Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER# (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and slightly warmer to- day and tomorTow, except for probability of afternoon thundershowers. Tempera- tures—Highest, 86, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 69, at 4 a.m. yesterday, Full report iy on page 3. No. HULL SCORES FOES OF U.S. PROGRAMT0 RAISE PRICE LEVEL 1,475—No. 32,562. Charges Critics With Aim to, Defeat Objectives of Eco- nomic Parley. INTERNATIONAL ACCORD SOUGHT BY AMERICANS World-Wide Campaign for Credit Expansion and Public Works Will Be Pressed. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 24—A drive for an fnternational accord to raise prices in harmony with the American recovery ‘was under way in the World omic Conference tonight as Secre- of State Cordell Hull assailed the | urces of suggestions that internal and tergovernmental schemes of action Wwere in conflict. The parley finished its first fortnight ‘with several leading delegates express- ing determination to bring it down to brass tacks in order to discover which Way it is going or can go. | As a result of this week’s serious rift over monetary stabilization and French charges that the United States is block- ing agreement here in order to help its own domestic campaign against the de- pression, Secretary Hull again defended | his Government’s position in a declara- tion to the press. ‘There is “no basis and no logic” in | the thought that America’s domestic plans are incompatible with interna- tional efforts to halt the crisis, Secre- tary Hull declared. From the American viewpoint, he said, there is only one way the confer- ence can go now, and that is in the direction of world-wide co-operation to yestore price levels. Early talk of de facto stabilization of the dollar convinced the American dele- gates that such a move would under-| g, mine American markets at this time and defeat the recovery efforts originat- ing at Washington. ‘Werld Drive Impends. ‘Therefore a program to initiate a world-wide campaign for credit ex- pansion and the launching of public works will be pressed by the American group in the hope that stabilization may usefully be set as an objective some- time in the.future. Difficulties in the way of agreement on such problems as trade barriers ‘while the world currencies, the American and British, are off the gold standard, thus leaving internation- ®l commerce with an uncertain meas- uring stick, are recognized by Mr. Hull and his colleagues, but the American | wview is that these problems must be solved simultaneously. As the levels of prices rise throughout Hnport qriotas, ocording o the. Amer: port according er- lcan position, will diminish and the task of removing these restrictions will then e _easier. The for the United States #ee no reason why the basis for removal of trade obstacles cannot be laid while the price-lifting processes are going on. "Ig is, I think, obvious that in times of emergency such as this,” Mr. Hull told newspaper men, “each country must resort to whatever reasonable methods are requisite to bring about an increase | In commodity prices, with accompanying | projects safeguarding that country in| the face of the general chaos of inter-| national trade. “There is no reason that I can con- ceive why these restrictive programs, having for their purpose business re- covery with full employment, suitable wages and satisfactory price levels, should not have the united support of all those who are sincerely striving for Entered as second class matt. post office, Washington, D. 'Policeman Admits He Aided Hold-Up; Desperate, He Says John F. Patton of Tenth Precinct Suspended and Accused of Robbery. Confessing complicity in the hold-up |of the Dome Oil Co. last Wednesday night, Policeman John F. Patton, 26, tenth precinct, was suspended last night and formal charges of robbery were placed against him. The action was taken as an exhaustive investiga- tion by the office of Inspector Frank S. W. Burke ended early this morning. Police said that in his confession, Patton admited, he had received $60 as his share of the $200 loot obtained by two colored confederates, who held up the Dome Oil Co. station at Six- teenth and Taylor streets at his di- rection shortly after he had been re- lieved of special duty at the Veterans of Foreign Wars parade. The suspended officer insisted it was the first and only crime in which he had been involved. He said he was driven to the act by desperation re- sulting from a long illness of his wife. Acting on information