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NEWD.C.BILAY REVVE SURPLLS Additional Pay Cut for Mu- nicipal Workers to Give $1,800,000 “Saving.” (Continued From First Page.) year ago, according to District officials, the city had approximately 13,000 annual and per diem employes, Tepresenting a total pay roll of about $24,500,000. There- fore, when the same steps required to balance the national budget are applied to the District bill, particularly the pay cut, it takes several millions of local tax revenue that would ordinarily go fcr salaries and makes it available for other purposes. The Federal Govern- ment has benefited from the retrench- ment policy because it reduced its share in the upkeep of the District this year by $1,725,000 when Congress cut the Ipmp sum from $9,500,000 in 1932 to 7,775,000 for 1933. But the local tax- payers—and many of them are em- ployes who suffered the pay cut—have ot had their tax burden reduced. Of ccurse, whether there will be a surplus next year, and if so, how large, is largely a matter of speculation at the moment, since it is not yet known what the Budget Bureau will recommend in resubmitting the District estimates nor what changes the House and Senate may make before they pass the measure. Budget Bureau Policy. On the important factor of the Fed- eral share, for example, there is no definite information as to what figure will be proposed. It has been the un- broken policy of the Budget Bureau in the past, however, to avoid recommend- ing any changes trom year to year in the Federal contribution since Congress, in 1924, departed from the substantive law establishing a 60-40 ratio of appor- tioning National Capital upkeep, the District paying the larger percentage. The bureau, while determining the detailed recommendations of expendi- ture for every branch of the municipal service, has consistently refrained from initiating any change in the fiscal re- lationship between Uncle Sam and the local community, as represented in the Federal lump sum. The bureau has maintained this policy for nine years by the simple expedient of merely writing Into each District budget whatever amount Congress had fixed as the Fed- eral contribution in the preceding year. ‘Thus, during a period of years when Congress kept the lump sum at $9,000,- 000, even though the total of the annual expenses was mounting steadily, the Budget Bureau each December based the new District budget on a continua- tion of the $9,000,000 figure. When the Senate a few years ago got the House to recognize to a smail degree the in- adequacy of that contribution by raising it to $9,500,000, the Budget Bureau again adhered to the last word from Capitol Hill by submitting the next budget on that basis. And when, in response to the general demand for curtailment of Federal expenses to bal- ance the national budget, Congress last year slashed the $9,500,000 Federal share of District maintenance down to $7,775,000 for the current year, the Budget Bureau stuck to its precedent. In December last it sent the 1934 local budget to the Capitol based on the Federal contribution as determined by the previous session. There is probably nothing to pre-| vent the bureau from sending forward & new burget for next year at this time, based on some new calculation of its own as to what the Federal share should be, but if it should do so it would be shattering its own precedent and ven- turing into a field which it has hitherto preferred to leave to the Congress. Not Definitely Known. It is also not definitely known at this time what total the Budget Bureau will recommend to be carried in the resurrected District bill. The District Commissioners are understood to be of the opinion that the most practical way to proceed in the present situation ‘would be to take the detailed items for each department as they were agreed to by Senate and House conferees on the night of March 3, leaving only the Federal contribution to be settled before passage of the bill. The con- ferees in the old Congress not only had agreed on the details of the bill, but they also had agreed on a compromise Federal contribution of $7,600,000 for next year, but Representaive Blanton, Democrat of Texas, one of the House conferees, led a fight against the re- Bort which prevented its ratification y the House and caused the bill to die on March 4. If the bill is revived in the same form in which it emerged from con- ference in the last session its total ‘would be $36,291,647. This represented a compromise between the two branches, both as to total and Federal share. Here, briefly, is what happened to the District budget before it went on the rocks and expired in the closing hours of the old Congress: The Commissioners last Fall estimated the 1934 needs of the city to be $41,922,730, and, in the light of the new economies, which will result from the Tecently enacted additional pay cut, this sum could be appropriated now on the basis of anticipated revenues, if the Federal contribution is continued at approximately the present figure of $7.775,000. - In transmitting the estimates to Con- gress in December the Budget Bureau pruned the Commissioners’ total to $36.795,770, based on a continuation of the present Federal contribution of $7,775,000. ‘When the House passed the bill it cut the Federal contribution to $6,500,000 and, by