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EARLY FARM BLL ACTON S SOUGHT Measures Planned to Increase Employment and Stimulate Business. (Continued From First Page.) money into the banks for the sake of trade, we must secure them in some way sgainst the loss of their earnings and savings,” he said. ‘The bank reform bill, before it is Jaunched on its course in Congress will be passed upon by the administraticn. ‘That has not yet been finally done, it was said last night, although the ad- ministration has been kept informed of the progress being made with this im- poriant measure. Representative Stea- gall, chairman .of the House Banking and Currency Committee, like Senator Glass, has been at work on the bank reform bill, and he is expected ‘to in- troduce the measure soon in the House, and have it referred to his committes. ‘When the House meets tomorrow it may have before it for consideration the resoluticn presented by Repre- sentative Sirovitch of New York for a searching inquiry into the motion pic- ture business. The Rules Committee as granted a special rule for the con-! sideration of this resolution. The in- vestigation wculd be made by a spe- cial committee of seven members, ap- pointed . by the Speaker, and would cover the issue of securities by motion picture concerns and by banks and other concerns for the motion picture companies, the leasing of theaters, and the salaries and wages paid. House Marking Time. The House, as a matter of fact, is marking time until another of the ad- ministration’s reconstruction bills comes before it for action. The Sen- ate bill, sponsored by Wagner cf New | York, La Follette of Wisconsin and Costigan of Colorado, authorizing $500,000,000 for relief of unemployment and distress in the States, is still tied up in the Judiciary Committee, which is studying the precedents to determine whether the Senate violated the Con- stitution and the rules relating to in- itiating measures which have -to do with revenue and appropriation. The charge has been made that the Senate had no business to initiate this legis- lation and that it should have becn passed first by the House. Speaker Rainey said that in the end the House would pass this relief meas- whether it undertook to put it ough as a Senate bill or as an original House bill The Muscle Shoals bill, accompanied by a presidential message, is expected to reach the Capitol tomorrow or next day. It will provide the further devel- opment and use of the Government's power plant at Muscle Shoals and for the further development of the Ten- nessee River Basin.. It is understood that the bill goes much further than any of the bills hitherto sponsored by {Roosevelt Is Given Cane Made of Wood Of Jackson House Tennessee Representative Presents Walking Stick to President. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt was presented yes- terday with a cedar cane made from wood taken from an original house on the old Hermitage estate of President Andrew Jackson. The presentation was made by Repre- | sentative Byrns of Tennessee, the Demo- cratic der, who went to the White House at the request of Mayhew Dod- son of Hermitage, Tenn. Engraved on a silver plate on the the inscription: u“To hulg:nt Roosevelt made from house on Hermitage built about 1203. From Democrats of Davidson County.” Byrns told Mr. Roosevelt that May- hew Dodson, who owns & part of the old plantation, wrote him a letter say- e g “On the back side of my farm, near the Hermitage, I wrecked an old build- !ing and happened to notice a date on the window, which showed the house to be 150 years old. I found a piece | of hand-dressed cedar, which was part | of the window sill and the thought came | to me that the President would appre- {clate a walking cane made from Gen. i Jackson's place.” : “The Democrats of the Hermitage,” |'Byrns told Mr. Roosevelt, “revere the memory of Andrew Jackson and regard him as the greatest President istory. They consider President RooseveRt as his worthy successor.” NEWS BROADGAST ST WON BY A.P. “Pirating” of Items by South Dakota Station Is Hit by U. S. Judge. By the Associated Press. \ SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak., April 8— The Associated Press was absolved of charges of monopoly, discrimination and unfair competition in findings of fact and conclusions of law flled in Federal District Court today as a result of its suit to prevent a local radio station from using its news dispatches without authorization. The ruling confirmed earlier decisions by Federal Judges James D. Elliott, an- nounced from the bench in two differ- ent hearings, and was filed to clarify the record in the event of an appeal from the temporary injunction which restrained Station KSOO from “pirat- ing” Associated Press news. Judge Elliott issued the injunction Senator Norris of Nebraska dealing with Muscle Shoals, and that it wil designate power transmission lines as common carriers. Regroup Orders Awaited. One of the two appropriation bills which failed at the last session of Con- gress, the independent offices bill, has still to be estimated for by the Budget Bureau. The estimates are waiting upon the CGovernment reorganization orders, t5> b2 issusd by the President in ac- cordance with thz economy act. It bas been reported” that many of the inderendent offices cre