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HARD TIMES EMPHASIZED
IN DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTE;
ROOSEVELT MEN SCORE
G. Ο. P. Largely
To Blame, Say s
Barkley
.WHITE OF OHIO
ASKED TO QUIT
Ritchie's Friends
State He Won't Ac
cept Second Place.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent oi The Star.
CHICAGO, June 27.— Democ
racy's hosts, bitterly divided over
candidates, the old two-thirds rule
of nominating and the selection
of a permanent chairman, met at
noon today in national conven
tion.
The opening session of the con
tention was peaceful enough and,
outwardly at least, all the fury of
the Democrats was directed
against the Hoover administra
tion and the Republican party.
The keynote speaker and tem
porary chairman. Senator Alben
W. Barkley of Kentucky, shook
hard times in the faces of the
delegates and the roaring gal
leries, charged that the depression
was due in large part to the mis
takes and inefficiency of the Re- |
publican administration, and de
clared that a Democratic victory
was needed for the salvation of
the Nation.
But back of the cheering of the
Democrats lurked intra-perty antagon
isms that have threatened to disrupt
the Democrats at the moment they are
choosing their standard be;rer and pre
paring tor the coming campaign an
tagonisms between the Roosevelt Demo
crats and the Smith and anti-Roose
velt Democrats These are expected to
burst forth at the second session of the
convention tomorrow. The situation is
full of dynamite.
Convention Opened.
The convention was called to order
by Chairman John J. Raskob of the
Democratic National Committee at
12:45 p.m.
Mayor Cermak of Chicago was intro
duced by Edward N. Hurley, chairman
of the Citizens' Committee, to welcome
the delegates and the guest».
Cermak was cheered when he said
the convention would name the "next
President of the United States."
Another and louder chser greeted the
mayor when he said that the eight
eenth amendment should go.
When A1 Smith entered the hall,
there were shouts and handclapping
from the galleries. The Massachusetts
delegation led a cheer for Smith, but
It left most of the delegates unmoved
and uncheering. The demonstration was
over in a minute.
Chairman Raskob, addressing the
convention, gave praise to Jouett Shouse.
who has had charge of the Democratic j
Executive Committee and who is a can- j
didate for permanent chairman of the
convention. Shouse's name was cheered. ;
Party Chairman Speaks.
Mr. Raskob said, in part:
"Four years ago our party honored
me with election to the position cf
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee. I knew little of political
life and strife. It has been a splendid
education and experience. We were
blessed with good iortune in securing
ior the solution of difficult problems the
master mind of Jouett Shouse, than
whom there is no man no more astute,
able, honorable and fairer to deal intel
ligently with political problems in these
United States. My faith in him is ab
solute and my love for and loyalty and
devotion to him are unbounded. The
party has paid him not one ι jenny for
his services, nor can it compensate him,
except as it may register its approval
and appreciation of his accomplish
ments,
"May I pay tribute also to Charlie
Mlchelson and to the splendid results
flowing from our publicity department
conducted with great dignity and ef
fectiveness under his able direction.
' We assemble in conventior here to
pledge the Democratic part} to the
Herculean task of resurrecting our
country from a pit of depresiiion that
seems almost bottomless. Religion
teaches that the three great virtues are
faith, hope and charity. Under Repub
lican administration faith has been so I
far destroyed that people have little |
hope left.j»nd if a change is not quickly j
Continued on Page 3, Column 4.)
RITCHIE AND M'ADOO
UN FORUM TONIGHT
Democratic Leaders' Views Will Be
Presented in Radio Interview i
by William Hard.
"The political viewpoints of Demo
cratic leaders in the East and West will
be discussed by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie
of Maryland and William Oibbs Mc
Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury under
President Wilson, in the National Radio
Porum, arranged by The Washington
Star, and broadcast over a coast-to
coast network of the National Broad
easting Co. at 9 o'clock tonight.
Gov. Ritchie, as a candidate for the
presidential nomination, will outline the
viewpoint of the acknowledged "wet
East ' on the political questions of the
day, while Mr. McAdoo. dry Californien,
Will discuss the attitude of the West.
Both men will be interviewed in Chi
cago by William Hard, political com
mentator and analyst.
Mr. McAdoo is expected to respond
to Hard's questioning with a discussion
of questions likely to come up in the
Democratic convention from the stand
point of the West Coast. Gov. Ritchie
will tell what he believes people on the
Atlantic Coast think of issues confront
ing the Nation.
Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor
of The Washington Star, will be master
•f ceremonies.
Keynote Points
»
Highlight* in Introductory
Address Delivered by Sen
ator Barkley.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 27.—Here are some
pointed sentences from the keynote ad
dress of the Democratic National Con
vention, delivered today by Senator
Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky:
' Th:s convention should recommend
the p-.rsrg: by Congress of a resolution
r;p:a'ing the eigh.eenth p.mendmeni
md i-s subir is ion to the psop'.e o;
the Slates through conventions."
"No fair man or woman wishes to be
unjust to Mr. Hoover or his administra
tion. * * * But that the Hoover ad
ministration and the policies it has
pursued have largely contributed to the
disaster which has overtaken ours and
the world affairs no Intelligent observer
can dispute."
"We propose to reduce the exhorbitant
and indefensible rates of the Smoot
Hawley, Hoover-Grundy tariff act. · · *
We, propose again to start the wheels
of industry and afford an outlet for
the energies and ambitions of in
dustrious men and women."
"We shall undertake to afford (to
the farmer) in this emergency the
character of relief which has been so
generously granted to other forms of
industry and finance.
"We propose to abolish every useless
office, every unnecessary bureau and
commission."
"We should restrict the channels of
stock market operations and expand
those of commercial operations. * * *
Banking institutions as such should be
divorced from stock market operations
of the character which contributed to
the * * * loss of billions of dollars
and the confidence of our people."
"The only constructive measures
brought forward in this Congress
originated with the Democratic mem
bership of that body."
"On the fourth of next March · · ·
the nominee of this convention will b?
inaugurated President of the United
States."
PROHIBITION PLANK
IS SAVED FOR LAST
Formal Decision Expected
Today—Platform May Not
Exceed 1,000 Words.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 27.—Platform-build
ing Democrats faced today their first
formal decision cn the prohibition
plank, saved for the last in recognition
of its trouble-stirrlr.g qualities.
The Roosevelt-drmlnated Platform
Subcommittee was agreed on a pro
posal to submit a reapeal amendment
to the States, but a stubborn contest
impends both in the whole Resolutions
Committee and on the fl:or for a decla
ration recording the party for repeal
and the immediate modification of the
Volstead act.
More than twoecore other planks,
carefully trimmed to one paragraph
each to keep tfee platfcrm. if pcssib'e.
within the record-breaking goal of 1.000
words, have been tentatively accepted.
Three Planks Delayed.
Farm relief, unemployment and war
debt planks a'.one remained for com
pletion ahead of the tail-end prohibi
tion one when the committee resumed
deliberations this morning.
Since the membership was divided
on the agricultural declaration, it was
arranged to have an open hearing on
this question late in the day. Despite
the argument in committee, the Roose
velt machine was driving surely ahead
with its program. The platform for
1932 will be one conforming to the
ideas of Gov. Roosevelt.
A. Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney
General, brought the Rooeevelt pro
gram to the committee and he has
taken charge of the deliberations be
hind closed doors.
Report Tomorrow.
Thanks to the running start gained
on the work, the Drafting Suocom
mittee cxpected to complete its job be
fore midnight and a report from the
whole committee to the convention by
tomorrow appears certain.
Palmer and some of the Rooeevelt
leaders on the committee held a secret
session last night, revising some of the
language intended for the remaining
controversial planks. They announced
nothing.
YANGTZE RIVER RISES
Chinese Stream Is Near Flood
Stage.
HANKOW, China. June 27 (/Pi
Swollen by continued heavy rains, the
Yangtze Hiver rose 2 feet today and
was 38*2 feet above normal, almost at
tne same level as at this time last year
just before disastrous floods which did
uncounted damage to property and
human life.
Already vast areas of the Yangtze
Valley are flooded and thousands of
persons are homeless. It was feared
that If the rains continued, last Sum
mer's floods might be repeated.
YACHTSMAN LOST IN SEA
NEW YORK, June 27 (ΛΥ—Clarence
Kozlay, yachtsman, of Orange, N. J.,
was lost in the sea early yesterday,
when the schooner Adriana was de
stroyed by fire caused by spontaneous
combustion. Ten others leaped to the
deck of the English sioop Jolie Brise
and were saved
The Adriana was a scratch boat in
the race from Montauk Point, Ν. Y., to
Bermuda. The Jolie Brise, also an
entry in the contest, raced back three
miles to effect the rescue of Kotlay's
companions.
