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No. 79. Bluefield, W. Friday Morning, April 26, 1935. Pago Price Five SHOTS FATAL TO THEH, FATHER Craving For Revenge Drives Son Of Jurist To Slay Distinguished Parents ALLEGED CONFESSION FOLLOWS LONG GRILLING Howard Pierson Told Police His Parents Had Been Shot By Railwayman On Lonely Country Road; Lured To Scene To View Scenic Drive Austin, April 25.

desire to obtain $17,000 insurance money and an unexplained craving for revenge drove Howard Pierson to slay his distinguished parents, Associate Justice William A. Pierson of the Texas supreme court and Mrs. Pierson, officers said tonight. Sheriff Lee Allen said the 20-year- old former collego student did not amplify the mere statement of the insurance and revenge motives. The alleged confession was drawn from the youth during an all-night grilling after he reported to police hie parents had been shot by highwaymen who also grounded hlni.

Young Pierson revealed his slaying plans to a friend, Sheriff Allen said he had learned. The youth did not name his friend but merely said bo had told him he was going to his of the state's most distinguished his insurance. Dr. Joe Wooten, Austin physician paid he believed the boy was suffering from dementia praecox and an hallucination his parents had discriminated against him. Lured to Scene Pierson told newspapermen merely that he had "a reason" for shooting his graying mother and father on a country road about 15 miles from Austin late yesterday.

He said he lured them there on the pretext of viewing a scenic drive. His father, C4, had been an associate justice 14 years. District Attorney James P. Hart eald he had not made up his mind as to the motive. The possibility appeared that young Pierson might be sent to state for mental observation; said Pierson was laboring under the impression his parents favored and.sister and that he hyj an idea be might become a great "He wanted to obtain his father's inajirance money so he could resume hie studies," Dr.

Wooten stated. "But that wasn't the main trouble. The primary cause was this imaginary discrimination." Heading the official lnvestigtion, District Attorney Hart said he wanted study the matter thoroughly before agreeing to a hospital observation. Previously he had stated he would prosecute- the case "as hard as we can." He would not say whether he would seek the death penalty. RAGIN FIRE THREATENS HISTORIC OREGON CAPITOL Salem, April 25 A' raging Are, apparently starting in the basement threatened destruction of the historic state capltol here tonight.

The dome collapsed an hour and a half after the flames we're discovered. Flames licked through the core of the 00-year-old mostly wooden building and reached out toward the wings containing senate and house chambers. The building long has been considered a Are hazard All Salem's ftreflghting equipment, aided by scores of volunteers, was called out to battle the flames. Firemen and volunteers struggled through smoke and flame to remove equipment and supplies from offices not yet endangered, CLEMENGYJJ California Assembly. Approves Move To Ask Governor To Commute Sentences Of Bombers To Time Served Cash Bonus Issue Rides Into Senate For Supreme Test Washington, April 25.

cash bonus issue rode into the senate today for Us supreme test, bolstered by a favorable report from the senate finance committee on the compromise HarrlBon plan. Demands for full cash payment of the adjusted service certificates were sharply turned down by the committee in approving the Harrison bill. They will be battled for on the senate floor. The conservative finance committee, however, made an important concession to the veterans before reporting the measure. It attached an amendment to give the soldiers cash instead of bonds on the surrender value of their certificates.

Written in also was an amendment to permit the president, in his discretion, to pay the certificates out of the $4,880,000,000 work relief fund recently voted by congress. Offered by Senator Gore (Democrat of Oklahoma), the proposal was adopted despite protests by administration leaders. Chairman Harrison said he probably would move to take the bill up in the senate tomorrow, in place of the pending Costlgan- Wagner antl-lynching bill. PLEAD FOR LIFE OF DOOMEDSKflTCHER Dark-Eyed Mary Mc El rath Prepares To Keep Promise To Walter McGee LIQUOR COMMISSION WILL TAKE UP TASK OF SELECTING PERSONNEL CONVICTED KIDNAPER SENTENCED TO HANG FEDERATION SEES BliSWBNMOP A.F.L. Says Gain Not Enough To Slash Unemployment; Estimates 22,000,000 On Relief Rolls Washington, April 25.

