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BIRTH CONTROL APPEAL VOICED TO SENATORS Margaret Sanger and Noted Supporters Make Pleas to Change Law. CITE HIGH DEATH RATE Poor Mothers Are Victims of Drastic Ban, Says Delegation. Mu rpttfH Prr* * WASHINGTON May 12.—Margaret Sanger, famed sponsor o' the birth control movement, today led her forces before a senate Judiciary subcommit’ec and pleaded for freer hi: • h control legislation to produce happier, healthier rare. Mrs. Sanger and her supporters urged passage of a bill by Senator Hatfield <R'-p. W. Va > to permit transmission of birth control information and devices to properly recognized medical sources through the mails. The prohibition against importation and dissemination of birth | tontrol data is at present prohibited T)v an 1873 tariff law. Representatives of the clergy, students of sociology, and experts on gynecology and disease supported the measure, claiming It would do much to answer the economic. social, health and moral problems of the nation. Opposition to Be Heard Opponents of the bill will be heard next Thursday. Passage of the 1873 law.' Mrs. Ranger declared, ’closed the avenues of knowledge and research in medical schools and colleges in the United States, and. to all intents and purposes, classified every married woman in thus country as a child-bearing conscript.’’ The Hatfield bill, she emphasized, “does not, compel the practice of | contraception: it dors not compel | any one with moral or religious scruples to avail themselves of such knowledge. "This bill is reasonable, conservative and constructive. Its pas- 1 sage directly will affect *he quali- ! ty of future generations who shall j Inhabit this land." 86 Clinics Are Established Mrs. Sanger said that eighty-six birth control clinics have been es- j taolishcd. despite the federal law. and more and more the "boolegging" of supplies becomes a national practice. We are paying for th *e laws , . . j bv the multiplication of the unfit, the diseased, the feeble-minded and in high maternal mortality rates.” Senator Hatfield pleaded that the committee approve the measure to ‘prevent the trend to degeneracy." Hatfield urged a broader attitude of birth ront-01. Mrs Thomas M. Hepburn or Hartford, Conn, legislative chairman of the Birth Cont-ol League recalled last year's trouble at a hearing on the same subject. Once Called Reds A s'lght. gfnUe-voiced matron of middle age. Mrs Hepburn recalled her group had been branded as "Reds " It is utterly illogical.” Mrs. Hepburn said. "It is true that the Soviets believe in birth control as we do No doubt some members of this committee are opposed to child labor The Soviet also oppose it. But that doesn't make these member* •Red.’" The American Federation of Labor notified the committee as the hearing began that it could ndt support the measure. "William Greene, president of the American Federation of Labor, does not feel that we can support bill, nor do we believe that we '*lll be able to support any bill that leaders of the church denounce as conducive to bad morals, and that does not receive support of the medical profession of our country,” the federation's spokesman said. Mrs Sanger told the committee thar the "best people" in every community. including "doctors, ministers. and congressmen." already are practicing birth control, while it ia dented poor mothers, resulting In an "appalling number of abortions." she said. Practiced hy Beal People The religious and moral aspects of birth control were dealt with by Rabbi Edward R. Israel, chairman of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Baltimore To -.*ad a prohibition against birth control into the Bible. Israel said, is like reading a command against anaethesia in labor, into the verse whin* -~ys that Gold told Eve that in pain she should bring forth children. "If that is God. I want nothing to do with him," Israel added. An estimated annual abortion rate of 600,000 to 1.250.000 was reported by Dr. James S. Klumfly. Huntington. W. V. Many of these resulted in death, sterility and ruined health, the physician said. He .aid that marriages more frequently were wrecked by fear of pregnancy and "false modesty" than by birth control. Legitimate distribution of birth control information is needed to comply with every child's "right to be well born," Dr. Paul J. Zentay, St. Louis, pediatrician, told the committee. Professor James Herbert Bossard. Philadelphia sociologist, estimated that passage of the Hatfield bill would reduce the nation's annual *5,000,000.000 bill for social welfare purposes. Henry Pratt Fairchild. New York university sociologist, said the present atttltude serves to "oar reason and intelligence." from the important problem of controlling the size 2d growth of population.

