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Evening star., 1934-02-14
RESIGNATION SOON
BY WOODRING SEEN
Reports Intimate Assistant War
Secretary Will Leay-
Post.

Harry H. Woodring, Assistant Sec
retary Of War, is expected to resign
shortly, according to reports current
today in Government circles.
The resignation is looked for re-
gardless of the outcome Of investiga-
tions being made of Woodring'
handling of War Department con-
tracts.
1t is known Woodring recently in
CURED criticism for his article in a
magazine referring to the Civilian
Conservation Corps as a potential
military asset, and was asked for an
explanation at the White House.
A wide breach also is said to have
developed between Woodring and
members of the general staff of the
Army over policies in connection with
drawing up specifications and award
ing of contracts for Army equipment.
This breach is reported to have
become widened as result of a stand
taken by Woodring with respect to a
proposal to sell to private interest
about $4,000 900 worth of saddles,
brides, tarpaulins and other Army
supplies now stored in warehouses.
Woodring today denied any inten-
ton of resigning.
Neither officially nor unofficially,
he said, have I discussed or has any
one discussed with me the subject of
a resignation"
Evening star., 1934-02-14
EXCHANGE 5 NEW
RULES ASSALED
Market Officials Knew His
Plans, Says PeCOra.
Probe Resumed.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ferdinand Pecora. counsel for the
Senate Stock Market Investigating
Committee. today declared the new
rules announced yesterday by the New
York Stock Exchange we're directed
at evils market officials knew he
was about to disclose.
Chairman Fletcher of the Senate
Banking Committee told reporters he
was not so much interested in rules
adopted by the exchange as rewriting
them into law.
They can adopt rules today and
repeal them tomorrow" Fletcher
commented.
Investigation Resumed.
The Senate committee resumed its
investigation today, its attention
Rayburn bill for Federal control of
the exchanges
The House Interstate Commerce
Committee opened formal hearings on
the bill itself. But the Senate group
made its proceedings continuation
of the 2-year-old investigation. Sen
ate consideration of the Federal con-
troll bill itself was postponed.
A number Of prominent Wall Street
brokers were subpoenaed before the
committee to tell OF last Summers S
huge pool operations in alcohol stocks
conducted as the Nation was heading
toward repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
Richard Whitney, president of the
New York Exchange, also was under
subpoena to tell the committee how
the markets new rule for reporting Of
pool operations has worked.
Russell r. Brown Heard.
The investigation was resumed, with
Russell r. Brown, chairman of the
board of the American Commercial
Alcohol Corporation, as the witness
He was called for inquiry into pool
operations in the stock of that COM
pany.
The new Stock Exchange rules are
to prohibit members from engaging in
pools specialists from operating in
stocks in which their firms have pool
interests. and disclosure by specialists
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-02-14
PROBE S|DETRACKS
ARMY BILL ACTION
Subcommittee to Hold Up
Appropriations Study While
Grand Jury investigates.

All Army appropriations will be held
up by Congress until the several in
vestigations into War Department mo-
tor truck, airplane and other con-
tracts have been completed.
This was learned today from men,
bers of the House subcommittee on
Army appropriations. The committee
men have been following closely SEN
sational developments along the vari-
GUS inquiry fronts" from congress
Sional committees to the grand jury,
and have agreed, it was said, to await
the outcome of these probes.
The subcommittee decision to defer
action on Army funds came today as
the grand jury prepared to recall
Harry H Woodring. Assistant Secre-
tary of War. probably tomorrow, for
questioning about an alleged proposal
OF outside interests to acquire S8.OOO.-
600 worth of Army warehouse stocks.
Investigators Told.
The proposed deal" is understood
to have been discussed with Federal
investigators by Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. chief of the stan of the Army,
and his associate of the general staff.
Maj. Gen. Robert E Callan, in charge
of supplies.
Gems. Macarthur and Callan and
Mai. Gen Hugh A Drum, also of the
general staff, appeared as 'volun-
tary" witnesses before the grand jury
Monday.
Woodring already has been ques-
toned by the grand jurors in con-
nection with their inquiry into charges
of motor truck manufacturers and the
same group of outside interests ap-
preached them with claims of inside
influence" at the War Department.
The new phase of alleged lobbying
activities by a ring of lawyers and
traders" we'll known in Government
circles involves large warehouse stocks
of saddles, brides, waterproof tent
flies and other military equipment.
Efforts of a trader" to induce the
War Department to turn over to him
the valuable stored materials in re-
turn for clothing originally sold to
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Line Which Lost
Mail Job Plans
Proof of Speed
viii Try WeSt.tO.EaSt
Flight With Heavy
Load in Is Hours.
By the Associated Press