A business but not healthy enough to slash unemployment forecast for the fall today by the American Federation of Labor. Estimating the number of jobless at 11,500,000 and relief rolls at 22,000,000, the federation said: "Industrial production this spring Is lagging. Producers are holding back because of the uncertainty over legislation in congress, over enforcement of NRA through the courts, over the situation in Europe. "Consumers are spending Income accumulated, however, and preliminary reports show Easter trade ten percent above last year. This eventually will lift production; prospects are good for a healthy pickup in business next fair tout no indications of at rlee large enough, to reduce unemployment." This federation assailed "chambers of commerce, business and financial interests" for attempts to keepdoyn' relief costs.

These grduos, tended, had "no real understanding of the human problem back of relief" when they protested against large government outlays. Pressure from business interests, the monthly business survey said, has driven down relief wages until they permit only the barest subsistence. The federation said relief rolls were increasing rapidly despite some unemployment pains. It contended increases in Industrial activity during the last two years had "not been enough to scratch the surface of our unemployment problem and millions of those on relief must expect to remain on relief rolls for several years." "Even when prosperity returns." it added, "we shall have a large number on relief unless adjustments are made to offset the Increase of workers' productivity and replacement of workers bv machines during the depression." Terming present relief budgets wholly inadequate, the federation said "at least 1,500,000 American children are being under-nourished, permanently handicapped for life." It continued: "The principle 'no one shall starve' is not an adequate basis for national relief policy." SLAIN MYSTERIOUSLY Daughter Of Kansas City Official Will Ask Governor To Commute Sentence To Life Imprisonment; First Kidnaper To Face Death Kansas City, April 25 eyed Mary McElroy, keeping her promlso to the condemned man who kidnaped her for $30,000, will plead tomorrow for his life. With her father, City Manager H.

F. McElory of Kansas City, the slender 2G-year-old brunette will ask Governor Guy B. Park of Missouri to commute Walter McGee's death sentence to life imprisonment. McGee, sentenced to hang May 10, told the Associated Press two weeks ago Miss McElroy had promised to "do what she could" for him on ouo of several visits to his cell. Miss McElroy divulged her plans today a short while after McGee, first kidnaper to bo sentenced to death In the United States, had been denied a rehearing by division No.

2 ot the Missouri supreme court. McGee Notified The word was carried to McGee carelessly-dressed and unshaven in the Jackson county (Kansas City) the deputy on bis. death watch. "She ought to be able to do some good," the heavy-browed kidnaper cried. "Her wishes to be law." Another woman alsp made plans tonight for a further fight to save McGee from the gallows as his attorney.

Miss Llllie Knight, said she would carry an appeal to the United StateB supreme court. Tormented by thoughts of McGee's fate, Miss McElroy often has expressed her sympathy for the man who led the gang which kidnaped her two years ago. Not Bad At Heart Shortly after her release and before the capture of her abductors. Miss McElroy said she believed they "were not bad at heart," and she would "hate to, gee them sent to the would fight to keep them from such a she. added.

Later she adopted a more antagonistic- and. testified freely her kidnapers at their trials. Then, last get away from it McElroy fled her luxurious home. She was found next day aboard a Chicago-bound bus at Normal, 111. "I must have gone haywire." she said.

Miss McElroy, held 29 hours In a dungeon-like basement near Kansas City, was unharmed when she was released May 28, 1933, after her father had paid $30,000 ransom. Most of the monye was recovered. One of the kidnapers, Clarence Stevens, never.has been caught. Walter McGee's brother, George, received life. The other member of the gang, Clarence Click, received 8 years.

STOLEN MAIL POUCH RECOVERED IN LAKE Charleston, W. April 25 The liquor control commission completed today making a list of goods to be placed on the state liquor stores' shelves and said It was about ready to place orders for the The next Job to be taken up, said William Hughes, publicity representative for the commission, is the personnel of the stores. John Washington, executive secretary, said "the board has worked all day on the problem ami has finished making up the list of items to he placed in Block. The commission hopes tonight to make its decision about the quantity, of each item to be ordered, and will be ready then to place the orders." Hughes said the commission is taking up one subject at a time, and that after the liquor orders ore placed, the matter of personnel of the retail stores will be considered until all problems in connection with its are settled. The new liquor control law, giving the stato a monopoly on liquor sales through state stores and agencies, went Into effect March and the commission has been working since preparing to open the stores.

