Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1935, Page 2

A2 aw BREATHING SPELL NOTE INADEQUATE President Held to Have Merely Waved Aside His Critics. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt says there's a “breathing spell” ahead for business. This is not merely a tacit admission that the administration by its reform ‘program has been doing & bit of drastic strangling, but that after the commo- tion dies down somewhat the strangu- lation process will be resumed. An exchange of letters such as the President had with Roy W. Howard, head of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, isn't just an accidental or casual affair in which a letter is dashed off in reply. There is reason to be- lieve that Mr. Roosevelt gave con- siderable thought to the drafting of the answer and regarded it as of im- portance to the present public opinion, which, in so far as newspaper edi- torial criticism is concerned, has shown signs of much more hostility than the President has had since the beginning of his term. Mr. Howard's letter was well ex- pressed, but, of course, was not as detailed as it might have been in tell- ing Mr. Roosevelt just why “through- out the country many business men who once gave you sincere support are not now merely hostile, but frightened.” The publisher pointed out that “many of these men whose patri- otism and sense of public service will compare with that of any men in public life have become convinced and sincerely believe that you fathered a tax bill that alms at revenge rather than revenue.” Really Want Adjournment. But Mr. Howard said those men felt there could be no real recovery “until the fears of business have been allayed through the granting of a breathing spell to industry, and a recess from further experimentation until the country can recover its losses” Is that what most business men really feel? They not only want a recess for the experimentation but an ad- journment. They don't want a re- sumption after a breathing spell, be- cause they believe many of the ex- periments have been unsound and eco- nomically disastrous. The President didn't really answer Mr. Howard’s points, except to wave aside the critics as being unneces- sarily skeptical or selfish or perhaps Jjust confused because the administra- tion hadn't made things a bit clearer. Comparison of the text of the Presi- dent’s letter with his radio address of September 30, 1934, just before the congressional election, will show that it is much the same in tone and spirit. It concedes no mistakes, blames the business men for being too reactionary to understand progressivism, and com- pletely omits the one big thing that business and industry is worried about and wants to have cleared up as quickly as possible—namely, the con- dition of the Treasury of the United ! States. Breathing Spell Wanted. If the business men want a breath- ing spell, they want it very largely on unproductive and unwise expenditure or upon the use of ppblic funds to build up Government corporations that compete with private industry. Just this week Secretary Morgenthau attempted to prove that the Govern- ment was operating “within the President’s budget” and that the defi- cit this year wouldn’t be $4,500,000,~ 000, but possibly about $2,500,000,000. Deficits of a mere two and a half billions do not seem to worry the offi- cials of the Roosevelt administration, and particularly the President, who apparently doesn’t care to take note | of the severest criticism which is be- | ing made against his regime. It is amazing also to find the Pres- ident saying that “it is a generally accepted fact that larger corporations enjoying the advantages of size over &maller corporations possess relatively greater capacity to pay.” The very opposite doctrine is generally accept- ed. For large corporations are owned by many tens of thousands of stock- holders, whereas the smaller corpora- tions earn a much larger percentage on their capital invested and distrib- ute profits to a few. It must be that the President has not read the wave of criticism which has met the first exposition of his tax-the-big theory or that he prefers to ignore it. Well, in the coming election the small stock- holders whose dividends are to be affected by the tax will probably seek to make their position felt, and al- ready there are signs of Nation-wide organizations of stockholders to fight the attempt to discriminate against them because they own a few shares in a large corporation. ‘Weakness in Statement. Perhaps the weakest statement in the President’s letter is his comment on reasons why Congress declined to broaden the tax base. Here is an extract from his letter which is ‘bound to plague him in the years to come: < “The broadening of our tax base In the