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Evening star., 1933-03-28

I'VE are watching you," the brief
second message said. Your lives are
in danger. There are 30 in our gang.
Send the money by parcel post to Dad,
care Of Bluebird Inn, Route 8, Hudson
Claggett said Dad was 73-year-
old recluse friend of the boy He dis
claimed any knowledge of the plot and,
the inspector said, the boy did not i'm
plicate him.
Faces Indictment.
MIAMI, Fla, March % [P.-As-
sistant United States District Attorney
Emory Akerman today said a grand
jury which will assemble here April TO-
will consider the case of Clifford Clo-
bridge, 38, charged with writing let
ter demanding $4,000 from Col
Charles A. Lindbergh and mailing q
pint Of liquor to Federal Judge Halsted
L. Ritter.
Clobridge, recently the subject of a
hearing at which physicians declared
him to be sane. was arrested March %
Clobridge, who lost a leg in the wal
service, said he sent the letter to Col
Lindbergh and the liquor to Judge Rit-
ter because he wanted revenge against
his estranged wife, Sophie, of Miami
and sister. .in-!aw. Mrs. Lilly Berfield
Edwards OF West Brighton, Slater
Island, N. Y. Their return addresse:
appeared on the letter and package.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
STRANGER KILLS
GIRL, 6, WITH CORD
Mother Finds Child Dying in
Basement of Home in
Brooklyn.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 28-Sudden and
violent death which has been the fate
of several other children in Brooklyn
cellars struck down little Barbara Wiles
today as she went to the dark base
ment of her humble home.
Barbara, years old, was asked by
her mother to go to the cellar to bring
up the baby carriage of her little
brother.
Fifteen minutes later the little girl
had not returned and Mrs. Hanna
Wiles. the mother. went to the top of
the cellar stairs to see what caused the
delay. At the foot of the stairs the
Eaby carriage lay overturned on what
at first looked like filled burlap bag
but which, as her eyes grew accus-
toned to the darkness. she said was
the body of her daughter She screamed
and ran downstairs finding the girl
unconscious with hempen cord twist
ed about her neck.
Police emergency squads were rushed
to the scene and doctors sought in vain
to revive the girl. Detectives took up
the hunt for the killer and Police Com
missioner Edward P. Mulrooney hurried
from headquarters to take personal
charge of the investigation.
A woman neighbor questioned In the
early investigation told of seeing ali ex-
cited man of about 20 dash into the
vestibule of her tenement as though to
hide about the time of the crime. She
said she confronted him to demand the
reason for his suspicious actions and
with a mumbled excuse he ran down the
street,
Evening star., 1933-03-28
HIGH SCHOOL BOY, IS, ARRESTED
IN LINDBERGF1 EXTORTION PLOT
Youths Crude Attempt Fails When Postal Authorities
Intercept Two Letters.

By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, March 28.-A crude
attempt to eXtort from Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh $4,000 was thwarted today
with the arrest of a 15-year-old Hudson
high school boy whom Post Office In
spector Ernest D. Claggett described as
apparently pretty bright kid"
The boy, Claggett said, readily ad-
mitted mailing two letters to the famous
aviator's wife, but said, II don't know
what would have done with the
money if I had got it. My father will
kill me, though, when he hears of this -
Detectives who captured him late last
night near the spot where the money
was to have been sent said the boy
probably would be turned over to
juvenile authorities. They withheld his
name.
He didn't know the Lindberghs' ad-
dress "for sure" the boy said, so he ad-
dressed the letters to Mrs. Charles
Lindberg. Delaware and New York, "
believing that if they lived in either
State the missives would reach them.
One Of the letters was mailed Febru-
airy 81. 1t was snatched by post Office
inspectors here. The second. dated
March IA, was intercepted by Washing
ton postal authorities. Neither was
seen by Mrs. Lindbergh.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
D. c. YOUTH SEIZED
IN BLACKMAIL CASE
Warrant Charges He Obtained
Several Hundred Dollars From
Member of Congress.

