Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1935, Page 2

A-2 ax THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1935, POWER INVESTORS TOENTER POLITICS Influential Minority Plans Defeat of Legislators Who Destroy Savings. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. An influential minority, comprising from 3.000.000 to 5,000,000 votes, with activity planned for every congres- sional district, has been added to the group of minorities, like the American Legion and American Federation of Labor, which play a part in congres- #ional elections The new minority is composed of investors in the securities of electric light and power and gas companies, Aand the objective is to defeat any member of Congreess who destroys their savings. President Roosevelt has endeavored to assure investors that their invest- ments will not be adversely affected, but the question of whether they are or are not will be a question of fact which the voters will determine at the polls on the basis of their personal experiences, Only One Vote Needed. The campaign against the Senators who defeated the Dieterech amend- ment has already begun. In that instance only one vote was needed to defeat the amendment. One Eastern company hds already sent out a let- ter to its stockholders, pointing out that of the two Senators in its State one voted to protect the interests of the investors and the other did not. The Jetter goes on to ssy that only one vote was needed and the inference fa that the Senator in question was therefore responsible for the defeat of the amendment, which would have prevented the “death sentence” from being applied to holding companies. The same argument may be made in other States, too, for nobody knows, of course, whose single vote might have saved the amendment from be- ing written into the bill. Over in the House the sentiment mgainst eliminating holding companies 1= extensive, though the same mem- bers who want the Senate bill modi- fied in this respect are in favor of &trict regulation of holding companies. President Saves Day. Only President Roosevelt's interven- tion in the Senate situation saved the day for the advocates of holding com- pany destruction, and it may have to be invoked even more strenu- ously to get the House to line up likewise. This may be a more difficult job for the administration than is jmagined by the lobbyisis who repre- sent. the President on Capitol Hill. There are many rumors current that at the last minute some rather star- tling offers of administration support for prospective appointments desired by Senators and offers also of sena- torial participation in the spending of ®ome of the $4,000,000,000 fund for work relief in certain States did switch ot least four votes, The fact remains that presidential power over the spending of 3$4.000,- 000.000 creates a rather awkward situ- ation which will tend constantly to give rise to such suspicions uniess the President commands his subordinates tn quit Capitol Hill lobbying. Other- wise the legislative branch of the Government will inevitably become the Yeady tool of the executive branch of the Government through the use of a money power of the most yicious char- acter, Tnvesiors in Politics. This very development is bringing the investors into polities in & way they never have entered before. Vari- ous members of Congress, for instance, have been shown lists of voters rang- ing from 10,000 to 20,000 in their own districte with letters revealing requests that their investments be protected. ‘Under such circumstances it would not be surprising if the House, all of whose members come up for re-elec- tion two vears hence, were more re- &ponsive to pressure from the investor voters than was the Senate, where only one-third of the membership is up in 1936, The fact that even with presiden- tial pressure of the most Intense kind and with a $4,000,000.000 fund in the background, the Dieterich amend- ment lost by only one vote, would seem to indicate that the question of what to do about holding companies i# not as simple as it appears on the surface. Were it not for the high financing and pyramiding and other objection- able practices, which have left their trace on the public mind and which practices are believed to have beea placed under the power of the secur- ities exchange law to regulate and prohibit, it is doubtful whether Con- gress would eliminate the holding company. Blow at Holding Companies. Then. entirely apart from the mal- practices of utilities, which are bound %0 be prevented in the main by the regulatory features of the new legis- lation, the President is aiming a blow at all holding companies. In the re- cent debate administration Senators were quoted as saying that all holding companies were wrong in principle. If the “death sentence” is put into the law and upheld by the courts, many