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RGN RUSHES TOBACC TREATY Lower House Sweeps Bill to Senate—Compact Be- fore Congress. By the Assoclated Press. { RICHMOND, Va., February 20.—The ‘tobacco compact bill, to become-effec- tivé ds a production control when other States growing similar of tobacco approve it, was passed today by the Virginia House of Delegates under suspension of the rules and was made a special order o business for Monday in the Senate. ‘The act is also predicated upon the theory that Congress will pass an act consenting to the establishment of ‘compacts. Virginia, North Carolina, South (Carolina and Georgia must take con- certed action for the act to be effective as to flue-cured tobacco, and Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Ten- nessee must join together for the con- trol of burley and dark-fired types. Exception Written In, An exception to permit the act to become effective in 1936, without passage of a compact bill by the Geor- ‘gia, Legislature, was written into the Vi ia bill. The section reads: . “Provided, however, that ' with re- spect to flue-cured tobacco ‘this act shall become effective for the 1936 crafy year only upo. the enactment of & similar act by North Carolina and Sofjth Carolina, if and when the Gov- ernor shall proclaim *he fact that in his opinion effective means have been adopted to regulate, by agreement or otherwise, the marketing and sale of such kind of tobacco in Georgia sub- stantially in accord with the general quota and marketing provisions of this act.” A somewhat similar provision would permit Virginia, Kentucky and Ten- nessee to enter into a compact for control of burley and dark-fired types in 1936 without action by North Caro- lina, In order to be effective this ycar the compacts must be in effect by June 1, 1936. Few Changes Made. ‘The actual bill introduced today was virfually the same as the tentative draft made public Thursday night. It provides for a determination. by to- bacco commissions to be named in the State, with the co-operation of the Federa Government, of the amount of American tobacco that would be needed for world consumption, State quotas would be fixed according to the production in 1935 for flue cured tobacco, and with the average pro- duction in the past three years the basis for fixing the quotas for burley and dark-fired types. The State Tobacco Commissions ‘would fix the allotments or quotas for individual farms by a similar method and might name committees of grow- ers deemed necessary in reaching such . determinations. i Marketing certificates would be. is- ; ued to a buyer or handler upon ap- + plication of a producer for the ambunt, of his quota. The buyer would be charged for certificates in excess of the producer's quotai . The commis- sion would determine the amount, not less than 25 per cent or more than 50 i per cent of the gross value of the i tobacco. The buyer would deduct \ from the price paid the grower the ‘amount of the charge. “Resale certificates would be issued #to buyers and handlers. Weather Adjustments Included. Provision is made for adjustment in quotas or States or individuals ; Where weather conditions, or other { factors, seriously affected production. An insurance section also would per- .mit payments in accordance with reg- +ulations of the tobacco commissions “to producers whose sales, because of 2Ioss by fire or weather or diseases af- ; Jecting the tobacco, are less than their imarketing quotas. The payments iwould be at a rate per pound for such “deficit “which rate shall be determined by dividing the funds available for such payments by the total number of spounds by which the sales of tobacco by all producers fall below the mar-. keting quotas for their farms.” The ‘rate would not exceed 5 cents a pound sunder any conditions. . . Sale or resale without the proper scertificates would be unlawful, the “penalty a fine equal to three times the “value of the tobacco so sold. Violation would also be a misdemeanor subject %o a fine of from $10 to $25. * | The Virginia Tobacco Commission Provided for in the act would consist ‘of from three to seven members ap- Jointed by the Governor for terms of one year. A majority would have to e producers, and the director of the State Agricultural Extension Service Jwould be a member. The Governor would designate the chairman. The members would serve at the pleasure ©f the Governor and would receive a fer diem of $10 and expenses. . ‘Delegate W. N. Neff of Abingdon, thairman of the Special Legislative Committee to consider the matter, #aid the bill was in the nature of a “treaty” which would have to be rati- Bed by the tobacco States. -~ Franklin Daniel of Lynchburg: cast £he only vote against the bill in the House today. Mun Claiming 95 Successful Hoaxes : Is Dead in France William H. D. Cole De- :luded Cambridge U. as Zanzibar Sultan. the Associated Press. »LONDON, Februsry 20.