Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle east winds. Temperatures—Highest, 89, at 1:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 73, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-2. The only evening in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. aper Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 & 13 No. 33,345, BY BUSINESS MEN TODELAYTAYBIL Roper Council Appeals to | President Not to Take "Hasty Action. SENSATIONAL REPORT KEPT SECRET A WEE K Budget Balancing Held Impos- sible Because of Expenditures for Unemployed. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The Roper council, composed of about 40 business leaders, has ap- pealed to President Roosevelt to defer | the tax bill until the January session | of Congress, when a well-considered taxation program should be adopted. | The report has been kept ccofiden- | tial for at least a week. The under- | standing is that only with the Presi- dent’s consent can it be made public by the council. & In some respects, the document is one of the most sensational that has been filed by a group of business lead- ers with Mr. Roosevelt and it is understood that its contents have caused consternation in- administra- | tion circles generally. Starting out with a broad state- ment that a balanced budget is at this time impossible because extra- ordinary expenditures are meeded to care for the unemployed, the Roper | council states that the price of a balanced budget is too high to pay, measured in effect on the economic and social structure. Nevertheless, it is recommended that the budget be gradually brought into balance by a curtailment of expenses and by a “‘well-considered” tax program, an integrated plan that should follow the budget estimates for 1936, which have not yet ‘been revealed. For this reason, the Roper Council insists that tax legislation be deferred #0 that a study can be made of budget needs. This, it remarks, should be made to conform to the requirements of planning to which the administra- tion has committed itself Pointing out that the House tax bill —the report was filed before the Sen- ate Finance Commitgee acted—bore no relation to the budget message of 1935, the Roper Council argued that the crying need of the hour is a resto- ration of business confidence and that this cannot be achieved by clumsy tax rates. The statement is made that the revenues are growing larger and expenses are less than forecast but | that this is the very time when there | should not be enacted any “half-baked measure conceived in politics” and *“jammed through,” or else the country will face “disastrous results.” Bill Would Raise Small Amount. The Roper Council says this is not the time for tax legislation, especially since the $275,000,000 the House bill is to raise “would last only two weeks™” and would reduce the deficit “by only one-sixteenth or, if the present na- tional debt remains, it would yield barely enough to retire it in 300 years. “We believe,” says the report, “that the primary purpose of a tax bill is to raise revenue. If and when a pro- gram to divide the Nation's wealth is to be considered, it should be in a sep- | arate measure so that the country may know it is considering a wealth- distribution measure. The House bill does not honestly frame the issue.” What it would mean to the average man is stressed by the Roper Council | when it says that it would mean only & few dollars a year more if national income were equally divided. An ar- gument follows for the broadening of the tax base and then a severe in- dictment of the effort made in the present legislation to interfere with the maintenance of adequate surpluses In business. The proposed constitutional amend- ment to tax securities of Federal, State and city governments now im- mune from taxation is app®ved by the report and an indorsement is given to the idea of segregating in- | heritance tax revenues for retirement of public debt. Excess Profits Tax’ Condemned. ' But the excess profits tax is con- | demned as wasteful because it “dis. courages old ventures and confirms monopolies.” The conclusion of the report is a | general defense of holding companies, | declaring they have played a part in | the growth of the country and| “should not be ruthlessly destroyed.” | It contends that holding companies are essential for various businesses be- cause of the conflicting State and foreign laws. | If the taxing power is to be invoked, | says the Roper Council, to change the corporate structure of the country, “Jet the issue be framed separately.” Members of the council are repre- | sented as displeased that the White House did not make public the text of the report, either last week or this week, when the document might have been of some avail. It has, on the other hand, been pigeonholed by the President and probably will stay there officially till after the tax bill becomes law. That has been the fate of all Roper Council reports. (Copyright. 