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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau PForecast.) Rain and colder today and probably to- morrow; moderate northeast or east winds, becoming north or northwest to- morrow. Temperatures—Highest, 73, at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 49, at 6 am. Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys today. Full report on Page A-9. UP) Means Associated Press, No. BATISH SATSFED RUSSI SPPORTS COLLECTNE PLAN T0 ASSRE PEAC England’s Attitude on Reich Rearming Still Clouded Following Conferences in| Berlin and Moscow. 1,567—No. 33,206. ,T_HREE CHOICES FACED BEFORE STRESA PARLEY | ! Boviet Press Bids for U. S. Help} in Keeping Europe Pacified. ! Hitler Pushes Arms Plans. France Plays Host to Titulescu, ! Little Entente Spokesman. By the Associated Press. Anglo-Russian conversations at Mos- | cow ended yesterday with Great | Britain’s probable stand in any Eu- ropean line-up against Germany's rearmament still undisclosed. The Russian press, often officially in- spired, bid for United States aid | in helping keep European peace, the government's organ for heavy in- | dustry saying America “can never ; Johnson, barber-tongued former chief | of N. R. A, lashed out again tonight | basic salaries means a monthly in- isolate itself from Europe.” Adolf Hitler pushed ahead his plans to rearm the Reich, his cabinet ! authorizing the army to seize land | 210 Huey P. Long, accusing the De- | consideration the figures for the legis- for barracks, drill grounds, fortifi- | troit priest of trying to be an Amer- | lative and judicial branches, or the cations and the like. while France, ican Hitler and ridiculing the gentle- | &rmed services. For the Federal Gov- watching crack reserve troops ma- neuver along the eastern frontier, played host to Nicholas Titulescu, Little Entente spokesman, and sought to bind her Southern Euro- pean allies more tightly to her. i LONDON, March 30 (P).—Britain tonight believed Soviet Russia stood firmly behind those nations favoring Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Europe Gold Bloc Nations See Metal Flow Toward U. S. France Fears Further In- flation Following Bel- gium’s Course. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 30.—The European gold bloc today began to feel the full effect of the Belgian defection from the gold standard as a stream of yellow metal which experts said might become a big flow started on its way to the United States. Nations still on gold were tighten- ing their belts for a hard Summer. French financial circles considered the Belgian desertion a stiff blow, but foresaw further danger in June when Switzerland will vote on an inflation- ary economic plan. Hard economic conditions in France, Holland and Italy likewise furnished anxiety for those (Continued on Pa COUGHLINHITLER Priest Uses Sacred Cross| for His “Nazis,” Says Radio Foe. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 30.—Gen. Hugh at Father Charles Coughlin and Sen- man from Louisiana as a purveyor of “bunk.” “You have not chosen the swasti | Johnson said of Father Coughlin in pursuing his Hitler comparison. “You have a more sacred device . . . no swastikas for your Nazis—but a cross.” Of the two men he has dubbed Ihe WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1935—120 PAGES. an inclusive European security ar- «pied pipers,” Johnson said he “pre- rangement. ferred” Senator Long. Satisfaction was expressed that the The general implied that with to- talks Capt. Anthony Eden, lord | night's attack, launched over a Na- privy seal, has had with Joseph | tion-wide radio hook-up, he was Stalin, Russia’s booted man of steel, “through” with his end of the flam- and Maxim Litvinoff. foreign com- ing three-cornered controversy. missar, brought renewed assurances of the Soviets' desire for collective security. Russia Held Reassuring. Competent observers here expressed | the opinion the Russian stand was a reassuring answer to Adolf Hitler's revelation of the German fear of Russia and his “peace at a price” | wolicy laid down in the recent Anglo- | German conversations at Berlin. | Long “Taken Care of.” Centering his fire on the priest, Johnson denounced his policies and ridiculed him personally. He indi- cated he believed Senator Long had been taken care of in a previous speech. As if addressing Father Coughlin personally, Johnson said: “Some one sent me a parallel of what both you and Adolf (Hitler) Great Britain, it was said, faced a 'have proposed and preached and they choice among three possible paths ;lre as alike as peas in a pod. As & before Sir John Simon, foreign secre- | foreign-born you could not be a tary, goes to Stresa, Italy, April 11 | President, but you could be & Reichs- to confer with French and Italian | fuehrer—just as the Austrian Adolf leaders. They listed these choices as follows: 1. Isolation from continental affairs. | 2. Alignment with the Reich’s posi- | tion, fundamental in which is com- plete equality for Germany. 