—Willism Horace Devere Cole, 53, who boasted he had perpetrated 95 practical jokes throughout Europe without detection, is dead, dispatches from France stated % Posing as “the Sultan of Zanzibar,” Cole once deluded the authorities of Cambridge University into according Him the official welcome due a visiting potentate. i ~Once, disguised as a road laborer, he roped off a large section of Picca- dilly Circus, interfering with the heavy traffic of the section, and once as “the Ptince of Abyssinia” he inspected a British battleship. :Cole bore a striking resemblance to r Premier J. Ramsay McDonald was sald to have once made an uthorized speech in that states- n's behalf. Cole was married ‘at Chelsea office in 1931, he took pre- against being victimized by hoaxers. Trivial Things That Make ‘a World _ Bible in'Dead Language Prized as One of Rarest Relics. By the Associated Press. LONDON.—A seventeenth century American book is being preserved by 2 London library as one of its rarest Telics. It is a Bible in the dead language of a vanished tribe of Massachusetts Indians, and is owned by the British and Foreign Bible Soclety. The book is the work of John Eliot, “‘apostle of the Indians,” who in 1663 trans- lated the Bible into the Indian tongue. 500 Autos to 60,000,000, CHUNGKING, Szechuan, China.— With a population of 60,000,000 this West China Province has only 500 sutomobiles, most of them of Ameri- can make. Highways are being pushed out in all directions and are expected to open up an important new market for the automobile industry. Mourning Band Requested. LONDON.—King Edward has made a special request that during the pe- riod of mourning for his father all persons hunting in pink or other col- ored coats should wear a black band on the left arm, this to apply to hunt servants as well. Children to Buy Golden Sword, HSUCHOW, Kiangsu Province.— School children throughout this Prove ince are contributing their coppers to- ward & fund for the purchase of a golden sword for the nation’s genere alissimo, Chiang Kai-Shek. Each child is donating one copper, the equivalent of one-ninth of an American cent. The award will be made May 5. Pickpockets Get Grandstand Seats. LONDON.—Two pickpockets had a good view of King George’s fue neral - procession. They had been lijting wallets among the crowd in Piccadilly when arrested by an alert patrolman. The officer was unable to remove his captives owing to the crush, so he handcuffed them together and pushed them to the front of the crowd, where they remained under the observation of a score of policemen until the royal cortege passed. Mother, 100, Walks to Funeral. BELFAST.—Mrs. Elizabeth McLar- non, though 100 years old, walked all the way to the graveside in the funeral of her 74-year-old daughter when the latter was buried in County Carne lough. She was offered a seat in a carriage but refused and walked brisk- ly despite the fact that she had sat up all night at the wake. Chinese Going Medern. SIAN, Shensi, China~—Benefits of modern _civilization have burst bé- latedly on this hoary old city, which 10 centuries ago was the capital of China. The first' large power plant in the Chinese northwest is being erected here, and within a few weeks oil ]amps and candies will give way to electric lighting. Citizens of Sian saw their first railway train only last December, when the Lunghai Railway, pushing westward from the seacoast, reached this gateway city. Senders of Wreaths Listed. WINDSOR, England.—Officials of the lord chamberlain’s department are busy listing the inscriptions sent with all wreaths received at Windsor Cas- tle for King George's funeral. The names and inscriptions will be printed on vellum and bound in albums for presentation to King Edward and Queen Mary. Cat Swallows Engagement Ring. took off her diamond engagement ring while she washed her hands. Then she couldn’t find her ring. But her cat began mewing ‘with more pain than content. X-ray photographs revealed kitty had swallowed the ring. An opera- tion was performed and the ring re- covered; Kitty did, too. Hip-Swinging Challenge. LONDON —~When wider and fan- cier hips are swung, Nona Reed, English dancer, will swing them— and she’s gone to Hollywood to show how it is done. A few -Africans, over the last dozen centuries or so, might dis- Pute, dbut Miss Reed claims: “I originated the slow snake hips dance, and I challenge any white girl to swing her hips as jar as I can.” Dentists Seek Foreigners. NICE, France.—Devout French den- tists, 300 strong, sought forgiveness of their sins, dental and otherwise, in pligrimages early this year to the shrine of their patron, St. Apollonia, at La Gaude, near here. The saint, an aged deaconess, was martyred in the third century. Part of her torment was the breaking of her teeth with pincers and all her statues show her holding one of her teeth gripped in a pair of pincers. Devotion to the saint by dentists has existed since the middle ages, AUTOIST IS RESCUED Firemen and Police Called When Car Is Wrecked in New York. NEW YORK, February 29 (#).