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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, FARLEY SEES PLOT T0 COERCE VOTERS Charges Some Employers Seeking to Influence Their Workers. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 9.— A charge by Postmaster General Far- ley that “an organized attempt” was under way “to coerce the working people” was coupled tonight with a defense of the administration, before Connecticut Democrats by him- self and Attorney General Cummings. | Both of the cabinet officers praised the work of President Roosevelt and hit at critics of heavy administra- “tion spending. The Postmaster Gen- eral’s charges, however, attracted more than a little attention. “Yours is a great industrial State” Farley said. “It also happens to be a State in which reside a large num- ber of people of great wealth who either dominate or are associated with important financial establishments which for one reason or another have declared their hostility to President Roosevelt and their opposition to his Ppolicies. Sees Vote “Coercion.” “There has come to my attention a number of letters addressed to their employes by the heads of certain enterprises that are obviously intended to influence the votes of these em- ployes. To put it bluntly, there is an organized attempt to coerce the work- ing people.” Farley said the President had put business back on its feet and brought an approach to normal. He reviewed the results of Tuesday’s election and said Mr. Roosevelt would have car- ried New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey had he been running. He compared present conditions with those in 1932 and said that none of the later steps of the recovery program were any more valid than the steps taken by the President in the banking crisis. N. R. A. was found unconstitutional, he said, but added there was no time “during those early months of 1833 {to assay every fine legal point.” Says Money Was “Invested. Farley said the greater portion of money spent by the administration was “not expenditure, but an invest- ment.” He said there was “an operating yrofit up to date of $110,000,000” for -2 Reconstruction Finance Corp. and 90 _er cent of “all due installments” of the Farm Credit Administration had been paid. “Such are the cold facts and fig- ures,” he said. I hope you will keep them in mind when those who thunder for the re- turn of methods and processes which brought us *» the verge of ruin tell yoif that the Roosev-it administration is leading the country straight to the devil. “Does not the restoration of busi- ness represent an adequate Aividend on the money the Government has #pent and is spending? Says Foes Without Platform. “One reason for the persistefit” at- tack upon the President is that our political foes have neither a candi- date nor a program of their own. Just now they are flying a series of trial balloons, leading out their aspirants “for the presidency one by one, in the 1 -.e of finding some individual with & popular appeal.” Attorney General Cummings called President Roosevelt’s critics “ultra- partisans,” and said: “Of course recovery has cost a great deal f money, but it has not cost as much as unfriendly critics assume.” “What would they have us do? ‘Would they have us reverse the record of the last two years and erase from the statute books all of this construc- tive legislation? “Would they have us recall the boys ‘from the conservation camps and turn | them loose in the streets again? “America would never consent to such a program. e COOKE AIDE NAMED REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,, November ® (#).—Ernest A. Rolison, city mzna- ger here for six years, announced his resignation today to become assistant to Morris L. Cooke, chief of the Rural Electrfication Administration, Farm - Bureau agency, Washington, D. C. Rolison will leave here December 1. 'Selassie S.purns Duce’s Ultimatum On Rail Bombing Continues to Buy Arms as Long as Newsmen’s Funds Hold Out. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ADDIS ABABA, November 9.—In what is considered here an “insult- ing” ultimatum, Premier Benito Mus- solini of Italy has told Emperor Haile Selassie that he would forbear bomb- ing the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Rail- way and severing communication with the outside world except for animal caravans if Ethiopia would promise to discontinue transporting arms, munitions and troops over the rail- way. Unbelievable “effrontery” was the scornful comment of official circles, where it was declared that the Em- peror would not dignify the demands, which were sent by Il Duce through the French Legation here, even by ecknowledgment. “Ethiopia is a sovereign state—the oldest in the world—and no one out- side can infringe upon that sov- ereignty,” a government spokesman said. “Let Mussolini drop bombs wherever he pleases—he has already