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CHANGE IN RANKS OF IDLE SLIGHT Rjoosevelt Promises Like Those of Hoover on Prosperity. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. “Time was when the Hoover, admin- Istration used to issue statements saying “prosperity is just around the carner.” ‘Now the Roosevelt administration has taken to doing the same thing in agother way with respect to finding jobs for the unemployed. An incident that occurred within the last week is & case in point. It happened last Saturday night when the radio broad- cgsting companies thought Congress was about to adjourn and when they hooked in their wires to the Capitol agd put on some comments by Con- gressmen and by attending cabinet officers, too. ‘Segretary of the Interior Harold Jckes, who also had charge of the $3,300,000,000 public works program appropriated in 1933, which was to “prime the pump,” was on hand and thi§ Fadio announcer interviewed him &l the unemployment problem. ““How about the 10,000,000 unem- ployed?” he was asked. &Oh, they’ll be back to work by November,” was the reply. “Why, that's good news, isn't it?” exclaimed the radio man. “Yes, very good news,” agreed Mr. Ickes. If Mr. Ickes is right, then it really 1s the biggest piece of news that could | have come out of Washington this raonth. And yet hardly any news- papers headlined it or gave it prom- inence. Is it possible that these promises of the Roosevelt administra- tion about getting the unemployed back to work are being treated just as were the Hoover administration’s prophecies of prosperity? Unemployed About Same. Looking back over what the Roose- velt regime has promised since March 4,.1933, and examining also the latest figures from the National Industrial Conference Board, we find that, not- | withstanding the expenditure of bil- lions and the largest deficits in the history of the Republic, with the ex- ception of World War time, the num- ber of unemployed in September, 1933, | Sev was 9,920,000, and yet in May, 1935, What’s What Behind News In Capital Business Holds to Seasonal Trends With Prospects Favorable. BY PAUL MALLON. USINESS men have been mur- muring from habit lately about instabjlity. If the Govern- ment figures do not lie, this country has experienced the most un- usual period of stability in its history during the last eight months. The trouble is the stability is caught, hooked and fastened on a plane about 80 per cent of normal (1923-1925 being considered normal). The Government business chart shows that the main business indices have clung closely to seasonal lines since January. Industrial production today is figured at 88 per cent of nor- mal, which is only two points off since January. Factory employment today has been improved only half a point since January, pay rolls 2.4 points, freight loadings off 3, department store sales up 10, building contracts up 10, prices up 1.7. Chart Shows Trend. You can trace the trend for your- self from the chart which follows. Each figure represents the percentagc of normal existing at the times stated. Normal (100) is the 1923-1925 averags for each index except prices. They are based on 1926. All figures have | had the seasonal warp eliminated. 2 S (1926 equals 100.) ponpord [QHEIT Juawisord o -saqes 21015 2 Jusunivaaq surpling ainp -U09 £10108.0 --s1i01 £¥d ~=-s3ujpuol u; --s1oe1C00 ° 2%o= -uop 125 S22 7 24695 T80 30708 79.2 59 622 5¢ the unemployed still totaled 9,711,000 Here are some of the predictions made | by the President and his colleagues: | . June 16, 1933—President Roosevelt‘\ “Our studies show that we | J gaid: should be able to hire many men at once and to step up to about a mn-f" lion new jobs by October 1, and a| much greater number later.” June 22, 1933—Harry Hopkins, Fed- 780 59.1 R0.5 641 819 4 704 UE_ 88 36 80.5 (Unofficial.) The most significant change lately has been in prices. They are higher than at any time in five years. The eral relief adminjstrator, gave the opinion that 3,000,000 unemployed would be back at work next Spring as a result of the national industrial re- covery and public works bills. July 26, 1933—Gen. Johnson told the radio audience he estimated that between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 work- ers would be re-employed by Labor | day. [ August 11, 1933—Postmaster Gen- eral Farley, chairman of the Demo- | cratic National Committee, said: “Be- fore Labor day, 120,000,000 people who a short itme ago were in the slough of despair will have pulled the United States out of this terrible de- e Immediate Work Promised. ~August 26, 1933—Speaking for the President, Gen. Johnson in the fol- lowing announcement said: “The President’s re-employment program may be described briefly as a plan to add from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 persons to the Nation’s pay rolls