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VOTE SIGNIFICANT - N LOAN DEFEAT Rhode Island Answer to U. 8. Extravagance Blow to New Deal. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. More important than the Repub- lican defeat of a Democrat for Con- gress in Rhode Island was the fact that the voters refused to authorize the borrrowing of money for public works, even though an outright sub- Bidy for a part of the money was offered by the Federal Government. If the American people are begin- ning to consider seriously how all these billions of borrowings are ever going to be paid back, and if they are pausing to consider the tempta tions of future borrowings, then indeed & milestone has been reached in the career of the New Deal. Naturally, New England, with its| Yankee traditions, is the place to «find conservatism in spending and | horrowing. But it had been believed wnat the sight of Government billions to be spent in the form of “projects” | was too much for any people. no| matter what their background of thrift and economy. Rhode Island’s answer to extrava- gance in government is conspicuous because it is told in the form of votes, | but the truth is many & member of | Congress on the New Deal side has begun to have misgivings lately about all the billions being borrowed. Effect Far-reaching. The effect of the Rhode Island elec- tion here cannot be exaggerated. Re- publicans, trict going back to mormal in & by- election. But behind the scenes some- thing else is happening. The Demo- erats are asking themselves whether the New Deal is actually slipping. Members of Congres: read election yeturns carefully ad analyze them minutely. Even if unconvinced that the meaning of the election was & rebuke to President Roosevelt's ad- minstration, many & Cfin?m:m]: swakened within his innel md a secret desire to go back home and find out for himself. It would not be surprising. there- fore, if the most immediate result of | the Rhode Island;election is an early sdjournment of Congress. Certainly there would be no zre:; harr. if Congress left its program & special session in November. The Senators and Representatives would come back here refreshed and per- haps enlightened on what public opin- | jon really wants. For if there is a trend toward conservatism, members of Congress will be the first to adjust them slves to it. | The two most significant comments ¢ the election came from two New England Senators, both of them Dem- ocrats. Senator David Walsh of Mas- sachusetts, a keen observer, with one of the best minds on political trends and *--".lation in the Senate, had this to “I expected & Democratic victory with a reduced majority. The only explanation that occurs to me is that certain economic policies of the ad- ministration are unpopular in the in- dustrial sections of the country. I was aware that the processing tax, the rapid increase in the cost o living, with no increase in income or wages, had created a sentiment against the administration, but I did not think it had reached such proportions as this election seems to indicate. I feel sure the administra- tion will be able to adjust its policies £0 a8 to reverse the verdict of Tuesday before the national elections.” Distinet Oppesition. Here is what Senator Peter Gerry ©f Rhode Island said: “I believe this evidences & distinct trend against some of the Ramz::;t jes, espcially the processing 3 :::31 has closed textile mills in that section. The ‘death sentence’ and the very drastic revenue bill, which un- doubtedly had a bad effect on indus- try, probably entered into it. It was not s protest against the local or- ization.” “:{:mer Gov. Ely of Massachusetts, Democrat, in his comment, points out that the administration had better lay aside reform and get down to the business of recovery along sound lines. These remarks from Democrats indicate that they hope the adminis- tration will take to heart the Rhode Island results and adjust itself to the trend. New Dealers are, of course, anxious to minimize the Rhode Island elec- tion’s importance, but there can be little doubt about what caused the reversal. The district in question is populate * by many who are depend- ent on the textile industry. The proc- essing tax is being blamed for the ills of the industry. It was an un- sound policy from an economic view- piont and if the subsidy were neces- sary it should have come out of the taxpayers who can best afford to pay it and not the poor man. This is what Senator George of Georgia and the New England Democrats all ad- vised ceveral months ago, but the