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LABOR CHIEF ASKS FURTHER CUT IN HOURS Still Shorter Work Week and Higher Pay to Be Federation* Goal. PERIL TO NRA SEEN Green Declares Exponents of 'Old Deal’ Seek to Ruin Program. RV MAX STFRV Tim** Spf'lal Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— Declaring that re-employm?nt through the NRA codes has “not been whai it should have been," President William Green of the American Federation of Labor today indicated that the federation will demand that the codes contain shorter work weeks, higher wage levels, and a strict adherence to the collective bargaining clause of the act. The executive council, meeting here in preparation of labors program for the coming October convention. is studying the work week provisions in the codes. It is convinced that so far the forty-hour and even fifty-hour weeks in the agreements are ineffective. It is believed that the federation will carry out Mr. Green's demand for a thirty-hour week, as originally asked for in the Black bill. Permanent Policy Is Aim The executive council, says Green, looks upon the recovery act not as a temporary depression remedy, but as "a vast program of industrial reconstruction, out of which must come a permanent new deal for the workers, a permanent stoppage of that brutal exploitation which gave us the great depression and its 13,000.000 unemployed." “Anew control, representative in character,” he said today, “must come into being. There must be recovery for the masses, not merely for those who went broke in Wall street.” Prophesying that before this winter is over the labor movement will have doubled its present strength. Green announced that enforcement of the codes will be the program's next phase. He declared that already the federation has added 1.000.000 new members. Green warned that Washington is filled with “agents and lobbyists of great manufacturing enterprises and their Wall street financiers,” trying to prevent real recovery through the NRA program. Try to Save “Old Deal” “Many of these have no concepton. no idea, of the meaning of the new deal,” he declared. "They are trying to restore the old deal. They are trying all the old backdoors and some of the new backdoors and they find much h’lp in these places. They have too much there already.” Green's statement said that reawakening labor will stage a determined fight for: First, the thirtyhour week; second, higher wage levels and abolition of the differential wages between north and south; third, strict adherence to section 7A. and abolition of the merit clause permitted in the auto code. “If we enter the coming winter,” Green warned, "with the seven or eight millions of unemployed now indicated, the labor movement can not guarantee that stability necessary to orderly industrial recovery.” Donald Richberg. NRA counsel issued a similar warning that industrial chaos faces America if both labor and capital fail whole-heart-edly to carry out the recovery act's provisions. CITY PLANES IN SHOW Army Planes From Shoen Field to Go to Marion. A contingent of army planes from Schoen field will participate in an air show at Marion next Saturday and Sunday in connection with the opening of Marion airport, which recently was purchased by Mvron Templin and George Brumfiel of Marion. Saturday night Gene Rock, former holder of the worlds altitude parachute jump record, will make a jump from 15.000 feet, using an illuminated chute LEGION TO GO ON AIR Two Chain Broadcasts Scheduled for This Week. Two American Legion radio programs were announced at national headquarters here today. One is on the ColumbFh network, 2:45 to 3 p. m.. central standard time. Thursday, with Fannie Hurst, famed novelist, as the speaker. She will talk on One Hundred Thirty Million NRAs.” Princess Alexandra Kropotkin will talk on “Cooking Depression's Goose." over the NBC red network from 10:15 to 10:30 on Saturday morning. Times Index Page ABC of NRA 11 Book a Day 6 Bridge 5 Broun Column 10 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World 15 Dietz on Science 8 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Fishing 8 Hickman Theater Reviews 16 Hitler Rules Germany—A Series. 9 Kirby Cartoon 10 Radio 8 Serial Story 15 Sports 12. 13 Vital Statistics 11 Roman s Page 6

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Miss Margaret Bates

On goes the new! Crunch! goes the old. That's just what happened today when Miss Margaret Bates, 1504 North Pennsylvania street, an employe of the L. Strauss Company, looked at the calendar and discovered that straw' hats go out of season Friday. On one pretty knee went one perfectly good straw' hat. Splintering straw told the rest of the tale. For, after all, who wants to be out of style?

