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A4 = TRANSPORT CHIEF MAY BE DICKINSON Splawn, Ewin Davis, Patton, Saltzman, J. C. Edgerton May Head Units. (Continued From First Page.) the direttorship of the Air Transpor- tation Bureau. He is an aeronautical research -expert, but is generally known as the first airplane pliot to carry Uncle Sam’s mail when the air service was inaugurated in 1917 Edgarton would, if his nominzation is confirmed, have supervision over the Commerce Department's — Aeronautic Bureau, the Weather Bureau and the National Advisory Committee for Acro- nautics. This new bureau will also have a contact sgency with the airmail division of the Post Office Department. Capt. Patton Named. Capt. R. S. Patton, the present head : of the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey, is known to be in line for di- rector of the Map and Survey Bureau of the Transportation. Agencies. His old burezu, the Geological Surveys, topographical mapping section, and| probably the Naval Observatory will be under the command of this nationally known scientist under the new set-up. His nomination as director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey has already been submitted to the Senate. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, chief of the old United States Signal Corps before his retirement and former chief of the Federal Radio Commission, is being prominently mentioned for the post of director of the Communications Bureau of this agency. He will have under his supervision the Radio Com- mission as well 25 all forms of Govern- mert communications. With the exception of Capt. Patton. these men assisted Secretary Roper in the organization of the transportation section. They have also acted as his advisers in curtalling the activities of other bureaus in the trade promotion agency. The Interior Department's plans were reported almost ready vesterday. The delay, it was explained, has been due to the drafting of the two to three billion-dollar _public works program, according to reliable sources. will be under this agency's supervision. This department is reported to be| changed to a three :nstead of a two| division structure. The third sub- cabinet post will be filled, it is under- stood, by trensferring to this agency thé Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | for Pubiic Buildings and Public Health. | “The Treasury's Bureaus of Pubiic Build- ing Construction and Public Health are to go along with him. A Home Affair Agency. Aside from its desire to have its pub- lic works program administered by one department, the administration is known to be favorable to making the g jor De) ment a home affair agencr., for which purpose it was orig- inally organized in 1849, It is proposed to change the entire present structure of the departmen- nder plans tentatively drawn the fol: Jowing is the proposed new set-up of the department Under the supervision of the As- sistant Secretary for Natural Resources will be the National Park Service, the land division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, General Land Office, the cus- tody of lands and water division of the Reclamation Service, Geological - Sur- Vey, the Commerce Department's Bu- yeau of Mines and the Bureau of In- Alaska, Hawall, Virgin to Rico, Panama Canal and pery ¢ of Public Works wil Department’s Bureait | sury Department's | Office of Supervising Architects, the, planning and construction section of the Reclamation Service and Public Buildings. Under the Assistant Secretary of Ed- ucation &nd Health will be the Offiee of Education, the 'Treasury Depart- ment’s Public Health Service, the ed- ucation and welfare section of the Bu- reau of Indian Affairs and St. Eliza- beth's and Freedman’s Hospitals and Howard University and the Columbia ¢ Secretory { ment policies on Top row, left to right: John Dickinson, proposed as direct head of the | new transportation section with the title of Acsistant Secretary of Commerce for Dr. M. W. Splawn, expected to be director of the land division, proposed directer of sea division. A . Edgerton, who would be director of air transportation: Capt. R. S. Patton, expected to be director of map and survey section, and Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, proposed as director of communication Transportatiol and Ewin Dav Lower row, left to right: James bureau. ‘ May Head Transport Section THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., completed plans to send a special rail message to Congress this week. Chairman Dill of the Commerce Com- mittee said hearings will open as soon as he receives the President’s plan, which will propose reorganization cf the Nation’s railways under a Federal co- ordinator with broad powers. Strong opposition to the general prin- ciples of the Chief Executive's proposal already have been expressed by the Railway Labor Executives' Assoclation. This group has asked Dil for