Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (D. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and tomorrow: cooler tomorrow afternoon and night; moderate southwest winds. Temperatures—Highest, 90, at noon to- day: lowest, 71, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page A-11, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 15, 16,17 No. 33,284. Wntered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. - MITCHELL HURLS BHARGE []F GRAH ‘Bright, Handsome INOUSTERBATILE “Favoritism” Also Abounds | in Commerce Unit, He Declares. MORRO DISASTER LAID | TO INSPECTION FAULTS Cntting Death Might Have Been Prevented by Air Commerce Burean, He Asserts. B LETIN, Dorothy May Nuttall, aged 7, and her S5-year-old brother. Frank Henry. lost in the Zoo yvesterday. are believed to be the children of Prank Henry Nuttall, 39-year-old civilian employe of the Edgewood, Md., srsenal, it was learned this afternoon. Officials at Edgewood said Nuttall lgft there on leave last Priday. They are attempting to find Mrs. Nuttall. | Some where in Washington three doll babies—Betty, Anne and Dot— |are waiting for the return home of | their little mother, Dorothy May Nut- tall, aged 7, who spent last night in B the Associated Press the Children's Receiving Home crying An assegtion that “improper favor- tor her own mother—address un- ftism and graft abound” in more than ynown one Government department was made | with Dorothy May s her S-year- today by Ewing Y. Mitchell, who Was 44 prother, Prank Henry Nuttall, jr., ousted Saturday by President R0OSe- ' ghy hopes some day to be the cham- velt as Assistant Secretary of Com- pion boxer of the world—like Jimmy "";“'- o » asid Braddock. pening what he termed a ‘figh to the finish,” he said in a statement; | ToBether the two children were lost pis i, In the Zoological Park vesterday aft- t is unfortunate, but none the | B 0C 200 TEE e Y e morning less true, that the Department of Commerce is not the onlv department t‘:l‘lh their father, Frank Henry Nut in Washinglon where the ideals of the New Deal have been strangied,| Dressed in her Sunday best—a improper favoritism and grafi abound, brand-new white frock, white slippers where there is apparent evidence of and socks and a white hat—little corruption and the process of the old Dorothy May kissed her dollies good- steal proceeds unabated.” =7 E Partially Reorganized. “The Bureau of Air Commerce and the Steamboat Inspection Service,” he sdded, “have been partially reorgan- ized, but. much remains to be done. perticularly in the latter service. where inefficient inspection probably contributed to the Morro Castle disas- ter Tt may well be that the lives of Eenator Cutting and those who died with him in the recent airplane crash might, have been spared if one with ! knowledge. experience and stability suited to the position had been in charge, for the past two vears, of the Bureau of Air Commerce.” This bureau and the Steamboat In- 1 5 headlong rush to pass four spection Service are under the De- '« st administration bills this week. partment of Commerce, headed by he House today approved and sent Secretary Roper. to the Senate a resolution extending Investigation Asked. for two years “temporary” taxes which In announcing his dismissal—be- bring in $501,000.000 annually. eause of his refusal to resign—Roper Unless the Senate approves the reso- said Saturday President Roosevelt had !ufion by June 30. the Treasury will asked the Justice Department to make | 0% About $1.500.000 in revenue daily an investigation of his previous ”"‘?”" ‘3‘:‘“ "; ';‘;h'“md:: taxes Depart- °XDire at the end of the month. :‘:;,r? P = | The House adopted the extension A Justice Department spokesman ' Tesolution after only 40 minutes of said information submitted by Mitchel) Jebate under a “gag” rule forbidding “was being examined, but could not be Onsideration of amendments. made public.” Farm Measure Next. After & conference with Attorney Immediately. the amendments to General Cummings, his spokesman 'the farm adjustment act were talled aaid Mitchell “had submitted infor- | up for debate. mation to the department in install- President Roosevelt had said he con- ments. part some time ago and addi- tions] information quite recently.” o his cherges. Mitchell also con- TAK BLL PASSED UNDER GAG RULE Resolution Extending Va- ried Levies Is Rushed to Senate. | B the Associated Press. | essary to the financing of the budge! for 1936." The House Ways and tended that “special interesis” dom- Means Committee concluded, too, tha: inate the department. He eriticized #ince expenditures will exceed re- » Government contract with the ceipts for both the 1935 and 1936 United States Lines for the permanent | fiscal vears, it would be ‘“‘extremely lav-up of the liner Leviathan, a trans- unwise” to let the taxes expire. action which he sajd was consum- A= usual, the idea of levying ta mated by Secretary Roper in Was an unpopular one. Several mem March. 