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STRADDLE BAN
DEMANDED BY
DEMOCRATS
State Convention Tuesday
Urged to Adopt Definite
Repeal Plank.
3 IN GOVERNOR RACE
Like Number Up for Sen
ate; Mayr Will Face Fight
for Nomination.
BY BEN STERN
It, now is the turn of Indiana
Democrats to see what they can
produce in the form of political en
tertainment, both light and heavy.
The time is Tuesday and the arena
is Cadle tabernacle, with R. Earl
Peters, state chairman, acting the
role of the ringmaster.
Clarence E. Manion, law professor
at Notre Dame university, will start
the ceremonies for the 1,559 dele
gates with a keynote which, it con
fidently is asserted, will have no lit
tle to say regarding Republican
shortcomings.
Then John S. McFaddin of Rock
ville, who some assert was a veteran
Democrat when Thomas Jefferson
was in his prime, will be presented
With a gavel as permanent chair
man. After that will come election
of thirty delegates to the national
convention, the reading of the plat
form. and the nominations.
It is with the last two that- the
delegates and leaders arriving in
the city today are concerned partic
ularly.
Prohibition to Fore
Determination has been manifest
to go the Republicans one better in
the matter of the prohibition hurdle
which they set up two weeks ago in
the auditorium.
At that time the G. O. P. adopted
a generally innocuous platform, with
a saving plank in the form of a de
claration "for submission of the
eighteenth amendment for repeal,”
leaving it up to the voters.
Democratic leaders are insisting
that their pronouncement state
that the amendment “should be re
pealed.”
Social legislation also is asked.
The platform is expected to de
clare again for old age pensions,
legislation doing away with the
"yellow dog” contract, and the use
of court injunctions In labor dis
putes. all of which were neglected
by the opposition after representa
tions had been made by labor.
Have Tax Program
A constructive program for tax
equalization also is demanded by
Democratic managers and leaders,
who say that merely to declare in
lavor of this and reduction of gov
ernmental expenidturcs is not suf
ficient.
Preliminary platform draft, will be
made at the meeting of the advis
ory committee Sunday morning,
and submitted to the state commit
tee that afternoon, it has been an
nounced.
If the plan of procedure in nomi
nations adopted at the French Lick
meeting is adhered to. nominations
for Governor will come first.
Three have announced for that
honor. They are Paul V. McNutt,
former state and national comman
der of the American Legion and
dean of the Indiana university law
school; Mayor Wood Posey of Terre
Haute, who has urged repeal of the
Wright bone dry law, and John
Fredrick, Kokomo manufacturer,
who sought the senatorial nomina
tion in 1926 and the Governor nom
ination in 1928.
Three for Senator
A like number have announced
for the senatorial nomination, which
is of major importance this year, as
the wily campaigner. Senator James
E. Watson, again is the Republican
choice.
The candidates are Frederick Van
Nuys of Indianapolis, former state
chairman, former district attorney
and an outstanding party leader;
Walter Myers, Speaker of the house
of representatives, J 925 nominee for
mayor of Indianapolis, and unsuc
cessful contender for the senatorial
nomination in 1928. and Bernard
Bobbs Shively of Marion, who, while
a member of the legislature, was co
author of the Spencer-Shively act
bringing into existence the public
service commission.
Because of the fight made by
Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state,
and his department heads on re
elect ion of Peters as state chairman,
and the opposition to McNutt ui that
camp, there is manifested a disposi
tion to defeat the secretary for re
nomination.
Several Are Mentioned
Those receiving mention as oppon
ents of the secretary are: Thomas
McConnell of Fowler, Second district
chairman and head of the state
township trustees' association; Vir
gil Simmons of Bluffton, Fourth dis
trict chairman and state representa
tive. who sought the nomination two
years ago; William P. Krau, mayor
ot Elkhart, and Lawrence Handley
of Richmond.
Three officials seeking renomina
tion. unopposed are William Storen,
Elate treasurer; Floyd Williamson,
auditor, and George C. Cole, super
intendent of public instruction.
Six are reported to be seeking the
nomination for attorney-general.
