Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1934, Page 1

3 —-—rm - & WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today, followed by rain tonight or tomorrow; colder tomorrow afternoon; gentle variable winds, becoming south, ‘Temperatures—Highest, 48 at 3 p.m. yesterday$ lowest, 31 at 3 a.m. yesterday. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and to city and suburban Full report on page A-5. () Means Associated Press. he ————— e No. 1,553—No. 33,108, STAR T0 RECEIVE PIGTURES BY WIRE AS FAST AS NEWS| 10,000-Mile System Wil Speed Photos Here and to 37 Other Cities. NEW SERVICE SENDS VIEWS IN 30 MINUTES Innovation, to Be Opérated by Associated Press, Considered Amazing Development, On New Year day Washington is to ‘witness the opening of a new chapter in newspaper history when The Eve- ning Star inaugurates a wirephoto service, bringing to it over a 10,000~ mile leased wire system, the events of the day in pictures with the same speed as news. The ramification of the innovation hardly can be overemphasized. It confidently has been predicted that the effect on newspapers will be com- parable to those brought about by the invention and perfection of the tele- graph, the linotype and the photo- engraving process, which have trans- formed them from the laboriously printed, pictureless and almost news- less journals of a century ago to the metropolitan dailies of today. Something happens—an earthquake in California, a foot ball game in Chicagoa hurricane in Cuba, a prize fight in New York. Within a few min- utes, if there have been photographers present, The Star will be able to pre- sent its readers graphic photographs of the event reproduced with almost perfect accuracy of detail, along with the word accounts, Operation Is Perfect. ‘The innovation, based upon scien- tific developments of the last few years, is far beyond the experimental stage. It has been tested thoroughly by the Associated Press, which will maintain and operate the service for the 38 American newspapers co-oper- ating in its use. The equipment for ‘Washington is operating perfectly. The wirephoto is one of the most astounding developments in the his- tory of American science—a miracle which would have been considered & fantastic dream 20 years ago. When the first Wired pictures began to ap- pear in American newspapers they were printed largely as curiosities of science which—in some distant fu- ture—might have some utility. They were crude and distorted—but never- theless they were reproductions of actual pictures actually transmitted by electricity. A vast amount of experimental work has been devoted since to the process by some of the foremost scientists of the country, with tae result that the distortions of repro- duction have been eliminated and the process speeded up to the point where a picture can be transmitted almost as rapidly as reading matter. Equipment Highly Intricate. The perfection of the mechanical equipment and the setting up of the system represent a marvel of en- gineering genius. Costly and highly intricate equipment, adjusted to measurements too fine for the human eve to see, must be disciplined to follow up and down the continent the unpredictable path of the day's news. The wirephoto service will begin, in each of the 24 equipment rooms over the country, with the pressing of a button which will start the power plant. The other equipment in the room consists of a sending machine, a receiving machine, a sending “bay,” or switchboard, and a recelving “bay.” The operator, having tuned his machines perfectly in five minutes, will stand by the loud- speaker of the talking circuit. Then the control station in the New York office of the Associated Press will open the circuit and there will begin the daily canvass of pictorial news. Each of the 24 stations reports that it is ready and what pictures it has for sending. Perhaps it is Inauguration day in ‘Washington. The schedule is ar- ranged for instantaneous transmission of pictures of the new President taking the oath, the scenes of tho parade and similar views. New York may have some pictures of celebritizs juct arrived from Europe, St. Louis a view of an airplane crash, Detroit nic- tures of a serious fire. These will be sent in the order of their importance. Shading Adjusted First. It is decided which station shall send its picture first. Before actual sending begins it transmits for a few seconds, on to the line and into each recelving station, an amount of power corresponding to the lightest and darkest parts of the picture. Each point adjusts its power to the re- ceiving