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HONOR DEATH TRIAL OPENS IN HONOLULU Racial Hatred and Politics Mixed Into Case of Navy Men and Matron. DARROW AIDS DEFENSE Slaying of Native After Attack Turned Attention of World to Islands. BY DAN CAMPBELL t'nitcd Pres* Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, April 4.—An attack on the wife of a young naval officer, the murder of a native accused of participating in the attack, racial feeling, and Hawaiian politics were well-mixed today in the trial of an American matron and three navy men, accused of murder in Honolulu’s “honor slaying.’’ „ The defendants, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, her son-in-law. Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, and enlisted men, Edward J. Lord and Albert O. Jones, were defended by a brilliant legal staff headed by Clarence Darrow. They were indicted for the sec-ond-degree murder of Joe Kahahawai, a native abducted and killed on Jan. 9. He and four other men at the time awaited a second trial on charges of having attacked Lieutenant Massie’s wife. Evidence Is Circumstantial The defendants neither have denied nor admitted their guilt. The defense has kept silent on plans for the trial. The police claimed, soon after the murder, that they had a string of circumstantial evidence against the defendants, but no witnesses to the crime have been found. There have been many theories as to what happened between the time Kahahawai was enticed into an a.utomobile in front of the hall of justice, where a white man showed him a document •which looked like a summons, and the time his body was found. The body was found in the automobile stopped near Koko Head. Three defendents w'ere in the car; the fourth was stationed outside Mrs. Fortescue’s residence. Lieutenant Massie is expected to outline a defense of accidental homicide. The defense may plead "alarm clock insanity,” that under the strain of believing the Hawaiian guilty of the attack on Mrs. Massie, the defendants lost their reason temporarily. World Attention on Islands Circuit Judge Charles S. Davis indicated that court -would be held only in the mornings. Tt was expected that selection of a jury w-ould take up most of the first week of the trial. The slaying of Kahahakal, and subsequent charges that conditions in the “Pearl of the Pacific” were not safe for white women focused world attention on Honolulu. The background of sensational events there reached from the depths of Honolulu's underworld to the uppermost level of American society. Mrs. Massie. formerly Thalia Fortescue, was attacked one night last September in the Waikiki beach section of Honolulu, made famous in songs and stories of Hawaii. She was brutally and criminally assaulted. Five men were arrested and identified by Mrs. Massie. One w r as Kahahawai. Another, Horace Ida, later was kidnaped on a main street and beaten, he claimed, by United States sailors. Undercurrent of Unrest The five men were released on bail after the jury disagreed at their trial. A second hearing was scheduled. Meanwhile feeling between the fo.eign residents and natives grew with other attacks on white women. Sailors and natives clashed. On one occasion marines w'ere brought from Pearl Harbor to maintain order. Sailors from the naval base were not allowed to come irto the city. An undercurrent of bad feeling broke with the kidnaping and murder of Joe Kahahawai. According to the police story, they found evidence that Kahahawai was killed at Mrs. Fortescue’s home, lhat his body was wrapped in a sheet and placed in a car. and that his killer intended to throw the body Into a geyser where it never would have been found. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 45 7a. m 33 11 a. m 50 Ba. 35 12 (noon).. 53 9 am 40 l p. m 57

Poorhouse Inmate Gets SBO,OOO, but ‘Keeps Cool’ By United Press VINCENNES, Ind.. April 4 —One new suit, or maybe two, and a railroad ticket to California is all that John Wheeler, 70, Knox county infirmary inmate, will buy right awav with the SBO,OOO he Inherited last week. Old John worked around the infirmary today the same as ever. Since he has learned that an uncle he never saw', John Vest, died in California and rest him sole heir to a fortune, Wheeler has not changed. He wears the same overalls, shirt and slouch hat and old shoes. Each night he washes his clothes and dons the same ones again the next tiay. A shiny new auto doesn’t interest Wheeler. “If I did buy one,” he reflected, “I’d have to have a chauffeur, because I can t drive If I had a chauffpur, pretty soon maybe I’d need a valet. “No, utst because I haven’t haa money before, that doesn't mean I don't know how to spend it wisely." Whfelei said he will stay in the infirmary until he “sees the greenbacks,' Then he’ll buy "some of the bovs he’-e” a little present and leave lor the west.

The Indianapolis Times Unsettled and warmer tonight: Tuesday partly cloudy and slightly warmer.

