George Weyerhaeuser Iying back on the taxicab seat, while the correspondent took & rather un- comfortable reclining position on the floor. “And I am awfully glad to get back,” replied George, The ground was thus broken and a moment later George was informed he was talking to a newspaper man, “That man who brought me thought you were a police officer,” said our young confidant with a grin. “Oh, that's all right,” the writer soon enough, for I directed him to g directly to police headquarter and report. “For, George, you and I are going home.” “Fine,” said George. Gray Head Goes Soft. And at this point this darned old gray head went soft as he said: “George, would you give me a kiss?" | ‘Would he! Probably we had better explain that before we go any further with this story, which, we have a feeling, is geing to stretch out to quite a tale although we'll hurry along to George’s experiences for we know everybody | wants them most of all. Anyhow, Taxi Driver Earl Robinson and this writer had set off from the Winthrop Hotel to see if we couldn’t pick-up the Issaquah tarmer who was bringing young Wayfarer Wever- haeuser home to relieve the anxiety of the family and to set at rest the tears of a Nation, if not of the world Spotted Farmer in Car. ‘We spotted the farmer linfplng along in his rather ancient automobile. this good man John Bonifas, and we told him, “He'll find out his mistake ROOSEVELT TELLS GONGRESS T0 STAY Speed Rejected on Plans to Replace N. R. A. as Long Session Looms. | By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt quietly passed | yesterday he expected them (o stay | in session until December, if necessary, | to complete his legislative program. His move was interpreted on Capitol | Hill as having a twofold purpose—to discourage filibusters against his pro- posals and to indicate that he is in | no hurry to act on measures to take the place of N. R. A. the word down to congressional leaders | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION FLOOD TOLL RISES, L0§S §T2000000 65 Kaown Dead in Storm and Raging Waters in West. 250 FEARED LOST; SCORES ARE MISSING River Two Miles Wide Sweeps Nebraska Area, Wiping Out Towns and Farms. By the Associated Press. A rising roll of flood and storm dead reached the 65 mark last night as early reports indicated seven Western Plains States nad suffered property damage upwards of $12,000,000. Scores were missing all over the flood territory and particularly :a the path of the raging Republican River which roared over a wide area in Southwestern Nebraska Friday and rolled on yesterday into Cheyenne Cour.ty, Kans. A local Red Cross official at McCook, in the center of the Nebrasks fiood zone, estimated the dcad there might reach 250 when a firal check-up can be made after restoration of communi- cations to a number of communities now entirely cut off. The known dead in that area numbered 29, Relief officials at McCook tonight gave up hope for 10 missing families #nd reported the death of a baby of | 3 family by the name of Stratton at Stratton, Nebr. Hurdreds of persons were left | homeless and hundreds of farm ani- mals perished. | Colorado Springs alone listed flood | losses within the city at $1,2i5,000; Pueblo reported damage at “more than a million”; Oxford and McCook, Nebr., COAL MINE STRIKE 1S ORDERED JUNE 17 450,000 Bituminous Work- ers Affected by Sweep- Sy Star - {‘fi} S B FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS Every Afternoon. CENTS ELSEWHERE TEN President to Make High Wages, Farm Prices Issue in 1936 Simple Question, Without References to Constitution or Is Planned. Supreme Court, ROOSEVELT KILLS AIIN.R.A. CASES NOW HELD FUTLE; POLICY IS DELAYED Wholesale Abandonment of Prosecutions Follows Hint No Stopgap Legislation Will Be Proposed. FUTURE COURSE STILL WAITS ON REACTIONS Letters Sent Code Authorities Telling Them They Have No Official Status—No Rush, Con- gress Can Stay Until December, If Necessary, for New Laws, Is ‘Word at Capitol. By the Associated Press, Apparently throwing off the last vestiges of restraint imposed by N. R. 