Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight, probably clearing to= morrow morning; cooler tonight and to- morrow; moderate winds. Temperatures —Highest, 81, at noon today; lowest, 65, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-21. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 20 ch 85th YEAR. No. 33,980. TEAR GAS ROUTS STEEL EMPLOYES AS STRIKE SPREAD THREAT 1S MADE Police Clash With Pickets at Jones & Laughlin Cor- poration Plants, Where 27,000 Are Idle. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING DEMAND MADE BY UNION |- S. W. 0. C. Insists Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Line Up With Other Major In- dependents in Showdown With Workers. BACKGROUND— While industry generally has been beset with labor troudles during the past year, steel has escaped any serious setback. This was tem- porarily avoided last March when corporations announced agreement to deal with labor unions for the first time; however, then, as now, refusing to recognize collective bar- gaining contracts. The last major steel strike was in 1919. It was sponsored by the A. F. of L. and tfailed. By the Associated P PITTSBURGH. May 13.—Police hurled tear gas into a crowd of shout- ing, demonstrating pickets today at the strike-closed Aliquippa, Pa.. works of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. One man was injured in what Po- lice Chief W. L. Ambrose said was an attempt to prevent him and Burgess Morgan Sohn from leaving plant property after making an investiga- tion of reported violence. ‘The chief said he arrested a woman on a charge of assault and battery and inciting to riot Spread of Strike Threatened. The strike, called after the union and the corporation failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement, threatened to spread to other major | independent steel producers. It was the Nation's first major steel | walkout in 18 years. ‘While 27,000 workers of the two big J. & L. plants in Aliquippa and Pitts- burgh remained idle, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers' Organ- izing Committee called an Executive Committee session to mobilize union forces against two producers who have Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. for questioning today in con- nection with an early morning exchange of shots at a filling station, during which one of three boys reportedly fired point-blank at Policeman L. M. Francis with a feet. Francis was not injured. One boy was taken in custody half an hour after the affray, which oc- curred at Eighteenth and Harvard streets about 2:30 a.m. The other two, police said, appeared voluntarily at the tenth precinct station after being called at their homes on information .22-caliber rifle from a distance of 5 | received from the first boy arrested. | The youths' ages were given as 15, 16 and 17. One was said to have left | the Industrial Home School last Sat- | urday. A strange angle of the case was the discovery that a stolen car, | " (See YOUTH, Page A-14.) POLICEMAN L station when the officer caught early today. WASHINGTON, Gun Battle With Policeman Ends in Arrest of 3 Youths HREE youths were being held | . M. FRANCIS Of the tenth precinct shown with sawed-off shotqun taken jrom stolen automobile which three youths deserted in a filling them taking gas from a pump —Star Staff Photo. BLAST IS LIKENED 10 SHENANDOAH'S | First Noise of Hindenburg Crash Held Similar to That in U. S. Craft. BACKGROUND— Soon ajfter the Zeppelin Hinden- burg exploded, sending 35 persons to their death a week ago, a De- partment of Commerce Board of Inquiry started to work to deter- mine the cause of the disaster. Thus far incendiarism, sparks of static electricity or some defect within the craft have all been advanced as cause theories. | By the Assoctated Press. refused to sign collective bargaining | contracts with the union. { LAKEHURST, N. J, May 13—A Murray charged the companies— | survivor of the disaster to the Amer- Republic Steel Corp. and Youngstown | jean Navy dirigible Shenandoah told Sheet & Tube Co—were reported |, commerce Department investigat- stocking up their plants with tear | B G, |ing board today the first noise he He called the meeting to consider | heard when the destruction of the | “plans and strategy” for Saturday. | German Zeppelin Hindenburg be- | Coiirast Demsded. | gan was much like that on the Shen- | Simultaneously the union reported 2ndoah when her hull collapsed. | its members at the Bethlehem Steel The