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INCH SANITY
PROBE BEGUN AT
GALLINGER AFTER
WILD
Drives Along Crowded Side
walk, Through Red Lights
and Over White House
Lawn in New Episodes.
MIND HELD UNSOUND
BY SANITARY OFFICER
leaves Empty Beer Bottles, Can
of Mothballs and Ping-Pong
Balls in Brief Case for Presi
dent—Wanted Loan of Tank to
Level Hotel.
Representative Marion A. Zion
check of Washington was ad
mitted to Gallinger Hospital for
mental observation shortly after
noon today.
He was seized in the grounds of
Naval Hospital by Detective Sergts.
Aubrey Tolson and Joe Sincovitz an
hour after a broadcast of a general
alarm for his immediate arrest.
“I’ll go with you,” Zioncheck told
the policemen. “I just want a fair
examination."
He tried to get into his car. but
Toison and Sincovitz said, "Come in
our car."
There was a short struggle between
the two officers and the Representa
tive, who has slept only a few hours
aince Thursday.
Sees Hand Grenades.
At length he entered the headquar
ters squad car and slumped to his
seat. Suddenly he began to scream
that the floor of the car was covered
with hand grenades. Finally he quiet
ed down.
The officials whisked him to Gal
linger. where this commitment,
signed by Inspector Bernard Thomp
son. was presented:
“The admission of Marion A. Zion
check (Congressman) to Gallinger
Municipal Hospital is requested for
observation and a report as to his
mental status. The charge of un
sound mind is made by E. P. Stump,
sanitary officer of the District of
Columbia."
Things Happen Fast.
On the back of the document.
Stump had made this notation:
This man has been driving his
automobile in a reckless manner over
the streets of the District of Co
lumbia anfi annoying prominent of
ficials and citizens and is believed to
be of unsound mind."
The incarceration climaxed a day of
excitement during which Zioncheck
drove down a busy sidewalk, sped
across the White House lawn, left
Police Court at 60 miles an hour and
disregarded, according to his pas
senger, at least five red lights.
Reports of Zioncheck activities
came so fast during the morning that
shortly after 11 o'clock Commissioner
Allen summoned Supt. of Police
Brown and Acting Corporation Coun
sel Vernon E. West to his office to
decide on a course of action.
Drives on White House Lawn.
Zioncheck sped his black roadster
across the White House lawn at 8:30
a.m. and left three empty bottles at the
executive offices as a present for Mr.
Roosevelt.
“Here’s some gas for the President,”
he told a Secret Service man. He left
a briefcase containing the bottles and
two tin cans—moth balls and ping
pong balls.
The legislator said he wanted to ask
the President for some machine guns
and tanks to help him blow up a
rsee ZIONCHECK, Page A-4.)
SEARCH FOR STARK
IS PRESSED IN UTAH
riyer's Death From Exposure
Held Likely as Associates
Renew Hunt.
By the Associated Press.
MORGAN, Utah. June 1.—Con
vinced that Maj. Howard Stark could
not have gone far through a 5-foot
enow and a 30-below-zero tempera
ture. men on horseback hunted his
body today in a mile-radius circle
about his wrecked plane or. a rocky
8.000-foot peak.
Interrupted yesterday by a hail
*torm. Maj. Stark’s Commerce Depart
ment associates rushed plans to renew
the search today.- Some members of
the party considered the evidence
ample that the flyer died of exposure.
Four and a half months after the
plane crashed in a night flight during
a snowstoim last January, the wreck
age was found Saturday by a sheep
herder. Compasses and a map of the
region were missing from the pilot's
compartment.
The sicene of the crash is 25 miles
northeast of here, in country which
Is described as virtually Inaccessible,
with jagged rocks, steep cliffs and
narrow mountain trails.
Bureau Awaits Report.
