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Evening star., 1936-05-19
SABOTAGE E|NP.W.A.
IS H|NTED BY |CKES
AT COURT HEARING
Secretary Sees Probable
Reason for Delay in Power
Project AIlotments.
DIVISION TO EXPEDITE
LOANS is ORGANIZED
Testifies in Defense of Constitu.
tionality of Program Chal.
lenged by Utilities.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes hinted in District
Supreme Court today that clever
sabotage" in the Public Works Ad-
ministration may have been respon-
sible for delaying power project allot-
ments.
AS result Of this delay, Ickes told
the court. he set up a power division
to expedite consideration Of loans and
grants for municipal electric plants.
He testified in defense of the con-
stitutionality of the 5000, ,000, 900 P. w.
A. power program, which has been
challenged by four utility firms.
Does Not See Even Break.
whether or not there had been
some clever sabotaging in my own
organization, Ickes said, "I felt that
the power applications had not been
getting an even break. They had
been retarded in one way or an
other"
The power division was established
on July /. 1885, to handle all appli-
cations for municipal electric prof.
ects. 1t replaced the Electric Power
Board of Review, Ickes said, which he
had abolished because he believed it
was assuming unjustified powers.
He denied the contention of four
utility companies that P. w. A. was
seeking to seize illegal control of in
trastate power production.
Injunction Sought.
The private power companies are
asking an injunction to block P. w. A
allotments for 10 municipal power
projects. scattered through Alabama,
Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa. They
contend that P. W. A. is unconstitu-
tional, and that it has no authority
to finance local electrical plants.
Plaintiffs are the Alabama Power
Co., the Texas Utilities Co., the Okla
homa Utilities Co., and the Iowa Light
g. Power Co.
Ickes told the court he exercised
the sole power in regard to P. w. A.
policies.
He defined the purpose of P. w. A.
as follows:
Fundamentally to put as many
men to work as possible; secondarily.
to stimulate the demand for goods
of all sorts, and to aid in the eco
nomic recovery of the Nation"
Ickes denied contentious of the
power company that he had dele
gated his authority to subordinates,
and had used P. w. A. funds to
dominate local power rates.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
HERRIOT SEES DEBT
AID IN TRADE PACT
Settlement Might Get U. S. to
Line Up Against Reich,
He Says.
BY tht Associated Press.


PARIS, May 19.-Former Premier
Eduoard Herriot declared today that
"the way is open" to the settlement
of the war debt misunderstanding"
between the United States and France
through the new trade treaty. Writ
ing in Information, he applauded the
recent speech of Premier Designate
Leon Blum before the American
Club.
Blum still is endeavoring to get
Herriot into his cabinet as foreign
minister, although Herriot's journal,
rEre Nouvelle, said he was not likely
to accept.
Herriot indicated in his article that
the settlement of the war debt con-
troversy was desired to gain the aid
of the United States in the troubled
situation with Germany.
will Leon Blum make the misun-
derstanding disappear" asked Herriot.
ITO succeed, he counts on an eco
nomic transformation, the lowering
of customs barriers and the recovery
of trade. He will find the work pre-
pared and the way opened by the
commercial accord"
Declaring President Roosevelt had
shown himself so conciliatory' on
the debt question in 1882, Herriot said
Frances failure to listen to Mr.. Roose-
velt's "fraternal appeal" was "a ter
rible failure for the peace of the
world"
How thoughtless we have been in
this AFFAIR."" he asked.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

