Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair, except local afternoon thundershowers today and tomorrow; little change in temperature. Tempera- tures—Highest, 98, at 4 p.m. yesterday: Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for & lowest, 72, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-5. (®) Means Associated Press. No. 1,583—No. 33,318. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1935.—100 PAGES. NEW DEAL FORGES POLITICAL WEAPON INPROBABLE QUIZ OF CRITIC LOBBIES Aggressive Strategy Ex- pected to Put Interests on Defensive— Co-ordinated Fight Suspected. HEAD OF FARM BUREAU CHARGES PACT OF FOES House Probe Chairman Says Rev- elations Trivial So Far-—Hopesj to Sift Thoroughly Charges nf; Influence on Votes in Con- gress. | | The Senate lobby investigation is being forged into a weapon on which New Deal supporters evidently ex-! pect to rely heavily during the com- ing year of political conflict. Senator Hugo L. Black, Democrat, of Alabama, chairman of the Lobby Committee, said yesterday that he was considering plans to investigate lobby- ing against the A. A. A, the Presi- dent’s tax proposals, the Guffey coal bill and T. V. A. He indicated, how- ever, that these phases of the inquiry would not be begun until the commit- tee had completed the investigation of lobbying against the Wheeler-Ray- burn public utilities holding company bill. Meanwhile, Representative John J. O'Connor, Democrat, of New York, declared the intention of the House | Rules Committee to dig deeper than| the Senate Committee into the lobby- | ing against the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. | ‘The House investigation is limited to| lobbying for and against this one bill, whereas the Senate committee has an unrestricted authorization to inves-| tigate lobbying. For their broader objectives, New Deal supporters necessarily are rely- ing on the Senate committee, on which the aggressive Senator Black is supported by two stanch Democratic New Dealers, by the liberal Senator | Lyan J, Frazier, Republican, of North | Dakota, and Senator Ernest Gibson, | Republican, of Vermont, who indi- cated by his questions this week that he was shocked by the methods and | extravagance of the Associated Gas & Electric Co. in combatting the| Wheeler-Rayburn bill. Aggressive Strategy Seen. In political circles, the Senate lobby investigation is being compared to the banking investigation of 1933 and 1934 as a means of keeping large corporate and financial interests on the de- fensive. In New Deal quarters, any | effective means of dramatizing the | opposition in these terms is welcomed. | Several of the President’s political ad- | visers are firmly convinced that the farmers and the smaller business men of the agrarian regions distrust large corporate and financial interests and the men behind them as much as they ever did and that this distrust is the most effective cement for the Presi- dent’s diverse political following. A direct charge, implying a com- ‘munity of interests behind opposition to current New Deal legislation, was filed with the Senate committee yes- terday by E. A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Feder- ation. O'Neal charged that the Asso- ciated Gas & Electric Co.,, which he described as “the same outfit which By Minority Leader Bitterin Attack Upon New Deal Program. | Defiance of Courts Held Evident in Course of Legislation. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. . “President Roosevelt has come peril- ously close to what some people call impeachable grounds,” declared Mi- nority Leader Snell in a prepared statement issued last night, which was evidently intended as campaign ma- terial for the presidential election next year, The Republican spokesman scath- |Ingly attacked the administration’s | entire legislative program, and espe- | cially the President’s “latest vagary”| | —the proposed wealth-sharing meas- | ure, and then turned to the President’s recent letter to Representative Samuel . Hill, Democrat, of Washington, urging House committee action on the Guffey coal control bill, despite any reasonable doubt of its constitutional- ity. “When the President wrote that,” said Representative Snell, “he cer- tainly was on the border line of vio- Impeachment Line A PP roached President, Snell Declares ! | _ MINORITY LEADER SNELL. lating his oath of office. In the same letter