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WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and somewhat colder, lowest tem- perature about 30 degrees tonight; rain tomorrow: night or Sunday; warmer Sun- day. Temperatures—Highest, 47, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 35, at noon today. "Full report on page A-14. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages No. 33,183, Pntered as sco CONGRESS DELAY OF NR.A.HURTFUL. ASSERTS RICHBERG Senate Committee Toldl Trade and Industry Are Slowing Up. DROPPING OF CODES TOLD BEFORE THRONG Neither Trade Commission Nor Commerce Department Equipped to Administer Act, He Says. By the Assoclated Press. A warning that delays and uncer- tainties over N. R. A. legislation were slowing up trade and industry was given the Senate Finance Committee today by Donald Richberg, diiector ©of the National Emergency Council. His statement was made to an overflowing committee room as he pivoted in his chair to answer ques- tions in a searching cross-examina- tion by the’ committee’s entire mem- bership. Talking in an easy voice and ges- turing, he put squarely on Congress the job of cutting down the vast code structure along administration-rec- ommended lines of holding future codification to industries engaged in or affecting interstate commerce This was his reply to the commit- tee's request for a list of codes to be dropped under the new definition. Eight Codes in Discard. But first Richberg listed eight codes affecting 1,875,000 employes which al- ready have been partially or entirely suspended by administrative action. The recovery co-ordinator said codes for barber shops and laundries, with their 433,000 workers, were not in operation today. Then he named seven other service trades codes affect- ing nearly 1,500,000 workers, which he said had been suspended except as to minimum wages, maximum hours and labor’s collective bargaining guar- antee. These codes, together with the num- | ber of employes affected, were listed as | follows: | Cleaning and dyeing, 110,000; hotel and restaurants, 900,000; motor ve- hicle storage, 130.000; advertising dis- play, 2,000; advertising distribution, 100,000; bowling and billiards, 160,- 000, and Shoe rebuilding, 40.000. | During the examination, Richberg | said neither the Federal Trade Com- mission nor the Commerce Depart- ment was equipped to administer the recovery act. Trensfer of N. R. A. to one of these agencies had been | suggested by some Senators. Authorship of Codes. Richberg testified that neither the | charge that the Government wrote the codes nor that the dominant large groups in industries wrote them was correct. He said the codes usually were presented by trade associations | or Code Committees, in which inde- pendent groups were represented. “But,” he added, “not a single code was adopted in the form it was brought in” because they were sub- Jjected to criticism from the labor, | Boston home. | 15,16 &17 Entered as second class matter shington, . C. ah WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935—FIFTY PAGES. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “I Am Not Happy to Be King,” I.[]NG RESUMES Siamese Prince Wants to Play Eleven-Year-Old Future Ruler Already Is Irked by Duties. By the Assaciated Press. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 8. —Little Prince Ananda looked for- ward gloomily today to the prospect of his ascension- to the Siamese throne and the acquisition of the regal title, “arbiter of the ebb and flow of the tides.” “I am not happy o be King,” he told interviewers, while his school- mates looked on delighting in the ex- perience of having a real King for their comrade. ‘The prince rebuffed attempts of his admirers to win a bit of reflected glory by posing in the same pictures with him. He said he would pose alone and admonished the Swiss de- tectives who have been guarding him that he would frame his own state- ments. “I am not happy to become King of Siam,” he then said in French, “be- cause I should like to amuse myself some more.” ‘The 11-year-old schoolboy King was pleased at the telegram from Bangkok announcing his succession principally "E_ANANDA. because it meant he might enjoy a trip home. But his greatest joy came from the assurance that he probably would be permitted to return to his studies immediately after the coronation | ceremonies. HOLMES IS GIVEN SOLDIER BURIAL President and Wife Among Distinguished Mourners at Arlington. The “glorious canopy” of death— which held no terrcrs for him n an abundant life—was drawn reverently and permanently today around the mortal remains of Oliver Wendell Holmes, just 94 years from the day he first saw light and life in a cultured Led by President and Mrs. Roosevelt | and seven sorrowing justices of the Supreme Court, a company of wor-| SWANSON FAGES MTARL ROW QUIZ 'Will Be Called Before Sub- committee Monday to Explain. Secretary of Navy Swanson will be called before the House Naval Appro- priations Subcommittee Monday to explain the reason for his recent dis- pute with Controller General McCarl. Swanson has told McCarl he would be guided in the future by the Attor- ney General and not the controller general. shipful friends, many of whom had planned to join in a birthday cclebra- and warrior was laid to rest at Arling- ton—bivouac of national heroes. | A warrior always— whether in hand- | to-hand battle witn the enemy in de- | fense of the Union or in championing forensically the cause of human | rights—the venerable retired ~ustice | was given an impressive sol burial | on a green-topped kn % overlooking | the Capital he fought for and loved. It was a funeral not of despair l:ut‘| of inspiration—as the kindly, irrepres- | sible jurist would have wanted it to be. | Eulogy in Own Words. For a sermon the officiating pastor, Dr. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, read to a| distinguished congregation in All Souls’ | Unitarian Church the beautifully | phrased eulogy which the late justice himself gave man;y years-ago on the | death of a Massachusetts jurist- “We accept our destiny to work, to fight, to die, for ideal aims. At consumer and industrial boards. “Was any attention paid to the| recommendations of the Labor or Consumer Boards?” Senator Costigan, | Democrat, of Colorado, asked. i “Continually,” Richberg replied. | adding that codes were often held up | for weeks to consider their proposals. the grave of a hero who has done these things, we end, not with sorrow |at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a Kkind of desperate joy, we go back to the fight!” Another poignant touch to the preliminary services in the Sixteenth Ition for him today, watched with| ance before the subcommittee were | | bowed heads as the legal patriarch made today by Chairman Cary and two Republican members, McLeod of Michigan, and Ditter of Pennsylvania. The flare-back of the Swanson- McCarl dispute occurred during hear- ings on the Navy Department’s 1936 appropriation bill when Chairman Cary told Admiral James O. Richard- son, Navy budget officer, that the | position the Navy Secretary had taken was not in accord with the sentiment of his subcommittee. Office Guides. The law, Chairman Cary explained, determines the question and “makes it perfectly plain” that the General Accounting Office should guide the ex- penditures of congressional funds. Cary said: “If this report in the papers be that this subcommittee—and I am sure I speak the sentiments of this subcommittee and the general chair- man of the whole committee, and I hope of the entire Appropriations Com- mittee—is not in accord in any wise with the stand he has taken. Holds Office Valuable. “It is human nature, I know, to re- sent not being free to act independ- Costigan said there was “an im- | street church was the reading by Dr.| ently, and particularly so when it is a pression” the boards had not been | Pierce of a brief poem, “Mysterious matter of judgment and where one successful. “It is not correct,” Richberg re- plied. “The achievements of both were quite considerabie.” Discussing the cotton textile code, the first adopted, Richberg said its provision for a 40-hour week was a | “major achievement” marking a | *“landmark” in industrial relations. | Richberg contended N. R. A. had | brought a tremendous increase in the outlay by industry for wages and re- sulted in re-employing 3,000,000 men. But under close cross-examination by Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, he conceded also that the pressure under which the codes were | drafted resulted in approval of many codes with “doubtful provisions.” Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama, asked what definite formula had been followed to prevent large concerns dominating small ones and “imposing” codes on the latter. He referred specifically to the steel code. Session Crowded Early. Even before today's session started, the doors to the big marble-lined committee room were closed and Capitol police told eager spectators there was no more room. . Richbery again was surrounded by 8 battery of associates and aides, in- cluding S. Clay Williams, chairman of the Recovery Board. John L. Lewis, bushy-browed leader of the United Mine Workers, was in the front row of spectators. Most of the spectators hearing the director of the Emergency Council ‘were women. Almost the full commit- tee engaged in the cross-examination. Richberg testified there had been serious legal question as to the extent the Government could go in code rule “Our recommendation,” he said, “would be that you should ascertain how far it is desirable and practicable to regulate conditions.” Richberg said court decisions de- pended to some extent upon public opinion. “Some court decisions,” Richberg (Continued on Page 4, Column §5.) PSRl BRIBE OFFERER SOUGHT Becret Service Hunts Man Trying to Beat Numbers Game. A search was on today by the secret service for a man who sought to beat the “numbers” racket by attempting to bribe a high Treasury official. The official, whose name was mot disclosed, was offered $1,500 if he would make today’s Treasury balance end with 55,329. The balance actually ended with 43918. The letter, mailed from New York State, was turned over to the secret on his trail. 