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FRENCH PROTEST ONNAVY PACT DUE Cancellation of Versailles| Clauses Held Involved in British Action. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 15.—Critical barbs in the Paris press told today & pos- | sible protest by the French Govern- | ment against the reported Anglo-Ger- man agreement on a navy for Ger- many almost as large as France's, | An official statement from France | was expected tonight in reply to an official British communication con- cerning the talks. It was understood the French note would express at least “reserve” on allowing Germany to build up to 35 per cent of Britain's sea forces. Foreign comment that Britain aided Germany in smashing the “Stresa front” by first reaching such an agree- ment and then informing other Stresa powers she had done so was depre- cated here, It was pointed out that official Brit- ish recognition of the Anglo-German agreement would involve cancellation of the naval clauses of the Versailles treaty and was therefore not a matter for this country alone. | British authorities maintained they | had kept other powers informed of the progress of the negotiations and had invited their comment. Discussions in the next few days were expected to center on the ques- tion of the speed with which Ger- | many would build up her new fleet. | The French note was understood to have a direct bearing on this matter. | Hitler Agrees. Gen. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler's arms envoy extraordinary, brought back here Hitler's affirmative reply to all, Britain's conditions for the agreement. Terms of the pact were quickly decided. Authoritative quarters said it will | involve: 1. Germany's pledge to limit her navy to 35 per cent of Britain's under age tonnage. 2. Germany's acceptance of limita- tion by categories of ships, as wzll as | by total tonnage. 3. A release clause to protect Ger- many if other powers launch u stricted construction of smaller ships and submarines. The mutual desire of both powers to avoid repetition of their pre-war naval race (in which, her naval holi- day proposal rejected, Britain under- took to lay down two ships for Ger- many’s every one) led to the success- ful issue of the bilateral naval talks here, it was stated, although England’s sea power, Held Model Treaty. Authoritative quarters said the An- glo-German agreement would be put forward as a model for a multilateral treaty among European powers, ’l'orld powers if Japan is willing oin. Germany, it was understood, de- ¢lares her willingness to participate in a multilateral pact, but the agree- ment with England is equally bind- ing on both unless naval building by | gome third power releases them. The agreement also seeks to end all secret naval construction by the two nations. TWO AIR RECORDS SOUGHT BY KING Washington Man Takes Off for| Capital in 770-Pound Plane. Ben King, the Westchester Apart- | ments. well-known local sportsman pilot, today is waiting at Port Wash- ington, Long Island, for favorable | winds to take off for Washington on a flight which may result in the estab- lishing of two world records, bring- ing the United States abreast of France in the present race for world sviation supremacy. King will fly a light seaplane Wweighing less than 770 pounds empty the | Reich was not in position to challenge | o | posed to have at least a few million 'O‘supporter!. wandering among sena- | during the last six months. What’s What Behind News In Capital Democrats Say Huey’s Day Is Waning After His Filibuster Fails. BY PAUL MALLON. | They are saying Huey Long ‘is| crushed. At least the Democrats are | saying it jubilantly, among them- | selves. They believe they taught him | how to be a good boy in his 15'5-hour talkathon against the N. R. A. bill. The secret of Long’s influence in the Senate has been his ability to Jrighten every Senmator politically. Whenever any one crossed him he would threaten to go out and make speeches against him in his own district. The unwritten law of senatorial politics is to live and let live. Senators know Huey could make a lot of trouble for them. They let him get away with every- thing short of legislative murder for the last few years. ‘That situation was completely up- | set during the Long talkathon. For the first time, a group of Democratic | Senators showed courage enough to dare Huey's wrath. (They were led by Black of Alabama and the new- comer, Schwellenbach of Washington.) | : | e | His Associates Depart. More hurtful to Huey, perhaps, was the fact that those who were associ-| ated with him in opposition to N. R. A. | became secretly disgusted with him before