he urged this action to bring about a Supreme Court decision which would cjarify the constitutional limits within which the Government must | operate. The President was also for- jgl’tl‘ul of the fact that members of | (See IMPEACHMENT, Page 5.) A A A DEADLOCK HOLDS N SENATE Rayon Tax Beaten—U. S. May Ask Validation of Crop Contracts. By the Associated Press. Ten days of talking and balloting on the “New Deal” farm program yes- terday left the contested A. A. A. amendments far from completion by a nerve-frayed Senate. Unable to push the bill through by calling for a special Saturday session beginning two hours earlier than usual, Democratic Leader Robinson ended four hours of fervid but ap-| | parently futile argument by recessing over Sunday. But he ordered his charges back to work two hours earlier tomorrow. During yesterday’s proceedings the Senate rejected once again, 62 to 15, & proposal to put a compensatory tax on rayon and other competitors of cotton equal to 125 per cent of the processing tax on cotton; approved a revised committee amendment regu- lating Federal loans to cotton co- operatives, and bogged down on & proposal by Senator La Follette, Pro- gressive, of Wisconsin to impose im- port quotas to prevent foreign goods from interfering with domestic prices bolstered up by processing taxes. The question was carried over to Monday. Officials Are Alarmed. Alarmed by court decisions upset- ting various phases of A. A. A, the administration announced it would propose an amendment to the bill in- tended to validate present crop-con- trol contracts upon which the Gov- ernment is obligated for about $700,- 000,000. At A. A. A. headquarters it was in- dicated the validation was necessary to assure farmers they would get ben- efit payments even though the pro- cessing taxes were upset on constitu- tional grounds. With these contracts validated, the A. A. A. has a sort of “ace up its sleeve” in a provision in the $4,880,- 000,000 work-relief bill, inserted by Senator George, Democrat, of Geor- sent fake telegrams to Congressmen,” had inserted paid advertisements in | newspapers opposing the A. A. A.| amendments. i “Unless there is a community of | interests and a definite tie-up, why | should Associated Gas & Electric Co. | 0 out of its way to help defeat a bill | with which it is not concerned?” he | acked. | Forecasts Tie-up Discovery. | “I suspect,” he said, “that the Black committee would find a definite tie-up between these lobbies fighting legisla- tion to benefit the farmer and the | worker. | “The pressure against the amend- ments from a well-organized lobby has been so strong that there is grave danger the bill will be ruined and leave farmers without protective leg- islation. An effort is being made to destroy the farmers’ program, I think farmers will be heard from before this measure is disposed of.” | Meanwhile, evidence of a “concerted | attack by utility companies to pre- | vent the construction of municipal power projects voted by various com- munities” was reported by Harold L. (See LOBBY, Page 4.) gia, permitting payment of the bene- fit claims from that fund. Senator Russell, Democrat, of Geor- | gia, brought up the rayon tax issue, urging reconsideration of the vote of (See A A A, Page 4) HUNGARY MAY SWAP RED Willing to Give Up Bolshevik for $10,000,000 in Orders. BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 20 (#)—Mathias Rakosi, pecple’s com- missar when bolshevism held brief sway in Hungary in 1919, may be traded to Soviet Russia for $10,000,- 000 worth of Russian orders for Hun- garian goods, official circles indicated tonight. Rakosi, long center of bitter politi- cal quarreling, was convicted January 21 of several homicides and 489 other offenses alleged to have been com- mitted during his short tenure of office. He was sentenced to life im- prisonment. Rakosi is esteemed in Russia be- cause he is vice president of Com- munist International. Week’s Business Rise Strikes Optimistic Note, U. S. Finds By the Associated Press. Improved business last week in many sections of the country was noted yesterday by the Commerce De- partment. Seasonal influences and bad weath- er accounted for the greatest share of the slumps, the department’s weekly survey of trade in 33 principal cities showed. “Retail stocks generally were low,” the survey said, “and a rather gen- eral tone of optimism as to Fall