Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow; lowest temper- ature tonight about 46-degrees; colder late tomorrow night. Temperatures—Highest, 60. at noon today: lowest, 49, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page B-T7. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. e e o] Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,723 Some Returns Not Yet Received WE DO OUR pART WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Foening Star Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 15,16&17 Entered as second class matter post office. Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. ###% FRANCE SENDS PROTEST DARON INSSTS TO GERMANY AND PLANS N.R A HAS HURT APPEAL FOR LEAGUE AID| SHALL BISNES Allies Discuss Germany Exults Over Equality Packed Reich Arms | In Entering Arms Negotiations S¢$°" °f Senate Inquiry ‘ Into New Deal. Saturday. [Reich Officials Believe They Are NO'UESAYS REPORT OF OWN SIMON MAKE ‘ in Position to Force Gradual TRIP SUNDAYi quld Disarmament. i i | _ ‘Wan Crowded Out of Papers by | (Copyrizht. 1935. by the Associated Press) | Germany has herself decided what BERLIN, March 20.—Germany ex- | kind of a military force she will have Others, Veteran Declares. | ultantly emphasized today that be- | and Sir John coming here can only cause of Reichsfuehrer Hitler's re- | make the necessary political deduc- armament declaration the Reich will | tions from that fact.” enter its forthcoming negotiations | Spectacular aerial ma.cuvers over| g ... with Sir John Simon, British foreign | Berlin last night gave substance to the| ™ ' 18 Qiooixted Bresk: secretary, on equal terms. Reich’s claims that she is now a mili-| Clarence Darrow told Senate in- The negotiations beginning next | tary power to be reckoned with. | vestigators today that N. R. A. was Monday, a Reichswehr ministry| When German officials now discuss | “taking business away from the little | spokesman said, will take place in a \ the Reich’s rearmament with foreign- fellow and giving it [ he bi | “wonderfully clarified atmosphere.” |ers, they emphasize Germany's great giving it to the big ones.” | (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. MARYLAND SHARE NRELEF BURDEN ST AT 00000 |But Legislature Is Knotted Over Hopkins’ Demand. Nice Asks Sales Tax. No. 33,195. 1 JUST DARE You To CROSS THIS LINE! Testifies Before | | | | OPEN REVOLT FLARES AGAINST U. S. “WHIP” | Floor Leader Says Attitude of Federal Government Is “High-Handed.” Flandin Calls for “Vigilance” by French. Denies Rancor. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, March 20.—Gov. Har- Ery‘ W. Nice called upon the Legislature | to pass the pending sales tax bill to- | day after being informed that Harry L. Houkins, Federal relief adminis- (Copyright. 1035, by ihe Associated Press.) | PARIS, March 20.—France today | sent a note of protest to Berlin against Germany's rearmament. decided to ask the League of Naticns to take action and was warned by Premier Pierre- Etienne Flandin that she must be “vigilant” in the face of a rearmed Germany. The French government succeeded in arranging a tripartite conference Saturday in Paris between representa- tives of France and of Great Britain and Italy and it was learned au-| thoritatively that a similar conference has been arranged for an unspecified place in Northern Italy after Sir John Simon. the British foreign secretary,| __ has had a chance to talk to, Reichsfuehrer Hitler in Berlin next | week. French authorities said they be-| lieved that Sir John. while in Ber- | lin, would learn exactly what Hitler | intends to do about peace pacts and| the League of Nations and Iik?wm‘ would be able to estimate whether Germany’s military preparations were | dangerous i Flandin Before Senate. Premier Flandin went before the French Senate. gave it a description | of Prance’s military power. and said | he had “complete confidence in the country’s fighting strength.” “Our soldiers.” he declared. “would be filled with the same spirit of sacri- fice in case of an emergency as they were in 1914." Replying to friendly interpolation designed to give a vote of confidence, the premier said that German rearma- ment “imposes upon us the duty to be vigilant as was stated in the British | white book. | Flandin defended the Iengthcninx‘ of French military service by decree | as a quicker method “avoiding long‘ debate.” He justified keeping the army | at its old strength because of