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r A2 aaw - HOOVER' CHANGE HELD-NEGLIGBLE Challenge to Roosevelt Seen Bid for Next G. 0. P. Nomination. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Herbert Hoover's challenge to Presi- dent Roosevelt to state what constitu- tional changes are contemplated by the New Deal may be considered by the former President as merely the expression of his right as a citizen to ask such a question, but almost every- body in national politics considers it a bid for the Republican nomination. Rightly or wrongly, this is one of the penalties of prominence, and particularly of public debate, by one who is still technically the titular leader of the Republican party Mr. Hoover may never have in- tended his public statement to be anything but a passing comment on the political battle or the day. He may have pondered upon it as a public duty in a critical period in the history of the Constitution. But politics is politics. And the reasons why the Hoover statement gives the impression that it is political are the very ones which would seem to disqualify Mr. Hoover from being nominated again. The American people may admire the conscientious fight Mr. Hoover made against great odds, a large number may even believe that he might have succeeded in preventing a bank holiday had it not been for the insistence of a Democratic House of Representatives on “publicity” for R. F. C. loans, which incident started 50 many bank runs, and millions of Republicans who voted for Mr. Hoover | may feel that he is still the most avail- | able candidate. But the fact remains that as a possible winner in 1936 he suffers from a handicap he cannot overcome. It is that the Hoover name and the depths of depression and misery are inseparably interwoven. Hoover's Weaknesses. Mr. Hoover's weaknesses are in a sense Republican weaknesses, but most. of the Republican leaders will not ad- mit it. When the Hawley-Smoot tariff came to the front Mr. Hoover did not fight it as he should. It was too Republican a measure. But the consequences of that law, which brought widespread reprisals abroad and thus forced American companies to open large plants in foreign coun- tries and abandon the jobs of Amer- ican workingmen at home, are still being felt today. As one who did not have the oppor- tunity to vote for either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Hoover, the writer perhaps can be forgiven the observation that if we could combine into a single personality the economic background possessed by Mr. Hoover with the un- derstanding of popular psychology possessed by Mr. Roosevelt, we woul bave an ideal President of the United | States. There are qualities in both men that appeal to large groups to voters, and it is undeniable, for instance, that nobody as yet has arisen in the Re- | Dublican ranks who can poll 15,000,000 | Yotes, as Mr. Hoover did in 1932. ¢ Mr. Roosevelt, of course, and mmy' 6f his colleagues would like to have What’s What Behind News In Capital Hoover to Be Asked This Week to Declare 1936 Plans. BY PAUL MALLON. EPUBLICAN camp gossip has it that Mr. Hoover will be asked at a New York board meeting this week to declare his 1936 intentions. At least, some of the Republican marionettes men whose names do not often appear in newspapers have de- cided to grasp this opportunity to request a public statement. They feel the party has a right to know. They may ask, all right, but the chances are they will not receive a satisfactory answer. Party thinkers here are convinced that Mr. Hoover will continue to put himself forward diplomatically with speeches and statements. They realize it is only natural for any man to seek vindication by thus politely | erecting conspicuous lightning rods. But (and there is virtual unanimity |among Republican authorities about this) there is hardly a chance in four billion that the lightning will accept Mr. Hoover's invitation, | that the publicity-shy Eastern ring- masters have decided, in consultation, | that neither Mr. Hoover nor Senator | Borah will do. They are looking over | some of the other candidates closely |but have not made up their minds. Their opinions will be worth noting | when they do, because they usually control the large State delegations at the conventions. Wadsworth Unreceptive. For a time they liked Representa- tive Wadsworth, but he is supposed to have told them he will not be a can- didate. Even Robert Lucas was surprised when Senator Borah ran first in his poll. The explanation of it is | that Borah has been secretly building | up correspondence contacts With | Young Republicans out through the | country for more than a year. You | may be sure that his votes came ! | from them and not from the county 1chnirrnen and city leaders who were | polled. In fact, party leaders may | awaken some day soon to find that | Mr. Borah has established himself as the leader of the Young Republican movement. It is suspected that his candidacy is designed to head off the Hoover 5 forces' (and Hilles) and that he will wait until the convention to swing his support to some one so much like Senator Vandenberg as to be Vandenberg himself. Another explanation of Borah’s wide | appeal is that he is one of the few Mr. Hoover as the opposing candidate.’