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Vr a mm i VOL. 100. NO. 4. WEATHER FORECAST: CLOUDY AND WARMER BURLINGTON, VERMONT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934.

PRICE THREE CENTS Would Drop Forty Bodies Old Order Changes In New York Roosevelt Tells Congress Nation Is Recovering; Proposes Malting Program Principles Permanent 140 Trapped In Mine; Fire Breaks Out 120 Men Face Certain Death, Experts Say, If They Have Not Already Been Killed By Poisonous Gases Czechoslovakia Scene of Disaster 11 X'-jJU if He Asks For "Stringent Pre Some Excerpts From the Message In power for 16 years, Tammany Hall released Its grip on the New York City Hall to Florello H. LaGuardia, who is shown at left deeply engrossed In conversation with the retiring mayor, John P. O'Brien as he assumed his official duties. (Associated Press Photo) 0. K.

$1,000 PWA Grant for Burlington Airport Building N. E. Federal Milk Code Plan For Unified Control By N. E. Interests Considered By Mass.

Dairymen Present Agreement "Doesn't Fit" This Section It Is Said BOSTON, Jan. 3. (JP) A plan for a unified control of the New England dairy Industry by New England Interests rather than by a Federal code was under consideration today by a committee representing Massachusetts dairymen. Reginald W. Bird, representing Massachusetts producers, and a member of the committee, said the pres ent milk marketing agreement did not fit the needs of New England producers and tnat he believed a control plan, sponsored by Massa chusetts and the northern New En land states, under proper supervi sion could better regulate the industry.

The present committee Is com posed only of Massachusetts men, he said, but it was the plan to consult the best minds in the dairy industry of the various states and the vari ous governors to formulate a new control plan. The committee which will meet during the week, was named at a dinner given by N. I. Bowditch. Middlesex county commissioner and included Bird, William N.

Howard. representing Massachusetts producers; R. W. Leatherbee, Barnstable County Producers' Association; Edward Wlgglesworth, president Massachusetts Guernsey Breeders' Association; Richard Saltonstall, J. H.

Le-man, James Jackson, Robert H. Gardiner and T. P. Lindsay. (Continued on Page 2) Hutton Denies All Aimee's Charges LOS ANGELES, Jan.

3. (JP) A blanket denial of all charges made by Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, the evangelist, was contained in an answer David L. Hutton, filed today to her cross complaint for a divorce. The baritone-voiced vaudeville actor, who touched off the marital fires by first filing suit for divorce, denied he had attempted to disrupt Aimee's church, Angelus Temple; posed for photographs with chorus girls and awakened her at night to demand money. One paragraph of the answer was devoted to the $5,000 Judgment Myrtle St.

Pierre, Pasadena nurse, was awarded against Hutton for breach of promise. It contained a specific denial of his wife's accusation that Hutton had "cruelly, rudely and deliberately" told her of the Judgment while she was ill. causing her to faint and fracture her skull. The complaint, prepared by Attorney J. J.

Mayo, answered charges that Hutton had violated terms of a property settlement in which he was to have agreed not to "release to the press or produce in any theatrical' work or otherwise any writing which would directly have for its purpose or which might be construed to ridicule her motives or her character." The answer to that charge was brief. It said the evangelist had made a similar promise and had violated it. ANGELESCU GOVT. LASTS FIVE DAYS BUCHAREST, Rumania, Jan. 3.

(JP) The government of Constantlne Angelcscu resigned today after a career of less than five days. Although the administration was frankly described as temporary when King Carol named the former minister of education to succeed the assassinated Premier Ion G. Duca, complications developed even sooner than many political circles expected. The resigning minister of com merce, George Tatarescu, was Immediately commissioned by the monarch to form a new cabinet, and he took the oath of office this evening. In several quarters Tatarescu was expected to pursue a vigorous campaign against the Anti-Semitic and Nazi iron guard.

of Calif. Flood Victims Found More Than 60 Persons Still Unaccounted For In Recent Inundation Damage Done By Water Is Estimated At About $5,000,000 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3. (JP) Scenes of tragedy were enacted today as more bodies were sought amid the muddy desolation left near here by Sunday night's disastrous flood which took possibly 50 or more lives. The governor- of the State turned away with tears in his eyes as he saw the body of a small child recovered from the silt of Verdugo Wash.

