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CUBANS FIGHT HATED PLATT AMENDMENTS Crisis Faced Over Clause in Constitution Giving Intervention Right. t PROTESTS WERE HUSHED Opposition Voiced at End of Spanish War Was Frowned Down. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Krnpp*-Howard Ftrelfii Editor WASHINGTON. S**pt. 12 —A new crisis in Cuban-Amenran relations is about to break over the Platt amendment the authority to intervene In the island's affairs—regardless of whatever els'* may happen in that sorely beset isle. Cubans from tne start bitterly have opposed the amendment, as an infringement upon their national sovereignty. Shortly after the Spanish-Amer-ican war. Gen. Leonard Wood, military governor of the island, was ordered by Washington to call a convention of Cubans to frame a constitution for themselves, which was to include the relations to exist between the two countries. The constitution was framed, but it omitted all mention of ‘ the relations to exist.” Whereupon Senator Orville Platt, of Connecticut, came to the rescue. Amendment Tacked on The war department appropriations bill was up and the senator tacked on an amendment that was destined to become historic. It did what the Cubans had failed to do. It. defined "the future relations of the United States and Cuba.” and stipulated that when Cuba saw fit to make the amendment a part of its constitution, its independence would be recognized. The now famous document contained eight major articles. But Article 111 was the one which stuck most in the craws of the Cubans. The others gave the United States a certain amount of supervision over the island’s finances and foreign affairs, and so were not relished, but Article 111 gave this country the right to intervene. The Cubans objected strenuously. They sent a delegation to Washington to protest. But Elihu Root, then secretary of war. told them they could rest assured that the clause was intended wholly and exclusively for their benefit- that it merely legalized the position of the United States before the rest of the world if and when the United States found it necessary to intervene for Cuba's own independence or other good. Cuba's Anger Stirred Dissatisfied, the Cubans returned home. But as acceptance was the price of independence, the Platt amendment finally was written into their constitution and made part of a treaty defining Cuban-American relations. The ousted Machado insisted upon repeal of the amendment. Men like Dr. Cosme de la Torriente. respected the world over as president of the League of Nations. Cuban secretary of state and ambassador to Washington. advocated it. And now all Cuba is reported fuming over the presence of American warships, sent to her waters under the amendment’s provisions. Reports from Havana suggest that the Cubans may strike it out of their constitution. But this still would leave the treaty valid so far as the United States is concerned. Almost certainly the new Cuban regime—whatever that regime may be—will make a blazing issue of it. The Cuban delegation hardly will fail to take the issue to the seventh Pan-American congress at Montevideo. where, if not actually on the agenda, it will be aired when intervention comes up.

SIOO,OOO IS SOUGHT IN SUIT BY AUTO VICTIM AllPffd Permanent Injuries Basis for Damage Complaint. Injuries alleged to have been' incurred by William Larsh of Frankfort. in an automobile accident, including loss of an eye and total paralysis of the left side of his body, are basis of a SIOO,OOO damage suit on file in superior court five. Defendant in the suit is Robert B Denham. 3335 North Pennsylvania street, president of the Denham Oil Company, who is alleged to have been the driver of an automobile which struck the car in which Larsh was riding in February, 1932. Larsh was riding with Dr. Oren R. O'Hara, also of Frankfort, in Road 29. in Boone county, when the accident occutrrj the complaint alleges. NUDE BODY RECOVERED Cleveland Girl Dives Off Yacht During Party on Lake. By I'nited Preit CHICAGO. Sept 12—The nude body of Mrs Clara Moore Patterson. 24. of Cleveland, was recovered from Lake Michigan just off Oak street beach Monday. Mrs. Patterson dived from the deck of a pleasure yacht off Belmont harbor last week during a party attended by several business men and three other women. Friends of the dead woman said she had been despondent for several days prior to her death. An inquest will be held today. HAIR PULLED OFF HEAD South Side Woman Hurt as Strands Are Caught in Wringer. All the hair was pulled from the top of the head of Mrs. Charles Cavender. 24. of 1641 Gimber street, when caught In an electrically powered clothes wringer she was using at her home Monday. The hair was caught when Mrs. Cavender stooped to pick some clothes from the floor. Her scalp was not injured seriously.

