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FIVE PERSONS DIE
IN Mill FIRE
Young Parents Perish Try
ing to Save 12-Day-Old
Daughter and Son, 3.
_
By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS. Term., March 17.—A
young couple perished with their two
small children and the wife’s unmar
ried sister when fire trapped them
In an upsfairs apartment in a resi
dential section of Memphis early
today.
Earl S. Hammond. 27; his wife,
Auba Kay Hammond, 28; Earl Ham
mond, jr„ aged 3’ baby Hammond, a
12-day-old unnamed baby girl, and
Miss Kate Kay, 20. of Anacoco, La.,
a sister of Mrs. Hammond, died from
burns or suffocation.
Hammond died trying to save his
little son. Mrs. Hammond lost her
life while trying to rescue her infant
daughter. Positions of the bodies
found in the charred ruins of the
three-room upstairs apartment gave
mute evidence of the heroic efforts
of the parents.
Escape was denied the five by
flames that engulfed the stairway.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Luck, owners
of the house where the Hammonds
rented the apartment, and their 6
year-old son, Will H. Luck, awakened
by the screams of those trapped up
stairs. escaped unhurt. Mr. Luck nar
rowly escaped serious injury himself
when he tried to fight his way up the
blazing stairs to save the Hammond
family. He was driven back by the
flames.
Mr. Hammond’s father. Frank Ham
mond. a carpenter, at Caruthersville,
Mo., and a brother, Elgie Hammond,
and two sisters. Mrs. Minnie Steins,
and Mrs Mula McElroy, also of
Caruthersville, could not be reached
early today to be notified of the
tragedy.
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DILLINGER'S TRAIL
POINTS TO CANADA
AS TWO ARE KILLED
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charge when he walked out of the
prison with Diilinger. preserved his
reputation as a killer to the last. On
a tip that a colored man was in the
small candy store boasting he broke
Jail. Sheriff William Van Antwerp
hurried there with three men.
The sheriff snatched a gun from
Youngblood's pocket, but hp instantly
drew another and opened fire.
Undersheriff Cavanaugh dropped
first, mortally wounded. Deputy
Howard Lohr. Sheriff Van Antwerp
and a colered bystander. Eugene
Fields, all suffered wounds before
Youngblood fell
Lohr is in an exceedingly critical
condition.
Fields, w’ho is 25 and son of the
owner of the store, boasted today he
took part in the gunfight. on the law’s
side He said he grasped the cornered
fugitive’s gun and fired at him, In
flicting one of Youngblood's wounds.
FINGERPRINTS PHONED.
Michigan Police Begin Hunt Before
Youngblood Admits Identity.
EAST LANSING. Mich.. March 17
(JP).—The copying of a mathematical
formula over the telephone started
the Michigan State police on a hunt
for John Diilinger long before his col
ored companion. Herbert Youngblood,
admitted his identity in a Port Huron
hospital.
Minutes after Youngblood was shot
down yesterday in the gun battle with
St. Clair County officers, Capt. Law
rence A Lyons was sending out or
ders fo his scout cars from headquar
ters here. Shortly thereafter State
Policeman Purlette Hinckley, finger
print expert, arrived on the scene,
took Youngblood’s fingerprints and
telephoned his mathematical formula
of the prints to East Lansing.
Immediately upon receiving the in
formation. Capt. Lyons called up the
Indiana State police, read off the
specifications, listened to their figures,
compared notes and then gave the
word which started the man-hunt. All
this, despite the fact that the Michi
gan State police had no fingerprints
of Youngblood on record. When
Youngblood finally admitted his iden
tity in a death-bed statement, the
State police had been on the job for
more than an hour.
ITALY GETS VOICE
IN AUSTRIA’S ACTS
UNDER NEW PACT
(Continued From First Page.)
to other nations also. It was disclosed
In semi-official circles, probably the
same nations mentioned in connec
tion with the economic agreement.
Mussolini entertained last night at
a magnificent reception in the Campi
Doglio, the world’s oldest capital, for
1.500 guests. Including Dollfuss and
Goemboes and 600 Knights of Malta.
Both of the visiting leaders plan to
leave Rome following a last round of
•ocial functions tonight.
RUMANIA IN ACCORD.
Backs Yugoslavia’s Warning Against
Hapsburg Monarchy.
BUCHAREST, Rumania. March 17
CP,i.— A foreign office spokesman ap
proved today Yugoslavia’s blunt warn
ing against a restoration of the Haps
burg monarchy in Austria.
The spokesman. Undersecretary for
Foreign Affairs Savel Radulescu. was
asked whether Rumania approves a
recent statement by Foreign Minister
Jeftitch of Yugoslavia. Jeftitch de
clared. among other things, that
bloodshed would follow any move to
ward a Hapsburg restoration.
