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-wyvbui ..... -v w m m ""v . .. - a mi SPORTS As the major teams swing into action, you'll want each day's reports on the sports page of The Statesman. . THE WEATHER ' Fair today and Sunday, ' possibly frost at night ; Max. Temp. Friday 58, Min. 40, river 6.9 feet, rain .02 inch, northeast wind. ; r-v- FOUND EP 1651 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning,' March 30, 1935 EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR No. 3 1 ----I V it BEMTSON FREED ON BOATWHiGHT ATTACK CHARGE Alderman Still Wears Big Shiner; Jurors Out but Few Minutes on Case City Official Held "Under Influence"; Abusive Language Quoted A "shiner" as large as a hen's egg which after 19 days still oc cupied a sizeable part of the left aide of Alderman R. E. Boat wright's face, failed to convince fire Jurors here yesterday after noon that C. B. "Sonny" .Bentson, malt shop proprietor, was guilty of disorderly conduct as charged. The jury came back after a few minutes' deliberation to report to City Recorder Warren Jones that Bentson was not guilty. Standing room was at a prem ium while the case was being heard for three hours in the city council chambers. Court ad journed there Friday morning when Bentson asked for a jury trial and scores of citizens showed up to hear the testimony. Boatwright, as complaining witness, testified that Bentson kicked him when the former was drinking beer in Bentsoh's malt shop on South Commercial street tbe night of March 11. Bentson then proceeded to oust the alder man, according to the latter's tes timony, and pummeled him se verely with his fists. The .fighting continued out on the sidewalk on Commercial street, Boatwright asserted. He signed the com plaint against Bentson and ap peared as principal witness for the prosecution. Claims Blows Struck Outsid of Building. Also testifying for Boatwright was Frank "Wimpy" Layton who also was ousted by Bentson. The prosecution stressed the allega tions that Bentson continued to hit .Boatwright after the latter had reached the sidewalk. Bentson denied that he struck Boatwright more than once. He taid the complalnsrt3i.tnejs-yas t frequent visitor t his shop, often took too much beer and sometimes drank liquor with his beer. On such occasions Boat wright became boisterous and dis orderly, Bentson said. The night of the altercation, Bentson testified, Boatwright and Layton were both disorderly. Bentson said Boatwright called him opprobrious names. He order ed the alderman out, Bentson said. Boatwright went. In a few min utes he came back and again re viled the malt shop proprietor. "Why did you hit him?" Chris J. Kowitz, prosecutor, asked. "Wouldn't you hit a man if he " called you what Boatwright called me?" Bentson responded. Bentson denied that he hit (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Scandal Told By Photo of Fall in Race LONDON, March 29.-(Satur-day)-(J)-Without comment, the Daily Express today displays oh its front page an eight column se ries of six photographs showing Golden Miller taking the jump where Jockey Gerry Wilson was thrown in yesterday's grand na tional, thereby putting the ace high favorite out of the race. . The photos show Golden Miller made a perfect "four point" land ing without lurching and dashed along the straightaway while Wil son toppled to the turf. "His heart refused and he shot me off," said Wilson but the pho tographs failed to show any indi cation of a stumble. The photographs carried this caption: "Pictures reveal fiasco of Gold en Miller in grand-national." AINTREE, Eng., March 29.- (f)-Another determined Amerl can sortie against Aintree's rug ged barriers collapsed today when Major Noel Furlong's Reynolds' town, a black eight-year old gel ding little considered in the wa rering, ran John Hay Whitney's Thomond 2nd into the ground in the final drive to win the gruel- lag grand national steeplechase. Better Weather .Brings Increase In Jobs Offered ' Improved weather which makes I'Ossible spring farming opera tions la bringing some increase la the number of jobs available cn the farm, the re-employment cffice reported here yesterday. Several men have been placed tally- on farm jobs In the last week. - , Relief officials said yesterday that they expected the rolls would Ie reduced somewhat in the coun ty this spring as the planting season got under