witness, Chief Boatswain's Mate Corp. in Johnstown had demanded a |F. J. Tobin, was 50 feet from l,hel eollective bargaining contract "with- | point where the Shenandoah broke in | in 10 days.” two when it was hit by a line squall The outbreak at Aliquippa was the | OVer Ohio in 1925, he testified. Four- first since the strike was called at the J. & L. mills last night. William H. Turner, chairman of the United Iron and Steel Workers, an opposition union formed after dissolution of the employe repre- sentation plan, said some of his fol- lowers had proposed to break through the picket line in mass formation. ‘Turner said a meeting tonight would determine whether to remain outside | the line or “drive through with a flying wedge.” While pickets, rain-drenched and tired by their long vigil, guarded the entrances to plants, Chairman Murray prepared to resume negotiations with the company which ended last night in the strike call. Dewey to Confer. Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey also planned to participate in & new attempt to bring the company and union into agreement on Murray's demand for a signed collective bar- gaining contract. Jones & Laughlin, third largest steel producer independent. of the United States Steel Corp., was the first big independent to be shut down in the union’s drive for signed contracts, pat- terned after that made with United Btates Steel and 100 smaller inde- pendents. Thousands of day workers joined with members of the early night shift at 11 o'clock last night in carrying out Murray's order to shut the mills “tight.” ‘The picket lines thinned during the night and today only a few hundred men stood watch at the gates. The company did not attempt to operate its mills. Pickets occasionally at- tacked non-union employes who at- tempted to pass through their lines. ‘Three men, two of them veteran em- ployes, were beaten at the Aliquippa works when they tried to enter the gates last night. Only maintenance men were permitted to go into the plants. Murray stated: “We have no wish to sabotage your plants. We will give you every as- sistance possible to care for furnaces and other necessary maintenance work.” Aliquippe police formed a wedge and fired three shots into the air to make way for one company man. Saloons Ordered Closed. Judge Frank E. Reader of Beaver County, which includes Aliquippa, or- dered all bars and beer parlors closed during the strike. Chairman Turner of the independ- ent union of Jones & Laughlin work- ers declared the strike would “show the weakness” of Murray’s union force which are allied with Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. | teen members of her crew died. Describing the beginning of the end of the Hindenburg, a week ago to- night with the loss of 35 lives, Tobin | said: “There burst out of the tail of the ship a burst of smoke and flame ac- companied by a noise that I likened }w breaking wires.” | He was asked whether the noise resembled that of the Shenandoah ! when it broke in two. | “It brought to my mind that inci- | dent,” Tobin replied. Before Tobin was called, Lieut. R. S. Andrews of the Naval Air Station | here testified he saw sparks in the exhaust stream of the Hindenburg before she burst into flames. As the inquiry went forward, dis- cussion elsewhere was aroused by the remark of Clarence Chamberlain, trans-Atlantic fiyer, at Spartanburg, S. C, that a snipe:'s bullet “might explain” the Hindznburg disaster. Chamberlin referred specifically to two planes landing recently at Ben- dix, in Northern New Jersey, with bullet holes in their fuselage. His comment recalled also to those at the Naval Air Station that a sniper once fired on the dirigible Los Angeles, since decommissioned, and that the all-metal Navy blimp ZMC-2 had been shot at and hit by snipers on three occasions. Bits of a broken propeller, found in- side the twisted wreckage of the dirigible also held the attention of in- vestigators as they studied the theory that a shattered blade sent the airship to her doom. A board of inquiry met this after- noon at the District garbage plant to hear complaints of collectors that they were asked to buy chickens from the superintendent, William R. Wood, and contribute to the support of & woman known as “Aunt Mary.” With half a dozen uniformed po- licemen and detectives scattered about the plant, the board, composed of As- sistant Corporation Counsel Stanley De Neale, J. B. Gordon, director of sanitary engineering, and Willlam Xanten, superintendent of city refuse, met in a loft while garbage truck drivers and collectors congregated out- side. The first witness, Stroley McCrae, & colored collector, told the board that on pay days Wood had held a box and Mary.” McCrea said he had never seen “Aunf’ 31ary,” but understood she was A told the employes not to “forget Aunt | stood STOCKS DECLINE INSELLING WAVE Steel Strike Touches Off | Slide Causing $1 to $4 Drop. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 13—A burst of | stock | selling today knocked down market leaders $1 to more than $4 a share, many to new lows for the year or longer. Touching off the slide, brokers sald, was the calling of a strike at the Jones & Laughlin steel plants, the first major labor controversy in this in- dustry in 18 years. Fears were ex- pressed other independent steel com- panies would also be hit by unioniza- tion drives. The unloading of shares reached a peak in the second hour, when the rush was so great the ticker tape dropped several minutes behind in recording actual transactions on the floor of the Stock Exchange. A little buying support appeared around noon and extreme losses were reduced moderately. Prominent in the retreat were United States Steel, Bethlehem, National Steel, Republic Steel, General Motors, Chrysler, United States Rubber, Amer- | ican Telephone, Consolidated Edison, Anaconda, Kennecott, Du Pont, Allied Chemical, Westinghouse, General Elec- tric, S8anta Fe, New York Central, Loew’s, Douglas Aircraft and Deere. Bonds and commodities were un- even. Rubber futures broke sharply on the imposition of an import tax on this staple by Germany. 1. P. MORGAN HIT BY HEART ATTACK Financier Feeling Better Now After Missing Coronation, Lamont Says. By the Associated Press. . LONDON, May 13.—J. P. Morgan, the New York financier, was dis- closed today to have suffered a heart attack that kept him from attend- ing the coronation ceremonies yes- terday in Westminster Abbey. Thomas W. Lamont, one of his New York partners, said Morgan was better and that he would return to the United Staies in about two weeks. R R e SO Butcher Knives Deter Gunman. GOWANDA, N. Y., May 13 (P).— The sight of L. C. Bowen brandish- ing two butcher knives was too much for a gunman who attempted to hold up Bowen in his store. “Get out of here,” Owen threat- ened, waving the knives when the hold-up man pointed a gun at him. The intruder fled. Garbage Men Say Boss Asked Themto Support “Aunt Mary” an elderly colored woman who lives across the street from the plant. Around Christmas, 1935, McCrae testified he was called to the office. When he entered, he said, he gave Wood a dollar voluntarily and left. James Wells, another colored col- lector, told the board he had pur- chased two chickens at $1.50 apiece from Wood “because I saw the other men do the same thing,” and that he also had dropped money in the “Aunt Mary box” on pay day. ‘William Bullock, also & colored col- lector, testified he paid 80 cents apiece for two chickens which he purchased from Wood, “which I thought was too much because they were too small.” On pay days, Bullock stated, Wood near the cashier's window, shook the box and sald ‘Don't forget Aunt Mary.'* Wood will testify later, . | SENDER | Waynesboro, Pa., Man Is Ar- WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, THURSDAY, WINDSORDEMANDS ROYAL HIGHNESS' IITLE FOR BRIDE Not Content to Have Mrs. Warfield Become Plain Duchess. MINISTERS STAND PAT AGAINST AIMS OF DUKE Secret Envoys From Government Have Found Ex-King Firm in Insistence. BACKGROUND— King Edward VIII, succeeding his father, King George V, as ruler of the British empire more than a year ago, abdicated last December in order to marry Mrs. Wallis War= field, to whom the British cabinet and church objected as a possible Queen of England. After abdication the former King, now the Duke of Windsor, secluded himself in Austria until late last month, when divorce of his fiancee became final. His brother, the for- mer Duke of York, was crowned yesterday as King George VI, By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 13.