Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably followed by local thundershowers tomorrow afternoon or night. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 92, at 3:00 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 66, at 1:30 a.m. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. today. Full report on page B-16. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING BDITION ¢ Foening Star. post_office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JUNE BATTLE RESUMED IN SENATE T0 PASS. INDUSTRY CONTROL Night Session Planned to Force Final Action on Measure, Today. 50 AMENDMENTS PEND TO ADMINISTRATION BILL | Reed to Fight Licensing Provision as Soon as Committee Changes Are Disposed Of. By the Associated Press. Determined to remain in session until late tonight if necessary to reach a vote, | the Senate today resumed debate on the administration's industrial recovery- | public works bill with roll calls immi- | nent on vital sections of the measure. | Contests over taxes, industrial licens- dng and relaxation of anti-trust laws were ahead as the Senate met two hours earlier than the usual noon con- vening time in an effort to speed the legislation to enactment. | ‘This was the last major bill of the | momentous extra session to await a | Senate vote. Its passage was counted | upon to aid materially in permitting an early adjournment of Congress—by Sat- urday. President Roosevelt hopes, 50 Amendments Offered. Pifty amendments had been offered to the measure, most of them proposing | minor changes. Those in charge of the bill looked | for serious contests only on amend- ments to substitute the sales tax or Treasury notes for committee corpora- tion levies to finance the $3,300,000,000 | public works program; to strike out the presidential power to license industries Which would not follow a majority in adopting codes of fair competition, and to eliminate sections setting aside anti- trust laws that stand in the way of the purposes of the unprecedented in- dustrial experiment. ‘The first important committee | amendment approved would make all employes of the industrial administra- tion receiving more than $5,000 a year subject to confirmation by the Senate. Senator Trammell, Democrat, of Flor- ida succeeded in adding a rider to this | to prevent any increases in salaries lor1 six months after enactment of the law. | as Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn- | sylvania announced he would move to | strike out the licensing provision as soon as the committee changes in it re disposed of. “This is the most revolutionary sec- tion of the bill" said the Pennsyl- vanian, “It is pul in as an additional threat to compel adherence to these codes of competition. Defended by Wagner. “These codes, once agreed upon by industry and approved by the President, have a force of law and violations are Ppunishable by fine and imprisonment. “The administration insists upon add- ing to that this licensing system so 1 by refusal of a license an industry may be punished further. A man’s whole right to practice a business is to be taken from him by the President if | the processes of law are too slow to permit the President to penalize any person he wants to.” To_indicate the broad scope of the bill, Reed said the President could es- tablish a “code of fair competition for | push cart: Prompt in defense of the section, Scnator Wagner, Democrat, of New | York, one of the principal authors of | the bill, replied that “what has dragged | industry down more than anything else | is cut-throat competition, long hours | &nd starvation wages.” “We are going to lift it up to a wage | level of comfort and decency,” Wagner went on. “Most industries are dragged down by a recalcitrant 10 to 15 per cent who work emploves long hours at star- vation pay. “That is the sweatshop business com- Ppetition we are trying to eliminate.” MINE SQUABBLES H‘LD HOME BOMBING CAUSE | | ‘One Man Killed and 10 Others | Injured in Later Picketing Riot. By the Associated Press | SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 8—Two homes were damaged by bombs early | today, apparently in continuation of the rival mine unions' squabble that brought fatal injuries for one man and gunshot wounds for ten others at a picketing riot yesterday. Three Pro- gressive miners were beaten today as they, with ebout 500 others, picketed Peabody Mine No. 43, which resumed work this morning with 200 United Mine Workers reporting at the shaft. The home of Joe Dernocourt, dis- trict president of the United Mine ‘Workers of America, was badly dam- aged by one bomb. No one was hurt Another bomb damaged the home or Robert Holman, negro miner, and blew out windows of the Grace A. M. E. Church across the street. Robmson Accepts ng’s Challenge To Campalgn Tilt Arkansan Threatens to Invade Louisiana