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LUCIANO RETURNED TO NEWYORK Ml “Most Important Racket eer” of City Faces Four Indictments. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. April 18.—Charles Luciano, who earned gangland’s so briquet of “Lucky” because he came back alive from an underworld “ride” In 1929, tonight found a jail cell the terminus of another ride, accorded him this time by the police of two States. Termed by Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey “the mo6t important and dangerous racketeer in New York, if not in the country,” the 39-year-old Luciano is under four indictments con taining 24 counts of compulsory pros titution charges. To discourage any underworld at tempt at freeing the prisoner, a grim faced escort of 48 detectives and po licemen ringed Luciano this morning when he was taken off a train from Arkansas, where he had been arrested and held in default of $200,000 bail requested by New York authorities. Dewey, after the arrival of the prisoner, said that a $350,000 bond would be requested at his arraignment here. Such a bail might insure his incarceration until the trial, tenta tively set for May 4. 110 Witnesses Held. Some 110 persons, most of them women accused as prostitutes arrested In a series of raids in Manhattan and Brooklyn, have been held by Dewey as material witnesses. He said he was anxious to have Luciano's trial speeded because of the expense already in curred. In police line-up Luciano unsmil lngly told Acting Capt. Joseph Mooney that he "didn’t know anything about" the present charges against him. He readily admitted, however, all the post charges on his 20-year record save one—a felonious assault charge in 1923. His occupation, he volun teered. was that of a bookmaker around New York tracks. He had “no par ticular” associates, he said. Fingerprinted and photographed, he was lodged in a police headquarters cell pending arraignment before Su preme Court Justice Philip J. Mc Cook. Returned From “Ride.” Luciano, a person known to police for two decades, earned for himself a special page in police annals by his feat m returning from the gangland ride. On the night of October 16. 1929, he had an engagement to meet a woman at Fiftieth street and Sixth avenue under the elevated tracks. The girl was not at the trysting place, but three very sinister gentle men were. Silently and swiftly they threw Luciano to the floor of a wait ing sedan, trussed him, taped his mouth, handcuffed his wrists and bound his legs and wrists with wire. During a wild ride through mid Manhattan they amused themselves by pricking out fancy designs with a knife on Luciano’s face, neck and chest. Neck Encircled by Wire. By a peculiar method of trussing, Luciano's neck was encircled with a wire in such a position that the •lightest move of his arms or legs yould strangle him. Apparently satisfied that a slow, torturing death was the only escape possible for Luciano from his bonds, they tossed him out on a lonely spot. But somehow he struggled loose and •tumbled hysterically a half mile to a police station. Grim and recovered, he would say only: "It’s my business and I’ll take care of it.” The epilogue has never been re vealed. PITTSBURGH MAYOR SPENDS HOUR IN CELL McNair Arrested for Refusal to Obey County Court Order to Repay $100 Fine. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 18— The mayor of Pittsburgh, wise-cracking William N. McNair, spent more than an hour behind the bars of a jail cell yesterday on a charge of embezzlement based on an ancient State law. The arrest was the mo6t exciting of the long series of escapades that have kept him in the public eye since his election in 1933. He went to jail because he refused to obey an order by the County Court to sign a warrant to repay a $100 fine collected by a magistrate from a man accused of writing “numbers” slips in a lottery. A constable made the arrest at the executive offices in City Hall. Mc Nair, scoring a suggestion that he give bond, willingly went to jail, where he laughed and joked with the prisoners, ate an apple and smoked a stogie, k Representative Theodore L. Moritz. r Democrat, of Pennsylvania, formerly the mayor's secretary, obtained a pe tition for a writ of habeas corpus W'hich the mayor signed. It was granted by Judge Thomas Marshall. TWO BODIES IDENTIFIED .YEAR AFTER DISCOVERY Xentucklan Declares Clothing on One Belonged to Father Missing Two Years. By tee Associated Press. GREENUP. Ky., April 18.—The Identity of two bodies, foilnd near here a year ago, was believed established today when Wesley Barnett. 25, of Arquillite. Ky., told authorities cloth ing found on one of the bodies be longed to his father, John Barnett. The young man said his father left home about two years ago, with Mrs. Nettie Elkins and that he had $200. He said the other body might be that of a son of Mrs. Elkins. Fox hunters found the bodies, which were tentatively identified as a man named Thompson and his son. buried under leaves. Silas Steagall of Soldier, Ky„ was indicted for their murder, but was freed when the Thompsons were Sound alive. Scientist Drowns in Lake. BAR HARBOR, Me., April 18 (/P).