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WEATHER
<C. 8 Weather Bureau Foreca.t.) Full ASSOCiated PreSS
Fair and warmer today; tomorrow, r xt j _
cloudy and warmer, probably shower* to- INcWS ailQ WirCpilOtOS
morrow night; diminishing northwest Sunday Morning and
winds today. Temperatures—Highest. 50, 17
at 1 am. yesterday; lowest, 40. at 11 a.m. ijVGry Ait0MlOOH«
yesterday. Full report on Page B-4.
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No. 1,618—No. 33,563. _WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, ,1936-114 PAGES. « _ w£^TONC^T5..,....lTE^_£Si'rS'
43 MILLION FLOOD AID
GRANTED BY U. S. AS TOLL
MOUNTS IN 13 STATES
■ *
New Dangers
Seen After
Rains.
DAMAGE SET
AT 1270.000.000
Deaths Reach 169
as Hard-Hit Areas
Begin Clean-Up.
Panic From Rumor!
Photos of fleeing crowds
in Johnstown are among
those in two pages of
flood pictures—A 6 and 7.
By th® Associated Press.
Fears of added death and de
struction today were being bal
anced against promises of speedy
and material aid from the Fed
eral Government and other
sources as 13 Northeastern States
rallied themselves wearily from
nearly a week of record-breaking
floods and attempted to count
the costs.
The toll, mounting steadily as
accounting continued, amounted
last night to 169 lives, with 221.500
persons homeless and property
damage conservatively placed at
$270,000,000. Loss to wage
earners and to retailers, together
with the eventual price of relief
and rehabilitation, may bring the
total money cost above $1,000,
000.000.
Fears of the immediate future
were centered on twin spectres—
new floods and disease.
Acting swiftly to afford relief
to the homeless and to attempt
to forestall serious danger to
public health in the flood areas,
President Roosevelt late yester
day allocated $43,000,000 for
Works Progress Administration
efforts on behalf of the sufferers.
The sum includes $18,400,000 set
aside February 29 for flood re
habilitation.
Harry L. Hopkins. W. P. A. adminis
trator. was given “blanket authority-’
to restore roads, streets, bridges, sew
ers. water and electric plants and
other damaged properties.
lau.uuu w. r. a. workers 10 Aid.
He reported to the President that lie
could put 250.000 W. P. A. men to
work immediately at the task of re
habilitation in the 10 States where
property losses are the heaviest—
Maine. Massachusetts. Vermont. New
Hampshire. Connecticut, New York.
Pennsylvania. Maryland, West Vir
ginia and Ohio.
Dr. William F. Draper, acting sur
geon general, pronounced the threat
of disease “exceedingly grave.” He has
rushed a corps of sanitary engineers
Into Pennsylvania and West Virginia
to set up emergency chlorination sys
tems where flood waters have reached
the public water supply.
From the Federal Surplus Commod
ity Corp. came word that more than
37.000 000 pounds of foodstuffs had
been rushed into stricken States for
distribution to hungry flood victims.
In addition, the corporation said. '
more than 1.000.000 pieces of clothing
and bedding made by W. P. A. work
ers and donated to the corporation for
relief purposes are available for dis- 1
tribution.
Officials of the American Red Cross,
reporting generous public response to
their appeals for aid. announced that
more than 320.000 persons were de
pending on their organization for a
measure of relief.
34.272 Get Aid.
In Pennsylvania alone, the Red
Cross reported 34.272 persons on its
relief rolls, while West Virginia ap
plicants for aid numbered 8,988 fami
lies. In Massachusetts the organiza
(See RELIEF, Page A-4.)
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE
COVERED BY DUST WAVE
By the Associated Press.
GUYMON, Okla.. March 21—Fly
ing dust reduced visibility to less than
a city block in the Oklahoma Pan
handle today.
The dust began rolling in at Guy
mon this morning, increasing in in
tensity until streets were coated.
Beaver, which had escaped some of
the Spring sand blasts, was struck
by the full force of the winds.
More Than $10,000 Flood Cash
■ Received Here hy Red Cross
Citizens of Washington have con
tributed more than $10,000 toward the
$25,000 Hood relief quota of the Dis
trict Chapter, American Red Cross,
and funds were pouring in from many
sources last night.
