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Evening star., 1934-07-05
CONFESSES SLAYING,
CLAIMING DEFENSE
Laborer Surrenders at Leesburg,
Telling Story of Fight With
Man Found Dead.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG. Va, July 5.-Claiming
he acted in self-defense, Clarence
Farmhouse, As, a laborer, today ad-
mitted to Commemorative Attorney
John Galleher that he killed Basil
Brown, disabled war veteran. who was
found dead Monday in a ravine about
nine miles from here.
Farmhouse stated he and Brown got
into a fight during which Brown got
him on the ground and began choking
him. He picked up a club, he said,
and knocked his opponent unconscious.
Farmhouse surrendered at o'clock
Wednesday morning. Arriving at the
jail, he found that the sheriff and his
deputies were away searching for him.
He walked the sheriff's family and
said he wanted to be locked up. A
daughter Of the sheriff put him in
jail.
Farmhouse denied he robbed Brown
and also denied he had accomplices
in the killing. He wss unable to ex-
plain why the body was found about
go feet from the point where he said
the fight took place.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
100000 AVAILABLE
IN PUBLIC PRINTERY
McCarl Rules Sum Available
for Promotions Is Not for
Other Than Salaries.

More than 100000 was held avail
able for administrative promotions at
the Government Prainting ONCE In a
decision today by Controller General
McCarl, whe said. however, that this
was with the understanding the money
would not be needed for other SALARY.
payments.
The fund represents the amo
that can be saved from the Prin
Oflce appropriations by not filing fsg
vacancies for apprentices, ii being in
tended, according to the letter which
came from the former public printer,
George H. Carter. to operate with the
staff Of rs now employed. instead of
bringing the force to the 200 allowed
by law.
The Printing once is better of
than the usual run Of Government
establishment, in that it is not re-
quired to impound funds saved by
not filling vacancies, and consequently
has that much more for promotions,
which can only be made by saving on
salary allotments.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
Scrap Only U. S.
Vessel to Capture
German Submarine
U. S. S. Tanning Among
Seven to Be Stricken
From List.

The destroyer q. S. S. Tanning, the
only American warship ofIiciany to
be credited during the World War
with the sinking of q U-boat-and
which actually captured German
prisoners-has been stricken from the
Navy register.
The vessel has been scrapped at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, it was learned
today, and the metal sold for junk.
She was entitled TO show a white star
on one OF her stacks to denote that
she had sunk a German submarine.
In addition to the Tanning, those
stricken from the Nays roster were
the Paulding, Roe, Terry, Mccall,
Beale and the former destroyer Pat
terson. These vessels were among the
destroyers that operated out Of
Queenstown, Ireland, and of the
French coast during the war, doing
patrol and convoy duty.
On November IT, 1917, the Ameri-
can deStroyers Tanning and Nicholson
were patrolling of Queenstown when
a U-boat's periscope was sighted. Both
vessels encountered the enemy, but it
was the Fanning, officials recalled to-
day, to which the Germans actually
surrendered The submarine was the
U-58, commanded by Kapitan-Leut-
nant Gustav Amberger, who sur
rendered with three other officers and
IS enlisted men. This was the only
occasion on which an American war
ship captured prisoners at sea.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
SW|NDLE CHARGE
TRIAL IS OPENED
Mckay, Graham and Three
Others Face Federal Court
After Long Delay.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 5.-Trial Of
James g. Mckay. William J. Graham
and three others on charges OF using
the mails to defraud opened today
In Federal court after months Of de-
lay.
Twenty-three persons are named In
the indictment on which the trial
was called. but Assistant District At
torney George Pfann explained only
five were available for trial
The % are alleged to have formed
one of the country's most gigantic and
systematic swindle rings.
Graham and Mckay are wealthy
promoters of Reno, New. The other
defendants are John Egleston Of
Worcester, Mass, and Noble John
Moore of Saskatchewan, Canada. Ihe
bfth defendant, Patrick E. Sullivan,
was granted a severance on motion OF
the Government, made Immediately
after the trial opened.
Sullivan was ordered to remain In
attendance as a witness.
Each of the four defendants has
his own counsel.
The prosecutor, Pfann, is former
all-American quarterback of Cornell's
foot ball team He also was Rhodes
scholar and finished his law studies
at oxford in 1928.
Federal Judge Carroll c. Hincks Of
New Haven, Conn, who is here espe-
cially to preside in the trial, told the
first tentative jury panel the case
would last approximately three
weeks" He offered to hear any per-
sonal excuses in private. Five OF the
panel Immediately stepped to the
bench. They were denied dismissal.
Mrs. Poole Speaks.
Another speaker at the general ses-
sion this morning was Mrs. Grace
Morrison Poole, national president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs.
She said no educational program can
operate successfully which does not
put emotional and character training
on a part with manual and 1ntellec-
tual instruction.
Perhaps we have overemphasized in
the public schools the training of the
head, perhaps we are now tending to
overemphaSlze the training of the
hand, but no one can accuse US for
overtraining the heart, she said, "and
I believe no educational program can
successfully live in this country that
does not put on a par with the head
and the hand, the heart
Evening star., 1934-07-05
FINCH SELECTION
DELAY EXPLAINED
Doubts Of Political Qualifications
Defer Appointment as
Bureau Chief.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Doubts as to his political qualiflca-
tions were said today to have at least
delayed the appointment Of DR.. John
W. Finch of the University of Idaho
as director Of the United States Bu-
reau of Mines
Secretary Ickes Endorsed DR.. Finch
for that position, and a commission
of appointment was drafted and pre-
sented to President Roosevelt for sig
nature.
The President, however, left for his
vacation without having signed the
commission, although he did consider
it. 1t was reported that action was
delayed at the request of Postmaster
General Farley, presumably on ac-
count OF Finch's politics.
A member of Congress interested in
the appointment said he did not know
whether the delay meant that Dr.
Finch would not be named. but ex-
pressed the hope that Endorsement by
the congressional delegation and Sec
-ckes would bear weight.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
Transfer of Executive Office
Staff to Commence Next Week
Construction of Larger Quarters Not to
Be Started Observation-Disclosures
Be,OdiIs Lack of Air-COOIed Rooms.

