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A-2 » 7. MESSAGE FRANK ONU.S. FINANCES Budget Note Presents Facts of Spending Without Pretense. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt's budget mes- sage is the most amazing document of his administration. It is amazing because it naively presents the picture of what the Federal Government is spending and lending and makes no pretense of planning at any definite time for a balanced budget. It presupposes the excellence of the eredit of the United States for an equally indefinite period of time. There is no answer in it to all the cries that the soundness of the dollar is related directly to the future of the American citizen's life savings, whether invested in life insurance policies or placed in banks in the form of deposits. Currency inflation is not mentioned in the message and is bryshed aside by administration officials in their informal comment as not to be con- sidered for the present at least. $2,000,000,000 Nest Egg. ‘The $2,000.000.000 stabilization fund is referred to as a nest egg, to be used indefinitely to support the Government's own operations in keep- ing up the value of Government bonds and the value of the dollar. Is the indefinite borrowing a dis- concerting prospect? Is it one that should give cause for alarm? The answer is a simple one—not if the American people continue to have faith that the emergency for which | all the lending and spending is done will not be long-lived. The public debt, for instance, is now officially estimated to rise to a peak of $34,200,000,000 by the end of June, 1936, and the budget is to be out of balance close to $4,000,000,000 in that very year when, as a matter of fact, ! Mr. Roosevelt a year ago in his mes- | sage to Congress held out hope that in | 1936 he would present & balanced bucget. | How big can the Federal debt go without shaking the credit foundations of the country? Some officials here | think it can go up to $50,000,000,000. It should not be forgotten that the States and cities have a debt of about $20,000,000,000. so that if the Federal debt goes to 50 billions, the total gov- ernmental debt—Federal, State and city—would amount to $70,000,000,000. Speed of Repayment. If borrowings can be continued at an average rate of 3 'per cent, it would | cost the Nation about $2.110.000.000 a year for interest charges. Then the query comes down to this: How fast should a national debt be paid off? Heretofore Congress has figured on 20 years for the maturity of bonds. But as a matter of practice governmental debts are not paid as a rule at ma- turity, but renewed by the flotation of new loans, so it has been suggested that America might do as Britain does: Namely, float loans in the first instance for 50 or 75 years. Some British “consols” are 99-year debts. It has been assumed that what Britain can do, America can do. So if the amount paid off on princl- pal each year is a small sum, as, for instance, $100,000.000 to $200.000,000, depending on economic conditions, an interest charge of $1,500,000.000 on & $50,000,000,000 debt would not break down America’s credit. L Limit Questioned. The real problem is whether Federal debt can Be held at $50.000,- 000,000. It is running up fast. It went up five and a half billions under the four years of the Hoover adminis- tration and thé country thought not enough was being done for recovery, so the Roosevelt administration has estimated its deficits for three years at close to $12,000,000,000. That's about seventeen and a half billions in all for the six years of depression. Will the deficits be ended in 19372 Not if the recovery objectives have not been achieved. It would not be sur- prising if the total deficits went up another three or four billions beyond the twelve, so that the Roosevelt ad- ministration will have increased the public debt from $16,000.000,000 to something like $36,000,000,000. The administration has indorsed plans, however, fot about three to five billions a year for natural resource development, and estimates $105,000,- 000,000 as a possible expenditure if the Government embarks on a scheme of control which is closely akin to State socialism. Some such item as this ‘would probably break down credit, but the conservative forces in the ad- ministration predict that the ending of the unemployment problem in the next five or six years will see the end of large spending programs. But no- body can really be sure about any- thing as long as budget balancing isn't taken seriously enough here to warrant an official estimate or plan, (Copyright, 1935.) FUSION DEMOCRATS PICK FIVE FOR JOBS Appointments to Posts Held by Organization Due in Mont- gomery. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, January 8.— Recommendations for the appoint- ment of five Progressive Democrats to positions held by Democratic organiza- tion appointees were to be made to the Board of Montgomery County Com- missioners this afternoon by the Spe- cial Patronage Committee of the Pro- gressive Democratic faction. They include Edwin J. Gray of Edgemoor for building inspector in the western suburban district, Harry M. ‘Williams of Poolesville for police court clerk, Peyton M. Mannar of Potomac for county sanitary inspector, and Jack S. Eaton of Chevy Chase and Frank P. Welsh of Wheaton as mem- bers of the Liquor Control Board. ‘The recommendations are made for positions which have been assigned to the Progressive Democratic faction under the recent division of county Jobs between Republican party and Progressive Democratic factions under the county’s new Fusion administra- tion. . It is understood that the Fusion wing controlling the county board would appoint Gray and Williams this What’s What Behind News | In Capital New Budget System of Roosevelt Defies Critical Analysis. A and how much you expect to spend. President Roosevelt figures his in- come next year will be a little higher, because business will be a little better and more taxes will be coming in. He expects his expenses will be about the same, because what little econo- mies he can make in unemployment relief must go to improve the na- tional defense and other things. On that basis he accounts himself as being $4,800,000,000 behind this year and predicts he will be $4,500,- 000,000 behind next year. That is all you meed to know about the budget. At least, it is about all you will find out, if you dig through the 871 printed budget pages (size of & large dictionary) from now until doomsday. With Mr. Roosevelt, budget making is at once a science and an art. He became interested in the subject when he was Governor of New York, and those around him can see that he likes it. BY PAUL MALLON. BUDGET is a simple thing. You figure how much money you expect to have coming in Not So Easy Now. Last year he introduced the dou- ble-entry bookkeeping system. He counted his income in one column, but his expenses in two columns, one for real expenses and one for emer- | gency expenses. His adversaries figured that one out easily. They added up the two expense columns, This year they will not find it so easy. He has moved some of the emergency items (Tennessee Valley, public buildings) back into the regular budget column. He has started to combine his two expense columns, so it is extremely difficult to tell which is which. That will hinder any critical com- parison between proposed and past | expenses. But he has worked in an- | other new idea which will absolutely { prevent such comparisons He has lumped the biggest item of expense { in one single figure, the $3,900.000.000 | he proposes to spend for “relief of .unemployment.” An added complication is the fact that the regular budget is not seg- regated and totaled as last year. An | entirely new and different list of categories is laid out. In it, regular and emergency expenditures further overlap. Also Mr. Roosevelt has aban- doned the arrangement he origi- nated of estimating a second year in advance. You may recall that at this time last year he had hoped he would balance this budget he is now offering. This time he makes no promises beyond July 1, 1936. ‘The boys who know their budget- making from the inside say that Mr. Roosevelt was moved to make these changes because his problem was changed. Last year there was tre- mendous pressure for budget balanc- ing, which he assuaged by anticipat- ing a balance a year in advance. This time every one realizes the budget can not be balanced, and the pressure is now limited largely to curtailment of heavy relief expenditures. The pro- pram he offered to Congress Friday was supposed to assuage the curtail- ment pressure, by anticipating cur- tailment of relief rolls. Different situations require differ- ent budget methods. The “Brown System.” You might call Mr. Roosevelt's new techinque “the Brown budget sys- tem.” Ordinary bookkeepers mark their excess emergency expenditures in red ink and nominal expenditures in black ink. Mr. Roosevelt has com- bined them. Artists will tell you that the result of combining black and red make a rather vague and uncertain color of brown, but that does not destroy the aptness of the metaphor. Of course, some critics will be meanies enough to insinuate that Mr. Roosevelt is color blind as far as red is concerned. There is just no possi- bility of pleasing some people. The White House is working smart political strategy against the bonus, but it may be too