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HERTZOG HAILS BRITISH UNITY South African Premier Tells People Union Must Stand by Britain. BY A. G. GARDINER, England's Greatest Liberal Editor. LONDON, June 29.—No prime min- ster ever succeeded to a more unen- viable inheritance than Stanley Bald- win has done. In one sense only is he fortunate. The domestic situa- tion, due mainly, I think, to the enormous disquiets of the world situ- ation, is unusually favorable to the government. The sense of the encompassing per- 1ls has undoubtedly consolidated pub- lic feeling, not merely in this country but throughout the empire. A re- markable evidence of this is the clo- quent and enthusiastic tribute which Gen. Hertzog, prime minister of South Africa, has paid to the British com- monwealth on his return from the silver jubilee celebrations in England. Once Lukewarm Friend. There was & time when Gen. Hert- zog was regarded as a lukewarm friend, if, indeed, not an irreconcil- able foe of the British connection, but responsible experience of that connection has converted him as com- pletely as it converted his colleague, Gen. Smuts. In his speech at Cape | Town, Premier Hertzog spoke of the *joyous solidarity” of the British people, exhibited throughout the ju- bilee celebrations, and of the vital urgency to the South African Union of the British connection. “If the union wants friends in the | world,” he said, “then it must stand | by Great Britain and the common- | wealth. Don't let these go, because | where are the others?” He was em- phatic in his support of the League of Nations and gave the other do- minion premiers a strong lead when | he said that the anxieties of British foreign ministers would have keen considerably eased if they had known | more precisely where the dominions | stood about collective security. | His reference to the difficult question | of the protectorates which the union | is asking the British government to hand over to it was guarded, but cordial. He made no criticism of the British decision that the popuiations of the protectorates, white and native, would be consulted before the terri- tories were handed over, and he said, handsomely enough, that “once the British government makes a decision it never goes back on it.” Gives Much Satisfaction. This deliverance has given as much satisfaction here as it has givea in Cape Town. It is a plain rebuke to the once formidable, but now negli- gible body of South African secession- ists. If (as the Manchester Guardian remarks), Gen. Hertzog, who once shared the secessionist view as strong- ly as any one, is convinced that the union has nothing to gain from further steps toward isolation, we can be sure he will carry the great bulk of his people with him. Nor is this marked change in the attitude of South Africa the only indi- | cation of what I may call a new spir- | itual orientation on the part of the dominions toward the British Com- monwealth. It is in part due to the operation of the Westminster statute, which, in breaking the iast bonds of imperialism and establishing the inde- pedence of the dominions in name as well as in fact, has obliterated all sense of grievance and has allowed the sympathies of the peoples to flow in their natural channel. How far this consolidation of the English- speaking world will go is for the future to discover. But that it is one of the major potentialities in the New World which is now so visibly in the makiag 1s obvious. Japan Is Problem. Nor can it be doubted that impetus to the movegnent is given not merely by the removal of political obstruc- | tions but by the vast practical con- siderations implicit in the changing | balance of the world. It is not only | Europe which is in the melting pot. | Mr. Baldwin and his new foreign min- ister, Sir Samuel Hoare, are not only | confronted with the question of what Hitler means, where Mussolini is going and what is to become of the League. ‘They are no less perplexed by the policy of Japan, whose latest stride in the process of mopping up China and establishing her hegemony of Eastern Asia, with all its bearing upon external interests in the Pacific, is the subject of the gravest anxiety to the new government. There is much discussion in the | press as to how far the declarations | of Mr. Hirota that Japan’s aim is to| work in friendly co-operation with | China are sincere, but no doubt exists | in any quarter that the militarists are in the saddle, that their policy is the fulfillment of the 21 demands of 1915. that there is no power in Japan that can restrain them, and that the meek acquiescence of the Nanking govern- ment on this occasion has revealed its complete helplessness. These momentous happenings are &s relevant to the future of the do- minions as they are to the mother country, and we cannot dissociate them from the new spirit which is apparent in the members of the Brit- ish commonwealth and in Gen. Hert- zog's fervent appeal to South Africa to “stand by Great Britain and the commonwealth.” (Copyright. 