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A—14 xx ; SYMPHONY BEGING| MEMORIAL BRIDGE CONCERTS JUNE T Sunset Programs Planned on River Front Twice a Week. $100,000 FUND DRIVE WILL START MARCH 15! Steps West of Lincoln Memorial to Be Used to Seat Crowd. Tickets to Be Sold. Afloat on a barge anchored in the | Potomac off the water gate of Arling- | ton Memorial Bridee the National| Symphony Orchestra will inaugurate a series of outdoor Summer concerts | beginning June- 15 | Plans for the “sunset symphony concerts”—to be given twice a week for a six-week period or longer— | were announced today by the National | Symphony Orchestra Association as! part of an enlarged program to be | undertaken following the drive for| a $100,000 sustaining fund for the orchestra. The drive starts March 15 and ends March 25. The steps leading up from the water | gate to the Lincoln Memorial will be utilized for seats. while 2,000 other seats will be available to the public for 25 cents. Other seats will sell for §0 cents and $1 Season Tickets Planned. Season tickets for the concerts. which will be held on Thursday nights | 2nd Sundays at sunset, will be offered It is planned to include prominent artists as soloists and musical nov- elties in the programs. which will com- prise popular selections as well as| standard symphonies. | The concerts are intended to give| the general public as well as music| lovers an opportunity to hear the Na- | tional Symphony. which is concluding its most successful season of 18 con-| certs in Constitution Hall. While Summer concerts have long been contemplated in the Capital, definite plans for the coming season were not completed until yesterday, when Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony, decided that | the orchestra should provide musical | diversion equal to orchestras in New York, Boston. Philadelphia and other large cities where outdoor concerts cluring the Summer attract thousands. | Dozens of Sites Studied. C. C. Cappel, manager of the or-| chestra, and C. Marshall Finnan. di- | rector of National Capital Parks. lected the water gate site after inspect- ing dozens of prospective places where the concerts might be held The | water gate, it was decided, offers ade- | quate parking facilities and is easily | reached. | Dr. Kindler intends to conduct most of the concerts, although European engagements may result in his absence for a few weeks. During his absence the orchestra will be directed by noted ! guest conductors. Dr. William McClellan, president of the Potomac Electric Power Co. and chairman of the Men's Committee of the National Symphony Orchestra, be- lieves the Summer concerts will not only provide enjoyment for perma- nent residents of the Capital, but also for thousands of visitors. “They also will offer the opportunity of hearing | symphonic music interpreted by a | musical organization that has in four years won recognition as one of the leading orchestras in the United | States,” he said. INCOME TAX OFFICE TO REMAIN OPEN Collector Will Be at Post Until 4:30 0'Clock This Afternoon. ‘To help income taxpayers the office | of the deputy collector of internal revenue. instead of closing at 1 p.m. | as usual today, was to remain open | until 4:30 pm. The office is at Room | 1002, Internal Revenue Building. | ‘Twelfth street and Constitution ave- | nue. This will allow Government workers who get out at 1 o'clock three and a half hours extra to obtain service from Government tax experts. Beginning Monday the Internal | Revenue Bureau will send out to local banks a number of deputy collectors and internal revenue agents to be on hand during banking hours to help the public. These men will have a supply of tax blanks and the disputed pink slips for publicity of tax returns and are empowered to swear in the tax- payer without expense of a notary public. They are also authorized to accept payment of the tax. From now on until March 15, the office of deputy collector at the Reve- nue Building will be open until 5 p.m allowing Government workers an ex- tra half hour of service after Govern- ment closing time of 4:30. F irstALmI;IAlreiars Girl Teddy Invited To White House Promise of Uncle Singer Fulfilled by Mrs. Roosevelt. to By the Associated Press. . A promise made by Theodore Roose- wvelt to a schoolgirl years ago was ful- filled yesterday by his niece, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Miss Vandy Cape, concert soprano, made her first public appearance be- fore ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Bt a patriotic celebration during the World War at Forest Hills, Long Island. He was so pleased with her performance that he promised her she should sing at the White House if he ever became President again. He didn’t return to the White House, but another Roosevelt became President. Miss Cape yesterday presented her original singing satires at one of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's musical Juncheons. In private life Miss Cape is the wife of W. Merrill Hall, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion. Other artists at the musicale ‘were Miss Beatrice Harrison, cellist, and Sigmund Spaeth, music com- mentator, » .