Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1936, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Increasing cloudiness Forecast.) and slightly colder, followed by rain or snow tonight or tomorrow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 46, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 34, at 7 a.m, yesterday. Full report on Page 6. (®) Means Associated Press. No. 1,613—No. 33,528. SENATE. APPROVES FARM BILL, 26-20; MNARY SAYS ACT WON'T BE UPHELD Senator Predicts Supreme Court Will Hold Plan Un- constitutional in Suit by State After Election. FIVE REPUBLICANS VOTE FOR A. A. A. SUBSTITUTE Nye Paired for It—9 Democrats Opposed, With 3 Paired—Inde- pendent Offices Appropriation Up—Neutrality Slated as Next Big Issue Before Senators. BACKGROUND— When the United States Supreme Court declared illegal the A. A. A. it left the farm bloc in Congress in confusion. The substitute farm bill has been one of the most im- portant pieces of legislation await- ing action since that time. Under the new measure, curtailment of production is designated for soil conservation and other economic uses of lands. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate cleared its deck of the administration farm bill yesterday, passing the measure by a vote of 56 to 20. It is expected that the House will take the bill up early this week and put it through. The farm bill, offered as a substi- tute for the defunct A. A. A, will be held unconstitutional, Senator Mc- Nary of Oregon, Republican leader, declared immediately after the vote had been taken. “Any State can bring a suit attack- ing the validity of the new farm bill on the ground that it invades States’ rights,” said the Oregon Senator. He pointed out, also, that such a suit can be brought directly into the Su- preme Court itself by a State. McNary made no effort to predict what State would bring such a suit. He merely predicted that a suit would materialize. - Expects Wait on Election. The Oregon Senator said, however, the new farm bill probably will stand as a law until after the November elec- tions, “It will be operative during the na- tional political campaign,” he said. He Insisted that the objective of the new farm measure was at bottom the same as that of the old A. A. A, the control of crop production, with bene- | fits paid by the Federal Government to the farmers who comply with the crop reduction plans of the adminis- tration. Democratic leaders were equally insistent, however, that the bill was not designed to control pro- duction—a matter which the Supreme Court has ruled cannot be controlled by the Federal Government. The bill introduced by Senator . Smith of South Carolina promises to be a major political issue in the cam- paign. In some quarters it is believed that if the measure actually is put into operation on a large scale before the election, it may prove a boomerang to its sponsors, with many farmers disappointed or claiming they have been discriminated against in favor of neighbors. Discretion on Allotments. ‘The Secretary of Agriculture, under the terms of the bill, is given limited power to do what he wants with $500,- 000,000 for farm relief. The authori- zation was limited to $500,000,000 in any one year by an amendment by Senator Clark, which was adopted. ‘There is no yardstick set up for him, either in the amounts he may allot to the various States or in the benefits which he is to pay to individual farm- ers. On the face of the measure, he could throw a huge amount into one State and give another a small allot- ment. Generally speaking, however, the Democratic sponsors of the farm bill believe that it will aid the farmers (See FARM, Page A-3) BLAZE IN SKYSCRAPER Firemen Fight Flames 41 Floors Up in New York Building. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 15.—Fire- men went up 41 floors in a mid-town skyscraper building a: Madison avenue and Forty-first street tonight to fight & blaze in the offices of Samuel Rosoff, subway contractor. Three engine squads were whisked skyward by elevator to prevent flames from spreading to other quarters. Battalion Chief Willlam Harold said it ‘was the highest his men had ever gone ‘to extinguish a fire. Damage was confined to one room. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. g 6L “No.” Fine Arts Commission says 'C Street ! he WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1936—108 PAGES. President Submits Own Sketch In Effort to Solve Controversy On Constitution Ave. Buildings ” oons wer -Constitution Avenue. . Debate between Secretary Ickes and the President on one side, Fine Arts Commission on the other, is whether to locate administration build- ing for Pan-American Union in this square. President and Ickes say “Yes.” President’s idea, shown in sketch he drew, is to develop area as garden memorial to Western Hemi- sphere patriots, thus preserving approach to Interior annex, facing south on C street. But plan wouldn't work. See other sketches, Page A-14. 