important holding companies in nearly every line of industry will, of course, have to be dissolved. This means uncertainty, possible loss to in- vestors during the transition, oppor- tunities for speculators to pick up at Jow prices the securities dumped by frightened investors and, generally speaking, a period of chaos at the very time when recovery is so much desired by everybody. The utility industry normally spends $1.000,000,000 a year in construction and equipment, but passage of the pending bill will prevent the utility companies from resuming their pur- chases and extensions until the whole matter is threshed out in the courts. From a practical standpoint, the present bill and the other legisiation niready passed regulating the issuance of securities take care of the abuses uncovered by the Federa! Trade Com- mission investigation of utilities. The question of economics that remains is | a matter of such broad dispute that it is doubtful whether the alleged geine in trying to solve it overshadow the losses which are involved in un- certainty at a critical period in our sconomic evolution. (Oopyrieht. 1935.) e e s 4-H PLANS DANCES Apecial Dispateh to The Star, FAIRFAX, Va., June 17.—The Fair- fax County 4-H Club Leaders’ Asso- clation has arranged ‘wo dances this week to raise funds to help defray expenses of local 4-H Club girla to the Summer camp on Jamestown Jaland. The firss danee will be at Annan- dale Bchool June 21 and the seeond at Groveton School Jume 21. What’s What Behind News In Capital Treasury Silver Policy More Realistic—War Games Draw Protesits. HE silver policy usually assays three pounds of polities to one ounce of silver. This is why political mineralogists have been dsshing about for a week tryin, to evaluate what Secretary Morgenthau said to Senator McCarran. On the | 12 KNOWN DEAD IN TEXAS FLOODS Hundreds Are Marooned. Waters Threaten South- ern Part of State. | By the Associated Press. | AUSTIN, Tex, June 17.—Lowland dwellers and farmers in Southern }T xas viewed rising streams with | alarm today #s flood waters began re- ceding in the central portion of the | State. The known death list stood at 12, Forum Speaker surface the letter appeared to say and fears were expressed that more nothing except that the Treasury was moving ‘ ahead with the policy as rapidly as any reasonable person could expect. But if you treat the letter with a special acld of expert analogy you will ind nuggets between the lines. Up to mow, Mr. Morgenthau has always lijted his hat when bowing to silver Semators. This time he lijted his nose, blandly asserting that “only those primarily inter- ested in speculation in stlver” would want to know what McCar- ran wanted to know. This was enough to arouse sus- picions about a poasible change of heart at the Treasury. Proof of it lay in & succeeding assertion by the secretary, distinguishing between the stabilization fund “primarily having to do with international exchange” and the silver policy, which he im- plied was a “domestic matter.” This is a reversal of the theory on which | the silver policy has been based. FITS FINE. AND LOOKS MUCHBETTER ON You These hints are only substantiation of other convincing but unmention- able evidence that the Treasury is looking at silver with a more realistic eve. The recent predicament about the world price seems (0 have caused the change. This dos not mean that the policy will be materially slowed down, at least not until after the next election. It does mean the Treasury will be less aggressive hereafter in playing into the hands of silver speculators. War Maneuvers Protested. | Good church people are shivering the timbers of the Navy with protests following the mid-Pacific maneuvers. A heavy surf has been rolling in from them, protesting against this “war- like gesture.” The admirals have bat- tened down their hatches, fied below deck. | Obviously, the peace lovers do not understand the inside purposes be- hind the maneuvers. The Navy sur- rounded its activities with such semi- ridiculous ~time censorship that its silence h: added 10 the case against it. The truth is the war games were purely dejensive. No wnit of the United States Fleet ever came within 2,000 miles of Japan. The naval vessels were never as close o Japan as they would have been to Great Britain if maneuvering off Cape Cod. The main action was around Midway Island, which | is 3,000 miles from Japan. The main secret reason why the North Pacific was selected was 10 test | weather conditions there. The Navy | has always been playing around the Caribbean and the Panama Canal, where the weather is warm and ideal. Ships and planes knew nothing of the rough and foggy going of the North Pacific In actual practice. In the Caribbean you can fly every day, but up off Alaska, only once in four to five days. The loss of flyers in