Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair tonight and tomorrow: slowly rising temperature tomorrow; gen- tle east wihds, becoming variable. Tem- peratures—Highest, 77, at noon today; lowest, 68, at 6 am. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 ered as sec: No. 33,337. NEW YORK UNIONS CALL OUT 12,000 IN W.P. A. PAY STRIKE Spread of Walkout to Other Large Cities Threatened in Dispute. “SITTING TIGHT” POLICY ANNOUNCED BY JOHNSON Labor Heads Protest $93.50 Wage Would Give Employers Wage Cut Excuse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 9.—Launch- ing a strike movement which threat- ens to encompass other large cities, union representatives today made fly- ing visits to call 10,000 to 15,000 skilled workers away from Works Progress Administration jobs in pro- | test against the Government's secu- Tity wage. The extent of the strike and the rumber of union workers respond- ing to the call could not be estimated at once. | A “sitting tight” policy was pro- | claimed by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, New York administrator of W. P A “Sitting Tight.” He had been 1n communication with members of his organization at vari- ous projects, he said, and had been told of the action of union officials in enlisting laborers. “I intend to sit tight and see what happens,” he said. Regarding the possibility of the ! strike spreading to other parts of the country, the former N. R. A. head declared: “I am concerned with New York City only. The W. P. A. program is not in operation in other parts of the country.” In defiance of warnings cast by Gen. Johnson and Harry L. Hop- kins, national head of the W. P. A, George Meany, president of the State Federation of Labor, declared: “Our people are going out to stop union men on the job. They will continue to do so until further notice.” See Excuse to Lower Pay. The unionists protest that the security wage of $93.50 a month paid skilled workers would be seized the | ond class matter t office, Washington, D. C. \ Mediator? JAMES W. GERARD. GERARD REPORTED INWEDITOR ROLE British Press Says Former Ambassador Speeds to Rome for Talk. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 9.—Published re- ch WASHINGTON, FRENCH PREFECTS CALLED BY LAVAL AS WORKERS RIOT Police Ordered to Clean Up Agitation Centers, With Troops Ready to Assist. WOMAN IN RED DRESS LEADS TOULON RIOTERS | House-to-House Search Brings 40 Arrests and Discovery of Many Wounded. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, August 9.—With troops ready but out of sight, the French Government today ordered police forces to clean up agitation centers. Premier Pierre Laval ordered the | prefects of all France's 86 depart- | ments to confer with him immediately. It was the first such conference in the history of the French Republic. A somewhat easier attitude pre- vailed as the laborers in the govern- ment arsenals at Toulon and Brest went back to work and the French Line employes at Le Havre voted to end their strike. ‘The object of the prefects’ conter- ence was understood to be the de- velopment of a more favorable atti- tude on the part of government em- ployes toward the pay cuts which the ports purporting to disclose that the | government deems necessary for rea- United States is taking an active inter- | est in the Italo-Ethiopian controversy preceded Anthony Eden’s return to London today to make final prepara- | tions for tri-power conversations. British press reports said James W. Gerard, former United States Ambas- sador to Germany, was Rastening to | Rome at the request of the American | Government to talk over the situation with Premier Benita Mussolini of Ttaly. Ignoring the fact that Gerard re- |tired from the American diplomatic service 18 years ago and presenting no positive authority for their statements, the newspapers pictured Gerard as an unofficial observer and possible | mediator. Recently in London. Gerard was recently in London and | has been vacationing on the French | Riviera. | (State Department officials at Washington said they were not ac- quainted with any order sending sons of economy. | Agitators Are Warned. | Government officials said the riots of the last few days, which reached | a climax last night in Toulon, “seemed | to be organized disorders” but “un- | likely to continue.” The government warned agitators to be quiet but in- structed the troops, held ready icr action, to remain in the background. | A vast network of police was thrown | over Toulon's riot scenes and a house- to-house search today brought 40 ar- rests and the discovery of many wounded. Police said they seized “a regular arsenal” in one house in Toulon where two, wounded were hiding. They | brought out