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Evening star., 1934-02-02
GAG RULE is SEEM
.FORC.W.A. HEARING
Debate on Appropriation for
Work and Direct Relief
May Be Limited.
Continued From First Page.)

unless immediate action was taken
the $400, 900 900 originally allotted for
the c. w. A. would be exhausted on
February 8 and there would be no
funds for that huge pay roll
The present rate of expenditure, he
said, was about $4,000, 900 a week.
In its formal report, the Appropria-
tions Committee admonished the
House to remember that these relief
measures are not permanent policy
of the Federal Government, and
added:
They are temporary and only the
extreme emergency justifies them
Summarizing the direct and indi-
rect aid furnished by the civil works
program as supplemented by State
and local money and the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration ac-
tivities, it provides relief for 1000 900
families representing IS to 80 million
people"
The committee said 1t was Of the
opinion the civil works fund should
be confined to State and local projects
except in such cases as 1t may be
necessary to allot funds to some Fed
eral agency to administer, supervise,
inspect. etc, the execution of work
on State and local projects"
The administrator testified as head
Of the Federal relief organization that
last March there were 4560,000 fam
lilies in the United States on public
relief rolls. representing something
over 10000 900 people or one person
out of every six"
Decrease Reported.
The number Of families on the Fed
eral relief rolls in December. he said,
had decreased to 2,650,000.
Suppose you reach May and the
number of people you have employed
on your civil works rolls has increased
and you find considerable decrease
on your relief rolls" Chairman Bu-
chanan asked ITO stop your civil
works would necessarily throw those
same people back on your relief rolls?"
That is right" Hopkins replied.
I'VE might extend civil works lit
tie longer. My own thought would be,
however, Will iuiIo Va lii4o e4Ho' you
could not possibly keep this running
all the time between now and next
Winter; that you would either di-
minish it sharply during the Summer
time or demobilize it entirely during
the Summer time. 1t will reach a
marked decrease in the numbers.
we have not yet reached any ad-
miniStrative decision as TO precisely
the method that will be adopted. 1t
will be done on realistic basis and
in the interest Of the whole national
economy"
Hopkins said many people who
needed relief had been ashamed to
ask for it until the C. w. A. was Gre
ated last November by President
Roosevelt
Evening star., 1934-02-02
GETS 8-YEAR SENTENCE

PORTLAND. Greg, February 2 up.
~Don Mclean, "a, was sentenced to
Federal prison for eight years and
was fined $500 yesterday for counter
Seiting. He pleaded guilty.
Mclean was arrested November IA
n his apartment In possession, secret
service agents said, of etched plates
for S. notes and 1,090 notes which
had been printed on one side.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Finds Needy Will Work.

In describing the situation. he said ::
"A strange thing happened in con-
nection with work relief We had
been taught to believe. in the study
of the poor laws that the way to get
people off the relief rolls was to offer
them a job. because if you give them
work they would duck and run, and
they would not want any relief.
We'll. just the opposite happened.
We found that when we started work
relief many people. fine people. who
would not come to us for direct re-
lief would come for work relief, be-
cause they said it was job.
Whether We like it or not. the un-
employed distinguished between direct
relief and work relief. although it
came from the same funds.
The unemployed said; We have a
three -day-a-wee job - The
unemployed themselves wanted to
work"
Hopkins made but brief mention
before the committee of the difficult
ties encountered in administering the
huge civil works program. He touched
but lightly on the avalanche of letters
that reached C. w. A. headquarters
following drastic reductions of hours
and jobs IN order to make funds last
as long as possible
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Already Under Indictment.

Although Sankey already is under
indictment for conspiracy in the kid
naping of Charles Boettcher, I'd, OF
Denver, along with his wife, who
already is in Jail, Eidem said the
special grand jury would be asked to
consider developments in the case and
to amend the indictment if it were
considered necessary to an "air tight
case.
Shaven and apparently refreshed
by nights rest on the journey from
Chicago, where he was arrested We'd
nesday, the outlaw seemed almost
jaunty as he stepped from the train
preceded by two guards who carried
a shotgun and submachine gun.
Surrounded by patrolmen and
deputy United States marshals, San
key, manacled to a guard, was rushed
into a taxicab and taken to the
county JAIL where his wife is held.
Later he will be removed to the State
Penitentiary for safekeeping pending
his appearance in Federal Court to
answer conspiracy charges.
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Evening star., 1934-02-02
Will Rogers Disappointed.

