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WEATHER. (U S Weather Bureau For Fair, slightly colder tonight; minimum temperature about 28 degrees: tomorrow fair. slowly rising temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 45, today; lowest, 35, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages Fntered as seco! post office. Wa CONTROL OF WAGE HELD PRINCIPAL OBIECTIVE OF NRA. Minimum Pay and Maxi- mum Hours “Fundamental,” Williams Tells Senato;s. No. 33,189. PROTECT|ON OF WORKER CITED AS CHIEF AIM/| Tells Committee He Was Not Urg- ing Anything to Lift Prices Above Normal. By the Associated Press. S. Clay Williams, chairman of the National Recovery Board. today termed | control of minimum wages and maxi- | mum hours the “fundamental” prin- | ciple of N.R. A, He was the second witness in the Senate Finance Committee’s investi- gation of N. R. A_’s code structure and | testified before a full committee room | with most members of the committee | present. Williams already has notified President Roosevelt of his intention to return to private business shortly. “The primary objective, the funda- mental of N. R. A.." he said. “was the provision under which wages should be established as not below a fixed minimum. “The effort was to guarantee to the ' worker that his wage would not be driven below a certain minimum living wage. | “From industry’s standpoint that | took wages out of the list of things| that manufacturers compete with each other on.” i Williams said wage limjts also in-, volved control of hours. Controlling wages and hours, he continued, raises an issue in cases of units of industry which can compete only because of “unconscionably low wages.” Protects Wage Level. “N. R. A. has always resolved that doubt in favor of protecting the wage level.” he said “I don’t mean to indicate there are very many units that fall within that classification, but there are some.” Williams said N. R. A’s provisions on child labor. minimum wages, max- imum hours and proper working con- ditions were generally approved. These provisions, he said. “lead into the fringe of the price territory.” | ‘When you say to an industry,” Wil- | liams testified, “that it must eliminate child labor and observe maximum hours and ::nimum wages you have placed an additional burden on that industry. “The question comes forward from | # number of units that say. ‘It is all right. but it happens I am subject to certain practices of my competitors | that leave me in a weakenec condi- | tion. therefore T will go with you, but | 1 should be protected from certain practices.” * recast ) at 11 am. 17,18&19 na class matte: shington, D. C. ah WASHINGTON, D. C, Wallace Asks F actory Goods Increase as Aid to Farmer Tells House Group Greater Output at Lower Prices Is Vital as Next Reco By the Associated Press. A suggestion by Secretary Wallace that factories should turn out 50 per cent more goods at “definitely lower” prices dropped today into the ¢cbate | over future industrial recovery pol- | icles. Wallace said these cheaper goods would be a great help to farm- 1 ers, for whom crop reductions have about reached their maximum ben- | efits. | Moreover, he insisted to a House Appropriations Subcommitiee during hearings on the Agriculture Depart- | ment’s 1936 supply bill. an increase ot 30 or 40 per cent “in the output of physical goods in the cities” is a | prerequisite “to getting the entire | very Step. Outlining his plan before the com- mittee, Wallace said: “If in some way it were possible to turn out 50 per cent more industrial goods at a price definitely lower than the present price the result would be to give a very material benefit to agriculture, to make it possible for agriculture to buy more with the agri- cultural dollar. and there would be more factory workers to be fed in the cities.” “What methods should be used to bring about that increase is certainly not for me to say,” the Secretary de- clared He also asserted: “We have reached the conclusion country in better condition " | that further action along the line of An appropriation of $118,112.878 to | reducing production will not greatly run the department for the fiscal year | increase the farmer’s share in the beginning next July 1 was recom- | Dational income.” mended to the House today by the _ “Are we to understand.” asked Appropriations Committee. Th Chairman Cannon. “that from this resented a decrease of $208,825,136 be- time on these methods may be ex- low the amount made available for Pected to prove ineffective; that farm this year. TAX RATEREPORT DETECTIVE DENES SEFOREPRESIDENT WOMANS CHARE Survey Compares Levies in Maghan Defends Himself 40 Cities With Those | Before House Crime in District. i Investigation. BY JI. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt has before him the figures collected from various cities throughout the country regard- ing their tax rates as compared with those of the District Columbia BULLETIN, Inspector T. R. Bean told the Crime Committee of the House this afternon that Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas. had PREVAILING WAGE SHOWDOWN NEAR INSENATE TODAY McCarran Ready to Go to Bat and Take Vote on Amendment. | |PAIRS FOR ABSENTEE | SENATORS ARRANGED | gLong Proposal to Allocate $300,-‘ ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION © HURRY UP AN’ HELP ME CLOSE THIS EXH)BIT 1 1T JuST AINT DECENT! 000,000 to Educate Poor Chil- dren Beaten, 58 to 27. BY C. GOULD LINCOLN. A showdown on the McCarran pre- vailing wage amendment to the Presi- | dent’s work relief bill may come be- | fore adjournment today, according to Senator McCarran of Nevada, author of the amendment. The Nevada Senator let it be known | that he and other supporters of his |amendment were ready and anxious to go to bat and take a vote on the amendment. He expressed confidence |that the Senate would again write into the work relief bill the prevail- ‘1ng Wage. which the President has stoutly resisted, demanding the so-called “security wage.” Pairs have been arranged. it is | understood, for absentee Senators Mrs Caraway of Arkansas is to be taken care of through a pair and Senator Overton of Louisana, who has been ill and absent from the Senate may come onto the floor long encugh to vote. it was said. 1 | Fight Over Amendment. The McCarran amendment. which | has the support of organized labor, has tied the Senate into a bowknot for weeks and delayed final disposition of the work relief bill. When the | Senate first voted on the amendment some three weeks ago it was adopted | by a vote of 44 to 43. Since then two instead | o Star THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1935—SIXTY-FOUR PAGES. SE LD TAX PAYER. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,769 Some Returns Not Yet Received (#) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. | UTILITIES STOCKS DROP 32 BILLION INFEDERAL DRIVE Testimony of Wendell Willkie | Opens Fight Against Hold- | ing Company Control. END OF “DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS” ASKED £ The INCOME House Committee Told Govern- ment Is to Blame for Present Securities Conditions. { | | | | i SEENBYGTYHEADS NEW LOCAL TAXES | ! Must Raise Money for Social Security—Uncertain What | Forms Are Best. An increase in the District’s tax The information. in the form of large graphic charts as well as de- | tailed reports. was sent to Mr. Roose- velt three days ago by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. and is now among papers on his desk marked “immediate attention.” Just when he will be able to study the report could not be learned at the White House today. It was said. how- ever, that he intends to act as soon as possible, and it was intimated he will transmit the data to Congress. along with a communication in which he will express his personal views. Data From 40 Cities. The statistics were collected from 20 cities larger than the Districr of Columbia and an equal number of smaller cities. They were ordered by the President last Fall. The report was first ent (0 him in Januarv but | because cf the absence of certaimn in- formation the President sent .t back to the Treasury Department for re- Williams said he was not urging | vision. *price maintenance or anything cal- | Not hearing anything further. the culated to lift the price level above | President iast week sent a brief re- normal.” minder to Secretary Morgenthau to This led into a discussion of pro- ' hurry matiers, and, as a result, the visions for a 10 per cent margin be- ;revlsed report reacked him Tuesday. tween cost and selling price. Williams i The President undertook the survey said more than 300 codes had cost | of comparable tax burdens in the be- ..ccounting provisions, but in only 39 | lief that the findings would be help- .ases had N. R. A. approved cost|ful in reaching some solution of the account procedure. relcuux_'flnxn‘e,wob"e:m& lng;:\;dtln :\s;:l - relations n the ict an the Wioslh Wediyor Cafics fo 181 national Government The President | Consolidations and eliminations that | has never committed himself upon the | would reduce N. R. A's 731 codes to a | mere 181 were proposed yesterday by | subjeck of taxes hLere or upon the question nf whether the Government | son had been made the “goat” in the conspired with Police Supt. Brown to force his retirement so that Inspector Albert J. Headley could be elevated to the rank of an as- sistant superintendent. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Robert J. Maghan, third precinct detective, categorically denied today | before the Special Crime Committee | be voted down, a substitute somewhat of the House charges made against him two days ago by Mrs. Mary Parks ifor- ley, 1010 Twenty-third strect. ‘Taking the witness stanu at his own request, in the face of several warn- ings that his statements might be used for or against him in future develop- ments, Maghan related in detail his own version of the story of a house- breaking case* involving Mrs. Morley's 17-year-old son, Richard Parks, and two other boys, John E. Hug Jr.. and James K. Phelps. Maghan. who investigated the case i at the request of a friend. insisted he had not acted as a “judge and jury.” as Mrs. Morley charged. nor had he been instrumental in trying to have her make restitution in another rob- bery in which the boy denied his guilt. The committes failed to question Maghan relative to Mrs. Morley's charges that her son was beaten in the third precinct station. She had testifled that one of four officers who interrogated the boy had struck him in the head. Denies Indictment Blame. Mrs. Morley also had charged her Donald R. Richberg, administration | is contributing its fair share io the robbery in which he and the Hughes spokesman. who said 537 of the codes | support of Washington. could be dropped by bunching the great bulk of small industries under | a single blanket trade agreement. But. | | Noncommittal on Contribation. i ‘When he first discussed his plan to and Phelps boys had confessed. be- cause ne was the only one indicted at that time. The Phelps boy was placed on probation by Juvenile Court he warned, there would be plenty of | Institute this tax survey he made it | Judge Fay Bentley, and an indict- protest from those affected. He followed this by to service trades” and said that by in- cluding the 13 major service trades in the codes to be dropped that only 181 would be left. All these. he| testified. would apply to business en- | gaged in interstate commerce. Much more aggressive than auring previous sessions Fkefore the 3enate | Finance Committee. Richberg con- | cluded his series of appearances as a | witness in the Senzte inquiry oy tell- | ing newspaper men that N. R. A. was not going to “fold up.” He nlso‘ said Senaior Borah's charge that the =leel code rad raised prices as much | as 800 per cent was “perfectly silly. "‘ Steel Price Code Backed. Meanwhile. from the American Iron | & Steel Institute came a statement that an inquiry among members of the steel code had disclosed a strong indorsement of the basing point :meth- | od of fixing steel prices. Under the | basing point method all steel sold in a given area is priced to include the | freight charges ‘rom a specified point in the arsa—this peint being xnown as the rasing poirt. The institute statement said that abandonment of the basing point method in favor of prices quoted f. o. b. mills would create virtual monopo- lies for those mills which were rear important markets. It saic smell as well as large mills favored continu- ence of the basing point method. “Replies were receivea from 203 members of (he cod> representing 979 per cent of the ingot capacity of the industry and 98.3 per cent of the finishing capacity,” the statement #aid. ITALO-ETHIOPIAN PARLEY | FAILS TO SETTLE ROW Question of Reparations Again Proves Snag—Abyssianians Insist on Arbitration. By the Associated Press. ROME, March 14.—Negotiations for settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian troubles again reached a deadlock to- day, officials here said, in expressing themselves dissatisfied with develop- ments in East Africa. ‘The Ethiopians, official quarters said, remain adamant in their deter- mination to pay reparations for bat- tles at Ualual and Afdub only if an adjudges international commission Ethjopia guilty of aggression. The Italians are equally firm in/| insisting the matter is one for direct | negotiation, and not arbitration. 1 , ion | S v this sub- the suggestion | Self as well as Congress on that the Government “withdraw from | Ject of whether the people of Wash- | all compulsory action with reference | ington were paying enough or too much taxes. | money the Federal Government should Longshoremen’s While Mr. Roosevelt has been non- committal regarding the amount of contribute to the District, he has frankly criticized what he termed the “hit and miss” methods, which have characterized fiscal relationships be- tween the District and Congress. . SUGAR REFINERY IN STATE OF SIEGE Pickets Block Entrance of Workers to California Plant. By the Associated Press. CROCKETT, Calif., March 14.