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3 WAGE SCALE LD BAR TOBREAD CUT Baking Corporation Official Says Pay Rolls Prevent Reducing Prices. Contending that the wage scale paid | has prevented a general de- | erease in bread prices in Washington, M. Lee Marshall of the Continental Baking Corporation at the same fime told the Senate subcommittee studying food prices this afternoon that he would make a reduction within a few days in the price of whole wheat bread in ‘Washington to equalize it with the price of white bread. Mr, Marshall made the following ref- erence to this city: “Now, in the City ‘of Washington there has been no general decrease in the price of bread. The high wage scale for bakeshop and delivery em- ployes prevents this. But even in Wash- ington, we have increased th: quality of qur bread by the use of better in- gredients and by longer baking time which insures greater palatability and digestibility. Price to Be Cut. “I have looked into -the price of whole wheat bread in Washington and I find that it is 1 cent higher than white bread. There is no justification for this except possibly the higher production cost on the small quantity sold. I am glad this committe: has called attention to this subject. I shall see that the price is reduced next Mon- day, If the same differential obtains in any other city where Continental owns bakeries, I shall equalize it on my return to my office.” Mr. Marshall, who is chairman of the board of that corporation, told Chairman Capper that his concern has reduced bread prices in 37 bakeries it operates and has increased weights in 63. He said this meant “that we have reflected more than the saving in the cost of lower-priced flour.” Henry Stude of the American Bakers’ Association and Frederic H. Frazier of the General Baking Corporation yes- told the committee the declm of flour has been fully refl the price of bread. ‘They testified the present bread price cannot be compared with the pre-war cost because of the difference quality. Stude presented statistics, which he said showed bread of the same quality sold in 1913 for 5.6 cents a pound is now selling on the average in 51 cities Jor 54 cents, but that the highest uality bread costs on the average 10 cents a pound. % Both witnesses denied the bakers ‘dictate the price of bread or conspire %o hold it up. © “Competition is tpo keen,” they said. Frazier said his company has af- Afected a general reduction in'the price ‘of bread of 1 cent & d during re- cent "yfh;‘n, but admitted . there were y,” Chairman Capper cept : “Your compan: said, “is subject to some criticism for | p, mot going along with the general trend olpf'lomvuhtn'.h:lntymlndlor apparently maintaining the same price ‘AS & year ago.” Appeals for Reduction. Capper appealed to Frazier to reduce ‘his whnunfi” 1 cent a pound, ex- pressing the it would not only de- velop additional profits, but would aid Frazier testified it of “bread average between 1 and 2 cents’ profit on each loaf and estimated the the baker should get compared to what it would ‘be worth it had been deposited in -other industries. He agreed also that much of the capi- tal structure of the company today is *pure water.” The baker testified that last December -his company would receive $60.40 for ‘bread with $15.10 worth of flour in it, as compared with $66.87 it was receiving 4n October, 1929, for bread with $18.30 ‘worth of flour in it. ted & decrease He sald this represen of $6 in receipts for & drop of $3 in the ©cost of flour, Flour Only One Factor. Stude contended the price of flour is only one factor in the cost of bread, and that bakers have not only adopt higher standards of production and dis- tribution, but are faced with higher labor costs. Bakers are required to use more em- ployes than formerly because of the idc?:dnds for various kinds of bread, he Capper placed in the record Census Bureau Statistics showing that while . the average year’s salary of bakery em- ployes has increased from $620 to $1,375 since 1914, the value of his production has increased from $3,940 to $7,633. Stude said bakers are paying back in wages 18 per cent of their profits as compared with 13 per cent in 1923. He challenged the bread price sta- tistics presented to the committee by Commissioner of Labor Statistics Stewart, declaring they were based en- tirely on the highest quality of bread. Capper commented that when flour prices went up in 1925 the increase was reflected “almost instantly” in the price of bread. PRt s DE VALERA PLEDGES DEBT REPUDIATION IF HE GETS PRESIDENCY (Continued Prom First Page.) will pay the lawyers’ debts, but he has & legal opinion that money is not due to England under the heading of the treaty or any cther way, Mr. de Valera urges that this money should be retained for the benefit of the community and that it would give the Irish Free State every year a sum to finance an enterprise as big as the Shannon River electricity scheme. He argues that the derating policy of the British has relieved farmers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland of rates which South Ireland farmers still have to pay, and that this is a handicap to the Free State farmers in market com- petition. The money now being sent to Great Britain would solve the derating problem. ‘The Free State government's answer to Mr. De Valera, as stated by Finance Minister