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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; light northerly winds. Temperatures—Highest, 87, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 5 a.m. today Full report on page A-11. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 No. 33,307. ETHIOPIA INSISTS UPON' IMMEDIATE ACTION BY LEAGUE 10 AVERT GONFLIGT Demands Council Be Sum- moned to Take Up Issues After Failure of Confer- ence With Italian Envoys. EDEN WILL ATTEMPT NEW PEACE MANEUVER Official Is Challenged in Com- mons to Put Italy in Position of Challenging Britain's Honor. | U. S. Missionary Group Flees Danger Zone. BULLETIN. ADDIS ABABA, July 10 (A).— New instructions from Washington, as a result of which the withdrawal instructions to Americans in Ethio-~ pia may be rescinded, were under- stood tonight to have been received by W. Perry George, United States charge d'affaires here. By the Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, July 10.—The for- e'zn ministry announced today that Fthiopia, “persisting in a peaceful so- lution” of the dispute with Italy, de- marlds the immediate convocation of | she Council of the League of Nations. Failure to agree in the Italo-Ethi- opian Conciliation Commission meet- ing at Scheveningen, the Netherlands, “following the refusal of the Italian arbitrators to examine the question of Ualual” did not surprise Ethiopian government circles, the announcement | said. The Italians’ unwillingness to take up this question was termed new proof of the justice of Ethiopia’s claims against the illegal occupation of its territory and the Italian aggression of December 5, 1934. Claims Held Just. (The Italian arbitrators, insisting that discussion be confined to the actual blame for the Ualual border clash in which 30 Italians and 110 Ethiopians were reported killed, de- clined to entertain, or even listen to, Ethiopia’s contentign that Ualual is situated on Ethiopian territory.) The foreign minister addressed let- ters to the representatives of a num- ber of European nations protesfing against the refusal of certain Eu- ropean arms factories to deliver to Ethiopia war material “which is nec- essary for the defense of integrity and independence.” These letters went to the Belgian minister, to the French minister, who also represents Czechoslovakia, and to the British minister, who also repre- sents Sweden and Denmark. Missionaries Leave City. Several American missionaries have left Addis Ababa, wheace the United | States Legation has advised all its nationals to depart in ble hostilities. Government _ circles reports that Ethiopia denied today expected Jap- anese aid in the event of a war with | Italy. Although Ethiopia's purchases of cotton goods from Japan give that nation 75 per cent of Ethiopia’s im- ports, the government circles pointed out that Japanese interests are still small. Japanese residents here number less than a dozen. The Ethiopian army has no Japanese advisers and has re- ceived no munitions from Japan. Eden Still Hopeful. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 10.—The British government's determination to seek a peaceful settlement of the Italo-Ethi- opian dispute “in co-operatica with the governments of other countries” was reiterated today in the House of Commons by Anthony Eden. minister for League of Nations affairs. Eden’s assurance was given in reply to Geoffrey Le M. Maader, Liberal member, who had invited Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary. to represent to Italy that, for Britain it is a mat- ter of honor not to default in her obligations under the covenant of the League of Nations. Eden, saying such an invitation ap- peared to refer to the possibility that Jtaly would resort to war, stated: *That situation has not yet arisen and 1 earnestly trust that it will not erise.” Program Is Completed. Great Britain's ministers, anxious to achieve a peaceful settlement at virtually any cost, decided today on: the final form of England’s stand be- fore the world in the Italo-Ethiopian controversy. Sir Samuel will make his declara- tion to the House of Commons to- morrow, and authoritative sources said England still clung to hope that an eleventh hour compromise might ward off war. Some sources, however, greeted the | news of the breakdown of conciliation proceedings at Sheveningen, the Netherlands, as a certain signal for hostilities. From Addis Ababa came reports that the first refugees—including American, British and Italian resi- dents—had started by train from the Ethiopian capital for the frontier. The Daily Express correspondent at Addis Ababa, who reported the de- partures, said most foreign firms rep- resented in Addis Ababa have ceased to grant credit, resulting in a paralysis of business. Joseph A. C. Avenol, secretary gen- eral of the League of Nations, who ap- peared pleased after his conferences with the foreign secretary and Eden yesterday, was " disclosed to have (See ETHIOPIA, Page 4.) Parliament Dissolved. ‘WARSAW, July 10 (#).