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Evening star., 1934-04-30
81, 100000 ASKED
FOR D. c. JOBLESS
Recommendation Is Sent to
Senate by Roosevelt.
Douglas Approves.

A recommendation that 81, 900
be added to the District appropriation
bill for emergency unemployment
sent to the Senate by President Roose-
welt today with the approval of Budget
Director Douglas.
The estimate arrived while the
Senate subcommittee, headed by Sen
ator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma,
was in session continuing the taking
of testimony from District officials on
the needs of various public welfare
agencies and the District Fire De-
partment.
AS it came from the House, the bill
carried S1,30O,0OO for emergency
relief work, so that a total of So
100000 will be provided for, assuming
that the supplemental estimate re-
ceived today is approved by Congress.
Million Less Than Asked.
This still leaves the total recon-
mended for relief $1,000,000 less than
the District Commissioners suggested.
Several weeks ago they transmitted to
the Budget Bureau a list of supple
mental estimates for various urgent
purposes, the largest request being for
$2,700,000 for emergency relief The
supplemental estimates transmitted
today represent a partial approval of
that one item in the supplemental list
Of the Commissioners.
The supplemental budget message
today related only to the relief item
and leaves approximately 50 800, 900 of
supplemental estimates still awaiting
action at the Budget Bureau. These
included about $500,000 for public
school projects and smaller amounts
for the tuberculosis clinic and child
welfare work in the Helth Department.
Douglas Is Summoned.
The supplemental relief item ar
rived on the eve of the conference
scheduled for tomorrow to which the
Senate subcommittee invited Budget
Director Douglas for a general discus
sion of the needs of the District not
provided for in the House bill.
1t has been expected that the sup
Elemental estimates would be dis
cussed at that conference.
The budget director, in recommend
ing the $1,700,000 additional relief
item to the President, wrote:
"When the budget for the fiscal
year 1885 was in course of prepara-
tion 1t was believed that the sum Of
$1,000, 900 would be sufficient for the
above purpose during that fiscal year.
It is now apparent that $1,30o,ooo
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BODY OF DROWNED FISHERMAN
DISCOVERED; LIVE FISH ON LINE

Still clutching a fishing rod to
which was hooked q live two-pound
catfish, the body of George Carl
Wastler, IS, of 1914 Fourteenth street,
was recovered last night from the
Potomac River six miles above Chain
Bridge. Wastler had been fishing from
the shore with two companions.
George S. Rosenburg, "a, his brother
in-law, of the same address, and Reid
L. Parker, 81, Of II Kennedy street
northeast, when he toppled into the
river about $50 am. yesterday.
When his body was recovered nine
hours later it had been caught by
another fishing rod which was still
tied to q tree. Police failed to obtain
the name of the fisherman who had
hooked the body.
According to the police information,
Rosenburg and Parker had separated
from Wastler and were fishing from
Evening star., 1934-04-30
S|LYERITES SPEED
SPEC|F|CPROCRAM
Senate Banking Committee
to Decide on Probe of
Holders.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The militant congressional silver
bloc, determined to pass mandatory
silver legislation this session despite
presidential disfavor, today planned
an early meeting to map a specific
program
The Senate Banking Committee,
meanwhile. was to take up today the
question of whether to seek an inves-
tigation of silver holders.
Some of the white metal advocates
have said they considered too much
a matter of the future President
Roosevelt's compromise suggestion to
negotiate an international agreement
under which nations would have 80
per cent of their monetary reserves in
silver
They are predicting, moreover
enough votes 70 obtain compulsory
legislation before the approaching ad-
journment of Congress.
There was a possibility the meeting
to work out legislative plan might
be set for the next day or two, and
that 1t would be followed by another
visit of silver leaders to the White
House.
Secretary Morgenthau suggested
that the Senate make its own inquiry
into silver holdings when he sent a
list of such holders to that body last
week. He said the information he
presented was incomplete and that
there were many difficulties to be en-
countered in simplifying it.
Banking Committee members were
unwilling to predict what decision
might come from today's meeting.
Some admit they want the investiga-
ton. Among them is Senator Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina
Some are inclined to side with the
other South Carolina Democrat, Sen
ator Smith. He says silver is only
another commodity and there is no
urgent reason to investigate persons
who have been buying it. Smith is
not a Banking Committee member.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
'D|[[|NGER' AGAIN
ESCAPES IN BATTLE
Police DiSarmed by Gunmen
in Car After Running Fight
Near Chicago.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, April 30-Four gunmen
fought running battle with police in
suburban Bellwood early today-and
the officers said one of the four. all
of whom escaped, looked like" John
Dillinger, the hunted killer.
Another of them, said Police Lieut..
Joseph HagemeiSter. resembled George
Baby Face" Nelson, the gunner of
the Dillinger gang, and third bore
a likeness to Henry Fox. another Dill
linger aide.
The chase ended when the hood
lums disarmed the officers. One of
the men hit Policeman Harry Whalen
over the head with a machine gun
before speeding away into the dark
ness with his companions. -..
Whalen and two other officers, Lieut..
Joseph Hagemeister and Policeman
Gus Mendze, began the chase in a
police car when the gunmen's machine
failed to halt at red right.
Police Catch Up.
Shots blazed back and forth as the
two cars roared over two-mile course
toward Forest Park The police caught
up when the other machine pulled up
at filling station for gasoline
Two of the gunner jumped out.
One, armed with a machine gun,
forced the three officers to give up
their weapons and struck Whalen.
The other two men, remaining in their
car, held machine guns on the officers.
The four then resumed their flight,
eluding Forest Park policemen who at
tempted to intercept them.
The gunmen's car, new dark
sedan, was believed to have been
stolen from DR.. Merle Sweeley at
Melrose.
Death Rumor Grows
The skirmish came as a rumor of
Dillinger's death was gaining circula-
ton. This report had it that the
desperate may have been mortalIy
wounded when he and his pals blazed
their way out of the Little Bohemia
country resort near Mercer, Wis, a
week ago this morning.
The rumor, heard several times
since the greatest manhunt of the
decade began, received official notice
last night. Melvin H. Purvis, chief
of the Chicago Office of the Govern
ments Bureau of Investigation, made
the terse announcement that Federal
Continued on Page 2, Column -
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BY the Associated Press.