Banks, newspapers. Government de
partments and other agencies were
receiving donations In an effort to
send the local chapter “over the top”
quickly In its emergency drive. A
national fund of $3,000,000 will be
needed to provide food, shelter, cloth
ing and medical aid *10 the homeless
In nearly a dozen States.
The national fund had passed the
quarter-million mark last night and
reports from 3.700 chapters through
out the country told of generous re
sponse to President Roosevelt’s appeal
In behalf of the Red Cross.
The Washington chapter had tab
ulated $9,178 when the books were
closed for the week end late yesterday.
This did not include $1,000 con
tributed yesterday by the Hecht Co.,
1 i
Star readers have con
tributed to date $851.25 to
the Red Cross flood relief
fund through The Star.
The Star will continue to
receive and acknowledge
such donations. Today’s list
of contributions appears on
Page A-4.
officials of which said a collection
might be taken up among employes
of the store if further funds are
needed.
The Star had received a total of
$851.25 for the District Chapter, and
additional gifts were being received
almost continuously. A list of con
tributors is printed in another column.
Local Red Cross officials found
temporary shelter yesterday for aU
families previously housed in two
(See RED CROSS. Page A-4.)
f
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Frantic Potomac Valley Towns
Feared Doomsday as Flood Hit
Watching Families Flee in Middle of
Night—Many Maryland Farmers
See All Possessions Lost.
This is the first of a series of articles by Mr. Henry
describing conditions in the flood-stricken communities along
the Potomac and recounting the perilous adventures of some
of those who narrowly missed death. His second dispatch will
appear tomorrow.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 21.—All night the cannonading in
the inky darkness.
On the low bluff, across Conococheague Creek from the old
town of Williamsport, a dozen families clustered together for
warmth in their lightless houses. Most of their furniture had been
moved during the day in anticipation that the swollen Potomac
River might back up into the creek, which would overflow its
j banks—but nobody actually took the threat very seriously.
. — . —. — . - ... - ... .. ■ . A All affopn/vin tbs eroalr baH Kap n
OFFICIALS SPEED
RECONSTRUCTION
IN DAMAGED D. C.
Parks Suffer Heavily and;
Damage May Exceed
Estimate of $600,000.
Plans for reconstruction and re
habilitation in Washington's flood
scarred park, residential and business
areas along the rapidly subsiding Po- j
tomac River will be rushed into shape
this week, with the possibility that
preliminary estimates of $600,000
damage may be revised upward.
Tentative estimates as to park dam- j
age alone range from $125,000 to!
$200,000, according to a report for- j
warded to Interior Secretary Ickes i
late yesterday by C. Marshall Finnan, j
superintendent of National Capital I
Parks.
Finnan said these figures may be
lound to be too small after comple
tion of a thorough survey in all areas,
some of which were In no condition j
yesterday for comprehensive examina
tion.
General damage outside the park
area was placed at $300,000, not in
cluding an estimate of $100,000 worth
of repairs necessary at the Navy Yard.
The Red Cross was caring for 50
families driven from their river-in
vaded homes during the height of “the .
great flood of 1936."
Water Supply Untouched.
Health conditions generally were
not impaired here—in sharp contrast
to the situation in many other parts
of the East. Washington’s water sup
ply was free from contamination, offi
cials announced.
A serious engineering problem was
presented at Chain Bridge. That ven
erable structure withstood the batter
ing of flood waters remarkably well,
but engineers have found that several
units were broken and others bent or
strained. Engineer Commissioner Sul
tan said the bridge cannot be opened
for several weeks—possibly several
months.
In addition to the flood damage
figure. Finnan declared that the cost
of constructing the protective dike,
at the rear of the Navy and Munitions
Buildings, was about $20,000, for which
a deficiency appropriation will be
asked of Congress immediately, pos
sibly for inclusion in the first de
ficiency bill. Officials believed the
flood bill for the parks, approxi
mating $200,000, could be met with
Works Progress Administration funds.
Care of Dike to Remain.
The earthen embankment, form
ing the core of the dike, will remain
permanently in place, Finnan said yes
terday. It will be molded into the
(See D. C. FLOOD, Page A-4.)
