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RSEELTS GO PANATSGTZES Legislators Who Vote for It Are Seen in Embarrass- ing Position. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. 15 there such a thing as a conscience in government? This quastion will be asked again and again in view of the latest message from President Roose- velt to Congress asking that citizens be deprived of their right to go to court to question the administration’s devaluation of the dollar. Here is a sentence from the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States on February 18 last, when it declared that Congress had violated the Constitution in repudiating the gold clause in Government bonds: “While the Congress is under no| duty to provide remedies through the courts, the contractual obligation still exists, and, despite infirmities of pro- cedure, remains binding upon the con- science of the sovereign.” Mr. Roosevelt in his message states the legal truth when he says that “there is no constitutional or inherent right to sue the Government,” and that, on the contrary, “the immunity of the sovereign from suit is a prin- ciple of universal acceptance and per- mission to bring such suits is an act of grace, which, with us, may be| granted or withheld by the Congress.” To Withhold Privilege. ‘The administration has decided to withhold the privilege. The Court of Claims act is to be amended so that suits arising out of the gold clause will not be permitted. This step has | long been foreshadowed. In fact, this| correspondent wrote a few days in advance of the gold clause decisions | that the administration, if defeated, | would ask Congress to pass such an| amendment to the Court of Claims act. But for reasons not revealed the step was delayed. It is assumed that the administra- tion first believed it could win all suits for claims. But a careful exam- ination of the gold clause decisicn in- dicated that while no loss could be | proved under present circumstances, | the contingency might arise where a | holder of a gold clause bond might prove to the court’s satisfaction that there was a bona fide loss. Thus, Robert Taft of Cincinnati, a son of the former President, has a | suit pending now in which he con- tends that the call of the Govern- ment to force redemption of gold- clause bonds in advance of maturity deprives him of a privilege of holding | till maturity at the higher interest | rate, which the Government would take from him by calling the bonds' in and substituting a lower interest' rate. Gold Value Disregarded. The legislation to be proposed as a consequence of the President’s mes- | sage provides for an exchange of gold bonds for bonds with no gold clause | in them, but providing for the same | interest rate and the same maturity. This avoids a loss on interest, but the question of gold value of the interest is, of course, disregarded. ‘There is another type of litigation. It relates to the tendering of gold bonds in payment of Federal taxes. There's a statute which says collec- tors of internal revenue must accept | bonds or money at their par value in | payment of customs duties and the like. But what is “par”? Fear that the court might have to decide this ques- tion and that a citizen might be able to show that he was being deprived of the full value of his bond in the gold | equivalent has led to a determination | to forbid all suits at the Court of Claims arising out of the devaluation policy. It is obvious that an administration which feels justified in cutting the gold content of the dollar in the first place is not now concerned with the | criticism that will flow from the re- | fusal to permit suits in the Court of Claims. Neither act is an evidence of a good conscience on the part of the sovereign, but each is a step in policy of expediency. Indeed, the President has this curious remark to make about the judiciary in general in his message: “The courts, it is hardly necessary | to add, will always be open to those who seek justice, but they were not | established for use by a few to enrich | themselves at the expense of the | many, nor to enable a few to harass ana embarrass soverign action by the Government when taken for the bene- | £it of all.” Citizens Will Have No Redress. The foregoing really means that the executive branch of the Government hereafter is to decide how the courts shall be used, what really is “justice” and whether the Government will permit thoee with whom it has con- tracts for the payment of a public debt of nearly $30,000,000,000 