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“From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; moderate north- west winds becoming gentle mhh‘le u:; morrow. Temperatures—Highest, 2:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, a.m. today. Full report on pag Closing N. Y. Markets. Pages 14,15&16 Entered No. 32,650. second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. RISIS APPROACHES IN CUBA AS TROOPS PREPARE FOR FIGHT Two American Warships Move Closer to Havana as Revolt Talk Spreads. ARMED RADICALS JOIN EXTRA PALACE GUARDS Labor Unrest, Food Shortage, Ma- laria Outbreak, Crime Add to San Martin's Troubles. By the Associated Press HAVANA, September 21.—The United States destroyer No. 240, with her Marines and sailors drawn up in for- mation on the deck, and the American ammunition ship Nitro entered Havana Harbor today as opposition groups pressed their demand that the govern- ment of Provisional President Grau San Martin resign. Anti-American sentiment was ex- pressed in a demonstration by a small group of Cubans who assembled before the home of James Ward Stickney. The demonstrators shouted “Down with the Americans!” but left peacefully after a short time. Prisoners brought in from Camaguey Province, where Capt. Juan Blas Her- nandez is leading a revolt against the Grau government, reported that the insurgents totaled 2,000 men. Previous reports have said that there were only a few hundred in the field with Capt. Blas. Students Finish Reply. The Camaguey prisoners, who were Threaten to Kidnap Child of Governor To Force Clemency Landon’s Daughter Guarded Against Bailey Gangsters. By the Assoclated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, September 21.—A kidnap plot in which his 16-year-old daughter, Peggy Ann, was to have been held a prisoner until he granted ex- executive clemency to members of the notorious Harvey Bailey-Wilbur Under- hill gang now confined in the Kansas Penitentiary was made public today by | Gov. Alf M. Landon. While denying receipt of any “actual threat,” the Governor said “so much confirmatory evidence” had been dis- closed by investigators that guards have been maintained at the executive man- sion. : Daughter Under Guard. Miss Landon, high school senior, has been under the surveillance of armed | guards since the plot was revealed to the Governor more than three weeks ago. juards armed with riot guns also " (Continued on Page %, Column 8) GRAU SAN MARTIN'S FALL IS HELD NEAR Reports Indicate Cuban President’s Days as Ruler Are Numbered. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. | The days of Dr. Grau San Martin as | ruler of Cuba are numbered, according to reliable reports received in the course of the day from Havana. | The new Cuban dictator, appointed WASHINGTON, D. C, KELLY, NEAR TRIAL SCENE, THREATENS TO KILL WITNESSES Machine Gunner Visited Home Last Night, Coleman Tells U. S. Judge. HOUSE WAS THE SCENE OF URSCHEL KIDNAPING Some Federal Officials Cast Doubt on Dramatic Scene Dur- ing Trial. | By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, September 21.— Fred Coleman, son of T. M. Coleman, at whose farm near Stratford, Okla., the Government alleges the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping plot was hatched, told Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught to- day that George “Machize Gun” Kelly appeared at the Coleman farm last night and threatened death to the Cole- mans and the Shannons. “It looked apd sounded like darned good acting to me,” said one of the prosecuting attorneys. Coleman had sought to address the court this morning. Drags Feeble Father. ‘To the spectators and amazed court, Coleman created a strange picture as he dragged T. M. Coleman, his feeble father, to a point directly in front of | the jury and raised his arm in dramatic appeal. “I just want 5 minutes, judge,” he said in a loud but shaky voice. “It's the most important thing I could ever say.” A quick protest came from District Attorney Herbert K. Hyde, and Judge Vaught said: “Get that man out of | here.” The farmer was led away by | two armed officers. | Coleman was taken to the judge’s placed in Cabana fortress, were headed by a handful of students and personal | chambers during a recess wh by Chief of Police Viera of Moron, and ' followers, is ready to yield his office, | of the presencg of the ..