received from an officer who heard a policeman was on Columi e S CYRIL BUCK FREED, KENNETH “GUILTY" Given 24 Years as Kidnaper of McMath Child—Mother and Sister Collapse. By the Associated Press. BARNSTABLE, Mass, June 24— Kenneth Buck was convicted tonight by a Cape Cod jury of kidnaping 10- year-old Margaret Peggy McMath and ‘was sentenced to not less than 24 and not more than 25 years in State prison. His brother Cyril was acquitted of a similar charge. ‘The verdict was brought in by a jury of Cape Cod landsmen in Barnstable Superior Court after 7 hours of delib- eration, during which time the jury re- turned to the court room twice to re- ceive additionz1 instructions from Judge 'ward F. Hanify. New Trial Asked. Judge Hanify, after hearing Elias Burwick, counsel for Kenneth, ask for a mild sentence and a request from District Attorney William C. Crossley that the maximum be imposed, handed the order of sentence to the clerk of court. Burwick told the judge he wished a new trial because of new evi- dence. The judge did not reply, however. Kenneth, who had wept during pre- vious aj in_court, paled, but gritted teeth, as he heard the sen- tence pronounced. Later, however, after handcuffs had been slipped over his wrists and he was led from the court house, he broke into tears and became 50 weak he had to be almost carried by the deputies who had him in charge. Mrs. Bertha Buck, mother of the men, collapsed on hearing the sentence, as did Mrs. Albert Chase, a sister. They were led from the court room, shaking with sobs. Cyril Smiles Slightly. Cyril, who had acted as contact man between Kenneth and Neil C. McMath, father of the child, smiled only slightly as he heard the verdict of acquittal. few minutes later, however, he leaned wife and mother, both of whom had been in the court room every day since the trial opened on June 12, Willard Carleton, attorney for Cyril, moved that his client be dismissed im- mediately after the acquittal was an- nounced. Cyril walked from the court room with his wife, posing with her for photographers. The 10-year-old child was taken from the Harwich Center Grammar School on May 2 and returned three days later " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) " (Continued on Page 3, Column 6) el N FATHER OF NINE SHOT TO DEATH BY SON, 21 ¥outh Declares Unemployed Par- ent Threatened to Kill All the Family. By the Associated Press. VANDERGRIFT, Pa, June 24— father of nine children was slain to- day, police said, by a son who gradu- ated from high school three weeks ago. | Police reported that Paul Uhling, 21, admitted firing a_ shotgun charge at his father, Steve Uhling, 58, then re- Joading the weapon and firing again as bis parent lay wounded MEXICO NARROWS HUNT FOR MISSING AVIATORS Search Concentrated in Northern Chiapas and Tobasco, Where Plane Was Seen. By the Associated Press. MEXICO, D. F. June 24—In the | complete absence of any information | regarding Capt. Mariano Barberan and Lieut. Joaquin Collar, transatlantic Spanish aviators, who disappeared on their attempted flight from Havana to Mexico, the government today concen- trated its search in Northern Chiapas |and Tabasco, where the missing pair | were laet seeen. All serviceable aircraft were ordered to survey the jungle for hundreds of Al over the back of his seat and kissed his | The youth was quoted by the officers: “He hit mother last night and I told him ‘if you do that again you'd better Jook out’ He bought the gun I used, Jast January. He said he was going to kill the whole family. Today I got the gun. He was going to kill one of us. He took one or two steps toward me and I fired.” The killing occurred beside a pond near the Uhling home. After the shoot- ing the son asked a neighbor to call lice, The January since. miles in an ambitious effort to locate the Spanish airplane Cuatro Vientos and its two pilots, whose whereabouts have been a mystery since Wednesday. The Mexican presidency is in charge of all operations, which continued to- da- without flagging, despite the fact that hope for the flyers’ safety has vir- tually been abandoned. Approximately 30 military airplanes as well as several civilian craft are taking part in the South Mexico hunt over the jungle. Thousands of troops | and other groups are co-operating by a ground search. | father suffered a stroke last and had been unemployed VETERANS’ OWN FUNDS FINANCED FORT HUNT BONUS CONVENTION Money Came From $788,068 in Ration Savings and *“Stars and Stripes” Surplus of War Days. that the money in question, $788,068, Punds turned over to the White ]wu known as the ‘recreation ruage. $House to defray expenses of the bonus T army convention at Fort Hunt, Va,, dur- | Army,” formerly supervised by ing May, it developed yesterday, came | War Department, but recently im- out of the pockets of the veterans them- (pounded into the Treasury by act of selves and their buddies of the A. E. F.