Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) changing to rain with rising temperature tonight; minimum tempera- ture about 31 degrees; tomorrow rain and warmer, Temperatures—Highest, 51, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 31, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 5. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. ¢ Foening Sfar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,343 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 11,12&13 Entered post offi eco vashington, No. 31,693. nd class matter D. C. | STIMSON UPHOLDS U.5. ROLE TOWARD LATIN AMERICANS Admits Mistakes and Criti- cizes Wilson Policy in Huerta Issue. MONROE DOCTRINE HELD AIMED ONLY AT EUROPE Recognition of Governments Set Up by Revolutions Explained by State Secretary. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 7.—Secretary of State Stimson upholds the Latin- American policy of the United States as a safeguard to the independence and welfare of the Southern republics. Its fundamental principles, he asserts, are the Monroe Doctrine, the agree- ment with Central American republics not to recognize any government estab- lished through revolution, and the em- bargo on shipment of arms to rebels op- posed to an established republic. In two addresses last night—one be- fore the Council of Foreign Relations and the other over a Nation-wide hook- up of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem—he defended the State Depart- ment's recognition of seven' Latin- American governments, set up by revo- lution in the past two years, and ex- plained its attitude. Sees Mistakes in Past. Referring to possible mistakes in the past, he said: “In spite of these and all other abera- tlons, it is a very conservative state- ment to say uur the general foreign policy of the United States during the ast century toward the republics of En'-ln America has been characterized by a regard for their rights as inde- pendent nations, which, when com with current international immorality in other hemispheres, has been as un- usual as it has been praiseworthy.” The Monroe Doctrine, he said, was “ga declaration of the United States against Europe, not of the United States | egainst Latin America.” The Central American agreement, he stated, has prevented bloodshed by re- moving the chief reward for revolution on the isthmus. “Disgraceful” Arms Trade. ‘The arms embargo, he continued, has broken up a “disgraceful” waffic be- tween ww. munitions makers and rel - President Wilson's “non-fecognition policy” called forth Mr. Stimson's criti- cism, His refusal to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico use he gained power by force, Mr. Si said, was a departure from our mmr:.; policy of approving a new government as soon as it demonstrated its ability and disposi- tion to discharge international obliga- tions, without regard to the manner in which it was established. The Secretary continued, in part: From the beginning we have made the preservation of individual inde- pendence of these nations correspond with our own interest. This was an- nounced in the Monroe Doctrine and ‘has been maintained ever since. That doctrine, far from being an assertion of suzerainty over our sister republics, ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 1) - GANG ARSENAL FOUND AS HOODLUM IS SLAIN Chester La Mare, 47, Killed in Kitchen of His De- troit Home. T By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, February 6.—After hav- ing been successful for three months in eluding what police say were enemy gangsters, Chester La Mare, 47, was shot down in his hideout on Grand- ville avenue here early this morning when he answered a tap on the door of his kitchen. His slayer made good his_escape. Shortly after midnight Mrs. La Mare steped out to a drug store, two blocks away. When she returned 15 minutes| later, she told police, she discovered the body of her husband with a bullet hole in his back. She said she believed the assailant had waited for his opportunity and that her husband, believing she had returned, met his death when he opened the door. v Police found six pistols, a’ tear gas| gun, a repeating rifle, an automatic rifle. shotgun and hand grenade scattered about the house. There were no weap- ons found in the kitchen, however. It is believed La Mare went into hid- ing at the advent of the grand jury. Bundles of newspapers, thought to have been used to keep him posted orm the Jaw investigators and movements, were also found in the house. Among other things found was a clock for timing bombs and a pearl-handled pistol engraved with his name. MARINES GET READY FOR SANDINO ATTACK| Patrols Sent to Northern Towns of Nicaragua to Prepare for Insurgents. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. ##% - oo Brazil Buys Planes Flown Over Ocean By Italian Airmen By the Assoclated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, February 7. —The 11 Itdlian seaplanes, which reached here after a transatlantic flight from Rome and Portuguese Guinea, have been sold to the Brazilian government. The price was about $43,500 for each plane, payable in three installments of six months each. ‘The Brazilian government re- served the right to pay either in coffee or Brazilian currency. MAN BADLY HURT BY RESCUE TRUCK Four-Alarm Fire Threatens Dairy Supply Company in Southwest. Murdock McDonald, 68 years old, 333 C street southeast, a plasterer, is believed tQ have been fatally injured when' he was struck by a Fire Rescue truck at New Jersey avenue and H streets early this afternoon when fire- men were responding to a four-alarm blaze which threatened to destroy the plant of the American Dairy Supply Company on Delaware avenpe south- west between E and Canal streets. - McDonald was taken to Casualty Hospital. Only a handful of the milk bottle cap manufacturing company's 95.em- ployes were in the one-story brick struc- ture when the fire was ¢jscovered by Oswald Harris, a printer employed in | the plant. Firemen immediately began playing water on the three-story brick building adjoining the dairy. SURVEYOR ESCAPES ~ IN FALL FROM BOAT Calls for Help Bring Rescue to Man Flunged Into Eastern Branch Near Benning. Ernest Barnes, 30 years old, & sur- veyor for the United States Engineering Department, narrowly escaped drown- ing today when he fell from a small motor boat into the Eastern Branch, near Benning Bridge, Although he is said to be able to swim he was unable to make his way back to the boat, and was on the verge of unconsciousness when his calls for help were heard by Arthur Jones, 24, of 676 Pourth street northeast, and Robert Newman, 28, of 1307 Water street southwest. They rowed out in- to the river and pulled Barnes into the boat. Police of the ninth precinct were summoned, and Barnes, who lives at 1652 Avon place, was taken to Emer- gency Hospital. Physicians at the in- stitution said he was suffering from exposure. Barnes is said to have been doing some work in connection with the recla- mation of the Anacostia flats, which are to be developed for park purposes. Jones, a seawall inspector employed by the Engineering Department, and New- man, a truck driver for the Columbia Band & Gravel Co., were working MILITIA TO LEAVE MILL TOWN MONDAY Strike Duty Will End at School- field, Where Trouble Ceased January 29. al Dispatch to The Star. JANVILLE, Va., February 7.—State troops have been ordered withdrawn from Schoolfield Monday by Gov. Pol- lard in instruetions to acting Adjt. Gen. 8. G. Waller. There are 200 on duty. More than 800 were sent here November 26, fol- lowing disorders incident to the tex- tile strike, which was called off Janu- ary 29. The number has been grad- ually reduced from time to time. Units ot the 116th Virginia Infantry were first on duty, but were relieved after 60 days by units of the 246th Coast Artillery. The troops were made an issue by a number of labor union spokesmen at different times. The position was taken that the State had no right to use them as a “strike-breaking agency” during their stay here. Soldiers shot one man, Lockwood Pickett, alleged rum runner, when he refused to obey a command to halt. He was paralyzed for life by a bullet in the spine. There was one casualty among the troop. Lieut. B. H. Johnson of Bedford, died of injuries sustained when hit by a street car. TWO GUILTY IN EFFORT TO BOMB A. P. OFFICE| Dynamite Shippers Face One Year to Life Terms in Spokane Blast Plot. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 7.—Con- Spey By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, February 7.— In view of an expected resumption of | insurgent activity in Northern Nica- ragua, patrols of United States Marines have been sent to garrison the towns of Pueblo Nuevo and Somoto, near the Honduran border. Large groups of insurgents, reported to benundervl'he actual leadership of Gen. Augustino Sandino, are said to|Ilse have concentrated in the neighborhood of the two villages, and the inhabitants expect an_ attack. ‘A patrol of the Nicaraguan National Guard, commanded by Lieut. Clark of the Marines, an insurgent camp near Condega yesterday. Radio Pm'lfl on Page B-12 victed of shipping dynamite in an at- tempt to bomb the Cowles Publishing Co. buildings in Spokane, Wash., Henry A Isle, former fireman, and Thomas Boyle, bookkeeper, face possible sen- tences of from one year to life next Tuesday. A jury which convicted them last -night asked mercy for Boyle, who con- e L The trunk was shipped from San Prancisco to Spokane, where it was de- livered November 22. Within 36 hours was arrested in San Francisco, where, authorities sald, he made the bomb. Boyle surrendered voluntarily Tise, acquitted in Spokane in 1927 of a similar attempt to bomb neuz;per ictim of buildings, pleaded he was the vi ‘The trunk bomb aroused the suspi- RIGHTS SUSPENDED AGAIN BY MACHADO FOR 90-DAY PERIOD Action Is Taken in Cuba, Al- though Attacks on-Prop- erty Have Stopped. HIGH SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR REMAINDER OF YEAR Strikes and Disorders Back of De- cision—Twelve Jailed as Blast Plot Suspects. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, February 7.—The govern- ment today ordered a renewal for 90 days of the decree suspending constitu- tional guarantees in Cuba. ‘The decree was signed yesterday be- fore President Machado left town for the week end and was published today by the secretary of the interior. ‘This is the third time Cuban consti- tutional guarantees have been sus- pended, the action this time being taken on authority recently voted the President by the Legislature. The de- cree revokes the right of public as- sembly, restricts the press and estab- lishes virtual martial law. The renewal of the suspension was decided upon, it was explained, even though resistance to the police and at- tacks on private property which re- sulted in the previous suspension had ceased. High Schools Closed. Because of numerous high school strikes and many disorders, in which some students have participated re- cently, the department of educa- tion = yesterday _gave up hope of holding further classes. It ordered pro- vincial institutes or high schools throughout the republic closed for the remainder of the 1930-31 scholastic year. The decree said the students showed no inclination to make proper use of the educational facilities offered them, but used the schools as meeting places to hatch anti-government plots. The alumni of the high schools were blamed for the unrest among younger students. decree further declared that, in view of the futility of peacefully con- ducting classes, it was better to close the schools and let the money ordinar- ily used for maintenance and salaries revert to the depleted national treasury. PLOT SUSPECTS JAILED. Held After Bombs Are Found at 5% Three Sugar Mills, CAMAGUEY, Cuba, February 7 (P).— Twelve men were held incomunicado in prison cells here today charged witn an attempt to dynamite three large American owned sugar mills here, the San Carl Moron, San Carl Sugareno, and the San Carl Violeta. ‘The secret police saild that they discovered three powerful bombis on the premises of the mills, which are owned by the Cuban Cane Sugar Corporation and the Eastern Sugar Corporation. All those arrested were said to be members of the Cuban Communist party Seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds of cane were burned during the night in Santa Clara Province. Police arrested a man whom they believed to be an incendiary. BRISK STOCK GAINS ALARM BEAR CROWD Shorts Driven to Cover as List Moves Up Swiftly at Short Session. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 7.—Bears were thrown into disordered retreat in to- day’s stock market, and prices of lead- ing shares surged up $1 to $5. The advance concluded a week of almost steadily rising prices, interrupted by & moderate setback enly on Thurs- day. Trading quickened to the briskest pace in several days. The turnover for the two-hour session aggregated 1,200,- 000 shares, which duplicated the volume of trading for full five-hour sessions on both Monday and Tuesday. Half of the day’s turnover was in the last half hour. ‘General Motors sold up more than $1 to the best price of the new year, and such issues as United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel, American Can, Ameri- can Tobacco, Sears-Roebuck and West- inghouse Electric recorded similar gains. Stocks selling up $2 to $4 included North American, American Telephone, Hudson Motor, Electric Autolite, Atchi- son and Union Qarbide. Allied Chemi- cal gained about $5. Auburn, normally an erratic issue, shot up $6. GIVEN 15 MONTHS Irving Sellers Appeals Verdict of Setting Up Gaming Table. Irving Sgllers, recently convicted on four countd of an indictment charging the setting up of a gaming table for the playing of blackjack on the third|bad floor of 1012 H street, was sentenced to- day by Justice Peyton Gordon to serve 15 months in the penitentiary. ‘The sentence was fixed at 15 months on three of the counts and at 9 months on the fourth count, all to run concur- rently. Attorney W. Bissell Thomas, repre- senting Sellers, noted an appeal from the sentence after asking for leniency for his client. — STEAMER HITS ROCK Soviet Ship's Passengers Escape In- jury in Crash. MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R, February 7 (#).—The Soviet steamer -Sergueey struck a rock near Sebastopol in the B Sea early today, but was not ser ly damaged. a “frame-up.” ‘clon of Cleveland Williams, Associated Press correspondent, v%un out the None of her passengers was injured. Other craft were going to her assist- anca. U o E #, DoYo BL (#) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. RECKoN Wou TERRVBLE IF 7 THEY HAD NT 4-C PARLEY T0 TACKLE WORLD TRADE ILS Farm Crisis Is Main Issue Before International Cham- ber of Commerce. BY A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, February 7.