done it with poor success and our people are unfrightened—but so long @s there is a breath left in an Ethio- .pian body, a cartridge remains for an Ethiopian weapon, and a spear is left for an accurate Ethiopian arm, we will defend our sovereign rights. “We will continue to purchase and transport guns and ammunition to the limit of our capital, and that is far from exhausted,” he said, adding that it would not be exhausted “for a long time if the correspondents remain in the country and continue their generous contributions to our sadio station.” Asked if the Emperor intended to reply to the ultimatum, he replied: “We consider it an insult that Musso- lini should communicate with¢us ex- cept in terms of an honorable Peace “o us and we regard such sn ulti- matum as this as the last word in insult. No, he won't dignify it by an ackno ent.” “(Copyright, 1935, szm")l' York Herald 4 put | Dramatized History of Red Cross Will Be Given in Radio Forum Announcement by Gray-| son to Close Program Tomorrow Night. Episodesto Extend From Civil War Time to Present. A dramatized history of the Ameri- can Red Cross will be presented in the National Radio Forum tomorrow night from 10:30 to 11 o’clock. The forum, arranged by The Eve- | ning Star, is broadcast every Monday evening over a Nation-wide hookup of the National Broadcasting Co., with WRC as the local outlet. Tomorrow night, instead of presenting the usual speaker on a topic concerned with current governmental problems, the program will be given over entirely to the Red Cross. ‘The program will open with “The Evening Star March” by the United States Army Band, under direction of Capt. Stannard, and will close with a brief announcement by Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross. The dramatization portrays at its beginning a Civil War scene with Clara Barton, tounder of the Ameri- can Soclety, administering to the wounded. Following in quick succession, dra- matic episodes of Red Cross progress and increased service to humanity tell how the Red Cross of this country met its first major disaster relief operation, the Johnstown flood. Next comes the inauguration of Red Cross nursing service in the war with Spain, when Red Cross nurses were accepted for the first time in a mili- tary hospital. Then comes a scene presenting the efficacy of Red Cross | relief in the Galveston storm of 1900, | HOPE IS DIMMER FOR LOST FLYERS Two Days Pass Without| Word From Kingsford- Smith and Co-Pilot. By the Associated Press, SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, | November 10 (Sunday) —An Indian Ocean monsoon was feared tonight | to have brought death to Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, noted Australian aviator, and his copilot, Tom Pethy- ] bridge. Nearly two days have passed | since their plane disappeared. | | A ray of hope remained, however, | for the safety of the airmen—lost while attempting to make a record | flight from England to Australia—as | it was disclosed the plane could re- main afloat indefinitely if forced down oL water.. Search is Continued. C. James Melrose, who saw Kings- | ford-Smith’s plane at about 2:25 a.m. | Friday (8:01 p.m. Eastern standard time Thursday) over the Bay of Ben- gal, was participating in a search for the missing flyers along with Royal Alr Forpe planes. Melrose had discontinued his own flight from England to Australia when he learned of the apparent disaster. He had seen the Kingford-Smith plane after it left Allahabad at 6:25 pm., local time, Thursday. (Kingsford-Smith’s own solo record | for the England-Australia flight was | broken even while the search was, | going on. H. F. Broadbent, an Aus- | tralian, reached Port Darwin, Aus-| tralia, 6 days, 21 hours 19 minutes | | after leaving Croyden, England. He| isurpasserl Kingsford-Smith’s record. | made in 1933, by seven hours 28/ minutes.) Flyer Lost Before. Two Royal Air Force planes soared over jungle-covered islands yesterday | but found no trace of the pair. Their monoplane had a wireless set, buw sent out no word. It was recalled, however, Kingsford-Smith has on pre- vious occasions been lost for days and come out safely. Kingsford-Smith and Pethybridge left Lympne, England, Wedhesday an i flew rapidly over Europe to Bagh- dad, Iraq. Then they went on to Allahabad, Northeast India, landing at 5:25 p.m. Thursday (7:25 am.| | Eastern standard time Thursday). They were reported later over Ak- | yab, Burma, on thc Bay of Bengal, and south of Akyab. Then they | dropped out of sight. DEBT DEFAULTERS HIT LITTLE ROCK, Ark., November 9 (/P).