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Four Persons Are Arrested on Various Charges by Police. CHILD AMONG VICTIMS 41 Motorists Convicted in Municipal Courts on Driving Counts. Six persons were injured and four arrested in overnight traffic accidents that continued despite the drive of police against careless driving which, from 7 a. m. yesterday to 7 a. m. today, resulted in charges against 49 motorists and conviction of 41 in Municipal Court. Thomas Chance, 11, of 1032 N. Beville-av, was crossing Michiganst at Keystone-av yesterday and was struck by •an auto driven by Paul R. Ryan, 1027 N. Rural-st. His leg was injured and he was taken home. Sidney W. Sedberry, 38, of 1428 VT. 26th-st, was injured when he was struck by an auto at 16th-st near Monte,ilm-st. The car was driven by William Franklin Cook, 22. of 1014 Park-av. Gilbert Zurring, 28, of 2519 Jack-son-st, was arrested on charges of drunken driving and having no driver’s license late last night when his auto struck a parked car at 231 N. Belmont-av. Two Negro youths early today escaped from the wreckage of a car they drove into a parked auto at 1212 Comell-sv, leaving a trail of blood. Their car was badly wrecked and splattered with blood. Ed Dallman, 45, of 54 N. Sheridanav, was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital early today after his car struck an abutment at Hanna and Pennsts. Howard White, 26. of 202 E. Washington-st, was arrested on a charge of vagrancy when he was found, early today, wandering in a daze beside the wreckage of his car at 67th-st and Post-rd. The car, he said, had swerved onto a soft shoulder of the road. Although White told police three others were with him, police failed to And them. Kenneth Reynolds. 26. of 3127 N. Sherman-dr, and James Porter, 5407 Carrollton-av. were arrested on charges of drunken driving early today. TRAVELING PASTOR TO GIVE SACRED PROGRAM Former Actor to Offer Monolog in City Church Tonight. The Rev. William Hainsworth, Congregational minister and former actor, will present a sacred program at the Washington Street Presbyterian Churchtonight featuring a monolog, ‘‘The Fourth Letter.” Mr. Hainsworth. his wife and their two children, Billy. 12. and Anna Marie, 11, started from Gridley, 111., in the latter part of September and have traveled 8000 miles in 16 states sinqe. The children receive their education by receiving assignments from their teachers in Gridley by mail. SLUM CLEARANCE PLANS AVAILABLE AT C. OF C. Scaled Bids to Be Received by U. S. on April 30. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has available for inspection a complete set of plans for the Indianapolis slum clearance project which it obtained from the Department of Commerce. Sealed bids in triplicate for furnishing labor and materials for construction will be received by the Department of the Interior * until 3:30. April 30. Security amounting to at least 2 per cent of all bids is required.

SUGGEST LANDSCAPING FOR NEW HOSPITAL Two Ait Named to Discuss Topic With Works Board. Earl C. Wolf. City Hospital business manager, and Edwin J. Kopf, architect for the new Flower Mission Tuberculosis Hospital, which will be built soon, have been appointed to confer with the Board of Works on a plan for landscaping the ground of the new building. A maintenance program for the new hospital was discussed yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Health. Two sanitary officers, Charles McDermott and Charles Fouts, were dismissed. 13 STATES ASK REPEAL OF FEDERAL GAS TAX Legislatures Petition Congress to Drop 1 Cent a Gallon Levy. Bv I'nilfd Prtst WASHINGTON. April 6.—Thirteen state Legislatures have petitioned Congress to repeal the 1-cent a gallon Federal gasoline tax. In adddition to the Legislatures, 86 organizations throughout the country have asked Congress to relegate the gas tax question to the states. States which have asked elimination of the tax are New York, Arkansas, Florida. Michigan. Mississippi, Montana. Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma. and South Dakota. The Massachusetts House of Representatives also tus passed a similar resolution.