FALL FATAL TO GEORGE SUNDAY Death Comes Suddenly to Evangelist’s Son While Jaw Is Being Set. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Sept, 12. George M. Sunday, 40, son of the evaneglist, Billy Sunday, died suddenly Monday night. £le was injured last w r eek when he*fell three stories from a window of his apartment. Sunday died while four doctors re-set his fractured jaw. His family. assured that he would recover, was not present, He was under an anesthetic, according to Dr. Edgar H. Howell. Sunday's mother told reporters she had a premonition of death. At about the hour he died, she sat at the piano in her son's apartment and played “Nearer My God to Thee.” A telephone call, telling her of his death, came as she finished. Authorities said an inquest would be held Wednesday to decide whether Sunday jumped from the window. It was reported that he had quarreled with his wife and his mother shortly before he fell. Sunday insisted his fall was an accident.

11, S, EMPLOYES MAY GET BOOST IN PAY Restoration of Part of Cut Is Intimated. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.—President Roosevelt is taking steps looking to restoration of part of the 15 per cent pay cut given federal employes in the government enocomy program. William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, said today as he left the White House. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 65 10 a. m 69 7a. m 66 11 a. m 70 Ba. m 66 12 <noon>.. 70 9 a. m 68 1 p. m ?1

Court Fight Waged Over $152,000 Bank Default

With a $152,000 default judgment at stake, attorneys for Oren S. Hack, receiver of the defunct Washington Bank and Trust Company, and New York insurance companies, wrangled today in circuit court over legality of the claim. The judgment was granted Hack when his suit to collect a $152,000 indemnity bond, covering former officers of the bank, was not contested by the Constitution Indemnity Company of Philadelphia and Lloyds Insurance Company of America, defendants. Both of the defendant companies’ aflairs are in the hands of the New York state insurance commissioner, who recently obtained a New York supreme court order restraining any legal action until proper claim had been filed with his office. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox and Hack’s attorney. Samuel Miller, took ias position that ihe New York

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court can not restrain the local court, because of their equal jurisdiction. The suit was not defended because the attorneys for the insurance companies relied on the New York order. After considerable discussion, Cox agreed to allow the matter to rest until further instructions could be obtained from New York. Further complication to the situation was introduced when it developed that affairs of the defunct companies have been conducted, in part, through a number of other insurance companies, which have reinsured obligations. Tire $152,000 suit is one of several filed bv Hack to collect on indemnity bonds of the bank officials, who are charged with misappropriation of approximtely $1,950,000 in bank i funds. _

POLICEMAN IS SENT TO JAIL FOR CONTEMPT Judge Sheaffer’s Wrath Is Stirred: Imposes Fine of $25. OLD FEUD IS REVIVED Clash Over Rearrest Order Brings Morrissey Into Quarrel. Safety board members today discussed the possibility of appealing to Governor Paul V. McNutt, with a view to impeaching Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, as a result of renewal of his feud with Chief Mike Morrissey. Held by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer in direct contempt of his court, patrolman Raymond Boyd was remanded to jail today for failure to pay a fine of $25. The action renewed the feud of Sheaffer and Chief Mike Morrissey. Fight to frek Boyd was opened at once, and before 2 this afternoon James A. Collins, formerly criminal judge, announced he will file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in circuit court and demand an immediate hearing. Sentence followed appearance in court of Clarence Matthews, 24, of 403 North Grant avenue, nephew of Boyd, on a charge of failure to stop at a preferential street. Matthews was fined $25 and costs. Fails to Appear Matthews was to have appeared before Sheaffer on Monday, but failed to do so. It was explained that his hours of employment were such that he could not appear at the time set without being away from his work. Sheaffer ordered rearrest of Matthews and the warrant in his case and those of other rearrest defendants were sent to the office of Sergeant Jack O’Neal to be served. However, it developed, when court convened this morning, that the rearrest had not been made in the case of Matthews, who, however, was in court with Boyd. For a time, warrant in the case could not be found, but it was discovered shortly on the office desk of Jacob Steinmetz, deputy prosecutor, and was brought down by him with warrants in other continued cases. Question Is Evaded Questioning Boyd, the court demanded: "Who stopped this rearrest? Boyd explained regarding the warrant, that he “went down there and got it,” but evaded the court's question. “You are in contempt of this court,” Sheaffer announced. “This is a court order for rearrest. I'm citing you for contempt of court. What have you to say?” “Nothing,” was the reply. The fine then was imposed and Boyd remanded to jail on failure to pay. However, he was not locked up. He remained at the turnkey's office and Morrissey issued an order that Boyd is not to be slated. Bitterness Crops Out “It's not our case and it's not going on our slate.” the chief declared. Morrissey declares Boyd is an officer “going to jail for doing his duty.” “Just because Sheaffer doesn't like me.” Morrissey continued, “is no reason why he should take it out on members of the police department.” Morrissey declares that re-arrest warrants, including the one in the Matthews case, came from the court two hours after roll call, and there was no opportunity to get them info the hands of officers for rearrests in time for appearances in court in the forenoon. However, the chief conceded. Sheaffer might be “technically right” in punishing Boyd. Sheaffer Gives Views In stating his side of the situation. Sheaffer declared that, since Jan. 1 of this year, police have failed to make re-arrests in approximately 200 cases, mostly on traffic charges. Replying to Morrissey regarding the Matthews warrant, the judge asserted: “It went down about 5 p. m. and should have been sent out that night, as customary, the defendant arrested, and then locked up or released on $25 bond.”