1935.) —_— BRITISH DISPLAY NEW WAR PLANES GUARDEDLY L Fairey Fantome, Claimed as Most Heavily Armed in World, Shown at Hendon. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jjune 29.—Great Britain's latest warplanes were on view today at the Royal Air Force pageant in the Hendon Airport, but so closely were they guarded no member of the public was permitted to approach within yards of them. Aircraftsmen walked a ceaseless patrol among the 200,000 spectators to prevent crowding. The Duke of Kent was among those who witnessed the display. Among the exhibits was the new British mystery ship, Fairey Fantome, described as the heaviest armed air warplane in the world. Flying Firm Official Killed. JAMESTOWN, N. Y., June 29 (#).— Henry P. Becker, vice president of the Becker Flying Service, Buffalo, was killed and Ivar Goran, Buffalo flyer, suffered cuts on the face and severe body bruises when their plane fell from 400 feet here today when the motor stalled. In Fair Play, By the Associated Press LONDON, June 29.—Emperor Haile | Selassie of Ethiopia. through the col- umns of the Sunday Times, tonight play,” to supply his nation with arms for defense against the heralded Ital- ian invasion. A dispatch to the newspaper from Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, quoted the Lion of Judah as saying he had been frustrated in his attempt to purchase munition in Czechoslo- | vakia, Denmark, France and Belgium, | explaining: | “The Belgian government informed | up shipments were stopped to avoid | the reproach of participation in the | armament of the Ethiopian Empire.” “Is it not a worse reproach.” the emperor was quoted as asking, “to facilitate the accomplishment of Italy's program of violation of treaties | | | EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE. challenged Britain “as lovers of fair | THE to Supply Arms and the coercion of a free people weak in all resources except the justice of their cause? “Is there one policy for the weak and another for the strong? “The weak must be kept weak so NEW REVOLT TALK SCOUTED BY NAZIS Troops March on Eve of Anniversary of “Blood Purge.” By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 29—Storm troops marched in the flag-decked streets of Berlin today on the eve of the anni- versary of Adolf Hitler’s “blood purge” of June 30, 1934, in which 77 men— most of them storm troopers—died. At the same time, Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, addressing thousands at Tempelhof Airdrome, after an earlier speech at the Sportspalist, vehemently denied he had called the troopers to march to “forestall revolt.” He shouted to the howling crowd: “While other countries stumble from crisis to crisis, the idea of change in the government of Ger- many is more than absurd.” Goebbels sent the Brown Shirts marching to “prove that the Nazis have conquered ‘red Berlin’ and won Berliners' hearts,” but observers, nevertheless, said they discerned signs of renewed undercover lift-wing agi- tation in the Nazi party. Since the great “conspiracy” al- legedly headed by Capt. Ernst Roehm was discovered a year ago and its workings washed out in blood, conserv- atives in the party have had things all their way. Recently, however, Nazis have renewed their drive against left-wingers, sentencing them to prison, and numbers of “steel hel- met” war veterans, hitherto among the elite of the quasi-military organi- zation, jailed without explanation. The propaganda minister gestured in passing toward France, remarking that the “army protects the state against outside forces” and adding: “The Prench say: ‘Your army was created to wage war against ours, to half peace’ Never has any state raised an army to invoke war. The world respects only the states which are something and on the way to be- coming something.” Goebbels declared he was “aston- ished at the naivete” of those who thought revolt might be near, saying | “We have foreign exchange and raw material difficulties to fight but the severity of this struggle will not force us to our knees.” He said the Nazis, | that the strong may have no undue difficulty in destroying them. Italy, | & great manufacturing country, is } working day and night to equip her | soldiers with modern weapons and modern machines. We are a pastoral and agricultural people and cannot do more than purchase abroad a few rifles and guns to prevent our soldiers from entering the battle with sword and spears only. The British are lovers of fair play. I challenge them: In what way have we provoked this war? If we are in the right, if civilized nations are un- able to prevent this war. at least do not let them deny us the power of defending ourselves.” JAPAN'S INVASION HELD WAR MOVE Observers See Preparation for Soviet Conflict in Chinese Campaign. (Copyrignt. 