Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Local thundershowers late this after- noon or tonight, slightly cooler tonigh tomorrow generally fair, slightly cooler. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 80, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 63, at 3 a.m. to- The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. WE DO 0UR paRT day. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 16,17 & 18 a0 33,2 70. OF RANSOMNOTES ARE BROADCAST Federal Agents Silent as| They Seek to Pick Up Kidnapers’ Trail. GANGSTERS EVADE TRAPS LAID DOWN BY POLICE| Authorities Annbunce Description; Does Not Tally With That of Karpis Gang. i | By the Associated Press | TACOMA, Wash., June 3.—Depari- ment of Justice agents began dis- | tributing pamphlets listing the num- | bets of 20,000 currency ransom notes here today as they sought to pick up the cooling trail of the kidnapers of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser. The bulletin does not mention the | ‘Weyerhaeuser case, merely describing it as “a kidnaping case.” Operatives refused to comment on published reports the kidnapers were | paid the ransom money by George's | uncle, F. Rodman Titcomb, Thursday. In that report the Seattle Post- Intelligencer today £aid the abductors | then stole Titcomb's car—the machine which was the “kidnap car” recovered | here. The paper said the ransom was paid in the foothills of the Cas- eades, about 50 miles east of Issaquah, where George was released Saturday. | It said Titcomb was picked up by his associate in the Weyerhaeuser | ‘Timber Co., Charles Ingram, after the kidnapers left him afoot. Car Stolen Previously. William Cole, State patrol chief. commented the car recovered in Seattle was stolen some time ago and the license plates stolen from a Ta- coma machine, but he did not re- member the owner. The bulletin describing the ransom money lists the numbers of 9 United States notes and of 19,991 Federal botes. H The Federal Reserve notes are all of the “L” series, but are not in se- quence. Thus it takes 55 book-size pages to list the bilis. starting with “L00000034A” and “L00003778 (as- | terisk)” and ending with “L35643933A" and “L35979275A." ‘The list§ were being distributed to' banks and all other places where large amounts of money are handled. The kidnaped boy. unharmed. was | released early Saturday after a mem- | ber of his family paid the kidnapers the $200,000 in used currency they de- manded. As soon as George was safe at home the Federal agents went into action. The kidnapers, meanwhile. had van- ished. Highway traps were set. One, | in Northeastern Oregon, promised re- sults, but came to nothing. A suspect- | ed automobile speeded through Great Falls, Mont., last night and was im- mediately pursued. Wires hummed with deseriptions &iven by the 9-year-old victim of the three masked men who held him pris- oner for eight days. He had said they called each other Allen, Harry and | Bill. Authorities immediately asso- ciated these names with Alvin Karpis | —Allen and Alvin having a similar | With apprehension as the North and | and | South Platte Rivers swept toward a| sound—notorious gang leader reputed brains of the Bremer kidnap- ing. and two of his lieutenants, Wil- liam Weaver and Harry Campbell. Authorities pointed out, however, that the descriptions as sent out did not tally with those of Karpis, who weighs only about 130 pounds, or Campbell. One description, they said, came close to that of Ed Bents, | former associate of George “Machine | Gun™ Kelly. | Agents Maintain Silence. The official silence which has cov- ered activities of the Department of Justice agents since they came here 10 davs ago continued today. There was no official announcement on who Paid the ransom money. or to whom or where. The G-men also persuaded Louis Binifas, Issaquah woodcutter at whose home George sought shelter early Saturday. to keep secret any- thing the boy may have told him. Members of the Weyerhaeuser fam- | ily are following the same rule. They remained home vesterday. not even | going to church. George made a semi-public appearance in the after- noon for the news-reels. ‘The family refused to say whether the boy and his brother ana sister | would return to school today. A state- | ment issued by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, jr. asked | that George be permitted to “forgei | bis frightful experience.” A speeding automobile spotted | “(Continued on Page 3ii:cil>umn 6. NAVY BILL RAISE BALKED IN HOUSE $460,000,000 Measure Goes Conference Over $11,000,- 000 Increase. to| By the Associated Press. | ‘The House today disagreed to Sen- | ate amendments adding $11.000,000 to the 1936 Navy appropriaton bill for new ship construction and other | changes and sent the measure to con- | ference. The $460.000,000 record peace-time Navy supply measure as passed by the House permitted starting work | on 24 replacemant ships for treaty- strength buildinz, but provided only | around $15,000,000 instead of the nearly $30,000,000 asked by the budget. Indications were the conferees would accept he Senate restoration. ST S R PRINCE TO GET DIVORCE Danish King to Free Erik From Former Lois Booth. COPENHAGEN, June 3 (#).