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No. 1,557—No. 33,136. gTSS ^SSS^. WASHINGTON, D. C.. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1935 -NINETY-EIGHT PAGES. „ wIiS?TOHClSTLmES!T^^TS
STATE TO SHOW BRUNO’S
SUDDEN WEALTH BEGAN
WITH RANSOM PAYMENT
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Mystery Riches
To Be Laid to
Kidnap Cash.
FIGHT MAPPED
BY DEFENSE
Expert to Tell
How Ladder
Was Built.
By the Associated Press.
FLEMINGTON, N. J.. January 19 -
Ladders, letters and lucre became to
night the crux of the State’s case
against Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
The ladder, thus far excluded as
evidence but promised as an exhibit
before the trial is over, is that on
which the State contends the kidnaper
of the Lindbergh baby descended with
the child. Hauptmann, the State will
attempt to prove, made it.
The letters are the series of ransom
demands. Experts have testified
Hauptmann wrote them.
The lucre represents the sudden
wealth which, the State says. Haupt
mann displayed shortly after a $50,000
ransom was paid to a mysterious
"John” by Dr. John F. Condon, act
ing for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
Condon and Col. Lindbergh say that
••John'' is Hauptmann.
Bruno Studies Copies.
The prisoner sat tonight in his cell,
always under the eyes of guards, and j
, studied photostatic copies of his own j
brokerage accounts—the accounts by
which the State hopes to prove that !
Hauptmann came into possession of j
his unexplained wealth immediately ;
after the ransom was paid.
Defense attorneys had planned to ;
study the accounts today, but instead ;
of going to Trenton, where the ac
counts are being held. Chief Defense
Counsel Edward J. Reilly obtained
copies of the accounts and sent them
to Hauptmann.
The prisoner is expected to famil
iarize himself with every phase of his
transactions and thus be prepared to
advise his counsel when the State be
gins presentation of this testimony.
The State will submit to the jury of
eight men and four women that
Hauptmann, a carpenter with few
jobs to keep him occupied in the de
pression period, managed to have an
income of $49,960 between the time of
the payment of the ransom. April 2,
1932. and the date of his arrest, Sep
tember 19 last.
As it progresses through the devious
business of revealing Hauptmann’s
brokerage transactions and showing
the amount of his bank accounts, the i
prosecution will halt this line of testi- !
mony occasionally to call witnesses to
strengthen the State's contention
Hauptmann was in the Hopewell area
before and during the day of the kid
naping, March 1. 1932.
Accounts Gone Over.
Federal Agents Edward HU1 and
William Frank and Assistant Attorney
General Richard Stockton went over
Hauptmann’s bank and brokerage ac
counts in Trenton today. They elim
inated 18 of the witnesses the State
planned to call to testify to the Haupt
mann accounts and will produce only
a certified public accountant and a
Federal agent.
The money angle of the case has
been stressed from the beginning by
Attorney General David T. Wilentz,
chief of the prosecution staff. Haupt
mann, he said in his opening to the
jury on January 3, planned the kid
naping for money and collected the i
ransom alone.
He will show next week that Haupt
mann bought a $400 radio shortly
after the ransom collection date, that
his wife Anna was able to make a
trip to Germany in the Summer of
1932, and that Hauptman himself
made frequent hunting trips. More
over it was about that time, or a little
later, the State will show, that Haupt
mann opened his first brokerage ac
count.
At the time of his arrest Hauptmann
had a credit balance of $886 in his
account with Steiner, Rouse & Co.,
whose customer’s man testified yester
day. Under his wife's maiden name,
Anna Schoeffler, he had a credit bal
ance of $5,017. In the Central Sav
ings Bank, New York, the Hauptmanns
had a joint deposit account of $2,578.
They held two mortgages, totalling
$7,000, on houses in Brooklyn.
The State figures Hauptmann lost
$7,000 in stock market speculations,
and he made the assertion he loaned
Isador Fisch, his German furrier
friend, $7,500. Ransom money turned
up before his arrest totalled more
(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.)
Turn to Page AS for a pictorial summation of the State’s case
against Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
State Offers Complete Story
Of Hauptmann’s Part in Crime
By the Associated Press/
FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 19 —
Here Is how testimony of State wit
nesses to date has linked Hauptmann
with the Lindbergh case:
The Actual Crime.
