Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers late tonight somewhat cooler toni| erate winds, mostly t ures—. yesterday; lowest, 60 Full report on Page A- and tomorrow; ight; gentle to mod- northeast and east. hest, 84, at noon , at 6 a.m. todsy. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered post _off THREE BIG POWERS INTE T0 0PPOSE RELCH ARMS STAND U. S. and Britain Ready to Back France, but Seek to Avoid Open Fight. No. 32,521, “QUIET REARMING” SEEN AS GERMANY’S INTENTION French Spokesman Says Building of Tanks, Guns and Planes Is Already Underway. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Midy 15—A three-power united front of the United States, Great Britain and France virtually has been to face Germany al the Ge- | rmament Conference Thurs- 'as learned today. n H. Davis, American Ambas- at Large, asked Foreign Minister ph Paul-Boncour at a 50-minute talk today to take a mild stand toward Ohancellor Hitler's expected disarma- ment pronouncement before the Reichs- tag on Wednesday, it was authoritative- 1y said, in order that the United States and Britain might be able to follow him. three powers through diplomatic channels were understood to be urging the Gexman chancellor to be moderate in his Reichstag speech. second ‘Washingte class matter gton, D. C. Upside-Down Flying Mark Set at Hour And Five Minutes By the Associated Press. ROME, May 15.—Flying up- side-down for an hour and five minutes, Lieut. Guglielmo Bocola broke a’ world’s record at Cento- celle Alrport yesterday. A military doctor who examined him afterward said his condition was normal. The previous record was 41 minutes, also held by an I:.un;‘n, Capt. Raffaele Cola- clechi, CLOSING ARGUMENT IN TRIAL OF MEANS AND FOX' STARTED vRover Says Defendants Cap- | italized on Mrs. Mc- Lean’s Emotions. Excoriating the defendants as “men who took advantage of a mother’s love to perpetrate on Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean a fraud, gigantic and criminal,” United States Attorney Leo A. Rover j this afternoon began his closing argu- ments in the trial of Gaston B. Means and Norman T. Whitaker, charged with conspiring to defraud Mrs. McLean of ;35.000 in the Lincdbergh baby ransom 08X. “When the slimy hands of the kid- napers reached into the home of Col,‘ Lindbergh and stole his son on March 1, 1932," the prosecutor declared, “the | crime called forth not only the finest | nctions Not Discussed. ‘They wyre trying to keep the situation | from boiffrig over, said an American spokesman, “so that a skillful bridge mey bp constructed from the Isle of | Elbas&here Hitler has placed himself, | bac to the mainland. . 4t was insisted that Mr. Davis and M. Paul-Boncour had no discussion of san- tions which might be invoked to coerce Germany, anq that the international tariff truce was merely given finishing touches. French concern about Chancellor Hit- ler's message to the Reichstag is un- abated, but a government spokesman said France “does not expect Hitler to declare openly that the treaty of Ver- sailes is another scrap of paper.” Instead, the French believe Germany intends to “rearm quietly,” announcing simply that France's failure to disarm has violated the treaty and that there- fore Germany is a free agent. | This quiet rearming, a French spokes- man said, already has commenced in| German factories, which are building ! tanks, big guns and military airplanes. Word From Geneva Awaited. Davis awaits the latest word of the situation at Geneva from Hugh L. Wil- son, American delegate to the Disarma- ment Conference, who is coming here to help him arrange the background | for the next move at Geneva. Wilson left Geneva yesterday. i Military action against a rearmed Germany, treaty experts have found, would be possible only under a decision | of The Hague tribunal. A purported secret French memoran- dum concerning the original four-power peace pact of Premier Mussolini, as published in the Brussels magazine Belge le Flambeau expressed the fear | that lifting of treaty restrictions on| Germany would be a dangerous move at_this time. Revision of t-war treaties, sug- gested in the Mussolini proposal, the memorandum was represented as say- irg, “Risks giving birth to hopes which would be impossible to satisfy or would excite disquietudes which, even if un- justified, would not fail to place an| obstacle to the rapprochement of Ppeoples.” | Speaking at_Marseilles Sunday, for- mer Premier Edouard Herriot extolled | the idea of increased Franco-American «co-operation. GRAND JURY TO HEAR M'MATH KIDNAPING 10-Year-0ld “Peggy” to Tell Story at Special Session of Court. By the Associated Press. BARNSTABLE, Mass, May 15— Margaret “Peggy” McMath was expect- ed to appear today before a special