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A-2 s HOLDING COMPANY CLAIS DISPUTED Rayburn and Willkie Engage in Bitter Debate Over Measure. By the Assoclated Press. A bitter debate raged today be- tween Representative Rayburn. Dem- ocrat, of Texas. advocate of the anti- holding company bill, and Wendell L. Willkie, president of the Common- wealth & Southern Corp. Rayburn issued a statement saying Willkie's testimony against the pend- ing bill had convinced him “the sup- posed eagerness of the holding com- panies to accept Federal regulation is largely a lip service.” Swinging back in fiery fashion, the utilities official called Rayburn a “de- strover” and accused him of playing politics. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt sent the Communications Commission into an investigation of another angle of the utilities question. A congres- sional resolution which he signed yes- terday authorized the commission to spend $750.000 on a broad inquiry into the capital structure, services and affiliations of ‘the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. | Less Drastic Bill. The House Interstate Commerce Committee, going ahead with hear- ings on the Rayburn bill to abolish holding companies five years hence unless they can satisfy the Govern- ment of their usefulness, had before it a proposal by one of its own mem- bers for less drastic legislation. Representative Pettengill, Democrat, of Indiana advanced the substitute proposal yesterday. One item in it would restrict the voting of nslding company stock to prevent “pyramid- ing" of corporate control and absentee management. Another would make holding companies furnish services and supplies to operating companies at “actual cost” and at not more than the price in the open market. “This is to prevent ‘milking of operating companies,” the Indianan said. He added his proposal would not force the abolition of holding com- panies uor the statutory liquidation of their securities. His sugeestions shared interest with ‘ the fight between Ravburn and « Willkie. Prejudice Claimed. The Commeawealth & Southern executive declared Rayburn had step- ped down “to enter the prosecution and prejudge the case which he is * presumed o be hearing impartially in the public interest.” Rayburn, who introduced the con- troversial bill after conferences &! the White House, said “Mr. Willkie's atti- tude” convinced him President Roose- velt was 1ight when he declared: “It is idle to talk of the continuation of - holding companies on the assumption that regulation can protect the public against them.” Preston Arkwright. an official of the Georgia Power Co. was on the stand when Pettengill made his pro- posal, having just asserted that the enti-holding company bill was just the sort of thing President Roosevelt had “condemned” when he was Gov- ernor of New York. CRIME WAR TOTAL MAY REACH 3,000; DRIVE CONTINUES | (Continued From First Page) for failure to pay the annual $25 oc- | cupational Federal tax. Officials said only one major failure marred the Nation-wide drive. The Coast Guard reported it had reason | landed 36.000 | to believe smugglers gallons of Belgian alcohol in the vi- cinity of New Orleans. The Secret Service said a counter- feit ring which had passed thousands of dollars of bogus bills was smashed by arrests at San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. Taxes to Be Probed. One of the outstanding fields of | fresh endeavor opened up in the six- agency drive was said today to be for the agents of the intelligence unit, Internal Revenue Bureau, to launch | inquiries into the income taxes of many caught in the dragnet. Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau expressed himself as gratified with results, saying they were “ex- tremely pleasing.” The campaign was planned several months ago when Secretary Morgan- | thau appointed Harold N. Graves, his; special assistant, to be chairman of a | co-ordinating committee of the six | enforcement agencies. | 11,517 Stage Raids, The Treasury threw into its crime war 11.517 men, including 9.000 from the Coast Guard, 1700 from the Alcohol Tax Unit. 300 from the Nar- | cotics Bureau, 240 from the Secret Service, 152 from the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau and 125 from the Customs Bureau. Lottery tickets were found in many places over the country, including Baltimore and Norfolk. At Baltimore these tickets amounted to $913,528 end in Norfolk $1.510. Customs officers at Baltimore, for the week. reported that seizures, for- feitures, navigation