Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1933, Page 1

WEAT (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) te s0 cool tonight and east or east winds. Temperatures—Highest, 50, at noon yesterday; lowest, 40, at 4 a.m. today. Full report on page B-7. Cloudy, not tomorrow; n Late N. Y. Markets, Entered as rost_ofiice, No. 32,496. cond c! ‘Washington, HER. Pages 14 and 15 matter D. C. “CONTROLLED INFLATION” PLAN DR @b WASHINGTON, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNLI D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. CONGRESS MAY ACT LATE TODAY; STOCK VALUES RISE BY BILLIONS; EUROPE JOLTED BY U. S. ACTION ROOSEVELT TOWIN | BROADEST POWERS Issuance of Unlimited New Currency Provided in Ad- ministration’s Bill. LEADERS IN CONFERENCE| Consider Reduction of Dollar’s| Gold Content as Carried in Legis- lation—Thomas Backs Plan. By the Associated Press. Intent upon getting quick au- thority to direct a “controlled in- flation,” President Roosevelt and his economic counselors collabo- rated with congressional advo- cates of currency expansion today | in the drafting of legislation | slated to be acted on without de- lay. | The legislation would give to Mr. Roosevelt authority to issue unlimited new currency as legal ! tender under the old “greenback” | law. It has been asserted repeatedly, how- ever, that Mr. Roosevelt is set against any “printing press” unsecured cur- Tency. The new legislation also would en- able the President to reduce the gold content of the dollar by international agreement or otherwise. ‘To overcome constitutional objections to the latter proposal, it was tenta- tively agreed to limit this authority to a reduction of the gold content of the doliar by 50 per cent—the same prin- ciple as is involved in his control over tariff rates. Reacting to the skyward swing of #tocks and commodity prices, congres- sional leaders appeared to be standing | behind Mr. Rooseveit's campaign. But quick action was desired by those in authority, to get the situation fully in | his hands as soon as possible. | Congressional inflationists argued in interviews that the net result would be | to make unnecessary the Roosevelt pro- Ro.sals for refinancing of farm and ome mortgages. Easier money conditions would make | this unnecessary, they contended. | The prediction came from Capitol Hill that the drastic measure would be in readiness and introduced late in the day, as an amendment to the farm bill in the Senate. Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Ne-. vada, said the administration was in “substantial agreement” with congres- sional proponents of the controlled in- | flation proposal and that it probably | would be offered late today. | There appeared to be in the Roose- velt program a definite idea for some form of bi-metallism. It was made em- phatic that whatever new paper is is- sued will be backed up by precious met- | els. It was assumed this would mean | both gold and silver. | ‘Wants World Agreement. However, the President wants first to work out an international agreement for bi-metallism and that is definitely in mind, in his imminent world economic conversations. “Congress has the power to delegate to the President authority to change the gold content according to the flexible tarifl provisions which were sustained by the Supreme Court,” said Senator Pittman. “There will have to be some limits | put in. In this case, it very probably | Will be limited to 50 per cent.” | Under the silver section the Presi- | dent would be authorized to accept up| to $100,000.000 in silver from any coun- | try as part payment on the total war debt from all countries, with a limit of 50 cents an ounce on the silver. “There will be checks and safeguards | in the plan.” said the Nevadan, adding | it would seek to use the “instrumental- ity” of the existing banking set-up and silver certificates could be issued against | the metal received by the Treasury on war debts, | Speaker Rainey told reporters the administation inflation tactics were | directed to meet assaults on American commerce by foreign nations. | The President’s move was toward bi- | metallism, he said, and would place | the Executive in a position to meet the nations that depend upon the | peund sterling on “their own ground.” | “Unless those nations come with us | to some international stabilization of | money, they are lost.” Rainey said there had been a “con- certed” drive by European nations against “the American dollar” and that they had been attempting to “take all of our gold