Unnerved by the long suspense, parents searched debris for missing children, friends and relatives besieged relief workers for news of the more than. 60 persons still unaccounted for. Hampered by huge bogs and mud and piles of broken, lumber and rocks, more than 5,000 relief and reconstruction workers labored hurriedly to restore some semblance of order and comfort in the Montrose, North Glan-dale and La Crescenta area which felt the worst of the flood from southern California's greatest rainstorm. Forty bodies had been recovered. Officials said many of those still reported missing may be Injury victims in hospitals and first aid stations.

Making an Inspection tour of the blighted area some 18 miles northeast of here, Governor James Rolph, left his automobile to watch CWA workmen digging in the debris of Verdugo Wash. Suddenly from an excavation a bit of child's clothing appeared. Soon a tiny limb was visible. Tears came to the governor's eyes as he turned away. Dozens of residents in the north section of Glendale were still homeless.

Fifteen hundred CWA workers were assigned to this area. An estimated $5,000,000 total damage from the flood was described as conservative today by members of the county board of supervisors, and officials of the flood control and road departments. War in Three Parts Of China Threatens (By The Associated Press) Threats of war in three widely-separated parts of China provoked new unrest Wednesday in that strife-wracked land. In the southeastern maritime province of Fukien the national government at Nanking, seeking to put down a rebellious Junta, prepared for a sea attack and sent troops into battle with the insurgent forces. Nationals of foreign governments were again warned to evacuate danger zones, but many, including a number of Americans, were determined to remain at their stations.

Rebels also figured In attempts to penetrate Peiping. A remnant of Liu Kuei-Tang's irregular army threatened Peiping but was repulsed by government forces. In the path of the rebel's retreat was an American school at Tungchow. Reliable Chinese reports said the Japanese, who last year conquered Jehol province, were penetrating Cha-har province, due west of Jehol and in extreme northern China, and were establishing air bases. YOUNG REPPIN LIKELY TO GET NEW TRIAL DENVER.

Jan. 3. (JP) Walter Rep-pin, 18, white-faced Newark, N. youth who was sentenced to "breathe death" this week in Colorado penitentiary's new lethal gas chamber for the murder of a taxi driver, tonight was cheered by the Colorado Supreme Court's intervention in his case and the chance of a new trial. The court today ordered Warden Roy Best, of the State prison to stay the execution until further notice.

Reppln was scheduled to die the week ending January 6 for the murder of Vincent Regan at Colorado Springs last August. tion and she replied at first, "ageless." When he repeated the question, she replied "approaching 80," and when he asked if she was being facetious, she replied she believed she was "somewhere in the sixties." Mrs. Webster traced the course of her break with Ritter back to 1921. In the summer of that year, she said, she got the idea of taking some sick babies from Washington to her estate in Manchester, so they could escape the heat. She said her husband objected to the cost of the project, but she carried it out with funds provided for her clothing.

"Mr. Ritter was ugly about it because I was praised so highly for my solicitude for the babies." she said. She received her divorce from Ritter in Vermont on the ground of intolerable cruelty "not to me, but because he beat the dogs and horses" she said. After her divorce the former Mrs. Ritter became the wife of Hugh Webster.

She said she did not believe her Washington home and its furnishings were worth either $500,000 or $400,000, or that her Vermont home was worth Congress Reconvenes, Listens to- President's Personally Delivered Appeal For Cooperation and Apparently Sets About to Give Him What He Wants Democratic Leaders Rally Their Majorities to Ratify the Administration Program WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (JP) Con gress reconvened today, heard Presi dent Roosevelt's personally delivered appeal for continued co-operation and then, to all appearances, set about to give him what he wants. In both houses Democratic leaders marshalled their overwhelming ma jorities to strike swiftly for ratifica' tion of the administration program and final adjournment by May. Just what that program may be few In Congress actually knew tonight.

Mr. Roosevelt spoke in generalities today, concealing his hand from supporter and opponent alike. He will play his cards one at a time, as he did in the special session. The first will be laid on the table tomorrow when the annual budget message, reckoning up a deficit counted in billions, is sent to the capi- toL Its provisions, and the President's proposals for tax revision, were closely guarded tonight. But what ever he asks for, in that or later messages, is assured now of powerful organization backing.

