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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair with lowest temperature about 38 tomorrow degrees tonight; warmer; Thursday showers; Temperatures—Highest, today; lowest, 39, at 6 a.m. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pag intered as sec post_office, W. HITLER REFUSES 10 BARE SIZE OF PROJECTED ARMY AS PARLEY ENDS Whole Armament Question Turned Back to Allies by Fuehrer in Parrying Quiz of Sir John Simon. No. 33,201 LEAGUE RETURN AWAITS COMPLETE SETTLEMENT Disarmament Up to Other Powers Now, Reichsfuehrer Holds. Accord on Three Issues Yester- day Includes German Pledge Not to Attack Soviet. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, March 29.—The Anglo- German conversations ended late to- day and it was officially stated Reichs- 48, at noon fair and gentle winds. today. es 15,16&17 ond class matter ashington, D. . \French Cabinet | Prohibits Export Of War Materials | Decree Made Following Report on Franco- German Relations. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 26.—The export of war materials was temporarily pro- hibited by a cabinet decree today dur- ing a long session devoted to Foreign Minister Pierre ULaval's report on Franco-German relations. The decree applies to cotton, mag- | nesium and similar products used in | munitions manufacture. France wishes to maintain her stocks of such ma- terials for her national defense. WITNESS UNABLE 0 NAME “TIP-OFF” Proprietor of Cafe Near Raid Scene Heard “Voice in the Air.” BY JAMES E. CHINN, The Special Crime Committee of | the House ran up a blind alley today ah ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1935—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. PRESDENTORDERS NEW DAVE T0EN CODEDNGERTANTY District Attorneys Told to Enforce Provisions of N. R. A. Pacts. [CAMPAIGN IS REVEALED IN LETTER TO RICHBERG | Roosevelt Denies Any Relaxation Will Be Tolerated While Future | of Agency Is Uncertain. By the Associated Press. Prompt and vigorous action by United States attorneys to halt | N. R. A. code violations was directed by President Roosevelt today in a letter urging legislative speed “to end a period of uncertainty” as to the Blue Eagle's future. He wrote Donald R. Richberg, N. R. A. chairman, that this “uncer- tainty has a retarding effect upon in- dustrial recovery and tends to un- settle commercial and labor rela- | | tions.” Mr. Roosevelt's letter was in reply | fuehrer Hitler had not given a defi-|in its persistent attempt to solve the | to one from Richberg, which said that nite indication of how large a miiltary force he intends to build. Hitler, German officlals said, parried the questions of Sir John Simon. Brit- ish foreign secretary. and turned back the whole arms problem to the World War's allied enemies of Germany. “We will await disarmament pro- posals from other powers rather than to make such proposals ourstlves.” Hitler was officially said to have told 8ir John. Argument Repeated. Regarding the League of Nations, it was said the Reichsfuerher repeated the familiar German argument that all matters must be settled for Ger- many before he would consider re- entering the League., Just before the conversations came to a close, a British Embassy spokes- man intimated that the German lead- er had insisted Germany's rearma- ment is an accomplished fact from which he cannot recede, and that it is up to other nations to svy what they are willing to do toward bring- ing about disarmament. The representatives of the two pow- ers, with their assistants, talked throughout the morning at the chan- cellery, lunched together at the Brit- ish Embassy and then returned through a cheering throng, which lined the Wilhelmstrasse, to Hitler's office for more conversations in the afternoon. Expressions Worried. ‘The expressions on the faces of the conferees were worried, tired and se- | and it was believed today's| parley was not passing off as smoothly | rious, as the initial talks yesterday. A British spokesman was careful to emphasize that the conversations could not be called “negotiations™ as Sir | John and Capt. Anthony Eden. British lord privy seal, were merely listening | to what Hitler had to say and were Informing the Reichsfuehrer as to what fears and anxieties animate Great Britain and her friends. Observers generally remarked that Sir John and Capt. Eden, as they| passed from the embassy back to the | chancellery, looked far more serious than they did yesterday and did not smile at the crowd. Hitler also looked concerned and tired. His fatigue probably was due | partly to the fact that last night he returned with Gen. Joachim von Rib- bentrop from a dinner given by Kon- stantin von Neurath, foreign minister, directly to the chancellery and re- | mained closeted with his disarmament | experts until early morning. No Communique Planned. ‘The British intimated that no joint ecommunique would be issued at the end of the conversations and, in some quarters this was taken to indicate that no agreement was expected on | the question of arms. Although it was expected a per- | .