They are Philip Lutz Jr., of Boon
ville, old First district chairman;
Val Nolan. Evansville city attorney;
John Riddle of Terre Haute, labor
attorney; James J. Moran of Port
land; B. C, Jenkins of Gary, and
Samuel D. Jackson, former Allen
county prosecutor.
Because of shifts that are due be
fore Tuesday in the candidacies for
the appellate and supreme court
judge nominations, the picture still
is clouded.
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 44—NUMBER 33
BILL KILLED, BUT
BONUS ARMY HOLDS
TIGHT TO TRENCHES
‘We’ll Stay Here Until We
Change Their Minds,’
Says Commander.
BY WALKER STONE
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, June 18.—Tense
■ uncertainty hovered over the na
i tional capital today as congress
waited to see whether the over
whelming and double defeat of the
soldiers’ bonus bill in the senate
last night would turn the tide of the
veterans’ ‘nvasion of Washington.
Leaders of the bonus “army of
occupation” strove to hold in line
the 20,000-odd men encamped
about Washington, while city
authorities renewed their efforts to
bring about evacuation and start
the disappointed veterans home
ward.
Meanwhile, from all sections of
the country, came reports of thou
sands of other veterans doggedly
moving onward to the capital.
While congress turned its atten
tion from the defeated bonus bill
to unemployment relief legislation,
veteran leaders announced their in
tention of remaining here, and add
ing to their numbers until their
men are given either jobs or bonus,
which they refer to as “back pay.”
Disorders Are Prevented
The dramatic events of Friday
and Friday night have had no
parellel in American history since
a century and a half ago, when
the veterans of revolution marched
on the Continental congress at Phi
adelphia, forcing that body to move
across the Delaware river to Tren
ton.
When the senate opened debate
on the Patman bonus bill at 11
a. m., 2,000 veterans were con
gregated in the Capitol plaza. All
day long their numbers mounted,
and when the vote was finally taken
Friday night approximately 10,000
had gathered.
Self-imposed discipline prevented
any disorder. All day long the men
listened to harangues from their
own spokesmen, and from friendly
members of congress.
They had been prepared for news
of the defeat, but they hardly ex
pected the vote would go so strong
ly against their bill.
Vote Big Disappointment
When Commander W. W. Waters
of the veterans announced the 62 to
18 vote, a threatening silence fell
over the crowd.
“This is only a temporary set
back,” shouted Waters. “We are go
ing to get more and more men, and
we are going to stay here until we
change the mind of those guys.”
At this point the perfect control
over the demonstration manifested
itself. Someone started off on the
song, “America,” and the multitude
joined in the strain—“My Country,
’Tis of Thee . .
The crowd slowly dispersed, and
started on the mile-and-one-half
walk back to the bonus camp across
Anacosta river.
Meanwhile, in the senate cham
bers, foes of the bonus, in a parlia
mentary coup, definitely shelved the
bonus for the remainder of the
seventy-second congress.
Shelved. 44 to 26
By a vote of 44 to 26, the senate
upheld a motion by Senator George
A. Moses (Rep., N. H.), to table a
motion by Senator David A. Reed
ißep., Pa.), to reconsider the bill.
In this parliarmentary maneuver,
Senator Elmer Thomas (Dem.,
Okla.), sponsor of the bill, was
swept off his feet.
“The fight has just begun,” said
Thomas as the debate neared the
end. “These veterans will not leave
Washington, and I predict that
50.000 more soon will be here.” j
The veterans were stunned by the
vote line-up. In addition to the !
regulars of the two parties, whase
oppasition they had anticipated, the
measure was opposed by such liber
als as Senator George Norris (Rep.,
Neb.), Robert La Follette (Rep.,
Wis.), and Edward P. Costigan
(Rep., Colo,), who voted against the
bill because they felt that if it did
pass unemployment relief legislation
would be impossible this session.
Debate Called Pantomine
Except for the dispassionate pleas
of the few liberals for relief for ‘all
who are unemployed and in dis
tress, the debate in the senate was
marked by its bitterness.
Friends of the bill played upon
the bravery and patriotism “of the ;
boys who bared their breasts to the
bullets of the enemy,” and argued
the need of inflating the currency.
