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A—2 *xx HARRIMAN FACIG QUK JURY PROBE | Charge of Misusing $1,393,-| 000 Funds to Follow Ar- rest of Banker. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 15.—Joseph W. | Harriman, banker, arrested late yester- | day in a dramatic sick-room :cene, | faced the prospect today of quick grand | jury investigation of the accusation that | misused funds totaling $1,393,000. | United States Attorney George Z.| Medalie indicated Harriman's case would go to a Federal grand jury be- fore March 28, the date set for the prominent banker's arraignment. False Entry Charged. | Harriman, chairman of the board and former president of the Harriman Na- | tional Bank & Trust Ce.- was charged specifically with false entries, The| Government accused him of charging a total of $320,145 to the accounts of three depositors, ostensibly for the pur- chase of the bank's stock from him. ‘The depositors, it was charged, were unaware of the transactions. Medalie | sald examiners had di:covered misuse | of a total of $1,393,000. ! After nurses had turned a deputy marshal away from Harriman's bed | room in a fashionable apartment on the | grounds that he was tce ill to be served, Marshal Raymond J. Sullivan served the warrant in the presence of two doctors. They found him to be suffer- | ing from coronary thrombosis, a serious | heart ailment, and agreed it would be | dangerous to move him. ‘The banker was placed under guard until a United States commissioner ar- rived. Then he was raised to a sitting position on the bed, and with quavering hand, signed a $25.000 bail bond. Bank Has Conservator. | Tiik EVINING Achievements President’s 10-Day Record. By the Associated Press. PLAN TO CONGLUDE e ARMG CONFERENGE ™Saveh s—Proclaimed s nationst bank | Premier MacDonald Will Pre- holiday, assuming war power, and . sent Draft to Wind Up Present Business. called Congress into session March 9. March 9—Asked Congress for emer- gency bank legislation. His message was read at noon, the bill was passed by both branches and signed into law 10 _hours later. March 10—Asked Congress for power to cut half a billion off Federal expen- ditures. March 11 — The House passed his economy bill unchanged. | March 13—The Senate began to con- ' sider the measure. The President | asked Congress for immediate legaliza- tion of beer. March 14—The House passed the re-| quested beer bill. The Senate pushed | the economy measure toward passage. | limited convention embodying the re- Locked for next is a farm relief pro-| sults thus far obtained, namely, the plan posal to get aid to the farmer in time .4viiceq by Norman W. Davis, the for this year's crops. Held in abey- | ance also is his D‘gga for a $500,000,000 | American delegate, last Fall, plus eer- taln modifications and incorporating bond issue for employment. principles of the Hoover proposals and PHLLAFOULETTE = o= 10 SEE PRESIDENT Former Governor of Wiscon- sin Had Been Considered | By the Associated Press. GENEVA, March 15.—The draft of & plan aimed to wind up the work of the World Disarmament Conference will be presented tomorrow to ‘he general com- missjon by Premler MacDonald of England. MacDonald and Sir John Expected to Go to Italy. LONDON, March 15 (P).—It was said in official quarters today that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain and his foreign secretary, Sir John Simon, were expected to leave Geneva for Italy Saturday for a con- ference with Premier Mussolini. The plan proposes the conclusion of & | TAR. WASHINGTON, Tornado Deaths Casualties in South Mount to 36 With 10 Killed in Nashville. B the Assoclated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 15—The known dead in last night's tornado in ‘Tennessee: Pruden: Mr. and Mrs. Omar Keith, three Keith children, Robert Mason, and the child of Charles Butterini Nashville: Mrs. T. L. Benderman, B. B Lanier, M. A ‘mmn Mrs, Arm- | strong, rgare! , Juanita | Foster, Dorls Smith, Mrs. 8. O. Foster, Christine Sanders, colored; Edward Smith, colored. Lebanon: Jim Cooksey, Comer Har- | ris, Edgar Wallace and an' unidentified | man about 60 yes old. | . Kingsport: Mr. and Mrs. R. 8. Cal- | houn, Emmett Meadows, Tate Crockett, 4-year-old Crockett child, Dewey Lawson. Bellwood: John Harris. te: Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Othneil Cadle. | " Oswego: Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Bill | Hollers, Mill Point: Mrs. Alice Hodge. Rogersville: Rev. Arthur Barrett, in- fant son of Kelly Bradshaw. QUAKE RELIEF BILL PUSHED IN HOUSE | California Delegation Asks Com- mittee to Report $5,000,000 Measure at Once. | for Attorney General. | | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, “ President Roosevelt, it is understood Premier MacDonald and his foreign | secretary went to Geneva last week in an effort to break a stalemate in the | “rpe California House delegation and World Disarmament Conference. Senator McAdoo today urged the House In Downing street the view was held | Appropriations Committee in executive By the Assoclated Press. 