—The California-Hawalian Sugar Refinery here was in a state of siege as nearly 300 pickets of the International Long- shoremen’s Association blocked en- trance to0 non-union workers. A citi- zens’ “Peace Committee” last night patroled the streets armed with clubs and tear-gas bombs. Several fist fights were reported to the sheriff’s office 1t Martinez, and every available deputy was hurried to the scene to keep order. William Tyler, vice president of the corporation, denied there was any strike. Officials of the Longshoremen’s Union said there was a walkout of about 150 sugar company warchouse employes, who quit in protest over an election last Friday in which the ware- house workers voted not to let the I. L. A. represent them. The I. L. A. charged the company failed to keep !L! promise not to elec- tioneer amongithe workers. Guide for Readers After Dark. ... Amusements Comics . Features . Finance . . Lost and Found. Radio ...... Serial Story Service Orders. . Short Story... Society . Sports ... t | plain his purpose was to satisfy h@#- 1ment against the Hughes boy was not | returned until today. Maghan declared he was not re- sponsible for the earlier failure to indict the Hughes boy. although under the pressure of questions by Repre- sentative Reed, Republican, of Illinois, he expressed the opinion that “pos- sibly” the youth should have been in- dicted. He said, however, he felt there was “a great deal of distinction between the two cases.” Delay in the prosecution of the Hughes boy, Maghan testified, was due to Assistant United States Attorney Henry Schweinhaut, who, he said, an- nounced before the case was taken to the grand jury that he would nolle prosse an indictment involving that | youth, Restitution Demand Denied. Maghan told the committee Mrs. Morley expressed a desire to make restitution in the robbery case in which she said her son was not in- volved. He said he told her he would not have any objection to such an ar- rangement, although he would not take any part in it. Mrs. Morley previously had told the committee Maghan had insisted that she make restitution in the particular case. The amount of money involved was said to be $67. On the witness stand for two hours, Maghan gave a complete account of the part he played in the case. Immediately after the detective took the oath, John R. Fitzpatrick, commit- tee counsel, reminded him of his con- stitutional rights, but Maghan said: “I am more than anxious to make a statement.” It was the first time since the be-’ ginning of the crime investigation that a witness had been so warned. Collusion Is Alleged. Stories of alleged collusion between police and underworld characters were related to the committee at yesterday afternoon’s hearing by Wilbur La Roe, jr, who apeared in the dual role of chairman of the District Parole Board and head of the Committee on Civic Affairs of the Washington Fed- eration of Churches. Information given the committee indicated that police acted as escorts and lookouts for trucks coming into the District laden with post-repeal bootleg alcohol. The collusion angle was developed as La Roe told the committee why the Parole Board recently revoked the freedom of Harry Yudelevit, notorious Washington bootlegger. and returned him to Lorton to finish a sentence. Yudelevit, La Roe testified, at- tempted to aid a “big shot” alcohol bootlegger named Montgomery. “We revoked Yudelevit’s parole,” he & Vermont Republican Senators have revenues must be provided if Wash- indicated that they might swing over ID8ton is to have unemployment insur- and vote with the President against: 2nce. Engineer Commissioner Dan I the McCarran amendment. The Mc- Sultan declared today. Carranites, on the other hand, claimed | The Commissione; yet have not that one or two Senators who voted | Placed on record their approval of the against their proposal are now ready | Ellenbogen unemployment insurance {0 go along with them. The indica- Measure. but the three members of the tions are that the vote will be close POard are in favor of the plan, as a {in any case. part of the national program pro- Should the McCarran amendment | Posed to Congress by President Roose- velt. Col Sultan said ‘Additional revenue certainly will be needed to pay the cost of unemploy- ment insurance here.” Col. Sultan | along the line of the amendment | offered by Senator Reynolds of North | Carolina, may be tried. The Reynolds amendment provides for the payment | S8id. “The board has not acted | of the prevailing wags, but authorizes | 10rmally. on the District insurance | the President to pay lower wages 4f | Plan and thercfore has not taken a it is found that the payment of the Stand on the kind of new revenues prevailing wage is drawing men from ~Which should be adopted. | private industry. or preventing their Hopes Congress Will Act. | return to private f y. » Bl “Personally, it seems to me an in- Long Proposal Defeated. come tax for the District for this pur- Miss Earhart Calls Tale of Hunger at W hite House False JAPAN CONFIDENT ON NAVY PARLEY Looks Forward to Confer- ence, but Will Stand Pat on Terms. Says She Had Plenty to Eat—Praises First Lady as Hostess. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK. March 14.—Amelia Earhart went hungry at the White House? By ‘he Assoclated Press Nothing to the report. the famous TOKIO, March 14.—Admiral Mineo ‘ flyer said today. g z “I have just read reports alleging Osumi. minister of the navy. said today he would not discuss “subjects that during a recent visit to the White House I did not get enough to | which presuppose the failure of a conference” which would be called to eat,” Miss Earhart said “Naturally. I have never given out o= an interview concerning my stay there, Cconsider the replacement of th During my visit. because of outside Washington and London naval engagements, 1 took only breakfasts, treaties. which consisted of exactly what I In an interview with the Associated have every morning at home, fruit Press. Admiral Osumi took the posi- juice, cereal and cocoa. I have wired tion that the Japanese navy's out- look does not extend beyond “the forthcoming naval conference Mrs. Roosevelt that raiding the ice He refused to discuss what Japan box is never necessary when she supervises arrangements. and that the would do in event the treaties lapse :nd are not replaced or whether story as reported concerning my al- leged ‘going hungry’ as a White House Japan would attempt to gain parity with the United States by building guest is baseless. “As a matter of fact. I consider Mrs warships if she fails to obtain it by means of a new treaty. Roosevelt the perfect hostess and as en administrator of a household, Osumi insisted that Japan's demand without peer.” By the Associated Press Wendell L. Willkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern Corp., told the House Interstate Commerce Com- mittee today that “largely as a result of the Government campaign against public utilities. the value of utility securities has declined by $3.500.000,000 since January 1, 1933." This assertion opened the testimony | of opponents to the Wheeler-Rayburn | measure to abolish holding companies | in five years. President Roosevelt has urged legis- lation to abolish those unable to show they are operated in the public interest Willkie appealed for an end to tne “lash™ of “defamatory statements’ from Washington “and a chance to unleash our organizations for con- structive purposes.” Plight Laid to Government. He blamed the Government for the | present plight of the companies, sav- ing Government officials deliberatelv sought to build up a “favorable’ press despite facts to the contrary and predicted punishment would &r meted out to him for his statements He said enactment of the perdirz legislation “will not only cause fur- ther enormous loss to the American family, hut will represent the great- est backward step in the history ot power developmen..’ Complaining that utilities companies were not given a chance to pass upon or know “about the innuendoes, in- sinuations and misrepresentations contained in the press releases and statements of conclusion by which the attempt is being made to create a ‘favorable press’ for the passage of the pending bill and to prejudice our cause in advance of its presentation.” the official said a Federal Trade Com- mission_official investigating his com- pany’s New York office congratulated its business operation, but when asked why he did not include that in his The Senate soon after it met today defeated an amendment offered by Senator Long of Louisiana, proposing pose might prove to be the least pain- | ful, but I am not yet committed to any | form. 1t is our hope that Congress to allocate $300,000.000 to send chil- Will pass on the national unemploy- dren of poor parents through college. | Ment insurance plan before a District The vote. was 58 to 27. law is enacted so that we may be Possibility of a vole today came SUuided by the principles of the Fed- after Senator Long's threat to filj- eral program.” | buster against the bill until the pairs Further support of the principle of had been arranged. employes’ contriblitions was brought Long was playing for time because, | 0ut at the concluding hearings on the he charged. there was an undercm'ef- | bill before a House Subcommittee this movement to prevent the votes of Mrs | MOINIng. Caraway and Senator Overton from Three witnesses. the first being counted in favor of the Mc- | Magnussen. director of the | Carran prevailing wage amendment. | INRton _office of the International Threatening yesterday to t } | Labor Union: Leifur Wash- | the second. Rufus S.