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> BRUNO AGAIN IDENTIFIED
AS PROWLER SEEN NEAR
ESTATE BEFORE SLAYING
*
Kidnap Ladder
Admitted as
Evidence.
STATE NEARS
END OF CASE
Cast of Cemetery
Footprint Is
Revealed.
(Copyright. 1035, by the Associated Press.!
FLEMINGTON. N. J.. January 22.—
Bruno Richard Hauptmann today was
’ Identified for the second time as a man
seen lurking near the Lindbergh home
before the kidnaping and murder of
Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.
Millard Whited, a logger of the
Snurland country surrounding the
Lindbergh estate, testified he saw
Hauptmann in the vicinity on Febru
ary 18. 1932. and again between the
25th and 27th of February, the samp
year.
The Lindbergh baby was stolen on
March 1, 1932.
Ladder Is Admitted.
Before Whited's identification, the
Grate succeeded finally in its fight to
get the kidnap ladder into evidence
, and the defense brought out the fact
that a plaster cast had been made of
s footprint which it claimed would
show Hauptman was not the man who
collected the $50,000 Lindbergh ran
som in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the
Bronx, on April 2. 1932.
Edward J. Reilly, chief of the de
fense staff, said he hoped to get the
plaster cast into court for comparison
with Hauptmann's toot, and hoped as
well to play a phonograph record
which a witness said Dr. John F. <Jaf
sie) Condon made of his conversation
with the man to whom he paid the
ransom. A Department of Justice
agent. Thomas H. Sisk, said both were
in Washington.
Whited testified he knew every per
son of the vicinity around his farm,
which was separated from the Lind
bergh estate by a 10-foot strip.
tens ot Peeing Hauptmann.
“Did you see any strangers?" the
attorney general asked him.
“Yes."
• Did you see Bruno Richard Haupt
mann?"
"X did.”
Relating the first time he saw the
man he said was Hauptmann, Whited
said:
I was coming home for dinner
w ith my car and he came out nearly
on my ground or, I would say. within
2 or 3 feet, one way or the other—
I could show you the very spot if I
were there—and he stepped out to
the side of the road when I came face !
to him. with the car. and I saw him
when I was coming to him. and when
I passed, through my window I look
ed at it and wondered why and where ;
lie came from."
The second time:
“He was on the cross road that 1
leads to Zion and I was coming up
the road with the truck and trailer j
and I saw him on the cross road '
standing."
Whited said he saw his face both
times, being the first time only 8
feet from him. and the second time
only 6 feet. He asserted he was
positive in his identification, that
there could be no mistake.
Identification Attacked.
W'hited still was undergoing a vig
orous cross - examination when
luncheon recess was declared. The
defense sought to show his identifi
cation was faulty, that he had per
sonal motive for publicity, and that
he first reported seeing the stranger
near the Lindbergh home in order to
aiert suspicion from himself. He held
fast to direct testimony.
Reilly elicited the information about
the cast in renewed cross-examination
of Sisk just after the State had won
6 major victory in gaining admittance
of the Lindbergh kidnap ladder into
the evidence.
The State objected to Reilly's ques
tion as to whether a footprint had
been taken at the cemetery.
“I submit.” the defense chief de- j
dared, “that it was not Hauptmann's
and under the rules of evidence we j
should be entitled to ask this witness!
what he knows about it."
Admits Cast Made.
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard
agreed.
"I learned that a cast of a foot
print was taken." Sisk said, but
added:
“There is no positive connection be- j
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MINE BLAST TOLL
INCREASED TO 12
last of Missing Men Found Dead
After All-Night Work
Searching Debris.
B.v the Associated Press.
GILBERTON, Pa.. January 22.—
The body of a twelfth victim of the
explosion, which tore through work
ings of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal & Iron Co.'s Gilberton colliery,
was removed today by grim-faced
miners.
In the slim hope they might find
Harry Lengle of Tremont. last of the
missing, still alive, they had worked
all night In four-hour shifts, digging
away at a fall of rock and coal re
sulting from the explosion yesterday
morning.
