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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today and tomorrow; little change in temperature; light to gentle winds. Temperatures—Highest, 84, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 10:30 a.m. yes- terday. Full report on page A-6. (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,582— No. 33,311 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, ‘D. C, TAX BILL “RAILROADED,” REPUBLICANS CHARGE, AS HEARINGS IN HOUSE END Doughton and Jenkins in Battle. WHITE HOUSE DURESS SEEN Sentiment Growing Sullen in Both Chambers. BY THEODORE C. WALLE With President Roosevelt sailing down Chesapeake Bay for a week end good-will outing with divergent Dem- ocratic elements, the House Ways and Means Committee brought to an end vesterday its public hearings on his tax - the - rich program, Democratic leaders of the committee irdicated the President would be urged to accept a substitute—such as a drastic excess profits tax—for his proposed stiffly graduated corporation tax and that, in any event, the committee’s tax bill would not be ready for reporting be- fore August 1. Over Republican protests against “railroading” vital legislation, the Democratic leadership had shown its determination to end the tax hearings on the House side yesterday, even if it took until midnight to do it. This was allowing a week for public hear- ings. The last witness in the room had been heard and Democratic and Republican members were engaged in & verbal tiff over the haste when Rep- “Must” Bills Mire Congress; i All-Summer Session Looms BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Mid-July finds Congress still tied | fast to the task of putting through | President Roosevelt’s “must” New Deal legislation—and little relief in sight Congressional leaders, who a week ago had hoped that the President would acquiesce finally in sidetracking | until next Fall the “share-the-wealth” | tax program which he has recom- mended, last night admitted that the prospects were not bright. “It looks now,” said Senator McNary of Oregon, Republican leader of the Senate, ‘as though the administra- tion and its leaders are intent upon going through with the tax bill. I do not see how we will get through be- fore September.” Democrats on Capitol Hill also were taking the position that there seemed no way out, although they admitted SENATE BODY ASKS ‘Glum Leaders See No Chance of Hold- ing Tax Program Over Till Fall. Other Measures Wait. I that the great majority of the mem- bers would like to put the tax meas- ure off for consideration and action until next November or December. Some of the members of Congress | last night were hopefully awaiting re- ports from the outing which the President and a number of the Demo- cratic congressional leaders, cabinet | officers and New Dealers are having over the week end at Jefferson Island. The tax bill is not all cf the troubles of the House and Senate. They have the President’s demand for pt ge of the Guffey coal bill, even though Congress may have reasonable doubts as to its constitutionality. There is coming alcng, too. the bill which would make it impossible to sue the Government in the Court of Claims | on the basis of the Government's re- | (See CONGRESS, Page 4 ‘SCHUSCHNIGE CAR the weary members of | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION wdy Stad SUNDAY BREACH OF PACT DENID BY ROME, ANSWERIG UL Anglo-U. S. United Front in Crisis Held Possible in London. ITALIAN PREPARATION CONTINUING UNABATED Vessels Crowding Harbor of Mas- saus as Men Labor in Heat to Land War Supplies. | Italian authorities in Rome yesterday | | received Secretary of State Hull's| statement of support for the Kellogg- Briand peace pact with the asser- | tion that they had “in no way’ violated the agreement to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy. In London Hull's statement evoked the comment that an Anglo-| American “united front” againsi | war in Africa is possible if the| United States will join Great Britain in such a move. In Africa military precautions on the part of Italy moved forward with unabated intensity. Massaua, the | chief seaport in the Italian colony | of Eritrea, was described as a city of soldiers and stevedores, laboring strenuously to move men and sup- plies into the zone where hostilities are expected in September. LOBBY CASH DATA Committee Wants to Know Von Starhemberg May Get FOUND DEFECTIVE resentative John W. McCormack, Dem- ‘ ocrat, of Massachusetts forced a show- | down on immediate adjournment. This was in the early afternoon. Challenged by Jenkins. if Consumers Must Pay for Fight. | By the Assoctated Press. | Chairman Doughton insisted maz‘*‘ rALr;mveerort uu: g:ivrrn;rlnem:k;;l‘il:: consumers must pay v all persons that had been asked