fines and under- valuation of merchandise showed totals of 1478 different seizures, rep- resenting $1,035,540 in money. All the narcotic prisoners arrested here pleaded not guilty when ar- raigned. Three waived preliminary hearing, Benjamin Henry Woolf, 43, and his wife Lucille Woolf, 30, of the 1700 block of Seventeenth street, and Carl Bello 32, of the 1300 block of Rhode Island avenue. Both Woolf and Bello, who are charged by the Government with beine important narcotic dealers, were held in $10.000 bond, but Mrs. Woolf’s bond was fixed the lowest of the group at $200. Others Held. Others held in bond for preliminary hearing March 22 were as follows: Dorothy Tanner, 24, of 900 block of Hamilton street, whose bond was fixed at $2,500; Russell Vaughan Clay- bourn, also of 900 block of Hamilton street, bond at $5,000; Charles Nader, 60, of 800 block of Ninth street north- east, $5,000 bond; Julian Sanders, 26, | be made public. What’s What Behind News In Capital A. A. A. Plagued by Rumor It Will Termi- nate Cotton Loans. BY PAUL MALLON. HE A. A. A. would like to start | a campaign to plow under every third rumor. The latest one which has sprung up to annoy the officials is the erroneous story that cotton loans might be stopped. This yarn is sup- posed to have been largely responsible ior the recent break in the cotton market. The administration has in- vestigated to learn who started it and has a fair idea of the identity of the culprits, but no proof. As a result, the A. A A-ers are prodcing Chairman Jones of the House Agricultural Committee to hur- ry along his bill requiring a reporting system for the cotton markets, similar to the one now in force on the Grain Exchange. This would enable the Government to know which operators are short or long and likely to profit by fanning bad rumors. They say this reporting system has virtually stopped rumor fanning on the Grain Exchange 7 < L0 | Another sour one now in circulation is that the A. A. A. has insufficient | money to meet the third payment on |the corn-hog contracts. ~Whoever | started this one failed to read the |A. A A law. It is so worded that (such a situation never can arise. | The Treasury may advance A. A. A. funds for payments on contracts and then reimburse itself lat«.r from proc- Irssmg tax receipts. Therefore the A. A A can pay until the Treasury !itself runs dry. ! Rumor-Spreading General. The business of rumor-spreading is not confined to marketeers. Whenever any particular group can- | not find out what the New Deal is going to do on an issue, it usually in- | vents a rumor that the administr | tion will do such and such. This fi | titious story arouses administration officials, who then announce what their real course will be. The fic- titious story merely act as a bonfire to smoke the Government out. As a result, there are generally more Tumors in Washington than | starlings. | The system is not particularly new, | but brisk activity has given it in-| | creased prominence lately. (You may recall that President Roosevelt’s hold- | ing company message was inspired by planted rumors that he would with- draw the legislation.) Plumbers Efficient. No neater plumbing job was ever done in Congress than the one the plumbers did in the Senate Appro- priations Committee. When the relief bill came out of that committee, it contained a strange provision permitting Mr. Roosevelt to put the Government into any business, except the plumb- ing business. It specifically required him to let all relief works plumbing out to private firms. All lobbyists gasped at the provision with envy and wondered how it got into the bill. The truth seems to be that the labor group fized that Congres- sional pipe line for the plumbers. The industry is highly organized. The labor boys knew the provi- sion would guarantee them a union wage scale for plumbers, even if they failed to get the pre- vailing wage for carpenters, plas- terers, etc. Therefore, Labor Senator McCar- ran threw the Stillson wrench into the bill for the plumbers, after his prevailing wage amendment was de- feated. The pink slip which you filed with your income tax this time never will All congressional authorities are ce-tain that the re- pealer will be passed by Congress some time before adjournment. Even the Progressive Senators fighting against it will privately admit they have little chance of stopping the re- pealer. They can filibuster for a while, but not from now until the end of the session, against & small bill like that. The Treasury is planning to make the slips public