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PECORA DENIES HELL QUIT BENCK Roosevelt Says A. T. & T. Probe Counsel Not Of- fered to Any One. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, July 13.—Ferdinand Pecora said yesterday he had “no present intention” of resigning as Supreme Court Justice. He made the statement in commenting on a Wash- | ington report that he would be chief counsel for the Federal Communica- tions Commission's investigation of | the American Telephone & Telegmph! Co. (Later Washington dispatches said President Roosevelt had not offered | the post to any one.) | “T will neither deny nor affirm the | report that President Roosevelt offered | me the position as chief counsel in | the investigation,” he said. | “I have no present intention of re- signing from the bench. I like my | work and I expect to be permitted to stay here. | “I hope to be renominated. I will | run again in the Fall if I am. I am | going to Washington Monday to at- | tend the Brewster-Corcoran (utilities lobby) hearing. Justice Pecora was chief counsel to the Senate Committee which investi- gated banking practices. S What’s What Behind News In Capital Blame Is Only Thing W.P. A. Has Succeed- ed in Spreading. BY PAUL MALLON. THE most noteworthy progress of the Works Progress Administra- tion so far has been in spread- ing more blame than work. Every manicured index finger of an insider seems to be pointed at some other insider. The fact ‘s none of them will have any roses pinned on them for what has been done so far. The whole story would require ten volumes, but a few hearty ax swings at the red tape will be enough to give | you an idea of what has happened underneat) President Roosevelt submitted the indefinite outlines of the $4,- 800.000,000 effort six months ago and told Congress to hurry with the appropriation. The deadline was July 1, although he wanted to get started much earlier. Today, the program is still unlaunched. Only a few dozen jobless have been transferred from relief to work rolls. Final approval has been given only to three State plans (Indiana, Georgia and Alabama) and only to two cities (New York and Washington). THE EVENING 20000 SOLDIERS MASSED IN PARIS Mobilized to Prevent Clashes'in Celebration of Bastille Day. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 13.—A potential dicta- tor and his left-wing opponents strug- gled for the control of France today, the eve of the Bastille day holiday, as troops and police were massed to keep their supporters apart. Soldiers from provincial posts were brought into the city to reinforce local garrisons and 20,000 police stood ready to prevent political disorders. So tense was the feeling that leaders of hostile masses gave orders for severe discipline to their forces, gathering for monster demonstrations at opposite ends of the capital. A demonstration by the nationalistic “French solidarity” organization at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier this afternoon, was the first week end job for police. Leaders of the Nationalist Croix de Feu (Crosses of Fire) pledged “devo- tion” to Lieut. Col. Rocque, chief of their ever-swelling forces, who would be dictator of France. Members of this national union of war veterans announced they “are remaining calm, but are ready, if Francois de la | The most optimistic around Mr. |necessary, to respond to our leader's STAR, WASHINGTOX, Scores Injured in Tacoma Riots Hopkins' headquarters will confess, off the record, that it will bea “month Lobby (Continued From First Page) to that he was a “speclal Investigator” for the Department of Justice. Administration Unit Lacking. In connection with the Passama- quoddy project, sources sympathetic to the administration power policies said | the advisability of halting work is under | consideration because of the failure of the Maine Legislature to set up a | State authority to administer the b&gj undertaking. It was said, however, no decision | to suspend had been reached. Army engineers declared there had been no change in their orders to buy supplies | for the project Secretary Ickes, P. W. A. admin- {strator, said a day or two ago that he expected work to go forward. Other sources indicated President Roosevelt felt the State Legislature should take some steps for Maine to assume ad- | ministtation of the project. At yesterday's Senate Lobby Com- mittee hearing, Gadsden testified that | power companies spent more than | £300,000 fighting the administration’s | attempt to abolish certain holding companies in seven years. | Fighting Lobby Bill. Today Chairman Black expressed | the view that the $300,000 mentioned | had to go to the extent of organizing | the was “the smallest part of the amount spent.” The Alabaman asserted, incidentally, | that lobbyists are fighting to kill a bill | he has introduced to force publicity | for lobbyists' activities. It would re- | quire them to register and to nccount‘i for their expenditures. | “If that bill had been passed by | both Houses two months ago,” he said, | months before that was Mr. Ickes. It | foreign ambassadors “we would have had 1l the informa- or two yet” before they really get 75 YouRr FAULT/ ‘What is holding Mr. Hopkins back now is mainly organization. For some weeks, the active boss of the program has been trying to organize a stafl of works supervisors over the country, | All State supervisors receiving more than $5,000 salary must be confirmed by the Semate. Con- sequently, the Senators had to be consulted about these appointees. Many small delays developed due to conflicts between Senators and between Senators and Governors. In some cases, men suggested by them were rejected by Hopkins. | Impartial observers now feel that | he has the nucleus of a fairly com- petent staff. But all this staff is new and in- | experienced. It replaces the old State | relief organizations and hence must | be instructed in its duties. Hopkins | training schools for that States. in North Carolina.) | If you want to know why all this | was not done before this late date, | you will have to ask Mr. Hopkins. | Ickes Held Up Hopkins. | What held up Mr. Hopkins for two | |is not a secret that Messrs. Hopkins | | Daladier, | call if a red dictatorship is attempted by a sudden attack.” Leftists, on the other hand, warned their followers that display of the red flag is forbidden. They set up their own police force of 6,000 men with red arm bands to maintain order among their 100,000 comrades. Disorder at Valenciennes, in which several persons were injured in an | “anti-Fascist” clash, increased author- | ities’ fears of a stormy week end here. A Paris second-hand dealer, in whose shop police seized 350 rifies, was charged with keeping “war arms.” Young Radical Socialists, Socialists are led by former Premier Edouard Leon Blum and Maurice Thorez, respectively. Left wing forces will march tomor- row from the former site of the Bas- tille to the Vincennes Wood, while the Croix de Feu, after gathering at the Arch of Triumph, will proceed to the Bois de Boulogne. La Rocque, 42-year-old aristocratic “strong man” and a retired officer, claims 50,000 followers in the Paris region. Hull (Continued From First Page.) responsibilities of maintaining purpose. | peace in the world and was looking to ! | These are being held now in the | some expression from the sponsor of | (One is going on this week | the Kellogg pact, the United States. to | That Stirred World Dies join their government in an effort to maintain that treaty. Whether the statement issued by the Secretary of State will have that de- sired effect remains to be seen. Although Hull has not informed the whether this country intends taking any further tion which the committee now has to and Ickes sparred almost continuously ‘ steps in the present conflict, the gen- dig up.” Plunging into the inquiry vesterday | | since the legislation was enacted. Mr. Hopkins thought in terms of eral belief in foreign diplomatic circles is that this country will refuse to be | and Communists have formed a *popu- | } lar front” against De la Rocque. They | D. €., SATURDAY, Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Above: Lumber strike demonstrators at Tacoma, Wash,, fleeing from a tear-gas bomb. Below: Two rioters, shown in the left center, breaking away from the fleeing crowd to face a National Guardsman, on extreme left, walting with fixed bayonet and wearing gas mask. marked the four-hour rioting. ALFRED DREVFLS EXPRES N PARS Central Figure in Spy Case| ‘ Peacefully. By the Associated Press PARIS, July 13.—Death had ended | today the virtual exile in his own country of Lieut. Col. Alfred Dreyfus, central figure in the most famous spy case of modern times. Although he had long been exoner- | ated of charges of betraying French | [ | JULY 13, 1935. Many hand-to-hand fights SCORES INIURED N LUNBER R Rocks, Rifle Butts, Staves WALEY JURY GETS CASE EARLY TODAY Court Instruction Awaited Before Deliberation on Kidnaping. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash, July 13.