Eleven other bodies had been re
moved yesterday following the terrific
blast which hurled the boot of one
of the victims 100 feel from his body,
and shook the entire workings, injur
ing 71 miners and endangering the
lives of 200
Twenty-five of the injured are in
hospitals. 1
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judge Bentley Weighs Plea
To Set Aside Boy Verdicts
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Prettyman Tells Court He Would Be
“Happy” to Participate in JSeiv Trial.
Freedom Request Is Denied.
Advised, by inference, in open court
this morning by Corporation Counsel j
E. Barrett Prettyman that nothing |
would be lost by reviewing the Fan-;
ning-Penn case in a new trial. Judge 1
Fay Bentley of the Juvenile Court took j
under advisement a motion by Attor- !
ney Ralph A. Cusick that her verdicts '
in the case be set aside.
At the same time she denied Cusick's
plea to release the boys under bond, i
saying her decision would be made i
shortly and that such procedure would '
be unnecessary.
Prettyman’s statement on ihe case
this morning was the feature of a
hearing held by Judge Bentley on
Cusick's motion to vacate and set aside ,
her judgment in committing William ;
F. Fanning and Arthur T. Penn to the
National Training School for Boys for
stealing an automobile.
“We have not thought it necessary
to file an answering affidavit to Mr.
Ccsick’s," Prettyman said in follow
ing Cusick before the court, "since
the facts and allegations contained
therein are directed at procedure
within the court Itself. We have no
objection to granting the motion.
“The reasons for our position may
be cited as follows: Since the attack
is upon the judgment and sentence
of the court itself, we want to leave
the court completely free to act as it
desires.
“Furthermore, perhaps we arc old
fashioned in comparison with some
members of the bar. but in any
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BOND ISSUE BOOST
IS GIVENAPPROVAL
Nine Billions Increase in
Limit Favored Along With
“Baby’’ Bonds.
_
By the Associated Press.
The Treasury bill to permit issu
1 ance of nine billino dollars of new
long-term bonds and so-called "baby
bonds” was approved unanimously to
! day by the House Ways and Means
! Committee.
The action was taken quickly after
Secretary Morgenthau testified for
nearly an hour that the Treasury
needed more leeway in the flotation
of securities.
The measure was introduced only
yesterday by Chairman Dougntou of
the committee.
Bond Limit Approaching.
The New Deal, finding itself within
$2,500,000,000 of the legal limit be
yond which it could not issue any more
bonds, is seeking to have its au
thority to sell such securities increased
by about $9,000,000,000.
At the same time. Secretary Mor
genthau disclosed what he termed a
new "string on our i money) bow”—
a proposal that a new type of "baby
bond” be issued for the general public,
including persons of moderate means.
In denominations ranging from $25
to $10,000, these bonds would be of
10 to 20 year maturity. They would
be on a discount basis and would be
expected to pay holders the equiva
lent of between 2 and 3 per cent.
Those buying the bonds could r.ot
sell them on the market, but they
could be turned in after six months,
and interest up to that time would be
paid. They would be issued on the
first of every month.
To Stay Within Estimates.
Commenting on the proposal to ex
tend the bond Issue limit. Secretary
Morgenthau stressed that there was
no intention of using bonds in excess
of budget estimates.
Officials said the request for a
change in the Treasury’s authority
grew’ out of the provisions of the sec
ond Liberty loan act. That law placed
a limit of $28,000,000,000 on the ag
gregate of Federal bonds that might
be issued
Already $25,450,487,115 has been
issued. Of this sum. almost $12,000.
000.000 has been retired, but under the
law no bonds can be issued in place
of those retired.
nnuMiiig rnncipie >ougnt.
The proposal is that Instead of the
$28,000,000,000 gross limit, a revolving
authorization of $25,000,000,000 be
set up. This, it is said, would give the
Treasury power to issue between $11,
00,000.000 and $12,000,000,000 more
bonds than are now outstanding. The
$11,000,000,000 or $12,000,000,000 would
be approximately the amount retired
under the present authorization.