way. Thus far the relief totals have held at the ame figures which 'prevailed Jhroughout the winter. World News at a vjiance (By the Associated Press) The arms situation: MOSCOW Stalin reported in parley with British statesman to have proposed United States join far eastern Locarno" pact to keep peace in Asia, although de nial is issued.; LONDON Diplomats hear rec ognition of Manchukuo may be essential to non-aggression treaty in far east. KATOWICE. Poland Anti-Ger man riots break out on roiisn border; demonstrations mar new found peace between Poland and Germany. WASHINGTON Baruch warns senators against going too far in legislation to take profits out of war. Domestic : WASHINGTON Administration-drafted NRA bill suddenly introduced to meet auto, steel, coal, textile strike threats. MEMPHIS Raymond Hamil ton and companion elude posses after shootings, robberies and kidnapiogs; hostages escape. WASHINGTON Department of labor drops deportation pro ceedings against John Strachey, British writer. CHICAGO Barbara H u 1 1 o n Mdivani, Woolworth heiress, en route by plane to seek Reno di vorce. WASHINGTON Work relief bill again snagged by objections of Secretaries Ickes and Wallace to wage and farm benefit clauses. WASHINGTON Ohio repre sentative charges "TVA propa ganda" in schools. COLUMBUS Former FERA hay buyer indicted in fight of Administrator Hopkins with Ohio governor on "shakedown" charge. WASHINGTON Lumber code authority discharges employes; executive says "withdrawal of Belcher case" means suspension of code, at least in effect. BRUSSELS-Premier Van Zee- land devalues franc 30 per cent, breaking gold bloc ranks; pro poses "new deal" of pubic works, guaranteed bank deposits, recog nition of Russia, relief for unem ployed. PARIS Financiers see shock to gold bloc in Belgian devalua tion; report gold drain on Switz erland as inflation vote nears. 11 POLICEIS SCORED Entrapment and Brutality React Against Respect for Law Says Fee PORTLAND, Ore.. March 29.- (JPy Lawless law enforcement was excoriated by Federal Judge James Alger Fee at the Oregon crime conference which opened here - today. Judge Fee said when law offi cers make arrests or bring rharg- es by violating constitutional pro visions against self - incrimination and against improper search and seizure and by violating the doc trine which prevents entrapment of innocent persons into commis sion of crime, they weaken re spect for law. "The most serious effect cf lawless enforcement of the crlm inal law is upon the public at large. From this body are drawn the juries which in the last an alysis pass upon guilt or inno cence. "If, by virtue of the fact that (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Large Sum, City Warrants Called Ten thousand dollars in unpaid city general fund warrants will be called April 1, City Treasurer Rice reported yesterday. He re ceived the initial turnover of 1935 taxes in the morning. It to uted $18,216. Only CO per cent of the turnover goes to the gen eral fund, the remainder being set aside tor bond interest and principal and for special street and fire department funds. M U Over 100 Youths Attend Older Boys' Conference More than 100 hoys from 12 schools in Marion and Polk coun ties are here today, to "Face the Future" as they discuss the theme of the 15th annual Older Boys' conference conducted in Salem under the auspices of the local Y. M. C. A. The registration Is unusually large according to C. A. Kells, secretary, who has general charge of the meeting. With Dean U. O. Dtibach of Or egon State college as the principal speaker, the conference started auspiciously last night with a dinner at the ,;Y" here. A busy program is scheduled tor today. A general assembly will be held at 9 a. m. followed by addresses by Dean Dubach and Edwin Socolofsky, the latter a former Salem young man now a Y. M. C. A. executive at Seattle. Tbe theme of the future for the young man of today will be ad hered to in all the addresses. This noon the lads will dine with Salem business men, dis HER LISTS NEW DEAL FOR BELGIAN STATE Van Zeeland Follows F. R. Off Gold Standard Example; Franc Lifted Public Works', Guarantee of Bank Deposits Some of . Policies Started BRUSSEL, March 29.