— Court attaches said today that a di- vorce of Prince Erik from his wife, the former Lois Booth, was in the hands of the King and that it was indicated he would sign the docu- ment within two weeks. ‘They said reports published abroad that the divorce already had been 4 premature. Full report on page A-4. | through | Maryland and Virginia, exhorting all ¥ntered as second class matter post oftice, Washington, D. C. SERIAI_ NUMBERS ;[15 Jehoval’s Witnesses Fined For Alexandria Midnight Calls Loudspeakers and Deliver “Message” Lead to Arrest and Jailing of Religious Workers. BY W. H. SHIPPEN. Fifteen Jehovah's Witnesses were | fined today for disturbing the serenity of Alexandria, Va., last midnight with | loudspeakers and door-to-door bell- | ringing while thousands of their com- panions were holding the final sessions of the convention at the Washington Auditorium and the park nearby. Fines ranging from $5 to $15 were assessed against the 14 men and 1 | woman in Alexandria Police Court by Judge James Reese Duncan. * The 15 were returned to ‘jail while they discussed whether they would raise the bond required on an appeal or remain in confinement. Witnesses told the court that the defendants descended on Alexandria | in six automobiles equipped with huge loudspeakers. The disciples of Jehovah | used this modern and efficient equip- ment to awaken the citizens and urge them to have the mayor intercede for a “witness” previously arrested. The first man was arrested yester- day afternoon in an automobile parked on a vacant lot in the residential sec- tion while broadcasting from a loud- | speaker the address of Judge Joseph | F. Rutherford, president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. The disciples of Judge Rutherford felt not too kindly toward Alexandria in the first place. Several months ago, nine of them were arrested for selling religious tracts without a license. They were convicted and served several days before being liberated in custody of their attorney, Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria, pending an appeal. For days prior to Judge Ruther- ford’s widely heralded address at the Washington Auditorium yesterday afternoon automobiles equipped with loud-speakers had been cruising Alexandria and nearby to “tune in Judge Rutberford on your local station at 3 o't ¢k Sun- day afternoon.” ah WASHINGTON, D. Personal Visits to| Indignant over the arrest of their | broadcasters in Alexandria, several | hundred of Jehovah's Witnesses drove to Alexandria about midnight. They made a determined house-to-house | canvass in the residential district and their loud-speakers were booming | throughout the downtown area. | A policeman told the court that one | car bearing the biggest loud-speaker of the type he ever saw stopped op- posite the Alexandria Hospital at mid- | night, with the voice of an announcer at the microphone distinctly audible | | for a block. | A resident, George Burroughs, tes- tified that one of Jehovah's Witnesses | came to his home at 114 West Wal- | nut street and rang the bell at mid- | night. Burroughs said he told the | man to leave and explained there was a sick child in the house. The man, | however, insisted on delivering a mid- | night “message from Jehovah.” Burroughs seized his unwelcome caller by the shoulder and thrust | him from his front porch. Burroughs | testified the man returned half an hour later, whereupon he seized him | and held on until police arrived. 1 | The full Alexandria police force | | was turned out last night to cope | with the situation. One officer told | | the court he watched the woman | | later arrested make three determined calls at the front door of residences | shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. | | He said the sleeping residents were | reluctant to answer the door at that | hour, but that the womau persisted | in ringing bells in order to deliver “Jehovah's message” in person. } Washingtonians who visited beaches and resorts along the bay | yesterday reported that the loud | speaker cars advertising Judge Ruy- therford's address were everywhere a crowd assembled. Farmers for miles ! «Continued on Page 11, Column 1, | | NEW FLODDFEARS HARASS MIDWEST Deaths Put at 128, With age Is $12,000,000. By the Associated Press. OXFORD, Nebr., June 3.—Harassed by fears of new foods. the Western great plains area foday coun‘ed its dead from raging waters of the past week at 128, fixed its property dam- age in six States at n.ore than $12 - 900,000 and plunged into the work of reconstructioa. South Central Nebraska was the hardest hit. Stricken simultaneously by the twin disasters of tornado and the Republican Ziier leaping cut of its banks over a 200-mile area, its dead numbered 86. Tcday it watched junction in the western part of the State. Colorado had 19 Wyoming. 