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% National 5000 to start immediate delivery. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Che . No. WETS MAY FORCE DEMOCRATS' HAND DESPITE OPPOSITION Objection of Drys to Raising Prohibition Issue at Parley Still Firm. 1,354—No. 31,715, RASKOB DECLARED BACK OF PLAN TO TAKE STAND Bmith Expected at Meeting of Com- mittee—Finances of Party on Program. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Despite efforts of Democrats in Con- gress to head off a serious discussion of prohibition at the meeting of the Democratic National Committee here next Thursday some of the Democratic leaders were convinced last night that the matter would be brought to the ‘attentfon of the committee. An effort, they said, is likely to be made to get some expression of opinion as to what the attitude of the party should be to- ward the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act in the coming na- tional campaign. ‘The rumor was that Chairman John J. Raskob of the National Committee, an ardent wet, was planning to insist on a show down on this issue, if it could be had. ‘The call for the committee, issued by Mr. Raskob, leaves the committee free to discuss pretty much any subject it sees fit. Jt proposes a jon of methods ard policies which are to gov- ern the party for the next 15 months. Oppose Discussion Now. Both wet and dry Democratic mem- bers of the Senate and House deplore the n that prohibition should be considered by the National Com- mittee at its coming meeting. But if reports are correct, Chairman Rasko? has set his heart on just that thing. Southern Democratic members of Con- gress have not hesitated to attack the | that the committee diseuss licies, Anen tp;rucuh;kywmz p:l‘é‘l:tyi of party Tegar 7Ol jon. Senator. Morrison of North &mnn-. m speeches in the Senate and in state- ments to the press, has strongly ur{teld the coming meeting of the na- tional committee will help the situation by taking up such issues as prohibition, the World Court, the power for consideration. Smith May Be Here. ‘The expectation here is that former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, the Democratic candidate for President in 1928, will be in Washington for the national committee meet:ng. It was said also that it was likely former Gov. James Cox of Ohio, the party’s candi- date for President in 1920, would be here, too. There was doubt, however, that John W. Davis, the standard bearer in 1924, could be here, owing to the fact that he had gone to Florida dor his health. ‘The meeting of the committee, which takes place at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Mayflower Hotel, will be an “cpen” meeting, with members of the press in attendances Many of the Democratic members of Congress are ‘likely to re- main over for the party confab. It was explained, however, that it is to be a national committee meeting, and that the discussion of matters oefore | the committee will be confined to mem- bers of the commiitee. Senator “Joe"| Robinson. the Democratic leader of the Benate and aiso the party candidate lor Vice President in 1928, will attend the meeting, it is said. He and Gov. Smith may be invited to address the meeting. If they are, and Gov. Cox and Mr. Davis also are in the committee room, 1t is prcbable they will also be called upon to speak. 1f the prohibition question is raised, s it 15 now rumored it will be, Senator Robinson, who campaigned for re- election to the Senate 2s a dry, is expected to throw his weight against having the National Committee declare for repeal or revision of the dry laws or against having the committee en- deavor to ccmmit the party to a stand on the wet and dry issue. He may, it 15 said, attend the meeting with a proxy from a member of the commit- tee and lead the fight against sttempt to tie the party up with the wets. ‘There has been a demand, however, from some of the Democratic leaders that the party shall not pussy-foot on tarifl and water | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Salesmen Enj | strong, stormed the Veterans Bui to get the bonus loans. ised for a time yesterday mornin, customers. Less than 100 of the 5123 veterans ! who applied here yesterday were new borrowers,- it developed last night. All tent on getting what was left. ‘While the veterans in a line two blocks long inched their way into the building early in the day, ubiquitous automobile salesmen moved up and down the line distributing eirculars describing _their