ever to sue in a court if the contracts are 1m- paired. What it implies, of course, is that if the Government sees fit, “for the benefit of all” or any other excuse suitable to its whim, to repudiate pay- ment of the entire $30,000,000,000, or any considerable part of it, the citizen | will have no redress. Just how long | people are going to continue to lend their funds to a sovereign without a conscience and how long it will take them to realize that they cannot de- pend on the word of their own Gov- ernment—or rather the administra- tion which happens to be in power— 1s something which the people alone can answer at the polls. The fact is, Mr. Roosevelt has created an issue of major importance by his message to Congress asking that the courts be open only to those persons who, in the opinion of the executive, have a just case on these matters, and it will be a simple mat- ter in the next campaign to point out that the same administration which denied an American citizen the equivalent of the gold clause did agree 0 pay to the governments of Panama and the Philippines $1.69 for every dollar of debt owed to them. It is true that this is a matter of treaty contract, hut it is strange that foreigners can get observance of a contract and American citizens can- not. It is an untenable and incon- sistent position which will be embar- rassing for ail members of Congress to defend who vote for the forthcom- ing legislation recommended by the administration to amend the Court of Claims act. (Copyright. 1935.) Thief Takes His Teeth. PASADENA, Calif.—A stranger of- fered Hugh Kelly a drink. When he regained consciousness several hours later, he told Detective Ben Kaighin he found some one had taken both his| upper and lower plates of false teeth. What’s What Behind News In Capital Business Unhurt by N. R. A. Decision, Weekly Report Indicates. BY PAUL MALLON. HEN the Blue Eagle blew up, the business field was sup- posed to be blasted with price cuts and strewn with unemployment and wage cuts. If you survey the effects in the Government’s own regular business figures you will find very little evidence that there has been an explosion. The price average of non-farm-food products for the week before the Su- preme Court decision (May 25) was 77.8. The average for the last available week (June 15) was 77.9, virtually un- changed. Both employment and pay rolls have decreased possibly 3 per cent, but this seems to be due at least partly to sea- sonal slack. Industrial production is unchanged; freight loadings and de- partment stores’ sales have shown ab- normal seasonal improvement. Some Price Cutting. The price figures, however, are not conclusive. They are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from list prices. It is quite likely that some | private price cutting has been done behind these list prices. This is a | common business custom. Futherimore, the employment and pay roll figures cover only fac- tories and do mot include the service trades, hotels, restaurants, very Ssmall factories, where the wage effects of the decision are supposed to have been most heavily Jelt. | business chart has happened since the | court edict. Monthly Chart. The broad picture may be surveyed in the following monthly chart. Each figure represents the percentage of normality existing at the times men- | tioned, as each is adjusted for sea- | sonal variations. All except prices are based on 1923-25 as 100 per cent. Prices are based on 1926. (See table below.) The price figure in the chart is that of 21l prices. It fell off half a point in June solely because of the de- crease in farm and food prices while industrial prices were remaining sta- | tionary. This only means the effects | of last year’s drought are diminishing in the face of excellent crop prospects | this year. Optimism Prevails. The prospects for business now are centered in September. The usual Summer slump will continue until then, probably at slightly more than a seasonal gait. world, advance hopes for Fall are | high. Steel will get below 40 this month, a low for the year. The final figures. which will be out in a few days, will show production at about 38 per cent capacity. Autos are holding up because of a special situation. The May strike threw considerable production over into Jume (Chevrolet). In fact, June output will be almost as high as May’s. ‘What held the industrial production figure up this month was mainly coal. Threat of a strike caused stocking up. | This also explains the increase in car loadings. WHAT