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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
Plan Would Make Direct
Gift of 20 Per Cent of
Building Cost.
U. S. WOULD SET UP
s1,OOO,OOO,O 900 FUND
Proposal Designed to Spur Re-
covery by Putting Capital
Back to Work.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A direct subsidy plan for stimulating
housing through which $1,000 900, 900
of Federal funds would be used in an
attempt to put $4,000 600, 900 of pri-
vate capital to work is receiving con-
sideration in high administration
quarters.
The scheme now being studied would
have the Government make a direct
gift of 20 per cent of a housing prof.
ect. The person receiving the sub
sidy then could obtain an 80 per cent
loan en- the remainder of the cost
through the insurance guarantee
method of the Housing Administra-
ton.
An example of operation of the plan
would be as follows:
A man with a $500 lot wants to
build a $4,000 house on his property.
The Government, after investigation
through Housing Administration ma
chinery, would advance 20 per cent of
the $4,000, or $1,000 With the insur-
ance guarantee of the Housing Ad-
ministration behind him. the borrower
then could obtain from a bank or other
lending agency a loan of 80 per cent.
This would mean loan of So, 600, put
ting the housing cost and the value
of the lot together for total of $4,000
This arrangement would require the
borrower to put up only $500 in cash
in addition to his lot
Supporters of the plan say this OPP
Grafton would not interfere with pri-
waite fields of finance or real estate and
would get away from the 100 per cent
direction out of Washington, which di-
rect Federal building would entail.
The 20 per cent subsidy was said to
be enough to make up the difference
between present rental levels and con-
struction costs.
Those considering the subsidy
method also would include two other
fields for Government spending to help
recovery which they say would not
compete with private enterprise. One
would be that of 100 per cent Federal
spending on such work relief activities
as flood control, roads. Citizens Con-
servation Corps and possibly railroad
crossing construction.
Farm Power Plan Scanned.
The second field would be that of
partial Federal spending through ad-
vances to cities. counties and States,
Of which portion would be return
able. These funds would go to such
construction as schools, hospitals,
water and sewer systems and develop
ments to which private capital would
not normally be diverted.
Identification of farms through
Government subsidy also was receiv-
ing some attention. The system pro-
posed here would involve a Federal
subsidy to make up the difference be-
tween actual cost and what the farm
er could afford TO contribute to
building electric lines to farm areas
The lines likely would be built by
power companies. 1t was said in some
quarters that rs per cent of the farm
population was not served with cleo
tricity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
Long Cursed L. S. i. Editor,
Student Charges in affidavit

journalism student brought sheet
from the Reveille. which Long read.
His affidavit declared Long said:
LAS for that little - - -
that wrote this, why he's not going
to be in school. That's my univer-
sity, and I'm not going to stand for
any criticism. I'll fire any stu
dent that dares to say a word against
Huey Long. I'll fire a thousand.
We've got 10000 to take their places.
That's my university. 1 built it, and
I'm not going to stand for any stu
dents criticizing Huey Long"
After a lapse of two issues, the
Reveille appeared on the campus to-
day under the editorship of Miss
Grace Williamson of New Orleans
and a new staff.
Miss Williamson, a member of the
original staff that resigned because
of asserted censorship of articles criti-
cizing Long. made peace with the fac
ulty on the grounds that the students
were not fighting censorship, but fac
ulty supervision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
ADMIR-. HUSSEY DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Succumbs in Connecticut Shortly
After Leaving Washington
for Litchfield.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW MILFORD, Conn, December
Rear Admiral C. L. Hussey, U. S. N,
retired, Of Washington. D. c., and
Litchfield, died of heart attack today
after alighting from a train.
The 64-year retired officer, hold
er of the United States Navy Cross,
was stricken as he was about to enter
his automobile to be driven to his
Litchfleld home.
Rear Admiral HusSey, who retired
october /, 1927, had come here from
Washington, where he resided at 2029
Connecticut avenue.
Born in Rochester, N H., August 10,
1870, he was graduated from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis in 1892 and
from the Naval War College in 1920
He was promoted to the rank of rear
admiral June 4, 1925.
During the Spanish-American War
he served on the Oregon and in 1903
commanded an expedition to Abyssinia.
He commanded the Birmingham
during the World War and from 1922
to 1924 he was the naval attache to
the American Embassy at London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
US. CIVIL PAY ROLL
HITS S1OO,0lO,0Q0
Monthly Total Goes to $780,
1871 Workers, With 1892
on Duty Here.