Seemingly, too, the Republicans will go along a part of the way, at least. Some of them mildly protested today the President's plea for non-partisan support of his recovery program: but organized opposition was still almost non-existent. The minority, due to Mr. Roosevelt's strategy, must watch the cards as they fall and decide on a program play by play. The chief executive, however, showed plainly today that he intended to carry forward the program unfolded last session, whatever doubt remains as to specific or new proposals.

"We have undertaken new methods," he said. "It is our task to perfect, to improve, to alter when necessary, but In all cases to go forward." Mr. Roosevelt's appearance before the joint session marked the first time since the days of Woodrow Wilson that a president had personally delivered his message to Congress. Republicans joined with Democrats In giving him a welcome that Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the majority leader, called the heartiest ever accorded a president by Congress. His address frequently Interrupted by sallies of applause, Mr.

Roosevelt suntmed up his administration's accomplishments, indicated that stabilization of the currency In conjunction with other nations was apparently far in the future and laid special emphasis on national planning. Senator E. W. Gibson Takes Oath of Office S. D.

B. (Special to the Free Prea) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Senator Ernest W. Gibson, who took the oath In the Senate today upon the presentation by his colleague.

Senator Warren R. Austin, of the certificate of appointment by Governor Wilson, occupied temporarily the seat of his predecessor, Senator Porter H. Dale, No. 28, in the second row on the Republican side. Resolutions, presented by Senator Austin, on the passing of Senator Dale, were adopted at the Senate's session which preceded the joint assembly.

SUGGESTS BALANCED ARMS CUT SCHEME ROME, Jan. 3. (JP) A revision of arms figures calculated to strike a satisfactory balance among national armaments, rather than a wholesale splash previously favored by Italy, was said authoritatively today to have been suggested by Premier Mussolini to Sir John Simon, the British foreign secretary. The two statesmen conferred this afternoon seeking a way of solving the present Franco-German deadlock on disarmament and exchanged ideas regarding the Italian premier's demand for League of Nations reforms. An official communique Issued tonight said they had a "cordial colloquy" and will meet again tomorrow morning.

In the absence of a more complete account of the exact nature of the talk could only be conjectured, but well-informed circles believed that Duce has practically abandoned hope in the present situation of winning France over to a thesis of an immediate and radical cut in arms. MILO RENO SUGGESTS A BARTER AGENCY NEW YORK, Jan. 3. (JP) A barter agency to handle an exchange of the products of farmers and industrial labor was suggested as a feasible and economically sound means of relief today by Milo Reno, president of the Farmers' Holiday Association. The gray-haired, dynamic leader of farm strikes said he would offer the Idea to Mayor Florello H.

La Guard-ie during his visit but "Would like to see the plan adopted on a national scale by the Federal government. Reno came to New York to address the mass meeting tomorrow night of the Farmer Labor Political Federation but declared that as far as he and the Holiday Association are concerned "we will await developments of the Roosevelt administration's program before we formulate a third-party movement of farmers and ventive Or Regulatory Measures In Country's Business Affairs and a Governmental and Public War Against Organized Crime, Referring to Tax Evaders, Stock Manipulators, Speculators, Bandits, Kidnapers and Lynchjers WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (JP) In a vigorously worded, personally delivered message, President Roosevelt today pointed an enthusiastic Congress toward his conception of a permanent recovery on a new basis. The President thrust deeply toward some of the recently disclosed practices of big business in the banking and speculative fields.

He told the joint session of Congress that the nation is "definitely in the process of recovery," and proposed a permanency of the principles of his monetary, agricultural and industrial programs. For new fields of Immediate effort, he asked "stringent preventive or regulatory measures" in the nation's business affairs and a governmental and public war against organized crime. "I am speaking," said the President in raised voice, "of those individuals who have evaded the spirit and purpose of our tax laws, of those high officials of banks or corporations who have grown rich at the expense of their stockholders or of the public, of those reckless speculators with their own or other people's money whose operations have injured the values of the farmer's crops ani the savings of the poor. "In the other category, crimes ol organized banditry, cold blooded shooting, lynching and kidnaping have threatened our security. "These violations of ethics and these violations of law call on the strong arm of government for their immediate suppression; they call also on the country for an aroused public opinion." The presidential message, delivered amid frequent applause and received with cheers, was general fei scope and bore no specific legislative recommendations.