WaS & R The situation shows again that the recent stock market strength was not based on statistics but upon confidence. Machine Tool Statistics. Optimists have been enjoying them- selves by pointing to the improvement in the machine tool industry. They say this shows that business itself has | become a buyer, is ready to expand. | killed Without trying to throw any cold water, most economists place little jaith in machine tool statistics. This industry is highly sensitive, up one month, down the next. During the depression it actually got down to 10 per cent production for three months (February, March and April, 1932). Few believe its recent spurt up to 65.5 per cent represents any durable change in conditions. Ethiopian Outlook. ‘The Emperor of Ethiopia asserts he is a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He needs to be as smart as both of them to get | around Mussolini. Our diplomatic | wise men are convinced the seizure of his kingdom by Italy cannot be | avoided. The only question is whether | he will resist. The British are supposed to be phenagling inside to get him to accept an Italian protectorship. The odds are that he will fight. Incidentally, it appears that all the righteousness being exhibited now in London is belated. The secret London agreement of 1915 still exists. It promised Ethiopia to Italy in exchange for Italian support in the World War. Adreit Mussolini. Mussolini is adroit at making his actions speak. The very day that Capt. Anthony Eden arrived in Rome to soothe Il Duce's Ethiopian fever, two more boatloads of Italian troops left for the African shores. (Copyright. 1935.) Ind\lstrlll Factory (1928 equals 100.) May . June ‘(est).lll Men Afraid of Snake. ‘When three men feared to remove a. 30-inch grass snake from a pathway in Orpington, England, & woman “Bring back my teeth and no ques- tions asked,” he lisped. i appeared and took the wriggling rep- tile to an adjoining field. ’ Nevertheless, the conclusion is justi- | | fied that nothing sufficiently impor- tant to show up in the Government | But with the general | optimism prevailing in the business | THE FORMS IN CAPITAL Robertson, One of Two Rival Leaders, Claims 2,000 Men Are Here. Singly and in groups of two and three, a new bonus army is gradually being formed in Waskington. The veterans converge on the Capital from all points of the country, using the Government's instrument of relief— the Transient Bureaus— as their rest- ing places between free rides on rail- roads and automobiles, and between hikes. Within 24 hours of the arrival of the leader of the new army, Roy W. Robertson of Los Angeles, leader of the “Death March” in front of the Capitol in 1932, he claimed the army had swelled to nearly 2,000. “Every Transient Bureau ca the East Coast is being filled with the marchers,” Robertson said. “As soon as the headquarters here is ready to give the word, these men will come into the city. We know of men scattered along the East Coast and they have come from all parts of the country, using the Transient Bureaus as rest- ing places and to get food.” | The new faction led by Robertson | had temporarily routed the first bonus | army of 1935, led by Robert W. Smith, which has been here for several weeks. As the veterans gathered along John Marshall place at the Transient Bureau this morning, Smith was hold- ing lone watch aear the Traffic Bureau while Robertson was the cen- ter of attraction in the crowd, giving orders. Smith claims that he has about 700 men who are loyal to him and that he will continue to organize his own army. He predicted this morning that the new faction led by Robertson can. | not last long. The new group slipped into Wash- ington so quietly that even the police | did not suspect until the Smith fac- tion started to hold its meeting on the parking lot across from the Transient Bureau on John Marshall place. Smith had secured a police permit to hold a meeting at 7 o'clock. At 6:45 Robertson and his men moved onto the lot and started the meeting. Smith and his men showed | up, but left soon afterward, leaving the field ta the newcomers. Robertson said the demand on Con- gress to be made by his faction would be for the payment of the adjusted compensation certificates to those veterans who have not paid income | taxes. Unlike the Smith group, he does not ask for separate work camps for the veterans. His is & straight demand for the bonus payment. The men are being housed in every conceivable place, Robertson said. | Some of them, as many as possible, are staying