leaving out many essential items throughout the bill, brought the total down to $34,963,565. No Senate Repeal. ‘The Senate, which has never voted to repeal the substantive law of 1922 that established the 60-40 ratio of fiscal relationship between the District and the United States, and which has tried in the intervening years to provide a more adequate Federal contribution since the House inaugurated the lump sum practice, stood by the unrepresent- ed District taxpayers as far as possible this year. It restored items eliminated by the House, raising the total to $36,863,674, and voted to make the Fed- eral contribution next year $9,500,000. In conference the compromise figures SPECIAL NOTI A TRUCK FOR HIRE, LOCAL AND LONG-DIS- tance hauling at m!;xd;){,llle rates. lfllflqzl'or- ida ave. n.w. Nort 28% I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted for by any other than my- self. JAMES M. DAVIS, 14 Princeton aye., Gien Echo. Md. N 1 NEED AN ELECTRICIAN, 1 always call the Electric S8hop on eels, Inc._They are prompt and reliable. 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N.W, COMPANY North 4423 | NY | much more complicated due to the fi Jobless Camp Established in Seattl SHACKS PREDOMINATE IN UNEMPLOYMENT S HACKS of unemployed are shown dotting the Seattle, Wash., water front site once occupied by shipyards, formerly .one of the buslest industrial spots on the Pacific Coast and where hundreds of vessels were built during the World War. well-constructed small houses. ‘The village has all forms and shapes of architecture, from hovels, mostly underground, to . P. Photo. referred to above were arrived at. Here is how the general fund account of the District would be affected, as District officials see it, if Congress appropriates for mext year only the amount con- templated by the conference agreement on the old bill, in the light of new economies expected to result from the additional pay cut: The conferees’ total on expenditures chargeable to the general fund (which took into consideration the old pay cut of 8Y; per cent), would be $32,361,247. To this would be added certain other requirements, estimates as follows: Half of the item for Freedmen's Hos- pital in the Interior bill, $138,015; for refunding erroneous taxes, $40,000; awards for extension of streets, $250, 000; transfer of funds to the police | men’s and firemen's relief fund, $710,- 000, and estimated deficiencies and supplemental needs later in the year, $300,000. These give a total of $33,- 799,262 chargeable to the general reve- nue fund. (The general fund ex- cludes gasoline tax street work, which is paid for directly by motorists, and Water Department upkeep and develop- ment, which is paid for direct by water users.) Collections Estimated. To meet these general revenue charges, local officials estimate the fol- lowing general revenue collections next year: Real estate tax, $20,400,000; tan- gible personal tax, $1,100,000; motor vehicle personal tax, $490,000; intangi- ble personal tax, $1,525,000; tax on public utilities, banks, etc., $2,150,000, and miscellaneous, $4,100,000. These | general revenues would aggregate $29,- 765,000. If it be assumed that Con- gress will not cut the Federal contri- bution lower than the current figure of $7,775,000, this sum added to the anticipated local revenues would total $37,540,000. Deducting the total general fund charges of $33,799,262 from this revenue total leaves $3,740,738. But in this cal- culation allowance has not yet been made for the further saving of $1,800,000 on salaries that will result if the Presi- dent raises the pay cut to 15 per cent under the new law. Adding this, would leave a balance of $5,540,738. At this point it is important to go back and recall how the estimated needs of the District were cut down, however, from the time they left the District Building last Fall until the old bill emerged from conference. The Com- missioners found in their original esti- mates that the city needed $41,922,730 for the fiscal year beginning July 1 of this year. When the conferees got through adjusting the differences be- tween the House and Senate a few weeks ago, the total had been reduced to $36,291,647. It will be seen that the amount cut from the original estimates was $5,631,083, or almost exactly the amount of the unexpended balance that appears likely to exist at the end of next year if the new bill contains no moze than the one which died in con- ference. And of that balance, nearly all, or $4,000,000, will come from the employes’ pay cut, assuming it is made 15 per cent. The foregoing calculation assumed continuation of the present lump sum. The conferees, in their compromise, had taken §175,000 off the present contri- bution, and even if the new Congress followed that course it would still be possible to allow nearly all of the neces- sary items which went to make up the original estimates of the Commissioners. More Work Possible. The condition of the gasoline tax fund and of the Water Department fund are such that Congress also could authorize more work under both of these headings than was carried in the conferees’ agreement. these cases the projects added would create jobs for some of the city’s un- employed. The estimated cash in the gas tax fund for 1934 is placed by local officials at $3,043,041, while the street and high- way