Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1933, Page 2

SENATE MAY GET GLASS BILL TODAY Fletoher Pledges Speedy Ac- tion for Report by Committee. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Gilass benk reform bill, far- reaching in effect and bearing with it qualified support of President Roosevelt, was expected to be introduced in the | P€Y Senate today. Senator Fletcher, chairman of the Benate Committee on Banking and Cur- rency, said he would do all he could to bring about speedy consideration of the measure and its prompt report to the Senate. Representative Bteagall of Alabama, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, at the same time planned to introduce in the House a bank reform bill which in the main is in agreement with the Glass measure. Mr. Steagall has been in conference ‘with Senator Glass. The negotiations with the administration over the bank reform measure, some of whose provi- sions have not met the approval of Becretary Woodin of the Treasury, have been left, however, in large part to Senator Glass and the members of his subcommittee. 7 Confers With McAdeo. At the White House today President Roosevelt indicated some of the features of the bill might have to be simplified or eliminated, and that the measure was still under consideration by the admin- istration. While it may be made & part of the administration program for the present session of Congress, that has not yet been finally determined, it was morsing s Bemsior MeAGoo.of this with Sena! c. California, a member of the Glass sub- ‘eommittee, ding the measure. S like Fletcher and Glass, ex- the hope and belief that & bank reform bill may be finally enacted into law before the present special closes. He plans to have the measure discussed in his committee before long. The House Banking Committee chair- has long been an advocate of in- ce of bank deposits, in order to safeguard depositors and to sirengthen confidence in the banks, The Glass bill, and also the 1L carry insurance features, though they differ in some respects in this par- ticular. Under the Glass bill, the insur- ance of bank deposits will be postponed until July 1, 1934, and 100 per surance will run only to deposits up to $10,000, 75 per cent insurance will safe- rd deposits between $10,000 and ,000, and 50 per cent, deposits above $50,000. Helds Insurance Nesded. . 1t is chairman Steagall’s opinion that insurance of bank deposits is necessary to re-establish full confidence in the banks today and to enable full business recovery to proceed. Further, he holds that if an insurance of bank deposits by Tested. = gain. Seck Business Limitation. The opposition to the bill has run strongly to those provisions which seek to limit banks of deposit to a strictly ‘banking business, to t the use of Pederal Reserve credit for speculation in the stock market, and to insurance of bank deposits. The provision in the bill extending the branch banking privi- leges has been made the point of attack by some of those who wished to defeat the bill because it operates to cut off the “affiliates” of banks of deposit which deal in investment securities. President Roosevelt in his inaugural address on March 4 went after the Finally, in our progress toward a re- sumption of work, we require two safe- against & return of the evils of supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s morey, and must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.” Five days later in his first message to Congress ui the passage of the -n’;nency banking act, the President said: “Our first task is to reopen all sound banks. This is an essential preliminary to subsequent. legislation directed against with the funds of depositors mlnd Other violations of positions of “One Step in Purpese.” And again on March 29, the Presi- dent in his secarities message to the Congress, said: “This is but one step purpose of protecting in- ‘The bank reform bill, its suppotters insist, is the answer to these promises by the President. has been made in some quarters that the bill will be :‘?nd in the Senate, even to &:ule. that in an effort to get gress out of Washington by the time the World Economic Conference opens in London June 13, the bill may be side tracked in the end. The administration forces apparently are doing all they can to wind up the special by the end the second week in June or even earlier. The Glass bill died in the House at the last session of Congress, after it had been filibustered in the Senate for weeks. The Si bank: ing bill, providing for insurance of bank desposits, failed at the same time in the Senate. With Senator Glass and Mr. Steagall both working for the na-n of a combined measure now, wever, the prospects are much better. A request by Becretary Woodin that Senator Glass and his subcommittee for another three days report- banking bill to the full com- bill.