's now dead wage hour and fair trade practice pro- | visions, President Roosevelt yes- terday dismissed 411 court cases involvin; violations of Blue Eagle rules. This wholesale action, coupled [ with an announcement that oth- |er legal actions contemplated would not be initiated, followed closely the dropping of hints in | high quarters that the President | would 1px‘ox.:n')se no stop-gap N. |R. A. legislation. And if any | permanent plan was ready for | submission. congressional lead- 'ex;s,_tat least, lacked any inkling of i avenues of egress and soon the | tuned around and speeded atter him. | "5 Tor an eariy adjournment had | %, MULoR" Oxford and McGoox, Nebr, ing Command. % | . Mr. Roosevelt cruised on Chesa- man hunters were following po- tential traces of the suspected Alvin Karpis gang. The tan sedan. which deputy sher- | iffs said carried five or six men, was believed bottled up in an area 45 miles in diameter in Northern Umatilia | County. Car Hurtled Past, Two deputies from the Umatilla County sheriff’s office were cruising eastward from Umatilla when the thunderbolt whizzed past so fast they didn't even see what make of car it | was or what type of license it carried. | Hot in pursuit, the officers speeded | their car to 91 miles an hour. but soon | Manifestly there were two birds to kill with one stone here. The farmer was making for Tacoma police headquarters and there he and George would be surrounded by police- men and photographers and a whole Iot of persons with pencils and sheaves of paper and everybody talking at ouce and asking questions so that George's curly head would be filled ith aches and he too bewildered to remember anything. ‘That was one thought. The other was that there was a father, a mother, two sisters, a brother and Uncle Rod and Aunt Elizabeth and Grandma Walker and H. Marfield | Balcom and—well anyhow, at least they'd be there, waiting turns to greet been discarded by Democratic chief- tains in view of the confusiorf caused | by the Supreme Court's devastating | N.R. A. verdict. They prepared for a | hot all-Summer session if necessary. | But they still hoped it might be | averted, N. R. A. Tangle Main Delay. Leaders conceded the adjournment ! date depended almost entirely upon | what happens in connection with | N. R. A. They were confident they | could get ‘he rest of the legislative ' program oL{ of the way within an- other montk | or six weeks. | If the NeW Deal should suggest a constitutiona! amendment, some Sena- | | there were dozens of communities | which had not vat counted theirr ma- | terial losses as rhey bent every effort | to ascertain their dead and relieve | their suffering. 24 Die in Colorade-Wyoming. Late reports from the Colorado- | Wyoming flood region put the fatali- | | ties at 24; Texas had 7, Kansas 4 and | Missouri 1. Nebraska, in which a tier of eight | Southwestern counties along or near | the raging Republican River contin- | ued virtually isolated, reported 19 dead. Bodies of eight residents of | the village of Parks, which with its neighbor Max, was washed off the By the Associated Press. The United Mine Workers of America yesterday ordered 450.000 soft coal miners to quit work June 17 unless otherwise notified. This sweeping command, possibly foretelling one of the largest strikes of the Nation's history, was issued as Secretary Perkins sought restore by interstate compact some of the industrial practices stripped of Pederal enforcement by the Supreme Court’s N. R. A. decision. Miss Perkins summoned here next ' Tuesday representatives of the north- | to BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. “Do you want your wages and farm prices kept up?” however, what he wants for the coun- |try. There seems no way tn get it except by constitutional amendment Urless the President’s talk to the This, in plain English and without dragging in references to the Supreme | Court and constitutional amendments. i to be the issue carried to the country by President Roosevelt in the national campaign of 1936, Only by means of governmental control in industry and agriculture. the President maintains, can wages be kept up and farm prices along With would precede any definite action. them. Governmental control, in the light of the Supreme Court's N. R. A. | c | decision, runs counter to the Constitution. The President has not yet said in 5o many words that he wants a consti- ! history were formally thrown out by tutional amendment enabling the Congress to control wages and hours the of labor and farm prices. He has sald,¢———————————————————————— =l propose such a constitutional amend- | ment to the States, without further | | delay, providing the reaction of the | peake Bay aboard the yacht Sequoia | last night while the Capital pondered without answer the course the ad- ministration will take. The most | uniform speculation of observers was that further sounding of the Nation's reaction to the overthrow