Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1933, Page 2

> COMPROMISE SEEN ON VETERANS' BILL Crosser Hints at Agreement After Conference at White House. Cuts Explained || Amendments From 1 to 12 Covered by Memorandum Issued by Administration. ! By the Associated Press. Here is a memorandum issued by the Veterans' Administration in explana- tion of the new regulations affecting war veterans' allowances ordered into effect by President Rooseveit Memorandum pertaining to amenda- tory regulations. June 6, 1933.. Many changes were made today by the President in veterans' regulations | concerning pensions of veterans of the iWoer War and the Spanish-American War. ¢ Amendment No. 1 changes the basic (Continued Prom First Page.) those veterans whose disabilities are not service connected should not be cared for at the expense of the American tax- ers. m‘:’l"he President made it clear that it was a matter of principle even to a|rate for wartime service connected dis- greater extent than a matter of dollars | abilities of veterans of the Spanish-| and cents. American War and the World War from | The great stumbling block between |$8 to $80 to $9 to $90. Under this| the President and Congress over this|amendment the servicc connected Span- | settlement of veterans' compensation |ish-American War veterans will receive * s found in the so-called “presumptive” | payments substantially in excess of | cases. The suggestion was made that|those which they were receiving prior to | change from “presumptive” to “rea-|the passage of the economy act. Asto! sonable doubt” as the basis for allow- [ World War veterans, the new rate is 10 ing veterans compensation would rem- | per cent less than the rate in effect for | edy the situation. Mr. Roosevelt is will- | permanent service connected disabilities | ing to have cases in which there is a | prior to the economy act. reasonable doubt as to the cause of Amendment No. 2 provides for ratings the veterans disability resolved in favor | for the loss of use of arms or legs on a of- the- veterans. { comparable basis with anatomical losses Speaker Rainey and Representative | of such members. Byrns of Tennessee, the Democratic | Hands and Feet Losses. ' T ASSASSIN'S SHOTS MISS VENIZELOS Wife of Former Premier of Greece Gravely Injured by Bullets. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Greece, June 7.—An at- tempt on the life of Eleutherios Venizelos, who has been premier of Greece eight times since 1910, deeply stirred this little republic today. The 69-year-old veteran statesman narrowly escaped death at the hands of a gunman, who fired from an auto- mobile at the motor car in which M. and Mme. Venizelos .were traveling from Amaroussis to Athens late last night ‘The essailant’s shots killed a personal guard accompanying the former premier and struck Mme. Venizelos, who suffered four serious wounds in the lungs and stomach. Her condition today was grave. The driver of the Venizelos machine was cut by glass from a broken car window. HE EVENING STAR. WASHI floor leader, had said at noon they saw no - weakening on the part of House members who were demanding adoption of the Connally amendment or an| amendment even more favorable to the | veterans. Sees Action Tomorrow. ‘Their decision was that the question should not be brought before the House today, although Byrns expressed the ope the independent offices bill could called up in the House tomorrow and obtained on it. some action Democratic leaders admitted today that they occupied a “hot spot.” They said they expected few, if any, Re- publicans to support the President in his opposition to the Connally amend- ment. Under those circumstances, a split in the Democratic ranks wouldy be extremely sericus and probably re- sult in a defeat for the President. Some of the Republican members, however, it developed later, are willing to back the President in his opposi- tion to the Connally amendment, pro- vided they have definite assurance that in the operation of the economy act service-conected disabilities of the vet- erans will be adequately ccmpensated. One Republican member said 30 or 40 Republican votes could be lined up to support the President in & show- down provided they had this assur- ance. Speaker Rainey said he was standing | with the President in the fight. He | added that if the House should agree to the Connally amendment and send the bill to the President containing: that amendment or & modification of the amendment that was not satisfac- tory to the President, the Chief Ex-; ecutive would veto the bill. Woula Sustain Veto. “The President’s veto would be sus- taimed,” predicted Rainey. * - dent would insist, if the Connally Amendment No. 3 provides a special rate of $150 per month in lieu of $100 r month previously provided by regu- tion for persons who have suffered the anatomical losses or the loss of use of both hands or both feet, or of one hand and one foot, or where the person is| 50 helpless as to be in need of regular aid and attendance where such loss re- sulted from injury or disease incurred in war-time service. Amendment No. 4 provides a special rate of $175 per month in lieu of the | rate of $150 per month previously au- thorized by regulation for persons who have suffered the anatomical loss or the loss of use of both hands and one foot, or both feet and one hand, re-| sulting from injury or disease incurred in war-time service. Amendment No. 5 Increases the rates payable for service-connected peace-time disabilities to 50 per cent of the rate payable for disabilities in- curred in war-time service. Amendment No. 6 authorizes the pay- ment of war-time rates to peace-time veterans or their dependents, injured or killed in military occupations or expedi- tions, such as Nicaragua, Haiti, China, te. Amendment No. 7 authorizes an in. crease in rate for those Spanish-Ameri- can war veterans who served 90 days or more and who are over 62 years of | ago, from $§ to $15 per month. ‘Amendment No. 8 authorizes an in- | crease in rate for non-service-connected | permanent and total disabilities for World War and Spanish-American War veterans from $20 to $30 per month. ‘This will include all presumptive World ‘War cases coming off the rolls who are permanently and totally disabled. Rating Schedule Revised. Amendment No. 9 revises the rating, schedule to provide a ten-step schedule | in lieu of the five-step schedule pre- viously authorized by regulations. It is amendment is written into law, on pas- | aiso provided that on the review di- Otherwise unhurt, but in great pain, | the chauffeur devotedly stayed at the | wheel, and drove the travelers to their destination The gunman, whose motive was not determined, escaped. Mme. Venizelos, the second wife of the statesman, is the daughter of a wealthy Anglo-Greek resident of Schlizzi. They were married in London in 1921 Orders Investigation. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris expressed regret and horror at the attack and im- mediately issued orders for a thorough investigation and search for the gun- man. He sent a representative to M. and Mme. Venizelos to convey the regrets of the government. “Measures already have been take the premier said in an interview, “and I give every assurance of the speedy discovery and arrest of the perpetrators of the dastardly outrage. “I am sure the most exemplary pun- ishment will be meted out to the cul- prits. My horror and indignation are equally aroused by this abominable at- tempt, which, fortunately, did not en- tirely succeed.” Mme. Venizelos was said to be pro- gressing satisfactorily from her injuries later today. Police were standing by for any event- uality and the garrison was confined to the barracks. Meetings and gatherings of all kinds pere prohibited. M. Venizelos, describing the assassi- nation attempt, said: Cut Off Escort. “My wife and I were returning to Athens when I saw a green seven-pas- senger car. The assassins allowed my car to pass, then placing themselves be- tween my car and the escort, began firing. “Remembering the attempt on my life at a French railway station, I took my wife in my arms and we both 4 to 1 for Repeal Vote of 10 States Shows 5.821.800 For Change and 375.100 Against Aban- doning Prohibition By the Associated Press. Of the 10 States recorded in favor of repealing the eighteenth amendment, eight have held popular votes, which, combined, show a four-to-one majority for repeal. The total—with New York’s tabula- tion still unofficial and Illinois and Indiana incomplete—roughly 5,824,800 votes cast for repealing the | amendment, against 1,375,100 for re- taining it. | In addition, Wyoming has ratifled the substitute amendment, 65 to 0, through | delegates chosen at precinct and county conventions, and Nevada at precinct | meetings has chosen 670 repeal to no | anti-repeal delegaies to attend county conventions June 10. The total popular votes follow: For Against Repeal. Repeal. 850,546 187,931 648,031 150,244 573,532 Michigan | Wisconsin Rhode Island. New Jersey New York (unofficial) 1,929,813 | Delaware 45,615 | llinois (incomplete) 1,125,846 | Indiana (incomplete) 501,239 20,873 90,743 13,505 277,694 5,824,866 1,375,135 INDIANA IS TENTH STATE FOR REPEAL |Two-to-One Vote Recorded in State-Wide Special Election. Total . | 1 | By the Associated Press, INDIANAPOLIS, June 7.—Indiana, hope of prohibitionists to stop a steady march of States toward repeal of the NGTON, D. C, shows | 141,518 240,677 | 302,193 | WEDNESDAY BILL SEEN SAVING HUNDREDS OF JOBS Recovery Plan Held Aid to U. S. Clerks Slated for Furloughs. Administration of the proposed Fed- eral industrial control bill in Washing- ton will save the positions of hundreds | of Government clerks slated for in- definite furloughs under the economy act, according to friends of thc meas- ure. Plans are known to have been put forward to bring all of the Govern- ment's statistical research bureaus in | close contact with the industrial con- | | trol administrator, who will have of- fices in the Commerce Department. The basis for the new set-up will be the Commerce Department’s commodity divisions, which, under the economy plans for the department’s Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, were slated for drastic curtailment. Under the new plans, it was said, many of these jobs will be saved. New Jobs to Be Created. Friends of the measure emphasized that because of the elaborate Govern- ment statistical set-up already in ex- istence only a few jobs are to be created. These will be positions in the upper brackets of Government emplo; ment, such as advisors and economists. The control of wages and hours for industry contemplated under the re- covery measure will be accomplished by efforts on the part of the administra- tlon to prevent a rise in commodity prices out of proportion to the rise in wages, according to high administra- tion sources. While the primary intent of the bill is to regulate wages and hours, ad- known, they also hope, by the exertion of moral power, to persuade industrial- faster than the wage level. This, it was said, would involve “open price lists” in which manufacturers will | record the extent of their sales and the W . JUNE 7, 1933. Ship Without a Pilot | { | JAMIESON, KILLED IN CRASH, PLANNED TO FLY IT IN AIR RACE. career in the air—flying his death June 4 flying the mail plane, of new ces!" 1 ‘s shown above. “y" type Curtiss engine of 500 horsepower. years, spending $10,000 in its construction, flew it nearly 300 miles an hour in | test flights. The ship has a top speed of 340 miles an hour. continental Air Race—William L. \ | | | adopt. ITHIN two months before what he expected to be the climax of his own racing plane in the Bendix Trans- (Larry) Jamieson, crashed to his from Richmond to New York. His speed | It is powered by a 12-cylinder | Jamieson, who worked on it two ! -A. P. Photo. SENATORS TO AGT ON DISTRICT BILL Conferees to Decide on Course Regarding Dispute With House. Senate conferees on the 1934 District Thomas, Democrat of Oklahoma, are ists not to allow prices to sky-rocket |scheduled to go into executive session|that such an effort would be really FRENCH DIPLOMAT CONFERS ON DEBT (Ambassador de la "Boulaye Seeks Attitude of U. S. at White House. ministration leaders have let it less be | appropriation bill, headed by Senator | part of their June obligations. The | President is reported to have answered | ] | on the debt question. | this afterncon to decide what their| appreciated by the people of this coun- | try and would go a long way to solve | future course should be on the several | many of the difficult outstanding prob- | important issues in the bill that have/lems, including the final settlement of | SNOWDEN ARGUES BRITAIN MUST PAY Former Chancellor of Ex- chequer Says Fate of Eco- nomic Parley Is Involved. BY VISCOUNT SNOWDEN. Former Chancellor of the British Exchequer. (Through Co 7y of the London Dally Maif.) By Radio to The Star. LONDON, June 7 (N.AN.A).