to| appear had been heard. His defense | industry’s fight against abolition of of the brief hearings brought a sharp‘) its holding companies was begun last challenge from Representative Thomas ' night by the Senate Lobby Commit- A. Jenkins, Republican, of Ohio, a | tee. member of the committee, who charac- | Elaborate questionnaires went for- terized the statement of the chair- | Ward to all companies known to have man as “an apology.” Mr. Jenkins| Participated. They asked the source sharply criticized the plan of holding | 0f funds supplied for the battle as hearings before any bill was drafted, | Well as information on how, when and but Mr. Doughton, along with Repre- | Where and by whom it was spent. sentative Samuel B, Hill. Democrat, of | _ Already the committee was in one Washington, insisted this was the | Public controversy over material usual procedure. taken by its investigators. Philip H. Chairman Doughton announced | Gadsden, chairman of the Committee that the committee would meet in | Of Public Utility Executives, termed executive session to shape the bill | the seizure of his committee’s records probably Monday, July 22. Meantime, | & “raid and an outrage.” ::;P:&i ;'Htl v;zrk Dzn ;‘t and try to | Black Is Astonished. it. Mr. Doughton explained | Byt Chairman Black, Democrat, of ;"l‘_:;f:; ;‘::';f;;lsleie‘;;l;d ha“le other | Alabama, expressed astonishment at ek it all next | Gadsden's statement, ‘ssued after his e situation 4 ai d return to Philadelphia. He noted st Sl :u‘c‘;‘: bd"““ l“ Gadsden made no complaint when Hote Tesei i gus ore the | appearing before the committee, but X bill and late in | toid it he would be glad to make all August before the Senate and House | pjs = concurred, despite the President’s de-. | (oo oS Available. A s Je | In its new questionnaire Black said tion and adjourn Congress b'm g- theSoommiee o wioind S0 PEnCE el Y mid- | whether the expenditures went onto 5 the books of the companies and, if so, New Agreement Operating. whether they were entered in a way The new working arrangement de- | which might cause increased rates. veloped by the President and Demo- Meanwhile the committee tempo- cratic leaders in their “political self- | rarily abandoned its hearings. They preservation” conference at the White | already had revealed an expenditure House last Tuesday, was operating on | of $300,000 by Gadsden’s committee, both ends of Pennsylvania avenue, | which did not include sums used by however. The President and the | individual power company officials congressional chieftains, after seeing J who came to Washington. the House Democratic majority split | For a few days the committee will wide open on the public utilities hold- | be busy examining returns from fts ing company bill, saw that politically | questionnaires and the controverted they would “hang separately” if they | records it seized, to the indignation did not hang together. | of Gadsden, at the Mayflower Hotel In line with the common disposi- = here. tion to resist implications of executive | “dictatorship,” the President, yester- day, and Chairman Doughton, today. Question Asked. Black said the questionnaires asked | the power companies “who spent the objected to the journalistic use of the term “must” legislation. Chairman Doughton explained that the term “must” was used by those who would create the impression that the Presi- | dent was a dictator. Representative Jenkins persisted, mevertheless, in the open comuiittee hearing today that the evidence of “duress” from the White House was unmistakable, and later saw further support for that theory in the word that the Democratic side of the com- mittee would consult the President on the general outlines of their tax bill before trying to reduce it to writing. Doubts on Graduated Tax. A Democratic leader of the commit- tee confided later that, while the other phases of the President’s tax program to redistribute wealth were apparently satisfactory to a majority of the com- mittee, there were distinct doubts about the graduated corporation tax. ‘These are the doubts that are to be carried to the President. The administration graduated cor- poration tax plan would replace the flat present 13% per cent tax on net corporate incomes by a graduated tax (See TAXES, Page 4.) INJUNCTION QUASHED, OBVIATING DOCK STRIKE Longshoremen and Steamer Com- panies Must Handle Union- Hauled Freight. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 13.