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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon; fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, lowest temper- The only evening paper in Washington wit! the Associated Press News ature about 38 degrees. Temperatufes— and Wirephoto Services. Highest, 68, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 51, at 5 am. today. Full report on page A-11, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 No. 33,203. ALLIES NOT TO BID GERMANY T0 TALK AT STRESA, SIMION ADVISES GOMMONS Hitler’s Determination tol Have Conscript Army Is Blamed—American Envoy Obtains Parley Details. EDEN AND LITVINOFF BEGIN CONFERENCES Berlin Officials Doubt Britain Is Greatly Perturbed by Arms Stand—Believe She May Wel- come Counterbalance to French Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Meet at Moscow FOREIGN COMMISSAR MAXIM LITVINOFF. ah ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION n Sfar WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1935—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. Costs $2,000,000 by Using Method. REGULATION CLAUSE Board Members Called to Change Act to Conform to Recent Decision. By the Associated Press. The contention that he could re- duce electric rates in his territory by $2,000,000 a year under the same con- ditlons that prevail for the Govern- was voiced today by Louis H. Egan, ment’s Tennessee Valley experiment | T.V.A.COSTPLAN {BARUCH OPPOSES HELD MISLEADING | TAX-FREE BONDS BY PROBEWITNESS) AND ARMS PROFITS Magnate Says He Could Cut Federal Control of Munitions Proposed at Senate Hearing. VANDENBERG QUESTIONS DELETION IS SOUGHT| WITNESS ON SECURITIES Chairman Nye Informs Finan- cier Committee Is Not Critical of War Record. By the Associated Press. Elimination of tax-exempt bonds to insure “fairer” taxing and peace-time manufacture of war-making imple- ments under Government license or by the Government itself were ad- vocated today before the Senate Munitions Committee by Bernard M. < R\ : (R \ \\\\:t\" & R Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 30,701 Some Returns Not Yet Received. F%4 (F) Means Associated Press. YeAH, IT'S SWELL WHILE IT | TWO CENTS. MINOR CRIMINAL PROBLEM SERIOUS, PRETTYMAN SAYS Facilities Held Inadequate for Many Cases in Police Court. PROSECUTION ‘DEFECTS’ DESCRIBED IN DETAIL Additional Jury Panel Urged to End Delays—Informations Pile Up Rapidly. Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman told the special Crime Committee of the House today that ‘Washington's minor criminal problem is “a real one. Sketching in detail the “defects” in the prosecution system, Prettyman listed among them the inadequacy of Preponderance on Continent. president, of the Union Electric Light l::;::;hr.‘ P;h;‘i::n:n of the World War N\ physical facilities for handling the R & Power Co. of St. Louls. ; “If we had no tax-exempt bonds,” ~ S i:;lgl:e ngx‘?f rn:é :fi:v;u;r::r;’us "«;: Germany will not be invited to take Severely criticizing the Tennessee | he asserted, “taxing would be fairer. UPSIE DAISY! mands for jury trials which necessi- part in the tri-power talks at Stresa, Italy, next month, as a re- sult of Reichsfuehrer Hitler's de- termination to rearm. Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, informed the House of Commons today. At Moscow Capt. Anthony Eden, British Lord Privy Seal, plunged into discussions with Foreign Com- missar Maxim Litvinoff of the threat to European peace con- tained in the direction which Ger- CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN. ! Valley Authority’s method of figuring power plant costs, the utilities execu- tive asserted to the House Interstate Commerce Committee: “The trouble with the T. V. A rdstick is that it is made with rub- ber. It is not 3 feet long: it is 2 feet long sometimes and 4 feet long other times.” Meanwhile, the House Military Com- mittee met to plug some of the gaps in the T. V. A. act. A Democratic member—Representative May of Ken- tucky—declared he would do all he could to smash the T. V. A. power “yardstick.” This statement was in response to a question by Senator Vandenberg, Re- publican, of Michigan, as to means of preventing evasion of taxes in war or peace. except after eliminating tax-exempt bonds, can you?” the Michigan Sena- tor asked. Urges Elimination in Future. “You can't eliminate those issued ing to his feet “You can eliminate those issued in the future.” he added. The financier said he had some of the tax-exempt bonds himself. “You can't carry out a tax policy | in the past,” the witness replied, ris- | Interests May Fight Dropping Of Belcher Lumber Code Case‘ Supreme Court Precedent Permits De- nial of Plea, in Which Case Company Nichols Attacks Measure as Would Be Unaccountable Under Rules. = Obstacle to