the ofices of the Executive ONCE
Building are being taken down and
packed away until the renovated and
enlarged Office building Is ready for
occupancy late in the Fall.
The President is expected to divide
his WORKING time between his desk
in the air-cooled study on the second
floor and his temporary ONCE in the
blue room on the first floor.
The large maple desk which was
presented to President Hoover by the
American Furniture Manufacturers
Association, which Mr.. Roosevelt has
been using IN the Executive once
Building, along with his ONCE chairs.
will be placed in the blue room early
next week. The green parlor. which
adjoins the blue room on the east,
will be shared by Secretaries McIn-
tyre and Early, the former having
charge Of the Presidents daily en-
gagements. and the latter taking care
OF the press and photographers.
The red parlor, which adjoins the
blue room on the west, will be used
by Rudolph Forster, chief executive
clerk Of the executive office staff. who
is accompanying the President on his
vacation cruise, and Maurice Latta,
his assistant.
Lobby to Be Reception Room.
The large state dining room at the
extreme west end of the mansion
will be used as q reception room for
callers on the President. as well as
desk room for a number Of the execu-
tive staff, and may be used as q con-
ference room by the President. The
main lobby also will be used as a
reception room. A corner Of the lobby
is being fitted up for a temporary
workshop for the White House cor
respondents.
President Roosevelt may not know
1t now, but he will later on, that his
new office in the remodeled executive
ONCE building will be built upon
what was once the famous mint bed
during the regime Of President Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
This mint bed, which occupied q
patch Of ground about 8 feet by is
feet, became particularly famous
because Of its close relationship with
the meetings Of President Theodore
Roosevelt and his tennis cabinet"
on the tennis court which was then
not far distant from the mint.
The Once Of Public Buildings and
Public Parks, which has made the
plans for the enlargement of the
ONCE building, has not yet let the
contract for the construction work,
but 1t is hoped this detail will be
attended to and actual construction
work started within the next three
or four weeks. Congress appropriated
s135, 900 for this work and those in
charge have planned something
which they think will be not only
entirely suitable for the Presidents
purpose, but will In every way con-
form with the magnificent architec-
tural lines of the White House itself
and its extending wings.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
Fepr.