— Piremen and police worked for half an hour today before they could ex- tricate Carl Atkinson, 47, from his wrecked automobile, jammed between an elevated pillar and & surface trol- ley car. His wife, Edith, 40, and their son, Clifford, 6, were removed from the car immediately after the crash, but the man’s legs had been pinioned in the ‘wreckage. Using pickaxes and crowbars, the rescuers pried a hole in the roof and pulled Atkinson out. At Holy Name Hospital in Brooklyn it was sald At kinson suffered & brulsed leg and cut Zforehead. % THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 123-Page Report .on N, o Deal|| o e Administration Puts Best Foot Forward in Emergency Council Survey; Stress- |Farm Meetings to Be Called ing Aid to Farmers. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Roosevelt New Deal put its best foot forward yesterday in a report submitted to the President by the Na- tional Emergency Council. The report, Lyle T. Alverson, acting director of the council, said in a letter of transmittal, “is intended as & meas- ure of the efficacy and accomplish- ments of the administration’s program for economic recovery and reconstruce tion.” As & complete campaign document for New Deal Democrats, the report is in & class by itself. Its summary of the activities of the Roosevelt ad- ministration and what it has done for relief and recovery contains 50,000 ‘words in 125 pages. Described by Mr. Elverson as “an informed survey of the Government’s emergency activities,” the council's report is given under several subhead- ings, dealing with agriculture, lsbor and industry, fiscal affairs both pri- vate and governmental; housing, power, transportation, communica- tions, relief of destitution and “other activities.” The last group includes activities of most of the regular de- partments, the P. W. A, the Securi- ties and Exchange Commission and several other agencies. Farmer Aid Heads List. What the New Deal has done for the American farmers is given first place in the report. The net income of agriculture as an industry jumped from $1,473,000,000 in 1932—the last year of the Hoover administration—to $3,550,000,000 in 1935. This is an in- crease of $2,077,000,000. The net in- come, the report explains, is what the farmers have after deducting current production expenses. The report showed that foreclosures on farms had decreased from a high of 38.8 per thousand in 1833 to 21.0 in 1935. Gross farm income, the report pointed out, had dropped from $11,- 968,000,000 in 1925 to $5,337,000,000 in 1932. But from that point it had in- creased to $8,111,000,000 in 1935. Much is made in the report of in- creases in prices of farm commodities under the New Deal. For example, wheat which sold at 34.5 cents on March 15, 1933, sold at 90.1 on De- cember 15, 1935; corn at 20.6 cents on March 15, 1933, and at 53 cents on December 15, 1935; hogs at $3.22 per hundredweight on March 15, 1933, and at $8.72 on December 15, 1935. “Increases in the prices paid the farmers,” said the report, “are, of course, the result of various factors (including the drought) not suscep- tible to precise measurement. One of such factors was the program of crop adjustment by contract accomplished by the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration.” Farm Yields Compared. How this crop reduction of adjust- ment worked out is set forth by com- paring the average crops ‘or the 1928- 1932 period with the crops for 1933, 1934 and 1935. The wheat crop in the 1928-1932 period averaged 861,000,000 bushels. The wheat crop in 1933 was 529,000,000 bushels; in 1934, 497,000,- 600, bushels, and in 1935, 603,000,000 \bushels, Here are statistics which may well used to encourage the farmers: of e country to support the New 1 in the general election next November. ‘What the New Deal has done for la- bor and industry is set forth in much detail. The report said: “From the \low point of the depression early in 1933 the value of produetion increased rapidly and was accomparied by re- employment and an increase in na- tional income. The progress of recov- ery in manufacturing is indicated in a table which shows that volume of out- put of basic products was only half as large in 1932 as in 1929, while the number of factory employes was about 40 per cent smaller and pay rolls about 60 _per cent less. “For the first 11 months of 1935, after two and one-half years of im- provement in industrial activity, the volume of manufacturing was about 50 per cent larger than in the early part of 1933, and was sorne 25 per cent below the level of 1929. Gain in Factory Jobs Noted. *The number of factory employes, which had not been reduced to as.low a level as production in 1933, had also increased and in 1935 was about 20 per cent below the 1929 level. Factory pay rolls in 1935 increased by about 50 per cent, but were still 35 per cent below 1929.” ‘The national recovery act, the report asserts, “resulted in lifting sharply the hourly wages in manufacturing in the first few months of the N. R. A. code operation. The increase was from an average of 42 cents an hour to 52 cents.” The: _establishment of a National Labor Board .in August, 1933, the re- port showed, resulted in the adjuste ment of many labor difficulties. : Dealing