ad- ministration wouldn't listen to the ‘warnings. Republican Pesition. ‘The Republicans are naturally much encouraged. But they are mistaken if they believe that the country is ready to turn nationally to the Re- publican party as it has been consti- tuted. The New Deal may defeat it- self. Lately its mistakes and blunders politically have been numerous. The swing in case of extreme antag- onism to the New Deal might go the full distance back to reaction. This would be a crowning disappointment for all true liberals. Indeed, the per- sons who consider themselves liberal at heart are the ones most disillu- sioned by the New Deal For what might have been a constructive and evolutionary development toward lib- eral government and progressive de- velopment of good government has been thwarted by unsoynd economics and the political spoils system. The Rhode Island election will ever be remembered as a warning signal to the New Deal to adjust itself, or as the (Copyright. 1935.) German Held as Spy. MALAGA, Spain, August 8 (@) — A German, Albert Reichart, has been arrested on charges of espionage fol- lowing what authorities call suspi- clous actions near fortifications. Civil guards said Reichert was tak- 1ing ‘eopions notes and refused an ex- LS of course, are happy :‘nd‘ Democrats are saying for publication | that it's just another Republican dis- | What’s What Behind News . In Capital Rhode Island Vote Is Ominous Symptom to New Deal. BY PAUL MALLON. N OMINOUS symptom behind the Rhode Island vote was that a good many voters who are taking President Roose- velt's relief money contributed their ballots to the majority aganst his re- lief program. In short, they indulged | in a healthy chew on the feeding| hand. Some astute politicos have been prophesying for a long time that such | & political phenomenon would develop | sooner or later. This is the first evi- dence. * : It comfirms the suspicions of po- litical wise men among the New Dealers who have beem fearing lately that the 34.000.000.000 re- lief barrel would eventually prove to be a political hazard rather than an asset. The sensationalized deicat of the Democratic candidate for Congress in one district of Rhode island was only part of the story. Far more important, | in the eyes of politicians here, was | the State-wide defeat of most of the 17 public works proposals. Projects Were Simon Pure. These were good projects, at least | as good as the P. W, A. is offering in | any State. No boondoggling was in- volved, except possibly in two pro- posals to build beaches, whereas the | State already has one of the best| beaches on the coast. The other de- feated projects, however, centered | around needed expansion of State hos- : pitals, reformatories, schools and NChl things. | Instead of these the volers favored | & comparatively small amount for di- | rect relief of the destitute. They were | for relief, but not for spending. And this happened in a State where | idle mill workers comprise the bulk of | the vote, where maximum relief is | needed if it is needed anywhere. | Ezxplanations would fill @ book. | For one thing, the New Dealers | mishandled their campaign. Agri- | cuiture Secretary Wallace did mot help matters any with his Bow- doin speech tmplying that New England textilites were whining. | Also, a Boston Democrat (Curley) | came out of the White House not long | ago, after trying to get textile action, and suggested blandly that the Pres- | | ident’s office was a good icebox in | which to chill ideas. Furthermore, | the Rhode Island State Democratic | | organization does not appear to have | been of much assistance. The New Deal opposition build the | thought that every one is a taxpayer | and that every one would have to pay | eventually for the $8,000,000,000 bond issue to finance those 17 projects. The | | winning slogan, coined by a Providence | | paper, was | | “If you ride, smoke, play, drink, eat | | or live, you pay taxes.” | | President Leoks Mischievous. President Roosevelt has had a mis- | chievous look in his eye at his press conferences lately. In fact, there is more than a suspicion among news- | men that he has been playing pub- | licity pranks on them. | What aroused these suspicions is the fact that at the last 8 or 10 con- | ferences the President usually has given out facts and statistics obviously prepared in advance. Strangely, also, these facts and sta- tistics usually amount to good argu- ments for legislation which happens to be pending in Congress at the time. For instance, when the holding company bill was up he flailed the utility fat