The promise of conservative admin
istration has not entirely assauged
the inner fears Of insurance companies
and bankers. They have an idea that
none will want farm mortgages If
there is going to be a six-year mora
toriun on any considerable number
Of them.
Il seems TO be q case Of holding an
ak over the heads of mortgage hold
ers. They may be reasonably certain
1t will never fall, but they will always
be afraid 1t will.
Bernard Baruch's friends avow that
Mrs. Roosevelt has sold him completely
on the homesteading idea.
Floyd Gibbons brother Is working In
thu Shipping Board as assistant pub
licity man.
Take all current imitation rumors
y IN three grains Of salt. There will
be nothing in them for at least year,
II then.
Joseph Kennedy, the new chairman
OF tho Securities Commission. always
sends ties to friendly newsmen ut
Christmas time. ~
(CopyriRifE 1o34.l -.-.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
JEWELRY FIRM APPEALS
/ BLUE EAGLE REMOVAL
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 5.-The Crest
Speciality Co.. jewelry manufacturers,
whose Blue Eagle was ordered re-
moved by Washington officials for
noncompliance with N. r. A.. code
regulations, has asked leave to appeal
the case
Asserting he was not represented at
a hearing at Washington Monday, 3.
B. Manaster, president OF the COM
pany, sent a message to Gen. Hugh
S. johnson, administrator. yesterday.
asserting evidence he could present
would prove his firm guiltless, and
asked for permission to appeal.
A tribunal of Federal code adminis-
traitors held he was guilty of violating
trade practice regulations Of the In
duStry.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
GLIDERS HALTED
BY LACK OF WIND
Pilots See Little Chance of Soar
ing Contests Again
Today.
BY the Associated Press

ELMIRA, N. Y, July 5.-A pessimis-
tic outlook greeted pilots in the fifth
annual soaring contests today as they
rose early to scan the skies in hope OF
wind for their fragile ships.
Weather observers predicted that
the wind would be too light for soar
ing.
Although weather conditions kept
most of the pilots on the ground yes
terday, large holiday crowd saw an
exhibition of stunting by a glider
released from an airplane and piloted
through its bag of tricks by E. B.
Sutherland of Akron, Ohio.
Carrying his voice to every section
of the take-off field, an amplifier
broadcast the description of a flight
made by Warren e. Eaton of Norwich,
N. Y, president Of the Soaring Society
of America
Using newly-devised apparatus, with
the sending and receiving set In the
plane weighing less than pounds,
Eaton described the CLOUD hopping"
and events within the wide circle of
his vision.
The demonstration was watched by
Rear Admiral Ernest j. King, chief of
the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. who
visited Elmlra to get flrst-hand knowl-
edge of gliding. Gliders have been
purchased by the Navy Department to
aid in the instruction of student flyers
Evening star., 1934-07-05
PARLEY IS CALLED
ON HUMAN NEEDS
Roosevelt Issues Welfare
Meeting Invitation
Through Baker.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt has invited
representatives Of the "a national
welfare agencies to meet at the
White House on September % to
inaugurate their 1894 mobilization
for human needs
Newton D. Baker. chairman Of the
mobilization, announced yesterday
he had conferred with the President
Just before his departure and that
the President had issued the in
vitation through him.
Mrs. Roosevelt will serve as chair
man Of the National Women's Com
mittee Of the mobilization. Last year
ass cities in 40 States organized
women's Crusades under Mrs. Roose-
velt's direction and indications now
are that an even greater number will
be organized this year.
Chest Aid Pledged.
Baker said President Roosevelt
had stressed the necessity of the
local communities raising Com
munfty Chest funds to care for the
needy this year, and had offered his
fullest support to the movement.
The President explained, Baker
said. that there was a grave fear
that private citizens would assume
that the billions of dollars appropri-
ated by the Government for merely
material relief would make the sup
port OF hospitals, nursing, child and
family welfare services, guidance and
recreation of youth unnecessary.
Baker added that only half the
unemployed secured any relief what
ever, and that the billions Of Govern
ment funds distributed meant only
s24 per month for each family on
relief.
Presidents Letter.
Baker made public the following
letter from the President explaining
his interest:
MY dear Mr.. Baker:
THE 1884 mobilization for human
needs is OF such vital interest in the
national recovery plan that I am
writing you, as chairman, in regard
to publicity for this great effort of
the "a national welfare agencies.
Il am fully conscious Of the great
help that the advertising mediums OF
the country, such as the magazines,
movie companies and radio systems,
have been to you and your associates
in the past.
Aid Indispensable.
Il wrote you on January 2, thanking
you for the invaluable assistance that
the 1888 mobilization for human needs
rendered the Government in relief
work last year and wish to state again
emphatically that volunteer welfare
services are indispensable to national
recovery. This is every whit as true
this year as II was last year.
II am sure that the 1884 mobilization
win be q success If every one that can
viii render aid this coming FAN, and
bespeak for you their utmost CO.
operation.
VERY sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
Evening star., 1934-07-05
AUSTRIAN VILLAGERS
REHEARSE AIR ATTACK