Luther Cornelius Sykes. "a, OF the
1900 block of I street northeast, was
arrested today on a warrant charging
him with blackmailing Representative
Walter G. Andrews of New York.
Sykes is said to have obtained several
hundred dollars by threats.
United States Attorney Leo A, Rover,
who authorized the issuance OF the
warrant, said he had obtained written
confession from Sykes
The man was arrested at Fifteenth
street and New York avenue by Detec-
tive Sergt Earl P. Hartman, attached
to the United States attorneys office.
Sykes was unable to furnish $4,000
bond when taken before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage,
and was ordered committed to jail. His
preliminary hearing was continued for
one week.
Mr.. Rover said Sykes had been OBJ
tanning money from Representative
Andrews at various times during the
past year. His alleged blackmailing
threats, it was said, usually were made
by letter. Sykes was arrested several
weeks ago for investigation. He was
released at that time but the case has
since been under investigation by Mr.
Rover.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
PROPOSED LUMP SUM CUT
OF 26.8 PER CENT DEALS
"A BLOW TO ID. C.. TAXPAYERS
Reduction Would Be From Figure
Already Far Below U. S. Obligations
as Fairly Determined.

normal times, but is in accord with
the general practice of reducing Federal
expenditures by 10 per cent"
And this admittedly inadequate sum
was reduced in conference to Sits 900.
If the Federal Bureau Of the Budget
had cut its 25 or 26 per cent from the
previously prevailing lump sum figure
of $9,500,000 there would have been a
semblance of reasonableness in that re-
duction if accompanied by comparable
local tax reduction. The President has
promised to reduce expenditures IS per
cent on grounds of economy. But the
reduction of the lump sum from So
100000 to S5,7OO000 is a 40 per cent
reduction-far in excess Of any reduc-
ton proposed in other Federal ex-
penditures.
And when the reduction is made from
figure that was unfairly arrived at
to begin with, the result is merely to
heap injury upon the injury which
Washingtonians and the Federal Capt.
tai have suffered through the long
continued inequity of the lump sum
system of appropriations.
When the Federal Government ap-
propriates a hundred dollars, the ap-
preparation is in theory based upon
Continued on Page S. Column 2.)
Evening star., 1933-03-28

The Budget Bureaus recommended
ton for a Federal lump sum contri-
button of $5,700,000 represents a vastly
greater blow to the unrepresented tax
payers of Washington than 268 per
cent reduction from the preceding
years appropriation of $7,775,000.
For this reduction of 26.8 per cent
is made from figure that was never
representative of the Federal Govern
ment's legal or moral obligations to the
Capital that was based on nothing
more tangible than the hectic fever OF
the closing hours Of a Congress whose
members were anxious to adjourn and
to throw themselves into the approach
ing political campaign of last Summer.
Compromise Recommended.
A few days before the lump sum
figure of $7,775.O00 was agreed upon
last June-this sum now representing
the maximum from which the Budget
Bureau has sliced its 2S.8 per cent
the Senate Appropriations Committee
had recommended a compromise figure
Of S8,550,000. explaining at the time
that the amount as recommended for
the coming fiscal year does not reflect
an equitable settlement of the question
of fiscal relations between the United
States and the District Of Columbia In
Evening star., 1933-03-28
C0TT0NGR0UPH HEAD
BACKS FARM BILL
Live Stock Interests Oppose
Industries Inclusion in
Relief Plan.
BY the Associated Press.


