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—~—— ¢ Foening Star. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably local thundershowers this aft- ernoon or night: not so Warm tomorTow. ‘Temperatures: Highest, 89, at noon to day: lowest, 69, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. WASHINGTON, D. C CREDITORS AGREE Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,574 TWO CENTS. CITY GENTER FUND Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ¥ ¥ () Means Associated Press. pos 31,076. L FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. second class matter Washington, D. C. LABORITES CRUSH BALDWIN CONTROL IN BRTISH VOTING { | Power in Commons May Pass to Ramsay MacDonald Through Coalition. Prime Minister, Lloyd George and | Snowden Are Re-Elected—Lady Astor Barely Wins, By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 31.—The Baldwin government, which has ruled England for the past five years, was defeated in the general elections of yesterday. | The Labor party held 281 seats in| the House of Commons at 6:30 o'clock | this evening with 41 seats out of a| total of 615 still to be heard from. The | Laborites needed 27 seats out of these 41 to obtain a clear majority. The standing follows: ZLabor, Conservatives, 236, Liberals, others, 7. It was impossible for the Conserva- | tives to reach the Labor figures, thus making it certain that this will be the first time that the Labor party has the largest representation in Parlia- ment. Even the Conservative and Liberal total was only five more than the Laborite figures. David Lloyd George, one-time pre- mier and Liberal leader, was looked upon as apparently holding the key to the situation, since the Liberals were holding the balance of power. Labor Makes Best Showing. The Labor showing was the largest in its history. At the time it held power in 1923, supported by the Liber- als, it had 191 votes, while the Lib- erals had 159 and the Conservatives 259. The Labor party showed strength all over the country, not confining itself to any one section. Reports of Labor gains came from Lancashire through the industrial section, through the mid- lands and from the eastern and western agricultural centers. The three leading figures in Britain's | political life, Stanley Baldwin, the Con- | servative prime minister; David Lloyd George, the Liberal leader, and Ramsey | MacDonald, Labor leader, had been re- | elected. Premier Baldwin was re-elected from Bewdley, Worcestershire, with a plural- | ity of 14,018. Lloyd George also came through from his own constituency of Carnarvon, Wales, by a wide margin, the vote being as follows: Lloyd George, 16,647; J. Bowen Davies, Conservative, 7,513, and ‘Thomas AP. Rhys, Labor, 4,536. Three in Family Elected. Maj. Gwilym Lloyd George, son of' the former Liberal premier, won an- other victory for the Liberals over the Conservatives by capturing the Pem- broke seat in Wales in a three-cornered fight. Maj. Lloyd George was the sec- ond of Mr. Lloyd George's children to be returned. ‘The Liberal leader’s daughter, Megan Lloyd George, also ‘was victorious. One more of the big political person- alities came in with the re-election of Philip Snowden, financial genius of the Labor party and former chan- cellor of the exchequer, in Yorkshire. ‘There were eight women in the re- cently dissolved Parliament, but al- ready today at least 10 were in the new Parliament, of whom six were elected on the Labor ticket. The women returned, thus far, were the American- forn heiress, Lady Astor whose plu- rality was cut to a bare 211, and the Countess of Iveagh, who also was re- elected. ‘The Laborite women members elect- ed were Ellen Wilkinson, Margaret | Bondfield, Susan Lawrence, Lady Cyn- thia Moseley, Mrs. Mary Hamilton and Miss E. Picton Tuberville. Megan Lloyg George was returned as a Liberal, while the Duchess of Atholl, Conserva- tive. was elected in the Kinross division, Scotland. Chamberlain Escapes Defeat. | The poll was replete with surprises. | Four members of the government suf fered defeat, Sir Arthur Steel-Mait land, minister of labor, and three | others not of cabinet rank. In an- cestral_constituency of Birmingham, wWest. Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign minister, eked through with only 50| votes. He demanded a recount, but the recount only reduced his majority | to 43, | Cebinet ministers returned to the Commons included Sir WA Joynson- | Hicks, home _secretary; Sir Austen Chamberlain, forcign secretary; Col. L. C. M. S. Amesy, dominion affairs and the colonies; Sir L. Worthington Evans, war secretary; Sir Samuel Hoare, air secretary; Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister, presi- dent of the board of trade; Lord Bustace Percy, president of the board of education; Neville Chamberlain, minister of health. The parliamentary undersecretary of foreign affairs, 281; 50; not | | His general condition remains good. | ment. | one of his majesty’s physicians during Observance and Enforcement. ENGLAND STIRRED BY ING'S LLNESS British Ruler Forced to Bed by Recurrence of Win- ter Attack. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 31.—Anxious fear gripped British hearts today at the news King George was ill again., The beloved sovereign, after a month's con- valescence from his dangerous illness of the Winter, was abed at Windsor with a feverish attack. A bulletin issued at Windsor Castle today said, “King George had a fair night. An abscess has formed under the site of an old scar on the right side of his chest and is now draining. “Though the King will need to re- main in bed, his majesty will be able to transact public business. (Signed) “HENRY L. MARTIN, “SIR STANLEY HEWITT, “DAWSON OF PENN.” Recalled From Continent. Lord Dawson of Penn, one of the physiclans whose treatment through long months last Winter pulled King | George from death's grip, was called back by airplane from a trip on the continent to treat his majesty again. Although it was said indicated no icular urgency, it served greatly to augment public anxiety. The physician, after landing at Croy- don from Paris, hurried by automobile to his royal patient and shortly let it be known his majesty had been con- fined to his room since Sunday, al- though first word to the public of his fresh indisposition came only yesterday. His official announcement said that King George had had a “feverish at- tack” and was confined to his bed. feverish cold marked the beginning of the serious pulmonary illness which be- gan last November. Caught Cold Sinday. 1t was believed the ruler caught cold last Sunday when he joined the cele- bration of Queen Mary's birthday by taking tea in the open near Windsor, at Frogmore. The weather was unseason- ably warm, then it become cool; the change was the occasion of a general prevalence of colds in the metropolitan a ea. British citizenry were hopeful today his majesty would show a speedy re-| covery and would be able to attend the national thanksgiving services slated for June 16 at Wesiminster Abbey in cele- bration of what had been considered his restoration to health. Amid the rejoicing or chagrin over the results of the general election lead- ing figures throughout the islands paused to express sympathy for the King and the royal family in his new alil- | Feeling generally was that the | new iliness was but a development of | the pulmonary trouble of the Winter | months. Origin of Tliness Doubted. One journal, however, quoted an “emi- nent physician” as saying the present illness could not possibly be connected with that from which the King was supposed just to have recovered. Lord Dawson, who stayed in Windsor overnight, visited the palace this morn- | ing and saw the King. He was ac- companied by Sir Stanley Hewitt, also | his long illness last Winter. ‘The Prince of Wales was at South- | ampton today attending a royal coun- | ties agricultural show. He has a num- | ber of engagements for next week. Ap- | parently there have been no altera- | tions im his plans. i Sir Stanley Hewett has been in con- sonal charge of the deluge of telegrams and letters. sham, Judge Kenneth Mackintosh and Judge Charles A. McCormick. A landslide of suggestions has swamped the National Commission on Law Chairman George W. Wickersham today took per Left to right: Mr. Wicker- —Star Staff Photo. ADVICE DELUGES LAW COMMISSION Wickersham Devoting Entire Day to Examination of Correspondence. A landslide of suggestions anent the cause and cure of America's wave of lawlessness has engulfed the President's “Natfonal Commission on Law Observ- ance and Enforcement.” Braving the Midsummerlike heat, Chairman George W. Wickersham to- day took personal charge of the land- fall of telegrams, special delivery let- ters and other messages which stooa in foot-high piles on a long table in | the temporary quarters of the commis- | sion at the Department of Justice. Pointing to his lack of clerical staff to handle the mounting correspondence problem, Chairman Wickersham said he had decided to devote all his time to- day to_an attempt to clear up the accumulated work. He called off plans for a meeting of the commission this morning. €ome From All Over U. S. The chairman said the letters came from all parts of the United States. While the commission has not had an opportunity to examine many of the communications, it s understood