unset- tled conditions, and declared “if our concern was legitimate March 15 how much more so it ought to be since the | proclamation of obligatory service in | Germany.” The premier rejected the idea that Reichsfuehrer Hitler was spurred to “When Sir John Simon arrives, the | 2im in restoring her military power is | talks between him and our Fuehrer,” | to lace herself in a position to com- the spokesman said, “will no longer pel gradual world disarmament be complicated by military questions, The characteristic argument runs as but the conversations will be limited | follows: Hitler has said in one of his to political discussions. Reichstag speeches he would be willing “No longer, for instance, can issues | to scrap the last cannon if other be beclouded. by, say. Britain saying: | nations were willing to do likewise. ‘If you will accept an Eastern pact Instead, other powers have piled up we'll concede you such and such an | Pigger and bigger armaments. army. and if you accept a Danubian Germany's constant insistence that pact you can have such and such her former adversaries should remem- armaments.’ ber their obligations to disarm under “All that is a thing of the past. (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) COD NEIGHBOR” PATMIAN HOPEFUL HELDULS.OLEY ~ OF BONUS TES Roosevelt Hopes Principle;Claims Added Strength. Can Be Extended to Vote in House Seen by Europe in Crisis. Saturday. 1] | By the Associated Press. Commenting on the European situ- ‘The $2,000,000,000 bonus issue mov- ed nearer a vote today as the House ation arising from German plans to hotly h 3 rearm, President Roosevelt today em« hg :h,dF:;:?ulr::llr;ln;t l‘;?:;ljml phasized what he termed the Ameri- | rol] call Saturday or early next week, can principle of the good neighbor = D ah - A ;. | Texas, contended he saw signs that and expressed hope that this pmm'!hla bill to pay the veterans \sgh new ple would be extended to Europe as & | cyprency had enough strength to basis for peaceful solution of difficul- | override a veto. ties there. | The House was told by Representa 3 s tive Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky, m;’;’_“’c:g;‘?&“e;‘“.;;; Ly :;‘;‘”?:: however, that the Patman plan would | not pass the Senate. ssked the position of the Dnited| "wy'feqr this bill wil kill two birds e | with one stone—the cause of the declined to s8Y|gidier and the cau . - se of controlled Whether any note would be sent 0| oypangion of the currency,” Vinson By the Associated Press. | Representative Patman, Democrat. of | The veteran attorney, eppearing | before the Senate Finance Commit- | | tee, testified in a low conversational | | voice that the Recovery Administra- tion was increasing the advantage of big business. “Big business has all the advan- tage,” he said. “and N. R. A. only has increased that advantage.” Darrow’s shaky voice rose for the first time when he warned that “there will be nothing but masters and | | slaves before we get much further a2long.” Near him in the crowded | hearing room sat Donald R. Richberg, recovery co-ordinator. | | | Sees Suffering Growing. | | Talking of the concentration of | wealth, Darrow said there was “no Guestion but that the little man has suffered since the nauguration of NR A= | Senators and spectators listened in- | tently to the 77-year-old lawyer's | views based on his experience as chairman of the N. R. A. Review Board. | Holding his spectacle case in one hand. Darrow told how he organized the Review Board completely separate from the N. R. A. set-up, to avoid criticism | “I had nothing against Gen. John- | son. then or since.” Darrow said, “but I felt it wouldn't look good to the public if the Review Board tied up too closely to the N. R. A. board.” Darrow then described how he re- ceived three letters requesting speed in his investigation. Tells of Publication. Talking in a conversational voice and rarely looking at the committee members, the lawyer said three weeks after his first report was delivered to | the President it came out in the | papers one day “preceded by the report | of Richberg and followed by Johnson's, | | or vice versa. At least they got all | the paper.” “I hadn't been here long enough to stand in with all the boys,” Darrow | added. “It came out in an unfortunate HAPPY DAYS RE STILL HERE! | UNWISE ACT LAID TOWEYERBACHE Navy Court Finds Officer Showed Bad Judgment | 5 | in Procedure. | — | 1 i By the Associated Press. A naval court »f inquiry, which