| “until some other Senators get sick.” he snid:l “Time after time the lady from Arkansas and my colleague from Louisiana have accommodated Sena- tors by consenting to pairs. but when | it comes to one or two votes differ- ences and you throw the rule in the ash can—that can't be.” | Senator Glass, Democrat of Virginia, | Who s in charge of the bill as chair- {man of the Appropriations Committee, though he does not favor such a large works fund, is becoming exasperated over delays. He told the Louisiana he did not intend to “take advantage” of any Senator’s absence, but if Long intended to make the fight a “physical sessions until late at night. | —_—— |PROBE OF NAVY AWARDS FAVORED BY COMMITTEE Failure of West Coast Shipyards to Get Contracts Prombtl House Action. By the Associated Press. Coast shipyards to obtain contracts for any of the 24 naval vessels whose construction was begun last Summer, the House Naval Committee today in- | Structed Chairman Vinson to inform Secretary Swanson it favored an in- vestigation. Several measures before the com- mittee would have a board of naval experts and engineers visit San Pran- cisco Bay and Los Angeles harbor to investigate existing facilities pertain- ing to the upkeep of the fleet. Meanwhile, Representative Delaney, Democrat of New York, threatened to resign from the committee as a protest. against what he termed discourteous treatment received Congressmen from n: yards, i By the Associated Press. MARKED TREE, Ark., March 14— Norman Thomas, erstwhile presidential candidate on the Socialist ticket, traveled through the in the cotton st country are the worst in “After & day in the field, I find no mnnfl“:mwuy 5 about this situ- ference to the sharecropper as the forgotten man of the New Deal, made after a visit to this State in February, 193¢, is just as accurate today.” Thomas turned darts of sharp J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas, and |~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) the State Legislature, endurante contest” he would hold | As a result of the failure of West | belt today, charging m:h.mm a criticism on President Roosevelt, Gov. | said Lusk. executive director of the Wash- ington Taxpayers Association. and the third, James E. Colliflower. presi- dent of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association, spoke in support ! of this provision. Lusk’s testimony was marked by a fiery exchange with Representative | Ruben T. Wood. Democrat. of Mis- | souri, and with Chairman Ellenbogen. Democrat, of Pennsylvania. Calls City “Paradise.’ “Washington is a taxpaver's para- | dise. a city which has never known | the real meaning of the depression.” | Wood continued: change. | degree of prosperity during the past | four years than any other in Amer- ica. ployed here on Government rolls. pay_66 cents to stand to see a_show | "(Continued on Page 20, Column 1) —_— | New Zealanders Oppose With- drawing Ships in Competition. ‘. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, March 14 (®)—A delegation from the New Zealand Federated Seamen's | Union today interviewed Prime Min- |ister G. W. Forbes to protest the withdrawal of two union steamship |liners from the New Zealand-Aus- | tralian route because of “unfair com- petition from nighly subsidized United | States Jiners.” The union conterded it was highly unjust that the United States ves- | sels should be able to compete freely between British ports, while British vessels were unable freely to compete with United States {Honolulu and American continental ports. Conditions in Cotton Country Worst in U. S., Says Thomas| . “1 believe the President is insulated as to what is going on," he said in asserting that Presidential Marvin McIntyre had wired him Roosevelt would not be able to receive representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, but bad in- stead suggested a conference with De- partment of Agriculture officials. “If the Government can intervene as it has with the A. A. A.” said ‘Thomas, “it can see that there is relief and that farm evictions are ended ” Turning his guns on Arkansas’ Gov- ernor, who told him yesterday the State had no funds for investigation