1 made several bribe | cause of washed out bridges or water- | if it has to be done appropristions Night,” by Joseph Blanco White, ex-| pressing the sanguine philosophy of death to which Justice Holmes sub- scribed. The sonnet—one which Holmes | chose to read at the funeral six| years ago of his wife—compares the approach of death to the falling of the “glorious canopy” of night, and| concludes: “Why do we then shun-death with anxious strife? “If light could thus deceive, wherefore not life?” | ‘The spacious church, where funeral services for the late Chief Justice Taft | were held five years ago, was thronged as Dr. Pierce conducted the regular Unitarian service. Mrs. Roosevelt | represented the White House at the church. The President joined Mrs. Roosevelt at the grave. Among others in the church were Vice President Garner, members of the cabinet, the diplomatic corps and dignitaries of the bench and bar. The honorary pallbearers were Chief Justice Hughes and the eight “(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) TEMPERATURE FALL CURBS FLOOD TIDES Menace Less in Four States After Torrential Rain Swells Rivers. By the Associated Press JACKSON, Miss., March 8.—Drop- ping temperatures today brought some relief to portions of four States menaced with floods as & result of torrential rains during the past three days. Northwest and Central Mississippi and Southern Alabama were still dangered but the waters in Louisi: and Arkansas receded. Flood-weary Northwest Mississippl, which only a few weeks ago experi- enced a major overflow that claimed more than a score of lives, was once again threatened by the rising Cold- water, Yalobusha, Tallahatchie and Yazoo Rivers, East of Ruleville, In Sunflower County, and in the area adjacent to Silver City and Belzoni in Hum- phreys County, the flood became alarm- ing and dozens of farmers near Rule- ville began to evacuate their homes. Further south in Mississippi, resi- dents were forced to flee from their homes east of Laurel as Tallahalla Creek went on a rampage. na must subordinate one’s judgment to that of another, but the General Ac- counting Office occupies a most valu- able and essential place in the Go ernment’s fiscal affairs. It was cre- ated by Congress to carry out this all-important work for the Govern- ment, and I might say in the protec- tion of the Treasury and the appro- priations made by Congress. “Is this to be destroyed by a de- partment of the Government and if the controller general can be shunted around by a cabinet officer or by any other officer in the Government. then the controller general’s office might just as well be abolished. McCarl's Decisions Final. “The act of 1921, known as the budget and accounting act, specifically provides that the general accounting office ‘shall be independent of the executive departments and under the control and direction of the controller general of the United States’ and that the duties of the genersl accounting office shall be exercised ‘without dis- cretion from any other officer.’ This act also provides that ‘the balances certified by the controller general shall be final and conclusive upon the ex- ecutive branch of the Government.’” “I appreciate the fact that the controller general is not infallible. He is human like the rest of us, but in a majority of cases he is right, and it is the duty of this subcommitt-: to uphold his hands. Especially it is our duty to see that the power and au- thority conferred upon him by Con- gress shall not be abrogated or de- stroyed by some branch of the Gov- ernment. If agrieved by his de- cisions, the Navy Department has its remedy. You can come to Congress or you have the Court of Claims to which to resort. Wants Relationship Improved. “I would like to make this observa- tion and leave with you this addi- tional thought. I think what your department needs to do more than anything else is to co-operate with the General Accounting Office, estab- lishing contacts and have personal conferences about these matters of im- portance in the expenditure of pub- lic funds. Certainly. these funds ought to be spent in the way Congress provides they shall be spent. I am afraid there is too much of a tendency on the part of the officers of the Judge Advocate General's Office to have too much pride in their own opinions. These matters can be handled without this department hav- ing any friction with the General Accounting Office, if the ones in there will make up their minds to do so. “Unless there can be an adjustment of this matter, I think this committee ought to recommend to Congress and the Congress ought to enact such Traffic in many portions of Missis- sippl was halted and impeded be- covered highways. legislation as will control this and uphold the General f.l;cuununt Office The demands for Swanson's appear- | the limitation | Psychic FARLEY ATTACK BEFORE SENATE Charges Committee Seeks Answers From Those Named Before Acting. RASCALITY AND FRAUD EVIDENCE OFFERED Photostat Copy of Treasury Let- ter Read Concerning Frustrated Probe of Bank. By the Associated