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A—2 x% BANKS OPEN FIRE ON OMNIBUS BILL Nation’s Lenders Suggest: Changes to Minimize Political Influence. What’s What Behind News In Capital Farley Due to Leave Cabinet to Take Charge of ’36 Campaign. BY PAUL MALLON. | PERSONAL understanding Is | supposed to exist between Postmaster General Farley and the boss, whereby sunny Jim will relinquish the postmaster generalship to handle the Roosevelt campaign for re-election next year. The agreement is supposed to have been made casually and unofficially months ago. No time was set for the By the Associated Press The Nation's bankers unleased an official assault on the administration’s omnibus banking Dill yesterday, sug- gesting changes designed to minimize political infiuence in control of the | Federal Reserve System. | Among other things was demanded | the dropping of the Secretary of the| ‘Treasury and the controller of the currency from the board's reserve |change. It certainly will not be made membership. at any time when Farley is under fire, The bankers’ attitude was expressed | even such pop-gun fire as Huey Long in a statement filed with the House | has been offering in the Senate. That | Banking Committee while Prof. Irving | much is certain. Fisher of Yale was testifying that the In fact, for the sake of present bill “has, in my opinion, the greatest appearances, it may be necessary potentiality for good or ill of all bills| tor both Farley and the White that have been put forward in this| House to continue to deny any such administration.” move is contemplated. After Long Deposit Insurance Approved. adjourns for the Summer, they Tt latement was mrcsented Dyithe | oy come OR Chin S i American Bankers' Association. 1It| The general assumption In I‘l’l | approved sections dealing with de- Farley's m“"m'";l;l o l?;: ::rl?esl“ posit insurance and technical changes Not jump un = h.l e in the banking laws, but balked at the | and next Spring at the latest. | provisions intended to increase Gov- | Explains Farley Delay. | ernment control over the Federal Re- President Roose- serve System and to liberalize lending | ‘_P:f.:xgg:';:dw:g km'x in applying [ powers of reserve banks. his_political-official segregation rule | It suggested alterations to “insure, | 8, 8O0 R e Boer™ You may | as far as possible, the absolute inde-| . .0)" tnat, months ago, he ordered pendence of the (Federal Reserve) | . "yoiqars’ of party jobs and official | board from partisan or political con- | Goyernment positions to sever one siderations.” connection or the other. Amid silence | “Since the passage of the Federal SQMRECHOn Of NGO T Reserve act,” the statement said, “in- ley has continued in bot formed opinion both in Congress and fi,’;“" ERLY hankers has been striving to- i B DT R acay st Febera| At first Farley thought he would Reserve Board of such independence | Telinquish the 1!ahoflalhl>hmrgmnt- | and prestige that it might be described | 3P “’l'd "E"':"‘]'k"d' (;[‘z”"‘;l’u’ as the supreme court of finance and = His pals sav he like - e banking. life. Later he discovered the Post | “We believe there is greater need 01’"92 was fl"’}’,- gm‘;nffeflm";hi now than ever before for realizing Toutine way. He Fiji Islands and it would make khis Sdeal - ) little or no difference in the func- Committee Signs Statement, | tioning of the mails. Signed by Rudolf S. Hecht. Robert| a1i whatever patronage changes he V. Fleming, Tom K. Smith, Winthrop | coulq ‘effect from his official position - Aldreh A R SO, the |already have been affected. He cannot A. B. A. special committee on the | ey give a stamp to a friend now. bill, the siatement advocated that the $ SORZY board be reduced from eight i five Y members through retirement as ex- OLDFRIEND officio members of the Secretary of the Treasury and the controller of the currency. As soon as & vacancy occurred among the appointive mem- bers, the A. B. A. would leave that post vacant. Also, the bankers' committee pro- posed that the terms of the president and the Restr\'e_ Board governor be Apparently this would prevent Far- made concurrent; that board members ley from realizing any secret ambitions and the governor be removable only | he may have had to run for Governor | for cause, and that open market Ob- of New York in '36. He cannot run erations be put in the hands of the | for Governor and conduct the presi- Reserve Board and four Reserve Bank | dential campaign at the same time. governors. | It is generally understood Mr. Roose- | Fisher Suggests “Better Way.” | velt does not want to ruin Farley’s Fisher's analysis of the bill was Bovernorship chances. But there is | this: no one else to run the presidential “Rightly administered it could | CAmPpaign. bring us out of the