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& WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight; lowest temperature to-, night about 52 degrees; gentle northwest winds. Temperatures—Highest, 67. at noon today; lowest, 47, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page A-16. post office, Wi TIMBER KING'S SON KIDNAPED N WEST; HELD FOR' §200,000 Ransom Note Sent Billion- aire Weyerhaeuser. Fam- ily Demands Secrecy. No. 33,261. U. S. AGENTS JOIN HUNT IN TACOMA ABDUCTION Boy, 9, Vanished After Leaving School Yesterday—Parents Re- fuse Comment on Case. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash.,, May 25.—A note demanding $200,000 for the return of the missing George Weyerhaeuser, 9- vear-old scion of the billion-dollar timber family, has been delivered to his parents, reliable sources said here today. These same sources, which refused to be quoted directly, said the note threatened death to the boy should | the police or the press be notified. The resources of the Department of Justice were thrown into the search | for the child. Four operatives arrived from Portland, employes at the Ta- coma Airport said, while W. K. Bowl- ing, agent stationed at Seattle, also was here J. Edgar Hoover. chief of the Bu- reau of Investigation in Washington, D. C., said agents were working on the case Meanwhile an intensive search was being made throughout the city for the boy, who dropped from sight while returning aome for lunch ves- terday noon from the Lowell School. Fear for Child’s Liife. Authorities indicated their refusal to comment was based on the fear the boy’s life might be endangered if they interfered Hoover refused to say directly there had been a kidnaping. He indicated, however, official silence was demanded by undisclosed details of the disap- pearance. First revelation of the boy's dis- appearance came late last night from Charles Ingram, assistant manager of the Weyerhaeuser (pronounced wire- howser) Timber Co confirm or deny the family had re- ceieved a ransom note. The boy's mother, Mrs. John Philip Weyerhaeuser was reported prostrated and the father, vice presi- dent of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., was grief-stricken. It was believed the reported ransom note was delivered to the Weyer- haeuser home, one of Washington State’s Tesidential show places, at 6:15 p.m. yesterday At that time a group of George's schoolmates and other friends said they saw a special delivery post office motor cycle messenger call at the mansion. The messenger refused to answer when asked what his mission to the home had been. Family in Seclusion, The family remained in seclusion and local authorities kept to the same tight-lipped silence as they continued the hunt for the missing boy. George left school at noon to call at the Annie Wright Seminary for his sister, Ann, 13. He never arrived at the seminary. His sister, after waiting for him, went home alone. The family was not immediately alarmed until they called the school. only to learn after all teachers had been questioned that the boy had not been seen after he left for lunch. A small boy on traffic duty re- called seeing George when he left school at noon. He said he saw the Weyerhaeuser youth trudging across the street from the school, in an ex- clusive residential district near the Tacoma Stadium. That, apparently, was the last seen or heard of the youth until the ran- som note reportedly was received some six_hours later, The search spread from the school | and from the Weyerhaeuser home into | the wooded outskirts of the city. Aroused citizens co-operated as best they could with authorities in the hunt. Even the Lowell School Boy Patrol organized its own posse. cab drivers weaved through the city's streets looking for the lost youth. Follows Family Death. The blow came swiftly on the heels of another tragedy in the Weyer- haeuser family, the death here a week 8go Thursday of John Philip Weyer- haeuser, sr. The Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. is “(Continued on Page 2, Column L) NAZI FLIGHTS OVER BORDER IRK SWISS Customs Authorities Complain That German Planes Are Violating Frontier. Br the Associated Press. BERNE, Switzerland, May 25.— Swiss customs authorities complained today that squadrons of German air- planes violated the frontier by mak- ing flights over Swiss territory during the past few days. An official report said eight mono- planes flew over Schaffhouse May 22 at a very high altitude, making it im- possible to see the license numbers. The report also declared four Ger- man planes flew over Gottlieben at a very low altitude and that there was no question of their identity. It was ex the Swiss govern- ment would protest to Berlin. APPEALS TO ROOSEVELT Camden Mayor Asks Help in Set- tling Strike. CAMDEN, N. J, May 25 (®.