- functory press statement might be is- sued by the propaganda ministry, it | was believed there was no likelihood of a meaty statement such as that contained in the Anglo-French com- munique February 3 in London. ‘The discussions contered around the momentous questions of the Reichs’ rearmament program, her possible re- turn to the League of Nations and the proposed defensive air pact. Although the conferees faced the hardest part of their negotiations, with issues at stake profoundly affect- ing the outlook for European peace, they were much cheered by the cor- dial atmosphere which enveloped their first day's conversations. Unofficial but reliable quarters forecast that Sir John would obtain Reichsfuehrer Hitler's agreement to Germany's return to the League. In return, these quarters believe, (Continued on Pa; ABDUCTION OF THREE IN MEXICO IS PROBED Federal Troops Comb Mountains of Zacatecas on Release of Americans. By the Associated Press. AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico, March 26.—While federal troops searched the mountains of Zacatecas for their kid- napers, authorities started an investi- gation today of the abductions of Mark Fowler and Louis Vremsak of Califor- nia and Joaquin Diaz de Leon, Fowler's assistant in a mining enterprise. Too exhausted to discuss his ex- periences, Fowler arrived last night from Jalpa, Zacatecas, site of the mining camp from which he said he and Diaz de Leon were kidnaped March 15 by the same band which was holding Vremsak. Vremsak and Diaz de Leon were released with him Sunday by the kid- napers when federal troops began to close in. No ransom was paid, al- though 10,000 pesos (less than $3,000) had been demanded for the release of each of the Americans. 4 [} K] | mystery of who “tipped off” a sus- pected gambling house at 113 B street | scutheast of an impending raid. | Hugh W. Fred, proprietor of a tea Te- room at 115 B street southeast, | garded by the committee as the “key” ‘lhaL would unlock the door to the mystery, failed to furnish even a scintilla of a clue. Capt. Joseph C. Morgan of the fifth precinet, had testified that it was Fred who told him he had been “tip- {ped off” to the raid four hours in | advance But Fred | Morgan was incorrect to a certain ex- | tent—that the information came | from “a voice in the air.” He knew | not whose voice it was, nor did he take the trouble to find out. The first witness to be forced before | the committee on subpoena, Fred said !he did not know Detective Watson | Salkeld of the fifth precinct, who was indirectly blamed for the “tip-off.” He also insisted he did not know who ! gave him the information, and refused. |on a direct question, to say it was Salkeld. In fact, he went further by declaring he did not know the message | concerned a raid on the establishment ! adjoining his place of business. Overheard Remark. | Pred likewise declared the remark ‘about the raid was not addressed directly to him, although Capt. Morgan had testified the tavern owner told him he had been informed by a specific individual. According to Fred, he happened to be standing in front of his place of business, or walking down the street, when he overheard a voice from a group of men who passed say some- 2 o'clock in the afternoon. He said he paid no attention to the person who made the remark and was unable to aid the committee in any way to iden- tify him. Fred was called to the witness stand after the committee listened to Capt. Richard Mansfield of the ninth pre- cinct give his views on needed police department reforms. Keeps Committee in Uproar. Mansfield advocated consolidation of the metropolitan and park police forces, a retirement law for police- men after 25 years of service and changes in the present efficiency rating system. A well known local cartoonist, Capt. Mansfield kept the committee in al- most continuous uproar with his witty and facetious remarks. He was a willing, friendly witness, and when he left the witness stand, Chairman Ran- dolph congratulated him. The questioning of both Fred and Mansfield was handled almost en- tirely by John R. Fitzpatrick, com- mittee counsel. Capt. John E. Bowers of the eighth precinct, who was called to the wit- ness stand after Fred, was asked the usual perfunctory, routine questions about his particular problems and was excused. His testimony was brief. Bowers agreed that the civil service system for selecting men for the police force should be retained, but urged a change in the present efficiency rating ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 1) _ BOMB CACHE FOUND 30 Tons Deposited by Rebels in Spain Last Year. MADRID, March 26 (#)—The gov- | ernment announced today that guards had discovered more than 30 tons of bombs deposited by rebels during last year's uprising in the underground corridors of the government arms plant at Mieres. insisted Capt. | thing would happen at 113 B street at | in some sections and in some in-| | dustries “violations have been increas- | | ing of the wage and hour provisions | | of the codes because of the mistaken feeling that N. R. A. may not be ex- tended and that the Government may | not be inclined at the present time | | vigorously to enforce code require- | | ments.” 