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JEWS BESET BY HATE AND RUIN IN GERMANY

Open Brutality Common Under Nazi Rule; Government Winks at Violence

What is ffoir.e on in Otrmanv under Nazi rule led bv Chancellor Adolf Hitler :s told bv Georef Britt from firsthand observation following his return from an extensive stav. This is the second in a series of articles. BY GEORGE BRITT Time* Special Writer STARTING out for Germany to learn all I could ajjout the Hitlerist revolution and needing to talk with as many different kinds of people as possible, I gratefully accepted a variety of introductions to the friends of friends, to Jews, Hitlerites, and Socialists, rich and poor. The Jews were difficult. First it was hard to find those whose names I had. for many Jews have left their possessions and fled. Thus three of my letters were useless. But having become acquainted and accepted, still conversation of any value was extremely painful. One felt like an ogre for even asking questions. I saw Jewish people behind locked doors in their own homes beg their friends not to talk, lest by mischance and blind perversity it should imperil them Even my presence was incriminating. Among the numerous offenses recently made punishable by death is "spreading atrocity propaganda." The definition is elastic, and it specifically includes the act of telling - personal sufferings to a foreigner. True, I did not learn of any Jew's head thus far being chopped off for this crime, but nothing led me to suspect such an execution would unduly pain Herr Hitler. Now, there is no evading this tragic fact—the Jews have been torn out by th roots from the life of modern Germany. They have suffered much physical violence, although the government is trying to curb it. and I personally saw none. There still persist unmitigated hatreds, insults, ejections, discriminations. and exclusions. The result is careers w’recked, property last, personalities warped, hearts broken, despair and suicide. a a a HERE following are but a few straws in the wind which indicate the personal incidence of the attack: I talked with a lawyer who was removing the next day to Saarbrucken, into territory cut off under the Treaty of Versailles. This lawyer, Jewish, had been bom at Saarbrucken under the old German flag, had lived and practiced law for twenty-six years past at Heidelberg, had served in the army during the war and so came under all the requirements to be exempted from Jewis quotas. But. there are other avenues of attack. The lawyer was denounced as a Communist and disbarred. Actually, according to himself and several of his non-Jewish friends as well, he was mildly Socialistic in opinion, but altogether inactive politically. ' But it makes very little difference." said one. “In pleading before a jury, the Jewish lawyer has almost no chance, anyway, regardless of his evidence. Nazi juries won't give him a verdict.” A Jewish woman told this story: “My little niece at Leipzig is 11 years old and has been going to the same school for five years. In her class now they are taught homemaking, and every day some

State Tax Levy Division Is Studied by Officials

State tax officials today are preparing tables upon which the 15cent tax rate, allowed under the $1.50 limitation law. will be apportioned. The rate will be set by the state tax board and approved by Governor Paul V. McNutt and Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor. It must be set before Oct. !. With the exception of the general fund and teacher retirement, other levies are set by statute, thus giving the tax board but the two with which to work. The retirement WOODIN, BETTER, TO RETURN TO HIS DESK Treasury Chief Expected Back Thursday. Ft / United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 12—Treasury Secretary Woodin will return to his desk here Thursday after several months’ illness, it was learned today at the treasury department. Dean G. Aeheson. treasury undersecretary. on whose shoulders direction of the treasury has rested during Woodin's absence, will take a two-week's vacation trip to Canada. Aeheson left this morning. Woodin. according to treasury officials, fully has recovered from the throat ailment which kept him from the treasury.

