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■ΕΠΙ ON WAY 10 IMS CITY Floyd Henchman to Be Quizzed on Union Sta tion Massacre. By the Associated Press. LISBON, Ohio, November 3.—Adam Richetti, henchman of "Pretty Boy" Floyd, is on his way to Kansas City to tell what he knows—or what he is willing to tell—about the massacre of five men in the Union Station there last year. The first open move by the Fed eral Government to obtain custody of the man, himself suspected of hav ing pulled a trigger-finger in the wholesale slaughter June 17, 1933, was successful only after hours of argument at Columbiana County's creaking, 95-year-old jail. Must Be Returned to Ohio. A writ of habeas corpus ad testi ficandum issued at Kansas City pro vides that Richetti be brought back to Ohio upon completion of his ap pearance before the Federal grand jury there. Five hours after three deputy United States marshals left Lisbon for Cleveland on the first leg of the trip to Kansas City, A. T. McGowan, chief deputy and one of the trio, commented at Cleveland: "Richetti is in town, but don't ask me where he is. I can assure you he is in Federal custody, and we are going to deliver him in Kansas City or bust. "We had one of our men shot down at the Union Station in Kansas City, and we're not taking any more chances than we can help." May Make Trip in Plane. McGowan Indicated Richetti would be taken out of Cleveland by airplane if authorization is forthcoming from Washington. Beyond that he declined to disclose his plans. Either one of two scheduled United Air Line flights to Chicago this afternoon would per mit the returning officers to connect ■with a trip which would place the prisoner in Kansas at 8.30 p.m. (Cen tral standard time). Department of Justice operatives believe Richetti knows the inside story of the Kansas City slayings. Frank Nash, ex-convict, and four peace offi cers lost their lives in the withering gunfire when an attempt was made to free Nash. Boone County, Mo., wants Richetti to face charges of murdering two peace officers. Columbia County wants to keep him because a bullet nicked the police chief at Wellsville in the ankle when Richetti was captured. Threatened With Contempt. The immediate question involved In the argument last night was whether the deputy marshals would give Co lumbiana County a guarantee that Ri chetti would be returned here if he were released to their custody for the trip to Kansas City. The officers said they would not, and there the matter rested for hours with a contempt of court threat hanging over the prose cutor and Sheriff Frank Ballantine if they persisted in holding their prisoner. The Kansas City writ is returnable at midnight tonight. Whether the United States district attorney's office would permit Richetti to tarry in Cleveland for a plea before a United States commissioner on his permanent removal to Kansas City was problematical. Frank Weide mann. assistant United States district attorney, announced previously Ri chetti would be given opportunity to fight removal. CRIME PREVENTION MOVE IS INDORSED Chillum Heights Citizens Order Delegates to Support Fed eration Efforts. After indorsing the move for crime prevention, the Chillum Heights Citi zens' Association, at its meeting last night in the Keene School, instructed its delegates to the federation to sup port that'body's endeavors in this direction, C. Marshall Finnan of the National Park and Planning Commission will be requested in a letter to assign Civilian Conservation Corps men to clean up Port Totten Park and the area between Ports Drive and west of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks. It was claimed that part of the area was covered with tin cans. Berause of the beautiful view gained from this old Civil War fort the mem bers are especially desirious of hav ing it cleaned. A resolution will be sent to the Dis trict Building asking that trees be placed where the curbing has now been established. This embraces the area along New Hampshire avenue from Kennedy street to the railroad tracks. CANAL TOLLS CLIMB BALBOA, Canal Zone, November 3 </P).—Tolls collected from vessels using the Panama Canal the first 10 months of this year increased $3.068,000 over the collections in the same period a year ago, it was revealed by records compiled yesterday. There was a 19.6 per cent increase. Canal passages in October were the highest since May. Mary Denies She And Fairbanks Are Reconciled Miss Pick ford Amazed by Happy Ending Scenario. Br the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 3.