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WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain today and probably tomorrow; continued cold; moderate to fresh east and northeast winds. Temperatures— Highest, 44, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at noon yesterday. Full report on Page A-5. Subscriber or Newsstand Copy hz Not for Sale by Newsboys WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION iy Star {(#) Means Associated Press. 1,568—No. 33,213, CENTS ELSEWHERE FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1935—116 PAGES. * ALLIES ARE DIVIDED ON AIM AT STRESA AS ITALIANS FIGHT GENERAL ACCORD Rome Annoyed by British Reluctance for Alliance and Growing Influence Upon Attitude of France. TRIPARTITE PARLEY TO OPEN THURSDAY | Italy's Program Expected to In- elude Proposal for 0. K. of Re- | armament of Austria, Hungary | and Bulgaria to Assure Inde- pendence—Entente Opposed. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) ROME, April 6.—High Italian quar- ters tonight expressed irritation with England and doubt of France in con- nection with the tri-power conference at Stresa which opens Thursday. At Stresa foreign ministers of the three nations will consider Germany's rearmament, European problems aris- | ing in its wake and the old problem ©of security. Italy's Attitude Summed Up. Italy’s attitude can be summed up | hus: 1. Annoyance with England because | England apparently believes in a con- ciliatory attitude toward Germany, | wants a general European accord and does not want an alliance. 2. Doubt of France because France, believed here to be under England’s influence, is seemingly moving toward the idea of a general accord. 3. Belief that some definite stand, such as an alliance, must be taken by the three Western powers with- out regard to any general pact. The Italian press agrees that Italy’s program at Stresa, which Premier Mussolini is drafting in his “mountain of meditation” at Rocca E:lle Carminade, Forli Province, will 1. An accord to uphold Austria's independence, in which Germany may or may not participate. 2. Scrapping of the idea of the | “Eastern Locarno” treaty, which Ger- | many and Poland have rejected, | rather than let it stand in the way of an agreement in the west. 3. Conclusion of an aerial conven- tion, with Germany included if pos- sible, otherwise without her. | 4. Provision for a treaty with Ger- many to limit her armaments, which | would be substituted for part of the | French Man Forts On Frontier With 60,000 Conscripts Forces Occupy Steel- Concrete Structures Facing Reich. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 6.—France, taking no chances of a surprise invasion of her eastern frontier, is manning her con- crete-and-steel defense fortifications with 60,000 soldiers who today were ordered held under arms for three months beyond the normal period of service. As part of the program to bring the great fortress barrier against Germany to full strength, trained men are to be kept in the ranks, while their younger brothers, called up under the new army program, will get prelim- inary training. Today's decision, which will keep the active army in France at a strength of 350,000 trained men for the next three months, was reached at a meeting of the ministerial coun- cil. It came on the heels of an- nouncement yesterday that the army is proceeding with occupation of the defense system, with troops being moved up from Southern France into eastern danger area. WAR PROFITS TAX INSERTED N BILL House Leaders Capitulate to Demands for Stern Measures. | By the Associated Press. House leaders capitulated yester- day to insistent demands for stern taxation provisions in the bill to out- law war-time profiteering and opened the way for their insertion in the Senate. | After insisting for three days that such amendments could not be of- fered, Chairman McSwain of the | Military Committee, author of the measure, himself proposed and had | accepted a 100 per cent tax on excess | profits. | The amendment provided no basis for the determination of what should | constitute “excess profits” but it | served to tear down the constitutional barrier which would have prevented | the Senate from including tax fea- | tures. Senate May Write in Rate. Under the Constitution all tax pro- posals must originate in the House. On the basis of the broad amendmen: adopted yesterday, the Senate may | now write any tax rates it chooses into the measure, possibly those pro- ‘{):sed by its own Munitions Commir- | tee. It has awaiting introduction a Versailles treaty (that restricting | measure which would limit industrial Germany’s armaments), this instead | Profits to 3 per cent of the invest- of a disarmament treaty. Return to League. [ 8. Germany's return to the League of Nations. 