late. It is met exactly a secret mow that Mr. Roosevelt will insist Congress provide two billions more of tazes if it wants to pay the two-billion- dollar bonus. You can see where that puts the bonus Congressmen. Right in front of the taxpayers’ buzz saw. There are more people in every congressional dis- trict who .will have to pay the in- creased taxes than there are people who would benefit from the bonus. They will yell just as loudly against the bonus as the veterans are yelling for it. if they are properly organized in time. % ‘The trouble is that the White House did not get started soon enough. Mr. Roosevelt’s first announcement was made only a few days before Congress convened. Taxpayers have no organization which can swing into action ‘on Congressmen like the efficient veterans’ lobby. ‘May Stop It Yet. As things now stand, the cash bonus (without new taxes) will pass with sufficient congressional support to over-ride a veto. Mr. Roosevelt can yet stop it if he tries hard enough and all indications are that he will ultimately throw the full energy of afternoon. It was said that action on the three other recommendations probably will be deferred for a few days to allow the county commission- ers to examine the qualifications of the men. AR SR Governor Shoots Senator. MEXICO, .D. F, January 8 (A).— Benator Moises Huerta, vice president of the Permanent Congressional Com- mission, was shot, and wounded last night by Gov, Adolfo Bonillas of the State of Tlaxcala ‘after an argument in a restaurant. Bonillas has bcen severely attacked ih the'Scnate and the White House into it. The laugh is certainly not on Senators Minton and Truman for those super-praise biographies men= tioned in this space a few days ago. The Senators did mot write those biographies for the Congressional Directory, but wrote very modest ones. The super-praise biographies were ones used in the last cam- paign. The time has not yet come when public oficials should be held responsible for campaign biog- raphies. . You can ‘magine who the laug) is really on. (Copyright. 1935.) 4 o i THE EVE to Board and Hamilton Elects One. Riggs National Bank stockholders elected four new directors at the an- nual meeting held at noon today, the elected one new member. tional banks, trust companies and the same boards to serve for another year. The four new members of the Riggs Co.; Lloyd B. Wilson, president of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.; George O. Vass, vice president eary G. Hoskinson, for many years a vice president in the same institution. President Robert V. Fleming an- nounced that the other members of the board had been re-elected to suc- ceed themselvs as follows: William J. Flather, H. Rozier Dulany, Sterling Ruffin, Charles C. Glover, jr.; Henry B. Spencer, Julius Garfinckel, Fleming Newbold, C. Powell Minnigerode, Wil- liam M. Ritter, Harry F. Clark, Frank J. Hogan, Randall H. Hagner, Robert V. Fleming, Coleman Jennings, John Oliver La Gorce, John J, Pershing, 4 NEW DIRECTORS| MODERN CAVEMAN Lincoln National Adds Two|Johnson Criticizes Recovery Lincoln Naticual Bank added two to|lication of the former N. I. R. A. ad- the board and the Hamilton National | Ministrator's first srticle in the Sat- Other na- | today, savings banks re-elected practically |88 recovery chieftain, Johnson said board include Ernest E. Norris, vice inst ¢ Johnson'’ temen president of the Southern Railway :h':tn:mg‘t:lcyllgeljl‘:hn. e e and cashier of Riggs Bank, and Hill- | pants. RIGES BANK PICKS ‘RICKBERG CALLED | l I \ Chieftain in Article in Magazine. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 8.—The Hugh Johnson-Donald Richberg con- troversy crops up anew with the pub- urday Evening Post, to be published Discussing one of Richberg's actions it “smacks of the modern caveman.” It was this series of articles which prompted Richberg to write to the Saturday Evening Post cautioning it Of this letter Johnson said: “Donald’s agitation is just a symp- tom of the ants of conscience in his Infers Economic Attitude. Referring by implication to a recent address by Richberg, the general wrote in the first of his articles: “To demand that industry at once give employment to 10,000,000 men is a demand that it produce far more goods than it can sell, or increase its plant capacity when there is no mar- ket for the product. “No responsible management can do this and surely no such thing can be done in the threat and uncertainty that becloud the present economic Charles H. Tompkins, Henry P. Erwin, | horizon, Daniel J. Callahan and William Mc- Clellan. Lincoln National Elects. Stockholders of the Lincoln National Bank added Franklin W. Harper and T. Howard Duckett to the