—Great Britain's half yearly payment of inter- est on the American debt is due next week. We have no information -about the course the British government. will Will it honor its bond or will Great Britain on June 15 be added to the long list of defaulting states? There is no possibility of revision of the American debt before the next pay- ment is due on June 15. There is no | doubt that responsibility for this. rests with the United States Government. Great Britain has an honorable record She always has been willing to wipe the slate clean, | even though this would involve putting on the British taxpayers a burden for 60 years of some £50,000,000 a year. There is a strong moral case for com- plete relief from the American debt. This, no doubt, will be urged if ever we come to grips with the guestion of revision, but meanwhile the United States insists upon. execution of the bond and is backed by a practically unanimous Congress. * To Pay or to ult, The immediate cuestion) therefore, {5 whether we shall pay or default next week. It would have been. agracious act on the part of the United States {f she had given a moratorium while the World Economic Conference is sitting. But President Roosevelt is evidently afraid to do this, although the need is much greater than when President Hoover made his cffer of moratorium, and in the meantime Great Britain has given a moratorium to all her debtors at the cost of a sixpenny income. . There 15 undoubtedly a very consid- eighteenth amendment, today had joined the wet parade. In a special election yesterday it be- came the tenth consecutive State to decide that prohibition has no part in | the Federal Constitution and should be | removed through ratification of the | | twenty-first amendment. | On’a basis of incomplete unofficial | | returns the wets appeared to have ! definitely won 250 of the 329 delegates | to the convention which will be held in | to co-operate with the Government in lndifl-nflm)h§ June 26. A total.of 79 the application of the reccvery bill, delegates were in the dry column. | The co-operation of others, it was [ pVith xr:‘i),x:::t!mpereg:;‘tjaro\x‘to!of 3,691 | said, is anticipated through the processes | i vote stood: | of publi v | For ratifcation BrTiar yote steod: | of public opinion, fust as during the war < “wheatless days and gasless Sundays” :;?5"?31;’330[& 517,544; against ratifica- | were brought about without ecmpulsion. Administration sources, therefore, are Rural Counties Strong. encouraged to belleve the bill can be Surprising strength came from & administered successfully, depending of thelr customers. Industries Send Agents Here. It became known that five leading industries—coal, ofl, textiles, automo- bilés and iron-steel—have sent repre- sentatives to Washington for the pur- said these industries have already shewn themselves not only willing but eager sage of a new tax bill to raise the ad- ditional $170,000,000 revenue needed to carry into effect this additional ex- penditure for the veterans. I stand | with the President on this matter of Tew tax legisiation if it beccines neces- rected by section 17 of public No. 2, Seventy-third Congress, no decrease in the amount payable on Msarch 21, 1933, exclusive of special statutory allowances, will be greater than 25 per cent. ‘The adoption of this new table with sary. | the increase in rates approved will limit “It the Congress passed the Inde- | reductions in cases of men suffering crouched on the floor of the automo- bile. My bodyguard ordered my chauf- feur to pull up, rightly I think, but im- mediately afterward he started up again. “Meanwhile the assassins ceased firing. I ordered the car to dash full speed looked upon as strongholds of the dry forces—to boost the vote the repealists had been given in the large cities. Every thickly populated county in the State pledged its large delegation to | vote for repeal. Fifty-seven of the 92 counties in In- number of rural counties—heretofore | toward Athens. The assassins by this |diana voted for repeal. Each county dent offices appropriations bill con- Tain the B amendment and adjourned, the Congress back into special session and keep it here until this matter was cleared up.” ‘Representative - cl of the House Ways and Means , also has indicated he would go | | with war-time disabilities directly con- nected with the service to an average of 8] tely 18 per cent, with the above-referred-to limitation that in no event shall reduction be greater than 25 per cent. Amendment No. 10 pertains to burial and funeral expenses for deceased hon- orably discharged war veterans, so as| forward with ' new tax legislation to veterans’ expendi- | ially amendment should | be adopted and President continues his demand for additional taxes. to authorize the payment of the allow- ance of $75, including transportation, ! if the veteran’s net assets at time of death are less than $1,000. In deter- mining assets, it is provided that there Rainey and Byrns agreed today that | no e!!or{ would be made to hold a party | shall not be included accrued benefits, | such as compensation, pension, etc. The caucus of House Democrats on the vet- erans’ legislation. FPrankly, such a| adoption of this amendment should eliminate