Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1935, Page 2

A—2 wx¥ THIRD YEAR BEGUN | BY HITLER REGIME Control Greater Than Kai- ser’s Before War, as Saar Joins Goose Step. By the Associated Press 3 Germany entered the third yéar of | its goose-step march coday obehind a former Austrian corporal, Adolf Hitler. ‘The last two years have secn a na- tlon of 65,000,000 citizens changed{ from a republic to an authoritarian | state ruled by one man. Hitler's con- | trol is greater than was that‘of Kaiser | Wilhelm, for Wilhelm had a Parlia- ment and Germany now has abolished | even that form of representation. | Twice before January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg invited | Hitler, leader of the National Social- ists, then a minor political party, to| enter the German cabinet. Twice !hei Nazi refused because he would nccopt] nothing less than the chancellorship | with unlimited authority. | Once he became chancellor, clothed with the powers he demanded, he swiftly remolded the German state | after his own design. | Parliament was dissolved February | 1, 1933, and new elections called. Less | than one month later the provisions of | the Weimar constitution, which guar- anteed republican Germany liberty of person, freedom of the press and sanc- | tity of private property, were re-| scinded. Communists Exterminated. i An incendiary fire in the Assembly hall of the Reichstag on February 28 | was laid at the door of the Nazis' most important opposition, the Communists, providing the excuse for extermination of that party. The same fate befell other political opposition after Nazi candidates polled 44 per cent of the votes cast in the March 5 election. The republican flag was replaced by the Nazi swastika as the symbol of German unity The last vestige of parliamentary government disappeared March 23 when the Reichstag voted the Hitler | government dictatorial powers for four years and then vanished from the political scene. A vigorous anti-Semitic campaign soon was in full sway. A one-day boy- cott of Jewish business and profes- sional people on April 1 sounded the| warning of Hitler's determination to| exclude “non-Aryans” from positions | of influence in German life. Mpre than 40.000 Jews fled the country in fear of persecution. The Reich withdrew from the World Disarmament Conference because its| arms demands were unrequited. A week later it announced its resigna- tion from the League of Nations. Sensational Blood Purge. By June 30, 1934, the Hitler dictator- ship was ready to underscore its au- thority with blood. That was the day of the sensational “blood purge,” which startled the world. Moving with ruthless speed, Hitler ordered the execution of many lead- ers who had been closely associated with him in his rise to power. A con- spiracy among the Storm Troopers, his brown-shirted political army, he later explained, prompted the grim gesture. Hundreds whose lives had been spared were thrown into concentration camps. The chancellor later reported to the Reichstag that 77 were killed. The death of President von Hinden- burg last August 2 led to the ultimate consolidation of Hitler's power. The day before the old field marshal's death the cabinet decreed that with the passing of Von Hindenburg the functions of the presidency henceforth | should be incorporated with those of | the chancellorship. Hitler accepted the added responsi- bility and with it the title “Reichs- fuehrer,” leader of Germany. The electorate expressed its approval by an 88.1 per cent vote August 13. The crowning achievement of the Nazi regime came January 13 of this year with the Saar Basin territory's overwhelming vote for reunion with the Reich. Alms Feature Observance. Spartan simplicity marked Ger- many’s celebration of the second an- niversary. Without torchlight proces- sions or flag parades, traditional ex- pressions of Nazi jubilation, the na- tion signalized the occasion by show- ering benefits on its needy. In the spirit of the Reichsfuehrer’s heralded community of the people, food and fuel worth 23,000,000 marks (approximately $9,200,000) were dis- tributed among the poor and unem- ployed under supervision of the Winter Telief fund. ‘The only apparent manifestation of the Reich’s day of reconsecration was & profuse display of the swastika, flags and banners, with which streets throughout Germany literally were canopied. Hitler Cites Progress. Reichsfuehrer Hitler today pro- ¢claimed: “In the first of the four-year period which I asked the nation to give me to develop my working plan, more than two-thirds of what I prom- ised has been carried out. No demo- cratic