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( HITLER CIVIL WAR THREATS RESULT IN RAID ON SOCIALISTS March on Berlin Revealed if Plans of Nazi Party Failed. “STORM TROOPS” BANNED BY GOVERNMENT ORDER “Grandmother Dead” Declared Cue for Moving 50,000 Organized Forces on Stragetic Points. ess B the Associste BERLIN, March 17—The Prussian accepted a challenge of the jolf Hil today, ordering nal socialist headquarters | the state after disclosires cal Nazi plans for a nt its action, the ministry d a statement in which investigation revealed that azis’ signal for a march upon the big cities in their neighborhoods was to be the flash “grandmother dead.” March on Berlin Reported. The statement said the Hitlerites were ready for a march on Berlin at the time of the presidential election st Sunday and that all details had en planned, such as arrangements r transportation and provisions, “These preparations were made,” the ministry’s statement said, “under the guise of putting down communist re- volts, but in reality they were prepara- tions for civil war.” The statement ended by saying that the Prussian government no longer would tolerate the mobilization of an army like Hitler's storm troops. The raids throughout Prussia were under the direction of Karl Severing, minister of interior. A report was current that they would be extended also to other parts of the Reich. Declared 500,000 Strong. Prussian officials said they had knowledge of plans, maps and mobili- zation orders of Hitler's “storm troops” reported to be 500,000 strong. including automobile and motor cycle detach- ments The “grandmother” message, officials said, was found attached to a map which purported to show the method of relaying it to mobilizing points throughout the Reich. They said the Hitlerites apparently planned to march on the larger cities and assist police in maintaining order in the event of Hit- ler's election in the first balloting, but the Prussian minister said they were prepared to seize the power in the event of inwr(rrcnc«]-. 1 1 i ostion German political police and es| age forces, it was learned, have been working quietly on the case and re- cently uncovered stores of arms and emmunition which they said were Nazl property. Move Believed Squelched. The stern measures adopted by Herr Severing and which apparently were carried out with the cognizance of officials of the Reich were believed in| authoritative circles to have squelched | any possibility of further trouble. Throughout Prusgia, from Koenigs- ( berg to Cologne, police seized all the | correspondence they found in the Naz | headquarters, packed it up and took it under heavy guard to police head- quarters for examination. There were raids in Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, Aachen, Dussel- dorf, Frankfort-on-Main and many smaller places. HITLER PLOT SE | et | Voters Declared “Planted” in Favorite | Resort of Hindenburg. : DIETRAMSZELL, Bavaria, March this community, sort of President | said they saw a 17 (& —Citizens favorite Summer Paul von Hindenbu Geep, dark plot today in the fact that Adolf Hitler carried the town i the residential election last Sunday. 8 votes and Von Hinden- n spite of the fact that the n President is a popular annual of ns said, carried the town only because his campaign managers “planted” & large group of es here as excursionists over the | n week end without suspicion on | the part of the villagers. The intent, they said, was to hurt the President’s feelings. rate citize) JAPANESE CABINET Supplementary Figures for Military Expenditures Reported as $22,000,000. he Assoc ted Pr March 17.—The Japanese | upplementary budgets ¥ expenditures ria totaling 67.- | 000,000), 1t was | gh 000,000 about §: 10 be submitted to s of Parliament, ymorrow. One will cover of the fi 2, asking 7,578.000 ven, in he compromise agree- et and privy h 3 will cover the This asks oximatel (about $30,000,000) ha: by 1mperial emergency s which the Parliament must post facto. s the total extraordinary ants on account of the Man- huria and Shanghia campaigns to 158, 000,000 yen (about $52,000,000). NEW YORK HIRES 24,386 tate Leads in Drive to Find Work for 1,000,000. NEW YORK, March 17 (#.