depression in a The old talk about Commerce Sec- few weeks. Wrongly administered it |Fetary Roper being switched to the | could thrust us deeper in.” | postmester generalship is being re- | He said a “still better way” would |Vived. No one else is being men- | be to replace the Federal Reserve by | tioned, at least not where any one a monetary * | can hear it yet. Who will get Roper's authority, withdrawing the Government from the banking | job also seems to be undecided. Public Privacy. business altogether. Fisher objected particularly to the | A new place to hold private con- | terences has been discovered by Mr. | provisions in the pending bill allow- ing the Federal Reserve Board to in- crease the reserves required of Re- | FAriey and R. F. C. ‘ih"""““ e serve member banks. | Jones, 1t is the last place you would | think of—in a closed automobile at | | the curb on busy Pennsylvania avenue, MAN iSWSCOVERED | outside Jones' office. No place could | be more public and at the same time INJURED IN sTREET‘more private. No one could listen in. The choice of such an unusual | | | | | h! | | | [ spot by the two eminent New Dealers one morning this week has spurred considerable specula- tion as to what they were confering about. 1 Until Jones tells, you will never | | know, which is not encouraging. be-‘ cause Jones never tells anything. If | an_on the roof of the car Believed o have ibeenintruck byjs :::r:ie:‘rlieg:l,nnrley will not want to hit-and-run automobile, Isaac Sterner, | o)) Farley always likes to keep pat- 51 of 1310 Girard street, was found | ronage matters to himself, especially | lying on the street car tracks near when his friends are involved. Fourteenth and Fairmont streets early today with serious head injuries, | Silver Buying Plan. He was seen by Ernest Viverette, | Mr. Morgenthau's new silver buying 233 Kentucky avenue southeast, and program means nothing new except was taken to Emergency Hospital in | that he has at last been able to find the cab of Emmett Harler, 930 K | two nations to co-operate in a trade-| street, who was driving by. Sterner balances by selling silver to us for told police he didn't know what struck = goods. him. At the hospital, it was said his ear | was severed and he may have a skull' fracture. Isaac Sterner Believed to Have Been Victim of Hit-Run Driver. | | N.R. A. EMPLOYES TOLD JOBS ARE SAFE/ Richberg Says No Change or Over- He buys their silver and pays them in gold theoretically, but not actually. They keep the gold on deposit here and use it to pay for goods bought | from us. It is merely a device for equalizing their unfavorable trade balances by selling their silver to us | | for goods. It would be highly important if the |amount involved were not so small. | (The Mexican deal amounted to $1,120.000 and Guatemala to $35,000.) Also it would be impressively signifi- cant if it could be worked with other | larger nations. However, those which have the unfavorable trade balances do not have the silver and vice versa. No other negotiations are pending. Convention City Talk. | There is nothing subtle about At- lantic City’s bid for the Democratic National ~Convention. It merely shouted Atlantic City to the world again before the start of the bathing |season. The New Deal press agent | system may have become good re- ROOSEVELT SIGNS : CERTIFICAT'ON OF lc;:;:’ly but A't‘lunuc City's always was ISLANDS CHARTER | The decision on the convention site will be made a year from now. ___(Continued Prom First Page.) turn in Personnel Is | Contemplated. N. R. A. employes were given assur- ance yesterday by Donald R. Richberg, newly named acting chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Board, that their jobs are safe. ““‘We contemplate no change or over- turn in personnel,” Richberg declared at his first press conference. “We are going ahead on the presumption that Congress will prolong the Recov- ery Administration beyond the June 16 expiration date.” He stated emphatically N. R. A, will Push its work vigorously, and added: “N. R. A. is far from being dead as | a dodo. It is a very lively creature.” No one has given the matter any consideration, but several sugges- tions are now being offered. One is that it be held on the White House lawn, so as to save long dis- tance telephone charges, which always run up when a President runs his renominating convention from the Executive Mansion. Also, the secret | service could keep Huey Long out. (Copyright. 1935.) BAN ON RADIO ADS Reich to Clear Air October 1 for Political-Cultural Tasks. BERLIN, March 23 (#).