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WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair. not much change in temperature; lowest tem- perature tonight about 40 degrees: general winds. Temperatures—Highest. 61, at noon today: lowest, 42, at 4 a.m. today. Full report on page A-4. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages Entered as secol post office, Wa EDEN MY REGENE POLISH PROPLSA T0 ALTER LEAGLE Discussions Are Opened by British Emissary in Warsaw Visit. No. 33,208. IL DUCE’S PAPER SCORES DISARMAMENT UTOPIAS Stresa Conference Must Stress| Unification of Powers’ Views, It Says. B the Associated Press. Confronted by the intimation that Poland may propose changes in the | Yeague of Nations, Capt. Anthony | Eden, Great Britain's touring diplomat | and lord privy seal. opened his con- | 13,14&15 nd class matter shington, D. . Senate Gallerie Ordered Cleared In Noisy Session No Sergeant at Arms to Quiet Senators; Visitors Qusted. By the Associated Press. Public galleries in the Senate were cleared for the first time in many years today after the Senate had been unable to find its sergeant at arms to maintain order. Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada, president pro tempore of the Senate, ordered the public_galleries cleared when Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, complained debate could not be heard. A few minutes earlier, the Senate had suspended business while attend- ants searched for Chesley W. Jurney. iocated. Actually, the complaint at that time was that Senators themselves were making too much noise, and Jurney was sent for to make Senators keep quiet. When the confusion continued, however, Pittman suddenly ordered that the public galleries be cleared. His order did not include the pri- vate gallery filled with spectators spe- cally invited by Senators nor the ferences in Warsaw with Poland’s leaders. | The Poles indicated the conversa- | tions might lead toward a modification | of the proposal for an Eastern Euro- | peen security pact which might meet | the desires of Poland. Germany and | Russia, hitherto considerably differing. | Premier Mussolini's newspaper. Po- | polo d'Italia, deciared the forthcoming | conference of Italy, Great Britain and France at Stresa must renounce the *dangerous Utopias of disarmament.” | The Swiss gevernment sent a note | press gallery. in which the newspaper correspondents were reporting the proceedings. BRUSSELS TURNS h WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL sergeant at arms, but he could not be | STREET CAR ROUTE CHANGES ORDERED BY COMMISSION Track Congestion on 14th and New York Avenue to Be Cleared. E STREET RAILS FACE Other Alterations Included Plan Adopted—Revamp Will Cost $750,000. Settling one of the most difficult problems in the revamping of the street car system, the Public Utilities | Commission today issued a series of | town congested area designed to ex- | pedite movement of cars and make | possible new routes. The key to the | problem is elimination of one of the sets of double tracks on Fourteenth street between New York avenue and | H street. This is ordered. The commission determined to ! make a connection of double tracks |from G street into Fifteenth street and then west on Pennsylvania ave- nue. One of the double sets of tracks on New York avenue between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets will be eliminated as well as the turn from ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION COMPLETE REMOVAL | in orders for track changes in the down- | CONFERENCE FAILS 10 BRING PEACE IN WORK-RELIEF FIGHT Senate Conferees Decide Not to Resign as Result of Robinson Criticism. DIRECT LABOR PROVISO HELD MENACE BY ICKES Reiterates Belief That Program Would Be Crippled if Senators Insist on Amendment. | By the Associated Press. | Congressional conferees on (hef | $4.880,000.000 relief bill failed to reach an agreement today at their first meeting since recommital on the ad- 2 ~y N Can N WITH THAT DG, RB ministration-opposed direct l-borJ amendment. | | Another meeting was called for later in the day. | Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir-! ginia, head of the Senate managers, | announced the five senatorial con- | ferees had decided not to resign as | & result of criticisms leveled at them yesterday by Democratic Leader Robinson. ‘The meeting with the House group lasted about two hours, but Glass said “We have reached no agreement.” i q Sfar 1935 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. SYMPATHIZE The only evening Eaper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,880 WE DO OUR MART Sonte Returns Not Yet Received L L SHELD INALLEGE 'Trade Commission To File Complaint TESTIMONY LINKS (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SENATORS 70 URGE LARGER LUMP SUM IND.C. BILL REPORT Subcommittee Will Favor $8,300,000 Fund as Federal Share. 141 MORE POLICEMEN VOTED AFTER HEARING Other Items Reported Included for Meeting of Appropriations Committee Tomorrow. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Granting many of the improvements and maintenance items asked during | the hearings, and raising the Federal | share from $5,700.000 to approximately | $8.300,000, the District subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations’ Com- | mittee today completed the rewriting | of the 1936 local supply bill | ©One of the most important changes was the allowance for 141 additional policemen, in response to the plea of |organized citizens, supported by the | Special Crime Committee of the House. The subcommittee will not announc the list of amendments to “he House bill it has recommended until the en- tire Senate Appropriations Committee CASHINTD 0008 Prices of Imported Products Rise as Buying Flour- BANKDEATHPLOT O i i YUY ANDFRY ‘Woman and Two Men Are Rubber Manufacturing Head of Company Claims of protest to Berlin against the alleged kidnaping from Switzerland of a Ger- man newspaper man who had taken gefuge in the Alpine republic, Fifteenth street east into New York avenue. There will be a new cross- | over connection from Pennsylvania | avenue into New York avenue for eastbound cars. Tracks Abandoned. meets, probably tomorrow, to ratify the report. It is understood. however. that on the basic issue of how the cost of maintaining the city should be ap- portioned between the United Sta'es and the local community, the subcom- Labor Provise Fought. ‘The amendment inserted at the first | conference at the request of he Sen- | ate conferees and opposed by Presi- Eden Talks in Warsaw. | dent Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes | By the Associated Press. WARSAW, April 2—Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, began his conversations today with Polish ktatesmen who, it was hinted by the | remiofficial Gazetta Polska. may pro- pose changes in the League of Na- tions. ! It was assumed that the conversa- | tions would amplify views leading to | a new proposal for allaying mutual distrust among European nations and | that the scheme might take the form | of a renamed Eastern European se- curity pact that would satisfy Poland's preferences for limited agreement. meet Germany's opposition to the mutual assistance clause. and soothe the Russian fear regarding Polish- German intentions. Luncheon With President. Capt. Eden. whom Polish news- papers extol as a leading statesman, Jeft his hotel at 10:05 a.m. for the presidential palace to sign the visitors’ book as a preliminary to calling at the Pritish Embassy. conferring at the foreign office, holding a luncheon con- ference with President Moscicki be- ginning at 1:30 p.m., and talking over the tea table with Marshal Pilsudski, whom the newspapers call “the de- ciding factor.” The foreign office talk, which the Polish Ambassador to London and di- gector of the ministerial cabinet also wttended, lasted two hours. The British emissary was reported reliably to have outlined his findings in Berlin and Moscow and to have reported that the Soviet feared Ger- many and Poland had aggressive in- gentions against Russia. A foreign office spokesman said the reply to this fear would be that Po- Jand’s willigness to sign a non-aggres- sion declaration with both her big neighbors amply proved her pacific policy. & Indications in competent quarters point to a Polish belief that Joseph Beck. foreign minister, and Marshal Pilsudski feel called upon to make some specific proposals to Capt. Eden, although the conversations are called “purely exploratory Comment in a pro-government jour- nal said Poland was taking a leading part in peace negotiations. but was willing to consider suggestions for a fprace system better than the present one. An opposition paper expressed hope Eden would learn not only what the Polish government desires, but ®lso the wishes of the people. Flandin Calls for Un PARIS. April 2 () —Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin sounded a cry of unity in France to face Ger- man rearmament today and declared the army high command had decided 10 keep the French ring of steel forti- Sicatios permanently garrisoned on the frontier. The premier confirmed reports of ihe movement of troops close to the Eastern border as part of the nation’s precautionary measures of defense} Outlining the rearmament of Ger- many, the premier declared to the Chamber of Deputies: “To face this powerfully organized army. France must organize her se- curity—first, by having a strong army; second, by organizing military alli- ences for the organization of peace.” He laid emphasis on measures taken to organize anti-air defense. H€ an- wnounced that measures already taken made it unnecessary to keep under colors the conscripts who finish their gervice ‘this month. Utopias Assailed. By the Associated Press. MILAN. Italy., April 2.