The Treasury proposal comes at a
time when the Government is plan
ning to spend $4,000,000,000 in a drive
to transfer the needy from the dole
to work relief, and about $100,000,000
on the first year's operation of the
social security program.
Morgcnthaii said the new-type
bonds would be designed to meet the
requirements of people who wanted to
save.
R. F. C. Loans Criticized.
Another development on the finan
cial front yesterday was criticism of
fhe Reconstruction Corp.’s loans-to
industry activities, voiced at a hearing
before the House Banking Committee.
Jesse Jones, chairman of the R. F.
C.. was on the stand, explaining a bill
to extend the life of the R. F. C. two
years. Representative Fish, Repub
lican, New York, said:
"Both the R. F. C. and the Federal
Reserve Banks have absolutely failed
in carrying out our intent to make
loans to private industry.”
Some Democratic members joined
in the criticism. Jones said "indus
trial loans have been our most diffi
cult job because most people who come
to us apparently can’t provide the se
curity required by law.” He said “we
can give the money away, if you want
us to.”
California Feels Quake.
LOS ANGELES, January 28 (/P).—A
slight earth tremor was felt at 1:30
a.m., today in the suburban south
west districts of Los Angeles. Hunt
ington Park, Inglewood. Compton and
Lynnwood all reported the shock, but
there were no repprts of damage.
Auto in Which Pair Kidnaped
Doctor Is Found in
Michigan.
• By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, January 22.—State
| police revealed this morning that the
! automobile that Alvin Karpis and his
! companion. Harry Campbell, took
from an Allentown. Pa., physician
I yesterday had been found abandoned
near Monroe. Mich., with the motor
| running. Why it was abandoned had
net been determined. The car appar
I ently had been headed toward
Detroit.
s Immediately the search for Karpis i
and Campbell, last members at large '
| of the notorious Karpis-Barker gang,
accused of the Bremer kidnaping and
other crimes, was concentrated in this
j section.
The car wras taken from Dr. Horace
Hunsicker after two men who. police
are confident, were Karpis and Camp
bell, abducted him near Quakertown,
Pa., and forced him to drive into
Ohio. Dr. Hunsicker was tied and ■
left behind near Wadsworth. Ohio, |
last night while the fugitives drove on. j
Machine Gun at Back.
Dr Hunsicker drove the two men '
with a machine gun pointed con- \
stantly at his back, but was unable
1 to identify them as Karpis and Camp- :
bell. i
Sheriff Ray Kruggel expressed the i
belief, however, that the two men !
were the fugitives, who shot their way 1
) out of an Atlantic City hotel Sunday, i
I Dr. Hunsicker said he was driving |
along near Allentown at about mid- i
i night Sunday when a car came along- i
! side. A horn was blown and Dr. Hun
sicker stopped his car. On a side
i road they abandoned their car and
! both got in with him.
I Dr. Hunsicker said the men inquired
j if he was a physician, but asked for
j no medical aid. The physician said
I they stopped once or twice for gasoline
and water.
I
Takes His Coat.
The taller of the two men took Dr
I Hunsicker’s suit coat, but not his
overcoat. He said he did not notice
how the men were dressed.
Once or twice they passed Penn- |
sylvania State troopers, but Dr. Hun
sicker said he made no attempt to sig
nal to them.
The doctor said he noticed that the
car the gunmen had when they stop
ped him had New Jersey license
plates.
When they reached the Grange
Hall, deserted and dark, the two men
broke in the door and took Dr. Hun
sicker to the second floor. Keeping
the machine gun pointing at him,
they bound him with heavy cord, a
belt and strips torn from a pair of
pajamas.
It took the physician a half-hour to
squirm loose from his bonds. He then
went to a nearby farmhouse and
called police at Wadsworth.