The Bureau of Air Commerce today
Is awaiting word of the completion of
its continous search of 4 Vz months
for Howard Stark from Lloyd Juelson,
local friend of the missing Alexandria,
Va., flyer.
After Bureau airline inspectors in
the Salt Lake City area had conducted
daily flight operations, except during
Intervals of bad weather, for more
than three months. Juelson, employed
here In connection with the develop
ment of radio-controlled flight in
struments, was sent from Washington
to take over the search.
For weeks, Juelson has given his
full time to the search for his missing
fr'end. flying daily patrols and running
d ,wn every report offering any pos
rf. ie solution to the whereabouts of
the missing man.
Fights for Life
PRESIDENT SACASA._
ING
Mussolini to Call Men to Col
ors on Eve of League
Session. .
BACKGROUND—
The Italian mobilization, expected
to bring several branches of Fascist
military service on exhibition, will
follow by little more than c month
a test concentration of British
forces at Malta, naval base between
Sicily and Africa.
In a two-day practice May 12
and 13, the British land, sea and
air forces tested the vulnerability
of the strategic insular base.
Bv tiie Associated Press.
ROME, June 1.—Italy prepared
a display of potential force to
day to backstop her annexation
of Ethiopia before the League of
Nations.
Premier Mussolini decided to send
more than 1,000,000 soldiers in a
test mobilization to the northern fron
tier, reliable sources asserted, at the
same time the League Council re
sumes on June 16 its discussion of the
Italo-Ethiopian war.
The exhibition is intended to prove
the Fascist nation stands behind the
declaration of its dictator Ethiopia
will not be relinquished—even at the
cost of a European war.
The order for the display of steel
and men sent Italy’s trained warriors
to polishing their equipment for the
bis review. Nearly all of the avail
able army of 1,200,000 will partici
pate in the maneuvers, it was reported,
while part of reserve manpower, esti
mated at 6.800.000, may also be in
cluded.
The Italian military test is expected
to last several days. Other details of
the war games have not been com
pleted. ,
/ TT« 11_ n.'/i/l I’m.
peror without a country, left Gibral
tar yesterday aboard a passenger ship
bound for London.
(He was represented by a spokesman
in Paris as planning to go to Geneva
for the League meeting, although pre
viously the Negus himself asserted
such a decision must await confer
ences between him and the British
foreign office.
(“While I am not feeling what you
might call good." the Emperor said
before boarding the ship, "I feel much
better than when I landed.”)
Ethiopia Is Divided.
Meanwhile, all Ethiopia was di
vided into five part by Mussolini, cre
ator of the new Roman empire.
His cabinet approved a project by
which each part becomes an admin
istrative division. They are:
Eritrea—Capital. Asmara.
Amhara—Capital. Gondar.
Galla and Sldamo—Capital, Jimma.
Harar—Capital, Harar.
Somaliland—Capital, Mogadiscio.
The cabinet announced each divi
sion represented a homogeneous or
ganism “ethnically, geographically,
historically and politically.”
Addis Ababa was named the capi
tal for the new administrative or
ganization of Ethiopia with a viceroy
in charge, aided by a vice governor
general and the chief of the general
staff, the latter handling military
matters.
Flanking this central government,
(See ITALY, Page A-2.)
TO GET COMMISSIONS
NEW LONDON. Conn., June 1 OP).—
Russell Randolph Waesche, Jr., and
Robert Wilcox of Washington are
among 30 members of the graduating
class at the Coast Guard Academy
June 8. They will receive commis
sions as ensigns in the Coast Guard.
SACASA,TRAPPED
BY NICARAGUANS.
FIGHTS FOR LIFE
Americans Warned to Flee
as Rebels Fire on Presi
dent’s Palace.
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INSURGENTS ARE LED
BY OUSTED GENERAL
Machine Gun Mounted in Spire
of Cathedral for At
tack.
By the Associated Press.
