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Radicals Are Skeptical, but
Conservatives Certain
of Sincerity.
fST. ~
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Two curiously opposite reactions
have developed to President Roose
velt’s acceptance of the Huey Long
doctrine of redistribution of wealth.
One which is held by “Progressives"
and other radicals in Congress is
that Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t mean what
he says and that he has no real inten
tion of pressing the legislation for
passage.
The other is held by conservatives
l Who believe that Mr. Roosevelt means
what he says and that he has aligned
*' himself definitely with radical ele
ments in preparation for the 1936
' campaign.
j . _
Progressives Open Drive.
Because the “Progressives," led by
Senator La Follette and Senator
Wheeler, haven’t the slightest idea of
letting Mr. Roosevelt get the headlines
: for being “anti-rich” and then quietly
permit the matter to be buffeted about
and perhaps defeated by the cia-lme
Democrats, they have begun an active
campaign to put the legislation
through this Congress
Senator La Follette's petition asking
. fellow Senators to sign an understand
ing that they would stay in session to
pas3 the President’s program on tax
t ation is significant of the skepticism
which the Progressives have about the
Sincerity of tne administration.
Senator Long, of course, will push
hard for action because Mr. Roosevelt
' _ has come over to his side and the
Louisiana Senator is alert enough to
detect a political gesture when he sees
one. He was the first to say pub
licly that the President's tax message
was just a smoke-screen intended by
its sensational character and sweep
ing recommendations to divert atten
tion from the revelations of the
Mitchell charges against the Depart
ment of Commerce and the Senate’s
investigation thereof.
Wisdom Questionable.
If the tax message was a political
~ document, and there are signs that
it could not have been seriously in
tended for action at this session, then
" the question arises whether Mr.
Roosevelt was wise in starting his
" 1936 crusade at this time. For, after
all, the forces that have been alien
ated by the President have very little
unity or comradeship. The "Grass
Roots” convention at Sprinfleld, 111.,
showed how deeply the pride of party
still courses in the veins of Repub
v licans.
When the President starts out,
however, on a share-the-we&lth agi
tation, he only drives together most
of the opposition, irrespective of party.
For Instance, until recently stock
holders in companies that were out
side the utility field were inclined to
regard the electric light and power
companies as just the victims of spe
cial attack by the President. Today
they know that bigness as such is
under fire and that investments In
common stock equities or even in
preferred stocks or bonds in American
industry must be regarded entirely In
the light of direct injury to come
from the legislative reforms spon
sored by the President.
When Mr. Roosevelt talks about
simplifying corporate structures by
the coercive use or the taxing power
or when he refers to “unnecessary”
holding companies in all lines of busi
ness as being objectionable, he merely
says that he wants the Federal Gov
ernment to assume control over all
of them and decide which shall be
* permitted to live and which shaU be
sentenced to death. Once the princi
ple of Federal control of holding com
panies is conceded in the utility field
to be within the Federal power, it
, can quickly be extended to other lines
of business. Indeed, It would not be
surprising if the Federal Trade Com
mission were to be authorized to
study all forms of holding companies
with an idea of bringing in the de
sired legislation to achieve their dis
solution.
Reasoning Is Superficial.
The superficiality of the reasoning
of the New Dealers In this respect
Is traffic. They forget that millions
of men and women have invested
4'their savings in American industrial
‘concerns and that Federal regulation,
control, and intrusion in their
financial structure can only mean a
’ painful period of deflation and de
1 struction of values.
The country as a whole has perhaps
assumed that the legislation with re
spect to utility holding companies and
pother holding companies would be de
clared unconstitutional in the end, so
there is no cause for concern. But
while ultimately the Supreme Court
! will throw out many of the absurd
laws now being passed by the New
Deal, economic recovery in the Interim
,: .ls retarded by the passion for reform
*and by what appears to be a deliber
ate efTort on the part of many of the
reformers to pile up so many legisla
tive restrictions as to produce chaos—
and then their argument for a dicta
torial centralized government and a
change in the Constitution wUl be
justified, they think, as a counsel of
: desperation.
BUDGET CUT HIT
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Ohio State’s Head Calls Govern
or’s Action Staggering Blow.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 22 UP).—
President George Rightmlre of Ohio
State University accused Gov. Martin
L. Davey last night of dealing a
“staggering blow” to the institution
when the State executive a few days
ago slashed $1,266,500 from its bud
get.
Broadcasting an appeal for restora
tion of the amount, President Right
i mire said the university had been
carrying on under the smallest ap
propriation made In 10 years. In pre
. vious economy moves, the university
suspended 450 courses and once re
leased 229 full-time instructors, he
•aid.