3 BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. | Plans for a new administration building for the Pan-American Union have been halted indefinitely by a controversy involving President Roose- velt, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Chairman Frederic A. Del- ano of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Chairman | Charles Moore of the Commission of | Fine Arts. | The issue centers in a disagreement | about the site for the proposed struc- | ture, and upon the final decision, it is indicated, the fate of the whole north- west rectangle development depends. | Back of the argument lies more | than 35 years of history. As long ago | as 1901 it was suggested that Consti- | tution avenue should be laid out as 'n model thoroughfare, leading to the Arlington Bridge. Gradually the dream moved toward fruition. The Lincoln Memorial and the Memorial Bridge, the National Academy of Sci- ences and the American Pharma- ceutical Association Building—each a masterpiece of architectural design— were successive steps in what the Fine Arts Commission has considered ' the right direction. Then, comparatively recently, the land between Eighteenth and Nine- teenth streets, from C street north to E street, was appropriated for the new Interior Building, now under con- struction. Followed by the selection (8ee INTERIOR, Page A-14) U5 AR OFFICIAL HURLS LIE" AT QUIZ Martin Accuses Former Em- ploye, Witness at Cutting Crash Probe. BY J. S. EDGERTON. Lightning flashed yesterday in the tense atmosphere of a Senate inves- tigation of the airline crash last May which killed Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico when a charge made by a former Bureau of Air Commerce employe brought Rex Martin, assist- ant director of the bureau, to his feet shouting, “That’s a lie!” Tension had been growing hourly in the hearing when J. A. Mount, former superintendent of maintenance of the bureau, charged that he had been threatened with “smearing of his pri- vate life” by an official of the Afr Commerce Bureau if he tesified against the bureau before the Senate committee. “Who told you that?” Senator Clark of Missouri asked. “Rex Martin,” Mount replied. Martin, at the other end of the crowded Senate Commerce Committee room, jumped to his feet with the ery, “That’s a lie!” Mount, his eyes lowered, made no reply. Testimony before the committee de- veloped that Mount resigned from the bureau last September under threat of discharge if he refused. Senator Cope- land of New York, chairman of the Senate Aircraft Accident Subcommit- (See PROBE, Page A-4) AGRARIAN HEAD HELD Cuban Police Take Dr. Vergara in Drive on Political Foes. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAVANA, February 15.—In a sud- den new drive against political oppo- nents of the present regime, the Cuban police today arrested Dr. Alejandro Vergara, head of the National Agra- rians, & Leftist group, and four of his lieutenants. They were accused of conspiring against the government. Vergara, a former mayor of Havana, directed his supporters to ignore the national election held on January 10 and himself refrained from voting, it is understood. (Copyright, 1936.) W.P.A. Uses $500,000 to Drill By the Assoclated Press. An account of how $3,000,000 is RURAL ELECTRIC BILLIS APPROVED Senate Committee Votes to Spend Billion in Power Extension. By the Associated Press. Creation of a permanent Rural Electrification Administration to spend $1,000,000 in bringing electricity to the farms was voted yesterday by the Senate Agriculture Committee, It approved the Norris bill, under which $100,000,000 woulc be set aside each year for 10 years for loans to State, muniéipalities or non-profit or- ganizations to build generating plants and distribution lines in areas now without electric power. The loans would be self-liquidating over a period of 40 years and would be made at a 3 per cent interest rate. The committee’s action was wel- comed by Morris L. Cooke, administra- tor of the Rural Elactrification Ad- (See POWER, Page A-7) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. Ghanging word 53, B> or] -3. Lost nndgFound—-A-ls. Vital Statistics—A-13. Death Notices—A-13. Educational—B-4. Resorts—B-6. ‘Washington Wayside—B-6. Spoté.s! ISectlon—Pms B-7 to PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1, D-3. s Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D- Civic News and Comment—D-4, Veterans’ tions, Nation- al G and Organized Re- serves—D-5, D-6. Women'’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D- Serial Sf —D-8. Contrac -8. Publi¢ Library—D-8. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1 to E-10. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-9, . PART FOUR. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION FUND FOR DISTRICT BUILDING PROGRAM ON PREFERRED LIST Ickes Held Ready to For- ward $4,250,000 Scheme to Congress for Approval. $3,000,000 IS MARKED FOR MUNICIPAL CENTER Gallinger Slated to Receive $750,- 000 and Lorton $500,000 for New Additions. BY NELSON M. SHEPARD. A $4,250,000 program for long-sought municipal improvements in Washing- ton is on a preferred list of proposed public works, and Secretary Ickes is preparing to forward it for the infor- mation of Congress in response to a recent Senate resolution, it Wwas learned yesterday. The major local project calls for a $3,000,000 loan and grant for erect- ing new buildings on Judiciary Squaze to remedy the notoriously over- crowded condition in the Police, Municipal and Juvenile Courts. Des- pairing of obtaining funds from P. W. A, the District Commissioners have been seeking other sources of revenue to start work on the