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PRESIDENT DENIES - PLEAOF K. OF C. Roosevelt Tells Carmody He = Will Not Intervene in Religious Dispute. Byth Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 18.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has denied the appeal of. the Knights of Columbus for an {nivestigation of religious “persecution™ in Mexico, with the result that the Catholic order planned today to carry it cause to the public. In a letter to Martin J. Carmody, | supreme knight of the order, the President sald: “I decline to permit this Govern- ment to undertake a policy of inter- ference in the domestic concerns of foreign governments and thereby Jjeopardize the maintenance of peace- ful conditions.” Not Indifferent. Mr. Roosevelt, reiterating his ab- horrence of religious intolerance, made it clear that his refusal was not to be interpreted as an act of indiffer- ence. Carmody, in making public the letter, said the Catholic order has asked only for “investigation of the rights denied American citizens and of the cruel oppression by that gov- ernment of its own people, sought by the Borah resolution.” The President's reply, he stated. “expresses his unalterable opposition™ to the Borah resolution, which called for congressional determination of the situation. and “declares it to be his| policy not to undertake any personal determination of the facts. Seeks Public Expression. *“As citizens and as an organization,” Carmody concluded, “we shall continue to use all proper means to bring to the attention of the American people | these. deplorable conditions, with the hope ‘and confidence that an aroused public sentiment will eventually pro- nounce & condemnation of them that cannot go unheeded.” Mr. Roosevelt told Carmody, who is wisiting in New York, he had received 10 complaints of any American being deprived of religious liberty in Mexico. “In respect to the rights enjoyed by Mexican citizens living in Mexico.” the President wrote, “it has been the poliey of this administration to re- frain from intervening in such direct concerns of the Mexican government That policy of non-intervention I shall continue to pursue.” REQUESTED HULL TO ACT. President Roosevelt's enunciation of @ hands-off policy in Mexican religious | matters, public at New York last night, fol- lowed a series of representations on Capitol Hill and at the State Depart- ment and White House. A Knights of Columbus delegation had both called on and written to the State Department, requesting action in alleged religious persecutions by the Mexican government. The re- quest was based on the assertion similar action had been taken in in- cidents involving other countries. The largely to what the States fail to do. | attention of the White House was That is. Congress should be permitted | asked after the original representa- tions to the State Department. During the last congressional ses- | Congress invades particular rights re-f gion several resolutions proposing in- quiries into the Mexican situation were introduced, but Congress adjourned without acting on them. E. D. MYERS EXPIRES, EXAMINER IN I. C. C. Funeral Services Will Be Held Tomorrow at Home—Burial to Be in Cedar Hill. Edward D. Myers, 67, examiner in the Bureau of Accounts, Interstate Commerce Commission, died denly Saturday afternoon at his home, 1741 Kilbourne place. He had been in the Government service 27 years. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at his home. Rev. C. N. Williams, pastor of the Eighth Street Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Born in Waverly, N. Y., on Decem- ber 11, 1867, Mr. Myers was educated in the public schools there. He came to Washington in 1908. For many years an active member of the Masonic Fraternity, he belonged to Federal Lodge, F. A. A, M. the ‘Washington Commandery, Knights Templar and Almas Temple of the Shrine. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maude K. Myers; two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Fuller and Mrs. Dorothy Duty; a son, Donald L. Myers; a stepson, Bennett Boyd, and a granddaughter, all of this city. MRS. VANDERBILT IN LAST-DITCH FIGHT New York's Highest Court Gets Motion for It to Hear Appeal for 11-Year-0ld Gloria. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., November 18— Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt to- day officially began before New York State’s Court of Appeals a last-ditch fight to gain custody of her 11-year- old daughter, Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt. The State’s highest tribunal acknowledged receipt of Mrs. Vander- bilt’s motion for permission to appeal directly from rulings giving custody of the child to her paternal aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. This set the stage for final action in New York State in the case, which has been in the courts for more than a year. The court set no date for the argument on the motion to ap- peal. The appellate division already has refused Mrs. Vanderbilt the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals. Pre- viously, that division had affirmed the ruling of Supreme Court Justice John F. Carew giving custody of little Gloria to Mrs. Whitney. Jus- tice Carew gave Mrs. Vanderbilt per- mission to have the child week ends, Christmas day and during July. “The Court of Appeals may hear only questions of law or constitutional rights, An appeal to the Supreme of the United States also could be based on constitutional rights. Widow of Publisher Weds. NEW YORK, November 18 (#).