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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bui tomorrow cl Fair tonight, temperature about 40 de- greés; change in temperature; gentle to mod- erate north winds. Temperatures: High- est, 61, at 6 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 6 a.m. today. reau Forecast.) oudy, not much No. 32,130. post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, [ D. b ¢ Foen ‘WITH SUNDAY NORNING EDITION ny Star. “From Press WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. x%% (UP) Means Associated Press. to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 126,878 — TWO CENTS. BRITAINS BUDGET OMITS WAR DEBTS; REED SAYS U. 3. EXPECTS PAYMENT English Government Fails to Include in Figures for Year Any Reparations Receipts or Obligations Here. CHAMBERLAIN PREPARES FOR PROPOSALS LATER Government Balances Budget, With $3,000,000 Surplus—Income Tax Payer Will Get No Relief, Chan- cellor Announces—Beer Levy to Remain the Same, Failure of the new British budg- et to provide for war-debt pay- ments to the United States next year, announced in Parliament, at London, today by Neville Cham- berlain, chancellor ‘of the ex- chequer, brought a quick declara- tion from Senator Reed of Penn- sylvania that this Government expected to make the debt collec- tion. Senator Reed, an administra- tion spokesman, declared: “I am perfectly certain that no responsible American official has given our British friends any rea- son to think these payments will not be expected to be made.” In the fiscal year ending in June next year, Great Britain owes the United States $171,500,000. For- eign nations do not have to make any debt payments to the United States under the one-year mora- torium until next December and if there is any hint of a continua- tion of that moratorium, as sug- gested in the British budget, Sen- ator Reed said he did not know it. He called last night at the ‘White House. Expects British to Pay. Speaking off the floor, Senator Reed | sald: “T am convineed the British are hon- est and that provision will be made for the payments due in December and June next year.” Chancellor Chamberlain was quoted in an Associated Press dispatch from London as making the following state- ment to the House of Commons: “I am including in the 1832-33 budg- et no receipts from reparations and no outgoings for war debts. The two are self-balancing. “Later in the year, after the Lausanne Conference, I shall submit whatever may be necessary to give ef- fect to the measures we agree upon.” BUDGET IS BALANCED. Chamberlain Announces Surplus of | $3,000,000. LONDON, April 19 (#) —Great Britain has balanced the budget with a surplus of £796,000 (approximately $3,000.000). Neville Chamberlain, chanceller of the exchequer, informed Parliament in his budzet speech today that there wil LINDBERGH UNABLE T0 CONTACT GANG, Blames Press for Inability to Resume Negotiations With Kidnapers. By the Associated Press. | HOPEWELL, N. J, April 19—Col Charles A. Lindbergh says he has been | unable to re-establish a definite contact with kidnapers of his 21-month-old son. “We are extremelv anxious to re- contact with the kidnapers and while we sincerely appreciate the co-operation we have Teceived from many press associations. our attempts are still greatly hampered or made im- possible by press activity.” said a state- ment ke issued last night. “Up to the present time we have been unable to re-establish a definite con- tact.” Through State pclice came the fol- atement from Lindbergh: lowing of our rep- bers of the press is | y difficult if not im- | pocsible for us to establish contact with | whomever is in possession of our son The publication of demands for addi- gonal ransom which have never been | made and of amounts which we are unable to pay can cause nothing but | greater difficult The regular night police bulletin told of a futile search of the liner Europa prompted by a telegraphic “tip.” “An_informant from Newark, N. J.” the authorities, “reported that| Fleischer and (Abie) Wagner r questioning) were ide woman in an inn | estigators from uspected 'sons in the information | establis said (Harry) (gangste the obtained it was neither Fleischer n in this neighborhood “Col. Lindbergh has repeatedly as- sured us that all matters he feels he can release for publication will be promptly released through Trenton, and nowher else,” said the bulletin. Lindbergh’s attorney and personal ad- viser conferred again yesterday with one intermediary, as another, John