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Radio Suicide Hy t mtrd Prff CHICAGO. May 12—Phil Harris, 45. unemployed for a year and a half, had In death today the distinction of being the first radio suicide.” Harris soldered electrodes onto the power wires of his rad o set making it a virtual elec:rlc chair. Then he turned on the current and died as a "beautiful thoughts' program was being broadcast from a Chicago station.

HAMILTON CASE JUDGE CHOSEN Devol of Clinton to Sit In Jackson Murder Trial. By T<mr* Ppmijl LEBANON. Ind, May 12 —Judge Brenton A. Devol of the Clinton circuit court, today was selected by state and defense attorneys to sit in the murder trial of Louis E. Hamilton, accused as the "trigger man” In the L. A. Jackson slaying at Indianapolis a year ago. Devol was selected after Judge John W. Hornadav of Lebanon granted a motion Wednesday for change of judge. Trial of the alleged murderer had been set for Monday but, it was indicated. Devol might delay it this afternoon when he confers with attorneys. He also will be asked to rule on a defense motion that jurors for the trial be selected from a county other than Boone. A Boone county jury several months ago convicted Charles Vernon Witt on a first degree murder count in connection with the slaying of the rhain store chief. POLICE CHIEFS NAME OFFICERS AT PARLEY Gary Man ! President; Evansville Gets Next Convention. tty C f'rd Prrtt GARY, Ind., Mav 12.—Stanley Bucklind. superintendent of the Gary police department, today was elected president of the Indiana Police Chiefs' Association at the annual convention here. He succeeds Chief Fred Armstrong of Terre Haute. Evansville was selected as the 1933 convention city. Other officers elected were: Vicapresidents. Chief Emmett Bell. Evansville. and Chief Charles Davis. Auburn; secretary and treasurer, former Chief Arthur G. Eversole, Lafayette; sergeant. Chief John Kuesport, South Bend. It was voted to hold the convention annually instead of biennially. George E. Q. Johnson, Chicago. United States district attorney, will speak at a dinner tonight, closing the convention, BELIEVE ‘TOWER OF BABEL’ RUINS FOUND Dferorery in Mesopotamia Is Announced hy School. fly r tutrd Pruf ANN ARBOR. Mich.. May 12 Remains of the famous “Tower of Babel" are believed to have been discovered in Mesopotamia by the University of Michigan-Cleveland museum archeological party. Professor Leroy Waterman, director, announced today. The discovery was made along the ruins of the ancient city of Akshak. Inscriptions found in the mound, which was circular and more than 250 feet in diameter, indicated Its date at about 2.000 B. C., Professor Waterman said.

Akron, Leaving Tragedy in Wake, Casts Off Today for Coast Flight

Sunnyvale. Cal., Is Next Goal: Two Killed in Landing Failure. RV LEICESTER WAGNER I mini PrM. Slft Corrpon(Jef't RAN DIEGO. Cal.. May 12—The navy dtrigible Akron was ready to rast off from if* mooring mast today and fly to Sunnyvale. Cal. after a tragic voyage on Wednesday in which two men were killed and a third rescued from a dangling rope high in the air on the failure of an initial landing attempt. Charles ’Bud" Cowart, young sailor from Sand Springs. Okla . was jerked 300 feet into the air with Nigel M. Fenton. Fresno. Cal., and Robert Ed sail of Elkhart, Ind.. when the giant ship whipped upward. Fenton and Edsall, unable to maintain their gripe, dropped to death, but Cowart fashioned himself a “bosun’s chair" from a loop of the rope and for an hour and a half swung wildly in the air, 200 feet below the dirigible and 1.000 feet above the earth, until he was pulled up to safety. Weather and an inexperienced ground crew were blamed for the disastrous landing attempts. Heat of the suns rays caused the helium gas of the dirigible to expand. while 200 sailocs. unused to handling the craft, manned the mooring .opes, and sudden gusts of wind whipped the Akron upward. Four attempts were made to bring the Akron up to the mooring mast. Three times the ground crew walked" the dirigible forward, but each time gust* of wind whipped the giant, ship up, and the sailors let go the mooring cables At the fourth attempt, a cable on the starboard side snapped. The Akron rolled on its port side. The

Partly cloudy, probably occasionally unsettled tonijrht and Friday; not much change in temperature.