to be meraed with end placed under the executive deparimenis and that some are to be! wipzd out entirely. It has been reported that a recom- mendation by at least cne member of the Committee on Governmental Re- organization working on that problem for the President would place Fed- eral Trade Commission, as a sion, in the Department of Commerce. Further, it is said that the President has been inclined to give the recom- mendation support, although he has not finally determined upon this step. Senators Norris of Nebraska and,La Follette of Wisconsin, both champl of the Trade Commission, insist such & move would destroy the independence of action now possessed by the Trade Commisison and are utterly oppased to such a proposal. It is understood the President will consult with Senator Norris in regard to this matter before he takes action. The Nebraska Sena- tor is prepared to oppose the move. The Black 30-hour work week bill, ‘which passed the Senate last week, has raised a storm of protest from manu- facturers and other producers in many parts of the country and members of the House are being flooded with let- ters and tel urging them to op- , which is still to be con- sidered by the House Judiciary Com- mittee. In the meantime the President has not_yet given the measure his ap- 1, but has asked for a report on measure from the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor. ‘The bill has been backed by represer.ta- tives of organized labor. FATHER O'DONNELL GAINS Notre Dame President Believed Out of Danger. SOUTH BEND, Ind., 8 @) Rev. Charles L. O’'Donnell, C. 8. president of the University of Notre Dame, tonight was declared by his phy- sician to be “out of danger unless com- plications set in.” Pather O'Donnell for two weeks has| .., been suffering from a occus in- fection of the throat. The infection area spread to his right lung Thursday. - Road to Cut Pay of 11,000. PHILADELPHIA, April 8 (#).—Ralph | °T. Senter, president of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., announced today about 11,000 employes will take a 7.7 per cent pay cut, effective April 16. The transit company will save $700,000 a year through the wage re- duction, which affects every one from the president down. ‘Trainmen will receive 60 cents per hour instead of the present 65-cent pay under the new scale. PECIAL NOTICES. i WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR Al debts contracted by any one other than my- self. EDWARD D. RUMFORD. 1641 R st. W ROOFS REPAIRED AND slate and asbestos shingles sonable price AD RATES ON FULL 1l points within 1.000 susranteed service SPECIAL RETURN: and part loads to oo 1400. NAT. ave miles: padded cal moving also. DEL._ASSOC.. INC. Lfim of said rules and regulations and NY | association and its membership “as N | ciated Press was entitled to a preliminary March 14, supplanting the temporary restraining order granted with the filing of the suit against the Sioux Falls Broadcast: Association, which operates Station KSOO. Odin Davis of counsel for the broadcast association said an | appeal would be taken to the United tates Circuit Court of Appeals. The ate for filing such an appeal expires April 14. Overrules Station’s Contentions. In his findings and conclusions, Judge Elliott overruled all contentions: set forth by the broadcast company; in- cluding one that the Associated: Press was operating in unreasonable restraint of interstate commerce, and held the by-laws - of the organization 'wr" and constituting a ‘reasonable’ an legitimate safeguard” for its news re- Provisions of the bylaws requiring memoers to furnish local news ex- clusively to the Associated Press and its members, thé findings said, “amount only to a requirement of undivided loyalty and service on the part of a news correspondent, and considering the nature and necessity of the busi- ness, such requirement is reasonable. * *’* The court does not find any ef- fort by complainant to achieve a monopoly; that complainant does rot operate unreasonably in restraint of interstate commerce.” Broadcasting of news by other radio stations, the court held, did not con- stitute discrimination against the 1 cal station. The bylaws of the As sociated Press, it wes held, did not pe: mit broadcast of entire news items, such as have been read over the local station, but limited broadcasts to bul- letins or “a bare statement in a few words of the nature of the news article.” . Broadcasts Violation. “The court finds,” the ruling said, “that any such broadcasts as made by the defendant, whether made by the defendant or others, have been in viola- have not been with the consent, either expressed or implied, of complainant.” It added that “if in any instance a member of complainant has consented to such broadcasts as have been made by defendant, such consent has been unauthorized; that so far as appeared upon such hearing, there has been no discrimination or unfair competition by camplainant and its members against defendant.” d | general wes needed before the business THE SUNDAY ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 9, 1933—PART ONE. BOND.CONTROL BILL GETS CLOSE STUDY RooseveltWants U.' S. Agen- cy Empowered to Revoke Registrations. By the Associated Press. The Senate Banking Committee yes- terday concluded its long hearings on the administration