government in the world can submit itself with greater confidence and hope to a national vote than can the National Socialist government of Germany.” Congress in Brief| | By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Takes up Frank R. McNinch nomi- nation to Communications Commis- sion. Considers “baby bond” and farm financing legislation. Soctal security bill before Finance Committee. Appropriations Committee continues closed hearing on relief bill, Munitions Committee probes story about ship contract “fixer.” House. Military Committee hears more about war profits. Ways and Means Committee con- tinues social security study. YESTERDAY. Senate. Defeated World Court adherence. Finance Committee reported out “baby bond” bill. Banking Committee reported out Farm Finance amendment. House. Passed bill extending life of R. F. C. What’s What Behind News In Capital Business Figures Cause High Glee Among New Dealers. BY PAUL MALLON. HE New Dealers are holding a statistical jubilee over the De- cember-January business fig- ures. Some larger chests here have expanded a full six inches | at the surprising jump in manufac- turing activity. employment and wages. A few optimists are now predicting sotto voce that it means the beginning of a baby boom in the Spring. These optimists may be right. Cer- tainly there is some basis for their jubilation. Yet the calmer ones among them recognize that some of the fig- | ures may be slightly too encouraging. You can see it if you look into the causes for the big boost in industrial production. That is the key index on | which most of the elation is based. It jumped 11 points in December and probably four more in January. This increase is at least twice as much as expected. Auto Production Factor. Analyizing it, you will find the unex- pected part of the boost was largely caused by automobile production. All other production increased a little during the turn of the year, but auto- mobile production more than doubled. This forced an abnormal bulge in all seasonally adjusted statistics, be- cause the automobile industry has changed its season this year and is grinding out cars fast now, at a time when ordinarily it would just be getting started. With this advance warning, you may feast your eves on the following monthly business chart, through which the New Dealers cusfomarily keep track of business. The figures are theirs, except for the last month, which is privately estimated. All fig- ures except pay rolls and prices are adjusted for seasonal variations. Each index except prices is based on 100 as represented by the averages for the years 1923, 1924 and 1925, inclusive. The rosiest part about it is the way this January stacks up with the last three Januarys, no matter what caused it. Look yourself: ar. average . average . 1934 December . 1935 January *Privately estimated. January Figures Not Ready. ‘The official figures for January will not be ready for a month yet, but you can officlally break down the Decem- ber industrial production figure and | get the exact situation. Automobile production jumped from 24 in No- vember to 58 in December. Automo- biles use steel, so this forced steel ac- tivity up from 45 to 65. Tire, glass and similar automobile subsidiaries also were drawn up commensurately. | kind.” |the error of assuming that the de- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. COLBY DENOUNCES NEW DEAL “FOLLY" Says Constitution and Rec- ognized Economics Have Met Crises. The Government has departed from the principles of sound economic pol- icy in almost every one of its major undertakings, Bainbridge Colby, Secre- tary of State under Woodrow Wilson, told the American Coalition of Patri- otic Societies at a meeting last night at the Carlton Hotel. Assailing the “jaunty” acceptance by the House of the requests of the ad- ministration, Mr. Colby sharply criti- clzed passage by the House of the President’s new public works bill, de- claring there is no parallel that he can recall for the “frivolous irrespon- sibility of that branch of Congress. “Apparently the Supreme Court must speak again and often before the playboys of the New Deal realize that there is an American system of Gov- ernment, and before reason and san- ity resume their sway in our national life,” he said. In his speech, which was broadcast over a Nation-wide radio hook-up, Colby stated the Constitution is the most American thing about America. “Has Met All Crises.” The Constitution, he said, has met all crises in the history of our coun- try and it will again. “The President is sworn to uphold the Constitution. The courts are sworn to obey it and