| Congress. This sum was made up of Entirely unaware of this fact, the |tWo original funds, one called “other bonus veterans and the public have | funds,” consisting of $298,063 in com- been under the impression that the|pany ration savings; a second called Government dipped its hands into a | the “Stars and Stripes fund” of $480.- badly depleted Treasury to pay all the 000, Tepresenting the profits from the nses of the second bonus i- soldiers’ newspaper of the A. E. F. Sion to Washington, expedi- | 80 nce the World War, the War De- At the time, it was stated that Col. | Partment supervised these funds, occa- Louis McHenry Howe, secretary to the | Sionally spending small amounts fo President, had discovered some idle | the Wwelfare of veterans' families, spe- funds in the Treasury, enough for the shl funerals and entertalnments for Government to exercise a bit of gener- toward rans Under the Army appropriation act oS the veteraps and DAY 0T | of March 4, 1933, however, it was de- - gt ombers Gided that these funds, paid out of urning bonus force to their homes. b ¥ 3 (Continued on Page 3, Column 34, however, | he WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, BUSINESS LEADERS (GONFER TOMORROW ON RECOVERY PLAN | Industrialists, Responding to Roper Bid, Will Take Up Overproduction. D. CABINET COMMITTEE TO MEET WITH JOHNSON {Near Crisis Reported Over Price- Fixing Provisions of Control Administration. ‘With business indices revealing con- | tinued resistance to adverse seasonal factors and activity reported well main- tained along the major domestic fronts, industrial and financial leaders will as- semble here tomorrow to plan a system to keep industry on an even keel after the national recovery program pulls it from its low depth. The leaders were called here by Sec- retary of Commerce Roper, who is chairman of the Cabinet Advisory Com- mittee on Industrial Control, to act as advisers for the Commerce Depart- ment’s program on long-range planning for industry. They also will lend a helping hand to President Roosevelt's aides in per- fecting the organization of the recov- ery administration, as several of them have been selected as advisers on in- dustry’s part in checking the downward | spiral of buying power by spreading employment throughout the Nation. Crisis Looms in Industry. At the same time this board is in session, members of the Cabinet Com- mittee will confer with Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, industrial control admin- istrator, on policies and organization of his staff. This session is regarded as of extreme importance because a near cri- sis is reported to have arisen in indus- try over the administration’s price-fix- ing provisions. Among the business leaders who have signified they intend to be present at tomorrow’s conference are Melvin Tray- lor, Chicago banker; Fred I. Kent of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Walter S. Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph, Walter C. Tea- gle of Standard Oil, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors and Gerard Swope of General Electric. Roper will request the business lead- ers to make studies of problems of de- cen tion of industry, adjustment of international trade between coun- tries having nationally planned econo- mies, the relations between the funded debt and the growth of the capital equipment of the country. Stresses Wage Angle. Administrator Johnson has ruled that profits, as well as wages, will be among the main concerns of his administra- tion. So far, however, he has stressed the wage, rather than the profit angle. In laying down the basic principles which will guide the administration in trade agreements of fair competition, it has been stipulated the codes must carry either the definite provision or clear understanding that the products of the industry concerned must not be sold below the cost of production. Also it has been emphasized that price rises should be postponed as long as possible to allow the present de- pressed purchasing power to gain mo- mentum. Business leaders are express- ing their dissatisfaction over this and are now demanding that they be al- lowed to share in the first upturn of