—The Duke of Windsor’s pre-nuptial struggle with | the British government, authoritative sources disclosed today, is for recognition of Mrs. Wallis Warfield, his bride-to-be, as “Her Royal High- ness, the Duchess of Windsor.” The Duke, it was learned, will not | even be content to have Mrs. Warfield | become “the Duchess of Windsor.” So heated has the dispute between | the former monarch and the govern- ment become that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's cabinet today re- |. viewed the whole question. Having yielded to Windsor's de- | mands that Mrs. Warfield become a duchess, the ministers stood pat against allowing her to be addressed “Her Royal Higrness,” it was re- ported. Windsor Is Insistent. A source close to the government disclosed that negotiations have been going on for some time in an effort to bring both adamant sides to a compromise. But Windsor, they said, is insistent that his bride be called | “her royal highness”; the govern- ment that she not be so titled. Secret ambassadors from the gov- ernment, these sources said, have argued and pleaded with the duke, but have been unable to convince him | that he alone is entitled to the di tinction of being a “royal highness" because of his royal blood. Mrs. Warfield, they are said to have | contended, has no such claim because | she is a commoner and has not the | faintest_hope for succession to the | (See WINDSOR, Page A-4.) OF THREAT TO PRESIDENT HELD Tested by Secret Service Agents. By the Assoctated Press. HARRISBURG. Pa, May Secret service agenlts arrested a man | docketed as William S. Amberson, 59, of Waynesboro, Pa., on a charge of | sending two threatening letters to | Presidept Roosevelt, The agents took Amberson into custody yesterday in Waynesboro on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Sidney Freidman of | Harrisburg. Arraigned before United States | Commissioner S. J. Zarger of Waynes- | boro, Amberson was released under $2,500 bond for a hearing May 18. The Government agents said Amber- son first wrote letters to Gov. Earle | and other State officials asking their assistance in an automobile trans- action in which he felt he had been defrauded of $50. The State officials 13— | to ban from Washington such nuis- | member | at Benning acquired by the Gobel Co., took no action, | Summary of Page. Amusements _C-2 Comics Editorials Financial ___A-19 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ____A-12 FOREIGN. Windsor demands “royal highness” title for bride. A-1 Post-coronation schedule heavy for new monarchs. Page A-5 NATIONAL. Propeller split studied in dirigible blast. Page A-1 27,000 workers are idle in steel strike. Page A-1 Radiotelegraph monopoly charged in Mackay suit. Page A-2 Shortage of labor faced by Lee Boule- vard road project. Page A-3 Another peace overture is killed by John L. Lewis. A-3 Nye drafts resolution demanding name of “billionaire.” Page A-6 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Dog “lobbyist” appears before sub- committee of House. Page A-1 ‘Three youths held after gun battle with officer. Page A-1 Red Cross announces additional aid to Spaniards. Page A-5 ‘Thorough investigation of milk situa- tion is demanded. Page A-6 Man to marry girl he saved in Boar- man tragedy. Page A-13 House group to probe D. C. crime conditions. B-1 Red tape bars public from new build- ing at Zoo. B-1 Short Story-..D-8 Society ____ B-3 Sports . __D-1-3 ‘Woman’s Pg.._C-5 Page Legislators oppose move to ban liquor licenses sale. Page B-1 Intangible property tax with ‘teeth” s sought, Page B-1 MAY 13, G ¢ Foening Star 1937T—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. #%% HERE .YOU FELLOWS | ET BUSY, HERE COMES THE BOSS! /;'{W%\%‘w AT The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,698. (Some retu (#) Means Associated Pr rns not yet received.) TWO. CENTS. === | WORKING" IN THE CONGRESSIONAL CUMULATIVE CAMP! FOES OF ABATIOR PLANNEW ATACK Recover From Rough-and- | Tumble Session to Start Again Today. BACKGROUND— Request of meat-packing firm for permit to erect slaughter house in Benning area precipitated storm of controversy last Fall. Commission- ers rejected application and set rigid standards for establishment of such an enterprise in District. Re- vising their plans to meet stand- ards, company was granted permit. At same time, legislation was in- troduced in Congress for regulation of such industries in District. Sec retary Ickes and District Commi: sioners have led support of meas- ure in Senate hearings now under way. Supporters of the King bill designed ance-making industries as the pro- posed Gobel slaughter house in Ben- ning had recovered sufficiently from the surprises of yesterday's rough and tumble session with the special Sen- ate District subcommittee to plan a counter offensive when the hearing is resumed this afternoon at 2 o'clock. | Taking