heard charges against Comdr. Ralph D. Weyerbacher, aircraft procurement ' officer, has found that he committed “a serious error in judgment™ in offer- ing to serve as technical adviser to a private aviation concern. This was announced today by Sec- retary Swanson, who said be had ap- | | proved the court’s findings and writ- | ten a letter to the officer expressing | official “disapproval” of his action. This letter will be entered in Weyer- bacher’s service record. The inquiry court acquitted the commander of other charges, whxoh‘ included assertions that he had used “unauthorized” means to acquire | copies of testimony before the House ' Military Subcommittee, that he had sought to “intimidate” Edmund Cairns, Germany pertaining to her move in declared. He urged passage of his action by the British White Book, say- | abrogating treaty provisions to raise | o™ by leaving the method of pay- ing “Germany’s 12 army corps and 36 | divisions already existed. Moreover, | eight days earlier the official decision to create military aviation was made public.” The conference, advocated by the French since Monday when Great Britain delivered what the French regard as its “mild” note to Berlin, was finally arranged shortly before noon today It was said that Capt. Anthony Eden. British lord privy seal. prob- ably will represent the London gov- ernment in the belief that it might be undignified for Sir John Simon to appear to be taking orders from other powers before going to Berlin. Suvich Represents Italy. Fuloio Suvich, Italian undersecre- tary for foreign affairs, will represent Italy, and Pierre Laval, French for- eign minister, will represent France. | The French note of protest, which | will be delivered in Berlin late this | afternoon through the French em- | bassy, specifically mentions the return | of conscription in Germany, Ger- | many's resumption ‘of “freedom of ac- | tion in armaments” and Germany's new air force. | The government was understood to expect nothing satisfactory from Sirf John's visit to Berlin, but the three- power meeting was planned in the hope that the British attitude can be stiffened before he goes there. Soviet Russia’s friendship, which becomes all the more attractive in the face of Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s attitude, is to be cultivated by a visit of Pierre | Laval, French foreign minister, to Moscow. The cabinet formally approved this visit today and decided that he should | 80 as soon as possible. The note was telephoned to Ambas- sador Francois-Poncet in Berlin early | this afternoon for delivery in the Wil- helmstrasse later. but its publication, it was said, might be postponed until tomorrow morning. While officials guarded the com- munication’s contents closely, it is known to be a “firm protestation,” | calling Germany's attention sharply to the clauses of the Versailles treaty Which have been violated. | Holds Reich Still in League. France is taking the position that Germany still is technically a mem- | ber of the League of Nations, since its | resignation, made less than two years #go, still is not effective, and that therefore Germany remains under the | jurisdiction of the League. Cermany | left the League October 14, 1933, but | under the League’s regulations the | necessary two-years' notice has not | yet expired. While the cabinet still was in ses- | sion on the subject of the note, the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. HELD FOR OBSERVATION 60-Year-0ld Woman, $172,000, Sent to Hospital. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., March 20 {’)—A 60-year-old woman who car- ried $172.000 in cash and bonds in a black handbag was taken to a hospital here today for observation after a disturbance on a Grand Trunk train. The woman gave her home as EIgin, | Ill, and gave officers two names, | “Isabel May McHie” and “Isabel May McCoy.” | She boarded the train a! Chicago. | railroad detectives said, and carried & ticket for Montreal. | Carrying a conscript army. | Observer Not Decided. | Likewise, it was said there was no comment on whether an American ob- server would be sent to the proposed allied conference of representatives of | England, France and Italy. It was| indicated, however, none would be ! sent. Mr. Roosevelt said he believed the good-neighbor principle was a com- ponent part of any solution of the world disarmament problem. He re- ported substantial progress in the last six weeks on details