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WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast) Partly cloudy. tomorrow winds. p.m. yesterday today. Full report on page B-12. slightly cool lowest, Closing N. Y. Markets Pages 17, 18, 19 fair: gentle to moderate west Temperatures—Highest, 80, at 6 63, at ler tonight: 5:30 am ah red oft s secc Wa ond class matter suins ton D, C WASHINGTON, 1D} C., WEDNESDAY, 1SS WEGHS RALEBSLATON TOMURIENTRLANS RO RODSEELT “Stopgap” Action to Lead Way in Separate Bill, Leaders on Capitol Hill Indicate. TAX POWER DISCUSSED IN LONG-TIME PROGRAM Skeleton Set-Up Expected to Be Based Upon Clark Nine-Month With Extension Plan, Provi- sion for Voluntary Codes In- sisted Upon by House Chiefs BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Rooseve stopgap fslation con N. R A.in skeleton form is like llowed by other N. R. A before Congress adiourns Speaker Bvrns learly implied as Much at a press conference todav. He did not indicate, however line &uch legislation would take Democrat leaders of the i a similar view also that the Presi- al of vesterday for con- the N. R. A may be wvely immediate re President and Congres- sional leaders is to have the N. R. A extension resol; enacted into law by June 16. the date of the expiration of the original national industrial recovery a order to do so. any- thing controversial and likely to lead to delay expected to be omitted from the resolution Senate It dent’s prope tinuation of divided e effort of Separate Bill Expected For that reason. the the President th>t oniy ing up to the N proposal conct R. A. code standards would be given Government coatracts may be written inio a sep bill according to Chairman Har of the Senate Finance Commitiee While the congressional leaders expresed the opinion today thai the President had nou vet revealed zl! his plans relating o the N. R. A. .ome of them quite detinitely scouted the idea that a drive would be made for & constitutional amendment to oread- en the control nf Congress over hours and wages of iabor over oisiness practices. Speaker Brrns f n nkiy said ne saw no prospect for such a constitutional amendment. He said the President had not mentionad such a oroposed amendment. In ‘his position on a eonstitutional amendment, the Speak er was backed up by several Demo- cratic Senators President Awaits Results, The President was represented as having assumed a position of watchfu! waiting. Through the abbreviated N. R. A. set-up. it was said, he in- tends to find out whether there is widespread wage cutting and a return 10 longer hours of labor. He will learn 1oo, whether there is a return to child labor, prohibited under the N. R. A. codes. And, in addition, he will keep tab on chiselers and unfair business practices. All such ‘mation will be available when legislation is sought. if it is information may also be in the 1936 national camp: Whether he Such aluable on > President will ward with the he de press conference last Friday to depend on developments. The re- &ction of the country so far in favor of added Fi ral powers, now barred by the decision of the Supreme Court in the N R. A. case. has not been as vigorously in support of the President R was expected This fact seems to have been flected in comments at the Capitol to- day regarding possible constitutional amendment at his is likely Issue May Be Revived. However, if recovery in this country khould be retarded, if wages should decline and should disastrous price- cutting follow in the wake of the Su- preme Court decision, the issue might be revived. But today it did not ap- pear that the President was so likely (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) ROOSEVELT SUBMITS 14-POINT PROGRAM List of “Must” Bills May Keep Congress in Session All Summer. By the Associated Press A 14-point “must” legislative list was dumped today by President Roosevelt into the laps of his con- gressional leaders Immediately they said that any idea of an early adjournment had vanished &nd some predicted Congress would be in session until September The measures which the Capitol Hill chiefs understood the President wanted were | Temporary N. R. A, social security, omnibus banking, utilities holding company. Wagner labor disputes. Gufley coal stabilization. expansion of the Tennessee Valley Authority, farm edjustment act amendments, exten- sion of the Bankhead cotton control act, revival of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration, continuance | of existing “nuisance” taxes. regula- | tion of motor bus transportation, con- tinuance of Federal oil control and a forthcoming bill stipulating that the ! Government should buy only trom concerns which live up to wage, hour and fair trade practice requirements. Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who had been fore- casting that Congress would finish | by mid-August, said the session would continue until September. Senator arrison, Democrat. of Mississippi ghn had been talkinz about July# oved his prediction along to August. - 5,238 Await Word as to Jobs | LAVAL ABANDONS In Skeleton N. R. A. Retention { Number to Be Retained Unfixed, but! Many Branches Will Be Wiped Qut and Other BY BLAIR BOL N. R. A. headquarters today tensely awaited word from the White House on the number of employes to be re- tamed for the skeleton organization. Pay roll funds for all the 5,238 Blue Fagle workers expire at midnight June with the death of the act, but it is expected a deficiency appropriation bill will be rushed through Congress | before that date to care for the new set-up's workers Partial number of men and women who would be thrown out of jobs if the recovery act were allowed to lapse altogether are N. R. A in the District, 3963;: N. R A in the field, 1.275: Federal Alcohol Control Administration, 162; Central Statistical Board, 66: National Labor Relations Board, 165 Textile Labor Relations Board Steel Labor Re- lations Board, 6: Special Adviser on Foreign Trade, 98 162 May Retain Jobs. Jobs of the 162 employes of the F A C. A are to be saved, if possible, by immediate legislation creating the alcohol administration by act of Con- The office of special adviser on for- p1gn trade was ended yesterday The Central Statistical Board prob- ably will be retained entirelv as an ral part of the new-stvle fact- N. R. A The White House is said to be de- termined to transfer the 165 employes of the National Labor Relations Board to a widely expanded mediation divi- sion of the Labor Department However. if the Wagner labor dis- RODSEELT FEARS NEW LABOR TRFE Says Wagner Bill Is Neces- sary to Prevent Need for Martial Law. right 1033, by the Associated Prese) A warning ‘hat martial iaw will be necessary to cope with unrest un- less the Wagner labor disputes and the Guffey-Snyder coal stabilization bills are enacted was attributed to- day to President Roosevelt Several high congressional raders who discussed the matter witn him said he used @imost these exact words—that the two bills wer= “in- dispensable to pievent the necessity of martial law The informants, who are men in nigh posts, preferred not to be quot2d by name It became clear that the two meas- ures most vigoroasly demandea by ion represeniaiives were hizn on e President’s “musi * legislative list The United Mine Workers cre ar- ranging for a strike in the bituminous coal fields, beginning June 17 Their leaders assert 430,000 mine employes will be involved. The Presid-nt re- ferred to this i his talk witn con- gressional leaders, and spoke of pos- sible consequences Trouble in House Seen. One of the participants in yester- day’'s White House conference said the President was told there would be trouble getting the Wagner bill through the House. One Democratic chief in that branch reported that at least 150 House mem- bers had expressed a desire to avoid a vote on the bill. He added that trouble would result if it were forced to a vote Senators Robinson. Demoncrat, of Arkansas. and Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, replied. it was said, that they had entertained similar fears be- fore the Wagner bill was brought up in the Senate. They recalled that it was passed by an overwhelming ma- jority and with little debate. The House conferees said. however, that before the bill could be brought up on the floor it would have to be approved by the House Rules Commit- tee. One added that he knew of only one sure vote out of the nine in that committee for the bill The President was reported to have insisted, nevertheless, that the bill be pushed Labor Relations Board. The Wagner bill would set up a Labor Relations Board with power to order collective bargainipg elections and outlaw company-dominated” tnions. It would provide for “major- ity rule” in collective bargaining. The Gufley-Snyder proposal would provide for control of production, wages, hours and fair trade practices in the bitu- minous coal industry Some changes were in store for both measures. Talk persisted about modi- fving the Wagner bill to make certain that it applied only to businesses en- gaged in interstate commerce, though Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee insisted such an amend- ment was unnecessary. The Guffey-Snyder bill. in the form reintroduced yesterday by Senator Guffey. Democrat. of Pennsylvania. was referred Lo the Attorney General and the Solicitor General for study and comment. Readers Page. Amusements .B-20 Changing World . ..A-3 Comics tee0..B-16 Cross-word Puzzle .....B-16 Editorials - . .A-10 Finance .... ...A-17-18-19 Lost and Found ........A-11 Paul Mallon ....oev00e0..A-2 Radio Serial Story ... Service Orders . Short Story .... Society