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NETCONFEfflN”
SPURS HOFFMAN
TO SEEK REPRIEVE
FOR HAUPTMANN
Governor’s Call for Pardons
Court Session Tomorrow
Based on “Admissions”
by Former Asylum Inmate.
WARDEN HAS POWER
TO DELAY EXECUTION
Ximberling, However, Declares
He Will Postpone Death Date
Only if Governor Grants Re
prieve Over Ruling by Wilentz
That It Is Illegal.
BACKGROUND—
Arrested September 24,1935, con
tacted February 13, 1935, Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, Bronx car
penter, is scheduled to die Tuesday
night for kidnap-murder of Charles
A. Lindb~gh, jr„ in March, 1932.
New Jersey Court of Errors and
Appeals upheld verdict in October,
1935. Subsequent pleas to Federal
District Court and United States
Supreme Court failed. New Jer
sey’s Gov. Hoffman granted re
prieve January 16, on eve of first
death date, and started new inves
tigation. His power to grant new
reprieve questioned.
BULLETIN.
TRENTON, N. J., March 29 (Sun
day) UP).—The men who prose
cuted Richard Bruno Hauptmann
lor the kidnap-murder of the Lind
bergh baby, gathered at the Mer
cer County Jail early today, lured
by reports Gov. Hoffman was com
ing to interview a mysterious pris
oner who has "confessed” the
crime.
Attorney General Wilentz, Hun
terdon County prosecutor, Anthony
Hauck and H. Norman Schwarz
koph. head of the State police, hur
ried to the jail when they learned
the new suspect was held there.
It was reported the Governor
planned to visit the man whose
‘‘confession” of the Lindbergh crime
was used by the Governor as a basis
tor his calling the Court of Pardons
to meet Monday on Hauptmann’s
appeal.
The prisoner is alleged to have
declared he made two attempts to
steal the little Charles Lindbergh,
jr., first attempting to enter the
Lindbergh’s Sourland home by the
door and later making entrance by
the nursery window.
By the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. J., March 28.—A pur
ported "confession” of the Lindbergh
baby kidnaping by a former Trenton
man was disclosed tonight to have
been used by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman
as a basis for calling the Court of
Pardons to meet Monday on Bruno
Richard Hauptmann's second clem
ency plea.
The Governor was reported to have
mailed to all members of the Pardons
Court copies of a statement made by
the man to Ellis H. Parker, chief of
Burlington County detectives, who
has insisted that Hauptmann Is in
nocent of the kidnap-murder of the
Lindbergh child.
Hauptmann is scheduled to die for
the crime Tuesday night.
There'was a tendency on the part
of those opposed to Gov. Hoffman's
activities in Hauptmann’s behalf to
discount the value of the "confession."
Wilentz Given Copy.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz,
chief prosecutor of Kauptmann, has
been furnished a copy of the state
ment, which was said to have been
unsigned and not in affidavit form but
consisted of questions by Parker and
answers by the man.
Wilentz. Anthony M. Hauck, jr.,
Hunterdon County prosecutor, and
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of
the State police, and Capt. John J.
Lamb of the State police met in a
hotel to consider a course of action.
A high prosecution source said the
man was in custody “somewhere in
New Jersey.” State troopers were or
dered to begin an intensive inves
tigation.
This development was given added
significance by the fact that prosecu
tion officials agreed the Court of Par
dons itself could grant a reprieve to
Hauptmann—something which it has
never done in any other case.
The Governor said Wednesday he
had faith Attorney General Wilentz
would consent to a judicial stay of
execution in the event, of a "confes
eion of such a nature as would make
It necessary to continue a man’s life
to prove the statements.”
The man involved in the new in
vestigation was once under observa
tion in a mental institution and
aerved a term for perjury.
He was quoted as having said he
(See HAUPTMANN, Page A-5.)
HUGHES IS POISED
FOR LONG FLIGHT
Powerful Ship of Movie Director
Groomed for Myatery
Hop.
By the Associated Press.
NEWARK,'N. J., March 28,-Newark
Airport attaches said tonight Howard
Hughes' powerful airplane Is being pre
pared for a long-distance flight to be
gin early tomorrow morning.