im- mediately.” November 8, 1933—The President authorized the following at the White House: “Four million men now out of employment will be put to work under a plan announced today by the President. Two million of these will become self-sustaining employes on Federal, State and local public projects on November 16 and will be taken completely off relief rolls. An additional 2,000,000 will be put back to work as soon thereafter as pos- sible. This plan will be administered by the- newly created Civil Works Administration, By this one stroke, at least two-thirds of the families in the country now receiving relief will bes«placed on a self-sustaining basis.” September 30, 1934 — President Roosevelt in a radio talk to the Amer- ican people said: “I stand or fall by my refusal to accept as a necessary condition of our future a permanent army of the unemployed.” November 19, 1934—Donald Rich- berg, chief co-ordinator for the Presi- dent, said: “We must bring about the re-employment of four or five million workers in the near future, either through a great expansion of private enterprise or through further Govern- ment activities.” Huge Direct Relief. January 4, 1935—The President in his annual message to the Congress of the United States said: ‘More than $2,000,000,000 has also been expended in direct relief to the destitute * * * But the stark fact before us is that great numbers still remain unemployed * * * The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief * & 1t is a duty dictated by every in- telligent consideration of national policy to ask you to make it possible for the United States to give employ- ment to all of these 3,500,000 em- ployable people now on relief, pending their absorption in a rising tide of private employment.” April 28, 1935—In a radio talk to the American people, the President said: “We are losing no time getting the Government’s vast work-relief pro- gram under way and we have every reason to believe that it should be in full swing by Autumn.” June 17, 1935—In a speech to the State Works Progress Administrators, Mr. Roosevelt said: “I think we can get across to the country the very simple proposition that we have a mandate from Congress to put 3,500,- 000 to work for $4,000,000,000 * * * Of course, we always will have a certain number of unemployed with us, but nothing like the present, we hope.” It will be seen that the President first believed in September, 1934, that the American people need not face a permanent army of unemployed, but less than nine months later he changed his mind. Figures are lacking as to what may be expected out of the $4,000,- 000,000 work relief fund in the way of persons employed. But again and again in the councils of the adminis- tration it has been conceded that the projects submitted have been too recent bulge of food and farm prices (meat and hogs, particularly) has | drawn the index up. Industrial prices | are generally unchanged. New Buying Psychology. People seem to have developed a new buying psychology. They are pur- chasing electric refrigerators, vacuum cigarettes and clothes. They are tak- ing trips to Europe. But they are not buying liquor, homes, real estate or making investments, at least not to a commensurate extent. For instance, July production of cigarettes set a new record of 13 bil- contracts awarded in that month was only 34 per cent of normal, even with the P. W. A. stimulus. This wave is undoubtedly a bad outgrowth of the depression era, in which some people lost their sav- ings. They do not want to save now. They want to spend for par- ticular low-priced comforts. The immediate outlook is good. operations have been pushed up to about 50 per cent of capacity. In early July they were 30 per cent. The improvement is based on wide buying of many kinds—agricultural imple- ments, wire, tin plate (for canning). Soon there will be auto demand for steel (new cars). The best au- thorities therefore are sure that there will be an increase in steel operations during the next few months. Electric power production is set-| ting a new record. Lumber is better. An industrial production figure of perhaps 92 is looked for in Sep- tember. The improvement in building con- tracts is due almost entirely to P. W. A. The governmental influence was felt in the last week of July and since. Private residential con- struction is holding up fairly well after & Summer spurt, but it is nothing to buy stocks about. The strength of department store sales may be due, in part, to & defect in the adjusted figures. There is Teason to believe that sales lately have been good, but not that good. The erratic fluctuation in coal fur- nishes the influence behind the car loadings figures. One week the con- sumers fear a strike and are steck- ing up. The next, they are yawning. The yawn appears to be better grounded than the excitement., (Copyright. 