—No, Mary and Doug are not reconciled. Miss Pickford seemed quite be wildered about reports to the con trary. Some one had chatted with her down at Kansas Citey, as her train from Hollywood passed through, and from the chat emerged a story of happy reconciliation with Douglas Fairbanks. "Why," said the actress when she reached Chicago, "I only talked with one man there. He must be a good scenario writer." Well, were they reconciled? The answer is no. * What's What Behind News In Capital 1 Trial Balloons on New £12,000,000,000 Pro gram Come Down Flat. BY PAUL MALLON. A YAWNING silence was the only reaction to recent New Deal publicity feelers about a new twelve - billion -dollar building program. The idea was put out anonymously by certain of President Roosev j't's ad visers who have long been suHering from the building fever, an apparently incurable political disease. The White House did not like It very much. The j only comment there was that a lot of ι people had a lot of eight, ten and i twelve billion dollar visions for proj j ects which would be self-liquidating ; in 120 years, but that Mr. Roosevelt did not want to wait 120 years to get out of the depression. · You can accept that as /air notice that these building visions are going to have to be condensed to somewhat substantial realities before Mr. Roosevelt accepts any more of them. There is a good reason for that feeling—the ex perience with, the P. W. A. Look at the Figures. The New Deal press agents naturally assert the P. W. A. was a great suc cess. To all outward appearances Mr. Ickes has allocated all his 3.7 billions and closed up shop. He has figures three yards long indicating that, if all ! the P. W. A. man-hours were laid end to end they would extend from here to the Aleutian Islands, or perhaps farther. The results, they say, are amazing. They are right about that. You do not need more than two figures to see it. Mr. Ickes has al located all his 3.7 billions, but only 1.1 billions had been disbursed by the 1 Treasury up to a few days ago. In other words, more than a year ' after the whooped-up P. W. A. cam paign start?d—and now that it is all over and every one has gone home— the actual money spent is less than one-third of the total appropriation. The last dollar of it probably will not be put Into man-hours of labor until long after the depression is sup posed to be over. Most insiders are beginning to sus pect that the public building theory of relief continues to survive largely for political reasons. The Congress men like it. They get $100,000 post Offices built in 510,000 towns. They get dams and reservoirs which flow with local prestige and votes for them. In fact, no politician can afford to be against the idea. It is readily agreed at the top here that a conservative building program is essential, if only for β the reason that the private build· ing industry is dragging bottom. They justify the P. W. A. on that ground and other similar ones. But eight, ten and twelve billions more is something else again. What they would like to see Is a conservative, long-term Government building policy—not an emergency re lief measure, or a political pork bar rel. but a systematized, planned, per manent and intelligent method of handling this phase of Government activity. The P. W. A. may dispute the fig ures cited here. Its books show it has written checks for $1,767,000,000, of which $1,507,000,000 is for Federal projects. The monthly average dis bursements. the officials say are now running around $100,000,000. They Explain. They explain the discrepancy be tween 1.1 and 1.7 billions by saying the Treasury counts the canceled checks, while they count checks mailed out. If that is correct, there are about half a billion dollars in checks (five months' disbursements) lying around uncashed. But even if νου accept the P. W. A.'s own figures, the conclusion cannot be altered. It means merely that they have been spending half their money instead of a third. Even with all the pork offered, some Congressmen are not satisfied pri vately with the cautious way the P. W A. has been administered. 8ome harsh things will be said about Mr. Ickes at the coming congressional session. The charge will be made that he has a graft phobia. It will be said that he never goes around a corner without first peeking to see if a crook is there. There is something in that, but not much. Exaggerated curbstone stories have been going around the inner circle about the espionage sys tem? It is true he has a more extensive spy system than any Government department <outside the D. of J.) ever had be/ore. His employes are reputed to sleep always with pil lows in their mouths )or ]ear of talking in their sleep. But most of the stories you have been hearing about it are wrong. Glavis Has a System. There is no boy detective stuff in the system headed by Louis Glavis. The methods are those of trained newsmen rather than sleuths. His forces have been secretly divided into three divisions, interior, oil enforce ment and P. W. A. investigations. Agents assigned to P. W. A. may also work on an interior investigation or oil. As a rule the Ρ W. A. agents in charge are engineers. The working agents are not er-detectives, but young lawyers, engineers or newsmen. It is quite well known on the inside that they have not been above look ing into the affairs of a Congressman or of Government officials on special occasions. They even have carte blanc to investigate Ickes himself. All cases, before being presented to grand juries, are first sent to Wash ington for an Ο. K. from the legal division and Glavis. They do not try any of the old prohibition undercover technique. They pay good salaries, 42,800 be ing the minimum. « * (Copyright. 