Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. . (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, probably occasional show- ers tonight and tomorrow; not quite so warm tonight; gentle winds. Tempera- tures—Highest, 98, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 72, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-12. Closing N. Y. Markets, No. 33,342. TROOPS INCREASED AS POWERS MEET Entered as seci ON WAR CRISIS Italy Calls New Classes as Ethiopia Strengthens Border Force. EDEN AND LAVAL BEGIN PARLEY PREPARATIONS Haile Selassie Sends Protest to| League on Rome's Arming for “Massacre.” Preparations for war were pushed today by Italy and Ethiopia as| spokesmen for England and France met in Paris to consider a plan for pacitying Premier Mussolini to avoid actual conflict in Africa. Emperor Haile Selassie sent 60,000 soldiers to his country’s eastern borders, where an invasion of Ital- 1an Somaliland might be effected. The Roman government, indifferent over the outcome of the French- Anglo-Italian parley, called to arms members of the classes of 1911, 1913 and 1914. The order is effec- tive the latter part of September, shortly after the African rainy sea- son ends and near the date on which the hostilities are expected to begin. Premier Laval and Anthony Eden were the conferees who met in Paris to discuss a course of action to be presented Italy at the tripar- tite conference Friday. A protest from Ethiopia that she is unable to buy arms abroad to de- fend herself against “massacre” by Italy, was received by the League of Nations. Ethiopia Increases Guard. DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland, August 14 (#).—Emperor Haile Se- lassie has dispatched 60,000 troops to positions behind Ethiopia's eastern borders, preparatory for a quick south- ward drive on Italian Somaliland in the event Italy invades his kingdom. The troops will be concentrated in the Harrar region, it was learned to- day. Below the Djibouti-Addis Ababn‘ line. it is the native district of the troops composing this force. Thus placed. they can quickly be moved into Ogaden, the Ethiopian district on the frontier of Italian Bomaliland. Advance Is Anticipated. Ethiopian war leaders anticipate an | Italian advante from Eritrea toward | Adua, to the north of Addis Ababa. | Such a movement would be countered by the Ethiopian advance to the south, it was pointed out. The exodus of foreigners Addis Ababa has poured many Euro- peans into this port city. Among them are Italians, some of whom im- mediately volunteered for service with I1 Duce’s troops in Eritrea. German and British nationals in Ethiopia have been instructed by their governments to prepare inven- tories of their properties and be ready to leave the country on short notice. The orders were attributed to the growing apprehension of these gov- ernments that diplomatic negotiations for settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian conflict may fail. Police Increased. ‘This uneasiness was heightened by word from Addis Ababa of the huge increase in the police force, coupled with reports that an extraordinary guard had been stationed at the Ital- lan Legation there. France, too, manifests a skepticism | that the tripartite conference in Paris will accomplish much in the way of peace. Longe-range guns have been mounted on the islands off this coast, it was learned today. The French cruiser Dumont-Duville will arrive August 18 to remain indefinitely. | Rome Calls New Troops. ROME, August 14 (#).—Italy called | to arms today another extensive group of officers and soldiers as the government, indifferent to the tri- | partite conference in Paris, contin- | ued its preparations for war in East Africa. | The new order recalled to service those members of the classes of 1911, | 1913 and 1914 who served under tri- mester (three-month) obligatory mili- tary service. The only ones excused from today's order are priests and other religious workers who make formal demand for exemption attested to by their bishops, and those enrolled in.the Black Shirt Legion destined for service in East Africa. The soldiers recalled must present (See ETHIOPIA, Page 3.) ITALY FORTIFYING ISLES IN AEGEAN Martial Law Declared and Aliens Are Barred—Blockade in Force. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 14—A Reuter’s (British) news agency dispatch from Athens said today that the Italian- owned Dodecgnese Islands in the Aegean Sea have been placed under martial law with a severe blockade in force. The Island of Leros has been converted into a fortress. Visitors are not allowed to disem- bark at Leros, but are forced to go to Rhodes, where all are subjected to a close scrutiny. Private houses have been requisi- tioned for hospital service in the mil- itarization program. All motor vessels also have been Trequisitioned. The 13 islands of the Dodecanese are in the Aegean Sea, off the Coast of Asia Minor. Rhedes is the best known. The Island of Leros was fortified because of its strategic position if Italy ever wished to expand in Asia | sky, granting the defense motion, held | and Mrs. ) from | | Speaks at Home Rally. | ing planks be included in the next Pages 17, 18, 19 ond class matter post office, Washington, D. C. | Plans Conference Today | at White House to Talk Relief Projects. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Republican hopes for a State-wide | congressional election in Ohio this | Fall to fill the vacancy caused bv the death ~of the late Representative Truax, Democrat, were dashed today when Gov. Martin L. Davey reiterated | his opposition to calling such an elec- tion. Davey visited the White Hcuce to- day to talk with President Rousevelt. On leaving the White House he an- nounced approval by Mr. Roosevel’ of a program for construction of State institutions totaling $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. He also repeated that he would not call a special electicn to fill the Truax vacancy, and would reply | “in due form” to suits filed today seek- | ing to force an election. He said he did not mention the spe- | cial election issue in his talk with the | President, | | Truax was elected Representative | at Large in 1934 with a lead of 156,624 over his Republican opponent. Rep- resentative Bolton of Ohio, chairman | | of the Republican Congressional Cam- | paign Committee, said today he was sure the Republicans could and would elect a successor to Truax if only the | Governor would call the special elec- | tion. Resentment Held Spreading. Bolton expressed the opinion that |the same resentment against the Roosevelt New Deal which gave the | Republicans a victory in the first Rhode Island congressional dl.strmi last week haa spread throughout the “(See DAVEY, Page 5.) he Fp WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C, Ohio Test of New Deal Favor Again Rejected by Gov. Davey Davey Is Ordered To Answer Suit Asking Election By the Associated Press. SANDUSKY, Ohio, August 14. —Judge Roy H. Willlams issued an alternative writ of mandamus today to compel Gov. Martin L. Davey to flle an answer to a taxpayer’s suit asking the State Supreme Court to force the Gov- ernor to call a special election to select a successor to Representa- tive at Large Charles V. Truax. A Columbus taxpayer, Harry C. Armstrong, earlier today asked the State Supreme Court to com- pel Gov. Davey to call & special election to fill the vacancy. Ohio voters showed general approval of scores of small bond issue proposals in today's elec- tion, but returns showed many of the larger issues were defeated. Marion voters rejected two large P. W. A. bond issues. one of $200.750 for a city hall, and one of $88,000 Yor sewer improve- ments. At Portsmouth a $457,995 school bond issue was rejected by a vote of almost two to one. A $210,000 issue for a sewage plant, a P. W. A. project, was defeated at Lancaster. Defeat by an almost two-to-one vote of a $148,500 bond issue for a city hall and police station in Euclid, suburb of Cleveiand, brought from Mayor Charles R. Ely, Republican, an assertion that Euclid Democrats are not in sympathy with President Roose- velt's work program. KNOX URGES USE OF FOES' PLEDGES \Would Take Exact Words of Democratic Plat- form of 1932. By the Associated Press. HAMPTON BEACH, N. H. Auguatf 14 —Drawing upon the 1932 Demo- | cratic platform for six planks, Col. Frank Knox, possible Republican pres- | idential candidate in 1936, today out- | lined a party platform which, he de- | clared, represented “the utter repudi- | ation by Roosevelt and his New Deal administration of sacred promises.” Presenting the planks in answer to | President Roosevelt's ‘“reiterated de- mand for a substitute program,” the Chicago and Manchester, N. H..