busi- ness was manifested.” In both Boston and New York, the cotton processing tax decision unset- tled the cotton goods market. In New York it checked a “mildly bud- ding” movement of cotton goods. New York, however, reported a 9 per cent increase in retail sales above week last year. active. Better weather extended Chicsgo's retail pick-up, and wholesale goods houses experienced a *“good vol- ume of orders” Hotel business in the Tllinois city was almost as good &s it was duflx;:‘ the Century of Progress exhibition year. Boston reported & distinet pick-up REVVAL OF BONS *HAYDELAY TERW {New Move for Cash Pay- ment to Veterans Dis- cussed at Capitol. BY J. A. O'LEARY. A new move to revive the soldier | bonus issue is being discussed by some bonus advocates at the Capitol, and, | if it materializes, will constitute one | more obstacle for Congress to sur- | mount before it goes home. Some of the supporters of cash pay- ment of the adjusted service certifi- cates have worked out a modified plan, |as an amendment to one of the major bills remaining to be acted on. | How far such an effort would get | is problematical, in view of the veto that met the Patman bill two months ago, but if a revised measure is of- fered as a rider to one of the “must” ing sdministration leaders In trying to complete the program of the ses- slon, even though the new bonus move did not finally succeed. As the law stands, the adjusted aservice certificates were to run for them due in 1845. The Patman bill, | May, sought to bring about immedi- | value of the certificates. One of the arguments in the President’s veto mes- sage was that it meant paying $1,- | | 600,000,000 more than the present | value of the certificates. It was esti- | mated that the vetoed bill called for | @ total expenditure of $2,200,000,000. | The money to pay that bonus plan was to have been obtained by issuing new currency, with authority vested | in the Treasury to retire later some of the outstanding Federal Reserve notes and Federal Reserve bank notes. Would Change Law. The revised plan now being con- sidered by some of the bonus advocates would change the law by fixing Janu- ary 2, 1918, as the date from which to figure the 20-year period. One supporter of the proposal explained that date was midway between the declaration of war and the armistice. | The fixing of that date would make | the certificates due in January, 1938. The proposed plan alse would pro- vide that if a veteran wanted to cash in his certificate befcre the date of maturity, it would be discounted by the amount of the unearned interest. The present intention of those who have the proposal in mind is to pro- vide the funds by direcung the Presi- dent to lissue Treasury rotes under the authority contained in the Thomas monetary amendment to the farm relief act of May, 1933. That amend- ment gave the President optional power to take various means of ex- panding credit. One.of the alterna- tives. was to issue up to $3.000,000,000 in currency, to be retirea at the rate of 4 per cent annually. That is the provision of the 1933 law the bonus advocates are proposing to invoke if they make another effort to get action at this session. Thomas Considered Plan. Although the latest proposal would eliminate unearned - interest when certificates are cashed immediately, it brings the date of maturity much nearer than existing law. After the Patman bill had been vetoed, the House voted lo override by 322 to 98. In the Senate, however, the bonus advocates were unable to muster the required two-thirds and the President was sustained, the vote being 54 to 40. Shortly after the failure of that bill, Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma drafted a measure along the general lines of the proposal now being discussed, but it has not been made known who will offer the re- vised plan if it.is finally decided to resurrect the question. Meighan Is Convalescing. underwent an operation for a bronchial obstruction 10 days ago, was reported in “very favorable” condition today at . | Doctors Hospital. which, they indicate, may be offered | bills it will add to the problem fac- | 20 years, starting in 1925, which makes | which President Roosevelt vetoed in | | ate cash payment of the 1945 face | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION LUL N HEATHER CALSE BY STORM T0 BE SHORANED Five Deaths Attributed to Lightning and