3. Whole-hearted accord with the principle of collective security with | accompanying mutual guarantee. Third Supported by Russia. Russia, reports reaching official | quarters here, supports the third, | favoring continuance of the security plans drafted at the Anglo-French ! meetings here early in February. | The Russians prefer such a col- lective system—with or without Ger- many—to a group of alliances on the continent, it was understood here. They were also reported to have | tola Eden they would not compromise with Hitler on the mutual assistance | clause of the proposed Eastern | European pact, which the Germans | thus far have rejected. ARMY TO TAKE LAND. German Cabinet Decree Provides Needed Areas. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 30.—Germany’s military regeneration gained momen- tum today as the cabinet empowered the army to obtain land for ma- heuvers, garrisons and other military purposes. The cabinet’s decree would enable the Reichswehr to condemn land for fortifications on the frontiers. | A government spokesman said: | “The purpose of the decree is not for | fortifications but for garrisons, drill and target practice grounds.” | Drill and maneuver grounds used by the army before the war were taken away from' the Reichswehr atter 1919. Thus Tempelhoff, for- | merly Berlin's big exercise field, is now the nation’s principal airport. U. 8. CO-OPERATION SEEN. Moscow Parley Results Termed “Sat- | isfactory.” (Copyrisht, 1935, by the Associated Press.) MOSCOW, March 30.—Soviet Rus- sia’s officially inspired press bespoke United States co-operation in helping keep Europe’s peace today as Anglo- Russian security discussions ended with results termed “practical” and *“highly satisfactory” in both camps. Those results continued shrouded (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 'became a dictator of Germany.” “Are you a jack-in-the pulpit who Jjumps up one moment in the collar of Rome, ducks and reappears the next moment in a necktie?” Johnson in- quired after asserting: “Photographed in the cassock of a Catholic priest while you said it, and announcing from the Shrine of the Little Flower that you were going after me the Sunday before you did it you said over the radio—1T address you neither as the spokesman of the | Catholic Church nor as the represen- tative of its Catholic following.’” From beginning to end he sought to pick to pieces the priest’s Union for Social Justice—“For this he takes, from the pennies of the poor, much money never accurately reported nor accounted for.” Condemns Money Bill. He condemned the money system embodied in the Nye-Sweeney bill ad- vocated by the priest. “If a nonsensical monstrosity ever flowed from the pen of man, this is it.” Johnson said. “This plan for which Father Coughlin has been tak- ing tens of the thousands of dollars from the poor is no plan at all.” Johnson warmly defended Bernard | Baruch, financier and friend, whom Father Coughlin has referred to as “Bernard Manasseh Baruch.” He (Continued on Page 14, Column 1.) . WOMAN DIES AT 120 Indian Believed to Have Been Oldest Person in U. 8. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 30 (®)—Mrs. Ruperta Estrada Durazno, reported to be 120 years old and be- lieved to be the oldest person in the United States, died here today of Pneumonia. Mrs. Durazno, who witnessed Maxi- milian's invasion of Mexico, was a full blooded Indian. Her husband was a military attache under Maximilian. She came to the United States in 1909, Hays Assails Tax Bill. HOLLYWOOD, March 30 (#).—Will Hays, film czar, added his voice to- day to protests against proposed State tax measures affecting the motion picture industry. He warned legisla- tors the motion picture industry “has contributed more than a normal share eclared s srents” - semvin "t al “ ultimate tax Mu'dgl!’. 2 Nazis to Behead Mother, 24, Who Danced as Babies Starve By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Maich 30.—A slim, bob- haired 24-year-old mother, Frau Charlotte Juenemann, was sentenced to be beheaded today because she left her three children to starve to death in a cold basement while she squandered relief money in cafes and dancing halls. Details of the sufferings of the three babies, who were left unattended for eight days, aroused deep indigna- tion of the pubnc.l which followed her urder trial closely. ll‘?l‘m Juenemann received the death penalty, fourth of its kind meted out 4 to a woman within six weeks, apa- thetically. Her husband is in an in- sane asylum. “I did not want the children to die,” were the young mother’s last words during her examination. But police had previously quoted her as saying “I had no time to give the children food and water.” Relief officials