| ot first may be $1,500,000,000, it is be- Pederal Reserve w'mmnw.mmmn.uu. The provision relsting o id | measure would have made it possible Can Be Eliminated.: Only the enactment of new gam- bling laws can stamp out the ‘num- bers” racket—in w] ‘Washingtonians families for a year— in the opinion of United States Attor- Leo A. Rover. “Under present laws,” Mr. Rover ex- plained in an interview, “the District attorney’s office cannot prosecute gam- bling cases successfully unless the evi- dence is adequate. And the police say they cannot obtain proper evidence in many cases because their hands are tied by the statutes and by court de- cisions.” District Attorney Rover states some of the newspapers of Washington could be of material assistance if they would refrain from publishing matter of little or no news value, but which is used by the gamblers in conducting their numbers racket. “These gamblers,” he said, “are highly resourceful in finding ways and means of operating, but some of the local newspapers could be of real help if they would not publish unnecessary material which the numbers men use as their gambling medium. I realize, of course, that they might use some material which is of legitimate news value and, of course, the newspapers cannot be expected to suppress any- thing of this nature. It would .be & real help to us, however, if some of the newspapers would not publish ma- terial used by the operators of the numbers racket unless its publication is made necessary by its inherent news value.” Bet on Indictments. Mr. Rover said he had been told of one case in which the numbers play- ers had bet on the number of indict- ments returned in a particular week by the grand jury. Existing laws are s0 inadequate, the police claim, that they are able to raid only & small percentage of the Capital's many “numbers” establishments—even though they know the addresses of more than half a hundred such places and keep them under constant surveillance. More than s year ago, Mr. Rover drew up two bills, which, if they had been enacted, would have made it easier for the police to carry on their war- fare against “numbers” game operators and other professional gamblers. One of the measures would have in- creased certain penalties for gaming law violations, and also would have pro- vided for prosecution of habitual “fre- quenters of gambling places on mis- demeanor charges. Most important of all, from the police viewpoint, the bill would have made mere possession of gambling paraphernalia — including “numbers” slips—a misdemeanor, pun- ishable by law. The other measure would have made it possible for the United States attor- ney's office to padiock gaming estab- lishments. Introduced by former Senator Robsion of Kentucky. the bills got as far as the Senate District Committee and then died. “I atill feel the same way about the matter,” Mr. Rover declared. “The first for the police to at least harass fre- quenters of gambling establishments by charging them with s misdemeanor. Such places cannot exist without pa- trons, and the type of person who fre- quents them does not relish being ar- Bond Is Only Weapen. “At present, the only weapon the police can use against persons found in gaming establishments is to require them to post bond as Government wit- nesses—and there is some doubt as to the legality of this action. I THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10, 1933. POLICE ARE HANDICAPPED IN “NUMBERS” GAME RAIDS Existing Laws Are So Inadequate, They Say, Only Few of Establishments “Making possession of gambling pars- phernalia a misdemeanor would take care of the situation wherein the police, after gaining entrance to a gambling place, find no one actually operating the paraphernalia—usually because both a rear door were forcing their barred front doors.” Under present laws, & Lieut. Nelson O. Holmes, chief gambling squad, either the police or one Of their informers must make at. least two plays in a “numbers” establishment before a raid can be made. Right now, Lieut. Holmes has a score or mowe of warrants on which he has been forced to defer action—in some Instances for weeks—until second wagers can be placed. “There is no point to making a raid unless we can be reasonably sure of getting a conviction when we take the case into court,” said Lieut. Holmes. “And it is impossible to get a convic- tion unless we can prove we have made ltol;?lt l.t.wn plays.” y last week, the gambling squad ralded a “numbers” place to which they had made a dozen or more visits in the hope of being able to execute the war- rant with which they were armed. The warrant was obtained several Wweeks ago, after a member of the squad had induced the operator of the estab- lishment to accept a bet. Then, with the warrant in his pocket, Lieut. Holmes led the squad to the place day after day, until the detective who had made the wager finally succeeded in persuad- ing the racketeer to take another bet— this time with marked money. Trio Placed Under Arrest. As 300n as the second play was ac- cepted, Lieut. Holmes and his men forced their way into the establishment :ndt g)lnczfl zheuop(em:r, bis wife and nother man, all of whom were colore ung::umun o ng into a “numbers” head- quarters is ;-m.w-bouz as dimcult as access one of the sacr temples of India. The barred, Dfi:‘} holed doors are opened only for those who are definitely known to be “all right.” Usually, a detective or an in- former has to spend weeks—sometimes even months—worming his way into the confidence of some habitue of the place against which he is trying to ob- tain evidence before he can get Self inside. Then, unul he convinces the operator beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is “on the level,” he is trailed wherever he goes. Even 30 seemingly simple a matter as learning the location of a ‘“numbers” headquarters is extremely difficult. The frequency of gangster and ragketeer murders has made habitues of gambling establishments afraid of being “bumped off,” as they put it, if they do any- thing which might, by any chance, re- sult in & police raid. 135 Places Raided. Despite th> handicaps under which Lieut. Holme: “nd his men labor, how- ever, they have raided 135 “numbers” places since the first of the year. The fact this is 61 raids more than were Defrauder of 200 Hotels Once Paid In Capital Visit, ‘Shuffling Off to Buffalo’ Caused Arrest on Check Charge. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 10.—John J. Henderson, 36, who, police say, has ad- BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. | mitted stopping at some 200 of the A very distinct improvement in the | country’s best hotels and paying for international situation is considered to | his room in only one of them, is un- have taken place as a result of Greal i der arrest here, charged with passing Britain's acceptance of the tariff truce | worthless checks. Henderson, a former offered to the world by President Roose- i Elizabeth, N. J., hotel clerk, said he velt 10 days ago. once had to pay in a Washington, With this hurdle over, it is belleved in | D. C., hotel when the city was full of WORLD STUATO S HELD IPROVED IRoosevelt Parleys Believed to Presage Success of Arms Conference. Held in Kidnapin YOUTH CLAIMS INNOCENCE IN VIRGINIA CRIME. ROOSEVELT URGES DELAY IN TARIFF Asks$ Proposed Farm Import Taxes Set Aside During Economic Truce. (Continued Prom Pirst Page) Hjalmar Schacht, here for economic conversations. The President and Secretary of State Hull took a hand in the necessarily delicate diplomatic efforts to enlist the co-operation of Germany simultaneous- | ly with similar moves by Norman HI Davis, chief of the American disarma- official quarters that the fruits of the conversations between the President. Premier Ramsay MacDonald, Edouard Herrlot and Guido Jung are now sul- ficiently ripe to proceed to the next im- fll‘hflt step which must precede the nden economic ruky-, and that is the successful conclusion of the Geneva limitation of arms conference. The situation there was still obscure luctance good will between nations, as offered by the President in his tariff truce pro- posal, had inevitable consequ°nces at Geneva, where the powers with di- vergent points of view as to what is limitation of armaments continued to maintian & stiff and unylelding atti- Field Believed Clear. Now that the British objections to the tariff truce have been overcome, it appears the field at Geneva is clear for some real E Ramsay MacDonald's state- ]nunt in the House of Commons yester- day. to the effect that the United States | might be willing to associate itself with the other powers to consult in case of threat of war, is reported to have created a ‘R:nrlul impreasion in the capital of the League of Nations. Although there has been no official | comment made in Washington on that question, the statesmen at Geneva are taking it for granted that the British prime minister has not spoken in the House of Commons without some solid foundation, especially that the Mac- Donald statement was still more au- thoritative since he had just returned from Washington, where he had im- portant exchange of views with the President of the United States and a number of Senators. Developments Predicted. It looks today as though some spec- tacular developments are going to take place at Geneva in the course of the next two weeks. For the time being the situation is still difficult. The! French maintain their point of view— that there can be no reduction in qual- itative and quantitative dissrmament unless the Germans comply with two ' important requests. One is that they should abandon their present profes- sional army for a national militia, and the other is that they should give up their demand of building “sample” | armaments, such as tanks, heavy guns, | airplanes and submarines. The ns. as long as it appeared | that the British and French govern- ments would not come to an agreement with the United States on the tariff truce, were unyielding in their demands Easter visitors. When arrested yesterday in a room in & Buffalo notel, Henderson explained that he would not have been trapped if it had not been for several days of rain which had delayed his move- ments. He said he made it a practice never to stay at a hotel more than two or three days, that “the best hotels are easiest to beat,” adding “It's the front I kept up and my knowledge of hotels that enabled me to keep out of jall so long.” A diary recorded 15000 miles of wandering that took him from coast | to coast and from the Canadian border to the Guilf. He had only two suits, but the hotels kept them pressed and presentable, he explained. JAPANESE CONTROL LWAN RIVER AREA Yungping Taken and Chinese Driven From Sahochia After Long Fight. By the Assoclated Pre TOKIO, May 10.