in October, so Con- gress has lots of time. Johnson Turns Writer. Gen. Johnson may get rich out of flailing the pied pipers. He s swamped with contract offers, has signed three luscious magazine con- tracts «nd is publishing a book. His spokesman says he is so busy bhe will not have time for much radio work. His office here is as big and as busy as Huey Long's. Political meteors come up fast, and disappear the same way. Senator Byrnes (S. C.) is ‘carrying his arm in a sling because he tried to stop a dog fight. It was'not con- nected in any way with a recent radio affray. There are 21 separate and dis- tinct code authorities functioning under the construction code. Well - known ex - Senator Fess (Ohio) may be seen daily in the Congressional Library studying po- litical history. The sonusites have had no suc- cess whatever in their efforts to of 500 block of L street, $5,000 bond; Mosbey Williams, 40, $3,000 bond. and May Lee, 46, 8500 bond, both of the 900 block of New York avenue; Clay Nichols, 33, of the 2100 block of P street, $5,000 bond. and Bessie Snow, 50, of 400 block of K street, $500 bond. Alfreda Nichols, who had been held for investigation, and who had col- lapsed at police headquarters yester- day morning, was brought before the commissioner and, on recommenda- tion of Government agents, was re- leased. An odd case of alleged check raising came to light from the Secret Service, which arrested Allison Stockstill, a patient at Walter Reed Hospital, on charges of making a Government check for $22. appgar to be payable for $22,000; -at Tamtpa, Fla. smoke the White House out on what it will accept in the nature of a bonus compromise. The answer is that it will not accept anything as long &s it believes the Senate will sustain a veto. Certain code authorities believe they can notice that the Senate N. R. A. squabble is beginning to hurt business. Some manufacturers are holding back production slightly, because they can produce goods more cheaply if the N. R. A. is discon- tinued. Reich Imports Gain. Imports into in January were the hight in nearly three years. THE EVE GERMANY FORGES ARMY TRAINING Hitler Serves Notice on| World Reich Is Ending Treaty. (Continued From First Page.) at London included a plan for = West- | ern European air defensive al.iance, in which Germany would be linked | with Britain, Prance, Italy and Bel- gium. The German contention, from the | first, was that this invitation to her to | join an air alliance presupposed her | abllity to co-operate on an equal plane | with her cosignatories, and hence | made it necessary for her to have an air force. | Gen. Goering's sudden step to let the world know Germany already has | an air force and intends to make it a | better one was considered in German 1 quarters as a logical aftermath of the London proposals. Before the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday Premier Pierre- | Etienne Flandin presented his plan to increase the term of conscript service | in the French Army from one year to | 18 months and, subsequently, to two | vears. This was necessary, he explained. because of Germany's “vast rearma- | ment” in violation of the peace treaty. France's Contention. | prove the project, Flandin contended that France now has only 278.000 men available for service on the con- | tinent, while Germany has 480,000 | “in barracks and immediately avail- | able. who are augmented by numerous semi-military formations.” In 1936, Flandin argued. Germany, “as everybody knows, will have 600,000 men." Jean Fabry, president of the French Chamber’s Army Commission, declared | the German Army had been strength- ened in one year from 100.000 to 600.- 000. asserting the Reichswehr had been increased from 100.000 (the treaty figure) to 400,000 and the nom- inal total of 100,000 police in barracks doubled. Criticized in England. German rearmament also was sharp- ly criticized in the British “white pa- per” issued last week, in defense of increased 1935 estimates for the army, navy and air force, which asserted the | Reich’s action inrearming might even- tually imperil the peace of the con- tinent. French May Protest. A dispatch from Paris this week said French government officials were considering making representations to Berlin concerning Goering's forthright | disclosure of an air force on the grounds that it constituted overt vio- lation of the Versallles treaty. The French, it was indicated. ex- pected to get British and Italian co- | it was admitted in Paris, would almost certainly avail little of practical value, but might gain some tactical advan- tage by exposing Germany's violation of the pact to the world. At Rome and at London, recalled, French negotiators obtained Italo-French and Anglo-French enun- ciation of the principle that no nation can modify arms limitation obligations by unilateral action. That statement, it was understood, was designed to apply primarily to Germany. E. A. FULLER, SR, HYATTSVILLE, DIES Prince Georges Treasurer I1l a Week. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., March 16— Edward A. Fuller, sr, owner and editor of the Hyattsville Independent, weekly newspaper, for many years, and former treasurer of Prince Georges County, died early today at his home in Franklin street here. Death was caused by a heart ailment and followed & week's illness. He was the son of the late Willlam Henry and Josephine Peter Fuller of Washington | and this place. Mr. Fuller was born in Washington, but had lived in Hyattsville since his youth. His early education was ob- tained at the old Bladensburg Acad- emy and the public schools of this county and Washington. He was a graduate of National University Law School, Washington, and was a mem- ber of the Maryland bar. He never practiced law, however, early becom- ing active in newspaper work. For many years, and at the time of | his death, he was correspondent for The Evening Star and the Baltimore Sun. He was at one time a mem- ber of the common council of Hyatts: ville from the third ward. He w: life-long member of St. Matthew’s Protestant Episcopal parish and at one time a member of the choir. Surviving Mr. Fuller are his widow, who, before her marriage was Mary | Lloyd Wells; a son Edward A. Fuller, jr., of Hyattsville, and two daughters, Mrs. Brian B. Kane of Beverly, N. J., and Mrs. Alfred D. Bailey, jr., of Col- lege Heights, Md. He also leaves five sisters. They are Mrs. G. Hodges Carr, Mrs, Nellie F. Brooks and Mrs. Franklin G. Tingley, all of Hyattsville, and Mrs. Ralph C. Wilton and Louis C. Pimper, both of ‘Washmgton. Funeral services will be held Mon- | operation in the representations which, | it was | Newspaper Owner and Former| NG STAR, WASHINGTO As the Winnie Mae Landed at Cleveland ¢ Before the Chamber voted to ap- . PSTS 0P FALS - WILL TRY AGA |Low Oxygen Supply Brings End to Stratosphere Flight at Cleveland. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 16.—Wiley Post, forced down at Cleveland yes- terday while attempting a record- breaking transcontinental flight through the stratosphere, will try again. Only minor trouble prevented him | from completing the Los Angeles- New York span in less than eight hours, the aviator said on arrival here. He predicted mail and passenger planes soon would tollow his trail. Post's oxvgen supply ran danger- ously low as he streaked over Western Pennsylvania, so he planned to de- scend to breathable air and fly on | Dropping from the sub-zero strato- sphere. however, the plane plunged into the cloud belt and condensing moisture fculed two cylinders of the Winnie Mae’s engine. “The nearest airport was Cleveland, so I went to it,” he explained. Transferring to a regular air liner, Post arrived at the Newark Airport 12 hours and 33 minutes after leav- ing Los Angeles. Frank Phillips, Oklahoma oil man and backer of the flight, said to Post at a New York hotel: “I'll back you hours. It's up to you to prove we practical.” He would have passed out in a few minutes, Post said, had he not nosed his plane downward while it was more than 30,000 feet in the air. “If that hadn't happened.” he said, “I would have made it into New York in 7 hours and 40 minutes. “I'm convinced now that any trans- provided they sealed the cabin and quate supply of oxygen.” Plans Other Flights. Post plans to stay here three days, then return to Cleveland. When the wheels of the plane reach there from Los Angeles—he deliberately drop- ped them and landed on fuselage skids—he and the- Winnie Mae will make two more flights for records. These, Post said, will be an altitude climb at Bartlesville, Okla., and his third attempt to span the continent in seven hours. The first effort | ended in a Western desert and Post charged someone had ‘sabotaged his plane. EX-OFFICER KILLS SELF MIAMI, Fla, March 16 (A .—A coroner's jury yesterday returned a verdict of suicide in the death of B. F. Ranger, 45, found shot in his nov- elty factory Tuesday. The widow will take the body of the former naval day, but arrangements have not been completed, officer to Newport, R. I., their former home, for burial. Slaying of Assassins in Shrine Horrifies Pilgrims to Mecca By the Associated Press. MECCA, Saudi Arabia, March 16.