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Ang rear (tts comers, & I\ Ml‘t y t + WEATHER A pout mis . TONIGHT-Fair and cooléri; FRIDAY-Fair and warmer. Vol. LVI, No. 115. READ IT EVERY DAY: A, discussion of events and per- ~ sonalities in the news, world and mational, by a groun of fearless . and informed newspaneriien of Washington and New York. Whirligig will be published as a news feature. Opinions expressed [ care those of the writers contribute» ~ing to the column and should not be interpreted as reflecting the edi- * «torial policy of this newspaper. Whirligig | ,_ Copyright McClure Syndicate WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker Data- . Chairman Henry Fletcher has suf- fered a rough ribbing for hiring Pro- fessor Neals Carpenter, an outright Socialist, but he may have the last laugh on his critics. It turns out © that he knew what he was doing all the time. Mr. Fletcher was warned that Prof. * Carpenter had liberal ideas and ap- proved many New Deal objectives. But the chairman also knew that the academe had once bern employed by Harry Hopkins' WPA in the field, had been fired and was sore So Mr. Carpenter was brought to Washing- ton to furnish the Republicans the inside story of supposed politics, graft and, inefficiency in the relief regime. He told all he knew, and that's sup- posed to be plenty * But-that isn't all. Mr. Carpenter's state's evidence prov:d so valuable, politically, that it gave the G. O. P. a grand idea. Now they're contacting -and paying-every person they can discover who has served in some New Deal agency or other, and been let out. They are filing away the con- fidential memoirs of ex-employes of WPA, PWA, NRA, AAA, etc, They're withholding this explosive data until it will do most damage-September fand October. N #0 a) % Astor- When Peter Grimm quit as housing adviser to Secretary Morgenthau, ad- ministration publicists carefully cre- ated the impression that he left a Washington because he had concludcd his survey of the New Deal's battling and conflicting housing agencies. Mr. Grimm kept his own counsel, as did so many others who have resigned under peculiar circumstances. Now it turns out that President « Rosevelt offered Mr. Grimm the post of Director 0° the Budget, which has been vacant since Lewis H. Douglas resigned in protest against the Presi- dent's monetary policies, But Mr. Grimm insisted on having a free hand, and told the President his first move would be to slice $1,000,000,000 from the regular departmental ap- propriations. 'The New Yorker in- sisted that such a saving was possible without endangering relief if the President would back him up. But they couldn't agree. ~ 'The incident may explain why Ray Moley has become so critical of the administration in his \Today\ edi- torlals and articles and in his speech- | 5s. Vincent Astor owns \Today and Mr, Grimm serves as Mr. Astor's real sstate agent and adviser. # * * Shift- The most sensational story on Capitol Hill these days has slid out of sight of most observers. It is the calmness with which Congress and the tax-paying public greet the pas- sage of & $1,000,000,000 army-and- mavy bill. To veterans on the floor and in the press galleries the situa- tion is unprecedented. Although European threats of war are partly responsible, smart publicity by army advisers lies behind the na- tional defense push. Instead of bait- ing liberals and pacifists, as navy propagandists do, the army's top- notchers have preached the gospel of \national defense for peace.\ Almost overnight they have transformed the attitude of anti-militarists. sional pacifists now argue for mili- tary expansion, and church groups warn that there are eventualities \worse than war.\ Some, of course, set the rebuilt army and navy as agencies of world peace, since the Léague has proved so futile. Tronically, both Congressional apost- les of a bigger-and-better army and navy on Capitol Hill are devout churchmen. Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee is Morris Sheppard of Texas, ardent prohibi- tonist and lay preacher. Head of 'he House Naval Affairs Committee ® Carl Vinson of Georgia, a quiet, - (Continued on page four) ROBINSON SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR LIFE ATLANTA, Ga,, May 14. (P)-Fed- * eral guards brought Thomas H. Rob- insgon, Jr., to Atlanta by train from . Louisville at 9:35 A. M. (Central Day- \_ light Time) today to serve a life sen- f tence for the $50,000 kidnaping of {/ Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. _ The 29-year-old Tennessean, who Pleaded guilty in Louisville last night, was hustled to the white stone fed- eral penitentiary in southwest At- Tanta less than 60 hours after his arrest in Glendale, Calif, | Iv‘n‘t’ke News | Appellate Court Holds Mauran . , Will Is Invalid .. ...... ..... | Justice Lawrence Grants Judg- _ ment for' Mrs. LeProhon .... Epidemic of Measles Hits Glens Dean Léeebreck Says Nations Must Act for Peace, ......... C. D. A. Units Will Operate Lu- zerne Camp ......0....0..... Selection of Queen to Be Junior -_ Prom Failure bakk ee we bre es Speaker Tells Rotarians of-Re- forms in Turkey .......;..... Three Former Michigan Bank ._ Officers Convicted .... ( Richards' Talk: About the Stars., ' School Districts May Vote on | - Transporting Pupils ........ . \ \Folly and Farewell\ ......... Straiige As Is Seems . Sporting Events ...... '| Puge of Comics .............. 18 htm‘setfi‘w wees de 6 nn ab ba mel 16 Profes- |© 'I few minutes when the prisoners seized [| throw down the weapons and opén |A few attempted to escape on foot. a.. . 14-18 | Block Market («*** 15 || the prison watts were captured a emmm FINAL 5 MARKET qQuoTaTIONs ESCAPED OKLAHOMA CONVICTS EVADE POSSE; | FARMER, PRISON GUARDS HELD AS HOSTAGES WOMAN FORCED TO COOK MEAL FOR FIVE MEN Husband Abducted After Fugi- tives Eat Breakfast-One Prison Official Slain McALESTER, Okla, May 14. (P- Five convicts, fleeing from McAlester | prison with two wounded guards, ab- ducted William Doaks of New Pitts- burg early today after forcing Mis. Doaks to prepare breakfast for them, Undersheriff W. O. Merrill reported. The five, Merrill said, were those who killed A. D. Powell. penitentiary brickyard foreman, and escaped in a guard's automobile during a bloody break from the prison yesterday, in which 24 convicts took part, Three others are at large. f Merrili said the news of the abduc- tion of the farmer was brought to Mc- Alester by Mike Isabel, a merchant at Pittsburg, who had talked to Mrs. Doaks. Convict Party Split Prison Secretary Fred Daugherty said the five convicts with Doaks and the two guards as hostages seized an- other car and split into two parties east of Blanco, Okla., 20 miles south- west of McAlester. He said that the two cars had been seen with only one hostage, believed to be Doaks. He said the guards were thought to have been thrown from the speeding automobile, The two carloads of fleeing convicts were heading toward the Arkansas border, Daughterty said reports indi- cated; Posses spread out over the, Kiamichi Mountains in an attempt to- head. them . off, Lele From one-of-the recaptured pris- oners, retaken after the knife-flash- ing break from the prison brickyard, the warden learned that one of the two hostage guards, Tuck Cope, was wounded. The other captive guard was Victor Conn. The warden Stringfellow, 27, for robbery. \I heard Copg say he was shot,\ the warden quoted Stringfellow as saying, \and he asked them to throw him out, like they did Powell.\ Powell was shot through the head and tossed out of the automobile as the convicts fled. . Four long-term convicts named by Kenny probable leaders of the break were: Claude Beavers, serving 25 years for robbery; Archie Herring, serving ten years for robbery; Jess Cunning- ham, serving life for murder, and Bill Anderson, serving 27 years for rob- bery. questioned serving 250 years Bloodhounds on Trail Bloodhounds were seent to Antlers to take up the trail of the two fugi- tives. Warden Kenny described them as \a hard bunch, among the toughest we had here.