work carried in the conferees’ agreement on the old bill was only $2,277,850. The estimated cash available in the water fund for 1934 is $2,689,000, while the appropriations contemplated in the bill that failed amounted to $1,652,550. VIEWS ESTIMATES. Budget Director Douglas Considers New Appropriations. ‘The budget estimates for District ap- propriations for the fiscal year begin- ning July 1 next were ‘considered today by Budget Director Douglas at both a morning and afternoon session. They were not sent to the Capitol today as had been expected by Chairman Bu- chanan of the House Appropriations Committee. but will probably be trans- mitted to Congress tomorrow from the Budget Bureau. Although he has been working stren- uously and in many night conferences at the White House on budget and re- organization problems, Mr. Douglas has found time to supervise the preparation |of the District estimates because he realized the necessity for early action by Congress on this leftover appro- priation bill. ‘The preparation of the new estimates for the independent offices appropria- tion bill, which was given a pocket veto at the close of the last C is that there will be radical changes in the various its of Government for which appropriations have been carried in this measure. It 4s anticipated that several of these units will be wiped out of existence while others are co- ordinated in the reorganization pro- gram. : Co-ed Uses Rats in Test. BOULDER, Colo. (#).—The fear most women have of rats or “mice is not shared by Ruth Sumner, 26, University of Colorado co-ed, who is using 100 live rats in a gland research test. Sumner, who is seeling & Ph. D. degree in zoology, through tests with the rats hopes to obtain information of benefit to science in determining the growth of human glands and effect of glandular action on human conduct, And in both of | 1 | By the Associated Press. | ERE is the text of the Robinson- | ‘Wagner bill introduced yester- day in the Senate to carry out President Roosevelt's recom- mendation for a “Civilian Con- servation Corps”: > “A bill for the relief of unemploy- ment through the performance of use- ful public work, and for other purposes. “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United | States of America, in Congress as- sembled, that the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, au- thorized to select from the unemployed citizens of the United States, as nearly as possible in proportion to the unem- ployment existing in the several States, a Civilian Conservation Corps, who shall be enrolled for a term of one year, un- less sooner discharged; no discharges to be permitted except under such rules and regulations as the President may direct. Arrangements of Pay. “Each member of the Civilian Con- servation Corps shall be paid at a rate to be fixed by the President, not to ex- ceed $30 per month, and provided with quarters, subsistence, clothing, medical attendance agd hospitalization; pro- vided that whenever a member of the said corps has a wife or other depend- ent or dependents, an involuntary al- lotment from his pay shall be made and paid to or for such dependent or de- pendents in such amount and under such rules and regulations as the Presi- dent may prescribe. “Each member shall, at the time of enrollment, agree to abide by the pro- visions of this act and by all rules and regulations issued by the President of the United States hereunder, which shall not include any obligation to bear arms. “Section 2. The provisions of Chap- ter 15, Title 5, United States Code, are hereby extended %o members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, in so far as they may be applicable. (The foregoing Section 2 of the bill, referring to Chapter 15, Title 5, of the United States Code, provides that in so far as applicable, members of the Con- servation Corps shall receive customary provision of the United States laws cov- ers disability compensation, medical and surgical care and hospitalization of Federal employes who are injured at work. It also provides for payments to dependents.) benefits if injured while at work. This |dnd Unemployment Aid Bill Civilian Conservation Corps Provided by Robinson- Wagner Measure to Be Enrolled for a Term Not Exceeding Year. ‘Section 3. That no right or claim to pension or compensation other than that expressly provided for herein shall arise or accrue under this act or out of enrollment or service in the Civillan Conservation Corps. “Section 4. That the President is hereby authorized to utilize the Civilian Conservation Corps and any existing departments or agencies of the Govern- ment in the execution of this act in the maintenance, construction or carrying on of works of & public nature, for which sufficient funds are not available, such as forestation on national and State lands, prevention of soil erosion, flood nance or repair of roads and trails on the public domain, the national parks, national forests, and other Government reservations. Provided, that the for going enumeration shall not be con- strued as a limitation of the kind of projects which may be undertaken hereunder: = Provided, further, ~that such projects \shall be self-liquidating in so far as practicable. “Section 5. That whenever in the administration of this act it becomes necessary to secure the services of skilled