Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1933, Page 2

f FEDERATION ASKS |[ ™ convietea ] {OLD DRY BUREAU DOLLY GANN TELLS 'NEWDEAL'FORD.C. Cut in Estimates Protested. Slash in Taxes and Realty # Assessment Sought. The Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions last night adopted a series of Tesolutions, submitted by its principal committees, ing generally against the ly reduced estimates for the 1934 fiscal year presented to Con- gress by the Bureau of the Budget, de- manding lower taxes, and requesting to be heard before congressional com- mittees dealing with District fiscal mat- ters, principally before the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. The first of the resolutions was pre- sented by Chairman George E. Sullivan of the Law and Legislation Committee, and it was unanimously adopted with- out debate. A second resolution decried the specific reductions proposed for high- way expenditures, especiallygss the gasoline tax collections a cient 0 carry the entire highway costs, and urged that these collections be not diverted to other uses. A third, presented by:the Fiscal Re- lations Committee, protested any re- duction in the Federal contribution toward the cost of maintaining the District, and specifically the Mapes Committee tax bills recently reintro- duced “as being designed to increase the tax burden at a time when there is no need for additional revenue.” Ask Realty Assessment Cut. ‘This resolution opposed the building up of a surplus, but instead, advocated appropriations for construction work in proportion to the amount of anticipated Tevenues, es] the revenues of spe- cial classes which may not be diverted from the purpose for which they are levied. Still another resolution, also from the Fiscal Relations Committce, demanded a flat 20 cent reduction in all real astate ents, effective immediately. ‘This resolution pointed out that the as- sessments on land have increased by $32,000,000 since 1929. Remarking on the great decrease in values, the report says, “if the assessment was right in 1929 it is wrong now.” This resolution Wwas unanimously adopted, but several delegates rose to criticize Tax Assessor Willlam P. Rich- ards for declining to reduce assessments in individual cases. Another resolution, from the Com- mittee on Education, urged that there be no reduction in funds for school construction, library and playground maintenance, as carried in the present budget. D. C. Representation Urged. The Committee on National Repre- sentation. sul a report indorsing Senate joint resolution No, 9, ing for an amendment to the U States Constitution to give the people of the District ‘representation in the House- and Senate, and opposing & pending bill to allow the District Com- missioners to name a delegate for the who would have the floor [ouse. of the report ‘were approved by every delegate who spoke. A third section, however, rec- E. WADE BALL. BALL IS CONVICTED BY ARLINGTON JURY OF MISUSING FUNDS (Continued From First Page.) his own books showed the collections were exactly $20,000 more than the report showed. Douglas pointéd out that there are in evidence deposit slips showing that between December 1 and 7, 1931, Ball deposited $20,000 to his personal account in the Po- tomac Savings Bank. He also stressed the point that Ball's personal State income tax returns for 1931 gave his gross income as $7,963. Crandal Mackey made the first ll‘q:- ment for the defense, attacking the in- dictment under which Ball is being tried. He declared that while the in- dictment did not specify embezzlement or theft, using instead the term misap- propriation, it nevertheless is aimed at persons who steal from public funds. He also assailed the record of State Auditor of Accounts T. Coleman An- drews, referring to him as a “notoriety.” He also referred to Andrews’ investiga- tion of 40 county treasuries in Virginia as “Andrews and his 40 thieves.” Frank L. Ball, brother of the defend- ant, and the principal defense counsel, made an impassioned a ent before the . He charged t the Com- monwealth had failed to show any mo- tive for his brother’s taking of money from the county treasury, and declared that there is no evidence that Wade Ball has ever led a double life, altered his , or raised checks. ‘Also Attacks Audit. He also attacked the audit which is the basis for the prosecution. Arguing to the jury that the opening ballot on which the audit depended was shown ted | by testimony of Commonwealth wit- nesses to be in error. Since shortly after the dinner hour the court room had been filled with men, women and children, many of whom seemed to enjoy the prospect of a long wait in the court room. At the same time large groups remained out- side the court house, most of them where they