— ork State led today in the united ac- fion campaign to find a million jobs or the unemployed. It has returned 4,386 workers to the ranks of the smploved. i ‘With a month of the compaign com- irty-six States contributed 8,130 jobs esierdsy. v Hopewell Banker Ends Own Life in Cellar of Home By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J., March 17 —Theodore M. Hall, 60-year-old cashier of the Hopewell National Bank, shot himself in the cellar of his home today and died soon afterward i Officials of the bank said the institution’s affairs were in good order and that the suicide had nothing to do with financial matters. Mrs. Hall said her husband, who had been with the bank ever since it was founded in 1890, had been suffering from a nervous disorder for months She said his act was due en- tirely to his general condition and that he had not shown any signs of breakdown because of worry about the Lindbergh kid- naping here. G.0. . FOES GIRD Approval of Eastern Wet Sought—Mills’ Name Suggested. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. An effort to unhorse Vice President Curtis as the running mate of President Hoover in the coming national cam- paign has been undertaken by some members of the Republican National Committee, it was learned today. The name of Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, as a possible substi- national ticket was advanced today in those quarters antagonistic to the re- nomination of Mr. Curtis. ever that the Hoover administration is back of this movement, and it is too early as yet to say how far the mov ment will go. Those who are sponsoring it contend it would be wise to place on the ticket with President Hoover a the wets in the East and also to the bj financial interests. Before his death there was much talk of the possibility of substituting the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow for Mr. Curtis as the vice presidential can- didate. D. C. TAX BILLS DUE BEFORE SENATE GROUP Capper Expects to Open Committee Hearings on Three Measures Within Next Week. Chairman Capper of the Senate District Committee expects to begin hearings some time next week on the Bty has reporied thus. far. of repoy us far. The date on which the hearings will open has not been fixed. The three measures deal with a local estate tax, a doubling of the gaso- line tax and a weight tax on motor vehicles. The Efficiency Bureau is still at work on the bill for a local income tax, and the measure by which the House is seeking to repeal the substan- tive 60—40 ratio in handling fiscal relations between the District and Federal Governments. Senator Capper has called his com- mittee to meet tomorrow on the street railway merger resolution, and if this question is disposed of the committee will be in a position t. proceed next week on the Mapes ollls. U. S. WILL DEPORT CHINESE REFUGEES Government to Spend $350,000 to Send 3,000 Driven From Mexico to Hongkong. Immigration officials of the Labor deport 3,000 Chinese who have been driven from their homes in Mexico by the civil government of Sonora and Sinaloa and who will,be arrested if at- tempting illegal entry into this coun- try at Nogales and Naco, Ariz. The rush of Chinese to the American border from these two States was re- ported at its height this week and of- ficials estimated that by Saturday they will have prepared 450 warrants for deportation. Heretofore the Chinese have been reported crossing the border in_smaller bands. The cost of deporting Chinese from Arizona to Hongkong has been estimat- ed at the department at $116 each. The total bill this country will have to pay as the result of the so-called exclusion act enforced by these two Mexican States will be approximately $350,000. Since October 1 693 Chinese have been deported. There are now being detained, awaiting deportation, accord- ing to officials, approximately 500. La- bor Department officials say 2,500 are planning to come to this country. o French Consul Dies. HONGKONG, China, March 17 (). —Edouard Koechlin, French consul general at Shanghai, died here today of smallpox T0 SHELVE CURTS tute for Vice President Curtis on the | There has been no indication what- | vice presidential candidate acceptable to Department said today they expected to | MISSING SERVANTS CLEARED IN BABY KIONAPING PROBE Chisel That Cast Suspicion on Couple Is Found Near Hopewell. NEW CLUE UNEARTHED | IN MIDWEST COLLAPSES Probers Announce Child Held at Creston, Iowa, Is Not Lind- bergh Infant. By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J, March 17.—The latest theory in the Lindbergh baby | kidnap mystery fell apart today. For several days police from the Lindbergh home have been investigat- | ing the story of Mr. and Mrs. C. Lean- dro Lightfoot of Franklin Park, who told of their forelgn servants leaving | the day after the kidnaping. The Light- | foots reported also that wood similar |to that used in the kidnapers' ladder was missing from their home. as was a chisel like the one found beneath the Lindbergh nursery window. Today the Lightfoots found the chisel and police acknowledged they were just about back where they started on the night of Mareh 1, when the baby | was stolen. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, super- intendent of State police, told of the finding of the chisel in his midmorning bulletin. Servants Believed Cleared. “In the investigation of the story told by Leandro Lightfoot,” he said, “I | would state that Mr. Lightfoot has | found the chisel which he claimed to | have lost and there is no suspicion | placed on Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg (the | missing servants) in this particular in- | stance any more. The other parts of the story are being further checked and when the investigatdn is completed we will be glad to give further facts in the dings.” While Schwarzkopf said investigation of the Lightfoot-Thornburg angle of the case was being continued, investigators working under him let it te known they believed the whole theory had col- lapsed with discovery of the chisel. The wood from which the ladder was made, they pointed out, could have been easily secured from a hundred places ! in the region and the chisel had really | been the only thing connecting the dis- appearance of the Thornburgs with the | kidnap case. The rest of Schwarzkopf's bulletin dealt with angles of the case already proven to be of no value. He spoke of the child held for a time at Creston, Jowa, and said a birthmark on that baby's chest had made it possible defi- nitely to determine it was not the Lindbergh baby, which was not so | marked. He mentioned also a report of four| men in a blue sedan with New York license plates, who were seen acting in a suspicious manner in Dunellen, N. J., the day before the kidnaping. No Bearing on Case. “This_has been thoroughly investi- gated,” he said, “and these people have been ‘seen several times in Dunellen since. While probably engaged in some suspicious action, it is quite evident | this carries no importance in this case.” A call for all Police Departments.in the State to act in concert to remove “the blot on the fair name of New " was issued by Herbert C. Morristown chief of police and " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ACCUSED OF ASSAULT Man Charged With Moving Mother and Infant From Their Bed. Special Dispatcr ANNAPOL March Charged with assaulting a nine-day-old baby boy and his mother, F. Lee Sears, fbrréplo::; ?é a 14d'k! business concern, is ay held under $500 bon o d pending The man is alleged to have entered the home of Mrs. Marguerite Duckett, 25 Cornhill street, and removed the mother and her nine-day-old child from their bed. According to testimony presented to Police Justice John W. An- derson, Sears was seeking the bed be- cause installment payments had not rs. Duckett's sister, Mrs, Callie M. Gibson, charges that Sears removed the mother and baby from the bed and after taking it apart found that it was not the bed sought. Mrs. Gibson told the magistrate that the man did not replace the bed when he saw his error, causing considerable discomfort and possible endangering the health and lives of the two occupants, | Annapolis | | Md 17— Ohio Calls Extra Ses;ion, COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 17 (#).— | Gov. George White today summoned | the Ohio Legislature to meet in ex- | traordinary session March 29 to enact emergency relief legislation Quiver Perceptible By the Associated Press. MANISTIQUE, Mich., March 17— Simultaneous explosion of 441,000 pounds of dynamite in one quarry s up the landscape and sets up a cqz&:;vrenrs ih mother earth that can be detected on seismographs hundreds of miles distant. Those were some of the conclusions from the biggest commercial blast on record, set off at 4:02 p.m. Eastern standard time, yesterday at the quarry of the Inland Lime & Stone Co. In Manistique, 8 miles distant, the quake was barely perceptible, but re- ports from _Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.. and Michigan State College, at East Lansing, sald seismo- detected the explosion. In the interests of sclgnce the blast 4 441,00_0-POUND DYNAMITE BLAST IN MICHIGAN IS DETECTED HERE Biggest Commercial Explosion on Record Sets Up Earth Hundreds of Miles. was carefully timed and set off at & radio signal from the Naval Observa- tory at Annapolis, Md. Eyewitnesses of this hundred Fourth of July celebrations rolled into one | sald rocky fragments of the Upper | Peninsula " rocketed 500 feet into the 1511' and that the ground “sort of churned up.” Most of the witnesses, officials of the Inland Co. and photog- raphers lay beneath steel railroad cars as a protection against falling frag- ments. ‘The blasted area was a mile long and 200 feet wide. The dynamite was divided into 5,000 charges and set off simultaneously by 7 miles of TNT fuse. | The purpose .was to dislodge a year's supply of limestone. 