at the Transient Bureau. Others are sleeping in “jungles” around the railroad yards, in parks, rooming houses and private homes, he | claimed. Robertson Wearing Brace. Robertson, wearing a neck and back | | brace, against which his head wobbles limply, explained that he was dis- | charged from the Army as totally dis- | abled, but that his compensation was | cut off in 1924. He said the back and neck brace is a result of his service injuries The commander said he called on | Marvin H. McIntyre, secretary to Pres- | ident Roosevelt, last night and re- ported “nasty, unlivable conditions at | the local Transient Bureau.” He said | | Mr. McIntyre had promised to “fix that up.” He also said Mr. McIntyre had promised to arrange an interview be- tween Robertson and Gen. Frank T. | Hines, administrator of veterans’ affairs. |~ Mr. McIntyre said this morning that | Robertson and a group of veterans had | | called on him about conditions at the ! bureau and he told the group to take the matter up with Gen. Hines, but he said he did not offer to arrange the interview. 'HUSBAND OF GIRL'S SLAYER MAY PAY Former Sheriff's Deputy Must Answer to Court for Contribut- ing to Delinquency. LOS ANGELES, June 28 (#)—The old story that it is the “woman who pays” yesterday took an odd twist in the case of Mrs. Gladys Carter and her husband, Archie, former sheriff’s | deputy. It was Mrs. Carter who shot and her husband's 20-year-old sweetheart, Frances Walker, but it is Carter who faces whatever punish- ment there may be in the case. Mrs. Carter was convicted of man- slaughter, but the jury found her temporarily insane when she killed Miss Walker and freed her of all charges. Carter was held to answer to the Superior Court on a charge of con- | tributing to the delinquency of Miss Wau§er,d He will appear next Tuesday plead. Senate: In recess. Banking Committee continues on amendments to A. A. A. bill. House: | Debates utility bill. Rules Committee considers T. V. A. Ways and Means Committee holds hearing on Guffey coal biil. TOMORROW. Senate. Will not be in session. House. Continues consideration of holding company bill. Freight ?:?L Bldg. Whole- EREE S B 5o 1181919121121319194, 13 2008 & SRHE Road Finally Provided. Shanghal, a city of a million and & half, and Peiping, the capital, with well over a million, but 200 miles apart, until lately had no good road between them, EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, The Capital Transit Co. today poles on Wisconsin avenue, from Massachusetts avenue to River road, A scene before the poles were removed, showing Tenleytown. Above: was removing the remaining center in traffic in the vicinity of Ordway and Porter streets congested by the center poles, Below: ment, which carried trolley and power cables. A new vista created on Wisconsin avenue by the improve- with the Washington Cathedral in the background. The trolley wires will be carried on cross cables strung over the avenue from new poles between curb and sidewalk. Power lines have been placed in under- ground conduits, BUDGE HEWS WAY 10 QUARTER-FINAL Californian Blasts French- man Off Wimbledon Court in Fourth Round. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 28 —Donald Budge, powerful young hitter from Oakland, Calif,, smashed his way to a fourth- round victory over Christian Boussus of France, the eighth seeded player, in the fourth round of the all-English tennis championships today. Budge, qualifying for the quarter-finals, won | at 6—3, 6—2, 3—6, 6—0. Baron Gottfried von Cramm of Germany. No. 2 seeded player, elim- inated Gene Mako of Los Angeles, 6—0. 6—1, 3—6, 6—1, to reach the quarter-finals. Budge's smashing play carried him to an easy triumph over Boussus. The red-headed Californian, using | his backhand with devastating effect, literally blasted the Frenchman off the court in the first, second and fourth sets. Boussus won the third mainly because Budge elected to take & breather. Budge, only 19, played like & vet- eran in his debut on Wimbledon's center court. Boussus’ elimination removed the last Frenchman from men'’s singles competition. Despite the fine impression Budge has made, he will be a distinct short- ender if he is forced to meet H. W. (Bunny) Austin, British stylist, as is likely, in the next round. Mako's defeat at the hands of Von Cramm was expected. In the women's singles Margaret (Peggy) Scriven of England, seeded seventh, was 'eliminated by Mrs. Eilleen Bennett Whittingstall, also of England, in & major upset, 6—3, 6—2. Joan Hartigan of Australia