of the plantation system, Thomas It 1 were to present & caricature of a Governor, it would be of Putrell.” A Py Wood declared during a heated ex- | “This city has enjoyved a greater | You have 100,000 steadily em- | Your theaters are packed so that we | |SEAMEN VOICE PROTEST ships between | RADIO PLANE MAY ~ HOP AT MIDNIGHT Activity Indicates Govern- ment’s New Ship May Leave for Honolulu. By the Assoclated Press. OAKLAND. Calif. March 14— Preparations at the airport here to- day indicated to observers the Gov- ernment’s new radio-compass plane might take off at midnight on the 2,400-mile flight to Honolulu. the first stop in a proposed trans-Pacific commercial air route. Mechanics were busy correcting a generator and one of the fuel pumps, | with which the aviators had diffi- | culty while making a test hop. Orders were given for the delivery of 1,200 gallons of gesoline tonight, and observers said they believed this indicated the ship was to start on the long flight. ‘Weather reports were good, with the exception of a small area 1800 miles at sea, where rain squalls prevailed 300 Miles on Test Flight. The new twin-motored cabin plane flew 300 miles to sea yesterday and cutter Shoshone. It was probable the crew would in- clude Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger, navigator, who with Lester Maitland from Oakland to Honolulu in 1927. He may be accompanied by Capt. | Clayton Bissell. who piloted the plane |in test flights, and Chester A. Snow, | jr., of Washington. D. C.. Department | of the half dozen mechanics and radio men aiding in the tests. Plans of the Pan-American Airways | for Summer inauguration of air service to the Orient went forward as_the new plane was tested. Eugene Vidal, Commerce Depart- ment aeronautics expert, was a pas- senger yesterday morning. Pan-American Airways was given per- mission yesterday by Secretary Swan- son to construct landing facilities on Guam, Midway and Wake Islands, stepping stones in the route between Honolulu and the Orient. At Seattle the steamship North Haven began loading building shpplies for the island bases. Vidal, who was a passenger yester- | day morning when the big plane flew 150 miles out to sea, described the test as “satisfactory,” but declined to disclose details of the compass. He said it was invented by Jeffery Kieusi, civiian Army employe of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Another flight of some 300 miles was made later in the day. Department of Commerce ex- pert, who left last night for Wash- tests were being made to for over- described, the new device can contact any two radio-compass send- and, having picked them up, automatically give the pilot the triangulad necessary to return or stay on his course. ‘With ordinary radio-compass equip- ment, a plane receives signals only as " (Continued on P ry—‘—‘z Column 4) communicated with the Coast Guard made the first flight in an Army plane | | of Commerce official, and one or two | for parity is not changed and will be carried. unweakened, into future negotiations. Sees Peace As Goal. “Japan is earnest in her desire for a new limitation treaty that is fair and just.” said Admiral Osum. “Japan. America. and Great Britain, the three leading sea powers, face one | another in three important sections of the world in a position to co- operate for the furtherance of world peace. “Hence. I believe they should shake off the shackles of past circumstances, | discard competitive ideas and prej- udices, and stand on equal footing. “I think it is absolutely necessary to fix a common upper limit in the i fighting power of these three powers, | taking into account their geographical relations and the increased mobility of the modernized maritime force.” Sees Burdens Lightened. “In striving to answer the universal desire for the limitation of arma- ments. Osumi continued. *“these powers should take the initiative in fixing such an upper limit as low as possible. then they should either abolish or drastically reduce the units characterized by their formidable offensive power, thus ultimately lead- | ing to the consolidation of peace and lightening the burdens of all the peoples of the world “This is our firm faith and it will | be the governing principle of our attitude at the forthcoming naval conference. “Being convinced of the impossi- | bility of reaching a fair and just | agreement unless the parties approach | each other in such a spirit. we must firmly irsist on our position. T trust that America. Great Britain |and other powers eventually will ap- | preciate the sincerity of our motives |and support us.” Holiday Plan Denied. | Osumi vigorously denied that the Japanese navy was planning to pro- | pose a three-year naval holiday. | “Such an idea has not entered our | minds,” he said. “and we do not pro- | pose to consider it now because we believe its discussion at this time would only tend to lessen the chances of achieving a fair and just treaty.” He refused to comment on the United States Navy's plans for maneuvers in the California-Alaska- | Hawali triangle beyond the observa- |tion: “It appears to me the news- | paper reports of these maneuvers are | causing repercussions not altogether | | desirable among our people.” England Undisturbed. LONDON, March 14 (#).