ATROCITIES CHARGED
Ethiopian Minister Asks Italian
Sanctions Be Continued.
LONDON March 21 (fl5).—Wolde
Maryam, Ethiopian Minister at Paris,
sent two notes to the League of Nations
today protesting against alleged Ital
ian atrocities in Ethiopia, such as
gas bombings, and urging the con
tinued application of sanctions against
Italy.
rising, at the rate of about 15 Inches
an hour. At dark It was rising still
faster. Still the waters were far below
the lowest home on the ramshackle
street that led down from the tan
nery.
Suddenly, about Wdnight, the can
nonading stopped. The debris of logs
and fragments of houses no longer
was battering against the bridge.
Sudden Silence Ominous.
Walter Bowman stepped out of his
front door. For almost 48 hours he
had been working constantly, moving
furniture from ground floors and res
cuing by boat farmers from further
down the creek. He was the leader of
the little band of five from the com
munity across the creek who had
taken into their own hands the work
of rescue and of preparing for what
ever emergency might be in store.
The sudden silence was ominous to
Bowman. He served 16 months in
France. When the artillery paused, he
remembered something usually hap
pened. Of course, this wasn't France
and it wasn't war—still it seemed like
a warning.
Another of the rescue party came to
the door with him.
They looked up to see the strangest
sky they ever had known—dead black
except for one bright blue patch di
rectly in the center of the heavens.
There wasn't a star In it. The two
men couldn't aee their hands a few
inches in front of their eyes. The
silence and the weirdness of the night
were terrifying, says Bowman.
The other fellow turned to him, as
he relates the story, and said:
"My God, this is the end of the
world. The Lord's going to drop the
sky down on us.”
"I thought so myself." said Bow- |
man. “I thought perhaps it might
be the end of the world—and then I
heard the water washing up. So I
thought to myself we'd better do what
we could anyway, without waiting for
whatever was going to happen.”
Feel Way Through Darkness.
They felt their way through the
darkness. Bowman had a flash light,
but was afraid to use it much of the
time lest the battery be exhausted.
None of the homes had light. The
(See FLOOD. Page A-5.)
Two Die as Train Hits Car.
CENTRALIA. HI., March 21 UP).—
A woman and her 7-.yeer-old son were
killed today and four persons injured
when the Diplomat, fast Baltimore &
Dhio passenger train, crashed into their
automobile at a grade crossing near
Candoval.
The dead were Mrs. Doris Buchhorn
and her son Bryan of Salem, 111.
I—'"' 1 '■ . i
Readers’ Guide
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
General News—Pages A-l, B-14.
Changing World—A-3.
Lost and Found—A-11.
Death Notices—A-11.
Washington Wayside—A-17.
Sports Section—Pages B-9-13.
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial Articles—Pages D-l-3.
Editorials and Editorial Com
ment— D-2.
Civic News and Comment—D-4.
Women’s Clubs—D-5.
Veterans’ Organizations, Na
tional Guard and Organized
Reserves—D-5-7.
Cross-word Puzzle—D-7.
Parent-Teacher Activities—D-7.
Educational—D-8.
Stamps—D-8.
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society News and Comment—
Pages E-l, E-12.
Well-Known Folk—E-9.
Barbara Bell Pattern—E-10.
Resort#—E-l 1.
PART FOVR.
Feature Section.
News Features—Pages F-l. F-4.
John Clagett Proctor’s Article on
Old Washington—F-2.
‘Those Were the Happy Days,"
by Dick Mansfield—F-2.
Radio News and Programs—F-3.
Stage and Screen—F-5.
Automobiles—F-6.
Aviation—F-6.
Children’s Page—F-7.
High Lights of History—F-7.
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
Financial News and Comment,
Stock, Bond and Curb Sum
maries—Pages G-l-5.
3erial Story—G-5.
Classified Advertising—0-5-14.
4
PLANS TO RETAIN
MWLDEBATED
President Held Hopeful of
Keeping Controller Gen
eral After June 30.
BACKGROUND
Operating almost as one-man
Supreme Court, Controller General
McCarl is completing lS-year term
o) scrupulous scrutiny of all Gov
ernment expenditures.
