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T A2 % S.E.C. HEAD HELD SAFE MAN IN 10 Landis, Following Kennedy, Knows How to Mold Act With Facts. "BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Something more than the retire- ment of one public official and the sppointment of another to an im- portant Government commission is in- volved in the resignation of Joseph P. Kennedy and the appointment of James M. Landis to succeed him as chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission. It goes to the root of the New Deal objectives and ac- complishments, high purposes and failures. For Joe Kennedy was outstanding in his achievement—he .took an un- workable law and squeezed out of it every ounce of workability. He did, by the process of sensible regulation, ing that the law could pos- y allow the commission in its dis- cretion to do. He made the heroic attempt to reconcile New Deal pur- poses with the practicalities of the American economic system. And if the truth be told, Mr. Kennedy, who is resigning only for business rea- gons and remains on terms of intimate friendship with the President, knows il better than anybody in America just | why the law ought to be amended in many vital particulars so as to make it what sincere friends of security reform always wanted, long before the New Deal came into power ‘To the credit of President Roose- velt. it must be said that he crystal- lized into action the movement fflri law after many | 8 Federal blue-sky years of lip-service to that cause by investment bankers snd occasionally by leaders of public thought. > Law Held Too Strong. Mr. Roosevelt, with characteristic What’s What Behind News ital | In Capi Any, in La Follette Hands. BY PAUL MALLON. ILWAUKEE —The answer to M lies hidden in the minds of La Follette Freres. There may be some unorthodox tangents (Townsend, wealth-sharers, | ward heelers know the La Follettes are the ones to fear, now that Huey | Long is gone. They have one of the | two “third parties” now controlling a | Minnesota has no comparable na- | tional reputation and would follow the La Follettes, but cannot do much without them.) of the firm, Gov. Phil La Follette, about this matter the other day. The Governor backed away. smiled wisely, and then slowly wagged his head did not need to say more. It is hardly a secret in these parts that the La Follettes have an unspoken but rather definite back- Roosevelt. They will get anything they want within reason in Wash- ington and Mr. Roosevelt will get Wisconsin, if they can arrange it— Third Party Threat, If most of the third party talk etc) in the next election, but even | State. (The Farmer-Labor party in A friend asked the junior member from left to right and back again. He stage understanding with President —and they probadbly can, political insight, seized upon the plain lunders of the firancial world in the 1929 era and its demonstrated in- ability to do by voluntary action that which the investors and security buyers demanded with respect to the sale and exchange of securities in in- terstate commerce. It is, on the other hand, no reflection on Mr. Roosevelt's objective or purpose to say that the law, as finally enacted, went too far and has probably caused more eco- nomic dama than benefit This is based on the fact that new eapital issues are relatively smail in quantity, even after the law is two years old. The public issues we see in the press are largely refinancing. The latter type are important and helptul, of course, but everybody knows that the process of getting new capital is impeded to no small extent Ly the unworkable provisions of the present law, which make the ambiguous and loosely worded sections on director Hability not merely a doubtful safe- guard today but a positive barrier to the flow of money into indu to finance recovery. Now, Mr. Kennedy won the ccafi- dence of the financial community be- cause he had no illusions about the tlumsily worded, drastic and defla- | tionary provisions. He told Wall treet, on the other hand, thai it had better make up its mind to con- form its businesses to the real pro- visions—those that related to possi- ble misrepresentation or manipulaticn in the sale of securities of all kinds. And the better groups in Wall Street got behind him, and toaay the war on the chiselers goes on from within as well as without. As a matter of fact, there are many men in the financial world who say privately tnat the securities law will some day be a positive help to them in their business | sell | because those with licenses to securities will be regarded with more prestige by tMe public than the same kinds of businesses were at any time before the Federal law was adopted. Landis Can Repress Prejudice. Comes now Mr. Landis as chairman. He was placed there on the whole- hearted recommendation of Mr. Ken- nedy. The story of young Landis is a story of what happens when an oy reAy ’; It