| | newspaper publisher recommended, for | adoption by his party, a pumber of | | planks “taken, literally, from the Dem- | ocratic platform of 1932.” “They represent principles upon which all those opposed to the radi- calism of President Roosevelt can sup- | port the Republican party,” he de- | | clared. Col. Knox was assured the support of New Hampshire Republicans for | the nomination by Gov. H. Styles Bridges in and address on the same party gathering, the annual outing of g]“b Rockingham County Republican | lub. Col. Knox, in an address prepared for delivery, suggested that the follow- Republican platform: “l. An immediate and drastic reduc- tion of governmental expenditures. “2. Maintenance of the national credit by a Federal budget annually balanced. “3. A sound currency to be pre- served at all hazards. “4. Unemployment and old-age in- surance under State 1aws “5. Strict and impartial enforce- ment of the anti-trust laws to pre- vent monopoly and unfair trade prac- tices. “6. Opposition to the unsound pol- i?y of restricting agricultural produc- | tion.” Col. Knox said he rot only recom- mended those principles for adoption by his party, but he 'iged “the pre- cise language in whicn .I have read them.” “This is important,” he said, “be- cause they are taken lilerally from the Democratic platform of 1932. “They represent principles upon which all those opposed to the radi- calism of President Roosevelt can support the Republican party, and they represent, in every single in- stance, the utter repudiation by Roose- velt and his New Deal sdministration of sacred promises, upon the basis of which he procured his election. “Repudiation” Cited. “It is almost a truism to say that had he openly repudiated these fun- damentally sound principles prior to November, 1932, he woulc not have been elected President of the United States. “It is a lack of trustworthiness and loyalty to pledged word and principle | that has created a universal lack of confidence in the administration by the entire American business com- munity. “Ever since June of 1932, every (See KNOX, Page 8.) MARCANTONIO TO AID NAZI RIOT DEFENSE New York Representative Joins Case for Accused—Trial De- layed Until August 22. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August ll.—Rme-I sentative Vito Marcantonio, New York liberal, associated himself today in th2 defense of the eight men charged with leading the recent riot on board tne liner Bremen in which the Nasi em- blem was torn from a flagstaff. ‘The Representative’s entrance into the case brought a further delay fa the trial. Magistrate Louis B. Brod- over the trial until August 22, 4 PLAN TOKILL COAL BILL IS REPORTED House Leader Hears Senate Will Quit Without Acting on Measure. By the Associated Press. A high Democratic House leader said today he had been informed that the Senate was preparing to adjourn withcut acting on the Guffey coal stabilization bill. That information the leader <caid privately, was conveyed to him by two New England Senators who told him they had reached such an understand- ing with Senate Democratic leaders. “The plans,” the House chief con- tinued, “apparently are to get every- thing else out of the way in a hurry, | scuttle the Guffey bill and be ready | ‘o adjourn by Thursday of next week.” | Doughton Uninformed. When Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee was asked about that report, he re- plied he understood there had been no change in the situation. Last week, before Doughton’s com- mittee approved the Guffey bill, it sent a special subcommittee to the Senate to confer with Senator Robin- son of Arkansas, the Democratic lead- er, and Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee about prospects for action on the bill. Harrison and Robinson assured it they would make every effort to give the Senate an opportunity to “con- sider” the bill. They did not promise, however, that the Senate would pass it. Won by Clese Vote. In the House the bill was approved by the Ways and Means Committee by a 12 to 11 vote, with 2 committee- men answering “present” on the roll call. Both were opposed to it, but 'agreed to let it get out of committee because President Roosevelt was in- sistent upon the measure. A poll of the House by Democratic leaders was said to indicate the bill would pass by enly a narrow margin, if at all. JOHNSON STRIKE ORDER TEST NEAR Work-or-Lose-Relief Warning Is Ignored by Gotham Aid Agency Head. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 14—With quiet prevailing in the strike of labor unions against the $93.50 monthly wage on W. P. A. projects, the first test came today of the ultimatum of the works progress director, Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, that strikers inust return to work or get off the relief rolls, Thomas Martin of the Bronx, head of a family of eight and one of those Who answered the strike call of union leaders, applied for, and received, re- 'l‘l‘:; at & Home Relief Bureau substa- Miss Rosetta PFisher, director of the substation, supplied Martin with $5 cash for immediate needs and promised him a check for $23 later today. ‘She did this upon authorization of Miss Charlotte Carr, director of the Home Relief Division of the Emergency Re- lief Bureau. * It was expected the action of Miss Carr would be taken up quickly by Gen. Johnson, whose ultimatum—in effect today—has been backed up by President Roosevelt and other Federal authorities. BQETTIGERS ON COAST LOS ANGELES, August 14 (P).— Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger, son- in-law and daughter to President and Mrs. Roosevelt, began a week's visit ?".m":fi.w for work for Boettiger. The couple arrived met by will tion Picture Association, is an as- sistant WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D.C. SOCIAL BILLS GIVEN FAVORABLE REPORTINSENATE Committee Approves Many Job Insurance Changes Sought by City Heads. HEARINGS PLANNED ON TAX REVISIONS Control of Bill Placed Under Local Board and District Con- tribution Eliminated. BY J. A. O'LEARY. | The Senate District Committee to- | day ordered favorable reports on the |three local social security bills, after granting most of the important changes asked for by the Commis- sioners in the unemployment insur- ance plan. Meanwhile, the District Commis- | sioners planned tentatively to have public hearings on proposed tax re- visions to meet the cost of the Dis- trict social security program, esti- mated at $1,800,000 a year. Essential changes the Senate group made in the unemployment bill are: Struck out the requirement that the District government pay a contribu- tion in addition to the pay roll tax of employers. It had been estimated this ultimately would have called for at least $1,250,000 a year from tax- payers generally. Local Board Provided. Placed control of the bill under a local board instead of the National Social Security Board. The board | would consist of the Commissioners | and two members representing em- ployers and employes. Having eliminated the District gov- ernment tax, the committee fixed the period of benefit payments to an un- employed worker at 16 instead of 26 weeks a year, which is in line with | trend of State laws and the national bill. In one respect the Senate group gave the bill a wider scope by apply- ing the law and the pay roll tax to all commercial employers of “one or more” persons. This will make the District ac® one |of the most far-reaching in the country. | The House bill applied it to “four or more” employes. Domestic serv- ants are exempt, however. | The Senate bill would apply the | pay roll tax gradually at 1 per cént in 1936, 2 per cent in 1937 and 3 per cent thereafter, whereas the House | bill applied the 3 per cent rate im- | mediately. |5 Per Cent Maximum Provided. The House bill permitted raising of ‘the tax as high as 5 per cent a year | after 1940 on employers with a poor | record for stabilizing work, but al- | lowed no corresponding cut in the 3 per cent rate for a good record. The Senate bill allows reduction to a min- imum of 1! per cent for a good record and limits increase of the tax to a | maximum of 4 per cent. The Senate bill starts benefit pay- | ments after two years, instead of one year, as in the House bill. The weekly House, namely 40 per cent of average | weekly wage, plus 10 per cent for a | dependent wife and 5 per cent for a child, but not more than $15. The other twc social security bills dealing with old age and blind pen- sions were reported out promptly with a few changes, most of which are in- Aended to conform to requirements in national bill, so that the District will be eligible to receive Federal grants, as in the States, to match local pay- ments. The Federal Government will pay & maximum of $15 a month per person toward pensions for aged and the blind, if the District pays that amount, but the city is free to add to this $30 total if it desires, King Asks for Reports. Chairman King of the Senate com- mittee asked the experts to prepare reports this afternoon so that the three security bills will be ready for Senate action tomorrow. They will have to go back to the House in view of the changes. In all, the Senate group today re- ported favorably 12 bills and postpened 5 others until the next session. Those approved included: The House bill making a dozen amendments in the District liquor law, including a modified provision giving the Commissioners discretion- ary power to require local retailers to buy their stocks from local whole- salers. The House bill setting up a new court procedure in handling appeals from decisions of the Public Utilities Commission. Authorizing an exchange of park lands near Western avenue and West Beach drive. for other adjacent pri- vate. land moresuitable for park de- velopment, still requires House action. Defining the method by which the Commissioners shall give notice to property owners and other interested parties, before filing suits in court (See SECURITY, Page 4.) benefit payments are the same as in | CHLOREN OF AZS JON JEW BATERS |Pin “Traitor” Signs on Shoppers—Women Aid Campaign. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 14.—The Nazis’ determined drive against Jews, which began a month ago with anti-Semitic disturbances in Berlin's white way, extended today to all parts of the Reich and engaged even the school | children. The results will be reviewed tomorrow | night by Julius Streicher, most un- yielding of the Jew baiters, before a crowd which has bought every seat in the Sportpalast, Berlin's largest as- sembly hall. Reports of anti-Jewish manifesta- tions by children came from Dort- mund. They sneak up on persons emerging from shops owned by Jews, the reports said, pin to them cards reading: “I am a traitor to my people be- | cause I bought from a Jew.” To Make Two Addresses. Streicher, publisher of the vigorousiy | anti-Semitic Der Stuermer of Nurn- berg, will make two addresses, After the Sportpalast speech, he will ad- dress overflow throngs in the Jewish section of the city. His appearance has been the sub- ject of frenzied ballyhoo by Storm ‘Troopers. In consequence there is a belief that Streicher's appearance will give fresh impulse to the slogan, “The Jews must go.” ‘Women, too, have plunged into the drive. A woman writer for a Nazi party news agency rebuked her sex because “there are still women who | allow themselves to be misled and | shamed by Jews.” i “For some weeks we have read about | the arrest of Jewish racial offenders,” | she said. “We German women read this not only with bitterness against these men, but also with a painful (See NAZI, Page 3.) LONG CANCELS HELP IN MISSISSIPPI RACE Inability to Make Election Issue Given as Reason for Notice to Societies. By the Associated Pry Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisi- ana, announced last night withdrdwal of his activity in the Mississippi guber- natorial election because, he said, he had been unable to make the race & “Huey Long and share our wealth” issue. The announcement was made in a letter Long mailed to the presidents and secretaries of 602 Share-Our- Wealth Societies in Mississippi, in which he directed them to “take no hand in the Governor's race, no matter what is said for or against us by either of the candi- dates,” adding: “We are sure to be repudiated, no matter who wins.” Assassination Suspect Freed. MEXICO CITY, August 14 (P)— Ruben Gomesz Prado, held as a sus- pect in an alleged attempt to assas- sinate President Lazaro Cardenas last Saturday, was reported today to have been released from jail at Patacuaro, Michoacan. g Sopmno; Indian Descent, to Sing With Chicago Opera Company By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, August 15.—The doors of opera were opening foday to an Oklahoms Indian woman of Chickasaw and Choctaw descent. in “Aida,” “Tl Trovatore” and “Cav- alleria Rusticana.” Selection of Mrs. Underwood, who ‘The quarter-blood = singer, Mrs.| Tulsa, Okla., Edwin F. Underwood, wife of an oil company executive here, disclosed she has been engaged to sing soprano roles in three operas this Fall with the Chicago Opera Co. $ Mrs. Underwood, who calls herself “Princess Pakanli” of the Chickasaws, ‘| will leave for New York September 1 to begin rehearsals for “Aida” in which she will sing the title role at the Hippodrome late in the month. In Chicago later she will appear ¢ Mrs, Underwood was born in Ard- more, Okla., her father was & white ‘Three Rivers Farm in | sight for Washington today following | | mark for the year was tied, four| ening Star Fall Is Ordered To Vacate Ranch | As Doheny Sells New Mexico Goes to | Cattle Company. By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., August 14—The El Paso Times says it has been in- formed the A. B. Fall ranch at Three Rivers, N. Mex., has been sold to the | Palomas Land & Cattle Co. by the E. L. Doheny interests and that the Fall family has been notified to vacate by August 15. Members of the family declined to discuss the matter. The ranch of the former Secretary | of the Interior was taken over several years ago by Doheny on foreclosure | of a mortgage of approximately $250,000. | Eight hundred cattle already have been shipped from the Three Rivers ranch to Palcmas ranches in Cali- | fornia, the Times says. HEAT FELLS FOUR: NO RELIEF INSIGHT Showers Forecast Tonight, but City Will Swelter | Again Tomorrow. No relief from the heat was in & 24-hour period, in which the high persons prostrated and District and Federal Government offices closed early. A maximum of 95 was predicted by the Weather Bureau for this