artisans or other expert em- ployes not available in the Civillan Con- servation Corps, the President may au- thorize their employment at the pre- vailing wage of the locality. » “Section 6. That to carry out the provisions of this act there is hereby authorized to be expended under the di- rection of the President, out of such unobligated moneys in the Treasury, heretofore appropriated for public Acquisition of Property. . “Section 7. That in the execution of this act the President, or the head of any department authorized by him to construct any project or to carry on any work, shall have the right to ac- ane real property by purchase, con- lemnation, or otherwise: Provided, that the provisions of Section 355, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to lands a quired pursuant to this section. “Section 8. That the President is hereby authorized to prescribe necessary proper rules and regulations; to enter into contracts or arrangements with States, counties, municipalities, and other public bodies; and to do any and all things necessary to carry out mtd accomplish the purpose of this act.” HEARINGS CALLED ON JOBLESS PLAN BY HOUSE GROUP (Continued Prom First Page.) use enlistment stations of the War De- partment in selecting the “conservation corps;” but he does not regard the pro- posed corps as militaristic or under military control. Camps will be established and nor- mal order and discipline, of course, will day pay and the additional Government expendi- tures for food, housing and medical care, the President feels that this wage will come very near the level in many communities. Inasmuch as 250,000 out of about 12,000,000 unemployed would be in- volved in the m, it is not re- garded by the President in any sense as competitive. Green Against Plan. In a statement last night Green at- tacked the plan to enlist the “Civilian Conservation Corps” for work in the forests. changed to pay standard rates of pay, with the element of “forced labor and military service” eliminated. The Forest Service already has shaped plans for pushing the work as soon as congressional approval is received. Funds to start the program are to be obtained from unexpended Government balances, “Labor earnestly recommends,” Green sald, “that a plan of employment of idle workers in reforestation and recla- mation and other items covered by the bill be formulated providing for the pay- ment of standard rates of pay under voluntary conditions of employment and that the elements of ‘forced labor’ and military service be completely eliminated and stricken from the plan of employ- ment to be followed.” . Fears Military Aspect. Saying that “the regimentation-of 1a-' bor through enlistment in the Civilian Conservation Corps, under military dis- cipline and military control will, in my judgment, awake; = itary control and military domina- tion, wl:'l: its ugrhmenuon plans, t-rlll-m gresses in & ve d u] free exercise o?kbor md.ml.en fiu‘ is repugnant to those who are endeavoring to bring about the restora- tion of normal economic and industrial conditions. “In addition, labor will be because it will fear that ition of & form of .compulsory tly He osked that the bill be|5% JOB CAMP SITES BEING SELECTED Forest Service Making Ready to Carry Out Part in Employ- ment Plan. By the Assoclated Press. Prospective sites for thousands of camps where President Roosevelt's plans to have unemployed put to work in im- proving forests are being selected by the United States Forest Service, which is ready to carry out its part of the gigan- tic employment plan on short notice. R. Y. Stuart, forester, said yesterday the service has an assortment of data aimed to put the plan into effect ‘quickly. No sites have been named defi- nitely, however. Camps consisting of a maximum of 100 men’ each are planned. Larger camps would be impracticable in most cases, because of the distance men would bewmuked to travel to work, Stuart ‘Types of work outlined include im- proving forest fire tion through construction of lookout towers, tele- phone lines, roads and trails; water de- velopment, building of range fences and disease control, particularly white pine blister rust, which is combated by de- stroying the host plants, gooseberry and ‘currant bushes. ‘This type of protective activity is most needed along the West coast and in New England. ‘The national forest area west of the procimarcls” 150000000 ‘actes: while. 1 ,000,000 acres, w) the East the area 8,000,000 acres. - _— POLAND TO SHUT OUT MANY U. S. PRODUCTS Leather, Motor Trucks, Spare Auto Parts, Tires, Typewriters and Rubber Goods Affected. im- | parts, Miss | and establ “first lover the Rives Tees in England. prevention, and construction, mainte- | to feel the demand of the Secretary SWEEPING CHANGES: Miss Perkins Starts in Real Program of House- cleaning. ‘The Labor Department tod: for a genuine housecleaning by the gtmufimoflurumwhfld ice. . PFirm of voice and with a sweeping gesture of her arm, Miss Frances Pe: kins of New York, President Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, informed newspaper men y afternoon that the pres- ent set-up of the department was not n! m = reorgal \ No Criticism Volced. Without volcing criticism at retiring officials or at those statisticlans who have carried on for years in the de- partment’s Bureau of Statistics, Miss