—Radlo ad- vertising in the Reich will be banned October 1 because of the “incom- patibility with the political and cul- tural tasks of broadcasting,” ac- cording to a circular letter issued today by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda and public enlightenment. Ths circular explained that the | ban will permit concentration on more important newspaper advertis- ing and window: display. L] episode in the relations between the United States and the Philippines were Secretary of State Hull and Sec- retary of War Dern, Maj. Gen, Creed Cox, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the Army; Senator Pitt- man of Nevada and the following high-ranking Filipinos: Manuel Que- zon, president of the Philippine Sen- ate; Manuel Roxas, representative and member of the Constitutional Conven- tion; Pedro Guevara, resident com- missioner; F. A. Delgrado, resident | commissioner; T. Sandiko, vice presi- dent of the Constitutional Convention; M. Cuaderno, member of the Consti- tutional Convention, and Recto. Trade Solution Sought, Meanwhite, Murphy, who is expected to become the first American high commissioner to Manila to represent the President in watching over the progress of the new government, was busy with cabinet departments here attempting to iron out future eco- nomic relations once the present free trade with the islands disappears under independence.- . CORCORAN DISPLAY | Invitation Showing Will Be | shouted down there. ! THE EVENING PREVIEW TONIGHT Conducted for 428 Paintings. Notables of the art world, high pub- lic officials, distinguished private citi- zens and other makers or lovers of art will attend an invitation preview at the Corcoran Gallery of Art tonight of the imposin collection of pictures in- cluded in the Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, which opens to the pub- lic tomorrow at 2 p.m. The exhibition, consisting of 428 paintings by 353 artists, is the largest ever held in the series of “biennials” at the Corcoran Gallery. The showing will continue through Sunday, May 5. Speicher to Attend. Among artists who have notified the | gallery of their intention to attend the private view tonight is Eugene Speicher of New York, whose painting of a blacksmith, entitled “‘Red’ Moore," was awarded the first W. A. Clark prize of $2,000 and the Corcoran gold medal in the contest coincident with the exhibition. Jonas Lie of New York, who ¢hairman of the contest jury, and | other jurors, Victor Higgins of New | Mexico and George Harding of Philadelphia are expected to be present. | The gallery has been decorated with laurel, palms and ferns for the event which is regarded as an out- standing social as well es art func-| tion, An orchestra will play| throughout the evening. Doors will by way of the New York avenue ap- proach. Signs will direct the visitors to the various exhibition rooms on the second floor. | Trustees of the gallery Powell . Minnigerode, director, mingle with the guests. Members of the press were ad- mitted to the exhibition today. The show will be open tomorrow from 2 to 5:30 pm. There will be no edmission charge. MARYLAND’S TAX and C. will STAR., WASHINGTON, RADIO COMPASS PLANE TESTS END Conclusion’ Comes on Heels of Snow Resignation From Experiment. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., March 23.—The Government’s apparently successful tests with a radio-compass plane came to a climax today in an aftermath of controversy. Abrupt conclusion of the tests was announced late last night close on the heels of the unexpected resignation from the Department of Commerce | staff of Maj. Chester Snow, who had been in charge of the series ot flights | over the Pacific. The radio-compass | 1s designed to make ocean flying *fool | proof.” | Maj. Snow declined to explain his | resignation, but assoclates indicated | he surrendered his post because of a controversy with Secretary of Com- merce Roper over extending the ex- | perimental flights to Hawaii, as the major desired. The plane’s crew previously had made known it planned to fly to| Hawali, but Secretary Roper directed that the tests should be confined to flights of not more than 900 to 1,000 miles out to sea and return. Maj. Snow announced his resigna- tion upon the completion of the last of the test flights—a hop which took the big dual-motored monoplane 350 miles to sea for a contact with the liner Mariposa and return. Soon _thereafter James L. Kinney the Post | oPen at 9 p.m. and entrance will be | o the Department of Commerce an- nounced that no more test fiights with the compass plane would be made and | that the ship would be turned back to the commercial line from which it was leased VIDAL IS SATISFIED. Similar Tests Planned on Atlantic Coast, Eugene L. Vidal, director of the Bureau of Air Commerce. last night | expressed satisfaction with the flight | test of the department’s radio com- SITUATION CAUSES LEGISLATIVE SNARL __(Continued From First Page) “amicable