7: ‘Texas, and Missouri, 2. is Threatened. known dead: 5, Kansas, 9, Kan Kansas viewed with alarm the full wash of the overhurdened Repubiican River as it rolled scuthward from Nebraska. Hampered by the breskdown of com- munication facilities, relief workers could make only tough estimates of the complete flood aamage. Duplica- tions of death reports made tabulat- ing difficult. J. M. Power of Si. Louis, directing Red Cross work, :aid. “It will be at least a week oefore the full number of dead and injured is known.' Power said in incomplete but offi- cial survey by Red Cross chapters showed at least 1,000 families home- | less, Reports of heavy live stock casual- ties were general. business in the valley was almost at a standstili. Receding waters of the mad Re- publican River discicsed an ugiy land- scape of ravines, slime and aebris. The South Platte River flooded nine city blocks at Ogallala and the North Platte washed out some squatters homes at Seotts Bluff. Minor streams in other parts of the State left their banks. The Nemaha River flooded several hundred acres of farms near Falls City. Meanwhile the Republican River raged through Kansas. Three men were trapped and drowned in an auto- mobile between Clyde and Ames and another man was swept to death from an embankment near Scandia. Missing Families Found. After hope had been given up for | most of the 13 members of the Charles | and Herman Fuchs families near here, Charles and Herman were pulled from | the river and rushed to Oxford. Later (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) CURB TO INCENTIVE FEARED BY HOOVER Must Resent Efforts to . List Incomplete—Dam- !Limit Opportunities, Grad- uates Told. } By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, June 3.—Her- bert Hoover told Drake University seniors today he is “troubled” by “what the forces of Government may impose on you that will limit and destroy your inspirations, your incen- | tives and your opportunities.” | “Some people would like to moBilize | vou into a political bureaucracy .to run this civilization.” the former President said. “But some of us hold that the jobs should go to those who win them fairly by merit.” Hoover. who returned to his native State yesterday. received an honorary dress. He planned to leave by motor | for Chicago this afternoon. | The political sallies of the former Republican Chief Executive drew fre- quent applause from his audience, par- | - ticularly when he said: “Times (in lowa's earlv history) were harder sometimes than others. | and it was well known that they would | be harder if the Democrats won an | | election.” | University officials estimated the commencement audience at 2,500 per- sons. An additional 1,000 heard the former President’s speech through loudspeakers, which carried Hoover's words over the university campus. “Will Government permit you to breathe the pure air of liberty in the spirit of the Bill of Rights?” he queried. “That is the thing that you have need to look for. For in this| matter you enter life at one of the | | most _crucial periods of American his- | e | Hoover said he disagreed with “ex- ponents of the new social order” who “would dim some of your hopes by ytelling you that hope, new adventure | and new oppertunity have departed.” | “Our forebears who settled this | State inherited little from their fore- | bears but a covered wagon, the sod, | | their characier their religion, self- government #nd the freedoms enu- merated in the bills of rights,” he| declared. | “Those Goa-fearing people builded this State under freedom, not under a political bureaucracy that coded | | their daily actions, limited the prod- | ucts of their fzctories and their farms. | that told them they could or could | not start & new enterprise. They fought the enemies of freedom from both the right and the left.” “Necessary emergency measures of | war or depression” and “the necessity of stronger foundations of social growth” were not included in his dis- ! cussion, the former President empha- sized. | “It is true old age and misfortune “(Continued on Page 3, Column 1)~ bangswr, Feet Set in Cement, Thrown in Sea, Police Told By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, June 3.