Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1933, Page 2

—2 ex% WASHINGTON GETS WORLD ATTENTION Economic Picture Changed as MacDonald and Herriot | Near U. S. Shores. By the Associated Press. World attention centered more than | ever on Washington today as two of | Burope's foremost statesmen approached | America’s shores for history-making tdlks with President Roosevelt, who only [ yesterday changed the whole economic picture by withdrawing support of the dollar on foreign exchanges. Significance Attached. 12 iNew significance was attached to the coming of Prime Minister Ramsay Mas Donald of Great Britain and former Fiémier Edouard Herriot of France as a result of the American action which Secretary of the Treasury Woodin de-| scribed as taking the United States Dfl‘ the gold standard. The answer to the question of how soon and on what terms this country | might again adhere to a revised inter- national gold standard was believed by, msny officials to be bound up in the| outcome of the quiet talks to be held between the President and his distin- gulshed visitors in the next few d.l)'s.l MacDonald arrives tomorrow. ! Few here professed to see all the aspects and possible results of Presi- | dent Roosevelt’s sudden move, but among the effects was listed a definite step toward the re-establishment of a| gold standard to which national cur-| rencies could be attached at new par- ities based on present conditions and values. | From the White House came the word that the dollar would b2 allowed to find its own level internationally, since ! this was seen in some quarters as & necessary preliminary to establishment of the dollar at a new parity eventually. | With the attitude of the British and | French toward the new move not yet clearly indicated, the President was in a position to obtain their views and per- haps their co-operation through the/ direct conversations soon to begin. * Currency stabilization held a prime; position among the matters to be dis-| cussed with MacDonald, Herriot and the distinguished representatives of nine | other nations who will follow in rapid | order, but all aspects of the world ecanomic plight were scheduled for con- sideration. Debt Reduction Seen. | In some quarters it was pointed out | that depreciation of the dollar in terms | of foreign exchanges apparently would setve to reduce the war debt payment due June 15, a point which the Presl- dent would be able to make if his British or French guests do the ex-! pected and bring up the controversial matter of revision of these obligations. : On tariff matters, the President will| Be without specific authority to con-! clude reciprocal agreements as the bill | which would give him this broad power | Bas not yet been sent to Capitol Hill. | There were indications today that the | administration was holding back lest thei traditionally troublesome topic of tariff | prove a new monkey wrench in the con- gressional machinery at a time when smooth action is greatly desired by the ‘White House. * Officials today advised against expect- ing hard and fast agreements to come | out of the approaching conversations and indicated their greatest value might be in the mapping of a course of gen- eral agreement among the leading n: tions to be represented at the World | Economic Conference in London June 15 on currency stabilization, tariff and | other policles. No one knew, however, | how definite plans might be in Mr.| Roosevelt’s mind. He expects to do! most of the talking so far as the pres- | entation of the American viewpoint is concerned. i Plans Capitol Representation. i REICH CELEBRATES | JACK CAHILL. HTLERS BIRTHOAY Chancellor, 44 Today, Re- ceives Plaudits Equal to Those Ever Given Kaiser. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN. April 20.—Chancellor Adolf Hitler's forty-fourth birthday was cele- brated throughout Germany today with THE EVENING D. C. BANK HOLDUP SUSPECTS TAKEN Pair Are Held in Philadelphia After Being Identified by Two Witnesses. Identified by witnesses, two men were being held today in Philadelphia pend- ing arraignment before a United States commissioner on charges of robbing the Washington Mechanics’ Savings Bank, Eighth and G streets southeast, of more than $7,000 in an armed hold-up on April 6. ‘The men, John Cahill, 36, and Abra- ham Raifer, 35, were picked up by Philadelphia police on a lookout sent by police headquarters here. They were identified yesterday by Dale L. Miller, bank bookkeeper, and Mrs. Laura O'Brien, a customer, who said Cahill ordered her inside the bank at pistol point. Miller and Mrs. O'Brien went to Philadelphia after they had picked out photographs of the two men from the rogues’ gallery here and tentatively identified them as members of the quar- tet which participated in the hold-up. Detective Floyd Truscott and Frank Brass, who also went to Phila- delphia after the pair had been ar- rested, were back in Washington today, but will return to the Pennsylvania city tomorrow for the arraignment. The other two bandits are believed by police to be in hiding in Philadelphia, and an extensive hunt is being conducted by detectives there. U. S. MAY RETIRE ALL WORKERS IN SERVICE 30 YEARS (Continued From First Page.) on furlough such officers of the Army as in his discretion he deems desir- able While on furlough, such officers would receive half-pay and would not receive anv allowance except for travel to their homes. Can Give Officers Cuts.’ ‘The President also is authorized to suspend the pay or reduce the rate of extra pay allowed to officers of the | Army, Navy and Marine corps while on flying duty, and to distinguish be- tween degrees of hazard in various types of flying duty and to make differ- ent rates of extra pay applicable there- to, but no rate shall be in excess of rates authorized by existing law. The Botanic Gardens, together with all records, property and perscnnel, is! transferred to the Agriculture part- ment, effective the first day of sec- | ond month following enactment of this bill, and appropriations for the suppcrt of the Botanic Gardens are transferred to_the Agriculture Department. ‘Wherever the President, after investi- gation, shall find that charges estab- F lished under existing law for any service rendered or article sold by any execu- | S 'Lindberghs Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, accompanied by Mrs. Lindbergh, is here shown | just before leaving Newark Airport ysslgdny. LYING through a misty rain and low clouds which blocked all air travel to the West, Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in the National Capital today at the | beginning of their first air trip to- gether since they abandoned their Jap- | anese trip two years ago on the death of Mrs. Lindbergh's father, Dwight | Morrow. | Landing at Washington-Hoover Air- port shortly before noon, the Lindberghs | went into town immediately and Lind- bergh attended a meeting of the Na- | tional Advisory Committee for Aero- | nautics, of which he is a member. at | the Navy Department. The meeting | was described as a routine gathering for | the consideration of technical reports and other work of the Government’s aviation research body. | Have No Fixed Schedule. | ‘The Lindberghs expected to leave the a popular fervor never exceeded even |tive department, commission or other | Capital this afterncon if the business by similar celebrations in honor of the | former Kaiser and President von Hin- denburg. Cities were liberally draped with flags. even to the busses and street cars. Berlin police. with Nazi storm troops and Steel Helmet detachments, paraded along the famous thoroughfare Unter Den Linden. Speciai services were held | in the Protestant Cathedral and a| matinee concert was held in the State Opera House. Favorite Flower Sold. Hitler portraits and busts were plenti- Thousands of ing Hitler's favorite flower, the edel- weiss, for charity. The Prussian ministry of education decreed in honor of the birthday that all disciplinary penalties or “flunkings” incurred by students as a consequence of having “devoted themselves to the furtherance of nationalistic aims” The President plans to have the For- ‘shall be revoked and they be given eign Affairs Committees of the House “preferential treatment.” and Senate come to the White House | ~Hitler spent the day in the seclusion | next Tuesday to meet and talk with of hiscountry home near Berchtesgaden, MacDonald er dinner, and Herriot | Bavaria, where numerous messages, #lso probably will be present. | presents of flowers, eatables. drinkables, A tentative schedule for the visit of | Easter eggs, dainties and even lumps of the dignitarles provides numerous op- | sugar for his dogs accumulated. portunities for the President to talk |* Among the well wishers were Presi- quietly and informally with his guests, gent von Hindenburg, members of the the first of whom, MacDonald, reaches ' cabinet. the German Officers’ League, New York on the Berengaria tomoITOW | which sent warm professions of alliance, ahd comes here by special train to stay 'and Comdr. Howard Beale of the Sal- at the White House until the following | vation Army. ‘Wednesday. Herriot _arrives Sunday and Prime| Minister Richard B. Bennett of Canada | on Monday. Behind them are lined up leading figures in statecraft of finance of 1taly, Germany, Japan, China, Mexi- o, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. REOPENING OF BANKS | 70 BE CONSIDERED | AT PARLEY TONIGHT| (Continued From First Pag | eonference are concerned in solution of | the problem. The first banks to which the “gen- eral pla; would apply will be mem-' bers of the Federal Reserve System, Mr. Cummings explained. i Mr Cummings attended the general | conference today of the PFederal Re- serve Board with the 12 governors of the Federal Reserve Banks. This group held morning and afternoon sessions. Secretary of the Treasury Woodin joined the group this morning at 11| o'clock and was understood later to have gone to the White House. | Progress is Reported. H The