Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1932, Page 1

The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight; tomorrow fair and slight- 1y warmer, followed by showers tomor- row night or Monday; gentle west or northwest winds, becoming southerly. Temperatures—Highest, p.m yesterday; lowest, EEII report on page Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 & 13 83, 68,at 6 5. 3:15 today. at ch ¢ Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star, service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,478 32,211, tmce, Was Entered as second class matter hington, WASHINGTON, D. « D. C, SATURDAY, 20 o2 JULY 19. 9, —TWENTY IX PAGES. ok 391 Mcanc. Asssoisazd Press. TWO CENTS. RELIEF BILL PASSES SENATE BY 437031 PRESIDENTIAL VETO - MESSAGE 1S READY, Number of Cemocrats Cast Vote Against Measure De- spite Stand Taken by Gar-| ner Opposing Hoove:. MOVE TO COMPROMISE | IS KILLED BY SPEAKER/ Party Lines Broken After Insist- ence Upon Provision for Loans to Irdividuals—Substitute Drawn Up and Will Be Presented After Action by White House. | | | | | | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate today adopted the conference report on the $2,122- 000,000 relief bill. The vote was| 43 to 31. The measure now goes to Presi- | dent Hoover. It has been confi-| dently predicted that he would veto the bill because of the pro-| vision it contained authorizing governmental loans to private in- dividuals. Vote Against Report. A number of Democratic Sena- tors cast their votes against the conference report notwithstand- ing the fact Speaker Garner of the House had taken a stand against the President over the provision for loans to private in- dividuals. In the debate which preceded the vote, Democratic Senators undertook to make it appear the original proposal for Government loans to private industrv came | from the President himself. The | Senate Banking and Currenc Committee and the Senate itself, they said, had turned down a pro- | posal that loans be made to pri-| vate industry. Party Broken. Republican suj rs of the Presi- | dent insisted, on the other hand, that while the administration had recom- mended loans to private industry, the loans were to be made for capital ex- penditure only and were to be properly | safeguarded. Party lines were broken in the roll call. Five Democrats voted against the conference report. They were Senators Bailey, North Carolina; Black, Ala- bama; Connally, Texas; Glass, Virginia, and Gore, Oklahoma. Senator Bulkley, Ohio, another Democrat, was paired against the report. Thirteen Republicans voted for adop- tion of the report. They were: Senators Barbour, New Jersey. Borah, Idaho; Brookhart, Iowa: Howell, Nebraska; Johnson, California: Jones, Washing- ton; McNary, Oregon; Norbeck, South Dakota; Norris, Nebraska: Nye, North Dakota; Robinson, Indiana; Schall, Minnesota, and Steiwer, Oregon. Senator Shipstead, the sole Farmer- Labor member, voted against the report. Consideration of the ccnference re- port was begun in the Senate today as soon as that body met. Earlier in the | from Long Island by a hiew York Sidewalks Invaded by Swarms Of Moths and Ants Countless Thousands of Insects Settle on City AMERICAN FLYERS PLAN T0 REPAR - PLANE IN RUSSIA {Will Go to Moscow Tomorrow With Damaged Parts, They Declare. Streets. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 9—New Ycrk was | invaded by countless thousands of white moths and winged ants in the early hours today, and for a time many peco- ple thought they were witnessing a snowstorm in July. Crowds in Times Square gaped when the air suddenly became filled with the fluttering white insects, which swarmed toward street lamps, electric signs and illuminated siore windows. The winged ants made their presencc o & felt by settling on faces, necks and bare | Mattern and Grifin Say Ship arms, causing a general scratching spe! The mcths also invaded homes, hotels | Turned Over When They Came Down on Soft Ground. POOR PHONE SERVICE HIDES DETAILS OF TRIP taurants in large numbers. They gradually disappeared with the coming of daylight It is believed they were blown over rong east wind. (Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press) MOSCOW, July 9.