Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1935, Page 1

& i ‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, slightly warmer today; tomorrow fair, gentle to moderate west winds. Tem- peratures—Highest, 82, at 3 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 67, at 2:30 a.m, yesterday. Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys Full Report on Page B-6, () Means Associated Press. No. 1,579—No. 33,290. Entered as seccnd class matter post office, Washington, 1. C. The HOLDING COMPANY BILL REPORTED WITHOUT TAX AND ‘DEATH SENTENCE’ Yote of 15 to 77Revolt Over New Deal Bills Feared by Democratic Chiefs Wagner Bill, Passed Without Roll Call, Sends Fight to House Floor. UTILITIES’ LIFE LEFT TO S. E. C. Care Is Taken to| Preserve State Authority. By the Associated Press. One of the stiffest legislative fights in sessions moved finally yesterday from the House Interstate Commerce Committee to the floor when the com- mittee approved, 15 to 7, a utilities| control bill shorn of its holding com-| pany “death sentence” and even of taxes on holding company dividends. Despite President Roosevelt’s in- sistence on death for “unnecessary” holding companies, the committee, which had been tied up for months Revealed as Opposed by Actual Majority (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) New signs of undercover dissatis- faction with several New Deal meas- ures arose yesterday, leading some | congressional chiefs privately to ex- press fears of a major uprising in Democratic ranks unless the session ends soon or different tactics are adopted. Concrete evidence of the discontent included there: 1. Fourteen of the 22 Senators who signed the petition for action before adjournment on share-the-wealth | taxes were Democrats, some of whom expressed “off-the-record” fears that the President’s advocacy of the taxes might have been only a political move. 2. Disclosure that an actual majority of House members had apposed the Wagner labor disputes bill, which was passed without a roll call. over the controversial measure, Te- fused to agree to that course. The| Senate already has passed a measure | calling for abolition by 1942 of hold-; ing companies not necessary and not | directly above operating power com- les. All the Republican members of the | committee but one voted against the | bill that was reported. Representative Pettingill, Democrat, of Indiana, au- thor of the defeated proposal to sub- ject 15 per cent of holding company dividends to the corporate income tax, voted present. He said he was ‘“re- serving judgment on the constitution- ality of the bill.” Simplification Aid Refused. The tax section went out by a 12- to-11 vote. Then the committee re- Jjected a proposal to encourage hold- ing company “simplification” by ex- empting from taxation transactions incident to such reorganization. 1 Peitingill also put & motion that | resulted in eliminating the section for | regulation of natural gas pipe lines. He recently called the Senate bill un- | constitutional. The gas argument revolved around | the expediency of waiting for separate | petroleum legislation the committee was told the President was going to support. In lieu of outright holding com-| pany abolition wanted by Mr. Roose- | velt the House bill left the question up to the Securities Commission, at which all holding companies must register by November 1. It would be | given broad regulatory power over them and might allow more than one holding"company to an integrated sys- tem if not contrary to the public in- | terest. Other Modifications. The committee also modified the | measure in other respects. | Regulation of electric power was limited to wholesale movement across State lines for resale or for use en- tirely by the transmitting company, with no attempt to touch intra-State generating. Similarly, care was taken through- out to preserve State commission au- thority. Power to force one company to carry electricity for another was limited to action on application of a State commission or a company, but was not to be taken on the Power | Commission’s own initiative. In like manner, securities of such power companies subject to State con- trol—now in all but 16 States—were exempted from Power Commission suthority. To that body was left au- | thority to pass on all matters con- cerning interstate power movement, with the Security Commission to have administration over holding companies. The bill specified also that power companies might engage in security or property transactions up to $100,000 without having to obtain Power Com- mission approval. The House bill subjected Govern- | ment power agencies such as the Ten- nessee Valley Authority to commission control, in accounting