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r A—2 www THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. MONDAY, D./ C, MAY 18, 1936. PENSION CARAVAN ARRIVES IN' CITY B0 Townsendites to Give { 10,581,000 Signatures T to Committee. Planning to make a real display of force before the House Committee in- vestigating old-age pension schemes when it convenes tomorrow, nearly 50 militant supporters of the Townsend $200-per-month program were resting today after completing 2 3,000-mile sutomobile trip here from Los Angeles. Most effective evidence of the plan's popularity, which they expect to submit to the committee, are three truck-loads of signatures of Townsend followers. Leaders of the movement claim the | signatures represent 10,581,000 persons. ‘The motor caravan arrived in Wash- | Washington ington yesterday morning and, escorted by a Metropolitan Police detail, pro- ceeded at once to the Grant Memorial | at the foot of Capitol Hill. There they | were greeted by a congressional dele- | gation of four, including Representa- | tive Tolan, Democrat, of California, | and a member of the investigating | committee. Others present were Rep- resentatives Smith of Washington, | White of Idaho and Kramer of Cali~ fornia, all Democrats. | Later in the day, the party went | to Washington Airport to meet Dr.| Francis E. Townsend. leader of the movement who was arriving by plane | Waysid P Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SALES LETTER. N INSURANCE salesman had an idea that wasn't as work- able as it was clever the other day. It took the form of a letter addressed to a prominent pro- fessional man in Washington. The letter, which is self-explanatory, fol- lows: “Deer Daddy: Won't you pleese let Mr. —— show you how the Blank Co. will send us to skool if you don't live to do it. “It would take a big load from mama's shoulders if you would take a policy now while you can pass the doctor.” The names of the professional man's daughters were signed to the plea. * ok x THIRTEENTH CAR. No. 13 elevator in the Depart- ment of Commerce Building is re- ported to be acting like No. 13 ele- vator these days. Three times in the last few weeks, an operative re- ports, it has stopped between floors, as if the jinz it carries simply be- came too much for it to bear. from the West- Coast. On his arrival, the doctor tock time to sign a lease | for office space for the new national headquarters of the organization in | Chicago, expressed the hope that | there will be no more delays in the House committee hearings and then | hurried to his hotel for some rest “I'm ready for the committee and | I hope they're ready for me,” he said. | ! H }T ington students attend a so- called “jungle dance” they will wear At both the Grant statue and the airport, photographers and news reel men took pictures and interviewed Dr. Townsend and caravan leaders. Miss Lois Jean Johnson, leader of * % k% JUNGLE NOTE. E next time a group of Wash- the Townsend Youth Movement in|pqre clothes than Haile Selassie. San Diego, and Ralph Lepine of Los Angeles spoke for the travelers. The party stayed at a mnearby tourist camp. Dr. Townsend is scheduled to take the stand at 10 am. tomorrow with the understanding being that the committee will continue its hearings without further interruption until the investigation 1s completed. Other officials of the Townsend organiza- tion are scheduled for appearance immediately after the doctor. HILL IS APPOINTED . T0 U. S. TAX BOARD of Representative Was Head House Group Framing Re- form Measure. President Roosevelt today appointed Representative Samuel B. Hill of , Washington to be a member of the Board of Tax Appeals for a term of . 2 years, beginning June 2. Representative Hill, who has been in the House for ! 13 years and is recognized as one of the tax author- : ities in that body. was chairman of i the sucommittee Means Commit- i tee, which framed i the special tax re- : form bill calling for a revolution- ,ary basis of cor« porate taxation, which recently passed tge House. At the same| time, the President sent to the Senate | the name of David E. Lilenthal of Wisconsin for reappointment as & member of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for a term expiring nine years after May 18 | next. Representative Hill. Hoeppel (Continued From First Page.) former Johns Hopkins University Olympic athlete, in return for grant- ing him an appointment to the mili- tary academy. The defendants' attorneys raised | five points in their appeal. The first was that no conspiracy was proved. The appellate court found, however, that the evidence, although largely circumstantial, “disclosed conduct and | statements of the defendants co- operating together