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HUGE ARMS SUM VOTED FOR JAPAN $272,020,000 Appropriation Is Largest Peace-Time Defense Budget. ,» By the Associated Press. TOK.IO, February 13.—A budget bill providing for the largest peace time defense appropriations in Ja pan's history was passed by the House of Representatives today. Overwhelming majority approval was expressed by an uncounted, standing vote. The bill then was sent to the House of Peers, where equally smooth pass age was expected. $272,020,000 for Arms. The budget is for the fiscal year j beginning April 1, 1934. A total appropriation of 938.000,000 j yen ($272,020,000) is provided for the army and navy. This means that 44 per cent of the total of 2,112,000.000 yen ($612,480, 000) goes for defense purposes. To the army the budget allots 450,000,000 yen ($130,500,000)— the largest peace-time appropriation on record for land forces. An appropriating of 488.000,000 yen ($141,520,000) is provided for the navy. This is just 11 millions short of the navy's all-time high of 499, 000.000 yen in 1921-2. All members of the Seiyukai and Minseito parties voted in favor of the budget. Those members who voiced any criticism confined it to mildly ex pressed hope that the budget would be balanced at the soonest possible date and that future armaments com petition with other powers would be avoided. Adverse votes came from the prole tarians and the Kokunindomei, the latter group because it is uncompro misingly opposed to the cabinet of Premier Saito—not because of any disapproval of the budget's record military estimates. Hayashi, Osumi Lead. Rubber stamp approval for the budget and the rest of the legislative program was predicted when the pro gram was agreed upon by the cabi net early in December. The dominant figures in the cabi net are the ministers of war and navy, respectively — Gen. Senjuro Hayashi and Admiral Mineo Osumi. The former, however, had no part in obtaining cabinet approval of the budget. The battle was fought by his predecessor. Gen. Sadao Araki, re signed. Despite the admitted strength of these ministers, it was only after a prolonged fight that approval was given. As a matter of fact, the budget generally is regarded as a triumph for the 79-year-old minister of finance, Korekivo Takahashi. He fought valiantly for a degree of econ omy that would at least slacken the pace at which the national debt has been mounting the last two years. Takahashi was parially successful. The amount finally stipulated for the army and navy was nearly 400. 000.000 yen less than Gen. Araki and Admiral Osumi demanded originally. The estimated deficit for next year Is nearly a quarter of a billion yen under the expected shortage for 1933 34, about 1,027.000,000 yen. - — - • RANKIN DEMANDS COUCH QUIT R. F. C. BOARD OF DIRECTORS (Continued From First Page 1 president to assistant secretary were recorded as receiving $57,855 each from the Appalachian Electric Power Co., while A. F. Hoekenbeamer re ceived $67,500 as president ot Pacific Gas & Electric Co., compared with $134,800 in 1928. Appalachian Officials. The Appalachian officials were George N. Tidd, president; N. M. Argabrite. Graham Clay tor, M. F. Mil likan, H. M. Sawyer and E. H. Mauer, vice presidents; Frank B. Ball secre tary-treasurer; F. W. Drager, J. F. McMillan and W. J. Jeffers, assistant secretaries and treasurers, and J. P. Halbig, assistant treasurer. The New Jersey Power & Light Co. reported the smallest salary scale, headed by $1,400 for its president. Some companies, however, did not re port their salaries. James Simpson was listed as re ceiving $40,000 as president of the Commonwealth Edison Co., and $25, (100 as chairman of the board of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illi nois. Other Reported Salaries. Among the other salaries reported were; Alabama Power Co., P. W. Turner, vice president, $19,975; J. M. Barry, general manager. $17,100. Carolina Light <fc Power Co., P. A. Tillery, vice president and general manager, $24,573. Georgia Power Co., P. S. Arkwright, president. $32,000. W. E. Mitchell, vice president and general manager, $24,000. Louisville Gas & Electric Co., T. B. Wilson, president. $21,878. Montana Power Co.. F. M. Kerr, vice president and general manager, $24,756. Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., J. S. Wise, jr.. president, $27,279. Portland General Electric Co.. Franklin T. Griffith, president, $19,800 (19331, $40,000 (1928). Puget Sound Power Co., James F. McLaughlin, president, $24,000. Southern California Edison Co., Harry J. Bauer, chairman of the board, $45,504. Union Electric Light Si Power Co., St. Louis, Louis H. Egan, $30,000. Central Illinois Light Co., R. S. Wallace, executive president, $17,000. Commonwealth Edison Co., James Simpson, president, $40,000. L. A. Ferguson, vice president, $42,000. Duke Power Co. Duke Power Co., G. G. Allen, presi dent, *36,000 in 1933. $52,000 in 1932. Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, W. C. Baylles. president, $32,000 in 1933, $72,000 in 1928. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.. S. B. Way, president, $25, 000 In 1933. $51,000 in 1928. New' York Power <fc Light Cor poration, Paul Schoelikopf. chairman of the board, no salary; Otto Snyder, president, $22,000. Northern States Power Co., Min nesota, P. F. Pack, president, $42,000. Philadelphia Electric Co., J. E. Zimmermann. chairman of the board. $60,000. Public Service Co of Northern Illinois, James Simpson, chairman of the board, $25,000; Britton I. Budd, president, $30,000. Public Service Electric & Gas Co.. Thomas N. McCarter, president, *50.000. Staten Island Edison Corporation, first idee president, Floyd H. Camp bell, *2,760. ^ What’s What Behind News in Capital: Brown Declared Real Target of Senate in Mail Fight. BY PAUL MALLON. SMART, unprejudiced lawyers be lieve the Senate is picking on the wrong man In the Mac Cracken case. They say there is hardly a chance in a hun dred that lawyer MacCracken will be convicted, the way things are going now. He has certain w'ide open legal loopholes and has employed the world's greatest loophole attorney, Frank Hogan, to defend him. Hogan once got Col. Robert Stewart of Standard Oil out of a much worse senatorial jam through a legal hole no bigger than the eye of a needle. Insiders in the case believe Mac Cracken and Hogan have figured out an impregnable defense, based on the idea that MacCracken's papers were not his, but his clients, that Mac Cracken was bound as a lawyer to give the papers back to his clients. Willing to Take Limelight. That explains why MacCracken and i Hogan have been so willing to take ] the limelight in the case, demanding j that MacCracken be arrested and all that. The Senate may have a much bet ter technical case if it proceeds against one of MacCracken's clients who destroyed evidence. Courts are strict about such matters. Such a client could not claim the im munity of an attorney. Also, it might be difficult for him to prove legal justification. He has no such loop holes as MacCracken. The Senate seems to miss the late Senator Tom Walsh. He handled all contempt cases during the past 20 years. He favored turning such cases over to the District Attorney without so much fuss. Really After Brown. Politicians all agree privately that the Senate is not primarily after MacCracken or his clients. The real 'possum they want to tree Is ex-Post master General Walter Brown. Postmaster General Farley has been growling about Brown since March 4. When Farley moved into Brown s office, he found Brown had left the political cupboard bare. Brown had even arranged so that his own and Mr. Hoover's names were chiseled on the corner stones of post offices not then built. Farley had the names chiseled off. The papers burned In the furnace were Civil Service records, which the Democrats could have used to throw Republicans out of office for cause. Their destruc tion prevented Farley from firing possibly 100 Republican postmasters before their terms expired. Brown also let all the airmail con tracts he could, Intending to leave none for Farley. Congress put a stop to that by passing a law preventing Brown from doing anything except extending old airmail lines. There upon Brown extended every line he possibly could. Farley set out imme diately to cancel those extensions. That situation is what appears to be at the bottom of the current tur moil. Brown Clever Politician. Brown Is a clever politician. He has spent a lifetime learning to be one. He made no secret of the fact he favored the large established airlines. He openly asserted it was better to pay them a little more to carry the mails that to trust the little inde pendents. He handed out the gravy : with a big ladle. ' The airmail industry sprang up under Republican administrations. It hired Republican attorneys, like Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Wild Bill Donovan and MacCracken. You will probably not even find an office boy in that whole industry who is a Democrat. Therefore the current expose will be entirely at Republican expense. Farley also is a clever politician. Market Bill Uncertain. There was a slip 'twixt the cup and the Up on this stock market legislation. Mr. Roosevelt's Dickinson committee had recommended moderation in regu lating the exchange. The highest Wall Streeters thought they had been prom ised privately a 100-word bill merely Ucensing them. The exchange accept ed the Dickinson ideas. A majority of the Senate committee apparently was willing to go along. Then suddenly a new bill was ‘ proposed which had fangs instead of teeth in it. No one is supposed to know where the bill came from. Mr. Roosevelt said he never saw it. One of two things may have hap pened. Mr. Roosevelt may not have liked the reaction to the Dickinson report. He may have decided a stronger bill was necessary and screened his maneuver by intrusting the matter to Prosecutor Pecora. The other possibility is that the ultra-reformers swung Pecora around and put Mr. Roosevelt on the spot by offering a bill contrary to his wishes. There also is a chance that Mr. Roosevelt submitted both sides of the question and now is going to let Con gress fight it out. If that is the case, there may be no legislation at all. In reading the proposed bill, one thing should be kept in mind—the soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked. Skeptics may doubt whether it is any better to let the retiring chairman of the Democratic National Commit tee, James Parley, handle airmail con tracts now than it was to have per mitted such a politically minded man as Walter Brown to have handled them in the first place. It appears the administration arbi trarily took the stock market bill out I I DENIED BY SAITO New Japanese Envoy Here Says Pu-Yi Task Is to Develop State. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. “Japan does not want Henri Pu-Yl, the ruler of Manchukuo, to extend his Jurisdiction outside the present boundaries of his country,'' Hiroshi Saito, the new Japanese Ambassador to the Unted States, stated today. “I am positive that the Japanese gov ernment will use its Influence with the new Emperor of Manchukuo to prevent him from extending his rule over China proper.” The Ambassador, who knows Amer ica well and is prompted by a desire to see relations between the two coun tries become cordial, added: “The Japanese government consid ers it an impossible task for Pu-Yi to expand his control over Peiping and Tientsin. Such an action would mean undoubtedly more fighting, more trouble, and in the end it will be Japanese troops which will have to be involved in such ai» adventure. New Territory No Gain. “Manchukuo is a very rich country. It will take years before all its re sources can be developed. It's almost a life task for the head of this new state to develop properly the resources of that country. A desire to extend his domination over other parts of China will force him to forego the economic development of his country for the sake of new fighting. Fur thermore, nothing can be gained by adding more territory to Manchukuo. The port of Dairen is sufficient for the export needs of the country and is far better and more adequate than the port of Tientsin or any other port in China. No,” concluded the Am bassador. “Japan will do its utmost to dissuade Pu-Yi from any expan sionist plans—if he has any.” Ambassador Salto was equilly em phatic in denying the rumors of war between Japan and the U. S. S. R. "There are no problems between the two countries to lead to a war. The most important controversial question is the question of the purchase of the North Manchurian Railroad, and that is a matter of coming to an agree ment as to the price the Manchukuo government will pay for It. As long as Manchukuo was a part of China the railroad was a political issue. It served more political ambitions than actual economic purposes. But since Manchukuo has become independent of China that political issue has been removed. I have no doubt that a compromise between the Soviet gov ernment and Manchukuo will be reached without much trouble. Japan, I want to state emphatically, does not want to fight Russia, because there are no reasons for a war be tween the two countries. Japan does not want and does not need the maritime provinces.” Will Return to Tokio. “The only conceivable danger of trouble between the two countries.” the Ambassador said, “would be in any incursion of armed bands from Siberia into the Manchukuo territory, in which case the local commanders might be compelled to take the intia tive of following them across the bor der to put an end to these raids. But. this is a very remote possibility these days, when communications between local commanders and the Tokio gov ernment are so easy. Tokio, I am certain, will do everything possible to prevent such incidents from spreading into a major conflict between the two nations.” Tokio as soon as possible to get in personal touch with his government. He has been absent from Japan for more than two years. His entire ac tivity in the United States will be "to promote friendship and a better un derstanding between the two nations.” "And the relations between the United State* and Japan could be greatly improved if only your people would decide to make a gesture toward Japan by admitting Japanese immi grants on a quota basis. Since I ar rived in Washington I have received a great number of letters from Japan urging me to endeavor to put an end to this vexing matter. Of course. I am answering that I cannot do any thing officially about it because this is not a matter over which the govern ment has jurisdiction. It is up to your Congress to decide. And just be cause of this, the matter is of great importance. If it were up to the United States Government to remove this restriction, people in Japan may say that it is a mere political gesture on the part of your Government. But if the Congress amends the law and removes the exclusion act, the Japa nese people would consider this as a friendly gesture of the American peo ple toward the Japanese nation.” Few Japanese to Come In. wnen tne exclusion act was passed by your Congress.’* Mr. Saito added, “the immigration law did not exist in the United States. There may have been then a danger of thousands of Japanese coming into this country and settling down. But now you have a very strict immigra tion law. Japan. If put on a quota basis like the rest of the countries, would be entitled only to 100 immi grants every year. Furthermore, your consuls are required now to give visas only to immigrants who are self-sup porting and cannot become a public charge. I am certain that there will be very few Japanese coming into this country under such circumstances. But, with the Japanese people, this is a question of pride. They resent being singled out and considered as outcasts when Afghans and Persians are theoretically permitted to come to this country at the rate of 100 a year.” "I consider this question of endeav oring to liquidate this question,” the Japanese Ambassador concluded, “as one of the most Important things in my career. I am sincere in saying that a change in the immigration law, putting Japan on the same foot ing as the other countries which have a nominal quota, would do more toward an Improvement of relatons between the two countries than any thing that has been done in the last decade. I am positive that by such a gesture the United States will gain the goodwill and the absolute friend ship of the Japanese masses and the war-scare propaganda would have no more effect on my people than preach ing of a war with Tlmbuctoo.” of the hands of Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee and gave it to a closer White House ally. Chairman Rayburn of the House In terstate Commerce Committee. - • It was Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Committee, who put over the provision for protecting consumers against excessive processing taxes in the new sugar bill. Our oM dollar had ar. inscription: "In God We Trust.” The suggestion has been made that the new ones should be inscribed: "I Hope That My Redeemer Uveth.” tcoernihi. ^30 Farmers’ Monetary Principles Held Sounder Than Bankers’ Desire Is Only for “Fair Dollar” Survey Reveals—Ideas Are Free of Preju dices Found Among Financiers. This is the ninth in a series of daily articles by Ralph W. Page, economist and writer, who has toured the country to discover what its people think of the na tional recovery program, and is now putting his findings into writing. BY RALPH W. PAGE. Aristocratic estimates of the infor mation. intelligence, moral values and Inherent human power of the average voting citlren of the United States are ridiculously below the mark. Any man who travels the country over as I have in seeking informa tion on economic subjects cannot fail to be profoundly Impressed with this fact. The farmers of the Middle West know more about the function and the relative position money holds in the sum total of human affairs than the bankers do, In my opinion. To be sure, most of the farmers never thought about the subject at all until recently. But their minds are as keen, their principles as good, their values of life as sound, as any banker's or any college professor's. Further, their minds are not condi tioned or atrophied or sealed by the shibbolets. preconceived rules and un changeable formulas that so obviously befog the classical learning of those preoccupied with money. Fair Dollar Is Desired. I do not pretend to say that the farmers' conception of money is right. I am no Judge, but I say they know more about the function and rela tive position of money in human affairs than bankers, for the simple reason that they are eager to learn all they can. and to discuss the whole subject in the light of the sum total of the experience of human beings And this can be done by no man who is obsessed on one subject or committed to one system. What, then, do the rank and file of people, including farmers, think about this money business, popularly called the monetary policy? They want a fair dollar. That is exactly what they say—"a fair dollar"—just as they want & fair price, a lair profit, a fair wage. This is a conception utterly beyond j the possible comprehension of a Vic torian capitalist. It sounds to him like something in "Alice in Wonder land"—like asking how long is a string or how heavy is a goat? The criterion In the case of the dollar is a dollar fair to creditors and debtors—one that theoretically has the same purchasing power as the dollar originally borrowed. If the creditors are to be protected, this calls for an arbitrator. Fortunately, i the debtors are practically unanimous I in their willingness to leave the de | ctsion of the "fair” value to the i President. The creditors, a slim ml ' nority, would do well to accept him : also. Reaction Must Be Noted. No cross-section picture oi Amer ican life would begin to be real that overlooked the reaction that all these events and opinions have upon the ; wealthy and conservative members of i financial Industrial society. They are to be found principally in the en virons of La Salle street in Chicago, State street in Boston, Wall street i and similar streets In the larger cities ! in the Northeast. There is also a : solid body of kindred minds in San Fiancisco and Portland on the Pacific. Elsewhere, South and West, even the bankers belong to an alien agrarian school of thought. It must be borne In mind that the most aggressive, enterprising and ex perienced men in commercial life in ihe United States belong In this cate gory. It would be a ridiculous error I to add "brains." The great minds and the great souls of no era have de ' voted their lives to business. "Busi j ness,” Including underwriting, is to day terribly hampered by its stupid and ignorant reliance on crass mate rialism and its plain lack of sense : in judging the motives of human be ings. Nevertheless, their ranks In clude the "strong men,” the trained men and a majority of the cultivated pecple In the country. And they make a case. Drop Into the Downtown Club on Pine street in New York, where the wires of big business and world finance converge, at lunch hour, and it will be expounded to you. It goes like this: "There is great good in some ot the popular ideas now being so cava lierly dictated by the Government. Abolishing child labor is all right. A minimum dole to the unemployed is necessary. Supporting banks is a good job. Open market operations to loosen credit are a recognised maneuver, begun by Mr. Hoover. But let us look at some other items. Security Business mi. "To begin with, the securities act makes it impossible to put out new issues of securities, or even to refund the old ones. It kills private enter prise precisely where it is needed—in the development of ’capital goods'— the extention or replacement ol plants, machinery and buildings. No sane director in any corporation or banking house will jeopardise his whole fortune by approving an issue subject to laws saying he Is personally liable for all losses due to any mis taken or omitted statement in a pros pectus. This ruins the underwriting and security distributing business, and with it the whole commercial