equipment at the proper value for those two limits, knowing that the receiving machine, when adjusted to receive the two extremes of light and dark in the print, will handle nor- mally all the intervening shades. A few seconds later a smaller but- ton is pressed on the sending machine, starting at the same instant every receiving machine along the line. A cylinder on the receiving machine at every station, 17 inches long and 12 inches in circumference, has been loaded with a negative upon which can be received a picture of any dimensions up to half the size of a newspaper page, This is fastened around the cylinder and inclosed in &' light-proof container, The negative is then exposed to light from a lamp focused through an aperture one- hundredth of an inch wide, which opens according to the strength of the current caused by the picture on the sending machine. Where the MAYOR IS ACCUSED Ban Diego Magistrate Charged as Hit-Run Driver. SAN DIEGO, Calif., December 22 (#)—Rutherford B. Irones, San Diego’s mayor, was accused today of being a hit-and-run driver. His pre- liminary hearing was set for January | first to organize under 4. George Dewey Pickett, Navy ma- chinists’ mate, charged his wife was injured seriously November 23 when their car was sideswiped by a heavy Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Richberg Warns Big Weekly It Must Curb Johnson’s Pen Saturday Evening Post to Answer for Any Libelous Attacks. Copyright. 1934, by the Associated Press. Donald R. Richberg, recovery co- ordinator, has written the Saturday Evening Post that it “must accept full legal responsibility” for any derogatory statements contained in a forthcoming series of articles by Gen. Hugh B. Johnson, who resigned as head of the N. R. A. after an extended dispute with Richberg. In a letter to George Horace Lori- mer, editor of the magazine, written December 14, he said he had been “told by several persons, seeming to have sources of accurate information,” that a book from which the articles are to be excerpted “includes certain definitely described attacks upon me which, if made, would be untrue, ma- liciously libelous and designed wholly for the purpose of doing me harm.” “I suppose there is nothing lower in the scale of publishing than the publication of character assassination for the purpose either of venting per- sonal spleen or building circulations,” the letter continued. “I should not assume that the Sat- urday Evening Post would stoop to put itself in that class of publications. DONALD RICHBERG. It is possible, however, that you may have assumed that Gen. Johnson's statements can be relied upon and can be supported by evidence which would be given credence in a court. “On the other hand, many of the charges which Gen. Johnson has loosely made in private conversation " (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) ARHY IADEQUNT TODEFEND MATON IARTHIR WS Next Conflict Will Be Speedy, Deadly, Chief of Staff Says. By the Associated Press. A warning to be prepared for war of deadly speed and destruction in the future was sounded yesterday by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff. " Visualizing the next war as one fought by highly trained men with faster and deadlier “tools of destruc- tion,” MacArthur, in his annual re- port, recommended that this Nation maintain a moderate-sized, highly efficient force mounted and armed with the latest and most powerful machines and weapons of warfare, President Roosevelt retained Mac- Arthur as chief of staff to handle ‘War Department legislation before the coming session of Congress, The skeletonized, partially equipped Army of today, MacArthur declared, is not strong enough to guarantee the Nation's defense. Even with full accomplishment of the present program “of military prep- aration scaled to the minimum level consistent with our country’s reason- able security,” he reported, the United States would rank sixteenth among the world’s armies. Machines Powerful. Men will remain the backbone of the army, MacArthur asserts, but they will need speedy machines to cover the wide front on which wars will be fought; weapons that shoot faster, farther, and with more deadly ac- curacy, and airplanes and other im- plements of increased mobility and scientific annihilation. To meet the menace of “the next war” MacArthur specifically recom- mended: Man-power: Regular Army of 165, 000; National Guard of 210,000; trained enlisted reserve of 120,000; officers reserve of 120,000 instead of the army of 118750 and National Guard of 175,000 now maintained. Air armada: 2,320 planes, including & speedy general headquarters air force of 900 planes, ready to fly at any minute the defense of any zone of the frontier. Steady progress is being made in building up the Air Corps, he reported, and “our latest models in some types of fighting planes are bet- ter than any others known to exist.” More, however, are needed. Anti-aircraft weapons: “We are woe- fully behind the times.” Eleven million dollars is needed fully to equip and (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) e SPINSTER FOUND DEAD Nephew Finds Body With Her Throat Slashed. NEW YORK, December 22 (#).