to an unlawful end, | inconsistent with any reasonable| hypothesis of innocence.” Extent of Law Decided. As to the point that the statute under which the father and son were prosecuted referred only to appoint- ments to civil offices, the court de- cided the law clearly covered mili- tary posts as well. The defense contention that a West Point cadetshp was not an appointive office within the meaning of the law was turned down by the court, which referred to several prior decisions saying a cadet is such an officer. Much was made by defense' counsel during and after the trial to | & statement to the jury by Pine in| which he called the elder Hoeppel “a monumental liar and a perjurer of the first order.” The Court of Appeals decided that, although this statement may have been unnecessary, any prejudice it created in the minds of the jurors was quickly correcled by Justice O’Donoghue’s instructions. Holding against the defendants in their last contention, the court said that acts and declarations of either of the defendants were rightly consid- ered by the jury as evidence against the other defendant. Hoeppel Plans New Appeal. Shortly after receiving word that the court had refused to reverse his conviction, Representative Hoeppel is- sued the following statement: “Due to the failure of the United States Court of Appeals for the Dis- trict of Columbia to decide upon the questions raised in my appeal, it prob- ably will be necessary to file a motion “for a rehearing in an attempt to secure definite rulings on my assign- ments of error. “Under any circumstances I shall -‘:pnell the case to the United States “Supreme Court so that I may be able ~to secure rulings om all errors alleged by my attorneys. “I am a candidate for re-election ~and will be proud to take my record <before the voters who have shown #fheir confidence in me in the past.” : of the Ways and | In order to provide a realistic jun- | gle atmosphere for the affair the | committee in charge of arrangements scoured the woods and fields in nearby Maryland and Virginia for tree limbs, weeds, wild moss and anything else | that might be found that would pro- vide a proper setting. The commit- | tee, however, gathered some things that are not even found in a jungle. |In this particular classification were poison ivy vines. Anyhow, the collection of shrubs, tree limbs, wild moss and everything else was used for decorative pur- poses in the dance hall. The thinly clad “jungle dancers” failed to rec- ognize the poison ivy. Now at least 50 of them are treating the rash that results from close con- tact with the poisonous weed. | * x x % HY LOVE LOCKED OUT. \V did John Boles, romantic singing star of the stage and screen leave out his middle name, for | public purposes? Contrary to the practice of certain flamboyant movie celebrities in adopting fancy monikers, modest Boles, who is on both the screen and stage of a local picture | emporium. kept his own name but | deliberately eliminated his middle name, a perfectly good old family name, too. In Greenville, Tex., where he came from, the name stands for the finest in gentlemanliness and lgenfle womanhood of the old South. His complete name is really John | Love Boles, * x % % SIGN. A BLOND driving a roadster around town these gold and blue days the books of the traction companies, perhaps a&s a protection or maybe just as an expression of disdain. At any rate, prominently attached to the windshield of the car is one of those street car signs which reads “Car Pull.” Any one with half an eye can see, however, that the sign is a lle. The seat is pretty wide and the blond is i petite and if the truth were told, the | car is only about one-third full, * ¥ x % EDUCATED. A senior at a local college was filling out information demanded by the institution’s authorities in connection with graduation. Shar- ing his room at the time was a freshman friend. The senior wrote down everything with alacrity until he came to a certain point., After studying a moment, obviously puzzled, he turned to the freshman. “How,” he asked, “do you spell ‘diploma’?” * k%X % ESSAY. ONE of the secretaries on Capitol Hill is convinced that brevity is the soul of wit. The young niece of a friend of his, whose schooling began not so very long ago, was recently assigned “Ants” as the subject for a theme. ‘The young lady went to work and handed this in to the teacher: “My subjek is Ants. Ants is of 2 kinds: Insects and Lady Uncles. Sometimes they live in holes and sometimes they crawl into the sugar bowl and sometimes they live with their married sisters. That is all I know about ants.” Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. Senate: Debates Philippine currency bill. hull"mmce Committee weighs revenue Appropriations Committee gets evi- dell;ee on $2,364,220,712 deficiency bill. House: Considers minor legislation, ‘TOMORROW. Senate: : Is slated to take up omnibus flood PFinance Committee, executive, on tax bill. Appropriations Committee, execu- tive, on work relief and deficiency bill, House: Considers private calendar. Subcommittee on Labor meets 10:30 8. # The Californian did not specify as o the points on which the court neg- dectd to rule. ‘ .m, Bell Committee resumes investiga- has taken a leaf rather literally from | LAID TO TRICKERY Eden Says Lopez Obtained False Evidence—‘Budget Leak’ Probe Pressed. By tne Associated Press. LONDON, May 18.—Foreign Sec- retary Anthony Eden charged before the House of Commons today that forgery, deception and trickery were used to obtain “fabricated evidence” of Ethiopian dumdum bullets pur- portedly made in England. He sald the evidence was obtained by Col. Pedro Lopez, whom the Brit- ish knew as a “notorious purveyor of false information.” Stung by Italian allegations which were hastily withdrawn from Geneva last week, Eden took advantage of a question in Commons to tell the story of Lopez's activities. He began the narrative after tell- ing Commons that he was unaware of any practical steps which could be taken to bring the United States into the League of Nations. Lopez, he said, was a British subject of Polish origin and was well known in England under a number of aliases. He posed in London as an Ethiopian arms purchaser, the foreign secre- tary declared. Charges Forgery. Then he resorted to forged letters and trickery to induce a munitions firm to supply him with sample am- munition, Eden charged. These samples, the foreign secre- tary went on, were used to persuade Italian authorities that such ammuni- tion was being exported to Ethiopia with the official connivance of the United Kingdom. Eden's statement in regard to the tion by Ellis Smith, Labor member of the House, who asked if anything was being done to induce the United States to join the Geneva body. Smith also asked Eden if he would | ask the United States to open nego- tiations with a view to reaching an | agreement on economic co-operation. Eden answered: “If Mr. Smith has |in mind the removal of obstructions | to international trade, that is the con- | stant aim of his majesty's government. “It will at all times welcome the co- | operation of the United States Gov- ernment as well as of other govern- ments in this sphere, but I am most | doubtful as to whether the opening of | general negotiations would facilitate | the attainment of the object Mr. Smith has in mind.” Baldwin Indicates Hope. Prime Minister Baldwin frequently. | both in and out of the Commons, has referred to the United States’ absence | from Geneva and indicated a hope | | the United States would join the | League. Official and diplomatic circles, how- ever, roundly denied there had been | any official approach on the subject. The foreign secretary said Italian allegations that Ethiopians had used | dumdum bullets supplied from Eng- | 1and were baseless and were framed on | “what could only be described as a | | fabrication of evidence.” Meanwhile, Sir Alfred Butt, mil- lionaire sportsman and Parliament member, told the British J. H. Thomas cleaned up 632 pounds, 9 shillings (around $3.160) in “insur- ance” against the 1935 general elec- | tion. Sir Alfred, who denied vehemently to take out 1,000 pounds sterling in- surance against an election being held | in 1935. The transaction was arranged when the two met at a race track, Sir Al- fred explained. Following the general election, won by the national government with which Thomas was identified, the | check for £632.9, he testified. the total face value of the policy, Sir Alfred said. (Prior to the 1935 general election, Thomas was secretary for dominions | in Prime Minister Baldwin's national ‘}govemment. h | (He became secretary for the colo- | nies after Baldwin's government had | beaten off spirited labor opposition to remain in office.) Says Secretary Was Upset. is seeking to discover who disclosed the 1936 budget secrets ahead of time, | that Secretary Thomas was “very up- set” when the name of his son, Leslie Thomas, was mentioned in connec- tion with the “leak.” He said the minister exclaimed: *‘Our Les? What a damned stupid rumor. He wouldn't do a thing like that. God, almighty, he wouldn't. What a damned silly thing.’” Sir Alfred flatly denied he knew anything about the budget “leak.” Before he testified Bernard Davis, a stock broker, had testified Sir Alfred placed “somewhat extensive” selling orders in several stocks a few hours before the budget, carrying plans for higher income and tea taxes, was read