1935, by the Associated Press.) TIENTSIN, China, June 29.—For- eign military observers here, watching the Japanese Army clutch North China even tighter in itr mailed fist, said today they believed Japan's lead- ing motive was preparation for pos- sible war with Soviet Russia. They credited the army’s insistence on the demilitarization of Hopi Prov- of lines of communication in North China, as well as the desire to avoid trouble with Chinese troops. Eliminates Hazard. With the army’s protectorate over military sources pointed out, Japan can count on non-interference on her left if she has to push troops out into Mongolia to fight Russia. Withdrawal of Chinese troops obe jectionable to Japan from Hopei has been almost completed. the Kuomin- tang (National government party) €liminated and non - co-operating Chinese officials replaced. A Japanese consulas official said “we are row intensifying our request for the elimination of anti-foreign | teachings from text books,” announc- ing that “Japanese probably will be sent to schools and universities to talk with teachers and give them true understanding of Japan’s aims.” Military Training Ended. Military training has been halted in all schools at Japanese insistence. A further step toward control of North China has been taken in Cha- har, where Gov. Sung Cheh-Yuan has been dismissed, at Japan’s dictation. Sung’s troops are expected to be re- moved soon. Chahar is highly important to Ja- pan because the vital Peiping-Suiyuan | Railway runs through it. For hun- dreds of miles, the line parallels So- viet-influenced Mongoiia. NEW VIOLATIONS CHARGED. Russian Dispatches Claim Japan De- liberately Provocative. MOSCOW, June 29 (#).—Official Russian news agency dispatches to- day charged Japanese and Manchu- kuan infantry, cavalry and gunboats with three new violations of the Si- berian-Manchukuan frontier, despite recent protests against similar inci- dents lodged at Tokio June 11. ‘The dispatches asserted the “inva- sons” of Soviet territory were “with clearly provocative aims.” The Tass Agency reported from Bla- goveschensk that two gunboats pene- trated the Amur River into Soviet ter- ritory despite warning signals from Soviet frontier cutters. The other two earlier violations, the official agency said, occurred near Khabarovsk June 23, when infantry- men and cavalrymen advanced several hundred meters into Soviet territory to make observations. Robber Given 40 Lashes. GEORGETOWN, Del.,, June 29 (#). Walter Edell, alias Walter E. David- son, 28, convicted of robbery, received 40 lashes at the whipping post in Sussex County jail today. Warden Hugh Smith of the prison laid on the lashes, ordered as part of Davidson's sentence. Edell also must serve seven years in prison, [3 ince to its desire for absolute control | North China virtually established, the | WORKS DIRECTION 1S DECENTRALIZED |Five Regional Directors to Handle Applications for Fund. By the Associated Press. The Works Progress Administration | yesterday moved to carry out its de- | centralization plan under the $4,- | 000,000,000 work relief plan. | Beginning tomorrow, the adminis- | tration plans to ook to its five regional directors for applications for expendi- tures of approximately half the fund. | Only about $2,000,000,000 in projects has been recommended by the appli- | cations division headed by Prank C. Walker and officials said yesterday that applications were on the decrease. | On some of these projects, mostly | Federal, which President Roosevelt has approved, Harry L. Hopkins, relief ad- ministrator, plans to put to work some |of the 3,500,000 employables now on | reliet. Officials said yesterday they ex- pected between 100,000 and 200,000 | would be given work on relief projects during July, in addition to some 2,- 500.000 they said were on relief ad- ministration jobs. In carrying out the decentralization plan providing also for State und local progress directors, the work of the Walker Allotment Committee is being reduced. As a result, officials indi- cated today the duties of Walker are expected to be