"Everybody knows and has known
that this bill can not become a law,”
said blind Senator Thomas P. Gore
(Dem., Okla.L “This scene we are
enacting in this chamber is a mere
pantomine.
“If any soldier boy has been led
to believe that this bill misfit pass,
he has been misled. He has been
delusioned into following a rainbow,
which has at its end neither a real
nor a fancied pot of gold.
“The only phrase I can think of to
fit the occasion is “what a pity!”
GIRL, 12, TO LIVE OUT
LIFE, BULLET IN HEAD
Doctors Fear Operation Would Be
Fatal; Slight Scar Left.
By United Press
BUFFALO, N. Y., June 18 —Ruth
Schultz, 12, probably will live the
rest of her life—and doctors say it
will be a normal one—with a bullet
lodged in her head.
The girl was wounded accidentally
in the cheek. The bullet lodged at
the base of the brain, near the eye.
The wound left only a little scar.
An operation to remove the bullet
would be dangerous, and might
prove fatal, doctors said.
They have decided to leave well
enougt^lone.
Partly cloudy with probable thundershowers this afternoon or tonight, followed by generally fair and somewhat cooler Sunday.
Becomes Nun
@
By United Press
PARIS, June 18. —French actors
and actresses wept today as Mile.
Yvonne Hautin, 22, formerly a
star of the Comedie Francaise,
took the veil of a nun and her
beautiful hair was clipped by cere
monial shears.
A score of Mile. Hautin’s thea
trical friends witnessed the cere
mony at which Cardinal Verdier,
archbishop of Paris, officiated.
The ceremony was at the Bene
dictine convent where the former
actress will pass the rest of her
life.
She has already served two
years as a noviate.
OLD HAUNT OF
CAPONERAIDED
10 Agents .Close Colosimo’s
Chicago Bright Spot.
By United Press
CHICAGO, June 18. —Ten federal
prohibition agents early today raid
ed Colosimo’s restaurant, one of the
city’s best known night life centers.
More than sixty persons, most of
them in evening dress, were ordered
to leave by agents who searched the
premises for liquor.
The restaurant, which for twenty
years has been one of the south
side’s brightest “spots” was closed
by the agents. Deputy Prohibition
Administrator A. E. Aman said his
men confiscated several thousand
dollars worth of alleged liquors.
Agents immediately backed up
large vans and started stripping the
place of its rich furnishings. They
arrested six employes.
It was at this case that A1 Ca
pone got his start in the Chicago
underworld when he was hired as
a “bouncer” by “Big Jim” Colosimo,
the owner. And it was Colosimo’s
slaying in the same case that start
ed Capone on the rise to gang
power.
While agents were busy at Colo
simo's, another squad of ten dry
officers invaded the Hollywood Club,
a north side night club. Three men
were arrested and a quantity of al
leged liquor seized.
ACQUIT STATE COP
Carl Springmire Goes Free
in Fairground Killing.
By T nited Press
NEWCASTLE. Ind., June 18.—
A jury in Henry circuit court. Fri
day freed Carl H. Springmire. state
policeman of Greensburg, on all
charges, including first degree mur
der. in connection with the slaying
of Staley Y. Coones at the Fayette
county fairground in Connersville
last summer.
Springmire's defense was built
upon the contention that he was
performing his duty as a state
policeman when he shot at Coomes,
whom he charged had attempted to
rob a woman of her purse, and re
fused to obey commands to £alt.
Springmire was suspended from
the state force pending outcome of
his trial .
REPORT MAN SAFE IN
SUICIDE FALLS LEAP
Police Told He Was Seen Swimming
After Niagara River Plunge.
By United Press
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., June 18.
—Reports said today a man plunged
over the suicidal bridal veil falls of
the upper Niagara river—and lived.
The man, the reports said, was
seen as he swept over the falls and
several minutes later was swimming
around in the lower Niagara.
Police discredited the story, and
planned today a'March for the bod} .
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932
Mile. Yvonne Hautin
CONVICTED OF
MURDER; FIND
BOY INNOCENT
Youth Free After Serving
Since October, 1931, on
Life Sentence.
OTHERS ADMIT CRIME
9
‘Always Knew You Didn’t
Do It,’ Mother Tells
20-Year-old Son.