The sources said the plane has been
loaded with 500 gallons of gas and is
equipped with a two-way radio
The ship is the same one in which
Hughes, Hollywood motion picture pro
ducer, recently set a new transcon
tinental non-stop flight record from
Lot Angeles.
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COL. MARK O. K1MBERLING,
New Jersey State prison war
den, who has power under
terms of sentence to delay
execution of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann from Tuesday
night nutil as late as Sat
urday.
B. & 0.2-EENT FARE
IS MED JUNE 2
Reduction Is Announced Re
gardless of Action by
Rival Lines.
BACKGROUND—
Daniel Willard, president of the
Baltimore <fc Ohio Railroad, has
waged a five-year fight for reduced
fares as a means of rejuvenating
railroad passenger business which
had suffered enormous inroads from,
bus and air competition.
Standing alone among the East
ern railroad executives, Willard re
fused recently to join the other
Eastern carriers in opposing a 2
cent rate recommended by Inter
state Commerce Commission,
B> tne Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. March 28 —The Bal- :
timore & Ohio Railroad announced
today that, if necessary, it would
stand alone in the East in reducing
passenger fares from 3.6 to 2 cents a
mile to win back business from busses
and automobiles and to gain new pat
ronage.
Daniel Willard, B. & O. president,
said, regardless of the position of other
lines, his road was moving to put the
new rates into effect by June 2.
His statement followed a decision of
other Eastern railroads in Washington
yesterday to ask the Interstate Com
merce Commission to suspend the ef
fective date of the fares. These roads
would propose new compromise rates
to be tried out as an experiment.
B. & O. Not to Join.
Willard said the B. & O. would not I
join in the request of these lines. A
memorandum from his office contin
ued:
“'So far as the Baltimore & Ohio is
concerned, it will not interfere with
what the other railroads decide to do
in this respect. However, it is now
' preparing tariffs on the basis of the
fares ordered by the commission and
; expects to put them into effect not |
later than June 2, the date specified
by the commission.”
These fares in general are the same
as already are in effect In Western
and Southern sections. They were ap
proved by the I. C. C last month, pro
viding. in addition to the passenger
rate cut, reduction from an average
of 4 to 3 cents a mile in the Pullman
rate and elimination of the surcharge.
At hearings before the commission,
the B. & O., fighting stubbornly for
(See FARES, Page~A-5j
HARRISON FACES FIGHT
TO RETURN TO SENATE
Mississippi's Former Governor
Sennett Conner Announces
He Will Make Race.
By the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss., March 28.—For
mer Gov. Sennett Conner today an
nounced for the United States Senate
in opposition to Senator Pat Harrison
In the August Democratic primaries.
The former Governor’s announce
ment said:
"It Is evident that the people of
Mississippi have made up their minds
to elect a new United States Senator
this summer.”
It is believed unlikely that any
other candidates will announce.
IAZIS HERD REICH
TO POLLS TODAY
TO BACK FUEHRER
Sermans to Approve Hitler
Actions Last 3 Years,
With “Noes” Barred.
\IO OPTIONS PROVIDED
FOR REICHSTAG POSTS
3torm Troopers to See All Voters
Cast Ballot, Now Stripped of
Secret Character.
BACKGROUND—
Reichsfuehrer Hitler marched
Reichswehr troops into Rhineland
March S, thus violating demilitar
isation provisions of Versailles and
Locarno treaties; powers threatened
war, but modified attitude later.
Reichstag dissolved and new elec
tions called to show unanimity of
German nation behind Hitler’s
action.
Two elections held since Nazis
came to power: November. 1933,
95 per cent for Hitler; and August,
1934, approximately 90 per cent for
Hitler. He’ll do better today.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. March 28.—The German
nation will approve Reichsfuehrer
Hitler’s policies tomorrow.
Germans will participate in one of
the greatest civic mobilizations the
world has ever seen, and they will
vote an unconditional ”ja’’ of ap
proval concerning their leader's ac
tions of the last three years.
Not a German “Aryan”—man or
woman—above the age of 20 years,
except soldiers, will dodge the polling
places if Hitler’s Nazi storm troops
can help it.
Can Only Mark Cross.
