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Evening star., 1934-04-22
RECESS is TAKEN
IN DOVER DEADLOCK
Legislature to Resume Fight
Over Governors Relief
Bill Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DOVER, Del, April 21.-With final
adjournment long overdue because of
party conflict over relief legislation,
the Delaware Legislature recessed late
today until Monday
Although cots, ordered from a near
by National Guard armory. had been
placed in an upstairs Statehouse room
for use of legislators if necessary, most
of the lawmakers quit the Capitol to
spend the week end at their homes.
Before the recess motion for both
houses had been made, the House had
voted to recess indefinitely, and, left
alone, the Senate was powerless to
act.
Gov. c. Douglass Buck, whose re-
lief bill passed the Republican-con-
trolled Senate but is blocked in the
House, also left the Capitol after
sending a message to the Assembly
that the problem is entirely in your
hands"
A resolution to adjourn finally April
13 was rescinded and another was
passed to make the adjournment April
20 at pm.
The administration bill provides for
a S750,000 bond issue for relief work
in New Castle County, in which
Wilmington is situated. Democrats
controlling the House refused to ac-
cept it and passed their own measure,
which would appropriate Sl,500,000
from the highway and school funds
for a general public works program.
The Senate majority opposes this bill
and Gov. Buck said he did not see'
how he could sign it.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Saito Says Japan Demands
She Be Consulted by Powers
On AU Dealings With China
Disregard of Wishes Viii
Be Held "Unfriendly
Act,'' He Asserts.
Exceptions Are Taken to
Loans by France and
United States.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Japan, the self-appointed mentor,
policeman and business manager of
China, intends to maintain its tutel-
age over that country at any price
and will consider as an unfriendly
act any attempt of foreign country
to disregard its wishes.
This was indicated yesterday by
the japanese Ambassador in Wash
ington. Hirosi Saito, in an interview
with The Star.
Japan does not desire to interfere
with legitimate foreign business in
China" stated the Ambassador yes
terday but it wishes to be con-
suited by those who want to deal
with China before concluding any
transactions
And what would happen If the
foreign countries with commercial in
terests in China were to ignore this
request of the japanese government?
he was asked.
"The japanese government would
consider such step as an unfriendly
act the Ambassador replied with
out hesitation.
The Toxic government, which has
Evening star., 1934-04-22
15O KILLED IN COAL
MINE EXPLOSION
Hundreds More Trapped in
Galleries of Pits in
YugosIavia.

(Copyright. 1894. by the Associated Press
BELGRADE Yugoslavia. April 81.
"A subterranean explosion in the
KakanI coal mines near Saraievo
tonight killed at least $50 miners, said
late reports which evaded a censor
ship.
1t was called the worst industrial
disaster in Yugoslavia's history.
The explosion was variously as
cribed to fire damp and to a cigar
cite. All the engineers escaped
death. They were at lunch outside
the mine.
Bodies Are Removed.
Latest official information from
the disaster scene said "a bodies.
burned beyond recognition, had been
removed from the gallery nearest that
where the blast let go.
1t was reported $50 trapped miners
failed to answer signals. Engineers
said it was a miracle if any of them
renamed alive
During Austrian occupation of Yu-
goSlavia in 1915 a disaster in the
same mine killed 18 persons.
The blast occurred in the lower
galleries so that all workers then in
the mines were trapped helplessly and
rescue work was made virtually i'm
possible.
Pathetic Scene.
Pathetic scenes were enacted at the
pit head. where hundreds Of weeping
women swarmed seeking their hus-
bands and sons.
Military units were rushed to the
mine to aid in the rescue work. Some
of the soldiers expressed the opinion
that their efforts might be entirely in
vain
Police lines were placed around the
scene to keep frantic relatives from
the pit head.
Sarajevo is about 95 miles south
west of Belgrade.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

executive office because it would spoil
the general architectural scheme.
The Presidents business has in
creased so that the various clerks and
other workers in the executive Office
are severely cramped. For several
months it has been necessary to use
two offices in the State-War Build
ing for White House clerks. In ad-
dition, the janitor,s room in the ex-
ecutive Office. as we'll as several cor
ridors in the basement, have been
requisitioned. The daily mail has be-
come so heavy that there is no longer
room in the executive Office fer files
to hold the letters and outside space
has been acquired to help out for the
time being
The executive office was built BY
President Theodore Roosevelt and en-
larged during the administration of
William Howard Taft During Hoover's
administration the rooms were rear
ranged to afford more desk space.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
SHAKE-UP IN HOUSE
MAJORITY H|NTED.
RooseVeIt's Friends Feel
Need for Strong Leader
ship at Next Session.

