Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1933, Page 1

\WEAT HER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow, lowest temperature tonight about 34 degrees; moderate northwest winds. Temperatures: Highest, 55, at 12 noon yesterday: lowest, 38, at 6:45 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 & 13 he Entered as secol post office, Wa: I No. 32473. nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Star. TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933—THIRTY PAGES. Associated service, F¥P UP) Means Associated BUDGET WILL STOP DISTRICT PROJECTS AND INCREASE IDLE, OFFICIALS CLAIM Pay Cut, Deterioration of Public Service and Cur- tailed Personnel Seen as Result of Revision. DECLARE ESTIMATES FULL OF INEQUITIES Bill Carries $32.999,700 Total, $6,239,447 Under Agreement and Nearly $11,000,- 000 Under Sum Appropriated for Current Year. Conference Stunned by the Budget Bu- reau’s severe slashing of the 1934 estimates, District officials today viewed the coming fiscal year as one of retrogression for the Na- tion’s Capital, accompanied by an inevitable deterioration of public services and a large increase in local unemployment. In the wreckage of the carefully planned 1934 budget, the officials saw the elimination of virtually all proposed capital improve- ments, a curtailment in regular personnel as well as a pay cut for the employes retained, and many evidences of fictitious economy. Hearings on the budget will begin to- morrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Chairman Cannon of the House Sub- committee on Appropriations said he was unable to predict how long the hearings would last, but indications are they will be speeded up in view of the desire of Speaker Rainey to keep the House busy. The estimates, revised by the Budget Bureau on the basis of the conference ‘agreement between the House and Sen- ate on the original 1934 appropriation bill, which died in the closing days of <he last Congress, called for regular appropyiations of $30,302,200—a cut of $6,239,247 under the conference agree- ment and nearly $11,000,000 less than!t, refrain from buying. appropriated for the current fiscal year. Permanent and indefinite appropria- o] which occur each year automat- icelly without action of Congress, arc est'mated at $2,697,500, raising the grand total for 1934 to $32,999,700. Inequities Pointed Out. In its present status, it was pointed out today, the budget is full of in- equities, since it would place the municipal government on a compulsory and unnecessary starvation budget while millions of dollars of uncbligated tax revenues pile up to the credit of the District in the Federal Treasury, there to lie idle, drawing no interest. One of the hardest blows to the Dis- trict is the proposed reduction in the Federal lump sum contribution to $5,- 700,000, the smallest suggested in many A contribution of this size would nt a 26.8 per cent cut under the | ,775,000 centribution for the current, fiscal year. It also would be $800,000 less than the $6,500,000 which an un- sympathetic House has recommended for the last two years. The only commendable feature the officials found in the budget was the elimination of the legislative provision which forbld the Commissioners from " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) STRANGLER KILLS - GIRL, 6, WITH CORD Mother Finds Basement of Home in Brooklyn. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 28.—Sudden and violent death which has been the fate of several other children in Brooklyn cellars struck down little Barbara Wiles today as she went to the dark base- ment of her humble home. Barbara, 6 years old, was asked by her mother to go to the cellar to bring up the baby carriage of her little brother. Fifteen minutes later the little girl had not returned and Mrs. Hanna Wiles, the mother, went to the top of the cellar stairs to see what caused the delay. At the foot of the stairs the Laby carriage lay overturned on what at first looked like a filled burlap bag but which, as her eyes grew accus- tomed to the darkness, she said was the body of her daughter. She screamed and ran downstairs, finding the girl unconscious with a hempen cord twist- ed_about her neck. Police emergency squads were rushed to the scene and doctors sought in vain to revive the girl. Detectives took up | the hunt for the killer and Police Com- ; missioner Edward P. Mulrooney Lurried from headquarters to take personal charge of the investigation. A woman neighbor questioned in the early investigation told of seeing an ex- cited man of about 20 dash into the vestibule of her tenement as though to hide about the time of the crime. She said she confronted him to demand the | Teason for his suspicious actions and | with a mumbled excuse he ran down the street. DENIES CANDIDACY Gen. Herrera Declares He Has No | Political Aspirations. HAVANA, March 28 (#).