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A-2. aa THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935. GEN. BUTLER HITS PROMOTION BOARD Tells Committee Hearing Russell Confirmation of Prejudice. B the Associated Press. An accusation by Maj. Gen. Smed- Jev D. Butler, retired, that Marine! Corps officers who rise from the ranks | are victims of prejudice in the matter of promotion was disclosed today by the Senate Naval Committee. The statement brought a quick de- fial from the Marine Corps comman- dant, Gen. John H. Russell. The assertions were contained in the record of hearings by the commit- tee on a proposal to confirm the ap- pointment of Russell to the perma- nent grade of major general. The appointment. which has been report- ed out to the Senate by the commit- tee, is fought by Senator Black, Dem- ocrat, of Alabama. The report delved in detail into complaints by Senator Black that Ma- rine officers were denied promotion unless they could win favor of mem- bers of a board assertedly dominated by Gen. Russell. Russell Makes Denial. The commandant denied this, in- sisting the board was a properly au- thorized creation of Congress to ob- tzin the promotion of desirable offi- cers. Gen. Butler looked upon the board #s a reflection upon the Marine Corps. He said: “With reference to one man, a captain named Cukela who has two medals of honor, one given by the Army and one given by the Navy, for heroism during the World War, he has been dropped. He was dropped last year, and was dropped again this year. “I know this man. He served with me many times. To be sure, his table | manners are not good, but it was my impression we were not running a knitting society. “Scholars” Retained. @ noticed, on the other hand, in i | | many instances officers who have | never server with troops and never commanded troops, and all of their service has been on basic duties go- ing to the school somewhere, are re- tained. “I noticed also that a large num- ber of those men who came from the ranks had been dropped.” “Do you mean to imply that preju- dice is shown in the matter of pro- motion toward those men who came from the ranks, in comparison with the men who have come from the Academy?” Asked Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Masachusetts. “I do, sir,” Butler replied. ‘This in turn was denied by Gen. Russell. “Gen. Butler's idea that graduates of the Naval Academy dominate the Marine Corps is entirely erroneous,” he said. He went on to review the case of Capt. Cukela, mentioned by Gen. Butler as “dropped” by the pro- motion board. Approved Decision. “This officer was not selected by the Junior Selection Board, over which T could not possibly have had any con- trol,” the commandant said. “How- ever, I will say that I approve the de- cision of the board.” He said a “distinguished colonel who headed the board “informs me that he (Cukela) did not receive a single vote” of 18 of his brothzr nffi- cers in recommendation for promo- tion. The report came as an aftermath to the rollicking story told oa the floor of the Senate Thursday 7y Sen- ator Black that Gen. Russell. as a major of Marines, had called for T inforcements when a “lone Mexiran with a white fiag” told him his bat- | talion was surrounded. | The report of the hearings ~on- tained both the story as relatéd by Gen. Butler, and as denied by Gen. Russell. An agreement was reached in the Eenate yesterday to have Russell’s confirmation up for approval at 3 p.m Monday, but Senator Black held to his right to move to have it sent back to committee for further investigation. . Killed by Poison Meat. After partaking of carabao meat 19 persons in some of the typoon devas- tated regions of the Philippines died | from anthrax. Your Income Tax Items Exempt From Tax. Certain items are specifically ex- empt from the income tax and need not be included in the taxpayer's re- turn of gross insome. Among such items are the proceeds from life-in- surance policies paid by reason of the | death of the insured. : Amounts reveived (other than, amounts paid by reason of the death of- the insured and interest payments on such amounts and other than amounts received as annuities) under a life-insurance or endowment con- tract, which are less than or exactly squal to the premiums or consideration pédjd therefor, are exempt from Fed- eral income tax. Any excess received over the consideration paid is taxable. ' Amounts received as an annuity un- der an annuity or endowment contract shall be included in gross income; except that there shall be excluded from gross income the excess of the | amount received in the taxable year over an amount equal to 3 per centum of -the aggregate premiums or con- sideration paid