—State police and Providence detectives today sought verification of a grisly under- world tale which relates that Danny ‘Walsh, rum syndicate chief, was stood in a tub of cement until it hardened about his feet, then thrown alive into the sea. They hoped to get details of the disapperance of Walsh from Arthur Rowland, 43, former rum boat skipper of Bridgeport, Conn., who, police said, admitted he attended the “death sup- per” to Walsh at tfie Bank Cafe in Warwick on February 2, 1933. Walsh was never seen alive after that night. Rowland has also admitted, police said, he was present at a Boston hotel when a $40,000 ransom was paid for Walsh. Another “death supper” guest, police said, was Carl Rettich, Wi former partner, now under indictment for the $129,000 Fall River mail rob- bery. He was also present at the ransom pay-off, they said. Police have never established the reason for Walsh’s snatch, whether it was in retaliation or in a cold-blooded plot to raise money. Nor have they satisfied themselves that any of the ‘“death supper” guests betrayed the rum syndicate operator. ‘The underworld's legend of his tor- ture death persists, however. ‘Walsh was taken out in a boat, the tale runs, and, with his feet in the wet cement, forced to watch it harden into the weight that would drag him to the bottom of the sea. Questioning of Rowland, resumed today, has led to no revelations that promise immediate arrests, Lieut. Ernest F. Stenhouse ef the State police sald, WITH CATEGORIES| c, GERMANS OPPOSE NAVY RESTRICTION MONDAY, Offer to Keep Strength 35% Under Britain. Will Take No Less. ONLY TENTATIVE PACT EXPECTED AT PARLEY Proposal for Abolition of U-Boats | Hinges on Italy, By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 3.—The German delegates to the Anglo-German naval | conversations were reported in diplo- | matic circles today to oppose any | British suggestions for the restric- tion of war vessels by categories. | It was understood the Germans re- gard their offer to keep their mavy under 35 per cent of the British strength as the only restriction the Reich can accept. ‘ They were expected to insist that | the manner in which Germany dl.s-l tributes her tonnage is a matter for her to decide alone. | Pact Can Be Only Tentative. Although Reichsfuehrer Hitler's proposal for the abolition of sub- | marines undoubtedly will be discussed. | there is little belief that anything more than a tentative agreement may | be concluded here. Italy and F‘r!nce.l both with larger fleets of undersea | craft, must be consulted, it was pointed out. before any final accord of this nature may be reached Hitler sent Joachim von Ribben trop, his armaments expert, here mrI the parley, the first definite contact on naval problems Great Britain and Germany have had since the World | ‘War. Von Ribbentrop. elevated to the rank of ambassador extraordinary | for the occasion, was accompanied by | Rear Admiral Schuster and two as- sistants. The formal negotiations will start tomorrow. i | Assurance Is Promised. { As the German delegates left Berlin | for London yesterday. it was indicated | they would assure the British that | Hitler has no_intention of renewing | the former Kaiser's challenge to Great Britain’s sea power. This as- surance was said to be the concession Germany is prepared to make in re- turn for Great Britain's blessing for | the Reich’s expanded naval construc- | tion plans. It was said also that the Germans would present proposals for an aerial accord, including possibly Germany's | demands for parity in the air, & mu- | tual assistance agreement and out- lawing of air attacks upon civilian | populations. | The Germans' air proposals were understood to contemplate limitation | of aerial strength as now constituted | :’l:,l}:nut scrapping of planes aiready uilt. | NEW TAXES SOUGHT IN PENNSYLVANIA| Measures Contemplate Levy on Gas, Cigarettes and Bank | Checks. | By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, P: on three articles m use daily—gasoline, June 3 —Taxes ions of citizens | cigarettes and | lature this week in its effort to clear | away the State's fiscal problems for ! the next two years, | Gov. Earle has suggested boosting | on gasoline to 2 cents as a means of providing additional funds. The bill | providing for a 1-cent increase is| listed for a vote in the Senate tomor- | Tow. Reports that the 2-cent tax on checks may be shelved in favor of some other levy have been current since the protests of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh bankers and Secretary of | Banking Luther A. Harr that it would drive deposits from the State. The Senate votes on the tax tonight. The 2-cent-a-pack tax proposed for cigarettes'is stalemated between Sen- ate and House, with a committee from both branches tryidg to decide how mueh commission wholesalers shall be allowed for affixing tax stamps. R Ca PLANE LOST IN WILDS * BELIEVED SMUGGLER'S New York State Troopers Start Rescue Mission After Checking Beports. By the Associated Press. MALONE, N. Y., June 3—Belief that a smuggler's plane might be down in’ the Adirondacks arose today as State police started a tedious mis- sion of rescue toward a “large, shiny object” lying in a remote spruce forest. Although a check of all Eastern air- ports has shown no plane missing, troopers reported today that they had interviewed enough natives to con- vince them of the accuracy of a report that a plane tumbled out of the skies near Blue Mountain yesterday. North Woods men recalled that planes have been used in smuggling liquor, gold and Swiss watch move- ments between Canada and the United States. Only wild animals live in the hills beyond which the plane disappeared, and troopers said they might not reach the territory before late today. Sea Searched for Plane. LOS ANGELES, June 3 (#).