1934.) » Sugar Mills to Be Added. Kwangtung Province of China will open three new provincial monopoly sugar mills. * Taxes on Consumers Also Care for Persons on Relief Rolls. This is the fourth of a series of six articles outlining England's ef forts to reform the British eco nomic system. BY LOUIS M. LYONS. England, feeling that she Is putting depression behind her, counts as one or its results the abolition of her an cient poor law system In favor of a national scheme of unemployment re lief. The British had much the same ex perience with their local welfare prob lem under depression as most Amer ican communities. Never organised to meet the strain of supporting from a fifth to a third of the population— as many local boards had to do—the local system broke down under the vast burden laid upon it and finally disappeared under a weight of bank ruptcy and Inadequacy. The national government has taken over the load, as here. Indeed, there is a great similarity in the pattern of Britain's new centralized plan of unemployment assistance and , the American E. R. A. Both are based on the principle that men able and willing to work shall not be treated as paupers because of the breakdown of industry. Both seek uniform treat ment of those in need and both seek the rescue of overwhelmed local com munities. An essential difference is that the British method does not seek to afford work to the men on relief. Instead of undertaking vast public employment at relief rates. England had applied huge subsidies to housing and to shipping partly for the sake of the stimulus to employment in the building trades, partly for the sake of cheap houses for her working people and an easier path In world competition for her carrying trade. She hae undertaken to protect the jobs and profits of those in farming and industry by such indirect taxes upon consumers as the tariff and the processing tax. to which American consumers have become accustomed. Abie-Bodied Cot Off. England's poor law goes back to Henry the Eighth. After the Refor mation the church was no longer equal to the task of relieving the poor. The social and economic upheaval of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries mul tiplied the idle and vagrant. These troubles of the Tudors led to codifi cation under Elizabeth in a system whose end results of work house and pauper were brought to America with the Puritans. The social attitude that crystallized in the old poor law is re flected in the title of the similar Scottish act dated 1579: "For punish ment of strong and idle beggars and relief of the poor and impotent." In Scotland until the present depression able-bodied persons had no resource to public relief of any kind. It has been an even 100 years from the breakdown of England's "old poor l»w" in 1834 to the supplanting of the "new poor law" by the national as sistance act of 1934. England knew before the depression that her local poor law administration was not mak ing the grade. By 1909 a royal com mission had found the system break ing down all over Britain. But the World War stopped the talk. The country was pitched from the war so immediately into depression in 1920 that the old local boards of guardians remained the only bulwark against the vast want that engulfed the Industrial towns. Recipients of local relief increased from 500,000 in 1920 to nearly 2.000.000 by the end of 1921 and kept on increasing. In some localities one in five of the population were "on the town," and after the great coal strike of 1926 there were great mining areas where more than half the population were being cared for at public expense. Local rates went up in some places by 600 per cent. Neither the Eliza bethan nor the nineteenth century poor law had been framed to deal with widespread unemployment. Now the local relief boards had to fill in the gaps not covered by the unem ployment insurance. When the local relief system broke down the govern ment attempted to load the Impossible burden onto the unemployment in surance fund, and that in turn fell into bankruptcy, forcing an over hauling of. the whole national policy. Nation»! Responsibility. Reorganization has been under way for several years, to reach completion in the unemployment assistance scheme of this year, which is made an integral part of the unemployment act. This act of 1934 now recog nizes national responsibility for relief of unemployed industrial workers out side the scope of unemployment in surance. Administration comes under a central independent board, respon sible in policy to the minister of labor. The present British attitude, in sep arating unemployment relief from the care of the chronic dependent, is found in this statement of Sir Henry Betterton, minister of labor, while the 1934 act was before Parliament: "When an unemployed man has re ceived all the benefit to which he is entitled under the terms of an insur ance scheme, he has to fall back upon the general provision made by the community out of ordinary taxation. It would be unfair to those in employ ment if payments were made to unem ployed persons out of taxation without considering whether a payment is needed. A test of need is essential. But the old conception of the poor law, that only the elementery needs of a destitute person should