Sports ..B-7 veveeseensess..B-2-3 ceesssss.A-14-15-16 Vital Statistics S Washington Wayside .A-13 Women's Features ..B-14-15 Reduced. | pute bill is passed. the N. T. R. B! workers would be blanketed into the organization the legislation creates for settling labor troubles | ‘The Textile Labor Relations Board and the Steel Labor Relations Board probably will be wiped out entirely The Petroleum Board. an N. R. A subdivision with an undetermined number of workers. precbably will be | re-established by act of Congress Employes of the Electric Home and Farm Authority, which works closely with the T. V. A. probably will be transferred to the Valley Authority. Outlook Is Sketched. Divisions of the N. R. A. itself | which seem slated for abandonment. | and the number of employes in each are Advisory Council. 10 Labor Ad- visory Board., 73. Industrial Advisory Board. 15 Industrial Appeals Board. 6: Consumers’ Advisory Board, 58. code authority accounts section. 31. general code authority, 1; code administration 101. compliance, 151 The following code seem due for stringent contraction not actual disbandonme Basic materials, 79: eqL construction, 73: distributing 109: amusement, 9: food, 94 arts. 36. public agencies. 19 utilities, 60: chemical, 54. textile manufacturing, 83 The review division and the National In Board. 18. evidently are due to go. The divisions of Government con- tracts, legal and research and planning seem due for retention, SEE BODTLEGGER N KONAPIG ASE Officers Act on “Tip™ From Portland—Early **Break” Expected. organizations | i pment. 136 trades. graphic public 89 with 64 workers strial Recovery of (Copyright 1935 by the Associated Prese) TACOMA. Wash.. June 5.—Hot on the trail of George Weyerhaeuser's kidnapers, after the tell-tale appear- ance of one of the 20,000 ransom bills n Eastern Oregon. the Nation's man- hunters labored today to “break the case wide open” by tomorrow evening A former big-time Portland boot- legger was reported by Capt. Jack Keegan of the Portland police detec- tives to be sought in the belief he might be a man described by the 9- year-old victim as one of his kidnapers Capt. Keegan did not know whether the Department of Justic operatives were working on his tip and the Gov- ernment men refused to comment But I'm taking plenty of stock in Kegan added. Unseen Since Kidnaping. it,” Police reportedly became interested in him because he has not been known to have been seen since the kidnaping and a still of his recently was seized in the vicinity of Issaquah, Wash., where George was freed. Capt. Keegan said the man is a bootlegger and rum-runner familiar with all of the out-of-the-way roads of Oregon, Washington and Idaho Several Government men macde my: terious trips by automobile from their temporary headquarters here last night They returned without visible physical evidence. Belief that a sensational develop- ment was near came from the com- ment of a Department of Justice spokesman late yesterday. He as- serted the case “will break wide open within 48 hours.” The “G-man” refused to indicate whether the break would be the arrest of a suspect. He intimated the Kid- napers are believed to be a Pacific Northwest gang. but he would not in- dicate their identity or probable whereabouts. Ransom Bill Found. This was after the agents had learned a $20 San Francisco Federal Reserve note taken Sunday night at Huntington in Eastern Oregon was part of the $200.000 Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, jr.. paid for the return of their son Saturday morning ! The bill was identified by Blaine Coles, vice president of the First Na- tional Bank in Portland, when it ar- rived at the bank from Huntington. It had been sent in by T. O. Hunter, Union Pacific System station agent, who said a man about 30 years old. smooth shaven and wearing a tan suit and brown hat. tendered it to | C. E. Hannon. telegraph operator. in paying for a ticket to Salt Lake City. Hunter said the man boarded an eastbound train at 10:10 that night. There was no indication that the man arrived at Salt Lake City, and author- ities were believed to be checking in Utah. Eastern Oregon and Southern Idaho to determine if he bought the ticket as a ruse and never left Ore- | | gon or dropped off along the route | to the Utah metropolis. Department of Justice operatives here were intensely interested in the finding of the ransom bill. The Huntington description of the | man who gave the ransom bill did | not fit closely the description of any of the three suspects broadcast in the kidnap manhunt. APPEAL CLEARS DUKE Manchester's Conviction on False Pretenses Reversed. LONDON, June 5 (#.