— ‘The body of Miss Victoria Muspratt, 79, spinster descendant of an old and wealthy Broklyn family, was found tonight in her home in an exclusive Broklyn residential district. Her throat had been slashed. The body, lying in the kitchen of the house where Miss Muspratt lived 8 secluded existence, was found by a nephew, John Parker. LUMBER INDUSTRY DROPS PRICE FIXING AS FUTILE. POLICY Suspension of Provision in Code by Order of N. R. A, Is First. BY THEODORE C. WALLEN, The first basic industry to admit failure of its own price fixing experi- ment under the New Deal was named last night in an N. R. A. order sus- pending minimum prices in the lum- ber code. In the face of wholesale violations, it was officially announced that a schedule of more than 1,000,- 000 prices was unenforceable. ‘The National Industrial Recovery Board in a sweeping order cancelled all the minimum price provisions in the lumber code. However, production control, which was regarded as an indirect method of sustaining prices, was left in the code and the board called attention to the fact that the protection control clause remain “in full force and effect.” For the present the protection con- trol provisions are not considered a thoroughly effective means of holding up prices because of the existence of a large suprlus of lumber which has piled up during the last year in spite of the progressive restriction of production. ‘The inclusion of price fixing in the lumber code was. the result in the first instance of an overwhelming de- mand for it from the industry with the avowed view to protecting natural resources and protecting the industry from self-destruction from abnormally low prices. The original code increased lumber prices about 45 per cent. Later, as consumption failed to keep pace with production, prices were brought down on an average of about 15 per cent. The high cost of lumber, even after these reductions, has been considered one of the obstacles to the progress of the administration’s housing pro- gram in all its aspects. From the outset the prices fixed by the industry itself through its Code Authority were found to be unenforce- able, particularly among small pro- ducers, many of whom came back into operation as the result of the higher prices resulting.from the code. Re- cently the opposition to the price- fixing provisions has been openly (Contjnued on Page 4, Column 4.) PLANE CRASH VICTIMS .DIED OF CONCUSSION Post-Mortem Reveals Cause of Death of Seven Passengers in Iraq Desert. By the Associated Press. BAGHDAD, Iraq, December 22.—A post-mortem here today revealed that the seven victims of the crash of the Flying Hotel in an Iraq desert died of concussion. All of them probably were dead before the big Dutch plane burned, physicians said. The funeral of the three passengers and four members of the crew, whose bodies were brought to Baghdad to- day, will be held tomorrow. The bodies will be buried in the British cemetery here. Members of the dip- lomatic corps will attend the funeral. Complications in Lame-Duck Amendment By the Associated Press. No end of minor complications have risen over the Nbrris lame-duck amendment. Members-elect to the Seventy- fourth Congress convening January 3 are finding out what they are, The 110 retiring House members and g %z E Irk Lawmakers ed by Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, made the present Congress two months shorter. It moves the next presidential inauguration date up from March 4 to January 20, and clips one-and-a-half months’ pay off Presi- dent Roosevelt’s salary. It also necessitated a change in the date of the electoral college meeting. 1! SOVET SEEKS WAY 10 END INVASIN OF NANCHDUKLD Reported Offering to With- draw Troops to Prevent Bloodshed. SOLDIERS SURROUNDED IN HOSTILE TERRITORY Stories. of Trouble at Border Dis- credited in Tokio—Capital Ad- mits Farmers Have Entered. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 22.