only members of the Federal Re- | serve System among the 13 closed | banks here in the hands of conservators #re the three national banks—the Fed- | eral American Natfonal Bank and Trust | Co., the District Nationa' Bank and’ the Franklin National Bank. 1 Some of the other 10 may become | embers of the system if they succeed ~n reorganizing as national banks. For stance, the Potomac Savings Bank has underway a movement to reorganize #@s the Potomac National Bank and the Industrial Savings Bank is working on & plan also to be a national bank. The | roup of 13 closed banks thus divides self into two main groups for the present, the three national banks which | are members of the Federal Reserve Bystem and 10 savings banks which are | “Thus Far God Has Guided Us.” Named Honorary Citizens. In Munich the day was ushered in with a snow flurry, but thousands at- tended the public concerts. Ottweiler, executive agency of the United States | is less than the cost of such scrvice as | determined by the President in accord- ance with sound principles of account- | headed for the Pacific Coast in & sur- | miccionary circles. ing, he shall authorize, by executive, order, an Increase in the charges to, equal the cost to the Government. This authority to the President to increase | charges shall cease upon the expiration | of two years, but all orders issued be- | fore that date by the President shall continue in force until Congress by law provides otherwise. Wherever the President finds the in- terest of the United States will be best | served he is authorized. in his discre- tion, to modify or cancel any contract to which the United States is a party and which was executed prior to the date of enactment of the bill now under consideration. Whenever the President | shall modify or cancel any contract under this authority, he shall determine just compensation therefor, and if that amount is unsatisfactory to the con- tractor, he is given the right to sue the United States after a partial payment of the President’s award has been made. Appropriation Increased. Upon advice from the Supreme Court Building Commission that that build- ing will probably be completed during the fiscal year 1934, the appropriation therefore has been increased from $2.- | 240,000 to the full amount required, namely, $3,490,000. ‘The estimates of appropriation for vocational education and rehabilitation have been reduced 15 per cenmt, con-| forming to the policy of Congress to reduce compensation in proportion as the cost of living has decreased. To facilitate the administration of these appropriations a provision is suggested in the Saar region, named the President and chancellor honorary citizens, after which an affray occurred between Nazis and Communists. The latter had staged a counter-demonstration, which police dispersed. Mass meetings, parades and church services were held in many other cities and towns At the cathedral service in Berlin 12 Nazi standard bearers marched to the altar with banners while the choir sang Pastor Richter preached from the text, “The Lord, thy God, is with thee in all thou shalt do.” ENGLISH SHEEP D0OG GIVEN TO FIRST LADY Tiny Tre Will Not Be Kept n' reducing the minimum allotment to any | State by a like percentage. | The estimate of $1,050,000 for the| Federal Farm Board includes $650,000,; for the board proper. The remaining $400,000 is to provide for additional responsibilities proposed for the Farm Credit Administration under the pend- ing bill dealing with farm mortgages. BRYANTOWN STUDENT WINS ORATORY MEET Miss Ann Mudd of Notre Dame High School to Enter Finals May 9. White House, but Will Be Sent to Georgia." Tiny Tre, a 60-pound shaggy-haired prize-winning English sheep ‘dog, joined the White House kennels today. The dog was presented to the Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt by Mrs. Louis Roessler of Great Barrington, Mass., who raised it. Because of indisposition, the Presi- dent was not on hand to take part in the presentation, but Mrs. Roosevelt made the acceptance and posed with the new pet for photographs and motion Major, the large police dog. and Meggie, the little Scotty, that up until | pictures, | today comprised the White House ken- nels, were not in_evidence during the | ceremonies, some little trouble prior m' Miss Ann Mudd of Notre Dame High School, Bryantown, Md., was adjudged winner last night in the semi-finals of the oratorical contest sponsored by the Catholic University Conference of the Catholic Students of America, an organization with & membership of more than 500,000 students. The contest, held at St. John's Col- lege, Vermont avenue, made Miss Mudd eligible for the finals in the contest, to be held May 9, in which winners of semi-finals in other districts will compete. The judges selected Miss Ethel Wells, St. Cecilia’s Academy, thi. city, and Miss Alice Flury, St. Patrick's Acad- as second and third place winners. Other participants in the semi-finals were Miss Eileen Hol- land, St. Joseph’s High