‘up by the Federal Government | Miss Earhart said, were the improve- | many aviation accomplishments. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Addresses Geographic Group Amelia Earhart, Gilbert H. Grosvenor of the National the society here last night on her recent adventures in the air. AVIATRIX VISIONS SHIFT T0 PLANES Amelia Earhart Urges New Transport Department. Tells of Flight. So rapid has been the development of aviation, thinks Amelia Earhart, | the time is not far distant when most | “individual” passengers and most mail will be using airplanes. Land trans- portation, she said, would accommo- date “mass movements” of people, freight and shorter hauls. She made this prediction last night to members of the National Geogra- | phic Society at Constitution Hall while relating experiences on her re- cent solo flight from Hawaii to Cali- fornia, & A department of transportation. set was advocated by Miss Earhart, when she declared that only through such an agency can the “existing transporta- tion chaos” be brought to order. Miss Earhart appealed to her au- dience to experience travel by plane. Based on the average flying hours of passengers and the average casual- ties. she said. “it is estimated that you would be 128 years old before you had an accident from flying. Don't‘ wait. If you are not flying you are missing the most beautiful method of | travel man has devised.” | Plane’s Condition Praised. Miss Earhart described in detail preparations for her Pacific flight and her 18 hours in the air. She deplored | criticism of her plane and maintained it was in ideal condition for the hop. | Thoughtless criticism, she said, put | her almost in the position of “an in- | experienced pilot with a rattletrap plane who needed to be saved from | her crazy ideas.” The performance | of the plane, she pointed out, spoke for itself. Miss Earhart described humorously the precautions taken to insure her safety. She wore an inflatable rubber vest that puffed itself up if she pulled a gadget at her belt. In the tail of the plane—to be chopped out with an axe—was a rubber boat shaped like a bathtub. This too was to be inflated at the touch of a valve. A small bal- loon to lift a red flag above the waves was another piece of equipment. Saw Ships Twice. Most of the flight from Hawaii waé over thickly matted clouds, but twice, through holes in the cloud formation, Miss Earhart saw ships. The only food | consumed during the flight consisted | of a can of tomato juice, a cup of hot chocolate and a hard-boiled egg. The | voice radio worked perfectly and was a great consolation, Miss Earhart de- | clared. Only once did it play her false. She remarked that she was “getting tired of this fog.” The last two words | were lost and the news was flashed | out that the lone woman flier was “getting tired.” She felt no fatigue during the entire flight, she told her | auidence. The chances for a successful flight | across the North Atlantic are about 1 to 10, Miss Earhart estimated, be- | cause of the formation of ice on the wings of planes even in Summer. The | odds are much more favorable in the Pacific between Hawaii and California, she said, because this course is far enough south to insure reasonably high temperatures. During the recent flight the mercury did not fall below | 40 degrees Farenheit. Other factors that made her Pacific | flight safer than her Atlantic flight, ments that have been made in recent years in flying equipment. Her pres- ent plane is of the same type as that in which she flew the Atlantic, but | it had a variable pitch propeller, bet- | ter “plumbing,” and carried duplicate instruments. The weather informa- | tion received on the recent trip was greatly superior to that available dur- ing the crossing of the Atlantic. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of | the National Geographic Society, in- troduced Miss Earhart and told of her MINNESOTA PRESSES BID FOR ARMY-NAVY GAME Representative Maas Active to Secure Service Contest for Minneapolis Stadium. By the Associated Press. Minneapolis was advanced today by members of Congress from Minnesota as the logical place for the 1935 Army- Navy foot ball game. Representative Maas made known he had urged President Coffman of the University of Minnesota to ex- tend an invitation to the service in- stitutions and to offer suggested dates for the game. Maas suggested the game be played at Northrop Field, stadium of the University of Minnesota. “In view of the fact that Minnesota is the undisputed foot ball capital of the world at the present time, I feel it would be appropriate to hold the game there,” Maas said. “It has been some years since the teams played out of the East.” noted transoceanic fiyer, is shown with President |ebout 700 prohibition agents who ‘ Radio Audience Told Amazon Age ” Geographic Society as she addressed —A. P. Photo. LOST PAY OF 1200 SOUGHT N BIL Appropriations Committee to Weigh Amendment for Patronage Victims. An