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933

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Richard Seekamp, 10, who saved his father’s life.

Credit for saving the life of his father, is given to Richard Seekamp, 10, of 2429 North Gale street, in turn is given by the boy to police and fire department rescue squads. The father, Charles Seekamp, 51. a fire inspector, collapsed in the garage at the home, due to a combination of heat and carbon monoxide fumes, as he placed the car in the building. Richard discovered his father lying senseless beside the car. With the aid of neighbors, the boy carried his father outside. Oxygen w'as administered by the rescue squads and Seekamp was removed to city hospital, where he was treated and returned to his home. His condition is improving rapidly. ORDERBOOMS STEEL TRADE $1,100,000 Worth of Rails to Be Rolled in Gary and East Chicago Works. By United Press EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Sept. 12. Receipt of a $1,100,000 steel rail order from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad boomed business in the Calumet district today. It was the largest single order received since 1929, officials said. Inland Steel Company of East Chicago will roll 10,642 tons, while most of the remaining 16,200 tons w'ill be rolled at the Gary works of the Illinois Steel company. An order for 750 tons of steel for anew distillery to be constructed at Peoria, was received Monday by the Graver Corporation here. The distillery will be built by Hiram Walker & Sons, of Walkerton, Can.

Maine Goes Wet, 2 to 1; Dry Strongholds Fall

By United Press PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 12.—Maine, next to Kansas, the driest of the states, repudiated national prohibition today by a majority of better than tw r o to one. All sixteen counties apparently were wet. Returns from 557 of the state’s 632 precincts show'ed: For repeal. 114,373; against repeal, 52.348. The vote represented a reversal of dry sentiment intrenched for almost a century. Maine w'as the first state to have prohibition within its own borders. The wet trend was visible even in returns from the rural districts, where dry leaders had been certain of victory. Some rural boxes w'ere overwhelming for repeal. Only a handful were dry and these by slender margins. Cities were strongly wet. Minnesota Votes Today By United Press ST. PAUL. Sept. 12. —Minnesota, the home state of Andrew’ Volstead, author of the prohibition law, voted today on repeal of the eighteenth amendment, with indications strong that wet forces would be victorious. Nearly a million votes w'ere expected to be cast as result of vigorous campaigns by both repealists and prohibitionists. Volstead was

THIS IS RENTING TIME! Moving vans are hustling about the town as they do every year at this time. Hundreds of Indianapolis residents are planning to move during the next few weeks. If you are among this group and still are looking for an apartment, house, or room, turn to the Rental Columns in today's Times. A large variety of the most desirable vacancies is listed for your selection. This Is ‘‘Times Rental Week”