Fugitive Oil King Fails on Boast to Make New Millions

BY SAM D. HALES t'nitrd Prfsj Staff CorrtsDondrnt OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept. 12. Charles Courtney Julian's boast to recoup his oil fortune has failed. Two years ago today, the debonair maker and spender of millions sat in a jail cell here, stone broke, but not worried. “In two years I'll be worth a million dollars again." he predicted. Monday night, the time was up and tlje six-foot Irishman was a fugitive in Shanghai, down to his "last dime," his hotel bill unpaid. Though far from the million he

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my niece to wash the towel. Next a whole population has turned lay half the children stood up and maniac. But in the midst of it ' taid. Teacher, we won't dry our one beholds it neatly nationalized ■HBRST OCltifrfU’ sis idtdl fftuh fighting against the Jews, Ia: hands on the towel today, because and a going concern. KttlSlstSm- ' .... .. ' ■ doing the Lord’s work.” it was taken home by a Jewess." Tin* elimination of Jews from ||ggHg||jj|p| MCtiCn OtC fUOluflf ||Spj£|9 When Hffler began building h "And in their play they won't the professions and the govern- political eminence upon the tw: ?ive her their hands in games, ment. service—which includes ac- K rjprman cirls foundation stones of hating tl iueh as ring around a rasy. She tivities as remote as the telephone IGllfl * Jews and fearing the Commui ,s Jewish, and they won't touch company—has been accomplished * 'PiliareFl reading the text ists, which stones he joined 1 her.” by means of a four-page question- * **.. vvl calling the two terms synonymoi aa a naire. \\\ th q : ff IgpPj of a placard he f oun d a hand-picked opporti Toy' c e ame h h"ome and frim’ school It”* , ' OUrSe,Ves g on the window of j clef^ a t g' ei . t of^Sovi stop buying from Jewish stores I parents. The qiiestionnaire de HgSfEfißP * ' A J a Jewish mer- Russia. Hitler blamed it all on tl , m going to tell the party on fnrt mtmbSin Only fj( T ANARUS, , f Jews, and the matter was settle °a Nazi told this one and he was left wm * P° litical slubs - j ERMANY had an lmmign a re" to ”ii a and''pol^' ian religion and became pastor opportunity, and now advertise, _ bankS ' ,h< if a Lutheran church. His son wi th the question, "Who NaZi flgUres rpported that npai

little girl must take home the classroom towel and launder it. “While the excitement was highest last spring it was the turn of my niece to wash the towel. Next day half the children stood up and said, “Teacher, we won’t dry our hands on the towel today, because it was taken home by a Jewess.” “And in their play they won’t give her their hands in games, such as ring around a rosy. She is Jewish, and they won’t touch her.” a a a \ NOTiJER woman—a German, f \ non-Jewish—told me, "My little boy came home from school and said, ‘Mother, if you don’t stop buying from Jewish stores I am going to tell the party on you.’ ” A Nazi told this one, and he was one of the few to express any question that perhaps the party's zeal might be extreme: “I knew a Jew, now dead, who married an Aryan Christian woman, was baptized into the Christian religion and became pastor of a Lutheran church. His son was a Lutheran pastor, also, and the son's wife had a paying job in the church. “Now the young man and his wife have been thrown out of their work, solely because of the father's Jewish blood. His mother is dependent on him, too. I hope these people are finding consolation in their Christian religion.” A non-Nazi, tolerant toward the regime, told this one: “I know a man who personally is beyond criticism from the Nazi viewpoint, who yet was warned that he would lose his job unless he quit associating withh is two brothers Why? Each brother had married a Jewess.” And a Nazi official gave this revealing insight; into the party mind: “We'd be very much obliged if you would explain that in closing the kosher meat shops we do not intend persecution or desire to make the Jews into vegetarians. “But kosher killing is cruel. The animal dies slowly. That is why we stopped it. We believe that when America understands, on account of all your societies for prevention of cruelty, you will be very sympathetic.”

