The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1933 Weather Report Mostly cloudy and somewhat unset- tled tonight and Thursday; not much. change in temperature, PRICE FIVE CENTS 58 Killed as New Tornadoes Sweep South | e eS Paraguay-Bolivia Are Formally at War i German Envoy Backs Tariff Truce MANY ARE INJURED AS TWO STATES ARE STRUCK BY STORMS! Parts of Kentucky and Ten-: nessee Are Devasted By New Disturbances | IN SMALL TOWN 32 DIE Settlement of Beaty Swamps, Tenn., Leveled; Communi- cation Lines Are Down | (By The Associated Press) Reports late Wednesday from sec- | ‘tions along the Kentucky-Tennessee | border. swept by tornadoes Tuesday night, fixed the known death list at; 58. The latest compilation gave the; Kentucky dead as 24 and that of Ten- | nessee 34. The death list came largely from rural sections. { Kentucky reported 24 dead from: | Tompkinsville and vicinity in Mon-! roe county, 14. Vicinity of Columbia in Adair coun-, ty, two. | Russell Springs in Russell county. | eight. ' From Tennessee were reported 34 from: ‘ Beaty Springs in Overton county.' 32. ‘ | Lebanon in Wilson county, 2. This brings to approximately 250; the number killed.in tornadoes which ; have swept portions of the southern; states in the last few weeks. i Beaty Swamps, in Overton county, near Livingston, Tenn., was hard hit with 26 known dead. Twelve bodies | had been brought from that section ) Livingston among them being those} of Mr. and Mrs. Unacole and their) seven children. | Damage Not Determined { The storm was reported to have; swept the village of Bethsaids, on the | Overton-Pickett county line in .Ten-|" nessee, but all. communication lines | were down and the extent of the dam- | age could not be determined. i A situation of utter desolation in; the vicinity of Beaty Swamps was re- | ported by C. C. Gore, a Livingston at- torney, who described the country as; swept so clean of houses and trees/| that “it looks like the Argonne for-/| One residence was entirely blown) away except for part of the chimney,; he said, and a wheat binder was car- ried half a mile. Mud blocked the! country roads and trees strewn along the highways made traffic almost im- | Possible, he said. There was no way to estimate the number of injured, Gore said. Some were hurt so seriously that they could not be removed from their wrecked homes. ADMINISTRATION 70 ASK NEW TAXES FOR BOND ISSUE FINANCE How Much and What Form Lev- ies Will Take Has Not Yet Been Determined Washington, May 10.—(?—New taxes will be asked by the administra- tion to meet the interest and amorti- zation cost of the proposed three-bil- lion-dollar bond issue to put thous- ands of jobless back to work. How much and what form of taxes —the purpose of which is to keep the newly trimmed budget within bal- lance—are to be recommended to con- gress have not been determined. This ‘was one of the points facing President Roosevelt Wednesday as he went to work on the last of his big domestic emergency relief measures. This program encompasses public works construction and stimulation of industry through government super- vision. Roosevelt summoned to the white house leaders who have reach-; ed an understanding between industry and labor on the general terms of the broad legislative program. Montana Wool Sells For 22 Cents a Pound Dillon, Mont., May 10.—(P)—Two clips of wool, totaling 8,500 fleeces, were sold for 22 cents a pound Tues- day by Charles Ladue and Foster brothers, both of Sheridan, Wyo., to @ Boston firm. This is the highest price reported paid in Montana for 1933 wool. SALES TAX RULED OUT Springfield, Ill, May 10.—()—The state supreme court Wednesday de- clared unconstitutional the Illinois 3 ber cent sales tax. Among other reasons, the court held that the sales tax law was class legis- lation and lacked uniformity in its application, ‘JOHN D’ HEADS NORTH Ormond Beach, Fla., May 10.—(?)