directorate. Mr. Harper is president and treasurer of the E. Morrison Paper Co. and is & director in the Perpetual Building As- sociation, being widely known here as an appraiser of property. T. How- ard Duckett is vice president of the chairmar. of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Directors re-elected by the Lincoln National stockholders include Charles W. Bolgiano, Floyd E. Davis, Albert S. Gatley, W. W. Griffith, Melvin C. Hazen, Leroy W. Herron, H. B. Leary, Howard R. Norton, Henry T. Offter- dinger, George C. Pumphrey, Samuel C. Redman, John Saul, Fred A. Smith, James A. Soper, W. McK. Stowell, Channing S. Walker and Howard L. Wilkins. The Hamilton National Bank stock- | holders added Thomas N. Beavers to the board. Mr. Beavers is vice presi- dent of Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., and has been an active business man in the Capital for years. He also is a director in the Bank of Commerce & Savings. Other Hamilton Directors. The other directors elected today in- clude: Charles G. Abbot, E. C. Baltz, Emory H. Bogley, William H. Clarke, A. L. Day, Joshua Evans, jr.; E. C. Graham, William F. Ham, M. E. Hor- ton, Harry Kaufman, Ralph W. Lee, Wilfred B. Putman, C. C. Rogers, H. G. Smithy, L. P. Steuart, Chester Wells and Roger J. Whiteford. National Metropolitan. Stockholders in the National Met- ropolitan Bank re-elected the follow- ing directors: Louis D. Bliss, Fred- erick De C. Faust, Willilam F. Gude, Charles B. Hawley, A. A. Hoehling, | Charles Jacobsen, O. H. P. Johnson, R. M. Kauffmann, Dr. J. Thomas Kelley, jr.; Otis B. Kent, Maj. Henry Leonard, A. Lisner, F. H. McCormick- ) Goodhart, Frank F. Nesbit, Arthur A. O'Brien, C. F. R. Ogilby, Merle Thorpe, | George W. White, Henry A. Willard, '2d, and W. K. Wimsatt. Washington Loan & Trust. Loan & Trust Co. re-elected the fol- lowing directors: John Joy Edson, William H Baden, Hiram Bingham, John H. Clapp, Frederick V. Coville, Charles H. Doing, L. Whiting Estes, Charles R. Grant, Melville B. Gros- venor, George P. Hoover, John A. Johnston, S. H. Kauffmann, B. Keferstein, George A. King, Al- fred H. Lawson, Harry G. Meem, Theodore W. Noyes, A. Chambers Oliphant, John Barton Payne, Willlam E. Pearson, Arthur Peter, Walter S. Pratt, jr., Charles G. Treat and Donald Woodward. National Bank of Washington. National Bank of Washington share- holders made no change in the board of directors, who in turn re-elected the same officers. The directors: J. M. | Beavers, E..C. Brandenburg, Henry N. Brdwner, jr.; Wrisley Brown, J. Ed- mund Cammack, Max Fischer, Maurice F. Flynn, G. W. Forsberg, George B. Goetz, Frank R. Jelleff, Michael A. Keane, Mark Lansburgh, Morris E. Marlow, Arthur J. May, W. Clarence Miller, Clarence F. Norment, Clarence F. Norment, jr.; Harry Norment, George P. Sacks, Charles Schafer, John Scrivener, Odell S. Smith, George L. Starkey and James Trimble. The officers include: Clarence F. Norment, chairman of board; George L. Starkey, president; James Trimble, vice president; J. Frank White, vice president and cashier; Edmund H. Graham, John Alden, William E. How- ard and Rutherford J. Dooley, assistant cashiers; E. C. Brandenburg, generfl counsel and trust officer; Odell S. Smith, secretary, and Everett H. Pars- ley, auditor. Columbia National. The following Board of Directors was re-elected by the stockholders of the Columbia National Bank: Harry Blake, John Joy Edson, L. Whiting Estes, C. Fenton Fadeley, Ernest C. Guy, David J. Kaufman, George M. Leimbach, James A. Messer, Joseph H. Milans, Theodore W. Noyes, Walter S. Pratt, jr.; Andrew Saul, Frank J. Stryker, John N. Swartzell and H:vry S. Wolf. Security Savings & Commercial. ‘These Security Savings & Commer- cial Bank directors were re-elected at today’s stockholders’ meeting: Francis G. Addison, jr.; Edward C. Baltz, Dion S. Birney, Francis A. Blundon, Diller F. Groff, Benjamin H. Gruver, John B. Harrell, George E. Judd, Fred McKee, Julius I. Peyser, Stacy M. Reed, Morris Simon, Willlam W. Spalding, Milton Strasburger and Wil- liam C. Sullivan. The directors organized for the year at once by re-electing the fol- lowing officers: Julius I Peyser, chairman of the board; Francis G. Addison, jr., president; Fred McKee, vice president; Samuel R. Baulsir, cashier; T. Hunton Leith, secretary and assistant cashier; Latrobe Owen, assistant cashier; J. Louis Shipley, assistant cashier; Charles K. West, branch manager. Liberty National. Liberty National Bank stockholders were all retained on the board, as follows: Rolfe E. Bolling, E. 8. Brashears, Thomas P, Brown, M. F, Calnan, 8. T. Cameron, J. T. Cull, jr.; Dr. L. F. Davis, Howard P. Foley, Nor- man B. Frost, Tracy L. Jeffords, Paul E. Johnson, T. P. Littlepage, Marsh, Lennard n Stockholders in the Washington | I | “To make this demand and couple it, as Mr. Richberg did, with a threat that unless industry does so employ these millions the Government will, smacks of the modern caveman , . .” Asks Balanced Budget. The former recovery administrator —who now is aiding Bernard M. Baruch in the activities of the Pres- ident's Committee to Take the Profits Out of War—set forth two facto:s which, he said, would relegate “this Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co. and | depression to the limbo of forgotten things in three months’ time.” These, he said, are: 1. A balanced budget. 