practices, figur- ing depreciation cost and in opening their records to Government inspec- tion. A major contention of the legis- lation’s opponents was that the Gov- ernment sought to control private companies and leave competing Fed- eral agencies unbridled. Committee members for the most part were uncommunicative after the Jong work of piecing the mnew bill together. Chairman Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas said the committee’s formal report probably would be put in tomorrow. N.RAHEADS TURN | for a 30-hour week, the longer period |N. R. A. and Federal Trade Commis- sion officials continued their studies | |it both at N. R. A. and before con- The bill probably will be taken up (See UTILITIES, Page 3.) 3. The fact members of the House in House. Ways and Means Committee were openly expressing doubts of the con- stitutionality of the Guffey coal bill, which is on the President’s “must” list. 3 4. A private poll in the House in- dicated a substantial majority against abolition of all “unnecessary” utilities holding companies, despite presidential pressure to swing things the other way. On the House side, it was learned that before the Wagner bill was taken up, a private poll on the 319 Demo- crats showed 59 “noes” and 101 non- committal. Usually, the leaders. fig- ure on losing 60 to 70 per cent of the non-committal when the roll is called. With those absent and ill, the 75 votes which Republican chiefs said | their side would cast against that (See REVOLT, Page 3.) 10 40-HOUR WEEK Overtime Pay Part of Plan Considered Instead of 30-Hour Limit. By the Associated Press. A 40-hour work week, with tfime- and-half pay for overtime, emerged yesterday as a possible standard for all voluntary codes under the new N. R. A, Despite organized labor’s demands apparently was gathering support as of how jointly to prepare voluntary | agreements, One important official contended the 30-hour goal of the American Federation of Labor—even if practical economically—would be impossible of | attainment on a strictly voluntary | basis. Business groups have opposed gressional committees in hearings on 30-hour week legislation. The same spokesman contended the 40-hour, overtime plan would repre-'| sent a definite step forward even though labor would consider it only a stop-gap while continuing its legisla- tive drive for the shorter time. Many old N. R. A. codes had 40- hour weeks. The new overtime pro- vision would not limit the number of hours, but would make it expensive for all over 40. Business Men Favor Plan. Some major business leaders were reported to approve the 40-hour over- time plan, and some labor officials were said to be regarding it with favor. Methods of co-operation between the commission and N. R. A. were ex- pected to be fairly well worked out by early this week. The commission’s experience in handling fair trade practice agreements probably will give them a dominant share of this re- sponsibility, while N. R. A. would be mainly concerned with labor pro- visions. Exact division of responsi- bility, however, remained to be worked out. At N. R. A, definite progress was being made in reorganization. The Duwvision of Review, which is the eco- nomic section, has completed its set- up, and expects to be functioning fully in another week. Leon Mar- shall, division head, already has started special studies. LAKE BECOMES GHOST Fish Caught With Hands as 20- Acre Pool Goes Dry. HOPKINSVILLE, Ky., June 22 (®). —OCrofton Lake, which went dry after a flood was a ghost lake today with only a mass of mud and a useless dam to show for what yesterday was an_ excellent spot for a swim. Before the heavy rain washed the water out of the 20-acre lake, many persons took advantage of a fishing MOVE T0 DEPORT ALIENS 15 PUSHED Dies Would Enlist 10 Mil- lion Citizens to Back Measure. By the Associated Press. A Nation-wide campaign for legis- lation to deport approximately 6,000,- 000 aliens as a partial solution to the United States’ unemployment problem was pressed yesterday by 155 organi- zations, estimated by Representative Dies, Democrat, of Texas to represent 5,000,000 people. Plans to organize 10,000,000 native- born and naturalized citizens for a drive to get congressional action on the Dies deportation bill were re- ported by the Texan as he thumbed | 50,000 letters and telegrams received in support of the measure. The organization is to be called “the Americans” and is to be found in each State on a non-sectarian and non-partisan basis, he said. European Example Cited. “At least 150 Congressmen have pledged themselves in favor of the bill, which provides that no alien can | | hold a job in this country that can | be filled by a citizen,” he said. “It is | about the same