apply it. How can it fail?” Warning that “we must watch our step on this subject of economics and economists,” the former cabinet offi- cer said “too many of the so-called economists of today are young men without y adequate experience or observatiol extreme idealists who recognize no law but their own wishes; publicity-seeking schemers, who adopt any notion or doctrine that is new or has popular appeal: men who are re- tained by special interests, which may include farm groups and organized la- bor. as well as corporations.” Economics, he sald, is made up of a very real body of time-tested princi- ples. which can be denied or violated easily, but their vindication is cer- tain and usually not long delayed “Economics in its fleld rules the affairs of men.” Recovery Confused. “Recovery is wandering about in an impenetrable maze of currency legis- lation, the meaning of which no man knows,” Colby declared. “Juggling, repudiation, confiscation and debase- ment have been enacted on the theory that they will raise prices, improve foreign trade, revive agriculture, equalize debt burdens and end depres- sion. They will do nothing of the “The Government has committed pression can be cured by manipulat- ing the currency,” Colby said. “It has fallen into the error of believing that there is a shortage of gold. It has adopted the erroneous notion that Jjuggling the price of the American dollar in foreign exchange will re- store agriculture prices. “It has surrendered to the hoary error that inflation relieves the bur- den of the debt-ridden. It mistaken- ly assumes that the artificial creation of credit will revive investment, and it is in the firm grip of that ancient arti most obvious of errors, that arti- ficial price raising causes recovery. Says Error Suspected. “The wisdom of the world knows that these are errors and I think | that in some quarters of the adminis- tration also the fact is beginning to be suspected.” History shows us, he continued, that “inflationary tinkering with the cur- rency” retards and precludes re- covery and that currency manipula- The other large industries to show improvement were coal, tobacco and textiles. Leather and shoe remained the same. Food was off 5 points from 108 to 103 and so were cement and zinc. Only these three declined. 1N THIS COR-MNAM, KID DETROIT You can also verify the influence of automobiles on the employment and pay-roll figures by looking at the De- troit employment figures. They show a 50 per cent employment in Detroit October 15, about 84 per cent Decem- ber 15 and 101 .4 January 15. In other words, factory employment doubled in Detroit in three months. ‘The question is, how long this will last, and the answer is probably until | Spring. The latest sharp increase in steel brought its operations up to 52 per cent of capacity. (Incidentally. that is about the level at which they find operations profitable.) Automo- bile output also is continuing strong. Insiders in that trade believe they will have the largest January since 1929, certainly since 1930. This ac- celeration_will undoubtedly continue through February, although possibly at a declining speed. Code Up for Renewal. ‘There is some reason to suspect that the automobile manufacturers are stepping everything along as fast as possible, because there has been some talk about the possibility of strikes later. At any rate, the code arrange- ment comes up for renewal shortly, and just as a precaution they may as well have as many cars on hand as possible. The reason the price index is going up is because the effects of last Sum- | mer's drought are now being more fully experienced. Housewives, irate about the increase in meat prices, should be advised that trustworthy ex- perts inside that industry believe their prices will advance further by de- grees as the inadequate supply dim- inghes. As a matter of fact, the drought effect on feod prices may be felt right up until this coming June, when the new canning season begins. ‘The general price level, aside from foodstufls, is unchanged. (Copyright. 1935.) —_— D. A. SALMON HONORED 56th Birthday Brings Pause for Party at State Department. About 150 State Department offi- cials gathered today on the fourth floor of the old building to celebrate with ice cream and light refreshments the 56th birthday anniversary of one of their most popular colleagues, David Alden Salmon, chief of the Division of Communications and Records. for two years. 