wares. It was a fleld day not only for the veterans but for the salesmen. ‘The salesmen, too, in some instances, nfpamuy. were as successful as some of the early applicants for soldiers’ loans, for Veterans' Bureau officials said | yesterday that numerous veterans had | orders with automobile sales l[gndu for deliveries after the An army of World War veterans, estimated to be possibly 50,000 throughout the United States yesterday in the first concerted effort Over 5,000 of them, descending on the Washington office, prom- But by afternoon the line had dwindled to nothing and clerks were idling behind long and empty counters stifling yawns and waiting for the others had previously made some | loan on their certificates and were in- | WASHINGTON, 50,000 VETERANS SEEK BONUS LOANS OVER U. S. Only 2 Per Cent of 5,123 Requests at Local Bureau Are Initial; Auto oy Field Day. reau here and its regional offices g to tax the bureau to the limit. Government checks were mailed out. Asked by a Star reporter what they were going to do with the money yhen they got it, few of the veterans admitted they expected to buy anything other i than the barest necessities. Nevertheless the salesmen were on | the job, and the veterans were talking automobile models, bargains and_time- | Furch-se plans as they waited in the ong line to get in the bureau. From the line slowly moving up- the I street sidewalk, a cheerful but some- what down-at-the-heel procession, ap- praising eyes were turned on the ma- chines parked along the curb. “Hey, buddie,” a veteran nudged the man ahead, “what you think of that Job? Nifty, huh? 1 walked plenty over there; I've walked plenty ever since, (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) $100,000,000 FUND URGED BY WHEELER FOR JOBLESS RELIEF Enactment’ of Last-Minute Aid Sought in Senate by Democrat. | | for unemployed to be placed at the disposal of Persident Hoover was pro- posed in the Senate yestarday, while Secretary Hyde outlined the basis on which drought suffersrs might obtain . | Government food loans. inistration in Repul fense of the response tic charges of failure to . Little seliel legislation now, however. - About the time Semator cln-nL. Democrat, Arkansas, contended was “delibcrately holding up” ‘money appropriated in the $20,000,000 su} plemental drought relief fund, the Sec retary announced administration a rangements had been completed. Hyde Answer Expected. Returning to the city late yesterday, | Hyde expected to answer promptly the | Senate’s request, through the Carawey | resolution, why the funds had not besn | made immediately available. there had been no delay. Food loans may be obtained by farm- |ers from the $20,000,000 fund in two ways under the plan outlined, either through agricultural credit corporations, | whicl | creasing and expanding, or through di- rect loans from the seed loan office, dependent upon “necessity, security and individual case.” Money obtained from credit corpora- tions, Hyde explained, could be used | just as if it had been obtained from The proposal of Senator Whesler, | Democrat, Montana, for creation of a $100,000,000 emergency relief fund fol- | lowed contentions of Senators Borah. 1Repuhllun, Idaho, and Copelan Democrat, New York, that there re | mained time at this session to enact adequate legisiation. Congress, Borah said, has shown a “Jack of courage and purpose” in re- lief legislation, whil: Senator La Fol- lette, Republican, Wisconsin, was of the cpinion “the Senate’s abject surrender on the relief compromise has killed any chance of adequate legislation.” contended the money al ated ight relief ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ready appropr nd abo $100,000 TO BUY BOOKS FOR BLIND APPROVED Library of congm-—wm Have Sum Annually to Provide Such Literature. | By the Associated Press. | Congressional action was completed yesterday on a bill to allow the Library |of Congress to provide annually $100,- | 1000 worth of books for the blind. | The bill passed the Senate last May any | and was approved today by the House, | | Representative Ruth Pratt, Republican, | New York, sponsor of the legislation, | used the record of Helen Keller as an illustration of the benefits that would accrue from wider distribution of books (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 'for the blind. BUILDING PLANS TO TERMINATE CAREER OF LARGEST U. S. FLA Post Office Personnel Director Keeps 70-Foot Banner, jsici Part of Big Collection, Looking Fresh. By the Associated Press. Too