—James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, American round- the-world fiyers whose adventure failed | when they were forced down in a ;mm‘. bog near Borisov, Russia, Thursday morning, are coming to Moscow to- morrow, they said over a shaky tele- phone line from Borisov to the As- sociated Press correspondent here to- day. They sald they would decide after | reaching Moscow whether they will con- NESCE ATTENPTED R CREW OF SIB Salvage Vessels Arrive at Scene of Disaster to French Underseas Craft. By the Associated Press CHERBOURG, France, July 9 —A diver descended to the sunken submarine Promethe today, knocked repeatedly on the hull and received no reply, a wireless message, received from the rescue party by the mari- time prefecture, said. By the Assoclated Press. CHERBOURG, France, July 9.—The tinue their fiight around the world or return to the United States by way of Europe. It was their first contact with an American since they landed at the re- mote Russian town at 4 am, Thurs- day, and damaged their plane, the | “Century of Progress,” the soft | muck of the bog Shipping Parts to Moscow. “Nelther of us was hurt except for a few scratches,” they said. “We are| coming to Moscow tomorrow by train | and are shipping parts of our plane | there for repairs.” It was a conversation under excru- in Italian salvage ships Artiglio and Rosto | prepared today to attempt what many experts considered the almost impos- sible—the salvage of the sunken French | ciating difficulties. For over 24 hours | it had not been possible to get a ('all‘ | through from Moscow to Borisov at all submarine Promethee and the rescue| When the connection was finally of her crew, it any of them is alive. ‘fl‘"b‘“hed it was impossible for the The two salvage ships arrived at 10| TVorS OF the correspondent to hear am., and proceeded directly to .he So the conversation had to be carried arsenal to take on equipment for (ke on through operators acting as relays rescue attempt. | and this made it necessary to travs- Vi Adrairel Lo Do, (dhiér o the | e from Englh into Russinn and . again into English both ways. maritime prefecture, said this morning| “Technical difficulties with the con- it would be & most difficult task. “At g:’h Ofd'{\.Hflm:hfflf?Pd us to ;flnd 3 that depth (the submarine is lying| ey seld. Then the plans furned over about 245 feet below the surface) the| “We're both all right, but very sorry | divers will be working In pitch dark- | we fafled in our effort to beat the bl ™ e pel | round-the-world record. ~ We _were ° d | forced down just after we thought we Current Hampers Work. | had completed the most difficult part| “But ‘we will first try to pass chains | 2f, the trip, and we were making ex-| around the hull to permit the use of | fitog gear SN iEht AN LC - ven Rimgleigimsr) ko O Siblte to drag the submarine to shallower | ,jop¢ }1‘{ the soft ground hadn't caused | water.” | the ship to turn over. As it is, thei 1::; nr:ne-knotd cl:‘r‘rent in the Cl;lnng'l.\p]ndne ‘Shg’)ol: very seriously damaged | al amperes le rescue Wworl and we tl ‘we can repair it. was bl evg, Bowever, lxh:’:, f snything | “We spent all day yesterday disas- could me the Artiglio and Rosto | sembling and packing the moior, and | ouid do it and hope prevailed that it | we $re freightthg the damaged parts to e &l pin > ix i) ke o e et v o abmi dhe | v ve won't have to abandon the | in the hull to keep the men alive until | ship, We, are going back to Minsk a large scale refloating cperation was | thiS evening for our luggage, and we posible. : | will take the express train from there, There was no craft in thic harbor | arriving in Moscow tomorrow morning.” with apparatus to send down a diver.| The fiyers said they spent last night| |in tne only hotel in Borisov. It is a| Preparations Completed. | very small structure, but they said they | ‘Th‘e locatlx{ng <;1! the subm;r:x;ee :‘:S‘v\ere \fr); comfortable, and added they clearly marked, however, an - | were faring very well under the care ture of the currents in the vicinity were | of the Soviet Civil Aviation Society rep- | resentatives, who were sent from cow to assist them At this point the connection, wa fully determined so that everything was oo ready for the diving to proceed. ‘The maritime prefecture officials an- | day Senate Democrats had agreed to support the conference report, assur- | ing Senmate approval. | Before the Senate met, the Senate | Democrats held a conference and de- cided to go along, at least temporarily, with Speaker Garner in his contest with Presicent Hoover. | Robinson Makes Statement. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, made the following statement after the party conference ! “The conference concluded its con- sideratign of the relief bill repcrt. It was agreed to bring it forward at once unless unforeseen obstacles prevent It 1s expected it will be agreed to. “If vetoed, we will to revise the lation. There are least three ) this House may attach amend s to the $300,000,000 relief bill and Senate may at-| House $136,- t. Either ing a new | which | at conference obably wc Norbeck Explains Report points Tom col easure m The House, ts big public works pro- blic program confer report Page 2, Column FIRE IN SHIP SUBDUED AFTER 27 ARE OVERCOME was on North German Lloyd Freighter| Battles Blaze Six Days Before Reaching Boston and Aid. ed Press July 9—After an all- night battle with a fire which had yaged for six days in the hold of the North German Lloyd freighter Hanover, Boston firemen today gained control over the flames. Twenty-seven of their number were injured or overcome. As unloading ©of her cargo began, minor fires broke out, but they were quickly checked. Por fiive days prior to reaching port last evening, the crew of the freighter had tried to smother the flames with sieam and water. ok bbly nounced that the salvage cperations Iy, could only be begun at low tide when | the channel currents were less strong. | Vice Admiral Le Do cited for bravery | two of the sailor survivors of the catas- trophe, who, he said, while on the bridge t the moment the accident cccurred the courage to descend into the compartment into which the water was rushing and close the hatch.” | they left there to He also expressed admiration for the | Efforts to learn the det courage with which Ensign Bienbenu. | fateful flight were un: anether survivor, spurred his comrades | The manager of the hotel in Minsk to keep swimming during their struggle | where they spent Thursday night said with the sea until they were picked up | they were in excellent cc tion. by the fishing vessel. The fact that the fiyers were down Rear Admiral Neuzillet cf the board | about 16 hours befos news of their| f inquiry said he feared none of the mishap got abroad was an illustration | crew was alive, because the bulkheads | of the lack of communication Ia(‘xll(iCS[ were built to withstand the pressure ' around Borisov. D the 36 hours/ {only to a depth of about 160 feet between the time they left Berlin and| the announcement th d been found | the Civil Aviation Society was doing all it could to find them MRS. MATTERN WILLING to begin with, broke down enti Propeller Is Damaged. | Reports to the militia headquarters | | here said the controls and propeller | were damaged and it would be difficult | | to repalr the ship at Minsk i The flyers sent cs folks back home legrams to the | Minsk _before | to Borisov. Is of their last| b 31 Years of Alimony, Man Misses Payment And Wife (Inmplains Approves New Round-the-World Try o if Husband Wants to. FORT WORTH Mrs. Jimmie Matt husband to m shatter the rour “If he wan said last night jections. It's all & wants to do. Mrs. Mattern By the Associated Press DETROIT, July 9.—Jobn Po- 8 72, Halfway, Mich., missed first alimony payment in 31 years three months ago Yesterday his wife, Mrs. Annie Pozansky, Who obtained a sepa- rate maintenance decree Decem- ber 27, 1900, had him brought into court for missing three $12 monthly installments. Pozansky attributed his failure < to lack of employment. idge Joseph A. Moyni- continued the case until ing for her | tempt to air record. again,” she raise any ob- er of what he Caroline Mattern, Mrs. G. H Mul- 6 hours r word of in. his partner. | s had been forced pressed disap- | the knowledge ler, his_sister waite at ‘the Mattern h him and Bennett Advised that the f down in Ru pointment but s the two were safe RAY-TREATED VACCINE SEEN AS TUBERCULOSIS DETERRENT 1 Wisconsin Scientist Believes ‘““Tubuvase” May Bring Partial Control of White Plague. | By | 100 Absbiiated Prass “It is a line of surely worth | MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 