elim- inated Mme. Josane Sigart de Meule- meester of Belgium, 4—6, 6—1, 10—8, in a second-round match. Men's doubles: Jack Crawford and Adrian Quist, Australia, defeated E. C. Metcalf and A. W. Vinall, Great Britain, in first round, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3. John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, United States, defeated H. G. N. Lee and E. R. Avory, Great Britain. in second round, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-2. Park Trust Fund Bill Passed. The House yesterday passed and sent to the White House a Senate bill creating & National Park Trust Fund Board to administer handling gifts to the Park Service. Composed of the Secretaries of the Treasury and Interior, the director of the National Park Service and two members named by the President, the board will serve without compensation for five-year terms. ~—Star Staft Photos. HOPKINS RUSHES Sends Former Naval Officer to Push Construction of Homes for Colonists. By the Associated Press Harry L. Hopkins is sending a spe- cial representative to Alaska to see that construction of homes for Gov- ernment relief colonists there is rushed. He selected S. R. Fuller, jr., of New York, a commander in the Naval Sup- ply Corps during the World War, to carry out the task with the aid of a small technical staff. Fuller will have “complete authority to take any necessary action,” Hopkins said. A defense of Hopkins' colonization program was made in the Senate yes- terday by Senator Bone, Democrat, of Washington. He replied to Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan | and others who had called the pro- gram a ‘‘crazy experiment.” after | complaints had been received from | some colonists about food and living conditions. Bone said the colonization scheme represented another march of pio- neers against a “new frontier” to con- vert from wilderness & valley “rich and fertile.” Displaying pictures of “before” and “after,” Bone depicted the settlers in their native communities in Min- nesota, Michigan and Wisconsin as living in “desolate, abandoned log- ging villages.” ‘Then he showed what he said were pictures of present activity in Alas- ka, trucks and tractors moving lum- ber and supplies into the new area. He also showed photographs of de- signs for contemplated public build- Asserting that 11,000,000 families were living “in homes definitely in the slum class” in the United States, Bone contended that “there is no rea- son to tear our nether garments be- cause of families living in good log homes in Alaska.” HONEYMOON IN JAIL Couple Sentenced in Iowa on Charge of Stripping Auto. DES MOINES, Iowa, June 28 (f).— The jail here, which Wednesday be- came the best thing in the way of a “honeymoon hotel” the law would al- low the newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Har- old Bruce, yesterday became their “honeymoon home” for two months. Bruce, 19, and Lucy Dawson, 18, both of Cedar Rapids, were married here Wednesday after their arrest for stripping a car. Yesterday each was sentenced to two months in jail. Rabid City Vaccinates Its Dogs To Obbligato of Childish Tears|, ale | By the Associated Press. 95.; TULSA, Okia., June 28.—A city be- come rabid on the subject of mad dogs, Tulsa today was immunising its 4,000 canine population in groups of 100, de- termined to wipe out hydrophobia. Free serum and -waived, or contrib- uted, license fees of $2.50 each were the incentives . offered. the poorer classes to bring their pets to be vac- cinated. ‘When 88 persons were given Pasteur treatment after being bitten last month, the city fathers became alarmed and an intensive drive began, aimed at destruction of all dogs not vaccinated and licensed. So far this month more than 100 persons have been treated. A Children, weeping pathetically over prospective loss of their dogs, brought & combination of comedy and tragedy. Wealthy oil men offered serum and licenses for dogs whose young masters were too poor to pay and hastily backed off the bargain when 47 were produced in the first hour the agree- ment was in force. A newspaper took the kids’ and dogs’ portmdthecltyuoknmmlmlent attitude. The Council agreed to vide serum and finally decided in- formally all fees might be waived if all dog owners would appear for vaccine licenses. two nights 200 were vaccinated. Dr. Jeft Billington, city health officer, AIDE TO ALASKA D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1935. NEW BUNUS ARMY Wisconsin Avenue Poles Go HOLDING COMPANY FOES GAIN GROUND Administration