fund levy now is 2.4 cents. The general fund levy will consist of what remains of the 15 cents when all other levies have been deducted. Current rates are 4.5 cents, gen- ! eral fund; 7 cents, school revenue; 2.4 cents, teachers' retirement; .4 | cent, World war memorial; .35 cent, board of agriculture; .2 cent, forestry, and .15 cent, George Rogers Clark memorial. The latter levy is dropped this I year and can be added to the gen- ' eral fund. Cut below the 15-cent limit is considered impossible. STATE LIFE FIRM IN RECEIVER BID Ft. Wayne Company Among Elvene After Des Moines Business. : By l nited Press DES MOINES. Sept. 12.—Eleven life insurance companies today had offered bids for reinsurance of the Royal Union Life Insurance Company here. The bids were in the hands of E. W. Clark, co-receiver, lowa insurance commissioner, and L. A. Andrew, insurance and financial houses from New York to Los Angeles participated in the bidding. Among the bidders were Kuhn. Loeb & Cos.. New York; United , Benefit Life Insurance Company, Omaha; Life and Casualty Company Chicago: James P. Sullivan. Chicago; State Farm Life Insurance Company, Bloomington, 111.; Great Republic Life Insurance Company, Los Angeles, and Lincoln Life In- ; surance Company, Ft. Wayne, Ind.

predicted he would have today, the colorful promoter, under federal indictment on a mail fraud charge, appeared to be as nonchalant and lordly as he was two years ago in spending his last few cents. On the morning of Sept. 11. 1931, when he received reporters in his cell here, he waved away the jail breakfast of oatmeal. He produced a $lO bill. “Take this and bring me two cantaloupes.” he told the jailer, “That's all I want, and keep the change." Shanghai dispatches today said Julian spent his last dollar there buying a drink for a reporter. *

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933

FROM a viewpoint 3,000 miles away, reports of what is going on in Germany sound fantastic and incredible. One asks if a whole population has turned maniac. But in the midst of it one beholds it neatly rationalized and a going concern. The elimination of Jews from the professions and the government service—which includes activities as remote as the telephone company—has been accomplished by means of a four-page questionnaire. “Religion?” is the catch question. And “also former religion?” It is asked concerning each person’s parents and all grandparents. The questionnaire demands information also concerning affiliation and membership in left wing political slubs. The only avenues of exemption are to those in the civil service before Aug. 1, 1914, those who fought at the front during the war or the parents of children of one who fell in the war. The genealogists have seized the. opportunity, and now advertise, with the teasing question, “Who was your grandfather?” In private enterprise Jews frequently have managed to retain their jx>sitions. Jewish stores still operate, although good Nazis will not trade with them if it can possibly be avoided. The Dresdner bank, which was kept on its feet by government funds, has almost entirely eliminated Jewish employes. The Deutsche bank in May lost two Jewish directors by resignation, including Dr. Oscar Wassermann, the “speaker,” or chairman. Two non-Jewish directors were chosen in their places, but the speakership was filled by one of the old directors, Dr. George Solmssen, a Jew. a a a JUST now the report prevails in Berlin that Wertheim's department store has been ordered to discharge all Jewish employes by Oct. 1. Since all the department stores are under strong hostile pressure, there is no doubt it can be enforced. Jews without money have suffered far more than those with. In most cases the outrages have consisted of little fellows beating up other little fellows.

AIMEE SCOFFS AT HUTTON'STHREATS Mate Can Have Divorce at Any Time, She Says. By United Press KENOSHA. WIS., Sept. 12.—Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton arrived here today for a revival meeting before going to New York next Tuesday for appearances at the Capitol theater. Questioned about the statements of her husband. David Hutton, that he intended to go through with his divorce suit against her, Mrs. Hutton declared she was “sick and tired" of Hutton's threatened action. “Barking dogs don't bite,” she said, “and I rather think he is using this divorce threat as a publicity stunt for his cheap theatrical adventure. “I'm afraid they are not serious about their divorce threats. If he wants a divorce, he can get it, any time. - ’ THIEF NOVEL FANCIER Takes “What a Widow,” Passing Up Radio Set and Clock. A thief passed up a radio set and clock, but kept a book entitled 1 “What a Widow" with other loot taken from ap'artment 7. at North Illinois street, home of Miss Nellie Lambertson. The apartment was entered during fifteen minutes Miss Lambertson was away Monday night, she told police. In the missing book was a pay check for S2O. A coat I valued at sls also is missing.