any difficulties, in so far as caucus would, in their opinion, result | burial expenses are concerned, in the disastrously for the administration. | cases of those veterans who die leaving Unless some compromise not yet in | their families in necessitous circum- sight can be reached, these Democratic | stances. Jeaders expect that the House will in- | Amendment No. 11 pertains to chil- struct its conferees on the independent | dren of deceased veterans and provides offices bill either to agree to the Con- | that pension may be paid to such chil- nally amendment or to some modifica- | dren up to 18 years of age, instead of tion of it even more generous to the g years as previously provided in reg- Vveterans. ‘ulnuom, and further provlges]thnt ;: a child is in an approved school or col- Bherows Exmecil. | lege sufficient pension may be paid ‘When the independent offices appro- | during the continuance of such educa- priation bill comes up in the House, it | tjonal course up to the age of 21 years. is expected a motion will b2 made from | Amendment No. 12 excepts from the | the fioor by supporters of the veterans | prohibition of payment of pensions to #o instruct the conferees to agree to the | Federal employes (1) the widows of de- Connally amendment. Such a motion | ceased veterans, (2) those veterans can be adopted by a majority vote, and | whose salary or compensation for serv- 1t is on such a motion that a showdown | jces as employes is $50 per month or 15 likely to come. | Tens, Neither Rainey nor lfayé:s Jook for | an early adjournment of Congress un- A . less the controversy over veun.n:' com- | California Newspaper Man Dies. ensation can be specdily adjusted.| 3 Bytns said foday that if within the SAN JOSE, Calif, June 7 ().—Allen next two or three days an adjustment | McEwen, 45, California newspaper man, satisfactory to Congress and the Presi- | gieq nere early today after a short ill- dent could be reached, it would probably | ness = McEwen was & cousin of the be possible for Congress to adjourn by |jate Dr. Albert A. Michelson, scientist, dJune 17. !and of Charles Michelson, Washington He pointed out that the Senate still journalist. has to pass the public works and in- dustries control bill and that there are 2 number of conference reports still to S SR O EARIRAS e s be considered. Should President Roosevelt send to Congress the recommendation that he be given special powers to negotiate in the order to service-connected dis- abilities. “I went to know,” he said, “whether that definition of what is direct serv\ce} h the foreign na- connection is to be made by our frien ::Tgrlg ,gr;;x:ul:smmtc e erabis” time | the director of the budget, and his sup;’ might be needed to put through the posed subordinates {:0":‘;“;“1;‘:;‘55 ey necessary resolutions. In some quarters | Baruch, or whether is 1o b2 mPCe fig today it was predicted that the Presi- | the bfi-"h': e e dent would abandon his idea of sending | Congress in the past’ oo 1 og this tariff recommendation to Congress.| Ficor Leader Byrns 2 e e The President’s executive order was DOb _henmlelly r!:rler";: t:;meaodded: canvassed by Speaker Rainey, Repre- | €0 FNOR FC J€CIGC Cohleman there sentative McDuffie of Alabama, chair- | ‘T may say to thc BERUERIR ol s ‘l;m\; atthe Capitol. every element of doubt w)lldb;‘ jEeained Failure of the President to inelude | in favor of the veterad, Sa presumptive as well as service-con- LT Footiched that the President, Tected disability cases, they found. po'gtention having been called to the however, was unsatisfactory to many, cpjections which have been made to B Ovbte House, |tne |exocutive | e Tepulsticns heretalne deer order was estimated as. Increasing the | 200, 10,16 {hat thoee Fhg OO aes i cutlay for vete intl ab:;x‘to gggggg-‘;"" the future will give to m; vcterax;h(hc red wi he $170,000, benefit of every doubt, wherever there ticipated extra outlay under the amend- i anv doubt with regerd to his con- ment adopted by the Senate dition Statisticians Work Overtime. Complaint Committee Planned. At the Veterans' Administration,| Byns bad a copy of the new regu- | meanwhile, it was explained that statis- | jaticns printed in the Congressional ticians had been working overtime In | Record and said he was satisfied “the an e;on to compile exact figures as president will see to it that those, to what the Senate-proposed limitation | charged with the administration of of reductions to 25 per cent on service- | these regulations in the future see that connected disabilities would mean, but | the veterans get every consideration.” that such a final total was Dot yet| McDuffie told the House “the Presi- available. dent does not want to see injustice New regulations, it was explained,’ worked on any deserving veteran, and had altered entirely the basis of fgur- | gdded that Mr. R-osevelt expected to set | ing by which theb L:ouli for last year's| yp a committee of three to consider ayments were obtaine | complaints . P here last vear $433,602.952 was paid | “MPDufhe outlined to the House the | out for World War setvice-cornected | modified regulations which limit reduc- disabilities, cmergency officer " "“Y;-w tions to 25 per cent in direct service- ment pay, which m::‘\:’deép:lrll ice dis- | connected cages and permit more liberal abilities, al 1 a el Span! -American ar Pentions snd disability allowsnces, it] Soaonent Of BD o hilaren of wes explained that methods of Tating,| veterans of both wars, He acked Rep- eligibility and degrees of disability had | resentative Fish if the New Yorker oo tered by e P limy, | thought these regulations would meet U lmus Jg‘mg’ = e?ud = The | the_epproval of the House. on T “m A ,{Ybe Renred “They might satisfy the majority of P e o Eormy Lesgue sent |the members of the House,” Fish replied. President Rootevelt a message last He"x?dg::dirlew:{sgri chance to vcte for ht urging him to veto the indepen- > . B offies, DIl 1f 1t pasted Congress |5 13 per cent limit this House wil S | approve 0 1 an pass it over T e 2D e e o oot wpon | Eresident Roosevelt's head 