HOUSEBOAT DWELLER
BEATS TRAFFIC CHARGE
Personal Bond Taken by Court on
Failure to Notify of Change
of Address.
Anthony K. Hudson had no ad
dress when arraigned before Judge
Isaac R. Hitt in Traffic Court today
on a charge of failing to change his
automobile permit address—and still
has none.
Hudson was arrested yesterday by
Officer C. L. Smith of the Traffic Bu
reau and in addition to the permit
charge was charged with speeding.
In court today he told Judge Hitt
he lives on a houseboat in the middle
of the Washington Channel and
hadn’t changed his permit address be
cause he didn’t know what to say.
When he secured his automobile tags
he gave the bureau Thirteenth and
Water streets southwest, which is at
the edge of Washington Channel and
off which point his houseboat is an
chored. as his address. Hudson for
merly lived in the 900 block of Third
street southwest and received his mail
there.
Judge Hitt and court attaches were
at a loss to determine just where
Hudson lived and his personal bond
was taken on that charge. A $5 fine
was Imposed in the speeding viola
tion.
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ml
HNS OF WEISS
FOUND AS SLAYERS
NEAR DEATH DATE
Mais and Legenza Must Die
in Electric Chair at Rich
mond February 2.
JUDGE INGRAM SEALS
FATE OF DESPERADOES
Night Club Character's Body Is
Found in Creek Near
Philadelphia.
B>’ the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA January 22 —The
body of William Weiss, kidnaped and
slain night-life character, was re
covered today from Neshaminy Creek,
just northeast of Philadelphia.
The body of the reputed victim of
Robert Mais' notorious Tri-State gang
was found near the spot to which
authorities were directed by a member
of the band yesteiday.
The discovery ends a three-months'
hunt for the reputed wealthy man
who was snatched" by three men as
he drove up to his suburban home
one evening last October.
Harbor policemen, grappling from
two boats in the stream, brought the
body to the surface with ropes.
Weighted With Irons.
Wrapped in blankets and weighted
down with irons, the grim bundle was
discovered under a bridge, ending two
days of grappling work endangered by
fog and floating ice cakes in the
stream.
Authorities had been directed to
the spot by Martin Farrell, a member
of the gang, shortly after he was
brought to Philadelphia yesterday
from New York, where he was cap
tured last week with several other
members of the mob, including the
reputed leaders. Robert Mais. con
victed killer, and Walter Legenza.
DEATH DATE SET.
Mais and Legenza Must Pay Death
Penalty February 2.
RICHMOND, Va , January 22 iJF).—
Robert Mais and Walter Legenza. no
torious tri-State gangsters, who
cheated the electric chair by three
months, were told by Judge John L.
Ingram in Hustings Court today that
they must die February 2 for the
murder of E. M. Huband. Federal Re
serve Bank truck driver.
Three hours after he had been
brought from New York to Richmond
with his companion in crime. Walter
Legenza. Mais. his legs chained, shuf
fled down the aisle in Hustings
Court. Judge Ingram said that since
Mais' escape from the Richmond Jail
prevented the scheduled electrocution
on November 1, he was setting Feb
ruary 2 for the execution.
Returned to Death Cell.
Mais was returned to the death cell
at the penitentiary while guards left
to bring Legenza from the prison to
hear the judge set the date tor his
electrocution.
Guarded by 10 Federal agents,
armed with machine guns and tear
gas. the Tri-State gangsters came in
on the Havana special of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad and were whisked
away in an ambulance and a police
car to their death cells in the State
penitentiary'.
Ten minutes after they were placed
in police cars at Broad Street Station,
the gangsters arrived at the State
penitentiary, where they were deliv
ered to Supt. Rice M. Youell. First
came Mais, nervous, haggard, weigh
ing 20 pounds less than he did when
he shot his way to freedom and still
carrying in his body six bullets that
police shot into him before his trial in
Richmond.
Three Federal men, one pointing a
machine gun at him, escorted the
prisoner into the penitentiary. He
limped down the echoing hallway, his
legs in irons, his han&s cuffed.