OVER the two $5 melons,. Julian jingled two quarters in his hand. He declared they were all he had left from his C. C. Julian Oil and Royalties Company. once rated a $10,000,000 concern. California and Oklahoma oil operations produced his wealth. Receivers for the company still are trying to w-ind up its affairs. It was in connection with its demise that he and a number of others were charged with mail fraud. But Julian never was tried. “Down" most of the time since that September two years ago. the man who made and lost four

Nazi officials (right, above) cross-examining Jewish merchants en route to prison camp.

The rich old Jewish families in Frankfurt and Hamburg retain their property unmolested. They have suffered hard times and boycotts. Some members of the families have fled. But still they hold their grip—stronger in finance than anywhere else. American citizens of Jewish blood have little cause for uneasiness in Germany. Not only may they expect to escape molestation; they almost certainly will escape insult. An American newspaper correspondent, a graduate of a German university, himself of rather accented Jewish appearance, returned to work in Germany a few months ago. He assured me that he had not been interefered with in the slightest. A Jewish weekly newspaper, Der Judische Rundschau, printed in German and giving political comment no space whatever, is sold again now without restriction on the streets of Berlin. Its advertising columns are jammed with hotel notices from outside Germany for the benefit of prospective emigrants.

Detroit May Buy Ford Cars Despite NRA Ban

By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 12.—The city of Detroit may purchase 99 new Ford automobiles despite the fact that the council recently resolved to do no further business with firms not qualified under NRA codes, it was revealed today. John J. Gorman, commissioner of purchases and supplies, said that Robert W. Ford, Dearborn Ford dealer and nephew of the motor car manufacturer, had submitted the RELIGIOUS TRACTS SENT TO GUNMAN Salvation Effort Is Made With Harvey Bailey. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept. 12. Harvey J. Bailey's jail cell library was .enlarged today with arrival of several religious tracts from a Los Angeles organization. A woman in Leavenworth already had sent him a Bible. “Where Is Heaven?" was the title of one tract. Bailey, held for trial next week in the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, oil millionaire, is scheduled to be tried later as the gunman in the Kansas City union station massacre. A death sentence will be asked for him in that case.

fortunes in oil and oil stock promotion jumped his bond. He wrote his bondsmen that he would not appear, afraid he would not get a “fair break.” The letter promised to make good their losses. He next turned up in Shanghai last March 23, safe from extradition. He said he had been in Canada. nan BARRED from the United States. Julian was reported planning a chain of banks in South America. Other reports said he would prospect for oil in China. He always has said millions were easily made.

Bearing banners setting forth their principles, Nazi Storm Troopers (left) are shown picketing the barred doors of the well-known Tietz department store in Berlin on the day that Hitler ordered a nationwide boycott of Jewish merchants. Such sights no longer are seen.

German girls reading the text of a placard placed by Nazis on the window of a Jewish merchant in Berlin at the opening of the boycott campaign.

SCHWARTZ’S restaurant in Munich retains its famous wall of autographed photographs, including Max Reinhardt, Yehudi Menuhin, Oscar Straus and Carl Laemmle. “And why not?” said Herr Schwartz. But Germany today, on the whole, is frankly brutal and hostile to Jews. The sentiment is no mushroom growth. For a dozen years Hitler made political capital out of anti-Jewish rating. The Berlin streets abound with hawkers of propaganda pamphlets such as “Die International Pest.” Scholars, so to speak, have given their talents to such book as "Atlantis Edda und Bibel,” which take from the Jews even such credit as they might enjoy for the development of Christianity. In the first place, they say, Jesus did not originate the Christian church, baptism and the communion having belonged to earlier non-Jewish cultures. And, in the second place, Jesus himself was not a Jew at all. Hitler, in “Mein Kampf,” puts the sentiment into a nutshell,’ “By