9—In a| following," Dr. F commented | copyright story, The Milwaukee Senti- 4 ’g'hfl\ng;mh is obtained from isolated nel today said 29 years of research by | pyorr®'¢ PAclll treated by ultra-violet {Dr. Wwililam D. Prost, agricultural| “The rays the paper said, “effec- | bacteriologist at the University of Wis- | tively will kill the germs of tubercu- | consin, have been rewarded by dis-| 1SS, but apparently produce little covery of a vaccine, “tubuvase,” which chemical change in their scientific | bodies or toxins.” ultimately may bring partial control of tuberculosis. Dr. Frost cited the work of German The scientist, in confirming the story, | and Prench scientists using vaccine pre- pared from live bacilli and termed such warned against assumption that “tubu- vase” was either a sure cure or a cer- waccine dangerous. Vaccines from dead bacilli, he said, generally were regarded | ustless. tain means of prevention. He has not yet completed his experiments. Results of experiments, .the Sentinel { “In ‘tubuvase'" the Sentinel says, | “the bacilli are dead in the sense they said, indicated the vaccine bene- ficlal for immunizaiion. cannot grow and cause disease, but are more active than the heat-killed bacilll | in affording immunity.” | Averill AND HE GETS ALLTHIS puBLICITY N SPEAK WANT.SER FIVE-DAY WEEK IN U. S. SERVICE - APPEARS DOOMED Sentiment in Departments | Generally Believed to Be Against Move. |WORKERS WOULD LOSE | ANY EXTENDED LEAVE Council of Personnel Administra- tion, However, Ready to Ap- prove “Principle.” | | | The proposal to inaugurate the five- | day week in the Government service ! today appeared to be on the rocks. The Council of Personnel Adminis- tration, composed of the members of the cabinet and other ranking officials, which bas been studylng measures for administering the furlough plan, had | completed & report for President Hoover recommending the “principle” of the five-day plan be adopted wher- ever feasible, but, in a responsible quar- | ter it was said that cevelopments had shown that only in very few instances INDIANS DEFEAT MATOMALS 4101 Porter, Burnett, Vosmik and Morgan Find Brown in Opening Chapter. The Cleveland Indians continued their sensational winning streak against the Nationals at Griffith Stadium this aft- eroon, winning the first game of a double-header and running their string of victories to four. The score was 4 to 1. FIRST INNING. CLEVELAND—Porter _ singled to right. Burnett got a single with 2 bunt that Kuhel picked up and with no one covering first he threw to Cronin too late to get Porter. Averill flied to West. Vosmik singled over second, scoring Porter and sendinz Burnett to third. Morgan sagled to center, scoring Bur- nett and sending Vosmik to third. Sewell fiied to West and Vosmik scored after the catch. West got Cissell’s hoist. Three runs ‘WASHINGTON—Myer walked. Man- ush flied to Averill. Porter came in for West's high one. Cronin singled to left. sending Myer to second. Harrls walked, filling the bases. Kuhel flied to Averill. No runs. SECOND INNING. CLEVELAND—Kamm bounded a sin- gle over Bluege's head. Hildebrand sacrificed, bunting to Kuhel walked. Porter was safe at second when Cronin dropped a throw from Brown who had picked up Burnett's bounder, Kamm scoring. _Averill forced Burnett at second, Kuhel to Cronin, Porter go- ing to third. Vosmik flied to Harris. One run. WASHINGTON — Bluege walked came in for Spencer's loft Brown sacrified, Sewell to Morgan Myer fanned. No runs. THIRD I ING. CLEVELAND—Morgan took a third strike. So did Sewell. Kuhel got Cis- sell's pop. No runs. WASHINGTON—Cissell went to his left for nice stop and threw out Man- ush. West flied to Vosmik. Burnett went back of second for Cronin’s pop. No runs. FOURTH INNING. CLEVELAND—Kamm flied to Man- ush. Hildebrand took a third strike Porter singled to center. Burnett grounded to Kuhel. No runs. WASHINGTON—Burnett threw out Harris from deep short. Cissell threw out Kuhel. Bluege drove a double down the left field line. Burnett threw out Spencer. No runs FIFTH IN) CLEVELAND—Averill bounced a double off the right field fence. Bluege threw out Vosmik holding Averil second. Bluege threw out M Averill going to third. Bluege a threw out Sewell. No runs WASHINGTON Brown Myer grounded to Morgan