completed soon. Washington headquarters are pre- paring to pass on recommendations from regional directors for projects, instead of handling them directly through the various units. Steps to dismantle some of the central agencies are already under way. Forty-five employes of the applications division already have been furloughed. In connection with the decentrali- | zation move, Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell's | resettlement administration will take over relief efforts to rehabilitate 200,- 000 farm families. State relief ad- ministrations are instructed to cull the number of unemployables on the Pederal relief rolis and turn them back to the States as rapidly as possible. Enrollment of 300,000 additional men in the civilian conservation camps, to bring the total to 600,000 by August 15, is under way. Yester- day $25,000,000 was authorized for additional uniforms and supplies, which brings to $110,000,000 funds for the expansion, plus $25,000,000 for building new camps. Thus far, President Roosevelt has alloted $22,000,000 for State and com- munity projects, out of $800,000,000 authorized. It is advanced on a basis of 45 per cent Pederal gifts, with the balance to be supplied by local and State governments. UTAH STATE SECRETARY IS CONVICTED OF FRAUD By ihe Assoclated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, June 29.—Mil- ton H. Welling, secretary of State, was convicted in District Court late today on a charge of issuing a fraudulent salary claim for a woman not em- ployed by the State. Involved was a check for $100 for Mrs. Gelda Richards, wife of Harold P. Richards, & former employe of the Motor Vehicle Department. Welling contended the check was remunera- tion for Mrs. Richards' assistance to her husband during road trips, [ step by step, were nearing the goal for | which they had battled the last 10 | years. | HITLER HEAVILY GUARDED. Nazi Refugees From Austria Called to | Duty. MUNICH, June 29 (®)—Extraor- ! dinarily heavy guards were placed | | about Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, who | | came here today to attend three Nazi | functions. ; | Storm troops and police stood close | | together along the streets Hitler used. | Por the first time the Austrian legion, | composed of Nazi refugees from the neighboring country, was used for guard duty. oo SPEED IN SILVER ACT IS URGED BY THOMAS Oklahoman Reports 34 Senators Have Signed Letter to Be Sent to Roosevelt Tomorrow. | By the Associated Press. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, said yesterday he had 34 senatorial signatures on a letter to President Roosevelt asking him to press completion of the silver pur- chase act and probably would for- ward it to the White House tomorrow. The Oklahoma silver bloc leader said several other Senators had asked to sign the letter and he expected to have 40 signatures before forward- ing it. The letter urges the President to push slver purchases until the price reaches the coinage level of $1.29 an ounce, or until the silver monetary stock has a ratio of one to three with | gold. | | | Third Term Offered Porras. COLON, Panama, June 29 () .— Dr. Belisario Porras, twice President of Panama, was proposed again for that office at a meeting tonight of the United Liberals, headed by ex- President Rodolfo Chiari and Fran- cisco Arias Paredes, one-time presi- dential candidate. “Gold Diggers’ By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 29.—Love balm and breach of promise suits claiming total damages of more than $500,000 were rushed into Illinois courts to- day to beat the July 1 deadline set by & new law outlawing such actions. In Cook County seven suits, includ- ing five charging alienation of affec- tions and two breach of promise, were added to those already pending. Court attaches estimated that 75 such suits were pending in this county and nearly as many more down-State. Heading the actions filed in Chi- cago was one by Miss Dorothy Ap- pleby, 25, stage and screen beauty, asking $250,000 damages from Sidney M. Spiegel, jr., secretary of a theater corporation here. Miss Appleby, a former resident of West Quincy, Mass., alleged that Spiegel persuaded her to come to Chicago from Hollywood, ar- ranged for a honeymoon on the Ile de lcan, of Rhode Island will discuss the i current pelitical situation in an ad- dress in the National Radio Forum, | arranged by The Washington Star, to be broadcast on & coast-to-coast net- work of the National Broadcasting Co. at 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Senator Metcalf now is a member of the Senate Commit‘ees on Educa- tion and Labor, Finance, Interstate| Commerce, Manufactures, Naval Af-| fairs and Territories and Insular | Affairs. A leader in the recent reawakening of the Republican minority in the his guns on the agric - ment program as it affects the Rhode Island cotton-textile inaustry. The Senator, who holds an A. M. degree from Brown University, was elected to the Senate November 4. 