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Evening star., 1935-05-20
IVA. CHAIRMAN
CR|T|C|zES AUDIT
Morgan Declares Improper
Comparisons" Made in
MCCarI Report.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Arthur E. Morgan, T. v. A. chair
man, told the House Military Com
mittee today an annual audit Of T. ".
A. by Controller General McCarls Of
flee showed throughout evidence of
a lack of complete investigation of
the facts"
The audit, he said, disclosed sex
tremely unrepresentative and i'm
proper comparisons
The tall. angular witness hit re-
peatedly at the report as the commit
tee reopened its hearings on a bill to
broaden T. v. A. operations.
Morgan said had McCarl named
some competent. practical individual
to scrutinize T. v. A. field operations,
as was requested by the T.V. A. di-
rectors, there would have been much
less criticism of the administration
vast power ya,dstick in the Tennessee
Valley.
Until a qualified man is put on
the job" he said, Il think such things
are out Of place"
Maverick Defends T. VA.
At the outset Representative Nav
erick. Democrat, of Texas said that
since the T. " A. directors had been
recalled for hearing, presumably be-
cause some of their previous testi-
mony was unsatisfactory, he wanted
to recall also some of the representa-
tives of the power trust" who failed
to give some of the information he
wanted.
This is nothing but fishing trip
we are on now" Maverick said. But
want to get out all the fish we can.
don't think T. v. A. is being treated
fairly"
Reopening Of the hearings on the
bill. which already has passed the SEN
ate by a big majority. was forced by
committee members who are bitterly
opposed to the authority's operations.
They charge the authority has far
exceeded its legal powers.
Expenditures Criticized.
A powerful element. fighting to kill
the bill, aimed to ask T. v. A. direc-
tors why their agency should buy
COWS, why it needs airplanes to trans
port employees and about its expendi-
lures and purchases in general.
Though these committee members
were confident they could kill the
Chairman McSwain, Demo-
crat. of South Carolina, has said he
thought the committee would approve
it by close vote.
1t would give the authority specific
permission to sell electricity, which an
adverse court ruling said was lacking
under the existing act. 1t would per-
NIT T. v. A. to regulate resale rates
and to buy up private power facilities
for the distribution of its power.
In addition. it would let the author
ity issue up to 100000, 900 in bonds.
The present limit is s50,OOO,0OO.
Representative May, Democrat of
Continued on Page 3. Column ID
Evening star., 1935-05-20
GIRL s BODY FOUND
UNDER TON OF DIRT
Discovery Is Made in Cave
She Had Dug With Play
mates Near Home,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 20.-While police
Boy Scouts and neighbors beat ad-
Joining sWamplands and reed grown
lots in two-day search for 8-year-
old Shirley Evans, she lay dead be-
meath ton of earth $50 yards from
her home. Her body was found to-
day buried in a cave she and her
playmates had dug in a building ex-
cavation.
1t was found after 10 minutes of
digging, lying against the cement wall
of the foundation of an apartment
building under construction.
District Attorney Charles P. Sulli-
van of Queens County said the girl
was in all likelihood caught in a land
slide. He said search for a possible
assailant will be continued, however
Discovery of the body came as. a
result of the suggestion of Taylor Put
ney, jr., history instructor at New
York University. who lives in the
apartment building occupied by the
Evans family, at 82-l6 Thirty fourth
avenue, jackson Heights.
Putney remembered that his own
6-year-old son, Taylor, had joined
with other children in the digging of
the cave Friday afternoon.
The excavation is on a vacant lot
formerly used by the neighborhood
children as playground.
"On Saturday." said Putney, when
We learned of Shirley's disappearance.
We didn't dream she would be found
so close to here. However. 1 urged
the policemen to dig about the founda-
ton. They did to some extent, but
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1935-05-20
LituinOff Asks Chac0 Mediation,
Keeping League Pact Intact
Ethiopian Dispute Due to Be Discussed
as Genera Council Opens Session.
Russia Takes Lead in ParIeys.

the sessions of the Council. the eighty
sixth formation of the League, was
viewed as striking new evidence that
Russia has returned completely to the
comfy of nations.