H. Cur- tis of Norfolk, Va., was reported to be at the Lindbergh home. For more than a week Attorney Hen- ry Breckinridge has been coming and going from the New York home of Dr. John F. Condon, 72-year-old educator, who paid the $50,000 ransom money on April 2, but failed to obtain the return of the Lindbergh heir. Hope has not yet died that Dr. Con- don will be able to persuade the kid- Wagner had been Iy proven that | - Father of Three Asks Hoover’s Aid to Keep Them Out of School By the Associated Press. VINELAND, N. J., April 19— Arthur J. Smart has appealed to President Hoover to make the school authorities here quit both- ering him. Mr. Smart, proud parent of three children, has resisted all attempts to force his children to attend public school In a letter to the President he said that on their way to school they might be bitten by dogs, run over by autos or persuaded to play truant by other pupils. Even if they should arrive safely at their classes, he said, they might be exposed to measles or chicken Ppox. “My wife is a better teacher than they have in the schools,” he wrote. “She doesn't teach them a lot of nonsense.” ALIENISTS TO TAKE STAND FOR MASSIE Two Specialists and Two Other Defense Witnesses Called for Today. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 19.—A double prop for the defense contention that Lieut. Thomas H. Massie was insane when he allegedly held the pistol that took the life of Joseph Kahahawai was brought forth today by Clarence | Darrow. The aged attorney for the four per- sons accused of the lynching called four witnesses for this effort. NAVY SUPPLY BILL OF §326.340000 1S REPORTED IN HOUSE Measure $15,336,000 Below Budget Estimates Pro- posed by Hoover. COMMITTEE FOLLOWS POLICY FIXED BY BYRNS Virtually Every Activity of De- partment Affected by Cuts in Appropriations. By the Assoclated Press. | ly plucked supply bill provid- ing $326,340,000 for the naval estab- lishment in the coming fiscal year was reported to the House today by its Ap- propriations Committee. Although carrying $41,230,000 for con- struction of new warships and for mod- ernizing old vessels, the bill 1s $15,336,- 000 below the budget estimates recom- mended by President Hoover and $31.- 921,000 less than the total outlay for the current year. In submitting the bill for immediate consideration by the House, Chairman Byrns pointed out the Appropriations Committee to date has requced budget | estimates on supply bilis $136,000,000 In this bill, the committee followed the | policy laid down by Byrns at the begin- ning of the session, not to increase a | single budget estimate. Two Los Angeles alienistsy Sherman Miles, former Army colonel, with whom Lieut. and Mrs. Massle lived for a time after the attack on the latter the night of September 12, 1931, and Beatrice Nakamura, Mrs. Massie’s maid, were | summoned to testify. Despite prosecution avowals of dis- | belief that Lieut. Massie held the gun which killed the young native, suspected of having participated in the attack on Mrs. Massie, the accused naval officer | came through a searing cross-examina- | tion and finished his story yesterday | without being shaken from it in any | major detail. | Alienists to Testify. Massie’s repeated reference to his mental unrest after the attack and & | his lapse of memory which began with | the firing of the fatal shot in the home of his mother-in-law and co-defendant, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, was expected to get some support from the alienists, Dr. James Orbison and Dr. Edward Huntington Willilams, who came here Just before the trial opened. Each day for a week they have oc- cupled court room seats. Miles and Nakamura were ex- pected to testify that Massie was in a highly nervous state after the attack. Near the finale of his story, Massie gave a vivid account of the death of Kahahawal which he said he had ob- tained from the other defendants, Mrs. Fortescue, E. J. Lord and Albert O. Jones. Massie previously had testified that he had no direct remembrance of the tragedy. The witness sald he had stood, dazedly holding the smoking pistol which made the fatal wound after the native had confessed participating in | the attack upon Mrs. Massie. | Left Jones Behind. The other defendants, Massie said, | ran about the house sheuting. Mrs. Fortescue looked on as Lord and Jones tried vainly to wash the blood stains from Kahahawai's clothing, he testified. Massie said Mrs. Fortescue took the leadership in the move to dispose of the |body by dashing toward the sea, and