be pro vided for. is no longer tenable." Unemployment figures in Britain show a substantial reduction from the 2.800.000 of 1932 to 2.195.000 in the recovery Summer of 1934. But the accumulated destitution of the long depression still piles up the relief bur den. This July found 1,325,207 per sons on relief, more by 240,000 than the year before. The relief coet for the last year available, 1932-3, was approximately $200,000,000. or just about what the C. W. A. spent in six months in New England. Four hun dred and twenty-five thousand of those on relief were unemployed rather than chronic dependents. Some of them were receiving supplemental aid because of the size of their fam ilies, in addition to their unemploy ment insurance, just as E. R. A. wages here are eked out in the case of large families by local welfare assistance. The 425,000 unemployed receiving relief need to be set beside the 2,195, 000 living on unemployment insur ance benefits and the 2,213,000 more receiving old age pensions. Both these large groups might be expected to come on relief if they were not taken care of by the insurance to which their weekly contributions have entitled them. The $160,000,000 a year paid out of the national insur ance fund for sickness benefits must also save the relief administration a heavy drain. The relief roll* in Brit Investigator NAMED FOR DILUNGEB ESCAPE PKOBE. JAMES R. FLEMING, United States district attorney, who announced at Fort Wayne, Ind., he had received orders from At torney General Cummings to start an Investigation of the escape of John Dllllnger from the Crown Point, Ind., Jail last March. Flem ing was uncertain whether his in* qulry would supersede one now under way by the State admin istration. —A. P. Photo. 'LAMIT RETURNED; YALE IS BEAMED Princeton Game Edition of Harvard Magazine Is Recovered. By the Associated Pre.se. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 3. —"Lampy's" Princeton game number went on sale today as scheduled. More than 3,000 supposedly missing copies of the current Issue of the Harvard Lampoon. undergraduate humorous monthly, were "recovered" lat* yesterday. Tîîc return of the edition to Cam bridge "solved," Lampoon editors said, "a deep-dyed attempt of Yale men to hamstring Lampy by pre venting distribution of the magazine." The Princeton game edition, pub lished jointly by the Harvard Lam poon and the Princeton Tiger in ob servance of the resumption of foot ball relations between the universi ties. allegedly was stolen from the Lampoon building Wednesday right. Lampoon editors, who announced the theft after first denying any such theft had occurred, announced they suspected Yale men had taken the copies. They believed it was a re prisal for the dognaping of Hand some Dan IX, Yale athletic mascot, last March. Colorful tales were told of the manner in whfch Harvard "detec tives" located the magazine; in New Haven. But there are still those who believe the "theft" a put-up job to create circulation for the Issue. RELIEF ADMINISTRATOR, HELD BY JOBLESS, FREED Minister of Welfare Brings Re lease by Refusing to Negotiate Until Violence Stops. By the Associated Press. LONG BRANCH. Ontario. Novem ber 3.—J. S. Tifflin, a relief admin istrator, was released from his office last night after he had been detained there forcibly for several hours by 200 jobless and irate men. He was permitted to go home after a delegation of the unemployed men had presented numerous demands to David Croll, minister of welfare. The minister said he would not negotiate with them until they ceased acting in a violent manner. Constables sought vainly to free Tifflin, who had been appointed to his office Thursday. Sales Tax Hits $12,000,000. SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 3 (A>).—California's sales tax poured a record-breaking revenue into the treasury during the September quar ter. reaching $12.821,776.18. or $410, 930.12 more than the State received in the previous record quarter of last June, the State Board of Equaliza tion announced yesterday. Hurt by Drought Supply Is Smaller and Quality Poorer This Year. By the Associated Près*. KANSAS CITY, November 3.— Thanksgiving day hostesses who had no trouble finding a suitable turkey for the menu in 1933 may have to shop longer and bargain harder this year. With 23 shopping days left, turkey raising centers point to a smaller sup ply, less uniformity in quality, and a wide variety of sizes, with small birds predominating. As to prices, reports from market ing centers in the Western half of the country range from 5 cents a pound lower than last year to "sub stantially higher." Herbert Beyers, Salt Lake City, manager of the Northwestern Turkey Growers' Association, estimates the crop will be 15 per cent smaller this year. Reports from several of the nine States In the area, however, showed an increase. In the Plains States of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas the gobbler production is ex pected to be from IS to 20 per cent smaller. Effects of last Summer's drought will no doubt be tasted at many Thanksgiving tables. Shortage of feed and high temperatures are blamed for the medium quality and size of some birds. The growers are being advised to hold these turkeys until Christmas to complete the "finishing" process, but the price of feed la expected to force many ,to market them earlier. ain are thus only a skeleton of what they would be if the aged, the sick and the unemployed were not cared for by social insurance. (Copyright. 