1f he vetoes 1t.” the people the old and discredited sys- | ™/ 10 yhe House, with nothing to do tm except talk, got into such a wrangle e ying bounties to those who are not over the veterans' legislation that time had reloaded and kept firing at us for 3 miles. “All the time I kept asking my wife whether she had been hit, but she re- plied in the negative. “When the firing recommenced I saw blood and understood Mme. Venizelos had been wounded. We passed three passenger busses, but they took no no- tice of our plight, preferring to get out of the range of the shots. “During this time I urged my chauf- despite his plight—he had been wound- ed—he accelerated the speed and drove us to the Evanghelismos Hospital.” Defeated in March. M. Venizelos was defeated in the March 6 elections by Tsaldaris, a leader of the Royalist party, who pledged loy- alty to the republic last Fall. Venizelos had succeeded Tsaldaris as premier January 17, ten weeks after relinquish- ing the post so that Tsaldaris might form a coalition government. On the basis of Tsaldaris’ pledge of allegiance, Venizelos agreed to tolerate & slim majority. M. Venizelos is known as an enem) of royalty—the name “the Ulysses” having been given him for his 50-year fight for democracy. President Wilson called him one of the greatest statesmen in Europe. Recalls Roosevelt Attack. The attempt on Venizelos' life hac counterparts in several recent attempts to assacsinate political figures, one of which was the atiack on President Roosevelt in Miami, February 17. A year ago the premier of Japan, Ki Inukai, was killed by the revolver fire of military terrorists. Paul Doumer, then President of France, died May 1, 1932, from wounds inflicted by an as- sassin’s_bullets. President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru was assassinated during a parade of young men in Lima, April 30, 1933. Other leaders who have been attacked in the last two years include T. V. Soong, Chinese statesman: the Emperor of Japan; Carmona E. Fragoso, Presi- dent of Portuzal, and Sidky Pasha, Egyptian statesman MAYOR PORTER TRAILING IN LOS ANGELES RACE May Refuse to Give Up Office, Contending Opponent Is Not Citizen of U. S. By the Associated Press sale change in city officials apparently ordered by Los Angeles vote! he final result of the maycralty election was clouded today by the possibility Mayor John C. Porter may refuse to relinquish his office withcut a fight. ‘With all but 380 of 1,889 precincts re- ported, Porter was appr: ximately 33,000 votes behind Frank L. Shaw, chairman of the County Board of Supervisors The count in yesterday’s election wac Porter, 122,806; Shaw 154,039. LY Porter, indicated his father m'ght con- tend he was entitled to remain mayor until his successcr-clect has demon- strated he is American citizen Porter claims w is a Canadian Seven of the ten members of the City Council who were on the ballot were defeated for re-election. INDIAN WANTS “SCULLI” and a s Brings Along “Pusskuss” “Tike" to Prove His Need. JACKSON, Miss,, June 7 (#).—A plea for “sculli” by one of Miss:ssippi's rich- est Indians sent attaches of the attor- ney general's office scurrying for inter- preters here yesterdap. Marshall Scott, 60-year-old Choctaw from Neshoba County, presented the request in person and explained he had brcught along his “pusskuss” and his “tike” to support his contention that “sculli” was scarce among the Choctaws It was quite awhile befqie Assistant Attorney General W. W. ISarce found out that “sculli” was money, “tike” wife disabled " 5 Kvale Asks Details. ~ defeated two moves of . In the House late yesterdsy Repre- eniai ale, _ Farmer-Lator, _of feur, with cries of ‘Quicker, Gjanni,’ | was apportioned one delegate f 10,000 population. Rl Forces opposed to any change in the Constitution won delegates from 35 | counties. The largest delegation from |any one of these will be four from Mon- {roe County, seat of Indiana University, /and will include Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of the State school. | Vigorous Campaign Made. Believing Indiana was the first State where they had a chance to defeat the proposal to remove prohibition from the Federal Constitution, workers opposec w‘the change made a vigorous cam- paign. the regime of his opponents, who had | Modern | ‘! L. E. York, superintendent of the In- |diana Anti-Saloon League, in a state- |ment said he believed the dry forces | made a fine showing considering “that | the wets had the support of both the | national and State administrations, |along with the election machinery.” William Stokes, Indianapolls, execu- tive secretary of the United Repeal Council of Indiana, said the result of .%qscerday-'s election was no surprise to im. “It is satisfying to feel that the vic- tory in Indiana for repeal doubtless will |go far toward quickly completing the |roster of the 36 States which must Iratify to insure a complete and final end |of the obnoxious experiment,” he said. States other than Indiana that have voted to repeal the eighteenth amend- ment are Illinois, Michigan, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Jer- | sey, New York, Nevada and Wyoming. L 'SLAYING AND SUICIDE ' FOLLOW FATAL CRASH Three Men Dead and Two Girls Injured in Tragedies Follow- primarily on the voluntary co-operation | of the industries and only seccndarily on the licensing feature. The aim of administration leaders is | putting 3,000,000 men to work this Sum- | mer in industrial plants, 1,000,000 more in public works projects and foresee 3,000,000 more at work through sym- | pathetic activity in other occupational channels. Leaders also assert that with 7,000,000 | working and putting their wages into | circulation the depression will be beaten | within a year. Board Will Devise Code. ‘The bill contemplates setting up in each industry of a board which will de- vise a code of governing wages and ' hours of work appre dustry. In the formulation of this code | all elements of the industry will be | heard, the group representing the bulk | of the membership, the dissenting mi- nority