boys on three different Associated Gas & Electric). When the tar program came up he put the rich over the barrel for a whacking with figures prepared for him at the Treasury. Thus he got advertising for his viewpoint, even in the critical press, Of course, these incidents are sup- posed to arise spontaneously. They | develop in response to specific ques- | tions from newsmen, but it is not difficult for the White House to ar- range in advance to have the right questions asked. ‘To get the sharpest slant on this distinct change of White House pub- licity technique, you have to go back to the early days when press confer- ences were the main source of all news. Sometimes 300 correspondents flocked to them. Policies and pur- poses were discussed with unusual freedom. ‘Then came the historic conference at which the President outlined his views about the N. R. A. decision of the Supreme Court. A change was apparent immediately thereafter. It is well known on the inside that Mr. Roosevelt believed his position was not clearly or adequately presented by the press at that time. Little or no important news has de- veloped from conferences since. At- tendance has fallen off occasionally as much as 50 per cent. H. C. Hopson is.have been betting that the long missing head of Associated Gas was within 5 miles of the Senate Lobby Committee, off and on, most of the time he was being sought. There is supposed to have been a sharp disagreement among his coun- by lying low. So did the com- mittee. ‘There is no question that Mr. Roose- holding company but spirit about that hufl,;uly noticeable. 18380 THE EVEN MITCHELL LOSES INCOME TAE FRAT Former National City Bank Head May Appeal $1,- 200,000 Decision. By the Associated Press. The next move in the Charles E. Mitchell income tax fight, in which the former chairman of the National City Bank of New York suffered & $1,200,000 defeat yesterday, depends on whether he decides (o appeal. The Board of Tax Appeals, in a decision which labeled part of Mitch- ell's income tax returns as “fraudu- lent,” ruled that he owes the Govern- ment the greater part of a $1,275,644 tax claim preferred against him. Mitchell has the right to appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals and thence to the Supreme Court. If he does not, the Government presumably | will put its collection machinery into motion. The decision yesterday noted that Mitchell's fortunes declined from a “net worth” of about $30,000,000 on December 20, 1929, to insolvency “by an amount in of $3.000,000” on | March 2¢, 1932. It 4id not say any- thing about his present financial status. $1,200,000 of Claims Upheld. According to estimates of Treasury officials, the board aecision upheld about $1.200,000 of the original $1,- 275644 claim. It held that a New York jury's action in acquitting Mitch- ell of criminal charges of tax evasion does *not bar the imposition of the penalty of 50 per cent of the defi- ciency.” The original assessment included tax deficiency claims of $850,429, plus 50 per cent penalties of $425215. The board ruled against the New York financier on two of the three major issues presented. His claim of a deduction from tax- able income of $2872305 allegedly Jost in 1929 on the sale of National City Bank stock to his wife was dis- allowed and the transaction heid fraudulent. Fraud was also charged in his failure to report for taxa- tion the receipt of $666.666 received as a distribution from the manage- ment fund of the National City Co. On the other hand, the board ruled in his favor in holding deductible his claim of a loss of $758918 in 1930 | on the sale of 8,500 shares of Ana- conda Copper Co. stock. Action Held Fraudulent. Ruling against him on a lesser issue | § | thie aavd S 56 Suene s st | no course of action and made no in his income tax return for 1830 the dividends paid on the stock he said he sold his wife rendered his return for that year fraudulent. The Treasury had claimed tax de- ficiences of $728,709 for 1929 and $121,719 for 1930. The respective 50 per cent penalties brought the total assessment to $1,375,644. Mitchell resigned as head of the National City Bank early in 1833, His stock transactions had been brought out previously in the Senate Banking Committee’s stock market in- tion. In neither of the two years covered | in the board’s ruling did Mitchell pay any Pederal income tax. The board said that for 1929, after the daduc- tion on the sale of bank stock to his wife and the failure to include the $666,666 from the management fund, Mitchell reported a net loss of $48,899. For 1930, the