Among those who peered down the
lobby toward the entrance OF the
dining room was Will Rogers.
Where's Huey?" he asked
I'm just debating said the come
dian with broad grin, whether I
ought to keep my dinner engagement
at the White House Or Hang around
here and see the fun The Roose-
velts won't be able to put on show
like that unless Ogden Mills showed
up-and he amt goin' to show up"
Rogers looked back OF lobby palm
and then toward the revolving doors.
"Doggone," he exclaimed 'if
thought Huey'd come in here l think
I'd stay. ShuckS. I'm missing every
thing. I started down to New Orleans
for that election 1 was going to
cover it like a war But I didn't get
there. I ought to be here at the
finish"
Evening star., 1934-02-02
What's What
BehindNews
In Capital
Roosevelt Expe cte d
to Confne G.. W. A.
to Real Needy.
BY PAUL MALLON.

:" VEN Mr.. Roosevelt's most ar
~ dent admirers cannot quite
| stand the c. w. A.
- Administration inner circlers
gently grasp their noses now
when any one mentions it. Their de-
scriptionS of it run from bad" to
awful" 1t has become the common
curbstone joke of the Capital. Com
plants continue to pour in on Mr..
desk. They concern the
ridiculous manner in which the idea
is being administered by underlings,
rather than the graft angle. 1t is a
foregone conclusion that the President
will do something further about it.
This something prabably will be an
order contining c. w. A. work to
those in actual need Of relief.
Every One Takes Part.
The Presidents original plan was to
establish the c. w. A. only for those
who we're on relief rolls. Later, some
one and every one took part in it..
That is where the trouble started.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
LINER STRIKES WHALE

San FRANCISCO, February LP).
The Dollar liner President Taft.
bound from San Francisco to New
York, struck a giant whale early yes
terday 1927 miles northwest of Bal
boa
The impact was terrific" the
Aner's wireless operator messaged, Il
thought we'd hit a rock. The boat
trembled violently and the passengers
all ran on deck
He said the whale appeared stunned
and remained on the surface, forcing
the President Taft to reverse and de-
tour around 1t.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
SANKEY is JAILED.
Prosecutor Saws Bond Will Prevent
His Release.

SIOUX FALLS, February 2 CP).-
Verne Sankey, notorious kidnaper. was
returned to South Dakota today to
face charges in the Boettcher kid
naping case. He was taken imme-
diately to the county jail.
Olaf Eidem. Federal district at
torney, announced that bond would
be set for the outlaw, but that it
would be sufficiently high to prevent
his release.
The district attorney said a special
grand jury and special term Of court
would be called to consider Sankey's
case as soon as possible
Evening star., 1934-02-02
DEAN JURORS TOTAL II
Selection of Three Today Leaves
but One to Be Named.

GREENWOOD. Miss, February 2
R).-Three additional jurors were
chosen today to sit in the trial of DR..
Sarah Ruth Dean, woman physician
charged with murder for the death
of Dr. John Preston Kennedy, bring
ing the total of accepted jurors to II.
During the morning examination
the defense used its eleventh pre-
empotory challenge, and had but one
challenge left with one juror yet to
be picked.
Evening star., 1934-02-02

then I'll 60 back to Europe and re-
port My object in coming here's
to tell of European affairs"
Many things had happened In
America since she went away, she
said, and they were all for the better.
The world situation was worse, she
- Il
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Old Animals Replaced.

An average Of about 100000 is
spent annually by N'rth Carc'ina
farmers to replace al
r,u'es ana tcT =.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
LADY LUCK FLEEs SANKEY.
Easy Money of Gaming Tables and
BoOtlegging Is Gone.

GANNVALLEY, S. OAK, February
2 R.-Lady Luck, who smiled at
Verne Sankey over the gaming tables,
had fled from him today.
She was his mistress five years and
more ago when Verne played the
tinsled honky-t -tonks, the gambling
places and even the fashionable re-
sorts. The cards and the dice were
right" for him then. The Sankey
pockats were lined with gold.
Then she sulked; and then came
the days of bootlegging, robbery and
kidnapping
AS youth, coming to Wilmont,
S. Oak. from Oakland, Nebr., where
he was born in 1881, Sankey led the
drab life of a farmer, frightened
however by the pampering of two
older brothers, Frank and Floyd.
At 19, steam and steel tracks
beckoned even as they had drawn
his father who was a railroad man.
Thwarted because of his youth in his
efforts to become railroad engineer,
the boy set out for Canada.
Made Easy Money.
There he found a place with the
Canadian National Railways at Win
nipeg. There. too, he needed the call
Of tho r-'-'i-'r t-blc5. H was lucky
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Evening star., 1934-02-02
Probe Plea Granted.