Radio Program» o· Page B-9
Have Way on All
J
Convention
Groups
PARTY LEADERS
GIVEN OVATION
Dropping Hjrht on
TVo-Tliirds liule
Considered.
BY BYRON PRICE,
Associated Press Staff Writer.
CHICAGO STADIUM, June 27.
—True to the promise of months
; of tumultuous preparation, the
, Democratic party opened its con
vention today keyed high with
partisan enthusiasm, but torn by
ι internal strife over the bid of
Franklin D. Roosevelt for the
presidency.
In the saddle temporarily, at
least, the Roosevelt men took
complete charge of temporary or
ganization, having their way with
out opposition on every conven
tion committee. The troubles
stirring underneath were seared
over for the moment by outward
harmony as the big party conclave
went through the prearranged
motions of getting its work under
way.
One Continuous Ovation.
It was a cheering, seething conven
tion, ,ne\ertheless. in old-time style. It
almost started parading and demonstrat
ing before it came officially into being.
On the floor the banners of nearly a
dozen candidates recorded the rivalries
which will come to their decision later
in the week.
Filled galleries were swept with rear
ing applause again and again as many
oi the most colorful figures oi the party
got up on the floor and platform. It was
almost one continuous ovation as they
came in one by one—William G. Mc
Adoo. John W. Davis. Albert C. Ritchie,
Alfalfa Bill Murray, Huey Long, James
J. Walker, John J. Raskob and many
besides. ,
Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky,
the temporary chairman, was greeted
with an ovation of his own as he
appeared on the flag-draped platform
to deliver the party keynote, the high
peak of the largely cut and dried pis·
gram of first-day preliminaries.
The real work of the convention be
gins late today when the committees
meet to hear credentials contests, write
a platform and take up many other
pfty troubles. Including the much
embattled subject of the two-thirds
rule.
May Drop Rule Fight.
Although the Roosevelt managers took
temporary control of every convention
agency, the crumbling of their support
on the proposal to do away with the old
two-third; nominating rule led some
of them to consider abandoning the
project.
Conferences on this question pro
ceeded amor g knots of delegates on the
floor and behind the scenes as the con
vention went through a previously
agreed on program of preliminary or
ganization. The only change seemed
to be a steady growth of insurgency
In the Roosevelt ranks.
Meantime, as one speaker after an
other, including Raskob and Senator
Barkley, the keynoter, asked for a pro
hibition change, it developed that a
floor fight on that question, too. was
in prospect. Senator Walsh of Massa
chusetts. an A1 Smith supporter, .«aid
he would take to the convention itself
a plank committing the party to rejieal,
not merely submission.
Rastoh Makes Surprise Sprcrh.
Raskob's espousal of a repeal submis
sion plank was contained In a surprise
speech, preceding that of the keynoter.
He declared the time had come to do
away with the reign of the dry laws.
Barkley, long a prohibitionist, made
almost the same recommendation In the
course of a keynote speech.
Only a few formalities, aside from
that, were before the convention at its
opening session.
Out of a whirl of week end develop
ments had come unquestionable signs
of a swing toward the Roosevelt can
didacy. putting him within striking dis
tance of the nomination unless his or
ganization is wrecked meantime by the
mounting dispute over the vital issues
of permanent convention organization
and rules. So serious were the defec
tions on these issues, however, that
even a telephone appeal by Gov. Rooee
velt himself last night apparently had
failed of conclusive results.
Split on Changing Rule.
The major split was over the pro
posal of the Roosevelt captains to ig
nore the hundred-year tradition of the
two-thirds rule and nominate by a
plain majority.
Opposed solidly by the non-Roose
velt delegations, wnose strength at
least approaches half of the conven
tion, this departure also had come
under the displeasure of many Roose
velt delegates. Kentucky, North Caro
lina. Utah, New Mexico, Mississippi,
Maine and Alaska all had either de
j clared against the majority proposition
in caucus overnight, or had shown
signs of wavering. At a caucus of the
j big New York delegation the Roose
(Continued on Page 5, Column 5.)