the dollar's purchasing power, along with the wage earner. Industry, according to many trade assoclation representatives here, will watch for this issue to arise at the pub- lic hearing on Tuesday on the code | | | | (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—20 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. and PART TWO—10 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Marine Corps Reserves—Page 5. Community Chest News—Page 6. Stamps—Page 7. Public Library—Page 7. The Home Gardener—Page 8. Serial Story, “Valiant Dust”—Page 9. PART THREE—S8 PAGES. Society Section. PART FOUR—S8 PAGES. Amusement Section—Stage, Screen and Music Army and Navy News—Page 2. American Legion Auxiliary—Page 2. Y. W. C. A News—Page 2. D. A. R. Activities—Page 3. In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation—Page 4. American Legion—Pago 4. Spanish War Veterans—Page 4. 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He insisted, however, that C, 8U SQUASH WISH AL SMITH HAD DAY MORNING, JUNE 25 1933—N SEz HERE THE BOYs FEEL THEY DIDN'T HAVEZ CHANCE. » =S 3 R Sunday Star, ETY-FOUR PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour™ ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star's exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE “Ber Teooy'D | (usep Te BiG STICK AN 7/ /) GOT EVEN / MORE / 1 24 m ,WLZJ,__, WISH MUEY 8\ COULD HAVI "o REAL CHANCE i THEY AINT DONE EA G5/ L To SHATTER | WITH EACH B ¢ CENTER COMMENTS ON OTHER yer! wn e ) 3 - \\ < L 4 \\ ) ‘\)W i N BANKING INQUIRY RESUMES TUESDAY Senator Fletcher Declares Mitchell Verdict Will Not Check Investigation. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate Banking and Currency Committee, which will resume its in- vestigation of private banking houses ‘Tuesday morning with members of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on the stand, will persist with its inquiry unchecked in any way by the acquittal of Charles l E. Mitchell, former president of the Na- tional City Bank, Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, chairman of the committee, declared last night. Chairman Fletcher said that while the charges of defrauding the Govern- ment through his income tax returns made against Mitchell had grown out of the inquiry by his committee, the inquiry was not designed to gather evidence for prosecuting officers of the the committee would continue to go into income tax returns in connection with its investigation and where un- wholesome conditions were found to exist, they would be made public. Otto Kahn, senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., will be the first witness when the inquiry is resumed Tuesday into the practices of private bankers. ‘The committee had completed its ques- | | tioning of the members of J. P. Morgan | & Co. when it recessed two weeks ago. Probe’s Scope Undisclosed. The committee has not disclosed the | scope of the investigation of Kuhn,| Loeb & Co., but it is known that it will | go at considerable length into the‘ organization of the flotation of securi- | ties of the Pennroad Corporation. The | Pennroad Corporation, set up as a hold- ing company of raflroad securities, was organized in accordance with the ad-| | vice of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. which under- wrote some of the securities issued by the corporation and generally aided in their marketing. Just as the Alleghany Corporation, a holding company set up by the Van| Sweringens, largely with the ald and advice of J. P. Morgan & Co. was searchingly investigated by the Senate | committee, so the Pennroad company is to have the searchlight turned on it as_well as on Kuhn, Loeb & Co. ‘The Pennroad Corporation was in- corporated April 24, 1929, in the heydey of investment and speculation. Of its 11 directors, only three had no direct connection with.the Pennsylvania Rail- | road. The three who had no such| connection were James S. Alexander, chairman of the board of the Guarant, | Trust Co. of New York; A. H. S. Post, | president and director of the Mercantile Trust Co., and Philip Stockton, presi- | dent and director of the Old Colony | Trust Co, Boston. President W. W.| Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Rail-| road Co. and other high officials of that company, including Jay Cooke, made up the remainder of the board | of the Pennroad Corporation. The part that the private bankers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., played in the forma- tion of this corporation, how the stock was sold, etc., will be the subject of | inquiry. Fletcher Outlines Purposes. In a statement made to the press, Senator Fletcher outlined the purposes of the committee and the plan for con- tinuing the inquiry which already has startled the Nation by its revelations of banking practices, of the interlocking of control of big financial and industrial ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 3. | | MR i SCORCHING SOUTHWEST HAS NEW HIGH MARK | Oklahoma Iron Works Falls Dead—Emporia, Kans., Mercury Rises to 111. Employe By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 24—The scorched and wilted Southwest saw temperatures mount again today to sweltering heights. G. P. Stokes, 44, metal works employe, fell dead in his front yard at Hugo, Okla. Physicians attributed his death to the heat. At Emporia, Kans, the mercury rose to 111 degrees, a new record for the season. A reading of 110 was reported at Vernon, Tex. Wellington, Kans., had a high of 108 | Kans. Last night was the second hottest night in the history of the Kansas City Weather Bureau, the minimum temperature being 82.1 degrees. ‘While scattered thundershowers were for as a possibility, there was| Boy Who Solved Col. Robins Mystery Gets $200 Reward By the Associated Press. WHITTIER, N. C, June 24— Carl Byrd Fisher, 13-year-old schoolboy, today added to his education fund $200—a reward he received for identifying Col. Ray- mond Robins, prohibition advo- cate, in this mountain village last Fall after Col. Robins had been listed as missing for two months. Carl received a $200 check from John Drefer of Brooklyn, N. Y., a nephew of Col. Robins, who wrote tpe boy at length to ex- press the family’s appreciation of his part in finding the dry lead- er, described by physicians who treated him at that time as a victim of amnesia. The boy said he is saving his money for a college course, to fit hgnu]! for the practice of medi- cine. FIX GENT LEVY ON LEAF TOBACCO Processing Program to Be| Placed in Effect to Fi- nance Acreage Cut. By the Associated Press. A processing tax of about 6 cents a pound will be put into effect soon on cigar leaf tobaccos to finance a progragn of reducing the acreage of this year's crop. The plan was outlined yesterday by [dministrators of the farm act in their first application of its provisions to one of the 25 varieties of the tobacco crop. The acreage reduction plan will be put into effect starting next week, with curtailments to be sought in the New England, Ohio-Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania-New York and Georgia- Florida districts, to which the growing of cigar leaf tobacco is limited. Farmers will be paid cash benefits in return for reducing the acreage of their growing crop. Up to a 50 per cent reduction of their base acreage will be sought, with each farmer to be given his choice of three plans. He may take as a base 80 per cent of the average acreage planted to tobacco on his farm in 1931 and 1932; Or, he may take as a base the acreage planted to tobacco on his farm in 1932, provided the acreage planted in 1932 did not exceed that planted in 1931; Or, if the acreage planted on his farm in 1932 was greater than that of 1931, he may take as a base the acreage planted in 1931 and 1932. President Behind Cotton Plan. President Roosevelt threw his per- sonal influence behind the cotton acre- age reduction program yesterday, as final touches were put on plans for be- ginning tomorrow an intensive cam- | paign in Southern States to cut down this year's output of the crop. In a preface to an explanation of the plan issued over the President’s signature, farmers of the cotton belt were called upon to co-operate in the program under which Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace hopes to reduce acre- age about 10,000,000 and cut down this year’s potential production 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 bales. “The fate of any plan depends upon the support it is given by those who are asked to put it into operation,” the President’s message said. “This pro- gram for the cotton producer essen- tially places the responsibility upon the individual farmer. “He and he alcne will, in the last analysis, determine whether it shall succeed. This plan offers the cotton producer a practical, definite means " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) . GUY TO BE DEPORTED Man Cleared in Wanderwell Case a Native of Wales. LOS ANGELES, June 24 (#).