a hear- g That the Senate group intends to ex- edite action, however, was indicated v Dill, who said he believed hearings on the program would be completed in three days. The first witness will be Joseph B. Eastman, interstate commerce commissicner, who has been mentioned for the coordinator post. The effect of probable rail retrench- labor will be in- quired into in detail by the committee. Dill warned that all of the proposed eccnomies must not come out of labor. “S8ome of the economies must come out of the high salaries of officers and | the big capital structures of thz com- panies,” Dill said. Several other members supported this view informally, expressing the opinion that the interests of labor should be specifically safeguarded to prevent an increase in the unemployment problem. PRESIDENT FORGES PLANS FOR BILLION IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS (Continued From First Page) governor of the Farm Credit Admil tration, is rcady to put this provision into immediate operation. Senate passage Friday of the powerful farm-infiation- measure is believed by congressional leaders to have broken the dam that has jammed up the legis- lative calendar. From Secretary Woodin, who gave up directorship in a host of powerful in- dustrial enterprises to take over the belm of the Treasury, came full in- dorsement todey of the Roosevelt program. “I am with the Chief to the end.” Mr. Woocin told newspaper men from his bed, to which he has b2en confined by a sore throat. “He is going to lead us out of this situation. “The policies embraced in the ad-| ministration bills presented in Congress were arrived at in a series of conversa- tions between the President and myself. Many of them were suggested by the Treasury and all of them have my thorough indorsement. “I am supremely happy in my post and believe that we are on the right path and every measure enacted SO Institution for the Deaf. The Public Building Bureau in the proposed reorganization plans will in- clude the present planning section of the Nai al Ca; and Planning Commission. SI plan meet with final likely that the present Na park purchasing featurc may be trans-| ferred t Fine Arts to Interior. Likewise, it is proposed to transfer the activities of the National Commis- sion of Fine Arts to the Interior De- partment. The care of public build- | ings, now the function of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, is also being slated for transfer into the department. Should this be approved. in all probability the care of parks in this city will be transferred over to the National Park Service or to the Dis- trict Government. Two major revisions have taken place since the original reorganization plans of this department were drawn. It was first proposed to transfer the Com- merce Department’s ‘Bureau of Fisher-| fes to this home depattment. However. | this plan was changed because of the, special laboratory equipment purchased recently for the bureau and now in-| stalled in the new Commerce Depart- ment Building. Under the original plans the fisheries agency was to have| become part of the natural resources structure. It is reliably reported that the pro- posed transfer of the Department of Agriculture’s vast Forest Service to the Interior Department has been aban- doned. The recrganization advisers to| President Roosevelt are reported to have reached a decision that the For- est Service's major objective was to; furnish a wood crop for the Nation, to Lprctect water sheds end to resist ero- Ision. It is a function to b2 handled strictly by the Department cf Agticul- iture, the advisers have decreed. This service was originally in the In- terior Department. In 1805, when Gif- ford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylva- nia, was holding the office of chief forester, this agency was transferred to the Department cf Agriculture upon Pinchot’s recommendation. He held that because of its soil erosion work and its task of producing & wood crop, the service would be better off in the Agriculture agency. An effcrt was made by Secretary of Interior Fall to regain possession of the service in 1922, but the move was blocked by Secretary of Agriculture ‘Wallace, father of the present portfolio holder. Under the economy provisichs of ‘the 1934 Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill giving the President the power to reorganize the Government depart- ments, it is stipulated the recommenda- tions must be submitted to Congress. lays unless Con 8 e fof an_earlier eflec'fi:u date. e Congress, in order to disapprove the order, must do 5o by a two-thirds vote. Passage of a resolution dhlwrovlr? of be one of the President’s orders coul vetoed by the President himself, and to pass a resolution, the bill sets out, over the veto requires a two-thirds vote. QUICK ACTION PLEDGED. Special Rail Message Due in Congress This Week. By the Associated Press. Quick action on President Roosevelt's