The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 24, 1932, Page 1

n | “~ North Dakota’s © Oldest Newspaper | ESTABLISHED. 1873 ISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather and cooler, scattered showers ba in ‘Saturday partly cloudy. PRICE FIVE CE Rush Work on Relief Measure Roosevelt Men to Oppose Two-Thirds Rule DECISION TO STAGE BATTLE REACHED AT STRATEGY MEETING Regulation Demanding Two- Thirds Vote For Nomina- tion is 100 Years Old PLATFORM WILL BE BRIEF Contest Over Prohibition Plank Looms as Governor Out- =" lines His Wishes BULLETIN Chicago, June 24.—()—Tam- many Hall threw its formidable strength against the move by Roosevelt forces to kill the two- thirds rule with vim and vigor Friday. There was a blaze of speculation as to whether that meant sTammany had decided to oppose the nomination of the New York governor, Chicago, June 24—()—Roosevelt leaders Friday arrayed their forces in an open campaign to kill on its 100th birthday the venerable Democratic rule that two-thirds of the national convention must agree upon a candi- date before he can become the party's presidential nominee. All the leaders in the New Yorker's drive for the nomination were pledged to do all within their power to keep the aged rule—adopted by the con- vention of 1832 and in force ever since —out of the regulations governing next week's meeting, by headlong at- tack launched even before the dele- gates are called to order. Other candidates viewing the two- thirds rule as their principal hope of stopping the Empire state executive, Studied party laws and precedents and sought to solidify the variegated followings into a unified opposition. Claiming some 690 convention votes, well over a majority, the Roosevelt tacticians, were confident they could accomplish their purpose and then nominate their candidate. However, their enumeration of delegates was disputed by Alfred E. Smith, who would concede the governor but 570— Eight ballots short of a majority. The decision to concentrate upon an open attack on the two-thirds rule came out of a smoky conference room at the Congress hotel in which the Roosevelt chieftains discussed strategy until nearly midnight Thursday night. Commands a Majority In this as in other committees the Roosevelt camp commands a majority. The New Yorker's friends contend that only a majority of the conven- tion will be necessary to make the re- port of the rules group binding. Op- position spokesmen, however, dispute this, claiming a two-thirds vote neces- sary. Another deep-seated controversy, which may have some bearing upon the battle to abrogate the rule alio received attention from Thursday night's meeting. Senator Wheeler of Montana was named to lead the campaign to place his colleague, Sen- ator Walsh in the post of pcrmanent chairman. The Smith-Raskob group claims that Roosevelt agreed some months ago that this post should go to Jouett Shouse, chairman of the party's ex- ecutive committee, as part of a com- promise that named Senator Barkley of Kentucky, a doughty Roosevelt supporter, as keynote speaker. The nub of this controversy is that the permanent chairman may b¢ called upon to rule on the question whether a simple majority or a two- thirds vote is necessary to lay aside the two-thirds rule. The ruling of the chair can be reversed, of course, by vote of the delegates. However, it is within the power of the chair ty recognize or refuse to recognize dele- gates rising to put motions or make speeches. The Democratic platform makers are trying to set a record. Their goal is the shortest and most concise dec: | &Ta! laration of party principles ever written. In this they have the full support of Governor Roosevelt. A tentative limit of 1,000 words has been imposed by the Roosevelt lead- ers. : Senator Dill of Washington, one of the Roosevelt spokesmen, believes the controversial prohibition plank can be written in 25 words. It will call for submission to the states of the ques- tions of retention, modification or re- peal of the 18th amendment. Wants Concise Platform A. Mitchell Palmer. former attor- ney general, brought the word direct from Gov. Roosevelt for a “short, con- cise platform.” Palmer joined with other Roosevelt leaders in advocating emphasis on economic issues. The forces of. Gov. Roosevelt con- trol the resolutions as well as ail other committees of the Democratic convention. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, of ‘Nebraska, the chairman of the reso: lutions committee, is the choice of the Roosevelt forces. Senator Wheeler, of Montana, ® Roosevelt leader, has Joined the platform-making com- mittee. Although hearings were called for Friday, not until Saturday will the dynamic subjects of prohibition, tar- iff, unemployment and farm relief be reached. Meanwhile advocates of peace, power control and various oth- er subjects were on the list of those to be heard. f r A fight is in prospect to commit the party to repeal of the 28th amendment, led by such Democratic stalwarts as Al! fred E. Smith and) Rev. C, Jean Harlow, piatinum bicnd fiance, Paul Bern, movie executive, wed. PLANK LOOKING 10 PROHIBITION REPEAL | FAVORED BY MURPHY ' Congressional Candidate and! For Chicago | R. B. Murphy; Democratic candidate for nomination as congressman and delegate to the Democratic national convention, said Friday before leaving for Chicago that he favored a straight forward declaration by the convention on the 18th amendment looking to- ward repeal. Murphy said he was unalterably opposed to the return of the open sa-; loon, and believed that states desiring to retain the dry law should be given support by congress to carry out their wishes. i | Murphy gave it as his opinion that; ; unemployment and the return of the | purchasing power of the farmer's dol- jlar are the greatest issues before the nation. He looks for the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt on an early ballot and expressed the belief that) any “conspiracy” to prolong the bal- loting after a majority had expressed their preference for Roosevelt, would lead to abrogation of the two-thirds rule. “I favor a straightforward declara- tion by the convention that gives the people an opportunity to decide whether the 18th amendment should be repealed or retained,” Murphy said. “The plank should be stated simply and clearly. I consider the plank adopted by the Republican convention the most perfect example in modern literature of the art of using language to conceal thought. I am opposed to such straddling on this or any other issue. I am opposed to the return of the open. saloon as strongly as I am C) to the continuance of the present conditions.. I believe the 18th amendment never should have been placed in- the federal constitution. Sumptuary legislation does not be- long in the fundamental law of the nation. States wishing to remain dry, I believe, should be given the sin- cere support of congress in their pro- m. “Of first importance among the is- sues before the nation at the present time, that clearly should overshadow even the controversial prohibition question, I place unemployment and the return of the purchasing power of the farmer's dollar. Ten million un- employed people, daily facing only the spectre of black despair, constitute a Positive menace to the foundations of any government. We should not de- lude ourselves. “American workmen, whether the white-collared type or not, willing to work, will not continue indefinitely to suffer privation in a land of plenty. I consider the return of the ig power of the farmer's dollar funda- mentally essential to the return of normal conditions, The farmer is our best buyer. | “T anticipate the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presi- dency on an early ballot. Democrats and Republicans alike are for him— I mean the average voter is for him. With the people wanting Roosevelt, I think any conspiracy on the part of a few bosses in the convention will meet a different kind of opposition than they usually do in conventions. This looks like a poor year for bosses in Democratic conventions. I believe that if it appears that there is a con- to “stop Roosevelt” after he has a clear majority, and prolong the balloting, the two-third rule should and will be abrogated. There will be no 103 ballots at Chicago.” i MISSION PRESIDENT QUITS Minneapolis, June 24.—(AP)—The D.-Bowman, president of the when she crashed in Siam last April.! Associate Press Phote screen actress, Is shown with her when they applied for a license to Siamese Army and Navy Stage Surp Rebels Seize Royal Family as Hostages to Insure Re- volt's Success BULLETIN Bangkok, Siam, June 24.—(7)— A constitutional monarchy was established in Siam Friday after a sudden but brief revolution in 1 which one man was killed. Berlin, June 24.