Straight Com- AUTO INSURANCE BILL UP IN HOUSE panel. jtions are filed at a rate in excess of tate a delay. Prettyman insisted that the only delays in Police Court prosecutions involve jury cases, and declared that some step should be taken to prevent that condition by an additional jury He pointed out that informa- 1,600 a week, and that the four judges cannot give all of these cases their individual attention Enactment of the bill now pending in Congress to authorize the Commis- sioners to use P. W. A. funds for construction of the proposed new courts building was urged by Pretty- man as one of the crying needs, Presents “Broad Picture.” Prettyman, at the outset of his testimony, explained he would like to give a “broad picture” of the minor criminal situation in the District. He said he had given it considerable study and found that it is “a real problem.” . Prettyman said the attitude of the “But would you favor eliminating | _— tax-exempt bonds?” Vandenberg in- | Sintea) | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | “Yes, sir,” Baruch replied, emphu-‘ ‘The Government's announced inten- ficaélyl the New York financier Jis- | 1100 10 83k dismissal by the Supreme arlier, the New York financier lis- tened with pleasure to an assertion | COUTt Of the Belcher case, involving by Chairman Nyc, Republican, of |the constitutionality of the N. R. A. | North Dakota, that the committee was {may be strongly resisted by interests I'not criticizing Baruch's war-time rec- |desiring to have a final showdown on man arms action is taking. | Berlin Nazi officials expressed the | belief Great Britain was not en- | tirely dissatisfied with the result of the recent Berlin talks and even may be inclined to welcome a measure of German rearmament to counter-balance French pre- ponderance on the Continent. pulsory Plan. 4 Cites Cost Procedure. Egan related to the committee mem- bers and the crowded chamber how he said the Government saw fit to al- locate items in Muscle Shoals electric 1generation and asked: { “Do any of you gentlemen imagine | that I could not reduce electric rates i in my territory under such conditions? Precedents in the Supreme Court | show that the court may deny the request of an appellant to dismiss an appeal. It is at liberty to do so in this case, if the court deems it wise to hear the case and pass without further delay on the constitutionality of the N. R. A, as brought before it BERl-lN ARUUS[D The House this afternoon began con- sideration of the District automobile liability bill. passed by the Senate last January, with an attack on the meas- ure by Representative Nichols, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma, a member of the District Committee. Moscow Conversations Open. (Copyright, 1925, by the Associated Press.) MOSCOW, March 28.—Foreign Com- missary Maxim Litvinoff and Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, today discussed “the conclusions to which the Berlin negotiations are Yeading.. during a two-hour confer- ence on the peace of Europe. The British envoy, received with honors, talked to Litvinoff in the lat- ter's office in the foreign ministry, &nd the description of the subject of their talk was made later by well-in- formed quarters, but these sources twere unable to say what nature of *conclusions” were meant. No Disagreement. It was stated, however, that during their first conversation, Litvinoff and Eden “have had no disagreement on the problems discussed.” Their parley was described as being conducted in “an extremely friendly atmosphere.” Lord Chilston. the British Ambessa- dor to Russia; Ivan Maisky, the Rus- sian Ambassador to London. and Wil- liam Strang of the British foreiga | office were present at the conference. Capt. Eden informed Litvinoff of theconversations he and Sir John Sinfi the British foreign secretary, had with Reichsfuehrer Hitler and other German leaders in Berlin, and afterward the two exchanged informa- tion and opinions on the most impor- tant aspects of the present European &ituation. They are to meet again at 11:30 #a.m. tomorrow. Visits Litvinoff Immediately. Capt. Eden was taken dire-tly to Litvinoff’s office after an impressive welcome at tne railroad station by Litvinoff and Lord Chilston. Differences over the proposed East- ern European security pact con- stitute the chief stumbling block at present n the way of an agreement for a general European peace plan. Observers did not expect the confer- ees to limit their talks to this subject, however, and thought the question of German srmament surely would come up and that they very possibly were also considering the matter of se- curity in the Far East, in which both Russia and Great Britain are inter- ested. Litvinoff’s thesis is that the East &nd West are bound up in the matter of peace as war, in his opinion, might easily spread to the other half of the world if it started in either place. - The Russians do not insist that Great Britain pledge military aid for the security of Eastern Europe, but they say they want moral support which, they declared, is to Great Britain's interest as well as to that of the other nations involved. Eden will begin his homeward trip BY ALLIED STAND {Indifference of Others in Memel Crisis Seen as Blow to Peace. | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 28.