railroad legislative program was pledged ml by the Senate Inf as the far conduces to the restoration of prosperity.” The day also brought nearer the en- aetment of tanking reform legislation with st that Senator Glass, Temccrat, ipia, author ef ih? legiclation, and Chairman zall of tha House Banking Comirit{ee. e in general agreement on the principles of thé measure. This bill, which would bar the use of Federal Reserve funds in speculation and divorce security affiliates from banking institutions, also is to contain a limited insurance of deposits pro- vision. Down at the Treasury a special staff worked, unceasingly over the week end on methods to release the billions in deposits still locked up in closed banks. Just how far Mr. Roosevelt will go in using the currency inflation authority provided in the legislation about to go through Congress is problematical. Many of his advisers believe the mere grant of authority will go far to force fresh stimulus in currency exchange by he banks and for a voluntary expan- sion of credit. 1t is certain, however, that Mr. Roose- t intends to have this brought about and, if necessary, he will use the au- thority to be granted him. The farm conferees selected by Bpeaker Rainey after a conference with Chairman Steagall of the Banking Com- mittee and Chairman Jones of the Ag- riculture Committee, are: Jones of Texas, Fulmer of South Carolina, Doxey of Mississippi, Demo- crats; Clarke of New York and Hope of Kansas. Republicans, all members of the Agriculture Committee, and Stea- gall of Alabama and Goldsborough of Maryland, Democrats, and Luce of Massachusetts, Rep®blican. | | | | the “Natie | | INDUSTRY OFFERS | PLAN OF REGOVERY Administration Leaders Study Manufacturers’ Associa- tion Proposal. APRIL 30, 1933—PART ONE.’ ALL MARKETS RISE. HOUSE TO FORCE [[= | Democratic Leaders Confer : to Speed Farm Bil . Amendment. By the Assoclated Press. o ININFLATION BOOM st_ocks, Wheat and Cotton Whirled Up on News From Capiial. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 29.—Stocks, wheat and cotton were whirled up in another frenzied buying movement in the Na- tion's principal speculative markets to- | ay. The overnight news of the Senate's | acceptance of the farm relief bill with its inflation rider, together with Wash- ington assurances that it would quickly pass the House, prompted another “in- flation boom” which swept prices of many securities and commodities to the best levels of the year or longer. Wheat futures in the Chicago pit surged up 5 to 6 cents a bushel to above 70 cents for the first time since Novem- ber, 1931. Cotton futures in New York swelled $2 a bale, exceeding $20 a bale for the first time since last September. Trading Is Feverish. Prices botled up $1 to more than $6 a share in the New York Stock Ex- change in the most feverish trading for | a Saturday session in three years. Prices | reached the best average level since | September. In the bond market, United | States Governments receded somewhat, | but the trend of corporate issues was | sharply upward, and price averages reached the highest point in six weeks. ‘The smaller commodity markets gen- erally pointed upward. Silver, tin, cop- per, coffee, sugar, hides, cocoa, silk and rubber were among staples advancing substantially in futures dealings. Moody's | daily prices index of 15 principal com- | modities reached the highest level since last September and came within a shade of the 1932 peak. | The inflation bill prompted a fresh flurry of selling of the dollar. and the British equalization fund, which has been trying to keep steriing down, evi- dently withdrew its efforts temporarily. | The fresh reaction in the dcllar, which carried it to around the low levels of last week, fanned the specu- lative flames in stocks and staples. as the indicated depreciation in dollars spelled in theory appreciating prices. Depreciation Indicated. Leading administration leaders said yesterday plans designed to bring about complete control of industry through a naticnal comm’ssion followinrg close’y | the policies of the cld War Industries Board, have been submitted to them for study by members of the National Association of Manufacturers. Secretary of Commerce Rcper said he received a copy of the proposal. He declared that if he found the plans con- tained merit sufficlent to be placed b: fore President Rooseveit he would sub- mit them to the White House. The proposals were also bel studied by g(s_\ mond Moley, Assistant Secretary of ate. Secretary Roper sald members of the assoc’ation are endeavoring to have the administration sconsor the proposals by introducing lcgislaticn to be entitled al Industry Recovery Act™ Inasmuch as the proposed legislation | | would be a rubstitute for the adminis- tration’s industrial control amendments to the Black bill, Secretary Roper said he was of the opin make any headway. Plan Not Rejected. However, the eabinet officer did not reject