6. Approval of rearmament in Aus- tria, Hungary and Bulgaria. | The proposal that Germany's three allies in the World War be allowed to rearm will be accompanied by the proviso that the action be after negotiation with other powers The treaties of St. Germain, Trianon and Neuilly limited the armies in Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, re- spectively, to 30,000, 35.000 and 20,000 men. In backing their hopes for more troops, Mussolini realizes that he will This will come (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) DOG IS HERO OF FIRE Endangers Life to Save Three and Is Later Rescued. BLOOMINGTON, Ill, April 6 (#). —A small dog who dashed into a flaming house and aroused his young master, only to be rescued himself, was the hero of Heyworth, 12 miles south of here, today. The dog climbed the stairway to awaken Creel Barnhill who then | aroused his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barnhill. Barnhill jumped from s second-floor window, obtained ® ladder and rescued his wife, nephew and the dog. The house was de- stroyed. i ‘Guide for Readers Page. PART ONE—General News, Sports, Autos, Short Story. PART TWO—Editorial, Organizations, Civic Activities, Aviation. PART THREE—Society, Fashions. PART FOUR—Special Features, Amusements, Music, Radio, Books, Art Notes, Children's Page, Travel, Serial Story, Cross-word Puzzle. PART FIVE—Financial, Classified ment involved. Chairman Nye said yesterday he was planning to turn the committee’s hearings to the bill | itself this week prior to introduction. The youthful independents who led the fight for a stern anti-war profits bill were jubilant at what they ccn- sidered a victory, but were not entirely ready to abandon an effort to re- commit the measure. Draft Clause Criticized. This attempt will be made tomor- row, aimed at the elimination of pro- visions empowering a draft of man power in the event of war, which led some opponents of the measure to denounce it as a “draft bill with a| sugar coating.” The authorization of conscripted Army was voted into the bill while a great display of military strength was massed outside the Capitol in prep- aration for the annual Army day parade, this time commemorating the eighteenth anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Germany. Twice the House emphatically re- fused to strike from the bill a pro- vision authorizing a conscripted war Army and then it increased the up- per limitation on eligible age from 31 to 45 years. Newspapers Exempted. The opponents were successful in writing into the draft provisions language making them applicable to the heads of commerce, industry, com- munications and transporation. On the insistence of Representative Ma- verick, Democrat, of Texas newspa- pers and press associations were ex- empted. Chairman Connery, Democrat, of Massachusetts of the Labor Commit- tee, who FPriday forced through an amendment designed to remove the possibility of the conscription of labor FOURTH MAN HELD [N LYDDANE CASE AS CHARGES GROW Search Ends When Witness Is “Spotted on Highway. PLOT ON DARNESTOWN WOMAN LAID TO TRIO Bank Secretary Placed Under $10,000 Bond on Charges of Con- spiracy on Lives of Two. The Lyddane case furnished another surprise development last night when Harry E. Thomas, for whom police of three States had been searching, was apprehended by Washington de- tectives after a brief chase in Balti- more. The officers had gone to the Maryland city on another case. Thomas was brought to Rockville and lodged in jail pending an inves- tigation of several “valuable leads” he is understood to have given detectives concerning the strange case. Mont- | gomery County officials indicated he probably would be a State’s witness in the case. Thomas’ seizure followed a kaleido- | scopic chain of events yesterday dur- ing the course of which Mrs. Anne Lyddane, 29-year-old Rockville bank secretary, was formally charged, along with two alleged male accomplices, with another conspiracy to murder. Mrs. Lyddane, previously charged with a plot to slay her husband, Francis 8. Lyddane of Rockville, | | young dispensary bookkeeper, was ac- | cused of conspiring to murder Mrs. | Josephine Beall of Darnestown in a | warrant obtained by police yesterday | afternoon. Named with her were John H. (Googy) Carnell, bartender in a Rock- ville tavern and erstwhile Washington | policeman, and Edwin J. Davis, with | both of whom, the police say, she | discussed a plan to murder the | Darnestown woman. Status of Principals. ‘The status of the principals in the case, which has stirred Montgomery County, follows: | Mrs. Lyddane, at liberty under $10.