struc ture of the United States. "Issuing Government bonds to give the money away to leaf rakers and to build useless dams will inevitably ruin the Government's credit, and so ut terly ruin the country. If it is stopped before it actually results in ruin, it will still have put a terrible burden on the taxpayer, and also a brake on American business. A policy of Gov ernment spending for recovery may be a short and temporary and evil necessity, but it is time to stop right now. We’re headed for bankruptcy. “The worst is the waste of all this money to build dam* to duplicate present power plants which already have capacity to provide more power than needed. Carried to Its logical conclusion, and following the popular clamor, this can result only in the distribution of power by the Govern ment at a figure resulting in an an nual loss to all taxpayers, and at the same time the practical confiscation of the existing properties owned by millions of Investors, including sav ings banks and Insurance companies, all over the map. "If business Is going to remain sub ject to the regulations and whims of Inexperienced governmental busy bodies and professors—and at the same time be put at the mercy of labor agitators—initiative, resourceful ness and ambition will be killed. Able men will not seek to continue the marvelous upbuilding that has made America what it is today. "These proposals, particularly >he deliberate destruction of the Busi ness of distributing securities and the sabotage of the utility companies, are not fair, honest, sportsmanlike or Christian." i Copyright in:;4. be the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) Trades Outside Interstate Commerce Are Only Ones Affected. By the Associated Press. The N. R. A. today decided to aban don past policy and encourage the formation of regional codes or agree ments In the trades which are clearly outside of interstate commerce. Hugh S. Johnson Issued this state ment: "It is recognized that In the devel opment of a program of Industrial self governmcnt, where national industries must be organized nationally, we may wisely follow the theories underlying the organization of our Federal Union of self-governing States, utilizing na tional organization and national standards where they are nationally applicable, and providing in a prac tical manner lor local control of local affairs.” The new type of code or agree ments Is proposed to be used for such trades as laundries, restaurants, taxicabs and barber shops, but not for local retail stores. These, because they handle prod ucts generally manufactured in in terstate commerce, are to remain organized on country-wide lines. The new policy was viewed at N. R. A. as meeting the increasing en forcement difficulties in such trades as dry cleaning, where it has proved next to impossible to secure compli ance on a Nation-wide scale and in which prosecution of violators is es pecially difficult because their busi ness is so clearly outside the usual scope of interstate commerce. , The announcement said "State leg islation should be encouraged to give additional sanction to agreements re gionally for regional trades and in dustries and to aid in the local ap plication and enforcement of the requirements of Federal codes.” This was understood to mean that there would be less effort to enforce regional codes In Federal courts. The Blue Eagle insignia will continue to be available to firms subscribing to the regional agreements. LINDBERGH PROTEST FORCES HOUSE TO ADJOURN SESSION f Continued Prom First Page ) been described there as “primarily for publicity purposes." Stephen Early, a secretary to Presi dent Roosevelt, told reporters about 50 per cent of the messages supported the protest of Lindbergh, while the other half upheld the position of President Roosevelt for a new deal in airmail aviation. Chairman McKellar of the Senate Post Office Committee told newsmen Lindbergh should "never have writ ten such a protest under the particu lar circumstances." “I think he made a mistake," Mc Kellar said. “He was connected with an air concern that gave him *250. 000 in stock and he was interested in that concern. If he had been wholly disinterested his protest would have been proper. "I admire Col. Lindbergh very much, but everybody makes a mistake occasionally and he just made one." On the other hand, Senator Van denberg, Republican of Michigan, said: “I decline to reject him as America's premier aviation authority simply be cause he happened to disagree with an executive order. He is entitled to his day in court as everybody else. "I am emphatically in favor of this drastic investigation into the air situ ation. I hope they run the laundry to the bitter end. But it seems to me there should be a rule of fair play and the acceptance of the usual American theory that men are inno cent until proved guilty.” Senator Nye, Republican of North Dakota, said it was “unfortunate that Lindbergh had become involved in the inquiry in a way that deprived him of the great influence he ordi narily would have had.” "11 don e know why this whipper snapper of a kid should take a bean shooter and aggravate the President." said Representative Shoemaker, Farmer-Labor of Minnesota. ECONOMIST PREDICTS SOVIET WILL LEAD TECHNICAL NATIONS By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C„ February 13.