COPS DRANK HIS PROFITS, WITNESS SAYS Former Anderson Night Club Proprietor Declares He Had to Sell Booze. JUDGE GIVES WARNING Baltzell Issues Edict on ‘Tampering’ at Liquor Trial Here. Operation of a night club in Anderson was impossible unless he sold liquor, Frank Francois, former innkeeper, testified in federal court today, in the trial of twelve persona in the Anderson liquor con- | spiracy case. Shortly before Francois took the stand, Judge Robert C. Baltzell ordered the jury from the courtroom and warned all members of the audience not to talk to witnesses under any circumstances. Francois, now an Indianapolis meat cutter, testified that he operated several clubs and road houses at Anderson and that at his last one he couldn't "get by” without : selling liquor. "Customers demanded it," he said, “and I had to sell it. I bought my j liquor from the Boyer-Melcher gang, but there was no profit to it, because ; the polce officers drank such a lot of it. Payoff Demanded. He Say* ‘ Melcher came to me and told me I'd have to pay off for protection and I told him I couldn't afford it. He said I'd have to pay $25 a week, anyway. I was raided three times by the sheriff, but was tipped off i each time and they couldn't find anything." He testified that a James McGuire told him that Ralph Rich, ex-detec-tive captain, and one of the twelve defendants, "was the pay-off man for the. Stinson gang and that I would better see him.” Francois related an incident when three officers came hammering at • the doors of his inn in early morning hours. "There were three cops, including a Negro detective. They were loud and boisterous and had been drink* ing. They came in and drank some more and then made me give them some liquor,” he testified. Called Friend Out "Then one insisted on calling his friend. Rich, and Rich came out about 6 in the morning and joined the party. They spent $5 after they got drunk. It was the first time I ever got a dollar off a cop." Baltzell Issued the edict against witness tampering after a report that Homer Bruner, Anderson policeman, was approached by Lon Zintsmaster, former policeman, during a fifteen-minute recess. Brunpr was on the stand when i the recess was taken'and wpnt into a hall opening into the courtroom. When Bruner resumed the stand following recess, government counsel asked: "Did anybody talk to you while you were in the hall?" Conversation Admitted "Well, yes." Bruner replied. "Zintsmaster did." "Didn't he. talk to Riggs and then to you?" was the next question. Bruner said he did not know, but said he was asked if he knew "what the chief thinks about Norman Maraska." Alvin Riggs formerly waa police chief of Anderson and Maraska is a former policeman who had testi(Turn to Page Two)

nose shot upward, and the portslde ground crew—all but four men—let. go the cables. As thousands of spectators held their breath, one by one three of the men let go. E. G. Walkup fell a short distance. One arm was broken. Fenton and Edsall fell 330 feet and wpre killed. Cowa.-t, lashed wildly about, was carried further upward. The Akron shot to a height of 1.000 feet as Cowart wrapped a loop of the rope about his feet, fashioned himself a seat, and prepared to ride It. out. Swinging to and fro like a tiny pendulum, it seemed that he must be snapped loose as the cable, whipped in the wind, suspended from the swaying dirigible. At first it was thought the Akron might be brought low over the water, where Cowart could drop and be picked up by a boat. Finally, a volunteer from the Akron climbed hand over hand down the rope to determine how secure Cowart had made himself.