By the Associated Press.
WEIS, Austria, July 5.-A rehearsal
for an enemy air attack was held
yesterday afternoon at this railway
junction near the German and
Czechoslovakian border.
Sirens screamed warnings that five
planes were attacking and the people
rushed to places Of comparative
safety.
The first aid and anti-gas units OF
the fire department took part in the
demonstration.
The planes dropped sand bag bombs
which were variously colored to In.
dicate incendiarym gas and explosive
bombs
Evening star., 1934-07-05
HELD IN CUBAN REVOLT

HAVANA, July 5 CP1.-Salvador NJ.
Villoch, former chief of the Cuban
Navy, was placed under confinement
yesterday on charge Of having in
stigated the short-lived revolt Of the
crew of the cruiser Cuba at Antilla
on June %.
The Cuba came into Havana Har-
Dor today, lacking the decorations
which were hung on other Cuban
warships in honor of the Fourth of
July. This indicated that the crew
u still under technical arrest,
Evening star., 1934-07-05
B0RAH ATTACKS
NEW DEAL POLICIES
Charges Roosevelt Admin
istration Fosters Monop-
oily in Private Business,
Continued From First Page.)

human happiness and the most
destructive Of human values is q
bureaucracy. II has destroyed every
civilization upon which it has fastened
its lecherous grip"
American Spirit Blazed.
Senator Borah said that when the
controversy arose between the pub
fishers and the N. r. A. over the news
paper code, and the publishers de-
manced that the constitutional pro-
vision guaranteeing freedom Of the
press be written in, something Of the
old Amrican spirit blazed forth" Dur
ing the discussion. he continued, 1t
was that it would be "unspeakable" for
the Government to say how many
newspapers should be published.
ITO me-" said Senator Borah, "it
is no more unthinkable than to say
that there are enough stores and no
more must be started, that there are
enough shoe factories and no more
must be started"
The hold which monopoly has upon
the politics of this country, Mr..
Borah said, has been disclosed by re-
cent political history. The Demo-
cratic party in the last campaign de-
nounced the Republican party for
fostering the merger of competitive
business into monopolies" as one Of
the chief causes of the depression.
Senator Borah is leaving for the
West today and will deliver q num-
Der OF speeches during the Summer
months.
Cut or in Northwest.
He said today that he was informed
by F. S. Skinner of Providence, r. l.,
in telegram, that his radio address
last night had been cut of. Skinner
said that the action was Outrageous. "
Borah said he knew none of the cir
cumstances. When he made q radio
address on March ~, also criticizing
the Roosevelt administration, Senator
Borah said he had been cut of the
air throughout the entire Northwest
section Of the country. He said that
he did not know whether it had been
done Intentionally"
While Republican headquarters had
no comment on the Borah speech, Rep
resentative Fred Britten Of Illinois.
Republican, said that Senator Borah's
speech was the first real appeal for
the man who pays"
Roosevelt policies have given birth
to price-fixing monopolies which in
turn have set prices up much faster
than wages" Britten said.
The production Of everything q
man eats and wears should not be
artificially suppressed when 10000, 900
adults are out Of employment and 49,
100000 people are on the Federal
relief rolls with barely enough food
TO keep body and soul together.
"Borah Is right"
People Will Seek Aid.
Senator Pope, Democrat of Idaho,
replying to his colleagues speech, said
in o statement that "the rank and file
of the people are less interested in
lesalistic conceptions of liberty and
more interested in practical measures
to promote human welfare"
Pope said Borah was at his best in
criticizing certain phases of the ad-
ministration program. He added that
his attack upon bureaucracy in the
abstract will meet with sympathetic
response. but the people will continue
to insist upon Government help in
their problems, which means admins
trative bureaus"
Mere criticism" Pope said "can
never take the place Of a constructive
program to meet the practical needs
of our people"
Evening star., 1934-07-05
WIRELESS is EMPLOYED
TO CALL FIRE FIGHTERS
Blaze on Bedloes Island, Statue
of Liberty Site, Destroys Army
Salvage Equipment.
NJ A.. .A..o.,.t.A pr...