stock of a situation fnrced; into the open by Senator Millard E. | Tydings of Maryland, a subcommittee who claimed compensation | for Adolf Gobel, Inc., if it is pre-| vented from operating its plant. pro- | ponents of the new zoning legislation were satisfied they had scored at least one important point. | This was when Elwood H. Seal, Corporation Counsel for the District, | knocked the props from under the | contention of Gobel spokesmen that | the company was entitled to compen- sation from the local taxpayers in an amount considerably in excess of $1,000,000 if deprived of the right to establish its slaughter house near the Benning viaduct. D. Edward Clark, | Gobel attorney, who was supported throughout the hearing by Senator Tydings, claimed the packing 1’11'm1 had paid $1,400,000 “for the plant and | property and the right to do business.” | Seal Hits Abattoir Figures. Seal who had earlier protested such | a claim as excessive, called for the records of the assessor's office and proceeded to break down the skillfully | built-up case. The property and land | (See ABATTOIR, Page A-9.) Today’s Star Airport Commission postpones decision on site. Page B-1 Repeal of red rider likely as con- ferees meet. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 ‘This and That. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence, Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Mark Sullivan. Page A-11 Jay Franklin. Page A-11 Delia Pynchon. Page A-11 FINANCIAL. Bonds Suffer Setbacks (table) Bank Clearings Rise. Construction Far Above 1936 Stocks Slump (table). Curb List Lower (table). Greyhound Net Improves A-19 A-19 A-19 A-20 A-21 A-21 SPORTS. Fischer slated to be starter on slab for Nationals. Page D-1 Kurtsinger is sure War Admiral will take Preakness. Page D-1 ‘Three Maryland athletes are favored in conference meet. Page D-2 Seven college ringer teams to contest in Star tourney. Page D-3 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Shipping News. Young Washington, After Dark. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Bedtime Story. Nature’s Children. Crossword Puzzle. City News in Brief. ‘Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics. Page A-2 Page A-15 Page B-12 Col. Lindbergh Declined Bid To Coronation By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 13 —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, it was learned today, declined an invitation to attend the coronation of King George VI yes- terday at Westminster Abbey. The noted aviator, friends said, was extended one of the invitations which thousands of personages had sought in vain, but decided to stay at his home in Kent. He listened to the broadcast of the ceremony. SHIP GOES ON REEF- SKIPPERENDSLIFE Captain Found Dead as Coast Guard Tries to Pull Vessell Off. Br the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 13— Coast Guard headquarters reported to- day Capt. Otto Liebert of the Ger- man steamship Wiegand died of a self- inflicted bullet wound today after his vessel ran hard aground in clear weather on a coral reef 35 miles south of Miami, The cutter Pandora. which had tried for hours to float the ship, took the master’'s body to Miami. Guardsmen said the Pandora investigated only to ascertain that there had been no crime committed in United States territorial waters. Ship German Soil. The Wiegand is considered German soil and any detailed investigation will have to be made by the German consul. L. Kurz, German consul at Jacksonville, said the Miami area was under the New Orleans consulate. He had telegraphed the nation’s repre- sentative there, he stated, and would take further action only by request. Coast Guardsmen said the Pandora arrived beside the Wiegand early yes- terday after she had run aground Tuesday night The patrol boat passed a line and attempted to get the craft back into deep water, but the hawser broke. Another line was passed and ef- forts continued unsuccessfully. Last night the Coast Guard vessel pulled at full power for three hours without result. Capt. Liebert directed the efforts from the deck of the Wiegand, and when once more the attempt at refloating was halted, he went to his cabin. Shooting Then Reported. A short time later the crew signaled the Pandora Capt. Liebert was wounded. When Coast Guard officers arrived he was dead. Several letters were found, Consul Kurz said, but until they could be examined, the exact reason for the man's action could not be established. A