Ernest Blythe, is that the land installment annuities do not go into the British exchequer. The money. for Irish land purchase was raised by d stock taken u» by individuals and the installments pay their interest, ac- cording to the minister. Mr. De Valera’s proposal, says Mr. Blythe, is an attempt to force British taxpayers in_the &eunt bad conditions to pay $186,000. :o year !mg: xr:.h!; rumer; undertook pay when they signe their purchase contracts. Sees Trouble in Scheme. the Free State now withheld this , Mr. Blythe ts, the British Violin Music Hath No Charm; Wife Is Granted Divorce By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla, February 12— Mrs. Phyllis Pishback couldn’t find charm in the music which came from the violin of her hus- Py " husband practiced day & usbant ce and night” she testified in court Tuesday. “It got on my nerves after 12 years. He wouldn't play unless I was at home. He sald he wanted an audienc:.” Such fiddling, Judge Harry Halley agreed, constituted mental cruelty. He awarded Mrs. Fish- back a divorce and alimony. REV.E. R PALNER DIES AT HOME HERE liiness Is Fatal to Head of Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing House. Rev. E. R. Palmer, general manager of the Review -and Herald Publishing Association, an organization controlled by the Seventh-day Adventists, died this morning at Washington Sanitarium and Hospital, in Takoma Park, after an attack of double pneumonia. Lawrence Senseman and John Gomez, two Washington Missionary College students, gave their blood in a vain effort to save his life. Born in West Charleston, Vi, on March 22, 1869, Mr. Palmer became an adherent of the Seventh-Day Adventists faith when 12 years old. From 1887 to 1892 he was a student at the denomina« tional school in Seuth Lancaster, Mass, Instructor in Church Work. During the years 1898-93 he was sec- retary of the publishing department of the church in Vermont. He made his first n with the general con- ference of the denomination in 1894, spending several months as instruct in Christian salesmanship in different in | parts of the United States. In 1895, he went to Australia as di- rector of publishing activities for the church in that country. He also spent two years as president of the Adventist School in Avondale, Australia. In September, 1901, he was elected secretary of the General Conference Publishing Department, and in 1903 came to Takoma Park in that capacity, when the headquarters of the denom- ination were moved from Battle Creek, Mich,, to Washington. He has lived here since. Made General Manager. He became general manager of the publishing association about 18 years ago. He resided at 111 Van Buren ave- ue. Besides his widow, he is survived by four children, Miss Pansy E. Palmer, Clarence E. Palmer, Delmar M. Palmer and Mrs. Alice L. Walton of Union Springs, N. Y. Funeral services will be held in the ‘Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventists Church at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Interment will be in Rock Cemetery. Out of respect to Rev. Palmer, the concert which was to have becn given by the Review and Herald Band in Columbias Hall, Washington Missionary Col ‘Takoma Park, has been post- until a later date. FOGGIEST U. S. SPOT OFF MAINE COAST 1,526 Hours of Gloom During 1930 Recorded Around Moose Peak Lighthouse. By the Associated Press. The foggiest spot in the United States has now been located definitely and the exact degree of its gloom certified to_properly by high official authority. It surrounds Moose Peak lighthouse, on coast of Maine. The Lighthouse Service, which has full knowledge of such conditions around the coastal United States, finds that di the year just ended Moose Peak lenced 1,526 hours of fog, an aver- age of four hours each day. Two other Maine points, Libby Island and Petit Manan, came closest to the Moose Peak record, but fourth place went clear across the United States, to Point Reyes on the Pacific Ocean. That station officially recorded 1,398 hours of fog in 1930. However, 1930 was not particularly a foggy year, it appears, from scanning the log time records of the Lighthouse Service. In 1907, Sequin Light, an- other Maine station, actually reported 2,734 hours of fog and was required to keep its fog horn busy one-third of everi day in the{yen. That is the top- :.og recorded for American fog per- nee, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. cacard pldrty ’vnd ednélgle,hnrlzhtwood mmanndery, No. 6, ights Templar, 2400 Sixteenth street, 9 pm. Card party, “George Washington Tourist Club, the Wakefield, 9!0“ K street, 8 p.m. Card party, St. John's Episcopal Church, Thirty-fourth street and Mount Rainier avenue northeast, 8:30 p.m. Dinner, Woman’s Auxiliary, Takoma ill’.k Volunteer Fire Department, 5:30 pm. Memorial services, Grand Army of the Republic, Pirst Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets, 8 p.m. Dance and card party, Aloysian Club, 47 1 street, 8:30 p.m. Card party, Holy Comforter School, Fifteenth and East Capitol streets, 8 pm. Banquet, Federal Bar Association, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner meeting, Reciprocity Club, Mayflower Hotel, 6:30 pm. Dance, Chi Epsilon Sorority, Hamil- ton Hotel, 10 p.m. Card party, Our Ladv of Lourdes Church, Bethesda, Md., at SBacred Heart Hall, Sixteenth street and Park road, 8 pm. Card party, Wallach Parent-Teacher Association, Masonic Temple, Eighth and P streets northeast, 8 p.m. Scotch _concert, Presbyterian Hall, Maple and Tullp avenues, Takoma Park, Md., tomorrow, 8 p.m. Dance and card party, St. Rita’s Church, Mount Ida, Va., at Raleigh Hotel tomorrow, 8 Dance, Kappa Phi Delta Sorority, i alera turbine steam engine, died D Carlton Hotel, tomorrow, 10 p.m. Benefit card party, Students’ Mothers Club, St. John's College School Audi- torium, Vermont avenue near Thomas Circle, tomorrow, 8 p.m. — 3 Inventor of Turbine Dies. LONDON, February 12 (#).