1,250,000 tons, but bleted the grand total stands at 245.495. graphs, attuned to record earthquakes, officials said it would take several deys i to determine this goal had been PATRICK? 1. . FIXES FIGURES FOR WORLD ARMIES Concrete Proposal on Land| and Air Forces Submitted for Approval Here. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. 5 GENEVA, March 17—The Americar delegation has now completed its plan | for the Disarmament Conference here. This plan in all its details is being sub- | mitted to Washington for zpproval and | will be urged before the conference | when it reconvenes to tackle real issues | on April 11 | In its present form, which is first| made public in this dispatch, it Is | neither dogmatic nor final and can be | modified both by Washington and by | the subsequent course of debates. Yet. | as it stands, it is strong testimony that the United States intends to be not] merely helpful but constructive and wili spare no efforts to make the conference | a success. | The main object of the American | plan is to bring about real reductions. | It is sensational in that to this end like Germany, the American delegation | formally accepts the peacc treaties as | an indication and basis of the future | size of home military establishments | throughout the world, while for colonial establishments it takes the French Colonial Army as the basis. Doesn’t Include Navies, The plan applies only to land and | air forces. Navies are considered to| Court Reverses Theft Conviction Based on Big Feet By the Assoctated Pre: LINCOLN, Nebr., March 17 (#). —Circumstantial evidence based on big feet was insufficient, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled today, to convict a suspect of crime ‘The conviction of W. H. Hard- ing in Phelps County was reversed, therefore, and the case remanded for rehearing. He was under & one-year penitentiary sentence, Larged-sized footprints were discovered near the James Ander- son blacksmith shop in Loomis, July 14, 1930, after the theft of & welding machine. Harding was arrested and in his posses- sion were parts of a welding ma- chine, but Anderson could not identify them. ‘The court said evidence cor cering Harding's feet was incom- petent. APPROVAL LIKELY FOR LOGAL RELIEF Hoover Expected to Indorse Bill When Formally Brought to His Attention. A bill drafted to secure unemploy- ment relief for the District from public funds is expected to receive the ap- proval of President Hoover when for- mally brought to his attention, The measure now under consideration SALES TAX PARLEY ISCALLEDBYG.0.P. |Republican House Members Decide Tomorrow Whether to Support Plan. By the Assoclated Press. The Republican House members will | decide tomorrow night whether they can support the sales tax with any | degree of solidarity. Representative Snell of New York, :t.’xcir floor leader, called a neeting |after a petition had been presented to | the clerk of the party conference today bearing sufficient signatures to force a meeting under the rules of the con- ference. About the same time Speaker Garner | expressed the view a vote would be in | order on an amendment calling for a 135 a barrel on 2.75 per cent beer. Petition Subsfied. The petition, signed by 39 Repub- licans asking for a party conference, was submitted to leaders as a group of about 50 Democrats affirmed their decision of last night to bolt their leadership and seck to kill the sales tax provision, The demand for a conference of Re- publican members was filed with the clerk of the Republican conference by Representative La Guardia, Republican, | New York. | _ The presenting of the petitioh did not mean that every member who signed was necessarily ‘against the sales tax, | but that they believed the matter should be discussed in a party conference. These developments followed the Ways and Means Committee’s decision have been dealt with by the Washington | by the Budget Bureau would request | propose an amendment to the bill and London treaties. only condition on which States would consider reopening naval questions here is that Prance and Italy should first adhere treaty. The main point of the American plan is its method of reaching a rough esti- mate of the suitable size for armies. The American theory is that an army needs a certain number of men for the maintenance of internal order and the | policing of frontiers. This need is abso- lute. It depends upon such factors as population, area and length of frontiers. Anything beyond the number of men required