may seem to outsiders that the La Follettes sometimes publicly brush | Mr. Roosevelt the wrong way, and vice versa. (Notably Mr. Roosevelt | made a Green Bay speech a year ago which seemed to be a subtle rub against them) But there are two un- | derlying factors which make such demonstrations appear to be stage play. Phil Looks to Future, One is that Mr. Roosevelt is per- sonally fond of Phil and Bob, par- | ticularly Phil. The other is that Phil's friends have in the back of | their minds the idea that he is pres- idential caliber, and that 1940 is tcoming. If Phil himself has not considered the possibility, he has at ieast heard it mentioned. You can get the right inside slant when you learn that Reliefer Hopkins permitted Phil to name the W. P. A. administrator here, who in turn has loaded up that organization with La Follette men, leaving the Demo- cratic organization out in the cold. The Democratic machine in this State is @ model T. There is noth- ing to it but a steering wheel, and that, of course, is Mr. Roosevelt. The business element here, as in Chicago, is overwhelmingly dissatis | £ed, but the regular Republicans are too downtrodden to do much about it. Former Gov. Kohler, who furnished | the only substantial Republican plumbing fixtures this State has had | in years, has gone back to making them for general sale, He intends to keep on doing that. { There will probably be a Kohler- | pledged delegation sent to the next Republican convention, but it will only be a compliment for past favors. Committee Is Polled. The secretary of the Republican | State Central Committee polled com- mitteemen about presidential prefer ences. The result recently wa | Kohler, 29: Borah, 21; Knox, 8; Lan- lcuon, 5; Vandenberg, 4: Lowden, Dickinson, 1, and Hoover, 1. Knox people are beginning to work quietly. | " No one had the heart to say so at | the time, but that convention of young ‘The | honest mind, radical or liberal or ex- | Democrats here was considerably less treme or theoretical as it may be, | than a howiing success. The excuse comes in contact with facts and expe- | W8S that arrangements were made in rience. Mr. Landis has a judicial tem- | €Xbectation that Mr. Roosevelt would perament. He knows how to repress | attend. The plen was to accommo- prejudices. And once he is proved | date 10,000, but the top count of wrong, he is man enough to maxe a concession. H Tt will be noted that Wall Street is | reported in the press as pleased with | the appointment of Mr. Landis. This might have been misconstrued a few | years ago as meaning he would be | their tool or instrument for the per- petuation of unethical practices, since ! & large section of the public lumps | the good and the bad in Wall Street | in an unthinking and unreasoning | prejudice against all persons engaged in the money markets. But what the press report does | mean is that Wall Street feels that in | Jim Landis it has & chairman at the head of the Securities Commission who will give it a square deal. once faced in Congre: tence” threat to their whole business, the financial men are glad enough to have somebody in Washington who will be fair and equitable in adminis- ;ring such an important regulatory = ‘When Mr. Landis came here he was one of the “brain trus He was known as a protege of Felix Frank- future of the Harvard Law School, who is generally credited with being the father of most of the legal mis- chief written in the New Deal laws. But just as Mr. Frankfurter himself will insist that he doesn't wear horns and that at heart he believes in the capitalistic system, so Mr. Landis has learned by experience why a reformer and an administrator do not often blend into an effective public official. ‘This is because the academic technique and the governmental technique are two different things. No amount of argument at the outset can persuade the ne%comers in Government to this viewpoint in their collegiate en- thusiasm for reform. But time and everyday experience finally teach them otherwise—that the role of the Gov- ernment official must inevitably be one of benevolence and not malevo- lence. Cost Worth While. ‘The education of Mr. Landis, the transformation of a brain truster into a good administrative official, at the head of a quasi-judicial commission, costs considerable in public monev and in the time of industry struggting to recover against such odds. But when the process does take hold finally we are bound in another dec- ade or so to get worthwhile public servants, perhaps something” along the very line for which Mr. Trank- furter himself drgued in his ap- peal for a civil service of the type ‘which Britain has developed. Mr. Landis starts out with the back- ing of the financial community and with the recommendation of Mr. Kennedy, whose record is the best any New Deal officia] has made to date. young and old, including spectators, was 3,000. A Socialist here does not mean