| Men in political life who can become The feeling is that the former Presi- dent would be easy to beat. Supersti- tion plays a part in politics and the fact that the Nation experienced a good deal of hard luck in the Hoover administration would cause millions of voters to fear to try the same man @gain. But, apart from this, is the fact that Mr. Hoover comes from a party which, as between Eastern and Western factionalism, is really split Wide open; that he has never taken a definite position, and nobody else has, that would express the views of a united party. All this is a handicap Which Mr. Roosevelt is astute enough t use to the utmost political ad- vantage. 1932 Post-Mortem Feared. Indeed, it would not be surprising if Mr. Hoover has unintentionally furnished Mr. Roosevelt with an imag- inary antagonist who is not the antith- of the New Deal at all. Unfor- thnately, many persons mistakenly insist that anybody who opposes the New Deal wants to go back to Hoover or to the alleged Republicanism of 1832. And regretably, too, the mis- tgkes and blunders of the New Deal are likely, if there is a Hoover-Roose- VElt debate, to be overshadowed by a post-mortem of 1932 days, which isn't particularly important or valuable at this time. 5 What the American people want is Tecovery and not at the expense of precious liberties. ‘What virtually 90 per cent of the 10,000,000 unemployed want is jobs and not doles. What the American business ma: wants is a square deal instead of a Taw deal. ‘What the rank and file of voters who feel themselves independent in mind want is a riddance of hypocrisy, po- litical chicanery, waste and extrava- gance in the handling of public money and the return of some old-fashioned patriotism which puts country above self every inch of the way. The program that seems to assure this will not be accepted from a party that has not cleaned house of its stupid, reactionary influences or from & party or leader whose broken prom- ises make questionable any future pledges that might be made. But if the choice is to be between Herbert Hoover and President Roose- velt, the American people at this writing would appear to be ready to re-elect the man in the White House today. This may be disappointing to the millions of voters who think Mr. Hoover’s blundering was in the right direction, whereas Mr. Roosevelt's is not; it may be unpalatable to the Hoover followers, but it is the truth of present-day politics. If Mr. Roose- velt is to be beaten, it must be not by patterning a party after “the” New Deal, either, but by giving the | country “a” New Deal in public service, a disinterested, unselfish and truly patriotic,leadership within the Constitution. (Copyright. 1835.) OLSON BACKED FOR '36 Union Business Agents to Ask Him to Run for President. MINNEAPOLIS, August 14 (#).— R. D. Cramer, editor of the Minne- apolis Labor Review, has initiated an Olson-for-President movement here. Upon suggestion of the labor paper editor, business . of unions af- filiated with the tral Minneapolis labor body voted last ighi-to ask Gov. Floyd B. Olson to become & presiden- :::xla candidate on the Farmer-Labor Cramer said dissatisfaction with the Roosevelt administration’s attitude to- ‘ward wages and working hours in the W. P. A. projects led to his recom- mendation. isinmely wistful about the Constitu- | tion. It has always been his favorite | subject. Also, he is the shrewdest |of all political-publicity strategists. He knows how to make the head- lines. | ~What is helping him most now is that all the Republican wise men agree that the Constitution should be | the issue. It is the one good issue | on which East and West can unite. Anti-Lynching Bill Row. The only secret which Democratic Senators have managed to keep lately is the one about the row over the anti-lynching bill in their legislative conference. That sore subject was not sup- posed to have been touched at the meeting. To this day, no one who attended has disclosed that it was. But as soon as the doors of the gathering were closed the question was raised. One Senator from the Midwest and another from a bor- der State spoke on it. They de- manded that the bill be included in the program of legislation to be enacted before the end of the ses- sion. This provoked sparkling rejoinders, not only from Senator Smith of South Carolina, but from Floor Leader Rob- inson of Arkansas. To put it mildly, they saw no reason for tearing the party apart over this issue on the Sen- ate floor when it was obvious that the bill could not be passed. The debate was excessively bitter. Perhaps that is why both sides decided to forget