found her 4-month- old baby and 18-month-old son starved to death in her unheated base~ FEDERAL PAY ROLL GOES T0 NEW HIGH WITH RESTORATION Local Incomes Increased to $200,000,000 Annually as Cut Ends. TOTAL FOR COUNTRY IS $100,000,000 MONTHLY Latest Figures on Government Employment Show Gain of 28,715 in Capital. BY J. A. FOX. ‘The Government pay roll in Wash- | ington tomorrow advances to a new | | all-time high—somewhere around ; $200,000,000 annually—as the 5 per jcent pay cut is lifted, to do away finally with this phase of the economy era which started 33 months ago. Concurrent with this development, | the release by the Civil Service Com- | mission yesterday of the monthly per- | sonnel figures in the executive estab- lishments, for Febryary, made possible a comparison to show their growth in the first two years of the Roose- velt administration, and disclosed that in that time employment here has in- creased 28,715 to a total of 95,517, and in the field, 88,344 to a total of 585,- | 029, for a total increase of 117,059, tand a total Federal force of 680,546. The final step in the restoration of | crease in the pay roll here of approx- | imately $800,000, without taking into | ernment the boost is about $700,000, and the District government $100,000. | Figures Are Estimates. These totals are, of necessity, an | estimate, for no exact calculation has | been made. They are based, so far as | the Federal Government is concerned, | | on the ratio of local to field employes, | | with a total monthly pay rol) around | the $100,000,000 mark, and agree with | an unofficial estimate at the Treasury. The District figures are based on the budget. Although local employment | i is still some 20,000 less than the war- | | time peak, salaries are running higher, and it is figured that the Government pay roll in the executive branch will jTun over $173,000,000 annually, and that of the District government about $24,000,000. Tomorrow will be the first day since | June 30, 1932, that Government em- | ployes scattered over the globe have received a full day's pay for corre- sponding lebor. First came the 8 1-3 per cent cut, exacted by virtue of a 24-day furlough, instituted on July 1 of that year by President Hoover. Nine months later it was jumped to 15 per cent in the first Roosevelt economy act, and this 1ate prevailed | until last year, when, over the Presi- | dent’s veto, a 5 per cent restoration | was voted as of February 1, and an- other 5 July 1. The President | had proposed in his budget message | that the last 5 be lifted July 1 next, | but again he was overruled by Con- gress, which advanced the date three months. U. S. Employment Gains. Meanvwhile, as pay has been making a comeback, Government employ- ment here has been steadily on the increase, as it has over the country. On the last day of February, 1933, | | Just before President Hoover left | | office, the executive establishment | | had 66,802 persons on its rolls; a year | later this figure was 79,913, including 8,290 temporaries, and on February 28 last there was the increase to 95,517, which included 7,548 tempe- raries. Before the New Deal got started, temporary employment was a minor factor and in compiling the monthly report, the Civil Service Commission did not segregate this class. In the field, the employment figures as of the corresponding dates in 1933- 34-35 were 496,685, 531,839, and final- 1y, 585,029. Of this latter, 80,573 are temporaries, an advance in this class of 23,500 in a year. In all, between February 1934-1935, nearly 69,000 per- sons were added to the Executive | group. | Increases General. The New Deal agencies, of course, are responsible for the principal in- crease. The old-line establishments, however, generally have shown some expansion due to added work flowing from the junior groups, despite the re- organization shake-up of July, 1933. Treasury, Justice, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, the General Accounting | Office, Government Printing Office, Civil Service Commission and Federal Power Commission locally have re- flected this later activity, while on the other side of the picture, and still showing the results of economy re- ductions are Commerce, Labor, Post Office, Interstate Commerce Commis- sion and Veterans’ Administration. On the last day of February, 1933, there were 47 Executive agencies; to- day, there are 67. As some of the old ones have been done away with en- tirely, or merged into other bodies, this means that about 30 new estab- lishments have come into existence, —_——— VISIT HERE CONVERTS BRAZILIAN TO FASCISM Financial Envoy Aided in Change by Acts of Roosevelt Which He Witnessed. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 30.