his talkathon night was over. | What irked them was that Huey was | trying to hog the whole show. They | saw plainly that he was trying to make a dramatic hero of himself as | the one and only congressional op- ponent of N. R. A. When the glassy-eyed fire-eater | sat down at 4 a.m. he did not have | more than two good friends lejt in the chamber. This does not mean the Democratic | authorities are right in saying Huey's | day is waning. His filibustering mis- takes may cause him to lay low for {a little while until Senators forget. But Huey is a rubber ball. He bounces. | Situation Illustrative. | The current-disturbed condition of political affairs could not have been better focused into a single picture | than that presented by the Senate scene during the Long show. Here Was a prominent agitator, who is sup- | torial chairs where the ghosts of Webster and Calhoun sat; his mind | | strained with fatigue, making rash | assertions against every political leader | he could think of; his distended eyes rolling abnormally; talking nonsense | | occasionally with a fine humor and | always with a shrewd political pur- pose; and no one capable of answering him effectively or of stopping him. One of the oldest Republican Sena- tors turned to a pal in an adjoining | chair and said: “If a democracy can survive this sort of stuff, it must be good.” 1 The answer to that is Huey failed | to win. Advisory Council Fading. No announcement has been made | about it, but the business advisory | council has just about quit in dis- | gust. This is the Roper rommmee" of business men which has been trying to bore into the New Deal from within Harry Kendall, chairman, will re= tire when his term ezxpires at the end of this month. Wetmore Hodges, secretary, is returning to his Montana ranch. The onmly Summer meeting scheduled is one for July 10, when the future will be discussed privately. The trouble is that the business and powered with a 36-horsepower en- gine. Fully loaded for the flight, in- | cluding a passenger, the plane will | weigh 1,006 pounds. Its normal fuel | capacity is only eight gallons. King is seeking primarily to capture | the existing distance record for light | eeaplanes of the first category of 76.15 miles, now held by the French fiyers, Lallouette and Albert. He hopes to fly from Port Washington to Annapolis or Washington, establishing & new record of approximately 200 miles. Dan Brimm of Port Washing- ton is to accompany King as his pas- senger, required under international Tules. The local flyer also will seek to establish a first international distance record for light seaplanes of the third category, weighing less than 772 pounds, empty, during the same flight. Security (Continued Prom First Page.) of a $30 old-age payment, it would take nearer to $3,000,000,000 to give 8 pension to all those who should have {t. When he said the bill would col- | lect the $49,000,000 in revenue from those wno are to be pensioned, Sen- ator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, interrupted to take issue with him. Wagner pointed out that the old- age gratuities would be paid by tax- payers of the country generally, as distinguished from the retirement an- nuity plan to which the employers and employes will contribute. Wagner also said the Federal Government's 849,000,000 obligation the first year would increase as the States expand their old-age pension activities. The New Yorker also told Long that Louis- iana does not yet have an old-age pension law. Long replied his State assists needy old persons, but does not call it a pension. He argued that when a per- son is required to show need, it is a pauper’s law instead of a pension. Measure Is Defended. The far-reaching program embodied in the bill was explained and defended yesterday by Chairman Harrison and by Senator Wagner. The latter quoted from & number of court decisions to support the constitutionality of the program. Senator Hastings raised the point that the contributory old-age annu- ity plan discriminates in favor of those already near retirement age, and against the younger generation. Senator La PFollette, Wisconsin Pro- gressive, challenged this argument on two grounds. FPirst, he said, without this plan the burden of caring for the aged ordinarily would fall entire- 1y on the youth of the country. In addition, La Follette said, Hastings had included the contribution of the employers in calling attention to the differences in amounts to be paid men on the committee are complain- | ing that they are the tail and not the dog, and they are getting tired of being wagged. Undoubtedly the New Deal will do something to prevent an official walk-out