Full approval of the administration
farm bill as passed by the House was
expressed before the Senate Agriculture
Committee today by U. B. Blalock, pres
ident of the American Cotton Cooper
ative Association, breaking the long
parade Of opponents Of the measure.
Blalock testified after F. E. Mollin oi
Denver, secretary of the American Ma
tional Live Stock Association, and c. D
Streeter, a farmer, of Keokuk, Iowa, had
opposed the bill. A long line of wit
nesses spoke in opposition yesterday.
Chairman Smith, in the hope a COM
promise could be worked out to satisfy
divergent views, intended to conclude
the hearings late today and hold the
committee in executive session to begin
revising the measure.
pledged to New Deal"
I'VE have a President in the White
House elected under a promise to give
American agriculture a new deal,
Bla1ock said.
We believe he was sincere in making
tiidt piOiIllSc. 1iNt lllIu tiie uldCHuitIy
as carried in this bill and We believe
the President will carry out his promise
to American agriculture"
The first witness today was Mollin
Of Denver, who emphasized previous
objections Of stockmen to application
of the relief plan to their products.
Opposing inclusion of cattle in the
bill, he contended legislation raising
prices would be used as an argument
bv the railroads against reducing freight
rates.
Il do not believe that any bill that
Congress. in all its wisdom. can adopt
Continued on Page 4, Column g.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
JAPAN'S WITHDRAWAL
IS SCORED BY CHINA
Foreign Minister Says 1t Is De-
liberate Attempt to Impair
Peace Machinery.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NANKING. China, March 28-Lo
Wen-Kan, Chinas foreign minister as
serted today that Japan's withdrawal
from the League of Nations is "a de-
liberate attempt to impair the postwar
machinery for preservation of peace"
Japan's action, he said, "iS tanta-
mount to reaction of the settlement Of
international disputes by pacific terms.
thereby seeking to compel China to
accept whatever means Japan may die
tate"
The japanese withdrawal, however.
does not prejudice the authority of the
League to settle the dispute in the Far
East, said Mr.. Lo. "On the contrary
it enables the League to handle the dis
pute with greater freedom. Japan will
suffer the consequences of its defiance OF
the conscience of civilization"
Evening star., 1933-03-28
15D|E AS AIR LINER
FALLS IN FLAMES
City of Liverpool, Carrying
IL Passengers, Crashes
Near EeSen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, Belgium. March %
Fifteen persons were killed today in
the wreck of an Imperial Airways pas
senger liner near Essen,
Eleven Of the victims were English.
The plane. bound from Cologne to
Croydon, England, by way of Brussels,
was the trimotored City Of Liverpool.
She carried II passengers and crew
of three. All persisted.
The cause of the accident was not
Immediately determined.
The plane had stopped at Haeren
Airdrome, on the outskirts of Brussels,
taking off at 1886 pm. for Croydon.
The crash occurred less than 20 miles
north Of Dixmude.
Assistance arrived quickly. but too
late to help the victims. The burned
bodies of the pilot. mechanic and four
passengers. one Of them a woman, were
found in the wreckage
Persons who saw the ship fall said it
burst into flames and dropped like a
spent rocket in a farmers field.
The bodies of four of the dead were
found some distance from the plane.
Apparently they had jumped.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
Pay Cut, Deterioration of
Public Service and Cur
tailed Personnel Seen as
Result of Revision.
DECLARE ESTIMATES
FULL OF INEQUITIES
Bill Carries $32,999,7OO Total,
$6,239,447 Under Conference
Agreement and Nearly $l1 ,0CO,-
600 Under Sum Appropriated for
Current Year.

Stunned by the Budget Bu-
reaus severe slashing of the 1884
estimates, District officials today
viewed the coming fiscal year as
one of retrogression for the Ma
tion's Capital, accompanied by an
inevitable deterioration of public
services and a large increase in
local unemployment.
In the wreckage of the carefully
planned 1884 budget, the officials
saw the elimination of virtually
all proposed capital improve
ments, a curtailment in regular
personnel as we'll as a pay cut for
the employees retained, and many
evidences of fictitious economy.
Hearings on the budget will begin to-
morrow morning at 1890 o'clock.
Chairman Cannon of the House Sub
committee on Appropriations said he
was unable to predict how long the
hearings would last, but indications are
they will be speeded up in view of the
desire of Speaker Rainey to keep the
House busy.
The estimates, revised by the Budget
Bureau on the basis of the conference
agreement between the House and Sen
ate on the original 1884 appropriation
bill, which died in the closing days Of
che last Congress, called for regular
appropriations of $50, ,3O2 ,2Oo-a cut of
S6,239,447 under the conference agree
ment and nearly $11,000000 less than
appropriated for the current fiscal year.
Permanent and indefinite appropria-
tions, which occur each year automat-
ically without action of Congress, are
estimated at S2,697, 500. raising the
grand total for 1884 to $780, 700.
Inequities Pointed Out.
In its present status, it was pointed
out today, the budget is full of in
equities, since it would place the
municipal government on a compulsory
and unnecessary starvation budget
while millions of dollars of unobligated
tax revenues pile up to the credit of
the District in the Federal Treasury,
there to lie idle, drawing no interest.
One of the hardest blows to the Dis
trict is the proposed reduction in the
Federal lump sum contribution to $5,-
100000, the smallest suggested in many
years. A contribution of this size would
represent 26.8 per cent cut under the
S7,775, 600 contribution for the current
fiscal year. 1t also would be $4,000
less than the S6,500,000 which an un-
sympathetic House has recommended
for the last two years.
The only commendable feature the
officials found in the budget was the
elimination of the legislative provision
which forbid the Commissioners from
Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1933-03-28
|CONSERVAT0RS GET
BROADER POWERS
Withdrawals From Banks
Permitted by Woodin Un.
der Certain Conditions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Broader powers by conservators oper-
ating State and national banks was
granted today by Secretary Woodin in
regulation issued under the Presi-
dents bank holiday proclamation.
Under the new regulation, a con-
servator will have the authority to
determine exactly how the bank will
operate and If he believes its condition
warrants withdrawal Of a certain
percentage Of the deposits by the de-
positor he can order that permitted.
Thus in a case Of closed bank If
the conservator believes it could operate
with a Is per cent restriction on with
drawals he would have authority to
permit such Withdrawals subject only
to the Presidents proclamation pro-
hibiting Withdrawals of gold and
money for boarding.
Text Of Regulations.
The regulation issued by the Secre-
tary read:
Banking institutions which are mem
bers of the Federal Reserve system and
of which actual possession and control
have been taken (A) by conservators
appointed pursuant to the act OF March
9. 1898, or (B) by appropriate State
officials appointed pursuant to State
law. as permitted in the Presidents S
executive order Of March 18, 1888, are
permitted to transact such limited
banking functions as may be authorized
in accordance with law by the con-
troller of the currency in the case sof
national banks or by the appropriate
State officials. in the case Of State
member banks: provided, however. that
no such banking institution shall re-
open for the performance OF its usual
and normal functions until it shall have
received license from the Secretary OF
the Treasury.
Gold Is Banned.
This regulation shall not authorize
any transaction with respect to the ex-
port or paying out of gold, gold Ger
tiflcates, withdrawal Of currency for
boarding or transactions In foreign
exchange prohibited or restricted Ly
the executive order Of March 10, 1888.
Treasury officials said that while the
permission to open for limited bank.
ing functions lay in the controller OF
the currency with national banks and
with State authorities in regard to
state banks, that the recommendation
of the conservator would be accepteo
and that official would have the broad
authority to determine what restrlc-
tions the banks now closed would i'm
pose if they reopened under the new
order.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
FIRST BEER TAX STAMPS SENT
OUT BY INTERNAL REVENUE UNIT
Bureau Prepares Rush Other Shipments in Time for
Sales Before April 7.

