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T. R’. URGES MORTGAGE AID FOR FARMERS Message to Congress Asks Legislation That Will Ease Burden. HOME HELP PLEDGED Senate Committee Ends Agriculture Bill Study; Wants Passage. BY FREDERIC K A. STORM l niteri I’rrss Staff Corrf upondent WASHINGTON. April 3.—President Roosevelt asked congress today to include in its farm relief program specific measures for dealing with the nation's crushing burden of farm mortgage indebtedenes.s. The President's farm mortgage program was introduced in the senate immediately after reading of Mr. Roosevelt’s special message stressing the need for refinancing the farm debt. The credit measure, referred to the banking and currency committee, provides for refinancing mortgages by reducing interest rates and through a temporary readjustment of amortization It would operate through a $2,000,000,000 federal land bank bond issue. After committee action the farm mortgage bill is to be reported in an omnibus measure with the Roosevelt farm bill, which would give Agriculture Secretary Wallace wide authority to raise commodity prices through curtailed production and processing taxes. Commodity Bill Approved The senate agriculture committee today completed action on the commodity bill m substantially the form approved by the house. It will meet Tuesday to act on a combined commodity <nd credit bill. Mr. Roosevelt’s special message— It was the eighth he has sent to congress in less than a month —declared the farm mortgage situation must be dealt with in order to 'end the forced liquidation of property, to increase purchasing power and to broaden the credit structure for the benefit of both the producing and consuming elements in our population.” Other rehabilitation steps to follow, Mr. Roosevelt said, would ’re similar measures of relief for the small home owner and legislation to break through trade barriers in order to re-establish foreign markets for farm and industrial products. A summary of the farm mortgage legislation showed that it proposed the land bank bond issue would be at 4 per cent, with the bonds issued for two purposes: 1. Making new loans. 2. Exchange of outstanding mortgages. 4'_, Per Cent Maximum Rate Tile land banks would be authorized to purchase first mortgages on farm lands within their districts, or to exchange bonds for them. The motgagor would be entitled to have his indebtedness refinanerd for the amount paid by the bank for his mortgage. The maximum rate of interest on loans on mortgages outstanding would not exceed 4'per cent. In his message Mr. Roosevelt said that present interest rates in many cases were • unconscionably high." The Reconstruction Finance Corporation would be directed to make available $100,000,000 for loans to joint stock land banks at 4 per cent in providing collateral for these loans the bill makes possible a complete revaluation ot the lands under mortgage, the borrowing capacity to be limited to 00 per cent of the ]and l s appraised value. The borrowing land bank must agree to reduce to 5 per cent the rate ot interest carried in its mortgages pledged as collateral and to refrain from foreclosure during a 2-year period. Mr. Roosevelt said that legislation relating to farm mortgages should be , 'an integral part of the broad plan to end the forced liquidation of property, to increase purchasing power and to broaden the credit structure for the benefit of both the producing and consuming elements in our population.” ‘T seek.” the President said, ‘an end to the threatened loss of homes and productive capacity now faced bv hundreds of thousands of American farm families.' DR. FISHBEIN TO TALK Famed Medical Writer to Be Speaker Here Tuesday Night. Dr. Morris Fishbein. editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Chicago, and Times special writer, will be the guest speaker at 8:15 Tuesday at the meeting cf the Indianapolis Medical Society at the Athenaeum. Dr. Fishbein will speak on "State Medicine and Contract Practice" and an open forum will be conducted.