SENORA CALLES SHOWS
SOME IMPROVEMENT
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON. June 27.—Senora Leonor
Llorente Calles, young wife of former
President Plutarco Ellas Calles of
; Mexico, who is nearing the crisis which
will determine the outcome of a deli
cate brain operation, was more com
fortable today than at any previous
time since the operation. Hospital
authorities so advised the Calles party.
Since Dr. Harvey Cushing noted brain
surgeon removed a large tumor from
the left tenporary side of her brain
; last Thursday, Senora Calles' condition
has been little changed. Those in at
tendance upon her agreed today, how
ever, that the critical point in her Ill
ness was expected within the next few
days. The patient was visited by her
husband a short time yeterday.
AT THE QUADRENNIAL PICNIC.
HOUSE APPROVES
D. t SILL REPORT
I
Accepts Conference Compro
mise on 1933 District Ap
propriation Measure.
The House today adopted the con- I
ference report on the 1933 District of
Columbia appropriation bill, carrying
$41,245.622, of which 17.775 000 con
stitutes the Federal lump sum contribu
tion toward the municipal government.
The five amendments on which the
conferees disagreed, but which were ap
proved by the House today, will have to
go back to the Senate for concurrence. ;
This Is a mere formality. Chairman
Byrns of the Appropriations Committee
explained. It was expected the District j
bill will be sent to the President for
signing later in the week as no objec- |
tion will be raised In the Senate.
Included in the amendments was the
$350.000 authorization fcr emergency
employment relief, which will be ex- j
pended by the Board of Public Welfare. !
Not to exceed $35,000 of this Is to be
used for administrative purposes.
Representatives La Ouardia of New
York and Byrns. who had charge of
the measure in the absence of Repre
sentative Cannon, chairman of the
House conferees, halted a verbal attack
on the $350,000 for unemployment re- I
lief.
Representative Holaday of Illinois.
Republican conferee who criticized the
relief fund, singled out the Community ;
Chest for what La Guardia characterized
as an unwarranted attack.
Charges Huge Salaries.
Holaday claimed that out of the
$2.200,000 raised by the Community
Chest, more than $1.800,000 is going to
pay the salaries of 2.682 employes. He
asserted the House conferees felt they
were not warranted in appropriating
relief funds in view of these circum
stances.
Replying to the Republican conferee,
Mr. La Guardia accused him of distort- j
(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)
HUSBAND, AMUCK, SLAIN
Policeman Shoots Man Who i
Wounded Estranged wife.
OAKLAND, Calif.. June 27 <Λ").—A
policeman shot and killed Andrew
, Schafer of San Francisco yesterday an
ι Instant after Schafer had shot his wife, j
i Francis, in the back, inflicting a fresh
I wound. The double shooting occurred
in the home of Mrs. Violet de Villiers,
Mrs. Schafer's sister, with whom Mrs.
Schafer went to live six weeks ago when
she left her husband.
Schafer went to the dwelling and
threatened to kill his wife unless she
j returned to him.
Confronted by police, his pistol missed
I fire repeatedly as he pulled the trigger.
; One cartridge exploded vhen he turned
the weapon on his wife. She was not
j seriously injured.
VETERAN WRITER DIES
Remsen Crawford, Former New
York Editor, 111 for Long Time.
LINCOLNTON. Ga . June 27 C4>>.—
Remsen Crawford, once city editor of
the old New York World, and later on
the staffs of the New York Times and
the old New York Herald. Is dead at
his home here after a long Illness.
He was one of the last writers to
Interview the late Thomas A Edison,
and his story of that appeared in the
Saturday Evening Post.
DAWES HEADS BANK
Resumes Chairmanship of Board
Which He Quit to Be Envoy.
CHICAGO. June 27 (VP)—Charles G
Dawes has been re-elected chairman of
the Board of the Central Republic
Bank & Trust Co.. a post he aban
doned when he became ambassador to
3reat Britain.
Announcement of his resumption of
;he banlc leadership and declaration
;hat the Central Republic will continue
mder its present management dissi
pated reports of an impending merger
with the Continental Illinois Bank &
rrust Co.
BILL ASKS {L 00,000
10 HELP VETERANS
Copeland Would Provide
Transportation for Bonus
Marchers to Return Home.
A definite move to provide public j
funds for relief of the Bonus Expe- !
lltlonary Forces in Washington was
made in the Senate today, when Sen
itor Copeland. Democrat, of New York,
introduced a resolution designed to au
thorize an appropriation of 1100,000
for that purpose.