Litvinoff will serve as president Of
the Council deliberations until next
September, and hence will have i'm
portant initiative in handling the po-
litical affairs submitted to the League.
A special committee will meet this
week to devise penalties for ma
tions which endanger peace by re-
pudiating their international obliga-
tons. This problem was a legacy of
the Council session last month, which
adopted the resolution criticizing Ger
many for her rearmament activities
in violation Of the military clauses
of the Versailles treaty.
On the eve of the meeting, Ethiopia
moved to insure that her dispute with
Continued on Page 3, Column -
Evening star., 1935-05-20
Traffic accidents Kill 50.
And hjt.re so Ouer Week End

ally quiet week end, with traffic acci-
dents considerably below the usual
number.
Illinois reported eight dead and
six injured for the Nations high.
New York had six fatalities. Missouri
had five and Texas six.
A 21-year-old man was killed near
Prestonsburg, KY, when his automo-
bile overturned in a heavy fog.
At Boulder, Colo. a flve-car COL
lision on q hill killed Philip Mangan,
%, a Denver university student.
The toll by States: Arkansas, one:
California, there; Colorado, one; Con-
necticut, three; Illinois, eight; In
diana, three; Kansas. two; Kentucky.
three; Louisiana, one; Massachusetts,,
one; Michigan, one; Mississippi, one:
Missouri, FIVE; Montana. one; New
York, six; Ohio, two; Pennsylvania,
i've, and Texas, five.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
HUGE NAVY BILL
REACHES SENATE
Record Peace Appropriation Faces
Fight by Nye, Who Hits
"Racketeers."
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate came today to debate
on the record regular naval appro-
priation bill for peace times-a $780,
100000 measure which passed the
House with a laundering chorus of
"ayes" last month.
Though observers expected the Sen
ate to pass the bill, there were evi-
dences of possible fight Chairman
Nye, Republican of North Dakota, of
the Munitions Committee was up in
arms against it. Making a speech
last night in Terre Haute, Ind, he
declared that it comes on the heels
of an Army bill setting a peace time
record and ship subsidy" maritime
bill.
In each of these three cases." he
said, "the call for support is invari-
ably in the name of national defense.
National defense has become a
racket for profit and Uncle Sam is
being taken for a ride by racketeers
who are profiting from these mad ma
tional defense races"
The bill provides for laying down
"a more ships toward treaty strength
by 1912. the addition of 1000 enlisted
men and contracting for SIS new
airplanes.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
Tells House Committee 10
Months Extension Plan
PeriIs Recovery.
GRAVE LABOR TROUBLE
SEEN IF CODES EXPIRE
Reveals Mine and Textile Difficult
ties Held Up Pending Decision
on Blue Eagle Bill.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An estimate that 100000 wage
earners would be thrown on relief if
the N. r. A. were allowed to expire
was given the House Ways and Means
Committee today by Administrator
Donald r. Richberg
There isn't any question:" he add
ed on questioning, that we also would
be facing some very grave industrial
troubles"
The Senate has passed a bill ex-
tending the life of N R. A. for 10
months. This is unsatisfactory to the
administration, which wants a two
year renewal. Some legislators have
expressed fear this conflict might de-
lay final passage of an N. R. A. meas
ure past the date of expiration of the
recovery agency-next June 16.
Textile Trouble Feared.
Richberg disclosed that on April !
he went to the chairman of the Sem
ate Commerce Committee and urged
introduction of the N. r. A. extension
measure now under consideration in
order that some of the uncertainty
might be removed. As a result. he
explained, a truce was effected in the
soft coal industry
If the NJ R. A. dies June 16, he
warned there also would be difficult
situation in the textile industry.
The recovery chieftain said that on
the basis of 2,850,000 shown by the
January, 1894, census to have been
put to work through the N. R. A., the
present figure probably would be up
ward of 100000. But, he added,
taking into account the seasonal en-
ployment not figured in those figures,
1T probably would be nearer three
than four million in the aggregate" 3"
Cites Benefits Of N. r. A.
Richberg defended the N. r. A. as
an aid to all businesses and assured
the committee that the agency had
brought up Federal wage levels and
increased purchasing power meas
surably.