VOLUME 43—NUMBER 282

5-Year Plans Eugene Lyons. United Press staff correspondent at Moscow, has written a vivid, colorful and realistic series on the Soviet five-year plan. First article of this series, dealing w-ith the second five-year plan, and the wind-up of the first fiveyear plan, appears on Page 2 of today’s Times. Lyons has been watching the Soviet experiment since the birth of the first five-year plan. His intimate, close contact with the Soviet leaders, his knowledge of their country, has given him an unparalleled background for an honest and fair statement of aims and conditions. In the Lyons series, he gives a picture of the human struggle of the Russians to push their strategy through to success, their failure and accomplishments. These articles will bring home to every reader the hardships, sacrifices and labor demanded of Russians by their leaders. It is a portrait of a country' on trial in the eyes of the world.

FOUR KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH Sleet Coats Wings, Blinds Pilot in Storm. By I nited Press ALBORN, Minn., April 4.—Four business men-fliers, speeding to the air show' in Detroit, ran into a sleet squall near here today which blinded the pilot, weighted the wings of (heir plane and sent them to death in a crash at more than sixty miles an hour. The dead were: Cheron Fuller, 25, pilot. H. E. Kurviness, 35, garage owner. G. J. Soreno, 32, owmer of the plane. W. Soreno, his brother. The lour left. Ely, Minn., at 6 a. m. They ran into a snow squall near Independence, Minn., and swung northward to escape it. Steve Watson, on whose farm they crashed, gave the United Press and eye-witness story of the accident. ‘ The plane was less than twentyfive feet from the ground,” Watson said, “when I first saw it. They appeared to be trying to find a place to land. The plane was going at a terrific speed. The wings were coated with sleet and it seemed that they had no control over it. “They went lower and lower, apparently not knowing how low they were. The ship crashed on its propeller and rolled over and over along the highway. “The pilot apparently had sensed the danger and turned off the ignition switch, as the plane did not catch fire.”

TANARUS, B. UNIT IS URGED Women’s Groups in Favor of Mission Offer. Resolutions urging the city to acquire and operate a proposed new r building to house advanced tuberculosis patients on city hospital grounds have been passed by a number of women’s organizations recently, it was announced today. The Indianapolis Flower Mission ; has offered to finance the proposed 1 new- building, confirming to archii lecture of city hospital buildings, and recommends, under the resolu- ; tions, the city maintain the institution. The resolution has been passed | by the Seventh District Federation of Clubs, the Women’s Auxiliary of Railway Mail Clerks and about ten literary societies. It was to be brought before the executive board of the W. C. T. U. at a meeting today. The resolution will be presented the city council. JOBLESS MAN SLAYS WIFE. SELF IN GARY Woman’s Skull Crushed With Ax: Suicide With Razor. By Times Special GARY, Ind.. April 4.—A laborer hacked his w’ife to death here Sunday and then ended his owm life by slashing his throat. Their five small children, the eldest 11 and the youngest 2. were in charge of police officials today. The father, Dan Moicin, 50. had been jobless. Sunday morning he walked into the kitchen where his wife was preparing dinner and j crushed her skull with a heavy ax. He then slashed his throat with a razor. Mrs. Moicin was 40. Katherine. 4, saw her mother struck down and ran to the home of neighbors.