commercial tug was sent today from Key West to assist further re- floating attempts. The Wiegand is owned by the North German Lloyd Lines. b.A.0.TO DROP 300 EMPLOYES SOON Majority to Go June 30. Emergency Workers Plan Fight for Jobs. Between 250 and 300 emergency employes are to be dropped by the General Accounting Office—the ma- Jority on June 30—it was made known today. Lack of funds is forcing this ac- tion, officials said. explaining that a few dismissals are being made now and that others will follow atter the end of the fiscal year. At present the General Accounting Office is employing about 2.700 emer- gency workers in 15 buildings Washington and one in Alexandria In reducing thre force. officials are taking cognizance of efficiency and the need for work, principally. In in- stances, too, it was said, where a cou- ple is employed in the Government and the total salary reaches an ap- preciable figure, the marital status law also is being invoked. ‘The General Accounting Office is the third establishment to announce a large lay-off since the current econ- omy wave in the Government began to operate. The Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration was first. and then Public Works announced that a huge slash was impending because of lowered appropriations In the meantime, emergency em- ployes are preparing to unite in an effort to save what jobs they can. In pushing this program, which is declared to have Democratic backing at the Capitol. the newly organized Association of Non-Classified Workers is meeting tonight at the Willard Hotel. Several members of Congress are listed for speeches, among them being Chairman Ramspeck, Demo- crat, of Georgia of the House Civil Service Committee. CURLEY’S SON QUITS HARVARD OVER “SLUR” Former Governor of Massachu- setts Declares Remark Was Re- flection Upon His Reputation. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE. Mass, May 13.—A tion cost Harvard Law School a stu- Curley. of Boston, explained his son resigned after the incident “and I advised him to do so.” ing a class discussion of a former Mid- western Mayor. He said the professor, Mayor in question was corrupt, but nevertheless the people kept electing him, and is said to have declared “in much the same fashion the people would elect Curley Mayor of Boston.” The former Governor said the pro- fessor apologized to his son afterward. Leo Curley was Georgetown University last year and was a first-year student at the school. Dog By the Associated Press. A 13-month-old dog named Rex, artfully wagging his bushy tail, lob- bied a bill through a House subcom- mittee today. The legislation would allow the Nation’s railroads to let the trained canine companions of the blind ac- company them free of charge on coaches. Rex, abandoning the suave tricks of veteran lobbyists, simply stretched at the feet of his blind master, Dr. H. E. Claus of Arlington, Va. fixed a brown eye on Chairman Bulwinkle, Democrat, of North Carolina and swished his tail across the green plush committee room carpet. R. V. Fletcher, counsel for the As- sociation of American Railways, fas- cinated by the pup on the floor, moved his chair to get a better look. Representative Smith, Democrat, of Washington, author of the bill, in- Letter Out. terrupted himself with a chuckle as Rex shattered the digaity of the L Wags Tail and Lobbies Bill Through Subcommittee committee room by rolling on his back. Dr. Claus was the only witness. Explaining that Rex was one of the famous “seeing-eye” dogs, trained at Morristown, N. J., to lead the blind, he said most railroads allow the dog to travel in his compartment. “But once,” said Dr. Claus, his voice rising, “they wouldn’t allow it.” ‘The dog stiffened at the change in his master’s tone. “Rex and 1" said the blind man, “rode in the baggage car that day.” None of the railroad attorneys pres- ent opposed the bill, although Fletcher suggested the regulations could be worked out without legislation. Adjourning the hearing, Bulwinkle walked over and eased into a chair before the dog. A moment later Rex had his paws in the chairman’s lap. “Oh, yes,” announced the law- maker, “the subcommittee will favor- ably report this bill to the House Inter~ state and Foreign Commerce Com- mittee.” Thus ended the first dog lobby. “slur” former Gov. James M. Curley | said & professor cast upon his reputa- | dent today, Curley's son, Leo Francis committee. only Curley said the “slur” occurred dur- | unnamed, told his class that