could observe the jury in its deliberation through the windows ommending adoption b; Senate of rules rm{ulnz & spokes- man from the rict, to be selected nearly midnight, finally W. J. Neale of <Cleveland Park settled the matter by a motion to make the entire report the special order of business at the federation’s next meet- ing, April 15. Willlam McK. Clayton, Harry N, Stull and Fred A Emery were mullun favored it. The report put the suggestion forward as an emer- gency measure only. Beer Bicense Limit Favored. on unanimously adopted for “ap te imitation” he The fe 8 resoluti in_the front of the building. Because of this observation the an- nouncement that the jury ly relayed to the large people outside the court here was an immediate con- gestion at the doors from the corridor. the entire evening the recently installed switchboard here e Telief for the operator d lat- ter part of the evening. For more than 25-years Ball held of- fice ‘as treasurer here and throughout pra Xpayer coun- ty. Bo rrmaL been his popularity that: at the last election he was the only candidate who was unopposed, der | even the Republican party realizing the be limited to permission o sell the beer in bottles, not to be consumed on the “ premises. There was a long debate on a prac- tice golf course at Georgia avenue and Blair road, which citizens of that sec- tion have been attempting to suppress for some ume.n ’fhe ‘:mu zufi nncomuly adopted a report from on} - mittee recommending that the Gom- missioners and the corporation counsel seek a settlement of the case which has yésr. ‘The report also called for general reforms in zoning procedure, particularly in giving interested citizens more effective notice of the -pendency of petitions for r Pofi rmer ice Pelnam D. Fo Supt. of Glassford addressed the federation in behalf of & camp for transient boys he proposes to establish about 20 miles from Washington on-the Potomac. FIGHT FOR DISTRICT _ ITEMS TO BE MADE UPON BILL’S REPORT (Continued From First Page.) ‘water leak survey, which already has resulted in saving millions of gallons. Under the Budget Bureau pre E however, Water Department officials declared, the improvement program will be seriously crippled, and in addi- tion, approximately 60 regular employes will have to be dropped, while the recommended improvements for 1934 would have provided work for hundreds ©of others. The gasoline tax fund, according to estimates, will have a surplus of $1,- 800,000 by the close of the 1934 fiscal year, unless the House and Senate re- store the projects eliminated by tae Budget Bureau. The highway items would have created work for men. “Such are the inconsistencies of the Budget Bureau in not recommending appropriations that would provide work and fail to effect economies since the money will lie idle in the Federal T=cas- ury to the credit of the District,” said Mr. Smith. “The Budget Bureau also is inconsis- tent in refusing to recommend such appropriations, while at the same time advocating an appropriation of $1,- 250,000 for emergency unemployment relief to give to people who are out ot ‘work.” General Funds Surplus. Aside from the surplus of water and gas tax revenues, there also will he &n estimated surplus of $6,100,000 in ‘he general funds unless Congress over- rides the recommendation of the Budget Bureau. Representative Blan- ton, Democrat, of Texas, has given assurance that the tax levy will be reduced at least 20 cents, from $1.70 to $1.50, which would cut the surplus $2,600,000. The Budget Bureau in transmitting the bill omitted the usual prohibition against tax reduction. Others who have declared in favor of = substantial tax cut are: Chairman Buchanan of the Appropriations Com- mittee, Chairman Cannon of the Dis- trict subcommittee in the last ‘who will be in charge of the bill on the floor, Representative Collins of Mis- sissippl, 8 member of the subcommittee which considered the new budget esti- mates and who was a member of the special Mapes Committee that studied fiscal relations. In the last Congress Representative futility of opposing him. Discovery Credited to Braden. The first intimation of a shortage in his accounts occurred last year, shortly after the new form of government was placed in operation. This discovery was attributed largely to County Man- ager Roy S. Braden, whose investiga- tion of conditions here shortly after he took office led to Ball’s arrest and an sudit of his accounts by the State auditor’s office that consumed the greater part of a year. It was recalled tonight that former Clerk of the Court William H. Duncan, who was conticted last year of a short- age in the accounts of his office, was sentenced to a three-year term in the Ppenitentiary, despite the fact that the under which he was convicted involved funds of only a little more than $7,000, as against the shortage of more than half a million in the Ball case. Duncan, however, whose arrest Tesulted from the audit instigated as & result of the alleged Ball shortage, is still free on bond pending a decision by the Appellate Court on an appeal MIAMI GEM THIEF GIVEN 40-YEAR TERM Sidmor Loses Confident Air and| Pleads for Mercy When Sen- tenced on 4 Charges. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla, April 1.—His confident attitude gone, Harry Sidmor begged for mercy from the court today as Criminal Judge E. C. Collins sentenced him to 40 years in the penitentiary for stealing & fortune in’ jewels from wealthy visit- ors to Miami Beach, Sidmor was sentenced to 20 years each on three charges of breaking and entering and grand larceny, with the sentences to be served concurrently, while another 20 years was added upon a fourth charge. The second sentence, Judge Collins specified, is to begin at expiration of the first, “I have played fair with the officers and told them the truth,” Sidmor said as he entered a plea of guilty to the charges. “I don't think I have told a lie all the way through.” On this ground, he said, and because of his wife and 6-year-old child, he asked for leniency. His case was called yesterday, and he suddenly changed a not guilty plea to one of y. Joe V. Dillon, assistant county solici- tor, nolle prossed four other charges against the man, missioners go much further now. He explained that the District auditor has advised him that there is no need for any considerable working surplus_and that he will approve the District Com- missioners reducing the rate to $1.20 or whatever figure they find is sufficient to produce enough revenue to take care of the appropriations to be made under the new, curtailed estimates. Representative Cannon also is in favor of drastic reduction in the water rates. Likewise Representative Cannon ex- plained that to prevent the accumula- 'endesvored to have the tax rate cut from $1.70 to $1.50. He sald last| viphe it that he is ready to ha Com- tion of a large surplus in the gasoline Commissi tax the instructed to include curbing gutters and bridge work under it, BELIEVED DOOMED Drastic Shake-up Foreseen With “Control” as Aim Under Dalrymple. BY REX COLLIER. Appointment of Maj. A. V. Dalrymple of San Francisco as “czar” of the new deal in dry law enforcement foreshad- ows a drastic administrative shake-up and reorganization which will write a new chapter in the career of the Pro- hibition Bureau, battle-scarred veteran of the Volstead era. While the aggressive, 200-pound dry dictator maintained & discreet silence as to his plans, it was learned from Bureau may face from the picture and there will emerge in its place an en- tirely new bureau for than prohibition, of the liquor traffic. It is understood that tentative plans call for a return to the plan originally adopted in the Wilson administration for centralizing control of liquor, nar- cotics and industrial alcohol under one head. ' If this is approved, it will mean the merging of the present Prohibition Bureau, the Bureau of Narcotics and the Bureau of Industrial Alcohcl under Maj. Dalrymple. Such plans would have as their objective a more active, not a diminished, war 2gainst narcotics, it was said. While it is not expected that enforce- ment activities will be taken from the Justice Department for the time being, there is a likelihood that developing im- portance cf revenue collection with the legalization of beer and wines may lead to transfer of Dalrymple’s bureau to the Treasury., where prohibition func- tions originally centered. ‘Woodcock to Remain. Col. Amcs W. W. Woodcock, retiring director of prohibition, will remain, by special request of Attorney General Cummings, to assist in the proposed re- Jrganization. He was appointed yes- terday as a special assistant to the At- torney Genes There was an unconfirmed report on Capitol Hill that Edward Wrede, secre- tary to the late Senator Howell of Ne- braska, would be given an important executive post under Maj. Dalrymple. By reputation a vigorous crusader, Maj. Dalrymple is expected to declare war at once on the racketeers and other “blg boys” of the illicit liquor trade, with a view, especially, to protection of legitimate beer manufacturers under the new beer laws. He is of the opinion that enforcement of the new beer laws will be a much easier task than enforcing the old pro- hibition statutes, because he will have the support of the beer manufacturers and consumers as well as the ardent drys in his campaign to eradicate illicit prac- tices. Every possible effort will be made to rotect the rights of dry States after lization of beer on April 7. Irymple’s previous/service as Fed- eral