first phases of the Municipal Center. Two other local items are on this preferred list, records show, one for $750000 to build a new ward at Gallinger Hospital and $500,000 for additional safety precautions at the Lorton, Va., Reformatory. Ickes has gone over the pending list of thousands of public works proj- ects with State P. W. A. directors in | connection with studies now being made at the White House and Capitol of further work relief needs. The listed projects afe those which will claim a priority, it was understood, in carrying out any new public works program which the President or Congress may authorize. D. C. Has Privilege Status. The District of Columbia program, officials explained, has a privileged status which gives it an additional ad- vantage since Congress already has given special authorization for the three projects. The hitch has been in a lack of available P. W. A. funds and an apparent reluctance on the part of Secretary Ickes, before the money gave out, to favor Washington | over other communities in view of large Federal expenditures here.. ‘Two local proposals conspicuously omitted from the list are the mu- nicipal stadium and the development of a municipal airport. While no formal request for an airport allot- ment is pending before P. W. A, Ickes had been sounded out by the | District Commissioners on the pos- sibility of obtaining funds to de- velop the existing Washington Alr- port, which is now threatened with closing in 10 days, pending the re- sults of negotiations by Chairman Mc- Swain of the House Military Affairs Committee. Ickes is still represented by offi- cials as opposed to the granting of any money for an airport on that site, contending that the “speculative cost” of the land makes it prohibi- tive. ‘The inclusion of the other three projects on a preferred list—subject to new P. W. A. funds being made available—indicates that he is willing to authorize the work at the proper time. District Has Made Loans. Congress empowered the District Commissioners to borrow up to $10,- 750,000 from P. W. A., specifying the purposes for which the money was to be used. Of this amount the District has gbligated itself to the extent of $4,000,000 for a sewage disposal plant an/ $1,500,000 for the new adult tu- bfculosis hospital at Glenn Dale, Md. “hese were regarded locally as the (See IMPROVEMENT, Page A-18) Son Born to Montgomerys. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 15 (#).—A son was born today to Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, wife of Actor Robert Montgomery. He will be named “Junior,” the actor said. The Montgomerys have a 2-year-old daughter. SHucks! IF IT DOES NT WORK IT WAS, HALPTANN LI SAYSLEBOWTZ Here to See Mrs. McLean, Lawyer Declares Bruno s Shielding Others. BACKGROUND— Sentenced to die January 17 for the kidnaping and murder of baby Lindbergh, Bruno Richard Haupt- mann was reprieved by Gov. Hoff- man of New Jersey. Reprieve ex- pired yesterday, but under State law he must be re-sentenced. This means another 30 to 60 days’ delay. It developed last week Samuel S. Leibowitz, noted criminal lawyer, had been induced by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of Washington to enter case. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Bruno Richard Hauptmann has not “told the truth” about the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, | Samuel 8. Leibowitz, New York crim- inal lawyer, declared last night as he arrived here for a hurried conference with Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who | interested him in the case. “I don't believe Hauptmann told me the truth when I saw him in his cell,” the lawyer told reporters. He said he meant by this that he believed there were others involved in the case whom the German has steadfastly refused to .ame. Meanwhile, it was learned Cuban detectives believe they have located a German in Havana who may be able to shed light on the case. This man, it was said, once showed a prominent Cuban lawyer a letter, signed with the name of Isador Fisch, asking as- sistance in passing some “hot money.” Fisch, now dead, was named during | the trial as the man from whom Hauptmann received the Lindbergh | ransom money found in his possession. Leibowitz Plans No Action. Leibowitz said he does not expect to take any court action in Hauptmann's behalf. “I don’t expect to take any kind of action,” he said, “unless Hauptmann tells me the whole truth.” ‘The attorney, however, was said to have told associates he believed he could “break” Hauptmann, although (See HAUPTMANN, Page ) CRAMER EN ROUTE HERE Virgin Islands Governor Expected to Seek New Legislation. ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, Feb- ruary 15 (#).