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DEMOCRATS VISION PARTY SPLIT SOON New Deal Court Views Seen Likely to Speed Con- servative Revolt. The New York Herald Tribune prints the following dispatch to- day jrom Washington: With Bainbridge Colby, former Sec- retary of State in the Wilson adminis- tration, acting as a leading sponsor of the movement, discussions among & group of conservative Democrats have reached the point, it was learned yes- terday. where the possibility of a na- tional conference to throw their strength openly against the New Deal has been discussed. A proposal has even been made privately to well known Democrats in the anti-Roosevelt camp that a full- fledged convention be called next | Spring, shortly in advance of what would be the regular Democratic con- vention, for the purpose of discussing policies and perhaps even nominating a candidate. The idea of picking a date preced- ing the usual June convention would be to avoid the stigma of having the | meeting called a rump convention. Might Usurp Top Ranking. One proponent of the plan is even optimistic enough to believe that a sufficient representation of old-line | Democrats could be brought to an anti-New Deal convention to lay the basis for a claim that it was the regu- lar convention while the other was a | collection of beneficiaries or seekers of | “patronage and Government doles.” This development came simulta- neously with the violent break of Albert C. Ritchie, former Guvernor of Mary- land and several uUmes a hopeful aspirant for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination, away from the Fed- eral administradon. Mr. Ritchie. be- lieved still to ho!d pel:itical ambitions, declared that the N*w Deal was “on the rocks” and the t:me for a change, after a patient period of waiting, was | at hand. . It came also as efforts of Clark Howell, Atlanta publisber and friend of President Roosevelt, failed to bring about peace betweea the White House and Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Geor- gia, a Democratic Staie executive, who has been bitter in his attacks on Mr. Roosevelt and the “madhouse” of the ! New- Deal. Oppesition Unified. Conservative Deniocrats in the Sen- afe have been wary of the first ap- proaches of outs:de members of their | party looking ioward a new align- ment, but the administration’s hints at constitutional changes, plus its | pressing of tae “ceath sentence” utility bill, the tax oill and the meas- wures to prohibit suiis against the Gov- ¢érument on the gold clause or the A. A. A. processing taxes, have helped | o cement conservative opposition. Senator Carter Glass, veteran Dem- ocrat of Virginia, will be driven even further into the anti-adminis:ration eemp when' his banking bill-reaches B8 floor of the Senate next week, Ad- ministration figures Pave indirectly served notice that ther will refuse to “humor” him any longer and that they will fight for a crastic alteration ©f his bill. The general plan for a convention ©f “regular” conservative Democrats, proposed to members of the party ‘Washington, would apparently look 0 an alliance later with the Repub- Heans in a joint campaign against the Te-election of President Rosevelt. The Democratic conservative meeting might possibly nominate a candidate for President or Vice President, one or the other, and leave the later Repub- lican convention to complete a ticket. Seek Formidable Line-up. . Whether or not these proposals ma- ture, they have been pressed suffi- eiently to be the subject of letters and telephone calls to the Capital. The aponsors have no doubt that by next Spring they can marshal a formidable Uist of names for a New Deal boit. The convention idea would be a further step beyond the private con- ference of a dozen leading conserva- tive Democrats which Mr. Colby sug- gested last May in a batch of letters to potential participants. Mr. Colby, ‘who is urging a Republican-conserva- tive Democratic coalition, proposed a ghthering in a Southern city such as Richmond. Old-line Democrats in Congress refused to follow along with Mr. Colby publicly but the chance of future action was not foreclosed. .With the spotlight turning on the Sgpreme Court next Winter and the probability admitted to be existing tHat some major items of New Deal tion may be declared unconsti- tional, impetus may be given to a cgnservative rift in the Democratic party. This would be because the Phesident in all probability would turn t0 a popular test on constitutional change. Inevitably the result would bé to drive many conservative mem- bers of his party into an open revolt which they have thus far shunned. (Oopyright, New _Yorl - 1935} Herald-Tribune, JAPANESE IMPORT LEVY HELD TREATY VIOLATION Prime Minister Bennett Fights Application of 509 Surtax to Canadian Goeds. By the Zssociated Press, OTTAWA, July 20.