1»S4. by the North American Mtwipapei AlUaact. IncJ Τ hanks g Prospects h HIKER GUN IS VOTE ISSUE Indiana G. 0. P. Candidates Charge Spoils System in Penal Institutions. Br the Associated Press. CROWN POINT, Ind., November 3. —The wooden gun of John Dillinger assumed an important political posi tion today. Republican orators charged 'hat in troduction of the spoils system ov tiie Democratic State Administration In penal management was responsible for prison deliveries. The Republican mayor of Crown Point, Vincent Youlcey, assigned 25 special officers to guard citizens against "kidnaping by State troopers.'· Eight of the guards carried shiny wooden pistols. "They worked once before down here." said the mayor, "and 1 suppose they would again." U. S. Probe· Escape. The United States Government took full charge of the investigation of Dlllinger's escape, after a secret con ference in Chicago between Oistrfct Attorney James R. Fleming ana As sistant Attorney General J. Edward Barce. who has been active in the State inquiry, ordered by the Demo cratic Governor, Paul V. McNutt. No announcement may be made until evidence uncovered has been placed before a Federal grand jury, McNutt said. A man. whose identity was not divulged, was held by Indiana author ities, and Oov. McNutt said he had made a confession, involving two other men. Witnesses Released The Department of Justice in Washington declined to say whether Louis Piquette, Chicago lawyer await ing trial on charges of harboring Dillinger, was though to be involved in the escape plot. Eight Lake County residents, seized during the week as witnesses and spirited to Indianapolis, were released. Reports that $3.900 was paid to "Spring," a notorious gunman, went unconfirmed, and Fleming said he had no information that three parties shared the money. Barce said re cently that $1.800 was paid by Dil linger for his escape, and that $3.500. which was never paid, had been promised DILLINGER'S AIDES j QUIZZED ON BREAK Tip From Relative of Former Gangster's Associate Starts TJ. S. Probe. By the Associated Press. The Department of Justice was dis closed last night to be investigating whether any persons now under arrest in connection with the activities of John Dilllnger were responsible for his sensational wooden gun esc/pe from the Crown Point. Ind., Jail. Among those who have been taken into custody in connection with the j gangster's activity is Louis Piquette, Chicago lawyer, who will go to trial in I December on an indictment charging I that he assisted in harboring Dillln ger. The department would not say defi nitely whether it believes Piquette played a part in Dillinger's delivery from the Crown Point Jail. Its inves tigation began two weeks ago when j agents received a tip from a relative ί of one of Dillinger's former associates. I The department asserted yesterday I that Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana j had agreed to turn over to the Federal authorities all the information un i earthea In the State's Inquiry. The basis for the Government's ac tion is that in making his getaway Dilling'er stole an automobile and 1 drove it across a State line, a violation of the national motor vehicle theft I act. AUSTRALIAN PLANE REPAIRED FOR HOP i Kingsford-Smith to Take Off From Honolulu for United States at 7:30 P.M. Today. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU November 3 —The re paired trans-Pacific airplane Lady Southern Cross flown by Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Capt. P. G Taylor, was ready to hop today at 2 p.m. (7:30 p.m. Eastern standard timet for Oakland. Calif., on the last leg of a flight from Brisbane, Aus tralia. Working yesterday with Army me chanics at Wheeler Field. 30 miles from here, the Australian aviators completed repairing the plane's oil line which had caused a 48-hour post ponement. Kingsford-Smith declared the plane was in shape for the 2,408 mile flight to Oakland, starting point of his epochal aerial journey to Aus tralia in 1928. Sir Charles, who handles the con trols, allowed about 20 hours for the Oakland jump This would bring him In shortly after noon Sunday (3 p.m. Eastern standard time) if the start is made on schedule. DRINK FREEDOM DEMAND OF WOMEN IS CRITICIZED By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, November 3.—The Hennepin County grand jury In a report yesterday condemned the fem inine demand "for the freedom of man at saloons and in drinking bouts of private nature." "This freedom." the report said, "threatens loss of women's privilege and raises virtually insurmountable obstacles In prosecution of crimes against women and girls." The grand jury also attributed juvenile delinquency in a large part to the sale of liquor to minors and urged increased beer license fees. SKIPPER WINS KIS9ES NEW YORK. November 3 (A>).