—Failure of Eu- ropean powers to intercede in behalf of the Nazis sentenced by a Lithu- anian court was viewed in official circles today as a severe blow to pros- pects for bringing Germany into line with their peace program. i Protests throughout the Reich against ; the action of the military tribunal in condemning four Nazis to death and 87 to prison terms were said to have impressed Reichsfuehrer Hitler greatly. As a result, German sources said.; the assurances which Hitler gave Sir! { John Simon, British foreign secretary, of the Reich’s peaceful intentions to- ward Lithuania have been virtually nullified. “Memel is absolute proof.” a Wil- helmstrasse spokesman said. “that; Germany must be saved by herself. It! shows once more we must be strong| and capable. We cannot depend upon collective system which always plays; against Germany. Says Guarantees Work. “When guarantees favor Germany, somehow or other they never work. Yet we are asked to be stupid enough to give our signature to mutual assist- | ance scheme: Germany is waiting, the spokesman said, “to see if the powers finally get into action of their own free will” before deciding on what steps to take in an attempt to save the lives of the four Nazis condemned to death at Kaunas. “Everything possible will be done,” the official source said, adding that the prevailing popular indignation verging on violence “should suffice for the moment as our protest.” Anti-Lithuanian sentiment spread throughout Prussia today in the wake of violent rallies protesting against the sentencing of the Nazis by the Lithuanian Military Court. The hostile manifestations reached their peak in Berlin last night as thousands of Germans milled about the chancellery rending the air with shouts of “Fuehrer hit them” end “Memel is German and remains German.” The howling mob swept down the Kurfuerstenstrasse to the doors of the Lithuanian Legation, where the Monday with visits en route at Warsaw and Praha. Greeted at Frontier. Eden and his party were greeted last night at the frontier station of Negoreloye by M. Weinberg, assistant head of the third western department (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) FOOD DEALERS WARN OF SALES TAX FIGHT Marylend Group Wires Hopkins to “Put No Faith” in Relief Revenue. L By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 28.—A court contest of Maryland’s 1 per cent gross retail sales tax was indicated today in a telegram from the Inde- pendent Retail Grocers’ Association of Maryland to Harry L. Hopkins, Fed- eral relief administrator. The tax was pushed through the Legislature as an emergency measure to provide upwards of $5,000,000 an- nually as the State’s relief contri- bution. The Retail Grocers' Association, through its secretary, Harry A. ‘Walker, telegraphed Hopkins as follows: “Advise you to place no dependence on 1 per cent gross tax snrmm. The law will be contested. i/ demonstrators continued to give vent gled to turn them back. LITHUANIANS CALM. All Police Leaves Canceled at Threat of Violence. KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 28 (#). —The Lithuanian government took a calm view today of the German demonstrations against the action of her courts in sentencing four Nazs to death and 87 others to prison terms for an alleged plot to seize Memel for Germany. ‘The government was said in official { T tell you ve i to have any hopes of wining up the to their resentment while police strug- ' frankly that I could re- duce them to she extent of about $2,000.000 a year if that condition ex- isted.” Standing before a huge map show- | ing his company’s territory over Mis- souri and parts of Iowa and Illino: Egan opposed the Wheeler-Rayburn bill to abolish utility holding com- panies in 1940 and subject all utilities to governmental regulation. “It has been intimated to the com- mittee here,” he said, “that you are getting ‘fed up’ on hearing so much about these different utility companies. I may say for my part that it is mutual Gives Regulation Set-Up. He first reminded the committee that the St. Louis company, a sub- sidiary of the North American Co., was already regulatad “by City Coun- cils, two State Public Service Commis- sions, the War Department and the Federal Power Commission.” He urged the committee to “thro That provides for regulating operating