for this specific purpose is sup- | posed to be for defense against external aggression. Hence this second factor in a national army, this part of it main- tained for defense against external ag- gression. is relative, depending on the size of armies which might attack it. It is consequently in this part of the military establishment, the part which is relative, that important reductions | might be made by general agreement. | Attempted in Treaties. | The first_problem in working out the details of the plan was to find a sound way to estimate how many men are needed for internal order and to patrol | the frontiers. It so happens that the | peace treaties, in fixing the size of armies now authorized to the Central powers, attempted to solve this same problem. In the case of Germany, it is thought to have been clearly demon- strated that the solution provided by the treaties was sound because the new German Army preserved the republic | despite various revolutionary outbreaks. | While the American plan mentions merely “peace treaties” as the basis, it is doubtless safe to assume for prac- | tical purposes that what is meant is the treaty whose military clauses are the most important, the Versailles treaty. Under it Germany is_alloted 115,500 soldiers and sailors solely for the maintenance of order and to pa- trol the frontiers. Taking the pres- ent population of Germany as slight- ly over 65,000,000, the ratio of the army to the population appears to be 1.77. In unofficial studies this ratio has been applied to other countries in or- der to give a rough indication of what size army they need to preserve inter- nal _order. Here the colonial problem arose. As | Germany now has no colonies, it was T (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) CUBAN STRIKE CALLED Sympathy Walkout Ordered by§ Labor Confederation. HAVANA, March 17 (#).—The Cuban Nationa! Labor Confederation today called on workmen throughout the island to strike for 24 hours March 24 “in sympathy with the 15,000 tobacco workers and strikers in other indus- tries.” Press censorship, imprisonment of workers and politicians, continued sus- pension of constitutional guarantees, ejection of unemployed from their homes and “Yankee imperialism” would also be protested, it was decided upon at secret meetings of represenia. tives of 46 unions, factories and com- mittees of unemployed. 2 Apparently the | Congress to appropriate money from |to unemployment. The draft of the bill was sent to the after a recommendation for such a bill had been received from the District Committee on Employment. The bureau is expected to act on the measure today. Crisis Reached Last Week. Unemployment relief work in the District reached a crisis last week, when Paul L. Benjamin, executive sec- retary of the Committee on Employ- | ment, suggested the appropriation from public funds because of the prospective depletion of the $250,000 donation from had been ‘There Committee functioning during the Winter. was a fight against the Benjamin pro- | posal, led by District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan. Before the Commissioners sent the draft of the bill to the Budget Bureau they consulted with Chairman E. C. Graham of the Employment Commii- tee and Newbold Noyes of the Wash- ington Couneil of Social Agencies. While President Hoover has been ad- | vised informally of the situation in Washington growing out of the deple- tion of the funds of the District Com- mittee on Employment, and has been told about the need for additional money to continue this relief work, the question has not been put up to him yet for an opinion or a decision. Inconsistency Denied. It is understood, however, that Mr. Hocver will be asked for assistance very shortly. The question is now considered by officials of the District government and Col. J. C. Roop, di- rector of the budget thoroughly considered the subject, and have worked out a definite proposal | and decided upon the size of the ap- propriation needed to carry on this local relief work, the President will be ap- proached. In approving this appeal to Congress for an appropriation to help the un- employed of the District of Columbia, it has been pointed out by friends of the President that he would not be acting in an inconsistent manner be- cause of his previously expressed op- position to appropriating Federal money for the aid of relief work in States and municipalities. It was explained that such an appropriation fo: the District of Columbia would be in line with the President’s policy of having local relief handled with local funds. Inasmuch as Congress is the only legislative body which the Capital City has to appeal | to for funds, Congress would, of course, have to appropriate the money. ‘Wind Storm Hits Little Rock. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 17 (®). —A wind storm last night injured three persons and caused property damage estimated at thousands of dollars in the southwestern section of Little Rock. J. J. Midgett is in a serious condi- tion. He was hurt as his house was blown in on him. Many houses and garages were damaged and telephone poles and trees were blown down. = Radio Programs being | | dividually impose a 4-cent-a-pound _excise the United | pigerict funds with a view to relieving | tax on copper imports, to bring in about $12,000,000. This is expected ta gain more support for the sales tax to the London | pydget Bureau yesterday a few hours|nd to provide the revenue eliminated | when the committee decided to exempt | canned fruit and vegetables from the |2.25 per cent manufacturers’ levy. | ~Acting Chairman Crisp of the com- | | mittee announced the copper decision after an executive session. He said it would be offered as an amendment to the new revenue bill if the amendment could be worked out satisfactorily to apply to all copper products and ore. Douglas Urges Levy. | Representative Douglas, Democrat, | the Community Chest, on which the | Arizona, yesterday appeared before the | Employment | committee in executive session and | urged a levy on copper imports. previous! _urged a_protective levy (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) |ONE KILLED; 18 INJURED AS BUS RUNS INTO TRUCK | Christine Linkfield, 8, of Hunting- ton, W. Va.,, Dies in Wreck Near Rye, N. Y. By the Associated Press. RYE, N. Y., March 17.—An 8-year- old child was killed and 18 persons were injured early today when a New York bound bus from Boston crashed | into a parked truck on tae Boston Post | road. near here. Huntington, W. Va., traveling with her mother, Mrs. Chester Linkfield, and her When they have | brother, William, 6. The latter suffered | can be effected. only minor injurles. Port Chester, N." Y., hospital He | The child was Christine Linkfield of | MEASURE DRAFTED | " FORDRASTIG CUTS INU. 5. SALARIES |Byrns Says Economy Bill May Be Reported Out Next Week. ; |PROPOSED REDUCTIONS EFFECTIVE FOR 2 YEARS | | Subcommittee at Work on Legis- lation—Cochran Fights Move to Pare Pay. A bill drastically cutting salaries of | all Government employes is being | drafted by the*Special House Economy Committee. Chairman Byrns of the economy | group said off the floor “a bill cutting salaries probably will be reported out by the committee next week.'™ Estimates of savings to the Govern- ment, he said, ranged from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, depending upon the percentage of cuts to be made. A 20 per cent cut in the salaries of members of Congress and employes making $10,000 and over is expected | to be adopted. Certain of Drastic Cut. The Tennessee Democrat said the committee had not decided on the lim- | its and exemptions of the bill, but was | certain to adopt a drastic cut. Sugges- tions that a flat 10 per cent cut be ap- plied are being considered along with a graduated reduction plan, he said. | A little later Willlam Green, presi- |dent of the American Federation of | Labor, said in a statement he regarded | it unsound to place the United States | Employes’ Compensation Commission under the Civil Service Commission. | Green said such plans had been pro- | posed as a part of reorganization of Government departments. He argued that the award of dam- ages to workers injured during em- ployment could best be dome by an agency created especially for that pur- pose. The proposed slashing of salaries would be for an initial period of two years. | * The subcommittee appointed to draft | the salary reduction measure is com- posed of Representatives McDuffie, Alabama; Douglas, Arizona, and Wood, Indiana. It was Representative Wood, | former chairman of the House Appro- | priation Committee, who last year | started the drive for a wholesale re- | duction of Government salaries. This | subcommiitee is already at work on | the bill. Chairman Byrns is one of | those who declared himself opposed to any flat rate reduction of salaries, as, for example, a ruthless 10 per cent cut. He declares himself as in favor of a graduated reduction somewhat comparable to tax levies under the in- come tax law. “The greater the sal- ary, the greater the cut that can be taken,” said Mr. Byrns. Divergence of Opinion, There is considerable divergence of opinion regarding the rates of reduc- tion. No definite decision has been reached, but only an informal discus- sion by