— Mayor Von Neida of Camden has written to President Roosevelt and members of his cabinet urging them to take steps to end the strike at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yard. The mayor said the strike is about to enter its third week and that the 4,600 men affected more than already have gone relief, He refused to | Taxi- | Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second class matter ashington, D. C. Repeats Victory | | W. LAWSON LITTLE. ITLEWIS 1P, - TORETANTIE |Dr. Tweddell, 1927 Cham- pion, Carries American to 36th Hole. By the Assoclated Press. ST. ANNE'S-ON-THE-SEA, Eng- land, May 25.—Standing off a great | closing challenge by Dr. William | Tweddell, his British rival, William | | Lawson Little, jr., of San l’nnchco! |today captured the British amateur | | golf championship, one up, in the ah | 36-hole final match. Little thus be- | came the first American and the third !man to win the title two straight years. 1 |” The 24-year-old Californian, who | | won the title on his first bid for it last year at Prestwick, where he over- | whelmed Jim Wallace, 14 and 13, led | the 38-year-old British medico three | | up at the halfway mark and then was . seized with a bad attack of the jit- ters while his rival’ shot steady golf | and his advantage was wiped out on | | the thirtieth hole. | | Little regained his poise sufficiently | [to win two of the next three holes | and marched to the thirty-fifth dormie |two. Here the Briton lopped a hole off his deficit as he almost holed out spectacularly from a trap for a birdie | three, but won with a four as Little rapped an iron second into a swarm | of spectators in the rough and pro- duced a five. Little eastly shot his finest golf of | the tournament. It was the windiest | day of a windy week and on the gale- | swept outward nine, which previously had given him much grief, he fired a succession of long, low irons which had the gallery exclaiming “marvel- | | ous.” There are few low iron hitters | among Great Britain’s amateurs. All but one of Little's drives were | straight down the middle. Several of them stretched 330 yards. He dubbed his tee shot at the ninth to lose the “(Continued on Page 3, Column 5. AGUINALDO’S HAT IN RING | MANILA, P. I, May 25 (#).—Emilio | Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine | insurrection against the United States | at the turn of the century, today defi- | nitely announced himself as a candi- | date for President of the new Com= | monwealth Philippine government to be installed next November. Ending a long uncertainty over his | intentions, the former insurrecto lead- er said he would oppose Manuel Que- wflr;. heretofore believed certain of the office. Organizer Dies of Wounds. CHICAGO, May 25 (#).—Clyde Os- terberg, 35, organizer for an inde- pendent motion picture operators’ union, died today of wouhds he re- ceived May 13 when an assassin snct him on the street. Osterberg dicd without disclosing his assailant or the probable cause, although he ad- mitted he knew. The fatal attack was the second made on Osterberg this year. He declined to expose his assailants on the first occasion, also. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1935—THIRTY PAGES. #=» BERLIN DEMANDS RIGHT T0 COLONIES INLEAGUE PEACE Tells England Return to| Geneva Depends on Former Allies. VON NEURATH REVEALS IDEAS TO BRITISH ENVOY London Reported Seeking to Sat- isfy Hitler's Requests in “Conciliation” Talks. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 25.—Germany has informed Great Britain that her right to hold colonies must be recognized in some tangible form by the former allies before she will return to the League of Nations, well-informed British quarters said today. The German attitude toward colonial possessions and mandates was clarified in an interview yesterday in Berlin by Sir Eric Phipps, British Am- bassador, with Konstantin von Neu- rath, German foreign minister. It was officially disclosed here Sir Eric was ordered to ask Von Neurath questions regarding various points raised in Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech Tuesday. Great Britain, it was understood, plans to proceed as quickly as possible with the necessary steps to satisfy Hitler. Von Neurath, it was understood, said Germany's demand for 35 per cent of the strength of the British Navy would not be altered if she were granted her former colonies or man- dates. He made clear she does not want actual possession of the colonies | or mandates at the present time. Plans for Anglo-German naval talks, which probably will begin within 10 days, also were believed to have