—The Duke of Manchester taday won his cppeal | from his conviction ot May 10 on a | charge of obtaining money under | false pretenses. | Lord Hewart, announcing that the | Court of Appeal had quashed the conviction, said that the summing | up after the original trial m Old | Bailev was insuficient and uasatis- factory. The Duke of Manchester was al- leged to have pawned jewels celd in | trust by the estate of his late r.other, thereby obtaining mioney gwithout | negotiable collateral. EFFORT 10 FORM FRENCH CABINET Foreign Minister Fails and | Lebrun Calls Other Pros- pects to Parley. GOLD DRAIN RESUMED: BONDS DROP STEADILY Crisis Causes Selling Wave of Government Securities—Shop- keepers on Strike. BUL PARIS. June 5 Former Premier Edouard Herriot today was asked by President Lebrun to try forming a new government for France. P Copyricht 15 by the Associated Press) | PARIS. June 5 —Pierre Laval, for- eign minister. failed today in his presi- dential assignment of organizing a new French government to succeed the overthrown cabinet of Fernand Bouis- son Bouisson had lasted in office only ee davs and 20 hours. Laval, hesi- tatingly accepting the commission of President Lebrun. tried for nearly 24 hours to gather together ministers for a cabinet, but at the end of that time he was forced to tell the President he had failed As soon as Laval had left the Elysee Palace, the President began calling other prospects for tire premiership to his study Laval advised the President to try again ing Bouisson te return to the premiership. but it was said that Lebrun might be obliged to invite Leftist leaders. preferably former Premier Edouard Herriot and former Premier Joseph Paul-Boncour, to take up the task Gold Drain Resumed. The flow of gold reserves from the Bank of France. which brought about the cabinet crises, increased again to- dav after slackening during the days that Bouisson was in power. Laval undertook the formation after the President tried in vain to persuade Jules Jeanneney, president of the Sen- te. to assume the responsibility. The full powers Flandin sought to combat devaluation became a more vital 1ssue than ever. Herriot's Radi- cal Socialists, meeting in caucus. once more declared them unnecessary Herriot, who supported Flandin in his battle for authority to defend the franc by decree, thereupon said he was “disgusted” and would refuse to join any ministry. He indicated he would attempt instead to obtain the office Bouisson formerly held as presi- dent of the Chamber of Deputies Laval. like both Flandin and Bouis- | son. has heretofore felt it wouid be difficult. if not impossible, for any government to rehabilitate the na- tion's finances unless it were accorded decree powers and permitted to exer- e them without interferenc from ! Parliamnt. Bouisson bluntly told the chamber | last night “it is not possible for a government to work every day if it encounters obstacles” such as “sudden interpellations. Just before his government fell Bouisson warned the deputies they would eventually be compelled to grant | the ministry full powers. “You can't evade them.” he said. If you evade them today. you won't be able to evade them tomorrow The Bank of France was still offer- ing gold bars to all who demanded them. but authorities said the demand was moderate Small buyers, however, alarmed at the developments. stood in line in the bank courtyard awaiting their turn to turn their paper francs into 2old. One man brought a basket packed with 100-franc bills. Others came with smail packages. baskets and handbags filled with currency. Selling Wave Caused. The cabinet crisis caused a sell- | ing wave of zovernment sec.rities on the Bourse as traders sought to purchase stocks Government honds opened weak | and dropped steadily. International securities regained most of tne 10 per cent lost Mondav and weie in | heavy demand wita domestic shares showing lesser gains Deprived of a government for the second time within a week when Bouisson's ministry fel! last night, France faced one of the gravest politi- cal crises she has experienced since the World War Bouisson, 60-year-old former pres- ident of the Chamber of Deputies, also declined ‘o attempt to form a | new government. He contended that the chamber’s refusal to concede him the full powers he siught to battle for the franc ehminated him as a | possibility. The Bouisson mimstry was over- thrown by a majoritv of two. the chamber voting 264 to 262 against (Continued on Page 3. Column 1. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION JUNE 3, 1935—FORTY HEAD OF SHRINERS HERE FOR SESSION Imperial Potentate Williams Arrives—Regatta Sunday Opens Festivities. of Lewiston, Me arrived here to- Dana S. Williams imperial potentate day for preliminary meetings prior fo the official opening next week > he sixty-first annual session of the Im- perial Council. Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine The imperial potentate was wel- comed by Robert P. Smith, voteniuie of Almas Temple and director gen- eral of the Convention Committee The principal philanthropy of the Mystic Shrine will be one of the first subjects to engage the attention of the imperial potentate. He will go into session shortly with members of the board of the Shrine Hospitals for Crippled Children. This board directs the operation of 15 hospitals through- out the United States and Canada fo: the care of crippled children without regard to race color or creed. Moves Into Willard. Williams established his head- quarters in the Willard Hotel. wheve the imperial divan will be stationed. He will remain now throughout tiie convention. Meantime, Shrine officials in charge of the spectacular regatta to oe staged on the Potomac River Sundav, plan- | ned to call at the White House this afternoon to exiend a special invi- tation to President Roosevelt to wit- ness the regatia The committee calling at the White House included Edward C. Baliz, chsirman «f the Shrine Regatta Committee: Joan A Remon, president of the President’s Cup Regatta Assoclation: L. Gordon Leech, chairman o the Shrine Race Committee. and Thomas E wodge, chairman of the Dress Parade Com- mittee Service Sunday. The program for the first official event of Shrine wrek Sundav morn- ing at Temple Heights was mad2 pub- lic today by Dr. John C. Palmer. p: tor of Washinz'on Heights Presby- terian Church. wio is grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Masors for the District. The services will be- gin at 8 am. Dr. Faimer wil de- liver the sermon and Imperial Po- tentate Williams will speak Driefly Music will be ov the Almas ‘Temple Band and the Almas Chanters. Others participating include Dr Simpson B Daugnerty, assistan. erand chaplain of the Grand Lodge and Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of Cal- vary Baptist Church Lights festooning Pennsylvania ave- nue from the intersection of Constitu- tion avenue up to Fifteenth street and New York avenue will be turned | on for the first time tomorrow at 9 pm. for a test to demonstrate the beauties of this spectacular illumina- tion of the line of march for the Shriners' three great parades. Director General Smith will throw (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) g Sta PAGES. P S The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Wi 20 0uR pary Yesterday’s Circulation, 127,993 Bome Returns Not Yet Received () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. HOUSE D. . BODY : s A PRE-VIEW OF NEXT WEEK'S STYLES. Giant Sikorsky Flying Boat Hops For Test I“light Pulls Into Air With Only One of Two Motors Running. By the Associated Press BRIDGEPORT. Conn. June 5 The S-43. giant flying boat. took off on her first test flight at the Sikor- kv Aviation Corp.s ramp this morn- e S-43. bel fastest amphibian A perfect start Sergievsky, chief orsky Co.. at the control Capt. Sergievsky. demonstrating the e's power. hopped off with only one of the craft’s two Hornet engines functioning and was in the air within 15 seconds after leaving the ramp. STRIKE IN TOLEDOD HALTS BIG PLANTS Industry Paralyzed as Pow- er Workers Walk Out in Wage Dispute. ed lane th test the world's got away to Capt. Bor pilot for the By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, June 5.—A condi- tion of virtua. industrial paralysis fell upon this city of more than 300.000 population today as union electrical workers went on strike, causing a serious shortage of power One after another, huge factories shut down—unable to operate without electricity—and city officials predicted before the dav was done more than 30.000 industrial workers would be idle. The strike was called early today by the Electrical Workers’ Union at the Toledo Ed:son Co., which supplies 95 per cent of Toledo's industries with power. Officials of the company said 450 of their 537 employes joined the walkout. which followed a breakdown of efforts to settle a wage controversy Nearby Towns Affected. Numerous nearby towns which re- ceive power fiom the Toledo Edison Co. also were affected as its output declined. Oliver Myers business agent for the union. said it would co-operate if the | company is willing to make provision for an uninterrupted supply of power for hospitals, newspapers and the city water works. In other respects, however. the pover famine spread rapidly through the city’s life and even nto its thou- sands of homes, many of which de- pend upon electricity for illumination, refrigeration and other services. Street_car service, the operation of drawbridges and numerous other com- monplaces of modern life also were | threatened. Moslems Hurt in Riot. CALCUTTA, June 5 ) —Foriy Mosiems were injured today when po- lice opened fire to disperse a crowd demonstrating in suburban Shinsurah against a Hindu property owner who was aftempting to demolish a tem- ! porary mosque on his land. Capital