— Marcos de Souza Dantas, a member of Brazil's recent financial mission to Washington and London, took the oath of Militant Brazilian Fascists to- day because “conversation _with bankers abroad convinced me Brazil needs not nationalism, but ultra- nationalism. “I belleve liberal democracy has failed here, as well as in the United States and France,” said Souza Dantas, | on_constitutional questions involved. a leading banker and former exchange director of the Banco do Brasil. “For example, I myself saw Presi- dent Roosevelt settle like a sovereign WITH RESOLUTION SEEKS 10 FORCE TEST IN LUMBER GODE CASE Clark and Hastings to Press Motion in Senate Tomorrow. RICHBERG BACKS PLAN TO WITHDRAW APPEAL Recovery Board Chairman Warns Affected Industry That President Alone Can Susperid Agreement BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A Senate resolution, requesting At- torney General Cummings not to ask the Supreme Court to dismiss the Belcher case involving the ggnstitu- tionality of the N. R. A. but to prose- | cute the Government’s appeal, will be introduced in the Senate tomorrow by Senators Clark of Missouri, Democrat, and Hastings of Delaware, Republican. The resolution recites the fact pub- lic announcement has been made by the Department of Justice that it in- tends to move dismissal of the case. | It is possible that the motion will be | made in the Supreme Court tomorrow, when the court reassembles. It is wholly within the discretion of the court whether it grants the dismissal or orders a hearing of the case preparatory to a decision by the court | Both. Clark and Hastings are mem- bers of the Senate Finance Committee which is investigating the operations ! of the N. R. A. and is charged w\lh; the task of writing a new law to ex- | tend the life of that agency and the | “codes of fair competition.” | Authority to Give Up. The Lumber Code Authority, aroused by the fact that the Department of Justice intends to withdraw its ap- peal in the Belcher case, is preparing to “fold up.” It has discharged most of its employes and holds that the Government is leaving the industry in an impossible position so far as en- forcement of the code is concerned. Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary manager of the West Coast Lumbermen'’s Asso- ciation, the code authority for the in- dustry, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Seattle, said yes- terday its Board of Trustees advocated suspension of the code “until it can be made legally enforceable.” Donald Richberg, chairman of Na- tional Recovery Board, reported, how- ever, that the lumber code, like other codes, is not subject to suspension ex- cept by the President or his represent- atives. He insisted that the Depart- ment of Justice had not, by its deter- mination to withdraw the appeal in the Belcher case, questioned the valid- ity of the code as a whole but had “based its announced dismissal of the | Belcher case on the combination of | certain defects in the code and the absence of an adequate record.” Richberg continued that N. R. A, expected that at least a majority of the responsible members of the in- dustry “will co-operate with the Gov- ernment in maintaining the many beneficial results of the lumber code and in removing all reasonable objec- tlons to particular provisions of the code or its administration.” Several Veice Opposition. While Clark and Hastings were preparing their resolution yesterday, other Senators were examining the administration’s N. R. A. bill, which was introduced in the Senate Friday by Chairman Harrison of the Finance Committee. Many of them, including Senators Borah of Idaho, King of Utah, Dickinson of Iowa, declared themselves utterly dissatisfied with the administration bill, which it is under- stood was prepared by Richberg and which was submitted to President Roosevelt before he left here for Florida. The Belcher case, brought against an Alabama lumber manufacturer, ‘William E. Beicher, by the Govern- ment, involves the constitutionality of the N. R. A. act and the codes there- under. The Clark-Hastings resolution points out that the Congress has been urged by the President to extend the life of the N. R. A. for another two years. . The resolution continues: “A decision by the Supreme Court on the questions involved in the case | above referred to would be of great assistance to the Senate in deter- mining what changes are necessary or whether a constitutional act could DAILY EVENING EDITION BIGGER LUMP SUM ' FORD.C. PREDICTED Restoration of ments House Omitted Also Foreseen. Improve- } BY J. A. O’'LEARY. An increase in the Federal lump- | sum payment and restoration of a | variety of improvements and main- | tenance items left out of the House bill appeared likely last night as the District Subcommittee of. the Sen- ate Appropriations Committee pre- | pared to meet Tuesday to revise the | 1936 supply bill for the National Capital. | How much will be restored will not | be decidely definitely until the sub- committee meeting, called by