—A radio message recelved here today said that Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the while Truits o’ the. West Indies .on 8 P % 3 He was 76 years olr ING STAR, IOHIO PUPILS GIVE PENNIES T0 RELIEF Forego Valentines to Aid Suf- ferers in Drought Area of State. | By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 12.— The value of money and its equivalent in food and clothing have never been stretched to greater extremes than in Southern ©Ohio today, so far as the Buckeye State is concerned. Nineteen dollars a week is a hand- some salary, especially to a man with a large family who had almost become accustomed to getting along on & uarter of that sum or less. And only neediest of the needy, who were caught in the full effect of the drought and unemployment, are getting that. The rest are being cared for by weekly grocery orders worth anywhere from $2 to $6 through the beneficence of the Red Cross and other organized agencies, by gifts of clothing from those who can afford to gh and by milk supplies for the chil 5 the same measure that State high- T "the. Depariment. of ‘Ageicutiure tions the ent, o culture, with forests and lakes to look after, and the Department of Public Works are lending their aid. And from Van Wert, a county in Northern Ohio, come the pennies of school children, who have agreed to forego the exchange of valentines this week so they might add their bit. DROWNED CANADIAN IS DECLARED SUICIDE Ship Captain Thinks That Former Detroit Saloort Keeper Leaped Into Atlantic. tor | BY the Assoctated Press. CHERBOURG, France, February 12. —James Cooper, Canadian millionaire, who fell or jumped from off the liner Deutschland Sunday, in the opinion of the captain, purser and passengers, was a suicide. Upon arrival of the ship here today they said that at the beginning of the voyage he seemed quite calm, but later became agitated and distraught. He went to the promenade deck alone Sunday afternoon, and while no one saw him actually jump over the rail, the engineer, looking from a lower porthole, saw him fall into the water. He recognized the falling man as a passenger and immediately telephoned the bridge that some one had fallen overboard. ‘The captain ordered the ship hove to and had a lifebuoy thrown out, but Cooper had disappeared in the choppy sea. Nothing was found in his cabin or baggage which would indicate a motive for his act. His effects have been sent to his wife, who is living with their three children at Vevey, Switzerland. Cooper, who was retired, amassed be- tween $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 in the liquor business and was once a saloon- keeper in Detroit. MAIL B~ANDITS GET MUTILATED MONEY IN DARING HOLD-UP (Continued From First Page.) east. Powell reported to police that he was driving his cab at Massachusetts avenue and North Capitol street when his attention was called to the other automobile by its excessive rate of speed. Police were unable to locate any one else who had seen either the escaping automobile or the robbers themselves in- side the station. That section of the building wheré the robbery occurred was virtually deserted at 2 o’clock, attend- ants said. Swygert, in the waiting room, chanced on Lieut. E. L. Eby and Sergt. Harry Blackburn, who happened to be in the station investigating another case. When the officers arrived at the scene they were told by Johnson that he had just regained consciousness. He was certain at first that he had been slugged, but later admitted he might have fallen on his head during the scuffie and excitement. Had Scalp Abrasion. Lieut. Eby summoned Dr. G. 8. Grossberg of Casualty Hospital to ex- amine Johnson. Dr. Grossberg, police say, found Johnson uninjured except for a slight scalp abrasion. Neither Johnson nor Swygert was able to say if a pistol was displayed. Johnson had been a postal employe for more than 10 years. It was his reg- ular run and when he arrived at 1:55 aboard the New York train in charge of the registered mail, his duty re- quired him to follow it into the post office to turn it over to the registry clerk there. Postal Inspector W. F. Chester, act- ing chief of the Washington district, and Inspector L. A. de Waard investi- ated for the Post Office Department. pector de Waard said there was no reason to believe that the men had in- side knowledge of the shipment, al- though they apparently were waitis :or‘mnll from that particular New Yor] rain. Any one with an inkling of postal procedure would be apprised of the presence of registered mail by the fact that a registry clerk was guarding the pouches. On the other hand, the robbers must have parked their machine about the ttimad t.t%nrum arn‘ved. as it was not no- ice ere previously, Ins) Waard said. & T Secret Service Helps. signed to the case by the