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Evening star., 1936-01-06
MAIL LINES COAL
USE|SPRESCR|BED
M'CarI Says Fuel Produced
Under Guffey Act
Must Be Used.

Bituminous-using railroads carrying
the mails must use coal produced in
accordance with the Guffey act, Con-
troller General McCarl ruled today.
The procurement division of the
Treasury already has interpreted the
law to require all utilities holding
Government contracts to use code coal
unless -bituminous fuel is en-
ployed.
The law requires bituminous pro-
ducers to sign a code or pay penalty
tax. 1t IS being fought in the courts
and Supreme Court decision on It's
constitutionality is expected this term.
Rules on Utilities.
BY implication, McCarl included the
railroads in his decision. He held
specifically that all utilities, such as
light. heat and telephone. which are
using bituminous coal. must buy only
the code product for Government con-
tracts.
Belief railroad mail carriers are
affected came from McCarl's quota
ton Of this dictionary definition of
service" in his decision
Act or means of supplying some
general demand; as railway service,
telephone service, ETC."
The law states Guffey coal must
be used "for any public work or serv-
ice" Postmaster General Farley had
asked whether code coal must be used
in connection with post Office leases,
where the lessor undertakes to fur
nish heat or fuel. or is under no
obligation to furnish either"
Influence on Cost.
McCarl declared in his decision:
Whether such requirement tin a
contract may, in some instances. in
crease the cost of such work or serv-
ice. cause inconvenience to admins
trative departments or accomplish
nothing because no coal will be pur-
chased or used in the performance of
the work or service is not for con-
sideration in determining whether the
contract shall contain the provision.
ANY lease agreement under which
the lessor undertakes to furnish heat,
light, electric current or any other
service is a contract for service with
in the meaning of the statute. and
must contain a provision that the
contractor will buy no bituminous coal
to use on or in the carrying out of
such contract from any producer ex-
cept such a producer be a member
of the code"
Evening star., 1936-01-06
MRS. HENRY FITCH
DIES AT AGE OF IS

Mrs. Henry w. Fitch, IS, former
Washington resident and widow of
Chief Engineer Henry w. Fitch, U. S.
NJ, died today in Philadelphia. She
had been prominent in social circles
and welfare work here for many years.
Born in Detroit. Mrs. Fitch came to
Washington in 1881 and lived here
continuously until a few years ago,
when she moved to Philadelphia to
live with a daughter. She had been
president of the Board of Lady Mana
gers of Columbia Hospital and had
served on the board of the House OF
Mercy. She was a member of the Ma
tional Society of the Colonial Danes.
Surviving are a sister. Mrs. Alex
andria w. COPELAND, Detroit: three
daughters, Mrs. A. p. Gerhard, Phila-
delphia; Mrs. Creswell Darlington,
wife of Lieut.. Col Darlington, U. S.
A., Savannah, Ga, and Mrs. S. C.
Rowan, wife of Capt. Rowan, U. S. NJ,
Washington. and nine grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements have not yet
been completed. but burial will be
Wednesday in Arlington National
Cemetery
Evening star., 1936-01-06

johnson, who has criticized various
phases OF the New Deal administra-
ton since his retirement as head of
the N. r. A., spoke at the Shoe Fair
here.
Commenting on the Presidents
message, johnson said, Perhaps the
least considered sentence was on un-
employment. shall we say your prob
lem vas local. except that perhaps
the Federal Government. as an act
of mere generosity, will be willing to
pay to your city or your county a
few grudging dollars, ETC." The best
answer to that Is the Democratic
platform to which the speaker had
pledged himself 100 per cent to get
elected: Extension Of the Federal
credit to the States to provide unem-
ployment relief whenever the dimin-
ishing resources of the State made 1t
impossible for them to provide for
the needy
Cheap and Indefensible."
"All this is cheap and indefensible
But If business is 81 per cent against
this administration. then it is natural
for this administration to draw the
battle lines on exactly the issue pre-
sented by business"
Turning to the cause OF what he
called the "rabble-rousing" rift. john
son said lone by one there has been
removed from this administration
practically every important oficial
who has any f1rst-hand information
knowledge of business In this country
or any particular sympathy with it."
"One by one, on the other side. has
been side-tracked from spokesmanship
for business, practically every impor-
tant person who has any sympathy
for this administration.
Glass Conflict Seen.
What is the inevitable result of
this alignment in the coming cam
paign?" What can it be other than
what Mr.. Hopkins. Mr.. Tugwell and,
to an extent, Mr.. Farley have said it
will be-a contest between the haves
and the have-nots and. after the elec-
ton, as Mr.. Tugwell promises. gang
ing up of farmers and workers 'un-
pleasantly to disestablish the existing
system And what is that?
1T is what ! said before-claSs con-
ffict. 1t is civil war;
AS a remedy to the situation john
son suggested that business leaders
60 to the President and ask him what
he intends to do. and they should be
received with every sincere assump-
ton of good faith-more than half
way. With no lurking suspicion that
they were emissaries of evil"
Evening star., 1936-01-06
.LUNAT|C IS HELD
ASBABY VAN|SHES.
Woman Suspected Of Toss
ina Kidnapped Boy
Into River.

ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January o.-foiioe
and psvchiatrists attempted 70 "rnis
TODAY from the gisgling phrases OF an
insane woman the disappearance Vi
1o-month- h-old Jacob HoroWltz' "iiohi
thev feared had been drowned.
C;ussie Friedman, As, who has spent
% wears in asylumS, was held Ior
questioning after she was appreneno-
ed rushing a child toward the icy
East River. -
Police sought to learn if she kid
naped the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Max
Horowitz from in front Of his lower
East Side home yesterday and dumped
him, with his carriage, in the river.
She laughed eerily at all questions
and replied only Nine o'clock"
400 Join Hunt.
Four hundred searchers, recruited
from the neighborhood where the
baby's parents live, searched vacant
cellars and fats for the infant. Po-
lice launches joined the hunt on the
river.
Louis Schnier gave the information
which resulted in Miss Friedman S
detention. While he was watching MS
son. out for an airing, he said ne saw
a leering woman with a "sunk-ln
face peering into the stolen baby's cao'
cab.
When Mrs. Horowitz came to look
for her son a few minutes later, the
baby was gone.
Four high school boys, aiding in the
search. encountered Miss Friedman
half an hour later wheeling Doris
Maslin. ., in her carriage toward the
river. They seized the child.
Woman Laughs.
The woman laughed, backed up
against a garage and was taken INTO
custody by police.
Detectives said Miss Friedman was
carving a card showing she was pa
rolled from the Creedmore Hospital Tor
the Insane three months ago. she
had been sent to one asylum IN 1916
and later transferred to Creedmore.
An institution doctor described her as
a dementia praecox case with de
lapidated mind"
"Gussie never looked at babes =
said Mrs. Rose Mancowitz, her mother,
"She knows only to laugh
Evening star., 1936-01-06
BRUNO MAY RELY
ON HABEAS CORPUS
Hauptmann Attorneys Plan
Final Move if Pardons Court
Refuses CIemency.
BY the Associated Press.

by INC hSSOCidLeQ HIc6S.
TRENTON, N. j.. January g.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's lawyers
were reported authoritatively today to
be considering second effort to
bring his case before a Federal tri-
bunal if the State Pardons Court re-
fuses clemency.
The proposed move would embrace
application to Federal district Judge
or a judge of the Circuit Court Of
Appeals for writ Of habeas corpus
to determine whether the constitu-
tional rights of the convicted slayer
of the Lindbergh baby had been
jeopardized at his trial year ago.
The defense was denied opportunity
before the United States Supreme
Court to present evidence of alleged
irregularities at the trial, which it
called "a circus maximus."
Application for writ Of habeas
corpus, it was learned, was being con-
sidered by the defense as means Of
bringing the circumstances of the
trial to the attention of a Federal
tribunal.
Court to Sit Wednesday.
The Pardons Court was expected to
sit Wednesday to hear argument for
Communication Of the death penalty to
life imprisonment.
No notices to meet were dispatched
by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman during
the week end. With other court mem
bers engaged Thursday and Friday in
Errors Court conferences, Wednesday
was considered the logical. convenient
time.
Chancellor Luther A. Campbell told
his colleagues the Pardons Court should
act on the plea in time to give the
defense opportunity to make addi-
tional legal moves. should clemency
be denied.
Hauptmann's execution was set for
next week. Prison authorities we're
not expected to depart from their
custom Of taking condemned men to
the chair on Tuesdays at pm.
There we're indications the clemency
hearing would require an entire day,
with defense counsel and Attorney
General David T. WilentZ, Haupt-
mann's prosecutor, arguing the merits
of the plea.
Decision Expected Same Day.
The court was expected to follow
its custom in handing down a decision
the same day.
The defense conferred yesterday.
Although there was agreement TO
maintain secrecy about plans for the
appearance before the Pardons Court.
there were indications the defense
would question the credibility of State
witnesses who testified to seeing
Hauptmann near the Lindbergh estate
about the time of the crime.
Ellis Parker. Burlington County
detective chief, conferred with c.
Lloyd Fisher, defense attorney, but
neither would discuss the meeting.
Parker has expressed doubt that
Hauptmann perpetrated the crime.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
$4,000 APPROVED
FOR CONDUIT ROAD
Item in District Estimates Sought
to Protect Water
Mains.