companies. The committee called members of the T. V. A. Board for a hearing on half a dozen measures to expand and change the act in view of a ruling by | Pederal Judge Grubb at Birmingham, Ala,, that T. V. A. is without authority to sell electricity generated at its plants along the Tennessee River. Representative May said he planned to muster labor, the power and coal industries and ‘“everyone else whose throat T. V. A. is trying to cut,” into an attack on the proposed amerd- ments. Calls Plan Wasteful. “T. V. A. is a steady, sure and un mistakable trend toward socialization, he said. “It is a reckless and un- necessary waste of public funds.” Coming from a district in which coal mining is a leading industry, May said he regarded T. V. A. as ‘one of the most vicious competitors coal will ever have.” T. V. A, he added, will not be “a labor-employ- ing concern and coal always will be.” He advised Chairman McSwain not hearing in a day or so because much would be said in opposition. McSwain himself has a measure which is an effort to ward off in- junction against T. V. A. and to give the agency definite powers to sell electricity and to acquire gene- rating and distributing facilities within transmission distance of its dams. The authority would be permitted also to include resale rate schedules in any contracts for the sale of its power. The McSwain measure was ! understood to have some measure of approval, at least of the T. V. A. board. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce, meanwhile, was challenged by Presi- dent Roosevelt to prove assertions credited to it that ageats for the T. V. A. were urging Ohio industries to move into the Tennessee Valley to obtain cheaper power. In a letter to Representative Thom, Democrat, of Ohio, the President de- nied the T. V. A. was soliciting indus- tries in Ohio “or any other region” to move and charged that “special interests are coastantly attempting to thwart” the Tennessee Valley pro- gram. circles to be of the opinion Lithuanien justice was a matter of no concern to Germany or any other foreign country. As-preeauunnminnmyout-. breaks of violence resulting from the excitement, all polite leaves were can- celed and authorities, both in Memel and Lithuania, warned to maintain constant vigil. Guide for Readers After Dark .. Amusements . ...B-4 Comics ... C-7 -~ Features . C-4-5-6 Finance ... 17-18-19 Lost and Found -11 Radio B-10 B-14 -1-3-3-4 .B-2 |and that the State would be cne-half, BRUNO'S APPEAL SET FOR JUNE 20 Defense Will Be Allowed Three Hours, Prosecution Hour and a Half. By the Assoclated Press. TRENTON, N. J., March 28.—The .C-2-3 |Court of Errors and Appeals today fixed the date of June 20 for the hearing of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann’s appeal from conviction in the Lindbergh kidnap-murder.” Chancellor Luther A. Campbell told D-5 | Hauptmann's counsel, Prederick A. Pope, the defense would be - allowed three hours to present its erguments granted one hour snd g title two of the bili out of the window.” | {ord but sought only to gain the ad- ' | vantage of his experience in formulat- {ing a plan to take the profit out of | war. Other members made similar state- ments after Senator Byrnes, Democrat, | of South Carolina had declared “un fair” any insinuations against Baruch’'s record which may have grown out of the committee’s investigation. Colt Case Enters Hearing. The statement about manufacturing munitions was made after Nye had referred to the removal of the Blue Department still would give the firm ! orders. “Do you see a way of meeting a ! condition like that?” Nye asked. “Yes, the Government will have to ! do that kind of manufacturing itself,” Baruch said. “Manufacture would give us a yard- tick on costs,” he added Appearing as a surprise witness as ,today's hearing opened. Byrnes said | he was chairman of a special De- | ficiency Committee of the House Ap- propriations Committee during the war and knew in detail all the trans- | actions concerning Baruch. Tells of Baruch’s Service. He related that Baruch had financed 2 mission going to Europe to learn if |nny American goods were being di- verted by the allies from military purposes to commercial purposes. “Baruch paid expenses of the com- mission out of his own pocket, amounting to $85,000,” Byrnes said, adding that the financier declined re- imbursement from the Treasury, al- though the act saved the United States “many’ millions of dollars.” In turn, the Senator continued, when the war ended and many war-ti functions, including the War Indus- tries Board, were terminated, Baruch saw that many young girls who had come to Washington would be thrown out on the streets. “He employed a matron to visit all the girls in his department and en- courage them to go home rather than to walk the streets