fiied to Averill No runs SIXTH INNING. CLEVELAND—West ran back for Cissell's loft. Brown got Kamm's top- ped drive and threw him out. Cronin threw out Hildebrand. No runs WASHINGTON—Cissell _ threw out West. Cronin sent a long fly to Averill G. | Harris beat out a hit to deep short Kuhel popped to Cissell. No runs SEVENTH INNING. CLEVELAND—Porter walked. Bur- nett bunted and forced Porter, Bluege to Cronin. West came in fast for Ave- 1ll's looper and Burrett was doubled off first, West to Kuhel. No runs. WASHINGTON—Bluege flied to Vos- mik, who backed up against the open stands to make a great catch Spencer fiied to Porter. Cissell threw out Brown. WNo runs EIGHTH INNING. LAND—Vosmik hoisted to rOLEVEL e threw out Morgan Sewell dropped a single in short cen- ter. Cissell forced Sewell. No runs WASHINGTON—Myer fouled to Sewell, Manush dropped a double in short left, close to the foul line. West walked. Cronin fiied to Averill. Averill backed up for Harris' hoise. No runs. NINTH INNING. CLEVELAND—Kamm flied to West. Hildebrand took a third strike. Myer threw out Porter. No runs. ‘WASHINGTON—Kuhel triple off the fence in right. Bluege singled to left, scoring Kuhel. Spencer drove into a double play, Burnett to Cissell to Morgan. Rice batted for Brown and was thrown out. One run. PLANT TO GO FULL TIME va, July 9 lm,_s.“‘"m Pinkelstein & Co,, Inc., local man - turers of men’s clothing. witl put 600 rsons to work this week and next to the capacity of, the plant to fuil time operations quota of 700 workers, bounded a NORFOLK, did those in authority believe it could | Vosmik, If. | Morgan, 1b. | Sewell, ¢. Score T GAME.) VETERANS CROWD - RALTIKETLNE E | 0! o/More Than 1,000 Bonus| o' Seekers Expected to Claim U. S. Loans Before Night. Box (FIR! CLEVELAN! D. AB. R. H. Porter, rf. Burnett, ss. Averill, ef Cissell, 2b be applied. As it was pointed out, the President may have his own ideas on the matter, and his word will be final, but it was said that sentiment generally in the departments was against the move. Two Principal Reasons. ‘This was ascribed to two principal reasons: First, it was so much of a de- parture from established practice its practicability was held to be doubtful, and second, that by absorbing the man- datory furlough over week ends, Gov- ernment workers would be precluded from accumulating any extended leave, and vacations would be possible only at the expense of more lost time. It was pointed out, too, that under existing conditions, the five-day week | could not be applied uniformly, because Kamm, 3b.... o Hildebrand, p. 0 = | departments generally furnish continu- The Veterans’ Administration did a |ous services, E\?hhh must be performed, rush business today in furnishing trans- | n}l]ld hcll: of funds precludes staggering | the work. Porter | 34 4 827 WASHINGTON. Manush, 1If... West, cf.. Cronin, s | Harris, rf | Kuhel, 1b 12 1| Rice batted for Brown in ni SCORE BY INNINGS. T AR Y Cleveland.. 310000000~ 4 Washington 00000000 1~ 1 SUMMARY: Runs batted in—Vosmik, Bluege. Two-base hits—Bluege. Averill, Three-base hit—Kuhel. Sacrifices—Hildebrand, Brown. Double Dlays—West fo Kuhel; Burnett to | Cissell to Morgan. | | Morgan, Manush. Sewell, Left on bases—Cleveland, 6: Washington. 7. Base on balls—Of Hildebrand, 1; -off | by Brown, 4. an Graflan. OICKEY FINEDS 1, SUSPEDED3IAYS 'Punishment ~ for Breaking Reynolds’ Jaw One of Most | Severe on Record. 1 NDED 31 DAYS | | | \ By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, July 9.—Catcher Bill Dickey of the New York Yankees today was fined $1,000 and suspended untiky August 4 for his attack on Carl Rey- nolds, Washingtcn outfielder The fine was one of the severest ever | levied on a mejor league player, although the suspension, totaling 31| days from the day Dickey cracked Rey- nolds' jaw, was not as long as de- manded by Clark Griffith, president of the Washington club. Griffith demanded that Dickey be kept | out of the game until Reynolds was“ able to return. ! Dickey assaulted Reynolds in the first | game of a double-header on July 4. The Washington outfielder dashed in with the tylng score on a “squeeze play,” and Dickey, enraged because he | had come rushing in standing up, struck him. Reynolds’ jaw was fractured. He | probably will be out of the game for another