— The frenzied prayers of 200,000 pil- grims of Islam’s faithful were directed to Allah today to gain forgive- ness for the sacrilege of bloodshed in the Kaaba Shrine when three assas- sins were shot to death in an at- tempted slaying of King Ibn Saud. It was feared that grave repercus- sions were inevitable among the Arab tribes whose feelings are inflamed both by the outrage yesterday, the Moham- medan day of rest, and by the viola- against bloodshed tradition in saving the lives of the monarch and his son. There was widespread apprehension that tribes may seize upon the inci- dent to provoke a revolt against the iron rule of Ibn Saud, “Napoleon of Two of the assailants were killed the bodyguards before they reached spot where the King stood. The Saud struggled with the third, until we make this flight in seven can make this stratosphere fllghti port plane could do the same thing, | supplied the passengers with an ade- SATURDAY, Copyright, ‘A. P. Wirephotos. Hopkins Declares Music Need, Urging Symphony Support Problems Show tiality in American Pat- tern of Life, He Says. Essen- l ‘The American pattern of life must embrace not only physical necessities | but music and other phases of culture, Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- trator Harry L. Hopkins said today in urging Washingtonians to support the National Symphony Orchestra’s drive for a $100.000 sustaining fund. In a statement, Mr. Hopkins says: “To those of us engaged in the work of providing meals and roofs for the millions who have been denied self- supporting jobs by the disruption of industry, it is sharply clear that life must hold more than these for the citizens of America “Our relief and unemployment prob- lems show us more lucidly than ever how essential it is that the American pattern of life must embrace. not only physical necessities. but music and the other phases of culture, “The struggle to maintain American standards of well-being does not end with food and shirts and shelter. We need music in this country—more music. The campaign to sustain the National Symphony Orchestra is a good way to help supply that need in | Washington.” ;ALIEN LAND.BILL 0. K.’D Arizona Senate Patterns Measure After California’s. PHOENIX, Ariz, March 16 (®).— | The Arizona Senate, acting as a com- | mittee of the whole yesterday recom- | mended passage for an alien land bill patterned after the law in effect in | California, prohibiting ineligible aliens | from owning and cultivating land in | Arizona or cultivating on a share-crop basis. Congress in Brief | B the Associated Press. TODAY. | Senate. Debates relief bill. House. In recess. Interstate Commerce Committee hears witnesses on holding company regulation. YESTERDAY. Senate. Defeated McCarran prevailing wage amendment to relief bill and adopted substitute. Finance Committee heard S. Clay Williams testify that continuation of N. R. A. would require relaxation of anti-trust laws. House. Passed $118.000,000 Agriculture ap- propriation bill. Interstate Commerce :’eard opponents of holdiny Il Labor Committee approved Senate- passed bill to give each State at least $10,000 for public employment offices. Committee g company MARCH 16, 1835. Above: The Winnie Mae, Wiley Post’s stratosphere plane, shown after its safe landing in Cleveland yesterday after Post had to aban- don his second transcontinental stratosphere flight attempt when his oxygen supply ran low. Below: Post reading a telegram shortly after he landed. The aviator continued on to New York in a commercial plane after a three-hour rest. House Member’s Son Pleads Guilty In Traffic Court Congress was represented in Traffic Court today through the son of a Representative who was a defencant, and the secretary of a Senator who appeared as counsel for one of his employer’s constituents. The Representative’s son was Thain Farley, son of Representative James 1. Farley of Indiana. The son plead- ed guilty to a charge of reckless driving and the case was continued to March 28 for sentence Yorng Farley, wno gave his ad- dress as the Rooseveit Hotel, was arrested at Seventeenth and H streets by Policeman G. P. Swank. W. E. McDonald, secretary to Senator Reynolds of North Carolina. appeared as counsel for Nathaniel pleaded gullty to a charge of driving while intoxicated and was sentenced upon the recommendations of Assis- tant Corporation Counsel George D. Neilson to pay a fine of $100 or serve 60 days in jail. Blomberg was de- tained at Police Court pending re- ceipt of the money from relatives. BEAN DENIES PLAN Police Inspector, Center of Crime Probe Row, De- B. Blomberg of Asheville, N. C., who | TORETRE APRL1 DUSTSTORM HITS b STATES IN WEST Soil Drifts Like Snow in Blizzard as Damage Mounts—1 Killed, By the Associated Press, KANSAS CITY, March 16.