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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today, tomorrow possibly local showers; not much change in tempera- ture; moderate south winds. Tempera- tures—Highest, 83, at 3:30 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 54, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 7. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star's exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION he Sundlay Star P) Mea ns Associated Press. No. 1,467—No. Entered_as second class -mattel post office, Washington, P PROSPERITY DRIVE CARRED. FORWARD 0N WIDE FRONT Davis Proposes Sweeping§ Tariff Truce to Agents of Eight Nations. RESULTS OF PARLEYS WITH ROOSEVELT HAILED Way Held Open for Debt Solution. More Sta for Economic Talks. ‘o5 men cn Way Here By the Associated Press. Plans for marshaling a united front among nations for a drive against de- pression moved forward yesterday in various parts of the world as President Roosevelt concluded his first series of great international conversations and prepared to resume others. Dropping down in London by air- plane, Norman H. Davis, America’s Ambassador at Large, proposed to rep- Tresentatives of eight organizing nations for the World Economic Conference a sweeping tariff truce proposal. Authoritative reports said Davis pro- posed a moratorium on tariff increases for the period of the truce. Secretary Hull, speaking in Washing- ton, declared history pointed to Ams- “for leadership in the existing " and called for an end to tstrap methods” on the part of in- dividual nations in combating the de- pression. Bennett Sees “New Will.” Prime Minister Bennett of Canada, as he turned homeward after historic conversations with President Roosevelt, called for greater effort than ever be- fore to stabilize the currencies of the | world and said that from the Presi- | dent’s conversations there was arising | “a new will for co-ordination in the world.” Former Premier Edouard Herriot of France, as he sailed from New York, told newspaper men that as a result of his conferences with Mr. Roosevelt “both sides are now in an excellent position.” Amity between the United States and France, he said, is one of the “great essentials” for world peace. Statesmen on Way Here. Prime Minister MacDonald was on the high seas en route back to England, while high representatives of both Italy 2nd Germany hurried toward the White House to take up talks along lines similar to those held by him. At Washington, Democratic leaders announced they would seek tomorrow to £ain a quick approval of the huge farm relief bill, with its rider asllowing the Prosident far-reaching power to inflate the currency, and fix the gold backing of the dollar at a different level than at present An “inflation boom™ swept over the | markets on the strength of the news from Washington, and stocks, wheat | and cotton prices were pushed up by a wave of buying. Way to Debt Solution Seen. The end of the first great series of international conversations at the White House found the United States and its fellow nations well launched for the first time toward a solution of the vital post-war problems of debts, heavy ar- maments and economic nationalism. Whatever the eventual verdict of his- tory may be, the talks with MacDonald and Bennett marked a direct and frank application by President Roosevelt of his policy of the “good neighbor” in world affairs. From the private expressions of offi- cials and a between-the-line reading of the necessarily vague communiques issued there cmerged certain definite conclusions, outstanding among which were these: That the President had met frankly the thorniest of all the problems— that of the $11,000,000,000 owed to the United States as a result of the war by various European nations—and had opened the way for a friendly settle- ment of these obligations. Suspicious Disarmed. That the President had successfully enlisted the support of all three na- tions, in principle at least, on a pro- am of cutting away the tangle of tariffs, exchange restrictions and other barriers with which the several coun- tries have surrounded themselves in selfishly nationalistic attempts to live for themselves alone. ‘That the President had disarmed the British and French suspicion, which re- sulted from America’s sudden departure from the gold standard, by explaining to them the domestic considerations which prompted the action. That the United States is ready to assume new responsibilities in lending its influence to the preservation of peace in order to bring an atmosphere of national security which will allow definite reducticns of armaments. That the President has persuaded his itors to help assure the success of | v the world monetary and economic