School, Em- mittsburg, Md.: Miss Margaret Mary Kirke, St. Anthony High School, Brookland, D. C.; Miss Helen White, of the committee can be concluded | early and the weather permits. They are following no fixed schedule, but are vey trip of the transcontinental airline of Transcontinental and Western Air, for which he is technical adviser. For the first time since he bega visiting the Capital Col. Lindbergh to- day used the local commercial airport. | On all previous trips he has used the military flelds across the river. He looked over the fleld carefully before | attempting a landing through the mud‘ and puddles, “dragging” the field twice at low altitude before making a beauti- ful cross-wind landing. Greets Airport Officials. Here on Air Tour ARRIVE IN FOG AND RAIN THIS MORNING. TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL ! U. S MISSONARY SLAYING DOUBTED No Evidence Found to Back Report of Death in Japa- nese Air Raid. By the Associated Press. PEIPING, April 20.—Chinese military reports that an American missionary had been killed by Japanese bombs at | Miyunhsien found no confirmation to- day at the United States legation or in Both groups said there were no American missionaries at | Miyunhsien, which is 35 miles northeast of Peiping. The United States legation has been informed that Japanese bombs st Mi- | yunhsien damaged an American Meth- | odist Episcopal outstation hich is in | charge of a Chinese pastor. CONTACT ABDUCTORS. Japanese Unable to Learn Whereabouts | of Dr. Nielsen, However. {as a “betrayer of France.” He shook hands cordially with air- port officials, remarking that the field DAIREN, Manchuria, April 20 (®).— was not s bad as it had looked from | japanese patrols from Hsihyen reported the air, and_introduced them to Mrs. : - Lindbergh. He left word that he want- | today that they had been in direct com- ed his plane serviced and ready for | munication with the abductors of the him this afternoon and then, with Mrs, | American medical missionary, Dr. Niels Lindbergh. took a taxicab to the Navy | Nielsen, who was kidnaped south of 'FIRST LADY DECLARES their getting acquaitned with the new- | Sacred Heart High School, this city, mot as yet members. These 10 occupy the status of so-called “State banks.” ~ ‘While Cummings reports he has been g\lklng progress, there seems to be no ! def comer hiving been feared. Mis. Roessler was accompanied by {James O'Hara, president nr the dog show opening at the auditorium to- finite information available at present | morrow will be exhibited at this ‘as to when any of the closed banks may be expected to reopen. Cummings not ¥ only has complete information in hand < showing detailed reports of the condi- fi‘on of these banks, but he has con- “Tiny Tre" | show, but not entered in any competi- tion. The big fellow has already won | numerous ribbons in dog shows and can s pesmallyowith Beveraliiof ‘the| o on s aiels T Theihcseyeliaitlo “conservators. He is thus equipped to|white House h;‘:l’m :hgrel‘l" v;: at & weave the local problem of the closed | cpinne i ly have banks, with $50,000.000 in depgsits tied w.g:dsplgn ‘t‘ eG.Presidenu estate at < ‘up, into the general consideration now | s, Ga. Sting given o Teopening all banks mfi‘“-lmf‘e“‘u‘fi:y was prfienm ;throughout the country. nursery of Emll‘l Moy l‘lmshen-n - f ® | Towa, which will be planted in g APPOINTED NAVAL AIDE |&rounds of the White House Mr. May el | was presented to the First Lady by Lieut. Comdr. Aaron S. Merrill. on Quty in the Office of Naval Intelli- Representative Wearin of Iowa. “gence, Navy Department, will be the| Anti-Cuss Club Uses Flail. new side to Assistant Secretary of the! MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark., April 20 Navy Henry L. Roosevelt. He will take (/) —The latest co-operative movement over his new duties about the middle in this section is the Mountain Home of next month. Anti-Cussing Club, consisting of 50 Comdr. Mahlon S. Tisdale, who members. served as aide to Ernest Lee Jahncke; The club punishes its members for ‘when he was Assistant Secretary and | punctuating their sentemnces with swear since has continued with Mr. Roose-|words in public places. The punish- ,velt, today was directed to go to the ment is so many licks with an extra “Navai Academy for duty about the,long razor strap, depending upon the middle of next month. degree and color of the cuss words, techni t | the plan within the and Miss Mary Elizabeth Lyons, Im- maculate Conception Academy, city. ‘The judges were Right Rev. Edward L. Buckey, Representative Kathryn O’Loughlin McCarthy of Kansas and Col. William L. Peake, superintendent of the District Jail. John J. Carson was chairman. 'ROAD PLAN EXPLAINED St. L. & 8. F. Reorganization to Come Within Bankruptey Act. NEW YORK, April 20 (#).