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VOLUME 11—NUMBER 280

Pastor Trial at Muncie Is Near Close Final Arguments Being Heard on Charge of Attempted Assault. Fin I ininl I're*s MUNCIE. Ind.. April 3.—The Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, suspended Methodist minister, was likened to a Dr. Jcckll by Prosecutor Paul Lefler today in closing arguments of the clergyman's trial on charges of attempting to attack Miss Helen Huffman, 18-year-old Sunday school teacher. * Lefler talked for forty-five minutes, condemning Conway and attacking the testimony of nine alibi witnesses presented by the defense. Rollin Lennington an dhis son Paul, atorneys for Conway, occupied their allotted two hours and bitterly assailed Dr. Frank Dougherty, Muncie district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church, who was one of the state’s star witnesses. They charged that Miss Huffmans story of the alleged attack was the outgrowth of a plot by Dr. Daugherty, Harley Carmichael, the girl's sweetheart, and a man named Kabric. The younger Lennington pointed to Dr. Daugherty and shouted: There sits the most, dangerous citizen in America.” He said the charges were a cowardly attemp tto discredit Conway and obtain his dismissal from the ministry. He pointed out that if Helen told the truth on the witness stand, she knew what to expect when Conway invited her to ride downtown. THEFT LAID TO ARMY OFFICER Embezzlement Is Charged to Missing Disbursing Leader Here. Charging embezzlement of government funds, a federal warrant was issued here today for the arrest of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert T. Young, 59, missing disbursing officer in the office of the adjutantgeneral. Indiana national guard. The warrant was sworn to. after a conference with Alexander Cavins, deputy district attorney, by Ralph C. Hale and L. F. Woodside. ex- ; aminers from the comptroller-gen- | eral's office at Washington. Colonel Young, a retired regular army officer with thirty years of j service, had been an employe in the j adjutant-general’s office since 1926. ! He was accustomed to handling from $5,000 to $15,000 a month and j is reported to have left his office at the statehouse an hour after Hale and Woodside notified him they had | come to Indianapolis for an audit of his accounts. This was on March 20. Colonel Young's home was at 2815 ; Walker avenue. His wife asserts she has had no word from him since his disappearance. Although federal officials would not announce the amount of che al- | leged shortage, it is reported to be between S2OO and S3OO. REPUBLICANS DELAY MORGAN QUIZ STEPS Objections Block Considering of Senate Resolution. Fill I iiitcil Press WASHINGTON. April 3. Republican objection today blocked senate consideration of a resolution extending authority to reveal secrets of its investment banking ! business. The delay will be at least until Tuesday and for that time will prevent senate investigators from obtaining from Morgan records information the bankers are reluctant . to divulge. Chairman Duncan V. Fletcher of the senate banking and currency i committe in charge of the investii gation. told the senate that the reso--1 lution was drafted to reach private bankers "who operate without any supervision."

Ambulance Chasing Fight Is Carried Into Court

i From the witness stand in circuit court today. Chief Mike Morrissey continued his attack on attorneys he considers "ambulance chasers." Morrissey was the first witness in a case in which Alfred S. Cantwell and Frank K. Miller, attorneys, seek a mandate to compel him to permit them to inspect reports of traffic accidents on file at police headquarters. Miller, acting as counsel for the plaintiffs, established that Morrissey had refused permission to himself and Cantwell to look at reports of an accident in which Isaiah Ellis. Negro. 1101 North Senate avenue, was injured. He drew from Morrissey an admission that other lawyers were given access to the reports, and asked what was the determining factor. "We let legitimate attorneys, but not ambulance chasers, see the re- , ports," Morrissey retorted. 1 “I suppose,” Miller continued,