19i35.) lions. But the amount of building | During the last three weeks steel| height, sounds a gong and a siren his home a mile away year. WASHINGT Here is a photograph of a burglar who attempted to rob the battery shop of Frank Aichele, East St. Louis, Ill, made by a device of Aichele’s invention that not only makes the photograph, but measures the burglar's in the shop and awakens Aichele in The burglar did not wait for any developments, not even for the development of the picture, and made a hasty get-away. This is the second time that the device has worked successfully within a ~—Wide World Photo, RED REPORT URGES CAPITALISTIC WAR Proceedings of Recent Com- munist Congress Dis- closed in Moscow. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, August 29.—Resolutions by the recent third Communist In- ternationale Congress, calling for a | were published today, four days after | the United States’ protest against ac- | tivities of the congress. The resolution instructed the Com- | munist parties in individual countries | to strive to bring the working classes | “closer to the revolutionary assump- | tion of power.” | Proletarian Rule Urged. They declared the unwavering final | aim of the Communists was the estab- | lishment of Soviet regime:, but said that until the time was ripe for it the | Communist parties should throw their ‘support to movements designed to re- sweepers, washing machines, autos, place “bourgeois” governments with | governments of a proletarian united front. an Italian delegate, ungnimously, said that a British at- temptto build up a balance of power | against the United States is “accei- erating the outbreak of a world im- perialistic war.” “Communists are fighting to dispel the illusion that war can be avoided under- capitalist regimes,” said Her- cole’s resolution. their efforts to avert war, but if, despite these efforts, 2 new world im- perialistic war breaks out, they will strive to guide the opponents of war into a new struggle designed to change an imperialistic war into a civil war against the Fascist and incendiary bourgeoise and to overthrow capi- talism.” Warned Against Sabotage. ‘The congress instructed Communists not to attempt sabotage in case war breaks out. Such methods, as “refusing to do military service, obstructing mobiliza- nitions factories,” was considered, Hercole’s resolution said, “as only bringing harm to the proletarians. PRESIDENT TO ACT. | Roosevelt Expected to Dispatch An- | other Warning to Russia, By the Associated Press. | President Roosevelt was believed to | be ready today to make the next | move in the Soviet-American dispute | over Communist propaganda. The nature of the move was kept a | secret. Observers believed, however, |that one logical probability was a blunt warning that friendly diplomatic | relations between the two nations would be severed unless Soviet Russia | curbed activities of the Third Inter- nationale. Plans for intensified Communist activity in the United States were discussed at a recent meeting of the Internationale in Moscow. This prompted the United States to accuse the Soviet government of “flagrant violation” of pledges to curb inter- ference in American affairs. The Soviets rejected the protest note on the grounds the Russian government had no connection with the Inter- nationale. Though Secretary of State Hull has been conferring with President Roose- would comment as to the course to be taken. It was believed, however, that the President would act within & day or two. not absorb the millions on relief more rapidly because the administration refuses to allow business and industry to function in the way business and industry believe they can function effectively to bring about re-employ- ment, The result is that the $4,000,~ 000,000 fund probably will not achieve the objective sought and there will be an army of unemployed long after November 1 of this year. That's why the predictions being made by cabinet officers and others in the Government are unlikely to be realized. The unemployment situ- ation is not materially changed from what it was a year ago and that social security to take effect three years hence, utility holding company dis- solution to take effect three years hence and most of the other bills passed by the Congress that has just adjourned is really a smoke screen to hide the failure of the New Deal to put back to work the 10,000,000 men who have been wait- ing patiently in the breadlines for the answer to their prayers. costly in the way of materials and overhéad to allow many men to get dobs. Indeed, the average cost per man has been calculated at $1,140 if it were to bring employment to 8,500,000 men. The truth is private industry can- TU. 8. Wine Demands Light. ‘Wine producers of France express is why all the agitation about the| THREAT