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The Washington times., 1934-06-01
VOTE
To ASSURE
VICTORY
Long Fight for Petition Ends
Dramatically As Mcleod
Completes Tally
BY ROGER HAWTHORNE

Jubilant over their spectacular
victory late yesterday when they
caught House leaders by surprise
and suddenly completed tn e
Weideman petition, the Mcleod
bank payoff forces today are lay
ing strategic plans for the next
and final move.
The petition makes a House vote
on the Mcleod 100 per cent payoff
bill mandatory June IL, but an
even better chance for securing re-
lief legislation IS with the stea-
gall deposit guaranty extension
bill now in conference with the
Senate.
Two Conferees to Be Added
Two more House conferees will
probably be appointed by Speaker
Rainey, he said today. after
learning five Senators had been
named to confer on the Steagall
deposit bill.
The additional House members
probably will be Representatives
Aiming s. Prall (D0 of New
York, and Carroll L. Beedy CRo
of Maine.
Plans for national conference
of bank depositors meantime are
repidly nearing completion under
direction of Charles Bloome,
Philadelphia importer.
y The convention, to which de-
positors of closed Washington
banks are invited, will be held
tomorrow and Sunday. at the
Raleigh Hotel.
More than 400 delegates repre-
senting committees of Detroit.
Cleveland. Atlantic City and
Philadelphia are expected to at
tend.
Spur for House COnfereeS
Completion of the petition assur-
ing a vote on the Mcleod measure
will serve as greater incentive for
House conferees to insist that the
Senate accept the Steagal bank
relief plan contained in the bill,
the Mcleod bloc believes.
Acceptance of that plan, which
authorizes the FDIC to purchase
81 ESQ, 100000 worth of frozen bank
assets, will accomplish very nearly
the purpose of the original Nc
Leod bill, it is pointed out, and
provide substantial relief.
The petition was completed un-
der dramatic circumstances late
yesterday when Mr.. Mcleod re-
sorted to strategy equalling in cum
ming to that of House leaders.
March to Front Together
Four more signatures were
needed to make the 145 required
by House rules, fifth might be
needed should the signature of
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$4,000 TAKEN
IN HOLDUP

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa, June /.
GN.S).-Working with speed and
precision, five masked gunmen
early today held up a postoffice
mail messenger at the Reading
Railroad station here and escaped
with a registered pouch of mail
believed to have contained more
than $4,000.
The money, sent here every Fri
day morning, was addressed to
ConShohocken's manufacturing
concerns and was to have been
used to meet payrollS.
A second mail pouch, containing
parcel post packages, was also
taken by the highwaymen.
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Presidents Aid Asked
To Avert 3 Strikes

By International News Service
Direct appeals were made to
President Roosevelt today to per
sonally intervene to avert three
threatened strikes, affecting hun
dreds of thousands Of workers.
which would tie up two national
industries, steel and textiles. and
cripple the city of Toledo.
zOne of the strikes already has
been called-that in the cotton
textile industry-but the union
leaders are hopeful that an agree
ment will be reached at today's
conference with Recovery Admin
istrator Hugh S. JohnSon and Of
ficials of the industry that will be
satisfactory to the 100000 workers
and thus prevent a general walk
out.
TOLEDO, Ohio, June / O.N.SJ
with strike-scarred Toledo teeter'
ing back and forth between labor
peace and q labor war involving
a general strike, a new person,
ality-Frank P. Coates. president
of the Toledo Edison Company
today took the spotlight in the
crisis.
Mr.. Coates. who suddenly has
become the last hope" in the
settlement of the strike of cleo
trical workers set for Z O'Clock
tomorrow morning, arrived in
Toledo from New York shortly
before noon and Immediately
plunged into conferences.
CHICAGO, June l G.N.S0
The threatened general strike il
the steel industry will be averted il
employers recede from their StanC
against collective bargaining, Will
liam Green, president of the Amer
can Federation of Labor, said here
today.
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AStOr-French Knot
Hinted EarLu in JuLu

NEWPORT, R. l., June 1
G.N.SD.-John Jacob Astor Sd
and Ellen Tuck French may be
married in Trinity Church here
the first week in July. This was
indicated today by Mrs. Living
ston French, mother of the bride
to-be, who said:
"NO details have been ar
ranged thus far"
Mr.. Astor declared he preferred
to have information concerning
the wedding come from Miss
French.
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Ohio Asks Fugitive
Held in PENNSYLVANIA