1924, to fill the unexpired term of the late Le Baron Bradford Colt and has been twice re-elected since then. b of wages and hours. Left to right Operators’ Association. A group of labor and coal representatives at the conference last night that resulted in SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 30, 1935—PART ONE. Selassie Challenges Britain, Discuss Truce in Coal Strike Strike __(Continued Prom Purst Paze) | extension and all operators who de- sire can continue to operate.” | Miss Perkins then turned to Ken- nedy. He said the operators had agreed to the two previous extensions While he was without power to ratify | the agreement. he continued, he had | every reason to believe the contract again will be extended. Asked by operators why the admin- istration made no effort to avert the strike until mid-afternoon, Miss Per- | kins said: “It was not expedient | earlier.” 1 By mid-afternoon, however, the Labor Department chief had sent her ace trouble-shooter, Edward F. Mc- Grady, to confer with Lewis and the | operators. Later, Lewis and Kemudyi' met Miss Perkins. | President Roosevelt twice before in recent months averted threatened soft coal strikes by last-minute pleas | for extension of the 1934-35 wage- | hour contracts. The last extension was granted to give Congress time to act on the Guffey coal stabilization | bill to set up a “little N. R. A" for | the bituminous industry. That measure is still before a Ways and Means subcommittee, and has not yet been called up in the Senate. The wage and hour negotiations are close- EHulk of Economy Act Lists Launched tion of Hoover in BY J. A. FOX. | ‘The hulk of the once sturdy econ- omy act lists a little further at mid- night tonight Launched with a back-handed ben- | ediction from President Hoover on July 1, 1932, the craft that was looked to to bear the Government through | Depression Shoals has known only ad- verse winds on its three-year passage. | Billowing sails have become shredded anvas on warping sticks, and an ill- tarred voyage that was destined to end nowhere is about complete. | No tears are being shed. Cargo Being Jettisoned. { The end of the fiscal year 1935 to- night sees more of the cargo of the economy act being jettisoned. Going overboard are the ban on re- allocations: the curb on administra- tive promotions; the “involuntary re- tirement” law: provision for rotating |ly linked with this fight, since some | operators contend its enactment is necessary to guarantee them sufficient income to pay even present wages. On the strength of the bill's appear- ance on President Roosevelt's “must list of legisiation, these operators offered to renew present wages and bours until next April 1. Opponents of the measure likewise offered to miners the same terms, although they served notice of an intent to test its constitutionality as soon as it is enacted. The miners, however, held out for a 30-hour week instead of the present 35 hours, and pay increases averaging 10 per cent. CLARK HIT.S SUBSIDY Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis- souri said yesterday he would move tomorrow tc have the ship subsidy bill which was passed by the House last week referred to the Commerce Committee and added: “It will never get out.” He contended the measure was so “full of loopholes” for graft that it was impossible of enactment. “It is the worst piece of legisla- tion ever before Congress,” the Mis- sourian said. Illinois Pension Bill Signed. SPRINGFIELD, IIl., June 29 (#).— Gov. Horner today signed an old-age pension bill to give $1 a day to per- sons who have reached 65 years and haven't other means of support. It becomes effective January 1. Rush” Beats Illinois Deadline on Lawsuits France, and on the day before they were to be married told her “It's no 8o.” John Larvin Markham, official of a coal company, filed suit against J. C. Henderson, vice president of the American Weekly, asking $100,000 damages for the alleged alienation of affections of his wife, the former Wanda Dillon. Mrs. Markham today obtained a divorce from her husband. At Peoria, Evelyn Moore of New York City got under the legal barrier with a $50,000 demand for damages from Wallace McDonald Snow, Peoria official of the Big Four Railroad. She charged that he proposed marriage October 15, 1933, but refused to marry her a year later after their engage- ment had been announced. Miss Moore declared in her suit that she spent $1,500 for an opera- tion “to properly fit her for marer- nity,” but Snow refused to marry her. Metcalf to Talk in Forum Senator Jesse H. Metcalf, Repub-¢ SENATOR METCALF. 