‘Lufr'&u‘l' :.?:d they totaled 20 policemen and 15 civilians. Viera told newspaper men that re- ports to the effect that government forces had surrounded Capt. Blas were merely propaganda. ) The student directory, the princi- pal support of the Grau government, completed its answer to the opposition demand that the Preisdent withdraw. This answer was to be submitted to Havana Rotarians, who are acting as intermediaries between the directory; and the opposition. Shortly before destroyer No. 240 entered the harbor another American ship of war, destroyer No. 154, salled away. The vessels, which came here to pro- tect American lives and interests, at once established heliographi® cammuni- cation, using lights atop the United States embassy and aboard the craft. Cavalry reinforcements, a mobile arsenal on a truck, extra guards, and machine gun units were hurriedly de- ployed about the presidential palace as reports persisted that civilian anti- government forces and soldiers prepared to fight. Afln8 Army truck brought rifles and ammunition to headquarters of A. B. C. radical society members, who thereupon went to police headquarters as rein- forcements. supporting President Ramon Grau San Martin. Climax Seen Near. In the face of these and other prep- arations the executive declared that “everything is all right; I am staying right where I am.” ; Reliable sources predicted that a climax was fast approaching in the many troubles the President and his orters have had. S Pace he took the helm September 10, Grau San Martin has found an ever-| stiffening line of opposition among five of Cuba’s most powerful politico-revolu- tionary factions. Other storm clouds that lowered to- | ay were: dDyeflmt Tefusals from nearly all Cuban industrialists to let Secretary of the Treasury Manuel Despaigne levy taxes. Threats of disease and famine over a large area, near desolation because of a hurricane September 1. 5 A gloomy oguntcok for sugar, Cuba’s rincipal product. > smfies‘ lx:bor unrest, violence, disorder &l loodshed. n!dng-eulnl lawlessness which police and soldiers were powerless to halt. Food shortage in Havana and the provinces due to strikes, the closing of warehouses, destruction of crops and her causes. OtA mob shortly before midnight tried to loot the home of Jose Emilio Obregon. Machado’s son-in-law. Guards fired into the crowd, killing two and ‘wound- several. Fifty-one were arrested. mg(otwitmund.lng all this the President went on with routine business at the e, hearing business men’s pleas or & tax amnesty and attending various litical conferences. It was shortly g:rore midnight that he emerged from a conference room to utter his reassur- ing words. “Everything is all right, he told newspaper men. “I am staying right where I am.” Prepare for Action. ‘Within hearing distance, as the Presi- dent spoke, were innumerable troops making all sorts of preparation for in- stant action in and around the palace. At the nearby Hotel National, where 500 army officers entrenched themselves two weeks ago when enlisted men re- belled, soldiers were busy placing ma- chine guns in top stories of adjacent buildings and training them on the "Authorities placed dozens of ousted army officers and civilians in_prisons ‘when nr:pom of impending trouble were Hard pressed financially, the admin- istrqtion studied several plans for issuing paper and fiat money. grg of Public Heaith Carlos ¥ calied on the Red Cross to help Jocal sanitation chiefs fight the spread of -mslaria, and Clenfuegos. Santiago (Continuea on Page 7. Column 5.) £as Three Die in Plane Crash. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, September 21 (®—Pilot G. E. (Ed) Young, one of | the best known fiyers in Alaska, and his two passengers, Eric Nelson and A. D. , were killed yesterday when thelr plane crashed in landing at the Livengood Alrport. GUIDE FOR READERS Amusements . Comics .. Features .. Finance . Radio ... Serial Story .... Society Sports . .D-5-6-7 A-14-15-16 ..C | probably before the end of the week. | In the meantime, a state of complete chaos is rapidly developing in the island. The republic is being broken ;up in small local governments, where | no authority except that of the local | leader is recognized. And even these | leaders do not last generally more than 124 or 48 hours. Students, the geheric !name applied to the young political | agitators who can read and write, form | & government to be superseded the next day by some corporal, assisted by a { handful of soldiers. Business Stands Still. Factories are taken over by the work- Hl"‘ who are 1;cned to do s0 by these alleged students. Expensive machinery is being wrecked by the lack of knowl- edge of the new foremen to handle them. Disease, due to the lack of sanitation, is spreading through the island and nothing is being done to | check it. The municipalities, run by ignorant men, cannot take the neces- sary measures to combat disease, neither have they the necessary means to restore the sanitation damaged by the last storms. The