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NORTHAMPTON, Mass,, Janu- ary 6.—Calvin Coolidge goes to his long rest tomorrow amid the austere hills of his native Ver- mont and the thought of a Na-| tion he led will follow the simple cortege. The services will be as simple as the life he led. The body will lie in state for one hour tomorrow morning in Edwards Congregational Church, jn which he and Mrs. Coolidge long had worshiped. This was decided today when it became | apparent the little church could | not accommodate the throngs anxious to attend the funeral services. Between 8:30 and 9:30 the pub- lic will be permitted to file past the former ident’s bier. Honorary Pall Bearers. ‘The honorary pall bearers, selected today, are all old friends and associates of the former President. They are Frank Stearns, ton merchant and for many years a confidant of Mr. Cool- idge; William Whiting, Holyoke paper manufacturer on whom Mr. lidge called to fill the post of Secretary of \W as a young man; Walter L. Stevens, 7 R.'W. Hem- & Northampton attorn: way, Mr, United States . Butler, who campaign for to 11. There will be a wait of a half hour before the motor cortege leaves for Plymouth, Vt., where interment will gake place at the Coolidge family plot. Plymouth at 3 O’Clock. Mrs. Coolidge will be accompanied in her car by her son John and his wife, the former Florence Trumbull, daughter of a former Connecticut Governor. Mi Coolidge plans to return to Northampton Immediately after burial services. The cortege is expected to reach the fittle cemetery at outh at 3 o'clock jomorrow afternoon. The church has a seating capacity of ‘mbout 1,000 a’nd sho;le in rt:hul':e of ar- rangements face Mculty appor- &m‘h;-: seats to the host applying for em. While expressions of mourning came “(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) RECALLS HEALTH TALK WITH CALVIN COOLIDGE Representative Rogers Says For- mer President Told Her He Could Not Stand Another Term. LOWELL, Mass, January 7 (#).— Representative Edith Nourse Rogers to- day disclosed that four years ago Calvin Coolidge said his physical condition ‘would not endure four more years of the | presidency. In 8 leiter to friends here Mrs. | Rogers, who is now in Washington, she had talked with the former Fresi-| dent at the White House on the day| Herbert Hoover was nominated for the | presidency in 1928. “Mr. President,” Mrs. Rogers said, “you could have been renominated and re-elected.” ‘But my health would never stand it” Mr. Coolidge replied, Mrs. Rogers sald. Mrs. Coolidge Hol(is VCourage ;. | Special Train to And Poise Desp_ite Distress Take Officials Calm That Has Her in By the Assoctated Press. | NORTHAMPTON, Mass., January 6.— | Grace Goodhue Coolidge was facing today the heart-rending loss cf her | husband with the same magnificent | courage and poise with which she had | ¢ shared Calvin Coolidge’s early struggles | and later the burdens of the Chief Ex- | ecutive of the United States. | It was she who was the first to see | her husband on the floor of his dressing | room. She ran downstairs, stopped at| the landing, and called to Harry Ross, the former President's secretary and friend: “My husband is dead.” Her voice was described by Ross as “calm, although she was greatly affected.” She had been his constant companion | and helpmate from the days when the | young Vermont farmer boy, with a job in a local law office, took her from her school teaching to be his bride in 1905. She was 26 at the time. | ‘The yor newlyweds set up house- | keeping in the famed two-family house which was the Coolidge home all | through the days of his governorship | up to the time he became Vice Presi- | dent, and to which they returned from the White House. Into this home, as |Former First Lady Displays Same Stoic Characterized Past. | she put the charm | and graceful bred into her on | the wind-swept shores of Lake Cham- | plain in Vermont where she grew into womanhood and attended the university. A year after her marriage, Calvin | oolidge was elected to the Massa- chusetts Legislature, and was started on the road to the presidency: Mayor | of Northampton, Senator, president | of the Senate, lieutenant governor, Governor, and Vice President. And ever | by his side, making his home, bear- ing his children, and adding vivacity and warm social charm to the taciturn | austerity of her husband was Grace Coolidge. Amid the worried days of the Boston police strike when her hus- band was chief executive of the com- monwealth, or the overcrowded days in Washington as the President’s wife, she was an ever cheerful ‘“homebody,” quiet and affectionate. | “We New England women cling to| the old days,” she once said, “and being the Presiden’s wife isn't going to make me think less about the do- | mestic things I've always loved” | Mrs. Coolidge had that rare and al- | most_unique quality of being able to " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) in the White FRIENDS AND AIDES EXPRESS SORROW World’s Great Men Write | Epitaph of Calvin Coolidge They Knew. By the