Sen- ator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, chairman. The recommendations of the subcommittee will be rej | later in the week to the entire Ap- | propriations Committee, presided [ over by Senator Glass, Democrat, of | Virginia. } There were reliable indications yes- terday of a desire on the part of sub- | committee members to allow a con- | siderable number of the amendments asked for during the hearings and to recommend a more equitable figure | as the Federal share of the cost of maintaining the Capital City. This course would be in accord | with the long-standing policy of the ¢ Senate dealing with the expenses of the District and in trying to keep the apportionment of the cost on an equitable basis as between the local community and the Federal Govern- ment. Omitted by House. The House, in reducing the total of the bill to $39,308,000, cut $1,065,000 from the budget estimates. These slashes were scattered all through the municipal servicé, and came from | three sources in the financial set-up: | From general revenues of the District, $612,000; from expenditures to be | made out of the gasoline tax fund, $3215,000, and from expenditures to be made out of the water rent fund, $238,250. In the case of the gas tax fund, there is understood to be a strong sen- timent in the Senate Subcommittee to put back a large part of the House cut and let it be used to buy roadway materials and supplies, so that men | on the relief roll can be provided with work on street projects that will re- sult in beneficial improvements. It is believed the Senate bill will make some provision for continuing | the character education movement | stricken out by the House, which-wit- nesses told the Senate group is being watched by educators throughout the country. The Senate Subcommittee also is considering sympathetically not only hospital and health funds cut out by the House, but some additional public (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) Beauty of Cherry Blossoms Expected to Attract 100,000 Visitors Fill Hotels and Tourist Camps. Special Squads of Police to Keep Autos Moving From 9 to 6. More than 100,000 visitors are ex- pected today to pay their annual homage to the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin. Yesterday the Capital officially intendent of police, yesterday issued a special order to precinct captains to have their traffic men on the job by 8 o'clock this morning, and to keep them on the job until the rush is ended tonight. Hotels and tourist camps were well filled this week end, and the railroads and bus lines said their traffic into ‘Washington was noticeably heavier since word spread that the annual show was due this week. Excursion trains were scheduled between New ‘York, Philadelphia and Washington. Although the greatest crowds of the blossom season are expected today, Sy St L L3 IT'S JUST TOO BAD, poBBY! 22-Pound Boy Born To Bronx Mother; Both Doing Well By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 30.—A baby boy weighing 22 pounds has been born to Mrs. Charles Stein- mann of the Bronx. The infant 15 one-sixth the weight of his mother and tips the scales at twice the weight of all five Dionne quintuplets at birth. Mrs. Steinmann has eight other children, all weighing from 7 to 10 pounds when they were born. She and her newest son are do- ing well. SOFT COAL STRIKE THREAT CANCELED Miners and Operators Agree to Continue Present Wage Until June 16. By the Associated Press. The Government wiped soft coal from the list of threatened breaches of President Roosevelt's industrial truce yesterday. and immediately set to work on the troubled rubber labor situation. The United Mine Workers and Ap- palachian Soft Coal Operators agreed with the N. R. A. Governing Board to continue their present wage and hour contracts until June 16 unless they ! reach a new agreement meantime. This action averted a walk-out of nearly half a million miners the United Mine, Workers had threatened to call tomorrow unless new contracts were signed by them. The miners and operators had been deadlocked in negotiations toward these contracts. Get Report From Akron. The National Labor Relations Board meanwhile received a “confidential re- | port” on the threatened Akron, Ohio, rubber workers’ strike from Ralph A. Lind, régional director at Cleveland. At the same time the board ruled that the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. had violated the recovery act in fos- tering an employes’ representation plan at Akron and ordered the com- pany not to recognize the plan for collective bargaining until its em- ployes had decided by a board elec- tion whether they wanted it for their agent. The federation’s members at the Goodyear plant are to vote today whether they want to strike. Fire- stone and Goodrich members are to vote April 7. The rubber companies’ refusal to | recognize the A. F. of