—President Moscicki today decreed the dissolution of Parliament on the basis of the new electoral law, which became effective today. The President will fix the next elec- tion date within 30 days. ” view of possi- | Entered as second class matter post office, W ashington, D. C. Jumps Fully Cloth A destitute, discharged colored re- | lief worker sacrificed his life |hls‘ morning when he staked his feeble prowess as a swimmer against the Anacostia River in a heroic effort to | rescue two white children who were swept away by the current and sank | with him off Buzzards Point. Those drowned were Mary Kerns, 14; her 10-year-old brother Richard, children of a carpenter, living with their six brothers and sisters near the water front at 1801 First street south- west, and their would-be rescuer, Sterling Calhoun, about 26 years old. of 117 L street southwest. Disregarded Warning. | The boy and girl disregarded the warning of their parents to stay out of the river and sought relief from the heat by wading near the shore hand in hand. They either stepped | off into deep water or were pulled beyond their depth by the current. | Their cries brought Calhoun, \Aho! was fishing nearby. The colored man, whose friends said he could swim only | slightly, if at all, did not stop to re-| move his shoes or trousers before plunging in after the drowning chil- dren. He also was swept away Albert Wingert, 15 years old. who was on a houseboat in the vicinity. jumped into a skiff and rowed to the | scene, too late to be of assistance. | Ch ' Jobless Father of 3 Drowned In Vain Attempt to Save Pair River in Effort to Rescue Girl, 14, and Brother Trapped While Wading. WASHINGTON, ed Into Anacostia ‘The tragedy occurred shortly after 9 o'clock and an hour and a half later police of the harbor police re- covered the bodies of Mary Kerns and Calhoun, which were removed to the Morgue. S There, a few minutes later, Cal- houn’s body was identified by his wife. Calhoun, his wife said. was fond of children and was the father of three young girls, ranging in ages from 3 months to 7 years. The mother of the two children broke down when she viewed her daughter’s body at the Morgue. She was removed to her -home by police and placed under a doctor’s care. Meanwhile the search continued for the small boy's body and for the fa- ther, believed to be employed some place in Washington, unaware of the tragedy. “Fired” Off Relief. Calhoun'’s wife said her husband was “fired” some time ago from an emer- gency relief job and since had spent considerable time fishing in an effort to replenish the family’s meager larder. Asked if she had any means of | support, the colored mother slowly shook her head. She had just emerged. | dry-eyed, after identifying her hus- | band's body. | “No,” she said, “I don’t know what we'll do now.” PEARSON CALLED “LIAR” AT PROBE ‘Virgin Islands’ Priest Adds X Views of Governor in i Yates’ Affidavit. By the Associated Press. An affidavit calling Gov. Paul M. | | Pearson of the Virgin Islands a “liar, | thief and hypocrite” was read into the Record today at the Senate inves- | tigation of Pearson’s insular govern- ment Paul Yates, discharged administra- | tive assistant to the Governor, con- ! tinuing his testimony in support of | | his charges of maladministration, 1n~' troduced the affidavit. It was signed by Rev. E G. Anson of St. Paul's rec- tory, Frederikstead, St. Croix. It described the last four years un- | der Gov. Pearson as an “awful night- | mare” and alleged that Pearson had “appointed a rum runner to guide the | destinies of the vocational schools.” | “Never in my life,” said the affidavit, | “has such dishonesty flourished.” Personnel Called “Greenhorns.” It referred to Pearson's adminis- trative personnel as “a crowd of un- educated and inefficient greenhorns.” “I am a man over 60,” continued | the document signed by the priest. | “I have no ax to grind, and I believe | that not another dollar should be sent to the Virgin Islands for the support | of such a government.” Meanwhile, President Roosevelt at his reguiar press conference refused to comment on the demand made | yesterday by Secretary Ickes for the | removal of Judge T. Webber Wilson of | the Virgin Islands. Judge Wilson had | been an earlier witness against the | Pearson administration. “Intimidation” Assailed. Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, conducting the hearing, has issued a statement saying it was stated “on good authority” that some witnesses “have been intimidated.” “If there is any more of it,” he| ‘isaid. “the committee will run it down.” He declined to say whether the warning was aimed at Ickes. Repre- sentatives of that department denied any intimidation. Earlier Secretary Ickes, whose de- partment has charge of the Virgin Is- | lands. criticized Tydings' conduct of | | the hearing, intimating it was bring- | ing out no “facts.” He sent a letter | to Tydings which was described as “extremely strong.” | Before the committee yesterday | Yates recited more instances which | he said supported charges that Gov.| Pearson had tried to control public opinion in the islands and in the | United States. At one point he quoted the white-haired Republican Gov- ernor as saying, “I am not averse to buying off a man if it can be done discreetly.” | Tydings’ “intimidation” warning followed an executive session of his committee. George S. Robinson. present Gov- ernment attorne; in the Virgin Islands, handed to ““digs three af- fidavits, all charging perjury against Yates for testimoay ne had yiven. They were signed oy Michael Siraus, director of the i» W A. press section in Ickes' deparumeat: Oscar Chap- | man, Assistant Secretary of the In- | terior, and E. K. Burlew, Ickes' ad- | ministrative assistant. Yates had mentioned each in nis testimeny. Readers’ Guide Amusements Changing World Comics Cross-word Puzzle . Editorials Finance e 'A-17-18-19 Lost and Found . .A-11 Short Story ... Service Orders Serial Story .. Society ...... Sports .. Vital Statistics Washington Wayside .. ‘Women'’s Features .... PRESIDENT SLENT ONWHSPERNGS” Bides Time to Give Con- vincing Proof of His Complete Health. DG WITH SUNDAY MORNI WEDNESDAY, HAPSBURG RIGHTS AND PROPERTIES RESTORED BY DIET Archduke Otto to Regain Ancestral Estates and Go Unpunished. REVOCATION AWAITS " SIGNATURE OF MIKLAS Exiled Pretender Reported to Have Started Organizing “Brain Trust” to Make Fight. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, July 10—The federal Diet today unanimously passed a bill revoking punishments against the former ruling family of the Hapsburgs and restoring the Hapsburgs their confiscated property. As soon as President Miklas signs the measure, it becomes a law. By it, the Archduke Otto, Europe's most-discussed young man, regains his ancestral properties, It was reported today that he has adopted the brain trust idea for working out imperial aims. Organizing Plan Reported. A monarchist just returned from a visit to Steenockerzeel Castle in Bel- gium, seat of exile of the pretender to the Austrian thione, said today | Otto is organizing a quasi-cabinet of the best monarchist minds. This informant said the archduke | is thoroughly in agrement with offi- cial statements of th: Austrian gov- ernment to the effect that “restora- tion is not a question of the moment for Austria.” With property and financial prob- lems of the Hapsburg family on the | way to settlement through a measure scheduled to be passed by the federal Diet today, Otto is i a Pposition to sit back and wait to work for a resto- ration on an imperial scale. It is in furtherance of this plan BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt showed little | concern today over what some Wash- ington correspondents have noted in their recent dispatches as the begin- ning of a “whispering campaign” dealing with his mental and physical condition. He lightly turned aside, | with a smile, a question from a re- porter who wanted to know the Presi- | dent’s reaction to articles describing | word of mouth stories going the rounds concerning his health. | As Mr. Roosevelt sat at his desk be- fore the crowd of more than 100 newspaper men he looked the picture of