Press. Senator Long, Democrate, of Louis- iana resumed his attack on Post- master General Farley in the Senate today and charged the Post.Office | Committee was seeking answers from | persons named in his investigation resolution before acting on it. Prior to the committee meeting be- hind closed doors for the fifth con- secutive day to consider his proposed investigation of Farley's official con- duct, Long had read to the Senate what he called a photostat copy of a Treasury Department letter which he sald showed “rascality and fraud” in | 8perations of the American National Bank at Nashville. “Grand Jury Influence.” He added Farley had used his m- fluence in frustrating a grand jury investigation of the bank by dis- placing A. V. McLane, United States district attorney, at a time when the jury was about to act. Long had the letter referred to the committee, in addition to a memo- randum in which he said he had | letters from Federal employes in | Washington showing they had been solicited for campaign contributions | with “‘Farley’s knowledge™ in violation | of the law. “I'm not going to disclose the {names,” he said, “because they would be dismissed from the service.” Commenting on the denial of the Tennessee bank cbarges by Norman H. Davis, Ambassador at Large to | Europe, whose name had been linked by Long in the affair, Long said the committee was calling on Farley and the “Davis brothers to find out if | what I say is so or not.” “Not An Investigation.” “They are not making an investi- | gation.” he said. “but ere trying in | advance to see whether the charges are true.” Long also referred to the committee | what he said was an affidavit by Al- bert Caya, former business agent of | the Carpenters’ Distirct Council of this city, saying window glass was taken out of boxes in which it was delivered to the James Stewart Con- struction Co. and “burned” and the labels removed to conceal the “inferior quality of the glass.” The glass, it was said, was intended for the new Interstate Commerce | Commisison Building. Long said the | true, I wish to say to the Secretary Stewart concern was “buying mate- |Tials from Farley's interested con- cern.” | Long referred to the Nashville in- | stitution as the “Davis Brothers | Bank.” The leter he had read was to | McLane from F. A. Guiles, national bank examiner of Atlanta. The letter said an examination of the American National begun July 6, 1933. showed “unusual, if not ir- regular” operations, including transac- tions between that bank and the Union and Planters National Bank of Memphis, “which are no more or less than fictitious entries for the purpose of padding or window dressing.” Illegal Loan Charged. ‘The letter said the records of the bank disclosed M. E. Barr, its cashier, was granted a loan by the bank June 26, 1930, for $2,500, “which is a strict violation of the banking act of 1933.” It added the controller’s call for # report of condition December 31, 1¥31. disclosed a note for $600,000 signed by the Nashville & American Irust Co. and, carried in the assets of the American National, had been “2'im- inated over the period through the following procedure: “A note of the Fourth and First | Banks, Inc, carried by the Nashville American Trust Cu. for $884238, was discounted at par with the First Na- tional Bank of St. Louis with a re- purchase agreement signed by both the American National Bank and the Nashville American Trust Co. __“However, the books of neither show (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) TAKES SOMALILAND POST Gen. Graziani Assumes Governor- ship for Italy. MOGADISHU, Italian Somaliland, March 8 () —Gen Rodolfo Graziani took over the governorship of Italian Somaliland today and assumed the office of commander of the colony's troops. Gen. Graziani, who arrived here on board the S. S. Vuicania, received the symbols of office from Gov. Maurizio Rava, whom he succeeds. o Sfar IT's HIGH, 15 TRED IM FARLEYS ‘COUNTER? PIE- GREENS SPURNED BYAUTOINDUSTRY Manufacturers Denounce A. F. L. Head as Repudiat- ing Roosevelt Settlement. | By the Associated Press. | DETROIT, March 8.—The Automo- | bile Manufacturers’ Association, in & letter to President Willlam Green of | the American Federation of Labor, as- | serted today that the federation, hav- | ing “repudiated the President’s set- tlement, has no just claim to be spokesman for the automobile workers generally.” f The letter, signed by Alfred Reeves. | vice president of the Manufacturers’ Association, was in reply to one rrcm; Green requesting a conference with | manufacturers to negotiate a wage and working conditions agreement. in- dependently of the National Automo- | bile Labor Board. The Labor Board, created by President Roosevelt, a year ago, to avert a threatened tie-up in the motor car industry, has been se- | verely criticized by Green and other Federation of Labor officials. Declared “Unprovoked Aggression.” Reeves informed Green the manu- | facturers intended to abide by the | agreement and charged that the fed- eration’s call for a strike vote was an act of “unprovoked aggression against | the welfare