—Popolo DItalia, Premier Mussolini's news- paper. said today in an editorial be- lieved to have been inspired by Il Duce himself. the forthcoming Stresa Conference among the Western Powers must signify above all the “renuncia- tion of all those dangerous Utopias of diggrmament.” scist Italy has renounced such Utopia ever since 1922,” it added. “It cannot be said that Italy, Eng- land and France have been completely of one voice with regard to the Ger- man gesture of March 16 (the con- scription decree),” the article con- tinued. “Stresa should concentrate on reaching an identity of the views of these three Western powers.” “There should be established a line of common action * * *. At Stresa | there should be assumed the necessary responsibility without being unduly preoccupied with the internal affairs of Prance and England.” The editorial devotes considerable space and emphasis to warn against too much optimism over the Stresa Conference, saying that over the con- ference “there are being built the usual castles in the air.” 0 ) ishes. BULLETIN. PARIS. April 2 #).—Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin told the Chamber of Deputies today France is determined to remain on the gold standard. He announced that to show con- fidence in its finance the Govern- ment has decided to mint and cir- culate gold coins as quickly as possible. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS. April 2.—Prices of miported goods had risen about 30 per cent here today because of the population investing cash resources in commodities and luxury goods despite Premier Van Zeeland's broadcast ap- peal to abstain from hoarding. Stores were being emptied and their stocks disappearing under the buying rush. Even supplies of French and English books were being sold out. Instances were known of individual men buying balf a dozen suits of clothes and a dozen pairs of shoes merely to get rid of their depreciated Belgian francs. While wholesale dealers had prom- ised the ministry of economics not to raise prices until their stocks were sold out. there was evidence in shop windows that prices were tending upward. FRAN IS WARNED. Finance Minister Says Nation Must Net Be “Panicky. PARIS. April 2 (#.—Louis Ger- main-Martin, minister of finance, |warned France today against the danger of becoming “panicky” over the franc. He assured the nation that the treasury and banks were in excellent shape and that Belgium's desertion from the ranks of nations remaining on the gold standard need have little pflec]r on France if its people are “cool.” AUTO LABOR BOARD WAITS HUPP MOVE | Action Promised if Workers File Protests—Company Says « Secrets Told. By the Associated Press. | DETROIT, April 2.—The National | Automobile Labor Board maintained a “hands-off” policy today while awaiting developments at the Hupp | Motor Car Co. About 150 of the 300 office workers | who found the doors locked against hired last night. The others were told to return to the plant today. | Richard L. Byrd, the labor repre- sentative on the Labor Board, said it would take action should any of the discharged employes request it. If the Labor Board should intervene it would be the first time it has | entered a controversy between an | automobile corporation and office em- ployes George A. Schein, general counsel for the company, said the general lockout was ordered because ‘“dis- loyal employes have betrayed com- pany secrets.” A petition for the removal of An- drews from the chairmanship, filed by Walter Drake, former chairman, is pending in Federal Court. DAVEY ASKS 30 MILLION FOR PROGRAM IN OHIO Old-Age Pensions, Jobless Relief and Local Governments In- cluded in Three-Point Plan. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohic. April 2.—Gov. Martin L. Davey, in a special message to the Legislature, tecommended today a plan to raise between $30,000,000 and $35,000,000 for old-age pensions, unemployment relief and local gov- ernments, including schools. His three-point plan included a recommendation that the Legislature authorize local subdivisions “to post- pone, for two years the payments on principal of maturing bond issues and use this revenue for operating ex- penses, requiring at the same- time that the interest be paid.” | them yesterday morning were re- | ‘The commission also has provided for abandonment of the use of the tracks in E street all the way from Eleventh street into Fourteenth street. | The cars during rush hours now |travel the wfong way on this one- | way street, causing serious traffic conditions. There will be a double- track turn from Fourteenth street into | Pennsvlvania avenue, to the east, so | that Bureau of Engraving cars can | wm nto” the avenue instead of E street. Construction of a turn in the tracks from Fourteenth street into Pennsyl- | vania avenue, to serve cars going south on Fourtenth and turning east into | Pennsylvania avenue, also was ordered. s estimated roughly the track changes would have a cost of some $750,000. The work is to be sumdl in the near future and engineers of | the Capital Transit Co. figure that | about three months' time is necessary for completion of such special work. Formal Order Soon. | The District Commissioners md-yl approved the plans and formal order | will be served on the company after | | Engineer Commisioner Dan I. Sultan, chairman of the joint board, signs the papers. The changes at these points in the | downtown section are calculated to | speed up street car service on many | lines which pass through the down- town section, including those using | H street, Fourteenth