POLICE RENEW HOPE IN LINDY KIDNAP HUNT ‘lmportant Leads Continue to Withstand Probe,’ Say Officers. FLIER’S TRIP MYSTERY Colonel Believed to Have Visited Yacht; Agent Is in England. BY BATES RANEY United Press Staff Correspondent HOPEWELL. N. J., April s.—lmportant leads in connection with the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. continue to withstand investigation, police announced today a few hours after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh had returned from a mysterious visit away from Hopewell. The colonel, garbed in a flying j coat and heavy gloves, drove into his estate shortly after midnight, iHe was accompanied by one man whose identity was not certain. Nothing definite could be learned of where he had been, although the visit of a seaplane to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., had been connected by some with the trip of Lindbergh. Lindy on Mystery Trip Other events included: Departure from Norfolk, Va., of Rear-Admiral Guy IJ. Burrage, where John H. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis already are missing on a mysterious mission in connection with the investigation. Burrage returned to Norfolk today, but made no j statement. Arrival in England of Major Charles Schoeffe! of the New Jersey state police for a conference with Scotland Yard operatives. With Lindbergh when he returned was another man, believed to have been John Fogarty, a private detective, retained by Lindbergh to aid i in the search for his infant son, kid- ! naped from his crib on March 1. The return of the flier was linked with visit of the seaplane at Cutty- ! hunk, Mass., Sunday morning. Occvftiants said they were looking for the yacht “Sallie.” They wefe be- | lieved to have established contact a few hours later with a yacht off ! Penikese island. Talk to Coast Guard Ship Charles D. Church, retired fisher- ! man, said the men talked with the i commander of a coast guard boat in | the harbor. He said they left shortly after noon and flew in a northj erly direction. Over Penikese island. Church said, the plane dropped within what | might have been hailing distance of the yacht anchored off the | island and appeared either to ex- ! amine it or communicate with it. I As Lindbergh returned to his estate his car passed two automo- ! bile loads of newspaper men at the intersection of the Providence line road. The car stopped and Lindbergh was said to have called out: “Are you the police?” “No, we are the press,” was the response. “Is there anything new, colonel?" “Thank you,” the flier said as he drove on into the estate. Press Hunt in England By United Press LONDON, April 4.—The “Lindbergh mystery” came to London today with all the sensations of an Edgar Wallace “thriller.” The city was intrigued by the closely-guarded arrival of Major Charles Schoeffel. assistant superintendent of the New Jersey state police, who came here to confer with Scotland Yard on the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. Schoeffel conferred with yard officials today and then left on an undisclosed mission. It was reported he had gone to Scotland, presumably to interview Mrs. Taylor, mother of the Lindbergh baby's nurse, Betty Gow. TOW-IN BAN APPEAL REGARDED UNLIKELY Final Decision on Sheaffer Ruling to Be Made This Week. City officials indicated today there will be no appeal from a decision of Municipal Judge William H. i Sheaffer holding the automobile tow-in ordinance unconstitutional. I Final decision on whether an appeal to circuit court will be taken is scheduled at a conference later ! this week which will be attended by safety board members, legal department representatives and Mayor ! Reginald H. Sullivan. HOWARD’S LIFE ON AIR Frazier Hunt to Discuss Success of Scripps-Howard Head. By United Press NEW YORK. April 4.—The life story of Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board of the Scripps-How-ard newspapers, will be told by Frazier Hunt, magazine editor, author and former war correspondent, during his “Great Personalities” program over a NBC-WJZ nationwide network Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. (Central Standard Time). KIDNAP THEATER HEAD lowan Believed Captive of Movie Show Bandits. By United Priss ANAMOSA. la.. April 4.—Charles Niles, 20. manager of the Niles theater, was believed today to be the prisoner of robbers who held up the showhouse Sunday night, escaping with SSOO. Niles is the son of Clifford Niles, prominent politician and publisher . of the Eureka,

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1932

PAUPERS IN LIMOUSINES You Must Have Front in Hollywood

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Here are tw'o who went broke w'ith a last big splurge and another w'ho Dame Rumor said was almost in the same boat in Hollywood movie circles. Francis X. Bushman (left) ran through $7,000,000 and after it was gone, he still had a big limousine

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD. April 4.—Hollywood paupers! In no other city in the world can this particular species of humanity be found. They are byproducts of the motion picture industry only. No sleeping i on park benches and getting hand-outs from soup kitchens for them! Here things are done differently. Os course, the financially embarrassed lady or gentleman might have to draw his own bath in the morning. And it is possible that he even might have to scramble some eggs in his own kitchen for breakfast. But when he emerges from the seclusion of his own home—in which, by the way, he has a most comfortable bed—he is faultlessly attired and he rides down Hollywood boulevard in his expensive motor! # * * THAT is the key word in Hollywood—appearance. In this rather fictitious communtiy many things are based on appearance. The actor feels that he must keep up the show. Francis X. Bushman of the classic profile, who used to be our leading matinee idol, showed Hollywood a perfect example of “appearance for appearance's sake.” Not so long ago Bushman filed a bankruptcy petition, claiming that he as a pauper. Hard-boiled reporters in the courtroom at the time were on the verge of braking into tears as Bushman told his story of how $7,000,000 had come and gone. Then Bushman left the courthouse. His expensive car and chauffeur were waiting at the curb. tt tt A FEW years ago when Charles Ray met with financial reverses he kept up the show to the very last minute. The night before his bankruptcy was announced he staged a party which seldom' has been equaled for lavishness. Dancing continued until almost daybreak. And the next day newspaper headlines told those guests and the world at large that Charlie was bankrupt! He could have lived modestly for at least a year with what he spent on that one party. But at least he bowed out of Hollywood's social life amid a blaze of glory. tt M tt THERE have been no end of stories regarding Gloria Swanson's financial status. Many will tell you that she is. or at least was practically “broke.” Yet Gloria never has given up he r beautiful Beverly Hills mansion, her expensive limousine or her servants. From outside appearances. there never has been a time when Rockefeller had a thing- on her. ANTI-WAR PARLEY SET Unemployed Council to Stage Demonstration Wednesday. Local organization of the Unemployed Council will join others in the nation Wednesday in an antiwar demonstration to be held in Military park. The meeting will be a protest against growing dangers of war and preparations for w r ar by the powers.

