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4Vol. 204-D. BALTEMORE, THURSDAY" JANUARY 12, 1939 22 Paces 2 Cents SUN New Governor Declares His Policies HOPKINS SAYS I Royal Italian Princess Passes Crisis; Sister's 4T I (I it STATE FACES NEW TAXES, O'CONOR DECLARES AFTER TAKING OATH AS GOVERNOR Heavy Levies May Come, He Tells Huge Throng. Inauguration Returns Democratic Party To Power Again Whole Program Goes Off With Perfect Timing. Nice Becomes Private Citizen Again And Leaves Almost At Once For Baltimore Br i-oris j.

o'doxnux rM ft R. O'Conor shown as lie delivered his inaugural address to the ANNAPOLIS Gov. Herbert crowd gathered in front Prof. Frankfurter To Answer lAnnapolis Bureau of The Sun Annapolis, Jan. 11 To the accompaniment of fanfare, for which no one in this old city could name an equal, Herbert R.

O'Conor this afternoon became Governor of Maryland and started his administration with the somewhatunheard-of declaration that more, and perhaps heavy, taxes can be expected. In substance, this is what the new Governor told at least 15,000 persons within earshot of his voice as he delivered his inaugural address from the portico of the old State House shortly after he had taken the oath of office and returned the government of Maryland to the Democratic party. At exactly 12.09 P. M. Mr.

O'Conor, in the Senate chamber, succeeded Harry W. Xice by affixing his signature to the book signifying that he had qualified and taten the appropriate oath of office. Nice Private Citizen Again Standing within a few feet of him was the retiring executive, the third Republican Governor of Maryland since the Civil. War and, within a few minutes after he had relinquished the helm of the government to his 42-year-old successor, a plain citizen bound for Baltimore to resume his practice of law. Never, so some of the oldest residents of Annapolis said; had the inauguration of a Governor drawn to the county seat of Anne Arundel such a galaxy of national, state, city and just plain, ordinary citizens to engage in an orgy of jubilation.

Streets Still Full Of Merrymakers Late tonight the streets still were full of merrymakers, hun Attacks On Nomination Today Mysterious Documents Sent With Interpreting Code To Subcommittee Delay Vote Wedding Is Postponed Rome, Jan. 11 Princess Mafalda, second child ol King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena, was reported to have passed through a crisis today in an illness which for a time seemed to threaten her life. Officials repeatedly denied persist ent rumors of her death and reports that her death was being kept secret so as not to interfere with festivities of the visit of the British Prime Min ister, Neville Chamberlain. The Princess is suffering from an attack of bronchial pneumonia which developed from influenza. A person close to the royal household said her condition was considered encouraging tonight.

She is 36. The illness caused the royal family to announce today postponement of the wedding of her younger sister, Maria, to Prince Louis, of Bourbon-Parma. The wedding was to have been Sunday. A new date was not set. LOYALISTS ROUTED IN CATALONIA DRIVE Insurgents Reported Within 15 Miles Of Tarragona, Main Coastal Town Government Forces Batter ing Rebel Rail Line Between Buraos-Seville By the Associated Pressl Hendaye, France, Jan.

11 Insurgent dispatches to the Spanish border to night said the entire Government position north of Tarragona had been turned by the capture of Montblanch and an after-dark advance to within fifteen miles of the coastal city. Fighting through a soupy fog. Navarrese virtually surrounded Mont blanch, little town of 5,000 inhabitants. earlier in the day and then by a front al attack drove out the defenders. Montblanch is the heart of a net work of roads for southern Catalonia and about eighteen miles northwest of Tarragona, principal seaport of southern Catalonia.

50 Miles From Barcelona Tarragona itself is about fifty miles southwest of Barcelona, Government capital. At the same time the position of Tarragona was menaced by Insurgents advancing from the southwest, near Falset. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's men were reported by their commanders to be within four miles of Falset and about twenty-six miles from Tarragona. The twin drive threatened to cut off all lower Catalonia and isolate Government militia guarding the lower Ebro river line around Tortosa. 12 Hours Of Fighting Insurgent dispatches said Montblanch fell after nearly twelve hours of one of the most furious assaults of the current campaign that started December 23.