con- ference by agreeing not to boost tariff walls to gain bargaining power at that conclave set for June 12 in London. The President more than any one else realizes the amount of work which has yet to be done. But there has been {of amity and ROOSEVELT ADJUSTED First Lady Arranges WASHINGTON, FAMILY LIFE TO BUSINESS Routine to Fit With President’s Duties—Children See Little The home life of President Roose- velt and his wife in the White House, their favorite methods of relazation and recreation on the infrequent oc- casions when they are free, and the games they like to play are described in this article by Mrs. Roosevelt. BY MRS, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. If you are in public lfe you know that every time your husband takes a new position his life and your life and ized, for every such change carries with it a new set of duties. In Albany, when my husband was Governor of New York, he went over to the Capitol in the morning, as a rule, and returned in the late afternoon ex- cept on Saturdays, Sundays and Mon- days, when sometimes he went to the country. If he was in Albany he stayed at home at the executive of Father. mansion on those days and did not go to the Capitol until Monday evenings for the evening sessions of the Legis- lature. Here in Washington he does not have to go to the Capitol at all, unless he wishes to deliver a message in person before the Senate or the House, or un- less he is going up to sign bills just before Congress adjourns. He goes in- | stead to the executive offices in the | the life of the family must be reorgan- | morning and returns to the House late in the afternoon. It is practically all under one roof, but we are just as much separated as though he went to a build- |ing farther away. I am, however, relieved of one anxiety, for at least his lunch, which he eats on his desk, as he used to do in Albany, is cooked in our own kitchen and sent over to him. I always had (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) BORAH SKEPTIGAL OF WORLD PARLEYS Sees Little Hope of Gaining Economic Peace With Other Nations. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. “If we are to have a moratorium on debts, let us have a moratorium on armaments.” Such is the ultimatum Senator Wil- liam E. Borah, Republican Progressive, of Idaho, would send to Europe in reply to the war debtors’ plea for revision or cancellation of their cbligations to the United States. The former chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who was one of the few per- | sons in Washington last week privileged to hold a private conference with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, so ex- pressed himself last night in a radio address. Throughout Senator Borah's remarks ran a note of pessimism akin to hope- lessness, in reviewing the recent ex- changes of international views in Wash- ington between President Roosevelt, the British prime minister and former Premier Herriot of France. “I see no evidence of any willingness on Europe’s | part,” Borah declared, “actually to dis- arm, to stabilize the currency, or to do any of those things in general which are necessary to economic recovery.” Points to U. S. Distress. “The first thing to remember when discussing these debts,” said Senator | Borah, “is that they are due the tax- payers of the United States—the tax- payers who are now in great and uni- versal distress. There can be no justi- fication in taking from these taxpayers any part of what is due them, unless it be in full consideration of something equally to their benefit. I think the opening of world markets and the re- newal of trade and commerce would be debts. But the situation as it is now presented seems to be that the Euro- pean cebtors are not prepared actually to do anything in the way of opening world markets and restoring trade and | commerce. Nevertheless, they insist on postponement of the debts, which means | | ultimately, in all probability, cancella- | tion. The key to every movement of | | the debtor nations is to postpone pay- | ment of the debts, which is only a step to cancellation or repudiation. While | they are leaving out of their budgets the payment of the debts, they are | keeping in their budgets the usual ex- | penditure for armaments, and, in some instances, increasing the amount. If we | are to allow a holiday in the payment | of debts, we should have a holiday— an actual holiday—in expenditures for armaments. Fails to See Concessions. “The currency questicn is no differ- ent in my eyes than the disarmament situation. No spirit of concession is visible. It is well known that Great Britain has maintained for a long| | time what is called an equalization fund, |which fund is used to depreciate the | pound and appreciate the