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(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) slightly Fair tonight and tomorrow, cooler tonight; gentle northeast and east winds. Temperatures—Highest, 91, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 72, at Full report on page B Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 No. 33,298. 5 a.m. today. -7, Entered as second class matter post_office. Washington, D. C. @h WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, JULY 1, 1935—FORTY PAGES. ¢ Foening Star Lt L T, qrr urns Not (P Means Associ ROress. The only evening paper Washington with the sociated Press News . Wirephoto Services. UNDAY'S ireulation Yet Recelved. 130,414 TWO CENTS. HOUSE REJECTS ‘DEATH SENTENCE ENGLAND'S OFFER OF LAND IN AFRICA SPURNED BY ITALY Eden Says Il Duce Refuses to Accept Territory for Peace. HOARE CITES NECESSITY IN DEFENDING MOVE London Proposed to Give Area in British Somaliland as Out- let to Sea. Bv the Associated Press. LONDON, July 1.—Capt. Anthony Eden revealed to the House of Com- mons today that Premier Mussolini of Ttaly had refused an offer by Great Britain to give Ethiopia a slice of British territory in an effort to fa- cilitate a final settlement of the dis- pute between Ethiopia and Italy. The minister for League of Nations relations, recently returned from con- versations in Rome and Paris, was heard by packed galleries. Capt. Eden told the legislators he did his utmost to interest Il Duce in the British proposal for a peaceful solution of the Italo-Ethiopiarn dis- pute, and greatly regretted that his | suggestion did not recommend itself | to Mussolini. When Eden had finished his reve- lations the government ran into a storm from opposition leaders who demanded to know whether the House | of Commons would be consulted be- fore British territory was ceded to foreign powers. | Their answer, from Sir Samuel | Hoare, foreign secretary, was the tart | statement: | “The Commons must trust the executive department in these mat- ters. If it is not prepared to trust | the government the whole basis of | government is destroyed.” Sir Samuel njormed the icgisla- | tors that, from ais point o view,| Mussolini’s rejection of the British suggestion had ended the matier. al- though he said the British govern- ment had not yei soandoned hope | that a satisfactory settiement of the “very dangerous situation” would be | reached. He informed the House the urgency | of the present situation required the | government to take what steps it| thought fit in an eflort tc reach a set- tiement. Replying to a ouestion by George Lansbury, Labor party member, as to | the purpose of nis trip, Eden gave | a long explanation, but did not re- | veal what futurs course mignt be| taken in the Italo-Ethiopian affair. Gives Access to Sea. He explained that the Britisn pro- | posal to Mussolini was that the Brit-| ish government should offer a strip of territory in British Somaliland to Ethiopia, giving that nation access to the sea. TI ne said, was in- il such territorial end economic coacessions from Ethi- opia to Italy as might be irvolved in an agreed seiilemcrt. He declared the PBritish govern- ment did not ask concessions in re- turn for this earrangement except grazing rights for their tribes in such | territory as might ve ceded to Italy. Eden said he pointed out to Mus- solini that the suggestion was not made lightly and that only the gravity of the situation could justify the ces- sion of British territory without an equivalent return, bu: that Mussolini expressed himself as unable t ac-| cept the proposal as a basis ior the | solution of the Italo-Ethiopian dis- pute. He said that on his later trip to Paris, he gave Premier Pierre Laval of France an account of his conversa- tions with Mussolini. Eden explained he told Mussolini of the British government's great con- cern over the turn events were taking and that the attitude of the British | was not egotistical nor dictated for the British interests in Africa, but ‘was made because of membership in the League of Nations. The minister said the British for- eign policy was founded upon the League and the government could not remain indifferent to events which might profoundly affect the League's future. Details of Offer. Eden said the kind of contribution he was authorized to make to Musso- lini as a tentative suggestion was, broadly speaking: “To obtain a final settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian dis- pute, his majesty’s government would be prepared to offer Ethiopia a strip of territory in British Somaliland, giving Ethiopia access to the sea.” He said he pointed out to Mussolini that only through collective security could, in the judgment of the British, peace be preserved and that only through the League of Nations could Great Britain play her full part in Europe. Turning to his conversations with Premier Laval, Eden said he told the French government leader the reasons for the recent Anglo-German naval sgreement and that Laval explained with equal frankness the view the French government took of this agree- ment and its bearings on various Eu- ropean problems, in the solution of which the two governments are en- gaged. Girl Leaps 25,426 Feet. LENINGRAD, July 1 (P —Miss Tamara Kutaloffa, 21-year-old phy- sieal culture student, today claimed a world record for women parachute Jjumpers by a leap estimated at 25.- 426.4 feet from an airplane without Vi Bolt Striking Home Seeks Out Container Of Money in Closet By the Associnted Press, INDIANAPOLIS, July 1.— Lightning that struck his home, Walter T. Blasengym reported to fire officials today, sought out & container hidden in a clothes closet and consumed its contents —$3,000 in currency. Blasengym, an undertaker, said a diamond valued at $250, also in the con- tainer, was ruined. ‘The loss was discovered when he started*to retire late last night, he reported. Finding traces of fire in his bed room, he followed a trail of burned spots to the clothes closet. WIMBLEDON UPSET ADVANCES BUDGE U. S. Player Defeats Austin. Wood Eliminated—Mrs. Moody Wins. By the Associated Press, WIMBLEDON, England, July 1.— Donald Budge, flaming redhead rom Oakland, Calif., sprang the biggest upset of the all-England tennis chum- plonships today when he upset Henry Wilfred (Bunny) Austin, England’s second ranking player, 3—6, 10—8, 6—4, 7—5, to reach the semi-final round. Rallying after dropping the first set, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody gained ihe quarter-finals of women’s singles with a 3—86, 6—4, 6—2 victory over Slecna Cepkova of Czechoslovakia. Mlle. Cepova was too tired to keep up the fast pace she had set at the start. Using the same terrific backhand with which he had crushed Christian Boussus of France in the fourth round, Budge outlasted Austin in the deuced second set and then took full control of the situation to win and keep America in the running for the title now held by Fred Perry of Eng- land. Wood Is Eliminated. Budge's victory followed by some | hours the unexpected defeat of Sidney Wood of New York, generally rated Perry's most formidable challenger. Wood was beaten by Jack Crawford of Australia, 6—4, 6—3, 6—8, 5—7, 6—1. Wood’s defeat came as a stunning surprise to the American contingent, particularly those looking ahead to Davis Cup warfare a few weeks hence. The blond New Yorker generally had been regarded as the most for- midable of Fred Perry's challengers and had been a hot favorite to win over Crawford, whose play has been far below standard in recent months. Crawford’s victory sent him into the semi-finals, where he will meet Perry. The defending champion played spectacular tennis as he elimi- nated the towering Czech, Roderich Menzel, 9—7, 6—1, 6—1. Von Cramm Advances. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Ger- many’s top-ranking player and second seeded star, advanced to the penulti- mate round at the expense of Vivian McGrath of Australia in a four-set triumph, 6—4, 6—2, 4—6, 6—1. Meanwhile Helen Jacobs, the Amer- ican title holder, moved into the quar- ter-finals of women’s singles with & 6—2, 6—1 triumph over Mrs. E. C. Peters of Great Britain. Moving along with her were Dorothy Round of Great Britain, the defending champion; Joan Hartigan of Australia, Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling of Germany, Mme. Rene Mathieu of France and Kay Stammers, British left-hander. Mlle. Jadwiza Jedrzejowska of Poland registered a 6—2, 6—2 victory over Eileen Bennett Whittingstall of England to gain a berth in the round of eight. Mile. Jedrzejowska’s tri- umph was an upset, coming as it did a few days after the English girl had disposed of the seventh seeded player, Peggy Scriven, in straight sets in an early round encounter. The Polish player's next opponent will be Miss Jacobs. Miss Jacobs and Wilmer Allison ad- vanced to the fourth round of mixed doubles, defeating K. Lund of Ger- many and Mrs. G. Lucas of Great Britain, 6—1, 7—5. In the second round, Don Turnbull, Australia, and Lucia Valerio, Italy, defeated Laird ‘Watt, Montreal, and Caroline Deacon, Vancouver, 6—2, 6—2. Josef Caska, Czechoslovakia, and Mary Thomas, Great Britain, defeated Bobby Murray. Montreal, and Eleanor Young, Van- couver, 6—1, 6—2. Film Song Writer Wed. HOLLYWOOD, July 1 (#).