The Insurgents' heaviest artillery, tanks, planes, mortars and crack infantry units were pressed into the battle. Encircling Montblanch from the north, they first took Solivella on the northwest, Pira on the north and then Barbera on the northeast. On the southwestern front, the Government forces reported they had brought the direct rail line connecting Seville, southern headquarters of the Insurgents, with Burgos, their northern capital, under the fire of heavy Government artillery. Near Main Station Dispatches from the Government side said the offensive in southwestern Spain to offset Generalissimo Franco's big drive in the northeast had been carried to within eight miles of Llerena, one of the main stations on the railway. The city lay within range of the Government's heavy artillery, these ad-(Continued on Page 12, Column 5) Santo Domingo it I HE'S ON 'TEAM OF ROOSEVELT Tells Commerce Commit tee He's Devoted To New Deal In Favor Of Government Spending, But Expects Balanced Budget By DE7VET FLEMING iWashington Bureau of The Sun Washington, Jan.

11 Harry L. Hopkins, lately transferred from his post as WPA Administrator to a place in the Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce today proudly identified himself as a member of President Roosevelt's "team," ready to do his chiefs bidding on shortest notice. In a four-hour appearance before the Senate Commerce Committee, which must pass upon his nomination, he warned that "when that team starts to move, it moves." and said the Sen ate should know in advance that if it confirmed him, it would be confirming one passionately devoted to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Administration. Foresees Balanced Budget The committee also was told by the nominee.for the Commerce Secretary ship that he: Favors Government spending in times when private capital fails to do the job.

Looks forward to a balanced budget, "surely and reasonably soon." Confidently expects substantial reduction of public relief rolls. Doesn't believe the Government can live indefinitely on borrowed money. Anticipates material reduction of unemployment within a reasonable period. Is against sit-down strikes, but not against unions. Is sure the Government has no intention of attempting to "harass" or "punish" business.

If he had to go over the road again, he would not make political speeches while serving as Relief Administrator. Did "all I could" to keep politics out of relief and thinks some who transgressed "should have been pitched Caucus Room Jammed Spectators jammed into every nook and corner of the huge Senate caucus room also heard Hr. Hopkins deny vehemently and repeatedly that he had ever said, as widely quoted, that his philosophy was to 'spend and spend and tax and tax and elect and elect." "I never said anything like that," he reiterated as members of the committee cited attributions of the quotation to him in newspaper articles written by a number of persons, including Frank R. Kent, of the Baltimore Sun; Arthur Krock, of the New York Times, and Joseph Alsop, and Robert Kintner, Washington columnists. "I simply know I never said anything like that," Mr.

Hopkins continued. "Mr. Krock doesn't say I said to him. He says I said it in a moment of relaxation, which might have been in your home, or his, or where people were just playing around. Thought It Was Funny "I thought it was funny at the time that he would quote me in a moment of relaxation.

Why, if all of you around this table were quoted in moments of relaxation, it would be a fine looking record. "I want to say with all the force I can that I didn't make that statement want to say that I do not question the good faith of these gentlemen who wrote it. They undoubtedly believe it to be an authentic quotation. "But I think tit is high time the person who said it comes out and says, 'Yes, I was the one who said it. "Of course, they (the newspaper men) will say they don't want to discontinued on Page Column 1) Law Maroons for transshipping to the West Indies dreds and hundreds of whom parade, the like of which Annapolis has never seen before.

And, at the same time, a steady stream of well-wishers poured into the Government House to extend their congratulations to ETELL OF PEACE HOPE Briton Urges Negotiation But Mussolini Insists "On Justice" Leaders Meet In Rome For First Of Talks "On Appeasement No Broadcast New York, Jan. 11 Two American broadcasting chains reported tonight that Rome authorities had made impossible scheduled short-wave broadcasts on the Mussolini-Chamberlain talks. Correspondents were to have broadcast at 6.30 P. M. (E.

S. The National Broadcasting Company said that shortly before its correspondent was to have spoken he cabled, "facilities denied." The Columbia Broadcasting System's speaker cabled "broadcast impossible" a half hour before he was to have gone on the air. British broadcasts, however, were allowed. By the Associated Press! Rome, Jan. 11 Premier Benito Mus-olini of Italy and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain assured each other they desired peace but denned their objectives differentlytonight at a brilliant state ban-cuet arranged for the British statesman who sought to bring his European appeasement policy to the Mediterranean.

Mussolini, toasting Chamberlain at the dinner in the Palazzo Venezia, invoked "peace with justice." Chamberlain spoke for peace "by the method of negotiation." Duce's Definition Foreign observers saw in Mussolini's definition an expression of a view frequently stated in recent weeks by his authoritative spokesmen that without colonial concessions for Italy and Germany there can be no appeasement in Europe. In other words, Italy insists she be treated with justice, first of all. Chamberlain's declaration was seen In these same quarters as an admonition that appeasement could not be realized unless the Fascist claims were put forward in diplomatic form. So far Italy's demand for recognition of her claims in France's Tunisia. Corsica, Djibouti and a share in control of the Suez Canal have been articulated almost entirely through her high-pressure propaganda campaign.