-(;p)-Bel- gium's fearless premier, following in the footsteps of President Roosevelt, devalued the franc to day, slipped its traditional moor ing to gold and asked power to carry out an extensive program of monetary and economic reforms. A fervid admirer of the Ameri can executive, Premier Paul Van Zeeland, who is 42 years old, out lined an ambitious drive for eco nomic recovery that marched side by side with the American New Deal at many points. He proposed to the parliament: 1. A "maximum of 30 per cent" devaluation of the franc. 2. Abandonment of the gold standard pending an international agreement on currecy policy. 3. Large public works projects. 4. Favoring of industrial pro duction by all possible means. 5. Guarantee of bank deposits. 6. Reduction of taxes. 7. Resumption of diplomatic and commercial relations with Russia. 8. Relief for unemployed and improvement of the nation s standard of living. Quickly the premier former minister, financial expert, close adviser of the late King Albert and brother of Marcel Van Zee- land, director of the Bank of In ternational settlements won two preliminary victories in the parli ament. A bill for provisional credits was passed in the chamber of de puties, 135 to 11, while the cham ber's finance committee approved the bill embodying the proposed monetary measures and Van Zee land's request for extraordinary powers for one year. Net Returns of Liquor Sales in Month $104,085 Oregon's net returns from II quor store profits and from taxes and licenses received from liquor operations totaled $104,085 for February, according to an audit ed report filed yesterday with the secretary of state's office here. Of this total, $78,123 was contributed by profits from the stores. Gross income for February in the stores did not equal the in come for the months last fall but ran $8940 ahead of January, 1935. In the first two months this year 45,173 permits were Bold to individual purchasers. The bulk of these were at the rate of $1 a consumer. Hereafter this rate will be 50 cents. Beer and Dance Combination Ban Hits Roadhouses Roadhouse proprietors near here were studying last night how to meet the latest ruling of the state liquor commission which makes it illegal hereafter for beer or wine to be served outside corporate limits in any building where dancing is permitted. Sev eral roadhouses in this county have combined the sale of beer with commercial dancing. The commission announced it would enforce ita ruling strictly. cussing with local leaders the bus iness or profession in which they are most interested. A recreation al tour is planned for this after noon with a supper tonight fol lowed by the annual business ses sion and an inspirational address by Mr. Soeolofsky. President of the conference is Arne S. Jensen, jr., of Monmouth who presides at the general ses sions. Toastm aster for the banquet last night was Phil BrOwnell. Three minute oass were made by Ray mond Jenson, Monmouth; Junior Nelson, Salem; Darrel Syron, Sheridan; Robert Jackson, Wood burn; Orville Snyder, Aumsville; Sam Scott, Chemawa. A welcome to the delegates was extended by Douglas Chambers, rice-president of the Junior Y. M. C. A. board, by Don Coons, promotion chair man for the contention and by Fred Wolf, president of Salem high schooL Paul Petticord Is song leader (Turn to page 2, col. 6). Police Guard WhileTanker Unloads Fuel PORTLAND, Ore., March 29.- (jP-While a cordon of police kept picketing seamen back, the big Standard Oil company tanker Dis trict of Columbia docked here to day and began discharging 3,000,- 000 gallons of gasoline. It was the first oil cargo dis charged here since the coast sec tion of the International Seamen's union called a strike and demand ed union recognition and wage adjustments from the remaining contpanies which had no previ ously entered similar agreements. The tanker was expected to complete discharge of the cargo tomorrow and leave for California ror anoiner ioaa. Another tanker, the Kewanee of the Associated Oil company's fleet was reported loading at San Francisco for a run to Portland. "If the companies ar given the be no crisis in Portland," de they are getting today, there will be no crisis in Portland," de clared Daniel Hone, San Francisco attorney sent here to represent oil companies in this district. C. E. Carter, business agent of the seamen's union, said the ship District of Columbia was manned by a non-union crew from Calif ornia. He said union representa tives were making efforts to reach tbe tanker and induce the crew to desert. Cabell Will