1935, | bers of the Wavs and Means Commit- Letter Sent to Roosevelt. | tee had committed themselves to vote The accusations were made in a [OF changes in some taxes. such letter which Mitchell said he sent to President Roosevelt on May 30 after the President had called for his resignation. The reason the Presi- _ T0 Avold embarrassing these mem- dent gave for his demand was that Ders. and to prevent the reopening of he wished to reorganize the transpor- | the whole tax question, House leaders tation service of the Government and | decided on the “gag.” desired ““for this enlarged endeavor a | The way was ciearly left open to man of large executive and adminis- Another tax bill later on. trative training.” The full committee in its formal re- Mitchell, who was one of the origi- port told the House it recognized that nal Roosevelt men in Missouri. con- “many of these taxes are objection- tended the Leviathan contract was able or contain objectionable features.” “against the public interest” and that = Besides leaving to Congress the power “those interested in the company,|to change the rates later, the com- prominent among whom are P. A. 8. mittee pointed out that its resolution Franklin. John M. Franklin, Vincent would leave with President Roocsevel: Astor and Kermit Roosevelt,” stood authority to reduce the 3-cent postage to benefit by it. to 2 cents. Mitchell said he had written Presi- Besides postage and gasoline. the dent Roosevelt saying it had beend taxes in question are levied on a “stated here in the department” that long list of articles, including lubri- the contract was made at the Presi- cating oil. brewers' wort, grape con- dent’s direction. ‘;unwuu. imported petroleum, imported $3.000.000 Subsidy Cited. coal, tires and tubes and fu “It this is true.” Mitchell's letter taid. “T am satisfied that this action on your part was taken without full knowledge of all the facts and without | full knowledge of the damage to the | best interests of the Government such ection entailed. | He said the controller general's office | Mercury Expected to Reach 91 had pointed out that the United States | This Af e Lines Co. had received a Government s om TNt subsidy of bver $3.000,000, less than Due Later Today. four years prior to Mareh, 1935, to | insure the continued operation of the ', Leviathan for five years. | t:x': tme;‘pce"r:'tu‘m"r:lm“:mrmn"m:‘ Mitchell quoted the acting con- | the nineties. A maximum mmper-‘-’ troller general as saving that “now it | ture of 91 degrees or higher was fore- is proposed to subsidize the non-oper- | cast for this afternoon. lon tax on gasoline. Gag Rule Decided On, SHOWERS AND COOLER WEATHER FORECAST o Officials Baffled by Mystery | Of Two Children Found at Zoo Know Many Things, but Not Address; Parents Leave Pair Unclaimed. sidered extension of these taxes “nec- | the 3-cent postage and 1-cent-a-gal- i ¢ Fhenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1935—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. Brother and Sister 1 bye and, taking her brother by the | band. went on an expedition 1o the | Zoo—to feed the elephant. | | While the children weré feeding the | elephants they became lost from their | tather. Later. they were picked up by ‘: park policeman, turned over to the | Woman's Bureau and then lodged for | the night in the receiving home. | | Conventions demand a shower and a change of clothing for inmates ar | | the home, so this morning Dorothy | | May Nuttall was clad in a little red | and white print gown, her beaatiful | white array hanging in a wardrobe. | That hurt her pride, too. as shé was | reluctant to receive visitors “in these | | old clothes, I want my pretty white | dress,” she said. Her brother—"“Bud.” she calls aim— g agromiicsrnl grbaggreee® blouse, blue shorts, black shoes and | blue socks, He was clad in rubber- | soled shoes “a mile too big for him.” as Dot said, and a pair of khaki over alls. | Officials at the spent & busy morning trying cate the children’s parents. Although the matron at the home | and her co-workers claim there were never two brighter children admirted. nor two children better dressed, hour after hour of questioning failed “to get anything out of Dorothy May.” who " (See CHILDREN, Page 3.) receiving home to lo- SECURTYMEASURE CRTICSM HEARD Hastings Peints to Dangers | ‘ in Bill as Long Seeks | Amendment. BY J. A. O'LEARY. { The administration’s social security program faced a crossfire of criticism from two different directions in the Senate this afternoon. | While Senator Hastings. Republican. of