2. Removal of the fear of inflation, the fear of “rash action.” “I am expressing my personal opin- ions,” the general writes. “The Presi- dent does not need to be told that, whatever my own judgment may be, I would, as an executive, bdw to his and fight for it with all that I can give. Removed from official life, I feel free to think independently and to say what I think openly.” Donald R. Richberg, director of the National Emergency Council, said last night he had not yet read references to himself in a magazine article by Hugh S. Johnson, former N. R. A. administrator. —_— PARK BANK UPHELD IN SUIT FOR BOND Liability of Surety Company to Pay $50,000 Is Affirmed. The right of John F. Moran, re- ceiver of the Park Savings Bank, to collect $50,000 bond which became due as a result of “defalcation by Robert S. Stunz” was affirmed today by the | Court of Appeals. The American Surety Co. of New York, which was liable on the bond. claimed it was not legally bound to pay the money because the bank con- tinued in business after its charter had expired. It was:contended the action taken by the banking corpora- tion after the date of the expiration was in excess of its powers, and that the surety company, therefore, could not be held liable, The court, however, held the surety company knew as a matter of law that the charter had expired, that it continued to accept premiums on the bond and that it knew the corpora- | Carl | tion was continuing in business and was not in process of liquidation. Under these circumstances, it was de- cided, the surety company could not escape liability. The receiver advanced his eclaim after the discovery of alleged short- ages in the accounts of Robert S. Stunz, vice president, who committed suicide shortly after the banking holi- day was declared. The receiver was represented by Attorneys J. Bruce Kremer, George B. Springston and Herbert M. Bingham. The surety company previously had paid a primary bond of $100,000 to the receiver. If the $50.000 bond is paid it can be used for a future dividend for depositors. AIRMAIL PLAN APPROVED PARIS, January 8 (#)—A compre- hensive airmail service throughout France was approved today by the government. The cabinet adopted the plan, often demanded by business organiza- tions, to connect the principal cities of the nation by an airmail service. Business firms have criticized the backwardness of French commercial aviation as compared to the United States Postal Service. F. H. Morhart, Vernon G. Owen, L E. Shoemaker and F. N. Towers. Union Trust Co. ‘The Union Trust Co.'s board of directors was re-elected in full as follows: A. L. Baldwin, J. Harry Covington, Joseph H. Cranford, G. Thomas Dunlop, George E. Fleming, George E. Hamilton, George E. Ham- ilton, jr.; Walter S. Harban, Edward L. Hillyer, D. J. Kaufman, H. C. New- comer, Daniel W. O'Donoghue, jr.; Ord Preston, John H. Small, Luther F. Speer and Charles F. Wilson. McLachlen Banking Corp. McLachlen Banking Corp. stock- holders re-elected the same board of directors as follows: Firman R. Horner, Thomas R. Harney, John A. Massie, Archibald McLachlen, Edwin H. Ets, Dr. Lee C. Corbett, Lanier P. McLach- len, Henry E. Bittinger, George Miller and E. H. McLachlen. Second National. These directors were re-elected by the stockholders of the Second Na- tional Bank: Edward F. Colladay, V. B. Deyber, Fred Drew, Willlam M. Hannay, Frederick W. Mackenzle, W. W. Marlow, A. H. Plugge, Jacob Scharf, A. J. Somerville, W, R. Wins- low and William B. Wolf. National Capital. Stockholders of the National Capital Bsnk elected the following directors at today’s stockholders’ meeting: Charles A. Carry, Allen C. Clark, Clarence F. Donohoe, John B. Earn- shaw, Lewis Flemer, W. P. C. Hazen, Walter Leaman, Walter H. Marlow, jr.; Harold Blater, H. Mitchell, Dr." 6. U HONORING FOUNDER IN RITES ! Archbishop Carroll Hailed as Patriarch of Cath- clicism in U. S. ‘Honoring the memory of Archbishop John Carroll of Maryland as “the great patriarch of Catholicism in the NG STAR,—,‘T WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935. Georgetown