— Capt. Theodor Koch of the liner Ham burg brought his ship Into New York for the fiftieth time yesterday with the imprint of as many feminine lips on his weather-beaten cheek. Passengers explained that the skip per had made a pretty little speech during a dinner in honor of his fif tieth crossing, in which he remarked the women on board were the most beautiful he had ever brought across. All of them—some 50 in number— thereupon got up and lushed him. t State Department Awaiting · Report on Americans' Arrest Washington Youth and Girl Questioned on Espionage Charge. Seized on October 25 on Suspicion Caused by Camera. THE State Department was await ing a report today on the ar rest in Munich, Germany, of a young Washlngtonlan and a New Rochelle, Ν. Y., girl on suspicion of espionage. Gove Griffith Johnson, jr., son of the pastor of the National Baptist Memorial Church, Sixteenth street and Columbia road, and Miss Helen Lyster disclosed In Munich yesterday that they had been taken in custody by German secret police, held incom municado, stripped, searched and fed black bread and water. Watched Troop Maneuver*. The couple, students at the Uni versity of Munich, had been watching Storm Troop maneuvers at the Mu nich Airport October 25, when they were accosted, after an officer noticed Miss Lyster was carrying a camera, according to the Associated Press. The secret police, suspecting them of being spies, worked in relays ques tioning them. During the seven hours they were in custody they were shifted to three different police stations— from a precinct cell to police head quarters and finally to the office of ι the secret police. Miss Lyster and Johnson said they repeatedly asked to be permitted to communicate with the United States consul or an attorney, but were told "You are being held for espionage." Miss Lyster's camera had not been used, but authorities took no chances. They developed the film in It. . Delay Not Explained. In reporting the incident to the American consulate, the young Amer ! leans made no complaint, however, j that they had been subjected to ill ; treatment. Both agreed they had ! been "treated with reasonable court j esy." There was no explanation of j why they had waited a week to j make a report. The State Department was asked to obtain a report from the American consul at Munich by Johnson's father, who was puzzled over the in cident in view of his son's letters tell ing of living in the home of an offi cial of the German state police. Young Johnson is a graduate of Cen tral High School here and Harvard University, from which he received a travel scholarship to the University of Munich. He is 22 years old and has been in Germany fcbout a month. Miss Lyster, an art student at the university, is 21 years old, the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Morton J. Lyster of New Rochelle. She formerly studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris. Her father, commenting last night on her arrest, said: "Maybe that will cure her of this MISS HELEN LYSTER. —A. P. Photo. G. GRIFFITH JOHNSON, Jr. art bug she's got In her head. I should think she had enough oi Germany by now. "It was a ridiculous thing for the Germans to s>— est her, but what can I do at this distance?" he asked. "NO OFFICIAL COMPLAINT." Couple Realize They Were on For bidden Ground. BERLIN, November 3 —The two Americans who were arrested, stripped and searched by the Nazis in Munich October 25 said today they had "no official complaint to make" to German authorities concerning their treatment. G. Griffith Johnson, jr.. of Washing ton, D. C.. said in a telephone conver sation with Berlin that he and Miss Helen Lyster oi New Rochelle, Ν. Y., "now realize we were on forbidden ground when we were arrested. Shying at the unaccustomed pub licity caused by their detention, John son and Miss Lyster denied themselves to all inquirers today. They were arrested by Storm Troop ers when the latter spied a camera carried by Miss Lyster. The instru ment was confiscated and returned after the film had been developed and found to be unexposed. Defender of Parole Laics Sees Need for Corrections Capt. Barnard, Head of Penal Institu lions, Declares Even Judges Are Con fused by Present Act. This is the second 0/ a series of articles dealing with the District's comparatively new intermediate sentence and parole laws which have been subjected to criticism in connection with the anti-crime crusade. The third article will appear tomorrow. One of the strongest defenders of the District's indeterminate sentence and parole laws is Capt. M. M. Bar : nard, general superintendent of penal institutions, although he believes that several years of experimentation have shown the need of some major modi fications and Improvements. First and foremost, Capt. Barnard said a change should be made to pre vent too-quick release of certain felons, but he pointed out at the same time, that in other cases, penalties now being imposed are even more severe than before adoption of the indefinite sentences. "The indeterminate sentence and parole law as it now stands must be modified, for even the judges at court are confused as to how to give sent ences under its present terms," he de clared. System Has