—Rengo (Jap- anese News Agency) dispatches from Harbin tonight said Soviet authorities were seeking to avert bloodshed after Soviet infantry troops invaded Man- choukuo from Siberia. The troops, asserted to have crossed the border near Tungning, 50 miles south ‘of Suifenho, were surrounded by Manchoukuan troops and their communications cut “in an effort to check their further military activi- ties,” the Rengo report said. The dispatches said Soviet authori- ties had asked Manchoukuo to allow the Russian soldiers to retire with their arms, and proposed an amicable settlement of the affair. This the Manchoukuan government was re- ported considering. Farmers Cross Border. ‘While the foreign office in Tokio had no official report of the affair and indicated it did not credit the report, it was admitted Soviet farmers recently entered Manchoukuo Tung- ning vicinity, The Rengo advices said the soldiers, after advancing into Manchoukuan territory, began setting up military equipment. What this equipment was the dispatches did not specify, nor was the number of troops indicated. A number of incidents along the border between Asiatic Russia and the new Japanese-sponsored kingdom in Manchoukuo have served to keep tension in the Far East high during the last year. As recently as October 1 the Jap- anese military command in Manchou- kuo reported to the Tokio government it planned to protest to the Soviet an exchange of rifle fire between Soviet and Japanese troops several days be- fore along the eastern border of Manchoukuo. e ‘That border long been in dis- pute, and the th before Man- choukuo, in an official complaint to the Soviet consul general at Harbin, asserted Russians occupled an island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers which Manchoukuo claimed for her own. Rail Controversy. Hopes that prevailing Russo- Japanese tension would diminish were heightened after Tokio dispatches in September reported the Soviet had accepted Japan's offer of $40,600,000 for the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria and affiliated railroad properties. ‘Those hopes were dashed in Novem- ber, however, when the Tass (official Russian) News Agency declared ne- gotiations for sale of the properties were still unsettled. A belligerent note was struck by tiwe Japanese army in its manifesto of October 2, which the war office ad- mitted “expressed the views of the Japanese army,” warned Japan to prepare for war with Russia. ‘While the government was reported to be embarrassed by the proclama- tion, the leaderrs of the army and navy pevertheless were powerful enough to secure passage shortly aft- erward of the largest military budget in Japan's history—$297,000,000. As though further to emphasize the army’s intention to handle the Man- choukuan situation without _gloves, Gen. Jiro Minami, stern and strong- willed soldier, was formally installed early this month as Japanese Am- bassador to Manchoukuo and com- mander in chief of Japanese mili- tary forces on the Asiatic mainland. SPINSTER RECLUSE CLUBBED TO DEATH Body Found in Ancient Mansion. Intruder Seeking Money Hoard Suspected. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, December 22—With three ugly wounds in her head, Miss Victoria Muspratt, 79-year-old Brook- lyn recluse, was found dead tonight in her outmoded shore road mansion. An intruder, most investigators be- lieve, clubbed her to death—perhaps with an ax— some time last night in search of money she was rumored to have hidden in the curio-crammed house, but police were unable to de- Violet was found dead of a heart, at- tack in the basement of the weather- beaten, three-story structure, she re- fused ,000 for the property. The spinster's body was found in a rear room by John Parker, a nephew, who had gone to the place to cut wood, as was his Saturday custom. The house, built a stone’s throw from the water front by her sea cap- tain father so he could sight it from his clipper ships, did not have elec- tricity, gas or running water. ‘There was not a bed in the house, the spinster sleeping in an old up- holstered chair in the room where she was found dead. AUTO FALLS 4 STORIES Mechanic Injured as Runaway Car Breaks Elevator Door. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION g WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1934—NINETY-FOUR PAGES. = POLICE HARASSING CLOSES “IIMMY'S" Plans for New Locatign of Gaming Resort Also Reported. “Jimmy's Place” apparently had closed down last night under the fire of the police drive to wipe out the numbers racket and other gaming, but rumors sprang up immediately among the gambling fraternity that the king- pin operators intended to set up in a ;:u; location over the line in Mary- nd. There was virtually no activity yes- terday and last night at the Bladens- burg road gambling resort and Lieut. George Little, head of the police vice squad, reported to Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, that the chieftains of Jimmy's had quit en- tirely the handling of numi g Little said later he had been told all gambling operations at Jimmy's had ceased and that the operators had de- cided to move to a spot where the Dis- trict police could no longer interfere with business. Success Seen in Move. In Little’s opinion, the move was an indication of the success of Maj. Brown's “harassment campaign,” which culminated Priday in the arrest of eight alleged numbers runners, four of whom are under bond pending their arraignment in Police Court next week. Where Jimmy and his henchmen might move is not known. The old “Hardway,” notorious gambling house of pre-depression days near Suit- land, Md., was torn down more than a year ago. Reports of the inactivity at Jim- my’s place came as Chairman King of the Senate District Committee re- iterated his intention to introduce a bill at the first opporunity in the forthcoming session of Congress to E‘L “teeth” in the District gambling . Pledge Early Introduction. “I will introduce the bill the very first day, or at least the very first day on which the introduction of bills is permitted,” Senator King said. “Then, if possible, I will call a meet- ing of my committee that day, report out the bill and press for its passage by the end of the first week of the ‘session.” The bill, which was prepared by Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pret- tyman, is similar to one introduced by King at the last session and passed by the Senate, but which falled to be reported out by the House District Committee. However, at this session, Prettyman said he had been assured by Chairman Norton that the House District Committee would ap- prove the bill immediately and seek its passage at the first opporunity. Lack of “teeth” in the gambling law has hampered seriously the efforts of police to curb the spread of the num- bers racket here. The four scheduled for arraignment Police Court have been charged by, ‘with operating a lottery, an accusation brought out after numerous failures to obtain in- dictments on charges of setting up a gaming table, accepting bets, etc. Continuation of the cases against the four, all of whom were said to have possessed numbers slips, was asked by Assistant United States At- torney Karl Kindleberger, who told the court he wanted more time in which to complete the Government's investigation, POLICY FLARE-UP SEEN, Shooting in New York Leads Police to Investigate. NEW YORK, December 22 (#).— ‘The possibility of a flare-up among policy racketeers was being investigat- ed tonight by police after the shooting to death in Lower Manhattan of Thomas #J. Adobody, 21, one time inmate of Elmira Reformatory. A Capt. Thomas F. Murray said that while nothing linked Adobody with the policy racket, there was a possibility of such a connection. Adobody CHICAGO, December 23 (P).—A | Mrs. auto, with Mechanic Frank m:w-uu.plmwh four stories to the basement. Martin was catapulted through the auto top by the impaet. Conscious when firemen rescued him, he was rushed to & for Star YES, BERT, OUR OWN BOYS ARE EXPECTING MORE'N EVER! Farley Shops Late After Urging U. S. To Buy Gifts Early By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 22— Postmhster General James A. Farley, whose familiar plea has been to “mail your Christmas packages early,” just got around to some of his own Christmas shopping today. Jostled by hundred of other hurried shoppers, the genial Postmaster General was so busy he didn't even have time to drop into his offices at the Biltmore Hotel. Christmas sales swept to a new high for the year, with trans- portation lines crowded and stores jammed with last-minute buyers. INFLATINTS ST EXPARSON LIWTS Point to Estimated Maxi- mum to Win Support for Measures. By the Associated Press. A tendency among congressional inflationists to limit their currency expansion proposals—and thus win more support—became evident yes- terday on Capitol Hill. At the same time, the men who want to pay off depositors in all closed banks renewed their campaign, emphasizing the belief that Treasury estimates of four billion dollars as the amount that would be needed were far too high. Representative McLeod, Republican, of Michigan said he had written a new bill which would make it manda- tory upon the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to