—Ggn. Al- berto Herrera, chief of staff %of the Cuban Army, in a public statement to- day said he had no political aspirations. | Friends of Gen. Alberto Herrera, Cuban Army chief of staff, said last week that he shortly would launch his candidacy for the presidency in the 1934 election. Pool Funds Authorized. Congress today authorized acceptanc> € private funds for construction of a £vimming tank for President Rooseveit at the White House, Child Dying in ! dressed the letters to OF 26.8 PER The Budget Bureau's recommenda- tion for a Federal lump sum contri- bution of $5,700,000 represents a vastly greater blow to the unrepresented tax- payers of Washington than a 26.8 per cent reduction from the preceding year’s appropriation of $7.775.000. For this reduction of 26.8 per cent is made from a figure that was never representative of the Federal Govern- ment’s legal or moral obligations to the Capital; that was based on nothing more tangible than the hectic fever of the closing hours of a Congress whose members were anxious to adjourn and to throw themselves into the approach- ing political campaign of last Summer. | Compromise Recommended. A few days before the lump sum figure of $7.775,000 was agreed upon last June—this sum now representing the maximum from which the Budget Bureau has sliced its 258 per cent—| the Senate Appropriations Committee had recommended a compromise fizure of $8550,000, explaining at the time that “the amount as recommended for the coming fiscal year does not reflect an equitable settlement of the question of fiscal relations between the United States and the District of Columbia in | ABLOW TO D. C. TAXPAYERS {Reduction Would Be From a Figure Already Far Below U. S. Obligations as Fairly Determined. PROPOSED LUMP SUM CUT| CENT DEALS normal times, but is in accord with the general practice of reducing Federal expenditures by 10 per cent.” And this admittedly inadequate sum was reduced in conference to $7,775,000. If the Federal Bureau of the Budget had cut its 25 or 26 per cent from the previously prevailing lump sum figure of $9,500,000 there would have been a semblance of reasonableness in that re- duction if accompanied by a comparable local tax reduction. The President has promised to reduce expenditures 25 per cent on grounds of economy. But the reduction of the lump sum from $9,- 500,000 to $5,700,000 is a 40 per cent reduction—far in excess of any reduc- tion proposed in other Federal ex- penditures. And when the reduction is made from | a figure that was unfairly arrived at | to begin with, the result is merely to; heap injury upon the injury which Washingtonians and the Federal Capi- tal have suffercd through the long- continued inequity of the lump sum system of appropriations. When the Federal Government ap- propriates a hundred dollars, the ap- propriation is in theory based upon " (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) _ BOYCOTT LAUNCHED BY NAZIS AGAINST JEWS I BUSINESS Troops and Police Look on as Gentiles Are Urged to Re- frain From Buying. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 28—Orders from | | headquarters of the National Socialist | party, the organization of Chancellor | Hitler, were to launch an organized | boycott today against Jewish business in | Germany. | First reports that it was under way came from Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia, where Nazis stood in front of every Jewish shop with signs urging Geatiles Uniformed | Nazi storm troops were keeping order. Police took no notice of the situation. The Nazi party's newspaper in Mu- nich said the government should not interfere in the boycott, but use it as a | weapon to halt projected anti-German | campaigns abroad. The Telegraphen- | Union, News Agency said the govern- ment would “tolerate” the boycott as long as foreign governments took no steps to stop spread of “atrocity propa- ganda.” Hospital Workers Dismissed. The government, through the newly- | created Ministry of Propaganda under | Hitler's chief publicist, Joseph Goebels, | has launched an “anti-lie” campaign to counteract reports in foreign countries | that Jews were being harmed or even | killed. Close upon an announcement by the Nazi party that the number of Jews in all professions would be reduced, 20 | Jewish men and women were dismissed | last night from positions in Berlin hos- pitals. “Special committees will be appoint- ed against Jewish businesses in Ger- many to answer the boycott pleas of (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) ROUND HOUSE BURNS Louis-San Francisco Railroad | Loss Placed at $300,000. OKLAHOMA CITY, March 28. (#).