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 23

Robinson; Famed U. S. Poet, Dead

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Awarded Pulitzer Prize Three Times; Bids His Friends Farewell. By United Press NEW YORK, April 6.—Edwin Arlington Robinson, three times winner of the Pulitzer prize and one of the world’s most distinguished poets, died early today of a chronic ailment. He had been ill several weeks. Mr. Robinson had been in a coma since Wednesday when he bade farewell to two old friends, Carty Ranck, a dramatic critic, and George Burnham, a railroad man. Mr. Robinson's whole bearing reflected the traditional conservatism of his New England background. His entire personality belied the brilliance of his writing. He was almost unknown to the masses. But he was intensely human. In his latter years he was partly bald, tall, stoop-shouldered, mustached. He wore steel-rimmed glasses and always carried a stick. He liked a racy story, swore when the occasion moved him, and took his whisky straight. He was awarded the annual Pulitzer poetry prize in 1922, 1925 and 1928. His best known works were ‘ Tristram,” '‘The Man Who Died Twice,” ‘‘The Glory of the Nightingales,” ‘‘The Town Down the River,” “Matthias at the Door,” “Cavender’s House,” “Launqelot,” “The Man Against the Sky,” and “Merlin.” His work is represented in practically all anthologies and has found its way into high school and college text books. his metier embraced almost every form of poetic expression. Sometimes his verse was a simple form; sometimes a sonnet. More often it would be a full length portrait, such as he did in “Captain Craig.” Mr. Robinson never married. He disliked personal publicity; refused time and again to lecture or read his verses publicly. White Shrine Meeting Set The third semi-annual convention of the Indiana State Association of the White Shrine of Jerusalem will meet April 13 in Lafayette.

Expect Home Show to Set Attendance Record Fourteenth Annual Exposition at Fairground Draws High Praise From All Officials. Spring house-cleaning was on a week-end vacation today. Wives joined husbands in visiting the fourteenth annual Indianapolis Home Complete Exposition in the Manufacturer’s Building at the Indiana State Fairground.

Trowel trick in transplanting plants, ways of fixing gardens, the newest in home modernization, were studied as visitors filed into the home show and studied the latest designs in construction as shown in the new model home. Curtains were drawn in a blare of orchestration last night as the show opened a nine-day engagement in the city. Eighty displays, with the model home as the centerpiece, feature the exhibition. A class in house management from Indiana University, under the leadership of Miss Edith C. Williams, assistant professor in home economics, visited the home showtoday to study drapes, electric lighting effects, and time-saving devices. A Federal Housing Administration booth, near the entrance, was crowded with persons questioning government officials regarding national housing operations. Attendance was expected to soar today and tomorrow- and J. Frank Cantwell, director, forecast that the exposition would gross a larger attendance than at any other show. Lauded by FHA Chief Henry A. Guthrie, chief of the exhibition division of FHA. was a guest of the management and of R. Earl Peters, FHA director of Indiana. “'This is the most beautiful home show I have yet seen in the United States. ’ Mr. Guthrie said. At the show’s opening last night an American flag was raised to the building’s rafters. The 11th Infantry Band of Ft. Benjamin Harrison added a martial air to the festivities. A solid gold key was used for opening the show. Mayor John W. Kern in a brief talk urged citizens to visit the show. ‘A Better Place to Live' "Indianapolis Is not the home of the gambler or the racketeer and each year this is presented our city shall become more and more a bet-