in Washington trying to find work. Paid Girls’ Fares Home. “As inducement he paid their fare home, together with Pullman and ex- penses. Most of them went home.” Immediately members of the com- mittee joined in assuring that no re- flection against Baruch's record was intended. With many demands being voiced on Capitol Hill that the United States keep clear of the European crisis, the subject of neutrality is being pon- dered by many legislators. The Sen- ate committee was expected to ask Baruch to elaborate on his brief com- ment yesterday on the subject. First, however, the financier was to go on with his story of how the World War Industries Board, of which he ‘was chairman, sought to curb the ris- ing price of copper, vital military metal. Baruch, testifying yesterday, agreed in general with the plan of the Muni- tions Committee to set up a taxing system to “‘pay as you fight.” But he was not enthusiastic about the idea of conscripting industrialists as pro- posed by John T. Flynn, economist- adviser to the committee. Opposes Drafting of Industry. In a press conference he expressed the view that conscription of indus- try was not necessary and that pri- vate control was best—with war profits stripped off by taxes. “I do not favor the nationalization of industry for reasons that I should be glad to go into,” he also told the ecessary to clothe industrialists with Army - thority. e He also told newspaper men that the winning' of war demanded ' that 50 far as to strangle co-operation, ‘Woman Killed in Stampede. AP,Um‘IBLA, Mex., March 28 (#)— woman was trampl death last night and at lu‘:td lrx, persons suffered serious injuries when the audience in a motim picture theater, fearing the building was col- lapeing, stampeded for the gloors., é # Eagle from the Colt Manufacturing | ter, but the court is not compelled to | Co. He said he was told the War|do this in the Belcher case, even subjection of industry be not carried | 2% the legality of the N. I. R. A, it was learned today. The Supreme Court of the United Stats furthermore, has entire dis- cretionary power in the matter of dis- ! missing the Government's appeal in he Belcher case, which comes before he court April 8 for argument. The Department of Justice has an- nounced that it will seek dismissal of this appeal in the only N. R._A. test case now before the Supreme Coun,f | In general practice the court grants | |muucm to dismiss cases when made | by the appellants, as a pro forma mat- | | though the Government attorneys | make the request. in the Belcher case. There were reports today that parties interested in a decision of the | constitutionality of the N. R. A. would | appear in court and protest against the dismissal of the case. Protests, it | was said, might come from attorneys | representing dumber interests, for the | Belcher case involves the lumber code, | and also might come from one or more l attorney generals of States in which | the lumber industry is a major in- dustry. The Government's attempted re- treat from this test case de- days still further tion of the constitutionality he R. A. The retreat " (Continued on Page 3, Col final determina- of | i BELGIUM CLOSES STOCK EXCHANGES jBourses Shut Pending Ac- [ tion on Nation’s Perplex- ing Money Problem. | By the Associated F;’Qll. BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 28— The government today ordered the | Belgian bourses to remain closed for the next three days, beginning today. Closing of the bourses was the gov- ernment’s first open step to clarify the country's perplexing financial sit- uation. The general view expressed in fi- nancial quarters is that a devaluation program will be announced at a joint convocation of Parifament tomorrow. The inclusion of Socialists in the newly created cabinet of Premier Paul Van Zeeland is regarded as settling the devaluation issue and leaving open only the question of the amount and whether the belga will continue to be linked with the gold bloc or join the sterling ranks. It was announced at the ministry of finance that no statement on de- valuation policy would be made until the ministerial declaration is issued by Premier Van Zeeland. Although the stock exchange was closed, banks remained open and were allowed to buy small sums of sterling at yesterday's official rate of 102.65 francs to the pound. They were pro- hibited from selling®foreign currencies. weakened the belga to 29% guilder, after which it recovered to 301, due to belief in monetary circles that the Belgian government’s mea- sure will have & reassuring influence by preventing destructive speculative action. ‘The United States dollar quoted at 148 to the guilder. was 1. S, BORROWING WTE U HAF Refinancing Moves Easily on Wheels of Income. Month Profit Shown. By the Associated Press. An increase in Federal income