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(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and warmer to- night, followed by showers tomorrow; colder tomorrow right; moderate to fresh southwest winds. Temperatures—High- est,’65, at noon today; lowest, 38, at 2:15 am. today. Full report on page A-7. Closing New York Markets, Page 14 No. 33,592. DUGE MOBILIZES ENTIRE GOUNTRY; WILL HALT WAR IF GIVEN ALL ETHIOPIA Will Address Great General Meeting of Fascists—Fur- ther Victories in Africa Hailed in Rome. EDEN -ASSAILS USE OF GAS IN CONFLICT ¥0ccupation of Enemy Territory in Entirety” Is Condition of Of- fer Made by Envoy to League Session—DBritish ‘Still Confident in Geneva's Ability to Act. BACKGROUND— After Italy invaded Ethiopia last Fall for purposes of conquest, the League of Nations invoked eco- nomic sanction.. These threats have not deterred Italy, in fact, have given her courage to proceed against the nmew odds. With the invasion going deeper and deeper into the heart of the African coun- try, Emperor Hafle ‘Selassie has issued mew and -urgent appeals. The powers of the world have tem- porized, unwilling to employ mili= tary measures against Mussolini. The idealistic ezaltation to pro- tect the integrity of Ethiopia was seen definitely weaker Friday, when the League Committee of 13 (the Council with the exception of Italy), admitted it was unable to propose any way to settle the con- troversy. By the Assoctated Press. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Mothers to Picket School of Teacher Who Used a Ruler Parents Agree on Strike to Block Her Re- instatement. By the Assoctated Press. HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y., April 20. —Five mothers signed up for picket duty and 13 others voted to call a strike of sixth-grade pupils at Fort Montgomery School today in protest against the reinstatement of a teacher who punished a pupil with a ruler. Mrs. Carrie F. Hynie, principal and teacher of the sixth grade, admitted slapping Frances Saunders, 11, on the hands with a ruler. The Highland Falls School Board suspended her, but the State Department of Education ordered her reinstated, effective today. A mass meeting of parents, taxpay- ers and the Board of Education was called for tomorrow night. MYER'S FUMBLE FATAL T0 GRIFFS Manush Climaxes Ninth-In- ning Rally With Triple as Sox Win, 6 to 5. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. BOSTON, April 20.—Beaten in the morning by a combination of their own miscues and timely Boston hitting, the Nationals faced the Rex Sox again this afternoon for the second game of a Patriots’ day base ball bill before a crowd expected to jam Fenway Park. Upward of 45,000 spectators were ex- pected in the stands when Pete Apple- ton, veteran hight-hander of the Washington club, and Jack Welch of the Red Sox began firing from the pitching slab. Their defeat by a 6-to-5 score in ROME, April 20.—Orders went out today to all Fascists organ- izations to hold themselves in readiness for what was believed to be a national mobilization. | ‘The great general meeting would be | similar to that which marked the be- | ginning of the Italo-Ethiopian War and an authoritative source indicated that the new mobilization would mark , the entrance of Italian troops into Addis Ababa. ‘The new mobilization is to be cen- tered around the mass meeting in Venezia Square in front of Premier Mussolini’s office. I1 Duce will speak. Italy’s southern army closed in on the powerful forces of Ras Nasibu, de- fending Harar, second city of Ethiopia, Facist sources said today, after a left- wing victory over 10,000 natives on the Somaliland front. A march of more than 620 miles by Gen. Rodolfo Graziani's troops, ad- vices from Mogadiscio, Italian Somali- land said, culminated in a four-day | battle last week near Bircut in which | the natives abandoned about 1,000 dead. The new triumph was hailed in Rome as a symbol of the end of League of Nations' hopes for effecting Italo-Ethiopian conciliation, if not ectually an indication of an approach- ing end to the League itself. Premier Mussolini, officially and frankly showing his hand, demanded virtually all Ethiopia for Italy as the price of East African peace after the League Council received the report on the failure of conciliation. Through the speech made by Aloisi to the Council, II Duce declared any armistice must provide for assurance against the danger of any new Ethiopian mobilization and egainst any rearmament of Emperor Hile Selassie’s