the | same thing as in Columbus Circle, New York City. Milwaukee has a Socialist mayor, | but the street car lines and the public utilities are privately owned. This is more than can be said of many a Democratic and Republican town. (The official explanation is that the mayor does not control the City Council, but an unofiicial one-is that Socialists become practical, like every- one else, when they get elected.) Incidentally, Phil La Follette’s one-man brain trust is also a So- cialist—Financial Secretary Thomas Duncan. The secretary had to wash off his Socialist war paint and become a member of the Progres- sive party to get the job, A Kansas editor went into a farm town in North Wisconsin recently on a Saturday night. There were 80 many new autos at the curb that he thought it was a convention of dealers. He found it was only the farmers in town for week end shopping. He talked to a few of them, found these were the first new cars they had had in years. And most of the farmers were under the impression that Presi- dent Roosevelt personally was Tre- sponsible. Believe it or not, beer did not bring Milwaukee back. The breweries are steaming but they employ relatively few men in comparison with the large number of unemployed. The brewers did very little new building. Beer Is Cheap. Familiar sign here: *“10-oz. glass of beer, 5 cents.” Also: “Roast beef sandwich, 5 cents.” But car fare is 10 cents. - (Copyright 1935.) But Mr. Landis will find that the secret of Mr. Kennedy's success was in not trying to read a new <conomic approach or a new economic phil- osophy into a broadly worded statute whose only worthy purpose under our present Constitution is to cut out fraud and put the crooks in jail, but by no means tc use the provisions of that law as & means of controlling the allocation of capital in & “planned economy.” (Copyright. 1985.) ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935. Mother and Son Convicted BAKER WARNS U S DS WILLRENEW APPEAL FORPEACE Address to Eucharistic Con- gress Tomorrow to Follow Up Last Speach. By the Associated Press. CASTEL GANDOLFO, September 25.—Prelates of the Vatican said to- day Pope Pius’ radio address to the United States tomorrow closing the Eucharistic Congress in Cleveland, Qhio, probably would include an ap- peal for world peace. They said the Pope, who, in his Summer residence, is carefully follow- ing the political and military develop- ments of the world, will in all likeli- hood carry a step further his speech delivered to ex-service men two weeks ago. On that occasion he pleadal for “peace with justice.” He is writing his speech in Latin. The Pope's broadcast will hegin &t 10:45 p.m, (5:45 p.m., Eastern stand- ard time). (It was announcell in New York that the broadcast will be carried on both the major networks.) CHILDREN SING AT MASS. Al Smith and Msgr. Communism. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, September 25— Thousands of children sang a chorus of praise to their Eucharistic Saviour today as they attended a solemn pon- tifical mass to initiate the third day's ceremonies of the seventh National | Evcharistic Congress. The children transformed the vast stadium on the shores of Lake Erie into a field of immaculate white, em- phasizing the rich hues of the robes worn by church dignitaries, The weather was perfect. Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York, the personal representative of | Pope Pius XI to the religious festival, | was visibly delighted by the throng of | eager youngsters participating in the | ancient rites of the church. During the sacrifice of the mass 115000 voung voices, carefully re- | hearsed in preparation for this occa- sion, sang the credo. All of the as- sembled children joined in the offer- tory chorus. | Parents, who were permitted to | attend because the scene of the mass | was shifted to the stadium from public | auditorium to accommodate the con- gress throng watched from seats in | | the structure's elevated tiers, Smith Flays Communism. Alfred E. Smith told 43,000 pilgrims | to the seventh national Eucharist Con- gress last night that “the way to unify society is by communionism, not com- munism.” The former Governor of New York | drew long applause from the huge | crowd as he defended the capitalist system. He spoke from a platform in | the middle of Cleveland's lake-front | stadium. “Communionism makes us brothers under the skin,” he said, “but com- | munism makes us brothers simply | | because we happen to be working to- | i gether. “My catechism says I should know and love God and serve him to the | end that I will be happy for all | eternity in the world to come. If | my catechism is wrong there is no use being a man. I'd rather be a horse.” { Msgr. Sheen Speaks. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen of the Cath- | | olic University of America, Washing- | | ton. D. C,, in a denunciation of com- | ! munism told the throng that in Rus- sia “we see the mobilization of souls under an economic disguise where 160,- Sheen Flay 000.000 of God's creatures destined for | Postmaster General Farley, Granfield | take the profits out of war. i merely commented : eternal life are dehumanized and re- duced to the state of ants.” of life which mobilizes souls for eco- | nomic and secular ends.” ! The monsignor said communism is | “not peculiar to Russia.” “We see it in Mexico,” he continued, | “with a political disguise where treason | is synonymous with the worship of the crucified. We see it with a racial mask in Germany, where the state would crush the religion of Him who rose from the dead and would return to the barbarism of gods who are still | rotting in their graves.” A cablegram conveying the blessings of Pope Pius XI was received today. Addressed to Cardinal Hayes, it said: | “Holy father, profoundly moved by | the magnificent reception accorded his legate at the National Eucharistic Con- | gress in Cleveland, (is) filled with spiritual joy (and) admiration at the | | great outpouring of faith end love ! | toward our eucharistic Lord@n gen- | eral communion. * * * The holy| | father sends from his heart to your | eminence, the apostolic delegate, (and to) Bishop Schrembs, the American | bishops, priests and people his pa- ternal, apostolic blessing.” Irvin S. Cobb Says: Man So Often Fails to Appreciate Loving Qualities in Dogs. SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 25—What with worrying over Max | Baer—and did I have cause to worry?— I'd forgotten this is Dog week, dedi- - cated to man’s ; best friend. Man would be his best {riend, too, if we appreciated in y puny,” and that's all—but if a dog ate something that disagreed with him, we yell: “Mad dog,” and start shooting. Once a dog of mine bit three people in rapid succession, and I had my pistal cocked when I found out the first one he bit was our leading re- ligious bigot, so I knew he'd: bitten the other two trying to get the taste out of his mouth. ‘Well, all the millions who abhorred the whole thing as a brutal exhibi- tion were listening to the fight on the radio—even as you and I. Did you ever notice that the average ringside broadcaster is a very near-sighted per- son who is wrong in a loud tone of voice? (Wh?fit&'lflsl by m:‘om)w ] Clarence Wynens and his 70-year-old mother, Mrs. Mit Wynens, photographed at the Franklin, Ga., in the death of young Wynens' wife. chair and she to life imprisonment. House Group Prepares to Act on Complaints—Spurns Louisiana Evidence. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The House Campaign Expenditures Committee is ready to function. The organization meeting was held yesterday, but reports that an inquiry was planned into the political situa- tion in Louisiana brought a reply from Chairman Granficld, Democrat, of Massachusetts that no evidence had been presented yet that would warrant any investigation in the late Senatpr Long’s State. Granfield said the Louisiana situa- tion was discussed “informally” and that communications had been re- ceived suggesting an investigation, but | he contended they did not fall within the committee’s definition of what should prompt an inquiry. Prepare for Complaints. Asked why the committee held such | an early organization meeting. Gran- fleld explained it was “to have Lhel committee in a position to receive | ‘The first of the 1936 complaints.” primaries, which are embraced in the committee's investigating powers, is set for January in Louisiana. “One trouble with such committees,” Granfield added, “is that they often are organized too late, after every- thing has happened. We are now in 8 position to move and keep abreast { of developments. “The committee will act in a judi- cial capacity and can act only when evidence is submitted that will war- rant action.” Asked if the committee's powers were broad enough to include investi- gation of the secret Republican cam- paign fund organization charged by “I have impressions that organiza- He said communism is “a philosophy | tions throughout the country may “ take it upon themselves to take part in or interfere with elections of mem- bers of Congress.” Mentions Liberty League. He emphasized he was talking gen- erally, but mentioned “the American Liberty League and a great many oth- ers that may become very active.” “The meeting today,” Granfleld said, “was simply for the purpose of or- ganizing the committee, giving power to appoint whatever clerical and other assistance might be needed including | investigators. Of course, this is a routine committee established every two years and we act whenever evi- dence is submitted to us that war- rants it. “We have received communications from various parts of the country sug- gesting what we ought to do and now we are ready to proceed. If we find any complaints worthy of action, we will act.” Reds Aim at Empire. In