—Japanese dis- patches from the North China front to- day said the Japanese Army had suc- ceeded In establishing control at the Lwan River, the western border of the area below the Great Wall where hos- tilities have been raging the last few days. The important city of Yungping was occupied after 10 hours of fighting, ac- | ccrding to a dispatch of the Rengo (Japanese) News Agency. Yungping is | on the left bank of the Lwan, about 25 | miles south of the Great Wall, and only 105 miles northeast of Tientsin, which is the center of an international area. Another dispatch said a fresh bri- gade of Japanese troops had smashed & Chinese concentration across the Lwan at Sahochia, 10 miles south of Hsifeng- kow, one of the important Great Wall passes. for “arms equality”—that is to say, that Yungping was seized by the 28th ment delegation, who y con- yesterda, ] ferred in London on the same subject with Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Chancellor Hitler's special representative. Concessions Held Essential ‘The American attitude is that the various nations represented at the Ge- to achieve an agreement and that talk of treaty revision should awaii a more opportune time. Every effort is being made to dis- courage German ambitions for rearm- ing and instead to obtain real reduc- tions in armed forces to bring them down nearer to the limits set on Ger- man military power by the Versailles treaty. There were indications today that Davis would renew forthwith his dis- armament efforts at Geneva, having succeeded at London in his mission of winning British approval of the world tariff truce proposed by the United States as a prelude to the World Mone- tary and Economic Conference in Lon- don beginning June 12. British acceptance was regarded here n_‘._lmvmullly assuring the success of the ce. ‘The eighth Nation of the 11 lnvlbedl by President Roosevelt to send Repre- sentatives to Washington to help pre- pare for the Economic Conference was welcomed today with the arrival of Alberto J. Pani, Mexican secreatry of the treasury. Silver and ways of im- proving its status by international ac- tion thus takes on an increasingly important aspect in the international conversation as Mexico produces 42 per cent of the world's output. TRUCE CHANGES ACCEPTED. 8. Proposals Will Be Submitted to Six Other Nations. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 10.—The American tariff truce project was strengthened somewhat by suggestions from the United States Government which were | conveyed to British quarters this noon by Norman H. Davis, the United States Ambassador at Large, American circles here said. Suggestions made in a note from the United States Government were minor, but were accepted immediately by the British and submitted at once to six other governments whose answers are expected today or early tomorrow. World-Wide Invitation. |school and a cup for himself. HARVEY OTIS, Accused in the kidnaping of a 13-year- old Virginia girl, shown in court in Brooklyn, N. Y., yesterday, after his a resi on arrival in the metropolis as a member of the crew of an oil tanker. The girl, found lashed to a tree last February 2, said two men sought infor- mation from her about the 3-month- old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Porter, her relatives. A newspaper clipping concerning the kidnaping was found in Otis’ possession. He denied all knowledge of the alleged crime —A. P. Photo. DISTRICT'S ORATOR WINS FIRST PRIZE William J. Tobin of St. John’s Takes Honors in Cath- olic Finals. William J. Tobin of St. John's Col- lege, spokesman for the District of Co- jlumbia, won first honors in the grand | finals of the Archdiocesan Oratorical | Contest of the Catholic Students’ Mis- |slon Crusade last night at Catholic i University. Miss Ann Mudd of St. Mary's High School, Bryantown, Md. won second . Miss Loretta Raum of the In- stitute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, w {third, and Miss Rosalie Marie Patter- | son of St. Peter's High School, Western- port, Md., was fourth. won a year's of the Arch- The text of the proposal, as now ar- bishop Curley Mission Trophy for 12,“ e By his victory last night, Mr. Tobin made during the corresponding period of last year serves to indicate the ra- pidity with which the racket is spreading. as long as other nations what | the experts at Geneva called “offensive weapons” they should have the right to The mushroom growth of the “num- bers” e has, as a matter of fact, virtually thrown other forms of gam- bling into the discard. Altogether, 153 gambling raids have been made thus far this year, and all but were on “‘numbers” establ (This is the third of four articles on the “numbers racket.” The fourth and lest will appear tomorrow.) MISSISSIPPI LEVEE IS REPORTED CUT | Message From Belzoni, Miss., Reveals Attack on Dyke in Patrolled Area. By the Associated Press. VICKSBURG, Miss., May 10.—The t Vicksburg Evening Post today received & long distance telephone message from Belzonl, in the Mississippi Delta flood sone, reporting the deliberate cutting of & levee on Wasp Lake, 2 miles above Belzoni, by an unidentified band of men early this morning. Cutting of the levee followed a fort- ight of quiet in the militia-patrolled ::n, t,hr:wn into turmoil two weeks ago by one mysterious levee dynamiting and several subsequent night attacks on the dykes by unidentified boatmen. Walter Turnbow, of the Federal seed loan fleld service, who notified the Post of the Wasp Lake cut, said the levee was torn down there by men who used shovels to start the water pouring through the dyke. The levee, located on a neck of Swan Lake, was put in recently to protect Belzoni and was in a so-called “neutral sone” believed to be safe as a result of a truce between g delta fac- tions and no troops }:1';. been stationed on this icular sec 5 wnenpd‘iitcnvered the cut had widened itself to 20 feet, but Turnbow said levee commissioners believed the opening could be up by noon. An un- controlled break at that point would |flood a large portion of Humphreys . County. l Cuba Lifts Army Censorship. HAVANA, May 10 (#).