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June
G.N.S.) Return of George v.
Jones from New Castle, Pa. to
Cleveland to face an indictment
charging embezzlement was re-
quested today in a requisition
signed by Gov. George White.
Jones, a former employe of the
American Express Company, is
accused of embezzling $500.
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BURDEN GOES
On PEOPLE.
He SAYS
Message Sent to Congress
Carries Strong Warning to
DefauIting Nations
BY GEORGE HOLMES
International News Service staff
CORRESPONDENT

COFfeS0Ondent
President Roosevelt told Con-
gress and the world today that
it was American dollars wrung
from American taxpayers, that
furnished the vital means" for
the successful conclusion Of the
World War, and the American
people expect to be repaid.
Mr.. Roosevelt's long-awaited
debt message went to Capitol Hill
at a time when the debtors, who
owe the United States some H.
600 million of dollars, apparently
are preparing again to default
on their obligations due June Is.
No New Legislation
The President proposed no new
legislation. He merely reported
to the Congress the status Of the
various debtors, reiterated this
country's willingness to discuss
new settlements with any ap-
plicant, and concluded with q
rather pointed admonition to the
defaulters to the effect that the
American people expect to be re-
paid.
And, furthermore, he said that
the American attitude on the
debts as a whole Is likely to be
influenced by the manner in
which the defaulters spend their
money for nationalistic and un-
productive purposes
This was interpreted as direct
rebuke to those countries like
France, which are in default, and
continue to spend huge sums on
armament.
Asks for Sacrifices
The American people, the Presi-
dent said, do not want to put i'm
possible burdens on any debtor
country. But are nevertheless in
a just position to ask that sub
Stantial sacrifices be made to meet
these debts"
After recounting the various de-
faults, either in whole, like France.
or in part, like Great Britain, and
remarking that little Finland is
the only country which has met
it's payments in full, the President
said:
ut is a simple fact that this
matter of the repayment Of the
debts contracted to the United
States during and after the
World War has gravely COmpli-
Gated our trade and financial
relationships with the borrow
ing nations for many years.
"HELPED WIN WAR"
"These obligations furnished
vital means for the successful
conclusion of a war which in
vOIVed the national existence
Of the borrowers, and later for
a quicker restoration of their
normal life after the war
ended.
"The mOl4ey loaned by the
United States Government was
in turn borrowed by the United
States Government from the
people Of the United States,
and our Government, in the
absence of payment from the
foreign governments, is COM
PEELED to raise the shortage by
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Rogers
Says:

VERIFY HILLS, Cal,
June 1.-Our Gov. Jimmy"
ROlph is very, very i'll. Writers
who rose in such glee to de-
nOunce him for doing nothing
but speaking from lis heart,
and not from political tact,
broke his heart. Now let them
before cor menting further,
speak of some Of the fine hu.
man qualities he possessed. Few
men ever in public life have
more real friends. Our COun.
try's structure is built on "let
the law take its course" but
there has been more the matter
with our laws, our courts, and
our justice, than there has with
Jimmy ROlph.
Editorial writer's were against
you, Jimmy flor they have to
write for their public), jut gosh,
it must do your old heart good
to know how many mothers
were for you.
Copyright, 1884 by McNaught
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
STEEL STRIKE
DENIED NRA
SUPPORT
Threatened Action Uniustified
BY Evidence, Gen. Johnson
Tells Union Heads
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Union leaders who are threat
ening a holiday" in the steel in
dustry are acting outside Of Ma
tional Recovery provisions and
will receive no support from the
Administration. it was declared
today by Recovery Administrator
Hugh S. Johnson.
General Johnson explained that
the steel leaders had failed to
lay the proper groundwork in
their demands for representation
and collective bargaining, in that
their petition had been presented
to the Iron and Steel Institute
and not to individual employers.
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Exchange Reinstdtes
Armour Co. Stock s

CHICAGO, June l Q.N.So.
Trading in the new Armour & Co.
stocks was resumed on the Chi
cago Stock Exchange today, fol-
lowing receipt of a telegram from
Baldwin B. Bane, chief of the
securities division Of the Federal
Trade Commission. Mr.. Bane
stated it was his opinion that the
issue Of securities by Armour &
Company was exempted from reg
iStration.
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HdULey Appointed
As NeLUS Manager