Copyright. 1894. by the Associated Press1
Some administration men foreSee a
possible shakeup in House Democratic
leadership after the Fall congressional
elections.
The proposition has been laid before
President Roosevelt several times dur
ing the present session by friends who
have become disturbed over the some
times rebellious attitude of the top
heavy Democratic majority in the
House.
While the President is understood
to have taken no hand in the matter
it has been suggested to him by some
party leaders that if the Democrats
lose a substantial number of seats in
the November elections, firm leader
ship would be necessary in the next
Congress.
Future Held At Stake.
With a presidential election due in
1886. it also has been told the Chief
Executive that the next Congress
largely will determine the future of
the Democratic party.
The growth of insurgency in House
DClllO1IdIlC lCCcIllly,
larly the overriding of the Presidents
veto of the independent Offices supply
bill and rejection or sidetracking
Of other administration propositions,
caused concern among the Presidents
friends at both wings of the Capitol
Speaker Rainey's insistence on silver
legislation at this Congress, contrary
to the Presidents desires, and Floor
Leader Byrns' failure to stop the over
whelming vote for the cash payment
Of the bonus by House Democrats, are
two points their critics have been en-
phasizing. Byrns once voted for the
cash payment of the bonus.
Five Names Mentioned.
Meantime, some friends of Repre-
sentative Rayburn of Texas, McDuffie
Of Alabama and Warren of North
Carolina have been putting them
forward as acceptable to succeed to
the leadership. Representative Bank
head Of Alabama, chairman of the
powerful Rules Committee, also has
been discussed, and there is some talk
of Representative Woodrum of Vir-
ginia.
President Roosevelt has on numer-
GUS occasions indicated his regard for
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-04-22
REPUTATION VAGRANCY
LAW is HELD INVALID
Illinois Supreme Court Rules Rec
ord of Convictions Must
Be Produced.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 21-The
Illinois Supreme Court today reversed
the conviction of Louis Alterie, Chi
cago gunman, and thereby presumably
knocked out all of the reputation
vagrancy" convictions obtained against
underworld leaders in Chicago last
Summer.
In reversing the six-month sentence
against "Two-Gun Diamond Louie, 1"
the court held unconstitutional the
1888 amendment to the vagrancy law,
which allowed conviction on proof of
criminal reputation"
The court held that for convictions
for vagrancy proof of court records of
habitual convictions was necessary
rather than the mere testimony of po-
lice and others that the accused bore
a reputation as a criminal.
Alterie, the seventh gangster con-
victed under the vagrancy act, had
been at liberty on $4,000 bond pend
ing appeal, following his conviction
last october 18.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