HOMEMAKER TO TEACH CITY WOMEN WHAT TO COOK

HOW to overcome family food prejudices is one of the many problems to be discussed by Dorothy Ayers Loudon. Chicago, home economics expert, at The Indianapolis Times’ Better Housekeeping institute at the English tlfeater next week. Sessions will be held Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, May 17. 18, and 19. and admission will be free. “It is so easy to get into a rut In meal planning." Mrs Loudon points out. "Especially when members of a family think they can not eat certain things. ' But if the housewife knows a few general the can get

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY. MAY 12, 1932

Price of Fame Hy I nilci Prr OKLAHOMA CITY, May 12 —Governor William H.'Alfalfa Bill) Murray, perusing todav the first complete biography of his life, remarked. "It's embarrassing to have the carcass of a fellow's life sliced open and the innards exposed to public view." He said, however, that. "Alfalfa Bill.” written by Gordon Hines, was & "vivid and honest story.”

M. E, DISTRICT HERE DROPPED Conference Votes to Merge With Another Area. General conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Atlantic City, N. J., today voted to discontinue the episcopal area of Indianapolis, comprising three districts in the state, according to word received here. The district is headed by Bishop Edgar Blake. Under the discontinuance, the Indiana districts probably will be joined with districts of another state, it was said. The Rev. Orien W. Fifer of Indianapolis, chairman of the committee on episcopacy, sponsored a minority report which opposed the discontinuance. Areas in Buffalo. N. Y., and Helena, Mont., also were discontinued. It is estimated the elimination would save at least SIOO,OOO a year. BRUENING FIGHTING TO PRESERVE CABINET Groener. Minister of Defense. Quits Post: Tronble Brewing. By T tiitfli Prrgg BERLIN. May 12 Chancellor Heinrich Bruening took energetic measures today to preserve his cabinet m the face of difficulties among its members and hostile threats in the reichstag Wilhelm Groener. minister of defense, who as such has long been subject to parliamentary attack, resigned that post. He was expected to retain the interior ministry however. The reichstag was adjourned Indefinitely after trouble with members of Adolph Hitlers Fascists, and during the interval Bruening planned to consolidate his position. Conflict In the cabinet was •'reported between Martin Schiele, minister of agriculture, and Adam Stegerwald. minister of labor, over the relief program for east German farmers.

RESUMES FIGHT FOR STABILIZED PRICES Gnldshorough Sees Better Times if Bill Is Passed. By Tnit'd Prrgg WASHINGTON. May 11.—Carrying his fight for stabilized commodity prices to the senate banking and currency committee. Representative, Goldsborough 'Dem.. Md ) today predicted an economic upswing within ninety days if the senate enacts his bill, which the house passed by an overwhelming vote. The bill would direct, the federal reserve system and the treasury to regulate credit and currency so as to maintain the purchasing power of the dollar in commodity markets on the average level it occupied from 1921 to 1929. A similar bill, drafted by Senator Fletcher (Dem., Fla.) also Is before the committee.

Back he went, more slowly, and entered the hatch. He reported Cowart probably could remain in hls position until pulled within the ship. began the task of pulling up the rope. As Cowart, neared the Akron, the swinging became more vicious. Snaplike jerks threatened either to dislodge him or break the rope, but finally he was hauled in opposite a gangway and pulled Into the vessel. He refused medical treatment, protested he was unharmed and began a tour of the Akron. The landing deaths were the first recorded by the United States navy. At Lakehurst men have been injured slightly, but their experience with dirigibles has prevented any serious accident. The men at Camp Kearney never before had moored such a craft. An experienced crew of 1.000 men sent there from Lakehurst, awaits the Akron at Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, the destination of its turbulent transcontinental trip.

around these prejudices, without her family being aware of it." a m n S| HE includes in her lectures and demonstrations many new recipes and new combinations of wrll-known and nutritious foods. “The cooks of the country are engaged in the world's biggest job.” the maintains. “Upon them depends the health of every one and upon our health depends to a large degree our success In the things we undertake. “So the homemaker needs a little fresh mspiration now and then, just as her husband needs inspiration in his business. “Everything essential for health can be given to every member of

