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DUCE MOBILIZES
ENTIRE COUNTRY;
WILL HALT WAR IF
GIVEN ALLETUIOPIA
Will Address Great General
Meeting of Fascists—Fur
ther Victories in Africa
Hailed in Rome.
EDEN ASSAILS USE
OF GAS IN CONFLICT
__
“Occupation of Enemy Territory
in Entirety” Is Condition of Of
fer Made by Envoy to League
Session—British Still Confident
in Geneva's Ability to Act.
BACKGROUND—
After Italy invaded Ethiopia last
Fall for purposes of conquest, the
League of Nations invoked eco
nomic sanctionThese threats
have not deterred Italy, in fact,
have given her courage to proceed
against the new odds. With the
invasion going deeper and deeper
into the heart of the African coun
try, Emperor Hade Selassie has
issued new and urgent appeals.
The powers of the world have tem
porized, unwilling to employ mili
tary measures against Mussolini.
The idealistic exaltation to pro
tect the integrity of Ethiopia was
aeen definitely weaker Friday, when
• the League Committee of 13 fthe
Council with the exception of
Italy), admitted it was unable to
propose any way to settle the con
troversy.
By tfce Associated Press.
ROME, April 20.—Orders went
cut today to all Fascists organ
, lzations to hold themselves in
readiness for what was believed
to be a national mobilization.
The great general meeting would be
similar to that which marked the be
ginning of the Itvlo-Ethiopian War
and an authoritative source indicated
that the new mobilization would mark
the entrance of Italian troops into
Addis Ababa.
The new mobilization is to be cen
tered around the mass meeting in
Venezia Square in front of Premier
Mussolini’s office. H Duce will speak.
Italy’s southern army closed in on
the powerful forces of Ras Nasibu, de
fending Harar, second city of Ethiopia,
Racist sources said today, after a left
wing victory over 10,000 natives on
the Somaliland front.
A march of more than 620 miles by
Gen. Rodolfo Graziani's troops, ad
vices from Mogadiscio. Italian Somali
land said, culminated in a four-day
battle last week near Bircut in which
the natives abandoned about 1,000
dead.
The new triumph was hailed In
Rome as a symbol of the end of
League of Nations' hopes for effecting
Italo-Ethiopian conciliation, if not
actually an indication of an approach
ing end to the League itself .
Premier Mussolini, officially and I
frankly showing his hand, demanded
virtually all Ethiopia for Italy as the
price of East African peace after the
League Council received the report on
4UUU1 V* V UtlVilUt ViUt*a
Through the speech made by
Aloisi to the Council, II Duce
’ declared any armistice must provide
for assurance against the danger of
any new Ethiopian mobilization and
against any rearmament of Emperor
Bile Selassie's domain.
Baron Aloisi asserted, "To put it
otherwise, this means an armistice
must assure occupation of all centers
of mobilization, including the capital
Itself and frontier points through
which arms may be delivered to
Ethiopia.
"In other words, it means prac
tically accupation of enemy territory
In its entirety.”
Baron Aloisi accused the Ethiopian
delegation of responsibility for the col
lapse of conciliation, reported to the
council by Salvador de Madariaga of
Spain, chairman of the Council’s Com
mittee of 13.
The Ethiopian delegate, Wolde Ma
fiam. in a brief reply, declared
•'Ethiopia fully maintains its previous
position,” that peace negotiations must
be conducted through the League and
In the spirit of the covenant, recog
nizing Ethiopia’s sovereignty.
Italy Censured.
Meeting privately after the first
public session, the councilors drew up
a resolution expressing regret that
• Information Italy furnished to the
Committee of 13 concerning accept
ance of the League peace appeal had
hindered the conciliation efforts.
The draft of the resolution, to be
presented for adoption by the coun
cil, said:
"We regret that under these cir
fcumstances a cessation of hostilities
has not been realized and the war
continues under conditions which
have been declared by the 52 mem
bers of the League to be a violation
pf the covenant.”
It added, "We address to Italy a
Supreme appeal, so that in the exist
ing circumstances which require the
collaboration of all nations to safe
guard peace, Italy may bring to a
solution her conflict with Ethiopia in
the spirit of the League, which one
pas the right to expect from a country
(See LEAGUE, Page A-5.)