of N. R. A. Historic Cases Killed. Labor and other cases that made White House announcement, issued while Mr. Roosevelt sailed. This act constituted his approval of a recommendation by Attorney General Involved were nearly two score Jost the sedan. It was learned, how- | { tors felt the December date might not i be far off. (i the other hand, thev |map Friday by the cascading Re- |eastern industrial States to consider | country toward his demand for Fed- | labor cases. including the Houde ever, the car turned off the Umatilla cut-off before reaching Wallula, Wash. Gave Directions to Driver, With the broad Columbia River hem- ming them on the North, the only al- | ternative apparently was for the men | to head southward toward Holdman | and into a comprehensive net of county and State officers. It was believed the fleeing men turned southward at Cold Springs, Oreg., toward Holdman. Ranchers living in that area joined in the hunt. | Two deputies took a station on the | Holdman-Pendleton road, about 2 miles north of Holdman. Other depu- | ties were scattered throughout the erea and city officers watehed ap- proaches to Pendleton. Hickman Caught in Region. It was in this same region that Wil- liam Edward Hickman, the “Fox.,” slayer of little Marion Parker, was run | to earth in 1927. | A tan sedan was used by the kid- | napers when they waylaid little | George a week ago Priday, and it was believed they were using the same car in their flight. The headquarters of the Washington State Patrol was ordered by its chief, William Cole, tonight to circularize description of two men as “probable” suspects in the kidnaping. No names were mentioned. The patrol headquarters staff immediately distributed the descriptions to all au- thorities in major cities and all coun- ties. The were: “1. Height, 5 feet 10 inches; weight, 200 pounds; build. heavy. Slightly prominent stomach: hair, dark, either brown or black; age, sbout 39; com- plexion, medium. “2. Height, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches; weight, 16 pounds; hair, brown: age, sbout 40; complexion, dark. May or may not be wearing short, cropped mustache. Probably wearing dark or brown checked suit. “Both probably armed with blue steel automatics.” “Leads” Found Quickly. Important “leads” in the chase after the abductors, believed members of the Karpis outlaw gang, turned up quickly after the 9-year-old lumber fortune heir was released. Three men freed the lad before dawn near Iseaquah, 25 miles from Tacoma. He set out afoot. Even- tually, he reached his home in Ta- coma in a taxi with John Dreher, a newspaper man. Running down a “hot tip” that three men, one of them Volney Davis, gangster and fugitive Oklahoma kill- tersely worded descriptions er; had checked out of a small hotel |el in Seattle at 4 am. Sheriff William George agreed the right thing to do was to go straight home and so we yelled at Taximan Robinson: “Sa you, don't drive near police headquar-~ ters, but drive to the Weyerhaeuser's and be sure to drive in a roundabout way so that every one won't be stop- ping us.” These taximen are quick to get things, and we had a long circuitous ride, passing houses that George and I could only see the tops of. but we knew we were traveling north—and that was toward home—so George and I let the driver have his own way and we went on talking. Now this isn't exactly the way the interview rolled along as we jumped from one thing to another, but time was flying and our interview would have to end only too blame soon to |suit me, nor am I disposed to let George out of this, for the little cuss wanted to talk as much as I wanted | to let him. Great Young Man. And I want to tell you that all the things the boys and girls and the press have been digging up for the past week about George Weyerhaeuser are true: how smart a lad he is, how he is esteemed by schoolmates, teachers and friends. They haven't half described the greatness of this young man. Only, I bet George Weyerhaeuser never went to Lowell School with as dirty a face as he wore on this free taxi ride I was putting or for him. Gosh, his face was dirty, although I didn’t call his attention to it. I didn't want to make him feel | badly. We are getting along too fine to drop a sour note i1 on our tete-a-tete. But one can't 1magine George Wey- erhaeuser feeling badly about any- thing about this time. He was just bobbling over, and don’t think he didn’t know all what the country was saying about— But never mind that. Any one who follows this yarn will get the idea. Describes Abduction. ‘Where were we? Oh, yes, I'm trying to give George's story i some scrt of sequer.tial order. George will wonder about that word when he reaus this flying interview. ‘Well, here goes: “How did they cspture asked him. No question aroused such a guick- ened interest as tinis one. e wanted to .ell about that. In his childish remembrance the snatch stood out I believe, above everything you?” I lse. “Well,” George said, “I walked “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Cautious Mountain W oodcutter Turned Away Abducted Child By the Associated Press. ISSAQUAH, Wash,, June 1.