4 here, would like to have former Gov. rriman National Bank & Trust 4 c:h&hm open Monday when other |Philip La Follette of Wisconsin figure ) Federal Reserve members here resumedim his administration. La Follette is ! business. Henry E. Cooper, now presi- a8y . but | dnt of the institution, was named its 1OV O7 his way back from Europe, but | conservator. The bank reports assets | of $33,535,973 December 31, and depos- | to confer with the President, on invita- | | that s meeting between the two pre- ?I Great Britain's effort to help save ‘he conference. Great Britain’s view is that & mere will come here by the end of the week adjournment of the conference or the ' and said that * of resolutions without tan- drawing u fu would be dangerous for gible resul | session to report immediately the John- | son resolution calling for $5,000,000 to | mier's perhaps would be highly useful | relieve distress in the California earth- | quake section. | " Representative Lea, Democrat, of | California, emerged from the meeting e hope the committee | will act shortly.” | _ The session was called by Chairman its of $30.168,221. Harriman, who is 67, was stricken i1l last November. He had been in the banking business since he was 16. From his sickbed he issued a statement deny- ing the charges. Brown Bros, Harriman & Co., pri- vate banking house, announced last night it had no connection with Harri man National Bank & Trust Co. Averell Harriman said neither he nor his brother, E. Roland Harriman, hld| any interest in it, nor did the estate of their fatheg the late E. H. Harriman. Joseph W. riarriman is a nephew of H. Harriman. ROOSEVELT RUSHES FARM AND JOBLESS PLANS FOR CONGRESS —(Continued From Pirst Page.) he would have the men clear out the scrub growth in the forests to make more valuable the timber lands. ‘The President believes the unemployed men could be put to work in three or four weeks on the reforestation proposi- tion. He would start on the national forest lands and extend to other Gov- ernment, including State, lands. ‘The men to be employed on the for- estry work would be restricted to those now unemployed. The plan calls for housing them in camps. The basis of the farm relief plan Roosevelt will recommend has been worked out during the last few days by farm leaders jin conference with Sec- retary of Agricalture Wallace Secretary Wallace has ready for President Roosevelt’s consideration a new draft of the proposal agreed upon by the conferees. The first draft approved by farm leaders, contuined some provisions which Wallace said $he Chiet Executive wished to have chas or deleted, although he approved the proposal “in principle.” One provision Wallace has deleted in the new draff is extension of authority to the President to seek reciprocal trade agreements With other countries to en- large American farm markets abroad. The President now has this authority, with treaties he may negotiate requiring Eexlllk ratification. important provision of the bill | gives the Secretary authority to seek trade agreements relating to commodi- ties in which producers, processors and handlers would be parties. This is ainmred to make unnecessary regulations covering some commodities with co-operation of groups interested in all phases of production. manufac- ture and trade being the object sought instead. It is Wallace's plan to call meetings of interested parties before fixing arty of the details of plans re- lating to given commodities in which they are interested. WORLD AGREEMENT SOUGHT BY U. S. TO CONTROL WHEAT ___ (Continued From Pirst Page) the involved matters which will neces- sary come up at the International Eeonomic Conference when the question | of tariffs and other complicated mat-| ters will inevitably arise. Of the agricultural states, Russia which used to produce an enormous quantity of wheat is no longer in a position. at least for the time being, to export its products because its crops are barely sufficient to supply the needs | of its own population. But that does not mean that an agree- ment with the other countries, and especially the Southeastern European states, will be easy. Need of Importation, Most of those countries have practi- cally no industry of their own and must import from the industrial states, prin- cipally the European industrial states, most everything they need as finished products. Consequently, it is essential, they think, to produce all the wheat they need for their own consumption plus the necessary quantity to provide means of exchange for industrial products. “The conversations with the British dominions will be easier. Although these cquntries produce la wheat, most of them have stantial industry and the farmers there understand the necessity of reducing their acreage. Mr. Davis, supported by the American representatives abroad will begin dis- cussing this matter as soon as possible after his arrival in Europe. W. H. REISNER TO SEEK HAGERSTOWN MAYORALTY Sbecial Dispatch to The Star. “HAGERSTOWN, Md.. March 15.