by the committee, but it is hardly possible that anything effective can be done. Overlapping Maps. President Roosevelt sought and got authority early in his dealing to co-ordinate Government bureaus to prevent overlapping. Yet the other day the Science Advisory Committee found 28 different Government agen- cies preparing maps of the United States. Most of the mapping is being done by the Coast and Geodetic ,Survey and the Geological Survey. Other mappers probably will be eventually consolidated under these two. But Tradeless Yankee Trader George Peek has found that 50 agencies of the Government are concerned with foreign trade. An effort to meet this situation has been made through the Commercial Policy Committee, where the heads of the various agencies get together weekly. Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt seems to have given up the idea of having an official co-ordinator. Both Messrs, Walker and Richberg are busy with other matters. Lowden, Hoover, Old Foes. ‘To get the proper significance of Herbert Hoover's recent visit with former Gov. Lowden, you have to know the inside fact that they would not speak to each other in the 1932 campaign. Also, it has never been published, but it is nevertheless true, that Lowden refused an indirect re- quest from the White House at that time to introduce Mr. Hoover for & Midwest speech. This does not mean that Lowden ‘would support Hoover for renomina- tion this time, or that they have made up personally. (Copyright, 1935.) —_— COHAN SUIT DISMISSED NEW YORK, June 15 (#).—The $50,000 suit of George M. Cohan for alleged publication of five of Cohan's song hits without his permission was dismissed yesterday by Justice Edgar 8. K, Merrell, of the appellate divi- ston, The court ruled that Cohun's only possible legal action against the defendant, the Robbins Music Corp-,| copyright. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATI}RD‘AY, JUNE 15 1935. 'COAL STRIKE OFF | AS PARLEY ENDS President’s Proposal to Continue Hours-Wage to June 30 Prevails. By the Associated Press. The projected bituminous coal strike was called off today. A joint conference of United Mine Workers and Appalachian soft coal operators ratified unanimously Presi- dent Roosevelt’s proposal that present wages, hours and working conditions be continued through June 30. Immediately John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the mine union, called off the strike set for tomorrow night. The conference also unanimously agreed to reassemble here June 24 to renew negotiations toward wage and hour contracts to succeed those ex- piring June 30. Districts Represented, A number of Southern producing districts were not officially represented at today's meeting. D. C. Kennedy, chairman of the conference, listed these as Pocahontas, Tug River, Williamson, Logan, Green- briar, Southern Appalachian, Hazard, Harlan and Port of Virginia. | Only three of these, however, had | falled to signify they would agree to the wage and hour contract exten- sions, Lewis and Kennedy said. These, they listed as Pocohontas, Tug River and Greenbriar. Lewis expressed his opinion that these three would “go along.” “It they don’t,” he said, “their men — | Simply won't work Monday morning.” Lewis added that all the outlying districts had signified they would agree to the extension. He expected formal ratification by tomorrow. Hint of Opposition. A hint of possible opposition to the President's truce proposal came from some operators who are opposed to the Guffey: bill which would establish the “little N. R. A" wanted by the U.M W, Mr. Roosevelt yesterday gave the miners’ union renewed assurance of | administration support for this bill. | Uts authors, Senator Guffey, Demo- crat, of Pennsylvania snd Representa- | tive Synder, Democrat. of Pennsyl- vania, also told Lewis they ‘had lined | up sufficient support to pass the measure. The President told newspaper men he was In general accord with that | measure and hoped that as a matter of sound policy the strike could be averted urtil the bill has been con- sidered by Congress. Lewis, emerging from a White House conference that included oper- ator representatives as well as the Senate and House authors of the coal bill, told newspaper men: “The President, after canvassing | the legislative situation—said that in the public interest he would request the operators and miners to extend | the status quo of the wage agree- | Were C. W. Winters, ments in the bituminous industry un- | til June 30 and save ihe country the expense and inconvenience of a sus- pension. Early Enactment Hope. “The President expressed hope for early enactment of the Guffey bill. D. C. Kenredy and I agreed with the | President that we would recommend to our respective intecests acceptance of the President’s suggestions.” “I agree with everything Mr. Lewis has said,” added Kennedy to the re- porters around them. Lewis ordered the strike two weeks ago after the collapse of negotiations between Appalachian operators and the union on terms for new wage and hour contracts to replace those ex- piring tomorrow. THOMAS C. QUINN DIES IN NEW YORK Was Owner of Original Daily News—Entered Newspapers as “Printer's Devil.