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A I WEST VIRGINIA: Rain and warmer in east portion and colder in extreme west por- tion Monday night. Tuesday rain changing to snow. Much colder Tuesday and Tuesday night. FINAL EDITION TOLUMB LXXXV1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1936 14 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS APPROVAL OF HIS POLICIES Foreign Stand Indorsed by Nearly 99 Per Cent of Voters RED HOUSE IS HIT AS COMMUNISTIC DEFIANCE FORESEEN Dictator Is Expected to Be Firmer in Dealing in Locarno Crisis United Press Copyright BERLIN, March Adolf Hitler, triumphant in one of the most remarkable elections ever held faced the Locarno pow- ers with increased confidence to- Wfay as he prepared to offer them --proposals fo "eternal" peace. More registered voters recorded their approval of Hitler's foreign policies in yesterday's reichstag election than there are men, wom- en and children in all France.

It was indicated strongly that this backing by his countrymen and women would be reflected in his proposals for settlement of the Khineland problem with which Joachim von Ribbenrrop, his spe- cial ambassador, is expected to fly to London tomorrow. These proposals, it was forecast. will present to Great Britain. France, Belgium and Italy a plan for consolidation of European peace on a firm, permanent base. But it was forecast also that Hitler will be even less inclined now to accept any terms to which he will not he able to point with pride to Germans.

Nearly 99 Per Cent Approve Provisional final returns in yes- terday's election for reichstag mem- bers--actually a vote in favor of Hitler's reoccupation of the i i tarized Rhineland zone and his scrapping of the repressive military clauses of the Versailles treaty--were as follows: Total electorate, 45,431,102. Total vote. 44,954,937. For Hitler. 44,411,911.

Against Hitler, 543,026. Percentage for Hitler, 98.792. -SCbis was claimed as a world rec- Of the people of 20 years or "entitled" to vote--jews ex- per cent went to the polls. They were asked to put in the single circle on ballot a cross Homesteaders Unable to Pay on Houses, G. O.

P. Committee Says; Competition With Private Business Cited WASHINGTON, March 30 AP. --The Republican national commit- tee accused the New Deal today of being the sponsor of farm com- munities which are "communistic in conception." "President Roosevelt's resettle- ment administration," the commit- tee said in a statement, "is estab- lishing in West Virginia and other states communal farms which fol- low the Russian pattern, in that each member of the community will work on cooperative projects and share in the proceeds. "A community farm just outside of Charleston. W.

supplies the lat- est example of what these projects will be. "They call this community Red House." The statement said the government charged off a million dollars on its books for this community in which 153 families formerly were on i relief are living. The "model" homes, it said, al- ready are "showing cracked walls: "the land which was bought by the federal emergency relief administra- tion at $29 an acre is found to be "very much worn out" and the At This Hour Spring, we think, is just around the well-known corner. Officially speaking, it is here already, for this is one of the years when the gentle season is ushered in as early as the 20th of March. We would like to urge thousands and other thousands of motor-tourists to visit our valley this spring, but for the first time in many years we must hesitate.

The reason, of course, is the condition of the va- rious ingresses and exits of our capital city--the deplorable Mai- den road in particular. A host of motor travellers already have be- come aware our a situation. Some of them for the last few weeks have been i i to the newspapers, to the chamber of commerce and -to personal ac- quaintances in the city about it. If the local condition of almost impassable roads were not already well known should hesitate to say anything about it: no citizen with local pride (or shame, as the case may be) likes to spread that kind of self-damaging inlr-mation. "homesteaders exist at a minimum subsistence level." The statement continued: "Communistic in conception, a community whose earnings were to go into a common treasury from which payments were to be made on the cinder-block structures which make the town look like a mining camp, the project is still in the Santa Glaus stage.

There is no money coming in from any source. The 'earnings' have not materialized." The statement added no family is paying anything on its mortgage debt because the relief pay has been cut. The homesteaders were declared to be "losing patience" because "they live in the houses but see little hope of ever owning them." At Red House, the committee de- clared, the government plans to es- tablish a dairy farm expected to se-ve Charleston with dairy products and thus put "the federal govern- ment in direct business competition with established farmers." Yesterday and today also saw sev- eral other utterances bearing on the coming campaign struggle. They came mostly from Republicans and members of minor parties; Demo- cratic leaders held their fire for the time being. Former President Hoover dented reports in Washington political cir- cles that he was backing Senator Vandenberg.