—The Margaret Thulin Waley jury awaited | court instructions only today before | deliberating her guilt or innocence in the $200,000 George Weyerhauser kid- | naping. | Defense and prosecution completed | arguments before the overnight re- cess, alternately presenting the 19- year-old, plump blond as an unwilling participant and a remorseless con- spirator in the abduction of the little heir to the lumber fortune. | When John F. Dore, her court-| appointed attorney, denounced her| husband, Harmon, who pleaded guiity, and the fugitive Willlam Dainard,| Mrs. Waley cried softly. She glared angrily as Assistant United States Attorney Owen P. Hughes attacked her story that she | was acting under fear of death from Dainard and the domination of her husband, who received a 45-year prison sentence. Denounced as Remorseless. In closing the Government's case District Attorney J. Charles Dennis denounced her as a ‘“remorseless | woman” and told the jury she played DEBATEONA.A. A RESUMES MONDAY Lonergan Amendment Bans Regulation or Restriction of Commodity Advertising. Prevented by slow debate from reaching a final vote in the Senate late yesterday, the agricultural ad- justment act amendments face further debate Monday. Outstanding changes made in the measure yesterday exempt canning fruits and beer hops from marketing agreements. The hops were struck out by a 48-to-34 vote on motion of Senator Duffy, Democrat, of Wiscon- sin, who said their inclusion would penalize growers of superior grades of hops. Plea by McNary. Senator McNary, Republican, of Oregon asked they be kept in the bill after describing them as the most depressed of all agricultural com- modities. Canning fruits were exempted, 46 to 29, when the Senate rejected a committee amendmeat to include them in the bill. In a bitter speech Senator Metcalf, Republican, of Rhode Island, said of Secretary Wallace that “while acting in hope of assisting one portion of our citizenry, he manages to virtually de- stroy another.” The proposed amendments, he ad- ded, “mark a new high in the surren- an important part in the kidnaping | der of our legislative powers and the after George, 9, was seized on & Ta- | shrinking of our direct obligations to coma street May 24. The broad-faced, former Salt Lake City girl was shaken by emotion when Dore referred to the purchase of a 20-cent cigarette case with a $5 ran- som note as a birthday present rcr} her father in Salt Lake City. | It was this purchase which caused | the American people.” One of the chief rouble spots was apparently eliminated by Senator Lon- ergan, Democrat, of Connecticut when he introduced amendments for- bidding regulation or restriction of advertising of commodities covered by the act He said both Chairman her arrest there, the subsequent ar- | Smith of the Agriculture Committee rest of her husband, and the indict- | and the Agriculture Department had ment of Dainard, alias Mahan, on | agreed to them. kidnaping charges. | The Lonergan amendment relating In concluding his plea Dore said: |to advertising provides that no order “I believe mad dogs should be caged, | shall be issued under the act prohibit- but it's not necessary to cage her to | ing. regulating or restricting the ad- protect your children. It is necessary | vertising of any commodity or product to cage her husband and the other | covered in the act. The same prohibi- man.” | tion is applied to marketing agree- ments. A prohibition against a processing Called Human Cur. Previously Dore said Waisy was| “a human cur” and Jed his wife tax on any commodity that goes into “like a dog behind him.” | newsprint also is proposed as an addi- “Oh, she could have left Waley— |tion to the tax clauses. but women don't leave.” Senator Lonergan said he had re- Dennis accused her of heartlessness | Ceived assurances from the adminis- |in her conduct toward George the |tration leadership that these amend- eight days he was a prisoner, and ments would be accepted when he | pointed to her testimony that she had | called them up Monday. | gone te bed after the boy was freed| The amendment relating to adver- | and “slept until 10 the next morn- | tising is as follows: ing.” Dennis said this showed her| *No order shall be issued under this unconcern. | act prohibiting, regulating or restrict- The trial has been in progress four | ing the advertising of any commodity days. or product covered hereby, nor shall y any marketing agreement contain any POSSE HU | provision prohibiting, regulating or | restricting the advertising of any com- | modity or product covered by such | marketing agreement.” The prohibition against a processing TS DAINARD. Sheepherder Reports Seeing Man Like Kidnaper in Montana, and Bayonets Used in DILLON, Mont., July 13.