—Military cen- sorship was lifted last night, and cen- sors working under the Department of the Interior were placed in each Havana newspaper. The Government had inti- mated that an sagreement among pub- lishers would be substituted for military censorship, but the publishers professed to have no knowledge of such an agree- | ment. s private banks may affect some of the largest institutions in the country. | The insurance of bank deposits fea- ture of the bill would be backed by a { fund capitalized by subscription of $150,000,000 from the Treasury, & simi- lar amount from the reserves of the Federal Reserve banks, and subscrip- tions representing wn):‘-‘hnll otol‘ m t of the deposit labilities Tmer ‘The tion or- ganized have a borrowing po capitalization. While its total resources lieved that additions of banks to the System will soon bring ml:;:bmml fln-mt de- against the payment of on mand or checking accounts. This will relieve banks from a charge that amounted in one year to $259,000,000. Power is given the Federal Reserve Board also to limit the amount of in- terest that may be paid on time or savings accounts. The bill retains the provision which caused so much debate and delay in the Senate last DEATH BLOW DEALT GERMAN SOCIALISH Hitler Seizes Property of Party, Once Bulwark of Republic. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, May 10.—Chancellor Adolf Hitler’'s national revolution struck an- 18 of them | §° lishments. possess them, too. ‘Wants Real Disarmament. In his talks with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the spokesman of the Naszi | vernment, the President is reported to have intimated clearly that the United States cannot agree with that t of view; that the Geneva Con- lerence was summoned to bring about a limitation and not an increase of arma- ments, and that the construction of even “sample” offensive weapons would jeopardize the purpose of the Geneva Conference and poison further the Eu- ! op— atmosphere. e Germans are reported to stand by their principles, but it is believed that with the co-operation of Great Britain, Prance and Italy—the latter is as anxious as the United States to! bring the Geneva Conference to a suc- cessful conclusion—the point of view of a gradual reduction of offensive armaments will prevail without Ger- many insisting on her rearming. PARAGUAY ISSUES WAR DECLARATION IN CHACO DISPUTE; (Continued From First Page) ! Americans in War Zones Become Used other and perhaps & final blow at: paraguayan sspirations are stirred by Marxism today by selzing the property | the disputed country because it repre- of the Socialist party and the militant :f“'-' about half the area of their na- lon. non-partisan Reichsbanner organiza- | Apout 50.000 Indians live in the tion 1 Chaco, and to them the dispute appar- T;u Reichsbanner, akhough having ently means little. some Centrist and Democratic members, Huge Area at Stake. nevertheless was overwhelmingly So- clalist. With its vast system of buildings, Bolivia declares that Paraguay’s| Northwestern boundary is the Paraguay | River and that the Chaco triangle be-, | tween the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Riv- newspaper plants and local offices scat- | ers, shown on the maps as Paragusyan, session providing for State-wide branch banking by national banks in States which permit State banks to have State-wide branches. tered throughout the Reich in the | hands of the government, the Socialist party, once the chief bulwark of the German republic, may be considered dead. ‘The only question remaining is whether Socialist members of the Reichstag, the state diets and the city rcouncils will continue to function. How precarious their tenure is may be judged by the fact that Munich Nazis yesterday permanently ejected So- cialist aldermren. ‘The seizure of Socialist party prop- erty by the government was explained in & communique as the result of numerous cases of embezzlement and corruption discovered when the Nasis recently took over trade unions and Isbor banks. —_———— MANCHUKUO-RIGHT TO PACT UPTO U. §. League Committee Says An;fiu to Decide Status Under Kellogg Treaty. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 10.—The United States Government, which is the de- pository for ratifications of the lrhnd-' Kellogg pact outlawing war, will have the right to decide whether the new State of Manchukuo may e adhere to the treaty. m-.mw by the Far Eastern Committee of League of Nations. Because the League Assembly has de- cided in connection with the Sino- Japanese dispute that Manchukuo should not be recognized, the committee dis- The report: ‘advocated - giving Man- chukuo passports the value of identity cards only, really belongs to Bolivia. aguay has i claimed territory as far north as Bahia Negro. The difference between these maxi- mum claims is an area about equal to & combination of New York and Pennsyl- vanis. The physical frontier has been | | an irregular line of outposts maintained | by each country. Over a period of years there have been numerous clashes in the territory and several treaties have been nego- tiated to put an end to the conflict. The most recent movement for solu- tion was started by the Pan-American Union, whose protocol of conciliation in 1929 was accepted by both countries. Under this protocol neutral agencies 'were attem to fix the frontier when the present warfare developed. ‘That warfare has been pressed by both sides ever since last Summer. There have been numerous sizeable military actions, and the casualties on both sides have been heavy. The district is espe- cially bad for fighting as there is a sea- son of rains during which it is difficult to maintain armies in good health. CHILE FACES PROBLEM. l ‘hnmy’l Declaration Raises Isswe on | Bolivio’s Railroads. SANTIAGO, Chile, May 10 (#).