—Application by the Japanese government of a 50 per cent surtax on Canadian imports to Japan will be considered a violation of the Anglo-Japanese treaty of 1911, Prime Minister Bennett announced today. Japan’s action, announced in Tokio yesterday, will be followed by an im- position of a 33 1-3 per cent ad valorem surtax on Japanese goods entering Canada, the prime minister announced. Canada became a signatory of the ?a?o-npmue commercial treaty in The Star yesterday received the following additiona) contributions to the relief fund for the family of Sterling Calhoun, colored laborer, who drowned with two white children he sought to save: . Waorkmen of Fred Drew Co., Kennedy Warren addition. $46.10 F. J. McCarthy. Heads Elks JUDGE ELECTED RULER AT COLUMBUS. JUDGE JAMES T. HALLINAN. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks unanimously elected Judge Hallinan of the New York Supreme Court grand exalted ruler of the order early this week at Columbus, Ohio. Judge Hallinan succeeds Michael F. Shannon of Los Angeles.—Wide World Photo. ACREENENTNEA ONTABLLRATE Doughton Hopes Measure Will Be Reported by End of Week. By the Associated Press. Indications of a near agreement on iimportan\ rates in the admistration tax bill emerged last night from the | House Ways and Means Committee. Leaving the conference of commit- tee Democrats, Chairman Doughton, Democrat of North Carolina said = tentative bill probably would be ready for the full committee Tuesday or | Wednesday, and the measure reported out before the end of this week. He said the President was as anx- jous as Congress for adjournment and that every effort would be made to expedite the tax measure, the major | barrier. : “We are doing our best to get out the bill and we feel certain we can do it this week” he asserted. “We realize that Congress is nervous and restless and want to reassure the country that there will be no undue delay.” Committee sources asserted outright that no decision had been reached, even tentatively, on how far the taxes should dip into inheritances and the larger incomes. The full committee is to meet Monday to discuss some points of divergent opinions. Doughton emphasized the tentative draft would be of little significance, merely providing something tangible from which to start writing the bi in final form. . Some committeemen were speaking of a bill to raise as much as $350,- 000,000, but others talked of a top of $250,000,000. Talk circulated of tying up 2 capi- tal stock tax with an excess profits tax. One member sald the former not only would be a source of revenue, of excess profits levies. A number of committeemen, includ- ing Doughton, are looking with some favor on substituting excess profits taxes for the graduated taxes on cor- porate incomes sought by the Presi- dent. Doughton disclosed that several sommitteemen were at odds on inherite ances at yesterday’s session of Demo- crats, but another source said only minor differences were discussed. One was the point that blood relatives should be given a greater exemption than noh-relatives. RUST ‘SPREAD SEEN IN MINNESOTA AREA North Dakota Is Hopeful Threat to Wheat Fields Is Avoided. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, July 20.—Fresh reports today told of the spread of rust, cur- rent threat to Northwest wheat crops, into new territory, at the same time favorable weather conditions to com- ant the plague reached another sec- on. “The picture can’t be“any blacker than it has been painted for Minne- sota,” said Dr. E. C. Stakman, Uni- versity of Minnesota plant patholo- gist, as reports from Canada indicated infection was reaching westward into hitherto unaffected areas in Ses- katchewan. On the other side of the picture was the assertion of John C. Brins- made, in charge of wheat experiments at the United States experiment sta- tion at Mandan, N. Dak., that there is “basis for a reasonable hope.” Dean H. L. Walster of the State Agricultural College at Fargo reiter- ated an earlier prediction that dam- age might reach as high as 50 per cent in parts of the State. e HANGING BILL SIGNED Merriam 0. K.’s Measure to End Mistake Executions. SACRAMENTO, Calif,, July 20 (®). —Gov. Prank F. Merriam today mistake hanging of Rush Griffin, Los Angeles colored murderer, at San Quentin Prison last Winter. Grifin was executed despite the fact an appeal was pending in the State Supreme Court. Under the revised law an appeal is taken autcmatically when a defendant is convicted of a crime imposing the death penalty and the trial judge may not select the date of execution until Dies as Parachute Fails. TULSA, Okla., July 20 (A—L. M. Misses K. N. and A. A but a method of preventing evasions | signed & bill to prevent a repetition of the signa, par HOOVER T0 MEET GOV. NICE TODAY Hurley, Beck and Knox Are Others to Call During the Week. By the Associated Press. PALO ALTO, Calif,, July 20.