Unless the German voter wishes to
be branded a traitor, he will be unable
to do anything but put a cross in the
ballot's single circle.
The election, nominally for the
Reichstag, Is unique. There is no pro
vision for voting ‘‘no" on Nazi policies
and no provision for any choice of
candidates.
The voter’s sole option is to take
the Nazi party’s list or leave It. If
the voter leaves the ballot blank or
treats it in any other manner except
that of placing an ”X" in the circle,
his vote will be invalid.
Despite this fact, Hitler and his
lieutenants have conducted a wide and
Intense election campaign. Hitler has
spoken repeatedly, declaring that his
policies have made Germany self
sustaining and that through these
policies Germany 1s regaining her po
sition as an equal power among na
tions.
Gave Option Previously.
When Hitler withdrew from the
League of Nations in 1933 and when
he proclaimed himself successor to the
late President Paul von Hindenburg in
1934. qualified electors were given a
chance to vote ‘‘ja’’ or "neln” after
ward.
This precedent is dispensed with
in the present election. The citizens
are told that they can do "construc
tive voting" only by reaffirming their
faith In Der Fuehrer.
A further interesting feature of the
election is that no one outside of a
few Nazi party chieftains, knows how
many German citizens are entitled
to vote.
Judging from the last election, there
should be more than 42,000,000, but,
since then, the Jew's have lost their
franchise and the 550,000 men placed
under arms must let their electoral
privilege rest until they return to
civil life.
On the other hand, the voting age
has been lowered from 21 to 20 years,
so that the number of voters may be
about the same as in 1934.
As there Is no choice of Reichstag
candidates and as the ballot provides
no possibility of voting “no" on poll
(See HITLER, Page A-6.)
GUARD JOHN ROOSEVELT
President’s Son in Club Play Is
Protected at Boston.
BOSTON, March 28 (tP).—Two se
cret service agents guarded John A.
Roosevelt, youngest son of the Presi
dent, when he appeared last night at
the Copley Theater in Harvard's Hasty
Pudding Club play, it was learned to
day.
It was the first time that the Presi
dent’s sons have been so guarded here,
but secret service officials said It was
merely a routine precaution.
City’s Street Cleaning Woes
Multiply on 1920 Fund Basis
Financing Fails to Meet Needs of Cap
ital With Twice Paved Mileage
and 50,000 More People,
Washington has 50,000 more people, seven times as many automobiles
and more than twice as many miles of paved streets as it had 16 years ago,
yet street cleaning facilities are substantially less today than in 1920.
This is one answer to why the streets of one of the most beautiful
capitals in the world are so dirty.
With thousands of visitors about to arrive for the annual cherry blossom
uu^mjr auu iui uic vuuvcimuiu uiv
Spring. Washington’s face is as grimy [
as any urchin, and the City Refuse
Division can’t do much to remedy the
situation.
The conditions with which the street
cleaning organization must contend i
and the facilities it has to do the
work tell their own story.
The appropriation for street clean
ing today is exactly what it was in
1920—$400,000. Actually, it is $102,
120 less in terms of what it will ac
complish, according to estimates by
the Refuse Division. This is princi
pally because the day wage rate aver
ages $3.76, compared to $2.80 16 years
ago, leaving less for services other
than labor. ^
In 1920 there were 249 miles of
paved streets in Washington, and 384
men to clean them. In 1936 there
are 598 miles of paved streets, but
only 281 men to clean them.
Veteran foremen of the City Refuse
Division recall when the average ter
ritory for which each “white wing”
was responsible approximated 9.000
square yards and the "white wing”
could cover that area three and four
times daily. The average territory
today is more than 71,000 square
yards for each man. It is impossible,
except in the downtown districts, to
(See STRBRS, Page 6.)
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But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered, not a feather then he fluttered,
Till I scarcely more than muttered, “Other friends have flown before;
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.”
Then the bird said, “Nevermore.”
Blames Japan in Demanding
Immediate End to Frontier
Fighting.
BACKGROUND—
Japanese influence spreads West
ward, past Manchukuo, already set
up as independent state by Tokio,
and into Outer Mongolia. There it
encounters Eastward spread of sec
ond great world power, Soviet Rus
sia. Thus, the two nations come
face to face with possibility of war,
with Mongolia as scene.