QUANTICO, Va, April 30.-Twenty
airplanes took off from here shortly
after dawn today on the largest mass
formation flight ever staged by the
Marine Corps.
The objective is Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, where the planes will base and
become part of the Navy's maneuvers
in the Caribbean.
The flight will cover about 5000
miles, including 800 miles over water
and 5000 over tropical lands.
No records will be sought on the
flight, the trip being made in easy
stages. Lieut.. Col. Ross E. Rowell is
in command.
The group is scheduled to arrive
at Fort Bragg, N. c., for gasoline at
10 am. Other stops will be made
during the day at Charleston, s. G.,
and Jacksonville, Fla. The ships will
stay tonight at Miami
It had been planned that % planes
would make the flight, but because of
its slower speed an amphibian was sent
ahead Sunday. One large transport
plane was delayed by engine trouble.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
MACHADO TO GIVE UP

NEW YORK, April 3o'(R.-Gerardo
Machado, who fled the presidency OF
Cuba last year and who Is hunted on
charges growing out Of deaths that
occurred during Cuban riots at the
time of his flight, Is ready to sur
render, DR.. Orestes Ferrara, former
Cuban secretary of state, said today.
President Machado feels keenly
the humiliation of being hunted like
a felon," said the former secretary.
yet he cannot surrender without first
knowing that the papers containing
the charges against him are in this
country. If he did, he could be held
in Jail for two months pending ar
rival of the papers"
Evening star., 1934-04-30