—Friends who were taken by surprise by their marriage yesterday offered their con- gratulations t6 Burton Lane, motion picture song writer, and his bride, the former Miss Marion Seeman, Chi- cago soclety girl. Cross-word Puzzle . Finance Lost and Found Sports .........A-13-14-15-16 Vital Statistics .. Washington Wayside .. Women'’s Features ... DICKINSON KILLED IN ROBBERY, GIRL IN PARTY STATES Medical E.xam.iner Holds Lawyer Could Not Have Killed Self, as Claimed. SUSPECT TELLS THREE STORIES OF SLAYING Police Continue to Grill Detroit Man, Who Accompanied At- torney on Ride. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 1.—Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said this afternoon that Jean Miller, also known as Lillian Winles, told him that Howard Carter Dickinson was shot and killed while William Lee Ferris was trying to rob him. Any theory that Dickinson may have killed himself was discredited earlier by the report of Dr. Robert Kallman, Wayne County medical examiner, who performed an autopsy. Suicide was one of the explanations given officers by William" Lee Ferris, 26, in statements after his arrest as a suspect. Dr. Kallman said he belleved the shot through the chest was fired first, but that the direction in which it passed through the body indicated that “Dickinson couldn’ have reached around that far in that directioa to fire it.” Death Immediate. “Both of the shots—the one through the body, the other through the head.” | the medical examiner said, "would | cause death in less than a minute. He couldn't have fired one shot and lived long enough to shoot the second | time. The shot through his head was fired from the left.” He added that he understood Dick- inson was not left-handed. | Dr. Kallman said he found no marks | which showed that Dickinson had struggled before his death and added: “The second shot, through the head, probably was fired to make death cer- tain.” Recorder’s Judge Christopher E. | Stein postponed for 48 hours a hearing | on a habeas corpus writ sought by | Perris when Prosecutor McCrea told the court he would issue a murder warrant within 24 hours. To Seek Out Motive “I will not recommend a warrant | charging murder until I am satisfied I know the motive for the Kkilling,” the prosecutor said in explaining why he had issued no warrant yet. McCrea said he would question em- ployes at the hotels where Dickinson and Ferris stayed and attorneys as- sociated with Dickinson. “I can't see how a man of Dickin- son’s standing, a good, sober, family man, with & high ranking in his pro- fession, could get mixed with a gang of tramps like this,” McCrea said, re- ferring to Ferris and the three young women arrested with him. “There seems to be something missing here and I won't take the case into court until I know the motive.” Ferris, called “a liar” by McCrea, underwent renewed questioning by de- tectives and the prosecutor, unsatisfied with his three versions of the slaying of Dickinson. Ferris and the three young women arrested with him at Fort Wayne, Ind., Saturday were questioned all day yesterday. Perris made three separate statements and the women each made one. Dickinson, New York attorney and nephew of Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States, was slain last week and his body was found in Rouge Park early Thursday. He had gone for a ride Wednesday night with Ferris, who uses several aliases, and the three women. The women—Loretta and Florence Jack- son, sisters, and Jean Miller, also known as Lillian Winles—were held as material witnesses. Prosecutor McCrea refused to put Ferris' stories in a permanent record. Robbery Seen Motive. “While there is no evidence to show the girls were in a plot to kill this man,” the prosecutor said, “the state- ment of Perris is ridiculous. Ap- parently robbery was the motive. But he will not admit it.” Perrls’ third and last version of the slaying told how he. Dickinson and (8ee DICKINSON, Page 3.) COOLER WEATHER ON WAY FROM BAY Sultry Atmosphere Due to End After Storm Drenches Part of