In New Orleans. Criminal District
Judge William J. O'Hara today
granted the petition Of Senator Long
to allow the State attorneys ofice to
conduct a general investigation into
the New Orleans City Hall and al
legged wide open gambling throughout
New Orleans"
Senator Long moved for the investi-
CATION after his municipal ticket had
met defeat at the hands of Mayor
Walrlsley last week and after District
Attorney Eugene Stanley had initiated
an open court inquiry into alleged
padding of State Office pay rolls here
in the interest of the Long candidates,
Long charged that city jobs had
been used to promote the Walmsley
ticket, that public utilities had made
large outlays in behalf of that ticket,
and that dice games, lotteries and
race horse handbooks we're in oper-
alton
At the same time Gov. o. K. Allen
said today he would issue a procla-
nation on February 20 calling and
setting a date for another special
election in the sixth district to fill
the Congress seat declared vacant
last week by the House of Repre-
SentativeS.
Evening star., 1934-02-02

1t had been Senator Longs custom
to dine in public there several nights
a week. For two hours Walmsley sat
at the table pursuing a leisurely meal
and alertly scanning all newcomers.
Senator Long. however, failed to put
in an appearance
Evening star., 1934-02-02

small elevator near a side entrance,
presumably on his way to Capitol
Hill. He eluded reporters and pho
tographers waiting in the hope Of see
ing the Senator.
The Walmsley matter was not the
Senator's only difficulty. An Election
Committee in the Senate has agreed
to hold open hearings on petitions
signed by hundreds Of Louisianans
charging that Overton, supported by
Long, was elected fraudulently.
Senator George, Democrat, Of
Georgia. chairman Of the committee,
said hearings probably would be
started here in about two weeks, and
that both Long and Overton. as well
as the petitioners and their repre-
sentatives would be heard
Walmsley is still determined on a
personal reckoning with Senator Long
but will not go out Of his way TO seek
the Senator.
If our paths cross when Long is
of Capitol Hill. III show him I mean
what say" Walmsley said.
Denies Having Bodyguards.
The mayor said that Long had
made the kind of charges against him
during the recent Democratic primary
in the New Orleans mayorality race
that only a physical encounter can
atone for. The mayor stands over
6 feet inches, weighs almost 200
pounds and says he is something Of
a boxer He won II letters at Tulane
University for his proves on the
track and foot ball field
The Senator laughed yesterday at
reports that he had surrounded him.
self with bodyguards. He said that a
man who had been mistaken for a
bodyguard was Rev Gerald L. K
Smith OF Shreveport, pastor of a
Christian Church and chaplain of the
Louisiana State Federation of Labor
On the other hand Wa,msley de-
clareS the Senator was surrounded by
seven bodyguards every time he ap-
peared in public during the mayoral-
ity race. Persons who saw the Sem
ator leave the lobby Of the Mayflower
Hotel yesterday, surrounded by four
alert men, were of the opinion that
if the Senator's companions were not
bodyguards they at least were pre-
pared to discourage any physical
affront.
Meanwhile. all was quiet on the
Connecticut avenue front.
Evening star., 1934-02-02

The result is children are running
away from high schools to get soft
snaps under the C. w. A. Poor ones
who really need the money do not
seem to be as successful in getting
jobs as those with letters from their
Senator's and Representatives
Certain steel workers in Pennsyl-
vania quit the Carnegie Mills to take
softer jobs at more pay under the
c. w. A.. until recently, when they
were barred.
Negro cooks in the South left the
kitchen and started quilting at home
for the C. w. A. at Sl2 week.
A law school graduate passed his
bar examination and got a job here
as c. w A. lawyer at $3.50 per
month, looking over c. w. A. con-
tracts.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
COMMITTEE VOTES
TO REINSTATE D. c.
PROMOTION PLAN

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Evening star., 1934-02-02
Books Ready for Audit.