at Election Time. | { | By the Associated Press. | In biting sarcasm, Senator Joe T. | Robinson of Arkensas, Democratic lead- ler, today answered a threat of his foe, Huey P. Long, Democrat, of Louisi- ana, to fight him in Arkansas with ac- ceptance of his challenge and a declara- | tion that if he did, Robirson would in- | vade Louisiana. Robinson, turning squarely about from his seat in the front row of the Senate, faced Long directly—a few rows from him—to thunder in a renewal of the | long-standing feud between them: “The Senator from Louisiana has boasted that he will go into Arkansas. If he comes into Arkansas, I'll take the liberty of going into Louisiana. “Knowing the state of affairs in the | two States as I do, I'll say he will be' repudiated in both of them.” Cites Caraway Company. Long, a few moments before, had ob- served that he had settled a political matter with Robinson in the last elec- tion, in which Mrs. Hattie W. Cara- way was elected to the Senate. Long campaigned for her, “I'll go back to the people of Arkan- sas again and see, who comes back to the Senate,” the Louisianan shouted. The argument between Long and Robinson started after the former had condemned Bernard M. Baruch’s al- leged influence in the Roosevelt admin- istration. Robinson, slapping his hands to em- phasize his words, asserted Long was (Continued on PIKE 2, Column SENATE TE APPROVES MORGAN TAX QUIZ Van Sweringen Brands Such Procedure as “Terrifically Destructive.” | By the Associated Press. The Senate unanimously today voted more power for its investigation of private banks and bankers, and soon thereafter O. P. Van Sweringen as & witness in the J. P. Morgan & Co. inquiry characterized such procedures “terrifically destructive.” “All business is of greater volume than a year ago,” he had remarked, interrupting a long series of questions, i | on involved financing of the extensive Van Sweringen railroad enterprises and the part taken by the Morgan Bank. Referring to rail operations, he added, “That’s all we need” in connection with expanding business. “Business needs encouragement and not frightening,” he went on philo-| sophically. “If T may speak frankly these in- vestigations are terrifically destructive.” A moment later he said, “I should not have said that. I did not mean these investigations, but—" He never finished the sentence. J. P. Morgan, chief object of the in- quiry, sat back among waiting witnesses smiling. Tax Probe Permitted. As today's hearing opened, the Sen- | ate meanwhile was putting through the | resolution giving the committee power for examination of stock transactions by which partners of the Morgan firm re- duced their income taxes. There was not_a ripple of opposition The attitude the Morgan partners will take as a result of the latest Senate move to uncover the income tax re- | ducing transactions remains to be seen. Their counsel, John W. Davis, refused to commit himself, but did say that if the challenge of authority is carried further, the procedure will be for Thomas S. Lamont—a young partner— to refuse to answer questions. “That will put it up to the Senate | and will provide the means for a test,” he_told reporters. In offering his resolution yesterday, Chairman Fletcher of the = Banking | Committee, assured the Senate it would provide ample authority for the com- | mittee to “get at the facts and those facts will enable the Department of (Contmued on Page 4, olumn T RACKET IN INSURANCE Speaker Says Groups Seek to Make Quick Returns. CHICAGO, June 8 (#).—Racketeer- ing has entered the ranks of life in- surance, Lee N. Parker, vice president of the American Service Bureau, St.| Louis, told the American Life Conven- tion today The racket, he said, involves certain nationalistic groups, employers and others seekirg to make quick returns by buying insurance on employes and others impaired physically. As a re- sult greater responsibilities have been placed upon the | ments of life insurance companies. NEW STREET CAR ELIMINATES NOISES AND ADDS COMFORTS ‘Automobile Principles Embodied in Latest $500,000 Trolley Given First Public Test. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 8-—The newest thing in street cars made its first public appearance today. The car, built for greater speed and Jess noise, cost half a million dollars, & big part of which is represented by three years of experimentation sponsored by | 8 group of 25 electric railway systems. Builders of the new car gave a dem- onstration in Brooklyn today to show that its improvements eliminate most of the jerks and clatter of older models. ‘The model demonstrated today had an old body which is destined to be re- placed in the finished car by a one-piece | 1oudest sound when the car is running comes from the overhead trolley wheel Special motors and controls permit high ac- The | celeration and there is worm gearing metal body. Developments found successful in au- tomouve design have been applied for time to the street car. xulc idea of “floating” power is much |in evidence. As a result noise has been greatly reduced. Rubber “sandwiches” between steel | parts which formerly rattled against one another have been extensively used and the entire truck has been lightened. | There also are “resilient wheels,” called | that because of the rubber in their | makeup. Tt i claimed that the car Wil start from 10 to 15 per cent quicker than the most modern automobile. Much | attention also has been paid to the braking system, so that stopping does not interfere with the passenger’s com- fort even if he is a “standee.” So much of the noise has been elimi- nated. engineers pointed out, that the as it skims along the wire. similar to that of the automoblle, had ! inspection _depart- | MATTERN FORCED BY FUMES TCLAND: REPAIRS HIS PLANE World Girdler Almost Over- come by Leaking Gas Line. IFLYER AT PROKOPIEVSK WITH BROKEN STABILIZER Plans to Hop Off for Krasnoyarsk as Soon as He Recovers From Poison in System. | (Copyright, 1933. by the Associated Press.) MOSCOW, June 8—Gasoline fumes rom a leaking gas line, which almost jovercame him in the air, forced Jimmie | Mattern suddenly to land near Pro- kopievsk, 'Siberia, Wednesday, the Amer- ican round-the-world fiyer told the As- sociated Press today. “I am still sick from those fumes,” the Texan said in an exclusive tele- phone interview. He spoke from Belovo, a workers’ settlement near Prokopievsk, where he came down at 10 a.m. Moscow time Wednesday (2 a.m. Eastern stand- ard time), a few hours after’he had started from Omsk, Siberia, on the fifth lap of his round-the-world dash. “I can't hold any food on my stomach, but I expect to get off for Krasnoyarsk in five or 10 hours,” he said. “I was four hours out of Omsk when I discovered a leak in the fuel line, and by the time I had found out what the trouble was I was in bad shape from the fumes.” Almost Unconscious, He added that he was almost uncon- scious when he brought the plane down on a small emergency landing field at Belovo, the settlement. “When I landed, I broke my stabilizer ll::d I cannot make permanent repairs re. “They have helped me as much as they can here, however, and I shall be able to get off from here with tem- porary repairs within a few hours and run into Krasnoyarsk, where there are facilities for fixing this stabilizer. “I have already fixed the gas line leak |and I am almost ready to take off as | far as repairs are concerned. “The only thing is that I feel too | sick now, and T think I will wait a few | hours until I get better.” | Asked if he had got any sieep, Mat- tern replied: “Not much. I have been working on | the ship ever since coming down. But I am not very ileepy and I'll prohlbly Dlnk up some rest at Krasnoyarsk. Ho n:y elapsed time from New York now?” He was assured that he was all right. (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) 'FIVE BELIEVED DEAD IN CRASH ON ROAD |Three Bodies Found in Wreck Near McKenny, Va.—Two Children Sought. By the Associated Press. MCcKENNEY, Va., June 8—Five per- | sons are believed to have been killed and their bodies burned beyond recog- ! nition in a head-on collision between !a truck and a small closed car early | today on United States Highway No. 1, 5 miles south of here, in Dinwiddie County. The wreckage, jammed together, burned for several hours. Two men on the truck were cut, bruised and burned, but are not thought to have been serfously injured. They | pir were Wililam McCowey and Troy P. Swann, both of Philadelphia. They were traveling south in a practically empty truck. S. K Henderson of Durham, N. C, was believed to have been the owner of the passenger car, but this had not been definitely determined. Search of the wreckage disclosed what were be- 'lieved to be three bodies. The car, however, was reported to have been | one which stopped in South Hill early today, in which were a man, two wom- en and two children. The wreckage was so complete and 50 badly burned that county authorities and citizens had been unable to com- plete their investigation. The two men on the truck, which rhad a trailer attached to it, were car- | ried to a physician’s office in Alberta for treatment, after which they were taken to Lawrenceville by Sheriff H. E. Valentine, The force of the collision was so great that the small passenger car was driven into the engine and cab of the truck, becoming jammed there. The wreckage caught fire immediately. Hundreds of people gathered at the scene of the accident and for a time highway traffic was blocked. County officers and State motor vehicle traf- fic officers soon cleared the road, how- ever, and began immediate investi- gation. 