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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and not quite so cold, with lowest temperature about 28 degrees tonight; to- morrow fair and warmer. Temperatures —Highest, 43, at 12:15 p.m. yesterdays lowest, 23, at 6 am. today. Full report on Page B-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 11,12, 13 No. 33]118. tered as second class matter xl;:é‘sn office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Ll ¢ Foen ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION L & NINE JURORS SELECTED)BYRNS IS CHOSEN AS HAUPTMANN TRIALASHOUSE SPEAKER OPENS IN PACKED COURT Y PARTY CAUCUS — 3 Women Are Accepted, 18 Disqualify. MACHINIST IS FIRST CHOSEN Views on Capital Punishment Keep Many Out. BULLETIN. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, January 2 {#).—Jurors No. 6, 7, 8 and 9 were selected and sworn today in the first hour of the afternoon ses- sion of the first day of trial for Bruno Richard Hauptmann for murder. Ry the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 2. —Four jurors were selected from 22 persons questioned before the Hauptmann trial adjourned for lunch. The jurors chosen are Charles F. Snyder, a farmer; Mrs. Rosie Pill, a widow; Mrs. Verna Snyder, housewife, and Charles Walton, sr., a machinist. The selection of the jury began al- most immediately after the trial opened before Justice Thomas W. Trenchard at 10:09 a.m. today. It re- quired slightly more than two hours for the examining of the 16 veniremen and the selection of three of them. Walton, sr., sixth person to be ex- amined in the selection of a jury, was the first accepted and will be the foreman. A slight, middle-aged man with graying hair, Walton, a machinist, from the little hamlet of Highbridge, was sworn after a brief examination. He quietly told the court he would “pe guided solely by the evidemce in the case” and that he had no preju- dice or objection to capital punish- ment. Hauptmann’s face was a mask as the juror was accepted and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, seated a dozen feet away from the German, was im- passive—arms folded, eyes on the floor. Prejudices Sought. The State hammered away on the question of opposition to capital pun- ishment, while defense counsel tried to bring out any possible prejudices. Two persons were excused because of illness, another because of illness in his family, while the prosecution challenged a woman for cause when she said she was opposed to the death penalty and the defense used one of their peremptory challenges on a man. Mrs, Anne Mojrow Lindbergh, mother of the kidnaped and slain infamt, was not in the court room for the opening of the trial. Her husband, the famous flyer, sat at the prosecution table a8 few feet from the stolid Bronx carpenter accused of the crime. Mrs. Hauptmann, stanch backer of her husband’s fight against con- viction, sat unobtrusively in the rear of the packed court room. Concerning the court and the law- yers were two main points in the questioning of prospective jurors—did they read the recently distributed pamphlet sativizing the Lindbergh case and were they opposed to capi- tal punishment? Of one juror, G. Lloyd Fisher of the defense wanted to know if the fact that he was “surrounded by State troopers” would have any influence on him. Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, presiding, could see no justification in the query. First talesman called was Lula B. Johnsop, a housewife, of Delaware, a bespectacled, middle-aged woman with graying hair. Lindbergh showed interest as Mrs. Johnson was sworn in. She told the court she had formed an opinion about the case and was opposed to capital punishment. When she said she was against cap- ital punishment, Prosecutor Hauck moved that she be dismissed for cause. Justice Trenchard, in a kindly voice, questioned her on her views on capital punishment. Prisoner Unmoved. As Mrs. Johnson was being ex- eamined, Hauptmann, still staring straight ahead, his eyes half-lidded, clasped and unclasped his hands. All the talk of a death penalty left his face immobile and expressionless. “Madam, you say you're opposed to capital punishment. Is it religious or conscientious?” asked Trenchard. “Well, I don’t think it's right to take a man’s life,” she replied. Hauck finally challenged Mrs. John- #on and she was excused. Mercer Bodine, a retired business man of Franklin, was the next tales- man cailed, but he was not in court, and Justice Trenchard said he would be excused because of illness. g A. R. Heckman, another retired bus- iness man, from Lebanon Township, was the next venireman sworn. A slight man with iron gray hair. He said he was married and had five children. Fisher asked him if he had received the pamphlet, written by a Chicago woman, satirizing the Lindbergh kid- naping investigation. Had Not Read Book. Heckman said he had not read it and had formed no opinion of Haupt- mann’s guilt or innocence. He had received. the pamphlet however, he said. Fisher questioned him about the writings of Walter Winchell, a New ‘York daily paper columnist. Heckman