—The Coast Guard cutter Tamora searched the vicinity of Dana Point today for an unidentified airplane reported forced down at sea. The point is about midway between Los Angeles seeing the plane fall. other report. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION JUNE 3, 1935—THIR/ o Star Y-FOUR PAGES. “THE THINKER!"” SUNDAY'S :;ATIYII)AY'I 123,580 Circulation, 132,610 Some Returns Not Yet Received () Means Associated P TWO CENTS. FRST STATENENT ON N RECOVERY PLAN SEEN TODAY President Plunges Into Task of Reshaping Entire Program. ress. BORAH DARES EFFORT TO ALTER CONSTITUTION 0Mahoney Proposes Licensing All Interstate Business to Preserve N.R.A. Principles. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt today resumed the task of attempting to reshape his recovery program to conform with the | recent N. R. A. decision of the Su- preme Court The next White House announce- ment regarding the N. R. A. situation may come today. it was said at the White House. It will deal with de- | tailed phases of the problem faced by | the administration. and is being pre- | pared with a view to clarifying the 1S, SEIZES DAVIS, ( Pleads G ! BRENER KONAPER gy Pleads Guilty in Chicago, Eliminated in Tacoma | Boy’s Ransom. BY REX COLLIER. | Volney Davis. companion of Alvin Karpis and the notorious Barker | brother, Arthur and Fred. in the kid- naping of Edward G. Bremer. St.| Paul banker. today pleaded guilty to | that crime shortly aiter disclosure by | J. Edgar Hoover that his men captured him secretly in Chicago Saturday. Davis thus was eliminated by the buresu as 3 suspect in the Weyer- haeuser case at Tacoma. He was in custody of bureau agents at the time witnesses reported seeing h.m in Seattle. Hoover said Davis was taken “after slight unpleasantness,” referring pparently to reports that Pederal agents were forced to use their guns in subduing him. Davis was flown to St. Paul and promptly entered & guilty plea when arraigned this morn- ing. Sentence will be deferred until later in the week. but it was expected he will receive the same sentence as that of Arthur “Doc” Barker and other ringleaders in the Bremer crime —Ilife imprisonment. Second Time in Custody. It was the second time the Federal investigators of the $200.000 kidnaping of Bremer have taken Davis into cus- today. The first time. last February. he escaped from two agents after | their plane had ben forced down on a farm mnear Yorkville, Tll. Davis had been “identified” by Seattle residents as one of several: “suspicious” persons who rented rooms there, but left hurriedly after release of the Weyerhaeuser boy early Satur- day. It was impossible for Davis to have reached Chicago in time to be | arrested there by the Federal men Hoover declined to reveal circum- stances surrounding the capture. His men have been conducting & wide | . nd | hunt for Davis since his indictment in | | checks—may be levied by the Legis- | the Bremer case, a search which was intensified after his escape following his first arrest in Kansas City, Mo. At that time the agents were flying him to Chicago. Weather conditions | the proposed 1-cent-a-gallon increase | compelled the pilot of the chartered plane to land in a field. A farmer drove the officers and their prisoner to nearby Yorkville, where one of the | agents left to telephone his predica- ment to Chicago. Davis, temporarily unshackled to avoid attracting atten- tion of towngpeople, dived through a hotel window and fled into the night, under a shower of bullets. Helped Abduct Bremer. Davis was accused by the bureau of having been with Karpis. so-called “public enemy No. 1,” and the Barker brothers when they abducted Bremer on January 17, 1934, after he had driven his daughter to school. Bremer was held in a hideout at Bensenville, 1li., until $200,000 ransom was tossed into a ditch in response to signal lights flashed by the kidnapers. He was released February 7 Rochester, Minn. Fred Barker and his mother, “Ma” Barker, were slain in a gun battle with Hoover's agents near Miami, Fla., several months ago. Arthur Barker was captured later in Chicago and is serving his life sentence at Alcatraz Island Penitentiary. Karpis, also mentioned in unofficial specula- tion as & possible suspect in the Tacoma abduction, fled from the Miami hideout of the Barkers shortly before it was raided and later was surprised. with a_companion, Harry (Continued on Page 11, Column 4.) UTAH WASTES COMBED | FOR VANISHED ARTIST Remains of TFire, Carvings in Cave Are Found in Bad Lands by Searchers. By the Associated Press. SODA SEEPS, Utah, June 3.