NEW YORK, June 1 G.N.So'
Announcement of the appointment
of Hudson Hawley, veteran Press
Association correspondent, as
European division news manager
for International News Service,
with headquarters at London. was
made today.
Tom Wilhelm, of the I. N. S.,
Berlin bureau. has been appointed
Central European news manager,
succeeding to Hawley's former
post.
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CCC Worker Killed
Ru Students Auto

CHARLEMONT, Mass, June l
G.N.S0.-William Discavage, 40.
of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, a member of
the CCC camp here, was killed to-
day by an automobile driven by
Josiah o. Low, jr.. %, of Cam
bridge, a student at Williams Col
lege. Mr.. Low took Mr.. Discavage
to a hospital but he was dead upon
arrival.
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Senate's Final D. K.
Put on Market Bill
By International News Service

BY International News Service
The Senate wrote it's final chap
ter in the stock market bill fight
today by adopting the conference
report on the measure. It in
dorsed the House fixed margin
requirement of As per cent, and a
separate commission to regulate
the exchanges,
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Vet Guardian Racket
Investigation Voted
Nv InternatIonaI New. ServIc

BY International News Service
Investigation of alleged rack
eteering" in the handling of funds
of insane veterans by guardians
was approved by the House Rules
Committee today. Representative
Patman CD of Texas. head of
the hospital subcommittee, was
designated by Chairman Rankin
Cd of Mississippi to head the
inquiry if the House approves.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
LeqLeSs Man Wrecks
Auto, Wife Killed

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, June I
Q.N.SD Mrs. E. ]. Herner, 80, of
Quincy, KY. was dead today from
injuries suffered when the auto
mobile driven by her legless hus-
band crashed into the side of a
bridge near here. Mr.. Herner was
injured and was brought to a
hospital here.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
TAKES
NEW j. 8. JOB

Elwood Street, former Com
munity Chest director, took the
oath of office as new Director of
Welfare in the board room of
the District Building today, before
an audience of officials and en-
ployes of the Board of Welfare.
Shortly afterward the District
Commissioners completed the new
relief organization by appointing
William c. Cleary director of the
works division of the Emergency
Relief Unit with a salary of
$4,000. Mr.. Cleary has been in
charge of accounting for the
Emergency Works Planning Board.
Addressing his staff, Mr.. Street
said:
81 hope that all welfare work
ers under my direction will Ie-
member that the ultimate aiI.l
of such work is for the individ-
ual. We must not forget that
this great structure, and all
this public money now being
spent is for individual pur.
pOSeS."
picture on Page H.
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Times Table

Accurately lists all Wash.
ingtOn activities, Govern
mental, Civic and Social,
every day, where they are
and when
Today on Page II
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Money for slogans! Sir CASH
PRIZES tDill be given Gway every
tDeek for the best slogan on any
one of the firms advertised in the
RECOMMENDED SER VICES
columns in the WANT AID SEC.
TION of this newspaper.
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In The Times Today

FIRST SECTION
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WEATHER FORECAST
Generally fair tonight and Saturday; little
change in temperature. Full report on Page 10
MEAN TEMPERATURES
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5 MORO MEN
FACE TRIAL