of employes” and against the progress of recovery. The letter also denied flatly charges contained in a communication signed by the National Council of Automo- bile Workers' Federal Labor Unions | concerning working conditions. “The charges of conspiracy, dis- | crimination, coercion, intimidation and of the existence of company dom- | inated and controlled unions,” Reeves wrote, “are false and without founda- tion. Any one making such charges shows himself to be irresponsible.” Charged With Creating Strife. Continuing, Reeves told Green: “The American Federation of La- bor, whose members are only & small minority of the employes of the in- dustry, by withdrawing from the | President’s settlement and by sup- | porting Mr. Dillon’s call for a strike | vote is thereby creating a strife in the industry.” (Francis J. Dillon is | chief organizer for the federation in | the automobile industry.) | “Having repudiated the President's | settlement, representing, as it doec, | only & small minority of the automo- | bile workers, and having dJeclared | | itself aggressor against the prace of the industry, the American Federa- tion of Labor has no just claim to be spokesman for the automobile workers generally.” At the outset, Reeves said that since the Manufacturers’ Association is not itself an employer of auto- mobile workers, it “has no occasion to carry on collective bargaining,” and “does not arrange such confer- ences as you suggest. “No provision of law or other au- thority grants to a self appoinged committee of the American Federa- tion of Labor any right to appoint representatives for the employes of | the industry * * *» Stabilization Is Urged. LONDON, March 8 (). — Dr. | Nicholas Murray Butler's unofficial | 10-power conference today recom- | mended immediate provisional stabili- zation of currencies as a move toward world recovery. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 8.—If the spir- its can find their way into a strange hotel room, Emerson Gilbert, 34-year- old medium, can claim a $10,000 prize; if not, he must stand trial for prac- ticing medicine without a license. Magistrate Jonah J. Goldstein gave Gilbert until tomorrow to decide whether he could make the spirits re- spond. It is their second chance. Goldstein went to Gilbert's spiritu- alist church Sunday, but the medium said “unsympathetic vibrations” and & touch of nervous indigestion (the medium’s, not the spirits’) kept the wraiths away. mu"l ll‘l‘:d' “l,ny limitations,” the chairman of the Universal Society for Research, as an expert ob- Prize or Police Trial Depends On Whether Spirits Respond Dunninger laid down the conditions under which Gilbert must work. The medium must call the spirits with & newspaper man and one. of his own followers holding his hands and feet, and with all other followers at least 12 feet away. “If Gilbert,” said Dunninger, “under | these conditions can produce pheno- mena which I cannot explain or dupli- cate by natural and gcientific means, I will not only resign as chairman of the society and forever be a believer in spirits, but I will turn over to Gil- bert the $10,000 prize which I have put up for any medium who can pro- duce genuine spiritual phenomena.” Gilbert was arrested on the com- plaint of two policewomen who alleged they pald him $10 for a “treatment” in his apartment. His counsel, deny- %mt Gilbert “practiced 3 h cures were affected by faith. ) 3-Day Forecast I Sees End of Cold | Rain on Sunda‘)" Bureau Makes Conces- -sion to Weekenders in Citizens Flee Athens as| Early Prediction. The Weather Bureau today made a concession to long-range forecasting and predicted the weather for three days in one fell swoop. Usually careful to limit its predic- | tions to two days at the outside, the bureau’s lastest forecast gives its opin- | ion of the weather for today, Satur- day and Sunday. It was: Cloudy and | somewhat colder tonight, with a mini- mum of 30 degrees: continued cloudy tomorrow, followed by rain tomorrow night; warmer Sunday. Such procedure is a recent develop- ment. The last three-day prediction was January 12. It is done as an aid for week-enders and holiday seekers who plan trips with an eye to the weather. However, so uncontrollable is the | weather that the bureau hesitates to | (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. PATIENT ENDS LIFE BY SUFFOGATION Woman Tapes Nose and Mouth—Suicide Verdict Ends Probe. While in her bed in a surgical The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. L2 L] esterday’s Circulation, 1 31,892 Some Returns Not Yet Received. HAVE You) GREECE OPENS AR ATTACK ON REBELS Great Offensive Starts in Provinces. BULLETIN. ATHENS, March 8 (#).