Associated Press. ‘The world’s great men wrote an epi- taph of acclaim for Calvin Coolidge in a great outpouring of sorrowful expres- sions at his passing. ~Johin W. Davis, who opposed Coolidge alike must regret that the country and experienced judgment. f. Smith—I had a strong ad- lor ve been pleasantly asso- him. I am deeply shocked nd deeply Evercts stmiens lican National ice. Ambassador Walter E. Edge—He occu- pled a position in American life that (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) TO CHAPLIN’S EX-WIFE By the Associaved Press. A. Bausch, world decathlon champion, denjed today that he is engaged to| of the movie comedian. | Mrs. Chaplin's manager yesterday | but she declined to affirm it. | Bausch said her manager was “a bit | the actress were “merely good friends.” | Besides serving as & baritone soloist his time to athletics again as a mem- | ber of an independent amateur basket deprived in these critical times of his him. Since he left Wash- ha ed. secretary to lidge—] }lfe has been largely one of public serv- will be virtually impossible to duplicate KANSAS CITY, January 6.—James Mildred Harris Chaplin, former wife announced her engagement to Bausch, | presumptuous,” and added that he and | with an orchestra, Bausch will devote ball squad he joined here last night. MRS. MOSKOWITZ LEAVES | ESTATE TO FAMILY By the Assoclated Prass. | NEW YORK, January 6—Mrs, Belle | Lindner Moskowitz, pol-mcal adviser to|roads, any consideration of the great former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, left almost | her entire estate, formally estimated in | the will to be “over $10,000,” to her husband, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, and her | three children by a former marriage. The only other legatee mentioned in the will, which was offered for probate today, is a niece, Louise Lindner of Cleveiand, Ohio, who is a senior at Smith College. Miss Lindner receives | $500. fiORTHAMPTON S TORES TO STAY | OPEN SO AS NOT TO LOSE SALE Mayor Will Ask Merchants to Pull Shades During Coolidge Funeral, However. By the Associated Press. NORTHAMPTON, Mass, January 6. ~—Mayor Homer C. Bliss will do “as Calvin would have wanted.” He won't ask Northampton's places ©of business to close tomorrow for the funeral of the former President. He ‘will ask them to pull down their shagdes during the services. “We have a prosperbus city,” he said, osperous, anyway, in normal times. fow every nickel counts. If the busi- mess places closed they might lose some “And that is exactly what Calvin woulan't have wanted.” Nor will the city be draped in ning. “Calvin was a simple man,” he said. *He wouldn't have wanted people to to all that expemse. Of course, I k we ought to drape the city hall little—that . wel epend a few dol- on it.” He ‘wenv. on about the funeral: “I think all the city officials ought to be present, don't you? Anyway, all | |the former mayors of Northampton | ought to go. Still, with all these big | people coming, I don't know if there| | will be room for us.” | The banks of the city have already | signified their intention to close during | | the funeral. | | Mayor Bliss felt deeply the loss of | his city’s most illustrious citizen. He | studied hard and long over the proc- lamation he intended to issue. Like the other citizens of Northamp- ton he is not a man to say or write idle words—or bring to the surface any display of inward feeling. | “You know,” he said in a reminis- | cent way, “Calvin liked our city hall. We could have had a city hall costing 2 quarter of a million dollars, but we bullt one costing only $70,000. Calvin came up and looked it over one day. He said to us: *This is & very comfortable eity BARUCH TO HEAD RAIL COMMITTEE Coolidge’s Work to Be Car- ried On—Report on Sur- vey Due Shortly. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 6—Its work | nearing completion, the National Trans- portation Committee, headed by Calvin | Coolidge, will “carry on,” Bernard M.| Baruch said last night, “in the spirit in | which he led it.” All that remains is the preparation of oty ramaporearin "o of e country’s transportation lems, which will be done, -Vice > man Baruch said, “in a manner which we all hope and believe would have had his full approval.” When the committee was formed Walter H. Bennett, president of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, & member of the sponsoring group, seid approximately $19,000,000,000 in rail road bonds were in jeopardy. Decla many of these bonds were held by schools, churches, savings banks and urance companies, as well 8s indi- viduals, Bennett said emergency meas- | ures would be required to safeguard the investments. Baruch Pays Tribute. Describing Mr. Coolidge’s death as & “shock to the country,” Baruch s2id “it | comes with peculiar poignancy to me, | especially on account of our recent close | association with him in the National| hnnsmfrtfition Committee, to which he gave a full measure of his great and his usual devo e duty.” “Although all who were associated in this work,” he continued, “had occa- sional contact with him and knew of | his great qualities of mind and heart, | this recent much closer association gave us an insight into a side of his | character with which I think the public | was not altcgether familiar. His care of the more homely and personal essociations was of a richness and depth that was not generally realized. | “The committee has completed its hearings and is approaching the end of the program laid out by him. It will carry on to a conclusion in the spirit in which he led it and in a manner which we all hope and believe would have had his full appproval.” Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Clark Howell, sr, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, ~and _Alexander _Legge, president -of the International Har- vester Co., were other members of the committee. Coolidge Outlines Aim. At the organization mreeting on Octo- | ber 7, Mr. Coolidge outlined the purpose of the committee as follows: “While primarily we are interested in the rail- tion to any public | problem will involve all the methods of transportation, by water and air and motor. While, of course, we cannot tell how long the investigation will last, it will be our purpose to finish it with- | in three months.” | The last hearings attended by Mr. | Coolidge were held on December 7, 8§ and 9. The next hearing was scheduled for January 11, following which a re- port was to be drafted for submission to | the group of savings banks, insurance companies, universities and other inter- | ests which sponsored the survey. 'rhe“ committee members received no com- pensation | John W. Power, the secretary, said | Baruch, who automatically succeeds | Mr. Coolidge as. chairman, probably | would call the committee together again la next week. MRS. SNIPES TO SEEK REPRIEVE OF 30 DAYS Attorneys to Ask More Time to Perfect Appeal of Expectant Mother From Death Sentence. By the Associated Press. YORK, 8. C., January 6.—Attorneys for Mrs. Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29, expectant mother under sentence of death for her conviction of the murder of Rural Policeman Elliott Harris, said today the State Supreme Court will be asked for an extension of 30 days of time for the perfection of an appeal in the case. Mrs. Snipes was sentenced to die April 7, but the appeal automatically stayed her sentence until the State Supreme Court can act. She expects the birth of her second child later this month. She has & 7-year-old son. Harris was shot to death after he had stopped an automobile in which to Rites. NATION MOURNS FOR 30 DAYS Senate Adjourns in Honor of Former Chief Executive. President Hoover will leave Washington late tonight for Northampton, Mass., to attend the funeral services there tomorrow for his friend and predecessor, Calvin Coolidge. The Chief Exeeutive will be ac- companied by Mrs. Hoover and one or two of his secretaries, Chief Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court, who served in the Coolidge cabinet as Secre-| tary of State, and several mem- bers of the present cabinet. ‘The journey will be made in a special train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and although the de- talls are not yet completed, it was not thought likely at the White House today that President Hoover would go from North- ampton after the services to Plymouth, Vt., to attend the burial of Mr. Coolidge. House and Senate Cars. According to the present plans being made for Mr. Hoover's special train to the Coolidge funeral, two extra special cars will be attached to the train, one for the Senate and one for the House special funeral committees. Indications are that the President and his party wiil start back for Washing- ton immediately following the funeral services at Northampton. In that event the President and Mrs. Hoover will be back at the White House before midnight tomorrow night. President Hoover late yesterday sent his chief military end naval aides, Col. Campbell C. Hodges and Capt. Walter N. Vernou, to Northampton to offer their services to Mrs. Coolidge in the matter of assist- | ing in any way possible in the making of arrangements for the funeral for the former Chief Executive. These aides will represent the President officially Ting | at the interment in the Coolidge family burial plct at Plymouth Notch unless President Hoover decides personally to | g0 _to Plymouth. The aides took with them to Northampton a wreath and floral piece to be placed near the cacket in the name of the President and Mrs. Hoover. White House Closed. Following the President's proclama- tion late yesterday notifying the peo- ple of the United States officially of the death of the former President, in which he paid high tribute to his predecessor and in which a 30-day pe- riod of official mourning was an- nounced, orders were given to have the presicential home closed to public visitors and sightseers until after the burial of Mr. Coolidge. Presidént Hoover held his customary Friday cabinet meeting, the only mem- ber absent being Attorney General Mitchell. He was represented at the session by