—Sir Bol- ton Eyres-Monsell, first lord of the | | British admiralty, told the House of | Commons today that Great Britain was disappointed by Japan's denunci- | ation of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, but that there was no need to treat the situation “too tragically.” Sir Bolton said he hoped that a naval conference would be held this | year and introduced the government's | naval estimates for consideration by | | the legislators. “We have already drastically reduced the numbers of our ships,” said the head of the admirality, “and we can- not further reduce them, but we are willing and anxious for an interna- tional agreement for the reduction of size.” Comparing the situation as it is likely to be at the end of 1936. with 1914, the admiralty head said the report. replied “Oh, Mr. Willkie, T would be severely criticized if I put anything in my re- port favorable to a utility holding company.” Propaganda Probe Blocked. Meanwhile. an objection by Repre- sentative Taber. Republican, of New York, blocked immediate considera- tion of the Senate resolution for a Federal Trade Commission investiga- tion of “propaganda” against the | utilities control bill. The objection was to passage by unanimous consent. The resolution will be brought up later. Chairman Rayburn of the Interstate Commerce Committee told newspaper men he did not know just when his 'committee would consider the meas- ure, but he expected the resolution to be put through eventually. Rayburn had asked unanimous consent for adoption. Only a comparatively few members were on the floor, but doubts were ex- pressed from both Democratic and Republican sides as to the need for such action. Minority Leader Snell said he thought it ought to be con- sidered first by the committee. Representative Fankin and others were as outspoken, however, in favor of its adoption. Finally. after Representative Cooper, Republican, of Ohio, persistent com- mittee critic of outright abolition, had complained that Rayburn had not mentioned the resolution to him, Taber jumped up, shaking his fists. and shouted: “If this House can't determine | whether it wants this bill without throwing up a smoke screen, then it's in a sorry pass. I object.” Methods Are Revamped. Willkie said Dr. Walter M. W. Splain. a member of the Interstate | Commerce Commission who made an | extensive study of utility holding companies. praised his company’s method of doing business, but in tes- tifying before the committee “makes the inference that when he learned {that your committee was going to ! make an investigation, we got what Judge Healy calls ‘religion' and re- vamped our methods of doing busi- ness” He referred to Robert E. Healy. a member of the Securities and | Exchange Commission. The utilities executive quoted a let- | ter he said was written by President | Roosevelt from Warm Springs. Ga., November 5, 1926, to Thomas W. Mar- tin of the Alabama Power Co., in part, | as follows: “I am writing this to you in order | to obtain information. As you have probably read ir the papers. I have recently taken over the old resort known as Warm Springs. and I hope that soon there will be an extensive development. “We, in this and the neighboring communities, are suffering from the usual high cost and inefficient service of small local power plants.” “Franklin D. Roosevelt named it,” Wilkie said, referring to what he | termed the commendable beneficial de- velopment holding companies brought. President Roosevelt has said utility holding companies have been spread- ing “propaganda” against enactment of legislation. Fire Damages Theater. HAMILTON, Bermuda, March 14 ()—The Reid Hall Theater, with a capacity of 700 spectators, was gutted United States will have increased her | early today by a fire which Hamilton’s naval tonnage by 20 per cent, Japan | volunteer fire brigade and troops will have increased by 35 per cent, and | from the garrison fought for an Bour Great Britain will have decreased by and s half before they brought it 48 per cent. | under control. ! #