domain. Baron Aloisi asserted, “To put it otherwise, this means an armistice must assure occupation of all centers of mobilization, including the capital itself and frontier points through which arms may be delivered to Ethiopia. “In other words, it means prac- tically accupation of enemy territory in its entirety.” Baron Aloisi accused the Ethiopian Belegation of responsibility for the col- lapse of conciliation, reported to the council by Salvador de Madariaga of Bpain, chairman of the Council’s Com- mittee of 13. The Ethiopian delegate, Wolde Ma- ¥iam, in a brief reply, declared “Ethiopia fully maintains its previous position,” that peace negotiations must be conducted through the League and in the spirit of the covenant, recog- Rizing Ethiopia's sovereignty. Italy Censured. Meeting privately after the first public session, the councilors drew up & resolution expressing regret that information Italy furnished to the Committee of 13 concerning accept- ance of the League peace appeal had hindered the conciliation efforts. The draft of the resolution, to be presented for adoption by the coun- gil, said: “We regret that under these cir- umstances a cessation of hostilities has not been realized and the war continues under conditions which have been declared by the 52 mem- bers of the League to be a violation ot the covenant.” It added, “We address to Italy a supreme appeal, so that in the exist- ing circumstances which require the collaboration of all nations to safe- guard peace, Italy may bring to a solution her conflict with Ethiopia in the spirit of the League, which one bas the right to expect from a country (See LEAGUE, Page A-5.) MISS BANKHEAD ILL Actress Reported Comfortable After Minor Operation. NEW YORK, April 20 (#).—Tal- fulah Bankhead, actress daughter of Representative William B. Bankhead of Alabama, today was reported “com- fortable” in Lenox Hill Hospital after & minor operation. Miss Bankhead's nurse declined to comment on the nature of the opera- tion; but said it was nothing serious. § Jd the morning game was entirely the fault of the Nationals, who had victory in their grasp and kicked it away in the final inning, when Boston staged a three-run rally off Eddie Linke and Jack Russell. Bluege’s Error Costly. An error by the usually reliable Ossie Bluege helped the Sox to a one-run lead in the secong inning. Bluege kicked a grounds Bill Werber, who promptly stole d and scored -a moment later on 1l's single. In the third inhing doul by Jimmy Foxx and Rick Ferrell and a single by Werber made it 2-0. The Griffs tied it up by the seventh inning. A walk to Bluege, a double by Powell and Travis’ infield out made it 2 to 1 in the sixth frame and Linke’s home run in the next round knotted the count. In the eighth the Griffs put to- gether singles by Myer and Reynolds, a double by Kuhel and a triple by Travis to add three more runs, to drive Rube Walberg and Joe Cascar- rella from the box and make it 5-2. Foxx Slams Homer. Linke, apparently weakening, pitched a home run to Jimmy Foxx in Boston's half the eighth, but not until the disastrous last inning did it become serious. Again Rick Ferrell started the trouble by singling to left field. Linke gat Melillo on a fly, but when he walked Pinch Hitter Bing Miller he was waved from the box in favor of Russell. Manager Joe Cronin countered by sending Wes Ferrell to bat for Almada, and Ferrell promptly grounded to Capt. Buddy Myer, who, with an easy double play in sight, let the ball go through his legs. R. Ferrell scored on the error and Dusty Cooke, run- ning for Miller, reached third. A moment later Cooke scooted across the plate on Roger Cramer’s play to tie the score, 5 to 5. It remained for an old Washing- ton favorite to provide a fitting cli- max—for Boston. Heinie Manush stepped up at this point and tripled to right, scoring Pinch Runner Stew Bowers, who replaced Wes Ferrell. A crowd of 10,000 watched " the morning game, RAIN AND COLD ON WAY TO DELAY SPRING AGAIN Sightseers Jam Capital as the Weather Relents for Sunday. Rain and colder weather by tomor- row night is the current outlook in the wake of a sunny Sunday which brought thousands of visitors to the show spots of Washington. Special trains and busses brought unusually large throngs of sightseers to the Capital over the week end, while highways were jammed with motor traffic and the airport was crowded with travelers. The streets of the city presented a holiday appearance as visitors and Washingtonians paraded their new Spring outfits under sunny skies. The forecast today is for “increas- ing cloudiness and warmer tonight, followed by showers tomorrow and colder tomorrow night.” The WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1936—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ##% MINE RESCUERS, NEAR'BURIEDMEN, ERR N DIRECTION Must Change Course to Reach Victims—Two Can Live 12 Hours. MAGILL, PART OWNER, DIES AS RELIEF NEARS Canadian Diggers Risk Lives in Abandoned Shaft to Get to Entombed Pair. (Copyright, 1936, by the Assoclated Press.) MOOSE RIVER, N. S, April 20.