HAMILTON IS CAUGHT; FACES QUICK DEATH

Notorious Killer Will Be Put to Death Immediately, Officials Say. NABBED WITHOUT FIGHT Teaxas’ No. 1 Bad Man Gives Up When Surrounded by Posse. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., April 6.—Public enemy No. 1, Raymond Hamilton, will be electrocuted at the convenience of Texas officials, it was indicated today. The captured bad man, heavily guarded in Dallas’ escape-proof jail, sneered at the chair and officers alike, asserting that his life was by no means ended. Murderer and bank robber, Hamilton had succeeded to the infamous mantle of John Dillinger by a process of machine gun elimination. He had boasted he would never be taken alive. But he surrendered without firing a shot when surrounded by officers in the Ft. Worth railroad yards yesterday. Hamilton will never be tried for the host of robberies and shooting charged against him since his escape from the Huntsville Penitentiary death house, July 22. He already is under death sentence for the murder of a prison guard. It may be necessary to resentence him. He will be taken to Huntsville and executed at the “convenience” of the warden. “They can bum me,” he said. “But it’s the truth that I never killed any one in my life.” Officials believed the exact toll of Hamilton’s depredations since his escape never would be known. At least 30 bank robberies in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Misissippi bore the imprint of his technique. CHILLY WEEK-END IS FORECAST FOB CITY Occasional Rains Likely, Is Prediction. Down from Canada came low temperatures to Indianapolis this week-end to spoil fishing trips, picnics and outings. The temperature will remain about the same today and tomorrow, with occasional rains probable. J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, does not believe there will be a freeze, however. TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 36 8 a. m .... 38 7 a, m... 37 9 a. m 39 Sunrise tomorrow, 5:19; sets, 6:15. Sunrise Monday, 5:18; sets, 6:16.

ter place in which to live,” Mayor Kern said. Maj. A. C. Oliver Jr., Ft. Benjamin Harrison's chaplain, reminded the public that the purpose of the army is the defense of the home. Organizations co-operating in the promotion of the show are Allied Florists of Indianapolis. Inc., Architests’ Association of Indianapolis, Construction League of Indianapolis, Electric League of Indianapolis, Garden Clubs of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association, Indianapolis Park Board, Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Landscape Architects and Gardeners, Material and Lumber Dealers of Indianapolis and the units of the Federal Housing Administration.

Action by Utility District Directors Paves Way for Acquisition of Gas Company by City; Kern Optimistic

BY VINCENT LYONS Times Financial Editor Security holders of the Citizens Gas Cos., who have displayed uncertaihty over their position in the event of the city’s acquisition of their gas property, were gleeful today as a result of action taken yesterday by the board of directors of the Department of Public Utilities in calling for bids on an $8,000,000 bond issue. Os this sum $6,312,500 will be paid out to the worried stock and bond holders. Market values of the two classes of stock—common and preferred—confirmed this uncertainty. Yesterday, before the department's action was announced, the common shares were quoted at sl7 bid, while the preferred shares were $75 bid. Under the terms of the arrangement drafted by the department yesterday holders of the 80,000 com-

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 3,1935

City Joins Nation in Observing Army Day; Troops ‘Take’ Plaza

Ft. Harrison Contingent Arrives at World War Memorial, Pitches Camp and Makes Ready to Shows Its Newest Motorized Equipment. (An editorial on Army Day is on page 6 of this edition. A story of national significance will be found in William Philip , limns’ column). Indianapolis today joined with other cities of the nation in observance of Army day and the 18th anniversary of the United States’ entry In the World War. Today’s observance was quiet, in comparison with the warlike demonstration that marked the declaration of war on April 6, 1917. The World War Plaza was the scene of the observance today. There, troops from Ft. Harrison were encamped to display Army equipment and to give the public an idea of the Army’s modernization.