—(#)—Marga Vou Convention Delegate Leaves ori German woman flier, tele- phoned the newspaper Vossische Zei- tung from Bangkok, Siam,’ Friday saying thé army had mutinied and seized the royal family as hostages to insure the success of a revolution. The royal palace was surrounded by hestile troops and rebellious soldiers and sailors thronged the streets, sh: said. Later King Prajadhipok and tho other members of the royal family were removed to a warship. Army tanks rumbled through the Streets in the hands of the rebels and machine gun squads were seen. was on the way back to Berlin by air | She was slightly injured and her} Plane was wrecked. The Berlin newspaper Temps, un- der a Bangkok date line, said the! commander of the army ‘was killed! when he resisted arrest by the rebels | The cabinet fled. said Temps, but only the minister of trade eluded pur- | suit. i Siam, in the native tongue is Tha: which means land of the free, but ‘t is an absolute monarchy and King Prajadhipok, who recently visited the United Statts, passing across North Dakota, is the supreme power of the: land. | He appoints ministers and all the} other high government officials and | he may -remove them whenever he sees fit. There is no party govern- ment and no parliament, and the king is his own prime minister. Usually, however, he consults with a suprem?/ council and a cabinet on important | matters. Prajadhipok succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother, Rama VI, in 1925. He is the seventn monarch of the present dynasty. There is a good-sized army in Siant| and every able-bodied man is liable to two years service in the regular army, with longer periods in the thre reserve forces. In the standing army / are two divisions, each with two regi-| ments of infantry, one of artillery and one of cavalry. The aviation corps is employed chiefly in the development of civil flying. The army recently ac- quired 10 tanks. The navy consists of five gunboats. three destroyers, four torpedo boats the royal yacht and a number of small craft. In all there are about 4,800 officers and men on the active list and a reserve of about 20,000. Youth Is Injured in Accident Near Steele Rudolph Schmidt, 17, a resident of Portland, Oregon, employed by @ carnival company, was in St. Alexius hospital Friday suffering from cuts and bruises sustained in an automo- Thursday afternoon. the carnival company, was ridin; a truck which was side-swiped by another truck and knocked into the ditch. 3 The Bismarck physician who treat- ed Schmidt said he was told that four or five other men were badly shaken and bruised in the accident and that ohe man was seriously in- jured. He was said to have been tak- en to Steele for emergency treatment. ROADS IN GOOD SHAPE Pointing out that only a small amount of rainfall occurred the first half of the week, the weekly. road condition repott of tne State High- way. department said all construc- James A Reed, of Missouri, the lead- Swedish, Mission Covenant of Am- ing contenders of the 1928 nomina-|{erica, resigned Thursday because of tion, tevere | ted ions of the state highway system are reported -in good éondition generally le rise Mutiny! NORTHWEST STATES TO SEEK EXTENSION OF U.S. SEED LOANS Governors to Meet at Minot July 8; Secretary Hyde May Be Invited Pierre, S. D., June 24.—(7)—Plans of North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon- jtans and Minncsota executives to seek rextension of federal seed loans were reported Thursday by Governor War- ren E, Green. | Green said he expects to attend a |meeting at Minot, N. D., July 8, at |which governors of the four states {would discuss a movement to ask an ! extension until crop prices improve |Secretary Hyde may be asked to at- tend. Crop production loans obtained this spring are due Nov. 30 under | present regulations. South Dakots |farmers borrowed more than $7,000.- {000 from the federal government to finance their crops. { HEFFELFINGER TO LEAD FIGHT ON GRASSHOPPERS | Minneapolis, June 24.