for such annuity (whether or not paid during such year), until the aggregate amount excluded from gross income for the taxable year 1934 or prior years in respect of such annuity equals the aggregate premiums or consideration paid for such annuity. There are also exempt from tax amounts received by gift, bequest, de- vise, or inheritance; interest on obli- gations of the District of Columbia, any Territory, State, county, or mu- nicipality; interest on certain bonds issued by the United States Govern- ment or its possessions, and on Fed- eral farm loan bonds; amounts re- ceived through accident or health in- surance or under workmen’s com- pensation acts for personal injuries or sickness, and damages received on ac- count of such injuries or sickness. Pensions and compensatiogl re- ceived by veterans are subject ‘to tax unless such amounts are received under the World War veterans’ act or the World War adjusted compensation act. Pensions received from the United States by the family of a veteran for seryices rendered by the veteran to the United States in time of war are exempt, as gifts. There is also exempt from Federal income tax the rental value of a dwelling house and apurtenances thereof furnished to a minister of the gospel as part of his compensation. Otber items excluded from gross in- coffie are alimony, and city jury fees. } | What’s What Behind News In Capital New Deal Lawyers Not Worried by Lower Court Reversals. BY PAUL MALLON. The lickings which the New Dealers have been taking lately from the lower courts have caused remarkabiy little pain on the inside here. The New Deal lawyers are maintaining a non- chalance which certainly suggests that they have boards appropriately placed somewhere. They cannot afford to say so out loud. but they really believe that five members of the Supreme Court can be counted on to support them when- ever they put up a reasonably respec- table case. For this reason they fear mot the reversal suffered by the Ten- nessee Valley Authority in the Grubb decision. They believe the lower court will be reversed. About the N. R. A. adversities (Weirton, coal) they are not so sure. The truth is the best legal authorities have differed for some time about ap- plicaton of the N. R. A. to businesses which are not in interstate commerce. You may recall that the Department of Justice ducked the Weirton prose- cution more or less openly for months until organized labor brought such pressure as to force it to prosecute. What makes the New Dealers so certain that the court will uphold them whenever they give it a leg to stand on is a hidden paragraph in its decision nearly a year ago in the Minnesota mortgage case. The lan- guage then employed by the court was: “Neither property mnor contract righis are abcolute; for Government cannot exist if the citizen may, at will, use his property to the detriment of his fellows, or exercise his freedom of contract to work them harm. Equally fundamental with the private right is | that of the public to regulate it in the common interest.” That sounds like an excerpt from a Roosevelt speech, but the court said it last March. Richberg Asks Liberalization. What the New Deal thinks about the Constitution was disclosed recently in a speech privately delivered before a local club of attorneys by the New Deal co-ordinator, Donald Richberg. | No record of the talk exists. A Con- gressman tried to get a copy from Mr. Richberg's office and found the remarks had not been officially set down. It would be accurate to say, how- i ever, that Richberg wanted the pre- amble of the Constitution and the |Dcclarauon of Independence incor- porated in that document in a judicial way. He protested against narrow legal interpretations. He wanted the Government to move unrestrained by legal technicalities to produce the greater good for ‘the greater number. One line ran something like this: “A government must fulfill the obligation not only to protect its citizens from fire, flood, pestilence, domestic violence and foreign ag- gression but also from economic forces equally destructive and in- tolerable.” Absurd rumors now are going around, suggesting that President Roosevelt would have appealed any adverse gold decision to the higher court of public opinion. Statement Never Issued. As a matter of fact, one paragraph of a statement which had been pre- pared in advance, to be issued if the as follows: H “The right of the Supreme Court ! to declare acts of Congress unconsti- tutional is not found in the Constitu- tion. But without this right, those who make the laws would also pass on them, so that nothing could ever be found unconstitutional. Therefore, it seems an inherent function of a written constitution that