past few years has been very Teal. What is known as consumers’ taxes, namely, the invisible taxes paid by people in every walk of life, fall relatively much more heavily upon the poor man than on the rich man. “In 1929, consumers’ taxes repre- sented only 30 per cent of the na- tional revenue. Today they are 60 per cent, and evén with the of the recent tax bill the proportion of these consumers’ taxes will drop only 5 per cent.” Thus we have an acknowledgment that the soak-the-rich bill didn’t help the poor man at all, that the poor man has had his taxes increased graduslly till today he is paying in- directly about 60 per cent of the taxes collected. But the President omitted to explain that almost the biggest item in these consumer taxes are the processing taxes on bread, and meat and clothing, ang the necessities of life. And, it might be .asked, are the American people to ‘be expected to continue to pay these taxes and yet not be able to effect s material reduction in the public debt? For the processing faxes go What’s What Behind News In Capital Respite For Business Not Impulsive Move By President. BY PAUL MALLON. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S as- P surance that business will now be permitted a breathing spell Wwas not conceived as casually as it appeared to be. Weeks before Congress quit, the President decided it was politically advisable to fill 1t.he void of explanations about his maneuvers. From several applicants for personal interviews and statements along this line, Mr. Roosevelt chose to respond to the letter written to him by a publisher who has supported his New Deal through thin and thinner. The “breathing spell” assurance is substantially the same as given privately by the President to de- parting Congressional leaders. They did not doubt that the President hoped to afford it, that he was planning no important legislation for the January session of Con- gress, prior to elections. At the same time, they made no secret of their private impression that the duration of the proposed breathing spell is problematical. ‘What they had in the back of their minds is this: Supreme Court decisions this Fall may make new reform legislation im- perative from a New Deal viewpoint; the tax bill is obviously only an initial step in the program outlined in Mr. Roosevelt’s tax message to Congress; | the monetary situation must be settled | eventually. Hull Looks Around Corners. State Secretary Hull looks around corners these days to make sure that ne will not run into any one who will ask him about Russia. All loyal diplo- subject is number one on the list of things Mr. Hull is hoping to forget. He will be disappointed. He does not know it yet, but the American Legion, for one, is preparing to back him up in a way. A resolu- tion will be adopted at the Legion convention in St. Louis about two weeks hence approving Mr. Hull's noted charge that Moscow violated its non-propaganda promise. But the catch in it for Mr. Hull is that the resolution will demand severance of diplomatic relations with Russia (Le- gion insiders who have checked the unanimous). Bullitt Recall Proposed. Our secondary diplomats will now deny it, but they recommended recall of Ambassador Bullitt following re- ceipt of the Soviet note disavowing propaganda pledges as far as the Third International is concerned. They are sadly disillusioned about the pros- pects for Russian trade and debt set- tlement. But the politicians higher up said nothing doing. They thought it was good domestic politics for Mr. Hull to warn the Reds as sharply as he did, but severance of relations was another matter. It would look very much like a con- fession of error, for one thing. The situation would not be particu- larly bad except that the diplomatic grapevine from Moscow has informed them that the Reds do not care any- thing about recognition either, and would just as soon call it off. If Mr. Hull had sent his rebuttal statement to Moscow, instead of merely issuing it to the public, insiders believe the Reds would have acted. And if all the American shouting for severance of relations continues, the diplomatic group is convinced that Moscow will try to beat Hull to sever- ance of diplomatic ties. That is why Mr. Hull would like to forget what he started, but will not be able to. Dixie Causes Shivers Here. ‘The waves which pounded the Dixie on a Florida reef caused some official spinal shudders here also. What shivered the timbers of offi- cialdom was the fact that, after all the fancy promises made at the time of the Morro Castle and Mohawk disas- ters nothing of any importance has been done in the way of safety im- provement. Not that safety regula- tions would have stopped the hurricane but all officials realized that even an unavoidable