Ready for the committee to con-
slider today is a special audit of air
craft makers books from 1927
through 1888. 1t is summarized this
way:
An analysis of the audits Of the
aircraft industry indicates an average
profit OF per cent on their naval air
craft production and loss of "a per
cent on their experimental aircraft.
Ihls Is an average operating profit of
4.3 per cent on total Navy business,
that is before deducting State and
Federal taxes
The receipts and expenditures of
each company which has furnished
planes for the Navy from 1927 through
1888 are analyzed individually. At
the top of the list is one company
its name not given-which received
s5.24l ,794 on Navy contracts.
The cost was S4,318.379, leaving a
profit of 81 per cent
The Engine Manufacturing Co.,
which made SO per cent profit. was
said to have had a monopoly or a
medium powered engine which will
not be powerful enough for future air.
planes.
Firms Profits Decline.
Furthermore. its profits which
averaged IS per cent over the seven
years. dropped to less than 20 per
cent last year.
Vinson is not contradiction a
preliminary study of the audit-that
airplane companies have been max
ing excessive profits.
Il want to find out if they are" he
said. The only way we can do it is
by thorough investigation.
I'VE may find it necessary later to
extend our investigation to ship con-
struCtion. too But We have a check
there. We have no Government air.
plane factories which compete with
private contractors. but we do have
Navy shipyards. If a ship contractor
wants too much money We find it out
by comparing the bid with what the
job would cost in a navy yard.
May Reopen Plane Plant.
"We may find it necessary to re-
open the airplane factory at Phila-
Gelphia. which was closed three years
ago.
We are not going to stand by and
let the Government be at the mercy
Of any private company; We are not
going to be held up. If they're max
ing too much we'll put stop to it"
Also interesting Vlnson and the
House Committee is the S2,000000 or
more which the Navy may give each
year to contractors who are building
experimental airplanes.
The special audit shows contractors
spent s2,686 968 last year for work on
experimental planes. some of which
served as models for big orders. OF
that total, the Navy donated $l,757,-
832.
In one instance. single contractor
developing airplanes he hoped to
sell to the Navy-in the seven-year
period received S1.757,832 from the
Government and spent S929,134 of his
own money.
Vinson wonders whether the gov
ernmental donations for such work
should not be matched at least dol
lar for dollar.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
RED EMMA HELPS
FOES OF STRIKERS
BY RIDING IN TAXI

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Evening star., 1934-02-02
NAVAL BILL FACES
PROFITS INQUIRY
Measure Rushed by Senate
to Avert Possible Jam
In Cost Probe.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Differences over dollar profits that
might accrue from a $4,000, 900 ex-
pansion of the American Navy arose
today as perhaps the main obstacle
in the path of congressional approval
of full treaty strength fighting fleet.
Senate leaders planned to get the
big Navy bill to the floor today, II
possible, in order to speed it through
before a threatened legislative jam
materializes.
Chairman Vinson of the House
Naval Committee, whose s57O0OO,0 900
measure was passed by the House, is
initiating an investigation to de-
termine whether airplane and ship
contractors are making big profits in
the work
The House Committee today desig-
mated subcommittee of ID to make
"a searching and careful investiga-
ton" Representative Delaney, DEM
ocrat, New York, called the subcom-
mittee to meet Monday for its first
open hearings and asked to appear
AL who have any data as to prof.
iteering at the expense of the Gov.
eminent
Eventually, the subcommittee de-
cided at its initial meeting today in
come tax returns of companies which
have provided naval airplanes since
the war may be studied.
Meanwhile Chairman Trammell Of
the Senate Naval Committee called
his group together to complete action
on House amendments that differed
from proposals in his own similar
measure.
Officials Ask Profit Curb.
Navy Department officials appeared
before the committee in executive ses-
sion yesterday and asked for modi-
fications in the House amendments
to limit to 10 per cent the profits
on construction of the ships and
planes to require that half Of them
be built in navy yards.
Members of the committee indicated
today. however. that the sentiment
favors the principle of the House
amendments. but that some changes
would be made in the wording of
them.
The House Committees inquiry was
ordered. Chairman Vinson said. be-
cause of disclosures before the House
Appropriations Committee that one
airplane engine manufacturer had
made profit OF SO per cent on his
Navy contracts.
If profits like that are being
made" Vlnson said, we'll stop it
even if it's necessary for the Govern
ment TO go into the airplane- making
business itself"
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Homestead Plan Fails.

