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A2 ®x¥ INJUNCTION ASKED IN COAL AGT TEST Supreme Court Action on Company Plea Unlikely Before November 11. By the Associated Press. An injunction to restrain enforce- ment of the Guffey coal act was sought today in the Supreme Court by attorneys for J. W. Carter, coal com- pany head, but no action will be taken until November 11 at the earliest. “The attorneys attempted to obtain a conference for this afternoon with Chief Justice Hughes in ap effort to obtain a temporary injunction. Hughes refused, explaining the peti- tion would have to be presented to the full court. The next conference of the justices will be on November 9. If a decision is reached at that time it ordinarily would he announced on the following Monday, November 11. Attorneys for Carter claimed they had been denied due process of law by the District Supreme Court. Writ Denied on Tax. Yesterday Carter was denied an in- Junction preventing collection of a 15 per cent tax on the value of coal levied under the Guffey act from those who do not abide by the coal axde. At the same time the District Su- preme Court at Carter's request, en- Joined the Carter Coal Co. of Wash- ington, which operates in Virginia and West Virginia, from complying with the code set-up. Bond Must Be Posted. The latter was conditional on post- bond for $1,500 a day for 10 days. rdinarily an appeal would first have to be heard by the United States | Court of Appeals for the District. In! his Supreme Court appeal today, how- ever, Carter contended the $1,500 daily bond and threat of ‘prolonged | trial in lower courts entitled him to prompt consideration by the Supreme | Court. Carter Sought Test, Carter told the highest gourt he| had attempted to obtain a test on constitutionality of the Guffey act be- | fore November 1, the day the tax becomes effective. He added that| Government attorneys prevented that. His brief today contended the 15 per cent tax on the price of coal at the mine is in fact a “penalty” and added it “can be imposed only if " the regulations themselves are within congressional power.” APPROVAL STILL WITHHELD. Companies Have Until Midnight to| Sign Agreements. PITTSBURGH, October 31 (A.— The deadline for signing agreements | of compliance with the coal industry’s | “Little N. R. A" neared today with the big steel-company owned mines and the $150.000,000 Pittsburgh Coal | Co., the country’s largest bituminous ' producer, still withholding their ap- proval. At midnight. the Guffey coal nct,! designed by the Government to stab- | ilize the indi y goes into effect. Under it, a 15 per cent tax is to be levied on every ton of coal produced, Wwhether by commercial or steel com- pany (captive) owned mines. Those agreeing to the assessment and to conditions of the act receive back 90 per cent of the tax. Those disagreeing not only lost the rebate but face a Government boycott. The National Coal Commission, di- Yecting unit of the Guffey act, de- clares Government contracts will be canceled to any firm dealing with non-compliers. Even those “signing up” agree to abrogate commitments below the figure set as cost by the commission and its regional boards. Steel men have more to consider than existing and prospective con- tracts with the Government running into hundreds of millions. There are, for instance, the railroads, which are now very definitely prospective cus- tomers for $300,000.000 in new rolling stock. They see the Pennsylvania's $30,000,000 program as a good weather vane. LIQUOR REVENUE | DECLARED FAILURE Dr. Everett M. Ellison, in Radio Address, Sees No Aid to Lower Taxes. Alcohol as a revenue producer was characterized today by Dr. Everett M. Ellison, president of the United Dry Forces of the District, as a “dismal failure.” In a radio address this morning Dr. Ellison said: “Amidst the billions being gpent today to aid recovery, the pit- tance secured through repeal is com- parable to a drop of alcohol in a bucket of water.” “The promised reduction in taxes,” he added, “has proved to be as we fully expected and as we really knew all along—the figment of a distorted imagination.” Citing danger from drunken drivers, Dr. Ellison said New Jersey now has ordered all bartenders in the State to display impressive placards warning their customers that motorists had better let alcohol alone. In 1934, he said, 33,980 deaths re- #ulted throughout the United States from automobile accidents, an increase of 15 per cent over 1933. Mars Definitely Is Not Inhabited, Says Dr. Andrews By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 31.— The planet Mars definitely is not in- habited, Dr. Loring B. Andrews of the Harvard Observatory staff de- clared at a public lecture at the ob- servatory last night. “The old question ‘Is there life on Mars?’ " he asserted, “has been defi- nitely decided by recent observational evidence which shows that the atmos- pheré of the planet contains but one- quarter of 1 per cent as much oxygen as does the earth’s atmosphere at sea T e “Human beings, such as inhabit the earth, would find life very difficult under this condition, far more ex- treme than the lack of oxygen at the top of high mountains.” Dr. Andrews said there might have been -human life on Mars at some time In the past. “If in the past there was a greater abundance of oxygen, human beings might haye dwelt there,” he sald, “for the ture conditions are not What’s What' Behind News In Capital Tugwell May Receive a Foreign Appointment in Near Future. BY PAUL MALLON, HE eminent Dr. Tugwell does not generally speak with au- thority on the financial as- pects of the New Deal. Spe- cifically he did not at Los Angeles, if his speech there meant that the profit from gold devaluation is going to be applied to the debt so as to make the budget look better any time soon. There are good reasons at this end for suspecting that the doctor did not intend to say anything new. All he meant to do was to reiterate what Treasury Secretary Morgenthau has been saying for months; namely, thai the debt will thus be reduced at some time. Far more authoritative financing sources than he within the New Deal believe the proper time will not be reached until money gets tight. They do not see that time coming within a year or two. To use that profit now would add an inflationary aspect at a time when it is not needed and would probably be harmful. The only thing it would accomplish is to give the budget a better political appear- ance. World Currencies Unstable. But there is a better reason than that why it would not be done. The gold profit is the stabilization fund. The Treasury cannot afford to use up that fund as long as world currencies are flitting about as they are. You may check off Dr. Tugwells | assurances as at least semi-political and wholly academic. Some men at the controls here are willing to bet even money that Dr. Tugwell will not have @ Wash- ington residence when the nmext campaign starts. They expect the White House to discover suddenly some day that the ecomomic sit- uation at Geneva, or something equally important, needs Dr. Tug- well’s personal touch for the year 1936. Nothing specific has happened lately to warrant such a conclusion. The| Los Angeles speech was not that im- portant. Nor is the fact that his| rural resettlement program has devel- oped administration difficulties indi- cating that the doctor’s talents for administration work are not equal to his philosophical proficiencies. Pay Roll Factors. Behind President Roosevelt's per- | sonal poll of business men for ideas to | raise the pay roll level is an apparent move to promote a permanent modified IN.R. A The Government business chart (published yesterday) showed that the pay roll index has increased about 1215 per cent since January, while | industrial productjon has shown no THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, BUSINESS HELD UNABLE T0 ASSIST Restrictive Legislation Pre- vents Meeting of Leaders to Discuss Problems. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt'’s attempt to find out from the business men who call on him just why, with production levels up, there is a lag in pay roll totals and re-employment is destined to bring out little that will be of any practical value to him. For the truth is the words “Ameri- can business” do not describe any cohesive group which can either con- trol itself or express itself. When the President says, for instance, that the Government, in trying to put 3,500,000 persons to work—which it hasn't yet done, of course—is doing its share, and that industry, which is supposed to put another 3,500,000 men to work, isn't doing its part, the inference is that there exists some business con- trol which can function in the same direct way that the Government itself does. Actually, business is prevented from acting in concert. It cannot even have a meeting of the heads of dif- ferent industries to discuss the very questions Mr. Roosevelt asks without running afoul of the Sherman anti- trust laws and the Clayton anti-mon- nopoly laws. Business Is Restrained. Under the system of governmental interference which has been carried on, not only under Mr. Roosevelt's administration, but under the pre- ceding Republican administrations, business is subject to plenty of nega- | tive restraints and interferences, but rarely is given any affirmative powers to help itself get co-ordinated. The President is concerned because, while production levels are higher, there is no corresponding increase in employment totals. But only last