population, without leaders, with the morale broken down, has com- one way of finding their daily liveli- still be found in stores. The old politicians like Gen. Menocal | and Mendieta are powerless in Havana. They look at the situation without be- ing able to do anything for their coun- | try. The germ of civil war and Com- | munism is now too deeply rooted in the Cuban masses to enable these men rep- resenting the old order, to find a sub- stantial following. Among the high classes and the business men in Havana and Santiago there is only one hope | to save their country, and that is im- mediate and effective American inter- vention. And this, Ambassador Sumner | Welles has informed them. is highly | improbable unless the disturbances cause loss of life among American citi- | zens. Protection of Americans. President Roosevelt is today more determined than ever to let the Cubans work out their own salvation. Naturally, every possible measure to protect the lives of American citizens residing in Cuba is being taken. Destroyers are dispatched hastily from one point to another, in accord- ance with the developments in the island. The Americans have been told by she ccnsuls that they must gather near points where the destroyers can be reached easely and quickly. They must abandon, if necessary, all their belongings and property and get on board the vessels as soon as their lives appear menaced. And it is up to them, on shore, to determine when that moment has come. The commander of the American forces in Cuban waters is being kept informed as to the danger points and is taking the necessary measures to have his ships ready to take the Americans on board. Of ~ourse the possibility of a landing of Marines is still in the background. Nobody can say whether or when it will happen. It is impossible to make any forecast as long as irresponsible elements. are in control in Cuba. Missing Barge Found. OSHAWA, Ontario, September 21 (). —It was reported here today the miss- ing barge Peter G. Campbell, sought by United States patrol craft since it broke adrift in Lake Ontario last night with four men aboard, had been picked up by an unidentified tug. The entire economic life of the once | prosperous country is at a standstill. | pletely ceased to work and has only | hood, by looting whatever food can | chine gunner in his home near Strat- | ford last night and the threat to kill. | . He was ordered held until the officers | have time to investigate the incident | | thoroughly. | Coleman had been called as a Gov- |ernment witness, but had not been | placed on_the stand. W. C. Geers, United States marshal, talked to Coleman and later told news- paper men he believed a threatening | message_had been sent him. The Government charged the Cole- man farm was used by Coleman’s grand- daughter, Mrs. Kelly; her husband, “Machine Gun” George; Bates and others, as a clearing house for under- world information and as a rendezvous to plot the Urschel kidnaping of July 22. The aged farmer was said by the Gov- emnment to have been duped by his relatives. “He didn’t know what was going on,” said Hyde. The elder Coleman's eye- sight and hearing are faulty. An_electrifying deflance of gangdom by the Urschel clan greeted Kelly's death threats today as the Government moved to close its case against a dozen others on trial for conspiring in the ofl millionaire’s kidnaping. “We are in this fight to the finish,” sald a spokesman for the family as a letter from the fugitive Kelly, who has ant Attorney General Joseph B. Kee- nan, was made public by Keenan and the Urschels. Kelly's letter of hate, bearing his fingerprints and apparently written by his wife, also wanted for the kidnaping, warned that the Urschel family will be “brutally murdered” and informed Urschel that Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, outlaws on trial, will be “out for the ceremonies—your slaughter.” Family Quickly Replies. At another point it said: “I am get- ting my plans laid to destroy your so- called mansion and you and your family immediately after this trial.” To this the family replied: “We have thrown our lot with law and the Government. The Urschel family does not want one moment’s delay in giving gangland its answer.” Meanwhile, District Attorney Hyde drove toward the announced goal of completion of his case by nightfall. Already Urschell has told the accus- ing story of his nine-day imprisonment (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) POLICE ALERT AS GERMAN JEWS MARK NEW YEAR Guards Placed Outside Many Synagogues as Crowds Turn Out for Observance. ’ By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 21 —The Jewish new year is being observed with espec- 1al religious emotion by German Jews. Synagogues are crammed and in many cases police guards have been placed outside them. Such Jewish organs as still are al- lowed to appear refer to the Rosh Hashanah of the year 5694 as being kept under exceptionally trying circum- stances. In the Central Verein Zeitung Rabbi Eschelbacher of Duesseldorf writes: “The tragedy of the present moment is that we are in danger of losing again our long acquired homeland.” But he exhorted the community to preserve its faith and courage. Writing along the same lines, Rabbi Leo Baeck says: “Ever rebeginning and ever renewing—therein lies Jewry's strength.” By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., September 21.