session,” but had reached no “definite conclusions.” The House side of the situation is | summed up briefly—the 2 per cent sales tax to raise $6,500.000. Of that amount $3,500.000 would go to direct relief, $1,500,000 to old-age pensions and the remainder to servicing charges on the $12,000,000 relief bond issue of 1933. Senate Problems Complexing. The Senate side of the situation is more complex. It involves: The tax of 5 per cent on gross sales of utility companies—now dead in the House—which is estimated to raise $2,000,000 yearly. A tax of 10 per cent on patent medicines, estimated to raise $780.000. A tax of 10 per cent on cosmetics, estimated to raise $350,000. A floor tax of 5 cents per gallon on | whisky, estimated to raise $555.000. Those levies fall far short of rais- ing the required $5.000,000. To ap- proximate that amount, the tax of 325 cents per gallon on beer must be included, which, with estimated revenue of $1,200,000, brings the Sen- ate total to approximately $5000,000 in estimated revenue. The beer tax is before the Senate on third reading. A beer levy bill never has reached the floor of the House, but discussions during passage of the sales tax in that body indicate defl- nitely that the beer tax would be The fate of the utilities tax bill in | the House also indicates that the other Senate levy bills would face a similar fate. | But the aebate in the Senate shows that a sales tax would meet with real trouble there. Leading Senators regarded thc vote by which & sales| tax was recommitted to committee | | and the vote by which the utilities | bill was passed on thira reading as| pass plane over the Pacific and dis- | closed plans for similar experiments between the Atlantic Coast and the Island of Bermuda The tests on the West Coast, Vidal | said, had proved as successful es those over land during the past year and a half. HAUPTMANN WITNESS INDICTED FOR PERJURY Restaurant Cashier Who Told of Seeing Figure at Cemetery Reported Named. By the Associated Press, PLEMINGTON, N. J., March 23— A witness for Bruno Richard Haupt- mann at his trial for the Lindbergh baby killing was indicted for perjury | yesterday. Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, jr. declined to reveal the name of the person indicted, but it was learned from an authoritative source that it was Benjamin Heler, New York res- taurant cashier. Three witnesses testified before the grand jury. Heler swore at Hauptmann's trial he was sitting in his parked auto- mobile near the gate of St. Raymond’s Cemetery, the Bronx, on the night of April 2, 1932, the date of the pay- ment of the $50,000 Lindbergh ran- som. He said he saw & man who re- sembled the late Isador Fisch, Haupt- mann’s business partner, jump from the cemetery wall. In rebuttal the State called a wit- ness who testified Heier's automobile struck his car in midtown New York about the time Heier said he was at the cemetery. e PRINCESS MDIVANI BOARDS S. S. BREMEN indicative of the Senate determina-'vyg o 1w0h Heiress and Cousin B0 These children, attending the Van Buren School, W street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets south- SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1935. Hot on One Side; Cold on the Other VAN BUREN SCHOOL CHILDREN DEPEND ON OLD STOVES FOR HEAT | | | | | east, are forced to leave their desks on cold days to gather closely to the ancient barrel-like stoves that heat the huge rooms. EPEATED efforts have been | made recently by the Board of Education to replace the old - fashioned low - pressure ! heating plants in the public schools because they have outlived thelr usefulness. All of them smoke and spread soft coal dust. They fail in some instances to heat the school buildings properly. There are 22 such obsolete plants still in use. The board has sought vainly for an appropriation of $100,000 to replace them with modern furnaces. In the list of 22 such schools, the | Martin Van Buren Elementary School, on W street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets southeast, is not mentioned. The reason is that instead of having an old, worn-out plant, the Van Buren School has no plant at all. Instead, it has old-time, barrel-like stove: 0, A MKENNEY. 