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 15.—Thomas C. Quinn, 71, who was an owner of the original New York Daily News, died | today at his home. | He began his newspaper career in 1881 as a “printer’s devil” in Woburn, | Mass., where he was born. Later he engaged in editorial work on Boston and New York newspapers and maga- zines. Quinn became managing editor of the New York Daily News in 1901 and purchased that publication from Frank A. Munsey in 1904. He is cred- ited with having started agitation to have the American flag displayed on public schools and buildings. He was president of the Accurate Biographical Service in this city and a member of the American Historical Association. 45 BODIES REMOVED FROM BLAST RUINS Seven Remain Under Wreckage - of Munitions Factory at Reinsdorf, Germany. By the Associated Press. WITTENBERG, Germany, June 15. —With the official death toll remain- ing at 52, rescuers worked in shifts until derkness set in last night to drag bodies out of the wreckage of the Westphalia-Anhalt munitions factory at Reinsdorf, 3 miles from | here. G The ruins still were hot from the explosion and subsequent fire which destroyed a large section of the fac- tory, yesterday aiternoon when res- cuers had accounted for 45 of the announced dead. Officials said that only seven more bodies remained hid- den under the debris. Of the number injured, 73 of the more seriously nurt were in hospitals, while at least 100 had gone to their homes. Dr. Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior, ted the rescue work today and brought with him Reichs- fuehrer Hitler's condolences. Hitler, himself, sent 100,000 marks—about $40,000—of his own funds to relieve Miner: A group of congressional leaders and coal representatives are shown as they left the White House yesterday after conferring with President Roosevelt on the threatened coal strike. Democrat, of Pennsylvania; D. C. Kennedy, chairman of the Appalachian Joint Conference of Operators and : Maj. George L. Berry of the N. R. A, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, resentative J. Buell Snyder, Democrat, of Pennsylvania. CLPPER STARTS H0P 10 MDWAY Crew of Six and Two Pas- sengers Aboard Giant Plane. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, June 15—The Pan- American Airways clipper soared from Pearl Harbor for Midway Island, 1,323 miles westward, at 6:57 am. today (12:27 pm. E. 8. T). With crew of six and two passengers, | the clipper started for the second sta- | tion of the proposed commercial air-| line from California to China, after arriving from Alameda, Calif., Thurs- i day. Only several naval officers, who gave | great team work earlier, a ground | | { | | crew and newspaper men saw the take- off. | With good weather in prospect, her | crew expects to set the clipper down | on Sand Island’s lagoon within seven or eight hours. During the trip—which is | more than half as long as the fornia-Hawaii trip the clipper com- | pleted for the third time Thursday— the crew will be kept in touch with weather conditions ahead by the newly established Pan-American radio station on Midw: little The passengers, first to ride the clipper on her explorative journeys, Pan-American official from Miami, Fla, who will inspect and supervise completion of the Midway radio equipment, and | Philip Berst, chief maintenance engi- neer for the airway at Honolulu. Five gallons of ice cream aboard will be a treat for the lonely 35 inhabitants way employes. It will be the first ice cream ever shipped to the island. In addition, the clipper will carry anti-mosquito fluid and mail for Pan- American employes on the islands. A stay of two days on Midway is scheduled for the clipper, after which she will return to Honolulu and then to Alameda. “There positively will be no flight to Wake Island at this time.” com- pany officials toild the Associated Press. Wake is the next base southwest of Midway on the air line route, CIGARETTE FIRM IS SUED FOR LIBEL | Crawford Burton, Horseman, Says Advertisement Subjected Him to Public Ridicule. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 15.