India and the Far East Com- munism directs the enmity of the masses rather against the alleged im- perialism than the capitalism of the ‘Western world. jail shortly after they were convicted He was sentenced to the electric Both protest they are innocent. —A. P. Photoo. CAMPAIGN FUNDS ROOSEVELT T0 GET PROBERS ORGANIZE] ARMS LIST TODAY {Group of Munitions Needing License to Form Basis for Proclamation. By the Associated Press President Roosevelt was expected | to receive today a list of “implements of war” which the new National Muni- tions Control Board believes should be licensed as a deterrent to war. The list was drawn up yesterday at the first meeting of the board in Secretary Hull's office at the State | Department, but members of the board declined to make it public in advance of its presentation at the White House. ‘When approved and proclaimed, the tate Department said, “all manu- facturers, exporters and importers of | arms and munitions and implements of war must register with the de- partment and, after November 29, these articles may not be exported | from or imported into this country | without a license issued by the de- partment to cover each shipment.” In the event of foreign conflict, the draft was expected to form the basis of a presidential proclamation clamp- ing a mandatory embargo as directed by the neutrality law. A final determination of what com- prises war implements under the act rests with the President, but observers | here belleved the list and any future | “embargo” list would be founded on the articles whose shipment already is | prohibited by law into China, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Bo- livia and the Chaco. A demand for a complete prohibi- tion against selling to nations at war | was voiced in New York yesterday by | Bernard M. Baruch, who urged special legislation In the last Congress to On re- | turning from a European trip, Baruch | said: “If we want to observe neutrality we must sell nothing to nations at war. There ain't no such animals as non-war material. Everything is & munition. Remember that after a | st ON HALTING RELIEF Tells Human Needs Confer- enne Withdrawal Must Be Gradual. Former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker yesterday warned the closing session of the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs that Government with- drawal from relief “must be very grad- ual,” or at least gradual enough to avoid putting “a too sudden burden™ on private philanthropy. | In contrast, previous speakers had said the Federal Government was re- tiring from the hogie relief field as rapidly as possible, placing the re- sponsibility for this form of assistance squarely on private enterprise. Discussing the welfare outlook, Baker sald: “When the public conscience has reached the place where it accepts the obligation, then the transfer from private to public philanthropy is a normal and easy transfer. But there will always be the opportunity for pioneering by private agencies. U. S. Aid Was Timely. “I think we ought not to lose sight of the fact that if the general Gov- ernment and its State and local gov- ernments had not intervened in this relief problem in the fierce and dead- lv days of this depression, that no possible willingness on the part of pri- vate philanthropy to carry that load would at all have sufficed. “We have been spared the tragedy of disaster, social disaster, by the intervention that the general Govern- ment has made and that the State governments have made.” Baker said welfare agencies hope to reduce the problem eventually to a degree which can again “become a problem of neighborhood capacity.” “My only hope is,” he declared, “that the transition will not be too sudden, that we will not jump to the | conclusion that the dépression is over and that the consequences of the de- pression will be over just as soon as the fact of the depression is over.” County Relief Head Speaks. Miss Dorothy C. Kahgp, director of county relief in Philadelphia and | president of the American Association | of Social Workers, addressed the clos- ing session at a luncheon in the May- flower Hotel on the problems con- fronting those engaged in social work. The Community Chests’ annual drive will begin shortly with a goal in excess of the $70,000,000 which was donated throughout the Nation for expenditures in the current year, It is hoped to raise at least $10,000,000 more this year, CONFESSION FIGHT LOST BY SHERMAN Judge Admits to Trial His Signed-Story He Killed - | Wife for Another. Tydings Answers Wedding Rumors By News Views Senator Says Some Day Before 1960 “I'll Probably Marry.” By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, September 25.