—Strike clouds which had hovered menacingly over the entire New York waterfront since January were dissipated today, fol- lowing a ruling by the appellate divi- sion of the Supreme Court. ‘The court quashed an injunction restraining union longshoremen and steamship companies from refusing Lo handle freight hauled to the piers by non-union truckmen. In a 25-page opinion, the court up- held the contention of Montana’s Senator, Burton K. Wheeler, special counsel for the union locals, that the dispute involved matters of interstate commerce that could be adjudic: 'only by a Federal agency. . | money, what they did with it, where they spent it, how they spent it and where the money came from.” It { went, he added, to a large number of holding companies, their associates ! and subsidiaries. | By this method the committee hopes also to establish how much the companies spent in their own terri- tories, in advertising and in circular- izing stockholders and consumers with requests to write or wire their Repre- sentatives in Congress. Reply Made to Record Taking. | organization's expenditures. To his denunciation of the taking of his records, H. A. Blomuuist, slim com- mittee investigator, replied it was im- possible to distinguish between per- sonal and official files, that employes of the Utility Committee were pres- ent when he and other investigators visited their headquarters, and that Gadsden came in before they were finished and expressed no indigna- tion. Black added that Gadsden’s state- ment was “probably an afterthought suggested by his $150,000 lawyers.” Gadsden Friday gave the Lobby | Committee the $300,000 figure of his Power as Crash Kills . Chancellor’s Wife. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, July 13—Wreckage of the | motor car that almost cost the life of | Austria’s chancellor, killed his wife jand thrust new power into the tands of militant Prince Ernst von S'arhem- berg tonight yielded evidence of a defective steering gear. | Experts who conducted an exami- nation of the death machine said they were convinced of the defects, but were unable to determine what had caused them. Acting swiftly upon reports of the injury to Chancellor Kurt Schusch- | nigg, the cabinet tentatively decided to place Von Starhemberg, chief of |the Heimwehr, Austria’s Fascist | “private army”, in the posi of chan- cellor. In the tragic accident, near Linz Frau Schuschnigg, 34, was killed and their son, Kurt, jr. 9 seriously hurt. | Their car hit a tree. | Chancellor Prays at Bier. Suffering severe nervous shock and a shoulder injury, the grief-striken chancellor left his hospital bed at Linz to pray briefly at the Carwelite Church, where Frau Schuschnigg's body lies. Then he returned to Lhe brothers of Charity Hospital, where he confer- red tonight with Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, Prgsident of Austria, who alone has the power to appoint a successor if he is convinced that Schuschnigg must permanently relinquish his leader- ship. In the country-wide radio broadcast tonight, the Austrian public was told by Propaganda Chief Walter Adam that the chancellor escaped death literally by inches. Schuschnigg, he said, was hurled from the car, and struck head first on soft earth a few inches from a | jagged stone at the side of the high- | way. His shoulder was injured Jsligmly On the other hand, Adam | said, Frau Schuschnigg was tnrown from the machine so violently that her neck was broken and she died | almost immediately. | Crash Held Accidental. | Earlier, authorities reportea the | crash purely accidental and .n ail | probability due to the chaliffcur’s be- | ing affected by the heat. The car was traveling 50 miles an nour. | The chancellor was so shaken and his nervous shock so severe that phy- sicians who worked on him in the (See SCHUSCHNIGG, Page 3.) Mrs. MacDonnell Wins Suit. RENO, Nev., July 13 (®).—Mrs. Marguerite G. MacDonnell of La Jolla, | Cal today was awarded $10,000 punitive and $30,000 actual damages | in her $75,000 alienation of affections suit against Mrs. Bessie R. Arnott of Reno and Los Angeles. Mrs. MacDonnell had charged Mrs. Arnott with allenating the affections of her late husband, Maj. John Grant MacDonnell, retired Army officer and former assistant director of the Vet- erans’ Bureau in Washington, D. C., who died here May 25. Provision of air conditioning for the remainder of the Capitol Build- ing and the House and Senate Office Buildings is being given favorable consideration by the Senate Appro- priations Committee, it was reported yesterday following a meeting of the body. At present only the House and | Senate chambers and a few of the | committee rooms are air conditioned. The change is contemplated in an amendment to the deficiency bill, now in the hands of the committee. The committee is believed to be seriously -considering a change in the bill to provide for a new building for the general accounting office instead of enlarging the Pension Building, in \| Judiciary Square, now occupied by Air-Conditioning Studied by Senate Committee All Capitol the accounting agency. The House bill contained $2,000,000 toward an ultimate authorization of $4,700,000 to add two wings to the Pension Office structure and to remodel the exterior, There is reported to be strong sen- timent in the Senate Committee for & new building at some other loca- | tion, which would leave Judiciary | Square available for a new District Supreme Court Building at some fu- ture time. The final decision of the committee will not be announced, however, until tomorrow. It is expected the Senate will ap- prove the supplemental estimate of $150,000 for the District Water De- partment, since it comes from water McMillan Park filtration revenues, to replace puma at the | Si Rome Blames Ethiopia. ROME, July 13 (#).