Chairman D. H. Stephenson said the commission, since Its organization in March had worked "nlg 'it and day" to perfect plans for the opening of between forty-five und fifty state liquor stores and sixty- five or more state liquor Agencies. Stephenson referred to the com- niisslon's action in arranging for store leases, appointing store personnel and other personnel for the commission, and making arrangements for liquor purchases. ICKESTACESlEi TH USE Question Of Allowing $10,000 Aide Reopens Feud Between Secretary Of Interior And Congress ACCUSED SLAYER OF CONSTABLE IS HELD MUM Issac T.

Robinett, Wanted In Death Of Joe Davidson, Placed In Custody ADMITS IDENTITY AND WILL WAIVE EXTRADITION Mercer Suspect Picked Up At Camp On Arkansas River; Fingerprints Broadcast By Department Of Justice Lead To Identification Secretary Ickes Will Head Work Allotment Board PRODUCTION IN P0CA AREA BELOW AVERAGE Sacramento, April 25. The California assembly approved 61 to 28, a resolution asking Governor Frank F. Merriam today to commute the sentences of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, convicted San Francisco Preparedness day parade bombers, to time served. The resolution was sponsored by Assemblyman James Brennan of Sin Francisco, who as a deputy district attorney prosecuted Billings 18 years ago.

It was the first time Breunan had openly advocated clemency for the two men whose case has been pointed to by their sympathisers the world over as an example of class oppression. The long and far-flung campaign In behalf of Mooney has had' complete, vindication, not clemency, Its objetclve. Mooney has spurned chances to ask for a parole, and has vowed he would rather go on with his life Bentence than to accept conditional freedom, Repeatedly the Mooney forces have charged he was convicted on perjured testimony. Time and again he has sought freedom through the courts but each, time has been defeated. Recently, however, the United states supreme eourt hinted he still had an opportunity for remedy in the state lourts.

Hollywood, April 25 (TP) Paul Wharton, 25, said to be a designer of clothing for a number of prominent screen actresses, was slain tonight by a mysterious person in his apartment, police announced, Wharton's invalid mother, who wa in bed in an adoining room, told police Bhe heard angry voices, her son's shouts and then several pistol shots. She tried to get out of bed, but could not. She said she heard running footsteps and then all was quiet; Neighbors summoned officers, BAINBRIDGE COLBY SEES BREAKUP OF DEMOCRATS New 26. Colby tonight envisioned the break-up of the Democratic party If the administration continued in its "determination to violate the privacy of the citizen. The former secretary of state, who served in President Wilson's cabinet, spoke before the bureau of advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers association at its aunual dinner, and assailed governmental courses charted by "perplexed, shallow and falloelous counsels." "For more than a century and a half," he said, "the American people have taken their liberties for granted.

Freedom has been the very air they, breathed, Our press has been free. Speech and thought have been free. The principles of liberty have been taught in our schools. Our people have enjoyed the franchise without distinction or race, creed or sex. "But now what do we behold?" "AVithin a period of two years the political party founded- by Thomas Jefferson, nod elected on a platform which proclaimed the liberties of which I speak, has converted the American republic into a socialistic state and enveloped them in a mesh of tyrannous and bureaucratic rule, which has no counterpart save among the people of Europe now sunk under the autocratic sway of unresisted dictatorship." Akron, April 25.

(JP) mail pouch stolen in the $72,000 Warren, mall truck robbery yesterday was recovered tonght one of the portage lakes In the outskirts of Akron. Postmaster L. D. Carter of Akron, who was called to the lake by three men who saw the pouch floating in the water, said several letters found floating near the pouch contained federal negotiable securities, in $100 denominations. The letters were addressed to the Inland National bank from the federal reserve bank in Cleveland.

OBSElmSEE SILVERPHjGE HIKE Advances To Keep Step Ahead Of World Treasury On Hour-To-Hour Basis In Directing Policy Washington, April 25. silver prices barely squeezed beneath the treasury's day-old offer for newly-mined metal today and Informed officials promptly foresaw new boosts toward the etatutory goal of $1.29 an ounce. A definite that government price advances would keep a step ahead of world levels was read by even his own subordinates into Secretary Morgonthau's statement to newsmen that the treasury would continue to buy until silver's market price was $1.29 government stocks equalled one-third tho gold supply. Actually, Morgenthau only quoted terms of the mandatory silver purchase act. But his remark tnado observers so positive of a new treasury quotation when the New York price for foreign silver reached 77 cents late today that the treasury head summoned a special press ence to say that for tonight, at least, the mint price would continue unchanged at 77.67 cents an ounce.