in the House of Commons. Sir Alfred said he visited Thomas in the secretary’s office on budget day, but asserted they discussed merely the prospects of a horse which had been running at Newmarket. Secretary Thomas’ name has fig- ured in the inquiry. He has denied he told any budget secrets, however. The on this vital maries of the his demand pay the debts work against Aliee Longworth. the convention. Passing form doesn't look as good as it did tion of old-age pension plan at 10 14 United States was in reply to a ques- | “budget | leak” inquiry that Colonial Secretary | that he and Thomas ever talked afout | the recently announced budget, said | he had “induced” the cabinet member | Parliament member sent Thomas & | That was after he had deducted | insurance premium from the| Sir Alfred told the inquiry, which | Unlon for Soctal Justice showed the power of Father Coughlin, whose strength is based on ‘DUMDUNY CHARGE (MRS VARE BEATEN ON BRITISH LINKS Defending Champion Also Loses in Title Golf Tournament. Bv the Associated Press. SOUTHPORT, England, May 18.— Wanda Morgan, the defending cham- pion; Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, the American champion, and two other United States players were elimi- nated in the first round of the British women’s golf championship today. ‘The second and third rounds will be played tomorrow. Mrs. Vare, who was among the favorites, was defeated by another American, Charlotte Glutting, South Orange, N. J, 5 and 3. After being two down at the turn, Mrs. Vare blew up on the last nine while Miss Glutting, driving far and well, never gave her a chance to get even. The defeat of Miss Morgan was not so much of an upset. She was beaten by Bridget Newell, the youthful Eng- lish barrister, who won the medal in the qualifying round. The score in this match was 3 and 1, and it was featured by Miss Morgan's great comeback on the last nine after be- ing four down at the turn. Miss Morgan won the twelfth when Miss Newell three-putted and she holed a 45-foot putt at the fifteenth for another win, but Miss Newell played the sixteenth and seventeenth in birdies to close the match out. Other Americans Survive. The other Americans who survived were Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews, Coral Gables, Fla., who defeated Mrs. Grant White, Great Britain, 4 and 3; Patty Berg, Minneapolis, who trounced | Marjorie Barron, Great Britain, 6 and 6; Marion Miley, Lexington, Ky., who defeated Doris Park; Great Britain, 4 and 3, and Mrs. Leona Cheney, Los Angeles, who eliminated Mrs. Helen Holm, Great Britain, 6 and 5. In addition to Mrs. Vare, the other two Americans who were eliminated were Mrs, Frank Goldthwaite, Fort Worth, Tex.. who was beaten by Mrs. H. W. Newton, 4 and 2, and Mrs. 0. S. Hill, Kansas City, who lost to Molly Gourlay, veteran British player, |3 and 2. This leaves five Americans to play in the second round tomorrow morn- ing. The third round will be played tomorrow -afternoon. Reducing the | field to eight. Two other rounds will fleld to the finalists, who meet at 36- holes for the title on Thursday. Tomorrow’s Draw Given. The draw for tomorrow follows: Mrs, Crews vs. Nell Forrest, who beat the Scottish champion, Robertson Durham, 2 and 1. Miss Glutting vs. Dorothy Pearson, Great Britain, who defeated Doris Ferguson on the twenty-first hole. Miss Berg vs. Elsie Corlett, runner- |up in the English closed champion- ship last year, who defeated Peggy Lloyd, 4 and 3. Mrs. Cheney vs. Jean Hamilton, Great Britain, who beat Miss G. Craddock-Harpott, 3 and 2. Miss Miley vs. Stella Franklin, Great Britain, who defeated Mrs. Ernest Swinscoe, 6 and 4. Miss Glutting was 2 up at the turn, and won the eleventh and twelfth with pars when Mrs. Vare slipped 1 over on each. The American cham- pion, one of the favorites, went § down on the thirteenth, where she took a 6 to Miss Glutting's par 4, and though she rallied and won the next hole with a par, she lost the match at the short fifteenth by tak- ing a 5. Twice Reached Finals. Twice Mrs. Vare had reached the finals in the British championship, in 1929 and in 1930. The first time |she was beaten by her old nemesis, | Joyce Wethered, 3 and 1, and the second time by the fair-haired Diana Pishwick, 4 and 3. * Mrs, Vare was well off her game, taking 42 strokes to cover the first |nine. Their cards out: | Mrs. Vare___ 355 554 555—42 | Miss Glutting. 