—(P)—As & ‘move to speed up the war on the ‘grasshoppers and avert the plague threatering ruin to Minnesota crops, Gov. F. B. Olson Thursday draftel ; Frank T. Heffelfinger, Minneapolis {grain man and civic leader, to super- vise distribution of poison bait used {to combat the insect invasion. Announcement of his appointment came after the state executive counc.! had set aside another $150,000 to fighs the hoppers, bringing the total appro- Priation to $250,000. Heffelfinger will serve as a_liason officer between the newly-appointed ;Twin City businessmen's committee and field experts of University farm, ; Who have joined forces in the drive {against the hoppers. ‘SENATORS, SINCLAIR Fraulein Von Estzdorf flew from) SUPPORTING LANGER Germany to Tokyo last summer and; Congressional Trio Issues state- ment Condemning Oppon- ents’ Attempts A joint statement, giving definite assurance that they are supporting the candidacy of Willidm Langer, eandidate for governor, and the re- ;mainder of the Nonpartisan League {ticket was sent from Washington to Frazier, Secretary | Come to Open Break Senior and Junior Sena- tors in Statement | RESIGNS FROM HIS POSITION | sees |Criticizes Former Employer For 1 ‘Laxity’ in Senate Indian Investigation (By the Associated Press) Nelson A. Mason Friday announced his resignation as secretary to Unit- ed States Senator Lynn J. Frazier and issued a statement in which he directs criticism at the Senator. The statement recounts an open break between Mason and Frazier. Mason said Frazier recently told him his services would terminate in Sep- tember, but that he resigned instead of waiting until that time. In his statement, Mason takes a stand against the re-nomination of U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye, but says he is not opposing the state ticket of the Nonpartisan Ieague, with which Nye and Frazier are af- filiated. Mason has served as Frazier’s sec- retary for 14 years, from 1917 to {1921 while Frazier was Governor of \North Dakota, and from 1923, when Frazier was elected senator, until his resignation last Saturday. Mason, in an eight-page typewrit- ten statement, expresses dissatisfac- tion with the policies pursued by Frazier in handling the Indian Af- fairs committee and charges the senator employed his son on the committee in preference to a more competent employe. He claimed that when he disagreed with Frazier the “word was passed along in the North Dakota Nonpartisan League delega- tion that I was ‘too religious.’” At the time Mason was affiliated with the Gospel Mission, and the District of Columbia Christian Endeavor Union. ‘Not the Same’ Speaking of Nye, Mason’s state- ment said: “Since he has been in the |Senate, Frazier has not been the jsame.” After his resignation, Mason came ito North Dakota “by day coach, not ‘having sufficient funds to travel in a drawing rocm, by blimp or other- wise.” “I am breathin,; the free air of Nelson A. Mason Attacks Both} DEMOCRATIC WOMEN LEADERS | i Associated Press Photo Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (left), former governor of Wyoming end now vice chairman of the democratic national committee in charge of women’s activities, is shown in a pre-convention conference with Mrs, Elizabeth A. Conkey, democratic national committee- woman from Illinois. ,»300 Attend Meeting of Homemakers Clubs NAZIS THREATEN 0 —o—: — IF DEATHS CONTINUE , tended the annual achievement day program of Burleigh County Home- {Three Killed in Fighting Thurs- day and Policeman Dies makers clubs which was held here at Hamburg Thursday. Awards were made in the cloth- ing project which occupied the at- {tention of the clubs this year and | Miss Grace DeLong of the state agri- cultural college, Fargo, outlined the \ project for the coming year. It provides for study by the home- makers of kitchen improvements Berlin, June 24—(#)—Adolf Hitler's | Which may be obtained at small cost ‘National Socialists threatened Friday (penta aati es cet facilities ito seize the police power in their oWn| and devices, wiapsivigatiisd \hands unless the Von Papen govern-| The feature of the celebration was ;ment put an end to rioting which|the presentation of a pageant in ‘cost 10 lives. in Germany this week. |Which costumes of many lands and | Three men were killed in fighting ;V@"ous periods of American history Thursday and a policeman died at|W¢re worn by the participants. |Hamburg from injuries received jo Pageant was regarded as. a jearlier in the week. Pronounced success and arrange- Burleigh county day at the Mandan \North Dakota again—broke, but hap-; At 2 mass mecting Thursday night py,” Mason says in his statement. |Jcseph Goebbels, Hitler's right-hand The story told in Mason’s state-;man, attacked the government and iment, embracing affairs of the In-|said unless the police checked the idian Affairs committee and office'Communists “we will give the com- ‘disputes, begins