that a large number of the suggestions have to do with handling of the prohibition question. Members of the commission, un- daunted by the work involved by the avalanche of advice, point to the letters | as evidence of the wide interest by the American people in the President’s movement for law observance. It is said most of the letters contain offers of co-operation from individuals and or- ganizations interested in elimination of crime and of disrespect for the law. Appointment of a secretary and a statisticlan, announced last night, will aid the commission in tackling the pre- liminary mechanics of its job. Max Lowenthal, former employe of Mr. Wickersham's New York law firm and assistant secretary of three war-time or- ganizations in Washington, is the new secretary. He is a lawyer and a grad- uate of Minnesota and Harvard Uni- versities. Harrison to Be Statistician. Leonard V. Harrison of the Bureau of Social Hyglene of New York will be statistician of the commission. He has conducted crime and police surveys in several citles and recently has been pre- paring a uniform system of crime ac- ing. O e nceting yesterday the commis- sion adopted a formal name and out- lined methods of procedure. It was de- cided to divide the commission into two groups, one to deal with the causes of Crime and the other with the remedies therefor. The first group will include Miss Ada Comstock, Newton D. Baker, Henry W. Anderson’ and Monte M. Le- | mann and the second group will consist of Paul J. McCormick, Kenneth R. Mac- Intosh, Willlam S. Kenyon, Roscoe Pound and William I. Grubb. Chairman Wickersham issued a state- ment, saying that “the commission voted to issue public invitation to all organized boales interested in various problems of observance and _enforce- ment of law to send such printed re- | ports, statistics and other information | | as they have available which they feel ! would be of value in the commission’s work.” Meets Again Thursday. “The commission also,” he said, “ex- pects to call into preliminary conference heads of organizations of labor and of capital, representatives of law enforce- ment bodies and others in order to se- of cabinet rank, G. Locker-Lampson, stant attendance on the King at Wind- | cure such information as may be read- sor Castle, while Dr. Martyn, the third | ily_available for them. was re-elected. A The Communists fared badly. Their principal candidate, Shapurji Saklat- vala, flery Parsee from Bombay, lost in | North Battersea to the Laborite Sanders in a four-cornered fight. Oliver Bald- win, Socialist son of Premier Baldwin, was elected as Labor member in Dudley, ‘Worchester He captured the seat by ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) physician, is the doctor of the royal family at Windsor. ‘The three physicians had a lengthy consultation this morning. It was then authoritatively indicated that al- though the greatest care would have to be exercised to maintain majesty’s health, no anxiety was felt at present for the royal patient. Nation's “Realized Totals $90.000.000,000, Economist Reports By the Associated Press. The Nation is credited with a 0,- 000,000,000 “realized income” in 1928 by Prof. Morris A. Copeland of Cornell, in findings made public today by the Na- tional Bureau of Economic Research. An increase of three-eighths was shown, he said, from 1921 to 1927 in this type of income, which does not in- clude paper profits, profits from sale of capital assets or the value of hou y services, and the average for ach man, woman and child reached 750 in 1828. This growth, he explained, was ac- complished in the face of agricultural depression, price changes and “defla- tn,” with the Middle Atlantic, E: North Central and Pacific Stat periencing the greatest prosperity. An increased share, he said, went 10 em- ployes and their income did not show the same fluctuations as the up and downs for business He saw an apparent improvement in agriculture’s position in average cur- In for 1928 Income 3 | rent_income, although over a 13-vear period the proportion going to agricui ture decreased 3 per cent, which he e: | plained as being due partly to increas- ing industrialization of the Nation and partly to a change in the relative re- muneration of farming. Manufacturing >roperty and borrowed capital, he found, represented only small proportions of the total realized income. | “Prof. Copeland's ! based on an exhaustive study conduct- | ed by the research bureau for the com- | mittee on recent economic changes cre- ated, with Herbert Hoover as chairman, by the 1921 President’s Conference on Unemployment. He prepared the chap- ter on “The National Income and lt.s| | Distribution” which