355 544 545—40 Their cards in: Miss Glutting.. - 544 453 xxx Mrs. Vare... - 555 645 xxx (Miss Glutting won, 5 and 3) Playing the last four holes of the first nine in one under par, Patty Berg, American youngster, was 6 up on Mrs. Marjorie Barron at the turn. She was out in 39, to Mrs. Barron's |48. Their scores out: | Miss Berg- 355 553 535—39 Mrs. Barron. - 365 775 636—48 e MOVEMENT OF GOLD TO U. S. RESUMED $150,000,000 Imported From Mid- April to May 8—Bulk & From France. By the Associated Press. A resumption of the gold move- ment toward American shores, with imports from mid-April to May 8 to- taling $150,000,000, was disclosed to- day by the Federal Reserve Board. Of the total, $125,000,000 came from France, the board reported, adding that the trend was the result mainly of a reduction in the volume of Euro- pean short-term balances held in the American market. National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH HE vote in favor of the Frazier-Lemke inflation measure by the entire Republican delegation in the House from Kansas has raised the interesting question of where Gov. Landon stands matter. The defeat of the bill in Congress by no means purges the country of in- flation sentiment. The success in the Ohio pri- House candidates indorsed by the to start the printing presses to Mr. Landon's policy of silence, broken only by an occasional generalization, is beginning to him. There is already a good deal of talk of who wants to buy a pig in the poke. Right now the booms of other candidates are looking up. We are going into the home stretch before the three-quarter post, Mr, Landon’s at the barrier, (Copyright. 1936) be played on Wednesday, cutting the | Camera Records Sudden Death 1.5, TOURISTS FLEE STRIE IN MEXCO | Walkout of 48,000 Railroad Employes Is Planned Today. By ke Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 18—Hun- dreds of American tourists, fearful of being stranded, crowded north- bound trains today as 48.000 employes of the Great Mexican National Rail- ways made ready to strike tonight for wage increases. The general exodus of visitors from the north, making necessary extra | cars on all outgoing trains, started | over the week end, despite a general | belief the projected strike would be officially adjudged “illegal” and work- ers given 24 hours to return to their jobs. This belief was strengthened after the national revolutionary (govern- ment) party newspaper El Nacional, in its leading editorial today, declared | flatly the strike call was “entirely | illegal,” economically unjustified and | an outgrowth of “irresponsible” labor leadership. Although no government official | would acknowledge that the editorial | represented the administration’s views | |on the strike threat, it was hinted strongly such was the case. If the strike, which would tie up all except emergency traffic over some 9,300 miles of rails out of the capital, started as scheduled at 6 p.m., Eastern !standard time, one well-informed | source predicted, the administration would follow this procedure: - LATE FILM STAR’S CAR GIVEN TO CHAUFFEUR Marlene Dietrich Presents Auto of Friend to His Former Chauffeur. By the Associatec Press. HOLLYWOOD, May 18.—A small automobile owned by the late John Gilbert, screen star, now is the prop- erty of his former chauffeur, Al Roelof—the gift of Marlene Dietrich, close friend of the actor. Miss Dietrich was the highest bidder when the car was offered for sale, records in Probate Court disclosed today. She bid $500 more than the listed market value. ‘The chauffeur had expressed s sentimental attachment to Gilbert's car. Before his death Gilbert was a fre- quent escort of the German actress. Walkout (Continued Prom-First Page.) 66 pages also contains the testimony of Vernon E. West, acting corporation counsel, and Judge Nathan Cayton of Municipal Court, who were called before Blanton's subcommittee to discuss their “outside” employment. Judge Cayton, the report discloses, was “| the only District judge who declined to answer a questionnaire sent out by Blanton when he was seeking in- formation as to the law classes which the judges taught at night. The testimony of Judge Cayton showed that he challenged the legality of action taken by the House Appro- priations Subcommittee to limit the outside employment of District officials and employes making $2,400 & year or more. . “Do you recognize the fact that Con- gress has the inherent right to tell you that outside of your $8,000 salary as judge of Municipal Court you shall not accept outside remunerations?” Judge Cayton was asked. “I think there is a serious legal question orpihst,” he replied. Running wild, this auto jumped the curb at Ninty-sixth street and West End avenue, in New York, and rode down four men before it crashed into a building. One died and three were seriously hurt. An amateur photographer, Joe Levy, snapped this vivid picture. Mrs, Gertrude Phelps looks pathetically at the crumpled form of her mother, Mrs. Valeria Hering, lying against a tree on the highway near Hempstead, Long