session of the Barnstable County grand Jury to tell again the story of her kid- naping. The 10-year-old girl was the first of several witnesses scheduled to ap- pear before the grand jury. Other wit- nesses included Neil C. McMath, Peggy's father; William Lee, spokesman for the McMath family; Ralph Snow, Harwich banker, and Harold Sawyer, friend of the McMaths. Judge Edward F. Hanify of Fall River will preside. Peggy was taken from the Harwich Center Grammar School on May 2 and | held for three days until her father peid $80.000 ransom. The ransom money was recovered in the home of Kenneth Buck of Har-) wichport, who, with his brother, Cyril, was held in Barnstable County Jail. Charges of kidnaping and extortion were lodged against Kenneth. Cyril was held on an extortion charge. The Buck brothers were arraigned in Provincetown District Court a week ago today and their cases continued. Both pleaded not guilty and each was ordered held in $100,000 bail. District Attorney William C. Crossley of Fall River expressed the desire to have incictments returned and the case b-ought to trial as speedily as possible Peagy was expected to tell the jury the story of her abduction from the time she was picked up in a car at the sciool until she was returned to her | father. She and her father were found aboard the power cruiser Bob. where they were hiding, in keeping with her !a!her's‘gmmi.se to the kidnaper to remain with his daughter aboard the craft for 24 hours. FALL FATAL TO WOMAN Artist's Wife Drops From Apart- ment Atop 16-Story Hotel. CHICAGO, May 15 (#).—Mrs. Frieda Anisfeld, 48, wife of Boris Anisfeld, artist and.teacher at the Chicago Art 1 stitute, was killed in a fall today {:‘m‘fll their apartment atop a 16-story tel. 22, tol . el n mm: mzlnéfyho!h and had e recently. .qrhe body landed on an Purked in the street below. sentiments of some of our noblest citi- zens, but also the foulest, most debased, | most degrading thoughts of criminal elements.” ! Among leading citizens whose heart went out to the stricken Lindbergh family, Rover said. was Mrs. McLean, | whose first-born also had been threat- | ened with kidnaping before his un- timely death under an automobile. Capitalizing on Emotions Charged, Rover, clenching his fists and rais- ing his voice almost to a shout in front | jof the jury box, accused Means and Whitaker of capitalizing on Mrs. Mc- | Lean's emotions by committing what he declared was a fraud so unusual as to be “hard for us now in our sober | senses to_comprehend.” | He emphasized that Means and Whit- aker are not being tried for kidnaping the Lindbergh baby nor for stealing | $104,000 from Mrs. McLean in Means’ prévious negotiations—but for conspir- ing to obtain $35,000 under the pre- text of exchanging it for $49,000 of marked -money paid the actual kid- napers by Col. Lindbergh. Earlier today a defense motion for a directed verdict of acquittal was denied after the defense had rested without calling Whitaker to the stand. With two hours being assigned each side fgr closing arguments, it was in- dicated that the case will go to the j Jury either late today or tomorrow morning, probably the latter. Whitaker's decision not to testify in his own behalf frustrated a plan of the prosecution to grill “the Fox” under cross - examination. Rover, however, dismissed Means' fantastic story of the Lindbergh kidnaping when he declined to cross-question Means when court opened today. Evidence Is Withheld. Holding that rebuttal testimony de- signed to show the falsity of many of Means’ lurid statements as to the iden- tity of the Lindbergh kidnapers and the whereabouts of the Jafsie and Mc- Lean ransom sums would be treating a “Baron Munchausen” tale with too | much official dignity, the Government elected not to introduce important re- buttal evidence amassed over the week end. This evidence would have tended to repudiaie Means' declaration that “Wellington Henderson” and “Irving Fenton,” asserted by Means to be ring- leaders of the Lindbergh kidnaping, could be located at a Detroit address, | (Continued on Page 32, Colynn 1.) WALLACE REPORTS SHORTS ON WHEAT| Big Speculators on List Five Days Out of Every Six Up to October, 22, 1932, He Finds. By the Associated Press. Big speculators in wheat futures in the grain pit today were described by Secretary Wallace as short “on an av- erage five days out of every six” from April 1, 1930, to October 22, 1932, in a report to the Senate. ‘The statement was in answer to a Senate resolution of March 2 asking a variety of information as a result of the order of former Secretary Hyde on October 22 suspending require- ments for reporting grain transactions to_the Government. In his report, Wallace declined to give the names of persons and firms short 1,000,000 bushels or more during the past “two or three years” on the | Chicago Board of Trade, as asked by the Senate. _He explained the grain futures trad- ing laws prohibited his public release | of this information. he Deninn WITH SUNDAY MORNING BDITION Sfar. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 15 1933—FORTY-SIX PAGES. *** AMERICANS T0LD 10 QUIT TUNGCHOW, CLOSE T0 PEPING Town Only 13 Miles From 0ld Capital Reported. Japanese Goal. CHINESE TROOPS FLEE BRITISH MINE CENTER Evacuation Ties Up Railway Traf- fic; Ultimatum to Clear Coastal Area Also Claimed. By the Associated Press. g PEIPING May 15.—The United States legation aavised Americans today to evacuate Tungchow, 13 miles east of Peiping, because of rumors that the Japanese will attempt to occupy the town. y ‘The American community at Tung- chow consists of about 30 missionaries belonging to the American Board of Missions and the North China American School. In the meantime many of the wealth- ier Chinese of Peiping, fearing disorders here, a hasty departure for the safety represented by the foreign con- cessions in Tientsin. Chinese troops defending Nantienmen, north of here, were reported today to have given way before the Japanese drive and to have withdrawn, harried by a bombardment from armored cars. The fighting of the last three days in the Nantieni.en region. a Chinese mili- tarv dispatch said yesterday, resulted in 3,000 Chinese casualties. BRITISH CENTER TIED UP | Railway Bridge Reported Bombed by Retreating Chinese. ‘TIENTSIN, May 15 (#).—Evacuation of Tangshan, headquarters of the Brit- ish Kailan Mining Interests, was begun today by Chinese forces after Japanese fiyers had attacked the town and bombed Chinese cement works and cot- | ton mills. Anti-aircraft guns went into action, but the flyers maintained sufficient alti- tude and escaped being hit. It was believed there had been few casualties, but property damage was heavy. The bombers returned for a second { raid and dropped explosives on Chinese troops scrambling out of trenches 1 mile outside the city. British Garden Bombed. ‘Two bombs fell in the garden at the residence of the British chief engineer of ;rh: ll::‘lu;n ml‘flnlng Admismnom v evacuated. Lwanchow, chiflmm right bank of the Ling River, east of the mining center. Meanwhile, there was an confirmed report here that Japanese authorities had handed the Chinese an ultimatum demanding evacuation not oply of the Tientsin area, but also of Tangku, at the mouth of the Pai River on the sea- coast 35 miles east of here. Confirmation was received here today (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) - {CHANGE IS MADE IN FORUM BROADCAST |Secretary Dern Will Speak Over Chain Tomorrow Night at 9:30. Due to a change in the program of the “cabinet series” in the National Radio Forum, sponsored by The Wash- ington Star, Secretary of War George H. Dern will speak tomorrow evening at 9:30 o'clock, his address being broadcast oOver. an extensive network of stations of the National Broadcast- unday Ty ay Dern would speak tonight, T Secretary Dern will be the seventh member of the President’s official fam- ily to be heard in the “cabinet series,” which has attracted Nation-wide at- tention as a new feature of the Radio Forum. With many important questions af- fecting the Army and national defense growing out of the economy program, Secretary Dern’s address will be ticipated by a wide circle. g heretofore has not expressed himself publicly on any of these vital ques- tions, and there was consequently con- siderable lation in - Army circles over anything he might say in his ad- dress tomorrow night. The program be broadcast from 9:30 to 10 p. m. Railroad Official Dies. CINCINNATI, May 15 () —Phillip T. White, 48, assistant general man- ager of the Biz Four Railroad, died in a hospital here yesterday after being operated on for appendicitis two weeks ago. He had been assistant general | manager for two years, coming here from Indianapolis, where he was gen- eral superintendent. By the Associated Press. ! SEATTLE, May 15—Things are “on | the move” again this Spring up in | Alaska, Uncle Sam's Far North treas- ure house. For the last three weeks, cables have told of earthquakes in Seward, Anchor- age, Dutch Harbor, Fairbanks and other centers, Now comes the report of volcanic activity west of Tyonek, near the head of Cook Inlet, where an a itly. long extinct volcanic center been throwing out smoke, believed to be an outgrowth of the generally felt earth- quake of April 26. h | Quakes and volcanic activity seem to be closely related in Alaska. When Father Bernard J. Hubbard of Santa Clara University, priest,” left here recently for one of VOLCANIC ACTIVITY IN ALASKA IS SEQUEL