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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) Rain this afternoon, tonight and tomor- row morning; not quite so cool tomorrow; moderate southeast winds tonight, shifting to west tomorrow. Temperatures—High- est, 89, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at noon today, Full report on page A-9, Closing N.Y.Markets,Pages 13,14 & 15 - No. 33,335. tered post office. LOBBY ACTIVITY LAID TO HURLEY AND . . TUMULTY Senate Testimony Brings Denial by Both of Accused. HOPSON WHEREABOUTS REMAINS UNSOLVED Former Secretary of War Un- aware of Witness' “Hiding Place,” He Says. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Testimony that former Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and Joseph P. econd class matter ‘Washiazton, D. “I'm a Goldfish” Tumulty, former secretary to the late | President Wilson, were engaged as at- torneys by utility companies in con- nection with the holding company bill was given to the Senate Lobby Com- mittee today, but both lawyers denied | they did any lobbying, insisting they | had performed only professional legal services. For more than an hour Hurley and members of the committee staged a constant battle of wits, which ranged from heated exchanges to humorous | repartee, which relieved the tension and entertained the audience. Hopson Whereabouts. Hurley told the committee he had no information as to the whereabouts of H. C. Hopson, the utility man whom House and Senate Lobby Com- mittees have been trying without suc- | cess to locate, to summon him as a The former War Secretary | Wwitness. insisted throughout his testimony that he was attorney only for the As- sociated Gas & Electric Co., and not for Mr. vate interests. seen Hopson since March or April Tumulty told the committee he had been retained by several different companies and received a total of $33,500 for his legal work on the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. In response to questions, Tumulty said he called in as consultants with him in the work, T. T. Ansberry, an attorney with offices here: Attorney John Walsh, a brother of the late Senator Thomas F. Walsh -of Montana. and former Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire. The witness said he paid Judge Ansberry $2,500 and Senator Moses, $5,000. He said he has not yet discussed the questicn of com- pensation With Walsh, who is away, | Hopson or the latter's pri- | He said he has net | PATRICK J. HURLEY, Secretary of War in the Hoover cabinet, shown as he appeared to- day before the Senate Lobby Com- mittee. —A. P. Photo. NAZIS ACT T0 BAR BERLIN TO JEWS Further “Measures” Are Planned to Halt Stream to Reich Capital. By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, August 7.—An official Nazi announcement proclaimed today that further “measures” would be taken to halt a stream of ‘“undesir- able elements,” especially Jews, pour- ing into Berlin for refuge. The announcement said the meas- ures already have been drawn up by Count Wolf Hendrick von Helldorf. head of the Berlin police, and Julius Lippert, Nazi commissioner for Ber- Iin, to stem the migratfon from the No indication was given as to the but that he expects to pay him $2,500. i provinces—"“greater than ever before.” A. G. & E. Co. Counsel. Hurley's testimony showed that he has been retamned as counsel by the A. G. & E. Co. at various times over a period of several years and that the fees his law firm has received | saying they have no place else wfs\uble income must inevitably in the | over the entire period amounted to $100,000. Of this amount, he testi- fied, $25,000 was in connection with the services he rendered in presenting the views and defending the rights of the company and its investors on holding company “legislation. Tumulty insisted Ansberry, Walsh snd Moses assisted him only as ad visers and were not employed to try to influence the action of Congress on the legislation. The verbal clashes which marked the early part of Hurley's testimony resulted from efforts of committee precise nature of the steps to be taken. | Driven from small towns by the JNazi anti-Semitic campaign, the | refugees seek protection in the city, turn unless they leave the Reich. City Officials Take Steps. Despite a warning issued last week, }lhe flow apparently persisted in such proportions that the city officials have | decided to act. The propaganda office {and the municipal press united July 31 in declaring “The most urgent warning is ad- dressed to non-Aryans against coming | to Berlin.” The manifesto set forth that “as this influx is entirely undesirable and contrary to the Reich’s government's ah WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935—THIRTY-TWOQ PAGES. BUSINESS HEADS CLASH WITH TAX PLAN SPOKESMEN Senate . Committee Hears C. of C. Group Denounce Program. CLAUSEN CHARGES CONFISCATION MOVE McFarlane for More Radical Pro- gram and Mayor McNair for Moderation. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Big Business and the Roosevelt Ad- ministration came to blows today. Representing the former were four members of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce, appearing before | the Senate Finance Committee to .e- nounce the Administration’s determi- nation to enact a “soak the rich” ‘ax program. ~As champion for the White House appeared Robert H. Jackson, | counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. In between were Representative Mc- Farlane, Democrat, of Texas. Who | sought an even more radical program, crat, of Pittsburgh, who appealed for | less taxes, and less communism C. of C. Speakers, ‘The Chamber of Commerce speakers were Fred H. Clausen, president of the Van Brunt Manufacturing Co. of Horicon Wis., who appeared just be- fore the luncheon recess, and the fol- lowing three who were to appear later this afternoon: E. C. Alvord. attorney, of Washington: Fred R. Fairchild. pro- | fessor of political economy at Yale University, and Roy C. Osgood, vice president of the First National Bank in Chicago. with the surtax and corporation in- come proposals principally, termin; them “tantamount to confiscation” and “highly discouraging to enter- prise “We do not accept the estimate of $270,000.000 as the yield from the s in the House bill as a realistic " Clausen said. “But if $2 and Mayor William McNair, Demo- | less spending, less tariff Clausen, first chamber witness, dealt | ARMY OF 240,000 LANDED N AFRICA, - FIGURES DISCLOGE '5,000 or More Returned Suffering From Malaria and Dysentery. MACDONALD RETURNS AS | ACTING PRIME MINISTER Great Britain Protests Attacks in Italian Press—Permits France to Share Burden. | (Copyrignt. 1915, by the Associated Press) | PORT SAID, Egypt, August 7.— | Approximately 240,000 Italian troops and laborers have passed through the Suez Canal in the last six months, | en route to East Africa, official figures | disclosed today. In a single day recently, nine Italian transports laden with soldiers, air- | planes, tanks and artillery ammunition | made the passage. Not all Italian transports are bound for East Africa, however. The statis- tics show that in the last three weeks, six large Italian steamers carrying more than 5,000 Italian soldiers suf- fering from malaria, dysentery and typhoid made the passage for Italy. The Italian de luxe liner Victoria, | formerly in the Genoa-Bombay serv- | ice, is proceeding to Massaua, Eritrea, as a hospital ship after reconditioning. Charter Other Ships. | At Alexandria and other ports, Italian officials are chartering every available steamer for use as a trans- port. Officials estimated that in the last three months the Italian government hes paid the Suez administration | 810000000 in canal tolls on war | transports. Shipping circles in this seaport, on the north end of the canal, said that American, British and other foreign oil and timber concerns are declin- ing to sell goods to Italians unless | they pay cash. MacDonald “Takes Over.” LONDON, Aiigust 7 (#).—An official source disclosed today that the Brit- 000,000, more or less, additional rev- ish government made “strong repre- | enue is to be sought as the objective, ' centations™ to Italy July 26 regarding 1t is obvious that the gap between “the recent violent attacks in the rer?lplsdflnd expenditures could be Italian press against Great Britain.” narrowed by such an amount more The re i : epresentations were made quickly, with less economic injury. if | g ;01 Ambassador Grandi of Italy ‘}:I:mi‘:“:;';’::‘lw;‘;‘ that amount g omeials at the Toreign office, and | Potibhment i Sie: it was stated he promised to inform | his government of the British atti- ! “nt .‘f-;“?f"" to x;\‘nde'r}slland. Il’:d tude. ‘;‘fn’:‘h lai;‘ mteore?;']nbe}:nus: :{giu: Since that time, according to the same sou ve | Every individual who has built up a: p,q rm"r:; r:;le"lglrym’s:lm:o]\:;gmenp MacDonald at Helm. Ramsay MacDonald oecame acting prime minister of Great Britain toduy‘ on the eve of an expected climax to| the Anglo-Italian controversy over‘ Ethiopia. Uneasy over already frayed rela- tions, the government decided to let process pay wages and salaries to a | large number of others. “The contribution of the manufac- | turing industry for relief of unem- | ployment exceeds the amount paid | |out by the Government for public | work$ and direct relief. Other lines of business also did their share. THREE OF A KIND! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. *okok CHANGES URGED FOR GUFFEY BILL Sweeping Proposals toi | Bring Action Would Leave Basic Idea. | By the Associated Press Sweeping proposed changes in the Guffey coal bill were made public to- day in what was seen as an effort to stimulate a public reaction that| | would force the measure out of the House Ways and Means Committee. | Chairman. Doughton, Democrat, of North Carolina, gave to some news- | paper men a copy of a “confidential | committee print,” embodying more than a score of amendments de- signed to strengthen the bill con- | stitutionally and meet objections that | it would discriminate against some | coal-producing districts. Basic Idea Same. ‘The basic idea, however, remained | the same. The bill still would set up a National Bituminous Coal Commis- sion with the authority to administer a code of fair competition for the soft- coal industry. The code would include wage and hour and fair trade practice provis- ions. and the commission would have power to fix minimum and maximum prices. Amounts of such magnitude could be paid out only by the larger corpora- tions. Yet it is this type of corpora- tion which would be discriminated against were an effective graduated tax put into operation.” France take the lead in rext week's tri-power talks at Paris. The decision was reachea before Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin departed for a vaca- tion at Aix-les-Bains, France. This decision, however, did not | mean any relaxation of Britain's de- members to ask him about the affairs | measures,” incoming needy Jews and of Hopson. The witness kept insisting | their families would receive health that his work had been for the A. G, | Care, but no other public relief, and & E. Co. and that he had nothing to do with Mr., Hopson's private inter- ests. Near the close of his testimony Sen- ator Gibson, Republican, of Vermont, | told Mr, Hurley he understood his testimony to mean the former Secre- tary of War had not done any lobby- ing. Influence Belittled. Hurley replied that was correct, add- Ing, “Why, my influence with this Congress would not be worth a nickel to any one.” 1 “You do not think you are under- estimating your influence with Con- gress, do von?” Chairman Black in- quired with a smile. The chairman | said there was still a number of Re- publicans ir Congress and that one more was elected in Rhode Island yesterday. | - Senator Gibson replied by predict- ing there would be more coming later. would be sent from the city as soon | as possible. Brown-shirted Storm Troopers ap- parently were counted on to play a major part in the renewed drive on “state enemies.” Troops More Evident. Once powerful, then under a cloud and weakened after the 1934 ,“blood purge,” the Storm Troops recently have | oecome more and more in evidence, parading in Berlin and other cities. Hans Hinkel, dictator of non-Aryan art, announced that American and other foreign motion pictures written, acted and produced by Jews, would still be accepted by Nazis. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, previously had asked Nazi party members not to protest against Jewish foreign films because ‘it is necessary to admit these films in order to sell ours abroad.” Agrees With President. Throughout his testimony Jackson's | {ermination to uphold the sovereign | creed today was that he “would prefer rights of Ethiopia, especially in view | to see the President’s tax recommen- Of the declaration by Anthony Eden, | minister for League affairs, that he In amplifying this stand the Treas- | Would assume responsibility for put- | ury official commended the principle | ting the issue squarely before the | of gradugted corporation Income taxes, | League of Nations Council September | urged strongly the imposition of in-| 4 if the forthcoming tri-power con- tercorporate dividend taxes, and cast | ferences failed. some doubt upon the advisability of | In Touch With Eden. increasing the excess-profits taxes. Although MacDonald, former prime Jackson declined, however, to com- | minister and now lord president of | mit himself on the point of where the council, became nominal head of individual income tax increases should | the government, Baldwin was ex- | begin. The President recommended | pected to maintain private contact this increase start at $1.000.000 in-| with Eden while both are in France comes, while the House bill starts at next week. 5 $50,000. Baldwin left his duties here, repre- McFarlane Heard. | sented as still hopeful that war be- Jackson's prepared statememt today dealt only with corporation taxes. | averted, but not too optimistic over Yesterday he spoke on individual in- | the situation. | dations carried out in full.” Representative McFarlane, Demo- | crat, of Texas followed Jackson before | parture, the committee. Identified with the | National Labor publication that “I am so-called liberal element in the House, | still in the fight” for peace. ‘The major changes, some of which aiready had been disclosed, included: Elimination of the section for bid- ding the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to issue certificates of con- venience and neces$ity for operation of railroads to bituminous mines with- out prior approval by the Bituminous Coal Commission. Establishment of a consumers’ coun- sel to safeguard the interests of con- Fisherman Thinks He Has Bite, Pulls Up Body of Man | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 7.