looking toward this goal. He said a careful consideration of details made the long-standing dead- locked Geneva disarmament parley look a little more hopeful. While the administration weighed the German question, the House Mili- | tary and Nava! Committees laid plans | to push forward measures to increase | the Nation’s armed strength afloat, ashore and in the air. ' Chairman Vinson said the Ngval Committee would attempt to bring be- | fore the House, immediately after it | acts on the bonus, bills to permit the Navy to strengthen its Pacific base: obtain enough officers for a treat; strength Navy, and train sufficient flyers to man an expanding air force Hearing Called Friday. Chairman Rogers of the Military i that bill,” Vinson retorted. He assailed | to buy the rich man’s products?” Subcommittee on Aviation, called ment to the Treasury. Compromise Proposal. As a compromise, Representative Andrews, Republican, of New York. had proposed that the veterans be given negotiable Government bonds for their bonus certificates. He said his measure was written with the aid of the Veterans' Administration “The Democrats,” Andrew said, “have a responsibil#y to the leader of their party—the White House. What the veteran wants is results. I'm will- ing to take something that may be less popular now, but at least the President hasn't expressed himself against it.” Some advocates of the Patman bill said their success was foreshadowed plainly by House approval of unusual procedure under which a choice will be made on the floor between the Vin- son, Patman and all other bonus pay- | ment plans. They said this would prevent the Ways and Means Com- mittee’s approval of the Vinson bill from giving it an advantage. In excited debate yesterday, Pat- man denied that his plan would have inflationary results. there is more than enough idle gold and silver in the Treasury to back the $2,000,000,000 of new currency. Without Effective Brakes. “There are no effective brakes in the “inflation control” provision, He contended | president of the Cairns Development | Co.. into changing his testimony and | that Weyerbacher was responsible for | subsequent rejection of Cairns’ prod- ucts by the Navy. The court found Weyerbacher's ac- tions subsequent to the rejection of his offer to the Cairns Co. to act as its adviser were “not of such a nature as to cast suspicion or discredit” on the Na At that time, five years ago, Weyerbacher was commander of the Naval Aircraft Factory at Phila- delphia. The inquiry, which was headed by Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark of the general board, conducted its investi- getion after charges against Weyer- bacher were forwarded to the Navy by the House Military Committee. way to serve our purpose. But there | . were some people who read it.” Dar) added that the experience was a “rather cooling thing.” After that, he said, no more reports were delivered to the President. “We didn't think the law required they be submitted to him, so he could | ' put them in the closet,” Darrow added. Policy Was Changed. Following reports, Darrow testifie were put out in a “‘surreptitious way 50 they got to the newspapers. Members of the committec laughed from time to time at Darrow’s humor. “We had an appropriation of $50.- 000." he said, “it looked small. espe- cially compared with what the N.R. A. . had, but they got here first. We | didn't have expensive offices, but we drew our salaries regularly, and when { we found we had only $5.000 left we decided to quit.” Darrow said he “supposed I learned | something, had a good time and I hold ; no grudges.” i The lawyer then discussed the tire | business. Smaller tire firms, he said. | are in small towns, adding that lhe‘ | only way they can sell their product | “is to charge less than the big fellows.” | “There are lots of small dealers in | | America,” Darrow said, “but not as| many as there were, and there will ‘be less and less under present condi- | tions. | “But when they're gone, who is going STUDENTS REBUKED | BY MISS PERKINS Refuses to Receive Petition Pro- testing Deportation of Strachey. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 20.