—The fugi- | Street Fighting. tive William Dainard, wanted as one TACOMA, Wash,, July 13.—Scores | of the kidnapers of young George nursed hurts from rocks, rifle butts, | Weyerhaeuser, was sought by a posse staves and bayonets today after riot- | of Federal and county officers in the ous street fighting precipitated by the | sheep-grazing lands near here today. | prolonged Pacific Northwest lumber | The posse set out after a badly strike. Six persons were seriously in- | frightened herder, George Baker, re- | jured before National Guardsmen | ported a man who resembled Dainard | | quelled with tear and nausea gas & | was prowling in the Blacktall Moun- tax on any commodity that goes into newsprint is proposed as an addition to the tax clauses and reads “Provided, that no such tax shall be levied upon the processing of any commodity into newsprint.” GOVERNOR REFUSES with an abruptness that amazed even | unemployed people. He did not care | actively drawn into any controversy in members of his committee, Black quickly loosed a broadside of ques- | much about projects, except those which would furnish employment | Africa or anywhere else, and will en- deavor to exercise onlv a moral in- tions that brought calmly emphatic | where the unemployed are. Mr. Ickes | fluence in international affairs. B replies from Gadsden and an don’t remember” from another wit- | ness, Burnham Carter, publicity writer { for the firm of Ivy Lee & T. J. Ross of | New York, public relations counsel. Carter couldn't recall how many members of Congress he had talked the power issue with, nor who they were. Gadsden declared the power indus- try was “not on the defensive,” add- ing that it was trying “to save a $12,- 000.000,000 industry” from “destruc- tion” by the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. ‘That measure now is in conference be- tween the House and Senate. Just before the committee adjourned | Gadsden filed a statement prepared by | Price, Waterhouse & Co. of New York | showing receipts by the Utility Exec- | utives Committee of $152,065 from February 18 to June 30, this year, and | disbursements of $151.865. Cash on | hand June 30 was $199. Twenty-six power firms were listed as contributors to the Utility Com- mittee, the largest contributors being: | Commonwealth & Southern Corp., | $13,140; North American Co., $13,125; | Standard Gas & Electric Co., $14,010; United Gas & Improvement Co., £10.755, and Public Service Electric & Gas Co., $10,500. 1 Others were: American & Foreign | Power, $1,370; Americsn Gas & Elec- tric, $7,890; American Power & Light, | $3913; American Water Works & Electric Co., $5,000: Columbia Gas & Electric, $5000; Con:olidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. of Balti- more, $3,000; Detroit Edison, $6,630; Electric Bond & Share. $8,957; Elec- tric Power & Light, $2,543; Iilinois Power & Light, $5.900; Lehigh Power Securities, $1,956; Nat'onal Power & Light, $1,957. New England Power Association, $5,865. Niagara Hudson Power, $7,920; Pacific Gas & Eiectric, $5,000; Pacific Lighting, $5,000; Penn- Southern Power, $1,410: Power Securi- ties, $195; Stone & Webster, Inc., £5.145; United Gas $1,174, and United Light & Power, $5,610. Today’s Contributors To Calhoun Fund ‘The Star acknowledges receipt of the following contributions for the family of Sterling Calhou Previously reported. - $152.00 - 10.00 5.00 ‘Anonymos Lilllan Kaplan M. H Martha Parks Anonymous Marion Clark M. W. Gansbu Gilbert R. Hyatt Anonymous —_______ Col. John A. Lockwo C. A, .00 ment would bear entire cost of W. P. 9| A. When will final forms of W. P. A. % ma; The Misses Maret.. Bureau Engraving and Printing Post 23 (American Legion).-. 00 dertaken on which a large percentage )| spend for wages first, Ickes for ma- o ly as follows: thought mostly of socially useful proj- ects. He lost. The result was that the project list of the National Resources Board had to be tossed out the window, sheet by sheet. A new list of projects was complied. But after they had been authorized and announced it was discovered these also would mot do the job, for the same reason. The money would | be used up without absorbing the unemployed, because 100 much would go for materials. That list was rescinded. Now it is being revised. There is a feeling among Mr. Hop- kins' friends that Mr. Ickes has failed | to overexert himself since he lost the | decision, but that is a long story. Congress Delayed First. An item of forgotten history is that | the blame for the original delay goes | to Congress. It squabbled over the legislation for three months (exactly | 87 days). The first reason was