LETTER MAILED Youth, 19, Arraigned for Note Written to President. MINOT, N. Dak., August 29 (#)— Earl Bauer, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil A, Bauer, Drake, N, Dak., was brought before Thomas B. Murphy, United States district com- missioner, yesterday on a charge of writing a threatening letter to the President. He waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to Federal District Court. Bonds were furnished and he was released to the custody of his parents. $1,000 PIN LOST Mrs. Elizabeth N. Hempstone Asks Police to Aid in Search. Mrs. Elizabeth N. Hempstone, 1730 New Hampshire avenue, today asked police to aid in the search of & $1,000 pin she lost last night either at the disappointment at the relatively low |large demand from the United States for thelr product, united front drive against capitalism, | A resolution drafted by M. Hercole, | and passed | “They are devoting | tion, and committing sabotage of mu- | velt, neither he nor any other official | LOBBY QUIZ PLANS PROBE OF WEIGHTS Cities of East and West to Be Checked for Violations. By the Associated Press. As an outgrowth of 24 short-weight charges against employes of a chain store system here, the Special House Committee investigating *superlob- bies” has called on police departments of the major cities to supply the rec- ords cf any similar cases in their juris- dictions. The Washington cases have not yet been tried and the first is set for hearing on SeptemLor 17. Representative Bloom, Democrat, of | New York, chairman of the eastern division of the committee headed by Representative Patman, Democrat, of | Texas, said yesterday he had re- quested the records and disposition of all cases in the United States involv- ing chain stores, “as far back as the records go.” | “My idea is to find out the number | of such cases,” he said, “and just what purpose is served in giving short weight and just who benefits by it."” Executive Session Planned. The findings, Bloom said, will be discussed in executive session along with other phases of the investiga- tion. Another major phase of the inves- tigation was started when four secret agents of the committee were sent to operations of chain grocery, drug and department stores and the selling | ing with them. These secret investigators were ex- pected by Bloom to complete their findings and report in time for the | committee to meet in New York around the middle of next month. The investigators will go to Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Kansas City | and the Pacific Coast after completing work in New York. The committee has $7.500 to carry on its operations until Congress assembles again in January. Hearing Officials Chosen. Bloom will conduct the sessions in New York and possibly Chicago, while Patman will preside over hearings in the West. Public hearings in Washington were completed July 10, after officials of large chain store companies testified on buying operations. During the hearings it was revealed that General Foods Corp. paid $360,- 000 annually and Standard Brands, Inc, paid $350,000 annually to the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. to aid pro- motion of their products. These pay- rebates which operated to the disad- vantage of the independent grocer. PILOTS IN BENDIX RACE GET PLACES Ortman to Leave First in Cross- Country Dash To- mMOITOW. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 29.—Speed pilots put finishing touches to their planes today in preparation for the annual Bendix Derby from Los An- geles to Cleveland, Ohio. Eight of the Nation's leading flyers, headed by the ruling cross-country speed king, Col. Roscoe Turner, will take off tomorrow in the annual trophy event, staged in connection with the national air races. Weather reports were anxiously studied and a schedule of take-offs, agreed upon yesterday, will not be revised unless flying éonditions change New Yerk to investigate the buying | orerations of the manufacturers deal- | ments were described by Bloom as D. C, THURSDAY PRESIDENT WEIGHS HOUSING MERGER Seeks to Co-ordinate All Scattered Agencies in One Administration. President Roosevelt is seriously con- sidering co-ordinating all the scattered housing activities of the Government, it was learned today. ‘To this end, he conferred today with | Secretary Ickés, Admaistrator of | Rural Resettlement Rexford Tugwell, Chairman Fahey of the Home Owners’ | Loan Corp., Stewart McDonald, acting | head of the Federal Housing Adminis- tration, and James A. Moffett, retiring head of the F. H. A. ‘The President has no definite idea yet, but it is felt very certain that when Congress again assembles, he will be in a position to suggest the necessary legislation. Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Works | Progress Division of the relief program, | would have attended the conference | today had he not been out of the city | on a brief vacation. Because of the great growth of vari- ous home and housing activities under the New Deal, the President is con- vinced there are certain complexities and confusions. and feels confident better and quicker results will be ob- tained by putting all of the scattered | activities into one big administration division. For instance, the Home Owners’| Loan Corp., which is actually a bank- ing establishment and not a real estate | agency, finds itself in possession of a large nuniber of homes acquired through mortgage foreclosures. Then, there is the Rural Resettlement Ad- ministration with its huge funds for rural and suburban resettlement; the old Subsistence Homestead Adminis- tration, which has been consolidated with the Rural Resettlement Admin- istration and the Works Progress Ad- | | ministration. In addition the Public | Works Administration is engaged in a certain amount of housing activity | in its slum-clearance program. There | are other activities scattered about, the most importaat and widespread being | those coming under the Federal Housing Administration. | Inasmuch as virtually all these ac- | tivities have been provided for by acts | of Congress, consolidations or mergers | cannot be effected by presidential | order. The President must appeal to Congress. . AIMEE OFFERS OWN DATA ON RED ACTIVITY IN U. S.| | Sends Message to Roosevelt Prais- | ing Official Protest Against Propaganda. By the Associated Press. | ROCKFORD, Ill, August 29—| Aimee Semple McPherson telegraphed | | President Roosevelt yesterday her con- | gratulations for “your sound judg-| ment in inspiring an official protest | to Moscow against the damnable and | | destructive work of the reds in, | America.” | She followed the message with an)| offer to make available to the United | States attorneys in Chicago, Los An- geles, New York, Portland, Oreg., and other metropolitan centers informa- tion her own “secret service” had | uncovered on “typical hotbeds of red | propaganda. Here for a district convention of her Four Square Gospel, Aimee sald | her investigators had proof that; | subversive activities were being car- ried on in a number of Midwestern and Western high schools and colleges. 'GOV. TALMADGE DIETING | FOR NATIONAL CAMPAIGN | | By the Associated Press. | ATLANTA, August 29.—Gov. Eugene | }Ttlmndge of Georgia, who already has | been testing his oratorical powers against the Roosevelt administration, now is engaged in “getting down to hard muscles” for the 1926 national campaign. By eliminating sweets from his diet, Talmadge said he has cut his weight 25 pounds. “It's all for the 1936 election, he explained. “I always go in training | before a political fight. Don’t horses |and boxers train?” | Talmadge has been an open foe of | | President Roosevelt for some time and | |is out to try to block his renomina- | tion. 'STUDY HAWAII DEFENSE| HONOLULU, August 29 (#)—Rep- | resentative Parks of Arkansas said on his arrival here yesterday with four other members of the Military Sub- ¢ amittee of the House Appropri- ations Committee that the purpose of their visit was “to give Hawali every- thing =™~ needs for defense.” Representatives Parks, Dockweiler |of Califorria, McMillan of South Carolina, Blanton of Texas and Snyder of Pennsylvania arrived on the Army transport Republic from San Francisco. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Proposed Probe of Huey Long Recalls Wild Cat Story. adversely. ‘With $12,500 in cash prizes of- fered in the Los Angeles-Cleveland derby, & bonus and & wealth of fame awaits any flyer who flys on to New York and lowers Col. Turner's trans- continental record of 10 hours, 2 minutes. Under the schedule of departures, Earl Ortman, Los Angeles, flying a Kith rider racer, will take off from Union Air Terminal at 4:30 am., Eastern standard time. Thirty minutes later Royal Leonard and his Qed ship will leave. Turner is slated to take his rebuilt Wedell-Williams Sky Rocar into the air at 6 am, The rest of the schedule follows: Jacqueline Cochrane in a North- rup Gamma, 6:15 am, Cecil Allen in a modernized Geebee, No. 7, 6:46 am. . Russell W. Thaw in a Northrup Gamma, 7 am. GALLUP, N. Mex., August 29.