BY LESLIE D. HARROP
United Press Staff Correspondent
DETROIT, June 18.—A pale
youth sleepily stumbled from his bed
in a modest home here today and
hurried downstairs to breakfast with
his father and mother—finally freed
f -om a life sentence in prison, for a
murder he did not commit.
Gerald Growden, 20, was not al
ways pale, nor did he possess that
hunted, fearing look in his eye when
on Oct. 21, 1931, he heard Judge
Guy A. Miller pronounce the sen
tence of the court that he be con
fined to Jackson state prison for
the remainder of his natural life.
Late Friday he stood before that
same judge. An ill-fitting cheap
brown suit, given him at the prison,
hung loosely on his body. He twisted
a cap nervously in his hands.. Then
the same voice sounded through the
courtroom.
„ Promises to “Be Good”
Fortunately you now are free,”
said Judge Miller. “The sentence
will follow you, so be a good boy.
I am speaking as one free man to
another.”
Four boys, arrested in a police
roundup recently, suddenly changed
their pleas to guilty for the killing
of James B. Smith, Romulus, Mich.,
and admitted they did not even
know Growden.
The prosecutor’s office acted swift
ly, and Growden—who had been
returned from prison to testify in
the trial—was brought into the
courtroom where he had been con
victed.
This time, anew murder warrant
against him was quashed. He was
fred.
“I ll keep out of trouble, judge,”
Growden blurted, “I’m going home
right now.”
Father and Mother Waiting
Out in the neighborhood where he
was raised, Gerald found his mother
and father waiting for him.
“We always knew you were in
nocent,” his mother assured him as
she led him upstairs to his room—
a room daily kept ready for his re
turn since the dark day when the
law took him away. "
“It all began a little more than a
year ago.” Gerald said. “When I
went down to report at the proba
tion office. I was working in a
garage then, and had to report fre
quently to the probation officer for
a term I did at lonia reformatory.
“ ‘Where were you on the night of
Nov. 12, 1929!’ the probation officer
asked me. I thought, but I couldn’t
remember back that far.
Couldn’t Remember Date
“I tried'to recall. Time and time
I thought over that question—where
had I been on that night. I couldn’t
say surely.
“Then it seemed the next moment
I heard the jury finding me guilty.
“I wasn’t guilty. I knew I wasn’t,
but where had a I been on that
night when the man wah killed. I
thing I was working at the garage,
but I couldn’t prove it.
“They took me to Jackscn prison.
Da yafter day and night after night
I tried to relive those days in No
vember of 1929—t0 remember where
I was that night so I could prove my
innocence, but I couldn't.
“I lost hope. Always it seemed I
would wake up to hear clanging cell
gates, and march into mess halls
and hear orders from guards. *
“Boy! to Be Free Again!”
“Then two weeks ago they told
me that these other fellows had ad
hitted they did the job. I began
to hope anew, but was disheartened
when they changed their pleas to
not wguilty and went on trial.
“I dreaded the trial. I knew
what it would be. ‘Where were you
on the night of Nov. 12, 1929?’ and
I still couldn’t say positively.
“I only knew one thing—l wasn’t
in on that murder.”
Gerald stretched and relaxed in
a big overstuffed chair.
“Boy!” it is good to be free
again!”
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'928 /932
How has he met the problems of the
depression, what has he done and what
has he tried to do for business and for the
unemployed ?
What has been his attitude relative to
the tariff, prohibition, the bonus, war
debts and other problems ?
Read RODNEY DUTCHER’S three re
vealing stories on Hoover's three years as
president,
BEGINNING MONDAY IN THE TIMES
HOOVER
BE MOST
RECENT
‘Safe and Sane’ Standard
to Be Raised in Effort to
Pull Ballots.
BY RAY TUCKER
Times Staff Writer
CHICAGO, June de
cisions of political strategy, agreed
upon here by administration lead
ers before quitting the convention
city, indicate that President Hoo
ver will seek re-election with the
most conservative appeal in recent
political history.
The selection of ex-Representative
Everett Sanders of Indiana as na
tional chairman, the platform and
the men running the President’s
campaign show that the G. O. P.
will try to reset the 1924 and 1896
stage.