Gov. Davey previously had asserted
that if Dr. Rightmlre "will do a busi
ness like Job of setting his house in
order, he will find it possible to pay
his teaching staff better. The facts
are that he will have $132,645 more
for this biennium than he spent last.”
Dr. W. S. Middleton Named Dean.
MADISON, Wls., June 22.—Dr. Wil
liam S. Middleton, professor of medi
cine, yesterday was chosen dean of
the University of Wisconsin Medical
School to succeed Dr. Charles R. Bar
deen, first dean of the school, who
died June 12. A native of Norristown,
' Pa., Dr. Middleton received his medi
cal degree from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1911 and came to
the University of Wisconsin In 1912.
►
What’s What
Behind News
In Capital
Prof. Frankfurter Seen
Linked With Presi
dent’s Tax Plan.
BY PAUL MALLON.
HE SPARE figure of Prof. Felix
Frankfurter, liberal lawyer
economist, darted in and out
of the White House unnoticed
on several occasions Just before Pres
ident Roosevelt sent his wealth-shar
ing tax proposals to Congress. This
same Harvard counselor paid several
visits earlier to Hyde Park while the
President was there, although none
noted his presence except the sparrows
in the trees.
Also unrecorded were simultaneous
calls at both places by Prof. Ray Mo
ley, the weekly Boswell of New Deal
viewpoint.
Both gentlemen carried fountain
pens in their pockets and ideas in
their heads about taxing. This is
how the wealth-tax stroke was con
ceived.
The original draft was composed
in the seclusion of Hyde Park and
edited upon the President's return
here.
The President confounded some of
his best friends by making his pro
posal now. They have known the
idea has been in the back of his head
for more than six months. That
much has been published.
Mt/tety
But, until recently, he intended
delaying presentation of it until
next year. What changed his mind
apparently was the existing political
situation, the necessity of heading off
Huey and the Republicans at the
same time.
Timed to the Minute.
But he timed the presentation even
down to the minute. The message
was given to the White House messen
ger (Maurice Latta) as soon as the
stock market closed Wednesday. Latta
was sent to the Senate with it, but
was instructed not to enter the cham
ber until the Senate had passed the
security bill. Mr. Latta hid outside the
Senate door nearly an hour, peeking
in occasionally through the door. As
soon as the security bill was out of
the way he jumped in.
Also confounded were the Demo
cratic leaders in Congress. A Sena
tor who is supposed to be iu charge
of such legislation for the adminis
tration confided to friends that he
did not know about the message until
two hours before it was delivered.
The reason Mr. Roosevelt did not
consult his party men on the hlU was
that he knew they would be against
any such far-reaching proposal. They
would have pulled wire3 to stop him.
Now, all ih:y can do is to fume and
fret in silence.
Another reason why Mr. Roose
velt believed it was safe to strike
now is that some of his conserva
tive friends have been telling him
that recovery psychology is getting
a little too far advanced. At least
the New Deal’s best authority on
the stock market thought that this
particular barometer was moving
up too fast, out of line with sub
stantial improvement. He informed
the White House last Tuesday
that if stocks continued to show
such strength the New Deal might
soon have a market problem on its
hands.
A similarly striking new idea, which
the President now has in the far
corner of his mind, is one for new
N. R. A. legislation. It is based on
the novel theory that the Federal
Government may legislate against the
hours and wages of corporations in
States other than the ones in which
they are incorporated.
For instance, many corporations are
incorporated In Delaware but few
operate there.
Question of Jurisdiction.
The idea is that it would be legal
for the Government to Institute the
regulations of the N. R. A. against
these corporations in all States except
Delaware, either by use of taxing
power or otherwise.
This is only one of several unex
pressed N. R. A. ideas of l.hich you
may or may not hear more of shortly.
Only six Congress members were re
corded against two controversial items
in the Roosevelt reform program the
other day—six out of 531.
After wrangling for months the
Senate passed the social security bill
76 to 6 on the same day that the
House passed the Wagner-Connery
labor bill without the formality of a
record vote.
The explanation behind this as
tounding shrinkage of opposition is
that these are two measures which
few politicians dare to oppose openly.
Both were subjected to strong under
cover opposition. Repeated attempts
were made to soften them by amend
ments. Efforts to delay them have
been made secretly by some of the
same Congressmen who voted for
them.
But when it came time to vote,
only a bare half dozen cared or
dared to face the strong class
appeal which these measures have.
Some sponsors of the social secur
ity bill will confide for your own pri
vate ear alone that the bill is even
now not efficiently drawn. They
know it will have to be changed many
times before it becomes fully opera
tive several years hence. But it la a
mild initial effort.
«*«£«
Similarly there Is a general unex
pressed feeling among Congressmen
that the labor bill is unconstitutional.