- | | 000 bond on charges of conspiring to | murder her husband and Mrs. Beall. Carnell, held in jail in default of $10,000 bond on a charge of con- | spiracy to murder Mrs. Beall. Davis, held in jail in default of $10,000 bond on a charge of con- spiracy to murder Mrs. Beall. John Boland of Washington, held in | jail in default of $10,000 bond on a | charge of conspiracy to murder Lyd- | dane. { William Brown, 27, of Alexandria, | | Va., at liberty under $500 bond as a | State witness. Thomas, held for questioning in | the two cases. Thomas, driving toward Baltimore last night, was spied by Detective Sergt. Van Doren Hughes, who at the time also was en route to the Mary- land city to assist in the arrest of a man wanted for questioning in con- | nection with a Canadian bank rob- | bery. | Hughes trailed Thomas into Balti- | more and, driving alongside the latter’s | car, ordered him to halt. Thomas at- | tempted to speed away, but the police- | man forced his car into a fence and placed him under arrest. A hitch-hiker, who was with | Thomas at the time, was released. Brought back to Washington shortly | after midnight, Thomas denied any knowledge of the Lyddane case and | contended he had never met Mrs. Lyddane. Montgomery County Policemen James S. McAuliffe and Le Roy | Rodgers took Thomas to the Rock- | ville Jail for questioning shortly after the man had been retfirned to the Capital. While police were reluctant to dis- cuss the story told by Thomas, they said that the man admitted knowing “several of the principals in the case,” and that he had been “approached” regarding the bank robbery, which po- lice say was to have taken place as part of the conspiracy. Thomas told Montgomery officers he and a girl friend, who was with him at the time of his arrest, but who was released in Baltimore, were “on the lam,” knowing Thomas was being sought in connection with the Rock- ville case. ‘The second conspiracy charge was placed against Mrs. Lyddane, Carnell | and Davis yesterday afternoon after Davis had been questioned for sev- eral hours by States Attorney James { (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) City May Take Over Plant. CENTRALIA, I, April 6 (P).— Irked by a strike of utility workers which closed the gas plant here Wednesday, city officials today dis- cussed plans to take over and operate the plant until the strike has been Advertising. satisfactorily settled. Nation’s Bank Deposits Gain $3,000,000,000 in 6 Months By the Associated Press. A $3,000,000,000 increase in bank deposits in the last six months of 1934 was disclosed yesterday by officials of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The tion gave no explanation of the increase in deposits, but per- sons familiar with banking and busi- ness trends contended it was due largely to heavy Government expendi- tures for emergency purposes. Total bank deposits in the United States on December 31 were put at slightly less than $50,000,000,000. The tion reported insured deposits of $38,994,264,000 on that date in the 14,135 insured banks. Mortimer J. Fox, chief statistician of the corporation, estimated deposits of mutual savings banks, not included in the report, amounted to $10,000,- 000,000, while the 1,060 uninsured had deposits of $506,000,000, and jvate bank deposits were estimated pt about $400,000,000. This total of $49,900,264,000 com- on June 30, last, for all banks, as re- ported by the controller of currency in his last annual report. Insured bank deposits rose $1,800,- 000,000 and inter-bank deposits leaped $1,000,000,000. “An important factor in these in- creases was the year-end accumula- tion of checks deposited, but not yet collected,” said Leo T. Crowley, chair- man of the corporation. Total cash and funds due from banks rose 20 per cent during that period. Banks increased their hold- ings of Government securities by $1,400,000,000 or 14 per cent. There was also an increase in “other securi- ties” held of $260,000,000, or 4 per cent. As compared with the midyear figure, loans and discounts were re- duced by $600,000,000, & drop of 4 per cent. The statement showed stock pur- chases were made in 5400 of the in- sured banks by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. These pur ‘pned with a total of “6,012,112.0” amounted to $822,000,000, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) LABOR HELD DRIVING TOWARD CIVIL WAR Col. Knabenshue, Fort George ‘Wright Commandant, Hits A F of L By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., April 6—Col. Frederick G. Knabenshue, comman- dant at Fort George Wright, said in an Army day address today the American Federation of Labor is “driving us into civil war” through section 7-A of the national recovery act. The Colonel, addressing civic lead- ers, Army officers and others at a luncheon, mentioned the strike at the Kohler plant at Sheboygan, Wis., where, he said, “2,000 hoodlums” came in to wreck the place. Dealing with the general strike in San Francisco last Summer, he said the Californian National Guard quelled it, but “next time they will have to call out the Regular Army.” “There is building up in this coun- try a dictatorial empire that is under- taking to tell Congress and the Pres- ident what to do and when to do it,” he said. “We have heard complaints about capitalists dictating to the Government; but capital never thought of going one-hundredth the distance toward dictating to the Government that labor has gone. “All this leads to but ong thing— civil war.” | can be made. AR AR "\:‘\\\‘\\‘\‘\‘\d\:‘\“\"' AN \ ‘ },\Tn \\‘\I\\' | “\‘..