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A2 = DOOM OF ROPER COUNCILIN SIGHT Dissension and Timidity Seen Behind Resignations and Decreased Activity. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The so-called Roper council, impor- tant as a formal link between Presi- dent Roosevelt and American business, has broken down. Slowly, one by one, prominent mem- bers have resigned, five of them in the last fortnight, and now it apears that unless the council is completely re- organized it will vanish as just one more of the numerous boards and commissions created under the camou- flage of “co-operation” between busi- ness and government. The reason the Roper council has diminished in influence is a simple one. Its title was “the Business and Advisory Council of the Department What’s What Behind News In Capital First 16 Months of New Deal Costs More Than 15 Billions. BY PAUL MALLON. HE Treasury gave out an un- usually full accounting of its| spending for the fiscal year just closed, but. naturally, it did not add in the costs of the first 16 months of the Roosevelt adminis- tration. If it had you would have found out that the cost of the New Deal so far (to July) has been Orainary running expense $0.4 Emergency reliel KRS Totar o= $15.345.000.000 With that much money you could throw away a $10 bill at every foot of the newest automobile way from here to Los Angeles and arrive there before 00.000 1 100.000 of Commerce,” but various members of it discovered after nearly a year of | intensive effort that hardly anybody | wanted their advice and that the man at whom most of the advice was di- rected, namely, the President, took it least of all. | The fault was not entirely the | President’s. It was partly that of the | business men themselves, too many of | whom prefer to cater to the adminis- tration for political or expediency rea- sons rather than to express their con- victions forcefully. This produced dis- sension and timidity. But the pri- | mary mistake was the creation of an | institution with which the President himself was never in real sympathy. | Having lambasted business men as re- | actionary or inordinately selfish, ml his now famous speech at Green Bay, | Wis., last year, it was surprising that | any business men could be found to | serve on a presidential or departmental | council. Serious Work Wasted. l But in the interests of harmony. in| the belief that business men should follow along and “co-operate.” the! Roper council took themselves seri- | ously enough to have long meetings | and exhaustive discussions which re- | sulted in carefully prepared reports | for the eyes of President Roosevelt.| But he pigeonholed them all, and to this day nobody in the Roper council can truthfully say that the President ever adopted any of the more impor- tant recommendations. | ‘The business men discovered that was glad enough to| have a body of councilors that he| Mr. Roosevelt could use to offset the Chamber of Commerce, so as to give the impres- sion that the latter organization was misrepresentative of American busi- ness, whereas his own group was truly representative. But these tactics cost him the support of many of the members of the Roper council, who thought it was unfair, in view of the fact that the Roper council reports were at variance with Mr. Roosevelt's views on different items of legislation and no publicity was ever given to that situation by the White House. ‘Were it not for the leaking out of different Roper council reports, busi- ness men generally would have be- lieved that the Roper council was entirely in agreement with Mr. Roose- velt and that the Chamber of Com- merce was not. Actually an examina- tion of the chamber’s resolutions and the Roper council reports will reveal a rather close - identity of view on fundamentals. ‘There probably will be other men eppointed to the Roper council at the meeting to be held next Wednes- day, but they will be of the rubber stamp variety, calculated to “go along” with the President. Few self- respecting business men will attempt tc represent American business on the Roper council in the future, in yiew of the record and in view of the treatment already given to the mem- bers of the council by the administra- tion. Question of Need. It is a serious question whether a business and advisory council should be set up. The real need is for frank inter- <hange of views between business men and the members of the Senate and House, who are really responsible for legislation. Incidentally, such changes in the direction of