MISS BANKHEAD ILL
Actress Reported Comfortable
After Minor Operation.
NEW YORK, April 20 (jP).—'Tal
lulah Bankhead, actress daughter of
Representative William B. Bankhead
of Alabama, today was reported “com
fortable” in Lenox Hill Hospital after
» minor operation.
Miss Bankhead’s nurse declined to
comment on the nature of the opera
tion, but said it was nothing serious.
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Mothers to Picket
<*
School of Teacher
Who Used a Ruler
Parents Agree on Strike
to Block Her Re
instatement.
By the Associated Press.
HIGHLAND FALLS. N. Y., April 20.
—Five mothers signed up for picket
duty and 13 others voted to call a
strike of sixth-gTade pupils at Fort
Montgomery School today in protest
against the reinstatement of a teacher
who punished a pupil with a ruler.
Mrs. Carrie F. Hynie, principal and
teacher of the sixth grade, admitted
slapping Frances Saunders, 11, on the
hands with a ruler. The Highland
Falls School Board suspended her, but
the State Department of Education
ordered her reinstated, effective today.
A mass meeting of parents, taxpay
ers and the Board of Education was
called for tomorrow night.
MYER’S FUMBLE
FA1AL TO GRIFFS
Manush Climaxes Ninth-In
ning Rally With Triple as
Sox Win, 6 to 5.
Play-by-play Details on
Page A-12.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
BOSTON, April 20.—Beaten in the
morning by a combination of their
own miscues and timely Boston hitting,
the Nationals faced the Rex Sox again
this afternoon for the second game of
a Patriots’ day base ball bill before a
crowd expected to jam Fenway Park.
Upward of 45.000 spectators were ex
pected in the stands when Pete Apple
ton, veteran hight-hander of the
Washington club, and Jack Welch of
the Red Sox began firing from the I
pitching slab.
Their defeat by a 6-to-5 score in
the morning game was entirely the
fault of the Nationals, who had victory
in their grasp and kicked it away
in the final inning, when Boston
staged a three-run rally off Eddie
Linke and Jack Russell.
Bluege’s Error Costly.
An error by the usually reliable Ossie
Bluege helped the Sox to a one-run
lead in the second inning. Bluege
kicked a grounder "by Bill Werber. who
promptly stole second and scored a
moment later on Rick Feryell’s single.
In the third inning doubles by Jimmy
Foxx and Rick Ferrell and a single by
Werber made it 2-0.
The Griffs tied it up by the seventh
inning. A walk to Bluege, a double
by Powell and Travis’ infield out made
it 2 to 1 in the sixth frame anri
Linke’s home run in the next round
knotted the count.
In the eighth the Griffs put to
gether singles by Myer and Reynolds,
a double by Kuhel and a triple by
Travis to add three more runs, to
drive Rube Walberg and Joe Cascar
rella from the box and make it 5-2.
Foxx Slams Homer.
Linke, apparently weakening,
pitched a home run to Jimmy Foxx
in Boston’s half the eighth, but not
until the disastrous last inning did j
it become serious.
Again Rick Ferrell started the
trouble by singling to left field. Linke
got Melillo on a fly, but when he
walked Pinch Hitter Bing Miller he
was waved from the box in favor of
Russell.
Manager Joe Cronin countered by
sending Wes Ferrell to bet for Almada,
and Ferrell promptly grounded to
Capt. Buddy Myer, who, with an
easy double play in sight, let the ball
go through his legs. R. Ferrell scored
on the error and Dusty Cooke, run
ning for Miller, reached third. A
moment later Cooke scooted across
the plate on Roger Cramer’s play to
tie the score, 5 to 5.
It remained for an old Washing
ton favorite to provide a fitting cli
max—for Boston. Heinie Manush
stepped up at this point and tripled
to right, scoring Pinch Runner Stew
Bowers, who replaced Wes Ferrell.
A crowd of 10,000 watched the
morning game.
RAIN AND COLD ON WAY
TO DELAY SPRING AGAIN
Sightseers Jam Capital as the
Weather Relents for
Sunday.
