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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, slightly colder tonight; minimum temperature about 33 degrees; tomorrow ; moderate west winds. partly cloudy ‘Temperatures—Highest, 52, at noon to- day; lowest, 39, at Full report on page 3. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 7:20 a.m, today. | — No. 32,419, post _office, Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, D. ROOSEVELT PLANS PROJECT CREATING JOBS FOR 200000 Tennessee Watershed Chosen to Launch Gigan- tic Experiment. Is EXTENSION TO OTHER SECTIONS CONTEMPLATED Reforestation, Reclamation, Water- power and Farm Rehabilitation Are Included. By the Associated Press. Fleet and BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘The reluctance of the Japanese gov- ernment to part with the mandates over the equatorial groups of islands, for- merly German possessions, is well un- derstood in Washington. Since 1923, when the American Gov- ernment agreed to refrain from build- ing further fortifications in the Pacific, the Japanese have been spending mil- lions of dollars in improving the man- dated islands, the Mariana, the Mar- shalls, the Caroline and the Pelew groups, as naval and seaplane bases. The work of the Japanese was done with the utmost secrecy. Every time the American Navy wanted to send a Ch ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 120,560 WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933—I'ORTY-TWO PAGES. MANDATED ISLANDS MADE FORTS BY JAPANESE NAVY Pacific Territory, Regarded as Spoils of War, Equipped as Bases for Air Craft. man of war to pay a friendly call on the Japanese governor of those islands the requests of the American Government have been turned down under some trivial pretext, such as the harbors have not yet been charted or that the Jap- anese governor did not have the neces- sary facilities to receive with all due honor such distinguished guests as American naval men. ‘The State Department in its anxiety to maintain friendly relations with he Japanese empire never pressed these requests, although under the con- ditions of the Covenant which entrusted the islands to the care of Japan, they should have been open to commercial or war vessels of any nation. Further- more, had the League requested that a commission should go and inspect these islands the Japanese would have been " (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) WARM SPRINGS, Ga., February 2. A gigantic experiment designed to pro- wide 200,000 jobs and herald the birth f a new America from which the curse of unemployment would be lifted was proposed today by President-elect Roovevelt. The rugged highlands and fertile in- [ustrial valley of the Tennessee water- ghed were chosen by the next President for this “most interesting experiment & government has ever undertaken.” Seated before the blazing fireplace of the “little white house” he .told newspaper men of his dream for a vast nternal development encompassing re- forestation, rteclamation, waterpower and agricultural rehabilitation. ‘The aim is to balance the national popula- tion anew between cities and the country. Hopes to Widen Project. Mr. Roosevelt expefu "misde h;[g‘e aboratory experiment to provi I !plcymenrt:yfor ‘;}0,000 men in the Ten- nessee Valley alone. More than this, he hopes to carry the scheme into other sections of the nation from Alleghenies to the Pacific Coast and through it to Te-establish American life on a basis that will mean the end of unemploy- ment, the decentralization of industry, and a people protected by the watch- ful eye of a government. The great Tennessee Valley project, fnvolving half a dozen States, is to mdud;‘.( i 1 Reforestation. 2. Creation of flood control basins in the upper valleys, first at Cove Creek in the Clinch River. 3. Water-power development to be available for cities, States and farm omes. b 4. Reclamatiorlx oflthe fertile bottom lands for icultural use. 5. Ehmi:fimn of the unprofitable marginal lands from farm pursuits. 6. Eventual flood control of the great | Mississippi River. 