big to spread out, too old to 80 to the cleaner, the largest perfectly proportioned United States flag will hang undisturbed by Spring cleaning until the end of its public career. Pinis will be written for the flag when the towered Post Office Department Builfing on Pennsylvania avenue goes| down. and the one goes up in the Capital beautification scheme. Unfurled in a glassed-over court from the ninth-story roof to third-story floor, the 80-foot 4-inch flag is surrounded at fourth and fifth story height by flags of all the States—a collection much sought by school children. But all the courts in the new build- ing will be open, and there will be no place for the fl;e' which isn't so bright - | director, who has been in Government years in clerical work at the White | House. | _ Impartially, she takes the role of | Betsy Ross to all the banners of all the States, sewing new silks about their em- | broidered-seal centers when they get | too worn to wave, All the bunting flags she takes to her own apar ment in Washington, and she | persuades Artist Frank Dony to do over the Louisiana pelican when the color | runs. It was she who discovered the Missouri flag had its insignia on upside | down. and Dony artfully inverted it. Miss Sanger doesn't know whether room for the State flags can be found in the new buildings, but she hopes some | entrance or corridor may be brightensd them. But the biggest flag of all, made in 1920 at a cost of $300 with 30-inch stars and yard-wide stripes, will have to re- 4 A $100,000,000 emergency relief !\md" iblican leaders made no floor de- adm! He said | h the .measure contemplated in- | After the debate, Republican leaders | service ever since the Harricon adminis- | tration, when she spent four and a half | FINES THREATENED GAS COMPANY IF - RULE IS FLOUTED |$200 Daily Penalty Faced Unless Pressure Order Is Carried Out. Pinal notice was served on the gas | Icomplnles by the Public Utilities Com- mission yesterday that failure to obey | |its new pressure regulations would re- | |sult in the imposition of penalties. The warning was contained in a| | 1,200-wokd statement on the gas situa- | tion, issued by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the commission, at the close of two weeks of intensive investigation to determine the cause of com- T 885 i 9 The public utilities act prescribes a fine of $200 for every day a public utility corporation fails to obey any order or regulation of the commission. This is the weapon the commission ;mrpoaeu to use on the gas companie$ or further infractions of the pressure regulations. Investigated Complaints. Gen. Patrick's statement analyzes the various complaints received by the | commission about increased gas bills, discusses the effect of high pressures on gas appliances, and points out that the commission is insisting that the readjustment of appliances for efficient operation under the recently autho:- ized 8-inch pressure be vigorously prosecuted. “The commission has investigated every individual complaint which it has | received,” said Gen. Patrick. “It has | | impressed upon the gas company the necessity for remedial measures. It has insisted and is insisting that the regulation of gas appliances should be | prosecuted vigorously in order to meet the changed conditions. “It is particularly insistent that the larger measures of relief, greater main | capacity, must be supplied in order that the pressures may be kept at a reason- able figure. In this connection it has | already served notice on both gas com- | | -inch pressure must not be exceeded anywhere in the city. The commission | is ‘making constant tests and will see | that these orders are obeyed, or tnat | failure to obey them will carry with it | the penalties prescribed.” Announcement also was made that the commission tomorrow will appoint a successor to Bert H. Peck, its chief | engineer, so that there will be no in- | terruption in the investigation of the | gas situation. Mr. Peck, who directed the_inquiry r_disclosi |~ (Continued on Page 6, Col TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign Educational News—Page B-4. At Community Centers—Page C-9. ! PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Peatures. | PART THREE—16 PAGES. | Society Becticn, Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 14. PART FOUR—10 PAGES. Section—Theater, | “and Radio. | In the Motor World—Page 4. | Aviation—-Page 5. | Serial Story, “Manhattan Night"— Page 5. Army and Navy News—Page 5. News of the Clubs—Page 6. D. A. R. Activities—Page 6. Fraternities—Page 7. U. Notes—Page 7. of Columbia Naval Reserve— and Screen | | _Page 7 Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 8. District National Guard—Page 8. American Legion—Page 8. Radio—Page 9. Organized Reserves—Page 10. Y. W C. A Notes—Page 10. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. | Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. | Financial News and Classified Ad- vertising. PART SEVEN. | Magazine Section. Notes ol Art and Artists—Page 19. | In the Music World—Page 20. | Reviews of the New Books—Page 21. | Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22. | GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Ioon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; Reglar Fellers; Little Orphan Annie; Brutus; ; Mr. and Mrs.; High PAGES. the lights D. C, SUNDAY MO FUND HIDING DENIED BY LUCAS, ACCUSED IN'NEBRASKA PROBE Nye Committee Says G. 0. P. Official Guilty of ‘Corrupt’ Practices. EXPENDITURES REPORTED ‘FILED ON DECEMBER 22’ ‘Secret’ Attempts to Defeat Norris Draw Fire in Report by Senate Group. By the Associated Press. The charge that Robert H. Lucas ap- | peared wilifully to have violated the | corrupt practices act brought a prompt statement from him last night that he had reported his expenditures to “the clerk of the Senate December 22.” ‘The Senate campaign funds com- mittee reported yesterday to the Senate that Lucas “is chargeable with a willful violation” in failing to report his ex- penditures in opposition to Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska. Telephones Statement. In his statement telephoned to the Republican National Commitice from Jacksonville, Fla., last night, the execu- tive director said: “My personal expenditures of the last campaign were paid December 2 and no report was due until January 1. My report was made and filed with the clerk of the Senate December 22.” ‘The committee made known its con- clusion in an exhaustive report on its Nebraska inquiry which Chairman Nye submitted to the Senate and had read without comment. A report on its Pennsylvania invesigation will be sub- mitted tomorrow. Secret Fund Charged. The Nebraska report said the Lucas | | { | RNING, MARCH 1, 19 31—126 PAGES. x FIVE CE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS MEETIN MARCH S5 0SETTLE UPALCouyTg BURNET T0 STRIE. gotten Gains of Gangsters to Be Taxed. incident was the “final episode” of a series of “secret” attempts to defeat Norris. It said Lucas made a “secret expenditure of some $4,000” in connec- tion with the “circulation of scurrilous | literature” against Norris and candi- | dates in other States and failed to re- | port this expenditure until after the | legally prescribed dates had passed. | “The only conclusion which the com- mittee is able to reach in respect ow this incident,” the report said, “is that Mr. Lucas attempted to conceal the | transaction, designedly failed to report | fevenue, last night in the National| as required by the Federal corrupt practices act and is chargeable with a willful violation of section 314, para- graph (B).” $10,000 Fine Is Penaity. ‘This section carries a penalty of not more than $10,000 and imprisonment of not more than two years. | ‘The report also sald Samuel R. Mc- Kelvie, member of the Farm Board and former Republican Governor of Nebraska, and Charles A. McCloud, Republican National Committeeman | for Nebraska, apparently had violated the Nebraska election laws by con- tributing in excess of the $1,000 legal limit to the campaign of W. M. Steb | bins, former State treasurer and Nor- ris’ primary opponent., Z It assailed the unsuccessful attempt | to file George W. Norris, Broken Bow grocer, against Senator Norris in the | primary to “confuse” the voters and | aitacked Stebbins’ connection with it. | Frank Marsh Attacked. | In this connection it said Frank Marsh, then secretary of State for Nebraska, was a party to a “deliberate attempt to intimidate” a committee wit- ness. ¢ " the REPUCH saed,r o it_did (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) EX-HAVANA OFFICIAL is attempt at intimidation, d, “bordered u i Five Members of Presidential | Guard Arrested—Army Over- { hauling in Prospect. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, “ebruary 28.