board said, the bank- er's return showed a net income of $8,552 and “he paid no income tax for that year.” J. P. Morgan & Co. had given Mitchell & personal $12,000,000 credit | at the time of the 1929 market crash for stock purchases. CLIMBERS RESCUED HOUSE OPPOSED 10 MIDGET COINS Poll of Members Reveals ‘Overwhelming Sentiment’ Against Plan. By the Associated Press. An informal poll of the House was declared today to indicate “over- whelming sentiment” against coinage of midget money. Representative Cannon, Democrat, of Missouri, who disclosed the sur- vey results, said members of the Mis- souri delegation virtually had aban- doned hope for passage of the Treas- ury-indorsed bill authorizing the issu- ance of “Tom Thumb” coins by the Federal Government for use in States | having percentage sales tax laws. Missouri, like several other States, is facing difficulty in collecting sales taxes because of lack of coins for fractions of a penny. Fear Federal Sales Tax. “The House,” Cannon said, “is over- whelmingly opposed to a Federal sales tax, and overwhelmingly opposed to midget coins because many members fear that would be an entering wedge to a Federal sales tax.” Because of the “very unfavorable situation” in the House, Cannon said members of the Missouri delegation were considering “a practical way out.” One proposal under consideration, by executive order, to declare the issuance by States of tax tokens, not coinage of money “within the mean- ing of the Constitution.” The other is to ask Congress to declare the tokens not coinage of money. ‘The Coustitution declares Congress shall have exclusive right to coln | money. Coinage Hearing Opens. A hearing opened today before the House Coinage Committee on the Treasury's appeal to Congress for per- mission to coin money of less than a cent in value. Some time ago the Treasury suggested one-half-cent and 1-mill pieces, but the House commit- tee pigeon-holed a bill offered to it on the ground it would give the Treas- ury too broad powers. Herman Oliphant, Treasury coun- sel, yesterday dispatched telegrams to four States—Colorado, Illinois, | Missouri and Washington—advising them that use of sales tax tokens | coin money. The messages suggested “threats,” officials said. 200 CRETAN “REDS” LEAD STRIKE MOVE Communists Occupy Church and Ring Bell to Rally Popu- lace to Cause. | By the Associated Press. ATHENS, August 8. —Two hundred Communists today oceupied a church in Canea, Crete, in what apparently was a strike movement. It was reported in the capital that the Canea demonstrators had failed in efforts to bring about simultaneous strikes in Lassithi and Ayinkola. After they occupied the church, the Canea strikers rang the church | bells in an attempt to rally others to their cause. Using police and soldiers, the Greek government earlier this week sup- pressed a strike movement which the government cl as rebel- lion at Candia, Crete. FROM HIGH CLIFF Woman Recovering, but Compan- ion Is in Hospital Se- riously Injured. By the Associated Press. YOSEMITE, Calif., August 8. —Res- cued from a perilous perch 2,000 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley, Miss Elizabeth Lorimer, 23, was re- covering from her harrowing experi- enge today, but her companion in the ordeal lay seriously injured in a hos- pital. Forest rangers, using ropes. brought Miss Lorimer and Robert Tate, 35, down the precipitous granite moun- tainside yesterday. For a full night the two had clung 1o scanty footing that stood between them and death. Miss Lorimer, whose home is in Chicopee, Mass., was unscathed, but Tate had to be brought down over the sharply sloping mountainside on a stretcher. Physicians at Lewis Memorial Hos- pital in the valley said they would not know the extent of his injuries until X-ray plates are examined to- day. Preliminary examination dis- closed & broken shoulder, body bruises and scratches, and possible skull frac- ture. Rangers said that when rescued Tate was staggering dazedly near the edge of a sheer rock cliff, about 100 feet from the ledge where the girl was clinging. They said he had fallen while trying to find® a way back up the mountain by moonlight. Tate's home is in Inglewood, Calif. —_— Sugar Pact Advanced. BRUSSELS, August 8 (#).