somebody, separate from the legal body, shall have the right to review their acts.” In other words, the New Deal was prepared in that statement, which now | may never be published, to uphold the i Supreme Court even if the court did nov uphold the New Deal. Plan Carefully Drawn. The White House has been very se- cretive about what it would have done had the decision gone the other way. 1t makes no difference now, but a five- | hour program had been planned al- most minute by minute to offset any ill effects of an adverse decision. A flash statement would have been issued at once. It contained two para- graphs and was addressed primarily to the financial markets, assuring them there was on cause for alarm. An executive order was prepared and accompanied by a statement to the press, as was also a message to Con- gress and the draft of a bill. A time schedule had been worked out so this bill would have become a law within five hours after the decision was an- nounced. Mr. Roosevelt may some day include these in his memoirs. A member of the House suggested in a secret Democratic party confer- ence recently that Father Coughlin be invited to address the House. The leaders froze the suggestion and the suggestor with silence. The F. E. R. A. received a request from reliefers in St. Louis not long ago asking that relief wages be raised so that workers could pay their back union dues. Relief Diet Aids Health. ‘The relief diet may not encourage gout, but F. E. R. A. reports indicate it is curing pellagra in certain sections of the South because it is a change gold decision went against him, read | UNIFIED BANKING CONTROL SOUGHT Closer Co-Operation Urged. Amendment to Bill Now Pending. By the Associated Press. A plan to bring closer co-operation between Federal agencies which super- vise the Nation's banks is being re- lvived by some high administration officials and influential members of | Congress. ! It would be effectuated through an amendment to the omnibus barking bill now pending before the House Banking Committee, and would: 1. Make Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and Marriner 3. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, ex officio mem- bers of the board of the Federal De- posit Insurance Corp. Position for West. 2. Create a new position, possibly that of administrative assistant to the chairman of the F. D. I. C. Board, for former Representative Charles H. West, a “regular” Foosevelt Democrat, who made an unsuccessful race for the Senate from Ohio. 3. Perhaps decrease the authority which J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of the currency, now has in connec- tion with Federal deposit insurance because of his position as ex officio member of the F. D. 1. C. Board, which now has only two other sitting members. 4. Permit, through the ex-officio memberships of Jones, Eccles and O’Connor, closer co-ordination of all Federal banking operations. Schedule Follows Testimony. This schedule was outlined by ad- ministration officials and committee members after O'Connor had testi- fied before the Banking Committee on the new bill. The committee members had been interested in reports of disag: —always denied—among O'Connor and other administration officials. They decided the pending bill, without the proposed amendment, would re- sult in a victory for O'Connor. A T POLICEMAN ACCUSED IN DRIVE ON RACKETS La Guardia Warns Precinct Cap- tains as He Spurs Drive on Gaming and Vice. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 2.—New York's drive against the multimillion-dollar “numbers game” racket and vice torged ahead today with a police cap- tain the first major target of investi- gators. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Val- entine said departmental charges would be preferred against Capt George M. Renselaer, commander of the Oak street station, in connection with the destruction of evidence against Henry Miro. an employe of Dutch Schultz, who has been de- scribed as head of the policy racket. Soon after the commissioner’s an- nouncement, Mayor Piorello La Guardia commented: “It's going to go pretty hard against any captain who knowingly lets a policy game run in his precinct.” He was incensed by suggestions that the numbers game and vice were tion than in the days of Tammany. One of the targets of La Guardia's criticism was Samuel Marcus, counsel for the Society for Prevention of Crime, who was named special assist- ant district attorney for the investiga- tion of the numbers game and vice, which the grand jury will start Monday. SENATE CONTINUES WHITE HOUSE WAR ON WORK-RELIEF __ (Continued From First Page.) the relief administrator, announced that in order to tide farmers “over the next three