— John D. Rockefeller headed northward following his longest winter sojourn in Florida. He entrained with three guests and his household staff of 12, bound for Englewood, N. J., and an- other of his residences at nearby Lakewood. Hsifengkow, great wall: passes. | Leather Industry Is President Roosevelt's hopes for an international tariff truce were in- creased when he received pledges of Germany's support from Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, representative of Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Here are the President and Dr. Schacht in @ friendly handclasp on the white house portico. Hans Luther, German ambassador to the U. S., is at the left. Industrial Upturn Noted | In All Parts of Nation Encouraging Action Reported in Steel, Electric, Housing and Other Lines (By the Associated Press) April’s * iridustrial upturn in New York, increased carloadings for sev- eral railroads, increased steel output, more electric consumption, stepped-up ingot production rate, accumulation of a latent rousing demand, new wage increases and new employment were! scattered reports Wednesday. The New York state labor depart- ment estimated that 16,000 workers were reemployed in April, bringing an increase of 2.7 per cent in employment and 4.4 in payrolls—and this at a time for _usual seasonal decline. “Iron Age”, heralding an increase in steel output to 31 per cent of capacity from 29 per cent last week, reported that buying was stimulated by rising prices and coming from an ever-widening circle of consumers. More Electricity Used The increase in electric output, re- Ported by the Edison institute, was at a higher rate for the first time .in three years. With the ingot produc- tion rate up to 54 per cent, more than 5,000-workers were called back to mills in Cleveland and Lorain, O., and an- other 5,000 were prepared to receive larger pay envelopes because of in- creased hours. The National Steel company at De- troit was preparing to start work on a construction program to cost $250,- 000 and employ 300 men. = Dunn and Bradstreets reported a decided improvement for the past several months in the record of busi- ness failures in all geographical sec- tions. The United States Department of Commerce reported the latent hous- ing demand, pointed out that new houses and apartments being com- menced now will not be sufficient to keep up with increas: population. Officials of the Milwdukee railroad said that Wednesday for the first time the road saw a chance to get out of the “red.” Members of the Southern Bakers as- sociation, meeting in annual conven- tion at Atlanta, Ga., pledged them- selves to restore wages as rapidly as Possible and to back the president's Prosperity program. Japanese Claim New Successes in China Tokyo, May 10.—(?)—Japanese dis- Patches from the North China front Wednesday said the Japanese army! had succeeded in establishing control at the Lwan river, the western border of the area below the great wall where hostilities have been raging the last few days. The. important city of Yungping was occupied after 10 hours of fight- ing, according to a dispatch to the Rengo News agency. Yungping is on the left bank of the Lwan about 25 miles south of the great: wall and only 105 miles northeast of Tientsin, which is the center of an international area Another dispatch said a fresh bri- grade of Japanese .roops smashed a Chinese concentration across the Lwan at Sahochia, 10 miles south of one of the important Helped by Price Gain New York, May 10.—(?)—The recent 100 per cent rise in hide prices has gone a long way toward pulling the leather industry upward. This is the conclusion of David G. Ong, president of the U. S. Leather, company. He said the improvement’ in hide quotations was the first im- portant turn for the bettey in the! dindustry since 1927. ‘ALLEGED MURDERER ' OF TWO WOMEN IS | HELD UNDER GUARD Coroner’s Jury Finds Beach Man Responsible For Double Killing Beach, N. D., May 10.—()—Held under guard in a hospital here where he is recovering from wounds inflict- ed in an attempt to commit suicide, Frank Dennino, 62, faces first-degree murder charges for the killing of Mrs. Rosalia Dodge, 86, and her daughter, Mrs. Mattie Steger, 57. A coroner's jury Tuesday night held him responsible for the death of the women whose bodies were found in their farm home at the edge of this city Tuesday morning and formal charges were filed Wednesday. States Attorney A. M. Kuhfeld of Golden Valley county said that if Physicians found the man’s condition would permit it, he would be arraign- ed Wednesday or Thursday, and prob- ably would be removed to the county | Jail here. Vern Osterloth of near Wibaux, Mont., son of Mrs. Steger, came here Wednesday to arrange for burial of his mother and grandmother. An- other son is expected here from Chi- cago. Testimony given by physicians at the coroner's inquest placed the time of the slayings at between 4 and 8 a.m. The women apparently had been roused from their sleep and sought to flee from the assailant. Bodies of the women were found in different rooms in the house. Offi- cers