health. He seemed unworried and unruffied by the stiff problems he is| facing, and while waiting for all of | the correspondents to file into the| room and take positions he conversed | informally with those near him. He! talked mostly about Summer wearing apparel and called attention to the new striped seersucker suit he had on for the first time, saying he considered | it ideal for hot weather. May Challenge Whispers. Despite the fact that Mr. Roosevelt | treated the so-called “whispering at- tack” indifferently today it does not , mean at all that he is insensible to what is going on. There are reasons | to believe he may later bring the sub-| ject into the open and discuss it him- self. It has been recalled that when he first became Governor of New York in 1928 a somewhat similar campaign got under way and he discussed the mat- ter candidly with newspaper men at that time. The “whispering” campaign in its present form is to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt has become unduly and seriously overwrought, principally be- cause of the administration’s political reverses since the Supreme Court’s N. R. A. decision. Some of these stories have gone to curious length in queer that he is rounding up advisers to co-ordinate tendencies in Austria and | other succession states toward an ul- | timate reunion of the Danubian states under the nistoric Hapsburg scepter. Restoration Question. | This information i1rom Steenocker- zeel supplements remarks dropped in Hapsburg quarters nere to the effect | that restitution of the family proper- | ties puts the whole rostoration ques- tion on a simpler basis. With Otto only 22 years old and | the family wealth restored, the Haps- | burgs can afford to take their time to avoid “selling out cheap,” that is, accepting a limited restoration in Aus- tria only under conditions binding their hands for the future As quoted by the wmonarchist who saw him recently, Otto said: “I am young and time is working for us.” His advisers have agreed that the European situation is extremely liquid in tendencies, not onlv in Austria but also in other succession states. strengthening daily the historic pull of Hapsburg tradition on the minds of Danubian populations. CLEARING WEATHER FORECAST IN EAST Capital to Enjoy Two Days of Fair Skies, With Normal Temperature. The heavy rains along the Alantic seaboard, reachwig their climex in the disastrous New York floods, will end today with tLe avsipation of the great mass of extremely moist, iropi- cal air which swept in from Bermuda | and the Bahamas and collidec with | another, cooler, air mass from the northwest, the Weather Bureau fore- | detail—for which there is no visible foundation. But they are nothing new | as far as the experiences of former | President | Presidents are concerned.. Roosevelt is merely running into what virtually every one of his predecessors has experienced. The whispering cam- paigns have their origin in obscure quarters and cannot be traced to their source. The drawing rooms of Wash- ington have in" the past served well for the beginning and the spreading of all manner of rumors Predecessors Attacked. Old-timers about the White House, discussing similar stories of the past, (See ROOSEVELT, page 3.) SILVER ACT CONFORMITY PROMISED BY PRESIDENT Buying of Metal Will Be Pur- sued “in Good Faith” Until Limit Is Reached. By the Associated Press In response to inquiry at his regular press conference, President Roosevelt said today the administration was trying to conform to the silver act in good faith. It provides that the Treasury shall by the metal until it constitutes one- fourth of the Nation’s monetary stock or until the price reaches $1.29 an ounce. Mr. Roosevelt did not go into details or figures on the silver program. Flying Romeo Resumes Trip. PARA, Brazil, July 10 (#).—Juan Ignacio Pombo resumed today his flight from Spain to Mexica City to see a senorita—the flight which was halted temporarily when he cracked up after spanning the South Atlantic safely. He took off here at 6 a.m. for Ma- rajo, Brazil. —_— Bear Injures Two Children. PERRYVILLE, A1k, July 10 (#).