Sizzling Weather. MERCURY REACHES 98, SETTING YEAR’S RECORD Freak Thunder Showers Send Temperatures Tumbling, but New Rise Is Due Today. Official temperature readings here yesterday, as recorded at the Weather Bureau, follow: ool Following a day of record-breaking heat for the year in Washington, where the thermometer climbed to 98 degrees, a freakish thunderstorm last night drove the temperature down to | 74, but the Weather Bureau held out | little hope that_the cooler temperature would continue throughout today. Five deaths in and near Washing- ton were attributed to the heat and lightning during the storm. These included two men in Maryland and one in Virginia killed by lightning. heart condition aggravated by the heat. while in Baltimore another wom- an died of heat prostration as she was preparing to entgr a swimming pool. The new heat record for the year was established at 4 p.m.. when the | official reading of 98 degrees was re- | Pive | corded at the Weather Bureau. hours later the droppd 24 degrees. | Storm Hits Northwest Area. | ‘The thunderstorm, bringing with it | the cooler weather, struck in the Northwest section of the city, extend- ing from Georgetown and Potomac Heights, through Burleith, Wesley Heights, Cleveland Park and Chevy temperature had | Le Droit Park, but leaving intervening areas entirely dry. The business sec- tion at Fourteenth street and Park road was surrounded by rain, but got | none. | Only four one-hundredths of an inch of rain was recorded at the | Weather Bureau, but Chevy Chase, Burleith, Potomac Heights and near- by Maryland were drenched. | In other sections of the city, there | was no rain, but the drop in tempera- ture was general. ‘The forecast for today was generally fair, except for local thundershowers in the afternoon. There will be light winds, but little change in tempera- |ture. The same forecast was made | for tomorrow. When the storm hit the northwest area, lightning struck two homes. At the residence of Harry Lee Moffeit, 5524 Thirtieth place, a chip was knocked from a chimney, but no one was injured. The house at 5308 Twenty-eighth street, occupied for the first time Friday by J. B. Stubbs, alio was struck and a chimney was split and chips scattered on the roof. Power Service Crippled. At about the same time, Montgom- | ery County's telephone and electric power service was crippled by the lightning, and it took several hours to restore the services. | Just north of Forest Glen a dairy barn on the farm of F. J. Ehlers was struck apd fired by lightning and tel- ephones were knocked out in that vicinity. By the time volunteer fire- men could be called to the Ehlers farm the barn had been destroyed, but no live stock was harmed. Traffic_was held up at Glenmont (See WEATHER, Page 4.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1 to B-12. Ch: World—A-3. as| n Wayside—A-12. st and Found—A-9. Service Orders—A-12. Vital Statistics—B-12. Sports Section—Page$ 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. Fraternal and Service Organiza- tions—Pages D-4-5. Resorts—Pages D-6-7. Civic News and Comment—D-8. Short 8. . Serial St —D-9. ‘ou?—D-9. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-10. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-9. PART FOUR. “Thges Webe.the Happy. Days, ere by Dick ManstelaeF3 A colored woman died here of a N TRAFE DRNE | Chase to the base bdll stadiym and | .effort to curb the rapidly mounting | [Ty ARE ARRESTED 60 Held as Speeders First Day of New Effort to Cut Deaths. Approximately 60 motorists were ar- rested on speeding charges yesterday— more than four times as many as the previous day—as the Police Depart- ment went into action in Maj. Ernest | W. Brown's newly declared war on traffic violators. ‘The drive, instituted in a determined fatality list” in automobile accidents, resulted in more than 17§ arrests, in all, for trafic violations during the day. | Traffic Bureau officials, acting on ., sharp »from Maj. Brown and | Comm] aér Melvin C. Hazen to “bear down” on reckless drivers, said | the day’s work represented an increase | of nearly 50 arrests over Priday. Only | 13 speeders were arrested at that time. Many Given Tickets. | | Exact figures in the first day's| drive were not available last night be- cause, it was explained, a large num- ber of motorists had been given tickets | to appear in Police Court and had | not been