OF EARTHQUAKE Inlet Begins Throwing Off Smoke. is not subject usually to loss of human ' life because of the instability of terra firma there. However, dishes smash, electrical con- nections break, canned goods fall from shelves and huge cracks appear in the (0 "" i I OVER-QUOTA LIST MAY BE EXTENDED [23 New States to Be Added| if Present “Excess” Is Dismissed. Twenty-three additional States will have more residents in PFederal em- ploy than their quota calls for and, consequently, these will be subject to dismissal if the House program for separations under the apportionment law goes through, and causes removal of the present “excess” from the Dis- trict, Maryland, Virginia, Vermont and Towa. ‘This was brought out today in a table prepared by E. Claude Babcock, secretary of the Civil Service Commis- sion, as the Senate Appropriations Committee took up the independent offices bill, which embodies this sepa- ration “principle. Total Would Be Reduced. As of the end of April, there were 33,733 employes in the executive de- partments and independent establish- ments subject to apportionment, and the total charged to the District and the four States having excess quotas was 13,934. Dismissing these would re- duce the rank of the apportioned serv- ice to 19,799, and consequently bring down the quota for every State. The result wuold be that while 20 States and 3 Territories—Puerto Rico, Hawali and Alaska—would still be in arrears of their quotas, these States, in this order, would have more :atkers charged to them than their ue: New Hamj , West Virginia, Maine, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Utah, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas Indiana, Missouri, Idaho, Min- nesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Florida, Kentucky, Wyoming, Tennessee Montana and Nevada. Cuts would be made in this order. Excess Would Remain. Paradoxically enough, the District and the four States already in excess would continue to be in excess, for the simple reason that by the time their residents had been brought to the quota level now called for, the re- duction in the total -mnumed serv- ice would be so great it the quotas themselves would be further reduced. As is evident, any cut made in these will be transmitied right v.hro\&h the wl’mlenéhtuo( States, so thtu“; posed reduction program practi mes an “endless chain,” with the total number of States ultimately a fected depending first on the extent to which the cut applies at the out- set. and then to the total number of workers it is intended to displace. e FRENCH OVER ATLANTIC Mermoz Plane, on Way From Bra- 2il, Nears African Coast. By the Assoclated Press. NATAL, Brazil, May 15—The big airplane Arc-en-Ciel with Pilot Jean Mermoz at the controls, started at midnight on & return fligh across the South Atlantic to Africa. Rene Couzinet, designer of the plane, accompanied Mermoz in addition to a co-pilot, a radio operator, the naviga- tor and a mechanic. Fox Proves Rogue 17 Years Among Rescuer’s Chickens By the Associated Press. HINGHAM, Mass, May 15— About 17 years ago Joshua Jones found a starving fox pup. He nursed it to health and placed a leather collar around its neck. Six months later the fox escaped. Yesterday Jones killed a fox that was after his chickens. Around its neck was the collar. Jones has been missing chickens from his coop for 17 years. ROTATING RESERVE | Third of All Combatant Ships CONGRESS SEEKING TO LEAVE JUNET0 Leaders Expected to Put | Three More Bills Before White House This Weel_(. — By the Assotiated Press. Congress entered the tenth week of | the special session today with high | | hopes of s rousing homestretch dash for adjournment by June 10. Leaders were optimistic that the next six days would see at least three im- portant measures at the White House— | the administration’s Tennessee Valley- Muscle Shoals bill, the securities regu- lation measure and the gasoline tax- postage rate reduction bill. Quick Action Likely. ‘The last segment of President Roose- velt's domestic emergency program— the public works-industrial control leg- islation, was expected to go to Capitol | Hill by tomorrow or Wednesday. Quick action appeared in prospect unless a ‘wide-open fight develops on its taxation features. Conferees have reached an agree. ment on the Tennessee Valley-Muscle Shoals bill and approval in the Senate and House will be sought again tomor- row. Conferences began today on Sen- ate and House differences over the ufi:ug:luu regulation and gasoline-pos- ta 2 h final action before June 1 almost certain. Bank Bill Introduced. Banki reform legislation was in- troduced the Senate today by Sen- ator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia. His measure was unanimously