economic sanity #£s have been attained in adminis- tration bills are the result of advice given by practical men of affairs in| their talks with and reports to mem- bers of Congress, rather than in any communications to the Chief Execu- tive The Roper council has outlived its usefulness, if indeed it ever had any. That fact is well recognized now by the leaders of American industry and business. Those few men remaining on it who are really outstanding are doing so because they have more to Jose than gain by resigning and thus offending the administration. But at heart they have dropped the notion that the council can get anywhere as an agency for recovery. The scant attendance at the monthly meetings, the series of res- ignations and the general disappoint- ment and disillusionment over Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward business all point to the fact that, even if a #keleton organization is maintained, the days of attempted ‘“constructive criticism” or “co-operation” and all the other efforts covering two years of outer harmony but inner conflict between business and Government are about at an end (Copyright. 1935.) SLAYER OF 2 TAKEN WITH BODY OF GIR Arkansas Father Charged With Killing 0ld Sweetheart and Her Escort. By the Associated Press. EL DORADO, Ark., July 5—A 38- year-old father, arrested as he drove through the country in a confiscated taxicab, with the body of an old sweetheart beside him, was accused by officers today of killing the girl and a holiday companion as a climax to many quarrels over her affections. The accused man was listed as Clyde Gulley of Farmerville, married and the father of two children. Offi- cers sald they arrested him following 2 dual shooting at a highway sand- wich shop near here. As he drove the cab toward Bernice, La., slumped in the front seat beside him, dead, was Clarice Moore, 22, of Huttig, Ark. Her companion+-R. A. “Pap” Har- per, 22, of Strong, Ark.—was found shot to death on the ground at the sandwich shop. Horrified patrons and employes of the establishment told officers Gulley shot the two without warning. He offered no resistance when overtake: by officers. exhausting your supply (distance 2.950 miles). You could pave a strip of that road nearly 20 inches wide with dollar bills, You could buy every acre of ! land and water in the large State of California at $150 per acre. 1f you| had that much money 13 years ago you could have bought the entire| States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, | Colorado and Connecticut and every- | than three years for each document | 7 /h\ thing in them at high pre-depression prices. (Census Bureau estimate of | wealth by States in 1922.) Itemized Statement Available. An itemized statement of what this money has been going for is now available only up to May 31. From it you will see that the biggest single item of regular run- ning erpense in the New Deal has been interest on the debt. About $1,785,000,000 has been paid out in interest by New Dealers. and all but $607,000,000 was on the old | war debt: national defense took $1,218,000,000. of which the Nary | oot $694,000,000 and the Army, | $524,000.000. The Veterans' Ad- ministration took $1,261,000,000. If you lump the Army, Navy, vet- erans and war debt interest together you can see Presigent Roosevelt has| spent $3,657.000,000 of his money on| | past and future wars. This is more than one-fifth of his total expenditure, and the end is not yet in sight. It only cost him half that much to operate all the rest of the regular branches of Government ($1,733,000,- | 000). Spending Well Advertised. The emergency spending between | March 4, 1933, and May 31, 1935. has been fairly well advertised. The total was $14,536,000.000, of which nearly | half was spent on relief payments and | | public works ($6,484,000,000). | Only $1,059,000,000 was loaned out | to busing banks, railroads, home | owners and others. The rest went for | extra expenses by regular departments, paying interest, building extra ships, buying stock in banks. From these flgures you may judge what a colossal bear Mr. Roosevelt is holding at the wrong end. He has attempted to pull back lately on relief erpenditures and has been fairly successful. But he is committed to policies and is under unprecedented pressure from the country to continue the en- larged Federal responsibility for business revival and care of all needy. How he will ever ease himself out of the expenditures this entails no one here knows. Budget Balance Plank Seen. Some of Mr. Roosevelt's