BRITISH BREAK WITH SOVIET THREATENED MacDonald Urges Reprisals After Englishmen Are Held in Russia. PLAN TOTAL EMBARGO London's Wrath Aroused by Impending Trials on Sabotage Charge. BY HERBERT MOORE I nitod Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 3.—Sweeping trade reprisals against Russia, including possibly a total embargo on imports into Britain, were proposed by Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald today. After summoning the British ambassador home from Moscow for consultation, the government decided on this further drastic step in protest against the arrest and impending trial of six British subjects in Moscow on charges of sabotage.* In announcing his decision to the house of commons, MacDonald said that he would present an enabling act governing Soviet imports Tuesday and that it was proposed to rush the bill through all stages Wednesday. Britain already has suspended negotiations for anew trade treaty when the present one expires Easter Monday, so that the prospects of any trade between the two powers after that day appeared remote, unless the Soviet should about-face and call off the trial. Indicating his view of the gravity of the situation, MacDonald said of the proposed bill that the government would press for "passage into law at the earliest possible moment.” Regarding the charges against the arrested Britishers, employes of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Cos., MacDonald said it would not be in their best interests to make a statement at the moment. An Anglo-Soviet trade war appeared inevitable after MacDonald’s announcement. Six Are Accused BY EUGENE LYON’S United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, April 3.-All six of the British representatives of Metro-politan-Vickers, Ltd., including two originally released . from custody, will have to stand trial on charges of sabotage and espionage. The two men released shortly after arrest were Allan Monkhouse, head of the Metropolitan-Vickers organization in Moscow, and Charles Nordwall, construction engineer. Both, under the decision announced Sunday night by the Soviet authorities, must face trial, scheduled to be held in a week or ten days. Six to Face Trial The four other British electrical representatives, held in prison in Moscow since their summary arrest the week-end of March 11 to 13, arc: William Henry Thornton, assistant to Monkhouse: A. W. Gregory. construction engineer; William MacDonald, technical expert, and John Cushny, electrical engineer. The Soviet court will hear charges against all six, which include such serious allegations as military and economic espionage and bribery as well as sabotage, they were informed. A general charge of conspiracy has been laid against the six British subjects., under which the other criminal charges will be laid. An indictment under the criminal code has been demanded, and is expected to be handed down shortly. Penalty Is Death The penalty for espionage is death by shooting. The arrests were made by operatives of the G. P. U.. or Soviet secret police, the week-end of midMarch. Twenty-five Russian employes of Metropolitan-Vickers also were rounded up. The G. P. U. charged they all were implicated in a nation-wide plot to wreck electric power stations, and destroy the country's growing power utilities. The police ransacked the homes of the British representatives, as well as their offices, removing documents on which the charges, they saf. are based. Efforts by the British ambassador to ascertain the details of these documents, they charge, were rebuffed.

i “you had the opinion I was not en- ] gaged in legitimate practice?" "I did." the witness replied. "Do you still have that opinion?" "I do." was the reply, Morrissey stated that detectives had been making an investigation of alleged "ambulance chasers." and declared he had avidence that Cantwell had solicited damage suits. Morrissey told the court of one instance where another attorney, whom he called an ambulance chaser, pot a contract in an injury case, and a few days later the mother of the injured youth accepted a SIOO settlement with an insurance company. Then. Morrissey said, the attorney ! asked the mother to give him the SIOO so he could return it and sue for more. Morrissey exhibited one of Cantwell's business cards which the | chief said was obtained from a woman who said Cantwell had visI ited her seeking to be engaged as j attorney. I The hearing continued this afteri noon.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933