members of the committee. Representative Byrns said it would be possible to cut in such a way as to save $100,000,000, but he strongly in- timated that such a severe cut would not be made and that the rates applied would probably be to raise a much smaller amount. He declared that he himself would tentatively set the grad- uated reductions running from 5 to 20 per cent. This would depend, how- ever, on how low in the salary scale the reduction would start. On_small salaries, he said that personally he would be opposed to making a reduc- tion even of 5 per cent. Chairman Cochran of the House Committee on Expenditures in execu- tive departments, which tabled earlier bills providing for salary reductions, declared emphatically in the commit- tee today that he is opposed v salary reductions at this time, is no time to cut salaries,” he said, “when we are going to put this sales tax on the people, thus increasing their burdens, and if the Stegall- | Glass measure works as is hoped, its purpose is to inflate prices, which makes the financial burden of the people much heavier.” Average Salary $1,440. Representative Cochran pointed out that the average salary of the civilian employes of the Government is $1,440, according to the table furnished by the | Bureau of Efficiency, and including both | civil and military employes the average |1s $1212. With the average family being four persons, he said he could not see how Congress could conscien- tlously order a reduction in these salaries. Representative Cochran declared that both in committee and on the floor of the House he will stand stubbornly against any salary cut. He said that if there are too many employes in the Government service and if the Govern- ment pay roll is too heavy, the way to handle that situation is by a perma- nent rather than temporary arrange- ment. He is in favor of declaring against | BRITISH WAR DEBT REVISION PROPOSAL 1S DENIED BY REED Senator, Speaking for Presi- dent, Says Plan Was Not Even Considered. [PAYMENT OF U. S. LOANS AT FOREIGN RATE SCORED Democratic Leader Sees Great Loss to This Country Through De- preciated Currency. By the Associated Press A Democratic attack in the Senate today against revision of the British war debt owed to America brought a | denial from Senator Reed, Repuoiican, Pennsylvania, on behalf of President Hoover that the subject was even under consideration. Senator Reed specified that the “question had not been discussed” with Ambassador Mellon, who is about to sail for his London post Newspaper Quoted. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, had quoted from & newspaper story published here today saying Mellon was favorably inclined for revision of the British debt. He warned that any revision would be very carefully considered by Congress. After Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, challenged the administration to State its position, Senator Reed, who had just returned to the floor, said: “I am authorized to say that there is not a word of truth in the newspaper article.” Connally demanded to know of Reed by whom he was authorized to speak. The Senator replied “by the Pres- ident.” “The subject of debt negotiations has not even been discussed with Mr. Mellon,” he added. expressed Reed himself recently | favor toward the modification of Eng- {land’s war debt. The Washington Post today pub- lished the story that Mr. Mellon would open negotiaticns in that directipn upon assuming his new post. e Democratic speakers described the Post as “the administration gazette.” Second Discussion. Senator Robinson immediately plunged into a second discussion of the article, which he said did not make the state- ment Mr. Mellon had said he was in- structed to open negotiations, but had “involved the administration by im- plicaticn.” “Is the Senator prepared to state that Mr. Mellon will not immediately or subsequently begin the negotiations sug- gested?” the Democratic leader in- quired. “Mr. Mellon emphatically will not be- gin negotiations for reconsideration of this debt,” Reed replied. “It is absolutely and unqualifiedly untrue. There is no expectation that he will at this time or any other time open up such negotia- tions.” “Under the present arrangement, Great Britain is receiving more from the continent than she is paying to us. It is beside the mark to discuss the burden on the Brtish taxpayer because he does not contribute one cent to what is paid us.” Robinson pointed out that Britain's depreciated currency had taken trade away from the United States. “By going off the gold standard,” Reed replied, “Great Britain has hurt our trade substantially. By doing that she has made