ITO extend the sct only nine and
one-half months under the pressure
of those opposing the N r. A." the
chief Of the recovery agency testi-
fed, actually invites continuing op-
position, noncompliance and litiga-
ton for the purpose of persuading
the Congress to let the act die in the
next session
Committeeman listened closely as
Richberg stood at small speakers
stand, addressing them earnestly and
describing the Senate's extension bill
as "demoralizing.
Provision Called Inadequate.
THE provisions of the resolution
are unavoidable and inadequate to ac-
complish its desired intention" Rich
berg asserted.
Ways and Means Committee Demo-
Gratis already have indicated they
favor the two-year extension requested
by President Roosevelt. On that point,
Richberg told the committee:
AN extension of two years is alb
solutely necessary to maintain ade-
quate personnel, work out problems of
code administration, strengthen en-
forcement and to prevent the
entire breakdown of labor and fair
trade practice provisions by chiselers
who already are at work undermining
the standards of fair competition"
Richberg agreed there might be
honest opposition to the N. R. A.. but
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
Evening star., 1935-05-20
HIGH COURT FAILS
TO PASS ON N. R. A.
Farm Moratorium Decision Also
Lacking at Weeks Ad.
journment.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court adjourned to-
day until next Monday without pass
ing on the constitutionality of N. r
A. or the Frazier-Lemke farm mort
gage moratorium act
Only two more opinion days remain
before the date when the court ex-
poets to recess for the Summer. They
are next Monday and June 8.
Validity of N. r. A. is at stake in
a case involving the A. L. A. Schech-
ter Poultry Co. of Brooklyn. This
litigation grew out of a prosecution
for alleged violation of the code for
the live poultry indusry. 1t questioned
whether Congress had the right to
delegate code-making powers to the
President under the national indus
trial recovery act.
The Frazier-Lemke case is also mo-
mentous, potentially involving $16,-
900 ,000, 900 in farm mortgages. The
farm mortgage moratorium act per-
mitted bankrupt farmers to obtain
court stay against foreclosure pro-
ceedings, retain their property by
payment of an annual rental fee and
discharge the mortgage by payment
of the appraised value of their land.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, May 20.
Identification of the model for the
famous painting Mona Lisa" as Isa-
bella d'Este, famous lady of the
Renaissance. was reported today by
DR.. Raymond S. Sites. professor of
aesthetics at Antioch College.
Sites identification contradicts ref
erence books which have accepted a
report by an Italian writer, Giorgio
Vasari. that the portrait was that Of
Mona Lisa, wife of Piero Francesca
Del Giocondo. Vasari made his report
40 years after the death in 1919 of
Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the
Mona Lisa"
DR.. Sites said Vasari presumably
obtained his information from q
manuscript by an anonymous Floren-
tine. The professors examination Of
the manuscript, he said, disclosed no
mention of Mona Lisa, only q refer
ece to painting Of Mona Lisa's hus-
band, Piero Francesca, by Leonardo
da Vinci.
Identification of the model for
Mona Lisa" as Isabella d'Este, the
Marchioness Of Amntua, was regarded
by DR.. Sites associates here as one
of the most valuable pieces Of arch
Evening star., 1935-05-20
BANK AND TENANT
BILLS UNDER FIRE
U. S. Chamber and Liberty
League Center Attack
on Two Measures.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Two proposals favored by admins
trltion officialS-the bill to strengthen
the Federal Reserve Boards control
over money and credit and the billion
dollar Bankhead measure to aid tenant
farmers-were under fire in different
quarters today.
In a letter that went out to $500
member organizations, Harper Sibley,
new president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, said the
banking bill would mean virtual Gre
alton of a central bank" and would
give a few men in Washington the
power to precipitate disastrous infia-
ton or deflation."
A statement issued by the American
Liberty League, meanwhile, declared
"RussianiZation" of American agricul-
ture into "a Government-susta
peasantry" would be the probably re-
suit of enactment of the Bankhead
tenant aid bill.
Politics in Banking Feared.
Sibley's letter said it was in the
interest of business" that the Fed
eral Reserve sections of the banking
measure should be defeated.
THE Reserve system would be
changed to incorporate some of the
worst features of foreign central bank
ing" the Chamber of Commerce lead
er asserted. "@ . principal among
these are political domination
and subordination of its operations to
partisan politics.