sea catastrophe would have centered public attention again on, the question. b You may recall that officials talked last year about measures to reorganize the inspection service, to authorize the Commerce Depart= ‘ment to order changes in construc- tion plans, to set up an accident” review board of Government ez- perts, and so on. Legislation carrying out these prom- ises was prepared by officials, but failed in the closing jam of Congress. The four sea bills which did get through were not of outstanding im- portance. One changed the steering terms “port” and “starboard” to ‘“right helm” and “left helm.” Note—The Steamboat Inspection Service made certain regulations after the Morro Castle disaster (the anni- versary of which is Sunday), but can- not do much without additional leg- islation. % The back-stage scenes which led up out- in “benefit” payments and do not go to pay the cost of Government or to retire debt. 8o the President’s communication leaves unanswered the big query of business and finance: Where is the money to come from to pay back the billions being spent, and when is there to be & breathing spell for the taxpayer and finally an end to $10,- 000,000,000 Congresses? (Copyright, 1936.) Man Held for Questioning. Walter J. Meek, 23, colored, 1600 block of Marion street, was arrested early today for Pittsburgh authorities, who want him for questioning in con- nection with the murder of James Lazzaro in September, 1934, ! to cancellation of the Ethiopian oil contract could have been written by Hollywood script men. The League was about to meet. The State De- partment was excited by the mystery. No one could learn anything. Near Eastern Chief Murray s t at his third- flor desk, calling and conmflnt far and near to find out the identity of the miscreant American ol men who mats under him understand that this | prospects belleve ddoption will be | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, CONFESSES FATAL BEATING OF WIFE Amateur Detective Reported to Have Admitted Slay- ing of Bride. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 7.—Joseph J. Meluch, amateur detective, con- fessed yesterday, Detective Chief John Carroll said, that he beat his “cor- respondence club” bride of six weeks to death with a revolver in their Lorain, Ohio, home last August 14, during an argument over his ac- quaintance with a woman called “Dago Rose.” Carroll said Meluch, in a signed statement, insisted he took the re- volver away from his wife when she tried to fire it at him. In the statement as quoted by Car- roll, Meluch told of his wife’s tense jealousy of other women, “partic- ularly one known as ‘Dago Rose.’ ™ The “old argument” was resumed on the afternoon of August 14, accord- ing to the statement, and finally Mrs. Meluch produced a revolver. In the ensuing struggle he got pos- session of the gun “and hit her on the head four or five times with the butt end. She fell to the floor, and when I tried to feel her pulse I got blood on my shirt and pants. Meluch said he began correspond- ence last January with the young woman, then Dorothy Flowers of Dearborn, Mich.,, after he had ob- tained her name and address from a correspondence club at Grays Lake, 1. He saw her for the first time June 25, he said, when he visited her at Dearborn. A week later they were married and a short time later moved to Lorain to live with his parents, ZEUCH DISMISSAL STIRS EMPLOYES |A. F. G. E. Convention May Be Asked to Authorize Picketing of U. S. Departments. Plans are being made to have the American Federation of Government Employes amend its constitution to permit picketing of Government de- partments as an outgrowth of the dismissal of Dr. William E. Zeuch, expert on co-operatives, by the Rural Resettlement Administration. Resettlement Local, No. 206, last night instructed its president, Mrs. Janet Gaines, who is also the union’s | delegate to the federation convention | at Cincinnati next week, to propose the amendment. At present, A. F. G. E. regulations prohibit picketing and limit the size of protest delegations to Government department heads. The union claims members have called on Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, resettlement administrator, to explain why Zeuch was dismissed and that on both occasions he has declined to make an explanation. MARRIAGE RUMORED FOR RUTH MOFFETT 15-Year-Old Girl Plans to Marry Howard Hughes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 7.