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WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight; tomorrow fair, Temperatures—Highest, 88, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 64, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9, Closing N.Y.Markets,Pages 13,14 & 15 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ETHIOPIA WOULD SELL PROVINCE TO IL DUCE; TRIES TO CRUSH SPIES L] | No. 33,351. @h Ruler Offers Land, Trying to Avert " Invasion. CONSULATES HELD ESPIONAGE NESTS Americans in Menaced Country Promiseds . Safe Conduct. By the Assoclated Press. ADDIS ABABA, August 23—In a last desperate effort to save Ethiopia from war, Emperor Haile Selassie was Teported today to have offered to sell | to Italy the Province of Aussa, in Northeastern Ethiopia, adjoining Eri- trea. The Ethiopian government today also instituted a close watch over the Italian consulate after complaints from Ethiopian quarters that Italian sples were overrunning the country. The proceeds of the sale of Aussa Province, reports added, would be used to banish slavery and to build schools, roads and hospitals in the primitive kingdom. Details of the offer were lacking. Officials close to the Emperor were not sanguine that this move would deter Mussolini from launching his proposed “Roman conquest” as soon s the rainy season is over. Italy Might Co-ordinate Colonies. The possession of Aussa, which em- braces approximately 10,000 square miles, would enable Italy to bring closer together its colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland and would re- | Huce the possibility of frontier inci- dents with French Somall tribes and | Italy's control of Aussa | would obliterate the Franco-Ethiopian | Ethiopians. Trontier at its most dangerous points. Aussa is inhabited by Danakils, who live on raw meat and practice bar- barous marriage rites. The Emperor was greatly heartened by the statement of Ramsay MacDonald that Great Brit- ain had determined how to act in the present crisis. Hope grows here that the powers are prepared to impose sanctions at Geneva if Italy should attack. The governmental watch for spies ‘was based on complaint that Italian secret agents were “operating in the guise of consuls and merchants. The | consulates, according to these Ethio- plan charges, have neither sufficient Italian subjects nor Italian trade to Justify their existence. Consul Shot on Way to Port, At Debre Marcos, the Italian con- sulate has eight Ifalian officers, cluding a physician and a telegrapher. The consul assigned there is Baron Muzzi Falconi, who is under treatment here in the Italian hospital for bullet wounds he was said to have suffered accidentally on his way to that post. Certain Ethiopian quarters alleged that Italians have been registering mative former soldiers from the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland and offering them double pay if they join the Italian forces against Ethiopia. It is estimated that there are 23,000 of these former soldiers in Godjam Province alone. The Ethiopians allege that, although | Itallan trade scarcely exists in North- | ern Elhiopi'l, Italy has established overstaffed " consulates there, with wireless receiving and transmitting | and trained operators. | equipment ‘These stations were said to be located ot Dissie, Debre, Marcos, Makalle, Madji and Harrar, all of which are ! provincial capitals. Americans are assured of safe con- duct from the country should their evacuation be necessary. Franco- Ethiopian railroad authorities today promised Cornelius Van H. Engert, charge d'affaires of the American Le. gation, that it given sufficient warn- | Ing there would be enough locomotives and coaches to evacuate the Ameri- cans in the interior to Djibouti, French Somaliland, on the Red Sea. At present 115 Americans are in Ethiopia, of whcm 85 are missionaries. ‘There are 75 women and children and 40 men. The greatest fear of Americans here is that, should Italy defeat Ethiopia In the first major battle, the untutored tribesmen might take reprisals against the whites indiscriminately. With this in mind, the Emperor * (See ETHIOPIA, Page 3.) CHICAGO COUPLE JAILED IN MURDER Blonde, 19, and Escort, 30, Ac- cused in Hold-up Slaying of Cleveland Butcher. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 23.