Exchange Information In his toast, the elderly British Prime Minister, who received a warm welcome upon his arrival at 4.17 P. M. (10.17 A. E.S.T.) in company with his Foreign Minister, Viscount Halifax, and a party of Foreign Office experts, announced that Britain and Italy already had begun an exchange of military information. This was in accordance with the terms of their Easter friendship treaty which was made effective November 16.

It was noteworthy, he said, that the two Governments "yesterday, here and in London, were able to proceed to an exchange of military information." Sees No Conflict He added that the Mediterranean interests of the two countries, "while of vital importance to us both, need in no way conflict," a statement that politi- 1 cal circles interpreted as indicating his desire for an agreement on the Spanish question. Fascist sources said the civil war there, in which Italians are helping the Insurgents, was solving its own problem through Insurgent victory. But British quarters declared the Prime Minister desired more concrete assurances from Italy in view of i Italy's participation in the present In-! aurgent offensive. Fearful Of "Life Line" Before leaving London for his Rome trip, Chamberlain was represented as fearful of increased Italian influence in the Mediterranean, through which passes Britain's "life line" to parts of her empire, should Insurgents win in Spain as a result of Italian aid. After the reception which followed the banquet, Mussolini and his Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, escorted Chamberlain and Lord Halifax through the museum which forms a part of il Duce's palace.

They chatted cordially in English. Go To Their Villa Exactly at midnight they said goodnight to their guests at the palace door, the Englishmen going to the Villa Ma- dama and Mussolini to his office in the palace. While many Britons doubted any concrete political accomplishments would come from the visit, one exceptionally well-informed British source aid after the banquet that Chamberlain had found Mussolini's attitude "encouraging" and that the outlook on Page 6) the new Governor. He had, earlier, following the delivery of his of the State Capitol. LEFT WING WPA WORKERS FIGHT SLASH IN FUNDS Alliance Says Jobless Cannot Accept "Edict For Their Starvation" Br C.

P. TRCSSELI. Bureau of The Sun! Washington, Jan. 11 Rebuffed by the House Appropriations subcommittee on relief, which ignored its demand for a $1,050,000,000 fund to run the WPA until June 30 and recommended $725,000,000 instead, the left-wing Workers' Alliance of America today issued this "solemn warning" the parent body to which the subgroup will report tomorrow: "The unemployed cannot and will not accept this edict for their starvation; nor can the liberal forces of this nation stand idly by while the recovery movement is smashed." Warning Sent Chairman Claiming a gross rr.embeiship of nearly 400,000 WPA workers and un employed in forty-five States, the alliance, addressing its warning to Representative Taylor (Dem, chairman of the Appropriations Com mittee, declared: "We have a right to ask whether those who voted for only $725,000,000 are willfully seeking to promote such suffering among the unemployed as to drive them to desperation. Do they wish by their action to make the streets of our cities scenes of riots of hungry, jobless men, women and children? "We have a right to ask whether this committee is not willfully threatening the recovery movement which is under way." Demonstrations Planned As the alliance communication was sent to Capitol HilL under the signature of David Lasser.

its national president, it advanred its plans for demonstration parades to be held in some 1.100 cities and towns throughout the country on January 23. This date, it is calculated by the alliance, will be at a time when the work-relief emergency legislation will have reached its critical stage on the Senate floor or in conference between the two houses. The whole gain in private industry date, the alliance held in its com munication to the appropriations bod v. is about 1.000.000, of which ap proximately 400,000 should be sub tracted to account for new workers who have entered the labor market 1,200.000 Would Be Jobless "Now that committee," Lasser wrote. speaking of the subcommittee, headed by Representative Wood rum (Dem, "proposes to throw 600,000 to 1,200,000 workers out of employment entirely, wiping out any gains in em ployment in the present recovery movement Concluding his "warning, Mr.

Lasser said: "If the Congress supports the Ap propriations Committee's threat to the lives and welfare of the unemployed, they will only be inviting the hundreds of thousands of discharged workers to come to Washington and say to the Congress: 'You. by your vote, discharged us. Now tell us how we and our families are to "There is still time for your committee to reconsider the seriousness its action, and to vote the appro priation necessary to the welfare of the jobless and recovery. The necessary of the portico of old portion ESS ART gram was delivered foretelling that certain pertinent matters would be put before the subcommittee tomorrow or very soon thereafter. The nature of this material was not indicated but the secrecy of its char-cter was suggested by the statement that a "code" would be needed to decipher its contents.