8ix members took patronage com- plaints to President Roosevelt. Sabath (Democrat) of Illinois branded some so-called bondholders® reorganization committees “vicious Tackets.” “War mongers” attacked before Salmon has been connected with the department since 1906 and pos- sesses in his well-guarded confiden- tial files documents and confidential cablegrams which, if they ever saw the light, would make one of the most sensational stories ever written. But there is no chance of any one ever mmaxump'_um ] tion helps neither the poor nor the unemployed nor the debt-ridden. “We, the most powerful Nation on earth, with the most varied indus- trial life and the most complex finan- cial relationships, do not know what money system we have now and even less do we know what system we will have a month from now.” The picture revealed to our eyes to- day, the speaker said, is that of a con- fused Government trying to travel three roads at once—one leading to relief, another to reform and the third to recovery. “But the third, which is vital to the | other two, is being blocked by an in- comprehensible hostility to business, individual enterprise and the restora- | tion of that confidence, which is es- sential to the flow of capital into pro- ductive undertakings,” he declared. Competition by United States Scored. “The securities law has discouraged investment and stifled the legitimate sale of securities with which to raise needed capital for business revival” he continued. “The A. A. A. and the N. R. A. have reduced production; the P. W. A, has curtailed the demand for private financing; the Federal Re- serve has been stripped of its power to control credit and prevented from contributing to a revival of confidence and a renewal of the general extension of credit; the R. F. C. has gone into the banking business on such a scale that its vast loans over the whole area of industry and finance have absorbed a large part of the existing market for bank credit. “Government financing has become a winning competitor for what busi- ness there is.” The emergency relief appropriation act for 1935, he said, marks a new extreme in the broad grants of power to the President and must be weighed in the light of its effect as a de- parture from and subversion of the American system of government. He added: It means an abdication by Con- gress of its proper duties and respon- sibilities in an almost limitless field of legislation. It means the complete control by the President of the expenditure of a sum greater than the total annual cost of the Government under normal con= ditions. “Step to Dictatorship.” It contemplates no legislative guidance whatever in the determina- tion of policies which, under our es- tablished practice, are matters for the standing committees of each branch of Congress. It is clearly a step toward dictator- ship, in which the deliberative body becomes a cipher. It gives the very questionable au- thority to the Executive to make rules and regulations in the nature of penal laws. It certainly involves the creation of 8 vast new bureaucracy, free from civil service laws and not subject to any congressional supervision or rection. It purports to give to the President a broad power, of doubtful constitu- tionality or validity, to fundamentally change our governmental machinery, and, lastly, it promises a continuance of the doubt, uncertainty and confu- sion which are proving so fatal to confidence and recovery. The coalition was described by John B. Thevor, president, as an organiza- tion of 106 and fraternal | Morgan Offers Works of Art for Sale C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1935, HEAVY ARMS TAX FACED BY JAPAN War Lords Indicate Rising Tide of Expenditures Will Continue. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, January 30.—A rising tide of military expenditures may face the Japanese people for many years to come, the war lords told the House of Representatives today. Replying to a question of when the Nation might expect a reduction in the burden of its military preparations, Mineo Osumi, minister of navy, and Gen. Senyuro Hayashi, minister of war, indicated the 1935-36 army and navy budgets must be increased. Hayashi, citing the menace of Soviet activities near Manchoukuo's frontiers, intimated that Japanese forces in Manchoukuo would be increased. Osumi asserted the navy must con- struet 50,000 tons of new warships an- nually from the fiscal year 1936-37 on- ward. Toshio Shimada, one of the leaders of the Seiyukai (majority party) in the House of Representatives, asked how the government reconciled the declaration of Foreign Minister Koki Hirota that there would be no war while he was in office with the re- cent hostilities on the Chahar-Jehol frontier. Hirota remained silent as Shimada asserted that the clashes in