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(U. 8. "Jeather Bureau Forecast.) Falr and continued cool tonight and tomorrow; Sunday, showers; lowest tem- perature tonight about 50 degrees; gentle winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 66, at noon today; lowest, 51, at 4 a.m. today. Full report on page B-15. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 33,253. MORGENTHAU ASKS STRONGU.5.B0ARD T0 GOVERN CREDIT Believes Government Should Own All Federal Re- serve Stocks. FAVORS PRINCIPLES OF OMNIBUS BANKING BILL Refuses to Define Inflation or Sound Money to Questions Asked at Senate Hearing. By the Associated Press. Rigid Federal control of credit and currency through a strong board pat- terned along the lines of the Supreme Court was advocated today by Secre- tary Morgenthau. In addition, he told the Senate Banking Subcommittee that he be- longed to “that school of thought which believes the Government should own all the stock of the Federal Re- serve banks.” Repeated questions were asked as to the Secretary’s views on money and inflation by members of the Senate subcommittee holding hearings on the omnibus banking bill, but Morgenthau either replied that he was “not a very good money theorist” or that the ques- tions dealt with pending legislation. “The President put me in as an administrator, not as a money theorist,” he said at one point. Appearing at the request of Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, chair- man of the subcommittee, the Secre- tary declared he “favored the prin- ciples of” the part of the omnibus banking bill giving the Federal Re- serve Board exclusive authority to conduct open market operations, by which credit is controlled. But he went even farther by adding that he wanted a board divorced en- tirely from political control. “I would like to see that authority concentrated in an independent agency,” the Secretary told the com- mittee, speaking in such a low voice that members and reporters as well had to strain their ears to hear him. “Independent of the President, too0?” Senator Bulkley, Democrat, of Ohio asked. “Only that we have the appointive power,” Morgenthau replied: Like Supreme Court. “Like the Supreme Court?” Glass interjected. “Right,” said the Secretary. Previously he had testified that he had “gotten along cxtremely well” with the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee, although there had been times when he thought it should have shown “a little more courage” and invested in longer-term securities. Glass asked Morgenthau whether he had “sny substantive reason to suppose that the proposed Open Mar- ket Committee, composed entirely of Federal Reserve Board members, would operate more efficiently than the one now established by statute.” The present board is selected by gov- ernors of the Reserve districts, with its action subject to the Reserve Board’s approval. Morgenthau hedged. commenting that “these various instruments of credit I believe should all be cen- tered in one place. They should all be centered in Government author- ity.” atter repeated efforts to get the Becretary to reply, Glass observed: “You didn't answer my question, but you answered it sufficiently for me to conjecture what your real judg- ment was.” Concentration Urged. Morgenthau grinned, then laughed, and members of the committee laughed with him as they recalled that Gov. Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board had advocated in the bill the concentration of the credit control authority in the Re- serve Board. Morgenthau refused to define in- flation or sound money for Senator McAdoo, Democrat, of California, a former Secretary of the Treasury. He said the fact that the bonus bill was pending before the President pre- vented him from talking on that sub- Ject. He also pleaded he was not a (Continued on Page 8, Column 3.) ALLEGED PERJURERS PUT ON PROBATION Four Who Testified for Tri-State Gangsters Plead Guilty After Indictments. Four persons, indicted on perjury charges yesterday, appeared before District Supreme Court Justice Jos- eph W. Cox today, pleaded guilty, and were placed on probation after being given suspended sentences of two years each. ‘Those indicted were Ruth Hoff- man, Elmer Ray Neville, Thomas J. Nehmi and Edward Dewey Strain, who testified as alibi witnesses when John (Slim) Dunn and Samuel C. Berlin, Tri-State gangsters, were on trial in the Heurich Brewery hold-up case. They testified that Dunn was in Richmondat the time of the hold-up. PRESIDENT TO ATTEND SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION California House Group Told Trip ‘Will Depend on Finish of ‘Work by Congress. President Roosevelt today assured & group of California House members he would jouruney to the Pacific Coast Diego. has not yet set the time for his the exposition, explaining that depend on the Con- @h ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1935—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. Richberg Reported Due to Quit AsN.R. A. Chief After June 16 Authoritative Sources Say His Decision Is Already Made. Return to Private Law Practice Will Follow Retirement. By