— With three trapped men—two living and one dead—only a few feet away, tired rescue workers reported this afternoon that they feared they had miscalculated the position of the gold mine chamber toward which they are digging. One and one-half hours after they had estimated that they only had five feet to go through solid rock to reach the entombed men, they said they were afraid they had missed the old Meagher shaft where the men were caught. They started at once to make a cross cut from their dangerous g lery in an effort to tap the tomb of the living men. Dr. D. E. Robertson and Charles Alfred Scadding are imprisoned. Dr. Robertson, one of two still alive after a week's imprisonment in the gold mine, reported earlier today he | and his companion could hold out at least 12 hours longer. With Dr. Robertson, part-owner of the mine, was his timekeeper Scadding, and the body of his partner, Herman R. Magill, Toronto lawyer, who suc- | cumbed during the night, apparently | to hunger and exposure. Veteran miners were digging from two directions to get to the trapped men. F. D. Henderson, mine manager, | predicted rescuefs would ge through | the crumbling tunnels before noon. | The miners were burros ip through loose rocks without to timber up their passages, X Communications betwedn the sur- face and the 141-foot level, where the | men are trapped; were improved this morning by the lowering of a tiny hone on a slim wire through a five-inch pipe which an opening been bored by a diamond drill. Can Last 12 Hours. gw this microphone Dr. Robertson “You needn’t get through to us for 10 or 12 hours or longer. We can hold out.” Mrs. Robertson heard her husband’s words. She shouted down through the pipe: “Good. We are coming. We will be there.” The doctor responded: all right.” The three men were trapped Easter Sunday night when an area of land 400 feet long, 75 feet wide collapsed | and sank 15 feet. Since then rescuers have met re- | peated disappointments in efforts to | | reach the 141-foot level of the Magill | shaft where the men were trapped. Attempts were made through the old Archibald and Meagher shafts, but had to be abandoned because the cave-in had blocked them far below the surface. A new shaft, blasted through solid rock to meet the Meagher slope below the affected area, missed its mark and was abandoned. ‘While those approaches were being tried another crew opened the “death shaft” to within 15 feet of the men. Surface workers had known Magill was ill before his death was reported. He had been heard coughing soon after communications were established through the diamond drill hole early yesterday morning. Before his cough was heard, however, he had sent words of cheer to his wife at the drill hole. Magill, a war veteran, had not been in good health. Dr. Robertson had (See MINERS, Page 3.) s BOY HELD AS SLAYER NEW YORK, April 20 (#).—James Sullivan, 16, was jailed yesterday on a charge of slaying a dry goods dealer with a bowling pin in a $7 hold-up. The victim, Herman Meyerson, 48, died February 28, eight days after he was assaulted and robbed in his store. Police said they traced Sullivan, s pin boy at a Brooklyn bowling alley, through the pin found at the scene. He was quoted by detectives as say- ing he needed money to go to “a party.” SCOUTS HEAR KING ‘WINDSOR, England, April 20 (#).— King Edward told 1,000 Boy Scouts yesterday that Great Britain “will al- ways take a very leading part in the affairs of the world.” Speaking to the Scouts at Windsor Castle, the King emphasized the in- ternational character of the Scout movement, adding “in these days that is a thing of very great importance.” “We are WELCOME, WELCOME,GIRLS! Hlbfl GOING STRONG, Home Love Lures Boy, 16, Back To Serve Eight-Year Sentence Suspended Term for Highway Robbery Canceled When Barlow Returns to Virginia. By the Assoclated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 20. —Because he could not resist the lure of his Virginia home, Cecil Barlow, 16-year-old Spotsylvania County youth, must spend the next eight years in the State penitentiary, to which he was sentenced last year by Judge FPrederick W. Coleman for highway robbery of an automobile from two young woman relief workers who had visited his home to give aid to Bar- low’s mother. In consideration of the boy's age, Judge Coleman suspended the prison sentence, but ordered him to leave Virginia and’®mnot return for eight years. -Barlow's forced exile. Was widely commented on at the time.