—With gywe charges facing Comdr. Manuel Esm}'a aide-de-camp to President Gerardo | Machado, police tonight announced that | a former city official had been implicat- | ed in the piot for a bomb explosion in the presidential palace Monday morning. | Police said Camilo Valdes, the soldier | who admitted dropping the bomb down a_vent pipe, confessed today the ex- plosive was given him by Francisco | Diaz, who was an official of the municipality of Havana under the ad- ministration of Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez before Havana became a federal district last week. Comdr. Espinosa is a brother-in-law | of Mayor Gomez and one police theory is that adherents of the Gomez ad- | ministration resented the conversion of the city into a federal district, with its officials to be named by the govern- ment. Five members of the presidential | guard have been arrested, in addition | to Comdr. Espinosa, and it was in- | dicated today the army might be given an overhaulng. | | | the Gunmen of the Middle West, “with hands conveniently placed in coat pockets,” will not deter the Federal Government from its campaign to col- lect income tax on “illegal” income and prosecution for evasion of income tax payments. This declaration was sounded by [LLEGAL INCOMES . . H Declares in Radio Forum lil- Bill to Pay Workers Capital Wage Scale On U.S. Jobs 0.K.’d B the Associated Press. Congress acted yesterday to protect the wage scale of labor employed on the vast half billion dollar Federal building program. House approval sent to the President a bill to require con- tractors engaged on public build- ings to pay the prevailing local wage scale. It would apply to all contracts let in the future on the Nation-wide program. “Some successful bidders for contracts have selfishly imported labor from distant localities and have exploited this labor at wages far below local wage rates,” said unanimous report of the House Labor Committee. The Secretary of Labor is made the final arbiter of what wage should be paid. | David Burnet, commissioner of internal | Radio Forum, arranged by The Wash- ington Star and broadcast over WMAL and the coast-to-coast nefwork of the Columbia Broadcasting System. “The end of this campaign is not yet,” he declared. In the course of his address explain- ing the income taxes due from the American people on or before March 16, Commissioner Burnet took up the mat city,” the name of which he did not mention. Matched Wits and Won. In that city, the commissioner said, “a man whose name has figured la; fin in the public press as an enemy of law and order has been convicted on harge of evading his income ta: Others of his like,” continued the com. missioner, “on similar charges have en- tered pleas of guilty.” For the purpose of his address, Mr. Burnet asked each listener to presume | himself to be commissioner of internal | enue. “Immediately,” he deciared, ere is born to you the realization of work of the splendid men of your bureau, who have matched their ability no- rev ‘thi nd wits against the brains of torious clique—and won.” Paying tribute to the Department of Justice and district attorneys, whose support and encouragement was neces- sary to successful prosecution, the come missioner flatly declared: “It is reveal- ing no secret to say that the end of this campaign is not yet. Income from illegal transactions—alleged to be the main source of revenue of this gentry— is taxable income. It is the purpose of the Bureau of Internal Revenue to use every means within its power to collect it. Even the presence of a bodyguard, hands conveniently placed in coat pockets, in this instance will not serve as a deterrent.” Willful failure to report income, whether honestly or illegally gotten, he commissioner explained, is punish- mn 1. “SILK STOCKING NAVY” BILL PASSES IN HOUSE McClintic of Oklahoma Raps Plan Increasing Percentage of Service's Officers. By the Associated Press. Over the objection of Representative McClintic of Oklahoma that it would give “us a silk stocking Navy,” the House yesterday passed the Senate bill affecting promotion of officers. ‘The bill, approved by & vote of 170 to 63, would change the percentage of commanders, now 7 per cent of total naval officers, to 8: manders from 14 to 15, lieutenants, 3214 to 32, and junior grade lieutenants and ensigns, 4112 to 4 American Troops in Action, Brilliant Performance of Col. U. G. McAlex- ander's 38th Regiment—42d Division Engaged with Heavy Losses—G by American Combat and 2d Divisions Arrow 26th Division in Secon erman Strength Offset Re-enforcements—I1st head of Great Attack— d Battle of the Marne. Don't Fail to Read Every Installment of GENERAL PERSHING’S “My Experiences in the World War” Dail [ i The Evenin