declared this was indication they had sought to escape. Physicians said Dennino would re- cover if no complications arose. His wound, inflicted at the right side of his head, grazed the skull. He re- gained consciousness Tuesday night, but refused to reply to questions put to_him by authorities. Later he told a deputy sheriff guarding him “I felt bad” but re- fused to make any further comment. Mrs. Steger had been Dennino's housekeeper until recently, but after @ quarrel she returned to her moth- er’s home. Kuhfeld said trouble had developed between Dennino and Mrs. Steger and @ few weeks ago he ordered them to jrefrain from seeing one another. | Mrs. Dodge was the widow of a ; Civil war veteran. Mrs. Steger leaves two sons and two daughters. eR ie a ae | Hospital Closed by | Epidemic of Mumps Minneapolis, May 10.—(?}—Uni- versity hospital was closed Wed- nesday to everything but emerg- ency cases, because a spread of mumps is threatening to handicap the staff to such an extent that the work of caring for the sick may be impaired seriously. { Dr. Halbert L. Dunn, hospital | superintendent, announced today | the ban on admitting any more Patients unless their cases are serious may be in effect for “a couple of weeks” until the mumps situation becomes less trouble- some. Nearly twenty mernbers of the hospital staff have mumps, Dr. Dunn said, while all the nurses and doctors of the institution are wearing masks to protect, them- i selves against the ailment, Farm Bill Sent to Roosevelt | i} |BRITISH WILL SEEK TARIFE REDUCTIONS AT LONDON PARLEY Statement of English Policy Made in House of Com- mons By M’Donald TRUCE PROPOSAL PUSHED | { Suggestions of United States] Approved By British, Sent to Other Nations | 4 London, May 10.—(#)—The British government will endeavor to secure} at the world economic conference a} general reduction in tariffs, Prime} Minister Ramsay MacDonald told a questioner in the House of Commons Wednesday, The American tariff truce project was strengthened somewhat by sug- gestions from the United States gov- ernment which were conveyed to British quarters at noon by Norman H. Davis, the United States ambassa- dor-at-large, American circles here said. Suggestions made in a note from} the United States government were; minor, but were accepted immediately ; by the British and submitted at once to six other governments whose an- Swers are expected soon. The text of the proposal, as now! arranged, provides not only for the acceptance of an immediate tariff armistice by the eight principal na- tions but includes also a reeommenda- tion to other nations of the world to Jein in. ‘ Washington-London Agree In British official quarters it was announced that the Washington reply to the draft of the truce text was considered acceptance of the British formula. The eight powers, represented in the organizing committee of the economic conference, are the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Belgium and Norway. Prime Minister MacDonald an- nounced Tuesday that a tentative | agreement has been reached between the two countries in support of Presi- dent Roosevelt's truce plan. The plan is for all nations to refrain from rais- ing new barriers to trade before the end of the world economic confer- ence, probably late this summer or in the fall. The hope is that old and new barriers will be done away with at the conference. It was generally believed Great Britain reserves the right to conclude trade agreements already being nego- tiated. New agreements with Sweden and Norway probably will be signed next Monday. They are similar to those recently concluded with Argen- tina, Germany and Denmark. Southern Banker to Head Reserve System Washington, May 10.—(#)—Deter- mined upon speedy use of the infla- tion powers about to be given him by congress, President Roosevelt Wed- nesday nomed Eugene R. Black, At- Janta banker, to be the new governor of the federal reserve board. Black, now governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve «band, assumes one of the most important posts of the new administration since the re- Serve system is to administer the wide currency and credit expansion provi- sions of the new inflation bill. It is expected the president will order into operation immediately the inflation machinery allowing the pur- chase of up to $3,000,000,000 of gov- ernment securities, This would throw huge sums of new money into circu- lation. Black succeeds Eugene Meyer who was cleaning up his deck Wednesday, preparing