- The youth went to North Carolina and remained for several months with his grandfather, but the urge to come lanta back home asserted itself and he dis- | tyre of liquor. D.A.R.ISWARNED AGAINST RADICALS | Communism and Socialism Creeping Into Pulpits, Hyde Declares. Charging that socialism and com- munism are creeping into pulpits and church organizations, Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture under President Hoover, today warned the Daughters of the American Revolution that apostles of “collectivism” are making progress against the spirit of real Christianity and the traditional American system of “individual lib- erty.” ¢ Hyde spoke at a national defense symposium at the Mayflower Hotel, under auspices of the D. A. R. Com- mittee on National Defense Through Patriotic Education. The sympo- sium preceded formal opening of the Forty-fifth Continental Congress of the D. A. R. tonight at Constitution Hall. After quoting at length from reso- lutions adopted recently by young peo- ple of a certain church, Hyde said: “Of course, Socialists may go to church, may even speak in its pulpits, but if there is anything in Christianity which can be bent, battered or ram- med into the philosophy of socialism, then Karl Marx, Liebknecht, Lenin, and all the other luminaries of the socialistic firmament were in dense ignorance as to the meaning and the objective of socialism.” Defends “Rugged Individualism.” Defending “rugged individualism,” Hyde declared that under Christianity, society “can give men equality of op- portunity, can guarantee liberty, can afford to every man a free field, & fair chance.” President Roosevelt, who was to have addressed the D. A. R. tonight, canceled this engagement, along with all others, for today and tomorrow, because of the death of his close friend, Col. Louis McHenry Howe. Other changes have been made jn the D. A. R. program because of the death of Mr. Howe. Mrs. Roosevelt, instead of receiving the members of the Continental Congress at the White House Thursday, will go to Constitu- tion Hall, where she will hold her reception on the stage. This after- noon the Children of the American Revolution will not be received by Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House, as originally but will be escorted through part of the Executive Mansion. To take the place made vacant on by the absence of the sor of economics of Vanderbilt Uni- versity, who was scheduled to speak Wednesday, has been moved up to to- night. He will discuss “The Philos- ophy of the Constitution.” Other features of the elaborate Going Like a Blue Streak? Because It Gives You Opening Market News—Racing Selections—Scratches—Entries—All the Lat- est Pre-Noon News and Wirephotos in the Complete Newspaper. Blue Streak Edition of The Star ON THE STREET BEFORE NOON Get the Blue Streak Habit s Wi I Banished Cecil regarded the order of the court by ! returning a few days ago. Early yesterday, Barlow was routed from bed by county officers and State | police. He sought to escape in his| | night clothing, but was taken in cus- | tody. Brought before Judge Coleman in Spotsylvania Circuit Court today, Bar- low was sharply rebuked and the sus- pension of his sentence was canceled. “If you prefer a prison term in Vir- | ginia to freedom elsewhere, your choice | is granted,” Judge Coleman said. “I fer the consequences by serving your term of eight years. It does not pay to_violate a parole of this court.” Clyde Barlow, father of the youth, was sentenced in United States Dis- trict Court last week to a year in At- Penitentiary for the manufac- ROOSEVELT TOPAY TRIBUTE T0 HOWE = Services for Secretary Will Be Held at White House Tomorrow. President Roosevelt will attend the burial Wednesday morning of Louis McHenry Howe, his old friend and secretary, who died Saturday night. He will leave the White House tomer- velt, for Fall River, Mass, Howe's former home. Funeral services for the senior pres- idential secretary, who