about the subject. MYPRAY Non-partisan tax technicians asso- ciated with the Senate Finance Com- mittee are calling the lates. version of the tax bill an atrocity. They do not mean from a.oolitical or revenue standpoint, but strictly on technical grounds. For instance, they consider the new estates tax proposal danger- ous, if not unworkbale. Left in the Dark. The official off-the-record explana- tion why the Democratic committee members voted for a program desired only by Senator La Follette is that they were angry at Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. He left them in the dark about what the administration wanted. A member of the Roosevelt fam- ily now says the President will go to Hyde Park jor the month of September and~start the Western trip in October. The basic form in which the bonus will be enacted next Spring is pro- vided in the Steiwar-Byrnes bill re- cently introduced in the Senate. It is non-inflationary. ‘White House insiders say the Presi- dent is going to Hyde Park this week end for a few conferences as well as relaxation. ‘When & prominent Republican leader here was asked to comment about the Hoover statement last Monday he re- plied: “Don’t quote me, but every Hoover statement has the same effect on me as rain ih the fourth inning.” (Copyright. 1935, by the North American oo Newspaper Allh:m Inc.) Singer Lands 102-Pound Fish. + FREEPORT, N. Y., August 14 (#).— Helen Jepson, soprano, qualified as an angler yes- terday when she landed a 102-pound marlin sword fish, s y Another choice political morsel is | THE EVENING STAR, PORK PRICES LEAP 30% IN 2 YEARS Consumer Resistance Seen by Packers—Drop in Fail Forecast by Wallace. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 14.—Wholesale prices for fresh pork in the Chicago area today had reached a high of $290.50 a hundred pounds, or more than 350 per cent increase in fwo years. Yesterday's jump amounted to an even dollar and brought prices $23 higher than the extreme low of $6.50 & hundred pounds of 1933. Two years ago, housewives, plan- ning their daily menus, said, “I think we’ll have roast pork for dinner. It's the cheapest meat we can buy.” Today these same housewives said, “Wonder what we'll eat tonight. Guess we'll have a vegetable dinner.” Presh pork is the trade name for the choicest cuts of pork, usually re- ferred to in retail markets as loin roasts. The packers and butchers referred to the situation as ‘“consumer re- sistance” to high prices for pork and beef. The admitted causes of the record-high pork prices were last year's drought with the consequent shortage of corn, principal food for hogs, and the loss of United States export markets for pork. Shipments of live hogs to Chicago now average about one-third of last year’s receipts | at this season. | Growing consumer resistance to ris- ing prices was offset by rapidly dwindling supplies, and despite high. prices pork has been moving out of storage since the first of the year. Live hogs also advanced to the record high price in nine years with both the extreme top, paid for choice animals, and the general average price 5 cents higher than on Mon- day. Yesterday's peak purchase, \ ground that too few companies have $12.20 a hundredweight, was made by | Vette Zuncker, packer, for a load of | hogs which averaged 214 pounds.| ! ‘The general average for the day was $11.20, to which figure must be added the processing tax of $2.25 a hundred pounds. | Secretary of Agriculture Wallace | said In Washington, “Late this Fall the larger supplies of 1935 Spring pigs will begin moving to market and | prices will be moderate.” HOUSEWIVES TO ASK AID. | Strikers to Send Delegation Here to Confer With Wallace. DETROIT, August 14 (P).—Leaders | of the housewives' meat-buying strike announced yesterday they will send a | | delegation to Washington to ask Sec- | | retary Wallace to assist them in ob- | | taining a Nation-wide reduction in | meat prices. Another delegation will be elected to interview meat packers |1 Chicago. | Mrs. Helen Gray, secretary of the Central Committee Against the High Cost of Living, said the Wasaington delegation will demand administra- | }uve action te bring down meat prices | throughout the country. She said| the delegates also will interview Rep- | | resentative John D. Dingell, Demo- | crat, of Michigan, because he has asked ah investigation of the “meat trust.” —_— LABOR HELD LOSING ' BYLOSS OF N.R. A, 112,000 to 13,000 Employers Cut ‘Wages or Added to Hours, Say Observers. By the Associated Press. National Recovery Administration | observers have reported to headquar- ters that some 12,000 to 13,000 em- | ployers have cut wages or increased hours or both since the old Blue Eagle | met its death. The figures are not official as yet and authorities decline to attach sig- nificance to them publicly on the been covered and that more time is needed to develop any trends fully. ‘The reports say the predominant type of