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clared the corporation counselS secre-
tary had made the designation while
he was in Europe.
Blanton blamed Joseph P. Tumulty,
secretary to the late President Wilson.
for initiating the movement to GUST
Bride. He said one reason Tumulty
is opposing Bride is because the COR
poration counsel included in the Dis
trict liquor control act a provision
preventing distillers from having any
connection with the retail liquor
business
Tumulty, according to Blanton. is
representative of the National Dis
tillers and wanted his distillers to
own interests in liquor establishments.
AS a result of Brides action. Blanton
declared. Tumulty branded the liquor
bill as rotten.
This" Blanton added. was the be-
ginning here in Washington Of the
whole furore about Bride
Charges Propaganda.
Blanton concluded that Patman had
been misled by propaganda. If
Bride has ever been guilty Of any
wrongful act and you can prove it to
me-" he declared. Il will quit him
like a hot rock: but I do not believe
you can show any such guilt"
Bride went to the White House yes
terday and showed to Marvin H. Nc
Irtyre, cne OF the Presidents secre-
taries, a mass of documentary evil
dence to prove his record as a Demo-
crat The record was similar to that
printed in the Congressional Record
of last Saturday. Bride also exhibited
an affidavit from a Lutheran min
lister who christened him in infancy
Endorsed by Builders.
Resolutions indorsing Bride and re-
questing that he be retained were for
Warded today to Postmaster General
Farley and the District Commission
ers by the Washington Building
Trades Council and the Washington
Central Labor Union.
John Locher. executive secretary OF
the Building Trades Council and vice
president of the Central Labor Union,
said this action was taken unanimous
ly by both organizations in recent
meetings.
I'VE resent" Locher said, the
political efforts being made to sup
plant our corporation counsel by some
outside party in the interest of pa
tronage. Mr.. Bride, in our opinion,
has done an excellent job in all of
the many dealings we have had with
him, and has always been absolutely
fair
He was particularly effective in
eliminating 'chiseling' by outside con-
tractors who came here with cheap
labor and poor quality work.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
VETO IS ASSURED
IF BONUS PASSES
Roosevelt Makes His Letter
to Speaker Rainey on
Subject Public.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
President Roosevelts letter to
Speaker Rainey. stating that he would
veto the Patman bonus bill was made
public today by the Speaker, as fol-
lows:
Memorandum for the Speaker:
Dear Henry:
Mac has shown me your letter of
February 81
Naturally, when I suggested to you
that l could not approve the bill for
the payment of the bonus certificates
l did not mean that l might let it
become law without my signature.
Il don't do things that way"
What I meant was that would
veto the bill. and don't care who
you tell this to-
Let me know your thoughts on the
next step. IF. D. R."
The Mac" referred to by the Pres
ident is Marvin Mcintyre, one of his
three secretaries.
Questioned by reporters as to what
the next step would be, Rainey said ::
To vote on the bill on March l2."
DO you think it will pass now, in
view of the Presidents announced
stand?"
I am not sure that it will pass
now. but there is one thing sure
about it. If it passes the President
Is going to veto it."
The vote was forced by 145 men,
bers of the House, who signed the
Lundeen petition to discharge the
Ways and Means Committee from con-
sidering the bill Under the rules a
vote, requiring a majority. will be
taken to decide whether the House
will consider the bill.
Rainey did not make public the
text of his own letter to the White
House, but it was known that in it
he said some members of Congress
felt the President might let the bonus
legislation become law without his
signature.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