away from us to leave us stranded and reduce us to a fourth or fifth class power.” He called the President’s action “the | “(Continued on Page 4, Column 4. — e _ { Dollar Makers | An exclusive feature will appear in the financial pages of The Star to tell | how merchants in many | lines have boosted drooping sales by new and clever | methods of advertising. What the other fellow is doing to get business may | prove of interest to you. The first Dollar Maker will ap- | pear next Monday in the | substitute for the entire bill, U. S. Dollar Shumps| Heavily on Markets Throughout World Quotation at London Is Lowest Since Oc- tober, 1931. By the Associated Press The first official departure of the | United States from the gold standard in more than 50 years was felt today throughout the world. LONDON.—Stocks went up and the dollar down today to the lowest point since October, 1931. In general, the reaction to the dras- tic measures taken by the American Government was extreme anxiety. Government quarters and economists were equally bewildered. The dollar, left to its own devices, took a bad slump, fluctuating widely between $3.71 to $393 to the pound, and finally settled down at $3.85!; at | the bank closing. Gold mine stocks improved and silver and copper shares registered net gains. PARIS —Stocks jumped upward on the Bourse today as a result of the abandonment of gold by the United States and of the price rise in Wall | Street. | Attention centered on exchange fluc- tuations in the United States dollar, which in erratic pre-Bourse transactions | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 8.) 100,000,000 FARM FUND IS APPROVED Senate 0. K.’s Appropriation in Resuming Agricultural Relief Debate. By the Associated Press. An appropriation of $100,000,000 to put into motion the administration’s broad farm price- lifting program was | approved today by the Senate in re- | suming debate on the agricultural reliet | plan. | The fund was authorized in adopting an amendment offered by Chaiman | Smith of the Agriculture Committee on | behalf of the Agriculture Department. | The Government would be reimbursed | from the receipts of the proposed proc- | essing tax. Authority for expenditure of some of the money to expand markets to remove | farm surpluses was included in the amendment. Prompt approval was given an amend- ment by Senator McKellar (Democrat of Tennessee) to exempt tobacco sweep- ings, used in making fertilizer, from the | processing tax. | Consideration of an amendment by | Senator Bankhead. Democrat. of Ala- bama, to stipulate that marketing agree- | ments provided for should not be con- | strued as violating anti-trust laws, was | delayed at the request of Senator Mc- | Nary of Oregon, the Republican leader. | A row over that other perennial stal- | wart of congressional dispuf the tariff—then broke out over a proposal of Senator Russell, Democrat, of Geor- gia, to add authority for the Secretary to change tariff rates on jute and simi- lar vegetable fibers competing ‘- with cotton. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts, opposed the Russell amend- ment, and it was rejected without a record vote. As the Senate met Democratic lead- ers had hoped to remove sugar from the bill and rush it to a final vote in the Senate today. However, the ex- pected offering of a controlled-inflation amendment was seen as upsetting their Vote Yesterday Prevented. The fight of the administration forces | to confine the price-lifting benefits of the farm measure to the seven com-| modities approved by the Senate Agri- culture Committee prevented a final vote yesterday. Aided by a few independent Repub- licans, the Democratic leaders managed | to eliminate peanuts which had been added the day before. Today they cen- tered on sugar cane and sugar beets written in earlier yesterday by a 44 to 37 vote, constituting a major setback for the administration forces. ‘The attack on sugar and the voting on 18 or 20 other amendments still to be offered, including a Republican were obstacles to be overcome before the final vote is taken. The House already has approved the farm program, but| ‘Continued on Page 2, Column 8) | EMBARGO BRINGS ANVIETY ABROAD Puzzlement and Extreme Worry Is Britain’s Reac- tion to Move. POUND’S VALUE RISES Government Denies American Act| Is Weapon, However, for Eco- nomic Parleys. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 20.