By United Press CHICAGO, April 4.—An amazing story of a “gentleman” bank raider’s career w f as told today by police after they said they had obtained a confession of fourteen bank robberies, totaling nearly SIOO,OOO, from Donald Loftus, 30. The prisoner, suave-mannered and handsome, blamed his capture on w’omen, police, who described him as a genuine “lone wolf,” declared:

Detective Chief William Schoemaker said the single-handed raider’s exploits had little parallel in police records. Loftus readily told ho§ he moved

‘Lone Wolf Admits 14 Bank Robberies

and liveried chauffeur. Gloria Sw'anson (center) •was reported near financial ruin several times, but she stuck it out, kept her palatial home and servants, and came out on top. Charles Ray (right) spent enough to keep a man for a year on a final big party the night before his crash was announced.

MOTHER KILLS CHILDREN, SELF New York Attorney’s Wife in Triple Tragedy. By Untied Press MONTCLAIR. N. J., April 4. Mrs. Raymond B. Fosdick, wife of one of New' York’s most prominent attorneys, shot and killed herself and her two children today in the pretentious Fosdick residence in Montclair. The tragedy was discovered by Fosdick, w'ho w r as awakened by the shots. Mrs. Fosdick, victim of a nervous disorder, w'ent first to the room of her daughter, Susan, 15, and shot her through the head. Then she went to the bedroom occupied by Raymond Jr., 5, and killed him in the same manner. Then she placed the weapon to her own heart and pulled the trigger just as her husband rushed into the room. She left a note but police said its contents did not furnish a reason for the shootings. With the note Mrs. Fosdick had prepared a will, the contents of w'hich w'ere not made knowm. Fosdick. a'brother of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. noted clergyman, was prostrated by the tragedy.

Skippers Pistol Quiets Scared Crew; Save Ship By United Press QUINCY, Mass.. April 4. —Tw'enty-eight worn officers and seamen of the collier William C. Atwater arrived here today after a terrific struggle with booming gales off Cape Cod and told how their captain's threat of gunfire against rebellious members of his crew drove them back to their duties and brought ship and men safely to port. * When the Atwater grounded on an uncharted bar south of the dangerous Sow and Pigs reef, a forward section of the ship's lower double bottom was ripped out. Her forward hold filled w'ith water. The main deck was swept by every sea. Officers and men flung lifebelts around them and prepared to abandon snip. Members of the crew ran to the captain, dropped to their knees and begged him to beach his vessel and allow the men to take to the lifeboats. Captain Pearce threatened to use his pistol. They returned to their posts.

FINDS SOLACE IN CARE OF FAMILY’S GRAVES Patrick Cannon Says Loved Ones Are “Nearer When Grass Is Cut.” Patrick Cannon, 2205 South Meridian street, whose brogue is as Irish as his native Killarnev, came to Indianapolis fifty years ago today and for nearly thirty-one years has spent much of his spare time caring for the graves of his wife and three children in Holy Cross cemetery. On the lot with the four graves is a headstone with the incomplete inscription. “Patrick Cannon, 186219—.” To those who talk to him as he works. Cannon explains: “I come here every day when it is nice weather to keep the grass cut close. They are nearer to me, w'hen it’s well trimmed.”

from city to city on becoming tired of women whom in some instances he married. When arrested in a luxuriously furnished apartment at South Bend,

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

‘Lucky' Fall By United Press WASHINGTON. April 4. Olin Lambert, strolling in his sleep, walked right out of his apartment window', fell six stories to the ground—and is expected to recover. The apartment house janitor found Lambert bleeding and unconscious beneath the high window.