— Slipping its chain, a trained bear rushed a group of chiluren at T:orn- burg, 6 miles south ot here, injur- ing two. John D. Bovet, 2, was cut cast today. Generally clearing weather is ex-| pected all along the coast, a:tnough | some rain still wss henging on today jin the West-Central New York srea,| it was explained. | Washington wili have fair, acrmal | | Summer weathe: tor a day or tw with a maximum temperature today of about 86 degrees, arc little change in temperature tuiooirow, according to the forecast. The conditions which led fo the New York floods resulted from the collision of the two air masses, which met at an angle of ccnvergance which “almost pocketed” tae tropical Atlan- tic mass, holding it until it had been squeezed dry, it was explained. - Lawrence Fund Aids Children. LONDON, July 10 (#).—One of the | most valuable anonymous benefac- | tions of the late Col. T. E. Lawrence— | Lawrence of Arabia—was disclosed to- | day, an education fund for children | of killed or wounded Royal Air Force | officers. The fund has expended £4,000 (about $19.460). The endowment fund was set up in 1928 from the receipts of the sale of “Revolt in the Desert,” Lawrence's| chronicle of his Arabian campaign during the World War. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 10.—In its curious, episodic way, Chicago’s alimony row is constantly turninz up some new facet of the human drama. Consider the case df Arthur Eick, blind piano tuner. “My wife divorced me and I was ordered to pay $11 a week for the support of her and our chiid,” he said ! today. “I make $25 a week tuning ' pianos in the public schools. This leaves me $14, out of which I pay $9 a week for board and room. Five dollars remains for carfare, laundry, clothing, medical care and incident- als.” and scratched about the face. Doris Powell, 8, escaped witn scratches. The animal, part of a small circus, was recaptured by its trainer, ) ) He can keep up the alimony pay- ments a1l right, he said, but the rub is the $95 which the court ordered him to pay his wife's lawyer, If the [ b JULY Blind M an,on $25 Wage, Jailed For Not Paying Wife’s Lawyer NG EDITION THE BOYs INSISTED THAT WE GO AFTER YoU ‘Baer Denies Rift With Bride, Explains See Says He Is Still in D. C. Cafe Hostess ands About Dinner Party.” BY W. H. SHIPPEN, JR. “No, no, I never sa'd ‘No gd>' " Max Baer was mos! emphat~ this morning as he alight~d from a Newark | plane at the local suport and faced reporters inquiring aocu* his ramored rift with his brd2 of less than two weeks. Reporters who fourd Baer Zining | in a New York restzurant last night | with a former fizncee plastered Man- hattan papers with a quotation from Max that his marriage here June 29 was “no go because I am a Jew and | she is & Catholic.” | Baer declared tnat “10 years trom | now Il still b2 loving my wife as | much as I do at thi: minute” He | referred to the forner Miss Mary 10, 1935—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ¢ Foening Sfar ¥RP 'SALL RIGH EGOTI i ing Ex-Fiancee Love With Former, and She “Under- Ellen Sullivan, 32-vear-old hos‘ess at the Willard Hotel coffee shop. The couple was married by Judge F. Dickinson Letts at the latter's resi- dence here. ‘When Baer returned to the airport today from which he departed with his bride a scant two weeks ago, he was en route to Johns Hopkins Hospi- tal at Baltimore to. as he put it, “get | my busted paws fixed up.” i Baer's hands were injured, he said, | before and during the fight in which James J. Braddock took the heavy- | weight title a month ago. Baer left by automobile for Baltimore and ex- pected to return to New York tonight, | probably coming here to tak (See BAER, page 4. | )n. CORPORATION TAX FIGAT IS PENED Threat to Halt Hearings‘ Nips Bitter Debate on Politics. By the Associated Press A threat to suspend the hearings cut short another heated political de- bate over President Roosevelt's tax | program toaay before the House Ways | and Meens Committee. | Frederick R. Kellogg, New York. representing Community Chests flndi Council, Inc., was on the witness stand when Representative Treadway, Re- publican, of Massachusetts, suggested: “The tax bill ought to be put off. but it won't because you (Democrats) | get orders, while we on this side didn't " Representative Cooper, Democrat, of Tennessee retorted with a demand to be informed “whether this morn- | ing is going to be wasted as yesterday morning was, in a political discus- | sion.” “If 0. he said. “I'm ready to suspend the hearings; I've got other | work I could do.” Chest Deductions Urged. Thereupon the committee allowed Kellogg to proceed with Ris testimony, in which he advocated that corpora- tions