—Authoritative | sources emphasized tonight that Italo- Ethiopian boder Incidents were not | Italy’s choosing, claiming that' | Ethiopia was responsible for a series of unfriendly actions. | This attitede was expressed as these authorities. commenting on Sec- retary of State Hull's declaration in support of the Kellogg-Briand pact, | asserted ‘hat Italy in “no way" has | violated that treaty outlawing war. Would Attend Council Session. | The suggestion was made that Italy | would attend e meeting of the League of Nations Council if that body should be convened to deal with the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, although it | was stated that Italy would oppose | | “taking orders” from the Council. Meanwhile, Italy is watching closely the political aspects of construction of the enormous dam at Lake Tsana, Ethiopla, surveyed by an American company. the J. G. White Engineer- ing Corp. | Lake Tsana is the source of the Blue Nile and subsequently the Nile, | irrigating and fertilizing sections of Egypt. The dam is to guarantee a | constant reserve for the Nile. i Negotiations to a Head, Negotiations which have been going on for years among the British, Egyp- | tian, Sudanes: and Ethiopian govern- ments, have been brought to a sud-| den head. it s believed here, by the Italian military preparations in East| Africa. In effect, Italy does not favor the plan. It giver money to Ethiopia, | with whom she will undoubtedly be at war this Autumn. It gives Egypt, and therefore. England, vested rights | in Ethiopia, which will be embarras- | sing later on United Front Is Hinted. LONDON, July 13 (#).—Great Brit- ain, anxiously watching the develop- ment of the crisis between Italy and | Ethiopia, received today with intense interest Secretary of State Hull's declaration in support of the Kellogg- | Briand pact. | The American statesman's attitude | was interpreted in some influential | circles as indicating the United States | saw_eye-to-eye with Great Britain | (See ROME, Page 3.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1 to B-5. | Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—B-5. Lost and Found—A-11, Death Notices—A-11. Vital Statistics—A-9. Service Orders—A-17. Civic News and Comment—B-6. Sports Section—Pages B-7-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-11. PART TWO. | Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. | Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. i Organization Activities and Fra- ternal News—Pages D-4-5, Resorts and Travel—D-6-7. Serial Story—D-8. Who Are You?—D-9. PART THREE. Society Section. | Society News and Comment— | Pages E-1-13. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-12. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1-4. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on 0Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Happy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-3. Books—F-4. Stage and Scree: Musjc—F-6. Radio News and Programs—F-T7. Automobiles—F-8. Aviation—F-8. Children’s Page—F-9. High Lights of History—F-9. PART FIVE, Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1-4. Chsamsedn‘ Advertising — Pages x}—F-S. tamps—G-5. Short Story—~G-5. MORNING, JULY 14, /// /; 1935 —112 PAGES. % HE'S DOWN THERE LL RIGHT!--IT'S JUST A QUEST! OF WHAT BAIT A CHANCE FOR ARTFUL ANGLING! Not for IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS 10N | uates Are Revealed Unco-ordinated 1$91,000,000 Is Distributed ' s2 | N mwon |Tests for Kindergarten-Primary Grad- With College Curriculum. An apparent lack of co-ordination between the Wilson Teachers’ Col- lege curriculum and requirements set-up by the Board of Examiners of the District school system has been brought to light with the discovery that four- | of the Committee on rubl! fifths of this vea jobs for which they Of 14 Wilson graduates who tool the examination for positions as kin- dergarten or primary teachers this year only three passed. These three did not receive the highest grades at Wilson. One of five applicants from out of the city was successful. In 1934 the Wilson College graduated 11 kindergarten-primary students and kindergarten-primary graduates failed to qualify for the pent four years of specialized study. | = | tion of $91,000,000 between the areas, | were announced nine qualified for jobs in the Wash- ! ington schools in the June examina- | ticn of that year. A second examina- tion in the following November placed | six additional names on the eligible list. Twenty kindergarten-primary | Jjobs were filled that vear and there " (See TEACHERS, page 7.) FOR HEALTH FUND Add $61,240 Vital to District Program. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Prospects appeared hiight last night for inclusion in the :=ccnd deficiency appropriation bill of additional funds for the District Health Department, deemed essential by loral authorities to carry on an adequate public health program during the coming year. The Appropriatioss Committee, | which met for more ‘han two hours yesterday on the deficiency measure, is believed to be ready to recommend the local health itein, amounting to $61.240, favorably. The committee, however, did not finish consideration | of other phases of the bill, and will not announce its action on any amend- | ments until the bill is completed The committee expects to report the | bill at another meeting tomorrow aft- ernoon. King Leads in Program. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, chairman of the District Legislative Committee, has taken the lead in bringing to the atteniion of the ap- propriations group :he need for the additional funds for tae local Health Department. In order to better safe- guard the health of the community, Health Officer Ruhland and the Com- missioners are anxious to extend pub- lic health nursing work and medical inspection in the schools. If, as appeared likely yesterday. the committee places the amendmepts in the bill, it is expected the Senate will approve it. The final siep then would be to have it considered by the House | and Senate conferees. chairman Informa- tion of the Medical Society of the District, yesterday addressed the fol- lowing letter to The :=tar concerning the difficulties encouniered in the efforts to get the additional funds: “Two factors of importance with reference to the obstacles in the way " (See HEALTH, Page 3. FORECLOSURE FACED BY MRS. BOETTIGER Suit Is Filed Against Estate of President's Daughter and Former Husband. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 13.— A foreclosure suit against Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, President Roose- velt’s daughter, was filed in Supreme Court today. The foreclosure notice was filed against the estate occupied by Mrs. Boettiger and Curtis B. Dall, her first husband. The property is in Ossining, Mount Pleasant and Briarcliff Manor. The suit was brought by Louis H. Pink, State superintendent of insur- ance, as liquidator of the Westchester Title & Trust Co. Dall and two ciher persons were named co-defendants. Pink charged that Mrs. Boettiger and Dall borrowed $65,000, giving as security a mortgage on the property, and that they have been in default on interest since June 1, 1934. The suit stated also that the principal still due totals $58,000 and that tnere are unpaid taxes, Dr. Herbert P, Rams PROSPECTS BRGHT COST OF RELE - DECLINES IN JUNE | Second Deficiency Bill May 249,897 Fewer Persons on aliotments will be used for the vari- | Rolls—Private Jobs | Show Increase. | By the Associated Press. | A more than seasonal decline in | the June relief population of 140 of the larger cities yesterday cheered the men in charge of President Roose- velt's long-delayed $4.000.000.000 work program. | Instead of 2,070,640 families and single persons—the number supported | | wholly or in part by the Federal| | Government during May—there were | 2,003,073 in June. This was a decline | of 33 per cent, which relief officials | said meant a drop of 249,897 individ- uals. The cost of relief dropped $4.450,459. Harry L. Hopkins, who hopes soon | to liquidate his relief administration aund limit Federal activities to works | progress, attributed the declines to | pick-ups in private business, although | warmer weather also helped cut | expenses. | As “noteworthy” instances of in- | creased employment, he cited the automobile industry at Flint, Mich., | and the reopening of a large textile | mill at Winston-Salem, N. C. i Peak Reached in December. ‘The peak relief load was attained | in December instead of in March, as !in the previous Winter. The rolls | have deciined every month this year. | At the close of the second week of the month, which the President an- | nounced would start the work relief lprogrem. officials said only a few hundred had jobs. Rivers and harbors projects, which | already have provided most of the | employment, are expected to get more | steam behind them in August and ultimately provide 50,000 