Delaware was calling attention to dangers he sees in the bill as it stands, | Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana , interrupted to file with the clerk his | | share-the-wealth amendment, which would drastically rewrite the program and place heavv taxes on individual wealth to provide direct Federal ap- propriations of at least $5,600,000.000 a8 a substitute for the pay roll taxes. Administration forces believe they will be able to defest the Long pro- gram and hold the bill substantially to its present form, with a final vote | by Wednesday. | In place of the $49.750.000 carried lin the bill for the first vesr of Fed- |eral grants to match State old-age | pensions, Long proposed $3.600,000,- 000. He seeks to pay a pension to every one above 60, who earns less than $500 a vear or owns property !of a value iess than $3,000. whereas the administration bill would start at 85 and confine the pensions to | those shown to be in need. Long Asks U. S. Fund. Por unemployment insurance, the bill would appropriate $49,000,000 from the Treasury to aid the States in ad- ministering this program. but the money for unemployment benefits would be raised by a pay roll tax on employers. Long would strike out (See SOCTAL SECURITY, Page 5. LABOR HEAD OFFERS | { SECURITY PROGRAM | Secretary Perkins Urges Public | Works to Take Up Employ- ment Slacks in Future, | By tne Associated Press WELLESLEY, Mass. June 17.—A six-point long-range security pro- gram. headed by planned-in-advance public works projects to make up em- | ployment siack in futurc depressions. ‘:'upropnsedlodnybysecrmryl‘er— | kins. | In an address at Wellestey Col- | lege's commencement exercises, the Sshen, ran sground and were stuck for tures increased 3 per cent. | Labor Secretary also sasserted the | | right of business to make a profit and | fthe right of workers to expect wage | increases as profits go up. This would | maintain the balance between pur- | chasing power and productive power, she said. All the people, Miss Perkins said. will benefit from the administration’s | | social security bill now pending in | | Congress, but she told the graduating | | class there may be need for other | BRITAIN REQUESTS CLARIFICATION OF JAPAN'S DEMANDS Grave View of Far Eastern| Crisis Is Seen in Note to Tokio and China. INVOCATION OF.1"REATY CONSIDERED POSSIBLE Sir Samuel Hoare Believed to Be Puiting Initiative Up to | United States. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, June 17.—Reliable sources | revesled today that Great Britain has | asked both the Japanese and Chinese | governments for clarification of re- ports that Japan insists upon con- trolling the appointment of new of- ficials in North China. | Semi-official circles said they be- lieved this move by the British government indicated a grave view was being taken of the Chinese sit- | uation and it was considered that this particular aspect of Japanese activi- ties in China might lead to repre- | sentation under the nine-power treaty. Guarantee by Signatories. | This treaty, signed by Great Britain, | the United States, Japan, China, Prance, Italy. the Netherlands. Portu- gal and Belgium, guaranteed that the signatory nations would respect vh¢| independence, sovereignty and terri- | torial intergrity of China. | Since both are signatories, Grur’ Britain is keeping in touch with the United States on the Far Bastern ' situation. Tt was learned the Chinese Ambas- sador's visits to the foreign office last week were not for the purpose of invoking the nine-power treaty. but that thev had resulted in Great Britain making inquiries in Tokio and Peiping in order to determine whether the treaty had been violated. | Great Britain's domestic affairs were relegated to the background in anxiety over the Sino-Japanese crisis as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin presented his new government to the reassembled Parliament. | Sir Samuel Hoare, the new foreign | secretary. was expecied to make a statement of British policy. Takes No Tuoitiative. | It was understood. however. Great Britain would take no initiative in dealing with Japan's alleged viola- tion of the nine-power Washington | treaty without definite indicatione ' from the other signatories of their | willingness to stand together. | Reliabile cireles reported that Ohins is sounding out the Western powers with & view to lodging A formal:pro- test to the League of Nations against Japan's “absorption” campaign. | Sir Samuel, facing the ecritieal question in his debut as foreign sec- | retarv, was said to have prepsred a non-commital pronouncement of Britain’s policy. with a hint that the United States should take the leader- ship. Japan te Oust Swvag. | TOKIO. June 17 (#).