i low bid on 99 of 146 new cars to be purchased by the city. Gorman said lie woud recommend that the council purchase the machines from Ford. He explained that the city charter states that all orders must be awarded to the low- ! est bidder. While the Ford Motor company | remains the only major member of ! the industry that has not signed the ! automobile code, Robert Ford has qualified for the blue eagle under j the dealer’s code. “The charter is the fundamental ; law of the city and I must be governed by it,” Gorman said. “ThereJ fore, I will recommend that the low I bids be accepted in all cases. If the ! council wants to invoke its NRA resolution and determine whether the Ford company has complied with the NRA, it can do so.” Gorman said he was informed that dealers of machines in the small car class would fight attempts to award the contract to a Ford dealer. WIDOW THIEF’S VICTIM Restaurant Closed by Death of Husband Is Looted. Mrs. John Mason, 451 West Fifj teenth street, who recently was | widowed, was the victim of a thief Monday. A restaurant which her husband operated at 1427 North West street, was closed temporarily following his death. The place was entered Monday and articles valued at $95 removed. The loot included a set of [books in the Syrian language.

“Money is circulating past you all the time,” he told friends here. “You always can make a million. Make money to get the things you want, and, when it’s gone, reach out and grab more. “I can. anyway. I won’t die in the poorhouse. If I live to see 70, I’ll make a million dollars during my sixty-ninth year.” Then he outlined a plan to "make a couple of millions” from an Oklahoma oil company that would rival his big California enterprise that came to grief. But today he appeared to be just as far from the boasted new millions as he jvas two years ago.

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fighting against the Jews, I am doing the Lord’s work.” When Hffler began building his political eminence upon the twin foundation stones of hating the Jews and fearing the Communists, which stones he joined by calling the two terms synonymous, he found a hand-picked opportunity. Germany was unhappy over the defeat, the treaty, the inflation, profiteering and fear of Soviet Russia. Hitler blamed it all on the Jews, and the matter was settled. a a a GERMANY had an immigration problem, a large influx of Jews from Galicia and Poland —a different people with alien customs. There was a preponderance of Jews in many conspicuous positions, in the professions. hospital staffs, banks, theater and newspapers. Nazi figures reported that nearly two thousand out of 3,450 lawyers in Berlin were Jews, 45 per cent of the medical faculties. These percentage figures were used to produce infuriating effect. Much of the propaganda in Germany sounds a bit hollow and unconvincing. “What of it?" might seem an adequate answer. But it was effective. It is lodged deep in the German mind. And it would be naive to suppose that such a furious emanation could be confined tightly within one country. Almost certainly it is spreading already. The new regime is indifferent. Shedding a crocodile tear over the woes of the centuries-old GermanJewish families, it condemns all Jews everywhere. I changed my mind in Germany as to the effectiveness of a boycott. The Germans can be stubborn, and Hitler has gone too far to retract. I doubt that boycotts and denunciations will be best, for protection and alleviation is a problem for the subtlest philosophers of the whole race. Next—Business Under the Swastika.

SPOTLIGHT IN FILM GIVEN JO MARINES Erie Wreck and Hurricane Scenes Also Featured. Impressive scenes at Quantico, Va., as United States marines are mobilized and ordered ready for duty in Cuba, and scenes in Havana following a bloodless revolution in •which a Soldiers and Sailors’ Junta takes over the reins of government, are to be seen in the current issue of The Indianapolis Times-Universal Newsreel. Graham McNamee, noted radio announcer and the screen's Talking Reporter, describes these and the other important news events in the reel. Other important news events reported by McNamee include exclusive views of the wreckage of the crack Atlantic Express of the Erie railroad in which fourteen died, and amazing scenes as hurricanes sweep the gulf states, taking many lives and causing damage amounting to millions of dollars. City theaters showing The TimesUniversal film include the Alamo, Howard, Zaring, Roosevelt, Rivoli, Garfield, Tacoma and Indiana theater (for colored). BANDITS KIDNAP CLERK Escape With Employe After Robbing Bank of Mill Pay Rolls. By United Press FARRELL, Pa.. Sept. 12—Several gunmen held up the S. J. Gully bank as it was making up pay rolls for local mills today, kidnaped an employe, and fled toward Sharon. Then men were in the bandit mob which walked into the bank when few patrons were present. One of them, apparently the leader, was masked. All carried sawed-off shotguns or pistols. They ordered the few persons in the bank to stand still. Scooping up all cash in sight, thev seized Harold Wiesen, 21, an employe, and ran with him to two automobiles parked near the building, leaped into them and sped away. Crushed Beneath Auto By United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind., Sept. 12. Claude Somones, 35, Jamestown, was crushed beneath his automobile Monday when it left U. S. Highway 24 and overturned west of here. He was driving to Ft. Wayne to accept a job with the state 'highway commission. I