65, “ENGINGER, 5 DEAD Member of Prominent Washington Family Dies at Hospital. | | Charles Albert McKenney, 65, a leading consuliing engineer here for many years and member of a prom- inent Washington family, died early today at George Washington Univer- sity Hospital, where he underwent a major operation las' September Mr. McKennsy showed considerable improvement tollowing the operation and was allowed to return to his home at 1523 Rhode Island avenue. In February ne went to Florida in an effort to regain his strength. His condition grew worse, however, and he came back to Washington Sunday, returning to vhe hospital. Mr. McKenney was born in Wash- ington Oc:ober 14, 1870, the son of the late 'ames Hall McKenney, for vears clerk of the United States Su- preme Court, and the former Miss virginia Dorcas Walker, member of a well-to-do Washington family. Graduate of Princeton. He received his early education from tutors and at preparatory schools here, later entering Princeton | University, where he graduated in 1892 with the first class ever to com- plete the then new course of sanitary | | engineering. After graduation Mr. McKenney ob- tained a position with the District Engineer Department and served there for many vears. He resigned several vears before the outbreak of the World War to accept a War De- partment commission to remodel the | in a speech in the Chamber of Dep- tion to kill all sales tax bills. | And there is the statement of Sen- | ator J. Allan Coad, Democrat, of St. | Marys, majority floor ieader in the | Upper Honse, that a sales tax will not | pass this Legislature. | MILLION ARE READY TO MARCH AS CLASS OF "11 IS SUMMONED| __ (Continued From First Page.) | not require anything like this num- ber of men military and official circles | admitted it had mostly to do with | the tense feeling created by Ger- many’s arms announcement. Communique Abrupt. Today's communique was of the same abrupt brevity as the one an- nouncing mobilization of troops for the expedition to East Africa. It sald: “The undersecretary of the press and propaganda communicates the following: The head of the govern- ment and minister of armed forces has ordered as a precautionary meas- ure the recall by official notification of the entire class of 1911." " Undersecretary of War Baistrocchi, uties previously had revealed that members of the class had received of- ficlal post cards with instructions to hold themselves ir: readiness for mobile ization. Previously some elements of the 1911 class had been called to the colors to bring to full military strength the two divisions sent to East Africa, and to recruit replace- ments for -the two divisions in Italy. Mussolini spoke under a cloudy sky in an occasional gusty rain, declaring: “The European situation is as troubled as today's weather. But Ttaly is giving a splendid example of calm force. This is because she is strong not only in arms but in spirit.” Shaking his fist at the crowded square, I1 Duce shouted: “You must be ready for your fu- ture task—which, in fact, is in the near future.” On this anniversary he said he was proud that the strength of the Fascist party also had permeated the people s0 that Italy presented unity and strength. He concluded by saying “the future is in your hands.” ‘The crowd responded “it is ours.” e Patrol Leaders Named. GROVETON, Va., March 23 (Spe- cial).—Patrol leaders of the newly or- ganized Boy Scout troop of Groveton School, one of the largest in Fairfax County, are: Douglas Kearns of Happy | | Start for Home With Police Guard to Chase Curious. By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, England. March 23.—With a police guard to chase the curious away, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, soon to divorce Prince Alexis, boarded the S. S. Bremen at 9:45 a.m. today for her return to New York. Her cousin, Jimmy Donahue, was with her. worth heiress had asked for special protection, so all who awaited her arrival at the steamer were scattered. Princess Mdivania wore a heavy fur coat with purple orchids, and a tight- ‘The police explained that the Wool- | water and sewage system at Fort | Monroe, Va. | When the United States entered the | war he was appointed a major in the | Engineer Corps, and served with the | War Industries Board here. He was promoted to a colonelcy before his dis- charge following the armistice. ‘ Worked in South America. | | After the war Mr. McKenney helped | organize the firm of Black, McKenney & Stewart, consulting engineers, with his former superior officer, the late | Maj. Gen. William M. Black. former chief of Army Engineers. The firm | was dissolved in 1930, Mr. McKenney then engaged in ex- | tensive engineering work in South| | America, deepening and improving | | harbors. He surveyed power sites in | | which also boarded the steamer. fitting brown felt hat. Cousin Jimmy, ' the Andes Mountains and directed | who yesterday was reported packing a | the deepening and widening of the | revolver for their protection, wore a Magdalena River from Bogota. Co- | derby jauntily. lombia, 800 miles to the coast. He also ‘They arrived from London in a superintended the construction of the | small, fast green car, the driver of model city, Venice, Fla., for the | | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. | Count