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T A=2 ws [GNORING OF COURT MAY BE '3 ISSUE Members of Congress Seen _ Violating 0ath in Passing Conflicting Laws. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. A new issue will make its appear- ance in the 1936 congressional cam- | paign, both in the primaries and in the final elections. It is whether a member of Congress who has taken en oath to support and defend the Constitution is guilty of violating 1t | when he casts his vote in favor of Jegislation that is plainly unconsti- | tutional There is no doubt that a member eould defend himself prior to May 27, when the Supreme Court unanimously held the national industrial recovery Bet to be unconstitutional. He might @argue that it was a matter of grave goubt as to what was or was not con- | Ktitutional. But what will the member | ay in answer to his critics if he con- finues to vote in favor of legislation 4hich clearly conflicts with the unani- | mous opinion of the Supreme Court | of the United States in the historic | Echechter case? » Congress has not yet acted finally on any major legislation since the | Bchechter case was handed down. But | Ye Senate on Tuesday passed the bill | T ohibiting utility holding companies nd there are pending two other im- $ortant measures—the Wagner labor #ill and the social security bill—which €ontain clauses that are not in con- | #ormity with Supreme Court decisions. © Utility Bill Declared Tllegal. " Take the utility bill, for instance. | %t would delegate to a governmental | fommission authority to decide Whether a company is “economically integrated” with other companies. This means that Congress, instead of | prescribing rules as to what is meant | by economic integration, leaves it to i & commission to determine. Obviously | Ihere is no power in the first instance | {0 make laws governing economic | goundness or unsoundness with refer- ce to the ownership of shares in a ympany engaged wholly in producing #nd distributing electricity within | State lines. This being the case, there 45 no authority to delegate the power | €0 any Federal esmmission to decide | ft either | ~ Then there is the Wagner-Connery bill, which was passed by the Senate before the Schechter decision was Fendered. but which has been reported | {0 the House of Representatives since at event. The bili ignores entirely | vhat the Supreme Court said about fhe lack of power of the Federal Gov- érnment to regulate wages and hours or conditions of employment. Hark- ipg back to cases which were cited and rejected by the court in deciding the Schechter case. the House com- mittee report boldly reasserts the same principles, thus flouting the dectsion of the highest court Members of the House of Repre- rentatives will be called upon soon to vote on the Wagner-Connery bill. | There are rumors that the Department | of Justice feels the Wagner-Connery | bill even as now drawn conflicts with the Supreme Court opinions, but be- | ¢ause these matters are so eatirely political it is unlikely that the depart- ment will express itself publicly on the issue. Quick Court Test Due. Tf the Congress should adopt these | tmconstitutional laws, it is likely that | the courts will declare them invalid | before the next election is held, be- | éause it is apparent that opponents | irtend to test the statutes at once and expedite a case to the highest court. The opportunity then to ques- tion the sincerity of those who have | taken an oath to support the Consti- | tution may arise in the 1936 cam- | paign in many districts. The issue is a novel one, of course, in the sense that opponents will need | only to Tead the oath of a member and point to the unanimous deci¢.on of the court and subsequent decisions to make the point that moral integrity is lacking in any person who swears to defend the Constitution and then | plainly violates it. | There are signs that the same is- | sue may be developed against the President, with the argument center- ing largely on the Prazier-Lemke bill, which was recently held unconstitu- tional by unanimous vote of the Su- | preme Court and which, it is reported, ] was known to the President to be un- constitutional when the measure was signed, especially since some opinions | of the Department of Justice are said to have been secretly filed pointing 6ut that the Prazier-Lemke bill was & violation of the Constitution. It may be that the oath of office will be rewritten so that members of | Congress taking it hereafter will say | that they swear to support and up- | hold the Constitution as they and their political brethren interpret it and not as the Supreme Court has decided in its long line of historic precedents. This concept of the oath is really what the politically minded bave harbored for some time anyway. (Copyright. 1935.) DOCTOR MAY TAKE © STAND IN DEFENSE ’Zimmerly's Attorneys Prepare to| % Answer “House of Horrors” Evidence by State. Br the Associated Press. ! LANCASTER, Pa, June 13.