—The mnewspaper Vingtiene Siecle said today that representatives of the sugar in- dustry of seven countries which ah- hered to the expiring Chadbourne plan have agreed to form an international sugar committee to facilitate efforts to reach a world agreement on produc- rketing. ‘TODAY. Senate: Considers gold clause bill under lim- itations on debate. Finance Senate: Considers Walsh bill to require N. R. A. provision in Government con- Miss Elizabeth Lorimer, Says She Was Not Against Sleep. Note—Her experience in clinging a whole night to a 2,000-foot-high ledge of Half Dome, Yosemite's noted granite mountain, is de- scribed here by the Chicopee, Mass., girl who was rescued by park rangers. BY ELIZABETH LORIMER. YOSEMITE, Calif., August 8—On being brought to the shore of Mirror Lake, after spending the night on Half Dome, I could not decide whether wanted first to drink, bathe, eat or rest. I never knew the ground could feel so good. I had been on a hike to the top of Half Dome in & ranger naturalist party. From the top of Half Dome it looked easy to reach the bottom through the wooded country below Half Dome. There was, however, no trail and the going was very rocky and precipitous. After working our way for nearly three hours, and as the sun was about to set, I insisted on stopping and letting our predicament be known, We shouted and built a small fire in order that our location could become known. The wood was scarce because we were on a rocky ledge, so we nursed the tiny blase along until midnight. Companion Hurt in Fall. In the meantime Robert Tate, my companion, left in an effort to find & way back up, but as he was shortly sfterward hurt in a fall I was forced to spend the night alone. I had my choice of placing myself against an ant-infested tree or perch- ing between two shaliow ledges of rock. I chose the latler because it was easier to keep the fire up from there, and as it grew colder I found the cold a good protection against falling asleep. This last was essen- tial because had I fallen asleep I would have fallen over the cliff. Another protection against falling to sleep was given by a C C. C. bon- b a n Pinance Committee hoids executive meeting on tax bill, mflw l I i |13 RY he disclosed, is to ask the Treasury, | Rescued Girl’s Story month-old lion Rex. In fact, Dick, Hold on, son, don't treat that poor City, can do about as he pleases with the beast. and the lion starts growling and showing his teeth. NG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1935. ‘Lion Is Playmate of 4-Year-Old Boy lion who is BYGOY TALWADGE Cruel Policy Breaking Bonds of Constitution, Declares Georgian. By the Assoclated Press. JOLLY STREET, 8. C., August 8.— ‘Once more siriking at the Roosevelt administration, Gov. Eugene Tal-| madge of Georgia today assailed | Washington “brain-trusters” as using “hunger, want and beggary to break the bonds” of the Constitution. Talmadge appeared here on the ! Cole L. Blease of Columbia. | “The brain-trusters in Washing- ton,” the Georgian stated, “say that | the American people have been linked | and bound to the Constitution of the | United States to such an extent that | they are not capable of free thought— | | 30 they are using scarcity methods to bust the Constitution. | | “But an almighty God is looking | down on this travesty. The brain- | trusters feel the avening sword. They know that they have violated the laws | of God and nature. They know that they have forced millions of people in this country to stoop to beggary.” | The Georgia Governor, whose bit- | ter denunciations of the New Deal President have been construed as his own bid for the presidential nomina- | tion in 1936, sharply eriticized Fed- | | eral production-control policies and the processing taxes on farm com- modities. Urging payment of the soldiers’ bonus and payment of outstanding | contracts to farmers out of the recent $4,880.000,000 work-relief appropria- | tion, he said this would “make just | that much less to be used politically | in 1936." Processing taxes he termed “pro- tective tariffs with a reverse effect” on farmers, Trapped on Half Dome, Afraid, But Fought MISS ELIZABETH LORIMER. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. fallen if I tried. Then they lowered | | me from tree to tree until we reached s small ravine. This procedure was repeated several times until we reached s steep trail which took us down to the ground by Mirror Lake. All through the night Acting Chief Ranger William Nelson was directing my rescue and to him and the former rangers who effected my rescue too much credit cannot be given. I wasn't & bit afraid during the night. I spent the night trying to locate the stars I know and trying to pick out the various camps and moun- tains. I purposely made the hours seems longer than they were, hoping that help. would come much sooner. Cold Increased With Dawn. When the first light broke in the east I could not believe my eyes. And with the dawn a slight breeze sprang 'BEGGARY' SCORED "ot T Dispute Is Hinted Opposed Gold Clause’s burg Says He Hears. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau today an- nounced the resignation of J. G. Laylin, assistant general counsel of the Treasury, but declined to say whether it was actuated by disagree- ment over Treasury policies. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, told the Senate yesterday he understood Laylin had written a “blistering” letter to Morgenthau as- was believed to clash with the Fed- | program of a political rally together serting he “would have no part in eral Government's exclusive right to | with former United States Senator repudiation” of gold-clause contracts. Morgenthau said Laylin had sub- mitted a formal letter of resignation. He added that Laylin originally joined the department for two years and had stayed in excess of that time. He said, further, he had been offered positions with three different law firms. “If he wants to give out his letter | of resignation he may do s0,” Mor- genthau added. Laylin will become affiliated with the local law firm of Covington, Bur- ling, Rublee, Acheson & Shorb. In his new connection, he will be affiliated with Dean G. Acheson, first ‘Undersecretary of the Treasury in the Roosevelt administration, who resigned allegedly in protest against the ad- ministration’s financial policies, - A F.L. OPENS GUN ON RACKETEERING Committee Is Named to Co-operate in New York Warfare. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. August 8./ a whole would comply with regula- | —The American Pederation of Labor McCollin, though only 4, has no fear of this 7- R. D. McCollin, 300 superintendent at Salt Lake Dick's brothers, Max, 6, or Joseph, 7, come near —A. P. Photo. FILM INJUNCTION - HEARING REFUSED Judge Holds No Emergency Exists in U. S. Anti- Trust Prosecution. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 8.—Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey of Des Moines declined today to order s hearing August 19 on & Department of Jus- tice injunction suit against Warner | Bros. Pictures, Inc., and other major motion picture producers, which sought to prevent them from negoti- | ating new contracts. The temporary injunction was sought by the Government to restrain the producers from continuing an al- | leged violation of anti-trust laws by | refusing to supply top rate films to | three first-run motion picture houses here. Emergency Disputed. Judge Dewey, assigned in the ab- sence of the two St. Louis judges, said he could not see that the matter complained of in the sult constituted { an emergency. | Following a telephone conversation | with Assistant Attorney General Rus- sell Hardy in Washington, the judge announced he would order the hear- ing only :f specifically directed to do 30 by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. It was Hardy who pre- pared the anti-trust indictments re- turned by a St. Louis grand jury in January. In its application for an injunction HARYLARDT0 G - 200000 FUND and State Is Ready to Launch Projects. By the Associated Press. With a newly approved $62.000,000 work-relief program and a newly ap- pointed works progress administrator, | Maryland was ready today to inaug- urate a new fight on unemployment. Approval of the program and ap- pointment of the new administrator came within the space of a few hours yesterday. White House sanction of the huge works plan was announced by Senators Tydings and Radcliffe, Democrats, of Maryland. after a conference with President Roosevelt, Public Works Ad- ministrator Harold L. Ickes and Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. New Administrator Named. Shortly thereafter Hopkins an- nounced appointment of Prancis M Dryden of Pocomoke and Salisbury to succeed John N. Mackall as works progress administrator for Marviand. Farlier, Hopkins had accepted Mackall's resignation. Mackall signed because he felt there was un- due delay in inaugurating the program in Maryland. Dryden, a native of Pocomoke and |8 World War veteran, became State | C. W. A. engineer in 1934, after se- | curing a furlough from his position city engineer for Salisbury. He is a8 member of several engineering or- | ganizations and has been consultant | for numerous municipalities. The new works program is designed | to give at least a year's labor to every employable person now on the State's | relief rolls. The employment would [ be handled through a single agency. | Semators Hail Program. | Senators Tydings and Radcliffe