Vote On Nomination Delayed Except for this last-minute development, plus the willingness of Professor Frankfurter to appear in person, it is not improbable that the nomination would have been reported favorably today. This would have been tantamount to favorable action by the whole committee and afterward by the Senate, it was assumed. Such testimony as already had been submitted to the committee in opposition to the Frankfurter nomination has failed to impress the subcommittee. The members make no secret of that. In fact, they were so fed up on what they regard as trivial evidence that they were all set to vote on a report Only the notice of some further material which might or might not be (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) British Theater Club Fined For Using Line Banned In Odets Play London, Jan.

11 (Special) Ten actors and officials of the Merseyside Left Theater Club were placed on probation for a year and ordered to pay costs of $7.87 each at Chester today for including an allegedly profane line in Clifford Odets play, "Awaiting for Lefty," after the British censor had stricken it from the script arid for presenting another Odets play, "I Can't Sleep," without official sanction. The case grew out of an incident at the Royalty Theater, Chester, on December 16, when the manager rang down the curtain without warning on 'Waiting for Lefty," the last of three plays which the Merseyside group put on that evening as part of the Chester drama festival. Members of the provincial audience walked out and demanded their money back. IT omuls 3, Kills Self In Fight Over Rent Due Pittsburgh Physician Shoots Constable And Agents When They Levy On Auto Pittsburgh, Jan. 11 (JP) Facing loss of his automobile because of past-due rent on his house.

Dr. Charles C. Stanton, 60, an eye and ear specialist, shot a constable and two real estate agents tonight and killed himself. Constable Bailey K. Schaefer and the agents, James rouse and John L.

Schaefer, were wounded in the garage of the doctor's home in nearby Ingomar. The constable was hit in the abdomen, the others only slightly hurt Andrew T. Park, District Attorney, said Mrs. Stanton told him someone in the garage struck her husband during an argument and that he began shooting. Dr.

Stanton went to his room, where. Park said, he kissed his wife and asked her to bring him a drink of liquor. On her way, Stanton heard the shot in the bedroom which ended the doctor's life. to to of By I RK Washington, Jan. 11 Prof.

Felix Frankfurter has yielded to the pressure that he appear personally and refute some of the allegations made against his confirmation as a member of the Supreme Court. Word to this effect reached the Senate subcommittee considering his nomination shortly after that body had recessed late today. The information was that he would arrive here to morrow morning to testify. Professor Frankfurter had previously declined an invitation to appear in person, but had stated that if the sub committee should desire his presence he would cheerfully present himself to that body. To Be Heard At 10.30 'The Senate Its chairman.

Senator Neely W. Va.) said tonight, "communicated to Dr. Frankfurter its desire for him to appear before it, and he has kindly agreed to appear tomorrow and will be heard by the subcommittee at 10.30 A. This phase of the hearing developed after an element of mystery had been introduced this afternoon when a $25,000 Damage Suit Filed Against Dodd In Auto Injury Case Leesburg, Jan. 11 Sheriff E.

S. Adrian, of Loudoun county, said today he had posted on the door of former Ambassador William E. Dodd'f home, near Round Hill, a notice of motion for judgment for $25,000 damages. George Haw, attorney for James Grimes, Negro, father of 5-year-old Glois Grimes, who was injured when allegedly struck by Dodd's automobile, said at Richmond he mailed the notice of motion to Sheriff Adrian Monday. Sheriff Adrian said posted the notice on Dodds door because there was no one at home when he went to the house yesterday.

Dodd is at liberty under $2,000 bond on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident Mooncy At Hospital; Seeks Data On Life Span Voluntary Patient, He Awaits Verdict On Whether He Will Last 25 Years San Francisco, Jan. 11 (JP) Tom Mooney, 56, was pronounced "apparently in excellent physical condition for a man of his age" tonight after the first day of a general medical checkup he sought in order to determine his prospects of living twenty-five more years. Mooney, freed by Gubernatorial pardon Saturday after twenty-two years in prison, entered the hospital today for the checkup as a basis on which to map his campaign for labor unity. Coincident with Mooncy's hospitalization his attorney, George T. Davis, announced he would file an application with the Governor tomorrow for the pardoning of Warren K.

Billings, Mooney 's codefendant. Brandeis Has "A Good Day" Washington, Jan. 11 Aides of Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the Supreme Court said tonight he had "a very good day." Brandeis, S2, has been ill since Saturday, had. taken part in the inaugural address and a review of the inaugural parade, shaken hands with thousands of those who came to the State capital for the ceremonies.