amendment to provide for the 1,200 Treasury employes who have been working without pay since De- | cember 1 because of a rider attached to an appropriation act at the last session, will be up for consideration in the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee within a few days. The subcommittee in charge of the Treasury-Post Office bill for the next| fiscal year will start executive hear-| ings today, and will find awaiting its attention a recommendation from the Budget Bureau and the President that | authority to pay these workers be placed in_ this bill Although technically the amount of | these salaries will have to be appro- | priated, the amendment will not in- | crease the expenses of the depart- ment. because e comparable amount has been left unused in the Treasury as a result of the rider which cut off the pay of these workers in December. The rider which brought about the present situation was sponsored by Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, and was originally aimed at were re-employed and transferred to the Treasury Department after the Prohibition Bureau of the Justice De- partment was abolished. Senator McKellar questioned their civil serv- ice status. After the McKellar rider had been adopted by Congress, the controller general's office ruled that it effected not only the prohibition agents, but a considerable number of other em- ployes who had been transferred fol- lowing the abolition of the Prohi- bition Bureau. FIRST LADY LAUDS WOMEN’S PROGRESS Has Not Been Reached, but 01d Rule Is Passing. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt de- clared last night in a radio broad- cast that while women are rapidly wiping out the age-old superiority of men, she does not think “we have yet reached the Amazon age.” She expressed her views on the subject. “Is Woman's Place in the Home?" in answer to interrogations by two woman correspondents, Gen- evieve Forbes-Herrick and Martha Strayer, Arguing that the masculine insist- ence that “woman’s place is in_the home” is too all-encompassing, Mrs. Roosevelt defended the woman in in- dustry and the professional world, who must fend for herself. When the older members of her family die and the younger members are educated and out in the world for themselves, she contended, the woman who has had a career can create a bulwark of business activity as a de- fense against being left alone. In replying to a direct question as to whether she thought woman's place was in the home, Mrs. Roosevelt said: “Not long ago I saw a number of editorials saying that it was all very well for women to think that the work which they do outside of their homes is useful or important, but it is really negligible in comparison to the job of rearing a family. All women are not born housekeepers, nurses, teachers, but no one will deny that the normal woman feels that her home must come first and that if she falls in love and can marry and have children, this is U.S. WORKERS HERE INCREASED BY 722 TOTAL 1§ 4,389 Gain of 2,002 Reported Elsewhere, With 674,997 Now Employed. TEMPORARY ADDITION OF 82 MADE BY N. R. A, Principal Reduction for January in H. 0. L. C., Where 205 Lose_Jobs. Government employment showed a net gain of 722 here in January, when the total force in the executive agen- | cies reached 94,389, it was disclosed | today in the monthly report of the Civil Service Commission. Outside of Washington there was a pick-up of 2,002, bringing the total to 580,608 and the aggregate here and in the field to 674,997. Locally, there was a gain of 814 in the pernmanent or emergency staff, but a drop of 92 in the temporary. The respective totals were 87,106 and 7,283. In the field permanent-emergency jumped 171 to 503,014 and temporary 1831 to 77.594. Principal Additions. The principal permanent-emergency additions here were: Treasury, 196; Navy, 164; Post Office, 119, and Pub- lic Works, 114, with a scattering else- where. The only temporary addition of any size was 82 at the N. R. A.. which also picked up 42 permanent-temporaries. The principal reduction was in the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., where 295 were cut from the regular force and 44 trom the temporary. In the field this reduction also was in evidence, 1,194 of the regular force being drop- ped. A. A. A. Drops Workers. The A. A. A. here dropped 127 tem- poraries and 18 classed as permanent- emergency. The usual fluctuations were shown in the field forces, due principally to the varying needs for labor on work coming under Interior and War, and the regular reduction in the postal torce which amounted to 300 perma. nent employes. The pay roll for the first time in months showed a decline of about $3,000,000 to $97,614,242. ' DOMINATION FEARED OF BANKING SYSTEM Chamber of Commerce Directors Ask Safeguards Against Political Influence. By the Associated Press. The board of directors of the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States yesterday warned against possible “po- litical domination” of the Nation's banking system. The board, working on a series of