—John Seeber, a Lake Michigan fisher- man, thought he had a bite. He pulled on his line early to- day and brought to the surface the body of an unidentified man weighing about 225 pounds. PRESIDENT SEEKS TAB ON AGENCIES Seven Groups Ordered Un- der Budget Bureau for Expenditures. President Roosevelt moved today to co-ordinate the administrative ex- penses of all the independent emer- gency agencies of the Government4# signing an executive order requiring | seven lending agencies to submit to the director of the budget estimates covering future expenditures for ad- ministrative purposes. He explained that other agencies would be covered by similar orders from to time until all are brought under the supervision of the Budget Bureau. In this way the President himself would be in a better position ! to keep records of emergency expendi- tures as well as Congress. | today | partment contracts, previously SILVERMAN ASKED S750.000, 15 CLAIM General Motors Man Says He Wanted That for Deal on U. S. Contract. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Norman K. Haig, director of Gov- ernment sales for General Motors, told the House Military Affairs Committee that Joseph Silverman, jr., large-scale dealer in surplus Army supplies, expected a commission of $750,000 for negotiating a proposed deal to split a $10,000,000 Army motor contract between the Chevrolet and Chrysler Motor Cos. without competi- tive bidding. Silverman, according to Haig, said he had to have such a large comm sion because he “had a horse to feed or, in other words, ple to take care o | Haig was called to the witness stand ' in an effort to shed further light on the proposed $10,000.000 deal, and was | plied with questions by Chairman Mc- Swain and several otner members of the committee. Frank Speicher, tire salesman and key witness in the com- mittee’s investigation into War De- | had | testified Silverman sought to arrange the $10,000,000 deal through Haig. | Competitive Basis Indorsed, { Chairman McSwain announced at the outset of the hearing that Secre- tary of War Dern had indorsed a pro- posal to sell all surplus Army supplies | in the future to the highest bidder, and (P) Means Associated Press. Seven Agencies Affected. | that he would draft a bill to make such | The seven agencies affected by the first order are the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners’ Loan | Corp., the Federal Savings and Loan | System, the Federal Savings and Loan sumers. tween Italy and Ethiopia might be | come, inheritance and gift taxes. | MacDonald, taking over the leader- | ship immediately after Baldwin's de- | served notice through the | renort the Democrats thus have to | The committee room was thrown | Jews Expelled From Spa. into laughter when Mr. Hurley arose | mony and asked permission to express | the Park Hotel, frequented exclusively | BAD TOELZ, Germany, August 7| from his chair at the close of his testi- ‘ (#).—Bavarian authorities today closed | some of his views on legislative prin- ciples generally, As the tall; neatly dressed former War Secretary began to speak, with gestures, Black said the committee would hear him briefly if he would promise not to close by reciting any poetry. Hurley said he believed in reguiation of ail ectivities and believed in limitations | on liberty, but added “they should be proposed and enforced by a free cit- izenship itself.” Earlier in his testimony Hurley had declared that he had found the utility holding company bill tc bs unconstitu- (See LOBBY, Page 7. POSSE OF 300 SEIZES BROTHERS AS SLAYERS Colorado Search Ends in Arrest of Pair on Charge of Kill- ing Sheriff. By the Associated Press. CANON CITY, Colo., August 7.—A than hunt that kept & posse of 300 searching through sleepless days and nights for two slayers ended today with two flight-torn men fretting be- hind the bars of the Colorado State Prison here. Otis and Herbert McDaniels were arrested last night on a remote moun- tain ranch near Guffy, Colo. The brothers were quoted by War- den Roy Best of the penitentiary as admitting the slaying July 15 of Sherifft W. W. Dunlap of Cortez. Dunlap had arrested them for the robbing and binding of James West- fall, an aged sheepman, and leaving him tied in his cabin to die tunnr. . Chairman | 1 by Jews on the grounds that the Jews’ | behavior had called forth a unani- mous protest by all Aryans at the spa. (The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported from Berlin that the burgo- | master of Bad Toelz had decreed that jall Jews must leave the spa within 24 hours and that 350, including sick and aged, were affected by the order. | The agency stated the expulsion was reported due to the forthcoming visit of Julius Streicher, active anti-Jew cam- | paigner, who is going to the resort | shortly to take the cure.) McFarline made a fight in that body to increase rates on inheritance and gift taxes. He also attempted to per- | suade the House to include intercor- | porate dividend taxes in the legisla~ | tion. The tax bill is still expected to be | reported to the Senate the first of next week, although there are still many witnesses to be heard. Some leaders are expecting final Congressional action early enough for Congress to | adjourn on August 17, despite the | warning yesterday by Senator Borah, | | Republican, of Idaho that there will | be “much discussion” in the Senate. | _Continuing his sharply worded de- | (See TAX, Page 3) Rangers Reach By the Associated Press. YOSEMITE, Calif., August 7.