An item of $4,000 for improve
ment of Conduit road beyond the
District Line is included in the Dis
trict estimates for the 1887 fiscal
year submitted to Congress today by
the Budget Bureau.
The conduit which brings Wash
ington's water supply from Great Falls
to Dalecarlia Reservoir, at the District
line. is under the road, and United
States Army engineers are understood
to have recommended the improve
ment to protect the mains.
The $4,000 appropriation for the
road improvement would come out of
the revenues of the Water Depart
ment, which is suffering drastic
slash under its total appropriations for
the current fiscal year.
The Budget Bureau recommends
$1,675,970 for the entire water serv-
ice-the distribution. as well as the
supply System-which is $685., $50 less
than appropriated for the present fis-
cal year.
The only new projects authorized
for the distribution system are q So
inch main from Third and e streets
southwest to Fifth and M streets
southeast, estimated to cost $118,800.
and soc, ,000-gallon capacity elevated
water tank in Fort Dupont Park, to
cost $35,000.
The Budget Bureau also authorized
continuance Of the present Is per
cent reduction in water charges, cou-
pied with the existing metered allow
ance of 10000 cubic feet.
An item for installing and repair
ing water meters was increased $10.-
900 over the current appropriation.
The total amount recommended for
this work is 100000.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

Continued From First Page.)
for the council said today. He said
the stamps would be distributed
throughout the Nation through Re-
publican channels.
Asked whether there was a postal
ruling against use of such stamps
on mail, this spokesman said:
There wasn't last night. I can't
say what will happen today"
The stamps, in black and white,
are approximately one and three
quarters by two inches in size.
One stamp shows President Roose-
welt lighting a cigarette with the
Constitution. Another pictures him as
"Frankenstein" aghast at an autom-
atom labeled Bureaucratic Govern
ment." An attack on the Townsend
plan is contained on another stamp.
Along the bottom of each stamp
are the words:
National Republican Council, Hotel
McAlpir. New York"
At the councils headquarters, 1t
was explained that the council is
maintained by private subscription as
a publicity organization and is not
associated officially with the Republic
an National Committee. Lambert
Fairchild, members of the New York
Board of Aldermen. Is its chairman.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

Continued From First Page)
to handle the farm relief, but would
lodge authority entirely within the
hands of the Secretary of Agriculture.
Robinson Waits to Read Text.
Majority Leader Robinson withheld
comment until he reads the decision.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South
Carolina, one of the administration
right-hand men. also refrained from
discussing the decision, but said that
If it Is such that the present law can
not be corrected, there will be no
adjournment of Congress until some
agricultural program is worked out
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of
Alabama, active in the consideration
of farm legislation on the Agricultural
Committee, said:
Il do not see how any one can COM
ment intelligently until he studies the
grounds on which the decision is based,
whether it is on grounds that can be
remedied by Congress"
Bankhead said he was quite certain
that if the court has left any leeway
for revision of the law by Congress, it
will be done, but added that, in any
event, friends of the farmer will not
give up the fight" He said that if
the situation is such that Congress
cannot extend this aid to agriculture,
then steps would be taken to see what
can be done toward adjusting the aid
which industry gets. such as the tariff
protection.
Senator Norris, progressive Repub-
ncsn. Of Nebraska said he could not
discuss what may be done until he
sees the decision, but observed that
something undoubtedly will have to
be doneH
Evening star., 1936-01-06
BONUS SPENDING
SHOWN BY LEGION
81 Per Cent Would Pay Vet.
erans' Debts, Survey
Reveals.