Northern China were “harming Sino-Japanese relations.” Hayashi, however, explained that the Chahar border clashes were not war, but merely an expulsion of in- vaders by Manchoukuan and Japanese troops from Manchoukuan territory. —eeeeeeeeeeee “to keep America American.” Other speakers at the meeting in- cluded Thomas F. Cadwalader, Bal- timore attorney, who opposed State ratification of the child labor amend- ment. declaring State laws since 1925 had eliminated the evils of the sweat- shop and exploitation of children in industry, and Richard H. Sanger, Chevy Chase, Md., who described his travels in Soviet Russia and told how thom.u‘dnmm I Your Income Tax WHO MUST FILE RETURNS. Returns are required of every single person who for the year 1934 had a gross income of $5.000 or more or a net income of $1.000 or more and of every husband and wife living together who for the year 1934 had an aggre- gate gross income of $5,000 or more or an aggregate net income of $2,500 or more. Widowers, widows, divorcees and married persons separated by mu- tual consent are classed as single per- sons. The personal exemptions are $1,000 for single persons and $2,500 for married persons living together and for heads ot families. Husband and wife living together | may make separate returns of the in- come of each, or their income may be included in a single joint return. If separate returns are filed, one may not report income which belongs to the other, but must report only the income which actually belongs to him. It a joint return is filed, such return is treated as a taxable unit, and the income disclosed is subject to both the normal tax and the surtax. Husband and wife may elect each year whether to file a joint return or sepasate returns. Where, however, joint or separate returns have been filed for a particular year, neither husband nor wife may after the due date of the return file an amended return or returns on a different basis for that year. FAY VALLEE IN GOTHAM -ON MAINTENANCE SUIT Father Accompanies Estranged Wife of Orchestra Leader on Trip East. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—Deter- mined to obtain a more satisfactory maintenance sum from her_ estranged husband, Rudy Vallee, Fay Webb Val- lee arrived in New York today. “I'm not here for my health” she declared, and when no one made noise denoting surprise at this announce- ment Mrs. Vallee amplified: “I'm here on business. And I mean business!” The “business” at hand is her suit in Supreme Court to have set aside & 2-year-old separation agreement by which she gets $100 weekly from her husband, orchestra leader. Her father, C. E. Webb, police chief of Santa Monics, Calif., her here, » NEW DEAL YIELDS ON WORK RELIEF | Administration Agrees to Reveal How Fund Will Be Spent. By the Associated Press. | The administration agreed today, at the request of opponents of certain phases of the $4,880,000,000 work- relief bill, to furnish the Senate AB- propriations Committee information showing how much and for what pur- pose the huge fund could be spent on various classes of projects. Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples. procurement officer for the Treasury who 1s slated for an important post in the new relief set-up, promised to supply the data tomorrow after Republican Senators questioned him and Daniel W. Bell, acting budget director, regarding a possible break- down of the lump sum figure. Glass Wants Data. Chairman Glass, who is opposed to many parts of the bill, said he asked Peoples to supply the data “in order to save time.” He also predicted’ the committee could report the bill “in some form" in a few days, but could not say whether passage would be obtained before February 10, when relief offi- cials say present funds will be ex- hausted. Glass said the question of separat- ing the $880,000,000 emergency au- thorization for direct relief from the work phase of the measure would not be considered until the commit- tee began “writing the bill.” Source of Bill Sought. Senator Townsend, Republican, of Delaware sald Peoples figured $3! 