Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate north to northwest winds. ‘Temperatures—Hig| dl;‘:l lowest, 60, at 6 hest, 75, at noon to- :30 a.m. today. 1l report on page 14. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 & 13 e Zhe emn ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING BDITION The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated service. Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,216 Entered as seco post office, Wa: ] No. 32,554 nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, SATURDAY, JUNE 1 [N 1933—TWENTY- SIX PAGES. (P Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. LESS WORK HOURS 70 INCREASE JOBS ROOSEVELTS PLAN Aims at “Living Wage” in Applying Industrial Con- trol Program. AGAINST QUICK PROFITS IN EXPLAINING COURSE Asks Halt in Rising Prices as Re- covery Program Is Imme- diately Launched. President Roosevelt intends to put all | $he immediate emphasis of the indus- | trial control program on reduction of working hours with payment of a “liv- Ing wage” for the shortened labor week. This purpose was indicated clearly Ju a public statement, issued just be- Yore starting on his New England va- +cation, in which he coupled the declar- “ation that the bill's purpose was “to put ‘people back to work,” with an urgent request that industry forego quick ofits and devote itself to increasing {;e country’s purchasing power before ¥aising prices. Plans for “Better Future.” Limitation of working hours and Hob spreading is to be an integral part of the industrial codes under which the Government will let related business co-operate without interference from the anti-trust laws, the President said. Eventually he wants to use the law #to plan for better future,” but the first, emergency job is going to be “to get many hundreds of thousands of the unemployed back on the pay roll by snowfall.” “The idea is simply,” he continued, “for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work hour of each man’s week and at the same time paying s living wage for the shorter week.” Whether a basic 30-hour week, as posed by an earlier bill considered y Congress, will be used as a yardstick by the Government in passing upon the codes submitted for its approval, he did not indicate, leaving this to be unfolded n the practical application of the law. Ready for Action. ‘The for u:‘c‘nncmlc recovery ‘was launched here y. Brig, Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson took of- acmlcommnnd as administartor of na- jonal recovery. Immedh':lryytfur President Roosevelt cleared the decks for wt:ion“ym:d:z':y Johnson an - sppans o 10 SRl msserted he was ready to go forward ckly in the President's reconstruc- ogram. G;h_l:: of the administrative plans was to bring order out of chaos that has been prevailing at his headquarters in the ymmerce Department Building, due largely to thousands of job seekers sttempting to get on the Government y rolls through appointments to the dustrial Congml and Public Works rd. 30’;1\: vast office space allotted to the board was cleared of all outsiders to- day to permit officials to get down to work. In the industrial control section, representatives of trade associations who have been here for at least 10 days will file their trade codes for study. Applications Will Be Filed. In the public works sections, each of the steady mutiplying civic delegations from various sections of the country will file applications for financial aid to carry out their public works pro-| grams. It is known that the board will favor road building program first, Shot in Battle F. J. LACKEY, Federal agent, formerly assigned here, wounded. GANG GUNS LAY FOURFFIERS A ROBBER N BATTE F. J. Lackey. U. S. Agent, G. W. Graduate, Shot at Kansas City. BAND SOUGHT TO FREE FUGITIVE FROM CUSTODY Machine Gun Pours Hail of Bul- lets Into Car Containing Frank Nash and Captors. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 17.