— ‘W, Harry Reisner, prominent local manufacturer, has been nominated as the Democratic candidate for mayor. Msyor Reuben Musey, who has served eight years. declined to permit his name td come before the convention, explain- ing that he felt he had given enough of his time in public office and that he must devote more time to his own busi- ness. Mr. Relsner will oppose Dr. I. M. ‘Wertz, who was nominated some time ago as the Republican candidate. ‘The present city administration con- sists of one Democratic mayor and five Democratic councilmen. ‘Five councilmen also will be elected for feur-year- terms at -the - election 3 ] quantities of | quite a sub- | | tion of Mr. Roosevelt himself. | Just what place the President has in mind in his administration for La Fol- lette has not been disclosed. It is known that when the office of Attorney | General had been offered to the late | Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana |and the Senator had it under advise- | ment, President Roosevelt had La Fol- ;| lette in mind for that post if Senator | Walsh should decline. However, in view of the fact that the cabinet now includes three members who have been Republicans in the past, the appointment of La Follette as At- torney General might not sit well with the Democrats of long standing, al- election of President Roosevelt in the last campaign. Not only did he support Mr. Roosevelt, but he also gave his sup- port to Gov. Schmedeman, the Demo- | cratic candidate for Governor. | Name Variously Mentioned. | Immediately following his retirement | | as Governor the first week in January | | La Follette went to Europe. His name has been mentioned in connection with | various offices under the new Demo- | cratic administration, among them | American Ambassador to Russia, | should this Government recognize the Soviet government and establish diplo- | matic relations. In informed circles, | however, it is said that La Follette not | only has not been offered such a posi- tion, but that he would not be inclined to accept it. | As Governor of Wisconsin, 1a Fol- | | lette went deeply into the matter of | | unemployment relief. Should President | | Roosevelt undertake to set up—with the | approval of Congress—a Federal organ- ' | ization dealing with unemployment re- ! | lief on a Nation-wide scale, it has been | suggested that he might turn to La Fol- | lette to head such an organization. | When Homer 8. Cummings was ap- | pointed Attorney General following the sudden death of Senator Walsh, it was e appointment would be and that Cummings would | | 8o eventually as governor general to | the Philippines, an office which he had | | already agreed to accept. Successor Much Discuseed. | With that in mind. there has been | much discussion in Washington political circles of a possible successor to Cum- | mings as Aftorney General. The Pro- | gressives in' the Democratic party, as! ywell as in the Republican party. are! | insistent that the office go to a “Pro- | gressive.” 'They were greatly pleased | when Senator Walsh was selected for | that post. ! Senator Norris of Nebraska has, it is | reported, taken a great interest in the | matter, and when he returns to Wash- | ington from Nebraska, where he wem‘- for the funeral of the late Senator| Howell, it is expected that he will seek | a conference with the President regard- | ing the appointment of an Attorney | General, It is reported that Senator Norris will favor three possible appointees: Frank P. Walsh of Missouri and New York, who was joint chairman of the War Labor Board with the late Chief Justice Taft during the World War; Donald Richberg of Chicago. counsel for the Railway Labor Executives’ As- sociation, and former Gov. La Follette. Richberg has the backing of the| brotherhoods for the office. Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, known the country over not only as a Senator, but also as a fiery prosecutor, has more recently been mentioned as a possible appointee to the office of Attorney General, and Felix Prankfurter of Boston has been talked of not only for the office of Solicitor General of the United States, but also for that of Attorney General. 'THREE NOMINATED TO SHIPPING BOARD ! Roosevelt Designates Cone as Chair- man Pending Regrouping Action. President Roosevelt today effected a | new set-up in the Shipping Board { when he nominated for the chairman- | ship a holdover from,the Hoover a | ministration and appointed two new members. \ Hutch I. Cone, rear admiral, retired, | who has been on the board as a Demo- | cratic member from Florida, was reap- pointed and designated for chairman. The two new members are Gatewood S. |Lincoln of California and David W. Todd of New York. Cone’s term is for three years, from June 30, 1932; Mr. Lincoln’s for two years and Mr. Todd’s for one year from the same date. ‘These appointments are looked upon as of a temporary nature pending the creation of a co-ordinated transporta- tion agency when the board and its | operating subsidiary, the Merchamt { Fleet Corporation, would be taken into the new grouping. ‘The two new members replace T. V. O'Connor, the veteran chairman, and S. S. Sandberg. Admiral Cone and the other two mem- bers of the former board Wwent out office on March 4 when they failed of confirmation. They had been serving under recess appointments since last July, when the board was reorganized and cut from seven to three members. Polk County Fruit Best. ‘The citrus fruit exhibit from Polk County' won the blue ribbon this year for the fifth time in six years at the South FI r. \ though La Follette worked hard for the | Europe. Buchanan. Mr. MacDonald and Sir John have | Cross also attended. Les said the com- | held many interviews with conference mittee “is asking many questions” as | leaders in Geneva, but the view is| to the needs. taken that unless Italy is brought into| Meanwhile, the House was held in | direct negotiation along with Germany, France and other powers, the efforts to| The resolution was passed save the conference will be endangered. ' Senate late yesterday. FIGHT TO SALVAGE PARLEY. ¥ 'URGES NEUTRALITY IN FOREIGN TANGLES Winston Churchill Also Calls on England to Maintain Air the | France and Germany Also May Sit in on Conterence. ROME, March 15 (#).