Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly warmer; lowest tem- perature 35 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy and warmer; rain tomorrow aft- ernoon or night. Temperatures: Highest, 48. at 12 noon yesterday; lowest, 32, at 2 am today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Full report on page 9. No. 32417, post office, Enterad as second cla: Washington, matter D. C. GERMAN REDS URGE GENERAL STRIKE AS ANTI-HITLER MOVE: RIOTS WIDESPREAD Three Killed, Many Injured, Scores Arrested as Nazis, Communists and Police Clash in Many Places. NEW CHANCELLOR SEEKS SUPPORT IN REICHSTAG Former Kaiser Regards New Re- gime as “Step in the Right Direc- tion"—Army Chief of Staff Re- ported Resigned—Jews Apply for Passports to Leave Country. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 31.—Police were kept busy today dispersing Communist gatherings to protest elevation of Adolf Hitler to the chancellorship and confiscating inflammatory literature. The Communist Central Com- mittee in Berlin published an appeal for a general strike. Com- munist handbills urging open rebellion were confiscated in Madgeburg and the Communist mewspaper Rote Fahne was sup- pressed in Dresden. The strike appeal appeared to have little support. Police kept moving all night in various cities of the Reich, sepa- rating hostile groups. Berlin police reported three slain—a policeman, a Communist and a Nazi—12 injured and 50 arrested since last midnight. Many others were wounded and arrested in Nazi-Communist clashes during the day yesterday after the little National Socialist chieftain was sworn in. Street Fight in Breslau. The Communist was killed in Bres- | lau today and\two National Socialists were stabbed in a street fight precipi- tated by a Commaunist demonstration against the Hitler government. There was a riot at Wuppertal, where » band of National Socialists broke the windows in a trade union building. There was some shooting and a man was wounded. At Boersingfeld, in the Province of Lippe, another National So- cialist band stormed the town hall, tore down the Republican colors, burned them and hoisted the swastika flag of their party. Berlin'’s “Wall Street” was the scene of a tumultuous demonstration at noon today by uniformed Nazi students from & nearby university. About 500 demon- strators marched by the Bourse building shouting “Profiteers!” and other abusive words at the Bourse members. Police dispersed the crowd. Clashes in Five Towns. Anti-National Socialist demonstra- tions, in which a score were more or less scriously injured, occurred at Dus- seldorf, Halle, Schweinfurt, Offenbach and Hirschberg. The Communist appeal for a general strike caused alarm in Berlin, but there was no definite indication as yet of the effect it would have, Jubilant Berlin Nazis and National- 4sts marched past Hitler and President Paul von Hindenburg, who is about twice as old and towers similarly in stature over the man he elevated, in a stirring parade last night before gov- ernment quarters. But laboring dis- tricts were sullen and agitated today " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) FAR WEST BLIZZARD TOLL REACHES 11 Cold Still Handicaps Rescue of Hundreds Trapped in Mountains. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 31.—The toll of lives in the blizzard-swept Far West stood at 11 today as Winter con- tinued to threaten efforts to rescue hundreds of persons marooned in moun- tain regions. In Northern California two deaths were added to the number of known victims since the series of storms started 18 days ago. Another wanderer per- ished in Nevada. The most extensive struggle was in the San Bernardino Mountains, 75 miles east of Los Angeles, where hun- dreds of motorists who had gone to Lake Arrowhead to enjoy Winter sports | Were trapped by a blizzard. Those di- recting the battle against the white drifts said most of the trapped persons, who had numbered about 2,000, were being moved out over roads which were cleared by snow plows. Though no immediate danger to life ‘was reported, many of the men, women and_ children trapped since Sunday by a blizzard had frost-bitten hands and feet. Prompt action of the highway department in sending aid prevented a food shortage. Idaho was buried under fresh snow. Snow depths in the Sierra Nevada Mountains were nearing record marks and a passenger train of the Sierra Railway was stalled in drifts at Oak- dale, Calif. The last three victims were: Steve Rablen, rancher, whose neck was broken as the roof of his barn in Sonora County, Calif., collapsed; Charles J. Herman, Portland, Oreg., who died from exposure near Redding, Calif., and Guy Davis, whose frozen body was found mear Carlin, Nevada, Geen Case Goes to Jury. LONDON, January 31 (#).