Placed m Death Cells.
Behind him came Legenza on a
stretcher. His face was pasty under
the prison lights. He drew his pink
and white striped blanket close to his
chin.
Inside the foyer, the procession
halted while guards procured keys to
the death cell. Even inside the peni
tentiary police never relaxed their
vigilance. , A menacing machine gun
was trained on the men and other
armed agents watched them closely.
Mais sat, dejected, on a bench, Fed
eral men grouped about him.
A moment later he and Legenza
went to their death cells.
A Federal agent, shrugged his shoul
ders. turned to a companion and said:
“Well, we got ’em here didn't we?”
FIVE BURN* TO DEATH
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Children Perish When Stove Ig
nites Washing. *
LONGUEUIL. Quebec. January 22
OP).—Five children burned to death
early today when washing hung on a
clothesline over the kitchen stove to
dry caught fire.
A roomer and six other members of
the family of Emile Gadbois. four of
them children, were taken to a hos
pital suffering from burns.
The dead were all children of Gad
bois, their ages ranging from 11 down
ward.
f I
IN SUITON HE
Cotton Garment Workers to
Get Benefits Under Court
Ruling.
District Supreme Court Justice
Jesse C. Adkins today refused to grant
I a request for a preliminary injunction *
restraining inauguration of a 36-hour
| week in the cotton garment industry.
] This ruling was made in a suit brought
by the Alabama Textile Products Co.
and 91 other concerns engaged in
the manufacture of cotton goods.
The 36-hour week was fixed by
President Roosevelt in an amendment
to the code for the cotton garment
industry under authority of the Na
tional industrial recovery act. The
amendment also provided for in
( creases In minimum w ages, and was
sustained In both respects.
Prison Injunction Refused.
The court also refused to grant a
preliminary injunction to restrain \
what the plaintiffs described as "un
fair competition from prison-made
garments.” The manufacturers had
asked the court to prevent the use
of a Blue Eagle label similar to their
own on the prison-made goods. In
I refusing to do this. Justice Adkins
pointed out that work is essential to
rehabilitation of prisoners and also
that the competition from this form
of goods is decreasing.
The court did not pass upon the
constitutionality of the code of fair
| competition, pointing out that the
plaintiffs for purposes of their present
motion conceded the constitutionality j
of the statute and of the code.
Counsel for the plaintiffs and the
Government during argument of the i
case expressed divergent views con
cerning the power of the President
arbitrarily to amend a code after he
I has once approved it. Counsel for
] the Government contended, in effect.
1 that such power is unlimited, while
; the plaintiffs’ attorneys argued the |
' President had no power to amend j
i such a code except upon the appli- !
I cation and consent of the industry.
ricMunu > ■ u*tn nriu lmpucu.
Refusing to agree with either of
these contentions. Justice Adkins de
cided Congress intended to give the j
President some power to amend code !
provisions, but did not attempt to de- j
fine the limits of this power He held,
however, the statute did authorize the 1
amendment involved in this case.
- The original cede provided a 40-hour
week in the industry and a minimum
wage of 30 cents an hour in the
Southern section of the country and
32'^ cents an hour in the Northern
section This did not result in a gain
in employment, and the amendment, i
reducing the working week to 36
hours and adjusting minimum wages
to correspond, was therefore issued.
The amendment has not been in
force because a restraining order had
been issued protecting the plaintiffs
in thus respect, and as a result of this, j
the National Recovery Board granted !
exemptions to the rest of the in- ;
dustry.
More than 200.000 workers are af- j
fected by the order.
BORIS’ CABINET RESIGNS
Gen. Zlateff Commissioned to '
Form New Government.
SOFIA Bulgaria. January 22 t/Pi.— 1
The government of Premier Kimon J
Gueorguieff resigned today after nine
months in office.
King Boris immediately confmis- !
sioned Gen. Petko Zlatieff. who had j
held the portfolio of war. to form a
new cabinet.