—Official circles said today that Prime Minister Ramsay | MacDonald of Great Britain was bringing pressure to bear on Premier | Mussolini to attend a conference either | at Turin or Stresa in order to salvage the Worid Disarmament Conference. | ! r These circles refused to admit t Defense. a formal invitation had been receive b;am It was said the premier was con-| o sider: sccepting Mr. MacDonald’s | BY the ated Prems. suuel?t'mm i AcDonAIS | T ONDON, ~ March 15.— Winston The meeting would be secret, with Churchill, former Conservative chan- and possibly Chancellor Adolf Hitler of |before the House of Commons that Germany present. It was reported here that France had European entanglements. agreed to attend the conference, but | Mr. Churchill, speaking during a de- that she wants the Little Entente |bate on the aviation budget estimates (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Ru- Sald that to keep out of commitments mania) represented. Italy objects to On the continent the United Kingdom this as enlarging the circle too much. | must be strong enough to maintain her It was said the conference might be | neutrality and must, therefore, carry called either while the Geneva Confer- out her full program of air defense. He ence was in session or following an added that he wished airplanes and Easter adjournment. submarines had never been invented. The heads of the governments would | Sir Philip Sassoon. undersecretary agree on principles which the experts, for aviation. in presenting the estimates, meeting again in Geneva after Easter, |told the House the Royal Air Force would put into effect. had effected economies with some This would be the first time Premler’lnxlety as 10 regular squadrons were Mussolini had attended an international | still required to complete the “modest” conference since the Locarno pact of¥ Program approved in 1923. 1925. The decision to hold this 10-year-old o el pmgr:dm in lunpu{u:f for another year, he said. was proof of the government's PRINCE GEORGES ESTATE | whole-hearted desire to promote a suc- BRINGS $12 AT SAL | comnat issue at the worid disarmament y E‘ In terms of first-line strength, Sir | Philip added. the Royal Air Force stood Grayling-on-the-Potomae Is Pur- today fifth in the list of air powers, | | while at the end of the great war it | claimed first place. 3rs st owremonse s NEBRASKA PAYS FINAL. chased by Baltimore Attorney Representing Mortgagee. —Grayling-on-the-Potomac, one of the | show places of Prince Georges County, | Representatives of the Red | session awaiting action of the committee. | | Great Britain keep herself free from | located directly across the river from Mount Vernon, was plac-d on the auc- tion block and sold at the court house here yesterday. The place which includes a mile snd a half of water front property, has been the property of Harry K. Bliss, Wash- ington real estate man. With approxi- mately $31,000 in first and second mortgages on {it. the property was bought in at $12000 by R. Bennett Darnall, Baltimore attorney, represent- ing_the mortgagee. The main_12-room house & number of tenant houses, barns, a hunting lodge and farm equipmen: were in- cluded in the 280-acre tract. The place was described as excellent for duck hunting and has an abundance of blue grass. It is located at Bryvans Point, between Fort Washington and Marshall Hall There was only one other bid be- side Darnall's after Sergt. A W Hep- burn, county police, opened the auciion. It was for $11,500, made by a Wash- ington man. Grayling, according 1o the attorney, is insured for $39,500 and was valued at $100,000 two years ago. . REICHSBANK CHIEF MENACED BY GUNS OF NAZI VISITORS (Continued From First Page.) draw rather than allow the Reichsbank to be ruined. (Copyrisht. 1933.) GERMANY NEAR DEFAULT. Reich Not Expected to Pay Foreign In- terest Much Longer. BERLIN, Germany, March 15— Barring a miracle, Germany will not be very much longer in a position to meet the interest payments on its foreign | bond issues and those under the latest stand-still agreement. It is figured that, in order to meet its foreign obligations, this government needs something less than $200.000,000 a year. Shipping may provide from $30,- 000,000 to $40,000,000 and tourists & few more But the aggressive policies, together with the world crisis, have gradually stified the export sur- plus, which dropped in February to a| little more than $4,000,000. Germany lives in & state of latent commercial war with virtually all its neighbors, ex- cept perhaps Austria and Belgium. It can be expected that the Germans will approach their creditors with some kind of new proposal to reduce the in- terest rate now being paid on long-term as well as short-term loans, or a cut in the principal Reichsbank President Dr. Hans Luther of | strongly disapproves of any such but rumor is it that ufil.oonbemwnn Hjalmar Schacht, his ecessor in that post, whose sympathy with the Nazi finance principles is well known. (Copyright, 1933.) o Akron Reaches Cristoba]. ‘COLON, Canal Zone, March 15 (#).