LOS ANGELES. February IA
Transcontinental & Western Air. Inc.
announces a demonstration of speed
and efficiency Sunday, the last day on
which mail loads will be carried by
private lines. their contracts having
been Cancelled by order of President
Roosevelt.
A new transport plane, the first Of
a fleet Of 43 being constructed for
T. w. A., will take of from Grand
Central Air Terminal at Glendale at
9 pm. bearing six passengers and a
heavy mail load. bound for New York
in an effort to show the Government
the flight can be made in Is hours.
The present fastest transcontinental
commercial plane time is 1912 hours,
the schedule Of United Air Lines.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
SOCIALISTS TO FIGHT
DOUM ERGUE CABINET
Cause Of Opposition to Ministry
in France Held Already
Lost"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, February l4.-Socialists voted
today to open a fight on the cabinet
of Premier CASTOR Doumergue and
demand immediate dissolution Of
Parliament when the ministry appears
In the Chamber Of Deputies tomorrow
The premier has the support of al
most the entire Chamber, except
Socialists and Communists, so Leon
Blum, Socialist leader, is expected to
lead a cause already lost.
His party contends the Doumergue
ministry is regarded in the provinces
as a sort of Fascist trend and thinks
elections now might put the Socialists
into power.
Paris was quiet today as the death
toll from last weeks riots in the
capital and environs rose to 26. The
cabinet continued its labors to restore
public confidence.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Socialists Begin Retreat.
MERCURY DUE TO RISE
TODAY AND TOMORROW
32 Degrees of This Afternoc
Expected to Drop to az
Tonight.

A slight let-up in. the recent col
snap was predicted by the Weathe
Bureau today, with a forecast Of in
creased temperatures for today ano
tomorrow
w. r. Stevens, forecaster, predicted
rise in temperature this afternoon
to about 80 degrees, dropping back
tonight to about % degrees, which. he
said, would be approximately IL de-
grees warmer than last night.
A steady decrease all day yesterday
reached its climax about 1880 O'Clock
this morning with IL degrees. After
tomorrow. which will be partly cloudy,
Washington temperatures will possibly
drop with colder weather coming from
the Hudson Bay region. Mr.. Stevens
said. The predicted cold wave from
coastal storms, which resulted In 0
good deal of wind here yesterday, has
broken however, he said.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
CASTOR OIL OPPOSED

MEMPHIS, Tenn, February Il
CR-Dr. Frederick A. Collins, profess
SOr of surgery at the University of
Michigan, does not approve Of large
doses of castor oil any. more than
the average kid.
Although dietary indiscretions are
often blamed for abdominal pains. he
said today food poisoning is rare.
These pains usually may be traced to
appendicitis, he said.
He recommended surgical removal
of the appendix in the first stage of
the disease as offering "a brilliant
cure without mortality"
Evening star., 1934-02-14
TRAYLOR'S BREATH
STOPS TWO MINUTES
Banker, Suffering From Pneu'
mcnia, Rallies After Severe
Relapse.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February l4-Melvin A.
Traylor stopped breathing for two
minutes early today and only heroic
measures by physicians started his
respiration again.
The banker, victim of pneumonia
for a month, was very low during the
early hours, but again as the morning
wore on. he rallied.
Traylor still essays a cheerful at
titude during his waking hours.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pagesl3, 14&l5
Fish and Byrns
Fight Vain Battle
SchaH Quietly Won
Ne,c York Republican
Still Seeks Right to
Print Lindbergh Wire.

Representative Hamilton Fish Of
New York and Majority Leader Joe
Byrns Of Tennessee might take a look
at the Congressional Record each
morning with profit to themselves and
the House.
The House adjourned yesterday,
after being in session less than an
hour. because Mr.. Fish wanted to
have printed in the Congressional
Record the telegram which Col.
Charles A Lindbergh sent to Presi-
dent Roosevelt protesting the can
collation. of all airmail contracts, and
Mr.. Byrns would not stand for the
insertion in the record Of this docu-
ment.
The Lindbergh telegram to the
President had already been made a
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
LABOR ALLIANCE ASKED

GENEVA. February IA R.-A rec
ommendation by the American dele
CATION that the United States af-
filiate with the International Labor
Organization at the earliest possible
opportunity was issued In the form
Of a communique by the labor ofhce
here to-day.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Nine Cars Derailed.