BRITAIN BACKS ITALnMOVES Ready to Sanction Arms for Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary. By United Press LONDON, April 6.—Great Britain will support an Italian proposal to speed revision of the military clauses restricting the size of the Austrian, Bulgarian and Hungarian armies, it was said on reliable authority today, It was understood that Great Britain and Italy feel that a gesture of friendship toward the three nations would be both a reward for their faithfulness in observing the treaties and an example to Germany of the fruits of treaty fulfillment. Foreign ministers of Britain, Italy and France, at their meeting at Stresa next week, will consider doubling the size of Austria’s army. This discussion will be continued at the meeting of the League of Nations council called for April 15 to consider Germany’s violation of the Versailles Treaty. Reliable reports said that Premier Benito Mussolini would advance four points at the Stresa conference. The first will be the advisability of revising the Austrian, Bulgarian and Hungarion treaties. The second will be to urge a united front for fulfillment of the French-British agreement on which armaments negotiations are based. Third is the necessity of discussing means of safeguarding Austria’s independence. Fourth is the formulation of a united policy against Germany’s violation of the Versailles Treaty. RESERVE OFFICERS TO MEET IN SOUTH BEND National Defense to Be Theme of Parley May 4-5. National defense will be the theme of the convention May 4 and 5 of the Reserve Officers Association to be held in South Bend. Col. R. L. Moorhead, state president, will preside and a receptiofi and dinner are scheduled for the first day. Col. George Byers, Fifth Corps Area Association president, will serve as toastmaster, and Gov. Paul V. McNutt, Brig. Gen. C. D. Herron, and Brig. Gen. William K. Naylor, will speak, OFFICE IS MOVED HERE South Bend Firm Takes Quarters in Majestic Building. The Indiana Builders Supply Asscoiation, for the last 17 years situated in South Bend, has moved its offices to 606 Majestic Building, Indianapolis. F. W. Cornelius, Indianapolis, is a vice president and a member of the finance board, and Q. A. Bond, Indianapolis, is state secretary.

12 TRILLIONS The Texas Panhandle, largest natural gas field in the werid, at present has a reserve of approximately 12 trillion cubic feet, according to competent geologists. This is one of the facts brought back by Vincent Lyons, Times financial editor, who has just returned from an extensive tour of this rich gas land. Other information and impressions gained as a result of this trip will be tc Id in a series of six articles, the first of which will appear in The Times Tuesday.

mon stock will receive $25 for each share owned, plus $6.25 a share -u accumulated dividends in the last two years which have been unearned. Holders of the 10.000 shares of the SIOO par preferred stock are entitled to receive the full par value of $1,000,000, plus a dividend of $12,500 an da premium of $5 a share which must be paid because the issue is being called. Owners of the $2,800,000 in first and refunding 5 per cent bonds of the company also will be paid off. The original issue of the company was $5,119,000, but the 1934 annual statement to the Public Service Commission showed that $2,245,879 of these bonds were held by the company. Thus, on the basis of the Department of Public Utilities announcement, the common stock, as of July 1, when the next dividend is payable, is worth 831.25 a share. The

A detachment of infantrymen from Ft. Benjamin Harrison and the Indiana National Guard gave a short parade this morning. Early today reveille of a bugler broke the plaza quiet and a company street of khaki tents awoke in readiness to show the public the culinary as well as the military arts of warfare. The 25 tents on the plaza housed field telephones, field kitchens, dummy soldiers, a life-size wooden horse, radio equipment, first-aid kits and innumerable articles needed by an army on the march. A fighting plane, a motorized field artillery unit, will feature the exhibition. The tents are arranged so that in case of rain the public can viefv the exhibits in comfort. Two hundred soldiers and thirty officers were stationed at the tents to answer questions and explain the exhibits. Col. Oliver P. Robinson, commander of the 11th Infantry, is head of the general committee in charge of the exhibition. Among those taking part in the ceremonies are Brig. Gen. William K. Naylor, commander of Ft. Benjamin Harrison; Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, commanding the 38th Division, and Frank H. Henley, commander of Indianapolis post of the Military Order of the World War.

WINDOW LOOTED OF $2200 IN JEWELRY Thief Smashes Glass in Downtown Store. Burglars broke the front window of the Crown Jewelry Cos., 21 3. Illinois-st, and stole $2200 worth of expensive watches and rings some time last night. The robbery was discovered this morning by Frank Steel, 1735 Thad-deus-st, who noticed that the plate glass window had been broken with a rock. Police investigated and called Morris Tavel, 2946 Ruckle-st, owner of the store. Tavel said his losses were not covered by insurance.