these maneuvers is evidence of their unfamiliarity with such conditions. You can get the idea if you con- sider what happened to the Army with the airmail. It trained its men at Southern camps, grounded them when fog appeared. When the air- mail test came they were not prepared for it in equipment or experience, “Navies Will Be Navies” | ‘The best bald understanding of the | situation has been offered bv none other than the Japanese Ambassador. | This unusually capable diplomat, in | talking for a news reel. pointed out that the Japanese fleet would soon hold its maneuvers nearb; “Navies will be navies. | bodies would be found. Hundreds | were marooned and many highways were impassable because of damage to hundreds of bridges. ' | The Colorado River rose to a rec- ord height here and damage caused | by the pounding waters was estimated | at more than $2,500,000 by Mayor Tom Miller. The municipal light plant was flooded, leaving the city | without lights. The water supply was | rationed. | Houses Carried Away. | Downstream, at Bastrop, hundreds | fled homes as the river rose to 52 feet. Some small houses were carried away. | About 30 persons who passed a ter- Talles south of here, were reacued by | SeNator ‘Will ‘Discuss Chal- ing as the surging waters rose to the ! San Marcos Rivers had poured ‘over | “The latest challenge to the Consti- | total loss. guarded the power dam, 5 miles west | i arranged by The Washington Star Floodwaters of the Rio Grande were | Senator Vandenberg will deal with danger points. immediately after the Supreme Court | Vandenberg of Michigan in the Na- | VANDENBERG TALK ror-stricken night in the Colorado & rescue party. Twenty-two were | lenge tO COnStltUtlon in floor. /30000 acres. County Agent J. M. | tution of the United States” will be Power Dama Guarded. tional Radio Forum Thursday at of Gonzales, and worked through the | 8°d broadcast over the network of the expected to enter the floodway south | the issue raised by President Roose- Cloudy skies held new threats of declared the N. R. A. unconstitutional. LISTED ON FORUM River Bottoms at Hornsbys Bend, 13 g | found huddied in a amall house, pray- Al Gonzales. the Guadalupe and | Radio Speech. | Saunders reported cotton would be & | the subject of an address by Senator More than a hundred workmen 10:30 p.m. The National Radio Forum | night reinforcing 1t with sand bags. | National Broadcasting Co. of Mission. Men patroled levees ai | Velt in his conference with the press floding rains for Eastern Oklahoma, | where sireams already were swollen ©f Federal power. with heavy downpours of Sunday In the vicinity of Hugo, in the southeastern part of the State, Red and Blue Rivers inundsted a large farming section and damaged high- ways Heavener was lashed by s S-inch cloudburst. BUILDING AND LOAN REFUND BILL VETOED Says Broadening of Statute of Limitations Opens Door to All By the Associated Preas Legislation which would allow cer- tain tax refunds 1o a number of build- ing and loan associations which had not submitted their clalms within the prescribed time was vetoed today by President Roosevelt. President “Congress has determined,” he said | Justice agents continued their search | |in & message to the Senate, “that it OF the third suspect and & woman |1s sound policy to include in all the | cOMPanion. revenue acts, statutes of limitatious, certain period of time, it becomes im- agditional taxes or for the taxpayers 10 oblaln a refund on overpayment of taxes, “This bill selects a small class of taxpayers for special treatment by excepting them from this policy. The whole body of Federal taxpayers is thus discriminated against, and = precedent is established, opening the door to relief in all cases in which the statute operates to the prejudice of a particular taxpaver, while leav- ing the door closed to the Govern- ment In those cases in which the statute operates to the disadvantage | of the Government.” The measure was Introduced by Senator Bulkley, Democrat, of Ohio. ROOSEVELT TO SEE HARVARD-YALE RACE Leaves Thursday—Will Hyde Park Estate and Goth- am Home on Return. President Roosevelt expects to leave the annual boat races between Yale That issue is one of further extension ‘The recent Mid- west “grass root” Republican con- ference accepted the issue and wrote & Republican creed and declaraton lol principles. | Senator Metcalf of Rhode Isiand | will speak in the National Forum on the night of July 4. U. . MOVES TO TRY 'WEYERHAEUSER PAIR Grand Jury Called Wednesday to Indict Waleys—Rumor Wife Expects Stork Is Denied. | By the Associated Press, | TACOMA, Wash. June 17.