y in g Star lieutenant com- | H ANTHLAME DUCK SENTIMENT FALLS| | Congress Adopts Resolutions| ter of the situation in a “Midwestern | Providing for Reyular Session Times. ‘The perennial growth toward aboli- tion of sessions of an old Congress after | 8 new one hes been elected was clipped | on Capitol Hill yesterday just before'it | flowered into definite congressional | action., Conferees of the Senate and House agreed to disagree after another futile | effort yesterday to come to an under- | standing on the House proposal fixing | definite time for adjournment of the second session. January Meeting Provided. | Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, chairman of the conferees and sponsor of the constitutional amendment, an- bounced “it is dead for this session at least, I am awfully sorry to say, Both the Senate and House adopted resolutions providing that the newly elected Congress meet annually in Janu- ary. Howevi at the insistence of Speaker Longworth the House included a provision that the second annual ses- sion end on May 4, four months after |it would have convened. The Senate {placed no limitation on the sessions. ‘The Senate conferees offered a com- | promise whereby Congress would be au- | thorized to fix, by law, a date for | termination of the second session, but they flatly refused to have a definite date placed in the Constitution for all time to come. Time Extension Offered. | House conferees offered to extend the | time for the second session to June d— which would bring the session up to a time for the national conventions on those years—but they insisted that a Norris said that in a limited session power is always given to a few persons in the closing hours to block whatever legislation they want to, no matter how good it may be. “‘Also,” he said, “the House rules pro- | vide that in the last six days of a ses- sion the Speaker may recognize any one he desires and suspend the rules for any legislation he desires. This makes him absolute monarch of what the se may do. “The operation of that rule is that the Speaker won't recognize any one ex- cept that person who proposes legisla- tion he favors. This becomes the more serious when it is realized that the par- ticular provision for limiting the ses- m;n was proposed by the Speaker him- sel \D. C. FAVORS OPTION FOR WOMAN JURORS Commissioners Disapprove of Bill to Remove Right to Serve or Not. The District Commiseioners yesterday | sent to Congress an unfavorable report on the bill aimed at taking away from ‘woman jurors the privilege they now en- joy of..either serving or declining to serve when called, at their pleasure. The bill is on the modern feminist conception that women should have exactly the same rights and exactly the same duties, except in matters purely biological, as men. But the Commissioners belong to an older school. If we are to have woman jurors, the Commissioners feel, at least they should have the option of serving or not, as dictated by their own fancies. “The Commissioners,” they wrote, reason “are not advised as to any why the present law should chnnrd 0 a|car and therefore cannot hvmburr\onfluw.\." definite date for adjournment be fixed. | °f | | | | | CONFEREES AGREE [ i | ;Measure to Limit Road Signs | in Capital Now Awaits Hoover’s Signature. Congress completed action yesterday ' { on the bill for the regulation of outdoor signs in the District of Columbia, when the Senate agreed to the conference re- port which previously had been ap- proved by,t.he House. This sends the measure to the President. The bill empowers the Commission- ers to control and restrict, in so far as necessary {o promote public health, safety, morals and welfare, the placing and main and range for the to be held before the drafting of regu- mz‘.:‘;x‘s'l tion along this line his haq ation along e has the backing of a large numm.b:l civic organizations interested in improving the National Capital, partieularly in view of the Federal projects under way here and the approaching George Wash- ington Bicentennial celebration in 1932. Conference Report Presented. ure was presented originally to the Senate early last week by Chairman | Capper of ' the District = Committee. | Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wis- | consin, who 2sked that it be deferred at that time until he could study the report, called it up for action yesterday. Senator Blaine questioned the validity | of the bill because of its extension to regulate the placing of signs on private roperty