The funds, under the resolution,
would be administered by the Commis
sioners. with the approval of the Presi
jent, for food, shelter and transporta
tion of the veterans to their homes. :
rhe resolution was ordered laid on the
able temporarily, and Senator Cope- :
and plans to call it up tomorrow for j
iction.
Senator Copeland said he introduced 1
he resolution independent of any action
that may be taken later by Senator !
Blaine. Republican, of Wisconsin, be
cause he considered the presence in!
Washington of so many veterans con
stituted a menace to the health and
welfare of the community.
Would Speed Action.
Senator Blaine had previously an
nounced he would seek to have the
Senate District Committee discharged
from further consideration cf the Costi
gan bill, carrying »75,000 for relief of ]
the veterans, so he could introduce a
redraft of the measure in the Senate.
Senator Copeland, however, thinks his
plan will expedite the appropriation if
Congress is in a mocd to provide relief
for the veterans. His resolution fol
lows:
"Whereas, the health and welfare of
the District ol Columbia and its per
manent and transient inhabitants, are
menaced by existing conditions, re-1
solved :
"That it is the sense of the Senate
ihit the sum of $100.000 should be ap
propriated and placed at the disposal
of the commissioners of health and
police of the District of Columbia, and
expended with the approval of the
President of the United States.
"This fund may be used for the bene
fit of the transient veterans and em
ployed to return them to their homes
(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)
sentenced'in forgery
Salt Company Ex-Controller Is
Charged With $493,000 Theft.
NEW YORK. June 27 OP).—A sen
tence of 3'i to 10 years in Sing Sing
Prison today was imposed on Thomas P.
Curran, 41. former controller of the
Worcester Salt Co.
Curran pleaded guilty to forgery in
the second degree in connection with
the theft of *493,000. which he ob
tained by forging stock certificates of
the company and obtaining loans on
the certificates.
COOL WATER IN TROUT TANK
DRAWS SWELTERING THRONGS
Even Old Oscar, the Turtle, Reacts With Vim to Depart
ment's Refrigerating Plant.
Winter came again today to the
trout In the Commerce Department'*
aquarium and "keeping cool with the
fish" proved to be one of the most
popular pastimes among many Wash
ingtonians after the temperature at
noon reached 90 degrees.
Men who never saw trout before nor j
had interest In their welfare Joined !
those who claimed they have caught
hundreds in neighboring mountain 1
streams. They stood in front of the
tanks for hours, either wishing they
were flsh or telling fish tales.
Investigation revealed that despite
the high temperature outside the build
ing. the department'» ice plant waa
running full blast to keep the trout ι
comfortable
Fisheries officials explained that if the
temperature in the tanks should rise
10 degrees higher the trout would
probably perish.
Standing directly in front of the
tanks, the "trout admirers" were enjoy
ing a cool Summer morning of exactly
50 degrees. The icy exhausts from the
trout tanks empty directly in front of
the exhibition, causing the glass fronts
of the tank to become frosted and
making the aquarium look like a Jan
uary morning.
60 cool was the basement room today
that old Oscar, the 50-year-cld snap
ping turtle, became quite frisky, result
ing in the big fellow bttlng & hunk out
of a small alligator before the aquarium
guards could persuade the veteran to
let go his hold The gator had to be
taken from Oecar'» tank.
COBLENÏZ ADMITS
HE SIGNED PAPERS
j
Says Raichle Assured- Him
Smith Company Documents
Had Been Destroyed.
Emory L. Coblentz, Frederick, Md..
banker, testified in District Supreme1
Court today that Frank G. Raichle,
poung Buffalo, Ν. Y., attorney, on trial
charged with subornation of perjury, I
told him prior to the trial of the F. H.
Smith Co. case that certain authorize- ι
tions introduced at that proceeding
had been destroyed.
These authorizations were used during
the trial of G. Bryan Pitts, president of
the Smith Co., on conspiracy-embez
zlement charges, in an effort to sho*.v
Pitts was entitled to money he was
accused of embezzling from the com
pany. After their introduction as evi
dence, the Government charged they
were spurious and instituted ruboma
tion of perjury proceedings against
Raichle, who defended Pitts at that
time, in connection with their use.
