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DIPLOMATS PRESS
FOR ASSURANCE OF
PEACE IN PARLEYS
Britain and France Move to
Prevent Italian War
in Africa.
BULGARIA AND HUNGARY
ARE BID TO JOIN PACT
Austrian Arms Aid From Borne
Hinted—Laval Reassures
Foies on Alliance.
By the Associated Press.
Diplomats of eight European nations
moved yesterday to safeguard the
peace of Europe and their own se
curity as well as to forestall war in
Africa, where Italo-Ethiopian ten
sion is growing. Four separate con
ferences occupied the statesmen in
attempts to offset the effects of
Adolf Hitler’s decision to rearm the
Reich.
LONDON.—Great Britain aided by
France raced against time to get
arbitration machinery into action
between Italy and Ethiopia to pre
vent the outbreak of what appears
to be imminent warfare.
BUCHAREST.—Members of the Bal
kan pact—Turkey, Rumania, Yugo
slavia and Greece—decided they
were helpless to keep Bulgaria and
Hungary from rearming, but pro
posed a new security pact pledging
all six to maintain peace in South
eastern Europe. Territorial revision
and a Hapsburg restoration in Aus
tria were vigorously opposed.
FLORENCE.—Two Fascist leaders,
Benito Mussolini of Italy and Chan
cellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria,
held a brief but amicable confer
ence, with indications that Italy
would support Austria's demand for
rearmament at the forthcoming
Danublan conference In Rome.
WARSAW.—Pierre Laval, French for
eign minister, appeared successful
in his efforts to assure Poland she
was not endangered by the new
Franco-Russian pact and that it
was the first step in a general Euro
pean security plan. Laval will leave
tomorrow for Moscow.
ROME.—Mussolini later conferred with
Gen. Victor Denain, French air
minister, and is believed to have
laid the basis for a mutual assist
ance air pact with France.
Join in African Peace Move.
LONDON, May 11 <A>).—Great
Britain and France, racing against
time, moved today to conciliate Ethio
pia and Italy and prevent a possible
war.
Britain, well-informed circles said,
does not minimize the possibility of
widespread complications if the sit
uation Is allowed to develop. She is
co-operating with Paris in making
new representations to Rome and
Addis Ababa.
All efforts are being centered on
having arbitration machinery func
tioning before the League of Nations
Council meets May 20 to hear
Ethiopia’s appeal. For some time
Great Britain has been urging both
parties to the quarrel to hurry and
appoint members of a Conciliation
Commission.
Informed quarters admitted rela
tions between Rome and Addis Ababa
are becoming tense, and said a care
less act on either side might set off a
war.
In Rome, Italian sources said to
night a group of Ethiopians who at
tacked the Italian consulate at Gon
dar, Ethiopia, December 17, 1934,
have been released by the Ethiopian
government in violation of an agree
ment made between Italy and Em
peror Haile Selassie.
Mobilization Threatened.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 11
(A5).—Ethiopia called upon Benito
Mussolini today to show his hand in
their six-month-old border quarrel.
A source close to (he government
said mobilization of the black war
riors of Emperor Haile Selassie. "Con
quering Lion of Judah,” would be or
dered if settlement of all differences is
not assured at the meeting of the
League Council May 20 or if additional
Italian divisions continue to pour into
neighboring territory.
The government renewed today its
demand that arbitrators of disputed
questions be named as provided under
a treaty between the twc countries.
London reports that France and
Great Britain were pressing Italy to
hasten arbitration were favorably re
ceived here
Helpless to Bar Rearming.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 11 (JP).
—The Balkan Entente acknowledging
that Bulgaria and Hungary already
are rearming clandestinely and they
are powerless to stop it, decided to
day to try to bring them within a
new non-aggression pact to safeguard
peace in Southeastern Europe.
Taking a “realistic" view of the
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RELIEF MEAT THEFT
FEARED BY OFFICIAL
Diitrict Attorney Threatens
Wholesale Indictments If
Supplies Were Stolen.
Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 11.—Investigat
ing auditors' reports *that 58,699
pounds of veal had spoiled or was
missing out of the 676,211 pounds
handled by the 40 relief stores in
Nassau County during the last 15
months. District Attorney Martin W.
Littleton today threatened wholesale
indictments if he finds the meat was
stolen
The report of the auditors listed
12,174 pounds as having spoiled and
46,525 pounds as missing.
Littleton said the entire situation
would be presented to the grand jury
as soon as the investigation If com
pleted.
“If I discover that the missing food
was stolen,” he declared, “it's going
to be tough on the culprits as well
l as on lax relief officials.” 'y
500 Injured as King and Queen
Make Final Jubilee Appearance
Many Taken to Hospitals as Huge Mob
Surges Forward to Gain
Glimpse of Ruler.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 11.—More than 500 persona were Injured tonight as
King George and Queen Mary made the last of their nightly Jubilee appear
ances on a flood-lit balcony of Buckingham Palace before a surging mob of
250.000 persons.
Scores of persons were knocked down and many others fainted as the
throng pressed against the palaces
gates. Ambulance men raced from
the steps of Victoria Memorial, pick
ing up fallen men, women and chil
dren.
Twelve persons were removed to
hospitals while more than 500 were
treated at the held ambulance station.
The smiling monarchs remained In
view for seven minutes, waving to the
cheering crowd, while the crush grew
worse every moment, and ttie cas
ualties grew more numerous.
Half an hour later, the King and
Queen appeared again for three min- j
utes in response of persistent’demands 1
I -
of the populace. The King, In eve
ning dress, wore a black overcoat and
bowler hat. The Queen wore an er
mine coat.
Earlier In the day, arriving at Town
Hall for a jubilee ceremony, King
George laughingly commented on the
appearance of a banner emblazoned,
"Twenty-Five Years of War and Un
employment,” as he and the Queen
arrived at the Town Hall today for
a jubilee ceremony.
"Well, it has not remained up very
long,” the monarch told the mayor
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BROAD AUTHORITY
VESTED IN FARM
POWER PROGRAM
President Creates Strong
Administration to Handle
Electrification Plan.
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$50,000,000 ALREADY
ALLOTTED TO PROJECT
Jobs Must Pass Through Works
Set-Up, Giving Roosevelt
Final Word.
By the Associated Press.
Sweeping authority for a newly cre
ated "rural electrification adminis
tration,” to go into the electric power
business today was granted by Presi
dent Roosevelt In an executive order
under the $4,000,000,000 work-relief
program.
Coincidently, a sudden shift In work
project plans was announced by Frank
C. Walker, head of the applications
division.
The new rule states flatly that "all
allotment applications will come
through existing agencies of the Fed
eral Government,” instead of being
filed directly—as was first expected—
with Walker.
The new arrangement emphasized
the important place Harry L. Hopkins
will have in the work program. Ex
cept for pending applications before
the Public Works Administration, all
others will be referred to Hopkins'
powerful works progress division be
fore reaching the Allotment Board
and Mr. Roosevelt.
The President’s power executive
order, setting up the electrification
administration, generally was inter
preted as opening a new field of direct
Federal activities In power. Observers
saw only one immediate check on
this development—the amount of cash
available.
In so many words. Mr. Roosevelt di
rected the new electrification admin
istration "to Initiate, formulate, ad
minister and supervise a program of
approved projects with respect to the
generation, transmission and distribu
tion of electric energy in rural areas.”
Under one interpretation, the new
unit, "R. E. A.,” was believed able
to build or acquire lines to power
plants of the Tennessee Valley Au
thority, thus ahort-clrcuitlng a Fed
eral Court injunction against sale* of
T. V. A. power.
May Acquire Property.
Supplementing and bolstering the
sweeping grant for “generation, trans
mission and distribution” was author
ity in the executive order for R. E.
A. "to acquire, by purchase or by
the power of eminent domain, any
real property or any interest therein,”
in addition selling or leasing prop
erty.
Whether this language foretold the
actual purchase or condemnation of
existing power plants, transmission
lines and distribution systems could
not be learned from officials. Morris
L. Cooke, already acting as head of
R. E. A., though not formally ap
pointed, was out of the city yester
day.