Perkins asserted that the whole statis- tical and information service of the organization needed complete revision. While labor commissioner of New York State, Miss Perkins was at odds with the Labor Department over its statistical service. In this connection she has held up the February employ- ment figures until they could be revised so that the “man on the street can understand it.” ‘The new Secretary sald she expected |- later to appoint a standard advisory committee on labor statistics. She ex- plained that her method would be to take what appropriations she had and “in the good, old New England style make it go as far as it will” in the statistical reorganization. ‘Taking up the reorganization plans for the United States Emnloyment Serv- ice, she asserted “this organization is not satisfactory to me.” This service underwent & complete reorganization about three years ago when President Hoover vetoed the Wagner unemploy- ment bill providing for a radically dif- r::;nt form of aiding those in search of Jobs. Offices in Farm Centers. ‘The employment service has offices in principal industrial and farm centers, with its principal duties to find work not only for the unemployed generall but for World War veterans. cab- inet official sald she was not prepared to say at this time the extent of her re- organization plans. “T shall try to reorganize it,” she serted, “in,a way that .will make it practically useful immediately.” Miss Perkins promised & complete revision of the immigration service of the department. “I shall centralize and concentrate the immigration ac- tivities,” she explained. “I feel such co-ordination will remove much of the confusion some people have observed in administration of immigration laws.” The latter branch has been the first for changes. She sald she had tossed overboard all the “ballyhoo” which ac- companied the retiring administration’s campaign against alien racketeering. This included the discontinuing of a secret service force of 71 men organized by former Secretary William N. Doak to combat this = alleged form of racketeering. She said she signed an order on March 15 dismissing 55 men scattered | all over this country and in Europe in | connection with this work and fur- | 600,000 damage suit filed in United, loughed 16 others because of the | imminent exhaustion of the $200,000 | appropriation approved eight months ago, under which they operated. | In explaining the furloughing of the 16 men from active duty, she said she wanted to be fair to every worker in the department. She intimated that' this group had recently beep “blanketed in” on civil service rolls as immigration inspectors. Miss Perkins asserted the manner in | which the $200,000 fund was expended was “alrming,” and she explained she was forced to take prompt action be- cause she had discovered that only $12,970 remained of the appropriation on March 15 to cover a monthly salary set-up of $11,168 and $4,000 traveling expenses. Expenses Not Itemised. She sald the expense accounts of these inspectors had not been itemized as yet and that she had before her only meager information. Reading from a prepared on the subject, the Secretary saild that of the total sum, $107,574 had been paid out for salaries, $62,695 was itemized for gen- eral expenses and $8,243 was listed as “confidential” expenses. She disclosed that her executive or- der of March 15 had included the dis- missal of Murray W. Garsson of New York, who volunteered his service to the Government at $1 a year two years ago to aid in ridding the country of alien smugglers and aliens illegal h";hne Garsson was conducting an investigation in Hollywood, Calif., Dak testified before the House Appropria- tions Committee that he had raised the operative’s salary from $1 to $9,000. Garsson said last night he had sub- mitted his resignation to Miss Perkins when she took office and that he had a letter from her dated March 17 ac- cepting it. Others to Be Let Out. Others in this branch of the service to be eliminated by the March 15 ex- ecutive order are: X Ervin F. Brown, identified as a nephew of Mrs. William N. Doak, stationed at Alexandria, Va., $3,000 & year. Abraham Dickstein, identified as s brother of Chairman Dickstein of the House Immigration Committee, sta- tioned at Baltimore, $2,400 a year. elimin: this special force said she funds were dhcuntmuedxnnd ml:tdlii;l?t “gccording] or eac! e the a . "xnupecv. you to redouble your efforts to carny on enforcement,” she said. e CLOSE FIGHT SEEN John R. Thompson Seeks Control of Restaurant-Chain. CHICAGO, March 22 (#).