FRANCE PAYS SLAIN DOUMER LAST TRIBUTE Million Mourners Line Route of Cortege at Rites of President. FULL MILITARY POMP Diplomats of 40 Nations in Procession: Strict Guard Against Trouble. BY RALPH HEINZEN CniUd Pros* St kit Corretpondenl PARIS. May 12.—Heavy, rainj laden skies cast mourning over all France today as the nation turied its murdered president. Paul Doumer, with the fullest military und civil ceremonial. The funeral procession left the Elysee palace at 8 a. m.. as a million persons lined the route to Notre Dame cathedral and the Pantheon, the nation s political shrine. The prince of Wales, the king of the Belgians, the duke of Aosta. Prince Paul of Serbia and diplomats of forty nations walked in the rain behind the hearse. Ambassador Walter E. Edge represented President Hoover. After mass at the cathedral, Dcumer’s body was taken to the Pantheon and placed on a catafalque. A smoking urn stood at each corner of the catalfalque. Injured war veterans grouped on the sides carried historic battle flags. Elaborate Precaution* Taken Premier Andre Tardieus funeral oration was broadcast. Thousands of troops then paraded past the Pantheon and dipped their flags In honor of Doumcr. Eight black horses drew the hearse through the dismal streets. Thousands of troops marched to the beat of muffled drums. Robed barristers, members of the i academies and the university faculties, parliamentarians and the cab- , inet. led by President Albert Lebrun and Premier Andrew Tardieu and Doumers family, kept pace with the solemn funeral tread. Most elaborate precautions, similar to those enforced when Doumers successor was elected at Versailles. were taken to prevent possible attempts at violence. Early this morning police made a house to house inspection of balI conies along the route where bomos ,or arms might be hidden. The ; streets between the Elysee. Notre ! Dame cathedral, and the Pantheon ! were lined with troops standing shoulder to shoulder with fixed bayonets. Procession Two Miles Long The funeral procession was two miles long, which meant that mounted troops at the head of the , line arrived at Notre Dame before : the final delegations left the Elysee. Schools and business houses were closed Mourning was observed , throughout ttfe nation. The mot solemn part of the ceremony took place at Notre Dame where the president's body was placed on a catafalque seventeen feet high, draped in black, beneath a canopv of black lined with the tricolor of France. Candles cast the only light on the scene. Requiem mass was said by Cardinal Verdier. archbishop of Paris. The procession then climbed the j hills above Paris to the Pantheon, where Doumer s body will rest until it is removed to the family cemetery for burial beside his sons who died In the World war. Thousands of Pilgrims Police particularly were strict In guarding the prince of Wales, King Albert and other royal representatives. They would not allow photographers or journalists even to approach any member of the royal party, from the time the members of ruling houses reached Paris. Thousands of Parisians and pilgrims from all parts ot France asj sembled along the funeral route before dawn, squatting on boxes and stools and eating sandwiches as they held their vantage points. Balconies of hotels and other public and private buildings along the route were rented two days in i advance. There were many tourists among the spectators. The public was kept away from the Elysee palace, which was surrounded by troops and republican guards wearing their brilliant uniforms and flowing red plumes. Floral offerings from all parts of the world were carried in six funeral cars drawn by black horses. HURT IN TRAIN LEAP Franklin Man Suffers Fracture of Skull; May Die. Injuries which may prove fatal were Incurred today by Fred White. 22. Franklin, when he jumped from a Pennsylvania freight train near Edinburg. He suffered a skull fracture. White was stealing a ride on the train, the crew reported. He was brought to , the Long hospital here.

the family, regardless of their personal fancies, if the homemaker understands a few of the simple but effective secrets of the modern cookery.” Mrs. Loudon will give her lectures and demonstrations in a model kitchen on the stage of the English theater, in full view of her audience. • ** • THE afternoon program each day will start at 2 o'clock. The only evening session will be the closing one Thursday at 8 o'clock. Not only does Mrs. Loudon stress the necessity of a well-bal-anced diet, but she believes every ,

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Race Driver Winner of ‘Lap Prize ’

Cupid did some fast flying to overtake Billy Arnold, youthful Chicago automobile racer, who won the 1930 500-mile Memorial day rare here and w as in a fairway of repeating his victory in 1931 when disaster cheated him. Here you see Billy and his bride, formerly Dorothy Canfield of Detroit. who will spend their honeymoon here, where Arnold will prepare for this year's race. He is confident of a comeback.