Haugwitz, the Dane who yes- | % terday revealed “long friendship™ for | Made Waterway Survey. the heiress, did not accompany the Just before ill health forced his party from London. The trip was retirement from active work, Mr. made in two hours, as Britain's new | McKenney completed an extensive speed limit kept the car at a maximum of 30 miles an hour on least 15 stretches of the route. Resigns CHIEF OF ROBOT PLANE EXPERIMENT QUITS. MAJ. CHESTER SNOW, Who resigned his post of chief of experiments with the Government’s robot plane yesterday while the Valley, Courtney Saum of Alexandria and Harvey chu’d Union Famm.' - | plane was on a test flight. ~—Underwood Photo. » | survey of Georgia inland waterways for the State government. | In addition to his widow, Mrs. | Marion Miller McKenney, Mr. Mc- Kenney is survived by two sons, James Hall McKenney, 3d, and Charles Albert McKenney, jr., and a brother, Frederic Duncan McKenney, all of ‘Washington. Mr. McKenney was a member of the Chevy Chase and Metropolitan Clubs of Washington and the Prince- ton Club in New York City. Funeral services probably will be held Monday, the hour to be an- nounced later. 0. S. ECONOMIC MISSION SAILS FOR FAR EAST Study in Japan and China to Aid Projected Reciprocal Treaty Negotiations. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—The American economic mission to the Far Rast sailed yesterday for Japan and China to study economic conditions preliminary to making recommenda- tions in the projected reciprocal treaty negotiations. W. Cameron Forbes, chairman, said here yesterday th: group of 16 chosen by the National Foreign Trade Coun- cil will “study the history, trend and probable future trade relations be- | tween Japan and the United States.” The mission has no governmental afliations. It is financed by com- mercial and industrial firms. - I Built in 1881, the Van Buren School building is as badly out of date as the stoves. The rooms are large, with huge windows and high ceilings, and with the best of modern equipment | would be difficult to heat. Hard to Heat. Children alternately have to move to & bench close to the stove or sit behind a metal screen to cut off the excessive heat, At times they “cook” on one side, while the other is freez- ing. Fhe Van Buren School 15 not men- tioned directly as one of the new construction projects included in the Jist submitted by the Board of Educa- tion for Public Works Administration funds. Indirectly, however, it is made a part of the program. I the $155,- 000 asked for an addition of eight rooms and an assembly hall-gymna- Bonus Foes Only 90 Vote Againat Patman Bill In House. The 90 votes cast in the House yes- terday against the Patman bonus bill follow: Democrats voting against: Biermann (Iowa), Boehme (Indi- ana), Buchanan (Texas). Buck (Cali- fornia), Burch (Virginia), Byrns (Tennessee). Cochran (Missouri), Corning ‘New York), Cox (Georgia). i Darden (Virginia). Dobbins (llii- nois), Doughton (North Carolina), Drewry (Virginia), Duffy (New York). Fiesinger (Oh10), Ford (California). Greever (Wyoming) Harlan (Ohio), Harter Hennings (Missouri). Hobbs bama), Huddleston (Alabama) Kocialowski (Illinois), Hopplemann (Connecticut). Lambeth (North Carolina), Lanham (Texas), Lea (California), Lewis (Colorado), Lewis (Maryland). McLaughlin (Nebraska), McMillan (South Carolina), McReynolds (Ten- nessee). O'Connell (Rhode Island), O'Con- ' nor (New York), O'Day (New York), Oliver (Alabama), O'Neal (Kentucky). Peterson (Flocida), Pettengil (Indi- ana). Reilly (Wisconsin). Robertson (Vir- ginia), Russell (Massachusetts) Shanley (Connecticut), Sisson (New York), Smith (Connecticut), Smith (Virginia). Tarver (Georgia), Terry (Arkansas), Thom (Ohio). Utterback (Iowa). Whittington (Mississippi), Wilcox (Florida), Woodrum (Virginia). Young (Ohio). Total Democrats against—55. Republicans voting against: Andrew (Massachusetts), Aodrews | (New York). | Bacon (New York), Bolton (Ohio). Cavicchia (New Jersey), Christian- | son (Minnesota), Church (Illinois), | Cole (New York), Culkin (New York). Darrow (Pennsylvania). Eaton (New Jersey). Gifford (Massachusetts), (New York). Hancock (New York), Hartley (New | (Ohio), (Ala- Goodwin lister (Ohio). Lehlbach (New Jersey), Lord (New | York). McLean (New (Michigan), Merritt Millard (New York), Perkins (New Jersey), (Vermont) Reeb (New York), Rich (Pennsyl- vania). Rogers (Massachusetts). Snell (New York). Taber (New York). Thomas (New York), Tinkham (Massachusetts), | Tobey (New Hampshire), Treadway | (Massachusetts). ‘Wigglesworth (Massachusetts). Total Republicans against—35. The pairs on the final vote were announced as follows: Fish for, Claiborne against. Stewart for Wadsworth against. Crowther for, Wilson of Pennsyl- vania against Kleberg