Named in Republican adminis
tration of late President Harding,
McCarl. Nebraska Republican, took
over newly created office after years
of agitation in Congress had re
sulted in budget and accounting
act of 1921, which divorced ac
counting function from Treasury
Department. Similar legislation
was vetoed by President Wilson.
Although appointment seemed
political at one time, McCarl’s rec
ord has met with high favor from
both Republicans and Democrats.
Existing law limits tenure of sin
gle holder of post to IS years.
BY J. A FOX.
The retention of Controller General
J. R. McCarl. who is due to step out
on June 30, is under consideration
by the administration, it was reported
yesterday.
The President, it was said in a
usually well-informed quarter, is sur
veying the possibility of holding Mc
Carl by designating him “acting”
controller general, but it is considered
debatable if there is sufficient latitude
to do this under the law, which lim
its the term of the controller general
to 15 years and provides he may not
succeed himself.
McCarl is understood not to be anx
ious to stay on and as a matter of
fact to have been unfavorable to
suggestions made from time to time
that the law creating the office of
controller general be changed to keep
him in service. Whether he would
agree to remain is problematical.
There never has been any intima
tion as to his probable course after
June. Friends have always felt that
he would be interested in further Gov
ernment service—wherever it might
be—only if he felt there was field
for constructive work. Inasmuch as
he has grown in stature nationally
by reason of the way in which the
General Accounting Office has been
(See M'CARL, Page A-3.)
Got. Allred's Sister Killed.
MINEOLA. Tex., March 21 <>P).—
Mrs. W. B. Stokes. 26, sister of Gov.
James V. Allred, was killed and her
husband seriously injured today when
their automobile collided with a truck
east of here.
JanetGaynor’s $252,585Salary
Tops List oi Movie Stars’ Pay
Janet Gaynor.
($252,5*3)
¥ ■—
Warner Baxttr.
($184,000)
Frederic March.
($157,458)
By the Associated Preu. .
Congress dnd the public were given a peek into the pay envelopes of
movie stars and captains of industry yesterday through a report to the House
Ways and Means Committee of corporation salaries of $15,000 or more
The bulky document supplemented a similar salary list Hied last January
for the 1934 calendar and fiscal year, which only partly satisfied the natural
CUnUMVJf VI Ui»U W VUV *n>n
money the other fellow makes.
The popularity of the late Will i
Rogers was reflected in his $324,314
salary from the Pox Film Corp., top
ping all mala movie stars on the list.
Miss Janet Gaynor was the salary
leading lady, receiving $252,583 from
Fox Films.
The largest salary on the listr-$3«4,
432—went to Thomas j. Watson at
*
New York, head of International Busi
ness Machine Corp.
That young movie star who sent
thousands of hopeful mothers with
their offspring to the nearest Up
dancing and vocal studios—Shirley
Temple—received $2S,064.4g from Fox
Films.
InsUllm'ents paid on many a new
(See SAT.ARTt»,^Fy A-Ti)
' *
Klan’s Hand Seen in Floggings,
Trial Will Bare Torture Death
Tampa Awaits Revelations in Brutal
Murder, Linked to Night-Riding
Ku Klux Band.
The Shoemaker flogging and murder case, which shocked the Na
tion last November, is about to come to trial in Tampa. Fla. The results
of an investigation in this case, and of others similar to it. are disclosed
here in the first of a series of dispatches by a veteran newspaper man
who won distinction as a correspondent in Europe and Asia for many
years.
BY Jt NILS B WOOD.
TAMPA. Fla. March 21 (N.A.N.A >.—What happened on the night of
November 30 last year, juat outside of this city, when three men were so
brutally flogged, tarred and feathered that one died after nine days of agony,
is finally to be told in court. After repeated motions for delay, the first of
the trfais connected with the Joseph A. Shoemaker case is scheduled to start
next Tuesday. March 24.
Shoemaker and his fellow victims. E. F. Poulnot and Dr. Samuel R.
Rmrers hart hcen hrnnrtert as radicals.*. ■ ■ - ■ — — -
who were stirring up trouble in Tampa.
Shoemaker, a labor organizer, had
entered a local political campaign by
organizing a party called ‘ modern
Democrats," advocating a 30-hour
week and other reforms.
In the Shoemaker trial nine men
will answer to charges of kidnaping
and second-degree murder, and one.
a former Tampa police chief, to a
charge of being an accessory.