said he didn’t read the column; that he heard him on the radio, but “wouldn’t let a man like that influ- ence me.” ‘There was a roar of laughter. Win- chell was in court as a reporter. Justice Trenchard rapped his gavel and sternly and gravely warned the spectators that such an outburst of laughter must not be repeated or he would take steps to prevent a re- currence. ‘The defense then made a peremp- tory challenge and Heckman stepped (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) L Flemington, N. J—Nattily dressed and with a smile on his face, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is shown above as he was led to the Hunterdon County Court House today to go on trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby. JAFSIE CONFIDENT HE WILL AID GASE Intermediary Says Efforts to Discredit Him Will Fail. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) NEW YORK, January 2.—Dr. John F. Candon, vouching for his readiness to testify for the State of New Jersey in its effort to convict Bruno Haupt- mann of the Lindbergh kidnap-kill- ing, said today he regards it as a “dreadful ordeal” but worth while if it results in expiation of the crime. The 74-year-old retired school teacher, “Jafsie” of the Lindbergh ransom negotiations, withheld his opinion as to whether Hauptmann is guilty, but expressed hope that he is nearing an end to the task he set himself 2 years and 10 months ago. It was then that he entered the abduction case as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s intermediary, and since that time he has sought relentlessly to bring to justice the perpetrator of what he describes as “the most das- tardly crime in modern history.” Still Confident. Sitting in his Bronx home, sur- rounded by members of his family, the man who has been a prominent, if at times mysterious, figure in the case said he approached the “ordeal” on the witness stand confident that his motives cannot be impugned. “I realize that in the course of the trial efforts may be made to discredit me, but my actions have been beyond reproach and I will take the gtand confident that nothing they can do will hurt me,” he said. The former educator is aware of sus- picion aroused in some quarters con- cerning his motives and actions, and to most of it has paid little heed, awaiting his day in court. Through it gll—and he reiterated that if he had to, he would do it all over again—Dr. Condon said he had (Continued on Page 7, Column 2. e Dog Warns of Fire. OKLAHOMA CITY, January 2 (). —The barking of a small white dog, “Snowball,” aroused the six members of the Carl Lynn family yesterday in time for them to escape from their burning home in the oil field south- east of here. The house was de- stroyed. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. GERMAN IGNORED BYFLYER ATTRIAL Father of Victim and Ac- cused Man Present in Court Room. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J.,, January 2.— Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the child the stolid German carpenter is accused of murdering, sat within & few feet of each other today as Haupt- mann went on trial for his life, but apparently neither looked at the other. The man the State charges with the crime was near the defense counsel table, his back to the spectators. He faced directly Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard. Lindbergh, continuing his deep in- terest in the case, had a seat at the prosecution table. Court convened at 10:09. Mrs. fiuupunann sat quietly, prac- tically unobserved in the rear of the packed room. Justice Thorhas W. Trenchard was alone on the bench. Hauptmann was brought into the room a minute after Trenchard and nodding to lawyers sat down. Lindbergh entered the room a min~ ute after court convened. There was a slight smile on his boyish face as he strode across the room to the prosecution table. He wore a gray suit, no vest and a colored tie. The jury roll was being called so the famous aviatar took & chair and sat quietly with arms folded and legs crossed. His face was immobile as he watched proceedings. The voice of a court at- tendant droned the names of the pro- spective jurors. Lindbergh spoke to no one. At times he appeared lost in thought. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the superintendent of State police, who directed the two-and-a-half-year man- hunt which ended with Hauptmann's arrest, sat beside the flying colonel. { Next to the State police head was a uniformed State trooper, his blue tunic a bright splash of color in the back- ground of drab business clothes. The court was jammed before (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.). More Exclusive Wirephotos A full page of Associated Press Wirephotos, including today’s scenes at today’s opening session of the Haupti~ mann trial, will be found on Page A-5 of today’s Star, Later pictures will be used in later editions, keeping illus- trations abreast of the day’s news as it develops. Wirephotos of yesterday’s sporis events at Miami, Fla.; San Francisco, Pasadena, Calif., and New Orleans will be found on Page A-14, Sports Section. Look for Today’s Pictures in Today’s Star Majority Leader in 73d Con- gress Is Nominated by Democrats. FORMAL ELECTION TO BE TOMORROW Selection Held Tantamount to Choice Due to the Huge Democratic Majority. BULLETIN. Joseph W. Byrns, veteran Repre- sentative from Tennessee who served as mapority leader of the House in the Seventy-third Con- gress, today was nominated Speaker of the House by the Democratic caucus. The nomination, which is tan- tamount to election due to the huge Democratic majority, was by ac- clamation. The formal election will occur tomorrow. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. ‘The Democratic majority in the House, numbering 322, is tackling its first problems of the Seventy-fourth Congress in caucus in the House chamber this afterpoon. With Rep- resentative Byrns of Tennessee, leader in the last Congress, assured of elec- tion as Speaker, the higgest interest centers in the election of & House leader. There will be other important news coming out of the caucus, which was called by Representative Lea of Cali- fornia. At least four new members of the Ways and Means Committee are to be elected, and it is expected this will be done before the balloting for the leadership. The proposal for mak- ing a new division of committee mem- bership between Democrats and Re- publicans also will be considered. Toward the close of the caucus, which is expected to complete its work at a single sessian except for having to meet again to confirm the slate of committee assignments, a conflict is looked for over the discharge rule, Eight Seek Leadership, ‘There are eight candidates for the leadership. Representatives Bankhead of Alabama and O'Connor of New York are expected to be the leading contenders on the first ballot. The prediction is made by those in close touch with the situation that if Bank- head does not make an excellent showing on the first ballot his chances for election will fritter away. There is still a strong sentiment that with the speakership gone South a North- ern man should be chosen for House leader. The sentiment is also ex- pressed that the Tammany candidate, O'Connor, will not be able to poll enough votes to elect him. In the event that Bankhead is elected leader, O'Connor would be in line for chairman of the important Rules Committee. O’Connor is also handicapped by the fact that he has to fight two factions in his own dele- gation. He is opposed by Representa- tive Cullen, who has been the head of the Tammany delegation in the House, and Representative Mead, who is & candidate for the leadership, Others Include Rankin. The other candidates are: Representative Rankin, Mississippi, who has been soliciting support as a progressive and liberal. Representative McCormack, Massa- chusetts, who has the support of the New England delegation. ‘He has had only six years of service in the House. Representative Sabath, Hlinois, dean of the House, who has been given stanch support by the Illinois dele- gation in two caucuses. Representative Mead, New York, chairman of the Post Office Commit- tee, who is one of the most popular men in the House. Representative Greenwood, Indians, Democratic whip, who has the solid support of the Indiana delegation as long as he wants to hold their votes. Representative Lea, California, chairman of the caucus, who has not sought the office, but is holding a good block of votes. PRESIDENT TO GET TAX SURVEY_REPORT Comparative Data May Form Basis of Attitude on D. C. Fiscal Relations. Results of the comparative tax survey instigated by President ,Roose- velt are expected to reach the White House some time next week. The survey is being made by experts of the Treasury Department and is expectqd to form the basis of the President’s attitude on fiscal relations between the District and Federal Gov- ernments, particularly as to the size of the Federal contribution to the District budget. Some weeks ago, when the President was discussing the tax question in the District of Columbia, he intimated he would like to see corrected what he termed the present ‘“hit-and-miss” fashion of fixing tax rates in the District by congressional committees and officials of the District govern- ment. Mr. Roosevelt gave no intimation however, that he would make a move to improve the situation. Guide for Readers Pag Amusements Comics ... Features . . Finance . Lost and F Radio Serial Story Short Story. Society .. Sports eee S n o Sftar | WONDER IF THAT'S JUST A CRACK AT ME? 1.5, WORKER SHT, ANOTHER SOUGHT John M. Mears Wounded and Police Hunt for Henry B. Parrish. While John M. Mears, 30-year-old | Commerce Department employe, lies | critically wounded in Emergency Hos- pital, police are searching for Henry B. Parrish, 45, suspected of being his assailant. Parrish is proprietor of 8 rooming house at 808 Nineteenth street where the Government worker was shot yesterday. Parrish, a field examiner for the Agriculture Adjustment Administra- tion, has not been seen since he| walked out of the house, leaving Mears on the floor, clad in pajamas | and a bullet wound near his heart. Meanwhile Mrs. Myrtle M. Doolittle, ; 29-year-old landlady, over whose