—Robert T. Swaine, counsel to the readjustment bozrd of managers of the St. Louls & Prancisco Railroad, said yesterday bankruptey act. Algmvllo(mmuuw security holders is not n¢ , said, as the plan .is essen changed from that out by the readjustment m: which has already received the ment of more than 66 2-3 classes of bonds affected the road’s Swaine Department. | The famous couple left Newark Air- port, eastern terminus of Transconti- | nental and Western Air, yesterday. They spent last night in Baltimore. Their plane is a fast high-wing cabin mono- plane of the airline. CONDITIONS BETTER Addresses New York Women's Group on Government and Welfare Achievements. | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20.—Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt concluded a lengthy | address on government and community | relief work yesterday by declaring she | hoped “that some of the things which ' are being undertaken as emergency | measures we will soon be able to do away with, because we have achleved a ! real lbeturment of conditions to all our | e people. | The President’s wife discussed in con- | siderable detail her ideas of what the Federal Government should do to ald the unemployed, as she addressed 3,000 women at a luncheon given by thé Fed. eration for the support of Jewish phi- lanthropic socleties. | Beveral thousand women were turned | away for lack of space. | 4] ms for any kind of work | which the Government can legitimately start, which can be self-supporting in the future, will, of course, be started, not only by the National Government, but by whatever State can afford to do 80,” Mrs. Roosevelt told her audience. “And also a great program is under consideration by the National Govern- ment in the development of Muscle Shoals, which we also hope will be a | self-supporting thing in time, and of | great benefit to the country and the home, largely, of course, with the object of providing work. Masons in Germany | To Reorganize and Exclude All Jews New Order of Fredericki the Great to Be Wholly Christian. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 2o.—A|t1'°h;e Masonic lodges in Germany are Teorgan: mge"on a purely Christian basis” into a new order called the “National Chis- tian ©rder of Frederick the Great.” An_announcement that the lodges would be dissolved and reformed was made last night by the National Grand Lodge officers. Jews will be excluded from the new order. The step was decided upon, the an- nouncement said, “in deference to the times.” m'iuntnumhuomnbmn- mmnqx - | Corps, t! col (sitlon to proposed cuts in the armed Mukden last week. They added, however, that they had been unable to discover Dr. Nielsel whereabouts. (United States legztion officials at Peiping were informed that Dr. Nielsen was being held for a ransom of 500,000 Mexican dollars, about $100,000 at pres- ent rates of exchange.) JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUBMITS OIL BILL House Committee Gets Substitute | Plan to Ban Shipment of II- ! legally Produced Output. | f By the Associated Press. A bill to prohibit the interstate ship- | ment of ol unlawfully produced today | was submitted to the House Interstate Commerce Committee by the Justice Department. U. J. A. Carusi, executive assistant to Attorney General Cummings, wrote the committee that the draft submitted | by the department had the “prefer- ence” of the Attorney General over legislation introduced by Representa- tive Marland, Democrat, of Oklahoma. Differences between the two bills, however, were of a technical nsture. Carusi said the Attorney General “js willing to approve Mr. Marland's bill containing the clause providing that the carrier shall be free from liability and penalty if the delivery of the crude petroleum is preceded or accompanied by the delivery of the affidavit referred to in that bill. The bill requires shippers to present an affidavit to railroads stating that| the ofl was produced in accordance with State proration laws and regulations. Marland said he would ntroduce the bill drawn by the department. S. A. R. VOTES OPPOSITION " TO ARMY AND NAVY CUT Washington Society Unanimous in Stand for Full Officer and Enlisted Personnel. Opposition to any reduction in the officers or enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps was ex- pressed in resolutions adopted unani- mously by the Washington Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at its Lexington-Concord meeting yes- terday and. brought to the White House today by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. 8. A, retired, president of the so- clety. The resolutions also opposed any reductions in the organization Reserve he R. O. T. C. in schools and lleges and the C. M. T. C. The oppo- services is based upon the belief that it would seriously endanger the national defense, “already at a dangerous low —_— CONVICTED OF HOLD-UP 20, 193 FRARGE HAY FFER BLLON FOR DBTS Herriot Seeks Lump Sum Payment Acceptable to Parliament. By the Associated Press 8. 8. ILE DE FRANCE, EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK, April 20.