Republican, Michigan, for the presidential nomination. From Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university. came the statement that he had heard sharp criticism of the Repub- lican party for lack of a construc- tive program. A third party threat came from Howard Y.

Williams, organizer for the Farmer-Labor party. Hc declared at St. Paul that whether the "liberals" put a party into the cam- paign depended upon results of a national conference and events of the next few weeks. VIA AND MINER FOR GOVERNOR Five Candidates Now in Race; Mine Union's Choice Awaited DELAY RULING ON COAL LAW Mrs. Vanderbilt Loses in Effort to Get Custody of Her Daughter ROOSEVELT RAPPED Constitutional Violation in Confiscating Rail Lines Is Charged Takes Over Defense The sex winter plus cold neglect has also caused our city streets to fall into a worse con- dition than has existed at any time since Charleston was a village.

The signifying their approval of the un- neglect is. we suppose, partly ex- opposed Nazi party ticket for reichstag membership. 'There was no place for an op- posing vote. All an opponent of Hitler could dp was to leave the bal- lot blank or--even more daringly-- scrawl a "neiri" on it or otherwise deface it. cusable: the city lost a part of its taxing power, through the opera- tion of the abominable tax-limita- tion amendment to the state con- stitution--which resulted in very effectively tying the hands of the municipalities.

But somehow the Theoretically all. votes on which Charleston has found that lO-ro a cimnlr- rrnic tvprp VA the sum of ten thousand dollars i inadequate, but useful) can be found for mending the deepest holes in our streets. We would like to see this money expended to there was not a simple cross were invalid, and to be counted as against Hitler. JThere was reported to have been much confusion among elec- toral officials about this and some reports said that many blank bal- lots were counted as for Hitler. Reports Denied Election officials vigorously de- nied these reports.

They said that blank ballots were counted as against the best possible advantage. But it will be largely wasted if the usual loose methods of pavement- mending are employed. The prac- The' electorate was regimented as; wHh gravel of crushed rock dipped in never before even in Germany. Pep- asphalt, then tamp it down lightly pie who were on the doubtful list jth some crude implement op- were visited by Nazis who offered crated by hand. The result has to "escort" them to the polls.

Frau Berlin su- Fritz Pasch. living in a burb, gave birth to a son at 8:15 a. m. i yesterday and a daughter at 8:30. At 10 she voted.

Yet despite this pressure on voters, i no doubt was left that Germans vindicated Fuehrer Hitler's state- ment that the country was behind him in his foreign policy. i Hitler got 93.5 per cent of the vote in the last reichstag election in November, 1933, after his with- 1 from the League of Nations. 5 assumption of the title of and chancellor after the Nazi blood purge of June, 1934, and the i death of President Paul von Hinden- burg, he received 88.1 per cent. i iThere was astonishing turnout of there was a 100 per cent vote for i Hitler. At Leustetten.

Bavaria, every eligible person voted--and for Hit- ler--except former Crown Prince Ruprecht. called the uncrowned king of Monarchical, Roman Catholic (Continued on Page 12, Column 7) RIVERS-WEATHER been that within a few days (or weeks, at the longest) the i i has been scattered by passing a fic and the old excavation re- stored. It is a devastating method, and looks silly. The light steam- roller recently acquired, ought to help--with due consideration for the art of achieving a proper "binder'' between the patching material and the edges of the old pavement. And while we are discussing these unpleasant matters may we express the hope that if any motor tourists by any chance should venture over the Maiden trail into our fair city, none of them will visit our dirtiest public building.

The building we have in i commands the services of a a i tor at a good salary as janitor's salaries go. But Ihe interior looks at almost any time as if it a been swept for a month. Febru- ary cigarette stubs, flattened by the tread of hundreds of shoes: burnt matches, scraps of soiled paper and other refuse litter the stairs and the corridor floors. Paint is cheap and lots of men who might wield a paint brush are out of work; yet the walls and wood- New complications were added Monday to the Democratic contest for governor by the announcement of L. R.

Via. assistant United States district attorney at Huntington. who a entered the race as the "champion of labor." His announcement followed with- in a few hours a similar announce- ment by Ralph M. Hiner, of Pen- dleton county, former speaker of the house of delegates, who said he would on Monday file formal a no- tice of his candidacy with the secre- tary of state. The entries of these two men brought the total seeking the Demo- cratic gubernatorial nomination to five, the other three being Attorney General Homer A.