within public view, but said e had no objection to adoption. After a brief debate, in which Senators Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas, and King, Democrat, of Utah, took part, the Senate adopted the report. As it goes to the President for signa- ture, the bill reads, in part, as follows: “That the Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, after public hearings to make and to enforce such regulations as they may deem advisable to, in so far as necessary to promote the public health, safety, morals and welfare, control, restrict and govern the erection, hanging, placing, ainting, display, and maintenance of all outdoor signs and other forms of exterior advertising on public ways and public space under their control and on private property within public view within the District of Columbia, and | such tegu tions as may be promulgated hereunder shall have the force and effect of law.’ Licenses Must Be Obtained. Continuing, the bill requires all per- sons engaging in the business of erect- ing or maintaining outdoor signs to obtain a license from the District gov- ernment, with an annual license fee $5. “For good cause shown the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia shall have the power to reject any ap- plication for a license hereunder, or, where license has been issued, to re- voke it,” the bill orovides. The penalty section provides for fines of not less than $5 nor more than $200 for each offense, and a like fine for each day that a violation continues thereafter. The bill further provides Swday Star, NTS | TEN CENTS FACTS, NOT ISSUES, 10 DECIDE HOOVER ON MUSCLE SHOALS Engineering Examination and Study of Policy Involved to Write Bills’ Fate. PRESIDENT EXPLAINS POSITION IN STATEMENT Answering Demands for Views, Executive Sees “Political Sym- bolism” in Meastre. By the Associated Press. President Hoover, in a formal state- ment yesterday, said he was submite ting the merits and demerits of the Norris Muscle Shoals bill “to the cold examination of engineering facts.” The President said it was obvious from the debate, press reports communications that the Shoals legislation was no question of of a ON BILLBOARD BILL 555 ‘The conference report on the meas- | modities. “One side of the issue of this - tical phase is the use which has made of Muscle Shoals to side :lflecu:e’nm on the Federal regula- ion of wer in with the Btates % o “Before and since taking office have proposed this as a measure .} essential protection to the 75,000,000 consumers and several million inves- tors in power securities in all walks of Wwho use and own the 35,000,000 hqg;ehp‘gverb%x the country. public necessif been aside for 18 months tn’ndh.fha o § Congress given to 1 per cent power and the interest of 1 per cer the people of the United States, w! is the proportion of the Muscle SI problem to the whole. “The bill calls for ture doLars ;flnetymor P:d hundred rom the leral Treasury to expand & power plant which has been & bi- product of other major purposes of nav- (Continued on Page 6, Column 4., GIRL FIGHTS OFF COMA; DIES 2 YEARS LATER Marjorie Dowdy of Lynchburg, Va., Attracted Nationwide Attention; Death Caused by Pneumonia. By the Assoclaied Press. LYNCHBURG, Va., Feb —Marjorie Dowdy, 11, who %”m ago attracted Nation-wide attention her successful fight to recover from four-month coma, died today at home of her parents, Mr. and A. C. Dowdy. Death was caused meumonh. The girl returned to sc! t September after recovering from effects of the coma caused by an a (Continued on Page 2, Column §) mobile accident. to ‘The public school the ities system is re: co-operate with Public Commission in carrying the 3-cent carfare law, but it will to sell the tickets to the school chil- dren, Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant sl;‘plelzlnfzndenh told The Star last nl At the same time, Mr. Kramer denied that he ever had proposed that strips of tickets be made available to the pupils. “The schools are ready, as they al- ways have been,” Mr. Kramer declared, in putting into effect the 3-cent carfare for pupils. We will do out it acting as agent for the street car com- panies g their tickets to the no means of Ing sums of mon coll adequate n ro{hemgmpommtarnuh i;.ltseuu m?-‘:x“fiu et ve 0 is part of the full responsibility, dren. I street er's al- TEACHERS CAN’T SELL PUPILS CAR TICKETS UNDER RULING Kramer Says Instructors Will Aid in Three-Cent Change, But Won’t Act as Agents. Sy everything possible up to the point of | willingness