—The marital plans of Maryland's 45-year- old bachelor Senator, Millard E. Tyd- ings, remajned his secret yesterday despite questioning on reports he will marry a prominent New York woman recently divorced in Reno. “That’s very flattering.” he smiled at hearing the rumor. “But I don't know whether President Roosevelt will carry the Ohio and Mississippi | Rivers or not. They're both -pretty big." Do you know the lady?” ur families have been friends for | years but really the only way that | America can get prosperity is by buy- ing from foreign countries as well as | selling to them.” “Will you ever marry?” “Some day before 1960 I'll prob- | ably marry but nobody knows who the | lady will be. However, the drug trage | has its very serious internal problems | that are largely the result of price- | cutting.” (He came here to address la druggists’ convention.) “Have you anything to add to this interview?" ‘, “Yes, Gincinnati s charming in the | | Autumn. It's a fine city. America | | will always be a great country as long | | as its ladies are so lovely.” RICHBERG THINKS “CHAOS” AVERTED Says N. R. A. Lessons Have | Taught Business to Act Collectively. Donald R. Richberg. former N.R. A | head. who visioned industrial chaos following the coliapse of the recovery administration, believes now that this | has been averted by business im-| provement and widespread ad- herence to codz standards, made possible by *“col- lective thinking” taught business men under the recovery act. This comment, the first he has made publicly since stepping out of Government service, is carried s today in a copy- Denald B. Richbers. o) 0 story by the Associated Press. The interview took place in Richberg's newly-fur- nished law office overlooking the White House. where a short while ago he was one of President Roosevelt's closest advisers. Although he was then so0 high up in the New Deal councils that he some- ' times was called “Assistant President,” Ksu:d although his office is now but a By the Associated Press. | few steps from the executive mansion, BUSINESS CHEERS ADVISORY COUNGIL Federal Reserve Survey “Most Optimistic.” Labor Gains. By the Associate Press. “The most optimistic summary et business conditions since the depres- sion began” was brought to Washing= ton yesterday by the members of the Federal Advisory Council, which gath- ered here for its quarterly meeting with the Pederal Reserve Board. Announcement of the generally fm- proved business conditions through- out the country was made by a Ree serve Board member at the same time that Secretary of Labor Perkins told of'a pick-up in employment and pay rolls. Members of the Advisory Couneil represent the 12 Federal Reserve banks. Included in their reports were statements of a general increase in real estate activity and home build- ing and increasing farm land and retail sales. They were interpreted collectively as indicating a mounting general demand for Reserve Bank credit. Industry Hires 180,000, Secretary Perkins, giving figures for August, reported 180,000 workers added to the pay roils of the manu- facturing industries. The pay rolls themselves, she said, increased by $8.900,000, but with an offsetting de- cline of 25,000 employed and $900,000 in wages in non-manufacturing in- dustries. “Increases in factory employment and pay rolls are usual ‘n August,” Secretary Perkins said. “Increases in pay rolls have been reported in all but two instances (1930 and 1931) in the month of August for each year since 1919. “The gain of 2.8 per cent in factory employment is slightly more pro- nounced than previous August gains and has been exceeded during the past 16 years only in two instances (1922 and 1933). The increase of 67 per cent in pay rolls has been ex- ceeded in only one instance, 1933 “The expansion in employment was widely distributed.” 12 Bankers on Board. ‘The Federal Advisory Council con- sists of 12 bankers, one from each Federal Reserve district, who meet periodically with the Reserve Board to advise it of trends, sentiments and conditions in the various commercial regions. Officials said New England reported a general improvement in business, with one factorv employing more workers than in 1929 The automobile regions’ representa- tive reported improved conditions and satisfactory sales. From the iron and steel region of Pennsylvania and Ohio came a report of improved buying except by rail- roads and large building contractors. The cattle country reported satis- factory prices and feeding conditions. From the grain-growing States came spotty reports of short crops. The members of the Advisory Council are: Boston, Thomas M. Steele; New York, James H. Perkins; Philadelphia, Howard A. Leceb: Cleve- land, Arthur E. Braun; Richmond, Charles M. Gohen: Atlanta, H! Lane Young: Chicago, Solomon A. Smith; St. Louis. Walter W. Smith; Minne- WORCESTER. Mass, September Richberg has not communicated once i 25.