Because of the widespread COM
plaint raised agai.-st the ban on day.
time parking on F, G and Seventh
streets, a public hearing likely will be
called on the matter before the end
Of the 30-day trial period. Commis-
sioner Melvin c. Hazen said yesterday.
At the same time he expressed
favorable interest in one suggestion
for different handling Of at least
part of the problem of downtown con-
gestion. That is for establishment OF
Joint shipping entrance space in neces-
sary blocks for use of merchants. This
has been proposed as a means OF re-
ducing the amount of space allotted
to merchants as shipping entrances.
A long list Of merchants affected by
the recently invoked parking Ele
have protested against the CIR as
Evening star., 1934-04-22
u. S. AGAIN STAMPS
ULYSSES" OBSCENE
mo Reasonable Man" Could Be-
lieve Otherwise, Says Appeal
From Ruling.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 21.-The Fed
eral Government maintained today
that mo reasonable man" could be-
lieve James Joyce's Ulysses" to be
anything but obscene.
The new attack came in a brief
appealing from the recent decision of
Federal Judge John M Woolsey that
the novel was fit to be imported into
the United States.
Signed by United States Attorney
Martin Conboy and two of his staff,
the brief charges that the book fairly
reeks" with gross obscenity.
Its obscenity is so indisputable that
1t is submitted that the court erred
in its decision, not only as a matter
of fact but as a matter of law, be-
cause no reasonable man applying
the proper rule of law could come to
any conclusion other than that
Ulysses is obscene" the brief asserts.
Considered by critics to be one OF
the classics of modern literature,
ulysses" was first published as a
whole in Paris. During the prohit<-
tion era it enjoyed wide bootleg sale
in the United States and brought
fancy prices.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Roosevelt to Expand Office
To Expedite Growing Business
President Considers Several Plans to
Proride adequate Space for Staff as
Citizens Demand More attention.

The tremendous increase In the
Presidents business has made it nee
essary to enlarge the executive Offices.
Tentative plans have been drawn
up by the buildings branch of the
National Parks Service to provide for
enlargement Of the present Office
quarters at the extreme end of the
west wing of the White House. The
President will decide which Of the
several schemes under consideration
will be adopted.
An entire new office is provided In
some Of the plans. Provision for such
a new office is made by building a
large extension on the south end of
the present executive Office building.
Another plans calls for building an
extension on the east side of the ex-
ecutive office. None of the plans.
however, provides added height TO the
Evening star., 1934-04-22
GROUPS TO MEET
OND. .C.[OAN PLAN
Joint Session Tuesday to
Feature Busy Week of
Local Legislation.

The joint session Of the Senate and
House District Committees set for 10
o'clock Tuesday morning to consider
the s20,O00000 public works authori-
Zatlon program will be one of the
main features of a busy week on local
legislation at the Capitol.
Chairman Mary T Norton of the
House Committee and Chairman Will
liam H King of the Senate group
have arranged the joint meeting on
the public works measure as a means
of expediting its consideration. The
joint hearing will be in the Senate
District Committee room in the Capt.
tol.
King Plans Meeting
After the joint hearing on the pub
lie works measure is over, Senator
King plans to arrange meeting Of
the Senate Committee on other pend
ing legislation. either later Tuesday
or the next day.
The public works bill would author
ize the Commissioners to apply to the
Public Works Administration for funds
up to the $40 0,000,000 authorization. 20
per cent Of which would be repaid by
the District over period of years.
The Public Works Administration f.
nances projects in the States on the
basis of 80 per cent as grant and
20 per cent as loan. Since the Dis
trict Government cannot borrow or
obligate itself for Indebtedness with
out specific authority from Congress,
this bill is necessary to enable the
Continued on Page 3, Column So
Evening star., 1934-04-22
CRITICISM OF PARKING BAN
MAY BRING PUBLIC HEARING