MANAGUA. Nicaragua. June 1.—
United States’ citizens were warned
to seek safety today as rebel troops
surrounded the presidential palace,
cutting President Juan B. Sacasa and
his bodyguard off from the outside
world.
The warning was issued by Boaz W.
Long. United States Minister, to those
members of the North American col
i ony living in dangerous vicinities.
An undetermined number of persons
were killed and wounded In yesterday s
fighting.
An authoritative source in close con
tact with the besieged presidential
palace said three or four had been
killed there and three or four more
I wounded.
President Reported Calm.
This source said, however, that
President Sacasa himself was unhurt
and "quite calm.’’
Several citizens were known to have
been killed by stray bullets In the
street and six were reported wounded.
Following a day of fighting quiet
fell over the city-last night.
However, throughout the hours of
darkness motor cycles and automo
biles filled with army men rushed
through the streets of the capital.
Genaro Buono, an Italian subject
and manager of the Anglo-American
Hotel, died suddenly this morning of
a heart attack believed induced by
excitement.
Seek Armistice.
The diplomatic corps was under
stood to be endeavoring to make con
tact with both the President and the
leaders of the rebellion in an effort to
j reach an armistice,
j Col. Reyes, commanding the na
j tional army forces in Campo de Marte,
I the military encampment which sep
arates the presidential palace from
Managua itself, stated his men had
the situation well in hand.
He said he guaranteed safety for
non-combatants.
Hostilities between armed forces on
Tiscapa Hill, site of the President's
palace, and Campo de Marte. guards
men’s stronghold at the foot of the
, hill, started yesterday with machine
guns, rifles and some artillery going
j into action.
The first long-range assault failed,
j Unconfirmed reports said four or five
persons were killed and a number
wounded in the presidential mansion,
several died in the Campo de Marte
and a few civilians were killed by
; stray bullets in the capital.
Aiiacaers ran.
The shooting died down later yes
terday after the military failed to dis
lodge the government from the palace,
but the opposing sides remained en
camped today in their positions.
A concerted movement was reported
among United States. Mexican and
Central American diplomatic repre
sentatives to appeal to both sides to
cease the firing between the Tiscapa
Hill government defenders and the
Campo de Marte guardsmen forces.
Residents living near the theater of
hostilities moved to safer places. The
populace feared sacking and looting,
usual accompaniments to civil strife,
but officials said loyal guardsmen had
well-disciplined control of the rest of
the capital.
The revolutionary movement spread
into the country and reports were re
ceived here that rebellious national
(SeeNICARAGUA, Page A-15.)
3,000 AT WEDDING
Indians in Full Regalia Attend
Ceremony in Quebec.
CAUGHNAWAGA. Quebec, June 1
(/Pi.—This Indian town of 3.000 per
sons went en masse to a wedding to
day.
Flags and streamers decorated every
louse for the nuptials of Cecilia Jacobs
and Angus Snow. Indians in full tri
bal regalia paraded from house to
house, or joined in dances at the Re
serve Dance Hall.
Bride and bridegroom were feted
from early morning with breakfast,
luncheon and dinner parties.
Two Murder W arrants Asked
In Black Leaidn “Execution”
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, June 1.—Murder and
kidnaping warrants were asked by
Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea today
for two more men in the Black Le
gion "execution” of Charles A. Poole,
bringing the number held in the slay
ing to 15.
The two named in the latest war
rants recommended by McCrea are
Virgil Morrow and Albert Stevens, who
had been detained for questioning over
the week end.
Capt. Ira H. Marmon of the State
police said a former member of the
Black Legion told him that three
other members of the secret society
had entered an automobile factory
here to demand the discharge of
John L. Bielak, who subsequently was
beaten and shot to death.
The three charged that Bielak and
four other workers were Communists,
Marmon said. Bielak’s bullet-pierced
body was thrown out of an automobile
near Monroe. Mich., March 15. 1934.
Marmon said his informant “is go
ing before the grand jury here to
tell his story and I cannot reveal his
name now.”