— The United States Navy dirigible Akron arrived at Cristobal this,morning, | German trade Gov. Ch‘lr]n W. Bryan Considers Host of Persons Suggested for Senate Post. By the Associated Press. | LINCOLN. Nebr, March 15.—The hum of politics was muffied yesterday as Nebraska paid final tribute to its late | United States Senator Robert Beecher | Howell of Omaha. | And while political friend and foe joined in tribute to Howell's public | career, Gov. Charles W. Bryan from | his sick bed at the executive mansion considered a host of persons suggested and backed by various Nebraska po- | litical factions. Arthur Mullen, national committee- man, who rushed here from Wash! to work for sappointment of former | Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Omaha | publisher, returned last night to his "Omlha home. TRAINING SCHOOL BAND TO BE CONCERT GUESTS American Business Men’s Club Host for Final Symphony Orchestra Event. Members of the band of the National Training School for Boys will be of the American Business Men's Club at the final young people's concert of the tional Symphony s at 1 . Saturday at Central High School Auditorium. Fifteen tickets to orchestra concerts have been rotated among the band members during the concert season and | several of the youthful musicians have | submitted letters in the contest spon- sored by Dr. . conductor | of the orchestra, for the best written impression of the series. Winners will !be announced at Saturday’s concert. LECTURE TO BE GIVEN | ON STOMACH TROUBLES Dr. William J. Mallory Will Speak at Central Y. M. C. A. To- morrow Evening. Dr. William J. Mallory, Washington physician, will discuss treatment of | stomach troubles in a free public lec- ‘turemma'n 7:45 pm. in the audi- torium of the Central Y. M. C. A, 1736 G street. The lecture is one of a series ar- ranged by the Health Education Coun- cil of the Y. M. C. A. in co-operation with &: District Medical Society. director of the Y. M. C. A., will preside. J. Whiteford, will D. C, PYTTSBURGH FLOOD | DAMAGE $30000 Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers 3.3 Feet Above Stage at “The Point.” WEDNESDAY, By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH., March 15.—River meh estimated damage at $300,000 to- day as the swirling, muddy waters of two streams at urgh continued a rampage that disrupted traffic on land and river. At 10:30 am., the stage was station- jary at 28.3 feet—3.3 feet above flood | stage—at “the point,” where the Alleg- heny and Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio. The Weather Bureau said the | Allegheny was rising slowly and would | continue to rise, while the Monongahela was falling. The two movements neutralized each other at “the point,” bureau officials said. With & number of boats sunk or carried away, rivermen worked through- out the night seeking craft torn loose from moorings by the swift waters. Many cellars in the lower business district were flooded by water backed | up_through the sewers. | The entire fleet of the Iron City Band & Gravel Co., valued at about $100,000 broke loose from its landing |in the Monongahela and was swept over a dam. It consisted of 14 barges and six-powered craft. | ‘thvy vessels ramaged several bridge | piers. RECORD FLOOD EXPECTED. i Ohie Valley in West Virginia Threatened By High Water, WHEELING, W. Va.. March 15 (). — . The worst flood this section of the Ohio Valley has experienced in a dozen years | is predicted by tonight. Feverish preparations are being made |to ward off danger as the Ohio River creeps up on the streets of “the Island,” | Wheeling’s seventh ward. Street car |travel between Wheeling, Benwood and {Moundsville is cut off. The tracks at Benwood are under several feet of water. Rallroad service between Wheeling and Ohio points has been suspended due | to_inundated tracks. | . The Ohlo River stage at 8 o'clock was ‘Jl feet. flood stage, and 40 feet or more |18 predicted. at stage will force hundreds of families in Wheeling and Benwood to move to the second floors of their homes. 