street, Fifteenth | street, F street and Pennsylvania ave- | nue. The commission has not vet deter- mined on the ultimate routing of the various lines affected. However, the changes indicate Mount Pleasant cars will continue to use Connecticut ave- nue, H street, Fourteenth street and F street. Cars from the northeast, |such as the Riverdale line, could be | sent through G street and through the new connection at Fifteenth street at Pennsylvania avenue, west to the big loop to. Potomac Park. through | Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, or | to the proposed turn around at Wash- ington Circle, or even to Georgetown. Turns Eliminated. The Fourteenth street and New | York avenue changes also will mean ; {phmlm!ion of the turns now taken | ‘by Fourteenth street cars which tra- | | verse New York avenue, Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue west | of Fourteenth street in order to reach | points in the southeast. The plan is to Toute these cars straight down | Fourteenth street where they can turn east over the nmew quadrant or far- ther south on Fourteenth street to the Bureau of Engraving region. The changes at Fifteenth street and New York avenue will mean eastbound cars can make the jog in the new track and go east along G street as well as northeast along New York avenue. The commission already has ordered a turn in the track at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue so | that some of the Connecticut avenue | cars can turn east at that point, | instead of using H street to Four- | teenth. It is calculated this will serve to relieve congestion on Fourteenth street. In anticipation of the decision {on downtown problems, the commis- | sion already has ordered a right turn | in the tracks at Calvert street and Co- | lumbia road, so that cars from Chevy | "(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) FORMER OHIO LIQUOR HEAD IS FOUND SLAIN (would help 10 count work Wife Finds Official, Ousted by Gov. Davex, With Pistol _Nearby. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 2—Ed- mond G. Mathews, dismissed by Gov. Martin L. Davey as chief of the en- forcement division of the State liquor department, was found shot to death at his home here today. Coroner E. E. Smith did not immediately give a ver- dict of how he met death. Mathews was found in an upstairs bed room, an Army .45-caliber pistol on the floor beside him. Mathews ;rved in the Army during the World ar. After Mathews’ refusal to resign, Gov. Davey charged that a ‘“super- government of the underworld” is in control of the business in Ohio. A few days Davey followed with another statement, in which he asserted that certain agents of the enforcement division were conducting a “shakedown” of persons having an interest in liquor permits, would require expenditure of at least | | one-third of the $900,000,000 set aside | for loans and grants to States rofl‘ “direct” labor. | Ickes maintains this would cripple | or halt many projects such as rural | \glectrmcnuon. slum clearance and | school building construction where di- | | rect labor requirements would not !reach 33'; per cent. The veteran Virginia Senator, re- sentful of Senator Robinson's state- ment yesterday that the bill had been | committed to “its enemies,” was boil- | ing over today at a newspaper head- | line saying, “Glass Recants.” | “I have recanted nothing.” he said. !indicating he would stand to the end I for the labor clause. Fears Projects Endangered. The bill was returned to conference yesterday by the House after Secretary Ickes, with the support of President oosevelt. complained the labor pro- | ision would prevent the carrying out of many projects, including slum clear- ance, rural electrification and certain housing construction. As the congressional conferees met, Secretary Ickes insisted to newsmen that the vequirement of one-third di- rect labor on fuiure Public Works Ad- ministration projects would mean “it isn't worth us spernding any more time planning, ‘he money must be all given away." He added that Presi- dent Rooseveit replied personally to his appeal 2gainst the conference amendment limiting the $900.000,000 allocation. Ickes declined to give a direct answer to .he question whether he would refuse to administer the fund if the amcndment stayed in the meas- ure. New Formula Required. “Further this deponent saveth rot,” he remarked. Ickes said that “practically” it in pro- ducing materials as direct labor, but contended ev:n this would require P. W. A. fo “set up an entirely new formula, and would mean unneces- sary handicapning.’ Glass, determined supporter of the amencdment, was sald by the P. W. A. | administrator to be suffering from a “misapprehension.” He added: “I think there's a perfectly legiti- mate difference of opinion. I have the | highest respect not only for his ability, but his intellectual integrity.” Declining to say how soon a new work program could get started after | final passage, Ickes observed, “There are a great many divisions in which it is proposed to use the money and 1 haven't concerned myself with any- thing except public works.” in Jail at Rockville for Investigation. Chief of Detectives Frank S. W. Burke announced this afternocon that he had obtained signed statements from two men, arrested several days age, that they had been hired by the wife of a Rockville, Md., man w bring about his assassination and later to kill the wife of a Darnestown, Md., man. The two men arrested, John Henry | Carnell, 43, Rockville bartender, and | John Martin Boland, 42, of the 300 block of Fourth street northeast. Burke said, declared the woman had paid them money to find a gunman to do away with her husband. an em- ploye of the liquor dispensary at Be- thesda. Woman Also Held. States Attorney James Pugh at Rockville admitted that Mrs. Anne Lyddane, 36; Carnell and Boland were held in the Rockville Jail in connec- tion with the investigation. After a conference with Montgomery County Chief of Police J. William Garrett and Pugh, Robert Peter, former State’s at- torney, retained by Mrs. Lyddane, said no formal charges had been placed against his client. Mrs. Lyddane is employed as a secretary in the Farm- ers & Mechanics' Bank at Rockville. Carnell, in his story to the police. said the woman he accused declared she would pay $3,000 for her husband’s murder and, if that “job” was suc- cessful, she would pay for the death of the wife of a man in whom she was interested. Claim Robbery Aid Offered. stated the woman agreed to turn over the keys of the bank where she was employed to the men and tell them when and how they could loot the vault. Officials at the bank said “(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Kellogg Pact Reaffirmed. OTTAWA, April 2 (#).—The House of Commons unanimously adopted a resolution last night reaffirming the and instructing the government to support all agencies working for peace. Quebec independent. Mystery Gun Keeps Naval Gun Factory at Full Speed 250 Rapid-Fire Weapons of 5-Inch Bore Being Manufa ctured for Use on Destroyers. By the Associated Press. A new mystery gun is called the key item in & program of armaments pro- duction which is keeping the naval gun factory here operating full speed, night and day. Two hundred and fifty of the guns are being manufactured. A rapid-fire | weapon of 5-inch bore, it is called the “most effective of its kind.” Spokesmen for the naval high com- mand said today that the l)lflflrl; of the new cannon, which is “about” 15 to it. Production of this weapon, built for destroyer use. r with other manufacturing activities at the gun factory, has resulted in an expansion of yard effort to the full capacity of 8,400 gun makers. Three thousand were employed two years ago. The weekly pay roll now is estimated at the full job.” will have to continue operations on the full blast basis until January 1, 1937, even if there is mo further au- thorization by Congress for the con- struction of new warships. Except for a small amount of work at the Army's arsenals. all of the Navy's gun building is done at the factory here. Small arms are pur- chased from private manufacturers. The new 5-inch gun, pride of the sea fighters, is described as about 5 feet longer than the weapon previously in favor. It has a range of about 20,000 yards, due in part to its ex- tended length. Besides pushing production of the 5-inchers, Capt. Freidell disclosed that work of building nine 8-inch guns for the heavy cruiser Vincennes, due for completion January 1, 1937, is under way. Later, nine more guns of this type will be made for another new heavy cruiser, the Wichita. Another major item on the program is the manufacture of 105 6-inchers, designed for use on the seven light cruisers now being built. Each of these cruisers will carry 15 of this model, split three to each of five turrets. Facllities at the factory are such that any weapon from a 16-inch to & 11 inch can be built. Cartridge cases for use in any size cannon from s 1-pounder to & 6-incher are also produced, £ $3,000 more | | In addition, the police said Carnell Briand-Kellogg pact renouncing war | It was introduced by Henri Bourassa, | | small equipment, but they can’t do | Consequently, he said, the factory | Code Authority. By the Associated Press. The Federal Trade Commission an- nounced today it was preparing a complaint acainst the Rubber Manu- facturers’ Association, Inc, N. R. A code author:ty, on charges of price fixing. The complaint will deal particularly with alleged wvrice fixing and other unfair competitive methods in con- nection with the sale of fire hose Until :t 1s orepared, no other data concerning i's contents may De re- vealed. Commission officials said it would be based on the recommendations of 1ts investigating staff, which yesterday reported .ts findings to the Eenal Finance Committee, now holding hearings on N. R. A. | The complaiat will represent the first time ‘hat an N R. A. code au- thority has been charged bv a gov- | ernmental agency with illegal activi- e (0.7, CONER " ON SECURITY BL Meeting Called After Com- | mittee Agrees to-Re- port Measure. | By the Associated Press. | A conference -of the 103 House Re- | publicans to determine their attitude | toward the administration’s social se- | curity bill was ealled