that it | wanted to find out what projects Pres- | 1dent Roosevelt had in mind. All it | found out was the report of the Na- tional Resources Board, containing a | lot of expensive 20-year projects, now | scrapped. Another reason was that Senators wanted to pay prevailing lo- | cal wages on relief work. Under the | latest dictum of Mr. Roosevelt (June | 3), the pay rate will be around $600 a year, or $50 per month per man. President Escapes. The President himself has escapéd in the general round of finger-point- ing. If you go back and look into the record of his public statements since January, you will find no evidence of any promises unfulfilled. For instance, he mentioned no specific date for starting the work. But if you will look at his original message to Congtess, you may find a significant piece of evidence. In it he favored both the viewpoints of Mr. | Hopkins and Mr. Ickes. His primary principle then ex- pressed was that all works should be useful “not for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions” (this is the Ickes contention ezactly). But his third principle then laid down was that projects should be un- of direct labor can be used. (This is the Hopkins philosophy. He wanted to terials first.) To give you an idea of the confusion still existing, the mayor of a large Eastern city wired Washington recent- “Do you know when contemplated allotment of works progress funds will be made? There is considerable ques- tion as to whether city will have to pay for material. My original under- standing was that Federal Govern- applications be ready? Only forms we have had are stated to be tenta- tive.” Rankin Charges Heard Calmly. Italy Would Negotiate. ROME, July 13 (#).—Ttaly will at- tend a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations if one is called shortly on her dispute with Ethiopia. it was sald today in authoritative circles. At the same time authorities, com- menting unofficially on Secretary Hull's declaration in support of the Briand-Kellogg pact, asserted Italy in “no way” has violated that treaty. Italy’s attitude toward the League will be that the Council cannot pio- ceed to name an arbitrator, cr fifth member, to the conciliation commis- sion, down. Any attempt on the part of ‘he Council to interpose its will in the controversy will be met with the strongest opposition, it was made clear, and if such an action on the part of the Council should continue Italy would leave the League of Na- tions. Rome contends that the commi: sion was constituted to discuss tl whose labors recently broker secrets to Germany, Dreyfus in his last years was almost forgotten or ignored by the French peopie. Death came peacefully to the 75- | year-old officer last night, in sharp contrast to his amazing life. He had been ill for many months. The center of & raging controversy | after his four years of imprisonment on Devils Island, which caused duels. bombings and even divorces between | “Dreyfusards” and “anti-Dreyfus- ards,” was a recluse in his last years. | forts to clear his name and were The “Dreyfus case.” however, still occasionally bobs up in French poll-‘ tics, for there remained some un- convinced even by his official vindica- | cated, he was restored to his ranuk | tion. | Avoided by Officers. | | Consequently. although he was re-| instated in the army, was promoted | regularly and served with distinction in the World War, in which one of | his sons was killed, most other officers | avoided him for army reasons and gov- | ernment ignored him for political reasons. | Although Dreyfus left Devils Island | | 35 years ago, friends disclosed last | year that nightmares of his imprison- | ment still tortured him. He was sent specific question of frontier incider.is | there after his conviction as & young and that it bogged up because Ethi- | | opia sought to inject the question of | | frontiers. Therefore, it was argued, an arbi- trator cannot be appointed until the four members had exhausted a dis- | cussion of the question placed before | them by the League—that of frontier | incidents. British Are Hopeful. LONDON, July 13 (#).