Succeed Scott, TouVelle Probable for Washburne's Place Appointment of two highway commissioners, one to succeed Leslie M. Scott, chairman, and Carl Washburne, first congres sional district member, is expected today. Governor Charles H. Martin is returning to his office this after noon from Portland, it was under stood, to prepare the formal an nouncement and the commissions. As predicted, Henry F. Cabell, retired business man of Portland, a life-long friend of Governor Martin, is scheduled to succeed Mr. Scott. A southern Oregon man, F. L. TouVelle of Medford, is the pro bable appointee to Washburne's place. TouVelle was judge of Jack son county from 1912 and 1918 and was a leader in the develop ment of the Pacific highway in southern Oregon. Mr. Scott's term expires "this weekend. While Governor Martin is known to have been pleased with Scott's services, the chairman has indicated he wished to retire. Scott has devoted almost his en tire time to highway affairs since his appointment by Governor Me ier. No shakeup In highway depart ment personnel Impends. The governor Is expected to re appoint E. C. Sammons of Port land to the state board of higher education although Sammons and B. F. Irvine, also a Portlander, have frequently been at variance on board policies. Irvine support ed Martin vigorously during the campaign. Mrs. Cornelia Marvin Pierce may be removed from the board by Governor Martin. Reports to this effect, which prevailed dur ing the last two weeks of the leg islature, were revived this week. ZENA, March 29. Funeral services for Joseph Taylor Hunt, 83, who died Thursday after an Illness of several months, will be held at the Methodist church at West Salem at 2 p. m. Sunday, March 31, with interment in the Zena cemetery. Joseph Taylor Hunt was born June 26, 1851, in Green county, Tennessee. He moved to Missouri in 1874, came to Oregon in 1875 and settled at Zena, where he re mained until 1906 when he mov ed to West Salem and had resid ed there since. He attended th West Salem M. E. church regu larly and worked hard for its completion. Surviving are three children. Walter B. Hunt of Zena. Dalsv D. Hunt of West Salem and Lloyd T. Hunt of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren: three brothers, W. W. Hunt of Lewis- ton, Idaho, Smith and Henry Clay Hunt of Dayton, Wash. Leader sin Scout Work Meet Here A representative and enthusias tic group of leaders in the Boy Scout work through the mid-valley district attended the monthly scout council here last night, ac cording to A. C. Haag, chairman. The gathering was held at the chamber of commerce rooms. Rep resentatives attended from Dallas, Monmouth, Woodburn and Silver-ton. APPOINTMENTS DUE TODAY. ROAD BOARD JOSEPH T. HIT SERVICE SUNDAY UNITED STATES ASKED TO JOIN FAR EAST PACT Locarno for Orient Talked by Stalin and Eden at Moscow, Reported Denial Made; Russo-German Rift Solution Sought When Eden Visits By JOHN LLOYD MOSCOW, March 29 .--Authoritative quarters here today said Russian and British states men meeting to discuss ways of safeguarding peace considered in viting the United States to help five other interested nations guard against war in the far east. While the topics discussed at today's meetings were not dis closed, the Russians denied that the reoorted "far eastern Locar- no" agreement had come up. Despite the denial, informed quarters persisted in their belief that Joseph Stalin, soviet dictator, and Maxim Litvinoff, foreign com misar, proposed to Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, ex tension in some form of the Lo-J carno security system to the or ient. (Reliable sources at London also said they had received infor mation from Moscow that the far eastern pact proposal was con sidered). Included in the suggested pact, it was said, would be the United Stajps, Great Britain, the soviet, China, France and probably Japan. The pact proposal became known after the young British statesman, in company with Lord Chilsion, British ambassador, call ed at Stalin's plainly furnished of fice in the Kremlin for one of the dictator's rare conferences. British quarters pointed out Eden will have to report back to London before anything in the nature of an agreement for action to meet the dangers of war in Europe and Asia can be com pleted. Observers said they believed the Anglo-Russian talks were re volving around three possibili ties. 1. A way to compose Russo- German differences on the pro posed eastern European security pact. 2. British participation in some security arrangement without Ger many if the latter refuses to en ter on terms satisfactory to France. 