From the start, up to the delivery by Governor O'Conor of his inaugural address, the ceremonies went off without a hitch and with perfect timing. Arrives On Schedule The arrival of the new Governor in Annapolis was on scheduled time 11.15 A. Mrs. O'Conor, accompanied by the Executive's family and Mrs. Nice, reached the Senate chamber a few moments in advance of the official party, as was planned.

There they were squeezed into seats, originally reserved but taken by the friends of friends of friends of State Senators and their friends. In the end, the O'Conor family, with the exception of llrs. O'Conor and the Governor's mother, were obliged to stand on their chairs to see him inaugurated. The ceremony in the Senate chamber was brief. Governor O'Conor repeated the oath of office after Chief Judge Carroll T.

Bond of the Court of Appeals, whose colleagues occu pied in robes a prominent place in front of the rostrum. Farley And Welles There Crowded in with the politico-citizens who managed to pass by the Baltimore policemen stationed in the Senate chamber were such figures as James A. Farley, Democratic National Committeeman and Postmaster General; Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State of the United States, 'and Mayor Jackson of Baltimore, one of Mr. O'Conor unsuccessful primary oppo nents. Governor Nice in a split second an ex-Governor of Maryland stood on the Senate rostrum with Mr.

O'Conor while the oath of office was being administered. He smiled as Judge Bond intoned the oath to Senator Arthur Brice Kent), President of the Senate, and Speaker Thomas E. Con- Ion Fifth, Baltimore), who also stood beside the new Governor and the chief judge of the Court of Appeals. Having relinquished the crres of State. Mr.

Nice stepped down to the Senate floor, greeted a few friends and then, approaching Mrs. Nice, who had (Continued on Page 9, Column 1) 20,000 Citizens Jam Annapolis For O'Conor Inaugural By T. KEXXEY lAnnapolis Bureau of The Sun Annapolis, Jan. 11 The biggest, hap piest, most boisterous crowd ever to attend a Maryland inauguration showed up here today with bells on for Her-bert R. O'Conor's induction into office.

They carried flags. They carried banners. They whooped. They hollered They whistled. They littered Annapolis with scraps of paper and empty whisky bottles.

They gave 150 Baltimore policemen, 45 State officers and the entire State capital police force a good-natured battle from the word "go." Taproom Results Good Taprooms totted up wrecked furniture and broken glassware against record gross sales, and found the results good. Pitchmen checked off balloons lost due to slingshots in the hands of small boys safely hidden in the crowds against the ones they sold at 300 per cent, profit, and also found the results good. Women fainted in the crush around the State House. Children lost their parents in the milling throngs, and dogs went frantic with fear under the feet of the thousands. Local police, who know how many people must jam into Annapolis before streets become impassable to all but eels, said there were 20,000 on hand if there was one.

Few See Swearing In Only a handful actually saw the new Governor sworn into office. That was because the Senate Chamber has solid marble walls, and there is a definite limit to the amount of stretching marble will do. And only a few more than a handful actually saw the new Governor -deliver his inaugural address, although plenty heard it over the amplifying system. That was because the east lawn of the State House has a big hump in it. and only the relatively few hundreds on the hump could see the east portico where the Governor stood.

But everybody could see and hear the parade, and that, as far as the (Continued on Page 9, Column 6) 9 Austrian Refugees In N. F. Jews On Way To West Indies Learn Too Late That They Must Pay $500 To Land There By the Associated Press New York, Jan. 11 Nine Jewish ref ugees sat in a disconsolate huddle in a little midtown hotel where they have found temporary sanctuary and drearily picked at the strangest im migration puzzle ihat has arisen here since the great exodus from Nazi Austria began. From their dilemma there seemed no exit They had left Austria with tickets all in ordr to go to Santo Domingo, but at sea they got word that Santt Domingo had made a regulation requiring such immigrants to pay a $500 entrance fee.

They had no $500, they explained through an interpreter, no friends or relatives in America who might raise that amount, no means of going to Santo Domingo, no desire or permission to return home, and no legal right to stay here. They arrived with passports which merely permitted them to land here and the tenth of their number, Dr. Alfred Wilder, wasn't able to enter the country at all because of an unsatisfactory visa. He is on Ellis Island, creating a problem all his own. Whatever they may have whispered in their hoarse German among themselves, as they sat in a stolid semicircle in the hotel lounge, they were careful in their mass interview to say nothing derogatory to Germany, Austria, Santo Domingo, the United States or the regulations which enmeshed them.

Heinrkh Bank, a short, square-shouldered little dentist who had brought his wife, Pauline, and his 15-year-old daughter, Helga, with him. explained with a wave of his arm and a half-melancholy series of monosyllables that they all still wanted to (Continued on Page 6, Column 2) (Continued on Page 2, Column 61.