In those years the slogan was that
only the Republicans could be en
trusted with the responsibility of
government because the Democrats
were irresponsible.
Whether this tag will stick de
pends, It is conceded, on what the
Democrats will do with respect to
economic issues, prohibition and
their candidate.
Want Roosevelt as Foe
The Republicans are hoping the
Democrats will adopt a platform
vague and weak on prohibition and
economic questions, and nominate a
man who will not appeal as a bold,
honest and adventurous figure.
Privately, many of them are pray
ing that Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt of New York will emerge
as the victor from next week’s Dem
ocratic powwow.
Though there were few political
philosophers at the convention, the
thought is that political history in
Great Britain and Germany can be
made to repeat itself here.
G. O. P. strategists believe, as did
McKinley, Mark Hanna and Coo
lidge, that in time of economic
stress the voters will flock to the
“safe and sane” standard.
Even Coxey Is “Milder”
As indicative of this sentiment,
two men who played a prominent
part in the convention were Gov
ernor James Rolph of Hoover’s home
state, who declined to free Tom
Mooney, and ex-Governor Alvan T.
Fuller of Massachusetts, who was
chief executive there when Sacco
and Vanzetti were electrocuted.
Even “General” Jacob S. Coxey,
who headed “Coxey’s army,” a dele
gate, seemed milder than usual.
The choice of Sanders in place of
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio has
little political signifiance except as
a possible bid for Coolidge's cam
paign support.
Sanders was Coolidge's White
House secretary, and the two are
still on close terms.
It means that Hoover, Postmaster-
General Walter F. Brown and
Ogden L. Mills of New York, secre
tary of the treasury, will run the
campaign.
Sanders will, it is expected, be
only a figurehead. He was named
because old guardsmen on the na
tional committee opposed the selec
tion of James R. Garfield of Ohio,
chairman of the resolutions com
mittee.
He’s IdeAl Figurehead
Resenting Brown’s domination of
the the practical poli
ticians insisted on a different per
sonality, especially as Garfield made
enemies in the prohibition fight.
But Sanders will, it is known, be
no more *than Brown's assistant.
At the capital and in Indiana.!
Sanders i s regarded as a nice fel- 1
low, but not at a forceful or inde
pendent figure.
He has been assailed by some sen
ators as a lobbyist since he quit
the White House.
He is ultra-conservative and un
emotional, and he was chosen be
cause he is the ideal figurehead for
the sort of fight the G. O. P. intends
to make.
SENTENCE KREUGER AID
Associate of Late Match King Gets
Nine-Month Term.
By United Press
STOCKHOLM, June 18.—Bror
Bregberg, an associate of the late-
Ivar Kreuger, was under sentence
of nine months hard labor today,
the first sentence in connection
with the collapse of the Kreuger
interests. Bregberg also was fined
$162,000.
F,nter-ed as .Wnnd-OJsHs Matter
at Postoffice, Indianapolis
VOTE APPEAL TO
CONSERVATIVE IN
BALLOT HISTORY
Bobbers Turn Chiselers
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Now we have the “chisel bob,” designed for a carpenter—that is to
say, Charlotte Carpenter of Los Angeles. It’s the latest in coiffures,
created by Dqrmott of London. They call it the Olympic Chisel Bob
in honor of the Olympic games at Los Angeles. Quite an event, eh?
WOMAN IS HELD IN
‘COCKTAIL MURDER’
Who’s a Lady?
Couldn’t Be Lightly Clad
Girl in Apartment of
Man, Says Judge.
By United Press
NEW YORK, June 18.—A wit
ness, describing a visit to the
apartment of Horace Liveright,
publisher, said he found “a lady,”
clad only in undergarments, in
one room.
At that point in the undefended
divorce suit brought by Elsie
Bartlett Liveright, actress, Judge
John M. Tierney, referee, inter
rupted:-
“This is not an admonition, but
a suggestion. A woman is the
proper name of the female of the
species, and is so described in the
Bible. Such persons as Henry
VIII and Louis XIV had mis
tresses called ‘ladies,’ but this is
not the custom in America.