departure from previous con- ditions is hour raising. N. R. A. has lists of some 8,000 to 9,000 employers who are declared to have increased hours since June 1. Whether these employers increased weekly wages ac- cordingly was not shown by the lists. The number of hour increases listed was substantially greater in July than in June and the week-by-week tabu- lation in July showed a comparatively steady gain in this type of action. It was said that the bulk'of the wage cutting and hour increasing is among smaller firms. —— PLANE FAILS TO SAVE STRICKEN FISHERMAN Man Taken From 8hip Dies Shortly After Plane Arrives at Hospital. By the Assoclated Press. CHELSEA. Mass, August 14—A daring four-hour flight over the fog- | bound New England Coast by a Coast Guard plane failed today to save the life of Martin Shanahan, 50, of Chel- sea, a fisherman stricken at sea. Shanahan was pronounced dead at the United States Marine Hospital a few minutes after the amphibian Canopus, piloted by Lieut. Victor Tyblacka, brought him here. The cause of death was not immediately determined. The plane left the Salem base at 5:30 a.m. after the cutter Ossipee reported that Shanahan, a member of the crew of the steam trawler Pen- guin, was near death. The Ossipee had taken the man from the trawler shortly after midnight. BYRNS SEES WIND-UP Thinks-Congress Will Finish Pro- gram by Next Week. Expectation that Congress -will ad- journ next week was expressed today by Speaker Byrns. He said it is on his program for the Guffey coal control bill to come up in WASHINGTON, CAMDEN STRIKERS AWAIT NEW PLAN Shipyard Workers Reject Arbitration Plan to Gain Union 0. K. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, N. J., August 14.—The 4,000 striking employes of the New York Shiphullding Corp. looked to the White House today for another move toward settlement of their 14-week walkout. Rejecting a five-point arbitration plan proposed by the Navy and Labor Departments as “unprecedented,’ they appealed to President Roosevelt to at- tempt “a fair settlement of the strike.” Meanwhile Navy contracts totaling $50,000,000 for construction of four destroyers and three cruisers were held up at the idle shipyards. A three-man board of arbiters named by the President was ready to open hearings in the Government's proposals when the strikers rejected the plan last night. The company had approved it as a basis for negotiations. | The strikers protested the arbitra- tion plan did not include recognition of the union. In a telegram the Presi- dent was told union recognition must | come “before the strike is called off.” | The strikers said the plan was also unacceptable because it does not bind the corporation to the 1934 agreemeut pending arbitration, specify the ques- tions for arbitration or give the Arbi- tration Board a time limit to reach a decision. The union seeks wage in- creases among other objectives. Earlier in Washjngton John Green, executive secretary of the Industrial D. C., WEDNESDAY, Union of Marine and Shipbuilding | Workers of America, told a House labor subcommittee the settlemewn plan was “too vague.” | Union leaders accused Secretary of | Labor Perkins and Assistant Secretary | of the Navy Henry Roosevelt of bemg | unfair to the workers. They said the arbitration proposal was company inspired. Miss Perkins denied the implication. She said the plan originated in the Navy Department. e FIRES SPREAD FAST IN 3 FOREST AREAS Montana, Idaho and Oregon Blazes Out of Control—Farm Houses Burn. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., August Huge forest fires roared out of control in scattered sections of the Pacific Northwest today while others threat- ened to break out of bounds. Montana, Idaho and Oregon saw the region’s worst blazes, with at least three major conflagrations. In Wyo- miang, Utah and Washington timber and brush fires blackened wide areas, with several momentarily corralled blazes needing only brisk breezes to | whip them out of hand. The 20,000-acre Idaho National For- rest fire on the south fork of the Salmon River leaped out of control after being held in check for nearly 24 hours, and 200 additional fighters | were rushed against it. A timber and brush fire driven by a strong west wind became unman- ageable near Dalles, Oreg., after once being checked. Two farm houses and a barn were destroyed in Mosier Creek Canyon, and several Summer | homes nearby were menaced. A new fire on the Absaroka Forest near Livingston, Mont., was reported out of control after having burned across nearly 8,000 acres of virgin timberland. The 10,000-acre Shoshone Naticnal Forest fire near Cody, Wyo., was re- ported under control. . R. F. C. WINS RIGHT TO ASSESS STOCK | Dawes Bank Claim Totals $50,- 000,000—$14,000,000 Is Asked of Stockholders. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 14.