LUMBERT0N, N. c., February "a
OP.-Nine cars of Seaboard Air Line
freight train No. II were derailed east
of Lumberton today when the journal
on one broke, No one was injured
The wreck delayed eastbound pas
senger train No. IA, which was held
up to await clearing of the tracks.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Both Sides See Victory.


The government, summoning all
available man power to its side,
poured reserve troops into the capital
Elsewhere in the nation, the situa-
ton was believed to be coming under
government control.
However, spokesmen for both the
government and the Socialists con-
fidently predicted victory.
In government circles. a reorgan-
ization of the cabinet was discussed
and it was expected that three mem
bers would be eliminated and replaced
by men Of right radical beliefs. They
are DR.. Karl Buresch. minister OF
finance; Richard Schmitz. minister o,
social welfare. and Dr.. Robert Her
bert, minister without portfolio.
The government outlawed 36 So
cieties and associations of various de
scriptions on the grounds that they
contained a Socialist membership
The Government broadcast that the
opposition had been vanquished on all
fronts
Socialist headquarters at Florids-
dorf, in which retreating revolution
aries had taken refuge, was captured
after fierce fighting.
Routed From Rail Station.
Linz, capital of Upper Austria
where the first fighting broke out
Monday, was brought completely un-
der control.
After the triumph at suburban
Floridsdorf. government forces turned
upon Garden City. another workers
settlement. Government sources said
defenders there had surrendered.
The Socialists we're routed out of
the Vienna North Railway Station,
where they had intrenched them
selves, only after a fierce conflict.
Driving the revolutionaries before
them, troops pressed into the area Of
the Vienna Municipal Apartments.
still held by their defenders.
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss told
the Associated Press that the Socialist
attempt to resist government author
ity with armed force, definitely had
failed.
Socialists Begin Retreat.
''The position of the federal gov
ernment is stronger than ever" he
declared.
Street car service, after having been
disrupted since Monday by the SO.
cialist general strike. was resumed il
Continued on Page 4, Column ~
Evening star., 1934-02-14
100000 Gold Sent Here.

CHERBOURG. France, February IA
GP.-One hundred million francs
(about $6,000,000 Of gold was shipped
to the United States Federal Reserve
aboard the liner Majestic by q pri-
vate bank today.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
0ratory Delays Decision in
Contempt Cases Against
Four Defendants.
SUPREME COURT CITED
IN HOGAN'S DEFENSE
Borah Studies Law Books as At
torney Argues-Resistance Ad-
vised, Lawyer Tells Senate.
BULLETIN,

The Senate went into closed ses-
sion today to continue delibera-
ton of contempt charges against
william P. MacCracken, Harris N.
Hanshue. Gilbert l.. Givvin and L.
H. Brittin. Senators said they
looked for a decision in the cases
before adjournment tonight.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
The Star Does Not accept Advertising
of Distilled Liquors

In accordance with the policy of The Star which
prevailed before the passage of the national prohibition
amendment advertisements to promote the sale or
consumption of distilled liquors will not be accepted
BY distilled liquors is meant such beverages as
whisky, brandy, gin, rum, etc.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
JAPANESE PREMIER ILL

TOXIC. February "A GP).-Premier
Hiroshi Sajto was confined to his
home today with cold and bronchitis.
Physicians prescribed for him a week
Of comnlete rest
Evening star., 1934-02-14
REFUND ORDERED

Utility Firm to Collect From Ala
bama State Body. s.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. February Il
R-The Alabama Public Service
Commission today ordered the Ma
tional Power g. Light Co. to pay
s3,200,0o0 to the Birmingham Electric
Co.. as q refund on common dividends
distributed out Of the sale Of ga
properties Of the latter company.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
WEATHER.