WILEY POST IS GUEST OF CITY 4 Famed Airman Will Reach Here This Afternoon in ‘Winnie Mae’ Plane. Wiley Post, world flier, and his Winnie Mae that carried him in two globe trots in record time will be viewed by Indianapolis at 4 p. m. today, upon his arrival at the Municipal airport. The Winnie Mae will be on display at the airport until Post leaves at 10 a. m. Wednesday. While sightseers are looking over his plane. Post will be feted by city, state and county officials and aviators of the Indiana national guard. As he flies into the city, he will be met by ships from Shoen field and escorted to a-landing. Escorted by motorcycles, he will be taken to the office of Governor Paul V. McNutt and later to national headquarters of the American Legion. He will tell of his w’orld flights at a dinner in his honor at 7 tonight at the Severin. He will speak over WFBM from 10 to 10:15 tonight. Efforts will be made to have him make a short appearance at the Kiwanis clubs’ convention Wednesday morning. Post made his last world flight, solo, in seven days, eighteen hours and forty-nine and one-half minutes. Man Bitten by Dog Thomas Gregory, 64, of 1023 Elm street, suffered a wound on the left ankle when he was bitten by a dog Monday while walking in the 300 block South East street.

I called from his home at Granite Falls to join in the dry campaign. A last minute impetus was given | a repeal victory by Governor Floyd ; B. Olson, who promised that if anti- ’ prohibitionists win, he will appoint ! a liquor control commission Wednesday. His promise was calculated to | assure marginal drys that Minnesota | will not be “wide open’’ if national repeal becomes a fact. Maryland at Polls | By United Press i BALTIMORE. Sept. 12. Anti- | prohibitionists were confident that | Maryland votes today would put the | state in the repeal procession. Prohibitionists sought to get out the stay-at-home vote, which they asserted would be sufficient to defeat repeal. Weather Bad for Drys | By United Press DENVER, Sept. 12.—Bad weather ! and apparent lack of interest were ! important factors today in the ! Colorado repeal election. Voting was light in rural sections, because of bad roads. Drys feared - their cause would be mired in the gumbo leading to hamlets and rural ; voting places, where dry sentiment is believed strongest. Repealists made las: minute at- | tempts to stir indifferent voters in j the urban sections, principally in Denver, Pueblo, and Colorado springs. POST ‘FUN FESF IS SET Entertainment for Legionnaires to Be Held at Hall. Madden-Nottingham Post No. 348. American Legion, will hold a “fun fest’’ on Friday night at the post hall. Twenty-eighth and Rader streets. Music and entertainment will be provided by the Hoosier Melody boys. The Saylor sisters and Ethel Brown. The affair will be free to members and their wives. Wayne Taxpayers to Meet Mass Meeting of all Wayne township taxpayers will be held at 7:30 Wednesday night at School 14, 4100 .West National road. m