—The case ©of Harry Geen, charged with recelving £14,000 from the Broad Street Press, ' knowing that it was ill-gotten, went to the jury shortly after 4 pm. todsy. of Chile to Take Up Anti-War Compact With Argentina Revival of A-B-C Relation- ship Probable Out- come of Parley. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, January 31.—The foreign ministers of Argentina and Chile are to meet tomorrow at Men- doza, a provincial capital on the Argen- tine side of the Andes, for a conference that may be a most important event in the relations of the two countries. Chancellor Saavedra Lamas, who left today for the meeting, predicted a re- newal of Argentina’s “traditional link with Chile.” It will be another step in Argentina’s movement for a South American anti-war pact supplementing the Briand-Kellogg treaty, already in- dorsed by Brazil. Argentina already has arranged a (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) U $. DEBTS OFFER ACCEPTED BY ROME Reference to Trade Conces- sions Omitted—Lindsay Sails for Home Tonight. By the Assoclated Press. S8ir Ronald Lindsay, the British Am- | bassador, gathered up his war debts data today to sail for London to help| his home government round out plans | for the talks with the new adminis- @h WASHINGTO! ROOSEVELT SILENT DESPITE GUESSING ON CABINET POSTS President-Elect Says “Official Family to Be Named Only by Me.” ADVISERS ARE STUDYING MAJOR APPOINTMENTS Glass, Walsh and Farley Believed Certain to Get Places—Miss Per- kins Also Regarded as Slated. By the Associated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga. January 31. —With a nucleus of veterans for his cabinet, President-elect Roosevelt is going into the younger Democratic fold for the rest of the official family. Some surprises are in prospect. Fresh doubt over the complete make- up of the cabinet was cast by Mr. Roosevelt himself when he publicly told the Democrataic leaders here last night, “I regard the cabinet as peculiarly my own official family, to be named only ¥ 4 Sitting before a birthday cake he had just carved, the President-elect made this statement tonews paper men and called attention to his political ad\‘mers| standing in the circle about the table here in the Meriwether Inn. It was in | response to an inquiry whether he had talked cabinet with the Democratic leaders assembled here. He said “No.” tration. | Before he left Washington word was | received from Rome that Italy, too, was | ready to participate in similar debt dis- | cussions to be held with the incoming President soon after Mr. Roosevelt has | completed his conferences with the rep- | resentatives England sends here. In response to requests from Great Britain and Italy, the President-elect indicated through the State Depart- ment recently that he was willing to | talk debts and economics with them. | ‘Will Sail From New York. | Sir Ronald planned to leave the Capital late today and sail at midnight | from New York for Southampton. He will lay before the British cabinet the personal views of Mr. Roosevelt, which were obtained over the week end at Warm Springs, Ga. A final talk on the debts situation | was held by Sir Ronald and Secretary | of State Stimson last night. The Am- bassador outlined the status of the negotiations after to Roosevelt. To newspaper men, Sir Ronald said: “Mr. Roosevelt and I talked over a wide range of subjects. We talked about everything that could be reached in our limited time. Mr. Roosevelt is not the American Government and I had no authority to make any binding promises. We talked frankly and freely.” $13,545,438 Due in June. Augusto Rosso, the Italian Ambassa- dor, said he had not yet been informed of his government’s decision to enter min debt discussions with Mr. Roose- velt. Italy's debts to the United States (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) MILLER WINS $66,000 VERDICT FROM MIX Jury Awards Damages on Contract With Colonel's 101 Ranch Show. By the Associated Press. ERIE, Pa, January 31.