— Fire destroyed the St. Louis-San Fran- cisco Railroad roundhouse with an es- timated loss of $300,000 here today. R. L. Bare, 29, was burned by flam- ing gasoline. He said he was cleaning a trap under a 2530-gallon gasoline tank on 2 motor car when an electric St. light bulb broke and caused an ex- plosion, The motor car and 13 locomotives were in the roundhouse. B. V. Swain, yard foreman. who estimated the dam- age, said a few of the locomotives might be reconditioned without great expense. Four Gunboats Planned. HAVANA, March 28 (#).—The news- paper El Mundo said today that the navy department is drafting plans for | four 400-ton gunboats to be built in Spain. I | Mussolini, held in Rome during the MUSSOLINI IS HELD: PLANNING NEW MAP IN CENTRAL EUROPE Declared to Have Aimed at| “Anschluss” in Parley With MacDonald. BY NEGLEY By Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, March 28 —From a usually reliable source this corre- | spondent is able to reveal today the| details of the recent conversations be- | tween British Prime Minister Ramsay | MacDonald and Italian Premier Benito FARSON. week end of March 18 and 19, in the ! presence of British Foreign Minister Sir | John Simen and high Fascist officials. | Mussolinl then proposed to Mac- Donald the following: | 1. A German corridor through the | Polish corridor, from Konitz to Marien- werdT. 2. The return to Hungary of most of its former Transylvanian territory, em- bracing Temesvar, Grosswardein and | Klausenburg. This at the expense of | Rumania. | 3 Give Hungary, from Yugoslavia | and Rumania, most of its former Banat | region, giving Hungary both sides of the | Danube, as in the old territory, from | the frontier of Austria to within a few ! miles north of Belgrade. 4. Give Austria the “Krain,” former Austrian mountain, giving Austria an outlet to the sea in the free port of Fiume. (Italy thus offers Austria sub-| stan‘ial appeasement h the hopes " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) YUGOSLAVIA LIFTS BAN ON AMERICAN MOVIES Film Quota Law Repealed by Par- liament Effective Next Month. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March 28.— American motion picture films, which have not been shown in this country for approximately a year, will return Apri] 1 as the result of the repeal to- day by the Yugoslav Parliament of the film quota law. The repeal measurc was attached as a rider to the budget bill, which was approved by a vote of 41 to 6. The film quota law provided that domestic-produced films must be put into distribution in a fixed proportion to all imported films. The regulation made it practically impossible to im- port films at a profit and American companies withdrew. ST Belgians Greet Einstein. ANTWERP, Belgium, March 28 (P). —Prof. Albert Einstein, returning from the United States, was greeted today by a delegation of Belgian savants. It was said that he intends to settle in this country and that he may b2 offered a chair at'the University of Brussels. By the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, March 28.—A crude | attempt to extort from Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh $25,000 was thwarted today with the arrest of a 15-year-old Hudson high school boy whom Post Office In- spector Ernest D. Claggett described as “apparently a pretty bright kid.” The boy, Claggett said, readily ad- mitted mailing two letters to the famous aviator’s wife, but said, “I don't know what I would have done with the money if I had got it. My father will kill me, though, when he hears of this.” Detectives who captured him late last night near the spot where the money was to have been sent said the boy probably would be turned over to Jjuvenile authorities. They withheld his name. He didn't know the Lindberghs’ ad- dress “for sure,” the boy said, so he ad- “Mrs. Charles Lindberg, Delaware and New York,” believing that if they lived in either State the missives would reach them. One of the letters was mailed Febru- ary 27. It was snatched by post office inspectors here. The second, dated March 14, was intercepted by Washing- ton %mlll authorities. Neither was seen by Mrs. Lindbergh. 