—A | blirding, choking duststorm, borze on capricious March winds, left the Plains State deep in grime and sand today. Whipped by winds that reached velocities as high as 63 miles an hour, the billowing, dun-colored clouds of dust swept across the eastern sections of Wyoming and Colorado, the west- ern portions of Nebraska and Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Relief for Wyoming and Nebraska was not slow in coming, however. In the wake of the gale, which had sent some residents to their storm cellars, rain and snow moved in from the Northwest. The storm bore down on the area vesterday afternoon, taking the jo: out of two days of unseasonably m temperatures. Visibility was cut {less than 100 feet: street lights were turned on in midafternoon; traffic | was paralyzed Sifts Inte Tight Buildings. At Goodland. Kans., buildings heretofore | ordinary storms. At Hays, Kans, | spectators at a basket bell tourna- ment were held in the building for two hours because of the intensity of the storm d dust sifted into unaffected by cides to Stay. __ (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) kind the committee thinks Maj. Brown would know something about it. Blanton spent about four hours on position in the “deal.” As soon as he finished, he went directly on the fioor ‘SYMPHONY DRIVE *SETS DALY C0AL Good Progress Made by 500 Workers in Campaign for Sustaining Fund. With & substantial sum already subscribed on the opening day of the National Symphony Orchestra’s drive for a $100,000 sustaining fund, Dr William McClellan, chairman of the Men's Committee, expressed confi- dence today the daily quota in the campaign will not be less than $10,- 000. “One hundred thousand dollars is a comparatively small amount to raise when one considers the advan- tages it will bring,” Dr. McClellan said, “and I. for one, see no reason | why the money cannot be raised in a city that must retain its status as the cultural center of America.” Committee members were enthusi- | astic at their first full meeting, at headquarters in the Carlton Hotel vesterday, when reports of progress were submitted by the 500 volunteer workers who started canvassing the city as the drive got under way. March 25 Victory Day. March 25. the closing day of the campaign, has been designated as victory day. By that time it is ex- pected that the $100.000—which will enable the symphony to pay its mu- sicians a living wage, provide more concerts in Constitution Hall, addi- | tional children’s concerts and a series of outdoor Summer programs—will be subscribed. Among those attending the meeting yesterday were Dr. McClellan, Mrs. Tracy Dows, Mrs. J. J. Kennedy, Mrs. Barton E. Yount. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Mr. and Mrs. Emory S. Land, Mrs. | Oliver W. Strunk, G. Thomas Dunlop, Paul Wilstach, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Marsh, Miss | | Carlina Sheridan, Miss Cornelia Perin, | | Mrs. Herbert Wollner, Miss Mary Lootes, Mrs, William Wootin. Miss Deborah Dows. Mrs. Arthur Mallott, Mrs. Newell Campbell, Mrs. William Lockwood. Mrs. Phillip Benton. Mrs | Miriam Hilton, Mrs. Inglass Sard and | | Mrs. R. H. Dunlap. Program to Be Dedicated. D. J. (Radio Joe) Kaufman will dedicate his regular radio program Tuesday night to the National Sym- phony Orchestra. One of the features (will be a message from Dr. Hans | Kindler. director of the symphony, who will be unable to deliver an ad- dress in person as he will be con- ducting a concert of the National Symphony in Baltimore that evening. Dr. McClellan and others prom- inently identified *with the drive are expected to speak on the program. [LIQUOR PERMIT FOUGHT Citizens Head Opposes License for 3513 12th St. N.E. Opposition to an application for an on-sale beer and wine permit for an establishment at 3513 Twelfth street northeast was voiced today by M. M. McLean, president of the Brookland Citizens’ Association. ‘The application was filed by George Christian De Perini. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, at the re- quest of the Executive Committee of | the association, will hold a public | hearing, set for March 25. The pro- | test was based on the nearness of the | place to the St. Anthony’s Catholic | Church and parochial school and the | Brookland School. The Evening Star Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK |the stand yesterday outlining his of the House where he described the | arrangement as “a trivial matter,” | which would show how Washington | newspapers persecuted him. He re- | hearsed the whole case on the floor | and paid high tribute to Headley. | Blanton also told the House he was | “a man who, when I start anything. I keep it up; I do not forget it and | let it be pigeonholed This was substantially what he told the Crime Committee, only more em- phatically and in more detail, after | reminding its members he was a | reteran with 18 years of service in | the Housc and they, all being younger, { should learn how to treat an older colleague During the afternoon session of the committee, which was mild in com- parison with the stormy hearing in the morning, Blanton admitted his | part in the “deal” for the retirement of Bean—a “deal” in which the prin- | cipal concerned was ignored. Repre- | sentative Brewster, Republican of Maine, brought out that particular point in his interrogation of Blanton | Says Bean's Friends Agreed. “This gentlemen’s agreement you | speak of.” Brewster said, “as I under- | stand it, the only man left out was In- spector Bean, the man who was to be forced to retire.” Blanton admitted he had not talked | with Bean, but he had talked wit! | friends of the officer and they were agreeable to the arrangement “But Inspector Bean wasa't con- sulted,” Brewster insisted. Periodically throughout Blanton endeavored to impress on the | committee he was not being treated | fairly, that as a member of Congress he had certain rights and privileges | that were not being respected. Once the committee yielded to his request and allowed Maj. Brown and In- spector Headley to remain in the com- mittee room, despite its rule to per- | mit only one witness and newspaper men behind the closed doors. out over Blanton's vigorous protest. Aroused by Headlines. Blanton also objected to being told by Representative Schulte, Democrat, of Indiana that while on the witness stand he was “just an ordinary wit- ness,” even though he is a member of Congress. “I felt that was improper,” he de- clared. “I felt that you gentlemen were a little abrupt. I have appeared before congressional committees for 18 years and this is the first time I have ever been denied my rights. Blanton was particularly aroused by newspaper headline concerning a plot.” “It’s ridiculous to talk about a plot,” he said, “I do indorse lots of people. | Some are successful and some are not so successful. When I indorse a man, I go to the mat for him. I don't go halfway.” Blanton denied rather vigorously that he had given Bean until April 1 to retire. > “Here’s how that came about,” he explained. “I said to him as man to man, ‘Do you feel right to stand in Headley's way when I and a lot of your friends went out of our way to help you?’ “He said, ‘Don’t say any more about that.'” During the questioning of Blanton, Schulte described Headley as a “snooper” who is assigned to the job of catching policemen drinking or sleeping on their beats. “That's not so, “He's no snooper. MISS CLARA GREACEN, U. S. LAWYER, DIES Was One of First Women Ad- mitted to Practice Before High Court. Miss Clara Greacen, one of the first women admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, died early today at her home, 1025 Fifteenth street, after a prolonged illness. She would have been 68 to- MOITow. A native of Kalkaska, Mich.,, Miss Greacen came to this city more than 40 years ago. She was an employe of the Government for 42 years, having retired last July from service with the General Accounting Office. Prior to the day | But on | further consideration the committee | later ordered Maj. Brown and Headley shouted Blanton. | Price $1 at The Evening Star IV 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. entering service with that Govern- ment branch, she was employed as attorney for the Treasury Department, which position she also held with the accounting office. Miss Greacen was graduated from the Howard University School of Law and the Washington School of Law. She was a member of the Women's University Club and Women’s City Club, and the Christian Science Church. Besides her sister, Miss Voe Verne Greacen, with whom she lived, she is survived by another sister, Mrs. A. E. Fowler, of Lakeland, Fla. Tentative funeral arrangements call lor services here Monday, with inter; ¢t in