to end his tenure of office with the close of the business day. He was appointed by President Hoo- ver on September 16, 1930, and de- signated as governor. To Make Steel Fence Posts in Bismarck Manufacture of steel fence posts which require no wire or staples for in Bismarck within the next month, the Tribune was informed Wednesday in a letter from P. C. Maier, who will operate the factory. Maier said he expects to employ 10 Persons in his factory, with an antici- Pated output of about 250 fence posts per hour. He expects to operate night and day in order to fill orders. He said he has arranged with one concern which has 59 salesman covering 21 states to take orders for the posts. H Work will not be started for two or three weeks, he said, since he will not be able to get equipment or steel from the mills before that time. CONGREGATIONALISTS MEET | Grand Forks, N. D., May 10.—(?)— Approximately 100 delegates, includ- ing 30 laymen, attended the first general session of the 52d annual North ‘Dakota Plymouth Congrega- ;Honal church convention here Tues- jday night. The sessions continued Wednesday ‘with a business cession, a e | Remove Safety Pin | From Baby’s Throat | ee ——? East Grand Forks, Minn., May | 10.—(®)—Maysil, 11-month-old | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Will of East Grand Forks was re- covering Tuesday from an opera- | tion for the removal of an open safety pin she swallowed accident- ly Monday morning. The operation was performed by a Grand Forks physician about three hours after the infant swal- lowed the object, a medium sized safety pin. Lodged in the lower end of the | | gullet opening into the stomach, | the pin first was forced into the stomach by a rubber tube. The surgeon then cut through the ab- domina: wall and closed the pin without cutting the stomach. Next the tube was forced into the stomach again, the pin shoved into the tube, and the tube was DECLARATION ENDS GUERRILLA FIGHTING ABOUT GRAN CHACO News of Action Provokes Great Demonstration in Streets of Asuncion QUARREL IS ANCIENT ONE \Intermittent Battles Have Oc- curred For Years Over Disputed Territory —_—_______» | Weds Author, 53 Years Her Senior + SENATORS RECEDE ON AMENDMENT 10 GUARANTEE PROFIT Norris-Simpson Proviso, Reject- ed By House, Is Eliminat- ed From Measure CARRIES MORTGAGE-RELIEF Inflation and Scheme to In- crease Agricultural Prices Also Included (By the Associated Press) The administration farm bill, carry- removed with the pin in it. ‘ATTAGK ON WALLACE CLIMAXES SESSION, OF HOLIDAY GROUP Minnesota Farmers Demand His Removal From Office By President Roosevelt Montevideo, Minn, May 10.—(P)— Members of the Minnesota Farm | Holiday association prepared Wed- to join farmers of other nesday | northwest states in a farm strike ; Saturday, after concluding a mill- tant session here Tuesday night, cli- maxed by a demand that President Roosevelt remove Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace from office. The attack on Wallace came through a resolution adopted by the state association delegates asserting the secretary had not been in “‘ pathy” with efforts to guarantee the farmers the cost of production Asuncion, Paraguay, May 10.—(?)— Paraguay Wednesday formally de- clared war against Bolivia. Bolivia and Paraguay have been engaged in a hitherto undeclared war in the Gran Chaco border area since last summer. President Eusebio Ayala, using the authority recently voted him by con- gress, signed the declaration at 11:00 a.m News of this action provoked great demonstrations as soon as it reached the streets. The celebrations were the most widespread that have occurred since the hostilities began last June. Crowds marched through the thor- oughfares, singing and cheering. For the first time in 50 years the Chaco dispute has reached the formal status of warfare, although for years intermittent fighting has kept both nations armed, Paraguay hopes that formal declar- ations of neutrality by Argentina and Chile and perhaps by Peru and Brazil will hamper Bolivian importation of supplies. Both nations are determined that the present struggle shall result in definite and permanent settlement of the long standing Gran Chaco strife. Except for the belated entry of sev- eral South American nations into the (| Shaw, 75, famous author and editor ing provisions to increase farm prices, & mortgage-relief section and an in- flation rider, Wednesday was sent to President Roosevelt by the United States senate. Final legislative