—Puzzlement, | coupled with extreme anxiety, was the British reaction today to the American imposition of the gold embargo and the statements from | Washington that the The immediate concrete resuit was a heavy fall in the value of | the dollar as compared with the | pound, coupled with violent hour of trading on the exchange took the dollar down to where it was at one time, $3.90 to the! pound. Government quarters were beset with uncertainty as to just what President | Roosevelt's move meant and economists were equally bewildered. Follow Roosevelt Example. Two things did emerge clearly from ; Downing street: The present official | position is that Mr. Roosevelt's action | was not, as some suggest, for the pur-| pose of bludgeoning Prime Minister Mac- | Donald on the eve of the White House | conversations and secondly, there is no disposition on the part of England to | try to debase the value of the pound in | order to maintain the recent Tatio inq value of the two currencies. British officlaldom has taken a page from Mr. Roosevelt's book and at this juncture proposes “to let the pound take care of itself.” England's main concern is that trade advantages which she enjoyed because of her debased currency after her de- | parture from the gold standard might no longer exist. A considerable section of the press immediately concluded Mr. Roosevelt's move was made for the purpose of forcing Mr. MacDonald’s hand in_the coming _conversations and compelling Great Britain to return to the gold standard. Economic experts, however, are sitting | tight until they discover exactly what has happened. Import Not Determined. Sir Josiah Stamp, the famous econo- press an opinion, said in explanatiol “It all depends upon what America is trying to do, her intention being un- clear here for the present. The term ‘going off the gold standard’ is a mat- ter for definition. It means one thing to one person and something different to another. Until it is known what is behind the American step we cannot weigh its import.” Downing Street was emphatic in ex- pressing the view that Mr. Roosevelt did not take action with the idea of | forcing Mr. MacDonald’s hand. It is| (Continued on Page 4, Column 32.) . THREE GO TO TRIAL FOR ATTACK TO KILL Woman and Two Men Are Accused of Assaulting Baltimore Resi- dent in Apartment. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, April 20.—Mrs. Freida J. Riley and two others charged with attacking Mrs. Adelaide Doing Stork of Baltimore went to trial in Criminal Court here today. Mrs. Riley’s son. Bernard, and James Dufly are on trial with her. They are charged with assaulting Mrs. Stork with intent to kill her in her fashion- able apartment last December. Mrs. Riley wore a green sports dress, white hat and shoes and red earbobs in_the court room. Laughter rocked the court room as one juror, asking to be excused, tcld presiding Judge E O. Collins he had 500 baby chicks which required his attention. “We don't want to lose any chickens,” said Judge Collins, excusing the juror Defense attorneys immediately filed a motion to quash the charges againsi the Rileys and Duffy. PEOPLE LEAP FROM TRAIN FIRED BY COLLISION WITH GAS TRUCK Explosion Spreads Flames to Five Cars—Two Killed. Hundreds Have Close Call. By the Associated Press. CORNING, Ark., April 20—Two men were ‘killed today and hundreds of pas- sengers narrowly escaped injury when the Missouri Pacific's “Texan” was set on/fire after it crashed into a huge gasoline tank truck at Moark on the Missouri State line. E. E. Nelson, 30, driver and Ed Hurt, 48, fireman were killed. ‘The gasoline truck exploded after the of the truck, on the financial pages of The Star. collision, and flames spread to the first | || five cars of the passenger train. Hys- |brint in Leadbetter, the dead ==l terical passengers leupedn'gpun win- | stalled train, dows and doors of the train. All pas- uncgl escaped injury, however. Sticking to his throttle, Engineer Charles Leadbetter brought the train to a stop and then fell unconscious from his seat, critically burned. The fireman was killed when he leaped from the flame-filled cab. The engineer brought the train to a stop about three-quarters of a mile from the scene of the crash. " The train was traveling swiftly in an endeavor to make up lost time when it struck the truck at a grade 3 A relief train was sent to to and the 1T50000 SHARES SOLD N HALF HOUR, '/ Pre-Depression Volume of Trading Overwhelms Ex- change Facilities. COTTON ADVANCES $2.50 Silver Gains 2 to 3 Cents—Com- modity Markets Soar in Biggest Opening in Two Years. By the Associated Press. A fresh frenzy of buying added billions to quoted values of stocks and