been | discussed. Germany's Lost Colonies. Germany's lost colonies include: Tanganyika — Territory comprising the greater part of German East Africa, now under League mandate to Great Britain. Cameroons—Formerly German pro- | tectorate on west coast of Central Africa, now under French and British mandates. ‘Togoland—Formerly German pro- tectorate on the west coast of Africa, now under League mandate to Britain and France German Southwest Africa — Now British mandate territory adminis- tered under name of Southwest Africa protectorate by the Union of South Africa. Kiau-Chau: protectorate on the south side of the Peninsula of Shantung, China. Japan was given sovereignty over it follow- ing the war, although no official man- date. China protested. Under a Sino- Japanese treaty signed at Washing- ton in 1922, the area was returned to China and full Chinese sovereignty was re-established. German possessions in the Pacific: North of the Equator the islands of Caroline, Marshall, Pelew and La- drone were given to Japan under man- date. South of the Equator thc Bis- marck Archipelago, German Solomon Islands and Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (New Guinea) were mandated to Australia and German Samoa was mandated to New Zealand. RELIEF IN ILLINOIS AGAIN UNDER WAY $5,000,000 Federal Fund Permits Resumption of Aid for Jobless. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 25.—Relief for 1,- 200,000 dependents in Illinois was in full swing again today after a month of uncertainty. The allocation of $5,000,000 ~f Fed- eral funds for the purpose by Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins yes- terday made resumption of nelp for the jobless and their families on a normal scale possible. Hopkins _announced the Federal grant at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday after a brief conference with,Gov. Henry Horner, who immediatly set the State’s relief jachinery in motion by a telegram to headquarters here. Hopkins further made it known that the Government would continue to bear the State’s relief burden until July 1, when the raising of funds will be on a normal basis with the State contributing $3,000,000 a month raised through a 1-cent sales tax increase. Before Gov. Horner returned tc Chi- cago last night, the distribution of food checks to the needy was w=gun. Cook County, with 150,000 familles on relief, was assigned $3,100000 of the grant, while the other 101 counties divided $1,700,000. The remaining $200,000 was reserved for special pur- poses. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, May 25.—When the hour of prayer arrives tomorrow eve- ning, Sister Beatrice (Mrs. Alfredo Oswald) will enter the Carmelite Con- vent here, never to be seen by the out- side world again. Her husband—now Brother Oswald, a lay member of the Society of Jesus —will be in the small group who will see her for the last time in public tomorrow. . Pive years ago. after 18 years’ mar- riage, Mr. and Mrs. Oswald separated to devote their lives to religion. Yesterday they saw each other for the third time during those five years. After tomorrow they will never see each other again, but may talk through a thin wall. Friends saw Sister Beatrice as she stood behind a grill in a small room yesterday. Wife to Bid World Farewell For Life Behind Convent Walls “This is the last time,” Brother Os- wald said as he stood near the grill. “It is all part of the sacrifice. We have already said good-by.” After Sunday, Sister Beatrice's sole communication with those outside the convent will be carried on through a thin wood partition and then only by special permission. The Oswalds’ life together took them to Italy, Brazil and across the United States. For eight years Os- wald taught at the Peabody Conserva- tory here and Mrs. Oswald taught Ttalian. Brother Oswald is now in charge of music at Georgetown Preparatory School, Garrett Park, Md. He said yesterday that he and his wife heard the call individually and talked the matter over befo'# deciding to take the step. Formerly a German | | Aims at 15-Hour Flight From California to New York. Equipment of Plane In- | cludes New Tvype Radio and Pilot Device. | By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 25.