—Immi- gration authorities said tonight William James (Curly) Guy, tried and acquitted of the slaying of Capt. Walter Wander- well, soldier of fortune, would be de- ported. They said he had failed to establish and they had ascertained the elder Guy was a native of Cork Ireland, and the son was born in Cardiff, Wales. Guy will be allowed to leave this country voluntarily, if he chooses, but if he does not leave by August 1 he Little Orphan Annie; Moon Mullins; xbla.l:lmedhh prospect for a general | will be arrested and sent to Wales The Timid Soul; ‘Smatter Pop He 15 at liberty -on $3,000 bond. TAMANY 083 ;Confers With Brooklyn Lead- | er, but Says No Conclu- sions Were Reached. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 24.—Postmaster General James A. Farley, in his capacity | | as Democratic national chairman, dug| 1wdny into the problem of Federal | patronage for Tammany Hall and its allies. | Farley conferred for more than an| | hour with John H. McCooey, Brooklyn | | Democratic leader and the State’s mem- | said afterward no conclusions had been reached and he would see McCooey again after July 1. In some quarters it was sald Farley is preparing to approve Tammany rec- ommendations for some positions. In his recent discussions with State lead- ers, however, Farley has made it plain Tammany and its associates would be recognized only in New York City and not as representing the entire State organization. It was indicated that Long Island counties would be given a larger pro- portion than usual of Federal appoint- ments available in this district, and that McCooey's Brooklyn organization also would fare well. ‘The Brooklyn leader was understood to have presented to Farley his recom- mendations for postmaster and other key positions. Democratic chieftains here have evinced not only interest in obtaining jobs for their lieutenants, but concern over President Roosevelt’s attitude to- ward Tammany and the party organiza- tions in the other boroughs. Farley is completing the long list of recommendations which will go to the vacation. The Postmaster General will leave tomorrow night for Detroit, where he will speak to a Democratic club Mon- day. He will address the Advertising Club of America that evening at Grand Rapids, Mich. On Tuesday he will attend the New York repeal convention at Albany. He expressed confidence the repeal amend- ment would be ratified by 36 States either by the end of this year or early next year. BEER PETITIONS WIN NORTH DAKOTA RULING | Way Cleared for Vote at Next State-Wide Election on Change in Legislation. By the Assoclated Press. ‘l BISMARCK, N. Dak., June 24.—Peti- tions initiating a proposed beer law were held sufficient ‘today by Secretary | of State Robert Byrne, clearing the way for a vote on the proposal at the next State-wide election. Proponents of the bill, who submit- | ted more than 35,000 signatures, said | the Governor has promised a special !election to vote on the measure. Un- less such an election is called, it would be voted upon at the June primary next vear. If a special election is called, a Sun- day movie proposal also would go on the ballot. The initiated bill provides for a tax on beer and for the licensing of legiti- mate business establishments which de- sire to sell the beverage. ‘The Legislature at its last session | approved a bill legalizing beer begin- |ning July 1, this year, and providing | for its distribution through municlpal stores. Opponents of the municipal stores provisions filed enough petitions to make necessary a State-wide referen- dum next year, automatically suspend- ing the entire law until after the vote. Beer now is illegal in the State. CAMPERS RAID BAKERY Two Brooklyn, N. Y., Youths Ar- rested in Wyoming Town. LARAMIE, Wyo., June 24 (#).—Two Brooklyn, N. Y., youths, members of a Civilian Conservation Corps detachment | were held in jail today as the aftermath 1of what police said 'vas a raid on a | cegrees, and it was 104 at Fort Scott, his father’s residence as San Francisco | bakery last night by a party of recruits en route to Oregon. Milton Yarish and David Rose, both 18, were booked tentatively on a charge of robbing the United States mails, be- cause, the police said, they snatched a parcel postal package, still unopened, while in the bakery. ‘The police sald a quantity of bread iand other food was stolen by the party. { COMMERCE FUNDS D. C. OFFICIALS ASK ‘SLASHED$3.200000 USE OF §1.500,000 FOR COMING YEAR FOR PUBLIC WORKS Attaches in Foreign Countries Appeal to Budget Bureau for Will Have Salary and Ex- | Release of Surplus Gaso- penses Cut July 1. line Tax Fund. 107 ARE NOW ON WAY BACK WITHOUT JOBS| \ Announcement of Other Reductions New Calvert