—Senator Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas declared here today that self -reliance and honesty for nations and individuals is the creed most needed by the world of today. The Nation’s only woman Senator condemned before the Arkansas Dem- ocratic Women’s Club the nations that have defaulted their war debts to the United States and said she hopes that conditions in this country may permit & wider return to individual initiative in the near future, 4 promise you that I shall never vote to send our boys to fight another nation’s war on foreign soil,” declared ® eral election next Thursday neared ADMIRAL CARY 7. GRAYSON, with 4,000 hurricane dead and as many homes destroyed. The incident of 1905 is dramatized when a President of the United States firsts asks the Nation to help the Red | Cross help others. This is followed | by an episode telling briefly how the | Red Cross raised $100,000,000 for World War relief. In rapid succession mention is made of Red Cross aid extended in the| Pueblo flood of 1921, the Florida hur- | ricane of 1927, the Mississippi Valley floods of 1927, greatest disaster in the history of America, with 15,000,000 acres flooded, seven States affected and nearly 1,000,000 people homeless. The need for relief in the drought of 1931 is portrayed. The dramatization closes with this year's New York flood of unprece- dented severity, showing how the Red Cross and other public and pri- vate organizations administered to the needy. CROWDS HECKLE FORMER PREMIER MacDonald Called ‘Traitor’| and ‘Judas’—Election to Be Thursday. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 9.—Boos and | hisses greeted three prominent gov- ernment candidates for the House of | Commons when they made speeches to- | night as the campaign for the gen- its climax. J. Ramsay MacDonald, former pre- | iotments made $1.023,785,632 avail- | mier; Sir Melcolm Campbell, auto- mobile speed king. and Earnest Brown, | minister of labor, were the target of hostile demonstrations. It was still generally believed, how- ever, the government would obtain a “workable” majority in Commons in the elections November 14, but Mac- Donald’s chances for election from his constitutency of Seaham were con- sidered by political observers as being only about even. Leader Called “Traitor.” Shouts of “traltor” and “Judas MacDonald, came from a crowd at| ‘Worksop, where MacDonald. now lord | president of the council, was speaking in behalf of his son Malcolm, a candi- date for Parliament from that district. Stung to hot anger by the aggres- | sive attitude of the mob, MacDonald thundered: “The words traitor in some people’s mouths is a great honor.” | Campbell, a conservative candidate | from Deptford, was howled down after | 10 minutes of violent heckling at a | mass meeting at Old Kent Road Baths, Sir Malcolm shouted himself hoarse through a loud speaker, but was unable to make himself heard. He finally sat down, At Seaham a hostile crowd singing “John Brown's Body” and “The Red Flag” drowned out Brown's voice, re- | puted to be the strongest in Parlia- | ment. Cripps Urges Peace. Sir Stafford Cripps, a Labor party leader and former solicitor general, speaking at Stafford, declared: “When I was in America every one with whom I discussed the political situation in this country, from the President down, asked me what chance there was for a labor government | after the next election.” “I asked why,” he said. “They said: ‘Because in our view that is the only hope for world peace.’” Cripps attacked the government’s armament program, asserting it would “lead the country into another war as surely as did our armaments pro- gram of 1910.” He said conservatives were crying “stinking fish” about the British Navy in order to whip up fear of war. ‘Winston Churchill, whom some quar- ters expect to be the next first lord of the admiralty, told a meeting at Biggleswade: “The suggestion that England should bring the Italo-Ethiopian war to an end by closing the Suez Canal is a very rash proposal, even a mad one. The immediate consequence of it would be | Mrs. Caraway at a dinner in her honor. to involve us in war with a very great power."” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 9.—A mys- terious woman lurked in the back- ground tonight as some of the town’s most celebrated artists sought to learn the reason for last night's police raid on their annual show. Pressed for an explanation of why two detectives halted the perform- ance and arrested five girls on a charge of giving an indecent exhibi- tion, the police said a complaint had been filed by a Miss Jeanette Rice. They refused to identify her further. Rube Goldberg called the raid an “insult,” and Courtney Riley Cooper had demanded that the entire audi- ence of 800 formally attired artists, editors, business and professional men be taken into custody along with the five girls, who had appeared in disha- bille, or less. Fred G. Cooper, manager of the show, which was staged by the So- ciety of Ilustrators for the benefit of conceded it must have Mysterious Woman Blamed For Raid on Artists’ Show “But it wasn't indecent,” he ex- ploded. “It has been staged privately for 30 years and no one ever got fresh with a girl or