many small arms, sev- eral gas masks, and a few submachine guns. The police everywhere were in- | structed to watch agitators and to be firm but to avoid shooting. The authorities at Toulon said that the guards held their fire even when the upon by private employers as an ex- | Gerard to Rome as an official Amer- mob was shooting last night. cuse to lower wages. Hopkins warned that those who walked away from their jobs would be speedily replaced, and that the | strikers must look to city and State agencies for relief. Gen. Johnson, in a fiery plea to labor delegates last night, told them they were the “chestnut rakers of contractors and'Communists.” At Atlantic City, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, predicted spreading of the walk-out, adding that his organiza- tion was assuming a hands-off policy, and was not interfering with the strike action of local unions. One Project Halted. At Gen. Johnson's office it was said that the strike had completely halted work on but one project in the city— the Astor slum clearance work. “The Government can’t give an inch,” said Johnson. “What it has done is right and fair, and all that 1t could do with the means at hand. “We are giving jobs to 100,000 per- sons supporting half a million people,” he said. “If we are not hindered we will give jobs to 250,000 bread winners for more than a million people. * * * “Where we should have good will we are offered a Kilkenny cat fight—a | bickering brawl, ill will, hatred, riot | and maybe bloodshed. Loves Worth-While Fight. “Lots of us love a fight, but it ought | to be in a fine, great cause to make it | worth all this.” | Johnson told the union delegates | that skilled workers were “never bet- ter off” than with the assurance of | six months work at $93.50 a month. He said they were being duped by Communists and selfish contractors. | He called it a “ghastly shame.” The answer was appointment of a committee to make sure that each of the 36 unions involved called its men off the Federal jobs. More than 700 | already had walked out. Navy Strike Held Failure. PHILADELPHIA, August 9 (P).—| Naval officers said a strike called by leaders of relief workers on Philadel- phia Navy Yard P. W. A. projects was | See W. P. A, Page 4. Union Is.zzlccused Of Firing Help for Pay Bargaining Three Organized Office| Workers Give Board First Problem. Did the International Bricklayers. Masters and Plasterers’ Union dis- charge three members of the Book- keepers, Stenographers, Typists and Accountants’ Union for union activi- ties? This question is one of the first problems that will be presented to the Labor Relations Board as soon as the members of this board, legally in ex- istence since July 5, are named. Benjamin J. McNally, Charles W. Dougherty and Frank Dewer, clerical workers at the Bricklayers’ Union office in the Bowen Building, 815 Fif- teenth street, were dismissed after they obtained salary increases through collective bargaining. 2 | John J. Gleeson, secretary of the Bricklayers' Union, declares the dis- charges, which became effective the same day the labor relations act was made law, were the result of an econ- omy wave, ~ The e¢lerks’ collective bargaining | protest was made when clerical sal- aries in the union office here dropped to $12.50 a week. . | ican representative to discuss the :I!nlo-EtI\iopxnn situation. Gerard | served at Berlin until the breaking off of diplomatic relations on American | entrance into the World War, and has | not been connected with diplomatic | service since then.) Foreign office experts and other officials headed for lengthy consul- tations with Eden, minister for League of Nations affairs, in the limited time remaining before his departure for Paris Tuesday to talk with French and Italian representatives. Although British government cir- cles were looking forward to the Paris talks with gloomy foreboding. there were no signs of surrender of their determination to avert war by any means possible, Final Decision Favored. They indicated recognition that the | 1ssue should be decided once and for all at these talks, leaving nothing un- done before the League of Nations Council meeting in September to in- quire into the entire East African | controversy. Authoritative sources said Eden's strategy at the conversations would be to hold back and let Prance and Italy do the talking first. The government’s decision to let France take the initiative presuma- bly was based on a feeling here that France, for the moment, was likely to have more influence over Italy. It was understood that Britain (See ETHIOPIA, Page 4) e CLIPPER FLIGHT THIRD Pan-American Giant Craft to Hop for Wake Island. ALAMEDA, Calif., August 9 (P).