7. Eventual improvement of naviga- ion. Mr. Roosevelt announced that as soon | es he takes office March 4 he will| ask the varlous Government depart- ments involved to make surveys with a | view to putting the proposition up to Congress at an early date. Confident of Success Confident that the whole project will | be self-sustaining, he has no doubt of | the “bankability” of it and the avail- ebility of bonds for the undertaking. “If it is successful, and I am confl- | den it will be,” he said, “I think this | development will be the forerunner of similar projects in other sections, par- ticularly in the Ohio and Arkansas Val- leys and in the Columbia River Basin of the Northwest. “We have about 12,000,000 wage earners unemployed. If we return im- mediately to the high level of 1929 I think we would still have 5,000,000 men out of work and on a dole. Our popu- Jation is out of balance. If by Govern- ment activity we can restore the bal- ance we will have taken a great step forward. “The normal trend now is a back-to- the-farm movement. For those who have had experience in agricultural work I think we will do well to provide & living.” ‘Without references to notes or books, but with an occasional glance at a huge | map, Mr. Roosevelt unfolded his idea Jor a great Tennessee Valley experiment. | ‘There is no doubt he has been studying the proposition for days. 640,000 Square Miles. He said he selected the Tennessee atershed running over the States of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and parts of Kentucky, Alabama and Mis- sissippi for many reasons, principally because of its wide range C hysical (Continued on Page EX-KING FACES KNIFE George II of Greece to Be Operated on for Appendicitis. LONDON, February 2 (#).—Former King George of Greece will undergo an operation for appendicitis soon in a London nursing home. He was reported as well at present &s can be expected. ‘The establishment of the Greek Re- public in 1924 by a vote of the people caused King George II to lose the throne. He is a brother of the divorced Queen Helen of Rumania and a nephew of the former Kaiser. —_ Italian Senator, 100, Dies. ROME, February 2 (#).—Senator Pietro Ellero, who was 100 years old, died here today. He was a noted jurist, began his po- litical career as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1866, and for the past 34 years was a Senator. BULLIT ASSALED INDEBT FLAREP Makes Laughing Stock of U. S. by Activities Abroad, Robinson Tells Senate. | By the Associated Press. Another foreign debts debate broke out in the Senate today, with Senator Robinson; Republican, of Indiana, de- manding that the State Department “apprehend” under the Logan act, Wil- liam C. Bullitt, who has been reported | negotiating on debts abroad. | Reading from press accounts of Bul- | litt’s visits to Berlin, London and Paris, | supposed to be in connection with war | debts, Robinson said Bullitt was making a “laughing stock” cut of the American | people. Time for Assertion. “It is high time the American Gov- ! srnment asserts who he is,” he said. | “He is going about in disguise and when not in disguise he is going under an assumed name. “He seems to have no credentials,” Robinson added. *“He is not represent- ing the American Government. He seems not to be representing the Pres- ident-elect. He certainly is not rep- resenting the Senate or the House, both of which have gone on record against further reduction of the debts.” Robinson said he believed the Logan act providing $5,000 fine or three years of imprisonment for any not authorized persons having intercourse with a foreign government on measures affecting the United States was “broad enough” to cover Bullitt’s supposed activities. Shortly before the Senate debt dis- cussion began Rumania formed the sev- eral nations requesting an opportunity to discuss debts with President-elect Roosevelt. The Indiana Senator read from a newspaper saying Bullitt had called on Premier Paul-Boncour of France, and adding the latter would not deny that Bullitt told him France could expect an invitation in 15 days to discuss debts with the United States. “In view of that,” Robinson said, “this man should be apprehended.” Suggests Cable to Bullitt. Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken- tucky suggested that a cable be sent to Bullitt requesting that he discontinue his activities, and that a telegram be sent to the President-elect notifying him of the action., “I am only doing this,” Logan said, “to protect the junior Senator from Indiana, whom I have seen day after day worrying himself over this ques- tion to such an extent he can not carry on his duties as a Senator.” Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader said he believed the statement of the President-elect ‘“on this question should be accepted.” “I know, if I may be permitted to say so, that there is not and never was the slightest foundation for the statement that the President-elect has stated he favored an 80 per cent cut in these debts,” he said. Minister Davila of Rumania called " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) —_— NEW ENGLAND SLED DOG RACE BEGINS TOMORROW Emile St. Goddard, International Champijon, to Drive Team in Three-Day Contest. By the Associated Press. LACONIA, N. H,, February 2—Emile St. Goddard of The Pas, Manitoba, in- ternational sled dog racing champion, heads the entry list for the New England Sled Dog Club’s annual three- day race, starting tomorrow. Snow conditions are unpromising. The original race plans called for a cross-country course, but the three legs will be run off on the ice on Lake Pau- gus if the highways are still clear of snow at race time. Goddard will drive one of three teams entered by J. H. McIlhenny of Phila- delphia. The Chinook Kennels of Wo- nolancet has entered four teams and one of them will be handled by Mrs. J. Milton Seeley, one of the few woman dog mushers in the racing game. Harry ‘Wheeler of St. Jovite, Quebec, is among | the other entrants. ROOSEVELT AIDE ON HOPES PUTS DAMPER OF JOB SEEKERS Howe Denies He and Farley Will Open Office Here to Handle Patronage. By the Associated Press. A wet blanket was tossed today by Louis McHenry Howe, confidential ad- viser to President-elect Roosevelt, on the plans of Democratic job-seekers \'hovhtve lm to come to Wash- ington on reports that patronage head- quarters would be opened here. Referring to published reports that he and James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, #oon would open an office here, he said “We do not plan anything of the kind.” Howe went over plans for the in- ceremonies oo March 4 with Rear Admiral Cary T, Grayson, chair- man of the Inaugurai Committee, and then headed for New York by train. Howe said he had received a ‘;:ut deal of data concerning jobs available to the Democrats, which would be turned over to the next President at the pra)er time, He added, however, that Parley un- doubtedly would handle most of the patronage from the New York head- quarters of the National Committee. Howe said Roosevelt did not plan to announce his cabinet until after TOKIO DETERMINED Japanese Navy Insists on Keeping Territory Despite Any Action Taken by League. By the Associated Press. ‘TOKIO, February 2.—Confronted by the prospect of secession from the League of Nations, which would involve the question of equatorial Pacific islands held under League mandate, Japan's determination was becoming manifest today to retain the islands, regardless of ! possible attempts in Geneva to reassume | suzerainty. The islands, lying between the United States and the Philippines, figure prom- inently in the navy's plans for domina- tion of the Western Pacific, and al- ’thoush Admiral Osumi, minister of the | n y, evaded direct questions as to whether the islands would be retained, the strongest insistence of their reten- tion originated in naval circles. Responsible officials avoided categori- cal public statements. Anonymous Arguments. ‘The question has come to the fore- front of public attention while with- drawal from the League hangs in the balance. Japanese newspapers were publishing anonymous official arguments. Jjustifying retention. The newspaper Nichi-Nichi quoted lengthy foreign office arguments that the League covenant does not specify that a mandate necessarily be accorded a League member, citing the offer of an Armenian mandate to the United States after that country’s rejection of the League covenant. This argument admits Japan's responsibility to admin- ister the islands in accordance with the mandate, making a yearly report to Geneva, which would continue and would be respected. The popular argument credited to both the navy and foreign office is that the mandates actually were Japan's right- ful spoils of the World War, and that the mandate system was a pretense covering the actual annexations evolved. An anonymcus spokesman said the in- fluence of President Wilson “made it impossible to call things by their real names.” Troop News Banned. Interpreted generally as an indication that the major campaign in the prov- ince of Jehol was opening shortly, the government banned today publication of movements of Japanese troops, head- quarters and military supplies in Man- churia, especially in the Jehol district. The consensus in informed quarters was that major operations probably would start by the end of February. Japan considers the Chinese-adminis- tered state a part of Manchuria and plans its annexation to the state of Manchukuo. Meanwhile preliminary trials of re- actionary plotters, known as “the Blood Brotherhood,” involved in the assassi- nations of Finance Minister Junnosuka (Continued on Page 3, Column 5. A-B-C POWERS JOIN IN ANTI-WAR PACT Argentine and Chilean Foreign Ministers to Seek End of Chaco Fight. By the Associated Press. MENDOZA, Argentina, February 2.