legislation as the alien | deportation laws enforced in England, | France, Germany and Italy, to reduce ; unemployment. “If there were no aliens in this | country, we would not have an unem- ployment problem,” he continued, as- | serting there were around 16,500,000 | foreign-born in this country, “more | than 7,000,000 of whom have not been | nationalized.” “I have authentic information that Germany deported 3,000,000 aliens and France 2,000,000 and has started a drive to deport a million more,” he said, Measure Is Reciprocal. Saying his bill, pending before the House Immigration Committee, was on a “reciprocal basis,” Dies explained “we should let as many French aliens work in this country as France lets American citizens work in France.” His measure has been urged on Pres- ident Roosevelt by “many leading citi- zens,” Dies said. In outlining it, he explained: “Pirst, it bars all immigration of pioneer immigrants, who do not have relatives in this country. “Second, it makes mandatory de- portation of 3,500,000 aliens estimated of illegal entry. “Third, it gives about 4,000,000 aliens legally in this country 12 months in which to become citizens, or go home. “Fourth, all aliens must secure La- bor Department permits to work and permits would be issued only when employers show they can’t find United States citizens to do the job. “Pifth, it provides for gradual re- union of families not likely to become public charges when the economic sit- uation is improved.” ] paradise. Several took fish by the bucketsful. Junior Mitchell caught a 5-pound bass with his bare hands. —TTrade Ignores N. R. A. Death Commerce Department Finds By the Associated Pre:s. The Commerce Department said yesterday there is no indication that the N. R. A. situation is exerting any pronounced effect on. trade one way or_the other. In the face of code abandonment, it reported widespread gains in retail trade in its weekly survey of.33 cities. The same survey, however, noted a breakdown in code wages and hours in many sections. “The trends in wholesale trade,” the survey said, “were of no special , with gains and losses being about equally balanced through- out the country. “New York gave evidence of a larger wolume in substantially all lines, al- though actual increases were not jarge. Department store sales in Philadelphia showed, some improve- ment over the previous week, but the #olume was seven per cent below that of last year. “In Los Angeles, the weekly busi- 2 ) ness index reached its highest point since 1933, while retail trade in St. Louis, retarded by cool and wet weather, registered a gain of seven per cent over the previous week. “Chicago’s retail trade continued to be adversely affected by unfavorable weather, with particular reference to seasonal apparel lines.” In discussing the N. R. A. situation, the department said: “Memphis reported wage cuts and increased working hours over a wide front. In New Orleans, it was stated that departure from N. R. A. codes resulted in increased demands on re- lief agencies. “Denver reported that N, R. A. standards of wages were being main- tained in that city, but that a de- cided breakdown had begun in Colo- rado Springs and small rural towns of Northern Colorado. In Jackson- ville larger firms were said to be con- tinuing N. R. A. provisions, but among (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) A LEHMAN WILL PROBE VICE PROSECUTIONS Studies Grand Jury Request for Substitute Attorney to Conduct Cases. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22—Gov. Her- bert H. Lehman, Democratic but non- Tammany, came down from the capi- tal today to “get to the bottom of the whole situation” in which a “runaway” grand jury, unable itself to delve far into vice and racketeer- ing, sought a special prosecutor to supplant the Tammany district at- torney. After conferring two hours with Mayor F. H. La Guardia and police authorities the Governor decided to study the full minutes of the grand jury before determining whether to take the matter in his own hands. Twenty of the 23 members of the March grend jury the Governor to impanel a special jury under a prosecutor of his own desig- their inquiry. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION PROMPT DECISION ON ROOSEVELT TAX PROGRAM FAVORED Robinson and Byrns Agreé Disposal Would Remove Business Uncertainty. BUT SPEAKER UNCERTAIN OVER IMMEDIATE ACTION Will Probably Rest With Presi- dent—Round Robin Would Force Issue. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The plot thickened yesterday about the President’s tax program and what shall be done with it, if anything, at the present session of Congress. Speaker Byrns of the House and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader of the Senate, both said that no effort should be made to attach the tax program recom- mended by the President to the joint resolution continuing for another year certain excise taxes which expire July 1. The Speaker and Senator Robinson also agreed that there were impelling reasons why the program should be disposed of promptly. The first rea- son was that it would remove uncer- tainty from the country and from business. Speaker Byrns added that the Government needs the additional revenue. While Senator Robinson said he, personally, was disposed to take up the tax program and act on it during the present session, Speaker Byrns did not go that far. 1t looks more and more as though the solution of the problem would await President Roosevelt's return to Washington, although it is understood that the Chief Executive has had in mind leaving the decision up to Con- gress and its leaders. Pressing for Adjournment. With a large program of “must” legislation still awaiting final action, the congressional leaders have been pressing hard for completion of the program and an adjournment not later than July 15. If the tax program is | undertaken now, it is freely predicted |on all sides that there will be little | chance of adjournment until August, | or even later. The great majority of the members are anxious to get through and ad- | | journ as soon as possible. If it is | { finally decided to go ahead and put through the new tax program before adjournment it will be a case of the tail wagging the dog. A compara- tively small majority will have had its way. | Agitation for immediate action on the tax program was given impetus yesterday by the round robin, signed by 22 Senators, most of them included in the “progressive” group on both | sides of the chamber and by a speech in the Senate by Senator Huey P.| Long of Louisiana. Long had read to the Senate a long letter he had | sent to President Roosevelt demand- ing that he go forward with a share- the-wealth program. He followed it | up with a speech in which he chal- lenged the Chief Executive to submit to the Congress without delay a de- tailed tax program. ; Robinson Gives Views. Senator Robinson's comment was | made to newspaper men, after the | Senate had recessed. He sald: “It is my personal impression that the subject matter of the pending tax bill (the joint resolution extending the excise taxes) should be treated separately from the President’s tax message. “I am disposed to take up the President’s recommendations during the present session of Congress and dispose of it before adjournment. I mean by that a final vote by Con- gfess on the recommendations. “Failure to do so would leave the country in a state of uncertainty and that would not be helpful to business recovery.” Robinson added that if Congress takes up the President’s tax recom- mendations before adjournment, it will prolong the session. Byrns Concurs. Speaker Byrns agreed with Senator Robinson that no effort should be made to attach the President’s tax program to the joint resolution ex- tending excise taxes now before the Senate. “A bill to carry out the President’s tax program,’e said Speaker Byrns, “will, of course, have to originate in (See TAXES, Page 5.) CLIPPER IS LANDED BLIND AT ALAMEDA Head Winds and Dense Clouds Conquered on 2,400-Mile Stretch of Pacific. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALAMEDA, Calif, June 22—Com- pleting its fourth flight between Ha- waii and California, the Pan-American Airways' pioneering clipper seaplane came in “blind” today—ending an easy conquest of headwinds and clouds over a 2,400-mile stretch of the Pacific. The big four-motored craft, return- ing flight which had taken it halfway across the ocean to tiny Midway Island, skimmed gra Francisco Bay at 3:10 p.m. (Eastern standard time). Their compartment covered by 8 “blind” flying hood when 150 miles out, the fiyers headed the plane direct- port, with only instruments and radio signals to guide them. Despite headwinds and dense cloud banks, the plane made the 2,400-mile flight in 18 hours and 39 minutes. The record time of 15 hours and 30 min- utes was set in 1934 by Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. No new record was sought, however. The plane was purposely headed into the winds and clouds as part of the experimental work of Capt. Edwin C. Musick and his crew of five, LAWYER CLEARED BY MRS. ENGLISH Starr Released When Wife of Byrd Explorer Explains Plunge From Window. From her hospital bed where she lies with a broken back, Mrs. Lucille T. English, pretty 28-year-old wife of the commander of Admiral Byrd's Antarctic flagship, rallied sufficiently yesterday to take responsibility for the five story leap which may end her life. Immediately