dollar, there- by giving Great Britain material ad- vantage in the world markets as against the United States. While the distin- guished representative of Great Britain, Mr. MacDonald, was our guest, bent on a mission of reconciliation and re- adjustment, we are advised that this equalization fund was vastly lncmid, It also is reported that a part of ti equalization fund is to be loaned to France. This also happened while France's representative, M. Herriot, was |in America, likewise bent on a mission | reconstruction. Both | these European nations seem to be| going forward in a determined effort | |to manipulate the currency so as to gain a decided advantage over the United States in trade. Without going into_details, the situation is this: We are being urged to take from the Ameri- can taxpayer that which is justly his while our debtors are spending (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) FARM BOARD WHEAT TRADING ENDS, CHALKING UP $184,153,232 LOSS Stabilization Operations Cest $160,334,489 Over Three- Year Period, Morgenthau Says. By the Associated Press. A loss of $184,153,232 chalked up on its books, the Farm Board yesterday formally ended its wheat operations and retired from the grain markets in which it has been dealing since May, 1930. Henry Morgenthau, jr., chairman of the board, announced ina formal state- ment that at the ciose of the grain exchanges yesterday all wheat futures heid by the Grain Stabilization Cor- poration—the Farm Board's agency— had been sold. He announced early in March that the corporation had disposed of all its cash wheat, which on June 30, 1931, | ¢o reached & peak of 257,136,571 bushels. Offices of the Grain Stabilimtion Corgoration in Chicsga Will be ¢ wheat donated by cong:s Cross for relief has n thau sald. of more benefit to our people than the | 8™ | men, was overtaken near UPRISING CRUSHED, 10 SLAIN IN CUBA {Army Forces Suppress Revo- lutionary Outbreak in Oriente Province. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, April 29.—Seven rebels, two soldiers and the chief of police of the town of San Luis were killed as | army forces quickly suppressed a revo- lutionary outbreak in Oriente Province today, sald a government announce- ment tonight. Meanwhile, reports from Santiago sald rural guard posts at Boniato and Songo also had been attacked, with two soldiers wounded at the former place. A force of approximately 40 men, the announcement said, attacked the rural guard post near San Luls early today, killed two soldiers and seized horses, arms and ammunition. They were then driven from the town by army forces dispatched from nearby Palma Soriano under command of | Lieut. Rodriguez. Two rebels were killed. Slay Police Chief. | In their flight, the communique con- | tinued, the rebels killed the San Luls { chief of police, whom they had taken | prisoner while looting the vaults in the telegraph office and destroying tele- | graph and telephone facilities. Hotly pursued by additional troops | under Capt. Larrubia, sent from San- | tiago, the rebels divided into three about 20 guavo by a detachment headed by Sergt. Morejon. in the ensuing brush four rebels were killed, the remainder of the party dis- persed and the arms and horses re- covered. The rebels, the government stated, dispersed in small groups, closely pur- sued by the soldiers. Press Ban Placed. Simultaneously with the arrival of advices in Havana of the trouble in Oriente Province, a military censorship was placed on press dispatches going out of the city. The ban was lifted 6 hours later, however, the palace explain- ing it was a “mistake.” Government observers, nevertheless, continued to re- view press dispatches and interior cen- sorship was still in force. Havana itself was qulet, although a number of rumors concerning the pro- vincial disorder were in circulation. Dispatches from Santiago which told of the attacks on the guard posts on Boniato and Songo also reported that the rebels who invaded San Luis pre- viously had torn up railroad tracks and burned a small bridge between Pal- marita and Miranda. The government announcement char- acterized the outbreak in Oriente as isolated and declared “absolute tran- qulmdv"' existed everywhere else in the oups. The largest, comprising Rebels Seize Arms. It revealed, however, that a small band of rebels in Victoria de Las Tunas | last night forced the door of the Mu- nicipal Court and seized arms which had been taken from prisoners. Four soldiers, led by Capt Jomarron, set out in pursuit, overtook the rebels at a farm, killed one, wounded another and took him prisoner. The rest fled, leaving their arms behind. Cuban Te]el)hune Co. wires leading into Namzanillo and Guantanamo were cut during the day, but repairs were made this afternoon. ‘When news