—Sergt. Ber- nard Wolf of the Cleveland, Ohio, police homicide squad, today an- nounced the arrest of Miss Helen Herman, pretty 19-year-old blond, and Donald Eberle, 30, both of Chi- cago, as suspects in the slaying April 11 of Alex Wesoski, a Cleveland butcher. Sergt. Wolf said both confessed they perticipated in the hold-up, which left Wesoski dead, and his father, Joseph, wounded. The robbers, in- cluding two men and a woman, ob- tained $30, he said. The third member of the robber band was sought in Chicago. Sergt. Wolf said an arrest was expected ‘soon. Sergt. James Greer, who arrested the pair, said they confessed 575 robberies in Chicago and, Cleveland, including 500 filling stations in the Chicago area. While working on the Cleveland case the police also arrested .Charles Gordon, 30, who confessed, Greer said, to taking part in 200 Chicago robberies with the' trio blamed for the butcher shop killing. Gordon ‘was not.implicated, however, in any @s=veland robberies, reported as The Situation Today. ADDIS ABABA. — Emperor Haile Selassie is reported willing to sell border province to Italy in desperate move for peace. Government watches Italian con- | | sulate closely as complaints of | | spying grow. ROME.—Italy is stirred by prospect of sanctions by Britain, authoritative newspaper proclaim- ! | ing: “Sanctions mean war.” | PARIS.—France fears sanction threat may stiffen I1 Duce's de- termination toward war, but re- gards British cabinet action as “clarifying.” ¢ LONDON.—George Lansbury, leader of the opposition, declares United States cannot keep out of next war, OSLO, Norway. — Shipping shares mount because of the pos- sibilities of Great Britain’s closing the Suez Canal, an act that would lengthen navigation routes and require increased toffnage. NEUTRALITY BILL CHARGE BARED DEBAE LIMTED House Leaders Agree to | Jam Measure Through at | McReynolds’ Request. By the Associated Press. House leaders today agreed to jam | the neutrality resolution through | | promptly under procedure forbidding | amendments and drastically limiting | | debate. With only 40 minutes’ debate al-! | lowed, the required two-thirds ma- | Jority for approval was expected. | Then the resolution would have to | g0 into conference with spokesmen Lr the different Senate version and | differences adjusted before President Roosevelt could sign. | " Chairman McReynolds of the For- | |eign, Affairs Committee asked the | { Rules Committee ' sanction drastic | procedure becsuse of the lack of time | remaining before adjournment. | i\ He briefly outlined the plan, explain- | | ing that only the mandatory arms em- bargo feature is temporary, expiring | | next February 29, while the remainder | | will remain on the statute books per- manently. i Has Roosevelt Approval. { McReynolds had drafted the com- promise measure, which Dbears the !sanction of President Roosevelt. It | | makes few changes in a similar bill passed by the Senate amid cries | {of legislators that Europe was ;sntlng on a keg of TNT and that the United States must stand clear. Instead of making the mandatory em- bargo on arms and munitions ship. ments to belligerents a permanent law, however, the House measure stip- | ulates that it shall expire next Feb- | ruary 29. ! Seven-Point Program. The House measure, a seven-point jone, also gives the President discre- | tionary authority to keep American | ships from carrying munitions, forbid Americans to ride on foreign vessels, | prevent ships from carrying arms or | men to belligerent ships at sea, pro- hibit entry of submarines to American jwaters. The bill also requires that | all munition shipments be made un- ider a license, and sets up a National | Munitions Board to enforce the licens- | ing plan. When the bill expires next Febru- ary, some legislators are expected to push for broader legislation, including a provision to prevent belligerents from raising money in the United States through loans or credits. The temporary clause in the House bill was adopted by the chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee after Pres- ident Roosevelt emphatically disap- proved any permanent, mandatory neutrality law before next session. McReynolds’ desire for a “gag” was based on two fears: First, that (See NEUTRALITY, Page 3.) e SEEKS RENOMINATION Senator Dickinson of Iowa An- nounces Plans to “Home Folks.” ALGONA, Iowa, August 23 (®).— Lester J. Dickinson, Iowa’s Republican Senator, will seek renomination mext | social security act. ¢ Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. WINANT SELECTED HEAD OF SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD President Appoints New Hampshire Republican and Two Democrats. ALTMEYER OF LABOR DEPARTMENT MEMBER Vincent M. Miles, Fort Smith, Ark., Attorney, Given Short Term of One Year. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt today appointed as members of the rnewly-created So- cal Security Board former Gov. John G. Winant of New Hampshire, Sec- ond Assistant Secretary of Labor Ar- thur J. Altmeyer of Wisconsin and Vincent Morgan Miles, attorney of Fort Smith, Ark. Winant will be chairman. In sending these nominations to the Senate, the President stipulated that Gov. Winant, the ornly Republican of the three, will serve for a term of six years, Altmeyer for a term of four years and Miles for a term of one year. It was stipulated further that these terms will start from August 13 last. In appointing the board, President Roosevelt took the first step to start in motion the gocial security act re- cently signed by him, and looked upon by him as one of the outstanding so- clal reforms in the history of the Gov- ernment. Pensions and Annuities. ‘This act provides for old-age pen- sions and annuities, aid for the de- pendent blind, unemployment insur- ance, assistance for dependent chil- dren and various health alds. Upoa the request of the Budget Bureau the | House Appropriations Committee 3 ready has recommended an appro- priation totaling $76,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this new act dur- ing the remainder of the present fiscal year. ‘The three members of this im- portant board will receive a salary of $10,000 a year. native of New Hampshire, where he was born in 1889, served in the past year on the advisory council to the President’s Committee on Economic | Security, and assisted in preparing the original draft of the subsequent Last Summer, at the President’s request, he served as one of the mediators in the threat- ened widespread textile strike. He has degrees from Princeton, Dart- mouth and the University of New Hampshire, and following conspicu- ous service in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and State Senate he was elevated in 1925 to| | the Governor’s chair. He was again elected Governor in 1931, his term expiring three years later. Served in World War. Gov. Winant saw service in France during the World War. He enlisted as a private in the A. E. F. and shortly afterward was assigned to the air serv- ice. Subsequently, he was promoted to captain of the Eighth Observation Squadron on the French front. For & number of years Gov. Winant has been prominently identified with social and welfare work as well as be- ing & student of economics. He is vice president of the National Play- grounds and Recreation Association: president of the New Hampshire Tu- kerculosis Association and trustee of the Y. M. C. A, besides being a mem- ber of & large number of organizations and associations identified with wel- fare and social work. Mr. Altmeyer, who was recently ap- pointed Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, was at one time Labor Com- | missioner of his native State Wiscon- sin. Before becoming Assistant Secre- | tary of Labor, Mr. Altmeyer served in a leading capacity in the compliance division of the N. R. A. Also, he was chairman of the Technical Board which advised the President’s Com- mittee on Social Security, and he, too, assisted in the planning for the pres- ent social security act. Mr. Miles was born in Marion, Va., in 1885, and after graduation at the University of Virginia and Washing- ton and Lee he moved to Fort Smith, (See WINANT, Page 3. Gov. Winant, a ! U SHOWS PROMISE ! R/ 7L/ 717777 g - LOOKS LIKE ONE COOK MAY SPOIL THE BROTH THIS TIME! CONFEREES AGREE ON GUFFEY BIL Ban Against Suspension of Anti-Trust Law Is Included. By the Associated Press. A final agreement on the Guffey coal stabllization bill was reached to- day by House and Senate committees appointed to adjust differences over the legislation. The draft agreed on includes a ban against suspension of anti-trust laws for producers complying with the “code” to be set up for the soft coal | industry. Prompt approval of the anti-trust amendment, by Senator Borah, Re- publican, of Idaho, was foreseen in both branches. But indications were that stiff op- position might be encountered in the Senate against elimination of an amendment realigning minimum price areas. Under it Illinois, Indiana and Iowa would comprise a separate minimum price area instead of being grouped with Pennsylvania, West Virginia and parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. “Conferees Agree.” The conferees agreed to strike out a Senate amendment providing that not more than three members of the Coal Commission could be members of the same political party. ‘The bill, creating a “little N. R. A.” for the bituminous industry, has been advocated strongly by President Roose- velt to test the Government's regu- latory powers. It would set up a na- tional commission to regulate mining and