Bowers Gets Ambassador Appointment

Claude G. Bowers Named Envoy to Spain by Roosevelt; Won Fame as Keynoter. By l tiifrrl Press WASHINGTON. April 3.-Pres-ident Roosevelt today appointed Claude G. Bowers. New York, as ambassador to Spain, subject to senate confirmation. Calude G. Bowers for a number of years was editorial writer of the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette, Democratic morning paper, and left Indiana to join the editorial staff of the New York World. When it suspended publication, he became connected with the Hearst organization. Bowers first attracted national attention politically when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic national convention at Houston, Tex He is the author of three books which have been given wide acclaim. They are "Jefferson and Hamilton,” "The Tragic Era," and “Beveridge and the Progressive Era.” FREES VICTIM OF INGRATITUDE Knifed Man Is Vindicated; Paroled Murderer May Be Imprisoned. Harry Marsh, victim of ingratitude, was vindicated today by Charles J. Karabell. municipal judge pro tem. but wounds he received from a razor in the hands of a brother-in-law he befriended, remain. The brother-in-law, William A. Spores, who is on parole from the state prison where he served twenty-five years of a life term for murder, was held to the grand jury on an assault and battery charge and police will make an investigation which may cause his return to prison. An assault and battery charge against Marsh was dismissed, as was a drunkenness charge against his wife. Mrs. Della Marsh, sister of Spores, on the ground that she was not in a public place. Marsh. 51, living at 1710 Orange street, explained to the court that Spores was paroled to him. and that on Saturday he had written a report to authorities stating Spores’ behavior had been good. Sunday afternoon Spores attacked him. Spcres in court today did not deny the attack. He said he acted in self-defense, but Marsh asserted he was attacked while he lay in bed. Spores was convicted in Scottsburg for the murder of Douglas Forbush. SENATE TAKES UP 5-UAY WEEK BILL House Labor Committee Puts 0. K. on Measure. Fin United Prrts WASHINGTON. April 3.—On the motion of Senator Black tDem., La.) the senate today began consideration of Black's bill designed to enforce the five-day, thirty-hour work week throughout the nation. The house labor committee today reported cut a thirty-hour-week labor bill almost identical to the measure before the senate. The bill provides that no commodity from any factory where employes work longer than six hours a day or five days a week may be shipped in interstate commerce. DELAY STEVENS CASE Former Illinois Life Insurance Head Seriously 111. Court Told. Bn I tilted Press CHICAGO. April 3.—Testimony of a physician that 80-year-old James W. Stevens, former chairman of the board of the failed Illinois Life Insurance Company is suffering “a dementia" as a result of his troubles brought continuance of his case today until April 17. Elkhart Wins State Debate B ii l nil cl Pres* NORTH MANCHESTER. Ind. April 3.—Elkhart won the sixth annual Indiana high school debat”Tg tournament at Manchester college here Saturday night by defeating Hammond.

PEACE PLAN IS ACCEPTED BY FRANCE Mussolini's 4-Power Pact Favored by Cabinet to Spur Disarming. AGREE TO PRINCIPLE Reservations to Protect Little Entente to Be Made. BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, April 3.—The French cabinet today announced its willingness to accept Premier Mussolini's four-power peace pact proposals as a basis for further discussions oi European disarmament. At the conclusion of its meeting, at 1:15 p. m„ the cabinet announced its intention of sending a memorandum to London, Berlin, and Rome, agreeing in principle to the Mussolini suggestions as the basis for a four-power discussion oi present problems. The cabinet agreed to make reservations protecting the Little Entente, whose representatives have made strenuous representations in the past few days against any agreement which did not include them—largely through fear that revision of the Versailles treaty might strip them of some of the territory and power they now enjoy. Against Frontier Revision The cabinet’s memorandum will be submitted to the next council of ministers, over which President Lebrun will preside. The council meeting probably will be held Wednesday. It is understood the French will maintain that the present is wholly inopportune for any revision of frontiers or treaties, and that Poland and the Little Entente must be included in any action by the four major western powers. The French government will stress its willingness to accept any feasible scheme for progressive disarmament. so long as it gives France an opportunity to control German armament beyond the limits already set by treaty. Britain Expresses Views The cabinet's proposals will include anew plan, growing out of the British and French proposals, but based on principles of the League of Nations covenant whereby the small nations will be safeguarded. The government also pointedly will ask Rome and London to enunciate their views on possible treaty revision. LONDON, April 3. Proposed British modifications of the Italian four-power plan were communicated to Paris and Rome on Saturday, it was said authoritatively today. CASH SHIFT ATTACK MAUE IN BANK CASE Receiver Used Money Without Authority, Is Claim. Assets of the defunct Washington Bank and Trust Company were used without authority by Brandt C. Downey, former receiver, in affairs of the Capitol Square Realty Company, in which the bank owned majority of common stock, it was charged in circuit court Saturday. During questioning by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox of witnesses in a receivership case brought by the Union Trust Company against the realty company, it was shown that approximately $34,000 had been advanced from the bank's funds. William G. Sparks, attorney, was appointed receiver of the realty company. According to an audit ordered by Cox, the realty company owed approximately $95,000 when Downey became receiver of the Washington bank, and the $34,000 was advanced by Downey without court authority during a two-year period. SAFE-CRACKERS FOILED Get Little Loot for Trouble in Two South Side Burglaries. Safecrackers got little loot for their trouble in two burglaries Sunday night on the south side. The handle was broken off one of the safes at the Indianapolis Forwarding Company office, 630 South Capitol avenue. Ransacking of desk drawers yielded S5. Safe of the Logsdon Coal Company. 229 Shelby street, was entered by knocking off the combination, but there was no money inside. The yeggmen passed up S3O in stamps and took only a leather jacket belonging to an employe.