—The Rengo 1 ent, today that the high military couneil At Hsinking had decided Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan, governor of Chahar Prov- ince, China, must quit office. The military council. it was report- ed. decided that if the Chinese Na- tional government did not remove | Gen. Sung the Japanese Army would | have to do so. The report was interpreted as indi- cating the Japanese Army was de- termined to add another Chinese province to its sphere of domination, dictating what Chinese officials shall administer office and what Chinese ' troops shall garrison Chahar az well as Hopei Provinces. Canionese Ships Desert. | «Covrright, 1035. by the Associated Press.) HONGKONG, June 17.—The Can- ton government's two greatest eruisers | deserted today, running the gamut of | a scathing cross-fire from the loyal | Bocatgris forts at Canton and slipping | AWAY 10 sea. THAT LOST DONKEY -‘ WILL BE LOOKIN' THE FORGOTTEN JEFFERSON. The only e ok ke COME BACK AND SEE ME AGAIN SOME CRUCIAL G MONTHS SEEN BY HOPKINS Tells State Administrators Roosevelt Looks to Them to See Job Is Done. ‘ By the Associated Press In & pep talk to State works progress administrators. Harry L. Hopkins asserted todav that the next six months will be the crucial time in carrving out that $4,000,000.000 pro- ' gram, and “the public and the Presi- | dent are looking fo you to see that the job is dope.” Earlier, & slight dechne in the number of persons on relief in cities was reported to Hopkins, the relief | sdministrator. 1 He acknowledged fo the State of- ficials that the Roosevelt administra- tion would be charged with “buying the election and playing politics.” He insisted, however. that “banks and General Motors would be erazy to hire men opposed to what they are doing,” and that he knew of no State director who had asked for the job. Canfident of Co-speration. | 8aying the program would be under | direct Federal supervision, he added he was confident there would be co- operation from State and municipal authorities. Explaining that the “responsibility ' doesn’t rest lightly on my shoulde: he called on the executives to “see that the job i= done in the finest pos- sible way, make as few mistakes as possible.” “This office won't let you down.” he added, “but will back you up. You can count on our complete support and | backing anything you do so long as it s right. “Don't get mad at ns. We can change our minds and adapt ourselves to problems.” i In a statement given out by the publicity staff at relief headquarters. meantime, Hopkins said the slight reduction in urban relief rolls and/ expenditures during April was due mainly to “improved business condi- tions and to seasonal increase in ag- ricultural employment.” Relief Families Decrease. 1 The number of families and single persons on relief in 145 cities. repre- senting 36 per cent of the population. Expenditures in these cities were shown to have declined from $69.- 810,653 to $68,183,784. Curtailment of relief in Tllinois dur- ing May appeared responsible for con- siderable of the decline. Exclusive of | Chicago, the pumber of families and | | single persons - getting payments de- Two-Thirds Rule By Supreme Court Proposed by Norris By the Associated Press. Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, todav proposed an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the Supreme Court from holding an act of Congress unconstitutional unless the de- cision was by more than two- thirds, or seven, of the nine justices. and unless the action was started within six months after enactment of the law. Had Norris’ propossl been in force recently the Supreme Court could not have ruled N. R. A. out of existence. The Shechter case. on which the court acted. was not begun in the lower court until long after six months from the time of enactment of the recovery act in June, 1933, BIG 3" MONEY *ENTENTE TALKED World Bankers Discuss Stabilization by U. S., | England and France. } Br ‘he Associated Press BASEL, Switzeriand. June 17.-An entent between the United States. England and Prance to stabilize world+ currencies was discussed today by bankers assembled for a meeting of | the Bank for International Settle- ments. The financiers expressed confidence that such an entent, designed to in- clude Japan eventually, would be suf- | ficient to bring stabilization of world monies. Pariey “Too Farly. | ‘The delegates, however, agreed that | the . recent suggestion of Secretary | Morgenthau ‘of the United States Treasury for an international stabili- | view of Great Britain's reluctance. Jean Tannery, governor of the Bank of France; told the European bank- rs the United States Treasury. Bank of France through its recent financial crisis by feeding the inter- | national market with dollars. LYDDANE ACTION HANCS ON VERDICT State Awaits Decision on Boland Case to Map Future Course. RULLETIN, ROCKVILLE, Md., June 17— John Martin Boland was found guilty of conspiracy to murder Francis (Slom) Lyddane. in the “secret” verdict of the three judges who tried him, made public this afternoon. BY W. H. SHIPPEN. JR. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. State’s course of ectien in its effort to convict Mrs. Anne Lyddane on chorges of conspiring to murder her busband and Wrs. Josephine Beall rests upon s decision to be rendered his afternoon by the three iudges who trief John Mertin Boland in connection with tne alieged plot. The attorneys who represented the 42-year-old Washington gambler at his trial before the judges early last week have been ordered mto court in hear the verdict at 3 pr Boland was tried on an indictment accusing him of plotting with Mrs. Lvddane ‘o dis- oose of her husband. Francis «Slom) Lyedane. The four-day "rial of Mrs. Lycdane on a similar charge resulted in a hung jury, which was disch-rged at' micnight Saturdas when it ‘a led to agree after nine hours of delibera- tion. Roland Verdict Detaved. The same judges who presided at Mrs. Lyddane’s jury trial already bhad | arrived at their verdict in the Boland case, but withheld it for fear of prejudieing the jury. The judger to give their verdict this afternoon are Hammond Urner, Charles W. Wood- ward and Arthur D. Willard. State’s Attorney James H. Pugh has said he cannot determine what fur- ther action to take in the case until he heard the verdict of the judges While she was tried only on a | zation conference came too early in charge of plotting the murder of her husband, Mrs. Lyddane also is under indictment. for soliciting & conspiracy and conspiracy Beall, wife of Arthur Beall, the | dropped from 2.163.966 in April to through the “generous co-operation of | Darnestown garage man, who, accord- 11‘111.00« in May, it was reported. | Secretary Morgenthan,” helped the | ing to the State. was the object of Mrs. Lyddane’s affection. These indictments probably will be dismissed should the judges declare in Washington wit Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Hrahon > 124,816 Some Returns Not () Means Associated Press. June 17 —The | to Assassinate Mrs. | évening paper the SUNDAY'S rgesdon, 136,502 TWO CENTS. ONEILL ASSUMES N. R A DIRECTION; STAFF REASSURED New Chief Promises Orderly Liquidation of Jobs as First Act. PROGRAM OF RESEARCH OUTLINED FOR AGENCY ‘Procedurz Will Look to Finding Permanent Force for Emas- culated Service. The N. R. A. began the third year of its erratic existence today. shorn of all active, regulatory power and prepared within three weeks to be- come merely a research organization ploying about 1,500 of the present ! 5200 employes under the control of James L. O'Neill, last night named administraior by President Roosevelt. The first act of this tall New York banker, who has been control officer of the Recovery Administration, was to give reassurance to his workers of an orderly liquidation of most of the jobs. He zaid in his first statement as administrator: “The most pressing probiem econ« fronting the National Recovery Ad- ministration is adjustment of the or- ganization and iis personnel 1o the work to be done during the coming months. ‘That adjustment cannot be made intelligently without planning the work iiself. The next few weeks will be devoted to developing such plans, and announcements will be made as soon as possible concerning appro- priate changes in personnel. Jobs Will Continve. “Pending this adjustment and in order to find an opportunity for orderly procedure, T am now adopt- ing and confirming the action of the National Industrial Recovery Board in continuing our personnel in their present, positions on a temporary basis until further order.” Later O'Neill said the “organization adjustment of the administration and its personnel is the most pressing problem facing us.” He added that salary reductions for higher officials are being given consideration The new administrator also an- nounced that Blackwell Smith. row acting counsel, would be appointed to this post. The one-time Pittsburgh steel-mill worker who will preside, for s few months at least, over the work of recapitalating N. R. A. mistakes and | accomplishments preparatory to draft- | Ing an expected new recovery act for j the next Congress plans an educs- tional eampaign to sell the country the need for a permanent eagle. To key positions immediately under O'Neill, who is on leave of absence | from his post of vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, the President named in his executive order Leon C. Marshall, a member of the old National Industrial Recov- ery Board. who will run the “Division of Review” to survey