—A group of students from Northwestern Universi- | ty today were smarting under a re- buke given them by Secretary of La- | ment spokesman said today. | Darrow said he looked at the Whole | por perkins when they attempted 10 | ..we believe direct negotiations are | hearings for Friday on a bill to set up | | were under way shortly after 6 am. powerful Army aviation bases at|of the Treasury to withdraw money strategic points in the United States, already in circulation if the new Alaska and the Panama Canal area. money presented “danger of an undue Other subccmmittees were planning | expansion of the currency. to advance their hearings on a| Vision argued there was not enough $405,000,000 Army modernization pro- | currency which could be withdrawn gram. to offset the $2,000,000,000 in new Vinson quickly denied that attempts money. to speed the naval program might be _ Leaders of the Veterans' of Foreign influenced by Germany's act. Privately, Wars, backing Patman’s bill, and of however, several House members let|the American Legion, supporting the it be known they consider it a good Vinson measure, listened to the de- idea to put the rest of the world on bate. Cowboy vells greeted one of nctice this country was ready to take Patman's thrusts. steps “against any eventuality.” The Texan charged that the Vinson - e — |bill is a “bankers’ bonus bill" and RADIO PLANE PLANS ‘that it would cost $4,000,000,000— | $2,000,000,000 to the coupon clippers TAKE-OFF IN DRIZZLE | and $2,000,000,000 to the veterans ™ On the other hand Vinson con- Long Test Flight to Sea Expected tended: “We ought to divorce controlled to Be Made With Weather at Sea Good. expansion from payment of the bonus. We shouldn't hang a millstone around the neck of the soldier.” SRR, s o BEACH SANDS SHAPING FOR CAMPBELL TEST Despite a drizzling rain and a slight crosswind at the field, preparations Briton May Shoot for His 300- Mile Dream Tomorrow, or to sea. | The flight was expected to take the | Possibly Friday. ship about 700 miles out across the | By the Associated Press. Pacific and return. . DAYTONA BEACH, Fla,, March 20. —Just when all hope seemed lost, Guide for Readers I (Pacific standard time) today for the take-off of the Government’s radio compass plane on a long test flight out Daytona’s petulant sands were smoothing rapidly toaay, and it seemed possible that Sir Malcolm Campbell might obtain a beach on which he could drive his Bluebird 300 miles an hour. With the highest tides of the year pounding the sand, Campbell planned a test run today in the car in which he set a new speed record of 276.816 miles an heur more than 10 days ago. If all goes well, progress continues on the beach, and the test run proves satisfactory. Campbell will shoot for his 300-mile dream on Thursday or bly Friday. Amusements Comics . Features . Finance Lost and di .B-11 kit 16-17 Found. A-9 { by these little fellows.” | | Offers to Answer Questions. | After some time, Darrow said rather | meekly: | | “Perhaps 1 have been talking too | long, maybe you would rather ask| some questions. Senator Couzens, Republican of Michigan, asked if he had any specific | cases of oppression of small business. | | Darrow mentioned Southern - lumber | dealers, but said the committee would | have no trouble getting evidence. Couzens asked if Darrow would | “save”.any of N. R. A. “I don't know that I can answer that,” he replied. ““I wasn't there long | enough to be familiar with it all. But | the basis of it is very bad.” | He added that in his view N. R. A. | did not help labor. Chairman Harrison asked what would happen if N. R. A. was allowed | to expire. | “I_don't believe labor would be | (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) | which would authorize the Secretary | industrial question “as a fight for life | hanq her a petition protesting the ar- rest for deportation of Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, British author and lecturer. The cabinet member had completed an address at the Palmer House last night when the students rushed up to her. Richard Peterson. who said he was a graduate student, held out the petition, which purported to carry the names of 468 students of the uni- | versity. Miss Perkins did not ‘conceal herl displeasure. “I will not receive your petition or discuss the matter in any form,” she said. “But we are students of North- western University,” pleaded Peterson. | “I am not here to instruct students from your university,” said the Se- retary. “Mail your matter to immi- gration officials.” | Secretary Perkins also refused to receive & telegram from the Chica- go Civil Liberties Union, asking that deportation proceedings against Strachey be dropped. ‘Reich Air planes By the Associated Press, BERLIN, March 20.