(Continued on Page t) Dean Inge, Retiring, Takes Rap At U. S. LONDON, Jan. 3. (JP) Dean Inge, who will retire this year as head of St.

Paul's Cathedral, declares in the new edition of his book "England" out tomorrow that "the American government seriously contemplated taking action against us in the early part of the war." Living up to his popular appelation. "the gloomy dean," he says further that "If in the future we are attacked by a European coalition we may take it as probable that ths United States will leave us to our fate unless, indeed, we are invaded by a black army." When the United States joined the allies, he says, "whatever sentiment was allowed to enter into their calculations was in favor of France, not England." The position of Great Britain as one of the great powers is bound to decline relatively though not absolutely, he predicts. "The future, as regards effective force and wealth, belongs to large countries not yet full of people," he adds. Dclaring that the dominions may not always be willing to support England, the dean observes further that "it seems to me to be almost certain that we shall be unable to find focd and work for our present population. "For this reason I favor emigration or state-directed colonization." SENATOR HUEY LONG STARTS FUNCTIONING WASHINGTON, Jan.

3. (JP) A threat by Senator Long La.) to hold up the nomination of Henry Morgenthau. as secretary of the treasury failed today to worry Senate Democratic leaders who are determined to obtain quick confirmation of President Roosevelt's friend and fiscal adviser. Morgenthau was asked to appear before the Senate finance committee tomorrow, even before his nomination is received, in order to dispose of the routine formalities of inquiry and, as Chairman Harrison expressed it, to "speed up" confirmation. The nomination is expected soon.

Long told newspapermen he would go before the committee and ask thorough investigation of tiwo records" concerning Morgenthau turned over to him by constituents, but Harrison, Chairman Fletcher of the banking committee and other administration stalwarts confidently predicted early Senate approval of the nomination. Morgenthau, former governor of the farm credit administration, took the oath as treasury secretary on New Year's day after the President had accepted the resignation of William H. Woodin, another New Yorker. MRS. GRACE COOLIDGE'S FIFTY-FIFTH BffiTHDAY NORTHAMPTON.

Mass, Jan. 3. (JP) Mrs. Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge. widow of former President Calvin Coolidge, observed her 55th birthdav today.

There was no special celebration, as the day was saddened by th? fact that Mr. Coolidge died just a year ago tomorrow. Mrs. Coolidge was the dinner guest tonight of her most intimate friend, Mrs. R.

B. Hills DUCHCOV (Dux), Czechoslovakia, 4. (Thursday) (JP) Fire broke out early today in the "Nelson III" coal mine, where a fearful explosion trapped 140 miners In the workings. One hundred and twenty men still In the mine faced certain death, relief experts feared. If they have not already been killed by poisonous gases.

The flames started shortly after midnight, almost seven hours after rescue crews began frantic efforts to reach the imprisoned men. Sixteen bodies have been recovered and four exhausted and stupefied survivors climbed 1,000 feet to the surface before smoke and flames 1s-fuing from the doomed galleries forced halt to rescue efforts. Until the tire is smothered there will be no further chance to proceed. The toll of death, including the bodies recovered before the fire, was almost certain to be 13S. Among the bodies recovered was that of a wash erwoman employed In the shafthead.

The four miners who escaped by Climbing to the surface were too stupefied from the effects of gas and by exhaustion to talk. Ten members of rescue parties, overcome by gas and smoke, were taken to hospitals. Fire companies, gendarmes and citizens from the whole countryside gathered at the scene, but the wreckage and the darkness, combined with danger of gases from the fire, slowed all operations. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 3.

(JP) The minister of the Interior and the minister of public works rushed to Duchcov tonight. Lack of telephone facilities made It improbable any further details of the tragedy would reach here before daylight. START PROBES INTO N. Y. GRAFT AND RACKETS NEW YORK, Jan.