associates say he is preparing to run on a budget- balancing platform next year. No one doubts that he hopes to do it, but few outsiders believe he will be able to. The figures show that the encour- aging increase in revenues and the proposal for more and more taxes will not do the job. He has a few aces in| his sleeve (the gold profit on devalu-| ation, which is to be applied to the debt eventually), but the problem is so vast that a few years more may be required to work it out. New Dealers Resentful. A suspicious quietude settled over the administration after Senator Glass rewrote Section II of the bank bill. From the published accounts you would think that the New Dealers agreed Glass was right and they were wrong. That is not the situation. The New Dealers are deeply resentful of several of the changes and are keep- ing quiet only because they have a plan. They expect the House to stand out against Glass and induce him to give in on the most important points. The change they hate most is the one dividing authority (asthey See it) between the Federal Reserve Board and the banks on monetary policy. Under the altered bill, all the banks would need to do would be to win over a single broad mem- ber and they could tie up the Open Market Committee. You may be sure that provision will not remain in the bill, or else there will be no bank bill. European Intrigues. Europe is still a good place—to stay away from. The established chican- eries of international politics were never more evident there than now. To give you an idea: ‘The Soviets are preparing to de- mand a navy 50 per cent as large as Great Britain’s. They will say they 'BRUNO LAWYERS need the fleet to protect the Baltic. Of course, they are only bargaining for other concessions. John Bull has heard about it, and considers it pre- posterous. ' EuRoPEAN But France is going to back the Soviet demands because she is tied to Moscow by agreement. To eompllnfc matters further, Mus- solini has #ld Capt. Anthony Eden| that he is going to seize Ethiopia in October and Britain may do what she pleases. He further told Eden that, if Britain gets the League of Nations to let him alone, Italy will remain in the League. If Britain doesn’t, Italy League. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ACKES THREATENS | GONVICTS WRECK GIBSON WITH JAIL Demands Ousted Attorney Return Documents on Virgin Isles. By the Associated Press. Demanding the return of “certain official documents,” Secretary Ickes yesterday threatened criminal prose- cution against Charles H. Gibson, ousted Government attorney of the Virgin Islands and first witness in the Senate investigation of Gov. Paul M. Pearson. The Interior Secretary charged in a letter to Qibson that the former Gov- ernment attorney removed the docu- ments from his office files at the time of his discharge. Compliance with the demand to return the papers, Ickes added, “would not relieve Gibson from prosecution for their removal.” Gibson was asked about the files during Wednesday's Senate testimony. He told the senatorial committee they were private files. He had been quot- ing liberally from letters and docu- ments representing correspondence during his incumbency, some of which he put into the record. In his letter, Secretary Ickes cited | to Gibson Federal criminal statutes | which impose & fine not exceeding $2,000 and imprisonment of not more | removed from Government files. He listed nine documents which he al- leged were taken by Gibson. “I am informed by the present Gov- | ernment attorney of the Islands,” said Ickes' letter, “that there are in his office files very few letters relating to the business of that office during the period of your incumbency. The work | of that office is seriously hampered as & result.” Ickes also wrote to Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, chairman of the Investigating Committee, offering to furnish photostatic copies in ex- change for the return of “any official documents already offered in evidence by Mr. Gibson or still retained in his possession.” FILE NEW APPEAL Supplemental Brief Cites Reasons for Setting Aside Verdict. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., July 5—Attor- neys for Bruno Richard Hauptmann pushed forward an additional effort today to save him from the electric | chair. A supplemental brief prepared by leave of New Jersey's high court which has not yet decided the appeal argued before it last June 20, attacked Hauptmann’s conviction as the mur- derer of baby Charles A. Lindbergh, | jr.. on five fronts. The points upon which new argu- ment is based are: That the summation of Attorney General David T. Wilentz in the trial of Hauptmann was so prejudicial | that it warrants a reversal. That there was material variance of the theory of death injected into the case upon the summation of the | attorney general. That the defendant’s constitutional rights under the fourteenth amend- ment of the United States were con- travened. ! That there is no statutory crime of burglarly in New Jersey. | That there was no evidence of en- | tering with Intent to steal and petit | larceny is not a felony. Hauptmann's attorneys cited the decision of the United States Supreme Court in a civil case in which it was held that it is the duty of & court to “protect suitors in their right to a verdict uninfluenced by appeals of counsel to passion or prejudice.” HAUPTMANN JURORS ARE PAID $258 EACH Get Double Rate Because They Were Locked Up—Trial's Total Cost $125,000. By the Associated Press. TRENTON. N. J, July 5—It's pay day for the Hauptmann jurors. What's more, the jurors’ hopes of | getting double pay—$6 a day for 43| days’ service—have been realized. After 20 weeks of waiting while the Legislature passed a supplemental appropriation bill to cover additional trial expenses, the controller’s office forwarded today to Sheriff John H. Curtiss of Hunterdon County a check which included $238 for each of the 12 jurors. The usual rate of $3 was doubled | because the jurors were locked up each night Other bills of the Hauptmann trial are being paid daily from the $75,000 special appropriation. The controller’s office, however, has been directed not | to make them public. E ‘The total cost of the trial paid by the State, was $125,000. Catholic Daughters B:elect. SEATTLE, July 5 (#).—The Catho- lic Daughters of America in national convention here last night unanimous- ly re-elected all of their national of- | ficers, headed by Miss Mary C. Duffy of Newark, N. J, supreme regent. Newly elected directors are Mrs. H. P. Broussard of New Orleans and Mrs. | Stewart, 23, both ¢i Pine Bluff. Forc- | Lulu Spilde of Springfield, S. Dak. 2 CARS IN FLIGHT Arkansas Pair Still Hunted After Wild Ride With Four Citizens. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. July 5—Two convict trusty euards. sent out armed with rifles to aii in 2 search for a fleeing fellow vorisoncr yesterday, es- caped themselves, wiccked two suto- mobiles stolen from motorists and continued flignt in & third today. Besides the wre-ked cars, the con- victs also left behind them seven frightened citizens, fcur of whom were their forced comj.anions or por- tions of a wild 100-mi'e joy ride. The convicts' names were given by Tucker prison farm officials as Lee Sitton, 36, convicled murderer serv- ing a 15-year-senience from Searcy County. and Zack McHenry, 25 serv- ing a 10-year sentcnce for 1cobery from Faulkner County. Sent out with otner convict guards to search for Jake Young, 31, who escaped from il farm earlier in the day, the pair ‘cok an automobile from Harvey Hewitt, 2¢ and W. M, ing the two youths {2 remain on the | front seat, one of the armed men took the wheel and drove until the car broke down 1Y miles from here as a result of the fast, hard pace. While one stood guard with his| rifle, Hewitt said, (he other stopped a | car driven by W A Mercer, who was accompanied by Jlarrv Crow, buth of | Little Rock. Forcing Mercer 10 continue at the wheel, the coavicts made the Pine Bluffs youths rid2 its running boards | for about 2 miles, where thov were allowed to drop off. Making their #ay back to a lourist camp, they | called officers. | Five miles {rom the camp Mercer lost control of his machine and it| turned over three times in a ditch. The convicts escaped i1ijury, but Crow suffered a lacerated arm | When Mr. ani ‘Irs. B. B. Wiliiams | | and their small daughter, also of Little Rock, stopped 1» offer assistance. the | convicts forced them to alight from | their car. Taxkiog the machine, they | drove away alone tow.rd Little Rock. GOODRICH WILL GO T0 DETROIT TODAY Confessed Girl Slayer to Be Questioned in Numerous Other Crimes. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Juiy 5—Merton Ward Gooarich, confessed slayer of 11-year- cld Lillian Gallaher, will be taken back to Detroit ‘oday to answer for that crime and to face questioning bout r.umerous other unsolved crimes against children in which Detroit authorities believe he may be in- volved. The 27-year-old trap drummer told Duncan C. McCrea, Wayne County, Mich., prosecutor, that he was in deadly terror of going up in an air- plane The confessed slayer, his wife, Florence, charged with “acting in concert” by aiding her husband to escape, and their guards will leave New York at 5:20 o'clock (E. 8. T). “We do not think the murder of Lillian Gallaher, to which Goodrich has confessed, is the only crime he has committed since he was released trom the Ohio State Hospital are at least six cases of little girls arsaulted in Detroit which we think we can lay against this man. In ad- dition there are several disappear- &nces of young children about whicn we want to question him.” Both Gocdrich and his wife waived extradition yesterday and were turned over to the Detroit authorities. Although Goodrich insisted his wife knew nothing about the crime until several months ago, McCrea sald Goodrich admitted he told his wife about it a few hours after the murder. Goodrich was arrested in Central Park Wednesday when he attempted tc molest a litlle girl. MISSISSIPPI SPAN MENACED BY FIRE | Warehouse Flames, Fanned by Heavy Wind, Ignite Piers and Low Guard Rails. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 5.—The McKinley Bridge over the Mississippi River was menaced early today by fire that spread from a nearby warehouse. The blaze, fanned by a heavy wind, swept from the Theiling-Lothman Manufacturing Co. warehouse and ignited wooden plers and lower wooden guard rails on the Missouri side of the bridge. Firemen an- nounced they had the blaze under control and traffic across the struc- ture was resumed. Pive lines of water were kept turned on the bridge as long as the olaze from the warehouse continued to threaten it. The fire destroyed the warehouse, which company officials said con- tained sashes, doors and moldings. A portion of a wall of the warehouse fell onto the bridge, but was cleared away and did not impair traffic to any great extent. Origin of the warehouse fire was undetermined. Brother Lives With Dead Sister For Weeks, Ignorant of Death By the Associated Press. SPRING LAKE, N. J., July 5—For 30 years the sequestered life of Miss Jennie A. McCloskey, 87, and her brother John, 85, was a mystery to their neighbors. Now Miss McCloskey is dead. and details of the life of the aged couple are slowly being learned. From Police Chief Russell Hurdon came the word they had lived on in- come from the estate of John Car- dinal McCloskey, who died in New York in 1885. Rev. Thomas Reilly, pastor of St. Catherine’s Roman Cath- olic Church, said they came from Ohio. couple occasionally went to early mass at Father Reilly’s church. For the rest they kept indoors, re- celving their clothes and even their food in packsges from mail order houses. Three times a year the mail- man brought them an envelope con- kept them supplied with necessities and left them something more be- sides. Yesterday George Powers, solicitor for a laundry firm, set out to drum up business among the newly arrived Summer residents and came to the plain, weather-beaten house where the couple lived. He beat on the door a few times, then went to the police to report “something strange” about the place. Police Chief Russell Hurdon entered the unlocked door and found Miss McCloskey’s body on & bed in an up- stairs room. In the next room he found McCloskey, apparently suffer- Untll a few years ago, the(;,g “How is your sister?” Hurdon asked. “Oh, fine,” McCloskey replied. “I g0 in and cover her up every night.” Dr. Harvey W. Hartman, county physician, said the woman died of natural causes between two and three weeks ago. John was taken to s hospital, 2 last | vear,” said Prosecutor McCrea. “There | % ¥ foot Chinook II for New York and a taste of real sea life. | Sailing along the so-called “outer | lane” up the coast, the boys and their | Scoutmaster, Robert B. Kellogg. will be out of sight of land most of the time, giving them experience in navi- ! gation and actual sea duty. Kellogg | | has been an officer in the Navy and | | is an experienced navigator. | Nine of the boys are Washing- tonians and the seven others are from Michigan, Mr. Kellogg's former home. where he was a Sea Scout “commo- dore.”" Coast Guard life- | D. C. FRIDAY, JULY Scouts Off for Life on Rolling Deep 16 Boys Sail for Norfolk, Whence They Will Start for New York 1935. 3, City by ‘Outer Lane. = | The IXTEEN Sea Scouts embarked | boat powered with an eight-cylinder | .o .