Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1935, Page 2

A—2 »% STAGE STAR ADDED 10 BALL PROGRAM Ray Perkins, Musical Com- edy Headliner, Bid to Birthday Event. Ray Perkins, musical comedy star, has been added to the list of stage and radio stars who will appear on the program at the birthday ball in honor of President Roosevelt at the | Shoreham Hotel tomorrow night, it | was announced at ball headquarters this afternoon. Kate Smith will come here from | New York to sing at the ball if ar- rangements can be made to get her to Rochester, N. Y., in time to fill a scheduled engagement there at noon Thursday. A definite announcement was to be made later in the day. An invitation has been issued to | Eddie Cantor, but it,is not yet known whether he will be able to come. Floyd Gibbons, roving reporter and radio speaker, has accepted an invi- tation to appear and will come here from New York with Perkins tomor- Tow, it was announeed. Tickets on Sale. Tickets for the benefit ball went on sale here today as final ar- rangements were completed for what is expected to be one of the most bril- liant affairs of the season. The tickets are on sale today and tomorrow at the headquarters of the committee in charge of the local ball at 825-27 Seventeenth street, at the American Automobile Association, the ‘Willard Hotel and the Shoreham Ho- tel. They also may be obtained to- night at the *“pre-birthday ball” to be given by the Young Democrats of the District at the Mayflower Hotel. Two classes of tickets are on sale. The first, for the ball only, are $5 each. The others are for reserved tables and supper as well as the ball and are $7 each. Funds to Aid Children. Proceeds of the ball are to go to- ward the care of children in Washing- ton crippled by infantile paralysis and for research work in connection with the disease, 70 per cent of the entire amount being reserved for use wholly within the District. Although the President will remain at the White House, from which he will broadcast a radio message which will be picked up and amplified at the Shoreham and at the thousands of similar balls to be held in all parts of the country, others of his family will attend the affair at the Shoreham. Mrs. Roosevelt # to attend and probably will be accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Anna Boettiger, and her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. The diplomatic | corps is expected to turn out in force to honor the President and to help the cause of infantile paralysis suf- ferers here. Members of the cabinet and other governmental officials, so- ciety leaders and prominent figures in the arts, sciences and civic affairs are ticketholders. Mrs. Roosevelt and her party will enter through a lane formed by a guard of honor of 100 picked soldiers, sailors and Marines and will be escorted into the main ball room by Mrs. John R. Williams, general chair- man of the ball; Admiral Cary T. Grayson, honorary chairman, and Col. E. M. Watson, chairman of the Floor Committee. Two Groups to Dance. Two groups of children will dance. ‘The first group, composed of Grace Colgate Rumbough, Elizabeth Goring Bliss, Mary Frances Rollow, Mary Ann Ferrandou, Van Ness Philpp, Donald Phillips, Billy Wood Stevens and Julian Heyl Colquitt, will dance a gavotte. The second group, Mayda Jane Linder, Rose Strong Hellman, Barbara Halbach, Martha Louise Smith, Cynthia Ann Ellis, Nancy Kathleen McCarthy, Jean H. Bloom- quist and Marjorie Birdsall, will be seen in an old-fashioned polka. ‘Three outstanding dance orchestras will be heard alternately throughout the evening, beginning at 10 o'clock, in the four ball rooms reserved for the birthday ball. There also will be & succession of program features sup- plied by Washington theater managers. This program has been arranged by a committee composed of Hardie Mea- kin, Carter Barron and John J. Pay- ette, working in co-operation with ‘Thomas Brahany, chairman of the Entertainment Committee. Gene Ford and Guy Wonders will be in charge of the program. Phil Baker will act as master ot ceremonies, and Rubinoff and his violin will be featured. Miss Nan Johnson, who sang last year at the White House, will stop off tomorrow on her way from Florida | to New York to sing at the ball. Girls to Sell Programs. A group of Washington debutantes, headed by Miss Audry Campbell, will sell special souvenir programs. Flags of the United States, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps and of the 48 States will be displayed. Washington florists, under direction of a committee headed by Mrs. Joseph Leiter, have co-operated in supplying floral decora- tions. A final appeal to Americans in every part of the United States to attend their local birthday ball tomorrow night was issued today by Col. Henry L. Doherty, national chairman. “In every city and town there will be a birthday ball for the President,” said Col. Doherty. “Go to the ball and dance there, and you will be dancing so that some child who can- not walk may some day dance also.” PERMISSION IS SOUGHT ' TO UNSTRING JEWELS Russian Crown Gems, Held by Late Mrs. McCormick, Declared More Valuable Separated. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 29.—Permis- sion to unstring the famous “Russian crown jewels” diamond and emerald necklace of the late Mrs. Edith Rocke- feller McCormick was asked of the courts yesterday by the trust officer of the estate. William P. Wiseman, handling the estate, said he had been advised by a New York jewelry firm that oppor- tunities to sell the gems piecemeal were greater than if the necklace were left intact. The gems were purchased at a re-I ported cost of $1,500,000. The string includes 10 emeralds, the largest weighing 100 carats. —_— Salesman Disillusioned. CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J. (®).—Roy R. Royal of Wildwood had a successful day as salesman for a firm dealing in safety money belts designed to thwart thieves and ban- dits. He was taking $500 home. One mile out of town three men in an- other car forced him off the road, flourished pistols, searched him and took his safety belt and all the LY | But if asked now they will tell Presi- | scent slightly in the House. | What’s What Behind News In Capital Many New Dealers Be- lieve Relief Bill Is Unconstitutional. BY PAUL MALLON. Some of the most loyal New Deal lawyers, not Republicans, but brain trusters, believe the relief bill is un- constitutional. They have not said . so because their opinions have nobl been sought by the powers that be. ! dent Roosevelt in their own mild ! legal way that sections 4 and 5 of | the measure, over which the Senate is fussing, are “loosely drawn and o!, doubtful constitutionality.” i Section 4 is the one giving the President blanket power to create and prescribe the dutles of all bureaus or ! corporations in his proposed relief | reorganizations. his right to property. It is a 10-to-1 bet that Mr. Roosevelt already knows this and that these sections will be modified with his consent. The New Deal cannot afford to have some irate tazpayer tie up the whole relief program in the courts. Mr. Ickes' irritation is supposed to have caused the insertion of the prop- erty seizure feature. The public works director has had much trouble with property owners who do not want to condemn and buy sell their land for slums clearance at the Government price. A Louisville judge held against Mr. Ickes in a representative case and just about tied his hands. At the time of that decision he had a suit of his own pending in Cleveland, but the Louisville result caused him to drop it. Mr. Ickes is right. Something will have to be done. But it will have to be constitutional. Smart lawyers will fix it up. Mr. Roosevelt has played fox with the hounds in Congress who are try- ing to tree Mr. Ickes. The yelping pack was led off the An as- surance was passed down the line by the House leaders that Mr. Ickes would not control the new relief or- ganization. Simultaneously the news- men got inside word from one of the White House secretaries that the President himself would retain control over the relief program. These indefinite assurances looked like a couple of red herrings to Mr. Ickes' pursuers. They adopted an amendment which they thought would keep him from being an in- fluence in the new set-up, but it won't Authorities in a position to fathom Mr. Roosevelt's mind be- lieve his intention is to let Mr. Ickes retain the part of the public works program which he now has: that is, principally control of the lending machinery. Direct govern- ment work will be handled else- where, the whole network being. under casual presidential super- vision. At least that is what Mr. Roosevelt | norance of what Chiang and Suzuki | Pay cut April 1. will do unless the Senate changes his mind by putting in some new restric- tions against Mr. Ickes. The State Department frets fre- quently about Japanese Ambassador Saito. The Ambassador has been making far more speeches than is usual for an Ambassador and he has proved to be an excellent salestalker for the Japanese point of view. His latest speech, at the University of Georgia, pointed out to the students that Japan was not a menace to any one and was “seeking peace with all.” That sounds fair enough, but the State Departmenters have heard it so often and disagree with it so much that they get jumpy every time they hear it. Mr. Hull's appetite for lunch was said to have been disturbed when he read the Georgia speech. To do anything about it would cause a diplomatic incident. No one wants to do that, yet it would not be sur- prising if the State Department seeks more frequent opportunities hereafter to express its far different