—A jury to- day awarded Zack T. Miller, Oklahoma rancher and showman, $66,000 damages against Tom Mix, movie cowpuncher. Miller alleged Mix broke a contract to appear with Miller’s 101 Ranch Show and sued for $342,000. Two years ago a jury awarded Miller $90,000, but the case was appealed and a new trial granted. The jury of 10 men and 2 women deliberated 18 hours after hearing testi- mony for two weeks and a day. Miller alleged Mix had agreed to go with his show in 1929 for $10,000 a week and then joined the Sells-Floto circus. Mix denied accepting any offer from Miller. 33 NATIONS SEEK CUP PARIS, January 31 (#).—Thirty- three nations, equaling the record total of 1928, have challenged France for the Davis Cup, emblem of world tennis supremacy. The total, including 24 in the European, 5 in the South American and 4 in the North American Mr. | nounce no | names of such men as Newton D. Baker | tor Cutting of New Mexico and former Discussing Appointments. Nevertheless, James A. Farley, ni tionai chairman; Louis M. Howe, poli ical secretary, and Frank Walker, na- tional treasurer, who are meeting about the Roosevelt table these days. are talk- ing over some of the thousands of Fed- eral appointments to be made. To be guided more surely, they would like to know who the President-elect has in mind for the choice cabinet offices. It is cthe consensus that three and possib.y four places are definitely set- tled Senator Glass of Virginia for Secretary of the Treasury: Senator ‘Walsh of Montana for Attorney Gen- eral, and James A. Farley of New York for Postmaster General. Some of the group add “it is all fixed” | for Miss Frances Perkins, New York State Commissioner of Labor, to have the Labor Department post. 1f so, she will be the first woman ever to be in the cabinet of a President of the United States. Farley Has Names. Standing pat by his intention to an- tments before sailing Saturday on a 10-day fishing cruise in southern waters, Mr. Roosevelt s say- ing nothing. But the files carried by “Genial Jim” Farley as he goes back and forth to the Roosevelt cottage obviously contain a lot of names for some of the high offices to be given by the next President. In these files are believed to be the of Ohio for Ambassador to London, Judge Robert W. Bingham, Louisville publisher, for the Paris diplomatic post; | Robert Dunham, Chicago banker, for Berlin, and Clark Howell and Maj. John C. Cohen, Atlanta publishers, and Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island for other im- portant offices. Others Mentioned. As for the other cabinet offices, the politicians admit they are a little dizzy. The speculation persists that Owen D. Young, New York financier, is wanted by Roosevelt as Secretary of State to assist him in the forthcoming debts and economic negotiations with the Eu- ropean nations. The same speculation suggests Sena- tor Barkley of Kentucky for Secretary of War, Archibald McNeil and O. Max Gardner of North Carolina for Secre- tary of the Navy, Frank Bdurph;fj of Minnesota and Henry Wallace of Jowa for Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Har- riman of Boston and Bernard M. Baruch and Jesse Straus of New York: for Secretary of Commerce and Sena-| Gov. Dern of Utah for Secretary of Interior. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt is looking ahead to_the impending debt negotia- | tions in Washington which he intends to take up, beginning with the British, within a day or two after his inaugu- ration. SOVIET PROGRAM 0. K’D. Central Committee Approves Slow- ing Industrial Pace. ok MOSCOW, January -31 (#).—The Central Executive Committee ended its regular session last night after ratifying Communist party suggestions calling for a general slowing up of the indus- trial pace in 1933 and adopting quota figures for the year set by a recent party convention. Giving expected approval to the Soviet government’s domestic and foreign policies, the session fixed the 1933 budget income at 35,000,000,000 gm;a, exceeds the 1932 challenging list y 3. rubles and expenditures at 33,000,000,~ 000. (The ruble is nominally 50 cents). SAVINGS ACCOUNTS LIQUIDATED AT DISCOUNTS UP TO 75 PER CENT Cleveland Brokers Make 10 Per Cent Commission in Barter of Deposits and Mortgages on Property. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, January 31.