had tried to get him to take a drink of Okolehao, native liquor, to bring him out of his “spell.” Massie said they de- cided to take him along so he could get some fresh air and left Jones behind to clean up the house. Prosecutor John C. Kelley pounded hard at the story, apparently seeking to trip Massie by jumping from one detail to another. The witness often said “I recall,” when the prosecutor pressed him. There was one contradictory note in the defense evidence. Massie had testified he had con- sulted Eugene Beebe, a lawyer, who had told him it would “be all right” to get a confession from one of the men ac- cused of the attack, providing no evi- denr“r of force were shown in obtain- ing it. Massie Shows Spirit. Beebe, a defense witness, admitted Massie had talked to him about the matter, but said he never had told the could infer that it would have been proper to take one of the assault de- fendants and get a confession. Uncertain at times during his direct story of the tragedy, confidence during the cross-examin He eyed Kelley sharply as the latter, after some three hours of grilling, an- nounced he had finished. Calm and confident, Darrow gave the prosecutor a free hand. The witness said he often had visit- | ed the Fortescue home on Long Island On August 1927, Massie said he and Mrs. M: then Miss Thalia Fortescue, and Mrs. Fortescue, went to a movie at Patchogue, Long Island. “The movie was quite dull,” Massie sald. “We left. As we came out there was a baby in a carriage in front of the theater, crying. Mrs. Fortescue said, “Let’s roll it down to the corner and back.’ As we did, a woman came screaming after us, saying, ‘You're kid- naping my baby.' “We were taken to an office and the woman came up and said if we would | pay her $5 she would forget all about ortescue just laughed. The 2, Column 6.) By the Associated Press. An increase in postage rates for newspapers and periodicals to foreign countries has disclosed a unique method of emuggling. napers to give up the baby. A short time after it was disclosed in Norfolk that Curtis had left on his fourth mysterious trip since he and two | April 1 from 1 cent to 14 cents for | of 35 per cent of tJ associates entered the case as inter- , it was Teported he had ar- rived at the Lindbergh home. It became known after the transient rate on second-class matter sent out- side the United States was increased on each two ounces. Maybe a large number of persons | carefully in the future for such attempts of E. L. “Zeke" Caress, ling. Pl Detiiog commissioner “thought it was just an April fool trick. | said economies were made in public | number would be in reduced commis- |sion to reduce maintenance and oper- | ating costs. Navy officer anything by which he € Massle gained | tion and sometimes replied spiritedly. | _ HIGHER RATES ON PAPERé RE\/ NEW METHOD USED IN SMUGGLING Every Activity Affected. Virtually every activity of the Ni was affected by the cuts. The bulk of the outlay allowed goes for pay, of which $148,000,000 is for Navy and Marine personnel and $82,800,000 for civilian workers. With retired and Re- serve forces included, pay constitutes about 67 per cent of the budget esti- mates. This provides for a naval enlisted personnel of 79,700, and 15343 for the Marine Corps; 5,489 naval line officers and 977 Marine officers; 1,790 midship- men at the Naval Academy, besides nearly 3,000 staff and warrant officers and 498 nurses. Admiral Willilam V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, told the committee in hearings made public with the bill that: “Under stress of existing conditions, we have cut our operating forces to the danger zone. We cannot go any fur- ther without jeopardizing our national security. International conditions are such today as to render it unwise, in my opinion, to make any further cuts in the operating force of the Navy." In his report, Representative Ayres, Democrat, of Kansas, chairman of the subcommittee which handled the bill, works, aviation, ration funds and re- duction of flight and submarine pay, but to effect a further saving it would be necessary to reduce personnel, with- draw vessels from active commission, ovide lesser sums for repair and up- eep, reduce employes in shore estab- lishments, and cut the pay of personnel, civil and naval. Ayres said the operating force plan of the fleet in 1933 involved 306 ves- sels, including submarines, but that a The committee allowed $14.000.000 to continue modernization of the bat- tleships New Mexico, Mississippi and I¢eho, or $1,000,000 