Officials of the automobile plant
said Bielak was a member of a shop
committee which had presented a
petition for higher wages, but they
had no record of the incident men
tioned, or any information on Bielak's
political beliefs.
Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said
today another Black Legion flogging
had been disclosed in a Detroit suburb,
but that "the victim is afraid to
come in.”
In response to a request from Sena
tor Benson, Parmer-Labor, of Min
nesota, who introduced a resolution
last week demanding a congressional
investigation of the terrorist organi
sation, McCrea forwarded informa
tion on the order's activities to Wash
ington today.
The supposed suicide by hanging
of Roy Pidcock, 24 hours after the
Black Legion slaying of Charles A.
Poole, was added to the dozen other
deaths being investigated today for
possible connection with the night
riding terrorists. It was Poole’s "ex
ecution” May 13 which led to dis
covery of the existence of the Black
Legion.
Pidcock, 32-year-old steel worker,
(See BLACK UEGZON, Page A-S.)
NEW YORK WAGE
BY HIGH COURT
5*4 Ruling Read by Justice
Butler Based on D. C.
Case of 1923.
ACT HELD TO VIOLATE
DUE PROCESS CLAUSE
Hughes, Brandeis, Stone and Car
dozo Dissent—Decision Last
of Present Term.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 de
cision, today ruled unconstitutional
an attempt by the State of New York
to prescribe a standard of minimum
wages for women and children.
This important decision, expected
to control similar attempts to fix
wages in other States, was one of
the court's last official actions at this
term, since it adjourns today for a
four-month vacation. As has been
the case on most opinion days, the
court room again was crowded with
spectators, several of whom stood on
chairs to watch Associate Justice
Butler read the majority opinion.
Chief Justice Hughes and Associate
Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo
dissented.
The majority opinion held the
State act unconstitutional because it
violated the due process clause of the
fourteenth amendment to the Consti
tution by abridging the freedom of
contract between employers and em
ployes.
13-Year-Old Precedent.
In reaching this conclusion, the
court was guided by its celebrated
opinion of 13 years ago. in which sim
ilar legislation for the District of Co
lumbia was declared unconstitutional.
The New York law was challenged
by Joseph Tipaldo, Brooklyn laundry
manager, who was indicted on a
charge of forgery for an alleged at
tempt to conceal a violation of the
statutes. He won his freedom on a
writ of habeas corpus and the New
York Court of Appeals then held the
act unconstitutional.
The State then appealed to the Su
preme Court through the warden of
the prison in which Tipaldo had been
confined.
Arguing in defense of the validity
of the legislation, New York officials,
through their counsel, contended the
State’s statute provided that wages
should not exceed the value of the
services rendered, while the District
of Columbia act guaranteed a wage
based solely on the necessities of the
workers. For this reason, they said,
the court should draw a distinction
between the present case and the
earlier decision.
In discussing the local case, en
titled "Adkins vs. Children's Hospital,"
Justice Butler said:
“The State court rightly held that
the Adkins case controls this one and
requires that Tipaldo be discharged
upon the ground that the legislation
under which he was indicted and im
prisoned is repugnant to the due
process clause of the fourteenth
amendment.
Due Process Clause.
“The right to make contracts about
one's affairs is a part of the liberty
protected by the due process clause.
Within this liberty are provisions of
contracts between employer and em
ploye fixing the wages to be paid. In
making contracts of employment,
generally speaking, the parties have
equal right to obtain from each other
the best terms they can by private
bargaining. Legislative abridgement
of that freedom can only be justified
by the existence of exceptional cir
cumstances."
Justice Butler pointed out that
physical differences between men and
women must be recognized in proper
cases and said legislation fixing hours
or conditions of 'work may properly
take them into account.
“But,” he added, in referring to the
opinion of the lower court, "we can
not accept the doctrine that women
of mature age require or may be sub
jected to restrictions upon their lib
erty of contract which could not
lawfully be imposed in the case of
men under similar circumstances.