— Defying death in a meticulous search of hazardous bad lands in Southwest- ern Utah, a band of desert-trained men today coatinued their hunt for Everett Reuss, young Los Angeles, Calif., artist who disappeared five months ago. ‘The searchers came upon his last known camp in Davis Gulch Saturday. ‘The remains of a fire were found in a cave and on the wall the name “Nemo™ had been carved with a knife. The date “1934” also was found. Here the trail ended. The painter's two burros were fou wandering, thirsty and starving, in'the desert two months ago, » | near | | | | NORMANDIE SETS RECORD CROSSING Establishes Three Additional Marks on Maiden | Voyage. i By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 3—Witn the on her prize ou. her | maiden voyage. the giant new French liner Normandie steamed into tre har- bor today amid 1 wund acclaim by div- | ing airplanes and ‘he blasts <f sirens on hundreds of weicoming craft Her voyage was the fastes made by a trans-Atiantic liner Averaging. officially, 29.68 knots from Southampton 10 Ambrose Light- ship, the Normandie surpassed the 28.92-knot record set by the i'alian ever | liner Rex on a run from Gibraltar. VOLNEY DAVIS, MARYLAND PHONE * CUTHELD INVALD Supreme Court Upsets Or- der of State Public Serv- | ice Body. By the Associated Press Use of certain commodity price in- dexes in determining the value of utility properties for rate-making pur- | poses was declared unacceptable today by the Supreme Court when used by the Maryland Public Service Commis- sion in ordering lower telephone rates for Maryland. | It held invalid an order of the Maryland Public Service Commission which required the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. of Baltimore to put into effect a schedule of rates which would reduce its annual revenue | from intrastate business by not less | than $850,000. | The court's 6-to-3 opinion was read | by Associate Justice Roberts. Justices | Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo dis- | | sented. Roberts, in his opinion, said the | Maryland Public Service Commission | considered that “dollars are tokens of | exchange value.” He added the court was not satis- | ! fied with the use of commodity price indices to determine the rate level. The opinion also declared the lower “(Continued on Page 3, Column 7.~ MRS. MOODY WINNER | Takes First Match Easily in “Come-Back™ Test. By the Associated Press. WEYBRIDGE. England, June 3.— Making the first start of her come- back campaign, Helen Wills Moody, former world’s tennis champion, trounced Miss J. M. Notley of England, 6—2, 6—0, in the second round of the ‘The liner reached Ambrose Light, in the outer harbor, at 10:02 am (E. 8 T., but wil! have to 1emain for several hours for a flood tide before she can sail past Gotham's skyscrapers to ner new Hudson dock. Ahead of Schedule. Although the zleaming vessel an- chored at Quaranfnne at 11:03 p.m (E. 8. T) she was not due o dock until between 2 sad 2:30 pm 8 Ty Besides the mythical blue ibon— won for the fastast time across the ocean—the Normaadie set these records: Fastest northern lane crossing. Her time from Southampton of 107 hours 33 minutes beat the best mark of the North German Lloyd Bremen, 110 hours 27 minutes, by almost 3 hours Fastest day's run. During 25 hours, from noon Saturday to noon vester- day, the Normandie covered 748 miles at an average of 2992, beating the Rex’s high mark of 736 miles in a day. The last day's speed. uniil she flashed by the Ambrose Light, was 31.39 knots, the highest sustained speed ever achieved by & liner, Passengers Crowd Decks. The French pride came up to the mouth of the bay in gleaming sun- shine, with binoculars passengers crowding the decks could see black rows of automobiles and crowds lin- ing the Brooklyn and Long Island shores to watch the graceful ship glide by. Flag-bedecked ships, looking almost like toys from the towering height of the Normandie's upper decks, swarmed about the monster. Whistles, sirens and deep-toned fog horns blared a cacaphony of weicome Among the welcoming craft were the official city welcoming boats and Coast Guard cutters crowded with dignitaries “down the bay” to meet the Normandie. Glimmering overhead, their droning | motors adding to the noisy celebra- tion, airplanes circled, dove and soared away, accompanying the ship from far out. Photographers in Planes. ‘The passenger’s first taste of Amer- cia and home was brought early in { the day by photographers’ planes that met them off the coast. Among the airplanes greeting the ship was one which appeared to have a dirigible in tow. As the ship made the short run from Ambrose Light to her anchorage off quarantine without perceptibly slackening her speed, many of the smaller vessels that met her in the harbor approach had difficulty keep- ing abreast. St. George's Hill tournament today. By the Associated Press. ‘The Supreme Court said farewell today to the time-mellowed chamber where N. R. A. was killed a week ago and many arother major ques- tion was settled in years gone by. Gatheriog for the last time in the room that has been its home since 