statements in connection with legis- lative proposals before Congress. said American business “must ask that time be granted for thorough con- sideration” of changes in the Federal Reserve System proposed in the pend- ing banking Eill. “There must be rigid resistance,” the chamber said, “to propsals of a harmful nature and to well meant ef- forts to divert the system from its proper course. “In particular, the country must weigh carefully the adequacy of safe- guards against the political domina: tion of the Federal Reserve Board, the reserve banks and the member banks, and against undue centraliza- tion of credit control.” SMOKE-CONTROL BILL ATTACKED BY BOWIE Fails to Provide Personnel, Says Member of Committee on Draft. The smoke-control bill drafted by People’s Counsel William A. Roberts fails to provide any personnel to make its operation effective, P. C. Bowie, member of a committee named by the Commissioners to draft a new smoke law, declared today. The committee’s draft of the bill now is being whipped into final shape by Capt. Howard F. Clark, Assistant Engineer Commissioner. The commit- tee has had the measure under study for months. Roberts drafted his bill, now before Congress, at the request of several women’s organizations who'are cam- paigning for an effective means of controlling smoke nuisance. It seeks to confer general powers on the Com- missioners, leaving to them the draft- ing of necessary regulations. Any District agency, such as the Police or Engineer Departments, could be called upon for enforcement, Roberts said. Mr. Bowie said regulations covering installation of low-pressure heating equipment and provision for a tech- nical staff, as provided in the com- mittee's draft, were essential. GIRL IN LIQUOR SNARE the life which will probably bring her | the greatest happiness COMPANY UNION BAN HEARINGS ARE CALLED Senate Committee Sets March 11 on Wagner-Connery Bill Fol- lowing Adverse Ruling. By the Associated Press. ‘The Weirton Steel decision led both House and Senate Labor Committees yesterday to order hearings week after next on the Wagner-Connery bill to outlaw company unions. The Senate Committee will start its hearings March 11, while the House Committee will start the following day with Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, co-author of the bill, as first witness. Judge John P. Nields of the Federal District Court at Wilmington, Del., this week held that the establishment of an “employes representation plan” at the Weirton Steel Co.’s plants did not constitute violation of section 7- of the recovery act, and that section 7-a was unconstitutional as applied to the Weirton O i P OF POLICE IS CHARGE Store Proprietor Names Officer J. D. Loughrin in Complaint to A. B. C. Board. Charges that a policeman repeatedly tried, and at last succeeded, in per- suading a 16-year-old girl clerk at the Chastleton Market to sell him a bot- tle of liquor, in violation of the law, were made yesterday by counsel for Fred Neam, the store proprietor. The statement was filed with the Commissioners in an appeal from a decision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board revoking Neam’s liquor license. The permit was canceled February 14 after the A. B. C. Board found the licensee had violated sev- eral regulations. The officer who made the alleged purchases was J. D. Loughlin, attached to the A. B. C. Board to aid in liquor law enforcement. Neam’s counsel de- clared evidence would show the police- man several times asked the girl to make a sale in the absence of an adult clerk, that she had protested she could not, but that he finally induced her to sell & bottle of liquor. l | | | l 1 D. C., SATURDAY, Charles Wesley Frame, 28, former student at Maryland and George Washington Universities, and his heir- ess bride, Mrs. Rosalind Kress Frame, 24, left Washington today for a honey- moon in South Carolina and Nassau following their marriage in New York Thursday. The couple stopped over in Wash- ington last night to see the groom parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hick- man Frame, 1609 Madison street. They left by motor this morning with the expectation of spending several days at a South Carolina estate of the bride's father before going on to Miami and Nassau. Published reports that the wedding was a “surprise” affair at what was to have been a gay announcement party were denie_d by the groom's arents, who attended the ceremony at the Park Lane Hotel in New York The engagement was kept secret for some time, Frame said, but members MARCH 2, 1935. | of the family knew of the wedding isever-l weeks in advance. | Young Frame met the daughter of | the millionaire five-and-ten-cent | store operator at Lake Placid. N. Y., | last Winter while participating in Winter sports there. He is adver- tising manager for a cotton mill at Utica, N. Y. Frame graduated from McKinley High School in 1926 end took three years of pre-medical work at the Uni- versity of Maryland before transfer- ing to the Medical School at George | Washington. An automobile accident in which | he was