with a presentation |mand to clear the streets ourselves.” of extracts from the congressional; Edmund Heines, Nazi member of record. |the Reichstag, speaking at Breslau, Mason criticises Frazier for not}Said “if the police don’t support us pressing for an appropriation to|We will drive them to the devil.” jcarry on the Senate Indian investiga-; Thursday night's fatal clashes oc- tion, ,curred at Dortmund, where a Nazi “T always felt,” Mason said, “that Was killed, and at Duisburg and my kno-ledge of the dilatory tactics |Strassfurt, where two Communists 'then used and efforts to bring about} Were slain. Burleig hcounty day at the Mandan fair, according to H. O. Putnam, county agent. In the dressmaking competition, Driscoll and Sterling carried off the major honors. Places were awarded as follows: House dresses — Sterling, Driscoll and Wing. Street costumes—Driscoll, Sterling and Still. Afternoon dresses—Driscoll, Three- Leaf-Clover club of Menoken, and Sterling. ‘action did not enhance my stock in; the office. Despite the evident ef-} jfort to force me out I was determin- Emergency squads of police were kept busy in Berlin throughout the day separating Nazis and Commun- Perkins and Diegel jcord in the ranks of our friends. Bismarck Friday by U. S. Senators | ed to stand by my guns until the; Gerald P. Nye and Lynn J. Frazier;survey was completed, though it} and Congressman J. H. Sinclair. nearly wrecked my health, the pres-| The three league members of North|sure was so great.” Dakota’s congressional delegation,| The committee’s work, Mason/ said in their statement: claimed, was handicapped through| “Why these persistent attempts to/lack of stenographic help. The sen-| place us in a position of opposition to|ator’s son, an employe of the com-| any one on our ticket? Are such at-;mittee, Mason charged was ineffic-! tempts an admission of I. V. A. de-jient and did not appear at the office} feat? “for months at a time, not showing “It seems certain that their only)up except on pay-day.” chance for victory lies in the possible; Mason said the Indian sub-com-} success of their effort to inject dis-;mittee employed A. A. Grorud, a We} Montana attorney, at $200 a month, regret that our work here in Wash-|but later Frazier introduced a reso- ington involving the effort to accom-jlution at the Indian Affairs com- plish passage of adequate farm legis-| mittee to raise the salary to $400. lation before adjournment prevents Cuts Stenographer’s Pay our active support in behalf of the} The direct break between Frazier ticket. and Mason came about at that time, “Friends in the state will continue! Mason said, “when the Senator noti- to press forward until election day in|fied the stenographic assistant in ists. The Communists threw up bar- ricades of paving slabs, matresses and commandeered building mater- ials in the Moabit section, in north- west Berlin, after an open air dem- onstration in the Lustgarten was for- bidden. Several persons were wounded and 60 were arrested after a fight near the center of the city. In the Ruhr district disorders were reported continuing and reports from Essen said the Nazis had formed mo- toreycle patrols and were assuming police powers themselves, searching the houses of workers. At Munich, Hitler demanded estab- lishment of martial law throughout Germany as a result of continuing clashes, He demanded that the Communist party be suppressed and that the po- lice, especially those in Prussia, be purged of Socialist and Centrist mem- Lead in Tournament Fresh Meadow Country Club, Flush- ing, N. Y., June 24—()}—Thomas Phillip Perkins, former British ama- teur champion recently turned pro- | fessional, shot a sub-par 69 Friday, in the second round of the U. S. open golf championship. It gave him a 36- hole total of 145 and the lead as out- standing stars rallied under more favorable conditions. Leo Diegel, Agua Caliente, who held second place, four strokes behind Olin Dutra Thursday with a 73, shot a 74 for a total of 147. He slipped be- hind Perkins on the incoming nine after holding a two-stroke advantage over the former British champion at the turn. The pair of kings, Gene Sarazen and Bill Burke, failed to improve and slipped a little further out of the pic- ture. The British open champion, bile accident 10 miles west of Steele! Schmidt, with other employes ot| the cause of decent government in the state and nation. These friends may do that with the definite knowledge that we are for Langer and every can- didate on the ticket with him. With the fight so well in hand and with the opposition as issueless as it proves it- self to be we sincerely hope our friends will not permit the opposition to plant distrust and discord where Grorud’s office, a young woman of unusual ability and attainments, that her salary would be cut $35 a month, “Her salary,” Mason continues, “had been the same as the name- sake’s (Senator Frazier’s son), and she had been aiding a sick mother | and sister. “Very resvectfully I asked the sen-| confidence, cooperation and good will, now exists.” * Los Angeles, June 24.