approved by the Banking Committee Saturday, and Glass hopes to pilot it through to en- actment before adjournment! The only major barriers to an adjournment by June 10 that are now seen by Democratic leaders lie in the possibility of Presidential requests for authority to deal with war debts and make reciprocal tariff agreements with foreign nations. These cantroversial subjects are regarded as certain to stir up a fire of debate and opposition. Nevertheless, Mr, Roosevelt is expected to ask at least power to negotiate tariff agreements. AUTO WRECK KILLS TWO Kentucky Woman and Virginian Die as Car Turns Over. CHRISTIANSBURG, Va., May 15 (). —Mrs. Ronal Gentry, 23, of Louisville, and Clyde S. Woolwine of Chris- week, witl appearing The plane reported by wireless at 7| tiansbu am. (2 a.m. Eastern standard time) it was at 30 degrees 30 minutes west, 2 degrees 55 minutes south. At 1:30 pm. (8:30 am. Eastern standard time) the plane again sig- nalled “all well aboard.” ‘west. 2Apparently Long Extinct Center Near Head of Cook >out 5 Camden Pay Roll Met. CAMDEN, N. J., May 15 (#).—For the first time since March 15 Camden nthels pay envelpestocay.. “Ten eir pay envel “ thousand dollars oty reased | One person 000 | in Guaca, . Gentry, with, her sister, Mrs. mwfim"n:a?"h Viatt with rived Sa n or & re¥nuus at rfm.whe party of three taking a sight-seeing when g car auppedd'ofl the shoulder of a dirt road. Meanwhile, committees are shaping | the Roosevelt railroad reorganization | measure and plan to make reports this| Slain in Colombian Election. Colombia, May 15 (P).— BOGOTA, Co ot ay | e:‘ Santander, in disorders - nected with the congressional elections . ‘The rest of the country was re- will | ported quiet. A heavy Liberal majority ‘Can You Tell Whomto Believe? Do you recognize a racket when you meet one? The Evening Star, beginning May 22, will expose !hl common rackeis by which .the public has been swindled. UP) Means Associated Press. ROOSEVELT CALLS PARLEY TO STUDY PUBLIG WORKS TAX Financing of Program to Be ORDERED FOR NAVY and Aircraft Are Affected. One-third of all combatant ships and aircraft were ordered placed in rotating reserve commission, effective July 1, un- der orders issued today by Admiral Wil- liam V. Pratt. chief of naval operations. The craft will be placed in rotating reserve for six months at a time, under the “operating force plan” as it is of- ficially known. This economy move is part of the administration’s program to save $55,000,000 in the Navy's budget for the coming fiscal year. Personnel to Be 77,000. Under the slash the total enlisted personnel of the Navy will be permit- ted to diminish from its present 79,700 to 77,000. This will mean, the Navy Department said foday, that vessels in Discussed With Leaders of Both Houses. DEFINITE DECISION ON LEVY HELD LIKELY Byrns Reports Number of Protests. Draft Is Complete Except for Revenue Section. By the Associated Press. Congressional leaders were sum- moned to a White House conference today to discuss with President Roose- velt the proposal for a “re-employ- ment” ér “sales” tax to finance the gigantic public works program. ‘The Chief Executive was expected to determine whether it would be feasible to recommend the imposition of a gen- eral tax on industry of slightly more than 1 per cent. Speaker Rainey. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Representative Byrns of ‘Tennessee, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, Senator Harrison of Mississippi, chair- man of the Senate Finance Commi tee; Representatives Ragon, Democrat, of Arkansas, and Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky, are among those to attend. The draft of the measure is com- plete except for the revenue section, de ed to raise $220,000,000 a year for sinking fund and interest require- ments. Representative Byrns said the meeting mae‘a"::}w% ;n-‘smmr ;se of lef ly upon Phether the ‘sales levy could be adopted. Protests Received. “Already I have received several pro- tests from members the sales tax,” Byrns told reporters. “It is not a tax. Maybe the protesters be asked to suggest & more popular Speaker Rainey told reporters he Lhumt. the administration could get, the sales tax by the House, but that “it will the hardest thing to et through the President has asked ,or.