—Lots of things seem to be happening, and some of them for the best. Congress finally did something that had the ap- proval of every- body. It ad- Jor And so they’re going to investi- gate Huey Long, huh? T wouldn't discourage any - body, but I once knew an ambi- tious fellow in Montana who in- vestigated a cor- nered wildcat and, while they convalesced to- gether, the wild- cat was up and about long before the {CAVE-IN KILLS THREE UGUST 29, 1935 ~ Jails Breeders of Crime City and County Institutions Declared Little Better Than Cages. (Editor’s mote: This s the fourth in a series of seven articles on crime and its control, written by the foremost authorities on the cause and combatin gof crime, in co-operation with the National Committee on Public Education for Crime Control.) BY AUSTIN H. MacCORMICK, Commissioner of Correction of New York City. MERICAN city and county jails penology. A of penal institution. are the black continent of American Little is known by the public about them, yet they are located closer to the average American home than any other type The light of modern penology seldom enters | them, although they are intended for the care of persons awaiting trial, | and therefore innocent in the eyes of the law, or persons serving short sen- tences for petty offenses, and there-«- fore not considered a serious menace to society. ‘They steep more human beings in the bitter lye of criminality every year than our State and Federal prisons do. Penologists express the opinion that an offender is likely to suffer more harm—to be more surely directed and impelled toward a life | of crime—by 30 days in a jail than by an equal period in State prison. They | say that many an offender might be | straightened out during the course of his prison sentence if it were not for the embittering, case-hardening effect of his jail experience. | Declared Cages. Why is this so? Because in most jails offenders are thrown indiscrimi- nately into what is little better than a common cage; hardened offenders | and beginners, old and young, sick and well, guilty and innocent. If you are well, you may be issued un- sterilized blankets that were used last night by a diseased person. | If the jail is crowded, as it usually is, you may be locked into a cell with a consumptive or an insane man. If you have no money, you eat monoto- nous, insufficlent, badly cooked food; if you have money, you may eat good food at a table run by the jailer's wife at so much per day, or have meals sent in from a restaurant. Moreover, if you have money, in| some jails you can sit in every night on a poker game for vhich the jailer | rents the cards at $3 a deck, or you| may go down town to a party, or have some liquor or drugs sent in. . Breeding Places o1 Crime. ‘There are in America at least 4,000 of these breeding places of crime. They | receive under sentence—usually from one day to one year—about 450,000 persons & year; men, women, boys, | girls. How many they receive await- | ing trial nobody on earth knows; often the jailer cannot tell you how many prisoners he has without making a physical count. If any one thinks this is an exag- gerated picture, let him consult the files of the United States Bureau of Prisons, which is forced to board Fed- eral prisoners in more than 1,200 | county jails and inspects them as often | as possible. Conditions of neglect and | corruption are recorded time after| AUSTIN H. MacCORMICK, Commissioner of corrections of New York City. time. Of 2,067 jails inspected and rated in a given period by Federal inspectors, four-fifths received a rat- ing of less than 60 per cent: only 15 jails were rated 80 per cent or over. New Standard Demanded. ‘What is the solution? The setting of a new standard of decency, human- ity and justice in jail treatment; en- forcement of that standard by State supervision or inspection such as we have in several States; expenditure of sufficient public funds to insure decent living conditions, food, medical care and segregation, and, finally, to make all the foregoing possible, removal of the control of jails from petty and corrupt politicians. It is not consistent with the Amer- ican concept of justice that the in- stitution which is the “first port of call” for many offenders should in- jure or corrupt so large a proportion of those who come within its gates. (Copyright, 1935, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) FILIBUSTER BLAME | SHIFTED BY LONG | | Says Roosevelt Tried to Kill Deficiency Bill Aiding Farmers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 29.—Giving his version of his five-and-one-half- | hour filibuster, Senator Huey Long to- | day charged that President Roosevelt tried to adjourn Congress to kill the deficiency bill “because it contained relief for the cotton and wheat farm- ers.” “I kept the floor Saturday night and also kept Congress from adjourn- ing and prevented him killing the de- ficiency bill,” Louisiana’s “Kingfish” said. | Senator Long issued a statement | see interviewers, but through the sec- retary said he had no comment to e on William Randolph Hearst's proposal that Alfred E. Smith lead “a Jeffersonian Democratic party in| 1936.” *‘On last Saturday night Mr. Roose- velt tried to adjourn Congress and kill his so-called deficiency bill, which he now says was necessary for his so- called social security proposal. He wanted to kill it then because it con- tained relief for the