Coblentz testified he signed the docu
ments in Florida a few weeks before the
opening of Pitts' trial in November,
1930, although the ν bore dates in 1927,
1928 and early 1929.
I'sed for Records, He Says.
The banker said he signed the papers
with the distinct understanding they
were to be used only for the purpose of
completing corporate records and not in
connection with the defente of any
criminal charges then pending against
Pitts. He admitted, however, he signed
them in Pitts' Palm Beach home, using
several different pens and different col
sred inks, furnished by one of Pitts'
isscciatts. He said his suspicions were
iroused by these circumstances and he
turned to Pitts and the others and said:
"Look here, fellows, I'm signing these
to complete corporate records only. If
they are ever used for any other pur
pose. I will tell all the circumstances
under which they were signed."
Shortly before he took the stand as a
defense witness during Pitts' trial,
Coblentz continued, he met Raichle in
a. room at the Mayflower Hotel. As he
walked into the room, Coblentz testi
fied, Raichle look up and said: "In
arder that you may feel easy, Mr. Cob
lentz, I want to tell you Pitts and Ed
wards have assured me that the au
thorizations you signed in Florida have
been destroyed."
Coblentz explained that Raichle was
referring to John H. Edwards, jr.. a
vice president of the Smith Co., who
was tried with Pitts.
■ J CC.J
Colbentz said that after he took the
stand during Pitts' trial and identified
his signature on the authorizations, he
went to Raichle and said: •'Frank, I
believe a number of those papers on
which I identified my signature were
ones I signed In Florida."
The banker also testified about a con
versation in Florida among Pitts,
Raichle and himself. At that time, he
said. Pitts remarked he thought it would
be all right to use the recently signed
authorizations at the pending trial be
cause they had located a general au
thorization giving him the same power
delegated by the individual papers.
Raichle, he testified. Interrupted and
said the authorizations signed in Flor
ida could not be used at the trial.
Coblentz also testified at soire length
concerning a promissory note for SI47.
000 which he gave Pitts In Florida.
Explains Transaction.
"My associates and I were holding j
some $300,000 of Smith Co. securities,"
he said in explanation of this transac- !
tion. "I was trying to get Pitts to j
take them back and he said he could ,
not do this, but he would finance a J
securities corporation, through which ;
they could be liquidated. He then
offered to give me a block of Smith j
Co. preferred stock to be used as an ]
asset for this corporation if I would
give him the note for $147,000. He '
said he had paid $100 a share for !
this stock and would convey it to me '
for $20 a share."
Coblentz said he gave Pitts the note j
In September, 1930, but dated it back
:o December 18, 1929, the date when
they first discussed the forming of the I
securities corporation, at Pitts' request.
He said that, when Pitts subsequently
Failed to carry out the rest of his agree
ment with regard to the securities cor
poration, he became suspicious that his
real purpose was to deduct the apparent
loss in the transfer of the stock from
bis income tax returns for 1929. Cob
lentz said he then told Pitts he would
disclose all the circumstances if the
(147,000 note should ever te used for
that purpose.
On cross-examination, Defense Attor
i Continued on Page 2, Column 3 > I
18 Drown in Cloudburst.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 27 OF).
—Eighteen persons, including several
women and children, were drowned to
day when a heavy cloudburst swelled
the rivers in the provinces of Bukowina
and Moldavia, washed away a number
of houses and tore out railway line·.
I
HOUSE 10 RENAME
CONFEREES IN ROW
ON ECONOMY BILL
Garner Declares He Will Not
Change Stand "if We Stay
Here Until August."
McNARY ACTS TO BAR
FINAL DEATH OF PROGRAM
Senate Reconsideration of Vote
Wculd Leave Door Open to
Acccpt Previous Report.
By t he Associated Press.
The much contested national econ
omy bill today seemed headed for ad
ditional conflict before becoming law.
The Senate sent the $150.000.000
measure back to conference Friday.
Today Speaker Garner said he would
reappoint the same House conferees,
two of whom are In Chicago.
Chairman McDufBe of the House
group will not return until Wednesday
night. Douglas of Arizona is expected
back about the same time.
This would delay another meeting
until Thursday, last day of the fiscal
year.
Will Stick to Demands.
"I'm not going to appoint new con
ferees," Garner said. "I'll name the
same ones if we stay here until Au
gust."