—An- 6ther version of the “house of hor- rors” death of Mrs. Gladys Lawson, Calvert, Md.,, biond, was assembled for a jury today, in the trial of Dr. H. C. Zimmerly, 67-year-old village physician, charged with performing Hllegal operations. . Defense attorneys, still undecided whether to permit the elderly surgeon take the stand in his own behalf, &;;e: to answer the charges the wealth has written into the fecords, charges which form a tale of Beath and agony in the -cluttered foom Zimmerly called his “hospital.” # They held long converstions with Pr. Zimmerly, who, apparently un- potes "of testimony against him, to speak for himself when the Peéring over his spectacles, grin- hing at witnesses, Zimmerly actually ‘taken an sctive part in bis case, his counsel declines. to. disciose What’s What Behind News In Capital Steam of Enthusiasm Is at New Low in New Deal Boiler. BY PAUL MALLON. " The steam of enthusiasm seems to be running a bit lower than the coun- try realizes inside the New Deal boller. The old pressure zeal for high-gauge action is not what it once was. Any one who has called on any dozen of the stokers in the last few days can see the situation. It is not entirely the Supreme Court decision which is causing the fires to run low, although that undoubtedly played a part. Nor is it the enthusiastic activity of the Republican bucket brigade, al- though that also has had a damp- oning influence. To get the right slant on what is happening, you have to go back a bit. President Roosevelt started reforming his New Deal from within about six months ago. He moderated N. R. A, got Johnson out; reformed the A. A. A., got Tugwell out; altered policies and personnel gradually and mildly, in preparation for a New Deal. Out of His Hands Now. Now. suddenly, a rush of economic as well as legal, political and per- | sonal developments appears to have taken his reformation entirely out of his hands. e You can see It best in the A. A. A. There the loss of foreign cotton mar- kets has thrown the A. A. A. pro- gram out of gear. It will have to be reorganized from this standpoint as well as from the legal standpoint. At the headquarters of the new works program you will find Frank Walker is 11l as a result of overwork. He has been unable to get the thing going. At Federal Housing cliques are con- testing with each other about how to proceed, while the administrator is serving only temporarily. At the Securities and Exchange Commission, you will get defensive arguments about the constitutionality of their phase. And at the export-import banking house of George Peek, where no business is being done. you will meet with denials that Mr. Peek's activities now are entirely useless. Nonchalance at N. R. A. To give you a rough and inade- quate idea of the situation at N. R. A,, a number of young men in the Com- pliance Division of N. R. A. were sit- ting around amusing themselves the other day by firing paper wads at & window across the street. The occu- pant of the residence became annoyed, called the division on the telephone, said she wanted to make a complaint. N. R. A'’s young men responded: “Sorry, madame, the N. R. A. isn't taking any more complaints.” More important- phases of the same spirit are evident among the members of the strong liberal ele- ment of New Dealers. They came here originally full of eagerness for reform, willing to work long hours, at ordinary wages, for their vari- ous causes. Now you will hear & number of them wondering whether it {8 worth while talking about gete ting outside jobs. An out-of-town labor writer, return- ing from a trip, talked to the most important men in this group and got the opinion that the country has greater hopes for the New Deal just now than the New Dealers themselves. “When I asked them about present policies they generally expressed the opinion that these would not do much good. And when I found some par- ticular policy for which they had any hope they said its value would be only temporary.” All these things may represent only a passing phase. Enthusiasm and zeal are mever stationary. But it surely indicates Mr. Roosevelt has more problems on his hands than those which are evidemt on the surface. There will be nc oppore tunity for a cruise this Summer, if the New Deal is to be made the active, living, breathing foree it once was, The best national Democratic au- thorities are now saying that Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy will return from the Philippines ‘and run for Governor of Michigan next year. Why he would do it, no one knows. He hss probably the best job in Government. It pays $18,000 a year and carries two castles and two yachts. Incidentally, the rumors that At- torney General Cummirigs might take the post are unfounded. He won't. Commerce Secretary Roper is sup- posed to have picked a new Assistant already, although there is no vacancy. The new one is sup- posed to be J. Monroe Johnson of North Carolina, prominent Legion- naire. The fact is that, at the time the choice was made a few days ago, Roper hoped to get rid of one of his :utsunt Secretaries, but: did not know oW, (Copyright, 19:15.) Takes up private bills (noon). ° Rules Commitfee considers control and Parker Dam bills, Agriculture . Committes works on A, A. A. amendments. Interstate Commercé Subcommittee studies holding company bill. Military Anm“?'cmmuc. Tegu- Banking and Currency Subcommit- tee, another executive session on new banking legistation. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JU GOVERNORS FIGHT WIDER U. 5. POWER Regionai Pacts Suggested to Combat Move for Federalization. Special Dispatch to The Star. BILOXI, Miss., June 13 (N.AN.A). —Vigorous opposition to President Rocsevelt’s proposal to increase the power of the Federal Government at the expense of the States and the suggestion of regional compacts be- tween the States as a means of com- batting federalization were voiced by several Governors even before their annual meeting began here. ‘Members of the Executive Committee decided that the first subject of dis- cussion will be the N. R. A., with Govs. McNutt of Indiana and Johnston of South Carolina taking the lead, A statement issued by Gov. John- ston’s secretary declared the Governor had “voiced his opposition to a con- | stitutional amendment that would per- mit what he termed further encroach- ment on the rights of the States n regulatory matters like the N. R. A" ~Gov. Johnston, the statement said, would recommend to the con- ference & course of unified action to | preserve the maximum hours and | minimum wage features of the N. R. A. Asked later whether South Carolina would join with New England to pre- gerve wage standards and prohibit }child labor in the textile industry, Mr. Johnston replied: “I think we would.” Conner Position Similar. Gov. Conner of Mississippi, inter- | viewed by newspaper corrupondenu.i took substantially the same position. He said the States were faced with a choice between political oblitera- | tion at the hands of the Federal 1 Government or the formation of inter- | state compacts which would permit | them more effectively to meet current problems. Gov. McNutt was the first State | executive to ciash with President | Roosevelt over tne N. R. A, when | the President disapproved the Indiana | | Legisiature taking control for the State of intrastate industry. Mec- Nuit likely will join in opposition | to any change of the Federal Consti- | tutior to extend Federal authority. | It is apparent, also, that Lne pres- ent conference nf Governors has been | 1ocated in a hot-ped o dissatisiaction | with the Federal mnethod of adminis- tering relief and other New Deal agencies. Of (he ncarby Governors, all of whom will take a prominent part in the meeting, not only Johns- | { ton and Comner, hut Cscar K. Allen | from Louisiana, Eugene Talmudge of | Georgia and George C. Peery of Vir-| ginia have clasn>d with either Re- | | lief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins or Public Works Admipistrator Harold The relief phase will be | {ne appearance u(‘} chief assistart to| Mr. Hopkins, he speaker before the Governors in bekalf of the na- | tional administration. | Object te Relief Ceontrol. One of the major complamnts of Southern Governors is that centrol of Federal relief funds has been or soon is to be pluced in control of | Senators from their States, ani that the latter are using these frantly for | poltical purposes. It was sign‘ficant, for example, that Gov Johnston took occasion in his statement to declare that “my views on the subject of & constitutional amendment to not con- | cur with those f Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, who re- cently advocated a change 'n the| Constitution of the United States to | permit nationally suck legislation as the NNR. A" Johnston's friends here say he feels Senator Byrnes rushed to defend the President’s position on the Coastitu- tion primarily to strengthen his sena- toria! hand in the matter of dis- pensing Federal patronage in South | Carolina. Gov. Conner has a similar quarrel with the United States Senators from | Mississippi, Pat harrison and Theo- Jore G. Bilbo. Williams First Administrator. The Governor declares there had | never been any politics in the distribu- tion of PFederal relief funds in Mis- sissippl until the Serators recently took a hand in it. The first relief | administrator for the State was Au- brey Willlams, assigned to the task by Director Hopkins on the request of the Governor and now Hopkins’ chief assistant. Williams suggested George B. Power, a Mississippi resident, as his successor, and following Power's | resignation and again by request of the Governor, another of Hopkins’ tralued social workers, Charles B Brawn, formerly assistant relisf ad- ministrator for Texas, was giveu the job Scme two months ago, however, Senators Harrison and Bilbo publicly announced they had been givea con- trol of the Relief Administration and that henceforth its employes would be selected on the pasis of their politi- cal allegiance. A little later Wayne Alliston, Baptist minister and politi- cal henchman of Bilbo, was an- nounced as President Rooseveit's ap- pointee to the position of “director of works progress” for Mississippi and thus the spokesman for Mr. Hopkins in distributing that part of the new $4,800,000,000 relief appropriation that is assigned to tne State. Function Shift Likely. | Mr. Brawn has not yet been dis- placed as relief administrator, but in other States the practice has been to shift this function to the director | of works progress and it is assumed that this course eventually will be L. Ickes. intensified by Aubrey Williams, | vive, Left: Lieut. Jack Buckler of Waco, Tex., and Miss Joe-Alice Walker of Fort Worth, after their marriage yesterday at New York. Buckler, all- America foot ball player, was married soon after his graduation at West Point. AR ANGLO-REICH PACT APPROVED BY U. 3. France, However, Is Ex- pected to Fight Removal of Naval Limits. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The State Department has replied to the British notification that an | agreement regarding the new naval | tonnage of Germany has been reached by fully approving thes British step, | which does away with the limitations imposed upon Germany by the treaty of Versailles and the German-Amer- fean peace treaty of 1920. The State Department, which has been kept fully informed about the progress of the German-British tiations, has adopted the attitude that the questicn of forbidding Germany to build submarines and airplane car- riers is a purely European question, and if the European nations find it expedient to do away with those re- strictions, so much the better. The question of the naval race is devided as far as this country is concerned, into two separate groups: The Atlantic and the Pacific problem The United States is only mildly in- terested in the Atlantic problem. Its chief interest is in the Pacific. U. S. Hopes Race Will End. Despite the trend of the political situation, the State Department is h_oping agakst hope that some solu- tion might be found this year to enable the powers signatory of the Washington and London naval agree- ments to meet again in an effort to stop the naval race. If, it is said in responsible quarters, one of the two main problems con- cerning naval competition can be solved satisfactorily, so much the better. Hence, if the British govern- ment, which is chiefly interested in the Atlantic naval problem, thinks | that letting down the bars on Ger- many can bring about an understand- | ing for a satisfactory solution of the European naval problem, the United States will give unhesitatingly its Right: Lieut. Harvey Bower of Dayton, Ohio, and his bride, the former Miss Mildred Owen of New York, Bower also was among the West Point graduates, CAP CARDEN DIES MENBEROF HOLSE Kentucky Succumbs at Louisville After 3-Month lliness. Representative Cap R. Carden, Democrat, of Kentucky, 69 years of age, who has been a member of Con- gress for five years, died today at the Baptist Hospital in Louisville, Ky., fol- lowing an illness of nearly three months, Representalive Carden was ill at his home in Washington for about two ‘months, and two weeks ago was taken to his home In Munfordville, Ky., where pneumonia set in and he was rushed to the Baptist Hospital in Louisville. Blood transfusions and the oxygen tent were used in an effort to save his life. His widow and two daughters sur- The Kentucky delegation met this afternoon to Arrange for par- ticipation and official representation at the funeral. NET PROS PLAYING EXHIBITIONS TODAY Tilden Group's Matches Had Been Postponed Earlier Due to Soggy Courts. Bill Tilden, Martin Plaa, Bob Ramil- lon and Fred Chapin, four of the best- known tennis professionals now active, today were to strut their stuff in a serles of exhibition matches at the | Kenwood Country Club, starting at 4 pm. Earlier in the day it was announced the program for the pros had been postponed, due to the soggy condition of the courts, but a bright sun and a corps of workmen quickly got them in shape. Europe with Ellsworth Vines to par- ticipate in a series of exhibition matches, Mrs. Wrenn Du Pont to Wed. LONDON, June 13 (#).—The en- gagement of Mrs. Elisabeth Wrenn Du Pont, daughter of the late H. L. Wrenn of New York and Washington, to Leonard Govett, son of the late F. A. Govett of Holiday House, Sunningdale, England, was announced last night. P —— ence new questions of great signifi- cance and momentous import. Must Uphold Constitution. “A brief, though stormy and herolc existence, has brought some good. It is significant that some who whole- heartedly berated all of its provisions now seek to salvage some of its ad- Representative | | to themselves, Harmon M. Waley tried | to cheer his wife, Margaret, today. ““Don’t Be Blue, I Like It Here,” Waley Consoles Wife in Jail By the Associaled Press, OLYMPIA, Wash., June 13.—In the women's ward of the Thurston County jail, which the two alleged kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser had almost “Don’'t be blue, honey,” the red- haired prisoner called to his wife in | s cell diagonally across the corridor. “I like it here, I've been here be- fore.” Waley was in the jail in June, 1931, while awaiting trial for burglarizing | a store ut Tenino. Then he was suffering a bullet wound in the shoul- ' der from a shot fired by the store- keeper. He was given a 15 sus- | pended sentence for the offense. | Despite Waley's efforts, his young | wife was depressed as the began to realize the enormity of the kidnaping | of the 9-year-old heir to s timber | fortune. | Only three other prisoners are in the jail. Two are petty offenders and the third is Merritt Hunter, jr.. con- | victed of killing his half-Japanese | sweetheart, Lillian Kanda. | The jail has every needed device to | keep prisoners safe, sheriff’s deputies | said. | AIRMAIL RATES SCORED BY BLACK Senator for Legislation, if Necessary, to Force Reduction. By the Associated Press. Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama, chairman of the Senate Airmail Committee, sald today he would favor legislation forcing Pan-American Air- ways to take a 25 per cent reduction in foreign mail rates if the concern refused to accept a post office recom- mendation for such a cut. He made this comment on a report of Postmaster General Farley to Pres- ident Roosevelt on the department's inquiry into foreign airmail contracts. ‘The report was transmitted to the Senate yesterday. It recommended a 25 per cent re- duction in rates the Government pays for mail carrying and a rerouting of schedules. This, it said, would save the Government $2,084,669 annually. It advised against cancellation of the contracts, although it said all of them were subject to cancellation because they were “awarded as a result of ne- gotiation and not by competitive bid- "Tilden is scheduied to sail soon for | ding, as provided by law.” With Twe Companies. All seven foreign airmail Gontracts are held by the Pan-American Air- ways and its associate, the Pan-Ameri- can-Grace Airways, Inc. Six of the routes run from the South to Latin American countries, and the seventh, from Bangor, Me., to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The latter route has not been operated since September, 1931, ‘The department said that while “favoritism” was shown in the award of the contracts by former Repub- lican officjals, their cancellation would not be in the public interest “as such action would probably disrupt Ameri- can air service to the Latin American countries and might result in great harm to our trade relations with these countries.” Black termed the department’s re- port “conclusive and unanswerable. “It shows,” he said, “that the Gov- ernment has been paying out entirely | terms of previous experience. * * ** ARMY ASKS P.W.A. FOR $17071.38 | 36 Projects in Five States | Need Funds—$400,000 for Jobs Sought. By the Assoeiated Press. A request for $17,071,388 to finance | 36 Army base construction projects in five States was left at work relief head- quarters today by the War Department. ‘The work proposed would be done in Alabama, Arizona, Arkensas, Cali- fornia and Kansas. Simultaneously. the Labor Depart- ment asked $400.000 for research de- | | signed to ald the United States em- ployment service in selecting and plac- | ing workers on relief jobs and in/ private industry. The department said it would use this money to carry on | studies in Baltimore, Newark, Chicago and 11 otber cities not yet selected. Employment Service Hopeful. The empioyment service, which is| now classifying those who are to be given work-relief jobs, was described as hopeful that the studies would show how a worker who loses his job because of improvements in manufacturing methods could find employment In a related industry. A statement issued by the work-relief publicity office said the program also is intended “to pro- vide employment services with some useful tools to aid in the selection of individuals for referral to given oc- cupations, particularly the millions of younger persons seeking their first job where they can not be placed in Durable Industry Need. Meanwhile, & proposal that President Roosevelt use $1,000,000,000 of the $4,000,000,000 works fund to help the durable goods industries put more men to work claimed attention in Congress. A bill to authorize such an expenditure was introduced yesterday by Repre- sentative Mitchell, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, who said factories supplying machinery and materials would be reimbursed under its terms for losses directly attributable to hiring new men. Mitchell asserted his plan would aid in the production of $80,000,000,000 worth of durable goods, which he said ‘was needed by private industry. The War and Interior Departments yesterday applied for an additional $12,842,354 of work-relief funds as a | boy's freedom, proposal was advanced to use one- fourth of the huge appropriation to aid employment in durable goods industries. it i Brougham Speaks Tomorrow. Herbert B. Brougham will address the Columbian division of the Con- tinental Committee on Technocracy at the League for Larger Life building, 1414 Sixteenth street, tomorrow - at 8 p.m.. His subject will be “A Monetary Solution for Technocracy.” table discussion will follow. The public- Is invited. RN~ T SV —A. P. Photos. HEARING REVEALS WALEYS' STRATEGY Pair Hoping to Escape Con- viction by Denying In- terstate Crime. (Copyright. 1935. by the Associaied Press.) TACOMA, Wash., June 13.