—The see-saw of speculation as to whether Howard Hughes, oil man and movie producer, is to marry Ruth MofTett, 15-year-old daughter of James A. MofTett, received another jounce last night when the New York American said the 30-year-old multi-millionaire would arrive in New York Monday. The former Federal housing ad- ministrator, left today for California, unaware, members of the family sald, that persistent reports have. linked the names of his daughter and Hughes. Ruth, herself, denied last night that she was contemplating marriage with Hughes, but the newspapers quoted her as saying: “We'll be mar- ried in New York. Howard will be here Monday. We won't be married before Christmas.” Her sister, Mrs. Jay F. Carlisle, jr., said: “There is not a word of truth in it." . HAUSENFLUCK RITES WILL BE HELD TODAY Widow of Lutheran Minister to Be Buried in Glenwood—Was Virginia Native. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary C. Hausenfluck, 79, widow of Rev. John W' Hausenfluck, & Lutheran minister, were to be held at 2 p.m. today at the W. H. Sardo funeral establish- ment, 412 H street northeast, and the Lutheran Incarnation Church, Four- teenth and Gallatin streets. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. ‘Mrs. Hausenfluck, who lived at 1303 Euclid street, was killed almost in- stantly Thursday when struck down at Fourteenth and Euclid streets by an automobile driven by Aaron Cash, colored, 1700 block of Willard street. Mrs. Hausenfluck had left her home only a few minutes before and was on her way to a bank downtown. She was ‘& native of New Market, Va, and had lived - here about 14 rears, Her husband formerly held a torate at Harrisonburg, Va. — Dr. Dafoe Is Decorated. CALLANDER, Ontario, September "/ (A—Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who brought the Dionne quintuplets into the world, came to this capital yester- that twice its | Public Speculates Over Reports | D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1935. Dixie Rescued Pass Through Washington Ethiopia (Continued From First Page.) refrain from any act which might | hinder or compromise its efforts.” The members of the committee were represented as recognizing fully that the problem turns on the possi- bility of satisfying Italy’s military ambitions in Ethiopia. Premier Mussolini reserved com- plete freedom of action, his delegates to the League of Nations' Council, which appointed the committee, hav- ing abstained from voting. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Mussolini's chief delegate, will be asked to define | exactly Italy’s desires so that the committee may know where it stands. The League was proceeding on the theory thst Mussolini wants funda- mentally “controlled disarmament” of Ethiopia. This was interpreted to imply pres- ence of Italian troops on Ethiopian | soil—troops which would be called “police” to supervise the Ethiopian army or amed Ethiopian tribesmen. This led to a French suggestion | that a peaceful solution to the Afri-| can controversy might be found in! | the precedent of military and aviation | | privileges which Great Britain enjoys in Iraq. To keep the affair judicially under | the aegis of the League, the idea was | advanced also that an international | police force might be installed in Ethiopia, similar to that sent to the Saar on the occasion of the recent plebiscite. Such troops, however, would be vir- | tually all Italian. The situation recalled sharply the case of the Far East in 1915 when | Japan presented its famous 21 de-| mands to China. League leaders believed Mussolini would insist on a permanent military link across Ethiopia between his col- | onies of Eritrea and Italian Somali- land. It was the committee's task to find | | & compromise—some form of military | | occupation which would satisfy Mus- solini, yet be acceptable to Emperor Haile Selassie and to the League of | Nations. Creation of the committee relieved the League Council temporarily of con- sideration of the crisis, but some leaders were anxious about the As- sembly, feeling it may be difficult to prevent public references to the Italo- Ethiopian crisis. ‘The League machinery turned at double speed today as a public session of the Council discussed routine prob- lems with Aloisi present, while up- stairs the Five-Power Committee worked. * ‘Two Italians sat around the Council table. Aloisi represented Mussolini. Massimo Pilotti, Italian undersecre- tary general for the League, sat in the place of Secretary General Joseph A. C. Avenol, who worked with the Five- Power Committee. = Laval, Eden, De Madariaga, Twefik Rustu Aras of Turkey and Joseph Beck of Poland were represented by substitutes at the Council table so that they might be free for the Italo- Ethiopian discussion. - Baron Aloisi opened the activities at the Council session, reading & re- port on the signature and ratification of agreements and conventions con- cluded under League auspices. Before the Council session Aloisi submitted to the League a communi- cation concerning the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, asserting that in connection with his government's memorandum on the Ethiopian situation he wished to forward a collection of writings on Ethiopia at the disposal of League members. N CZECH-POLISH ROW SUMMONS TROOPS Border Is Patrolled After Na- ‘Highway Bridge from Washington tionalists Damage Schools Near Line. By the Associated Press. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, September 7.—More than 1,000 infantrymen and artillerymen. patrolled the Czech-Pol- ish border in the vicinity of Cieszyn today to prevent new outbursts of ani- mosity between Poles and Czechs. ‘The jealousies which have flared in- termittently since the World War, burst forth again when Polish nation- alists drove through a number of com- munities, breaking windows and fur- niture and otherwise damaging school- houses. Police have arrested only 12 alleged Passengers saved from ill-fated Morgan liner Dixie seemed happy last night on the special train carrying them to New York. .~ Upper right: Harry Burk of New Orleans plays his accordion while his friends sing. Upper left: Mrs. Lucy Blue, 1435 Belmont road, only Washingtonian on the Dikie, leaves the train with her son, George, who went to Miami to meet her. life jacket, which she donned when the Dixie was or. French Reef. N. J., Dixie's purser, “dolls up” to make himself presentable on his arriv: E3 S e PLAN IS REVEALED FORROADSTOD.C. mg Sing Lower left: Little 11-year-old Eleanor Shields of Philadelphia still wears her Lower right: Vincent Selvin of Ridgewood, al home. —A. P. Photos. 'Dixie Passengers Stop Here “Way Down South” Light-Hearted Men and Women Describe Commission Presents Pro- - Horrors of Shipwreck as Train Carrying Them Home Lays Over. posal for Arlinfiton Coun- ty Approaches. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., September 7.—A long-range plan for | improving Arlington County ap- | proaches to Washington was made | public today by the National Capital | Park and Planning Commission, whose | staff made the study with a view of | eliminating features in the present| system which have been regarded as unsatisfactory. ‘The plan was submitted on the re- quest of Horace L. Woodward, chair- man of a committee representing a group of civic associations, and has not been presented to or approved by the commission. It incorporates, how- ever, most of the proposals favorably considered in previous studies by the commission. Road Will Be Eliminated. ‘The Military road, around which considerable controversy raged re- cently when the McSwain bill was be- fore Congress, is to be eliminated un- der the plan and in its stead are to be the Southern route of Lee Boule- | vard, connecting with Memorial Bridge, and & new road leading to Boulevard. Also to b> eliminated is Arlington Ridge road, the plan contemplating the eventual enlargement of Arling- ton National Cemetery to include that portion of the experimental farm lying south of Southern route. ‘The Southern route is designed to handle heavy traffic, including trucks, proceeding from Key Bridge, in Ross- 1yn, to Alexandsia and the South, with light traffic diverted to Mount Vernon Boulevarg, slightly to the north of Southern route. The Northern route, swinging from Lee Boulevard around the north end of Fort Myer, is not part of the plan a8 submitted, it being in the process of completion following allotments of $250,000 from the State and Fed- eral Government. Will Use Rail Bed. ‘The right of way of the abandoned Washington & Virginia Electric Rail- way is to be converted into a high- way from a point where the South- ern route swings toward Memorial Bridge to the vicinity of South Fern street and Eleventh street south, thence northward across the lower end of Columbia pike to a point con- necting with Jefferson Davis High- way &t the airport. This new highway will also swing southward at Eleventh street south ?fld‘nl: -nd! parallel Jefferson Davis iway for some distance through thlands. Woodward’s committee will meet in the near future, he said, to study the plan and make any recommenda- tions considered desirable. GILLETT ESTATE $650,000 SPRINGFIELD, Mass, September 7 ().