\ The two guards at their mercy were Tuck Cope and Victor Conn. Another hostage, W. W. Gossett, was wounded in an ex- change of shots as the breakers sped away from the brickyard towers. =. Their plot well laid, the two dozen desperate men-isolated from more tham 5000 others because they were \tougher the noon hour yes- terday to come out with the knives 'and crude dirks they had made. They seized the four guards while they were at lunch. Tower guards tossed down rifles and pistols in answer to the pleading of one of the shields-who spoke with, a knife at his throat and am-escaping convict on each side, . The car from which Powell's body was tumbled was last seen speeding. through a McAlester side street. The. hands of the two remaining hostages were bound with wire. . More apprehension was felt for Tuck and Conn because of the savage way with which Powell had been dealt. He was beaten severely before he was shot. oe State, county and prison officials opened an investigation, attempting to determine what happened in those the guards, marched across the brick- yard and through the gate. The guards were eating lunch when the first move was made. 'The two dozen convicts surprised the unarmed quartet, over-powered ard (bound their hands with wire. 'Then, the guards-each with a con- vict at his side and a third félon lholding a knife to his throat-were. I marched across the yard to the gate, The tower guards were told to 'the gates, This done, the felons dash» {passenger car and the prison truck. _ Guards patrolling the fence opened fire on the convicts, shooting down several. U 'other convicts in the brickyard, and. .Geveral of 'these were among those wounded, Bix of those who dashed. outside Jerry | 'ed through and swarmed into a |. They also turned their guns on the j government today. The regimented deputies were uni- formed in black shirts, They were enthusiastic. Watching the vote from the diplo- matic gallery was Baron Pompeo Aloi- si, head of the Italian delegation to the League of Nations, who had fust returned from Geneva. Bill Creating New Italian Empire Has Been Ratified; Decree Read by Mussolini ROME, May 14. (AIS—The Chamber of Deputies clam- orously and unanimously ratified the bill creating an Italian empire in the presence of Premier Mussolini and his entire Near him were the Ambassadors of Germany and Japan and the minister of Austria, , Mussolini read the decree creating a new empire based on the conquest of Ethiopia without comment. The deputies voted immediately, signifying their approval with cheers. SEN. BORAH'S FORCES LOSE RACE IN OHIO WASHINGTON, May 14. (P)-Sen- ator Borah's latest attack on the Republican leadership had many in the Capital guessing today about his intentions in the Cleveland conven- tion next month and thereafter, His statement, in comment on the reverse he suffered in his primary contest with the regular party or- ganization in Ohio on Tuesday, said Negro voters had been told \the Re- publican party will pass the (Wagner- Costigan) anti-lynching hill.\ legislation on grounds of unconstitu- tionality. He said it \strikes at the very heart of state sovereignty.\ ' How Borah will attempt to exert his influence in the convention and the campaign presents a comparable question for the Republicans. He is expected to be at Cleveland, but not as a delegate, _ Twenty-nine of the141 delegates so far . instruched, \are \his. against 96 for Landon and 16: for Governor .of Maryland.~_.. . -. 00 00> Senator Vandenberg was endorsed for Michigan's 38° votes, Senator Dickirison is expected to get Iowa's 22 at the start, Robert A. Taft ap» peared ab the latest counting to be the nominal winner. of 47 of Ohio's 52, and I. M. Meekins was endorsed for the 23 from North Carolina, Ice to be chosen are distributed among Oregon, Nevada, Montana, New Jer- sey, Alabama, Tllinois (eight at large); Texas and Indiana. Oregon and \Nevada act'tomofrow and Saturday respectively. Two Suspects m Bank Robbery Are Still at Liberty MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., May 14. (P)-Two suspects in the $13,000 Pine Bush bank robbery remained at large today, but two were under arrest and a third dead by his own hand. |; State police said more than $8,000 of the loot had been recovered. Troopers .with bloodhounds followed a laborious trail in the foothills of the Shawanunk Mountains near the New Jersey line in an effort to cap- ture the remaining fugitives. As in the previous capture of Stewart Wallace, 56, the first suspect, a gun battle marked the encounter between troopers and two suspects yesterday. »Corporal J. J. Koellsted and Trooper A. C. Deluse said one shot himself in the head to avoid arrest. He died later. The other, identified as John Stew- art, 34, was brought to