supervising prohibition agent for the central division, embracing Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota won him letters of com- mendation from such dry leaders as the late Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of America; E. J. Davis, head of the Anti-Saloon League of Chicago, and others. Supported by Drys. He is said to have been recommended for his t_appointment by Senator McAdoo, Vice President Garner, Secre- tary of Commerce Roper, Deets Pickett of the Methodist Board of ‘Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals; Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas and Mrs. Nel- lie G. Donohoe, Democratic national committeewoman for California. Dalrymple was sworn inyesterday at the Justice Department before a bat- tery of cameras and recording paraphernalia, posed again at his office in the old Southern Railway Building in the act of bidding good-by to Col. Woodcock. He spent his first short day in office meeting present executives and em- ployes of his bureau and in receiving a host of friends who called to con- gratulate him. Capt. R. Q. Merrick, prohibition ad- ministrator in charge of district No. 4, including the Capital; was_ at prohibi- tion headquarters among the officials geeud by the new director yesterday. apt. Merrick. whose office is at Rich- mond, is in Washington on business concerning the administration of this area, but declined to comment upon what policies he will adopt+for the Dis- trict until after he confers at length with the new chief. Capt. Merrick is a veteran in the Government service and has occupied several important posts, being shifted from one part of the coumry to an- other during the various changes that have been made in the administration of prohibition. CONFESSION ALLEGED IN BOHN KIDNAPING reliable sources that the thfbitiml “control,” rather | hiq Unemployed Railroader Is Held in Abduction in St. Paul. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn., April 1.—Minne- sota and Canadian authorities today seized an unemployed railroader who confessed, officers sald, he had a part in the kidnaping of young Haskell Bohn, son of a wealthy Minneapolis manufac- turer, here last Summer. Trailed several days by local investi- gators and Royal Canadian mounted police, Ray Robinson, 40, was found at Rorketon, Manitoba. Police Chief Thomas Dahill said he was told by County Attorney M. F. Kin- kead from Winnipeg that Robinson had confessed participation in the Bohn kid- naping and implicated Mr. and Mrs. Verne Sankey. Sankey has been hunted several weeks on charges of complicity in the Bohn seizure, as has Gordon Elkhorn. Both are wanted also in the Denver kidnaping of Charles Boettcher, 2d, wealthy broker, in February. Mrs. Sankey is in custody at Denver in the Boettcher case, Kinkead said tonight young Bohn had identified Robinson by means of a pic- ture as one of two men who had hur- ried away in an automobile last July as he walked toward the family garage at his home. COMEDY Tb BE GIVEN Bt. Gabriel's Players Will Present “Oh, Professor.” ‘The St. Gabriel's Players of St. Ga- briel's Church will present the comedy, “Oh, Professor,” Monday and Tuesday nights, April 2¢ and 25. The cast will include Kathleen Baker, Katherine Lester, Audrey Magill, Vir- ginla Magill, Marle Weigert, Helen Winkle, Robert Adams, William Col- lins, Thomas Gowan, Leo Murphy and Joseph O'Donnell. Justin _F. will direct the play. 5 Missouri Educator Dies. COLUMBUS, Mo., April 1 (#).—Luther M. Defoe, 73, emeritus professor of mechanics in the Engineering School at the University of Missouri and popularly known as “Daddy Defoe,” died here A graduate of Harvard, he years as & faculty me at the school. His widow & STORY OF HER LIFE “Methodist and Republican” Childhood Recalled in Her Autobiography. (Continued From First Page.) and Elizabeth were small children. Charles spoke French at home until he went to school, where his learning English was accelerated by the boys’ teasing because of his foreign talk. My mother was Lou Jay, from & branch of the John Jay family. She had gone West from New York with her parents. I was born in Topeka. I have a dig- nified name, Permelia, a heritage from Grandmother Curtis, but have made no use of it. Father would come in and look at me as I lay in bed, and put his big hat over me, so that it completely me. “The doll,” he called me, and the name Dolly became mine. “Something of a Tomboy.” Much of my childhood was spent on Uncle Charles Jay's farm. I was some- thing of a tomboy, climbing trees, rid- ing difficult horses, doing many things that annoyed my elders. But I had plenty of discipline. Cirandmother Curtis was always in the background. My mother did not believe in all play and no work, and every morning I had to take a lesson in sewing. When mother died I went to live with my brother Charles and his wife, from that day a real sister to me. As Anna Baird, she had come from Al- toona, 1l’l.m Charles the young lawyer had become Charles the public man in 1884—county gruecutlnz attorney, champion of the tate’s prohibition law. Re-elected in 1886, he ran for Congress about the time I went to live with him. In 1892 he was nominated. I recall my vivid interest in his election. My political education was beginning. . 