made a bawdy remark. ‘The girls are the finest I know and are all from good families.” “It makes no difference,” said Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine in defending the raid, “whether they are public or private shows. The laws of indecency relate to all.” Howard Chandler Christy, Otto Sog- | low. Herbert Bayard Swope, Russell Patterson, Denys Wortman and a number of other notatles were in the audience, which was composed en- tirely of men. The last of a series of scenes that made up Act I was a sketch by W. T. Bénda called “The Conqueror,” in which a Mongolian chieftain was por- trayed in the business of selecting & slavé from & group of beautiful cap- to night court, the five girls ware:released in $50 bail each for later hoptingh ‘ M e WORK-RELIEF JOBS LAG FAR BEHIND Pace Must Be Doubled to Reach Goal Set for December 1. By the Associated Press. With the administration still short of the half-way mark in its drive to provide 3,500,000 jobs, figures made public yesterday showed it must dou- ble its recently accelerated work-relief pace to meet the December 1 goal. Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, said the number put to work in the week ending November 2 totaled 194,425, compared with 121,- 715 in the preceding week. The total given jobs in place of direct relief November 2, however, was only 1,737,610, in contrast with the original plan to have the entire 3,500, 000 employables at work a day earlier. If the new December 1 goal is at- tained, 1,762,390 jobs remained to be provided in the four weeks beginning November 2, a weekly average of 440,597, Four States Lose Relief. Hopkins, nevertheless, expressed re- newed confidence that the program would succeed. Simultaneously he cut four additional States—Ohio, South Carolina, Mississippi and Connecti- cut—ofl direct relief. What this actually meant, however, | became uncertain when he declined to say how much he had simultaneous- | ly allotted these States to supplement earlier November grants, Ohio already had received $2,084,000, South Caro- lina, $349,688; Mississippi, $442,500, and Connecticut, $401,500. Most of the 13 other States simi- larly cut off direct relief received supplementary allotments. Hopkins said only that “The allotments have ended for the 17 States because works program employment is either well enough along or will be soon to take care of employables trans- ferred from the relief rolls, and also, the needs of unemployables are pro- vided for by States and their locali- ties.” Hopkins' employment report indi- cated W. B. A. may have to supply about 2,750,000 jobs if the December 1 objective is reached. 134,685 in Other Agencies. Other Federal agencies were taking care of 174,685, an increase of only 2,656 in the week ended November 2, while the Civilian Conservation Corps showed a 26,697 decline to 555,7117. ‘The W. P. A, providing employ- ment for the first time in Iowa and Maine, boosted its total in the week by 219,666 jobs to 1,007,208. Controller General McCarl, mean- while, gave W. P. A. another boost by approving an additional $167,100,- 853 worth of projects. This raised the total of approved projects avail- able for selection for P. W. A. State administrators to $3,097,247.250. Re- lease of $4,684.349 in W. P. A. al- able for expenditure. Among States for which projects were approved was Arizona, which so relief program declined during the Montana. Other Agencies Lag. In all except Arizona, the lag by other agencies accounted for these declines, and talk was renewed in some quarters of new cancellations to increase W. P. A’s present ear- marking of $1,250,000,000. To date, continuance of direct re- lief has cost more than $300,000,000 above the $880,000,000 first estimated. In addition, many activitles of the old Relief Administration, such as transient aid. help for college students and emergency education, will simply be continued under the name of W. P. A. projects. ‘The first public indication that the program would not reach its 3,500, 000 job goal by November 1 came from President Roosevelt. Although Hopkins insisted at the time that this schedule would be maintained, he later acknowledged that not more than 3,150,000 would be at work by the end of October. Yesterday's figures showed the program was 1412390 jobs short of his reduced objective. HOEY DEATH PROBE T0 OPEN TUESDAY ' Grand Jury Also Will Investigate Conduct of Jurors on Cor- oner's Panel. By the Associated Press. : WEST CHESTER, Pa., November 9. —Lovely Evelyn Hoey's death, the failure of a coroner’s jury to assign the blame, and the jurors’ conduct and associations during the inquest last September will fall to a grand jury for examination next Tuesday. A pistol bullet killed the Broadway singer on September 11 in the farm house of Henry Huddleston Rogers, 3d. ‘The coroner’s jury found she met her death “at the hands of a person or persons unknown to this jury.” The verdict angered counsel for Rogers and his companion, Willlam J. Kelley, and brought from them a statement criticizing the jury and an invita- tion for a grand jury investigation. The conduct of the jurors and their association with “certain newspaper men" drew the censure of the Rogers- Kelly lawyers. POLISH STUDENTS MALTREAT JEWS 2,000 Commemorate Murder Years Ago With Attack at Pilsudski University. By Oable to The Star WARSAW, November 9.