—Pre- liminary steps in the Federal prosecu- tion of two alleged kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser moved forward here today while Department of | A grand jury will be called into | by the operation of which, after,a | session here Wednesday to consider the cases of Harmon M. Waley, | possible for the Government to coliepy | former convict, and his young wife, reporied by Federal agents to have confessed their part in the $200,000 kidnaping of the lumber fortune heir. Their trial under the Federal Lind- bergh law is expected to start in three weeks. Reports that Mrs. Waley, now held with her husband in the county jail at Olympia, was to become a mother were denied today by officers, but they appointed a physician to exam- her. imum penalty of a life sentence in event the victim is not harmed. The | Washington State kidnap law pro- vides a death penality, b 'MISS NOYES TO TALK 70 FRENCH NURSE Visit | Director of Red Cross Service to| Bordeanx. Miss Clara D. Noyes, 14IT Twenty- l Give Address at School in im Cross Nursing Service, will sail | The Lindbergh law provides a max- CALLES, RETIRING, LIQUIDATES CRISIS Rotarians Visiting 1i~xico Reassured as Carden Drafts Cabinat. (Copyrisht. 1035, by_the Associated Press.) MEXICO. D. P, June 17.—Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, one-time strong man of Mexico, withdrew from the political scene today, liquidating » five-day crisis. ‘The former President, who came into open conflict with President La- saro Cardenas over economic policies, announced he would depart for the North Tuesday, “leaving all responsi- | bility for public affairs to those who have it in their hands.” ‘The young President, in sole power after forcing the resignations of his| ministers, drove ahead with his draft- ing of a new government, to be named tonight. It was expected to include ministers considered too radical by Calles. 3 Rotarians Reassured. i Competent observers believed that | |any possibility of armed disorders | passed with Oalles’ withdrawal, and | that no further incidents would dis- | turb the annual international Rotary convention, which opened today. It was understood. however, that anti-government groups, in addition | to Catholics, who paraded 15000/ | strong yesterday, planned to take ad- | vantage of the presence of the Ro—‘ tarians to hold demonstrations. Gen. Calles asserted that his state- ent Tuesday, criticising the coun- ‘s “marathon of radicalism,” was given In an “sttempt to orient the sction of my party toward what seemed 10 me the good of the country.” Reply Precipitates Crisis. President Cardenas’ reply, {ing Calles’ views, precipitated the | political crisis and the resignations of the cabinet ministers, The new ministry was expected to include Gen. Saturnino Cedillo, Gen. Andreu Almazan, retiring minister of war, and others backing Cardenas’ pro-labor policies. The two generals are considered the strongest in Mexico, and are known to disapprove of the government's pre- vious anti-religious policies. Fifteen hundred delegates to the Rotary Convention, delayed more than 30 hours by washouts in North Mon- | | terrey, were scheduled to arrive lat today, their trains having been re. | routed. CHARGED TO GOV. ALLEN | New Orleans Pastors Flay State | Chiet, Charging Failure to | Keep Promise. | By the Associated Press. | NEW ORLEANS, June 17—Gov. O ! K. Allen today remained silent in the face of sermons yesterday by many Protestant ministers deploring resump- tion of large-scale gambling here- abouts. Many New Orleans congregations, as well as numerous others in the State, heard their pastors flay gam- bling. the State administration and Gov. O. K. Allen, who they ssid had promised them he would prevent gam- bling The lid was clamped on gambling in and near New Orleans last Sep- tember when Senator Huey P. Long battied with Mayor T. Semmes Walms- lev for political control of New Or- leans. Long's candidate won. | "CRACKERS INJURE TWO Boston Woman and Son Are Hurt While Making Fireworks. BOSTON, June 17 (#).—A mother and her son were injured seriously today when powder with which they | were making firecrackers to celebrate | Bunker Hill day exploded in their | home. = | Hospital authorities reported the son, Alfred Mackenzie, 20, would | probably lose his right hand. Both he and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Mac- kenzie suffered severe burns on the }hca and body. —_— | FRAUD TRIAL DELAYED NEW YORK, June 17 (#.--The ftrial of Willlam J. Graham and nd Added: | Washington Thursday night to witness | ninth street, director of the American , JAmes.C, McKay, Reno sporting mag- niates, on charges of using the malils and Harvard at New London, Conn, | from Baltimore Wednesday on the to defraud through alleged race track the following day. Later he will mo- tor to his home at Hyde Park, N. Y. to spend the week end. The President has planned his re- | turn journey to Washington so as to 8. 