appeared in the re- port recently published by the commit- tee, which was actively headed by Mr. Hoover until a short time before his election to the presidency. his | conclusions were § iRadio >l’rrog|'ams;rl;}age 33 ‘The next meeting of the commission will be held here next Thursday, by which time Chairman Wickersham hopes to have permanent offices. In the meantime members of the commis- sion will return to their homes to ar- range business affairs interrupted by the President’s summons a few days ago. on commission expects to confer with Government_officials regarding various 1aspects of the investigation. | YOUTHFUL SLAYER PAYS PENALTY FOR CRIMES| No Efforts Were Made to Save Nebraska Killer, Nor Were Any Friends Present. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr, May 31.—Henry Sherman, youthful slayer of three per- sons, died in the electric chair at the Nebraska Penitentiary early today. No eleventh-hour efforts to save the life of the 22-year-old killer were made, nor were any of his friends present. Sherman’s crime included the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Pochon, his em- ployers, on a ranch near Burwell, and the slaying of Mrs. Eugenia Pochon, mother of the former, the attack on 14- year-old Nellie Pochon, and the beat- ing of a 6-month-old baby. He was crazed with liquor, he asserted, and angered by rebukes for his attentions to Nelliay the return to Washington the T LIFT LIENS ON CERMAN RAILWAYS | |Allies Yield to Moratorium Demand on Payments in Time of Stress. |WORLD BANK CAPITAL | OF $100,000,000 IS SET | Number of Modifications Made in General Program to Organize Financial Institution. | By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, May 31—All but one of the main problems still outstanding between | the German and allied reparations ex- perts were cleared up today. The one problem to be settled was whether the Germans are to pay the last 21 annuities under the Young plan or whether the profits produced by the proposed international bank shall be used for this purpose. Moratorium Is Disposed Of. Later the question of a moratorium | also was agreed upon, the allies yield- ing to the German demand to be al- lowed to suspend internal payments in | marks, if they should be threatened { with & erisis. With the slate thus cleaned of all but the one problem of the annuities, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, head of the German delegation, slipped away to Versailles again, leaving Dr. Ludwig Kastl to con- | creditor experts. | Germany and the creditor experts to- | day agreed on the question of lifting i the lien on the German railways and on several other German conditions to acceptance of the Young plan. | ‘It was definitely decided also that i the question of the reimbursement of | Belgium for German war-time marks ishall be eliminated from the experts’ | report, leaving the two governments to :negonau their differences. Negotiations to Start Soon. Negotiations between Belgium and Germany will begin immediately at Paris, {expert on European finance, will repre- |sent Belgium. Germany was expected | to name its negotiator later. | _ The capital of the new International ! Bank. to be set up under the experts’ | scheme on reparations, will be $100,- { 000,000, under a decision reached toda; by the group of experts named to stud | that phase of the conference’s report. The various groups appointed yester- | day, after working until midnight, re- | sumed their labors today, studying the problem of the last 21 annuities, the moratorium and the bank plan. The latter wa. modified in a number | of details in addition to fixing the amount of capitalizaton. Hope for Adjournment Soon. The experts hope that the reparations conference might adjourn within three or_four days. Inspired by agreement upon a scale of reparations annuities conforming to the compromise arrangement proposed by Owen D. Young, the experts had new vigor and new optimism. ‘The burden of the work today was on two_subcommittees. One was composed of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Dr. Lud- wig Kastl, German delegates; Josiah Stamp, Great Britain; Emile Moreau and Commendatore Pirelli, Italy. A_second subcommittee was composed of Dr. Karl Melchior, Germany; Emile Francqui, Belgium, and Messrs. Pirel- i and Moreau. Although snags are always to be feared in so complicated and delicate a discussion, some of the experts ex- press themselves quite frankly that they saw little real obstacle to agreement in principle befor. tomorrow night, ad- vancing the possibility that the . cares of working out the text of a report might be left to their secretary. PIUS XI CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY AT WORK Grants Audiences and Answers Correspondence on 72d Anniver- sary; Receives Congratulations. | R | By the Associated Pr VATICAN CITY, May 31.