with the fiscal affairs of the Government, the report pointed out that the interest rate on the public debt of the United States averaged 3.42 per cent on March 31, 1933. On November 30,1935, the average inter- est rate was 2.57 per cent. The saving in interest charges in the Government on account of this reduction of inter» est was estimated at $242,721,981, de- spite the fact that the actual annual interest charge increased from $719,« 225,989 on March 31, 1933, to $733,~ 247,867 on November 30, 1935, Debt Up Seven Billions. The interest-bearing public debt on March 31, 1933, was $20,991,640,520 and on November 30, 1935, it had in- creased to $28,482,013,190, an increase of $7,490,372,670. The report gave a total of $4,529,574,043 of guaranteed liabilities in the Reconstruction Fi» nance Corp., Federal Farm Mortgage Corp., and Home Owners’ Loan Corp. ‘The New Deal program, as it related to private fiscal affairs, the report asserted, had been of great aid. For example, commercial faflures increased enormously from 1929 to 1932, when they involved a total of $502,831,000, In 1934, however, the labilities in commercial faflures totaled $264,« 248,000, i Bank failures in 1934 are given in the report as 57, compared to 179 from March 16 to December 31, 1933, and 449 from January 1 to March 15, 1933. b A comprehensive report is made on the operation of the social security act and what it is expected to do. Old- age benefits as provided by the act range from $17.50, whire the average salary has been $50 -10 years of employment, to $81.25, where the aver- age monthly salary has been $250 after 40 years of employment, Reliet Decrease 2 The total emergency: reliet expendi- tures covering Federal, State and local governments, from July 1,.1933, to December 1, 1935, were $3,607,197,492, while the expenditures that in January, 1935, the number of families recélving emergency relief, excluding pensions, was 4,614,965 and that this number had been decreased in November, 1935, to 2,846,910. ‘The Works Progress Administration, set up on May 6, 1935, and designed to give 3,500,000 work, had, on November 30, put 2,484,000 persons to work. The President had allotted $4,247,804,000 of the fund authorized for the W. P. A, which totaled $4,- 880,000,000, Improvements in conditions reported by the council included increased postal revenues during the fiscal year of 1935, for the first time since 1930. It recited the fact also that new sccurity issues, excluding United States issues, had materially increased in the last year or two. The total of such securities issued during the first nine months of 1935 was $3,526,000,000. In 1933 the issue of new securities had totaled only $1,064,000,000, S. E. C. Blocked Some Issues. In the boom days of 1929, however, the total securities issued were valued at $11,513,000,000. The Securities and Ex_hange Commission reported that the issuance of 102 security issues of & face amount of $58,000,000 had been blocked on its objection. The report sald: “The administration of the security act has undoubtedly checked the sale of a large volume of worthless securities, either because the sponsors dared not risk the commission’s scru- tiny or because the prospectus made obvious the attack of worthlessness.” The council in its report discussed at length Government housing activi- ties which are carried on by the Re- settlement Administration, the Fed- eral Housing Administration, the P. W. A. Housing Administration and other agencies. More than 500,000 homes should be built annually for the next 10 years, the report declared. It cited, however, the low income of per- sons needing houses and the many difficulties in carrying out Federal par- ticipation in home building. The Home Owners' Loan Corporation, the report said, had loaned approximately $3.000,000 to 971,789 families. ‘The Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration reported a total of $7,698,954 089 disbursements from February 2, 1932, to September 30, 1935, of which a large amount had been loaned to national banks and to railroads. The report sald that because of these loans many banks had been preserved and railroads had been prevented from going into the hands of receivers. Trade Pacts Cited. The report of the State Depart- ment's activities dealt parficularly with the new reciprocal trade agree- ments. It was said “that an important share of the foreign trade of the Na- tlon was carried on with the 18 coun- tries with which trade agreement ne- gotiations had been announced or completed and that in 1934 the United States exported to those countries goods of a total value of $833,238,000, or 39.1 per cent.of the value of the Nation’s total exports in that year.” The State Department said that evi- dence is accumulating “to show that the fundamental soundness of the trade agreements program is being in- creasingly rece abroad.” ‘The council gave much space to the administration’s power program and the projects undertaken by the Gov- ernment to establish “yardsticks” which would gqvern .prices for elec- trical power, intluding