— Hon of war against | jare Bolivia’s quickest main outlets to the outer world. she Chile has taken the stand that mm.:r‘lwcmmmm LEAGUE ACTION URGED. Added Negotiations Here Believed Futile by High Officials. By the Associated Press. Paraguay’s formal declaration of war Bolivia With_evident concern, it was pointed out in Department quarters, that fantry Brigade, commanded by Gen. Teizo Hiraga. The Rengo dis- patch said that his troops were continu- ing the pursuit of the retreating Chinese. PFurther information concerning the recent seizure of Tsienan revealed that the Japanese had battered down the south gate of the city wall after an in- tense air and artiliery bombardment. ‘There was considerable street fighting and the Chinese finally were forced to retire after putting ug stout resistance. Only s handful of the vived, Japanese dispatches said. ‘The Chinese concentration at Saho- chia was smashed by the brigade of Maj. Gen. Heijiro Hattori, composed of veterans of various Manchurian campaigns. REMAIN AT MISSIONS. to Hostilities. PEIPING, May 10 () —American mission officials said today that mis- sionaries within the North China war sone “now are used to war conditions and regard the present Sino-Japanese hostilities as a portion of the day's work."” This comment came from various mission chiefs when they were in- formed of reports circulating in the United States that foreigners were to be evacuated from the war zone. “Our missionaries are remaining at their stations,” was the typical com- ment. At the United States legation it was, said there had been no change in the lcng-standing advice to Americans in the war sone that they should be ready 10 evacuate when danger threatens. A legation spokesman said no information had been received about any Americans evacuating. as Bolivia is not a signatory of the Kellogg-Briand peace pact, which renounces war as & national policy, ne- gotiations under that agreement are generally believed to be impossible. Under the covenant of the League of Nations, further steps may be taken to bring the conflict to an end. Argertine Pact Likely. Paraguay's declaration of war is gen- erally regarded in American official cir- cles as an indication that Paraguay, has a very definite understanding with Argentina. The two countries have been allied politically for years, and it is expected | that the Argentines will immediately place an embargo on the shipment of supplies over the railway leading from Argentina to Bolivis. ‘Whether Chile and Peru, the other' two countries from which railways lead into Bolivia, will also cut off communi- cations with Bolivia is & matter of oconjecture. Paraguayan officials have frequently said that with a declared war and an interruption of shipment of supplies to ' Bolivia, the differences between the two countries might be settied within 15 days. Arms Ordered Elsewhere. \ However, an investigation by Anut-( ican officials has indicated that Bolivia | has been receiving more war supplies from Chile and Peru than from Argen- tina and consequently it is not beiieved likely that an embargo by the Argen- tines on shipments to Bolivia would end the ML as rapidly as Para- aVADS expec '“Tht ‘Washington Chaco Comm area. reaffirmed its belief, in the efficacy of collaboration among the nine neutral nations most inter-| ested. In notes addressed to the Argentine Ambassador and Chilean charge d'af- ranged, provides not only for the -:-i,om- contestants, spokesmen for the re- ceptance of an immediate tariff arm- | spective sections of the Baltimore arc! Istice by the eight principal nations but | diocese by virtue of victory in elimin: defenders sur- | bY includes also & recommendation to other nations of the world to join in. Mr. Davis, who first presented the truce idea more than a week ago, lunched today with Walter Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade, and talked over the matter. This afternogn the Ami A a‘ e erican envoy with Poreign Office offcials. | bo . | He said that he hoped the acceptance other governments would be re- ceived in time to call together the Or- ganizing Committee of the World Eco- nomic Conference tomorrow morning, 80 that he could depart for Geneva tomorrow afternoon. MacDonald Announces Agreement. Prime Minister MacDonald announced yesterday that a tentative agreement has been reached between the two countries in support of President Roose- velt's truce plan. The plan is for all nations to refrain from raising new barriers to trade before the end of the World Economic Conference, probably late this Summer or in the Fall. The hope is that old and new barriers will be done away with at the conference. It was generally believed Great Britain reserves the right to conclude trade agreements already being nego- tiated. New agreements with swe?en and Norway