—Informal | speculation among the entourage of | former Premier Edouard Herriot, en; route to the Economic Conference at Washington yesterday included . figure of between $800,000,000 and $1,000,000,- { 000 as a possible lump sum payment | that France might make in settlement of the American debt. i It was believed by persons in a good position to know that the plan for final settlement of the debt by one payment is now the favorite idea of the French government and of the special Ambas- sador. i M. Herriot exchanged telegrams with | his government in Paris today in order to assist him and his experts to reach Of the Hyattsville Presbyterian Church, | exact decisions on the economic lnn! financial problems they will discuss in | Washington. i Further than this, nothing was di-| vulged officially as to the nature of the | results of the private meeting of mem- bers of the commisison. The session lasted several hours. Puts Debts in Foreground. Informed persons, however, are con- | vinced that the debt question is occupy- | ing the foreground of M. Herriot's thoughts regarding the forthcoming conversations with President Rooseveil. Since his cabinet was defeated last: December because of its stand in favor of paying the $19,000,000 due the United States, former Premier Herriot has consistently advocated payment of the war debt installment. i Fully aware that his own political fate hangs in the balance, M. Herriot { was beligved to be seeking to formulate some proposal for settlement which would satisfy the conflicting expecta- tions of French and American political sentiments. In preparing a proposition to be made to President Roosevelt on the basis of a lump sum clearance, it is necessary first to know what figure would obtain the support of a majority of the French Chamber. Some political experts believe that former Premier Tardleu is the key man in this problem and can make or smash any scheme for its realization. M. Tardiey, it is said on good author- ity, was willing to make the December ! payment, but threw his parliamentary group against it when his allier de. cided the question must be used to oust M. Herriot from the premiership. Surrounded by Enemies. M Herriot is surrounded by politi- cal enemies, even aboard ship. His ac- companying experts were largely chosen from groups hostile to his ambitions. Correspondents for hostile PFrench newspapers are present in force and are watching him like hawks. This the special envoy knows only too well. If he agrees to the debt settlement he will be denounced by the opposition press and the opposition party leaders It is not difficult, therefore, to understand why' M. Herriot was reluctant to accept the mission to America. On the other hand. he could hardly avoid accepting the task when Wash. ington indicated he would be welcome. Poet and scholar as he is, M. Herriot is also a politiclan and he is inspired by a natural ambition to return to the premiership. If he can return to America to be hatled as & man who successfully dis- posed the vexing American debt question, he may be received as a na- tional hero and be given a hero’s re- ward. M. Herriot will go to Washington im mediately upon landing in New York. Conference with Secretary Hull ha been set for Tuesday afternoon. | CITIZENS ASK $50,000 | FOR SCHOOL BUDGET Forum of Columbia Heights As- sociation Also Opposes All- Night Parking. A resolution asking that not less than $50,000 be included in the 1934 public school budget for the continuation of Community Center activities was adopt- ed Tuesday night by the Citizens’ Forum | of Columbia Heights, meeting in the Powell Junior High School. The forum also adopted a resolution opposing all-night parking in the Dis- trict. Co-operation of the Police Depart- ment was asked regarding the removel of trafic signs and lampposts along Monroe street between Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets. The narrowness of the street was the motive given by the essociation in making this request. A resolution introduced by C. E. La Vigne and addressed to President Roose- velt, voicing the opinion of the forum as being opposed to any proposal toward 1ecognition of Russia, failed to reach a vote when the President of the forum, W. W. Coulliette, ruled it was a political question and did not come under the jurisdiction of the forum. Another resolution adopted favored the setting aside of April 30 of this year as “President’s day.” . | Graves Reported Looted to Obtain Buried Treasure Sergt. A. C. York, War, Hero, Declares Tombs of Two Ancestors Opened. By the Associated Press JAMESTOWN, Tenn, April 20—A legend of buried treasure, nearly a century old, was recalled yesterday when Sergt. Alvin C. York, World War hero, reported he had found the tombs of his great-great-grandmother, Mrs. Coonrod Pile, and her daughter opened and wrecked. Tuesday night Sergt. York, Sheriff J. M. Peavyhouse and several others stood guard beside the opened graves in a cemetery near here, in the belief grave robbers might return to mrchl other buriel places in the family plot for a quantity of siiver and a “keg of d” which tradition says was Pile shortly before his ve of Mary