the Passama- quoddy project in Maine and the Grand Coulee in the Northwest. Five hundred copies of the council’s report to the President have been pre- pared, of which 100 were distributed to newspaper correspondents. Others will go to heads of Government agen- cles. Eventually the report will be printed as a public document. A comprehensive summary of the activi- ties of the Roosevelt administration, undoubtedly it will be the “bible” of Democratic spellbinders in the coming election. Round-Up (Continued From First Page.) critically Wounded:and . score of others injured by . Ironically, during: the height of the round-up, two ed ‘colored bandits Held" up ‘the ive' Wine and Liquor Store, .Y{3% “Eleventh street, escaping with a sum estimated by the proprietor, Morris Aflin, 35, between $75 and $100. Allin's wife, his partner, Adolph Portnoy, and three customers were.in the store at the tme, iy R A $500 reward has been offered for the bandit gang wanted: for the murder of Edmunds, who died from a blow delivered by the butt of a shot- gun during the hold-up. The gang comprised two colored men and a colored woman. ‘The grocery manager, Gilbert J. Cronise, 32, who also was struck down by the bandits, was reported improv- ing at Casualty Hospital early today. . The fingerprinting bureau was closed about .12:30 am. a'd police said the prisoners who were not reg- istered will be brought to headquar~ ters at 8 o'clock this morning for photographing and fingerprinting. Fingerprinting Bureau Closed. B ‘Thompson said all pris- oners will be questioned as soon as possible. . This_ work also will start today: . He said they will be placed in the police line-ups this week for possible identification with recent hold-ups and pocketbook snatchings. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan will 'speak on “A Layman Looks at the SBupreme Court”-in the National Radio Forum at 10:30 pm. tomorrow: » The:Nstional Radio Forum is arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadeasting Co. - Senator Vandenberg, who has been frequently mentioned as a probable nominee for President by the Repub- lican National Convention, has been strongly opposed to much of the New Deal planning and legislation. “The part which the Supreme Court has played and is continuing to play in the New Desl drama has intrigued the Nation. Senator Vandenberg has Senator Hastings to Speak. QUICK AGTION ON SUBSIDY, -as Soon as President #8igns Act.” By the Associated Press, KA. A officlals said yesterday they ‘were ready for instant action to launch the. new farm rellef program when President Rooseveltsigns the soil con~ servation-subsidy messure.into Jpw— probably tomorrow.. - 1936—PART ONE. Prisdh Separates Newlywéds The first ‘actiod of the A, A. ‘A.| NAE is expected be a formal announce- | | ment call regional meetings of farmers st Memphis, Chicago,” New York City and Balt Lake City to dis- cuss details of the $500,000,000 pro- §ram to retire crop_land for soil con- servation. ‘The Memphis 4nd Chicago meetings have been scheduled tentatively to begin next - Thursday and continue three days, with the others the next ‘week. . First Disclosure to Farmers, Officials sald agreement has been reached on, many of the major de- talls, but added that the first official disclosure of how the program will te will be made to farmers selves at the regional meetings. One conclusion appeared certain— that the new program will provide sub- sidies for a considerably greater num- ber of individuals than did the A. A. A, but that the average of payments will be somewhat smaller. It was emphasized that the program must be general in scope, and that every farmer who wishes to do so may become eligible for the pay- ments. Several privately raised the possi- bility of organizing voluntary pro- ducer co-operative associations to ob- tain production control. Co-operatives Would Aid. One official explained that cotton farmers, for example, might organ- ize their own association, entirely apart from Government connection, in an effort to control the size of the crop. Such action, it was said, would be completely supplementary to the Gov- ernment’s soil conservation efforts, Among the topics to e presented to the farmers at the regional meetings will be the amounts and methods of payment, specific conditions farmers must megt to become eligible for pay- ments, and the organization of pro- ducer committees which are to con- duct the program in the field. It was indicated that eventually a survey may have to be made for every farm in the United States. The greatest activity in shifting lands from commercial to soil-conserv- ing crops this year is expected in the cotton belt. There, an official said, the A. A. A. may seek diversion of a minimum of 15 million acres. Cotton was described by one offi- cial as the only major crop where there is a dangerous surplus this year, — MOTHER OF HEWITT GIRL IS RECOVERING Mayhem Warrant and Fugitive Charge Are Awaiting Her in Jersey City. By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. J., February 20.— Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt svas re- covering in Medical Center tonight from what police said was a suicide { attempt while authorities waited to serve a mayhem warrant in connec- tion with charges she conspired with two physicians to have her daughter sterilized. With local police holding & mayhem warrant issued in San Francisco and added charges of being a fugitive from justice and attempting suicide against ‘her, Mra. Hewitt, mother of 21-year-old Ann Cooper Hewitt, was a virtual pris- oner in the barred and locked psycho- pathic ward of the hospital. Hearing on the charge of attempted suicide was continued until March 6 by County Clerk Tunney. Hospital authorities described her codition tonight as “fair.” They sald she would be a patient for at least a ‘week. Police said they found the wealthy woman in the hospital under the name of “Mrs. Jane Merritt” of Boston as the result of an anonymous telephone call. She had been taken there Febru- ary 21, they said, after a physician found her unconscious in a hotel room, allegedly overcome by an overdose of sedative. San Francisco police were notified Mrs. Hewitt would be held here for them, but her counsel, William V. Breslin, Englewood, indicated extra- dition to California would be fought. GIRL $POUSE’S GUARDIAN CHICAGO, February 290 (#).—Any question about who's bess in the Arthur Linfoot home was settled today by Oscar S. Caplan, assistant to the probate judge, when he appointed Mrs. Linfoot guardian of $1,000 left her husband in the will of the late Richard T. Crane, jr, millionaire manufacturer. Mrs, Linfoot is 19, but that's legal age for & woman.. Arthur is still & minor. “Under this guardianship, you are not only in charge of the $1,000, but also responsible for “the welfare of your husband’s person,” Judge Caplan admonished. in Forum The day before his departure for Ralelgh to begin a sentence of from 38 to 40 years for participation in a bank robbery, Eddie (Curley) Nichols (center), 35, married for the second time Hazel Elton Nichols. They were married first in Covington, Ky. but both were convinced the first ceremony wasn't legal because Nichols used a bogus name. The wedding took place in the county jail at Asheville, N. C, with Magistrate Alex F. Brigges (right) officiating. —A. P, Photo. ‘SABOTAGE' GASES REQPENING ASKED U. S. Seeks to Present New Evidence on Black Tom and Kingsland. By the Associated Press. On the basis of new evidence—in- volving & mysterious afdavit—the United States will launch before the German-American Mixed Claims Commission on May 12 an attempt to reopen the famous Black Tom and Kingsland World War “sabotage” cases. The commission was revealed last night to have set the mid-May date for hearing arguments on the Amer- ican petition to lift the lid once more on the explosion cases, involving claims totaling $40,000,000. At that time, representatives of this Government will seek to put forward what was authoritatively described as evidence centering upon an ‘afidavit made by James Larkin, Irish labor leader. If the commission—consisting of Chandler P. Anderson, American agent; Cictor L. F. H. Huecking, Ger- man agent, and Justice Owen J. Rob- erts of the Supreme Court, umpire— rules favorably to the United States, the “sabotage” cases will be reopened for submission of the new evidence. Germans Win Twice. If the commission rules against the American petition, the cases will have been decided for the third time in favor of Germany and the Mixed Claims Commission thus would virtually end its 14-year task of ad- judicating claims against Germany growing out of the World War. During that time it has handled 20,400 cases and made awards to American claimants totaling $274,000,- 000. of which $138,000,000 has been id. All but 153 alleged “sabotage” cases have been settled. Their settlement hinges on the final award in the Black Tom and Kingsland cases. The affidavit made by Larkin, who was deported from New York in 1922 and is now secretary of the Irish Work- ers’ Union in Dublin, already has been filed with the Mixed Claims Commis- sion. Its details, however, have not been made public officially. Claims Knowledge of Spies. Indications have been given in in- formed quarters, however, that Larkin has made a sworn statement that he has personal knowledge o the activ- ities of German spies and agents, link- ing them with the disasters in which four were killed, many injured, and 300 carloads of ammunition and a vast amount of property destroyed. ‘The Lehigh Valley Kailroad's rail- way-water terminal at Black Tom, near Jersey City, N. J., was destroyed by an explosion July 29. 