—Former Premier Eleutherios Venizelos was reported wounded today. | (Copyright, 1938, by the Associated Press.) | ATHENS, March 8—Gen. George Kondylis today began an offensive against the rebel forces in the Struma Valley, hurling against them a 12- plane bombing attack. A revolt within the revolt was re- ported as advices were received of in- ternal trouble spreading in the rebel ranks. The soldiers, it was reported were demanding arrangement whereby the command be passed to non-com- missioned officers. The government announced today that a wireless message had been in- | tercepted indicating that the rebels | | were “at the end of their rope” and ready to capitulate. The message, reputedly from Gen. Demetrius Kamanos, rebel leader, was |said to have been addressed to his | aides in other sectors. Gen. Kondylis, who dropped his war portfolia to direct the government's action. was handicapped by heavy weather and faced further difficul- ties in the Struma River section be- cause the stream, swollen by rains and melting snow overflowed its banks and flooded entire districts. Sole news of the operations of the rebel fleet indicated it was resorting to reprisals as a result of the Turkish embargo on Greek ships placed at the request of the Athens government A report from Istanmul said the rebel flagship Averoff had stopped the Turkish steamer Konia,'which was en ward in St. Elizabeth's Hospital sur- | route to Smyrna, and conducted it to rounded by other patients, Miss Anna | C. Norcia, 25, committed suicide last | night by taping her nose and mouth with adhesive tape so she couldn't breathe. Her face buried in her pillow, the young woman was discovered dead shortly before 2 am. by two nurses and a supervisor. Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDonald viewed the body this afternoon and issued a certificate of suicide. 5 One nurse noticed Miss Norcia and | thought she was asleep until a second | nurse rcmarked she had not moved | for some time. Turning her over | they found her nose and mouth bound | and summoned a physician who pro- nounced her dead. 1 Apparently patients in beds nearby had noticed nothing unusual. Miss Norcia had been a patient at the hospital since September and was suffering from an organic brain con- dition, it was said by Dr. H. C. Woolley, assistant superintendent of the hospital. Dr. Woolley described her as “a good patient and very ro- operative,” although she sometimes suffered fits of despondency, he said. Dr. MacDonald’s verdict of suicide brought to an end a police investiga- tion in the case, to which a member of the police homicide squad had been assigned earlier. JAPANESE APPROVE BIG WAR BUDGET | House of Peers Passes on $142,- 000,000 for Army and $154,- 000,000 for Navy. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 8.—The House of Peers enacted the 1935-36 budget to- day, giving final approval to the de- mands of Japan's army and navy leaders for the largest military ap- propriations in the empire’s history. An uncounted standing vote re- corded the peers as dverwhelmingly in favor of the bill, which allocates 47 per cent of the appropriations for the current fiscal year to the army and navy. The House of Representa- tives approved the measure Feb- ruary 14, ‘The budget totals 2,210,000,000 yen (about $600.000,000). From this sum the army will receive 490.000,000 yen (about $142.000,000) and the navy 530,000,000 yen (about $154,000,000). Bandits Rob Card Players. MIAMI —Abruptly interrupting a hotel card game early today, five bandits took more than $1,000 in cash from seven players and & dlamond ring valued y 1 Mytilene. Gen. Kondylis unleashed his plane attack after Premier Tsaldaris re- ceived a report from the ministes of war that yesterday's aerial efforts “were in vain.” During the previous efforts two of the planes were forced to return be- cause of fog and one fell in a gale. The crew were saved by using para- chutes. Gen. Kondylis said: “The action has been feeble. We have been working on uniting the organization Gen. Panagiotakos has just returned from the front and says our army's morale is excellent. In another declaration Kondylis reiterated that the government troops will occupy Kavalla “48 hours after the weather permits an attack.” and declared “Venizelos has lost the game” because the government has control of Athens, Larissa and Sa- lonika, Greece's principal centers. Residents of Athens, alarmed at the prospect of a rebel bombardment of ::e ancient ct-‘ptm‘ rflocked today to e comparative safet; S conipa y of outlying Every available plece of artillery was mounted on the ramparts of Piraeus, the city's seaport, to repel the expected attack. Apprehension approaching terror gripped the populace despite the gov- ernment’s assurances that there was “nothing to be feared.” In a statement to the Associated Press, Premier Tsaldaris said his gov- ernment does not fear the rebellion. The exodus from the city started at dawn, families streaming toward the suburbs carrying basket lunches. Anxiety increased with daylight, since lighthouse beacons along the entire Aegean sesboard were extinguished | during the night as a precaution against a naval assault. The Athenians’ concern was caused by reports that Admiral Desmetichas, commanding the insurgent fleet, had delivered an ultimatum to the Greek government that he would shell the city unless Premier Tsaldaris resigned and delivered the reins of government into the hands of former Premier Eleutherios Constantine Venizelos. from Eastern Macedonia that heavy snowfall still impeded the advance of the loyalist troops’ heavy artillery had dashed the government’s hopes that Gen. Kondylis could launch immediately _his_major_offensive to (Continued on Page 3, Column 5. SILVER MOVE IS DENIED SHANGHAI, March 8 (#).