a point about so yards up the bank.
They told police they heard a scream
and splash and that Wastler dis
appeared under the water. They saw
a few bubbles rise to the surface
Both men ran to the spot where
Wastler had disappeared and Parker
dived into the river in an effort to
rescue the man. He said he swan
about a few moments but was unable
to combat the powerful current and
abandoned the search.
Parker and Rosenburg left the river
and reported the drowning to WASH
ington police. Detectives A. M. Tolson
and Henry Rinke were assigned to the
investigation. They went up the river
and made an effort to recover the
body, but were unsuccessful. After
questioning Parker and Rosenburg,
the detectives notified Fairfax Coun-
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-04-30
COLLATERAL LOANS
REAPPRAISAL GIVEN
r. F. C. Grants Requests for Re-
examination of Closed
Banks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration is granting requests for re-
appraisal of collateral securing loans
to closed banks.
It was stated unofficially today that
r. F. c. executives felt they were
doing all they could to aid the situ-
alton and that beyond speeding up
new loans and re-examination of col
lateral little could be done.
They do not expect to make a form
al report to President Roosevelt on
this subject.
There will be no formal report
either, 1t was indicated, on the Nc
Leod bill providing for paying in full
all depositors having $4,000 or less in
closed banks. Chairman Jones re-
Gently said he did not see how such a
move could be justified" and that 1t
would involve a heavy loss for the
Government because the assets of
many of the closed banks had been
sold or were worthless.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
Gold Profit Formally Shifted
for Secret Operations if
Dollar Is Threatened.
$500, 900, 900 BELIEVED
GIVEN RESERVE SYSTEM
Morgenthau Refuses to Explain
Move-Huge Sum May Also Be
Used to Buy in U. S. Bonds.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury formally created
81, 900 900, 900 stabilization fund today,
apparently depositing 5000 100000 with
the Federal Reserve System for ac-
tive use and holding the remaining
81 300, ,000,O in reserve.
To accomplish the transaction Of
officially setting up the fund appro-
priated by Congress for guiding the
dollars course, the entire $4,000, ,0O0,-
900 was carried as expended on
April 27.
Previously, the $2,810,000,000 Of
profit on devaluation had been desig-
mated in the Treasury statement SIM
ply as Increment resulting from re-
duction in the weight of the gold dol
lar"
Treasury officials refused to discuss
the step and said the daily statement
must speak for itself. There was no
indication whether the $500, 900
given the Reserve system had been
used.
Procedure Outlined.
What happened on the statement
was this: A 81 300, 900 900 exchange
stabilization fund" was entered as a
liability against the gold stock of ST.
755, $40, TAO. simultaneously, the gold
certificate fund of the Federal Re
serve Board jumped S10l 100000.
This was interpreted by experts as
indicating a Treasury deposit of this
amount out of the stabilization fund.
1t was believed the other s99, 900, 900
previously was deposited in the same
way. For some weeks, the Treasury
has been depositing with the Reserve
banks more gold in the form OF GER
tificates than was received in actual
metal.
The New York Reserve Bank is the
fiscal agents of the Treasury.
In the past, the fund has been
Jumped with the cash balance along
with 100000 600 of additional profit
on devaluation.
The stabilization fund may be en-
ployed In buying and selling cur
rencies and in purchasing Govern
ment bonds. 1t represents part Of the
profit from gold devaluation.
Secretary Morgenthau has refused
steadfastly to make any public state
ment about use of the fund.
Slashes Cash Balance.
Garry g the $4,000, 100000 as an
expenditure on one day also slashed
the size of the cash balance from
S4,333, ,584, ,592 to $2,328, ,526. 606.
The Treasury's gold assets were re-
ported on April 81 at s7,755, $40, TAO 80,
an increase of s754, 100000 since de-
valuation on January 81.
Against this stock were carried as
liabilities Salts. $685. ,08939 of gold
certificates, $156, 6,039, ,08803 of gold
reserve against outstanding United
States notes and Treasury notes OF
1890, $1,000 100000 in exchange
stabilization fund" and $1,020, ,233.-
562.88 of gold in the Treasury's gen.
eral fund.
On April 26, before the stabilization
fund appeared as separate liability,
gold in the general fund was reported
at $2,921 1896, 8,272.67.
Since devaluation the gold profit has
steadily increased as more boarded
gold came to the Treasury.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
DR.. Tug,oeU Faces
Church Probe OF,
TaU0 Statements
Resignation Sought if
Paper Quoted Hin,
Correctly.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
PORTLAND, Greg, April 30.-Dr.
Rexford Guy Tugwell was the central
figure in an investigation" launched
today by the Rose City Park Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.
Members of the congregation want
to know If he made two statements
attributed to him by church paper
and. if so. they think he ought to
resign as Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture.
One of the statements attributed
to DR.. Tugwell stated that "one of
the Oldest and quietest roads to con-
tentment lies through the 'conven-
tional trinity of wine, women and
song" The other suggested American
women follow Mrs. Roosevelt's exam
pie and serve wine in their homes. ."
Rev. Fred c. Taylor, pastor of the
church. discussed them in his sermon
yesterday and commented that he
considered them "un-American." A
vote authorizing the pastor to deter
mine if they were authentic followed.
The statements were attributed to
DR.. Tugwell by the Christian Advo-
cate. Methodist publication in San
Francisco, and were said to have been
reprinted from an article allegedly
written by DR.. Tugwell in the March
issue of the Democratic Digest of
Washington, D. C.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
III. o. L. C.. Amendment Is Seen
As Spur to Better Homes Drive
O,cners Whose Mortgages Haze Been
Refinanced May Apply to Federal
Agency for Funds to Renorise.
signed Saturday by President Roose-