BANKS WILL BE CALLED ON TO LOOSEN CREDIT Roosevelt and Aids Meet at Parley to Consider New Campaign. INFLATION CRY RISES Congressmen From Rural Sections Prepare to Renew Drive. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.—President Roosevelt took command today of the government's campaign to loosen bank credit to bolster the na- | tional recovery program in the j critical test period it now enters. An important announcement ol policy was expected as a result of a conference which the chief executive held Monday night with heads of governmental banking and financial agencies, a meeting from which participants emerged with the news that they had been sworn to secrecy. The conference was linked with the renewed drive of inflationists for currency expansion to provide “juice” for the recovery program. Congressmen coming in from the farm regions for constituent chores here are all talking inflation. Opposed to Inflation President Roosevelt still is represented as being opposed to the use of the inflationary powers granted by congress. His advisers are divided, with some for moderate inflation and other dead-set against “tampering with the currency.” The administration, it is understood, will give the banks another opportunity to loosen up and to meet the need for credit. It will offer all the inducements permitted by the various emergency laws. But it will make plain the threat of inflation by the congress which assembles in January unless the situation is relieved. Most bankers are strong against inflation. Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, came from the White House conference to repeat his criticism of bankers that startled their recent Chicago convention. He said that bankers are not doing anything to encourage the recovery program. Plenty of Money Available There is plenty of money in the banks and plenty of collateral, he added. The R. F. C. has between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000 which can be used to assist by purchase of preferred stock, as has been done in the case of eighty-eight banks, and by formation of local mortgage corporations. Jones explained. It also is ready to assist in opening closed banks. The banking situation is the crux of the recovery drive at this time, according to the R. F. C. chairman. Big corporations are getting enough credit, but the “little fellows” are not, he explained. They lack sufficient collateral to satisfy the banker. Bankers, Mr. Jones said, should take into consideration the character of the would-be borrower. Governor Eugene Black of the federal reserve board expressed the opinion that the bankers would “open up.”

ICKES NAMES PUBLIC WORKS REVIEW BOARD Col. Carey H. Brown Heads Body to Settle Controversies. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. A board of review to settle controversial matters before the federal public works administration was created today by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. The board will be under the chairmanship of Colonel Carey H. Brown, who has been with the administration since its inception. Members of the board include Frederick Hall Fowler, San Francisco, Cal.; Wesley Winans Horner, former chief engineer of St. Louis, Mo., and Clarence Addison Dykstra, former head of the science department, University of Kansas. PUBLISHER IS DEAD Acute Heart Attack Claims Illinois Editor at Union League Club. By i nited Pr* ih CHICAGO. Sept. 12.—William J. Parrett, publisher of the Commercial News at Danville, 111., died at the Union League Club here today. An acute heart attack that began Monday afternoon was blamed for the publisher’s death. Parrett had come to Chicago Sunday and had attended a baseball game. Monday morning he attended a business conference and then returned to his room at the club, where he became ill. Mrs. Parrett was summoned from Danville today. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon. SKUNK OR THE OFFICER? Anyhow One of ’Em Had on a Night Shirt When Death Came. By United Press CONCORD, N. H.. Sept. 12.—New Hampshire's wild night life, as reported in a newspaper dispatch from a rural correspondent: “Canaan—Health Officer F. Hutchinson killed a skunk in his night shirt at 2:30 a. m. last week. He used a riflegun.” FUMIGATION IS COSTLY, Two Houses Damaged in Blaze From Candle; $225 Loss. Fire started by a fumigating candle caused $225 loss Monday at two houses. The fire started in a vacant house at 305 North Pine street, causing $l5O damage, and spread to the home of Harvey Craig, 309 North Pine street, causing $75 damage.