—A lucra- tive trade—for brokers—has developed in Ohio in the bartering of frozen mortgages and savings deposits in building, savings and loan associations. ‘The practice, called a “pernicious racket” in the annual report of the Citizens’ Savings Association, has grown until officials estimate between $50,000 and $75,000 change hands each week in Greater Cleveland alone. Depositors in some cases have sold their accounts at discounts as high as 75 per cent in order to get ready cash. ‘The bartering of deposits arose from inability of the associations readily to pay on uv!ng:’ accounts, due to failure of mortgage holders to pay the interest on_the principal when due. Brokers—unlicensed ones are said to be the most active—have turned a ready penny as s result. $40Q -on & deal of lons in mort- "ual gages and deposits are not uncommon, Some of the purchasers of savings accounts have been accentuated by speculation. Others, those who have borrowed money of the building and loan associations, have taken advantage Sheir “loans. Eney ‘buy the_ passboors eir loans. ey e of di depositors at around 45 to 65 cents on the dollar and then apply the accounts at 100 cents on the dollar on their loans. ‘The report of the Citizens' Savings Association says: “This racket started A5 many’ deposiios 1. pertecty 7o0d iny rs in perfect companies have sold their books at di-sctmmu varying from to 75 per cent.” The practice, it explains, “is per- fectly legal, as any bwr has a right to sell his deposit , or anything else he legally owns, at any price Which suits him,” but it asserts “as now being carried out, it is not fair to any individ- offering his account. for sale.” WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. , D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1933—FORTY PAGES. #*% SPEAKING OF “ JIG SAW PUZZLES. BRITISH CUSTOMS ORDERHITSATUS. Duty-Free Goods Must Con- tain 50 Per Cent Empire Material and Labor. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 31.—The Board of Trade announced yesterday that, begin- ning April 1, certain classes of goods manufactured in and consigned from British Empire countries to the United Kingdom must contain a minimum of | 50 cent of empire material and labor, instead of 20 per cent as at present, before they will be admitted duty free under the empire preference agree- ments. The regulation, which will be enforced by the customs department, has not yet been published. Senate on Verge | |EAMINER TRAGES | Of Night Sessions ‘ | To Rush Fund Bills Robinson Joins Hale in Movement for Haste; Hoover Criticizes House. | ‘The Democratic House was assailed | late yesterday by President Hoover, who | charged it and its Appropriation Com- mittee with adding $163,319,642 to the | budget estimates he had laid before | it. This, he said, will swell the deficit | the Nation is facing. | While the House was buzzing with the criticism laid upon it by the Chief Executive, the Senate was debating | the billion dollar Treasury-Post Office supply bill, the first of the big supply | measures to come before it, and dis- | cussing the advisability of night ses- | sions, in view of the fast-narrowing | session. A Democratic proposal to limit expenditure of $19,000,000 for air- INSULL COLLAPSE Ratio of 385 Per Cent Minus Found Between Assets and Liabilities. By the Associated Press. The rise and fall of Chicago’s Insull | empire was told to the Federal Trade Commission today in terms of figures and bookkeeping methods by & com- mission examiner, Carl M. Dupue. On the stand in a continuetion of the commission’s long investigaticn of electric utilities, he said Insull Utility | Investments, Inc., had through a series | of bookkeeping manipulations listed on their books at $237,892,050 securities which he said had a market value of only $30,402,000, against which were The only evening paper - in Washington with the Associated Press news service. | banks and hundreds of businesses. The a 5 e B ot the By, | mall to 50 per cent of existing contracts news) rs interpreted it as aimed pri- | held the spotlight. vty Tat the: Dintied States.— Eome | . President Hoover's statement follows: United States manufacturers, it was “The appropriation bills for the next stated, have established branches in fiscal year for the State, Justice, Com- Canadh, where a purely nominal amount | merce” and Labor Departments—to- of work was done on their products, | gether with the independent bills—have " (Continued on Pa . Column 3. RULING AFFECTS AUTOMOBILES, | \Continued on Page 2, Column 3. DISTRICT BEER BILL WILL DIE IN HOUS Palmisano Says It Would B Useless to Bring Out Meas- ure at This Time. Tariff Order May Force American Plants to Go to England. | | NEW YORK, January 31 (#).