“The little entente policy is uni
form,’’ Radulescu replied, “and the
question of a Hapsburg restoration is
highly important for all of the states
cf the little entente.
"The fundamental ideas of Jef
titch’s speech must be approved by
til little entente states."
BOOSTS TIRE OUTPUT
GADSDEN, Ala.. March 17 (JP).—C.
Slusser, vice president and general
manager of the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co., yesterday announced that
the Gadsden plant had increased pro
duction 500 tires daily to a total 5.000.
The announcement said a few more
men would be placed at work, with
the plant on a 36-hour week schedule,
operating four shifts of six hours
each per day on a six-day schedule.
Refining Plant Burns.
ROBINSON. 111., March 17 f/F),—
Fire damaged two batteries of the
Lincoln Oil Refining Co. here last
night. The company's fire depart
ment extinguished the blaze and of
ficials estimated the damage would be
less than *50.000.
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What’s What
Behind News
In
*
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Lindbergh-Dern Love
Scene Planned for
Publicity.
BY PAUL MALLON.
The secret of the Lindbergh story
Is publicity.
War Secretary Dern brought the |
colonel down here to get him to i
enact a big love scene with the War
Department for the movie news
reels. The colonel went back to New
York and sent two scorching tele
grams to Mr. Dern and the colonel
took care to give them to the news-1
papers for publication before they;
reached the Secretary. That left
them just about even. Mr. Dern j
got a better play for his side in the ,
movies, but the colonel got a few I
more paragraphs in the newspapers.
Earned All His Pay.
Col. Lindbergh has long been the |
publicity front for the aviation In-1
dustry. Anything he says or does 1
attracts immediate country-wide at
tention. All the other officials in the
industry could shout themselves,
hoarse for a week and no one out
side the sound of their voices would
know they were speaking.
. Commercial airways
l BEST IN THE MILD.
} expew«"J23S^„
In his job Col. Lindbergh has
earned as much money as his em
ployers have given him, and prob
ably more.
He is successfully dramatizing be
fore the public the fight of the avia
tion companies to regain their air
mail contracts. He has an edge on
t Secretary Dern for the long run, be
cause his name is bigger.
White House Hesitant.
The White House was never strong
for the move to make up with Col.
Lindbergh.
It was Mr. Dern’s idea. He received
the White House O. K. to go ahead
with it. but the White House group
carefully kept hands off.
There is apparently nothing in
I the story going around in the inner
circle that while the colonel was
talking to Mr. Dern he received a
message from the White House tn
viting him to call. He is reported
to have stuffed the message in his
pocket without a “Yes, No, or
j Thank You,'* as he w?nt off to
lunch with Dern.
Mr. Dern told everyone from the
start that Col. Lindbergh would not
be invited to the White House. The
military aide of the President would
have been the man to carry any such
invitation, and he denies that he went
near Col. Lindbergh. Such an invi
tation would hardly have been offered
| in writing anyway.
There is bitterness backstage among
I the House Democrats. As many as
! 64 of them broke the unwritten law
I in the veterans’ pay-cut fight.
The law says that the party caucus
controls a man’s vote. A caucus Is
a secret meeting of party members.
If the caucus majority decides on a
certain course of action, all members
are bound to support that action.
The only excuse that can be of
fered is for a member to write his
party leader a letter and say he is
in honor bound to vote otherwise
because he has pledged himself to
his constituents on that specific
issue in his campaign for election.
The Democrats held a caucus on
the veterans’ pay-cut matter. They
voted overwhelmingly for a certain
course. Next day on the floor 131
of them violated the caucus action.
Only 67 of them can say they ex
cused themselves in the proper way.
The other R4 must confess ignorance
or admit deliberate desertion.
Revert to Type.
The oldest members of the House
cannot recall anything like that hap
pening before. In an earlier day it
would have called for a showdown be
tween the leaders and the personnel,
but the present House leaders are in
clined to be lenient.
The situation shows a new underly
ing sentiment in the House. The boys
there are reverting to type, after a year
of good behavior. They are thinking
more about getting themselves re
elected than anything else.
The administration is not inclined
to make an issue of the matter, any
more than it did with the revolters on
the St. Lawrence treaty In the Senate.
Some day, however, voting will have
to be made a test of loyalty, or Con
gress will start running wild.
rearea serDonian Bog.
Supreme Court Justice Cordozasaid
In the sunstroke case that if the court
tried to decide whether a sunstroke
was an accident jurisprudence would
be in a Serbonian bog.
The experts knew that was no place
to be. but they did not know exactly
where it was. They had heard about
all kinds of bogs. There were the
Everglades, also the House of Repre
sentatives, but the Serbonian was
something new.