3. (JP) A half dozen Investigations Into charges of racketeering In private business and graft in public office were pushed today as testimony of alleged extortion from newsstand operators was turned over to the district attorney. The State alcohol control board went forward with its Inquiry into charges of graft In the delivery of liquor licenses, the new city commissioner of accounts announced three or four graft investigations, and a study of the "kick back" racket under which employes are forced to surrender part of their wages was intensified. The office of William C. Dodge.

Manhattan's new district attorney, received from License Commissioner Sidney S. Levlne testimony of Mrs. Lena Feldman that Joe (The Goniff) Solomon had demanded $1,000 from her to obtain a renewal of her license for a newsstand. Levlne has been holding hearings similar charges of extortion from widows and war veterans. His action turning over Mrs.

Feldman's evidence followed a statement by William Heineman, an officer of the Disabled American War Veterans, that two men had threatened to "wing" folm for his previous testimony. "There will be action and it doesn't tnatter who is hit," said Dodge of the newsstand investigation. CUBAN GOVERNMENT PREPARES FOR TROUBLE HAVANA, Jan. 3. (JP) Alarmed at Reports of an Imminent revolution or else taking precautions as diplomats geared a climax in mediation procedure, the government tonight was preparing for trouble.

Reliable, government authorities confided to the press that an outbreak was expected shortly. While 300 soldiers entrained for Oriente province at 11 p. m. and Iruckloads of troops moved out along the central highway, the army's two home-made tanks rumbled Into Havana from Camp Columbia and three more truckloads of soldiers went from Havana to the encampment to reinforce guards there. Soldiers attired in civilian clothes tooliced the rooftops, seeking to present sniping.

Police were issued Hfles. Rumors of an Impending upheaval hi Oriente thickened and It was stated that organizers of a new revolution in Havana had received a large Shipment of arms and were training Curses for first aid. F. D. I.

C. ANNOUNCES 3 P. C. INTEREST RULE WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.

(JP) The federal Deposit Insurance Corpora tion today ruled that semi-annual Compounded interest on any deposits vi a member bank must not exceed I per cent. The order annlies to all denosits. Whether insured or not, on which In terest accrues after January 2, the Iffectlve date for the new insurance system, with exception made for deposits contracted for orior to that date. For each breach of thos order, the fcorporatlon may Impose $100 penalty, pne penalty applying to each individ ual aeposit. folSS CORNELIA BROWN ills AD; NATIVE OF VT.

Jan. 3. UPUmim r.nr. fella Edna Brown. 60, widely known M-ianta cnurcn worker and formerly a missionary to China, died at a private hospital here today' after a long illness.

Miss Brown was mls- tonary of the First Baptist Church of tlanta for 20 Tears. She was a na live of Vermont. braries in Tokio, Japan. Eighty icusand persons visit them daily. To Punish Dry Law Violators Administration Favors Prosecution of All Persons Charged Wtih Offenses In Days of Prohibition WASHINGTON, Jan.

3. (JP) The administration favors the prosecution of all persons charged with having violated national prohibition before repeal. This position was taken In a brief filed by the justice department in the Supreme Court today holding that the repeal of prohibition should not release from trial those charged with violating the Volstead Act or with conspiracy to violate it. Hundreds of cases are pending: in Federal courts in which indictments have been returned charging viola tion of the liquor law and a laree number of cases in which persons nave been convicted and sentenced for violating the law are pendine in Federal Appelate courts. Against all of these, the Justice department would proceed in the usual course, as though the prohibition law had not been re pealed.

It may be good common law, Solicitor General Biggs asserted in his brief, for the Federal courts to hold that prohibition repeal had the effect of preventing any further proceedings under the Volstead Act. but common law In that respect was "a dead He urged the Supreme Court "In the light of general authority and sound reason" to apply what he termed "the salutary, statutory rule of construction" and hold that the repeal of the 18th amendment did not have the effect of releasing from all criminal liabilities those persons who violated the national prohibition act or conspired to do so. The brief was filed in an appeal by the government from a ruling by Federal District Judge Hayes in the middle district of North Carolina ordering the release of Byrum Gibson and Claude Chambers charged with violating the Volstead Act. LISTING INCURABLES FOR STERILIZATION BERLIN, Jan. 3.