and other workers in the indus- | try who may not be associated with the central representative body. Each industrial group will have a| | central executive head, one who heas no | | financial interests in the industry, but | | is adept in business practices, qualified | to meet emergencies and diplomatic | crisis certain to arise. Beside him will | | sit in every case, a representative of | labor and one of the employer, each | | determining to see justice done in his | groun. When the code has been drawn up by these spokesmen for industry, it will be presented to the President and onee approved, it will have all the force of law. The analogy is with the “law of merchants” in England. which never has been established by Parliament, but still is the law of the merchant world. Will Set Up Reasonable Hours. Administration sources anticipate that while it will deal, in the beginning, chiefly with the major industries, there is no reason to expect that any excep- tions will be made, and that eventually every one of the 7,000 trades of the country will be working under the new | system. It was said, this will apply even to | retail dealers and newspapers. The code will set up reasonable hours and wages for workers in each 1ndu£?'y, not only for the protection of workérs, looking to the end of unemployment and economic standstill, but also for | | | | | | prices obtained, althcugh nct the names | kept it tied up in conference for sev- \ the debt problem. eral weeks. The main points of difference be- tween the House and Senate groups are the questions of what the Federal Gov- Government in 1934 on account of | advances for carrying out the Capper- | Cramton park program, in view of the fact that further expenditures toward the program have been halted for the time being. House Opposes Increase. With regard to the Federal contribu- tion, the House members are under- stood to have been adamant against increase in the lump sum of | Whether MacDonald will be able to | put his point of view over with his| | cabinet is an open question and the | | fact that a week before th: next in- | stallment falls due there have been no | proposals from London ind:- he British premier is having a pose of conferring with Brig. Gen, Hugh | Should be, and whether the District difficult time to convince the other S. Johnson, who is generally accepted should be required to make another members of the advisability of paying as the administrator-designate. 1t was | §1,000,000 reimbursement to the Federal | PArt of the instalyn: ent. MacDenald May Win, MacDonald is trying at present to | | convince his colleagues of the sincerity | of Mr. Roosevelt's aims and is pcinting | | out that in order to make it easier for | the debtor nations to meet their obli- igztlon.s the President has persuaded ‘Conzrus to accept payment in silver | even taking into | the dollar, are still account the fall of greatly depreciated. In official quarters here it is hoped that in the end the British premier or in their national currencies, which, | | $5,700,000 carried in the House bill,| will win the battle and Great Britain | | when the last joint meeting of the| will meet at least part of the June | | conferees was held three weeks ago.| payments. | The Senate bill placed the Federal| In regard to the other nations, with 1 tion of Italy, which it is be- | | erable volume of opinion in-this coun= try, some of it in influential quarters, in favor of telling the United States that the British government will not pay the installment due on June 15. It is a very dangerous thing for a government to repudiate. its bond and for Great Britain it is more dang:rous than for any cther country. Our nationals are the greatest creditors of foreign coun- tries in the world. They have overseas investments amcunting_ to £4,000,000,- | 000, bringing in normally £200,000,000 a year, This income is the main item in | maintaining the balance of trade, | Embarrassed foreign debtors of Great | Britain would need little encourage- | ment to follow the lead of.Grea} Brit- | ain and repudi: their debts to her. | The honor of-Great Britain and her | interest in mai ng the sanctity of | contracts join in condemning any de- liberate default on our part.” Some American opinion might welcome de- fault because it would humili2te Great Britain. Instead of the United States being driven’ into debt revision by our default, it 1s more likely that che would be driven from the World Eco- share at $6,250,000, and at the last the exm conference an offer is said to have been | Heved pay the $14,000,000 it owes on | suggested from the Senate group to| June 15 if Great Britain pays too, there nomic Conferencs, for recent expre - | compromise at $6,000,000. That meet-: is not the slightest hope that any of 1";,5 en:ihed without — n%:emenl and | since then there have n no new —The French chamber has decided not developments. The House members ' to pay a cent until there is a final dras- 2lso are understood to be standing tic scaling down of the debts. The firmly against any concession to the| other debtor nations unofficially have them will meet their obligations. sions of views in official quarters thcrz show that she is leaning toward cit isolationist position in the belief ths she can solve her economic probic within her own internal resources... Argues for Payment. | Senate on the park refund paym | Four Schools Included. | The House bill contained no school riate to that in- | COnstruction projects. The Senate put in four school building items, made provision for beginning a new Calvert street bridge and liberalized the bill in several other respects to avoid hard- | ships that would have faced the munic- | ipal government under the cuts in | operating expenses made by the Budget Bureau and the House. It has been indicated that the House members avould agree to two of the school building projects, to the Calvert street bridge and some of the minor Senate changes if the Senate would yield to the House on the major issues of the Federal contribution and on the $1,000,000 park refund. Federal Share Slashed. | The Federal contribution for the cur- ! rent year is $7,775,000, which repre- sented a deep slash below the previous | figure of $9,500,000. If the House | figure in the pending bill should pre- | vail, it would mean a slash of $2,075,- 000 below the current lump sum. Even if the House accepted a compromise for next year of $6,000,000, it would be a reduction of $1,775,000 below the current payment. The meeting today will be an in- formal gathering of the Senate mem- bers only, to determine what course they should pursue in further joint conferences. In addition to Chairman Thomas, the Senate conferees are Sen- ators Glass, Democrat of Virginia; King, Democrat of Utah; Nye, Repub- lican of North Dakota, and Keyes, Republican of New Hampshire. Ruth Chatterton Returns. LOS ANGELES, June 7 (A).