interpreta- tion of the situation. A new name for secret treaties has been found in Europe. Such arrange- ments are now disguised as “exchanges of military information.” French and Russian authorities have been swearing up and down that they had mo secret alliance against Germany. The best United States diplomatic sources now have found out how France and Russia work it. They merely agree to hold military talks with each other. Their latest talk is supposed to have resulted in @ promise by Rus- sia to mobilize its giant air force immediately if Germany starts war. No one knows how many aircraft the Russians have, but the best inside estimate is 3,000 military machines and 2,000 civilian machines. It is probably the world’s greatest air fleet. Senators suspect the New Deal’s best constitutional bill writing trio (Messrs. Corcoran, Cohen and Landis) of con- spiring in authorship of the relief bill. That is an insult to their ability. When those boys start skirting the Constitution they do a good job of it. No one yet has been able to pick a legal loophole in'their original secur- ities law or securities exchange law. ‘You will see their legal craftsmanship again soon in the coming holding com- pany bill, The relief bill was a hodgepodge put together by an attorney in the Budget Bureau on suggestions made by the P. W. A. legal staff and others. All the sections except 4 and 5 were good. POTATO PROTESTED Rotten Tuber Allegedly Served at Massachusetts Hospital. BOSTON, January 29 (#).—A rot- ten potato yesterday became a matter of state. Representative Roland D. Sawyer of Ware arrived at the Governor’s office bearing a potato that definitely was rotten. He presented it to Richard Grant, Gov. Curley’s secretary, and said it had been sent to him by a con- stituent who complained it was served at the Northampton State Hospital. LY THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, ‘JANUARY 29, 1935. “Square Dealer” Will Carry Fight Against Long to Roosevelt ||(KES HITS CRITICS 1 1 S ST Section 5 enlarges } s CHIANG REPORTED SEEKING TOKIO AID Campaign on Communists Would Be Aided by Japan’s Forces. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, January 29.—Reports that Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese mili- tary leader, would seek Japanese aid | in his campaign against Chinese What Congress Is Doing | By the Associated Press TODAY. Senate. Approaches vote on World Court resolution. Munitions inquiry resumes ship cost inquiry. Banking Committee hears Meyer on farm credit bill. Appropriations Committee starts closed hearings on $4,880,000,000 relief | bill, House. | Takes up bill to extend life of R. F.C. | Military Committee studies war profits. Gov. Communists in a conference today | with Lieut. Gen. Yoshimichi Suzuki, Japan's military attache in China, | were published in leading vernacular newspapers. Government circles, however, as- ' serted Japan has no intention of of- | fering such aid and professed ig-| would discuss. They likewise declined to verify insistent reports that the govern- ment was planning to exert diplomatic pressure for an agreement to enhance Japan's military domination over China. May Be Put Up to Tokio. A foreign office spokesman said | that if Gen. Chiang should seek Nip- pon’s aid against Communists, Suzuki presumably would submit the matter to Tokio for consideration. The spokesman also said he was unaware of the basis for yesterday's Geneva reports of a Sino-Japanese | understanding for commercial co- operation and extermination of the “The Japanese government,” he said, “is admittedly anxious about the development of Communist power in China as Foreign Minister Koki Hirota said in his speech to the Diet January 22. However, I am ignorant of any definite plans for Japanese participation in Nanking's anti-Com- munist campaign.” Plans of Hirota. The newspaper Nichi Nichi said that if Nanking accepted Tokio's tutelage, Forelgn Minister Hirota was ready to do_the following acts for China: Exchange Ambassadors instead of Ministers with China, conclude a protocol with . China similar to the Japanese Manchoukuan protocol whereby Japan assumes responsibility for the defense of Manchoukuo, con- clude a separate treaty with China nullifying the nine-power and other ! treaties to which other powers are parties, furnish China with a mili- tary adviser if China dismisses the Americans and Europeans now serv- ing the Nanking and provincial gov- ernments, establish a permanent de- militarized zone in North China, as- sist China to secede from the Leaghe of Nations and toward abandoning her policy of obtaining help from America and Europe. REPORTS HELD “ABSURD.” Nanking Official Declares They Are Fabrication. NANKING, January 29 (#).