—Cannon- cracker “bombs” and smokepots gave the German capital a realistic imi- tation of an enemy air raid today as Germany’s newly created air fleet staged a spectacular maneuver. Shortly after 9 a.m. bombing planes swooped low over the Kreuzberg dis- trict, south of the city’s center, where residents were warned to get out of the danger zone, or, failing that, to stay indoors out of harm’s way. The imitation bombs were dropped into big piles of dirt in the streets. Smokepots were touched off on the roofs of a3 the planey + “Bomb’’ Berlin \In Spectacular Show of Power passed overhead, indicating that those houses had been set on fire. The district abutting the Tempelhof Airport, about one-seventh of a mile wide, was isolated from the rest of the city during the bombardment. All inhabitants who failed to evacuate before the attack started were compelled to remain indoors until 3 pm. Nine schools in the area were closed. Reichswehr officers made observa- tlons of the attack. Potsdamer Platz, in the center of Berlin, was jammed with curious citi- zens watching the maneuvers. “These are our flyers,” one heard them say again and again with ob- K Slip by. Attorney May Reunite Pair i Separated 20 Years By the Associated Press MIAMI, Fla, March 20.—The slip of an attorney’s tongue which got Jack May's name in the papers may result in reunit- ing him with a long-lost brother —if Jack sees this. May, 24, was acquitted of a minor charge in court last week. May's attorney. William F. Koeg- ler, who previously had been act- ing as special prosecutor, forgot his new role and admonished the jury to find his client guilty. In St. Louis. Mo., Wiiliam May. 35, heard the story in a news bromicast. He wrote Koegler, saying he believed Jack might be his brother. from whom he was separated 20 vears ago. Now Koegler is attempting to locate his client, whose address he does not have. ETHIOPIAN RAIDS AROUSE ITALIANS Armed Bands Are Pursued to Border After Theft of Live Stock. Br the Associated Press. MOGADISCIO, Italian Somaliland. March 20.—A strong Italian force WORK-RELIEF BILL NEARS FINAL TEST Democrats Rally Forces in Senate to Defeat La Follette Measure. By the Associated Press, Democratic leaders lined up their forces today to defeat an attempt by Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, to raise the $4,880,000.000 work and relief bill to $10,000,000,000. The La Follette amendment was slated for debate today. The leaders | predicted this and other attempts to amend the huge measure would be beaten and that the hill would be | passed tomorrow or Friday. | “'The Senate today started off by | overwhelmingly rejecting an amend- ment by Senator Schall, Republican, | of Minnesota, to liquidate half a dozen Federal emergency corporations within 90 days. The vote was 69 to 10. Schall charged these corporations, such as the Surplus Relief Corp.. in- | terfered with the inherent constitu- | tional rights by competing with pri- | vate business | He said America.” they were “sovietizing Benefit to Corporations. | “If we get this $4,000,000.000 public | works bill," he said. “two and a half billion will go into these corporations. Assailing the Roosevelt administra- tion, the blind Senator said “150 years ago Washington crossed the Delaware trator, had agreed to acceot $5.000,000 as Maryland's contribution to State 1eliel costs, Hopkins. according to information received from Washington. telegraphed e Governor that the F. L would accept $5.000.600, covering boih direct relief and old-age pensions. Gov. Nice on Monday night sent Hop- kins a copy of his message to the Lege islature indorsing the 2 per cent sales tax. It is estimated this tax would bring in $6.500.000 annually, with $3,- 500.000 going to direct relief. $1.500.- 000 for old-age pensions and $1,500.