Holt: Ernest L. Bailey, former state road commis- sioner, and H. C. Allen, a Charles- ton attorney. Mr.

Hmer's announcement was made Sunday night. He withheld any statement regarding his plans, other than to say that he would a i a i campaign headquarters in the Kanawha hotel and that he probably would have something more to say Wednesday. As Labor Champion Mr. Via's candidacy was expected. During the last several weeks he has been widely mentioned as a likely representative of organized labor in the gubernatorial contest.

Although Mr. Via in his announce- ment said he xvas the "champion of labor." so far as known here no labor unions have taken i i a cognizance of his candidacy. His name has been i with labor chiefly in the political gossip. Re- cently he presided at a meeting in Hunting-ton at which the i i a speaker was Van A. Bittner, presi- dent of district No.

17. United Mine Workers of America. At that meet- ing Mr. Bittner advocated the re- nominatiuns of President Roosevelt and U. S.

Senator M. M. Neoly. In this connection, it is said if the United Mine Workers' leaders in- tend to carry out their announce- ments of last Labor day that they would "help elect a good governor" it is believed they will give their (Continued on Page 12. Column 8) WASHINGTON, March 30 The supreme court deferred today for at least one week its decisions on constitutionality of the Guffey coal and 1933 securities acts.

Fourteen opinions were delivered. all unanimous. The one of widest effect, in the hour and a half session, held that some practices of the Sugar Insti- tute. violated the Sherman anti- trust act. Despite arguments that its prac- tices were intended to be coopera- tive in the public interest, Chief Jus- tice Hughes for the court held that "the end does -not justify illegal means." Granting a government request the court refused to pass at present on the public utility holding company act.

This law is on its way up to the court on other cases. New Mexico lost its effort to tax a cents a gallon fuel purchased by busses outside the state and used in traveling through the state. Other actions included: Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt; lost her attempt to obtain custody of her wealthy 12-year-old i Gloria. The justices refused to re- view lower court decisions.

Roosevelt Atlaeked WASHINGTON, March 30 The Southern Railroad today charged President Roosevelt with aiding the Tennessee Valley authority to violate the constitution and confiscate one of railroad lines "by force and arms." In a brief filed i the interstate commerce the railroad accused TVA of i its 12-mile route from Vasper to LaFollcttc, i waters from the Norris i dam. "In entire disregard of its duty and i obligation under the constitution, the Tennessee Valley authority is under- taking and proceeding to take the said property by force and arms without paying or i to pay just compensation," the railroad said. President Roosevelt's part in the proceedings, the Southern continued came "on about March 1, 1936," when he pressed a telegram key, closing the flood gate of the dam. Harrar Wiped Out By Fascist Bombs ADDIS ABABA, March 30 An Italian air raid which spread fire and panic a a wrought virtual destruction on that second fit. of Ethiopia, the govern- ment charged today, and wrecked several hospitals arid French cen- ters.

A squadron of Fascist planes, Ethiopian reports said, plunged in- cendiary bombs down on the strat- egic center 250 miles east of th.i capita! and 30 miles south of the Ad- dis Ababa-Djibouti railroad for more a two hours yesterday, leaving the city in flames. Forewarned by scouting planes, however, most of the populace fled the city in terror, advices to the capital said, and few persons were believed to have fallen victims to the bombardment. An i i a communique, relayed by telephone from Harar to Addis Ababa, said 15 bombs struck the Egyptian Red Cross hospital there, several hit the Ethiopian Red Cross hospital and two fell near the Swed- ish A French mission, the French con- sulate, the former Italian consulate, the radio station and prison ail were reported officially lo have been ruined. DR. FRANCIS E.

TOWNSEND WASHINGTON, March 30 (UP). --Dr. Francis E. Townsend took personal charge today of the de- fense of his old age pension plan before a congressional hearing to be resumed Wednesday. He expected to confer with his lieutenants to lay defense plans and to prepare for his expected appearance before the house in- vestigating committee late this week or early next.

Representative John Steven Mc- a Democrat. California, sponsor of the plan to enact the $200-a-month pension plan into law, said he would attempt to con- ciliate differences between Town- send and his co-founder of the pen- sion organization. Robert E. Cle- ments before the latter resumes his testimony Wednesday. Clements resigned last week.