—The ‘Washington congress of the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce will hold Fits inaugural session Monday, May 4, with speeches by President Hoover, Silas H. Strawn of Chicego and Georges Theunis of Belgium, president of the chamber. There will be a plenary session on Tuesday, including delegates from both the United States and Europe, with an address on the evolution of trade com- petition since 1900 and the,resistance of various economic structures to eco- nomic crisis. Wednesday and Thursday will see a continuation of the full congress, dis- cussing the bearing on costs of produc- tion, of mass production, regularization of employment, distribution, psycholog- ical factors and agricultural conditions. New commercial policies will be dis- cussed Friday, as well as the principles of the international chamber, tariff polices, most-favored-nation treatment, marks of origin, double taxation and air transportation. Saturday morning will be devoted to commercial arbitra- tion and telephone and mail communi- cations. Wednesday afternoon there will be a trip to Mount Vernon. Farm Crisis Main Problem. Behind the above academic program is the effort of the world’s business leaders to co-operate in finding a way out of the present world crisis. The main problem which the Washington congress will have to confront is the farm crisis. Wheat seems to be the crux of the farm problem, so the wheat-produéing states of Central and Southeast-rn Europe have combined to find markets. These countries are bargaining with the European industrial countries to exchange wheat for manufactured products. What the farm countrics wish is a loan. France is taking the lead in co- operating with the agricultural coun- tries. One scheme is for a European union, another is for a customs union; but what is really being developed is a system of bilateral agrcements and evasion of the most-favored-nation i clause to the detriment of non-European countries. Europe is divided not only into camps of farm couiitries and manufacturing countries; there is also a divisfon be- tween protectionist and free trade countries. Loan Discussed in Geneva. In Geneva a $100,000,000 loan was discussed for grantingerolling credits to the Central and Southeastern Euro- pean farm countries. This loan would be divided ong mortgage banks would be guaranteed by the govern- ments. The French are considering of- fering a loan of $40,000,000 to Rumagia and other loans to Poland and Jugo- slavia. This is in line with the Paris meetings of the European Union Com- mittees this month to discuss, first, how to dispose of the 1930 wheat_surplus crops. (;ipowever. French bankers want the French government’s guaranty for loans to political allies, and this guaranty wou?: meet the opposition of French farmers in the coming elections. It is possible also that some European states might recetve loans from American or British banks, which would alter the situation. Nearly all the Central and South- eastern European states are beginning negotiations for commercial treaties. Perhaps the Washington Congress can suggest a way out of thiy post-war trade rivalry, which so far has not produced blood between the nations, but it would be folly to ignore the danger, esp€cially as the Russian manner of entering markets is bringing about a feeling of panic. (Copyright, . 50 ARE PARALYZED BY GINGER EXTRACT Los Angeles Poison Brew Made in Long Beach, Labeled New York. . By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 7.—The City Health Department announced 50 lyzed here today from 1931) wd| BANK ASKE and, second, what to arrange for future { Irate Illinois Man Makes Spouse Gulp Lighted Cigarette By the Associated Press. MARION, IlL, _February 7.— Mrs, Burwell F. Rader of Herrin, who testified that her husband, Robert, became so enraged be- cause she smoked a cigarette that he forced her to swallow one that was lighted, was granted a di- Joree by Circult Judge R. R. Fowler. Rader did not contest the suit. CANNON CHEERFUL' INMAKING DEFENSE Bishop Believed Answering Charges One by One as Hearing Nears End. Bishop- James Cannon, Ir., today con- tinued his defense before the board of traveling elders who since Tuesday have been in session behind closed doors at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South sifting charges of known gravity perferred against him several months ago. With the case of the prosecution completed, Bishop Cannon started his defense in midmorning yesterday, car- ried through a lengthy afternoon ses- sion and then in the third night sesslon of the hearing continued to combat the accusations. It was then said that he was not yet through, but would resume his counter-attack this morning. Rev. Costen J. Harrell of Richmond, one of the men who preferred the charges against Bishop Cannon, has dropped out of, the hearing after baing in daily attenbance and returned to his home. Although the charges, filed by four clergymen, have never besn made pub- lic, they are known to number more than twoscore, #nd it seems certain that the bishop is taking these up, one by one, as he promulgates his defense. Whether he would complete his pres- entation today, and thus pave the way for the elders to start voting on his guilt or innocence of the various speci- fications, is something the defehse alone knows. If he does the mext few hours will determine if he is to emerge vic- torious or stand unfrocked until the next General Assembly in 1934, when his trial would be held. The present hearing is only to determine if the charges have sufficient strength to cause his suspension pending trial, and it will take 8 of the 12 elders hearing the case to invoke such action. z ‘There appeared to be a change in the demeanor of the accused church leader as he emerged from the hearing last night. His physical condition, which is keeping him confined to Sibley Hospital, seemed better and his attitude more cheerful. > D T0 PAY ROBBERS’ DEFENSE Illinois Judge Bars Return of Un- identified Cash, but Plans Divvy. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 7.—The First State Bank of Beecher, Ill, was asked by a judge to pay for the defense of three persons charged with having robbed it. b The trio, arrested in connection with a mail robbery, was identified as having dbtained $4,324 from the bank in a hold-up last December 4. Officers found $1,740 in cash on them, but the bank was denied possession of the money by Judge Michael McKinley, who said it could not be identified. Today McKinley suggested that at- torneys for the bank and the accused trio compromise by returning to the bank what is left of the $1,740 after the expenses of the defendants, who are to go on trial soon, have been paid from it. Thase held &re Charles Westbrook, Charles Bluementhal and Agnes Brown, alias Westbrook. —— AUTO HITS TRAIN; 3 DIE 30 HURTASBLAS ROCKSFL HOUGE: 1,100 Actors in Throng at “First Showing of New Movie on Coast. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 7.—Thirty persons were injured, several seriously, and a panic in a theater audience of more than 2,000 was narrowly averted when an explosion in a power main in front of the Orpheum Theater shook the building late last night. So terrific was the blast that several persons standing in front of the theater were lifted into the air and others were hurled against store windows. A por- tion of the street was torn up and win- dows smashed. ‘The seriously injured: George Delk, 30, taxicab driver, frac- tured skull; Vito-Vitullo, 25, actor, seri- ous burns and lacerations; Betty Deter, 12, first degree burns on face and body; Earl William O'Dell, 27, colored chauf- feur, first degree burns; T. P. Ewing, 39, salesman, first degree burns. A brilliant first night audience, aug- mented by the presence of more than 14100 motion picture players, packed the theater for the premiere of “Cim- arron.” Many of the film stars were on tr: stage making pefsonal appearances when the explosion rocked the theater. Actor Averts Panic. Robert McWade, veteran stage and screen actor, averted a panic. “Don’t get excited, folks,” McWade cried. “That was just part of the cele- bration in my honor.” The audience laughed and grew calm. +The show goers fileG out in an orderly manner a short time later, when squads of police and firemen took charge of the situation. Delk's taxicab, parked in front of the theater and bearing a passenger, was hurled into the air, to hurtle down into a throng of persons at the entrance to the show house. The machine stood judirectly over a manhole, the cover of which burst through the car’s flooring from the force of the explosion. The blast was due to accumulation of gas in the power main, according to H. E. Walker, member of the Fire Preven- tion Bureau, attending the perform- ance. Patrolman Blown Into Air. A patrolman, J. C. Strange, told of g]emtg blown high into the air by the ast. “I felt myself leaving the ground and soaring upward,” the officer said. “Then I landed in the midst of a crowd on the sidewalk.” He was not seriously in- Jured. The cars of several motion picture lumingries, including the star of the picturé, Richard Dix, and those of Mack Sennett and Constance Bennett were parked near the taxicab that bore the brunt of the explosion. They were slightly ¢Gamaged. B 1 Chicago Theater Held ,Up. 'CHICAGO, February 7 (#). — While scores “of motorists and _pedestrians were passing by, thres colored robbers held up the Granada Theater in Sherd- dan road last night and escaped. One of them was believed to have been TR e SR TR ire. e hold-ups ob- tained only $90 loot. Influenza Hits Mexico City. MEXICO CITY, February 7 (#).