‘!:fii' » WORK-RELIEF BILL DRAFT MAY HINDER NEW DEAL'S PLANS Rural Rehabilitation Scheme Especially Jeopardized Some Leaders Fear. COMMUNITY BUILDING Measure in Pinal Form Sent President, Now Starting INSOLVENT BANKS 10 PAY §400,000 Northeast, Washington and Potomac Institutions Announce Plans. Additional dividends to depositors in three insolvent banks here were an- nounced last night by Receiver Nor- man R. Hamilton, to be paid frem the Northeast Savings Bank, Wash- ington Savings Bank and Potomac Savings Bank. in the total sum of | more than $400,000. Payments of 10 per cent additional to depositors of both the Northeast | Savings Bank and the Washington Savings Bank will begin next Wednes- day morning, but a dividend of 12% per cent from the Potomac Savings Bank is not yet ready, and may not be paid until some time in May. Notices have been sent out to de- positors of the Northeast Savings Bank and the Washington Savings Bank to come in beginning Wednes- day. The notices tell depositors in- dividually when to call. Northeast Dividends. Northeast dividends will be paid | at the corner of Eighth and H streets northeast, now the northeast branch of the Hamilton National Bank. 10 per cent paid to these depositors The is on the original deposit, and brings | to 85 per cent the total dividends out of this institution. Depositors of the Washington Sav- ings Bank will be paid at the office of the old District National Bank. 1406 G street. This also is based on the original deposit at time of closing, and brings up to 80 per cent the divi- dends paid from this institution. Dividend of 12'; per cent to the Potomac Savings Bank depositors, while authorized. is not yet ready for payment. Proofs of claim are in the course of establishment with late in May before these paymenis Depositors will be notified when payments are ready. To Avoid Delays. “In order that all possible delay may be avoided in the payment of Potomac Savings Bank dividends,” | said Receiver Hamilton, “those de- positors of this bank who have not yet responded to requests for filing of their proofs of claim in corrected form are urged to act at once.” Total deposits at the time of closing of the three banks in which divi- dends are now being declared were as follows: Northeast Savings Bank, $1,070,101.89; Washington Savings Bank, $355,692.17, and Potomac Sav- ings Bank, $2,091,165.91. The total now to be paid to de- positors of the three banks in new additional dividends amounts to $403,975.23, as follows: Northeast | Savings Bank, $107,010.18; Washing- ton Savings Bank, $35560.21, and Potomac Savings Bank, $261,395.84. Payment of these dividends was made possible by loans obtained for the closed banks by Controller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Cars to Be Marked “Traffic Violator” To Halt Fatalities By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 6—In an effort to halt increasing traf- fic fatalities, city officials sanc- tioned today a plan to mark the automobiles of reckless drivers with a sign “traffic violator.” Already this year 135 persons have been killed in motor car accidents, a marked increase over | | the same period of 1934. HOOVER APPEALS * T0U.S DEALH | | Way to Recovery—Let- | ters’ “Spawn” Hit. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April President Hoover tonight called for NELLON AR T NI 5 DENED \“Irrevocable” Gifts Would Be Exempt, Helvering Declares. Back to Capital. BY ERNEST K. LINDLEY. (Copyright. 1935 .) ‘The $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill was on its way South last night to to receive the signature of the Presi- dent, presumably as soon as he lands from his fishing excursion Monday. Swift action to set up the adminis- trative machinery for the expenditure of the money is expected as soon as the President returns. Widespread relief over the fact that | the bill at last emerged, after 75 days, from the slow-grinding congres- sional mills was tempered in certain quarters of the administration by grave doubts that the bill in its final | form will permit the use of funds for some of the most important parts of the President’s program. | The building of rural industrial | communities and the acquisition of lsuhmarglnn] land are the ele- ments in the program which ap- | pear to have been jeopardized by the bill. In fact, one administration of- ficial who had examined the bill ex- | pressed doubt that any long-range work in rural rehabilitation could be done except on a purely individual basis or through the States. Other officials, including two lawyers, took By the Associated Press. | The Treasury tossed back to An- drew W. Mellon yesterday what may | be the next-to-the-last word in their tiff over taxes in connection with the latter's projected $50,000,000 national art gallery here. | Conceding that the Treasury had | reversed itself once, but declaring there had been public misconception Relief Zeal in War Cited as|of its posiion, Guy T. Helvering, | commissioner of Internal Revenue, took this position: Andrew W. Mellon will be entitled to claim, and will be granted, the right to make any and all tax deduc- tions on account of gifts of money or art for educ=ional or charitable pur- ! poses which are allowable under the 6.