The monthly pay roll for the exec
utive branch of the Government, in
Guiding the old line and the New
Deal agencies, has passed the $780,
100000 mark
The October report, released by the
Civil Service Commission today, put
expenditures at slO1 ,sss,573, for &c.
1s1 employes-e3,322 in Washington
and 586,S59 in the field
This compared with seS 6o4,6l1 in
September, when the personnel to-
tailed e7s,237.
The Federal force showed an in
crease of III here for the month,
which was the smallest gain in some
time. The permanent emergency
force showed a net increase of 972,
but there was a decline of 1876 in the
temporary staff These stats here
now total, respectively, 84,891 and
8,431.
$4,000 Hired Since January 1.
In the field there we're 308 addi-
lions to the permanent-emergency
force and $50 to the temporary. These
respective totals now are 502,157 and
84.7O2.
Since the first of the year the Gov
eminent has employed more than
$4,000 Nearly $4,000 of these-all
permanent-have been added locally.
Temporary employment actually has
shown a decrease of 125. In the field,
the 10000 have been nearly evenly
divided between temporary and per-
manent, though the balance is in
favor of the former by slightly more
than 5000
This employment has long since
passed that for July l, 1920, which
is usually used for comparison, be-
cause that date marked the height
of the wartime rehabilitation 1t
is still more than 225,000 below the
wartime peak, for the country as a
whole, and about 10000 off from the
wartime employment here.
Table of Changes.
Locally, changes in the principal
agencies for october included the fol-
lowing:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La, December A.
An assertion that he had heard Sen
ator Huey P. Long violently curse Jesse
H. Cutter, resigned editor of the
Reveille, Louisiana State University
campus paper, and threaten to fire"
any university student who dared to
say a word against Huey Long" was
sworn to today by David R. Mcguire.
one of several students dismissed in
dispute over "Reveille censorship"
The statement by Mcguire was is
sued about the time DR.. Guy E.
Snavely of Birmingham, secretary Of
the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools. meeting in
Atlanta, announced that the EXecu-
tive Committee of the association
would investigate charges filed by
Baton Rouge citizens that Long lis
running Louisiana State University"
MCGUIRE said he was seated near
Senator Long in the State Senate
chamber November Is when another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
Roosevelt Chose
Design for China
Of White House
First Lady's One Aid " as
Suggesting Roses In
stead of Scrolls.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
1t was President Roosevelt and not
Mrs Roosevelt-as most people sus-
pected-who picked out the design for
the 1,OOo-piece new set of china for
the White House
The presidential choice was a blue
band with gold edge and gold stars
and the Presidents seal on top.
Mrs. Roosevelt disclosed this at her
press conference today as she told of
the $4,000 purchase. She said she
had suggested that merely to make it
more interesting historically the three
small roses of the ancient Dutch Roose-
welt coat-of-arms be used around the
inner border instead Of scrolls.
The Presidents wife said the china
was purchased because sets were so in
complete she had to send out several
times and buy cheap cups and saucers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
BALANCED BUDGET
ROOSEVELT'S HOPE
President Holds Confer.
enCes at Warm Springs
Before Returning Here.
BY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. December 4.
The small living room of President
Roosevelts frame cottage on the
slopes of Pine Mountain, is again to-
day the scene of one of the most
vitality important conferences Of this
administration, as Mr.. Roosevelt con-
tinued with his plans for major
national policy.
With him in this coy. but small,
room, which is not great deal larger
than the usher's room back at the
White House in Washington, as he
struggles with the completion of this
task, are three cabinet officers, three
recovery chieftains. besides several
lesser lights of the New Deal admin
istration.
Officials in Conference.
In the group assisting the President
to put the finishing touches on the
budget and his national policy pro-
gram are Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau, Postmaster General Far
ley, Secretary of Interior Ickes. who
is administrator of Public Works;
Harry L. Hopkins. administrator Of
relief: DR.. Rexford G. Tugwell, IN
dersecretary o. Agriculture and one
of the Presidents principal planning
aides, and Frank Walker, former chief
and former treasurer of the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
Other than to intimate that he
is working on such a national policy
program and that he hopes to have
it virtually completed when his train
pulls cut of here tomorrow afternoon
for Washington President Roosevelt
has oeen non -commital about these
conferences of the past few days
His answer to inquiring newspaper
men is that they will know all about
it when they read the annual mes
sage he will transmit to Congress
when 1t opens for business January
8. Despite the fact that he insists
upon saying tc the correspondents
here that any Of their guesses in the
meantime will be wrong, the guessing
and speculation continues. However
the speculation is by no means out
of thin air, because the Presidents
conference group is interviewed in
dividually at various intervals and
hints they have dropped have given
some basis for the speculation.
Issues Discussed.
Therefore, without further attempts
at speculation upon details it is safe
to set down the following as occupy
ing the principal attention of the
President and his little group of as
sistants as the program of national
policy is being rushed toward compile
ton:
ID A budget which will come a!
close as possible-perhaps attain
the Presidents goal of balance by
1885"
90 A plan for converting dole-re-
lief into work-relief of a elf-liquidat-
ing nature.
(3) Coordination, as a consequence
of the Public Works Administration
Continued on Page 8, Column Sd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
u. S. Attorneys Aides Hear
Secret Testimony of
Frank Speicher.
HOUSE GROUP CALLS
mystery WITNESS"
key" Figure, Missing in Early
Probe, Tells Story of Nego-
tiations With U. S.
BY REX COLLIER.