The New York Law Journal set its
bog department to work and came
forth with a footnote to the text of
the decision, stating that the Ser
bonian bog was probably the world’s
outstanding bog, that it was in Egypt
or somewhere near there, and caused
many travelers to lose their way.
Gen. Johnson probably needs foot
notes more than any other man. He
does not get all those “Procrustean
bed” and “neanderthalers” without
looking for them.
Recently he told his publicity
staff he wanted a quotation from
an anthology of sonnets called
“The Celtic Mind," by Claire
Wodrow. The Congressional Li
brary did not have the book. The
staff worked days searching the
country but could not find it.
Finally some one got the bright idea
of wiring the Parliamentary Library
at Ottawa, Canada. The book was
there. The General tracked down the
quotation, and all was normal in the
N. R. A. again—well, nearly normal.
Radicals are never satisfied. Here
the National Labor Board bill has
been offered as the greatest labor re
form of the age and heavy opposition
Is coming from radicals, who are
afraid it might Interfere with the
right to strike.
(Copyright. 1934.)
I
78 Officers and Men Take
Off From California to
Canal on April 9.
By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 17.—
On what naval officers say is a rou
tine maneuver in connection with
fleet operations, 15 giant seaplanes
will hop from North Island for
Panama April 9, Rear Admiral Al
fred W. Johnson, commander aircraft,
base force, announced yesterday. At
least four stops will be made en route.
Admiral Johnson’s flagship, the U.
S. S. Wright, will be one of the ships
stationed along the 2,800-mile route.
Under command of Comdr. Harry
Bogusch, 18 officers and 60 enlisted
men will make the flight.
Admiral Johnson had charge of
the Panama-San Diego one-stop flight
last Fall and the San Franclsco
Honolulu non-stop hop.
The first leg will be La Paz. 600
l- lies (airline) from San Diego. From j
there they will go to Acapulco and !
then to the Gulf of Tehuantepec. The
other contact point has not been se- i
lected, but it probably will be Corlnto,
Nicaragua. A stop also may be made
at Bahia Honda, Panama.
Admiral Johnson said the planes
would return by the same route in
May.
Reports that the Navy plans an
other squadron flight to Honolulu
this Summer and a hop to Alaska
soon have not been confirmed.
IDGE
DEFEATS OXFORD
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Sets New Record in 86th
Renewal of Eight
Oared Race.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 17.—Cambridge
today swept to a four-and-a-haif
length victory over Oxford In the
eighty-sixth renewal of their annual
eight-oared crew race and set a new
record for the four-and-quarler-mile
course of 18 minutes 3 seconds
The light blue boatload was never I
extended as it swept up the muddy
Thames from Mortlake to Putney to
score its eleventh straight victory over
Oxford and its forty-fifth of the te- ;
rles begun In 1829.
The new mark for the race dis
placed the record of 18:29 set in 911
by one of the great Oxford crews i
which ruled the English rowing world ;
for nine straight years before the j
war.
The time first was anounced as j
18:38, but a check of the watches
disclosed the new record.
Only at the start, where they
jumped to a half-length lead in (he
first half mile, and again through
i the fourth mile of the iour-and-a- '
quarter-mile journey did Oxtord make
a race of It.
Oxford spurted after the .hree-mile j
mark to cut down two lengths of the \
Cantabs three-length advantage, but
once the Cambridge crew saw them
coming and lifted the stroke it was
all over.
CITY FOUND *0WNER
OF 400 “FIRE TRAPS”
New York Tenement House Com
missioner Orders Check-up
by Inspectors.
NEW YORK, March 17.—Langdon
W. Post, tenement house commission
er, said last night he had discovered
that 400 old law tenements he con
demned as “firetraps” were owned by
the city.
As result of the discovery, Post said,
he has ordered 25 inspectors to In
vestigate all city properties immedi
ately.
He said he had conferred with
Mayor E. H. La Guardia concerning j
the city-owned tenements, and had ,
received authority to do what he
pleased about them with the add /
comment from La Guardia: “Let's
tear ’em all down.”
INSULL’S SUICIDE
ON ARREST BY U. S.
FORECAST BY WIFE
(Continued From First Page.)
and hence was liable to arrest on
sight at any point. Greek officials
had been unable to obtain a visa for
him, but nevertheless had insisted the
order that he leave by midnight
March 15 would be carried out.
It was reported Greece might per
mit Insull to proceed to his former
planned destination aboard the
Maiotis after he had been officially
identified by the American legation,
but there was no official confirmation.
The liner Aquitania leaves on a
cruise in three days and officials indi
cated earlier Insull would be put
aboard this America-bound steamer,
or. if there were any delay in this ac
tion. sent across the border forthwith.
The hour of Insull's flight was
established yesterday by police as 4
p.m. Wednesday. This they learned
just before they arrested the owner
of the Maiotis—listed in Lloyd's reg
ister as A. P. Sinodinos of Piraeus.