commodities in today’s mar- kets. The dollar again dropped sharp- United | ly in relation to other currencies, | | States was off the gold standard. in response to the official an-| noucement that it was cut free from gold. As this in theory reduced its purchasing power, prices in the | fluctuations which within the first New York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and other principal markets, were swept up- ward. Stocks were swept upward from $1 to $9 a share in one of the most hectic sessions of the New York Exchange. Trading facilities were overwhelmed and the ticker fell half an hour in ar rears. Highest-grade bonds, including United States Goiernment issues, again weak- ened, as investors sought to convert thelr funds into speculative vehicles such as stocks and commodities. Metal prices soared. Copper was quoted at 6 cents a pound. up Sp of a cent from yesterday. Silver futures NG BDITION \\ pep— ¢ Foening Star. *¥ Associated service. * (P Means Associated The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 124,062 TWO CENTS. Press. AFTED | A A ) SOVIET MISSION 10 LEAVE LONDON Trade Chiefs Recalled for “Consultation” in Embargo Controversy. | | By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, April 20.—The chiefs of the Soviet Russian trade delegation to London were recalled to Moscow today ! “for consultation” and will start for home next Monday. ‘This action follows the conviction ot | Potomac Is Rising - Rapidly as Rains Continue to Fall Stream Swells One Foot at Williamsport Since 7 A.M. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. April 20.—The | Potomac River was rising rapidly again t-day. having gone up a foot since 7 a.m at Williamsport, and now stands 63 feet above normal. Reports from head- waters of the river as well as tributaries indicate a further rise can be expected. ‘The river was up 10 feet early yesterday, but dropped rapidly until rain resumed. An inch fell here this morning. Peach growers are apprehensive, as jumped about 2 to 3 cents, on top of five British engireers tried in Moscow | the showers have come during the yesterday’s gains of arol scrap prices advanced $1. Chicago. Cotton Gains $2.50. 3. a ton at Wheat jumped about 3 cents a bushel, | ure resorted to by the government in zee a repeti and cotton about $2.50 a bale. Wool top futures at New York shot up 10 cents a pound, the extreme advance Ppermitted for one day by trading rules. Crude rubber, raw hides, silk, coffee, coca, oats, corn, barley, lard and many other staples pushed ahead in the move- | ment which retraced a minor fraction of the losses of the past three years. Profit-taking appeared in the mar- kets from time to time, tending to re- duce the advances, but setbacks gen- erally attracted fresh buying. Transactions to noon totaled 3,870,000 shares, agiinst 2,020,000 on Wednesday. This was the heaviest volume for a morning since Saturday, May 3, 1930, when 4,867,500 shares were traded. The last price on that day was recorded by the tipe at 1:56 p.m. Heaviest Since November 13, 1929. A million and three-quarter shares changed hands in the first half hour— the heaviest volume for that period since November 13, 1929, the day the Rocke- feller- interests placed their sensational | es | order of $50 a share for 1,000,000 shar of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Reacting now and then under profit- taking, the market zoomed along at terrific clip. United States Steel com- mon at one time was selling at $44.50, up $6.50. Corn Products Refining Jjumped $9.62 at the opening to a price of $74, while scores of issues, particu- larly metals, jumped $1 to $4. Customers’ rooms of brokerage houses were jammed, while the trading pits of the commodity markets presented scenes of high-pitched excitement as traders sought to execute orders. Meanwhile, the dollar, officially off the gold standard, at least for purposes of international trade, was subject to violent fluctuations in the foreign ex- change market. ' Sterling jumped 20 cents to the pound, while the gold cur- rencies of Holland, Switzerland and Belgium advanced broadly. Speculative bonds joined the rise of stocks and commodities, but gilt-edge loans again slumped. Brokers Bewildered. Wall Street brokerage houses, bewil- dered by the sudden and huge increase in commissions, were largely unpre- pared for the swift rush to turn cash into “equities” and commodities. A few days ago the stock market was merely loafing along. Today and yesterday order clerks, floor traders and custom- ers' men