signed Saturday by President Roose-
welt.
Upward of 900 homes m the Capital
including 400 on which loans al
ready have been made. and zoo more
now in the final stages of loan nego-
tiations-are affected by the provi-
sion, it was estimated today at the
District Office of the H. o. 1. c. 1t
will automatically embrace all future
loans made by the corporation.
Although heretofore the Govern
ment agency has insisted upon re-
pairs shich were essential to safe
guarding the mortgage it makes. 1t
has not been authorized to lend
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
ADMITS HANDLING
BREMER RANSOM
Mclaughlin Confesses He
Had $4,000 of Sum
Collected.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 30 John J.
Boss" Mclaughlin has confessed ham
ding $4,000 of the ramson collected
from Edward Bremen, st. Paul bank
er, the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton disclosed today.
Mclaughlin was held in 100000
bond Saturday for removal to st. Paul
for trial under the "Lindbergh" kid
naping act.
His arrest followed the recovery OF
s2,665 in IS and $40 bills identified
as part of the ransom money. The
hot" currency was found on William
E. Wider, a gambler, last Thursday.
Four in U. s. Custody.
Melvin H. Purvis, chief of the Chi
cago Office of the Bureau of Investi-
cation, announced Mclaughlin had
made a full confession of his part in
the disposition of portions of the
S20O. 900 ransom paid for Bremer's
freedom after % days a captive of
kidnapers.
Four men were in Federal custody
Mclaughlin and Vidler already ar
raigned, and two others awaiting is
suance of warrants charging them also
with conspiracy.
Purvis said the Government had
recovered $3,400 Of the ransom. They
found $85 of it Saturday on young
Jack Mclaughlin. 17-year-old son OF
the erstwhile Yves. Side political boss
Purvis said. Still more was found In
possession of Philip Delaney, whose
arrest in McLaughlin's home at the
same time the boss" was seized be-
came known only today.
Delaney, the fourth accused of con-
spring in the disposition of the ran
som, was alleged to have handled
$4,000 Of the money that passed
through McLaughlin's hands.
Ex-Convicts Hunted.
The Government is hunting two
Oklahoma ex-convicts, Arthur Barker
and Alvin Karpis, as the actual abb
Guctors of the St. Paul banker.
A report that the pair had beer
seen in secret custody of Purvis over
the week end was denied by Federal
officers.
Meanwhile, a master swindler was
sought by Federal agents in a fresh
angle of the search for the kidnapers
of Bremen.
The hunted master mind" was re.
ported to have duped a friend oi
Bremen out of $4,000. Agents de-
clined to reveal the identity of either
man. The victim, reputed to be a
st. Paul contractor, was recorded
simply as "Mr. W."
Won Sums by Wire Tapping.
The Government theory is that the
swindlers met their victim about q
year ago In South Bend, Ind, hotel
The leader of the confidence men told
him of an acquaintance who had won
large sums on horse races by wire
tapping
The sWindlers and the victim al
legedly "won" approximately 5000, ,00C
before the supposed bookmaker asked
for evidence that they could have
paid, if they had lost. The victim is
supposed to have called upon Bremen
in st. Paul, obtaining $50,000, which
he carried back to South Bend. That
was the end of the money, as far as
he was concerned.
Agents said that then the swindlers
passed along word that Bremen had
money and the kidnapers seized him
January II. He was released after
payment OF 100000.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.

Hundreds of District home owners.
whose mortgages have been refinanced
by the Horne Owners Loan Corpora
ton, now are eligible to make appli-
cation to the Federal agency for fur
ther funds to modernize and improve
their properties.
Coming as timely development
in connection with The Stars Better
Homes Contest, designed to encour-
age "renovizing" in the metropolitan
area, the provision for Government
loans for this work. both locally and
nationally, is contained in amend
ments to the home owners loan act,
Evening star., 1934-04-30
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
SOVIET DEBT NOTE
Troyanovsky Silent After Present
ing Communication From
Litvinoff.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Alexander Troyanovsky, the Russian
Ambassador, today presented to Presi-
dent Roosevelt a communication from
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet commissar
for foreign affairs, presumably relat-
ing to the American-Russian debt
negotiations.
Secretary of State Hull said the talk
of almost an hour was preliminary"
and nothing of any major Importance
had been determined.
Conversations between Washington
and Moscow will continue.
With a smile, Troyanovsky declined
to discuss the contents of the Lit
vinof note with reporters.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
CHURCH is CLOSED
American Organization in Ber-