Pile, Sergt. York's an- &= has rIgee'n thrown bricks and Two in Chicago Face One Year to|per Life Sentences. CHICAGO, April 20 (#)—Peter Stathas, 22, and Katras, 27, today had been convicted of holding m:: the iter Trust & Savings August 18 and taking $3.000. ace sentences of one year 1o e. Presbhytery Head HYATTSVILLE MINISTER LECTED AT MEETING. REV. D. HOBART EVANS, was chosen moderator at the annual Spring meeting of the Washington City Fresbytery which ended yesterday fol- lowing a two-day session at the Garden Memorial Church. Rev. A. B. Altfather of Falls Church was named vice moderator. TENNESSEE VALLEY BILL INTRODUCED Hill of Alabama Offers Meas: ure as Approved by Military i Committee. By the Associated Press ‘The administration program for de- veloping the Tenncssee Valley—as written snd approved by the House Military Committee—today was for- mally introduced by Representative Hill, Democrat, of Alabama. Last night this plan approved by | the committee. 15 to 6, after a multi- tude of changes in the original draft proposed by Hill and Chairman Mc- Swain. “We will go before the Rules Com- mittee tomorrow and ask for a rule’ limiting debate to six hours and Kro- hibiting all amendments except those of the committee,” Hill said. Representative Byrns, the Democratic leader, said on the floor he planned to start consideration of the measure Saturday. The bill would create a Tennessee Valley authority to operate the giant Muscle Shoals power and nitrate nlant, and build the Cove Creek Dam an the | Clinch River in Tennessee. List of Limitations. ‘The main limitations written into the bill would require the Government cor- peration first to try to lease, purchase or condemn existing electric transmis- on lines before bullding its cwn as riginally proposed; to lease the shoals nitrate plants and operate them only if the leasing fails after an 18-month period; and require either the corpora- tion or the lessee to produce 10,000 tons of nitrogenous plant food for the first three years. A limitation also was inserted on the construction of new dams on the Ten- nessee River other than those at Cove Creek and dam No. 3 at Muscle Shoals, based on market demand for wer. The bill would appropriate $10.000,000 out of the Treasury to start the project. and authorizes the corporation to sell $50.000,000 worth of bonds. The War Department moved today to start surveys for construction of Cove Creek Dam. an integral part of the great power enterprise. $60,000 Allotment Made. An allotment of $60,000 was made, with which the Army district engineer at Chattanooga is to put 30 survey parties in the fleld immediately, to de- termine the overflow of the Cove Creek Reservoir, so as to establish boundaries in the 60.000-acre area which will be affected by the new storage basin. Passage of the bill by the Senate is expected without difficulty, though probably. with less speed than is now in prospect for the House. CHILD SWALLOWS KEY 3, Had Been Warned by Mother Not to Lose It. DENVER, April 20 (#).—Three-year- old Susie Quintana’s obedience is some- thing to be marveled at in one so young. Her mother gave her the key to the family residence with the warning “don’t lase this key.” Susie didn’t. She swallowed it. Hospital physicians, with the aid of the X-ray, located the key in Susle’s stomach. ~ She’ll stay there until it's re- covered. Girl, DR. E. L. POWELL DIES LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 20 (#) —Dr. Edward Lindsay Powell, 72, pastor emeritus of the First Christlan Church, died yesterday after a long iliness. Dr. Powell, a native of Virginia, was pastor 41 years before retiring in 1927 and was the author of three books, “Savonarola,” “The Victory of Faith” and “The Prophets’ Vision and President’s Dream.” S Bank President to Speak. W. H. C. Brown, president of the In- dustrial Bank, will be the cipal speaker at a meeting to be held under auspices of the Travelers' Business Club tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Garnet Pat- terson Junfor High School, Tenth and U streets. The Friendship Male Chorus will take part in a musical program. In Comedy MISS BAKER APPEARS IN CHURCH PLAY. MISS KATHLEEN BAKER, Who has an important role in “Oh, m-mted by ihe St. St. Gabriel's Hall ! MOVE FOR “HONEST DOLLAR” RENEWED Goldshorough Reintroduces Bill to Fix Buying Power Based on 1926 Prices. By the Associated Press. - Representative Goldsborough, Demo- crat, of Maryland, today reintroduced | his bill for an “honest dollar"—a dol- lar with a fixed purchasing power based on 1926 prices. In a statement, Goldsborough said his measure would “increase immedi- ately the metallic base upon which our currency and credit rests by nearly three billion dollars.” He added that commodity price levels of basic products would be boosted by !nearly 100 per cent and that there would be an immediate market for ex- portable surpluses. Under the bill, which was passed b; the House last year but not acted on in the Senate, the standard price for gold would be