90. 3. Weather Buieau FuIevHs@J
Fair and not so cold tonight, lowest
temperature about % degrees; tomorrow
fair and warmer; moderate southwest
winds. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 80, at
noon yesterday; lowest, II, at 1880 am.
today Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1934-02-14

Continued on Page 5, CO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

went to the department directly be-
cause of his intimate acquaintance
with its members.
In its conclusions, the committee
included the following comment:
The presentation of routine rate
changes by the time study depart
ment to the executive board &c. M.
B. A. for approval or criticism is
perhaps the most impressive func-
ton performed by the board
ON the other hand, it is equally
evident that the management rep
resentatives on the executive board
can, and on occasions do, silence
the opposition of the employee repre-
sentatives on important issues in
board meetings.
THE highest management Off
Gals have not always submitted in
advance important wage changes to
the executive board when a reduc-
ton was decided upon by the man.
agement.
Many Good Features
Under the E. NJ. B. A. plan, as
administered, we do not find the
employees have had the full and ade-
quate voice in the adjustment of in
dustrial relations which the theory
of the plan calls for"
The E. M. B. A. is praised in one
paragraph of the conclusions.
Many of the features of the E..
NJ. B. A." it was stated, cat the
Real Silk hosiery mills, such as sick
benefits, medical attention, life in
surance, death benefits, loans and
cafeteria, add to the comfort and
economic security of the workers
and are appreciated by them"
The committee also made study
of relations between the national
union and employees in seven union
mills in Pennsylvania.
Union Is Praised
Excerpts from the report on this
phase include:
These Arrangements state frank
ly that they believe the workers
have a right to organize and to
have their interests looked after by
representatives chosen by them
selves. These employers claim,
too. that dealing collectively with
their workers reduces their problem
iof maintaining discipline. In
general, these arrangements hold the
officials of the national union in
very high esteem.
These employers look upon the
good will of their employees as an
asset comparable to that of their
customers. The employers are free
to hire whomever they wish and
the union is free to solicit member
ship among those hired. On the
basis of much testimony, it may be
said that the union stands for the
elimination of waste and the in
crease of efficiency; that it will not
tolerate other than a high standard
of workmanship; that it advocates
a maximum production: that it seeks
to adjust its wage scale and hours
in way that is fair both to the
workers and to the manufacturers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

Recognized for ninety-three years
as one of the landmarks of In
dianapolis, this old home, belong
ing to Miss Emma Donnan, 232
North Capitol avenue, will be
RACED soon. The house was built
by Miss Domains father, and he
and his bride moved into it i'm
mediately after their marriage.
Miss Donnan and her sister, Miss
Laura Donnan, who died three
BY HELEN LINDSAY
Times staff Writer
ONLY members of the ,Donnan
~ family have lived in the old
landmark at 232 North Capitol
avenue Only members of the
Donnan family will ever live in it,
for the old building is to be RACED
soon.
Miss Emma Donnan, only sur
viving member of one of the first
Indianapolis families, will move
next week from the old home
which was built by her father in
1841, shortly before he and Miss
Domains mother were married.
Ninety-three years old, the old
home probably is one of the old
est buildings remaining in Indi-
annapolis. 1t was built by hand
before the present statehouse was
constructed. Distinguished Indi-
ana statesmen have been enter
tanned in the house.
Both Miss Emma Donnan and
her sister. Miss Laura Donnan,
taught for years in the Indian
apolis public schools. They re-
tired in 1923. Miss Laura Donnan
recalled at that time that she
had taught public speaking to
Claude Bowers, keynote speaker
at the National Democratic con-
vention in Houston. Mr.. Bowers
was president of the Shortridge
high school senate, founded by
Miss Laura Donnan. He is now
United states ambassador to
Spain.
mo, the noise and confusion of
this district have never bothered
me- Miss Donnan said, as she
rocked peacefully in a chair in
the old living room of the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

cries of Miss Emma Donnan are
the two instances when as a
child she saw Abraham Lincoln.
She was taken by an older brother
to see Lincoln when he spoke at
the Bates House. Later, when
the murdered President lay in
state in the Capitol building, she
went through a downpour of rain
to view his body. This bust of
Lincoln stands in one corner of
the living room of the old home.
Though her friends have often
warned her that there was dam
ger of disturbance and thieving
from night jewellers. in her pres
ent location, Miss Donnan laughs
at the idea.
They told my mother the same
thing, during the Civil war" she
says. They would ask her if she
wasn't afraid, and mother would
say. Afraid Of what?' When they
told her they were alarmed be-
cause of the number of soldiers
encamped near our home, she was
amused. They won't take any
thing she would say. I don't
think she ever did have anything
stolen from here, and neither
have we. Oh, yes-once some one
did steal a red flannel under
shirt, as it hung in the back yard
to dry. But nothing else ever dis
turbed us here. 1t has been a
happy home, and I dislike to leave
it."
The lot on which the old house
stands has been leased. Miss
Donnan does not know what kind
of business building will take
the place of her old home. But
she does know that it will never
house any one not belonging to
the Donnan family, for plans al
ready have been made to tear
down the old house, after almost
a century.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