—Re- ports from Geneva that Sino-Japanese co-operation is contemplated for com- mercial development of China and suppression of Communists were termed today an “absurd fabrication” by a spokesman for the Chinese na- tionalist government’s foreign office. A secretary of the Japanese legation s asserted the reports were ground- less. BORDER REINFORCED. New Manchu-Mongolian Clashes Are Feared, TOKIO, January 29 (#).—Both sides dispatched reinforcements to the Manchoukuo-Mongolian border today, anticipating further clashes, Rengo News Agency dispatches from Harbin said. Manchoukuoans alleged Mongols fail- ed to comply with demands that they withdraw south of Karhka, it was as- serted, and hence a threatening situ- ation has developed with which the Manchoukuoan government is de- termined to deal firmly. Japanese officers are commanding Manchoukuo’s reinforcements, it was understood. A foreign office spokesman yester- day said the ambiguity of frontiers ‘was partly responsible for a clash last | weekbetween Mongolian and Man- choukuoan border patrols in which there were fatalities. I A Ways and Means Committee studies | social security. YESTERDAY. Senate. Rejected Long reservation to World Court resolution. Voted to restore Federal employes’ William Green urged Finance Com- mittee to liberalize social security bill. Interstate Commerce Committee heard further opposition to Eugene O. Sykes of Communications Commission. House. | Debated Treasury Post Office appro- priation hjll. Banking Committee approved bill to extend life of R. F. C. Military Committee heard Secretary Dern indorse elimination of war profits. BIZARRE MURDER | - STORY CHECKED Woman Says She Helped; Dispose of Body of Her Mother. By the Assoclated Press. LAUREL, Miss, January 29.—Coun- ty authorities checked closely today the bizarre story which they at- tributed to a woman—that she wit- nessed her mother’s murder and then disposed of part of the mutilated body. W. M. Carter, 55, prominent Laurel business man, was under atrest in Jackson, Miss., on a charge of mur- der. Ouida Keeton, 33, was held on a similar charge here in the death of her mother, Mrs. Daisy Keeton, 52- year-old widow. Was His Secretary, o Jack Deavours, Jones County at- torney, said Miss Keeton, a former secretary of Carter, told him Carter killed her mother with a poker and that she aided him in getting rid of the body, which was cut in pleces. There were no preliminaries, Deavours said Miss Keeton told him. “He struck mama with a poker as she stood before the fire; mama fell to the floor and he hit her on the head several times more,” Deavours quoted her as saying. * Legs Reveal Tragedy. Mrs. Keeton’s death came to light when a woman's dismembered legs and part of the torso were found by & colored hunter in nearby woods. The daughter was quoted as saying Carter threatened her with the same fate unless she obeyed him. PROSECUTOR ACCUSED San Diego City Attorney Faces 41 Counts of Misconduct. SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 29 (#). —City Attorney C. L. Byers yesterday charged with 41 counts returned by the county grand jury. John T. Holt, deputy district at- lained the 41 counts in- signment of wages to defeat creditors. Byers returned from Washington, ‘ TOOPENATEW.U. morrow and Continue Through Thursday. Registration for the second semester at George Washington University will open tomorrow at 10 am. and con- tinue through Thursday at Corcoran Hall, Twenty-first street between G and H streets. The office will be open each day until 8 pm. Enroliment will be open for classes in the Junior College, Columbian Col- lege, School of Government, Law School, School of Education, School of Engineering, Division of Library Science, Division of Fine Arts and the School of Phatmacy. Russian History Course. Among the new courses to be of- fered is one on recent Russian his- tory, which will survey what is now the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- | lics, from the advent of the Romanoffs in the early seventeenth century to the present, covering not only the po- | litical aspects of the country’s history, | but also the economic, social and cul- | tural background of the Russian peo- | ple. The university also will continue its courses in the Russian language and literature. Another new course will be that of the psychology of character, which will be inaugurated in co-operation with the public schools of the Dis- trict, where an experiment in charac- ter education has been under way since last Fall. Nuclear Physics. Dr. Jorg Gamow, eminent Russian physicist and a leading exponent of the study of atomic disintegration, who is a visiting professor at George ‘Washington this year, will teach a course in nuclear physics which will meet three days a week at 5 p.m. During the semester Dr. Gamow also will deliver five public lectures on modern physics and will lecture before a group of sclentists on atomac physics. SENATORS PONDER DRY LAW’S RETURN Committee to Study Proposals to Restore Prohibition or Giye U. S. Control. By the Associated Press. A Senate committee set out today to determine whether national pro- hibition should return, in whole or in part. The committee was directed by the Judiciary Committee to study the pro- posals of Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas to restore the eighteenth amendment, or to pass an amendment permitting the Federal Government to control the liquor traffic. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, chairman of the committee, said he would call it together within a few days. Sheppard, author of the original eighteenth amendment, said he was confident he could obtain congres- sional approval of one of the meas- ures. He said conditions were far worse than before repeal. King always opposed national pro- hibition, and is still against it. Sena- tor Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska also is opposed to it, believing it a ques- tion for the States to handle. Sena- tors Norris, Republican, of Nebraska and Hastings, Republican, of Dela- ware are long-time drys. The fifth member, Senator Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky, voted against repeal. Strangely, King was a member of the committee which drafted the orig- inal eighteenth amendment. He vol against it at that time. . FIREMEN OVERCOME NEW YORK, Janusry 20 (P)— SECOND SEMESTER TWO ANSWER FISH *ON“RED" CHARG ‘Registration Will Begin To- Gifts for Communist Bonus March Denied by Rob- ert Marshall. By the Associated Press. Representative Hamilton Fish, Re- publican, of New York, has answers | from two of the three Federal office- holders he named as having contrib- uted money to finance a “Communist | bonus march” on Washington. | Robert Marshall, official of the Bu- reau of Indian Affairs, said: | “You can't teach an old Fish new | tricks.” | Gardner Johnson, employe of the A. A. A, said he had given money to | Harold Hickerson—identified by Fish as a “prominent Communist”—but that he understood it was for Hicker- | son’s personal use and that he was {not in sympathy with the bonus de- tee, identified as a Communist group. | Woman Also Named. | _Pish said Marshall, Jackson and | Pauline Sherskersky gave money to | the Communists’ Veterans’ Rank and | File Committee. The woman, Fish | said, was “former assistant supervisor {of the District Emergency Relief and | now is holding another Government | position in Maryland.” Fish sald Marshall was listed as | having contributed $100 last Decem- ber 29 and $20 on December 18 and | that he had receipts signed by Hick- | erson. Pierce Defends Marshall. The New York Representative said | Marshall was chairman of the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union of Washing- ton, D. C., “an organization that up- holds the Communist.” Representative Plerce, Republican, of Oregon, defended Marshall. “I'm personally acquainted with him,” Pierce said. “I don't see what concern it is of ours how he spends his money. He is one of the best men I know of.” e KILLED BY BUILDING Woman Crushed, Two Others Hurt When Structure Falls. OREGON CITY, Oreg., January 29 (®)—Mrs. Arthur Koehler, 31, was crushed to death under tons of debris, two women were seriously injured and three other persons escaped injuries in the collapse of a two-story brick building here last night. A baby boy, 3 weeks old, was in the arms of his mother and escaped with- out a scratch, although the mother, Mrs. Howard Bertsch, suffered a broken leg, bruises and shock. The cause of the collapse was not immediately determined. NO GLOCKENSPIELER Black Horse Troop Has New In- strument but No Player. CHICAGO, (#).—Chicago's famous Black Horse Troop has a glockenspiel, but is minus a glockenspieler. The glockenspiel, a first cousin to a xylophone, was imported from Ger- many. It is worn on a cavalry sad- dle and is played like a marimba— when there is any one around who knows how to play it. So far, no galloping glockenspieler has been found among the troop, com- Pposed of the scions of the city's elite. AL ety MUSICIAN TAKES LIFE NEW YORK, January 29 (P).— Philip Johnsen, 50, & meticulous Dan- ish musician who contended he was the common-law husband of the late Victoria Morisini, millionaire, dressed up in his finest linen and opera suit his buttonhole and a gas tube was in his mouth. A note stated he “did not care to live after the death of Victoria.” mands of the Rank and File Commit- | No. 1—James L. Mehafley, vice president of the Square Deal As- sociation of Louisiana, which is protesting the dictator powers of Huey Long, left yesterday for Washington to explain to Presi- dent Roosevelt his association’s reasons for combating Long forces. Mehaffey is shown seated on the post office steps at Baton Rouge, where he remained most of one day to keep from arrest. He was taken by the Guardsmen as soon as he left Government property. No. 2—Gov. O. K. Allen of Louisiana inspecting National Guard he called out to prevent the anti-Long faction from seizing control of Baton Rouge. No. 3—George N. Alessi, member of the Tangipahoa, Louisiana po- lice jury, who was shot near the heart in a mysterious manner as armed anti-Long citizens and Guardsmen clashed.