Along with this statement went a definite understanding tho treasury was on an hour-to-hour basis iu directing its silver policy. A price boost tomorrow was not impossible. Should past procedure guide In the next treasury price raise, the seigniorage charge would be cut from the present 40 percent to 36 perceat. This would mean an advance from the current newly-mined price of 77.67 to a new high of 84.04 cents an Washington, April 25 (IP) new congressional movement against Secretary Ickes bubbled with such intensity today that house administration of decided against openly trying to use their influence in his behalf. The question that reopened the feud between the secretary of the Interior and the congress was this: Should he be allowed a year under-secretary? But beneath the dispute was the little disguised feeling of many house members that Ickes has not treated congressmen with proper courtesy, thus hurting their self- respect; that' he has ignored their recommendations for PWA projects and jobs, thus hurting them politically.

Today, Representative Taylor of Colorado, acting Democratic floor leader, had this to say on the subject: "The Lord knows Ickes has enough work to justify an undersecretary. Why he's got a bigger job than any secretary of intorior ever had. Some folks in the house might want to hit at him, but I think we'll give him the under- On the other Bide of the fence, was Representative Woodrum (Democrat, Virginia), who expressed his view in this language: "First, I'm against increasing the sibe of bureaucratic agencies. That la my basic objection. And I think that Ickes' record is all right, but I think ho has an utterly stupid attitude toward members of congress.

I'm going to fight as hard as I can against that new job." The showdown will come next week, when the house is asked to act on the bill appropriating money to run the interior department next year. Meanwhile, the senate, which added the money for an under-seeretary of as there are undersecretaries of state, treasury and informed of introduction of a bill to change the name of the interior department to the "department of conservation and public works." PROSPE CTING RANKED Washington, April 25 Private piospectlng for oil on the property of the naval ordnnnce plaut at South Charleston, W. Is disapproved by the navy department. It denied a request of Representative Smith, Democrat, West Virginia, that private interests be permitted to seek oil and natural gas on the grounds. Any development of oil or gas resources on the Secretary Swanson said, might interfere with Its possible future use by the navy as a munitions center or its sale to private Interests.

Isaac T. Robinett, 50, wanted In Mercer county for (he murder of Constable Joe Davidson, of Prlnco- ton, shot to death at Gardner October 9, 1334, is under arrest at Tulsn, Oklahoma. When taken in custody yesterday, along with three other men who were camping on the banks of tho Arkansas river, Robinett gave the name of J. It. Ilullette and denied being Robinctte, His description and fingerprints checked with those of Hohlnutte sent out lu a department of Justice bulletin.

State police headquarters in Charleston were first to bo notified of the arrest. Roblnetto was arrested along with Guy Thompson and Mitchell Brown, who are being hold for trial in the federal court charged with the theft of an automobile. Associated Press dispatches from Tul6a last night said that Roblnette had admitted his identity and was quoted as saying ho was wanted iu AVest Virginia for murder. Press dispatches said he had waived extradition. Admits Fleeing Scene Roblnette was quoted as saying that he wa6 present la6t October when Joe Davidson, constable, was shot to death.

Roblnette said the shooting occurred when the officer was attempting to serve a warrant on Henry Hollingsworth. He admitted fleeing to Virginia with Hollingsworth, but would not say who fired the fatal shot. Roblnette, who told Tulsa officers he was a dog track promoter, had been in Tulsa with Thompson and Brown to pick up seme dogs to tako to Boston. Constable Davidson was shot fatally while he stood guard over Hollingsworth and Roblnette, while oth er officers made a search of a home at Gardner for some goods which Hollingsworth and Roblnette are alleged to have stolen in Fayette county. It was on a Fayette county warrant that the two men were arrested.

Ifiiudctiffed Together The shooting occurred about o'clock in the evening. Soon after the party officers hud arrived at Gardner, Hollingsworth and Uobi- nette drove up In a car. They were placed under arrest. They had been searched and a gun was removed from one of tho men. They wove handcuffed together and left in chargo of Davidson while the other officers made a search of a home where Hollingsworth was staying.

The prisoners, claiming to be cold, asked permission to sit in the automobile. The request was granted. A few minutes later they offered an excuse to get out of the car. As they alighted on the ground, several shots' rang out, and Constable Davidson fell mortally wounded. He lived only a few minutes.