Hauptmann, driving a green sedan
bearing a wooden section ladder, is
seen at the entrance of the Lindbergh
estate private road, at Hopewell, at
noon, March 1, 1932, the day the child
is kidnaped and murdered. A wooden
section ladder found where the flee
ing kidnaper abandoned it. Under the
kidnap w'indow is the footprint of a
shoe about the same size as Haupt
mann wore. The ransom note in the
nursery in Hauptmann’s handwriting.
The split uprights of the kidnap ladder
indicate it had started to collapse,
probably throwing the kidnaper and
the baby to the ground.
The Day After the Crime.
Hauptmann's wife confides to a
neighbor that the Bronx carpenter has
just returned from a trip. Hauptmann
nurses an injured leg or sprained
ankle.
The Ransom Negotiations.
A ransom note in Hauptmann's
handwriting commissions Dr. John F.
(Jafsie) Condon to act as interme*
diary in ransom negotiations. John
Perrone, taxi driver, names Haupt
mann as the man who gave him a kid
nap letter to deliver by hand to
“Jafsie." Ransom contacts are held !
at Woodlawn and St. Raymond’s Cem- 1
etery, in the Bronx, and “Jafsie" says
Hauptmann was the man he negoti
ated with on both occasions. A dress
model sees him shadow’ "Jafsie." The
ransom Is paid at the St. Raymond
graveyard rendezvous, and Col. Lind
bergh, in a parked car nearby, hears
Hauptmann's voice call directions to
Dr. Condon. Lindbergh is satisfied the
money is paid to the kidnaper because
he was able to return sleeping suit
worn by the baby and to describe
nursery details to “Jafsie.”
Sequel.
Ransom currency begins appearing
immediately after the graveyard pay
ment, one of the first bills turning up
in a bank near an apartment project
on which Hauptmann worked. The
baby is found dead near Hopewell,
May 12, minus its sleeping suit.
Hauptmann, with no jQb, meanwhile
plays the stock market, makes frequent
bank deposits, lives comfortably. Po
lice start untiring hunt to trap the
ransom collector by following the devi
ous trail of ransom currency.
Denouement.
Hauptmann is arrested September
19, 1934, after passing a ransom bill
at a gas station. Station attendants
give Federal agents d description of
him which is "identical" with that
given by “Jafsie.” A ransom bill is
found in his possession when he is
taken into custody. Search of the
Hauptmann garage turns up $14,600
of cleverly cached ransom money.
The hoard, all in gold bills, represents
almost half of the $35,000 gold certifi
cate portion of the ransom. Hidden
on a piece of wood trim in the Haupt- j
mann baby's nursery, investigators find
a smudged pencil notation of “Jafsie's”
address and phone number. Haupt
mann admits the writing is his. but
explains his “interest” in the case mo
tivated the notation.
NAZIS CARRY OUI
SAARREVOLUTION
League Government Almost
Completely Effaced
From Basin.
By the Associated Press.
SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter
ritory. January 19.—A virtual Nazi
"revolution" in the Saar, effecting
changes similar in many respects to
the January, 1933, upheaval in Ger
many proper, tonight saw the basin's
League of Nations government almost
completely effaced.
So completely were Adolf Hitler’s
adherents in the saddle, this sixth
day after the smashing Nazi victory in
the Saar plebiscite, that Socialists
were frankly advising anti-Nazis to get
out of the territory "until things blow
over.”
Violence Is Absent.
Although actual violence was con
spicuous by its absence and reports
that anti-Nazis were physically ill
treated, when tracked down, turned
out false, the Hitlerite forces never
theless had seized entire control of
the basin's governing machinery.
Public officials who backed the los
ing “status quo” cause were ousted
and anti-Nazi laborers claimed they
also had been "victimized.” losing
their jobs to those who voted for Ger
many.
Behind the Nazis, as they set about
(Continued on Page 6, Column 3.)
BALTIMOREAN KILLED
AS TRUCK LEAVES ROAD
John Merriman Is Victim of
Crash Near Eaton, Ohio—Don
Wentworth Is Injured.
By the Associated Press.
EATON. Ohio, January 19.—A man
identified by papers in his possession
as John Merriman, Baltimore, was
killed, and Don Wentworth, also of
Baltimore, was injured seriously late
today when their truck plunged from
the National Highway, 10 miles north
west of here.
Merriman’s skull was fractured.
Coroner Walter McCool reported.
Wentworth’s injuries were unde
termined. He was taken to a hospital
in Richmond, Ind.