Premier Gueorguieff established a
dictatorial regime May 19, 1934.
Snow Is Forecast
For Capital A rea
Some T ime T onight
Cold Weather, However,
Js Expected to Arrive
in Modifieil Form.
More snow was promised Washing
ton today as a rainy thaw freed the
city of the last slushy deposits of Sat
urday's storm.
The sudden cold wave expected to
night. however, should arrive in modi
fied form, with a minimum of about
24 degrees.
The Weather Bureau this morning
predicted "snow tonight and probably
tomorrow morning. Colder tonight
and tomorrow." The forecaster said
he expected a gradual drop in tem
peratures over a period of several days.
The weather map today showed a
freakish trend Intense cold moving
eastward from the Rockies had an
aftermath of snow this morning as far
south as Mobile. Alabama and New
Orleans, with flurries expected in
Northern Florida.
Meanwhile, the Northeast was ex
periencing warmer weather than
usual Washington yesterday had the
highest maximum this month—59—
and the temperature around noon
today was 37. where it had stood for
several hours.
The minimum of 24 predicted for
Washington tonight, oddly enough, is
the same as that expected at Jack
sonville, Fla.
SENATE MAYGET
Restoration to Be Sought
in Body if Committee
Bans Acceptance.
Although Senate rules may prevent
the Appropriations Committee from
attaching the immediate 5 per cent
Government pay restoration amend
ment to the pending deficiency reso
lution. the question will be put before
the Senate within a few days as an
amendment offered from the floor by
Senator McCarran if it is finally ruled
out in committee.
The subcommittee handling the de
ficiency measure is understood to have
discussed the parliamentary status of
the pay amendment today, and while
it has not completed its work, indica
tions were that the rule against in
cluding legislation in an appropriation
bill would preclude a subcommittee
recommendation for the amendment.
The entire Appropriations Commit
tee. however, would then have to act
on the deficiency resolution before it
goes to the Senate, and the question
of including the pay amendment may
be raised there.
In any event. Senator McCarran will
place the issue before the Senate
when the deficiency measure is re
ported. and will make every effort to
have it adopted. It is believed by
those familiar with the situation that
there is a better chance of having the
amendment incorporated on the floor
than in the committee.
If Senator McCarran succeeds in
having the amendment adopted in the
Senate, it would then go back to the
House. The House has already passed
the pending resolution which con
tains supplemental operating ex
penses for several Government com
missions. but any items added in the
Senate will have to be passed on by
the House or sent to conference.
SUBCOMMITTEE STUDIES
ECCLES NOMINATION
Glass Is Expected to Call Utah
Man for Questioning on
Qualifications.
By the Associated Press.
The nomination of Marriner S.
Eccles of Utah as governor of the
Federal Reserve Board was sent to a
subcommittee today by the Senate
Banking Committee for investigation
ind study.
The committee approved the re
appointment of Adolph C. Miller, vet
eran member of the board.
The Inquiry into Eccles’ qualifica- j
Jons was ordered on motion of Sena- ;
or Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, one
>f the authors of the Federal Reserve
System, who has been making a per
sonal study of the Utah banker s fit- ,
less for the high post. 1
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TOW CHALLENGES
SOVIET IN CHINA
I
Claims It Will Protect Peace, i
Charges New Area
Penetrated.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO. January 22.—Sinkiang a
huge Northwestern territory nominally
belonging to China was indicated by
statements in high official quarters
today as the future scene of a con
test between the expansionist ambi
tions of two great Asiatic powers,
Japan and Soviet Russia.
A spokesman for the Japanese gov
ernment said the Soviet's alleged eco
nomic and political penetration of
Sinkiang "menaces the peace and
stability of Eastern Asia, which it is
Japan's mission to maintain.”
This development was mentioned by
Kolti Hirota, foreign minister, in a
formal address to the Diet.
•'Watches With Concern.”
