Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy with rising temperature tonight and tomorre about 36 degrees; Temperatures—H! yesterday; lowest, 32, Full report on page 5. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ow; lowest tonight tle shifting winds. hest, 51, at noon , at 6 a.m, today. No. 32,461, post _office, Entered:as second class matter Washington, D. C. MACDONALD ASKS LARGER ARMY FOR GERMAN REPUBLIC British Premier Would Double Limit Fixed by Versailles Treaty. NEW PROPOSAL MADE FOR ARMS AGREEMENT Reduction of Tanks and Hea.vy Guns—Ban on Air Bombing Included in Plan. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, March 16.— Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britaln, presenting a new plan for peace and security to the World Disarmament Conference today, pro- posed an army of 200,000 men for Ger- many, doubling the maximum limit set by the treaty of Versailles. B Delivering an impassioned appeal es- pecially directed to France and Ger- many for abandonment of fear and cultivation of confidence, MacDonald Jaid the newest British disarmament and security plan before the conference, Demanding contributions to peace from both armed and unarmed nations, he solemnly warned of the danger ex- isting in the international situation. “We can almost hear the very fabric of our civilization crackling about our cars,” he said. Proposals Offered. ‘The plan embodies a draft disarma- ment convention providing for the re- duction of tanks and heavy fleld guns and prohibition of air bombing. It also attempts to couple abolition of military aircraft with guarantees against the conversion of civil aircraft to fighting purposes. It provides a pledge of a conference amorg the signatories of the Kellogg peace pact, in case of a breach of its provisions, thus paralleling recent ut- terances by Henry' L. Stimson, Secre- tary of State in the Hoover cabinet. It also includes an effort to deter- mine the numbers of effectives for Con- tinental European states, but no such attempt is made with regard to non- European countries. The following definite figures are sug- gested for the chief European nations: | Germany, 200,000; France, 200,000 for | home defense and 200,000 overseas; Ttaly, 200,000 at home, 50,000 overseas. Other Limits Sought. This would reduce the French Army | about one-third, paralleling the pro- | posal of President Hoover. | No maximum was suggested for the British Army. Austria’s effectives would be fixed at 50,000, Hungary's at 60,000 and Bul- garia’s at 60,000. The French “allies” would be lined up: Poland, 200,000; Rumania, 150,000; Czechoslovakia, 100,000. ° Russia would be given half a mil- lion men. The plan would extend the London naval treaty to include France and Italy. It also wquld extemd the naval holiday of capita ships to all powers except Italy, which would be permitted to build one ship to balance the new French cruisep Dunkirk. Germany wouM be freed legally from the naval restrictions imposed by the Versailles treaty, but actually her naval power would be fixed at the present level until 1936. | The proposed treaty would remain in force for five years. During that period special international commissions would be created to attempt conciliation and settlement of vexing political problems now disturbing Europe. A second general arms conference would be held | just before the expiration of the five- | year period. Aircraft Proposals. Mr. MacDonald admitted that thus far he had been unable to “figure out a way to guarantee that civil aircraft wil not be converted to war purposes. Such a guarantee is essential to they abolition of military aircraft. | Therefore, he proposed limitation by quantity and suggested these specific | figures For the United States, 500 airplanes; Great Britain, 500; France, 500; Japan, 500: Italy, 500, and smaller figures for other countries. He did not suggest a | maximum for Germany. “These figures are not like the laws (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BRITAIN GAINING GOLD Shift From France Suggests Even- tual Riturn to Old Basis. PARIS, March 16 (#).—Great Britain’s l’ eventual return to the gold standard has been suggested in financial quarters in connection with the decrease of Bank of France gold, most of which | was believed to have gone to England. | The Bank cf France gained gold in | the week ending March 3 for the first time since December, but lost 288,000,- 000 francs (approximately $11,500,000) Arms Ambassado: NORMAN H. DAVIS. DAVIS MADE HEAD OFU.S. ARMS BODY New Chairman of Delegation Charged to Prevent Col- lapse of Parley. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Norman H. Davis has been appointed chairman of the American disarma- ment delegation at Geneva with the rank of an Ambassador, it was an- nounced today by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The new Ambassador will leave the United States the middle of next week to take up his duties at Geneva, where he will have his headquarters. Mr. Davis is expected to visit some Euro- pean capitals, principally the storm centers of Europe, in an endeavor to bring about a better understanding and prevent, if possible, a complete collapse of the Disarmament Conference. The task of Mr. Davis will be more important than that of any other Am- bassador of the United States abroad. He has been entrusted by the Presi- dent not only to try to salvage the arms parley, but also to prepare the International Economic Conference as well as the conference of the wheat-pro- cucing countries for the reduction of the present output of agricultural products. | Two Others at Geneva. ‘Whether the present formation of the American delegation at the dis- armament conference will be changed has not been decided yet. For the time being there are only two American delegates at Geneva; Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Minister Hugh Wilson. Before the July adjournment of the conference the American delegation was an imposing one and contained besides Davis, Wilson and Gibson the present secretary of the Navy, Claude Swanson, and a number of technical experts like Admiral Hepburn and Gen. Simonds. ‘When the American delegation re- turned from Geneva last Summer, there was a sum of only some $30,000 left from the original appropriation of | $150,000 given by Congress for the pur- pose of sending an American delega- tion to Geneva. Unless Congress de- cides to appropriate new funds, and, that depends entirely on whether Presi- | dent Roosevelt thinks that the con- fereyce has real chance of accomplish- ing its object, it will be difficult to send a large delegation to Geneva as in’the past. Lunched at White House. Secretary Hull and Ambassador Davis lunched today at the White House and discussed with the President the re- maining details of Mr. Davis’ mission. ‘While there are certain' doubts in the minds of high American officials as to the final success of the Disarma- ment Conference, it is said that Am- bassador Davis persists in his conviction that a limited agreement is possible and (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) et i MEXICAN ENVOY GREETED Francisco Castillo Najera Presents Papers to French President. PARIS, March 16 (#).—Francisco Castillo Najera, new Mexican Ambas- sador to rrance, presented his cre- The 1 WASHINGTON, D. C, FARM AID PASSAGE ASSURED ASHOUSE AWAITS MESSAGE Draft of Bill Is Completed; , to Be Ready on Receipt of 600-Word Note. SURPLUS PRODUCING LAND LEASE IS MAIN FEATURE ’Byrns Expects Legislation to Be Sent to Senate This Week—Job Relief Steps Wait. By the Assoclated Press. ‘Without waiting for the farm aid mes- sage promised from the White House before nightfall, leaders of the House gave assurance today that the agricul- tural legislation would be passed and sent to the Senate by the end of the week. The actual draft of the bill, like President Roosevelt's message, was being completed this morning. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace sought to have it ready for Congress immediately after the message was read. Ready After 4 O'clock. The message, described by White House aides as a terse 600 words, was not to be transmitted before 4 o'clock this evening. Originally Mr. Roosevelt was expected to incorporate his emergency unemploy- ment plan in today's message. his afternoon, however, he decided to sub- mit only the farm relief plan and to withhold the unemployment relief pro- gram until tomorrow or a later date. This was done, it was said, to accom- modate congressional leaders. The farm measure received its final touches at a lengthy conference this noon between the President and the Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Roose- veit conferred over the telephone with congressional leaders and reached his dcision to separate the farm and un- employment propesals, inasmuch as they will have to go to separate com- mittees. Majority Leader Byrns of the House announced he planned to push the bill to passage by the end of the week, putting it immediately up to the Senate. Processing Tax Included. It was learned that in framing the farm bill the principles of the do- mestic allotment plan have not been abandoned entirely. Leasing of lands engaged in surplus production will be a principal feature, but provision will plan. It is through this tax that the meas- ure proposes to provide much of the revenue to make possible retirement of lands by leasing. Representatives of farm organiza- tions, whose suggestions formed the base for the bill, that Wellace be given broad powers to select from many plans in working out methods of production curtailment covering cotton, wheat, corn, hogs. rice, cattle, sheep, tobacco, milk and its products. They recommended that the Secre- tary have authority to work out trade agreements between producers, proc- essors and others interested in given commodities, with power to prescribe regulations covering the marketing of each in event that agreements could not be reached. Proposal Is Modified. Their proposal has been modified in several respects in the new draft pre- pared by Wallace with the assistance of Rexford G. Tugwell, Assistant Secre- tary of Agriculture, and Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, Wallace's newly named eco- nomic adviser. Byrns said the bill would be referred to the House Agriculture Committee for “(Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) e GARNER SEAT THOUGHT WON BY ATTORNEY Milton H. West of Brownsville Gets 12,484 to Griffin’s 9,821 in Run-Off Primary. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 16— The Democratic nomination for the seat in the House of Representatives relinquished by John N. Garner when he became Vice President apparently has been won by Milton H. West, Brownsvilie attorney. Unofficial and virtually complete dentials to President Lebrun today and in a speech emphasized the cordial rela- tions between Mexico and France. | The President welcomed him as a veteran diplomat. —_— British Pay Raises Ordered. LONDON, March 16 (#).—Wage in- creases next month for 25,000 em- ployes of the Imperial Chemical in- dustries were announced today. Sir Harry McGowan, chairman of the company, said that the 1931 wage in the week of March 10, three times the gain. scale would be put back into effect April 3. COURT FREES ATTORNEY WHO HIT PERSISTENT MAGAZINE SALESMAN Member of District Bar, Haled Before Judge, Testifies Man Interrupted Labors With Income Tax. When a man whom he described as a “high-pressure magazine salesman” interrupted his struggies with income tax returns the other day, Glenn E. Feeney, a member of the District bar, with offces in the 1300 block of G street, obeyed the impulse to give him a sock on the jaw. The salesman, Bernard B. Coleman, 1100 block of Sixteenth street, had his *prospect” haled into Police Court this morning on an assault charge, but Judge Isaac R. Hitt dismissed the case after the defendant testified Coleman persisted in giving him a sales talk while he was tangled in tax sheets. “This man came into my cffice and said he wanted to give me a magazine,” Feeney testified. “He said they had to ruerantee circulaticn to raticnal ad- ng sertisers and were gi copies. | & said be °s his way E=Y wasn't through college, so I said, ‘all right’ and took the m: e. “Then he said I could get more copies if T would only pay postage of 10 cents a month. I said, ‘I wouldn’t pay a quarter for a carload,’ and asked him would he get out and leave me With my troubles. : “He said, ‘give me that copy tm;:‘ and 1 snlg, 'ym: gave it to me, and I'm aing to keep it.” SHe repll:i, ‘Don’t get tough with me,” and he went into the next office, laid his magazine down and came back. I said to my stenographer, ‘If wuq leave the room, I'll toss this guy out. She left and I grabbed him and his partner came in and said, ‘Let him go. I'll take him out with me.’” Coleman, in his testimony, claimed Feeney threatened to tear the maga- zine in two and throw him out, even before he had finished his sales spiel. He said Coleman hit him on the jaw and then grabbed him around the neck and he left the office and went to get la lawyer. tabulation of votes cast in yesterday's party run-off primary in the fifteenth Texas district gave West 12,484 and his _opponent, Gordon Griffin, 9821. The winner will enter the special election April 22 against Carlos Wat- son of Brownsville, Republican. Merchandising Activities. All of the department stores and most other lines of busi- ness are going ahead with their merchandising plans in full effect. In fact, the local mer- chants yesterday used more space in The Star than the cor- responding day last year to tell of the activities of business. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Evening Star. . 38,642 2d Newspaper...... 9,410 3d Newspaper...... 8,816 4th Newspaper..... 3,540 5th Newspaper..... 3,260 Total 25,026 (Other _four newspapers.) The circulation of The Star yesterday was also somewhat greater than last year, showing the intense interest of the pub- lic in the news of the day and the news of the stores. be included for a processing tax. one | of the main points in the allofment | benir WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933—FORTY-TWO PAATI. BANKING SITUATION GROWING BRIGHTER Progress Made in Reopening Nation’s Institutions Cheers Officials. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 16.—The banks of the Wabash—and of all the land— | were clicking again today, innervated | not only by the flow of ne+ currency, | but by continuing evidence of reborn national confidence. President Roosevelt, in speaking to the people of America last Sunday night, cautioned that ‘the mechanical | routine necessary for the rehabilitation | of banking was In itself a heavy chore ! and might not be accomplished as swift- ly as hoped for. The major part of the job has been done, however, with even greater speed and less confusion than | had been anticipated. | The results refiected themselves in these significant condition: 1. Thousands of banks, closed by the national and State banking holidays, have reopened, most of them on unre- stricted basis. Facilities Restored. 