—An estate estimated at $650,- 000, entirely personal, was left by the late former United States Sena- tor Frederick H. Gillett, according to the executor's bond filed here yester- day. Bond was set at $800,000 by Judge A. Dennison, who also allowed the will yesterday. . Singing “Way Down South in the| Land of Cotton,” light-hearted men | and women who escaped a watery grave earlier in the week aboard the liner Dixie paraded a dim-lit train platform in Union Station early today on their way to New York and home. Happy at being rescued, the frus- trated tropical vacationists for the 'steenth time told the thrilling stories of the rescue while they waited here 40 minutes for a change of engines on their 14-car special train. Almost the first couple off the spe- cial, which arrived five hours late,! were Mrs. Lucy Blue, hardy 70-year- old traveler and the only Washington resident aboard the Dixie, and her son, George Blue, who had hastened to Miami to greet her. Good to Be Back Home. “My, it's mighty good to be back here,” she exclaimed as she stepped rapidly down the platform between her son, a State Department re- searcher, and James Bryan, 4314 Seventh street, a young friend who came to the station to greet her. “I bet she was the coolest one aboard that boat,” said Bryan, while | he was waiting for the train to ar- rive. It finally came in at 2.40 am. “She never gets flustered. She doesn’t look husky but she can take it.” The little lady, wrapped in a blue coat and wearing a black straw hat, wasted no time in the station, but said as she hurried to the cab stand: “Six refugees and I crowded into | my stateroom when the storm really hit us and knocked out the ship’s lights. All night long we could hear laughter and crowds singing ‘All ‘Through the Night.' They were doing their best to stay cheerful. Left Dixie on First Boat. “The first boat from the Coast Guard rescue tug Sankee came over Thursday morning. So I and 17 others clambered aboard and we were landed safe and sound op the tug.” The Blues hurried off to their home, at 1824 Belmont road, which Mrs. Blue had not seen since October 1 last, when she left the Capital ior a trip that took her to Oregon and was to have been ended with an air- plane flight from New York to Wash- ington. The trainload of 217 rescued, in- cluding 69 members of the {ll-fated Morgan liner’s crew, all of whom slept soundly through the noisy demonstra- tion on the murky train platform, left Jacksonville at 10 p.m. Thursday. “Boy, were we moving slow,” said Chris Reilly, a funeral director of Tucson, Ariz, who took the trip aboard the Dixie as the climax to a two-month vacation spent in Detroit, Cincinnati and Chicago. ‘Washouts Delay Train. Washed out right-of-ways through progress of the train, which arrived in New York at 9 am. It left Washing- ton at 3:20 am. “I can’t say too much for that cap- tain,” commented Henry Treger, Na- ‘was one.” When Treger praised Capt. Sundstrom, who supervised the rescue | despite two sprained ankles, a chorus of assent came from the others who talked excitedly to whomever would listen. Describes Storm as Worst. Treger, who used to be a Morgan Line radio operator himself, declared: “I've been in some storms at sea | in my time; I rolled around the ocean | during the 1926 Florida hurricane and I was blown all over the North China Sea in a typhoon once, but this storm beats them all. You couldn’t do anything but sit there and hope.” “Tell the man what you did,” urged Reilly. “Treger’s the real hero here.” “I didn’t do a thing but help the radio operators. I've heard many an 8 O S before, but I never thought I'd send one.” “Here’s Marjorie Winters,” said Reilly, who was acting as master of ceremonies. “She lost all her elothes and had to fish a dress up out of the sea.” Miss Winters, who lives in Gordons- ville, N. J., was wearing a black and white frock that seemed to fit neatly. “You certainly found your size all right,” remarked the reporter. “Oh, this one I have on was $2.98 in Miami. The one I found in the Atlantic was a drippy looking red jer- sey, two sizes too small. I got rid of that. “I'm ready to go to sea again. That was my first voyage and it was some thriller.” Best Fun of Trip. Red headed and dauntless, Charlotte Evans of Ardmore, Pa, smiled from the train steps and said: “Twelve of us had a party on deck Monday, the night of the storm, and it was the best fun we had on the trip, even if the water did wash over us and wet us to the skin.” She said the passengers had all the food they wanted, but Chris Reilly told & different story: “The main reason I was glad to get ashore was to have a chance to eat something besides apples and oranges. For & while we ate sardines on leaves of lettuce, but those ran out. We must have drunk gallons of Coca-Cola, because there wasn't any water aboard you could drink.” “They've been enjoying themselves plenty,” said Pullman Conductor H. W. Strickland, who brought the train all the way from Miama to Washing- ton and was going on with it to New BREAK POLICE LINES. A S NEW YORK, September 1 (P.