American Organization in Ber-
lin in Poor Financial Condition.
BERLIN, April 80 P.-A commit
tee of the American Church in Berlin
today announced services will be dis
continued, at least for the Summer
season, both because Rev. Ewart
Turner, pastor of the church, cabled
his resignation from America, and
because of the church's unsatisfactory
financial condition.
Today's issue Of The Catholic
Church Newspaper for the Bishopric
of Berlin was confiscated, and the i'm
portant Catholic daily Volkeszeitung
of Cologne was suspended for one
week for comments on the church
situation judged harmful to the state.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
Death Sentence Appealed.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 30 (R.-
The appeal of Mark H. Shank. Akron,
Ohio, attorney. from a death sentence
conviction for one of four poison
murders with which he was charged,
was taken under submission by the
State Supreme Court today for a de-
cision probably next Monday.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
HIROHITO is GREETED
Roosevelt Sends Birthday Messag

to Japan's Ruler.
President Roosevelt sent the follow
ing birthday greetings to Emperor
Hirohito of Japan:
"On this anniversary Of your i'm
perial majesty's birth I send you cor
dial Fluctuations
Emperor Hirohito was born in
Toxic on April 20, 1901.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
ANGOLA PLAN APPROVED
Portugal Reported Ready tt
Sponsor Jewish Settlement.

0pOuSOT JEWISH 0eIIlemeuC.
LONDON, April 80 R).-The Herald
says it has learned the Portuguese
government has approved in principle
a long discussed plan for a large
scale Jewish settlement in Angola,
Portuguese possession on the Congo
in West Africa.
The paper said an American Jewish
relief organization was prepared to
contribute around $10,000,000.
Sponsors of the plain aim ultimate
ly to establish an autonomous Jewish
state in Angola under the protection
of the League of Nations.
Portugal, however, objects to the
overlordship of the League, and nego-
tiations are afoot to remove the
objection.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
RESTRICTS SPECIALISTS
New York Stock Exchange Acts
Again to Cut Activities.

Again 10 SuI ACTIVITIES.
NEW YORK, April 80 (P).-Further
steps to restrict the activities Of spe-
cialists in stocks and bonds were an
pounced today by the New York Stock
Exchange.
The governors, 1t was stated, have
adopted a rule prohibiting transmits
sion from the floor of the exchange
names of firms bidding for or offering
bonds. Several months ago the ex-
change prohibited specialist members
from divulging information concern
ing the order books on various stocks.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
20 PLANES LEAVE QUANTICO
TO JOIN CARIBBEAN MANEUVERS

At 6:28 Col Rowell gave the signal
for the take-of, and despite the small
ness of the field the squadron of 10
Boeing fighters cleared the ground in
two minutes.
After circling the field several times
the squadron headed southwark. One
transport followed. The second was to
take off upon completion of repairs to
a motor.
Col. Rcwen will control the move
ment of the squadron throughout the
flight by radio. Communication will
be maintained with land stations and
vessels through four sets aboard a
transport plane.
The flight personnel totaled 43, in
cluding pilots, one flight surgeon and
mechanics.
LAND AT FORT BRAGG.
POPE FIELD. Fort Bragg, N. c.,
April 80 CR.-Twenty Marine planes,
bound for Cuba from Quantico, Va,
by easy stages, landed here this morn
ing at $50, spent two hours refuel-
ing. and then hoped on for the
South.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
SUGAR BILL RETURNED
Roosevelt Expected to Sign It in
Next 4S Hours,

Next 4S HOurS.
The sugar production control bill
was returned to the White House this
morning by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace and President Roosevelt
probably will sign it in the next 48
hours.
Gov. Winship Of Puerto Rico has
asked to present a protest on the
legislation. The President probably
will receive him tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
WEATHER.

%. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
, Fair and warmer with lowest tempera-
ture about 48 degrees tonight; tomorrow
cloudy, warmer, with showers in the aft
ernoon. Temperatures-Highe "a, at 8
pm. yesterday; lowest, As, at $50 am.
today. Full report on page A-4.
Evening star., 1934-04-30

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