Questioned for four hours, he satis
fied authorities he intended no breach
of law.
According to his testimony, Mme.
Coumoujoglou, wife of a Baghdad
date merchant and friend of Mrs. In
sull, came to him last week, showing
a Greek travel permit, which con
vinced him of the legality of the
transaction.
Went to Ship Tuesday.
Insull, the testimony disclosed, ap
parently went aboard the ship Tuesday
evening and hid, saying that he was
ill and “averse to publicity.” The
ship sailed Wednesday. The owner
asserted the destination was Port Said,
Egypt, at the north end of the Suez
Canal. There Insull was to seek refuge
and, if he could not find it, was to
sail on to some Red Sea port.
In case no refuge was found, Insull
was to stay aboard the ship, paying
$5 a day board. The owner indicated
he had agreed to pay £1,500 (about
$7,500) for his passage to Port Said.
Other reports said $10,000.
A mysterious telegram from Lon
don and questioning of an unnamed
person disclosed Insull's presence
aboard the freighter, police said. They
said the telegram mentioned a con
veyance from Greece and referred
to a payment of $7,500 for this con
veyance. *
War Ace Testifies on Airmail
Col. Eddie Rickenbacker. America’s ranking war ace, is shown above as
he chatted with newsmen today at the Senate Post Office Committee session
where he advised creation of a Federal board to supervise airlines.
—A. P. Photo.
I
President Wed 29 Years Ago
Today Amid Irish Surroundings
Green Everywhere in Evidence and
“President Teddy'' Gave Bride Away
as New York City Celebrated.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 17.—Twenty
nine years ago today the Franklin D.
Roosevelts were married, while green
flags fluttered and the Sons of Ireland
marched.
President Theodore Roosevelt came
to New York to give the bride away
and see an Irish turnout that rivaled
the O'Connell parade of ’74, the
greatest Irish parade New York had
seen.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt had chosen
St. Patrick's day for her wedding so
that her uncle. "President Teddy,”
could attend. Newspapers next day
gave the wedding front-page play.
One paper called it "a Roosevelt day”
headlined. "Good St. Patrick Plays
Second Fiddle for Once."
Green Color Scheme.
A house on Seventy-sixth street,
the home of Mrs. Henry’ Parish, was
the scene of the wedding. Two rooms
had been thrown together and decked
with green. A hundred guests saw
the bride come down from the second
floor on the arm of "President Teddy."
The bridegroom, then known as
"Frank,” and his best man, Lathrop
Brown, joined her in the drawing
room. The service was read before a
huge shower bouquet of 450 pink
roses.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt wore a
white satin gown with a small waist,
a billowing skirt and a long court
train. Her point lace veil had been
worn by her mother and grandmother.
Her jewels were a diamond bow
knot. the gift of "Frank"; a pearl col
larette, the gift of his mother, Mrs.
James Roosevelt, and a diamond cres
cent that had been her mother's.
Alice Roosevelt, now the widow of
Nicholas Longworth, whose 9-year-old
daughter was flower girl at the most
recent Roosevelt wedding—thal of
Grace Green Roosevelt. Theodore
Roosevelt's granddai ghter — was a :
bridesmaid.
Other Bridesmaids.
The other bridesmaids were Ellen'
Delano. Helen Cutting. Muriel Rob- j
bins. Isabelle Selmes and Corinne j
Douglas Robinson.
A "collation" was served after the!
ceremony in the dining rooms, and )
there was a reception.
Crowds gathered in the street out
side to see "President Teddy" and his
wife, who was wearing a blue brocade
gown and a blue hat with plumes.
Later the President spoke to the
Irish from the balcony of Delmonico's.
and a band played "Hail to the Chief.”
He wore to his niece's wedding and
the city's Irish celebration black
clothes, relieved, the newspapers said,
"by a rather startling muffle of red,
yeilow and green stripes."
Mrs. Fiske was playing on Broad
way on the Roosevelt’s wedding day.
and the Russians wer; fighting the
Japanese.
BATTLE OVER PAY
WILL BE RESUMED
IN JOINT CONFERENCE
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recede from the Vinson amendment
restoring 10 per cent of the 15 per cent
Federal pay cut.
By this move, Connery unsuccess
fully sought to have the House reverse
itself and adopt the Senate amend
ment to restore the full 15 per cent. |
Hold Breath at Roll Call.
Members literally held their breath
as the roll call proceeded and when
Speaker Rainey was handed the first i
vote he saw the administration had j
been defeated by 190 to 189. But he
withheld the vote and ordered the ,
recapitulation, the first in many years.