Beer to Be Served at White House in Moderation, Says Mrs. Roosevelt

BY RtBY A. ELACK United Press Staff Correspondent VirASHINGTON. April 3.—Beer will be served at * * the White House in moderation when it's legalized in the District of Columbia, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, herself a teetotaler, said today after a conference with the President. Mrs. Roosevelt explained that she drinks no alcoholic beverages, that no member of her family cares much about beer, but that she does not feel that she should deny a legal beverage to those who might like it. The taps will not flow freely, however, Mrs. Roosevelt said, as she and the President are agreed

CONFLICT OVER BEER SALE AROUSES FEARS OF WETS; VIEWED AS REPEAL PERIL

No Indiana Brew to Be Ready for ‘Beer Eve' Celebration. FLEETS TO RACE HERE Price Will Be 20 Cents a Pint, Say Restaurant Operators. Thirsty Indiana residents who plan on staging New Beer's Eve celebrations will have to confine their drinking to home brew or he more ardent prohibition spirits to which they have become accustomed. It appeared today that none of the new legal beer will be available at midnight Friday, although it may be shortly thereafter. Downtown resturants plan on having the beer ready for Saturday lunch hour, but at 20 cents a pint it may not be so laughproducing. William E. Clauer, one of the two holders of importer permits for the Indianapolis district, announced that a- fleet of trucks will leave St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati at midnight Friday, to have the beer here for the Saturday trade. No Indiana Beer Ready There also may be Indiana brews ready, but none made in Indianapolis. Leo McNamara, of the Indiana Breweries, Inc., said his beer will not be aged before June 1. So it appeared likely that the 20cent price may hold for some time, when competition will bring it down to 15 cents a pint with meals, it was predicted. Meals may mean a single sandwich, Paul Fry, state excise director, has ruled. Another ruling is that tourist camps with twenty-five beds are hotels and can obtain beer permits. All the old-time nationally famous beers are expected to be on sale here including the various brands which made St. Louis and Milwaukee famous. Permits Given Importers Ninth of the ten beer importer permits was to be issued today to the Southern Indiana Beverage Company at Evansville. In line with the administration’s "deserving Democrats” attitude, the Evansville firm, which will import for the Tenth beer district, is composed of William, Minnie and Charles E. Habbe. William Habbe. a Democratic supporter, formerly was sheriff of Vanderburg county. Although McNutt has announced that political partronage would not determine selection of all importers, the only remaining district in which nonpartisan selection could be carried out is in the First beer area. This embraces Lake and Parker counties, heavy Republican strongholds. Rushville Firs Gets Plum Fry earlier announced another monopolistic importer's permt to the Handy Beverage Company, Inc., Rushville, of which state Senator Russell R. Handy is president. Handy helped pass the beer control law and other McNutt administration measures during the 1933 legislative session. With bottled beer in the offing, whisky now is available if the doctor feels you need it. More whisky permits are being procured daily by drug stores and the new federal ruling does not limit the dosage to a single pint. •BUZZIE’ AND ‘SISTIE* SHOP IN FIVE-AND-TEN Roosevelt Grandchildren Pick Toys In True American Fashion. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 3.—Two women stopped at the counter of a 5-and-10-cent store. With them were a flaxen-haired girl in a blue coat and a little boy. “What do you want, Buzzie?” the boy was asked. He pointed to a gay blue and red ball. “And what are you going to take?” the girl was asked. She wrapped her hand around the handle of a brilliant red wheelbarrow. Thus the grand children of President Roosevelt do their shopping. R. F. C. OFFICER QUITS Gardner Cowles Resigns as Director of Federal Board. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, April 3.—Resignation of Gardner Cowles, Des Moines, la., newspaper publisher, as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was announced today, effective April 8.