—Over objections by the defense, ' With his former chief during the three- 2POlS. Theodore Wold: Kansas City, Sherman, 26, choir singer and Scout- | master, on trial for the alleged mu: der of his wife, was admitted in evi- dence today. | Defense objections were based upon the conte:.'ion that the document was obtained under duress. This was denied by Lieut. Edward J. McCar- thy. who insisted the burly defenant voluntarily confessed he drowned Alice Dudley Sherman, 22, mother of his two children, so he could wed Esther Magill, 18-year-old Whitinsville girl. | Judge Thomas J. Hammond, who | personally questioned two State police | officers before making his ruling, said | the signed confession of Newell P.|month interval. | Expresses “Cordial Attitude.” He explained tha: this was because of his desire to get out of the Govern- ment entirely, and devote himself to his law practice. He expressed a “cordial attitude” toward the adminis- tration, a “great faith” in the Presi- dent, and said he expected to campaign next year for Mr. Roosevelt's re-elec- tion. “I meant what I said when T ex- | pressed a desire to return to the prac- of vncertainty. tice of law,” Richberg said. “I have no intention, no expectation of going W. T. Kemper: Dallas, Joseph H. Frost. and San Francisco, M. A. Arnoid. Never Felt More Confident. In general, a spokesman for the Re- serve Board reported. members of the Advisory Council said they had never “felt more confident and reassured" at any time in the last several years It was stressed that they thought the business situation and the outlook for the future contained “fewer factors There was some discussion of pork prices as being too high and “out of | ba?k into the Government. I have a !ne” with other price levels. The point | strong sympathy and desire to help also was raised that while in one city country is at war, wheat, food, cloth- | he would instruct the jury regarding ing and all the necessities of life re- quired to care for the civilian popula- tion are as important as gas and bombs.” MISSIONARIES FLEE Two Americans, However, Refuse to Evacuate Before Chinese Reds. NANKING, China, September 25 (P). —The United States Embassy was in- formed today that Communists are retreating from Northern Szechwan Province into Kansu Province, caus- ing American and other missionaries to flee north toward Lanchow. Two Americans who declined to evacuate the district, however, were James Vigna of the Assemblies of God Mission, with headquarters at Spring- field, Mo., statiened at Siho, Southeast Kansu, and Miss Bertha Robertson of the Christian and Military Alliance with headquarters at New York, sta- tioned in Taochow, Southern Kansu. Comdr. Wiley and Bride Comdr. Herthrt V. Wi Akron and Macon, shown fleld Weeden of Palo Alto, yesterday. Comdr, Wiley is crashes of the dirigibles his bride, the former Mrs. Charlotte May- the confession. The jury, which was | dismissed yesterday while opposing counsel battled over the confession, was then brought into the court| room. Faces Death if Convicted. Sherman faces the death penalty if convicted of the murder of his wife, Alice, who drowned in Lake Singletary on the night of July 20. The State alleges Sherman tipped over a canoe in which he was taking his wife for a night ride. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Dudley, | parents of the victim, sat in a vacant Jjury box. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Sherman, parents of the defendant, sat inside the court room-rail. Lieut. McCarthy repeated his tes- timony of yesterday, in which he said Sherman confessed he deliberately overturned a canoe which he had persuaded his wife to enter, pushed her away when she tried to cling to him, waited for her to sink and swam ashore to report her “accidental death.” Sherman Claims Duress. Sherman. in supporting his attor- ney's objections to admission of the | confession, insisted whatever seeming admissions he may have made were the result of dress, a barrage of ques- tions and fear inspired by a threat “truth serum” would be employed. His story of the tragedy was that the canoe overturned accidentally, that he tried to swim ashore with his wife, but became afraid both would sink if they remained together, and pushed her away in an- impulse of self- preservation. —_ ONLY 63 FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS TAKE REX By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 25.—The Italian liner Rex sailed yesterday with only 63 first-class passengers. Line officials, saying this was “a record low passenger list in the his- tory of the Italian merchant marine,” blamed it on the warlike atmosphere in the Mediterranean area. — ARRESTED IN STABBING Bronx Man to-Answer Killing in Taxicab Charge. NEW YORK, September 25 (#}.