of the outbreak at San Luis reached Santiago the Oriente Prov- ince capital, cleared the streets and parks, clubbing several persons ‘who were slow in heeding their orders. ‘A report received indirectly from of- ficial sources indicated there was some dissension among army officers at Camp Columbia as the result of the killing there recently of an unidentified non- commissioned ogw.mfle had b‘e:‘gn I;; rested, the report said, on suspi implication in oppositionist activities, but it was dl.sceveroid after his death that he was innocent. Officers from the camp, it was learned tonight, conferred with general staff of- ficers yesterday. Conspiracies Frequent. Conspiracies to overthrow the Ma- chado administration in Cuba have been frequently 11‘;“1” mf.l;g Abvnge of At , main re- m‘:’l ugust, Bt 50 Cuba of its revolutionary leaders. The principal members of the Ma- 18| chado opposition have concentrated in operations, said, was $160,334,489.41, covering total purchases over the three-year period of 615,449 bushels, of which 538,337,- bushels was wheat futures. All sales and donations of wheat by the board aggregated 369,704,468 bushels, Morgenthau said, and that in dispcs- ing of its wheat the corporations sold 237,204,468 bushels through _regular domestic and foreign market channels. A total of 47,500,000 bushels was sold ts exchanged 908! 000 New York and Miami and apparently have kept in close contact with their sympathizers on the island. . In Cuba there have been a series of Incidents of political violence recently resulting in several deaths. Since last Tuesday a Cuban junta has E:m having daily discuss a& program between the government forces and the anti-] junts lead- ‘Washington -Machado camp. It is understood that the ers received advices from asking them to & program of Mmm- e b coiaike D. C, SUNDAY DICKINSONBELIEVED PROBABLE HEAD OF ' | Splawn, Ewin Davis, Patton, Saltzman, J. C. Edgerton May Direct Units. REORGANIZATION SCHEME ABOUT TO BE SUBMITTED Roosevelt Reported to Have Or- dered Regrouping Program Sent in This Week. BY JESSE 0. IRVIN. While the White House was reported to have ordered Interior Department and other Government officials yester- day to have their reorganization pro- egrams on President Roosevelt's desk this week, Commerce Department officials were completing a list of nomi- nation recommendations for the huge new transportation section. The Commerce Department's re- organization program was completed two weeks ago and is now at the White House. The nomination list is expected to be submitted to the President early this week. Mr. Roosevelt is known to be anxious to submit his reorganization program, calling for major regrouping only in the Commerce and Interior Depart- ments to Congress during the week. ‘These plans may go to Capitol Hill at the same time he submits the last of his emergency measures—rail, tariff and public works. Dickinson Direct Head. ‘The Commerce Department’s trans- portation section, which will have juris- diction over land, air and sea com- merce, will be under the general super- vision of Secretary Roper. Under the plans now being considered the new agency will be uncer the direct super- vision of Assistant Secretary John Dickinson of Pennsylvania. His present designate will be changed to Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Transporta- tion. The post of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics is reported slated for abolition. Dickinson's nomination was con- firmed a month ago. He relinquithed the chair of professor of law at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania to accept the Government post. He is also a student of economics. The post of director of the Land Trans- portation Bureau of this agency is understood to have been offered to Dr. M. W. Splawn of Texas, one of Presi- dent Roosevelt's rail legislation advisers. ‘This bureau would under the reorgani- zation plans have jurisdiction over aiding rallroad pipe line and motor transportation services, including the Alaskan Railway, and the present In- terstate Commerce Bureaus of Safety, | Accounts, Statistics, Service, Finance and Locomotive Inspection. However, this section will have no connection when the reorganization program is placed in effect with the Interstate Commerce Commission, which will continue to function as an inde- pendent agency with only 7 of its 13 present bureaus. Ewin Davis Selected. Former Representative Ewin Davis of Tennessee. will probably get the post of director of the Water Transportation Bureau. While a member of the House he was chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. The reorganization plans would place under this directorship the Shipping Board’s Bureaus of Research, Marine Develop- ment, Construction and Finance, and the Merchant Fleet Corporation, the War Department's Inland Waterways Corpor- ation, and the Commerce Department's Bureaus of Lighthouses and Navigation- Steamboat Inspection. James C. Edgerton of this city is known to be prominently mentioned for (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—32 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. D. A. R. Activities—Page B-3. Serial Story, “Luxury Liner"—Page C-9. American Legion—Page C-9. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page C-9. Organized Reserves—Page C-9. Spanish War Veterans—Page C-9. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page C-9. Public Library—Page C-10. Conquering Contract—Page C-12. 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World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—S8 PAGES. Holly of Hollywood; the -.,u-; k] MORNING, G APRIL 30, 1933—106 PAGES. *% v FIVE EN IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS! TS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE TR Iilg st T il | FARM FEATURES OF THE SPRING DINNE GRIDIRON CLUB. GRIDIRON SATIRIZES “NEW DEAL” INFETE Roosevelt Is Given Glimpse of Own Administration by Correspondents. | | | President Roosevell was given 8 glimpse of his administration and poli- icies through the -looking glass of the Gridiron Club at its annual Spring din- | ner at the Willard Hotel last night | While the “theme song” of the new | administration was declared to be, “Sweet Adeline,” the “new deal” itself was disclosed as a superior combina- ers of the day. The President was the guest of honor and gathered about the board were many other outstanding figures in | American life, including Vice President Garner, Speaker Rainey, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Ambassa- dors of Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Cuba, the Gover- nors of Massachusetts, Indiana and Utah and Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress. The keynote of the dinner was suonded in a brief speech by Charles G. Ross, Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Pulitzer prize winner of 1932, who was inaugu- Enlud new president of the Gridiron lub. “The new deal is upon us,” he said, “and from the hand of the dealer the cards fly with bafling speed. The hand is quicker than the eye, gentlemen, but it is not quicker than the ‘ayes’ when a year! Wonderland is all around us, and we shall show it to you tonight— a wonderland with a king and a king- fish, a jack and some jokers—with Senators turning into reporters and re- porters turning into a secretariat, and everybody turning handsprings—a won- derland, my countrymen, from which the men who wear hair shirts have beex:lexpeuedbythemenmum pants.” Inaugural Ritual. In going through the “ritual of in- auguration,” the chairman of the In- augural Committee declaimed: “And now, under our new President, let us close the banks and go forward unpaid. “What's that, what's that?” came a . And now under our new president let us close the ranks and go forward unafraid.” “How did you ever make such a mistake?” a member reproached him. “I got my ina tions mixed, that’s all.” responded the chairman. flng, ma et i e o, ', Whereupon & inquiry of the new Federal Reserve currency and it bounced up and knocked him through the cage.” Gridironers had but in clothes t.huep like o' which I never fore.” done seen before.” Spectacular Entry. ‘With a loud fanfare of te distincti Xegine. 05, 1% S e tion of the policies of Hitler, Mussolini, | Stalin and several other dictatorial rul- | the roll is called in Congress. What Police Dog Bites ! Senator Caraway at White House Party By the Associated Press. | The only masculine guest at | , Mrs. Roosevelt's White House party last night left in disgrace because he bit Senator Hattie Caraway. It was Major, White House police dog. who took it upon him- | | self to take part in the cere- | | mony of introducing distingushed | guests. | When Mrs. Roosevelt intro- | | duced Mrs. Garner, Major gave | | three rousing barks. He got so | | much applause that by the time Mrs. Rocsevelt had gone down the list of ‘“cabinet wives” and to Senator Caraway, his co- operation knew no bounds. It wasn't a bad bite, just a scratch that made a momentary | | bit of excitement in the party | | Mrs. Roosevelt gave for Secretary 1 Frances Perkins while the Pres- | ident attended the Gridiron Club dinner. TEN FARMERS HELD BY 10WA MILITIA Fixed Bayonets and Machine Guns Prevent Trouble at New Sales. | By the Associated Press. | LE MARS, Iowa, April 29.