“ He said there are 180 House members, who voted against the sales tax in the Seventy-second Congress, who were re-elected to the Seventy- third T the sales tax 18 ‘?;mud e said, Congress M’ mi levy ipe lines, trucks and motor buses, commission will have 77 per cent of | issue The ped out tod: lls mapped out today cal for m’:‘m the rotating reserve plan during the fiscal year 1935 and until January, 1936. The complete cycle for all ships that rotate will be 18 months— six months in rotating reserve and about one year in full commission. Admiral Pratt said in his order that Naval overhauls will normally be ac- complished when ships are in rotating reserve commission. Norfolk for East Coast. Battleships, aircraft carriers, heavy and light cruisers will be placed in ro- tating reserve at the Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash. Destroyers placed in rotating reserve on the West Coast will be maintained at the Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calif., while those on the East Coast will be laid up at the Norfolk, Va., Navy Yard. The vessels in rotating reserve at Puget Sound are organized into the “Puget Sound Rotating Reserve Squad- ron, U. S. Fleet.” and an officer of suitable rank will be ordered to com- mmam that squadron, Admiral Pratt as- ‘The destroyers at Mare Island are to be organized into “Rotating Reserve Destroyer Squatiron 20, U. S. Fleet,” and an officer of suitable rank placed in command. The airplane squadrons of airplane carriers, in reserve, and the airplane units of battleships and cruis- ers in rotating service, will be ordered to the Fleet Air Detachment, Naval Air Station, S8an Diego, Calif. MRS. ROOSEVELT TO FLY TO WEST COAST IN JUNE First Lady to Travel by Air to Los Angeles to See 2 .. Son Elliott. By the Associated Press. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today an- nounced plans for a trip to Angeles the early part of June. She said she would travel by air to see her son, Elliott, who has taken & position_on the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Roosevelt said she thought she would start June 2 or 3 and that she might fly in the daytime and take one night on the train. Mrs, Elliott Roosevelt, with her in- fant son, Wil , is at Philadelphia, and will go Campobello, in New Brunswick, for ‘Summer. Mrs. Roosevelt plans to go to Massa- chausetts next week end “to see my boy race Saturday afternoon.” Franklin, jr., is captain of the Groton School crew, and the President’s wife, with her son James and his wife, will go up to Groton to witness the race. finan Los| They are suggesting an the Roosevelt cottage, | by thways, :mh'conntru"cflnn. and an indefinite amount for rivers and harbors improve- ment. It permits trade agreements between X ject "to. the vai of izations sul Appro :l:en Government. In the event certain industries cannot make agreements on production, the President is empowered to initiate é:"’""m to determine what may be done. A director of public works and indus- try is to administer the law. Be':mllbed have power to approve agreemen! - tween trade ..&P;comm thereby sus- the anti-trust laws, in so far as the agreements go. The President gave further thought today to including provision for & back- to-the-farm momevent in the bill. This legislation has been widening gradually and plans for rebalancing the city population were looked over by Mr. Rosevelt last night. 3 Advisers who mw & “re- employment” or acturers’ tax of between 1 and 115 per cent believe the President is inclined to regard this levy as the best available. They have in- sisted to Mr. Roosevelt that the alter- native is a number of other special taxes, including & boost in the present income tax schedule. Committee of the Na- of Manufacturers was This proposal contemplates a liberal- ization of the anti-trust laws to permit Government sanction of trade agree-' ments for minimum wages, shorter working hours and control of surplus production. Some of the industrial leaders are am. alternative of loans to industry to stimulate employ- ment rather than the diture of capital in public works to bring about more jobs. ‘What provision is to be worked out for a back-to-the-farm movement is problematical. Mr. Roosevelt hopes to through his nearing conclusion. Leasing of lands the Government to absorb former farm dwellers now idle in the cities is believed to be a part of this program. Trade Agreements Signed. LONDON, May 15 (#).—Trade lgru- it Britain and Swe- and Norway were signed at the foreign office today. FEDERAL ECONOMY FORCES MOLEY TO WRITE FOR NEWS SYNDICATE Weekly Column Boosts Earnings: of Hull Aide in Move' to Make Both Ends Meet. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The economy bill reducing the sal- aries of Government officials by 15 havoc with those positions Saturday’s Circulation, Sunday’s _Circulation, “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. 