Treasury De- partment today to co-operate with Post Office operatives and local police. The officers from No. 6 precinct no- tified headquarters and a general alarm was broadcast by radio, giving descrip- tions of the two men who entered the station and their automobile from such information as the victims were able wDI;lrnu‘h. tectives W. J. Du Burky and J. F. Flaherty were assigned 'kg the case from headquarters. The investigators found the black bag which the rob- E::" glfilnrdedhwhen they ne?.l It con- ined three short sections of lea and nothing else. e Baltimore Is Notified. If the automobile seen speed! out “ North Capitol street contained t‘l:le‘rob- bers, they probably were bound for Baltimore. The police there were no- tified, as were other authorities along the Washington-Baltimore highway. | Government agents, however, believe | the robbers remained in Was! n. !One of them was about 40 years old, over 6 fect tall, heavy and of an athletic |build. He wore a dark overcoat and a dark soft hat. His confederate was somewhat younger, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and wore a dark overcoat. The attack and escape were so sud- den, the victims said, they were able to get only a glimpse of the men. No one saw the driver of the car in which the escape was made. Victor McLaglen’s Brother to Wed. LOS ANGELES, February 12 (#).— Arthur R. McLaglen, 42, brother of the Two secret service agents were as- | Left to right: Mrs. Ella Stewart, Miss Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Anna Hendley, Miss Elizabeth Houser and Mrs. Bertha Yoder Werthner, donors and reciplents in the presentation of the Susan .B. Anthony portrait to the N: Women Voters by the Susan B. Anthony Foundation late peared with the portrait. IRRIGATION FUND BILL IS APPROVED House Committee Backs Sen- ate Measure for $5,000,000 Advance for Reclamation. By the Associated Press. The House Irrigation Committee to- day approved the Senate bill for a $5,000,000 Treasury advance to the reclamation fund for completing con- struction projects now under way. ‘The committee’s action followed tes- timony by Reclamation Commissioner Mead, who said the income from the reclamation projects has been curtailed $3,500,000 because of conditions. “Unless rainfall comes this year, they are faced with a serious shortage of water such as nothing we have ever seen in this country,” Mead testified. Mead said the Reclamation Bureau has only $800,000 in the treasury, only half sufficient to pay contractors for work being done. e contractors have been notified that by March 1 the serv- ice will have an empty treasury. “If we don’t get more money,” he said, “we will have to turn off 1500 workers on March 1, in an impoverished country where there is no private char- ity to take care of them.” Senator Thomas, Republican, Idaho, advocated the bill—saying the Gooding project in his State is faced with the worst water shortage in 20 years, Director Jones of the employment service, testified December was “one of the worst months in the history of our country,” with regard to unemploy- ment. He indorsed the bill “January showed some improvement,” he told the House Irrigation Committee, “but nothing to brag about.” o, BISHOP CANNON’S SON CONVICTED IN WEST Faces Sentence on Charges of Vio- lating State Labor Laws. Other Cases Pending. By the Assoclated Press. PASADENA, Calif., February 12.— Maj. Richard M. Cannon, son of Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, faced sentence today on charges of violating the State labor laws. He was convicted here yes- terday. Juries in two previous cases disagreed. Nine other stmilar cases are pending against the bishop's son. Cannon was found guilty in Justice Court on a charge of failing to pay Mrs. Phyllis Case $33 due here as a salary for teaching in an El Monte, Calif., military school with which he had been associated. He faced a possible sentence months in the county jail, a $500 both. BETHLEHEM TAKES OVER McCLINTIC-MARSHALL Steel Company | Absorbs Second Largest Unit in Fabricating Business as Subsidiary. of six fine, or By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 12.—Follow- ing completion of negotiations last week, the properties of the McClintic- Marshall Construction Co. of Pittsburgh have been taken over by the Bethlehem Bteel Corporation, the new owners. The properties will be operated by & subsidiary of Bethlehem, the name for which has not been announced. The McClintic-Marshall Corporation was re- garded as the second largest unit in the steel fabricating busine POLICE POINT OUT TRAFFIC BILL FLAW; SENATE DELAYS ACTION (Continued Prom First Page.) activities, it was said, can be construed as a part of traffic inforcement., Director Is Abolished. The new traffic bill abolishes the office SHroet supervision of s Co super. of all mntr%le of traffic through & m rate department of vehicles and 3 mn tn:lu e hich mm l! dele: wer Wl y ma; - gate to B ted agents,” but the except in cases relating strictly to en- forcement of the regulations. The police ent, it was said, never offered any objection because the measure was not referred to it for consideration by the while ANTHONY PORTRAIT PRESENTED VOTERS Incidents in Life of Pioneer Feminist Are Recalled by Associates. Incidents in the life of Susan B. An- thony, ploneer figure in the suffragist movement, were related by women who knew her in the informal ceremonies attending the presentation late yester- day of the portrait of Miss Anthony to the National League of Women Voters by the Susan B. Anthony Foundation. The portrait, the work of Jerome K. Uhl, a Washington artist, has been hanging in the headquarters of the Na- tional League of Women Voters at 532 Seventeenth street for some time, but the presentation yesterday marked the official transfer of the title to the life- size canvas. Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the National League of Women Voters, pre- sided over the presentation exercises and introduced Mrs. Bertha Yoder Werthner, president of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation, who, with Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, honorary president of the foundation, made the actual pres- entation. ' It was the hope of the Susan B. An- thony Foundation, Mrs. Werthrer told her small audience, to place the for- trait of Miss Anthony in a fitting me- morial home here where the iife and work of the famous woman leader could be perpetuated. That having been im- possible, she explained, the foundation ceased being an agency for the collec- tion of fu; for that and as- sumed its present character of an or- ganization determined only to preserve the memory of Miss Anthony's ambi- tlons, works and accomplishments. Conditions of Gift. The gflrnlc was given to the Na- tional League of Womer Voters, Mrs. \»Iem\'xnv‘d mer ?ontllnued. as a means of providing for it a permanent home. The only conditions of the gift, she explained, are that the painting be kept in Washington, and that if for any reason the league finds itself con‘i;ll-m-n.el«‘l1 QWIS: u)’:s necessif posing of it, the gue would return the portrait to the foundation. The presentation to the league, she added, was voted by the foundation’s board and the only regret accompanying th transfer was admission of aban- donment of the foundation's original F:hm to bulld & permanent memorial ere. Mrs. Hendley spoke after Mrs. Werth- ner. She related briefly of incidents connected with Miss Anthony’s at- tendance at hearings before congres- sional committees on the then proposed amendment to grant women. the vote. On one occasion, she said, the mem- bers of the committee fell asleep while Miss Anthony was speaking and one member, awakening with a start, in- quired of Miss Anthony how many States were permitting their women to vote. She told of the fond hopes which she and other women had en- tertained for a memorial building to Miss Anthony. “It seems a pity,” Mrs. Hendley de- clared, “that with all this govern- mental bullding program being carried out here in Wuhln’wn, there is no fitting memorial building to women and, in cular, to the work which Miss Anthony did.” She added that she hoped the Women Voters’ League would some day build such a memorial. Miss Sherwin accepted the portrait on behalf of the Voters' League. She declared smilingly that the league couldn’t accept the responsibility of erecting a building, but that it did embrace the portrait with real pleasure, Personal Incidents Recalled. Miss Elizabeth J. Houser, vice presi- dent of the National League of Women Voters and the only member of that organization who remembered personal contact with Miss Anthony, related in- cidents involving her association with the pioneer woman leader. She told of going to the present h building of the voters’ Miss Anthony to meet Clara Barton, famous nurse. Illustrating the kindli- ness which, she said, contrasted strongly with Miss Anthony’s stage domination, Miss Houser told Miss Anthony “tucked her in bed” when she retired while on a visit here with the notable suffragist. incide; called was the time she made an apron for Miss Anthony, only to hear the es under the | eminen 2%, mmissioners Miss Houser declared that the kind of memorial which Miss Ant her- self would have preferred would the f the vote she helped so much in_gett for women. Mrs. C. Stewart recalled hearing Miss Anthony address a group of stu- dents while she was a senior in col 5 Later, she said, she introduced Miss Anthony at a meeting in Chicago and subsequently received friendly letters from the well known feminist, which ‘comm! | WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY JAMMED REVOLVER PREVENTS HOLD-UP Gas Station Manager Says Colored Bandit Pulled Trig- ger in Cash Demand. qusaling i Sation. sy Thisty-nrse e station a y- street and Rhode Island avenue north- east, escaped robbery and possible death early today when the revolver of & colored bandit jammed as the latter tried to shoot him. According to McDaries, the colored man entered his station at 2:15 o'clock this morning, brandishing a pistol and ordered him to hand ovef his cash. In his alarm, McDarles said he made a nervous gesture which apparently resembled a defensive move and the bandit pressed his trigger. The pistol hammer fell without effect and the bandit pulled the trigger again, with the same futile result. The man then fled to his automobile, parked nearby. ‘The attempted robbery of McDaries followed two other robberies late last night in which the victims lost small sums of money. Allen Sousa, a taxi- cab driver of 315 Seaton place north- east, told police that a colored man whom he had taken aboard as a fare at _Connecticut a;':n\lem:.nd! ‘L scr:eg held him up at point of gun a anmd:i‘h and Lfatrecu‘ taking $7, all ver had, from 3 Hugh English, 522 Rhode Island ave- nue northeast, was forced to hand over $14 to a colored, armed bandit, who held him up a short distance from his home. PAPER'S REOPENING AWAITS U. S. EDITOR Publisher of Havana American Says Publication Closed Until John T. Wilford Returns. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, February 12.—Robert E. Hicks, publisher of the Havana Ameri- can, stated last night in a message from Florida the paper would remain closed until John T. Wilford, its deported edi- tor, returned to guide its destinies. Publication of the Havana American was suspended by the Cuban govern- ment morg than a month ago, and an order was/ issued for the deportation of Wilford. He left the country before the papers were served on him. imultaneously with the arrival of l?locka in Cub':dl.l.st Elgu'dly, fl% sion was granted through a lenf decree for the reopening of the m{;:u American, with the restriction that Wil- ford’s name was not to appear in masthead. “The Havana American was illegally closed,” Hicks said in his message. “Wilford was charged with being a men- ace to Cuba in his effort to establish a free press there. To reopen and publish the Havana American under restrictions of any kind would be a direct admission of guilt on his part und would mean the. destruction of the ideal of free speech for which he fought.” EXPEC} NAVY BILL WILL PASS HOUSE SOME TIME TODAY (Continued Prom First Page.) Navy would be given sufficient funds to build whatever vessels it deemed necessary to achieve parity with Great Britain. By signing and ratifying ti London naval treaty the President and the Senate were satisfied that a good deal of maney would be saved to the country anfl that we would have a Navy equal'to the best in the world. ‘Without the London naval treaty, the United States this year would have had to provide for the laying down of (a) two battleships; - (b) five 8-inch gun cruisers of the 23-cruiser program, of which eight were already under con- struction, and (¢) a number of destroy- ers, sul es and airplane These auxiliary vessels would have ex- ceeded the total under the present pro- fnm because the homogeneity of a arger Navy would have demanded a larger number of auxiliaries. ndoubtedly, the London treaty saved the country the expense of laying down two battleships. .The present naval program calls merely for one 6-inch gun, flying-deck cruiser, an airplane carrier of 13,800 tons, 10 destroyers and 4 submarines. The total of the re- gulrzd tonnage s not larger than the talian naval program for 1931. Representative French believes, how- ever, that even this expenditure is ex- aggerated and opposes any new construc- tion. He also opposes the $30,000,000 necessary for the modernization of the battleships Mississippi, Idaho and New Mexico. According .to Representative Britten and to experts -of Department, modernization of these three units is most essential for the homogeneity of the Navy. Japan has already appropriated the necessary funds for the modernization of & number of her older ironclads; the British government has been modern- izing the “pre-Jutland’ battleship class, and if the American Navy is to be really equal to either of the other two navies in accordance with the Wash- ington and London naval treaties, it must modernize the three Mississipp class battleships, which were built be- fore the importance of airplanes in maritime warfare was realized by naval constructors. ‘That modernization of these three bat- tleships was a paramount consideration in the negotiations which led to the sig- nature of the London treaty can be seen from the statements made by Secre- tary Stimson and Admiral William V. Pratt before the Foreign Relations Com- mittee of the Senate. Both Admiral Pratt and Mr. Stimson said that with the Idaho, the Mississippi and the New Mexico modernized, the American Navy could stand up to any in the world. Mr. Stimson stated before the same committee, less than a year ago, that in his and the opinion of naval ex- s the “battleship is still the back- ne of the Navy.” Navy Department officials explained today that without the necessary funds to modernize those three blmnhlfi the homogeneity of our Navy be greatly impaired since the Battle Fleet, an important division of our sea strength, would fall far behind that of either the British or the Japanese navy. (Copyright, 1931.) ———— MAN HURT IN RAID Wilton Myers, colored, 20, of 2138 I street, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon when he jumped through a window as a police raiding party it w alleged dice game at 1901 K Myers was taken to Emergency Hos- pital, where he was said to have re- celved a fractured skull. Nine colored men were arrested and held for inves- tigation at the third precinct. BY-LAWS TO BE DRAWN A constitution and by-laws will be drawn up at a meeting of the newly ornnlmr Huguenot Federation Satur- day, 3:30 pm. at the Natioral Sons of the American Revolution headquas ters. Dr. Florian J. C. Vurpillot, tem~- chairman of the society, AR o .| charity contained in Tries to End Life Over Short Weight * Trick in Meat Shop By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 12.