today for this afternoon. The call was issued shortly after | the House Ways and Means Committee informally | House for consideration next week a | bill including old-age pensions and apnuities, unemployment insurance and various minor social legislation. | Republican leaders declined to fore- | cast what the party’s attitude would | be. Some party members indicated, however, that they expected a majority | might favor passing a bill dealing only with old-age pensions for the needy. The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee declined to vote either for or against reporting the bill to the House. Formal committee action will be taken after Chairman Doughton, Dem- -|ocrat of North Carolina, introduces a new bill embodying the many amend- ments inserted by the committee in bill. The informal agreement to report the measure followed a vote on a mo- tion by Representative Cooper. Demo- crat, of Tennessee, to accept as a part of the bill the sections levying taxes on pay rolls and earnings for old-age annuities to workers. His motion was supported by 17 of the 18 committee Democrats, with the seven Republicans voting present. Representative Lamneck, Democrat, of Ohio, who is ill, was absent. Democratic leaders meanwhile plan- ned a conference to decide whether a “gag rule” should be employed to block amendments when floor consideration of the bill begins next week. In its final form the bill still estab- lishes old-age pension and annuity systems for persons over 65 and un- employment insurance, as recom- mended by the President’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Security. Many changes in administrative fea- tures were voted by the committee, however. One of the most important was that taking the new Social In- surance Board, which will handle much of the new program, out of the Labor Department and making it an independent agency. This change was made with the ap- proval of President Roosevelt and over the objections of Secretary Perkins. The committee also planned to dis- cuss the “gag rule” situation, de- termining its attitude. Leaders would not talk publicly about the idea. But some sought the “gag” because more than 70 Demo- cratic members had signed a petition tor a caucus on a proposal to lift old- age pensions out of the bill, passing them now and leaving the balance for future action. Some leaders argued the 103 Republicans probably would vote for this proposal and that enough additional members might (Continued on P:n 3, Column 1) agreed to report to the | the original Wagner-l.cw\.!-Doughmn‘ i Witness Was Interested | in New York Company. By the Associated Press. Testimony that Bernard M. Baruch was once interested in. New York Ship Building Corp.—contradicting the financier’s recent denial—was given today to the Senate Munitions Committee. Lynn H. Korndorfl, president of the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., told the committee he had in- formation that Baruch was interested in the New York corporation and con- firmed a letter he had written August 4, 1933, giving the same information. “I am reliably informed,” said the letter, addressed to W. A. Irvin, presi- | dent of United States Steel Corp., “that Mr. Baruch and his associate, Mr. Ben Smith, are interested in the project. “This is quite interesting in view of | Mr. Baruch’s reported relations with the present administration.” | Bardo te Be Recalled. Earlier, the committee said Clinton L. Bardo, former president of the New York Shipbuilding Corp.. would be summoned for questioning Priday re- parding activities in 1933 and 1934 despite his refusal to waive immunity. The Federal Company is a subsid- iary of United States Steel. Korndorfl told the committee he could not recall where he received the information regarding Baruch's asserted interest in the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at a time when large Federal appropriations for naval building were being made from P. W. A. funds. On the stand last week, Baruch de- | clared he had bought no stock in the corporation. He told the committee | that Smith, a well known-Wall Street cperator, had sought to sell him 5,000 shares in the New York corporation, but he had refused to take it because of its interest in Government business. Cord Linked by Testimony. Earlier evidence before the commit- tee said E. L. Cord bought a half in- terest in New York Shipbuilding in other Wall street operator, owning the other half. The two operators were reported on the Board of Directors by Gene Tunney, former world heavy- weight champion. Further correspondence was intro- duced by the committee to indicate the Navy, favored building a “larger percentage” of naval vessels in private yards than in navy yards. In a letter to Irvin, United States | Steel president Korndorfl wrote on | September 20, 1934, that the Assistant Secretary had been to the Federal with what he saw” facilities. “He expressed himself.” the letter added, “as feeling would be better off and would get bet- ter ships if they were in a position to give a larger percentage of their work to the private yards because of the more varied and wider