—It was all “very embarrassing,” so far as two | Wilmot, Ark., citizens were concerned, when Gladewater officers hunting for George “Machine Gun” Kelly jailed them. But when'they were brought to Dallas and held for further ques- tloning today, “wt’ sald the situation became “downright annoying.” Carl Lee “Kink” Edwards, 54, and Lee H. Edwards, 40, who said they were brothers, retired investment bankers and formerly lived in New York City, left Dallas yesterday n in a large car similar to one in which Kelly, Southwestern desperado accused as one of the Charles F. Urschel kidnapers, reputedly has been dodging around the country. As ‘the Edwards brothers passed through Mineola, Tex.—on their way back to Wilmot—they were, sighted by CITIZENS ANNOYED BY ARREST IN “MACHINE GUN” KELLY SEARCH & pair of Dallas officers. The officers gave chase, but a flat tire put them out of the running. The Dallas officer telephoned Glade- water and when the Edwards brothers approached they found an automobile blocking their progress and seven offi- cers, heavily armed, standing in front of the car. In Gladewater they and their car were searched and officers said they found about $900 in cash—including six $100 bills—two pistols and a rifle equipped ‘with a silencer. T. N. Green, chief of police, said he was certain neither man was Kelly. However, he detained them until two detectives came to take them back to Dallas. Sheriff J. G. Riley of Hamburg, Ark., near Wilmot, was quoted in news re- deputy and a rifle with ¢ ¥ been called “a human rat” by Assist- | ey WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. U. S. Workers to To Set Cost-of-Living Index Questionnaires Expected to Play Vital Part in Pay Readjustments—Auto Expense May Be Included. A new and more equitable basis for | determining the cost-of-living index, which is expected to play a vital part in any readjustment of salaries of Fed- eral and District employes after Jan- uary 1, is under consideration by the | it was revealed today | administration, by Secretary of Labor Perkins. At the direction of President Roose- velt, Miss Perkins said, a study of the cost of livi would be undertaken by the Labor De- partment next week, the result of which would be used in fixing the Federal pay scale under provisions of the economy act. New elements, not used in vious formulae, she indicated, will be taken into consideration. One of these, she intimated, may be the cost of main- tenance and replacement of automobiles. The first step in the study, Miss Perkins stated, will be the distribution of a questionnaire to every Government employe. of Government workers | Be Quizzed ‘The questionnaire, Miss Perkins ex- pects, will constitute a sample to be used as a basis for surveying the cost | of living in American eities throughout the country. It will be particularly | useful, she explained, because of the | fact that the standard of living of the | Government people in this city consti- | tute what she described as “the domi- | nant standard” here. “The Bureau of Home Economics of | the Department of Agriculture,” she | said, “will co-operate in making the study which will be used in estimating | the change in their cost of living that has occurred since 1928 and also in measuring the changes that may take | place in the future. { “It has been recognized for some time | that the cost-of-living index in current ! use Is an unsatisfactory measure of that change, particularly as applied to Gov- ernment employes, and the present study will be used in determining the new items to be included' in the index and| " (Continued on Page 2. Column 3.) TREASON STRESSED AT REICHSTAG TRIAL Decapitation Demanded if Prisoners Are Found Guilty of Setting Fire. By the Assocated Press. LEIPZIG, Germany, September 21.