less than the bud- get. It noted that while $30,000,000 had been authorized for the work, $10,- 000,000 already had been provided and that the drop in costs probably would reduce the total necessary to $27,000,000. New Ship Construction. ew ship construction it drafted $6,000,000 from the naval supply ac- | count fund, along with a direct appro- of $27,230,000. The commit- is, with $27,000.000 unex- pended this vear, would bring the total for construction in 1933 to more than | $60,000,000, despite its reduction of $4,- 000,000 in the budget estimate. val and marine aviation, the des $25,388,000, exclusive of is 85 ,000, exclusive of Tent year and $1,272,000 below the budget. The savings resulted from the 1 of the five-year air expan- nd through the curtail- ¥ the committee Y, ive changes as fol- tired officers from re- civilian employes and the other wage ar. To authorize the President to sell, lease or c unneeded shore stations. To prevent increases in salaries with- in grades o limit upkeep allowances on mo- cles for officers. mit to $1,100 a year extra flight (Co d on Page 2, Column 4.) Burns. April 19 (®) s of the huge e destroyed by e sheds were of and were used as foodstuffs and other Argentine Arsenal BUENOS Feur naval fire last frame cc supply depots material. Some am there was firemen. ion which was stored d to safety by the escue Effort. Okla, April 19 (P)— -old sister fell into e v Louise = “water in Both drowned. | vered an hour Dies in R BRAGGS, When her a creek n Petty, 14, an attempt at r Their bodies wera later. 1 EAL Dead Letter Office Finds Merchandise of Many Kinds Headed for Foreign Countries, |, Anyhow, they neglected to add the increased postag As a Tesult, the p to the dead let office. ‘There, the Post Office Department announced to- | day, it was discovered the renders had included merchandise such as hoes, handkerchiefs, dress goods and gloves in the packages, along with periodicals. This was true, Lhfi department sald, e bundl ned. Orders have been issued E;)op:lwh at smugg] | Volume periodicals were cent | C NOW / WHAT'LLL. HE DO WITH 'GEN. MARCH GIVES HIS VERSION OF WAR, ANSWERING PERSHING Is Called Another Chapter in “Feud” With A. E. F. Leader. Work Produced After Com- mander in France Pub- lished Memoirs. A new chapter in what has been re- ported as the “feud” during the World War between Gen. Pershing and the War Department's chief of staff, Gen. Peyton C. March, has been written by the latter, it was disclosed today. Believing, according to the publisher's announcement, that “Pershing did not give the War Department (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) “'GEN. PEYTON C. LA GUARDIA OFFERS BONUS SUBSTITUTE New Yorker Suggests Na- tional Unemployment Insur- ance Instead of Cash. By the Assoclated Press. National unemployment - insurance was offered today by Representative La Guardia, Repubtican, of New York, as| a counter proposal to cash payment of the $2,000,000,000 soldiers’ bonus. | La Guardia, himself a veteran, made | known his views as he took the witness stand as the first to put his opposition to full payment of the bonus before the | House Ways and Means Committee. Advocates of the payment through a $2,000,000,000 currency inflation con- cluded the presentation of their case yesterday. Against Full Payment. Proposals for full payment of the bonus also_were assailed at today’s | hearing by Representative Johnson, Re- publican, of South Dakota, former | chairman of the House Veterans' Com- mittee, and Representative Simmons, Republican, of Nebraska. They said there should be some changes in the laws, but that there | should not be full payment of the| bonus now. Simmons said he would fa- vor payment of the present value of the certificates, but that he did not belleve veterans could equitably ask for pay- ment now of the 1945 value of them. Johnson reviewed veterans' legisla- tion and said he thought the committee could well bring out legislation reduc- ing the interest charged on loans, to which the money costs the Govern-| ment . “I also think the Congress speedily | should pass legislation permitting vet- erans whose certificates are less than (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) | JAIL PLOT BARED T0 SEIZE OFFICERS Three Felons in Los Angeles Guarded Closely After Plan to Abduct Sheriff and Two Others. By the Assocated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 19.