Jumping a stone wall the two prisoners fled into a nearby woods and escaped. Several days later officers seeking Die whereabouts of the fugitives found where they had broken the handcuffs. Rewards were posted for the arrest, but it was not until sometime later that Hollingsworth was arrested in Virginia and returned to Mercer county for trial. He was sentenced to life Imprisonment. Hollingsworth claimed he had heard nothing of Roblnette since they parted In Florida sometime prior to his arrest in Virginia, At tho trial Hollingsworth contended that It was Roblnette who had fired tliu shots that killed Davidson, and said he had obtained the pietol from the automobile.

But little was known of Roblnette at the time of the murder. Mercer county authorities have at work on ho case unceasingly and enlisted the cooperation of the state police and department of Justice, It was thought the bulletins sent out of the department of justice that Tulsa police were able to establish the identity of Roblnette, County authorities were awaiting definite information from Tulsa whether Robnette would waive extradition. Production in the Pocahontas district during the week ending April 20 was still below the average for the year, the output totaling only 365,928 tons. No market continues to be the principal factor in retarding production, but some of tho mines are still handicapped as a result of water following the long wet spell during the latter parrot March and tho first of April. The production figures last week represented only an Increase of 7,378 tons over tho preceding week.

Production for the calendar year to date was announced at 6,693,747 net tons, Group Of 22 To Advise Roosevelt How To Spend Immense Relief Fund CALLS SPECIAL PARLEY AT WHITE HOUSE TODAY Position Of Harry L. Hopkins In New Set-Up Somewhat Of A Mystery; Selection Of Ickes Stirs Talk Of New Congressional Attacks SENATE SILENT AS Apparently Puts Church-Politics Issue Squarely Into 1936 Campaign ADDS NEW POWDER TO THIRD PARTY MOVES Criticises Radio Cleric's Political Activities As 'Sinister'; Challenges Promise Of Harp And Halo To People By Political Action flGfllNSnTRIKE Marshall Students, With Exception Of 30, Agree To Cancel Plans; Will Present Petition To Governor Kump Huntington, W. April 25. (JP) group of approximately thirty students at Marshall college refused tonight to Join in cancellation of plans for a "strike" in protest agalust any change in the presidency of the Institution. Joseph Lawson, of Point Pleasant, a junior, acted as spokesman for the group at a meeting called to "endorse" President M.

P. Shaiwkoy, whose Job is to be discussed by the state hoard of education in Charleston tomorrow. He said ho and his followers would refuse to attend classes tomorrow despite the decision of the remainder of the student body of 1,711 to cancel the plans. The genoral student body also voted to cancel plans for sending a delegation of students to Charleston to ask Governor H. G.

Kump "to use your influence in our behalf to prevent the removal of'Dr. M- P. Shawkey." Instead, the students voted to turn the petition over to a single student for presentation to the governor sometime tomorrow. The strike plans were cancelled bv request 6f Shawkey, who posted a notice today thanking the students for but saying he believed their appeal to state authorities "will be given proper consideration without efforts to force attention." TALMADGTHURLS NEW BLAST AT ROOSEVELT Atlanta, April 25.. Governor Talmadgo loosed another blast at President Roosevelt tonight, saying the Washington administration had adopted "typical Tammany methods" in handling federal funds.

The governor waved auldo reference to an editorial appearing In the Atlanta constitution, his political supporter, which sided with the Democratic administration in opposition to attacks from Talmadge. Instead he assailed the administration for failure to pay the soldiers' bonus and fired another barrage at the relief office for taking distribution of $1,300,000 in school aid out of the hands of the state school department and turning it over to the Georgia relief administration. SOUTliEOlTS BILL Debate On Measure Reaches Electric Climax; Harrison Rushes Compromise Bonus Bill Into Breach Crew Of Fishing Boat Tells Tale Of Strange Sea Denizen Fishermen Encounter Queer-Looking Object Of Marine Life Off Vancouver Island; Sa'lors Who Sighted Freak Say They Were 'Cold Sober' Seattle, April 25. (JP) tale of a strange sea denizen, this time a creature which oue observer said looked like a monkey was brought to the Seattle waterfront today by the startled crew of a fishing boat. Made credulous by the many stories of a sea eerpont supposedly inhabiting Puget Sound, the fishermen told how they encountered the queer looking object of marine life off Vancouver Island.