—To com- memorate the anniversary of the murder of a Christian student in Vilna several years ago, 2,000 Na- tionalists students crashed the gates of Pilsudski University, in Warsaw to- day, in an anti-Jewish- demonstra- tion. Windows were smashed and doors broken in before the demonstrators found 23 Jewish students, including 11 girls, attending a lecture. The Jewish students were severely mal- treated, and one of them, Arthur Hor- owitz, 18 years old, had to be taken to a hospital. Police had to be called out in force to disperse the demonstra- tors. Anti-semitic manifestators have been much on the increase lately in Poland, despite unremitting efforts of the authorities to keep the unruly Nationalist ts under control. ; ¢ 1938, R D. T, COURT DEFENDED ONLABOR GHARGE Charles Warren’s New Book Holds Supreme Bench Fair to Workers. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ' For several years the American Fed- eration of Labor, without being chal- lenged as to the fairness of its charge, has adopted a resolution at its annual convention—as it did again last month —affirming its opposition to the power of the courts “to nullify the acts of the chosen representatives ot the peo- ple,” and renewing its efforts to secure the adoption of an amendment to the Federal Constitution designed to de- prive the courts of that power. But today Charles Warren, Demo- crat, who held the position of Assist- ant Attorney General under President ‘Wilson, and who is known as the foremost historian in the country on the activities of the Supreme Court of the United States, has published a notable book called “Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court,” in which he reveals that, far from getting adverse treatment from the highest court, organized labor has come off with many more favorable decisions. 80-6 Score in Congress. Mr. Warren points out that, on laws | of Congress, the score has been about 80 to 6 in favor of labor, and that in the case of State labor laws, the | Supreme Court has upheld 60 and de- cided adversely in only 6. “The representatives of organized labor,” says Mr. Warren in his new book, “have been particularly active in opposition to the Supreme Court’s power to pass upon the validity of acts of Congress. The court has been fre- quently denounced by them as preju- diced against labor in its decisions. And either through misapprehension of the purport of those decisions or through lack of knowledge as to the facts, the impression has been given to labor that the proposal for a con- | | stitutional amendment made by the! late Senator La Foliette would relieve | 1abor from decisions obnoxious to it— whereas the truth is that special labor | interests were concerned in very few of the cases in which the acts of Con- | gress have been held invalid. | | “There exists so much misunder-| standing as to what the Supreme| Court has actually decided in labor | cases that it is highly desirable that a complete statement should be made. What are the actual facts as to the court's record in cases specifically in- volving labor? 20 Decided Against Labor. | “The court has decided about 100 | !of such cases. Of these not more| !than 20 were decided in a manner which labor might term adverse to its supposed interests. But of these 120, it should be particularly noted that only 6 involved the constitu- tionality of an act of Congress. “Of the others, six involved ques- tions of statutory construction under the Sherman and Clayton and other Federal laws: two involved no ques- | far has no W. P. A. employment. The | tion of statute. State or Federal, but | total actually employed in the work- Simply decided questions of general law; six involved the constitutionality | week in that State, the District of Of & State statute. | Columbia, Idaho, Massachusetts and | “First, let labor note that. so far as regards the six decisions construing the Sherman and Clayton or other | acts and the two merely deciding ques- | | tions of general law, Congress may at any time, by appropriate legislation, | | alter the law as laid down by the | court. ) | “Labor should. therefore, direct its | efforts toward Congress, rather than on the court: for whenever labor can persuade Congress that these eight de- | cisions were wrong, labor has it in its own control to change them. No amendment to the Constitution taking away the power of the court is neces- , and no such amendment would