—The | British Board of Trade ruling, which | stipulates that Canadian exports to the | United Kingdem, in order to enioyl tariff preferences, must contain a| minimum of 50 per cent of empire | labor and materials, as aghinst the previous minimum of 25 per cent, would particularly affect American automo- bile manufacturers, it was believed in ‘Wall Street today. Both the General Motors and Ford companies in Canada manufacture cars which would fall in the 50 per cent “empire content” classi- fication, but most of their competitors do_not. More than 1,000 American owned | e ‘The District beer bill, sponsored by | pliance plants are now operated in Canada. | Their investment is placed at above $1,500,000,000. Most of the country's leading manufacturers interested in foreign markets have established Cana dian producing units and a majorit; of these would be affected by the in. creased content ruling. In some industries, it was said, com with the new requirement would not make it economical for American plants to operate on the Northern side of the boundary line. Should the plants be moved to England, it was pointed out, their production would escape the tariff walls entirely. Ford through his principal European holding company, Ford, Ltd., which has subsidaries in France, Germany and other countries, has already taken such action. Others, it was believed, might folfow suit. FOLLOWS CANADIAN LAW. Dominion Heretofore Has Required 50 Per Cent Empire Content. OTTAWA, Ontario, January 31 (#).— Alteration of the United Kingdom cus- toms regulations governing goods im- ported under the empire preferential tariff from a requirement of 25 per cent empire content to 50 per cent brings them into line with the existing Ca- nadian regulations. The possible ef- fect of the new ruling on Canadian ex- ports could not be estimated today, but it might affect the products of certain Canadian branches of United States manufacturing concerns. ‘The Canada-United Kingdom trade treaty negotiated at the Imperial Eco- nomic Conference here contains no ref- erence to empire content, but the mat- ter was discussed at the conference. In administering the British pref- erential tariff Canada has followed the practice for years of requiring a mini- mum of 50 per cent empire content, but since the imposition of tariffs by the United Kingdom the preference has been awarded on the basis of a 25 per cent content. LUDINGTON AIRLINES’ PURCHASE REPORTED| Transfer to Eastern Air Transport, North American Subsidiary, for $250,000 Rumored. By the Assoglated Press. NEW YORK, January 31.—Dow, Jones & Co. said today that it under- stood negotiations had been completed for acquisition of Ludington lines by Eastern Air Transport, a subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc. The Proximately $350,000, Ludington, oper- p ,000. Wm New York and Wash- | Representative Loring Black, Democrat, | unpaid loans emounting to $41,585,000, largely covered by demand notes. | 1 $105,947,000 Liabilities. He said the company’s assets, in-| cluding securities, actually had a mar- ’kel value of $27,473,364, against which | ‘il had liabilities of $105,947,000. In accounting terms, he called this a ratio | of 385 per cent minus. He said the | Insulls often wrote up sales of stockx‘ | as earnings and in many cases listed | | such sales a profit when in reality they | were losses. While the commission heard this testimony, Allison Williams, Washing- ton consulting engineer, was telling a | House committee that municipal or Government operation of power plants | was useless in protecting the people as | long as private utilities were free to | undersell them at a loss in their terri- | tory while making up their earnings with higher rates elsewhere. Favors Equal Cost Bill. He recalled that President-elect Roose- | velt had described public ownership as a “birch rod” to keep the utilities in | line, but maintained that the private companies had a “club more powerful than the birch rod” in being able to | of New York, and the Crusaders, will | force municipal plants out of business. ttee. | 4Williams advocated passage of the die in the House District Committee. | shalenberger bil giving the Federa] ccording to Chairman Palmisano of | Power Commission authority to prevent Yesterday’s Circulation, 120,686 (UP) Means Associated FIVEDAY-AWEEK | BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE Chairman Connery Prepares to Bring His Measure to Early Vote. DOMINATION OF INDUSTRY BY BANKS HIT IN SENATE Proposed Law Would Place Fine on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Violating Provisions. By the Associated Press. The House Labor Committee today | approved the Connery five-day week, | six-hour day bill. Chairman Connery; said he would confer with Speaker! Garner and other leaders to see about | putting the bill before the House for a vote. Under the measure, any person who knowingly transported commodities or articles produced by workmen working more than six hours a day and five cays a week in interstate or foreign com- merce would be subject to a fine of $1,000 or not more than three months imprisonment or both. Bank Control Charged. At the Senate side of the Capitol, committee study of such legislation is going ahead, with sponsors aiming to get quick action there also. Testimony | today related again to “interlocking | directorates” in industry, with John P. Frey—labor official—saying that Morgan | banking interests and the Chase Na- |tional Bank in New York virtually “dominate” industry and labor by means of such directorates. Making his third appearance at hear- ings before a Judiciary Subcommittee on the Black five-day week, six-hour day bill. Frey, who is secretary-treas- urer of the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor, told how in his opinion a few New York private banks “controlled” industry through directorships in commercial He enumerated 855 directorships in all lines of industry which he said di- rectors of the Chase institution held. Many Directorships Hit. He also asserted the 19 partners of the J. P. Morgan banking house direct- ly held 18 directorships in other banks, 21 in most of the largest corporations of the country, 12 insurance companies, 32 manufacturing corporations, 17 railway companies and 19 public utilities cor- porations. In all, he added, this house was represented by 2,023 directorships in_other lines. Likening the big banking group to an army command with supervision of “army divisions, brigades, regiments, companies and battalion and corporal squads,” Frey said the Morgan house, through six banks in New York “popu- larly known as the Morgan banks,” held 208 directors in 104 other banks, 618 | in 569 miscellaneous corporations, 178 in 142 insurance companies, 423 in 360 manufacturing concerns, 283 in 234 transportation companies, and 315 in 266 public utilities companies. COCHRAN DEMANDS 15-DAY U. S. LEAVES Missourian’s Bill Would Perma- nently Reduce All Annual Vacation Time. A legislative proposal to cut perma-| nently all annual leave of Govern-| ment employes to 15 days is contained | TWO CENTS. POMERENE SCORES BANKS FOR FAILURE 10 HELP RAILROADS R.F.C.Chairman Says Finan« cial Houses Treat Money as if It Were in Storage. FAVORS FURTHER LOANS TO AVOID RECEIVERSHIPS Hearings Are Begun on Couzens Resolution to Suspend Addi- tional Aid to Carriers, By the Associated Press. Charging larger banks with not doing their part in financing railroads, Chair- man Atlee Pomerene of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation told a Senate Banking Subcommittee today that “these banks after getting all the money in the community treat it as if it wers in cold storage.” Pomerene was the first witness before the subcommittee studying the Couzens Tesolution to suspend all Reconstruction Corporation loans to railroads. The R. F. C. chairman said he thought the loans should be continued “if there is no other possible way of financing the roads and avoiding receiverships.” Committee Reviews Loans. With Pomerene's appearance the committee opened a thorough review of all railroad loans made by the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, to date. There was before the committee evie dence that the Reconstruction Corpora- tion has authorized loans of $337,455,- 093 to the carriers. Chairman Couzens began by reading a report giving the extent of the loans which he proposes to suspend. It showed the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion has actually advanced $290,855,- 583, of which $11,000000 has been repaid. “My position,” Pomerene told the committee, “and I think it reflects the views of all members of the board, is that if there is no other possible way of financing the roads and avolding recelverships, we ought to continue these loans. “But, on the other hand, I have the feeling that some of our banks that are from 75 to 100 per cent liquid ought to play a larger in financing loans as they the roads and meeting the Refused Ald by Banks, mature.” Pomerene sald soms wonds gone to the banks for and v‘:‘i refused. Questioned the Petmeen " conmercil et " oo ween banks in his crlud-n.