Rain and colder weather by tomor
row night is the current outlook In the
wake of a sunny Sunday which
brought thousands of visitors to the
show spots of Washington.
Special trains and busses brought
unusually large throngs of sightseers
to the Capital over the week end,
while highways were jammed with
motor traffic and the airport was
crowded with travelers.
The streets of the city presented a
holiday appearance as visitors and
Washingtonians paraded their new
Spring outfits under sunny skies.
The forecast today is for “increas
ing cloudiness and warmer tonight,
followed by showers tomorrow and
colder tomorrow night.'*
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Must Change Course to
Reach Victims—Two Can
Live 12 Hours.
MAGILL, PART OWNER,
DIES AS RELIEF NEARS
Canadian Diggers Risk Lives in
Abandoned Shaft to Get to
Entombed Pair.
(Copyright. 1036, by the Associated Press >
MOOSE RIVER, N. S., April 20.—
With three trapped men—two living
and one dead—only a few feet away,
tired rescue workers reported this
afternoon that they feared they had
miscalculated the position of the gold
mine chamber toward which they are
digging.
One and one-half hours after they
had estimated that they only had
five feet to go through solid rock to
reach the entombed men, they said
they were afraid they had missed the
old Meagher shaft where the men were
caught.
They started at once to make a
cross cut from their dangerous gal
lery in an effort to tap the tomb of
the living men.
Dr. D. E. Robertson and Charles
Alfred Scadding are imprisoned. Dr.
Robertson, one of two still alive
after a week's imprisonment in the
gold mine, reported earlier today he
and his companion could hold out at
least 12 hours longer.
With Dr. Robertson, part-owner of
the mine, was his timekeeper Scadding,
and the body of his partner. Herman
R. Magill, Toronto lawyer, who suc
cumbed during the night, apparently
to hunger and exposure.
Veteran miners were digging from
two directions to get to the trapped
men.
F. D. Henderson, mine manager,
predicted rescuer* would get through
the crumbling tunnels before noon.
The miners were burrowtofclp through
loose rocks without stopping to timber
up their passages. ^
Communications between the sur
face and the 141-foot level, where the
men are trapped, were improved this
morning by the lowering of a tiny
microphone on % slim wire through
a five-inch pipe fbr which an opening
had been bored by a diamond drill.
Can Last 12 Honrs.
Into this microphone Dr. Robertson
said:
"You needn’t get through to us for
10 or 12 hours or longer. We can
hold out.”
Mrs. Robertson heard her husband’s
words. She shouted down through
the pipe:
"Good. We are coming. We will
be there."
The doctor responded: "We are
all right."
The three men were trapped Easter
Sunday night when an area of land
400 feet long, 75 feet wide collapsed
and sank 15 feet.
Since then rescuers have met re
npntpri disannnintmpnt.^ In pfTnrt* t.n
reach the 141-foot level of the Magill
shaft where the men were trapped.
Attempts were made through the
old Archibald and Meagher shafts,
but had to be abandoned because the
cave-ln had blocked them far below
the surface.
A new shaft, blasted through solid
rock to meet the Meagher slope below
the affected area, missed its mark
and was abandoned.
While those approaches were being
tried another crew opened the “death
shaft” to within 15 feet of the men. I
Surface workers had known Magill
was ill before his death was reported.
He had been heard coughing soon
after communications were established
through the diamond drill hole early
yesterday morning. Before his cough
was heard, however, he had sent words
of cheer to his wife at the drill hole.
Magill, a war veteran, had not been
in good health. Dr. Robertson had
(See MINERS, Page 3.)
BOY HELD AS SLAYER
NEW YORK, April 20 <JP).—James
Sullivan, 16, was jailed yesterday on
a charge of slaying a dry goods dealer
with a bowling pin in a $7 hold-up.
The victim, Herman Meyerson, 48,
died February 28. eight days after he
was assaulted and robbed in his store.
Police said they traced Sullivan, a
pin boy at a Brooklyn bowling alley,
through the pin found at the scene.
He was quoted by detectives as say
ing he needed money to go to “a
party.”
SCOUTS HEAR KING
WINDSOR, England, April 20 G45).—
King Edward told 1,000 Boy Scouts
yesterday that Great Britain “will al
ways take a very leading part in the
affairs of the world.”