a hospital here. (Hospital attendants said he had bul- let wounds in both legs and a broken hip. In Albany Major John A. Warner, superintendent of state police, said that $5, had been found on. the two mem apprehended yesterday. Nearly $3,000 was discovered in an abandoned automobile when Wallace was seized Monday night. METAL CAP IN LUNG . CAUSES GIRL'S DEATH PHILADELPHIA, May 14. (P)-The meétal.cap of a cigaret lighter she inhaled -into her lung nearly three 'weeks ago caused the death of 16- year-old Pauline Lane late yesterday. ~ Temple University Hospital said no. operation was attempted there be- cause & lung abscess developed from the inch-lofig piece of metal. The girl arrived from Knoxville, Tenn., last Thursday after two un- successful operations there. She was holding the lighter top between her teeth when -she laughed and gulped it into her windpipe. - She withstood the nervous, strain of two operations 'in Knoxville and greeted newsmen: with to Philadelphia, The operation to remove the metal \was to-be performed in the clinic of Dr. Chevalier Jackson, famed in- ventor of the perfected bronchostofe.: BURNS PROVE FATAL . COLUMBUS, O., May 14 (P)-Mrs. Ureka Shikat, 30, wife of Dick Shikat,, former claimant of the world's heavy- 'weight wrestling championship, died early today of burns received when + short distance away, her automobile turned over and caught . Are May: 5. P + mur The Idahoan has long opposed this' The 141 Republican delegates yet man, identified as John Mahoney, | a smile after a long train ride | SNOW FLAKES FALL AT SARANAC LAKE SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., May 14. (P) -Snow fell here today as a cool wave spread over the state in the wake of temperatures of 90 degrees and over. The snow melted immediately. The temperature here was 43 de- grees. . Temperatures as low as 44 | LORD ALLENBY DIES IN CITY OF LONDON «6 LORD ALLENBY LONDON, May 14 (iP) - Lord Allen- by, who captured Jerusalem for the Allies during the World war, died here today. Death came to England's distin- guished soldier at 12:30 P. M. He was 75. Lord Allenby was installed as rec- tor of Edinburgh university April 24. were reported as far south as Albany. Starhemberg Is assumed supreme command of elements from the ministry. Ousted from Power in Austrian Cabinet; Schuschnigg Retains Office (Copyright, 1936, by The Associated Press) VIENNA, May 14-Scholarly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg Austria today after a cabinet upset, ousting his former \co-dictator Prince Ernst Von Starhemberg, and other powerful Heimwehr (home guard) YOUNG NURSE CHICAGO, May 14. {P)-A light skinned negro, believed by the police to be the same man who last Satur- day bludgeoned Mrs. Lillian Guild, 59, to death in a Y. M. C. A. bed- room, slugged. a nurse at the St. Luke's Hospital with a brick today .and escaped after terrorizing 80 other nurses. © The attack was made on Miss Louise Rickert, 20, of Detroit, Mich, in her fourth floor room at the Hos- pital Nurses' Home, a few blocks south of the Guild murder scene-Michigan Boulevard in downtown Chicago. Sergt. Kyran Phelan of the de- tective bureau said he was convinced the intruder was the man who beat Mrs. Guild with a brick and strangled her after, physicians said, apparently assaulting her. |, Miss Rickert suffered a three inch gash 'on the left side of her head from the blow of the brick. The second attack came as police apparently had run up against a blank wall in their search for the slayer of Mrs. Guild, whose almost nude body room. Miss Edna Fletcher, 20, a nurse who occupies a room next to Miss Rickert, heard a noise in the latter's room and investigated. She saw Miss Rick- ert struggling with the prowler and screamed. The fegro turned and chased Miss Fletcher a short distance down the hall. Then, retracing his steps, he entered the room of Miss Ruth Chase, 19, whose door was open. Miss Chase screamed and fainted just as two other nurses, aroused by the commo- tion, entered. Fleeing back into Miss Rickert's room, the intruder broke &a window and escaped down the fire escape. WITNESS BELIEVES VOLCKMANN IS SANE CATSKILL, N. Y,, May 14 (P) -The prosecutor asked a witness to answer a 5,500-word hypothetical question to- day in the trial of 20-year-old Alfred: Volckmann for the murder of nine- year-old Helen CHienn. District Aftorney John C. Welsh asked the question of Dr. Perry M. Lichenstein, an alienist, and one of the state's rebuttal witnesses. It concerned Volckmann's charac- teristics,. and the prosecutor finished by asking the witness: '\Do you consider this man insane or sane?