— Incendiarism in the German Reichstag beccme a secondary issue and high treason the primary point today as the Supreme Court trial of five men charged | with setting the fire last February got under way. The court moved the phrase, “at- tempt forcibly to overthrow the consti- tution,” in the foreground of the in- dictments and put the charges of in- cendiarism second. This indicated that the whole realm of Communist activity in Germany will be investigated. The defendants were brought into court shortly before 9 a.m., taken there under heavy police guard. Every seat was taken as the trial opened. When the six red-robed judges filed in, German spectators and news- permen gave the Hitler salute, to which the judges replied in like manner. Decapitation Asked. Decapitation has been recommended as the penalty upon conviction. The defendants are Marinus Van Der Lubbe, 24-year-old brick mason and alleged Dutch Communist; Ernest Torgler, 42, former Communist party whip, and three Bulgarian political refugees, Georgi Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff and Wassil Taneff. Among the spectators were Frau Torg- ler and Van Der Lubbe's two step- brothers. Van Der Lubbe alone of the accused was handcuffed. He kept staring ahead and later, when called on the stand, l’eglled almost inaudibly and often in- orgier ed fated, but his orgler appeared emaciated, eyes were keen as he observed details of the proceedings. All who entered the court underwent an elaborate inspection of credentials and a double search for weapons and cameras. The indictment, as read by Wilheln Buenger, presiding officer, accused the men of “attempt partly and conjointly in one and the same continued act to cverthrow the German constitution by firing the Reichstag with malice afore- thought, as yrenmlmry to starting an ivsurrection. Van Der Lubbe also was charged with attempting to burn the former Kaiser’s ce in Berlin, as well as the City Hall and certain public offices in suburban Neukoelln. Check Defendant’s Past. Considerable time was spent in ex- amining into Van De Lubbe’s past. An effort was made to show by testimony that he was a shiftless person, who often conflicted with the police and (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Brodie Leaves Finland. WHITNEY TO HEAD NEWARK EXCHANGE Other Officials of New York Stock Market Also Take Places in Auxiliary. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 21.—The | Governing Committee, president and other officials of the New York Stock Exchange have agreed to direct the af- fairs of the proposed New Jersey Stock | Exchange, it was announced today fol- lowing a meeting of the Governing | Committee. The action of present exchange man- agement in accepting corresponding places in the auxiliary exchange which is expected to be started in New Jersey sets up duplicate managements which | will direct the destinies of both the | old and new organizations. Richard Whitney will be president and Allen L. Lindley vice president of both the New York and New Jersey exchanges. It was announced this afternoon that 1.153 members of the New York ex- change, out of the total membership of 1,375, had subscribed to the plan of opening of the New Jersey market. Plan Opening October 2. It was understood that present plans call for the opening of the new ex- change on October 2 with a trading list including from 5 to 10 of the more | active issues now on the New York Ex- | change. Additional stocks will be added as rapidly as possible. ‘Wall Street expects a general exodus of security exchanges and dealers to New Jersey, following the lead of the Stock Exchange. The Curb already has made tentative plans to organize the New Jersey Curb Exchange, and| dealers in unlisted securities and other dealers with no exchange affiliations are said to be contemplating flight to escape the gross profits tax which New York City proposes to assess. Another membership on the New York Stock Exchange sold today for $150,000, unchanged from the previous transaction made earlier this week. GUNS AND AMMUNITION FOUND INSIDE PRISON Three Inmates of Indiana Peniten- tiary Placed in Solitary Confine- ment as Probe Is Launched. By the Associsted Press. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., September 21.