Reopening of the grand jury IN
vestigation of lobbying activities at
the War Department was seen as
possibility today as result OF evidence
presented to House subcommittee by
Frank E. Speicher, long-sought "mys-
terry witness.
Granting a request by United States
ATTORNEY Leslie c. Garrett, Chairman
John j. McSwain of the House Military
Affairs Committee admitted two as
sistant United States attorneys as
official observer" in a closed hearing
today in the new House Office Build
ing
The representatives Of the United
States attorney are Assistants David
A. Pine and Alvin Krause. Pine con-
Quoted previous grand jury inquiry
that ended without indictments but
with a special report to President
Roosevelt and Secretary of War Dern
castigating lobbying conditions at the
War Department.
Missed at Probe.
Speicher was to have been key
witness before the grand jury. but he
could not be located, despite a wide
search by Department of Justice
agents. A few weeks ago he was
found in New York City and he re-
turned here voluntarily to give De-
partment of Justice and congressional
investigators a sensational story OF
alleged improper dealings between
contract seekers and Army representa-
tiveS.
An Army officer Of high rank and
an executive of a large automobile
corporation are said to be named IN
statement given officials by Spelcher'
who is agent for leakproof auto TUBE
concern in New York City.
Speicher was being Intercepted at
length today by members Of the House
Military Subcommittee, who thumbed
sheets of a fifty-page typewriter
statement obtained from Speicher by
Department of Justice agents.
If certain allegations contained in
the statement are substantiated by
documentary evidence which Speicher
is said to have promised to produce, a
new grand jury inquiry will be
launched, officials indicated.
Charges Are Heard.
The new witness was questioned for
several hours yesterday afternoon by
committee members and was asked to
return today Because of the ramiflca-
tons of the charges made in Speicher' S
statement it may take several days to
complete this phase of the inquiry.
Speicher a stocky, we'll dressed mar
in mis- forties refused to talk with
reporters. explaining that he would
do his talking in the committee room
He also declined to pose for photo.
graphs.
While the contents of Speicher's
statement are beng closely guarded
there are reports that it refers to q
variety of business negotiations with
the War Department by representa-
tives of motor-car companies and by
dealers IN surplus Army goods.
A number of persons whose names
were mentioned in the prior inquiries
are reported to be referred to in the
Speicher testimony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE

BROOKLYN, N. Y, December 4 LP1.
Two trainmen were killed and eight
track workers injured today in head
on collision of two Long Island rail-
road freight trains in cut under
Brooklyn avenue.
The dead were the engineer and oiler
of the first of four electric locomo-
tives pulling westbound 16-car train,
which collided with a steam locomo-
tive pulling an eastbound train.
The impact drove the first electric
engine back into the second, pushing
it up on end, and tore away part of
the concrete retaining wall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
WOMAN ARRESTED
AS NELSON'S WIDOW
Toledo Police Declare Prisoner
Answers Description Of Mrs.
Helen ellis.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio, December IA
woman answering the description of
Mrs. Helen ellis, widow of the slain
gangster, George Baby Face) Nelson,
was arrested here today.
The arrest was made after police
had received word that the woman
had been seen earlier today in La
grange. Ind, apparently headed for
Toledo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
Permanent

There were many smaller shifts.
In the field, one noticeable decrease
was in the Railroad Retirement Board,
whose authority is challenged in the
courts. 189 employees being dropped.
Agriculture cut off 455 virtually all
of whom were on a permanent basis,
and the Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton 142.
The Tennessee Valley Authority had
an increase of 452 permanents, but
dropped I'll temporaries.
AS usual, the field establishments
showed wide fluctuation in the ranks
of temporary employment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
BY the Associated Press,

The public is in better mood to
spend, Government experts say And
SO they expect Christmas trade to be
the best in four years.
To their predictions that cash reg
listers will jingle as they haven't done
since 1880, John Dickinson. Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce, added this
note of cheer:
THE prospects for big Christmas
trade show very clearly the state Of
mind-a satisfied and optimistic state
of mind.
"All of the evidence indicates the
people are in a greater spending
mood. But not for reckless spending
such as we saw some years ago. This
mood to buy can be directly attribut-
able to more employment and more
money in the peoples pockets"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
ROBINSON BELIEVED
CAUGHT IN FLORIDA
BY the Associated Press.

by tTle ASSOCldted Press,
MARIANA, Fla, December A.
Sheriff w. F. Chambliss today said a
man answering the description of
Thomas H. Robinson, jr., charged
with kidnapping Mrs. Alice Stoll.
wealthy Louisville society woman, was
being held here until his fingerprints
could be checked with Kentucky au-
thorities.
The man booked as Rufus Clarke,
was arrested by deputy sheriffs when
he attempted to run at their command
to halt. Clarke told the sheriff he
was on his way to Bristol. Tenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
i. s. AID T0BR|TA|N
IN 1874 REVEALED.
Senate Committee Hears
Navy Diverted Its Arms
Deliveries.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Evidence that arms manufacturers
knew as early as 1908 that "a ire
mendous conflict was brewing in
Europe was presented today to the
Senate Munitions Committee. The
World War broke out six years later.
The committee also received evil
dence that the United States Govern
ment assigned delivery on some of
its munition contracts to the British
Navy from 1914 to 1916.
War Anticipation Shown.
A brief filed by the Colt Patent Fire
arms Co with the Government in a
tax case indicated the company's an
ticipation of the war, the committee
said
I'VE knew tremendous conflict
was brewing and spent the money
necessary to organize sales force
throughout Europe" the brief said.
S. NJ. Stone, president of the COM
pany, who was testifying, said he did
not have any more definite knowl-
edge" of the impending war than the
average citizen.
The deliveries on munitions con-
tracts were made through Canada to
Great Britain, brief read to the
committee said. The author was
Benedict w Holden, attorney for the
Colt Co.
The contracts with the United
States Government, he wrote, with
deliveries assigned to the British
Navy was an eloquent testimonial as
to the knowledge on the part of the
officials of our Government that fire.
arms would be in demand or required
by European nations.
Investigation Resumed.
Delivery in Canada for Great
Britain was made on purchase orders
and contracts beginning as early as
1914 and continued until interrupted
in 1916"
The investigation into activities Of
the munitions industry was picked up
today where it left off some time ago.
At that time, the testimony echoed
around the world, including the names
of kings and other world-famous
figures.
Virtually the entire membership of
the committee was present at the
hearing today.
Irenee, Felix and Lammot Du Pont,
officers of the big powder manufacture
ing company which bears their name,
were among the first to arrive.
Back of the World War document
in the committees mass of evidence
were other letters and files which
Continued on Page 3, Column a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
Atlanta Bandits Active.