be allowed to deduct from their taxable income amounts donated to community chests up to 5 per cent of their net income. Another witness, Hugo Noren, Pitts- burgh, advocated replacing the present complicated tax structure with a sin- gle tax on land. Some administration men on Cap-| itol Hill fear trouble is in store for that portion of the President’s tax/ plan which would apply graduated levies to corporation incomes. Already some members of the House Ways and Means Committee report | they have received “dozens” of tele- grams protesting the idea of replacing the present flat 133 per cent tax on corporate incomes with a rate that (See TAXES, Page 5.) alimony payments were reduced, he said, he could apply the difference on his wife’s attorney's fees. If kept in jail he fears he may lose his job. The judicial view oi Eick’s plight is hardly one of sympathy, said Judge Philip J. Finnegan, who sent him to the row for contempt of court: “There is no merit in the case. He has only himself to blame. He acted in a defiant manner. He wilfully refuses to comply with the court or- der, which is contemot. and he was imprisoned. The fact of his blind- ness does not enter into the case. He is accorded the same treatment as any one else.” Eick’s oddly mixed companions in jail commiserate him, pilot him about for his dafly exercise, listen gravely to the tappings and thumpings of his white cane, 4 19 NEW WARSHIPS | PLANNED BY NAVY 12 Destroyers, 6 Subma-: rines and Battleship | Asked by 1937. By the Associated Press. Secretary Swanson announced to- day that the Navy's byilding program for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1936. would include 12 destroyers and | 6 submarines and possibly a battle- | ship. He explained at a press conference that under the Vinson act 54 warships —36 destroyers and 18 submarines— would be required to bring the fleet to treaty strength by 1942. Swanson reiterated that no decision | had been reached on a proposal to | replace one of the seven battleships | which will be over age on expiration | of the Washington treaty, Decem- ber 31, 1936. Construction could January 1, 1937. he emphasized that the N starting any competition. it but | “not | start on added, 'y was To Observe Quotas. Swanson said the Navy intended to go along under Washington and Lon- don quotas as long as other signatories stayed within treaty limits. He insisted Germany's decision to increase her naval strength was a “European matter” and did not affect American plans. Swanson last month called for bids on 13 of the 24 vessels authorized for this year's installment of the build- | ing program. Bids will be opened August 7 for one lignt cruiser, one air- | craft carrier, eight destroyers and three submarines. Bids are to be asked later on one light cruiser, seven | destroyers and three submarines. Svanson said estimates on the cost | of new construction had not been prepared. He expressed belief that a battleship would cost $30,000,000, but Admiral William H. Standley, chief of operations, said fhe figure would be nearer $40,000,000. Planes Program Reduced. Simultaneously, Rear Admiral Er- gest King, chief of aeronautics, dis- closed that because of a reduced ap- propriation for naval planes, fewer cculd be bought than at first esti- mated. King said the Navy wanted to buy 555 planes during the coming year, of which 282 would be replacements ana 273 additions. This would have re- ouired about $40.000,000, it was esti- | mated, but the appropriatiog provided | only $26,700,000, plus $8,500,000 to pay for contracts negotiated during the previous year and $6,600.000 to cover contracts previously authorized, but for which no funds were made avall- able. King disclosed that the following experimental planes are under con- struction or being tested. Two torpedo bombers operating from carriers, two single-seater fighters from carriers, two dive bombers op- erating fram carriers, two battleship observation planes and several scout bombers, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. YOULL ALWAYs FIND ME TH'SAME STICAL Guy/ () Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 122,816 Some Returns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. SENATE DEMANDS DEATH SENTENGE IN-UTILITY BILL Measure Sent to Conference After Abrupt Change in Tactics. iPROBE HEARS CORCORAN 'ON BREWSTER “SHIFT” |R. F. C. Attorney Admits He Was “Pretty