- 000 for debt service on an outstanding £12.000,000 unemplovment relief bond | issue. “I have not yet received Mr. Hop- Kins' telegram,” Gov. Nice said. “But when I do receive it. and even in advance upon information that it has been sent. I should like publicly to express our appreciation for his co- operation. “This progras is inclusive of old- age pensions, to myv mind almost as important as actual relief itcelf. Urges Favorable Action. “I am hoping that the General As- sembly will accept this tender of co- operation on the part of the Feceral Government without dealy and that the unemployed and those in need of relief will not be deprived of this necessary assistance a moment longer than necessary. “I am further hoping the General Assembly will adopt my recommenda- n of a two-year 2,per cent sales tax, which, in my opinion. is im- peratively necessary at this time. and which apparently meets with the ap- proval of Washington.” Delegate Kent R. Mullikin, Demo- crat. of Prince George's. chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit- tee. which is considering the sales tax bill, today warned opponents of the measure that they must have any sub- stitute plan for financing relief by to- morrow if it is to be given considera- In the meantime. opposition to the sales tax took the form of a petition being circulated in the House cham- ber calling upon the Ways and Means Committee to set the tax bill aside dispatched to the Ethioplan frontier ' and two years ago Roosevelt and his favor of a substitute group of spe- reported today it had been unable to bureaucracy colonels crossed into Del- 2';31‘:;"“ Eas e P capture armed groups, believed to have been composed of Ethiopians. which raided into Italian Somaliland and stole 100 camels belonging to Italian natives living near Agable between the Italian forts, El Bit and Gorodoi The Italian forces reported the raiders had escaped safelv into Ethiopian territory and that the Ital- ian commander had stopped his pur- suit in order mot to give rise to new conflicts on the border. The Italian Legation in Addis Ababa was to receive instructions, it was said, to present a formal protest to the Ethiopian government and to re- serve the right of later summing up subjects. Italy May Go to League. ROME, March 20 (@) Ababa directly in the settlement of the East African dispute, she is pre- | | pared to go before the League of Na- aware to take over every private in- dustry in the United States.” This was a “clever” step, he said, to “move the Government to Dela- ware” for “Franklin Delaware Roose- velt.” Schall said the corporations he opposed were set up under Delaware laws. Democratic leaders did not reply to Schall. but ordered an immediate roll call after he concluded The 10 voting for the amendment were all Republicans—Austin. Bar- bour, Carey. Dickinson, Gibson, Hale, | Metcalf, Schall, Steiwer and White. | Among the other amendments awaiting action was the silver infla- tion proposal of Senator Thomas, | the reparations alleged due Italian | Democrat, of Oklahoma, providing: 1. Mandatory purchase of silver at the rate of not less than 50,000,000 ounces a month, until silver becomes 2 —Although | one-quarter of the metallic reserves days. | Italy prefers negotiating with Addis | behind the currency, or until the price | the floor of | reaches $1.29 an ounce. | 2. Issuance of new silver certifi- | cates against all silver bullion at its The House of Delegates held a five- minute session and recessed until 1:30 p.m. in order that Speaker Emanuel Gorfine could appear before the House Ways and Means Commit- tee to discuss relief measures Commenting on the information that Hopkins had agreed to accept $5,000.000, Speaker Gorfine said he was gratified that he had receded from his original demand. Revolt Flares. Open revolt against the Federal Re- lief Administration broke in the Mary= land Senate earlier today as the Dem= ocratic floor leader charged the Fed- eral attitude was “insolent, arrogant and high-handed” and that the Gov- ernment was attempting to “whip” the Legislature into line with “threats.” The revolt had been brewing for Today's open charges made on the Senate following heated debate over the beer tax, a measure designed to raise $1,200,000 annually for relief, only brought out tions if other methods fail, a govern- | monetary value, the certificates to be | in the open the feeling of many Sen- stated. “but if Ethiopia won't nego- tiate and insists on troubling the | League with this matter, then we will | have no hesitation about going, too, before the League.” HOWE’S CONDITION " BECOMES CRITICA ‘lhe best and quickest method,” he | | 'Mrs. Roosevelt Cancels Engage- ments—Members of Fam- ily Summoned. By the Associated Press. secretary to President Roosevelt, was reported “extremely critical” at 11 a.m. today. A White House bulletin said: “The condition of Secretary Howe is extremely critical. His strength is steadily failing.” Mrs. Roosevelt canceled all engage- | ments to remain at the bedside in the | White House of the 64-year-old inti- imate friend of the family. -and it was understood members of the family had been summoned. President Roosevelt maintained con- tact from his desk in the executive office. Howe has been ill from bronchial trouble complicated by cardiac devel- opments. Will Recommend Extradition. MANCHESTER, N. H. March 20 (P).