Sp;e_dsil‘*lrfie. Lebrun | From One Affair to Another | | | By the Assoctated Press. | In one Paris costume after another, | Mme. Albert Lebrun, wife of the Presi- ‘;dvm of France, was whisked from place to place today as fast as she could go. | “We are in such a hurry!” she | lamented, expressing regret that she "could not linger and see more. ! A visit to Mount Vernon was her | early morning program after yester- | | day’s state dinner at the White House | and intimate reception at the French | Embassy. | This afternoon she had to depart for New York for more festivities, notably a big ball tonight aboard her “god child,” the superliner Nor- mandie. | As she absorbed all she could of | America, her gowns said “Paris” in | | lines avelte and simple: her hats said | | it with feathers distinctiyg and a { bit daring. | “The women of France are more interested in their homes and do not put themselves forward in political | issues.” Mme. Lebrun yvesterday told rewspaper women at a press confer- ence at the French Embassy. Mme. Lebrun pointed out that the Frenchwoman has no vote at present, but that it 1s her belief women there will vote “sooner or later.” She ex-| | pressed appreciation for her reception | in New York and said she found | ‘Washington not at all like New York. | the latter being ‘“curious with its| many tall buildings like minarets.” | Mme. Lebrun has never given an | interview in ner native country and | has no press conferences, for there, she said. she “is nothing but the wife | of the President.” Her English. she says. is limited, though she under- stood and answered questions readily. occasionally conferring with Mme. de Laboulaye. wife of the Fregch Ambas- sador, who sat beside her oh the divan. Myers, in discussing his committee's wage demands, said. “our men are working on a 1926 hour wage scale, and hours have been cut from the 44, 48 to 56 of trat year to the present 40-hour week." ‘The company is a subsidiary of the Cities Service Corp. Demands Denounced. C. L. Proctor, vice president and general manager of the Edison Co., issued the following statement “There is no justification whatever for our electrical workers going on strike. ‘A vear ago we acceded to unrea- sonable demands by the union for no Teason except to avert a general shut- down in Toledo which was then in the midst of mob violence. Obvi- ously. we cannot go on indefinitely meeting unreasonable demands. “Our men are well paid, in fact they receive the highest wages of any like workers in any city in Ohio com- parable in size to Toledo. They admit that their working conditions are en- tirely satisfactory.” POST DELAYED AGAIN Heavy Fog Balks Take-Off Fourth Stratosphere Flight. LO& ANGELES, June 5 (#).-—Heavy fogs closed in >n Union Air Terminal at Burbank early today, apvarently adding another delay to plans of Wiley Post to take off on a fourth attempt to span the conukent through the stratosphere, THOUSANDS FLEE ONCOMING FLOOD Gorged Missouri and Kaw Increase Peril by Race to Kansas City. By the Ascociated Prese KANSAS CITY ‘Thousands of lowland dwellers hastened the hreatened homes crests of the June 5 Rivers raced to the The exodus to high sembled the flight of non-combat before an approaching enemy. Ha stored their larger household articles in second stoiies of dwellings and hay lofts. farmers left for the hills, driv- ing their stock before them. Laborers worked desperately to strengthen dikes and railroad embankments The crest ot the Kaw River flood was about 75 miles wesi of here. threatening Topeka, while that of the Missouri River—already overflowing in many places along its 400-mile course from here to St. Charles. Mo was about the same distance to the north Engireers feared the total volume of water here would exceed that of the 1308 flood. Breaks Menace North Topeka. As the muddy debris-choked waters of the Kaw surged down on the Kansas capital. residents of North Topeka were ordered to leave. Breaks appeared in dikes to the west of the city. The river was expected to reach a stage of 28 feet, 7 feet above the flood mark All train service to Western Kansas was cut off At the lower end of the Missouri River between 40 and 50 families fled for their lives early today as the turbulent stream burst a levee wall and inundated 10.000 acres of bottom land in St. Louis County. The area was expected tu be under 5 feet of water in a few hours. More than 1000 men and womea d staged a losing fight to save the levee Nebraska's flood disaster toll con- tinued to increase todav as the Re- publican River crept back into its banks and the danger of a serious flood along the Platte River decreased 45 Bodies Recovered. An Associated Press survey showed 45 recovered podies and listed 58 other verified and reported dead for a total of 103. The Red Cross. however, re- ported 59 dead and 86 still