seriously injured during 1932 | halted his medical . studies. and | Prame took a job in New York efter a long recuperation. He won rapid promotion as an advertising man. The groom's father is superintend- | ent of the Railway Express Agency. Inc, at Hyattsville, Md. DEMOCRAT FUNDS Farm Credit Official Resigns to Head Drive to Wipe Out Deficit. By the Associated Press will resign next week to head the campaign to raise funds to clean up the Democratic party’s $500,000 deficit and obtain additiopal money for the 1936 campaign. He said today that efforts to raise cash will not follow the usual pro- cedure of State quotas and extensive advertising, but will be conducted privately—probably through a com- mittee representing all sections of the country. Some time ago it was indicated that influential party members over the country would be asked to contribute substantial sums to wipe out the long- standing deficit, and that all inter- ested Democrats would be encouraged to give smaller sums in the drive to get money to carry the National Com- mittee until the opening of the 1936 campaign and to finance the cam- paign itself. Morgan is related to the President by marriage and his selection to lead the financial drive was taken as a definite indication that the President certainly would be a candidate to suc- ceed himself. During the last cam- paign, Morgan served as secretary of the National Committee’s Finance Committee, helping Frank C. Walker, treasurer, raise more than $2,000,000. He also handled finances of the Roosevelt campaign prior to the Chi- cago convention. DISTRICT WORKER STRUCK BY AUTO Mrs. Ruth Storey in Hospital After Accident at 14th and Avenue. Mrs. Ruth Storey, 30, of 63 Seaton place, an employe of the District Building, was seriously injured early today when struck by an automobile as she stepped from a loading plat- form at Fourteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue. At Emergency Hospital, she was found to have arm and leg fractures and head injuries. X-rays were to be taken to determine whether she has a skull fracture. Francis M. Tompkins, 27, of the 1800 block of H street, son of Charles H. Tompkins, contractor, was driving the automobile. He was detained by police epending the outcome of the ‘womal condition. The automobile skidded into the loading platform and was so badly damaged a brake test could not be made, police said. Policeman C. L. Smith, Traffic Bureau, suffered a sprained back and shock yesterday when his private au- tomobile and a truck collided at North Carolina avenue and Ninth street southeast. James O. Foster, 25, colored, 1000 block of Sixth street northeast, driver of the truck, was arrested by police of No. 5 precinct and charged with operating on an expired driver’s per- mit, driving with bad brakes and failing to give right of way, in ac- cordance with regulations for sections. l l MORCAN TO RAIE | W. Forbes Morgan, deputy governor | of the Farm Credit Administration, | SCHOOLS CONTRAL BY CITY HEADS I Preservation of System From Political Influence Urged by Stull. A call to preserve the District school system from “the faintest tinge of political domination” was | sounded by Harry N. Stull, chairman |of the Education Committee of the Pederation of Citizens’ Associations, in a radio address late yesterday | over station WJSV. The talk was directed against pro- visions of the proposed bill for an ex- pansion of the Commissioners’ powers | which would give them authority to direct or veto actions of the Board of Education. Opposition Unanimous. “By unanimous consent all citizens’ associations, trade bodies and teach- jers’ organizations, and in fact all matter any thoughts have turned thumbs down on the proposal,” Stull said. He questioned whether it would be wise to give to politically appointed Commissioners power to control {the Board of Education. mentioning particularly teacher appointments and text books. He stressed the point the Commissioners are subject to patron- age pressure. Give the Commissioners the re- quested power and they will be “im- portuned, mot to say coerced, into finding positions in the school system for constituents of influential mem- bers of the National Legislature,” Stull said. Patronage Annoys President. “No less person than the President of the United States is said to have been lately tremendously annoyed by the pressure from Congress for patronage dispensation. It is not surprising, therefore, that those whom he has appointed to office find them- selves unable at times to say ‘no’ to members of Congress who find them- selves in good position to successfully exert such pressure.” The proposed bill still is “under study” by the Commissioners, but Commissioner Hazen has declared he is opposed to the section dealing with the Board of Education and the Board of Library Trustees. THOMAS TO SPEAK Socialist Leader on Program of “Unemployed Convention.” Norman Thomas was expected in Washington either late today or some- time tomorrow to address an ‘“un- employed convention” which opened this morning a three-day session at headquarters of the Plasterers’ & Ce- ment Finishers' Union, No. 86, 1024 New Jersey avenue. Those in charge of arrangements for the convention said that at least 350 unemployed workers from all parts of the country will attend the convention. . $4,721,721 IN GOLD Rocky Mountain Region Miners Turn in Sum in Month. DENVER, March 2 (#).