—Indicating a close fight in the battle for control of the John R. Thompson Co., & session of the annual stockholders’ meeting resulted only in adjournment until to- day. ‘There was no comment as to whether John R. Thompson, jr, Was nearing ccess in his proxy campaign to regain mmmnqo(mmmcm founded by his father. “I hope to win and believe that I | Solyell /- LB e TR son ted ‘witn particulariy Faiing. cuses. book covering hundreds of criminsl investi- FUEPv vour wits on {t! It takes but ONE af | Every fact and every story itsélf—and there is only one answer. How g0od & detective are you? The Man in the Wheel Chair. NE of the students told me 6 a humorous incident about old Mr. Harvey the other can manipulate a wheel chair faster than any invalid I ever saw!” Prof. Fordney was talking to ‘The food and wine had been excellent. “Groves, Har- had parked the wheel chaif outside a drug store and purchase. He was delayed some time because of slow he came out Har- vey had disap- peared! man’s doctor had forbidden him the use of tobacco, to dicted in all its forms. Therefore, when Groves spot- ted a tobacconist three doors away he been there. “Yes, he had. He purchased two cigars, a plug of tobacco, a package of speedy flourish. “Groves left the store and stood out- side a moment trying to decide in which conist had not noticed. “There was a group of people gath- ered at the corner to the right. No, ‘Then Groves, after running about a bit, made a discovery which sent him scuttling down the side street after his “I know,” interrupted Charles Esdale, ‘the -wheels left tracks!” “No,” laughed the professor, “there I: professor of eriminology at oblem has been iaken from hi f:lt- clue necesfary to its eolution are in the BY H. A. RIPLEY. day. By the way, that man some of his fellow members at’ the club. vey’s male nurse, gone in to make a service and when “The old gentle- which he was ad- hurried in to inquire if Harwey had cigarettes, and wheeled out with a direction Harvey had gone. The tobac- they hadn’t noticed the old gentleman. charge.” weren't any wneel tracks. Chumsford, | you look unusually intelligent this eve- ning! Have you the answer? And have you? (Solution on Page A-6.) DOHENY IS DEFE NDANT /IN $12,600,000 SUIT Damages Asked in Behalf of Stock- holders of Pan-American Petroleum Co. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 22—A $12.- States District Court today echoed the Albert B. Fall bribery case. The defendant in the suit is E. L. Doheny, multi-millionaire California oil man, who was alleged to have offered a $100,000 bribe to Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, to obtain valuable oil leases in the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve in Kern County, California. ‘The suit charges that Fall and Do- heny “combined, confederated and con- spired to defraud the United States to bring about leases for the private galh of Fall and Doheny.” William C. McDuffie, receiver in equity for the Pan American PetroleQm Co., of which Doheny was former head, filed the suit in behalf of stockholders. The Pan American Co. recently was or- dered to pay the Government $9,277,666 as & result of the alleged Doheny-Fall conspiracy. McDuffie seeks the amount from Do- heny, plus the value of the leases them- selves and the value of oil and petroleum products taken from them. NORMAN DAVIS SILENT ON NEW MISSION ABROAD By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, March 22—Norman H. Davis, special ambassador of the United States on disarmament and world eco- 1ly | nomics, today declined to discuss his new mission abroad as he prepared to sail at midnight on the liner Manhattan for London. “I am merely going to look into the situation over there,” he said over the telephone from his office. Davis is scheduled to confer with leading Brit- ish officials in London before going to Geneva to resume leadership of the American delegation in the coming :e;una of the Disarmament Confer- We Pay C Tires Wocth Retventing LEETH BROS. 1220113th 8L N.W. Metro. 0764 FOR RENT Downtown Location FOR LARGE LUNCH ROOM OR BEER GARDEN Ideally situated in shopping district across the street from 2 department stores. Available immediately. Low rent. Apply Box 287-M, Star office. PPROVAL DELAYED ON ARMS ENBARGD House Committee Hesitates to Grant Powers for Roosevelt. By the Assoclated Press. Fear that the prcpossl to give Presi- dent Roosevelt the right to declare | embargoes againct shipments of muni- | tions to disputing nations would further | embroil the United States in troublous | foreign affairs led the House Foreign Affairs Ccmmittee to delay action today on the resolution until a further study of the situation can be made. Democratic * leaders indicated, how- iever, that they expect the resolution giv- ]m‘ the President such power will be approved by the committee shortly and adopted by the House. Request fof the power of declaring embargoes was made by the President. ‘The administration’s desires and practical questions of how the mnew authority would be used were explained to the committee in executive session yesterday by Joseph R. Green, the State Department’s muniticns expert. He said the resolution would let the Executive declare an embargo against arms shipments to any country pro- vided he could get a similar agreement from the other principal munitions- producing nations. ‘The State Department has not spoken publicly as to whether it would use the new measure in Manchuriz, but Repre- sentative Fish,. Republican, New York, in‘l statement after yesterday's hearing, sal ‘This proposed embargo is not an act | of peace, but an act of war. If applied to Japan, which, in my judgment, is the main purpose of the resolution, it would mean that the United States would be holding the bag for the League of Nations and eventually have to de all the fighting.” Green said the embargo also could be applied in the present Leticla dispute between Colombia and Peru in South America. The resolution would not require that nations be officially at war before an embargo is instituted. 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