—Laura Ingalls, noted woman pilot, hopped | away from Union Air Terminal at | Burbank early today on her second | attempt to shatter Amelia Earhart’s transcontinental speed record. The tiny aviatrix was determined to send her new $40,000 black “mys- | tery ship” over the 2.447-mile route from here to New York in less than 117 hours 7 minutes and 30 seconds— | the time set by Amelia Earhart in the Summer of 1932. She took off at 4:47 am. (7:47 Eastern standard time), and waved goodby to field attendants who had helped service her ship, putting 580 | gallons of gasoline into its tanks. She | was dressed in dark corduroy trousers, a tight-fitting blue wool jacket and & “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) WITCHELL T0 SEEK HOWARD U, PROBE President Johnson Accused of Encouraging Commu- nistic Teachings. By the Associated Press. | Representative Mitchell, Democrat, of Illinois, the Nation's only colored | Congressman, said today he would demand an investigation into charges that communism was being taught |openly at Howard University. His action, he said, followed several incidents at the congressionally-sup- ported national colored institution, where it was reported that the presi- dent, Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, not only presided over a meeting at which revolution was discussed freely, but that he ‘also said he preferred “aca- demic freedom,” Mitchell quoted, “to Government support.” Mitchell said he would put into the mailed today by Kelly Miller, a promi- nent colored educator, to Dr. Johnson, in which Miller protested Johnson's teachings. Exhibits Letters as Evidence. “The liberty of speech which you were defending.” wrote Miller in dis- the right to advocate the overthrow of the Government by revolution and violence as had been indulged by vari- ous speakers at the recent confer- ence.” Mitchell exhibited several letters ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) — THURSTON MARRIES DIVORCEE SECRETLY Romance Began 15 Years Ago ‘When Famous Magician Per- formed in Chicago. By the Assoclated Press. years ago Howard Thurston put a box of candy into his tall silk hat. Today the famous magician pulled a bride out. He and Pauline Mark, 27, a divorcee, of North Adams, Mass., were married last night secretly at Harrison, N. Y. Today, just before they sailed for a honeymoon in Florida, they told of their long romance. When Thurston appeared 15 years ago in Chicago he turned a box of candy into a white rabbit for an amazed little girl he had called to the stage. He gave it to her and won her love. The magician played in Chicago again recently. The little girl of 15 years ago came to visit him. She be- came his stage -partner until their wedding. Thurston signed the marriage H- cense as “H. Franklin Thygton, manu= facturer of indhpemlhh& commodi- tes, 65.7 Congressional Record an open letter | clissing the “defi” to Congress, “was| J NEW YORK, May 25—Fifteen | WONDER WHAT 1 CAN HITCH To Laura Ingalls Seeks to Slash Earhart Record Crossing U. S. | | B3 |4 { i LAURA INGALLS. PRESIDENT EASES JOB-RELIEF TERMS | Boosts Outright Grant Limit to 45 Per Cent and Slashes Interest. By the Associated Press. ‘The administration today held out easier lending terms and larger out- right grants to States and communities |in connection with the work-relief | program. | President Roosevelt boosted the out- | right grant maximum to 45 per cent | of the cost of a project and reduced to | 3 per cent the interest to be paid on | the additional 55 per cent loan. Under the P. W. A. set-up, the maxi- mum grant was 30 per cent and 4 per | cent interest was charged on the 70 { per cent loan. The United States had insisted very few had the borrow- ing capacity to participate on this | basis. Meanwhile, 307 new administrative jobs awaited filling by Progress Direc- tor Harry L. Hopkins. He announced the carving of the country into that many districts to aid in carrying on | what he calls the “direct line” re- | sponsibility down to individual pro- jects. The District of Columbia, Hopkins announced today, will constitute a separate and distinct work-relief dis- trict. The local administrator is yet to be named. Hopkins’ Importance Emphasized. ‘The district directors will report to State grogress administrators, who in turn will be responsible to Hopkins. Their duties in observing the progress of projects, investigating wages and working conditions and making cer- tain that those employed came from relief rolls served to emphasize the im- | portance of Hopkins' position in the | works set-up. On their investigation of wages probably will depend any decision of Hopkins permitting him to increase pay 10 per cent above the schedule made public earlier in the week, a schedule which brought heated pro- tests from labor leaders. | The theory behind the President's | action on grants was that by reducing | the amount required to be paid back | to the Federal Government and also trimming the interest payments oa this prncipal, municipalities and other governmental subdivisions would be encouraged to accept a grant for the partial cost of a project rather than asking for a 100 per cent grant. One result expected was the wider use of