- vesterday afternoon in the 36- | gasoline motor, left the Potomac Elec- | gre 'in progress, but I regret that I tric Power Co. wharf{ at Half and V streets southwest promptly at 2 oclock and headed down the river to Norfolk. The boys will leave for New York this evening. Putting in at Atlantic City for fuel, the boat then will proceed on to the New York Yacht Club. Ranging in age from 16 to 21 years, | the boys are attired in blue uniforms. ‘The trip is being sponsored by the power company. which aiso sponsors the local Sea Scout organization, | “Ship Niagara.” Mr. Kellogg is the | chief engineer at the Buzzards Pulm; plant. | The Chinook IT BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, [ Associated Press Science Editor PRINCETON, N. J., July 5—Prof.| Albert Einstein, seeking unity, & single | law to account for all the phenomena | of nature, announced today a new | step in that direction—some mathe- | matics which seem to prove that| space and matter are only different | phases of the same thing. | The ultimate bits of matter are j what he seems to have found. They are smaller than anything yet ob- served. They are, in his terminology, “bridges” joining “two identical sheets of space.” The bridge, in his mathe- | matics, is' the fundamental material | particle. | “The neutral, as well as the elec- | trical, particle,” he says in the| physical review, jointly with Dr. N. | Rosem, “is a portion of space con- | necting two sheets.” Particles Are Simpler. But these new particles of Ein-| stein's seem to be simpler than any- thing now known, such as electrons. | protons and neutrons. He states that | a proton or an electron appears to be | i & “two-bridge problem.” 1 He obtains the bridge particle con- | ception by combining the use of the mathematics of gravitation and of electromagnetism. The connection between gravitation and electricity, or electromagnetism, has been, and still is, one of the major unsolved mys- teries. These two laws are the only “vari- ables” in Einstein's new particle equa- tions. Thus, from the mathematical | Ei;stein’s New Theory of Unity| Combines Matter With Space \Tiny Particles of Substance, Near Zero Fringe, Held “Bridges” Between Identical “Sheets of Space.” point of view, he has a simple method of demonstration. | His solutions lead him to conclude that particles are oot ‘“singular.” Singular means that a particle is & foreign body in space. Failing to be singular, the particle is evidently some form of space itself—at least. in a mathematical sense. Prof. Einstein finds also that there are limits to the minuteness of these particles. The limit is zero. In the common-sense world there could be nothing less than zero. But| in mathematics there can be “ncga- tive” quantities. In this respect Ein- stein particles seems to fit some of | the actualities. Determination Yet Ahead. They also suggest that there is & big job ahead. For the present “ulti- ‘1 mate particles” known to science may | | be complex structures of these Ein- stein units. The announcement, he explains, is preliminary, for it demonstrated only single or isolated particles. It has not been used yet to explain the com- binations of particles which form the structure of matter. It is also not yet known, Prof. Ein- | stein states, whether this new theory | will account for quantum phenomena. | These are the division of energy into units which seem to be as separate as grains of sand. The new theory, the article states, | points the way to a satisfactory treat. ment of gravitational mechanics. No | new hypothetical elements are intro- duced to make the theory. ‘TYPHOID FEVER DEATHS SHOW INCREASE IN ROME 1,170 Cases Since June 1, With Upper Classes Hard Hit, Startles Authorities. By the Associated Press. - ROME, July 5—An unusual preva- lence of typhold fever in Rome has resulted in 1,170 cases and 22 deaths since June 1, it was revealed yesterday. Authorities said they had not de- termined the cause of the increase in the disease but that they were sure it was not due to pollution of water or milk supplies. Upper classes were particularly hit while school and col- lege students, troops and the poorer classes seemed to have escaped. An outbreak is usual at the begin- nig of each Summer but this year the 1s abnormal. TERMS FOR WITHHOLDING NEWS SOURCE APPEALED ider i Reporter, Sentenced for Belml: to Reveal Data to Grand Jury, Is Under Parole. By the Associated Press. ¥ NEW YORK, July 5—Martin | Mooney, New York American reporter, was granted the right by the Ap- pellate Division Wednesday to appeal to the Court of Appeals at Albany from his conviction and sentence to 30 days in jail for contempt of court. ‘The Appellate Division recently up- held the conviction and sentence, based on Mooney’s refusal to disclose to a grand jury the sources of the information which he used in writing a series of articles on vice condi- tions in New York. | Ed D. Schorr, FIGHT OVER RALLY SHOWS G.0.2. SPLIT 'Discord in Ranks Weakens 1936 Chances—Fletcher ‘Keeps Hands Off. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Division in Republican ranks makes the task of winning next year's national election all the more diffi- cult. It is exemplified for example, in the row which is started over the projected Republican regional con- fergnce which George Bender, former State Senator of Ohlo, has planned for next Monday and Tuesday in Cleveland. Republican State chairman for Ohlo, has been cool to the Bender proposal. It is reported, 100, that the Republican State or- ganizations in Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia have turned their | Cleveland Top: The crew waving an en- thusiastic good-by to parents and friends. Bottom: Miss Ruth Gregg. 206 Sixteenth street southeast, bestows a farewell kiss on Harry Cook as the Sea Scout boarded the boat for the two-week cruise. —Star Staff Photo. CROWN FOR 01T DECLARED NEAR Prince Starhemberg Is Only Obstacle to Restoration of Hapsburg. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS. July 5—A royalist close to young Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne, predicted today early restora- tin of the monarchy. While negotiations for an enthrone- ment of “Kaiser Otto 1" in Vienna twung to his seat of exile here, the royalist said all obstacles to prompt restoraticn have been cleared but one —the opposition of Prince Ernst von Starhemberg. -year-old pretender himself do not deny that negotiations cannot now discuss the matter.” The archduke conceded. however, that he had been “pleased to shake hands” with Baron Karl Karwinsky, undersecretary of the Austrian De- partment of Justice His remark aroused reports that a council of Austrian royalists was held at Steemockerzeel Castle, where Otto is living in exile with his mother, the former Empress Zita, and other members of their family. The royalist. whose withheld, asserted: “We count on his return to Austria within a few weeks after the anti- Hapsburg laws are abolished “After Otto's return, the restoration of the throne itself may not be a mai- identity was ter of more than a couple of months | here is only one obstacle in the way. Vice Chancellor Starhemberg still is firmly opposed to the immediate return of the Hapsburgs. “He wishes for a period of regency with himself as head of the state while preparing the country for Otto’s return.” Prince von Starhemberg, Fascist leader of the Austrian Heimwehr (Home Guard), wis in Venice today The prince’s trip was described as a vacation, but it aroused unconfirmed rumors in Austrian circles that he is planning to confer with Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy concerning the Hapsburgs. Rumors of the restoration brought Otto's 20-year-old flancee, Princess Maria of Italy, into the spotlight. Otto is pretender by virtue of the fact that he is the son of the late Emperor Karl, the last King to occupy the Austrian throne. Princess Maria is the youngest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena. Princess Maria’s engagement to Otto was arranged last September at a con- ference of former Empress Zita and the Italian sovereigns at Villa Reggiro, Ttaly. \ CAUSEY IS SUSPENDED FROM TRAFFIC BUREAU Frequenting Apartment of Wom- an Following Her Arrest Is Charged. Policeman Joseph L. Causey, Traffic Bureau, has been suspended and rec- ommended for dismissal on a charge that he was found frequenting the apartment of a woman whose ac- quaintance he is alleged to have made following her arrest. Night Inspector Floyd A. Truscott and Sergt. W. J. Cunningham reported they called at the apartment eight hours after Causey was said to have entered it and the woman came to the door. Causey showed himself when the officers asked for him, they said. Causey was given a probationary appointment last September so he is not expected to be given a hearing be- fore the Trial Board. Senate: In recess. House: Transacts routine business. TOMORROW. House. Will not be in session. Mooney has been paroled in the his counsel. v Senate. 