week, he told the American people over the radio that there had been a material increase in employment, that recovery was on the way, that nobody should think it was mere chance and that he had “planned it that way.” The President is still obsessed with the notion that the Government of the United States exists for the pur- pose of exercising a ‘“controlled econ- omy” and that the business and in- dustrial mechanism can be directed, or managed, or influenced by sug- gestions, orders, advice or instructions from some bureau or department in ‘Washington. Business men have filed many thousands of words in comprehensive reports telling Mr. Roosevelt exactly what are the impediments to greater production and re-employment. The so-called Roper council has made these reports and there have been letters galore from important busi- ness men. But there is nothing on record to show that Mr. Roosevelt ever accepted the main precepts of the business viewpoint. Business Has Opinion. So far as there is any crystalliza- tion of business opinion at all, it comes down to these very simple statements: 1. There is need for & competitive | honesty and the stipulation that there | shall be no monopolies or trusts, free- | dom to produce goods efficiently and | increase at all. Offhand, an outsider looking at the figures might fall into the error of believing that the manu- | facturers have raised salaries without | increasing production since N. R. A. | was abolished. The fact is one Government au- thority has kept close tab on wages | in specific large industries and has | found them relatively unchanged since | January. That indicates the demoli- | tion of N. R. A. has had no appre- ciable wage effect in the large indus- tries as represented in the industrial production index (steel, autos, tex- tiles, etc.). Small Business Aided. One explanation for the extent of | the increase in the pay roll index is that it includes a lot of small factories not included in the industrial pro- duction index (small canning fac- tories, textiles, etc.). Business has hit such a pace that these smaller fellows ! have extended operations and total | pay roll volume since January. Also, some of the increase is seasonal, but much of it represents solid business expansion. It still leaves economic room for a New Deal promotional campaign to increase wages, as the wage in- dez is 74 per cent of normal, while production is 91 per cent. Few insiders here, however, have any hopes that anything very impor- tant can or will come out of the cur- rent permanent N. R. A. promotional campaign. It is a good thing to talk about politically, a difficult one to act on economically. Study Grubb's Successor. Greater care is being taken on the inside in the selection of a successer to the late Federal Judge Grubb cf Birmingham. Recommendations have been prepared by Senators Black and Bankhead, but the Justice Department also has been quietly looking over the list of eligibles. This is one of the most impor- tant districts in the country from a New Deal standpoint. Grubb’s court has jurisdiction over all T. V. A. cases. It is hardly a seeret that some New Dealers want “the right kind of man” at that bench. This may mean a kind of man with economic views directly op- rosite those of Hamiltonian Judge Grubb. Some influential authorities are in- sisting, however, on a man who will i | be a judge and not an advocate for any partisan viewpoint. Note—All New Dealers privately pay to Grubb as high a tribute as any one can offer an adversary who has caused them so much constitutional grief. They say he never made a decision which failed to represent fully his sincere convictions. Incidentally, the favorite consti- tutional story among New Dealers at present is the one from Georgia about the little schoolgirl in Atlanta. She was asked by her teacher what the Constitution ‘was, and replied: “It’s Clark Howell’s newspaper.” (Copyright. 1935.) too extreme and there is available & supply of water, even though it is & meagre one.” Huge Farm Area. Soviet Russia plans to cultivate 147,850,000 acres next Spring. . freedom to hire and fire workmen lon their merit shall be assured. | 2. The Government should not in- | terfere with the opportunity of busi- | nesses to get new capital with which {to rebuild plants and improve their | production processes. The securities | exchange act contains many such only just now beginning to hint may | be removed. But the restrictions were barriers two years ago and a | year ago and are still delaying re- employment. 3. The punitive methods of the ad- ministration as respects the thrifty and the successful men in business and the uneconomic handling of the tax problem, plus the continuance of heavy Government deficits due to in- efficiency and waste are discouraging to business morale. 