Details of how a farmer might be
expected to benefit from the pro
gram were almost entirely lacking.
One official said most of the projects
under the plan probably would re
sult from organization of mutual com
panies by fanners, but for further
amplification they referred to a radio
speech to be delivered by Cooke next
Saturday, between 12:30 and 1:30 pm.
$50,000,000 Already Allotted.
To carry out the broad purposes
named in the President’s executive
order, R. E. A. already has been ten
tatively allotted $50,000,000, half the
sum suggested by Congress in the
works law. Under the President’s
flexible powers to transfer funds, a
potential $900,000,000 conceivably
could be devoted to rural electrifica
tion.
Officials recalled also, that “approved
projects” under the R. E. A. program
would have to follow the general work
project routine of passing through
first the applications division, and
second, the Allotment Board. This
meant the final say on its activities
was in President Roosevelt’s hands.
Creation of R. E. A. was the major
relief development of the day, though
a ruling by Comptroller General J. R.
McCarl apparently eliminated sub
sistance homesteads as a part of the
$350,000,000 rural resettlement pro
gram.
McCarl advised Secretary Ickes
that his $25,000,000 Subsistance
Homestead Division "not only” will
cease to exist when the recovery law
expires June 16, but that the rural re
settlement authority of the work
relief law limiting funds to “the pur
chase of farm lands and necessary
equipment by fanners, farm tenants,
croppers or farmer laborers” would
“seem to preclude” the use of such
funds for subsistance homestead
loans.
In some quarters there were im
mediate suggestions that homestead
gardening activities might bring this
activity with the rural resettlement
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Low Money Rates Force Banks
To Cut Staffs to Fit Incomes
By tbs Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 11.—Large Wall
Street banks, feeling severely the
pinch of low money "atea. have been
forced to weed out many white-collar
workers in recent weeks.
As some bankers explain it, the
banks are caught in a vise. On the
one hand, the slump in money rates
has made it increasingly difficult to
earn money On the other, they are
contstantly faced with the duty of
obtaining a return on the investment
of shareholders. Estimates as to the
number of workers dropped are lack
ing, but a number -of bankers ac
knowledge that pay rolls have been
pruned.
Faced with the necessity of econo
mising, bankers have turned reluc
tantly to prune about the only item
which remains In the flexible classifi
cation—wages. ^
Consequently clerks, tellers and
statisticians have been thrown Into
the ranks of the unemployed.
In spite of savings on equipment,
many banks have found themselves
saddled with long-term leases. These
fixed charges have proved burden
some. and. what Is worse, did not lend
themselves to reduction, bankers
point out.
Earnings of banks have been re
duced in the second quarter of this
year because of declining money
rates and Income from Interest on
both Government and industrial
securities.
Savings made by the Federal Gov
ernment in reduced rates on refund
ing Issues and Treasury notes have
been made at the expense of banks
which hold large blocks of Govern
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MOTHER’S DAY!
ANTI-PATMAN BILL
FORCES INCREASE
SENATE SI GTH
Three Democratic Senators
May Switch Vote to
Uphold Veto.
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O’MAHONEY’S BALLOT
ADDS TO OPPOSITION
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Appointment of Chavez, Backing
Bill as Passed, Replaces
Loss of Catting.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The forces In the Senate ready to
sustain a presidential veto of the
Patman “greenback” soldiers’ bonus
bill has gained, rather than lost
strength, it appeared last night
Senator O’Mahoney of Wyoming,
Democrat, who was absent and un
paired when the vote on the Patman
bill was taken in the Senate last Tues
day, is ready to vote to sustain the
President if he vetoes the bill. There
are at least three other Democratic
Senators, all of whom voted for the
Patman bill, who are seriously con
sidering voting to sustain a veto, it was
learned. Indeed, one of these Sena
tors has said privately that he will
so vote.