month. President Will Harridge of the Amer- | ican League, who levied the staggering fine, carefully digested all reports on | the case before announcing his decision. It was the second “assault case” in the American League this season. | The first one, involving the battle | of three White Sox players and Mana- | ger Lew Fonseca against George Mori- arty at Cleveland on Memorial day. Fines totaling $1,350 were dealt out to| the White Sox players in that case, | Pitcher Gaston and Manager Fonseca | | receiving $500 fines. | Reynolds’ lower jaw was fractured in {two places by Dickey’s blow. Since that time he has been unable to eat solid foods. President Harridge said he sent the news of the fine direct to Dickey yes- terday “so he would learn of it direct, [wmwug first reading it in the news- | "It is probable that the club owners may vote to turn over the of the fine to Reynolds of the Washington club, when they hold their usual Sum- mer meeting at Cleveland next Monday | expressed the belief the | Sunday, | who desired to leave. tives were sent to the Veterans' Admin- | mend frst of il that the Avecday Week | portation to homesick, discouraged bonus marchers. Long before the offices were opened a line of veterans was waiting to take | advantage of the $100,000 loan fun appropriated by Congress to pay rail | road fare and buy food. Officials said they did not know the exact number which has applied, but applications would exceed 1,000 before tonight. The administrution offices will remain open almost 24 hours a day, including to accommodate the er soldiers who have been camped here for weeks. “We are here to cotlect our bonus and not to accept railroad fare back hom was the comment today at the head- quarters of their commander-in-chief, Walter W. Waters, over the signing by President Hoover late yesterday of a 1$100,000 appropriation to lend the vet- erans money for transportation to their homes. Meanwhile, the American Red Cross announced it was making arrangemen! to provide transportation and subsist- ence to their homes for all wives and children of members of the bonus army Two representa- | istration Building to handle the work. No provision for wives and children had been made in the $100,000 appro- priation signed by President Hoover yesterday. Slips Given 235 in Hour. The officlal count at the Veterans’ Bureau cne hour after it was opened 235 veterans. It is estimated that there are approximately 11,700 vete camps here. T}l:: veterans’ headquarters immediate- 1y held that the majority of those who departed were on recruiting duty to swell the forces here. However, this was not entirely the case, Andrew Jackson Hughes of Little Rock, Ark., received a cheer in the corridors of the Veterans’ Bureau this morning when he announced that “I'se done plain tired of it all and I sho' wants to go home.” He was in line with approximately 100 veterans await- ing his transportation slip. At the Union Station small groups congregated around the ticket window opened especially for the veterans. Ten clerks were busy arranging the tickets under supervision of N. C. Reed, chief of traffic section, supply division, Vet- erans Administration. Entraining Starts Early. “I was here until 3 o'clock this morning putting them on trains,” Mr. Reed said, “and if some of them are going back home for recruiting duty they certainly did not express them- selves accordingly. The majority of " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) rans in Pope Blesses Pilgrims. VATICAN CITY, July 9 (#).—Pope Plus today gave his blessing to 20 pilgrims from Cincinnati, Ohio, and 150 from New York, visiting Rome on the way home from the Eucharistic Congress at Dublin. At the same time, the Government establishment was confronted with a | ruling from Controller General McCarl, covering pay deductions under the fur- lough plan, which offered a solution known to be favored by opponents of | the five-day week, in that it would | permit leave to be earned. | _ This opinion was one of a series handed down late yesterday by McCarl. | In it he held that pay deductions | would be made at the rate of one and ,nne-%ulner days for each half month, |whic ‘would mean eight and one-third per cent, and that these dedus may |be used as the basis for cumulative leave. Council Completes