taken to headquarters or to | precinct stations to post collateral. | Speeders, however, no longer will be given tickets, tnt will be taken immediately to precinect stations, un- der special orders issued late yesterday by the police supcrintendent. Maj. Brown instructed iaspectors and pre- cinct. captains to watlch particularly for 11 types of traffic violations. In- dividual police offi>er: were told that in all such cases “the offending motorist will be arrested and taken to the near- est precinct or hureau’ Speeding headed this list of offenses, which included, among others, reckless or careless driving, weaving ‘n and out of traffic and failure to comply with traffic lighis, Second Ofi Caught. ‘There were eight d-offense cases among yesterday's greup of speeding offenders. In each case the motorist was compelled to ceposit $100 col- lateral. Among others arrested, two were charged with driving ihrough red lights and six others were accused of failure to halt au stop signs. James E. Rice, 34, of 1339 Park road was arrested last night at Second street and Massachusetts avenue north- east after his car had struck Grant L. Hagen, 21, of 212 E street north- east as the latter stepped from a street car. Hagen was treated at Cas- ualty Hospital for a broken leg. Rice ‘was charged with passing & street car while discharging passengers. At the same time that Maj, Brown was issuing instructions for more vigi- lant enforcement a coroner’s jury re- turned the first “negligent homicide” verdict reached in the District since that statute was enacted. After almost two hours’ delibera- tion the jury investigating the death of John J, Gallagher, 40, of 512 G street returned the verdict against Sol Hindler, 22, of Baltimore and Paul F. Brown, 26, colored, 900 block of T street. Gallagher was run down Thursday (See TRAFFIC, Page 2.) e WEST REPORTED SLATED TO SUCCEED DICKINSON President’s Contact Man Rumored in Line for Assistant Com- merce Secretary. Charles West of Ohio. the Presi- Sunday St * FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS I UNDERSTAND WHY FRANKLIN LIKES To PLAY WITH THOSE Girl Seeks to End Tradition for Boys As Pages in Senate By the Associated Press. Congress never has employed a girl page and probably never will, but an 1l-year-old miss named Bird is trying her best to break down the barrier. Senator Robinson of Arkansas couldn’t remember her given name, but he said yesterday the little Bird girl came into his office the other day and insisted on a personal interview. Believed to be from Montgom- ery, Ala., with a father or mother working in a Government depart- ment here, the lass courtsied and stammered out: “Senator, I've noticed those boy pages working in the Senate and I know I could do that work fust as well.” Robinson told her he was sarry, ‘but that it just wasn’t being done. SENATE DEMANDS SAYONP.W.A 10BS Some Members Aroused by Report of Plan to Pre- vent Tests on Floor. By the Associated Press. Senatorial resentment was aroused yesterday over reports the administra- tion would insist on confirmation of four or five State works progress ad- ministrators in the face of opposition. In some instances it was understood the administration may even go to the extent avolding such tesis by transferring the nominees to other salary rolls or reducing. their pay. Senator” Murray, Democrat, of Mon- tana, who is opposing the nomination of Ray Hart as administrator for his State on the ground Hart has “done a lot of foolish things” and may be a candidate for Governor on the Re- publican ticket, said any effort to dodge Senate confirmation would be a “subterfuge and a wrong that should not be tolerated.” “The men ought to come squarely before the Senate,” he asserted, “for acceptance or rejection on their merits.” Salary Would Cover Two Jobs. That the administration might be considering such strategy of avoiding floor fights was indicated in & report that F. Witcher McCullough would be retained at sdministrator for West Virginia without his nomination even being submitted to the Senate. This, it was said, would be accomplished by i letting McCullough's pay as State di- rector for the National Emergency Council include his works job. The Governor of West Virginia is opposed to this nomination. Under the law all appointees in the Works Administration receiving $5,000 a year must be confirmed by the Senate. Nominations