buy assets in closed banks and pay off depositors imme- diately. The R. F. C. now has dis- cretionary authority to do that. McLeod, in a statement, said that “splendid assurances of make him optimistic. One argument behind his bill has been that it-would put needed money into circulation again. McLeod and some of those who feel as he does argued today that it would take less than $1,800,000,000 to carry out the bill's provisions. Other developments indicating at- tempts to win support for inflationary proposals by establishing limitations: Representative Lemke, Republican, of North Dakota disclosed that he and Senator Frazier, Republican, of North Dakota were placing in their bill a three-billion-dollar limit on outstand- ing mqney in payment for mortgages. CHECK TAX TO STOP Levy Will Automatically Halt on January 1. A happy New Year, in at least one sense, awaits the Nation's bankers and writers of some 2,250,000,000 checks annually, for on January 1 the 3-cent bank check tax automatically dies. Probably only the Treasury will re- gret to see it go. It will lose around $45,000,000 a year in revenue. The bank check tax was one of about two dozen so-called nuisance taxes imposed in the revenue bill of 1932. It was supposed to last only a year, but was continued with the proviso that it would automatically lapse on Janu- ary 1, 1935. All D. C. Mail Records Broken For Yule Parcels and Letters The Washington city post office last night was swamped under the biggest support” | , ice. Phone NAtional 5000 REPORTER KILLED AS CARHITS TRUCK Dan de Souza, Star Writer, | Was Taking Yule Presents to Newark Children. An errand intended to bring Christ- mas cheer to the children of the striking members of the Newark, N. J., Newspaper Guild brought death last night to Dan de Souza, 33-year-old reporter for The Star, when the auto- mobile in which he was riding crashed into the rear end of a truck which had stopped for motor repairs on the ‘Washington-Baltimore Boulevard near College Park, Md. Half an hour before the accident, De Souza, president of the Washing- ton Newspaper Guild, had left Wash- ington in the automobile, driven by William Peake, a fellow member of thé guild. They had just passed through Hyattsville when Peake, apparently failing to realize that the red lights ahead were on a parked truck until too late to stop, made a last desperate effort to swing out to the left and crashed into the left rear of the truck. The impact | tore off the top of the car, crushing De Souza to death as he sat on the right side of the front seat. Toys Strewn on Highway. Motorists and Prince George police, who rushed to the scene, extricated De | Souza and Peake from the wrecked automobile. Broken Christmas toys were strewn across the highway. De Souza, killed instantly, was taken to the Prancis Gasch undertaking estab- lishment at Hyattsville. Peake was rushed to Emergency Hospital here, where he was treated for minor in- juries and released in custody of Prince Georges police for appearance at the inquest. He later was taken before Justice George S. Phillips of Berwyn and freed on $1,000 bond to appear | at the inquest, set for January 18. ‘The driver of the truck, operated by the C. & W. Transportation Co., between Washington and New York, said he pulled the truck far to the right of the road to work on the motor. He was Joseph T. Queen of Baltimore and also was held to appear at the inquest. Police reported they found a smashed red lattern 50 feet behind | the truck. De Souza, who was born in Jamaica “(Continued on Page 9, Cojumn 5) LOS ANGELES BUILDING ENDANGERED BY BOMB Fuse Ignites and Goes Out as Package Is Opened by Head of Employment Agency. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 22.—A bomb wrapped in holiday paper and powerful enough to have wrecked the downtown building where it was de- livered, endangered 20 persons today, but failed to explode when its fuse sputtered and went out. The bomb, addressed to “Eaddy and William Jellineck” at the Jellineck Employment Agency, was contained in a standard size wooden fruit lug and weighed about 25 pounds. Wilfred A. Jellineck tore off the wrapping. There was a snap as a qmz switch closed. A thin wisp of smoke arose, and Jellineck shouted: “Everybody get out! It's a bomb.” Twenty persons waiting at the agency for jobs fled. Police started a search for the messenger who deliv- ered the package. have passed through the cancellation machines at the Po;;ooflummetmuw- total of 14,000, of 3 e L machine FIVE CENTS [ IN_WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS A homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier serv- to start delivery, TEN CENTS SAVING OF BILLION BY GOMPROMISEON BANUS PAY I3 SEEN Administration Weighs Plan to Permit Release of About $300 to Veterans. DATES CERTIFICATES BACK TO END OF WAR Proposal Would Close Accounts and Terminate Interest Which Otherwise Runs to 1943, By the Associated Press. A new soldiers’ bonus proposal, which would result in the payment of $1,200,000,000 in cash to veterans, took a high place last night on the list of compromise plans submitted to the administration. Informed sources, who declined to be quoted by name, said the scheme had been given careful study by offi- cials familiar with the troublesome issue. The plan’s initiators contend it would settle the question and save the Treasury a billion dollars besides. The proposition calls for the certifi- cates to be paid in 1935 and the law would be amended so they would date from Armistice day, 1918, instead of 1925, as at present. The certificates, under existing legislation, would ma- ture in 1945, but the bonus group wants immediate payment. 17-Year Maturity. On this basis the certificates would be paid on a maturity of 17 years, in- bstud of 20, as proposed in the Patman ill. Advocates of the plan argue that if the date of the certificates were moved back veterans would receive all but three years of interest on the certifi cates if they were paid in 1935. One of those who is supporting the proposal outlined the situation thus: “The average certificate is around $1,000. About 80 per cent of the vet- erans already have borrowed 50 per cent of the total value. Under our proposition, a veteran who had bore rowed $500 on a $1,000 certificate ‘would receive about $300 cash “It is roughly figured that this would cost about $1,200,000,000 and would save the Government $1,000,~ 000,000.” Figureston the actual cost, however, are being compiled by the Veterans' Bureau at the request of certajn con- servative a tration followers on Capitol Hill, who say that some sort of bonus legislation is certain to pass the new Congress. The proposal already has been dis- cussed in general terms with Repre- sentative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, author of the bonus bill calling for full payment of the certificates— amounting to $2,200,000,000—next year. Patman. has said that the time to discuss compromises is in the event of a presidential veto. Thus far, the administration has frowned on such measures as the Patman bill. However, the report has been widely circulated that the Presi- dent would not oppose a bill to pay needy veterans. BELGRANO PREDICTS PAYMENT, Legion Head Predicts Settlement in Full This Winter. SAN FRANCISCO, December 22 (#)—Frank Belgrano, jr., national commander of the American Legion, returned to his home today with the promise “World War veterans will get their bonus in full this Winter.” “Now, if ever, is the time to pay the debt,” he said. “Relief should be made for widows and children of deceased veterans.” MISS PERKINS HIT AT PENSION PLAN Apparently Shuns Townsend Age Benefit by Asking States to Take Lead. By the Associated Press. An apparent rap at the Townsend old-age pension plan was delivered by Secretary of Labor Perkins yesterday during an appeal for States to enact unemployment insurnace legislation and pension laws for the aged this Winter. The Secretary did not directly men- tion the Townsend proposal, which calls for a pension of $200 a month to all over 60, but there seemed no doubt that she had the plan in mind. “Actual study of these visionary and fantastic schemes at once discloses their complete impracticability,” Miss Perkins said. “The sincere friends of old people should at this time direct all their energies to strengthening and improv- ing old-age pension laws.” Pleading for support of State legis lation for unemployment insurance and old-age pensions at the coming lulwd ns of the State Legislature, she said: “There should be no hesitaricy on the part of the States now. Federal legislation along these lines will, in accordance with the requirements of our Constitution, allow the States the fullest measure of freedom to meet their problems as they think best.” PUER PRSI Brazil to Balance Budget. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Decem- ber 22 (#).—The Chamber of Deputies today voted, 120 to 16, to empower President Getulio Vargas to create credits up to 300,000 contos (about $24,000,000) in order to balance the notes sub- to rediscount at the Bank of Pages B-7 to B 11 Found.....Page A-§ Mo.....x..l’ued, 4 Sike