Speaking to the Scouts at Windsor
Castle, the King emphasized the in
ternational character of the Scout
movement, adding “in these days that
Is a thing of very great importance.”
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Home Love Lures Boy, 16, Back
To Serve Eight-Year Sentence
Suspended Term for Highway Robbery
Canceled When Banished Cecil
Barlow Returns to Virginia.
By the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va„ April 20.
—Because he could not resist the lure
of his Virginia home, Cecil Barlow.
16-year-old Spotsylvania County youth,
must spend the next eight years In
the State penitentiary, to which he
was sentenced last year by Judge
Frederick W. Coleman for highway
robbery of an automobile from two
young woman relief workers who had
visited his home to give aid to Bar
low’s mother.
In consideration of the boy’s age,
Judge Coleman suspended the prison
sentence, but ordered him to leave
Virginia and not return for eight
years. Barlow's forced exile. was
widely commented on at the time. ■
The youth went to North Carolina
and remained for several months with
his grandfather, but the urge to come
back home asserted itself and he dis
I regarded the order of the court by
1 returning a few days ago.
Early yesterday. Barlow was routed
: from bed by county officers and State
police. He sought to escape in his
night clothing; but was taken in cus
tody.
Brought before Judge Coleman In
Spotsylvania Circuit Court today, Bar
low was sharply rebuked and the sus
pension of his sentence was canceled.
, “If you prefer a prison term in Vir- j
I ginia to freedom elsewhere, your choice
is granted,” Judge Coleman said. “I
banished you from this State, but if
you insist on returning, you must suf- j
fer the consequences by serving your
term of eight years. It does not pay
10 violate a parole of this court.”
Clyde Barlow, father of the youth,
was sentenced in United States Dis
trict Court last week to a year in At
lanta Penitentiary for the manufac
i ture of liquor.
D. A. R. IS WARNED
Communism and Socialism
Creeping Into Pulpits,
Hyde Declares.
Charging that socialism and com
munism are creeping into pulpits and
church organizations, Arthur M.
Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture under
President Hoover, today warned the
Daughters of the American Revolution
that apostles of "collectivism” are
making progress against the spirit of
real Christianity and the traditional
American system of "individual lib
erty.”
Hyde spoke at a national defense
symposium at the Mayflower Hotel,
under auspices of the D. A. R. Com
mittee on National Defense Through
Patriotic Education. The sympo
sium preceded formal opening of the
Forty-fifth Continental Congress of
the D. A. R. tonight at Constitution
Hall.
After quoting at length from reso
lutions adopted recently by young peo
ple of a certain church, Hyde said:
“Of course. Socialists may go to
church, may even speak in its pulpits,
but if there is anything in Christianity
which can be bent, battered or ram
med into the philosophy of socialism,
then Karl Marx, Liebknecht, Lenin,
and all the other luminaries of the
socialistic firmament were in dense
ignorance as to the meaning and the
objective of. socialism.”
Defends “Rugged Individualism"
Defending "rugged individualism,”
njuu uctwicu uiat uuuu vuiiouauibji
society “can give men equality of op
portunity, can guarantee liberty, can
afford to every man a free field, a
fair chance.”
President Roosevelt, who was to 1
have addressed the D. A. R. tonight,
canceled this engagement, along with
all others, for today and tomorrow,
because of the death of his close
friend, CoL Louis McHenry Howe.
Other changes have been made .in
the D. A. R. program because of the
death of Mr. Howe. Mrs. Roosevelt,
instead of receiving the members of
the Continental Congress at the White <
House Thursday, will go to Constitu
tion Hall, where she will hold her |
reception on the stage. This after- ]
noon the Children of the American
Revolution will not be received by Mrs.
Roosevelt at the White House, as
originally planned, but will be escorted
through part of the Executive Mansion.
To take the place made vacant on
the program by the absence of the
President, Dr. Gus W. Dyer, profes
sor of economics of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, who was scheduled to speak
Wednesday, has been moved up to to
night He will discuss “The Philos
ophy of the Constitution."
Other features of the elaborate
opening program will be carried out
as originally planned. Mrs. William
A. Becker, president general of the
D. A. R, will deliver her first annual
address on the subject “Have You the
Vision?”