for, West against. Griswold for. Sumners against. Gambrill for, Montague against. Jersey). Mapes | (Connecticut), ; Plumley | PROCESSING TAXES T0 STAY IN FORCE| Wallace Denies Release of Brend,i Meat and Clothing Is Intended. By the Associated Press. | A prediction by Senator Georu,; Democrat, of Georgia, that processing | taxes on bread, meat and clothing would be lifted produced an immedi- | ate statement today from Secm.lry’ ‘Wallace that the Department of Agri- culture did not contemplate such action. In a statement George also pre- dicted that President Roosevelt would give “positive assurance” that the cotton price would not be permitted to drop below the 12-cent loan level | now in effect. s | There have been reports for some time that the administration would take action along that line. Senators from cotton States have urged immediate announcement of such a policy to reassure cotton farm- ers and the cotton trade. Officials of the A. A. A. have been reluctant, nowever, to make such an announcemant st this time, fearing & —Star Staff Photo. | sium for the Ketchum School is al- lotted, the Van Buren School will be abandoned. No Modern Plumbing. In addition to the need, meanwhile, for adequate modern heating facilities, ! the old structure erected 54 years ago has no modern plumbing or sanitation. A long, tunnel-like runway has been constructed, connecting the anclent building to modern facilities in an adjacent structure. Heating plants, no matter how sorely needed, have not been given a place on the new P. W. A. program. They are regarded as equipment, rather than construction and, of course, the new program will be lim- ited to actual building that will pro- vide employment and a market for building materials. SENATE EXPECTED | 10 ADOPT BONUS Hearings and Discussion of Tax, However, Would Require Time. ‘ ___(Continued From First Page.) the House yesterday turned down the more orthodox Vinson bill, 207 to 204, in favor of the Patman new money proposal. The Vinson measure, sup- ported by the American Legion, did not specify how the money should be raised, leaving that to the Govern- ment. Vinson Group Hopeful. ‘The closeness of this vote, which preceded the final decision, led Vin- son supporters to predict that if the Senate decided to adopt the Vinson measure, the House might change its mind and concur. That a veto is forthcoming is gen- erally considered certain. Not only has the President taken a stand against payment of the bonus now, but a chief lieutenant, Donald Rich- berg, has =aid publicly there would be no inflation. Should the Patman bill finally be- come a law, this is what would hap- pen: A veteran who held an adjusted ccmpensation certificate would turn | it over to the Veterans' Administra- tion, receiving United States notes— currency—and coins for its face value. | If_he had borrowed against his cer- tificate, and not repaid the loan or the interest on the loan. the amount of the loan and any interest which HOUSE D. C. BILLS COMMITTE HI New Deal in Personnel Is Asked to Get Health Needs for City. A rew deal in the personnel of the House Appropriations Committee on District supply bills was described by Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing di- rector of the District Tuberculosit Association, as the first step if the District is to “have a new deal in health,” in a statement filed today with the Senate Subcommittee on the | 1936 appropriation bill. In her statement urging restora- tion of the $43,900 the House took ofl of maintenance for the Children's ‘Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Mrs. Grant said: “If the District of Columbia is te have a new deal in health it seem to me that the first step in that d< rection is a new deal in the personng of the House Appropriations Commi« tee of Congress, where District ap propriations are always drastically i} regardless of the fact that the or iginal estimates which are presentec to Congress must stand the ‘acid test of the closest scrutiny and appreva of all the District department heads including the District auditor. the Commissioners and finally the Federa Budget Bureau.” Statement Challenges Action. Further on in her statement Mrs Grant made this observation “Why any member of the District Appropriations Committee of the House should feel justified in cutting these appropriations when no single member of that committee know: anything about tuberculosis is beyonc my comprehension.” Unanimous in their support of ar increase in the police force, resto- ration of the cut made by the House in the fund for the Children's Hos- pital, additional equipment for the Fire Department and establishment of a social service department at Gal- linger Hospital, several delegations of District citizens appeared