Is Winning Votes in Fight to Restore “Death Sentence.” By the Associated Press. Confidence was expressed in bigh administration circles today that President Roosevelt would win in his effort to have Congress enact legis- lation to abolish “unnecessary” public utility holding companies by 1942. This view was given officially as the House neared a showdown on re- storing the “death sentence” provi- sion to the Wheeler-Rayburn meas- ure. It was approved by the Senate but struck out by the House Inter- state Commerce Committee. House administration leaders said they were gaining ground. As debate over the measure contin- ued on the fioor, 13 Representatives from different sez2Vns of the coun- try carried on a %cloak-room cam- paign” to gain votes for abolishing all except *“necessary” holding com- panies by 1942, Rankin Sees Foes Dwindling. Represer.tative Rankin, Democrat, of Mississ)ppi, one of the leaders in the fight, said today that the major- ity which foes of the “death sentence” appeared to command—on the basis of a recent private poll—probably had been whittled to 20 members through the “cloak-room” drive and that it would shrink “more than that.” “The opening debate lined up more strength for us,” he said. “The at- tacks on the Administration haven't hurt us any, either. Of course the Republicans are making & political issue of it.” Rankin's reference to attacks on the Administration apparently was aimed, in part at least, at remarks made yesterday by Representative Cooper, Republican, of Ohio, a mem- ber of the Commerce Committee. Cooper called the abolition proposal “‘one of the most vicious ever submit- ted to an American Congress.” “I know -no member of Congress wrote the bill that was presented to us” Cooper asserted. “It was written | by the smart young men in our Gov- | ernment bureaus. . . Who are | these Government experts? They never had any experience in industry in their lives.” Rayburn Leads Fight He named Benjamin Cohen of the public works legal staff and Thomas | Corcoran, Reconstruction Corp. attor- ney, as among those responsible for writing the original bill. | Chairman Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, of the Commerce Committee, | commanded the battle to restore the | “death sentence” which his commit- tee cut out of the measure. He criti- cized “propaganda” against the bill and denounced a long list of what he called holding company “abuses.” The progress bloc, made up of Wis- consin Progressives and Minnesota Farmer Laborites, decided to support the abolition proposal solidly. Leaders hoped that a final vote on | | the legislation could be taken by next | ‘Wednesday. — COUNTY WELFARE BOARD WILL MEET ON TUESDAY Dinner Will Precede Annual Session—Reports to Be Presented. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, June 28.—The annual meeting of the Mon‘gomery County Welfare Board will be held in the parish house of Christ Epis- | copal Church here next Tuesday night, Miss Dorotny A. Everson, ex- ecutive secretary, has announced. It will be preceded by a dinner meet- ng. The annual meeting will be con- ducted by Fred L. Lutes, chairman of the Central Advisory Committee, and there will be repcrts from the Welfare Board, of which Miss La- vinia Engle is cha.rmsp, the director of welfare and hcads of the various departments, and an address by a speaker yet to be anncunced. i VIRGINIAN HONORED LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 28 (f).— L. L. Watts, Richmond, Va., executive secretary of the Virginia Commission for the Blind, was elected president of the American Association of Workers for the Blind at the organization's convention here yesterday. A. C. Ellis, Louisville, superintendent of the American Printing House for the Blind, was made first vice presi- dent. Capt. E. A. Baker, Toronto, manag- ing director of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, was elected second vice president; Francis B. Teradi, editor of the National Braille Press, Boston, was made treasurer, | and Stetson K. Ryan, executive secre- | tary of the Connecticut Board of Edu- cation for the Blind, secretary. Visit Air Stations. More than 140,000 paying spectators visited Royal Air Force air stations in England on Empire day. Scores in Open Alfred Perry, Great Britain .. Henry Cotton, Great Britain Macdonald Smith, Great Britaln.... Joe Ezar, ‘Waco, TeX. seess Bill Branch, Great Britain.... Bill Cox, Great Britain.... Ernest Whitcombe, Great Britain.... A. Whitcombe, Great Britain.... 