Guerilla fighting along border
has increased tension. Plan for
border commission to settle disputes
is lost in maze of controversy.
Immediately endangered in sit
uation is Trans-Siberian Railroad,
only link between the Soviet Union
and her Pacific territory.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. March 28 —A demand
for immediate action to put an end to
frontier raids was contained in a note
from the government of Outer Mon
golia to the Manchukuoan adminis
tration made public here tonight.
The official Russian press Intimated
a belief that the Japanese were insti
gating the critical situation along the
border of Manchukuo. set up as an
independent state by Japan, and the
Russian-advised republic of ■ Outer
Mongolia.
The Mongolian note was sent to
Manchukuo Friday, after resumption
of border fighting, which the Mon
golians declared resulted from an at
tempt by Japanese and Manchukuoan
troops to occupy a Mongolian frontier
post in the Norin Lake district.
Mongolia expressed surprise, in the
note, that what it called raiding
tactics had been resumed at a moment
when the two governments were nego
tiating for settlement of boundary
(See MONGOLIA, Page A-6.)
Readers’ Guide
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
General News—Pages A-l, B-12.
Changing World—A-3.
Lost and Found—A-ll.
Death Notices—A-ll.
Vital Statistics—A-ll.
Washington Wayside—A-15.
Educational—B-5.
Resorts—B-6.
Sports Section—Pages B-7, B-ll.
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial Articles—Pages D-l-3.
Editorials and Editorial Fea
tures—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.
Stamps—D-8.
Contract—D-8.
Public Library—D-8.
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society News and Comment—
Pages E-l-11.
Well-Known Folk—E-4.
Barbara Bell Pattern—E-ll.
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News Features—Pages F-l-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.
Serial Story—G-6.
Parent-Teacher Activities—G-6.
Classified Advertising—G-6-16.
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Traffic Crashes Seen Replacing
War as Plastic Surgery Field
Maiming and Mutilation by Motor Ve
hicles Cited by Capt, Lucius W, John
son in Kober Lecture at Georgetown,
Traffic accidents are assuming the proportions of a peace-time sub
stitute for the mutilations of war in providing materials for the modern
plastic surgeon to develop his skill in rebuilding faces and broken noses,
Capt. Lucius W. Johnson, noted plastic surgeon of the Navy, pointed out last
night during his Kober Foundation lecture at Georgetown University.
"Ever since the earliest dawning of history, plastic surgery has been
intimately associated with the military*
operations oi armed torces, capt.
Johnson said. "Its periods of growth
occurred during wars and its decay
during peace.
"Even though there is. for the mo
ment, no great war between civilized
nations, knowledge and experience in
plastic surgery are being augmented
day by day.
"We will not see our interest in
plastic surgery waning while the pres
ent maiming and mutilation by motor
"ehicles continues to provide such a
wealth of material for its exercise.”
The distinguished naval surgeon
recently was selected for the annual
Kober lectureship by the Association
of Military Surgeons of the United
States. He was introduced at the
exercises last night in Gaston Hal]
by Rear Admiral P. S. Ro6siter, sur
geon general of the Navy. Rev. Dr
Arthur A. O’Leary. S. J., president
of Georgetown University, presided
and paid a tribute to the memory ol
Dr. George M. Kober, late dean of tht
Georgetown Medical School, who pro
vided annual awards in medical
science.
Held under auspices of the medi
cal school, the lectures were attendee
by prominent Army and Navy medical
(See”LECTURE, Page A-3.)
TRAIN-BUS CRASH
KILLS8J1URES5
Passenger Cars Derailed in
' Georgia Grade-Cross
ing Tragedy.
By the Associated Press.
BY^ION, Ga., March 28.—A fast
passenger train of the Central Of
Georgia Railroad crashed into a bus
at a crossing in the heart of the
business section here tonight killing,
according to first reports, eight per
sons and injuring five others.
Dr. James B. Kay, who treated the
Injured before they were taken to a
hospital at Macon, said apparently
seven bodies were taken from the
wreckage and another victim died
there.
The physician said the best infor
mation was that one white woman,
a white man, two Negro men, three
Negro women and a Negro child were
killed.