When the vote was taken in the
Senate. 33 Senators voted against
passage of the Patman bill, and one
Senator, Tydings of Maryland, was
paired against it. If Senator
O'Mahoney votes with this group
against overriding the presidential
veto, 35 Senators would be so aligned,
three votes more than enough to sus
tain the presidential veto now
expected.
Patman Group Wins.
The Patman bill group gained one
adherent yesterday, when Gov. Ting
ley of New Mexico, Democrat, ap
pointed former Representative Chaves,
also a Democrat, to fill the vacancy
in the Senate caused by the death of
the late Senator Bronson Cutting, Re
j publican. It has been confidently
predicted that Chavez will vote for
I the Patman bill. This, however, is no
real gain, because Senator Cutting,
had he lived, was expected to vote to
override a veto of the Patman bill.
Chavez, it Is said, will come immedi
ately to Washington and be here In
time to vote on the veto of the bill,
if it comes.
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma said
yesterday he was planning to with
draw his three motions for recon
sideration of the votes by which the
Patman bill was passed and amended
"early this week,” possibly Tuesday.
Such a move would allow the Patman
bill to go forward to the White House
without further delay. The motions to
reconsider were made for the purpose
of holding up a presidential veto un
til Senator Cutting's place could be
filled and until pressure by the veter
ans organizations and by Father
Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit could
be brought to bear on members of the
Senate. Father Coughlin is expected
to deal with the bonus bill in a radio
address tonight. Although a request
to withdraw the motions to reconsider
would require unanimous consent of
the Senate, if that were not obtain
able, then a motion to lay the motion*
cn the table could be made, which
would, If adopted, end the tangle.
Borah Urges Speed.
Senator Borah of Idaho, Republican,
a supporter of the Patman bill, be
lieves that more is to be gained by
pressing the campaign for the bill now
than by delaying the measure in the
Senate longer. An idea that the bill
was to be held up Indefinitely would,
he maintains, detract from the force
and enthusiasm of the drive for the
passage of the bill over a presidential
veto.
The Idaho Senator, in a statement
issued last night, said some inflation
of the currency was needed—that a
limited policy of "cheap and abundant
money” would be of benefit to the
country. He pointed to the course
pursued by Great Britain.
"There was only one matter of
controversy before the Senate on the
bonus question, and that was how the
payment is to be made," said Senator
Borah.
“The administration bill, the Vin
son bill and the Patman bill all pro
ceeded upon the theory that the pay
ment was to be made and to be made
in the immediate future. The con
troversy was whether we would issue
more tax-exempt interest-bearing
bonds or whether we would issue
Treasury notes of the Government
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EX-KING OF GREECE
ASKS QUEEN RETURN
George Expecting Recall to Hit
Throne, Bids Elizabeth
Annul Divorce.
By the Associated Pres*.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 11.—
Former King George of Greece,
confident of restoration. It was
learned on high authority tonight,
has made overtures to former Queen
Elizabeth, from whom he recently
obtained a secret divorce, to return
to the throne with him.
To effect this Elizabeth would have
to agree to an annulment of the
divorce and renounce her present
Rumanian citizenship, which was
restored to her by a Rumanian court
only a few months ago upon her own
application.
Elizabeth, It was said, is ready to
accept these conditions provided her
brother, King Carol, approves.
The possibility of George's restora
tion became more Imminent today.
Shortly after a conference of
Balkan pact states here, Foreign
Minister Demetrius Maxim os of
Greece, a pronounced monarchist,
called upon Sir Reginald Hoare of
Great Britain to discuss the question
of George’s return to the throne,
which the British royal family and
government are believed anxious to
promote. £
Derby Winner Leaves Seven
Other 3-Year-Olds Far
in Rear.
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. May 11.—Once again
asserting his right to rank with the
turf’s great, Omaha, William Wood
ward’* chestnut son of Gallant Pox.
capped his easy Kentucky Derby vic
tory with an even more decisive tri
umph today as his flying hoofs left
seven other 3-year-olds far in the rear
in the forty-fifth running of the
Preakness at Pimlico.