-‘ Pomerene also informed the eommit- tee that 113 per cent of the banks which have borrowed from the R. F. C. since have been closed. In response to a question by Senator Couzens, he said the loans authorized to banks which have closed totaled $89,362,278, and add- ed that $66.957.000 of such loans was now outstanding. However. he told the committee, he was certain “the loss will be inconsequential” because of good se- curity. Myles Kennedy, chief examiner of the railroad division of the Reconstruction Corporation. was then called to the stand to give the committee details about the collateral back of rail loans. He said $39,126,000 had been loaned to the Baltimore & Ohio, which was backed by collaterial valued in part at the time of the loan at $70,000,000. Additional collateral, he said, had ne market value because it was not listed. The valued collateral, Kennedy said, had shrunk by December 10 to $64,000,« 000. Since then value change, he said, has been “relatively small.” Collateral Depreciation. Loans have been made altogether to 62 roads. Kennedy testified. He esti- mated that $131,231.000 in railroad bonds would mature this year. He testified that the collateral back he Judiclary Subcommittee, which has | conducted hearings on the measure. Representative Palmisano said today t seemefl useless at this time to push | through a District beer bill until after the Collier-Blaine bill had been passed by the Senate. He argued that, on the basis of hearings which have been held by his subcommittee, prompt action can be taken in the next Congress to put through a District beer bill without any delay. Palmisano explained the executive meeting scheduled for yesterday was not held because the printed hearing re- port had not come back from the Gov- ernment Printing Office and because Representative Patman, Democrat, of ‘Texas, who has been leading the oppo- sition to the District beer bill and en- deavoring to delay action, had asked that he might have 24 hours in which to study the hearings before the sub- committee acted upon this measure. Chairman Norton today received a letter from the Federation of Citizens' Associations, signed by H. C. Phillips, corrsponding secretary, ui u) the House District Cnml:l’;tte:!:,l"lg npgnuenlty for speedy legislation extending from two to three years the period of re- demption of real estate for tax sales. The District of Columbia Federation of Women'’s Clubs, in a communication signed by Edith L. Phillips, chairman of the Department of Legislation, tered opposition to the Senate bill, known as the h act, and reaf- firmed its approval of the District of Columbia alley dwelling bill. This let- ter emphasized that the federated wom- en are deeg];. to correct nitary or otherwise un- fit housing conditions in the District. ARMY DREDGE, OVERDUE AT NORFOLK, IS SAFE Anxiety Had Been Felt for Craft ‘With 75 or 80 on Board. Anchors En Route. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 31.—Pilots arriving here today informed the Phils- delphia Maritime Exchange that the Army Chinook was anchored yesterday afternoon at Browns Shoals in Delaware Bay, nine miles north of e dreage. \oh Fhiladeiphia for Norfolk with 75 to 80 men | sale of electrical energy in one com- munity for more than it is sold to an- other, so long as production cost was the same. PHYSICIAN FOUND DEAD ON FLOOR OF OFFICE Preliminary Examination Fails to| Show Cause of Death of L. R. Martin. Dr. L. Ricaud Martin, 35, was found dead this afternoon lying on the floor of his office in a second-story apartment at 1650 Harvard street. The body was fully clothed when dis- covered by the manager of the apart- ment building in which Dr. Martin had an office, and a patient who had called on the physician. The door was locked from the inside and the patient, ob- | taining no response to his knocks hunt- ed up the manager of the building, who Iket himself into the office with a pass ey. Dr. Martin was pronounced dead by a doctor who responded with an am- bulance from Emergency Hospital. A preliminary