after- noon, with the forecast being “partly cloudy, probable occasional showers| tonight and Thursday.” Tonight will not be quite so warm, but tomorrow | will be another sweltering day. Although running slightly behind the previous 24 hours, the mercury climbed steadily this morning and had gone above 80 at 9 o’clock. The 98 recorded at 4:15 p.m. yes- terday climaxed one of the most un- | comfortable days of the year and| equaled the high mark set July 20. | Scattered showers shortly afier 5 p.m. caused & 15-degree drop, but the respite came several hours after workers at the District Building, an- nexes of the Treasury, temporary | structures in the Mall area and at the Franklin School Administration Building had been released. There was little, if any, rainfall in outlying sections. Those overcome were Hammond ‘Thompson, 30, of 304 Channing street northeast; John Manuel, 30, colored, 2478 Phillips court; Garrett Woody, 29, colored, 650 Callan street northeast, and Royal Thomas, 23, colored, 112 Sixth street. The first three were treated at Emergency Hospital, while Thomas was taken to Casualty. ROOSEVELT DELAYS PLANS FOR JOURNEY Schedule Held Up, Apparently Waiting for Adjournment—May Go to Hyde Park Soon. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt said today he ‘was reserving decision on future plans, presumably wailting adjournment of He said he had hoped to get home The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. )7 o koK ok S SY'canpipate o% REELECTION To THE SENATE oN THE OLD REGULAR DEMOCRATIC TICKET -~ \ 1 DONT CARE %) WHO HAS LEFT THE PARTY ! VANDENBERG ASKS DELAY IN TAX BILL Measure Is “Fiscal Fiasco,” | Senator Asserts, Mov- ing Recommittal. BY JOHN C. HENRY. | Senator Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, opened an attack upon the pending administration tax bill to| “soak the rich” this afternoon, as he submitted a motion to send the | nfeasure back to the Senate finance | committee and thus defer action until the next session of Congress. “This bill fails to serve any real purpose at this time,” the Michigan Republican said in charging that the legislation will be completed under the cloud of “dictation, desperation and exhaustion.” ‘Throughout his argument to have the drafting of a tax measure post- poned until next Winter, Vanden- berg attacked the haste now being shown. In this respect he quoted an editorial from The Star condemning hasty efforts to draw a tax bill. “It is Midsummer madness, nothing else,” he declared, “perpetrated in the dark.” Roosevelt’'s Cautions Recalled. After quoting President Roosevelt in appealing for tax and fiscal cau- tion in 1933, Vandenberg charged: “The sturdy warnings of 1933 are be- ing ignored in the marching orders of 1935. “This tax bill is unrelated to the budget. It is sheer waste to raise a little batch of taxes that have no | relation to budgetry needs. It is like shooting an arrow Mto the night. “This bill extends taxes, yet con- (lnue: to pile up deficits, precisely what Mr. Roosevelt said would lead to bankruptcy. “It hurts taxpayers and helps no one else. ~If we must legislate for reasons more politic than economic, should we have sham bills such as this? “From a revenue standpoint this bill is a fiscal flasco. It produces nothing more than pocket change.” Harrison Opens Discussion. Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mis- sissippl, and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, opened the dis- cussion today, reviewing'the commit- tee report which dealt principally with changes made in the House measure. Concerning the graduated corpora- tion income tax, Harrison termed the House provision merely a ‘“gesture.” The House graduation was over 1 per cent, while the Senate varies by 3. By latest computation, the bill, which had its origin in the June 19 message to Congress from President Roosevelt, asking that additional taxes be levied against those best able to pay, will raise approximately $254,- 000,000 in its first full year of opera- eon. The estimate of revenue that the House bill would have brought in was $255,000,000, while the measure as framed by the Senate Finance Com- mittee last Saturday but changed s%ain on Monday would have raised about $460,000,000. Report Explains Changes. As in the case of the House Ways and Means Committee report, the Senate Finance Committee presented no case in support of enactment of the legislation other than to say it had been requested by President Roose- velt. For the most part, the report (See TAXES, Page 4.) Readers’ Guide Washington Wayside | Women's Features _._B-12-14 4 UP) Means Associated Press. Yesterday's Circulation, 120,652 Some Returns Not Yet Received TWO CENTS. HOPSON, SERVED, FALS TO APPEAR IN ANSWER TO LOBBY SUBPOENA Senate Committee to Meet Again at 3 P.M. to Quiz “Master Mind” of Utility Firm Facing Contempt. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED TO STRENGTHEN POWER Black Measure Amends Original Investigation Proposal to Au- thorize Inquiry Into Corporate Affairs Between Companies and Financial Matters. Howard C. Hopson. long-missing “master mind’ of the Associated Gas and Elecuric System, invited Senate contempt proceedings today by failing to answer a subpoena to appear im- mediately befcre the Senate Lobby Committee. After waiting more than an hour for the heavy-set utilities magnate to appear on an “instanter” subpoena, the committee announced it would meet again at 3 o'clock and if he did not show up then it would cite him to the Senate for contempt. Both Harry F. Sinclair, ofl mag- nate, and William P. MacCracken, former Assistant Secretary of Com- merce, have served jail terms for con- | tempt of the Senate. Senate Strengthens Hand. While the committee was waiting for Hopson, a resolution to strengthen its power in questioning the utilities magnate and others was adopted by the Senate. Presented by Chairman Black of the Labor Committee, the resolution amended the original investigation proposal to authorize inquiring into | corporate and financial structures, | salaries and stock transactions be- tween companies. Black said Hopson and persons re- {plying to a committee questionnaire { had questioned the right of Congress |to go into private transactions pub- | licly. | He told Senator Hastings. Repub- | lican, of Delaware the committee | would show that “Hopson was direct- ly controlling and mapping the entire program of lobbying all over the | country.” The Senate’s subpoena was served on Hopson at noon, immediately after he left the hearing of the House Rules Committee, before which he testified for the second time. Even before this a majority of the Senate group had threatened contempt action against the elusive utilities man. | And shortly before today's hearing of House Hules Committee lobby in- vestigators concluded, Representative | Cox, Democrat, of Georgia furnished a sensation by threatening to kick Hopson out of the committee room unless the rotund utilities magnate withdrew a remark to the effect that | a question Cox asked was “a lie.” The trouble developed when Cox asked the utilities baron if he in- | tended to “‘cash in"” by buying up stock | for nothing if the Whesler-Rayburn holding company bill is passed. “I resent that inquiry,” shouted | Hopson. “That's a lie. No gentle- | man would ask it.” Hopson Withdraws Word. “I will kick you out of this room | if you don't withdraw that statement,” Cox replied angrily. “You will leave here worse scarred than when you | came.” Hopson withdrew the statement. The flare-up came after Hopson agreed that he expected expenditures by the Associated Gas & Electric sys- tem against the Wheeler-Rayburn bill “might exceed” $800,000 to $900,000. The first Senate committee warning concerning possible contempt action was issued by Chairman Black and Senators Minton, Democrat, Indiana, and Schwellenbach, Democrat, Wash- ington, to Wililam A Hill, attorney for the long-missing Hopson. At the same time the committee is- sued its “instanter subpoens” for service on Hopson. This called for his immediate appearance before the Sen- ate committee. Service was made by Joseph Mc- Carthy, agent for the Senate group, who yesterday was prevented from serving the subpoena after the House Rules Committee adjourned. McCarthy succeeded in serving it after Hopson testified before the House (See LOBBY, Page 5.) $184,000 GEMS LOST IN MDIVANI CRASH Suitcase Vanished From Car as Baroness Was Being Taken to Hospital. By the Assoclated Press. BARCELONA, August Gen. Pichypon of Catalonia ai nounced today a complaint that suitcase containing 2,800,000 francs ($184,800) worth of jewelry had dis- appeared from the automobile in which Prince Alexis Mdivani lost his life in an accident August 1. ‘The Governor said the information was lodged with him by Baron von Thyssen, husband of the woman who was with Prince Mdivani on the fatal automobile ride. He said the baron informed him the jeweiry belonged to the baroness and that the suitcase and its con- tents disappeared while she was be- ing taken to the hospital from the scene. Pichypon circulated a description of the missing jewelry in an attempt to recover it. (Baroness Maud von Thyssen, seri- ously injured in the crash, was said at the hospital to which she was taken to have lost the sight of one eye in the accident.) . }