—Crawford Burton, & member of the New York Stock Exchange and widely known amateur horseman, was revealed yes- terday as having brought a $575,000 libel action in Supreme Court as the result of a cigarette advertisement in which he was featured by picture and text. Burton set forth as a result of the publication he had been- “subjected to frequent and conspicuous public ridi- | cule, scandal, reprosch, scorn and in- dignity.” The picture, purporting to be a being regarded as representing” him “as physically deformed and mentally perverted.” The complaint added that the text accompanying the picture made it ap- pear that he was guilty of uttering sa- lacious language. ‘The action, in separate suits, was di- rected against the Crowell Publishing Co., William Esty & Co., advertising agency, and the R. J. Reynolds Co., cigarette manufacturers. The arvertising agency stated Bur- ton had been paid $500 for the picture and had signed a release in which he agreed not to pose commercially again for two years. KARPIS BELIEVED IN TEXAS GUNFIGHT Suspect Escapes After Battle in Front of C. C. C. Camp. By the Associated Press. KIRBYVILLE, Tex., June 15.—Jas- per County officers said today a man they believed to be Alvin Karpis, long-sought outlaw and kidnaper, es- caped after a gun battle with officers near a C. C. C. camp here last night. N. B. Powell, Kirbyville night mar- shal, said the man fitted descriptions of Karpis. Jasper County officers said they re- ceived a tip yesterday that Karpis was riding around town in & small sedan. They located the car parked in front of the C. C. C. camp. Two men were in it, the one believed to be Karpis was dozing, an automatic pistol in his hand and a submachine gun beside him. Powell said the man he believed to be Karpis sped away, firing his pistol as he drove. Powell said the suspect drove scuth. He and three otner officers pursued the car, exchanging shots with the Gets Divorce VANDENBERG'S DAUGHTER WINS DECREE IN MICHIGAN. MRS. BARBARA V. KNIGHT. —Harris-Ewing Photo. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, June 15 Cali- | _A “decree of divorce in favor of them. Barbara Vandenberg Knight, daugh- ter of United States Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was signed here yes- terday by Circuit Judge Willis B. Perkins. The plaintif® John Knight charged her husband, of Kalamazoo, Mich., with being intensely jealous and with humiliating her in public. Mrs Knight was given custody of a son, John, jr., 4 years old. PARLEY DECIDING of Midway, all cable company and air- | SYMPHONY FATE Manager Sees Officers of Musicians’ Protective Union Here. C. C. Cappel, Washington ~ Symphony was in onference today with officers of the local Musicians' Protective Union and the outcome may decide the fate of the proposed Summer concerts of the orchestra and its regular Winter season. The directors of the orchestra as- sociation met late yesterday and dis- cussed the demands of the union manager of the without reaching any other decision | than to instruct Mr. Cappel to con- fer with the union. He will report back the results of the discussions | later in the day. The union has demanded that the orchestra employ local union musi- | cians to fill eight vacancies, or in the | event these posts are filled from out- side, as many local musicians be put on the pay roll at the same pay. With only $66,000 of the desired $100,000 sustaining fund subscribed, the orchestra applied to F. E. R. A. for financial aid. The dispute with the musicians threatens abandonment of the proposed Summer schedule of nine concerts, and unless it is settled satisfactorily the entire Winter sea- son may have to be canceled. John E. Birdsell, secretary of Local 161, is conducting the conference for the union. The session is being held at 1105 Sixteenth street. __(Continued Prom Pirst Page.) every opportunity to submit memo- randa and data of facts and condi- tions of which he claimed to have knowledge. “When six months later Mr. Mitch- ell had not concluded the filing of his statements, the Secretary pursued the plan of having him submit his data directly to the Attorney General. The Secretary requested that all the facts in the possession of Mr. Mitchell be submitted to the Attorney General and in his letter to the Attorney Gen- eral the Secretary said: “‘I desire that any and all trans- acfions that may in his (Mr. Mitchell’s) opinion justify reconsideration or ex- amination should be sifted with the greatest care and expedition and have suggested to Mr. Mitchell that he pre- sent the data in his possession to your department speedily.” “The Secretary regarded it as in the interest of the public service