“In America, a lady is a per
son who has performed some dis
tinguished public service. I ob
ject to the use here of the word
‘lady’.”
So the story of the “woman" in ”
the undergarments was continued.
How the Market
Opened '■
BY ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
NEW YORK, June 18. —Decisive
defeat of the bonus bil in the sen
ate brought a steadier tone into
the stock market eoday. Volume
continued small.
Leading issues were unchanged
or slightly higher. Steel common
opened unchanged at 25% and then
advanced fractionally. Auburn Auto,
which lost nearly 10 points Friday,
rose a point to 63 at the outset.
Fractional advances were noted in
American Can, International Tele
phone, Consolidated Gas, Interna
tional Nickel, National Biscuit,
Standard brands and Woolworth.
Railroad shares were almost un
changed; utilities held firm; oils
lost slightly; automobile shares were
mixed.
Leaders moved narrowly around
the opening levels. American Tele
phone opened at 84, off %, and fell
back fractionally. Steel slipped back
to its opening after a small rise.
Cotton futures eased off. Bonds
opened irregular with changes small
and continued mixed in light turn
over in the early dealings. The
American dollar experienced a tech
nical reaction in terms of all gold
country currencies.
The opening on Sears-Roebuck
was delayed for a time as a result
of influx of selling orders and diffi
culty of finding buyers. The com
pany, after the close Friday, voted
to omit the dividend due at this
time. The first sale of the stock
was a block of 3,000 shares at 11%,
off 1%, and anew low for the pres
ent shares. It declined further in
the early trading.
Chicago Stocks Opening
ißv James T. Hamill & Cos.)
—June 18—
Bendix Avia 5‘ 2 Middle West %
Bore Warner... 4 Swift * Cos ... 9 J
Cities Serv... Swift Tntl 17’
Cont Chi com.. 3 < U SRa * Tei. . S'-i
Comm Edison... 55
Hourly Temperatures
6 a. m 66 8 a. m 67
7a. m 67 9jl. 71
British Knight’s Daughter to
Be Arraigned in Death
of Society Man.
By United Press
LONDON, June 18—British so
ciety’s “cocktail murder” advanced
another step in the record today
when Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney
was ordered committed for trial on
two charges, involving homicide and
attempt to kill.
The beautiful auburn-haired so
ciety girl, daughter of a British
knight and estranged wife of John
S. Barney, American radio singer, is
accused of shooting Michael Scott
Stephen, a London society man,
after a cocktail party in her apart
ment on May 31.
She was given a hearing in the
Westminster police court today,
pleaded not guilty to the rtlurder
charge, and to an additional charge
of having attempted to shoot Ste
phen two weeks before the actual
murder.
Mrs. Barney was stunningly
dressed. She was in mourning, wear
ing a smartl cut black frock, black
shoes, fawn stockings and a close
fitting, small black hat, trimmed
wtih artificial flowers.
She denied everything half hyster
ically, and could not recall the de
tails of a quarrel she is alleged to
have had with Stephens in her
apartment betwen 4 and 5 a. m. on
the morning of the murder over an
other woman.
The date for her trial has not been
announced.
Mrs. Barney sobbed when Ste
phen’s love letters to her were read
in court. She broke down complete
ly at the sight of his blood-stained
clothes.
Mrs. Barney struck a Scotland
Yard detective, inspector in the face
and called him “a vile swine,” In
spector William Witner testified.
He said he and another officer
asked Mrs. Barney to dress and go
with them to the police station soon
after Stephen had been found shot
to death in her home.
She rushed across the room,
struck him in the face, and said,
“I’ll teach you to tell me you will
put me in a cell, you vile swine,”
he said.
Indians Face Starvation.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, June
18.—A colony of 300 Montagnais In
dians was reported facing starva
tion today in the territory north
west of Hamilton inlet, where a poor
trapping season left them without
supplies. The government will send
supplies.
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OPEN SENATE
BATTLE OVER
JOBLESS AID
Seventeen Organizations to
Ask Session Continue
Until Bills Pass.
LONG DEBATE EXPECTED
At Least 25 Amendments
Waiting on 2-Billion-
Dollar Program.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Time* Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, June 18.—As the
senate turned to consideration of
unemployment relief today, after
weeks of delay, seventeen promi
nent organizations prepared a de
mand that congress remain in ses
sion until President Herbert Hoover
signs the two major relief bills now
pending.