Merriman, driving, was believed by
McCool to have gone to sleep at the
wheel.
M’S MANDATE
PROBLEMGROWING
Climax Due March 27 When
Tokio Finally Quits
League.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA. January 19—Growing
concern was apparent at Geneva to
day over how to solve the problem
of Japan’s responsibility to the League
of Nations about her mandate over
the Pacific Islands, once her resig
nation from the League becomes
effective on March 27.
The question was deemed so im
portant that some quarters are ad
vocating a special session of the
League Council on that date.
In questioning today Japan’s alleged
inclusive development of some 1,400
former German islands in the Pa
cific, the Council in no way discussed
Japan’s right to maintain these islands
in the future, nor did it tacitly or
otherwise approve Japan's right to
maintain them.
Joint Navy Not Desired.
The League has been represented
as believing that, from a practical
standpoint, nothing short of the dis
patch of an international navy would
induce Japan to relinquish the islands,
and the League does not even dream
of such a step.
What it can do is to insist that
Japan continue to bow to the League's
right of supervision over the islands.
As one of the allied and associated
powers which distributed the man
dates over all former German colonies,
the United States has a voice in the
future of the Pacific Islands, and the
League is speculating regarding pos
sible action from that quarter.
It was understood that Japan al
ready has canvassed the powers on
behalf of election of a Japanese to
the World Court of Justice bench
to succeed Judge Adatchi. A move
ment seems to be forming against
the designation of a Japanese because
Japan resigned from the League after
condemnation of her action in Man
churia.
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Similar opposition has been noted
as developing against permitting Ja
pan to continue to have representa
tion on financial, economic and other
standing committees of the League of
Nations.
League circles think it not unlikely
that some member may raise the
question of Japan’s right to hold her
Pacific Island mandates even before
March 27, when her membership ex
pires.
The Associated Press was given to
understand that Japan plans to con
tinue her co-operation with the League
even after her resignation becomes
effective. Japan was expected to do
this along the lines now followed by
the United States and along the Une3
which Germany may adopt through
co-operation piece-meal with Geneva
without resuming complete member
ship.
ADMITS PRISON PLOT
Bobber Confesses Gun Smuggling
in San Quentin Break.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 19 (IP).
—Police Chief William Quinn an
nounced tonight Clyde Stevens, pa
roled San Quentin convict and con
fessed bank robber, had admitted he
smuggled into the prison the auto
matics which enabled four prisoners
to kidnap four Parole Board officials
and escape for a few hours Wednes
day.
Gangster Freed on Bond.
ELKHORN, Wis., January 19 (IP).—
Edward (Father Tom) McFadden,
Touhy gangster awaiting trial on a
charge of carrying a machine gun,
was released on 14.000 ball today.
Judge Impounds Permit
When Revocation Is Refused
Traffic Judge Isaac R. Hitt last
flight, impounded the permit of James
A. Stoutenburg, Jr„ a convicted
speeder, after District authorities de
cided they had no authority under
the law to revoke the permit.
When the judge learned his request
for revocation of Stoutenburgh’s per
mit had been refused, he announced
he was going to lock it up in his safe
In the "interests of public safety.”
The Stoutenburgh case marked the
first attempt by Judge Hitt to enforce
his policy of compelling speeders to
choose between jail sentences and
revocation of their permits.
The 18-year-old youth was brought
before Judge Hitt Monday on a.
charge of driving 55 miles an hour.
Stoutenburgh. who lives at 2006
Columbia road, was found guilty of
the charge, and the Judge ordered him
to decide between a 30-day Jail sen
tence and having his driving permit
revoked lor 90 days. Stoutenburgh
choae revocation and Judge Hitt took
his personal bond not to repeat the
♦ offense, thereby closing the case in
a
so far as the court's power to punish
him is concerned.
Judge Hitt then sent the permit to
the Board of Revocations and Restor
ations of Permits with a request that
it be revoked. The board, however,
decided Judge Hitt had no authority
to order the revocation of the permit,
this power being lodged by statute in
the District Commissioners or their
designated agents. The board, there
fore, refused to revoke the permit and
sent it back to Judge Hitt with a
recommendation that it be returned
to Stoutenburgh.
Sentence having already been im
posed. Judge Hitt was left without
authority to send the young man to
jail, so he decided to keep the permit
himself for the 90-day period.