000,000 of the work fund could be spent right away to give employment on rivers and harbors projects. No other groups of projects were men- tioned today, he said. Several Senators tried to find out who wrote the bill, remembering the recent remark of Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, that the author should be “Hung, not in effigy, but physically.” Townsend said Bell had told the committee the bill was written umlnk Works of art being disposed of by J. P. Morgan, banker. Left: St. Lawrence Enthroned— part of a triptych, by Filippo Lippi (1440)—an altar piece. It is one of the six outstanding pictures, with a total estimated market value of $1,500,000. —Wide-World Photo. Right: The painting of Anne of Austria, by Peter Paul Rubens, one of the two works of art sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art —A. P. Photo. Below: De Heer Bodolphe. a painting by Frans Hals—depicting an elderly man seated in a high- backed chair. It was bought by Morgan from Count Andre Miniszech before 1907 —Wide World Photo. “CREEPING DEATH" TOLRSES TO3 [Poison Liquor Kills Another. Frightened Citizens Hurry to Hospitals. By the Assoclated Press. GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y. January 30.—The “creeping death” today | claimed another poison alcohol vic- time, the sixteenth here and the thir- ty-third in three Central New York industrial cities. John Poyfair was the latest. the hospital yesterday, but rushed back early today and died soon after. Numerous white-faced citizens, one by one, applied for hospital treat- ment today, fearful of having drunk of | the poison “white mule.” With the death toll at 33, Glovers- ville residents who vallowed alco- holic drinks of uncertain manufacture in the 1ast few days looked anxiously for symptoms of the “creeping death” which has struck down 16 persons here. 16 in Hospital. Six persons are in the hospital at Utica, and eight men and two women in hospitals here. Twenty others are under observation. No one known to have consumed the poison liquor has recovered. The victims were stricken blind and died | in agony. Meanwhile, with the help of those who were able to talk, Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Willard L. Best con- ducted an all-night series of raids. Federal agents and State police, work- ing with Best, analyzed contents of bottles and wine casks taken at various establishments in the search for sources of the poisonous liquor. Two Held After Raid. Utica officials expressed the belief they had located one of the sources of the lethal beverage in a raid last night on a warehouse. A large quan- tity of denatured alcohol was seized, and two men, Frank Fanelli, 22, and John Nole, 33, were arrested. They were charged with possessing de- natured alcohol with intent to redistill it for beverage purposes. Nole, arrested several weeks ago in Syracuse in connection with an itlicit still raid, was released in $8.000 bail, while Fanelli was held under $10,00C bond. ‘Three other men, Angelo Didominick, Salvatore Ferrino and John Di Pedro, were arrested in Little Falls last night and were taken to Gloversville where an effort was to be made to have victims identify them as vendors of poison liquor. FEDERAL PROBE LOOMS. Alcohol Tax Unit Believed Ready to Study Liquor Deaths. ‘The Treasury Department’s Alcohol Tax Unit, enforcer of Federal liquor statutes, today evidenced intention of stepping intu the investigation of the poison liquor deaths in New York State. An official of the unit was reported last night to have wired officials in | some of the Mohawk Valley towns for details on the case. Officials expressed the bellef that bootleggers had secured denatured alcohol, but had failed to remove all the denaturant before making sales which resulted in the fatalities. The Federal Alcohol Control Ad- ministration said it was making no investigation, as early information was that the case did not fall within its jurisdiction. 283 Houses for Poor. County Mayo, Irish Free State, will build 283 houses, each with 2 acres for the poor. ‘ | the | mar, BIDDINGCOLLUSION REVEALED BY GIRL Shipbuilders Also Give Dc{ tails of Conference in ' Hotel Here, (Continued From First Page) the committee records of what she claimed took place at a meeting in a Washington hotel on August 3, 1933, where the services of the “fixer” al- legedly were proffered to Wilder to get him some naval building. Wilder told the committee he had been disappointed at the day's bid- ding for naval ships, saying he was low bidder on three destroyers, but failed to get them because of a previ- ous agreement among the “big three” by which the 27-ship program was shared, each taking a third. Stories Nearly Same. Miss Kitchen related substantially the same story of “the fixer.” given yesterday by William Calvin, secre- tary-treasurer of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federa- tion of Labor. She related that Alex B. Gravem, n Washington attorney, had offered t» get Wilder $10,000.000 to $15.000.000 in naval building for a consideration described earlier by Calvin as $250,000. Sh~ quoted Gravem as describiny the ‘fixer” as “frantly a chiseler,” but asserted