—(?)— Money, says Myrtle Joan St. Pierre, is not her main desire in the $200,000 breach of promise suit against David Hutton, singer- husband of the evangelist, Aimee |. Semple McPherson, The 30-year-old, pretty, bru: nette, twice-married nurse con- fided to friends: “All I want to do now is to show that man up in a big way.” The husky Hutton, a baritone, doesn’t think there is any possi- bility of a verdict being given against him, but said if it was, he had no money to pay. “I haven't been making any money lately, and it's a cinch Aimee is not going to pay her ator if, with the contemplated pay- (Continued on page eleven) Nurse Wants to Show up Husband of ‘~ ‘Aimee in Big Way; Argue About Kiss on her story of how the choir singer allegedly betrayed her un- der promise of marriage. The cross-examination brought bitter exchanges between Miss St. Pierre’s counsel and the defense, forcing Superior Judge Lester Roth to take a hand in the pro- ceedings. “Did you kiss Mr. Hutton?” asked Mark Jones, one of the de- fense attorneys. “He kissed me,” was the nurse’s answer. , “And you're sure you didn’t kiss him?” “When a@ person is kissed on the mouth by another person, both of them are kissing and be- ing kissed,” was the rejoinder, which brought a warning from the court that the giggling spec- tators would be ordered out after another giggle. Sarazen, used 76 strokes for a total of 150 while the defending American titleholder could do no better than 77 and showed an aggregate of 152, Merchants Aroused bers. Considers Veteran’s Fight for Children Minneapolis, June 24.—(#),—Testi- ’ mony clean Thursday in the vnaness By Veterans Army corpus action brought by Howar 7 = Stevens, World War veteran of Berg,| Washington, June 24—(AP)—A N. D., to obtain custody of his two|new urgent request by authorities children, Lucille Marie, 12, and|that \the bonus-seeking veterans Marian Josephine, 7, now living with}army may be disbanded and started their grandparents, Mrs. A. G. Gust- home was met Friday by the “army” afson, Minneapolis. leaders with a declaration they would District Judge Paul W. Guilford|not budge but would seek to force an indicated he would file a decision|extra session of Congress. Saturday. ‘Mrs. Gustafson testified} An increase of panhandling on the Mrs. Stevens, her daughter, shortly Washingioe streets, in defiance of before she died, had asked the grand-|orders from veteran leaders, and mother to care for and educate the compiatats by merchants that some children on the ground the father|of tl ie men were coming in groups would not be a proper person to carejand virtually demanding contribu- for them. tions, were noted by authorities. 5 They feared that if food at the Urges E ‘ast ern Star to camps became scarce, these activi- ties would grow to menacit ropor- tigns. ne EN Build Home for Aged ie — ry Grand Forks, N. D., June 24—(?)— | Today in Congress | Construction .of an Eastern Star) @———————___—. home for aged and dependent mem- FRIDAY bers of the order was urged by John Senate Storman of Rolla, worthy grand pa- Acts on routine calendar bills. tron, at Thursday night’s program of Continues consideration of morte Dakota grand lodge assembly} economy bill. ere. The sessions included three general meetings, a traditional memorial service, a dinner. for worthy matrons and patrons and associate matrons and patrons and a dinner for past matrons and patrons and dis- guests, up nomination of Gardner Cowles, Sr., of Iowa, to be director of re- construction corporation. House Sends Democratic relief bill to conference. "Considers miscellaneous bills, GARNER FORCES ARE SPURRED 10 ACTION | BY SENATE PASSACE Differences Between Bills Pass- ed by House and Senate Are Broad TUG-OF-WAR MATERIALIZES Final Passage and Enactment of Economy Bill Appears Near Friday BULLETIN Washington, June 24—()—The house Friday sent to conference with the senate the $2,300,000,000 Garner-Wagner relief bill. Washington, June 24.