4. Business has made its most rapid strides since the Supreme Court of the United States upheld constitution- al rights and prevented “planned econ- omy” under the N. R. A. from break- ing down owner management of American businesses and substituting therefor management by Government bureaucracy. Conversely, every as- surance that the profit and loss sys- tem will be permitted to function, that business properties will not be confiscated or disintegrated by tax measures which are inequitable or by methods that are outside the due process of law must be given in order to encourage business revival. The President for a long time has refused to accept any thesis except that of a controlled economy. He has leaned more and more toward Govern- ment control of such important factors as private credit and labor relations and has only recently shown a tend- ency, by means of the “breathing spell” assurance, to give business a chance to develop in natural ways. The inquiries made by the President of business men are, therefore, significant perhaps of a new approach, a willingness to study the facts, but the discouraging part is that the White House still seeks to give the impression that business is organized to accept the responsibility now being placed upon it as the Government passes the buck, so to speak. It may be that this is the forerunner of a campaign for controlled economy by means of & constitutional amendment on the theory that “business had its chance and failed,” a sentiment too oftefi expressed by New Dealers who are eager for Socialistic or Fascistic experiments in Government control of business. (Copyright. 1935.) HUSBAND FEEDS BABY AS WIFE SITS ON JURY By the Associated Press. KENOSHA, Wis., October 31.—That the wheels of justice might turn un- impeded, M. J. Bain agreed yesterday .to learn how to prepare the baby’s food formula. Mrs. Bain asked to be excused from | system, in which, subject only to the | | rules of fairness, and the codes of | restrictions which the New Deal is | D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935. Where Four Died in Crash Explosion | a short test flight. Striking a hilltop, veiled in & snowstorm, this airliner bounced into the air and exploded. dashug its crew of four to death as it fell to the ground in flames near Cheyenne, Wyo, last night. The crash occurred during ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. WALKER RETURNS |City Officials Are “Busy,” | but Faithful Rally for Celebration. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—Entirely “unofficial” was New York's welcome | today to its former playboy mayor, Jimmy Walker. Walker and his wife, the former Betty Compton, actress, returned home today on the liner Manhattan. They | arrived at Quarantine at noon, ending | their three-year self-imposed exile in | France and England. Their welcome was noisy, with boats carrying bands and boisterous | friends down the bay to meet the| ship. But it was “purely personal.” | Inquiries brought few reports of city or Democratic party officials who attended the welcome. Most of them | were reported “out of town" or “very busy.” One began his “week end” on Tuesday, his secretary said. There was | no comment from Hyde Park, where | President Roosevelt arrived today. Fireboat Out of Plans. Police were assigned to the pier— with the careful explanation that they were going to handle the crowd. No mention was made of a fireboat to| | send the conventional welcome of | | water skyward. | But the enthusiasm of the faithful | | was undimmed. Lighters, tugs and | yachts went along with the usual two revenue cutters to Quarantine. Among the organizations chartering |craft were the Priars, the Lambs | Club and the Grand Street Boys' As- | sociation, which claims Walker as| vice president. New York's former mayor, a sheaf of invitations in his hand, re- iterated that he is through with poli- tics. Standing on the deck of the Manhattan, he said of his years in public office: “I'm like the Irish mother with 13 children. I would not take a million dollars for any one of them, but I would not give a dime for another.” Quit Under Fire in 1932, It was Walker's return to “the people of New York,” in whose hands he said he would leave his case when he resigned under the fire of the Seabury Investigating Committee and an investigation of his affairs by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. On September 10, ten days after he resigned, he started a short trip to Europe. He was given a rousing welcome on his return. Tammany leaders thronged about him. Two months later he left again. Sailing on the same ship was Miss Compton, whom he married in France after he and Mrs. Janet Allen Walker were divorced in Florida in 1933. He