3 i{HIGH SCHOOL BOY, 15, ARRESTED IN LINDBERGH EXTORTION PLOT Youth’s Crude Attempt Fails When Postal Authorities Intercept Two Letters. “We are watching you,” the brief second message said. “Your lives are in danger. There are 30 in our gang. Send the money by parcel post to ‘Dad,’ care of Bluebird Inn, Route 8, Hudson.” Claggett said “Dad” was a 73-year- old recluse friend of the boy. He dis- claimed any knowledge of the plot and, the inspector said, the boy did not im- plicate him. Faces Indictment. MIAMI, Fla, March 28 (P).—As- sistant United States District Attorney Emory Akerman today said a grand Jjury which will assemble here April 10, will consider the case of Gilford Clo- bridge, 38, charged with writing a let- ter ~demanding $50,000 from E Charles A. Lindbergh and mailing & pmgl?{ullquox to Federal Judge 1. Clobridge, recently the subject of a hearing at which physicians declared him to be sane, was arrested March 23. Clobridge, who lost a leg in the war! service, said he sent the letter to Col. Lindbergh and the liquor to Judge Rit- ter because he wanted revenge against his estranged wife, Sophie, of Miami, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Lilly Berfield Edwards of West Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. Their return addresses appesred on the jetter and pacl !incorporate this giant relief proposal in ROOSEVELT PLANS 10 GIVE MORTGAGE BONDS 1.5, BACKING President’s Advisers Hasten Bill to Refinance Farm Obligations. GUARANTEE OF INTEREST WOULD BE UNDERTAKEN But Paper Would Not Become Di- Yect Obligation of Government Under Proposal. By the Associated Press President Roosevelt's farm mortgage relief pregram will propose that the Government guarantec interest pay- ments on bonds issued for the refinanc- ing of farm obligations. This was learned today as his ad- visers hastened preparation of the measure which the Chief Executive hopes to lay before Congress this week. In tentative form, the bill proposes extensive mortgage refinancing during the next two years with funds to be raised for the purpose by the sale of boncs as well as the exchange of bonds for mortgages now privately held. The bonds would not be a direct ob- ligation of the Government nor will the payment of their principal be guaran- eed, as several farm organizations have recommended, but payment of interest would carry the Govérnment's definite guarantee. Would Help Market. It was said in competent circles that administration leaders feel that a Gov- ernment guarantee of interest would greatly increase marketability of the bonds. This would reflect itself in lower rates of interest to the farmer. The President’s agricultural advisers hesitate to recommend a guarantee of the principal of the bonds in the belief that this would rank them as a part | of the Federal Government's obliga- | tions. | The bill is aimed to provide the low- | est rate of interest yet offered the farm- | er in Government mortgage financing. | Whether a limit would be fixed on the ! amount of refinancing the Government | would be willing to undertake remains unsettled. There is some belief that | a low interest rate and no limit might | lead to refinancing of most of the coun- try's $9,000,000,000 in outstanding farm | mortgages. Liquidaticn of the joint. stock land ! banks is to be prcposed. Of the 48/ banks, 3 sre in receivership. The in-| stitutions have issusd $506,672,000 in bcnds, which are widely held, and which | €njoy tax exemption under a claue which states that they are “instru- mentalities of the United States.” Plan Conference Today. Several representatives of the banks were here to confer late today with Henry Mergenthau, jr, Farm Board chairman, and Dr. W. I. Myers, his assistant, who have drafted many pro- | visions of the relief measure. The President will propose that the | mortgage relief plan be administered | by the new Farm Credit Administration, | which with congressional approval will become effective 60 days hence under the executive order issued yesterday.