Capt. Fred Hovick, master of the fishing schooner Belinda and his crew of six men, vowed they sighted the freak at 0 a. m. Aoril 16 swimming about 50 feet off the starboard bow. "We were all cold sober, without a drop of liquor on the boat," eald Hovick who has fished in the Pacific for 30 "It WIM of ashen gray with a round head like a muu and very small eyes," related the skipper.

"Wo at each other with inquiring glances as if to say; 'Do you see what I do "The crew prepared a lasso made out of fishing linos with the thought of capturing the queer-looking fellow, but he disappeared beneath the waves before we could launch a boat. "However, he reappeared three different times astern, whipping the neti with his tall. I Judge he -as from 12 to 15 feet in length. "Some of us thought he was a mermaid and one fisherman said he looked like a monkey when he blinked his eyes. Ho had no shoulders or arms but a large mouth.

"I have been in all parte of Alaska and as far south es Panama and never saw anything like It before." Washington, April 25 A day or sdugglsh senato debate on the filibuster beset antl lynching bill rose spectacularly to an electric climax late today wltha shouted assertion by Senator Smith (Democrat, South Carolina) that: "This bill Js aimed at the southern tone switched to the barbarism and lack of civilization. The man who introduced it had a purpose. I know what it is aud so do you," Senator Wagner of New York, one author of the bill, sat placidly nearby. He did not even loko up, His co-author, of Colorado, was not present at the moment. Smith's outburst interrupted a speech by Bafiey of North Curoltna in which tho theretofore thinly concealed threat of a filibuster was brought squurely In the open.

"This bill is not going ro Bailey shouted'at the dozen senators In attendance, "we'll fight It out, as General Grunt said, if it takes all summer." Senator Harrison (Democrat. Mis. sfsstppi), active 13 years ago in a filibuster against a similar measure, opportunely rushed the administration compromise bonus bill Into the senate with the empty formality of a "dummy report." The first plan was to move tomorrow that it be taken up However, this later wai re(Turn to Page April 25. (JP) works allotment board of twenty- two, headed by Secretary Ickes, was named by President Roosevelt today to advise him how to spend most effectively the Immense $4,000,000,000 work-relief fund. Then In ewift stops, Roosevelt summoned a special group to a White House conference tomorrow night on the work program and arranged to address the nation on the same subject Sunday night.

Membership of the six-man group called to tomorrow's meeting stirred Immediate speculation over next moves in tho re-employment drive. In the number wero Ickes, chairman of the allotment board. Undersecretary Tugwell and Frank C. Walker, head of the emergency council and its new Applications and Information division. These throe belonged to the allotment board.

But also summoned, with their work-relief connections not entirely If at. all explained, were Harry L. Hopkins', the relief administrator; Joseph Kennedy, chairman of the securities commission; and former Representative Charles West of Ohio, the White House liaison officer with eongress. Hopkins a Mystery The position of Hopkins wad somewhat of a mystery. It was remarked officially that while tho president jhad named the allotments board 22 "the director of relief," Hop- klns had not been mentioned by name.

There were Intimations that president had in mind some other important role for him to play in the handling of the work program. The selection of Ickes to head the allotment board stirred immediate talk of new congressional-attacks on the interior secretary. Members of 0Jigr6ss reneatedly have criticized for his disregard of them in handling original public works fund and have argued that under him the progress aX spending tort alow. The works allotment boord'wlll be made up of the bends of governmental divisions that will have a pnrt in the program. The list disclosed that another division would be created, In addition to those which the president' alfendy had said would be set up to handle rural resettlement, erode crossing elimination and rural e'eitriflcation.

Progress DITISIOII The fourth one. called tho pro- press division, will make regular checks of the progress of the vari- out agencies In cnrrylng out the works for which funds have been allocated. Its function was described in official quarters as the duty of seelntr projects wore properly and spppdlly carried out. While In some Quarters It had been said that Hopkins' job probably would bo to put speed Into the urogram, officials said tonight that he probably would not head tho pro- grew division, but would fill another post vet to be disclosed by Mr. Roosevelt, Tho make-up of the allotment board announced by the president was: Secretary Secretary Wallace.

Secretary Perkins. Frank Walker. 'Hn director of the progress dl- VIK' to be chosen. Tli 'i director of roe Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples.