being discriminatory and ruinous to
their business.
Representatives of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers AsSoci-
alton. Chamber of Commerce, Board
of Trade and the Seventh Street
Business Mems Association are to
meet as a Joint committee Wednesday
to study the use of other expedients
IN relieving downtown congestion
This is being done at the suggestion OF
Commissioner Hazen.
If worthy substitute plans are
Forthcoming, Hazen said yesterday, he
plans to call public hearing at an
early date without waiting for the end
of the 30-day experimental period. He
has insisted the trial of the ban would
not be halted unless the merchants
could propose other workable methods
Of handling the matter.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
SILVER BLOC FAILS
TO WIN ROOSEVELT
SUPPORT OF BILLS
President Stands Firm in
Opposition to Bi-MetaI.
lie Measures.
WHITE HOUSE PARLEY
LEAVES STATUS SAME
Leaders Say Chief Executive
Willing to Hear Pleas, but
Cannot Help Now.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Leaders of the silver bloc in the
Senate went TO the White House yes
terday to get, if they could, some
agreement with President Roosevelt
regarding silver legislation. They got
nothing
When the conference broke up after
an hour and half, during which the
President showed himself thoroughly
familiar with the silver problem and
its ramiflcations, it was with the un-
derstanding that future conferences
would be held. 1t was even suggested
that the matter of silver legislation
was still open" but some of the con-
ferees came way with the idea that
the meeting had been fruitlesS and
that future conferences would be the
same
Members Of the silver bloc did say,
however, that the President had been
entirely sympathetic; that he had ex-
pressed a desire as great as any of
the silver Senators to do something
for silver. They came away with the
opinion that he was not willing to do
anything at this time.
Dies Bill Unaccepted.
The Dies bill, which passed the
House as an authorization to accept
silver in payment for surplus Ameri-
can crops and which was amended by
friends of silver in the Senate COM
mittee so as to call for large purchases
of silver by the Government. has not
been accepted by the President, it was
said.
Silver egislation-that is, legisla-
ton with teeth in it from the point of
view Of those who desire the remon-
etization of silver and a bi-metallic
system-seems peculiarly dead at the
present moment. President Roosevelt
will not accept such legislation, it is
said, and it is entirely unlikely that
any silver bill vetoed by the President
could be passed over the veto.
The silver bloc wants mandatory"
egislation-legislation under which
the President would have to carry out
silver purchases imposed by the legis-
lation and which would have the def
mite effect of remonetizing silver.
"Permissive' Laws o. X.
A4C 4OcAOOAlls OI1 lA4C Oll1CA Aldl1Nt
is represented as being willing to ac-
cept some 'permissive" legislation re-
garding silver.
The silver Senators ask what use
there is in passing further permissive
legislation.
The President has all the power in
the world to deal with silver" said
one of the Senators after the confer
ence, under the so-called Thomas
amendment to the agricultural ad-
justment act passed by Congress at its
last session. He can, if he thinks
wise, remonetize silver, set up a To-
to-1 bi-metalic system or make pur-
chases of silver. 1t seems silly to pass
any further permissive legislation"
Attending the conference were
Senators King of Utah, Thomas of
Oklahoma, Pittman Of Nevada,
McCarran of Idaho, Adams of
Colorado and Harrison of Mississippi,
all Democrats: Senator Borah of
Continued on Page 4. Column 81
Evening star., 1934-04-22

issued the amazing edlct whereby it
sets forth its views for a complete
control Of the entire territory of
China, will not communicate its views
to the various governments or the
Chinese Republic through the usual
diplomatic channels. 1t does not
consider such a step necessary. The
mere fact that it is being issued in
Toxic, as the official expression of the
government regarding its Far Eastern
policies, and it is being broadcast to
the world is considered to be sufficient
The real reason for such a STEP"
the japanese Ambassador in Washing
ton explained. lis that the Western
Continued en- Page 4, Column 50
Evening star., 1934-04-22
PASTORS DEMAND
FREE NAZI CHURCH
Public Challenge to "Autocratic
Rule" of Bishop Mueller
Ready.
BY the Associated Press.


BERLIN, April 21.-A public chal-
lenge to the "autocratic rule" of
Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller was pre-
pared by the Opposition Pastors
Emergency Federation tonight for
presentation in Protestant churches
here tomorrow.
1.-THE present church government is
built not upon holy writ, but upon the
secular principle of leadership" the
manifesto asserts. "Its constitution
reaches a climax in the autocratic rule
of the Reichsbishop.
"Such dictatorship, which disin-
herits the congregation as flock that
has to be silenced, we as Protestant
Christians cannot accept The bishops
task Is not to rule over the church
but to serve it.
1.-The Reichsbishop has not rescinded
those laws which establ his dicta-
torship over the church. We insist
upon a radical revision of the church
revolution of 1888"
This revolution" gave the Nazi
German Christians of DrhMueller full
control Of the church a6 Illustration.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
TAX CASE TO TEST
VALIDITY OF A.A.A.
Effort to Collect Processing
Levy Raises Constitu-
tionaI Issue.
BY REX COLLIER.