—The manner in which the scales were operated in the butcher shop where he was employed 50 heavily on his mind that Fred Baes tried to kill himself, he told Judge Edelman, before wham he was arraigned after his land- lord rescued him from a gas-filled Toom. T Baes said the practice in the shop was for the butcher to put his hand on the scale to short- weight customers, and that this preyed on his mind so that he no longer cared to live. - The judge considered a $100 fine, but later decided that Bacs could go free on probation on his not to try self-exterminal any more. IHYDE HOLDS FUNDS FOR RELIEF MAY BE USED TO BUY FOOD (Continued From First Page.) with precedents, beginning as far back as 1812 when this was a struggling and poor Nation. “In the Taft administration in 1909 the very terms of that appropriation were almost _identical with ‘measure passed by the Senate and s0 unseem- mglxlchnnmfiud by the President. “Although Italy had not asked for it, this act provided that in executing it the t should request thesappro- val of the Italian government. “Was that a Socialistic dole? It was the worthy response of a great Nation to the cry of suffering humanity in a foreign nation.” Senators Conally of Texas and Heflin of Alabama, both Democrats, and Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, joined in the attack on the compromise which they condemned as a surrender by the Senate coalition in the controversy with President Hoover to extend Fed- eral money for sufferers. Puts Duty on Senate. ly urged upon the Senate the prompt dvupmluon of the conference agreement on the relief fund, He argued that the $20,000,000 fund would provide a sys- tem of credit sadly needed in the drought-stricken area and that it would enable farmers in that area to make Lo;‘m nfih mlch t& start their busi- of farmi again and also to pur- ;:hue the necessities of life, including “It is all right for us to attack the President and the Secretary of Agri- culture,” d Senatcr Robinson, em- phatically, “but I say that if we fail to do anything now there is more inef- ficlency in Congress than in the White House. I say that you must take upon yourselves the responsibility for inac- tion if this compromise agreement fails the | now.” The Arkansas Senator said that there was no “dole,” no public :ranfl'lu the erence agreement. He said that from the first he and his colleague, Senator Cara- way, had asked for credit for the peo- ple in drought-stricken area. Accuses Robinson. “My people are a proud people,” said Senator Robinson. “They would pre- fer an opportunity to borrow the money to accepting charity. If all the agen- cies of charity outside of the Federal Government which are now taking care of the unemployed and the destitute fail, then we must go to the Federal Government itself. But those agen- cles have not falled at this time. We ask here that something be done.” Senator Glass of Virginia charged Senator Robinson with having per- suaded the Democrats in the S:nate to stand for his $25,000,000 appropriation to provide free food for the drought- he | Stricken and the unemployed and now with turning his back on the Democrats who continue to demand adoption of that appropriation. Senator Robinson replied that he was not turning his back upon his col- leagues. He said that twice the Senate had overwhelmingly passed measures providing for the loan of money to be used to buy food, and that the House has overwhelmingly voted against these proposals. Justifies Compromise. “I then offered my proposal for the appropriation of $25,000,000,” contin- ued Senator Robinson, “and I hoped it would pass. I exhausted every effort to obtain favorable action on it, but when the House voted it down by al- most & hundred majority I thought I was justified in attempting to secure a compromise. If this compromise is defeated now, what will be the picture? ‘Three months expended in wrangling, three months expended in criticizing the Secretary of Agriculture, three months in which personalities have been indulged in which had n to do with the real subject at issue. Let us have a decision quickly. If the agreement is turned down, then let hope be banished from a million hearts.” Senator Glass insisted that Senator Robinson should not reproach “those of us who followed his leadership and in conference defled the House and the President, even to the extent of being EAJung to force a special session of Senator Robinson declared he was taking no such position. WILL MAKE REPLY TODAY. Secretary Hyde Says He Will Wire Plans to Vice President Curtis. UISVILLE, February 12 (#).—Sec- retary of Agriculture Hyde said today he would wire Vice President Curtis his plan for administering the $20,000,000 drought relief fund. - ‘The Secrefary, who arrived here today to be the principal speaker at a Lincoln day dinner tonight, declined to intimate his posti ther than by here. le Senate had requested a sta from Secretary Hyde as to his pretation of the promise bill and whether the proposed ment inter- Senator Robinson of Arkansas strong- | im BANKERS TESTIFY IN CANNON HEARING Bishop to File Letter Stating That No Criminal Act Has Been Committed. By the Associated Press. After eliciting from witnesses thdt some of the funds deposited to the credit of the Virginia anti-Smith Com- mittee in 1928 were transferred to_the personal account of Bishop James Can- non, jr., the Senate Campaign Funds Committee today remained undecided whether further hearings would be held. The Nye