At Macon undertaking establish
ments where bodies of the dead were
taken said the white man was tenta
tively identified as Walter J. White
hurst, 45, of Macon, who was return
ing from a lumber camp near Ock
lochnee.
The white woman, it was added, was
tentatively identified as Mrs. Sara
Sumter of Americus, formerly of
Albany, Ga„ a stenographer in the
Sol! Conservation office at Americus.
The bus had just made a stop at
the depot and started across the rail
way crossing when the train struck
it almost squarely in the center.
Twisted steel, glass and wreckage
hampered the work of rescuers. Bod
ies of many of the victims. Dr. Kay
said, were terribly mangled. Several
were stripped of clothing.
Dr. Kay said the injured included
the bus driver, O. A. Looney of Macon.
He doubted if the latter would survive.
Listed among the injured were Miss
Josephine Early, J. B. Horne, 45, both
of Macon, and Clarence Beard of
Byron.
Five ambulances were hurried here
from Macon to aid local authorities
In rescue work.
The engine tender, baggage car and
five passenger coaches were deraUed
by the crash.
C. H. Hall, engineer of the train,
said the bus was squarely on the track
when the engine hit it broadside. The
locomotive, derailed, lumbered on down
the ties, grinding up wood and twist
ing the rails.
At one place midway of the distance
traveled after the crash a pile of cross
ties 4 feet high was left tumbled
together.
Bombers Off for Panama.
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, March 28 (IP).
—Nine American bombing planes
which arrived here yesterday departed
today for Guatemala, en route to the
Panama Canal Zone.
FEDERATION FIGHT
NITS SISSON DILI
Stormy Session Votes Dowr
Indorsement—New
Bill Favored.
In a three-hour session marked bi
shouted and bitter debate and mucl
parliamentary maneuvering, the Fed
eration of Citizens’ Associations las
night refused to indorse the Sissoi
bill for repeal of the red rider anc
then approved a report calling foi
repeal of the rider after the enactmen
of other legislation to require thi
teaching of the “evil aims and effect
of communism and other un-Ameri
can doctrines."
The long debate was precipitated b;
George E. Sullivan, chairman of i
special committee on communism ii
the schools, who presented a repor
setting up four recommendations:
1. Declaring the stand of Repre'
sentative Sisson and the Board o:
Education is “fundamentally unsound'
in asserting “that it is an invasion o
the rights of the school authorltie,
for Congress to direct, regulate ant
control any features of the publii
schools."
2. Citing the laws requiring thi
teaching of the ill effects of alcoholit
drinks and narcotics and calling upoi
Congress to enact similar legislatioi
requiring instruction “about ant
against communism.
3. Asking repeal of the red ride;
when a new bill against communisn
is passed.
4. Withdrawing the requirement foi
monthly affidavits by school employe!
when substitute legislation is enacted
20 Delegates Offer Views.
As soon as Sullivan presented thi
report, Harry S. Wender offered i
substitute to indorse the Sisson repea
(See-FEDERATION, Page 9.)
FIGHT THREATENS
Lamneck to Attack Tax
Proposals on House Floor
Tomorrow.
PRESIDENT WARNS
OF BUDGET LIMITS
Commissioner Helvering First
Witness Called by Ways and
Means Committee.
BACKGROUND—
Passage of the bonus payment
bill and enactment of a new pro
gram of agricultural benefits
brought a request from President
Roosevelt for additional tax rev
enue. His major proposal was lor
new levies on undistributed corpo
ration profits and on individual in
come from corporate dividends;
such taxes to replace present ones
on capital stock, excess profits and
corporate income. With modfica
tions. House subcommittee recom
mended bill along these lines; hear
ings begin tomorrow before full
Ways and Means Committee.
Omitted thus far is provision for
new processing taxes.
By the Associated Press.
Rumblings of dissatisfaction in
Democratic quarters enveloped the
administration’s revenue program last
night and threatened to stir up a
bitter bipartisan row in the House
Ways and Means Committee.
Coincidentally, it was disclosed that
President Roosevelt had advised con
gressional leaders by letter to hold
appropriations more closely to budget
figures or face a request for even
more taxes.