Describing the recent retirement of
Chinese Communist armies from
Kiangsi province into Szechuan and
Kweichow provinces. Hirota stated,
"In view of this fact, coupled with
the reported sovietization of Sinkiang.
the Japanese government will be
obliged to watch with concern activi
ties of the Communist party and its
armies in China.”
The Sinkiang area of 550.000 square
miles is rapidly falling under the
domination of the Soviet like outer
Mongolia, the foreign office spokesman
said in amplifying Hirota's statement.
"Our information, which emanates
from high Chinese officials, shows thar
the present leaders of Sinkiang are
under the control of Moscow,” he con
tinued
"Further, we are informed that the
retirement of Chinese Communists
into Szechuan is purely a strategic
retreat on orders carried to Com
munist leaders in Kiangsi by an Indian
agent of the Moscow Third Interna
tionale named Rominats.
"Chinese Communists are hoping to
find close connections with Soviets
dominating Sinkiang and outer Mon
golia.
“There is an old Chinese political
adage, 'Who rules Szechuan can rule
China.' Japan is compelled to view
these developments anxiously.”
Asked what Tokio proposed to do
about it. the spokesman replied. "At
present we can only watch.” Authori
tative Russian quarters said the
charges of Soviet political penetration
into Sinkiang were fantastic, although
they admitted that the Russian
economic influence there has been
greatly enhanced since the completion
of the Turkish-Siberian Railway,
affording an easy egress for Sinking's
commerce.
Turning to the Manchurian situa
tion. the Japanese spokesman said
that the Chinese Eastern Railway
agreement was "virtually completed."
Would Aid China.
"In view of our position as China's
neighbor and as a stabilizing force in
East Asia," Hirota said in addressing
the Diet, "it is our policy to try to
assist China in the attainment of this
goal.
"Japan attaches great importance
to her friendship with other states in
East Asia and counts on their par
ticipation in bearing the serious re
sponsibilities for the maintenance of
peace and order in this part of the
World * * *
“Japan and the United States nave
been bound not only by the vital eco
nomic relationship of mutual inter
dependence elsewhere, but also by a
historical bond of friendship.
"There exists no question between
the two countries which is intrin
sically difficult of amicable solution.
Certainly it is unimaginable that
there should be any cause of conflict
between two countries separated by
the vast expanse of the Pacific.”
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HOUSE'GAG’EASED
ON 14.800,000,000
WORK RELIEF BILL
Democratic “Rebels” Force
Liberalization—Measure
Up Tomorrow.
REPUBLICANS OFFER
SUBSTITUTE PROPOSAL
G. 0. P. Would Give Pro Rata
Shares to States to Relieve
Unemployment.
By the Associated Press.
With its Democratic revolters par
tially appeased, the House Rules Com
mittee today voted a liberalized "gag
rule for House consideration of thi
S4.880.000.000 relief program.
The action was taken without a
record vote as President Roosevelt
conferred with Speaker Byms and
Chairman Buchanan of the House Ap
propriations Committee and after
Democrat*; leaders had called a parly
caucus today for 4 p.m. to bind the
majority to support the measure.
Soon after the House met the Dem
ocrats forced adjournment until to
morrow in a frank move to head off
Republican attacks on the proposed
procedure. The roll call vote on ad
journing was 278 to 108.
Representative Dunn of Pennsyl
vania was the sole Democrat voting
with the Republicans against the mo
tion to adjourn. He later explained
he was against all "gag rules’’ and
"steam roller’’ tactics.
The insurgents gained some con
cessions. Debate on the rule was
fixed at one hour, while three hours
of debate were granted on the bill
itself.
Amendments to Be Offered.
In addition, a motion to send the
measure back to committee was as
sured. and other amendments are to
be offered by the Appropriations
Commit'ee.
The revolters demanded changes in
the bill affecting classification of pub- •
lie works projects to be undertaken.
The measure will be brought up in
the House tomorrow.
After the White House parley quick
adoption of the bill by the Housers
predicted by Byms. The Speaker and _
Buchanan reported to the President
there was every prosi>ect the admin
istration measure would go through
without change.