If the Supreme Court had not washed
away the N. R. A. the bill would have
been forgotten. The court decision
made it necessary to "do something
for labor", and this was the only pos
sible handy thing.
Do not make the mistake of be
lieving that the overwhelming votes
for these measures accurately repre
sented the real confidence and hope
of Congress in them.
Swanson Secret Out.
Navy Secretary Swanson wrote a
personal letter to his author-admiral,
n
NEW Nil MOVES
SHAPINGJAPIDLY
Wagner Helps in Drafting of
Pians to License Inter
state Shippers.
By the Associated Press.
Moves to draft new N. R. A. legis
lation, possibly for action this ses
sion, took more definite shape today,
both In recovery administration cir
cles and on Capitol Hill.
At the same time, N. R. A. and the
Federal Trade Commission, burying
long-standing differences, united in ait
effort to aid business in writing volun
tary codes containing labor, wage aad
hour and fair practice provisions.
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, author of the original recovery
act scrapped by the Supreme Court,
was disclosed as one of those working
on a plan to license all shippers in
interstate commerce. Wages and hours
would be regulated and child labor
banned under the plan.
Action Believed Likely.
Although congressional chieftains
said they knew of no administration
proposals to push new N. R. A. legis
lation this session, some Senators said
they believed action was likely. One
N. R. A. official said he had been in
formed by members of Congress that
the “right kind of a bill” could be
passed now.
In recovery circles also, disclosure
was made that President Roosevelt
was aware of efforts to write a meas
ure which would combine the Trade
Commission and N. R. A., resulting
in an enlarged commission.
James L. O’Neill, acting N. R. A.
administrator, and Ewin L. Davis,
chairman of the Trade Commission,
were among thoee who conferred yes
terday on methods of promoting vol
untary business codes. The use of a
new N. R. A. insignia, with the possi
bility another President’s re-employ
ment agreement might be employed,
were said to be under discussion.
Eagle Born Two Yean Ago.
The original Blue Eagle had Its
birth two years ago, with the Institu
tion of the President's agreements
under which employers agreed to
shorten hours and fix minimum wages.
Wagner indicated he believed that
his plan to license Interstate com
merce shippers would be held consti
tutional as a means of reaching large
manufacturers.
Other proposals being considered
on Capitol Hill would require mer
chants who received goods shipped In
Interstate commerce to take out
licenses as well as the shippers, and
employ use of Congress’ power to
tax as a means to enforcing N. R. A_
principles.
CHACO BELLIGERENTS
RATIFY PEACE PACT
Paraguayan and Bolivian Con
gresses Act, and 12-Day Truce
Goes Into Effect.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, June 22 UP).
—The Paraguayan government yes
terday promulgated a law ratifying
the Paraguay-Bolivia peace protocol,
following its approval by the Senate
and House.
LA PAZ. Bolivia, June 22 OP).—The
Bolivian Congress yesterday unani
mously ratified the peace protocol
signed at Buenos Aires last week, set
ting up machinery for settlement of
the Chaco War.
A formal 12-day truce now goes
into effect on the Chaco front, where
hostilities have been suspended since
last Friday at noon, and neutral medi
ators at Buenos Aires will work out
details of demobilization and demili
tarization.
CLIPPER OVER PACIFIC,
SPEEDING TO CALIFORNIA
Huge Craft Flying at 11,000 Feet
Deliberately Seeking Strong
Winds as Test.
By the Associated Press.
ALAMEDA, Calif., June 22.—Like
the swift, sturdy sailing ship for which
she was named, Pan-American's fly
ing clipper skimmed over a sea of
clouds between Hawaii and California
today, retracing for the fourth time
the course of a pioneer trans-Paciflc
air service.
Before dawn the slipper’s steadily
droning motors had carried her past
the half-way mark of the 2,410-mlle
overwater route.
As the craft sped along at an alti
tude of 11,000 feet, a solid bank of
clouds rolled 1.000 feet beneath her,
shutting off sight of the tossing Pa
cific.
The craft was skirting about 300
miles north of the great circle route,
deliberately seeking headwinds to test
fuel consumption and navigation prob
lems on her fourth trip between
Hawaii and California.
Today.
Senate.
Takes up revised Bankhead (arm
tenant bill.
House.
In recess.
Interstate Commerce Committee
considers holding company bill.
_
Stirling, nearly a week ago and de
cided to tell no one about it. The
letter suggested that the admiral
should use more diplomacy In writ
ing magazine articles than was
exhibited by his latest one, warn
ing Europe against the danger of
communism.