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 G.N.s).
Five officers of the Inflated
Moro Castle, which burned off
the New Jersey coast last month
with the loss of 1874 lives, today
were ordered to trial October 20,
before Department of Commerce
officials to answer charges of
negligence.
The officers cited are Acting
Captain William F.. Warns. Chief
Engineer Eben S. Abbott, Second
Officer Clarence Hackney, First
Assistant Engineer Antonio r..
Bujia and Third Officer Harold
Hansen.
The officers are commanded,
in an order signed by Capt. Karl
C. Nielsen, inspector of hulls, and
James Smith, inspector of boilers,
for the New York district of the
Department of Commerce, to
show cause on October 20, why
their licenses should not be suS.
pended or permanently revoked.
The trial will be held in the
Customs Building here before
Captain Nielsen and Mr.. Smith,
before whom all five officers had
testified previously at the Depart
ment of Commerce investigation
of the disaster conducted by
Dickerson N. Hoover, of Wash
ington. deputy chief of inspec.
ton for the Department of Com.
merce,
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BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, Oct. Is GN.S0.
Albert S. Osborn, noted handwrit-
ing expert, resumed the stand TO-
day at the habeas corpus hearing
by means of which Bruno Richard
Hauptmann hopes to prevent his
extradition to New Jersey to
stand trial for the murder OF
Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.
Mr.. Osborn had testified he
compared the Lindbergh ransom
notes with Hauptmann's writing
on his application for motor
vehicles licenses and he found
that the licenses we're made out
in the same hand that penned the
ransom demands.
The witness wore a small ear
amplifier attached to black rib
bon. He is a portly, elderly man,
with gray hair and gray mustache
and gold-rimmed spectacles.
Exhibits Are Entered
Mr.. Osborn took the stand at
exactly noon. The session had
been delayed an hour by a confer
ence between lawyers for both
sids and Justice Ernest E. l.. Ham
mer. The reason for the delay
was not explained.
AS the handwriting expert took
his place in the witness chair, At
torney General David T. Wilentz,
of New Jersey, walked over to him,
a handful of papers in his hands.
Photographers flashlig h t S
flared. Camera men were kneel-
ing a short distance away. Wi
lentz said:
Here are exhibits d and E,
which you saw yesterday. And
here are exhibits H, l, ], and X,
which you also saw yesterday.
Did you compare the penman-
ship on exhibits d and E with
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TO PROBE
POISON CASE

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct.
16.-A special session of the
grand jury was called for next
Saturday by Judge Frederick w.
Coleman today to take up the
case of Edward C. Bell, charged
with attempting to poison his
wife.
Mr.. Bell a prominent church
and civic leader and member
of a prominent Virginia family,
has been at liberty on $4,000
bond since his arrest last week.
It is believed the grand jury
has been summoned to prevent
the case beng called in police
court November 8, when the State
would have to reveal It's evidence
against the acsused men.
This action was taken after
visit here of Albert Bryan.
commemorative attorney at
Alexandria. who will conduct the
case for the State.
Mr.. Bryan was called in after
commemorative Attorney Will
liam Cole disqualified himself
because his brother, a physician,
is one of the principal witnesses
for the State.
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Filler PLEADS
FOR SUPPORT
Of AVIATION
Asks Reinstatement or Early
Trial for Officials on
U. S. "BIackIiSt"

Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
today told the Federal Aviation
Commission that steady progress
is certain in the aviation in
dustry, declared a tranSoceanic
airmail line feasible, and urged
the Government to contribute to
development Of the industry by
fixing a definite policy.
A transoceanic airline, he said,
can be developed, within a few
months. He urged the use of
flying boats for safety, and op-
posed carrying passengers at the
outset.
Answering a question from Clark
Howell, chairman of the commits
sion, Colonel Lindbergh said that
sterilization of the commercial
aviation situation by the Govern
ment for five years would cause
tremendous increase in airline
traffic.
Assails Blacklist"
The first act of the Govern
ment, he said, should be to remove
the blacklist" Of experienced
aviation executives who were
banned from future connection
with airmail lines after the gen.
, eral cancellation of contracts.
The Government, he said, should
either prosecute the men charged
with fraud or should clear them
The morale of the commercial
aviation industry is weakened by
the blacklist, he said.
Larger airplanes, vast develop
ment in the use of radio, and bet
ter weather forecasting were
among the early improvements in
the aviation industry foreseen by
the flying colonel.
Pilot Development
Colonel Lindbergh told the com.
mission that transport lines, in
stead Of the Government, should
develop pilots.
He visioned steady progress and
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that of H, I, ], and K?"
Il did"
estate what you found"
II can say with reasonable
certainty that the penmanship
is in the same hand"
Crowds On Scene
Every seat in the courtroom
was taken when the session was
called to order. Dignity was
maintained. however, and there
was no hippodroming. Half OF
the spectators were women.
Long before the courtroom
doors were opened a crowd of
several hundred persons congre-
gated in the corridors on the sew
enth floor of the Bronx county
courthouse. They craned their
necks for a peak at Hauptmann
as. surrounded by a phalanX of
guards, he passed into the court
room.
A special detail of police main
tanned order inside and outside
of the courtroom. The usual
Juror attending widely publicized
court cases was discouraged.
Mrs. Ami Hauptmann, wife Of
the prisoner, entered the court
room at 1890 a. M, accompanied
by her nephew, Hans Mueller. She
wore a black caracul coat over q
green suit and a small brown hat
She took a seat in the first row OF
spectators.
Many "ShOts" Made
Photographers spotted her i'm
mediately and, coming to where
she sat, trained their cameras
upon her. She seemed a bit EN-
barraSsed over all this attention
They took so many pictures she
finally screened her face with 8
large black pocketbook.
Hauptmann was brought from
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$50 SUICIDES
JEERED FOR
QUITTING
"CapitaIism Has Won!" Cry
Comrades As Haggard
Men Leave Shaft