1 went to Washington in August, 1893, for the special session of Congress called by President Cleveland. Wash- ington was in the beginning a-city of loneliness for me. My brother was immersed in his work as a young Con- gressman—he made himseif a useful aide to Thomas B. Reed and other leaders, and was appointed assistant whip of the House Republicans when Mr. Reed became Speaker. Perhaps my homesickness hastened my brother’s decision to have me as secretary. Although he had a small office in the Capitol, his real office was & room in our home. He had a secre- tary, & man, who resigned, so I got my chance to work and forget how lonely I was. From then until now I have been busy. If for a brief spell I have nothing to do, I am unbappy: at least, less happy than I ought to be. As my sister-in-law Anna later on entered more into the Capital's social life T met more and more people. I received with Anna each Tuesday, “at- home” day of Congressmen’s wives. Before Charles went into the United State Senate I could call Washington home, even if I still loved Kansas. Meanwhile, as a part of my duties as secretary, I began to keep systematic records for campaign use—books filled with the names of Kansas voters, the citizens of every county and town—all the names we could get. A short bi- ography of each voter, with his achieve- ments, sometimes a description of his pe'x:}s‘onumy, all the facts we could gather. Charles was in the House 14 years. Bl b Smpty o rict cl , the control of the State, and there were only two Republicans left in Kansas' House. delegation, Case Broderick and my brother. They found themselves in the same district on_the new . Mr, Broderick, a muc! man, told brother to run for Congress. “You can’t win,” sald he, “but it will broaden your acquaintance.” Charles made a real campaign, and won. older Brother Goes to Senate. ‘The first time he ran for the Sen- ate, in 1902, he was defeated by Ches- ter I. Long. Four years later he was successful. I shall not forget the night of the balloting in the Kansas Legis- lature. I was permitted on the floor. I had a list of the members and checked them as they voted. What a night that was! Charles was chosen {gr the full term and for an unexpired Tm, Charles moved from one end of the Capital to the other. I was increas- ingly busy and no doubt more efficient because of experience as my brother’s secretary. We dwelt in many parts of Wash- ington. In our early days there was strong_ prejudice against a Congress. man buying a home in the Capital. Perhaps the public felt this would lessen the occupant’s interest in his State, or that he was showing over- confidence in his ability to hold his seat. Charles rented his homes for years. I stayed on my job, except for short trips and one journey to Europe Charles rarely had time to travel. His term endend, he was defeated for re- nomination in 1912. In the latter part of the cam he sent me to Kansas to size up the situation. After talking with our friends I wired brother to come out as fast as he could. But only two weeks remained and he could not stem the tide. It was the year of the Bull Moose. From some quarters came the advice that Charles would win if he bent his views -{#..a Progressive ' direction. He refused. His opponent was Gov. Stubbs, who had caused the enactment of a bill making it necessary for a candidate to carry a majority of the legislative districts instead of the pop- ular vote. Mr. Stubbs got the majority of the districts, though Charles won the popular vote. The result was that Kansas elected a Democrat to the Sen- ate. The national campaign ended with Woodrow Wilson elected President. ‘Two years later, in 1914, Charles was elected again. I had charge of his campaign headquarters while he was out in the State. I did the work at the house and every evening many of our friends came in to help. We sent out over 150,000 letters. Brother defeated Joseph L. Bristow, who was in the Senate, for the nomi- nation. In the Fall election he won |gram against George A. Neely, Democrat, and Victor Murdock, Progressive. I do not let politics interfere with GRANDMOTHER CURTIS. fond of the Murdocks. During the heat of our poltical battle they came to Topeka. Victor telephoned me that his wife was {ll. I went to the hotel to see