—Pope Pius | XI celebrated his 72d birthday at work respondence today. His holiness postponed until later his | replies to whole shcaves of congratula- tory telegrams and cables. He had an anticipatory birthday thrill ast night, trying out for the first time the palatial automobile presented to| him by the Italian Automobile Club. Later in the evening, there was a private family reunion of the surviving members of the Ratti_family. Pope’s_brother, Count Ratti, and his sister Camilla, and_his niece, the Mar- chioness Ugolino Persichetti and her husband, were present. PERUVIAN FLYERS PLAN CRUISE TO NEW ORLEANS By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala,, May 31.—Capt Carlos Pinilos and Lieut. Carlos Zegarra, Peru’s good-will flyers, were expected to take off from Maxwell Field here at noon today for New Orleans, The fiyers landed here late yestehday after a day of precarious flying, caused by motor trouble, which developed shortly after they hopped off from Boll- ing Field, Washington. ‘They planned to have the plane thor- oughly overhauled before continuing the flight. ER— STUDENTS ARE BARRED. By the Assoclated Press. Taking cognizance of reports that Brown University students had been offered $5 a day to act as undercover agents for the Prohibition Bureau, Commissioner Doran has written a let- ter to J. S. Ellis, prohibition admin- istrator in charge of Rhode Island ter- ritory, in_which he said that the “spe- cial “employes” fund from which In- formers are paid could not be usea in the employment of students. Prohibition Bureau officials also de- clared that the law did not contem- plate the employment of any particular class of persons in updercover work. 4 | duct the German negotiations with the | M. Gutt, a leading banker and | granting audiences and answering cor- | The | [k " Jesse LI JONES BE 15NN ; THE SAME CLASS WITH DEADLOEK ON FARM AD BIL BROKEN Conferees Agree on Policy: and Principles in Open- 1 ing Sections. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, The deadlock over the farm relief bill which has developed in the con- ference committee was broken today. | The conferees for the first time began a real consideration of the bill, and | after meeting or an hour and a half it was announced that some progress | had been made toward a compromise. As a result of their conference this | morning agreement was reached by | the conferees of the Senate and the House on the declaration of principles | and policy carried in the opening sec- tions of the bill. The agreement was |the result of combining part of the House bill with parts of the Senate amendment relating to policy. The conferees discussed the question | {of the size of the proposed Federal | { Farm Board and also whether the sal- |‘ary of the chairman of the board shal be fixed by the President, as in the House bill, or shall be fixed in the law | itself, as provided in the Senate bill. The conferees are to meet at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning and it is expected that agreements wiil be reach- ed on these questions at that time. Compromise Indicated. The House provided for a board of 6, while the Senate increased the mem- bership to 12. The discussion in con- ference today indicated that a com- promise would be reached probably fix- ing the membership of the board at 9, without any atempt to have them appointed along geographical lines. The Senate bill calls for 12 members of the board appointed, one from each of the Federal Land Bank districts. The im- pression gained ground also that the conferees would adopt a uniform salary for all members of the board, $12,000 a | year. ‘There was no discussion of the de- benture clause contained in the Sen- ate amendment, which was strongly op- posed by President Hoover and by the House. That will be taken up later. It is_expected, however, that in the end the Senate conferees will recede on the debenture plan and take it out of the bill. Some of the conferees said after their meeting today they hoped they would be able to finish consideration of tke bill in conference tomorrow, so that a | conference report might be submitted first of the week to the House, then to the Senate. Under the parliamentary procedure that prevails, the conference | report will go to the House fuist. If| necessary, confereces are prepared to| meet morning, afternoon and night to- morrow, in an effort to wind up cen- sideration of the bill. The meeting of the conferees today was the sixih since