securities regula- tion bill after the full weight of Presi- dent Roosevelt's influence had been thrown behind the principle of its rev- ocation provisions. The legislation, already revised in many particulars, will now undergo fur- ther scrutiny in private before it is re- ported to the Senate, while a House in- terstate commerce subcommittee is re- drafting a similar measure at the other end of the Capitol. Ollie M. Butler, Commerce Depart- | ment securities expert, told the Bank- ing Committee yesterday he had been authorized to say that President Roose- velt favored the “idea of revocation™ in the bill, but not necessarily the de- tailed clauses. Reading from a small | slip of paper, Butler said: “I am authorized to say that the President is in favor of the idea of revocation as expressed (in the bill) and he did not attempt to or intend his message to Congress to cover any more than the general statement ye- garding the bill.” Section Target of Critics. Much criticism has been leveled at this section which authorizes the Trade Commission to revoke registrations of security issues for various reasons, in- cluding misrepresentation and fraud. Opponents have claimed it would ham- per the selling of honest issues because buyers would balk, feeling there was a constant threat of revocation. It was such attacks as these, Butler said, that led Huston Thompson, former Trade Commission chairman and one of the framers of the bill, to obtain the statement from President Roosevelt read to the committee yesterday. However; a revised draft of. the' bill made public strikes out some of the broad and indefinite grounds for revo- cation, and retains those where the is- suer “has been or is about to engage in fraudulent transactions” and where fraudulenit misrepresentation is eon- tained in statements to the commission. Other changes in the new draft pro- vide for application of the proposed law only to new securities and exemption of outstanding iscues of bona fide cor- porations that have been operating a year or more. Penn Harvey Last Witness. Instead of making all directors of issuing corporations sign statements filed with the commission, the revised bill would authorize any director to be excused from signing “for good cause shown” but in all cases at least three- fourths of the directors would have to ign. The last witness before the com- mittee was Penn Harvey, vice president of the Chase-Harris-Forbes Corpora- tion of New York, the security affiliate of the Chase National Bank which now is in the course of liquidation. Appearing at the request of Chair- man Fletcher and in a “personal ca- pacity,” Harvey said the entire banking profession could not be “indicted” be- cause of mistakes here and there and that greater confidence in the banks in could be resumed on a normal and profitable basis. He sald if security affiliates were to be separated from parent banks, now was the time to do it, as the market was low and the banks could make the change with a minimum of difficulty. SRR ROOSEVELT LEAD DESIRE OF WORLD Statesmen of Europe, Asia and South America Tire of Own Peace Efforts. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Roosevelt’s dramatic invi- tation to the heads of the nine leading powers of Europe, Asia and South America to confer with him in Wash- ington has electrified all international quarters at the National Capital. His initiative is widely interpreted as indi- cating the United States’ willingness to accept leadership in world recon- struction. Everywhere men are saying that to Pranklin Roosevelt has returned the opportunity which was offered to the preceding Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson, and rejected by the country acting through the Senate. Ac- cording to the same authorities, the world at large is as ready for a new deal as the American people them- selves and equally prepared to let Pres- ident Roosevelt distribute the cards. They do not suggest that he would be given “dictatgrial powers” of sny kind. They mean t the nations are in re- ceptive mood for a blast of fresh air. This, at least, is the reaction imme- diately manifest in Washington to the spectacular action of the White House in seeking personal conversations here with European, Asiatic and South American government leaders. The views expressed exactly reflect the pro- phetic opinion voiced, shortly after the inauguration of President Roosevelt, by J. L. Garvin, famed editor of the Lon- don Observer, who said: “America has found & man. In him st s later stage— and it cannot be very long d"!(!'refi— the world must find a leader.’ Europe Tired of Leadership. % Europe in particular, according e-ndldpespokemen from that distress- ful continent, is tired of her own lea ership. Her leaders are depicted as ing tired of one another. They them- selves are described as tired men, worn out by the futility of their own ef- forts. A long procession of them has come and gone since the ‘World War, leaving the European situation &“0- gressively worse from year to year n it was before. Statésmen cry peace and call for peace, but there is no peace. The continent is like Mark Twain's weather —in & state Which evokes universal disgust and unceas- but nobody does anything It is in the midst of this hopeless- ness that MacDonald and Simon, Dtl& adier and Paul-Boncour, Mussolini an Grandi, Hitler and Hidenburg, to say nothing of lesser lights like Pilsudski in Poland; Bernes in Cuchanm{akh, Zamora and Madariaga in Spain; Hy- mans in Belgium; Maniu and Titulesco in Roumania; Schulthess in Switzer- land; Tsaldaris and Venizelos in Greece; Marinkovitch in Yugoslavia; Van Block- land in the Neghemn“lnd Sandler in Sweden are depl most longing across the Atlantic for fresh blood and inspiration in the realm of international statesmanship. Old World Diagnosis. 