before the subcommittee today. Among those who urged the addi- tion of 141 men to the police force were: Sylvan King, chairman of a Joint citizens’ group: George W. Of- futt and George Plitt, Board of Trade; Edward D. Shaw. Merchants and Manufacturers' Association; A. J Driscoll, Mid-City Citizens' Associa- tion; Mrs. George C. Thorpe and Mrs Walter Tuckerman of the Women Safety Committee. Truck House Fund Asked. The Federation of Citizens' Asco- ciations, represented by Joseph L Gammell, Dr. W. P, Kenealy, Vincen Taylor and Orrin Davy, supportec the increase in the police force, $3,00( additional for fire hose, and appro. priation of an yunexpended balanct for the new fire truck house on Rhod¢ Island avenue northeast. The Children’s Hospital item wa: explained by O. H. P. Johnson, presi- dent; Col. Arthur O'Brien, vice presi dent, and Miss Mattie Gibson, super- intendent of the hospital. The Budget Bureau recommended $36.00( for the care of children sent to the hospital by the Board of Public Wel fare. The House cut the item $30,000. It was pointed out by offi cials that even the budget figure | would not come up to the estimatec cost in view of the number of chil dren that have to be cared for. A social service department was de- scribed as an essential need at Gal- linger Hospital by Women's Auxiliary of the Medical Society, representatec by Mrs. Prentiss Willson. Mrs. Eugent R. Whitmore, Mrs. R. Thonas Wes: and by Miss Beatrice Mullen. In deploring the slesh in fuids for the Children’s Tuberculosis Sanato- rium, Mrs. Grant said: “Repeatedly the Tuberculosis Asso- clation has appeared before the Sen- ate Appropriations Committee to pleac for similar drastic cuts in the Lower House in previous vears, but never before have we seen a cut so drastic or 50 unjustifiable as this $43,900 cut which has been made this year. Con- gress has provided a total of $1.025, 000 to build the Children’s Sanato: rium, but unless it can be properly staffed, and an adequate appropriation for maintenance secured this institu- tion is useless. “Today the sanatorium is not oper- |ing the war, plus $1.25 for each day |duty. stimulation of production wowd re- sult, - accrued before October 1, 1931, would | ating to capacity because drastic cuts be deducted. were made last year in the mainten- Three and a half million veterans &nce and personnel appropriations. hold adjusted compensation certifi- There are 139 children in the sana- cates. They represent $1 for each |torium today, with only 10 nurses day he was in the United States dur- | ¥ho must do both day and night The sanatorium is equipped lie spent overseas, plus a 25 per cent | to care for 150 children, and when | Jersey), Higgins (Connecticutt), Hol- | addition of that total, plus 4 per |the two wings now under construc- cent interest for 20 years. The cer- tion are completed, it will have a bed tificates were issued in 1925, and un- |capacity of 300. There are many less Congress changes the law, do not | tuberculosis children on the waiting mature until 1945, |list who cannot be admitted until ‘Twice before the House has passed additional personnel and additiona! a bill by Representative Patman to | maintenance is provided Small pay the bonus. Both times it died in | wonder the Nation's Capital City has the Senate, The first vote was on | the third highest tuberculosis deat! June 15, 1932, with the “bonus army” | rate in the entire United States.” on the Capitol steps, and the vote was 211 to 176. The second was a year ago this month, and the vote was 205 to 125. ROMANCE REPORTED Swedish Prince May Wed Nether- lands Princess. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 23 (#).—Close on the heels of formal | announcement of the engagement of | Senate. Princess Ingrid of Sweden to Crown | Refused to agree to limit debate on Prince Frederick of Denmark, rumors | work-relief bill. circulated yesterday that husky 18-| Commerce Committee recommended year-old Prince Carl Johan would 00D | pagsage of Copeland food-drug bill be betrothed to Princess Juliana of | * pinance Committee heard Senator "‘; gg&':l';:‘-m“p‘wr columnist | B8TKley charge attempted intimida- forecast the announcement would be | tion during N. R. A. investigation. made April 30, the princess' 26th | House. birthday. Prince Carl is said to have | Passed bill to pay $2,000,000.000 met Juliana at the wedding of the | soldiers’ bonus with new currency. Duke of Kent and Princess Marina in | Military Subcommittee approved London for which Juliana was one bill to create air bases through the of the bridesmaids. Congress in Brief { | I | By the Associated Press TODAY. Senate. Debates work-relief bill. House. In recess. YESTERDAY. ! country. 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