the work fund in placing the Jjobless, and at the same time provid- ing for repayment to the Federal ‘Government of that part of the money allotted as loans. In his statement setting up districts in the 48 States, fixing their head- quarters, seeking to equalize the num- ber- on relief in each, and charging officials with responsibility for dis- tributing funds and settling wage dis- putes and with receivng applications for local projects, Hopkins said: “It_will make for (Continued on Page omy _and ‘Column 3.). Conference of Mayors and city officials | §460.000,000 NAV EConferees Expected to Send Bill Soon to White House. By the Associated Press. The largest peacetime naval appro- | | priation in America’s history, total- | ing $460,000,000 and including funds to start construction of 24 nmew ships | and build 555 new airplanes, probably | will be sent to the White House within the next few days. | It was approved in the Senate yes- | terday, 55 to 18. The Senators voted | to include a $11,690,000 item for ship- | building, which had been trimmed previously by the House. This made it necessary to send the measure to | a committee of conferees representing | both branches of Congress before it could be forwarded for the President’s | signature. Little opposition to the | changes made by the Senate was ex- pected from the House conferees, McCarl Scouting Fails. Senator Nye, Republican, North | Dakota, chairman of the Munitions Committee, failed in a last-minute | attempt to amend the bill to give | the controller general authority to | view all papers in connection with the letting of any contract for a naval vessel. It was explained that this amendment was designed to prevent shipyards from agreeing on the prices to be bid. As passed by the Senate, the bill carried $132,000,000 for new construc- tion, including $29,380,000 for start- (ing new ships whose ultimate cost was estimated at $197427,000. Some of the money for new construction will go to complete vessels started 1934. Measure Undebated. Passage of the bill came late in the day with scarcely a word of de- bate. Of the 555 new planes, 282 will replace losses incident to crashes and old age. The prospect, the report said, |was to outfit the Navy with 2,000 | planes by 1940. Of the 24 rew ships to be built, | one is an airplane carrier at an esti- mated cost of $27,895,000; two cruis- | ers at an estimated cost of $19,150.000 {155,000 to $7,830,000 each, and six | submarines at $5,647,000 each. —_— 'ECCLES TO DEFEND BANKING MEASURE | Federal Reserve Governor Will Speak in National Radio Forum Tonight. Defense of the administration’s banking reform bill will be made to- night by Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, in a Washington Star National Radio Forum address to be broadcast on a coast-to-coast network of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. at 9:30 o'clock. ‘The legislation, whigh gives the Federal Government unprecedented control over the banking business of the Nation, has raised a storm of con: troversy and been subjected to wide- spread criticism from financial leaders. The measure, pending before the Banking and Currency Committees of the House and Senate, is said to have been written in part by Eccles, young Utah financier, prominently identified with the liberal group in Washington. Mr. Eccles’ speech will be the sec- ond National Radio Forum talk of the week. GIRL FOUND STARVING IN HUT WITH MAN, 35 Former Choir Director Will Be Charged With Abducting Child, 13. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—A patrol- woman and a detective were sent to Kingston today to bring back a 13- year-old choir girl, Eleanor Schmaus, who was found there starving in a shanty with Henry W. Simpson, 35, former organist and director of the choir in which the girl sang. Acting Capt. John G. Stein of the Bureau of Missing persons said that a charge of abduction would be brought against Simpson, who lives at Mount Vernon, N. Y. Stein gave for the girl to be placed in the cl e of the Brooklyn Shelter of the Children's Society. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. MEASURE PASSED :l‘!!h P. W. A. funds during 1933 and and 15 destroyers ranging from $6,- | Yesterday’s Circulation, 128,711 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved (#) Means Associated Press. [TALIANS INDUCED T0 ARBITRATE FOR ETHIOPIAN PEACE Argument of Eden and Laval Wins Mussolini to Yield to League. 2,200 MORE SOLDIERS DEPART FROM NAPLES Council to Resume Handling of Case Unless Settlement Is Reached by August 26. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 25.