—The Re- construction Finance Corp. yesterday won the first round in its court fight to assess 4,500 stockholders of the old Central Republic Trust Co. for a de- ficiency cn an $80,000,000 lg]xx Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson overruled a motion to dismiss the R. F. C. suit, intended to make stock- holders liable for $14,000,000. The R. F. C. made the loans.to the bank, of which Gen. Charles G. Dawes was chairman, in sums of $30,000,000 and $50.000,000 in" June and October, 1932. The bank paid off depositors, and is in process of liquidation under a receiver. In refusing to dismiss the suit, Judge Wilkerson ordered the stock- holders to file an answer by Septem- ber 9, indicating the case will be tried before the end of the year. The most recent R. F. C. report showed about $50,000,000 of the loan debt still unpaid. JOHN ROOSEVELT HELD IRVINGTON, N. Y. August 14 (#)—John Roosevelt, son of the President, faced a charge of speeding today. Trapped with several other motor- ists last night in a police drive on speeders on a newly-paved seetion of the Albany Post road, young Roose- velt posted a $10 bond for his ap- pearance. ' ) The policeman who arrested charged he clocked him at 5¢ miles an hour for & mile and a half, ‘Takes up tax bill. the House on Friday, with the that it would be passed snum:!.’." Turkey Buys Phone System. ISTANBUL, August 14 (#).—The Turkish government today agreed to purchase the Anglo-American Istan- bul Telephone Co. for $4,000,000 in 1939. Probably Opera| The action was another step in |consider conference reports and rules. President Kamal Ataturk's program of nationalization. The company will- 20 annual instaliments, beginning in | House. House: . Voteg on A. A. A. amendments still in dispute between House and Senate. Rules Committee continues ques- tioning H. C. Hopson, utilities man. . TOMORROW. Continues debate on tax bill. ‘Ways and Means Committee 10 am. 25 as he prepares for the Sourdoughs’ “Ragtime was music,” he says. “How That Man Could Play Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. AUGUST 14, 1935. CLYDE MYRICK, Seattle business man, re-enacts the role of Robert W. Service’s “Ragtime Kid in the Malemute Saloon,” of which Myrick says he is the original, Stampéde August 16-18 at Seattle. “This jazz stuff is just rhythm.” WORKS UNT ASKS GENERAL CENSUS | Committee Urges Roosevelt | Allot 16 Million for Pop- ulation Count. A general population census, sought | for more than two years by the Census | | dent Roosevelt yesterday by the Ad-| visory Committee on Allotments of the new works program. | The committee asked $16,000,000 for a general count of individuals, a sur- vey of occupations and employment, and a study of youth. The work | would be directed by the Census Bu- | | reau, with headquarters here and in | Chicago. | 1Included in the recommendation ! was the employment of 25,000 young men and women whom the National | Youth Administration, W. P. A. sub- | sidiary, intends to supply with part- | | time jobs. At the peak of employ- | | ment, continuing about 30 days, 139,- | 500 enumerators and clerks would be | put to work. For an indefinite period | | afterward a clerical force would be maintained, probably in the Census | Bureau here, to tabulate and analyze the statistics collected by the field forces. 1930 Tabulations “Obsolete.” The general census is necessary, it | was declared, because the 1930 census | | tabulations have already become obso- | | lete, due to the many trends and | turns of migration that have grown | | out of unemployment and the depres- : sion. Movements of population since 1930 have been unprecedented, the bureau declared, and present tables are inac- curate as a guide to planning relief and re-employment activities. For the same purpose the study of | occupations and employment was| |asked. Many farms now are popu- | lated by men and women formerly | employed in urban centers but who | were forced to return to rural areas when that employment ceased. Youth Study. The youth study would determine | the educational status young men and women between 16 and 25 years of age and is declared necessary to | carry out the program of the Na- tional Youth Administration. A bill tp authorize a general pop- ulation census was introduced at the last session of Congress but was | olocked by Republicans who charged that it was intended as a wholesale patronage measure immediately prior to the last congressional elections. (TALMADGE DEMANDS ROOSEVELT RETRACT Georgia Governor Calls on Presi- dent to Admit Error in Letter on School Situation. B the Associated Press. ATLANTA, August 14.—Gov. Tal- madge of Georgia today called on President Franklin D. Roosevelt to “state to the press that he was in error” in a letter concerning the Georgia public school situation. The President reviewed the school relief situation recently in a letter to Representative Braswell Deen dnd said it appeared common school ap- propriations had been diverted to pay State debts at the same time the Pederal Government was helping Georgia keep the schools open. This Talmadge denied. “By all rules of fair play, the President should give a correction | on the press from the White House,™ Talmade said. — JAPANESE SALES HIT League Mandate Commission Is Given Syria Protest. GENEVA, August 14 (#)—Official records showed today that the heavy selling of merchandise by Japan to Syria and Palestine have caused pro- tests to the League of Nations Man- date Commission. 