the effects of the old codes, and Prentiss L. Coon- ley. hitherto code administrative | officer. who will head the “Division of Business Co-operation.” Will Test Voluntary Codes. Tts establishment is viewed a= the wedge for the experimental estab- lishment. of voluntary codes covering labor treatment, minimum wages and maximum hours and outlawing child | labor and unfair competitive prac- tices. To suggest permanent safeguards for labor, industry and the consumer |'in the new recovery legislation which the President hinted he will ask, an advisory council of six members was appointed to help O'Neill, Marshall and Coonley. It consists of Charles Edison, named to the N. 1. R. B. about a month ago, and Howell Cheney, Connecticut silk manufac- turer, to represent industry. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor and | head of the Labor Advisory Board of Gold Crisis Passed. | Boland innocent, as would be true bills | the oid N. R. A,, and Phillip Murray. The bankers generally expressed be- lief that the gold bloc had defended its currencies successfully and was safe from any further immediate at-| The cruisers, the Haichi and Hal- | clined only 14 per cent and expendi-| .\ | 20 hours below Whampoa, while troops | turned machine guns on them from | the shore. Pinally they escaped. 1t was presumed they were mal for Fukien Port or Shanghali. cruisers had deserted the Nanking | government_for the Canton command in 1933 | them Northerners, had expuessed dis- | satisfaction with their pay and con- ditions of service for Canton, i Hopkins mentioned - declines in Flint, Mjech., and Gary. Ind.. “im portant eenters of the automobile and | steel Industry " as instances of im-| The | &':"”’"’:” -“:‘o::" Que 1o bet-| 104 on the franc. The Works Progress administrators | United States Treasury officials de- | clined to comment at Washington on the reports from Basel crediting | Secretary Morgenthau with helping France to halt the recent speculative Treasury spokesmen would only rebeat the pledge of secrecy about all ; conferring with Hopkins and his aides | ,nory tions of the $2,000,000,000 stabil- The members of the crew, most of | Planned to cali on President Roose-| iz tion fund. | velt at 4 p.m. today. It was indica at the White House he would have to say to them. The ad-/ ministrators will have group confer- Important Veteran Ruling. LOS ANGELES, June 17 (®.—A | against Harry Elmer Thomas, former convict. and Edwin J. Davis. who has been convicted in Washington of pos- | sessing liquor. Davis is charged with plotting the death of Mrs. Beall. The State’s star witness, John (Googy) Carnell, 42, former Washing- ton policeman and later a bartender and petty racketeer. already has pleaded guilty to a double murder plot and has been promised fmmunity. Two reporters for the Washington Herald, Pat Prank and David Lee, were expected to file A motion this after- noon seeking dismissal of a citation ordering them to show cause not later (See LYDDANE, Page 4.) Workers and another N. L R. B. mermber, to represent labor. Emily Newell Blair, chief of the old | Consumers’ Advisory Board. and Wal- ton H. Hamilton, another N. I. R. B. ‘member, now in Geneva, to represent the consumers. George L. Berry, president of the International Pressmen’s Union and s division administrator in the old N. R. A. set-up, was named special “(See N. R. A, Page &) ‘}vu-a president of the United Mine WOMAN, 83, FOUND “ HANGED IN BERWYN l measures to meet recurrent economic | problems. Her six-point program, be- sides public works, included: 1 | Technica) stabilization of industry | so that employers will be able to give | ! certaln guarantees of the amount of | work they can provide. t | court ruling here of wide import to NATS, BROWNS IDLE o hases” paDes: Charges “Debunked.” ex-service men holds that although | y sltu:;';np-ue a.:&'.;“:.‘;‘.,, mfi Hopkins yesterday released a survey | hostilities may have ended with the | s5irs Body Discovered Suspended by British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lind- made in Baltimore which he sald | signing of the armistice, the worrl’d'rounh Game of Series Called Off Noose Made From Apron—flld hillips, Undersec- | ‘debupks” assertions that those on re- | War was not officially concluded until | | 3 et e ¥ | ief ware refusing jobe in private in- | the Congress s declared by joint reso- Due to Wet Grounds. | Been in Il Health. E ’ By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. b ki Baria Wil *Difier, » 88 W | 1921, It was their second conference on | GUStry so as to continue receiving | lution July 2, ¥ 3 ints Superior Judge Wilson made this, ST.- LOUIS. Mo.. June 17.