i that all eating and drinking should be temperate. She expects beer to be served only occasionally. The beer that will arrive at the White House by airplane from Milwaukee. St. Louis and elsewhere, sent by brewers contesting for the honor of first White House use, will be received at the executive offices and disposed of there by the President. The Roosevelts will buy any beer that is served their guests. Mrs. Roosevelt said: “When it is legal to serve beer in any government house, it naturally will be proper to do so for any one who desires it at the White House. "I hope very much that any change in legislation may tend to improve the present condition and lead to greater temperance.”

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Beer Situation

Wet leaders fight to counteract wrangles over beer which peril repeal success. Twenty-three states expected to sell beer legally Friday. Gov. Lehmann, New York, appeals to people against dry legislature. “New Beer" eve celebrations in Indianapolis may be limited to home brew, with none of new beer available. Fleet of trucks to rush beer here from St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee Friday. Price expected to be 20 cents a pint here. State excise director rules that sandwich is a meal, with beer.

MICHIGAN VOTES ON DRY REPEAL First State in Nation to Elect Delegates to Convention. By I nited I’rrss DETROIT. April 3.—Michigan voters crowded to the polls today casting their ballots in the first electoral test of ratification or rejection of the repeal amendment. Early voting was heavier than officials anticipated. Election officials estimated 225,000 persons would vote in Detroit and more than 1.000,000 persons throughout the state would cast ballots. Michigan is the first state to vote on ratification of the twenty-first amendment to repeal prohibition. Voters in each of the 100 representative districts in the state are balloting on two sets of delegates to the convention, which will be held in Lansing, April 10. The convention itself will be a formality, as the elected delegates are pledged either for or against ratification. Wisconsin Vote Tuesday By United Press MILWAUKEE. Wis., April 3. Wisconsin votefs go to the polls Tuesday to name fifteen delegates to a convention to consider repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Dry leaders conceded that delegates pledged to repeal would win. Wisconsin is the second state to vote on ratification of the repeal amendment. The Wisconsin convention will be held April 25 at Madison. Delegates are elected by the state at large on a nonpartisan basis. Four years ago in a state-wide referendum Wisconsin repealed its state dry law 350,000 to 196.000. E. L. OSBORNE IS TAKENJY DEATH Former State Investigation Bureau Chief Succumbs. By 1 nited Press WEST LAFAYETTE. Ind., April 3.—E. L. Osborne, 55. former chief of the state bureau of criminal identification, died from pneumonia today at his home here. He left the criminal bureau when the new Democratic administration took office. He was a former police chief at Lafayette. Osborne was appointed chief of the crime bureau by former Governor Harry G. Leslie in 1929. He was an agent for the department cf justice many years. ROBBINS TO BE ENVOY Protocol Chief to Be Named Canada Minister, Is Report. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 3.—Authoritative sources today declared that Warren Delano Robbins, head of the protocol division of the state department, would be named minister to Canada by President Roosevelt, his first cousin. At the same time it was learned authoritatively that Ruth Biyan Owen of Florida, former congresswoman, would be named minister to Denmark. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 42 10 a. m 46 7a. m 43 11 a. m 47 Ba. m 43 12 tnconi.. 52 9a. m 43 Ip. m 49