Hot” When Lawmaker “Cooled Off.” By the Associated Press By an abrupt change of tactics, the Senate today sent the hotly-disputed public utility bill to conference and instructed its conferees to insist on the provision desired by President Roosevelt to outlaw “unnecessary” holding companies in seven years There was an advance understand- ing, however, that a disagreement with the House on this section would result in a request to the Senate for “further instructions” with conferees. Administration Fight. The administration had fought to block concurrence of the Senate in the House version of the bill which LOAN LAW CHARGE HITS PRETTYMAN {Mrs. Jenckes Charges Mis- feasance—Divorce Bill Reported. BY JAMES E. CHINN, Charges of misfeasance in office were hurled at Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman today by Rep- resentative Virginia Jenckes, Demo- crat, of Indiana at the conclusion of a stormy meeting of the full House District Committee. Mrs. Jenckes read a prepared state- ment pointing out that her charges are based on Prettyman's public ac- knowledgment before a congressional committee that he is not enforcing the so-called “loan shark” law. At the same time she demanded an investigation of the loan shark situa- tion, and urged that a pending bill to regulate the small loan business be pigeon-holed until all members of Congress are fully informed of exist- ing canditions. Prettyman was not present When Mrs. Jenckes made her charges. He is understood to be vacationing at an Atlantic Coast resort. Divorce Bill Reported. Mrs. Jenckes made her attack on the corporation counsel after the com- mittee had ordered a favorable report on a Senate-approved bill to liberalize the District divorce laws. The meas- ure, however, was stripped of two highly controversial provisions that would have allowed an absolute decree on ground of cruelty and incurable insanity for a period of five years. The committee’s action marks a victory for Representative Carpenter, Democrat, of Kansas, sponsor of more liberal divorce legislation in the House, and both the Men's and Women"'s Bar Associations of the District, which agreed to a series of compromises in order to get House consideration at the current session. Charges Come as Surprise. Mrs. Jenckes' charges against Pretty- man came as a complete surprise. She preferred them after explaining her | opposition to the bill to regulate the small loan business. I desire at this time,” she declared, “to prefer charges of misfeasance in office against Corporation Counsel E. | Barrett Prettyman, on account of his public acknowledgment before a com- | mittee of Congress that he is not en- forcing the present law with reference to the loan shark industry. “Our Nation’s Capital has been in- fested for many years with financial racketeers of all types. Loan sharks, note shavers, companies, loan shark real estate oper- ators have thrived in Washington. “The sound, substantial banks and financial institutions of our Nation's Capital have been powerless to prevent these financial leeches from thriving on our unfortunate citizens.” The divorce bill will now be placed on the House calendar in time for | action on the next District day, which is expected to be Monday. Delays Crime Action. The committee, however, again side- stepped action on the crime report, | but definitely fixed July 24 as the date to begin its reconsideration in accord- | ance with action taken two weeks ago. Representative Werner, Democrat, of South Dakota, author of the Crime Investigating Committee’s minority re- port, which vigorously opposed certain recommendations in the majority re- port, especially the one calling for re- moval of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, made a move to have the full committee adopt his report as a substitute for the majority report. But on the insistence of Representative Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, who served as chairman of the crime (See PRETTYMAN, Page 5.) SIX HELD IN HOLD-UP Man Shot, Girl Arrested in New- ark Round-Up. NEWARK, N. J. July 10 (A).