4 furloughs, and the vesting of sole | authority to fill vacancies in the | President. | Hanging on principally are the re- | duction in leave from 30 to 15 days: | the “marital status law": reduced | travel allowances, and some pay re- | ductions pertaining to officers of the armed forces and to members of some commissions. How much effect will be felt from | the liberalization of the reallocation | |and administrative promotion legisla- | | tion is a question. The first permits {of a regrading of positions, a step | that has been held up for the full| | three years. The latter allows promo- | tions within grades—which, after an | absolute ban of two years, has been permitted for the past year, whenever savings could be effected in other salaries to care for advancements. With appropriations being held down, widespread promotions are not an- ticipated. Leave Restoration Seen. Restoration of 30 days annual leave is in prospect. A bill already has been | reported out of the House Civil Service | | Committee, and action is expected | | shortly. No opposition to the meas- |ure is in sight, either in House or | Senate, and if the legislation can be | kept clear of the log jam. passage is expected without trouble. In addition to the 30-day leave restoration, the measure allows accumulated annual | leave up to 120 days, and the same for sick leave. | The House Civil Service Committee | has held hearings on a bill sponsored | by Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York to do away with the marital status law, which provides | that in mandatory dismissals one or | the other of an employed husband or | wife must step out, but no one looks for favorable action. There not only | is opposition in Congress to such a step, but President Roosevelt has called on the emergency establish- ments to hold job-placements down to one to a family, which would seem definitely to doom the Celler measure. This law cost about 1,700 jobs. There is little agitation in evidence about other restrictive features still applied to Government employes. There is a $2,000 “ceiling” on com- | bined retired pay and salary for any | retired service officer—not disabled— | taking a civilian position, although | they may accept either retired pay or | the salary of the position if it ex- | ceeds the $3,000. Travel Allowance $5. | Travel allowance still is down to $5 | daily from $6; the Interstate Com- | merce Commisioners are on a $10,000 | annual basis instead of $12,000, and the international joint commission- erships—Mex‘casn and Canadian— once comfortable $10,000 berths, are down to $5,000 Veterans' allowances, sharply slashed at the outset of the Roose- velt administration, have been beat- ing back to their old basis. For di- rect service-connected disabilities, it was said yesterday, payments are about where they were. Por non- service-connected classes, payments also have been restored. In the “pre- sumptive” service connected cases, the ban on compensation still hoids. The first economy act, passed by & Congress over which he had lost con- trol, was sigrec by President Hoover | “with limited satisfaction.” He said in explanation: “Pirst, it falls short of the economies promised by the cabinet and other executive officers of the Goverrment. Second, it imposes unnecessary hardships on Government empiloyes in minor mat- ters of kittle importance economically.” Hoover expressed the hope the next Congress would remedy it. At that time, the Government deficit was $2,885,000,000, a two-billion-dollar jump in a year, snd the economy measure was supposed to save $150,- 000,000 annually. It carried an 8!3 per cent pay re- duction and the various employment restrictions, including reduced leave. Salaries Restored. Within two weeks after President Roosevelt had taken office, he boosted ) Known Only Adverse Winds. | the “Konsum Genossenchaft Lichl-‘ | ing its losses were strictly withheld. -l a 31-day extension Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor; John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers; Secretary of Labor Perkins and Duncan Kennedy, chairman of the Coal ~—Star Staff Photo. 