\ . \I consider him legally sane,\ Lich» enstein answered. f 'The question took an hour to read. It covered 19 pages, CONDITION _ UNCHANGED SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., May 14. (P) -Floyd Sweeney, 24, whose skull was fractured when & train hit a truck in which He was riding Monday, re- mained unconscious in a hospital to- day, TROOPS: RECEIVE ORDERS ADD: ABABA, May 14. (P-(By: Military Plane to Asmara)-Marshal Pistro Bagoglio, viceroy to Ethiopia, has ordered columns of Italian sol- to penetrate every section of Ethiopia next week to put down the NEGRO WANTED \ FOR SLUGGING was found in her blood spatteredj |fels vice-chancellor. Austria was quiet but tense, the populace recalling apprehensively that Von Starhemberg declared in & public address only a fortnight ago the Heimwehr would be dissolved 'or deprived of influence \only over my, ‘diead. 1556339,” 2. als Only customary. display of milit ‘fb‘fces‘x'fia‘s‘ifi’ ‘éfldenég in the capm and there. wefe 16 unusual activities. in the Héimwehr quarters, but ef- forts to erase marks of Von Star- hemberg's leadership were noted after he was relieved last night of the vice-chancellorship. Pictures Are Removed Pictures of the prince, a close sym- pathizer with Premier Mussolini of Italy, disappeared overnight from billboards and walls. The black, white and red flag of Germany was raised momentarily over the Heimwehr headquarters by an unknown person,. Police removed it immediately. Heimwehr sub-commanders order- ed their units to \keep heads cool\ and declared only orders issued by Prince Von Starhemberg himself were to be obeyed by the private army. In Styria and the Tyrol the Heim- wehbr received a command to \be in readiness.\ At the chancellery, Schuschnigg was declared to be firmly in control of Austria. His headquarters said he would pursue the course of leader of a Christian, authoritarian state with more resolution than ever. The chancellor was in undisputed control of the efficient regular army. One unconfirmed report said Von Starhemberg, after being shunted out of the cabinet, might be made Presi- dent of the federal railways. Another report said he would reorganize the Héimwehr as an opposition element. Homeguard Impoverished The homeguard is financially im- poverished, some officers saying they have not been paid for three months. An impression arose in informed quarters that elimination of Von Starhemberg from the government increased the possibility of restora- tion of a Hapsburg monarchy. Legitimists have complained fre-. quently of opposition by Von Star- hemberg and have believed Chancellor Schuschnigg more friendly to their cause in seeking a return of Arch- duke Ofto of Hapsburg. - Speculation was raised anew by the abrupt cabinet shakeup over Austria's relations with the «Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Ru- mania) and possible straining of In- ternational relations in that direc-. tion, The dissolution of the 22-month- old two-man dictatorship of the dy- namic Prince Von Starhemberg, as vice-chancellor, and the scholarly Dr. Schuschnigg, as chancellor, was attri- buted officially to \differences of opinion.\ \ M Chancellor Schuschnigg submitted' the resignation of his cabinet to President Wilhelm Miklas last night,, with the issue apparently a conflict between Von Starhemberg's Fascist ideas and the more femocratic prin- ciples of Schuscihnigg1 New Cabinet Formed The President immediately asked the chancellor to form a new ministry. Schuschnigg incredsed his own. strength, becoming chancellor, de- fense minister and chief of foreign affairs, He dropped Von Starhem- berg, naming Eduard Baar-Barren- Prince Yon Starhemberg, who many. had said previously would not. accept an ouster without resistarice, was re- ported to have lost much of his wealth in building up his Heimwebhr guard), but he gave no immediate in- deation of his future course. |_ Schuschnigg's strengthened position last signs of opposition and banditry. (Continued on. Page Six.) Twenty Packs DJ a Old Age Pension Limit Reduced by Lawmakers; Numerous Bills Passed By George R. Loveys \HINDENBURC® ENDS JOURNEY ACROSS OCEAN German Zeppelin Reaches Home Port on Return Flight from United States (Copy't, 1936, by The Associated Press) FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN, Germany, May 14.