— This city has been stricken with an epidemic of mild form of influenza, which, according to one estimate, has put 25,000 people in their beds. More than 3,000 government em- ployes are affected and public_offices are operating with reduced staffs. Co-ed Loses Sight As Lightning Causes Optical Paralysis By the Assoclated Press. BALDWIN, Kans, February 7—Lightning blazed as Miss Helen Beauchamp, 19, Baker Untiversity co-ed, watched a rain- storm through a window here yestcrday and she turned away blind. Physicians said the flash caused optical paralysis. They expressed the belief her sight be restored when the eye muscles relaxed. PERPETUAL GANS MANY DEPOSTORS Secret Service Learns False Report Starting Run Not of P. 0. Origin. New Deposits continued to flow into the Perpetual Building Association to- day as four Secret Service agents in- tensified the investigation to determine the source of the false rumors that re- sulted in a two-day run on the inst{- tution. The Secret Service agents who have been running down various leads since ‘Wednesday afternoon when the with- drawals first started on a wholesale scale, it was said, have at last uncov- ered some information which is ex- pected to reveal the perpetrator of the pseudo report. The person now sus- pected, it was explained, is not con- nected with the Post Office Department, where it was first reported the rumors originated. 3 Records Yield Leads. For nearly an hour this morning an agent of the Secret Service was in con- ference with Edward C. Baltz, secre- tary of Perpetual, going over the rec- ords of the depositors who were amon; the first to withdraw their funds Wed- nesday afternon. These records, it was intimated, yielded ‘the most tangible lead since the beginning of the inquiry. With conditions restorsd to normalcy, the Perpetual has returned the bulk of the money advanced from the Treasury Thursday through various Washington banks, None of this money was used during the emergency, and the institu- tion now, it was reported, has a greater cash reserve at its disposal than the $1,800,000 on hand when the run started. 100 New Accounts Opened. Business was brisk at the association yesterday, due to the opening of more than 100 new accounts, which, together with funds redeposited by customers who drew out their money during the scare, represented in excess of 25 per cent of the amount drawn out Wednes- day and Thursday. Deposits today, judging from activities in the early hours, are expected to go beyond those of a normal Saturday. ‘The procession of messages of con- gratulation and boquets of flowers which started - to the association yesterday wh:n it was announced that conditions were back to normal, continued today, and inspired Baltz to reiterate his ex- pression of appreciation to every one who aided the institution during the emerg:ncy. “I don’t know how the officers and directors will ever b2 able to thank those who helped,” he said. “We were all overwhelmed by the offers of assistance, and the confidence placed im| our institution and the integrity of its officers.” ROBINSON TO CARRY RELIEF FIGHT TO AIR BONUS THREATENS EXTRA SESSION AS RELIEF ISSUE DIES Compromise for $20,000,000 Drought Loan Fund Ap- proved by Hoover. SENATE AWAITS HOUSE ACTION FOR VETERANS Garner Says Proposal for Ex-Serv- ice Men Would Advance $1,200,000,000. Congress prepared today to carry out the compromise on the knotty relief problem as leaders turned their attene tion to a new menace threatening an extra session—veterans’ compensation funds. The Republican-Democratic co-op= eration movement appeared to be in operation again, as a result of the agreement on the much-disputed drought relief legislation. Leaders were working together to dispose of the vital appropriation bills which must be passed before the March 4 adjourne ment. Conferees of the Senate and House were called to meet this afternoon to incorporate the compromise on relief into legislation. It provides for a $20,« 000,000 additional drought loan fund in the place of the controversial $25,000,= 000 Red Cross appropriation. Approved by Hoover. President Hoover and the House Re- Dpublican leaders, who flatly rejected the Red Cross fund, have approved the $20,000,000 drought loan appropriation. 1t was advanced by Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, and negotiated to an agreement by Senator Watson, the Republican leader, with Senator McNary, assistant Republican chieftain of the Senate. Interest today swerved to the other dispute standing in the way of com- pletion of business before a¢ —the legislation for money to veterans, The Senate Finance Col agreed to defer action until next week to give the House Ways and Means Committee, which is claiming juris- diction, an opportunity to_act. Meanwhile, Democratic Leader Gar- ner said today the veterans' compro- mise proposal held yesterday to be ac- ceptable to the administration would mean advancement of about $1,200,000,~ 000, rather than $500,000,000, in new to former soldiers. Rumblings of Dissatisfaction. ‘There were rumblings today among some of tbe Progressive Republicans, and even some of the Democrats, cause of dissatisfaction with the agree- ment on drought relief. —Whether the Progressives would undertake & fiilibuster to force a special ses= sion because of their dissatisfaction not only with the relief plan, but also because they have not been able to through other legislation they desi remains to be seen. The Repul and the Democrats, however, seem to be pretty well in command of the situa< tion, with three weeks of the present sessicn still remaining. The details of the tentative agree- ment were made public 4t the Capitol, following a conterence peaker Longworth's office, in which