—Former | €Xisting laws—if given irrevocably. | Decision Unannounced. | Helvering asserted, however, that | |= revival of “the great spirit of ideal- | " o taer x | ism™ of relief workers in World War | ~neither the easury Department | | | nor the Bureau of Internal Revenue a more hopeful view but admitted | that the bill, as drafted, might inter- pose some difficulties in the way of the whole lanc utilization and rural rehabilitation program. McCarl in Key Position. ‘The ultimate determination will rest with Controller Geaeral J. R. Mc- Carl, And the presumption there is unfavorable to the administration be- cause his office recently advised the Senate Committee on Appropria- tions that the classes of projects listed in the bill could not be in- terpreted to cover rural industrial communities and submargina! lend acquisition. The controller general would not discuss the matter today, | except to say that he would have to pass on each specific problem as it was raised. Some work on rural industrial cen- ters has already been begun under suksistence homesteads division of the Interior Department and by the Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- tration through State rural rehabili- tation corporations. The land-pur- AND LAND BUYING HIT| SUTS N HOUSE POINT 0 BITER FIGHT ON SECURTY |Rumbles From Both Sides Greet Committee Re- port on Bill. | MEASURE ASSAILED BY MINORITY GROUP Seven Republicans Denounce Measure as Inadequate and Unconstitutional. By the Associated Press. The acrimonious House #pute over the social security bill and its value as a depression remedy turned into a battle royal yesterday. No actual physical blows have baen struck, but the situation was tense and strong words werc used. The talk was stimulated by submission of a formal report on the bill yesterday by the Ways and Means Committee. The 17 Democratic members of that committe insisted the new bill was the complementary and essential sece ond half of an attack on social in- security, naming the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill as the other half. They definitely placed the social se- curity bill on the Presidcnt’s “must” legislative lists. But the seven committee Repub- ! licans, in a minority report bristling with criticism, termed the measure not only “unconstitutional” and “in- adequate,” but argued “it might, in fact, retard economic recovery.” At the same time the intra-party disputes continued. The 103 House Republicans were unablz to agree on a unified attitude. The 319 Democrats were definitely divided into two giloups, one favoring and the other opposing a suggestion that the bill be brought up this week under procedure forbidding amendments from the | floor. | Gag Rule an Issue. Ways and Means Committee Demo= crats wanted the gag rule to forestall liberalization of the bill. House lead- ers opposed it. There was a possibil- ity that the question wculd be taken to a Democratic caucus tomorrow and initial floor consideration of the bill delaved until Wednesday or later. Amid all this contention, Townsend- ites in both parties looked for an opportunity to offer their proposal as a substitute for the old-age pensions in the approved bill. The Democratic Committee report gave an exhaustive explanation of the bill and continued “On every hand the lack of social security is evidenced by human suffering, weakened morale and increased public expendi- tures. * * * “We must relieve the existing | problems. | Addressing | Administration Association at days to solve current unemployment‘ has announced any ruling or made | |any decision that the projected gift | the American Relief ' of a national art gallery would not its | be_exempt from taxation.” | The situation was precipitated by eleventh annual reunion, Hoover re-!a report from Pittsburgh that the ferred to the N. R. A. as “the first of | 1nternal Revenue Bureau has notified ! the great alphabetical series.” “I'm not sure we are proud of all the spawn from that series of letters,” ne said. “But, then, this night is one of reminiscence about the time when a work was done of which our country can always be proud.” Volunteer Aid Held Best. His experience with the relief ad- ministration in foreign countries dur- | the work well under way, and checks | jng the World War revealed, he as- | for the new payment to POlomac| certed, that the best service came | depositors will be drawn in the next | grom volunteers in the various com- | few weeks. but it probably will be|pypitjes who believed in the work. | “If we could revive the great spirit | of idealism that made that work a | success,” he said, “we would find the whole solution of the present.” Smiling, he avowed his California | home is most satisfactory because it | is more than 3,000 miles from Wash- ngton. He did not comment further | on national policies. The association elected Hoover pres- | ident. It is composed of men who served in this country and abroad in administering relief during the { World War. |COURT ORDERS SPANKING | Youth Prefers It to Jail Term for Drunkenness. LOS ANGELES, April 6 (#).