—Lawrence W. Cramer, Governor of the Virgin Islands, left today for Washington. He was expected to urge legislation for the islands, including a new or- ganic act which would provide a greater measure of home rule. Arrest of Marcantonio Strikes La Guardia and Valentine Pink the speak- vy Stae * day, commencing Tomorro: Streak Edition. and NEWSSTANDS throu Wateh FOR HEALTH FUNDS Medical Authorities Will Ad- dress Mass Meeting at Central High School. | An aroused citizeary will rally under the auspices of the Medical | Society of the District in a public | mass meeting at Central High School this afternoon to petition for greater appropriations for the health needs of | the Capital. Dr. Harry Stoll Mustard of Johns | Hopkins University, one of the Na- tion’s outstanding authorities on pub- lic health, will sound the keynote of the gathering in an address, “Public Health, a Purchasable Commodity.” | He is associate professor of public health administration in the univez- | sity’s School of Hygiene. | Actively supported by 13 civic church |and professional groups estimated to represent well over 100,000 persons, the meeting is expected to produce 8| crystallization of sentiment for a more | nearly adequate health -pvroprhfion’ for Washington. Facts To Be Developed. Facts relative to the public health emergency will be developed for pres- entation to Congress.. The citizens will be asked to indorse a group of resolu- tions formulated by a representative committee headed by Dr. Prentiss Willson of the Medical Society. The meeting has been called for 3 pm. and will be held in the high school auditorium. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, is honorary chairman, and Dr. Abram Simon of the Washington Hebrew Congregation is to preside. Members of the Senate and House Subcommittees on District Appropria- tions have been invited to attend. Many Senators and Representatives mlviye expressed their sympathy for the rally. A scheduled appearance of represen- tatives of civic and medical groups be- fore Blanton’s subcommittee yesterday failed to materialize. The spokesmen were on hand, but press of other busi- ness kept the subcommittee from in- terviewing them. Dr. Ruffin o Speak. This afternoon’s mass meeting will be opened by Dr. Simon with a brief introductory address. Dr. Sterling Ruf- fin, president of the Medical Society, then will speak on “The Facts of the Health Situation in Washington,” pro- ducing statistics to show that the Na- tional Capital's public health stand- ards are far below most other com- parable cities. Rev. Dr. Lawrence J. Shehan, rector of St. Patrick's Church and assistant director of Catholic Charities, will dis- cuss “The Increased Problem of Public ‘Blue Streak 1 i Noon Edition The Star will issue a NOON EDITION every week It will be on sale by NEWSBOYS | LTINS TORALLY Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS w, to be known as the Blue | ghout the city. NEW DRUGBRINGS CHLDBIRTH SLEEP {G. W. U. Clinic to Hear Mar-j vels of Analgesiac Am- nesiac Discovery. | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE ROOSEVELTURGES INTER-AMERICAN PARLEY N PEACE Letters to Presidents of 20 Republics Seek Perma- nent Basis. SUPPLEMENTING LEAGUE ENDEAVORS OBJECTIVE Favorable Response to Suggestion Virtually Assured in State De- partment Soundings. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt last night une covered a proposal for an extraordie nary inter-American conference, en- compassing 20 Central and South American Governments and aimed “at permanent peace on this western continent.” In almost identical personal letters to the Presidents of the various re- publics, the Chief Executive suggested that the parley be held at Buenos Alres, Argentina, at an early date. The cause of peace in the New World, he said, is a matter of “vital concern.” “These steps, furthermore,” he said, “would advance the cause of world peace, inasmuch as the agreements which might be reached would supple= ment and reinforce the efforts of the | League of Nations and of all other existing or future peace agencies in seeking to prevent war.” Favorable Response Seen. A favorable response to Mr. Roose« velt's suggestion was generally cone ceded. In- fact, the staging of such a peace parley was virtually guaranteed in advance through informal sounde ings by the State Department. The entire procedure, however, was extraordinary. The Executive's action in writing a direct letter to the heads | of governments rather than moving through customary diplomatic chan- nels, and his assertion that the site uation warranted “a personal intere change of views between the Presi- dents of the American Republics,” stirred some speculation that he hime self might attend the projected cone ference. This conjecture drew no confirmae tion from either the White House or State Department. The possibility nevertheless remained. In informed quarters it was generally considered certain that Secretary Hull would attend in any event. The Secretary of | State personally headed the American delegation to the all-American cone ference at Montevideo in 1933. Chaco Settlement Stressed. In his various letters, the President BY THOMAS R. HENRY, A reducer of pain and producer of | forgetfulness which enables prospec- | tive mothers to pass through the pro- | cess of labor in sound sleep and to | awaken refreshed after the birth of| children will be described before the | graduate clinic of George Washing- ton University Medical School Febru- | ary 29. Hailed by obstetricians who have| witnessed some of the results as one | of the most noteworthy steps ever| made in eliminating the sufferings of | childbirth, the “analgesiac and amne- | siac” will be announced only after | several years of successful experimen- tation by Dr. Howard F. Kane, profes- sor of obstetrics, and Dr. George B. Roth of the Medical School faculty, | who discovered the pharmacological formula. ‘The ‘substance, which is adminis- tered to the prospective mother at the | beginnings of labor pains, is a mixture | of paraldehyde and benzyl alcohol, | the formula for which will be given | at the graduate clinic. It is not in- tended, the physicians stress, as a powerful anesthetic for surgical pro- cedures sometimes necessary in child- birth, which will continue to be treated as they now are by most ob- stetricians—that is, with ether or some other general anesthetic. To Relieve Labor Pain. ‘The paraldehyde anesthesia is in- tended to relieve the painful and often prolonged process of labor which precedes—sometimes for 24 hours or more—the actual coming of the child into the world. Hitherto, little has been accomplished in this line which has not been attended by considerable danger both to mother and child. Whatever is used must reduce the sensitivity without, at the same time, reducing the muscular effort. Working quietly at George Wash- ington Hospital, Drs. Kane and Roth alre. "y have tested the effects of the anesthetic on several hundred cases. Elimination, or noteworthy reduc- tion, of the sufferings of childbirth has provided anesthetists with one of their most baffing and complicated problems. In the past they some- times have quit in despair, declaring the problem could not be solved be- cause any solution would be “against nature.” It has been seriously main- tained, George Washington professors say, that the account in Genesis of the penalty placed on Eve for her trans- gressions in the Garden of Eden must be taken literally, and any move in (See CHILDBIRTH, Page A-17.) (See HEALTH, Page A-4) HOTEL FIRE DEAD 15; 4 MORE BODIES FOUND Two Children, Man and Woman Victims Added to Unidenti- fied List at Lakewood. By the Associated Press. LAKEWOOD, N. J., February 15— ‘bodies of four more victims of the destroyed the Victoria Man- Hotel were found in the ruins to- , bringing the total of those recov- ered to 15. None of the bodies recovered today particularly stressed the recent peace« ful settlement of the long standing Chaco conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay. Mr. Roosevelt suggested three pos sible avenues of approach to the problem by such a conference—the prompt ratification of Pan-American peace instruments already negotiated; the amendment of such pacts, or the creation of new agreements. He then referred to the possible effects of such steps upon world peace, but did not elaborate his reference to the League of Nations and “other existing or future peace agencies.” The Roosevelt letters, which were sent by airmail, were dated January 30, but were withheld from publica- tion until the White House was cer= tain all had reached their destination, It was stated officially that some re- plies already have been received, but their contents were not announced. It was taken as a matter of fact, how- ever, that the President would not have dispatched his formal communi- cations had he not been assured in advance that they would be favorably received. Envoys Sounded Out. Before his letters were sent, State Department officials informally sound- ed out the envoys of the South and Central American countries here as to the attitude of their governments toward such a conference, and were understood to have been given en- thusiastic responses. In this connection William Phillips, (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-6.) —_ THREE FARMERS HELD IN ROADSIDE MURDER Oklahoma Prisoner Quoted by Prosecutor as Saying He Was Paid $25 for Job. By the Associated Press. IDABEL, Okla, February 15—A roadside slaying, in which the victim was shot twice, his body drenched with whisky and burned, brought murder charges today against three McCurtain County farmers. County Attorney C. D. Wilkinson said Virgil Crowder, 25, confessed he killed Robert Warren, 22, and asserted he was paid $25 to do it by Albert Swann, 52, and Cecil Wallace, 25. A quarrel between Wallace and War« ren was believed by Wilkinson to have been the motive. Boos Halt Bernarr MacFadden New Deal Attack in Baltimore By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, February 15.—Ber- narr MacFadden met with so much heckling after a criticism of the Roose- velt administration here tonight that he apparently cut short an address he was making and sat down. MacFadden, publisher of the maga- zine Liberty, was speaking at a dinner of the Advertising Club. Some of his m’m hooted parts of his speech Mayor Howard W. Jackson, toast- master, apologized for the conduct of the audience. ‘The noise from the audience began while MacFadden was discussing some of the President’s advisers. It was after he had turned relations with the Japanese, ‘that the noise be- came so great that he stopped speaking. The first disturbance came after MacFadden said that Felix Frank- further, a presidential adviser, was “listed in the red network.” A hearer shouted: “Keep, politics out.” The interrupter ‘was applauded. Later MacFadden charged that Roosevelt had deserted the Democratic platform. From the audience came a shout: “Conditions govern platforms.” From this point on the noisa in- creased until Howard S. Jones, =gl dent of the club, asked those who @\ not agree with the speaker’s remark te leave, None left. The nolse grew. Mayor Jackson asked the guests to (See WA‘D‘N. Page A-3),