that the position be filled at once by a person possessing broad engineering and ad- ministrative experience and requested Mr. Mitchell to submit his resignation, which Mr, Mitchell refused to do. “Being a presidential appointment, it was under the conditions, necessary to bring the situation to the atten- tion of the President, who by letter requested Mr. Mitchell's resignatjon. Mr. Mitchell again refused to resign, associating with his refusal a state- ment to the President regarding de- partmental conditions. “This statement, in turn, the Presi- dent referred to the Department of Justice with the request that it be very carefully investigated by that department. Mr. Mitchell has been advised that he will be furnished every opportunity by that department to amplify and substantiate his com- ments.” Shakespeare Homored. On the 371st anniversary of Shakes- peare’s birth laudatory ‘were delivered at the. foot of statue in the Haussmann in Paris. Left to right: Senator Joseph Guffey, Leaving Coal Strike Conference nd Rep- —Harris & Ewing Photo. PRESDENT TELLS OF RELIEF PLANS Projects Must Require Lit- tle Expenditure for Ma- terials, He Says. By the Associated Press. Acknowledging many disappoint- ments in the attempt to get the work program started, President Roosevelt yesterday laid emphasis anew on the necessity for projects re- quiring litle expenditure on materials. MAHAN BELIEVED ALTERING MONEY Acid Outfits Found in Car and Garage Give Agents New Lead. BULLETIN. KIRBYVILLE, Tex, June 15 (). —A man officers said they had been tipped was William Mahan, sought in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnaping, escaped after & gun fight with officers near a C. C. C. camp, 5 miles east of here, last night. By the Associated Press. BUTTE, Mont., June 15.—Federal agents and police hoped today to pick up the trail of William Mahan, Wey- | erhaeuser kidnap suspect, through al- tered ransom bills. Stores in Butte and elsewhere were asked to make a close inspection of | all paper money, checking particu- | larly bills which might have had | numbers changed. Green ink and acid, found in the car with the $15,155 ransom money Mahan left behind when he fled here Sunday, indicated he intended chang- ing numbers on the bills. A similar outfit was located in a Salt Lake City | garage. Impetus Given Search, Officials said they believed Mahan still had the unrecovered $89,000 in | his possession. The hunt for altered | bills gave new impetus to the search | after agents and police had returned empty-handed last night from an ex- | pedition covering a large area along the Butte-Helena highway. Another clue being investigated the reported presence of a man an- swering Mahan's description at Drigegs, Idaho, asking the road to Idaho Falls. ! A squad of Federal agents and police | headed by Police Chief Jere Murphy, motored over the Helena-Butte high- way toward Bernice yesterday. It was indicated they would scour a section adjacent to Browns Guich, where a suspect was seen Monday. Suggestions that this would, in fact, | mean s revival of the Civil Works Administration, were waved away by Mr. Roosevelt. Despite the difficulties, the Presi- dent said, he still expected the pro- “um to be in full swing by November |1. The primary objective remained the same, he said—to give work to 3,500,000 persons now on relief rolls. Mr. Roosevelt indicated he was de- Orchestra, | ferring approval of projects already | recommended to him until less ex- pensive ones can be found to balance He said he had not asked Congress for more than $4,000,000,000 because a larger sum would have en- couraged applications for activities requiring three or four years to com- | plete. Seeks Co-ordinated Plans. ‘The Works Progress Administration, which has summoned State directors here for a conference Monday, is now attempting to fit expensive and inex- | pensive projects together into co-ordi- nated State plans, he added. Simple arithmetic, Mr. Roosevelt | argued, showed that the $4,000.000,- | 000 fund would provide about $1,200 | for each job, including overhead and materials. On the other hand, he said, some projects would cost more and others must be found to balance them The Civilian Conservation Corps will cost $1.200 per year for | each member, he said, main highways. $2500, and low-cost housing, $2,000 or more. | As an example. Mr. Roosevelt said that if five projects were approved costing $1.500 a man, then five others must be found running at only $900. He mentioned as possible $900 jobs | construction of small wooden bridges. To Induce Cities. States and communities, the Presi- New Englnnd. State Executives | g | dent said, had submitted a smaller number of applications for low cost P. | W. A. projects than had been hoped | for, but he did not elaborate. Federal | donations on non-Federal P. W. A.