| Morgenthau is to be governor of the | system. At the Department of Agriculture: advance preparations fcr administering | the farm relief program now before | Cengress contemplate making it serve | quickly as mortgzge relief for farmers. An early payment of “benefits” under the allotment provision of the relief bill is propcsed. Under this plan—one of several available to the Secretary of Agriculture, who would have broad powers to attempt the .restoration of pre-war farm prices—adjustment cer- tificates would be issued to farmers who leased lands to the Government or egreed to reduce acreages devoted to basic commeditics. ‘Three-Point Program. Several plans to make cash available by June, should the bill pass without great change, have been studied. Under cne of them adjustment certificates would be isued and used as collateral for loans from banks. Under the other plan, the Federal Treasury would be asked to advance funds to the Secre- tary to make the first payment of “benefits.” Whether these plans can be carried out is uncertain because of efforts in the Senate to revise the ad- ministration measure. Secretary Wallace yesterday sent to the House figures on the farm indebt- edness and suggestions for legislation in preparing a refinancing program. These suggestions were closely akin to ideas being considered by Mr. Roose- velt's advisers. Wallace suggested a three-point pro- gram, contemplating machinery for voluntary adjustment of the debts, and financing through direct loans to farm- ers for the payment of interest, amorti- | zation installments and taxes and refinancing of distressed farm mort- gages. The direct loans would be made through regional agricultural credit corperations and the mortagae Te- financing through land banks. All funds would be provided by the Re- construction Finance Corporation. Some Details Remain. Meantime, after a call at the White | House, Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee predicted the Roose- velt program for refinancing of farm mortgages would be ready in a day or two. Some details remain to be worked out, he =aid. Steagall estimated the total bond issue to be required for putting the farm mortgages on a lower interest rate wculd not be more than $2,500,- 000,000. Senate leaders are planning to the farm commodity relief bill now be- fore the Agriculture Committee. QUIZZED I.N SLAYING Men Held After U. 8. Coast Guardsman Is Slain. PONCE, Puerto Rico, March 28 (#). —Police announced today they had ar- rested several men for questioning in connection with the killing last Satur- day of Elvin R. Davidson, quartermaster gre\ the United States Coast Guard cutter neca. Davidson, whose home was in Louis- ville, Ky., was stabbed to death when he went to the assistance of a friend who was being attacked. Suspects are held in $10,000 bail each. 5 | Radio Programs on Page A-11 Ratu | warrants a withdrawal T WORRY-THIS |$?uogBE$T THING 1 DO 3 7 3 3, b ANY - CONSERVATORS GET BROADER POWERS Permitted by Woodin Un- der Certain Conditions. By the Assoclated Press Broader powers by conservators oper- ating State and national banks granted today by Secretary Woodin in a regulation issued under the Presi- dent’s bank holiday proclamation. Under the new regulation, a con- servator will have the authority determine exactly how the bank will operate and if he believes its condition of a certain percentage of the deposits by the de- positor he can order that permitted. Thus in a case of a closed bank if the conservator believes it could operate with a 15 per cent restriction on with- drawals he would have authority to permit such withdrawals subject only to the President’s proclamation pro- hibiting withdrawals of gold an money for hoarding. Text of Regulations. The regulation issued by the Secre- tary read: “Banking institutions which are mem- bers of the Federal Reserve system and of which actual possession and control have been taken (A) by conservators appointed pursuant to the act of March 9, 1933, or (B) by appropriate State officials appointed pursuant to State law, as permitted in the President’s executive order of March 18, 1933, are rmitted to transact such limited anking functions as may be authorized fn accordance with law by the con- troller of the currency in the case Sof national banks or by the appropriate State officials, in the case of State member banks; provided, however, that no such banking institution shall re- open for the performance of its usual and normal functions until it shall have received a license from the Secretary of the Treasury. Gold Is Banned. “This regulation shall not authorize any transaction with respect to the ex- port or paying out of gold, gold cer- tificates, withdrawal of currency for hoarding or transactions in foreign exchange prohibited or restricted b}: the executive order of March 10, 1933. Treasury officials said that while the permission to open for limited bank- ing functions lay in the controller