—Whil® political observers pondered today the significance of coingidental visits of prominent Republicans to the home of Herbert Hoover, the former Presi- dent and a group of friends spent the week end at a Northern California resort section. He will return here tomorrow, his secretary, Paul Sexson, said, prepared to greet Gov, Harry W. Nice of Mary- land. Other visitors scheduled to call later in the wéek are Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War; James M. Beck, former solicitor general, and Col. Frank M. Knox, Chicago publisher. Mr. Hoover's departure late yesterday for the annual Bohemian Grove con- clave came three days earlier than expected. Political Import Denied. Sexson today reiterated the absence of political import in the arrival of the Hoover guests, declaring it was just a coincidence and that the visits will be purely social. However, the Republican County Central Committee of San Prancisco, in announcing Gov. Nice's address there Monday, said he would arrive “fresh from a political conference with | (former) President Hoover at his Stanford University home.” Since Mr. Hoover has thus far de- clined to commit himself on the 1936 political situation, some observers were of the opinion the visits might be preludes to a definite announcement on the subject. But there were no official indications in that respect. Gradually Expressing Views. Following his first utterance since the 1932 campaign, on “the challenge to liberty,” Mr. Hoover has gradually returned to public expression of | 8pinion. | Several months ago he came out| for a return to the gold standard. Later he spoke against public trends allegedly inimical to individual liberty. The later pronouncement was made at a Fourth of July celebration at Grass Valley. There, among the hardy men with whom he once worked as a student mining engineer, the. formet ! President called for a revival of the early American spirit of freedom. —_—— Traffic (Continued From First Page) at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue and died Friday morning, the sixty-second traffic fatality here this year. Evidence introduced at the in- | quest showed he was struck by a car| | driven by Hindler and that a taxicab | driven by Brown crashed into Hind- | ler's machine. Hindler said he had swerved his car to avoid striking Gal- lagher and probably would have missed him had it noc been for Brown's taxicab. J The verdict automatically commits | the two men to Police Court for trial. | They face penalties of $1.000 fines or & year in prison, or both, if convicted. Heretofore such cases have resulted | in manslaughter findings which held the accused to the grand jury instead | of committing them directly to the court for trial. A Police Court jury, however, has the right to make a| manslaughter finding, if it desires, | when the case comes to trial. It was Gallagher's death, followed within a few hours by the death of 7-year-old Ann Offenberg, 1631 Euclid street, that brought the drastic orders from Police Headquarters and raised the ire of Commissioner Hazen. The | little girl, injured near Washington | Airport, died Priday afternoon. Hazen attributed the rapidly mount- ing toll to the fact “people not going anywhere are speed crazy.” He warned the public “not to do any screaming” if it gets caught in the current anti- reckless-driving campaign. Offenses Are Itemised. Brown's orders specifically ordered | arrests for the following offenses: 1. Speeding. 2. Reckless or careless driving. 3. Weaving in and out of traffic. 4. Failing to keep in proper lane of traffic. 5. Attempting to make turns at in- tersections from the improper lane. 6. Failing to comply with trafic signal lights. 7. Failing to comply with right-of- way regulations at street intersections. 8. Falling to stop at stop signs. 9. Parking too close ta corners so as to obstruct the view of approaching traffic. 10. Failing to make proper signal 'hleln l53'ullhu out from curb. - Failing to give proper signal when making turn:‘ Second Provides Latitude, While these offenses were specified as the chief causes of accidents, Maj. Brown left the second one ‘“‘open” 50 that any variety of careless driving may be. halted by the police. The order, addressed to all precinct commanders and inspectors, follows: “Statistics show that a large per- centage of traffic accidents are caused by speeding and reckless operation of motor vehicles. You will instruct the members of your command, and es- pecially the men assigned to motor vehicles, to strictly enforce all traffic iaws and especially those regulations the violation of which contribute to accidents, such as speed- ing, reckless and careleéss operation of vehicles, weaving in and out of traf- fic, falling to keep in the proper lane, especially at intersections where turns E? E% ik ;E i | 2 g § i 8 I3 KILLED IN THIRD DUTCH LINE CRASH Plane Hits Trees Seeking