149 DEAD IN THEATER FALSE ALARM PANIC Mexico Has 125 Injured. but In-| quiry Shows No Trace of Fire or Electrocutions. ] By the Associated Press. GUADALAJARA, Mexico, March 15. —Late reports raised the casualty toll in the Ahualulco Theater panic to 49 | persons killed and 125 injured and dis- closed today that there actually was no fire and no exidence of electrocutions. Authorities declared a short-circuit of a wire on a balcony hand rail caused sparks, but that the shock was not strong enough to cause the death of any one except possibly a person with a weak heart. A cry of “Fire!” preceded the rush for exits, and investigators indicated a be- lief that it was raised as a joke. The tragedy occurred Monday night | at the Hidalgo Motion Picture House in | ;t:e town of Ahualulco, which is near re. Scenes depicting a fire were being shown on the screen when the false aiarm was shouted, and this was be- lieved to have heightened the panic. | Persons were trampled to death and ! hurt in the mad fight to reach the nar- row doors. Of those injured, 25 were TEAR BOMBS USED AT SALE OF FARM Crowds Dispersed and 12 Arrested in Attempt to Halt Fore- closure. By the Associated Press. bombs were employed to disperse a crowd of several hundred persons and 12 men were arrested as the result of an attempt to halt a farm foreclosure sale here vesterday. Sheriff Frank A. Shimerda said those arrested are Farmers' Holiday Associa- tion members and that they attempted to forestdll the sale by keeping him from getting from his office to the front of the court house t cry the sale. After the disturbance, which was quelled by a squad of deputies, Shimerda conducted the sale. The 100-acre farm owned by Joe Neuman was purchased by Steve Richtarik, real estate operator here, for $11,900. SENATOR DAVIS PASSES CRISIS SUCCESSFULLY Physician Announces Pennsyl- vanian Appears to Be Progress- ing Better Than Any Time. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 15.—Dr. John W. Shirer announced late yesterday that 1| United States Senator James J. Davis has successfully passed the crisis which followed his operation for appendicitis. ‘The physician said the Senator's condition was complicated for a time by diabetes, adding: “The Senator passed s much more comfortable day and appears to be sonal | Dr. Shirer, Senator Davis' physician, left the hospital (South Side) late today for the first time since the former Secretary of Labor was admitted to the institution. Senator Davis’ wife and his secre- tary, are at his bedside. FEDERAL BAR GROUP NOT TO OPPOSE PAY CUT —_— Executive Council, However, Will Show Living Costs Here Have Not Lowest Averages. ‘The Executive Council of the M-I eral Bar Association has decided that it would be to oppose the 15 per cent pay cut proposed for Federal employes, but the association will pre- sent to the proper authorities figures showing costs in the District Ll have not a8 much as else- t of the t in the Dis- practicall: William R. Vallance, association, said today rem! !would be necessary to balance the | enact a sales levy. MARCH 15, 1933. Playground Plans Announced PLANNING COMMISSION RECITES DEVELOPMENTS. e OPEN , FIELD ox uunwmfl ER OAMES [ BOYS PLAY AREA wITR AvPARATUY GIRLS PLAY AREA WITH APPARATUS - v Detailed plans for development of the new Northeast Playground, to be lo- cated between F and G. Ninth and Tenth streets northeast, were announced yesterday by H. Tudor Morsell, land purchasing officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. A new alley is shown at the north end, at 638 Tenth street, and another new alley, at the southern boundary. is shown where 613 Ninth street is located. The whole project is situated in square 925. Officials made it clear the new playground will not be developed im- | mediately, but will be pushed as soon ss funds become available. It is expected gm this will be done so as to put the new playground into commission this | ummer. There will be a boys’ playground for base ball and other games. a girls' | playground, an open field for soccer and a boys' and girls’ play area. There also | will be swings. slides, a wading pool and other apparatus for smaller children. ECONOMY PROGRAM SOVIET FOES FACE MAY PASS TODAY SEGRET EXECUTION Roosevelt Plan Speeded astgpu Authorized to Deal Debate Is Limited in Summarily With State Senate. Employes. __(Consinued Prom First Page.) find out why if he tried to bind a Re- publican conference,” Pess replied. Fess said he believed new taxation By the Assoc ated Press. MOSCOW, March 15.—Invoking a 10- | year-old law conferring extraordinary powers upon the Ogpu (secret police), | the Central Executive Committee today | made public a decree calling upon that organization to deal with “special sever- | ity” as to employes of state institutions | guilty of subversive activities. | The extraordinary powers include sentencing and execution without public trial. budget, even with passage of the pend- ing bill, & beer tax and an extension of the Federal gasoline levy. He said, “We will still be short $518,000,000 if we pass this bill” Senator Harrisgn disagreed. The Mis- sissippi Democrat maintained the three ‘measures concerned would make it un- necessary to increase income taxes or Answer of Government. The action was the government's an- swer to a recent round-up of high offi- | cials of the commissiriats of agricul- |ture and the state farms for alleged counter-revolutionary movements in the agrarian districts. It also was connected with the more Hastings Gives Suppert. Hastings delved into the record of two WILBER, Nebr.. March 15.