the plans. He said he hurriedly read the copy submitted to him and ob- served that it contained many good points to further industrial recovery. At the same time it was learn=d that the proposal was not new to Moley, he having received a general outline of the plans a short time ago. It was reported that he had given the origihal program his_endorsement. The program was circulated .mcng’ administration leaders Friday nig] after the association had gone on record against the Black Bill amendments on the ground they “express a policy un- sound in principle and unworkable in practice.” The association, at the same time, took no action on the “National In- dustry Recovery Act,” but voted favor- ably on a proposal to revive President Wiison's Defense Council. The asso- ciation will launch a campaign immedi- ately for revival of the war-time measures. Brard of Seven Members." Roper said the program called for & boerd of seven members headed by the Secretary of Commerce and the Secfe- ry of Lab: The five other memuers are to be representatives of labor, com- merce, finance, agriculture and the general public. The plans call for formation of tn- dustrial and trade associations ta work with the national board to correlate production with demand, establish prices of commodities at fair levels and stabilize markets. They also call for a vast program of public works. This | is suggested as a means toward the e- storation of purchasing power to the consumer. BEER SALES RUSH LAW Charlotte Police Give Up Attempt to Hold Ban 2 Days. CHARLOTTE, N. C, April 29 (P)—| The new 32 per cent beer, which by State law becomes legal at 12:01 am.| Monday, was being sold openly in Cha lotte today and police were making no arrests. E. D. Pittman, chief of police, said no attempt would be made by his de- partment to interfere with sale of the brew, which was changing hands in a veritable flood. Chief Pittman said business estab- lishments “have already obtained their licenses from the city government, and it would be almost humanly impossible for us to stop all sales. The Status of Legislation Bank and Gold, Economy, Beer Legislation and Forestry Bills Already Passed During Two Months of Short Session. By the Associated Press. The end of the second month of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration finds his emergency program of legis- lation far advanced. This is the stas tus today: Laws Enhacted. = Emergency bank and gold control act. Veterans and other $600,000,000 3. " Creation of forest conservation corps. Pending Bills. Senate by Banking Committee, still in House Committee. Work Bill Being Revised. Thirty-hour week bill, not on ad- ministration prografm but- probably ac- a!bcttalblb W‘lthumlnlml déxlm-w“e and pro- luction control additions, passed by Senate, now belng rewritten in mnuz Ghase 3 bank _regulitio permanent julation bill, in committee being adjusted to meet administration ideas in deposit in« surance feature. Parm relief-farm mortgage-inflation | mittee. bill, passed hoth by House and Senate, going to conference Monday for adjust~ ment of amendments. Relief bill, carrying $500,000,000 for rants to states, passed by both ranches, but must be repassed by Senate. Home mortgage refinancing bill, $3,- 000,000,000 bond plan, passed by House, waiting Senate action. Muscle Shoals Government operat] and Tennessee River devel it pl passed by House and waiting Senate terstelg Qom. - action. White Securities regulation bill, reported to | pér cent ing new broad economy powers, pend- ing in House Appropriations Committee. Proposals to Be Made. Railroad reorganieation and control plan, on President’s desk for probable early transmission to Congress. Public works and naval building pro- gram, an employment-swelling plan, in tentative stage, with effects of mone= &ry inflation possibly controliing sise un; that it would not | 55 seate downugaritte by 80 The levels reached by French francs and Dutch guilders in relation to gold parity indicated a theoretical deprecia- tion in the value of the dcllar, in i terms of gold, of a2bout 13!, per cent, r an 86'g-cent dcllar. The French franc reached 4.54 cent: or .04 cf a cent above the peak lev: | reached last week. The pound eterling surged up 8 5-8 cents to $3.86 5-8. eign exchangs experts were 2gain in a quandary as to the probable level of the dollar, pending the decision on stabilization of currencies to be reached at the Economic Conference convening in London in June. | The stock market ended April with share levels, indicating an appreciation in total quoted value of all listed is- sues of more than $7.000,000,000 ab-ve the levels of two months ago. Business news continued to provide much encouragement. Steel ingot pro- duction at the end of April was esti- mated by “steel” at 20 per cent of ca- pacity, more than double the 14 per cent rate around the start of the month | Week end business reviews pointed to | expansion in many 'lines