worked out in conference and the
conference report agreed to, the bill
will go to the White House.
On the Spanish War veteran
amendment yesterday Is Democrats,
80 Republicans and the Farmer-Labo
member Senator Shipstead, voted for
the more liberal Steiwer- -McCarran
plan. All of the 40 votes against
were cast by Democrats.
The roll call on the Spanish War
veteran amendment follows:
Republicans for the amendment
Austin, Barbour, Borah, Capper,
Carey. Cutting, Davis, Dickinson, Fess,
Frazier. Gibson. Goldsborough, Hale,
Hastings, Hatfield, Hebert, johnson,
Kean. Keyes, La Toilette. McNary,
Metcalf. Norris. Nye, Patterson. Reed,
Robinson (Indiana), Schall, Steiwer,
Vandenberg. Walcott, White. Total,
80.
Democrats for-Bone, Caraway,
Copeland. Costigan, Dill, Hatch, Lon
ergan Long, McAdoo, McCarran, Nc
Gill, Nicely, Overton, Reynolds, Smith,
Thomas (Utah). Trammell. Wheeler.
Total, l8.
Farmer-Labor, -Shipstead-to-
tai l. Grand total for-51.
Democrats against-Adams, Ash
urst, Bachman, Bailey, Bankhead,
Barkley, Black. Brown. Bulkley. Bu-
low, Byrd, Byrnes, Clark, Connally,
Coolidge, Dieterich. Duffy, Erickson,
Fletcher. George. Glass, Gore, Harri-
son. Hayden, Lewis, Logan, Murphy,
O'Mahoney, Pittman, Pope. Robinson,
Arkansas: Russell. Sheppard, Steph-
ems. Thomas, Oklahoma; Thompson,
Tydings, Van Nuys. Wagner and
Walsh-total 40.
OF the five Senators not recorded,
Senators Norback, Republican, Of
South Dakota, and Townsend. Repub-
licen, of Delaware were paired for the
amendment and Senators King, DEM
crat, of Utah and Mcclellan, Demo-
crat, of Tennessee were paired against
it. Senator Couzens, Republican, Of
Michigan was absent because Of Ill
ness.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
FRANCE PREPARES
DEFENSE PROGRAM
Plan, Tentatively Approved
by Doumergue, Soon to
Be Given Cabinet.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 27-An air. sea
and land force reorganization plan to
strengthen France in troubled Eu-
rope will be presented soon at a spe-
cial cabinet session, it was learned
today.
Premier CASTOR Doumergue tenta-
lively has approved the program. 1t
would be part of a vast military and
economic rehabilitation scheme
The huge sum necessary to finance
the plan would be raised through a
loan, possibly partly in England.
Strong Professional Army.
A strong professional shock troops
army, the idea of Marshal Henri Pc
tain, minister of war. is said to have
been approved as part of move
toward strengthening the army.
The project also is understood tC
contemplate undermining of military
equipment and accommodating of am
munition stocks.
Further. the navy would speed au-
of Chancellor Hitler's German re-
strategic roads. probably in the Alps
would be built as part of a general
plan to relieve unemployment.
The whole program is envisoned as
aiding the economic situation while
strengthening the country in the face
of Chancellor Hitler's own German
armament demands and general un-
rest.
Louis Barthou, minister Of foreign
affairs. discussed the general Euro
pean situation before a cabinet meet
ing today
Aviation Is Part of Plan.
Frances three-year aviation pro-
gram is vital part of the plan, as
French aviation experts consider that
the country has only SO thoroughly
modern crafts.
Under this program. France is to
spend one billion francs tapproxi-
mately S65.000 000 annually.
The policy has been to develop new
types of planes and delay building
until actualy needed to avoid the ex-
pense of building up an air feet
which would soon become obsolete un-
der normal Development
Gen Victor Denain. air minister
has said he favored the fastest pur-
suit planes that could be built and
new-type, speedy, long-range bomb
ers capable of making a round trip
to most European capitals.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
ARSENAL SEIZED
in SUIT CASES HERE
Police Obtain Baggage Left
by Pair Held in New
York for Robbery.

An assortment of guns. ammu-
milton and tear-gas bombs checked at
Union Station by two alleged bandits
was held at police headquarters today,
pending receipt of instructions from
Needham, Mass. where two policemen
were killed during bank hold-up
early this month.
The alleged bandits. Merton Millen.
"a. and his brother Irving, 49, were
captured by New York detectives in
a crowded hotel lobby there Sunday
Arraigned yesterday as fug'tives from
Massachusetts,. they told rambling
stories, denying they had any part in
the $4,000 robbery OF the Needham
Trust Co. and attempting to explain
how they came into possession of
So 600 found in their rooms.
Weapons Found In Suit Cases.
Among the brothers possessions the
detectives found checks for two suit
cases checked at the station here, one
on February IA and the other four
days later. At the request of New
York police Detective Sergt. John w.
Wise went to the station and claimed
the baggage last night.
Opened at police headquarters, the
suit cases were found to contain a
submachine gun, two sawed-of shot
guns. five pistols, ammunition for all
the weapons, gas mask and six tear
gas bombs. two masks. a quantity of
mems clothing and S1OO in 81 bills.
Inspector Frank S. w. Burke, chief
Of detectives, said he doubted that the
men were implicated in any local
hold-ups
of course, we'll make a careful
check on their activities" he said,
but, so far, it looks as though our
only part in their prosecution will be
TO turn their luggage over TO Massa-
chusetts authorities"
Wife Is Released.
With Merton Millen at the time OF
his arrest was his 19-year- old bride of
four months. Mrs. Norma Brighton
Millen, daughter of a Natick, Mass,
minister.
Mrs. Millen, according to the Asso-
ciated Press, was released in custody
of her father after promising to tes-
tify against her husband and brother
in-law.
Before leaving for Boston. Mrs
Mlllen, an Associated Press dispatch
from New York stated. sat silent in a
Manhattan hotel room and heard her
father, Rev. Norman Brighton. tell
police her lust for recklessness got
her into this fix"
Plans AnnuIment.
Mrs. Millen, attractive graduate Of
fashionable New England finishing
school. listened with downcast eyes
as her father said:
The first thing I do. if get her
out of this fix, is to have her mar
riage annulled. Five years ago her
sister, Thelma. disappeared and We
have never heard a word from her
since then. Both girls were highly
educated. I gave them everything
they wanted 1 can't fathom this
latest exploit
The young woman met Millen on
Boston beach last Summer and eloped
with him last Fall.
Irving Millen surrendered quietly
when approached by detectives. but
his brother seized an officers revolver
and attempted to wrench it away. The
detective fired. the bullet passing
harmlessly through the trouser leg of
another officer. and then went to work
on Mlllen with a blackjack The
brothers will be given a hearing next
Monday.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