—A. P. Photos. 'BONUSBILL ACTION PLEDGED N HOUSE Ways and Means Committee Head Promises Effort to Speed Measure. By the Associated Press. House bonus advocates, still fighting | among themselves, were promised a | new opportunity today to speed the| $2.100,000,000. cash payment bill| toward a vote. Recently the Ways and Means Com-‘ mittee voted to set. bonus bills aside| to take up the social security program. Some bonus men insisted that was an | | attempt to delay the bill. They talked | of drastic action. Today, however, Chairman Dough- | ton, Democrat. of North Carolina said that if he were asked to do so he | would call the committee into a spe-'w cial session this week to reconsider. Says Vote Assured. “I'll leave it up to the committee,” | he said. “Personally, I can’t see any | need for particular rush, because| | everybody knows we don't have any| | intention of trying to keep the House | from having a chance to vote on a bonus bill. “But I'll take the question up with | | the committee, and if it decides to change the schedule that will be all right with me.” | There was, as yet, no indication that | the dispute between backers of the Patman and the Vinson-American Legion bonus bill was near settlement. | ‘The Patman bill calls for bonus pay- | ment in new currency; the Vinson- | Legion bill would require a bond issue. Patman Raps Legion Bill Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas dubbed the Legion measure a “bankers’ bonus bill,” held that it vio- lated the Legion's position against a | debt increase for bonus payment and | said that Frank N. Belgrano, jr., Legion commander, was interested in banking. Belgrano retorted that Patman was| | more interested in monetary “theories” | than in the bonus. Representative Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky re-! marked that naming the Legion meas- ure the “bankers’ bonus bill” was| “ridiculous” and would be “funny if it were not so serious.” KENTUCKIANS SPURN ' ROOSEVELT REQUEST | Democrats Refuse to Substitute! Primary for State Con- vention. | By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky., January 20.— Senator Alben W. Barkley came here from Washington today end read a letter from President Roosevelt to back up his plea for a Democratic State primary this year, but the State Committee voted 30 to 20 in favor of a convention. The convention was ordered held in Lexington May 14. Barkley urged the committee not to ignore “the wishes of the people,” and to heed the national adminis- tration's attitude. He said he would | be to surrender his place in the United States Senate, if by so domg he could insure the committee’s vote for a primary. Senator Barkley contended nomina- tion by convention would endanger success of the party’s ticket this Fall, when Kentucky elects a Governor for & four-year term. The President's- letter did not use either the words primary or conven- tion, but expressed the hope that all the people might participate in choos- ing candidates. Political leaders recalled that on two previous occasions in the last year the indicated wishes of the na- tionel admmnn:ubc:y bhad been d:ch. regarded in Kenl political i- The State Legislature voted R. A. enforcement Cotton Worth $57,000,000. ‘The North Carolina Department of Agriculture figures the total value of | the cotton crop in that State this year at $57,000,000. L) A "excess of $5,000, AT GIVIC MEETING Secretary Renews Plea for Unity in Conservation Activities. Echoes of the Wallace-Ickes con- troversy over the United States For- estry Service, which Ickes is trying to bring under his control, were heard last night at the annual dinner meeting of the American Civic Asso- clation when Secretary Ickes reiter- ated his demand that all conservation activities of the Federal Government be “unifled in a single department.” Speaking before a friendly audience, Secretary Ickes served notice that he was going to “try to get beck some of the stolen sheep,” meaning the For- estry Service, Pureau of Fisheries and other agencies formerly under the De- partment of the Interior. He impliec, also, in vigorous language, that the Interior Department, under a conser vationist like himself and a conserve tion-minded President, was no longc the “black sheep” of the administrae tion, nor was it to be “kicked about’ as in the past. Ickes Ridicules Critics. For critics of his frequent denial ! public works applications, the Secre- tary unleashed ridicule. “If I would only give what I haven't