her. Never have I seen a more surprised man than the attending phy- sician. The Murdocks and I are toda; the best of friends. Her Earlier Experiences. Many experiences fell to my lot in that campaign. Dan Anthony was run- ning for Congress in brother’s old dis- trict, and we all went to a nearby town for a meeting—Dan, &ll the county candidates and myself. I had decided what I would talk about. Dan was due at another meeting and talked first. He said all I had intended say- ing, leavi me limp and helpless. At a pul institutjon - in--our home town all the inmates had received & circular from our opponent and had decided to vote for him. . I got all their names, wrote each a personal letter ask- ing support, and signed brother Charles’ name. The letters were all worded differently. We voted the inmates solid—a personal letter was much bet- ter than a circular. During the campaign Arthur Capper’s manager - (Arthur was candidate for Governor) telephoned me I would have to start at once for a meeting in a small place nearby. He made - clear I was the last resort. They had tried every one, but all were busy. I did not feel particularly happy over the assign- ment, but started to fill it. en I arrived I did not see any one I knew. An elderly, kind-looking old gentleman was presiding. He introduced me in a very flowery manner. Then, looking wefuelfiv at a printed program, he an- nounc: “The lady’s name isn't here.” When we returned to Washington after the election of 1914 a new phase of my life had begun. The next year found Charles settled in Washington to Temain many years, as Senator and then as Vice President. My marriage in June, 1915, also marked a transition, I was to be as busy as before, but in more varied activities. (Tomorrow—Marriage and Memories.) (Copyright, 1033, by North American News- paper Aliiance, Inc.) $200,000,000 SHIP PROGRAM IS PUSHED BY BIG NAVY MEN (Continued From First Page.) . most of the Navy's destroyers are ob- solete, and that the aircraft carrier, light crulser and submarine categories 8ls0 are, or soon will be, under strength. “I would like to see at least one ex- perimental cruiser-carrier constructed,” Vinson said. “In my opinion, that type of ship—armed with 6-inch guns and carrying a dozen or more airplanes— is about to become one of the most necessary adjuncts of our national de- fense.” The Naval Committee chairman said he had no idea what the President’s attitude would be, other than that “T believe he is in favor of a Navy big enough for national defense, and we are rl:zldly dropping behind everybody else.” Vinson said he would like to see the Navy start a 10-year construction pro- averaging _about $60,000,000 a year. But if the President approves the idea of including authorization in the relief bill, he added, it might be ad- friendships. For years I have been T. visable to accept a shorter program. Is Your Home Safe? You require character recommendations before employing domestic help, but what do you know of their HEALTH? THE COOK HANDLES THE FOOD. Are you sure she is HEALTHY ? The NURSE HANDLES she has not been exposed to your BABY. Are you sure ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS? All members of your household in daily contact with tuberculous patients should be examined often by their own physician or at the Health Department Tuberculosis Clinic 301 C St. N.W. White Adults: 1 p.m., Mon., Wed., Fri. Children: 9:30 a.m., Mondays Colored Adults: 1 p.m., Tues, Thurs., Sat. Children: 9:30 a.m. Fridays White and Colored Adults: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays For Further Information Telephone etired last September atter nearly 40" - Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1022 11th St, N.W. TelephoneyDistrict 8311 The_Curtis home in ni.heTol:f't Mrs. Gann. in this Pl ‘With him ka, Kans, and also. the Kansas home of Mrs. former Vice President Arthur Caj s N A N. A ac hotograph is appears Senator —Copyright, 1933, by 'WOODIN WILL LEAD CABINET ON FORUM “Banks and Treasury” Will Be Subject of Address To- morrow Night. “The Banks and the Treasury” will be the subject of an address - tary of the Treasury Woodin tomorrow night over the National Radio Forum, inaugurating the series of hes by the Roosevelt cabinet to tell blaze the way for economic recovery. The Secretary’s address in the forum, which 1s arranged by The Evening Star, network of -the National Broadcasting Co., will be heard here over Station WRC at 10:30 o'clock. No member of President Roosevelt's administration has occupled the spot- light of public attention more than the g:rson-ble Secretary of the Treasury, reason of his direction of the finan- cial program during the bank crisis. The radio address tomorrow will be ;llll‘ first since taking the Treasury