1859, the court convened to hand down five decisions of no great na- tional significance and then adjourn for the Summer. When the nine justices gathers again, October 7, to open a term which may see further tests of the New Deal, it will be in a classic new $10,000,000 building facing the Capitol. Simple ceremonies were arranged for the farewell session and a number of persons were present to witness them. But there was none of the excitement, that mgrked the court’s Supreme Court Bids Farewell | To Historic Room in Capitol| meeting last Monday, when it smashed | down the recovery act and the Frazier- | Lemke farm moratorium law and held that the President’s power to remove executive appointees is sharply limited. Before the court for decision today were cases involving telephone rates in Baltimore, Md. the authority of the Secretary of the Interior over mining claims and three personal in- Jury~claims These prosaic issues contrasted drably with some of the things which have been said and done in the room. Prior to 1859, it was the Sen- ate chamber, and the voices of Cal- houn, Webster, Clay and other great orators were heard there. The justices have been guests of Congress, occupying rooms in the Capitol. almost all of the 134 years ih (E. | issues and making known what will be done in the way of comphance. It will be the first of a series of analytical statements, after which the President will make a definite an nouncement as to the course he will pursue. The flood of telrgrams from busi- ness concerns znd individuals in various paris of the countrv appeal- |ing to him for 2 conunuation of the orinciples of ithe N. R. A. which started almost immeciatelv after the Supreme Court decision a week ago today. has considerably subsided Over the week end less than 200 of these messages were received at the White House. 0'Mahoney's Proposal. Senator O'Mahonev proposed to the | ident that all corporations doing | interstate business be licensed so as to make possible the carrying out of at least the principles of the N. R. A codes The Wyoming Senator said as he was leaving the White House that this idea was not a new one inasmuch as it was proposed at least a quarter of a century ago. He declined to com- on the President's attitude oward 1his proposal Senator O'Mahoney said he told the President the great majority of the people of the country want the N. R. A. codes continued qne way or another and are hoping that the President will find some way to male | this possible. He said also that the situation which has ceveloped sinca the court’s N. R. A. decision has served to solidify the President's with business and the pecple gener: and that Mr. Roosevelt is in stronger with the public than ever beiore. ssed the opiniom that ongr merce as well as intersiate commerer in which event Congress could then pass legislation that might serve io continue the code-making principle of the N. R. A, Byrns' Views. After a conference with the Presi- dent. Speaker Byrns expressed it as his “personal opinion” that nothing should be done about a constitutional amendment until the final effect of the Supreme Court's N, R. A. decision had been determined “Nothing definite has been deter- mined about N. R. A. so far as I know " the Speaker told newspaper men. “Probably next week we will know something.” Meanwhile, he asserted, the House will go ahead with other legislarion His “own idea.” he added, “is to stav here and get it over with"-—meaning that he opposed the plan suggested by some of letting Congress adjourn soon and meet in special session next Fall Asked when he thought Congress could adjourn if it followed that plan. the Speaker declined to hazard a guess Concerning N. R. A, he said: “Personally, I think ‘t would be better to defer considering a consti- tutional amendment until we see, in the light of the court’s decision. what we can do under the Constitution as it now is. The President this morning didn't refer to a constitutional amend- ment, and I didn't bring it up. “But the people will never be willing to go back to the old order of things The flag will still fly. the Capitol will stand. and the people will be happy and prosperous if you give them time.* Labor Group Arrives. Meanwhile, a aelegation that will confer with Secreiarv Perkins tomor- row was brought hire by State Sena- tor Henry Parkman, ir. of Boston, chairman of “the joint conference on interstate labor compacts,” and Rob- |ert P Bingham, chairman of the New Hampshire section of the con- | ference. | They consulted New Englanders in Congress. “What we seex fo do,” Parkman said, “is to preserve the basic labor standards established under .. R. A." He he was particularly hopeful that abolition of child labor and estab- lishment of uniform maximum work | week might be achieved through State (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) Readers’ Guide Amusements Comics Cross-word Puzzle . 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