the | graduated from | RELIEF FUND BILL IS RESTORED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE 10" §1.500,000,000 | Full Appropriation Recom- mended After $500,000,- 000 Cut—Leaders Confi- dent of Final Passage. AMENDMENT APPROVED TO AVOID DEFICIENCY Jobs for 1,730,000 Workers Would Be Provided—Plan Declared Contingent on Industry Being Able to Absorb Displaced W, P. A. Enrollees. BACKGROUND— Real drive for economy in gove ernment developed at Capitol few weeks ago as tar returns showed disappointing fall in revenue. Among proposals was blanket cut in all appropriations and another to impound part of arpropriations. With presidential request for $1,- 500,000,000 for relief looming as major obstacle to economy, House Appropriations Subcommittee un- erpectedly voted to slash one-third from sum. The House Ap priations Commite | tee overrode economy demands today and recommended a $1.500,000,000 ap~ propriation for work-relief in the fiscal year beginning July 1 The committee reversed a subcome mittee which voted, 5 to 4 ago to hold the app | $1.000,000.000—one-third President Roosevelt asked Administration leaders expressed confidence the House would approve e full $1,500,000.000 when the mease comes up next week | The full committee restored the cut | by a vote of 23 to 14 on motion of Repres tive Cannon, Democrat, of Missor acting chairman. Amendment Obtained. ive Woodrum, Democrat, who led the fight in subs he lower amount, obe . however, re- or Harry i a e relief funds the 12 months beginning July 1 50 as to avoid the possibility of a | further appropriation being required as a deficiency later in the year. Hopkins had testified before the subcommittee tr the $1,500,000,000 appropriation would provide jobs for an average of 1730.000 workers throughout the next fiscal year. That would necessitate, he added, dropping 525000 persons now working for W. P. A, He made it plain the entire program was ol private industry’s being able to absorb the displaced W. P. A. workers as well as “millions unemployed who are not under th¢ Works Progress Administration.” Not to Drop Needy. Hopkins declared emphatically he would not drop needy persons from the relief rolls “I would not, under this bill,” he said, “‘arbitrarily drop people who are¢ | In need of reliet and have no employ- ment. The best that you can anticie pate at the present time is that ecoe | nomic condition will permit this. Ne one can be sure of that.” Hearings. including his testimony on the relief appropriation bill, were | made public today. Hopkins said the $1,500.000.000 ape propriation would make $1,387,000,00¢ available directlv for the works pro- gram Approximately $75,000,000 would go to the National Youth Ad- ministration, he said, and $38,000,000 to the General Accounting Office, the Treasury and the United States Em- ployment Service Under the $1.000.000.000 appropriae tion, proposed by Representative | Woodrum, acting chairman of the sub- 0,000,000 would ge 276,700,000 for highe Rep: | to the N. Y. A.: §! The former Governor, thrice Mayor | ways, roads and streets, $420,0000.000 ! for public buildings, parks and other recreational facilities and $253,300,000 i for so-called “white collar” and wome en’s projects Hopkins said the administration's program contemplated curtailment of T (See ECONOMY, Page A-T.) EVIDENCE BATTLE MARKS STOCK CASE S. E. C. Counsel Claims Matter Hearsay in Hutton Co. Hearings. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 13.—A sgharp fight over evidence admitted yesters day marked the Security and Ex- change Commission hearing today in its acticn against the New York Stock Exchange firm of W. E. Hutton & Co., and others. The 8. E. C. has charged the Hut- ton firm and others manipulated the stock of Atlas Tack Corp. Today was the second session of the respondent's defense. The conflict centered on evidence admitted yesterday by Edward C. Johnson, trial examiner. Jacob Gruber, counsel for the com- mission, charged statements and docu- ments submitted as evidence by Franklin Lincoln, counsel for the respondent, were ‘“hearsay, and in some instances, second hearsay.” Furthermore, Gruber said, the doc- uments and statements were irreles vant. The statements were unsworn, he added, and gave S. E. C. counsel no chance for cross-examination. David W. Peck, chief of counsel for the respondent, termed this “the most amazing statement yet made by the S.E. C. You can't question the origin of a Western Union money order,” he said. A