— Dr. Charles V. Green, 34, of the stall of Jackson Memorial Laboratory, cancer research institution, drowned today in Eagle Lake. H? small boat overturned while he w.*» fishing less than 20 feet from shore. I Trivial Things That Make a World Thousands of Antelopes Freeze to Death in Gobi Desert. By the Associated Press. KWEIHUA. Inner Mongolia.— Many thousands of antelopes have starved or frozen to death on the Gobi Desert dur i ing the Winter. The biggest snow 1 storm in many years prevented graz j ing. In many cases entire herds were marooned by snowdrifts to await star | vaticin. American Movies Popular in China. NANKING.—The Chinese like Amer j ican movies best. Eight million dol* ; lars (American) was spent by Chinese ! last year in attendance at China's 200 j theaters, and of all the pictures shown | only 14 per cent were Chinese pro ductions. Most of the others were j from Hollywood. Gypsies to Decide ‘•Government.’* | ROWNO, Poland.—Gypsies of the world are being asked to decide what form of "rule” they wish to adopt. A general meeting of the tribes is to be held here at a dale not yet determined. There are two candidates for leadership. "Baron” Michael Kwiek insists upon becoming su preme lord, with full authority over all world tribes. "Baron” Jo seph Kwiek, of the same name, but different ideas, would uphold the present democratic order of things. Girl Violinist Makes Debut. BERLIN.—A 17-year-old California J girl, Leona Flood, has made an im I pressive debut here as a violinist. The tall, blond virtuoso was re peatedly encored after playing a pro I gram that included difficult works of Paganini. Sarasate and Albeniz. Locusts Denude China Farm Land. NANKING—The ancient plague of locusts, which revisited parts of China last year, denuded large stretches of larm land in a dozen Provinces and did damage estimated now at about $15,000,000. Three times durmg the year hordes of the insects swarmed over the rich and fertile coastal Provinces of Ki angsi and Chekiang, devouring all green growing things. — Nazis Returning to Farms. j BERLIN.—The Nazi farm leaders i are planning to put 1,000.000 more j city dwellers on the soil before 1941. I They hope that thus 2,000,000 hand j workers, masons, day laborers and in | dustrial workers will get additional : employment building the new homes. They anticipate in the next 20 years the foundation of 4,000,000 to 5,000, 000 farm homes, “Chicken-Feather God” Worshiped. CHUNGKING, West China.— Rumors of remarkable cures by a “chicken-feather god" have at tracted thousands of people to a little shrine in a cliff near here. The crippled and the diseased come from great distances to wor ship at the shrine. Worshippers believe results can be obtained only by burning incense and cutting the throat of a chicken. The blood is made to spurt over the rocky face of the cliff and then a few feathers are pulled and stuck with the blood onto the face of the cliff. So many birds have been sacri ficed that the narrow path along the cliff is slippery with gore, and the rock is thickly feathered over an area of many square yards. — Government Controls Slave Traffic. CHUNGKING. West China.—The traffic in slave girls has been brought under government control here as a first step toward eradicating the prac tice. New regulations require all such girls to register, with a view to com pelling their masters to give them some reward for their services or else to shorten their terms of bondage. Tens of thousands of young girls are sold annually by poor families to wealthy ones, usually to become drudges. Social workers point out that if girl I slavery is to be abolished, it must be done gradually, as a sudden prohibi j tion might lead to a higher rate of infanticide among families unable to support their children. Million Expected at Fair. TEL AVIV, Palestine (Palcor Agen cy).—The Levant fair, opening here April 30, is expecting more than a million visitors. More nations are taking part this year than last and the United State is being represented by several leading firms. Japanese Goods Found Everywhere. TOKIO. — When Ambassador Matsuzo Nagai, Japanese delegate to the recent London Naval Con ference, returned home from Eu rope, his children were disappointed that he brought them only the usual Japanese gifts. The Ambassador explained: "When I visited the Eiffel Tower in Paris and started to buy small models of the tower, I found they were made in Osaka. I had the same experience when / tried to buy toy elephants in India. It was the same wherever I traveled. "I decided it would be cheaper and simpler to wait until I got home." Japanese Birth Rate Increases. TOKIO.