and | less-than-expected Government costs today prompted the Treasury to cut its weekly borrowing operations in half. Undersecretary Coolidge told news- | men that instead of selling $100,000,- 000 of bills each week—$50,000,000 in six-month and $50,000,000 in nine- month paper—the Treasury will issue only $50,000000 worth of the nine- month bills. This practice, Coolidge explained, will continue until some of the pres- ent hugh cash balance of $2,367,712,- 261 has been used. He said the Gov- ernment’s income had been increas- ing while expenses had not come up to expectations. ‘The weekly bill turnover is par- tially refunding. Each week $75,000,- 000 of bills mature. Fourth Liberties Called. Coolidge also said slightly more than $1,500,000,000 of the Fourth Liberty 4!4 per cent bonds, called for redemption April 15, had been con- vertaed into a refunding issue of 20-25 year 27 per cent bonds. The called portion amounted to about $1,875,- 000,000, which will leave more than $300,000,000 to be redeemed in cash. Earlier it was indicated that Treas- ury officials look with favor on the idea of calling in soon the remaining portion of the Fourth Liberty bonds. This wouid wind up such bond re- financing until 1940. A Treasury offer to exchange lower interest bonds for these securities would be a move to retire the last of the war-time bonc issues. It would clear the field ot al bonds which can be called before the Spring of 1940, Because of the heavier income tax receipts, the Treasury seems destined o operate at a profit during this month for the first time in 41 months. September, 1931, Last Profit. The last month for which it was able to show a profit was September, 1931. Since then there has been a steady succession of monthly deficits. March income, through the 25th, was running ahead of all expendi- tures, including extraordinary pay- ments to aid unemployment and re- lief, by more than $70,000,000. This is due to income tax payments, which for the month already have amounted to more than $321,000,000. With this “cushion,” and with only six days remaining, it seems impossible for the Treasury to go “into the red” this month. The present deficit amounts to $2,179,290,383 for the fiscal year to date, which is equivalent to a daily excess of expenditures of $8,130,~ 000 for every day of the year. Should this ratio prevail during the ) | agreed with Nichols. | | cost no more to take out | identity known and one against whom Nichols protested that it would put | taxicabs and private automobiles in the same class for insurance and that the ! act would be an obstacle to a straight compulsory insurance measure. No State has the same law for taxicabs and private automobiles, he said. He argued that it would make only the driver of a taxicab responsible and that after an accident he would be dis- charged and some other irresponsible driver would take his place. Representative Patman of Texas, chairman of the subcommittee which reported the bill and who twice has caused its consideration to be delayed, cpposed the objections of Mr. Nichols. Representative Carpenter of Kansas Lives at Stake. Continuing his argument, Nichols urged the House members to protect | their constituents. whose lives, he said, would be endangered when they came to the Capital because irresponsibie drivers would be allowed to kill people before being compelled to take out insurance. He insisted that it would surance be- fore an accident than after an acci- dent. Patman declared that the first ob- ject of this bill, is to reduce the num- | ber of accidents. He cited the classes of drivers who cause the most acci- dents and said their permits would be taken away from them under this bill. They are those convicted of op- erating an automobile while under the influence of Intoxicating liquors or narcotic drugs; a driver leav- ing the scene of an automobile accident in which personal in- jury has occurred without making his a judgment has been obtained which he has failed to satisfy after 30 days. Another Bill Pending. Patman assurea Nichols that an-| other bill (the Quinn bill) is pending before the subcommittee of which he is chairman, providing compulsory in- surance for taxicabs, and promised that hearings would be held on that measure soon. He also called the at- tention of the House to extensive hear- ings held last year on this subject. General compulsory insurance, he said, would cost $1,500,000 to the people of the District to multiply the taxicab rates, and that this would not be spent for the benefit of the people or the taxi drivers, but for insurance com- panies. Representative Peyser, Democrat. of New York., demanded that a com- pulsory insurance law should be passed covering all motor vehicles. The measure is being considered by the House as in Committee of the Whole, which prohibits any general debate and means that the measure is being discussed under the five- minute rule. Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, who previously opposed this legislation, helped Chairman Norton to arrange for its consideration in this manner. Hull Drops Fight. Representative Hull, Progressive, of Wisconsin, a member of the District Committee who previously joined Pat- man in delaying the bill, announced that he would not endeavor to defeat it. He emphasized, however, that the bill does not adequately protect against drunken drivers. Chairman Norton was applauded when she said that she had come to the Capitol today against the advice of her physician after serious illness for the last two weks because she was 50 intensely interested to get this legis- lation passed for the protection of the people in the District. Mrs. Norton said the measure is not primarily to impose insurance but to promote traffic safety. She said she believes that people here have a greater claim on the House for what will pfbmote safety in the street; than visitory. She read statistics previous- Iy ted in The Star, showing the heavy ‘traffic toll and appealed to her to help correct that situa- tion passing the bill. Mrs. » Norton also reminded the House that the people in the District have no vote and that it is the duty of members of Congress to legisiate remaining days of March there would still be a surplus of more than $20,- 000,000 remaining for the month's op- fairly and honestly for them. « 6), public toward law and law enforce- ment is important in the minor crim- inal field. Most of the problems in this field. he declared. arise from two sources—inadequacy of physical fa- cilities, and thelarge number of cases. Prettyman mentioned the need for a new Police Court building to pro- vide adequate facilities, and urged enactment of the pending bill author- izing use of P. W. A. funds for con- struction of that building. Asked about charges of delays in prosecutions, Prettyman declared these occur only in jury cases. Police Procedure Outlined. Prettyman next outlined in detail the procedure followed by a police- man after making an arrest and de- scribed the function of the three dif- ferent branches in Police Court— United States, District and traffic. He explained that the time of juries is roughly divided between cases han- dled by his office and those by the United States attorney's office. The highest number of jury cases disposed of in any one week, he said, was nine, but that maximum cannot be main- tained throughout the year. As a re- sult, he pointed out, jury cases accu- mulate and clog the docket. Prettyman told the committee that one of the most vivid lessons in law enforcement “can be learned Ly going into Police Court and listening to pre- liminary hearings in collision cases, because the testimony is so diametri- cally opposed.” Calling attention to the large num- ber of cases taken into Police Court, Prettyman said it is humanly impos- sible for the four judges to give them all individual attention. He declared 55,000 informations were filed last year—a rate of more than 1,000 a week. Favors Direct Trials. “In my opinion,” he said. “there is no earthly reason why the minor cases, such as intoxication. first offens; speeding, in which there has been n. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) KOZLOWSKI CABINET RESIGNS IN POLAND Col. Walery Slawek, Former Pres mier, Again Directed to Form Government. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, March 28 —The cabinet of Premier Leon Kozlowski resigned today after the recess of Parliament and President Ignace Moscicki com- missioned Col. Walery Slawek. former premier, to form a new government. The new premier's mission is ex- pected to be one of enforcement of the new Polish constitution. The resignation of the government is customary at the end of the parlia- mentary session, when a new premier is named for the forthcoming year. Kozlowski's cabinet was formed last May 15 and was constituted as follows: Commerce—Henry Reisman. Labor—George Paciorkowski. ‘War—Marshal Pilsudski. Interior—Marjan Zyndram-Kos- cialkowski. Finance—Wladyslaw Zawadzki. Justice—Czeslaw Michalowski. Communications—Machael Budkie- wicz. Post and telegraph—Ignacy Boerner. Land reform—Seweryn Ludkiewicz. Agriculture—Jultus Poniatowski. Forelgn affairs—Joseph Beck. e TWO SHIPS IN COLLISION Vessels Report Crash in Dense Fog Off English Coast. LONDON, March 28 (#).—The Hamburg-American liner St. Louis was to have collided early today in a dense fog in the Straits of Dover with a vessel which she could not identify. A wireless message was picked up later from the S. 8. Delphin, giving ap- proximately the same position, sa; she had collided with an uniden passenger vessel, causing serious dam-