—Ten| Northwest Iowa farmers tonight were | under military arrest facing prosecu- | ticn, possibly on charges of criminal syndicalism, for alleged participation in farm riots which brought the Na- tional Guard and martial law to Ply- mouth and Crawford Counties. Troops, with fixed bayonets and ma- chine guns, today supervised a sale of goods at the J. F. Shields farm near Deniscn. It was the attempt to com- plete the sale yesterday which precipi- tated the battle between farmers and cfficers, resulting in declaration of mar- tial law over Crawford County. A second sale conducted under su- pervision of Sheriff Ralph E. Rippey of turbulent Plymouth County was without incident today. Deputy T. C. Parker of the 155-acre prop- erty of Katie Durband for $14,500 to the court holder from the steps of from: which District Judge C. C. Bradley was dragged by & ursday. Only five farmers at- attempted sale a few weeks ago re- sulted in threats to hang the attorney for an insurance company. Meanwhile, the men in custody, five here and five at Denison, awaited the assembling of special judges and prose- cutors appointed by State authorities | te their hearings and trials. | Judge Is Recuperating. Arrested at Le Mars were: John Kun- kel, 52; T. J. Ernst, 45; John Sokolov- skie, Henry Reints, 33, and Law- uman, 23. Four other farms were visited en seeking ';hd.gen muul?d in & list ontn flnlwg of assault on Judge Bradley. 0se accused as rioters at Denison were Frank North, 46, and W. H. Meyer, 53, both of Vail; Herman Blume, 33, and Fritz Blume, 31, brothers, and Walter Bandow, 19. Judge Bradley was recuperating to- from his injuries. He will be' re- ‘placed on the District Court bench for who was appainted W. Kindig of 18; PRICE LEVELS RISE 3 POINTS IN MONT Department Heads Shape Plans for Launching Farm Aid Set-Up. By the Associated Press. Soaring prices brought a smile of cheer to Agriculture Department offi- | cials yesterday as they bustled about preparing plans for gearing into high speed the far-spread machinery of the administration’s agricultural aid pro- gram. But while they worked they were given as indicative of the need for a tonic an official report of the Bureau gated $5,143,000,000, compared with $6.911.000,000 in 1931. On top of this was word from the same bureau that March exports of agricultural com- modities dropped to the lowest level in 19 years. To offset this disquieting information | the crop reporting board of the de- partment announced that April 13 price levels were up three points over the March 15 figure and its repor showed grains well ahead of last mont! quotations. High Cost Fears Discounted. While the Roosevelt farm bill stood still in Congress—bearing Senate ap- proval but awaiting House considera- | tion of changes—Secretary Wallace and his economic adviser, Dr. Mor- decai Ezekiel, went ahead with their plans for putting it to work when passed. Although conceding that the farm bill and the inflation rider would increase the cost of living some, departmental officials and experts discounted fears that the consumer would be made to pay excessively for the benefits to be given the farmer. Dr. Ezekiel smilingly called attention to the bill's provision for licensing pro- cessors and distributors as a club to be wielded in case some of them should seek to run up prices out of pro- portion with the tax to be levied to aid the farmer. He made it very clear this license could be revoked if necessary and with other advocates of the pro- gram said he felt that was an adequate safeguard in the consumer’s interest. In making preliminary plans for putting the sweeping bill into effect of- ficials are emphasizing co-operation ex- pected from processors and farmers, to result in best administrative achieve- ment. They hope to set up in State and farm communities voluntary organiza- tions to aid in working out the program. Until the bill becomes a law, expected some time next week, as it is considered probable House and Senate conferees PRESIDENT FORGES PLANS FOR BILLION IN'PUBLIG PROJECTS Congress Will Get Program of Job-Giving Within Ten- Day Period. METHODS OF FINANCING WORKS ARE UNDECIDED {Co-ordinator or National Board | Would Be in Charge—$500,000,- | 000 Is Decided Upon for Roads. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt forged a one-year billion-or-more-dollars public works program to aid employment today to top off his broad domestic and intere national program. A tentative draft of the measure which would put administration of the job-giving plan in a co-ordinator or naticnal board was taken to the White House by a special committee of the cablnet. Methods of financing the employment project were undecided last night with | both a bond issue and new taxation under corsidera . The committes ‘c:nsidcxed a proposal for a tax on pay | rolls, but it was indicated this waf [ not favored. Mr. Roosevelt insisted that the pub- lic works be deveted to self-liquidating projects and to proposals which provide | the most