3 The protests were made because these mandated regions sell practical- 1y nothing to Japan in return. It was revealed that the Japanese commission, HOUSE ACCEPTS - JAAA.CHANGES Consideration ~ Starts on Fourth Amending, Affect- ing Potato Control. By the Associated Press v~ BILL MAY BOYCOTT | | |cials “who have been charged with | . OLYMPIC: GAMES Celler Plans Measure to Withdraw U. S. Entries as Nazi Rebuke. By the Assoclated Press. Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York, said today he would intro- duce a bill soon calling for with- drawal of all United States’ entries in the Olympic games at Berlin. Celler, who has been outspoken | against what he termed *“Nazi out- rages,” urged the legislators to oppose Amgrican participation in the games. “German authorities have shown | the same attitude toward the fleld of sports,” he sald, “as they displayed toward Jews and toward Catholic youth clubs. Germany will permit only true Nazis to represent her at the Olympic games and that tends to make the whole thing a silly joke.” In the Senate yesterday, Senator Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode Island, who rarely speaks from the floor, said American sportsmen should consider withdrawing from the Olympic games in 1936 because of Nazi activities against Jews and Catholics. Either a “dead heat” or a victory by an American Jew “might result in very bad feeling,” he said. Similar feelings were expressed by Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts, who said, “The matter brought up by Senator Gerry should be given very serious consideration by the State Department.” He added, however, it was “unlikely” the Sen- ate would take any action. Representative Dickstein, Democrat. | of New York, is another Congress | member who favors an American boy- cott of the Olympics. In a state- | ment today he declared athletic offi- | choosing athletes to represent this country in the forthcoming Olympic | games in Germany should immediately withdraw all American participants unless the German government openly ROOSEVELT SIGNS PENSION MEASURE Spanish War Veterans and Dependents Restored to $45,581,000 Benefit. By the Associated Press. The names of approximately 50,00 veterans and dependents of veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection were restored today tc the Government's pension rolls. This came about through approval by President Roosevelt late yesterday of the so-called Spanish-American War veterans' bill. Officials estimated the increased cost to the Governmen: would be $45,581,000 a year. In a statement issued after he had signed the measure, the White House asserted Mr. Roosevelt's action estab- lished “no ground or precedent” for World War pensions. He said that at the start of the World War Congress had adopted a new system for giving benefits to American soldiers which were not ac- corded the men who fought in earlier struggles. Refers to Bonus. “This new system, applied to all who fought in the World War, extended tr | them additional compensation if theyv | had dependents, as well as insurance hospitalization, vocational rehabilita- | tion and the adjusted compensation | certificate (the bonus),” the statement | said. “The veterans of the Spanish-Amer- | ican War. now approaching an average age of 62 years, had none of these advantages, except hospitalization in recent years. Their case, therefore cannot be compared to the case of World War veterans. For the sams reason, the approval of this bill estab- lishes no ground or precedent for pen- sions for the World War group; theirs is an entirely different case “There are some inequalities in- volved in this legislation, but the and without equivocation states that racial ancestry and religious beliefs will not be questioned.” e PAIN DECLARED AGENT OF SPECIES’ SURVIVAL Sets Defensive Forces of Body Into Action Against Destruc- tion, Doctor Says. By the Associated Press LENINGRAD, August 14—Dr. L. A The House today agcepted three of | Orbeli of Leningrad today described | pain as one of the greatest boons to 14— | Bureau, was recommended to Presi- | four Senate amendments to the con- troversial A. A. A. amendments bill which Conference Committce members had failed to agree. One which would authorize use of work-relief funds for acquisition and retirement of submarginal land was | altered considerably by the House Another would appropriate $10,000,- 000 to eliminate diseased ca‘- tle. The third would permit applica- | tion of taxes collected under the to- bacco