1935.) e JAPANESE NAVY SAILS FOR GRAND MANEUVERS By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 17.—Japan’s men o’ war steamed majestically from the ‘Yokoshuka naval base for the second phase of their annual grand maneu- vers today. At the same time a foreign office spokesman said Japan is ready to study “new ideas in naval limita- tions” which it expects from Great Britain. Headed by the flagship Yamashiro, the first and second fleets departed for an undisclosed northern destina- tion. They will not refurn to the base until mid-October, after comple- tion of the final and major phase of their war games somewhere in the Northwestern Pacific, # | lation, Fintered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ' Tax Bill Session Is Delayed RUUSEVEH ASKEB Until Tonight by Conferees Deadlock Over Alcohol-Control Meas- ure Halts Plan to Speed Controversial Changes in Agreement. BY JOHN C. HENRY. | Running into an unexpected three- | hour deadlock in conference consid- eration of" the alcohol control bill, | conferees of the House and Senate this morning postponed consideration of the $254,000,000 administration tax bill until 7:30 o'clock tonight. The same conferees are serving on both measures. Meeting at 9 a.m. today, the con- ference committees had hoped to dis- pose of the alcohol measure in a short while, and start immediate consideration of the revenue legis- The unexpected deadlock on some provisions of the former bill, however, upset this plan. Because | of a meeting of the House this after- noon, and the fact that members of the Ways and Means Committee are still tied up there with consideration of the Guffey coal bill, it was im- possible for the conferees to meet this afternoon As the conference broke up shortly before noon, Chairman Harrison of | CONGRESS DRIVES FOR ADJOURNMENT Utilities Measure Expected to Die in Rush Next Week. By the Associated Press The Democratic high command concentrated all its efforts today on a drive to adjourn Congress next week. Immediately predictions were heard | that several major bills, including the | utilities measure, for which the ad- winistration has fought strenuously, may be scrapped for this session. Plans for the last-minute rush of business, in which backers of various nieasures will vie for the attention of | Ccngress, will be discussed at a White House conference between President | Roosevelt and congressional leaders | tomorrow night. t Some leaders were lalking of ad- | icurnment next Tuesday or Thursday, thcugh most believed Jhe session would lest at least until the end of the week. Bills Likely to Be Favored. As some leaders saw the situation, | President Roosevelt probably would | insist that before scattering home- ward, Congress act on: 1. The Guffey bill to regulate the bituminous coal industry with a “lit- tle N. R. A" This was debated again in the House today. Its backers, and some of its foes, predicted it would pass that chamber Monday and the Senate a day or two later. Others said it would lose 2. The $250,000,000 tax bill, now gone to a Senate-House conference after passing the two chambers in vitally different form. 3. The omnibus banking bill, on which conferees reached an agree- ment late vesterday. : 4. The new Federal alcohol control plan, on which Senate and House conferees have as yet made little progress in smoothing out differences. 5. A measure, also in Senate-House conference, to prohibit suits for pay- ment of gold or iis equivalent on Government securities. One measure mentioned in some " (See CONGRESS, Page 2.) SOLBERG IN NORWAY AFTER SUCCESSFUL HOP By the Associated Pre: BERGEN, Norway, August 17— Thor Solberg, his easy-stage flight from America successfully ended, said today he hoped it had demonstrated the possibility of a transitlantic air route by way of Greenland, with Norway as the eastern terminus. “It is the easiest route, bub first- class machines, harbors and weather service are needed,” he added. Solberg and Paul Oscanyan, his| radio operator, landed here last night | after a 29-day trip from New York.; A great throng, including his seven ' brothers and sisters, carried him | shoulder high to a waiting motor car. | and he left to visit his mother at| Floroe. % | The fiyer said he hoped to sell his | plane, the Leif Erikson, in Norway | and return by ship to America. i | ah | of tonight’s session to be devoted to | dulged in “subversive activitie: ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. the Senate group said this evening's session might consider either or both of the bills tonight. A few minutes later, Representative Doughton, Demo- crat, of North Carolina, head of the House conferees, said he expected most the tax bill with the alcohol bill being held over until Monday. | Conference debate is expected to | center around three major changes made by the Senate in the hill as passed by the House. Other revisions, although important in their relation | to the revenue-raising qualities of the | legislation, are mostly modifications or extensions of provisions already ac- cepted by the House and are matters cn which compromises probably will be reached without undue delay. The three potential stumbling blocks are these: First, the addition of the Borah amendment in the Senate by which future issues of Federal securi- | ties would be (See TAX, Page 2.) NAZIS DISSOLVE MASONIC LODGES “Confessional Synod” Silesia Also Is Banned by Secret Police. By the Associatéd Press. BERLIN, August 17.