Better yet is the yarn behind the
delay in the homesteading plan.
A congressional Representative from
a Western copper State was strong
for the plan. This Representative went
to certain wealthy copper men in New
York and painted a bright picture OF
what a nice thing it would be if they
would contribute the land so un-
employed miners of the West could go
to farming The Government would
furnish the money for home construc-
ton and outftting of the farms.
One of the wealthy copper men de-
cided 10 chip in $4,000 for land pur-
chases. Several others were also per-
suaded
Suddenly their Western managers
started calling on the long distance
telephone. suggesting Western copper
lands were hardly ideal for farming;
in fact, the only crop in the particular
region under discussion is alkali dust
and cactus.
The wealthy copper men decided to
stop payment on their checks.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Object to Slow Motion.

Irate citizens are writing that the
c. w. A. workers they observe in their
local communities perform their tasks
with slow motion picture speed; that
personal and political favortism are
shown in selections for positions; that
the C. w. A. is becoming a haven
for those who do not want to work, as
well as those in need.
One of the brain trust boys who
thunders on the left recently made
trip to New England. He was ap-
preached by an irritated conservative
who says he told the brain trustee:
Il am trying to be patient NTH
all these neufdngled ideas. but
uould you please tell me ,Uhy it IS
necessary for C. w. A. 1rorkers to
rake up the leapes outside OF fac
tories that are cloSed?"
The brain trustee is supposed to
have replied
I'VE think it might inspire the en-
ployers to hire those men"
Evening star., 1934-02-02
LAST B0ETTCHER
K|DNAPER TAKEN
AIcorn, Companion of San
key, Captured by Agents
In Chicago.

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Evening star., 1934-02-02
CAVELL EXECUTION
TERMED JUSTIFIED
UNDER WAR RULES

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-17
DILLINCER HUNT
DRAWS FEDERAL
CRACK SHOTS
as New Agents Take Field,
More to Come; ConCen-
trate in Midwest.
BvUnitsd Press

BIZ tHtEF0 FFtSS
WASHINGTON, July Thirst
reinforcements will be sent into &C
ton soon in the federal govern
ment's war against kidnapers, bank
robbers, racketeers and other or
ganized criminals.
A class of forty-six new agents of
the justice department division of
investigation, each a dead shot with
machine guns and automatic rifles
that can spit death dealing stream
of lead at a rate of nearly 1000
rounds a minute, will take the field
July %.
Aug. / about thirty more hand
picked recruits start training. Sue
ceeding groups will be put through
the training school until the present
force of 430 active agents under di-
rection of J. Edgar Hoover is eX-
banded to 600
A large part of the present force
is concentrated in the middle west
in the unrelenting hunt for John
The forty-six agents now complet-
ing training are the first to be added
in the expansion of federal law en-
forcement machinery authorized by
the last congress.
More than 100000 in emergency
appropriations was given the justice
to finance the new cam
paign. In addition to increasing the
force of agents, the department has
used some money to arm its men
with the most deadly modern
weapons obtainable. It plans soon
to equip thirty field offices with
fast, radio scout cars.
The new agents are the cream of
of applicants. Federal req
cruits must be between Is and 35.
They must pass rigid physical eX-
and must have had pre-
vious training in law, aCcountancy
or detective work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-17

Re = show that 982 divorces
were granted in Marion county for
the first half of the year. During
the same period. 1854 marriage
licenses were issued The smaller
figure is a record for divorces in
the county during the last five
years.
Nearest approach to the divorce
figure in recent years was 962 dur
ing the first six months of 1882.
Last year was one apparently
teeming with matrimonial bliss,
for only 693 divorces we're granted
for the first six months.
The large number of DEGREES in
the county may serve as a warn
ing to Reno, New. to look to its
laurels as Americas premier di-
vOrce city. In June OF this year
matrimonial ruptures reached a
peak. There were 345 divorces
granted. Size of this figure large
" Is due to pre- adjournment time
of the courts having been given
over largely to separation suits.
Dame Discord made a better
showing against her eternal rival,
Dan Cupid. during the first half of
this years battle between the two
than ever before.
Figures for the first six months
Of the year reveal lat divorces
granted in January as against 277
marriage licenses issued, SO to 263
in February. 149 to 31l in March,
lac to 2S2 for April. 112 to 351 for
MAY and 345 to 564 for June.
Divorces are granted in the five
superior courts of Marion county
and IN circuit court. An equal
number of divorce suits is filed in
each court.