In breakdown" designed to show
how World War veterans would spend
their bonus. the American Legion said
today that approximately 81 per cent
would go for debts and 36 per cent
for homes and home furnishings.
The Legion figures were based on
replies from 425o0 questionnaires,
which. it was explained. represented
"a random cross-section of per cent
Of the membership"
The tabulation was carried out ir
minute detail-here round figures are
being used--and the remaining ap.
proximate disbursements we're listed
as follows:
Clothing, 5 per cent; motor vehicles,
including trucks and accessories, s.
farm machinery. 2: investments. 8.
and all other. including insurance and
education, IL.
l6 Millions Due Here.
In the District. about sl6.2S0, 900 Is
due. which would mean debts and
homes expenditures would run close to
sll 900, 900.
With the statement was this COM
ment from Ray Murphy, national
commander:
THE payment Of the adjusted serv-
ice certificates at this time will prime
all business and industry. The rami-
fications of the expenditures by World
War veterans will reach into every
corner of the country"
Sees Impetus to Building.
He added that the impetus to build
ing steel and textile industries. whole
salers and retailers, will do more gen.
eral pump priming than any single
act of Congress could possibly do"
The certificates call for nearly
$4,000, ,oOO, 900.
Evening star., 1936-01-06


the Appropriations Committee to de-
termine how the funds are to be pro-
vided. 1t was stated by some of the
most active workers for the soldiers
bonus in the House today that there
is sufficient strength to prevent either
bond issue or a new tax bill from
being authorized to pay the bonus.
The Ways and Means Committee
listened to an explanation of the bonus
measure by Representative Vinson,
Democrat of Kentucky, one of its
sponsors; then questioned Brig. Gen.
Frank T. Hines. veterans admins
traitor, on costs.
Sees No Reason for Delay.
'I don't see any reason for delay"
Chairman Doughton said after the
meeting. There seems to be no good
reason why we can't report out the
bill this afternoon"
Earlier 218 members who in the past
have backed the Patman inflationary
cash payment plan were urged to
throw their "wholehearted and en-
thusiastic support" to the bill being
considered.
Advising these members by letter
that the Steering Committee behind
the Patman new-money bill had rati-
fed an agreement to push the vet
erans' measure, Patman said:
The Texan also asked his Steering
Committee to continue together" to
help pass the jointly sponsored meas
ure land then to get our method Of
payment adopted instead of bonds
and taxes"
The Patman bill was to have re-
ceived q House test next Monday, as
a petition to force vote on it was
signed by 218 members last session.
The American Legion and other
supporters of the bill under considera-
tion claim 1t would cost only 81, l,000.-
600, 900 Immediately and would prime
all business and industry" but the
National Economy League. taking
sharp issue. declared "a $4,000, ,000, 900
grab Is bad enough" but too falsify
the figures and say 1t is only $1,000
10000 is worse"
To what extent enactment OF a
bonus bill might upset the admins
tration's financial program, House
members were unwilling to predict.
Some said the President could use his
authority to issue new currency with
out its affecting the Federal figuring
No New Taxes Necessary.
But Mr.. Roosevelt said last year
that a bonus act would toss into the
lap of Congress the question of find-
ing new taxes to raise money for pay
ment. He remarked. too, in his an
nual message to Congress Friday
night, that on the basis Of present
laws. no new taxes are necessary.
Legislators. forecasting without Ifs
and lands" that q bonus bill will be
enacted even over q veto. noted that
the President was careful to leave a
loophole for q request for new taxes
should any new law require them.
Chairman Doughton said the bin
might" be reported out tomorrow OF
Wednesday. The committee took up
the bill without holding open hearings
The bill. sponsored by Representa-
tives vinson. Democrat. Of Kentucky
Evening star., 1936-01-06
P|NCHOT CHARGES
!W.P.A. J0BSFEES
Cites Two Cases as Proof
Unemployed Are Being
Preyed Upon.
BY the ASsnciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Former Gov. Clifford Phchot of
Pennsylvania charges political har-
pies" are preying on the unemployed
of his State through 'maladminis
tered" w. P. A. organization.
Pinchot. in a second open letter to
President Roosevelt yesterday. said he
has receipts to show private employ
ment agencies took cash to get w. P.
A. jobs for applicants.
Referring to his previous letter. he
said objection had been made that it
contained "only general charges un-
supported by specific instances"
He said he has receipts showing an
employment agency too's a $40 fee
from one man and s2250 from
another.
Charges Are Denied.
Franklin G. Connor, head of the
phia. replied that not "a single per-
son" ever had been referred to a
private agency for W. p. A. placement.
Frank A. Faas, manager for the
O'Shea System of Employment. Inc.
said his organization may have filled
one or two emergency requests" but
did nothing on wholesale basis"
Pinchot listed several instances
which he said supported his conten-
ton that relief in his State had been
sold into political bondage" He
withheld names. he said. to prevent
placing the men "at the tender mercy
of the political administrators Of
w. p. A."
How the proceeds of this unspeak-
able infamy were divided with the
Democratic organization which was
guilty OF it." he said. 'I have not
vet been informed. ask you
to protect the unemployed of my
State from the political harpies who
are preying upon them"
The Presidents reply to Pinchot's
first communication has not been
made public.
Pinchot Asks Housecleaning.
Telling the President that only
thorough housecleaning" could re-
deem the Executives pledge to keep
relief out Of politics. Pinchot added:
while I can not properly disclose
what your letter contained, there can
be no objection to my saying what
1t did not contain. There is nothing
in your letter that invalidates a single
word of mine-nothing- which re-
lieves you of your personal pledge
to keep relief out of politics. and
nothing to show that your pledge is
being kept.
II ask you again to make the deed
match the word. / ask you to pro-
tect the unemployed of my state
from the political harpies who are
preying upon them. ask you to
see that money appropriated for re-
lief is no longer taken away from
the needy and squandered on build
ing up a political machine"
Evening star., 1936-01-06
WILLIAM CARLISLE DIES