— Mrs. Katherine Romer, reputedly wealthy widow of John Irving Romer, who was publisher of the magazine Plinters Ink, yeBterday disclosed her marriage last June to Frank Hoyt Rey- | disclosed in a letter made | sud- | - | to What’s What Behind News In Capital Four Billion Permanent Ordinary Budget Is Forecast. BY PAUL MALLON. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has been fussing with the budget daily in his office for nearly two weeks now. His original blue peacil was long ago worn down and aiscarded. Budget Director Bell and Treasury Secretary Morgenthau generally run in whenever the Presi- dent has an hour, and bring him a new one, not unecessarily blue. They are the only counselors. The sessions are known to have been painful for all, and, apparently, without sensa- tional results. The way the big expenditures book stacks up now, the following expecta- tions are reasonably certain: The permanent ordinary budget will re- main unchanged, except that two more emergency expenditures will be transferred to it, thus enlarging it about 20 per cent. One addition will be about $500,000,000 or less annually for public works; jian Conservation Corps. This will bring the permanent budget up to around $4,000,000,000. ‘What will be done with the emer- gency (relief) section has not been decided. It may be reduced possibly by one-half billion to a billion dollars. The exact amount may not even be jacluded when the President sends his budget to Congress in January. Ap- parently he wants to wait as long as possible to see what is needed. Public Comment Scarce. Sharpest constitutional lawyers here habeased their own corpuses when they read the Louisville court decision on the Guffey coal act. Scarcity of public comment was legal authorities like to say anything about a decision out loud where a say something nice. Published reviews of the decision indicated that Federal Judge Hamilton took a mew position on the Constitution and interstate commerce. At least Senator Borah | mever heard of it before, and he is supposed to have read most consti- | tutional arguments since the be- ginning of time. ‘The law was apparently laid down that congressional jurisdiction over | jnterstate commerce should be limited | | | 1 | to determine its own jurisdiction and the courts should interfere only when | served to the States. That means | even the sky is not a limit. | Betting amcng Supreme Court ex- perts is that the decision would not now be sustained. The Supreme Court justices reasoned exactly oppo- site in the unanimous decision in the | Schechter case. | Borah’s Game Like Hoover's. ‘Best political mind readers here | believe Senator Borah is playing the same game as Mr. Hoover. That is, they are sure he has a realistic view | about his chances of capturing the | Republican nomination ~ personally. { Also that he intends to have a large | say about who wiil get the nomina. | tion, | In other words, if Mr. Hoover goes |into the primaries, Mr. Borah will also, and vice versa. Each will see | that the other doesn’t get it. Each | wants the next nominee and platform represent his particular views. That means they will continue to talk like candidates indefinitely. Borah's real candidate is still supposed to be Senator Vandenberg. There are rea- sons also for suspecting that lately the name of Gov. Landon may have | been added to his private and very | choice list. New Style for Hoover. ‘What stunned the politicos here | about Mr. Hoover's New York speech | was the new style he has developed. He was never a phrasemaker. Caus- tic language, so popular nowadays, | was always beyond his ken. Long sentences occasionally in his presiden- | tial days started from his shoe laces, encircled his entire frame and left enough dangling clauses to make a hat. change is that Mr. Hoover employed his friend, Ben Allen, as publicity ad- viser before the speech at Oakland, where the new tendency first became evident. Mr. Allen apparently has heen fol- lowing the success of such eminent modern political authors as Mr. Roose- velt, Gen. Johnson, Father Coughlin and the late Huey Long. Nettled by Budget Prophecies. Mr. Roosevelt is getting a little nettled about all the budget prophecies appearing in the public prints. The other day he called in a sharp young Washington newsman who had writ- ten a story forecasting a half-billion slash. The personal conference lasted one hour and a half. It was the first time the President has done any- thing like that. He usually sees news men only in bunches, bi-weekly, at his press conferences. Unkindest cut of the week: Sena- tor Borah, in replying to a question as to whether he would listen in on the radio to Mr. Hoover's speech, said: “I would rather read it.” (Copyright, 1935.) Child Scalded to Death. CHICAGO, November 18 (#).