144—67—72—283 142—76—175—293 146—75—78—299 151—80—80—311 144—76—T74—294 145—77—75—297 147—173—78—298 139—73—176—288 R. A. Whitcombe, Great Britain.... Arthur Lees, Greai Britain.... 153—76—76—305 (a) Robert Rutherford, Great Britain.... 152—77—76—305 Pred Jarman, Great Brlu.ln oo 152—79—77—308 L. B. Ayton, Great nrlmn 152—19—7’—300 (a) Francis Fran Great Brltlin.... 153—75—82—310 Bert Gadd, 147—74—82—303 147—T1—71—289 | with no last-minute denial of the | | | MRS EVA C00. MRS.COOEXECUTED AS MATRONS WEEP Woman’s Body May Be Laid in Grave Beside That of Man She Killed. By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., June 28.—A grave .. OF L. OFFERS NRA. SUBSTITUTE Proposal to License Indus- try on Code Principles Goes to President, By the Associated Press. The American Federation of Labor today proposed to President Roosevelt s Federal licensing of industry to maintain principles of the former N, R. A. The President reserved any decision whether to seek new and permanent | N. R. A, legislation at this session. Under the A. F. of L. plan, the Gov- ernment through licensing power would require businesses in Interstate Commerce to abolish child labor, main- tain minimum wages and maximum hours of work and respect “fair trade practices.” The substitute for the dead N. R. A. code structure was presented by Wil- liam Green, president of the Federa- tion, and George Berry, assistant ad- ministrator of N. R. A, “We expressed the belief,” said Green later, “that the needs of the country require new N, R. A. legisla- tion at this session if in the range of possibility.” ‘The labor leaders said Mr. Roosevelt, took the proposal under advisement together with several other suggestions befare him. S AMERICANS SAVED IN CHINESE REVOLT U. S. Embassy Secretaries Brave Mutineers to Reach Citizens. (Copyright. 1935, by the Assoclated Press) PEIPING, June 28 —Two unidenti- | fied secretaries from the United States ‘Embassy ran a olockade of mutinous soldiers today o rescue a number of Americans marooned outside the walls of Peiping. The mutiny itse:f lasted only about 12 hours, and, drspite artillery and machine-gun fire, only one person, a beside that of the handy man she murdered for $12,000 awaited Eva Coo today. She paid for his life with hers | in the electric chair at Sing Sing | Prison last night. | Whether she actually would be buried in the plot she had selected | for herself and Harry Wright in quiet Cooperstown, N. Y. was to be de- cided after word was received from relatives in Ontario. Mrs. Coo went dazedly to her death crime—felling Wright with a mallet | and then having an automobile shut- tled across him by Mrs. Martha Clift, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison. “Good-by, darlings,” said. She addressed two matrons who sood weeping before the chair, cling- | ing to the arms of a white-haired guard. They formed a screen between the woman in the flowered blue print and 22 witnesses. The chaplain in- toned the Twenty-third Psalm—"The Lord is my shepherd”—and the cur- rent crackled. Leonard Scarnici, up-State gang- ster, was executed immediately after | Mrs. Coo's body had been wheeled from the room. He shot Detective James Stevens during a bank hold-up in Rensselaer. He came in grinning widely, chew- | ing gum and puffing a cigarette held with a steady hand. “0. K., warden?” he asked Lewis | E. Lawess, waving the cigarette. The warden, who entered only after Mrs. Coo had died, nodded and muttered something unintelligible. was all she | Chinese civilian, was reported killed, | but the excitemert was intense A group of mutinous Chinese seized an armored train ar! began bom- barding the sou‘h entrance with a 3- inch gun at a range of 200 yards Loyal troops drove them off and the train retired in the direction of Feng- gal, but later returned to the attack at Peiping. A group of Americans, living out- side the west wall and cut off from the city, appeared for a time to be in danger until the diplomts went out and brought them in. During the course of the fight, shells burst over the southwest cor- ner of the city, giving many for- eigners some anxious hours. CUBAN GIRL RESCUED 'AND CAPTOR SEIZED 14-Year-0ld, Unharmed, Restored to Father as Authorities Seek Kidnapers. By the Associated Press. SANTA CLARA, Cuba. June 28— | Cuban soldiers, scouring the country- side for a missing 14-year-old girl, Maria Alonzo, rescued her from a farm house today and arrested & man found with her on a charge of carry- ing her off under demands of $1,000. Soldiers said the girl was returned | to her father, Aurelio Alonzo, a prom- inent undertaker, apparently unin- | jured. The arrested man was a Mulatto emplove in the father’s undertaking business. He was charged with taking the girl and being associated with 'BRITON TO CONFER HERE ON CURRENCY South African Banker on Way to Discuss Stabilization Needs. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, June 28.—The stabiliza- tion of the world's currencies on s gold basis will be discussed with Uni- ted States Government leaders and bankers by Johannes Postmus, the | governor of the South African reserve | bank, who departed from London to- day on a hurried trip to the Umud‘ States and Canada. Postmus’ presence in London lp— parently was not discovered by the British press, although he had sev- | governor of the Bank of England, and will present both his own and Nor- man’s view to the Americans. It is understood they are mainly | interested in obtaining more detailed | information regarding the motives | underlying the recent statements of | Secretaries Hul and Morgenthau of the United States regarding stabiliza- | tion. Postmus will have only nine days for stopovers in Montreal, Ottawa, | New York and Washington after his arrival in Canada, July 5. He left | South Africa April 12 and since then has talked to government and finan- cial leaders in Paris, Amsterdam and other European centers. Postmus is known as a “gold fa- natic,” whose allegiance, as far as financial policy is concerned, is di- vided between Amsterdam and Lon- don. eral long talks with Montagu Norman, | lat 4:131 other hunted persons in the demands | made against Alonzo. Alonzo reported the girl's absence last night after he received a threat- ening letter Thursday morning. Au- | thorities said they were seeking at least three more persons. KEY BROTHERS TIRE, BUT KEEP ON FLYING Record-Smashing Plane to Be Kept in Air “as Long as She Is Perking.” By the Associated Press. MERIDIAN, Miss, June 28.—The record-breaking plane of Fred and Al Keys roared in circles over Me- ridian today, giving no indication of descending with its new aerial en- durance mark. “We are going to keep her in the air just as long as she keeps perking,” said Fred. The brothers shattered the old en- durance record of 553 hours 41 min- utes and 30 seconds, set by John and Kenneth Hunter at Chicago in 1930, pm. (Eastern standard time) yesterday. The flyers, tired, weary and aching | after 24 days aloft in the close quar- ters of their plane, the Ole Miss, were | cheered with the assurance of a group of newspaper publishers that they will be given $100 for each day they remain in the air past the former record time. The brothers now are shooting at the unofficial record of 647 hours and 29 minutes set in 1930 by Dale Jack« son and Forest O'Brine. By the Associated Press, Secretary Wallace still is waiting hopefully for some newsman to ask him whether Bernard M. Baruch is connected with the Farm Adjustment Administration. He has an answer on which he was coached carefully by his publicity staff, but that staff has failed com- pletely to get the question asked. Several weeks ago, Baruch, the New York financier, wrote Wallace a letter in which he referred to many charges and counter-charges “regarding one called Baruch.” He said that Sena- tor Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, and Father Charles E. Coughlin have called the A. A. A. “the waif” or “child” of the “Baruch institution.” ‘The financier suggested that Wal- lace issue a statement informing the public that Baruch had nothing what- ever to do with the A. A. A. ‘The Secretary replied by letter that : would explain the lack of connec- Wallace Answer on Baruch A.A.A. Connection Goesto Seed tion between Baruch and the A. A. A if asked directly, but that he be- lieved it is inadvisable to issue & formal statement. Then Wallace and his publicity ex- perts went into a huddle.- They worked out an elaborate plan for get- ting the Baruch letter before the pub- lic. They prepared a tentative ques- tion and Walace meorized the an- swer, Then, for several weeks, just be- fore the Secretary’s press conference, the publicity men circulated among the newsmen and dropped elaborate hints that someone ought to ask Wal- lace something about Baruch. Each time they informed the Secretary that everything was set and to polish up his answer, Wallace waited, all prepared. But the question was never asked. The reporters already knew the answer. It was an emphatic “no” to any actual or impiied connection between Baruch and the A. A. A,