Honors Founder 3 Most Rev. Afnleto Giovanni Cicognani, apostolic delegate (center), is shown plac- ing a wreath at the Carroll statue on the Georgetown University campus. Left to right: Lawrence H:Cooke, president of the senior class; Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., vice president of the university; Msgr. Ci= cognani, Rev. Arthur A. O’Leary, S. J., act- ing president H. Guilfoyle, Council, <& Mrs. Vanderbilt | For Year to By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 8—Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt estimates it will cost her just short of $52,000 this | year for her daughter Gloria and her- | self to live according to the standards | | of the Vanderbilt family. The D"s-i ent allowance is $48,000. Mrs. Vanderbilt's proposed budget | for the year will be submitted to Sur- | rogate James A. Foley tomorrow, and | | indications are that it will be ap- proved. | copy was given yesterday to Thomas B. Gilchrist, co-guardian of | o/ Georgetown, and George president of the Students’ ~—Star Staff Photo. Asks $52,000 Support Gloria days and during July when Mrs. Van- derbilt will have her daughter with her under a court ruling. The mother estimates the cost of each detective at $15 a day. Included also in the estimate is the $12.000 personal allowance Mrs. Van- derbilt has been receiving. Mrs. Van- derbilt estimates the expense of main- taining her home at 49 East Seventy- second street, including $500 a month rent, at $9.240. Eight servants, among them a governess for Gloria, will cost $9.420. Other estimates are $1,500 for oper- United States,” prominent church men | Gloria’s $3.000.000 estate, who made ating an automobile, $2,600 for cloth- and educators jcined with offizials of Georgetown University today in pay- ing a tribute to its founder on the bicentennial anniversary of his birth. | it public with the announcement that | he would not oppose it. The estimate for the year totals $51.910, of which $3.600 is provided to employ two detectives to guard the ing and furs, $1500 for professional services (physician), $500 for music lessons. $550 for drugs and toilet ar- ticles, $500 for books and toys. $2.500 rent for a Summer residence and The occasion was solemnized by a | 10-year-old Gloria on the 89 separate | $2.000 for miscellaneous items. pontifical mass in Dahlgren Chapel celebrated by the apostolic delegate. Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani and assisted by Very Rev. Edward C. Phillips, 8.J., of New York, provincial | of the Maryland-New York province of the Jesuit order to which Carroll belonged as & young priest. Before the mass began, the apostoliz delegate, in the presence of Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, S.J.. acting president of Georgetown, plac>d a wreath at the base of the Carroll statue on the col- lege campus. In his sermon at the mass. Dr. history at the Catholic University of America, declared that Archbishop Carroll, patriot of the Revolution and primal see in the United States was “the first and only bishop who has the right to place the 13 stars of the cutcheon.” Georgetown University and the Catholic Church, Dr. Guilday declared, has been true to the legacy handed down by Carroll. It was at the little college in Georgetown, he said, that hopes of permanency and success to our holy religion in the United States.” Dr. Guilday spoke of George Wash- lnlglton's friendship and trust in Car- roll. | At the mass, which was attended by the students and faculty of George- town, the deacons of honor to ‘the apostolic delegate were Rev. Francis E. Keenan, S. J., rector of Woodstock 8. J., rector of Gonzaga College. The deacon of the mass was Rev. Fer- dinand C. Wheeler, 8. J., rector of Loyola High School, Baltimore, with Rev. Robert S. Lloyd, S. J., rector of Georgetown Preparatory School, as the sub-deacon. Rev. James A. McCarl, 8. J., was master of ceremonies. The Georgetown University Choir furnished the music under the direction of Dr. Edward P. Donovan. Guild to Confer Here. NEW YORK, January 8 (#).—Offi- iclals of the American Newspaper Guild and mechanical unions of news- paper employes said yesterday they would confer in Washington January 18 on a course of action in the case of Dean S. Jennings, discharged from the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, they alleged, because of his activity in the guild. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra this evening in Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, ban H Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “Washington Post”..... ‘Windsor' Entr'acto, “Traumerei” (request), * Schumann “An Album Leaf” Excerpts from musical comedy, “A Girl on the Film” ‘Tango Brazilian, “A Zut Alors”. Walts suite, “Au Finale, ‘Beau Ideal” ¥ “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band Orchestra this evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Navy Yard sail . Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant leader. Jean Sibelius, “Karelia-Overture.” (Op. 10) Franz Schubert, “Unfinished Symphony” in B Minor Allegro moderato. con moto. Carlo Brancacclo, “Preludio”. . (Op. 1) Richard Wagner, “Prelude” to 3d act of the opera “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” Leopold Mozart, “Concerto in C Minor” Pirst movement “Allegro.” Solo for flute and harp, with paniment. Peter Guilday, professor of church | new Republic on his episcopal es-| Carroll had said he had “built all my | College, and Rev. Laurence J. Kelly, | H Prominent Agricultural Offi- cials Shaken Up in Ward- man Park Lift. HOTEL ELEVATOR | LL”I§ PROBED Fall of an elevator at Wardman Park Hotel last aight, severely shaking up a group of prominent Agricultural Department officials, was being inves- tigated today by District government inspection officials. Members of the party, who had at- tended a gathering at the apartment of Secretary and Mrs. Wallace, re- | ported today that they had not been | injured, but still felt the effects of their drop. Hotel Officials Without Report. Officials of the hotel said they had no report up to noon today of the accident. All elevators were running | | today, they said, declaring that it | must have been only a “slip” and not$ real “fall.” The hotel management, when informed by The Star of the accident, started an immediate inves- tigation. The party which was in the elevator included Assistant Secretary of Agri- culture M. L. Wilson and Mrs. Wil- son. Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to Secretary Wallace, and Mrs. Ezekiel; Dr. Louis H. Bean, economic adviser to the A. A. A, and Mrs. Bean; J. D. LeCron, assistant to Wallace, and Mrs. LeCron; Ferner Nuhn of the A. A. A. information sec- tion and his wife, Ruth Suckow, au- BY FRED thor, and John R. Fleming, special writer in the Department of Agri- cuiture, The Associated Press reported that a similar incident was said by the group to have occurred last week when ; Secretary Wallace was riding in the same elevator, and a third fall also was recalled as having happened last Spring to a car containing Secretary and Mrs. Wallace and Undersecre- tary Rexford G. Tugwell and Mrs. ‘Tugwell, At the office of Capt. Hugh B. Oram, directcr of inspection for the District, who was Qut at the time, it was said that an immediate investigation of the matter would be launched. Rec- ords of the inspection office show that the elevator was inspected last on November 20, 1934, by M. D. Curran, an inspector, who passed it for opera- tion, KING MOVES.FOR PROBE OF JAPAN AND TREATIES Resolution in Senate Calls for Investigation by Foreign Relations Committee. By the Assoclated Press. An investigation by the Senate For- eign Relations Committee to deter- mine whether Japan has violated the Kellogg peace pact of the nine-power treaty guaranteeing the integrity of China was proposed in a resolution introduced today by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah. He also asked investigation of charges that “Japan is fortifying or has fortified her mandated islands” in the Pacific in violation of an in- ternational agreement. In another move, King proposed a Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry to determine whether the recovery act has “encouraged or promoted monopo- listic practices.” Life’s Like That NEHER. -8 i, 4 by Yo By FTOED NEHER: “I'M GLAD- YOUR CHRISTMAS CIGARS ARE ALL GONE, SIR— WERE PUTTING MY TEETH ON EDGE.” (Copsright. 1035.) NEW NAVAL TALKS HELD MANDATORY Conference Is Required by London Treaty—Davis Here to Report. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. A new naval conference will have to be held this year, despite the Japa- nese denunciation of the Washington naval agreement, it was learned today. The London naval treaty of 1939, dealing with ships other than capital ships and large airplane carriers, makes such a conference mandatory, its drafters not having considered the possibility that one of the signatories of the Washington treaty might de- cide to scrap it. Norman H. Davis, President Roose- velt’s ambassador at large and chief delegate to the shipwrecked London parleys, is in Washington to present a full report to the President and to Secretary of State Hull about the prospects of that new conference and the facts which led to the fail- ure of the London parleys. New Ships Planned, In the meantime each of the five signatories of