prison penalties or edicts con-
demning offenders to long exile.
Perhaps even more significant is
the fact that it is planned soon to
put into effect a measure by which
persons accused of of1enses hitherto
wa1ranting summary punishment by
the Ogpu-even execution without
triai-will be tried IN open court.
Under the new system the COM
missariat of interior, soon to be Gre
ated, may sentence certain cate
gories of offenders to maximum of
three years exile without trial, but
IN all other cases there must be a
trial in open court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17
DREADED SOVIET
POLICE BANNED
Stain Plans Reorganization
of Country'S Judicial
System.
lcopvright. lpa4 bv United Pressl

Copyright, 1924. by United Press
LONDON, April 17.-Improved
conditions. internal and external,
have led Josef Stain. Soviet Rus
sia's leader, to launch a plan for
revolutionary reorganiza ton of the
country's judicial system.
The change involves not only the
abolition of the dreaded Ogpu, the
secret political police. but an i'm
portant characterization of the en-
tire method of conducting prosecu-
tons
The government is to be deprived
Of the executive power to impose
the death sentence, or to impose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

The services of the commit
tee were enlisted by the
American Federation Of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers
Union, members of which now
are on strike.
Conclusions of the ladies and
council of churches committee were
set out in a bulletin published by
the church council May 19, 1928.
The statement points out that
the company gave the committee
the right to question employees and
make a thorough survey IN the
plant.
At that time, as now, the mill en-
ployed 5000 men and women, most
" natives of Indiana and Kentucky
and the direct house toulouse can
vassing sales method also was used
then.
A considerable number of en-
ployes interviewed. the committee
reported, expressed appreciation OF
the protection offered them by the
Employees Mutual Benefit Associa
ton. the company union still recog-
nized by the company. as result OF
an election last October.
Not Real Protection
The sentiment was expressed by
many others that while the E. M.
B. A. functions in small matters, ."
the report continued, when it
comes to issues of a controversial
nature where the highest manage
ment Is concerned, the E. M. B. A.
is not a real protection to workers
against discharge, and that what
Mr.. Goodman ad Mr.. zinkan say
goes-E. M B. A. or no E. M.
B. A"
The E. NJ. B. A. executive board.
it was explained, was composed of
four management representatives
and four employee members, the lat
ter elected by employee members.
In substantiation of its charge
that the E. M. B. A. Is not real
protection to employees. the COM
mission cited the following.
Take Cut or Quit"
"On the other hand, it appears
that when the company determines
on a general reduction of pay, the
board may not be seriously taken
into account, as evidenced by the
case of the reduction of the seam
less fixers' last winter
AT that time, Mr.. Goodman
called a meeting of the 'fixers' and
announced to them that their
wages would be cut and that any
one who did not agree to it was
free to quit. The matter was sub
mitted to the executive board (of
the E. M. B. A. one week after Mr.
Goodman's announcement to the
'fixers.' The board, after a weeks
consideration, approved the new
plan of payment"
A footnote explains that the COM
pany did not deny the incident
happened. but that Mr. Goodman
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17
RETAILERS WILL MAY
GROSS INCOME FIGHT
State Group to Hold Mass Meeting
Here Thursday.

Here Thursday.
A mass meeting of Indiana re-
tailerS to oppose the present gross
income tax law will be held Thurs
day in the Coliseum at the Indiana
state Playground.
Among the speakers will be
George v. Sheridan, Columbus, O..
authority on sales tax legislation;
Rivers Peterson, chairman of the
national code authority; Archibald
MacLeish. Chicago, and Alex T.
McFadyen, Grand Rapids, who will
discuss sales taxes in their home
states; G. Fred Wiedeman, South
Bend. president of the Associated
Retailers of Indiana, and Fred Hoke,
indianapolis, director of the ma
tional emergency council in Indiana.