—The |, hanging from a noose fash- the subject in the last three days. Federal sid. Out of 195 complal fourth geme of Washington's series | (0004 ha ation of the vessel for the remaining | There 15 likelihood of a % Lindsay Sees Phillips. | ences two years by waiving liquidated dam- ages that would accrue for failure to, ::zw;m&:;::l:;no::dom oetate the vessel in the years 1935-36 | o goneraj shower sres. now advanein; f0 the extent of $1.300.000 in Addition | on’ Washingion, is expected - pean u;”w;o:yoo accrued for the YeArs' sumid conditions and showers eurlnl" Shorter working day and week. 1033-34. the latter half of the day. | Barring of all children under 16| $500,000 to Be Paid. As the shower area passes there ‘ from industry. Under the contract. Mitchell con- | Should be cooler weather tomorrow | Free public employment bureaus. tended. the Government is to receive | Afternoon or evening, with a shift ull A systematic method for providing $500,000 over a 12-year period, without | Wind to a westerly direction, the relief for unemployables—thoss not interest. in return for waiving liqui- | Weather Bureau ferecast. | able to work. - dated damages of $2,220,000. The company’s promise to construct a new vessel, he sald, was not a “valid con- | sideration.” “I apprehend.” Mitchell said, “that | one of the reasons why eertain per- sons have urged my removal from office is because of my vehement oppo- sition to.transactions like the laying | up of the Leviathan * * *” | Mitchell also criticized the Bureau of Air Commerce and the steamboat inspection service. He said that on May 9 Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction | Finance Corp., had asked him to “be- come associated with our R. P. C. mortgage company.” but that he re- tused to leave his Commerce post, saying: -1 was drafted for the job, and from the standpoint of the Government's would be a 100 per cent TYPOGRAPHICAL IMPROVEMENT In the interest of the Washington read- ing public, The Star today puts into effect a material change in its typographical make- up. The body type of the paper will hence- forth be set to give a more open and legible effect to the entire paper. The editorial page is set in 7 instead of 8 columns and the type size increased proportionately. ‘éhck.! Neither would comment on reports | that the conversations were \mder-J | taken in an attempt by Great Britain | to gain the moral support of the United States in any move it may | make in attempting to bring about & | solution of the North China crisis. Readers’ Guide Page. .. A-10 A-18-17 .A-11 .B-12 .B-17 Amusements Editorials Washington Wayside.... . B-9 . ‘Women’s Features. ...B=14-15 : | investigated, Hopkins said, it was decision in the case of Ford M. Kaiser, | found that only four persons had | turned down work and these were later | denied further relief money. i ““The factual study of all the alleged | refusals debunks the claims that there is widespread preference for relief in- | stead of jobs,” Hopkins said. The Works Applications Division to- day announced that the Veterans’ Ad- ministration had applied for $3,413,775 to be spent on hospital buildings and repairs and the Interior Department asked for $371,000 for construction of emergency landing fields in 53 Alas- kan villages and mining camps. Other applications included $167.474 by the: t for fighting Charleston, S. C., Navy Yard. SIS GENEVA. June 17 0P ~—The: Inter- vnanimousy adopied an sgreement R an 4 £ ioned from her apron in the hallway who served in the Army subsequent to | with the Browns was called off this ! of her sister-in-law's home at Ber- the armistice ahd claimed he was morning because of wet grounds. The | uon M4 this morning. After an entitled to the $1.000 property tax | game will not be played until the mn,.um disclosed she had been exemption allowed to war veterans. | National's next visit to St. Louis. in 11l health, Magistrate Herbert J. : . ; v | 15 Girls Convicted as Red Spies aeus b b sr, oo . . | was t out to the quieter Ber- Face Death Penalty in China 7z | wyn neighborhocd Saturday, according | to County Policeman ard Slater. (espionage y | Slater said Mrs. Diller's sister-in- By the Associated Press. | this dangerous service | jaw, Mrs. Alice O. Paul, asked neigh- FOOCHOW, China. June 17.—Death ameng govercment troops. | bors to look after Mrs. Diller when before a firing squad or under an| The military said the girls dressed gshe left for work this morning. The executioner’s ax confronted 15 girls | themselves in their best finery and| peighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Psul B. today as the possible penalty for their came as courtesans into the camps| Wooster, found Mrs. Diller suspended aetivities as Communist spies. of the government armies. from the doorway when they went to Military authorities the girls the Paul home, Edmonston road and