This left the matter in something
of a dilemma from a strictly legal
standpoint, but all parties were agreed
that the next move is up to Stouten
burgh.
The board is composed of Traffic
Inspector B. A. Lamb. M. O. Eldridge,
assistant traffic director, and Ray
mond Sparks, assistant corporation
counsel.
I
GOLD ACT VICTORY
BY 5 TO 4 IS SEEN BY
Five “Progressives” Hold
Animated Discussion After
Formal Parley.
DECISION MAY BE READY;
BECOMES KNOWN LATER
Brandeis leaves Meeting Early,
but Sutherland Remains, Confus
ing Observers of Procedure.
(Copyright, 1034, by the Associated Press )
Nine high justices of the Supreme
Court, although guarding their secret
closely, left surface signs after a pro
tracted conference yesterday that they
had reached a decision In the historic
•‘gold-clause’’ cases.
In the purely physical actions of the
court, trained observers saw hints of
the possibility of another of the fa
mous 5-4 decisions. The justices them
selves were silent as always. But of
the six who remained closeted together
after the conference broke up, five
have been labeled as ’’progressives.”
If their actions yesterday were sig
nificant, and if the "progressives” fol
low lines to which they often have
hewed in the past, some observers held
it possible that the court might divide,
5 to 4, for sustaining the validity of
the act suspending gold payments.
There were signs that after the nine
filed into their austerely furnished
conference chamber in the Capitol,
their discussions became animated.
The question before them was one of
the most important governmental is
sues to arise in recent decades.
Billions Involved.
Directly involved was the question
of whether Congress acted unconsti
tutionally in abrogating the clause in
many bonds and contracts guarantee
ing payment in gold or its equivalent.
Should the court say it had, then
about $100,000,000,000 of public and
private bonds would have a value of
$169,000,000,000 in the present devalu
ated currency.
Despite indications that the deci
sion might have been made, there was
no assurance whatever that the ver
dict would be made known when the
court meets tomorrow'. Precedent has
been found for the court to hand
down its decision and deliver an opin
ion later, but unless this is done the
will of the court cannot become known
until February 4 at the earliest, as a
recess intervenes.
The first members of the court to
withdraw from the conference room
were three so-called "conservatives,”
to be followed shortly thereafter by
one so-called "progressive.'' The first
three were Justices Vandevanter, Mc
Reynolds and Butler.
They were followed later by Justice
Brandeis, classified as a progressive.
This left in the conference Chief Jus
tice Hughes and Justices Sutherland,
Roberts, Stone and Cardozo.
Progressives Meet.
Sutherland has been classed as a
conservative and the remainder as
progressives. Justice Sutherland did
not remain long, withdrawing to leave
the Chief Justice and Justices Stone,
Roberts and Cardozo together. They
remained closeted for some time.
No explanation was available for
the early withdrawal of Justice Bran
deis except that it is known that he is
conserving his strength. Nor would
any one venture why Sutherland re
mained after his old associates, Jus
tices Vandevanter, McReynolds and
Butler, withdrew.
While Chief Justice Hughes and
Justices Stone, Roberts and Cardozo
were present there were intimations
that much active discussion prevailed,
with the Chief Justice indicated as
doing most of the talking.
If no particular significance can be
attached to the comparatively early
retirement of Justice Brandeis, expert
observers saw additional ground for
a belief that the court might divide
five to four.
Guessing on Brandeis.
While some observers felt that
guessing might be warranted in at
tributing the early withdrawal of
Brandeis to his health, none found It
easy to explain why Sutherland re
mained with the four members of the
court classed as progressives.
It was suggested as possible that
Sutherland, although normally a con
servative, may find himself aligned
with the four who remained. He was
Senator from Utah before going on
the bench and it was further ad
vanced that because of his long con
gressional experience his views may
be the same as those who remained
in the conference room with him.
The best informed were of the opin
ion that Justice Brandeis would line
up with the other progressives whether
they are in the majority or minority,
and that his early withdrawal had
no significance as to whether the
conservatives or the progressives were
in the majority.
About 5 o’clock Justices Stone and
Cardoza left the conference room, the
Chief Justice and Roberts remaining
in it for a few minutes longer for
further discussion.
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PEEK AGAIN HITS
HULLTRADEPACTS
Holds Unconditional Most
Favored-Nation Policy
Has Failed.
By the Associated Press.