crucial months” the farm credit administration would raise its feed loans from $6 to $10 a month for each head of drought cattle. Two Plans Offered. ‘Two "noves have come from the Mc- effort to “conciliate’ the controversy. Both made no impression on adminis- tration leaders. The latter are still insisting, it is understood, that the President be per- mitted to pay 3.500,000 relief roll em- ployables a “security” wage below the private standard. They say employes of private industry should not be at- tracted to Government pay rolis. Supporters of Senator McCarran still were clinging to the prevailing wage idea. McCarran indicated he would be willing to make a change in phraseology but not in principle. Democratic Leader Robinson yester- day turned down a proposed “conces- sion” by McCarran. The latter offered an additional paragraph to his amend- ment to allow the President to regu- late the hours of the employes on public works so as to permit paying the private wage without adding to the cost of the $4,000,000,000 work program. “In my opinion”” Robinson said, “that proposal makes no substantial change in the so-called McCarran amendment.” The other basis for compromise pro- posed was that the amendment be re- written to provide that on all public buildings undertaken, the prevailing wage rate be put into effect, but that the President be allowed to fix the wage rate on other works undertaken under the measure. Democratic leaders, however, denied they had submitted a counter-pro- posal to the McCarran forces, con- tending they were getting into a po- sitich where it might not be necessary to compromise. At his press conference President Roosevelt declined to comment on the situation. Asked about a possible conference with congressional leaders, he replied that no such meeting had been arranged. The President’s attitude was inter- preted as meaning that he was de- from the customary menu. The New Deal has won two out of three cases so far from the Supreme Court. It won a gold hoarding case last year and the gold case this year; it lost on hot oil. A peculiar thing about the gold case is that the Government had to argue that its gold policy was a failure, and won by so doing. Vice President Garner became irri- tated at noise in the gallery a few days ago and said, “This noise has got to ' termined to stand his ground on the prevailing wage amendment. This further bolstered Senate Democratic chiefs in flatly turning down McCar- ran’s latest proposal. stop or I will put you out.” Next day the always socially correct Congres- ‘| sional Record edited the Vice Presi- dent’s announcement to read: “The occupants of the gallery will refrain from any demonstrations of approval disapproval.” 3 (Copyright, 1985.) ' | | structure of $28,500,000,000, that is more rampant under his administra- | Carran prevailing wage group in an ‘GABY BOND' SALE TOTALS $5,000,000 Treasury Reports Sum for Opening Day—Roosevelt Is Gratified. By the Assneiated Press. Reports to the Treasury today indi- cated that more than $5.000,000 in | purchase value of the new “baby” bonds were sold yesterday on the first | day they were offered to the public. | Forty leading cities reported a total | of $1.500,000 had been disposed of. | Treasury officials explained these | cities were responsible for about 40 | per cent of all postal activities in the country. The $25 and $1,000 denomi- nation proved the most popular in the first returns. President Gratified. President Roosevelt himself had ex- pressed gratification over what was termed the enthusiastic and encour- aging response from the public, and Secretary Morgethau had said: “I am very happy at the day’s results.” The President asserted that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would have to work'day and night shifts to keep pace with the demand for the bonds—which are the first such venture since World War days. He said many post offices had exhausted their original supplies. After Mr. Roosevelt had bought the first of the “United States savings bonds"—as the securities are named officially—other high officers dropped around to buy from Morgenthau, They included Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns. Roosevelt Buys Six. The President's purchase—made | while cameras recorded the event— comprised six $25 bonds for himself and grandchildren. The Treasury expects that this type of bond—which ranges denomination from $25 to $1000—will not bulk | Jarge in its financing program. Not more than $200,000,000 or $300,000,000 will be raised, officials think, by this medium. As compared to a debt considered somewhat small change. At his press conference yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt displayed enthusiasm | about the bonds. He remarked that | the interest to purchasers is slightly A higher than on some old issues, and | inquired if the news correspondents had all bought bonds. “With what?” a lady reporter asked. ‘The President joined in the laughter. —_ ANGLO-AMERICAN PROTEST ON LOAN | BY JAPAN LIKELY | (Continued Prom First Page.) | special rights and privileges which | would curtail the rights of citizens of | the other signatory countries. The consortium provides for a pool | of banking groups in Great Britain, | France, America and Japan, who, pledged themselves to act together in extending loans to China. Consequently, a separate loan from Japan to China is regarded as in- fringing the treaty signed 13 years 2g0. This the Chinese know full well, but | the Nanking government is now in| dire straits and the treaty as such is not of much help. No Western group | of bankers is prepared to extend a loan to strife-ridden China, since | the respective governments are not willing to undertake to exert pressure on the Chinese government should it | decide to default—a situation which under the present circumstances ap- pears inevitable | The Japanese bankers, supported by the government—in fact it is said that the contemplated loan will be fuily guaranteed by the Tokio admin- | istration—do not worry about the vepayment of the score of millions of dollars. Japan is quite willing to lose that money provied it can obtain a still stronger influence in China. The Japanese consider a financial advance to China as a sound political investment, while the other powers, looking at it from the strictly business point of view, regard it as a bad risk. Pact is Held Void. As far as the nine-power pact is concerned, which would forbid Japan to take an indeperdent ection | in China, the Japanese point of view, expressed repeatedly by high officials, is ;hn that pact is now obsolete and void. A Japanese loan to China would. however, jeopardize the position of | the other nations interested in the Far East. Sir Ronald Lindsay on be- | half of his government discussed the matter informally with the State Department in view of the possibility | of taking some action in common. What that action will be is still| undetermined. The prospects of the| other signatories of the nine-power pact getting together end floating a Joan for the Nanking administration seems extremely doubtful at the pres- ent moment, although it is realized | that this would be the only step to| ward off the danger of a further Japanese penetration in China. Protest Note Likely. What appears more probable is a note of protest as soon as the Jap: anese loan materializes. Such a ges- ture would have no more effect than the previous protests of the Western governments to Tokio and Nanking. The British ambassador's visit led to reports that several nations, in- cluding Great Britain and the United States, had under consideration the making of a joint loan to China. Phil- |lips declined to comment on that question. President Roosevelt, at his press conference, said he knew nothing about such reports. | | AS POUND SLUWPS | pence or | highest since October 9. 1928. As Saarlanders Prepared for Celebration Reich and Swatiska banners being placed on the customs house of the Saar by workmen in preparation for the joyous scenes that were staged in the streets of the Saar as the former bit of German Europe was officially returned to Germany after 15 years of rule by the League of Nations. The celebration was led by Reichsfuehrer Hitler, who flew from Berlin. Inset: Joseph Buerckel, Nazi commissioner under the League rule, who was in- stalled as governor of the Saar by Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior in the German cabinet. éSweethearts Drink Champagne, Then | Leap From Plane 1. MOVEAWAITED {Baring of School Teach- ers’ Fund Shortage Prompts Tragedy. London Wonders Whether New Cut in Dollar Is Due. Gold Bloc Tense. By the Associated Press. BERNE, Switzerland, March 2.— Sweetheaits who drank champagne | before leaping from an airplane were LONDON, March 2.—The mund‘]olned i Coain loons sterling continued its sharp decline ™ ppe tragedy was revealed yesterday in foreign excharge in today's short | when Pilot Ettinger returned in the session while the price of bar gold | plane to Basel Airport, and. white and i = e | trembling. told of the fatal leap of in terms of sterling went to a record | gy, e Grieder, 25. Lausen school By the Associated Press | high for the second successive day.