Not Failed. "This should not, however, lead us to believe that parole and probation have failed. They have not. The people will never stand for abolition of the parole and probation systems. They serve the welfare of the public as well as the prisoner, but should be applied to first offenders rather than to the chronic and hardened repeaters, he added. Capt. Barnard produced figures also to show that the parole system here had been more effective than generally throughout the country. Citing fig ures on paroles and parole violations since 1928, he showed that violations have been found here in 10.5 per cent of the total cases. He has been in formed the violations of parole na tionally have ranged In recent years from 12 to 20 per cent. Discussing difficulties under the present wording of the indeterminate sentence law. Capt. Barnard stated: "The sentences now being served at the reformatory are more severe in so far as parole is concerned than those which were imposed prior to the pas sage of the indeterminate sentence and parole act. Gains Only One Day. "A man sentenced to a term of from one to 15 months—we have quite » number of such cases—has 366 days to serve to complete sentence with good time allowance. He therefore becomes eligible for parole one day be fore the expiration of his term. The same man, prior to the new indetermi nate sentence law would have become eligible for parole at the end of five months. "We can cite several cases of men sentenced from one to 13 months, one year to 14 months, two to two and a half years, etc., whose short terms ex pire before they become eligible for parole. "We have many eases of men sen tenced from two to three years, two to four years, two to five years, etc., who must serve the minimum years before applying for parole. Had they been sentenced before the new law was adopted they would become eli gible in one year, 16 months, or 20 months, respectively. "We have one case of a man sen tenced from 8 to 12 years whose sen tence will expire 20 day* alter be be ♦ comes eligible for parole. Under the old law he would have become eligible in four years. "We have numerous sentences on which we have not been able to de termine any parole date under the new law. In the case of a man sen tenced for second degree murde\ the maximum sentence for this crime is life, and the District of Columbia code states that not less than 20 years must be imposed. Under the indeterm inate sentence law, the judge may im pose a maximum, not exceeding the maximum fixed by law. and a mint mum not exceeding one fifth of the maximum fixed by law. Sentence Appears Invalid. "The maximum being life, what Is one fifth of the maximum? The courts do not seem to know as they sUll are sentencing men convicted of second degree murder to a definite term and this appears to us to be an invalid sentence." Capt. Barnard said he believed the law should be modified so that each person sentenced would have to serve one-third, rather than merely one fifth, of the maximum sentence before being eligible for parole. During the fiscal year ending last June there were 381 prisoners paroled here, and of these 26 violated parole, or 6.8 per cent, Capt. Barnard said. In the year ending June 30. 1933, there were 326 on parole and 31 violations, or 9.5 per cent: 1932, 252 paroled and 42 violations, or 166 per cent; 1931, 162 paroled and 19 violations, or 11.7 per cent; 1930. 67 paroled and 7 vio lations. or 10.4 per cent; 1929, 51 paroled and 4 violations, or 7.8 per cent, and 1928. 51 paroled and 6 vio lations, or 11.7 per cent. This table shows a total of 1,290 prisoners paroled since July 1. 1Î27, and 135 violations of parole or an average of 10.4 per cent. The Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole came into being in the 1933 fiscal year. At the Monday night meeting, Gar nett voiced complaint that one pris oner of bad police record had been paroled 18 months after receiving sen tences of 8 and 10 years, to run con currently. "The law which permitted this should be repealed," he declared. Capt. Barnard produced records for the prisoner he believed Garnett had identified, showing that the man served 25 months and 25 days, or more than one-fifth of his maximum term of 10 years, necessary to make him eligible. He said the man's rec ord at the institution was "excellent." TAX SESSION CALLED Murray Would Remit Penalties for Delinquent Levies. OKLAHOMA CITY, November 3 (IP).