4 An Old World spokesman, who can- not for obvious reasons be named, diag- noses the situation in these terms g0 50 far as to prophesy with complete confidence,” he says, “that Europe will accept with open srms the same sort of audacious leadership from President Roosevelt as he has given the United States during the past five weeks. Broadly speaking, Mr. Roosevelt, as he looks across the ocean, sees the same picture of leaderlessness, drifting, un- certainty, distress, fear, that confronted him when he took office at Wi on March 4. It was much the same tion as Europe found itself in after he Armistice—a house bitterly divided into groups of conquering and con- nations. qu'!'g Europe, at that chaotic hour, came an American President, Woodrow wilson. In its craving for order and an ordered peace, Europe welcomed Mr. Wilson as & new Messiah. At the mo- ment of his arrival in Prance, on the eve of the Peace Conference, Europe, U. S. PRESSES DRIVE TO FREE SHACKLES OF WORLD’S TRADE (Continued From Pirst Page.) program if successful were pictured by Hull as rehabilitating manufactur- ng and mining, and returning 12,000,000 wage earners to employment by selling their surplus production. He believes also it would restore better prices to the farmer by helping him get rid ot* his_surplus. By his spectacular appeal to out- standing figures in the great natlons, President Roosevelt hopes to empha- size the importance of the London Con- ference and rally public opinion in this and other countries to the program of leveling trade barriers, which, by checking the flow of goods, affect the pocketbooks of even the humblest. LONDON IN AGREEMENT. Approves Hull Dictum—MacDonald Leaves Saturday. LONDON, April 8 (#).—Secretary of Under conditions existing in the ter- ritory served by Ksoo, the findings held, news gathered by the Associated Press “has and continued to retain a value to complainant and complainant’s members for not less than 24 hours after first publication thereof in a newspaper which is a member of complainant It added that “said practice of de- fendant in so appropriating said news constituted unfair competition by de- fendant against complainant and com- plainant’s members, that the same causes great and irreparable injury to complainant and that defendant in- tended to continue said practice unless enjoined and restrained from doing so.” “Unfair Competition.” In his conclusions, based on the find- ings of fact, Judge Elliott ruled that the Associated Press and its members “are equitably entitled to enjoy and reap the benefits of their industry, efforts and expenditures in the gathering and obtaining of said news,” that the un- authorized use of its dispatches by the radio station constitutes unfair compe- tition and that equity will protect the against such unfair competition.” Therefore, the court held, the Asso- injunction prohibiting the radio station “from pirating, appropriating, using or disseminating to the general public through broadcasts or announcements news gathered and obtained through the labor and expenditure” of the or- CA IG. pairing, Tesson- able terms. 19! 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State Hull's statement in Washington today on the aims of the forthcoming international discussions met with full sympathy in London, it was authori- tatively learned. British political quarters said there was sound hope for realization of the desire of the American Government to bring about at Washington a general agreement on the principle of breaking down trade barriers and solving ex- change problems. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s preparations for his visit to Washing- ton already are well advanced. He leaves next Saturday. HERRIOT COMING HERE. Accepts Daladier Appointment for Conversation. PARIS, April 8 (#).—Edouard Herriot, who lost the premiership because he in- sisted that France should pay the $19,- 000,000 war-debt interest due the United States last December, agreed today to g0 to Washington as the French rep- resentative in the international eco- nomic discussions that are being ar- ranged by President Roosevelt. M. Herriot, now the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Cham- ber of Deputies, probably will said April 19 on the Ile de France. On the subject of the Mussolini four- power peace plan, in which great inter- est has been manifested in France, the premier and M. Herriot are said to be in complete agreement. It is the gov- ernment’s thesis that European fron- tiers can be changed only under the Covenant of the League of Nations, and M. Herriot writes In a Lyons newspaper that “revision without method and su- pervision would certainly mean war.” CASINO MAY BE CLOSED Gambling House at Monte Carlo Having Dull Period. MONTE CARLO, April 8 (P).