Guided by Willie (Smoky) Saunder*.
the dim-barreled speedster finished
the 1 >/18 miles six lengths clear of
Walter M. Jeffords’ Fire thorn, which
was eating Omaha’s dust for the first
time this year. Still another six
lengths to the rear trailed Mrs. Dodge
Sloane's Psychic Bid, seeking to dupli
cate the 1934 feat of his stablemate,
High Quest.
Omaha was clocked in 1.58%, one
fifth of a second slower than the race
record hung up by High Quest, but
the time might have been shattered
had Saunders so desired. Even at
that it was more than 2 seconds faster
than Gallant Fox made five years ago.
Win* $25,325 (or Owner.
Made the odds-on choice by the
record crowd of 40,000, including many
Congressmen and others high in the
political and social life of the Na
tion and State, Omaha never left the
outcome in doubt once he swung into
stride. He paid $3.90 for a $2 win
mutuel, while his owner, New York
banker and chairman of the stewards
of the Jockey Club, received $25,325.
The victory boosted Omaha’s total for
the year to $66,600 and for two years
to $70,450.
With the victory went the honor of
completing the first father-and-son
double in the race and being the
fourth horse to win both the Derby
and Preakness. Sir Barton turned the
trick In 1919, Gallant Fox in 1930 and
Burgoo King two years later.
The disappointment of the race was
Warren Wright's Nellie Flag, the
beaten favorite in the Derby. She was
fourth at the Downs, but today, with
no excuse of being bumped, she could
do no better than seventh in an at
tempt to duplicate the 1924 triumph
of her mother, Nellie Morse Only
E. R. Bradley’s Boxthorn was back of
the Western Ally.
Omaha Slow in Starting.
Running his usual style, Omaha was
slow to get under way. but quickly
settled Into stride, while Bobby Merritt
shot Mrs. C. S. Bromley’s Brannon
into a long early lead.
As Brannon turned into the long
back stretch, Saunders decided it was
time for Omaha to begin to run, and
he began to eat up the ground In a
few strides he was in fourth place, but
still trailing by eight lengths. Then
he was third, then second, and as the
turn leading out of the backstretch
neared, he stuck his head tn front.
(Other details 0/ the race in the
Sports Section.)
Farley Gets Chain Letter.
A chain letter received yesterday by
Postmaster General Parley, with the
notation it was being circulated "in
the hope of bringing the Post Office
Department out of the hole.” brought
an expression from the head postman
that he had an idea he was being
kidded.
Protests of Pastors
To U. S. Arming Is
Held Treasonable
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 11.—Pro
tests of Protestant ministers
against the United States arming
itself were termed tonight by
Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr„
Republican, of New York, as tan
tamount to an act of treason.
Speaking at~the semi-annual
banquet of the Fourth Division
Association, A. E. F., Fish declared
any armament of America was
"for the defense of America, and
America will never go to war
except to repel an invader.”
AUTO LABOR PEACE
PROSPECT BETTER
Strike Committee Member
Reports Progress in
Toledo Parley.
By the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio, May 11.—Efforts to
settle the Toledo Chevrolet strike de
veloped a report of definite progress
late tonight as representatives of the
company, union workers and Federal
conciliators conferred at a late hour.
During a recess in the conferences
shortly before midnight James Ro
land, chairman of the United Auto
mobile Workers' Federal Union Strike
Committee, said:
"Things look a lot better now than
they did before the night session.”
No further comment on the prog
ress of the negotiations was made.
The Toledo strike, called nearly three
weeks ago, threw 2,300 workers out of
their Jobs here and resulted in strikes
and shut-downs affecting about 30,
000 other workers in Chevrolet and
Fisher Body Co. plants.
FLINT STRIKE FORECAST.
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FLINT, Mich., May 11 (JP).—Olaf E.
Hanson, president of the Flint local,
United Automobile Workers, an
nounced tonight that the Executive
Council of the local would call a strike
Tuesday of its members who are em
ployed in the Bulck plant here.
Hanson made his announcement at
a mass meeting of 500 automobile
workers following an executive session
of the council.
PERUVIAN REVOLUTION
IS REPORTED THWARTED
Several Members of Badic&l
Party Arrested After Soldiers
Report Activities.