—Two hikers trapped on the precipitous face of Yosemite's famous half dome were reached by rangers today. It was de- zided to lower them from the rocky ledge instead of hoisting them. The hikers, trapped yesterday when they attempted a short cut, are Miss | Elizabeth Lorimer, 23, of Chicopee, Mass., and Robert Pate, 35, of Ingle- wood, Calif. Rangers said it would take several | hours to complete the rescue. A large crowd watched as the rang- ers worked their way down the treacherous cliff. Officials here received a telegram from Judge H. Thornton Lorimer of Concord, N. H,, saying he had heard a report his sister, Elizabeth, was lost and requesting word as to her safety. The bitter cold ot the high altitude hampered the rescue party on-its mis- sion and caused fears that the couple Pair Trapped On Y osemite ‘Dome’ Precipice might be suffering from exposure after their all-night ordeal on the wind- swept and slippery mountain face. . The rescue party was forced to use ropes and other alpipe equipment to make its way down the peak to the ledge where the two were trapped. Adding to the danger of the rescue, rangers declared, was the fact that the marooned pair had separated per- | haps 100 yards during the night, neces- | sitating two hazardous rescue attempts. Although the two could be seen by | | binoculars from the ranger station at | Mirror. Lake, at the foot of the great | semi-dome, the rescue party was de- layed by having to take a circuitous, but proven route to a point above the marooned pair. The plight of the couple was made known last night, when some one heard their cries for help. They were unidentified, however, until they failed to return’to the valley camp at which they were staying. Sir Norman Angell, noted author and lecturer, proposed that to keep | peace in East Africa, Britain should | “let it be known that it might be necessary to close the Suez Canal” meanwhile “giving Mussolini an op- portunity to climb down without ap- pearing to do so.” Japan's Aid Denied. ADDIS ABABA, August T7.—A rumor, officially denied, but per- sistent, that a Japanese military mission had started from Kobe for Ethiopia circulated in the capital today. It was presumed that the rumored and Italy. Another unconfirmed report had it that 3,000 gas masks of German manufacture had been shipped into Addis Ababa and that 25,000 more were on the way. * Readers’ Guide Amusements . Comics .. Editorials .. Finance ...... Lost and Found... Mallon .... Radio Serial Story Service Orders Short Story... sports ... . .A-10-11-12 Vital Statistics ..........A-9 Washington Wayside.....B-9 Women's Features.. ', .B-11 mission would serve as observers in| the event of war between Ethiopia ' Hearing Provisions. Also addition of provisions for hear- ings to determine whether the method of fixing prices was working to the detriment of any coal-producing dis- trict; Reduction from 9 to 5 in the number | of commission members, and the ad- dition of a stipulation that none | shall have any outside connection; Reduction from 25 to 15 per cent in the amount of the tax assessed against | mine operators; Reduction from 99 to 90 per cent in the amount of credit allowed the pro- ducers who abide by the code. There are 18 Democrats and 7 Re- publicans on the committee. Six of | the seven Republicans will vote against | approving the bill. To get a favorable muster 12 votes on their own side. 10 to 8 for Bill. pchecked. The tentative count stood |10 to 8 for the bill—two short of the | required number. = Vigorous attempts | were being made to change two votes. | It was reported that President Roose- velt, who favors the bill, had inter- vened. The intervention, it was sald, was not in the form of personal appeals to individual members, but rather a | blanket statement transmitted to the Democrats that they could make whatever changes they wished so long as they maintained the major objec- tives of the bill. Legality Held Cestain. Representative Snyder, Democrai, of Pennsylvania, co-author of the bill, | said today in defending the Guffey | Lill's constitutionality that legality | of its taxing provisions can be easily sustained. “That part of the Schechter decis- sion relating to delegation of powers in the formation and imposition of codes cannot reasonably be said to affect the validity of this bill,” he said. “The bill deals with a single indus- try, sets out the regulation that shall govern it, and creates a commission for the administration of this legis- lative code. That part of the decision that deals with the power ot Congress to regulate transactions in inter- state commerce, or directly affecting interstate commerce, points out that each exercise of congressional power must be determined on the facts of each case.” — Senator May Be Forced to Trial. MEXICO CITY, August 7 (#).