8. City of Baitimore for France, 20d stock market confidence swindles, | where she will deliver the eommence- | ment address at the Florence Night- ingale Nursing School at Bordeaux July 1. | include a brief visit Sunday at his| Miss Noyes was instrumental in home on Sixty-fifth street in New | raising funds for the erection of a | York City. He will motor there Sun- | large home for nurses at the school | | was postponed today by Federal Judge William Bondy until July 1. | TRAFFIC oppos- | | GAMBLING RESUMPTION I ! day afternoon from Hyde Park and It isn’t the New Deal that is holding us back: it's industry! At least this | is the remarkable view expressed by | Gov. Eccles of Federal Reserve in 8n overlooked radio talk recently. Eccles blames lageing recovery upon corpora- tions which have not passed on the | funds they are receiving, They are selling, but not spending. An incresse of $3,600,000,000 in member bank deposits in 1934 over 1933 is cited by his associates as evi dence of industrial hoarding in banks. This is a good practical argue ment, but it may not be @& valid economic one. It is true of some Jew industries. Certainly not auto- ‘mobiles. All industries are pro- ceeding cautiously as regards ez- penditures, but largely because their costs are uncertain, their income deficient and uncertain. They would spend if they could see their way clear. Mr. Eccles appears to have found | & factor, but he is pulling it by the tail instead of by the head. Do not take the recent ballyhoo from the Securities and Exchange Commission too optimistically. The bulk of financing lately approved is not new financing, but refunding. Ia- dustries are taking .advantage of lower interest rates. ‘As far as indi- cating business expansion or economic acuivity, it does not mean & thing. (Copyright. 1935.) - SUPERVISES GIRLS Capt. Louise Hinton, Salvation Army, Takes New Post. Capt. Louise Hinton, who recently was promoted from lieutenant to & captaincy in the Salvation Army, has been transferred from the Northeast corps to headquarters, 428 Sixth street, where she will be in charge of recrea- tional work for giris. | varsity shell. Capt. Hinton has made a special study of recreational facilities for girls, | She assumed her new duties today. | board a special train for the Capital ' ican Nurses’ Association. This bulld- | about midnight, arriving here early Monday. The President’s son, Praunklin, jr., pulls No. 4 oar in the Harvard junior w Franklin, jr., and his mates de- feated by the University of Pennsyl- vania crew in the races at Annap- olis, Md. CO-ED GOES ON TRIAL IN YOUTH'S SHOOTING Desire for Publicity Charged by State After Writing of Ex- tortion Notes. BY the Associated Press. TAHLEQUAH, Okla., June 17— Lois Thompson, 19-year-old North- eastern Oklahoma State Teachers' College co-ed, went to trial in District Court today on a charge of assault | with intent to kill Daniel Shaw, Chi- nese student. Selection of a jury was started. Sanford Martin, Cherokee County ttorney, declared the State will con- tend “a desire for publicity” prompted the shooting March 27. Shaw, who re- covered from his two pistol wounds, will be the prosecution’s first witness. “Miss Thompson will plead self-de- fense,” W. W. Miller, chief defense counsel, said. “She shot because she feit ber life depended on it. We ex- pect an acquittal. The trial shouldn't take more than two davs.” “The State will attempt to prove that several extortion notes, which Miss Thompson clalms prompted her to shoot Shaw, were written by her sister, Lelia Thompson,” Martin said. Screaming “I know he’s one of them and I'm going to kill him,” Miss Thompson pursued Shaw across the college campus after meeting him in a ¢clase room and then walked with him to the steps of the college administra- tion building, where ghe fired the first while she was president of the Amer- | Mr. Roosevelt recently | ing is called American Nurses’ Me- morial Building, in bonor of American | nurses who lost their lives during the World ‘War. - Miss Noyes' address at the school will be the first of its kind given | there, since the American comnfence- | ment practige was not intyoduced until this year. After the commencement exercises. Miss Noyes will attend & meeting of the Board of Directors of the Inter- | national Council of Nurses at Geneva. | She will then return to the United States. MILLER FOUND DEAD OF FUMIGATION QAS Man Believed Overcome by Fumes | When He Raised Mask After Opening Windows. Oliver F, Patterson, 72, & miller, of 1641 Wisconsin avenue, was found dead last night, apparently from the effects of & deadly ges used to fumi- gate in the mill of the Wilkins-Rogers Miling Co., 3200 block of K street. Patterson had cpened s number of windows and doors in the mitl te air it after -the fumigating process. He was overcome by the fumes, yossibly when he raised hus gas mask, 1t was believed. £ An autopsy was to be performed at the District Morgue today ‘o deter- nilne the