Island, after both were injured in crash of their auto and a_truck —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Taxes (Continued From Pirst Page.) Arms’ (Continued From Pirst Page) than the bill which passed the House. In addition the boost in the individual | income rate was considered sure to meet flery opposition in Congress, where many members are looking ahead to contests in the coming elec- tions. Several members of the committee are looking with increased favor on an earlier suggestion for a com- promise. Under this program corpor- ations would pay & flat tax of 15 or 16 per cent on income, plus a surtax ranging up to perhaps 40 per cent on the percentage withheld from divi- dend distribution. No change would be made in individual income taxes. There was no apparent abatement of the committee’s hostility to the tax bill as it passed the House. This bill, representing modifications of President Roosevelt's suggestion for a graduated levy on undistributed prof- its, would have assessed graduated rates ranging up to 42’2 per cent on corporation net income, depending upon how much of the income was retained by the concerns. Among some New Deal officials there was discussion today of the idea of giving preferred tax treatment to such public utility holding companies as would consent to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The holding company act, which aims to eliminate “unnecessary” util- ity holding companies, split up some others and regulate the concerns, provides for registration as the first step in administration of the law. But few large holding companies have registered; many of them are fighting the act on the ground it is uncon- stitutional. Fire Destroys Farm Homes. MOSCOW May 18 (#).—A group of 116 houses of collective farmers was destroyed yesterdsy by a fire started when s samovar overturned in the home of an aged farmer in Committee that the organization would | not support an attempt to “bring lib- erty tb our brothers in Germany and Italy on the points of our bayonets.” Demands for a general amnesty to | political prisoners convicted of anti- | militarist and anti-imperialist propa- ganda were agreed upon by the parlia- mentary section of the Communist | party at a meeting in the Chamber | of Deputies. BRITISH AND SOVIET CONFER. Naval Agreements to Be Discussed in London Soon. LONDON, May 18 (#) —Representa- tives of Great Britain and Soviet Rus- sia will confer here this week on & possible naval agreement. The conferees for Great Britain will | be representatives of the foreign of- fice and the admiralty. Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky and his naval attache, Antipoff-Chikunsky ~ will represent Russia. An authoritative source indicated there were hopes for a special agree- ment limiting size of warships of the two. nations and that if the Anglo- Antipoff-Chikunsky, will represent similar negotiations would open be- tween Great Britain and Germany. The aim is eventually to make the | recent London naval treaty between | Britain, the United States and France | applicable to all the chief naval | powers. The accomplishment of this, how- | ever, is admittedly difficult. Japan| and Italy, which participated in the | London five-power naval talks, did not accept the treaty. Japan declined | to negotiate and Italy would not ac-| cept enything while League of Na- tions’ sanctions were imposed. Norway Celebrates. OSLOW, Norway, May 18 (®).— King Haakon stood on a balcony of the palace for two hours yesterday S | sistance. | mittee for | IMONS, ROBBER - OF BANKS, CAUGHT Federal Agents in California Hold Member of Gang Which Set Record. BY REX COLLIER, Avery Simons, member of the Bents- Doll gang of bank robbers which six years ago perpetraled the biggest bank robbery on record at Lincoln Nebr., is in custody of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Los Ange- les, Calif,, it was disclosed today. Simons was arrested last Thursday night in a secret raid on an apartment house in the California city. He was to be arraigned there today, pending removal to Vermont for prosecution on Federal bank robbery charges, ac- cording to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bentz in Prison Now. Eddie Bentz, one of the leaders of the gang, was captured recently in Brooklyn. N. Y., by Federal agents, who found him hiding in a dumbwaiter shaft. He is in Alcatraz Penitentiary Edward Doll, another ringleader. was arrested in Florida more than a year ago and also is in the peniten- tiary. Hoover said Simons has been hiding part of the time in Bolivia, and that the bureau's search for him had been conducted in many parts of the world through co-operation of foreign police agencies. In the