L. unit as their employes’ sole collective bargaining agent is the primary issue. Added to this, talk of strikes in the automobile and cotton textile indus- tries continued to be heard in labor circles, but there were no indications of concrete developments yesterday. “Thank you, John,” Donald Rich- berg, new N. R. A. chief, said simply to John L. Lewis, chief of the mine union, after the union granted N. R. A.’s request for the contract extension. The labor leader until recently has been sharpshooting consistently at Richberg. Afterward, Lewis said that his union’s concession was not to the op- erators, but to President Roosevelt. “If the breathing spell of two and one-half months provided by this set- tlement can be utilized by Congress in enacting corrective measures and in the negotiation by the conferees of a more logical wage agreement than is now possible,” Lewis said, “then the action of the N. R. A. board and the miners and operators in agreeing to (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) Em e A S Death Blamed on Dust. LINCOLN, Nebr., March 30 (#)—A “dust cold,” which developed into pneumonia, today proved fatal to Paul W. Jones of Lincoln, a traveling sales- man caught in a severe dust storm several days ago. Guide for Readers i PART ONE—General News, Sports, Stamps, Schools and Colleges. PART TWO—Editorial, Organizations, Civic Activities, Autos, Aviation, Se- rial Btory, Short Story. PART THREE—Society, Fashions. PART FO! Features, Amusements, Music, Radio, Books, Art Notes, Children's Page, Travel. PART FIVE—Financial, F. IN_WAS | PERMANENT RATE | * INCREASE DENED \I. C. C. Again Turns tof Makeshift Method of Emergency Charges. | By the Assoclated Press | | Terming general freight rate ad- | | vances “an inadequate and dangerous | method” of meeting modern railroad | | problems. the - Interstate Commerce | | Commission yesterday turned again to the makeshift method of emergency charges to help tide American rail | carriers over the next 15 months. | It flatly denied permission to make IVE CENTS TEN CENTS ELS IOKES TAKES FIGHT ONRELIEF CHANGES 10 PRESIDENT AS DEFEAT IS FEARED P. W. A. Head Asks Roose- velt to Stop Amendment Requiring Specific Labor Expenditure. CAPITOL HILL SEEN READY TO IGNORE PLEA Senator Copeland Says Aim Is to Cut Cash Spent for Plants and Raise Benefits to Labor—Ad- ministrator With Garner. Confers Br the Associated Press. Faced by assertions of Senate and House leaders that they would oppo:e further changes he wants made in the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill, Secre- tary Ickes yesterday appealed direct- ly to President Roosevelt. He dispatched a long wireless on the controversy to the President, now cruising in Bahama waters, after con- sulting with Vice President Garner on the situation which is delaying final action on the big measure. He had not received a reply last night. Leaders Call Parley. Confronted by this development and desiring to learn definitely whether Mr. Roosevelt plans to inter- vene for Ickes, Democratic House leaders last night decided to hold a conference tomorrow at 11 am. to de- termine their future course. While one leader intimated Mr. Roosevelt might take a hand, Repre- sentative Taylor of Colorado, acting majority leader, said thus far no of- ficial word of such a move had been received. Speaker Byrns, Chairman Bu- chanan of the House Appropriations Committee, the House conferees and Taylor are to participate in the parley. rmanent general increases d | es’ obj Evnue $170000000 8 year of nceded | e enue. Wha of $300,000,000 of the $900,000,000 & resumption of the emergency charge | aiocated for construction loans and method of rate increases in effect | grants to States and municipalities from January 41932, until September | yecterday caused leaders to defer a 30, 1’33-“"‘“0“’ o o | House vote on the conférence report nemv b - made the } until tomorron.. earlier emergency list. They will be Ickes' Defeat Seen. Unless the President does take a in effect until June 30, 1936. Major | {farm products were exempted from | nang, sentiment on Capitol Hill ap- { any increases. ! parently will sweep Ickes' objections | The rejection of the urgent plea of the carriers comes on the eve of a & | per cent increase in railroad wages | effective tomorrow. This wage in- crease is estimated to affect about | aside and speed the bill to final action |in 1ts present form. Appearing to realize this, the P. W. A. adminis- trator dispatched his appeal for aid even as the Chief Executive worked 950,000 workers and to amount to0 | on the new relief set-up aboard the | $80,000000 & year. Against this the | yaeht Nourmahal. emergency charges were estimated by | House leaders carly vesterday in- Commissioner Miller of the Interstate | qciag they would not send the bill Commerce Commission liable 10 | pack to conference—a logical step