The House, in session for the first
time since Thursday, was formally
notified today of the Senate's un
expected action. MrDuffle Is chair
man of the House conferees, and
the success of the new conference
is largely dependent on his wil
Ungneis to acquiesce In the demands
of the Senate. Before leaving Wash
ington McDufBe served notice that the
House would refuse to yield and de
clared a deadlock would be inevitable.
In anticipation of such an even
tuality, Senator McNary of Oregon, as
sistant Republican leader of the Sen
ate, has taken a parliamentary step,
however, to prevent the death of the
bill in conference and salvage at least
some of the $150.000,000 savings it is
estimated to produce. McNary plans
to offer a motion In the Senate same
time toaay to have the Senate recon
sider the viva voce vote by which it
returned the bill to conference.
May Recall Measure.
The move is designed solely to give
the Senate jurisdiction over the bill,
so it can recall the measure and ec
cept the conference report, should ·
deadlock develop In conference. McNfcry
feels the-6enate will accept the report,
despite the injustice the bill might
work on the Government employes,
rather than have it fail.
Throughout debate on the bill belief
was expressed by some Senators that
the injustices might be worked out in
administration, although they would
rather have them removed before en
actment. if that can be done without
jeopardizing passage of tne measure
before adjournment of Congress.
One thing is certain—Congress does
not propose to let its pet economy bill
go to an untimely death.
WOMAN ASTRONOMER
OF HARVARD DROWNS
Miss Adelaide Ames, 31, Noted for
Catalog of Thousands of
External Universes.
By the Associated Pre!!.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass., June 27.—Miss J
Adelaide Ames, 31. member of the staff I
of the Harvard College Observatory and !
noted for the surveys of external uni
verses In which she collaborated with '
Dr. Harlow Shapley. was drowned yes- !
terday afternoon in Squam Lake. Ν. Η,
according to word received at the ob
servatory today.
Miss Ames had been spending a vaca
tion at the New Hampshire Lake re
sort. She had been research assistant
at the observatory since 1923. Her chief
scientific work was with Dr. Shapley,
director of the observatory, on detail^
surveys of the brighter extra-gallactic
nebulae.
Miss Ames published in 1931 a cata
log of nearly 2,800 external galaxies
forming a system in the constellation of
Coma and Virgo near the North Pole
of the milky way.
Miss Ames had also published with
Dr. Shapley a series of notes on the
Ccma-Virgo cloud of galaxies. At près- 1
ent, there is in press a survey of all the
galaxies brighter than the thirteenth
magnitude over the entire sky.
Perhaps no other survey of these ob
jects has been so complete and so uni
form. it was said at the observatory. It
gives an extensive catalog based on pre
cise and uniform observations and em
bracing every discovered object of this
kind down to the magnitude limit
chosen.
Miss Ames was a member of the
American Astronomical Society.
HUNTED BANKER'S WIFE I
ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
*
Mrs. Walter C. Davis, Whose Hus- !
band Is Wanted in Big Short
age, Returns to Colorado.
By the Associated Près».
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., June
27.—Apparently on the verge of a
nervous collapse, Mrs. Walter C. Davis,
wife of the missing president of the
City Savings & Loan Association, re
turned here yesterday from New York
City. She was placed under the care
of a physician, after a brief interroga
tion by Chief of Police Harper and
Charles T. Fertig, association receiver.
Little information of value in the
search for Davis and $1,270.000 of the
assets of the association was obtained
from her. Chief Harper said. Mrs.
Davis said she had been living at the
Waldorf Astoria m New York City for
the last three months. Her husband
joined her there about June 6. she said,
but she has not seen him since June 13.
when he told her he was going to
Washington.
Endurance Flyer Killed.
ROSEDALE. Miss.. June 27 04»).—
John Hunter, one of four brothers, who
set a world airplane endurance record
at Chicago two years ago. was killed
here today, when the propeller of his
ship struck hij head.
CONFEREES TURN
TOWARD HOOVER
VIEWS ON RELIEF
Committee Unable to Agree,
but Shows Disposition to
Back President's Stand.
GARNER TAKES HAND
IN CONFERENCE SESSION
Sets Precedent by Directing Nego
tiations, but Avoids Entering
Controversy.
Congressional conferees on the un
employment relief bill failed today to
reach an agreement, but showed a die
position to consider President Hoover'·
contention that emergency aid funds
should be distributed on the basis of
need.