have the slightest effect upon the power of the court to render these decisions.” Analysis Is Exhaustive. Mr. Warren presents an exhaustive analysis and review of cases in which State labor laws have been upheld. “To these,” he writes, “Labor :eldom refers. There are a. least 60 of such | cases, and the variety and radical | | nature of many of the laws sustained | is remarkable.” After presenting the different cases, Mr. Warren concludes: ‘In view of this record of steady | support of legislation in behalf of and | | protection of labor, and rendered gen- erally in cases in which the corpora- tions and employers contended that | the statutes were invalid, it may fairly be said that it is not only uncandid and unfair to the public, but also | ridiculous for any one to state that ‘always these decisions of the court | are on the side of the wealthy and | powerful and against the poor and weak.” | , The Warren book, coming as it does in the midst of Nation-wide discus- | sion of constitutionalism and the Su- preme Court’s powers, will doubtless play an important part in the debates of the next 12 months. (Copyright. 1935.) o {AID ROLLS PURGE PROPOSAL ASSAILED Republicans Charge Political Use | of Funds in Wyoming Plan. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo., November 9.— Publication here today of resolutions attributed to the State Democratic Central Committee, which recome mended a “purge” of all relief em- ployes not in sympathy with the na- tional and local administrations, brought a shower of criticism tonight from Republican sources. The resolutions were published in a Cheyenne newspaper. L. G. (Pat) Glannery, chairman of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee, would not comment. ‘The printed resolution asked Demo- crats to “call upon our congressional delegation to use their best efforts to have these (relief) agencies purged of all persons not wholly in sympathy with the national and State admin- istrations.” A similar resolution was directed to | State officeholders, asking them “to carefully check the entire personnel of the State.” Marshall S. Reynolds, chairman of the Republican State Committee, characterized the resolutions as being “in direct contradiction to Mr. Harry Hopkins’ frequently quoted remark that the $4,800,000,000 work-relief money is not to be used ‘politically.” He declared the Dem “plan te use intimidation to hold line those men who have applied for work —even on relief.” s NOVEMBER 10, 1935—PART ONE. Off by Air for Sea Trip When Miss Edna Wiliams (lett) Williams, decided to take a vacaticn cruise to Bermuda left to catch the boat at New York. so they hopped off yesterday from Miss Helene little time was and her sister, Washirgton-Hoover Airport to reach the metropolis before the Empress of Bermuda pulled out. They are the daughters of Sergt. Eslie Williams of the Traffic Bureau and live at 1307 Longfellow street. iSUVIET CHARGES INDUSTRY ASKED HOLY WAR PLOT, TON. R A PARLEY Prisoner Accused of Islam Conspiracy to Set Up New State. TASHKENT, U. §. 8. R, November 10 (Sunday)w-A “holy war” plot o overthrow, Bolshevist rule in' two of the United Soviet republics in Central | Asia and to set up a Musselman state was charged by authorities today at the trial of 32 persons. Official accounts of the trial said “troops of Islam" were to invade the Soviet Union and occupy the rep- ublics of Tadzhikstan (Tajikistan) and Kirghiz and the intervening territory of Ferghana. This area, with Tadzhikstan border- ing upon Afghanistan, is one of the greatest cotton-producing regions of Central Asia. Its capture would iso- late the autonomous Soviet territory of Badahhshansk, linking the Soviet Union with India. Named as leader of the plot was Pir Ishan Abdul Mutaliefl, a Mohamme- dan priest. Authorities said he had | planned to become the political and spiritual leader of the new state. Witnesses accused Pir Ishan of pre- paring an armed uprising to coincide with the invasion, the whole to take the form of a “holy war” against the Bolshevists. Pir Ishan told his followers. known as “murids,” said the official ac- counts, that they were his soldiers as well as religious adherents. He frequently visited the frontier snd was said to have conferred with >ne Van Khadja, who was to command the invading army. It was to strike before the end of the year. Authorities said Pir Ishan pleaded | guilty to the charge and threw him- self on the mercy of the court. A ver- | dict is expected in a few days. IOWA TAX UPHELD | Chain Store Levy Constitutional, Says District Judge. DES MOINES, November 9 (#).—. The constitutionality of Towa's chain store tax was upheld in District Court today by Judge F. S. Shankland. His ruling was the first made in an Towa court on the validity of the act, passed by the 1935 Legislature. Con- stitutionality of the tax also has been attacked in Federal Court. The de- cision was given in suits brought by the Tolerton & Warfield Co. of Sloux City and the Benner Tea Co. of Bur- lington. _— German Veterans Disagree. ST. LOUIS, November 9 (#).