Renewing his criticism of Secre
tary Hull's methods, George N. Peek, :
special adviser to the President on 1
foreign trade, yesterday urged re
organization of the administration's
foreign trade policies and program.
Peek, former farm administrator,
presented a five-point plan to correct
what he called ''mistakes'’ and give
Americans an opportunity to compete
“successfully” with other nations.
Sharp differences of opinion between
Hull and Peek were known to have
existed, but the latter’s statements In
an address yesterday served to em
phasize the split.
Secretary Hull has based his tariff
policy on the retention of the most
favored-nation policy in negotiat
ing trade agreements. In other words,
he would extend any favors granted
one nation to all.
Would Modify Plan.
Peek urged an abandonment of this'I
principle, but he would continue a j
modified favored - nation arrange
ment. Other points in his plan were:
Permanent governmental assist
ance to American foreign trade in
terests.
An adequate accounting system to
accumulate data on all trade trans- j
atuuns.
Adoption of a policy of selective
imports and exports, including util
ization of barter agreements.
Insistence that foreign nations hav
ing exchange restrictions correct such
conditions before entering into trade
agreements.
Hull is negotiating trade agree
ments with 15 countries on the un
conditional most-favored-nation basis.
He has vigorously opposed barter
trnasactions on the ground that they
are an impediment in clearing the
clogged channels of international
trade.
To date, President Roosevelt and
his cabinet have supported the Hull
rather than the Peek theories.
Peek Charges Failure.
Peek's program was outlined in an
address before the Women's Political
Study Club.
The unconditional most-favored
nation policy, Peek said, had failed
in- practice.
"The attempt of many nations to
make it the basis of their foreign trade
policies,” Peek said, "has been ac
companied by their increasing use of
devices to defeat the purpose, and
lead to a multiplication of the trade
barriers it was meant to reduce."
He added that he had knowledge
of over 200 special agreements entered
into by other nations from which the
United States was excluded.
Adoption of a policy of selective
imports and exports. Peek said, should
be carried out through "making in
dividual arrangements with individual
nations, country by country, rather
than through a horizontal reduction
of our tariffs, either through tariff
legislation or generalizing tariff con
cessions under the trade agreements
act.”
PILOT DROWNS IN CRASH
Attempt to Revive Lieut. Thrun
Proves Futile.
Coast Guard headquarters an
nounced last night the death of
Lieut. Charles T. Thrun from drown
ing. Efforts at rescuscitation were
abandoned seven and a half hours
after he was removed from the wreck
age of his plane, which crashed yes
terday at Cape May, N. J.
Rear Admiral Byrd
Tells the Story
of His Second Exploration
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Into the Frozen Wilds
of the Antarctic.
Editorial SectionPage 1
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Freeze Over Snow
Gives City Peril
Of Icy Streets
Rain Prospect Today.
Four Hurt in Crash.
Cold Widespread.
Washington faced the prospect of
dangerously icy streets today as freez
ing temperatures last night followed
in the wake of a snowfall of several
inches. The storm was general
throughout this region.
Ram with rising temperature was
the forecast for today and more rain
and warmer weather were expected
tomorrow, but another turn to colder
was Indicated by the Weather Bureau
for tomorrow might.
The District Engineer Department
(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.)
Claims Nelson B. Clark of
Massachusetts Arrested
in Hold-Up Death.
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 19 —The Boston
Sunday Advertiser says tonight in a
copyright article that Nelson B. Clark,
held in New York on a charge of
receiving stolen property, Is a prom
inent figure in Massachusetts, a for
mer candidate for Governor of the
State and first State secretary of the
American Legion.
The newspaper says that Clark is
held in New York in connection with
the murder of patrolman M. J.
Killian, shot down Friday during the
hold-up of a Fifth avenue leather
Store.
Clark, the newspaper said, was a
prominent political figure in Massa
chusetts during the days of the late
Calvin Coolidge.
The paper identified Clark as the
former head of the State Progressive
party and as a former candidate for
Congress.
ANTI-LONG FORCES
FORM SHOCK UNIT
Square Dealers Begin “Direct Ac*
tion" to Rid Louisiana
of Dictatorship.
By the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE. La.. January 19 —
Marshaled in military formation
under a billowing American flag, 340
East Baton Rouge Parish citizens
were organized late today into the
headquarters “Shock Troop Battalion”
of the Square Deal Association of
Louisiana, which is challenging Sen
ator Huey P. Long's dictatorship.