—When s small frightened boy knocked on his bed room window this morning and Spiers, 45, Tiger Mountain ter, said “Go away, don’t fool me,” he refused to hear an opportu- nity to enter the hall of fame. The wet, bedraggled little boy was 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, kid- naped May 24 and safely returned to his family today after payment of a $200,000 ransom. Realizing ne was not wanted, the little fellow picked up two blankets his abductors had given him when he was released and walked down the \ where he was given a welcome by Bonifas, his wife and children. “My goodness!” said Spiers when told he had turned away a boy sought for eight days and for whom $200,000 in ransom had been paid. “I have been fooled so much lately by boys coming up here that I thought I was being fooled again,” he said. The Bonifas home, a small compact cottage, was deserted a few hours after the boy had been returned to could see & ~hance for a reasonably early adjourn nent, if the administra- | | tion agreed tc some other solution of | | the troubleson e situation. | | In the Semite, where the big ad- | ministration m rasures have been piling up recently, rapid progress was in prospect for next week, though the | | House planned to spend its time on) | less important legislation. | Utility Bili Passage Seen. Informed Serators forecast the con- troversial public utility holding com- pany bill would be passed by the mid- dle of the week, clearing the way fo1 the social security bill which Presi- | dent Roosevel* has said he considers the most vitai of all his program. The Senate Banking Subcommittee, headed by Senator Glass, Democrat, | | of Virginia, is expected to conclude, tomorrow or Tuesday, hearings on | the administration's omnibus banking | bill, the last of the vital “must” leg- islation still in committee. Sometime during the week, the Sen- ate Agriculturs Committee is expected to report back to the chamber the A. A, A. amendments, with revisions designed to meet the constitutional limitations laid down by the Supreme Court in the N R. A. case. Monday Opens Sixth Month, Monday will mark the beginning of the sixth montk: of the congressional session. Tt has passed a multitude of legislation, but only one of the major measures on the administration pro- gram—the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill. The social security bill has passed the House, but not the Senate. The Wagner labor bill has passed the Sen- ate, but not the House. The bank and holding company bills have| passed neither House. MAN DIES IN RIVER AS WIFE WATCHES Father of Four Plunges From Cruiser and Drowns in Potomac. Leroy Buckingham, 33-year-old ga- rage mechanic of Riverdale, Md., the father of four smal! children, stum- bled and plunged to his death in the Potomac last night from the deck of a small cabin cruiser whil: his wife | looked helplessly on. | The accident occurred at the foot | of Eleventh street southeast, where| Buckingham was docking the craft at Dean's boat house. He was unable to swim and it is thought he may have become entangled in the anchor rope. Harbor police answered the call for help and recovered the body after dragging the river a short while. Buckingham, who lived at 420 Jef- ferson avenue, Riverdale, and his wife had passed the even{n: onhthe flveA: and were preparing to go home. he went over the side in the darkness Mrs. Buckingham screamed, attracting others in that vicinity. After the body was recovered, it was brought to the morgue. Buckingham had worked at the Riverdale Garage for several years. His children range in age from 1 year to 9. They had remained at home with their grandmother while their parents went out for the cruise in the 28-foot boat which belonged to Buck- ingham’s foreman, Willlam G. Koch. It was the second tragedy of the kind here within three weeks. On May 