UTILITY DIVISION UP IN EARLY DEALINGS General List Follows in Fair Turnover. By United Press NEW YORK, April 6.— Utility stocks continued to rise at the opening on the Stock Exchange today, and the general list followed in fairly active turnover. (By Thomson & McKinnon) 10 a.m. Prev. .... N. Y. Close Atchison 39 % 39% £& O <4o*4 40% N y Cent . 14% 14 s !. Union Pacific 88% 88 General Electric 22% 22% Westinghouse 37'/, 37 Chrysler 35 35 General Motors 28% 28% Borg Warner 32% 32% Timken Roller 32 31% United Aircraft 11% 11% Anaconda. 10% 10% Texas Gulf 29% 29% U S Smelt 99 98 Du Pont 91% 90% Cent OU of Del 18% 18% Phillips Pet 17% 17% SO of Calif 39% 30% SOof N J 38% 38% Am Rollin Mills 19 18% Rep Iron & Steel 11 10% AT&T 104% 104% I T & T 7% 7 Nor Am Cos 13% 13% Western Union 25% 25 % Corn Products 65% 65% Natl Dairy 14% 14% Stand Brands 15% 15% Com Solvents 19% 19% Celanese 22% 22 Am Radiator 12'% 12% Johns-Manville 43% 43% Mont Ward 24% 24% Sears Roebuck 35% 35% Loews Inc 36% 36% Radio 4% 4% Am Can 117% 117 Case 50 50%

preferred is given a value of $lO5 as of the same date. Open market quotations for the shares, however, remained tatic becaus eof the fact that the market in the securities is exceedingly thin. No stock is available for sale. The resolution adopted by the board of directors of the department calls for sealed written bids to be received between 10 o’clock and noon April 25. Formal notice of the calling for bids must be given 15 days in advance of the sale; therefore, it is expected that advertising will be done next week. Mayor John W. Kern, who conferred with officials of the utility district, declared that the city will make strong efforts to have natural gas piped here if it gets the Citizens Gas Cos. property, with the added possibility that rates would be lowered through the added service. He. intimated that present plans call for the mixing of artificial gas with natural gas.

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WORK-RELIEF BILL PET “OVER TOP,’ D. S. AWAITS NEW PROSPERITY DRIVE

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Mother With Baby in Arms Among Those Held in Jail. By United Press GALLUP, N. M-, April 6.—Scores of men, and women were held in jail today while officers, outraged at the slaying of Sheriff M. R. Carmichael in an eviction riot Thursday, continued their roundup of mob members. Last night 19 men and nine women were arraigned on murder charges. Wililam Bickel, justice of the peace who received the not guilty pleas of the throng, sat at a high desk with a 30-30 rifle laid before him, ready for action should there be another outbreak. Officers lined the small room. But there was no disorder, only the sobs of some of the women disturbed the routine proceedings. Mrs. Alfonso Ray was one of the first defendants called by Justice Bickel. As her name was intoned she walked forward carrying the smallest of her four children in her arms. Tears blinded her as she stumbled up the aisle to plead not guilty. Behind her the other three children, round eyed with fright and wonder, watched uncomprehendingly. There were other similar cases. At least five more of the 150 held for investigation also will be charged with murder, officers said. The men and women are charged with “mob murder” under an old territorial statute which holds that all participants in a mob action which results in a slaying are equally responsible. The riot occurred when the town’s unemployed needy revolted after a miner had been evicted. As they charged into the group of officers trying to take the miner t jail, Carmichael and a rioter were killed and seven other persons were wounded. CIVIC GROUP TO STUDY WEST SIDE PROJECTS Washington High School Engorgement Among Proposals. Enlargement of Washington High School, elevation of tracks in the western part of the city and construction of a boulevard and parkway along Eagle Creek to skirt the western edge of the city, will be discussed at a meeting at 8 Tuesday in the Hawthorne Social Service House, 2440 W. Ohio-st, attended by representatives of civic, business and educational organizations. NEGLECT TRIAL IS SET Truck Union Official and Woman Face Trial in May. Godfrey Yaeger, judge pro tern, in Juvenile court, today set the trials of Mrs. Alma Louise McClary and George Haygood on child neglect charges in May. The couple have been questioned in connection with the death of John M. Penny, Kroger Grocery and Baking Cos. truck driver. The bond of Mrs. McClary was reduced from SSOOO to SIOOO. Times Index Bridge 4 Business News 2 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 DIONNE BABIES 3 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Hickman—Theaters 9 Junior Aviation 8 Pegler 7 Radio 11 Sports 10-11 Stamps 4 State News 11 Woman’s Pages 4-5