—Lit- tle Arthur Jaskowski, 3, sat on the floor yesterday while his mother pre- pared his bath. As she lifted a kettle of boiling water from the stove, Mrs. Jaskowski accidentally spilled the man, dancing instructor. She is 45. He is 35. steaming contents on the yolingster. He died at a hospital. L the second about | | $300,000,000 for the permanent Civil- The right explanation behind the | ECONOMISTS FIGHT GREENBACK BONUS Fiat Currency Likened to Drug Habit, Which Can’t Be Stopped. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. For two years now »conomists have dreaded the possibility that the Gov- ernment would turn on the printing presses and issue its own money to pay debts. President Roosevelt has opposed it publicly and privately. Con- gress has insisted on giving him dis- cretionary power to issue such money. | Now the concrete question may have |to be faced if Congress makes the issuance of flat or “printing press” money by the Treasury a mandate | of law. Eighty economists, seventy-two of whom are connected with universities and colleges from coast to coast, have issued a warning as follows: “There is very real possibility that | the Congress which convenes in Jan- uary will provide for the issue of approximately $2,500,000,000 of in- convertible paper money as a means of paying the soldiers’ bonus. If the soldiers’ bonus bill should be passed, payments might be made in any one of various ways, but the most dan- gerous means which could be employed would be the issue of inconvertible paper money in the form of greenbacks (such as the inconvertible and unse- cured United States notes of Civil War days). The probabilities that Con- gress may resort to the issue of such money are too great to be ignored by the people of this country.” Public Response Expected. | The purpose of the announcement | by the economists’ National Commit- tee on Monetary Policy, which issued it, is to develop an effective opposi- tion to such a proposal “while there is yet time.” It is carefully pointed out by the committee that Mr. Roose- velt has already taken a position in opposition to the issue of such money (and that the public should let the President know he is being given their support as against the bloc in Con- | gress which may seek to tie his hands with a mandatory law. The statement from the economists will be somewhat of a surprise in the | sense that there has been no inkling | that the congressional paper money | bloc is strong enough to pass such a law. But unfortunately the paper apparently due to the fact that few money question has been tied up with | the soldier bonus, and the parliamen- | tary situation may develop in such | vote for the soldier bonus will find it | necessary to vote for the issuance of paper money to pay it. | Fiat money has wrecked many a government because, if money can be that legal aspects delayed slightly | issued without a definite holding of | silver or gold back of it, there is no | limit to which governments can go in issuing such currency. It is like | the individual who has a blank check book and can write as many checks as he pleases without whether the people who receive the checks will ask if he has an equivalent amount in the bank. Since a gov- | ernment can compel acceptance of its | currency by the public for money pur- | delay in enforcement of economic their own ri poses, there is for the average man | sanctions, but this apparenfly was re- | no alternative. What happens then | is that confidence in the paper money breaks down, not only in the new issue, but in al lother issues, Wage Earners Suffer. When that occurs, prices rise to fantastic heights. In Germany, dur- | ing the 1923 inflation, they clibmbed o fast that people could not translate their money into purchases before skyrocketing prices ate up their pay envelopes. Such a situation can be fatal to a country, because wages and salaries never go up fast enough to keep pace with the rise in prices. | The people of moderate means and the persons in the lower brackets of in- come suffer the most. In view of this picture, it might be asked why any sensible group of legis- | lators would ven entertain such a pro- | posal. The answer is that, ever since | the famous inflation in France in the | eighteenth century, the proponents of fiat money have insisted that the sup- posed dangers never will arise because | be controlled. But history shows that, }once the step is taken and govern- ments issue their own money to pay | current expenses, there is no stopping. It has been likened to the person who takes drugs, believing a little will not hurt and then finding that a habit | develops which is difficult to break, Bonds Are Right Way. The bonus probably will be paid next year. There's a two-thirds vote in both houses to pass a bonus bill over the President’s veto. right way to handle