—Four offi- cers were slain by machine-gun fire and another was wounded in front of the Union Station here today by gun- men, who apparently sought to effect the release of Frank Nash, Oklahima mall train robber, being returned to Leavenworth Federal Prison. Nash, one of the few surviving mem- bers of the Al Spencer gang of train FRANK NASH, Dapendo. killed in machine gun fusil- ade. RUNNERS LINE UP FORBIG MARATHON Stars of Two Countries Com- peting in Evening Star Race. Leslie Pawson, the “Rhode Island Rambler,” and Dave Komonen, a Finn, were co-favorites as a brilliant field lined up at Mount Vernon this after- noon for the second annual Washington Star Marathon for the National A. A. U. championship. ‘The race, starting at 2 o'clock, is to be finished at the Zero Milestone back of the White House, with the winner expected to arrive there between 4:30 and 5 o'clock. Although 130 are entered, not more than 100 are likely to start. The sure starters, however, include virtually every star distance runner now in this country and Canada. Defending the title, Clyde Dillingham Martak of Baltimore, a wiry youth of 22, enters the contest in perfect shape after months of diligent training. Pawson Has Strained Tendon. Pawson complained of a slightly strained tendon, but thought it would not hamper him seriously. Komonen, according to members of the famous and an announcement is expected; shortly as to the locations of the vari- | ous projects. A total of $400,000,000 of the $3,300,000,000 appropriation has been allotted to road building. Approxi-| mately $2,000000 of this will be spent in the District of Columbia. | It is the administrator’s goal to have 1,000,000 men at work on public works projacts and 2,000,000 more workers | back at their jobs by Fall under pro-, visions of the industrial control powers | granted him. | President Roosevelt yesterday named | Col. Donald H. Sawyer, chairman of| the Federal Employment Stabilization | Board, as director of the public works| program. The Chief Executive instruct- | ed Sawyer to start immediately on get- ting $100,000,000 worth of new public buildings started by October, besides the first of the grants for State highway | aid. | Aid for States. | In additicn to these sums, millions are to be set aside for aiding States, counties and municipalities in construc- | tion projects and President Roosevelt has directed that a list of these be ready | for submission to him upon his return | from his New England vacation. A dczen or more industries are known %0 be ready to present trade agreements outside of the Sherman anti-trust law intended to bring higher wages to most manufacturing workers and spread the 5 | (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Monarch Athletic Club of Toronto, his teammates, is in the finest fettle of his career. The Monarchs are here to de- fend the team champlonship they won in the sensational contest of 1932, run over the same course. According to A. L. Monteverde of Mays Landing, N. J., oldest marathoner in the world at 63, and a pioneer in the development of the distance run- ning game in the United States, the race sized up as one of the greatest ever run. Monteverde is one of several color- ful figures in the 26-mile gallop. In a sense the sturdy patriarch, a retired | bookbinder and repairer of ancient manuscripts, is not a competitor. His hepe is merely to complete the course. | € A veteran of 104 full marathons, he never nhas failed to finish. Wyer Scales 98 Pounds. Percy Wyer, smallest athlete of note in the world, scaling a scant 98 pounds, is back with the Monarch troup. The tiny harrier won a host of admirers in the last Evening Star Marathon, in which he came from far behind to place second Paul de Bruyn, the German cham- pion, whose collapsing finish was 8 highlight of the 1932 race, also is an expected starter. The Central Y M. C. A, race head- quarters, teemed with activity this morning as_runners from_throughout " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) PRESIDENT VISITS TO SEE MOTHER AND TWO SONS Cheers and Waving Flags Greet President Along Way on | Journey From Boston. B the Associated Press. GROTON, Mass, June 17.—President Rocsevelt made his first vacation stop at Groton School today to visit briefly with his mother and his two sons. The President motored here from Boston, enjoying the bright sunshine in an open car. Arriving just before noon, he stopped for 2 moment at the hcme of Mrs ‘William Wharton, where he gnother and son Franklin, Jr., who was graduated from the school here yester- da, Mrs. James Roosevelt, s, hurrled to give her President-son & kiss as his ear drove to the porch. “How are you?” she asked. “Just fine,” quickly responded Mr Roosevelt, and a happy smile on his Sace backed it up. Motoring on to the school which he ettended 83 a boy, the President stop- met his | GROTON SCHOOL| Peabody, the headmaster. in the red brick building on the campus His route from Boston, which led in part over the course followed by Paul | Revere, was lined with citizens. Cheers and waving flags greeted the President along the way. Mr. Roosevelt was in a holiday mood. Time meant nothing and he was far be- hind his schedule when he arrived here. He slept late on the train in Boston and was two hours in the station there WILL GET LOT OF REST. Hopes to Navigate Boat, but Plans to | Sleep Much of the Time. | BOSTON, June 17 (#).—Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived here today and left for Groton School on his way to the | Amberjack I1. which will be sailed under his crew up the North Atlantic Coast for the next two weeks. He starts at dawn tomorrow on his robbers, also died in the hail of bullets. ‘The killers fled in one or more auto- mobiles after pouring a murderous fire into a parked car which the officers and their prisoner were boarding just south of the east door of the station. Dead and Wounded. The dead: Frank Nash, the Federal convict be- ing returned to Leavenworth. Raymond J. Caffrey, agent of the Bureau of Investigation. W. J. “Red” Grooms, city detective of Kansas City. Frank Hermanson, city detective of Kansas City. Otto Reed, chief of police of McAles- ter, Okla. ‘The wounded: F. J. Lackey, agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, formerly at- tached to the Washington office. Accounts differed as to the number of men in the killers’ party. One eye- witness said he saw only two men. Another reported the firing came from two automobiles, and some officers pe- lieved four men were involved. As a group of officers surrounding Nash came out the front doors of the station and prepared to get into a car the group was fired on by men in a motor car, which sped swiftly from the scene. Some officers expressed the belief an effort was made to “rub out” Nash rather than effect his release. ‘Two armored cars of the Kansas City Police Department were immediately dispatched to search for the slayers. ‘Their car was reported as a black sedan. Lackey on Trall 3 Years. Lackey said at the hospital he had been trailing Nash for three years. “When we gathered at the car we had got Nash into the front seat,” he sald, “two men stepped out from be- tween cars parked south of the Gov- ernment armed car, I believe, either with shotguns or rifles, b4 “One of them said, ‘Let's let them have it and before any of the officers could get their firearms the shooting began. There were shotguns and other weapons in the car, but we could not get_them.” Frank Smith, investigator for the Department of Justice; Lackey and Reed arrived at the station shortly after 7 am. with Nash, captured yes- terday in Hot Springs, Ark. Nash es- caped from the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth in 1930. They were met by R. E. Vetterli, chief of the United States Bureau of Investigation for Kansas and Western Missouri; Caffrey, Grooms and Her- manson. The seven escorted Nash, handcuffed, through the station to Caf- frey's car, waiting outside and across the street near the parking lot. ‘Three of the officer’s and Nash died on the spot. Caffrey died in a hospital. Smith and Vetterli escaped. The assailants fled west, but eluded police cars which rushed to the scene. The officers had planned to drive to Leavenworth with the prisoner rather than wait for a train. All the dead were shot in the head. One taxicab driver, near the head | of the line of cabs moving up to re- ceive passengers at the station entrance, said his first impression was that some- body had set off firecrackers. “A woman came dodging around the car,” he said. “I asked what was the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) DESPERADO FREES CAPTURED SHERIFF “Pretty Boy” Floyd Releases Of- ficer and Second Kidnaped Man Unharmed. By the Associated Press. BOLIVAR, Mo, June 17.—Sheriff Jack Killingsworth, Polk County sheriff, kidnaped by “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Okla- homa desperado, -returned home early today, unharmed. E. W. Bitzer, Bolivar garage man and friend of the sheriff, said Killingsworth telephoned him this morning to meet him at Clinton, Mo. He said he met him there in a motor car and returned him to his home. The sheriff could not be reached im- mediately as he was resting from the ordeal of a day-long drive in company with Floyd and his companion, Adam Ricchetti. Bitzer said the sheriff told him the outlaws abandoned the car in which they fled for another one near Deep- water and also took along its owner, vhose name was not learned. The | other man was released at the same time as Killingsworth. The sheriff told Bitzer conversation between the two desperadoes indicated they were headed for the Warsaw Hills, between Bolivar and Warsaw, after they released him. Sheriff Killingsworth