exact cause of his death. Patterson was found on the third floor by firemen, whu entered the apptoximately 15 minutes. Patimson’s m’nmvflyrflynflv&nh‘m found. He was rushed to Emergency rival. — % by TIPS | | by the NAMIONAL SAFETY COUNEIL | | It is well known that many personal injury claims are based on figments of imagination. They say time heals all wounds, but they always seem to grow worse when a damage suit bangs fire. Usually just before the statute of limitations expires the plaintiff “cracks down,” alleging that as a result of injurles, long since sustained, he has suffered the gamut of ailments from apoplexy to symosis. When nothing definite can be alleged they plead the “shattered nervous system,” & tear jerker that is always much easier to | claim than disprove. ‘There are deserving oases, of course, which merit damages, but the phoney ones are much too common. So, if you must crash, pick out an inanimate object without a nervous system. Juries are sympathetic and too often the melody played on the heart strings by & clever atiorney completely tunes out the facta. The specter of litigation always lurks {n the background when An se- eldent oceurs. Which is just one more reason why it pays to drive carefully. ‘The accident thai never happens ean never reach a jury. Boys Held < Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Three youngsters, 35, in New York yesterday, into custody and awaited a hearing Julius Damato, 11 in Siaying | As the House prepared to take up PROPOSED AL A.A CHANGES BACKED Amendments Have Right of Way in House on 0. K. of Agriculture Unit. By the Associated Press the much-disputed agricultural act amendments today, it was assured hv its Agriculture Committee that thev were constitutional yet still flexible enough “to establish and maintain the | rehabllitation of the ecountry's agri- his brother Frank, 13, and Libson Lawrence, 13. | eulture.” | The amendments had the right of | way immediately behind the tax ex- | tension bill, on which the House wa expected to act today. Bome Republicans were primed tn { seek elimination of the licensing sub- | stitute provision on certain com- modities. cused of the hold-up-killing of William Walsh, e shown here after they had been taken Left to right: The on homicide charges. gun used was stolen from a policeman, police said. BOYS ARRAIGNED SULLIVAN ORDERED INMURDERCQUNT Three Bootblacks Confess Killing Man With Stolen Police Pistol. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. June 17.—Stolidly. apparently bewildered at the grown- up talk going on sround them. three bays were arraigned today on a homi- | cide charge in Jamaica Magistrate’s | Court. The police say the children, their | ages ranging from 11 to 13 years. have confessed killing & man with a gun stolen from a patrolman. The children are Frank Damato, 13 son on an unemployed bricklayer and one of six motherless children; his brother Julius, 11, and Lisbon Law- rence, 13, son of the colored minister of the Mount Calvary Baptist Church. They were brought into court after spending the night locked up in the | Children’s Society Shelter and were arraigned on a short affidavit charging homicide. | Arraignment of the homicide charge | was under a special section of the penal code allowing juvenile to be arraigned as adults for a crime, Trio Advised of Rights, The three youngsters stood together, sheepishly and quietly. shifting un- comfortably from one foot to another. They kept their gazes on the floor except when Magistrate Thomas FP. Doyle spoke to them. “Despite their tender ages™ the magistrate advised. after asking each child how old he was, “we must proceed with them as with adults, and they are entitled to the same privileges as adults. “Within the next 48 hours this hort affidavit must be supplanted with & formal ecomplaint.” Then, sddressing the boys, judge told them: | “You have the right to an adjourn- ment in order to obtain witnesses or counsel or both.” Looking smallest of the trio, Doyle comment- |(d. “I'm not sure this little fellow | knows what it's all about.” | Held Without Bail. “Just question him, Judge,” Assist- ant District Attorney Willlam O'Hare interrupted. “and you will find he knows all about it. He is one of the brightest kids I have ever questioned.” | O'Hare started to ask the boy a | uestion but the magistrate stopped | him, and put the case over until | Wednesday, remanding the children to | the Children’s Society Shelter without il ‘uTney will be taken later in the day, O’Hare aonounced, to Children’s Court to be arraigned there on & ju- venile delinquency cnarge for the al- | leged theft of a policeman’s gun. According to the police the boys have confessed that Frank sneaked into & back room of the Jamaica po- lice headguarters and stole Patrolman Louls Churchdale’s service revolver while Lisbon shined the policeman’s shoes and Julius stood guard. The Damato boys’ father was not in court, but Lisbon’s father came with a law- ver, J. Robert Glover, to represent his son. 