About 4,000 are expected to attend
the congress, which will ocntlnue until
(Bee D. A. R, Page A-4.)
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ROOSEVELT TO PAY
Services for Secretary Will
Be Held at White House
Tomorrow.
President Roosevelt will attend the
burial Wednesday morning of Louis
McHenry Howe, his old friend and
secretary, who died Saturday night.
He will leave the White House tomor
row night, accompanied by Mrs. Roose
velt, for Fall River, Mass., Howe’s
former home.
Funeral services for the senior pres
dential secretary, who died in his sleep
in naval hospital after a long illness,
fill be held in the east room of the
White House tomorrow at 4 p.m. Rev.
C. Ernest Smith, rector of St. Thomas’
Episcopal Church will conduct the
services, for which final arrangements
»re now being completed.
Howe's widow and members of the
Immediate family will be aboard the
President's special train going to the
Fall River burial. Mrs. Robert Balter,
i daughter of Howe, and her husband,
Prof. Jacob Baker, win arrive here
;omorrow from Urbana, HI., to join
Mrs. Howe and Hartley, a son.
President to Go to New York.
President Roosevelt will not return
iere immediately after the burial, but
fill go to his Hyde Park, N. Y . estate
xi remain until Saturday, when he
fill motor to New York City to speak
hat night at the National Democratic
Clubs’ Jefferson day bahquet at the
Commodore Hotel. He may return to
Hyde Park for Sunday, returning to
;he White House Monday morning.
Leaders expressed regret over Howe's
ieath, the President ordered the
lag of the White House placed
kt half-staff and canceled all social
■ngagements for today and tomorrow.
He also called off a speech he was
o have delivered tonight to the
(See HOWE, Page 2.)
Plot on Herriot Bared.
PARIS, April 20 (JP).—Police investi
gating a band of alleged terrorists
teeklng autonomy for Brittany said
iarly today a member of the group
:onfessed he attempted to wreck a
rain on which Edouard Herriot, for
der premier, was riding in 1932.
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TO 6 DEAOJO HURT
Woman Dies as Fourth Vic
tim of Memorial Boule
vard Collision.
An additional death today as a re
sult of the terrific collision of two !
automobiles on the Mount Vernon
Memorial Boulevard early yesterday
brought the week end traffic toll In
the Washington area to six fatalities,
four of them directly due to the
Mount Vernon Boulevard crash.
Mrs. Eileen Keyworth, 52 Quincy
street, a department store buyer, was
the fourth victim of this collision.
She died today In Alexandria Hos
pital.
Another victim of week end acci
dents was a young mother of four
children. She was killed in an auto
mobile-truck collision on the Wash
ing ton-Baltimore Boulevard.
A colored woman lost her life when
hit by a car under somewhat myste
rious circumstances in the District.
At the same time, a Linden, N. J.,
youth was fatally Injured In a mishap
near Bel Air, Md., while on his way to
Washington on a sight-seeing jaunt.
In addition to the deaths, 10 per
sons were injured. 5 critically, among
them a young naval officer and his
fiancee.
List of Dead.
Besides Mrs. Keyworth, the other
dead were:
Walter Lawrence Mooney. 22, of 3639
Jenifer street.
Mrs. Irene C. Johnson, 37, of 3708
New Hampshire avenue.
Fred J. Kammerer, 36, cab driver.
3411 Thirteenth street.
Mrs. Mary Eckloff, 27, of 2842
Belalr place northeast.
Lucille Daniels, 37, colored, 821 R
street.
Charles Prince, 19, Linden.
The injured:
Ensign Herman John Mecklenburg,
22, San Diego, Calif.
Miss Dorothy Vize, 19, of 3321 Six
teenth street, Mecklenburg’s fiancee.
Miss Mary Schuler, 19, Hamilton,
(See TRAFFIC, Page A-6.)
ANOTHER ARRESTED
IN HUGE BOND THEFT
Alexander Klein Picked Up in
Vienna and Third Brother
Sought.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 20.—United States
authorities were informed today that
another man has been taken into
custody in connection with the Janu
ary, 1935, theft of more than $1,500,
000 in bonds from a New York bank.