—Japan's natural increase in population, the margin of births over deaths, was 760,239 for the first nine month of 1939, the government Statistics Bureau has announced. If this rate was maintained for the last quarter of the year, it produced a population gain or more than 1,000, 000 for the year. Only in one previous year. 1932, has the population risen by more than a million. Portugal Business Gains. Portugal expects 1936 to be one of its best business years. RATE FIGHT LOST, Delay in Fare Cuts Denied. Eastman Breaks Deadlock. BACKGROUND 171 an effort to bolster dwindling rail revenues, the Interstate Com merce Commission ordered "bar gain counter" passenger rates on the Eastern lines on the same basis as Western and Southern carriers have operated in recent years with /air success, to meet the competi tion o/ busses, and to a certain extent, private vehicles. Pennsyl vania, New Haven and New York Central vigorously dissented from the original order and sought a modification. *y in* Associated Pr*u. By a 6-to-5 vote, the Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday struck down a proposal by Eastern railroads for an 18-month delay In establishing sharply reduced passen ger fares, leaving the carriers the sole recourse of challenging Its action In 1 tiie courts. With the commission divided. 5 to 5. Transportation Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman, the eleventh member, but who acts only when there is a tie. broke the deadlock by voting against any delay in the June 2 effective date of a recent I. C. C. order fixing a basic rate of 2 cents a mile In day coaches. The previous rate was 3.6 cents and ! the carriers had asked the delay In order to establish their own "experi mental'' rate of 2.5 cents. They agreed, however, to accept a 3-cent Pullman rate fixed by the commission. The former Pullman rate was 3.6 cents ! plus a surcharge, which averaged 0.4 ! of a cent. The controversy in which the com mission acted yesterday was a year old. The carriers' plea for a postpone ment—filed by all major Eastern roads except the Baltimore Si Ohio hinted that if the commission acted adversely, they would carry their fight to the courts. Rail officials here said representatives of the roads soon would decide this question. Eastern Roads Affected. Eastern roads are primarily affected by the commission's order because low passenger fares already are In effect In the West and South. These would not be changed if as low as those desig nated. The only written opinion yesterday was by Eastman, long an advocate of reduced fares as a method of at tracting increased passenger traffic. Although a member of the commis sion, Eastman ordinarily does not vote because of his duties as co-ordinator. In a statement, he called attention ' to the roads' plea that they should be permitted to experiment with their own 2.5-cent fares in order to measure the effect of a reduction on their reve , nues. Eastman said test of lesser -educ i tions than those ordered by the com mission "would not be at all con | elusive as to the effect of those which were ordered," and added' "If experimentation is desired con clusive results can be obtained only by putting to the test the fares which the commission has prescribed, and such results should be available in a period of time shorter than the 18 months proposed by the petitioners.” Railroad* Argument. The railroads also argued that flood conditions had caused serious losses | and that the commission should not | take any action which might bring j additional losses. •'However." Eastmat. wrote, "the ; conclusion of the commission on the evidence was that the reduction of passenger fares in accordance with its order would benefit rather than in jure the carriers." The Eastern roads estimated the -e ductions would cost them millions of dollars annually, arguing that because their passenger traffic was largely commuter travel no major increase in volume could be expected. The commission divided, five to four, i on its original order, but Its vote yes terday brought a slightly different line-up. Originally voting for the reductions. Commissioner Carroll Miller supported the move for a postponement. His vote was offset, however, by Commis sioner Huhg M. Tate, who did not vote on the earlier order. Commissioners Claude Porter, Clyde B. Aitchison, Marion M. Caskie and Walter M. W. Splawn stood by the June 2 effective date. Besides Miller, Commissioners Balthasar H. Meyer. Prank McManamy, Charles D. Mahaf fie and William E. Lee voted for the postponement. i_ 1 FORMER BOXER HELD IN WOMAN’S DEATH Suspect Denies Murder—Body of Victim Found, Partly Clad, in Residential Section. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 18—John Thomasitz, former boxer, was arrested tonight on a charge of homicide grow ing out of the slaying of 39-year-old Mildred McCabe, whose partly clad body was found today In a residential section of Queens County. Detective Joseph Stanworth, who booked Thomasitz, also known as Thomas, said his prisoner admitted he took Miss McCabe and the slain wom an’s sister, Mrs. Anna Scanlon, for a ride in his automobile after meeting them last night in a restaurant. Police said Thomasitz told them he left Mrs. Scanlon at her home before taking Miss McCabe to his house, where a quarrel ensued. Thomasitz admitted slapping her. She was in a fainting condition when he let her out of his car later at the spot where she was found— but she was not dead, police quoted the prisoner as saying. Detectives asserted Miss McCabe had been assaulted and beaten to death. THURSTON INTERRED Body of Magician Laid to B.est Amid Boyhood Scenes. COLUMBUS. Ohio, April 18 (VP,.