— Under the command of 8 new skip- per, the Pan-American's clipper ship was groomed today for a flight to tiny Wake Island, 5,000 miles away. The big 19-ton flying boat, blazing a trail for proposed passenger service between California and the Orient, was scheduled to take off at 3 pm. (6 p.m. Eastern standard time). Capt. R. O. D. Sullivan will be the series of trans-Pacific hops. He was win C. Musick when the first two flights were made. Capt. Musick now is in the East on business. skipper on the flight—the third of its | second in command under Capt. Ed- | Premier Laval refused any compro- misg in the shipping strike, but the French line agreed to compensate the sailors for their pay cuts, decreed by | the government. The end of the strike enabled the steamship Cham- plain to sail from Le Havre at 2 pm. —two days late—and the steamships Colombie and Lafayette to depart on schedule. Regardless of complaints and pro- tests, the premier held firmly to his deflation program. He assembled the prefects to ensure uniform and speedy application of his program and to explain how the reduction of incomes was compensated by lower costs of living and how all the Government measures were intended to revive business and to avert a financial crisis. Paris had its own little midnight | battle outside a Communist meeting, | where a score of political adversaries 1 waylaid and beat four Communists. Two were taken to a hospital. Two Killed in Toulon. Two persons were known to have been killed in the wild night of riot- |ing in Toulon. The port demonstra- | tions spread to Lorient for the first | time as 2,000 arse: workers paraded (See FRE! , Page 5.) COLLAPSE OF BRIDGE CAUSES 2 DEATH ‘Two Others Rescued as Car Is Plunged Into River at La Crosse, Wis. By the Assoctated Press. LA CROSSE, Wis., August 9.—The west end of the Municipal Bridge link- ing Wisconsin and Minnesota col- death in the Mississippi River. The victims, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Landrieau of La Crosse, were drowned when their automobile, caught on the bridge, dropped into the river. Fischer Blinn, 33, of Trempleau, | Wis.. and Miss Marceline Patro, 25, of | submerged car. The car smashed into an iron girder at the top of the west approach. As the machine caromed off, the western- most span of the bridge, damaged in a similar accident three years ago, gave way, hurling the car into eight feet of water. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., August 9.—Ne- braska authorities today wistfully re- called murder mysteries where no corpus delicti ever was found and pondered the latest mystery in which | they have more bodies than they know | how to explain. Fred Frahm, serving a 10-year term in the Nebraska Penitentiary in con- nection with the death of his brother John, a wealthy Glendale, Ariz., oil operator, sevén years ago, apparently had the key to the mysterious case, which has had officers counting on their fingers for a week, but he told conflicting stories. The case excited moderate attention until early in 1934, when a body, iden- tified then as that of John Frahm, was dug up in Garden County. On the basis of that corpse, Fred Frahm was convicted of manslaughter. Last week, after six months in prison, Fred Frahm drew a map and handed it to State Sheriff Fred Ben- ton. Cheyenne County authorities, guided by the map, went to a deserted A ¢ Too Many Bodies in Murder Puzzle Nebraska Authorities spot near Sidney, Nebr. and dug up another corpse. Fred Frahm claims the body is that of John Frahm and maintains the other one was “planted evidence.” Fred Frahm told Benton and County Attorney P. J. Heeton of Cheyenne County several conflicting stories, then clamped his mouth shut and called for his lawyer, C. L. Baskins of North Platte. to have drawn only a 10-year sen- tence and went back home, Then Frahm issued a signed statement his brother had been killed by a hit-and- run motorist November 9, 1928. “Prahm told me he gave us the map to get even with Garden County authorities,” Benton said. “He claimed they railfoaded him to the pen on planted evidence.” Frahm 1is reasonably safe in his 10- year term because the double-jeopardy provision of the Constitution forbids trying him again for slaying his brothes h & lapsed today, plunging two persons to | | Minneapolis, were rescued from the | Baskins told his client he was lucky | ¢ Foening Star WITH SUID}Y MORNING EDITION D, CQ.,: FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935—THIRTY PAGES. YoU DON'T THINK THE CHIEF'S GOIN’ TCALL THIS HIS BABY! e i ) A 1, = fl v L AE VLA USTER DRDERE | President Approves Guilty Verdict and Sets Dis- missal for August 12. | By the Associated Press President Roosevelt today approved the court martial verdict of