levy o tax against ecoal. Most of the tax would be returned to comply- ing producers. ‘The bill was passed by the Senate yesterday, 45 to 37. . ‘The final vote capped a heated pro- test by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah that enactment would be the first step toward socialization of all industry, and followed a long series of objections that the bill was vncon- stitutional. “Salvation of Industry.” Proponents, on the other hand, con- | tended that the bill's enactment would be the salvation of a vast industry plunging headlong toward bankruptcy, and that it was necessary to keep miners’ wages from sinking to their -N. R. A, levels. ‘The conferees named to represent the Senate were Senators Neely, Dem- ocrat of West Virginia: Barkley, Dem- ocrat, of Kentucky, and Davis, Re- publican, of Pennsylvania. Those _io_r GET $7,000 PAY ROLL Armed Bandits Rob Two Em- ployes of Meat Concern. NEW YORK, August 23 (#).—Two employes of Swift & Co. were held up and robbed of a $7,000 pay roll today shortly after they had left the Manu- facturers’ Trust Co. The employes, Robert Coons and year. He made the announcement to “home folks” yesterday before he de- parted for Washington. He also said he would consider nomination for & place on the Re- publican 1936 presidential ticket, if and when the party showed any in- clination to consider him. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 23.—George Lans- bury, radical leader of the opposition in Parliament, said today the United States “cannot possibly keep out of the next war.” The gruff, bewhiskered labor leader made that assertion as the British| public, with mingied feelings of rclief and disappointment, pondered the de- cision of the emergency cabinet meet- ing and wondered why the session the efficacy of the neutrality Tesolu- tion before the Congress of the United Joseph P. Wilson, were forced into an automobile by two men, one of whom displayed a revolver. A third bandit was at the wheel of the car. As they drove away, the robbers .seized the pay roll and proceeded to s house in Greenwich Vilalge. They ordered Coons and Wilson to go into the building and walk to the top floor. U. S. Cannot Avoid Next War, Radical British Leader Says he said. “The United States will be ruined anyway if they stay ncutral for, bear it in’ mind, if there s an- other war, civilization will be irre- trievably smashed. “I don't believe it will be possible to rehabilitate it even to the extent we have done after the last war. “I want Great Britian and America (See GUFFEY, Page 5.) EX-ALDERMAN SUICIDE Body Found in Bed Room of Staten Island Residence. NEW YORK, August 23 (#)—Po- lice today pronounced as suicide the death of Edward Atwell, 55, former alderman and sheriff of Richmond County, who was found shot to death in a bed room in his home on Staten Island. Ofmcers suspected murder when a revolver, apparently the death weapon, was found in a dresser drawer in an- other part of the house. Later, they said, “some member of the household bad taken the revolver from mear the body and put it in the drawer.” Readers’ Guide Changing World Comics Cross-word Puzzle - -A-13-14-15 -A-9 -A-2 A-10 'T_'ydrings Rebukes Utilities M(;n For Tale Senator Was at Party Maryland Democrat Interrupts Lobby Inquiry Proceedings to Deny He Attended Cocktail Session. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland appeared unexpectedly before the Senate Lobby Committee today and indignantly denied he had attended a cocktail party at the “P Street Club” with Bernard B. Robinson, Chicago securities salesman, who was employed by the Associated Gas & Electric Co. to lobby in Washington against the Wheeler-Rayburn utilities bill. Facing Robinson, who yesterday told the committee Senator Tydings had been a guest at a party at which hed- (Robinson) was joint host with m"?delund for sbout 10 minutes the Evelyn Walker, well-known Washing- testimony of Howard C. Hopson, ton soclety girl and horsewoman, the z 4 dictator of the Associated Gas & Maryland Senator shouted: | Blectric, who was on the witness ~ W me at a 2 TR know, G RSTEA stand at the time. cocktail party in your life.” The committee convened today with The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s ulation, 121,981 Some Returns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. #%% 0P Means Associated Press. IFIGHT ONNEW COTTON IPLAN IRKS LEADERS, SEEKING TO ADJOURN Status of Bills End of Session Still | Robinson challenged this statement ' by saying he also had had dinner with Tydings at the “F Street Club” and that two young ladies were pre- sent. He finally admitted, however, that