af- fections the two Federal workers are believed by police to have quarreled, is being held while police investigate. Police Find Pistol. A .38-c r_revolver from which ‘one shot™ “Beett“fired was found near the wounded man. Police said the gun belonged to Parrish. Parrish, it was said by police, had told Mears to move before he (Par- rish) returned from a holiday trip to North Carolina. Shortly after Parrish returped to the rooming house yesterday, Mrs. Doolittlee said she heard a shot and opened the door of her basement apartment and found Mears on the floor. Mears was taken to the hospital where an emergency operation was performed. ‘While roomers gathered in the hall- way around the wounded man, Par- rish walked from the house and down the street, leaving his automobile parked in front. Expecting him to return for his ma- chine, a police detail was kept at the house all night. Mrs. Doolittle, a part-time clerk at N. R. A, has been separated from her husband about three years, police were told. She is from Raleigh, N. C. She denied any knowledge of the shooting when questioned at the third pre- cinct, where she was taken along with Mrs. Mary McNeal, 45, colored cook. They were held at the House of De- tention overnight. Police were of the opiniog that Mears was shot as he slept and stag- gered into the hall, where he col- lapsed. Mears, a native of Cypress, Fla., has been living in the District about a year. Parrish is from Durham or Raleigh, N. C., police said. ICKES HITS RUMOR TWO AIDES MAY GO Secretary Defends Records of Glgvis and Burlew, Linked With ‘White House Report. Secretary Ickes today made an un- qualified denial that the White House had asked him to get rid of two of his principal aides, Ebert K. Burlew, chief administrative assistant, and Louis R. Glavis, director of investiga- tion of the Interior Department. Praising the records of his aides, Ickes said “they are two of the most ROGR FOR The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press -News and Wirephoto services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 10,091 Some Returns Not Yet Received. Am T OPE?I ING \~— NEW CONGRESS Nude Scene Halts German Film for Treasury Approval Officials to Scrutinize “Ecstasy’ to Decide If Public Should. By the Associated Press, A German motion picture, in which the heroine appears in one scene in the nude, has been subjected to the scrutiny of Treasury Department of- ficials who will determine whether it is suitable for exhibition to the Ameri- can public. the preview last night, but her hus- band was unable to be present. The picture, called “Ecstasy,” was impounded by the New York Customs after it had been denounced by the Pope and by Fritz Mandel, millionaire husband of the heroine, who is called Hedy Keisler. Mandel is seeking to syppress the film because of the scene in which his wife appears unclothed. No decision has been reached, a Treasury official said last night, on whether the film will be released for general distribution. —— NEW TAXES SEEN IF BONUS PASSES Byrns; Speaker-to-Be, Says Administration Will In- sist on Increases. By the Associated Press. A threat of new taxes was the ad- ministration’s answer today to pro- ponents of immediate payment of the soldiers’ bonus. Acknowledging that a cash bonus bill would pass the House “because there is no opposition to it,” Repre- sentative Byrns, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, Speaker-to-be, declared that if it was finally enacted, the adminis- tration would insist on some addi- tional taxation to meet the estimated $2,000,000,000 expenditure. At the same time, a leading Demo- cratic Senator, who declined to permit us of his name, predicted also that such a measure, expected to be intro- duced and acted upon early in the congressional session opening tomor- row, would receive Senate approval. Both were in doubt, however, as to whether the proposal would pass Con- gress finally over a presidential veto, which now is considered certain. Throwing down the gantlet to presi- dential opposition to such a measure, Frank L. Belgrano, jr., national com- mander of the American Legion, said yesterday that President Roosevelt's recent expression on the subject ac- tually contained strong argument for immediate payment. He asserted the veterans would use the bonus money to pay grocery and rent bills and that it therefore would find its way quickly into busi- ness and trade channels. valuable and efficient members of my staff.” Secretary Ickes, after refrain- ing from comment on published re- ports earlier in the day, later sent for newspaper men and discussed re- ports of the supposed rift in the New Deal organization. “I have received no intimation from the President or the White House con- cerning Mr. Burlew or Mr. Glavis,” he said. “There have been no charges contemplated so far as these two men are concerned. I don’t want to resign myself, so I won't fire them.” At his press conference, President Roosevelt said today he had not heara about published reports that he had hinted for the resignations of Bur- lew and Glavis. The President re- maked that the story looked like one made out of whole cloth and had the earmarks of being started somewhere else and hung upon himself. Rports siad to have been close to the President said a hint had been given to Ickes that he should dis- pense with the services of his, two aides. Wire-tapping of telephone to have been reported to the White House. It was also said that con- versations between Interior Depart- ment officials, cabinet members and other agency officials have been re- colx;dv?