said it would provide useful projects and furnish the State permanent improve- ment that normally would be con- structed in the future. The Senators said the program as tions providing that each $1,100 of Te- | the Government contended that the defendant companies and corporations have refused to renew contracts with the three first-run houses, automati- | cally continuing the alleged anti-trust | violation. The action, according to William R. Benham, Special Assistant | Abrogation, Vanden- New Relief Head Named Escah S ot e KR The Des Moines judge, however, held that no emergency existed and pointed out that the St. Louis judges would return to their benches here September 1, indicating he preferred that the case be taken up then. Defendants in Sait. Defendants in the injunction suit, all but one of them named in the anti-trust indictments, are: Warner Bros, Inc. Vitaphone Corp., First National Pictures, Inc.; Vitagraph, Inc.; Warner Bros. Cir- cuit Management Corp., General The- atrical Enterprises, Inc.; Paramount Pictures Distributing Co., Inc.; Para- mount Pictures Distributing Corp., and R-K-O Distributing Corp. Vita- graph was not named in the anti- trust indictment. HUSBAND SLAYING PLOT CONFESSED Former New Jersey Teacher Sleeps Soundly After Bar- ing Comspiracy, By the Associated Press SALEM, N. J, August 8.—Mrs Marguerite F. Dolbow, 28, former school teacher, who talked freely of have plotted the slaying of her farmer husband, slept soundly and | 1ate in her cell today. In saother cell, Norman Driscoll, | who has refused to discuss her state- ment that he was her partner in a | romance and fellow conspirator, paced restlessly much of the night. Before she retired after long hours | of questioning, the widow signed a | confession admitting, Prosecutor W. | A. W. Grier said, “that she and Dris- coll, her lover, had planned to mur- der her husband for three months.” With downcast head, Driscoll, a neighbor of the Dolbows. steadfastly | replied “I don't remember” to all questions, the authorities said. | The husband, Harry Dolbow, 34, | was beaten to death early Saturday wants every labor racketeer “exposed | Federal money must employ a man | morniag on his farm and punished.” ‘This expression of policy came last night from William L. Green, federa- tion president, council had appointed three of its members to co-operate in the New York City campaign to drive labor | racketeers out of the metropolitan area. “The position of the American Fed- eration of Labor toward racketeers is well known,” Green said. “We want every racketeer who may fasten him- self upon any of our unions exposed and punished.” Workmen Declared Bled. Charges that racketeers were bleed- ing workmen of a good share of their pay envelopes have been hurled fre- quently at union labor in recent years. Union officials, it has been charged, sometimes have compelled their mem- bers to “kick in” part of their wages to keep their jobs. Conspiracy be- tween labor leaders and contractors to divide the “take” from these “kick- ins” has been uncovered. Green sent word to the federation's lobby in Washington last night to press its fight for enactment of the Guffey coal stabilization bill, to set up a “little N. R. A.” for the bitumi- nous industry. “Congress will fail to discharge its whole duty if it does not pass the| Guffey bill before it adjourns,” he said. State sales taxes were assailed by the A. F. of L. president in an inter- view. “These sales taxes shift the burden of relief from the wealthy to the poor,” Green said. “Think of the poor devil who has to pay a sales tax on & coffin when he buries a member of his family.” Supports Relief Strike. New York's work-relief strike meeis the approval of at least one union chieftain, hefty and outspoken Wil- liam Hutcheson, president of the car- penters. If any of his 200,000 members took a security wage, he said, he “wouldn’t O. K. it.” “I hope that they have nerve enough to strike,” he added. Hutcheson said he had made this same statement to Hugh S. Johnson, New York relief chief, when he was before the council Monday seeking support for the security wage. Hutcheson said, however, he was speaking only for his own union. The council and the federation’s building trades department are keep- ing hands off the New York dispute. Both Green and J. W. Williams, de- partment chief, said they anticipated such trouble when they campaigned before Congress for payment of pre- vailing local wages om work-relief after his executive | | for a year, although all individual projects might not meet this re- quirement. | The total of Federal funds allotted | the State was $49.000,000. Of this, $15,000000 has been set aside for “construction at various Army posts | and reservations, for highways, | C. C. camps and other Federal ac- | tivities.” the Senators said. Of the $34,000,000 remaining, the counties are to receive $12.000,000 and | Baltimore City $22,000,000. Total to Approach $63,000,000. ‘With Baltimore contributing $11.