could not keep ahead of the (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) R R il N {DEFICIT FOR NEW YEAR OVER BILLION AND HALF Treasury Statement Shows $1,503,- 846,688 More Spent Than Col- lected April 18. By the Assoclated Press. With economies and governmental changes in progress designed to even the Nation’s outgo and income col- umns, the deficit for the present fiscal year has crept above the billion and a half mark The - Treasury statement for April 18 showed today that on that date the Government had spent $1,503,846,- 688 more since last July 1 than it had collected. Its income from all sources amounted to $1,598,325,881 and its- ex- penses totaled $3,102,172,570. On April 17, the deficit was $1,494,031,360. The statement showed a continued decline in income tax receipts with a total for the fiscal year of $576,803,798 as compared with $863,841,850 in the same period & year ago. Miscellaneous internal revenue showed an increase, however, totaling $637,365,778 as com- pared with $406,199,390 in the same period of the 1932 fiscal year. Customs receipts returned only $200.- 249,109 as compared with $283,597,605 a year 2go. Few of the economies have yet gone into effect or will have any oppor- tunity to make themselves felt the present fiscal year, during Steel on sabotage charges, and the imposition | pollenization | of an 80 per cent embargo against Rus- | | sian importations into England, a meas- | protest against the sabotage case. Asked if there was any question fl‘ the delegation not returning to London, a Soviet official said: “All T can say at present is that the delegation is going home to make a re- | port—a not unusual thing from time to | | Firm Policy Maintained. ‘While the negotiations between Lon- don and Moscow over the sabotage case | were going on the British government called home its Russian Ambassador for | personal discussions concerning it, and | he has not since returned. | The British government is maintain- | ing its firm policy in regard to the em- | bargo pending a final Soviet decision as to whether the prison sentences of L. | C. Thornton and William L. MacDonald, !two of the convicted engineers, are to | be_commuted The foreign office was without direct period, when the trees were in fuff blossom. Nearly the entire | crop was wipad out some years ago by rains during this period and growers fuon unlets the rain stops soon. Farmers are delayed, being un- ble to plant as the period draws near when Spring planting should be com- pleted. BANK REOPENINGS 10 BE DISCUSSED General Plan Sought at Meeting of Federal Officials Tonight. | T (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) Eedieilat i, FLOOD LAID TO MUSKRATS | Protective Walls Weakened by Holes They Dug. PHILADELPHIA, April 20 (#)— , Muskrats were blamed officially yester- day for a flood which marooned many | families in Southwest Philadelphia and ' a portion of adjoining Delaware County. Officials who inspected the area | along Darby Creek found that the walls | built to protect the section from waters were weakened by holes dug by muskrats. so that the pressure broke | them down. Steamer Runs Aground. CARDINAL, Ontario, April 20 (#).— The steamer Charles R. Huntley, | owned by the Eastern Steamship Co.| of Buffalo, ran aground on a shoal at the entrance to the North el, 4 miles west of here, today. VALUES. The dollar now is worth more and will buy more than at any time in years past and it may be that this will not be so later on. Advertisers are pointing out through their announcements in The Star that desirable or necessary purchases can be now made to advantage. | Yesterday’s Advertising. (Local Display) The Evening Star.. 29,478 13,607 9,221 3,138 2d Newspaper. . 3d Newspaper. . 4th Newspaper. . . .. (Pour other newspapers) Total 29,091 The reason the merchants use The Star so extensively is because it goes into the homes of practically ALL the people in Washington and the nearby counties who have money to A general plan to be used for the pos- sible reopening of closed banks will be considered at an important meeting to- night of representatives of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. the Fed- | eral Reserve System and the Treasury Department. ‘This was learned today from Walter J. Cummings, executive assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is work- ing on the problem of reopening the 13 1 local closed banks as part of his Nation- | flood | Wide program. At the meeting the three men repre- senting the three principal agencies concerned