Work. | The Council of Personnel Adminis- tration, headed by Thomas E. Camp- bell, president of the Civil Service Com- mission, was ordered a week ago by President Hoover to offer recommenda- tions for administering the furlough, and completed its work early last night at a meeting at the Department of Commerce, by ironing out a report that had come from its Executive Commit- | tee, and was based on a series of con- ferences in which representatives of various Government establishments par- ticipated and aired their views. | This report was understood to recom- mend first of all that the five-day week out hurting the service, increasing costs, or working hardship on the employes— the last referring to leave. This, it was amplified, would make | the plan have only limited application, | for even where, in the case of depart- ments, only a fraction of their service may be continuous, it is felt, it was | for business this morning was that added, that they must keep at least a 7| transportation slips had been issued to | skeleton force on hand for co-ordinating administrative duties. In only one of the executive depart- | ments, it was said, did the spokesman |feel the proposal could be applied throughout. Furlough Suggestion Made. The council is also understood to be suggesting that within given activities, for which there are sufficient funds to | do the work required, but not to main- | tain_the existing forces, that the fur- ylough principle be invoked uniformly, | to avert dismissals, with regard to the ;law which provides that the highest salaried personnel be furlougheq first, | wherever possible without injury to the | service. Already, it was said, this principle has been departed from in certain in- stances, and furloughs of varying | length—some indefinite—have been | ordered | " The council, it was said, had hoped that these furloughs—termed admin- | istrative in comparison to the 24-day legislative furlough—might be taken when desired; that is, when it was fore- seen that a furlough would be necessary eventually, that it might be taken at the option of the department or em- | | ploye, and the pay deduction made at | some future date when required. The ! | McCarl decision, however, calling for | | deductions at the time of absence from | | work, barred this. | 'The obstacles which formed in the | | path of the five-day week, which earlier | |looked to be on a fair way toward | | acccmplishment in general, came as a | T (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) BOY, 15, HELD AS TAXI BANDIT, CLAIMS HE USED ONLY CAP GUN Weapon Missing After Scuffie With Cabman Brings: Police to Arrest Him. A 15-year-old youth, who declared he never carried any weapon more dangerous than a cap Dpistol, was identified by four taxicab drivers early today in a series of recent hold-ups | in_the Chevy Chase section. The youth, John Hendrix Doran, jr., of 101 Taylor street, Ghe,vly‘ Chase, Md., police as having admit- the four men, as well as ‘whom police expect |as Jenkins' cab drew up in the 3600 block of Grant road. Jenkins, he said, grappled with the youth and called to neighbors to tele- phone police. A detail from No. 8 pre- cinct found the pair still struggling when they arrived. Jenkins said Doran engaged his cab at Fourteenth and G streets, asking to be driven to Connecticut avenue and venport . Arriving, Jenkins U, REITERATES TS OPPOSITION T0 ERASURE OF DEBTS Declares, Views Outlined by Hoover June 20, 1931, Still Obtain. ATTITUDE IS EXPLAINED BY STATE DEPARTMENT Statement Issued After Snell's Dec- laration That President’s Con- victions Were Unchanged. By the Associated Press The State Department said in a state- ment today there was no change in the attitude of the American Government on the question of war debts from the views outlined by President Hoover last June when he said he did not approve cancellation, but that further temporary adjustments would be necessary. The State Department sald The American Government is pleased that, in reaching an agreement on the question of reparations, the nations as- sembled in Lausanne have made a great step forward in the stabilization of the economic situation in Eurcpe. U. S. Attitude Unchanged. “‘On the gquestion of war debts owing to the United States by European gov- ernments