His warning was directed especially
toward the Senate, which to date
has added $159,000,000 to appropria
tion bills passed by the House.
The letter went to Senator Glass,
Democrat, of Virginia and Representa
j tive Buchanan, Democrat, of Texas,
j chairmen, respectively, of the Senate
and House Appropriations Commit
tees, while copies were said to have [
been transmitted to Chairmen Har
rison of the Senate Finance Com
mittee and Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee.
Lamneck Plans Attack.
Representative Lamneck, Democrat,
of Ohio planned the first open Demo
cratic attack on the new tax pro- !
posals on the House floor tomorrow
immediately after the Ways and Means
Committee, of which he is a member, !
starts hearings on them. He asserted
j the taxes would destroy initiative and
* penalize frugality.
Another Democratic committee
member, Representative Thompson of
Illinois, added that although the pro
gram had been “improved vastly over ;
original suggestions, two or three |
of us are keeping our fingers crossed.” I
11 Some Republican members have
been hitting at the tax plan for some
time. A majority of Democratic mem
bers and even some Republicans have
asserted, however, that the plan for
a new corporation tax based on
amount of net income held in re
, serves and for a “windfall” levy on
processors who avoided payment of
the old A. A. A. processing taxes
would go through the committee and
probably the House virtually un
changed.
These two taxes are estimated to
yield $591,000,000 and *100,000,000.
respectively. The committee is figur
ing that *83.000,000 more might be
produced from temporary retention of
1 the capital stock and excess profits
' taxes and *25,000,000 through taxation
; of dividends paid by corporations to
1 foreign stockholders.
President's Suggestion.
President Roosevelt had suggested
[ that *620,000,000 be raised from a tax
; on corporation dividends and un
’ distributed profits and *517,000,000
over perhaps three years from the
windfall tax and new excise taxes on
’ the processing of farm commodities.
1 The committee, however, scuttled
1 (See TAXES, Page A-3.)
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TEXAN SEEKS SENATE
' Bichard C. Bush of Waco in Bace
Against Sheppard.
WACO. Tex., March 28 UP).—Rich
ard C. Bush, 34, advertising executive,
announced today his candidacy for the
United States Senate, opposing Sena
i tor Morris Sheppard.
i Bush said his platform In the July
I Democratic primaries would include
approval of the Townsend pension-re
. covery plan.
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El Salvador Aids TJ. S. Fund.
1 BAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
■ March 28 G45).—The Red Cross of El
Salvador, a nation which frequently
• has received American contributions
i for relief of sufferers in its disasters,
[ sent *1,000 to aid flood sufferers In
the United States.
Cafe Bandit Loots Cash Register
But Is Seized ‘Frisking’ Patrons
While attempting to “frisk" cus
tomers and employes after holding up
a restaurant at 1401 Eleventh street
early today, a white bandit was dis
armed and then severely beaten and
captured, although two accomplices, a
man and woman, threw a brick
through the front window of the estab
lishment In an effort to effect his
release.
The bandit asked for a package of
cigarettes when he entered the res
taurant, but when Aline Childress,
18, of 1252 Tenth street, a waitress,
returned with them, he drew a gun
and ordered her and five other per
sons in the place to line up against
the wall.
Not satisfied after emptying the
cash register, the bandit approached
the group and started to search them.
His first victim, Gus Jones, 1029
Ninth street, an employe of the res
taurant, grabbed the bandit’s pistol
hand as he came close. Seizing the
revolver, Jones slugged the robber
across the head, choked him and
held fast while the other Intended
victims called police.
During the struggle, the bandit’s
accomplices hurled the brick, show
ering glass into th« restaurant and
cutting Jones and a girl, whose name
was not learned. The bandit's aides
then fled.
At Freedmen’s Hospital, the bandit,
suffering from wounds about the face
and head, gave his name as Nathan
Powers, 26, of Chicago. It was learned
la tar the bandit's gun was not loaded.
RENT GAS TAX
RISE PLANNED DY
HAZEN FDR RELIEF
City Head Proposes to Get
Two-thirds of $1,500,000
to Provide Aid.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
WOULD PROVIDE JOBS
Source of Remaining $50,000 Is
Not Yet Decided—Would Aid
“White Collar" Workers.