By the Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru, May 11.—A revolu
tionary movement in Arequipa sched
uled to break out at dawn today, a
communique from the prefecture as
serted, was thwarted by the arrest of
several members of the Apra (radi
cal party).
Arequipa, in the province of that
name in Southern Peru, was reported
quiet today the round-up having
been conducted yesterday with little
excitement.
The prefecture announced the
plotters had succeeded in enlisting
the aid of eight non-commissioned
officers. The movement collapsed,
however, when several soldiers in
formed their chiefs of it after the
plotters tried unsuccessfully to per
suade them to join the revolt.
C. J. MULVANE KILLED
Partner of Controller O’Connor
Dies in Auto Crash.
LOS ANGELES. Calif., May 11 (JP)
—Christopher J. Mulvane, prominent
attorney and law partner of J. F. T.
O'Conner, controller of the currency,
was killed tonight in a head-on col
lision of motor cars.
The driver of the other machine,
Victor L. Ward, 35 of Salinas, Calif.,
was held on suspicion of manslaughter.
Detective Lieut. Allan Baldridge said
his investigation showed Ward had
been drinking, and was driving on the
wrong aide of the street.
Mother Well, Leopold Leaves.
SAN ROSSORE, Italy, May 11 04»).
—King Leopold of the Belgians left
today for Brussels after a visit to
Queen Mother Elisabeth of Belgium,
who is said to have recovered from a
recent lllnees .♦
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ON CITY FOR A. A. A.
3,000 Expected at Sessions
Here to Point to New
Deal Benefits.
Groups of fanners from the Mid
west and Southwest were moving on
Washington last night by automobile,
bus and train to urge Congress to
continue and strengthen the crop
control law.
In the Capital Clifford H. Day of
Hale County, Texas, organizer of the
movement, announced that he ex
pected 3.000 of them to assemble in
Constitution Hall Tuesday to praise
the efforts of the New Dealers to
raise them from the dry furrow of
depression.
The Associated Press reported last
night that 1,000 from a dozen States
had begun the trek. Among the
larger parties were those from Min
nesota, Nebraska, Texas and Iowa.
Iowa’s delegates included four from
co-operative dairy marketing asso
ciations. Other groups planned to
leave last night from Missouri. North
and South Dakota, Kansas and New
Mexico.
Day, who works a 320-acre farm in
Texas, arrived in Washington yester
day morning with his wife, intent
upon mustering some tangible support
for the farm program of the Agricul
tural Adjustment Administration.
Soft spoken and seemingly sincere,
he told reporters yesterday afternoon
that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
and A. A. A. Administrator Davis
have been invited to speak. Even
if they don’t appear, the Texan con
tinued, their popularity will not be
jeopardized.
To Review Benefits.
Beginning at 10 o’clock, a “keynote”
speaker will devote 20 minutes to re
viewing the benefits of the present
farm program as the farm group finds
them. Following him will be four
speakers, representing the com-hog,
wheat, cotton and tobacco growers,
who will extol the new deal for agricul
ture for 10 minutes each. After the
meeting those present will “ride, not
walk,” to the Capitol, there to continue
their efforts in behalf of the Triple A's.
Somewhat shyly. Day admitted yes
terday that he was the originator of
the whole idea; from him it spread to
the farmers of his immediate neigh
borhood.
“It was this way,” he explained.
“We felt, the farmers did, that the
administration needed some support
up here. We heard these complaints
against the processing tax—it's like a
bunch of cows, one or two make a
noise like a whole herd. Those who
were getting checks weren’t making
any noise, so we asked ’em if they
wouldn't like to express some appre
ciation to the Triple A.
"If you were down and out in 1932
and 1933 and a program was offered
that got you out of a bottomless pit—
even if you don’t know what it's all
about—you wouldn't want it thrown
away. We’re getting cash benefits and
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‘SUCKER LIST’ REVEALED
Postal Inspector Says Voters’
Names Were Used in Scheme.