both treaties are pre- paring to build new ships, big and small. The British admiralty has informed the American delegates privately that two battleships of 30,000 tons each will be put on the ways in 1936. These vessels are replacements of overage ships. When they are ready two battleships built in 1912 will be scrapped. Under the circumstances it is probable that the American Navy will replace at least one obso- lete battleship in 1936 and probably another one in 1937. The Japanese, who have completed the full quota of auxiliary vessels ale lowed them by the London treaty, need not engage in any important shipbuilding program. But the naval experts await with interest the next step Japan will make. It is possible that she, too, will begin to replace some of her old battleships, as it is possible that she will begin to build warships for Manchoukuo. The Italians are building at present two battleships of 35,000 tons each which will be the last word in naval engineering. The French are going to follow the Italian lead. Ambassador Andre de Laboulaye has presented the State De- partment an official note from his government in reply to America's noitification that Japan has decided to lermtmnle the Washington naval agree- ment. France’s Stand Outlined, In this note the French government outlined in precise language France's stand growing out of Japan's denun- clation of the five-power agreement, saying that the French Parliament when it ratified that treaty expressed its wish that it shall not be continued beyond 1936. The French government expresses its hope that a new agrecment mcy be negotiated to replace the Wash- ington treaty, but drew America's Government attention to the fact that since 1920 the world situation has changed materially. Other nations which at the time when the Wash- ington agreement was negotfated and signed had no navies, did not pare ticipate then in the negotiations. To- ! day, such nations have warships the existence of which France cannok overlock. The French note is interpreted to mean that at the next conference the French government will demand an increase of its present heavy ships ratio in order to maintain its su- premacy in relation to the Italian and the German navies. 5,500 MORE MEN ASKED FOR NAVY Increase to 88,000 Carried in Budget Message of Roosevelt. An increase of 5,500 enlisted men i3 provided in the estimates made in President Roosevelt's budget message for the fiscal year 1936, the Navy De- partment today announced, boosting the average from 82,500 to 88,000. Under the new set-up, four appoint- ments to the Naval Academy for each Senator and Representative is made possible, instead of three. The Navy Department declared that the pay of personnel is estimated on & 100 per cent basis, with longevity increases. The 1936 estimates for the Navy total $489,871,347. The increase is $177,773,250, of which 72 per cent is for the construction of ships, gircraft and public works. Now building are 10 new warships, for which costs of $51,542,500 are in the estimates. The President's budget message, dealing with the Navy, provides for the second year's costs—totaling $59,077,- 500 on 20 warships, laid down in 1935, comprising two heavy destroyers, 12 light destroyers and six submarines. The Navy Department explained that the estimates make provision for laying down 24 warships of the re- placement program, comprising two light cruisers, one aircraft carrier, three heavy destroyers, 12 light de- stroyers and 6 submarines, For the first year's charge on these ships, $29,~ 380,000 are provided. The prospective appropriation for aviation, as set forth in the 1936 esti- mate, is $39,500,000. This includes $22,500,000 for replacement of aircraft, said the department., 'PRESIDENT I.RECOVERING [ FROM SLIGHT HEAD COLD Roosevelt Expects to Return to Work in Executive Office This Afternoon. President Roosevelt's head cold still is bothering him, but he expects to leave his room on the second floor of the White House this afternoon and go to his desk in the executive office. ‘The President’s condition, while giv- ing him discomfort, has not been looked upon as serious and at no time has he had any degree of temperature. ‘Were it not for the fact that the Emergency Council is scheduled to meet in the executive office this after- noon, the President probably would stay away from his office until to- morrow. Mr. Roosevelt is attending to the business routine at his desk in the oval room study, adjoining his bed room, and in between times is mak- ing a rough draft of the measures he shortly will send to Congress out- lining his plans for legislation for his social security program. He hopes to have this message ready to send to p