—United States Commissioner Charles D. Barnard today announced & finding against Capt. Freeman Hat- fleld, whose extradition has been sought by the Canadian government to answer charges of defrauding the Dominion of $71,000 in war repara- tions claims. Commissioner Barnard said he would recommend Hatfleld's Mrs. Howe also was in attendance | | placed in circulation immediately by paying maturing obligations of the Government | 3. Instructions to the Secretary of | the Treasury to keep all silver certifi- | cates in circulation by reissuing them | when they are turned in. Efforts to Cut Fund Fail. | Three efforts to slash the amount of | the $4,880,000,000 bill were defeated | | yesterd: ‘They were: | The Byrd amendment to reduce the | | total to $1,880,000,000. Beaten, 66 to 21 | The Adams amendment to cut it to $2,880,000.000. Beaten, 57 to 30. | The Adams amendment to limit the | appropriation for one year. Beaten, 57 to 30. The votes came after debate featur- | ing assertions and denials that the bill | | would endanger the public credit. | |sum was Senator Glass, Democrat, of | “this tremendous | Virginia, who said | appropriation, if made, is going to im- pair the credit of the United States | with all its insidious consequences.” | Criticizing Glass for predicting “all forms of disaster,” Senator Lewis, | Democrat, of Illinois, said: “If there | is to be relief let it be complete relief.” | Ten Democrats Back Byrd. Ten Democrats and 11 Republicans | voted for the Byrd $1,880,000,000 | amendment. Fifty-one Democrats, 13 Republicans, the Farmer-Labor and Progressive Senators voted against. Eleven Democrats and 19 Repub- licans voted to cut the expenditure to | one year. Fifty Democrats, five Re- | publicans and the Progressive and | Farmer-Labor Senators voted for two years. |” Twelve Democrats and 18 Repub- | licans voted for the Adams’ $2,880,- 000,000 cut. Forty-nine Democrats, six Republicans, one Farmer-Labor and one Progressive voted against it. | During debate yesterday Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, charged that $486.000,000 of the existing pub- | lic works fund nad been diverted without warrant for use for ordinary | expenditures not contemplated under | the recovery act, | ators. The measure was passed on second reading by a 16-to-12 vote. Senator J. Allan Coad, Democrat, of St. Marys, Democratic floor leader, made the charges. “Federal Relief Administrater Harry Hopkins occupies no position of responsibility so far &s the citizens of Maryland are con- cerned,” he shouted. “We are here to represent the peo- ple of Maryland. I think it an in- solent. high-banded, arrogant attitude for any man to say to the State ‘we nold this threat over your head and will whip you into line’ whether it is the wishes of ocur people or not." Referring to Hopkins as a n in a swivel chair in Washington,” Coad said the Federal official “is telling Maryland we must do this or that.” The tax over which the Senate was debating is a levy of 3.25 cents per gallon on beer, the estimated proceeds The condition of Louis M. Howe, | Among the critics of the size of the of $1,200,000 a year to go to relief. $8,000,000 Revenue Asked. Federal relief officials had informed the State that it must raise $8,000,000 for the remainder of this year and $7,200,000 annually for the two com- ing years. Last Friday was the deadline on which the State was to have assured the Government that it would raise the relief funds, but no taxing pro- gram has been evolved as yet. The beer tax, which was amended by the Senate early today to dedicate the revenues to relief, was the first relief taxation measure to reach the floor of the Legislature. The Baltimore City Senators op- posed the measure and Senator George Hofferbert, Democrat, first Baltimore, moved that the bill be made a special order for Friday. After two hours of debate, the motion was lost by a 14-14 tie vote. Another motion, made by Senator John G. Callan, Democrat, second Baltimore, to recommit the bill to committee, also was defeated py a 14-14 vote. Senator Callan introduced amend- ments which would have cut the tax to 1 cent per gallon and exempted Baltimore City, but they were de~ feated.