William Carlisle. so, died late yes
terday in Emergency Hospital, where
he was taken after suffering heart
attack in his home. 81 L street.
Mr.. Carlisle had been under treat
ment for heart attacks for some time,
police were told. Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald issued certificate
Of death from natural causes.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
EVERETT FUNERAL

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Bell
Hacker Everett, 70, widow of Rear
Admiral william Henry Everett. were
held this morning In the Almus r.
Speare funeral home, 1923 Connecti-
cut avenue. Rev. DR.. Herbert Scott
Smith, rector of st. Margaret's Epis-
copal Church, ofiiciated. Burial was
In Arlington Cemetery.
Mrs. Everett died Thursday in .
Boston hospital. She had been q
resident Of Newport. r. l.. since her
husbands death IN 1sl2
Evening star., 1936-01-06
FUNERAL SERVICE HELD
FOR MRS. SARAH WISE

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah A.
Wise, 81, who as a young girl was
playmate of President Lincoln's son
Tad" were held this morning in the
Nevius funeral home, 924 New York
avenue. Rev. Richard A. Cartmell,
assistant rector of the Episcopal
Church of the Epiphany, oficiated.
Burial was in Oak Hi Cemetery.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
TALMADGE APPROVES.

ATLANTA. January 6 P.-Gov.
Eugene Talmadge. who has assailed
the A. A. A. program and other New
Deal legislation. hailed the Supreme
Cout's decision on the A. A. A. today
as "a return of the Nation to sanity"
II congratulate the American peo-
pie on having a real Supreme Court.
he said.
In speeches in various parts of the
Nation he has attacked the A. A. A.,
as we'll as the Bankhead cotton con-
troll act.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

warned against q
"rabble rousing
rift" which he
said threatens to
plunge the coun-
try into a grave
crisis in the COM
ing campaign.
Class conflict,
he predicted, will
result from the
opposing align
ments of big busi-
ness and admin
istration leaders
unless an under
st a n ng is
reached
Evening star., 1936-01-06
POSTAL RECEIPTS HIGH

Bearing out forecasts that the De-
cember postal receipts here would set
an all-time mark, Postmaster General
Farley announced last night that the
total reached SS56,593.85. This was
1894 per cent above 1884.
Increased governmental activity was
responsible for the showing.