— Plans were made today for Argentina, Brazil and Chile to join in the initia- tion of a South American anti-war pact in a ceremony at Buenos Aires. Argentina, which proposed the pact, already had Brazil's agreement to the plan when the widely heralded con- ference opened here yesterday between Chancellors Saavedra Lamas and Miguel Cruchaga, of Argentina and Chile respectively. The next business of this unusual personal meeting of forelgn ministers, a departure from the Latin-American diplomatic customs, is the drafting of 2 plan to bring the undeclared war :e‘:lmn Paraguay and Bolivia to an Chancellor Cruchaga agreed to a plan to send a Chilean representative to Buenos Aires to sign the peace pact, intended as a supplementary document to the Kellogg-Briand pact, at the same time that Brazil sends an envoy. A commercial treaty between Chile and Argentina, which would assure the continued operation of the trans- Andean Railway as well as bring other benefits to the two nations, was also being drawn up here. LR OIL DISPUTE ENDED Great Britain and Persia Agree on Settlement at Geneva. GENEVA, February 2 (#).—Great Britain and Persia have reached an amicable provisional settlement of their dispute over cancellation of the Anglo- Persian Oil Co. concession, it was offi- clally announced today. ‘The terms of settlement were not dis- closed, but it was indicated that a modification of the oil company's con- he returns to New York following his trip to Florida the next few days. tract with the Persian government was involved. TO RETAIN ISLANDS . HITLER REQUESTS GERMANS TODELAY | JUDGMENT 4 YEARS Communist Meeting Places Invaded in Move to Halt Disorders. CHANCELLOR IS FACING FUTURE WITH GREAT HOPE Newspaper Charges Reported Ban on Rallies Was Ordered to Curb Campaigning. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 2.—Adolf Hitler, four days chancellor of Germany, chal- lenged his countrymen today to “crucify me or do anything else to me if at the end of four years we have not suc- eeded.” “The other side had things all their own way for 14 years,” he told a group of newspaper men in his first press conference as chancellor. “Look at the result!” . “Give us four years—that's the legal period of a Reichstag—and then let the country sit in judgment.” By order of Hitler police invaded Communist meeting places and in some cases the homes of suspected Com- munists today eeizing papers and ar- resting their owners in an effort to put an end to disorders which have cost nearly a dozen lives since the Nazi chief became head of the government While the raids were going on the chancellor, accompanied by Wilhelm Frick. his minister of the interior, ap- peared before the Reichsrat, Upper House of Parliament, shook hands with each member and spoke from the presidential dais. Faces Future With Hope. “It required great faith in our Nation for me to take over the government in these grave times,” he told them. “but I face the future with great hope. “I am strengthened and you must be strengthened by three great charac- teristics of our people—our industrious- ness, our capacity and genius which has carried us through difficult times, and by the fact that despite all adver- sities we still have our own German soil. “If past generations drew strength from that soil to constitute this great nation, we can do likewise.” The tense situation in Germany reached a climax with Hitler's an- nouncement of two four-year plans of national regeneration—for the “salva- tion"” of the farmer and the worker. ciation heard that orders were issued to Prussian police to prevent Communist demonstrations during the election campaign. The National Communist newspaper Rote Fahne said the ban was invoked to curb election campaigning. The Communists held one-sixth of the seats in the Reichstag, which was dissolved yesterday. Confident of Victory. Hitler was confident of victory after outnumbered his party colleagues, per- suaded President Von Hindenburg to permit the new elections. ‘The chancellor's nation-wide appeal | last night for a “four-year chance,” in which he attacked the Republican par- ties, met with a stormy response. The Social Democratic organ Vorwaerts scathingly criticized the speech, de- claring his “four-year plan is a new catchword borrowed from Stalin.” It concluded, addressing Hitler, with the demand: “Out with you.” Other newspapers were silent on Hit- ler's reiteration of his often-pro- claimed remedies for the country. The Nationalist papers welcomed the elec- tion, on the ground that it was the first time a clear line has been drawn be- tween the Rightist parties and the “Bolshevists.” Despite a plea of self-defense, Her- mann Goering, Nazi member of the Hitler cabinet and commissioner for the Prussian ministry of interior, sus- pended three Homburg, Prussia, police- men for shooting and killing three per- sons when attacked by a mob. More Than Score