—The long-ex- pected positive government daction against Free Masonry was taken today when Wilhelm Frick, minister of the | interior, issued a decree calling for | the immediate dissolution of all the existing lodges of Free Masonry throughout ‘the Reich, including the of Saar Territory. A few hours earlier secret police ln‘ Breslau moved against the Protestant | Church opposition by ordering dis- solved the “Confessional Synod” of Silesia on the ground that it had misled the public. In the opinion of churchmen, this action may lead to an open rupture in the long-smoldering confliet be- tween church and state arising from | Nazi attempts to dominate the state- | supported Protestant churches, ‘ Property Confiscated. Frick based his order dissolving the | Masonic lodges on a decree issued by the late President von Hindenburg for safeguarding. the people of the state. He declared that the lodges have in- and | ordered the confiscation of all the property of all the lodges. It was recalled here that on August 8 Chancellor Hitler's newspaper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, announced a plan for gradual dissolution of the Masonic order in Germany. Frick, however, went a step fur- ther in demanding immediate disso- lution, taking the stand that a num- ber of the lodges had failed to take steps for voluntary liquidation. In connection with the church difficulty in Silesia, churchmen pointed out that the Steel Helmet, veterans' organizations, hed suffered attrition by dissolution of its branches one by one and expressed the opinion that the same plan might be em- ployed in an effort to cripple the con- ~ | fessional synod opposition to the Nazi church movement. | Arrest of Jews Ordered. | Henchmen of Julius Streicher, the | Reich’s No. 1 Jew-hater, were ordered | today to arrest on the spot all Jews seen in public with “German” girls, Streicher, fresh from his night of | spell-binding before Berlin throngs, | ordered all vendors of his newspaper | who are storm troopers or Schulz: Staffel men to seize all such Jews, or | have them seized. The “newsies” for - Der Stuermer, violently anti-Semitic journal, also | were commanded to Investigate in | their areas and report all “Aryan” do- | mestic servants who are working for Jews. Likewise they were told to obtain the names of all Jews intending to marry “Aryans.” Names to Be Published. ‘These reports will appear in weekly | issues of the newspaper, with names and addresses. | Streicher's henchmen have in-| creased rapidly with the circulation of | Der Stuermer in recent months. By the Associated Press. LONDON.—A “rain of death,” fall- ing in the form of liquid gas sprayeo | by enemy planes over whole citv areas, | is envisaged among the horrors of the | next war in an official handbook published by the British government. Coincidently, Lord Halsbury, British expert on gas warfare, voiced a warn- ing that no one mask can possibly protect civilians against the myriad new and dealy fumes which may be expected in air raids of the® future, “There are gases today andreamed of during the World Was,” he said. “Scientists have been working on them since the armistice. France has been at it. Germany likewise. Russia has been very much at it So have we. The United States has new gases about which other nations know little or nothing. “And a mask which is cfficient against any one gas,” he added, “is not going to be any good against sume- thing entirely different.” . Lord Halsbury, who planned eerial gas attacks on Germany during the later stages of the great war, branded as “bunk” and “dangerous nonsense” the new official pamphlet, issued by the home office, which is entitled “Anti-Gas Precautions and First Aid for Air Raid Casulaties.” He attacked the Government book- let as giving the populace a false sense » Masks ;Use'less Against Gases In Next War, Britisher Warns ‘jous liquids being sprayed from air- gnfecuflty, declaring that all its in- ictions were useless for the protec- tion of England’s densely-packed mil® lions. “The thing is too utterly absurd. It is trying to make pebple think they are living in a fool's paradise.” ‘The booklet, the first of a series of six prepared by the mnewly-organized air raids precautions department of Whitehall, points out that in addition to gas bombs dropped from aircraft, there is the additional threat of gase- planes “over a fairly wide area.” Lord Halsbury cited what he de- scribed as “the 10,000 American mar- tyrs” as an example of how a lack of expert knowledge on gases leads to disaster. “Early in 1918, the Americans made an attack at St. Mihiel. They were warned that their masks would be no good against the German phosgene gas. “But their reply was: ‘We know what we're doing. Our masks were de- signed by the greatest expert in the United States.’ “How many were killed,” said Lord Halsbury, “we don’t know. The casu- alty lists were never published. But in the Ualted States they were re- ferred to as ‘the 10,000 martyrs.’ * i agricultural cancessions. Lord Halsbury declared there was one gas against which no mask yet devised was effectice. (Copyriey:, 1038 r'inln-h‘ North Ameriosn PARLEY IS DELAYED AS DUCE PONDERS SHOWDOWN PLEA Paris Delegates Demand ltaly State Wants in African Dispute. ROME HOLDS POWERS MUST SUBMIT PLAN Conversations Are Halted Until Baron Aloisi Receives New Instructions From Home. BULLETIN. PARIS, August 17 (#).—Premier Pierre Laval tonight submitted to Italy a rough outline of a pro- posed solution of the Italo-Ethi- opian difficulty. It was handed to the Italian delegate to the three- power negotiations here, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, who was expected to telephone its contents to Premier Mussolini in Rome. By the Associated Press PARIS, August 17.—Premier Mus- solini of Italy held up the three-power conference seeking a way out of his dispute with Ethiopia while he pon- dered a Franco-British demand for a showdown today. A forenoon meeting of the Italian, French and British conferees was| postponed while the lean-faced Baron | Pompeo Aloisi waited beside the tele- { phone for Il Duce's answer. | War or peace remained as much a problem as ever since the British and French sald they were not certain just what Italy wants. | Italian quarters said Mussolini's | position is clear: He intends to dom- | inate Ethiopia and is preparing to do so0 by force; that it is up to France and Great Britain to suggest an al- | ternative if they object to his methods. Await Duce’s Reply. Premier Laval of France and Anth-! ony Eden of Great Britain neverthe- less induced Aloisi to put the ques- | tion of showing Italy's full hand up to his chief last night. i They awaited I1 Duce's reply be(ore“ talking further. i On another front of the struggle to | avert war in Ethiopia, the Italo- Ethiopian Conciliation Commission, | revived by League of Nations decree, decided to meet Monday, when it was expected Nicholas Politis of Greece | would be named as the fifth arbi-| trator. The French and British conferees | had from Emperor Haile Selassie an | offer, of economic concessions eoupledl with a firm stand against miitary occupation. Eden, Great Britain's minister for | League affairs, particularly was in- sistent on pinning Italy down on a clear-cut statement of what Il Duce means by “general political influence” over Ethiopia before the English em- issary and Laval consult the Emperor. “Concessions” Suggested. As for Haile Selassie, spokesmen for the conferees said he was with- holding his maximum concessions until he hears Mussolini’s minimum demands. . Through his minister to Paris the bearded Ethiopian ruler laid the fol- lowing proposals before fhe three pow- | ers as their conversations were opened | formally yesterday: 1. Guarantees of security for Italy's two colonies bordering on Ethiopia and for Italians living in Ethiopia. 2. Grant of economic facilities to Italy for mining, road building and railway operations in Ethiopia. 3. Possibly even more extensive But, he emphasized, he wants 1o | martial control by the men of Musso- lini. The ground was cleared for real negotiations on a formula accept-| able to both sides by yesterday’s study | of the treaties involved. particularly that of 1906 between France, Great, Britain and Italy. It was understood the French and British will let Aloisi know they “never interpreted it as a thieves'| agreement to grab political control of Ethiopia.” Italy’s political designs on Ethi- opia, French quarters said, met their first obstacle in the treaty's stipula- tion that in no case would the three powers “intervene in any manner or degree except after agreement with the other two. Rome Is Unmoved. ROME, August 17 (#).