the Assoclated Press. One of the most meteoric of New Deal careers was declared today to be nearing a close. Informed sources said that under an undertsanding reached some time ago, Donald R. Richberg is to step out of the Govern- ment and return to private law prac- tice when the present N. R. A. act ex- pires June 16. The informants, declining to be quoted by name, said Richberg, who has expressed a desire to return to private life, would remain in his post as chairman of the Recovery Board only during the legislative reorganiza- tion of N. R. A. now being studied in Congress. If the new N. R. A. is set up by June 16, it was said, Richberg will not head it. If the new law should not be passed by that date, the expiration of the present act would put Richberg's post and the whole N. R.%A. set-up out of legal existence. Besides Richberg, other N. R. A. executives also are said to be con- templating early retirement. Only yesterday Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky, read to the DONALD R. RICHBERG. Senate a letter from Richberg say- ing he had accepted his post {gmpo- rarily and wanted to go back to private life. Inquiry in some authori- tative circles last night elicited the word that there was no prospect of his early retirement. Today, how- ever, other circles said such a step was imminent. Richberg's rise, during which he survived several storms, was rapid. A Dbig-shouldered man who smiles a great deal and turns to music for relaxation, he was noted as a lawyer for the railroad brotherhoods in Chi- cago before he came to Washington (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) WAGHER BL P P TO ROOSEVEL House Chiefs to Seek Views of Executive Before Tak- ing Action. By the Assoclated Press. House leaders agreed today to ob- tain a definite expression of Presi- dent Roosevelt’s opinion of the Wag- ner labor disputes bill before starting to maneuver it to the floor for a vote. Supporters of the measure, passed 63 to 12 yesterday by the Senate with- out an amendment, say the President wants it enacted. Mr. Roosevelt, however, has not openly indorskd the bill and it is not on his “must” legis- lative program. The House Labor Committee was ready to give its backing to provide legislative right of way. It already has approved a companion bill by Chairman Connery. Will See President. But Chairman O'Connor of the Rules Committee said he would go to the White House to discuss the bill with the President before going ahead with it. The bill aims, its backers say, at establishing permanent legal sanction for collective bargaining by labor through representatives of its own choosing. It differs from the indus- trial recovery act in that the latter, in section 7a, offers collective bargain- ing only to employes in codified in- dustries. In addition, the measure would set up & permanent National Labor Re- lations Board which would become & quasi-judicial “Supreme Court of Labor.” It aims to outlaw “company- dominated” unions. The House Labor Committee is ex- pected to write into the bill a proviso that the board should be placed in the Labor Department instead of being made an independent agency. Secretary Perkins and the American Federation of Labor approved that change, but Senator Wagner, Demo- crat, of New York, author of the Senate bill, believes it should not be put under any other Government body. The measure has been fought by many industrialists and other em- ployers. Hastings Attacks Bill. Aside from a brief speech by Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, contending it was unconstitutional be- cause it “denied” freedom for minori- ties, and a futile attempt by Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland to amend it by forbidding one labor grou;‘:nflf:rmfly coercing another, there was ually no outspoken oj tion in the Senate. g This was in direct contrast to ef- forts to defeat last year’s bill. The four Democrats voting in op- position yesterday were Tydings, Burke of Nebraska, Byrd of Virginia and Bailey of North Carolina. The eight Republicans answering “no” were Austin and Gibson of Ver- mont, Hale of Maine, Hastings, Keys of New Hampshire, Metcalf of Rhode Island, Townsend of Delaware and Vandenberg of Michigan. Senator McNary, the Republican leader, was among 12 Republicans voting for it, along with 49 Democrats, the Farmer- Laborite Shipstead and the Pro- gressive La Follette. CLEVELAND BANKER'S CONVICTION IS UPHELD President House of Guardian Trust Co. to Serve Time on 26 Charges. By the Associated Press. 3 :gcgflfl‘é May 17.