examination did not dis- close the cause of death. Dr. Martin had been a tenant of the Harvard street apartment for only about & month. in a bill introduced today by Repre-| sentative Cochran, Democrat, of Mis-| scuri, chairman of the House Expendi- tures Committee. The bill proposes that “hereafter no| civilian officer or employe of the Gov- | ernment who receives annual leave with pay shall be granted annual leave with pay in excess of 15 days in any one year.” ! There is a proviso, however. that the| rt unused in any year may be cumu- | ve for any succeeding year. also provided that nothing in the bill | shall applv to civilian officers or em- | ployes who are American citizens and | | who are holding official station in the| Philippine Islands, Panama Canal Zone, the Territories of Hawali, Alaska, Puerto Rico or elsewhere outside the continental United States. The Cochran bill specifically explains | that it shall not be considered as af- | fecting the period during which pay | may be allowed under existing law for so-called sick leave or absence, and that such sick leave shall be adminis- tered under such regulations as the President may prescribe so as to obtain as far as practicable uniformity through the various executive departments and other branches of the Government, —_— France Returns U. S. Fugitive. PARIS, January 31 (#) —The gov- ernment today granted extradition to the United States of Giuseppe Cassara, arrested in Tunis recently on & homi- cide charge in New York. BIRTHMARK REUNITES MOTHER AND SON SEPARATED 27 YEARS Potato-Shaped Brand on Man’s Foot Convinces Woman of His Identity as Her Child. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, January 31.—A birth- mark, the shape of a potato, has linked & mother and ‘'son after 37 years—and Fred B. Graves of Minneapolis today is Bernard Frederick Apfeld. Joseph Apfeld, the father, disap- \ Recently he left here for the West in quest of his mother. In San Diego, Calif.,, he found her. His mother asked him to take off his right shoe. He did and his foot re- vealed the birthmark. Because of that mark he became Bernard of one loan to the Erie had depreciated from $4.458,000 to $2,674,000 in market value up to December 17, which he conceded was material. Couzens said many of the loans, in- cluding those to the Missouri Pacific and the Maine Central had been largely used to pay off banks. “The R. F. C. has fallen down badly,” he added, hen it made loans to pay Off banks without a record of the con= dition of the banks. I have been un- able to find any information as to what | benefit commerce and industry got by paying these bank loans.” Pomerene replied that the banks were refusing further credit and de- manding payment which would have depreciated the value of the securities and forced liquidation, and said the banks were not “doing their duty.” “And you have not compelled them to, though you had the power,” Couzens replied. He then asked Pomerene what pro- portion of banks which had received loans had since closed. $12,542,870 GIVEN STATES. New York Gets $6,100,000—Illinois Receives $6,000,250. The Reconstruction Finance Co: ration today made available $12,542,870 of emergency relief funds, of which New York received $6,100,000, Illinois (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) BULLET ENDS LIFE . AFTER INDICTMENT Former Head of Magazine, Accused of Taking $26,535, Killed Him- self, Police Say. By the Associated Press. SUMMIT, N. J, January 31.—George B. Holbert, 65, a former president of Town Topics Magazine, died in the Overlook Hospital at midnight from & bullet w?:gd. which police said was Prederick | self-inflic Apfeld—the name he lcst 27 years ago. mother had since rem Her name now is Mrs. Mae Palmer. After recounting incidents of the past quarter of a century, the mother and son found that a few years ago they had lived within two blocks of each other here. The mother had even pur- chased an automobile from an agency where he was a salesman. ‘They have now started & search for the father, R a A few minutes before Holbert was found dying in his home, he had been served with a bench warrant in con- nection with an indictment charging the misappropriation of $26,535 from & trust fund of which he was trustee. A court order directed him to pay into court $26,535 bequeathed to 10 em~ loyes of Town Topics. Holbert's al- eged failure to comply was the basis for the indictment against him, poliss