missing The death toll in Kansas was eight and in Missouri three United States Army prepared to mobilize 5000 men to meet the flood threat here. Three thousand men were put to work early today by Kansas City. Mo.. officials to build a protecting levee on the south bank of the Kaw to prevent an over- flow into the central industrial dis- trict. The entire personnel of the C. C. C. in Missouri was ordered to stand by for emergency work If the two crests reach here at the same time, engineers estimate the two streams will reach a level of from 7 to 14 feet above flood stage Airlines based at the Kansas City municipal airports made preparations for a hasty evacuation. The located in the bend of the M and one corner is just opposite point where the Kaw enters the larg- er stream. engineers weie SUICIDE ENDS MYSTERY, OF CHATEAUX ROBBERIES Thefts of Art Objects Last Year Traced to Dead Man and Jailed Accomplice. By the Associated Press. PARIS. June 5—The Surete Na- tionale announced today that the mystery of numerous chateaux rob- beries in 1934, in which the loot to- taled many millions of francs worth of art objects, had been solved by the suicide of one burglar and the arrest of another. | The two accused men were said to have entered and robbed dozens of chateaux of the wealthiest French, in- 'rludmg Baron Edourd de Rothschild, |and of making off with paintings, | sculptures and rare books which they chose with great and expert care. For a year. detectives attempted to pick up their trail but always the two managed to escape until last Jaruary | when Lucien Barjonnet was arrested. | | However, he killed himself in the police station before he was questioned. | His alleged accomplice was Andre Buffet. Emn]o_vran{ chateanx who had been held up $entified both men, | VOTES APPROVAL OF CRIME REPORT Measure Asking Ouster of Garnett Adopted After Fight. THREE POLICE HEADS STILL ARE EXEMPTED Retirement of Officers Is Raised to 65 Years. for JAMES F CHINN, BY of Garn rement of t d adopted by who had reac amended r days ago mandatory 65. left in the a paragraph de- rtment “hi W Inspes 1 be remc All rewr ors Bean and Head- d from the recom three have passed 60 paragraph preceded by a heated de- nds of Garnett stood bate at was wk ive Jenckes. of Indiana. who supported Werner minority report. was one of the f to leave the meeting. As she passed through the door she was overhea:c to say: “This the most thing I have ever seen.” The committee devoted less thar hour to consideration of the fi three sections of the report, ha taken up, convening, reports from various committees. The ma portion this time was devoted discuss! the recommendation and Kindleberger 1 Dis- revealed. after ap- f the report, that she was in- having the amendment Brown. Bean and ecommendation for to for strumental adopted exe Headley fro retirement. Thinks Men of 60 Valuable. She expla these offic amendment wa. her belief that reached the age of 60 in good physical condition, would be able to the Police Depart- than men of less experience Aside from the section recommend- ing removal of G and Kindle- the commit so approved provi commission t stant check on crime conditions in the District, makig changes in jury service, and 2ing on of the indeterminate sentence and parole law and a re to the Federal system of parole Sect which the proposed. but it was officers who had and were still to a the one from members as well as the a delecation in House_ over squest for immediate removal of Garnett and Kindleberger. also gesis the vigorous prosecution ne here In order to check the growth crime in the District of Columina." it said is vital nt that all criminal cases be fearlessly. vigor and speedily prosecuted. So Iy it is possible for criminals of finan- cial means or influence to evade prose cution and delay judgment, crime will continue to increase.” The report will now be transmitted to the House, where its fate prob- lematical. House approval, it was said. is not necessary because the res- olution authorizing the investigation merely required the investigating com- mittee to report the results of its in- quiry during the present session of (Continued on Page 6, Column 4.) on 4 of the stirred protests Disirict bar of repos of HAIL SWEEPS TEXAS of South Plaine Storms. Broad Section Hit by Destructive LUBBOCK, Tex., June 5 (#)—De- structive hailstorms and downpours of rain swept across a broad section o the south plains in Texas late yes- terday, but some of the damage was offset by needed moisture in areas near the Pecos River Hunderds of acreas were briefly in undated and grain and cotton crop: were damaged by a cloudburst ¢ miles south of Broscoe, where ¢ inches of rain fell in half an hour The deluge was followed by hai which piled as deep as 5 feet In roadside ditcheq Roofs were beaten off houses in #*at vicinity,