Solicitor General Thacher Th v i 2 e session was brief and little busi I o et mevent e pois ot ness was transacted. ‘The principal conversation around the long table con- cerned the sudden death of the former Presicent. The United States flag above the White House will continue to fly at half staff throughout the mourning pe- riod, as will the flags on all other Gov- ernment buildings, reservations and ships. All social functions scheduled at the White House during the 30-day pe- riod have been canceled. Whether or not the functions will be held efter the expiration of the period of mourn- ing or will be dispensed with entirely has not been determined. It was plainly evident when the Presi- dent reached his office at the customary hour today that he felt keenly the loss of his former friend and associate. The routine of the White House and execu- tive office went along in its customary systematic fashion, but a certain still- ness and gloom was evident. The Presi- dent made as few engagements as pos- |sible and during a greater part of the day was alone in his office. Diplomats Mourn. M. Claudel, Prench Ambassador to the United States, as dean of diplomatic | 20TPs in the Capital, called at the White House today to express on behalf of his colleagues their profound sympathy and to inform the President that a repre- sentative of the corps would go to Northampton to leave a wreath. The White House Correspondents’ As- soclation, of which Mr. Coolidge was honorary president during his five and half years' occupancy of the White House, today sent the following letter of condolence to Mrs. Coolidge: __“Newspaper men of the White House (Cdn]fixfiid on Page 5, Column 5. SON OF RIVERA GIVEN THREE YEARS IN PRISON Charge of Kicking a Policeman in Madrid Parking Row Brings Sentence. By the Associated Press. MADRID, January 6.—Fernando Primo de Rivera, son of the late dictator of Spain, was sentenced in court today to three years, four months and eight _days’ imprisonment, a fine of 150 pesetas and 120 peseias’ indemnization charges (about $22 in all) for kicking a police- In the early morning ber T, 1930, the hrothyers Miguel 0 de Ri d a friend parked automobiles nvne:‘ m‘:bm;en place. Taxi Mrs. Snipes and her husband, Claude Snipes, were riding in a futile search 1 . drivers protested and them in quarrel. the police- taken to head- RS 3 AT N N AN N NN SLAYER OF THREE IN'WILD RAMPAGE ASKS EXECUTION C. C. Donaldson Is Accused of Killing Brother and Two Children. Charles C. Donaldson, 48-year-old | night fireman at police headquarters. | who is alleged to have shot and killed | his brother and the latter's son and | daughter during a drunken rage last | night, declared today that he hoped he would be ‘“either electrocuted or hanged” for the crimes. The statement was the nearest thin; to a confession that Detective Sergt. John C. Dalgish was able to wring from Donaldson during & two-hour grilling in the hom squad room at headquarters. Victims of Slaying. The victims of the triple slaying, { which occurred in the Donaldson home, 923 Maryland avenue southwest, were: Silas O. Donaldson, 43; George Donald- | son, 18, and Mary Donaldson, 14. | The alleged slayer, according to Dal- | glish, did not know the children were dead until informed by detectives on his arrival at headquarters this morning. “I took & couple of drinks, then everything went blank,” the prisoner said. “All I remember after that is see- ing my brother coming down the stairs with a knife in his hand, threatening to_cut my heart out.” | " This, it was pointed out by Detective { Sergt. ‘Harry K. Wilson, chief of the | nomicide squad, was contrary to the statements of witnesses, all of whom de- clared the alleged slayer was descend- |ing the stairs and his brother ascend- ing when the final shot was fired. As for the knife in Silas Donaldson’s hand, it was explained, he was using it to |trim & corn when he heard the first | shots and started up the stairs. | Jealousy Believed Motive. The dead girl's mother, Mrs. Agnes | Donaldson, told Dalglish, the detective asserted, that her brother-in-law burned all Mary's clothing about a week ago |with boy friends. This statement | caused detectives to consider the theory the allegsd slayer’s rempage may have been motivated by jealousy. After re {fusing to make a detailed statement, the alleged slayer was returned to the fifth precinct where he will be held for a coroner’s inquest which was expected | to be set for either tomorrow or Monday. Before leaving headquarters, however, he affixed his signature to the following: “(Question by Detective Sergt. J. C. Dalglish)—Mr. Donaldson, last night about 12 o'clock midnight you made a statement to me, verbally, that you had shot your brother as he was on his way downstairs with a knife in his band, threatening to cut your heart out, and at that time you identified a .38-caliber Colt revolver with five empty cartridges used to shoot down your brother. Now I am going to ask you to make a state- ment that can be taken down by a stenographer and put into typewritten form. But before