—Tear gas | P! years ago and called the roll of many ' Democrats who voted to override Presi- dent Hoover’s veto of the bill enlarging | veterans' benefits. He ssid he would vote for the bill “solely because the administration is demanding it as an essential part of its rogram.” | “Notwithstanding the overwhelming, majority of his party in the House and | Senate,” he added, “the President’s hands are tied unless we give him this dictatorial power. It takes courage to cut appropriations and if we have an, Executive with courage enough to do that job we should give him the power.” Hebert said, “This is no time to in- dulge in political discussions,” but it “is | time for action, immediate action.” | Senator Capper, Republican, of | Kansas. also supported the bill, saying to refuse to give the President the power sought “would, in my judgment, be unpatriotic.” First Oppesition. Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, | wumlhe first Democrat to éxpress op- | Pposition. “My objection to the pending meas- ure,” he asserted, “aside from matters of detail, is in general principle that it seeks to effect economies by executive order rather than by constitutional | lelgslal “It is idle to say that the President is to be charged with the determination | of these matters. We all know that it simply means that these legislative mat- ters are to be by appointive officers and clerks rather than by the elected Representatives of the people. “I am unwil to agree that the mere fact of appointment by the Execu. tive vests an officer with infallibilit; and renders his judgment superior to that of the members of Congress elected | by the people.” | Explains Position. Clark revealed he had excused himself in u:de “Democn?c caucus “on the ground it was contrary to pledges made to my constituents during Ehe course of my campaign” that he would vote against “abdication by Congress of its | duties and the grant of dictatorial | power to the Executive.” Senator Borah took the floor late in rison Ihe'}awer ! o e 1 “Noy" 3 . reduced 15 per cent and his salary : cut that much he still gets as much.” -— SUES EARLE THEATER Rose Marie Beckett Says She Suf- fered Serious Injury in Fall. Alleging she was injured when she caught her in & loose carpet and fell in the Earle Theater, ' Rose Marie shire avenue, today filed suit in District Court, asking $5,000 Supreme damagos from Wi et & occurred April 4, ted , aald 1933, |an active part” in a plot to destroy Beckett, 1320 New Hamp- Pope of & recent arrests of six Englishmen and several Russians connected with the Metropolitan-Vickers Co. and state elec- trical trusts for alleged sabotage in im- portant electrical stations. Thirty-five men involved in the agri- cultural commissariat arrests have been shot and others imprisoned without public trial, while investigations con- tinue in the other case. Bitter Editorial Attack. | The newspaper Pravda simultaneously | published an editorial _entitled “No | Mercy to Class Enemies.” in which it declares that some remnants of the former privileged group had penetrated Soviet institutions and were showing “black ingratitude to the government which protects them by engaging in hostile acts sgainst the Socialist con- struction.” It calls for renewed vigilance to wipe out the class enemy. The editorial condemns the Metro- politan-Vickers representatives in ad- | vence by declaring unqualifiedly that | some employes of that company “took | certain electrical stations. BRITISH ASK EXPLANATION. Strong Representations Made to Soviet | on Arrests. LONDON, March 15 (#).—Stanley Baldwin. lord president of the Council, informed the House of Commons today the British aml r in Moscow had been instructed to make strong repre- sentations to the Soviet government of the grave view the British government kes of the recent arrest of British bjects in Russia. Mr. Baldwin reviewed the facts of the arrests of the six British subjects and the subsequent release of two of them. He stated that the British Ambas- sador had visited the prisoners and had found their general health satisfactory and that they were permitted toexer- cise. ‘The Ambassador, he said. had im- mediately. upon learning of the arrests, made urgent representations and asked among other things to be informed exactly what charges had been pre- ferred and what facilities would be granted for their defense. As he had received “no categorical or satisfactory answer,” the Ambassador, alr. Baldwin said, had been instructed to press for the fullest possible infor- mation. Mr. Baldwin continued: “Moreover, as the government is con- vinced there can be no justification for the charges on which the arrests were made, the Ambassador has been in- structed to represent in strong terms the grave view the government takes of these gs against British sub- Jects’ of mfh standing engaged in nor- mal work for the t of both coun- uences may Pope Receives Father Burke. VATICAN CITY, March 15 (B).— Plus _today audience Father John J. Burke of Wi , D. C., general sec received in private | FRANCE IS WARNED TOPAYU.S. QUICKLY Herriot Holds Paris Needs American Support to Block Hitler. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 15.