cotton and wheat farmers.” The Senator declared that Senator Robinson, Democratic floor leader, said last Saturday night that adjourn- ment of Congress and killing of the| deficiency bill would not affect the so-called social security proposals con- tained in the deficiency bill, but would | only kill the wheat and cotton relief. “But on Monday,” Long’s statement continued, “Mr. Roosevelt sent in a frantic appeal that Congress must ad- journ by midnight, and he would not allow the Congressmen to vote on the deficiency bill before adjournment un- less they knocked out relief for cotton and wheat farmers. “Now he says because he was not allowed to cut the throats of the cot- ton and wheat farmers he lost social security proposals. When was this President telling the truth, and when was he handling the truth care- lessly?” e IN CALIFORNIA TUNNEL Eight Other Workers Escape. Crew of 100 Seeks Bodies Be- neath Tons of Earth. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., August 29.—Three men lay dead today beneath tons of earth and rock as the result of a cave-in in the $3,752,000 Highway Tunnel being bored under the Ber- keley Hills. Eight other men were at work in the same section, but all managed to escape. A crew of 100 men worked in short shifts today in an attempt to recover the bodies. The dead were: Roy Houchin, 40, Berkeley, survived | by a widow and small son; Howard Davis, 24, Oakland, survived by a widow and two small children; Steve Beljon, 44, Oakland. Atlanta Group Scores Nazis. ATLANTA, August 29 (#)—A reso- lution condemning “the inhuman and barbarous treatment of the Jewish and by Atlanta Lodge No. 303 of the In- dependent order Brith Sholom. | Committee Head | through a secretary. He declined to| REPRESENTATIVE GRANFIELD. ~—Underwood & Underwood. PROBE OF LONS 'EMPIRE" IS BEGUN Congressional Committee Is Named to Investigate Senator’s Activities. By the Associated Press. Investigated many times with little results, the political empire of Senator Long, Democrat of Louisiana, today is| faced with the prospect of close scru- tiny from a House committee drawn from all sections of the East, South and Midwest. Headed by 8 Massachusetts Dem- crat, Representative Granfield, the committee includes \Representatives | ‘Wilcox, Democrat of Florida; Thom, Democrat of Ohio; Lewis, Democrat of Colorado; Barden, Democrat of North Carslina; Lehlbach, Republican of New Jersey, and Hancock, Repub- | lican of New York. They were named last night by Speaker Byrns. Probe to Be Rushed. ‘With this formality out of the way and performed to the satisfaction of anti-Long members of the House, efforts today were directed toward a prompt beginning of the investigation. An anti-Long group of Louisianans in the House, led by Representative| Dear, will seek immediate appointment of a subcommittee and announcement of a date for hearings in Louisiana. Mentioned as a possible candidate for Governor in the primary to be held in January, Dear sald he did not plan to leave Washington until definite action is taken by the com- mittee. Although the resolution, to all ap- pearances, was the routine one au- thorizing inquiries into expenditures of candidates for the House, it further authorized the committee “to act on its own initiative and upon such in- formation which in its judgment may be reasonable and reliable.” Organization to Be Probed. The Louisianans explained that this empowered the committee to investi- gate Long's political organization, in- cluding his five-day State legislative sessions, and their effect on the re- publican form of government guaran- teed by the Constitution. It was expected that the committee would be invited to investigate the Long political machine. by some out- standing Democratic political group in Louisiana, Dear sald he would like to see some group, like the “Young Democratic Organization of Louisi- ana,” take an active part in pushing the investigation. The anti-Long House group, which 4 SECURITY BOARD TOLAY PLANSOON Program to Be Outlined Next Month With Skele- ton Staff. The new Soclal Security Board will start laying the foundation for its vast operations affecting millions of persons about the middle of next month. | John G. Winant, former Governor | of New Hampshire, who will head [t.he board, is due back from Europe September 11. Vincent M. Miles of Arkansas, another member, will arrive here a few days earlier. Mean- while, Arthur J. Altmeyer, Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, who completes the board, is carrying on as acting chairman. A skeleton staff is to be set up if, es seems likely, funds can be provided for preliminary work. Work-relief money probably will be tapped, but whatever is obtained will be entirely ;wr administrative purposes, Presi- | dent Roosevelt and others concerned having abandoned all idea of making any