Representative O'Conner, Democrat 1
of New York, at the conclusion of the
recapitulation, asked the Speaker if
any one could change his vote before
the result was announced and received
an affirmative answer.
The chamber was silent for a second
and the speaker raised his gavel prep
aratory to announcing the vote, when
Kennedy dramatically arose and
changed his vote.
The House had voted Wednesday,
223 to 192. in favor of the Taber com
promise, whioh it advocates claim will
be accepted by the Senate and prob
ably by the President.
Most of the veterans’ bloc leaders
favored the Taber compromise and
flatly stated to the House that Presi
dent Roosevelt would veto the in*
dependent offices bill If the Senate
amendments boosting its total $354.
000. 000 were adopted and sent to the
White House.
One hundred and three Democrats
joined eighty-one Republicans and five
Farmer-Laborites in supporting Con
nery's move, tantamount to a vote for
the Senate veterans' amendment, while
172 Democrats and 18 Republicans
voted against.
Democratic Leaders Jubilant.
The result was an occasion of jubi
lation for the relieved Democratic
leaders, who have been defeated re-'
peatedly of late by insurgents within
their ranks and Republicans on the
veterans’ proposals and bonus votes.
After the back-slapping and cheer
ing died down. Representative Wood
rum, Democrat, of Virginia, obtained
unanimous consent to send the vet
erans’ amendment to conference.
Speaker Rainey appointed Wood
rum chairman of the House commit
tee which will meet next week with
a Senate committee to remove dif
ferences between the two branches.
While Woodrum earlier made it
clear that the conferees would be di
rected by the action of the House in
their conference, the purpose is to
reach a compromise that will be sat
isfactory to the President.
The Taber compromise restores 75
per cent of the benefits to disabled
World War veterans and 29,000 pre
sumptive cases to the rolls in addi
tion to Increasing Spanish-American
War veterans pensions, which were
stricken out by the economy act
passed last year.
The pay restoration proposal of
Representative Vinson, Democrat, of
Georgia adopted by the House restores
a third of the 15 per cent pay cut
as of February 1 and a third on July
1. It was estimated to cost about
$28,000,000 until June 30 and $125,
000,000 in the next fiscal year, com
pared with the Senate’s full restora
tion to cost $190,000,000.
ROOSEVELTS MARK
29TH ANNIVERSARY
AT DINNER TONIGHT
(Continued From First Page.)
President, and Mrs. Anna Roosevelt
Dali, Mr. Roosevelt’s only -laughter,
arrived at the White House yesterday
with her two children to be -n hand
for the occasion.
John Roosevelt, the youngest of the
President's sons, who is a senior at
Groton, also is expected to arrive at
the White House during the day to be
on hand for the family party. John
observed his 18 th birthday last
Tuesday.
The marriage of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt on St. Patrick's day 29
years ago was a great social event
in New York. Mr. Roosevelt at the
time was a promising young law
student in Columbia University. Mrs.
Roosevelt, who was a distant cousin,
was one of tlje outstanding debu
tantes.
MSGR. MOSES E. KILEY
MADE TRENTON BISHOP
Consecrated in Rome Before Prel
ates, Priests, Laymen and
Students.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, March 17.—Msgr. Moses E.
Kiley was consecrated bishop of Tren
ton, N. J., today—the second conse
cration or an American bishop in
Rome within a year and a half.
On September 8. 1932, Msgr. Fran
cis J. Spellman of Whitman, Mass.. |
was consecrated auxiliary bishop of
Boston.
Five cardinals were present to assist
Cardinal Raffaello Carlo Rossi in the
consecration at the Santa Susanna
American Church.
In the congregation for the cere
monies were American and Italian
prelates, priests, laymen and the en
tire student body of the American
College, of which Msgr. Kiley was
spiritual director.
Among those present were:
Archbishop John J. Glennon of St.
Louis, Bishop Thomas F. Lillis of
Kansas City, Bishop Henry P. Rohl
man of Davenport. Iowa, and Msgr.
Joseph A. Breslln, vice rector Ameri
can College in Rome.
RAILROAD TO SPEND
$16,000,000 ON CARS
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Chesapeake & Ohio Raises Fund
by Equipment Trust Notes J
Sold in New York.
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va., March 17.—A
memorandum filed in Chancery Court
revealed that the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad plans to spend approximate
ly $16,000,000 In buying 7,800 steel
freight cars. 15 steel passenger
coaches and 11 steel mail and express
cars.
The money was obtained by means
of equipment trust notes sold through
the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.
Permission to add to the indebtedness
of the road by means of these notes,
which wiU be repaid in semi-annual
Installments from 1936 to 1949. was
obtained recently from the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Rickenbacker Says Aides
“Misadvised” Presi
dent on Step.