the man had power to have the naval program “extended” for the benefit of Wilder and Gulf industries Without assistance of “the fixer." she quoted Gravem as saying, no business could be secured She quoted Gravem as saying “the fixer” had a close friendship with the President and high naval officials through whom he operated in bring- ing about his deals Taking the stand after his secre- tary, Wilder signed a waiver of his constitutional rights so that any “self-incriminating” testimony he gave is made available for any later criminal proceedings. Thereupon he said he had long been excluded from any share in the alleged collusion councils where. he told the commit- tee, the naval building was appor- tioned. Break in 1925-1928. His break with shipbuilding com- panies came while he was president from 1925 to 1928, of the New York Shipbuilding Co. He said the names of the low bid- ders on all the categories of ships in the 1933 program were “general knowledge” in the industry. How- ever, he added. the low bidders did not always get the contracts from the Navy, citing his own experience as proof. He declared the “big three” had sought through manipulation of the i shipbuilding code being set up in the Summer of 1933 to “keep out all competition.” “Thanks to organized labor,” said fast-speaking ~Wilder, “they couldn't do it.” “Are you cognizant of the facts of collusion among these big builders?” Senator Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, a committee member asked “It looked that way,” he said, “but I want to emphasize that I was n> in on it.” Tempers Earlier Assertions. This tempered his previous posi ! ascertions that the “big three had 2i- ed in advance to share the bid: ‘Was collusion in bidding custo- y?" asked Senator Clark, Demo- crat of Missouri. “Not as much before as in 1932 He was discharged from | Wilder replied. He declared an organization knos as the National Council of Americe= Shipbuilders acted as a place for “the meeting of minds” among the major builders in apportioning business. “This ought to be spelled m-e-a-t- ing,” commented Vandenberg. “Nicely put,” agreed Wilder, laugh- ing. The committee introduced a letter in which he had asked the Secretary of the Navy to reopen the 1933 bids. In it he declared a saving of “several millions” could be brought about. Three Divided Business. ness among the three major builders only after & fight.” Bethlehem had protested, he dc- clared. having to accept a cruiser job obtained in 1932 as part of its quot but finally did so He then began tracing a rise in cruiser prices that swept swiftly fro about $8,300,000 bid by the Bethleh Co. to get & cruiser job in 1932 to ¢ high of $16,500,000 asked in 1934. “Bethlehem got that 1932 cruiser o a fighting bid,” he told the committer. He went on to explain that a “fightin* bid” was offered by the company t{ “freeze out” & menacing new competi« tor, the United Dry Dock Co “They bid very low on that job." he said, “and that is why they pro- tested at having it included in their 1933 share.” No Loss on 1932 Bid. To a committee comment that the company asked a larger share of 1933 business to offset a “loss” taken on the 1932 bid, he gave assent, bu: added: “I might add there was no loss on that bid " He estimated “$10.000,000 was a fair price” for a cruiser. He told the committee his break with the other shipbuilders came in 1926, when as president of the New York Shipbuilding Co., he took over from the Navy the job of completing the Saratoga laid down in a Davy yard in war time. The contract was on terms disapproved by the other companies, he said. “For a while after that,” he added “I couldn't go to my luncheon club in New York."” “bus, ELOPERS ARE SILENT Parents Receive No Word From Daughter Believed in Florida. No word has been received today by Mr. and Mrs. Howard de Walden Cooke of Chevy Chase, Md. from their daughters, Jane and Anna, who are believed to be in Florida follow- ing Jane's elopement and marriage Friday to the family chauffeur, George Scarlette, 21. Webster Ballinger, attorney for the Cookes, said the family had no idea today where the girls were. Mrs. Cooke has obtained a warrant charg- ing young Scarlette with making off with $5,000 worth of her jewels. U. S. LABOR IS SEATED GENEVA, January 30 (#).—Labor pald tribute to the United States yes- terday In welcoming American dele~ gates to official seats in the Interna- tional Labor Organization. Lewis J. Lorwin of Washington, & Russian-born economist, was ap- | pointed economic adviser to the labor office at the opening of the sessions, This was a result of United States ad- Qerence to the &