D. C., Leaves Rest Dry. i LOOKS SORTA LIKE 1 BETTER BE GETTIN' To TH' CELLAR! MRS, DOYLE HEADS| EDUCATION BOARD | Gilligan Made Vice Presi- dent—Changes Voted for Character Education. With all evidence of rumored dis- sension conspicuousiy lacking Mrs. Henry Grattan Dcyle was unani- mously elected president of the Board of Education ai ls meeting this morning. She is the first wonan to occupy that position. On recommeadation of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, the board decided to abandon the charscter education program in eight high schools, be- | ginning with the schoul term starting | September, 1936. | Dr. Ballou reported that the prin- cipal aim of the program will have been accomplished by that time since it is principaily concerned with a study of interest capacities aud at- titudes of the night school students, rather than sctual developmert of their characters. During the com.ng year the char- acter work will be carried on on a reduced scale. Gilligan Nominates Mrs. Doyle. Henry Gilligan, veteran board mem- ber, whose pledge to vote for Mrs. Doyle assured her election, nominated her, and Henry I. Quinn, widely dis- cussed as a rival for the job, sec- onded it. Gilligan was elected vice president by a unanimous vote. In nominating Mrs. Doyle, Gilligan said he did so despite his feeling that & man should head the board since it is composed c! six men and only three women. Work Termed “Splendid.” “I felt obliged to put aside this con- sideration, however, in the face of Mrs. Doyle's splendid work during her seven years on the board, particularly in the interest of crippled children and defective children of all kinds,” he said. In nominating Gilligan for vice president, Quinn paid him high trib- ute for his frankness and honesty on all matters, and said he hoped he would have the pleasure some day of nominating him for the presidency and witnessing his election to that office. The two new members of the board, (See DoYi.!. Pue_s,) TS ROCKS RELEASE YACHT ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, July 1 {#).—The steam yacht of Dr. John R. Brinkley, Del Rio, Tex. goat gland expert, was reported proceeding to Yarmouth today after being stranded on Cheboque Point, Nova Scotla. A message picked up by the govern- ment wireless station at Red Head sald the yacht was freed last’ night from the rocks, where she became caught, during a voyage from Port- land, Me., to Halifax. The 21 persons aboard the Dr. Brinkley II went ashore. { 'ppo(fg,f/A/G ‘ “STRIKE™ anp Foes of Arkansas Sales Tax in Open Revolt Against Act Merrhants Have Pledged Ivot to Collect or Pay Le By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. July 1.—Ex- pressing confidence that their signed followers will stand firm. leaders of Arkansas’ sales tax rebellion opened thelr stores to customers today, with | prices bearing no demand for the 2 per cent levy which automatically went into-effect at midnight. ‘Warned by Ragenue Commissioner Earl Wiseman th&¥-3-the mérchants have not paid the levy to the State by July 15 he will enforce the collec- tion under provisions of the tax act. Harley Stump, Stuttgart leader of | the rebellion’s most militant faction, | retorted last night: “Not a single merchant who signed the agreement will welch on it when | the stores open for business tomor- | row.” The agreement pledges the mer- chants neither to collect the tax from their customers nor pay it to the State. FLYING KEYS TAKE UNDISPUTED TITLE Unofficial Endurance Mark Falls as Pair Plans Land- ing Tonight. By the Associated Press. MERIDIAN, Miss., July 1.—Fred and Al Key, became the undisputed world champion endurance fiyers at 12:01 (Central standard time) this after- noon. At that time they passed the unoffi. clal record of 647 hours, 28 minutes and 30 seccads set in 1930 in St. Louis by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine. Last Thursday they beat the official record of 553 hours 41 minutes and 30 seconds made in Chicago in 1930 by John and Kenneth Hunter. ‘They radioed their ground crew this | morning that they expected to land their endurance plane, the Old Miss, by 6:30 o'clock tonight. Al Key, talking with his father over short-wave radio. said the descent would be made a'ter the unofficial record of 647 hours 28 minutes and 30 seconds set by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine 2t St. Louis in 1930 had been broken. That record will be equalled at nocn (Central standard time) today. “After careful check-up and in- spection of the plane” Key said, “it seems that crystallization has be- gun to set in from the constant vi- bration on a number of the wires and small braces. Hoving the undis- puted world air record in the bag, we deem it unwise to remain in the air any longer than this afternoon.” Baruch Revealed as Refusing Job of Administering A. A. A By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 1.