Constitutionality of that first-on-
the-list of new deal alphabetical agen-
cies. the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration, will be the issue of a
major legal battle shortly between
Government and private attorneys as
a result of a surprise development in
an otherwise routine tax collection
case in Massachusetts. it was learned
at the Department of Justice yester-
day.
A claim by the Government for So
called processing and floor taxes lev
led under the A. A. A. against re-
ceivers for the Hoosac Mills Corpo-
ration has been met by a long con-
tention before the Federal District
Court at Boston that the A. A. A act
and the taxes assessed hereunder are
unconstitutional. illegal and void"
for variety of stated reasons.
This is the first time a Federal
court has had placed before it square,
ly the issue of the constitutionality
of the processing and floor taxes
meat of the Presidents epochal
measure designed ito relieve the ex-
isting national economic emergency
by increasing agricultural purchasing
power" and to achieve other benefits
for Americas farmers.
Legality Questioned.
Legality of other minor provisions
of the act has been raised in several
other Jurisdictions, but what is con-
sidered here as the initial important
test of the acts constitutionality will
take place April 30 before Federal
Judge Elisha H. Brewster at Boston.
Arrangements for defending the act
are in charge of Frank j. Wideman.
Assistant Attorney General, supervis-
ing the recently-created tax division
of the Department of Justice. Wide
man has assigned Robert Nelson An
derson, special assistant to the At
torney General, to go to Boston and
present the Governments case. The
Justice counsel will be assisted by
attorneys of the A. A. A.
The case grew out of a claim for a
total of $685. in A. A. A. taxes, plus
interest of 81 ,102, filed by the Govern
ment against William M. Butler and
James A. McDonough, receivers of the
Hoosac Mills Corporation.
In requesting the court to disallow
this claim the receivers raised the
following contentious:
l. The agricultural adjustment act
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
JUSTICE CALLS CORONER'S JURY
OYER BODY OF HIS GRANDCHILD
By a Stan Correspondent of Tn. Star.

BY Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
FORESTVILLE, Md, April al
Stoicaily concealing his grief, Justice
of Peace Thomas D. Griffith this aft
ernoon impaneled a coroner's jury
over the lifeless form Of his only
grandchild after the youngster had
been run over by a truck on the
Marlboro pike here.
All morning 3-year-old r. Thomas
Griffith, jr., the grandchild, had
romped with his 4-year-old cousin,
Herbert driffith. in the yard of the
latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
P. Griffith.
Just after noon a big rubber ball,
with which they we're playing, rolled
across the pike and the children
crossed to retriA,e it.
Mrs. Eerbert Grifith came out On
Evening star., 1934-04-22

the lawn to call the children to lunch
and saw them standing, hand-in-
hand, on the far side Of the pike,
waiting for an automobile to pass.
A moment later, as they started
across. Mrs. Griffith noticed the ap-
preaching truck and shouted a warn
ing to the children. Herbert stepped
back, but the other boy darted in
front of the machine and was killed
as his aunt looked on, paralyzed with
horror.
After hitting the child the truck
driver, Carl L. Jett of Croome, Md,
swerved to the left of the road and
landed in a ditch.
DR.. James I. Boyd. a neighbor,
pronounced the boy dead and his
grandfather who has acted as coroner
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-04-22
INSULL SLIGHTLY ILL
Complains of Rheumatism AS Ship
T. ToeloJ NV Ctor,,,

Complains OF rheumatism AS snip
Is Lashed by Storm.
S. S. EXILONA, April 81 R.-
Samuel insult complained of rheu-
matte pains tonight as the ship, lashed
by rain and rolling in rough sea,
proceeded toward Gibraltar.
The storm was the worst since the
Exilona left Smyrna a week ago bound
for the United States. She passed
Algiers tonight. Her next stop will be
at Casablanca, Morocco, Tuesday.
Hitherto the 74-year r-old former
utilities executive, who is being re-
turned to face fraud charges, has en-
joyed good health and cheerful
spirits, even when other passengers
talked of his plans and questioned
him about his long exile.