-Surpassing all records for both eastward and west- ward commercial crossings of the Atlantic, the giant German Zeppelin Hindenburg touched ground at 5:45 A. M., (11:45 P. M., Wednesday, E. S. TJ to end its first flight from America. The official flying time for the voy- age from Lakehurst, N. J., was given as 49 hours, three minutes, during which the great air cruiser covered 6,670 kilometers (4,168.75 miles). With its landing mechanism func- tioning perfect, the Hindenburg rested in its vast new hangar by 6:10 A. M., (12:10 A. M., E. S. T.), signal- izing completion of its maiden round- trip between Germany and the United States with passengers, mails and freight. Despite the early hour of its arrival, & great crowd gathered at the air- ,:di:r9me apd a Nazi band played lusty airs. . The same excitement that attended the Zeppelin's arrival in Lakehtrst after a flight of 61 hours, 53 minutes from Friedrichshafen welcomed the return of the massive lighter-than- air cruiser to its new base in even swifter record time,. (The Hindenburg's return flight in official flying time of 49 hours, three minutes bettered the previous record for a lighter-than-air craft voyage from America to Germany, set by the Graf Zeppelin in August, 1929, with a 54-hour trip. The previous westbound record was 81 hours, 17 minutes, set by the Los Angeles. The French liner Normandie hold the ship record of four days, 11 hours, 42 minutes). Municipal officials arranged a City Hall reception in honor of Dr. Hugo Eckener, President of the Zeppelin Company and Capt. Emest Lehmann, commander of the Hindenburg. Crowds gathered to view the Zep- pelin before it leaves for the United States Saturday on the second of its projected series of commercial trans- atlantic flights. . The Hindenburg, which lifted into the air from Lakehurst at 10:27% P. M., E. S. T.. Monday, followed ap- proximately the same course it took Oyer the northern steamship route on its westward flight which ended last Saturday at Lakehurst. After two days over the Atlantic, the airship crossed England 30 miles north of London last night, swung over The Netherlands and passed down the west border of Germany to Frankfort. . Landing crews, headed by Baron Yon Buttlar, chief of the airdrome, stood by throughout the night. The Hindenburg arrived over its base at '4:55 a. m., (10:55 P. M., Wednesday, E. S. T.), and cireled about befor landing efficiently 50 minutes later. WHITE WOMAN SOUGHT IN DEATH OF CHINESE FAR ROCKAWAY, N. Y., May 14. (P)-The ax slaying of Keugyang Woo, 31, Chinese restaurant proprie- tor, in a rooming house where he 'lved, sent police today in search of a .whife woman who was reported to Lave been his companion at the race track. Lieut, James Blake said they want- ed to question the woman concerning the Chinese' activities in an effort to establish a motive for the slaying. He said the slain man frequently at- terided the races. ' The slaying was discovered at 2:30 (Eastern Standard Time) this morn- ing when the Chines®® partner, Ham Ming Tcheau, 24, and an employe, Sam Wagner, returned to the room the three men shared, in the rooming house. , They summoned police when they 'saw the body. The victim's hands have been severed and the head nearly cut off. , YOUTHFUL ATHLETE FALLS - UNDER WHEELS OF TRAIN With his eyes focussed on a baseball, hit high in the air, Roy Hinkley, 11, 'backed into the path of a Baltimore. & Ohio passenger train last night anid was killed. His 18-year-old brother was among. Tthe sandlot baseball companions that saw him fall under the wheels of the. locomotive, ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 14. (P)-| Dawn broke over the historic cap- ito! more than two hours before the final gavels fell in paper-littered houses, wringing to an end the longest annual session since 1911. From 10 A. M. yesterday until ad- Journment, more than 20 hours, both