after her statement to the police they released on a nominal $200 bond as a witness Howard Wayne Starr, former counsel for the builders’ code authority of the N. R. A., who was in her apartment Friday after- noon when she tumbled from the window sill of the kitchen. Starr, 26 years old, had been questioned by the police since the fall. Capt. B. W. Thompson, acting chief of detectives, in announcing the state- ment made by Mrs. English at Emergency Hospital, said she told Detective Sergt. Walter Beck, in the presence of her husband, Lieut. Robert English, U. 8. N, that she had jumped from the window intending to end her life. She did not give any motive. “Mr. Starr came to my apartment as a friend,” Capt. Thompson quoted Mrs. English as saying. “We have been friends for some time and he always has been a gentleman with me. I don't know what made me do it, but I just decided to jump out of the window. Mr. Starr did not touch me or have anything to do with it.” Capt. Thompson said Beck went into the room with instructions not to question Mrs. English too closely for fear of exciting her in her present condition. “There is one thing that I can say,” Capt. Thomas told newspaper men, “and that is that within a very short time we will have the whole thing cleared up.” Mrs. English, who was an artist's model in Hollywood when she mar- ried English two years ago in San (See ENGLISH, Page 5.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1 to B-6. Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—B-6. Lost and Found—A-T. Death Notices—A-T. Service Orders—A-8. Vital Statistics—A-8. Sports Section—Pages B-7-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-11. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Civic News and Comment—D-4. ‘Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-5. Veterans’ Organizations, Na- tional Guard and Organized Reserves—Pages D-5-6. Who Are You?—D-T7. Travel and Resorts—Pages D-7-9. Serial Story—D-7. Stamps—D-10. Public Library—D-11. Congquering Contract—D-12. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-10. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-8. Educational—E-9. Short Story—E-9. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—F-1-3. John Cla%ett Proctor’s Article on mom ¥ ashitlgtonn;-i‘-fl.m “Those Were the D] - by Dick l£—¥'-3. 5 Books and Art—F-4. Stage and Screen—F-5. Music—F-6. Radio News and Programs—F-7. Automobiles—F-8. - Aviation—F=8. Cross-word -8, Children’s Page—F-9. High Lights of History—F-9, PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond mdc_ (in_;b Sum- maries—Pages n Classified Advertising — Pages G-5-13, N T | widely publicized kidnaping round-up. iy Star GET HIS SOCKS AND SHOES! Baby Doe’s Estate, Once 100 Million, Brings Only $700 Her Mementoes, Includ- ing $7.000 Wedding Dress, Sold at Auction. By the Associated Press, DENVER, June 22—The Tabor trinkets—remnants of a fortune once estimated at $100,000,000—sold at auction today for a little more than $700. Most of the mementoes that the late Elizabeth (Baby Doe) Tabor cherished for more than a third of a century after the decline of the Tabor luck and the death of H. A.| W. Tabor went to a group of wealthy | Denver persons, who announced they would be donated to the Colorado | State Historical Society. Among them was the $7,000 silk brocaded wedding | | dress in which Baby Doe was mar- ried to Senator Tabor in a Washing- ton ceremony attended by President Chester Arthur, BANK LOOT RACKET SMASHED BY U. S “G Men’s” Undercover Drive Reduces Number of Hold- ups Sharply. BY REX COLLIER. Working quietly in a field of in-| vestigation less spectacular than their | special agents of the Federal Bureau | of Investigation during the first year of operation under the Federal bank robbery law have administered a smashing blow to the once profitable | bank robbery racket. Since entry just a year ago of the “G men” into the bank sector of the Federal war on crime there has been a sharp and steady drop in pumber of bank robberies throughout-the coun- try, records of the Justice Department show. This has been due not only to elim- ination from the racket of such no- torious gangsters as John Dillinger, “Pretty Boy” Floyd and the Barker brothers, but to faltering morale of professional bank robbers who have grown to have a wholesome respect for what gangland terms the “F. B. 1.” and its sharpshooting agents. 