118,238, 127,343, TWO CENTS. MORE BANK 0. K. DUE IN D. C. MERGER WITHIN 48 HOURS Three or Four Considering Final Details Before Taking Action. SUCCESS IS EXPECTED WITHOUT R. F. C. HELP Capital of at Least Million Talked as Officials Meet With Gra- ham, Central Bank Chief. Possibility that three or four more Washington banks in the hands of cone servators may join the movement offie | clally Jaunched Saturday night by fouf institutions to form a new big central national bank arose today as officialf of the new merger went forward with the program to set up the new bank. No definite action had been taken up to noon today by the institutions which may come in, but it was freely pre- dicted that within 48 hours decisions will be reached. Among . the banks understood to be contemplating the matter are the Northeast Savings Bank, the United States Savings, the Wood- ridge-Langdon Savings & Commercial and the Seventh Street Savings Bank. ‘The merger as it now stands will unite in a new national bank, the Federal-American National Bank & Trust Co., the District National Bank, the Potomac Savings Bank and the Washington Savings Bank, with a minimum capital structure of $1,000,000. Conference Starts. Edwin C. Graham, head of the new benk, went into conference early this afternoon with members of the joint organizing committee With a view to working out further details of the big merger. He had with him John Poole, president and conservator of the Fed- eral-American, and Joshua Evans, jr., president and conservator of the Dis- trict National. Further announcement concerning the development of the new bank was expected to be forthcoming shortly, as many problems were taken up by the Joint organizing committee. The sale of stock stands out now as one of the factors in the situation, and the new bank is building a capital structure of at least $1,000,000. Stock- holders and depositors in the old banks Joining the new one will be asked to subscribe to this stock. The capital structure is expected to be raised without asking the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to sub- ascribe for preferred stock, such as is authorized under the emergency bank- ing act. This was interpreted in bank- ing circles today as an indication of strength on the part of the new bank, as it would still retain the privilege of asking the R. F. C. to subscribe if it 80 desired. It is canfidently believed, however, that the whole structure will be raised without recourse to the Re= construction Finance Corporation. R. F. C. Held Favorable. It was understood further that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is at least favorable to the organization of the new bank and is in a position to assist it in other particulars—for instance, in so-called organization of loans advanced to member banks in the new merger. This factor was ine terpreted by those in close touch with the situation as not only helpful to the merger, but as an indication the Government has expressed confidence in the new plan. The plan for the merger, as a mat- ter of fact, is coming to be known as the “Washington plan” because it is a distinct departure in many particu- 1-1;5 from the well-known ‘‘Spokane plan.” The Capital plan, for example, in- |cludes the consolidation of several | banks, which may run up to eight or nine; whereas the Spokane plan has been largely used only for single insti- tutions. So sound and successful has the principle of the Spokane plan been, however, it was pointed out, banks which, over a period of the last two years. have reopened under its program have invariably begun with an increase in deposits and continued with suc- | cessful operation ever since. ‘The District National Bank, which in- tends to make no vital change in its previously announced plan for reopen- .ing, has asked its stockholders and de- ! positors to subscribe to stock. De- positors have been asked to subscribe to (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 'FRENCH IMPORT TAX PROTESTED BY U. S. Diserimination in Favor of Bel- gium and Italy Charged by Government. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 15.—The American em= bassy today received instructions from Washington to protest to the French government against alleged discrimina- tory treatment of the United States in imposition of the import turnover tax. Italy and Belguim by conventions with Prance have been freed from a percentage of this tax, the American Government asserts, thus working a dis- advantage to American commerce. The import turnover tax places a& tariff of 2 per cent ad valorem on raw materials, 4 per cent on semi-fin- ished products and 6 per cent on fin- ished products. Belgium and Italy have been exempted from the semi- finished and finished products taxes, thus giving Belgium an advantage over United States, chiefly in the im- portation of copper goods and Italy a | | The government today decreed an- other import license tax of 40 francs 100 kilograms on pilchards, affect= California shippers.