BACKGROUND—
Relief for the District's needy,
buffeted between national relief
policy, administered by W. P. A.,
and national budget policy, admin
istered by Budget Bureau, is caus
ing local officials grave concern. A
request for $608,000 to carry on
relief to June 30 was cut to $350,
000 by Congress, and District or
dered 4.900 cases, representing 20,
000 persons, dropped from relief
rolls.
Outlook for next year appeared
no brighter when requested appro
priations for 1937 were cut by Con
gress and the Budget Bureau to
$1,590,000, a little more than half
the sum held necessary by local
relief officials.
Hoping to provide adequate relief
funds next year, Commissioner Hazen
yesterday announced a proposal for
a $1,500,000 increase in District taxes,
two-thirds of this sum to be raised
by a one-cent a gallon increase in the
gasoline tax and spent on street im- •
provements in 1937 to provide jobs for
employables about to be thrown off the
relief rolls.
Hazen said the additional $500,000,
to come from a source yet to be de
termined. would be used to employ
“white collar" workers and women.
In announcing his intention to sub
mit this proposal to the Board of Dis
trict Commissioners, Hazen pointed
out that additional revenue will ba
necessary because of the failure of
Congress to appropriate funds suffi
cient to care for the employable mea
and women unable to get W. P. A.
iohs
Consistently Fought Raise.
Hazen has constistently opposed an
increase in the gasoline tax, which is
now two cents a gallon, but he said
he would withdraw his opposition if
by doing so the urgent needs of 4.900
families now facing privation couid
be met.
The pending District supply bill
provides $1,590,000 for relief for the
1937 fiscal year. Commissioner Hazen
said that unless this sum is virtually
doubled, the District next year will
again be forced to cut off relief, there
by forcing thousands of able-bodied
unemployed to shift for themselves.
At present, gasoline tax funds are
limited by law to use in highway con
struction and maintenance. Under
Hazen's plan, it would continue to be
spent for highway purposes, with the
bulk of it going to jobs for the needy.
His proposal came after Commis
sioner Allen had expressed a willing
ness to increase District taxes if Con
gress will authorize District officials
to use the additional revenue for relief.
Instead of having to wait on a later
appropriation act to use it.
Projects' Worth Criterion.
Projects to be undertaken, under
the proposed plan, would be judged.
Hazen said, not by their ability to
make jobs, but on their actual worth
to the Capital.
He expects to submit the proposal
at the same time that Elwood Street,
director of public welfare, presents a
statement from the board asking again
for more funds to continue relief ac
tivities through the end of June. The
Board of Public Welfare has declared
that the community's duty to the
4,900 families to be dropped from the
rolls after Tuesday is •‘inescapable.’*
Street will ask the Commissioners
to call on Congress again for the
$258,000 denied in the supplemental
appropriation made last week. A total
of $350,000 was allowed, $250,000 of
which will be used to care for unem
ployable clients and the remaining
$100,000 for dependent children in
families of employables unable to find
work.
Street said that about two-thirds of
the families with dependent children,
under the definition of the social
security act, are among the 4,100
families of unemployables. The
$100,000, he said, probably will care
for about 1,000 families through June.
Local W. P. A. Faces Task.
At the same time, the local W. P. A.
is facing the task of reducing the
number of men employed from 8,500
(See HAZEN, Page A-4.)
PAPER SAYS HOOVER
TO AID VANDENBERG
Former President Abandons Hop#
of Nomination. New York
Times States.
By tbe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 28.—The New
York Times said tonight In a dis
patch from Washington that Herbert
Hoover and his “immediate support
ers” are backing Senator Vandenberg
of Michigan for the Republican nomi
nation for President, according to In
formation in political circles there.
The former President has aban
doned hope of being chosen the can
didate, the newspaper said, and feels
that Vandenberg has shown “the
most consistent and Intelligent oppo
sition to the New Deal.” It said he
is devoting himself to building up
strength to Influence the party plat
form at the Cleveland convention and
further the Influence of Vandenberg.
Vandenberg, while agreeing with the
administration on some matters, op
posed the N. R. A. and the A. A. A,
and led the opposition in the Sen
ate to appropriations for the Florida
ship canal.