guilty against Brig. Gen. Alexander E. Wil- liams, former assistant quartermaster general of the Army, and ordered him dismissed from the service effective August 12. Williams, who holds the permanent rank of colonel, was found guilty on | May 23 of having solicited and ob- tained a loan from Frank Speicer, an automobile tube salesman, while he was assistant to the quartermaster | general in charge of the transporta- { tion division. ‘The court-martial recommended that Williams be dismissed. \ Dern Ordered Probe. ‘The charges were preferred as a re- sult of an investigation by the in- spector general of the Army at the tdirection of Secretary Dern. They revolved around numerous allegations of lobbying activities in the War De- partment by representatives of auto- mobile and other concerns. A native of Linden, N. C.,, Wililams was graduated from West Point in 1898 Williams was found guilty of “so- liciting and obtaining a loan of $2,500™ from Spicer in connection with War Department contracts and of giving false testimony by denying the loan ] before a House Committee. An Army court-martial has no dis- cretion except to recommend dismis- sal if an officer is found guilty of the | charges preferred against him. The President has discretion in commuting any recommended sen- tence. But, despite recommendations by members of the court that he exercise clemency in Williams' case, | he failed to do so. | Not Eligible for Pay. | Williams is not eligible to draw re- tired pay, which, after more than 30 years' service, would Lave amounted to three-fourths of his base pay of $6.000 yearly. | In announcing the court-martial verdict, the War Department said Williams knew the “representative of an automobile tire concern was at- tempting to favorably interest him in his tube in order to secure War De- { partment contracts.” Willilams was awarded the Distin- guished Service Medal for exception- ally meritorious and distinguished services in France and also the Silver | Star for gallantry in action against the Spanish forces at Santiago, Cuba, in 1898. ROOSEVELT T0 FISH ON WEEK END TRIP Mind for Journey After Adjournment. By the Associated Press. Seeking relaxation after a busy velt put aside affairs of state to leave late today for a week end fishing trip. He invited a party of friends to accompany him. They will board the Government yacht Sequoia at An- napolis, Md., tonight for a cruise down Chesapeake Bay. The President still is keeping in mind a longer trip—to the Pacific coast to attend the San Diego Exposi- tion. But the exact time depends on the adjournment of Congress. ‘White House attaches say Mr. Roosevelt intends to remain aere for at least a week after adjournment to put into operation the social security program and other measures. ‘Then it appears more than likely he will visit his home at Hyde Park, N. Y., before turning westward. If this plan is adhered to, it prob- ably will be late September before Mr. Roosevelt starts for the coast. His route remains unsettled, White House aides say, but some believe he will visit Vice President Garner in Texas and Senator Robinson in Arkansas. Robinson is up for re-election in 1936. ‘The general expectation is that the President will make some speeches during his travels. No set political speeches have yet been announced. “Go Home Fever’ Hits Congress; | Early Adjournment Is Seen \Veteran Members Look for End of Session at Any Time; Perhaps by End of Next Week. | By the Associated Press Congress has a bad case of the “go-home fever” which signifies to veteran | members that it won't be long now. Adjournment, some say, may come by the end of next week, or perhaps the week following. No definite date has been fixed, but many of those who know their Congresses say it’s not far off. On the other hand, some are still predicting the session will last sev- | eral weeks. They point to a sizeableg. amount of legislation still awaiting action. Signs of the nostalgic fever have | been in evidence for a week, however. 5 |The mercury has risen perceptibly not in & h“"f'h and act m:“ 0““]‘“3‘ | since the House passed the tax bill | Wben it is, than any other parlia- Mo mentary body in the world. | ¥ Parliamentary physicians say the _ Since Monday the Senate has been | | sure symptom of the fever is when the PAssing bills almost without debate | v and patching up long-standing con- | atient stops talking and goes to work. - Fhat's what he has peen dotng all this ference disputes with the House as| (See ADJOURNMENT, Page 4) | Signs of the aggravated condition have been most apparent in the Sen- | |ate, which can talk longer when it's| week. PRESIDENT ASKS ~ SHOWDOWN NEAR OIL LEGISLATION: ON UTILITIES BILL | Brief Special Message