THREE DEAD AS AUTOHITS BUS Head-on Collision Near Lookout Fatal for Car Passengers FATE OF BRUNO DEBATED BY PARDONS COURT AS REPUTED CONFESSIONS FAIL TO SI Bruno Forgives Prosecutors As Hour of Death Approaches Hauptmann Engrossed in Prayer in Direct Con- trast to Flemington Novel-Reading Hours United Press Copyright TRENTON, March Richard Hauptmann, with death only hours away, has turned toward religion and "forgiven" the men who prosecuted him. It was learned today that under the guidance of his spiritual adviser, Rev. John Matthiesen, the condemned slayer is now en- grossed in prayer. His attitude is in contrast to that at his Flem- ington trial in January, 1935, when he spent his time reading wild west and detective stories. The change has been gradual.

Hauptmann still is not what might be termed deeply religious but Mr. Matthiesen's kindly teachings have brought him back to the Lutheran a i of his fathers. The minister, whose confidence in Hauptmann's innocence is un- swerving, recalled the occasion when German a "cleaned his heart" of feeling against Attorney General David Wilentz and other members of the prosecution. Tells of Sleeplessness "One day he said to me," Mat- thiesen related, 'last night I could not "Then I said: 'Some people count sheep, some people count up to 100 and back again. But you, Richard.

repeat the Lord's prayer. Stop at every petition and think about it. I And you will find a great burden will leave your "When I went to see Richard again he told me I was right. He I said: 'When I came to the petition-- forgive us our trespasses and those who trespass against us--I became very mtimate with God. I lay on my cot and said: 'Oh God.

Here is You know if there is any hatred in his heart--take it away. And if there is any hatred in my heart against him take it away, LOOKOUT. March 30. Three Hc tokl me a a ie Wa3 men were killed early today when able to rfeep peacefully. I cannot help thinking he is a man of good 1 Prays With Bruno When Rev.

Mr. Matthiesen first entered the case several months ago the auto in which they were i i crashed head-on with an castbound A a i Greyhound bus on U. S. route 60 near here. The dead are Harry Delhi.

Joey Hash and Roy Quick, all of Look- Two state troopers, who were passengers on the bus i left Charleston Sunday night for Rich- mond. took charge the in- vestigation i i a They re- ported to the representative of the bus companv that Diehl and Hash had died almost instantly. The pas- senger car caught on fir a the crash, and Quick died half an hour later of i i and burns. The investigating officers said that the men were i i west di- rectly behind a long truck at 2 o'clock Monday morning. Apparent- he persuaded Hauptmann to pray with him every time he visited the death house.

Later Hauptmann be- gan to pray at i by himself. A noteworthy incident occurred. "It was a time when things a i blacker a usual, when Richard's temper a Two Reported Taken In Raid for Karpis HOT SPRINGS, March 30 (UP). Department of justice agents hurled tear and flare gas into a farm house near here to- day in what was believed a search for Alvin Karpis, America's No. 1 public enemy, and a companion.

Local department of justice rep- resentatives denied any one had been arrested but it was reported the "department of men left the house with a man and a woman. It was learned the raiding, party carried machine guns, bullet proof vests, tear and flare gas. and gas masks. The house was reportsd to have been rented about a month ago to INJURING SELF Hauptniann's Success Is Periled by Clinging to Innocence Plea RETAINED IN PRISON Trenton Man Says He Was Tortured for His Statement Associated Prer; Copyright TRENTON, N. March 30 the governor of New Jersey fighting determinedly, but none too hopefully, in his behalf, Bruno Richard a a begged the court of pardons des- perately today to save him from death in the electric chair tomor- row night.

Governor Harold G. Hoffman, unchanged in his belief that the execution at this time of Haupt- mann, be he innocent or guilty, will not solve the famous murder case, hoped to convince the court, which he heads, that there is suf- ficient evidence to support his repeated charge that Hauptmann Harold Hunter, reputed compan- I was unfairly and prejudicially ion of Karpis' who purportedly was being sought as well as Kar- pis. the After the raid, several men-- who airport attendants believed to be federal men. boarded a plane for an unknown destination. TAXING EXPERT ASKS INCREASE Chief of Internal Revenue Bureau Attacks Levies; O.