Defying the Roosevelt administra-
ton, both major political parties and
his questioners on the Bell committee,
DR. Francis E. Townsend this morning
informed the House probers that I'VE
need millions in this movement and
we propose to get them"
AS for the job of getting the funds.
he added, Il still think We have the
country by the tail with a downhill
pull"
The doctors defiance was mixed
with savage relentlesSneSs on the part
of committee members as they pulled
apart evidence introduced by Commit
tee Counsel James R. Sullivan, most of
it in the form of letters from the doc
tor to R. E. Clements, co-promoter,
and in testimony before a subcommit-
tee by one Pierre Tomlinson, lifelong
acquaintance of the doctor and for
merly associated with the movement
in promotional capacity.
Hats Full of Money"
Throughout the evidence it was
made apparent that the collection OF
hats full of money" from the old
age pension scheme with "old fossils
doing most of the contributing, was
a frequent subject of written or spo-
ken conversation by the doctor
AS the morning session closed. how
ever, he claimed that he had only
about $500 left from sl6.557 received
in salary and expenses from the o. A
r. P. since January l. 1884, plus soma
S32, 500 in dividends received from the
Townsend Weekly
The hearing drew the largest crowc
thus far with the big caucus room be.
ing nearly filled.
Before the actual questioning be.
gan. it was announced that DR.. Clinton
Wunder, member Of the Board oi
Directors of o. A. r. P. has beer
subpoenaed He is requested to ap.
pear next Tuesday.
Establishing DR.. Townsend's one.
time residence in South Dakota, Sulli.
van asked if he knew one Pierre
Tomlinson.
Since he was a baby in arms" the
doctor answered.
1T has been charged by Tomlinson,
in sworn testimony before subcom-
mittee, that you started this movement
for cold cash. Is that true?"
1T is absolutely false" Townsend
answered
Sullivan next quoted Tomlinson as
saying that Townsend had referred to
followers as "old fossils" and to sub
scriber as "an old sister who has done
her part"
Objects to Questioning.
Representative Tolan, Democrat, Of
California objected to the questioning
on the grounds he had not seen the
subcommittee testimony. Chairman
Bell ruled it could be accepted and a
roll call was taken at Tolan's request.
The chair was sustained on a count
Of 4 to 2. Tolan and Hoffman Of
Michigan voted against the chair, with
Lucas of Illinois. Gavagan of New
York and Collins of California sus-
tanning.
Sullivan then read a transcript Of
Tomlinsons testimony on the coast,
Included in it was reported discus
sion of building national magazine
as large as the Saturday Evening Post.
There would be "hatful of money
in this, Tomlinson said Townsend told
him. Tomlinson joined the Towsend
organization in promotional capacity.
One of the obJectives was to set DR..
Townsend up on a pedestal" Tom
(See TOWNSEND, Page A-21
Evening star., 1936-05-19

Covenant in memory of her father and
mother.
Mrs. Caroline Mccormick Slade OF
New York, a friend, and the Ameri-
can Security & Trust Co. were named
in the will as executors. They were
represented before the court by At
torney Stanley T. Holland. The Will
was drawn November IA, 1885.
BY far the greatest part OF Miss
strong's property consisted Of stocks
and bonds. Other interests included
her home, assessed at $35,0S1. which
she ordered sold, and $4,000 to which
she was entitled from a trust fund
created by her father.
A portrait of Justice Strong by
Hinckley, the jurist's death mask and
his commission -as member OF the
Supreme Court bench were bequeathed
to that tribunal.
None of the specific bequests ex-
ceeded $4,000. They included $4,000
to the Church Of the Covenant. SIC. 900
TO the Society Of the Church OF the
1Sce SIRoNd Page Ays.)
Evening star., 1936-05-19
WORKERS
ASSURED BY R. A.
Jobs to Continue Despite
Court Ruling, Officials
Declare.

Twenty thousand workers were as
sured by Resettlement Administration
officials today that their jobs will con-
tinue indefinitely, despite the Court
of Appeals decision.
The outlook was different, however,
for $50 employees of the National BIZ
luminous Coal Commission, which ad-
ministers the Guffey act. Ninety per
cent of these are "carry-overs" from
the N. r. A. Whereas they escaped
the first court blow at their jobs, their
status was said officially to be now in
doubt.
While officials indicated R. A. &C
tivities would proceed as usual, no
work will be done on the Bound Brook,
N. j., low-rental housing project,
which the court specifically declared
unauthorized.
The group of R. A. employees to be
continued include 1900 at "Tugwell-
town. the housing project at Berwyn
Heights.
The others-more than 15,000-are
administrative employees in Washing
ton and the field.
In addition to its low-cost housing
projects, Resettlemept has under its
Jurisdiction 80 subsistence homestead
projects taken over from the Interior
(see REsETTLEMENT, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1936-05-19