Among the groups were the Amer
ican Farm Bureau Federation, the
National Grange, the American Fed
eration of Labor, the Federal Coun
cil of Churches in Christ, the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
the Mayors’ Unemployment Com
mittee of Detroit, and the Veterans
of World Wars. They will voice
their demands at a hearing here
: Monday.
i ° ut of the parliamentary chaos
! which followed defeat of the bonus
! bill Friday night, senators who op
| posed it on the ground that it would
J imperil general unemployment relief
- made good their promise to turn at
| once to consideration of general
j relief.
Expect Prolonged Debate
The senate begins consideration of
the $2,000,000,000 construction loan
and public works measures, with the
memory fresh in its mind of hungry,
ragged men posted at its doors ask
ing for help.
Debate on relief may last sev
eral days. At least twenty-five
amendments will be offered, all ex
tending the provisions of the bill.
An attempt will be made to au
thorize loans for payment of teach
ers’ salaries, to care for Chicago and
other cities where teachers have not
received salary for months.
Other amendments will propose
increasing the bond issue for public
works. Senator Robert La Follette
(Rep., Wis.) will propose creation of
a department of public works.
Senator Wesley L. Jones (Rep.,
Wash.) will ask that Reconstruction
Finance Corporation be allowed to
make loans “wherever any group of
5,000 or more unemployed heads of
families in the same community
shall form an industrial co-opera
tive corporation.” This is designed
to care for the organized body of
unemployed in Seattle.
Emergency Bill Is Stalled
Meanwhile, the $300,000,000 emer
gency relief bill which the senate
tried to hurry to enactment to relieve
distress still is stalled in the house.
Democratic leaders have refused to
hold hearings on the bill until
Speaker John N. Garner is able to
return after a slight illness.
That more federal farm board
wheat will be made available to the
Red Cross for feeding hungry
humans and livestock appears as
sured as the result of the house
passing a bill allotting 40,000,000
bushels of grain for this purpose.
A similar bill pends before the
senate, and since that body was
first to pass the original bill giving
the first 40,000,000 bushels of farm
board wheat to the Red Cross, it is
expected to act again.
The new bill also makes farm
board cotton available for free use
by the Red Cross lo clothe the job
less. Five hundred thousand bales
! of cotton are allotted for this pur
pose, the staple to be traded for
clothing or cloth.
May Ask More Bonds
The senate $2,000,000,000 relief
program is in harmony with admin
istration views, except for the half
billion dollar bond issue it provides.
When passed, it will have to go
to the house to be reconciled with
the Garner bill. The house measure
carries a billion dollar public works
bond issue which the administration
labelled “pork barrel.”
Several western progressive sena
tors intended to fight for a still
larger construction program ranging
up to $5,000,000,000.
Senator George Norris (Rep.,
Neb.), argued for such a program
in opposing the veterans’ bonua bill
Friday.
In an eloquent address, he voiced
the deepest sympathy for the vet
erans, but held that a program
should be adopted which would cre
ate jobs not only for the destitute
ex-soldiers, but for the other mil
lions of unemployed.
“Much as I dislike to see my
country issue bonds in time of
peace,” Norris declared, “I think we
will have to come to this conclu
sion. Our country's life is more in
danger today than it was either be
fore or during the great World war.”
PLEA OF BOY, 11, WINS
CLEMENCY FOR NEGRO
Prisoner Had Been Sentenced to
Life Term for Murder.
By United Press
AUSTIN, Tex., June 18.—The plea
of an 11-year-oid boy, the son of a
Huntsville prison official, to Gov
ernor Ross Sterlin for clemency for
a Nero serving a life for murder,
was granted here today.
“Hon. Governor,” read the little
boy’s letter. “I beg that this Negro
prisoner, Jaohn Bell, Record No.
48426. has been taking care of me
two years. I take great pleasure in
recommending him automatic clem
ency.”
Bell, sentenced to life imprison
ment in Colorado county, for mur
der. has served thirteen and ane
hall j'ears.