payments until Congress recon- venes -and loosens the $76,000,000 fund for this purpose tied up by the failure of the third deficiency bill. Jobs Not Appointive. | Meanwhile, job-seekers are besieg- | Ing the board offices at the Labor De- partment, but their quest is futile as | all appointments, other than attorneys and experts, are to be chosen from civil service lists. | There is one key appointment to be | made—that of administrator—but | this will await the convening of the board. Plans were being hurried for Census Bureau work which will lay the foun- dation for old-age pensions and un- | employment insurance. | Officials said $10,000,000 had been provided from the work-relief fund for two projects which would supply statistical information that would aid in setting the joint social endeavors | on their way. | One to be carried out in St. Louis, will arrange the names and birth- dates of each person counted in the 1900 census in alphabetical order ac- cording to States and towns. Officials said this would provide an easy method of checking ages to determine the legal age of persons applying for pensions | Business Census Mapped. | The other study, which will supply | information to be used in planning for unemployment insurance, is the Census of Business. This will be con- ducted from headquarters at Phila- | delphia. Incidentally, the lack of the third deficiency appropriation funds was | felt in another quarter, too. It may | force more than 600 employes of the Steamboat Inspection Service to work 20 days without pay between Septem- ber 1 and June 30, 1936. ! Joseph B. Weaver, director of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of | Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, indicated that yesterday, recalling the blocked measure contained $50,000 for meeting a deficit in the bureau's puy roll. However, Malcolm Kerlin, adminis- | trative assistant to Secretary Roper, | said he believed funds might be trans- ferred from some other bureau to make up the deficit. Weaver said that if the funds were | not forthcoming, it would mean can- cellation of all plans to administer new regulations adopted this year to promote safety at sea, and abandon- ment of a proposed technical staff re- cently organized to study compart- ments of all American ships. TWO GIRLS ADMIT KIDNAPING FAKE ‘Beport They Were Seized to Cover Up on Trip to Park. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 29— Under police questioning, Catherine North, 13, and her sister, Mildred, 10, admitted early today that their story | of having been kidnaped by three col- | ored men was untrue. Their sister, Adeline, 8, started a widespread police hunt last night when she tearfully reported to her mother that the two girls had been seized and carried away by colored men in an automobile. The three sisters had | been given a dollar and sent to a grocery to buy a broom. Mildred and Catherine, after an hour and a half of coaxing by county | patrolmen, said they had spent the money and gone to a park to spend the night. They came home when it got cold. | VETERAN ACTOR DIES MERCER, Pa., August 29 (#).—John Thorn, 55, veteran actor of the silent screen and the stage, died at & sani- tarjum yesterday after an illness of six weeks. He formerly played in several New | York productions, among them “Her | Master’s Voice,” “Vagabond™ and “Ex- perience.” Thorn was born at nearby Leesburg and reared in Mercer, where he was graduated from high school. —eeeeeeeeeeeeeee also includes Representatives Sandlin, Wilson, Sanders and Montet, openly @enounced Long a few weeks ago, after a conference in New Orleans, and stated a full anti-Long ticket would enter the State primary in January when the Congressmen come up for re-election. Long said the statement came from “ex-Congressmen” and that his or- ganization would defeat the five Rep- resentatives for re-election. Administration Aid Sought. The latest move on the part of the Represe. tatives was to try to obtain administration aid in fighting Long and through the proposed committee investigation they hope to break his political domination of Louisiana. Byrns said inauguration of the committee’s work would depend on the chairman. He said he did not know what the committee had to investi- gate immediately as first primaries were set for January. When it was suggested by reporters that Long's State might be subjected to scrutiny at once, Byrns grinned and remarked that there might be some elections between now and January. President Roosevelt named an anti- Long leader as Federal marshal for the eastern district of Louisiana yes- terday. It was the first appointment the State has received from the White House this year. No nomintaions were sent to the Senate because ad- ministration leaders were satisfied Senator Long would oppose thelr con- firmation. f