12, Aloysius White, 42-year-old painter at the Capitol, slipped over- board from his launch about 300 yards off Hains Point while attempting to hoist anchor after starting his engine. The body was recovered five days later. publican, were recovered. The two! villages had a combined population of 150. Amateur radio reports listed the fatalities at McCook and at Oxford at 52, In the farming D’Hanis, Tex., which a cloudburst cut off completely Priday, four school children were dead. Only fragmentary accounts of the extent of the Nebraska disaster were svailable for hours vesterday as all wires were down and motor and rail transportation was halted completely. One through Burlington train con- tinued marooned near Benkelman, | Nebr. National Guardsmen. Red Cross workers and hundreds of volunteers joined in missions of mercy for the Nebraska homeless. and Colorado au- thorities rushed aid to Kiowa, Elbert Strasburg and Bennett near Denver, which had been isolated for two days. | South Dakota was less seriously hit, but heavy rains washed out rail- road tracks, blocked highways and “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3. Reader’s . Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-6. Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—. Lost and Found—A-9. Death Notices—A-9. Vital Statistics—A-9. Service Orders—A-17. Educational—B-6. Sports Section—Pages B-11, B-15. | Boating and Fishing News—B-15. | PART TWO. Editorial Section. Ediul))x-i;l Articles—Pages, D-1, Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—Page D-2. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-5-6, Cross-word Puzzle—D-6. Resorts—D-7-8-9. Stamps—D-10. Conquerlng Contract—D-4. Who Are You?—D-11. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-9, E-11. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-11. Veterans’' Organizations, Na- tional Guard and Organized Reserves—E-10. PART. FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1-3, community of | uniform State legislation to maintain | some code industrial standards. Legislatures Would Ratify. Minimum wages, maximum hours, |child labor and night work were some of the flelds the conference will | canvass. Compacts adopted by the conference would be submitted to | State Legislatures for ratification or rejection. Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, New | and Pennsylvania were asked to send representatives. The union strike order counseled the miners to obey the law and keep peace. But tersely the leaders di- rected all members except main- tenance men “to refrain from enter- ing the mines.” John L. Lewis, union president, said | coal “little would enactment of the Guffey stabilization bill, to create a N. R. A" for the industry, stop the strike. With the zero hour only two weeks away, operators favoring the bill completed the amendments they say are necessary. Charles O'Neill, Central Pennsylvania producer, sub- mitted them today to the union. If satisfactory to the miners, they will be introduced in the Senate by Senator Guffey, Democrat, of Penn- sylvania. Would Change Pricing Method. The operators’ amendments would remove the provisions of the original bill for Federal puichase of marginal coal lands and production allocation. They also would revise the me“hod of determining coal prices, and—the op- erators say—make the measure con- stitutional in the light of the Sipreme Court’s decision wiping out N. R. A. ccodes. American Pederation of Labor chieftains, meanwhile, continued to insist that a new N. R. A. must be created immediately, despite 1eports that President Roosevelt would not push through “stop-gap’ legislation. Without permutting themseives to be quoted, several labor leaders ex- Ppressed the opinion that a new N.R. A. bill should be enacted, even if it even- tually were found as unconstitutional as the Supreme Court declared the old law. Year Seen Taken for Test. The year consumed in testing the new law, they said, might see recovery sufficiently advanced and labor well enough organized with the aid of the Wagner labor disputes bill to make a law of doubtful constitutionality well worth while. The federation was taken to task yesterday by the United Mine Work- ers’ Journal, official publication of the John Clagett Proctor’s Article on | this Spring. old Washington—F' “Those Were the Haj Days,” by Dick Mansfleld—F-3. Books and Art—F-4. Stage and Screen—F-5. Music—F-6. Radio News and Programs—F-7, Automobiles—F-8. Children’s Page—F-9. High Lights of History—F-9. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, S Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1-4. Classified —~G-8-12, ) Operators offered one-year contracts with & $5 basic dally wage ‘n the North and a 35-hour week. The union had demanded a $5.50 day and a 30- E. L. Greever of Tazewell, Va., gen- eral counsel for Appalachian Coals, ruling in the N. R. A. case. “It seems clear,” he said in a state- ment, “that the Guffey bilf’ and the ‘Wagner bill would be condemned by the Supreme Court upon the grounds and for the ressons given in con- demning the récovery act, and that those bills under this decision are as clearly unconstitutionsl as is the re- covery sct.” Jersey | press Friday was merely a trial balloon and the reaction from the country is not favorable, it seems now a fore- gone conclusion that the next Demo- cratic platiorm will carry a plank calling for a constitutional amend- ment giving Congress authority to leg- irlate on the subjects of wages and bhours of labor, farm prices and un- | fair trade practices. The suggestion was made yesterday that the President even may try to ot the present session of Congress to eral ccntrol is sufficiently strong. The President campaigned in 1932 | for constitutional amendment to re- | | “majority rule” action, the Firestone and Goodrich labor election cases, and the Weirton Steel and Geif peal prohibition. And the Democratic Clothing Co. cases involving company party had written a repeal plank into unjons. their platform. | Others, both initiated by and The issue then was: “Do you Want against the Government. concerned your liquor?” | actions taken by the Alcohol Control After an overwhelming victory for and Petroleum Administrations, the the President, Congress, without even | National Steel Labor Relations Board, waiting for him to reach the White | the A. A. A. and Textile Labor Board. (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) TITLE MARATHON EASY FOR DENGI Finishes Nearly 3 Minutes Ahead in Race Sponsored by The Star. Hawk-nosed, long-legged Pat Den- gls, 32-year-old Welshman from Balti- more, who drinks beer by the mugful, after loping over 26 miles, 385 yards of concrete and macadam, like a flying antelope, is the new National Amateur Athletic Union marathon champion. Dengis fought back searing pain to outstrip the finest fleld ever gathered for the championship yesterday and win going away as he crossed the fin- ish line far in advance of his field at the Zero Milestone late yesterday aft- ernoon in the fourth annual marathon championship sponsored by The Eve- ning Star. His time was 2 hours 53 minutes 53 seconds, approximately 10 minutes slower than the time set by Dave Komonen of Sudbury, Canada, in win- ning the championship last year. Hugo Kauppinen, stocky, solid-faced harrier from the German-American A. C. of New York, finished second, nearly 3 minutes back of the flying heels of Dengis. ‘The winner represents the Stonewall Democratic Club of Baltimore, and is a Welsh-born toolmaker, now em- ployed in an airplane factory in that city. His victory gives Baltimore two wins in the national championship, tor the victor in the first race staged in Washington in 1932 was Clyde Martak, also of Baltimore. Komonen won in 1933 and 1934. Two-Time Champion Fourth. Far back of the fleet Dengis, Jook- ing at his back from the 10-mile mark or to the finish, came Komonen, his white linen cap jauntily clinging to his partially bald head. The little Pinn from Canada finished in fourth place. behind Dengis, Kauppinen and Mel Porter, who won third place as a (Continued on Page B-11, Column 1.) ———o LUMBER STRIKE ENDS Thousands to Beturn to Jobs in Western Mills. PORTLAND, Oreg. June 1 (). — Mill whistles, silent for four weeks, will bellow their call to work on Mon- day, and in many lumber mills and camps throughout the Pacific North- west thousands of men will to their jobs after having been idle because of the wide spread strike. By the strike which threw 40,000 persons out of work, the emplme: gained wage increases averaging cents an hour. The former code minimum was 42% cents, S REVENUE RAIERS OO N TAES |Must Have Another Law in 30 Days, But Rates Will Stand, By the Associated Press. ent increase in tax rates was disclosed raisers as they mapped a drive to put a tax bill on the statute books within 30 days. They indicated, however, that the | nent, instead of extending for one | year. the present “temporary nuisance” | taxes, which expire within the next | month