still pending before the Senate Approptriations Committee and facing opposition, besides Hart, are E. W. S. Key for Oklahoma, Paul D. Shriver for Colorado and C. B. Tread- way for Florida. Senator Trammel, Democrat, of Florida, is opposing Treadway, who is State highway commissioner and also Federal relief director. A State law provides such employes may not draw two salaries. It is understood Treadway may work without salary as works administrator to get around the law. Governor of Colorado has expressed opposition to Shriver. Murray said a representative of Works Administrator Harry L. Hop- kins had gone to Montana to try to straighten out the Hart situation with the head of the State Federation of [TALY PROTESTS SELASSIE SPEEG “Uncompromising Attitude Before Parliament Is Assailed. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 20—A Government spokesman today said Italy had pro- tested to Ethiopia against the “un- compromising attitude” taken by Em- | peror Haile Selassie in his speech be- fore Parliament Thursday, but denied ” | ance of diplomatic relations. (An Associated Press dispatch from | Addis Ababa said the Itaiian Minis- | ter, Count Vinci, protested verbally in vigorous language against the “bitter | tone” of the Emperor’s ,urted at- | tacks on Italy.) 2 | The foreign office, it was reporteq | earlier, was taking so serious a view | of strained relations with Ethiopia | that a rupture of diplomatic connec- | tions was imminent. | The spokesman said no official com- ment would be forthcoming until iEthlopin replied to the protest. Conciliation Hoped For. As Italy proceeded with its prepara- | tions for possible war, hope was ex- | pressed for conciliation of her dispute | with the African empire. Authoritative quarters said the Italo-Ethiopian Conciliation Commis- sion, which recently broke up in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, might meet again soon, thus obviating neces- sity for the projected special session of the League of Nations Council, ad- mittedly likely to be embarrassing for many league members. At the same time, the steamship Monte Bianco left Naples for East Africa with 100 officers and men and supplies aboard. A few hours later the Arabia sailed with 500. Almost 1,000 regular army officers got wartime pro- motions. Informed quarters, meanwhile, said the Italian charge d'affaires at Addis Ababa had been ordered to protest against the tenor of Emperor Haile i (See ETHIOPIA, Page 3.) MAIL BANDIT TO DIE IERI . May Moved From Alcatraz for Death in Chair. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 20 (#).— ‘W. D. May, convicted mail robber, was brought here today from the Alcatraz Island Federal Peniténtiary, and sen- tenced to death in the electric chair Beptember 6. The prisoner previously had been convicted of the murder of Jack Studivant of Abilene, Tex.,, who with Jack Rutherford and Harry Ruther- ford of Dallas, was shot to death in 1933. The three bodies—bound with wire—were found in the Trinity River near here. The triple slaying was be- leved to have resulted from a dispute over division of the $72,000 loot taken in a mail robbery here, By the Associated Press. JERUSALEM, July 20.—A band of ‘Wahabi warriors were reported today to have seized Lieut. Joseph Chamber- lain, son of Sir Austen Chamberlain, in Hejaz territory. Military authorities, urgently seek- ing information from Aman, capital of Transjordan, were informed that the start of negotiations for the young British officer’s release might be con- siderably delayed. Crossed Border Unwittingly. LONDON, Sunday, July 21.—The Sunday Times today publishes an in- terview with a foreign office official in which he is quoted as saying that reports of the “capture” of Lieut. Chamberlain were due to the detention of him and seven or eight compan- | the protest meant immediate sever- | Sale by Newsboys TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE BLOODLESS PURGE FOR NAZI TOTALITY TURNS UPON JEWS, CLERGY, VETERANS Catholics Chief Victims for Day as Hitler Aides Push Campaign to Rid Reich of “Reactionaries.” ALL MINISTERS ARE CALLED “SUBVERSIVE” Officials to Attend Churches To- day to Arrest Preachers “Be- smirching” National Socialism, Berlin Hears—Church Due to Make Formal Answer Later. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press ) BERLIN, July 20.