—Some Brit- ish circles professed today to see in Secretary of State Hull's declaration in support of the Briand-Kellogg pact a hint that the United States is will- ing to join Great Britain in a “front” to prevent an Italo-Ethioplan con- flict. ‘These quarters viewed the Amcrican Secretary's statement as the most im- portant contribution yet to impress upon Premier Mussolini the gravity with which other nations view possi- ble hostilities. Because of the week-end holiday no official comment was anticipated immediately. Church Taken to Homes. Believing that his poor parishioners will not attend church because of their shabby clothes, the Rev. Ralph Rum- ney, vicar of Shieldfield, Newcastle-on- Tyne, England, will conduct services in their homes. am forming a small team of workers, who will accompany me to the homes of any people in my parish who care to invite us to hold a service there,” he explained. leagues when he charged that his tele. phone wire had been tapped. A cer- tain Democratic leader in the House commented: “I don't see why any one would want to tamper with Rankin’s phone, Representative Rankin failed to cre- Total _"Aumunhemumptmm;hum- except to cut it off.” « 19352 | Sunday morning, shortly before the captain in 1894 of selling military secrets to Germany. His funeral was tentatively set for annual Bastille day military review. Because of scheduled political demon- strations, it was expected to be as| quiet and private as possible. Dreyfus, a Jew, was never known to comment publicly on his own fate or the anti-Semetic wave in Germany, which friends asserted is much like the earlier movement in France which claimed him as a victim. Just before the turn of the century a few became devoted to his cause and even ran the risk of imprison- ment for defending him, among them the distinguished writer, Emile Zola. Another defender was the late George Picquart, who was imprisoned for a time but later was reinstated in the army, rising to brigadier general and minister of war. Served in World War. Dreyfus had retired when the World War broke out but volunteered for service and commanded a fort guard- ing Paris. Then he went into seclu- sion from which he seldom emerged. On one occasion he joined a move- ment for clemency for Sacco and Vanzetti. In his last years he gave charity to children of the poor and was ab- sorbed by his nine grandchildren, for whom he collected stamps and aided in their school lessons. ‘The attention and sympathy of the peoples of all lands were directed to the young Jewish officer's case, not alone because of the widespread be- lief that a great injustice had been done, but because of the general feel- ing that he had been sacrificed by the powerful military clique that had obtained control of the French Army. Sentenced to Devils Island. Dreyfus, a member of the general staff with the rank of captain, was convicted by a secret military tribunal of betraying French military secrets to Germany. Sentenced to imprison- ment for life, he was publicly drummed out of the army and sent to Devils Island, off the coast of Prench Guiana. After four years, due to the efforts of his devoted wife and friends, Drey- fus was returned to France for a new trial before another court-mar- tial. To the astonishment of the world, he was again convicted and sentenced to 10 years. He was, how- - COL. ALFRED DREYFUS. ever, pardoned by the President of the republic. Those who believed in the inno- | cence of Dreyfus continued their ef- successful after eight years. His con- viction was annulled by the Supreme Court and, with his honor vindi- in the army. Dreyfus was born at Mulhausen, Alsace, October 19, 1859, the son of a wealthy Jewish manufacturer. After Germany annexed the conquered province of Alsace in 1871, the Drey- fus family choosing to remain Frerch citizens, moved to Paris. The scn studied at the Polytechnic School ai.d afterward was commissioned an offi- cer of artillery. | ADMINISTRATION FIGHTS MORTGAGE BILL PLEA Move Made to Withdraw Names on Petition to Get Frazier-Lemke | Measure to Floor. By the Associated Press. Administration leaders have organ- ized & move to withdraw the names of members of the House who have petitioned to take the $3,000.000 Fra- zier-Lemke bill away {from the Rules Committee for direct action on the House floor. The petition to act on the farm mortgage refinancing bil! had 210 sig- natures yesterday, but after a caucus four names were scratched off. It will require 216 names to remove it from the Rules Committee's pigeonhole. Organization against the bill was directed by Representative Sabath, Democrat, of Illinois, chairman of the Steering Commiitee. Friends of Representative Lemke, Republican, of North Dakota, expressed indignation at the new opposition . DRUNKENNESS IN CANAL’| LEADS TO FINE OF $25 Veteran Arrested Last Winter Suffering From Frozen Feet Held in “Cooling Off” Attempt. Having already suffered frozen feet, James Coulahan, a World War vet- eran, was not going to take any chances of sunstroke yesterday, hence his arraignment before Judge Ralph Given in Police Court today charged with “being drunk in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.” The police were slightly peeved about the trouble they had fihing the prisoner out of the canal. He ‘was sentenced- to pay a fine of $25 or sege 25 days in jail. Coulahan, seventh precinct police said, was drunk when they pulled him out and would have drowned but for their assistance. When arraigned, Coulahan was | recognized by Judge Given as the same man who, arrested on an in- toxication charge last Winter, claimed to be suffering with frozen feet At that time he was sent to Gallinger Hospital and then transferred to Wal- ter Reed at the request of military Aut.hom.