there is no change in the at- titude of the American Government |which was clearly expressed in the President’s statement concerning the proposed moratorium on intergovern- mental debts on June 20 of last year.” The statement came a little after Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader, had said the atti- tude of President Hoover had not changed and he did not expect the State Department to take any action. Meanwhile in the Senate. a resolution to request President Hcover to inform that body whether there is any founda- tion for reports that the United States has expressed to foreign nations a will- ingness to reduce debts and if so, by what authority such action has been taken, was introduced by Senator Mc- Kellar, Democrat of Tennessee. Statement of Junme 20, 1931. President Hoover's statement of June 20, 1931, said in discussing inter-gov- ernmental debts: “I do not approve in any remote sense of the cancellation of the debts to us. World confidence would not & enhanced by such action. None ot our debtor nations have ever sug- gested it. “But as the basis of the settlement of these debts was the capacity under nor- mal conditions of the debtor to pay, we | should be consistent with our own pol cies and principles if we take into ac- | count the abnormal condition now existing in the world. “I am sure the American people have no desire to attempt to extract any i sum beyond the capacity of any debtor to pay and it is our view that broad vision requires that our Government xh(‘):“lsd recognize the situation as it exists.” AGREEMENT INITIALED. | Lausanne Parley Is Declared Officially Closed. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 9 (#).— The Lausanne conference on war debts and reparations was officially declared closed at 11:25 a.m. today after repre- sentatives of the principal powers had formally initialed the agreement to scale Germany’s reparations bill down from the original $64,000,000,000 to ap- proximately $712.500,000. Germany claims to have paid more {than $16,000,000,000 in reparations. France asserts the allies have receiv only $5,000,000,000. The initialing ceremony was held” in the Beau Rivage Hotel where moft of the sessions of the conference took place. Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald of Great Britain, whose ten- acity was credited with having brought about the agreement, presided. MacDonald himself was' the first to use the gold pen on the document that represents one of the largest financial settlements in history. The Other Signatories. He was followed by Premier Renkin, Paul Hymans and Emile Francqui for Belgium; Sir Jobn Simon, representing the British Dominions; Antonio Mos- coni for Italy, Premier Herriot, M. Germain-Martin for France; August Zaleski for Poland, Ambassador Shi- geru Yoshida for Japan and Chancel- lor Von Papen, Ambassacor Von Neu- rath and Count Schwerin Von Krosigk for Germany. The five resolutions were, briefly: (1) An agreement regarding repara- tions between Germany and the former allies; (2) conditional measures extend- ing a moratorium on intergovernmental debts; (3) an agreement to assist Aus- tria and the Danublan states which are in finaicial difficulties; (4) crea- tion of a committee to study the grain " (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) e s e ULSTER’S AID SOUGHT Orangemen Asked to Join in Re- publican Movement. DUBLIN, July 9 (#.—The “Army Council” of the illegal Irish Republican Army today appealed to Orangemen to join in_a movement for “a free and united Irish Republic.” The appeal exhorted Ulstermen to “rescue themselves from capitalism and imperialism.” It declared full freedom of conscience and religious worship would be “guaranteed” both sides. The government of the Irish Free State has often intimated its desire for a united- Irish Republic, but Northern Ireland has declined to consider it. MAYOR CERMAK BETTER Chicago From Strain of Convention Work. CHICAGO, July 9 (#).—A decided improvement,in the condition of Mayor Anton J. Cermak was noted today by his physicians. ‘The mayor recently was taken ill as a result of the strain of looking afigr the city's interests and of supervising Chicago's part in the national conven- tions of the Republican and Democratic parties. Executive . Recovering AT hmul’ue#