WORLD COURT FIGHT SHIFTS Report to Senate Favors U. S. Adherence. By t nitfd Prr* WASHINGTON. May 12.—The world court fight was shifted today from the senate foreign relations committee to the senate floor in the form of a eommlttpe report favoring American adherence under specified conditions. The conditions amount to reservations. and are similar to those rejected previously by world court members as a basis for American membership The condition or reservation to American adherence in effect reiterates the fifth of the reservations upon which the senate predicated its agreement in 1926 to American adherence to the court. It stipulates that the court shall not. without the consent of this government, render an opinion in any matter in which the United States has or claims an interest. The committee adopted a combined Moses-Reed reservation, insisting that world court participants shall agree to the conditions of American adherence before this country Joins the court. Approve O’Connor Nomination By United Prrgg WASHINGTON. May 12.—The senate commerce committee today authorized a favorable report on the nomination of President T. V. O'Connor of the United States shipping board for reappointment to the board.

Life in Wheelchair Is Price for ‘Good Turn’

Ex-Mechanic Is Seeking Judgment of $50,000 to Provide for Family. Just to "live beside the road and be a friend to man” still is the ideal life for Walter Keller. 47, invalid, who must spend the rest of his life in & wheel chair because he helped a stranger. Keller, a former mechanic, was smiling, despite his affliction, as they pushed his chair into superior court five today, where he hopes to

homemaker wants to know the quickest and easiest methods of getting her work done. She also contends that even simple and Inexpensive foods may be made irresistibly attractive If the art as well as the science of cookery Is understood. Mrs. Loudon has a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin. She was formerly dietitian at St. Luke s hospital at Fargo. N. D., and state food specialist for the North Dakota Agricultural college. Every one who attends The Times Better Housekeeping Institute will be eligible for prizes, complete announcement of which will be made later. ■

HOOVER ‘CERTAIN SOLUTION WILL BE FOUND’ TO ISSUE OF UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

SENATE DEFERS TAX BILL MDVE Democrats Assail Tariff Rates in Measure. By t wi trd Prrgg WASHINGTON. May 12.—Decision to defer senate consideration of the tax bill until Friday came today as a group of influential Democrats opened formal warfare on the tariff ratps in the $1,000,000,000 revenue measure. Senators Harrison <Miss '. Walsh 'Mass.), Hull (Tenn.>, Costigan • Colo.) and George <Ga.). offered In the senate a minority report denouncing tariff log rolling, and urging that duties be stricken from the bill. Their challenge was direrted as much against their own party as the Republicans. Democrats from Texas, Oklahoma. Arizona and Kentucky joined Republicans from California. Washington. Oregon and Michigan in arranging vote trades whicn procured protection for coal, oil. lumber and petroleum. Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee had intended to call up the tax bill at 2 p. m. today, but agreed to postpone hls motion, thus giving Senator Glass 'Dem.. Va.) another day for consideration of his bank bill. The tariff question was raised also before the house ways and means committee. Representatives of such industries as lumber, clay, iron and steel appeared to support the Hawley bill.

gain a judgment on which to support, his family. He seeks damage* of *50.000 from Shelby Lewis of 282 South Ritter avenue. Lewis' speeding car. it is charged, swerved from state road 31, north of Southport, hitting Keller, who was helping push an automobile from a ditch. “I still would do the same good I turn, if I were able." Keller said. I after testifying before the jury. A stormy night, Nov. 26, 1930. was a fateful night for Keller. Icy blasts 1 beat heavily on the snow-covered i pavement In front of the Keller | home. 4732 Madison avenue. Aided by his son. Keller had pushed three wayfarers from the ditch before tragedy crossed his 1 path. He had stopped to aid another motorist, evidence revealed, when i the Lewis car skidded from its course to the side of the road, striking Keller. For twelve months Keller lay in the Robert W. Long hospital Final - jly doctors amputated one leg. A compound fracture of the other never will wholly heal, doctors told Keller. The complaint against Lewis charges him with negligence and with driving at a dangerous rate of p?ed. Hourly Temperature* 6a. m 50 10 s. m 52 7a. m 52 11 a. m 54 Ba. m 53 12 <noon>.. 57 , 9a. m 54 lp.m 58 %