The real credit needs of commerce,
agriculture and industry could be
subordinated to the spending plans of
the Nation"
Sibley expressed belief also that
centralized management of the Re-
serve system would be unsettling to
business and would delay real re-
covery."
Tenant Bill Called Specialization.
His attack closely followed Secretary
Morgenthaus open advocacy of Fed
eral ownership of the Reserve system.
The Bankhead bill, which proposes
a billion-dollar corporation to assist
tenant farmers and other agricultural
workers in financing purchase of
family-Size farms, was described by
the Liberty League as "a step toward
Socialization of agriculture" The
league statement said many tenants
and share-croppers were not trained
to manage farmers and that unless
the Government used harsh measures,
these farmers soon would be living on
public bounty"
Evening star., 1935-05-20
GEORGIA VICTORY
OF DRYS CERTIFIED
Official Figures Disclosed Hard
Liquor Lost by 243
Votes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, May 20-Prohibition-
lists, with a lead of 243 votes, were
officially certified today as the winners
of Wednesdays prohibition repeal ref
erendum in Georgia Secretary of
State John B. Wilson, certified the
results to Gov. Eugene Talmadge as
follows:
For repeal, 1881.
Against repeal, 82,134.
Previously, reports had come to At
lanta that contests would be filed by
repeal advocates in two counties of
the State, Calhoun and Colquitt. Will
son said he had not been notified Off
cially of any contests.
The secretary of State also had the
returns of the referendum legalizing
beer and wine and he expected to
tabulate these votes later in the day.
Unofficial returns showed that both
beer and wine were legalized by safe
majorities.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Fifty-two persons were killed in
traffic accidents in IS States as rain
and fog spread over many sections of
the Nation over the week end. Fifty
were injured, several critically.
Weather conditions were held re-
sponsible for at least seven deaths.
Others were charged to speeding,
reckless driving and carelessness.
Four drivers were arrested in con-
nection with fatal accidents, three
for questioning and one charged with
None was charged
with intoxication.
A Embarrassing accident took two
lives near Meade, Kans. Two small
children were killed as their fathers
backed automobiles out Of garages.
Five Of the dead were pedestrians.
Several States reported an unusu-
Evening star., 1935-05-20
BRITISH AMATEUR
FAV0R|TES BEATEN
Two Chief Threats to Little,
Present Champion, Are
Removed.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. ANNE'S-ON-THE Eng
land, May 20-As William Lawson
Little, jr, the broad-shouldered Cali
fornian, started defense of the British
amateur golf championship today.
two Of his chief threats were removed
from the starting field of 224 home
bred and American contestants.
The first major casualty Of the fif-
tieth championship involved blond
and curly-haired Jock Mclean, the
pride of the Scots and rated second
to Little in the betting.
Mclean was abruptly eliminated
from championship. sending domestic
hopes glimmering. by J. H Bryant of
Blackwell. a little known player in
these parts. bearing a striking re-
semblance to Slim Summeville of the
American films.
Bryant took advantage of the
highly favored Scottish champion S
lack of control and nosed him out on
the eighteenth green as Mclean
failed to get down an important long
putt.
Irish Champion Loses.
Hector Thomson, also of Scotland
and holder of the Irish champion
ship, the third choice of the betting
fraternity, met defeat at the hands
of r. D. Moore of Canada. Moore
led four up at the halfway mark,
Thomson, 81 years old, squared the
match at the eighteenth, but was
eliminated on the second extra hole.
A high, cold wind swept the sea-
side course, intensifying the already
Furnishing conditions brought on by
a heavy rainfall last night. Conse-
quently, virtually all of the scores
were high, none of the competitors
even closely approaching par figures
for the 6.666 yards. par SO layout.
The weather grew warmer as the
sun peeked out from under rain
threatening clouds. favoring Little
with slightly better conditions than
some of his challengers had.
First Round Results.
First round results follow:
j. H. Bryant, England, defeated
Jock Mclean, Scotland, up, 18 holes.
John Forsman, New York. defeated
w. Pharayzn. England, up, 19 holes.
r. de Lloyd. England. defeated
Douglas Grant, formerly of California,
/ up. twentieth hole
Robert W. Knowles. jr.. Brookline,
Mass. defeated j. ODonnell Higgins,
Montreal, Canada. 5 and 3.