The first internal revenue beer
stamps were shipped today to st. Louis,
Philadelphia and Hartford.
Other shipments from the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing will be rushed
as rapidly as possible, and the Bureau
6f Internal Revenue expects the entire
country will be supplied in time for
distribution Of beer April 7.
Orders for the first shipment went
to the Bureau Of Engraving yesterday
and the stamps were sent out today to
the collectors of internal revenue in
those cities.
The stamps are generally of two
different kinds, one type going to
brewers. wholesalers and retailers in the
form of certificate which Is to be
framed and placed on display. The
other type is to be placed by the brew
Evening star., 1933-03-28
Robinson Proposal to Remove
Is Per Cent Limit Is
Given Approval.
FORESTRY BILL EXPECTED
TO BE ENACTED TODAY
$500, 100000 Direct Relief Meas.
ure to Get Favorable Report
From Finance Committee.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Plunging into President RooseyeIt,s
unemployment program, the Senate
today swept aside the restrictions which
forbid any State from borrowing more
than IS per cent Of the Reconstruction
finance Corporations $500, 900 900 relief
fund.
IL adopted a proposal by Senator
Robinson Of Arkansas, the Democrats
leader, at the outset Of considerat.de
OF the reforestation measure. The pro-
posal. an amendment to the pending bill,
was designed to aid Illinois and several
other States which are nearing the Iimi-
tation of relief borrowings.
At about the same time that il took
up the bill, the Senate Finance Com
mittee approved a measure to provide
$500, 100000 for direct relief with the
agreement that it would be taken up
Immediately after the reforestation bill
The committee gave unanimous ap-
proval to the bill
The reforestation bill was formally
taken up at the request of Senator
Robinson, although it was Informally
debated yesterday.
Debate on the proposal to give Jobs
to more than 1000 men in the for
eSts began in the Senate at about the
same time that Representative Byrns
Of Tennessee, the Democratic leader,
said he had been informed the revised
measure was satisfactory to Presiden;
Roosevelt.
While the measure faces more ap-
parent opposition in the House than in
the Senate, Byrns said that he ex-
pected it to be passed there tomorrow.
Senate action was expected by nightfall.
The Senate Banking Committee also
agreed today to consider Thursday the
Wagner bill to hberahZe the law under
which the Reconstruction Corporation
can make loans for public construction.
The Wagner bill would permit loans
for all projects deemed 'needful and
in the public interest without requir-
ing that they be self-liquidating as
under present law.
Provides Outright Grants.
The $500, 100000 direct relief bill,
sponsored by Senators Wagner, Demo-
crat of New York Costigan. Democrat,
of Colorado, and La Toilette, Repub-
lican, of Wisconsin, on behalf of Mr..
Roosevelt, sets up a Federal relief ad-
ministrator to distribute in outright
grants, contrast to the present policy.
the money raised through the Recon-
struction Corporation.
The forestation plan was approved by
committees at both ends of the Capitol
yesterday, and the Senate shortly after
ward opened debate on the revised bill.
Previously the House Labor Committee
had rejected a substitute offered by
Chairman Connery and approved the
Roosevelt-sponsored bill.
Senator Wagner expressed confidence
the S500,000,000 relief bill would be
enacted by Friday.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
Is Per Cent Pay Cut
For U. S. Employees
To Begin on April l
Orders Expected to Be Is.
sued Within Day or Two
on Flat Reduction.