jobs. High- way and grade crossing regulations, approved by the President yesterday, will permit a beginning on the $400 - 000,000 allotment soon, although all | projects must be approved indi- | vidually. The May-June report showed that relief rolls declined most in three Georgia cities—Atlanta, 16 per cent; Augusta, 22 per cent; Savannah, § per cent—where Hopkins' dispute with Gov. Talmadge culminated in the order that all unemployables be | taken off relief during June. Four-Fifths of Wilson Class . i” AREAS [}REMEU, Fail in Teacher Examinat FOR FARMERS' AID | Between Regions in Rural | Rehabilitation. By the Associated Press. Establishment of 11 regions for rural rehabilitation and the distribu- | pov Rex- ad- yesterday by ford G. Tugwell, resettlement ministrator. The $91.000,000 was allocated re- cently to the Administration by the | President from the $4.000,000,000 | works appropriation, and is for the x-month period, July 1 to Decem- | ber 31, 1935. Officials explained that no break- down of the fund bv States will be made. Under plans now being drafted. specific projects will be planned where the Administration determines a need. Then individual allotments will be made wi specific projects. ithin the regions for Expenditures Undecided. It has not been determined, officials said. what portions of the regional ous purposes permitted under the re- settlement program. Thus in one region, a larger amount might be used for loans and grants to families than in another. In a second region, greater expenditures might be made to purchase land for relocation of families. The $91.000,000 fund. officials said. may be used for the following pur- poses: To make loans or grants, or both, to individual families for livestock, farm supplies, farm equipment, re- pairs and taxes for farms, and for subsistence, food and clothing to facilitate the rehabilitation of these groups on a self-sustaining basis. ‘To purchase or lease land for the relocation of families living on sub- standard land in stricken areas. ‘To establish, maintain and operate agricultural-industrial communities, 300,000 Families in Program. ‘The program, officials sald, calls for Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Sale by Newsboys CENTS ELSEWHERE KIDNAPER'S WIFE, CONVICTED, SAYS SHE 15 SATISFIED Margaret Waley Found Guilty on Two Counts in Weyerhaeuser Case. |TEN 'LIFE IMPRISONMENT IPOSSIBLE ON EACH COUNT Feared Acquittal After Told She Faced State Trial and Death Penalty. By the Associated Press. TACOMA. Wash., July 13—Nine- teen-year-old Margaret Waley was convicted swiftly of both “Lindbergh law” and conspiracy charges by a Federal jury here today for her al- legedly unwilling participation in the $200.000 kidneping of curly-haired George Weyerhacuser. In 4 hours and 45 minutes a j of 10 men and 2 women waded through legal technicalities to reaci the decision 1. The 9-yeer-old heir had keen taken across the Wash- ington-Idaho line by his kidnapers, thus warranting application of the .indbergh law.” 2. She assisted actively in trans- porting the bey across the State line. 3. She actively conspired, despite her protestatiors to the contrary, with | her husband, Harmon M. Waley, and \me fugitive William Dainard, alias ahan. to snaich the boy and collec 00.000 ranscm Shows No Emotion. ber fortune by her attorneys as a child of abe ty. took the verdict without flicker of emction. Federal Jucge E. E. Cushman st next Wednesday morning for pro nouncement of sentence. The juris who sentenced Waley to 45 years i ! prison on a plea of guilty to simila: charges, gave no inkling of what hi Jjudgment woulc be. Life sentences are possible on charges. On the other hand, the la sets no minimum, Mrs. Waley said in a statement “I am satisfied with tha verdict a (T told the truth and tried to plead {guilty. I did not know I was in | eriminal conspiracy until my husbar was involved in it, after which I we: through with it rather than betray the man I love.” Feared Acquittal, Earlier, sitting in the court room waiting for the judge to enier, e had bitten her lips nervously as she talked with United States Marshal A. J Chitty and kneaded a green-edged handkerchief in her fingers. Chitty quoted her as saying: “My goodness, I hope tihat doesn't acquit me.’ Her attitude in this respect had been described by her attorney, J F. Dore, the result of warnings I Federal agents that she would be t under a State law providing the deaih penalty unless she subjected herself to Federal jurisdiction. Thrice she had attempted to plead guilty, but Judge Cushman rejected that and ordered the trial which ended so swiftly today. Judge Cushman was called upon | twice by the jury for additional in- structions to lead them through the legal conceptions of conspiracy and the transportation of the youth :in interstate commerce. | The plump voung woman. describ | b Prosecutor Gives Warning. the J. with Attorney verdict Charl Coincidental United States the rehabilitation of 300,000 farm fam- | Dennis issued a statement saying: ilies. In addition, efforts will be made | “On behalf of the Department of to resettle 50,000 families on better |Justice, I hereby serve notice upon land. | each and every member of the under- It was reported President Roosevelt | World that any assistance, aid, or en- may send to the Senate for confirma- tion within the next week or 10 days the names of the directors of the 11 regions. Funds allocated to the regions. offi- | cials said, will be used to maintain projects already launched by other agencies absorbed by the Resettlement (See RESETTLEMENT, Page 5) BRAZILI AN KILLED Borrowed U. S. Embassy Car Strikes Lawyer in Rio. RIO JANEIRO, July 13 (#)—A bor- rowed automobile bearing the dip- lomatic license plate of the United States Embassy killed a prominent Brazilian lawyer yesterday. The oc- cupant, said to be a Brazilian, fled the scene of the accident and his whereabouts remain unknown. Police said the car had been loaned to George A. Gordon, an embassy at- tache who expects to sail Monday to a new post with the Minister of Haiti | The victim was Jose Dacruz | Cordeiro, 64. The widow and four small children of Sterling Calhoun, jobless colored laborer who became a public hero when he sacrificed his life for two drowning childrea, are assured shelter, food and clothing through the gener- osity of sympathetic citizens. Calhoun will be given a proper funeral today with funds provided by men, women and children of both races, who made spontaneous contri- butions when they learned that his body was destined for potter’s field and that his family was in dire need. More than $600 had been collected from sundry sources last night as sym- pathizers continued to send donations to The Star, the Daily News and other receiving centers. With a total of .71 in The Star fund, The Star night srranged Care Assured Hero’s Family By Generosity of Citizens with the Salvation Army to administer the money to the family. Maj. James Asher, head of the Salvaticn Army, agreed to disburse the money to the best advantagé of the family and to make a formal accounting later for publication in The Star. A list of ad- ditional contributions is printed in an- other column. ‘The Salvation Army was asked to undertake the mission of mercy be- cause of its long experience in family rellef work, coupled with the esteem in which it is held by members of both races. The army has a colored branch and colored staff workers who are thoroughly familiar with case work among members of their race. Calhoun had lost a “work-relief” job (See . , Page 5.) couragement given to the fugitive Wil- | liam Dainard otherwise known as Bill Mahan, will be followed by indictment | and prosecution to the full extent ol | the law.” (The Tacoma Daily Ledger said to- night it was informed “on good au- thority” that Dainard would be cap- | tured or killed by Federal Bureau of | Investigation agents within two days. ‘The Ledger said that word that the re- lentless army of G-men are closing in on Dainard followed Dennis’ ulti- matum to underworld characters aid- ing the fugitive.) | The contention of Mrs. Waley that | she was under the domination of her | husband had brought a denouncement from Government attorneys, who said | she thus had been trying to hide be- | hind the Mormon religion to escape punishment Judge Cushman instructed the jury that a person’s religious creed could not be recognized as a defense. Waley recently pleaded guilty to | similar charges and was sentenced to | 45 years in prison. Pictured as Gangster “Moll.” Assistant United States Attorney Owen P. Hughes, in his summation, pictured the blond Mrs. Waley as a cold-blooded gangster “moll.” John F. Dore, former mayor of Seattle and chief defense attorney, de- fended the young wife's religion claim and her witness stand statement that she feared to interfere with the kid- naping because of threats by Manan. ‘The defense attorney brought Mrs. Waley's family and economic back- | ground into his argument when he declared she was the child of a father “who has no occupation other than filling up the house with children he can’t support.” He said he did not consider the $200,000 ransom important—"from some one who can afford it"—and ce- clared that to convict the young woman would be a worse crime than theft of the money. “People who judge a girl like this with an empty stomach,” Dore as- serted, “ought to have empty stomachs themselves.” Testimony in the trial, which started Tuesday, ended yesterday when the vernment concluded a brief cross-ex: tion of Mrs. Waley.

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