Hon. Michael Scott, England, de-
feated R. Myer, England, and 3.
Tony Torrance. England, defeated
Lionel Mum, England. 3 and 2
F. Francis, England, defeated ].
Kennedy. jr., England, and 4.
John de Forest England, defeated
H. Buckland, England, 4 and 3.
r. D. Moore. Vancouver, British Co.
lumbia, defeated Hector Thomson,
Scotland, up, 20 holes.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
JUDGE TO BE WITNESS

Appears in Court Tomorrow in
Wife-Beating Case.
Justice Jennings Bailey of the Dis
trict Supreme Court is scheduled to
appear in Police Court tomorrow
morning as a witness in the case Of
Andrew Ruskin, charged with strik-
ing his wife.
Justice Bailey was just coming out
Of the Columbia Theater at the time
of the alleged occurrence and in
formed police he would voluntarily ap-
pear against Ruskin, who is charged
with assault. The case was to have
been heard this morning, but the
complaining witness failed to appear.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
Woman Slain, Son Hurt.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 20 (P.-
William Keplar, 80, remained in a
serious condition today from hatchet
wounds inflicted by his stepfather,
John Van Gundy, So, who. Police Lieut..
Thomas Scully said. confessed he
killed Mrs. Gundy, So. and attacked
Keplar yesterday.
The office quoted Van Gundy as say
ing in a signed confession Il was tired
of keeping her son (KepIar), who
hasn't worked since I have known
them"
Evening star., 1935-05-20
Ry the Associated Press.


GENEVA, May 20.-Maxim Lit
vinoff of Russia urged settlement of
the Chaco War through mediation,
keeping the League of Nations cove
nant intact, as the Leagues special
assembly met today to consider the
South American conflict.
The Soviet commissar for foreign
affairs. who is presiding. opened the
deliberations with a tribute to the
late Marshal Joseph Pilsudski of Po-
land
The League Council, also called into
session today, did not Immediately
reach the Ethiopian dispute, but
recommended abolition of control ex-
change transactions and modification
of clearing compensation agreements
to permit normalization of interna-
tional trade.
The fact that Litvinoff, Soviet COM
misSar for foreign affairs, presided at
Evening star., 1935-05-20
Truck Drivers Strike.

PHILADELPHIA, May 20 (P.-A
truck drivers strike started at dawn
today in the Dock street market near
the water front, hampering produce
trading.
Seventy policemen were sent to the
scene after a crowd of several hundred
strikers and sympathizers gathered.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
CIRCUS DAYS!
Ne,U Deal Wanes,
But F. d. Assured
NesU Term in Data
By the Associated Press.

by I1lb hSSOCIdLtu PIeSS.
WELLESLEY. Mass. May 20.-The
Roger w. BabSon statistical organiza-
ton today announced that a survey
just completed indicated President
Roosevelt would be reelected in 1885
but that nearly half the persons ques-
toned said they had lost confidence
in the New Deal.
The study. described as "the first
pre1936 political survey completed
by the organization shows that Presi-
dent Roosevelt continues to hold his
strong personal popularity among the
electorate. At the same time, however,
the New Deal has suffered further
losses in confidence in the last year."
Evening star., 1935-05-20
SHIPBUILDERS' STRIKE
VOTE is CONSIDERED
Sympathy Walkout on Both
Coasts Agitated to Support
Camden Union.
,e Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, N. j., May 20.-A gen.
eral strike call for shipbuilding work.
ers in both East and West Coast
plants is being agitated in sympathy
with the strike of New York Ship
building Corp. employees, entering its
second week today.
Plans for a walkout vote were dis
cussed yesterday at a meeting in
Camden of the general Executive
Board of the Industrial Union of Ma
rine and Shipbuilding Workers of
America.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
THREE ESCAPE INJURY
WHEN FORCED DOWN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, May 90
Byrnes Walker of Chicago and two
passengers escaped serious injury to-
day when their plane made a forced
landing at Rogers, Ark, due to an
empty fuel tank, believed to have been
emptied at the airport here.