making this state- ment, I advise you that you do not have to make such a statement unless you care to, and if you do consent to make a further statement, it 'is with your full understanding that you are doing so voluntarily, without any prom- ises being offered to you by me. After hearing my advice to you, do you care to make such a statement? “Answer—No, sir; not at all. “The above read to Charles Clifton Schott, reau.” stenographer, Widow Tells of Shooting. The story of the shooting was re- counted today by Silas Donaldson’s widow, Mrs. Agnes Donaldson, and the two children who escaped. The latter, Luttrell and Allen Donald- son, said their uncle had appeared sud- denly in their sister’s room, with a gun in each hand, and announced he was going to shoct her. -She leaped from the bed and, screaming for help, (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) o SALVAGERS RETARDED Towers of Wrecked Atlantique Meet Adverse Currents. CHERBOURG, France, January 6 (#).—Eight tugs towing the wreck of the liner Atlantique toward Cherbourg encountered strong adverse currents which retarded their progress today. They should reach here tomorrow. in the cylinder as being the gun .you | Donaldson in the presence of David E. | Detective Bu- | New York Markets Close Tomorrow in Respect to Coolidge By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 6.—The New York Stock Exchange will be closed tomorrow as a tribute of respect to Calvin Coolidge. In voting to suspend trading on the day of the former Presi- dent’s funeral, governors of the exchange today followed prece- dent. The market closed at 12:30 pm. on the burial days of former Presidents Wilson and Taft. There was no trading either on the day following President Harding's death or on August 10, 1924, when he was buried at Marion, ©Ohio. Managers of the New York Cot- ton Exchange also voted to close tomorrow. Flags on the big banks and in- vestment banking houses in Wall street and vicinity were at half staff for Mr. Coolidge, Whose iih the Ereat post-war beom in e ~War m in | business and nnflfcm GARNER MAY OFFER Speaker to Divulge It Only if Democratic Pro- gram Fails. By the Assoclated Press. 8s painful” as the proposed increase in income taxes, but he declined to disclose its nature at this time. | The Speaker, discussing the program which the Democratic leaders talked over with President-elect Roosevelt last | night in New York, said the House | Ways and Means Committee would not | meet to consider the proposed broad- ening of the income tax base for about two weeks, | . 'We've got plenty of time,” he said. | “I understand the beer bill will be sent | to the White House in about two weeks.” | No Positive Agreement. | Garner sald the Democrats would concentrate on plans to balance the | budget, legalize beer, repeal the eight- eenth amendment and enact farm re- | liet legislation, D Garner said there was no positive | agreement at the New York conference on an extra session but he added he “went on the presumption that Gov. ‘Rnosevelt will feel it his duty” to call a | special meeting if the program was not accomplished at this assembly. “We hope that it will not be neces- sary,” the Vice President-elect said. The conference, he said, had devel- oped no new program except the pro- posal to broaden the base of the income tax, which would be held in abeyance until final action by President Hoover on the beer bill now pending in the Senate. Same as Early Program. “This four-point program (repeal, beer, farm relief and budget balancing) is the same program we formulated and announced 2t the opening of the session,” Garner said. “There has been no change. Its enactment ought to make possible an avoidance of a spe- cial session of the new Congress after March 4. Chairman Collier of the Ways and Means Committee, and Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic floor leader, both said the income tax pro- posal would be taken up only as a last resort. They said they hoped it would not be necessary. Senator Pittman of Nevada, one of those who attended the conference with Mr. Roosevelt, said the conferees agreed that the additional income taxes would not be pushed until it was found the extent of the deficit warranted. The prediction that an extra session of the new Congress would be necessary, it any of the major points in the pro- gram agreed upon failed at the short session, was made today by Rainey. Rainey said it was his understand- ing that if the Democrats succeeded in getting the beer bill enacted, accom- plished their goal of $100,000,000 in re- duction of a) tion b enactment mm tax, the broadening of come-tax “It is my understanding that we are not going to do it any sooner than we have to,” Rainey said. Quakes Felt in Thessaly. ATHENS, January 6 (P).