Emergenoy Landing in Switzerland Valley. By the Associated Press. SAN BERNARDINO, Switzerland, July 20—Thirteen persons died today as the third Royal Dutch airline pass- enger plane to crash in seven months fell into trees near the village of San Giacomo, 3 miles from here. Two of the nine passengers killed were Gerard and Virginia Phillips, whose address and nationality could not be determined immediately. The other passengers were Dutch, English, German and Swiss. A police investigation showed that the plane, which apparently was seek- ing an emergency landing field, sent out an S O S shortly before the erash. Hits Trees in Valley. The ship, en route from Frankfort- on-Main to Milan, appeared out of clouds of fog, apparently having motor trouble, and tried to land in the nar- row valley at San Giacomo. There was no suitable field, however, and it struck trees. Police found Miss or Mrs. Phillips atill living, but she died just as they pulled her clear of the wreckage. A squad of gendarmes was detailed to guard the debris. The bodies were taken to a nearby chalet. ‘The airline announced service over the Amsterdam-Frankfort-Milan route would be operated temporarily by planes of the German Lufthansa Co. “Flying Hotel” Recalled. Most spectacular of the three dis- asters that have overtaken Royal Dutch alrline planes during recent months was the mystery crash of its giant American-built Douglas “flying hotel” in the Syrian Desert in De- cember, 1934. After several days of search the burned hulk of the plane, which had taken the handicap in the England- to-Australia Air Derby two months be- fore, was found 10 miles south of Rutba Wells, Iraq. All its seven occu- pants were dead. One week ago another giant com- mercial ship carrying 14 passengers and a crew of six from Amsterdam to Sweden crashed shortly after the take- off, killing six of the occupants. WISCONSIN TANGLE FACES ROOSEVELT Party Disgruntled as Plums and Smiles Go to Progressive Faction. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, July 20.—Ob-| servers said today a political triangle, developed recently, foreshadowed some complications for President Roose- velt'’s contemplated trip here next month. Its apex is the President himself. On one side is the Democratic party of the State, some members of which feel the President has gone too far in his “flirtation” with the other side, the young Progressive party. | ‘The affections of the President were | claimed by both during the campaign last Fall, but the Progressives tri- umphed. Rivalry of the two groups came to a head during the legislative fight over Gov. La Follette’s $100,000,000 | plan for work relief, which the Fed- eral Government was to finance and | which the President approved. Demo- | cratic Senators banded with Repub- | licans to vote its death. Then followed appointment of Adjt. Gen. Ralph Immel as State public works administrator. He is a Pro- gressive. The disappointed Democrats said s resolution censuring the appoint- ment would be presented the national convention of Young Democratic Clubs here August 23 and 24¢. The President plans to speak at the gath- ering. FLORIDA ORDERS PROBE OF LYNCHING OF MAN Governor Asks Two-Way Inves- tigation to)Unmask 100 ‘Who Took Part. By the Associated Press. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 20. —A two-way investigation to unmask the 100 men—a coroner’s jury declared them “unknown”—who lynched a Negro attacker, was launched here to- day in response to Gov. Sholte’s com- mand. Reuben Stacey, 37, colored laborer, died “by strangulation or bullet wounds,” the jury found, and Sheriff W. R. Clark and his deputies “used diligent care and precaution for the safety of the deceased.” Directed to make “an immediate and searching” investigation of the hanging late yesterday, State Attorney Louis F. Maire and Sheriff Clark pre- pared for a special seasion of the Broward grand jury, called for Tues- day. ;mmmn: knife-scarred hands, Mrs. Marion Hill Jones, 30, mother of three small children and member of a pio- neer family, told the jury of the at- tack upon her last Tuesday. No holds were barred in this strike riot at Sioux Falis, S. Dak. Pists, missiles and clubs were used in hand- to-hand fighting between non-union workers of the John Morrell Packing plant and striking union men. NEW L SLADAL THEAT HURLED Fate of Two lBig California Deposits Rests With Gov. Merriam. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 20.