died in his sieep in naval hospital after a long illness, will be held in the east room of the White House tomorrow at 4 pm. Rev. C. Ernest Smith, rector of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church will conduct the services, for which final arrangements are now being completed. Howe's widow and members of the immediate family will be aboard the President’s special train going to the Fall River burial. Mrs. Rober: Baker, a daughter of Howe, and her husband, Prof. Jacob Baker, will arrive here tomorrow from Urbana, Ill, to join Mrs. Howe and Hartley, a son. President to Go to New York. President Roosevelt will not retura here immediately after the bu:ial, but will go to his Hyde Park, N. Y, estate to remain until Saturday, when he will motor to New York City to speak that night at the National Demccratic Clubs’ Jefferson day bahquet at the Commodore Hotel. He may return to Hydé Park for Sunday, returning to the White House Monday morning. Leaders expréssed regret over Howe's death, the President ordered the flag of the White House placed banished you from this State, but if | you insist on returning, you must suf- | at half-staff and canceled all social engagements for today and tomorrow. He also called off a speech he was to have delivered tonight to the (See HOWE, Page 2.) Plot on Herriot Bared. PARIS, April 20 (#).—Police investi- gating & band of alleged terrorists seeking autonomy for Brittany said early today a member of the group mer premier, was riding in uu.. Readers’ Guide - Women'’s Features....B-11-12 CRASH TOL IS TOSDEAD IOHLAT Woman Dies as Fourth Vic- tim of Memorial Boule- vard Collision. An additional death today as a re- sult of the terrific collision of two automobiles on the Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard early yesterday brought the week end traffic toll in the Washington area to six fatalities, four of them directly due to the Mount Vernon Boulevard crash. Mrs. Eileen Keyworth, 52 Quincy street, a department store buyer, was the fourth victim of this collision. She died today in Alexandria Hos- pital. Another victim of week end acci- dents was & young mother of four children. She was killed in an auto- mobile-truck’ collision on the Wash- ington-Baltimore Boulevard. A colored woman lost her life when hit by a car under somewhat myste- rious circumstances in the District. At the same time, a Linden, N. J., youth was fatally injured in a mishap near Bel Air, Md., while on his way to Washington on a sight-seeing jaunt. In addition to the deaths, 10 per- sons were injured, 5 critically, among them a young naval officer and his cee. List of Dead. Besides Mrs. Keyworth, the other dead were: Walter Lawrence Mooney, 22, of 3639 Jenifer street. Mrs. Irene C. Johnson, 37, of 3708 New Hampshire avenue. Fred J. Kammerer, 36, cab driver, 3411 Thirteenth street. Mrs. Mary Eckloff, 27, of 2842 Belair place northeast. Lucille Daniels, 37, colored, 821 R t. row night, accompanied by Mrs. Roose- | street Charles Prince, 19, Linden. ‘The injured: Ensign Herman John Mecklenburg, 22, San Diego, Calif. Miss Dorothy Vize, 19, of 3321 Six- teenth street, Mecklenburg’s flancee. Miss Mary Schuler, 19, Hamilton, (See TRAFFIC, Page A-6.) ANOTHER ARRESTED IN HUGE BOND THEFT Alexander Klein Picked Up in Vienna and Third Brother Sought. By the Associatec Press. PARIS, April 20.—United States authorities were informed today that another man has been taken into custody in connection with the Janu- ary, 1935, theft of more than $1,500,~ 000 in bonds from a New York bank. Austrian police said they had picked up Alexander Klein, brother of Ber- nard Klein, in Vienna. He will be questioned in connection with the actions of his brother, who already is under arrest in Paris, awaiting ex- tradition proceedings. The Austrians reported that the police in Czechoslovakia had been asked to arrest another brother, Joseph Klein, believed to be in Bratislava. It was stated there were no charges against Alexander and Joseph, but that every line of inquiry concerning the whereabouts of possible ac- complices in the Wall Street theft was being pursued. News of Full reports of the D. A. R. Convention, April 19 to 26, inclusive— Mail—Postage Prepaid Canada -- Foreign _ Leave orders with Star The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. SATURDAY'S Circulation, (8o (®) Means Associated Press. ICKES, WAGNER URGE ENACTMENT OF HOUSING BILL Building Program Cannot Aid Slums Without More Funds, Senate Body Told. WAGNER SEES