action on the huge measure was recession by the senate from the Norris-Simpson amendment. requiring the secretary of agriculture to fix prices for farm products above the cost of production. This action brought the senate and house into agreement and prepara- tions were made to send the complet- ed bill to the White House. The senate adopted, 52 to 28, the Conference agreement covering all phases of the measure that have been in dispute except the cost of produc- tion amendment. This amendmen: lost, 48 to 33, Frazier Sticks to Last Chairman Smith of the agricul- ture committee then formally moved that the senate yield to the house and eliminate the production cost plan. Senator Frazier (Rep. N. D.) who voted against the partial conference report, took the floor in opposition to Smith’s motion. He explained that the bill did not require Secretary Wallace to use the Plan, but that it was optional. Cupid proved no respecter of ages when Miss Virginia McCall (above), 22, became the bride of Dr. Albert of New York, at Gainesville, Fla. The bride is her husband’s former secre- tary. They will honeymoon in Europe. GERMAN BOOKS T0 BLAZE FROM ALTARS OF HITLER ‘KULTUR’ Blacklisted Volumes to Be Burned By School Boys With Government Aid Berlin, May 10.—()—Blacklisted books from private as well as public libraries were piled high Wednesday on “kultur's altars” throughout Ger- “The farmers of the United States want this section,” Frazier said. “It would give the department of agricul- | ture @ chance to put the farmer on a paying basis. The demand of the National Holi- day association for cost of production was cited by Frazier, “Unless this section stays they un- doubtedly will strike on May 13,” Frazier said. through national legislation. It also was decided by the 4,000 who Monday voted a farm strike, they would not pay interest, taxes or other debts un- “honest convention delegates, til the dollar became an measure of value.” The association demanded federal operation of banks and other credit attachment of wires will be started) agencies and a national presidential moratorium on farm, city home and personal property foreclosures, and other relief measures. Delegates joined Milo Reno, Na- tional Farm Holiday association president, in attacking the rejection by the national house of representa- tives of the cost production amend- ment to the farm relief inflation bill. In the final session of the conven- tion here, delegates turned their at- tention to sheriffs who are carrying out foreclosure sales on farms. Ask Sheriff's Removal Governor Floyd B. Olson was re- quested in a resolution to remove jfrom office J. C. Bermel of St. | James, sheriff of Watonwan county, | for foreclosing several farms. He was |charged with “trickery” and disobe- | dence to Governor Olson's instruc- | tions. Following the expiration April 30 ;of @ proclamation forbidding fore- {closures by Minnesota officers, Gov- ernor Olson advised the sheriffs to postpone all sales when it was im- possible to secure “an adequate bid” for farm and homestead property. The state convention commended Governor Olson, a Farmer-Laborite, favored establishment of a third par- ty nationally, demanded lower inter- est rates on mortgages, heavy federal income, gift and inheritance taxes, an end to issuance of tax exempt se- curities, and payment of adjusted compensation to war veterans in treasury certificates or notes. Governor A. G. Schmedeman of Wisconsin announced he would con- fer Thursday with district attorneys j and sheriffs to work out a plan for keeping highways open during the farm strike. Withdraw Iowa Troops Withdrawal of National Guard |troops from Crawford and Plymouth counties in Iowa, scenes of recent farm disturbances, started Tuesday, and Governor Clyde Herring an- nounced that civilian authorities will | Zesume their duties at 9 a. m. Thurs- day when martial law is lifted. | There are 81 persons still under ar- jtest at guard camps at LeMars and |Denison. It is expected that with the reopening of the civil courts county attorneys’ informations will be filed against persons accused of participating in farm sale riots at Denison and Primghar, and in the abduction and mistreatment of Judge C. C. Bradley at LeMars. Most of the accused men will face charges of assault and contempt of court, Governor Herring said, while @ few of the alleged leaders may be charged with conspiracy or criminal syndicalism. Ninety per cent of the farmers in Oklahoma will join the farm holiday Saturday