P. Hits Hearing tried at Flemington, and that the testimony of some state witnesses WASHINGTON, March 30 Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy there was open to eenous ques- tioning. He sought to convince the pardons court--which is a court of mercy rather than of law--that it should go over in detail the circumstances which have convinced him that Jer- sey justice is endangered if Haupt- mann goes to the chair tomorrow night. I The clemency appeal's success was threatened because of Hauptmann's continuing insistence that he is in- nocent of any connection with kidnap-murder. Ordinarily the court considers clemency appeals only when the prisoner confesses guilt and begs for mercy.

Returns lo Spotlig-ht The two new figures in the be- wildering Lindbergh Paul Wendet and he should be so incarcerated." Rev. T. Helvering told the house ways Means--gave back the center of the a means committee bluntly today stage to the Bronx carpenter who ly not seeing approaching bus they attempted to go around the truck just as the end of the bus was even with the front end of the truck. Diehl. 25, who operates a grocery store at Lookout, had picked up Hash.

22. and Quick at Rainelle. Quick, who is 19. received his dis- charge last week from CCC Camp Beaver at i near Rainelle, None of the i passengers on the bus or the driver, H. G.

Wills, of Anst.cd, was hurt. The radiator of the bus was smashed in, and an- Mr. Matthiesen said. "He oe- fore me and I said to him from the Bible: 'Take upon yourself your cross and follow "And: 'Lo, I am i you always even to the end of the 'Oh, a was my confirmation He said, 'how I enjoyed it. How good it is to hear it Rev, Mr.

Matthiesen's intense in- terest in his charge has more than once brought warnings from his church superiors frown on ex- tra-spiritual activities. Recently he has refused to discuss any phyy-e of the case not dealing with religion. 1 Taken From Mob In Attack Slaying a 3 0 that subcommittee revision of the i has held it almost continually since his arrest in New York 18 months UIN -i i-iJ-jiLf, ivicnuu uu other bus was sent out from a i A i a by national i i I trio. i i ton to continue the trip. i guardsmen and state police, four Ne- i i i i i i i i ta i.tn i i i i The state troopers continued their suspects, saved by prompt ac- 4 rt 1V1 ti day.

i-estigation of the accident Mon- ROME. March 30 three Italian planes "successfully' bombed Harar. in eastern Ethiopia i yesterday, despite heavy a i a i a I fire. it. was announced today.

Large I supplies ol munitions and heavy for- i i a i were destroyed, it was added. Sunnv spring weather continued Monday, duplicating a bright Sun- day and the temperature had gone up to 73 degrees from the low mark of 38 for the night. Sun rose wt A 6 :16 a work of this building haven't had Sun sets i fresh coat for years. Two or three thousands persons, we be- lieve, counting duplications of en- trances and exits, visit this un- tidy place every day. We refer to the city library i i Still we can plant roses.

Our people have shown great enthusi- asm for garden rose-growing in past years. Hundreds of them an- nually enter with fine zest into the friendly competitions of the com- munity rose show. At this hour of writing we have mild, spring- like weather--the kind of day that turns thousands of minds toward "paint-up-and-clean-up," and to- ward cultivation of the productive earth. The new "Rose City Pledge" appears again today--on this page. Send it in.

Don't wait tor the Boy Scout to call at your door. Moon sets 2:14 a. m. i Temperatures 8 a. m.

Mon- i day 45 2:30 m. Mon- day 79 Max Sun- day 73 i Min. Sun- day 39 River Stages New river at i Hinton. 5 feet, falling Kanawha river at Kanawha FallO.S feet, falling; at Charleston 14 feet, falling. Ohio river at Point Pleasant, 47.2 feet, falling.

Monday's 8 B. m. temperatures from 14 representative cit.es he United States, supplied by the United States weather bureau: .42 Wheel ing Stores Reopen WHEELING. March 30 R. M.

Pedicord. city-county a commissioner announced the reopen- i of 250 food stores and restsu- rants after thorough a i a i for I post-flood contamination. Triplets of Storm Born To Pennsylvania Flood Victim Blame Premature Birth of Three Girls lo Mother's Suffering in Flight From Waters Hunt for Man In Wounding Inquiry A woman was beinfi held in the city a i Monday, without charges. I and police were searching for a man i in connection with the shooting and i i i Saturday night of George i Ringer. 45 years old.

rooming house manager in the 400 block of Kana- i wha street, and of his daughter. i Violet Ringer. Police found the man Sunday i it was reported, but when they went in the front door of the house where he was staying he went out the back door. Ringer was taken to the Charleston General hospital late Saturday night with wounds in the legs. Violet i was taken to the hos- pital with minor injuries about the head.