—Three convicted felons were under double guard in the county jail today following revelation of & plot to kidnap three high law officers of Los Angeles County in an effort to effect their release. The prisoners are Ralph Sheldon, | convicted kidnaper and reputed one- time aide to Al Capone; Louis Frank, accomplice of Sheldon in the kidnap- ing, and Nick Radovich, bank robber. Sheriff William 1. Traeger, Under Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz and Jailer lem Peoples. District Attorney Buron Fitts said one of the officers to be seized was to be compelled to present a forged court order at the fail to release the priconers. Fitts said his information was that & “group of Chicago gangsters” was fos- tering the jail delivery plot. Sheldon and Frank were convicted of The officers to be kidnaped were | the kidna and holding for ransom Agua Caliente and Mrs. Caress. - PLANS CONTINUED ;Witnesess Pour Volume of | Tax Appeals and Complaints| Before Senators. e By the Assoclated Press. Complaints against taxes already in the revenue bill and appeals for new | levies were heaped before the Senate Finance Committee today by a stream of witnesses. Both sides of the copper tariff ques- | tion were presented. A. E. Petermann of the Calumet and Arizona Copper Co. sald a five-cent tax on copper imports Wwas necessary to save the industry. Heath Steele of the American Metal Co. of New York, a firm which has some foreign copper interests, argued the duty would increase rather than de- crease unemployment at the mines, The committee also heard opposition to an 8 per cent levy on the amount paid’ for transportation of oil by pipe lines. Inland ofl producers, through Harry | H. Smith of Tulsa, secretary of the Mid-Continent Ofl & Gas Association, | told the committee the proposed levy would fall on the inland producers very severely and would “put many out of business.” Producers Would Pay. “A pipe.line tax inevitably will be a tax on the producers themselves, rather than on the pipe-line com- | panies,” Smith said. Petermann urged the committee to approve the 5.cent-a-pound tax on copper imports advocated by Senators Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona; Wheel- er, Democrat, of Montana, and Vanden- berg, Republican, of Michigan. After telling the committee the cop- per industry must have some relief, Petermann continued: ‘The end is right now. Unless some- thing is done, most of the mines will be closed in six months and the workers will have to have relief from either the State or Federal Government. “These people are facing a disaster Just as real to them as a fire or flood. They know this is a permanent con- dition unless something is done.” Reed Convinced of Need. Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn- xylv;m,’ s!sid he‘ was convinced “prima facie case for a copper tariff” had been made, but he expreps:ed doubt, on the rate which should be levied. “We think a 5-cent rate will protect a large part of American producers,” ;:l& “Petennmnm l;;ui'ng.t even so, many cers ve to pass the picture.” o Senator Hull, Democrat, of Tennessee, interposed that the copper industry was in no worse condition than the wheat industry and others “which are cov- ered up with tariffs” and argued the sfi’pnper duty would not meet the situa- In oppusing the proposed '.lfl_gfi S:fel! said: e i “The duty will not relieve unemploy- ment at the mines, and on the chz_ trary it will increase unemployment. “America owns most of the copper in | the world and a tariff won't meet the consum; is Radio Programs on Page A-13 problem. Increased answer to the situat: DEBATE ON LEWY & (8 'EM? (5. SET FOR TRADE WAR WITH FRANCE Plans 50 Per Cent Increase in Duties or Embargo If Necessary. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The United States Government has virtually decided to defend itself against the Prench tariff quota system by ap- plying a hitherto unused section of ex- isting law so as to proclaim a 50 per cent increase in duties. If this is in- | | effective, an embargo against all French | imports into this country can be au- thorized. ‘This plan, reluctantly considered by the American Government, is in process of formulation and will be announced within & few days. i For a long time Prance has been dis- criminating against American products ans of the quota system, and pro- tests through diplomatic channels have been of no avall. Secretary of State Stimson a few days ago had a talk with Premier Tardleu in Paris, but this did not improve matters, and the Unite States Government, through its various departments concerned with trade and diplomacy, is preparing & reprisal, which, indeed, is