'MOTHER OF TWO HELD IN STEALING CHILD Declared to Have Taken Girl to Satisty Desire to Have An- other Baby. By the Associated Press CINCINNATI, June 8.—Mrs. Vir- ginia Rogers, 31, mother of two chil- dren, was held for grand jury action under $25,000 bond today on a charge of stealing a child to satisfy her desire to have another baby of her own. She waived examination in the brief hearing in municipal court. A grand jury had begun taking testimony in the affair, and officials said they expected an indictment would be returned against Mrs. Rogers today for taking the 6-weeks-old daughter of Mrs. Madeline Sneed, 21, from its home May 31. Physicians who examined the woman at the direction of the county prose- cutor said the woman had suffered from belief she was about to have a child and that realization that she was mistaken left her with a desire to possess a baby nevertheless. ‘The charge of child theft and har- boring a stolen child carries a pos- sible sentence of from 1 to 20 years. HONESTLY | COULD N HAVE DONE THIS STUNT IF 8, 1933—FIFTY PAGES, *kk (®) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,615 TWO CENTS, Yoy HAD NT BEEN RIGHT HERE wnm Me!_ [HOUSE APPROVES CONFERENCE TERMS ON DISTRICT BIL Three Slight Amendments | Adopted in $30,000,000 Appropriation Measure. ' |SENATE IS EXPECTED PRESIDENT'S SON 10 BE DIVORGED Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt to File Reno Suit—First Lady Confirms Report. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 8.—After dis- lish residence in Nevada to permit his wife to seek a divorce on the grounds of incompatability, Mrs. Pranklin D. (Pacific standard time) today for Wash- ington, D. C. Her unannounced departure by plane ended a stay of less than 36 hours in her son. Young Roosevelt, who only a short | time ago became general manager of a West Coast airline after leaving the East with the announced intention of obtaining a tion which in nowise could be said to have political signfi- cance. told a newsman he would leave shortly for Reno. The disclosure came as Mrs. Roose- velt left her hotel in company with Elliott en route to the United airport at Burbank. Thirty minutes later the party, which included Mrs. Isabella Greenway, Democratic national com- mitteewoman for Arizona, left the United airport for Saugus because fog made a take-off at Burbank hazardous. At Saugus a special ship awaited. At the hotel entrance Mrs, Roosevelt said in reply to a question that the divorce was in prospect and then Elliott, at her elbow, confirmed his mother’s statement. Beyond the bare announcement that the divorce action was to be instituted in Nevada, neither Elliott nor his| mother cared to comment much. Elliott did add, however, that the di- | vorce will be sought by his wife, the William H. Donner of Philadelphia, in- bility. last year. An agreement is understood | to have been reached as to the custody | of their child, William Donner Roose- velt, born last November. They were married January 16, 1932. When Elliott came to the west coast | his wife and baby did not accompany Mrs. Roosevelt was accompanied on the plane, which will make an initial stop at Tucson, Ariz, by C. R. Smith, general manager of the airline; Amon lisher, and Mrs. Greenway. The flying time between Saugus and | Tucson is about four hours. Her pilot was J. William Martin, jr., brother of Eddie Martin, who piloted Mrs. Roose- velt into Los Angeles Monday. ELLIOTT'S WIFE SILENT. Neither She Nor Parents Will Discuss Marital Troubles. PHILADELPHIA, June 8 (#).—Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, whose marital trouble was publicly disclosed today by her husband’s mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, is maintaining a stricc silence. Neither she nor her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William~H_ Donner of Villanova, near here, would Yiake any statement. Mr. Donner, millionaire former_steel (Continued on i=m 2, Column 6.) KIDNAPERS’ L LAIR EMPTY IN HUNT FOR NIELSEN Japapnese and Manchukuo Troops Begin Fresh Efforts to Locate American Missionary. By the Associated Press. MUKDEN, Manchuria, June 8.