The young Anthony Advocates who
were in on that job include: Ben
Cohen, P. w. A.: Tom Corcoran,
r. F.. c.; Max Lowenthal, Pecora Com
mittee, and jim Lands, Federal Trade
Commission. All are about IS to 40
years old and learned the practical
side of law fighting Wall Street in
New York.
Others prominent in the group are
Herman Oliphant, Morgenthau's legal
adviser; Jerome Frank, A. A. A.. and
Nathan Margold, solicitor of the In
terror Department. 1t was Oliphant
who discovered the legal loop hole on
which the gold price policy first was
based.
There are dozen or so others
hidden in the ~ R. A., c. w. A.
and elsewhere. They hate several
common meeting places at the
homes of friends and at q house
1rhere teU of them are ilUing to-
gether.
If they set out to repeal the law Of
gravity legally, they probably could
do it.
Cold Jmpedes p. w. A.
The P. w. A. has been missing on a
few cylinders lately Its continued
ineffectiveness can be at least par
TALLY attributed to the unusually cold
weather which has held up all kinds
of construction work in most sections
of the country.
The figures show slO3,OOOOOo of
P. w. A. contracts were let in jan
uary. During the first half of Feb
ruary the amount shrank to s36,000,-
600. and included was some c. w. A.
work
The whole building industry suffered
similarly. Total contracts filed in
December we're 100000, 900; January,
S191, 100000 and February (two
weeks, s59,00OO0o.
The big public works employment
drive will begin when the ground
softens (about April -.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

motor truck contracts, will appear as
a voluntary witness tomorrow, also
under a waiver of immunity.
1t was indicated today the grand
jury will not be able to make its re-
port this week, due to ramiflcations
of the investigation during the past
few days Court house prophets
predicted four or more indictments.
Rumors about the poker parties and
other get-togethers have been current
in official quarters for some time.
Since the grand jury began its hear
ings. there have come to officials a
number of statements referring to
such parties. Some Of the informa-
ton was in anonymous letters and
some came from persons who wished
to keep their names 'out OF the rec
ord"
Names of group Of Government
employees with an official status have
been cited, with several in this group
mentioned repeatedly by different in
formants. Large sums of money, ac-
cording to the reports, changed hands
at the parties-the departmental rep
resentatives usually being on the re-
ceiving end.
At one business conference" held
at the home of q man connected with
a Government department and at
tended by so-called lawyer-lobbyiSts,
the tinkle Of ice in frosted glasses Is
said to have mingled with the laugh
ter of conviviality as important Gov
ernment contracts were discussed.
Investigators are understood to be
looking into these pleasurable meet
ings with a view to learning how much,
if any, official business actually was
transacted at them. and what con-
nection, if any. the meetings had with
subsequent official acts now under
inquiry.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
EXPLOSION DEPRIVES
BUILDING OF LIGHTS
Fox Theater. Darkened. Makes
Temporary Arrangement and
Continues Show.