of the currency with national banks and with State authorities in regard to State banks, that the recommendation of the conservator would be accepted and that official would have the broad authority to determine what restric- tions the banks now closed would im- pose if they reopened under the new order. D. C. YOUTH SEIZED IN BLACKMAIL CASE Warrant Charges He Obtained Several Hundred Dollars From Member of Congress. Luther Cornelius Sykes, 24, of the 1300 block of I street mortheast, was arrested today on a warrant charging him with blackmailing Representative Walter G. Andrews of New York. Sykes is said to have obtained several hundred dollars by threats. United States Attorney Leo A» Rover, who authorized the issuance of the warrant, said he had obtained a written confession from Sykes. The man was_arrested at Fifteenth street and New York avenue by Detec- tive Sergt. Earl P. Hartman, attached to the United States attorney’s office. Sykes was unable to furnish $10,000 bond when taken before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, and was ordered committed to jail. His preliminary hearing was continued for one week, Mr. Rover sald Sykes had been ob- taining money . from Representative Andrews at various times during the past year. His blackmailing threats, it was said, usually were made by letter. Sykes was arrested several weeks ago for investigation. He was released at that time but the case has since been under investigation by Mr. Rover. Spanish Flyer in Siam. BANGKOK, 8iam, March 28 (#).— Fernando Rein Loring, Spanish aviator flying from Madrid to Manila, lended yesterday at Nakon Panom, near the eastern frontier of Siam. He planned off today for 0f, French r Han was | to| SENATE QPERATING Room 115 t’er Cent Pay Cutj {For U. S. Employes To Begin on April 1 {Orders Expected to Be Is- |Withdrawals From Banks' sued Within Day or Two |Live Stock Interests Oppose | on Flat Reduction. ‘The flat reduction of 15 per cent in| salaries of Federal Government work- | ers provided for in the economy act will take effect April 1. This was learned from an authori- | tative source at the White House td- day. In the meantime, the President has before him the report from the | Director of the Budget regarding the details incident to this pay reduction | and it is thought likely that the formal | orders will be promulgated within the | next day or so. | Decision on the flat reduction of 15 per cent for all persons on the Gov- | ernment pay roll was decided upon as | the maximum following the receipt of | | the Labor Department figures showing | | that the cost of living since 1928 had | been reduced 23 per cent. | 150EASARLINER -~ FALLS IN FLAMES City of Liverpool, Carrying| 12 Passengers, Crashes Near Eesen. By the Assoclated Press. BRUSSELS, Belgium. March 28— Fifteen persons were killed today in| the wreck of an Imperial Airways pas- | | senger liner near Eesen.. | Eleven of the victims were English. | The plane, bound from Cologne to Croydon, England, by way of Brussels, was the trimotored City of Liverpool. She carried 12 passengers and a crew | of three. All perished. | ._The cause of the accident was not immediately determined. The plane had stopped at Haeren | Afrdrome, on the cutskirts of Brussels, taking off at 3:36 p.m. for Croydon. | The crach occurred less than 20 miles north of Dixmude. Assistance arrived quickly, but too| late to help the victims. The burned | bodies of the pilot, mechanic and four passengers, one of them a woman, were | found in the wreckage. | Persons who saw the ship fall said it | burst into flames and dropped like a spent rocket in a farmer’s field. The bodies of four of the dead were fcund some distance from the plane. Apparently they had jumped. =2 S Get $15,000 After Locking Pa- trons and Workers in Vault. GALLIPOLIS, Ohio, March 28 (#).— ‘Three robbers obtained between $15,000 and $25000 in cash at the First Na- tional Bank here today after holding officials and customers at bay with guns and then locking them in a vault. It was the first bank robbery in Gal- lipolis' history. The trlo, brandishing revolvers as they entered. forced the bank staff and several patrons into a vault, then scooped up all cash and escaped in an automobile. COTTONGROUPHEAD BACKS FARM BILL Industries’ Inclusion in Relief Plan. By the Associated Press. Full approval of the administration farm bill as passed by the House was expressed before the Senate Agriculture | Committee today by U. B. Blalock, pres- ident of the American Cotton Co—oper-l ative