compelled by law. How System Operates. French discrimination operates this way: A decree of the French govern- ment states how many tons of American automobiles or radios or other products may be bought by the French people in a given quarter of a year. If there is & demand beyond that quota, the French purchaser must buy from coun- tries other than the United States. Thus discriminations have been set in operation against American machinery, agricultural implements, radios, canned | vegetables, electrical supplies and other | products, about 20 in all. It is not so much the value of these | exports but the principle behind the | objection. For if France is pérmitted to carry on such a program, the states politically related to France, like Po- land and some of the Balkan countries, will follow suit. Congress adopted the famous section 338 10 years ago to enable the executive branch of the Government to meet promptly any discriminations in foreign trade. Until now this provision has | never been invoked. It reads, in part, as follows: “The President, when he finds that the public interest will be served there- by, shall by proclamation specify and declare new or additional duties as here- inafter provided upon articles wholly or in part the growth or product of, or imported in a vessel of, a foreign coun- try, whenever he shall find as a fact that such country imposes, directly or (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) D. A. R. ASKED T0 AID " LINDBERGH SEARCH President General of Society Blames Kidnaping on Crime Wave Sweeping Country. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart this afternoon denounced the Lindbergh kidnaping case as a result of a “ruth- less crime wave” and called upon every member of the D. A. R. to be on guard to help find the stolen baby. She prefaced her prepared annual address to the Continental Congress with this appeal on behalf of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh: “In the name of the National So- ciety, Daughters of the American Rev- olution, I extend the greatest sympathy in the tragedy that has come to them,” the President general said. “Undoubtedly this is the result of the great wave of crime that is going across the country. This crime is not limited to adults, but the youth and children seem to be utterly demoralized and so ruthless in all things. Evidently the Ten Commandments have been for- gotten. “Let every member of our great or- ganization be on guard to help these young American parents.” DYE TRUST SHOWS PROFIT BERLIN, April 19 (#).—The annual report of the great German dye trust became one of the bright spots of the industrial year when it was announced today. It showed a net profit for 1931 of 51,500,000 marks and & dividend of 7 E!“e'?t compared with 12 per ecent | Prench policy to which America takes | MRS. HOBART ASKS D. A R. T0 COMBAT “PACIFIST” FORGES “Disarmament Caravans” Are Moving on Both Par- ties, She Warns. TREATY-LIMIT NAVY URGED IN ADDRESS “Alien Internationalists” Active in Homes and Schools of U. §., Convention Told. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, presi- dent general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, called upon the Nation today to combine its forces against the malign influences of radi- cals, pacifists and racketeers, which, she warned, are undermining the security of American institutions and are “captur- ing the minds of the children.” Outlining in her final address to the Continental Congress a militant course of patriotic action to counter attack these influences, the president general drew a sordid picture of prevailing com- ditions in this year of domestic crisis. ‘Warns of Pacifists. “Disarmament caravans,” she also warned. “are moving on Chicago to se- cure a pacifist plank in the national platforms of both the Republican and Democratic parties. “I cannot see any signs of national aconomy in cutting down appropriations | for either Army or Navy beyond the | point of safety,” Mrs. Hobart declared, in warning against another campaign to “redeem the failure” of the last dis- armament petition campaign. “I believe in building up the Navy in accordance with the London naval treaty provisions,” she added, “and I am confident that this Nation needs the plan of the national defense act of 1920 carried into completion.” Alien internationalists, Mrs. Hobart warned, are taking advantage of the economic situation to instill their prop- | aganda into the homes and schools of the country. “Hatred against the United States | Government