Slain. Yesterday's deaths due to disorders, mostly between Communists and Nazis, reached seven. A woman was killed in & Duisburg shooting affray at midnight. Communists, Republicans and Nazis were injured in Berlin, Altoona and Chemnitz fights. At Bochum, Prussia, the Nazis demolished a Socialist news- Ppaper’s rooms. The Nazi chieftain spoke only in gen- eral terms of his two four-year plans. “The idea of compulsory labor service and farm colonies constitutes the main pillars of this program,” he said, de- scribing one as the “salvation of the German farmer, to safeguard the na- tion’s possibilities of sustenance and hence her very life” and the other the “salvation of the German worker through a colossal and comprehensive attack on unemployment.” He appealed for Divine guidance for the men called to head the new gov- ernment and asked the nation to with- hold judgment for four years. Defense Demands Toned Down. His old campaign demands for build- ing up the national defense were toned down in a declaration reaffirming the stand of previous cabinets for jurdical equality with other nations in arms. “However great our love for our army, we, nevertheless, would be happy if the world, by limiting its armaments, would never again necessitate our in- creasing our own weapons,” he said. Concluding a_ bitter attack on Com- munism, the chancellor asserted that Christianity would be the basis of Ger- many’s moral conceptions. He declared the family would be firmly protected. “More than 14 years have passed since the fatal day when the German people, blinded by inward and outward promises, forgot the honor and liberty of the Reich, thus losing all. Since those days of treachery the Almighty has withdrawn his blessings from us,” he said. “In deep distress millions of German men and women of all classes see the unity of the nation sink and dissolve into a welter of political-egotistical opinions, interests and disparities of outlook. Germany has been presenting since the revolution a picture of heart- breaking dismemberment. Says Marxism Failed. “Beginning with the family and then con! all concepts of | tinuing _through honor and loyalty, people and Father- land, culture and economics, and finally touching .even the eternal foundations of our morals and faith—there is noth- ing that escaped this merely negative ~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) Radio Programs on Page C-3 The Telegraphen-Union Press ASsO- | ipih relief is administered. his cabinet, in which Nationalists far ?| his LT (#) Means Associated Press. —_—— TWO CENTS. DEAH, BOY, You CAWNT DO THAT You KNow! POOR LITTLE RICH BOY. | UNFAIRR. F. C. ACTS CHARGED BY LEWIS F Senator Tells Committee Discrimination in Favor of Power Perils U. S. By the Ascoclated Press. Close behind a recommendation by | the president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that $150,000,000 more be provided for relief loans to States, Senator Lewis, Democrat, of | Tliinois, charged today before a Senate Committee that there had been dis- | crimination in administering relief funds. | Charles A. Miller, the corporation president, indorsed generally the Wag- | ner bill to liberalize the law underi Lewls, speaking after several others had approved the bill, said the Govern- ment seemed blind to the danger of | revolution and that certain members of | the corporation's board had tried to | obstruct relief to “those of humble so- ciety” and allowed precedence to “those formerly of power.” Miller opposed the provision pro- posing to throw wide open the en- tire resources of the corporation for relief loans to States. saying it would | handicap efforts to stimulate local re- | lief work. | Miller testified the present $300.- | 000,000 fund would last until June and | that an additional $150.600.000 “would | carry us through to the long session | in December.” | Says More Is Needed. | ‘Warning that additional funds are ! needed, Miller added that one State is within six weeks of exhaustion of its| quota, which under the present law is | $45,000,000. He did not name the State, but committee members understood he referred to Illinois, which has borrowed about $38,000,000. Miller emphasized he was expressing his personal views, saying the board felt it should not favor or oppose “legislation adding or subtracting from its functions.” | He favored the “idea throughout the bill” before the committee. Introduced by Senator Wagner, | Democrat, of New York, it would not only expand the funds for direct relief but would set up a fund of $10,000,000 for aid to wanderers and liberalize the law in several other directions. ‘Well Handled, He Says. Miller termed the relief situation well handled up to the present. | “The