—After | the protection of employers who at present desire to maintain proper wages and working conditions, but are sub- ject to cut-throat competition from employers who operate sweatshops and | ing Milwaukee Accident. By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, June 7.—With whole- By mavor’s son znd secretary, Lee! a suicide on the campus of Milwaukee Downer College, exclusive school for girls, today followed an automobile a cident near Waukesha in which one| men was killed and two young women | | seriously injured. The tragedies fol- lowed & party at Waukesha Beach. | The dend: 3 | Leonerd Nelson. 20. a Jjanitor, who| | police said shot himseif. | Gustave Peterson, 27, 2lso a janitor, said by authorities to have been shot | Nelson. | | “Alvin Nielson, 21, Irma, Wis, who | died of injuries suffered in an accident nesr Waukesha The injured were Jeanette Roszak, 17, | Milwaukee, and Erna Nielson, 19, sister of Alvin. Both girls were passengers in Nelson's car. Nelson, Miss Roszak, and the Neflsons | were returning from a party at Wau- | | kesha Beach last night when the car | went out of control, left the road and | struck a telephone pole Nielson and Miss Roszak, who were in | the rumble seat, were thrown onto the | pavement and suffered skull fractures. | Neflson died at Waukesha Municipal | Hospital this morning. Physicians said | Miss Roczak's condition was critical Miss Nielson suffered cuts and bruises. MILK VPRIC'EVS HIGHER MUSKOGEE, Okla, June 7 (#).— | Because more cheese is being eaten since Federal legalization of beer, farm- ers in this section are getting more | money for their milk. Two Muskogee | cheese factorfes, which were paying about $50 daily for milk two months ago, now are buying $350 worth dally | "In two months their price for butter- | tat hes climbed from 16 to 27 cents. | RAILROADER DIES AT 83 BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 7 (®).— William Brown Doddridge, 83, pioneer railway operator and consulting expert, died here yesterday. Mr. Doddridge served as general man- ager of the -Missouri-Pacific system MILWAUKEE, June 7.—A slaying and | and offering to take all they can get. | plants which violate the better in- dustrial standards. WAGNER APPEALS FOR RECOVERY BILL AS DEBATE OPENS | __ (Continued From First Page) | and predatory practices, * * * most im- portant of all, business grew large in | way which prejudiced the rights of | {labor. * ' « “During the present century we | more than doubled our national wealth, | but we made no progress in distribut- | ing it more equitably. * * * Even at the height of our vaunted prosperity, | several million familles lived in pov- erty.” {2 emeriotl the voluntary ~ trade | asreement plan in the bill would make “‘competition constructive rather than ruinous, and “permit co-operation when- ever a wise policy so dictates.” “It must be stated in the strongest terms that the bill does not abolish competition; it purifies and strengthens it e e, Says Codes Protect Labor. “The interests of the laboring man are adequately protected under the vol- untary codes. No code will be ap- proved unless it embodies the follow- ing: Recognition of the right of em- ployes to organize and bargain col- lectively through employes of their own chooesing; prohibition of the anti-union or ‘yellow-dog’ contract as a condition of employment; acceptance of the maxi- mum hours of labor and minimum rates of pay and other stzndards of working conditions approved by the President.” Of the alternative provisions for Federal compulsion of such industries as may refuse to co-operate voluntarily, Wagner said the plan might seem novel and shocking, but that actually it is ir line with past public policy toward industries recognized as public utili- ties. Under present conditions, he argued, all business is affected with a public interest. 8 ‘Wagner sald mzfie phiblic works pro- gram furnished mn‘zgw'mmmw&he for grants or jJosns fo | three months in Europe, Ruth Chatter- ton and her husband, George Brent, | film players, returned to Hollywood last | night. Most of their time abroad was | spent in Spain. They said they expected to resume work immediately. private industry do not meet this need. They assume that the difficulty we face is primarily a failure of credit facilities. But, except in brief periods of panic, there are ample credit facilities. * * ¢ ‘The real trouble is that business has no prospects when consumer demand is dried up. Public construction will create a pay roll for about 3,000,000 men and woman, which will be translat- ed into a rapid demand for consumer goods and thus lead to general indus- trial revival.” Incidentally, he maintained, the public outlays will stimulate private investment through business taking advantage of opportunities opened by new traffic arteries, etc. Early Passage Forecast. Predictions were forthcoming from the Democratic side of the Senate that the sales tax amendment would be de- feated and that the measure would re- ceive final approval within a few days The sales tax has been beaten every time so far in the House and Senate and the leaders appeared not to be wor- ried. Democratic Senators Walsh of Mas- | sachusetts and Byrd of Virginia also were considering offering a