“To do so would be to ignore all the
implications to be drawn from the
present-day trend of legislation, as
w'ell as that of common thought and
usage, by which woman is accorded
(See WAGES. Page A-2.^
COURT UPHOLDS ACT
ON TRANSPORTATION
Complaint Against Refusal to Ship
Convict-Made Goods Is
Dismissed.
Ej the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, June 1.—The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals upheld
today the constitutionality of a con
gressional act regulating interstate
transportation of convict-made goods
in affirming a district court opinion
dismissing a complaint of the Ken
tucky Whip & Collar Co., of Eddyville,
Ky„ against the Illinois Central Rail
road.
The company, which employs convict
labor at-Eddyville in the manufacture
of horse collars and strap goods, sought
to force the railroad to accept such
goods and challenged the act of Con
gress under which the railroad refused
to handle the goods. The company
contended the congressional act vio
lated the fifth, or due process, ament
ment.
The court held the act regulated
commerce between States, but did not
"invade or Interfere with the power
of the States to regulate their own in
ternal affairs.”
Congress, by the act, prohibited the
transportation of goods manufactured
by convicts or prisoners from one State
to another when such goods were sold
in violation of any law of that State.
District Judge Elwood Hamilton dis
missed the Whip <fc Collar Co.'s com
plaint ao October 9.
i^Now^3TbS^wJ\
Persuade 2ioncmeckto
GET OFF FRONT FAQEL,
\v*E LL ALL BE HAPPY^y
QUEEN MARY FAILS
Sails Into New York Harbor,
but Won’t Dock Until
Late This Afternoon.
F* the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 1—Completing
her first voyage across the Atlantic,
the British liner Queen Mary put |
into New York Harbor today—but she
failed to pass the record crossing es
tablished by the Normandie last year.
The Queen Mary passed Ambrose
Lightship at 7:55 a m. (Eastern stand
ard time) and proceeded up Am
brose Channel to Quarantine. She
was not due to dock until late this
afternoon.
The liner arrived at Quarantine at
9:10 am. (Eastern standard time),
where the official welcoming party in
behalf of Mayor Fiorello La Guardla
reached the vessel. The committee
was dr i by Or. Nicholas Murray
Bu**tr >ad Samuel Seabury.
The British consul general. Sir Ger- j
aid Campbell, also went down the bay ;
in the special cutter with the wel- I
comers to board the Queen.
Heavy Mail Delay* Docking.
The delay in docking was due not
only to the welcoming ceremonies, but
to the heavy load of mail carried by
the liner.
An official comparison of the times
of the Queen Mary and the Nor
mandie was not immediately available.
The comparison was further com
plicated by the fact that the Queen
Mary's crossing was measured from
Cherbourg Breakwater to Ambrose,
while the crossing of the Normandie
was measured from Bishops Rock
Light, at the entrance of the English
Channel, to Ambrose, 193 nautical
miles shorter.
At the office of the Cunara Line. It
was stated the Queen Mary, after
leaving Cherbourg Breakwater at
7:35 p.m. <E. S. T.) last Wednesday,
passed Bishops Rock Light at 1:17
a.m. (E. S. T.) Thursday.
On this basis, it took the Queen
Mary 4 days 6 hours and 38 minutes
from Bishops Rock to Ambrose.
Queen's Average 29.133 Knots.
The Normandie's record for the
same distance was 4 days, 3 hours 13
minutes and 38 seconds.
The average speed of the Queen
Mary, according to an unofficial an
nouncement, was 29.133 knots.
The average speed of the Normandie
on her maiden trip w-as 29.64 knots.
The welcoming for the new queen of
the seas opened long before the ship
dropped its anchors at quarantine for
the official reception.