the bill was sent to Congress. In the five previous meetings the House con- ferees flatly declined to proceed with the consideration of other Senate amendments to the bill until after the | Senate conferees had agreed to strike out the debenture clause. Abandon Previous Attitude. The House conferees abandoned their | | previous attitude today and there are | now, high hopes of an early agreement in conference. The position taken by | | the House conferees at previous meet- | ings resulted in the deadlock. Senate| conferees insisted that they could not agree to any such procedure. It was: apparent that they would be .acked up | strongly by the Senate itself. | The change of attitude by the House conferees today has brought about a very different situation and hopes were | expressed that the farm bill would be- | c?me a law within a comparatively short time. |, 1t & conference report is submitted to | the Senate showing the debenture will be another brisk fight over that issue and some debate. However, it is believed that in the end the Senate will agree to let the debenture clause go rather than prevent th passage of any | form of legislation at this time. The Senate will have another oppor- tunity to try to write the debenture plan into law when the tarift bill comes be- fore it for consideration. [ ok S| 5,250, | Washington clearing house, 170.27. Treasury balance, $149,500,319.18. New York clearing house exchange, $1,640,000,000. New York clearing house balance, $167,000,000. ! “are yet enforced on the ground that clause stricken out it is expected there | Dbei the Senate and made plans for consideration of the by Tuesday night. proposals slated by the administration State News, Pages 10 and 11 Former Policeman Schenck Sentenced To 20-Year Term| Pleaded Guilty to Two| Charges of Highway Rob- bery; Loot $46.28. Frederick A. Schenck, 27, former policeman of the third precinet, who recently pleaded guilty to two cases of highway robbery, was sentenced today by Justice Frederick L. Siddons in Criminal Division 2 to serve 20 years in the penitentiary. The court fixed the penalty in each case at 10 years, but directed that the sentences run con- secutively. “Your criminal career is going to be checked,” sald Justice Siddons, “for some time. I consider these the worse | cases of robbery ever before me. You used a pistol to enforce your demands for money.” ‘The two robberies for which the ex- policeman will spend a long term in the penitentiary netted him only $46.28. He obtained $20 from Russell Benett, night clerk of the Meridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth street, February 20, and $26.28 from Kenny C. Van Meter, man- ager of a filling station at Fourteenth | and CONGRESS SCORED BY BECK IN SPEECH Says Constitution Weakened | “by Laws Violating Its Spirit and Letter. streets, February 18. | The Washington Star, tomorrow night WILL TELL NATION OF SENATE SECRECY Robert M. La Follette Takes Air Tomorrow Night in Na- tional Radio Forum. Senator Robert M. La Follette of ‘Wisconsin will discuss “secret sessions” of the Senate and the wisdom of the rule which provides for closing the doors of the Senate when nominations for public office are considered, in the National Radio Forum, conducted by at 9 o'clock. The address will be heard throughout the Nation over the net- work of the Columbia Broadcasting Co. The Senator from Wisconsin is strong- 1y opposed to the conduct of any public business by the Senate in secret. When the question of publishing roll-call votes on nominations before the Senate was recently brought to a head by the publication of a roll-call on the nomina- tion of former Senator Lenroot of ‘Wisconsin, Senator La Follette vigor- ously criticized efforts of the Senate rules committee to punish the United Press and its correspondent for this publication. It is expected that he will go thoroughly into the history of secret sessions of the Senate, showing how the bars of secrecy have gradually been let down to meet the demands of public opinion, and also will give his reasons for opposing closed sessions of the Senate. Majority for Modification, A canvas of the Senate has clearly indicated that a majority of the Sen- ators favor modification of the secrecy rule relating to the consideration of nominations by the Senate. Indeed, the Senate committee on rules has re- ported favorably a proposed amendment to the rules providing that roll call votes on nominations shall be made public and By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, May 31.