port- olio. The Secretary’s address comes. strategic time in the working out fiscal program of the Governm of Federal policies for comtrol of :the bank situation. In discussing “ Banks and the Treasury” it is expected Mr. Woodin will take the people into his confidence to explain. just what the Government is do on this matter, which is 50 close to the pocket nerve of the country. Secretary woos:n wgl,‘ ;e (oxbx;wed on succeeding Monday its other members of the President’s cabinet. SENATE COMMITTEE “REACHES AGREEMENT ON FARM RELIEF " (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) taken away the power, was withdrawn by him with tion he did so “in view of the interview with the President and a df ]fil;e eo:n{:hmea to give h&m (Mr. oosevelt) and the Secretary of Agri- culture the responsibility.” of "the committes Friday. Mleht by toa Chief Executive, after the group had been unable to make much progress at a of the and change was made the bill yesterday. In a substitute for authority for the Secretary to consider the effect of the proposed processing tax on wages, unemployment and con- sumption, already eliminated by the committee, members voted him power to change the tax as necessary to make it conform to the principle of raising prices to the levels fixed. d Bledzd by bers, lect on by committee mem| one eliminating the. provision that interest on loans to carry out the proposed - gegeu m&nfi should be limited to T 3 Members said they felt elimination of Ahee&;nd cattle would be acceptable to adding that this over with the Smith sald the committee hoped the administration’s proposed farm mort- gage program would be received at the Capitol tomorrow so it could be in- corporated by the committee as & sec- tion of the commodity bill, but that if aot, it would be added on the Senate loor. Before final action on this program, fxowk:;er. th e plan ?nun be loo] over by Banking Commif which might take two or three days, in which time the Senate could go ahead with its consideration of hases of the bill TR O’MALLEY MAY BE ENVOY BostonianeSaid to Have Been Of- fered Free State Post. BOSTON; April 1 (#).—The Boston Evening American says Charles J. O'Malley, Boston advertising man, has been tendered the past of United States Minister to the Irish Free State. O'Malley admitted he had been ap- proached by Washington sources on the matter and said he would accept the Ppost, it it were officially offered him, O'Malley is & Gaelic scholar, speaks the language fluently and recently bought an estate of 200 acres in County Kerry with the intention of mflnl his Summers there. He was in Ireland and came here as a boy. He has bullt up a successful business and a fortune. ACCORD ON MORATORIUM Cuban Senate Accepts Changes in Mortgage Bill. HAVANA, April 1 (#).—In a five- minute session late today the Cuban Senate unanimously approved amend- ments affixed to the two-year mortgage moratorium ‘bill in the Lower House. President Machado, who is at his country eéstate, is to sign the and broadcast over the coast-to-coast | in | service to be Forum Speaker SECRETARY WOODIN. = RAIL TRUSTEE LIST SELECTEDBY.C.C. Judge Will Name One or More to Operate Missouri Pa- cific Properties. By the Associated Press. ey A panel of 12 prominent men judged qualified to operate railroads, was named by the Interstate Commerce Priday’s action by the Missourl Pacific Railroad and two of its subsidiaries in taking advantage of the new bank- taking such action fro: in advance by the commission.” List Announced. Those chosen were L. W. Baldwin, 8t. Louls, president of the Missouri Pacific; former Senator James A. Reed, Kansas City; James C. Davis, Des Motnes, Iowa, one time director general of raflroads under the World War law, ; PP, Fayville, Des Moines, Iowa; Chester I. Long, Wichita, Kans., attorney; C. H. Moses, Little Rock, Ark., attorney and utility operator; Earl F. Nelson, St. Louis attorney; Guy A. Thompson, St. Louis; George C. Willson, St. Louis; C. P. Ames, Oklahoma City, and Huston "l'hmnm o{n Dmo!":.b and Washington, lormer member e Federal Trade Commission. From this list the judge is t6 name one or more trustees to operate the Pproperties of the Missouri Pacific. The commission, in its telegram, told the , Judge it felt the trustees should not = exceed $25,000 per year. The Missouri Pacific has been in financial difficulties for the last several months. It has borrowed more than $23,000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. As maturity approaches on a $34,000,000 bond issue of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, an integral of the Mis- souri Paclfic system, the company has found itself unable to raise money. Bond Issue Due May 1. The bond issue is due on May 1. Several other items of debt, including taxes and interest on other indebted- ness of \the Missour! Pacific and its subsidiaries, fall due at various times during April. P The appeal to the court is based on a recently passed law which permits a debtor to go into court for the purpose of reorganization rather than to g through the Jong drawn out and ex- pensive recelverships invoked in the If 75 per cent of the creditors agree to a scaling down of obligations, this may be done. Just what plans will be broached in the Missouri Pacific case were not available here yesterday. , however, will have to in the t by Judge Faris of trustees for the road. Stray Bullet Kills Girl. HARLAN, 1 (A).