— Col. Raymond Robins, social econ omist of New York, believes the next quarter century will see Russia lead ing other nations of the world in technical invention and progress. Addressing students of Black Moun tain College last night. Col. Robins, a Red Cress representative in Russia during the World War and a recent visitor to the Soviet Republic, said he was amazed by the changes in that time. “When I was in Russia 15 years ago 74 per cpnt of the people were Illit erate,’' he said. "I visited there last I Spring and found 7^ per cent of the people literate^ i "Fifteen years ago the people op erated their industries by hand and they were miserably poor. Today, the best of machinery is in use and farm ing is done with the finest of tools and is supervised by experts from airplanes. "I predict that within 30 years Russia will give the world more tech nical Inventions than any other coun try on earth. Fifteen years ago gov ernment in Russia was uncertain. To day it is the most permanent in Eu rope. There are no longer counter revolutions and strife. On every hand there are evidences of stability, peace and hope for a brighter future.” Col. Robins said that there was no longer any organised resistance to the Soviet regin% , , , UN IT KILLS 8 AT WALLA WALLA Warden Seeks Death Pen alty for Ringleaders in At tempted Jail Break. By the Associated Press. WALLA WALLA. Wash., February 13.—Warden James M. McCauley sought the death penalty today for ringleaders In yesterday’s bloody prison-break attempt. In which eight men were killed, seven of them con victs shot down from the walls. Meanwhile, slight chances for their recovery were held out for two of the convicts, who were mowed down under a withering fusillade cf bullets from the walls. Six Others Injured. Six prison employes, five of them turnkeys and one a guard, suffered from murderous knife wounds, in flicted by the convicts. One other convict bore bullet wounds. The dead: H. L. Briggs, assistant chief turnkey, stabbed to death. Wallace Turcott, 21. serving 5 to 20 years for attempted robbery. Paul Krouse, 22, 8 to 20 years for robbery. Gerald Hill, 18, 2>j to 15 years for grand larceny. H. R. Clark, 22, 10 to 20 years for second-degree murder. James R. De Long, 25, 10 to 25 years for robbery. Ernest De Boer. 28, 5 to 6 years for robbery. H. Robert Parks, 29. « months to 10 years for a statutory offense. Warden McCauley, who has been In office less than a year, said: “There was no Indication in ad vance that the break was planned. "We have learned, however, that the men made their knivea In the plate shop where the license plates are manufactured. They evidently buried them In the prison yard, dig ging them up Sunday, which is ’yard dav.' ’’ The planned prison break, which ended In mid-afternoon with the bullet-tom bodies lying about the prison yard and with turnkeys suffer ing from knife wounds inside the cell blocks, began shortly after the lunch hour in the office of K. W. Jackson, head turnkey. De Long and Prank Butler, another long-term prisoner, walked in and accosted Jackson. • Sorry to do this," De Long said as the pair threatened the turnkey with their home-made knives, "but we're doing too much time." As other convicts came into the office they leaped on Jackson and bound wire about his neck and the throat of H. M. Williams, assistant turnkey. The convicts took Jackson to a solitary cell but immediately brought him back when a telephone ] in his office rang. Gives Hint Over Phonr. "The warden asked if everything was all right," the turnkey recounted. "I had to tell him ‘yea.’ Then to give him a hint, I said: " 'Do you want me to come out on the lawn or to the front office?' Of course. I couldn't do that.” Then, the mad break for freedom began, with the convicts wiring the wrists of 3 B Bowman, chief en gineer. and William Truman, chief of the Identification Bureau, together. With the two men as shields the con victs left the cell building, headed la a body for the main gate. Meanwhile, Warden McCauley, warned by the telephone call, had hurriedly dispatched a body of guards to the walls. The prisoners started to turn back, when within less than 100 ' feet of the gates, a rifle cracked from ; the walls. The bullet spurted over the ■ shoulder of Truman and Clark fell to j the ground, fatally wounded. One bv one the convicts fell under ; the accurate firing of the sharp ; shooters on the wall. NEGRO HISTORY WEEK OPENED BY DE PRIEST Illinois Representative Addresses Joint Meeting at Birney Community Center. Representative Oscar De Priest, colored, Republican, of Illinois, opened Negro History week last night with an address at Birney Community Center. He spoke before a joint meeting of several organizations, including the Hillsdale Citizens' Association, Birney School Parent-Teacher Asso ciation and a number of community center gatherings. De Priest's sec retary, Morris Lewis, also addressed the meeting along with Miss Anna L. Goodwin, general secretary of di vision 10-13 of the Community Cen ter Department, and Dr. Amanda Hilyer, president of the Frederick Douglass Peace Association. Another celebration of Negro His tory week will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Garfield Community Center, the Garfield School and Gar field Citizens' Association taking part. Dean W D. West of Howard Uni versity will deliver the principal ad dress. On Thursday, Garnet Patterson Community Center will hold its ob servance of the week, with a pro gram sponsored by Dr. Hilyer. EVANGELIST ARRESTED Traveling Preacher Indicted on Murder Charge. SPRINGFIELD. Mo., February 13 (0).—Lewis H. Shockley, traveling evangelist, was arrested at West Plains. Mo., yesterday lor Texas offi cers who want him on a charge of murder. Shocxley was indicted by a Gray County grand Jury in connection with the poison death of his father-in-law, W. T. Hudgins, in McLean, Tfcx., October 15. 