Several in Klan.
These crimes, it is charged, were
not the sudden outburst of a mob. but
the work of men recruited from estab
lished organizations. Some of the
men who go on trial were members
of the Tampa Police Department and
others had taken the oath of member
ship as knights of the Ku Klux Klan
and were former members of the same
police department.
To remove a blot from the reputa
tion of Tampa, from its respectable
citizens and from conscientious mem
bers of its police department who re
spect and try to enforce the laws is
the aim of the prosecution. The same
stigma is on the Ku Klux Klan and
its members, but that is not looked on
here as a local problem, because the
Klan is a national organization tak
ing a prominent and only faintly hid
den part in the political and daily life
of many people.
The Shoemaker case aroused pro
tests of horror and Indignation in
Tampa which echoed through the
country, until Nation-wide attention
was focused on the scene.
“What is responsible for conditions
where such things are possible?” was
the invariable question.
The answer goes to the bases of
American institutions and the admin
istration of law in the Nation. Hills
borough County authorities have un
covered a plausible political motive for
this particular Tampa crime, but a
broader investigation shows that this
outrage was the climax of many sim
ilar acts, some with equally fatal out
(See FLOGGINGS, Page A-8.)
THREAT TO PEACE
SEEN MATED
Next Move Is Hitler’s on
4-Power Plans, Say
League Officials.
BACKGROUND—
Two weeks ago yesterday Ger
many moved newly formidable
army into demilitarized zone along
Rhine River. Immediately war
like tension gripped continent as
France and Belgium hastened to
strengthen frontier defenses,
Britain sought to preserve peace
and Italy stood by in bargaining
attitude.
Co-signers of Locarno pact,
quartet finally agreed on policy of
compromise with Hitler's offer of
new international agreements as
basis of hopes for peace.
Meanwhile, however, armament
race continues, with all nations of
Europe participating and Japan
and United States following ex
ample.
Bj the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 21—With the
next move in European developments
up to Reichsfuehrer Hitler, officials of
the League of Nations said tonight
that the threat of immediate peril
has been removed from Europe.
They declared that the League’s pos
sibilities as a new, stronger power for
peace had been increased by the re
cent developments which Included
Germany's remilitarization of the
Rhineland and the League Council’s
subsequent decision that Germany had
violated both the Versailles and Lo
carno treaties.
Official British quarters said that
now it was up to Hitler to make
counter proposals to the virtual ulti
matum given him by Great Britain,
Prance, Belgium and Italy.
Those four nations which, with Ger
many, are the signatories of th‘e Lo
carno pact, made a series of propo
sitions to Germany under which they
believe the peace froi\t, bent by treaty
violations, may be realigned.
Offers t« Submit Pact.
Most Important of these proposals,
from the broad international view
point, is Prance's offer to submit her
military alliance pact with Soviet Rus
sia to the Court of International Jus
tice at The Hague.
It was on this Franco-Soviet pact
(See EUROPE, Page A-3.)
ADMITS SHORTAGES
Bank President Telia of Losses,
Then Shoots Himself.
AMHERST. S. Dak.. March 21 C4»>.
—Four terse notes apparently hastily
scribbled and telling of shortages and
losses explained today why Arnold
Bornhoft, president of the Farmers’
State Bank of Amherst, shot himself
to death after locking himself in the
bank vault early Wednesday.
A preliminary examination of the
bank's records showed a shortage of
approximately $40,000, Frank R.
Strain, State banking superintendent,
announced.
"AH shortages caused by losses,"
read one note found beside the 37
year-old president’s body. "A lot of
these incurred in 1020-31. No one
to blame but myself. I tried hard
to work this out, but it seems impos
sible."
I
CORPORATION TAX
MAT BE EXTENDED
TO NEMNCOMES
Levy Would Be Fixed on
Basis of Earnings Kept
Out of Dividends.
HEARINGS ON-MEASURE
ARE SET FOR MARCH 30
Tentative Agreement on Program
Reached at Conference
of Leaden.
BACKGROUND—
Enactment of new farm program
and legislation for June payment
of soldiers’ bonus brought request
from President Roosevelt lor new
tax bill. Proposal was for levy on
undistributed corporate profits to
take place of present taxes on cor
porate income, excess profits and
capital stock. Yearly yield sought
is 1620,000.000.