— Twenty policemen battled an alleged hold-up gang of five men and a woman at the Hudson tube station today, shooting one mau and captur- ing the six. Two truckloads cf radio tubes and motors, stolen from the garage of McKinley & Koetzle, Inc., were re- covered. The men were charged with rob- bery, carrying eoncealed weapons and ) loan shark financing | had eliminated the section providing | for dissolution of all holding com- | panies by 1942 except one for each | regional system. | Senator Dieterich. Democrat, of Tlhinois, abruptly withdrew his motion | to instruct the confereces “not to in- sist” on the abolition provision, and the conference proposal went through without a record vote. Immediately Vice President Garner | appointed as Senate conferees Chair- man Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, of the Interstate Commerce Commit- tee. who had charge of the bill in the | Senate; Barkley, Democrat, of Ken- tucky; Brown, Democrat, of New | Hampshire: White, Republican, of Maine, and Shipstead. Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota. Corcoran on Stand. | Meanwhile, at the House lobby probe Thomas Corcoran, R. F. C. attorney and coauthor of the utilities bill, told the Rules Committee that Represen tive Brewster, Republican, of Maine. ‘had been on my neck” continually about Passamaquoddy Dam and t he was “pr hot” when the Rep: sentative told him he could not vote for the provision to abolish e holding companies in seven years. Yesterday Corcoran denied Brew- + ster's ‘charges that he threatened to hold up construction of the Passama- quoddy project if the Representative did not vote for the abolition provi- sion desired by President Roosevelt. He repeated today he understood ‘thav, in trying to get Brewster's sup- | port for the legislation he was reach- ing into Republican forces and at- | tempting to enlist one of their “out- | standing men.” | Corcoran said he was assigned to help with the original drafting of the holding compeny bill througn a direct request from President Roosevelt. Replies Scarcely Audible. In contrast to his rapid, clear- voiced testimony yesterday. Corco- ren’s replies to questions today were scarcely audible to members at the end of the committee table. They com- plained of their inability to hear. Representative Cox, Democrat, of George, was told by Corcoran that he first noticed & “cooling off” in Erewster's attitude for the abolition provision on Monday morning before | the House vote. i “It wasn't so much that he cooled | off as that he was afraid of his po- litical situation in Maine,” Corcoran said. He added that he had seen only iwo members of the House Interstate Commerce Committee during consid- eration of the bill, with the excep- ticn of Chairman Rayburn. The two were Mapes, Republican, of Michigan &nd Pettengill, Democrat, of Indiana The witness said no formal opinion on the constitutionality of the legis- lation was given by the Justice De- | partment | Frequently Corcoran and committee | members strayed from what Chairman | O'Connor described as the “intimida- | tion” charges. The chairman pro- | tested. Corcoran said he was asked by the President to clean up the legal phases of the Passamaquoddy project. He repeated his version of the Brewster conversation, and insisted: “I have no power to stop the Passa- maquoddy project.” Adjourns Till Tomorrow. The committee adjourned until to- morrow morning, when Dr. Ernest Gruening, head of the Interior De- partment Territories Bureau, will be heard. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, intitiated the move to end Senate debate by asking Wheeler whether he would insist on the bill “dying” in conference if he could not | bring about an agreement on the aboli- tion clause. Wheeler said he would feel “duty bound” to insist as long as possible and then, if he could not bring about an agreement on it, he would “return to the Senate for further instructions.” Byrnes, from his place in the rear of the Senate, turned to Dieterich, and asked if he would be content with such an agreement. The Illinoisan, who had once come within one vote of having the Senate strike out the abolition clause, said that “in view of the statement of the Senator from Montana” that he would come back to the Senate for further instructions rather than let the bill die in conference, he would withdraw his motion. (See Gould Lincoln’s: analytical article on today's hearing—Page A-4) Police Guard Reopened Plant. LANSDALE, Pa,, July 10 (#)—The Montgomery Clothing Co.’s plants at Kulpsville, Sanford and Harleysville, where a strike is in progress, re- opened today under police protection. State police were on guard as some 000 pickets and strike sympathizers gathered. »