—Jap- anese and Manchukuo troops seeking the release of Dr. Neils Nielsen, an Am- erican missionary, from kidnapers, to- posed lair, but found it empty. The troops began fresh efforts to lo- cate the hideaway. Dr. Nielsen of Minneapolis was taken by brigands April 12, and held for ran- som, said to total $100.000. Since then | American consular officials, | thorities and troops have sought him. He was last heard from May 2, when, tioned other missionaries to avoid per- sonal risks because kidnaping and ban- ditry were rife in the area. FOR READERS l Amusements Comics .. Features . Finance . Radio l GUIDE closing that her son Elliott w8uld estab- | Roosevelt left suddenly at 5:51 am. | Los Angeles, where she came to visit | former Elizabeth Donner, daughter of | dustrialist, on grounds of incompati- | The couple has been separated since | G. Carter, Fort Worth newspaper pub- | day pounced upon the abductors' sup- | local au- | in a message to Mrs. Nielsen, he cau- | Boston Defeats Nats, 4-3, in First Of Double-Header Ferrell’s Double in leh Starts Sox on Way to Victory. BY JOHN B. KELLER. Boston, June 8—The Boston Red Sox defeated the Nationals, 4 to 3, in the first game of a double-header here | today. | FIRST INNING. | Johnson. | went for a double. Manush on second while he threw out | No runs. | . BOSTON—Johnson singled to right. | McManus sacrificed, Bluege to Kuhel. (Conumxed on P-ge "2, Column 7.) BRITAIN MAY OFFER 1.5, SILVER ONDEBT | Roosevelt Today and Obligations Will Be Discussed. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 8. —Rumors were cur- ; rent today in London financial quarters | | that Great Britain may prefer the mid- | stead of gold, but it was authoritatively stated that no decision of any sort regarding the debt will be taken until tomorrow’s cabinet session. One version of the rumored story is | that a part—perhaps a large part—of the payment will be in silver. It was pointed out that with the passage of the Roosevelt gold suspension bill the American President will have authority to accept in payment any coinage generally acceptable as money in the United States. Few Expect Default. ‘There seems to be little real ex- | payment will be defaulted. There has been some talk of offering a token pay- ment, say of £2,000,000, but President Roosevelt's authority to accept such an offer is questioned. There is little doubt that the payment if made, will be accompanied by a note reaffirming the old opposition to fur- ther transfers and stating that Great Britain regards this installment as to- | ward the capital account, as was the case last December 15. LINDSAY SEES ROOSEVELT. Debts to be Discussed by President and British Ambassador. By the Associated Press. The controversial war debt payments due on June 15 received the attention today of President Roosevelt as he made an engagement with Ambassador Lindsay of Great Britain for late this afternoon. The British ambassador has been (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) MORE LUMB.ER SHIPPED Increase in Business Noted Along Columbia River Ports. PORTLAND, Ore, June 8 (®).—A greater amount of lumber was shipped from Columbia river ports during May than in any other one month since Oc- tober, 1931, figures released by the | Merchants’ Exchange here disclosed yes- terday. Lumber loadings along the river to- taled 88.644,000 board feet this May, compared with 70,481,000 feet in April and 53,060,000 feet in May, 1932. Total shipments from this district for the first five months of this year amounted to 356,797,000 feet compared ‘with 299,288,000 feet in the correspond- ing period last year. SEWER BLAST HURTS TWO CINCINNATI, June 8 (#).—Two men were injured, one seriously, today in an explosion of sewer gas in a 48-inch water main under construction. Chester Simon, 39, a laborer, was bumed seriously. Harry Rimmer, 31, nspector, was blown from his feet, but wu no',‘uzl‘ly hurt. Gas hampered rescue. Several were reported to have overcome, Cronin. McManus threw out Harris. ! Seeing Lindsay | June payment to America in silver in-| pectation in the British press that the | COUNTESS SEIZED: SWINDLE CHARGED |Grace de Benque and Man Arrested on Complaint of | Maret School Head. . Gormley, 2200 block of Hall place, WASHINGTON—Myer drove deep to were arrested today in connection with Johnson missed & shoestring ' complaints by Miss Louise Maret, 60- catch on Manush's line drive and it year-old co-proprietor of the fashion- McManus held | able Maret School, 2100 block of Kalo- rema road, Who was said to have been windled out of $5,044. The arrests were made by Detective working under direction of Assistant United States|to make the Sergt Ear] Hartman, | Attorney William A. Gallagher. | in the District Supreme Court. Gorm- | gations with Edward D. Dean, sr., weal- | thy real estate operator. ago in Europe. The friendship begun there was continued in Washington, she said, and in September, 1931, she | Countess. ‘Went Riding With Gormley. On Tuesday, October 6, her statement said, she received a telephone call from Gormley, who said he would come by for her at 8 p.m. “We went for an automobile ride,” the statement continued, “and when Gormley began to get affectionate I asked him to take me home. Instead he took me to the Countess’ home. The | next night he called me and again sug- gested that we go for an automobile ride. I told him I usually went to church on Wednesday evening and he | asked me what church I attended. When I told him, he said he would take me to any church but that one. When he