—First formal activities of the Paris Tri-power Con- ference left Italy unmoved today in her conviction that diplomatic nego- tiations will accomplish little toward solving the Ethiopian controversy. In informed circles it was repeated that, although Italy intends to rec- ognize the legitimate interests of Great Britain and France in Ethiopia, she has no intention of renouncing her plans for military aetion unless 3 WOULDN"T i SWAP WITH 'EM © LASSHELD VIGTOR INBANKING SET-UP Agreement on Compromise Bill Regarded Triumph | for New Deal Critic. By the Associated Press. A Senate-House conference agree- ment to accept the major provisions cf | the compromise Senate banking bill was regarded In most quarters as largely a victory for Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, often a critic of some administration policies. | However, President Roosevelt also | won a point. At his insistence, a | section of the Senate bill permitting commercial banks to return within limits to the business of underwriting securities was eliminiated. After -weeks of negotiation. the | Senate and House conferees unln-| imously agreed late yesterday on a report which, among other things, accepted the Senate’s proposal for centralizing control of the Nation's | credit in a committee of 12 members, including five bank representatives. House Bill More Drastic. ! The House had passed s more drastic bill extending Washington's | control over money and credit. Senator | Glass recently piloted through the | | Senate a measure generally regardea as more conservative, and the legisla- tion then went to a Senate-House ' conference to reconcile the differences. ‘The conference report now will be submitted to Senate and House for ratification. This approval is expected quickly. One of the major disputes between , the two chambers centered on the credit control section. The House, with the backing of the Treasury and Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, had voted to place exclusive control of open-market operations in the Federal Reserve | Board, with bankers having only an ! advisory voice. Under the proposal accepted by the conferees, the “Open Market Commit- tee” would be made up of a reorgan- ized Federal Reserve Board of seven members and five banker represent- | atives from regional Reserve banks. The bankers each would have a vote. When Glass announced the agree- ment to reporters he was asked: “Who wins?” With a laugh, he replied: “Am I pleased or am I not?” Under the agreement the bank rep- resentatives on the Open Market Com- | mittee will be chosen, one each, from these regions: 1, Boston and New York; 2, Philadelphia and Cleveland; | 3, Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas; 4, Chicago and St. Louis; 5, Kansas City, Minneapolis and San Francisco. The committee would seek to con- trol sharp inflations and deflations in credit by requiring the 12 Reserve banks to buy and sell Government bonds in the open market. Pur- chases direct from the Treasury would not be permitted. The Senate's provision for reorgan- izing the Federal Reserve Board into a “board of governors” of seven ap- pointive members instead of the pres- ent six, and with the Secretary of the Treasury and controller of the cur- rency removed as ex officio members, (See BANKING, Page 4) (See ETHIOPIA, Page 4.) Readers’ Guide Page. Amusements Comics ___. 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Reports that an attempt was made on the life of King Zog were described as “absolutely untrue and fantastic.” ¢ Toening Star Yesterday’s Some Retur: *% BETCHA THOSE CONGRESS FELLERS WISH THEY . | ’s Namesake, Aged 11, Runs Away For Fifteenth Time By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 17— Robert Louis Stevenson is loose again—and the Missing Persons’ Bureau is after him for the fifteenth time. Robert, 11, who said after his fourteenth runaway last June h= was inspired by the wanderings of his famous novelist-namesake started out from his home ia Queens yesterday to mail a letter Today he had not returned. His mother, Mrs. Betty Sickles, asked police to look for him The last time he disappeared, Robert was found living on an East River barge. HOPSON'S RECALL SLATED MONDAY (House Chairman Considers | Calling M’Ninch—M’Intyre Also May Be Called. By the Associated Press. Howard C. Hopson, millionaire util- ities operator, was granted a brief re- tpite today from the questioning he i - ON CUFFEY BLL | Guffey coal | delayed until Monday. has undergone in Senate and House | lobby investigations But Monday the directing force be- hind the Associated Gas and Electric System will be recalled to the stand to continue relating the part he played | in the campaign to defeat the ‘Wheeler-Rayburn utilities bill. Today Chairman O’Connor of the House Rules Committee considered summoning an administration offi- cial—Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the Power Commission—to have :i]rln tell whether he lobbied for the ill. Representative Lehlbach, Republi- can, of New Jersey, who requested O’Connor to call McNinch, asserted that the Power Commission had cir- culated “propaganda” advocating “destruction of holding companies by trying to show that the sale of their securities would not be affected by the Wheeler-Rayburn bill.” The bill. as passed by the Senate. provided for mandatory abolition of certain utility holding companies, a provision which the House rejected. Another administration figure who may be asked to testify at next week's session is Marvin H. McIntyre, a White House sécretary. Senator Gibson, Republican, of Ver- mont, & member of the Senate lobby | grcup, said yesterday he would de- mand that McIntyre be called to ex- plain his presence at a party Wed- nesday night with B. B Robinson, Chicago utilities man, who acted as Hopson's representative in Washing- ton. Hopson went throughrlung hours of (See LOBBY, Page 2.) 