As the liner passed abeam of Am
brose Lightship, before proceeding up
the channel into New- York Harbor,
many airplanes flew overhead and
three Army planes circled about in
formation.
Dozens of small craft hovered about
the ship—which, with its’long, straight
hull, resembles more the old Maure
tania-type of steamer instead of the
streamlined ships put into service on
the Italian, French and German lines.
At the entrance to Ambrose Channel.
" (See QUEEN MARY, Page A-5.)
40,000 ON STRIKE
Building Workers in Spain De
mand Higher Wages.
MADRID. June 1.—Forty thousand
building workers struck today, de
manding higher wages, a 40-hour week
and improved conditions.
Efforts to effect a compromise dur
ing the night and early morning
failed and union officials said no fur
ther negotiations were in sight.
Syndicalist workers also continued
on strike, but the Socialist General
Workers' Union failed to follow suit.
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Sacrifice of 1,500
Chinese Children
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Held Only Rumor
•/
Shanghai Authorities
Find Stories of Drown•
ings Baseless.
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. June 1.—Municipal
authorities, after an exhaustive inves
tigation into sensational reports that
1.500 children were to be sacrificed
for construction of a new bridge on
the Shanghai-Hangchow Railroad, de
clared today the stories were baseless.
The report, which caused a panic
last Friday at Woosung. set forth that
bandits were organized to kidnap the
children and cast them into the Chien
tang River at Zakow—a procedure ru
mored necessary because engineers
were unable to drive piles in the solid
river bed.
Authorities said the rumors were
circulated by “irresponsible persons
with ulterior motives.''
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House Rules Committee
Gives Right of Way to
Measure.
By the Associated Press.
The Rules Committee today gave
right-of-way to the House floor to the
Cuffey-Vinson coal control bill de
signed to replace the invalidated Guf
fey coal act.
Tentative plans of the House lead
ership call for consideration of the
substitute measure Wednesday.
Under the rule granted today, de
bate would be limited to two hours,
evenly dii*ded between proponents and
opponents.
The committee action was taken
after a brief presentation of the bill’s
provisions by Representatives Vinson,
Democrat, of Kentucky, co-outhor of
the measure, and Samuel B. Hill.
Democrat of Washington.
Representative Treadway. Repub
lican. of Massachusets opposed consid
eration at this session, asserting there
would be no possibility of early ad
journment if it were allowed.
Stripped of the labor provisions of
the original act. which the Supreme
Court held unconstitutional, the new
measure would provide for re-enact
ment of its price-fixing features plus
all other provisions not believed inval
idated by the court.
The only major change in the sub
stitute was the proposed enlargement
of the National Bituminous Coal Com
mission to seven members instead of
five.
I
Action by President Held
Necessary to End
Deadlock.
ay the Associated Press.
Predictions that President Roose
velt woul£ move soon to avert a threat
ened jam over taxes and to speed
Congress homeward by Saturday night
were heard today among some admin
istration supporters on Capitol Hill.
As the Seventy-fourth Congress
entered what leaders fervently hoped
would be its final week, the Senate
was tom by internal dissension over
taxes, and also found itself at odds
with the House on the issue.
Moreover, the $2,370,000,000 relief
deficiency bill had yet to dear the
Senate, and both Houses had much
business of a more minor nature to
transact, including some vital appro
priation legislation.
But congressional leaders insisted it
would still be possible to adjourn by
Saturday night if President Roosevelt
would call off the New Deal fight for
stiff graduated taxes on undistributed
profits of corporations, accept the bill
which a rebellious Senate Finance
Committee has written, and urge
House chiefs to do likewise.
Alternatives Weighed.
Otherwise, it was held, the session
might last well into the Summer. Cap
itol Hill friends of the Chief Execu
tive believed he was weighing both
alternatives and some believed he
would choose to end the session quickly.
Weeks ago. they recalled, the Pres
ident indicated that while he wanted
$623,000,000 in permanent revenue,
the job of choosing ways and means
to get the money was up to Congress.