the way he knew Tydings had attended the cocktall party was by reading about it in the newspapers. ‘Tydings' appearance before the committee created s mild stir, and 12500015 VOTED FORD.C. PENSIONS Third Deficiency Bill Also Carries $25,000 for Smoke- Control Enforcement. The Senate Appropriations Commit- tee today added $125,000 to the third ' payment of old-age pensions and pen- | sions to the blind under the recently- | enacted social security program for the District. The Commissioners, after their bosrd meeting today, had sent an urgent request for this money. The House, in passing the bill yesterday, had failed to include $100,000 for old- age pensions and $25000 for blind pensions, needed to start the program between now and January 1. $25,000 for Smoke Control. The deficiency measure also carries $25,000 for enforcement of the new District smoke-control law, and sev- eral smaller items, making a total for the District in the bill of $163,691. For all purposes, Federal and local, the bill as reported to the Senate contains $99,247,162, an increase of about $7,000,000 over the House measure. The $125/000 for District pensions is calculated only to operate the sys- tem until January, at which time Congress will be asked to appropriate the balance needed for the second half of this fiscal year. This deficiency bill also carries the funds the Federal Government will distribute as grants to the States and the District to match local pensions. $200,000 Sum Eliminated. The only House item the Senate Committee eliminated from the de- ficiency bill was the $200,000 to en- able the Treasury Department to buy the building at 1724 F street, ‘which the Government has been rent- ing as office space for a number of years. Increases made by the Senate Committee Included: For Senate in- vestigations, $100,000; food and drug administration of the Agriculture De- partment, $60,000;: Bureau of Naviga- tion and Steamboat Inspection, $50,- 000; for additional land at the Mc- Neil Island Penitentiary, Department of Justice, $300,000, and to pay judg- ments and claims, $62,303. Representative Ellenbogen, Demo- crat, of Pennsylvania, who sponsored the District social security bill, called | deficiency appropriation bill to begin | Hopson on the stand. Senator Schwellenbach began by asking him how long he had been in New York City. He replied 20 years. | Schwellenbach then read into the record a number of securities sales, | ke BBY, Page 5. Japanese Detain American Vessel On Spying Charge “Mysterious” Freighter | Declared to Have Photo- graphed Fortified Zone. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 23. tensive search with naval planes par- ticipating, an American freighter, identified as “a mysterious foreign | vessel” was detained tonight by gend- armes at Port Tokuyama in Yama- guchi Prefecture, according to Rengo (Japanese) News Agency dispatches. The vessel, it was said, was sought |on a charge of photographing the | fortified zone of the Inland Sea. The freighter was believed here to be the Golden Mountain, although, since the name was garbled in the Japanese dispatches, exact identifica- tion was not immediately possible. The officers and crew of the ship ‘were understood to be undergoing a rigid examination by the military authorities and gendarmes at Toku- yama. . Police are tracing two young Ameri- cans alleged to have done the photo- graphing. ‘Their names, possibly garbled in the Japanese dispatches, were given as Pbillip Maas, a Stanford University graduate, and Wililam Felix. Both were said to have been on their way back to the United States from Ling- Dnan University, Canton, China. It was reported that they left the {freighter at Tokuyama and had started for Kobe by train. R Shell Blast Kills Four. VENICE, August 23 (#).—Four workmen were killed and four wounded today when a road construc- tion laborer sank & pick into an un- exploded World War shell. The acci- dent took place on the road between Venice and Tarvisio. —After an in- By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 23—Wil- liam L. McKee, 63, sat on a Pershing Park bench, in the. heart of Los Angeles, and shot himself to death today. He left notes that gave a picture of a man growing old and earning less and less, until he went finally on relief. Here is the picture: 1910-1923—Vice president of the Fort National Bank, Chi- cago, salary $750 s month. 1923-1926—Assistant vice president of the Hellman Bank, Los Angeles, $450 & month. 