"I am pleased with the way the gas situation has cleared,” the Mayor said. “It has cleared up to the extent that there seems no obstacles in front of the city’s plants to advertise and sell the issue of $8,000,000 revenue bonds needed to finance the purchase of the Citizens Gas Cos., retire its obligations and afford money necessary for improvements. “There seems no reason for further delay by the city in acquiring the plant of the company. Money to be received from the sale of the bonds will afford cmple working capital to make all adjustments necessary to supply mixed gas here.” No mention was made by either the utility district or the Mayor as to what disposition is to be made of the Indianapolis Gas Cos., which at present is under lease to the Citizens Gas Cos. The Indianapolis Gas Cos. owns the bulk of the gas mains which now serve the city*

Roosevelt to Start for Home Immediately; to Sign Measure, Start Spending Approximately $11,000,000. 7,000,000 WILL GET BENEFIT Administration Pins Faith in New Law, Hopes It Will be Spark Plug Which Will Bring ‘Happy Days.’ By United Press WASHINGTON, April 6.—New Dealers, armed with th new work-relief bill, were ready today to begin spending at the rate of $11,000,000 a day to put 7,000,000 rnen back to work. They waited only for President Roosevelt to sign the $4,880,000,000 measure and make it law. News that Congress had passed the nation’s greaest peace-time appropriation was flashed to Mr. Roosevelt aboard the Nourmahai now in Bahamas waters. Back came the word he would start home within a day or two to sign the bill.

LOEW WINS IN COIIRTBATTLE Judge Dismisses Suit, but French Girl’s Lawyer Hints Settlement. Ey United Press NEW YORK, April 6.—Colette Fracois, beautiful French music student, and her mana sail for France today, extravag int in their praise of Arthur Loew, millionaire theater magnate, and the American courts. Colette claims Loew is the father of her 4-year-old child. She asked the Supreme Court to give her SIOO,OOO. Justice Aaron J. Levy dismissed the suit. Reports of an out-of-court settlement, amounting to about SIO,OOO received some substantiation in hints of Colette’s counsel, although denied by Loew’s attorney, Nathan Burkan. Said Bernard H. Sandler, attorney for Colette: “Miss Francois and her mother sail today on the Champlain. They are well pleased and have the kindliest feelings towardMr. Loew.” The trial ended suddenly after Mr. Burkan had cross-examined the big-eyed, well poised French girl four hours without materially changing her story. She said Mr. Loew had entertained her in his Paris hotel suite where she had gone under the misapprehension of obtaining a movie contract. Loew gave her brandy, she said, and when her mind began functioning clearly, again, she was in his bed. In dismissing the suit, Justiqe Levy said: “This is a sad case. Pathetic, in fact. These people—Colette and her mother —testified truthfully, but they had no cause for action. They sued for seduction and breach of promise, but the testimony didn't bear this out, technically. “They declared that Mr. Loew seduced her on a promise of marriage, but they also charged he was married. Under our American law, a married man can’t make a binding promise of marriage. The Francois’ evidence seems rather to suggest grounds for an assault charge. I say this in view of the fact that they swore the girl was plied with brandy and was under the age of 17.”