President also suggested three
year total of 1617,000.000 through
processing and windfall taxes.
By the Associated Press.
Tentative agreement upon a plan
to tax the ent'-e net income of cot- j
porations upon the basis of earnings
withheld from dividends last night
paved the way for starting open hear
ings March 30 on new tax legisla
UU1I.
The new proposal, designed to avoid
a "tax on taxes,” was regarded as a
sharp departure media ‘cally from
President Roosevelt's original proposal,
but as capable of carrying out his aims
to force more c- porate funds into cir
culation as well as raising $620,000,000
annually in additional revenue.
It also contemplates, through a
graduated rate based upon the size
of corporate earnings, helping small
business build up depression reserves,1
while at the same time enabling large
corporations to maintain what were
described as "adequate” surpluses for
hard times.
The schedule was worked out Fri-,
day night at a conference of Guy T.
Helvering, commissioner of internal
, revenue; Chairman Doughton, Demo
j crat, of North Carolina ox the House
Ways and Means Committee, and Rep
resentative Vinson, Democrat, of Ken
: tucky, a committee member.
Vinson Finds "Joker.’*
Vinson, who discovered what he
called a "joker” in the “tax on taxes” j
feature of original schedules, said the
new plan had thi Treasury's approval.
Tentative agreement upon it also was
reached at a meeting yesterday of the
Ways and Means Taxation Subcom
mittee headed by Representative Sam
uel B. Hill, Democrat, of Washington. !
Under proposals hitherto under con- I
sideration, existing corporate taxes
w<uld have been replaced by levies j
imposed only upon earnings not dis- j
tributed to stockholders in dividends. (
That was the form of tax suggested in
President Roosevelt's message.
Vinson, however, discovered recent
ly that this would have forced pay
ment of taxes not only upon the un
divided income, but also on profits
withheld from disbursement to stock
holders to pay such taxes.
The new proposal would substitute
for the present corporate income tax,
averaging 16.4 per cent, new taxes on
statutory net income, but graduated
aocording to the amount of such in
come withheld from dividends as cor
norate reserves
Few Have $19,000 Net Income.
Hill and Vinson explained that out
of 257.000 corporations paying Fed
eral taxes. 214.000 have statutory net
Income of $10,000 or less.
‘‘We have a tentative schedule for
those with net income of $10,000 or
under, based on their withholding 10,
20. 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 per cent of
] net Income in reserves,” they said.
“For a corporation in this class,
j holding back 30 per cent of its net in
j come for reserves, which has been
about the average for 15 years, the rate
would be 7*,* per cent on the total net
income, as against 20 per cent of
total net Income under our old tenta
tive schedule.
"A corporation (in the $10,000 class)
could put almost 50 per cent of the
(8ee TAXEsTPage A-140
NEW SABOTAGE CASE
British Admiralty Discloses Dam
age to Destroyer.
LONDON, March 21 (#)■—The
eighth case of suspected sabotage
aboard British warships since Autumn
was disclosed tonight by an admiralty '
official, who said damage to Great !
Britain's newest destroyer, the Griffin,
was “under investigation.”
The official admitted that it was
suspected "a case of willful damage" !
had occurred. There were unconfirmed
reports that pieces of metal had been '
placed in the vessel s machinery.
IN _
Hints He May “Take a
Walk” if Monopoly Rules
Convention.
VEILED THRUST SEEN
AT GOV. ALF LANDON
Senator Call* Himself Only Can
didate Who Has Not Bolted
Party in Past.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
8t»d Correspondent of The 8tar.
CHICAGO. 111., March 21.—Senator
William E. Borah, opening his cam
paign for the Republican presidential
nomination in Illinois, tonight de
clared that "if monopoly is going to
name the candidate and write the plat
form for the Cleveland convention I
reserve my rights.’’
Borah said he was the only candi
date for the nomination with any
chance of success who had not bolted
the Republican party in the past. He
had reference to Col. Frank Kpox of
Illinois and Gov. Alf Landon of Kan
sas. both of whom were Bull Moosers
in 1912.