—An 8- year-old girl was shot to death near here late today when struck by a stray bullet fired d a quar.el between two men in her father's home. of the men also was ki'l>d. officers were told, took of T.ad Saylors at compensation for the mining community. .was Asbury Horn, 35. surrendered. Commission yesterday as a result of commission’ telegraphed the names of the men to Judge Faris of | tional the St. Louis Federal Court, in ac- cordance with the law requiring that than a |the judge select trustees for any road m a “panel of standing trustees qualified for such selected and designated IROOSEVELT WEIGHS RAILWAY SOLUTION U. S. Co-ordinator to Creaté Paying Basis Expected by Carriers. By the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt ended his first month in the White House yesterday in a whirl of activity that produced proposals for alding the Nation's trou- bled rail carriers. The best minds of the struggling rallroad industry reached the conclu- sion after their meeting of one hour that Mr. Roosevelt is inclined to a Federal co-ordinator to bring about drastic economies and guide the roads to a paying basis. Soon afterward con- gressional leaders interested in the Ten- nessee Valley project, which includes restoration of the war-time - Muscle Shoals, Ala, power and nitrate plants, reached an understanding with the President on legislation to put this plan into action. A message this week is expected. - In between his rapid-fire round of conferences, the President also received and took under consideration from Secretary of the Interior Ickes thé re- port of the Governor's oil conference proposing aid to the troubled industry through extended Federal regulation. Confer on Farm Mortgages. Not until 6:30 o'clock did the Presi- dent wind up his busy day with a con- ference with Secretary Wallace and Henry Morgenthau, jr., on the impend- ing legislation for refinancing of farm mortgages. ‘An early messagé to Con- gress on this plan is in prospect. As Mr. Roosevelt received the reports of the railroad leaders on their varled s i, g st 4 dering a general investigation into rail- road freight rates, As the spokesmen of railroad execu- tives, labor and investors gathered the President in his executive office in the day to consider the impen: legislation, Joseph B. Eastman, a mem- of the Interstate Commerce Com- the various proposals Mcial ldmt‘n'l:usu enmmmz on of which he is a member. Secretary g an $11,000,000,000 invest- :nnb:m '.h“u e half of which e ves 88 banks and insurance com I:E‘.Mn is intent on direc the roeds into better VR ""‘“”’g,"th,'“j,fl‘fi‘ contermpatio seurance st Fedemal ma: port, but providing that the roads reor- ..m'umhuvaofmmuu executlvumhdoellnd to duamm', ’mto listen first o further talks to be. held next week. Four Plans Presented. Those who' attended the session in- | cluded also W. W. Splawn, A. A. Berle and Raymond Moley, ities; Carl Gray, Pacific; F, E. Wi spectively, of the Railroa ) N. and counsel re- Association of Owners of d and_Public Utility Securl- ties; A. P, and ‘Whitney ., chairman counsel, Zfiy,a Mh:‘l‘dw Assoclation; Frederick Philip Stockton S. Jackson, associated with Prin Ro] said four definite been presented, inclu s muzdcu:hu{wl one g tor and two modifications such a lan, in addition to a proposal by Mr. , providing a poolivg of railroad mietr:nundmwodth-' in mind a plan for a co. itor with 1 co-ordinators him. emorial to commission, ganizations and shippers foined m the movement. Other Reductions Cited. charged i their peti- The Heniatton Friday. Two Weeks ago. Row. 1 on 4 X - e counmimion: aathectend (ar continuance for six months. |~ The railroads, in oral its held | by the commission to dt whether to conduct th: inquiry, opposed ary in- vestigation or reduction of rates, claim- ing they could not stand it. —_— HEAVY PENALTY FACED BY CHARITY RACKETEER Six Months in Jail and $500 Fine Imposed on Applicant Who Had $7,708 in Bank. By the Associated Press. account Jennie Rivera, , Who admitted receiving $660 from relief funds. She said her bank account charity while en; a further after court his mother o~ an 30 he “could ® job." out