— The body of Howard Thurston, who baffled the world with feats of magic, was laid to rest today amid scenes of his boyhood. Hundreds of Columbus friends of the man who learned as a bellhop here a halt century ago tricks that "mystified and delighted children from 4 to 94” paid him final tribute. Thurston died at 68 in Miami Beach, Fla., Monds#. A .—."' ' , ■ — Glimpses of President’s Aide A camera study of Col. Louis McHenry Howe, aide and confidant of President Roosevelt, who died last night.. Right, above: The latest photo, taken with the President December 8, 1934, when both attended the Gridiron Club dinner at the Willard. At left: Testifying before a con gressional committee in 1933. Below: With the President and Mrs. John Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt, as the President returned from his ocean vacation trip August 19, 1934. —Underwood Photos. ■ -- a-— Howe (Continued Prom First Page ! January 14, 1871, but it was a life time spent in Intimate observation of ! politics in New York State that fitted | him for the role he was to play. He j grew' up in Saratoga, where New York | politicians were wont to rally around j the allurements of that sport resort in and out of season. His father ran a paper there and the son drifted nat urally into the business and ultimate ly undertook the father's additional j function of corresponding for great | New York dailies. j The substance of that correspond I ence was politics. From the outset of | his journalistic efforts young Howe j lived and breathed politics. There was ; no intricacy of up and downstate New York politics unfamiliar to him; | no trick of the game he had not soon heard of. He displayed so great a flair for politics that more than 30 years ago he was picked by the old New York Herald for Albany cor respondent, a job that was all poli tics. As a Democrat, and an upstate New York Democrat at that. Howe watched party maneuvering with a frosty eye on Tammany and all its ways. He i also saw in the history of the New York governorship a route to the White House pioneered by both Re publicans and Democrats; and spent a decade in admiring observation of the career of Theodore Roosevelt. i’oaeibilities Seen. When a young, eager, handsome chap from Dutchess County bearing that charmed name, yet a Democrat, made his way into the State Senate, his coming was a matter of very spe cial interest to Howe. He saw possi bilities in it that young Franklin Roosevelt himself then might well have laughed at. Day by day, Howe, 10 years older than the young State Sen ator, watched his political evolution, noted the special charm he seemed to exercise over many of his legislative colleagues, observed his course in legislative crisis and adjudged him able and courageous. An intimacy sprang up that was to ripen in time into such a friendship as rarely has figured in American political history. Then came the first Roosevelt set back. On the eve of his re-election campaign, the young Senator was stricken with typhoid fever. His orig inal election as a Democrat from an Inherently Republican region had been something of an accident. With the candidate himself out ot the pic ture, his re-election seemed impossible. But there was Louis Howe to call on. He responded and in the battle that followed demonstrated his quali ties by re-electing young Roosevelt, campaigning for him by proxy, deter mining himself almost every strategic move, even fashioning out of his own iiead issues to which he pledged his man. From then on. the political part nership of Roosevelt and Howe was a fixed matter, never to be inter rupted while both lived. And it was more than a partnership, it was a friendship of such depth and strength that nothing short of death could have severed it. To that friendship and to the absolute conviction in his own mind that one day Franklin Roosevelt would be President. Howe sacrificed every personal consideration. As they swung along together, step by step, up and down, he came to live more as a member of the Frank lin Roosevelt family than of his own, although he was himself a grand father before that final step to the White House was taken. When Franklin Roosevelt was called in the Wilson administration to carry on the Roosevelt tradition in the As sistant Secretaryship at the Navy De partment, established by his Repub lican kinsman. Howe came with him, of course. It was Howe who ran de tails of that office, Howe who widened his political horizon to span the Na tion instead of the State, always with an ultimate view of making another Roosevelt President. Untiring in Efforts. Only a few old timers at the Navy Department recall Howe as of those days. He was then the same spare, retiring man he always remained. He had no liking for the center of the stage; yet he worked for the inter ests of “the boss” untiringly back stage. The intricacies of Government business were soon clear to him. His knack of reading men aided Assistant Secretary Roosevelt vastly in meeting difficult naval problems that devolved upon his office. Howe was his ambassador in manv a strange bit of maneuvering on Navy matters, whether to wheedle a way around budgetary officers or to get at the insides of naval personnel clashes. Yet no one except the newspaper men covering the Navy Department heard or saw much of Howe He dealt with them as a fel