2. Every section of the country now finds its banking facilities restored. 3. Hoarding has been checked. 4. Gold, hidden in fear, has been j routed out and returned to a live sup- | port of American money under regu- }::lom to prevent its escape from use- ulness. scale has been resumed. 6. The tide has been turned from hysterical withdrawal to renewed de- posit of funds 7. Legislation has been formulated to provide regulation under which the | American public need have no future Imuglvi.nu concerning its deposited | cash. | 8. Talk of scrip—a horrid word to “sound money” torchbearers—has been shelved as a general expedient of ex- change, so rapid has been the return of currency to circulation. Some Cases of Delay. 9. Dealings in commodities and se- curities have been resumed. 10. The Nation's business has begun to sit up and take notice. Each Federal Reserve district has had its individual cases involving delay in opening, and in a few instances conservators have been named. There have been reorganizations and con- solidations, all incident to the general purpose of re-establishing banking on the “sound” basis demanded by the administration. Detroit remains one of the large cities still having much to be done before its banking facilities can resume unrestricted functions. Michigan was the first State to go into a banking holiday, excepting Nevada, where the interruption of banking was regarded more as a local matter than as a symp- tom of national conditions. _ Recreation Draws More. Such barometers of the public spend- ing as the Broadway theaters, horse racing and other forms of public di- version, were more encouraging today. The banking holiday, arresting the flow of ready money, was particularly harmful to them, and in the case of Broadway theaters there were other complications involving wage disputes which added more vinegar to the al- ready-bitter draught. Horse racing was to be resumed to- day at the New Orleans Fairgrounds. after a 10-day suspension. Theaters in many of the country noted a sharp pick-up in interest at the box office. Sporting events in several cases are attracting large crowds. All are being accepted by business observers as : reflicum of a brightening public sent Officials would make no ,prediction as to when banking would absolutely be restored on an unrestricted basis everywhere, but they were frankly en- couraged at the progress already made. POTATO CROP MENACED BY SHORTAGE OF LABOR Bunnell, Fla., Growers Issue Hurry Call for 500 Men, Needed for Digging. | 5. Clearance of checks on a national | Mrs. Roosevelt Has Very Bumpy Flight Returning to City| \ [ Sets Precedent as Wife of ( President in Making' Plane Trip. By the Associated Press. The first airplane ride ever taken by a President’s wife was a "per!mly! good trip but very bumpy.” Thus reported Mrs. Pranklin D. | Roosevelt morning as she steppe: off the New York. “1 was not disturbed, because I quite accustomed to fying and it oesn’t bother me, but the others were quite miserable,” she observed. ! The others included 4-year-old Naomi Rockwell of Baltimore, accompanied by | | am | her mother, Mrs, Wells Rockwell, wife | Exchange were extending yesterday’s|he obtained of an Army officer. “I sat on her lap,” said Naomi proudly, pointing to Mrs. Roosevelt, | Shooes Away Guard. | COMMODITIES RISE WITh STOGK LIST Substantial Gains in Wheat, Corn, Cotton and Rye Are Recorded. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 16—The big modity exchanges today, adding huge sums to the quoted value of stocks, bonds, wheat, corn, rye, cotton and other “prosperity” mezsuring sticks. While shares on the New York Stock $3, the grain pit at Chicago was wit- nessing a widely bullish opening. Ex- treme advances were restricted by Associated service. (P) Means Associated CONGRESS ENACTS EGONOMY BILL AS AMENDMENTSPASS House Accepts Changes in Measure Made Yesterday by Senate. ROOSEVELT REPORTED TO APPROVE ALTERATIONS ‘Word of Quick Action on Measure Follows Joint Conference of Committees. ‘The House today the eton- omy bill, including minor changes made by Senate amendments, short- ly before 3 pm. This sends the measure to the White House for the President’s signature. By the Associated Press. Word spread on Capitol Hill today that the changes made by the Senate in the economy bill were acceptable to President Roosevelt and plans were laid for immediate agreement by the House to the amendments. Emerging from a joint conference of the Senate and House committees that had handled the legislation, Chairman McDuffie of Alabama and Harrison of Mississippi sald there was nothing in the amendments to affect the main purpose of the measure—the