1930. Mrs. Terry Erwin, Hudgins’ grand daughter. died the day of his funeral, and her husband died after a linger ing illness the following January at Oklahoma City. i * '■ Ends Life - - ' AUGUST A. BUSCH. AUGUST BUSCH, HEAD OF FAMED BREWERY, SHOOTS SELF TO DEATH 'Continued From First Page.) him Interested In the business, but the youth h*d a yearning to be a rancher and cowboy. He spent six months on a Western range and de cided the business world was more attractive after all. He was sent by his father to Ger-1 many, where he took a course In a brewing school, learning the science of fermentation and the technique of: beer-making. Returning to St. Louis, he served a three-year apprenticeship in all ends of the business. Including shipping and export. Adolphus Busch, dying in 1913. left a double portion of his estate to August, stating in his will that "he has been of great assistance to me." Busch succeeded his father as head of the various corporations the elder Busch controlled. Saw Prohibition Coming. With the legacy, however, came the grave problem of growing prohibition sentiment. Busch said he realized the growth of prohibition had its roots in the manner in which saloons had been conducted, and believed | there was still time to improve condi- ' tions; perhaps even stem the spread of anti-saloon sentiment. He urged Misouri officials to study the German saloon system, and built a barle&s saloon here as a model, on the plan of the German wirtschaft.: It v.as then too late, and while the city of St. Louis remained a wet stronghold, the State Legislature in 1918 readily fell into the procession of States ratifying the eighteenth amendment. Demanded Enforcement. In October, 1918, Busch closed his plant here in compliance with the War-time Pood Administration, and when restrictions were lifted, prohibl- 1 tion had come. The brewery went into the manufacture of soft cereal beverages, which were popular for sev eral years. The growth of illegal liquor manu facturing and spread of home brewing cut the sales of the cereal beverage until Busch demanded the Govern ment enforce the liquor laws to pro tect the lawful beverage industry. Busch then took up new industries to take the place of outlawed beer, j and established a successful corn products refinery. He built a yeast Industry which outgrew the Midwest market. With the return of beer In 1933. the company spent $7,000,000 rehabilitat ing its brewery here, rated as the largest In the United States, and for months the demand overwhelmed the ! capacity of the plant, i The brewer is survived by his widow, i formerly Miss Alice Zisemann; two sons. Adolphus Busch. 3d. and August I A. Busch, jr.. vice presidents of the ' brewing company, and three daugh j ters, Mrs. Drummond Jones, formerly j Miss Marie Busch; Mrs. Percy Orth wein, formerly Miss Clara Busch, and Mrs. Louis Hager, formerly Miss Alice Busch. CALIFORNIA EDITOR INJURED BY GUNMEN Attempt on Life of Western Newspaper Man Fails. Motorists Hunted. By the Associated Press. EUREKA, Calif., February 13.— j Search for a black automobile from which two shots were fired at Don O'Kane, managing editor and assist ant publisher of the Humboldt Stand ard, afternoon newspaper, was made by police here today. The bullets shattered a front win dow of the Standard editorial room last night and narrowly missed O'Kane, who was seated with his back to the street. He was cut by the flying glass. O'Kane ran to the street and attempted to follow the sedan in his own automobile, but lost it in traffic O'Kane, who came here 12 years ago from Sllverton, Oreg.. to become con nected with the Standard, has estab lished a reputation for fearlessness in directing the editorial policy of the paper. He said, however, that he was unable to explain why any one would w’ant to kill him The shots cracked out in a split second of time and showered the edi torial room with glass. Police measure ments showed that one bullet Just grazed O’Kane s head and the other missed it by inches. They were from a .32-callber automatic pistol. O’Kane attended the University of Oregon before starting his newspaper career. —-M ACTOR WHO PLAYED NOAH HEART VICTIM Salem Tutt Whitney, Colored Star In “Green Pastures,'’ Dies in Chicago. CHICAGO, February 13 (JP).—Salem Tutt Whitney. 55, colored actor who played the role of Noah In '‘Green Pastures," died today at the home of a cousin, Mrs. George Sawyer.' Whitney, a native of Logansport. Ind., had been ill of heart disease for 1 several months. A brother, Homer Whitney, was re-1 ported with the play at Flint, Mich. Mrs. Sawyer. Homer Whitney and a stepson, Gaylord Whitney of Phila delphia, are the only surviving rela tives, she said. Former Tan Get Death Sentence. SOFIA. Bulgaria, February 13 04*). —Twelve former sailors were sen tenced to death today by a military court for alleged Communist activ ities *p the Bulgarian navy. ARMY BASE LEASE PROBE IS SOUGHT New Jersey Legislator Says Firm Made Million on Contract. BY REX COLLIER. A congressional and possibly a De partment of Justice investigation of reports that some War Department officials were guests at world series and theater parties arranged by a New Jersey warehousing corporation hold ing a profitable Government lease was indicated today as the grand Jury ques tioned other ranking officers in con nection with an *8,000,000 supply "deal” that failed. With indictments of at least three persons expected this week by investi gators who prepared grand