made his home near London, writing | | a newspaper column and working on his autobiography. Even then life was not entirely placid. There was talk of deporta- tion unless he registered properly as an allen. He was threatened with involuntary bankruptcy. Intimations of income tax exasion brewed in ‘Washington. Road Clear, Comes Home. A few weeks ago the Department of Justice announced it had com- pleted its investigation and no tax charges would be lodged. Reports that Walker would return to New York soon became prevalent. Arrest on sight, however, awaits one of his secretaries should he attempt to return to the city. Russell T. Sherwood, now living in New Jersey, never explained to the satisfaction of the S8eabury Committee the source and .disposition of millions of dollars which passed through his hands. Sherwood said he did not plan to be on hand for the welcome. Charles Hand, another of Walker's secretaries while mayor, planned to greet his former chief. Hand is pub- licity director for the United States Line, operators of the Manhattan. Schoolboy Makes Error. ATLANTA () —A Tulsa, Okla, school boy wrote the Atlarta Chamber of Commerce requesting a copy of the “State” "aonl. “Marching Through Georgis. Slater Marshall, information expert for the organization, mailed him a lesson in Georgia history. Jumping from the window of & station in Weidenbach, Ger- many, a youth accused of theft fell two stories to his death and injured pasaing Commended NAVY SECRETARY PRAISES ADMIRAL CROSLEY. REAR ADMIRAL WALTER S. CROSLEY, U. 8. N., member of the General Board. who retires tomorrow on reaching the age limit of 64 years, was commended for his excellent service today in a letter from Secre- tary of the Navy Swanson. Admiral Crosley has served with the Navy 46 years. He was advanced in rank for conspicuous service in the Spanish-American War and award- ed the Navy Cross for his World ‘War service. —Star Staff Photo. ICY GALES SWEEP DOWN FROM NORTH. Temperature of 8.2 Degrees Below Zero Is Recorded at Helena, Mont. | By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., October 31.—Icy gales from the frigid North swept from the Pacific Northwest into Middle | America today. At least four deaths were attributed to the cold. A Northwest airliner, flying between Helena, Mont, and Spokane, Wash., lost its way in a snowstorm and made a forced landing at Nelson, British Columbia, with only nominal damage to the plane and no casualties. Several small boats were missing in British Columbia waters, with their crews unaccounted for. Gales blew themselves out in the Pacific Northwest, but raged across the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan into Manitoba, leaving behind broken telephone and telegraph lines and highways blocked by snow. Prince Rupert in Northern British Columbia was cut off from train service. Earthquake refugees huddled in re- lief shelters in Helena, Mont., when the temperature plunged to 8.2 de- grees below zero yesterday—the cold- est October day on record. The cold swept down upon Colorado and Wyoming, and chilled Nebraska and Western Kansas. Freezing * temperatures and winds caused heavy losses in fruit and vege- table crops in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia. The wind knocked hundreds of boxes of ap- ples from the trees in Wenatchee. At Yakima, a freeze damaged the potato crop. Southern British Columbia lost in apples, grapes and potatoes. MISS LJUNBERG SOLOIST Miss Goeta Ljunberg, soprano, will be the soloist with the National Sym- phony Orchestra when Dr. Hans Kindler takes his musicians to Rich- mond tomorrow night for the first of four concerts. The concert will be played in the Masque in the Virginia Capital. Miss Ljunberg arrived here today for rehearsals. The next local con- cert of the National Symphony will be played in Constitution Hall Sunday afternoon. Poljtical Blunder. ZION, Il (#).—Representative Ralph E. Church, Republican, of Il- linois in a political address criticizing the Democratic :administration said: “You were hungry, so the New Deal your ze Then he noticed a scowl on the face of Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva, head of the religious group for which town is best known and remem- PRESIDENT, HOME, 10 STUDY BUDGET |Retires to Hyde Park Of- fice Shortly After His Arrival. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, 8taff Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y. October 31 — President Roosevelt arrived back at his boyhood home here today, ready to divide his time for the next six or | seven days between work and relax- | ation. | Overcast skies greeted Mr. Roose- vel: as he stepped from his special GALIFARD SLAYER 15 FOUND GUILTY Second-Degree Verdict Re- turned Against Burgess Who Slashed Youth. After deliberating only 20 minutes, & District S8upreme Court jury of 12 men this afternoon found John Bur- gess, colored, 39, guilty of second-de- gree murder in connection with the LIBERTY LEAGUE INQUIRY STIRS BAR Undercover Dispute Seethes Over Right to Probe Law- yers’ Activities. By the Associated Press. Some of the American Bar Associa- tion’s most prominent members wers engaged today in an undercover con- troversy over its right to inquire into slaying May 26 of Jameés Galifaro, | the activities of the Lawyers' Com- 18-year-old McKinley High School graduate. Burgess was charged with slashing mittee League. Political color was added to the of the American Liberty Galifaro’s throat with a knife as the boy and several companions were leav- ing a party in the first block of N street southeast. Both the prosecution, represented conflict because the committee has | been attacking the constitutionality of New Deal legislation and its mem- | bers charged the inquiry originated | from sources “close to the adminis- by Assistant United States Attorney | tration.” Roger Robb, and Defense Counsel| James A. O'Shea and Alfred Gold- stein were agreed on identification of Burgess as the killer, but the colored man’s attorneys contended he acted in self-defense. According to the Government's theory of the case, as brought out yesterday and today by witnesses, Galifaro and Joseph P. Galvin, a classmate of the slain youth at Mc- Kiniey, were attacked by Burgess after derogatory remarks had been bandied back and forth. The defense tried to show that Burgess was as- saulted by both youths and resorted to a weapon only wken necessary to save himself from serious harm. In his address to the jury Robb emphasized that both Galifaro and | Galvin were cut on their backs as well as from the front. Galvin has recovered from his wounds and was | the principal witness in the case. Cooper (Continued Prom First Page.) Continental’s collateral came in it was used not to reduce Continental's de- posit liability, but to pay off Conti- nental's $175,000 loan.” ‘The prosecutor argued that Conti- nental owned “Commercial and all its directors except those who had cour- age enough to remonstrate.” He declared that Cooper, who had been president of Continental prior to the merger, dominated both banks, having a controlling interest in the stock. “Fooleds Own Officers.” “In his desire to get dividends for himself,” Goldstein said, “Mr. Cooper fooled not only his own officers but the Board of Directors itself. Out of $100,000 in dividends paid by Continental after the affiliation Cooper got $20,000 for himself. Every three months there was a nice fresh check that went to Mr. Cooper’s desk and he deposited it in his per- sonal account. “They'll say, ‘Here is a man worth The first intimation of the con- troversy came yesterday when it be- came known that the association’s Committee on Professional Ethics and Grievances had asked the Lawyers' Committee for a description of its activities and purposes. | Elicits Sharp Protests. | It was learned today this action had brought sharp protests from the mem- lb«-rshxp of the Liberty League Com- mittee. which includes some former presidents of the Bar Association and such prominent national figures as John W. Davis, David A. Reed and George W. Wickersham. Some members of the Lawyers Committee protested its activities were none of the business of the American Bar Association. One of those who took this view was James M. Beck, former solicitor general and prominent constitutional lawyer. R. E. Desvernine, chairman of the Lawyers’ Committee agreed to co-op= erate with the Bar Association in- quiry, but told his associates on the Liberty League Committee that the move against it emanated from “sources close to the administration.” He named David E. Lillienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority as one of the authors of the move. One “Decision” Rendered. The Liberty League formed the | committee to pass on the constitu- tionality of New Deal legislation. It rendered one unofficial “decision,” holding the Wagner labor disputes act unconstitutional, and had proposed studies of others. | Recently Beck announced members |of the committee would serve free to protect the constitutional rights !of citizens unable to employ counsel. | William L. Ransom, president of the Bar Association, disclosed that “a lawyer of long standing as a member of the association” had asked for an opinion whether it was ethical for the league lawyers to offer “legal advice and assistance without charge ceen | “Is not such an advertisement en- couraging litigation, which is not only reprehensible according to the ethics | of the profession, but which also vio- train at the Hyde Park station at 8:30 a million dollars—would he steal $20.