again suggested an automobile ride, I agreed to go, with the understanding we would not ride beyond Chevy Chase Circle. “He drove past the circle, however, {and cut onto the Brookville road. There he parked the car and turned off the lights. A moment after he had done this, a man with a flashlight walked up to the car. This man, who ‘wore a cap and some sort of a badge, said we were violating the Mann Act and threatened to take us to a police station. I was frightened, fearing the school might suffer, and asked him to let me explain the circumstances. ‘The man, I supposed he was a police- man, then asked to see my registra- tion card. I showed it to him and he kept it. Then he told Gormley to AConthlIQd on Psge 2 Column 5) DOLLAR CONTINUES DECLINE ABROAD |London Rate Reaches $4.131j to Pound in After-Hours Trading. Franc Is Increased. LONDON, June 8 (#).—The Amer- ican dollar depreciated in after-hours trading today to $4.13'; to the pound. Thus the pound sterling attained its highest value since Great Britain left the gold standard. Market men were at a loss to explain the abrupt movement. Yesterday's bank close was $4.05%, and thus the quota- tion represented a depreciation of 73 cents in one day. It was believed that selling emanated from New York. The exchange market was sensitive with irregular movements out of pro- portion to the business done. There were some covering orders which helped in a temporary slight recovery of the dollar in the afternocn, but at the offi- cial close the rate was $4.10'g, and in subsequent dealings the downward movement continued. The British pound appreciated also in relation to the French franc, moving to 85.68 francs. PARIS, June 8 "8 (A —The United day, off 34 centimes from yesterday's quotation and the lowest rate since the United States left the gold standard. In trading after the Bourse closing the dollar was driven down still further to 20.80 francs. Active selling from London was an important factor in this movement. Bank Bandits Get $5,000. CHICAGO, June 8 (#).—Terrorizing a score of men and women, most of them customers, seven 'masked ban- dits invaded the main State bank to- day, scooped about $5,000 in currency from the ulleu c md cm: in two l.uwmobllu n ‘The Countess Grace de Benque, 2400 | block of Wyoming avenue, and George The Countess de Benque recently filed & voluntary petition in bankruptcy iss Maret submitted a written state- ment to Gallagher, in which she said she met _the Countess about four years was introduced to Gormley by the States dollar closed at 20.90 francs to-| TO ACCEPT CHANGES Major Provisions Covered in Agree- ment Include Reduction of Fed- eral Contribution to $5,700,000. The House today, by viva voca vote, approved the conference agreement on | the $30,000,000 District appropriation bill. It adopted three slight amend- ments on provisions where the House conferees brought items back for a sep- arate vote in the House. It was an- nounced that there was a tentative agreement with the Senate that these changes would be accepted in the Sen- ate so that the bill need not go back again to conference. All major provisions of the bill, in. cluding the reduction of the Federal contribution for support of the National Capital from $7,775,000 to $5,700,000, were cove‘r:d 1n the -neement between One nmendment tppxoved by the House today reduced from $876,000 to $570,000 the limit of any unexpended balances from the fiscal year 19 1933 for the Municipal Center that may be spent for the construction o( public school buildings. ‘The bill emerged from conference late yesterday, when the Senate managers, having been umnable to obtain a com- promise on the major issues of the Fed- eral contribution and the District park refund payment to the United Shhl. finally the House terms order to obtain passage of a bill fore the session ends. Several Senate amendments were left in disagreement in m to glow the House managers to obta; rate vote on those questions. ;ere the amendments accepted by the ouse | Senate provision to tain municipal departments, wif approval of the Budget Bureau, to transfer funds from one another within the it in order bes:, possble use of the drastically reduced carried in the bill. system, pla; | ley has been involved in blackmall liti- pubuc welfare u:uvmu. agencies hnrdshlys likely to result from duced appropriations. For example, department could save the services of urgently needed employes, by Senate amendments al trict to spend more of its surplus gas tax money and some unexpended bal- ances of old appropriations, for con- struction work, the bill as finally agreed to leaves the measure essentially in the {;)rm in which it came from the Budget ureau. One encouraging prospect in the bill for District taxpayers is that it leaves the District Commissioners free to re- duce the tax rate on