States seem to be well pleased,” he said regarding the handling by the | corporation of its relief funds. ‘Wagner asked if the demand for re- llef through the States was going to in- crease, and was told “more funds must be_provided.” Miller added that “a limit is pretty nearly necessary” on the fund for loans to States because of the willingness to let the Federal Government handle the situation. “We have been trying to stimulate local effort and then supplement it by national "help,” he said. “At present the relief being extended is not inadequate. I won't say there is not an uncared for human, because some won't ask for help, but the wants ot the country are cared for.” Sees Serious Situation. Miller testified the R. F. C. had made an effort “not to pinch pennies,” but he said “tne situation is so serious that any fellow who wastes a dollar is a traitor.” He recommended that, in adding $150,000,000 to the fund for State loans, Congress increase the maximum allot- ment for one State by 15 per cent of that additional money. Stephen Raushenbush, director of in- dustrial relations for Pennsylvania, told the Senate Manufacturers Committee that Federal relief money was being distributed “in such a way as to help tear down the economic structure.” Testifying for the La Fallette-Costi- gan-bill to provide $500,000,000 for di- rect grants to States, he said “many of the substandard or sweatshop plants are, in effect, being subsidized by Fed- eral, State and private relief funds.” RICHEY REPORT DENIED Hoover Won't Have Representative Here After March 4, Joslin Says. Theodore Joslin, one of the Presi- dent’s secretaries, today announced that when Mr. Hoover retires to private life March 4, Lawrence Richey, who is now His orrescatative n Washington. M. ve Jonnnwpruld President Hoover will have no representative here. Mr. Richey has been associated with Mr. Hoover since the early days of the food & tion, and from au- thoritative sources news dispatches have becen printed to the effect that he would be assoclated with the President after March 4. CARPENTERS SEEK | the grandstands in front of the White Timid Ground Hog Runs for Burrow Chased by Shadow But Cameraman Fulfills Yearly Assignment by Outwitting Him. The most timid animal in the world ventured out of his hole in the ground today in spite of the depression and began to scratch for a living. He scratched, that is, until a burst of | sunshine broke the clouds—an omen ot change which sent him scurrying back | underground, frightened at his own| shadow. | Panic is so certain to send the little | groundhog flying before his shadow | that whole communities bank on him as a weather prophet. | A shadow, he dives for cover, meaning six weeks more of wind and storm and inclement weather—a cloudy day with no_shadow, (Continued on Page ROOSEVELT'S AID = Union Asks Him to Intervene | in Inaugural Grandstand Dispute Here. Intercession by President-elect Frank- | lin D. Roosevelt in the labor dispute centering about the erection of the | grandstands for his inauguration on March 4 was sought today by officials of the local Carpenters’ Union. Announcement was made through Richard A. Dickson, president of the Central Labor Union, that an urgent telegram had been sent to Mr. Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., asking him to intervene on behalf of the local union. The message was sent by H. J. Gaya, chairman of the Carpenters’ Union Committee on Governmental Work, but its text was not made available. Work Proceeds on Stands. ‘This action was taken following a drastic order by the Carpenters’ Union in putting out of the union all mem- bers who have worked for $8 a day on House and Capitol in defiance of the union’s orders to maintain the prevail- ing $11 a day union pay scale. Despite this retaliatory measure, work proceeded uninterrupted today on the three grand- stands in course of construction. It was not made known just what step it was desired for President-elect Roosevelt to take in the labor dispute with contractors affiliated with the Master Builders’ Association. A reply from the President-elect was being awaited during the day. As the situation stood today each side in this dispute was standing pat. Denies General Strike Plan. President Dickson for the Central Labor Union denied emphatically that there is any consideration of calling a general strike among union workers erecting the grandstands. He said: “The Central Labor Union is not em- U. S. DAVIS CUP TEAM PLAYS MEXICO FIRST Canada Paired With Cuba in Open- ing Round for North Amer- ican Zonme Matches. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, February 2.