Michigan. W. S. Leonard. Wichita. Kans., was killed near Hutchinson, Kans H was struck by a motor car when he sought to warn other motorists after his own machine had been wrecked. A short time later three men were injured when their automobile crashed into the wreckage of Leonard’s car. Motor busses were stranded on the highways in Western Kansas ‘The soil drifted against obstru like snow in a blizzard. Air | pilots said the dust extended up to 12,000 feet, making visibility 0-0 Oil Rigs Blown Down. Nine oil rigs and eight belt engine houses in the oil field near Florence Colo,, were blown down. At the Bald i coal camp in the same vicinity, the powder house was smashed and ex- plosives scattered The damage to wheat fields could not be estimated, but rtports from Kansas and Oklahoma said the fields were not blowing as bad as the week end storms of February 23. After that storm the FPederal Erosion Service estimated 34,000.000 acres had been damaged in six States At Guymon, Okla., far out in the State'’s panhandle, schools were closed when breathing became difficult. CHILEAN EDUCATIONAL | MISSION TO BE FETED Georgetown University, Embassy and Pan-American Union ‘Will Be Hosts. The Chilean Educational Mission | visiting America at the invitation of he Carnegie Endowment for Int national Peace will be entertained | here next week by Georgetown Uni- | versity, the Chilean Embassy, and the Pan-American Union. The d gation will arrive here tomorrow. A tea will be given in their honor at | the Pan-American Building tomorrow afternoon On Monday evening the American | Council on Education *will tender a |1arge dinner, which will be attended by Secretary of State and Mrs. Hull | Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. | Ickes, prominent leaders in education | and officials of several Government | departments. | Members of the delegation are Senor Don Juvenal Hernandez, rector of the University of Chile; Senor Don Domingo Duran. former minister of education: Senor Don Gustavo Lira, dean of the faculty of engineering: Senor Don Dario Benavente, director of the School of Law: Senor Amanda Labarca, representative of the govern- ment and Senor Don Raul Ramirez, | professor at the College of Education, | Unijversity of Chile. |SENATE BATTLES OVER PLAN TO CUT WORK-RELIEF FUND 'CTL!nued Prom First Pgle:\ adopt the Russell amendment, it is absolutely certain the President is go- ing to reduce the wage scale outside of relief work.” Portly Senator McCarran, Demo- crat, of Nevada ended the argument for his amendment after a long day of debate by assailing Senator Wag- ner for his shift to the administra- ‘tion proposal. Wagner earlier had | defended his position, saying the | compromise gave protection to the “going wage" scales and fixed the re- sponsibility on President Roosevelt. Forty-four Democrats, five Repub- |licans and one Progressive voted | against the McCarran amendment: | 19 Democrats. 18 Republicans and |one Farmer-Laborite—Shipstead of | Minnesota—voted for. Roll Call on Amendment. The vote rejecting the McCarran ameéndment: Those voting for: Democrats—Bone, Bulkley, Cope- land, Costigan, Donahey, Lonergan, Long, Maloney, McCarran, McGill, Murray, Neely. Reynolds, Schwellen- bach, Thomas of Oklahoma, Truman, Van Nuys, Walsh and Wheeler—19. Republicans—Barbour, Borah, Cap- per, Carey, Couzens, Cutting, Dick- inson, Frazier, Hastings, Johnson, McNary, Norris, Nye, Schall, Steiwer, Townsend, Vandenberg and White —18. Farmer-Labor—Shipstead—1. Grand total for—38. Against the McCarran ment, Democrats: Ashurst, Bachman, Bailey, Bank- head, Barkley, Bilbo, Black, Brown, Bulow, Burke, Byrd, Byrnes, Clark, Connally, Coolidge. Dieterich, Duffy, Fletcher, George, Gerry. Glass, Gore, Guffey, Harrison, Hatch, Hayden, King, Lewis, McAdoo; McKellar, Min- ton, Moore, Murphy, O'Mahoney, Pittman, Pope, Radcliffe, Robinson, Russell, Sheppard, Smith, Thomas of Utah, Trammel and Wagner—44. Republicans—Austin, Gibson, Hale, Keyes and Metcalf—5. Progressives—La Follette—1. Grand total against—50. Pairs were announced as follows: Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania, for, with Logan, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, against; Overton, Democrat, of Louisiana, for, with Norbeck, Repub- lican, of South Dakota, against: Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, for, with Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, against. 1t also was announced that Sena- tor Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, wo:ld have voted aye if she were prig- en amend-