—A special session of the new Legislature, to be elected November 6, was announced yesterday by Gov. W. H. Murray for the purpose of re mitting penalties on dellnqulet taxes. Gov. Murray has fought for two years against sale of property by coun ties for delinquent taxes. Several months ago. he ordered National Guardsmen into 11 counties where county treasurers had an nounced they would hold sales as pro vided by law. Guardsmen stood at the doors of court houses and the sales were not held. $24,000,000 for Belief. The Netherlands' new unemploy ment relief plan is to cost about ; $24,000,000. _ » Union Workers Renew Clash at Nanticoke, Pa., In juring Five. Br the Associated Press. WILKES-BARRE, Pa. November 8. —Bullets flew early today at Nanti coke, when members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed at close quarters—for the third time in four days—with pickets of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania. Five were known to have been hurt. Ackets and workers defied drawn revolvers and warnings of policemen to wage a pitched battle In Nanticoke, climaxing three hours of sporadic skirmishing between roving bands of rival unionists None of the combatants was struck by bullets, but flying rocks, bolts and washers injured several. ι Fighting in Streets. The massed encounter lasted little more than Ave minutes, but excite ment did not die down until more than a half hour later as running fights occurred on a half dozen Nanticoke streets and at Sheaton in Newport Township. Casualties of today's encounter were less than yesterday, the known injured including two men treated at Nanti coke State Hospital, a Nanticoke spe cial policeman and several other mine workers whose injuries did not require medical attention. The course of today's warfare was the reverse of yesterday. The United Mine Workers gained possession of the entrance to No. 7 colliery of the Sus quehanna Collieries Co.—focal point of the current trouble—long before dawn. Yesterday pickets were en trenched at the colliery gates until forced out by 500 marching United Mine Workers. Shots Are Exchanged. Today the picketing body marched on the colliery from Central Parle, more than a mile distant. Exchanges of missiles were followed by a charge of 1.000 United Mine Workers. Outnumbered more than three to one, pickets stood off the charging United Mine Workers for several min utes, pouring a rain of stones from their vantage point of a hilltop. Mo torists who stopped their machines between the two groups when the fighting started were forced to flee as flying rocks struck windshields and windows. Revolver shots from the bottom of the hill brought answering reports from the hill defenders. Nanticoke police, who had trailed the marching pickets from Central Park, then went into action, but were caught between two fires. PACT TO ENFORCE CODES DISCLOSED Richberg Tells Paint Industry Convention Justice Depart ment Co-operate». Donald R. Rich'oerg says N. R. A. and the Department of Justice have worked out "a very good understand ing" as to how to enforce Blue Eagle codes. This announcement, made yester day in an address before the Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association, was received with interest because the question of policing the codes has been one of the hardest to con front the new N. R. A. Administra tive Board. Richberg, the President's recovery co-ordinator, declared N. R. A. is not dying but convalescing. "The fever has broken. The crisis has been passed. The recovery of recovery is under way," he told the association convention at the May flower Hotel. FLORIDA COURT STUDIES SUIT TO CONSTRUE WILL Widow Seeks to Determine Whether to Take $500,000 or Demand Dower Rights. By the Associated Press. MIAMI. Fla., November 3—A suit to construe the will of Albert Charles Murphy, former Miami Beach resident, who died January 25, 1933, in Beverly Hills. Calif., was taken under advise ment here yesterday by Circuit Judge Uly O. Thompson. Murphy left an estate of $1,900,000. Mrs. Theresa Murphy of Jamaica, N. Υ, the widow, and Dwight Murphy of Santa Barbara, Calif, a brother, ex ecutors, brought the suit to determine whether Mrs. Murphy should accept a S500.000 trust fund left her. or instead claim dower rights to one-half of the estate Murphy's will provided for three trust funds of $100.000 each. These were left for Mrs. Silva F. Murphy of Scarsdale, Ν. Y.; Harry Paul Murphy of San Diego, Calif., a brother, and Mrs. Jennie Elizabeth Baldwin of Santa Barbara, his mother. DOUMERGUE SAVES CABINET BY TRUCE WITH 2 FACTIONS (■Continued Prom First Page.) was given added signiflcane by the adoption of a plan to regulate the im portation, sale and possession of fire arms in an effort to curb reported arming of political factions. There have been rumors of further demonstrations such as resulted in the death of 28 persons and the wouxtr'ng of a thousand in the Janu ary ahd February riots. The Croix de Feu, which marched in solid col umns against the police guns on Feb ruary 6. even Issued a warning to all of «β members not to be misled by a false summons and obey orders issued only by their district leaders. The disagreement of the radicals with the premier applied only to the question of dissolution. Doumergue'· text provides that during the first year of any Parliament the President of the republic can dissolve the cham ber with the consent of the Senate as at present, but after the first year the consent of the Senate is optional. New Statua of Premier. The first change in the 59-year-old constitution agreed upon would give the premier the status of a minister without portfolio, and membership la the cabinet would be limited to 20. Another provided that in the event the government and chamber disagree within a year after the election of the : chamber, the latter may be dissolved If the President and premier Jointly issue a dissolution decree approved 1# the Senate. * I