will be Jesse Jores of the R. F. C, Gov. E. R. Fancher of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of Cleveland, repre- | senting the Federal Reserve System, and Mr. Cummings, representing the Treasury Department. General Plan Sought. Mr. Cummings explained that the conference was bringing all three of these agencies together to work out a general glln to be used for reopening banks where possible. All of these closed banks need money, Mr. Cummings explained, and all three of the agencies represented in the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) LISTS 4000000 FAMILIES IN NEED House Committee’s Report | on Aid Bill Says Number Is Increasing. | By the Associated Press. | _ Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee filed a formal re-{ port on the Lewis-Wagner $500,000,000 relief bill today which asserted that 4.- 000.000 families were on the relief lists |in the country and the number was in- creasing. 1 “In the first three years of this de- | pression,” the report said, * throughout the Nation increased 800 per cent; this has meant the doubling | of relief each year over the year before, | As a result, total expenditurs for reliet approximated $1,000.000,000. “Reports for the first two months of 1933 show an additional 500 per cent | increase over correspondng months of 11929 “This forecasts an increase for the current year of 1.300 per cent above normal relief expenditures. Care for 4,000,000 Families. “These vast expenditures are now caring for 4,000,000 families already on | the relief lists.” | The report said “these 4,000,000 { families are daily being increased from | the ranks of the 13,000,000 unemployed 'and the millions of others under- employed.” “After four years of the depression, each day and hour the resources of the unemployed give out utterly in increas- ing numbers,” it continued. “This accounts for the annual dou- U. 5. MAY RETIRE ALL WORKERS IN SERVICE 30 YEARS Independent Offices Bill Pro- vides Automatic Separa- tions July 1. POWER TO FURLOUGH ARMY OFFICERS ASKED President Is Given Authority Also to Reduce Flying Pay in Services. A $468,407,600 slash below the $1,083,- 567,500 figure approved by Congress last sesslon was recommended by President Roosevelt today for operating the Government's independent executive agencies, including the Veterans' Ad- ministration, during the next fiscal year. Cut to $506,836,000. ‘The reduction in veterans’ expenditures amounts to $460,000,000 under the es- timates submitted to the House by Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas. The economies to be placed in effect July 1 reduce from $966,838,000 to $506,- 838,000 the expenditures for veterans as originally contemplated for the next fiscal year—before Congress gave Pres- ident Roosevelt authority to slash bene- fits to former service men. Estimates were submitted on the in- dependent offices’ supply bill, which wag vetoed in the last Congress by former President Hoover. As passed then, the measure called for an outlay of $1,003,- 314,000. Hearings are to begin before the House Appropriations Committee late today in executive session. It is planned by Representative Wood- rum, Democrat, Virginia, chairman of a subcommittee in charge, to have it ready for House action next week. The letter of submission by Budget Director Douglas accompanying the indepedent offices bill emphasized many important previsions of direct interest to Government employes in the District. Al in the civil service under the retirement act, who shall have renGered on or after July 1 at least 30 { | years' service, are to be automatically separated from the service and entitled to the prescribed annuity. There is specific provision that the President by executive order may exempt any person when in his judgment the public in- terest so requires. There is also a provision that this automatic retirement shall not apply to any person continued in the service, under an act of Congress. If any annuant be re-employed in the service of the United States or the District of Columbia, the snnuity is to cease during the period of the em- ployment. The President is authorized to place (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) JURY FAILS TO INDICT FOR BEER TRANSPORT bling of relief costs in this country and forecasts an increasing rapid rise as the depression drags on. “Municipalities and States have struggled to care for these constantly increasing numbers of their own citi- 2ens out of their rapidly decreasing tax receipts. But State and local tax