the matter, if the Congress insists on paying the bonus carrying interest and adding the obli- gation to the public debt along with the other borrowings which have to customs receipts or the sale of assets held by the Government in the form of loans. The soldier bonus debt comes due in 1945. It should always have been direct obligation, because the money is | total amount, depending on whether past loans will be forgiven or whether the interest will be permitted to ac- cumulate to the maturity date, even though the Government pays .the date is at hand, namely, in 1936. But whatever the amount, it be- comes a direct obliggtion of Gov- | ernment and as such can be treated | as an item of expense and borrow- ings made for that purpose. The issu- ance of flat money would only intro- duce the printing press as an instru- ment of ultimate repudiation of the public debt, a circumstance that would cost the country in broken confidence, rising prices, depreciation in Govern- ment bonds and consequent disaster to our banks far more than is in- volved in simply adding $2,500,000,000 to the public debt and trusting to the present and future administrations to establish economic policies that per- mit business and individuals to earn enough to pay the necessary taxes wherewith to retire these debts. PRIESTS SENTENCED Reich Punishes Pair Convicted of Sending Funds Abroad. BERLIN, November 18 (#).—Father Leo Boeschen and Father Waldemar ‘Wurth, Pranciscan priests of the Order of St. Elizabeth in Fulda, today were | | on conviction of illegally transferring funds abroad. Father Boeschen was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary and PFather Wurth to cne year. q | the amount of paper money issued can | But_the| now, is to issue Government bonds | be paid for some day out of taxes or | carried on Uncle Sam's books as a owed. There is a dispute as to the | bonus nine years before that maturity | sentenced to prison terms and fined | LEACUE SANCTIONS INEFFECT ONTTALY | Practical Enforcement Is Delayed in Some States by Legal Phases. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 18.—League of Nations economic sanctions, approved by 51 nations, took effect against Italy today in an unprecedented effort to | force a halt to war. | ‘These nations virtually severed financial and trading relations with the invaders of Ethiopia, pledging | themselves to exclude Italian goods from their markets and to cease sup- judge can hear them unless they can | way that a member who wants to PWVIng Italy with a selected list of raw materials. Theoretically, the economic block- | ade was imposed at one minute after midright, but practically, it developed some nations like Spain, where de- crees forbidding Italian imports and some exports were still to be pub- lished. Portugal Takes Lead. Portugal took the lead, closing its Worrying | frontiers to Italian goods and halting | ¢ | export of raw materials which might be used for warfare as early as Sat- urday. France, like Spain, faced a possible | duced, if not eliminated, by publica- tion yesterday of boycott decrees. These decrees, set forth in the Official Journal, forbadeé importation of all Italian goods except money, gold, silver, books, newspapers, maps and music into France and its terri- tories. Exportation of raw materials such as iron, tin, nickel, manganese, rub- ber and aluminum likewise were pro- hibited, with a check on trade to be maintained by licensing of importers and exporters. Practical Enforcement Waits. ‘The French frontier theoretically | was closed to Italian goods at mid- | | could be enforced practically remained in doubt. hTe law is applied in each department only when a copy of the Official Journal, publishing the decree, reaches the prefectual. Premier Pierre Lavala, foreseeing counter-measures by Italy, waited to estimate the effect of loss of Italy's | trade on French commerce. | Great Britain, whose Geneva dele- | gate, Anthony Eden, led the campaign | for sanctions, strengthened its cus- | toms organization in a special watch, | maintained over all ports, for Italian consignment. Emergency circulars gave author- | ities detailed instructions as to how the boycott should be made effective. Dominions Co-operate. Britain's far-flung dominions and colonies co-operated to see that there were no gaps in the empire’s sanctions barriers against the warring Fascist nation. Austria, Hungary and Albania are held firmly to their determination not to apply economic pressure, although Austria emphasized that it was con- ciliatory toward the great powers op- posing Italy’s Sthiopian campaign. ‘The attitude of Bulgaria had still to be clarified, but Rumania and Yugo- slavia were determined to apply sanc- tions. Yugoslavia was still negotiat- lucrative Italian trade. Germany did not participate offi- cially in the economic blockade, hav- ing left the League, but it had placed an embargo on export of foodstuffs and raw materials against all nations on grounds of home necessity. YOUNG WOMAN HURT IN FALL FROM WINDOW Plunges 20 Feet to Sidewalk and Is XKnocked Unconscious. Motorist Gives Aid. Miss Katherine Wilson, 27-year-old stenographer, was critically injured last night when she fell about 20 feet to the sidewalk while trying to open a French window in her second-floor apartment at 1602 L street. A motorist picked up the uncon- scious girl and took her to Emergency Hospital, where she was found to have a fractured skull. An emergency operation was performed in an attempt to save her life. Miss Wilson is believed to have lost her balance when the window opened suddenly. —_— PAY FOR RIDE TO JAIL Pair Captured in Act of Robbing Kansas City Cab Driver. KANSAS CITY, November 18 (#).