| projects recently were increased from 30 per cent to 45 per cent with the | intention of offering cities an induce- | ment not to demand the 100 per cent donations which are to be available to financially - exhausted communities. The average cost per man on these | projects is estimated at $2,000. Questioned about projects already | approved by the Allotments Commit- tee, Mr. Roosevelt said it was both common sense and & moral obligation | to make funds available for projects, | such as Bonneville and Fort Peck | dams, begun by P. W. A, | 'GOVERNORS VOTE AID TO PRESIDENT Conference at Biloxi, Miss., Op- poses State Control of U. §. Relief. By the Associated Press. BILOXI, Miss, June 15—Out of two days of brisk argument by Gov- ernors of more than nalf the States | over relief policies and the remains of the N. R. A., a unanimous vote of confidence and a pledge of co-opera- tion for the Roosevelt adminiztration Lave emerged. The Governors voted their support late yesterday as a climax to their business conferences nere and turned today to sight-seeing rides and recrea- | tion. Rejecting, 13 to 3, a resolution which requested that supervision of Federal relief funds be replaced in the hands of the States, the Governors pledged President Roosevelt “co-opera- tion and co-ordinated effort without partisanship or narrow politics.” Their resolutions said: “Business has been greatly benefited and work- ing conditions vastly improved in the last two years,” and urged a “Nation- | wide program providing maximum | wages of pay and minimum hours of employment, Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana was re-elected chairman of the Governors. The new Executive Committee named included Govs. Harry W. Nice of Marylard, Dave Sholtz of Florida, Henry Horner of Illinois, Alf M. Lan- don of Kansas and McNutt. —_— LOOP CLUB REORGANIZES Chicago Organization Lists Sky- scraper Among Assets. CHICAGO, June 15 (#).—The Union Club of Chicago, one of the city's four largesi loop clubs, yester- day filed a reorganization petition in Pederal Court under section 77-B of the law, and with it a new financial plan claiming approval of mortgage bondholders. The petition listed liabllities of $2,- 350,000, & first mortgage in default, held by the Mutual-Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee, and $1,457,500 of gen- ortgage bonds A | Weyerhaeuser Boy Spends 90 Minutes South Butte Patrolled. At the same time police directed by Assistant Chief Jack Duggan, re- | sumed a patrol of the residential sec- tion of South Butte, where Mahan staged his flight from Detective James Mooney, and where many believe the kidnap accomplice is still sequestered with friends. A mountain cabin, which bore signs of - recent occupancy, drew official scrutiny. Police checked fingerprints, torn newspapers and various articles ' within it, but did not announce the result of their quest. | BOY FACES PRISONERS. surprise war over into searchlight battalions BRITAIN PREPARES FOR AIR INVASION Orders Eight Battalions Formed to Protect London Area. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 15—Great Britain ordered today that eight battalions be formed immediately on a wartime basis for anti-aircraft defense. The office announcement, culminating the nation’s air force ex- pansion, said five units will be made and three more, including the famous Royal Fusiliers, will become anti-air- craft artillery brigades. The order by the army council pro- vided only for the London area, and organization of similar units for the great midland manufacturing cities was expected. The war office emphasized the ne- cessity that the new units be “ready for action immediately on the out- | break of war or even earlier.” Ordered Inte Traning. The eight new units, taking up a task described by the war office as “of outstanding importance” were ordered detached from their old regi- mental ties at once to enter a stren- uous course of training for a first line of defense. Giant searchlight batteries were prescribed, to stud the sprawling Lon- don area and co-operate with the anti-aircraft artillery, to be set up at vantage points for the first time since the World War. In addition to the great light beams, capable of searching out enemy raid- ers thousands of feet in the air, air raid sounding stations such as those which dotted the southeast sea coast during the war, were understood to be provided, $2,250,000 Fund Provided. ‘The program will be financed by a fund of about $2,250,000, set aside March 18 by the House of Commons for anti-aircraft defense. Provisions were made for the most modern searchlights, anti-aircraft guns, tech- nical instruments for locating planes and directing fire, and improved types of munitions. In the process of great expansion of her air forces, ready to go into action at the slightest hint of danger, Eng- land had already ordered a doren new turreted gun-planes which it said would “blow any invading cut of the sky.” lgm WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly clouds with local showers tonight and possinl tomorrow; not much change in tem- perature; moderate southwest and l At Olympia Jail | TACOMA, Wash, June 15 (®).