The fat reduction Of IS per cent in
salaries Of Federal Government work
ers provided for in the economy act
will take effect April /.
This was learned from an authori-
tative source at the White House to-
day. In the meantime, the President
has before him the report from the
Director Of the Budget regarding the
details incident to this pay reduction
and it is thought likely that the formal
orders will be promulgated within the
next day or so.
Decision on the fiat reduction Of Is
per cent for all persons on the Gov
ernment pay roll was decided upon as
the maximum following the receipt of
the Labor Department figures showing
that the cost of living since 1928 had
been reduced % per cent.
Evening star., 1933-03-28

ers upon the containers to show pay
ment Of the tax of IS barrel
The brewer pays 81 900 a year for his
stamp tax to hang on the wall. No.
of this series was shipped to st. Louis.
Stamp No. for wholesale dealers,
which costs $50 year, went to Phil
adelphia wholesaler.
Stamp No. l for q retailer, which
costs SO a year. went to a Hartford,
Conn.,. dealer.
Dealers in beer In Washington have
already begun to apply for their stamps,
both at Baltimore, the headquarters for
this district, and at the local Office of
the deputy collector of internal revenue,
at Constitution avenue and Twelfth
street. Handlers Of beer must have
these stamps available before they be-
gin to sell beer April z. The requi5l-
ton for the local supply Of stamps has
not been received at the Bureau CT In
ternal Revenue from Galen TAFT at
Baltimore, but Is expected soon,
Evening star., 1933-03-28
ROUND HOUSE BURNS

st. Louis-San Francisco Railroad
Loss Placed at 100000.
OKLAHOMA CITY, March %. LP).-
Fire destroyed the st. Louis-San Fran
cisco Railroad roundhouse with an es-
timated loss of 100000 here today.
r. L. Bare, 49, was burned by fam
ing gasoline. He said he was cleaning
trap under 250-gallon gasoline
tank on 2 motor car when an electric
light bulb broke and caused an ex-
plosion.
The motor car and 13 locomotives
were in the roundhouse B. v. Swain,
yard foreman. who estimated the dam
age said few of the locomotives
might be reconditioned without great
expense.
Evening star., 1933-03-28
BOYCOTT LAUNCHED.
by NAZ|S AGAINST
JEWS IN BUSINESS
Troops and Police Look on as
GentiIes Are Urged to Re-
frain From Buying.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 28-Orders from
headquarters of the National Socialist
party, the organization of Chancellor
Hitler, were to launch an organized
boycott today against Jewish business in
Germany.
First reports that it was under way
came from Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia,
where Nazis stood in front of every
Jewish shop with signs urging Gentiles
to refrain from buying. Uniformed
Naz storm troops were keeping order.
Police took no notice Of the situation
The Nazi partys newspaper in Mu-
Mich said the government should not
interfere in the boycott, but use it as a
weapon to halt projected anti-German
campaigns abroad. The Telegraphen-
Union, News Agency said the govern
ment would tolerate" the boycott as
long as foreign governments took no
steps to stop spread Of "atrocity propa-
ganda."
Hospital Workers Dismissed.
The government, through the newly
created Ministry Of Propaganda Under
Hitler's chief publicist, Joseph Goebels,
has launched an "anti-lie" campaign to
counteract reports in foreign countries
that Jews were being harmed or even
killed.
Close upon an announcement by the
Nazi party that the number of Jews in
all professions would be reduced, 20
Jewish men and women were dismissed
last night from positions in Berlin hos
pitfalls.
Special committees will be appoint
ed against Jewish businesses in Ger
many to answer the boycott pleas OF
Continued on Page 8, Column A.