extension to the President of power to cut vet- erans’ allowance and Federal pay an estimated half-billion dollars. . The President was represented at the conference by Budget Director Douglas. ‘The expectation was that the me: sure would be given final House a proval shortly after noon and that the President probably would sign it before nightfall. House Vote Delayed. Immediate action on the amendments d | forward .push in security markets | was delayed in the House, however, by’ lane that brought her from |spread to the country's leading com- |objections of Representative Shannon (Democrat) of Missouri to consideration at the outset of the session. The spe- cial economy committee was instructed to consider the amendments. After Chairman McDuffle of this com- mittee announced that the amendments met the approval of the White House, unanimous consent for a | sensational gains by $1 to more than |vote on all amendments at one time, and the House recessed until 1:30 p.m. Ltg! given the committee time to consider m. When the House reconvened, how- NEW YORK. March 16 (#)—Mrs. | special regulation, but wheat jumped |ever. an hour was set aside for debate Franklin D. Roosevelt, back in New York (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | DR. LUTHER QUITS REICHSBANK POST Likely to Be Succeeded byi Schacht, Versatile Finan- cial Authority. | | | BERLIN. March 16 () —Hjalmar Schacht, who was president of the German™ Reichsbank from 1928 to 1930, was reappointed to that post today, succeeding-Hans Luther, who resigned this morning. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 16.—Dr. Hans Lu- ther today resigned as president of the Reichsbank. ‘There have been reports for several | days that Dr. Luther would resign u[ president of the Reichsbank. On one | occasion he said he had no knowledge of the reports. Chancellor Adolf Hitler has held sev- eral conferences recently with the Reichsbank head. Dr. Schacht is one of the most versa- tile figures of post-war Germany. He got most of the credit for straightening out the country's finances when the pe- riod of inflation ended and the era of stabilization began. Assisted by foreign banks, he estal lished a new gold bank and reorgan- ized the currency system. In 1929 he threw his weight with Owen D. Young in drafting a plan at Paris designed to establish a definite reparations total, but he withdrew in 1930, dissatisfied | with the final draft of the Young plan | as agreed upon at The Hague. He has lectured in the United States and has written several books on finan- | cial subjects. Last week, on one of several occa- sions when Dr. Schacht denied any knowledge of an arrangement to return him to the Reichsbank, he took the opportunity of asserting that there will be no inflation in Germany. Repara- tions are dead, he said, but private debts must be paid to the last penny. BANKS OF PHILADELPHIA * REDEEM SCRIP IN CASH Situation Rapidly Returning to Normal as Daily Bank Clear- ings Incre: By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March' 16.—Phila- delphia’s bank situation progressed rapidly toward normalcy today. ‘The Philadelphia Clearing House Association’s issue of scrip, less than & week old, was being redeemed in cash and officials said very little of it would be left in circulation in a few days. Only $8,000,000 worth of the $51,- 000,000 issue was distributed and but a small portion of that reached the public. Banking clearings here yesterda; totalled $37,000,000 compared with $32,- 000,000 on Tuesday and $19,000,000 the day before. Hoarded gold continued to pour back into the Federal Bank,® the total $6,380,000. Serum Saves Two Lives. | Brokerage filled with tape watchers and many re- | g the limit of 5 cents a bushel and corn, up 3 cents, gained all that was allow- able. Ticker Trails Behind Market. New York cotton prices soared $3.50 to nearly $5 a bale, later meeting some profit-taking sales which reduced this range. Trading in stocks here was so tumultuous that quotation-reporting facilities were swamped and the ticker fell as much s eight minutes behind actual transactions on the floor. The market boiled up at the opening, sub- sided a bit under realizing and then returned close to the higher levels. United States Government bonds were again sharply higher, some of the treasuries showing net gains of a point or two well before noon. Domestic | corporation loans felt the push of op- timism; many issues rose in the neigh- borhood of $10 per $1,000 obligations. Excitement in Wall Street ran high. house customers’ rooms were ported a large volume of evernight buy- 1.1;1( orders, especially for “odd lots” of shares. Early activity in stocks well exceeded Wednesday's turnover and the first half hour saw strings of transfers in- volving single blocks of 1,000 to 5,000 shares. There was obviously much more stock for sale than yesterday, when scores of favorites jumped $2 to $16, but offerings were quickly snapped up. Profit-taking