is generated among the | unemployed and the distressed for any reason,” she declared. “Crime is coming to our very doors. | An aroused motherhood looks to the executive, legislative and judicial au- | thorities to check and control crime and impending danger to the lives of our households.” Gives Annual Report. | Earlier in the day, when Mrs. Her- bert Hoover was the honor guest of the congress, Mrs. Hobart had touched upon some of these same things in her annual report as president general. Shs (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) DRY NULLIFICATION FORECAST BY WO | Labor Head Appears Before Committee—Bingham Bill Rejected, 7 to 4. By the Assoclated Press. Matthew Woll of the American Fed- eration of Labor testified before a Sen- ate judiclary subcommittee today that if national prohibition Is not modified, “the pressure will become so great that | nullification by Congress will result and | the Federal Government will cease to appropriate money for enforcement.” He was one of several witnesses ap- pearing on bills for a change in the pro- hibition laws. Shortly before, another Senate Committee, that on manufac- tures. had voted an adverse report on the Bingham 4 per cent beer bill. The vote was 1 f0 4. Woll contended the economic effect of legalizing beer is greatly needed to i the condition of labor. “Is it that we want revolution in this country?” he asked, his voice rising. Calmness Held Remarkable. “The remarkable thing to me is that labor has been so calm, so conserva- tive during this depression. “But let that condition continue and Tl not venture to say what labor shall do" Occasionally Woll referred to Bishop James Cannon, jr. who sat back in & corner of the small committee room, as “the gentleman behind me.” Throughout the testimony, in which there were several complaints against clerical _proponents of prohibition, Bishop Cannon sat as though he did not_hear. Those who voted for the Bingham beer bill were Senators Metcalf (Rhode Island), Barbour (New Jersey) and La Follette (Wisconsin), Republicans, and Bulkley (Ohio), Democrat. Those opposed were McNary (Oregon), Goldsborough (Maryland), Hatflel (West Virginia) and Cutting (New Mexico), Republicans, and Costigan (Colorado), Smith (South Carolina) and Sheppard (Texas), Democrats. Senators Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon. tana, and Long, Democrat, of Loulsi- ana, were not present and did not vote. Meanwhile, at the resumption of pro- | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) | CHILE AND ARGENTINA MAY CLOSE RAILROAD High Tariff Rate on Cattle Cuts Freight Volume—Conferences Fail to Solve Problem. By the Assoclated Press. | SANTIAGO, Chile, April 19.—Closin; of the Transandine Rallroad, chie traffic link between Chile and Argen- | tina, seemed inevitable today as last- | minute conferences last night failed to | reach an agreement on problems which., the road’s managers say, make contin- ued operation impossible. One of these is a prohibitive tariff on imports of Argentine cattle into Chile, which has cut the freight volume from the eastern end. Officlals of the road have served notice they would sus- pend operations tomorrow unless the difficulties are settled, and there was no indication Chile would reduce the tariff | MDUFFIE PREDICTS CONGRESS PAY CUT N HOOVERS PLA 'Chairman Says Committee | Can’t Find Way to Furlough House and Senate. SAYS PRESIDENT LEFT PROBLEM TO PROBERS Staggered Plan of Employment to Be Presented in New Measure. Chairman McDuffie said today the Special House Economy Committee had not yet been able to determine how President Hoover's furlough plan could be adapted to Senators and Representa- tives, and it looked “like the members of Congress will have to take a cut” in pay. McDuffle added the House would have an opportunity next week to vote its choice between a flat salary cut and the five-day work week and furlough plan proposed by the President. The omnibus bill will be presented as an amendment to the legislative supply bill, which carries salaries for members of Congress. “We are trying to perfect the Presi- dent’s plan, but find it can not be well adapted to the legisiative branch of the Government,” the chairman said. “We have yet to find out how to furlough a Senator or a member of the House. Expects to Take Cut. “No wonder the President did not submit that in his program. He left it to the committee. It looks to me like the members of Congress will have to take a cut, even if the Hoover stagger- ing plan of employment is adopted.” McDuffie