jobs. | No decision was reached on the exact | extent of the year's program but the White House advisers believed between |$1,000,000,600 and $2.000,000,000 would be required. Road Building Advanced. A three-year, $1,000,000.000 road con- | struction program was advanced by he | cabnet committee. A half billion dol- lars for the rcacs in the next yeer | is almost definitely a part of the Roose- | velt plan. | Rivers and harbors improvements, | naval construction, public buildings and | other internal developments are to be | included. Secretaries Dern, Ickes, Wallace and | Perkins and Director Douglas of the budget went over the public works program with the President in a two- hour conference late yesterday. The legislation, which would put full | authority for naming the projects and administration in the hands of the President and a special committee, will be sent to Congress within 10 da: In this step the confident and de,er= | mined President proposes to extend still further the management over national affairs which he gave notice to a dis- | tressed country on inauguration two months ago that he would assume. With full authority over the mone- tary system and agriculture within his | grasp the President intends to obtain power to supplement this control by in- | stituting new work. . ‘Worn but willing. Congress was rally- ing by the President over the week end | to speed through the remainder of his | legislative program. From a sick bed | Secretary Woodin hailed the controlled- ! of Agricultural Economics saying that|infiation bill and asserted he was in full | the farmer's receipts last vear aggre- | harmony with the President and denied reports he intended resigning. | "The tentative public works bill gives | the President full control over domestic | improvements, with a stipulation that | new projects be those which give the | most work to labor. There is also under consideration & proposal extending sweeping authority | to the President to exercise such other uthority as is needed to improve work- ing conditions. The Cabinet Committee as considered proposals for suspensions of anti-trust and Federal Trade Com= mission restrictions. Inflation Vote Tomorrow. House Democratic leaders announced they would force a House vote on the inflation amendment tomorrow. The bill gives the President power to lower the gold=content of the dollar and this will be used in the near future in the establishment of a new world monetary standard. A fresh declaration of intention to take this step came yesterday in a joint statement by Mr. Rocsevelt and Prime Minister Bennett of Canada. “It is recognized.” they said, “that as soon as practicable an international monetary standard must be restored, with arrangements that will insure a more satisfactory operation of interna- tional monetary relationship.” 1t is believed possible in the Capital that & new money standard might be established by executive action even before the conclusion of the London Economic Conference convening on June 12. Intent upon concluding the extra- ordinary session of Congress by early June, Mr. Roosevelt ordered during the day that every preparation be made to administer the pending measures. ‘The $2,000,000,000 home mortgage re= financing bill passed Friday by the House will be given early attention by the Senate. ‘The farm bill also provides for re- financing farm mortgages on a lower Interest basis. Henry Morgenthau, jr., (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) DETROIT DELUGED BY SHOPPERS AS BANKS RELEASE MILLIONS Paying Off by Closed Institutions Brings Heaviest Business in By the Associated Press! DETROIT, April 20.—Reminiscent of & normal pre-Christmas period, vir- tuslly’ every downtown Detroit depart- ment store was jammed today with shoppers. It was a climax to what merchants generally have described as “the best shopping week in months” that developed coincident with the re- lease of close to $80,000,000 by two inoperative national banks . The banks began payment last Mon- day and were continuing open beyond the usual Saturday closing hour today to hasten the distribution of a total gk great was the shopping rush that great was the in several instances store managers Three Years. overdue city salaries in scrip gave im- petus to the upward movement of fe- tail business, which merchants report hngm:reued dally during the past weel “We have more clerks on duty to- day than we have had for three years and our force isn't large enough,” said James C. Jones, general manager of Crowley Milner & Co. ‘“People are buy- ing not only necessities, but things you might think are luxuries.” Managers of other downtown stores re] business the heaviest they have seen since 1930. Leading authorities in the automobile also have reported an in-