- /000000 and the counties and their political subdivisions approximately $3,000,000, the total of the program | will approach $63,000.000. A confer- ence on the Baltimore City program, most of which already has been plan- ned in detail, Ickes and Hopkins for Mayor Howard W. Jackson today. With its new al- lotment Baltimore was expected to have $33,000,000 available. In a joint statement issued after the conference, Senators Tydings and Radcliffe said “it was the thought” of those attending that the “plan as | outlined would accomplish: “1. Employment of persons able to | work and now on relief some time in September. | “2. It would furnish employment for | these persons for at least a year. “3. When the program is completed, there will be to show for the money expended work in the nature of per- manent improvements for the city and State which would likely have been done anyhow by the political units concerned when finances and circum- stances permitted their constructions.” e "CORRECTION Mrs. Thomas Left Property, Later Foreclosed, in November, 1933. Mrs. William J. Thomas of 626 Powhatan place, owner of the first property foreclosed in the District by the H. O. L. C, at 3402 Nineteenth street, has not lived on that property since November, 1933. She left it at that time when the H. O. L. C. suggested she try to rent it. At that time her name was Mrs. L. E. Sanford. It was not until April,-1935, that Mrs. Sanford married Mr. Thomas. In the account of the foreclosure in The Star of Tuesday it was erroneously stated that Mrs. Sanford married Mr, Thomas a year ago and then moved away from the dwelling. Claims Cornstalk Record. MAMARONECK, N. Y, August 8 (P).—Spurred by Mrs. Antoinette Vit- ti's claim that her garden boasts = cornstalk 12 feet 4 inches tall—as compared to the 11-foot season record established last week in Wichita, Kans., Orazio Della Posta brought witnesses to his garden yesterday and publicly | dispiayed & stalk measuring 13 feet 5 inches in height, A was arranged with | | Mrs. Dolbow and Driscoll are | charged with the killing. Wilbert | Drummond, 35, Dolbow's eolored | farmhand: John Dennis, 34, employed | on Driscoll's farm, and Alfred Harris, | 34, of Salem, are held as material | witnesses. C.| TO ITALY REFUSED Export-Import Bank Thinks De- | faulter May Have to Pay Cash | Eventually, Anyway. By the Assoctated Press. An official source said today the | Government’s Export-Import Bank | would refuse credit for ocotton pur- | chases in this country, the staple to be shipped to Italy. The American cotton export indus- | try was reported to have received re- | quests for & year’s credit on raw eot- ton for Italy and the application was referred to the Export-Import Bank. Thereafter the credit period was | reduced in the request to six months. Even so, the bank was said to be plan- ning to refuse the money, possibly on the ground that such a loan would fall under the ban against lending to nations in default to the United States. Whether the cotton would be used for war purposes was said not to be & question at issue, since there is mo | authority for refusal on that ground. It also was suggested that, since the United States is the most important source of raw coton, Italy probably would have to pay cash eventually. MOTHER AND 2 GIRLS, FIGHTING HEAT, DROWN By the Associated Press. PIKEVILLE, Tenn., August 8.—A mother and two daughters were dead at their farm home near here today following an attempt to get relief from yesterday’s intense heat by wad- ing in the Sequatchie River. While her 5-year-old daughter, Mary, stood on the bank and watched, Mrs. Tye Rothwell, 46, went to the fescue of two other daughters, May- me, 17, and Josie Lou, 21, who had into a deep hole in the river, three drowned. The bodies were found s few min- tes after they went down. BAND CONCERTS. At the United Btates Capitol by the United States Marine Band at 7:30 pm. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Wijtcomb, second leader, conducting. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band at 5:30 o'clock. John 5. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton FPointner, associsla eader, ’ [}