Assembling in a row of “companies"
at the notes of a bugle call, citizens
of varying classes—mechanics, la
borers and well-dressed business men
—fell into battalion line at the parish
airport to form the Square Deal Asso
ciation's central "manpower” unit.
There was no actual drilling or mil
itary maneuvers. There were no guns
carried, but the elements of military
organization and appearance were
closely followed.
Officers of the unit, designated the
“East Baton Rouge Headquarters
Battalion* of the citizens’ organization
which has declared for a course of
"direct action” as result of Gov. O. K.
Allen’s having flaunted its demand for
Immediate repeal of dictator laws,
were chosen as well as leaders for
each company.
Ernest J. Bourgeois, 28-year-old
Square Deal president, and other offi
cers of the association’s Headquarters
Executive Committee, were in com
mand.
Brig. Gen. Louis P. Guerre, super
intendent of State police, watched the
formation as a spectator. He re
mained a short while and then left,
accompanied by an aide.
Guide for Reader*
General News.Part One
Editorial.Part Two
Society .Part Three
Amusements.Part Four
Finance .Part Five
Radio.Page 6, Part Four
Sports_Pages B-7 to B-ll
Lost and Fou^d.. .Page A-9
PRESIDENT TO ASK
Congress Expected to Get
New Note Tuesday or
Wednesday.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt's fifth message
to Congress—expected next Tuesday
or Wednesday—w as described authori-1
tatively yesterday as likely to recom
mend fundamental changes In the
Nation's civil and military aviation
policies. It will be thfc third special
message sent.
Accompanying the message will be
a 300-page report of the President’s
Special Aviation Commission, headed
by Clark Howell, sr., Atlanta news
paper publisher.
Approval Reported.
Officials, who declined to be quoted
by name, said Mr. Roosevelt had ap
proved the recommendation in the
report for the creation of regular air
passenger service across the Atlantic
and Pacific.
That the President regards trans
oceanic transportation by air as feas
ible was indicated in a letter of con
gratulation he wrote Amelia Earhart
for her flight across the Pacific, made
public today.
"Because of swift advances in this
science of flight, made possible by
Government and private enterprise,” j
the President wrote, ‘ scheduled ocean
transporation by air is a distinct and
definite future prospect.”
The Howell Commission was re
ported in reliable quarters to have
proposed that the Government aid
the proposed ocean service with sub
sidies for both dirigible and airplane
building.
New Dirigible Proposed.
Construction of a giant dirigible to
be turned over to a private company
was advocated, it was said, to help
America meet the competition of
giant, speedy foreign ships.
Government aid to make possible
next Summer the establishment of
heavier-than-air service between the
California coast and Hawaii and from
the East Coast to Europe by way of
Bermuda and the Azores, was re
ported to be a specific commission
recommendation.
Other recommendations to be made
by the commission were said to be:
Establishment of a permanent avia
tion commission to be merged later
with a larger Interstate Commerce
Commission, which would have con
trol over all transportation services.
Contract Limitations.
Lifting the airmail law prohibi
tion against one company holding
more than one main-line contract or
two secondary contracts.
Revision of the law requiring com
petitive bidding for service aircraft
contracts.
Increasing the number of Army and
Navy planes to 4,000 and construction
of a small dirigible for training pur
poses.
The President’s aviation communi
cation will follow those already de
livered on a social security program
and American adherence to the World
Court.
DEMOCRATS ADOPT
RIGID GAG TO PUT
RELIEF THROUGH
Social Security Program
Temporarily Relegated in
Strategy Move.
RULE MAKES ACTION
BY TUESDAY LIKELY
House to Open Hearings Tomor
row on Bill and Senate
Following Day.
BY G. GOV'LD LINCOLN.
An iron-clad “gag” rule which would
permit the House to pass President
Roosevelt's $4,880,000,000 relief pro
gram not later than Tuesday was de
cided upon yesterday by Democratic
leaders. It is designed to prevent
amendments and to limit debate to
about four hours.
This strategy temporarily put In the
background the President's social se
curity program, hearings on which are
scheduled to begin tomorrow. The
House Ways and Means Committee
will open its hearings at 10:30 a.m.,
while those of the Senate Finance
Committee are slated to get under way
the next day.
Application of the ''gag” rule on the
relief measure was decided upon when
it became known that a large number
of Democrats, as well as Republicans,
have signified they were opposed to
voting such a huge sum without de
tailed hearings. The White House,
however, wants the program expedited
exactly as requested by Mr. Roosevelt.
