Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Cloudy and warmer today, followed by showers at night or tomorrow; cooler to- morrow; moderate winds. Temperatures —Highest, 68, at 3 p.m. yesterday; low- Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos § est, 38, at 5 a.m. yesterday. Full Report on Page B-2. () Means Associated Press. e i sl T R e e e e S No. 1,674—No. 33,955. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, Sy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION D. C, SUNDAY PRESIDENT T0 CUT RELIEF FUNDS N REVISED BUDGE Roosevelt Message Due to Go to Congress by Wednesday. gALANCING OF BUDGET YEAR AFTER NEXT SEEN Tqtal Amount of White House's ew Figures Expected to Be About $1,125,000,000. KGROUND— he failure of taxr revenues to cofe up to estimates has given adled impetus to earlier plans of tha administration to cut down re- licj expenditures. When the budget firsk was submitted, President Roosevelt expressed hopes of keep- ing telief outlays in the mext fiscal veay to $1,537,000,000. Since then State and municipal governments have asked that this figure be re- vised upward. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Within a day or so President Roosevelt will send to Congress a mes- sage outlining his relief program for | the next year. He will attach to it| & revised budget expected to cut sub- | stantially the public money spent for this purpose. Mr, Roosevelt has been struggling | with this task for some weeks, but | expects to have it finished by tomor- row, and after spending a day or so| writing his message it should be in| the hands of Congress Wednesday. (G-Man, F ightir_tg for Life, Sorry He Failed to Capture Gunmen Physicians despaired of saving Baker's life. He was placed under an oxygen tent last night as his strength ebbed. Hoover said three bullets tore into the agent’s back and stomach. The Federal Bureau of Investigation director sent Baker a telegram of en- couragement, assuring the agent that he knew he had done the best job possible under the circumstances. Hoover disclosed here, at the same time, that the Topeka “plant” was but one of a half dozen that were being maintained by his agents in Kansas, Ohio, Michigan and New York in the hunt for Robert Suhay and Alfred Power, bank robbery fugitives. Few Men Put on “Plants.” “We had no idea where Suhay and Power might turn up,” Hoover said. “All we could do was wait and hope that they might call at one of the sev- eral places under surveillance.” He pointed out it is impracticable to assign a large number of agents to such “plants,” as they would attract attention and defeat their purpose. Baker and another agent were on duty in the lobby of the Topeka Post Office, with the knowledge and co- operation of postal authorities, he said. Baker was not a novice at law en- forcement work, Hoover said, although he had been a special agent of the F. B. L only a few months. Before coming with the bureau he was a deputy sheriff in Yuma, Ariz. Cousin Jailed in Brooklyn. This has been no easy matter. The | President knows he must start reduc- | ing expenditures, especially since an-| ticipated revenues of the Government are not materializing. Then, too, the President is receiving pressure from various sources not to make any cuts, and instead, to increase the spending for relief. | However, this is not campaign year, and the President can face the facts and act accordingly. Therefore, it is expected that he will carry out his announced attention of months ago, | end start slashing. Of course Mr. Roosevelt has no idea | of balancing the budget next year, but | he hopes to reduce the total bill to a point close to it. Naturally this hope is based upon the expectation that Congress will go along with him and not, in the meantime, put through | some unexpected appropriations of | magnitude. He is hopeful of coming closer to balancing the budget next year and to actually have it balanced the year following. Actually the President hopes. in his vised estimates, to be only a few hun- red million over the balancing line. Possibly it will not be more than two | or three hundred million. At first glance this sounds like a lot of money, but the way the President looks at it, the amount is trivial and virtually budget-balancing, when it is recalled that the budget is running into the billions. Discussing the matter recently the President said, in the presence of this writer, that this is almost balancing the budget. At the same time he took particular pleasure in recalling that last Fall there were many who pre- dicted that he would run into a deficit of at least $700,000,000. He delights In disappointing these gloomy fore- casters. Big Cut Is Seen. From hints and indications at the ‘White House the total amount of the revised budget figures will range be- | tween $1,125,000,000 to $1,500,000,000. | This, in the eyes of the President, will be considerable of a cut, considering that approximately $2.000,000,000 is | expected to be spent in this fiscal year | which ends June 30 next. In arriving at a final total figure, the President must decide in the mean- time just how many people