“No Plan to Bolt.**
"I have no purpose. I have no plan
to bolt,” said Borah. "But I am going
to reserve the absolute freedom to look
over the candidate and the platform
of the Cleveland convention."
This sharp declaration that he
would reserve the right to look over
the candidate and the platform written
at Cleveland was interpreted here to
night as a threat by Senator Borah
that he would “take a walk” if he con
sidered that the big interests had
dictated the nomination or drafted
the platform.
It was the Senator's first statement
along this line and Republican politi
cal leaders were pondering its effect.
Borah’s friends have repeatedly sought
to tie Gov. Landon in with the big
interests and the old guard of the Re
publican party. The Senator himself
has not opened up an attack on Lan
don so far.
Applauded by Crowd.
Borah drew enthusiastic applause
from the crowd in the Civic Opera
House, when he delivered a slashing
attack upon monopoly and upon the
men whom he charged had sought
their own personal gain and had for
gotten the principles of the great Re
publican party.
"I ask you,” said the Senator, "if
monopoly will be disturbed the
slightest if the Cleveland convention
is controlled by these gentlemen who
are seeking to dominate it.”
Borah's challenge to monopoly and
to organization leaders, whom he
charged with being tied up with mo
nopolistic/interests. drew cheers. The
Senator was in fine fighting form.
He delivered a strong defense of the
Supreme Court of the United States
and the Constitution, demanding the
continuance of an uncontrolled Ju
diciary.
Raps Foes of Court.
Pointing his remarks at the attacks
made recently upon the Supreme
Court and its right to pass upon the
constitutionality of laws enacted by
Congress, the' Idaho Senator said:
•'There is nothing more important
to the happiness and contentment,
freedom and liberty of the citizen than
a non-political tribunal, whose sole
(See"BORAH,PageA-15.)
MAD RIFLE SNIPER KILLS
MAN, WOUNDS WOMAN
Atlanta Police Comb City Under
Orders to “Shoot to Kill
on Sight.”
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. March 21.—Police, un
der orders to "shoot to kill on light,”
tonight hunted a mad rifleman they
said they were informed had killed
one person and wounded at least one
other in a series of sniping incidents
here.
The orders were issued after Leddus
Arnold. 23, Negro, died in a hospital
today from a rifle bullet wocmd.
Detectives D. L. Taylor and Douglas
Poole, who investigated the shooting,
said the district where it occurred,
a semi-industrial section populated
mostly by Negroes, had been terrorized
for days by the sniper, but that appar- \
ently only one other person had been
hit, a Negro woman, shot in the leg.
They added they were informed that
several white pedestrians also had
been fired on. /
The officers said a bystander who
witnessed the shooting of Arnold in
formed them a man with a gun said
casually, "Watch that boy over thera
Jump,” shot him down and then fled.
Roosevelt Reversal Expected on
Closing of 700 C. C. C. Camps
Sr the AssocUted Press.
As a result of conferences with a
bloc of Democratic Representatives.
President Roosevelt was authoritatively
reported reported last night to have
decided to rescind his recently issued
executive order which would have
closed 700 C. C. C. camps April 1.
On the basis of new information
given him the President was said to
be prepared to issue a new order con
tinuing the camps slated to be aban
doned at least until enrollees have
completed work on which they are novf
engaged.
The Civilian Conservation Corps al
ready had notified Representatives
that certain camps in their States
were to be closed under the President’s
original order.
It was also understood an allocation
of funds would be made to maintain
the camps during the remainder at
the fiscal year.
An official announcement of the
I
new plans will be made this week, tt
was said, probably tomorrow or Tues
day.
The President’s reported decision to
cancel his previous order followed an
incipient rebellion among House Dem
ocrats who were outspoken In their
insistence that the C. C. C. work go
on in their home districts.
Representative Nichols and John
son, Oklahoma Democrats, who have
played leading roles in the negotia
tions to maintain the existing 2,158
camps at full strength, last night de
clined any comment on the Presi
dent’s reported decision.
Earlier yesterday, however. Repre
sentative Nichols announced that a
petition signed by 75 Democratic
members and filed with Caucus Chair
man Taylor, Democrat, of Colorado,
had been withdrawn "pending further
developments.” /
Other members of the bloc said
(See C. C. C„ Page A-3.)
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