—Bernard M. Baruch, a twinkle in his eye, said he didn’t want to be a “Sinbad’s old man of the sea on the back of the New Deal,” so he refused the job of ad- ‘ministering the Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration. or that agency of the Roosevelt ad- ministration. “The cemplete story of Baruch’s re- Before the A. A. A. was finally en- acted President Roosevelt, in a tele- phone conversation, asked the New Yorker to serve as its administrator and informed him Secretary Wallace would ask him formally to take the task. Soon afterward Wallace saw Ba- ruch. He declined the job. He was not in sympathy with the farm pro- gram. He was opposed to the plan of curtailing production to increase |p . .4 the National Steel Labor Re- |taxes for social objectives. * * * We “There w’u another reason, too,” Baruch said. “While I've fought for better agricultural conditions for many | operating under ithe authority of the | business taxes. * * * At the moment years, I had the feeling that agri- | national industrial recovery act, would it may be better to emphasize taxa- | culture, as & whole, might think a |have gone out of existence last night.| tion upon ' the individual after the New York speculator—even though he [ They will be taken care of per-|earnings of business have been redis- sincerely wanted to help and had tried | manently in the labec relations act, |tributed to him. to help for many years—was not the proper person to run the farm pro- gram.” 5 ENLARGED CREDIT UNIT ASKED INBILL, Senate Revision Keeps Con- trol in Majority of Re- serve Board. By the Associated Press. Drastically revised from the form in | which it passed the House but retain- ing control of the Nation's credit in a | majority of the Federal Reserve | Board, the administration banking | bill was reported to the Senate bank- ing Committee today by the Glass Bubcommittee. Credit control under the nvind! idraft would be placed in an open market committee composed of A | seven-member reserve board and five | representatives of the 12 Reserve | banks. | Existing law makes the 12 Reserve bank governors the Open Market Committee and the House bill sets up | the whole Reserve Board as the com- | | mittee, with an Advisory Committee | of five Reserve Bank governors, The seven members of the new Re- | serve Board would be known as “gov- ernors” and be appointed for 14-year terms. Would Remove Secretary. To avoid political influences, the | Secretary of the Treasury and the | controlier of the currency would be removed as members of the board 90 days after the bill became law. The House bill retained the existing board | set-up of six appointive members and two ex-officio members — Secretary Morgenthau and Controller J. F. T. ©O’Connor. The new “Board of Governors.” as | the Reserve Boacd would be known, would have & chairman and vice chairman, to be relected from among the board membeis by the President | to serve four-year terms. Nove of the governors could be reapovinted and not more than fcur of thz gov- ernors could be .nembers of one politi- cal party. To Initiaie Policies. The Open-Market Committee would have authority to initiate Lolicies having to do with buving and seiling of Government securities, discount rates and reserve reguirements, but as in existing law any of the 12 Reserve banks could refrain from following an open-market policy acopted. It would be mandatory upon all the 12 vanks in the House bill. Heads of the 12 Reserve banks would be known as presidents and vice presidents, instead of governors and vice governors. By a vote of not less than five of the Reserve Board, it could raise re- serve requirements against deposits to & maximum doubling existing re- quirements “in order to prevent injurious credit expansion or contrac- tion.” Existing requirements are 7, 10 and 13 per cent. ‘The bill provides a national bank may make real estate loans secured by first liens if the property is located ‘within 100 miles, provided the loan does not exceed 50 per cent