ATLANTA, December (R.-The
descent of armed bandits on three
grocery stores and the fashionable
Cox-Carlton Hotel here netted them a
haul of $3.50 in cash and basket of
groceries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04

Total (s :vs a'ass } 35,525
The Stars circulation yes
terday of 1888 was 1885
greater than the correspond
ing day last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, December A.
The Ulm plane bound for Hawaii is
lost and running short of gasoline,
said advices received by Globe Wireless
here at 10 am. today.
The information came through the
Globe Wireless station at Honolulu.
In messages picked up there, Lieut..
Charles T P. Ulm, pilot of the plane,
was begging for the beacon pre-
sumably the radio beacon, that he
might be guided safely to his Homo
lulu destination.
We do not want to have to give
the o S. said one message.
Last from the plane said he was
lost" commented the Honolulu Globe
wireless station. He keeps asking for
beacon. NRUI mot identified, but
presumably the radio beacon station)
said the beacon had been on since
midnight
Other messages from the plane, re-
layed by the wireless station, said it
was flying at $4,000 feet altitude and
that the weather was not very good"
Asking for Honolulu weather" the
report continued. I'VE gave him that
now He did not listen for us for
some time. but now in contact with
him again"
Ship Stands BY.
The Matson Navigation Co imme-
diately ordered its freighter Maliko,
at that hour about 275 miles out of
Honolulu. bound for Hawaii, to stand
by for a possible rescue attempt.
The last previous report from the
plane itself had been received from
the President Coolidge at 6:25 am,
the Dollar liner relaying word that
the plane Star of Australia" was
about 500 miles from Honolulu shortly
before that hour.
The cruising speed of the Ulm plane
had been given before the takeOf as
130 miles an hour.
we have very little gasoline left, 2"
said a massage from the plane to the
Honolulu Globe station, relayed here
a little after 10 am, Pacific time.
Need the beacon urgently. We do
not want to have to give the o S.
Please tell shake them on the beacon"
Indicates He's Far Away.
KYG, the Honolulu station, said he
was trying to tell the plane that the
beacon had been in continuous opera
ton since midnight.
Navigators pointed out that the
radio beacon sends signals on a direc
tional beam and that Ulm. if badly
off his course. would therefore be I'M
able to receive them.
Ulm at the take-off carried COS
gallons of gasoline, which at the con-
sumption rate of % gallons an hour
for his two horsepower motors
should last him slightly more than 81
hours.
The take-off from Oakland was at
BAL pm, yesterday. This gave him
fuel to last, theoretically, until after
noon today
The liner President Coolidge, which
at 8 o'clock last night was 651 miles
from Honolulu, its immediate destina-
ton on a voyage from here, radioed
at 1890 am. today that the wireless
signals from the plane were so weak
they could not be used as basis for
radio bearings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
NOTED PHYSICIST DIES
Sir Horace Lamb Passes Away
in England.

CAMBRIDGE, England, December
(P).-Sir Horace Lamb, IS, noted
mathematical physicist, died today.
Sir Horace was born November Z,
1849. He was graduated from Trinity
College, Cambridge, in 1872, and con-
tinued his scholastic career thereafter
as fellow and assistant tutor, becom-
ing full professor of mathematics in
1875 at the University of Adelaide.
His incursions into the realms of
higher mathematics brought him in
creasing scientific honors and in 1925
he was made president of the British
association. In 1881 he was knighted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04
Fletcher's Suggestion.

Fletcher served notice on Borah and
others who demanded complete re-
organization" of the party that they
could achieve their goal by presenting
a concrete legislative program in Con-
gress and by obtaining signatures OF
Is national committeeman from as
Continued on Page S, Column D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-04

HONOLULU, December 4 CP).-
Off his course and virtually out
of gasoline, on a flight from Oak
land to Honolulu, Flight Lieut..
Charles r. P. Ulm today sent out
a general emergency call as a
Coast Guard cutter and three Navy
planes dashed TO his aid.