sales tax in place of the House provision extending for another year the existing excise or so-called “nuisance” taxes, which bring in over $300,000,000 in revenue. While Chairman Harrison was fore- casting defeat of all sales tax proposals, a flood of proposed amendments poured into the hopper. They included one by Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho to strike out the provision authorizing re- laxation of anti-trust laws to allow in- dustries to adopt codes of fair competi- tion regarding wages, reduction and hours of work. Borah did not say why he proposed this elimination. Advocates of the bill said, however, it would destroy the whole purpose of the bill In a statement urging approval of the legislation, Senator Walsh said the powers proposed to be delegated to the President were those of one best way to|ordinarily repugnani lmphmmmwmmmo! freedom . and democracy, ‘which 5 . upon our Republic was founded.” | they canftot pay the June insallment | even if they were permitted to meet this | payment in the currency of their own | country. Their budgets, they informed the Acting Secretary of State, cannot | carry such an additional burden. 'MONEY STANDARDS HELD PARLEY AIM Georges Bonnet Says Stabilization of Currencies Will Dominate Conference. | | | | | By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 7.—Stabilization cf eur- | | rencies will dominate the Georges Bonnet told the Anglo-Amer- | lcan press at a luncheon today. He! was expressing the ideas of the French government. Stabilization, the finance mlnl.s‘ber‘ | said, is a fundamental prcblem in the | | search for “an armistice to end economic | Wi Without a definite money stand- | | ard there can be no adequate adjust-| ment of tariffs, M. Bonnet declared. He asserted that once stabilization has been achieved on a gold basis it will be possible to ccnsider debts and tariffs. France, M. Bonnet said, is prepared to make all possible sacrifices, because without co-operation the conference | would fail, and failure would “threaten | civilization itself.” informed the State Department that | The action of the British governmc: ., | cn the decbt payment will affect f - | weal or woe the fate of the World Economic Conference. The - primary | purpose of the conference is to restore financial and economic stability through- cut the world, and it will not increase confidence, which is so essential ta its success, if it meets under the shadow. of British repudiation of tions. On the whole, the weight of the argu- | ment is heavy in favor of making the payment on June 15. The ai the installment due is £19,000, paper’ collars. There is an option pay in United States bonds, but - cannot now be exercised, as the quired 30-day notice has not been Last December we had to pay £6,000, extra through failing to give the neces- sary notice to postpone the principal payment. By a recent act of espec when the payment in all probability will be the last we shall be required to pay under the existing agreement. (Copyright, 1933. by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc) - o PRINTERS DELAY SESSION International Union Votes 30,832 to 15,993 for Economy.. - | INDIANAPOLIS, June 7 (P).—Head+ quarters of the Internatiomal Typo- graphical Union announced yesterday that the proposal to postpone the or+ ganization’s 1923 convention had been approved by a referendum vote. The total vote for postponement was 30,832 and the vote against was 15,993. The postponement was proposed on the | grounds of economy. |POLAND MAY RESIGN FROM WORLD LEAGUE | e | Newspaper Comments on French| Decision to Initial Mussolini Four-Power Pact. The convention was to have been held in Chicago in September. It will be held in the same city in September; 1934. il g £ Ignited Gasoline Fatal. Milton Smallwood, 26, colored, 1000 | block of Irving street, died at Freed- men’s Hospital yesterday of burns re- ceived May 15 when gasoline he was using on his car ignited. By the Associated Press. | WARSAW, June 7.—That Poland | | might resign from the League of Na- | tions was intimated today in the official | | Gazetta Polska in commenting o France'’s decision to initial Premier | Mussolini’s four-power peace pact. The | newspaper said: “Poland will no langer | | be interested in belonging to the League | should the pact materialize because in- | stitutions democratic in principle will then cease to exist.” (Poland is a close ally of Prance. | ‘The French government objected to an early draft of the pact, which proposes the co-cperation of ~France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy for peace, on the grounds that it would form a new realignment of European powers | not in the best interests of Poland and the French little entente allies. An early announcement of the treaty said it would be within the framework of the League.) BERLIN, June 7 (#).—Germany has accepted the Mussolini four-power peace | pact, it was learned today from a most | reliable source. PATTERSON DATE SET | _ ATHENS, Ala., June 7 (P)—Judge Jal | Ing on a motion for a new trial for Heywood Patterson, one of the ninc Negro defendants in_ the “Scottsborc case,” for Ji in Limestone Circuit Court here. Patterson convicted and his punishment fixed at death on April 9 for nn“filued attack on Mrs, Victoria iboard & Boul 880, | of copies' of the paper named Less adjustments mes E. Horton yesterday set the hear- | Total Sunday net Average number of coples for ‘serv- Average Sunday net circulation.-. i Ma; Circulation Daily .. 118,016 Sunday, 124,540 District of Columbia. ss: FLEMING NEWBOLD. Business Manages of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR, does solemnly swear that the ectual number 1d and dis- during the May (AD. was as {ollow copi DAY ‘opies RSy “month o tri ; Coptes. 1 ments Total net daily circulation. .. Average daily net paid circuial Dailv average number of 118,016 126,798 126.008 307 561 :tot circulation. 498,100 Average net paid Sunday circula- tion ’ 128:874 . 608 124.540 ING NEWBOLD. Business Managor. Subscribed and_sworn ice." ete. A FLEM! T (Seal)