of the appraised value and is not for more than five years. Loans not to exceed 60 per cent of the appraised value could be made if they were secured by an amortized mortgage under which installment payments were sufficient to amortize 50 per cent or more of the loan in ROOSEVELT DEN ON HOLDING GROYPS BEATEN, 216 TO 146 Quick Utilities Teller Vote Taken of Business and By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt's request for The vote was 216 to 146 Climaxing one of the most bi control over the House. Administration supporters contended mission to be “unnecessary.” That carried in the Senate by Commission discretionary authority. There it may either be rejected L3 Hastings Proposes Special Tax Session BeHeldin November By the Associated Press. { A Republican proposal for a special congressional session in November to consider the administration's tax pro- grAm was offered in the Senate today by Senator McNary, minority leader, on behalf of Senator Hastings. Repub- lican, of Delaware. Hastings, who was out of the city, proposed in a joint resolution that Congress adjourn when it completes the remainder of its legislative pro- | gram and return to take up the reve- | nue question November 28. Though hearings on President Roosevelt's tax-the-wealth program will not start until next Monday, pub- | lic discussion of it continued today. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of | Michigan, mentioned as & Republican presidential possibility. attacked it as a “mere sop to political strategy.” He said in a statement: | “If we are to have a new tax bill| let it be a real tax bill and not a| mere political appeal to mass pre- judice.” The National Association of Manu- facturers also criticised the proposal to graduate levies on corporate in- | comes, with the bigger corporations | most heavily taxed. The associaticn | called it on “attack upon the welfare | of millions of consumers and upon millions of thrifty people who have | invested their savings in our business| corporations.” New Measure Being Drafted. Administration leaders, with the aid of legislative drafting experts, con- | tinued work today on the new measure for an inheritance and gift tax and | higher levies on big corporate and | individual incomes. The House Ways | and Means Committee plans to start hearings July 8. Vandenberg demanded that the| Government work toward a balanced | budget. He called for a broadening | of the income tax base in any new tax program, opposed higher corpora- tion levies and suggested that inheri- | tance taxes should be used for “social | objectives,” but not income taxes. The formal statement of the Mich- | igan Senator, who has been mentioned | as a Republican candidate to oppose Mr. Roosevelt in 1936, placed him in direct conflict with word given Demo- | cratic leaders by the President to con- | fine new taxes to his recommenda- | tions.# Vandenberg contended the presi- dential plan for inheritance taxes, higher levies on incomes above $1.- 000,000 and graduated rates on corpo- ration incomes “would neither sup- port the public credit by adequately overtaking our tragically mounting | deficit, not “redistribute wealth” pur- } suant to the demands of those whom | the President would placate.” | Lists Five Principles. Assailing “inconsistent spending” as | leading to “uncontrolled inflation,” | ‘Vandenberg sald he preferred the al- ternative of taxation. He listed these five principles: “First, that national economy must again dedicate itself the pursuit of a balanced budget *. It will do 10 years, e LABOR BOARDS SAVED Presidential Order Rescues Na- tional Relations Group. President Rooszveit in three execu- tive orders today continued the exist- ence of the National Labor Relations lations Board and the Textile Labor Relations Board. These agencies, which have been which recently passea Congress but which has not yet been signed by the President. no good to ‘refll the barrel' if the | bunghole remains wide open. “Second * * * the new tax pro- gram should raise the money to do the job and not merely flirt with it. * * * The income tax base must be broadened. * * * “Thirdly, the tax program must be practical. I do not believe in using income taxes for social objectives. But I do believe in using inheritance must be sure we do not destroy w in our efforts to redistribute it. * “Fourthly, corporation taxes are “Finally, any such program must include the elimination of tax- exempt bond