— Scenes of joy, of glad hysteria and were enactéd in Pennsyl- Miss COMMISSION GETS BOUNDARY AGCORD Agreement on Alexandria Water Front Must Be Ap- proved by Legislators. ‘Terms of a proposed agreement be- tween the City of Alexandria and the United Statss regarding the Alexan- dria water front were laid before the Virginia-District Boundary Commis- sion for the first time officially yes- terday by Judge G. A. Iverson of counsel for the Pederal Government. The agreement, which had been ap- proved by counsel for both Alexan- dria and the United States, will not become effective, however, until after it shall have been approved both by Congress and the Virginia Legislature. Resume Hearings Monday. Meanwhile the commission planned to resume hearings Monday, at which time it will hear former State Scna- tor Prank L. Ball, representing Arling- ton County and the State of Virginia. Judge Iverson concluded his argu- ment yesterday, and Senatgr Ball opened the argument over the age-old controversy eoncerning the boundary line between Virginia and the District. The agreement concerning the Al- exandria water front, terms of which had been generally disclosed recently, provides that the boundarv line be- tween the District and Alexandria shall be the high-water line as it ex- isted January 24, 1791, “except in so far as said high-water line has been changed by the operation of purely natural causes or by artificial con- structions erected at so remote a period and so continuously maintained and occupied es to warrant the con- clusion that the boundary has been changed by prescription.” U. S. Must Be Reimbursed. Beyond this established line the agreement provides that property may be filled in to the bulkhead, but the Federal Government must be reim- bursed therefor. It is further provided “that the water front of the city of Alexan- dria from the Northern end of the reclamation known as Battery Cove to the northern line of the city limits of 1853 has been an established Vir- ginia port for more than 100 years, and any settlement of the present boundary dispute should insure the continuance of this area as a Vir- ginia port.” Provision is made for the con- tinued control of the water front regulations by the Secretary of War. Peru Votes Arms Purchases. LIMA, Peru, September 7 (#).— Congress today approved by a vote of 58 to 6 a project authorizing the payment of credits totaling $1,200,000 and $800,000, respectively, to the Elec- tric Boat Co. and United Aircraft Corp. in connection with the purchase of submarines and airplanes. Reaction (Continued From First Page.) latter calling it “the immediate task" of the administration. Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee believed “a re- trenchment in necessary Government expenditures will be possible.” ROOSEVELT GRATIFIED BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. HYDE PARK, N. Y, September 7. —President Roosevelt was jubilan: today over the general reaction to his announced assurance of substan- tial completion of the experimental phases of the New Deal, and his declaration that business may now enjoy a “breathing spell.” While it is too early for the Presi- dent to have a fairly complete check- up on the reaction throughout the country, early evidences are known to have been especially gratifying. The skeptical response from political foes appearing in the newspapers to- day has been noted by the President, but he expected this. Political observers here are confi- dent that the announcement has virtually sounded the opening gun of his campaign. The President and other members of his household will be among the guests late this afternoon at the clam bake on the lawn of Henry Morgenthau's home. Harry L. Hop- | kins also will be a guest. Hopkins arrived yesterday to visit the President for a few days. At his press conference yesterday | afternoon ‘Mr. Roosevelt showed no inclination to discuss the probable extent of the work-relief program for the next fiscal year, concerning which he will have to make recom- mendations in less than four months. He did say that he did not know how much money he would ask for or how much money Congress would appropriate. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Proposed New Census May Be Avoided by Simple New Method. HOLLYWOOD, Septemper 7—The Works Progress Allotment Board, whatever that is, but probably some- body at Wash- ington would know, is still seeking to set up a Census Bureau project which has to do, as I understand fit, with a Federal census that’s not one for quite a $16,000000, a mere trifle to us these days— brother could you spare a dime? But the nice part is that it will provide jobs for 124,000 more hands, so that then there will be Government jobs for all, including those few who've been accidentally overlooked up until now, and after that nobody need feel slighted. Even s0, it should be easy to classily our population without going from house to house asking embarrassing questions. Like this: Known to be per cent; believed to be per sent; wounded or per cent; respectfully 15, by the North American peper Alliance, lac)