he plans to | take care of next year. If he can see | his way clear to cut the relief roll down to 1,600.000 people Mr. Roosevelt figures he can get along with only | $1,125,000,000. If he finally decides | he needs $1,500,000,000, it means that he figures on caring for 1,800,000 people. Many problems face the President in arriving at a decision in this matter. Most important of these is his determination that there shall be no human suffering. In addition, he is faced with extra appropriations of substantial size which he had not con- sidered originally. Among these is the cost of the recent floods in the Ohio Valley. Much of this latter cost was borne by the Works Progress Adminis- tration, which means that there was a drain on the moneys available for this relief agency, which as the current (See RELIEF, Page A-5.) Mistakes Son, 12, For ‘Other Mar’ And Shoots Wife By the Associateq Press. SANTA CRUZ, Calif, April 17— Mrs. Sally Boggs, 37, was shot and critically wounded today and her hus- band, Allan D. Boggs, 53, wealthy re- tired United States Army captain, for- merly of Detroit, was charged with sttempted murder. Deputy Sheriff Orrie Dunlap said the shooting occurred at the home of J. A, Harris, near Olive Springs. Boggs threatened the colored care- | taker, Dunlap said, and then rushed into his wife's room, brandishing a pistol. He observed his 12-year-old stepson Danny in one of the twin beds and thought he was “another man,” the officer said. Mrs. Boggs grappled with her hus- band for the gun and was shot twice. A third shot missed and then Boggs sttempted suicide, but the shell mis- fired, Dunlap said. The two agents were assigned to see | who was getting certain letters which had been mailed from New York City “I Did My Best,” Wayne Baker Messages Hoover as Strength Ebbs—Kin of uspect Seized in Brooklyn. BY REX COLLIER. Fighting for his life from bullet wounds received in a gun battle with bank robber suspects at Topeka, Kans, Special Agent Wayne W. Baker last night expressed regret over his failure to capture his assailants and sent to his “boss,” J. Edgar Hoover, a message that he “did his best.” Advised by fellow agents at his bedside in a Topeka hospital that the gunmen later were arrested by Nebraska officers, Baker, 27-year-old graduate of Nationa: University Law School, smiled and then said, grimly: “I'd like to meet that guy who shot me in the back!” WAYNE W. BAKER. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. by a cousin of Suhay, who was under investigation. This cousin, Joe Heckl, was arrested in Brooklyn after the gun battle and, Hoover said, has con- fessed sending Suhay and Power a warning that G-men were close on their trail. There were a number¢of patrons in the post office and the agents did not (See G-MAN, Page A-4.) COURT BILL REPORT HEPBU UNAVENDED SEEN | Senate May Close Sessions This Week, if Proponents Are Willing. BACKGROUND— Stirred by a series of decisions holding New Deal legislation un-- constitutional, President Roosevelt sent a plan to Congress to provide for siz additional justices of the Su- preme Court if those members over 70 did not step out, and would reorganize lower courts also. The re- sult has been a bitter conflict of opinion over the country and a sharp division in Congress ifself. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | The Senate Judiciary Committee | squares away tomorrow morning for what may be its last week of hear- ings on President Roosevelt's bill to increase the membership, of the Supreme Court. The hearings are slated to end not later than Wednesday, April 28. How- ever, they may close next FPriday, if the supporters of the President’s bill decide not to put any further witnesses on the stand. By action of the committee yesterday, it was deter- mined to grant the opponents of the bill five more days, and the supporters of the measure three days in the | following week. Chairman Ashurst indicated the proponents might not | elect to put on further witnesses. After six weeks of hearings, the ad- ministration forces apparently are ! anxious to bring them to a close and | get down to work on the bill in com- mittee. Predictions were made last night that the bill would be reported, so far as it relates to the Supreme Court, unamanded, despite the fact strong opposition exists in the committee. Other Senators took the position, however, that the committee would amend that section of the bill along the line of suggestions made by Sen- ator McGill of Kansas and Senator Hatch of New Mexico. McGill would permit the President to name two additional justices if those over 75 fail to retire, and Hatch would give the President authority to name en additional justice each year, until a maximum of -15 had been reached, if those over 70 do not retire. Both proposals look to flexibiity in the size of the court—from 9 to 15. Executive Session Planned. Senator Ashurst said that as soon as the hearings are concluded the committee will meet in executive session to pass on the bill. “The committee will meet two Jor three times a week until it is ready to report—not daily,” he said. He de- clined to say how long