probably will be signed next Monday. They are similar to those recently concluded with Argentina, Ger- many and Denmark. MacDonald declared war debt nego- tiations must be carried on by a sep- arate body “concurrently and on paral- lel lines” with the Economic Confer- ence. He previously disclosed Presi- dent Roosevelt agreed the debts should be settled before the conference ends and hastened to explain his idea of a “separate body” dealing with debts was his own suggestion. (The American Government policy has been to deal separately with debtor nations.) SCORES ARE KILLED AS STORMS SWEEP TWO STATES AGAIN (Continued From Pirst Page.) the Tennessee border, causing more loss of life and which left more than two- score injured on the Kentucky side, first centered its force on - ville, Ky. Property damage in that town was estimated at $100,000. The wind cut a swath through there some 200 yards wide, blowing down 20 houses in the white residential section and about twice that many in the colored sectie The Known Dead. ‘The known dead were: ‘Tompkinsville—Travis Tyree, 23; Mrs. Tyree, 21, and three children; Rev. Roy Bedford, 22, pastor.of Northern Methodist Church; Mrs. Redford, 20, and three colored persons, Willlam Bai- ley, Miami Frain and Clara Hamilton. Sewell—Westfield Anderson. Adair County, near Columbia—Robert Duvall; near Gadberry, Bessie Jones, colored. A detachment of the 123d Headquar- ters Troops, Kentucky National Guard, was sent from here last night to render Capt. A. E. Ely orning to get cots and other necessities for the tornado vic- tims. Pourteen of the injured were brought to a hospital here. There was no wire comm tion to Tompkins- ville today. Louisville I ~-yed, in Kentucky last ville blowing down al smashing & number of windows. Louisville 87 inch of rain fell and the wind reached a velocity of 56 miles an hour. Wire communi dar- 20 REPORTED DEAD. 7{Red Cross Says Rumell Springs, Ky. Paraguay recently had inquired as to what could be done here %0 end hostilities. Lost Score, Ky., May 10 (#).—A Red received by the Kentucky el s near lest night, | tion meets, spoke on *“The Part of th ic-mam: Student in Home and For- eign Mission Activity.” The finals were heard by more than 2500 students who jammed into the Catholic University gymnasium. Spir- ited rivalry marked the contest pricr fo the decision of the judges and then sportsmanship prevailed in salute to the St. John's College spokesman. Judges for the contest were Brother Walter of St. Joseph's College, Balti- more; Miss Mary Sweeney of the Catholic Association for International Peace. and Dr. Charles H. McCarthy of the Catholic University. was sponsored by the Cathclic Univer- sity Conference of Clerics and Religions and was directed by Rev. Louis C. Vaeth, archdiocesan director of the Soclety for | the Propagation of the Faith. The finals meeting was opened by Charles Lee, president of the clerical conference, who welcomed the meeting to the university. He was followed by Right Rev. Msgr. O'Dwyer of the univer- sity, who introduced the speakers. St. Mary's Industrial School Band furnished music under the direction of Brother Simon, C. F. X. SWANSON APPOINT NAVY DEPARTMENT The cantest ' Labor Executivgs' Associa-, tion Counsel Says 300,000 May Be Deprived. By the Associated Press. The contention that the administra- tion’s railroad measure would put thou- sands of railroad employes out of work and retard economic recovery was laid before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee today by Donald R. Rich- berg, general counsel for the Railway Labor Executives’ Association. Richberg said the measure would de- prive between 50,000 and 300,000 em- ployes of jobs and would promote poli- cies that would work harm to the pub- lic interest. “The bill enthrones only an infant czar under the regency of railroad man- agers,” he said. “The railway labor organizations dur- ing the period of the development of this legislation protested in vain against the theories which seem to underlie it.” Sees Time Now for Choice. Richberg said the time had come when “a choice should be made between continuing the operation of the railroads as privately-owned competitive systems and accepting the necessity for com- pl?"fl direct Federal control. , €Ven as an emergency measure,” he said, “it is necessary for );he Federal Government to assume any such au- | thority and responsibility as is proposed |in the present act, we submit that the Federal Government can only effectively | exercise such control and meet its re- | sponsibility by ast iming complete emer- gency Federal cintrol." While Richber; testified before the Senate committee. Joseph B. Eastman, interstate commerc: commissioner, was repeating to the House Commerce Com- mittee the arguments for the bill he had put before the Senate commities erg. who said he spoke for 1,- {800,000 railroad workers, 800,000 of wh?m were unemployed, suggested sev | eral changes in the bill, including labor representation in the new set-up for transportation economy and provision for “substitute employment or other means of self-support, or a pension or dismissal wage to take care of those dis- placed from service.” “Considers the Impossible.