At the hospital Monday it was 14 4 8 New'Orleans ock .52 .62 NEW KENSINGTON, March 30 A Three tiny, blue-eyed girls, true "triplets of Ihc storm," i slept peacefully today in electric hospital incubators, i their 21- year-old mother wept in her i 'liige home 12 milc.s away, a i they might not live. She Weis assurrea, however, by i Dr. H. M. Welsh, veteran a i doctor who delivered them, and R.

A. Woilt, baby expert, who has taken over their care that: "Each one is a healthy, normal baby, with an excellent chance of surviving the experiences of her flood era birth." Dr. Welsh turned the babies surrounded by hot water bottles, to the hospital here, 2(J miles northeast of Pittsburgh, a few hours a their births. He said a cold Mrs. Hughes con- tracted in her i from recent flood waters that swirled up 3 feel in her home, and exertion Friday from sweeping away the debris, caused the births two months pre- maturely.

Tears welled into Mrs. Hughes eyes as she talked about her chil- dren and asked to be taken lo hem. The doctor assured her they are receiving the best of care and told her that i her own con- dition is excellent, he did not want to risk her leaving bed im- mediately. At the hospital the tiny new- comers are booked as and in disregard to the rnoHi- er's names, Parma May, Irma Fay and Arena Gay. Miss A weighed two pounds, 6 ounces.

Miss one pound, IZVz ounces and Miss two pounds, ounces. Nurses, carefully watching the triplets 24. hours a clay, give each of them a dropper of food every two hours. Dr. said the babies will be kept in the in- cubalors for a month or longer.

Carson Hughes, the father, a steel worker, didn't get to see his children Sunday. He was working overtime at the mill where he is employed. reported that Ringer's condition was not serious. Physicians plan to oper- ate on him Tuesday to remove the buckshot. New Japanese Attacks Reportet! After Protest MOSCOW.

March 30 emphatic protest by Outer Mongolia against frontier attacks by Man- chukuoan and Japanese soldiers was followed immediately today by re- ports of two new attacks. An i i a dispatch from Ulan Bator, capital of Outer Mongolia, said that a Japanesc-Manchukuoan detachment in seven trucks and one a i attacked a Mongolian outpost, yesterday at Adyk Dolon, 28 miles inside the frontier. At the same time, the dispatch said, a Japanesc-Manchukuoan de- tachment in two trucks attacked an outpost at Bulun Dersu, 5 miles from the frontier. Farley to Speak In Charleston April 22 WASHINGTON, March 30 Postmaster J. W.

Dingess, of ingdon. W. president of the West Virginia Postmasters' association, announced today Postmaster Gen- eral Jumes A. Farley i address the state convention in Charleston. W.

on April 22. Mr. Dingesa said Mr. Farley will speak at. the convention in the after- noon and give a public address that night.

tion of civil officers from a possible lynching after the slaying of 19-year-' old Vivian Woodward, were rushed to Birmingham today. Although mob spirit, fired by the attack slaying of the pretty blonde daughter of a Huntsville city offi- cial, seemed to have subsided, it was decided to take the prisoners to Birmingham, 140 miles away, for safe-keeping. Local officers and highway patrol- men took the four men from angry possemen and later used tear gas to disperse a crowd which gathered menacingly around the jail. Gov- ernor Bibb Graves later ordered three companies of national guards- men here. Bloodhounds picked up a trail at the attack scene behind a private garage.

Police said the dogs fol- lowed it to the house occupied by the Negroes. Miss Woodward disappeared Satur- day night after attending a theater alone. At dawn she was found, attacked and dying, her skull crushed. No charges were placed against the Negroes listed as Eugene Ham- brick, 24, James McCalley, 19. Wood- row Wilson.

19, and Ira Jolly, 17. Flood Survey Ended F. Wilcher McCullough, state WPA administrator, returned to his office Monday from a conference in Wash- ington between officials of West Vir- ginia, Virginia and Maryland, rela- tive to restoring bridges between the states that were destroyed by recent floods. Mr. McCullough said the conference left it to officials to de- termine estimates of costs for re- storing the bridges to be reported later.

new tax bill left the measure in adequate to meet the treasury's needs. The program as recommended by the subcommittee falls $345,000,000 short of the President's estimate of new revenue needs over a three- year period. Helvering. first witness before the committee, did not discuss directly the fact that the subcommittee had thrown out of consideration proposed processing taxes to raise 000 a year. If included in the bill, the President's requirements would be carried out.