Association, breaking the long| parade of opponents of the measure. Blalock testified after F. E. Mollin of Denver, secretary of the American Na- tional Live Stock Association, and C. D. Streeter, a farmer, of Keokuk, Iowa, had | opposed the bill. A long line of wit- nesses spoke in opposition yesterday. Chairman Smith, in the hope a com- promise could be worked out to satisfy divergent views, intended to conclude the hearings late today and hold the | committee in executive session to begin revising the measure. “Pledged to New Deal.” “We have a President in the White House elected under a promise to give American agriculture a new deal” Blalock said. “We believe he was sincere in making | that promise. Give him the machinery as carried in this bill and we believe | the President will carry out his promise to_American agriculture.” The first witness today was Mollin of Denver, who emphasized previous | objections of stockmen to application | of the relief plan to their products. | Opposing inclusion of cattle in the ! bill, he contended legislation raising prices “would be used as an argument by the railroads against reducing freight rates.” | “I do not believe that any bill that Congress. in all its wisdom. can adopt | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) HARRIMAN IS.ABSENT FROM BANK HEARING! Former Bank Chairman Reported to Be Suffering From Artery Hardening. By the Associated Press. ! NEW YORK, March 28.—Joseph W. Harriman, former chairman of the Har- riman National Bank & Trust Co., was unable to be present at a scheduled hearing today on a warrant charging him with causing false entries to be made in the bank’s books. ‘The hearing before a United States g:r{xmlssioner was postponed without e. Harriman was reported to be suffer- ! ing from hardening of the main artery. | He was arrested in his bed room two' weeks ago after the bank he headed was placed in the hands of a con- servator. . Miami Visitor Killed by Auto. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 28 (®).—Mrs. Esther Lienenthal, 55, vis- itor from Pittsburgh, Pa., was killed here last night when struck by an automobile while crossing the county causeway from which she had been fishing in Biscayne Bay. Nathan Goldberg, 44, visitor from Troy, N. Y, whose car, police said, struck Mrs. Lienenthal, was released pending an inquest, not yet scheduled. ‘The first internal revenue beer stamps were shipped today to St. Louls, Philadelphia and Hartford. Other shipments from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will be rushed as rapidly as possible, and the Bureau 8 Internal Revenue expects the entire country will be supplied in time for distribution of beer April 7. Orders for the first shipment went and the stamps were sent out today to the coilectors of internal revenue in those cities. The stamps are generally of two different kinds, one type going to brewers, wholesalers and retailers in the form of a certificate which is to be FIRST BEER TAX STAMPS SENT OUT BY INTERNAL REVENUE UNIT Bureau Prepares to Rush Other Shipments in Time for Sales Before April 7. a to the Bureau of Engraving yesterday | both framed and placed on display. The other type is to be placed by the brew- ers upon the containers to show p‘y-' ment of the tax of $5 a barrel. | ‘The brewer pays $1,000 a year for his stamp tax to on the wall. No. 1 of this series was shipped to St. Louls. Stamp No. 1 for wholesale dealers, which costs $50 a year, went to a Phil- adelphia wholesaler. S No. 1 for a retailer, which costs $20 a year, went to a Hartford, Conn., dealer. Dealers in beer in Washington have begun at Baltimcre, the headquarters for this district, and at the local office of the deputy collector of internal revenue, at Constitution avenue and Twelfth street. Handlers of beer must have these stamps available before they be- gin to sell beer April 7. The requisi- tion for the local supply of stamps has not been received at the Bureau cf In- ternal Revenue from Galen Tait at Baltimore, but i expected soon, to apply for their stamps, I The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 123,167, Press. TWO CENTS. SENATE LIFTS AN ONR.F.C. LOANS TO STATES FOR RELIEF Robinson Proposal to Remove 15 Per Cent Limit Is Given Approval. FORESTRY BILL EXPECTED TO BE ENACTED TODAY $500,000,000 Direct Relief Meas- ure to Get Favorable Report From Finance Committee. By the Accoclated Press, Plunging into President Roosevelt's unemployment program, the Senate today swept aside the restrictions which forbid