strolled into a garage at Bolivar yesterday. Joe Ric- chett! a respected citizen of the town and a brother of Adam, was repairing the outlaw’s car. Other townsmen were lined against a wall under threat of death as the pair forced the sheriff into Joe Ricchetti’s car and Sped away. A posse trailing Floyd was reported | salling cruise up the coast he knew of other years. He loves the open sea. James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, accompanies him from the ped for luncheon with Dr. Endicoty (Continued on Page 32, Column 7) . » in “shooting distance” at one time, but did not fire. Presumably they either feared they might hit the hostages or were signaled by the sheriff to hold their fire THOUGHT WE'D NEVER GET ACROSS MARATHONERS! MILLION NEW J0BS EXPECTED BY OCT. 1 Hopkins, Relief Director, Promises Co-Operation to Private Agencies. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, June 17—Harry L. Hop- kins, administrator of the $500,000,000 Federal emergency relied fund, told the | National Conference of Social Work | today that he expects 1,000 new public | works projects to put 1,000,000 men to work by October 1. He said the depression had “plunged | 4000000 families and 18,000,000 in- | dividuals from self-support to public | dependency,” and outlined in detail the policies to be followed by his ad- must bear a fair share of the costs of their own relief problems and that there must be “co-operative tightening” of relief administration—Federal, State and county—to determine to the best possible degree who needs relief and | who does not. Mr. Hopkins said that of the forces now working to take people “off the relief rolls and put them on pay rolls | of employment, the most important is the recently-enacted trade recovery act, with its tremendous outlook for re- energizing our consuming power through the payment of wages to a great num- ber of workers.” Numerous instances have come to his attention, Mr. Hopkins said, where em- ployers have approached relief agencies “with the idea that they wee cut-rate employment agencies where workers could be obtained at less than a self- supporting wage.” Will Back Agencies. “T have no intention,” he sald, “of | permitting Federal relief funds becom- ing involved in any situation where| employers pay their workers starvation | wages and expect them to get the| difference from relief agencies. “There is much satisfaction,” Mr.| Hopkins continued, “in realizing that the great majority of industrial em- ployers believe in paying a living wage. | I want the relief-giving agencies to! know that wherever they come under the Federal emergency relief adminis- | tration I back them whole-heartedly in turning down any such attempts to | take advantage of human distress.” CRASH KILLS OFFICER Mechanic Army Plane Falls. DETROIT, June 17 (#)—Second Lieut. Jerome P. Thompson, 24, of He- lena, Ark., was fatally injured and his mechanic, Dewey Merical of Oaklandon, Ind., was serfously hurt, when the Army pursuit plane in which they were en- | gaged in_ practice flights crashed at Orchard Lake and Twelve-mile Roads, north of here, this morning Seriously Injured as BOXER W00S MRS. DICK Italian’s Wife Says He Seeks to Wed Astor's Widow. ROME, June 17 (#)—Signora Tosca Manetti Fiermonte, the wife of the boxer, Enzo Fiermonte, now in America, is quoted in an interview in the news- paper Popolo di Roma today to the effect that her husband is seeking & divorce to wed Mrs. Willlam Dick, the | widow of John Jacob Astor. | Mrs. Dick is in Reno, reportedly seek- | ing a divorce. Signora Fiermonte was quoted as willing not to contest the di- vorce provided she is granted $30,000 to educate & child. | James Roosevelt To Tell of President’s Cruise in The Star President Roosevelt is en route across New England to spend two weeks cruising on the New England Coast. “Interesting features of the President’s first vacation trip will be described by his son James, who will accom- pany him, in a special series of articles. His first dispatch, which will reveal the activities of the presidential party will appear in TOMORROW’S STAR m&m-&m-ufln&hh& said. ‘Winter wheat was selling ‘io: | Peek Says Increase InBreadPricetoBe Believes Bakers and Mill-‘ ers Will Absorb Part of Levy. By the Associated Press. | Will the price of bread be increased | by the 30 cents a bushel processing | taxes soon to be imposed to finance the wheat relief program? George N. Peek, chief administrator | any, will be slight. Representatives of organizations of bakers at a meeting called by Peek re- | cently pledged that they would “pass on” to the consumer “no more and no less than the tax,” and that it would not “be made an excuse for boosting prices.” | Peek, however, said that the entire | tax need not be passed on to the con- sumer. . cents a bushel at Kansas City, sold for $4.38 a barrel and the retail| price of bread was 6 cents a pound. “But in 1932, when wheat at Kansas City was 46.9 cents a bushel and flour was $3.85 a barrel, bread sold there at | 6.7 cents a pound. In other words.