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Robinson's Program Opens Way for Unified Action. Says President. CONFERS WITH LEADERS Executive Fails to Say Whether He Is in Favor of Democrat Plan. (Detail* nf RnKinenn tnhle** relief ttlan. Paa* One. Second Section) By r nitrd Prein WASHINGTON. May 12-Presi-dent Herbert Hoover issued a public statement today expressing confidence that "a solution will be found" to the national problem of affording relief to unemployed The President expressed "high admiration" of the work of Senator Joseph T. Robinson <Dem., Ark.) Robinson Wednesday introduced an elaborate relief program in the senate. Mr. Hoover said the way had been opened now for unified action. The statement was Issued aftet the President had conferred with advisors for more than two hours. Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills, governor Eugene Mever of the federal reserve board. Charles G. Dawes, president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and Senator Robinson had attended the conference. Mum on Approval The President went without, his lunch, so interested did he become. He left for Alexandria, Va.. to attend the dedication of the Masonic memorial, immediately when the conference ended. He hoped to "get a sandwich on the wav” or have lunch on his return, attendants said. Robinson proposed in the senate a $2,000,000,000 fund for public construction and a $300,000,000 allotment for direct relief. Mr. Hoover didn't say definitely whether he approved of thia plan. The White House statement said: "At a conference this morning the President and Senator Robinson canvassed the plan of Senator Robinson and the plans of the President to provide for relief and stimulate enlarged employment. ‘Methods were considered of combining, simplifying.and putting into concrete form the different proposals so as to securp unified nonpartisan and immediate action and not to delay completion of the work at this session. Talks With Watson "The President expressed his high appreciation of Senator Robinson's action in opening the way for unified action and his confidence that a solution will be found. "It was agreed that the prerequisite of any plan Is balancing of the budget." Just, as this formal statement was issued, Theodore Joslin, secretary to the President, announced that, Mr. Hoover had discussed relief plans at a breakfast conference today with Senator James E. Watson, Republican floor leader. One of the relief proposals considered was understood to have been an advance of $100,000,000 to the American Red Cross. President Hoover Is understood to be opposed to any relief bond issue such as was proposed by Robinson. Relief funds for distribution through the Red Cross or otherwise might be obtained from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Powerful House Support Powerful support, for Robinson a program developed today in the house, with Majority Leader Rainey favoring the proposal. Minority Leader Snell said it was "too early to place himself officially on record as favoring any one program. but emphasized that some type of direct relief for the jobless probably would be brought up before the close of the present session of congress. He said he saw some good points in Senator Joseph T. Robinson's plan for a $2,300,000,000 bond lasue to aid the unemployed. Speaker John Garner declined ail definite comment on relief proposals. stating he would follow his usual policy of "working through the house committee's. LOVE ‘EXTORTION’ SUIT IS LOST BY MOTOBMAN Pretty Divorce Awarded Return of $5,000 With 6 Per Cent Intereat. By Unit'd Prtu WHEATON, 111.. May 12.—Mr*. Jessie Erickson, chic young divorcee, today had won back with Interest at 6 per cent the $5,000 she paid motorman Albert Gregory and hls wife Grace. A jury in circuit court awarded Mrs. Erickson $6,500 in her suit for return of the money, which she said she paid after Mrs. Gregory threatened her with "notoriety" because of a friendship of Mrs. Erickson and Gregory. Mrs. Erickson testified the friendship was merely a mutual interest in flowers. Gregory said there had been indiscretions in "a son o$ a cow pasture" and other places. Tulip Festival la Opened Hy I pil'd Prrgg HOLLAND. Mich.. May 12.—Holland opened its annual tulip festival today with two million blooming tulips grown from bulbs imported from the Netherlands. The blooms splashed every lawn in the city with color and filled the parks and ahop windows.