— Nine-vear-old George Weyerhaeuser faced two of his alleged abductors in reported identification attempt yes- terday. Accompanied by Federal agents the | little timber heir was taken to the county jail at Olympia, 35 miles from here, for a 90-minute interview with Mr. and Mrs. Harmon M. Waley, young Salt Lake City couple, who assertedly confessed participation in the $200,- | 000 ransom Mahan Federal agents declined to say whether George identified the pair. Authoritative sources said. howev coup and implicated little George faced the Waleys one at | a time. GOVERNORS GIVE RAIL ULTIMATUM Order Four Roads to Submit Solution to Problem. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, June 15.—Four railroads, the Boston & Maine, the New Haven, the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, were given 30 days last night | by the Governors of the New Eng- land States in which to submit a solu- tion to this section’s complex railroad problem. The Governors' decision was given | to the presidents of the roads at a closed conference at which four Gov- ernors were pres>nt and the Gover- nors of Vermont and New Hampshire were represented by proxy through former Gov. Rolland H. Spaulding of New Hampshire. The Governors had before them the report of their Special Advisory Com- mittee, headed by Spaulding. Gov. James M. Curley of Massa- chusetts, as spokesman for the group, declined to make the report public. It was authoritatively said to recom- mend, however, that the Governors vigerously oppose the entrance of a trunk line into the New England ter- ritory, a recommendation the Gov- ernors themselves disagreed upon. — TRAFFIC TIPS by the NAMONAL SAFETY COUNCIL » The Chronic Crab. Safe driving requires concentration and calm mental poise that is usually | west, winds Marylandg—Partly cloudy, probably local showers tonight and tomorrow slightly cooler in north portion to- { night. Virginia—Partly cloudy, probably local showers tonight and tomorrow not much change in temperature. West Virginia—Partly cloudy, prob- ably local showers tonight and tomor- | row; not much change in temperature. Report for Last 24 Hours, ‘Temperature. Barometer. Degrees, Inches, 20 2990 83 2087 2 20.87 Yesterday— 4 pm. . | 8pm. . Midnight Today— 4 am. 8 am. Noon 70 20.86 72 20.87 83 29.86 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon vesterday to noon todar Highest, 92, 3:15 pm. yesterday, Year ago, 88. Lowest, 70, 5 am. today. Year ago, Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 82, on June 14 Lowest, —2, on January 28. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon vesterday to noon today.) Highest, 86 per cent, at 8 am. to- day.” Lowest, 42 per cent, at noon yes- terday. Tide Tables. | (Furnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey.) | Today. High | Low . | High | Low Tomorrow. 7:26am 1:37am T49pm 2:33pm, 12:49 a.m. 7:03 p.m. 1:46 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. 4:41 Sets. Sun, today.... 7:35 | Sun, tomorrow. 4:41 7:35 | Moon, today.. 6:51pm. 3:13am | Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 1935. Average. Record. January. 5.27 3.55 7.09 '82 . 237 3.27 684 '84 339 375 884 91 395 327 9.3 '89 3.54 3.70 1069 '89 2.75 413 1094 '00 o 471 1063 ‘88 401 1441 "28 324 1745 °34 284 8.57 "85 237 869 '89 332 156 ‘01 in Various Cities. July... August. Eeptember. October. . @ Temperature. g £ sk 55 e 5 5= Womory Stations. 9B *cgepINEIK “qusu Iswy alo. N. Y. . Charleston. 8.0. 3 Chicago. TIL... lacking in the make-up of the grouch | Huro: or the driver with the hair-trigger temper. Usually he is a champion fault- finder, who resorts to general con- demnation of the driving practices of others, while considering himself an expert. Louisville, Ky. Miemi, Fl: Minneapol: New Orlea New York, N.Y. Okiahoma 'City. 4 R 70 108 78 . 88 70 8 86 92 70 FOREIGN. Temperature. Weather. ich time, tod 2 Rain Cloudy Grean wich “time. todes ) 1), Asores. . 88 € (! tll erv ouds 3 o lear %