PEGS, Hungary, Oct. Is G.N.s0.
Back from a living grave today
came $50 half-dead miners, to be
met at the pitheads with the jeerS
of their waiting fellows:
Capitalism has won its vic
tory"
The miners replied:
"Not enough! Not enough"
The struggling men who had
spent five days suffocating and
starving deep in the dark shafts.
barely able n mutter their dissat-
isfaction at the terms of the re-
lief settlement squeezed from the
mine owners.
Herded to Homes
Bayonets and machine guns
of troops kept off anxious rela-
tives and disgruntled comrades
as the strikers were quickly
shepherded home.
The men were almost too weak
to stage any form of demonstra-
ton or even to embrace their
waiting wives. Practically all
went straight to bed. their straw
touches comfortable contrast to
1.-The damp shafts and pillows OF
coal on which they had rested for
five days.
Although dissatisfied with the
$4,000 relief fund promised imme.
diately by tt 3 Danube Steam Nav
igation Company, owners Of the
mine, plus another $4,000 before
Christmas, the miners were per
suaded to give up their mass sui
eide attempt by two Socialist dep
uties. Janos Estergalyos and
Charles Peyer.
Argue Four Hours
RiSking the fate of five ennis.
saries who ventured into the mine
two days ago and were held as
hostages, Estergalyos and Peyer
entered the shaft at midnight and
told the weakening strikers the
terms offered by the owners.
For four hours they argued with
the ring-leaders, who still pre-
ferred death to facing another
winter of acute misery. The
miners finally yielded to the plea
that it would be in the interests
of their families and coworkers
to give up.
The two deputies Immediately
telephoned the, troop commander
that the miners were coming to
the surface. The military leader
ordered them to divide into
groups of 20, ascend, and go
home peacefully.
The reward of the socialist
deputies was a shower of
cabbages and tomatoes hurled
at them by the surface workers
when they came out of the mine,
Troops dispersed the rioters.
Two companies of soldiers re-
NAMED on guard at the mine
and in the town of PEGS, where
all was reported quiet.
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Giegengack Gives
7G. Promotion

Public Printer A. E. Giegengack
has made the following promo
tons at the Government Printing
Office. effective today:
Louis w. Margullis. foreman
linotype section; Clyde Linton, as
sistant foreman linotype section;
Elmer B. Wallace, foreman hand
section; Rudolph j. Akren, as
sistant foreman monotype; Harry
Falk, assistant foreman patents;
Lawrence Ketchum, assistant fore
man proof section, and Charles
L. Nay, chief type machinist.
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American Consul
Dead in Gibraltar

GIBRALTAR, Oct. 16 G.N.S.O
Richard L. Sprague, American
consul who was known to hundreds
of American visitors to Gibraltar,
died today.
Mr.. Sprague recently underwent
an operation for diabetes in a
final attempt to save his life. He
had been i'll for many weeks.
The Gibraltar consular post has
been a Sprague family monopoly
for more than a century. Richard
Sprague represented the fifth
generation of his family to hold
the consulate.
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Presidents Note
Greatly Delayed

President Roosevelt sent q mes
sage to the recent sesquicentennial
celebration of Methodism in Bal
timore but the participants never
knew it.
Through an inadvertance the
letter, dated october 5, was mlSdl'
rected and reached the Rev. DR..
Forrest j. Prettyman OF Freder'
icksburg, Va, only yesterday.
The message congratulated the
Methodists and gave assurances
the Government is doing its part
with courage and broadminded'
ness" i