Re- Conferees, However, Defer quests Sanction of Pacts | Consideration of “Death Agreed To by States. Sentence” Provision. By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press Congressional sanction of State oil Another peaceful session of the Sen- | conservation compacts was requested ate-House conferees on the public util- “ by President Roosevelt today in a ity holding company bill today brought brief special message. them nearer to a showdown on the The President confined his recom- “death sentence” provision, but con- mendation for oil legislation at this | sideration of this controversial point session to approval of the understand- | was deferred probably until next week. ings reached among oil-producing An afternoon session of the conferees | States. | was called with a view to speeding up | Copies of Agreements. | agreement on less controversial fea- | % flort to get a | transmitted to Congress cer- | tures of the bill in an el ; m;:; coples of the apprognl of the final compromise without deferring ad- agreement entered into at Dallas, Tex., | journment of Congress. : last February 16 for control of pro. _ Senator Wheeler, Democrat, o ducers. | Montana, sponsor of the Senate sec- The certified copies came from Ok- | tion providing for elimination of all lahoma, Texas, California and New | but “first degree” holding companies Mexico. ;y 19;24 said “s?emde H:use pro;ies;‘zx:: ; . | have been accepted and some | | The President's message to Con- = i.ionc» He declined to go into The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. | President's Statement Due to De- FRF YEAR DELAYPLAN FOR JAMBOREE IS AM OF OFFICIALS, No Local Danger Feared From Increase of Paral- ysis in Virginia. CANCELLATION FOLLOWS| WHITE HOUSE PARLEY | cision to Safeguard Scouts and Allay Concern. A year's postponement rather than | complete cancellation for the National | Jamboree was the hope today of of- | ficials who have erected a great | tented city on the Potomac for 26,000 Boy Scouts, some of whom already were proceeding to Washington when preparations for the jamboree were halted late yesterday by President Roosevelt. Meanwhile District health officials | feared no local danger from the recent | increase of infantile paralysis in Vir- ginia which caused Mr. Roosevelt to cancel the jamboree “with deep re- gret.” The last week saw an increase of 91 cases in Virginia alone, while mild epidemics were reported in other | States. ‘The Scout officials who halted dele- | (®) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 122,024 Some Returns Not Yet Received TWO CENTS. FIWL ACTON DIE ON SECURTY WITH CLARKS PLAN U1 Private Pension Action Is Slated at Next Session Under Compromise. COMMITTEE IS NAMED FOR INTERIM STUDY With Measure Already Passed by House, Approval in Senate Is Probable Today. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Confident a method of preserving private retirement systems can be worked out separately at the next ses- sion of Congress, Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri will not oppose final action in the Senate, probably this afternoon, on the administration’s vast social security program. The House late yesterday approved without debate the decision of the conferees to eliminate the private pension amendment, with an under- standing that House and Senate sub- committees would continue to work toward a solution of that problem during the recess. 5 Senator Clark’s announcement this morning that he will not fight the conference report clears the way for gations from all States and many na- | speedy Senate approval, which will tions in their march on Washington | send to the White House for signa- *| creased. Keeps San Diego Exposition in | week of conferences, President Rose- | | gress: “To the Congress of the United | | states: | | “I transmit herewith a certified |copy of the State compact to con- serve oil and gas, executed in the | City of Dallas, Tex., on February 16, 1935, by the representatives of the States of Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico, and recommended for ratification by representatives of | the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas and Michigan. | “The compact signed by represen- tatives of these States has been de- | posited in the Department of State of the United States. Secretary’s Report. “I also transmit a report of the Secretary of State, from which you | will observe that notification has been received by the Department of State | of the ratification of the compact by the Legislatures of the States of New | Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Colorado and Texas. “I recommend that the Congress enact legislation giving the consent of | Congress to the State compact to con- | serve oil and gas executed at Dallas, | Tex., on February 16, 1935.” Readers’ Guide Amusements Comics ___ Editorials - Finance Lost and Found Serial Story Service Orders - detail. In keeping with an agreement with the House members, all advisers, "(See LOBBY, Page 5.) FIRE DAMAGE $40,000 Water Front Plant Swept. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 9.—The Boston water front was threatened for a time this afternoon as fire of unde- termined origin broke out in the Quincy cold storage plant, a huge brick structure. Fire apparatus from all sections of the city brought the flames under control with the aid of fire Boston Storage | boats. The first unofficial estimate of damage was $40,000. One fireman was injured. are reluctant to abandon the elab- orate plans made for the first Na- | tional Jamboree in the United States. While no official announcement was forthcoming, various executives said | a postponement until next Summer is logical and even probable. Conference Decision. The decision to concel the jamboree was reached at a White House con- ture one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation enacted in recent years. Features of Bill. The bill has three main features: Pirst—Outright grants to the States to help them pay gratuities to needy persons 65 or over and grants for a variety of other welfare purposes in- cluding home care for dependent chil- ference late yesterday attended by dren, care of crippled children, pen- Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, Dis- trict Commissioner George E. Allen and Dr. James E. West, chief Scout | executive. | The President, himself a victim of | | sions for the blind, maternal aid and public health work generally. Second—Establishes a Federal old- age insurance system for those now employed in industry, with a tax on infantile paralysis 14 vears ago, prom- | émployes and employers, starting in ised he would deliver a speech pre- | viously scheduled for the jamboree at 8:45 pm. on August 21 over a Nation-wide radio hook-up. 1937. The theory of this plan is that as persons now at work build up their own old-age annuities, the burden of paying the gratuity pensions under the A White House announcement said: | irst heading will diminish gradually “The President was advised by the | It was in this part of the bill that surgeon general, Commissioner Allen | Senator Clark tried to give industries decision | and Dr. West that the | reached by the conferees was based on the prevalence of poliomyelitis in two epidemic centers in Virginia within 100 miles of the District of Columbia and the increased prev- alence in other sections of the country. “While this prevalence was not con- sidered to be unduly alarming, the best interest of the Scouts and all concerned to cancel the jamboree.” Public health officers said the two epidemic centers in Virginia are Rich- mond and Charlottesville. Surg. Gen. Cumming emphasized there is “no un- | due prevalence” of the disease in Washington itself. - “We waited until the last day,” Dr. Cumming explained, “because we had | hoped the epidemic would burn itself | out. Instead, the disease has in- Prevents Apprehension. “We thought it much better to pre- ‘vent any apprehension on the part of parents and State health officers who might fear that the epidemic would be brought into their States oy re- turning Scouts. “It was with a great deal of regret that we reached our decision.” Yesterday's White House conference (See SCOUTS, Page 4.) MOI%GENTHAU EXPECTED TO ACT ON AGENTS Investigation of Liquor Charges Calls Half Dozen to Wash- ington for Parley. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau is expected to announce a decision early next week regarding his investigation of | the alleged activities of Treasury | agents in Cleveland and Detroit who | have been charged with being con- nected with liquor establishments. The Treasury declined to say who | brought the charges and emphasized that they might be found groundless. A half dozen agents have been called to Washington for a .confer- ence with Treasury officials. It was charged specifically that some had | been connected with certain com- that have voluntarily built up retire- | ment plans, equal to or better than the | Government proposal, the right to re- | main out of the Federal contributory- | tax system. | _ Third—The bill seeks to induce the States to enact unemployment insur- i ance laws by levying another pay roli tax on employers only, and then | allowing them to deduct as much as | conference decided it would be ir the | 90 per cent of this Federal levy if a similar unemployment tax is put into effect in the State. $3,000 Pay Limit. ‘The pay roll