ST. PAUL, May 11 (IP).—A. A. Wicht,
post office inspector here, today said
he was investigating reports given
him that a gambling syndicate had
converted a mailing list used recently
in a city election straw vote into a
"sucker list” for a chain letter.
A list of seven names, all persons
affiliated with the syndicate, appears
on chain letters mailed to the list,
Wicht said he had been informed,
calling for contributions of dimes,
quarters and dollars.
Linus Hammond, assistant United
States district attorney, to whom
Wicht has submitted evidence, said a
grand jury may Investigate.
TWO PILOTS GROUNDED
Marine Reserves Said to Have
Disturbed Movie Colony.
LONG BEACH. Calif., May 11 UP).—
Two Marine Reserve pilots were or
dered “grounded” for six months by
a Navy board today for staging night
maneuvers, chiefly power dives, over
the housetops Of the Toluca Lake
movie colony.
Lieut. Comdr. A. P. Schneider repri
manded the flyers, Lleuts. Louis D.
Parker of Phoenix, Arts., and Wallace
H. Scott of Santa Ana, Calif., who
were in training here.
Residents of the movie colony com
plained of the Also.
ID FLYING TOES”
“Enemy Advancing From
West After Taking Midway
Island From U. S.”
By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, May 11.—The spec
tacle of a mass attack on Hawaii by
more than 400 “enemy” planes was
reported today in the plans of the
Navy’s mid-Paciflc air maneuvers al
ready involving the secret and un
precedented movements of 45 fighting
aircraft out of Honolulu.
It was unofficially learned that the
operation was being planned on the
tactical theory that an enemy had
suddenly overpowered American de
fenders of Midway Island and were
advancing from the west toward Hon
olulu and the important Pearl Harbor
naval base with an enormous air
fleet.
Surprise Attack Test.
Presumably It Involved a test of
whether the American warships could
fall back from Midway to Honolulu
and with the aid of anti-aircraft guns.
Coast Artillery and Army planes, with
stand a great "surprise” attack by air
from the west.
Naval circles here still were as
silent about the reported enlargement
of the maneuvers as they were on
the whereabouts of the massed planes
that left here Thursday morning sup- j
posedly for Midway Island, 1,323 miles
to the west and north.
Washington Hint.
A hint from a naval officer In
Washington preceded the informa
tion here about the augmented maneu
vers. The Washington authority said
the 45-plane flight was "child’s play”
in comparison with other plans in
volved in the far-flung operations. He
mentioned the possibility of 450 planes
participating.
The 45-plane formation had been
absent from Honolulu 53 hours at
noon today and still there was no
official disclosures as to its where
abouts. Unofficial reports indicated
some of the aircraft might have
landed at Islands near here for tac
tical reasons.
Unofficially it was said the flight
was being planned as a part of the
fleet war game, as the “enemy” fleet,
having theoretically overpowered de
fenders of Midway Island, 1,323 miles
west, makes a spearhead advance to
ward the Important Pearl Harbor
naval base here.
Strategy of Operation.
Strategy of the operation would be
this:
The defending fleet, having encoun
tered the attacking surface ships, will
fall back until the attackers are within
range of the long guns mounted on
Hawaiian island forts. These guns,
plus those of the defending warships,
will be sufficient, it was believed, to
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GRAN CHACO PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS OPEN
Bepresentatives of Five Neutral
Nations Plan to Invite Bel
ligerents to Farley.
By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, May 11.—Repre
sentatives of five neutral nations—
the United States, Argentina, Chile,
Peru and Uruguay—met today to In
augurate their efforts to bring peace
to the Gran Chaco.
One of the first acts of the medi
ators, it was learned, will be to invite
Paraguay and Bolivia formally to a
peace conference here, with hostilities
to cease pending settlement of terri
torial and economic questions.
Both belligerents were expected to
accept such invitations since their
armies are reportedly fatigued and rid
dled by casualties after 35 months of
warfare.
Readers’ Guide
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PART ONE—General News, Sports,
Washington Wayside, Service Or
ders. Lost and Found, page A-9.
5ART TWO—Editorial, Civic Activi
ties, Special Articles, Travel, Clubs
and Organizations, Cross-word Puz
zle, Serial Story, Stamps, Short
Story.