— Diplomatic pressure in the League of Nations Council averted early today an im- pending crisis in East Africa, won from Italy an agreement to arbitrate her long-standing dispute with Ethi- opia and left the nations free to settle their troubles under their own treaty. ‘The capitulation of Premier Musso- | lini, who previously had said he would not permit reference to his 1928 treaty with Emperor Haile Selassie’s government, was attributed to the force of argument of Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, and Pierre Laval, French foreign minister, (While the Council deliberated the Italo-Ethiopian dispute at Geneva, the S. S. Gange cast off from Naples with 2,200 Italian soldiers, bound for the Colony of Eritrea, adjoining | Ethiopia.) Two Resolutions Adopted. ‘The League Council adopted two resolutions designed to smooth the | road to peace in Africa, after Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Italy’s representative, had talked by telephone with Musso- | lini_at Rome. The resolutions provide for arbi- | tration, and unless the border inci- | dents which caused the trouble and extensive Italian mobilization are | ironed out by August 26, the recon- vening of the Council to deal anew | with the problem. This date is well in advance of the close of the rainy season, which would permit military activity on a large scale, Capt. Eden said he interpreted the ' | agreement to mean that Italy and Ethiopia will delimit the frontier of Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia as soon as the present difficulties are settled amicably. | The Ethiopian representative said his nation interpreted the agreement to mean that “Italy will refrain from | | sending additional troops to FEast | Africa and will not employ troops ! already there for agression.” | Text of Resolutions. | The resolutions follow: Resolution No. 1: “Whereas at a meeting of the League of Nations Council in January, 1935, the Italian government and the Ethiopian government agreed to settle the dispute which has arisen between them as a result of the Ualual inci- dent December 5, 1934, in conformity with Article 5 of the Italo-Ethiopian | treaty of 1928: | “Whereas direct negotiations through diplomatic channels having been ex- ;hausted, the two parties have nomi- {nated their arbitrators as pro- vided * * *; | “Whereas since December 5, 1934, | other incidents having taken place fon the Italo-Ethiopian frontier and the ¢wo governments are in agree- ment in intrusting settlement of these | incidents to the same arbitrators * * *; “Whereas the two governments agree to fix August 26, 1935, as the date on which the procedure of con- | ciliation and arbitration shall be con- | ducted, | “The Council requests the secretary general of the League of Nations to | communicate in the meantime to members of the Council all informa- tion which may reach him from the two parties in particular regarding the development of the arbitrators’ work.” Full Liberty Left Parties, Resolution two: “The Council is leaving to the two | pute in question in accordance with article V of the Italo-Ethiopian | treaty of August 2, 1928. | “It decides to meet if in default of an agregment between the four arbi- | trators and an understanding shall not have been reached July 25 between these arbitrators as to the selection of a fifth arbitrator (unless the four arbi- trators agree to an extension of this period). | “The Council also decides to meet | to examine the situation if on August 26 settlement by means of conciliation and arbitration shall not have taken | place.” Italian government circles at Rome said they regarded the resolution as | following the normal course of events. | Officials declined to comment other- | wise, except to say that the setting |of a time limit for the negotiations | and recognition of the treaty clauses | outlawing recourse to arms fit in with | Italian ideas. Consumers Strike at Prices. | NEW YORK, May 25 (#).—House- | wives, incensed by rising prices, called a consumers' strike yesterday that | closed down about 5,000 kosher meat stores. Readers’ Guide Page. Amusements ............B-14 Church News .A-9-10-11 Cross-word Puzzle Editorials . Finance . Lost and Found .. Serial Story ........ Short Story Society ... Washington §ayside Women’s Features parties full liberty to settle the dis- | for settlement of the dispute | TWO CENTS. HOUSE DEMOCRATS STRIVE TO SPEED N.R. A EXTENSION Supporters Hope to Jam Legislation Through Next Week. ROOSEVELT ON RECORD FOR WAGNER LABOR BILL President Also Believed Ready to Accept 2113-Month Plan for Blue Eagle. Bv the Associated Press. Racing against time to prevent N.R. A. from passing out of legal existence three weeks hence, key men of the administration forces in the House put their heads together today planning an effort to jam an exten- ! sion bill through that chamber next week. | Meanwhile, President. Roosevelt went on record as sympathizing with the principles of the Wagner labor relations bill—a measure which back- ers are pushing as complementary to N. R. A’s collective bargaining pro- visions. Faced by senatorial threats of a flerce struggle which might drag out beyond June 16, when the present N. R. A. act .xpires, the N. R. A. sup- porters realized they had no time to Jose. There were intimations Presi- dent Roosevelt might “compromise” a bit on the administration’s demands | for a two-year extension of the re- covery unit. | 21'2-Month Extension Talked. | Authoritative sources said there | was a tacit and tentative understand- ing in some administration circles that Mr. Roosevelt might accept a 211,-month extension, if it could be obtained, though the President him- self said he had not heard that par- ticular figure mentioned. In the Senate, which already has passed a resolution to extend N. R. A, only until next April and to bar all intrastate business from its jurisdic- tion, there were warnings by Senators Borah of Idaho, Nye of North Da- kota and King of Utah that there would be a serious battle if the nine- month extension plan were stretched out to 21'2 months. There were no indications that the administration was planning o re- cede from its stand that N. R. A. reg- ulation should apply to industries “af- fecting” interstate commerce, as well - as to interstate commerce in the nar- rower sense. The Senate resolution would make it apply only to the latter. Court Test Pending. With the American Federation of Labor bringing all its influence to bear in an attempt to get the two- year extension enacted and warning of “strikes and strife on a Nation- wide basis” if the union's legislative wishes were ignored, the situation was complicated by the fact a Supreme Court ruling on N. R. A. constitution- ality is impending. Leaders said that if the court rules Monday in the Schechter poultry case, last-minute changes could be made in the bill which the House Ways and Means Committee is expected to report out next week. The committee, after hearing Hugh S. Johnson and Presi- dent William Green plead yesterday for a two-year extension, prolonged its hearing into last night. Democrats of the committee were asked to meet in informal conferences over this week end, and on Monday the committee will meet in executive on. The idea of administration is to report out a bill in time to have the House pass it by Wed- nesday night, if possible, Green Sees Hope. Watching developments yesterday, | which included President Rooseveit's expression of sympathy for the Wag- ner labor disputes bill, President Green of the A. F. of L. said he was more hopeful than when he voiced | his strike threat Thursday night in New York. The Wagner bill, which would set |up a strengthened labor disputes | board, outlaw “company-dominated” unions and provide for “majority rule” in collective bargaining, already has passed the Senate. It is opposed | by business organizations. Mr. Roosevelt said at a press con- ference that a number of changes in the Wagner bill were being talked | over. Asked about majority rule, he | said that was not in dispute. | _Meanwhile, Johnson, ~the Blue Eagle’s former chief, had voiced a ve- hement plea before the House com- | mittee that to extend N. R. A. only (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) COMPROMISES SOUGHT IN COASTAL STRIKES Mayor of Seattle Says Men Who | | Pesire to Work Will Be Protected. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., May 25.—With the Pacific Northwest wincing under | the financial havoc wrought by the Jumber strike, contesting parties to- day pressed toward compromise agree= | ments on many fronts. Mayor Charles Smith of Seattle gave assurance that “men who de- sire to work in Seattle will be pro- tected in that right.” Gov. Charley H. Martin of Oregon declared sheriffs must maintain order, and he stood ready to $ack them with National Guard troops if necessary. Temporary suspension of the strike at the Vancouver Plywood Co.’s veneer plant at Vancouver, Wash., was sought by labor officials to prevent loss of a long-term contract. The 400 work- men were said to be willing to work temporarily. ‘The Western Cooperage Co. of Port- land will resume operations Monday, the 500 workers having voted almost unanimously to accept a compromise p . lan. Sawmill and Timber Workers’ Union members originally demanded a closed shop and 75 cents an hour minimum and a 30-hour week instead of 42!z cents minimum and 30-hour week. However, the past week union officials have expressed, willingness to accepb 60 cents an Ldur with the 40-hour week,