Senate and Assembly worked frantic- ally to clear their calendars of hun- dreds of remaining measures. Nearly 200 bills were sent to Gov- ernor Lehman for his consideration during the coming month, and nearly as many fell by the wayside either in committees or through defeat on the floor. ; Closing Hours Orderly The closing hours were orderly, al- though punctuated by many bitter debates on the more controversial measures such as the ultimately de- feated proposals for pari-mutuel bet- ting and legislative and congressional reapportionment. As the hours rolled past, and b.eakfasts appeared on drowsy legis- lators' desks, lawmakers had visions of a session such as that of last year when the Legislature worked 28 con- secuéive hours before heading home- ward. But the legislative wheels were ac- celerated early today, and just before 6 A. M. each House appointed com- mittees to wait on Governor Lehman, who sat throughout the night in the fxecutive chamber on the floor be- ow. A new delay occurred even after the committees had returned, however. Senator John J. McNaboe, New York Democrat, had discovered that he lacked two votes short of the necessary 26 to obtain approval of & measure. -asking -an 'sppropriation of Price Teres Associated Press Staff Writer ALBANY, N. Y., May 14. (AP)-The Legislature adjourned sine die at 6:14 A. M. (EST) today, rocked to the end by the same verbal partisan outbursts that marked the entire 19-weeks session. lief administration in a permanent authority within the State Social Wel- fare Department, Assemblymen and senators remain- ed at their desks throughout the dreary grind, having their lunches and coffee sent to them as the hours rolled by. In the rear of the chambers sat many of their wives, awaiting the sig- nal that would send them home- ward. For a time, Mrs. Lehman, wife of the Governor, was an interested spectator,. Hamilton Leads Songs During one recess, tired legislators started a paper fight for diversion, but it didn't last long. A little later, Re- publican Assemblyman Laurens M. Hamilton of Rockland County led a group of 20 lawmakers in song for a half hour. At another time, during & mid- evening recess, music emerged from the large Assembly chamber, but it came from a quartet of non-legisla- tors. The lawmakers themselves ap- peared content to rest, exhausted af- ter the longest session in 25 years. Soon after midnight, when the leg- islators had abandoned hopes of quit- ting before dawn at least, Governor Lehman transmitted a message ask- ing for approval of bills to: (1) Require the consent of the mortgage commission for the modi- fication of any proposal or plan that is promulgated affecting mortgage rehabilitation.\ (2) Provide for an eight-hour day for ward attendants, guards, nurses and other employes engaged in the immediate care of inmates and pa- tients in all state institutions. (3) «Permit the subpoenas by mail of witnesses attempting to avoid.serv- $15,000 to investigate Communism,: ifhools through if legislative (toT‘x’xsdlfi‘iiisx-1 on. The | sergeant-at-arms | hurriedly summoned two more members, Sen- ators Perley A. Pitcher, Watertown Republican, and Norman A. O'Brien, Rochester Democrat, who had been out of the chamber, and the bill was passed. Then came the Senate adjourn- ment, just a few minutes after that of the Assembly. Spectators Watch Session A score of sleepy spectators re- mained throughout the night, their ranks dwindling rapidly when mid- night passed without signs of a wind- u p. One of the last pieces of legislation to go through was the supplemental budget of $2,094,724, providing for the executive, judicial and legislative branches. Democratic Senate Leader John J. Dunnigan exploded a political bomb- shell immediately after adjournment by issuing a statement saying that the Republican organization \now finds itself in a position where no one is anxious to assume the leader- ship and the right men refuse to accept nominations to state-wide office.\. R f \As for Governor Lehman,\ he said, \his record makes him & more formidable candidate for re-election than he has ever been. \It is a fair prediction to make at this time that the Legislature of 1937 will not only have a Democratic= controlled Senate but in all probabil- ity a lower house with our party in the majority.