| while wheat prices fell more than 50 per cent, bread prices rose 10 per cent. Such a spread suggests at least part of the processing charge should be ab. sorbed in the spread between the pro- ducer and consumer.” e PROBE OF ELECTION GOES OVERTOFALL Senate Committee to Con- fine Inquiry Into Overton’s Fitness for Office. By the Associated Press. The Senate’s Special Campaign Punds | Committee today set Monday, October | 16, for formal resumption of hearings | in New Orleans of its investigation into | the State’s 1932 Democratic senatorial primary. In their session today members de- cided their activities would be confined | strictly to the question of the fitness | of Senator Overton to hold office. Overton’s defeat of former Senator | Broussard for the Democratic renom- | inaticn, tantamount to election, brought | on the investigation as a result of | charges by Louisianans against Over- ton, but aimed primarily at Senator | | Long, whose political machine support- ed Overton. Chairman Connally made clear today that there was no election contest in- volved in the present investigation, but | the sole question was whether Overton | had knowledge of corrupt practices or | other irregularities that would render him unfit to sit in the Senate. | He agreed with Senator Logan, Demo- | crat, Kentucky, that the committee “is | not investigating Senator Long except in so far as the action of Senator Long might go to establish the unfitness of | Mr. Overton. Smugglers Use Submarine. WARSAW, Poland, June 17 (#)— Danzig River police today accidentally discovered a submarine, aboard which were several hundred litres of alcohol. They said the ship probably had been aud by alcohol smugglers for some ime. WHEAT PRODUCTS e T QU A Money to Finance Efforts to Reduce Production of Nation’s Farms. By the Assoclated Press. Maximum processing taxes will be levied beginning early in July on all wheat ground into flour by American | of the act, believes that the rise, if ;.- To finance efforts to reduce the Na- tion’s production, these taxes will be about 30 cents a bushel on the basis of present relationships of current and pre-war prices. They will be higher if wheat declines in price, lower if it increases. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace will fix the tax within a short time and hopes to keep it as stable as passible. It will become effective “betweefi July ‘1 end 15. In his first major exercise of powers under the new farm act Wallace will ask farmers of the wheat belt to agree to reduce their acreages for harvest in 1934 and 1935 by as much as 20 per cent. In return he will offer them cash bonuses, and he plans to distribute $150,000,000 of these, most of it by September 15. Has Faith in Plans. Outlining his program yesterday, Wallace was confident. He expressed strong faith in his plans for apply- ing the act which President Roosevelt has described as “frankly experimental in nature.” Some details remain to be determined, but in another month Wallace expects administrative ac- tivity will be in full swing. Secretary Wallaee postponed for this week announcement of his cotton pro- gram. Official announcement of the plan was tentatively scheduled for Monday afternoon. The delay was understood to have re- sulted from a protest filed by Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, to the use of taxes which, it was esti- mated, would yield about $100,000,000 on the portion of the cotton crop do- mestically consumed, normally about 50 per cent of production. Smith and a group of Southern Sena- tors and Representatives of millers held a conference with Dr. R. G. Tug- well, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and Charles J. Brand, co-administrator of the farm act. Smith presented arguments that a processing tax would be unnecessary this year, because $200,000,000 is avail- able for Wallace's use under appropria- tion made by Congress. The South Carolinian took the posi- tion that a processing tax may depress the price of cotton and that without & tax, cotton prices will increase