BOON TO HEAVY INDUSTRY States 50% of Unemployment Due to Lag in That Branch of Business. BACKGROUND— Administration has made many eflorts toward improvement of housing conditions throughout country, but lack of co-ordination between different plans has im- paired their eflectiveness. This Winter, Senator Wagner, sponsor of social security legisla- tion and several other major social ‘measures, proposed $876,000,000 program of low-cost housing; sub- mitted bill to carry out plan. Congressional anziety to adjourn after disposal of tax and relief issue may block passage of any housing legislation by this Congress. By the Assoctated Press. Support for the Wagner $876,000,000 housing bill was voiced today by its author and Secretary Ickes, who de- clared it offered necessary Federal as- sistance for elimination of the ah& [evil. a hearing on the measure. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New‘ York testified the program would ex- cite the heavy goods industries to new activity, increase employment and at the same time eradicate slums without competing with legitimate private con- struction. Ickes said present housing efforts had not reached the slum area be- cause of a lack of sufficient money and | of a well-composed national housing | program. “It has long been known,” Ickes said, reading from a manuscript, “that the slum furnishes the environment | most conducive to the existence, | spread and communication of sickness and disease and fosters and en- courages juvenile delinquency, crime, vice and immorality.” Says No Policy Provided. Présent housing acts, Ickes said, “are concerned primarily with the im- mediate relief of unemployment. They provide no housing policy for the Na- tion.” “A result of obtaining money from the emergency appropriations,” he continued, “has been that original al- lotments to the housing division (of P. W. A) have subsequently become unavailable due to the necessity of | using such funds for more direct relief. “Of the $154,000,000 allotted to the housing division under the national | industrial recovery act, $110,000,000 was subsequently impounded for other purposes. Of the $249,000,000 allotted }under the emergency relief appropria- tion act of 1935, approximately $148,- 000,000 was later withdrawn. | “Such a curtailment of funds has | necessarily been followed by the aban- donment of projects.” Opposes Directors’ Board. Ickes indorsed the $876,000,000 4-year housing program projected by the Wagner bill and commended its provisions for Government grants to make rents Yow enough for low-income groups, but objected to having the pro- gram administered by a semi-inde- pendent board of five at $10,000-a- year salaries. He said the measure could be ad- ministered satisfactorily under the In- terior Department. A. R. Clas, director of the housing division of P. W. A., followed Wagner and Ickes with testimony before the committee that 14,000,000 homes for low-income groups would be needed in the next 10 years, an estimate 4,000,000 higher than Wagner’s. The New York Senator said there still are “two-thirds as many without work today as at the depth of the depression.” Lists Unemployment Cause. Urging need for spurring on con- struction, Wagner said “about 50 per cent of total unemployment today is due directly to the retardment in the heavy industries and another 35 per cent is chargeable to the service trades that are directly affected thereby. “When we consider the long-time deficit that has accumulated, the ex- istence of unhealthful quarters that must be replaced and normal growth in the future, it is very conserva- tively estimated that the country needs at least 10,000,000 new family units during the next 10 years, The building program of this magnitude will absorb both the unemployment (See HOUSING, Page A-2) Fist Fight Adds Heat. SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.