low craftsman and his dealings did no harm to the reputation and grow ing prestige of Franklin Roosevelt. Even back in those days Howe had learned that what would be most helpful to “the boss” would be a good “no" man. Mr. Roosevelt was young and ardent. He had a tendency to surge into action in support of a .. .. f project too precipitately, Howe thought. So even when he approved the plan Howe often opposed it in inner coun cils in order to bring out every weak ness ia advance. He kept up that business to the end. It became almost a game between them. As presidential secretary, Howe often described himself as the “no” man of the New Deal. And he was "no” man on one very big point in the Roosevelt career. He did not see prospects of advance ment toward the White House in Mr. Roosevelt’s acceptance of his partv's vice presidential nomination in 1920. with certain defeat for the ticket ahead. Yet with the decision made, planning of the campaign, picking up campaign aides was Howe's job. How well satisfied Roosevelt was with that planning and picking is shown by the fact that two of the men then picked to help that cam paign. Marvin MacIntyre and Stephen T. Earlv. became Howe's associates in the White House secretaryship in 1933 when Mr. Roosevelt became President. Rarely Left White House. In the wake of that campaign came the stroke that seemed to have wrecked finally Franklin Roosevelt’s political career. From the hour word of that disaster reached him, Louis Howe abandoned his own affairs, his own home almost to stand at his friend's side. He became an inmate of the Roosevelt home, commuting as chance offered to his own home. That continued through the subsequent Roosevelt governorships and after Mr. Roosevelt’s inauguration as Presi dent. Howe was more th^n secre tary to the President. He was a resi dent secretary, living in the White House and rarely leaving it. While Roosevelt was Governor Howe held no title. He was carrying forward the work of the State Crime Commission Mr. Roosevelt had taken over before his State election. He lived in the Roosevelt home in New York City and had his own room in the executive mansion in Albany. But wherever he was. whether mas ter-minding with Jim Farley at State Central Committee headquar ters or bustling back and forth be tween New York and Albany, he was working always on the presidential possibilities the situation held for "the boss." Howe never figured at a national convention until that in Chicago which nominated Roosevelt. Prior to that when, after the defeat of 1928, a special session of the Democratic National Committee was called in Washington to map party plans. Howe came to Washington to guide the action of Roosevelt supporters. It was a touch-and-go moment with his hopes for a 1932 nomination. Yet Howe never appeared in the Na tional Committee hotel center. He had a modest room in a distant hotel, where he kept a wire open to Albany. He passed along word on committee strategy to such Roosevelt stalwarts in the committee gathering as Cordell Hull or Henry Morgenthau. sr. And a notable Roosevelt victory, paving the way for his nomination, came out of all that, although few recognized it ot the time. Washington Contacts. Before the committee broke up, Howe had vanished, gone back to New York. Not even the press knew he had been in Washington or why. He similarly engineered as time rolled on toward the Chicago convention unheralded contacts in Washington between party groups that had a lot to do with what happened in Chicago. At that convention Howe moved In, but in hiding. Only the initiated knew where his room was; yet it was the nerve center of the Roosevelt campaign. Perhaps the only per sonal appearance Louis Howe ever made publicly in a political setting was when he stood on the platform with Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, Just off a plane from New York, to share ic the convention's greeting to 1U nontf nee. Howe was not well then. All that ♦ Lewis to Talk in Forum ILLINOIS SENATOR TO DISCUSS FOREIGN RELATIONS. INTERNATIONAL relations will be the subject of an address deliv ered by Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois in the National Radio Forum tomorrow at 10:30 p.m. The National Radio FOrum is ar ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. Senator Lewis, who has just been renominated by the Democratic party in Illinois, Is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Illinois Senator has been a close student of foreign affairs for many years. He will deal with the problem of International relations, particularly from the American point of view. The title Senator Lewis has selected for his address is “Where Stands America at This Time When Nations of Asia and Europe Threaten a New World War?” SENATOR LEWIS. WENDEL SUSPECT HELD, 2 SOUGHT Martin Schiossman Identi fied in Lindbergh Kidnap “Confession.” BACKGROUND— Arretted and charged with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping on the strength of a "confession” during the last days of the fight of Bruno Hauptmann against execution, Paul H. Wendel 0/ New Jersey said he had been kidnapped and tor tured into signing the “confession.” He said he was held 10 days