— shook Volo, in Thes- the IS OWN TAX PLAN 2 Speaker Garner said today he had a | | tax plan “which I think is not quite | ECONOMY REPORT, NGLUDING PAY CUT, Treasury-Post Office Bill May Be Taken Up Early Next Week. The Treasury-Post Office appropria. | tion bill, carrying the additional pay |cut for all Government employes, | broader reorganization power for the | President and other proposed economies, probably will be reported to the Senate | by the Appropriations Committee Mon- g‘:-y d‘nm will be taken up for debate londay or Tuesday. had been to- The re, expected day, bug‘ pé:it: dsuaudubumed early eat Calvin Coolidge. Committee ap- Te- re- per cent. This, with the existing 8% per cent under the furlough tgl:n. which would make a total reduction of 10 per cent | during the next fiscal year. The only change the full commitiee made in findings of Senator Bing- ham’s economy group was to make sure that the President could not abolish an entire texecuuve ‘dne'pnnmcuo :tm mmwr!‘; out reorgan n . = authority to consolidate and abolish bureaus is in- tended to be exercised as a measure of | economy. | The Oddie subcommittee, | the specific appropriation items for the Treasury and Post Office ents, met today to decide what changes it will recommend in the detailed money allowances for those departments. If | that subcommittee finishes its work, the | Appropriations Committee, headed by | Senator Hale of Maine, will be con- | vened this afternoon to take final action on the Treasury-Post Office measure as a whole. Although the economy program is being enacted as a part of the Treasury- | Post Office supply bill, it will apply to | the Government service as a whole and | will represent the general policy for all the other supply bills on such basic questions as salaries, travel allowances and other economies. While the Appropriations Committee was getting the economy measure in | shape to go to the Senate; spokesmen for the Government workers were studying the various proposals affect- ing personnel and expressing their dis- appointment at many of the recom- | mendations. Luther C. Steward, president of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) — AUTO DEATHS DECLINE National Safety Council Lists 28,000 Total for Last Year. CHICAGO, January 6 (#).—A reduc- | tion of 13 per cent in number of auto- mobile deaths in the United States in 1932 was announced by the National Safety Council today. Last year’s death toll was about 29,- 000, the council said, or a decrease of 4,000 from the previous year’s figures. AWAITED IN SENATE . ‘handling | & DEMOCRATS AGREE ON FOUR STEPS TO MEET U.S. BUDGET |Leaders Secretly Fear Extra Session Must Be Called Despite Their Efforts. BOOST IN INCOME TAXES MADE PART OF PROPOSAL Roosevelt Approves Beer Revenue, Continued Gas Levy and Slash of $100,000,000. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, January 6.—President- elect Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democratic leaders of Congress today stand committed to a budget-balancing program which will increase income taxation, particularly on the incomes of men and women of small and moderate means. The Democratic Senators and Repre- sentatives who sat in conference here with Mr. Roosevelt until midnight last night returned to Washington today prepared to go forward with the budget- balancing plan at the present session of Congress. The plan has four main features: 1. A reduction in the appropriations for the next fiscal year of $100,000,000 below the budget sent to Congress by President Hoover. Committee, after conf today with Mr. Roosevelt, sald ho';rl-u;ged ‘When he Teturned to 'Washington to call Democratic members of that committee together to work (Continued on Page 13, Column 1.) THREE BOYS DROWN AFTER SAVING GIRL Succumb in Dead Creek When They Were Unable to Climb on Ice Shelf. By the Associated Press, ADDISON, Vt, January 6.—Three boys were drowned in Dead Creek yes- terday after they had pushed to safety a 10-year-old girl who had broken through thin ice while skating. The dead were Robert Dickerson, 15; Donald Lattrell, 16, and Samuel Jacobs, 19. The girl was Ruby Dickerson, a sister of one cf theé victims. The three were unable to climb on :g: ‘:fx laheu to which they had pushed e girl. |[HOUSE ASKS R. F. By the Assoclated Press. The House today requested the Re- construction Finance Corporation to make public details of loans made by the corporation between February and June last year. Action followed by only & few min- utes after the Banking Committee had ed the resolution b favorably report Y Regrrmhflve Howard, t, of asking om ould go to the House clerk and | Two i but no The of the town and dumlmbeulu he corporation com- | to public iblic Teports that | Re C. TO PUBLISH FEBRUARY-JUNE LOAN REPORT Howard Explain; Details of Advances Are Needed “to Quiet Ugly Rumors.” had told the Banking Committee that he felt publicity on the loans between February and June was necessary “to quiet ugly rumors.” Publicity for those loans has been a subject of dispute, both before and after | Congress voted in the Spring for publi- | cation of loans made subsequent & the amendments to the law made then. Only recently in the Senate, Norris | gt Do siven o WeABer = o ven to Wi a S e ough he such an investigation. pp lqmsmmk ordering the reports made S R W leader, favors the Howard u