— Frank Rodgers, 40, was arrested in his Bronx apartment today for questign- ing in connection with the fatal stdb- bing early this morning of Michgel Branca, 36. Branca was stabbed to death wiile seated in a taxicab with a man and a woman, Frank La Gloria and Edha Rahe. With Rodgers when arresfed was a woman whom police identified as Betty Fleming, sister of Miss Rahe and divorced wife of a Wall Street ' the President at any time I can be factory employment had returned to useful, but that doesn't have to com- approximately its 1928-1929 level, the prehend the idea of filling a job.” total on relief had not been decreased. Almost constantly in the headlines | Another spot which ran against until three months ago, Richberg has the general trend was cotton textiles. since dropped completely out of the However, some sections of that ine public view. He said he was “enjoying | dustry were reported as keeping to | the freedom of it and the lack of too | great responsibilities,” and would con- | | tinue his quiet life for some time to = | | He has established a home here and | an office where he can watch the New | Deal parade go by. . Is Writing a Book. Richberg now is devoting much of his time to writing a book about N. |R. A. He explained it would be a | philosophical analysis and history of the Recovery Administration and | would not deal with personalities. He | said it would not be an answer to the | book written by Hugh S. Johnson, for- | mer administrator, in which Richberg was sharply criticized. | “I hope the book will be helpful so | far as dispassionate and impersonal | review may be,” he said. “I have no ax to grind, or theory to prove. I want the people to understand what it was about and the legal issues. “N. R. A. was a very big thing in American life and one of the most significant developments of the de- pression period. Though it is gone, those problems must be dealt with one ‘way or another. What is most needed is a crystallization of the real issues |involved in the conflict of economic interests. Three Reasons for Advance, “There hasn’t been any chaos from the abandonment of N. R. A. for three | very good reasons. We are in a tide of improving business and that makes it a lot easier to avoid conflicts of in- terest than in bad times. Then there | has been a gradual accumulation of needs for production. We have used up things in the depression period. “Also the N. R. A. itself developed collective thinking and acting that made it possible for the great mass of business men to informally agree to carry on their standards. The people | | believe these things should be done. There has been a tremendous shift of | public sentiment on the question of | minimum wages since two years ago.” Richberg forecast the future would bring “a better organized relationship between Government and business,” but would not discuss in detail his views on what would follow N. R. A. Asked for his views on a constitutional amendment to broader the commerce clause of the Constitution, he said there was need for “development of the legal concept” of that clause, but that did not necessarily mean revision or amendment of the Constitution, Soldiers Get Little. ‘The Japanese soldier on the march often lives on a ration of rice issued | | 1929 schedules, although realizing lit- tle profit frum them. — CONCERT TICKETS PLACED ON SALE Edward R. Norris Again _Charge, Schedule Opening October 20. Tickets went on sale today for the National S8ymphony Orchestra’s fifth Teguiar concert season, scheduled to open October 20 in Constitution Hall. Sales also started for the program of student concerts, which will begin January 16. The ticket office is located in Gar- finckel's store, Fourteenth and F streets. Edward R. Norris, who has directed the symphony ticket sales for the last three years, again will have charge of this phase of the con- certs. Season tickets are being sent out to hundreds of patrons who already have made reservations, C. C. Cappel, manager of the orchestra, announced. The first program of the Fall with Dr. Hans Kindler conducting, will mark the beginning of a series of 12 Sunday afternoon concerts. A second series to be presented on eight Thurs- day afternoons and evenings, will open November 7. Noted soloists have been engaged to assist the orchestra. The student programs will start at Central High School. After nine con- certs have been presented in the au- ditoriums of Central, Western and Eastern High Schools, the series will end with a festival concert, March 21, in Constitution Hall. The season tickets range in price from $3 to $18 for the eight Thursday concerts and from $5 to $15 for the 12 Sunday concerts. Tickets for the student season will sell for $1 and $1.75. in PANGBORN MAPS FLIGHT OAKLAND, Calif., September 25 (). —Clyde Pangborn, who flew non-stop from Japan to the United States in 1931, arrived here yesterday to prepare for a non-stop flight around the world this Winter. His co-pilot will be’ Bennett Griffin, who participated in the Dole flight from here to Hawali in 1927. Pangborn said he would hop east- ward from New York and refuel five him daily, which, with a pickled plum, suffices for 24 hours—and he has to cosk the food himself. times in the air, including once over the Philippines. )