NEW CUBAN GOVERNMENT ON VERGE OF DOOM; FOES MASS TO HARASS SHAKY REGIME

JUDGE BAKER RENEWS WAR ON GAMBLING Grand Jury Action Ordered on Baseball Pools: Two Under Arrest. Carrying out a program “to stop gambling in Marion county,” Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker today instructed the grand jury to probe the activities of Emil Rahke, alleged baseball pool and lottery king. Shortly after Baker’s declaration of war, two alleged agents of Rahke were arrested by Sergeant Edwin Kruse and squad. Those held are Joseph R. Grotendick, 25, of 2955 Broadway, and Carl Smith, 24, of 4011 East New York street. Officers said the men had in their possession ninety-five books of baseball pool tickets. $368.41, and tickets for SIOO in “hits.” Arrested in Alley Arrests were made in an alley near the Silent Salesman Company, 14 North East street, operated by Rahke. Attention of police first was attracted to Grotendick and Smith when it is alleged they improperly parked an automobile belonging to the Rahke concern. Baker opened his drive several months ago, when he ordered Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson and Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner to break up alleged gambling at the Paramount Club, south side dance resort. He followed his action with an ultimatum to gamblers that unless gaming, pool selling, and lotteries stopped, he would begin an active campaign to drive them from the county. His instructions to the new grand jury, which took office in July, hinted that bench instructions might be expected. Orders Gathering Baker today ordered the jurors to obtain evidence from Seth Ward, local attorney, who Saturday filed suit against Rahke for SI,OOO in behalf of George Schmidt, civil engineer, who alleged failure to pay winnings in a baseball pool. Shortly before summer vacation, Baker sent two defendants in a lottery case and the arresting officer, Sergeant Edwin Kruse, to the grand jury, with the declaration that he wasn't “interested in the little fellows.” Oscar Hagemier, deputy prosecutor in charge of grand jury investigations, said today that subpenas would be issued for Albert Beedy and William Fifer, the defendants, for appearance Monday when the probe will open. When informed of Baker’s action, Ward said he would place all evidence in his possession before the investigators, and would co-operate in every way possible. Spent Nearly $3,000 According to Ward, Schmidt has invested nearly $3,000 in the pool during recent years, and that recently he won, but was unable to obtain the winnings. Ticker tape, which it is said is the final authority accepted by pool operators, shows Schmidt to have won, Ward declared. The suit was filed under a 1858 statute which provides for recovering gambling losses, Ward said. In his instructions, Baker cited the suit and the arrest of Beedy j and Fifer, together with informa- j tion in the hands of Sergeant Kruse, as starting point for the probe. “I shall expect you to return an indictment against any and all persons involved, if you find substantial evidence,” Baker declared. COLLEGE EXPECTS 500 New Term to Open Wednesday at Indiana Central. Enrollment of approximately 500 is expected at Indiana Central college for the new term opening Wednesday with the full schedule of classes. Registration Monday totaled 250, and was to continue through today. Faculty for the term includes eight new' members.

Safety Board Refuses to Bring Back Semaphores

Despite thunders of protest from city motorists, who are demanding the return of traffic semaphores to downtown corners, the city safety board today refused to take action, allowing the situation to remain as it is. for the “time being.’’ With virtually two months’ experimenting with the ne wsystem of “modernizing a hick town” completed, city motorists declare in a chorus for the “hick town style.” They charge, and are backed by many downtown traffic officers, that the system of waving by the policemen, has slowed traffic in the downtown sector. Motorists complain they are forced to slow up at street comers and peer around for the policemen, to .find out wdftfcher to go or stop.

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Fall of Grau San Martin Appears Almost Certain, With Hostile Factions Intriguing Against His Reign. ARMY OFFICERS SHOUT ‘TRAITORS’ President Names Cabinet, With Powerful Older Parties Without Representation; Two Strikes Muddle Situation. BY LAWRENCE S. HAAS United Press SUIT Correspondent HAVANA, Sept. 12 President Ramon Grau San Martin, struggling against fast crystallizing opposition, named his cabinet today. He hoped by this means to keep the revolutionary movement in power. The cabinet, formed after two days, in which the new president strove anxiously, but vainly, to placate party leaders, contains men of eminence and popularity, but none of the powerful older parties is represented.

TORTURE DEATH SUSPECT HELD Jury Recommends Charge Against Harold Peck, City Man. By Times Special NEWTON, 111.. Sept. 12— Harold L. Peck of Indianapolis, arrested with three other men following the torture murder of an 82-year-old woman on Aug. 29, probably will be indicted on a charge of accessory after the fact. A coroner’s jury today had recommended that Peck be held on the accessory charge. Two other prisoners, Henry Shelby of Tilton, 111., and John Allen, Danville, 111., are expected to be indicted on first degree murder charges. A fourth prisoner is Victor Wright of Robinson. 111., W’ho, for a week, has been under guard in a Robinson hospital. He is in critical condition as a result of a gunshot wound inflicted by A. M. Porter, Illinois state policeman. Fifth suspect in the case, Earl Stark of Danville, still is at large, and authorities indicate a sixth man may be involved. Mrs. Schrader and her daughter, Miss Anna Schrader, 47, and the elder woman’s brother, Bernard Weldon, were tortured at his home near here in an effort to force them to reveal the hiding place of money.