Treasury estimates indicate the Sen
ate bill, like the House measure, would
raise about the sum wranted. though
falling far short of the $500,000,000
in temporary revenue also sought by
the President.
While the Senate debated the re
lief bill today and made arrangements
for night sessions if necessary, the
leaders moved to take up the tax bill
tomorrow. Senator King. Democrat,
of Utah, acting chairman of the
Finance Committee, planned to sub
mit today the committee’s majority
report on its tax plan, which is fea
tured by a 15'i to 18 per cent levy
on net corporation income, a 7 per
cent tax on profits undistributed to
stockholders, and increases of the in
dividual income surtaxes in the
brackets above $6,000.
Minority Report Prepared.
Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala
bama prepared to submit a minority
report calling for a measure more in
: line with administration ideas. Among
i other things, Black favored graduated
i levies on undistributed corporation
\ earnings up to 30 per cent. The House
I (See CONGRESsTPage A-14.)
Charge of Red “Activity”
In W. P. A. Brings Dismissal
By tr.p Associated Press.
ITHACA, N. Y.. June 1.—Prof
Bristow Adams of the New York State
College of Agriculture, Cornell Uni
versity, said today he had “pro
tested against the avowed Communis
tic activities” of one "Wallace Miller,’
an official of the Federal Works Prog
ress Administration writers’ project.
Prof. Adams at the same time dis
closed that he had been dismissed
as New York State director of the
writers’ project. He succeeded Dr
Roland P. Gray as director on Jan
uary 1.
Under the project, writers have
been given employment compiling the
"American Guide,” a publication de
signed to contain historical informa
tion and data of interest to tourists
Adams said he telegraphed Henry
G. Alsberg, Federal director of the
project, on May 23 “strongly” advis
ing that "the man who calls him
self Wallace Miller, class of 1922,
Stanford University.” be removed
“immediately from Federal service
for good of administration” and sug
gested that Miller’s present and for
mer activities "be Investigated."
He received a reply from Alsberg
asking him to "specify” charges
against Miller, he said, and complied
with the request. Later he received
a letter from Alsberg, he said, re
lieving him of his post, effective
May 31.
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Adams said he had sent copies of
correspondence with Mr. Alsberg to
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad
ministrator.
ALSBERG EXPLAINS CASE.
Henry G. Alsberg, director of the
W. P. A. writers’ project, said today
that Bristow Adams had been dis
missed as New York State director
because the work "has not progressed
as well as it should have.”
Alsberg, who said that under W. P.
A. regulations “political beliefs” could
not bring dismissal, appointed Prof.
Bertram Wainger of Union College.
Schenectady, to succeed Adams.
The director said Wallace Miller, a
field supervisor, was sent to Albany
last month to check up on progress
of the New York State guide book and
added that Adams, although com
plaining against Miller, had not
charged him with communistic activi
ties. Adams, at Ithaca today, said he
had protested against "communistic
activities” of Miller.
In his letter of dismissal, dated May
26, Alsberg wrote Adams:
“It is also apparent to me, and I
believe to you, too, that your Cornell
duties are so arduous that it would
be better if you Cid not continue to
carry on also the work of director of
New York State. Under the circum
stances. I feel ft better that we dis
pense with jwur sendees after May 81.”
HINTED AS PARLEY
ON D. C. DILL ENDS
Conferees Adjourn After
Brief Session Without Re
port of Disagreement.
BLANTON DECLINES
TO TALK OF MEETING
Effort to Fix Federal Share Be
tween House and Senate
Figure Reported.
BY J. A. O'LEARY'.
Conferees on the deadlocked Dis
trict appropriation bill adjourned
after a 40-minute session this morn
ing, without signing a formal report of
disagreement, indicating some new
basis of compromise on the main issue
of the Federal payment had been
proposed.