A left-wing Congressman and a
radical news woman heard about it
and decided to smoke the secret out
of Mr. Swanson. They bombarded
him with letters and queries until he
finally had to admit at a press con
ference that the letter had been sent
But he insisted it was not a rep
rimand, only a suggestion to the
admiral.
Later, at the same press confer
ence, a sly news mpn asked Mr.
Swanson to comment on the Anglo
German naval agreement Thereupon
he hotly explained: "Why I just rep
rimanded Admiral Stirling for com
menting about such things—no, X
mean I suggested—oh!”
He not only let out the cat but
last the bag as well, and found him
self well smothered under It.
tOonrrisht. 1836.)
A v
ICKES BOOK USES
P. W. ^PROBLEMS
Interior Head Describes De
bate on Spending of
$3,300,000,000.
By the Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK, June 23.—Problem*
faced by the Public Works Adminis
tration are outlined by Harold L.
Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, In a
book called “Back to Wofk: The
Study of P. W. A." which will be pub
lished Tuesday.
Secretary Ickes describes the de
bates which took place among mem
bers of the special board for public
works over the method of spend
ing the $3,300,000,000 appropriation.
Lewis Douglas, then director of the
budget, argued, for example that the
appropriation should not be spent at
all, Ickes recalls, and Secretary Per
kins and Dr. Rexford Tugwell squab
bled over the relative Importance of
slum clearance and new barracks far
Army poets.
Tribute U Roosevelt.
Paying tribute to President Roose
velt, to whom -the book is dedicated,
Secretary Ickes predicts that “Frank
lin D. Roosevelt will be written down
in history not only as the world’s
greatest builder; he will likewise be
known for all time to come as the
greatest planner.”
Author Ickes also reveals some
amusing Incidents. He tells of the
proposal that 10,000 men be paid
$1,000 a year to rid the United States
of -snakes; of a $100,000 request to
finance a round-trip passenger rocket
to the moon; of one to supply every
person in the country with a Bible;
and finally of a proposal to build a
moving road from New York to San
Francisco.
Future of F. W. A.
Turning to the future of P. W. A.,
Secretary Ickes writes:
"Its future will depend on the vol
ume of private business; but it is im
portant that we always be prepared
to pick up the slack of idle labor and
unused raw materials whenever the
volume of private business decreases
to an alarming degree.”
He continued: “I agree that our
budget cannot remain permanently
unbalanced without disastrous results,
but those who would balance it at
once without regard to consequences
seem to forget that If our national
debt is particularly large at the pres
ent time, it is because the administra
tions during the prosperous years fol
lowing the war adopted a policy of
tax reductions rather than one of vig
orous debt reduction.”
THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Pair, slightly
cooler tonight; tomorrow fair, slowly
rising temperature; moderate west
winds.
Maryland—Partly cloudy, slightly
cooler In central and east portions to
night; tomorrow fair, slowly rising
temperature.
Virginia—Partly cloudy, slightly
cooler tonight, preceded by showers in
extreme southeast portion this after
noon and possibly early tonight; to
morrow fair, slowly rising temperature.
West Virginia—Pair tonight; tomor
row fair, slowly rising temperature.
Report for Last 24 Hoars.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p.m. 85 29.76
8 p.m. 82 29.68
Midnight. 70 29.68
Today—
4 a.m. 68 29.68
8 a.m. 68 29.71
Noon . 80 29.70
Record for Last 24 Hours.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 90, at 5 pm. yesterday;
year ago, 93.
Lowest, 67, at 5 am. today; year
ago, 66.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 95, on June 18.
Lowest, —2, on January 28.
Humidity for Last 24 Hours.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 89 per cent, at 5 a.m. today.
Lowest, 49 per cent, at 6:10 pm.
yesterday.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High . 12:26 am. 1:03 a.m.
low ......... 6:50 a.m. 7:50 a.m.
High . 12:26 p.m. 1:28 pm.
Low . 7:14p.m. 8:07p.m.
The Son and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today ... 4:42 7:37
Sun, tomorrow 4:42 7:37
Moon, today .. 11:34 p.m. 11:13 am.
Automobile lights must be turned
on one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In
the Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1935. Average. Record.
January ... 5.27 3.55 7.09 ’82
Febraury ... 2.37 3.27 6.84 ’84
March . 3.39 3.75 8.84 '91
April . 3.95 3.27 9.13 ’89
May. 3.54 3.70 10.69 *89
June . 4.36 4.13 10.94 '00
July . 4.71 10.63 ’86
August ..4.01 14.41 ’28
September. 3.24 17.45 ’34
October . 2.84 8.57 ’85
November .• .... 2.37 8.69 ’89
December . 3.32 7.56 '01
Weather in Various Cities.
a Temperature, scat <
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Stations $ |s ojt &3 ?