—H. H. Kung, Chinese minister of finance, today characterized rumors that China is planning to abandon the silver standard and adopt a man- aged currency as “premature and ill- informed.” “While the government is prepar- ing adequate measures to deal with the situation,” Kung said, “current reports of its intentions are both pre- mature and ill-informed.” ~ (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. RADICAL PENSION BILL IS APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP Labor Committee Votes Lundeen Measure, 7-6, in Reconsideration Move. MEMBERS DEADLOCKED, 7-7, FOR DELAY AT FIRST Charges of Communistic Backing Bandied Back and Forth in Bitter Session. | After it had been tabled once, through a tie vote, the radical Lundeen old-age pension and unemployment insurance bill was approved by the House Labor Committee today, voting for a second time after one of the committee members had been called away from the hearing. ‘The committee, at one of the bitter- ‘ut sessions in many years, first voted, | 7 to 7, on a motion to postpone con- ‘udtrluon of the bill indefinitely. Then, after Representative Keller, | Democrat, of Mlinois, had been sum- | moned to his office by his secretary, another ballot was taken, and the | 7-to-6 favorable vote resulted Charges that the Lundeen bill car- ries the support of Communist or- ganizations were bandied back and | forth during a long and heated session There was unusually plain talk across the table while the effort to get fa- vorable action was being led by Repre- sentative Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, and Representative Dunn, { Democrat, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the subcommittee which conducted hearings on the measure. Backed by Radical Group. The bill has had the backing of | numerous groups urging more radical | legislation than that of the admin- istration - supported Wagner - Lewis measure. The Lundeen bill would let the Fed- eral Government pay unemployment and oldeage insurance equal to pre- vailing wages. provided the payment was not less than $10 weekly plus $3 for each dependent. ‘The bill would make a direct general appropriation for financing the job and old-age insurance without provid- ing any means of raising revenue. The administration’s bill, now pend- | ing before the House Ways and Means Committee, would levy special taxes for the financing of most phases of its program. | Where the Lundeen bill establishes but one class of old-age pension, the administration’s measure would estab- lish three. The Lundeen minimum | pension would be $40 a month: the | administration’s bill sets no minimum, | but limits to $15 a month the Fed- | eral Government's contribution to a | “needy” old-age pension. The administration bill also pro- vides pensions based on taxes collected | on pay rolls, as well as old-age an- | nuities. Cost Set at $6,000,000,000 Yearly. It is estimated that the Lundeen bill would cost some $6,000,000,000 or $7,000,000,000 a year. Under it un- employment relief would start imme- | diately with unemployment instead | of waiting for six weeks as is provided | in the Wagner-Lewis bill. Several members of the committee said today's action in favorably re- porting a measure which has no chance of being passed in the House would result in the Labor Committee losing its standing and influence. Chairman Connery of the Labor Committee was instructed to apply to the Rules Committee for a special rule to give the measure privileged status. It was Connery who cast the decid- |ing vote reporting out the bill. He |said he is in favor of having the | measure brought up on the floor under | an open rule, because he believes that through full discussion it will be pos- Isihle to put through a measure which | will do justice to the working men. 'HITLER'S CONDITION | ‘GREATLY IMPROVED’ | Nazi Officialdom Believes He “Put One Over” by Spurning Sir John. | By the Assoctated Press BERLIN, March 8.—An air of con- fidence pervaded Wilhelmstrasse to- day as the word circulated that the “slight cold” which prompted Reichs- fuehrer Hitier to cancel his confer- ence with Sir John Simon. the British foreign secretary,, was “greatly im- proved.” Nazi officialdom plainly indicated its belief that Hitler had “put one over on the British” by withdrawing his invitation to Sir John. The convie- tion was expressed that the British foreign secretary will accept a later invitation if the Reichsfuehrer de- cides to issue one. Hitler was said to be awaiting the tone of the debate in the House of Commons next Monday over publica- tion of the controversial white paper before deciding his future course. Great Britain was described by some officials as “greatly embarrassed” by the Reichstuehrer’s move Guide for Reade Page. Amusements ..C-4 Comics ... 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