230 Taken Off Grounded Ship. BELFAST, August 17 (#).—The 230 passengers of the Anchor-Donaldson liner Letitia, aground off the entrance of Belfast Lough, were removed by tender today after the steamer had failed to refloat herself at high tide. The 13,475-ton liner, out of Montreal. will try again today. HOUSE 13 3PLIT Both Sides Claim Victory as Measure Is Lined Up for Vote. By the Associated Press Conflicting forecasts as to what the House finally would do ushered the bilization bill today to the point of a House vote. By agreement, the actual balioting on passage of this measure, which President Roosevelt is backing, was A number of amendments were to be considered today. The bill would create & commission to regulate wages, hours. trade prac- | tices and prices in the soft coal indus- try. A tax would be levied vn all pro- ducers. but those who abide by the code would get 90 per cent of it back. Forecasts as to what would happen on the final vote came from all sides. Conflicting Opinion: - A Republican leader, Representa‘ive Martin of Massachusetts, conceded the bill probably would pass by *“35 votes.” Representative Boland of Pennsylvania, Democratic whip. fore- saw a favorable margin of 20 to 30 votes. Representative Fuller, Demo- crat, of Arkansas, an opponent of the measure, said it would Jose Ly 20 votes. ‘That the fight was a close one, | despite Mr. Roosevelt's plea that Con- gress not let any doubts as to con- stitutionality block the bil!, was in- dicated by a canvass of sentiment Boland made recently. So he and the potent Pennsylvania delegation had worked hard to garner votes for the bill. After days of " (See GUFFEY BILL, Page 2. CLIPPER ARRIVES AT WAKE ISLAND| Flying Boat to Stay Three Days, Then Retrace 4,992- Mile Route. By the Associated Press. WAKE ISLAND. August 17 Pan-American Radio). — Pan-Amer- ican Airways clipper Flying Boat rested on the waters of Wake Lagoon today, 4,992 miles from United States | shores, with another pioneering record chalked up on her log. The big plane alighted here at 12:25 p.m. today (8:25 p.m., Friday, Eastern standard time), completing a flight of | 1,191 miles from Midway Island that | took it over a previously uncharted air course. The trip required 8 hours and 4 minutes. Before her four motors were cool from the long flight the clipper was being checked and fueled by her crew and ground attendants in preparation for tes coral island. Present plans call for a rest of about three days before the return trip to Midway, Honolulu and California is started. On hand to welcome the clipper | were the construction and radio crews dropped on this previously uninhabited island last April to build a hotel and other facilities to make this an over- night stopping point on the projected California-to-Canton air line. Roosevelt Enjoys Picnic As Son Observes Birthday By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y, August 17— President Roosevelt set aside this August afternoon for ‘a family reun- jon celebrating the twenty-first birth- day of Franklin, jr., third son. For this occasion he left the busy Capital for a brief visit at home and for the day the cares of State were put aside as far as is possible. Detailed plans for the quiet family get-to-gether were not revealed but it was understood the plans of Mrs. Roosevelt called for a picnic lunch at the cottage about a mile across the fields from the Hudson River home. There has been erected there for some time a brick fireplace in the open; a cottage and s new outdoor swimming péol in which the Presi- dent enjoys As a rule, the outdoor picnics here of Mrs. Roosevelt call for roasting of “hot dogs” and corn and a serv- ing of salads with everyone helping themselves. Franklin, the honor guest of the day, is a strapping six foot four man, & member of the Harvard junior var- sity crew. Other members of the family pres- ent include the President’s mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, sr.; the first son, James, and Mrs. Roosevelt, and John Roosevelt, youngest son. Tonight late, the President will en- train for Washington to be present at the White House tomorrow for a series of conferences with various groups from Congress aimed at checking up on the legislative situa- the closing days of the Capi- tion in tol Hill rush for adjournment. (®) Means Associated Press. (By | flights around this low-lying | Circulation, 124,229 ns Not Yet Received TWO CENTS. BODIES OF ROGERS, POST START HOME IN CROSSON PLANE Noted Alaska Flyer Takes Off From