—For the first time since it was built in 1862, the famous Monte Carlo casino may be closed within the next few weeks, it was learned today. The matter will be decided at the annual meeting of direc- tors on April 19. It is thought probable that the old casino will be closed for from three six months for “Spring cleaning,” but “It was 13 years ago,” the ted. “Let us not equivocate. I l&vfllfl to go back o [ Vol w4 uering and conquered peoples alike, :flgnlmgumlmmdwmo\mmm as arbiter of the universe. He was something new, something wholly de- tached from Europe’s own conflict and woes, something from which, in its own dupenugn.ltl\g&pe ht and les g 2'" had failed to bring forth. lin D. Roosevelt strikes us as fitting pe fectly into the picture of 1933 wegld needs, just as we envisioned that Wood- row Wilson did in 1918. Wilson and Nation’s Confidence. “For Woodrow Wilson's failure to measure up to European expectations, there are many reasons. Foremost among them, in our opinion, was the fact that he had lost the confidence of his own country, or at least of the branch of Congress, the United States Senate, whose approval of his engage- ments with Europe was necessary before they could become valid. Few of the Europeans Who threw themselves at the feet of the American ‘“Messiah vealized that they were idolizing & statesman who only a few weeks before had been rebuked at the national elec- tions in which he had called for vindi- tion and suj 3 c."ln mumpwg. Roosevelt Europe finds a President of the United States who has the confidence of his people to an extent in some respects unparal- leled in their modern history. Certainly if he cares and dares to lead his coun- try in an international new deal, there is every sign that it will follow him as wholeheartedly as it has rallied around him in the fleld of natfonal policies. He has another vantage that Mr. Wilson lacked—] is & practical litician. po“n is not for Europe to suggest what Mr. Roose' Chicke;lo Dmner$ Enough for 4 persons. o Phone James' Decatur 4601. 2,240 Pounds to the Ton Blue Ridge Va. 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Europe sees eye to eye with President Roosevelt In wanting to_come to grips with t problems. It has been feebly trying to do so. It not found man or way. haps if Stresemann or Bflnndmbemmlred,wevuudnot groping for both the men and the ‘The point I make tatesman who has ‘;.lnn of the Amefl; aring programs al t to give the world bold leadership, I to the point of cer- Franklin D. Roosevelt will face with an opportunity such as has come to few men in our time. his E (Copyright. 1933.) HOME REFINANCING BILL NEARLY READY Draft of $2,000,000,000 Program Due to Be Com- pleted Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt was advised yes- terday that the draft of legislation em- bodying his prcgram for a two billion dollar refinancing of small home mort- gages will be completed tomorrow. ‘The legislation, designed to prevent thousands of mortgage-burdened home owners in towns and cities from losing their property, is virtually a counterpart of the agritultural refinancing legisla- tion already before Congress. The bill is being whipped speedily into shape by a group of Democratic leaders in the Senate, co-operating with ad- ministration experts. Follows Farm Refinancing. It follows closely the lines of the agri- cultural refinancing bill in providing bearing bonds in place of existing mort- gages. Government would guarantee tHe interest, but not the principal, and there would be a three-year moratorium on amortization of the debts. The plan provides for refinancing mortgages on homes valued up to $20,000, provided the principal of the value, or $16,000. In contrast with the farm plan, the bill now in process of formation, would cover onlxy exis debts and would not be _used for new financing. Tentatively the interest rate has been fixed at 5! per cent, as compared with 41, per cent in the farm bill, but there is lll'!.mte pressure to lower the higher Confers With Roosevelt. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, who is co-operating with other Senators in drafting the legislation, conferred with President Roosevelt at the White House about it yesterday. He is leading the fight to obtain a ifllfl' interest rate, and is believed to have obtained the support of the Chief Ex- ecutive Mr. Roosevelt insisted on the lowest interest rate possible under the farm bill, but those framing the new legisla- tion contend the conditions are not the same, since there would be more ex- geme involved in administration of the ome financing plan and the refinanc- ing would cover a higher percentage of | the value of the property. ‘Wagner told the President the group framing the bill would meet again to- morrow and hoped at ‘com= plete ita work. Ll d e MORTGAGE PROTECTION BILLS SENT TO LEHMAN Two Measures Passed at Albany Provide for Corporation to Reorganize Investments. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y. April 8.—Extending protection to New Yorkers who invested .lu;.:r;umd monfilze u:ermum dur- ous real estate 3 Legisiature tonight passed and . :ncthui Gov. Lehman for his signature two bills providing for the creation of a semi- public corporation for reorganization of real estate investments whose values have been endangered by the depres- sion. The measures embody the recommen- dations of Gov. Lehman for a safe and reliable agency to carry out the reor- ganization process without endangering the investments of those who hold mortgage certificates. 