—Un- able to agree on whether they would carry the Nazi Swastika or the black, red and gold of the former Reich, 50 German World War veterans decided tonight they would not march in an Armistice day parade Monday. Berry Appeals for Co-opera- tion in Recovery Confer- ence, Set for Dec. 9. By the Associated Press. George L. Berry specifically asked industry yesterday to be ready to tell him December 9 what steps should be taken to accelerate industrial re- covery and to eliminate unemploy- ! ment. | The President’s co-ordinator for industrial co-operation added he would seek directly an answer as to whether | N. R. A. should be continued in some | | permanent form. ‘The second of two questions phrased | by Berry for discussion at the joint conference of labor and industry here next month was whether the country wanted new legislation “for preserv- ing to the Nation such social and economic advantages as were gained through previous emergency enact- ments.” In explanation, he said in a state- ment that the first question con- cerning accelerated recovery “raises the vital long-range problem of plac- ing the industrial and economic life of the Nation on a more stable basis.” N. R. A. Future Is Question. | The other, he added, “calls for a decision as to whether Congress should or should not attempt legislation for continuance of N. R. A. in some per- manent form.” That question. Berry asserted, al- ready had brought forth many opin- | ions. “but a direct, decisive answer would exert a profound influence over | the course of events during the next session of Congress.” He reiterated that all management and labor representatives of industry would be welcome at the conference, whether directly invited or not. He did pot wish to prevent attendance of any one because of any particular point of view, he said. “No Speeches,” Berry Said. Steps have been taken, Berry indi- cated, to prevent the conference from | being used as a sounding board for either pro or anti New Deal orators. | The full joint meeting, which will dis- | cuss only procedure, is to meet at 10 «m. and adjourn at noon. “There will be no speeches,” Berry said in his letter of invitation. Representatives of related indus- t.'es then are to meet together to de- termine their points of view. They then are to select representatives— one from labor, one from manage- ment—to a council of industrial prog- ress. If the members so choose, they may make this council permanent. “It is my conviction that if man- agement and labor, comprising in- dustry, confer and are able to decide | what action will most effectively pro- mote and stabilize the well-being of | industry in the United States, lasting | and constructive results will be achieved,” Berry said. London’s New Lord Mayor Gives, Gala Banquet to City’s Leaders By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 9.—At a bril- liant banquet marked by all the color and pageantry of ancient times, Zondon’s new lord mayor, Sir Percy Vincent, played host tonight to 1,000 guests. With historic fifteenth century Guildhall for a setting, women in glittering jewels and men in uni= forms of gold, scarlet and blue moved through a scene of medieval pomp. Among the guests were Foreign Sec- retary Sir Samuel Hoare, other cab- inet members, foreign diplomats and civic dignitaries. The lord mayor’s banquet climaxed a day of ceremonial parade through densely packed streets as the new “my lord the maire” drove to the royal law courts in the Strand, where he took his oath of office, | mayor, by custom, financed the whole The lord mayor, 613th incumbent since the city of London chose its first mayor, Henry Fitz-Alwyn, in 1189, drove through the streets garbed in a bright scarlet robe. He rode in| a decorated wagon drawn by four horses, lent by the American banker, J. P. Morgan. Hundreds of thousands witnessed | the procession in the afternoon, and dense crowds thronged the Guildhall courtyard tonight to watch the guests | arriving for the banquet, which cost an estimated $25,000. The lord| day’s celebration. He is independently wealthy. Although famed as an epicurean | banquet, the dinner actually consisted | of only four main courses—turtle soup, | fish, great loins of roast beef carved | by two liveried “high priests,” and dessert—topped off by rich old wines. L] | commodities had been given | sideration. | more than the Agriculture Secretary’s '0 CANADIAN TRADE PACTPROGRESSES King Leaves Today After Talks With Roosevelt on Rapprochement. By the Associated Press. Capping a series of trade talks ex- tending over two days, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King late yesterday re- ported “substantial progress” toward a Canadian-American rapprochement., Their joint