Austrian police said they had picked
up Alexander Klein, brother of Ber
nard Klein, in Vienna. He will be
questioned In connection with the
actions of his brother, who already
is under arrest in Paris, awaiting ex
tradition proceedings.
The Austrians reported that the
police in Czechoslovakia had been
asked to arrest another brother, Joseph
Klein, believed to be in Bratislava.
It was stated there were no charges
against Alexander and Joseph, but
that every line of inquiry concerning
the whereabouts of possible ac
complices in the Wall Street theft
was being pursued.
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M$, WAGNER
URGE ENACTMENT
OE ROUSING GILL
Building Program Cannot
Aid Slums Without More
Funds, Senate Body Told.
WAGNER SEES BOON
TO HEAVY INDUSTRY
States 50% of Unemployment
Due to Lag in That Branch
of Business.
BACKGROUND—
Administration has made many
efforts toward, improvement of
housing conditions throughout
country, but lack of co-ordination
between different plans has im
paired their effectiveness.
This Winter, Senator Wagner,
sponsor of social security legisla
tion and several other major social
measures, proposed tS76,000,000
program of low-cost housing; sub
mitted bill to carry out plan.
Congressional anxiety to adjourn
after disposal of tax and relief
issue may block passage of any
housing legislation by this Congress.
By the Associated Press.
Support for the Wagner $876,000,000
housing bill was voiced today by its
author and Secretary Ickes, who de
clared it offered necessary Federal as
sistance for elimination of the slum>
evil.
The Senate Labor Committee held
a hearing on the measure.
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York testified the program would ex
cite the heavy goods industries to new
activity, increase employment and at
the same time eradicate slums without
competing with legitimate private con
struction.
Ickes said present housing efforts
had not reached the slum area be
cause of a lack of sufficient money and
of a well-composed national housing
program.
"It has long been known,” Ickes '
said, reading from a manuscript, “that
the slum furnishes the environment
most conducive to the existence,
spread and communication of sickness
and disease and fosters and en
courages juvenile delinquency, crime,
vice and immorality.”
Says No Policy Provided.
Present housing acts, Ickes said,
"are concerned primarily with the im
mediate relief of unemployment. They
provide no housing policy for the Na
tion."
“A result of obtaining money from
the emergency appropriations,” he
continued, “has been that original al
lotments to the housing division (of
P. W. A.) have subsequently become
unavailable due to the necessity of
using such funds for more direct
relief.
“Of the $154,000,000 allotted to the
housing division under the national
industrial recovery act, $110,000,000
was subsequently impounded for other
purposes. Of the $249,000,000 allotted
under the emergency relief appropria
tion act of 1935. approximately $148.
000,000 was later withdrawn.
"Such a curtailment of funds has
necessarily been followed by the aban
donment of projects.”
Opposes Directors’ Board.
Ickes indorsed the $876,000,000
4-year housing program projected by
the Wagner bill and commended its
provisions for Government grants to
make rents tow enough for low-income
groups, but objected to having the pro
gram administered by a semi-inde
pendent board of five at $10,000-a
year salaries.
He said the measure could be ad
ministered satisfactorily under the In
terior Department.
A. R. Clas, director of the housing
division of P. W. A., followed Wagner
and Ickes with testimony before the
committee that 14.000.000 homes for
low-income groups would be needed
in the next 10 years, an estimate
4,000,000 higher than Wagner s.
The New York Senator said there
still are “two-thirds as many without
work today as at the depth of the
depression.”
Lists Unemployment Cause.
Urging need for spurring on con
struction, Wagner said “about 50 per
cent of total unemployment today is
due directly to the retardment in the
heavy Industries and another 35 per
cent is chargeable to the service trades
that are directly affected thereby.
“When we consider the long-time
deficit that has accumulated, the ex
istence of unhealthful quarters that
must be replaced and normal growth
in the future, it is very conserva
tively estimated that the country
needs at least 10,000,000 new family
units during the next 10 years. The
building program of this magnitude
will absorb both the unemployment
(See HOUSING, Page A-2.)
Fist Fight Adds Heat.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.—Thud
ding fists at a meeting of Young Re
publicans added heat today to the
California presidential primary elec
tion campaign.