them he had stabbed girl he said he
had never seen before. The officers ar
rested the boy after checking his story.
Questioned by Lieut.. Benjamin
Keuhling at police headquarters,
Trazzare, q red-headed youth, was
quoted as saying, Something came
over me that caused me to want to
stab the girl" He could give no other
reason except to point out that the
picture showed men fighing alligators
on their way across a river. Detective
Sergt. Henry w. Jett said the youth
told him he had sat clutching the
opened pocket knife as he watched
the show.
The Trazzare boy left his home at
220 Fifth street southeast Sunday
after an argument with his father,
police said he told them. He said he
had been sleeping in Meridian Hill
Park
A charge of assault with a danger
Gus weapon was placed against him
(see sTAAPINo. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1936-05-19
MEXICO TO CONSTRUCT
SCHOOLS ALONG BORDER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May 19.-Mexico
intends to build enough schools along
the border, the education department
announced today, so that Mexican
children need not 60 to the United
States to study.
On orders from President Lazaro
Cardenas, engineers and architects
have left the capital for Laredo and
Matamoros to start the building pro-
gram.
The department said lack of facil-
tiles at some border points made it
necessary for parents to send their
children to American schools, and the
governments view was that the youth
of the land should pursue studies at
home.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
YOUTH, Il, DIVES
FROM HOTEL HERE
Edward Gordon Critically
Hurt in Five-FIoor Plunge.
Pens Own Epitaph.

Penning his own epitaph after clas-
styling himself as a failure in life" !"
Edward A Gordon, IT. of Brookline,
Mass, today leaped from a f1fth-floor
window Of the Houston Hotel and was
critically injured.
The youth was rushed to Emergency
Hospital in taxicab after he landed
on the sidewalk on his head and shoul-
der. His skull is believed to have been
fractured.
In a note addressed to his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob B. Gordon of
.Brookline, the youth explained he was
respondent over failure to find job.
Requesting that his funeral be small.
but that all of his friends be allowed
to come, he said he would Ike this
simple inscription on his tombstone;
edward A. Gordon.
February S. 1e1s-May 18, 1885
''He faced death with
"a smile knowing that
God was waiting for him
with outstretched arms"
Hoped for Quick Death.
The youth said he hoped death
would be short and painless" and
that should he succeed only in Grip
pling himself, he did not wish any
of his family to visit him during his
recuperation, explaining "it would be
too hard for all of U.s."
The Gordon boy also left two other
notes, one headed Life and Happi-
ness" and the other "Wanderings OF
Ones Mind"
James Fyfe, 4111s G street. who
was selling newspapers on the corner
of Ninth and E streets, said he saw
the youth lift the screen and climb
out the window.
Piunges Head First.
Balancing himself on his knees fac
ing the street, Fyfe said Gordon hes
itated a moment and then plunged
head first to the sidewalk. The youth
made no effort to break his fall, but
kept his arms at his side, Fyfe said.
The youth did not wear shoes or
coat when he leaped. A magazine lay
on a mussed bed In his room, indicat-
ing the youth had lain reading before
he decided to end his life.
Employment Blank in Room.
With the note was filled-out blank
from an employment agency, evidence
that the youth had been seeking jor
here. 1t was stated on the employment
form that Gordons father Is jeweler
1t was not known how long the youth
had been in Washington. He registered
at the hotel yesterday, however.
Dan Carroll. %, 4224 Sixteenth
street, was walking along E street neal
the hotel when Gordon plunged to the
sidewalk.
Carroll, employed in the Advertising
Department of The Star, said he was
about 80 feet away when Gordon struck
the pavement in front of him. Carroll
had been walking with his head bowed
to shelter his face from the rain and
did not see the youths plunge.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
Buses Here to Stay Despite
Complaints, Reports Indicate
Utilities Commission Cites Reduction
in Trackage-Truth of State.
nlent Demonstrated.

paigning for better transportation
service, began to grow by leaps and
bounds. Meetings of the association
were packed to the doors by irate
citizens, who condemned the manage
ment of the Capital Transit Co. in
no uncertain terms.
Even when the proposal to substi-
tute buses for the street cars was
announced, the association, the larg-
est in the city, received it with open
skepticism. Oficials of the company,
they said. previously had expressed
the belief bus service would not be
satisfactory, and they were afraid
something was being put over" on
them.
AS late as last December when the
service was some three months old
(See TRANSPORTATION. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1936-05-19
JEW is SHOT TO DEATH
AS DISORDER CONTINUES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JERUSALEM, May ia Jew was
found shot to death today in the old
city of Jerusalem-the nth person to
die since the renewal last Saturday
of Arab anti-Jewish disorders.
The government frightened its re-
strictions in an effort to put an end
to the Holy City violence, ordering the
curfew to start at pm, instead of 8
pm, clearing the streets each night.
Troops and police patrolled the road
from Jerusalem to the port of Haifa,
permitting traffic over that route only
If accompanied by troops both at the
front and ct the rear. 4
Evening star., 1936-05-19
FAIR AND COOLER DUE
AS CLOUDS DISAPPEAR