|teacher, and Mile. Antoinette Joery, An advance of a shilling, 9': pence, | 22 brought gold to 146 shillings, 1072 ($3537) in terms Of thejie who went to the spot indicated American dollar. An amount valued | by the pilot, found the broken bodies at £362,000 ($1743482.50) was sold | beside a little stream. ]Theym were i placed together in a single coffin. Atjihe record (prier | Police said Grieder had been un- The pound closed at $4.79% after | aple to produce money he had col- sinking as low as $478. The close | lected for the athletic association of represe: a loss o1 cents | the school and was suspended. pres 0SS s nted a loss of about 8 cents ; s i in two days. In terms of French gold | ¢13“ vl Joery of his plight. The francs the pound sank from 7230 to| couple, with the memories of the air- 71.64. | plane leap of Jane and Elizabeth | Dubois last week in England appar- Spot silver spurted to 27 pence, the | o)y gt} fresh in their minds. de- | termined to die in similar fashion. HUNTED Powerless to interfere and still con- The city was preoccupied with in- ternational effects of the fall of sterling. The main gquestions were | whether President Franklin D. Roose- | velt would further devalue the dollar | SCIENTIST i wou tarer demue e tar [N UTAH BADLAND European gold bloc be able much| longer to maintain its ever-increasing- | American Natural History Mu- ly precarious adherence to gold. These queries—not where sterling is falling | seum Worker Sought in Air and on Ground. to—were chiefly on the minds of Lon- | don financial experts. PARIS LEADERS BAFFLED. | By the Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY. March 2.— From the air and on the ground the Badland country of Southern Utah PARIS. March 2 (.—Gold bloc yas searched today for a trace of British Policy Declared a Mystery. Psychological Effects Seen. i financiers said today the decline in Dariel I Thrapp, 22-vear-old scien- | the pound sterling was putting added | i of the American Museum of but not immediately alarming stresses Natyral History upon the gold countries. Carrying only a meager food supply. They regarded the danger of the the young explorer disappeared into psychological effect as more Serious the foreboding canyons three months than the economic or financial ago to look for prehistoric cliff dweli- pressure. N ings. Two experienced guides went The British policy, “if there is one.” | jnto the section on foot early this said an authoritative banker, “is still | week, and late yesterday an airplane, a mystery to us, but there is no supplied by the museum and the reason to believe there is any need ' Desert News, set out for the junction for the pound sterling being cheap- | of the Grand and the Green rivers. ened to the point where the dollar| Some fear has been expressed that would be further devalued.” Thrapp will not be found alive. Harry Should there be a battle between | W. Ott, a member of a grazing sur- the dollar and the pound. with further | vey party, reported that John Trasker, American devaluation, there would be |a guide “who is probably more fa- such a real and psychological strain|miliar with that country than any on the gold bloc that anything might | other man,” believes Thrapp Wwas happen, it was believed. | drowned when he attempted to cross - 1 % | the Colorado River. Trasker now is WALL STREET ON ALERT. [selrching for Thrapp near the junction — - | of the Grand and Colorado rivers. Depressing Influence on American i Commodity Prices Feared. | MRS. CARAWAY RESTING NEW YORK, March 2 (P)—Wall Street intently watched the decline of | e i the pound sterling today, hoping the | Senator May Remain in Hospital Three Weeks, Doctor Says. vicious circle of competitive currency | depreciation was not to be resumed The pound dipped more than 3| Senator Hattie W. Caraway of trol the plane, he saw them leap. Po- cents in New York to around $4.78, the lowest since October of 1933, and to a new low in Paris, under 72 franes. This decline has taken the British currency down some 16 cents in terms of the dollar, since the first of the year, and should it continue far enough, a number of Wall Street ex- perts thought it would once more have | a decidedly depressing influence upon American commodity prices, as its decline did three and four years ago. N A Storm Hits Mexican City. SALINACRUZ. Oaxaca, Mexico, March 2 {/).—Several public buildings and homes were unroofed and other- wise damaged by a hurricane that swept through here early today. A fishing boat was sunk in the ocean by heavy winds and high waves, but no casualties were reported. The Evening Star Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK | Arkansas was reported “resting very : comfortably” today at Emergency | Hospital, where she has gone for ob- | servation and treatment of an intes- | tinal disorder. Mrs. Caraway’s illness was not re- garded as serious, but her physician told her it might be necessary for her to remain in the hospital for as long | as three weeks. ‘Congress in Brief ! By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. In recess. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee continues coal hearing. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee hears opposition to bus and truck regulation. House. In recess. No committee meetings. YESTERDAY. Senate. In recess. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee heard shippers oppose Federal regula- at The Evening Stat Business Office, or by mail, postpaid It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. romememwe= Order Form -————-' ' NOME ceeevcevscecssescccessencens eessssssssseess State i ik ocasne g e il tion of bus and truck transportation. Military Committee reported out Army appropriation bill to finance increased standing Army. House. Passed Interior Department ap- propriation bill. ‘Ways and Means Subcommittee rec- ommended repeal of law requiring income tax publicity and full com- | mittee ordered bonus hearings begin- ning Monday. . Banking Committee mémbers heard administration leaders outline plan for closer co-operation between Fed- eral bank supervision agencies. ony "o ° Commnist_propasanda mony on Communist p among Army and Navy men. —Wide World Photos. ROOSEVELT FACING SPLIT ON SECURITY Miss Perkins and House Group in Disagreement Over Control. By the Associated Press. Another difficult arbitration job for | | President Roosevelt appeared to be in the making today. It developed out of a disagreement as to who shall administer the social security program. Secretary Perkins has failed to sway the House Ways and Means Committee from its in- sistence that the Labor Department should not have control over the pro- gram. She paid a personal call on the | committee chairman, Representative | Doughton, Democrat of North Caro- lina, in an attempt to get the com- mittee to reverse its previous decision | that the Social Security Board should be an independent agency and not | under the Secretary of Labor. New Vote Is Declined. After her visit the committee de- clined to take a new, direct vote on the question. But a proposal that a single administrator instead of a board should be placed in charge of the security program was offered to | the committee. The committee turned | this down, insisting on a board. ‘ One committee member argued that | under the single administrator plan | Miss Perkins might have been made “social security czarina.” Another committeeman denied this. insisting that she would not have been named administrator. He said the proposed change was merely a needed simplifi- cation. A high-ranking committee Demo- crat said Secretary Perkins had sug- | gested the committee discuss the prob- | lem with the President. Parley Not Arranged. Chairman Doughton agreed, but early today the White House confer- ence had not been arranged. Dough- ton told a presidential secretary that the committee had intended to wait | until the complete bill, now being re- drafted, was ready, but that the com- mittee would go to the White House now if the President preferred i When the committee does finally | see the President it intends to discuss | with him reports that Harry L. Hop- | kins, relief administrator, objects to | the committee’s action in voting to { confer much broader power to the | States than the President’s Commit- | tee on Economic Security contem- plated originally. { It also will discuss the change the | committee made when it took jurisdic- tion over “needy” old-age pensions |and aid from dependent children | away from Hopkins and gave it to the Social Insurance Board. | . 'GOV. LEHMAN PAYS WHITE HOUSE CALL New York Governor Confers With Roosevelt—Gov. Gen. Murphy Luncheon Guest. | | | | By the Associated Press. | A conference with Gov. Herbert | Lehman of New York at noon and a luncheon for Gov. Gen. Frank | Murphy of the Philippine Islands | today headed President Roosevelt's | engagement list. Lehman, who was in the Capital on other business, telephoned the | White House to say he was leaving for Albany this afternoon and wanted to visit with the President for a few minutes. Murphy was expected to complete the presentation of his report on con- | ditions in the Philippines which he | began yesterday. Stephen Early, a presidential secre- tary, said no engagements had been made by Mr. Roosevelt to discuss the $4,880,000,000 work-relief dispute with any congressional leaders over the week end. Following a precedent set last year, President and Mrs. Roose- velt will attend services at the Wash- ington Cathedral tomorrow in ob- servance of the second anniversary of his induction into office. Early indicated that the long- delayed presidential message cn a to Congress Monday. ROBIN THEORY DISPUTED DAVENPORT, Iowa, March 2 (#).