got to everybody who asks for it, 1 would be a jolly good fellow,” he said At the risk, he said, of “getting in bad,” Secretary Ickes injected into his address reference to his recent New York speech, in which he declared that all conservation activities should be centered in the Interior Depart- ment. Secretary Wallace later joined in the fight to retain control over his conservation avencies, and F. A. Sil- cox. chief of the forestry service, who spoke from the same platform with Ickes, took direct issue with him. Avoiding personalities or specific mention of his own department, Ickes told the audience: “I don't care under which depart- ment conservation activities are cen- tered. Put them under the Army or the Navy if you want to, but let's tie them all together. It is the only wav to avoid overlapping and misunder- standing. “And if we can't do that. let us at least forbear from criticism of each other, of one bureau of the Govern- ment by another.” Changes Are Cited. In rendering an account of his two- year stewardship the Secretary said that under the reorganization “the Forestry Service had gone to Agricul- ture and the Bureau of Fisheries to Commerce.” and other agencies had been taken away until there was “not much left.” The Bureau of Mines is now “back where it belongs” and the Department of Interior, he declared, has now added other agencies. “The idea of conservation has taken a firmer grip on the imagination of the American people in these two years,” he declared. “A real conserva- tionist is in the White House.” The dinner, given at the Cosmos Club, was in honor of the members of the National Resources Board of which Ickes is chairman and Frederic A. Delano, president of the American Civic Association, is a member. The Secretary said he was glad to be introduced as the ‘“Secretary of the Interior,” because “I read in the papers the other day another man by my name has been masquerading as the administrator of Public Works. “He must be a hard-boiled man” Ickes said. “He is certainly one un- popular guy. He may have my family name. but I disown him utterly.” Mr. Delano presided at the dinner which followed the annual board meeting of the association earlier in the day, attended by Mrs. Roosevelt as a member. Rt. Rev. James E. Preeman, Bishop of Washington, de- livered the invocation. About 225 persons, including many heads of conservation bureaus, at- | tended the dinner. FEBRUARY OMINOUS MONTH FOR WOMAN Impressive List of Deaths and Illnesses Cited in Family and Ranks of Friends. By the Associated Press MACON, Ga., January 29.—If Mrs George Yetter dreads the arrival o the month of February, here's why In that month her mother, father a sister, a brother and three life< long friends died. She herself three times has been seriously ill in February. On a February 19 her husband once began & three-month stay in a hos- pital. Besides that, she, a daughter, a sister, a brother and a niece have birthday anniversaries during the month. PSP Countess Renounces Title. CINCINNATI, January 29 (#).— Mrs. Caroline Montague Rasponi of Chattanooga, Tenn., renounced her Italian title of countess yesterday and was restored to citizenship in the United States. One of sixty-seven persons admitted to citizenship in United States District Court here, she said she had married Count Nerio Rasponi, in Chattanooga, October 27, 1908. e o e Forms for Making Returns Forms for filing returns of income for 1934 have been sent to persons who filed returns last year. Failure to receive a form, however, does not relieve a taxpayer of his obligation to file his return and pay the tax on time, on or before March 15 if the return is made on the calendar year basis, as is the case with most individuals. Forms may be obtained upon re- quest, written or personal, from the offices of collectors of internal revenue and deputy collectors. Persons whose net income for 1934 was derived chief- ly from salary or wages and was not in excess of $5.000 should make their returns on form 1040A, a single sheet. Persons whose net income was in or regardless of amount, was derived from a business, profession, rents or sale of propert: are required to use a larger form, 1040. Failure to use the proper form presents difficulties to both the tax- payer and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Therefore, it is emphasized that a taxpayer engaged in a busi- ness or profession from which he derived a net income of less than $5,000 is required to use the er form. The return must be filed with the .| collector of internal revenue for the district in which the taxpayer has his legal residence or principal place of business on or before midnight of March 15, 1835. The tax may be paid in full at the time of filing the return or in four equal instaliments, due op or before March 15, June 15, Septeny ber 15 and December- 15.