robbery of the Lincoln Na- tional Bank on September 17, 1930 the Bentz-Doll gang escape. < more than $1.000000 in cash AT bonds, much of which was recovered Hoover said Simons is reported to have been a participant in this rob- bery, but since the crime occurred | prior to passage of the Federal bank robbery statute, Simons will be tried for the robberies in 1934 of the Cale- donia National Bank in Danville, Vt, in which more than $18,000 was stolen and of the First National Bank of | Brandon, Vt., from which $2.400 was taken. Mutilated His Fingertips, Hoover said Simons also has been | identified as one of five men who committed the $25,000 robbery of the First National Bank of Morresvilie N. C, on November 28, 1934. Simons was arrested by special agents as he emerged from his apart- ment. He surrendered without re- It was found he had mu- tilated his fingertips in an effort to forestall identification, but the prints were readily identified, regardiers. Simons also had undergone an op- eration for removal of a tattooed cow- girl on his left forearm. Notices bearing his picture and fingerprints had been circulated throughout North America and in 68 foreign countries. Ickes * (Continued Prom Pirst Page) funds with which to carry out some 3000 approved projects might be found in this manner. Explains Limit Set. Havden explained that present statutes limit the revolving fund to $250,000 000, with the Reconstruction Corporation acting as selling agent of P. W. A. securities The Arizonan, who advocated an amendment to the bill to give Ickes $700.000.000, said this revolving fund is used for loans. The suggestion be- fore the subcommittee, he said, was to permit its use for grants as well In addition, he said Ickes had about $150,000.000 worth of securities which he is not precluded from giving to the R. F. C. to sell. Hayden said the law might be re- laxed to permit this being added to the revolving fund. He added that no | conclusion had been reached as to how much of the suggested $400.000.- 000 fund might be used for grants and how much for loans but said the grant aspect of it would be tanta- mount to an appropriation. Ickes was closeted with the com- an hour and a half Neither he nor committee members would comment on the ruling of the District of Columbia Court of Ap- peals. The $700,000.000 suggestion was pu' forward at a time when it appearec that Ickes’ P. W. A. would get non¢ of the $1,425.000,000 and was headec for oblivion next year. Later, however, President Roosevelt said P. W. A. and Rexford G. Tus- well's Resettlement Administratior would be continued in curtailed form with funds furnished by Hopkins This brought the fire of Republicans on the Appropriations Committee. Steiwer Issues Challenge. Senator Steiwer of Oregon con- tended the President would have no authority to make P. W. A. allot- ments from this fund. He said that if the Chief Executive had that au- thority he might also continue work on the Passamaquoddy tidal power project in Maine and the Florida ship canal. e Steiwer and other Republicans dis- cussed the question of asking Con- troller General McCarl for an inter- pretation of the relief measure as it passed the House. A. F. of L. Hits Business. Another development connected with the problem of relief was & reit- eration from the American Federation of Labor that re-employment is not keeping up with recovery and an ex- pression of concern over “the exceed- ingly serious re-employment short- age.” The A. F. of L. said the increases in the earnings of large corporations far exceeded the gains in production In its monthly survey the federation asked: “If we cannot count on business without control, to put the unem- ployed to work, how then can a plac® be found for them in America's work- shop, where they may produce wealth and earn the income necessary for & good life?” “By March, 1936,” the survey said “business had traveled 72 per cent of the way back to normal, but only 46 per cent of the depression unemployed had gone back to work.” Unemployed in March, the survey gaid, totaled 12,184,000. Repaid With Interest. ARKANSAS CITY, Kans. (#).—Six years ago Ray Seeley lent $2 to & strange Mexican railway worker, who said he had been robbed. The rall- road's pay day arrived, the Mexicsn the Sarayevsky district of Mosoow}'b review a mammoth procession as | did not show up. Seeley charged it to ce. = ‘The farmer, V. M. Kusnetzoff, who was taking & nap, was burned to _— Norway celebrated Independence day | in brilliant Summer weather. Crown Prince Olaf sent greetings | experience. Recently & well-dressed Mexican stopped at Seeley’s store, peeled 83 to all United States citizens of Nor- {wrnmm.mum from a huge roll and would accept po change. %