and which will produce up- | ward of $400.000.000 in the financial year ending June 30. One tax leader who discussed the situation was Representative Samuel B. Hill of Washington, ranking Demo- crat on the House Ways and Means Committee. Asserting that he was expressing his own personal view—which others pri- vately said reflected a general under- standing already reached by commit- teemen informally—Hill said this: “I don't think we are going out to make any changes in the existing tax rates.” The projected bill must be rushed, 30 half a dozen big money-producing taxes will expire. Because of the speed necessary, Hill said his expecta- tion was that only short hearings, if “(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) A definite decision against any pres- | \yulerd.ly by congressional revenue | forthcoming bill would make perma- | look for any new sources of revenue. | Nor do I think it will be necessary to | because unless it is enacted by June | Final Release of Business. The dismissals generally were in- terpreted in Washington as not only a final release on business formerly regulated by the N. R. A, but a concession that no hope remained for pressing such actions following the Supreme Court's sweeping decision. The Attorney General, in an at- tached letter to the President, re- ported, “It seems futile to proceed.” Stressing further the abandonment of the code structure, N. R. A. mean- while despatched letters to either the chairman or secretary of every code authority, informing them that their agencies “no longer have any official status or official existence.” The word “official” was underlined in each let- ter. Speaking of the status of the code authorities, the letter added: “Their past actions, takea in good falih un- der an innocent misconception con- | cerning the validity of the law leave certain legal questions of relationship and responsibility which must be ad- justed “We think you thould rely upon guidance of private legal counsel in this connection.” Must Care for Funds. The letter suggested that there be no further disbursement of code au- thority funds excep: on advice of cqunsel, and that cn the same advice “an orderly and equitable plan {or the liquidation of funds on hand” should be worked out. As the turmoil over the destruction of N. R. A. shaped up, it was indi- cated that no definite decision has yet been made by the administration on what course to follow. There were indications that strong legislation de- signed. if possible, to save parts of N. R. A. was being sought by Donald Richberg and others. While Democratic congressional chiefs appeared a.most compleiely in the dark, except for word that Mr. Roosevelt probably would frown on | any temporary plan tc re-enact N. R. | A. in part. Republican spokesmen in the Senate added to _t;ne political stir (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) By the Assoctated Press. James M. Beck, former Republican tive from Pennsylvania and active in constitutional controversies, to revive N. R. A. “would precipitate s constitutional crisis more grave than any since the Civil War.” competent lawyer” could doubt that if N. R. A. was unconstitutional, other “extra-constitutional bureaus” of the and T. V. A. were in like status. “The Supreme Court did not kill the N. R. A" Beck said. “That bu- reaucratic monstrosity had been mor- ibund for many months. It had been killed—not by the Constitution or the Court—but by the individ- ualistic spirit of the American people, who were unwilling to be regimented declared last night that any attempt | Beck said in a statement that “no | administration, such as the A. A. A.| iGreatest Crisis Since Civil War Seen by Beck If N. R. A. Revived by an arrogant and tyrannical bu- reaucracy. The Supreme Court in its fateful decision simply did the double office of pronouncing the funeral ora- tion and interring the corpse. “All attempts to revive the N. R. A. will prove futile, for ‘all the king's horses and all the king's men can never put Humpty Dumpty together again.’ “What is not so generally recog- nized is that attempts by the admin- istration to revive this and other al- phabetical monstrosities will precipi- tate a constitutional crisis, more grave than any since the Civil War. “Unless the administration now conforms its present and future pol- icies to the Constitution, as now au- thoritatively interpreted by the Su- preme Court, the fateful issue will in- (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) !