The two House leaders said they
called at the White House merely to
report to the President.
A majority of the Rules Committee
had objected yesterday to the swift
procedure proposed. This put the
measure already one day behinc
schedule
G. O. P. Offers Plan.
After a secret conference last night.
Republicans, under the leadership oi
Representative Snell, Republican, of
New York, produced a plan to scrap
the administration measure which
would give the President the $4,880.
000.000 in a "lump sum.” with discre
tion as to how it should be spent.
Declaring Congress would be giving
away its power by delegating such
authority to the President, the Repub
licans proposed a substitute. The
chief feature of this, they said, aims
at keeping the Government out oi
competition with private business.
Each State would be given a pro rate,
share of the appropriation, to be spent
only through private contractors in
the administration's announced drive
to transfer 3,500.000 persons from the
"dole” to jobs.
"We are united against this bill that
would take away from Congress the
right to appropriate and legislate."
Snell said.
Speaker Byrns had sought unsuc
cessfully yesterday to bring the Rules
Committee around to the administra
tion view. Under the original sched
ule, it was to have passed today.
Cox Hits at Buchanan.
Some leaders have expressed fear
that if it were brought up witnout
drastic curbs, the administration's
"lump sum” idea would be wrecked
under a rush of "log-rolling” designed
to ear-mark sums for legislators’ home
district*
Chairman Buchanan expressed that
opinion yesterday in arguing in vain
with the Rlues Committee. Repre
sentative Cox, Democrat of Georgia,
replied: "That looks like an indict
ment of the patriotism of the member
ship of the House.”
Snell spoke of "unprecedented dele
gation of power to the Executive.”
Among other provisions, the measure
would empower the President to abol
ish or consolidate Government
agencies, make regulations providing
for fines of $5,000 and two years in
jail if violated and obtain real or per
sonal property by eminent domain.
Among the members of the Rules
Committee who demanded more liberal
debate on the bill were Representatives
Smith of Virginia. Dies of Texas.
Lewis of Colorado and Cox of Georgia.
Buchanan Questioned.
Buchanan was questioned closely by
Rules Committee members as to who
would head the unified relief-works
agency President Roosevelt plans.
This recalled that some House mem
bers are reported angry over Secre
tary Ickes’ handling of P. W. A.
Buchanan's answer was that he
could not say who would be chosen.
Whether any move would be made
later to let the "revolting members
of Congress know the President's
choice was not known.
"The President has come to the
conclusion.” Buchanan said, "that he
can't bring about recovery unless we
put 3,500,000 men to work. He wants
the $4,000,000,000 now to start the
transition from the dole to work
relief.”
The remainder. $880,000,000 is for
carrying on direct relief and other
activities while the change is beinf
made,
J
APPROPRIATION
, RESTAURANT
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W HAT A UAU!
Heart Beats Stop 20 Minutes
Before Birth, but Baby Lives
By the Associated Press.
MALONE, N. Y.. January 22.—Al
though his heart ceased beating 20
minutes before birth, a Malone baby
Is alive today and Is considered normal.
The child, bom at Alice Hyde Me
morial Hospital January 9, was taken
home yesterday by his mother. Mrs.
James Kollop. Hospital officials said
that so fax as they knew it was the
first such case in medical annals.
Hospital attendants described the
case as a breach presentation, one of
the most dangerous both for mother
and child. After srvcrM hours of la
bor, the heart sound ol the baby dis
n
•
appeared, and 20 minutes before the ;
Ibirth it was found that the cord had 1
ceased to pulsate.
The baby was delivered and adre
nalin was injected directly into the
heart muscle. Ten seconds later the
heart began to beat spasmodically.
A tank was filled with water at a
temperature of 100 degrees P. and
artificial respiration was employed
while the child’s body was immersed
Twenty-eight minutes later the baby
gave its first voluntary gasp.
Within an hour the baby was breath
ing normally and has continued in :
good health, gaining 9 ounces. 1
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