'HAUPTMANN’S AIDES 'SCORE TRIAL CROWD “Mob Spirit” Violated Rights Under Constitution, Lawyers May Tell Supreme Court. | By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, June 17.—The | case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann | may provide the United States Su- preme Court with an opportunity to | rule on the conduct of court room crowds at sensational murder trials, Defense attorneys renewed their at- tack today on “the hysterical mob spirit” that allegedly surrounded the Plemington jury which convicted Hauptmann of the Lindbergh baby slaying. The Hauptmann lawyers added that if appeal in the State courts fail the case will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. Such an appeal would be based on the allegation that Hauptmann's trial was conducted in violation of his rights under the fourteenth amend- t. me: defense move to obtain evidence of the alleged conditions at the trial at Flemington, which counsel called “a cireus maximus." was blocked by the refusal of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals to permit the taking of testimony. i st Julius, youngest and BROUGHT T0 COURT Anti-Long Politician- Fails to Appear for Ar- | raignment. | By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, June 17—An at- fachment was issued today by Judge Mark C. Pickrel for Col. John P. Sul- livan. anti-Huey Long politician. when | Sullivan failed to appear personally in Criminal District Court for his arraignment on charges of “operating a confidence game.” The attachment was requested by Lessley P. Gardiner and James O'Con- nor, sr, assistant attorneys general and the judge who was assigned by the State Supreme Court o the case ordered Sheriff George Willlams to bring Sullivan into court. Edward Rightor, counsel for 3ulli- van, filed a petition S8aturday w'th the court seeking transfer of the case to Federal District Court for trial on the claim that Sullivan was being denied his constitutional righ's in the State court, where he charged Long was try- ing to “destroy him.” Rightor appeared for Sulliven to- 1day and argued that under the Fed- eral Constitution the filing of the Sullivan petition automatically staved the action against Sullivea in State court. Sullivan was charged by the State attorney general's office with ‘operat- ing & confidence game"” in real atate transactions. He denied the enarges and claimed that the Long forces were depriving him of due process of law. TRIAL SET FOR TEN | ON LIQUOR CHARGES' Quesenberry Pleads Guilty to, Conspiracy at Hearing of | Loudoun Case. | ALEXANDRIA, Va. June 17.—Ten of the 11 Loudoun County men in- dicted in Norfolk in May for conspir- ing to violate the internal revenue laws pertaining to liquor pleaded not guilty | when arraigned in United States Di: trict Court here today shortly after noon. | Thomas Quesenberry, alleged slayer of Alexandria Police Corpl. Clarence | J. McClary in a liquor raid, was the | sole member of the group to plead guilty. the | | adjustment That section is most controversial. | providing the Secretary of Agricul- |ture may “order” marketing agree- | ments for handlers of milk, tobaccn, | fresh fruits except apples. fresh vege- tables and soy beans, and turpentine |1t 50 per cent of the handlers in a | given class wish it. or anyway if two- thirds of the producers desire Objective In Cited, The commitiee, which revized the bill after the Supreme Court ruled the N. R. A. unconstitutional, said in it= formal report that one objective was “to make certain that the program | will be carried out within the limits of the regulatory power giwen Con- gress under the Constitution and thst no authority to carry out the program will be conferred in conflict with the principle that power cannot be del gated to an executive officer unless adequate standards are provided by Congress to guide him in exercising such power, * * * “The bill confines the exercise ol power to the Federal field of regula- tion of interstate and foreign com- merce, and spells out specific atand- ards, guides and courses of action in such a manner as to find support in the Supreme Court cases establishing the principles of constitutional Jaw applying to the exercise of administra- tive powers.” Contention that A. A. A powerfully influence” votes defense of the use of powers of Government 10 Assist farmers served, meanwhile. to keep the debate over the New Deal's farm policies active The former argument was voiced ir a study issued by the Brookings In tution and the latter by Chester Davis administrator of the Agriculture Ad- justment Administration Wheat Program Approved. Joseph 8. Davis of Stanford Uni- versity, who wrote the