- | lates the criminal provision of the am. Despite the threat of rain the President made the 2-mile ride from 0002 I don't know why he would, but he did. I don't know why rich statues in nearly every State in the | Union?” the Bar Association mem- the statior to his mother's home at men grab for more. Mr. Cooper was ber asked. Krum Elbow in an open car, without even a topcoat As usual on the President’s return to his native county, only a handful of citizens greeted him at the sta- | tion, but he received some hearty cheers from a hundred or so school children grouped about the curb in | | front of the school house. Mr. Roose- velt realizes however, the people of Hyde Park are not given to outbursts of enthusiasm, and, in addition, are lifelong Republicans. Soon Retires to Office. After being welcomed for break- extreme end of the north wing of | the house and was soon absorbed | in a batch of papers requiring his immediate attention. No business engagements were morrow, he will arrange to see at least two or three callers each day until he starts back to Washington, probably next Wednesday. While here the President hopes to give considerable study to the prepara- tion of the 1936-37 budget, as well as to the unemployment situation. Next Tuesday Mr. Roosevelt will journey to the lttle frame building | in Hyde Park village to personally cast his ballot in the New York State elections. The President had | & brief conference with Postmaster | General Farley, his political monager, just before his special train pulled out of Union Station for Hyde Park | last night, and Farley is expected | to join the President at Hyde Park before the latter starts back for Wash- ington. Mrs. Roosevelt to Vote. ‘The impression is that during the conference last night the two dis- cussed the political address Farley is to deliver over the radio tomorrow night, urging the voters of New York State to support the Democratic candidates in the election. Mrs. Roosevelt will join the Presi- dent here in time to cast her bal- lot, as will several of the Roosevelt adult children. Mr. Roosevelt said just before leav- ing Washington that he understood there was to be some sort of Haloween party at the Roosevet home tonight. EARLY ESTABLISHES OFFICES. President Watiches Foreign and Do- mestic Affairs From Hyde Park. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., October 31.— President Roosevell came home early today to the family estate while Stephen T. Early, a secretary, estab- lished an office in nearby Pough- keepsie to maintein contact with the ‘White House. Before leaving Washington last night, the President announced that the Federal Government was keeping itself informed as to all shipments consigned for export to Italy and Ethi- opia and Secretary Hull said the aim was to discourage trade with those belligerent nations. In the field of domestic affairs, the President looked ahead to fusther con- ferences with industrial leaders on ‘ways to take up the slack between pro- duction and lagging pay rolls and employment. He intends to talk in- dividually with big employers. One task was just about finished by the Chief Executive. That was a letter in reply to the Knights of Co- lumbus leaders who charged last Sun- day that Mr. Roosevelt had failed to keep a promise to make a statement setting forth this Government's atti- tude toward afleged persecution of scheduled for the President today,| but it is expected that, beginning to- | hungry for it and he got it. It was the prettiest piece of conversion ever to appear in the history of bank- ing in this jurisdiction.” Goldstein used a blackboard to in- dicate depletion of the assets of Con- tinental to a point where he said there was a debit which should have prevented Continental from paying any dividends. Defense Challenges Argument. “All the evidence discloses that Mr. Cooper is guilty as indicted and that should be your verdict,” Goldstein concluded. to the jury. “If Mr. Cooper was so ambitious to be president of a big bank, as the prosecutor has told you,” the defensz attorney shouted, “Why did he start out to wreck that bank and ruin his o¥n investments and to destroy his own reputation? If he destroyed the Com- mercial Bank, he not only was de- stroying his own ambition to head it, but was ruining $250,000 of his own money. Who ever heard of such & fallacious argument2” Cooper, he said, could not have been | a dominating power in the Commercial | Bank because every transaction had | to receive the approval of other offi- | cers and the board of directors. Calls Cooper “the Goat.” “Why make this man the goat?” Leahy asked. “He did just what every | Why didn't the| Is it | conceivable that he as head of both other officer did. Government indict them all? banks would