‘i. by the organization headed by G Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., wife! of the Treasury Secretary, attended | F. D. Roosevelt, 10615 REPORTED HURT BY BOMB Assassination Attempt at Palace Is Rumored. Denials Made. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Greece, January 2.—Re- | ports from the Island of Corfu today said a bomb had been hurled into the palace at Tirana, wounding King Zog of Albania. Immediate confirmation was not forthcoming. A revolt, reports from outside Albania say, has been in pro- gress there for some days. The Corfu sources said 8 general | mobiiization of Mohammedan forces has been declared. Christians were excepted. LONDON, Japuary 2 (#).—The Al- | banian Legation calied reports from Corfu today that King Zog had been wounded “just another Greek rumor.” ROME, January 2 (#)—The Al- banian Legation has received nothing from Albania on the wounding of King Zog. The legation said malicious rumors about Albania were being spread abroad. King Zog, who is 40, has occupied the throne at Tirana since Albania was made a kingdom in 1928. An attempt to assassinate him was made in Vienna in 1231. He escaped un- hurt, but one of his aides was killed and another wounded. Italian aviators recently confirmed reports of a revolt in Albania, assert- ing that a strong force under one of Zog’s aides was intrenched in s val- ley, but was surrounded by govern- ment troops. LAVAL TO CONFER WITH MUSSOLINI Minister to Reach Final Accard on Franco-Italian Re- lations. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 2.—Pierre Laval, minister of foreign affairs, will go tp Rome tomorrow night to talk to Premier Mussolini of Italy in the hopes of reaching a final accord on Franco-Italian relations and & joint policy on Central Europe. ‘The foreign minister made his defi- nite decision for the journey today after a conference with the French cabinet. The French authorities decided that i the possibility for an agreement in principle, at least, was sufficient war- rant for his making the trip, the first any French foreign minister has made to Rome since the World War. The late Louis Barthou had planned to go to Rome for the Mussolini con- ference, but he delayed his trip until he had welcomed King Alexander of assassin’s bullets ended both their lives within a few minutes after the King’s arrival in France. Barthou long had advocated a rap- prochment between France and Italy and Laval’s decision to make the trip which Barthou planned is regarded as carrying out the Barthou program. Jr., Injures Driver in Another Car Crash By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 2.—Frank- lin Delano Roosevelt, jr., son of the President, was in an automobile crash about 1 o'clock New Year morning at nearby Wayne, but escaped injury, it was learned today. The driver of the other car, Edward Newman, 24, of Radnor, was cut and bruised in the crash. Arraigned last night before Justice of the Peace Howard C. Harbison at Wayne, the President’s son was re- leased an his own recognizance for further hearing there on January 15. He explained at the hearing that he had been blinded by the snow and tried to stop when he saw Newman's car, which was parked. He said his car skidded when he tried to stop. Young Roosevelt, a sophomore at Harvard, has been the holiday guest of J. Drexel Paul, in suburban Radnor, and was on his way to a dance in a Philadelphia hotel, he said. It was not made known whether any one was in the car with him at the time. Roosevelt is charged with assault and battery by automobile. BOSTON, January 2 (F)~—Franklin .Demm Roosevelt, i, son of the Pres- ident, has various automobile viola- tions chalked up against him by Mas- sachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Is- land authorities. The courts of Orange, Conn., are awaiting his return. He was arrested there December 22 on a speeding charge, His trial was postponed at the request of a presidential secre- tary until he passes through Orange on his way to classes at Harvard. In April, 1934, he was fined $20 here for having out-of-State plates on an automobile without permission. On March 24, 1934, his car struck and injured Mrs. Daniel P. O'Leary, 60, in Boston. Mrs. O'Leary began proceedings in & $25,000 suit for dam- ages. Young Roosevelt was not ar- rested. In the Fall of 1933 he was arrested for speeding in Windsor Locks, Conn., and in May, 1934, he was again ar- rested for speeding in Union, Conn. In August, 1932, his first Fall here as a student at Harvard, he ar- rested in Smithfield, R. 1. S was the charge, but it was not prose- { (#) Means Associated Press. Yugoslavia at Marseille October 9. An | TWO CENTS. CONGRESS 10 OPEN TOMORROW WITH MANY NEW FACES President Is Expected to Deliver Message in Person. DEMOCRATS IN SENATE RENAME OLD LEADERS Fight Probable as House Majority Meets Today—Lame Duck Session Is Missing. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The second New Deal Congress, the seventy-fourth in the history of the country, assembles at goon tomorrow. It comes hot off the hustings, with- out the old “cooling off” period inter- vening between the congressional elec- tions and the first regular session of the new Congress. In this, it estab- lishes a precedent, due to the Norris- anti-lame duck amendment to the Constitution. The meetings of both®Senate and House are likely to be merely routine tomorsow. The members newly elect- ed will be sworn in. The House will elect Representative Byrns of Tennes- see as Speaker and the Senate again will choose Senator Pittman of Nevada as President Pro Tempore to preside in the absence of the Vice President. _ Meanwhile, Senate Democrats, meet- ing this morning, unanimously re- elected Senator Robinson es their leader, House Group to Act. House Democrats planned tp meet later in the day to name a leader. At the Senate gathering today, J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois was re- elected whip and Hugo L. Black of Alabama was renamed secretary of the Democratic conference. There was no_opposition to any of the nominees. Chance of a ruction in the Senate on the opening day over the seating of Senator-elect Holt of West Vir- ginia because he will not reach the constitutional age of 30 until Summer, was eliminated when the Democratic leaders met and advised Holt to wait until he becomes of senatorial age next June, before presenting himself. ‘What Congress and the country are awaiting with the keenest interest are President Roosevelt’s annual message to Congress “on the state of the Union,” and his budget message. The President is expected to appear at a | joint session of the two Houses in the House chamber Friday to deliver his annual message in person. The budget message, containing the adminjstra. tion’s recommendations for appropri- ations during the coming fiscal year and its fiscal policies, will not go to Congress until Mondagy unless pres- ent plans are changed. Details Guarded. The details of the President’s program have been closely guarded. If mem- bers of Congress have been given ad- vance information, they have closely guarded it. Mr. Roosevelt's recommendations for relief and for public works, for social security and for making per- manent some of the New Deal laws, including national industrial recovery act, are still to be revealed. His an- nual message, it is believed, will deal with the whole situation in the coun- try and his legjslative proposals in a general way, to be followed later by briefer, special messages to Congress on individual measures. The second New Deal Congress comes to Washington with the unem- ployment emergency still confronting the country. Relief work on g large scale, however, has been underway for many months and the problem is somewhat different from that which confronted the first New Deal Con- gress which assembled in March, 1933, | It has been announced in administra- tion quarters that it is planned to get the unemployed off the “dole” and into “work relief,” for which they will be paid. Conference Friday, _The President will meet congres- sional leaders Friday night at a con- | ference in the White House to go over | plans for the legislative program. An- nouncement of the meeting was made at the President’s conference with the press today. While the President is expected to deal only with policies and principles in his annual message, the conference he holds with the congres- sional leaders is expected to get down to details of the legislative program. He may discuss with the leaders also | his budget proposals which will go to | the Congress next week. The Presi- dent declined today to comment on his program or public questions. Nor is it (Continued on Page 16, Column 5.) SHIP BLOWN AGROUND; POLICE RESCUE FOUR Joseph Conrad, Merchant Marine Training Vessel, Damaged in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 2.—Patrol- men waded out into the icy harbor today and took two passengers anc two cabin boys off the three-masted sailing ship Joseph Conrad after the vessel had dragged anchor in a 50- mile gale, in the night and gone aground on a rock ledge off South Brooklyn. ‘Two members of the crew remained aboard while the Coast Guard cutter Hm l'?};)d by to lend assistance if bt : e sailing ship was reported leaking and it is believed the Hudson’s crew decided not to pull her off the rocks immediately for fear she would sink in the deep water. ‘The Joseph Conrad arrived in New York harbor Sunday after completing a trip from Harwich, England. She is operated as a training vessel for boys and young men planning to enter the merchant maring Byrd, Supply Ship Sails. DUNEDIN, New Zealand, January 2 4#)—The Bear of Oakland, Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd’s supply ship, sailed today for Little America, Ant-