FOURTH DILLINGER COUPON TURNS UP Placed in Bank Here as Collateral for Loan. A fourth coupon, worth S3O, from bonds stolen by* the late John Dillinger and his gang from a Racine <Wis.) bank, was discovered in Indianapolis yesterday and turned over to police. The coupon was left at a downtown bank as security for a loan. It was clipped from bonds Issued by the Rundle Manufacturing Cos., Milwaukee, Wis. Police Chief Mike Morrissey says he knows who has been cashing the coupons, but has not been able to arrest him as yet. ROTARY TO ENTERTAIN PULITZER PRIZE AUTHOR Herbert Agar, Economist, to Be Guest Here Tuesday. Herbert Agar, social economist and winner in 1933 of the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction for his book, "The People’s Choice,” a study of our Presidents, will speak Tuesday noon in the Claypool to the Indianapolis Rotary Club. Mr. Agar long lived in England where he was literary editor of the British Review. He spoke frequently under the auspices of the British Broadcasting System on AngloAmerican Relations and Politics, and he believes the great success of the original American capitalistic system fully justifies its continuance."

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The President will personally direct expenditure of the huge sum which many expect will remove 14,000,000 t® 15,000,000 persons from relief rolls. Thus he will carry out his pledge to substitute pay checks for the dole. Mr. Roosevelt is expected soon 'to announce personnel of the organization to handle the “victory drive” against the depression and to sound the keynote of the New Deal's mightiest campaign for recovery. Relief directors, who for weeks have been scrapping the bottom of their coffers to provide day-to-day relief, waited impatiently to begin the “New Deal” in providing sustenance for approximtely 20,500,000 persons now on Federal relief rolls. 20,500,000 on Rolls Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins said $4,000,000,000 would b sufficient to put 3300,000 persons on public work in one year. It has been estimated another 3,500,000 persons would be absorbed in private industry as the result of the Federal expenditures. Should that spark of activity catch and spread—and the theory of the Administration is that it will—other thousands and perhaps millions could be placed back in gainful employ. The estimate of 20,500,000 on relief rolls includes women and children, dependents of men who are out of work. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor eAimated unemployed today at approximately 11,000,000. If the Administration’s hopes are realized that number would be reduced by more than tw 3-thirds in the next year.

Gamer Goes Into Action The protracted fight ever the bill in Congress ended with agreement on the conference report worked out by Representatives of the House and Senate. But Congress did not let the bill go without another demonstration of its uncertain and confused mood. After the House had adopted th§ conference report, 317 to 70, it was carried by messenger to the Senate. Vice President John N. Gamer, who had been keeping an eye on the swinging doors leading to the House corridors, swung into action in that free and easy Texas style which has never ceased to fascinate and amuse the august Senate. When Cairman Carter Glass of the Senate Appropriations Committee asked for adoption of the report Mr. Garner zestfully gaveled it through and announced proudly that the report had been approved. Forced to Rescind Action In the ensuing hub-bub Mr. Gamer was forced to rescind that action, it was not until two hours later and after two more abortive efforts to have the report approved, that the Senate, moving in its own deliberative style, finally accepted the report by a vote of 66 to 13 and made the resolution ready for the President’s signature. “We can put three and a half million men to work for $4,000,000,000, starting whenever they want,” Mr. Hopkins said. This would mean the expenditure of $10,950,000 a day or $456,621 every hour during the year. It was learned that the FERA already, through a slow and gradual process, has put 2,200,000 persons on work-relief at a wage of about $27.50 a month. ACCUSED ACTOR ENDED LIFE, POLICE DECIDE Took Poison to Avoid Penalty for Assault, Is Belief. By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 6.—MaJ. E. G. Covell, former British World War ace, took poison to avoid prosecution for trying to run down four persons in an automobile, police decided today. Maj. Covell collapsed in a courtroom and died just before he was scheduled to plead to a charge of "assault with a deadly weapon” brought by Kay Garnett, one of four film colony acquaintances who supposedly were the Intended victims of Maj. Coveil’s car. An autopsy showed the presence of poison in his stomach.