1926-1932—General manager, New York & Newads Mining Cosp., $300 & > Notes of Park Suicide Reveal Banker’s Fall to Relief Line With the bustle at the Capitol indicating Congress will adjourn within 24 hou here is the legislative situation at a glance: The tax bill, the Guffey coal bill, the utilities measure, liquor control and gold suit bills have been passed by both Houses. Compromises have been reached on all but the last two, which may die. Bills passed by the Senate and awaiting House action include neutrality, N. R. A. standards for firms contracting with the Gov- ernment, oil regulation, food and drug legislation and the Frazier- Lemke farm moratorium. Of these, only the neutrality measure probably will be enacted. Bills passed by the House and awaiting Senate action include the third deficiency appropria- tion, the railway pension tax, ship subsidy and war profits limi- tation. Passage of the last two is unlikely. UTLTY BLFIHT INHOUSE OUTLNES CONPROMIS VTE Deadlock Broken After| Month by Adoption of Commission Plan. By the Associated Press. The famous Senate-House fight over the utilities bill was all over but the| shouting today, but Legislators still clashed in a furious post-mortem. At the urging of President Roosevelt the House, which had been standing, | firm against the administration plan for mandatory abolition of certain utility holding companies by 1942, ap- proved a compromise last night, 219 to 142. As it did so, conflicting interpret tions were heard. Some said the com- promise was a disguised “death sen- tence” on centain utility firms and thus an administration victory. Others called it a triumph for the House. Still | others sald it was a plaln compromise, | with both sides giving way. ‘The House vote yesterday was on a motion to instruct its representatives | in a Senate-House parley to agree to a mpromise letting the Securities | Commission decide what holding com- | panies should operate more than one single, integrated utility system and what holding firms should be limited | 1o a single system. Deadlocked for Over Month. For more than a month the Senate- House conference had been dead- locked. The Senate had voted the ad- ministration plan for compulsory | sbolition of “unnecessary” holding | corapanies by 1942, and the House, re- jecting this, voted to give the Securi- ties Commission authority to deter- mine which should be allowed to live after 1938. Under the compromise, a holding firm could operate only a single, in- | tegrated system of operating concerns | unless the Securities Commission de- termined that economy, efficiency or other considerations made exceptions to the rule advisable. Other legislative steps remained be- fore the compromise could become law, but its backers said they would be | | taken in short order. They predicted | the conferees would reach an agree- ment in about an hour today, after | | which Senate and House must approve | the pact. Opinions Clash Violently. Representative Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, a leader in the fight for the original Roosevelt bill, said the compromise was not an “absolute surrender” by either the House or Senate. In reply, Representative Huddle- ston, Democrat, of Alabama, a de- termined opponent of compulsory abolition, told the House: “Don’t delude yourselves. We are voting for a death sentence. There has been a sleight-of-hand—a jug- gling of sentences. But it means the same thing.” Off the floor, Benjamin Cohen, ad- | ministration attorney who helped draft the original bill, was reported to have said the compromise con- tained most of the provisions of the (See UTILITIES, Page 3.) Actor’s Charges Denied. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., August 23 (#)—Charges of “intolerable cruelty,” made by Dorothy Gish, former screen actress, were denied formally today by her husband, James M. Rennie, actor, whom she is suing for divorce. The suit will be heard in the Fall session of the Superior Court. 1932-34—Apartment house man- ager, $110 a month. 1934-35—Unemployed, then on re- lief, “promised a Government job for s long time, but have been put off from week to week: A not with the salutation “Mr. Coroner” said: “Dispose of me as you see fit. Have no relatives in this country. My mother lives in Belfast, Ireland, but she is very old and poor.” Another note, to Cooley Butler, Los Angeles, said: “I simply cannot ask you to continue helping me indefi- Expected by Late Tomorrow. BYRNES BATTLES FOR 12-CENT LOAN A. A, A. Program Calls for Advances of 9 Cents a Pound. By the Associated Press. A threat of “revolt” on the A. A. A's | new cotton program is plaguing leaders | who thought they had ended all major fighting for this session of | Congress. They still expect, however, that Congress will