— And now comes E. K. Putnam, cura- tor of the Davenport Public Museum, to say there is no such thing as the “first robin” of Spring. For reasons best known to them- selves, Mr. Putnam says, some robins spend the Winter up here, instead of | flying South with their friends. This, | he adds, accounts for the robins glimpsed in November, December and January. ADMIRAL .| CONE QUITS SHIPPING 0B Disagreement Over Bureau Policies Reported After Resignation. The resignation of Rear Admiral Hutchinson 1. Cone, U. 8. N., retired, from an advisory position in the Ship- ping Board Bureau of the Department of Commerce was accepted today by Secretary Roper. Admiral Cone’s note of resignation to the Secretary contained no reason for his action. Roper's reply in ac- ceptance was equally brief. It is un- derstood, however, that disagreement over bureau policies was responsible. Admiral Cone is 63 and a native of Brooklyn. He entered the Naval Academy in 1890 and was retired from the Navy on July 11, 1922, with the rank of Rear Admiral and the title of engineer in chief. He was a holder of the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal and of decorations from the British, French and Italian govern- ments He served as vice president and general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corp. and was a member and later chairman of the Shipping Board When the Shipping Board became a unit of the Department of Commerce, Admiral Cone was placed in an ad- visory capacity under James C. Pea- cock, chief of the new bureau. No successor had been named by Secretary Roper, nor had any other resignations from the bureau been received. — Western Trade Recovers. SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 (#) — First comprehensive figures on Pacific Coast wholesale trade for January, re- ported yesterday by the Federal Re- serve Bank of San Prancisco, were the most encouraging in some respects in the last 10 years. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly warm- er tonight, colder tomorrow night, minimum temperature about 45 de- grees tonight; gentle to moderate southwest, shifting to west or north- west winds. Maryland—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably light rain in extreme west portion; warmer tonight, colder tomorrow night and probably in north portion tomorrow afternoon Virginia—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight and on the coast tomorrow. West Virginia—Mostly cloudy to- night and tomorrow, possibly light rain tomorrow and in north and ex- treme west portion; warmer in south portion tonight, colder tomorrow in north portion. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barcmeter. Degrees. Inches. 52 30.13 30.11 30.12 Yesterday— 4 pm. 8 pm. Midnight . Today— 4 am. 8 am. 30.12 30.14 3012 Record for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 58, noon yesterday; year 41, 7 am. today;, year Record Temperature This Year. Highest, 68, on February 25 Lowest, —2, on January 28. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (PFrom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 75 per cent, at 8 a.m. today. Lowest, 33 per cent, at 4 p.m. yes- terday. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Goedetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow. 5:2l1am. 6:18a.m. 12:48am. 6:52 p.m. 1:06 p.m. High . Low High . 5:56 pm . 12:06 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises, Sun, today .... 6:41 Sun, tomorrow. 6:39 Moon, today.... 4:58am. 3:15pm, Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation, Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1935. Average. Record. January.... 527 3.55 7.09 '82 February ... 237 3.27 6.84 '84 3.75 884 '91 327 9.13 '89 370 1069 '89 413 1094 00 471 1063 '86 401 1441 ‘28 324 1745 857 October. November.. .. 8.69 December. . 1.56 Weather in Various Cities. OIS Statlons &wprnzas WIUATH uBu s we g ol weg Boston. Mass. . Buffalo. N. ¥. Charleston. SC Miami. Fla. Minneapolis . New Orleans New York . Oklahoma Cit: Omaha_ Nebr. Philadelphia Phoenix. Ariz Pittsburgh. Pa Portiand. Me. Portland. Ore Raleigh. 'N. C. Salt Lake 'City San Antonio . Tampa. D WASH Cloudy FOREIGN. (7 a.m., Greenwich time. today.) Temperature. Weather. a8 Clou Cloudy Rain Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy today.) Cloudy Cloudy Clou Cloudy Clear London_England Paris. France . Vienna. Austria Berlin. Germany " Zurich. Switzerland ... Stockholm. Sweden Gibraltar. Spain (Noon. Greenwich time Horta (Fayal). Azores . 62 (Current observations.) St_Georges. Bermuda ., 58 San Juan. Puerto Rice . 78 Hi 62 80 a._Cuba ... Colon. "Canal Zone L4