\ Dunnigan further said that the Governor, supported by the Democrats in the Legislature, had supported the 'national administration and President. Roosevelt \in a manner which brings great credit to our party, our state and the nation.\ Another last minute bill approved was that of Republican Senate Leader George R. Fearon, clearing the way for optional forms of county govern- ment. Security Bill Rejected The outstanding development of the final session was the Republican-dom- inated Assembly's rejection of Gov- ernor Lehman's proposal to align New York state completely with the Federal Social Security Act, sounding the death knell of the administra- tion's measure to obtain federal aid of $20,000,000 to help the needy aged, the blind and dependent children. A Republican-sponsored bill carry- ing out one phase of the eight-point program-reducing the old age pen- sion limit from 70 to 65 years-was passed, however, when the Demoora- tic-controlled Senate concurred with. the Assembly in the bill. This will the way for acceptance of ap- proximately: $10,000,000 annually in federal funds. . Another of the chief executive's program measures went down to de- feat in the waning hours when the Senate and Assembly both flatly re- jected attempts to revive the long dormant congressional arid Legislative reapportionment bills. Some of the major legislation ap- proved in the closing hours included: more milk\ campaign for another: year. , 20. A supplemental budget of $2,004724,. in addition to other appropriations Ands of dollars. Pentralization of unemployment re- j 'on County Continuation of New York's \drink | calling for an expenditure of thous- [thre ite or refusing to testify, ThHif was recommended by Special Prosecutor Hiram C. Todd, investigating the Drukman murder case in Brooklyn. Senate Kills Bill The last was killed in the Senate by a vote of 20 to 18, six short of the necessary ballots for approval, but the first two were not acted upon although the Ostertag measure pro- viding for an eight-hour day for state institution employes was sent to the Governor. Mr. Lehman had proposed the Garrity bill, however, which he contended was broader. 'The asembly rejected the Garrity bill, which had been previously passed by the Senate, when Democratic forces attempted to discharge it from committee and bring it onto the floor. Rejection of the reapportionment bills came on moves to discharge by Queens County Democrats, Senator Frank B. Hendel and Assemblyman Maurice Fitzgerald. Debate was prolonged and bitter in each house. Republican Senate Leader George R. Fearon said that the move \is merely a political gesture\ and an expression of \regret\ by Democratic Senate Leader John J. Dunnigan that the Legislature had not complied with Governor Lehman's recommendation for measures apportioning both con» gressional and legislative districts. Hendel denied that his motion was a \political gesture,\ and said he had been informed that the Republican- dominated Rules Committee would give the reapportionment measures consideration in event they were ap» proved by the Senate. Senator John J. McNaboe, New York Democrat, argued that the makeup of the bills was unconstitui- tional, and would bring lengthy liti- gation in the courts. In the Assembly, Fitzgerald con- ALCOHOL TAX UNIT MEMBER IS MURDERED HAMMOND, Ind., May 14 (P)-John R. Foster, of Marion, Ind.. & member 'of the Alcohol Tax Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, was shot and killed today by two men he and an- other agent were trailing on a high- fling south of Hammond near St.John, State police and men from the Mar« (Indianapolis) sheriff's office began checking on suspected 'bootleggers in Indianapolis when the report came that the killer's car car- ried license plates 'with five numbers, which identified it as from Marion County, __ They said they knew one suspect who had a \quick trigger finger\ and who drives a 'black coupe similar to the one used in the slaying of Foster, OHIO BANK ROBBED _ OBERLIN, O., May 14 (P)-Two un« masked young men robbed the First Wellington Bank of between $5,000 'and $10,000 today at nearby Welling= three bank Aupoyer mid te aP ree ba mployes. 4 ' of the institution. They escaped. te an automobiles . . <. 0 ~> ~