—The United cult Court of Appeals today upheld & jury decision finding J. Ar- thur House, president of the Guardian Trust Co., Cleveland, guilty of 26 charges of misapplication of funds and false entry. The banker had appealed sentence imposed by Judge Sam West of Cleve- land, October 3, 1934, The lower serve terms of three years each, run- ning concurrently. On 13 other counts the lower court SEUATOR WA HOUSEONNLR A |Passage of Richberg Plan May Cause Blue Eagle to Die June 16. By the Associated Press. Some Senators predicted today that if the House passes the seven-point N. R. A. program approved by Presi- dent Roosevelt and Donald R. Rich- berg yesterday, no Blue Eagle law will be on the books when the present one expires June 16. This warning came bluntly from such N. R. A. critics as Senators King, Democrat of Utah, and Borah, Republican of Idaho, who said House acceptance of the plan would lead to & prolonged tug-of-war with the Sen- ate, which already has voted to trim N. R. A's sails and extend its life only 10 months. Even the Democratic leaders in the Senate displayed some apprehension about the possibility of completing | new legislation by June 16. Chairman Harrison of the Finance Committee told the Senate a change by the House would “endanger” pass- age of a new law in time because the Senate would have to “start all over again.” He said the Senate would insist on considering a House- revised bill as new legislation, send- ing it to committee over again instead of to conference with the House. Borah Oppoeses Compromise. Borah warned the Senate Democratic leadership that he and other oppo- nents of the law would not compre- mise the Senate’s plan for a 10-month extension of the recovery agency, but would battle for “precisely waat we oelieve to be in the interests of the country.” The program agreed on at the White House called for a two-year ex- tension of N. R. A. and contiauation of its jurisdiction over businesses “substantially affecting interstate com- merce” as well as those actually en- gaged in interstate commerce, ‘The Senate-approved measure would make codes apply only to firms doing business across State lines. Some Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee, who conferred with Richberg at length yesterday after he made public the seven-point proposal, said its provision for including all businesses “affect- ing” interstate commerce was too broad. Vinson Offers Substitute. As a substitute, Representative Vin- son, Democrat, of Kentucky suggested an arbitrary rule under which no business employing less than a number of persons—possibly 25 or 50— would be placed under a code. Pointing out that the Senate 1esolu- tion would prevent “any person whose business is wholly intrastate” from be- tended: “That would mean no N. R. A. It would leave a big gap. A big manu- facturing concern, for example, might set up a separate $10,000 company with headquarters in the same build- ing and sell all its products to that company. “The manufacturing con not be engaged in mmufi'fifl and, therefore, not under a code.” Ways and Means Committee Demo- crats generally agreed that clarifica- tion of the “interstate” language in the Senate resolution was needed. But they said they intended to figure out (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) THREE BODIES FOUND Charlotte Couple Victims of Lake Lure Boat Sinking. LAKE LURE, N, C, May 17 (#).— Bodies of Volney Harmon, 31, Atlanta, and Miss Virginia Savage, 22, Char- lotte, who drowned Tuesday night with Johnnie Jones, 31, Charlotte, when their boat sank in Lake Lure were recovered today. ’ line men, J. Jones’ —— LONDON, May 17 (#).—With Mid- summer just one month away, several TUGELL JMIPS CUNIN LAUNCHNG LAND SETLEMENT Begins Buying Acreage Without Waiting for Work- Relief Regulations. QUICK WHITE HOUSE 0. K. EXPECTED ON PROGRAM $1,091,802,200 in Projects Ap- ing placed under a code, Vinson con- | PT proved by Allotment Board in Two-Hour Session. By the Assoclated Press. Without waiting for rules end regulations to be drafted for spending the $4,000,000,000 works fund, the Rural Resettlement Administration, headed by Rexford G. Tugwell, was said today in officlal circles already to have begun the purchase of land on which to place the needy. A quick O. K. from the White House was looked for on the $1,091802,200 worth of projects recommended to President ‘Roosevelt yesterday by chiefs of the relief drive. Of this amount, $100,000,000 was recommended for Tugwell’s division. The land purchased, it was said, will be used for migratory bird ref- uges, national park areas and “land projects.” The latter were explained to be “stabilization of the soil, replant- ing of trees and resettlement of per- sons to enjoy a fuller life.” Allotment Terms Differ. It was explained elsewhere that terms of the allotments recommended differ. Highway and river projects would require no State funds. The Wisconsin State-wide program calls for a 70 per cent grant and 30 per cent loan and requires State contributors. (An article discussing plans for highway and grade crossing proj- ects under the District of Colum- bia allotment of $1,360,300 ap- pears on page B-1) Since the President himself at- tended the session of the Advisory Al- lotment Board which culminated late yesterday when the board recom- mended the projects, the action of the President in withholding an immediate approval caused some surprise in the Capital. The reason was not announced. It was recalled, however, that in the | congressional fight over the $4,880,- 1 000,000 work-relief bill—when critics were hammering away at Secretary Ickes—the word went down the line from the White House that the Presi- dent would have the final say in alloting