in which all farm produce will be withheld from market, it was predicted by R. L. Rickerd of Okla- homa City, president of the Okla- homa Farmers’ Holiday association. He estimated 25,000 farmers would join in the strike. | NOMINATION APPROVED Washington, May 10. — (®) — The nomination of Dave H. Morris of New! York to be ambassador to Belgium was approved Wednesday by the sen-) ate foreign relations committes 4 World war, this is the first declaration of war on the continent since Bolivia end Peru fought Chile in 1879 over ni- trate fields, thereby altering Pacific boundaries. In recent days Asuncion has been subjected to sham aerial bombard- ments to test defenses against a pos- sible air attack by Bolivian planes. Two Paraguayan planes participat- ed in these tests, flying over the city while anti-aircraft guns and gunboats anchored in the river unlimbered for the counter-attack. The population, not previously ad- vised of the purpose of this activity. watched the drills calmly. Already the people have been instructed in precautionary measures in the event of an air raid. Including cellars and gas masks. WOMAN SEEKS DEED ONFORECLOSED LAND Olena Peterson of Driscoll Asks District Judge For Man- damus Writ A court fight to obtain a deed to property which she had purchased at a Burleigh county foreclosure sale Jan. 19, 1932, was carried before Dis- trict Judge Fred Jansonius Wednes- day by Olena Peterson of Driscoll. The woman sought a writ of man- damus forcing Sheriff J. L. Kelley to issue her a deed to the property in question. Upon her application for the deed last April 10, the sheriff refused to issue it on the grounds that a law passed by the last legislature extend- ed by two years from the date of the bills passage the period for redemp- tion on mortgage foreclosures. The plaintiff had the privilege of applying for the deed Jan. 19, 1933, one year after the sale, when the sheriff could have issued the deed, but she failed to do so. Her applica- tion for the deed came after the ses- sion at which the new redemption law was passed and made effective by signature of Governor William Lang- er. Representing the plaintiff in the case is Alvin Strutz, who is looking after the private legal practice of Governor Langer, while State's At- torney George 8. Register is counsel for the sheriff. Band and Orchestra To Present Program Numbers which the combined jun- ior and senior high school orchestras and the combined juvenile bands will present at the music week program to be given by students in the public schools at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the city auditorium, have been announced by Clarion E. Larson, di-! rector. The orchestras will play three numbers preceding the fantasy, “The Magic Lamp.” They are march, “Tristian”; overture, “Mignonette”; and waltz, “Remembrance of Wald- teufel.” Selections arranged for the com- bined bands are march, “Snappy”; ¥ bide With Me” and “G overture, “The Iron Count”; and “America.” many for public burning Wednesday night. | Schoolboys enthusiastically rushed final preparations for the huge bon- fires. Nazi student committees of ac- tion have been working at top speed more than a week arranging for the Great purging of the libraries of “un- German influences.” Government recognition is to be lent to the occasion in a rallying speech shortly before midnight by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of public enlightenment. Senator Wheeler (Dem. Mont.) like= wise appealed to senators not to elim- inate the section. The new farm relief experiment ems bodies: The domestic allotment and cotton pool plans. The senate $2,000,000,000 farm morte gage bill. | The inflation rider granting Roosee jVelt authority to expand the currency and reduce the dollar’s gold content. Eliminate Word ‘Basic’ Immediately after taking its final ‘vote, the senate agreed to a house Works of many American authors— Helen Keller, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Ben Lindsey, Franz Boaz, Morris Hillquit and others — are among the proscribed volumes. Some 20,000 books are collected for the big fire to be set off at 11 p, m. in Opera Square Berlin, and Dr. Goebbels will speak. | In place of the proscribed volumes, | students advised such books as “The Crime of Freemasonry” by Dr. Alfrea Rosenberg, editor of Hitler’s newspa- Per, the Voelkisher Beobachter and head of the new Nazi foreign division. Among books compulsorily introduced 4s Chancellor Hitler's “Mine Kampf” (My Fight). There