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Abilene. Tex... 30.08 84 68 ....
Albany, N. Y... 28.80 78 86 0.34
Atlanta. Oa.... 29.88 84 68 0.14
Atlantic City... 29.72 72 68 ....
Baltimore. Md. 29.74 82 66 0.40
Birmingham . . 29.92 88 88 0.76
BUmardt. N. b. 30.04 70 48 ....
Boston. Maas.. . 29.64 80 64 .
Buffalo, N. Y.. . 29.64 66 66 0.66
Charleston. S.C. 28.88 90 72 ....
Chicago. 111.... 28.82 66 66 0.04
Cincinnati, Ohio 28.84 66 64 1.10
Cleveland. Ohio 29.74 66 60 0.32
Columbia. 8. 0.29.86'98 76 ....
Denver. Colo... 29.96 74 ....
Detroit. Mich. . 29.72 72 ....
El Paso, Tea.. . 29.90 92 ' —'
H^0nMnnetX So 88 80
Helena, Moni... jsw.bo b<f yCBr
H,r|?hv8.nP>k..30.08 70
KAnsaTcnty. .'.'30.06 72
Oklahoma CUT.
Sea Hero Hears Mitchell
Capt. George Pried (left), hero of many aea rescue* and at present
Inspector in the New York territory for the Steamboat Inspection Service,
shown yesterday at the Senate-Commerce Committee hearing on charges
of neglect and Impropriety in the service in connection with the Motto
Castle tragedy made by Ewing Y. Mitchell, ousted Assistant Secretary of
Commerce. With Pried ia Joseph Weaver, head of the Steamboat In
spection Service. —Harrls-Ewlng Photo.
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Mitchell
<Continued Prom First Page.)
"big Navy” man of 1929. entered the
Mitchell controversy in off-stage fash
ion with an assertion that "Wall Street
Interests,” representing Great Britain,
“will not allow us to build big high
speed superliners" like the Leviathan.
Baps “Morgan Interests.”
Shearer charged that the Interna
tional Merchant Marine Co., which
controlled the Leviathan, is "a Morgan
company," adding that "everybody
knows that Morgan is Great Britain’s
fiscal agent here.”
Calling newspaper men to his
apartment here. Shearer, who has been
but little In the public eye since the
airing of charges that he “broke” the
Geneva Disarmament Conference, as
serted that "while foreign countries
that owe us billions of dollars are
turning out ships like the Normandie,
we can’t have them.”
"All we can have,” he added, "is a
bunch of tubs, because they won’t let
us have high-speed superliners that
would be of some use In case of war."
Asked who he meant by “they,”
Shearer declared: “Why, the Wall
Street crowd—the Morgan interests.”
"Do you mean to imply that Great
Britain is back (A all this?’’ he was
asked.
"I charge it.” he replied.
"A deliberate plan?”
"Absolutely, absolutely.*
STRIKEAREA QUIET
AFTER FATAL RIOT
One Killed, Two Near Death and
25 Hurt in Outbreak in Lum*
ber Mill Walkout.
By the Associated Press.
EUREKA, Calif.. June 22.—Heavily
armed police patroled the streets here
today to prevent another outbreak of
lumber strike rioting which resulted in
the death of one man and the probable
fatal shooting of two others.
George Iittlefleld, chief of police,
declared the situation "well in hand”
today. Sixty-six persons were held
under charges of rioting as a result
if the pitched battle yesterday between
2S0 strike pickets and 300 workers at
the Holmes-Eureka Lumber MiU.
W. H. Kaarte. 42, Eureka, was fa
tally Injured. Little hope was helf
for the recovery of Harold Delund, 25,
shot in the abdomen, and Paul Lsm
pella, 21, shot in the head. Ten per
sons were wounded by police gunfire,
and five policemen and 10 other civ
ilians also were injured.
No picketing occurred at the Ham
mond Lumber Co. wharves last night,
and it was reported longshoremen, who
have been on a sympathetic strike,
would return to work Monday.
BARKER LOSES CIVIL SUIT
Bremer Kidnaper’s Lawyer Given
$6,000 Judgment for Fees.
ST, PAUL, June 22 (£*).—J. G.
DeCourcy, attorney who defended
Arthur (Doc) Barker in his recent
trial for conspiracy in the $200,000
Edward G. Bremer kidnaping, yester
day was granted a $6,000 deficiency
judgment against Barker in District
Court.
Barker now is in the Leavenworth
Penitentiary under Ufe sentence. De
Courcy brought suit for fees. The
judgment makes it possible to seise
Barker's property, if any is located.
British Steamer Sinks.
CHERBOURG, France, June 22 tV).