GUERILLAS REPULSED Japanese Disperse Chinese Bands Along Border. By United Press TOKIO, April 4.—Units of the Japanese army from Korea today reached Chientao, Manchurian city near the Siberian frontier, and drove off irregular Chinese forces, dispatches from Seoul said. Complete order w r as reported restored while guerillas commanded by Wang Te Lin were dispersed. The Japanese w’ere sent into Manchuria to break the threat of irregular Chinese forces against the independent government set up with Henry Pu-Yi, former Chinese boy emperor, at its head. Fighting continued between Japanese and Chinese in parts of south and central Manchuria, reports said.

DAMAGE IS SLIGHT IN ITALIAN CITY CAVE-IN Newsreel Men Heaviest Sufferers Through Lack of Sleep. By United Press VILLA SANTO STEFANO. Italy, April 4.—A delegation of American and Italian newsreel photographers who lost a night’s sleep and a Sunday holiday appeared today to be the chief sufferers from the threat of collapse of Villa Santo Stefano into an underground cavern. The photographers arrived here after a long journey over rough mountain roads. They found nothing unusual to photograph. About 200 persons had been forced to leave their homes. The “widespread destruction” the news men expected was lacking.

Ind., he was posing as a wealthy eastern broker. The holdups for which solution was claimed by police largely were in Illinois and California, but included a “downtown bank in Cincinnati” with loot of $4,000. Arrest of Loftu?, resulted when a mother complained to police of Loftus’ attention to her daughter. Officers found him living in a rich suite. Scores of suits of clothes w’ere in his wardrobe. He had an expensive automobile and seventeen matched sets of goif clubs.

SENATE FACES FIGHT ON BEER REVENUE PLAN Bingham Heads Battle in Upper House, Claiming Levy of 6 Cents a Pint Alone Almost Would Balance the Budget. HOOVER RENEWS ECONOMY PLEA Special Message Suggesting Commission to Push Plans to Cut Expenses Assailed by Joe Robinson.

By Vnited Press WASHINGTON, April 4—President Hoover in a special message to congress today recommended that a "complete national program of economy” be framed by a joint body of members of both houses. The President called on congress for rapid action and also recommended it adopt legislation necessary to put this national economy program into effect. “I am convinced that only by such unified nonpartisan effort,” the President's message read, “and by willingness on the part of all to share the difficulties and problems of this essential task can we attain the success so manifestly necessary in public interests.” The President’s message commented on the delay in congress in arranging reduction of expendiditures by upward of $200,000,000 necessary as part of the program to balance the budget for the year beginning July 1. Need Organized* Effort “I have in various messages to the congress over the past three years referred to the necessity of organized effort to effect far reaching reductions of governmental expenditures,” said the President. “To balance the budget for tim year beginning July 1, next, the revenue bill passed by the house of representatives on April 1 necessitates that there shall be a further reduction of expenditures for the next year of about $200,000,000 in addition to the reduction of $369.000,000 in expenditures already made in the budget recommendations which I transmitted to the congress on Dec. 9. “It is essential in the interest of the taxpayers and the country that it should be done. It is my belief that still more drastic economy than this additional $200,000,000 can be accomplished. Far-Reaching Law Changes “Such a sum can only be obtained, however, by a definite national legislative program of economy which will authorize the consolidation of governmental bureaus and independent establishments; and beyond this, which will permit the removal of long established methods which lead to waste; the elimination of the less necessary functions, and the suspension of activities and commitments of the government, not essential to the public interest in these times. “These objects can not be accomplished without far-reaching amendments to the law. The executive is bound to recommend appropriations adequate to provide for the functions and activities of the government as now established by lav/. This is mandatory, and the opportunity for administrative savings is limited. “The appropriations committees likewise are bound, and can only act within restricted limits. Lessen Taxpayers’ Burden “Therefore, to lessen the burden upon the taxpayers in a substantial amount, it is necessary to enter upon other fields by amending existing laws which place unnecessary obligations on the departments and independent establishments. •'Clear indication that the limit of executive authority to bring about economies has about been reached, is shown by the fact that the total expenditures estimates in the budget of $4,112,000,000 (including postoffice deficit after deduction of receipts) presented to the congress, except for increased payments to veterans and expenditure of construction works in aid of employment. was the lowest in over five years.” OHIO RIVER NEAR CREST Little Damage Expected From High Water Near Evansville. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 4.—The Ohio river here was believed to have neared its crest at 38.5 feet today, and no damage from the flood stage was anticipated. Ferry service was suspended at several points over the week-end because of high winds, but had been resumed at most stations. Much of the lowland area was under water, but only in districts accustomed to floods.