Helvering said emphatically that the subcommittee "has not made complete provision for the additional temporary revenues that will be re- quired." "It seems to me," Helvering said. "that your committee should con- sider whether there are not addi- tional sources of temporary revenue that can be provided for the next two or three years to bridge this gap and to bring the measure that is to be enacted into full consisten-ry with the President's '-da- tions for redressing the budget esti- mates." Charge Irregularity Republican opposition expressed in charges of "irregularity" broke here over the administration's tax legislation program at the opening of hearings before the house wa and means committee. Six Republican house members is- weve Present on uie luucn coj sued a joint statement asserting the January hen the committee hearings re "another exploration into the economic at- mosphere." In a separate statement. Representative Alion T. Treadway.

minority member of the house ways and means committee, which has charge of the legislation, warned against any attemot to prevent op- position business from Leing heard. The hearings "have been arranged in a wholly irregular manner," the Republican group statement said. "They do not constitute legislative hearings on a tax bill, as the major- ity members of the committee would have the country believe, for there is no tax bill." The statement was signed by Rep- resentatives Robert L. Bacon. New York; Earl C.

Michener Michigan: U. S. Guyer, Kansas; Clarence E. Hancock, New York; Charles W. Tobey, New Hampshire, and Leslie Arends.

Illinois. "To date the administration still is without a fiscal program." the group said. "Neither does it have (Continued on Page 11. Column 7) Plant at least Onef The 'Pledge jot a City A MY part toward sustaining Charleston's fame as the "Rose City of the East" I agree to plant or cause to be planted on my premises at least rose a during the.season of 1936. Name Street or Suburb Please Fill Out and Send to Daily Mail Office his arrest in New York 18 months ago with $14.000 worth of ransom money in his possession.

Wendel. charged with the Lind- berah baby killing in a surprising midnight action by a Mercer county detective, was held in jail in a part of town some distance from cap- ital where seven of the eight judges of the pardons court went into se- cret session shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. Means, a federal prisoner at Leav- enworth. stood self-accused by a "confession" which, like that at- tributed to Wendel. was refused credence by most officials.

of in of Wendel. whose "confession" that he kidnaped and killed the baby was later repudiated, depended in large measure upon what the court of par- do'is did Erwin E. Marshall, the prosecutor, sard that the pardons court has a copv of Wendel's confession, togeth- er with Wendel's repudiation. One Member Is III Only seven of the eight members of the pardons court heard the clemency plea today, one member being ill. Hauptmann was repre- sented by his chief counsel, C.

Lloyd Fisher, and Judge Frederick A. Pope. Attorney-General David T. Wilentz and Anthony M. Hauck, Hunter- don county prosecutor, represented the state.

The brilliant and warm day failed. to bring out any of the crowds that were present on the much colder a all-day session, turned down Haupt- mann's previous appeal. Outside the room in which the court convened was Colonel Mark O. Kimbcrling. warden of the state prison and the man whose nod will signal Hauptmann's execution--if it takes place.

Today's secret court session was virtually Hauptmann's last hope un- less the governor himself, flying in. the face of legal opinion that he lacked such power, issued a second reprieve. He said that he does not now intend granting a second re- prieve. Hauptmann's own counsel, which already has exhausted almost every state and federal court action, in- cluding two appearances in the United States supreme court, had no announced plans for any further ef- forts to save Hauptmann's Colonel Kimberlina arranged to permit Mrs. Anna visit her husband in the death home today, even as prison technicians made last minute inspection of the death house equipment.

Call for Testimony A representnt've of the New Jer- sey state police was called before the court of pardons with the Flem- ington trial testimony of Arthur J. Koehler, federal wood expert, who swore it was his opinion Hauptmann built the Lindbergh kidnap ladder. The call for the testimony, which included that part pertaining to Koehler's qualifications as an ex- pert, was made after the court had been in session about two and a half hows. It was regarded as an indication that Governor Hoffman, who has ouestioned the state's contentions Hauptmann built the ladder, was Dressing his ficht in Hauptmann's behalf in this direction. Governor Hoffman last Thursday visited Hauptmann's Bronx Chortle to see for himself the -attflF-fipkHna! from which, the state contended, Hauptmann took a board which" on Page 11, Column t) NEWSPAPER.

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