fixed at $36.17 an oynce, equivalent to a reduction of fine gold in the dollar from 23.22 to about 13.27 grains. A monetary board would be set up to adjust the price from time to time to maintain the “normal” purchasing power—that is, the average purchasing power of the dollar for all commodities during the year 1£26. ‘The “honest dollar” would make it easier for foreign debtors to settle their obligations, Goldsborough said, adding that he hoped it would meet with the approval of the administration. President Roosevelt’s action in cut- ting the American dollar loose from gold, the Maryland Democrat said, “shows the clear concept” the Chief Executive has that an expansion of rice levels will open closed banks and start business wheels turning. SENATE APPROVES $100,000,000 TO AID FARM PRICE LIFTING (Continued From First Page.) it must agree to amendments inserted by the Senate. Robinson Removes Peanuts. Peanuts had been put into the bill Tuesday by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, without a record vote, but were removed yesterday through an unusual parliamentary maneuver by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, after the Glass amendment had been reconsidered. Robinson moved to table Glass' amendment. An effort to limit debate had been blocked by objection from Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, who wanted peanuts to stay in so that sugar cane and sugar beets, in which he w2+ inWerested, could remain. 12> victory of administration forces came after the sharp setback on the sugar amendment, which Robinson op- posed and which he appealed to mem- bers to vote down. He pleaded that loading the bill up with other commo- jdities would make administration im- == i lends of this bill are going to i permit an indefinite number g( clorn- i:x?(:;:;lw ble l:;:lu&e‘d. the bill will be le of administration,” in- - tion,” Robin Norris Joins Robinson. Senator Norris, Republican of Ne- braska, leader of the independent Re- Phe bl 10w heat st o W and cotton, join walnm in the plea, observing: L It is going to be difficult to admin- ister anyway. It is doubtful that even under the very best of conditions it can % ity Bemosras y locrats, 12 Republicans and Shipstead, the Farmer-Laborite from Minnesota, joined then in tabling the Glass peanut amendment, while 18 Re- publicans, mainly party stalwarts, and 21 Democrats voted against killing the prge t/lo Hatfleld, nator . Republican of West Virginia, took occasion in between roll calls over the commodity list battle to attack the bill and to sponsor an amendment to prohibit imports of any rmiuct.s whose cost of production was less than the production cost of similar domestic articles. His amendment was | turned down 50 tc 28, with Senators Long and Bailey of North Carclina the only Democrats for it. BILL WOULD SAVE PUBLIC $4,000 A DAY ,Repmenuh’ve Cannon for Cur- tailing Output of Congres- sional Record. To effect an immediate saving of $4.000 a day for taxpayers and to s;eed up legislation by reducing to a mini- mum superfluous talk in the House and Senate, Representative Cannon of Wis- consin announced yesterday that he will introduce a bill limiting the free distribution of the Congressional Record. This bill proposes that each Senator and Representative would receive two bound copies per session and each Sen- ator five daily copies and each House member four daily copies, plus two daily coples to each Senator and House mem- ber for their personal use. “At present,” explained Mr. Cannon, “there are approximately 31,000 copies of the Record distributed daily while is in session to Senators, Rep- resentatives and various Government agencies. Senators receive 88 daily coples and each House member 60 coples for distribution under Govern- ment frank to their constituents.” When the members know that their speeches are to be franked to some 30,000 citizens they naturally have a tendency and a desire to speak often and at great length upon matters that need no discussion, he said. D. C. COMMITTTEE CALLED TO PROBE FISCAL AFFAIRS ‘The House District Committee has been called into special session at 11 a.m. tomorTow to adopt a resolution au- thorizing the special subcommittee ap- pointed two weeks ago to make an in- vestigation of fiscal and other municipal affairs in the District. ‘The scope of this investigation into the question of rent, foreclosure of , real estate promotion, evic- tions and other pertinent questions, will be defined in the resolution. The reso- lution has been drafted after a series of conferences by ntative Harlan of Ohio. It followed closely the resolu- tion which authorized the investigation of municipal questions and administra- tion by the Gibson subcommittee in the Sixty-ninth Congress. —_— APPOINTED FOR CRUISES Capt. Vaughn K. Coman, U. S. Navy, now on duty at the Naval Observatory I command the training ship cing this, the Navy De- ent said that about 770 midship- of the first and third make th~ cruises. Half In partm men, meml classes, would