3. Joint action through the Lea gue of Nations when the French raise the question of Germany's armament at the extraordinary session of the league council open ing April 15. These observers Insisted, too, that the far eastern situation as suredly came in for treatment in asmuch as Litvinoff and other so viet authorities have been insist ing that guarantees of peace must apply in all quarters to be really effective. WASHINGTON, March 29.-P) -The senate passed a batch of miscellaneous bills today, includ ing: By Senator McNary (R-Ore.) to authorize a preliminary exam ination of the Coqullle river and its tributaries in Oregon with a view to flood control. The bill has the approval of the secretary of war: By Senator McNary to authorize a preliminary examination of the Umpqua river and its tributaries with a view to flood control. By Senator McNary to add 59, 000 acres to the Siskiyou national forest in Oregon. The lands contain some of the best virgin timber -in the state and are unsuited to agriculture. About 67,000 acres are privately owned, and the remainder are fed eral, or Oregon and California railroad grant lands. The Coos Bay Lumber company owns most of the land. By Senator Steiwer (R.-Ore.) providing for flood control sur veys of the Nehalem, Miami, Kllchis, Wilson, Trask and Til lamook rivers in Oregon. By Senator McNary (R.-Ore.) to authorize a flood control survey of the Willamette river in Oregon. By McNary To extend the time In which the states of Washing ton, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Wyoming may enter an agreement respecting the disosition and ap polntmet of Columbia river wa ter. DEATH PLOT TJXPROVEN ' ATHENS. March .-() -A Jury speedily acquitted tonight 18 persons accused of the attempted assassination in 1933 of Eleuth erios Veniselosj, then premier but now in exile as the alleged leader of the recent molt. MLllETTE FLOOD SURVEY IS APPROVED Uproar Over Share to Be Spent in Wages is Delaying Relief Bill Secretary Ickes Objects, Word Arriving as Houses are Prepared to Accept Measure as Conferees Drafted in Finally WASHINGTON, March 29. (AP) A bitter dispute over how much money should be spent for direct wages under the $4,880,000,000 public works-relief bill today got the mea sure into such a tangle that final congressional action was de layed indefinitely. The house was prepared to act upon, and accept, the com promise measure agreed upon lastO night by senate and house con ferees when word was sent up to Capitol Hill that Secretary Ickes objected vigorously to one section of the bill. The controverted clause would require that a third of the $900, 000,000 set aside for loans and grants to states and political sub divisions for non-federal projects must be expended for wages. Ickes expects to have a hand in administering this phase of the new bill, since the measure ex tends the PWA for two additional years and it is authorized under original law to make grants of 30 per cent and loans of 70 per cent of the cost of state, muni (Turn to page 2, col. 5) NE IN ILL III MEET Cannady, Weisgerber Top N.W. Foes; Host School Winner in Its Class PORTLAND, Ore., March 29.-(P)-Hill Military academy set the only new meet record for high schools in winning its own invi tation Indoor relay carnival here tonight with 15 points. Washington high of Portland was second with 12 and Grant high third with nine. I In a last-minute shift Univer sity of Oregon was entered in the Northwest conference section of the collegiate exhibitions, win ning firsts jn the 50-yard dash and in the shot put, but losing out in the 50-yard high hurdles to Bruce, classy timber topper from little Pacific university. In the only strictly Northwest conference event Llnfield college took first. Pacific second and Willamette third. Willamette university finished ahead of other Northwest con ference entrants in two of the four events, Cannady in the 50 yard dash and Weisgerber in the shot put. In the high school division Benson of Portland and The Dalles tied for fourth. Other scor ers were Centralia, Wash., 7; Jefferson of Portland 6; Frank lin of Portland, Milwaukie, St Helens and Gresham, 5 