program to benefit payments, tax refunds and administrative costs. Consideration of a controversial po- tato control amendment to let the Secretary of Agriculture set up pro- duction quotas and permit taxes ot production beyond quotas then was begun. The House adopted yesterday the conference report on the A. A, A. bill, disposing of most of the differences with the Senate. Senate acceptance will send the legislation to the White House. STOLL PLANS FLIGHT TO SET NEW RECORD | mankind despite its discomfort. A paper, reporting his years of study of the effects of pain, was read to the International Physiological Congress meeting. Dr. Orbeli described pain as “a de- fensive device of such value that it can be credited in a gre part for the survival of the species.' He pointed out that pain sets into operation the defensive reactions of President recognizes the fact that the | Spanish-American veterans were once lon the rolls, under prior legislation | that they are approaching advanced {age, that their disabilities are in- creasing.” Payments Cut by Act. These veterans were taken from the pension rolls and had their dis- ability payments cut by the 1933 | economy act. They now will receive disability payments ranging from $20 |to $72 a month, regardless of their private income. cause of disability or | service record. Remarried widows wil be restored to the rolls at the full widow's rate of $30 a month and new claims will be allowed for those whose husbands were not getting a pension when they died. It was esti- mated widows would gain about $6,- 000,000 annually. While the President's pen stroke swept away one of his major 1933 economies, officials said enough of the economy act remains to maintain savings of $100,000,000 annually. | They referred to the fact World War veterans with non-service con- | the body against forces of destruction. ,necnd disabilities were cut from the Flyer and Aide to Leave Cleve-| land for South America on Non-Stop Trip. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del. August 14— G. E. Stoll, 32-year-old veteran of the skyways, said today he was “rarin’ to go” on a 13,000-mile journey across two American continents to recapture the non-stop distance record for the United States. He and his assistant, J. C. Prosser, plan to zoom out of Cleveland for South America Monday in the mono- plane Cape Cod, the same ship which carried Russell Boardman and John Polando to the same record several years ago. Boardman and Polando flew 5,011 | miles from Cape Code to Istanbul, ‘Turkey, but the record was taken from them by Coste and Belonte, French flyers, in a 5677-mile New York-to-Syria hop. Stoll breathed optimism as he out- lined his proposed “greatest adven- ture” of flying through uncharted skies and the whole gamut of climatic changes. His plane must traverse treacherous Andes Mountains, ocean and jungles, he said in an interview. ‘The trip south will be made in easy stages. Leaving here, Stoll will take the plane to New York for installation of a two-way speaking radio. “We will make our consummation tests in Cleveland,” he said, “then we will know just how much mileage we can get.” After crossing the Andes, they will fly up the west coast of Peru to Puerto De Manta. Then the plane will sweep out over the Pacific across Panama and “up a meridian on a great circle bee line to Cleveland,” Stoll said. CLIPPER TO LEAVE FOR WAKE ISLAND to | Breaks Own Record by 28 Min- utes in Flight to Midway Port. By the Associated Press. MIDWAY ISLAND, August 14— With another new record of precision fiying behind them, the crew of the Pan-American Airways clipper today prepared for another flight over un- charted airways, this one to Wake Island, 1,191 miles westward. Carrying a crew of seven, one pas- senger and 3,000 pounds of freight the big flying boat arrived here last night after a flight of 1323 miles from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ‘The plane landed here at 3 pm., Honolulu time (8:30 p.m. Eastern standard time), eight hours and 52 mmu after leaving its Oahu Island His experiments have been devoted largely to efforts to localize the pain centers in the central nervous sys- tem—the control point pulling the strings that set the body to fight off an attack. DENIED BY ALCATRAZ HEAD TALK BAN Regulations Strict, but Men Can! Confer, Says Warden to Con- vict's Charges. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 14.