Clouds, which threatened rain this
morning, were scheduled to disappear
before nightfall, as the forecaster pre-
dicted fair weather with low tempera-
lures.
Moderate northwest winds will keep
the skies clear and the mercury low
through tomorrow, the Weather Bu-
reau said.
From high of SO degrees at noon
yesterday, the temperature dropped
to SO at pm, during the thunder
showers. The mercury is expected to
hover around IS and 10 degrees
through the night.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
BLUM'S PAPER HITS
ACTION OF VATICAN
Charges Interference in Finan.
cial Scandal-Sees Danger
of Split.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 19.-Le Populaire,
Leftist organ of Leon Blum, who will
be Frances next premier, today de-
nounced Vatican interference in
French affairs" in the Rouen Diocese
financial scandal.
It asked: will the Vatican's intru-
sion lead to a rupture of diplomatic
relations?"
The case, involving charges Of finan-
cial irregularities against Msgr. Bertin,
coadjutor and vicar general Of the
diocese. led to an order for the dis
missal of Archbishop Andre Dubois
de la Villerabel because he carried the
charges into French, not canonical
court.
Archbishop de la Villerabel defled
the Vatican order and appealed per.
sonally to Pope Plus.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
BRITISH CITE GAINS
IN SMALLER NAvlES
Lesser Powers Have Added Sub
marines Since 1880, London Says
in Invoking Escape Clause.

by tIle ASSoCldteu rEcSS
LONDON, May 19-The lesser naval
powers, according to the British gov
ernment, have started construction on
more than 200 submarines since 1880.
This statement, it was disclosed to-
day, was made in note addressed by
Great Britain to Washington and
Toxic May 6. In the note the British
invoked the escape clause-permitting
naval increases under certain condi-
tions-of the 1880 London naval treaty.
The lesser naval powers represent
navy-owning nations exclusive Of Great
Britain, the United States and Japan.
Submarine building, coupled with
the failure of the 1896 Naval Confer
ence to agree upon quantitative limita-
tions, were reasons advanced by Great
Britain in asking the right to retain
destroyers which otherwise would be
scrapped before the end of the year.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
Georgia Cleric Found Slain.

BRUNSWICK. Ga. May is &.-
Rev. Thomas w. Simpson, 40, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church OF
Brunswick, was found shot to death
in the attic of his home here yester-
day. Q shotgun and o knife at hi
side. It looks like suicide" said
Police Chief J. Il. Register.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
BY JOHN HI. CLINE.

BIZ JOHN n. CLINE.
Bus transportation, however un-
satisfactory it may be in spots, has
come to Washington to stay.
The truth of this statement is amply
demonstrated by the experience of
the Capital Transit Co. on Connect
cut avenue, where bus service re-
placed the street cars last September.
Mass transportation became live
issue in Chevy Chase while the Con-
necticut avenue street car line was
nearing the end of its unhappy ca
reer.
Membership in the Chevy Chase
Citizens Association, which was cam
Evening star., 1936-05-19
TOWNSEND TO GET
NEEDED MILLIONS
HE TELLS PR0bERS
"We Still Have Country by
Tail With DoWnhiII Pull"
He Says.
LETTERS FROM DOCTOR
TO PROMOTER READ
Collection of "Hatsful of Money
From Old Fossils" Ere.
quent Subject.


The benefcent plan of DR.. Fran
els E. Topnsend to pay to eUery
man and tDoman ouer SIS q monthly
pension OF 5000 has for tUo years
been hdir-shirt to members OF
Congress, Dho haue been uncertain
Which ,1dy to jump on the problem.
Turning the tables. Representative
Bell OF Missouri last Winter gained
House of Representatives sanction
for an Investigation of the ToUn-
send organization. At once the out
fit underwent a reorganization.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
SMUGGLING RAMPANT
Chinese Sources Say japanese
Goods Sold Duty Free.

TIENTSIN. China, May 10 R).-
Chinese sources said today Japanese
contraband goods continued to flood
North China In ever-increasing volume
despite Chinese anti-smuggling meas
ures.
The Marking Nationalist govern
ment, these sources said, had lost dur
ing the last nine months nearly
$15,000,000 through smuggling of
sugar, rayon, gasoline, kerosene, rub
Der tires and cosmetics.
United States diplomats watched
the situation closely. keeping the
Washington State Department in
formed.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
Badoglio Honors U. S. Writer.