Senator 'Thomas. Democrat, of Okla
homa, head of the Senate conferees,
said there was nothing to report at
this time. At the invitation of the
House group. Thomas departed from
the custom of holding conferences on
the Senate side, by going to the
House Appropriations Committee room
for the meeting.
The other Senate conferees did not
attend, however, and it is probable
the next move will be for Senator
Thomas to consult his colleagues on
what developed at this morning's
meeting.
Asks Reporters to Leave.
Shortly before the conference ended,
Representative Blanton of Texas,
chairman of the House group and
leading advocate of reduction of the
Federal share toward District ex
penses, emerged from the conference
room, to an outside reception room
where newspaper men were waiting,
and told the clerks he wanted the re
porters to leave the outer office.
"I want the newspaper men to re
tire from this room," Blanton said.
“When we have a meeting it's execu
tive. We don't want eavesdropping.''
When the conference adjourned a
short time later, the Texan hurried
toward the House chamber, telling
newspaper men who sought informa
tion regarding the conference that he
did not have time.
Senator Thomas said there was
nothing to give out, except that a
formal report of disagreement had
not been signed.
Reported Discussion.
It waa later reported that there had
been discussion of the possibility ol
compromising on the three contro-V
venial questions in the bill, aa fol
lows: By having the Senate agree
to leave out character education, as
provided bv the House: by modifying
the House ban on outside work of
District officials, to apply to those
receiving $5,000 or more a year, in
stead of going down to the $2,400
class, and by fixing the Federal lump
sum somewhere between the House
figure of $2,700,000 and the Senate
figure of $5,700,000.
The Senate conferees already had
indicated, in the letter Senator
Thomas wrote Friday, that they would
compromise substantially along House
lines on the first two questions.
On the lump sum. however, they
have insisted repeatedly that they
would stand firmly by the $5,700,000
figure, which the President recom
mended. although Senator Thomas
has offered to attach to that lump
sum figure a provision for appoint
ment of a commission to determine
before next January what the Fed
eral share should be thereafter.
Just before the conferences met
there appeared in today’s Congres
sional Record a copy of a long letter
from Blanton to Senator Thomas, in
reply to the letter in which Thomas
had on Friday accepted the Invita
tion to meet on the House side. It
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6 DEAD, 1 MISSING
IN WESTERN FLOODS
Couple and Daughter. 3, Among
Dead as Swollen Stream En
gulfs Bunk House.
By tee Associated Press.
GRANADA. Colo., June 1—Subsid
ing flood waters left six dead and one
missing today in the dust-swept
sector of three States where rain
prayers were said just a fortnight ago.
Official estimates of property dam
age were lacking, but it was far less
than in last years Memorial day
floods that killed more than 100 per
sons and caused losses of approxi
mately $13,000,000 along the Republi
can River, largely in Southern Ne
braska.
Smaller streams in Southwestern
Kansas and the Oklahoma Panhandle
left their banks with new rains yes
terday after the Arkansas and Re-,
publican Rivers started back to
normal levels, but the greatest danger
apparently had passed.
The one missing today was John
Garzie. 65-year-old farm hand, be
lieved to have drowned when Butt*
Creek engulfed the bunk house of the
Simon Gonzales family near Spring
field, Colo., drowning Mr. and Mrs.
Gonzales and their 3-year-old daugh
ter.
The other victims were Don Gates,
27, of Denver, who perished on a
flooded highway near Stratton. Colo.;
A. G Baumgartner, drowned near
Pritchett, Colo., and Mrs. John Dyatt,
who died of shock while fleeing from
high water near Goodland, Kans.
Italian Senator Dies.
ROME. June 1 OP).—Senator Ro
berto Forges Davanzatl. one of the
most reliable interpreters of Premier
Mussolini's policies, died today of
pneumonia after a short illness.
Senator Davanzatl was managing
editor of La Tribuna and a daily radio
commentator on contemporary Italian
events.
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