—Officials at the Indiana State Prison revealed today they are conduct- ing an investigation as a result of the finding of 3 revolvers and 18 cartridges inside the institution last week. It was announced that three men serving 25-year sentences for the rob- bery of the State Exchange Bank at Cuiver last May have been placed in solitary confinement in connection with Moley, former Assista: It | State and intimate adviser, and James COMMISSION 0. K. TRACTION MERGER Street Car Consolidation Now Lacks Only Approval of Stockholders. ‘The Public Utilities Commission met today and approved the form of street car merger plan submitted to it by the two local street car systems last Mon- day. Letters were sent to John H. Hanna, | president of the Capital Traction Co., and William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., notifying them that if the form of agreement considered at public hear- ings Monday is approved by the stock- holders of the two concerns, the com- mission will give formal approval to the agreement. Approval Held Certain. The stockbolders will vote on the merger plan next Tuesday. It is re- garded as certain they will approve the plan. After that vote, only a few for- malities remain and the merger will be an accomplished fact. It is the prod- as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, deokok () Means Associated JOHNSON STUDIES CODES WITH VIEW 10 REVISING THEM Delays Decision on Demands of Merchants for Minimum Price Level. CHANCE TO TAKE STOCK OF RESULTS AWAITED N. R. A Chief Plans to Set Up Machinery for Actual Ad- ministration, By the Associated Press. The N. R. A. was listening today for reaction to the newly drafted code for retail trades before going forward to a definite decision on the demand of busi- ness for regulations prohibiting the sale of goods below a set minimum price. Hugh 8. Johnson, the industrial ad- ministrator, meanwhile concentrated at- tention on the status of the rapidly de- veloping industrial control experiment, seeking to measure results so far ob- tained with a view to steering it ef- fectively from this point on. | Due soon is a thoroughgoing reor- | ganization of the headquarters machin- ery, still built along the lines of an | now needing transformation into an | administrative body. More important than staff matters, however, was the need for an accurate survey of results under the recovery effort. The administration has been pressed with forecasts from labor lead- | ers and others who contend there must be drastic revisions of codes now in force and & changed policy toward those now pending, or the re-employment ob- jective will not be obtained and prices will march far ahead of purchasing power. Johnson to Review Work. No official has conceded any falldown in the N. R. A. plan, but Johnson for some tinie has been seeking a stock- taking opportunity. denied him until now by the pressure of acute problems such as the coal code. ‘William Green, American Federation of Labor, has | claimed the average work week of 40 | hours being written in codes generally will not re-employ enough men and that an average of 30 hours is essential. The administration’s attitude generally has been, however, to approve what- ever work hours seemed most economi- cally feasible for the particular in- dustry. On the retail codes, Government economists have massed weighty argu- ments against attempts to control prices at the retail counter, the main conten- tion being that an attempt to keep prices up regardless of public ability to buy might bring disastrous conse- quences. Fail to Meet Objection. uct of 25 years of agitation by civic groups here which finally won authori- zation in a joint resolution by Con- gress at its past session. | ‘The commission paid no attention to a protest against the terms of the merger plan filed by William McK. Clayton. He argued that after the merger is put into effect there will be $10,000,000 more in securities outstand- ing in street car and power properties than there are now. This protest was not even mentioned in the letter to the | two_companies toda‘y_ The essentials of the merger plan are that a new corporation to be known as the Capital Transit Co. will be formed under laws of the District of Columbia. This corporation will issue 240,000 shares of stock of a par value | of $100 each. Half of this or 120,000 shares will be turned over to the Capital Traction Co. in exchange for the out- standing 120,000 shares of Capital Traction Co. stock. The Capital Trac- | tion Co. will turn all its properties into the new company and go out of busi- | ness, the new company assuming its bonded indebtedness. Remains Holding Company. ‘The Washington Railway & Electric Co. will turn over to the new company | all its physical street car properties and in exchange receive 120,000 shares of the The code proponents had evolved a set of exceptions to lift the general |cost plus 10 per cent limitation, from | perishable. damaged. out-of-season goods and distressed merchandise gen- erally. This, however, apparently did not meet the economic objection. Publication of the revised code yes- terday was taken mainly as an indica- tion of administration desire to hear from the many thousands of merchants not definitely represented in the long negotiations which went to make the code. __Hangover problems of the bituminous (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) o MARKETS CRUMBLE IN SELLING WAVE Grains Drop to Limits and Cotton Loses $1.50—Stocks Decline $1 to $5 a Share. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 21.—Finan- cial markets crumbled under a flurry new company’s stock. The new company will assume $8.600.000 of the Washing- ton Railway & Electric’s bonded in-| debtedness. The Washington Railway | & Electric Co. does not go out of exist- ence as a corporation, but remains | principally as a holding company for | the stock of the Potomac Electric Power | Co., all of which it now owns. | The public contributes to the new | merger the salaries of crossing police- | men, which will be paild by the tax- payers instead of the company, and also | a portion of the paving costs now borne | by_the companies. In its notice to the two companies today the commission said it had given | “most careful consideration” to the merger agreement and the proposcd‘ certificate of incorporation of the new company and the proposed power con- tract between the Potomac Electric Power Co. and the new company and | has found them in accordance with law. It found that the terms of the power contract are equitable. —_— Reich Attache Named. of unloading of both securities and commodities today. Active selling of stocks and bonds was reported from London, and Wall Street concluded that British investors and speculators had become completely discouraged over inability to analyze the workings of the N. R. A. and the pros- pects for inflation. In Chicago wheat fell back the full limit for one day's trading of 5 cents a bushel. Cotton at New York fell more than $1.50 a bale. Losses in stocks ranged from $1 to more than $5 a share. Homestake, high-priced gold mining issue, lost $8, while losses of $4 to $6 appeared in Allied Chemical, U. S. Industrial Alco- hol, National Distillers, Case and Union Pacific. Losses of $2 to $3 ap- peared in U. S. Steel, American Can, New York Central, Chrysler, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel and others. The selling revived rumors in Wall Street that President Roosevelt would issue a statement favoring sound money, although this was not credited in all quarters. Gold mining and other BERLIN, September 21 (#).—Capt. Robert Witthoeft was appointed today to serve as Germany's naval attache at ‘Washington. “inflation” stocks reacted sharply, but selling embraced many other issues that had not 50 heavily purchased on prospects of dollar depreciation. PRESIDENT RESUMES ROUTINE - AS SLIGHT FEVER DISAPPEARS President Roosevelt resumed his regu- lar routine today at the White House, recovered from the cold and slight fever which bothered him the early part of the week. ‘The fever which came back yesterday had disappeared this morning. It was so slight last night the President dis- regarded advice of a physician and kept a dinner engagement with James M. Cox, former Governor of Ohio, with whom he visited until after midnight. again his reception of business callers. On the list was an appointment with the Southern in- flation delegation, led Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma. . Others on the list included Raymond int Secretary of Warburg, adviser to the American dele- ‘The Moley-Warburg calls, although separate, were linked by observers with Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Prof. Warren of Cornell and Cox—all authorities on the monetary problem and intimately con- nected with it in the international field o the adviee ot pon_ the ice of his physician, Lieut. Comdr. Ross T. Mclntyre, the President is doing his work in his study and will not go to the Executive office. While his cold had not entirely disap- peared, Mr. Roosevelt said he felt better than he has for some time and expects to be back at his desk in the Executive office tomorrow. Those who saw the President today were greatly impressed with his im- gation at the London Economic Confer- organizing and cagpaigning unit, -na| president of the | the recent talks by the President with| 114,965 Press. TWO CENTS. U.S. ASKED T0 BUY COTTON CROP HALF ASAIDTO GROWERS Delegation Also Favors In- flation, but Subject Avoided at White House. FARMERS WOULD REDUCE PLANTING NEXT SEASON 15-Cent Price Suggested, but Lower Quotation May Be Accepted in Relief Plan. ! By the Associated Press. | A special committee from the Cotton 1Bell Btates urged President Roosevelt | today to order Government purchase of | half of the present cotton crop at 15 |cents & pound as a means of raising prices and controlling production. The committee, headed by Senator {Bnnkhnd‘ Democrat, of Alabama in | formed the President the recent