HEAT WAVE'S GRIP IS BROKEN IN CITY Mercury Tumbles Near to 60 Mark: Showers Near. Indianapolis awoke today to find temperatures closer to normal than they have been for more than two weeks. With the mercury slipping down to near the 60-mark, the September heat wave appeared broken. Cloudy and cooler weather, with probability of showers, was forecast for tonight by J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the United States weather bureau. Wednesday will be partly cloudy, he forecast. Grade schools resumed work today, after dismissal Monday afternoon, when the mercury climbed above 90. The lowest during the night was 62.8. Starting at 65 at 6, the temperature climbed slowly this morning, reaching 68 by 9. The temperature still is above normal, pointed out Armington. He said showers were general in the northern part of the state Monday night. Signs to Urge Tax Payment Seven hundred sign boards, scattered on highways throughout the state, are to be used in promoting the campaign for widespread payment of the October gross income tax. The state will finance the signs at about 90 cents a board, it was said by Collector Clarence Jackson.

The system was installed by the safety board on the plea of Traffic Captain Lewis Johnson, who let out a roar that traffic policemen were ’ resting and loafing” on their semaphores, that the new system would speed up traffic, and that the old “hick town” style of traffic direction would be abolished. The safety board's fight to improve traffic has met more than one failure in recent years. Last year, the tow-in law aroused such a furore that Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan stepped into the matter, with the result that the safety board repealed its action. The system has aroused city drivers to great excitement and there are many indications that the board will be forced to back down once again.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marlon County, 3 Cents

Predictions were free, as the president summoned his ministers to take the oath of : office this morning, that his regime could not last. Army officers, in their fortified hotel, were charging that the new government was ’ dragging the mass of the citizenry to desperation” and were talking of “traitors.” Faces Hostile Factions The powerful ABC revolutionary society, which had much to do with Gerardo Machado's fall, definitely was hostile. The OCCR secret society, equally potent, skeptically was hostile. Mario Menocal, former president and leader of the Menocalistas, definitely was against the government. In addition, there were two strikes—of laundry and ice plant workers. They were declared to be of only local significance. Grau San Martin remained optimistic. He hoped for early American recognition. The problem presented by the attitude of the army officers will be settled in satisfactory manner soon.” he said to the United Press today. ‘With the cabinet functioning, and with order being maintained throughout the country, I am confident that I soon shall obtain recognition.” Cabinet Is Named He added that he was optimistic regarding pending labor questions. The cabinet list follows: State-Marquez Sterling, now in Washington. He was the ambassador appointed by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, whom students and soldiers deposed in San Martin’s favor. Presidency—Ramiro Capablanca, brother of the former world champion chess player. Treasury—Calonel Manuel Despaigne, a noted anti-Machadista. Justice—Rios Baltaseda, a judas in Santiago. Sanitation— Carlos Finlay. Public Instruction—Manuel Costales Latatu. Communications Gustavo Moreno. War and Navy—Colonel Julio Aguado. Luis Barnet was named undersecretary of state. Grau San Martin considered sending Ambassador Patterson, at London, to Washington to replace Marquez Sterling. Government Is Shaky There was no doubt of the dangerous footing of the government. The officers and ABC members were working openly against it. with headquarters at the National hotel, where American Ambassador Sumner Welles and fifteen other Americans are residing. There seemed little doubt that most of the powerful political leaders would like to see Grau San Martin fall. The new president won victory in the labor field when the workers of the American-owned Consolidated Railroad agreed to postpone their strike for better conditions. They agreed to give the government two weeks in which to make proposals. The situation at the National hotel had some elements of comedy. Hotel employes, acting on union orders, struck Monday night. Ten department heads were left to do the work of 140 men and women. Right to Intervene Held By Ini ted Prr* WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.—The United States will maintain its right to intervene in Cuban affairs, it was made clear today in official quarters. America will not consent to removal of the Platt amendment from the Cuban constitution, which gives this country the right to intervene. Some Cuban political leaders have threatened the amendment. An orderly Cuba is considered so vital to the United States from military and commercial standpoints that officials regard the amendment as a keystone of American policy. While America's insistence on retention of the amendment was made clear. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in a formal statement, said the United States “is prepared to welcome any (Cuban) government representing the will of the people of the republic and capable of maintaining law and order throughout the island.”