—Thud- ding fists at a meeting of Young Re- publicans added heat today to the California presidential primary elec- tion campaign. D. A. R. The Senate Labor Committee held‘ U. S., Mexico and representative at Canstitu- tion Hall or The Evening Star office, 1ith St. and Pa. Ave. N.W. 133,498 me ceturns not yet received.) | Democrat, SUNDAY'S Circulation, 144,407 TWO CENTS. SENATORS FAVOR U. 5. TAKING OVER ARMS FACTORIES Munitions Group Majority Urge Federal Supply of Own Needs. MINORITY IS OPPOSED TO NATIONALIZATION Supplemental Report Fears Local Political Pressure for Full Capacity Production. BACKGROUND— For nearly two years, Senate committee probed financial set-up of munitions manufacturers and war-time operations of American financiers. Last Winter, political tempest broke over investigation as Senate Democrats bitterly assailed Chair- man Nye for introducing evidence reflecting on war-time President Wilson. Peace was made subse- quently, but the committee cure tailed activities from then on. | By the Associated Press. The Senate Munitions Committee recommended in a majority report to- day the nationalization of enough in- dustrial plants to produce warships, guns and powder for the peacetime needs of the Army and Navy. It was a split committee that handed in the report, however, for a minority protested that nationalization was not desirable. Supporting the majority views were Chairman Nye and Senators Clark, Democrat, of Missouri; Pope, Demo= crat, of Idaho, and Bone, Democrat, of Washington. The minority view was presented by Senators Vanden berg, Republican, of Michigan: George, of Georgia and Barbour, Republican, of New Jersey. “The committee majority,” the re- port said, “recommends Government ownership of facilities adequate for the construction of all warships by the Navy Department, also all gun forg- ings, projectiles and armor plate and of facilities adequate for the produce tion of powder, rifles, pistols and machine guns necessary for the War Department. * * * Political Pressure Feared. “The majority believes that the War and Navy Departments can produce from their own ranks or employ suffi- cient able technicians to operate these plants suecessfully.” The minority said that if large Gove ernment plants are erected “there will be inevitable local political pressure to maintain these plants at full capacity production regardless of actual defense needs, and the result will be to en- courage armament rather than dis- armament. “The minority believes,” it con= tinued, “that if all production be thus concentrated in Government plants, furthermore, there will be no adequate corollary reliance, through private manufacture, in the event of a war emergency unless the nationalized facilities are maintained at a needlessly extravagant and dangerous rate dure ing peace time. “The minority believes, on the other hand, that unless these facilities are kept on a full-time production basis during peace years the unit cost of production will increase to a point which will create higher costs to the Government than would be available through normal, private purchase. * ¢ ® Minority Favors Control. “In other words, the committee minority believes that the public wel fare, from the standpoint of peace, defense and economy, can be better served by rigid and conclusive muni- tions control than by nationalization except in a few isolated instances.” The report was the third in a series of eight projected by the committee as a result of nearly two years of investi- gation. Accompanying the recommendations was & lengthy condemnation of the methods of the munitions industry in supporting a foreign market for its output. In this, both majority and minority groups united. Most of the findings in this section had been made public previously. Particularly the committee con< demned sales methods employed in South America, where, it was conterd- ed, national interests and fears were played against each other among the republics with a view to increasing sales of munitions by inciting war scares. ‘While proposing nationalization of part of the munitions industry, the majority decided against taking over facilities for airplane manufacture T (See ARMS, Page A-2) — ROOSEVELT STUDIES ’QUODDY PROBLEMS Talks With Brann and Army En- gineers Before Seeing Maine Senators. By the Assoctated Press. President Roosevelt canvassed in two conferences today the Passama- quoddy, Me., situation resulting from the refusal of Congress to appropriate further funds for this tide-harnessing project. The President talked first with Gov. Louis J. Brann of Maine, Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army engineers, and Col. Phillip Fleming, Army engineer in charge. Mr. Roosevelt then received the Maine congressional delegation, head- ed by Senators Hale and White, both Republicans. Markham sald funds so far allocated by Mr. Roosevelt out of relief money would last probably until the first of July. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated modi- fied plans for the Passamaquoddy and the Florida ship canal, for which Cone gress also has refused money, would be recommended, 4