Street Bridge and in Personnel Anticipated Dur- Completion of Censtitution ing Coming Week. Avenue Proposed. JOBS WOULD BE GIVEN 6,500 UNDER PROGRAM Shots from the Federal Government’s In a move to relieve local unemploy- retrenchment cannon were heard ment and provide needed public im- around the world yesterday when Com- Provements, the District government merce Department officials announced |late yesterday asked the director of the they had reduced the running expenses | Bureau of the Budget to approve use of of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 1 $1.500,000 of the District’s own surplus Commerce from $4,000,000 to $1,800,000 | gasoline tax funds for a varied list of | | ber of the National Committee. He‘ President when he returns from his | o for the coming year. ‘Commercial attaches in Japan, China, Africa, Europe, Asia and South and Central America were informed their salaries would be reduced, effective July | 1, from $10,000 annually to $3,000 and their allowance for quarters abroad would be shaved from $1,800 a year to $700. Meanwhile this week is expected to see additional slashes in the Govern- ment establishment as the departments and independent agencies prepare to start the new fiscal year, Saturday, under the tremendously reduced appre- priations. War and State still are to announce their intentions, as are most of the principal independent branches. Yesterday's Department of Commerce order affects only 61 of the present staff of 168 commercial agents. The others, their jobs abolished, are now | 8¢t on the high seas bound for this country, where their services, some covering many years, will be terminated on July 31. On board the S. S. George Washing- ton are 70 of these trade promoters slated for dismissal, and members of their families. They were at Havre from all sections of Europe. uch as many of these families have their household furniture to haul back home, the Government chartered part of the famous old transport of war days, now a | member of the United States Line, to cut down expenses, Those returning | from other countries have been ordered to take the first available vessel. any one of them care to come to Wash- ington we m [happy if he will The department, according to officials, plans to reduce the foreign service ex- | penditure from $1,100, for 1834. The foreign offices to be left open will be operated on considerably reduced staffs. With $550,000 allotted to trade pro- | have $1,250,000 for running expenses | here and in the domestic field, a re- | duction of $1,650,000 under the expendi- tures of this fiscal year. 1t was officially stated yesterday that the department would continue to operate 24 of its 34 district trade pro- motion offices, but their staffs will bs curtailed. ‘Tomorrow morning officials will hold a conference and decide where these | offices will be located and will also de- | termine the number of employes to be | separated from the bureau in Wash- | ington, Load on Bureau of Standards. ‘Those slated to be separated from the bureau as the result of the confer- ence tomorrow will be given ample notice, officials said. The separation order will not become effective until July 15. Officials have previously an- nounced that few separations will take place in the department’s ship transpor tation bureaus and its scientific division of geodetic survey. ‘This will place the load of separations cn the Bureau of Standards, which it ‘was officially reported will be drastically curtailed; Mines, Census, Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Patents and Fish- eries. It was said that several of these bureaus will be able to keep within their allowances by dismissing married workers, whose husbands or wives are connected with the Government, and taking 15 days administrative furloughs. Five hundred of the 600 workers coming under the married provision of the economy act will be dismissed, officials said. Officials said yesterday that in cur- talling the activity of the Bureau of | Foreign and Dcmestic Commerce, its | alleged political activity in the interest | of Secretary of Commerce Hoover's candidacy for President in 1928, and its last year, were not taken into con- sideration. ‘While many Government agencies are preparing to announce slashes this week to adjust their operations to the re- stricted appropriations starting with the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) subsequent activity for his re-election | highway projects. ‘The program will provide employment | for considerably more than 6,500 