money. Board Approval Is Routine. Ickes and Harry L. Hopkins have two of the kingpin positions in the work-relief set-up. Though the 22- man Allotment Board gave its formal approval yesterday, observers saw in- dications it followed a chart largely pre-arranged. One official said its action was largely routine, because other agencies concerned had studied the proposals and submitted data. Whether this meant the Allotment Board had been permanently reduced to a routine part in the works ma- chinery was not announced. In two hours yesterday it approved the proj- ects, covering a wide range of types in hundreds of localities over the country. Immediately afterward Prank C. Walker, applications chief, read the outline of projects from mimeo- graphed sheets to which two long- hand notations were attached. $100,000,000 to Wisconsin. The two items that apparently had not been included in the previously prepared sheet were $100,000,000 for 140 projects in Wisconsin and $7,500,- 000 for building a Ward Island sewage treatment plant in New York City. ‘Wiscnnsin thus obtained in a single allotment & sum designed, officials said, to take care of all that State's relief problems. It was granted with the proviso that the State furnish the remainder of the $206,000,000 cost of the projects, arrange to repay the Fed- eral Government $30,000,000 and pass certain enabling legislation. Mayor La Guardia of New ‘York, who is on the Allotment Board as rep- resentative of the Conference of May- ors, attended the meeting and was smiling broadly as he left. When a reporter asked if New York got any money, he replied: “You bet we did.” Though the projects are considered certain to obtain final ap- oval, some decisions remain to made before the work relief drive— aimed to provide ]&:- for 3,500,000— to ac “gml:muheuormm. ress division, must announce wage and hours lnhedu!u‘.mfltu m‘m“ on un- loyment _tof or Vi areas, oa:pwgll:h officials have said the dis- tribution of funds will be based, have not been announced. First of the announcements made by Walker yesterday was $500,000,000 (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) Impounding of Impounding of illegally-parked au- tomobiles which tend to obstruct or menace traffic was authorized by the Commissioners today in an amend- ment to the traffic regulations. ‘The long-awaited order, which has been widely advocated by civic groups, be publicly advertised for that length of time. Under the new regulations, cars parked in violation of certain specified rules will be hauled by District trucks to the nearest police station and held there until the owner, or some other responsible person, posts $3 to $5 col- lateral for his appearance in Police Court. “The sole purpose of the impound- ing law, which has been materially limited in its scope, is to protect life and property and to permit the even will go into effect in 10 days. It must | P! Parked Autos Menacing Traffic Authorized Commissioners Adopt Measure to Cut Death Toll—Overtime Violations Not Included—In Effect in 10 Days. flow of traffic on arterial highways in the District of Columbia,” the Com- missioners said in a statement accom- panying announcement of their ac- tion. “It is essential that, with the simultaneous inward and outward flow of traffic, streets be free for this urpose. “This regulation is not intended in anywise to deal with minor parking regulations, such as overtime parking and things of that sort. In other words, the authority vested in the police by this regulation will only be applied in cases where it is essential that action be taken immediately in order to promote safety and permit the flow of heavy trafic during peak hours. “The Commisisoners feel called upon to take this action because of the (Continued on Page 8, Column 2.) POULTRY “RACKET” BLAMED ON' CODE Gotham Market Head Says Consumers Pay Millions in Tribute. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 17.—Virtually | legalized under an N. R. A. code, monopolies and racketeers in the poul- tribute annually on dealers, William Fellowes Morgan, jr., commissioner of markets, declared today. In & report Morgan named “czars” and declared the live poultry code is intimidated by gangsters. The bill, he said, is ultimately paid by the consumer and is exacted by in- timidation, arson, murder and espion- age. ‘The sources of forced and illegal payments cited by Morgan are: Trucking and coop monopolies— Yield, $1,085,000 a year. Labor union, shocktim (those given rabbinical authority to prepare kosher meats) and kosher organization rack- eteers—Yield, $500,000 a year “above justifiable expense.” Dealers’ and slaughterers’ organiza tions and “protection"—Yield, $500,000 & year. Morgan reported that 95 per cent of the city’s slaughterers buy from the Metropolitan Feed Co. “because they dare not do otherwise,” and that the firm’s earnings are $100.000 in “excess of reasonable profits.” The New Jersey Coop Co. and the New York Live Poultry Trucking Co., both operated by the same group, Morgan said, maintain excessive rates. He charged code administrators have conferred with officials of the monopolies and with criminal ele- ments in the unions, who are alleged to have dictated many of the code provisions, and that they have ob- tained the industry’s consent to ex- tend the code by using a record of members’ minor infractions as a threat of prosecution unless the code was continued. Scores Hurt as 500,000 Poles Seek to Pay Pilsudski Honor out of the church on their shoulders. | eign ‘There try industry are levying $2,000,000 FIVE CONVICTED IN BREMER CASE Barker Among Quintet Found Guilty—Two De- fendants Cleared. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, May 17.—Arthur “Doc” | Barker, convicted of conspiracy in the | $200,000 kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, today was sentenced te life imprisonment by Fed- eral Judge M. M. Joyce, who imposed a similar sentence upon Oliver A. Berg, Ilinois convict codefendant. The charge was conspiracy to kidnap. Others convicted were: Harold Alderton, in whose home at Bensenville, Ill., Bremer was held pris- oner 21 days; John J. McLaughlin, 68- year-old former political leader n Chicago, and James J. Wilson, 27- year-old former Northwestern Univer- sity medical student. Freed were William Vidler, Chicago “bookie,” and Philip Delaney, former restaurant and tavern proprietor in Chicago and intimate friend of Mc- Laughlin for 25 years. The seven defendants were tried on charges of conspiracy under the Lind- bergh kidnap law, which calls for penalty upon conviction ranging up to life imprisonment. The prison term is discretionary with the court. NAZIS SEND NUN TO PRISON 5 YEARS Secretary of Vincentine Order at Cologne Convicted of Ex- change Violations. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, May 17.—A Nazi court to- day sentenced Sister Wernera, secre- tary of the Vincentine Order of Catho= lic Nuns at Cologne, to five years in prison for violation of Germany's rigid foreign exchange restrictions. Sister Wernera, the first of more than 50 nuns to face trial for exchange violations, told the court that she was familiar with the laws governing for- exchange. Smuggling was easy for her, how- ever, she explained, since no one searched her when she crossed the Concordat Is Completed. VATICAN CITY, May 17 (#)—Ne- The only evening Eaper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,845 Some Returns Not Yet Received. UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BONUS BILL SENT TOWHIE HOLGE: VETOTESTNEARS Sponsors Optimistic Overriding President’s Disapproval. on ANNAPOLI CREK VELDSBOVS ODY Son of Naval Academy In- structor Drowne. Near Home. (Picture on Page A-4.) Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, May 17.—Ending a 44-hour search for Frank A. Sazama, jr., T-year-old son of a Naval Academy athletic instructor, two Annapolis youths discovered the child’s body in Weems Creek, within 100 yards of his home, this morning. Alvin Shaw, 15, and Bruce Stallings, 17, were rowing down the creek when they noticed the body beside a pile under the West Annapolis Bridge. Police said the location was almost in the back yard of the child’s home. Missing Since Wednesday. ‘The boys discovered the body at 11 am. The child had been missing since he left school at 3:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. A rowboat was found drifting down the creek yesterday, and it is believed he fell from the boat. At the time the body was found sailors from the Naval Academy were searching elsewhere. They had dredged almost the entire creek be- fore the boys accidently discovered the body. All day yesterday a company of midshipmen, together with about 300 friends of the child's family, searched the woods west of Annapolis, while Navy planes tried to locate him from the air. Early this morning Gov. Nice assigned State troopers to aid in the search. Had Dropped Hope. Frank A. Sazama, sr., father of the child, ended 36 hours of searching this morning and thanked the naval authorities for their assistance. He said at that time he was sure the boy was dead. The planes and middies abandoned the search, but the blue- jackets, skilled in dredge work, con- tinued their activities after dawn. The father had discounted reports that his son may have been kidnapped | or fallen into the hands @f a maniac. HARRIS CASE GOES TO WHITE HOUSE Cummings’ Recommendation on Fate of Convicted Slayer of Gambler Is Undisclosed. Attorney General Cummings today sent to President Roosevelt an undis- closed recommendation in the case of Charles Harris, whose execution for the murder of Milton (Milsie) Henry, local gambler, has been stayed sev- eral times pending investigation of his conviction. One of three recommendations is possible—that a presidential pardon be granted; that the death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment or a lesser term, and that the original sentence of death in the electric chair be carried out. It was virtually certain the Justice Department will ask for no further stays in the case, as its inquiry is said to have been completed. The in- vestigation was launched, following petitions by a group of citizens, to determine accuracy of charges that Henry was killed by another gambler