group yesterday questioned a number of bankers investigating po- litical activities of the Southern Meth- odist prohibition leader. It was acting upon complaints filed by Representative Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts, that Bishop Cannon violated the cor- rupt practices act through failure to re- port expenditures of funds contributed to the campaign against the Democratic presidential nominee. The bishop came to the hearing in a wheel chair, still crippled by arthritis from which he has been suffering for some time. At the outset a letter from him was read asking permission to file, as soon as his health allowed, a sworn statement to prove no “criminal or dis- honorable act” had been committed. Chairman Nye granted the request. Richmond Banker T Perry Seay, vice president of the American Bank and Trust Co. Rich- mond, Va., told Nye that Cannon’s anti-Smith Committee opened an ac- count July 24, 1928, with $58,708. On February 11, 1929, three checks were deposited totaling $18,605. One was for $17,364, ' The same day this exact amount was transferred to Bishop Can- non's personal account. It was not trace r nor was its source dis- closed. William Tyler Page, clerk of the House, testified that the report of the Cannon Campaign Committee was not filed, as required by law, on January 1, but was presented February 15, 1929. Impossioity of making s & y of making a ve report of the year's transaction on the first day of the year a legal holiday. Mr. Tinkham’'s complaint charged specifically that Bishop Cannon re- ceived $65,300 from E. C. Jameson of New York, for the campaign, but sc- counted for only $17,000 in reporting to the clerk of the House. The bishop previously had advanced the conten- tion that the law did not require ac- counting of the full amount. Transactions Are Told. Another transaction which held the attention of the committee was the transfer first from one bank to another and then to a second account in the latter bank of an $8,000 check received by the bishop. The check was identi- fled by Senator Nye as bearing the number of one which records of last year's Senate Lobby Committee showed came from Mr. Jameson. Correspondence bearing upon several transactions was read into the com- mittee record and Mr, Nye said photo- stat coples would be made of letters and deposit slips. He assured the bishop, however, that correspondence bearing on private bank dealings would be zealously and not “flaunted publicly.” Bishop Cannon’s letter to the com- mittee had asserted Mr. Tinkham “must expect to prove from these bank records making a public revelation of all my private business that I have either violated the Federal corrupt practices act by a false statement of campaign expenditures or by fraudu- lent conversion to private uses of funds $20,000,000 fund could be expended by former borrowers for purchase of food and clothing. Mr. Hyde was accompanied by Representative Maurice Thatcher of Kentucky, and Mat Chilton, Republican National =Committeeman from this State. They were met at the station by & group of prominent Kentucky —_— Gets New Commission. Bamne the same grade and ranch in the National Guard of the District of Columbia. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at :30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmerman, £ “EeyD! 3 "Cleopntflaml. Sceneés from musical comedy, "T:: New Moon”. s Bommberg Valse, “The the contributed for use in the 1928 cam- paign.” lgun followed this up with the offer of a statement to prove the propriety of the transactions. CHARGE AGAINST BOZEK DROPPED IN POLICE COURT Georgetown Athlete, Expelled by Officials, Also Forfeits $15 Collateral, A charge of assault :flm Emil Bozek, Georgetown Uni player, was nolle prossed in Police Court yugnily for lack of evidence. He also forfeited collateral $15 charges of drunkenness an M conduct. ‘The 22-year-old athlete was by u;flversnyzffltl;uh as a result of & row January & Georgetown rooms ing house, which brought about his ar- rest. The assault charge grew out of an alleged attack on F. S. Hathorne, & seventh precinct policeman. Hathorne 'i:ld gmunt District erf:’ui‘fm eogh, assigned to prosecu ‘case, that Bozek slapped him while he being placed under arrest, but he did not wish to press the charge. —_— SUCCEEDS BANKRUPT Goodyear Raincoat Co. Now Con- ducted by Elihu Hern. Harry Rosenberg, trading as the Goodyear Raincoat Co., who filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy yes- y, has not occupled the building at 923 F street in more than three months. It was erroneously stated in The Star yesterday that he still was doing business at that address. Elihu Horn now is trading at that address as the Gapdyear Raincoat Co. The Star regrets the error. INCOME TAX FACTS. No. 11. For income tax there can be only one *I of a family.” A head of a family, as defined by income tax regulations, is a “person who actually supports and maintains in one household one or more persons who are closely connected with him (or based upon some moral or legal obligation.” Such person is granted the same ex= emption of $3,500 h:wed a g person. a credit of $400 for each the d is tally or physi cally defective” includes not only cripples and those mentally de- fective, but persons in ill health or the aged. Thus, a single man who supports in his home an aged mother' and two sisters 14 1