in a Brooklyn house, Bv tfte Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 18—Brooklyn police late today arrested Martin ’ Schlossman on a charge of abducting Paul H. Wendel, former New Jersey attorney, and torturing him into a "confession” of the Lindbergh kid naping. The arrest was made after Wendel identified Schlossman as one of the four men who held him captive in a Brooklyn house and forced him to sign the kidnaping “confession.” Police are seeking Murray Bleefeld and Harry Weiss, who, Wendel said, were the two men who abducted him ! from in front of a Manhattan hotel February 14 and transported him to Brooklyn. After the arrest of Schlossman, a spokesman for District Attorney Wil liam F. X. Geoghan said: "We expect to break this ease wide open before many hours have passed, and there may be far-reaching rami fications.” House is laeniineo. Developments today included identi fication by Wendel of the house in which he was held and the questioning of three other persons besides Schlossman. Wendel pointed out the house of Harry Bleefeld at 3041 Voorhies avenue after he had threaded through numer ous streets with representatives of the district attorney, retracing the route he said he had followed in the com pany of the men who abducted him. After an examination of the resi dence, he told the district attorney’s aides he recognized a number of articles in the house. The three questioned by police were Harry Bleefeld. Mrs. Schlossman and Sidney Bleefeld. Harry Bleefeld is the father of Murray and Sidney Blee- j feld and Mrs. Schlossman. Until today the four men who held Wendel had been known to him only as ”Jack," "Tony.” "Maier” and "Spid- : delio.” He told District Attorney Geoghan that Schlossman was "Jack.” I Geoghan said Murray Bleefeld some- 1 times went by the alias of William Maier and that Weiss occasionally as sumed the name of Harry Spiddelio. He described Weiss as a former taxicab driver. Car Passe* Red Light. Schlossman owned a 1928 sedan, ' which was ticketed for passing a red light on the evening of February 24. Police said they believed the car was returning from Mount Holly. N. J., after having delivered Wendel to the home of Ellis Parker, Burlington County detective. When Schlossman was questioned j recently he insisted that he had loaned his car to his brother-in-law, Murray Bleefeld, on that evening. Wendel was brought to New York last night after New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard dismissed a murder charge against him. Postal Savings Increase. Depositors in postal savings banks of Japan increased by 353,759 in a re cent month. he did prior to that convention, after it in the gruelling campaign which to him meant endless hours at the New York national headquarters and on the phone raking the whole Na tion by long distance, was done against doctors' warning. Howe knew he was risking his life. The knowl edge did not cause him to abate an instant of his labor. After inauguration, Howe bobbed up as a figure in the news for a time. He planned the new White House organization with the aid of Mac Intyre and Early, but he reserved for himself a rather indistinct back ground post despite his title as secre tary to the President. The other two dealt with callers and the press. Howe at first conferred regularly with them, but as his health failed was compelled to drop even that. Then, early last year, his condition became acute and death was expected hourly for some time. He hung on grimly, however, and had been in Naval Hospital more than a year. President Roosevelt's first sharp move after the banking crisis had been dealt with was creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. When Congress authorized that project, the President turned it over to Howe to get it going. It was Howe who: picked the men to do the actual work. Appears Before Committee. And in connection with equipment of the forestry cadets arose a Senate investigation of the details of the purchasing of toilet kits. Before it all simmered away into a finding that no wrong-doing was involved. Howe appeared in person before the com mittee to testify. It was the only public appearance he made as Presi dent’s secretary, although for a time he did a radio comment every week and he wrote a number of magazine articles. a very ticKlish business also turned over to Howe by the President early in the administration was the sec ond bonus march on Washington. In view of what had happened during the Hoover administration, it was a difficult problem. Howe handled it by getting the marchers down to a nearby ungarrisoned Army post, feed ing them and then enlarging the C. C. C. to take in as many as desired. The second bonus march dwindled into a mere passing Incident over night under his management. Whatever the President himself or any other element of his administra tion might do or say about thrusting aside thoughts of the 1936 campaign in the first two years of the admin istration. that was never out of Louis Howe's mind. He was essentiaUy po litical secretary to the President in that respect. He spent his time look ing ahead, and often employing his “no” man role to iron out complica tions as to 1936 he thought some par ticular current New Deal venture might involve. As his health pro gressively failed, however, and he never threw off the physical effects of the campaign strain, his orbit of activity became narrower and nar rower. He rarely left his White House room, saw few callers and even limited his telephone activities His share of the normal routine of fice activities had been passed over to his secretariat colleagues almost entirely months before the end. • CITIZENS SUPPORT . 