1917, and the Kingsland, N. J., ammunition plant of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co. was blown up January 11, 1916, _ Larkin is alleged to have sworn that he overheard German spies plotting the explosions in a German restaurant in New York City, and was offered a Jjob assisting them in exploding a barge alongside the terminal at Black Tom. Several prominent Germans are al- leged to have been implicated. First Settled in 1932. The Black Tom-K'ngsland cases were first settled in December, 1932, when the Mixed Claims Commission, sitting at The Hague in Holland, handed down a decision in favor of Germany. The United States was granted a re- hearing to introduce newly discovered evidence when Theodore Wozniak, at whose bench in the Kingsland plant it was alleged the disastrous started, was found after a 12-year search. Justice Roberts, as umpire, handed down a decision in December, 1933, in which he again held against the United States, asserting he was unable to find that Wozniak was a German agent, or that the fire had started from an act of Wozniak. Some of the secret spy messages, in- cluding one scribbled code across & printed page in invisible ink, by which it was sought to prove German com- plicity in the explosions, were held by Justice Roberts to be “not authentic.” e UNION IN AKRON ACTS TO CALL GENERAL STRIKE Central Group Ready to Authorize ‘Walkouts if Force Is Used to Break Goodyear Blockade. By the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, February 29.—The call | in the Third Judicial Circuit and the mained idle, Edward F. McGrady of SUPREME COURT WILL RECONVENE Slum Clearance, S. E. C. and " Guffey Coal Act on Docket Tomorrow. BY REX COLLIER. Making the most of & “breathing spell™ granted by the Supreme Court since the T. V. A. decision, Depart- ment of Justice legal experts have entrenched themselves for a last-ditch campaign in defense of the constitu- tionality of other contested New Deal laws. ‘With the reconvening tomorrow of the Supreme Court after a two-week recess, the Government is ready to put up .a series of battles in rapid succession in behalf of the slum clear- ance program, the Securities and Ex- change Commission and the Guffey coal act case. Decisions in all three of these cases are anticipated before adjournment late in May or early June, with the likelihood that argument of a fourth crucial suit—the National Labor Re- lations Board case—will be deferred until the next term of court. Railroad Act Pressed. Heading toward the Supreme Court is the railroad retirement act, consti- tutionality of which has been con- tested by 135 railroads in a joint action brought in the District Supreme Court. The social security act will not come before the court this session. Encouraged by the high court’s ruling in the Tennessee Valley Author- ity case, Government attorneys have been concentrating on perfecting their defense in the suits brought by Ken- tucky and Michigan interests against the slum clearance program. This consolidated case is on the docket to be heard with reopening of the court tomorrow. Assistant Attor- ney General John Dickinson, “drafted” from the Department of Commerce recently to bolster depleted legal ranks of the Justice Department due to nu- merous resignations, will make his Justice Department debut in a major case when he argues the slum clear- ance suit, Dickinson also will lead the fight for the Guffey coal act when argu- ments open about March 11. S, E. C. Case Due March 9. The court is expected to hear the Seécurities and Exchange Commission (act of 1933) case on March 9. The slum clearance case first reached the Supreme Court as a re- sult of a suit brought originally in the western district of Kentucky, where Judge Dawson held that “no power resides in the National Govern- ment to condemn the property herein involved for the purpose for which it is intended,” and the Circuit Court of Appeals for the sixth circuit af- firmed the lower court’s ruling. ‘The administration’s far-flung slum clearance program hangs in the court’s balance in this case. With the slum clearance argu- ments out of the way, the path will be clear for the case of J. Edward Jones versus the Securities and Exchange Commission. The latter required registration by Jones of an issue of oil royalty certificates in New York. The commission was upheld by the Dis- trict Court and Circuit Court of Ap- peals. Jones will seek to show the high tribunal that the registration require- ments of the securities act of 1933 deprive him of “liberty” without due process of law. Government lawyers will counter with carefully prepared arguments defending the act, and pointing to action of the court in up- holding “blue sky” laws in the past. Coal Suits Joint Actions. ‘Two suits challenging validity of the Guffey coal act, otherwise known as the bituminous coal conservation act of 1935, will be considered jointly by the Supreme Court. They are the Carter Coal Co. case, filed by James Walter Carter of Stevenson, Md, which came through the District Su- preme Court, and the Louisville, Ky., suit, filed by 16 coal companies against the collector of internal revenue for Kentucky. The coal firms claim that the code ithposed under the Guffey act would result in confiscation of their prop- erty. Taxes sought under the act are characterized as “unconscional Constitutionality of the Wagner act, creating the National Labor Relations Board, has been challenged in 34 cases filed in the district courts. Out of 13 cases decided