BY the Associated Press
NEW, YORK, July CP).-when fire
was discovered in a warehouse yester-
day at Bedloes Island, home of the
Statue Of Liberty, Army officers could
not report it to the fire department
because telephone service had been
disrupted.
A wireless message was flashed 20
the nearby Governors Island, Army
headquarters for this area. and the
alarm speeded to the fire department,
and Is minutes later q fire-hghting
boat was at the island.
The fire saved the Army some trou-
BILE by destroying salvaged equipment
which already had been marked for
destruction.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

While actual work on building a
larger executive ONCE will not be
started for several weeks, the moving
White House, which will serve as the
executive office as we'll as the presi-
Dental home during the construction
work, will begin next week.
Already rooms and corridors and
lobbies in the mansion, which are to
be used by the President and his large
executive staff temporarily, have been
tive office desks, file cases and other
Office equipment.
Col. Marvin H. Mcintyre, the only
member of the presidential secretariat
now in Washington, said, today he
hopes to have the moving completed
before the end of next week. He added
he breads the day when the present
air-cooled executive ofice building must
be vacated for the cramped and un-
cooled rooms of the mansion.
He pointed out there are only five
rooms in the White House which are
air-cooled and none Of these is in
cluded in the list of rooms to be used
for temporary offlces.
Mcintyre May Use Study.
One Of these air-cooled rooms is
the oval room, on the second floor,
used by President Roosevelt as his
private study, and Mr.. Mcintyre In
timated there Is a strong likelihood
he may find it convenient to use this
room as his work room, at least until
the time the President returns from
his present cruise, in August.
The other rooms Of the mansion
which boast Of an air-cooling unit are
the Presidents bed room, which ad-
joins his study; Mrs. Roosevelt's bed
room, the Lincoln suite, which is
the living quarters Of Col. Louis
McHenry Howe, the Presidents princi-
pal secretary. and the so-called pink
suite, usually occupied by Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Dali when she Is staying
at the White House.
The famous blue room on the first
floor. which from the beginning of
the occupancy of the White House by
President John Adams has been the
scene Of formal receptions and which
is to be the Presidents temporary
office, like the other rooms which are
to be turned into office rooms. has
been stripped of its furniture. paint
ings, draperies, rugs and other fur
nishings. AL these things, along
with the furnishings from the other
roor,s uhich are To serve as Offices
have been placed in the large, historic
east room, which during this tenn
uorary period Is to serve as q storage
room.
Switchboard Is Set Up.
The White House telephone SWITCH
board already has been set up on the
basement floor Of the White House
and the various desk phones have
been connected and ready to be placed
In position swhen necessary.
The pictSFes adorning the rooms In
Evening star., 1934-07-05
COL. F. H. BEACH DIES
Retired Officer Commanded Sd
Infantry During War.

CATSKILL, N. Y, July tR.-Col.
Francis H. Beach. 10, retired United
States Army off1cer, who commanded
the Sd Infantry during the World
War. died In Memorial Hospital here
yesterday.
Born here April 4, 1854, Col. Beach
was graduated from the United States
Military Academy in 1887.
At the end of the World War, In
which he served 18 months. Col.
Beach was decorated by the Presi-
dent Of France with the Military
ordre Rationale de Ia Legion de-Hon-
neur. He retired from the service
in 1919. returning here to live.
Evening star., 1934-07-05
POWER BREAKDOWN
INTERRUPTS BORAH
Station WAR Suspended Broad
casts From II :26 Pm. Until
1880 AM. Last Night.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 5.-A
power breakdown caused suspension
Of broadcasting at radio Station
WAR from ll:26 last night to 1880
am, during which period Senator
William E. Borah was speaking, was
announced this morning by the Out
let Co.. owners Of the station. Three
other programs were cut OF the sta
ton by the breakdown.