—(P}—A tug- of-war between the forces of Speaker Jack Garner, presidential candidate, and the senate was in the making Friday over the unemployment relief bill, last great issue of the congres- sional session. The senate passed the relief bill late Thursday without even a record vote, immediately appointing conferees to compromise with the house. Though its text was far different from the one adopted by the representatives under the Garner spur, the bill bore the house title, to permit immediate con- ference. Moreover the senate had knuckled down to house demands to the extent of incorporating the $300,- 000,000 loans to states provision pre- viously passed separately. This had been an attempt to get some relief enacted even though the major bill should fall under a gener- ally expected veto. But the Garner forces had refused to consider the loan bill by itself, insisting their mea- sure—the one condemned by Presi- {dent Hoover as a “gigantic pork bar- rel"—should be the basis of whatever relief legislation is put up to the pres- ident. Garner undertook Friday to appoint house conferees and get the proceed- ings started. He had sat through the senate’s debate Thursday. his own branch being in recess, and on leav- ing asserted the conferees would “go right to work.” Differences Are Broad The differences between the two houses are broad, The senate voted $1,500,000,000 increase in the recon- struction corporation's borrowing pow- jer to finance loans to states and pri- | vate corporations for construction of self-liquidating projects and financing foreign sale 07 crop surpluses. With this went. an additional $300,000,000 {reconstruction corporation authoriza- tion to make loans to states for relief purposes, and—opposed by the presi- dent—a $500,000,000 bond issue for | Specific public works. The house bill provides $1,000,000,- 000 reconstruction unit capital expan- {sion for construction loans; $1,200,- | 000,000 bond issue (financed by a gas- oline tax) for specified postoffice, highway, waterway and flood control construction projects; and $100,000,000 outright appropriation for the presi- | dent to expend on relief of destitution, with no provision for repayment. Senate Democrats, responsible for the bill passed by their branch, main- jtain they are not convinced the pres- ident would veto their creation, for that reason their conferees will do their utmost to keep the bond issue provision low. Veto Around Corner Administration Republicans are confident of a veto on whatever comes out of the conference. Though distasteful to many sena- tors because of provisions they fear will impose cruel hardship on govern- ment employes, the national economy bill appeared due for senate passage |Friday and final enactment. Were the measure’s savings of $150,000,000 to $175,000,000 not vital to the government's plan of on a balanced budget next fiscal year, there was every indication the senate would not accept the changes made in conference with the house. But with the session almost over, many of the objectors were disposed to let i honed seeking to correct inequalities ater, * Principal savings in the bill are based on reduction in the federal Payroll, obtained through a month's compulsory payless furlough for the majority of the workers, and pay cuts for those who are indispensable. Says ‘Busting Up Homes’ One provision is that where man and wife, living together are work- ing for the government and a person- nel reduction is necessary, one or the other must be fired before any other employes, This, said Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), was “busting up homes,” compelling couples with children to Support to separate. In addition the bill authorizes in- definite furloughs in the discretion of department heads, whenever the cur- tailed appropriations made by con- gress this year fail to carry the full complement of employes. An hour and a half of fruitless de- bate on the bill was had Thursday, leaving a decision on passage or @ further attempt at revision until Fri- Setesdal Lag Opens : Annual Convention’ Setesda? district of Norway, opened the annual Lag convention here Fri- day. » Approximately 1,000 Norwegians Kota, and “northwesterp.Binnesots are expected which will