—Miners of the Rocky Mountain region poured $4,721,721 worth of gold into the Denver mint during February—an in- crease of almost $1,000,000 over Jan- uary and $160,148 over February & your agg, groups of citizens who have given the | Leave for Hoheymoon in the South Charles W. Frame and his heiress bride, the former Rosalind Kress, as they put the finishing touches on their packing preparatory to leaving the Willard Hotel for a honeymoon in the South. el bbb ot 5 Frame and Kress Heiress Bride P[l |EE L ASSAUH” Leave Capital on Honeymoon —Star Staff Photo. TESTIMONY ENDS Arguments in Trial to Begin Wednesday—U. S. At- torneys Mentioned. Arguments in the trial of Police- men John I. Shotzberger and Ernest T. Wessells of the sixth precinct charged with assaulting Harrison M. Fuller, 841 Ingraham street, will be heard Wednesday by Police Court Judge John P. McMahon. The two policemen, last witnesses in the trial yesterday, charged that Assistant United States Attorneys Karl Kindleberger and Louis White- stone had refused to listen to their side of the case when they went to | Police Court to obtain a warrant | charging Fuller with assaulting them. The alleged assault took place Feb- ruary 20, when the two officers, ap- parently mistaking Fuller for his brother, arrested him. Police Give Story. Contradicting prosecution testimony that Fuller had been struck by Shotz- berger at three different places, the policeman said the complainant had been struck only once—by Wessells after he had been placed under arrest and was en route to the station house. According to Wessells, Fuller struck him a back-hand blow in the automo- bile and he retaliated with a punch. | which cut Fuller's lip and knocked out one natural tooth and a pivot tooth. > Shotzberger testified Fuller struck | him on the head in the alley in the rear of the Puller home while he was | attempting to place him under arrest, | thinking he was his brother, Allen, | against whom Wessells had a park- ing warrant. Both men also testified Harrison threatened them with a rock at Eighth and Ingraham streets when they caught him after he had escaped from Shotzberger and that the latter reached for his gun in demending that the rock be dropped. Harrison was recalled to the stand and denied he had ever had a rock in his hand. Two more witnesses testified yes- terday that Fuller had struck the first blow in the alley. They were Ervin L. Russell 829 Ingraham | street, and Henry E. Adams. 5309 | Ninth street. Both said they saw | Harrison strike Shotzberger and knock his hat off. Voluntary Witness. Michael C. Van Horn, 714 Kénnedy street, appeared as a voluntary wit- ness. After reading of the case in the newspapers, he said, he decided to tell how Harrison rounded a corner during the chase and when in front of Van Horn's automobile, leaned up against it and . sked for aid. When asked what the trouble was, Van Horn said, Harrison replied that he had “hit the law” and “they have no business asking me my name.” Van Horn said he observed the proceeding at the patrol box and that Harrison threw himself to the sidewalk, instead of being knocked down. The police testimony was to the same effect. Most of the other witnesses yes- terday, the third day of the trial, were policemen attached to the sixth pre- cinct, all of whom .estified as to occurrences in the station house after Harrison was brought in, followed in 10 minutes by his brother Allen, who posted $5 collateral on the parking warrant. FEDERAL TENDER BOARD REVIVED BY PRESIDENT Three Jmmediately Appointed by Ickes to Agency Regulating 0il Shipments. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt yesterday sign- ed an executive order reviving the Federal Tender Board, an agency for regulating interstate oil shipments out of Texas, under authority of the Con- nally act. Secretary Ickes, the oil administra- tor, immediately appointed the three former members of the board, Nor- man L. Meyers, M. S, McCorquodale, and John F. Davis, who already are at the East Texas fleld. The board, dissolved after the Su- preme Court decision holding illegal section 9-C of the recovery act, will recommence operations immediately. Tax Deadline Delayed. ST. PAUL, Minn., March 2 (#)— Officials of the State income tax divi- sion announced yesterday that because they lacked funds to print and dis- tribute blanks for 1935, the deadline for filing returns had been postponed to June 15 from March 15, | INTERSTATE CROUP ASKS U.S. GIVE UP GAS TAX BY JULY Relinquishment of All Claims Recommended for States’ Benefit. OTHER RESOLUTIONS ARE TO BE VOTED ON ing Reforms Are Necessary to Business Restoration. A recommendation that the Fed- eral Government relinquish all claims to the gasoline tax not later than June 30 of this year so