1 “No Excuse for Failure.” Simultaneous with publication of | Mr. Roosevelt's reply that “there is no | excuse whatsoever” for failure to ob- | serve codes, the Justice Department announced it would seek dismissal of the only N. R. A. test case now before | the Supreme Court, that involving! William E. Belcher, Alabama lumber mill operator. Attorney General | Cummings and Solicitor General Stanley S. Reed termed this appeal “‘unsatisfactor: The Birmingham Federal Distri Court has declared N. R. A. unconstitutional. | The statement issued by the Jus- | tice Department said the lumber code involved in the Belcher case “con- tains administrative provisions pe- culiar to itself with respect *o the extension .f discretionary powers to non-goveramental agencies—a fact which was emphasized many times in the recent Senate committee hear- ings and whicn set this code in a class by itself.” | After noting that the N. R. A | Board planned to revise this frature of all codes under the new lecisla- | | tion, the Justice Department said: | “Other cases in which these cbjec- tions do not exist are being pressed | in several of tne circuits in order that | decision cf the appellate court may be secured as soon as possible. No Relaxation, “Meanwhile and pending desirable amendments to the lumber and tim- ber products code, there will be no relaxation in the enforcement of other codes.” The Attorney General said United States district attorneys have been re- quested to continue code enforcement. This was in line with the President's letter. The text of President Roosevelt's letter. as ‘made public by Richberg, follows: “Before leaving Washington I wish to answer your letter of today and to express to the National Industrial Recovery Board my desire that the full power of the National Recovery Administration shall be exerted to insist upon and to obtain compliance with the requirements of approved codes of fair competition. “There is no excuse whatsoever at the present time for members of trade | and industry who have sponsored and are subject o these codes to fail to | give them wholehearted support. “Nor can there be any justification for the bad faith involved in attempt- ing to lengthen hours or reduce wages contrary to code requirements. Asks Justice Aid. “I am particularly requesting the Department of Jusitce to give every | assistance in maintaining compliance with the codes and in advising the district attorneys throughout the coun- try to take prompt and vigorous action to prevent or to punish such violations. “Let me also suggest that the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Board should bring the facts of this situ- ation to the attention of the Appro- priate Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives so that they may understand the importance of accelerating action %o extend the national industrial recovery act and to end a period of uncertainty as to the provisions and the extension of the law which has a retarding effect upon industrial recovery and tends to unsettle commercial and labor rela- tions.” Roosevelt Pays By the Associated Press. If President Roosevelt invites a number of Senators for breakfast or lunch, he must be sure not to have them all of one political party, or he will pay for the meal out of his own pocket. This was one of the White House household budgeting facts revealed to- day by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who has prepared a radio talk for Friday on the way the White House runs. So when President Roosevelt re- cently invited all the new Democratic Senators for luncheon, and all the new Democratic House members to an eve- ning reception, he personally paid the luncheon and refreshment bill. Mrs. Roosevelt sald of her first visit to the executive mdnsion as wife of the President-elect: “I was feeling completely lost, and being left alone for a few minutes with the chief usher (then the late Ike Hoover), whom I had known as & young girl when my uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, was President, I turned to him with A If All Belong to Same Party for Guests a feeling of absolute helplessness as I faced the problem of the practical side of living in a house the size of the White House, with its multi- tudinous public functions.” This is not a precedent established by President Roosevelt, but follows along the policy of former Presidents in this respect, more notable in the administration of President Coolidge, whose hot-cake and sausage break- fasts for groups of Senators and Rep- resentatives of both political parties became famous. Mr. Coolidge's breakfast groups were for the purpose, as explained by the White House, of getting better acquainted and offering a medium of informal discussion of the gaffairs of the day. Many of these congressional guests afterward expressed themselves as enjoying the menu, but at a loss to see these gatherings as a round table discussion, because they could not recall the reticent Vermonter ever discussing anything that could be classified as a topic of the day, or | ing D. C. ARPORT BILL BLOCKS SELEGTION OF GRAVELLY POINT Measure Would Create Com- mission to Choose Defi- nite Site. COMMITTEE’S RULING FAVORS PRESENT FIELD Cost Limited to $2,500,000, Half to Be Paid by District in Four Installments. Ruling definitely against Gravelly | Point, a House subcommittee, which | for many weeks has been studying the local