—The United States today was paired with Mexico in the first round of the North Ameri- can zone of the Davis Cup draw, pre- sided over by President Albert Lebrun of France and attended by the diplo- mats of many nations. ‘The luck of the draw paired the other two entries in the North American zone—Canada and Cuba—in the first round, with the winner meeting the S L ieieel, fes mal for. y - ner of the Smn.hrgmmnn 3 ‘The draw for the international ten- nis competition was made in the Am- bassadors’ salon of the Elysee Palace, with Ambassador Walter E. Edge rep- resenting the United States and Minis ter Phillipe Roy drawing for Canada. Members of France's defending team, Henri Cochet, Jacques Brugnon and lacqy Jean Borotra, were interested spectators. CGROWTHER TARIFFS Holds Plan Tantamount to a Vote for Suspending Gold Standard. By the Associated Press. In a vigorous assault upon Republican plans for boosting tariffs automatically against depreciated currency countries, Robert L. O'Brien, Tariff Commission chairman, told a House Committee to- day that “if you want an embargo go ahead and pass it, but let us do it honestly and intelligently.” Speaking rapidly, he recommended and he ventures afield, to the Republicans who have forced a | Column 2.) | House vote February 13 on this issue| that they Secretary Mills, whose latest speech on the gold standard clearly indicates his opposition.” “In his plans for recovery,” O'Brien , “I do not see our great finance minister advocating this plan.” “Every one who votes February 13 for the Crowther bill is expressing a belief that countries off the gold stand- ard are better off economically,” the tariff chairman continued. “If Representatives vote that way, the only logical deduction is that Repre- sentatives should vote to take this coun- try off the gold standard.” He contended the bill should be com- pared to the “medical clinic, where temperatures of patients are reduced by changing the graduation in the clinical thermometer ™ Though the hearings were before a | subcommittee, almost all 25 members of the full Ways and Means Committee were present to hear O'Brien. Rainey Hears Attack. Representative Rainey, the Demo- cratic leader, who announced a party caucus to block the bill but later changed his plans, was on hand. O'Brien said much could be said| for an increase in the tariff, “but not this way.” “Partly illusory” was the way O'Brien described the belief that going off the gold standard would help domestic economic conditions. “There is no escape from the conclu- sion that if a country is better off when it goes off gold, then this country should go off,” he said. __“I_believe our going_off the_gold (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) ROYALIST ORGAN ASKS FRENCH DICTATORSHIP Plan Calls for Revived Monarchy, ‘With Throne Going to Duke of Guise. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 2—A call for for- mation of a dictatorship under a re- vived monarchy, with the Duke De Guise assuming the throne, was pub- lished today in the Royalist organ, Ac- tion Francaise. ‘THe appeal was signed by the duke, now living in Brussels. ‘The duke's ancestors held the throne in 1776 and he became pretender on the death of the Duke of Orleans in 1926. “accept the leadership of | SENATE NEAR VOTE ON 5 PER CENT CUT FOR SUPPLY BILL Bratton Reintroduces Amend- ment to Treasury-Postal Measure, Starting Debate. BLAINE WANTS PROPOSAL IN ECONOMY PROGRAM Neeley Fears Low-Paid Workers Will Suffer by Defeat of Limiting Amendment. The Senate pushed ahead this aft- ernoon toward an early vote on the Bratton proposal to make a 5 per cent cut in the total appropriations for the | Treasury and Post Office Departments for the next fiscal year, with Senator Costigan, Democrat, of Colorado, urg- ing a further amendment designed to prevent department heads from making further wage cuts in order to carry o the 5 per cent reduction. It would be possible, however, to reduce the num- | ber of employes. ! The debate this afternoon was marked by a vigorous plea from Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of | against further’ pay cuts for Govern- ment employes, in the course of which he declared that such a course will not help in any way the farm nd oth: greups throughout the country who are suffering from the depression. | Regarded as Mandate. | Although Senator Bratton rewrote his | 5 per cent cut amendment todz to authorize department heads that percentage without “di them to do it, he argued during t. bate that the term “authorize' used by Congress in amendments usually is regarded as a mandate and probably would be so regarded in this { case. Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wis- | consin, who succeeded in having the Bratton 5 per cent amendment side- tracked on a point of order yestcrday, again raised a point of order against it | when Bratton reintroduced it in modi- fied form today. He was not successful this time, however, when Vice President | Curtis overruled the point of order. The Vice President explained that he was overruling the point of order in view of the statement made by Senator Moses, who was presiding yesterday, to the effect that the amendment would be in order if worded differently. This means that the amendment will have to come to & vote on its merits. While the amendment does not refer specifically to cuts in salaries or per- sonnel, the continuation of debate to- day 1evolved around the likelihood that it would affect the compensation of em- ployes, Sees Personrel Cut. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, Michigan, said that when the 5 per cent reduction amendment is analyzed, it comes down to a 10 or 15 per cent cut on personnel, pointing out that many other items are not reducible. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Demo- cratic leader, disputed this statement and gave a set of figures to show that it would be equivalent to only 7.41 per cent on all items after eliminating those on which no saving can be made. The Bratton amendment directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Post- master General to reduce expenditures by 5 per cent below whatever amounts are finally appropriated for their de- partments. In the case of the Treasury Department, the public building pro- gram and the sinking fund for the emergency relief act are the only ex- ceptions The only direction given the depart- ment heads in applying the cut is the following clause: “Such reductions shall be made in a manner calculated to bring about the greatest economy in expenditure consistent with the effici- ency of the service.” Wide Leeway Given. ‘The amendment gives the department heads wide leeway in deciding where to make the reductions, and this prompted Senator Neely, Democrat, of West Vir- ginia, to propose a further amendment providing that the operation of the 5 per cent reduction should not affect any Government, employe who receive $2,- 000 a year or less. This was beaten, however, 47 to 20. In offering the amendment, Senator Neely asserted that if history repeats itself the proposed reductions will be made at the expense of employes draw- ing $1,400 to $1,800 a year, who usually do not have influential friends to pro- tect them. When Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky, argued the‘amendment did not direct the department head to cut anybody’s salary, he added: “He might do it, of course, in prefer- ence to discharging somebody as " (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) ABOLITION OF COUNTY IS SOUGHT TO END VIOLEN CE OF HILL FEUDS Kentucky Official Wants Unit Named for Henry Clay Divided Among Neighbors. By the Associated Press. RT, Ky. February 2— A recommendation that the 193¢ Ken- tucky Legislature abolish Clay County, which State Inspector and Examiner Nat B. Sewell says has been “noto- rious for nearly half a century” because of factional violence, is made in a re- port submitted to Gov. Ruby Laffoon by the examiner. Abolition of the Kentucky mountain county under the examiner's plan would entail division of its territory and assigning the various sections to adjacent counties. “That the governmental machinery of the county has failed to function effectively is most clearly evidénced by the history of the county for the past 40 years,” the examiner’s report said. “¥n no other county in the State has lawicssness prevailed for so long a time with such disastrous results to the people,” the report said, “nor has the - 5 character of crime reliched the bar- baric level in any other part of the State that has been in evidence in re- cent vears in Clay. “I ‘'do not have in mind solely the large number of gecple who have met violent death at the hands of enemies. * * * When men meet face to face and settle their .differences with guns, it is a far different situation from the one in which men are shot from places of . concealment, without a chance to defend themselves, helpless wemen and children are sacrificed through venge- ful blood-lust and property is wantonly destroyed as a means of creating a reign of terrorism among citizens who may be dreaded as witnesses or jurors by _evildoers.” ‘Two women have been among those shot and killed in recent months in the remote Double Creek section of Clay County in shootings which author- ities laid to factional enmities. At Manchester, the county seat, two offi- cials were fatally shot last year. They were Police Judge C. P. Stivers and Commonwealth’s Attorney Frank Baker,