must be two to ten copies in each library. Other books being burned are works | of Dr. Einstein, Emil Ludwig, Sig-| mund Freud, Karl Marx, Nikolai Le-| nine, Leon Trotsky, Karl Liebknecht. Rosa Luxemburg, Emil Vandervelde, Bertha von Suttner and Thomas and Heinrich Mann. A priceless collection of medical books from Magnus Hirsch- field's Institute were seized but may be saved. All books of a Socialistic, Jewish or Pacifist trend are especially marked for destruction. Chancellor Hitler's revolution struck another and perhaps a final blow at Marxism Wednesday by seizing the Property of the Socialist party and the militant Non-partisan Reichsbanner organization. The Reichsbanner, although hav- ing some Centrist and Democratic members, nevertheless was over- whelmingly Socialist. With its vast system of buildings, newspaper plants and local offices scattered throughout the Reich in the hands of the government, the Socialist party, once the chief bulk- wark of the German republic, may be considered dead. The seizure of Socialist party prop- erty by the government was explain- ed in a communique as the result of numerous cases of embezzlement and corruption discovered when the Nazis recently took over trade union and labor banks. <9: ae * Physician Is Called | As Gandhi Weakens | ¢—_—_. * Poona, India, May 10.—(#)—The resolution eliminating the word “basic” from the text of the bill's Provisions governing the licensing of agricultural commodity distributors. ‘This was done to make this section conform with the provisions of the bill Permitting marketing agreements. As the bill stood before this step, the secretary could permit market- ing agreements covering any commod- ity, but issue licenses only for those Pending “basic agricultural commod- ies.” The president is expected to sign the mammoth bill without delay, and arrangements are being made to put the credit inflation provisions into ef- fect by purchase in the open market of up to three billion dollars in fed- eral bonds. The senate vote on the cost of pro- duction amendment was 48 to 33. The measure seeks to lift farm in- come to pre-war levels by giving wide Power to Secretary Wallace to make marketing agreements, levy process- ing taxes on basic commodities, and compensatory taxes on competing products. It also proposes to refinance farm mortgages at 413 per cent in- terest through the land bank system. Commodities Are Listed It lists as basic commodities: cot- ton, corn, wheat, hogs, rice, tobacco and dairy products. Farm mortgages would be refinanc- ed through a two-billion dollar land bank bond issue. To aid the farmer further, it pro- vides $200,000,000 from the R. F. C., for loans to farmers to enable them to refinance other debts through com- Positions with creditors, as provided in the bankruptcy law. The inflation section gives the president broad discretionary powers over the currency, authorizing him Expand federal reserve credit by $3,000,000,000. Issue $3,000,000,000 of rency. Reduce the gold content of the dollar by not more than 50 per cent. Accept up to $200,000,000 in silver at 50 cents an ounce on the war new cur- debts and issue silver certificates on such metal. Remonetize silver at a definite ra- tio with gold and provide for free and unlimited coinage. All_northwest senators voted against the motion to eliminate the cost of production amendment. Voting “no” on the motion were Frazier and Nye, North Dakota; Schall and Shipstead, Minnesota; Bulow and Norbeck, South Dakota; Erickson and Wheeler, Montana. ares Duffy and La Follette, Wisconsin. Relief Bill Passed Only Vice President Garner's name was needed on the $500,000,000 Wag- ner-Lewis relief bill before Roosevelt could make it law—possibly befor nightfall. Crowding swiftly behind were two measures already in the con- ference stage—the vast Tennessee valley development, program and the were abolished mean-ladministration bill for protecing thy <Continuea on Bags Seven) ) Mahatma Gandhi began the third day of his scheduled three weeks’ fast Wednesday under care of a physician. Fears for his life were increased as he admitted severe hunger pains. Dr. Margaret Spiegel, a German Jewess, broke her counterfast Wednes- day. She started it in an effort to force Gandhi to give up his fast, de- claring he would violate his religion! if he let her die. Gandhi's fast is to call attention to the lowly lot of India’s “untouch- ables” but he said it would not end in Jess than three weeks even if “un- touchability” while,