airport situation, todav re- ported a nill providing for creation of a commission to select a site for Washington's «1vil air terminal. The bill is to come up for consideration by the full House District Comunittee tomorrow morning. Gravelly Point is the only site men- | tioned by name in the report, but by definitely ruling against it the sub- committee is onsidered to have naved the way for selection of Washington Airport. The committee voted to limit the cost of the airport to $2.500 000. This amount 1s to be advanced in full by the Federal Government, and half of the amount, with interest at 3 per cent, is to be repaid by the District government in four equal annual in- stallments, beginning 10 years after the airport is established. Present Airport Favored, Of the seven members of the com- mission designated to select the air- port site, at least four have testified in behalf of the present Washington Airport or represent organizations which have supported this site during congressional hearings this year or in past years, During the hearings Samuel Solo- mon, manager of Washington Airport, suggested that the site be purchased by condemnation, in accordance with the procedure set up for the Tennes- see Valley Authority, so that there would be no arguing over a fair price The bill as reported today authorizes condemnation proceedings if neces- sarv. The subcommittee in its report also cleared the way for possible develop- ment of this site by providing in its bill a clause which will permit the transfer of the portion of the Arling- ton Experimental Farm necessary for | enargement of the present airport and for the closing of Military Road, though neither site was named spe< cifically. Seven to Comprise Commission. ‘The commi:sion authorized to select the local airport site would be com- posed of the following seven mem- bers: The director of air commerce, Department of Commerce: the Second | Assistant Postmaster General, a mem- I ber of the Hcuse of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker and | to serve as chairman of the com- mission: a member of the Senate, to be appointed by the Vice President; an appointee of the air transport companies serving the city of Wash- ington, one of the District Commis- sioners, to be selected by the Board of Commissioners, and Amelia Ear- | hart, the aviatrix. The director of air commerce, Eu- i gene L. Vidal, and Miss Earhart have repeatedly appeared before congres- sional committees in support of Wasn- ington Airport. The airlines generally advocated the Washington Airport | site if Gravelly Point were not imme- diately available, and representatives of the Post Office Department also have testified in behalf of Washing- ton_Airport The subcommittee gave the follow- reasons for opposing Gravelly Point: “By reason of the uncertainty of the length of time it will take to complete an airport, by reason of the uncer- tainty of the amount of money that it will be necessary to expend to com- plete an adequate airport, by reason of the uncertainty as to whether ‘made’ land taken from the bed of the river would prove satisfactory, and by reason of the proximity of the site to Bolling Eield, together with testi- mony given by representatives of the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Aeronautics, the airmail division of the Post Office Department, repre- sentatives of each of the four airlines serving the District of Columbia and (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) DEVALUATION SEEN IN BELGIAN POLICY Van Zeeland Held Certain to Desert Gold—Border Guard Tightened. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, March 26.—Paul van Zeeland, Belgium's new premier, is almost certain to herald devaluatffn of the belga in announcing the pro- gram of his government in Parlia- ment tomorrow night, informed cir- cles said today. Parliament is expected to go into session the following day to repeal the stabilization law of 1926. Pending definite action, a new de- cree .ntended to halt the:iecline of the belga restricts the amotnt of cur- rency Belgian travelers may take out of the country to the equivalent of $50. Border guards have been strengthened as a precaution against smuggling currency. LONDON, March 26 (#).—Any sharp devaluation of the belga by Belgium's new government headed by Paul van Zeeland might have serious repercussions among other members of the gold bloc, in the opinion of many London financial district au- thorities. Belgium has an adequate gold sup- ply and her currency position is be- lieved - sound, but- she is losing con- siderable export business, a situation which possibly might be improved chould she join'the sterling group. Pinancial observers expressed the opinion . that if this should occur other gold bloc members might fol- low suit. ALL THE S -~ L Xy ko:""‘lg,3 OH,GEE! LOOKS LIKE MoM EXPECTS To HAVE FuN Tuis A oM, ?:-,"N?)‘?;'v;‘ o J'NEQ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 30,409 Some Returns Not Yet Received ¥%% UP) Means Associated P TWO RULE 1S INVOKED 10 FORGE AID BILL INTO CONFERENCE House Inflationists Open At- tack to Send Measure Di- rect to Roosevelt. CENTS. ress. 1-HOUR DEBATE LIMIT FIRES DEMOCRATIC ROW Byrns’ Hint of Veto Speeds Action TUGWELL T0PUSH WEST DUST AT Also Lays Plan to Spend 350 Millions for Re- habilitation. Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, Under- secretary of Agriculture, today took | charge of the administration’s fight against the ravages of dust storm and drought as the Soil Erosion Service | | moved to his department from the Department of Interior. | At once he launched plans for spending the $350,000.000 for Western farm area rehabilitation provided in | the pending works relief bill. There ' were other reports that Tugwell might direct the whole Government policy for use of land Already under Tugwell's lea the Agriculture Department's Forest Serv- ice 1s combafing the wind's denudation ! of the plains’ country. | H. C. Bennett, director of the Soil | Erosion Service, who will work now | directly under Tugwell, prepared tq | spend $40,000.000 a year to save the | wind-bared area. F. E. R. A. Agencies to Aid. The far-flung campaign will be waged in close co-operation with the | Federal Emergency Relief Administra- | | tion's submarginal land reclamation |and rural rehabilitation activities, on which Harry L. Hopkins, relief ad- ministrator, is spending $10,000.000 throughout the country in every State. | Tugwell was seen also today as a | | leading candidate for supervisor of | ! the Mississippi Valley development | planned under the National Resaurces | | Board last Fall at the request of President Roosevelt. Immediate action on this Missis- | sippi Valley plan, however, probably | | will be delayed in order to concentrate | on the reclamation of the drought- stricken districts. | Two-Fold Plan Told. Meanwhile, administration agencies | | announced a two-fold plan for imme- | diate relief of the dust areas: 1. Lawrence Westbrook, deputy re- | | lief administrator, assured Gov. Alf | M. Landon of Kansas he would rec- | ommend that Hopkins allot relief funds to wage a $750,000 campaign to | abate the recent dust storms which | bave caused numerous deaths and hurled topsoil from the Midwest to the Atlantic. 2. The A. A. A. prepared to permit farmers in excessively dry areas to ignore wheat countract provisions re- quiring planting. At the same time it put a limit on acreage increases to be allowed to contract signers. Representative Coffee, Democrat, Nebraska, told Secretary Wallace soil | in Western Nebraska was so dry that it would be a waste of seed for farm- ers to try to plant Spring wheat. Landon proposed listing now drift- ing soil into low barriers to break the force of the winds which now blow the topsoil helter-skelter. Could Use 20,000 Tractors. He has in mind immediate concen- tration of 20,000 privately and pub- licly owned tractors in sections where the loose soil is heaving and drifting before the wind. Although the Kansas Governor spoke only for his own State, his plan contemplates similar and simultaneous action in the Panhandles of Texas ang | Oklahoma, Eastern Colorado and Nebraska. The broad area includes 7,500,000 acres. ‘With a favorable report on his sug- gestion from the Relief Administration, Landon prepared to confer this after- noon with Tugwell on co-ordinating work of the soil erosion bureau with local governmental set-ups in all dust and drought affected States. Soil Erosion Service Chief Bennett declared 800 young college graduates are ready to drive his program in vari- ous parts of the West as soon as the works relief money is assigned him Bennett now only enough money from an original P. W. A. allotment to last him to June 16, he said today. Guide for Readers Amusements . Comics .. Features Finance . Lost and Fou Radi Service Orders .. Short Story .. Society ...... Sports B-2 13-14-15 70 Under Arrest As Dublin Police Answer Shooting Republicans Put in Jail Include Author and Editor. By the Assoclated Press DUBLIN, Irish Free State, March 26.—About 70 Republican party mem- bers were placed under arrest today as police made a series of raids be- lieved to be a sequel to the shoot- ings of last Saturday night in which two policemen were seriously wounded. Those arrested were placed in the Bridewell Jail, where their shouts could be heard by crowds which gath- ered outside Among those taken into custody were Peter O'Donnell. author, and Donal O’Donoghue, editor. Police Chief Broy. who was super- vising the drawing of the Irish sweep- stakes, was called away from the Plaza to deal with the situation. SIX MORE AIR BASES APPROVED IN HOUSE Military Committee Supports Measure Authorizing Con- struction. By the Associated Press. A measure to authorize construc- tion of six more Army air bases to guard the Nation's frontiers was ap- proved today by the full House Mili- tary Committee. In addition, the measure would au- therize supplementary bases in the interior and expansion of any of the existing Air Corps stations and depots. The bill directs the War Depart- ment, in determining locations for the new bases, to consider these areas: Alaska, Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Atlantic Northeast. the Southeastern States, and the Atlantic Southeast and Caribbean. Committee members explained other areas alreadv were adequately pro- vided with air fields. The measure is sponsored by Repre- sentative Wilcox, Democrat of Florida, | who said a special rule under which the bill might be taken up in the | House would be sought immediately. SALES TAX BACK IN STATE SENATE Maryland Chamber Reconsiders Vote—Debate on Floor Is Bitter. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, March 26.—The Maryland Legislature today found its relief-revenue raising efforts exactly where they were three days ago. By three rapid-fire votes early this morning—as a three-way climax to four hours of bitter, sometimes per- | sonal debate—the Senate reconsidered the vote by which the unfavoraole re- | port on the sales tax bill had been | adopted early Sunday morning; sub- stited the bill for the unfavorable re- port; and then recommitted the bill to the Finance Committee. Those three votes did noth'ng to clarify the relief situation over which the two houses of the General As- sembly have been locked for four or five days. Perhaps, as some leaders pointed out, the only thing those three votes showed was that the Gov- ernor had been able to swing some recalcitrant Republicans back into line on the sales tax. ‘ | send PRESIDENT STUDIES . RELIEF PROBLEM {Confers With Hopkins on' Train Taking Him South for Vacation. | By the Associated Press EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO FLORIDA, March 26 —President Roosevelt canvassed op- portunities for making jobs under the pending $4,680,000.000 appropriation with Harry L. Hopkins, relief admin- istrator, as he crossed the Southland today for a .ishing cruise off Florida. Hopkins, who appears destined to play a ieading role in the administra- tion of the $4000,000,000 sperding, boarded the presidential train with the President last night and today he un- packed a bundle of statistical tables |as he conferr=d with Mr. Roosevelt. Confers With Aides. The President established a tem- porary office in the observation parlor of his private car and gave the morn- ing over to iast-minute check-ups | with Hopkins and with his secretary, Marvin H. McIntyre. By the time the special reached Savannah, Mr. Roosevelt was fully aware that he was in the South. The sun beat down with a heat which burned out the cold drizzling rain prevailing whan he left Washington. Before he left Washington late last night, Mr. Roosevelt received assur- ance of remarkable improvement in the condition of Louis M. Howe, his secretary for many years, who has been critically ill at the White House. The President was cheered when his | 64-year-old aide awoke from a rest- ful sleep and asked for a cigarette. | Hope for his recovery had been aban- doned by physicians several days ago. | Leaders Assure Him. | From the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill the Chief Executive had assurances that they would do all they could get through Congress a | seven-point legislative program out- lined in a conference with leaders oefore he left. Speaker Byrns predicted “the | House will go along as it has in carry- !'ing out that legislative program.” Through Senator Robinson, hrough Senator Robinson, the “(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) \EIGHT “WITNESSES” FREED FOR APPEAL $10 Each Collateral Charged in Alexandria—Trial to Be Set April 8. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 26— After posting collateral of $10 each, the eight Jehovah's witnesses, four |men and four women, who have served six days of 15-day jail sen- tences imposed by Judge James Reese Duncan in police court last week after they were arrested on a charge of soliciting without a city permit, were released from jail early this afternoon when they took appeals of the Police Court decision to the Corporation | Court of Alexandria. The Witnesses, members of the ‘Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Washington, were represented at a special session of the Police Court today by Attorney Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria. Judge Duncan granted the right of appeal to the Corporation Court on Smith's request. The Witnesses were charged to appear in Corporation Court on the opening day of the April term, April 8, when their cases will be set for trial. Rich Montreal Man, Missing Week, Found Frozen to Death By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, March 26.—The body of Stanley E. Siscoe, wealthy Montreal mining executive, was found frozen 2 miles from Lake Matchimanitou, Quebec, today, according to word re- ceived here. He had been missing for a week. Few details of the discovery were immediately available, except that the body was reported found in the snow a short distance from where Siscoe’s pilot, Capt. Thomas Wrathall, was found yesterday. The two had been grounded since last Tuesday when they were forced down by a heavy snow storm on & flight between Montreal and Senne- terre, Quebec. Planes had been search- ing the wilderness ever since. The first report of the discovery was received in a telegram to Gerald Coughlin, the legal adviser for Siscoe Gold Mines. It said merely that the mining executive’s frozen body had been found. Wrathall was found tramping over the snow at Lake Desjardins, 5 miles from Matchimanitou. He was in good physical condition, but very hungry. He said their plane was forced down last Tuesday during a raging snow storm. They waited out the storm, but were unable to take to the air again. They then set up camp in a trapper’s cabjn until Sunday when | that Biscoe set out to seek aid. & their provisions gave out. It was then | by Rules Committee on Huge Appropriation. BULLETIN. The House by a vote of 263 to 108 today over the inflationist group adopted the previous ques- tion on a special rule'sending the President’s $4.880,000,000 work- relief bill to conference. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN Administration forces in the Houce | brought up today a special rale to the = President's $4,880,600,00) work-relief oill to conference. With one nour of debate peforc a vote-on the rule, inflationists ‘n the House launched an attack on tue spe- cial rule. hey are seeking t» have the House concur in all of the Sen- ate amendments, including the Thomas silver amendment, and tnere- by do away w«ith the necessity of a f,ol?{"m" with the Senate cn the ill. After a wrangle over the question of how much time should be ailotted | to Democratic opponents of the rule, the debate got underway with Rep- resentative Rankin of Mississippi. one of the inflationist leaders, making the first speech. Stresses Delay in Bill. “We're opposed to this rule” said Rankin, “for the reason that we want the Senate amendments adopted. If this bill is sent to conference notice has been served in the Senate that there will be much debate when the bill is reported back. That will delay passage of the bill. “The Senate has greatly improved this bill. When this bill was before |the House those in charge did mot give us time to offer an amendment. They said the bill must be hurried through. It was hurried through. And the Senate debated the bill for two | months. Now those in charge of it wish to get rid of some of the Senate amendments and have brought in this special rule. | "I know there are men here who | do not wish any expansion of the | currency. But I wish to call atten- | tion to the fact that since these Senate amendments were adopted. commodity prices have gone up. I say that it would do more good for ! the country if we adopt these Senate amendments than if we send this bill to conference.” 1 Impractical, Says Buchanan. | Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee was the next speaker recognized “The Senate has put 30 amend- ments onto this bill,” said Buchanan. “Many of their amendments are im- practical of administration. If I had the time I could demonstrate that fact beyond question.” Buchanan then discussed briefly the Senate amendment which seeks to give specific amounts for the use {of the schools and for the Secretary |of Agriculture. He contended the Senate amendments merely put lim- | itation on the amount that could be used for schools. He declared the Secretary of Agriculture did not need and did not want the money alloted tnder the Senate amendments. Discussing the Thomas silver amendment, Buchanan said it placed |in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury an unheard-of power, the power to accept in settlement of any balance due the United States domes- tic or foreign silver. He attacked tne Senate amendment to provide for the confirmation by the Senate of officials and employes under the work relief ppropriation. “What chance would a member of this Hoyse have under this amend- ment, when it comes to the appoint- ment of these officials?” Buchanan asked. Says Road Portion Confused. “I'll bet that not 10 men in th~ House can tell what the Senate road amendment means. It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to tell how much each State would receive under that amendment.” At a meeting of the inflationists and opponents of the special rule, held in the House Office Building this morning and attended by 42 members, | the program for the fight against the rule was outlined. Representative Martin of Colorado was chairman of the meeting, which determined to ask concurrence in all the Senate amend- ments. Rule Is Invoked. Representative Taber of New York, ranking Republican member of the Appropriations Committee, sald he would support the rule. He declared the entire bill was a fraud. “It was bad enough when we passed it,” said Taber. “I don't want it made any worse.” Representative Martin, acting as chairman of the “Steering Committee™ for the opposition, denounced the spe- cial rule and urged its defeat. “The Republican support of this gag rule,” said Martin, “shows the Repub- lican party has not yet lost the cun- ning of the serpent.” Representative Marcantonio of New York insisted the House was merely shadow boxing. “When the Senate and this House tum down the prevailing wage amendment to the work-relief bill,” he said, “it was the signal that we are about to throw $4,000,000,000 into the labor market, with a wage scale running from $28 to $55 a month.” Marcantonio said this would have the effect of turning American labor over to Fascist control. Meanwhile, a threat of a presi- dential veto was voiced on Capitol Hill in an effort to kill the Thomas amendment. At the same time an authoritative source said President Roosevelt not only opposed the amendment, but that high administration officials close to (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.)