‘s ’melre in which nearly 1000 strike | tain country, where several robberies sympathizers | hours. | At least 40 of the demonstrators | were arrested and hustled off in Na- ’nvmll Guard trucks, while scores more, including sympathizers and Jsperlalors. were affected by the gas which flooded the Federal Building and adjacent office structures. participated for four National Guard forces, ordered here | by Gov. Clarence D. Martin several weeks ago, guarded today against fur- ther outbreaks. The rioting began when a big crowd attempted to push by National Guardsmen across the Eleventh street bridge, leading from the business dis- trict to the mill area. Troubles of a lesser kind also “spotted” the strike picture in other Western Washington cities, but oper- ators asserted the strike was nearing an end. | The striking union demanded rec- ognition, a 40-hour work week and | wage Increases, ON FEARS BLOCK GOLD BILL Senate Committee Withholds. De- cision on Plan to Fore- stall Suits. By the Associated Press. Anxiety over inflation and the Na- tion's credit has deferred a Senate committee decision on administration legislation to protect the revamped monetary system from legal sharp- shooting. The House Banking Committee ap- proved the bill yesterday. while the corresponding group in the Senate received Treasury assurances that a potential $10,000.080.000 inflation bubble was not involved, as asserted by some members. In addition, the latter called in Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau for testimony Monday on the credit aspects of the measure. Sen- ators Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, and McAdoo, Democrat, of California, had expressed fears on that point. The legislation would forbid court suits to collect the present equivalent of the old gold value of Government bonds containing the once familiar gold clause, which was the subject of last Winter's historic Supreme Court decision. Senator McAdoo raised the infla- tion issue at yesterday's session. He contended a provision permitting holders of such bonds to redeem them in cash at any time raised the pos- sibility of redemption in printing press money. NEZ PERCE CHIEF DIES Veteran of Wars Refused Dress of White Man to Last. LEWISTON, Idaho, July 13 (®.— The passing of the last of the old Nez Perce tribal chieftains was mourned today in Indian villages of Northern Idaho. George Peo-Peo-Tal-Ikt, chief of the Nez Perces by heritage since the death of Chief Joseph more than 25 years ago, died at the home of a nephew near Lenore. He was a veteran of the Nez Perce War of 1877 and an alde of Chief Joseph. Peo-Peo-Tal-Ikt never adopted the dress of the wihte man, choosing to remain a picturesque figure. He always conversed with whites through an interpreter, A | have been reported recently. | | Baker said he had seen and talked | to the suspect twice. i | No report from the officers was ex- pected for several hours. Meanwhile, at Seattle. officers in- vestigated a report a man resembling | | Dainard had participated in two rob- | beries there last night. LUKE LEA PARDON Sentence in Asheville Bank Fraud Case and Long Fight Are Recalled. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., July 13—Gov Ehringhaus today announced he had [ U TR COUPL declined the petition of Luke Lea | E ESCAPE F'RE former United States Senator from BYREEAPSINTIOFRIMER;| Teuneses, fo s pardon a was sentenced in Asheville after his conviction on charges of conspiracy By the Assoclated Press. to defraud the Central Bank & Trust MILLINGTON, Md., July 13.