(Continued From First Page.)
arrangement. Such payment, how
ever, would be made only to the ex
tent of the actual loss incurred by
the airlines, and would be reduced
i cents each year until eliminated.
Would Arbitrate Pay.
Rickenbacker suggested a reduction
In airmail postage to 5 cents an ounce
for letters, and the authorization of
air lettergrams at 3 cents and air
post cards at 2 cents.
The Federal Regulatory Board also
would be charged with arbitrating
pilots’ pay.
"With the increased poundage which
will be developed under these changes
and rates of postage," Rickenbacker
told the committee, “I am convinced
from studies which I have made that
not only would all airlines which
operated on February 19. 1934. be
able to exist without subsidy within a
relatively few years, but new routes
might be added to the network of
airlines which existed at that date.”
The Post Office Department, he
added, would receive more from
stamp sales than it would have to
pay air operators.
Rickenbacker urged that no legisla
tion be considered which might tend
to place commercial aviation under the
same governmental control body as
military aviation.
One Change Assured.
Lindbergh tossed charges of "un
American,” "unjust” and "contrary
to American liberty” at the measure
yesterday.
At least one change in the bill Is
virtually assured as a result. Both
Lindbergh and Chamberlin hit direct
ly at the provision that companies
whoce contracts were canceled could
not obtain new ones If they pressed
claims against the Government be
cause of the abrogation.
Critics of the proposed permanent
legislation held the committee floor
throughout yesterday. After Lind
bergh and Chamberlin, Edward P.
Warner, former Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Aviation, struck at
the proposed breaking up of the con
tract airmail lines into small units.
Separate Agency Favored.
Warner also wanted either a sepa
rate agency or an expanded member
ship for the Interstate Commerce
Commission, if it is to rule over
airmail contracts and activities after
these operations are returned to pri
vate companies. He aiso told the
committee:
"You can’t have a Nation-wide
aviation system without a Govern
ment subsidy.”
He estimated that 16.000.000 miles
were flown last year for every fatality.:
After Lindbergh conducted probably
the longest period of public speaking j
of his career, during which he de- j
dared the original cancellation of I
contracts "violated fundamental Amer- |
ican rights,” Chamberlin took the
stand.
Among other things he amplified a
previous statement that two aviation
concerns operated ships which, in his
opinion, were not the best for passen
ger flying. He said the companies were
Eastern Air Transport and United Air
Lines, but added that the ships which
he thought were "unsuitable for pas
senger flying” had been replaced by
better craft.
Agrees With Lindbergh.
The witness agreed with Lindbergh
that the section which would bar the
companies whose contracts were
scrapped from new awards if they
pressed claims against the Government
should be removed from the bill. It
was this provision which Lindbergh
termed ”as contrary to American
liberty as anything I have ever seen.”
Lindbergh had said he felt the can
cellation of the contracts “without j
permitting the companies a hearing j
violated fundamental American
rights.”
Chamberlin, however, told Senator
La Follette of Wisconsin: "There
seems to have been some reason for
doing it, but if it was enough, I am
not prepared to say.”
Lindbergh was non-commitai on the
section of the proposed measure which
would bar companies carrying the
mail from affiliation with aviation
manufacturing concerns—in fact, he
found little, or nothing, to commend
in the bill.
But Chamberlin said ships he
thought were “not suitable for pas- i
senger work” were built by affiliates l
of Eastern Air Transport and United
and that it was desirable “to divorce
the airlines from manufacturing com
panies.”
His testimony about the passenger
planes was given reluctantly and only
after Senator McGill, Democrat, of
Kansas, questioned him about an in
terview which appeared in a New
York paper in which he made simi
lar statements.
Chamberlin said he thought the
Army fatalities were due to unsuitable
equipment, bad weather and lack of
time in which to prepare for the job.
The Special Senate Committee
whose disclosures began the airmail
furore, also was in session yesterday,
but the witnesses and investigators
outnumbered the spectators.
HITLER’S LEAGUE
MOVE WAITS PACT
Chancellor Hints Disarmament
Must First Be
Settled.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, March 17.—League of
Nations leaders know pretty well today
—If they haven't all along—what It
will take to get Germany back to the
council tables of Geneva.
A hint of Germany’s "conditions”
for her return to the League, from
which she resigned suddenly last Oc
tober, was given In an arms memo
randum to Paris made public here last
night.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler made plain
that when the subject of disarmament
is settled the Nazis will consider re
turning to Geneva.
Hitler assumed a conciliatory tone
In the note. He pictured himself as
an apostle of peace. He asserted Ger
many had no thought of attempting
to weaken the post-war Locarno pact.
In fact, he said, she has never doubted
its validity at any time.
Senator Lewis to Speak.
WINTER PARK. Fla., March 17 (P.