—Fran- cis Nebergall, “20-year-old bellboy, chose an old-fashioned spanking to- day in preference to a jail term for drunkenness. The youth will appear in Municipal Judge Irving Taplin's court Monday to receive a thrashing from his father. Judge Talpin gave him that alter- native for suspension of sentence. District Work-Relief Program Being Drawn for Quick Action School and Library Projects Among Those Considered as Officials Await Administration’s Word to Start. BY J. A. O’LEARY. District officials, as well as the re- lief agencies of all the States, are awaiting with keen interest announce- ment by the administration of plans for going forward with the $4,880,000,- 000 work-relief program, as the huge appropriation measure was being car- ried South last night to receive the President’s signature. The underlying object of the bill is to get several million employable persons throughout the ¢ountry off direct relief and on makes public the procedure, programs of the District and of the States will be more or less tentative. In Washington, the Board of Edu- cation has forwarded to the Com- missioners a list of school building projects that could be considered, and the Board of Library Trustees has submited a list of five branch libraries that could be built as work-relief projects on sites already owned by the Government. The National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commisson also has been engaged in co-ordinat- ma a schedule of proposed local proj- ects. With regard to highway construc- tion and railroad grade crossing elimi- nation, the States and the District will receive as a grant a definite pro- portion of whatever sum is set aside by the President for these two types of work. The President may allo- Mellon that it did not consider his projected art gallery a tax-exempt organization, as it was regarded as simply a nominal transfer to some corporation controlled by himself. Helvering, explaining how the mix- | up came about, said: “It has been asserted that by a certain reversal of decision the Treas- ury Department holds that the pro- jected gift to the Nation of $50,000.- | 000 by Andrew Mellon for a national | gallery of art would not be exempt from taxation, and it is stated that this ruling places the project in seri- ous jeopardy. Ruling on Trust Only. “The ruling made by the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the ‘l'rel.sunm1 Department has been solely on the | question (1) of the liability to tax- ation of the A. W. Mellon Charitable | and Educational Trust, and (2) as| to the right of Andrew W. Mellon to | claim deductions from income for | taxation purposes on account of do- | nations made to the A. W. Mellon Charitable and Educational Trust. “As to the first, the bureau has held, in a letter to Mr. Donald D.| ishepnrd, a trustee of the A. W. Mel- lon Educational and Charitable Trust, that this trust is not a trust organized and operated exclusively for educa- tional and charitable purposes, as “(Continued on Page 2, Column 1. . PRESIDENT ASSURES ADEQUATE DEFENSE Roosevelt Acknowledges Army Day Observance From Yacht at Sea. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., April 6.—President Roosevelt tonight assured “national defense must and will be adequately chase program is already going at full blast under special appropriations which will be exhausted within the aext few months. It was admitted that unless more funds are made available the land program will be in a rather bad sit- uation, as in many areas the pur- chases are in the form of separated plots which have not yet been con- | solidated. Land is being purchased ior the life refuges, the use of the Indians, for the rehabilitation of pensions “inadequate.” said the old- sharecroppers and evicted tenants, ' age compulsory contributory annuity rec:eational purposes, grazing, re- financed by a tax on pay rolls and forestation and allied purposes. earnings was not constitutional and Plains Area Eroded. asserted: “These titles impose a crushing The administration was preparing| burden upon industry and upon to move into the wind-eroded areas| labor. They establish a bureau- cf the Western plains and buy aban-| cracy in the field of insurance in doued land on a large scale for re- competition with private business. plenting grass. Its broad rural re-| They destroy old-age retirement habilitation program in the South systems set up by private indus- will involve the purchase of worn-| tries, which in most instances out lands and the moving of families| provide more liberal benefits than to plots of better land. Some 40,000 | are contemplated under title II families are living on submarginal (the old-age pension sections.)” land which already has been bought : . or optioned and sr’; awaiting rem‘:fi'al‘ Bitter Language Used. 1o better land—much of which has not | Scores of members were talking yos been bought. | bitterly about the situation, but in Likewise the development of rural | the hope that the intra-party dispute industrial communities and of satellite | Would not be emphasized. most