1932, Craft Has the pay cut to 15 per cent, and ap- | plied other economy measures which | entailed & potential saving of $500,- | 000,000 annually. | Then the backfire started. Roose- | velt proposed to restore 5 per cent of | the pay cut—based then on living | costs—as of July 1, 1934. Over his veto, in March, 5 pcr cent return was voted as of February 1, 1934, and 5 per cent as of July 1. At the same time, a 48-hours-pay for 40-hours- work provision for emploves in the mechanical trades was voted. | The President proposed to restore automatic promotions to service offi- cers as of July 1 lsst, but again Con- gress stepped 1n and went the whole | way, including in the liberalization provision the Ccast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Public Health Serv- ice, postal service and police, Sremen and teachers here whcse vearly step- ups had been stopped The ban on longevity increases fcr the service of- ficers still holds. however | On April 1 of this year the last S per cent of the pay cut was lifted though the President had proposed that this not be done until July 1 Meanwhile, also, veteran restrictions were being lightened. Restrictions Not Urged. President Roosevelt had not recom- mended that the restrictions on pro- | motions be maintained in the new fiscal year and there was no effort in Congress to hold them over. He had arged in his budget message though | that the retirement provision under which a person with 30 years’ service | could be dropped, be kept, but when this was incorporated in the inde- pendent offices bill, it went out on a point of order in the House. It has been fought from the time of enact- ment two years ago. Pigures from the Civil Service Commission yesterday showed that nearly 9,000 employes have been ousted by it—some in their | late 40s—with a consequent jump in the cost of the Government'’s share of | the retirement fund. The provision | of the first economy act under which | the President must approve all exten- | sions of service past the statutory re- | tirement ages, still holds The rotative furlough provision was | & “spread work” plan sponsored by | Postmaster General Farley at the | height of the retrenchment program, | when the forces of the old line estab- lishments were being reduced, in an effort to equalize the burden of un- | employment. It is being dropped be- | cause it is outmoded. The abandonment of the law pro- viding presidential approval for filling of vacancies only serves to transfer responsibility from the Budget Bureau | to administrative officers directly con- cerned. | | | WORKERS’ STORE CHAIN | BROKEN UP BY NAZIS Huge Co-operative Enterprise Is Dissolved in Fight on Sys- tems in Country. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 29.—Germany’s big- | gest co-operative society, originally founded by the Socialist party and later taken over by the Nazis, passed | out of existence today as a result of | the current campaign against depart- ment chain stores. | The last meeting of the society, ! emburg,” a workers’ business under- | taking under the guidance of the| ministry of economy, was held today | and its dissolution voted. ‘The society owmed several hun- dred shops, 310 trucks and & huge department store with between 2500 and 3,000 employes. Figures concern- NAZIS BAN PA#ER BERLIN, June 29 (#).—The propa- ganda ministry today banned from | Germany indefinitely the Swiss daily | newspaper Basler Nachrichten on the | ground that it maintained an anti- Naz attitude. The Basler Nachrichten is known commonly as “Germany’s most read newspaper,” as it is reported to have a greater circulation in this country than Reichsfeuhrer Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter. s BURNED ON FACE OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 29 (#).— Theodore Roosevelt, 3d, son of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, was slightly burned on the face and hands today after an explosion of cleaning fluid set fire to the.Roosevelt home. He was treated by the family physician. A maid, Jeanette Carminetti, 50, ‘was severely burned and was taken to & hospital. Damage to the home was estimated at $1,000. < BANK BILL “LEAK" [N MAY BE PROBED Glass Brands Story of Changes “Inaccurate.” Denial Withheld. By the Associated Press An apparent “leak” to New York bankers of secret committee changes in the administration’s banking bill yesterday threatened to bring on an- other Senate investigation Despite 2n agreement among mem- bers of Senator Glass' Banking Sub- committee not to disclose what they had done on the bill to centralize Sredit lished yesterday that the Senators had agreed to relax partially the law control, a report was pub- forbidding banks to underwrite se- | curity issues. Glass described the story as “ut- terly inaccurate,” but refused to