—President Hamilton Holt announced
yesterday that United States Sena
tor J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois will
give a public address at Rollins Col
lege here the night of March 30.
Kidnap Plot
MOTHER THREATENED WITH
LOSS OF BABY.
Mrs. Louis A. Hager. Jr., daughter
of the late August A. Busch, wealthy
St. Louts brewer. Is shown with her
son, Louis A. Hager, 3d. whom extor
tionists threatened to kidnap unless
they were paid $100,000. Two Fili
pinos were arrested in New Orleans.
—A. P Photo.
WILD LIFE MOVE
SUCCESS IS SEEN
Representative Kleberg of
Texas Talks on Star
Radio Program.
- i
The movement for protection and
restoration of wild life has reached ;
“the highest point of perfection” ever i
attained. Representative Kleberg of
iiAflj ucuairu
in a radio ad
dress yesterday
under the aus
pices of Rod and
Stream of The
Star.
M r. Kleberg,
owner of one of
the largest
ranches in the
country, declared
the United
States, for the
first time in its j
history, “finds it- ;
DIf l.k.rr pci UiQlitUU.*
K,'b*rt- fortified along
lines which insure that future gen
erations will not be deprived of some
of the keenest pleasures and experi
ences that those of us in past gen
erations have enjoyed.”
After reviewing legislation designed (
to protect the Nation’s wild life re
sources, he said:
‘‘I am happy to know that recently,
at a conference held under direction !
of the Senate Wild Life Committee. !
there were present representatives (
from the Farmers’ Union, the Na
tional Grange and the American
Farm Bureau, the three great agen
cies representing the agricultural and
farming interests of the United States.
• • • This was a new' day lor con
servation. * * *
"Those of us who have for the past
generation been outdoorsmen have
witnessed a gradual but certain de
cline in the number of our birds and |
our animals. This great heritage,I
which came to us from our pioneer \
ancestors, would in another genera- I
tion, pass away unless those of us to- I
day took measures to perpetuate it.
The boys and girls of today are the ■
men and women of tomorrow, and i
they, too. should have the right to j
enjoy what we did yesterday.
“I am extremely proud that it has i
been my privilege to have been one
of the many who assisted in estab
lishing. once and for all. the great
program looking toward the conserva
tion of our wild life, which, after all,
means so much to us in healthful
recreation and the building up of a
sturdy people.
"Conservation is on the high
road. The barriers which have so
handicapped progress in the past have
been removed. Congress, which is
responsive to the Nation, has awak
ened to the value of these natural
resources in wild life.”
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Dinner. Ancient Order of Hibern
ians, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Dinner. Friendy Sons of St. Pat
rick, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Dinner. Arlington County Business
and Professional Women's Ciub, Chi
nese room, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m.
Benefit card party, sponsored by
Mrs. Perry, for Faithful Helpers,
Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth
and F streets northeast, 8 p.m.
Dance, Herbert L. Edmonds Post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Hamilton
Hotel, 10 p m.
Meeting. Alpha Chi Sigma, Hamil
ton Hotel, 8 p.m.
St, Patrick’s day card party. Moth
er's Club, benefit St. James’ Catholic
Church, auditorium. Thirty-seventh
and Rhode Island avenue, Mount
Rainier, Md., 8 p.m.
Bazaar-food show. St. Margaret’s
Sunday school parish hall. Connecti
cut avenue and Bancroft place,
2:10 p.m.
Luncheon, District League of
Woman Voters, Cosmos Club, 1 p.m.
Dr. George F. Zook will speak on
"American Education of the Future.”
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle will also
speak.
St. Patrick’s dance, Loyalty Lodge,
No. 4. Order of the Shepherds of
Bethlehem, Shady Oak, Md., 9 p.m.
Bingo party. Liberty Union, W. B.
A., 900 F street, room 416, 8 p.m.
Cakewalk-Bingo party, Lincoln
Woman's Relief Corps, No. 6, Wood
man’s Hall, 935 G place, 8:30 p.m.
Dance, Rho Chapter, Beta Chi
Sorority, Indian Spring Country Club,
10 p.m.
Card-Bingo party. District of Co
lumbia Chapter. American War Moth
ers, 3906 Thirteenth street, 8 p.m.
TOMORROW.
Mountain trip, Potomac Appala
chian Club, leaving from Treasury
place. 7 a.m. Charles P. Thomas,
Silver Spring, Md., hike leader.
Intends to Conduct Vote
of Auto Workers in
Person.
(Continued From First Page.)
Tuesday morning or thereabouts."
Knudsen said yesterday. He added it
was his purpose to create seme agen
cy to avert not only the threatened
strike, but others In the future as
well.
"We have no understanding with
labor, nor have we made any com
mitments,” he said. “It wiuld be
deplorable if the strike were called.
Business has been good this year,
and we have so many men at work.