— Warden James A. Johnston of Alcatraz Island Pederal Prison last night said the usual strict regulations were being maintained but there was.no “silence” rule for the convicts. ‘Warden Johnston made the state- ment after hearing reports William Henry Ambrose, a convict who was taken from the prison Monday to be deported to England, had complained Al Capone and other inmates were irked by a ban against talking. “The regulations at the prison are “but the prisoners are allowed to talk i the yard every day. They are not permitted, however, to ramble in the yard or to visit in groups.” The warden said there also was a rule against shouting from cell to cell after lock-up time and that loud conversation from table to table in the mess hall was prohibited. Regulations established when the first convicts arrived at the island prison in 1934 include strict censor- ship of reading material and letters written and received by inmates. Radios were prohibited and visits from relatives and friends limited. Ambrose left on a train in charge of immigration authorities, which was routed through Los Angeles. It left there today with 50 aliens for depor- tation of Mexico, South America, Canada, England and Europe. Am- brose, former Chicago gangster, who served & year in Altatraz, refused to discuss his experience on the island while the train was at Los Angeles. Warden Johnston said there was “no secret” about the strict regula- formation would be given out at any time concerning individual convicts. He declined to say what work had been assigned to Capone or other inmates. CABIN OF “BABY DOE” By the Associated Press. LEADVILLE, Colo, August 14— Hunters of burled treasure and sou- venir seekers have almost demolished the rude cabin of Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor on 2-mile-high Fryer Hill. ‘Windows have been broken, the door hangs only on one hinge and the floors and ceiling have been torn away—apparently by tourists, who be- lieved the widow of H. A. Tabor, one- time Colorado silver king, may have hidden s portion of the Tabor mil- lions there. The heavy roofing paper, with which Baby Doe lined the rough walls to keep out Winter's 20-below-zero | weather, has been stripped away nndi even the little stove, with its crooked | pipe, has disappeared, leaving a gap- ing hole in the roof through which the Summer rains trickle. So far as is known, all of the treas- ure hunters have been disappointed. very strict,” Warden Johnston said. | tions at the prison but that no in-| 5 | CURIOUS PUBLIC WRECKS pension rolls {n the economy program and have never been restored. All other pension cuts in the economv act have been modified by later laws and rulings. First to Get Total Status. The Spanish - American veteran were the first to gain restoration of | the old pension rates for all thei: | members, however Under the economy act. Spanish- American veterans were paid at three- fourths of the rate existing at the | time of its enactment. Those who were paying income tax, those whose disability resulted from misconduct | and those who did not actually par- | ticipate in the war were cut off the rolls. Here are the monthly rates for non- service disability restored by the bill | 10 per cent disability, $20: 25 per cent disability, $25; 50 per cent dise- | bility, $35; 100 per cent disability. $60; hopeless and bedridden, $72. By chance, Mr. RoosevElt signed the measure, which had been popularly termed the Spanish War veterans bill on the anniversary of the occupation of Manila by United States troops. - = SILVER PRICE SAGS TO 6534-CENT MARK | Further Slump at New York Lai¢ to Disappointment Over Treasury Buying. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 14.—The New | York price for imported bar silver for | commercial use today slumped 1% j cents to 65% cents, bringing the totai | loss for the past two days to 2 cents Today's price was the lowest since April 11. Previous to Tuesday's sar | the price had remained unchanged at | 67% cents an ounce since July 15. | In dropping 1% cents an ounce to- | day, the silver price thus resumed the decline which has carried the white metal down from its 1935 peak of 81 | cents, achieved on April 26. The current drop in the world price | of silver, which is now well under the Treasury's price of 77 cents for domes- tic-mined silver, is seen in Wall Street | quarters as a reflection of disappoint- | ment among speculators at the United States Treasury’s failure to bid up the foreign price. GIRL, 12, MISSING Foster Daughter of Restaurant Man Sought by Police. LOS ANGELES, August 14 (#).— Los Angeles police today began a city- wide search for 12-year-old Helen Stavros, foster daughter of a Brawley, Calif., restaurant man, who has been missing since yesterday morning. The child and her mother, Mrs. Sam Stavros, came here last May to visit Mrs. Stavros® brother-in-law and sis- ter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cass. BANK OF U. S HEAD DIES YONKERS, N. Y., August 14 (P).— C. Stanley Mitchell, chairman of the Board of the Bank of United States when it closed, died last midnight at High Hill, near Jones Beach, Long Island, according to word received by his family here. Death was ascribed to a heart at- | tack. The former banker had been ill for several days and had gone to the Long Island South -Shore colony for a rest. . Any Soap Can Be Floated. Any soap can be made to float by manufacturing it by a process that presses air ducts into the bar, ‘