and that Harris is innocent. It is known that dozens of persons were interviewed during the depart- ment’s inquiry. Names of many of these persons were supplied by Neil Burkinshaw and Nugent Dodds, at- wrnz: for Harris. H was shot to death in his automobile here three years ago. | Readers’ Guide seee .A-17-18-19 Lost and Found. A-11 ee0e.C-6-T ROOSEVELT DRAFTING REPLY TO CONGRESS Senate Supporters of Measure Not Certain of Qutcome—Decision Due Next Week. By the Associated Press. The Patman inflationary bonus bill was sent to the White House today for a certain veto. ‘The last congressional formality was completed when Vice President Gar- ner signed the $2,200,000,000 measure, Meanwhile, President Roosevelt set aside this afternoon to start writing the veto message, which probably will be sent to Congress Monday. Contrary to many reports, the White House said this was the first work by the President on the veto message. It will go to the House first, where leaders concede it will be quickly overridden. Real Test Later. The real test will come in the Sen- ate, probably about the middle of the week. Administration leaders main- tained they had the votes to sustain the Chief Executive. While Patman chieftans made no flat claims, they expressed optimism. As for the House, the strongest ad- ministration supporters doubted—to use the statitstics of Representative Boland of Pennsylvania, Democratic whip—that more than 125 of the 432 members would vote to sustain the veto. That would be far less than the one-third vote necessary. In the Senate, the bonus bloc was not unanimous in its claims. Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, said “we have the votes”; Senator Borah, Re- publican, of Idaho, said the bill was gaining strength, but was still short of the required two-thirds. Sen- ator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, who decided yesterday to let the bill g0 to the White House, said “we think we are in the best possible shape.” A meeting of the Patman leaders will be held tomorrow morning, ‘Thomas said, to make a final check- up to their strength and to plan strategy for the crucial test. The Vice President signed the meas- ure with some formality, joking with newspapermen between strokes of his pen. He used four pens because of several requests for the instrument with which he made the signature. One of the pens was given to Rep- resentative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, author of the bill, who watched the Vice President sign. Speaker Byrns had signed the bill yesterday. Patman Expresses Confidence. Patman expressed no doubt that the Senate would override the veto. “Every day we're gaining strength,” he said. “Why just yesterday the Board of Aldermen in New York in- dorsed the bill. Things like that will have some influence, maybe.” He denied the Senate vote was being held over until next week so Father Charles E. Coughlin could make another speech for it. “There’s no connection,” Patman | said. Administration leaders in the Sen- | ate said they knew of no changes in | the line-up. They have counted on |2 minimum of 35 votes to uphold the President, or three more than necessary. 'BILL BOOSTING TAX ON GASOLINE ASKED Commissioners Order Prettyman to Draft Measure Raising Levy on Motorists $1,150,000. ‘The District Commissioners today instructed Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman to draft a bill pro- viding for an increase of 1 cent a gal- lon in the gasoline tax for the District. The present tax is 2 cenis. While the Commissioners did not commit themselves to a tax increase it was understood that behind the proposal was a plan to seek authority to open up more new streets to be built from this fund and provide for the upkeep of park roads now charged to the general fund. ‘The present law provides that gaso- line tax funds must be used only for street and road mprovement and re- pair and for construction and main- tenance of bridges. However, the pending appropriation bill provides for $200,000 to be taken from this fund to open up new streets. Some $350,000 in gasoline funds already is impounded due to refusal of Congress to authorize repair projects. The proposed tax jump would in- crease by approximately $1,150,000 the amount paid into the District cof- fers by motorists every year. Some $2,300,000 is raised annually by the present two-cent tax. SAIL PLANE LAUDED Croydon to Le Bourget Flight Made With Motor Cycle Engine. PARIS, May 17 (#).—Robert Krone feld, Australian glider champion, landed his sail plane equipped with a five horsepower motor cycle engine - at Le Bourget today after a 210-mile flight from Croydon, England. The flight took 4 hours and 6 min- utes and probably established a new record for economy in air travel. The gasoline consumed cost $1.50. D. C. Student Honored. PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (#).— Robert L. Freeman of Washington, captain of the varsity basket ball team, and three other seniors were given honor awards today at tradi- tional class hey day exercises of the University of Pennsylvania. Freeman has played v: base ball and bas- ket ball for years.