—The | permanent commission of Congress was requested today to strip Ausencio Cruz, Federal Senator from Tabasco, of his immunity so that he might be Today all 18 Democrats had been | Insurance Corp., the Federal Housing Administration, the Farm Credit Ad- | ministration and the Federal Farm Mortgage Corp. | | These are agencies whose operations | | heretofore have not come under the | budget and the accounting act of 1921. | The agencies are not to incur after | September 15, any obligations for ad- | ministrative expenses not approved by the director of the budget. The‘ | budget director is instructed to aj portion funds to each agency on a' | monthly basis, subject to modification | in event of a budget. Better Check Provided. This does not mean that Congress is to fix the annual appropriations ' and decide how the appropriations | should be spent by each agent, the | President explained, but the new | budgetary system would give Congress | a far better check on all expendi- tures. The monthly basis of appor- tioning funds, it was believed, also would provide a closer check on the agency. Future executive orders, the Presi- | dent said, would affect all independ- | ent agencies not now covered by the | Budget Bureau. TODAY’S GAMES OFF Postponed Tilts With Athletics' to Be Played September 21-22. This afternoon’s double-header be- | tween the Nationals and the Phila- | delphia Athletics, at Griffith Stadium, | was postponed because of wet grounds. The games are to be played Sep- | tember 21 ard 22. By the Associated Press. PLAINFIELD, N. J, August 7— | E. P. Cramer, advertising man who suggested the public utilities start a “whispering campaign” against Presi- dent Roosevelt, today received an | acknowledgment of receipt of his | telegraphed apology to the President. Atgaches of the President's secre- | tarial staff in Washington declined to say the apology had been received. A copy of the apology, sent Sunday night, was made public today by Cramer, who was discharged by the Thomas A. Edison Co. as the result brought to trial on charges of being a participant in the slaying of four students July 15 at Vlm‘l!m of “so reprehensible & plan” as he suggested. | around Washington,” and said that | contracts Cramer’s Apology For “Whisper Drive” Received a plan mandatory. “If that had been the law all the time,” he remarked, “the Government would have been saved millions of dol- lars and some unpleasant situations would have been avoided.” Haig pictured Silverman as an in- | fluential man who “knew his w he had kept him informed of in-| stances when General Motors was | “written out” of War Department Haig also told of four or five con- | ferences he had with Silverman, when Chairman McSwain asked: “Why dic¢ you, a $6,000-a-year man. | think you could get information out | of Silverman ? What made you think he was powerful?” | “By what he said and what others | said he had done,” the witness re- plied. He added that Speicher also had told him Silverman “knew his way around Washington.” Definition of Knowledge. “What do you mean when you say he knew his way around Washing- | ten?” inquired McSwain. ‘When I say it.,” Haig answered, “I T (See SILVERMAN, Page 4.) POST AND ROGERS HOP “FOR JUNEAU, ALASKA” Aviator's Wife Decides at Last Minute Not to Acompany Them. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 7.—Wiley Post and Will Rogers, airplane cronies hopped at 9:15 a.m. (Pacific standard time) today, presumably for Juneau, Alaska. Mrs. Post made a last minute deci- | sion not to fly with them. She said the trip “may be too strenuous.” to President | “I wish to offer my sincere apologies for having written the letter which was the basis of Jast Thursday's hear- ing. “Please believe that it was written at a time when I was stunned by the prospect that legislation sponsored by your administration might destroy an investment representing considera- ble part of my life's savings. “On calmer consideration I cannot but realize that even under such cir- cumstances there can be no defense Yor even considering anything as un- fair as a ‘whispering campaigm.’ “I have publicly acknowledged that Yesterday’s Circulation, 120,636 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved. TWO CENTS. NEWDEALREBUKED BY G 0.P.ITORY N RHODE ISLAND State Slaps Spending by De- feating Several P. W, A. Bond Issues. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR SEAT WINS BY 13,000 | Pleas by Ickes ‘and Gov. Green Ignored—Democratic Strong- holds Switch to Crities. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. 8:aff Correspondent of The Star. PROVIDENCE, R. I, August 7.