in the ‘“beer” issues made for some unsettlement in that group, and speculative interest tended to shift to old line industrials. United States Steel climbed abcut $1.50 to $33.50, Westinghouse rose $1.62 to $28.62, General Electric $1 to nearly $16, American Tobacco “B” $2.25 to $64. J. I Case, stimulated by grain prices, jumped $3 to. $50.50. Other Grains. American Telephone rallied approx- imately $2 to around $106, while Na- tional Biscuit, at $41, was up $1.25. Several rails also strengthened. New York Central's gain was $1 to a price of $20.87, Delaware & Hudson's $2 to $52 and Santa Fe’s 75 cents to $46.75. Union Pacific sold slightly lower, while Norfclk & Western, which closed $16 higher yesterday, $125.87 on a single sale of 100 shares. Heavy deposits of money in the New York City banks this week are being reflected in the return of currency to the local Federal Reserve which reported that the net inflow yesterday approximated $55,000,000, bringing the total for the first three days of this week to about $152,000,000. Gold con- es to be received at the Federal bank in substantial sums; yesterday's returns amounting to $24,000,000. Just before noon it was announced that a New York Stock Exchange mem- bership had sold at $105,000, up $5,000 from the price paid for two “seats” yesterday. The following table shows 1 p.m. prices of several prominent stocks, to- ! gether with the net change from yes- terday’s close. 1p.m.price. Net change. American Cap .... $61 Up $0.50 General E General Motors . Intl Harvester National uit . New York Central.. Norfolk & Western. 1. 62 38888% i MR I s. § 858 nited States Steel 32. Westinghouse Elec. 28.50 Head of Seed Firm ROCKFORD, I, March 16 (#).— M. Raymond Shumway, 49, head of the Shumway Seed ., one of the country’s oldest seed firms, died today. = > on McDuffie’s motion to approve the amendments en bloc. McDuffie explained there were 41 amendments to the bill, the “vast ma- Jjority involving clarifying language.” Some of the amendments, he said, were vital. “Protective” Proposals. After the joint conference today, Mc- Duffie said all amendments added by the Senate were “protective” as far as the veterans and Government employes were concerned. Harrison echoed McDuffie's senti- ments. Among the various features of the economy bill is repeal of the existing furlough plan, under which Govern- ment _employes are now working under an 813 per cent pay cut. The new measure substitutes a maximum reduc- tion_of 15 per cent, based upon lower living costs. The emergency measure has no ef- fect on filling vacancies, making pro- motions and other routine administra- tive regulations that were provided in the economy bills of the past two years. As passed, 62 to 13, by the Senate last night, the measure included a host of amendments. although only a few were considered of major import. It was estimated that these took $10,000,- 000 from the total annual savings, but the bill still would give the President authority to reduce veterans' expendi- tures and Federal salaries upward of $500,000,000. Up to the President. Representative Byrns of Tennessee, Democratic leader, said even before the bill was returned to the House from the Senate that his branch was ready to do what the President asked. “If the President says the amend- ments are all right,” Byrns had said, “we can dispose of the bill in half an hour. If he says no we are ready to back him up to the limit.” All predicted, though, that the tre- mendous support which had pushed the measure 50 far through Congress would send it to the White House before night. That support saw only four Demo- cratic Senators—Clark of Missouri, Long of Louisiana, McCarran of Nevada and McGill of Kansas—voting agai the bill as it passed the Senate. One other of that party, Overton of Louisi- ana, was paired against it. And 43 Democrats voted for it. As sent back to the House the bill dropped $4.12 to | woul d: Let the President have unusual au- thority to cut pensions and compensa- tions to all veterans, save those of the Civil War. Reduce Civil War veterans benefits 10 per cent for a year. Permit the President to cut the pay of clvil and military Federal employes to establish the-same ratio between in- come and living costs that obtained in the first six months of 1928, provided no reduction exceeded 15 per cent. Cut salaries of House members and The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 125,090 TWO CENTS. BEER VOTE SOUGHT IN SENATE TODAY; EADERS HOPEFUL 3.2 Per Cent Bill, Including Wine Clauses, Up for Speedy Action. Press. “LIGHT BEER BEFORE DARK” IS -NEW SLOGAN Harrison Will Endeavor to Keep Members in Session Until Measure Is Given Approval. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Adopting the House slogan “Light Beer Before Dark,” Senate leaders today pressed for passage of the beer and wine bill before adjournment. Senator Harrison, Mississippi, brought the bill up for consideration as soon as the Senate met at noon. On the floor he expressed thé hope that the bill could be passed today. Privately he said he would endeavor to hold the Senate in session untl the bill was passed if it appeared that it could be done within reasonable time. Without & record vote and practically without debate the Senate adopted the first committee amendment to the Houme bill, authorizing the manufacture and sale of wine containing 3.2 per cent of alcohol by weight. Answers Questiona. Senator Harrison explained briefty the provisions of the beer bill and in reply to questions said that there was no provision in the bill against ad- vertising the beer and wine authorized in the bill. He said that it was esti- mated the Government would receive from $125,000,000 to $150,000,000 reve- nue. ‘ Senator Tydings of Maryland, author of a bill to regulate the manufacture and sale of beer in the District of Columbia, gave up his plan to offer the District bill as an amendment to the beer and wine bill. “The Senator from Mississippi, Mr. Harrison, has asked me not to press my bill for the regulaticn of the manu- facture and sale of beer in the District of Columbia,” said Tydings. “I am re- luctant to do this unless we can have an agreement to pass such a bill before we adjourn.” “The Senator from Maryland has a good DbilL” replied Senator Harrison. “I would be glad to see it pass. But if it were offered as an amendment to this bill it would undoubtedly provoke long discussion. So far as I am concerned I“cnln nyu!)o thed?':nl}t’m' that I will }%: all T can to expes the passage of ti bill for the District of Columbia after we have disposed of the general bill. I myself have an amendment which I should like to add to this beer bill—an amendment to extend the Federal gaso- line tax of 1 cent a gallon for-another year, but I am going to withhold it in the hope that we can pass the beer bill.” Tydings Agrees to Wait. “In view of what the Senator from Mississippi says and in view of similar assurances of the Democratic leader of the Senate,” said Senator Tydings, “I will not press my amendment for the manufacture and sale of beer in the District of Columbia at this time.” Senator Harrison said that under the text of the beer bill each brewer would pay tax of $1,000 for every brewery operated. He estimated that $1,000,000 would come into the Treasury from that tax. He said there would be imposed on wholesale dealers a tax of $50 and on retail dealers a tax of $20 for the sale of beer and $25 for the sale of wine. Senator Vandenburg of Michigan asked Senator Harrison whether under the terms of the bill l;;r;e brewers of beer would be penal- Mr. Harrison replied that there was (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) . EXECUTION OF SOVIET EXILE IS REPORTED Trotzky Hears Rakovsky, Former Ambassador to Paris, Wis Put to Death in Moscow. By the Assoclated Press. ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 16.—In- formation frcm several sources has been received by Leon Trotsky, living in exile on Prinkipo Island, that Christian Rakovsky, former Soviet Ambassador to Paris and former president of the Ukraine Republic, has been returned to Moscow from exile and put to death. M. Trotsky said he had recently re- ceived a photograph of Rakovsky and his wife, that both apparently were in good health and that he was anxiously awaiting advices concerning the fate of & friend of 30 years. Rakovsky was arrested in 1929 by Soviet secret police and deported to Bll:"-mm, Siberia, reperts reaching Berlin s M. Rakovsky was recalled from Paris in October, 1927, and upon his return to Moscow attacked the Soviet adminis- tration. As a consequence he was sent (Continued on Page 8, Column 2.) into exile. . Salute of 1 By the Associated Press. MANILA, Philippine Islands, March 16.—Several thousand Filipinos shouted “Mahuhay!” traditional word for hail and farewell, as Gov. Gen. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., sailed from Manila today on the Coast Guard cut- ter Arayat, ending Roosevelt’s term as ive, expected now United States Attorney cutter will carry the Roosevelts Radio Programs on Page C-3 T ey il TEDDY ROOSEVELT IS GIVEN BIG SEND-OFF BY FILIPINOS Escorted Out of Manila l;y Five Destrqyers as Guns Boom Farewell. take a commercial route for Bali, Jave, before proceeding to the United States via Europe. Five destroyers escorted the cutter out of Manila Bay as 17 guns boomed a salute of farewell. At a banquet tendered Roosevelt last night by the Council of State, Manuel Quezon, president of the insular Senate and dominant political figure, praised drastic economies instituted by the re- tiring executive to balance the budget and said he had “endeared himself to the Pilipino people.” The only open criticlsm of Roose- velt'’s administration was voiced by the alnaerm-q'in,neg Dnrfly Bul!eun,l "hlch “He o ys for popular faver,” this was invited by frequent cl of adminisiration because of American politics. 3