May Attempt Overthrow.
There were indications that the op
posing group would seek to overthrow
the contemplated rule, but Democratic
chiefs claim their huge majority will
be sufficient to put it over.
Chairman Buchanan of the Appro
priations Committee, in explaining
that his group would report out the
lump sum relief measure tomorrow,
said his group would make no efforts
to “earmark” the money.
Although Secretary of the Interior
Ickes is making plans for distribution
of $4,000,000,000 of the fund for work
relief, there was talk yesterday that
Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins may head a new agency to handle
the whole program. At any rate. Hop
kins is expected to have the Job of
tapering off the “dole” with the other
$880,000,000 between February 10 and
November 1.
Hopkins remained at the White
House through a series of conferences
at which Mr. Roosevelt began to put
his employment-making ideas Into
form.
As for the social security program,
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee is planning to give practically the
entire week to hearing administration
witnesses in support of the President's
plans as embodied in the Wagner
Lewis bill.
The first witness will be E. E. Witte,
executive director of the Committee
on Economic Security, appointed by
the President. Mr. Witte is expected
to occupy the time of the committee
tomorrow and also on Tuesday morn
ing. Secretary of Labor Perkins is
scheduled to appear as the second
witness on Tuesday afternoon.
Hopkins to Be Heard.
Three witnesses are slated for Wed
nesday: Relief Administrator Hop
kins, William Lierserson, chairman of
the National Mediation Board, and
Albin Hansen, chief economic analyst
of the State Department.
On Thursday the committee plans
to hear Murray Latimer, chairman of
the Railroad Retirement Board:
Douglas Brown, professor of econom
ics at Princeton Univajsity; Katherine
Lenroot, chief of the"Children's Bu
reau. Department of Labor, and Wil
liam Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor.
Only one witness so far is scheduled
for Friday, Miss Josephine Roche.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Miss Roche was active in social work
before her present appointment.
After these witnesses have been
heard it is expected the House Com
mittee, headed by Representative
Doughton of North Carolina will have
before it a number of other witnesses
w ho may request to appear.
Wagner Will Appear.
Senator Wagner of New York, who
has sponsored the economic security
bill in the Upper House, is expected
to make a statement before the
Finance Committee. Only a tentative
list of witnesses for the Senate Com
mittee so far has been prepared. It
includes those witnesses already slated
to appear before the House Committee
and in addition the secretary of the
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Writs Planned to Save Boys
From 6-Year Car Theft Terms
Writs of habeas corpus In the cases
of two Washington Junior High School
students sentenced in Juvenile Court
on Friday to serve until their maturity
at the National Training School for
Boys for the theft of an automobile
may be sought tomorrow, it was
learned last night. The boys are now
14 and 15.
Complaint against the boys was!
brought by Patrolman George G.
Maghan, whose automobile was stolen
last month and recovered in Roan
oke, Va. The boys, found asleep
in another automobile, were found j
guilty of attempted theft, in Roanoke,
but no sentence was imposed, the
judge choosing rather to return the
boys to their parents.
Friday they were arrested by Pa
trolman R. L. Jones of precinct 10
upon complaint of Maghan. Appear
ing before Judge Pay L. Bentley in
Juvenile Court, with their parents
but without counsel, the boys pleaded
guilty and were sentenced.
Dismayed at what they consider
the severity of the punishment, the
parents yesterday retained Attorney
Ralph A. Cusicjj to attempt to gain
the youngsters freedom or a lighter
sentence. Resort to the writs of
habeas corpus will be taken. Cusick
said, unless grounds are found for
a motion to set aside the verdict.
Cusick said yesterday Judge Bent
ley had refused to reopen the case.
Cusick pointed out that in the case
of adults, first offenders convicted
of stealing automobiles usually are
placed on probation. Maximum
sentence ordinarily given for such an
offense is five years' imprisonment,
he said, whereas these boys may be
forced to serve as many as six and
seven years. The boys had no pre
vious police record to his knowledge,
Cusick said.
Meanwhile, the youngsters have
been committed to the school. Un
less efforts in their behalf are suc
cessful. they must serve at least 18
months each before good behavior
or parole recommendations can
serve to lighten their sentences.
The boys are Arthur Thurston
Penn, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Penn of 1219 Otis place, and William
William Frederick Fanning, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fanning of ISM
Spring road.
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