I want to assure you how we have
tried to comply with the national in
dustrial recovery act.”
The labor men, frankly somewhat
Irritated at the delay, adjourned late
yesterday to American Federation of
Labor headquarters to discuss the
Johnson proposals and make their de
cision whether the strike, already
scheduled to begin Monday or Tues
day, should be postponed.
They stood by their plan to leave
the city at 4:15 p m. to return to De
troit and report to the union mem
bers.
There they will await whatever pro
posal the Chamber’s Executive Com
mittee has to make on Tuesday and
will then meet to decide whether it
is acceptable or the strike shall be
called for Wednesday morning.
"We got the representatives (of the
unions) to agTee to hold off until
Gen. Johnson hears from the auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce on
Tuesday,” William Collins, chief or
ganizer for the Detroit area said.
60.000 Men to Quit.
If the strike is called, Collins as
serted, 60,000 men in Cleveland and
St. Louis as well as in Michigan, will
lay down their tools. He made it
plain, however, the labor leaders
would welcome a conciliatory declara
tion by the manufacturers and If such
were forthcoming would be agreeable
to calling off the strike, despite the
uncompromising tone of a resolution
which was adopted. It said:
"It is the recommendation of the
representatives of the Automobile
Worker's Unions of America, affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor, attending the hearing of the
National Labor Board where the auto
mobile manufacturers defied the ad
ministration of the national recovery
act, that work shall be suspended next
Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. and
that the suspension shall be continued
until such a time as the Government
enforces the law.”
A separate resolution denounced
the attitude of the executives as “un
fair. unjust, unwarranted. un-Amer
lean and contrary to public interest."
It added:
"We appreciate thoroughly our re
sponsibility in this great crisis, but
we must and will remain loyal to the
interests of the thousands of ex
ploited men and women of this great
Industrial autocracy. We therefore
solemnly direct our people to proceed
as only free men have proceeded in
the past when their rights have been
denied them.
"We appeal to the great American
public to understand that our strug
gles is but the struggle of poor men
and women to protect and preserve
the free institutions of our great re
public.”
Statement by Johnson.
Johnson's statement follows:
“An automobile strike threatens the
whole industry.
"The gentlemen before the National
Labor Board represented only two
companies.
“In conference between the board
and N. R. A. it seemed wise to all
concerned to make an attempt to
give the self-governing code authority
of the whole industry an opportunity
to act In Its proper function to try
to settle the trouble—not only as
to the two companies and not only
as to this occasion, but as to all com
panies and other occasions that might
arise.
"That code authority was not as
sembled. but. after several telephone
conversations with individual mem
bers. it seemed very probable that
proposals suggested by the Labor
Board and N. R. A. as fair to all
might be agreed to by both sides.
To make these proposals definite and
official for the whole industry the
Executive Committee of the code au
thority with power to act will meet
in New York on Monday. In the
meantime, federation officials have
agreed to postpone aggressive action.
Senator Wagner and the administra
tion are both hopeful of a peaceful
and satisfactory solution in full com
pliance with the law."
VOTES ORDERED COUNTED.
CLEVELAND. March 17 f4>>.—'The
recent strike vote taken at the plant
of the Fisher Body Co., a General
Motors subsidiary, was ordered count
ed today.
James McWeeney. president of the
Metal Trades Council, said he received
a telegram from George A. McKinnon,
secretary of the council, who has been
in Washington, directing that a meet
ing be called to proceed with the
count.
The message, McWeeney said, was
interpreted to mean that "develop
ments In Washington have not been
satisfactory and we are to tighten the
ranks for a possible strike.”
The Fisher Co. employs about 6,000
workers here.
A strike of workers at the clothing
plant of the Joseph & Eise Co., which
employs 1,800. continued today as
Sidney Hillman, general president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America, presented to the strikers
the results of a six-hour conference
with company officials at the office of
the Cleveland Regional Labor Board.
CRASH DRIVER FACES
TRIAL ON TUESDAY
James W. Taylor, Involved in
Five-Car Smash-Up, Freed
on Bond.
James W. Taylor, 35, operator of
one of the live motor vehicle* In
volved In the *ma*h-up in which two
persons were killed and 10 others In
jured at Bladensburg road and Earl
plaoe northeast Thursday night, was
taken into Police Court today on a
drunken driving charge.
Taylor, who lives at 106 Spring
street, Chevy Chase, Md., pleaded not
guilty and was released on *500 bond,
pending a jury trial set for Tuesday
by Judge Ous A. Schuldt. Mean
while, homicide squad detectives were
winding up their investigation of the
case.
Miss Babe Pardee. 35. of 3001
Seventh street southeast, and Daniel
J. Eagan, 23. of 335 K street north*
cast, were killed in the smash-up.