—Representative James M. Beck, a former solicitor gen- eral of the United States, in a speech today compared the Constitution in its | present status to the Parthenon—*still Leautiful in its ruins.” Addressing the Georgia Bar Associa- tion, Representative Beck, who voted against his party leaders on the tariff bill, criticized the bill's provision trans- ferring “almost absolute power in the imposition of taxes” to the President. He scored what he termed the denial by the Senate of “the right of the sovereign States of Pennsylvania and | Illinois to be represented by Senators | of their own choice,” and added that laws are constantly being enforced | although they are in violation of the spirt, -and occasionally of the letter of the Constitution. “Cenuries are still before America,” he warned, “and who can safely say that, if it becomes too centralized for efficient government, one day there may not be a powerful movement toward the division of the Republic into two or three republics, especially if there de- velop between the sections powerful economic conflicts of policy?” ‘The best method of forestalling such condition, he said, is “to preserve the ! rights of the States in their full in- tegrity.” In recent years, however, he said, de- bates in Congress upon the constitu- | tionality of a proposed law would be regarded as a loss of tume, as they must | ultimatély be determined by the Su-! preme Court. “In this way, many laws, which Con- gress regarded as of doubtful constitu- | tionality when they passed them, and which the court itself regards of doubt- £1 constitutionality,” 'he continued, 1 their Tepugnancy to the Constitution is | not clear beyond a reasonable doubt.” | ‘Through this “breach in the dike,” he | asserted, “a flood of legislation wholly | inconsistent with the spirit, and at‘ time inconsistent with the letter of the Constitution, constantly passes, and | stitution itself is slowly weakened.” HOUSE MAY CONSIDER CENSUS BILL MONDAY ! Measure Providing for Reappor- tionment Is Formally Reeeived From Senate. By the Assoclated Press. i The House today formally recoh‘edl the census-reapportionment bill from leaders immediately measure Monday, with hopes of a vote ‘The measure, one of the legislative for action at the special session, pro- vides for reapportionment of the House membership upon the basis of the 1930 census and also upon each succeeding decennial census, l | Take-off by Green Flash and Yel- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) OVER-OCEAN FLIGHTS HALTED BY WEATHER low Bird Not Likely Before Sunday. By the Assoclated Press. OLD ORCHARD, Me, May 31.—A take-off of the Green Flash for Rome or the Yellow Bird for Paris earlier than Sunday seemed improbable today in the face of weather reports from Dr. James H. Kimball, meteorologist of the New | York Weather Bureau. He forecast in- | creasingly poor conditions over the | SFACING SETBCK INBUDGET BUREAL Request for Approval at Present Special Session to Be Disapprovet. APPROPRIATIONS ASKED TOTAL $3,500,000 $500,000 Asked for Incinerators and Remainder for Mu- nicipal Project. The District Commissioners early this week sent to the Budget Bureau a re- quest for approval of appropriations amounting to $3,500,000 at the present special session of Congress, it was learned today. While the action of the Budget Bureau has not yet been re- ported officially, it was learned on good authority that the request will be denied. > ©Of the money sought $3,000,000 was for purchase of a site for the new mu- nicipal center and $500,00) for pur- chase of two sites and the start of con- struction on high temperature inciner- ators for combustible refuse to take the pilace of the present trash plant, which lts1 reported in poor mechanical condi- on. The money for both projects is al- ready in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia as part of the District's cash surplus, but it may not be used except by authority of act of Congress. It is understood that the Budget Bureau'’s extended denial of the request will be based on two grounds. First, that the projects are not “emer- gency” measures, and, second, that the President desires the special session to deal mainly with tariff revision and farm relief. Made at Simmom:’ Suggestion. ‘The request for th# money for the municipal center site $as made at the suggestion of Representative Simmons of Nebraska, chairmah of the District subcommittee of the Hduse committee on appropriations, Mr. Simmons has been quoted recently as saying that an early start should be made in purchas- ing the land so that advantage could be taken of lower prices than are expected to prevail by the time the first urgent deficiency can' be passed at the next session of Congress. At the District Building it was learned that Mr. Sim- mons will not give up the prospect