Chairman Nor beck: of the Senate
conferees on the $2,300,000,000 biU
said no agreements were reached in a
two-and-one-half-hour session this
morning, but added the negotiators
would make another attempt this after
noon to iron out the diflerences.
He indicated a disposition among the
conferees to listen to President Hoover'»
arguments for distribution of the pro
posed $300,000,000 emergency relief
fund on the basis of need.
FreU Proçrr«e Is Made.
"I realize the difficulty of getting a
bill to suit the Senate, the House and
the President," Norbeck said, "but
really I feel like we are making pro
gress.
"Nothing definite has been settled,
but the situation does not look so im
possible as it did at first and frankly
I am of the belief the President'»
wishes will be given every considération
possible as to the distribution of the
$300.000,000 relief fund in order that
needs of the situation may govern."
Speaker Garner shattered precedent
today by assuming personal direction
of the negotiations.
Garner appeared personally in the
meeting of conferees.
Asked by newspaper men afterward if
he had pointed the way to a compro
mise, the Speaker said he done con
siderable "orating.'' but would not re
veal the details of his discussion.
suent on ruD11C worn*.
He said, however, he had confined
his remarks to the sections of the bill
dealing with emergency relief funds
and expanding the borrowing power of
the Reconstruction Finance Cïrpora
tion for construction loans.
Garner said he had not discustcd the
controversial public works section of the
bill, to which President Hoover is op
posed. feeling it was a matter for con
ferees to adjust by compromise.
The Speaker's appearance came as
the Senate and House conferees met
for the second time to attempt to com
pose differences. Garner went to the
conference in company with Represent
ative Rainev. the Democratic leader,
who Introduced the bill in the House.
It had been the Speaker's original
contention to serve as a conferee him
self, but this plan was blocked when
Representative Snell. the Republican
leader, declined to take a place on the
committee.
Garner then named the five ranking
members of the ways and means group
which prepared the House bill.
Green Makes Appeal.
The necessity of relief was brought
before the conferees forcibly in a state
ment yesterday by William Green, pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, in which he said:
"Unemployment has been increasing
this Spring at a rate unprecedented
even in the two years of distress we
have just been through. * * * If un
employment keeps on increasing at this
rate we shall have 13,000,000 out of
work by next Winter.
"From January to May, 1932, well
over a million men and women have
been thrown out of work in industry.
The rate of increase this year has been
considerably more than twice that of
1930 or 1931. Trade union figures for
June show a still further increase.
"Our preliminary estimate cf un
employment shows at least 10,800.000
out of work in May. Trade union
figures for the first part of June show
the largest increase this year. Apply
ing them to Industry generally would
indicate that at least 200,000 more have
been thrown out of work since May.
Farms Supply Jobs.
"Farm work has provided some Jobs,
but unquestionably the number now out
of work is nearly 11,000,000; * * *
"The report for cities shows unem
ployment increasing in 15 of our 24
reporting cities Detroit and Cleveland
report the highest unemployment, while
New York, Paterson. Chicago. Buffalo,
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia follow
closely. The month has brought se
rious increases in Denver. Baltimore.
St. Louis and San Antonio."
The only source to which the unem
ployed can look for jobs, Green said,
is the Federal Government, which
should take hold of the situation and
set up the methods and the means for
providing citizens with opportunties to
earn bread, shelter and heat."
CHINESE DROP BOMBS
NEAR BRITISH SHIP
Vessel Mistaken for Rebel Craft at
Planes Search for Ship
Carrying Rifle».
By the Associated Press.
HONGKONG, June 27.—The British
gunboat Moorhen was bombed by mis
take today by Chinese airplanes sent
by Gen. Chan Chaitong to recover a
quantity of munitions captured by Ad
miral Chan Chak, rebel commander of
the Cantonese navy.
Admiral Chan Chak's gunboats earlier
In the day had captured a Chinese
steamer carrying a quantity of rifles,
valued at $300.000. which belonged to
the regular Cantonese forces.
The planes were sent out to bemb
Chan Chak's boats, but near Kiau
Island they apparently mistook the
British boat for a rebel craft. Six
bombs were dropped near her, but she
was not struck.
Storm» Deva»tate Town».
ISTANBUL, Turkey. June 27 (JP).—
Violent storms devastated the district
around (be town of Caesarea today,