—As | Rhode Island goes so goes the Nation. This is the chant of the Republicans today, rejoicing in this neck of the woods over the results of the con- gressional election yesterday and the swamping of the State bond issues to carry forward P. W. A. projects. The election of Charles F. Risk. Re- publican, to represent the first Rhode Island congressional district, over his Democratic opponent, Antonio Prince, by approximately 13,000 votes was an amazing performance. The vote was 48,023 for Risk and 35,054 for Prince. This district was carried only nine months ago by former Representative Francis Condon, Democrat, by more than 20,000 votes over his Republican opponent. New Deal Was Issue. The campaign made by Risk, a for- mer Probate Court judge, was against the Roosevelt New Deal, “lock, stock and barrel.” Prince, on the other hand, pleaded for election to uphold the hands of President Roosevelt and his policies. In his closing speech to the voters, Prince declared the issue to be “forward with Roosevelt or back to Hoover,” The result indicates the | voters of Rhode Island are not to be scared by any such issue and that the Democrats will have to stand on their own record in the 1936 campaign. If what has happened in Rhode Island is a criterion for the rest of the coun- try. the Democrats are now on the de- fensive. The results here were declared to- day to we a rebuke to Democratic high-handedness, to the processing taxes and to frenzied Federal Gov- ernment spending. Gov. Green, the Democratic chief executive of the State, was slapped severely on the wrist when most of his public program was turned down Green in not a political asset to the Democratic party at the present time New Deal Uprising. The defeat of Prince, who is State treasurer. was ali the more remarkable because the Republican organization in Rhode Island has been chot to pieces for some time. The victory yesterday, therefore, takes on all the more the color of an uprising against the New Deal. ‘The Democratic convention in which Prince was nominated adopted 8 reso- lution pledging the candidate to sup- port the “death sentence” clause in the utility holding company bill, so urgently demanded by President Roosevelt. If the members of the House who have opposed this clause needed any further encouragement they got .t in the election of yesterday. «Not only does the Rhode Island election indicate a swing away from Roosevelt and his New Deal, but it also marks the first time any State has gone on record as opposing plac- ing itself deeply in debt to carry for- | ward public works projects which ere to be financed in great part by the Federal Government. The State took this action in the face of an eleventh- hour appeal by Secretary Harold L. Ickes of the Interior Department, Public Works Administration admin- istrator. He sent a telegram to Gov. Green, Democrat, declaring it “im- possible to understand why any State or municipal corporation that is able to go forward with a plan of desirable public works $hould not avail itself of the opportunity afforded by the Public | Works Administration under that part of the public works program that has been entrusted to it.” “Certainly,” Secretary Ickes con- tinued, “at no time in the past has it been possible for any State to build public works 45 per cent of the total cost of which was covered by an out- right grant from the Federal Gov- ernment.” * Approved Direct Relief. Despite this appeal, conveyed to the voters by Gov. Green, the voters of the State turned down all but a few of 17 proposed bond issues. One ex- ception was a proposal for $3,000,000 to be used for direct relief of the destitute and unemployed. The vote on the bond issues was State-wide and not confined to the first congres- sional district. The voters of Rhode Island tQok this occasion to turn their backs on the Roosevelt spending pro- gram. If the voters in other States have the same view, the $4,880,000.000 work-relief funds voted by Congress may not prove the political asset next year which they popularly have been expected to be, Rhode Island, the smallest State in the Union, may or may not be the po- (See ELECTIONS, Page 3. LINER’S PIER GUARDED 200 Police Assigned to Forestall Any Anti-Nazi Disorder. NEW YORK, August 7 (#).—More than 200 detectives and policemen were assigned today to guard the Hamburg-American Line pier when the liner Hamburg sails for Europe to- night. The pier vas the scene of a recent anti-Nazi riot in which dem- onstrators tore the swastika flag from the mast of the Bremen and hurled it into the Hudson River. One passenger aboard the Hamburg will be Paul W. Kress, the Bronx mas- seur, who was refused a license to work here by Mayor Fiorello La Guar- dia on the grounds that Germany had discriminated against American citi- zens. The incident aroused consider- able controversy both here and abroad. 1 am ashamed. Permit me to make m--mfi‘hdmm to you.” Kress is returning to Germany to manage a laundry owned by his father.