of securing the municipal center appro- priation at the special session and that he will confer with Budget Bureau offi- cials on the subject shortly. Although the Budget Bureau does not incline to the view that either mea- sure could be classed as an emergency, Commissioner Proctor L. said today that the District government was confronted with a serious situation with respect to finding a new home for the Juvenile Court by July 1. Plaza Work Starts at Once. ‘The architect of the Capitol has an- nounced that work on the new Capitol plaza will start at once, necessitating the razing of the temporary Govern- ment building at New Jersey avenue - and C streets, where the Juvenile Court is at present housed. “We have nowhere to put this court,” Mr. Dougherty said. “I had been hop- ing that if we could buy a building on the new municipal center site, we could put the Juvenile Court there until we had built the new courts building. which will be the first section of the new municipal center to be constructed. ‘As the matter now stands, I have no idea where the court can go. The Cem- missioners foresaw this situation when we were before the Budget Bureau last year and asked them for an appropri- ation for renting a temporary home for this court. At that time, however, the plaza bill had not yet been passed, and the bureau disallowed the item. “As for the trash plant, I do not | think that there will be any serious difficulty in keeping it going until we get our appropriations at the next reg- ular session. It is subject to frequent breakdowns, but we can no doubt get it patched up and go along with it as long as necessary.” FLOODS CUT WATER SUPPLY AT HOUSTON Property Damage Heavy in Texas City as Water Sweeps North Atlantic. Armeno Lotti, youthful French sports- | man, sponsor, co-pilot and radio op- | erator of the Yellow Bird, was in New | York City to confer with Dr. Kimball | He prepared to return here by air in | three hours should weather conditions | take a turn for the better. | His companions, Rene Le Fevre and Jean Assolant, remained at the beach, | grooming the big Bernard monoplane. | Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q.| Williams, pilot, took advantage of the delay to obtain much-needed rest, know- readiness for flight should weather con- | ditions make a take-off feasible. WHEAT PRICES DIP AGAIN. | Market Sags to New Lows Under Liquidation. By the Associuted Press. CHICAGO. May 31.—Prices crumpled inspired by unfavorable news from abroad and month-end settlements. New bottoms were found for every grain t:aded in the futures pits, wheat droj ping 2% to 2% cents below Wednes- day’s final quotations and rye contracts for May delivery collapsing sensational- ly 8 cents a bushel, and closing at 73% or 614 cents lower than Wednesday. Bayous. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex, May 31.—Three ordinarily sluggish bayous became rag- ing torrents today as the full force of Texas Spring floods swept down on Houston, causing large property dam- age. Possibility of a water shortage here was an added menace. The strong cur- | ing that the Green Flash was in instant | ¥ent of Buffalo Bayou crushed windows of the Central Water Station and inun- | dated machinery. The plant was shut down and the burden of supplying the city with water was placed on the sub- stations. Three or four houses were swept down stream, but it was thought the occupants had been warned in time to escape. Homes in many sections of the city were flooded and residents fled to higher ground, t~king their furniture ing thus accepted as law, the Con- | again today under broadsides of selling | in_boats. Water poured into wholesale and | produce houses near the edge of Buf- | falo Bayou. Three stories of one build- ing were flooded and only the top of another could be seen. Gulf Coast Railway trains to Beau- mont and International Great Northern | trains North were detoured over South- {ern Pacific lines. . Glass Would Tax Stock Speculators By Amendment to Tariff Measure By the Associated Press. Senator Glass of Vlr%inla, a former Democratic Secretary of the Treasury, is contemplating an amendment to the tariff bill to place a tax on speculative transactions in the stock exchanges. ‘The Senator for sometime has been working on legislation which he hopes would define a differentiation between | speculative and investment transactions 1on the exchanges and thus permit of closer Federal supervision of the former. He has in mind a tax of 5 per cent on dealing in stocks and securities, of which the parties selling them had been the owner for less than 60 days. His amend- | ment, however, has not been drafted nor | introduced.