try to wreck them botn when he had a million dollars of his | stockholders at stake and a quarter million of his own?” Leahy made much of the fact, as brought out in testimony, that all loans complained of by the Govern- ment were approved by all officers and directors of the bank and that none of them was criticized by Treasury bank examiners. “Mr. Cooper himself never made a loan,” Leahy declared. “He never paid a dividend. He was trying to plug the | leaks by reducing salaries and elimi- nating bonuses. No man is going w0 handle recklessly his own property.” Cooper Denies Charge. Cooper, taking the siand yesterday in his own defense, denied the Gov- ernment’s charges of irregularity and declared everything he did while presi- dent of Commercial was in the interest of the bank and its depositors. The much-discussed question of the propriety of Commercial’s insistence that Continental pay interest on its deposit liabilities, assumed by Com- mercial after the affiliation of the banks, was gone into thoroughly while Cooper was on the stand. Cooper at first declared he did not know Commercial was charging inte:- est until more than a year after the go-called merger, but later, under cross-examination, said he had a “yague recollection” of a resolution passed by the Board of Directors con- cerning interest charges against Con- tinental. The interest is an important point at issue in the case, because the Government claims that if Commercial had included interest as one of Con- tinental's expenses there would have been no earnings left on which Con- tinental could base its dividends. Cooper contended the interest charges were improper. He said that when he learned, in May, 1931, that the charges were being made he ordered them stopped, pending a study of the matter. He said the interest was “eating up” the earnings of Continental. Later, after conferences between committees of both banks, Catholics in Mexico. Jobless in France. Unemployed, in France now ‘jnclude 200,000 men and 86,000 women. the interest charges were reinstated. The witness explained his delay in discovering about interest charges by saying he never examined the books of the bank. He said he “assumed” they were being kept properly at all times, 'BUDGET INCREASES PROPOSED IN OHIO | State Senate Urges Restorations Totaling $1,000,000 More Than House Figure. By the Associated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 31.— | fast by Mrs. James Roosevelt, his| Leahy charged that the prosecution | Proposed restorations to Ohio’s revised 81-year-old mother, Mr. Roosevelt | had “stooped low” in presenting “dis- biennial budget bill piled higher to- went to his cubby-hole office at the | torted facts and fallacious arguments” day. with the Senate Finance Com- | mittee recommending nearly $1,000,- 000 more than the House Finance Committee. The Senate committee returned to consideration of the bill after listing restorations of $2,410,868 of the $3.- 785,000 Gov. Martin L. Davey vetoed from the original bill last June. The House committee's recommendations, admittedly unsatisfactory to mem- bers, totaled $1,425,245. Both recommendations are expected to draw fire from Gov. Davey. He has drawn the line at $1.000,000. But the Senate’s figures are still $6,375,000 below the total appropriations ape proved by the Legislature last Winter. Chairman William Herner of the Senate group proposed s bill carrying $2,300,000 in increases. The commite tee later added $110,868. Sea Lion to Be Preserved. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., October 31 (#).—The body of Lake Michigan's sea | lion, shot recently, will be placed in a glass case in Washington Park here. Park officials said a taxidermist al- ready has mounted the carcass. T Lehigh U. Official Dead. BETHLEHEM, Pa., October 31 (P). —Dr. Natt M. Emery, 63, vice presi- dent and controller of Lehigh Uni- versity, died suddenly last night. Dr. Emery was a native of Suncook, N. H. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Role of Sick Horse in Buzzard Story May Put Me in Lights. SANTA MONICA, Calif, October 31.—My budding ambition to turn actor has had a boost. A young fel- low who, I predict, will yet get some« where in this over and, after din- ner, this party, gave an tion of a buzzard 'lighting along- side a sick horse. Such judges as Claudette Colbert and Edna May Oliver agreed that, as a buz- zard, he would fool any living creature, except pos- sibly another buzzard. But talk about acting, now. By spe- cial request I played the principal supporting role, that of the horse, and the sheer artistry of the performance gave delight to one and all. So now I'm convince my future is assured, if only we can get somebody to write & show with a very strong part in it for a sick horse. 4 A