each; Beaverton 4; Scappoose and Cam as, Wash., 3 each; West Linn 2, and Salem and Roosevelt of Port land 1 each. Salem took third in the mile relay. Nellie Ramsey Is Called; Veteran Hospital Worker Miss Nellie Ramsey, for nearly 30 years a nurse at the state hos pital here, died yesterday after noon at a local hospital. She un derwent an emergency operation for appendicitis early this week. Funeral arrangements had not been completed last night. The body is at Rlgdon's. Miss Ramsey was the daughter of Judge William Ramsey of Mc Minnville, dean of the Oregon bar, a former mayor of Salem and Jus tice of the state supreme court. Besides her father and mother she is survived by a brother. Dean Horace Ramsey of the Epis copal church in Portland and a sis ter, Miss Margaret Ramsey, a teacher at Albany college. NRA Modification Bill Fails to A ppease Critics WASHINGTON, March 29.- With strikes assertedly threat ening in four big Industries and labor clamoring for action, the administration hurriedly laid be fore congress today a secretly drafted bill to extend the NRA. The measure failed however, to meet the objections of blue eagle critics. - Jt was Introduced suddenly by Chairman Hsxriaon of the senate finance committee after Donald Richberg, new NRA head, appear ed before his committee in closed session to warn that four major strikes have been brewing and to suggest that quick action on the recovery legislation would help to settle them. The administration's chief "trouble shooter" told the com mittee of threatened walkouts In the automobile, steel, coal and textile industries, ' . SCRAPPING LUMBER IS Issue Under Advisement at West Coast Meeting, to Be Settled Today PORTLAND, Ore., March 29.-(JPy-A demand by members that tbe NRA lu.nber code be imme diately suspended and a new one drafted was taken under consid eration tonight by the board of trustees of the West Coast Lum bermen's association. Colonel W. B. Greeley, man ager and secretary of the asso ciation, said the board's answer to the request would be ready tomorrow. Announcement may be made from Seattle, he said. More than 100 members from Oregon and Washington heaviest timbered area in the United States attended today's session where the code was described as ineffective. Some members asked I complete abolitte-n of any code. The members directed their code suspension demand to the board of trustees. In another resolution the group recommended there should be no reduction of minimum wages or an increase of the 40 hour week pending the formula tion of a satisfactory code. Con tinuance of timber conservation work also was urged. Colonel Greeley explained that the recent refusal of the depart ment of justice to push a case it had selected to test the lumber code precipitated the local meet ing on the theory that the code la held by the department to be unworkable in some respects, at least. W. B. Nettleton of Seattle, as sociation president, presided at the meeting here. KATOWICE, Poland, March 29 -0P)-New found 'friendship" be tween Poland and . Germany went by the boards today as anti-Ger man demonstrations flared all along the German eastern border today. Most violent demonstrations oc curred at the Polish-German fron tier where thousands of Poles formed protest parades against Germany. Police scattered one mob here Just as it turned toward the German consulate. Direct cause of the demonstra tions here, it appeared, was the closing of the Polish high school in the nearby border town of Beuthen, an action that deprived it of the right to give final state examinations. Some 5000 persons, urged by their leaders to get "revenge for the German impropriety" and "close the German schools in Po land," marched to the German newspaper Kattowitzer Zeitung and smashed the windows of its building. COUGAR BOXERS WIN' SACRAMENTO, March 29.