—The 917-ton British steamer Sain
Brandan was grounded off Cosque
ville in a dense fog today and sank
as a tug tried to pull it into port.
The crew was saved.
New Mexican Governor Leads
Hunt for 4 Missing in Desert
Br the Associated Press.
SOCORRO, N. Mex., June 22.—
Long-striding, heavily-built Gov. Clyde
Tingley led a small army over more
than 100 miles of the central New
Mexico cactus-studded desert yester
day in a determined quest for four
missing Illinois tourists.
The Governor, attired in a light
Summer suit, oxfords, white shirt and
Panama hat, poked into culverts with
sticks, searched wells; beat through
arroyos and across miles of desert until
bis trousers legs were studded with
burrs and cactus needles.
With his aides, Gen: R. C. Charlton,
adjutant of the New Mexico National
Guard, and Chief E. J. House, Jr., of
the State police be was searching for
Mr. and Mrs. George Loriua and Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Heberep of Duquoin
and East St. Louis, m... missing since
May 21 Aiding him m almost 100
*
men, some of them members of the
New Mexico National Guard.
Not a trace of the four missing per
sons was discovered, but during the day
a new clue came to light, a report that
the couples had mailed additional two
post cards from Albuquerque May 32.
On the day before they had mailed
cards from Vaugh. As a result of the
Albuquerque disclosure, a searching
party was organised there to cover
minutely the country near the Rio
Grande River.
Authorities theorised the couples
were slain by a young, slightly built
man who was seen driving their car
southward, to El Paso, Tex., May 38.
The car was found abandoned In Dal
las, Tex. Almost immediately a trail
of travelers’ checks, forged with
Larlus* names appeared from places
along tho road from Albuquerque to
11 Pus and DaUa*.
♦
Former Governor of North
Carolina to Be Buried in
Native Town.
Funeral services for Angus W. Mc
Lean, 65-year-old former Governor of
North Carolina, who died yesterday in
Emergency Hospital, were to be held
at noon today at the Central Presby
terian Church. Sixteenth and Irving
streets, with Dr. James H. Taylor offi
ciating. Burial will be held tomorrow
in Lumberton, N. C., Mr. McLean's na
tive home.
Mr. McLean was stricken several
weeks ago while en route from Wash
ington, where he practiced law, to At
lantic City. A blood clot on the right
lung brought death, physicians said.
Born in Lumberton April 20, 1870,
the former Governor and nationally
prominent Democrat was a son of
Archibald and Carolina Purcell Mc
Lean. He was educated for the law
at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, where in 1892 he received
his degree.
Mr. McLean became Governor of
North Carolina in 1925 and served in
that capacity until 1929. During the
World War he served as a director of
the War Finance Corp., and in 1920
21. as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury under Carter Glass.
Surviving Mr. McLean are his
widow, the former Miss Margaret
French of Lumberton, and three chil
dren, Angus Wilton McLean, jr., of
Washington; Hector McLean of Lum
berton, and Miss Margaret French
McLean of Lumberton.
Cabinet officers and high Govern
ment officials were to attend the fu
neral services today, after which the
body will be shipped to Lumberton
for burial.
Honorary pallbearers were to in
cldue Secretary of State Hull, Secre
tary of Commerce Roper, Attorney
General Cummings, Senators Robin
son of Arkansas, McAdoo of Cali
fornia, Bailey of North Carolina, Rey
nolds of North Carolina, former Gov.
O. Max Gardner of North Carolina,
J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of the
currency; Eugene Meyer, J. Crawford
Biggs, Maj. Gen. Rupert Blue, U. S. A.;
Everett Sanders, Representative
Dougbton of North Carolina, Marvin
H. Mclntrye, secretary to the Presi
dent; Marriner 8. Eccles, Federal Re
serve Board governor; Kingman Brew
ster and Garland Ferguson.
Active pallbearers were to include
Representative Warren of North
Carolina, Joseph P. Tumulty, James
M. Butler, Brice Glagett, Charles E.
Wainwright and J. Fred McClerkin.
ESSENTIAL NUTRITIVE
ACID IS DISCOVERED
Illinois U. Professor Reveals Con
centrated Substance May
Sustain Life.
Bjr the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 22.—The hungry
man of the future may eat an order
of “alpha-amino-beta-hydroxybutyric
acid" and be well nourished.
Dr. William C. Rose, professor of
physiological chemistry at the Univer
sity of Illinois, last night told the
Chicago section of the American
Chemical Society that the substance
contained just the right proportion of
acids required in the diet.
In the near future, he said, it may
be possible to sustain life on the con
centrated substance. He said his ex
periments in nutritional chemistry
led to the discovery of the acid as an
essential to life in the proteins.