Jury evi dence on alleged irregularities in negotiations fof motor truck, saddle, tarpaulin and other supply contracts, the Government's inquiry into War Department business relations entered a sensational new phase at the Capitol. The new investigation, called for by Representative Fred A. Hartley, jr„ Republican of New Jersey, involves the lease to the Army by the Mercur Corporation of what Is known as the Port Newark Army Supply Base— which provides docking and storage facilities for the War Department. To Present Evidence. Representative Hartley said today he will present either to the House Military Affairs Committee or the Department of Justice—he has not decided which—a mass of evidence which he declares will show that the Mercur Corporation has netted more than *1.500.000 out of a lease under which 90 per cent of the profits were to be turned over to the War Depart ment. ‘Tn spite of that provision,” Hartley said, "the Government has received approximately (1 a year for the past six years. The explanation given is that the Government's share was eaten up by repairs and other ex penses. I want this whole matter thoroughly investigated." Hartley is known to be in poasession of information to the effect that a group of Army officers have accepted favors from the corporation in the way of choice seats at the last world series base ball games and were en tertained at theater parties, prize fights gnd other events by officials of the Mercur Corporation. Suit Filed. A suit recently filed in New York City by Ollle V. Kessler, former War Department auditor, charged that the Mercur Corporation has defrauded the Government out of $454,000 due it under the leasing arrangement Kessler also filed a $200,000 damage suit against the corporation and sev eral Army officers, alleging he was dismissed from the War Department through a ‘conspiracy" to prevent him from exposing alleged frauds. Representative Hartley has intro duced a resolution for a committee investigation, with a view to cancel ing the lease and renting or selling the base to the city of Newark. He declared the city has been deprived of $1,500,000 in taxes rightfully due it on the property. Details of certain negotiations al leged to have been made by a group of outside "influential friends" of high War Department officials In connec tion with the proposed purchase from the department of Army saddles, bridles, tarpaulins, leggings and other military equipment were being in vestigated today by the Federal grand Jury. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the Army, and two of his general staff associates were ques tioned at length yesterday about this suggested “deal," which Involved property valued in excess of $8,000, 000. it is understood. Today this line of questioning con tinued, with Brig, Gen. A. E. Wil liams, acting quartermaster general of the Army, and Brig. Gen. John L. De Witt, whose term as quartermaster general ended recently, leading the file of witnesses. The proposed sale to private par ties, one of whom Is reported to have been Joseph Silverman, jr., oft-men tioned figure in the grand Jury in quiry, was halted on vigorous objec tion of general staff and quarter master officers, The Star has learned. Besse Is Witness. Another grand jury witness today was Capt. E. H. Besse of Camp Hola blrd, where technical studies of motor cars and accessories for military use •re made prior to drawing up speci fications and signing of contracts. Capt. Besse s testimony was desired, it is said, in connection with an im portant phase of the inquiry having to do with allegations of irregularity In changes of specifications made at the War Department subsequent to action by Capt. Besse and other officers at Holablrd. It has been claimed by representa tives of motor car manufacturer* that revisions of improper nature were made in specifications for types of lubrication, axles and other features of motor trucks, so as to give cer tain firms preference in the bidding. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, in charge of the grand Jury inquiry, said today he expects a re port from the grand jury probably by Thursday of thu week. Although Garnett refused to predict the find ings of the grand jury, other observers In touch with the proceedings are looking for from three to as many as six indictments. A group of men who have beer, prominent in American Legion activities may find their names in the grand jury's report. Woodring Expected. Assistant Secreary of War Woodring, who was one of the first witnesses questioned by the grand Jury, probably will be among the last to take the witness stand Thursday. He is to be recalled for further questioning Thursday mornin,,. Meanwhile, Department of Justice agents continued their Intensive search for Frank Speicher. puncture-proof tire agent, whose testimony is urgent ly wanted by the grand Jury. R. C. Remick. an associate of the missing witness, today was summoned to Gar nett's office for questioning in con nection with circumstances attending Spelcher’s mysterious disappearance on the eve of his scheduled appear ance before the jury. Remick already has been quisled by the grand Jury about a "proposition” alleged to have been made to him by a lobbyist-trader Interested in selling the Army tires and tubes. U. S. Jr arm Manager wanted. An assistant farm manager is want ed for the Federal penitentiary serv ice. El Reno. Okla The place pays $2,300. less the customary deductions, and applications will be received at the Civil Service Commission. Seventh ajjfl F streets, until March 1. J