— The fate of two great California oil deposits rested in the baiance of law and politics tonight, with partisans in one instance hinting ol a possible scandal “greater than Teapot Dome.” Befdre Gov. Frank FMerriam was a bill permitting the State to lease rich oil-bearing tidejands to private companies for development on a royalty basis by “whipstock” drilling, that is, sinking of weli. at a sharp angle into adjacent jools. With some independents contend- ing the measure would give the Standard Oil Co. a monopoly on the great Hutington Beach field, the issue was whether the Governor would sign it before midnight tonight or permit it to die by & pocket veto. Elk Hills Suit Being Drawn. At the same time, ia Los Angeles, John W. Preston, associate justice of the State Supreme Court, was work- ing on a suit to be filed by the Gov- ernment seeking recovery of title to | two sections of land in the equally rich Elk Hills field from the Standard Oil and General Peiroleum compa- nies. The value of the land was esti- mated at $25,000,000 1 $50,000,000. ‘The bill before Gov. Mexriam would | lift a ban against driling on the State tidelands. The Standard Oil Co. of California owas the littoral area there. Willlam J. Kemnitzer, representing independent companies, rccently told the Governor the bill was loaded with a potential scandal “greater than Teapot Dome.” He said the signing of it might invite a referendum movement and a recall against Mer- riam. Three Committees to Probe. In formulating his decision the | Governor reputedly considered not only the political possibilities, but also the fact that three Siate legislative committees are to investigate .tide- land drilling and repo:t on the situ- ation to the 1937 Legislature. The Government's Elk Hills case, it was said, will be based on the con- tention that the land was granted to the State by the National Govern- ment in 1853 and passcd into private ownership illegally because the grant was made on the condition that the land was not of minersl character, WISCONSIN GROUP SEEKS CHANGE IN G. 0. P. NAME “Constitutional” or “Democratic- | Republican™ Party Suggested as Alternative. By the Associated Press. GREENBAY. Wis, July 20—A group of Creerbay and De Pere busi- ness and professional men today be- gan circulation of a petition to change the name of the Republican party. “The name of the party (Repub- lican) should be changed to the Con- stitutional party,” the petition read, “or the Democratic-Republican party, or some other name descriptive of the ideals and purposes of the party in the present.emergency.” One spokesman said the petition was not to be interpreted as a third party movement, If their plan fails, he said, they would remain loyal to the Republican party. Walsh on Radio Forum Taxation, one of the major issues in session, will be o'clock Thursday night, July 25. The forum program umunnnd by The ‘Washington Star & Nation-wide network of the Na- cum‘mmm Walsh is fa- miliar with the task of working out tax schedules, and will analyze problems involved in the pending proposals. The question was thrust into the foreground on Capitol Hill last month when the President sent Girl, 20, Who Gave False Fire Alarm, To Serve 30 Days By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20— Miss Ruth Smith, 20, told Police Judge D. 8. O'Brien today she turned in a false alarm “as a lark.” She wept as she was sen- tenced to 30 days in jail. Police arrested her in a cam- paign that started after a false alarm had resulted in injuries to four firemen. MINIG REVAL GRPS COLORAY {Rich Strikes Indicate Great | | Era of Expansion Fac- ing State. By the Associated Press. DENVER, July 20.—The dreams of the old prospectors who have been waiting in the silence of ghost mining towns of the Rockies were blossoming | | today. | There is a mining revival and with | it there are two schools of mining | thought and a thousand estimates of | the extent of the expansion. To Jack Joyce, Colorado’s commis- | sioner of mines, who has seen gold | and silver flow since he was a boy in | the lusty Leadville days, the Rocky Mountain Range is & vast mineral rib | awaiting the thump of the patient prospector. Jobless Man Finds Wealth. | To Charles W. Henderson, repre- | sentative of the United States Bureau | of Mines, the mountains are no longer virgin storehouses of precious metals. | but & great developed field which will continue to yield riches from unex- | posed veins under scientific methods. From up high at Ward's Little Ghost camp three weeks Tom Lyle, un- employed garage man, startied the State with his asserted discovery of an exposed vein of rich ore assaying as high as $20,000 a ton. Last week from Cripple Creek’s fa- bled gold fields came the story of new rich ore assaying perhaps as high as Lyle’s at historic Elkhorn mine. Both Joyce and Henderson recog- | nize a “revival” and perhaps s | | “boom,” but neither says there is a | “gold rush.” Credit Given Foreign Capital. Henderson believes the revival largely is attributable to foreign capi- tal pouring into new development of old mines. But the guiding impetus to re- newed quests for goid is the 69 per | cent increase in gold prices since mining struck the doldrums in 1918. “Like everything else,” Henderson said, “some deposits ean still be | found by the prospector, but revela- | tions in the future will be made by | the use of geology and geophysics.” “The field of the old prospector is far from exhausted,” commented Joyce, recalling Colorado has from 25,000 to 30,000 square miles of high- 1y mineralized territory. DEPOSITIONS SOUGHT BY MOONEY DEFENSE Court Order Asked to Bring in Evidence Supporting Fight for Freedom. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—An order for depositions from four per- sons whose testimony is sought by Tom Mooney's defense in his habeas corpus bid for freedom was asked in an application filed in the California Supreme Court here today. The court, which nas set the habgas corpus hearing for Seplerber 3, and the application hearing July 35, was asked to order the taking of deposi- tions of: Israel Wienberg of Cleveland, “jit- ney” driver, who was acquitted of participating In the 1916 Prepared- ness day bombing for which Mooney is serving a life sentence. F. E. Rigall of Grayville, Ill, who the defense claims can support its charge that Frank Oxman, Oregon cattle man, gave perjured testimony at Mooney’s trial. John A. Fitch, a New York writer, alleged to have obtained information supparting the perjury charge. John McDonald, former waiter, now 11l in a Baltimore, Md., hospital, who allegedly retracted his triai testimony placing Mooney at the scene of the hombing. 0il Operator Asks Bankruptey LOS ANGELES, July 20 (#.—John Southern California oll oper- bankruptey KIDNAPERS LOSE: SEIZE WRONG MAN Poor Relation of Auto Deal- er Convinces Captors of Their Error. By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, = Ohio, July 20—A| “poor relative” told police today of a $10,000 kidnaping-extortion plot that | failed because of mistaken identity. | Robert C. Byers, 42, a Columbus | sales and advertising counselor, said he was snatched here Thursday night by five men who later told him they intended to kidnap his brother, George, owner of a large automobile distributing agency. “It sure is tough that a poor rela- tive is mistaken for one who has money,” he said. Byers said his captors released him near Cleveland Priday, after he con- vinced them he was not George, and promised to pay them $500 here this afternoon. No Ransom Collected. Police reported that so far as they knew no effort was made to collect the money. Robert Byers is president of the Byers Distributing Service Inc. His brother is head of the George W. Byers Sons, Inc., automobile distribu- tors. 3 Byers told his story first to Cleve- land police, and later to Lieut. Thomas Scully of the Columbus de- tective force. He asserted he was about to enter his automobile in a parking lot near his office Thursday night when three men, two armed with guns, forced him into the car. Near Medina, the men blindfolded Byers and took him into & building where two other men, supposedly the brains of the plot, appeared. Called by Wrong Name. One of the men said, “Ceorge this is going to cost you $10,000,” but Byers said he replied, “who do you think you got? I am not George. I am Bob.” Scul fter listening to Byers' story, said, personally believe the men were after George Byers and will make no effort to collect the $500." EX-CARDINAL PLAYER NAMED BY OSTEOPATHS | Dr. G. H. Myers of Tulsa Elected President of Society—In- jury Altered Career. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 20—Dr. G. H. Myers of Tulss, Okla., a former St.| Louis Cardinal base ball player, was | elected president of the American | Osteopathic Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology at its twentieth | annual convention today. | Dr. Myers, who was injured serious- | ly while playing with the Cardinels, | went to Kirksville College of Osteo- | pathy for treatment and later entered the college to study, He is active in many Tulsa professional organizations. Dr. Warren D. Ownby of Tulsa, | Okid., discussing the treatment of | “trachoma,” or “granulated eyelids,” said an important part of the method of treatment lies in providing the proper blood and nerve supply to the eye and surrounding tissues. Effort to Regain Love of Woman Ends in Arrest Man Renews Attentions After 15-Year Lapse. Threats Charged. An attempt to regain the love of & woman to whom he was engaged here 15 years ago resulted in the appear- ance before Judge Robert E. Mat- tingly in Police Court yesterday of Earl 8. Maney, who returned a few days ago from Ohlo, oa a charge of | threats. He was sent to Gallinger Hospital for mental observation. ‘The complainant in the case was Mrs. Helen Shaw of Bethesda, Md. NEW DEAL IS HIT BY: BAR MEMBERS Emerges Unscathed Offi- cially, but Verbal At- tacks Are Numerous. By the Associated Press. LO8 ANGELES, July 20.