— Kirby Oborn and Ernest Tremaine paid a taxicab to take them to jail— and added a dime tip. They were arrested by Police Lieut. W. D. Tays, of robbing the taxi driver. [} K | night, but just when the sanctions | ing for compensation for its loss of . who said he caught them in the Act(‘ C.. MONDAY, Italy fighting between an Ethiopian force and the Italian Danakil troops at Ende said at Asmara the Ethiopians missed their opportunity to come out victorious. | They said the Danakil fighters re- | pelled the attack of the Ethiopians by | using hand grenades and that Haile Selassie’s warriors made a mistake in charging a camel battery, as they were quickly repelled. 37 Halian Forces Killed. ! | The witnesses said 37 were killed on! | the Italian side and 4 Fascist officers | | were wounded. The Danakil column | occupted Azbi, just east of Makale, | after the fight, it was stated. ; Austria, Hungary and Al nia, all members of the League of Nations, did not enforce the economic sanctions | against Italy. Bulgaria has not made | | clear its position. Germany, now outside the League, | had embargoed foodstuffs and certain | | raw materials to all nations, although | these did not include coal, one of Ger- | | many’s principal exports to Italy. The | Reich said its embargoes were due to home necessity. The whole British Empire was co- operating in economic penalties against Italy, folowing out Britain's leadership of the move at Geneva The United States, while not join- g in the League's program, has de- | ared an embargo on arms to both | belligerents and has warned Amer- | | icans that if they carry on business | with either nation or travel on the' | belligerents’ ships they are acting at sk. Rush Across Frontier. Great quantities of merchandise | destined for Italy were collected at! the Franco-Italian frontier as cus- | | toms agents tried to move them into | Italy before France's deadline on ex- | Pports to that nation becomes effective tonight. | The French Chamber of Commerce | declared the ban would increase | French unemployment, while author- | | ities estimated French railroads would | lose $3,300,000 a year. The Italian| Chamber of Commerce in Paris pre- | dicted 600 stores selling Italian goods | would be forced to close because of | | sanctions. | GOODS PILE UP ON BORDER. | in French Goods Held Up En Route to Ttaly. PARIS, November 18 (#)—Huge | stocks of merchandise, destined for | Ttaly but blocked by the enforcement | {ot economic sanctions, piled up on the Franco-Italian frontier today. Customs agents worked overtime trying the clear the goods during the one day of grace allowed before the border is closed to such traffic. The French Chamber of Commerce called to the attention of Premier Laval the “disastrous” effect of the sanctions which, they said, would in- crease unemployment in France. Authorities sald the railroads ex- pected to lose at the rate of 50,000,000 francs ($3.300,000) a year, while the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Paris estimated that 600 stores sell- ing Italian goods would be put out of | business. e {MISS LANDI'S MOTHER DIES OF HEART ATTACK Countess Caroline Was Daughter of Emperor Franz Josef and Bavarian Princess. By the Associated Press, SANTA MONICA, Calif, No- vember 18.—Countess Caroline Za- mardi-Lamdi, 63, mother of Elissa Landi, film star, died yesterday at her Huntington Palisades home from a heart attack. Miss Landi is in London, members of the family, including Count Zamardi-Lamdi, were here. The actress was notified to sail for New York at once and fly to Los Angeles. A son, Count Anthony Zamardi- Lamdi, also survives. The countess was born in Chateau de Sassot, Normandy, France, the daughter of Emperor Franz Josef of | Austria and Elizabeth Wittlesbach, Princess of Bavaria. Count Lamdi's | home 1s in Italy. Other Cousin of Woodrow Wilson Dies. ST. LOUIS, November 18 (#).—Mrs. Addie Wilson MacCoy, Long Island, N. Y., first cousin of the late Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson, died here yes- terday at the home of her daughter, | Mrs. Pearl Wichmann. Golfer Knocked Qut As Own Ball Strikes Stone and Rebounds By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., November 18—Richard A. Ramey is mum- bling “fore” to himself today. He was knocked out by his own shot yesterday when his drive struck & stone in the fairway and the ball bounced back against his chin. A surgeon stitched an inch- long gash for him. NOVEMBER 1 Italian “tiny” tanks preceeding the infantry as they push through Adigrat while en route to their success ful capture of Makale, one of the largest towns in the northern section of Ethiopia. k3 —Wide World Photo. LIBERTY LEAGUE'S LAW OFFER UPHELD Bar Committee Declares New Deal Can Form Qwn Organizations. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 18— A suggestion that supporters of the ROOSEVELT URGES PLANNING BOARDS Permanent Agencies Would Co-ordinate U. S. and Local Programs. By the Assoclated Press. Permanent planning agencies for national, State and local governments were advocated by President Roosevelt in making public yesterday a report | by the National Resources Committee | on State planning developments. | “The rapid organization and prog- ress of 46 State planning boards, the accomplishments of which are out- lined in the report of the National | Resources Committee,” the President | said, “show that the people of our country understand and want long- range planning and foresight in public affairs. “To give lasting substance and direction to planning for the wise use of our human and natural resources, we need permanent advisory planning | boards for towns, cities, counties, States and the Union.” Permanent P, W. A, Urged. Reports by the National Resources Committee, which is headed by Sec- retary Ickes and was named by Mr. Roosevelt to plan the use and develop- ment of national resources, were the | original basis for the $4.000,000,000 work-relief program. But many of its recommendations were laid aside be- cause of Harry L. Hopkins' insistence on small projects designed to fit the supply of relief labor in individual communities. Yesterday, however, the committee | advocated establishment of a perma- nent Public Works Administration to co-ordinate Federal and State works | programs it estimated woud involve | $26,000,000,000 in the period from 1935 to 1944. 4-Point Program. It added these three recommenda- tions for a four-fold program: 1. Permanent status, with “adequate financial support,” for State planning | boards with Federal personnel to help | during the “development period.” | 2. Unremitting efforts in the direc- DENIES HOOVER WILL ENTER RACE Allen Declares Former Pres- ident Is Only Interested in Issues Now. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., November 18.—A statement indicating Herbert Hoover thinks his candidacy for President may be necessary was attributed to him today by the proprietor of a hotel, but & few hours later a friend denied Hoover had made a statement about his plans to any one. Mrs. Gussie Machson, proprietor of the Monticello Inn, where Hoover stopped unexpectedly last night dur- ing a snowstorm, said that in a pri- vate conversation she asked Mr. Hoover if he was going to run for President. “He said, ‘sometimes you have to do those things,’” Mrs. Machson re- ported, adding that Mr. Hoover told her he could not say definitely. Mr. Hoover had no comment today in Binghamton, where he visited Wil- liam H. Hill, his assistant Eastern States campaign manager in 1928. Hoover’s friend, Ben S. Allen of Palo Alto, Calif., who accompanied the former President, said there had been a “lot of conversation and & little joking” about the possibility of Mr. Hoover's candidacy last night at Monticello, but he had declined to make any statement about his plans. “He hasn't got any, to tell the truth,” Allen said. Allen is the for- mer President’s traveling companion. He said Mr. Hoover had been asked by a newspaper man at the hotel if he would be a candidate. “He replied that the question was premature, that what he is interested in now is the issues,” Allen said Two Sullivan County Republicans, who called on the former President at the inn, said they had not heard him make the remark. but Mrs. Machson said she was positive she understood Mr. Hoover correctly. As a matter of confirmation the Associated Press asked her to verify by telegram her telephoned report of what the former President had said. Her telegram in full follows: “Herbert Hoover arrived Monticello New Deal could create organizations | tion of closer co-operation between | Inn 7:30 p.m. Sunday night with Ben- similar to the American Liberty State and Federal governments in the | jamin S. Allen and chauffeur. Big League assumed equal prominence to- | many practical channels without dis- | following of guests followed him in. day with an opinion that league | turbing the just balance between na- | Before Mr. Hoover went to bed con- lawyers had violated no canon of tional and local authorities. One of | versed with Mrs. Machson of Monti- ethics in offering to defend gratis the greatest losses in public expendi- cello Inn. She asked him if he is the constitutional rights of any in- digent citizen. The American Bar Association’s Committee on Profesional Ethics and Grievances held unanimously that the broadcast offer of the league had cre- ated issues which “transcend the range of professional ethics.” Acts on Georgian’s Complaint. Acting