deny it entirely. Committee members made no secret of their anger at publica- tion of the article, apparently ob- tained from bank sources in New York. Townsend Charge Denied. Only last week published statements {hat Senator Townsend, Republican, | of Delaware was informing Winthrop ‘W. Aldrich, president of the Chase National Bank, of the committee's activities, were denied by both par- ties. Townsend was out of the city yesterday. Glass said he had not given out any information even to the chair- man of the full committee, Senator Fletcher, Democrat, of Florida and did | not know the source of “the informa- As More Cargo Is Jettisoned With Back-Handed Benedic-! tion or the misinformation as the case may be.” Adding that he would “call the mat- ter to the attention of the comm tee” when the bill goes before it to- morrow, Glass said: “It is to be deplored that any- body having access to the proceedings of the subcommittee should have been. if anybody has been, guilty of dis- closing information thus surreptitious- |1y gained.” Report of Changes. The committee was reported vot- ing to permit private banks to un- derwrite security issues, but not sell them to the public. Also it was said to have exempted banks, in so doing, from civil liabilities under the se- curities act, but to have limited the underwriting to 20 per cent of an issue, or to 10 per cent of a bank’s capitali- zation. Meanwhile, a hint of opposition to the bill came yesterday from Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho after a farm delegation headed by Fred Brenckman of the National Grange had protested to him. Borah said “They (the farm group) look upon title two as dangerous in that it will delegate power to a few men (Fed- eral Reserve Board) absolutely to con- trol the volume of currency in this country without any regulation or standard to limit or control their dis- cretion.” RUSSIANS CHEER AS SIX ARE CONDEMNED TO DIE Nine Women, Sentenced to Varying Others, Including Two Terms in Author’s Murder. By the Associated Press. TAGIL, Ural Area of U. 8. 8 R, June 29.—The cheers of 1.200 specta- | tors resounded in a Soviet court room today when six persons were sen- tenced to death for the murder of Grigori Bykov, Bolshevik author. Paul Pestov, former official of the City Soviet, was one of the condemned. Nine others, including two women, were sentenced to varying ierms of forced labor. Bykov, an iron miner, recently won a huge success with his book, “Tales of High Mountain,” in which he viz- orously denounced ‘“class enemies.” He was shot to death last April 12 Paul Mokrov, named as the ome who fired the fatal shot. was sent to death with his father, Jacob. Irene Krivoruchkin, reputed brains of the gang and mother of one of those condemned to death, was sen- tenced to 10 years' hard labor, SENATE POSTMASTER'S SON WEDS MISS THOMAS John W. Gates, Jr., Is Married to Daughter of Norman Thomas in Quiet Ceremony. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 29.—Frances Beatrice Thomas, daughter of Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, was married today to John W. Gates, jr. son of the postmaster of the United States Senate. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Sidney Lovett of New Haven, Conn., chaplain of Yale University, at the Thomas home at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. Only members of the two femilies were present Gates, who is 24 years old and a native of Memphis, Tenn, is credit manager of the Bank of Manhattan. Miss Thomas is 19. They met two years ago in a restaurant the bride and her sister were managing PEACE TALKS PLANNED German Veterans Accept Bid of French Ex-Soldiers at Parley. PARIS, June 29 () —German vet- erans of the World War today ace cepted the invitation of French exs soldiers to come to Paris next Mon- day to engage in peace talgs with their former enemies af the allied armies. The war-time soldiers of 11 allied nations, including the United States, will discuss measures foer peace with the Germans under the auspices of the Prench Veterans’ Association. BALKAN REVOLT HINTED CLUJ, Rumania, June 29 (#)— Fifty thousand farmers gathered here today heard Julius Maniu, peasant leader, deliver an address that con- tained broad hints of revolt against the Bucharest government. “The peasants want no constitu- tional changes which would increase the powers of King Carol,” the fiery Maniu said. “The farmers of Rumania have started three revolutions in 120 years and are ready for another if neces- sary.” China Plans Buildings. China will construct buildings in Shanghal to house all ministry of communications bureaus, L