ays- | tems at their best' were not devised to provide for the increase of expendi- | tures in any fleld at the rate of 1300 | per cent in four years.” | $250,000,000 in Direct Gifts. ‘The report said $250,000,000 would be advanced by the Federal Government on the basis of one Federal doliar to three dollars provided for relief by the States and political subdivisions, and | £250,000.000 would be used in direct | gifts to the States. | The money will be raised by the Re- | construction Finance Corporation by the | issuance of obligations, and will be ad- | ministered by a Federal relief adminis- trator. | ““The measure is to be considered by the House tomorrow. Republicans in the committee, headed by resentative Luce, Republican, | Massachusetts, who oppose the outright | grant and favor loaning the money, are preparing to flle a minority report. Representative Busby of Mississi the only Democrat who voted inst the bill, said he had not decided whether to file & minority report. “I am not willing to commit the Gov- ernment to that sort of a broad dole policy,” Busby asserted. “We should con- tinue as we have been doing—lend the money to the States and require an ac- counting whether it is ever paid back or not.” SHOEMAKER WAIVES FORMALITY FOR TRIAL IN ASSAULT CASE Charge of Striking Neighbor in Eye to Stop Noise to Be Faced by Congress Member. Representative Francis H. Shoemaker, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, will go on trial on & charge of assault and bat- tery 1n United States branch of Police Court. probably tomorrow. The Minne- ive the lmhn‘tmo{ ll‘::‘ i{wuwmt‘: ‘waive y jul a to submit to the jurisdiction that the Representative - urisdictionai . spend, , | member was immun warrant for the Representative’s arrest. Schwartz put the matter up to United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. Today Cohen’s attorney, Charles I. Kaplan, and the Minnesota Congress ‘member both conferred with Mr. Rover. After Shoemaker had talked with Rover he said the conversation had related to farm topics. Asked if the Cohen question had not been discussed, he conceded that it had been touched on lightly at the beginning of the con- versation, but that the talk veered off to a discussion of farming. Mr. Rover, however, l;“md said waive the j quem appear in court. Previously some doubt had been ex- pressed as to whether the Congress e from arrest. Under the Constitution he is privileged, except: in cases of treason, felony or breach of Mr. Rover sald today, however, that had m'.h: to the mudllllon thl‘.n:: case Representative would _been immune from arrest. West Virginia Federal Court Panel Fails to .Act on Demands of Judge McClintic. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va. April 20— Federal Court officials announced to- day that the southern district grand Jjury adjourned without returning any indictments charging interstate trans- portation of beer into West Virginia. The grand jury made its final report yesterday as the furor over Federal Judge George W. McClintic’s opinion that the State beer act is unconsti- tutional reached a climax in the House of Delegates, where an unsuccessful effort was made to seek his impeach- ment. Judge McClintic, in charging the grand jury earlier in the week, sald the State beer act was “null and void” under the “easily understood” language i, | of the State’s “bone dry” prohibition amendment. He directed the grand jury to look into shipments of 3.2 beer into the States under the Federal statute pro- hibiting transportation of beer into dry States. Whether any evidence was presented to the grand jury concerning trans- portation of beer was not disclosed, but the court records showed there were no indictments returned for such an offense. Judge McClintic’s statements before the grand jury were cited by Delegate Beacom, father of the beer act, in a resolution submitted to the House of Delegates asking the Legislature to “de- plore and denounce” his statements and ;&n memorialize Congress to impeach The resolution was killed, 58 to 25, after heated debate. NEW DRY HEAD RUMORED Chicago Enforcement Chief Seen Slated for Higher Post. CHICAGO, April 20 (#).—The Chi- cago Tribune said today that reports were current at the Federal Building that Al Aman, chief enforcement of- ficer in the Chicago prohil was slated for appointment as prohi- bition administrator for this district Aman was recently called to Wash- ington. Amusements ..... -Page B-14 Peatures and Comics.Pages C-6-7-8 ..Pages A-14-15 ...Page C-4 .Pages B-2-3