on a complaint of C. N. Davie of Atlanta, Ga. that the Lib-| erty League was organizing a ‘“vast free lawyer service” to “buck” the New Deal, the committee declared yes- terday: 1. The National Lawyers’ Commit- tee of the league is justified in pre- paring and disseminating ‘‘opinions upon legislation * * * with particular reference to the constitutionality of | such legislation.” | 2. The lawyers' committee’s offer “is analagous to that of the surgeon who daily operates in the wards of the hospitals upon patients free of charge—a work which is one of the| glories of the medical profession.” Expresses No Opinion. The Bar Committee emphasized that it expressed the soundness of the conclusions reached by the National Lawyers' Committee,” and added: “With equal assurance, we uphold the right of lawyers and others who are in agreement with the policies in the legislation complained of, to ganize and express themselves * * “This group has organized and ap- | pears on the one side; a similar group | may well organize and function on the other side. Such an eventuality | is more to be desired than feared The Bar Committee took no action ,on another important question, com- plaints against three attorneys for the late Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer, recently slain gangster. ADMR. C. P. NELSON FATALLY STRICKEN| Descendant of Lord Nelson Ex- pires in Philadelphia After Heart Attack. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 18.— Rear Admiral Charles P. Nelson of the U. S. Navy, a descendant of Lord Nelson, British naval hero. died Sat- urday in the Philadelphia Naval Hos- pital after a heart attack. He was 58. Born in Baltimore, Md., Admiral Nelson attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where his class was graduated two months in advance in 1898 to permit members to serve in the Philippines. Later he saw service in China. During the World War Admiral Nel- son commanded a fleet of submarine destroyers in the Mediterranean. England awarded him the Orders of St. George and St. Michael, and other foreign governments gave him medals in recognition of his service. Funeral services will be held in Philadelphia Thursday. Burial will be in the Naval Academy Cemetery | at Annapolis. e PRESENT-DAY ATTITUDE TOWARD WOMEN HIT Archbishop of Milwaukee clares Breakdown of Conven- tions Is Tragic. By the Associated Press. FORT WAYNE, Ind,, November 18. —Rev. Samuel A. Stritch, archbishop of Milwaukee, decried what he called “the false principle of human person- ality” as it affects the attitude toward women in an address last night before the National Council of Catholic Women. “It seems to me,” the archbishop said, “that nowhere is the false prin- ciple of human personality doing such havoc as in that fleld which is pecu- larly women’s field of action. “Social conditions in industrialized society have given women new dutles and enlarged her field of activities. 1t is, however, tragic to see how today the conventions which Christian socie- ty patiently and laboriously built up around woman to protect her sanctity and to emphasize her particular func- tions in society have been ruthlessly and thoughtlessly broken down.” “no opinion as to| De- | ture lies, the report said, in the fre- quent failure to pool available re- sources and personnel freely. | 3. Closer consideration by State planning agencies of possibilities of | co-ordinating all phases of national | resource development, along the lines |of the committee’s own national reports. The committee’s survey of State planning which drew comment from President Roosevelt said every State, | | except Louisiana and Delaware, now had a planning board. Co-operation Held Essential. It reported that more than 500 and said “no matter how small or large the normal expenditure for pub- | lic works may be, it is of prime im- portance that there be such co-ordina- | tion among the State and Federal gov- | ernments that maximum returns may be assured to the people of the States.” | The committee added: “Too great centralization in Wash- | ington is not desirable even if possi- ble, since planning is an attitude and a practice which must command the confidence and invite the co-operation of wide groups of people. It must come from the bottom up as well as {rom the top down.” In emphasizing that politics be kept out of such work, the committee said | State boards should serve as “general staffs” to Governors and Legislatures. “It cannot be too strongly empha- sized,” it said, “that the function of | these boards is not that of making final decisions upon broad quesnuns‘ of policy—a responsibility which rests | firmly upon the elected representatives | of the people. Such a board will be useful in proportion as it is deuched‘ from immediate politica! power, serv- ing as the technical tcol of the de- mocracy.” U. S. Role Held Requirement. ‘Terming continued Federal support for State planning an “indispensable factor in any effective program for better utilization of the natural and human resources of the country,” the committee said “notable