® “In the proposed bill, the Con considering an effort to lccnmplf:l:“t.h‘: impoessible: To bring about a consolida=- tion of railroad operations whereby less transportation service will be furnished, but more money will be made: to bring about greater concentration of private 1 control, fostering monopoly, while at the same time attempting to increase | bublic control; to deflate capital and | labor drastically in a great essential industry, while at the same time pro- moting a program of inflation and economic recovery. “We do not believe that such an ef- fort can succeed.” Richberg suggested further amend- ments, including: Extension of the authority of 'the Federal co-ordinator over motor, water, air and other transportation services. Provisions to improve labor relations and to stabilize employment so that | railroads and other transportation serv- ices may be operated not merely to pro- duce returns to investors and serve the public, but also to provide a secure live- lihood for a substantial part of the working population. Provisions to obligate all carriers and employes “to exert every reasonable ef- fort to make and to maintain agree- ments concerning rates of pay, rules and working conditions.” | Authority for Improvement. |, Authority for the co-ordinator to “direct rehabilitations, improvements, and extensions of transportation fa- cilities wherever funds are available to the carriers or can be obtained through loans, or where public funds are made available for such purposes.” Specific authority to compel financial reorganization and reduction of fixed charges through refusing to extend the benefits of the bill to ‘recalcitrant” | roads. Richberg estimated $100,000,000 could be saved annually under the latter pro- visions “without increasing unemploy- ment.” He asserted there was no question that expenditure today of between one land two billion dollars was needed to rehabilitate the roads and to “repair | the " depreciation in " carrier Dropertiey ca v a long period of maintenance.” unde Richberg also proposed changes to bar company unions and “yellow dog” First Page.) contracts and to provide that no T, | regional carrier committee, in collabo- staff corps as may not be recommended ration with the co-ordinator, shall take for amalgamation. any action affecting employes until “(b) The method and rate of accom- regional labor committees are consulted. plishing any attrition involved. *(c) “The rate at which ocersshould| __ SUEEests Adjustment Boards. REORGANIZING UNIT (Continued F be admitted to a new line and to such stafl corps as may not be recommended for amalgamation. ‘“(d) The need for specialists in the He also suggested establishment of regicnal boards of adjustment com posed of carriers and employes' re] resentatives to settle controversies ari: line, to be trained and designated for Ing out of pay and working grievances. special duties. Elaborating on the unemployment “The board's report will include any angle, Richberg said kindred subjects which may appear to _ “The Government of the United it to be pertinent. States cannot at the present time as- “The record of the proceedings of the sume the responsibility for depriving board will be submitted to the Secretary Workers of employment without assum- of the Navy.” ing at the same time the responsibility Several economy moves have defi- for their future support. nitely crystallized as a result of the re- _ “Several hundred thousand railway striction of $270,000,000 on the Navy'’s employes have been working only part funds for the coming fiscal year. Mr. . time for a long period. The number of Roosevelt said today that the enlisted their dependents has increased: their strength of the service will be allowed '$avings have been exhausted. If they —through the lack of enlistments—to lose the employment which they now drop from the present 79,000 to 77000, have they will become public charges. A 10 per cent cut in the appropriations _ "1t Would be far better for the Gov- for civil employes at the Navy Depart. Crnment to subsidize their continued ment has already been ordered and eMmPployment. about 200 are scheduled to go May 31. Reduction among navy yard workers awaits the fate of the proposed naval building m, as, the authorities ex- plained, if new warships are to be built, the present force of Navy Yard work- men will be needed. This applies also, officials said, to the situation at the Daily...120,578 Tty Yol 5 o Sunday, 127,332 of 150 officers, Mr. Roosevelt said, but District of Columbia. ss: the method of appiying this has not yet or " THE - EVENINGAND SUNDAY SrAn l!’)t!"eu d:unnllned‘ Whether the H':& Goes Jolemny swear ihat the actusl nympet jrine Corps faces a slash in_enlisted | e paper named sold and dis- |based on the economies that can be | elsewhere. Already, however, | there has been a tightening up, Marine Corps officials announcing today that re-enlistments will be taken only of “those men who rejoin the service the .day after Ll:;lr duch-;ze, Heretofore ,& three-month period of grace has been i allowed. t i _The administration’s for a rotating reserve for the t, under which one-third of the warships would April Circulation nuager Total net daily circulation. Avergae daily net e | 1 complicat director of the budget and ot:érn non- naval advisers. Are these latter giving him sound advice on naval affairs? The Navy League thinks not.” The statement was cigned by N. M. league viee president. = Average Sunday net circulation. . NEWBOLD, Business Manager. Subscribed and swotn to before me thia 10th day of May, A.D. 19:i (Beal.) BLMER F. Yot 4