HOME EDITION r R IC E TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Chance of Dry Victory Is Seen in Reaction, as Result of Strife. N. Y. SITUATION TANGLED Governor Appeals to State for Aid Against Legislature. Bv United Press The paradox of earnest wets battling to impose strict limits on the sale of beer threw prospects for consumption of legal brew into conI fusion in many states, especially in the wet cast, today as the nation : approached the end of a federal aridity. With only three days remaining after today before 3.2 per cent beer may be sold freely, as far as fedi oral law goes, a survey by the United Press indicated that residents of twenty-three states, ineluding 61.9 per cent of the nation's ■ population, would be permitted legally to drink the brew at 12:01 a. m. Friday. There remained a strong possibility, however, that in New York and other states special restrictions mighty be imposed, pending state laws to regulate the sale. Fear for Repeal The concern of the wets was based primarily upon the fear that abuse of the beer selling and consuming j privilege would lead to a reaction 1 against alcoholic drinks, in border- ! line states, and thus might prevent ratification of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. This situation reached its height in New York, where Governor Herbert Lehman appealed to the peoI Pie Sunday night for aid against a ; legislature in which hertofore dry ' Republicans sought to block a theoretically model bill to permit the drinking of beer without allowing return of the saloon, and also without enabling political or brewing inI terests to gain control of licensing of beer emporiums. Lehman had the public support of Alfred E. Smith. • j Primarily, the fight in New York j hinged on whether licensing should i be in control of a single state board . —as Lehman demanded—or under ; local boards in each community— I as the Republicans insisted. Both Charge Political "Plot” Lehman supporters said the Rei publican plan was designed to perj mit political control. Republicans i charged the Lehman plan turned | the valuable beer patronage priv- ! ileges over to the Democrats, denyj ing Republicans control even in Republican communities. In Pennsylvania a condition simi--1 lar to that in New York existed, exI cept that the basic fight was over whether to permit bars to sell beer New Jersey, embroiled m similar t controversy, planned to solve the problem by jamming through the j legislature a temporary bill authorizing restricted sale until May 15, | by which time permanent reguiaj tions can be drawn up. Connecticut has abandoned hope j of getting a bill in effect by Friday, and intended to permit unrestricted , sale. Brer Bills Pending ! * n state s which have repealed their prohibition laws and which do not pass new laws restricting or prohibiting beer sale before 12:01 i Friday, beer will be subject to free sale except under such restrictions as municipalities choose to impose. States in which beer bills are penoing, but sale on Friday is probable, include—in addition to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and I Connecticut—Maryland. Massachusetts. Wisconsin and California. State with prohibition laws, but with bills pending to legalize beer, are New Hampshire, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama and Oklahoma The beer bills face probable defeat in several of these states, . especially in the south. Sale to Be Delayed Five states have passed beer laws which will not permit sale until | some time after April 7. These states, with the dates on which sale will become legal, are: Maine, late June; Vermont, May 1; West Virginia, June 9; Wyoming, May 18; Louisiana, April 13. In Washington, D. c . Superintendent F. Scott Mcßride of the AntiSaloon League predicted that “if the courts do not invalidate beer legislation. public sentiment, which originally outlawed beer, again will pronounce sentence against it. NICKEL PENS FOR -F. R.’ I President Signs Important Bills With Ordinary 5-Cent Kind. By I nited I'ress WASHINGTON. April 3—The ; pens which President Roosevelt distributes after signing of important bills are the ordinary kind which usually sell for a nickel. The frames to which they are promptly conveyed by the proud recipients usually cost 100 times as much. DAVIS TRIAL TO BE SET Date to Be Fixed by Court This Week, Is Assertion. Bn l nited Prt ** NEW YORK. April 3—A date for ; the retrial of Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, will be set some time this week. Louis M. Treadwill, assistant United States attorney, said today.