to- yield about $85,000,000 a year. | ward eliminating the controverted Tart ali Seckos ot Tnchoasits ::::S;mem — unless the Senate The wage raise is the last of a series : 5 of increases designed to restore rail- cAnld gnD:nc Sonat;h;ndf Senator | Toad. wages o their 1930 level, In | Copelan mocrat. of New York, in- | 1931 the railroads and their employes dicated he was speaking the mind of | agreed to a deduction of 10 per cent | 2 k”;some °1"he tf"f;“m then e -« | opposed reopening o! e conference |from pay checks for one yedr. Tins |and insisted on the one-third direct- it was agreed to restore wages, one- ;lal"‘o'l:h‘;mv‘:m?a::l?fi;e?;{ere is of fourth on last June 30, one-fourth | i I RETY fact that there 1s oppo; 1 last and the remainder ,Sition.” Copeland said, “makes me al ‘ilp:;llliiy | the more confident we are right. The commission splt 5 to 4 on the | /€% TO0 10 U5 SR Bien oiars rate decision. Commissioners Meyer. | o wory and Idon't care what these McManamy, Lee, Mahaffie and Splawn | made up the majority taking the view | m“x;m’tl:,“en;,:lr::z‘?r:ng;::em:::;linh. chairman of the Senate con- e ave emergency and need some | {erees. and the two Republican mem- | bers, Hale of Maine and Keyes of | relief during the next 15 months. Nev iamietiee. sl wtl me‘y P | ored immediate action on the bill. | Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, also a manager, was out of the city. Ickes hurried to Capitol Hill Priday | on learning that the amendment had | been inserted by the Senate conferees, and insisted that the provision at least Chairman Tate and Commissioners Aitchison, Porter and Miller held any sort of a rate increase would acceler- ate the loss of traffic to trucks and waterways. Despite their grant of some addi- tional revenues, the majority ad- monished the carriers to study the | situation carefully. | Rates to Be Increased. The general effect of the emergency | charges, which become effective as soon as the railroads can file blanket | supplements to their tariffs, will be to increase carload rates by 7 per cent of the line haul rates, with a maxi- mum of 5 cents per 100 pounds on all except exempted major farm prod- ucts, lumber and fertilizer. Less than carlot freight—the type of freight trucks compete most bit- terly for—is not subject to any sur- charges until it is hauled 220 miles or more and then from 1 to 11 cents per 100 pounds, depending on distance, but must never exceed 10 per cent of the line haul charge. Switching charges are increased 10 per cent. Coal, always treated sepa- rately in rate cases because of a pe- culiar rate structure covering the Ap- palachian coal fields, is made subject to charges ranging from 3 to 15 cents per ton, depending on distance. Lake cargo coal and iron will be subject to a single increase of 15 cents a ton, the railroads being specifically forbidden to apply the increase at both ends of the water haul as was (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) REICH RADIO STATIONS ACCUSED BY LITHUANIA “Campaign of Lies” Alleged in Semi-Official Statement Made Public. KAUNAS, Lithuania. March 30 (®)—A semi-official statement made public here today accused German radio stations of conducting “a cam- paign of hate and lies” against Lith- uania. The campaign, it was charged, grew out of the recent military court decision here which sentenced four Germans to death and 87 to prison in connection with an alleged plot to seize Memel, former German pos- session now held by Lithuania. The statement denied reports it said had been broadcast from Ger- many that the Nazis were mistreated while in jail awaiting trial, saying these reports were originated by Ger- man stations solely for the purpose (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) of stirring feeling against Lithuanis. “Dead Eye Dick” Programs Censured by Commission Head By the Associated Press. Eliminstion of radio “blood and thunder programs” for children was urged last night by Chairman Prall of the Communications Commission. “While T believe that radio presents an aled opportunity for the new lopment.of juvenile talent, I am not sure that it is entirely meeting its obligations with a regard to the effect it :s having on the child mind of Ametica,” he said. “In some cases Iam certain that it is having a dele- terious effect because of some of the that are being.presented.” !l-ldhnr'nflwmwv- grams offered “in the late afternoons” and added: “I am not condemning all of them, for I know many that are distinctly educational. I do condemn, however, those that can be compared to the dime novels of the ‘Dead-Eye Dick’ or ‘Boy Smuggler’ variety.” Expanding his idea of the programs which the radio should present, Prall said: “The bulwark of America is the American home. The success of radio broadcasting depends very largely upon its reception in - American (Continued on Page 2, Column ¢.)