real estate and tangible personal property below the present $1.70 rate, if they find this pos- sible after studying the measure as finally agreed upon. District Auditor D. J. Donovan will submit a report to the Commissioners within a few days on District finances for the coming year. Pending comple- tion of this report he declined today to discuss the effect of the conference revort on the tax rate. In reporting the Distrit bill to the House two months ago, however, the House Appropriations Committee expressed the opinion that, unless there should be a falling off in revenue collections, the amount esti- mated to accrue as a result of the re- ductions in this bill below current ap- propriations, would indicate & cut in the tax rate from $1.70 to $1.50., Total Not Materially Changed. The total appropriated by the bill as it now stands is not materially different from the House measure, in so far as items chargeable to the general rev- enues are concerned. Most of the Senate improvements kept in the bill come from the gas tax fund and from making available for school buildings an un- expended balance of Municipal Center money. Nothing definite regarding the tax rate for next year is looked for until the Commissioners get Donovan's report. For several years each District supply bill has carried a clause pro- hibiting a reduction in the tax rate, but this ban was removed by the House after it had been shown that the drastic and | the situation PRESIDENT CALLS PARLEY 70 END VETERANS' FIGHT Discusses Compensation Agreement With House Steering Committee. EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE MODIFIED PLAN TODAY | Better Treatment for Spanish War Soldiers Demanded as Step to Settlement. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Special Veterans' Committee of | the Democratic Steering Committee of the House was called to the White House early this afternoon to confer further with President Roosevelt over Vveterans’ compensation appropriations carried in the independent offices bill. President Roosevelt is expected to tell | | | the economy act cutting veterans’ com- pensation and pensions. Differences Nearer Settlement. tee’s visit to the White House, canvassed thoroughly. Following that meeting, Representative Byrns of Tm. nessee, the Democratic floor leader, said £ ¥ § EEE? He insisted, however, that the Span- ish war veterans we have to be taken care of in a satisfactory manner or the House would reject any propunl from thz administration and agree the lmendmzn written mlo the independent offices appropriation bill in the Senate, which would add approximately $170,000,000 to the appropriations for veterans’ compensation. Mr. Connery said he. believed that the House was so set in its purpose that it would pass the bill with the Connally ‘amendment over the Presi- dent’s veto unless this concession were made to the Spanish war veterans. He added that he thought the Senate would also vote to pass the bill over the President’s veto. As soon as the special committee reached the White House, the members (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) By the Associated Press. Expressing “unalterable opposition” to | repeal of the eighteenth amendment, | lMlj A. V. Dalrymple, prohibition ad- , ministrator, told the House Ways and Means Committee today that legaliza- tion of naturally fermented wines would increase respect for law and bring needed revenues to the Treasury. Dalrymple was testifying in support of the Lea bill, which would legalize wines of from 11 to 12 per cent alcohol by volume and tax the new beverage 20 cents per gallon. “My observations as director of pro- hibition lead me to think that the passage of this bill would have a very Wholesome_effect upon enforcement as | a whole,” Dalrymple said. “The sale of 3.2 beer has very ma tertally reduced bootlegging. It aiso has | created a feeling of favor for enforce-| ment which the law did not have be- fore. Liberalization of the wine laws would have the same effect.” IDALRYMPLE OPPOSES REPEAL, BUT FAVORS STRONGER WINES 5|Says Legalization of 10 to 12 Per Cent Fermented Beverages Would Aid Enforcement. Democrat, of Massachusetts, what rev- enues would accrue if the eighteenth | amendment were repealed, Dalrymple | replied: “That is hard to say. Of course, we would have competition from imports, but if the tariff were high enough we might be able to raise considerable revenue. “Personally, I am unalterably opposed to repeal of the eighteenth lmendmmt, but I think liberalization is the thing. 1 am not absolutely convinced that to 12 per cent alcohol by volume, resentative Cooper, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, asked if that would be intoxi- Dalrymple replied, “if . you drmk enmwh of it you would get a skin full; I'm sure it would.” his contention that muurms.om