experience of private yards due to their handling merchant as well as naval work. Collusion Is Denied. “As a matter of fact, the designs for practically all the ships being built in navy yards today are being devel- oped by the private shipbuilders.” Korndorfl denied there was collusion among the yards in bidding on naval work. On the other hand, he told the com- mittee the smaller yards, including his own, were forced to stiff competition to get naval business and had as well to face adverse “propaganda” he as- serted was put out by the larger yards to block smaller competitors. Officials of the Bath (Me) Iron Works, a smaller shipyard, are ex- pected to testify tomorrow. Meantime, the committee made ready to give out late today the first draft of its proposed legislation for taking the profits out of war. SALOON OWNER SLAIN CHICAGO, April 2 (#).—Sam Tor- nabene, 38, suburban saloon owner, was shot and killed here early today by assassins who struck with shot- guns as he sat at a kitchen table sipping coffee with three relatives. Police were without clues to the identity of the gunmen, but said they were attempting to learn if Tornabene had been intercsted recently mn il- licit liquor operations. A man of the same name vas mdicted with 25 others for operating 10 Capone distilleries. Tornabene is survived by his widow and three children, of the plants 1933, with Smith and Tom Bragg, an- | that Assistant Secretary Roosevelt of | plant and “seemed quite impressed | that the Navy | mittee decided to follow the recom- mendation of the District Commission- ers, who suggested when. they prepared their estimates that a Federal pay- ment equal to the average of the va- rious lump sums that have been ap- propriated annually for the last 10 vears, would be a fair proportion to meet’ the Federal obligation for the coming year. Increase of $2,600.000. This 10-year average figure. thc Commissioners found, would be $8.- 317,000, representing an increase of approximately $2,600,000 over the lump-sum payment for the current year, which the House voted to con- tinue in the pending bill. The action of the Senate subcom- mittee also is a recognition of the plea made at the hearings last week by the Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations between the United States and the District. representing virtually all organized groups in the city, and by the Municipal Finance Committee of the Board of Trade These groups appealed to the Senate to place the Federal share at a more | equitable figure. The Senate subcommittee restored |an item to continue the character | education work. started in the public schools this year. The House struck jout the $87500 recommended for continuing this new field of education, The exact amount restored by the | Senate group is not known. This movement has been championed by Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York. Bridge Fund Restored, The subcommittee restored the $15.000 for drawing plans for a new bridge over the Anacostia River. at Pennsylvania avenue southeast. urged by various civic and business groups in that part of the city. Authority to use $125.000 out of the gasoline tax funds to buy materials and equipment to be used by men on the relief rolls to carry on beneficial highway improvements was approved It is understood the Senate group | also made better provisions for pub- | lic health work and for the opera- |tion of hospitals, where the House |had slashed hospital maintenance items. Among the more urgent of these reductions which the Senate subcommittee was asked to restore were for maintenance at Gallinger. the Tuberculosis Hospital and the Children’s Tuberculosis Sanitarium. It was reported that the subcom- | mittee also made some additions for maintenance of community centers |and playgrounds. Water Increase Allowed. Other increases were allowed in the | Water Department, which is financed | directly out of water rent and had more revenue available to meet its | needed improvements than the House | allowed it to spend. As the bill came from the House it contained a total | of $39,308.000. The aggregate amount of the va- | rious items added by the Senate | Subcommittee will not be made known until the bill is ready to be reported, but the total may be several million. | The House took $1.066,418 off the budget estimates, and some of the Senate amendments, it is believed, will be over and above those House cuts. The additional police, for in- stance, were not included in the budget estimates. Senator Thomas, Democrat. of Oklahoma. chairman of the District Subcommittee, will have charge of the bill when it is taken up in the Senate either late this week or early next week. e CHINESE CREDIT WAITS Britain Defers Efforts Until Other Nations Act. LONDON, April 2 (#) —Official quarters said today Great Britain's efforts to arrange international finan- cial assistance for China had been suspended until the United States, France, China and Japan submit de- tailed suggestions for such aid. Guide for Readers Features 2 Finance .. Lost and Found .. Radio ‘ Short Story Society .. 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