of business | and commerce. New York Prices Passed. | SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 () —| | Stocks whirled upward today after the | close of theyNew York markets, some | stocks running as much as $1 a share | above their all Street final prices. | The close was strong and trading | | heavy—the busiest Saturday of the year. PRICE LEVELS RISE 3 POINTS IN MONTH, CROP BOARD REPORTS (Continued From First Page.) soon will agree on the measure, letters will be sent out to representatives of organizations interested in the com- modities specified in the bill. Ezekiel said that using wheat as an example each group would be asked to send one spokesman for a conference | with the Secretary to discuss broad cutlines cf a co-ordinated program. Thus, Erekiel said, & representative | would come from the farmers, bakers, illers, elevator interests, wholesale and 1l trade. | In all probability four questions 1d be presented at the conference,” | Ezekiel went on. “They would be: | “If a tax is levied how high should it be? | “When should the tax begin? “How much of a reduction in produc- | tion and acreage should be sought? ‘ “What method should we follow to bring about reduction? ‘Would Work Out Outlines. “We would ask them to present co- ordinated plans and the broad outlines would be worked out. Then the details | and tentative regulations would be dis- | cussed with the trade groups.” | Dr. Ezekiel and other officials empha- sized that although the basic objective was to increase farm price levels, the primary aid was to provide for produc- tion control so that ordinary economic Jaws of supply and demand could be brought back to the normal functioning with this of itself leading to better | prices, KING SPEAKS TODAY Hebrew Congregation Plans Presi- dent's Day Services. Senator William H. King of Utah will | ( deliver an_address at 11-a.m. today at special President’s day services to be held by the Washington Hebrew Con-| gregation at the Eighth Street Temple. A special message from Rabbi Abram Simon, head of the congregation, who is ill at his home, will be read by Lee | Baumgarten. 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If a single objection should blcck House action tomorrow on the infla- tion rider, it became apparent that the | Democratic chisftairs might be forced | to use their huge majority in an effort to force it through. Would Go to Conference. Should there be no objection, lead- | ers plan to send the bill immediately | to conference with the Senate for an aajustment of differences. When that has been completed, they prop:se to move to instruct House conferecs to accept the Senate's inflation rider. If an objection were made, stopping | temporarily the effort to send the bill | to conference, Hcuse leaders then could | move to suspend the rules and take that | action anyhow. A two-thirds majorit would be necessary for that mancuver to_succeed. In the event leaders decided they ! could not obtain the two-thirds neces- | sary to suspend the rules, & special reso- | luticn could be ktrought out the Rules Committee sending the bill to! conference and instructing the ferees. This resolut d by a majority vote Tuesd: sented tomorrow it also would require a two-thirds majority. Democratic leaders must be ready to shift their plans at a moment's notice, | since Republican opposition to their in- itial moves would require altered tactics. | Plan Early Action. | Meanwhile, edministrat! officials are laying plans to put the pric tures of the farm bill into action first poesible moment, and to uti inflationary provision to be made sible through the rider. Secretary Wallace has been in ference with those who w. administer the bill of the planting season probably quire him to alter his original inten for the rellef program. WOODIN RECEIVES BOOK | ON MUSIC FROM HERRIOT | | | | Volume in French on Beethoven's Life Is Prized Possessicn of Secretary. A thick narrow on the life of Beet Edovard Herriot, cho has just s a! prized pos: of the | Treasury Woodin, who is 1il at"his hotel here. The secretary, who has ducting_considerable Trea: from Lis sick the new book hobbies—music, Reading it i id he | dispiayed a Beethoven's Secretary Woodin cid not see Her- e latter was here. The en sent his autographed copy of the vclume to the Secretary. ANNULMENT IS SOUGHT REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April (P).—Suit to annul the mariage Mary Leslie Coff Almack, 17, nic E. H. H. Simmons, former pres ;\lfli" New Yor E mother, Mr charges the young counle, who eloped to Minden, Nev. April 9, 1932, were | under age and that the wedding took | § place without c nt of their parent: Mrs. Almack is a grand niece of th . H. Harriman, New York capi- talist. FIFTH NATIONAL ORCHID EXHIBITION of the American Orchid Society May 5, from 5 to 10 P.M. May 6, from 9 AM. to 10 P.M. May 7, from 9 AM. to 10 PM. 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