States may | benefit more from this form of taxa- {tion was contained in a resolution passed today by the Second Interstate { Assembly at the Mayflower Hotel. The recommendations in tne resolu- tion also would remove the restric- tions on diversion ot gasoline taxes to other uses. Delegates to the assembly, most of them members of the legislatures of their respective States, today were to vote on other resolutions effecting various changes in conflicting State regulations in order to bring about greater co-operation and co-ordina- tion in interstate affairs. These reso- lutions deal with the problems of crime prevention, health, sanitation, social security and taxes, Sweeping Reforms Vital. State governments are on the verge of breaking up and the Federal Gov- ernment has become so overburdened that sweeping reforms must be brought about in several phases of the administrative and legislative branches before the country can hope to return to a normal trend of busi- ness. William K. Belknap, president of the American Legislators' Associa- tion, told the Assembly. Belknap said the Assembly should hold its meetings once eacn year in- stead of the present policy of a meet- ing every two years. He said the growing necessity for reform should spur the State legislators to prompt action “This meeting comes at a time when it is most needed,” Belknap said. *“The world is fn a state of chaos, State governments are near the cracking point, and the Federal Government is overburdened beyond belief. We must adapt our Government to the cataclys- mic changes in our civilization.” Plans Regional Bureaus. In an effort to bring the States to- gether under regional compacts, which would make uniform the widely | conflicting laws relating to crime health, sanitation. marriage and {divorce and taxation, the Councll of | State Governments plans to establish | regional bureaus in all parts of the country to act as clearing houses where the problems of State govern- ments can be ironed out. This an- nouncement was made yesterday by State Senator Henry W. Parkman of Massachusetts, who is attending the assembly. Senator Parkman pointed out that many inequalities and injustices oc- cur through conflicts in State laws. | He called especial attention to those laws affecting taxation, crime pre- vention and interstate transporta- | tion. The New York Port Authority was cited by J. H. Thayer Martin of New Jersey as an example of successful co-operation between States. Set up as a governmental agency, under a treaty between New York and New | Jersey approved by an act of Congress, the Port Authority, Martin said, has roved highly efficient. “The use of compact agreement on the extradition laws between States,” said State Senator Henry W. Parkman of Massachusetts, “is vital to the con- trol of crime. We have got to get extradition laws agreed upon by the States.” Police Work Co-operation. In New England, Parkman said, progress has been made toward co- operation in police work, through use of the teletype system. But great in- equalities exist in labor laws in the States, he added. “In the field of motor vehicle, bus and truck regulation,” he added, “the most ridiculous situations occur. The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the oil cases has forced upon the oil States the necessity of using the compact clause of the Constitution for the very preservation of our great underground natural resources. “The compact is particularly adapted to regional use.” $58,765,656 VOTED FOR INTERIOR FUND House Refuses, However, to Al- low Ickes $10,000 a Year for Undersecretary. By the Associated Press The House passed and sent to the Senate late yesterday a $58.765.656 Interior Department appropriation measure and said “No" to the proposal that Secretary Ickes—like Secretary Wallace and the chiefs of the Treas- ury and State Departments—have an undersecretary at $10,000 a year. The measure carries funds for a wide variety of inland activities rang- ing from Bureau of Mines work to caring for Uncle Sam’s Indian wards. It was changed from committee form in only one place, the disapproval for an undersecretary. The new post went out on grounds it was legislation in an appropriation bill, although it was asked by the department and recommended by the Budget Bureau. A separate bill prob- ably will be offered later, but the attitude of the House bodes it no good. Just before the House passed the measure Representative Nichols, Dem- ocrat, of Oklahoma, introduced a bill to transfer the Soil Erosion Service from the Interior Department to the Department of Agriculture, where, he said, are the scientific agencies “to properly carry on the work.” SCHWARTZ REAPPOINTED The Commissioners today reap- pointed Dr. Edward J. Schwartz first assistant health officer as a result of the induction into office yesterday of Dr. George C. Ruhland as health offi- cer. Dr. Schwartz served as health offi- cer from the time of the retirement of Health Officer William C. Fowler until Dr. Ruhland took office. Hig reappointment was made on recom- mendation of Dr. Ruhland. *