'lll noi.be in session. backs on Bender's proposed confer- ence. Today it was learned, however, that State Chairman Taylor of Penn- sylvania may go to the conference in Apparently Bender and his friends are going right ahead with the plans. Charges have been made that Bender is seeking to build up his own political fences Fletcher Keeps Hands Off. The Republican National Commit- tee. as represented by Chairman Fletcher, is taking no part either for or against the Cleveland conference Chairman Fletcher said today at na- tional headquarters “I hope the Cleveland conference will be successful. Any gathering of Republicans should be valuable in | stirring up enthusiasm for the party.” | Before Bender got to work on his Cleveland conference, members of the Republican National Committee from West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, meetig in Springfield, I, during the “grass roots” conference last month, planned a regional conference to take place in Columbus probably next September. It is believed that the September conference ultimately will be held. But whether it will be held in Ohio since the factional row over the Cleveland ccuference has broken out there remains to be seen. That September conference, will in- | clude delegates from Michigan, Ohio, | Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, | Tennessee and Maryland. | No Objections Expected. No one believes the Republican Na- tional Committee or its chairman is going to attack in any way the Cleve- land conference. In fact, as stated by Chairman Fletcher today, the theory |is that every Republican meeting | should be of assistance in stirring up | enthusiasm for party revival and vic- | tory next year. For the last few weeks Republican | leaders have begun to believe that the G. O. P. really may bc able tc de- | feat President Rcosevelt next vyear They do not want to do anything to rock the boat. Somec of them look | with suspicion on gatherings that | might lead to further dissention in the party There has been newspaper talk of a regional conference to be held dur- | ing July and Augusc in Salt Lake | City for the Republicans of the Moun- | tain States. So far as could be learned today no real steps have been taken | to bring this conf:rence about. There | is a growing opinion bowever, among some of the Repnbdiicans from that section that if such e conference is to be held it should take place in Denver, | Colo. Denver is regerded as more es- | sential and likely to draw a larger | crowd. | SIX N FAMILY DIE IN FLORIDA BLAZE | Parents and Four Children Perish When Flames Raze Key West Home. By the Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla., July 5—8ix per- sons—a mother, father and their four children—were burned to death today in a fire that destroyed their two- story family residence on the outskirts of the city. The dead are Henry Atwell, 31; his wife, Mrs. Ollie Atwell, 30; and their | four children, whose ages ranged from 7 years to 18 months. | The fire, of undetermined origin, de- stroyed the house. Near the bodies of the children was the carcass of the family pet, a dog. The children were Dorothy, 7; Sylvia. 5; Henry, 3, and Gerald, 18 months. Two children of Mrs. Atwell by a former marriage spent the night at | the home of their grandparents. g MAGNUS JOHNSON PLANS (GOVERNORSHIP RACE Ex-Svnator Bases 1936 Aspira- tiong on Olson's Possible Con- test for Schall’'s Seat. By the Associated Press ST. PAUL, July 5—Magnus John- son, former United States Senator, a colorful figure in Minnesota politics | for a score of years, announced yes- terday he will be & candidate for gov- ernor on the Farmer-Labor ticket in 1936. Speaking at Bird Island, Minn,, he said: “Since it is generally believed that | our able Governor, Floyd B. Olson, is | to run for the United States Senate, many of my friends have ed me to file for the governorship. * I intend to be one of the Farmer-Labor candi- dates for governor in 1936.” Johnson did not say whether ft would affect his plans if he did not receive his party’s indorsement. Gov. Olson has made no formal statement as to whether he will run against Sen- ator Schall, Republican. FIRE PERILS AIRDROME $5,000,000 Worth of Planes Threatened by Grass Blaze. LONDON, July 5 (#).—The Royal Air Force today rushed all available men from Mildenhall Airdrome tc stop a grass fire which, it was feared for a time, was spreading toward the big airfield. About $5,000,000 worth of airplanes were drawn up in prepara- tion for review. i | Couzens to Leave for Clinic. DETROIT, July 5 (#).—Senator James Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, was to leave late today for the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., for an operation. He has been in a hospital here several weeks, under @servation for a kidney ailment, .