—A|Co there. He fought his conviction six-hour fire of unknown origin de- through every court at his command stroyed the D. E. Foote & Co. CanNery | and entered prison May 9, 1934, to and packing house five miles from | corve his term of six to ten years here today, caused damage °mc“”y‘lhouxh he had been convicted in |set at $75000 and forced the plant| August, 1931, vice president and his wife 10 1eaD| [ke Lea. jr. was convicted with for their lives into the Chester River. | pis’ father and entered prison at the The Foote Co. bullt the Crumpton | same time, but was released last year plant 19 years ago at an approximate | o parole due to his physical condi- cost of $107.000, and its activitles pro-| tijon Wallace B. Davis, president of vided the sole means of support of | he Central Bank, also was convicted | approximately 300 residents of the|in the same case, and after one peti- | village of Crumpton. tion for clemency was denied in his | George Phillips, jr., vice president, | case, he was freed under parole sev- | was asleep with his wife in an apart-| era] weeks ago. | ment adjoining the factory. When he| Jj M. Broughton, Raleigh lawyer was awakened the fire had gained | presented the Lea pardon petition fo such headway that all exits Wwere| Edqwin M. Gill, parole commissioner. blocked and he and his wife Were|on June 1 and the middle of last jcnmpe to leap. They swam about | | 50 yards along the shore to escape the sparks, Phillips said, and landed below the plant. They were clad only in night clothes. Hampton Steele, secretary-treasurer of the Foote Co. said in Baltimore | that the loss approximated $75.000— | | most of which was covered by insur- | ance. He said an investigation would | be launched immediately to determine | | the origin of the blaze, e President (Continued From First Page.) | mony within the party leadership, | | with the President himself in the | leading role of peacemaker. | Others in Party. month a hearing lasting more than six hours was held before Gill at | which voluminous records contending that Lea had been shown to be in- nocent by “new evidence” were pre- sented. A We:;lller : (Continued From First Page.) after the rain began, the temperature was down to 71. Yesterday's heat was partially re- sponsible for one death here and for & number of cases of heat prostration. Joseph Donovan. 45. of 1708 Ninth street, fell dead while working in the basement of the Hamilton Hotel yes- cerday afternoon. His death was at- tributed to heart trouble, aggravated In the group of prominent Demo- crats who are to be the President’s by the heat. Yesterday's maximum, while a fellow guests will be Vice President|record for this year, was 10 degre: Garner. Speaker Byrns, Postmaster below the all-time record of 106 de- General Farley, Secretary of Com-| grees recorded here July 20, 1930, and merce Roper, Attorney General Cum- | (WO degrees less than the maximum of mings, Charles Michelson, director of | 101 last year, recorded on June 29. blicity for the ratic National| Representative Percy Gassaway of e A Demacra | Oklahoma staged a demonstration of the efficacy of Washington's hot | wave for the benefit of motion pic- |ture camera men yesterday after- noon when he fried eggs on the Capitol steps. | The largest number of persons in | the history of the park system slept | out of doors last night because of the heat, Albert Clyde-Burton, assistant superintendent of the National Capital | parks, said today. Judiciary, Franklin and East Po- tomac Parks, as well as West Potomac Park, from Arlington Memorial Bridge to Hains Point, were particularly popular. The Nation's death toll from heat has mounted to more than 80 since July 1, with at least 20 drowned while | seeking relief. according to a tabula- | tion by the Associated Press. Showers brought ralief to the Mid- dle West, but the rain was not gen- eral. L4 The Weather Burean reported the heat wave was broken scuthward over Oklahoma and into Arkansas also, but said the Pacific Slope would get ‘more hot weather today. Committee; Senator Barkley of Ken- tucky, Col. Edwin Halsey, Frank C. Walker, Arthur Mullen, National committeeman from Nebraska, and J. Bruce Kremer, formerly Demo- cratic National committeeman from Montana. Among the club members who will play hosts on this occasion are Sena- tors Robinson of Arkansas, Tydings, Pittman of Nevada, Copeland of New York, Walsh of Massachusetts, Gerry of Rhode Island, Radcliffe of Mary- 1and, Duffy of Wisconsin and former Senator Hawes of Missouri. Entertainment Planned. Prominent among the New Dealers will be Harry L. Hopkins, work prog- ress administrator; Rex Tugwell, Un- dersecretary of Agriculture, and Her- man Oliphant, general counsel for the Treasury Department. The committee of Senators arrang- ing for the island party said today arrangements have been made for entertainment of all sorts, principally of an outdoor nature, including such sport as skeet shooting, crabbing, fishing, salling and bathing. a4 [