(JP) A census of hereditary Incurables was In full swing throughout Germany today preliminary to the operation of a national sterilization law. Local physicians and other responsible persons, including heads of sanataria and private nurses, were charged with compiling lists of warrants to be served on persons subject to sterilization. These warrants will be turned over to a district doctor who, after a careful examination, will submit them to special courts set up to hear the cases of persons who are victims of incurable ailments and who, under the law, may be deprived of reproductive powers. Dr. Arthur Guett, eugenics expert in the interior ministry, pointed out that the eugenic or sterilization tribunals were generally getting off to a slow start because it might take days or weeks for the warrants to reach the courts, even though January 1 was stipulated under the law as the date for the courts to begin functioning.

NEW YORKERS SPEND $1,350,000 FOR BOOZE NEW YORK, Jan. 3- (JP) The Herald Tribune says New Yorkers spent $1,350,000 for liquors and wines in seven of the city's largest liquor stores during December. They did their spending at the rate of $65,000 a day with $3 spent for hard liquors to every $2 spent for wines, the newspaper says. At one time during the 21 legal selling days some stores did better than $25,000 In a single day. The average per store was about $193,000 for the month.

Rye was the most popular item in' the hard liquor group and the domestic brands led In volume In the wine group. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (JP) Senate investigators received evidence at the resumption of their inquiry into the Detroit banking collapse today that some institutions in the Guardian Detroit Union Group, had been given advance notice when national bank examiners were about to Inspect their books. WASHINGTON, Jan.

3. (JP) The Fublic Works Administration announced tonight, allotments totaling $2,217,000 for 22 non-Federal projects in New England which it estimated would provide employment for 2,012 "men. Projects approved include: A loan and grant of $66,000 to Hardwick, for the construction of a water supply main, extensions to distribution system, installation of fire hydrants and meters and the construction of a trunk sewer. Work can start in one and one-half months and be completed in six months, giving 50 men employment during construction. A grant of $1,000 to Burlington, to aid in the completion of a partially constructed one story brick building at Municipal Airport.

Work can start at once and be completed in two months giving ten men employment during construction. A loan and grant of $50,000 Keadsboro, for construction a six-class room school build ing with auditorium. Work can start in one month and be com pleted in four months, giving 30 men employment during con- struction. Ford's Brother Goes Into Bankruptcy DETROIT, Jan. 3.

(JP) William FordJ who at one time asserted he did hot envy his wealthy brother, Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, has filed a petition of bankruptcy. Listing liabilities of $412,900 and setting forth that he has no assets, not even an automobile. Ford told Referee in Bankruptcy Paul H. King that he had 30 creditors. Today the Union Guardian Trust Company took over the trusteeship of his affairs.

Ford was formerly head of the William Ford Tractor Sales Company, of suburban Highland Park. Until 1920 he was associated with Henry and Edsel Ford in developing the Fordson tractor. POULTRYMEN FEEL LIKE FORGOTTEN MEN WORCESTER, Jan. 3. (JP) A new economic structure must be es tablished If poultrymen are not to compete with the serfs and peasants of Europe, Harry R.

Lewis, Rhode Island commissioner of agriculture, told the Massachusetts Federation of Poultry Associations today at a meeting in the Municipal Memorial Auditorium in conjunction with the opening of the three-day union agricultural meetings. Friday Gov. Stanley C. Wilson, of Vermont, will speak before the Massachusetts Dairymen's Association. LOOTERS AT WORK IN FLOOD REGION LOS ANGELES, Jan.

3. (Reports of looting In one of the flood stricken suburban districts added to the distress of the homeless and the burden of relief workers in the mud and debris covered lowlands about the city tonight. A force of 200 men was sent to patrol the stricken Montrose area, north of the downtown district. Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz issued a warning that looters would be "prosecuted fully." CELLULOID DOLL ALMOST FATAL GIFT PEABODY, Jan. 3.

(JP) San ta's recent gift of a doll nearly cost the life of its tiny recipient today. Mary Fader, aged 2, clasped the celluloid doll in her chuby arms as she peered into the flames of a stove. A flame ignited the doll and soon the child's clothes were ablize. Mrs. Llndsey Fader, the mother, beat out the flames, being burned herself.