MRS. WALEY FACES
CHOICE_£PlEAS
Woman in Weyerhaeuser
Case May Be Acquitted if
She Chooses to Be Tried.
(Copyright. 1035 by the Auocl.ted Pres..)
TACOMA. Wash.. June 22.—With
out the air of her self-confident
husband. 19-year-old Margaret Thulln
Waley faced a choice today between a
fight for possible freedom or again
pleading guilty to complicity In the
1200,000 kidnaping of little George
Weyerhaeuser.
Her answer will be given in Fed
eral court today.
She thought It over through lonely
hours last night and early today In
the fortress-like county jail at Olym
pia while her 24-year-old ex-convict
husband Harmon began serving a 45
year sentence in nearby McNeil Island
Federal penitentiary.
It was the first of what may be a
lifetime of nights apart. They had
been held in separate cells, but under
the same roofs, ever since their arrest
June 8 and 9 In Salt Lake City, where
Margaret's spending spree with ran
som money led to their capture.
Will Miss Husband’s Signals.
She faced all the unfamiliar mat
ters of court procedure today, with
all strange faces around her and no
grinning, sneering, self-confident bravo
of a husband nearby to signal her
what to say and what not to say.
Waley was immediately sentenced
and taken to prison after he pleaded
guilty under the Lindbergh kidnap
law - yesterday. He also received a
two-year concurrent sentence for plot
ting the abduction with the fugitive
William Dainard, alias William
Mahan.
Margaret pleaded guilty, too. yes
terday, but Judge E. E. Cushman
refused to acoept the plea after her
attorney, Stephen J. O’Brien, asked
leniency on the ground she had known
nothing of the kidnaping until after
the little scion of the wealthy lumber
and logging dynasty had been stolen.
Given Copy of Indictment.
Judge Cushman asked her if she
could read English. When she said
"yes” in a colorless but clear voice, a
clerk handed her a copy of the indict
ment and Judge Cushman admonished
her to take it to jail with her. read it,
and come back today and decide
whether she was guilty or not, as
charged.
In exchange for yesterday’s guilty
pleas, the United States Government
dismissed an Indictment charging
Mrs. Waley with mailing the second
of the ransom notes to George's
father, J. P. Weyerhaeuser. Jr., and
postponed until the first motion day
in October an indictment charging
Waley and Dainard with mailing ex
tortion letters to Weyerhaeuser.
If Mrs. Waley follows her orgiinal
plan and pleads guilty again today.
Judge Cushman may sentence her to
anything up to life imprisonment. If
she decides to plead not guilty and
stand trial, she may be acquitted.
FEARS OF REVENGE
LEAD TO SUICIDE
Mother of 1928 Kidnap Victim
Dreaded Retaliation for Aid
in Convictions.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June 27.—The terror
which dogged members of the family
of Billy Ranieri continually after his
sensational kidnaping seven years ago, i
claimed a suicide victim in his mother
yesterday.
Mrs. Theresa Raniera, 49, who broke
under a deadly fear of retaliation for
her part In sending the abductors of
her son to prison, ended her life by
taking a poisonous insecticide, In her
home.
Billy, now 16 years old, was with
his mother when she died several
hours later in a hospital.
“She would often become hysterical
and stay that way for two or three
days,” he told Cragin police.
In 1928 Billy, one of seven chil
dren of Alex Ranieri, then a mil
lionaire contractor, was seized by kid
napers and held 13 days. Notes de
manding $60,000 ransom under threat
of death were sent the family. But
Alex always claimed he paid nothing
for his son’s freedom.
SOVIET WORK “NOBLE”
WEDS AMID ACCLAIM
800 Join in Fete, First in Drive
to Make Marriage Occa
sion of Festivity.
Br the Associated Press.
PERVOMASKAYA, Caucasus, V. 8.
S. R., June 22.—To the accompani
ment of aerial acrobatics, parachute
jumps, rough riding and native
dances, Grigori Velichko, Soviet
"noble” of work, and Nina Belavskaya,
first farm woman to jump from an
airplane, were married here yesterday.
Eight hundred guests participated
in the wedding feast and celebration,
the first big affair since the start of
the nation-wide campaign to make
marriage an occasion for festivity.
After the wedding the bride and
bridegroom went for an airplane ride.
Among the guests were representatives
of the national government.
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ITALY PREPARING
FOR EDETTS VISIT
Englishman to Attempt to
Settle Differences in
Mussolini Parley.
Br the Associated Press.
ROME, June 22.—Attempts to as
suage unprecedented bitterness be
tween two World War allies—Great
Britain and Italy — over the latter's
moves In Ethiopia depended largely
today upon a forthcoming visit of
Britain's Anthony Eden.