of cities was considered one of the chief | them declining to let their names long-range phases of the works pro- | be_used. gram—and a phase, moreover, in| For instance, which Mr. Roosevelt had exceptional | Speaker Byrns remarked distress and should devise measures to reduce destitution and despon- . dency in the future. “Work for the employables on relief is contemplated in the work relief bill; a second vital part of the program for security is pre- sented in this bill. * * ® “As the President recommended, this bill should by all means be en- acted into law at this session.” The Republicans termed old-age a close friend of “If the | personal interest. Both the land pro- | Ways and Means Committee really gram and the building or rural in- | favored this bill it could bring it out dustrial centers were expected to be|on the floor and pass it without & in the hands of Dr. Rexford G. Tug- | rule. But the committee members are weli. Undersecretary of Agriculture. | afraid to talk openly for the bill" Whether the President will seek fur- | Chairman O'Connor, Democrat, of ther legislation to remedy the defects |New York, of the Rules Committee in the bill or whether the administra- | contended that the demand for & rule tion lawyers will be able to work out | Was simply an attempt to “pass the some kind of arrangement with the | buck to the leadership.” He expressed controller general were questions | anew his opposition to a gag. awaiting the return of Mr. Roosevelt,| One member of the Ways and Means Committee said that if Byrns Elliott Wrote Opinion. did the right thing “he would bring ‘When the classification of projects | this bill up under a suspension and was first added to the bill about six | pass it.” Byrns had refused to agree weeks ago, lists of the things that|to that procedure, which would limit could be done under each heading|debate to 40 minutes and prevent were submitted by F. E. R. A.. These | amendments, on the ground that the lists were referred to the controller | bill was entitled to more consideration general by Senator James J. Byrnes. The reply, signed by R. N. Elliott as acting controller general in the ab- sence of Mr. McCarl, took exception | than that. i The committee Democrats appar- ently changed their previous decision to rap the Townsend $200-a-month (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) maintained” in a message from his fishing yacht acknowledging the Army day observance. Mr. Roosevelt sent his radio mes- sage through Rear Admiral Reginald R. Belknap, chairman of the Army Day Committee at Fort Monmouth, N. J. Admiral Belknap transmitted to Mr. Roosevelt at sea a message received from New York by carrier pigeon of the Army Signal Corps reaffirming the “unwavering support of every measure designed to promote the Na- tion’s welfare, security and honorable peace.” The message from the President follows: “Received message at sea and at long range joined with you and count- less others in observance of Army day. National defense must and will be adequately maintained. Promotion of the Nation’s welfare and security de- pends upon the patriotic support «f the citizenry as & whole as well as the traditional loyalty of the armed services. As commander in chief I extend my appreciation to the serv- ices and to those countless thousands of American citizens who participated today in a demonstration of loyalty and devotion to !)e flag.” (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Hazen Appoints 10 to Study Changes in Proposals for major changes in the District’s system for traffic control, enforcement and prosecution will be subjected to serious study this week by a committee of 10, named yester- day by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. This step was taken as & direct result of the recent proclamation by President Roosevelt for more effective means of cutting the Nation's traffic toll. It also is tied in with studies of the House Crime Committee into methods of law enforcement here. The committee will discuss propos- als for establishment of a number of magistrate courts to handle traffic and other minor cases; suggested de- centralization of the Police Traffic Bureau; impounding of automobiles parked so as to create hazards; me- chanical inspection of automobiles; Jjay-walking; 3‘: whole subject of Traffic Control parking regulations, and the possi« bilities of cutting out some of the legal machinery involved in civil law suits over traffic cases. Hazen hopes for preparation of & “master plan” for traffic control and enforcement which may be submitted to the Board of Commissioners for approval and then to Congress at this session. The Commissioner has asked the following to constitute the Survey Committee, which is to meet for the first time Wednesday at 2 p.m.: Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission; Corporation Coun= sel E. Barrett Prettyman, Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer, Inspector B. A. Lamb, in charge of the Police Traffic Bureau: Presiding Judge Gus (Continued ‘n Page 4, Column 6.