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SENATORS FAVOR
0. S. TAKING OVER
ARMS FACTORIES
Munitions Group Majority
Urge Federal Supply of
Own Needs.
MINORITY IS OPPOSED
TO NATIONALIZATION
Supplemental Report Fears Local
Political Pressure for Full
Capacity Production.
BACKGROUND—
For nearly two years, Senate
committee probed financial set-up
of munitions manufacturers and
war-time operations of American
financiers.
Last Winter, political tempest
broke over investigation as Senate
Democrats bitterly assailed Chair
man A'ye for introducing evidence
reflecting on war-time President
Wilson. Peace was made subse
quently, but the committee cur
tailed activities from then on.
By the Associated Press.
The Senate Munitions Committee
recommended in a majority report to
day the nationalization of enough in
dustrial plants to produce warships,
guns and powder for the peacetime
needs of the Army and Navy.
It was a split committee that
handed in the report, however, for a
minority protested that nationalization
was not desirable.
Supporting the majority views were
Chairman Nye and Senators Clark, '
Democrat, of Missouri: Pope, Demo
crat, of Idaho, and Bone, Democrat,
of Washington. The minority view
was presented by Senators Vanden
berg. Republican, of Michigan: George,
Democrat, of Georgia and Barbour,
Republican, of New Jersey.
“The committee majority,” the re
port said, “recommends Government
ownership of facilities adequate for
the construction of all warships by the
Nwry Department, also all gun forg
ings; projectiles and armor plate and
of facilities adequate for the produc
tion of powder, rifles, pistols and
machine guns necessary for the War
Department. » * *
Political Pressure Feared.
“The majority believes that the War
and Navy Departments can produce
from their owm ranks or employ suffi
cient able technicians to operate these
plants suecessfully."
The minority said that if large Gov
ernment plants are erected “there will
be inevitable local political pressure to
maintain these plants at full capacity
production regardless of actual defense
needs, and the result will be to en
courage armament rather than dis
armament.
Tne minority believes, it con
tinued, “that if all production be thus
concentrated in Government plants,
furthermore, there will be no adequate
corollary reliance, through private
manufacture, in the event of a war
emergency unless the nationalized
facilities are maintained at a needlessly
extravagant and dangerous rate dur
ing peace time.
“The minority believes, on the other
hand, that unless these facilities are
kept on a full-time production basis
during peace years the unit cost of
production will increase to a point
which will create higher costs to the
Government than would be available
through normal, private purchase. • * •
Minority Favors Control.
“In other words, the committee
minority believes that the public wel
fare, from the standpoint of peace,
defense and economy, can be better
served by rigid and conclusive muni
tions control than by nationalization
except in a few isolated instances.”
The report was the third in a series
of eight projected by the committee as
a result of nearly two years of investi
gation.
Accompanying the recommendations
was a lengthy condemnation of the
methods of the munitions industry in
supporting a foreign market for Its
output. In this, both majority and
minority groups united. Most of the
findings in this section had been made
public previously.
Particularly the committee con
demned sales methods employed in
South America, where, it was contend
ed, national interests and fears were
played against each other among the
republics with a view to increasing
sales of munitions by inciting war
scares.
While proposing nationalization of
part of the munitions industry, the
majority decided against taking over
facilities for airplane manufacture
(See ARMS, Page A-2.)
ROOSEVELT STUDIES
’QUODDY PROBLEMS
Talks With Brann and Army En
gineers Before Seeing
Maine Senators.
B1 the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt canvassed in
two conferences today the Passama
quoddy. Me., situation resulting from
the refusal of OongTess to appropriate
further funds for this tide-harnessing
project.
The President talked first with Gov.
Louis J. Brann of Maine, Maj. Gen.
Edward M. Markham, chief of Army
engineers, and Col. Phillip Fleming,
Army engineer in charge.
Mr. Roosevelt then received the
Maine congressional delegation, head
ed by Senators Hale and White, both
Republicans.
Markham said funds so far allocated
by Mr. Roosevelt out of relief money
would last probably until the first of
July.
Mr. Roosevelt has indicated modi
fied plans for the Passamaquoddy and
the Florida ship canal, for which Con
gress also has refused money, would
be recommended,
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