PART THREE—Society, Fashions,
Service Organizations.
PART FOUR—Special Features, Stage,
Screen, Radio, Music, Books, Art,
Autos, Aviation, Children’s Page.
FART FIVE—Finance, Classified Ad
vertising, Schools and Colleges.
LEFTIST TRENDS
BLOCKED IN H 0. P.
Switch in Site of Regional
Conference to Springfield
Held Significant.
BY THEODORE C. WALLEN.
(Copyright 1935.)
The most serious challenge to ortho
dox Republican national party con
trol was considered defeated yesterday
on the strength of word that would
be delegates with New Deal leanings
were being banned from the Mid
western Republican conference to be
held in Springfield, 111., on June 10
and 11. The effect was to head off
the “liberal resurgence" in that one
of the five Republican regional con
ferences where it had made its strong
est showing in a demand for a New
Deal in the Republican party.
Members of the Republican con
gressional minority said the outlook
for the Midwestern conference of nine
States had undergone a sharp change
since the proposal to break the con
servative control of the party was
broached two months ago by Oov. Alf
M. Landon of Kansas. The switching
of the conference from Kansas City
to Springfield, 111., was cited as a step
in that direction.
Left Versus Right.
Friends of former President Hoover
said this was in line with his purpose
in touching off the sentiment for
regional Republican conferences well
In advance of the nominating season.
The party titular leader’s expressed
idea, it was said, was not only to stir
Republicans into activity across the
continent, but to get the anti-leftist
trend started early enough to head off
the nomination of a “radical” on the
Republican presidential ticket next
year. On the basis of present Indica
tions, this seems clearly assured and
the Democratic and Republican par
ties seem more likely than ever to go
Into the contest as moderate left
versus right.
Should orthodox Republicans estab
lish control of the party in the Mid
dle West in the Springfield confer
ence, a Republican national conven
tion conservative by contrast with
the Democratic national convention
will be certain. The New England
regional conference last month showed
that orthodox Republicans were
firmly in the saddle there. The party
machinery in the Middle Atlantic
States is definitely in the hands of
anti-New Deal Republicans. The sit
uation is the same in the South and
border States. Aside from scattered
spots, the only chance for radicalism
to break through would be in the Far
West, Including Mr. Hoover’s home
State of California, and there would
be Insufficient delegate strength from
that section to challenge effectively
the rightist control of the convention.
In Accord With Hoover.
Mr. Hoover and the present con
troling element In the Republican
National Committee coincide In the
purpose to make the party unrespon
sive to the "radical” appeal. While
definitions of "radical” differ, the
two groups would agree that Senator
Gerald P. Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, represents the type to be
blocked off in advance. Senator Nye.
in proposing former Gov. John C.
Winant of New Hampshire for the
Republican presidential nomination,
is believed to have had an eye to
running on the ticket with him, pref
erably in the reverse order, but on
the same ticket in any event.
While foreclosing the possibility that
nominating a "radical” is one of the
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SOFT COAL MEN ASK
U. S. LEGISLATION
Producers of 9 States Join in
Plea to Prevent
Bankruptcy.
By the Associated Press.
Leading soft coal producers from
nine States today joined in a new
appeal for special Federal regulatory
legislation to avert "ultimate bank
ruptcy” of their industry.
Asserting “the need is imperative;
the crisis is acute," the group Issued
a call for a national conference of
bituminous coal producers to meet
here May 20 to discuss the problem.
They declared the proposed extension
of N. R. A. would only “add to pres
ent confusion” Instead of stabilizing
the industry.
Three of the Industry’s "big four"
producers signed the letter calling the
conference. They were: J. D. A.
Morrow, president of the Pittsburgh
Coal Oo^ Charles O’Neill, vice presi
dent of Peale, Peacock & Kerr, Cen
tral Pennsylvania producers, and
Ralph Taggart, vice president of the
Stonega Coke & Coal Co., Big Stone
Gap, Va. Heads of 43 other large op
erating companies also signs? the call.