The budget W. The chief of army Goneral Edward M. Markham. Tho commissioner of reclamation Mead. The director of soil II.

Bennett. The chief of the forest F. A. Stlcox. The director of emergency conservation Fechner.

The chief of the bureau of public H. MacDonald. The director of rural resettlement Q. Tugwell. The director of rural to be named.

The chief of the division of grade crossing to be named. The director of person to be chosen by Hopkins to serve in his stead. Tho chief of the urban housing Horatio B. Hackett. A renresentatlve of the business advisory Harry Kendall, head of the council.

To Be Selected Representatives of organized labor farm organizations, and the American Bankers association, all yet to be selected. The presidential statement said the applications for works projects would be received by tho emergency council, studied bv tho agencies under which thev properlv fell, and passed on by the emergency council to the allotment board for final action. "In other words," the White House statement said, "the estimates of coet will have been checked, the length of time necessary for completion will have been paased on, the number of persons from the relief rolls who can be employed in each vicinity, or to put it another way. the percentage of direct labor will have been certified, the. proportion of to the 1 (Turn to Washington, April 25.

projecting the church-in-poll- tlcs Issue squarely into the 193S campaign. Senator Bailey, (Democrat of North Carolina) today bitterly assailed Father Charles E. Coughlln and challenged the "priestly power" of the radio cleric to promiso a harp and halo to the American people by political action." Rising in the senate, which fell silent as he proceeded, the former church editor spoke with an apparent intensity of feeling. Among other tilings he criticized Father Coughlin's political activities as "sinister." His words added new to the powder keg. of third party talk.

"I honor the ministry because it is the ministry," said Bailey, "but when a minister of the gospel or a minister of the church comes down into the political arena, or goes out with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst suffering people, I take it nothing amiss, and I make no apologies; but I will snatch the hnlo from his brow and throw it into tho nearest spittoon, ana then throw the spittoon into the gutter." Family of Ministers The North Carolinian, who hails from a family of ministers, broke into his assault on Futher Coughlln," as he termed It, while opposing the Costlgan-Wagnor anti-lynchlng bill. He apparentiy was moved to do so by Father Coughlin's speech In Detroit last night In which he projected his National Union for Social Justice into the political field. There was no answering reply. Some senators, however, thought Senator Long (Democrat of Louisiana), who believes the Detroit radio 'priestjhas a "strong program," might have something to say on the subject when he speaks before the farmers holiday national convention at Des Moines Saturday. Long has commented favorably on Father Coughlin's speech last night, stirring hew speculation that tho two might merge forces in 1936.

This has been advocated by Milo Reno, head of tho farmers holiday group, and it is known that Long and Coughlln havo exchanged views, Long Adds To List Besides saying Coughlln had a 'strong program." Long added Senator Cutting. New Mexico Republican Independent, to his list of liberal senators acceptable to him for the presidency. Senator Borah of Idaho headed the list. Without exception those be named either shock of lightly or declined to comment on his suggestions today. Meanwhile, Chairman Henry P.

Fletcher of the Republican national committee, announced that John Hamilton, Kansas national commit' teenian and general counsel of the committee, would soon join the headquarters staff hero, but not until after the tentatively planned west meeting of Republicans some- tme next month. Tho full text of his remarks about Coughlln, and his transition from an attack on tho antl-lynching bill, as recorded by the official senate iccorder follows: "Some of us hero in the senate find our voices too feeble to stretch across the continent, and our hum(Turu to Page Seven) 1SUMOW MIGHT President To Outline Plan For Big Work-Relief Program In 'Fireside Chat' At 10 P. M. Over Major Chains Washington, April 25 President Roosevelt arranged today to go on the air Sunday night in his first general talk to the nation since- he opened congress in January. In another "fireside first since September will outline, primarily, a plan for the $4,000,000,000 work relief undertaking.

Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt suggested today to Senator Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, that the public was looking for congress to act on important bills aud close up business in the early future. Lewis reported that he was josb- Ingly cUlded by the president as a "poor whip-cracker" but he predicted congress would continue In seHskm until August. The president has been urged by many to talk to the people during the long weeks of congressional deliberation but he has persisteutly refrained. In addition to spoakiug of the works program, those close to the president believe he also will give a general report of national affairs.

His speech, scheduled for 10 at. (e s. will be carried bv both major chains. It will he No. 7 in the series of intimate chats on what the new deu.1 dolus.

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