South- ern States cotton convention favored | inflation of the currency, but this point ‘[wn.g not pressed or discussed at the White House. Asked if inflation had been dr | Senator Bankhead said “no" and ee: | Plained the committee was sent to the | White House only on the cotton plan, President Sympathetic. | _ Some of the L | group indicated the | President gave the impression he was | doing all he could to push expansion | of credit and that he was holding off meantime on currency inflation. | Senator Bankhead said the President | took under sympathetic consideration | the proposal to purchase half the cot- !tpn crop. He indicated an early decie sion was in prospect. This plan to establish a minimum | price of 15 cents a pound for cotton | provides that those farmers from whom cotton is purchased must agree to take out of production next year the same amount of bales taken over by the | Government. Bankhead estimated about 5,000,000 | bales would be purchased under the | plan, the financing to be done through | the Reconstruction Corporation, Price May Be Too High. | Some of the group gained the im- pression the Administration was not | in sympathy with the 15 cents a pound | price but might favor a lower mini- |mlg:c probably 12 cents. | ause so many of the delegates to the conference have returned eg:me virtually the entire group remaining | here went to the White House. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla- | homa, a leader in the conference, par- | ticularly on the inflation question, ex- | pressed his regret-he could not go be- | cause of a previous engagement. Meanwhile, opposition to proposals of the Southern group for currency } expansion was voiced by Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois, who reported at the White House on & trip he has just made through the South and West. i Fears Inflation. | “If this Government attempts Ir- flation—mere puffing up of the dollar |—on the theory that it will mean an increase in the price of cotton in one States or oil in another State,” Lewis | said, “as soon as that demand is satis- | fied there will be calls for inflation in other commodities. “The result would be our money would | lose its present standing of value and so depress business in Americf and repress buying by those who have money. It would destroy all the fine work done under the N. R. A. and set back the undertakings now afoot.” | . Lewis left his message for the Presi- dent with his secretary, Stephen T. Early. While he said he was speaking for himself, he added these views co- incided with those of “business men, | farmers and manufacturers with whom %vuiked both in the South and in the est.” Senator Bankhead was appointed chairman and spokesman of the com- mittee calling on the President. Other members were: | Representative La Mar Jeffries, Ala< {bama; J. E. McDonald, Texas Commis- | soner of Agriculture; Robert Harris, | New York cotton broker and Texas | cotton grower; Representatives William | Whittington and Wall Doxey, Missis~ | sippi, and A. D. Stewart of Mississippi; | Representatives B. T. Castellow and Braswell Been, Georgia; Representative J. J.'McSwain and W. M. Manning of ?ol‘:th sCl;ll)“nl. and Representative chn Sandlin and Riles Wilson Louisiana. - The growers spent a good part of their morning session today discussing a plan to have the Government fix minimum price of 15 cents a pound for cotton and buy as much as half of this year's crop_with money to be borrowed from (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) o {WILEY POST INJURED SEVERELY IN CRASH | Plane Sideslips During Take-off and Falls 50 Feet, Landing Among Trees. By the Assoclated Press. QUINCY, Iil, September 21.—Wiley Post, round-the-world fiyer, was severely injured when his plane, the Winnie Mae, crashed today at the local airport as he was taking off. Post was rushed to a hospital, where Dr. E. L. Caddick said his injuri 3sevue but not, critical gy The Winnie Mae, in which Post flew around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 50 seconds, will have to be rebuilt. o The crash occurred while Post, 18 on a speaking tour, was taking off for Davenport, Iowa. i Dr. Caddick said the fiyer suffered an extensive v-shaped cut on his forehead from the hair to each eyebro His shoulder also was injured, but appar- ently there were no fractures. Post was able to crawl unassisted from the plane in which he flew alone around the world and to survey the damage of his first serious accident. The Winnie Mae side-slipped and observers estimated it fell about 50 feet, landing in a group of small trees. The motor had stopped. ith on a speaking tour. He flew here terday from Springfield, Ill.