taxes paid by em- ployes and employers under the Fed- | eral old-age insurance system would | not apply to that portion of a salary in excess of $3,000 a year, and the benefits paid to the employe when he retires at 65 would range from $10 to $85 a month, depending on his pay level and length of service. | To make this entire program apply | to Washington Congress still must pass three separate District bills which | already have gone through the House. | Chairman King of the Senate Dis- | trict Committee. who also took an | active part in drafting the national | bill, will call a meeting early next | week to act on the District bills. Two of the local bills are to enable the District to share in the Federal | grants for old-age and blind pen- | sions, and these measures virtually are ready to be reported. The third Dis- trict measure is the Ellenbogen un- employment insurance plan, which would make the District law more | drastic than the standards in the | national bill or in any of the half a dozen State laws passed up to now. The Senate committee is considering a series of amendments to this bill Compromise for Speed. In making known that he would not | resist passage of the national bill to- day, Senator Clark said the private and governmental experts who worked | during the past week to reach a com- | promise on the private pension amend- | ment were in agreement on the basic ‘prlnciples of a settlement, but in- formed the conferees yesterday they | needed more time to perfect the ac- | tuarial details. They thought they | could do it in another week or 10 | days, but, with Congress trying to ad- | journ soon, the conferees decided to | drop the question for the time being. | Chairman Harrison of the Finance Committee immediately named the panies in Ohio and Michigan Wwhosey fo]jowing Senate group to work with | business consisted of distributing | liquor. | Morgenthau is spending the week- | end at Cape Cod. No announcement will be made until his'return to Wash- | ington next week. 'Damaged Plane Landed Safely At Newark After TripFromD. C. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., August 9.—While police, firemen and ambulances waited, a crippled transport plane vas brought to a thrilling, but safe land- ing at Newark Airport today. The ship’s retractable landing gear kad jammed, and efforts to fix it while the plane was en route from ‘Washington to Newark had been un- successful. High over Baltimore, Co-pilot Al- bert Duke had made a hazardous climb over the wing, found that the right wheel was out of line and made vain efforts to remedy the trouble. Duke and Pilot 8. W. Willey took off from Washington at 6:13 this| morning, and a warning light in- formed them of the difficulty. For 20 minutes the large plane cir- cled Newark Airport, persons on the ground watching it tensely. Duke and Willey had radioed Newark to prepare for an emergency landing, and eight pleces of fire apparatus, n ambulances bearing City Hospital doc- tors and nurses, and police were at the scene. | Herding the passengers into the rear | ot the ship, which was completing a New Orleans-to-Newark run, Willey glided in at an angle to allow the good left wheel to strike the ground first. The unusual shock of landing sprung the defective wheel into line and the | plane speeded over the runway safely. No one was injured. The rear wheel of the ship, an Eastern Airliner, was broken by the weight of the passengers. Two Boarded Ship Here. Two persons boarded the plane at Washington Airport this morning, but airline officials said they registered only as “Mrs. Day” and “Mr. Coyle.” The landing gear on the ship was functioning properly at the take-off here, it was said. Pilot L. W. Willey and Co-Pilot Albert- Duke are veteran flyers. Both live in Newark, f a House subcommittee on the private (See PENSIONS, Page 2.) onini Co};i}hi;iee | Proposed to Stop Hasty Legislation McLeod Introduces Bill for House and Senate Group. By the Associated Press. A joint congressional committee to help head off “hasty passage of un- constitutional legislation” was pro- posed today by Representative McLeod, Republican. of Michigan. He introduced a bill to authorize such an adviscry body, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans from the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. , Any member could obtain the com- mittee’s opinicr by challenging, in writing, che constitutionality of a bill. McLeod described his measure as “a step toward eliminating the costly waste of public funds made possible by the nasty passage of unconstitu- tional legislation such as the N. R. A., which ran up an expense account of more than a hundred million dollars hefore checked by the Supreme Court.”