men, | prevent dismissal of about 300 District employes and put to work money col- lected from motorists here which other- wise would lie idle, Maj. Danie] J. Don- ovan, District auditor, explained in & statement justifying the expenditures. Use of this fund was authorized in the 1934 District supply bill, subject to approval by the Federal budget officer of proposed projects. Program Outlined. ‘The program, outlined by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, calls for replacement of the old Calvert Street Bridge over Rock Creek, improve- ment of a section of Constitution ave- nue, development of sections of eight major thoroughfares, improvement and replacement of a list of old streets and paving of a list of 20 “local” streets. Speaking for the District Commis- sioners, Maj. Donovan asked that Bud- Director Lewis W. Doug] possible because of the impertance of :rln: question from numerous points of W, Maj. Donovan quoted testimony by Maj. John C. Gotwals, Engineer Com- ‘mission: the District the public welfare and should be re- placed at once, Asks $575,000 for Bridge. to start construction l::{ Donovan contended, motion work abroad, the bureau will |, item, he contended, was not intended by Congress to be subject to the re- quirement that employment be the principal reason for approval. Maj. Donovan, in giving a comprehen~ sive outline of emergency unemploy=- ment needs, estimated that available re- lief funds would be exhausted by next February, leaving five months of the 1934 fiscal year without provision of re- lef funds, unless additional sums be provid:d later. Hle :mg this as n.: Il'g‘;' ment for approving the proposed proj- e;:ss, which would lessen the calls for He pointed out that the burden borne by the District Government will be in- creased in the next month or two when (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) o= eitey SHANGHAI RIVER GUARDS ENDANGERED BY FLOOD |High Waters in Yangtse Valley Have Weakened Dikes 15 Miles . North of City, Papers Say. By the Associated Press. | SHANGHAI, June 25.—Vernacular | newspapers today gave prominent posi- | tion to reports that floods in the Yang- | tze River Valley have weakened the dike 15 miles north of Shanghai in the vicinity of Paoshan. ‘The newspaper said that should these dikes collapse the conj | population of Shanghai and adjacent | territories would be endangered. The provincial government of Kiang- | su is undertaking to provide emergency | reinforcements for the protective walls, | the paper says. Hangkow advices said that, accort | to reports from cities in the upper Yangtze Valley, the level of the river is falling and the belief prevails the dan- ger of a flood disaster has lessened. Below Hangkow the river continues dangerous, but a fall is expected as the result of developments upstream. Under the unprecedented change of | policy announced last night by the War Department, the Army rps “West Point of the Air” at Randolph Field, Tex., has been thrown open to 54 MIDDIES WILL ENTER ARMY’S “WEST POINT OF THE AIR” JULY 3 Unprecedented Change in Policy Will Open Randolph Field, Tex., to Those Not Commissioned. emy at New London, Conn., for whom vacancies in the Coast Guard do not exist are given third place on the pri- ority list for appointment as flying midshipmen of the United States Naval | cadets. Midshipmen and Coast Guard Academy for whom vacancies do not graduates, however, must be recom- exist in the Navy and 54 of the middies | mended for appointment to the Army | will become flying cadets of the Army | Flight Training School by the superin- | in the new class which will begin train- | tendents of their academies and must | ing July 3. | make application within a year after The new policy, given effect in an graduation for appointment as flying amendment to War Department regula- tions governing appointment of flying cadets, places graduates of the Naval Academy who fail of commissions in the Navy because of lack of vacancies | second on the priority list for appoint- ment to the Primary Flying School. Graduates of the United States Mili- | ceive their c cadets. The 54 midshipmen who on July 3 will enter the Army Air Cor?a as flying cadets all are graduates of the June class of this year. They failed to re- ns in the Navy because of the ecqpomy reductions of naval strength. No members of the Academy are given first choice. Under the new graduates of the United States Guard Acad- Coast Guard were in the new class. ‘The July 3 class Raa PFleld (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)