—Tem- porarily escaping Washington's new | death-for-kidnapers law, Harmon M Waley and his wife, Margaret, fought for their freedom today from the less stringent Federal kidnap act for the abduction of 9-year-old George ‘Weyerhaeuser. Even as they nonchalantly pleaded “not guilty” department authorities pressed their search in Montana and Canada for William Mahan, bank robber and former convict, charged as the third member of the snatch gang. Apparently the Waleys, who were flown here yesterday from Salt Lake City. hope to beat the charge which put the case under Federal jurisdic- tion—the allegation they crossed a State line, taking George to Blanch- ard and Spirit Lake, in Idaho be- fore his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, jr. brought about his | release with $200,000. Both Plead Not Guilty. The Waleys entered pleas of not | guilty to the kidnap charge and to the charge they conspired with Ma- han to use the mails to defraud George's father of the ransom sum. Their bail on the conspiracy charge | was set at $100.000 each—the exact sum the Weyerhaeusers paid for their No bail was set on the kidnap charge. Informed of the pleas, Pierce County Prosecutor Harry H. Johnston as- rted: “If they beat the Federal case X'l file under the State law and demand the death penalty. Even if they are convicted in PFederal court, and sen- tenced to life imprisonment, I can and will place a ‘hold’ on them, so | if they ever are paroled we can im- mediately try them under the State law.” ‘Washington's untried kidnap law makes death the automatic penalty for kidnaping, unless the jury recom- mends life imprisonment. The Lind- bergh law provides death only in case the victim 1s harmed. Owen P. Hughes, who officiated at yesterday’s brief arraignment before United States Commissioner H. G. | Fitch, said he could say nothing about Federal prosecution plans until his chief, District Attorney J. Charles Dennis, arrives from San Prancisco. He said Dennis is due hcme tomorrow or Saturday. Future Plans Indefinite. Department of Justice operatives | declined to explain why the Waleys | were whisked away to the Thurston County Jail at Olympia, or what the next step would be. In waiving a hearing at the ar- raignment and declining to be repre- | sented by an attorney, it was ex- flll,flned, the Waleys cannot be tried Federal District Court until a grand jury has been summoned and bas indicted them. Then they would be arraigned before the district judge. It was also explained that they could then change their plea to guilty, “copping a plea and a life sentence.” in exchange for their reported con fessions which implicated Mahan and resulted in the recovery of about $116,- 000 of the ransom money. Otherwise, they can stand on yes- terday's denial of guilt, challenging the Government’s proof that they crossed s State line with their little hostage. A man was picked up at Mobridge, 8. Dak., yesterday, but Federal agents | blessing. The fact that Germany within the next five years will have 35 per cent of all the categories of the British navy is causing no concern to | the United States, as Germany is not ccnsidered likely to menace commerce of the United States. In naval quarters doubt is expressed as to the ability of Great Britain to induce France to accept the German- | British agreement. | France Is Expected to Object. It is pointed out that under the planned ratio system France will have a superiority which at the best will be 30 per cent above the German Navy and at the worst 15 per cent. It is highly improbable that France will be ¥atisfied with such a ratio. From the strategic point of view, the French naval authorities consider this proportion totally unsatisfactory. They point cut that while Germany has a limited field for the use of her navy— she is concerned merely with the de- fense of the Baltic Sea and has no colonies—Prance’s responsibilities are almost as important as those of Great | Britain. She must keep forces in the | Atlantic and in the Mediterranean, she must have sufficient craft to con- | voy transports from Northern Africa to France, and she must take care of her far-flung empire. As long as Ger- many was limited, Prance considered her present naval strength sufficient. But with Germany having close to {400,000 tons—which will all be new | when her navy is completed—the | French 650,000 tons are considered to- | vally Inadequate, Hence, it is expected here that | France not only will object to the German-British naval agreement, but also will demand a much higher ratio of warships at the next naval con- ference. | AGREEMENT SET FOR DRAFTING LONDON, June 13 (#.—A five- year building program for Hitler's | proposed new German fleet will be | drawn up, naval circles indicated last night, when Anglo-German naval talks resume here Friday. Joaquim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's smbassador extraordinary, will return to_London from Berlin tomorrow. It was believed Gen. von Ribben- | trop, who has been in consultation | with Hitler, was returning with au- thority to negotiate an agreement to be submitted to other naval powers, iccluding the United States. It is now understood the British | have given up hope of paring down | Hitler's demand for tonnage 35 per cent of Gi Britain's, but are de- manding that this percentage be ap- | plied separately to each of the various | categories of warshipe. (Berlin dispatches Tuesday night said Hitler had ylelded to the British | Insistence that categories as well as total tonnage be limited, and aiso to | Britain's condition that construction be spread over several years.) STRARIC TIPS "by the NAMONAL SAFETY COUNCIL “Blind Spots” in Driving. Did you ever think about the “blind spots” in your traffic vision? Regard- less of how well your rear view mirror is adjusted, there are two very definite where it is impossible to see i