favors an 11 per cent flat cut on all Federal salaries above $1,000, estimated to save $67,000,000. He explained the committee was giv- ing further study to the President's fur- lough plan, “in an effort to get it into shape for some Republican member of the committee to present it as a substi- tuzewmr my proposition.” “We want to give the House - munifiy to vote on both phn'.:" oge Changes under consideration in the Nt oo o e o0 B DaE rectes emption, on uufif of . macmbers of . would reduce their $1,000 instead of $990, as under E{ McDuffle plan. A flat reduction of 8%, per cent is contemplated in the clerk allowance to members of Congress and in the salaries of congressional em- #yu. This figure was based on the would Fesu In . sesugon b Sl & redu 8%; per cent. g Meanwhile Congress now stands vir- tually committed to a program of re- duction in expenditures more drastic than its most sanguine members really had expected to achieve. Three Reductions Voted. Three actions brought this about. The unheard-of procedure in the House of accepting without a conference the whole 10 per cent cut madg by the Senate in the Interior Department ap- propriation bill; the instruction of the Senate to its Appropriations Comrmittee to cut 10 per cent off the Treasury-Post Office supply measure, and the Senate's approval of a $1,000,000 reduction in the prohibition enforcement fund. Acceptance of the Interior bill amend- ments, accompanied by Speaker Garner's statement that ne favored the same treatment for the rest of the big money bills, was opposed by only 42 members, although it involved approval of such stupendous cuts as a reduction to $6.- 000,000 in the Hoover Dam construc- tion fund, from the original $10,000,000 requested by the budget. When the Senate ordered the Treas- ury-Post Office cut it passed the most difficult hurdle in the 10 per cent re- duction program, opposition having centered largely on that one bill. Today another sharply trimmed ap- propriation measure was before the House, the one for the Navy, ordered taken up in place of the appropriation for Congress itself. The latter bill was put aside, for a week at least, to give the special Economy Committee time to perfect an amendment carrying the entire retrenchment program of pay reductions, abolition and consolidation of Federal activities. Adams Backs Economy Move. Secretary Adams today announced support of the Vinson bill to abolish the office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. piof proposing a study of the advisa- bility of consolidating the Budget Bu- reau and the General Accounting Office, Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsyl= vania introduced a resolution yesterday criticizing both of these agencies. The resolution was referred for report to the Committee on Expenditures in Eexecu- tive Departments, of which Senator Stelwer, Republican, of Oregon is chair- man, Senator Reed’s Resolution read | as follows: “Whereas there have been numerous complaints of unreasonable delays in disposal of matters referred to the General Aceounting Office of arbitrary and contradictory opinions from the comptroller general of the United States on points of law, of friction between the General Accounting Office and the executive departments: and “Whereas the Bureau of Budget has failed to effect economies for which it was designed or to reduce executive es- timates to the point necessitated by an unbalanced budget; and “Whereas the General Accqunting Office and the Bureau of the Budget are alike charged by law with respon- sibility for promoting economy and ef- ficlency in public expenditures: There- fore be it Senate Report Asked. “Resolved, that the Committee on Expenditures in_the Executive Depart- ments of the Senate be directed to study the question of consolidating and reorganizing the general accounting office and the Bureau of the Budget under a single administrative head, re- sponsible to Congress or to the Presi- dent, and to report its recommenda- tions to the Senate at the earliest prac- ticable date.” John Thomas Taylor, vice president of the National Legislative Committee of the American Legion, has sent pro- tests to members of Congress against the President’s proposal to cut off $80,~ 000,000 in benefits to the veterans. “The American Legion urges you to vote against these arbitrary cuts in the benefits to the disablied,” Taylor wrote. GnTOver Cape Verde. ST. VINCENT, Cape Verde, April 19 (#).—The Graf Zeppelin passed over here this afternoon on the way from len to Pernambuco,