—Former Premier Edouard Herriot has frankly warned Prance that it is to her “essential inter- est” to pay her three-months’ overdue debt to the United States as socn as possible in view of changed conditions in Central Europe. While the French government is seek- ing a League of Nations investigation of Hitler's Nazi storm troops and is aroused by their activities in the Rhine- land frontier, Herriot has speeded up his campaign for a close agreement be- tween the United States, England and France as “the best guarantee of free- dom and peace.” As chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Relations Committee and leader of the government party, he seeks a Chamber vote for payment of the $19,000,000 interest owed the United States since last December, before the new Ambassador, Andre Lefevre de La- boulaye, leaves for Washington, probably in early April. Fearful of Delays. “We must not prolong the question,™ Herriot told a Sorbonife University au- dience last night, “when we see at Geneva a coalition of dictatorships, one of them in a country in which people are being pursued and molested because of their religion.” Protesting that non-payment of the American debt “isolated” France, Herriot has declared the similar theories of Hitler and Mussolini, in Germany and Italy, endangered peace and lead to the revamping of Europe by revision of treaties. “It is the duty of all those who be- lieve in the right and liberty of France, England and young free America * * to stick together,” he said last night. He has maintained consistently that these are “the three great democracies” which must defend peace, and several days ago wrote that Germany is pre= paring at Geneva “to take the offen=- sive” against France and even Great Britain. ‘Winston Churchill, prominent*® Con= servative leader, told the British House of Commens in a speech last night that Great Britain must keep hersc'f free from European entanglements. A Lon- don dispatch said the opinion was | widely held in British circles that the French turned last week end's confer- ences in Paris with Premier MacDon- ald and Foreign Secretary Simon into an appeal for a new Franco-British front in event of European hostilities. War Talk Groewing. The conferences with Premier Dala- dier and Foreign Minister Paul-Boncour of Prance were reported as a discussion of the disarmament crisis. Commenting on the present continen- tal situation, the London Times said “Not since 1914 has there been so much talk about war.” Associated with M. Herriot, in lobby- ing for a chamber vote on the American debt in the interest of the French gov- ernment, is Former Premier Paul Pain= leve, who also urges “dispelling an arti- ficial cloud” between the United States and Prance “so as to realize a firm ac- cord among France. Great Britain and the United States to make democracies safe.” A vear ago Painleve advocated general cancellation of debts. Herriot estimated about one-third of tne Socialists, who voted against pay=~ ment last December causing the over= throw of the Herriot government, were still unfavorable to payment. No vote will be taken unless the Chamber ap- pears certain to ratify payment. — T LOGAN WILL FILL , HOWELL VACANCY Kentucky Senator Is Placed on Special Campaign Funds Committee. By the Associated Press, Appointment of Senator ai Democrat, of Kentucky, to ml]ngu:: vacancy on the Senate Special Cam- paign Funds Committee, investigating the 1932 Louisana senatorial primary, was announced last night by Vice President Garner. The vacancy was created last week by the death of Sen- ator Howell. Republican, of Nebraska. Senator Bratton, Democrat. of New | Mexico, who will succeed Howell as chairman of the group. expects to call the members together before the week ends to determine what they shall do about the Louisiana inquiry. First, Bratton told newspaper men, the committee will be required to go over all the evidence collected in the investi- gation and decide on its report to the Senate, before deciding whether to con- tinue the inquiry. The case revolves around the defeat by Senator John H. Overton of former Senator Edwin S. Broussard for the Democratic renomination last Summer. Overton was supported by Senator Long. Involved are charges by Lon against Brig. Gen. Samuel T. Ansell, retired, committee counsels and a slander suit by Ansell against Long. —_— New French Envoy to Sail. PARIS, March 15 (P).—Andre Le- fevre de la Boulaye, new French Am- bassador to the United States, will leave April 5 for his new post. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band this evening at the auditorium, Marine Barracks at 8 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader. Overture, “Academic Pestival, Opus 80," Brahms Valse Characteristique “Vision.” Von Blon Harp solo, “Irish Rhapsody for harp and orchestra, Opus 62”.......Pinto Musician Joshua Tyler. Fantasie ot Negro Spirituals... Foulds = ion” . ..Willlam H. Woodin ..William H. Woodin .Bach ‘Opus . Tschaikowsky “Gavotte " Marines’ Hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma." “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band, this evening in the sail loft of the Navy Yard. at 8 o'clock. Lieut. Charles lnlenw'. -leader; Alex Morris, assistant leader. Overture, “Pingal Mendelssohn Nocturne No. 3, ume,” Lisat (Dream of Love.) 's Cave,” “Liel | Moszkowskl Sulte of “Three Numbers”....Woodin “Chinese | “Meditation.” “In Sevillia.” f the National Catholic Welfare Coun- Dn"he Msgr. Moses E. of the American x % ‘mmlky-xu'-kmv “Siar Spangled T