0. C. VOTEPARLEY Appropriation for Notices of Suffrage Session Made by Federation. Members of the Federation of Citi zens' Associations last night supported plans of its National Representation Committee for calling of a conference here of representatives of State so cieties and other groups to push the cause of District representation In Congress at points throughout the country. The conference was authorized and an appropriation was voted on motion by Mrs. Marie F. Maddox, who out lined plans for a campaign in the States in the interest of the national representation cause. Chairman Norton of the House Dis trict Committee will gladly seek In clusion of a national representattion plank in the Democratic platform if she is urged to make the fight by rep resentative District residents, the fed eration was informed by Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley of the Federation of Wom en's Clubs. Delay Is Questioned. Support for the campaign was voted after William McK. Clayton. James G Yaden and other supporters of nation al rcpresentattion had debated ad visability of delaying forceful action on local suffrage proposals until the time when Congress will act on the na tional representation plan. This is provided in a joint resolution prcpc? lng an amendment to the Constitution allowing the District representation in both houses of Congress and a vote in national elections. Urging a more aggressive spirit for District sufTra§e, Clayton said the District government was becoming merely a "bureau of the Federal Gov ernment." Citizens of other cities. h> said, would "rise up and kick such a system out very promptly." The federation again urged Con gress to pass the bill drafted by for mer Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman, and sponsored by the Com missioners. urging a new small-loan act. which would place intere charges, fees and services at not to exceed 2 per cent per month on un paid balances. This action was taken on a motion by Joseph L. Gammell. It was a sub stitute for a report by Paul E Jamie son and George E. Sullivan, asking that the federation withdraw approval of the bill, voted a year ago. and go on record for maintenance of a limr of 1 per cent per month, as provided in the present bill. Film Bill Favored. Passage of the Pectingill-N'eely bill to ban present practices of "blind sell ing and block booking” of motion pic ture films was urged on motion by Mrs. George Corbin. The body rejected a report, offered by Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan, oppos ing the legislation on the ground, there was "grave danger of political censorship" and suggesting the pro posed act would be found unconsti tutional because it set up "infringe ment of contract." Opposition to a bill which would remove successful smallpox vaccina tion as a requirement for entrance to public schools was recorded on mo tion by Dr. Charles B. Campbell. Starting of development of the proposed stadium at the foot of East Capitol street was requested In an other resolution, proposed by Miss Elaine Eppley. HORNER DENIES PLAN TO END KELLY FEUD Declares. However. Unity Needed to Head Off G. 0. P. Nominee for Governor. Bv the Associated Press. FRENCH LICK. Ind.. April 18 Gov. Henry Homer of Illinois, here for a week end of relaxation after the campaign which brought him the Democratic nomination for re-elec tion, insisted today he had no definite plans for patching up his differences with Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chi cago. The Governor added, however, that "a united Democratic front is abso lutely necessary to head off a Repub lican opponent in the November gubernatorial race." He said he had no plans for reor ganization of the Illinois State Dem ocratic Committee and had no ideas concerning the keynoter for the party's State convention. “I have absolutely no idea at the present time who will be chosen for the new national committeeman and I do not know who will be the new State chairman," he said. PUBLISHER DIES AT 64 MINNEAPOLIS. April 18 M. Near. 64, publisher of the Saturday Press, known for his fight against the Minnesota "gas law.” later ruled unconstitutional, died today after a year's illness. Born in Fort Atkinson. Iowa, he came to Minneapolis about 20 years ago. TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS SECOND OFFENSE SPEEDING. Joseph Barbagallo, 1821 North Capitol street, $15. FIRST OFFENSE SPEEDING. Eara B. Lilly, 1525 Forty-fourth street, $5. John R. Winter, 3*54 Newark street, $5. , Margaret N. Hooper, 4425 Garfield street, $5. Howard W. Smith, Navy Yard, $5. Thomas M. Purdy, 5665 Chevy Chase parkway, $5. Gene Miller, 1435 8 street south east, $5. Hershel A. 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