—A new Nazi “purge” of “reactionary” opposition-- thus far bloodless—swept through the Reich with increasing impetus today, its chief victims or threatened victims Jews, clergymen and war veterans. Nazi publications and official spokesmen lumped Hebrews, Catholic and Protestant men of the cloth and members of the Steel Helmet veterans organization with hated Communists and other “reactionary” or *sub- versive” elements in the determined | fight to make National Socialism the faith and the religion of unified Germany. ‘The day’s developments included: 1. Julius Streicher, leading Jew- oaiter and publisher of the bitterly anti - Semitic newspaper Stuermer, announced he himself would head the drive to oust all Jews from Berlin or segregate them in ghettos. 2. A decree issued by the ministry |of the interior warned Catholic | priests to take care in what they said from their pulpits tomorrow concern- ing the Nazi drive against “political Catholicism.” Prosecutors were told | “quick proof of misdeeds must be fol- lowed by even quicker punishment.” Wholesale arrests of clergymen were predicted. Stahlhelm in Danger. 3. While Minister of Labor Franz Seldte, founder and leader of the Stahlhelm, tried frantically to reach | Adolf Hitler, reported “out of the country,” it was said secret police, | Who yesterday dissolved the veterans' | organizations in Thuringia and parts |of Silesia, would strike next at Schleswig and Mecklenberg. A sweep- |ing order abolishing the Stahlhelm | was expected. » 4. Secret police abolished the inter | national organization of cabaret, vaudeville and circus artists—bring- | ing them into the scope of the far- flung clean-up movement—because subversive elements allegedly were | included in it. 5. The papal nuncio, Cesare Or- senigo, visited the Wilhelmstrasse | where, Catholic circles said, he filed | the Vatican’s second protest of the | week against the anti-Catholic drive. With Der Fuehrer himself believed to be cruising off the Coast of Norway, the drive against “Nazi enemies” sped | forward with unrelenting vigor remi- | niscent of the internal bitterness | which developed into the June “blood | bath” of one year ago. Today's decree constituted virtual warning that Nazi authorities would sit in congregations in churches tomor- row armed with orders to arrest and charge with treason any one thought to besmirch Nazi-ism. It was expected, therefore, that vocal protests would be few. The more so since the annual conference of bishops at Fulda four weeks hence is expected to lay down definitely the church’s policy. Campaign Widespread. Indication of the extent of the cam- paign for Nazi totality came from many quarters. Motor lorries filed with police rolled along beside Nazis wao baited Jews | on the Kurfuerstendamm, reportedly there at the orders of Count von Helldorf, Berlin’: new police -head, who is an avowed arti-Semite Word from the proviuces said more and more towns and viliages were bar- ring Jews fram bath.ng places and i°"‘" public astablishments. Provincial papers began publishing names and addresses ¢f “Aryan” wom- en and Jews accused of intimate re- lations in defiance of the Nazi demand for “racial purity.” Meanwhile Stcel Helmeters were taking stock of their force, which ap- peared to be underrecing its supreme test. Seldte was suid by his entourage (See PURGE, Page 3.) { Austen Chamberlain’s Son Seized by Wahabi Warriors the party was detained by followers of Ibn Saud. “Of course,” the official said, “they never should have been allowed to cross the frontier. But all the land in that area is desert territory, and there really isinothing to mark the boundary. They were quite properly detained.” Chose Career. ‘The elder son of the veteran British statesman, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Joseph was early given the benefit of his father’s tutelage in politics. He was taken to the London meet- ings that led up to the signing of the Locarno pact in 1925, but two years later he announced he had decided upon a military career. He was sent to jein the Transjordan frontier force, where he became familiar with the primitive tactics of the fearless ‘Wahabi fighters. Ruthless in warfare, the Wahabis have enlarged their state of Nejd to include domination of nearly all of Arabia. They are a sect of purists, opposed to all innovations from Islam. They are followers of Mohammed Ibn Abdul Wahhab, reformer of the eight- eenth century.