-JP) -A band of snarling Cougars from Washington Stute college tonight won the 1935 intercol legiate boxing championship of the Pacific coast. He appealed to the committee at least to get a bill before con gress. With the committee's ap proval, Harrison walked over to the capitol and introduced the measure which be had been close ly guarding for days. The Harrison j measure would provide, some restoration of the anti-trust laws under NRA, limit codes to Industries in or affect ed by Interstate commerce, ex tend the controversial labor Sec tion 7-A, and limit the presi dent's authority to Impose codes. The unexpected Introduction of the measure came afte- William Green, stock president of the Am erican Federation of Labor, threw his organization's support behind NRA continuation but demanded In the same breath the enactment of the Black - Connery 30 -hour week bill,, thus far opposed by the administration MM POLISH IB TS T HI LUMBER CODE'S AUTHORITY IY RESIGN IN HUFF Employes Discharged as of ApriM 5; Withdrawal 'Belcher Case Cause Entire Suspension Sought; Richberg Says Faults Found in This Law By H. C. HUNTER. . (Copyright, IMS, tT Associated Prtwl ' WASHINGTON. Marc-. 29.-iT) -Despite a presidentially author ized drive for NRA enforcement, and in the face of official declara tions that its code was still in effect, the lumber code authority today discharged most of Its em-, ployes and apparently determined to fold up its tent. Angered because the Justice de partment dropped its appeal to the supreme court in the most promi nent of lumber code violation cases, David T. Mason, executive officer of the lumber cod au thority, asserted "the withdrawal of the Belcher case In effect, it not in fact" meant suspension of the code. Although NRA officials declar ed to the contrary, the authority appeared determined to carry out recommendations that the lumber code be suspended. The discharge of employes was made effective April 15. Peace offerings from NRA in the form of promised amendments to the code failed to quiet the re semnent over the Justice depart ment's action. Tbe general opin ion at authority headquarters was that the government has "washed its bands" of even attempting to enforce the code in its present form. Withdrawal Tartly Matter of Policy The opinion was expressed there also that the government did. not wish to risk going into the su preme court at the present time for fear it would hamper the pending legislation for continua tion Of NRA. "The industry simply has been crucified iu an effort to ' NRA's futu-e by legislation hot pending," one official said. Almost at the time he spoke, Huey Long asserted in the sen ate that because of the Belcher case he was going to tell his con stituents in Louisiana to ignore the NRA. Tbe Justice department, he said, "won't do anything about it if they do violate th law." "I knew the NRA was uncon stitutional and they knew It," he said, "but they're trying to keeo it alive by bulldozing the little fellow. And this Alabama man (Belcher) who defied every part of it was allowed to tell 'em where to go." Special Vek Spots Found, Lumber Code As for the action of the lum ber authority, a meeting of the code control committee has been called for Tuesday to act upon the recommendations that "for reasons of equity" as a result of the Justice department decision, the code should be entirely sus pended. Today's action fn dis charging most of the employes was taken in anticipation of af firmation of code officials' recom mendations. At NRA headquarters It was said numerous conferences had been held with code officials but no definite action had been taken although the case "has been dis cussed at length" by the board. It was said NRA probably will await results of the authority con trol committee meeting before making a move. Donald R. Richberg, NRA chief, explained at his press conference that the code's provision giving complete production control to the authority raised a question as to the wisdom of making the gov ernments first test of NRA rest on such a code. No other code has such provi sions, he said, and suggested that it should be amended a that the recovery board would have the final word in production control. Richbere said there are 22 cases now on appeal from district courts to circuit courts of appeals, some of which are considered stronger than the Belcher case. wei, wr wip March is fulfilling an old tra dition with the exception of the last two days of spring weather. It come In like a lamb but Tain has fallen every day but five in the month. The 2d, 3d, 11th, ljth and 27th were all bone dry, but on the 25 th, 1.85 inches of rain felL Wind has been a raucous com panion of the rain so that the mild day yesterday and sunshine today seem like the first real . heralds of spring. . Farmers hare been delayed in their spring plowing by the ex cessive wet weather, but were making up for lost time yester- I day. MOST IIIIU DAYS 4