96 of 126 Cases Solved. Of 126 robberies which fell within investigative jurisdiction of the bureau since enactment of the Federal law on May 18 a year ago, 96 are listed on bureau records as solved. In these cases 68 persons have been convicted, | seven have been killd and about | $127,500 of the $683,000 in loot has | been recovered. So impressive has been the decline in the bank robberies since passage of the Federal law that official cog- nizance of it has been taken by the American Bankers' Association, va- rious State bankers’ associations and national surety companies. In a letter to Attorney General Cummings the American Surety Co. pointed out that bank roberies have been decreasing steadily since the Government launched its intensive drive on crime in general more than a year ago. In 1933, the firm said, the bank robbery frequency dropped 37 per cent, as compared with the year before, and during 1934 there was a further drop of comparable degree. Loss to banks likewise has decreased —by 38 per cent in 1933 and by 84 (See BANKS, Page 4.) MISSIONARY RESCUED Rev. Harold Bush Safe in China After Long Captivity. PEIPING, China, June 23 (Sunday), (#).—The Rev. Harold Bush of Med- ford, Mass, who was in the hands of Chinese bandits for seven weeks, was turned over to American authorities at Canton yesterday, according to in- formation reaching the United States N \ LEC IANDES SHOOTNG RAPDS Companion Swims Ashore as Canoe Is Smashed at Little Falls. An attempt to shoot the rapids of | Little Falls above Chain Bridge early | last night cost the life of Horace Er-! skine, young employe of the Recon- struction Pinance Corp., when “his| cance was smashed to pieces on the | rocks in the narrow channel of the Potomac. A companion, France| Fraze, 1322 Twelfth street, swam to shore. Harbor precinct police dragged the river for two hours last night, but failed to recover the body. Erskine, Fraze and two young woman companions rented two canoes early yesterday afternoon from Joseph Fletcher, veteran riverman, and pad- dled away up the C. & O. Canal toward Little Falls. Shortly after 6 o'clock, James R. Montgomery of Clarendon, Va., and | Cyril Hillman of Washington, fishing on the Virginia shore, saw a canoe, manned by a man and girl, shoot down the rapids. They drew up to the shore and asked him to hold the canoe while the man went back to bring down another one, The girl followed | along the shore, Parts of Canoe Seen. A few minutes later Montgomery | caught sight of parts of a canoe com- | ing up out of the water. Then heads of two men appeared. One of them tried to help the other to shore, but | failed, and his companion drowned. | In a short time the two girls appeared | on the shore. Montgomery took them | and the man to the nearest telephone | and one of ihe girls called for help. Then the man and two girls en- tered the remaining canoe and start- ed back to Fletcher's boat house, after one of the girls had told Montgomery that they had driven to the river in her automobile and that the keys 10 her car were in the drowned man’s pocket. Joseph H. Fletcher, son of the pro- prietor of the canoe establishment, ssid that when the three returned to the boat house he was told that the second man was still paddling the other canoe out on the river and one of the young women informed him she had dropped the keys to her car overboard. Return in Another Car. After a futile attempt to get in the car, the three, all dressed in bathing suits, went up to the Cabin John car line, were gone about a half hour and returned in another car. They then got their car started and left. Later, after Fletcher was told by reporters of the accident, he said a man telephoned him and said: “I have bad news for you. I have lost a canoe and have | lost & friend.” H Late last night a Star reporter found Fraze as he boarded a New York train at Union Station. He said‘[ he had made a report to the police and refused to divulge any informa- tion about the drowning or identity of the young women in the party. Erskine lived at 1426 M street. He was a member of a Shrine temple at| Charleston, W Va. BREACK AVERTED, ENGLAND PLEDGES PEACE AID T0 PARIS Eden Agrees to Co-opera- tion for Security After Telephoning London. LAVAL URGES CAUTION IN MUSSOLINI PARLEY Rift Apparently Healed, but Fur- ther Paris Talks Will Be “Dif- ficult,” Officials Say. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, June 22—France today won England back to co-operation, temporarily at least, in building the big, complex system of peace pacts this nation holds necessary to guar- antee her against attack. A wide Anglo-French breach was bridged when Premier Pierre Laval induced Capt. Anthony Eden of Great Britain to get the London govern- ment’s pledge to work with France along the lines of the nations’ joint declaration at London February 3. That statement contemplated simul- taneous negotiations of Western aerial, Danubian and Eastern security agreements as parts of one indivisible security system. Further Talks “Difficult.” Britain's separate naval agreement with Germany, allowing the Reich naval tonnage 35 per cenl of the Brit- ich, apparently had upset this pro- ceeding and caused France to fear England was merely sceking sea and air accords for her own protection, leaving France to shift for herself. Although the rift apparently was healed, French officials said further conversations, scheduled to take place when Eden returns next week from Rome, would be most difficult. The French premier, in saying fare- well to the Briton, was understood to have advised him informally to “go easy” in trying to talk to Premier Mussolini about his quarrel with Ethi- opia “lest the Italians be offended and further shake the united (Anglo- Italo-Prench front” worked out at Stresa in May. In today’s meeting, Laval an- nounced, the two reached an agree- ment “to recognize that France and England should remain faithful to their common duty of working to- gether in the closest manner for the achievement of the peace of Eu- rope through increasing collective se- curity.” Compromise Tentative. This compromise, it was understood, was tentative, to be discussed further when Eden comes back from Rome. A telephone talk Eden had with Lon- don apparently paved the way to the agreement after deadlock threatened during the morning talk. Laval gave clear indication that he had not abandoned one whit of his opposition to the Anglo-German naval accord, saying, “I exchanged with Cept. Eden all useful explanations” regarding it. It was understood Eden sought to have negotiations for an aerial “West- ern Locarno,” making Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Belgium guaran- tors of each signatory against aerial aggression, at once, but Laval in- sisted that matter be treated simul- taneously with other phases of the security plan. Ribbentrop Prometion Seen. BERLIN, June 22 (#).—Adolf Hitler tonight was reported planning to re- ward Gen. Joachim von Ribbentrop for his skillful handling of the Anglo- German naval accord by giving him charge of the foreign office. Diplomatic quarters said Der FPuehr- er either would promote him outright to the post of foreign minister, now held by Baron Konstantin von Neu- rath, or himself take the foreign port- folio, naming Von Ribbentrop secre- tary of state in direct charge of the department. It was learned Von Neurath offered his resignation two months ago to make way for Von Ribbentrop, but Hitler declined it. Jubilance at the Anglo-German ac- cord was tempered with assertions that other things must be granted Germany before she returns to the League of Nations. A foreign office spokesman said “our return to Geneva is by no means imminent.” It was considered significant, how- ever, that newspapers were publishing no more of the scathing editorials with which they once lambasted the Geneva organization. London dispatches said Great Brit- ain expected to obtain from the Reick assurances that she would not build up to the permitted tonnage for at least seven years. Flying Noblemen Wreck Plane In Jaunty Take-Off for Rome By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—Two wealthy young Portuguese noblemen planning & non-stop flight 10 Rome as “a sport- ing proposition” wrecked their plane when they tried to take off from Floyd Bennett Pield today, Lat es- caped without a scratch. Returning to the hangar, they bought champagpe for every one in sight and blithely announced they would try it again—in their blue and yellow monoplane, if it can be. re- paired; in another if it cannot, “T just simply couldn’t get it up,” said Count Alfred de Monteverde, 25, who was at the controls. His brother George, 27, a marquis, was to have peen the navigator and radio oper- ator. ‘' Gas Load Blamed. “There’s only one thing to it—too much ges.” (The saip carried 630 gal- jons of gasoline and 30 of oil ) The monoplane was named the Francisco de Pinedo after the ltalian aviator who was burned to deatn try- ing to take off on a similar flight last Summer. Recalling that tragedy, authorities had two fire trucks, a police emerg- ency squad and an ambulance on hand, but all they had to do was treat Mrs. Charlotte Hirsch of Brook- lyn, who was knocked down and in- jured slightly in the rush to the scene of the brothers’ crash. Soft Drinks and Gum. The young noblemen had waited a month and a half for good weather over the 4,500-mile course to Rome. ‘When word of favorable conditions finally came today, they loaded up with 10 chicken sandwiches, two gal- lons of water, a quarte of soft drinks, a quart of chicken broth, a quart coffee, oranges, chocolate and chew- ing gum, and were ready to go. They indignantly denied a report that they had poison with which they planned to end their lives quickly they should be forced down at sea. b