Senator Watson, Speaker Longworth, Majority Leader Tilson and Representative Wood, chairman of the House Appropriations Comnmittee, participated. Senator Robinson said he considered the language' agreed upon “broad enough” to cover all contingencies where loans are necessary to purchase food, that he had been assured it would be liberally interpreted and that he was Will Speak Over WMAL Tonight - at 9:30 in Plea for Aid in Drought Crisis. ‘Why the Government should relieve drought sufferers through appropriated funds will be explained tonight by Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkan- sas, minority leader’ of - the Senate, speaking in the National Radio Forum through Station WMAL and a coast- to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcesting System. The Senator, who has been heading the fight to use satisfied with the agreement. Text of Agreement. Johe tentative agreement is as fol- “Joint resolution No. 211 for the re- lief of farmers in the drought-stricken ;:a.b npm’ov;ngbecen;ber 20, 1930, is eby ament y adding at mefil the following: P “Any money appropriated pursuani to the authorization contained in lhi.: section to be used in the purchase of food or other live stock upon the same terms and conditions as such money may be used for the purchase of feed for work stock. “In addition to the sums herein au- thorized, and appropriations made thereunder, there is hereby appro- priated to be immediately available out Government funds for this purpose, will begin to speak at 9:30 o'clock. Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan, leader of the fight for the administration in the House against the proposal to use Government funds for such relief, will discuss the subject from the other viewpoint in next week’s Forum. -— Ship Grounds on Rescue Trip. PERTH, West Australia, February 7 () —Steaming to the rescue of her sister ship, the Shansei Maru, which was aground at Point Cloates, the Japanese steamer Chofuku Maru ran aground herself today and was aban- doned. It was feared that the Shansei Maru also would have to be abandoned. Island Continues Car Ban HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 7 (#)—Bermuda’s legislative c:ounc‘ury to- day voted, 5 to 2, against a measure which would permit physicians to use automobiles on the island. Bermuda has resisted for years all attempts to in- troduce the motor car. S By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 7.—Owners of nine bakeries in the Humboldt Park dis- trict have appealed to the courts for protection against a group of women who call themselves “ Mothers’ League” and whom they accuse of sf —Thres DETROIT, February 7 (#). today men were killed at 3:45 am. when their automobile struck a Pere Marquette freight train at the Joy road cre 3 victims were tentatively identified as Albert Thompson, 25; Fred 20, and Benjamin 'n gaid the obile ap- crossing h speed train, Barnett, 27. ‘Trainmer autom the at 8 and struck the second car of ing a boycott against their bread force the price from 10 to 6 cents per |picket is pound loaf, The movement, bakers say, is not a labor movement, since each employ: union ‘help. ‘The first legal step was taken when Superior Judge Denis E. Sullivan issued ction to restrain a temporary injun ek of the R o s WOMEN FIGHTING BREAD PRICES ENJOINED AGAINST PICKETING Nine Chicago Bakeries Complain of Boycott to Cut 10- Cent Loaf to 6 Cents—Customer Attacked. tions on behalf of it t sell several instances which a and her oaves. n of any money in the Treasury not other= wise appropriated, the sum of $20,000,~ 000, to be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for the following purposes: “1. To make advances or loans to individuals_in the drought and (or) storm or hail stricken areas of the United States, for the purpose of as- sisting in forming local agricultural credit corporations, live stock loan companies, or like organizations, or of increasing the capital stock of such corporations, companies or organiza- tions, qualified to do business with Federal intermediate credit banks, or to which such privileges may be tended, and (or) making loans to in- dividuals upon the security of the cap- ital stock of such corporations, com= panies or organizations, and, “2. To make advances or loans to farmers for crop production for the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) 1,000 LACK HOMES IN BRISBANE FLOOD Police Aid Australian City When Rain Waters Cover Coast and Hinterland. By the Associated Press. BRISBANE, Australia, February 7.— All available police were rushed tdjthe south side of the city during the night to warn residents of an impending flood. Rains had ceased, but an enormous of Brisbane were flooded. Seventy miles south of this city, an automobile owned by T. C. Lismore col- lided with a motor boat which was traveling on the flooded Main street. More than 1,000 people in this city were homeless today as a result of the floods. When the ground floor Telephone Building was flooded girl operator, dressed in a suit, climbed through