there, eight decisions have been favorable to the Govern- ment. All of these suits seek to enjoin the board from holding hear- ings in labor cases brought before it. Two of these cases have reached the Circuit Courts—the Greyhound case Fruehof Trailer case in the Sixth Cir- cuit. The Government. contends the courts have no right to enjoin the board from holding hearings. —_— RECONCILIATION DENIED Dolores Costello, en route to Holly- wood to see a preview of her first picture in six years, declared M.l! “there will never be & reconciliation’ between John Barrymore and herself. “Hollywood is the only place worry- ing about these rumors,” Miss Costello . -“Something within me has ) died since last October.” - 4 FOURPHYSICIANS ATTEND COUNTESS Hutton Heiress Under Strict Care After Two Childbirth Operations. By the Assoclated Press, 5 LONDON, February 29.—Four phy= sicians labored tonight to save the life of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz~ Reventlow, Woolworth heiress and one of the wealthiest women ia the world. She was reported to have survived two operations—a Caesarian delivery of a son last Tuesday and another for the rellef of an abdominal obstruction Thursday. ‘Tonight the physicians issued the following bulletin: *The condition of Countess Haug- ‘witz-Reventlow.improved slightly dur- ing the day. ' Her baby continues to do well.” The doctors in attendance on the countess at her home were Lord Hor« der, physician-in-ordinary to King Ed- ward; Dr, Cedric Sydney Lane-Rob- erts, noted gynecologist; Dr. James Slesinger, her personal physician, and an unidentified colleague of the latter. Doctors Continue Active. Despite tonight's rer suring bulletin, physicians continued to come and ga from the house up to 11 p.m. Lord Horder left, returned, and then ‘went away again. One of the two doctors who came out looking cheerful and laughing sald, “There probably will be no fur- ther bulletin tonight, but we cannol say anything definite.” It is known that previous to the countess’ confinement she suffered from anemia and was under treatment for this condition. Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Hutton, the countess’ father and step-mother, re: mained close by in case of need. ‘The young mother’s husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, scion ol an ancient Danish family, stayed con- stantly in the house. The great house overlooking Hyd¢ Park resembled a hospital in soms respects. Lights shone brightly through some of the upper windows, although most of them were dark. Cars were con« stantly arriving and departing, with callers and messengers going both t« the front and tradesmen’s doors. Door Bell Out of Order. Dr. Lane-Roberts, on one of hii visits to the house, went to both doors He waited at the front door for fivq minutes, then, because the electri¢ doorbell was out of order, was forced to use the tradesmen's entrance. One of the sources for the informa- tion that the countess was very il was James Donahue, her cousin, whe commented: “I am afraid it is very serious.” While his mother went through her ordeal, the baby was reported thriv- ing in his germ-proof nursery on the top floor of the house. Every precau- tion had been taken to safeguard his health. His guard against possible kidnapers is a stalwart “special agent.” BOY HURT IN GRID GAME FIVE MONTHS AGO DIES Pennsylvania Town Mourns Foot Ball Player Whose Neck ‘Was Broken. By the Associated Press. PUNXSUTAWNEY, ' Pa, February 29.—Classmates and townsfolk of Francis Sandy, 18, mourned his death today, five months after his neck had been broken in a high school foot ball game. Since the accident, the 180 pound 6-foot 2-inch youth has lain in a hospital supported by a special brace and other equipment. Residents cheered his fight for re- covery, and raised & $1,200 fund to - | help defray expenses. Punxsutawney schools will close ‘Tuesday during his funeral. BANDITS MENACE ACTOR BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, February 29 (#)—Two men who robbed the fashionable Beverly Hills Hotel today menaced Gilbert Roland, handsome screen actor, with pistols. They did not harm or rob Roland, however. He was in the lobby when the men entered and was forced ta stand by with other guests while the robbers forced the hotel auditor ta give them $1,300 from a cash register, I i Girl Adventurer, Missing in Alaska; Sighted by Aviator Beauty Contest Entrant and Dog Team on 1,000-Mile Trip. MARY JOYCE. By the Associated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, February 29, =—Joe Crosson, veteran Alaska pilot, radioed from his airship tonight he had sighted Mary Joyce, 27-year-old adventuress, and her dog team near Tetling, 160 miles southeast of here, Miss Joyce, Juneau's entry in & “Miss Alaska” beauty contest here next month, had been unreported for many days on her 1,000-mile dog sled trip from Taku to Fairbanks. Pilot Crosson's message said all ap- parently was well with Miss Joyce and that she mushed out of Tetling and headed for Tanans crossing, ex~ pecting to arrive there tomorrow.