—Officially the New Deal as a whole emerged unscathed today from under the legal microscope of the American Bar As- sociation, but many administration policies received verbal drubbings. Without explanation and without divulging its contents, the association deferred until November at least any action on a survey of the “effects of the New Deal on the rights and liberties of the American citizen.” “The school of law, that argues for changes in the essential lines of the Constitution @y the process of cor- ruption of its text,” was denounced in a report by Louis G. Caldwell of Washington, chairman of the Com- mittee on Administrative Law, and adopted. The N. R. A, the A. A A, the processing tax and the administra- tion's social security act were the objects of attack in one form or another, 2 Beck Hits Processing Tax. James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, un- successful candidate for the presidency of the association, was particularly critical of the A. A. A. He told the association he believed the Supreme Court would decide that the processing tax on farm products was a clear violation of the Constitution. He also indicted the “share-the-wealth” plan as he said it was interpreted by Secre- | tary Henry Wallace of the Depart- | ment of Agriculture, | “While the State may tax for legitimate purposes of the State, it has no right to redistribute property, and to do 50 is anti-constitutional and immoral,” Beck said. George M. Morris of Washington, Federal Taxation Committee chair- man, - reported the Federal Govern- ment was traveling dangerous paths in proposing legisiation that may re- | sult in tax provisions, which will make | it impossible for a citizen to recover taxes unlawfully assessed. N. R A. Held Valuable. More friendly to the New Deal was | the adopted report of the Committee on Commerce, presented by Rush C. | Butler of Chicago, which stated the experience under the N. R. A. has { been “valuable and legislation along the fundamental principles of that act * * * is highly desirable.” Jacob M. Lashly of St. Louis, in presenting the report of the commit- tee on Commercial Law and Bank- ruptey, predicted that a “political | erisis cannot long be deferred on the | existing major points of contact be- tween the Government and the people. “It is the present policy of the Government to escape coming to grips | with the excess debt problem and through the experience of moratoria and conciliations to move the erists | point along through gradual steps to | the indefinite future,” Lashly stated. Boston was chosen as the 1936 con- | vention city. 67 DEPUTIES LOSE NEW ORLEANS JOBS il’;ong'l Whip Cracks Down on | Walmsley Force to Remove | Officers. | By the Associated Press. | NEW ORLEANS, July 20.—The State administration whip of Sena- tor Huey P. Long was felt today in New Orleans when it cracked down on the city administration of Long's enemy, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, and cut off 67 deputy sheriffs. Only 29 of the deputies submitted to the State Bureau of Criminal Iden- tification and Investigation under one of Long’s dictated laws were approved and the remainder of the 96 deputies were notified that lack ol approval meant dropping from the city pay roll. Asked in Baton Rouge why the bu- | reau refused to approve the 67 depu- | ties, Brig. Gen. L. F. Guerre replied “Don’t quote me as saying anything. It's none of the newspapers’ business or anybody’s else’s business.” The State law now requires that the names of the parish deputies be submitted to the State bureau for approval and the entire list of 96 was submitted by Criminal Sheriff George E. Williams on July 2. Today Sheriff Williams was ad- vised that only the 29 names had been approved and he immediately no- tified the balance of his deputies that they would lose their jobs. ATLANTA PRISON RECORD SHOWS FEW MEN ESCAPE Last Getaway Effected in 1024, ‘When Convict Walked Out Disguised as Woman. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, July 20.—Criminals convicted in Federal courts have little hope of escaping If they are sen- tenced to serve their terms in the penitentiary in Atlanta. The last escape, an official said to- day, occurred on Mother's day in 1924, when one Luis de Shelly donned wom- an’s clothing and marched through the gates with & group of 50 women who had been conducting church services in the peniteniiary. This man, said the officer, was re- captured about s monih ago, con- victed and given six years on a coun- terfeiting charge, and sent to Alcatras Prison in San Francisco Bay to serve old and new sentences CHARGES HEIR HIDDEN. | sister Claims Riedlin Spirited Away by His Wife. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, July 20 (#).—Charges that Walter C. Riedlin, . | heir to & Kentucky brewery fortuns, has been apirited away and hidden hy his wife, were filed in Circuit Court marriage annulled, to have Riedlin declared mentally incompetent and to have the

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