Both mother and child were taken to the J. B. Thomas Hospital where Mary's name was placed on the danger list. DENVER, Jan. 3.

(P) Five shares of stock in a brewing company, to be used as a Bible marker, was the bequest to Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford, Colorado president of the W. C. T. XL, by Charles F.

HoeckeL in his will filed today. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT (By The Associated Press) Recovery "We have ploughed the furrow and planted the good seed; the hard beginning is over." "It is our task to perfect, alter when necessary, but in all cases to go forward." The unnecessary expansion of industrial plants, the waste of natural resources, the exploitation of the consumers of natural monopolies, the accumulation of stagnant surpluses, child labor, and the ruthless exploitation of all labor, the encouragement of speculation with other people's money, these were consumed. In the fires that they themselves kindled; we must make sure that as we reconstruct our life there be no soil in which such weeds can grow again." NRA "We have made great strides towards the objectives of the National Industrial Recovery Act, for not only have several millions of oar unemployed been restored to work, but industry is organizing itself with a greater understanding that reasonable profits can be earned while at the same time protection can be assured tk guarantee labor adequate pay and proper conditions of work." Finances "The credit of the government has been fortified by drastic reduction in the cost of its permanent agencies through the Economy Act." Foreign Exchange "Certain of our sister nations find themselves so handicapped by internal and other conditions that they feel unable at this time to enter into stabilization discussions based on permanent and world-wide objectives." (Continued on Page 2) PLANNED TO KIDNAP RUTH AND DEMPSEY ST. PAUL, Jan. 3.

(JP) New evidence which caused him to believe Verne Sankey, widely sought as an alleged kidnaper, not only might have been Implicated In the abduction of the Lindbergh baby but also contemplated kidnaping two sport idols was disclosed today by County Attorney M. F. Klnkead. The evidence, the prosecutor said, was discovered in Sankey's ranch home at Gann Valley, S. D.

Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey were the sport figures Klnkead believed Sankey sought to capture and hold for ransom. Klnkead said he unearthed the evidence in his attempts to run down abductors of Haskell Bonn, son of a manufacturer who was kidnaped and released after payment of $12,000 ransom. Sankey is under indictment here for that crime and also is wanted in Denver for the $60,000 ransom abduction of Charles Boettcher 11. Klnkead some time ago asserted a comparison of ransom notes in the Lindbergh, Boettcher and Bonn kid-napings showed they might all have been written by the same person. DICTATORIAL POWERS FOR LA GUARDIA ASKED NEW YORK, Jan.

S. (JP) The city's new Fusion administration, brushing aside stubborn opposition, today called on the legislature to give Mayor Florello H. La Guardia dictatorial powers to slash municipal expenditures. Disregarding a reminder that to cut salaries would break his campaign pledges, La Guardia led the fight to push through the board of estimate a resolution asking that the legislature grant him power to make extraordinary reductions so that the city's budget can be balanced. "I said that If the city finances would permit there would be no salary reductions," said the mayor to former Deputy Comptroller Frank J.

Prial, who made a surprise plea that action on the resolution be deferred. Ex-Wife of W. M. Hitter Says fie Agreed to Pay Her $70,000 Annually; Divorced In Vt. NEW YORK, Jan.

3. () Mrs. Gertrude Devine Webster, of Washington, told in court today the details of a separation agreement under which she claims her former husband, a millionaire lumberman, promised to pay her $70,000 annually when they were divorced in 1922. The defendant, William M. Bitter, 67 years old and a friend of Presidents Hoover and Coolidge, claims that the agreement is Illegal in West Virginia, which he claims as his home state.

Under the agreement, which Mrs. Webster said was drawn In Philadelphia in 1922, she said she received homes in Washington and Manchester, as well as cash during the next five years. The agreement also called for payments of $70,000 yearly In addition, which, she said, stopped In 1932. One part of the agreement, she said, provided that Ritter was to have all the whiskey and gin ln'thelr cellars, but that the wine was to be divided equally between them. When an attorney for the defense asked her age on cross-examination, Mrs.

Webster replied, "Ask Mr. Ritter." The attorney pressed the ques 0.