3 The measures call for creation of a board to act as a clearing agency for in- ;:t&nun‘, appraising and selling mort- of the property to fi:fm "‘Xh‘lei default securities. The ration would operate under the mm sion of the State Department of In- surance, Europe will wait prayerfully for | fcr the issuance of new low-interest | Ge, = WORLD CONFEREES = AN ‘ALL-STAR CAST' Roosevelt Conversations to Center International Politics Here. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. With the arrival of the leading states- men from the four corners of the world, Washington will become the center of international politics and will assume an _importance similar only to that of Paris during the reign of Napoleon III. Ramsay MacDonald and Edouard Herriot, the two veterans who have been last decade, have intention to come over flmw two w:elh. )ll:.ounl, the other im- portant leader in world politics, announced yet 'hetherwhe w\hn” 2{': Six other nations ‘will participate in the momentous Wi conversa- tions, either through their respective ing over highly placed officials. From President Roosevelt's invitation to the British premier it is evident that the conversations will not deal exclu- sively with economics. The President indicated clearly that he wished to dis- cuss with Mr. MacDonald matters in connection with the disarmament ques- tion, and when disarmament is men- tioned in the Frmnt complex situation of the world, it is natural that he will have to discuss everything else which has s0 far slowed down the Geneva con- ference. ‘Th - e disarmament have fail until now because no yl:u found ;edt a solution to the political problems which create suspicion, fear and conse- quently reluctance to approach the dis- armament thesis with a genuine desire to get somewhere. Everybody wants his neighbor to disarm, lest he may become strong enough to attack. As long as this spirit is permitted to exist there is little that can be done to make the neva conference a success. And as long as the political problems compel nations fully armed to look upon each other with suspicion, there is but lit- tle chance for the econemic conference to yield the results the President and his Secretary of State hope for. It is true that the high-tariff barriers and the quotas and import restriy to the present tension in that, tension exists today and. betn ing to observers who are watching de- velopments, it is too late to do any- thing me‘l‘.:]:yt' by‘:eléin‘ the interested 3 'S 8] lown _toget! break down our tariff walls.” 19&";:"': ation is too far gone for that. How- ever anxious the leaders of the nations may be to restore normal trade, it will ime to obtain positive re- e, D et it ke e lera Ppublic - spective countries and thnunv.llll:m re_ ion has been poisoned with fear of neighboer for too long a time to such simple, yet sane, problem. e An “All-Star Cast.” This the President realizes fully, is in order to impress the nuhucm}l,mcll: will be watching anxiously the develop- t he has ments in Wi n, thal - vited an “all-star cast” :ge ?glutl utdthz vmw’gum*fi e richest and most powerful coun in the world—to dls:u: the ways lg means for averting a catastre . The work d :.:‘}B' himself will discuss with his general situation and will leave to retary Cordell Hull, who has made tariffs and questions connected with them his life-long study, the task of discussing economic matters. In spite of the great strain of these weeks when Mr. Roosevelt has been confronted with momentous domestic problems, he has had time to get thor- ca) . 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Be~’ hind Baby Bunting at the finish were | Chgnticleer, owned and ridden by Rob- |ert’ Lamborn, in second place, and | Paulotta. owned by J. Walton Bolgiano | and ridden by Richard 8. Janney, third. In the Neophyte Handicap, C. Wilbur Miller, jr. on his own mount, Jitters, placed second, while Kildare Lass, owned by Miss Frances Carroll Brown and ridden by Thomas Cover, 3d, fin- ished third. . Approximately 4,000 attended the race. Il FINNS “BUY Use English Slogan to Combat Ger- man Products. HELSINGFORS (#)—Finnish farm- ers have decided to use the “buy Brit- ish” slogan as a trade weapon against Germany. of Mrmers and poultry A meeting raisers at Sagu, one of the country's X principal "1"3”“";'3 dm:tlcu. has n | passed a resolution boycott German economic t, the fleld is open | products and buy British for & number of spectacular possibilities.| This was a sequel to 's_de- It is along.these: lines that the con- | cision to increase tairfls on eggs. n: it was feared, would ruin hundreds gmall farmers in Finland. move one of the main causes of friction | Europe. This matter was discussed by President Hoover and Premier in 1931, and it is not unlikety that it may be discussed again when the leaders of the European nations come to Washington to exchange views with President velt. The situation is at present somewhat different from what it was 18 months | ago, when Laval came to Washington. The world had not reached then the critical stage it has reached today. 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