Too much snow today deprived the
Fox Theater and National Press
Building of electric current and halt
ed all elevator service in the 13-story
Office building.
Seeping into the electrical conduit
into the building, the snow and ice
short the light and power
lines and disrupted lights and elevator
service for more than an hour.
But, true to the stage tradition that
the show must go on" the manage
ment of the Fox hurried the stage
show into the braech. hooked up the
auxiliary light system and continued
the performance with hardly break
Hundreds of employees in the huge
Office building, caught out to lunch
when the electric current failed, were
forced to walk upstairs or wait for
resumption of elevator service.
Emergency crews of the Potomac
Power Electric Co. finally solved the
problem by running a temporary
Jump" line into the building to pro-
vide light and power until permanent
repairs could be made.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
What's What
BehindNews
In Capital
Red Hot Attorneys
Taking Place of
Brain Trust.
BY PAUL MALLON.

|HE brain trust has been super
seded on the inside here by
the young Anthony Advocates.
L Some irreverently call them
'the hot dog boys" because
most of them are proteges of Felix
Frankfurter, the eminent reform phi
losopher of the Harvard Law School.
The title is not misnomer. because
these boys are red hot. They are all
lawyers much smarter than the aver
age Wall Street lawyer and Con-
gresham.
They burn Nth youthful zeal
to rcmdke the Uorld, and haze
done rery lDell SO tar.
You never hear of them because
they are shy about publicity and keep
in the background, but if you look
behind most of the major policies you
will find their flngerprints.
They are real powers behind the
throne.
Show Clever HandiwOrk.
The latest spectacular inside job
they did was on the stock exchange
reform bill 1t is called the Fletcher
Rayburn bill, but neither Senator
Fletcher nor Representative Rayburn
ever saw it before it was handed tC
them by the Anthony Advocates.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

Some of Mr.. Roosevelt's advisers
have been taking him out on rather
perilous tree limbs.
Certain insiders believe the Anthony
Advocates did just that in going so
far on the stock market bill, but that
measure probably will be modified
considerably and passed without seri-
GUS consequences.
1t ,0iH not be so easy to get out
of the dirmail cancellation moUe.
Postmaster General Farley took
him out on that one.
Likewise, Mr.. Roosevelt is still rock
ing in the editorial wind stirred up
when he took Gen. Johnson's advice
and lambasted the newspaper pub
fishers.
However, Mr.. Roosevelt seems to
like limbs and he has not had any
sawed off behind him yet.
An attorney in the N. r. A. says
that of all the business men with
whom the N. r. A. came In contact
on the code negotiations, 'the stock
brokers were the dumbest and the
Evening star., 1934-02-27
DAM WORKER KILLED

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 27
R.-Eugene Buckner. employe of the
Boulder Dam project, died yesterday
from injuries suffered Sunday night
when struck by a piece of falling
timber while working. He had been
employed on the dam since February Z.
Surviving are his widow and q year.
old daughter, residing in Cleveland,
Tenn.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

bankers were the second dumbest."
They probably only acted dumb, which
is something entirely different.
The senatorial cloak rooms are goS-
siping about farmer who came from
a Central State the other day to ask
his Senator to back the Bankhead
bill. The Senator accused the farmer
of being a conspirator and he said
he would have the farmer investi-
gated. 1t is the first time on record
that a politician ever treated Q sup
plicant constituent that way.
(Copyrights 1o34.l
Evening star., 1934-02-27
Reynolds to Lecture.

Verne L. Reynolds. Socialist-Labor
candidate in the last presidential elec-
tion. will speak on The Social As
poets of N. r. A.-Why Government
Wants Labor Organized Vertically" at
lecture today at 8 pm. in Musicians
Hall, 1l05 Sixteenth street.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
PASTOR TO FACE TRIAL
FOR ALLEGED POISONING
Three of 7 Affected Died-Wife
of Texas Evangelist Processes
Faith in Husband.

BY the Associated Press.
PAMPA, Tex. February 27.-Rev.
Louis H. Shockley, charged with
poisoning seven persons, three Of
whom died. will go to trial June 18.
Arraigned yesterday, the itinerant
preacher said, Il am not guilty" and
was released under $4,000 bond. He
is accused of fatally poisoning his
father-in-law. w. T. Hudgins; Terry
Erwin, son of his wife's sister, and
Mrs. Terry Erwin He also was &C
cused of trying to kill four other
relatives in the same manner. Poison
allegedly, was mixed with flour used
by the family in making bread.
Mrs Shockley said she had abiding
faith" in her husbands innocence and
would stay with him to the end"
Evening star., 1934-02-27
TAXPAYERS DRIVEN OUT
BY ARMED POLICEMEN