Official circles today said conversa
tions with Eden would be limited to a
discussion of Britain’s naval accord
with Germany and an air pact and
that the Ethiopian question Is not on
the program.
Moreover, a soft pedal on Italian
press attacks on the nation's erst
while war ally has been put Into
effect.
Preparations were being completed
for the arrival of the young British
statesman, secretary for League of
Nations’ affairs, who probably will sit
In conference with Benito Mussolini
Monday In a further attempt at
quieting the discord.
Parley In Rome.
Although Brionl, a small Island in.
the Adriatic, has been mentioned as
a possible setting for the conversaJ
tions, It is believed the meeting will
be here.
Britain’s openly voiced oppositiol
to the possible Ethiopian conflict an!
her efforts to settle the differences
have aroused the sharpest resentment
in Italy.
Until this week Italian newspapers
openly accused England of jealousy
and of trying to obstruct Italy’s ex
pansion in Africa under the guise of
attempting to avert a possible war.
The Giornale dltalia of Rome, fre
quently chosen to echo government
viewpoints, accused England of con
centrating troops on the Sudan
Ethiopian frontier. The article waa
a thinly-veiled insinuation that Eng
land would march into Ethiopia to
get part of it for herself If Italy
went in.
Attacks in Press.
The Tevere newspaper of Rome re
cently came out with blasting front
page articles on England and Africa.
An elderly Englishman who has lived
in Rome for 30 years remarked:
“In all the time I have been here
I have never seen such articles. They
are more bitter than those printed
against the enemy during the World
War.”
The Tevere articles were accom
panied by large caricatures. The first
two cartoons showed British troops
beating down women and taking
away their children during the Boer
War. The second two ridiculed the
British general staff in the Transvaal.
Latest Incident Settled.
Italian quarters announced, mean
while. the latest Incident with Ethi
opia, involving the tearing of an Ital
ian flag from an automobile of this
country’s legation in Addis Ababa, had
apparently been settled through an
Ethiopian apology.
The foreign minister of Ethiopia.
Blattecgueta Herui, said a dispatch
to the foreign office here, went to tha
Italian Legation at Addis Ababa and
formally presented his apologies for
the insult to the flag.
Italy continued to send soldiers t*
her East African colonies bordering
on Ethiopia. The steamship Praga
sailed today from Naples with 51l
troops aboard and the steamship
Gange left with 2,000.
SENSATIONS SEEN
IN REALTY PROBE
-
Paper Quotes Sabath as Claiming
Gigantic Backet in New Tork
to Be Disclosed.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 22.—The New
York American said yesterday that
“sensational disclosures" will be made
when the special House committee in
vestigating real estate reorganizations
holds hearings in New York next week.
Representative Adolph J. Sabath,
IlUnois Democrat, head of the com
mittee, is quoted by the newspaper at
saying a racket involving billions of
dollars will be revealed.
The newspaper quotes Sabath:
“In the 28 years I’ve been in Wash,
ington, I’ve never encountered sue!
a racket as the one the commlttei
has uncovered in this investigation.”
SILENCES CRITICISM
OF MRS. ROOSEVELT
A
Ohio Synod of Reformed Church
Deletes Name From Attack
on Cigarette Habit.
By the Associated Press.
TIFFIN, Ohio., June 22.—An at
tempt to criticize Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt in a report of a special
committee of the Ohio Synod of the
Reformed Church yesterday met with
a quick rebuke from delegates on the
floor of the convention.
The report "lamented the growth
of the cigarette habit,” and “deplored
the precept set for young people by
the First Lady of the Land.”
The report was challenged imme
diately from the floor and its approval
was held up until the clause referring
to Mrs. Roosevelt was deleted.
Other resolutions condemning the
liquor habit and urging temperance
movements were adopted.
MAN, 24, PAYS WITH LIFE
FOR KILLING RANCHER
* ■
la Fourth Person to Die in Colo
rado Lethal Gas Cham
ber.
By the Associated Press.
CANON CITY, Colo., June 22.—
Smiling, but with a silent prayer on
his lips, Leonard (Lee) Belongia, 24
year-old Wisconsin youth, became the
fourth person to pay with his life In
Colorado's lethal gas chamber.
The youth, convicted of slaying a
rancher who had employed him, met
death calmly last night after he bad
held the light so Warden Roy Best
could read the death warrant.
Just before he left his cell he learned
his final offer to society—the donation
of his body to science—had been re
fused, but he did not know that the
$10 cost of transporting the body was
the reason.
“That execution was a hard one on
me,” said Warden Beet. “I took a
liking to that kid. He was game. He
took hla medicine like a man."