any State from borrowing more than 15 per cent of the Reconstruction :-"mn;nce Corporation's $300,000,000 relief und. It adopted a proposal by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratis leader, at the outset of consideratd of the reforestation measure. The pro- posal, an amendment to the pending bill, was designed to aid Illinols and several other States which are nearing the limi- tation of relief borrowings. At about the same time that it took up the bill, the Senate Finance Com- mittee approved, a measure to provide $500,000,000 for direct relief with the agreement that it would be taken up immediately after the reforestation bill. The committee gave unanimous ap- proval to the bill. Passage Expected Today. The reforestation bill was formally taken up at the request of Senator Robinson, although it was informally debated yesterday. Debate on the proposal to give jobs to more than 250,000 men in the for- ests began in the Senate at about the same time that Representative Byrns of Tennessee, the Democratic leadcr, said he had been informed the revised measure was satisfactory to President Roosevelt. ‘While the measure faces more ap- parent opposition in the House than in the Senate, Byrns said that he ex- pected it to be passed there tomorrow. Senate action was expected by nightfall. The Senate Banking Committee also agreed today to consider Thursday the Wagner bill to liberalize the law under which the Reconstruction Corporaticn can make loans for public construction. The Wagner bill would permit loans for all projects deemed “needful and in the public interest” without requir- ing that they be relf-liquidating as under present law. Provides Outright Grants. ‘The $500,000.000 direct relief bill, sponsored by Senators Wagner, Demo- crat, of New York; Costigan, Democrat, of Colorado, and La Follette, Repub- lican, of Wisconsin, on behalf of Mr. Roosevelt, sets up a Federal relief ad- ministrator to distribute in outright grants, a contrast to the present policy, the money raised through the Recon- struction Corporation. The forestation plan was approved by committees at both ends of the Capitol yesterday, and the Senate shortly after- ward opened debate on the revised bill. Previously the House Labor Committee had rejected a substitute offered by Chairman Connery and approved the | Roosevelt-sponsored bill. Senator Wagner expressed confidence the $500,000.000 relief bill would be enacted by Friday. JAPAN'S WITHDRAWAL IS SCORED BY CHINA Foreign Minister Says It Is De- liberate Attempt to Impair Peace Machinery. By the Associated Press. NANKING, China, March 28—Lo Wen-Kan, China’s foreign minister, as- serted today that Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations is “a de- liberate attempt to impair the post-war machinery for preservation of peace.” Japan's action, he said, “is tanta- mount to reaction of the settlement of international disputes by pacific terms, thereby seeking to compel China to accept whatever means Japan may dic- tate.” The Japanese withdrawal, however, does not prejudice the authority of the League to settle the dispute in the Far East, said Mr. Lo. “On the contrary it enables the League to handle the dis- pute with greater freedom. Japan will suffer the consequences of its defiance of the conscience of civilization.” MILK TRUCK.AMBULANCE REMOVES 8 AFTER CRASH Driver Unloads Vehicle to Carry Auto Accident Victims to Hospital. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J. March 78.—Un- loading his milk truck to convert it into a makeshift ambulance, a dairy em- ploye took eight victims of a Bruns- wick pike automobile accident to Mc- Kinley Hospital this morning. Several sustained serious injuries. ‘The truck driver, Hartwell Smith, witnessed the collision of two cars as the driver of one vehicle swerved sharp- 1y to the left when he realized a heavy truck was just ahead. The injured included John Stevens, jr., Philadelphia, and Gus Harris, Frost- burg, Md. Police said Stevens drove the car that is alleged to have darted across the wide highway and colliced with an automobile driven by Peter Terovolis of Jamaica, N. Y. AMERICANS NAMED Two Placed on Foreign Settlement - Board at Shanghai. SHANGHAI China, March 28 (#).— F. J. Raven, banker, and C. S. Frank- lin, attorney, were elected today to the Governing Council of Shanghai’s Inter- national Settlement, thus increasing the American representation from one member to two on the board of 14. Of the other members five are Brite ish, five Chinese and two Japanese,