statement, issued after a night and day of conferences en- compassing the President, the visiting Dominion statesman and members of the Roosevelt cabinet, said: “The President of the United States and the prime minister of Canada have considered the question of ine creased trade which has been discussed for some time between representatives of the two nations. There is complete agreement on the objective of a great« ly increased flow of trade for the benefit of both countries and sube stantial progress has been made to- ward this end. Details Unannounced. “It is recognized that such an in- crease would be beneficially felt in all activity, because trade is but another word for increased employment, trans- portation and consumption.” No further indication was given as to the results of the prolonged discus- sions. Whether they had arrived at a basis for agreement for the long- sought reciprocal trade treaty between the two neighbor countries was n« revealed. Both Canadian and American offi- clals, preserving the same rigid se- crecy which has surrounded the visit of King, refused to make any further comment. With his personal discussions cone cluded with President Roosevelt, the Canadian prime minister planned to leave for Ottawa in the early morne ing. The Canadian Legation ane nounced that he would meet with his government Monday at Ottawa and the following day would return to the United States for a vacation trip. Guest Overnight. ‘The prime minister was an over- ! night guest at the White House Frie day night. The talk was renewed at breakfast yesterday and continued until almost noon. when the prime minister left the Executive Mansion to be host to Secretary of State Hull and other American officials at lunche eon in the Canadian Legation. Immediately after his own luncheon the President called in Secretary Hull and Undersecretary of State Phillips for a conference on the subject. Sec- retary of Agriculture Wallace later joined them This led to the belief among some observers that the question of grante ing Canada’s demand for lowered tariffs on some of her agricultural con- But there was nothing presence at the conference to sube stantiate that opinion. Farmers Had Objected. Objections by American producers to tariff concessions on Canadian agricultural and dairy products, par- ticularly potatoes, milk and cream, have been an obstacle to the negotia- tions, which were initiated last Jan- uary, as well as Canadian objections to tariff reductions there on some American-manufactured goods. Before he left Washington, the prime minister was the guest of honor last night at a dinner given by Unders secretary and Mrs. Phillips. The guests included Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Owen J. Roberts, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Dr. O. D. Skelton. undersecretary for external affairs of Canade. and Nore man Davis, American Ambas:ador at Large. MAN MARKED FOR DEATH ESCAPES GANG BULLETS Returns Fire of Executioners as He Runs for Safety in New York Tenement. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, November 9.—A car- load of gangland executioners bungled their job today when their intended victim escaped. apparently unharmed, after a wild exchange of shots. ‘The gunmen, cruising along West Seventeenth street. opened fire on an | uni@lentified pedestrian, who whipped out a pistol and returned the fire as he ran. A group of boys playing in a nearby Jot said the fleeing target stumbled just before he dived into a tene. ment house, but police found no traces to indicate he had been | wounded. Voice From Grave Jails Japanese Youth for Fraud Letter Signed With Dead Man’s Name Prompts Probe. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, November 9.—A letter signed with a dead man’s name and postmarked four years after burial has jailed Kenji Furuya, youthful Japa= nese, on charges of fraudulently using an immigration document. : OfMcials believed the letter the work of some enemy of Furuya, but in checking the contents they discovered enough evidence to warrant official charges. The penciled letter, addressed to the United States Immigration Serve ice, said: “On June 19, 1935, a person by the name of Kenji Furuys arrived and en- tered this territory illegally by using my name and papers. “I am no longer a person living in this world. I died on March 17 about four years ago, in the Japanese hose pital. “It is an insult and disgrace to my- self and my race. Please have it ine vestigated and cleared.” The note was signed “Tsuentoshi Sano, deceased.” Investigation showed that Sano ar- rived in 1906 and died intestate in 1931, ; Immigration officials charged that Furuya entered Hawaii illegally i 1924 and lived there until 1934 when he returned to Japan. 1t was further charged that Furuya used Sano’s name and papers to ob- tain & re-entry permit on June 19, the date cited in the letter, :