an invisible cut in the wages of her people by 30 per cent. Furthermore she has put on a high tariff and the revival of trade conse- quent to that is very marked.” Strong opposition to the payment of war debts owed this country in the depreciated currency of Europe was voiced hy Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate. The Arkansas Senator took as his text a published report that when An- drew W. Mellon, newly appointed Am- bassador to Great Britain, opens ne- gotiations on the war debt situation, those negotiations will look to pay- ment by Great Britain and other debtor nations in the currency of those na- tions. “The announcement, apparently on the authority of the administration, that the first official action of Ambas- sador Mellon will be to reopen negotia- tions with a view to readjusting the contracts now in force so that Great Britain and other nations will be re- lieved from the hardship of paying war- time and post-war obligations in de- preciated_currencies, prompts the sug- gestion that disturbance of existing agreements of the United States, through its diplomatic _agents. may " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) CAPITOL LIMITED PARTLY DERAILED the filling of any vacancies that may oc- | cur by death, retirement or resignation for a period of two years, and in that | way & permanent reduction of force with a considerable saving in salaries However, he believes |a general reduction in salaries is un- | from the conditions complained about. Current Events on Level Wit By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 17—High schools, | too, have kept apace with the day-to- day needs of students. As in universities and colleges, cur- ricular revision is the paramount pre- cept in secondary schools. In every field this is true. From educators at the meeting of the North Central As- sociation of College facts and figures were gleaned showing this trend. G. W. Willett of La Grange, IIL, re- ported today on a survey of curricular revision in half & thousand high schools. Such work is progressing either in- or under State supervision in all States. In the study of English, the mod- | ernization has been drastic on Page C4| Comparative English agd Americap s PEACE, ARMS AND WELFARE WORK NOW TAUGHT IN HIGH SCHOOLS h History—Students Trained in Style Shop and Tea Room Managing. literature are as widely used in read- ing courses as the classics. Theme writing has swerved over to include the subjects the student would like to follow. Text books, in many schools, have been reduced to a minimum. Many classes, Willett said, delve deeply in social blems: Peace and disarmament, prohibition and welfare work, marriage and divorce. ‘The “current events” class of the old days, usually & once-a-week affair, has been changed to a dally course. It is a partner, now, with history and geog- raphy courses. the old days domestic sclence had for its prime purpose the fitting of girls to the work in the homes. To- day the objectives are style shop and tea_room managers. | 'Thé problems of budrating, insurance. | banking and child psychology have be- ! come everyday ones, Cars Are Only Slightly Damaged and No Passengers Hurt in Maryland Accident. Most of the injured were taken to a | just and affords only temporary relief | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., March 17.—The Capitol Limited of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was partially derailed at Weverton, Md., this morning, but there were no personal injuries to either passengers or trainmen, the ex- ecutive offices of the company stated. The tank of the locomotive, the club car, three sleepers and dining car left the track. The train was bound for New York from Chicago. The passengers of the limited, one of the crack trains of the B. & O, were transferred to another passenger train shortly after the accident, which occurred at 7:27 am. Officials of the railroad company here sald the accident was caused by the wheel on the left side of the locomotive tank breaking out, causing the wheel on the opposite side to drop in. The engineer reported the train was run- ning about 40 miles an hour at the e. Damage to the track was estimated at about $2,000. One of the tracks was torn up for about 15 rail lengths, ac- cording to the railroad officials, and the adjoining tracks were damaged. All the derailed cars remained up- right except the club car and the lo= comotive tank, which were Ieaning slightly. The cars were only slightly , the company said. Most of the passengers were bound for Washington. The others were di- vided between Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, 3 y