Point Barrow for Fairbanks. SNOWY LINEN WRAPS TWO FAMOUS FIGURES ' Mrs. Post Hurries From Oklahoma | to Seattle—Mrs. Rogers Starts for California. | By the Associated Press | POINT BARROW, Alaska, August 17—Wrapped in snow-white linen, the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post started for home today in a plane piloted by Joe Crosson, veteran North- land pilot. Crosson took off for Fair- ba five hours southward across the Endicott Mountains at 3 am. Pacific standard time (6 a.m. Eastern standard time) Carefully iaid away in the cabin | were the bodies of the two interna- tional figures, who were crushed to death Thursday when their airplane nosed over shortly after a takeoff from Refuge Bay, 15 miles south of here. Fairbanks was the first stop en route | to Seattle, where Mrs. Post was hurry- ing from Maysville, Okla., the home | of Wiley's parents. The exact time i of arrival in Seattle was not an- nounced. Eskimos Watch Takeoff. A dozen white settlers and a erowd of Eskimos gathered on the desolate Arctic shore while the bodies were laid in the ship, Fifteen miies south, on the tundra of Point Barrow, other Eskimos sal- vaged for. their own use the scattered fragments of Post’s red monoplane, in which the actor-humorist and the famous fiver plunged to their deaths | in a fog on their way here from Fair- i banks. Dr. Henry W. Greist, surgeon at the Presbyterian Mission Hospital, who saw the Eskimos at work, said that shortly there would be litle left save the torn tundra to mark the spot where Rogers and Post died during their “pleasure jaunt” through Alaska. Crosson Bade Friends Good-by. Crosson, Post’s Alaskan friend and a naviator, too, and Robert Gleason, a radio operator, flew over the Endi- cott Mountains and through fog across the tundra wastes yesterday to take | the bodies back tor civilization. It was Crosson, veteran of unnum- bered Alaskan flights, who bade them good-by &t Fairbanks and warned them against the hazards of the fog at Point Barrow The broken remains of Post and Rogers lay in a warehouse behind the Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Barrow, on the ice-strewn Arctic shore, after Dr. Greist, the mission surgeon, and Charles Brower, grizzled “King of the Arctic,” prepared them for the journey home. In this same warehouse last May the bodies of 14 Eskimo victims of an influenza epi- demic were laid out in plain board coffins. i Flying to Visit Brower. Brower was the man whom Rogers- said he was flying to Barrow to visit For 51 years Brower has operated a whaling station and trading post on the lonely, northernmost tip of Alaska The entire populations of Juneau, capital of Alaska, where the aerial vacationers spent a night as guests of Gov. Troy; of Dawson. Y. T.; of Aklavik, on the Arctic delta of the Mackenzie River; of Fairbanks and of Anchorage had shouldered Post and Rogers around when they dropped in on their casual tour of the North. | Nome, to the westward, sorrowfully canceled arrangements for a giant re- ception. Rogers had said jocularly | during his fiight toward Alaska that he wanted to “rope a reindeer,” and Nome citizens had the deer ready. The terrific impact as Post's ship fell just after & take-off so mutilated it that it appeared doubtful the exact cause of rhe crash ever would be de- termined. Motor's Misfire Blamed. Eskimos with whom Post talked after landing to get directions to Point Barrow said the ship lifted 50 or 60 feet into the air and the 550-horse- | power motor misfired. The plane fel! off on one wing, then ploughed nose first into the tundra. A wing struck the ground and ripped off, the pontocns tore into the earth, and the heav’ motor broke from its | supports and jammed back upon the fiyer and his companion An Eskimo, breathless from 15 miles of running across the tundra, brought the first word of the wreck to Barrow. Sergt. Morgan flashed the word by wireless to Col George E. Kumpe, in | charge of the Alaska telegraph system headquarters, operated by the Signal Corps, in Seattle, The Signal Corps notified Mrs. Post, in Ponca City. Okla., and the Rogers | family, in Showhegan, Me. | Will Rogers, Jr., Flies East. The Rogers family was stunned. Mrs. Rogers said she would start for California with her daughter, Mary Rogers, 19. Will Rogers, jr.. was in (See CRASH, Page 3.) RISK LEAVES TONIGHT; T0 BE SWORN MONDAY Republican Who Carried Rhode Island District Against New Deal Due Here Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, August 17.— Representative-elect Charles F. Risk of the first Rhode Island district will leave Providence for Washington to- night on the Federal express, due in the Capital tomorrow morning. He plans to be sworn in Monday, which is his thirty-eighth birthday. Some time during the week end he will be the dinner guest at Washington of Senator Jesse H. Meicalf, Republican, Rhode Island, who campaigned in his behalf before the election August 6. )