m,?.le'u." D Ballot Coni& After Debate on Measure Is Limited to 2!, Hours BITTER CONFERE FOR QUESTION NOW EVIDENT CE SESSION as Representative= Administration Overflow Galleries. legislation to abolish “unnecessary” utility holding companies by 1942 was turned down today by the House. tter legislative disputes in recent vears, the vote was studied for its reflection of the President’s present It was not a straight-out test, however, as no roll call vote was taken. more votes for the President would have been obtained if a record had been kept. The vote was on whether to adopt the Senate provision to eliminate in seven years holding companies considered by the Securities Com- a one-vote margin. The House Interstate Commerce Committee voted instead to give the Securities Fight to Go to Conference Committee. After final passage of the utilities bill, the fight over the “death sentence” provision will be transferred to a conference committee to adjust differences between the Senate and the House. or retained. As utility and Government agency representatives sat in the crowded galleries, the name of Charles West White House contact man, was pro- jected into the debate by Represent- ative Andrews, Republican, of New York. Cloak Room Work Cited. He assailed administration efforts to put over the ‘“‘death sentence” wanted by President Roosevell, and mentioned particularly the former Ohio Representative. Andrews cited West's cloak room conferences of the past several days during debate on the big bill and said West did not show on the White House pay roll. A total of 350 members answered the quorum call at the start of debate. The House membership is 435. Representative Eicher, Democrat. of Iowa, explained the provisions of the Senate and House bills. Representative Cooper, Republican. of Ohio, claimed the “death sentence” meant utility company destruction and declared that President Roosevelt in 1930 scored the very policies now being pursued by the administration. May Shouts Opposition. Representative May, Democrat, Kentucky, declared he stood with the President and the 1932 platform 100 per cent for “regulation” of public utilities, but shouted he was opposed to letting the party be led into “anni- hilation of property.” Chairman Connery of the Labor Committee told the House the Amer- ican Federation of Labor favored the Senate bill with its abolition clause. William Green, A. P. of L. presi- dent, he said, told him: “Organized labor, through the American Federa- tion of Labor, is standing 100 per cent behind Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the United States.” He said he was disclosing the federation's po- sition because many House members had asked him to ascertain it. Promptly Cooper asserted that Green only a short time ago expressed cisapproval of the principles of some provisions of the bill Protests Are Cited. “I stand here today and say Wil- liam Green doesn't stand for thou- |sands of workmen in utility com- panies,” he said. Thousands of utility employes have written him letters protesting pas- sage of the bill, Cooper said. Representative Starnes, Democrat of Alabama, asserted that power com- penies, in a 15-year campaign to avoid any regulation for the benefit of the public, had influenced some news- papers and even succeeded in revising school books. Packed galleries looked down upon the scene as one of the most bitter legislative battles in recent years ap- proached a climax. The decisive struggle was precipi- tated by introduction by Representa- tive Eicher, Democrat, of Iowa of the “death sentence” provision, adopted by a one-vote majority in the Senate. Technical Change Beaten. Earlier the House defeated by voice vote an amendment by Representative Sauthoff, Progressive, of Wisconsin to equalize voting power of holding com- pany stock. Chairman Rayburn of the Interstate Commerce Committee explained the question was so techni- cal it would be better to leave it for consideration of the Conference Com- mittee, which will adjust differences between House and Senate bills. Representative Wadsworth, Repub- lican, of New York withdrew an amendment to put the holding com- pany administration under the Power Commission instead of under the Securities and Exchange Commission. CHACO PARLEY BEGUN BUENOS AIRES, July 1 (#.—A peace conference was convoked today in an effort to bring Paraguay and Bolivia to & permanent understand- ing in their ancient Gran Chaco dis- pute. l \.