Brookings re- port, had faworable words to say the New Deal wheat program. but he added that ‘‘certain tendencies within it, and accompanving it. seem to be contrary to the national in- terest."” While the “A. A. A. has striven, in the main with considerable success to prevent political influence from de- termining its wheat program * * there iz a tendency for the spread of a sinister form of political corruption which even its beneficiaries do not recognize as such,” he said. Distribution of pavments to wheat growers. he sald. “powerfully influ- ence votes in the regions most con- cerned. Once this policy iz sstah- lished. and the flow of funds w started, attitudes of voters tend be determined not by the inherent wisdom of the policy as & whole, but by the desire to keep these funds flowing.” Tobaceo Report Favorable. Harold B. Rowe of the Brookinz Institution made a more favorabie report on the tobacco program Though his study is not yer available in detail, he said substantial bene- fits have been obtained for growers with little if any added burden for consumers. Administrator Chester Davis. In his annual report. said that erop reduc- tion will not be the focal point of a permanent policy for agriculture. There is opportunitv now, he said, to replace temporary measures with a policy looking toward “long-view ob- jectives.” The problem of lasting improvement, in farmers’ welfare. he held iz “neces- sarily bound up with increased pro- duction and consumption of agricul- ture products.” Problems Changed. Davis said problems of agricultural “have changed as the pressure of emergency has lessenad " and declared “there is opportuntty now to replace temporary measures appropriate only to extraordinar: conditions, with an agricultural policy checks and a centralizing ot looking forward toward long-view ob- Jectives.” Use of referendum methods of ob- | _The cases of the other 10 Loudoun | County men were set for trial at 10 a.m. Thursday here, | Quesenberry is to be sentenced this afternoon. The maximum penalty is | two years in jail and $10,000 fine. | Included in the number were Joe | Clarke Hoge, former Leesburg post- | master; Graham T. Legge, Shelby Cole, Harry Adams, Robert W. Ed- monson, Abraham Cole Phillips, James Monroe Gray, Posey F. Phillips, Clif- ton Charles Jewell and Raymond Jewell Defense attorneys questioned the | validity of the indictments which were returned against them in Norfolk at the opening of court this morning. | The demurrer was overruled by Judge Luther B, Way, ANNE LINDBERGH | |Smith Awards Her HONORS Honorary M. A.—Husband at Exercises. NORTHAMPTON, Mass, June 17 (®).—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Smith graduate, received the honorary de- | gree of master of arts from her alma | mater today and as a specal honor | the bestowal of the hood was made by her mother, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, herself an alumna of the college. Mrs. Morrow’s daughter Constance | was among the more than 400 mem- | bers of the graduating class. The | exercises were attended by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. In presenting the citation President William Alan Neilson spoke of Mrs. | Lindbergh as the pride of her college and the glory of her countrywomen. - Bertrand Recovers Post. | PARIS, June 17 (#)—William Ber- | trand, who lost his portfolios in the | Plandin and Bouisson ministries while | he was on the maiden voyage of the ndie, regained his job today in | the cabinet of Premier Plerre Laval.| | He was again named minister of mer-| | chant marine to fill the vacancy left by Marjo Roustan. who succeeds the im- Philippe Marcombes as minister of eduestion. | strated, taining opinions of the farmers toward adjustment programs was said by Davis to have been one of the moet significant developments of the year During 1934, he said, more than 3.600.000 adjustment contracts were signed and several hundred thousand other farmers participated in the control programs through marketing agreements and licenses. “Parmers, it has been clearly demon- he continued, “can call the centralizing powers of government tn assist them in solving their problems and vet adhere to the democratic process on which government in this country is founded.” Debates social security bill Banking Committee studies omnibus banking bill. House. Takes up tax bill amendments Ways and Means and A A A Bubcommittes | starts hearings on Guffey coal bill. TOMORROW. Senate. Continues debate on social security bill. Banking and Currency Subcommit- tee holds executive session on new banking bill. !fln: Considers amendments to the A. A A. act. Public Utilities Subcommittee of the District Committee begins hearings et 10:30 am. on a bill autharizing the Pennasyivania Rafiroad (o abandan A passenger atation at S=veonth street and Maryland avente southwest.