sub- stantially, probably up to 15 cents a {)lound and benefit farmers at harvest me. Wallace, however, was reported to be unshaken in his determination to put the cotton program on a self-support- ing basis as far as possible. His plan contemplates, in addition to rentals to growers agreeing to reduce acreage of the growing crop, offers to them of options on 2,500,000 bales of Government owned cotton at less than market prices. The program calls for acreage re- duction of the crop now growing, and levying of maximum processing taxes, amounting to 4 cents a pound. Administrative activity will be speeded up to get it in full ration at a more rapid rate than wheat. The cotton program provides for rental of lands on which cotton is | now being grown, and offers farmers options on Government-owned cotton. Funds from the $200,000,000 appropri- ation made available to get the farm act in motion will be drawn on to finance this. Domestic Allotment Plan. ‘The wheat plan is based on the vol- untary domestic allotment plan. The exact amount of acreage reduction will be determined after negotiations have been completed at the World Wheat Conference at London. Wallace said the program provides the United States with machinery to fulfill any international agreement for acreage Teduction that may be made at London, but in case the conference fails to reach an agreement a separate re- duction program will be employed in this country. ‘The plan contemplates fixing allot- ments_of wheat for each State and " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) I GUIDE FOR READERS I Amusements . Comics .. Features Finance . Radio . 5 i Serial Fiction. ISTABILIZING PLAN SENT TO CAPITALS FOR 0. K.; U. S. ASKS TARIFF CUT Experts Draft New Agreement to Smooth Out Money Exchange Fluctuations. GENERAL 10 PER CENT SLASH IN ALL DUTIES RECOMMENDED 33 Countries Accept Roosevelt’s Trade Truce—French duction By the Associated Press. to Request Pro- Control. LONDON, June 17.—A tentative agreement on controlled stabili- zation has been reached by e Tts and submitted to the home gov- ernments for approval, it was learned in important World Economic Conference quarters today. The agreement, it was understood, exchanges to smooth out money nitely fixing rates. In French delegation circles it w: approval was lacking, rovides for the control of fluctuations, rather than for defi- as said that only Washington’s and this was expected to be forthcoming so that the announcement of the accord could be made before the opening of the markets Monday. This forecast was re| other major delegations, The French and other dele garded as too optimistic by some of the however. gates from gold standard countries this morning were rather avoiding the use of the controversial word “stabilization” and employing ment to minimize fluctuation.” TREASURY STUDIES STABILIZING PLAN Proposal From London Was Outlined to President Last Night. By the Assoclated Press. A European proposal for a tempor- ary stabilization of currencies has been transmitted to the Washington Govern- ment by the American delegation at the London Economic Conference. It is being given close study at the Treasury. No decision has yet been reached. The proposal was outlined to President Roosevelt last night before he left for a vacation cruise. Previously it had been said that Mr. Roosevelt preferred o defer efforts at stabilization until the relationship of the currencies of the several nal to their internal domestic prices can be_more accurately gauged. However, the proposition in question was described as intended to run for a short while only, for the purpose of avoiding fluctuations in foreign ex- change, while a anent is in process of being worked out. Ask for Instructions. ‘The American delegation was under- stood to have asked the Government for instructions regarding the plan pro- posed. It was emphasized that the scheme was intended for the duration of the conference only, after which, supposed- ly. a permanent plan would go into effect. That any final decision will be made by President Roosevelt and his advisers here was stated emphatically yesterday {together with a reiteration of Mr. Roosevelt’s desire for delay in working out any permanent arrangement. ‘However, the entire scheme of gov- ernmental motion is at present headed for inflation of prices and of wages. Whether it is figured here that too early currency stabilization would ar- rest this “upward spiral” was an open question. It was not regarded likely that any- thing definite would be done or could be done, so long as