progress” al- ready had been made in planning land use, while advancement was “sig- nificant” in water use ana mineral use. The committee previously had is- sued reports on these activities as well as on the need of more adequate map- ping and the development of the Mis- sissippi River Valley. Members of the National Resource Committee, besides Ickes and Hopkins, are: Secretaries Dern, Wallace, Ro- per and Perkins; Frederic A. Delano, an uncle of the President; Charles E. Merriam and Wesley C. Mitchell. Formerly known as the National Re- sources Board, its name was changed when it was given an additional | $1,000,000 public allotment a year ago. . FIVE KILLED, 17 SHOT IN MONTEREY CLASH Opposing Political Groups Stage Gun Fight, Which Is Quelled by Federal Troops. By the Associated Press. MONTEREY, Mexico, November | 18.—Five persons were killed and| 17 wounded yesterday in a gun fight growing out of a clash between oppos- ing political groups. | The trouble started when followers | of Gen. Fottunato Zuazua, candidate | for the governorship of Nuevo Leon, entered a theater in which the rival candidate, Gen. Anacleto Guerrero, was holding a meeting. Police attempted to drive off the Zuazuacistas who resisted and dis- armed several officers. Some one opened fire and a general | fight started. Federal troops finally restored order. REHEARSALS TO END will Cast of “The Poor Nut” Complete Work Tonight. Rehearsals will be completed tonight for “The Poor Nut,” to be presented at Roosevelt High School tomorrow at 8:15 pm by the Players’ Club under the auspices of the Central Commu- nity Center. Miss Lucy Ann Rogers is directing the play, assisted by Robert Reynolds, Harold Snyder and Miss Mary Eliza- going to run for President. He said: ‘Sometimes you have to do those things, but couldn't say definitely.’ Send papers to inn “MRS. MACHSON. Proprietor, “Monticello Inn.* By telephone she first quoted Mr. Hoover as saying “I don't know. Maybe I'll have to (run). This is the kind of thing a man can't always get out of.” Howard Beecher, Sullivan County Republican chairman, said he did not hear Mr. Hoover comment on his possible candidacy. Beecher said he thought Mrs. Machson might have been excited because of Hoover's un- | prominent citizens were co-operating | expected visit to her hotel and might | in the work of State planning boards have misunderstood him. John P. Curtis, editor of the Sulli- van County Republican, who also called at the inn, said the former President discussed the pre-campaign situation privately with his visitors. He said he did not hear any discussion of his own possible candidacy. and that if Mrs. Machson had heard correctly, Mr. Hoover “probably was either speaking jocularly or made & slip of the tongue.” BALTIMORE, November 18 (#).— Herbert Hoover was quoted by two officials of the Maryland Federation of Young Republicans today as say- ing flatly he is not a candidate for the 1936 Republican presidential nom- ination. The two are Charles H. Cover, vice president, and Harry Leeward Katz, chairman of the Executive Committee of the federation. They said the for- mer President made his statement at a dinner at the Union League, New York, the night before he addressed the Ohio Society attacking the New Deal and offering a fiscal program of . his own. “Mr. Hoover answered question after question.” saidga statement by Cover and Katz. “In direct answer to a question whether it was advisable to concentrate attention now on the prospective candidate, he replied that there are approximately 21 candidates and that he is not one of these.” . Sexton Dies in Grave. LENEXA, Kans.. November 18 (#).— Walter Cole, 45, a sexton, died in & grave he dug for another. Fearful he would not finish the grave in time for a scheduled burial, he worked furiously—until he threw out the last shovelful of dirt and died of heart disease, Trvin S. Cobb Says: Flags Now Fly for One- Time Plain Scotch Novelist. SANTA MONICA, Calif, November 18—When I first knew him, he was plain John Buchan, writing the best Scotch novels since Robert Louis Stevenson. Then, in 1918, he was Col. John Buchan of the British wartime press bureau, shrewd, kindly and deft, han- dling a bunch of rampaging Amer- ican correspond- ents as gently as though they were S0 Imany new- laid eggs, and he, personally, had laid every last one of them. When he became Sir John Buchan, a lot of us said: “Well, he earned his honors but no title ever can swell that Scot’s head.” Now, at Ottawa, the flags fly and the cannons roar for Baron Tweeds- muir, governor general of our noble neighbor nation to the north, but, if his lordship doesn’t mind, I'd like, personally, to go on thinking of him as my friend, John Buchan, a very great gentleman. They'll like him up there, we're go- ing to like him down here. And. ‘if any of you Canadians have any doubt as to his diversified talents, wait till you see him casting a trout-fly across a likely pool. beth Holt. John Mann will appear in the title role. (Copyright. 135. by the North American I wipapie Aliance. Tab.) A