at Media After Demanding
Reductions.
By the Associated Press.
MEDIA, Pa, February 27.-Dep-
uty sheriffs armed with tear gas
bombs, borough police and State
troopers carrying riot sticks yesterday
elected $50 Chester City taxpayers
from the court house after the crowd
Swarmed through the building de-
manding reductions in property as
SeSsments.
Dispersed, members Of the crowd
left Media in seven chartered busses,
some of them promising to return.
The disturbance began after the as
SCISSORS announced they would not
hold public hearing. They said each
taxpayer would be given q private
hearing.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
EIGHT FOUND DEAD|
IN WRECKED TRAIN
Steel Cars Drop From Bridge
Into Pittsburgh Street,
Wrecking Buildings.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, February 27.-With
eight bodies found in the Wreckage
of an Akron-P Pittsburgh train, work.
men today were lifting the locomo-
tive in a search for ninth.
The eighth body discovered was
believed to be either that of the
engineer or fireman. but workman
said it would be some time before the
body could be removed for ideuti-
fcation.
Besides the dead, 40 persons were
injured last night as the train dropped
from a bridge to a street several feet
below, wrecking a signal tower and
tearing away part of business build
ing.
Twenty-Five are still in hospitals.
The engineer was w. M. Shaw of
New Castle, Pa, and O. c. Douthitt of
Youngstown, Ohio, was the fireman.
Railroad officials, who discarded an
earlier theory of frozen switch being
responsible, said they did not know
what caused the tragedy.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
PRETTYMAN SEEN
SUCCEEDING BRIDE,
WITHIN "a HOURS

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Evening star., 1934-02-27
JURY SCRUTINIZES
POKER PARTIES m
ARMY BIDS PROBE

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Evening star., 1934-02-27
BANK COMMITTEE
ALLOWS COUNSEL
AT STOCK HEARING

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-09-29

Opposing the compulsory blend
ing Of alcohol with gasoline Il
motor fuel.
Removing unreasonable license
Zee and regulations OF gasoline,
bulk. filling stations. garages. etc.
ASK ONLY FAIR DEAL
we understand that there are
candidates for public office who
favor loading more taxes and other
unwarranted burdens upon the oil
industry. To them we are opposed
and will do everything within our
power TO defeat them regardless OF
politics or party. We only ask OF
those who have to do with the max
ing or administration OF tax laws
fair and equitable treatment for our
industry. We do not want special
favors or consideration. We think
any honest and fair-minded person
will agree wit hus that the oil
business Is too heavily taxed IN
comparison with other industries.
We ask OF all candidates for public
office that they give us an opDor-
tunity 20 present the facts about
taxation OF the oil Industry IN
Montana and that they do not com
NIT themselves to further taxation
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-09-29
BRU VISITS
BUHkHOUSE AND
CREATES FUN

There's a job open to a miner
who doesn't mind bears.
Eight miners who needed fresh
air in the bunk house at the Mon
talaska Camp No. 2 near Cooke
City. left the door open. II Is a
trick door that usually swings shut
but on this night II stood wide OPP
en- and a big brown bear, smelling
bacon, walked in.
In passing under the table the
bruin took the notion he was being
trapped so he suddenly raised MP
and finding the table on top OF
him. threw It to one side violently.
The flying table landed IN one OF
the hunks and cut a cash in the
leg OF Toney Casey of Butte. Sassy
howled and in the ensuing pande-
monium the bear dashed out Of the
door. Had tn edoor swung too, as it
usually does. there might have been
a lot Of fun.
AS It was, Tony Casey called for
his pay next day and left the camp.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-09-29

BoARD Is SUSTAINED
- 90 % %

'You have not asked me for an
opinion as to the authority Of the
board to cutail the output OF re-
fined products in the state, and
understand that you concede that
no such power was intended to be
conferred upon the board by the act
above cited nor Is sought to be ex-
ercised. It Is also my understand
ing that my opinion rendered Ia the
Yale corporation case sustained the
position assumed by your board in
connection with your controversy
with that concern.
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
''The opinion in regard to the
members OF the board being held
individually responsible for any in
juries sustained by oil producers,
etc, caused by any act or omission
Of the board in connection with its
rules and regulations, was limited
in scope TO instances where the act
or omission would be under a rule
or regulation adopted by the board
without legal authority.
Il assure you that It is my
opinion that the board is engaged
in 3 laudable and useful work,
beneficial to the oil industry as
we'll as the people OF the state
generally, and / would regret IL
very much If you should be ham-
peEed or embarrassed by any misun-
derstanding of any opinions rem
dered by this department.