President Roosevelt is on his vacation. Even though he intends to keep in exceptionally close touch with the international develop- ments, close associates do not believe he will make major decisions of that nature, while cruising up the New Eng- land coast. He will be back here July 1. Assistant Secretary of State Moley will sail on the Manhattan Wednesday to observe the London Conference for a short time, and then return to Wash- ington. Some two weeks later, Warren De- lano Robbins, who, although American minister to Canada, is now in London, will journey to Washington and report to his chief. Some one else, President Roosevelt 1 sald yesterday, will be coming back from London shortly after Robbins reports. Believes Debts Removed, Mr. Roosevelt, paying especial atten- tion just now to the efforts at stabili- zation of currency, is hopeful that such action may be deferred for a time, until the relationship of each of the cur- rencies of each nation to domestic prices can be guaged more accurately than is now possible. Administration advisers are confident that the debt issue has been removed as a serious threat to the success of the conference by Mr. Roosevelt’s action in receiving Great Britain's rtial pay- ment and promising to review that na- tion's debt agreement. the more euphemistic phrase “arrange- Propose Tariff Cut. A proposal for & general 10 per cent reduction in tariffs has been submitted to the Economic Commission of the conference by the American it m learned today. e, topic, presented for considera- tion, was submitted among others at ::e request x:‘l! hfl:e. chlin::;n ‘Wwho asked e various tions to file briefs to assist in making up the 's continuation of the tariff truce. trade B agreements. Co'l‘nm and clearance agree- The' Economic Commission is expect- chiefly with tariffs. It was ed to deal &mudmmm tariffs has been urged by some France. 14 More Accept Truce. Conference headquarters, meanwhile, announced 14 more nations had ac- cepted President Roosevelt's truce on making a total of 33 ad- eflm%l are Bolivia, Chile, the Dominican iblic, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, 'I\l!l;key and U with suggestion made yesterday by Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, German minister of agriculture and economics, for a Ger- man colonial empire in Africa. A memorandum by the German dele- gation was duly delivered to the secre- tariat of the conference for distribution among the delegates, but before it could be handed out it was published in the press throughout the world, much to the surprise and consternation of Dr. Hugenberg, who had not authorized its publication. As a result of this premature public- ity he requested the conference to postpone distribution of the memoran- dum among the delegates. Most Business Suspended. Spade work in preparation for Mon- day’s commission sessions continued at conference headquarters today, but most of the business was suspended and the great geological museum, where the meetings are being held, was given over to cleaners this morning. All the delegates and experts and members of their parties cast aside their labors to attend a garden party given them today by King George and Queen Mary at Windsor Castle. As a preliminary to the party, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, of the conference, entertained at lunch- eon at Chequers Mr. and Mrs. Cordel Hull, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cox and Senator Key Pittman of the American delegation, and S. M. Bruce, the Au- grnnm minister to England and Mrs. ruce. Virgil N. Madgearu, finance minister (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, June 17.—The German delegation to the World Economic Con- ference announced today that Dr. Al- fred Hugenberg was expressing merely a private opinion yesterday when he presented a memorandum which, for the first time since the war, asked the nations to restore Germany’s colonial empire. The Hugenberg memorandum in no- wise conformed with the opinion of the German_ delegation, the Germans in- formed Hendryk Colijn of Holland, the P GERMANS REPUDIATE HUGENBERG REQUEST FOR COLONIAL EMPIRE Delegation to Economic Parley Say Economics and Agriculture Minister Gave Personal Opinion. president of the Econcmic Commission of the conference. thlA: IBout‘tihz llmemu.me it l::llurna‘. r. Hugenl was ving to- B mel lum Dr. Hi 1 Germany’s minister of economics and agriculture, said there were two ways m which Germany’s capacity to meet her international debts might be creased. He suggested giving the Rgfi