adjourn by to- morrow night. After getting the House to agree | to a “compromise” on the celebrated abolition clause in the utility hold- ing company bill and bringing a modified neutrality bill to the point of a vote in the same chamber they went to bed.last night satisfied their big tasks were virtually over. But this morning they awoke to find Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, leading a movement for immediate legislation aimed at a cot- ton loan-and-grant plan the A. A. A. announced last night. He would force the A. A. A. to lend farmers 12 cents a pound on the 1935 crop, as it did last year, and planned to offer such an amendment to the third deficiency appropriation bill. Nine-Cent Loan in A. A. A’ Plan. The A. A. A's plan calls for only a 9-cent loan, with a guarantee of a 12-cent return to the growers through a system of direct grants from the Government. Byrnes felt confident of support from Senator Bankhead, Demccrat, of Alabama and others. Bankhead hit the plan as “very confusing” snd one which “may cost the Government = great deal of money.” Cotton growers have been seekirg maintenance of the price of cottor: manufacturers are for lower prices to compete with foreign mills. The new A. A. A plan, observers here said, wa. n attempt to work toward both ob- Jectives. Under this plan the Government would guarantee a total return of 12 cents to growers taking part in the Government's cotton-control plan the guarantee to be carried out through direct grants of Governmen' funds. Two Alternatives for Grower. Under the loan system the cotton grower has two possible alternatives If the price is comparatively high, he can sell his cotton, pay back the Gov- ernment loan plus interest, carrying and other charges, and then keep the difference. If the price is lower than loan figures, plus carrying charges, he can fail to pay the Government and the Government keeps the cotton. ‘The loan on the 1934 crop was 12 cents a pound. Byrnes said his proposed amend- ment to the third deficiency bill would direct the Commodity Credit Corp. to advance farmers 12 cents & pound. Saying he was assured of support from Bankhead. Byrnes added that he was confident that his proposal would have the backing of other Southern Senators. Bankhead and Senator George, | Democrat, of Georgia had issued state- | ments sharply criticizing the admin- istration for its new cotton plan. Refers to Struggle. Referring openly for the first time to the struggle which has been fought between Farm Administration officials and members of Congress over the loan policy, the Alabama Senator. author of the Bankhead cotton control act, said “it is evident that Secretary Wallace, Chester Davis and ecotton shippers won a victory.”, Bankhead and George had an- nounced recently that they were con- fident a flat 12-cent loan would bs provided. “The Secretary of Agriculture and the President,” George said last night. “have yielded to the demands of the shippers and shipping interests and the announcement will be disastrous to the entire cotton-growing South. * * « I will not ask another South- ern farmer to sign a contract with the Government.” But at Ames, Iowa, where he is at. tending a tarm meeting, Secretary Wallace said: “I am delighted with the decision of the President.” “This plan,” Wallace said, “will sustain the income of the cotton farmer and at the same time leave the market price free fer normal movement.” More Loans Expected. Stating that the plan was approved by President Roosevelt, the A. A. A. announcement said the Commodity Credit Corporation will offer a loan of 9 cents a pound at the farm, without recourse on the borrower, on 13-16 inch low middling cotton or better. Last year's 12-cent loan was made only on 7s-inch middling cotton or that of & higher quality. The modi- fied regulation this year, officials ex- plained, will permit loans on about 200,000 bales more than was permitted last year. No loans will be made on cotton of lower staple and grade than 13/16 inch low middling. Officials said they expected this new plan to provide growers an income of approximately $700,000,000 for their lint cotton for 1935, exclusive of rental and benefit payments under existing contracts. The income for lint cotton in 1934 was placed by the A. A. A. at $613,000,000, compared to $634,000,000 in 1933 and $424,000,000 in 1932, Rains End London Heat. LONDON, August 23 (#).—Heavy rains today broke the most intense heat wave of the Summer. The tem- perature dropped to 60 degrees Fah- renheit, against yesterday's high of 908, Lightning struck the Totten- ham Court road police station, but there were no <