Adds ABABA, May 10 (P.-Vice-
roy Pietro Badoglio today decorated
Herbert L. Matthews, correspondent
of the New York Times, with the war
cross for military merit.
Evening star., 1936-05-19


New legislation was being drafted
today to replace the Guffey coal act,
thrown into the discard by the Su-
preme Court yesterday with A. A. A.
and N. R. A.
Highly authoritative sources re-
vealed that representatives OF the
National Bituminous Coal Commis-
sion, the Justice Department, opera
tors who favored the Guffey act and
miners started last night on the task
of shaping new legislation for i'm
mediate introduction in Congress.
It was not known whether White
House approval would be given their
efforts.
Although the exact scope of the
new measure has not been determined,
it was understood price regulation and
marketing provisions would be its
basis.
This approach was taken because
the courts opinion did not pass on
constitutionadty of the price-hxing
provisions of the old act.
C. E. Smith. member Of the Coal
Commission, said last night he be-
lived the Government might have to
refund money collected under the ex
else tax provision of the Guffey act.
At the same time, word came from
another informed quarter that New
Deal attorneys had reached an opinion
that the Coal Commission could con-
tinue in existence, despite the courts
decision.
The Treasury has collected about
100000 under the Guffey act.
Yesterdays vital decision, which af-
fects some 100000 soft coal miners,
revived talk of constitutional amend
ment to enlarge the powers of the
Federal Government, and drew from
Charles P. O'Neill, Central Pennsyl-
vania operator, the prediction that
an intensified coal price war would
result.
Lewis Strikes Back.
While President Roosevelt, who had
urged Congress to pass the act, regard
less of doubts as to its constitutional
ity, remained silent, John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Workers,
hit back at the court. In sharply
worded statement, he said:
cit is sad commentary upon our
form of government when every de-
cision of the Supreme Court seems
designed to fatten capital and starve
and destroy labor"
With reference to the decision, At
torney General Cummings said:
"A careful study of the majority
opinion and of the other two opinions
will have to be made before it can be
ascertained what course may still be
open to the Government in dealing
with the problems of the bituminous
coal-mining industry.
TT should not be overlooked that
the opinion of the three dissenting
justices, and the separate opinion Of
the Chief Justice, constitute the first
clear expression by members of the
Supreme Court upholding the con-
stitutionality of price-fxing for COM
modities moving in interstate COM
merce. Important, also, is the state
ment in the opinion of Mr.. Justice
Cardozo, that the prevailing opinion
Evening star., 1936-05-19
PRICE REGULATION
RUMORED BASIS
Of NEW COAL BILL
Marketing Provisions Seen
Included in Measure to
SuppIant Guffey's.
WHITE HOUSE SILENT
ON COURT DECISION
Price War Is Seen-Lewis Hits
"Fattening Capital, Starv.
ing Labor"

Abstract OF Supreme Court De-
cision on the Gufey Act Ap-
pears on Pages A-14-15.
Evening star., 1936-05-19

BACKGROUND
For so years the bitunlinous coal
miners hare been in the throeS OF
labor troubles, especially the miners
in the Pennsylvania and West Vr-
pinia area, the locale OF operation
OF the infamous Molly MaguireS.
To end the trouble, Senator Gufey
of Pennsylvania prote legislation
calling for Federal control OF the
bituminouS industry through q
penalty tar. This 1OaS passed last
Summer after President Roosevelt
suggested immediate enactment and
let the problem OF conStttut'ondltty
be settled later. 1t ,pds settled yes
terday.
Evening star., 1936-05-19

This is the third OF series of
articles on the transportation prob
lem in Washington.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
PICKTHAlL DEAD

Successful Novelist for 80 Years
Succumbs in Cornwall.
ST. IVES. Cornwall, England. May
19 (P.-Marmaduke william Pick
thall, 81, successful novelist for more
than 80 years, died today.
Among PickthaIl's better known
novels are "Pot-Au-Feu," With the
Turk in War Time" THE House of
War;" "As Others See Us" and "The
Meaning Of the Glorious Koran"
Evening star., 1936-05-19

(See GUFFEY, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-05-19
WEATHER.

CO. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow, fair
and continued cool; moderate northwest
winds. Temperatures - Highest, 49, at
noon yesterday; lowest, "a, at am.
today. Full report on page AT.