All of the robberies with one or two exceptions were carried off alone. “There never was anything much to it,” police quoted Loftus as saying. “I'd walk in alone and depend on my two .45-caliber revolvers. But I never did any shooting.” In one case, he said, a clerk was shot when his gun went off accidentally. Witnesses in five of the raids viewed the prisoner and identified him. , rv

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

BY LYLE C. WILSON I’nitrd Pres* ‘SUIT Torre,nondent WASHINGTON. April 4.—Senate anti-prohibitionists were rallying today behind a beer-for-revenue program as the billion dollar tax bill was received from the house. It is a forlorn hope, but wet organizations have seized upon the tax issue and set their mimeographs to spinning out propaganda in behalf of beer. The senate beer bloc will follow their lead. Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep Conn.), heads the senate beer t.ax movement. He estimates that a tsa oi 6 cents a pint on legalized beeo —the same tax now levied on a. package of twenty cigarets—would produce approximately $1,000,000 - 000 of revenue. That alone would almost balance the budget. Denounces Wort Tax ‘The Crusaders,” militant antiprohition organization, opened the debate today with a plea for beer and more revenue and a denunciation of the heavy tax levied by the house on wort, which is the basis of nome brew. Congress, though refusing to tax beer in an honest manner,” said the organization, “places a tax on wort, which is a product of brewing and can be used only to manufacture beer. The American taxpayer is being butchered to make an'AntiSaloon League holiday” Beer presents the lighter side of the t ax picture as the Mnat finance committee prepares to be. da'v hearings on the bill WednesWar Flares in Senate Congressional agreement to restore beer at this time would be scarcely less miraculous than the stroke of Moses’ stick upon the rock to produce water. ~A bill P rov iding for payment of the cash bonus by legalizing and taxing alcoholic beer, will be introduced in the house this week by Representative Cochran (Dem Mo.). '* The Missouri member said today he would seek a hearing for his bonus plan when the ways and means committee meets next Monday. Cochran estimates a 3 cents a pint nnnLi 8 ? Woljlcl rais * from $300.000.000 to $400,000,000 annually. The tax war flared in the senate today as Democrats protested President Hoovers latest economv message to congress. Senate Minority Leader Joseph T. Robinson challenged the President s proposal for creation of an economy commission, asserting that: commissions “ordinarily merely are a way to postpone definite and effective action.” Robinson said the administration's budget estimates had been found recently to contain a $500,000,000 “discrepancy.” Hoover Is Assailed “I think the President, when he discovered that the budget was erroneous,” Robinson said, “should, have withdrawn that budget and submitted a revised budget with revised estimates.” Robinson said that the President’s commission proposal was a “proposition to convert congress into a budget making establishment—to shift from the executive the responsibility that falls there.” “He asks the creation of a mixed commission, ' Rob nson continued, “to perform duties that are his. It may be necessary to create such a commission, but ordinarily ? commission merely is a way to postpone definite and effective action. “We have seen numerous commissions in this administration, some set up by the executive and some by the legislative, and the results usually are slow and unsatisfactory.” Robinson said the proposal was an “exceptional suggestion bv the executive authority.” ROAD POLICY PONDERED Governor, Highway Heads Confer on Maintenance Program. Anew policy for state highway maintenance may develop from a conference today with Governor Harry G. Leslie, Director John J. Brown of the state highway department, his assistant, Ralph Simpson, and A. H. Hinkle, maintenance chief. All participants in the conference refused to comment on the plan until after the highway commissioners meeting next Thursday. BUTLER PRAYS FIRST Starts Speeches That Way. Even if He Does Swear. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, April 4. Major-General Smedley D. Butler, Republican candidate for ths United Slates senatorial nomina* tion, who resorts to profanity fra* quently, always begins his cam* paign speeches with a prayer, “I do swear,” he told a men’a Bibie class at Bromall Sunday, but the queer thing of it is, I always pray before I get up to speak,”