the committee would be working on the measure. It is expected, however, that it will be ready to report the bill to the Senate during the first half of May. The committee is pretty evenly di- vided over the Rresident’s Supreme (See JUDICIARY, Page A-18.) News of U.A. W BE QUSTED Asks Oshawa Workers Send Own Committee to Negotiate. BACKGROUND— Drive of John L. Lewis’ Commit- tee for Industrial Organization to unionize the automobile industry along industrial lines led to con- ficts with General Motors Corp., in whose plants workers conducted a 40-day sit-down early this year. Successful outcome led to strike against Chrysler, which terminated with a collective bargaining agree- ment. Movement then spread to Can- ada with strike against General Motors subsidiary at Oshawa. Ca- nadian Premier Hepburn has re- Jused to deal with American lead- ersof U. A. W. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, Ontario, April 17.— Premier Mitchell Hepburn urged 3,700 General Motors strikers at Oshawa, Ontario, tonight to forget about the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica and to send a workers’ committee to his office to make peace with the company. This message to the workers, who walked out April 9, when the company refused to recognize the John L.! Lewis union as their collective bar- gaining agent, followed the collapse of Hepburn's second effort to arrange a settlement between the company and union officials. Hepburn blamed the failure of his conciliation efforts on Homer Martin, " (See OSHAWA, Page A-4.) SISTER'S PLEA WINS CLEMENCY FOR TEXAN New York Judge Reduces Sen- tence of Man Convicted of Fraud. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 17.—After his sister, Gladys Rowntree of this city, had related the hardships her family had undergone since he was sent to prison, the sentence of Louis U. Rown- tree of Houston, Tex., was reduced from one year to six months by Judge Vincent L. Leibell in Federal Court today. Rowntree and his brother, Carlisle, were convicted of taking about $100,- 000 from cotton traders by falsely de- claring the money was to be used in cotton futures transactions. Louis Rowntree was sentenced to one year and a day, his brother to five years. Louis Rowntree had served four months, pending an appeal, when his sister wrote to the judge, relating how her father had died and telling of an illness which confined her moth- er to a hospital. D. A. R. Full reports of the D. A. R. Convention, April 18 | to 25, inclusive— Mail—Postage Prepaid U. S., Mexico and Foreign Leave orders with Star representative at Constitu- tion Hall or The Evening Star office, ‘11th St. and Pa. Ave. N.W. Radio Programs, l;;ze F-3. Compiete Index, Page A-2. RNDEMANDS BLOSSOM VISITORS TODAY EXPECTED 10 BREAK RECORD Throng of More Than 250,- MOR == 000 in Prospect—Fair Day Is Forecast. TRAFFIC AUTHORITIES SEEK TO BAR TIE-UPS Elaborate Plans Are Made—De- tails From Nearby Cities to Assist Local Police. A forecast of mild weather with little prospect of rain before nightfall | promiséd a favorable reception today for a huge throng of cherry blossom visitors expected to surpass last Sun- day’s total of more than 250,000. Elaborate plans have been made to prevent traffic jams like those which resulted here last Sunday when an all-time high of 213,000 visitors con- verged on the cherry trees fringing the Tidal Basin. ‘The 213,000 estimate was by the park police. Other estimates placed the number of visitors in Washington at between 250,000 and 500,000, With weather prospects more favor- able, there was every indication that larger numbers would be in the city today. Last Sunday visitors slept in Union Station or huddled in parked automobiles after they were unable to find accommodations. Special Traffic Details. Police of Washington and neighbor- Ing cities planned special details to direct traffic on the approaches to Washington and in the city proper. Park police hoped to profit by their | experience of last week end and keep the traffic moving at a somewhat faster rate around the Tidal Basin, { in a clockwise direction. Last Sunday the desire of some | motorists to stop while they looked at the blossoms resulted in jams blocks long. The weather forecast calls for “cloudy and warmer weather today, followed by showers at night or to- morrow; cooler tomorrow.” The mer- cury rose to 68 yesterday afternoon under sunny skies as many week end visitors crowded into the city. Park police said last night that the greatest traffic problem about the Tidal Basin is clearing automobiles and busses from the area after they have made the circuit. Street Made One-Way. Seventeenth street will be one-way for north-bound traffic from its| southern terminus at the John Paul | Jones Statue at least as far north | as Pennsylvania avenue. Details for guiding traffic approaching the blos- som area were not announced. Yesterday's traffic in Baltimore gave | ample evidence of the presence of the | tourists. | | North Baltimore arteries were laden | with machines from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and points as distant as Maine and Quebec. There were machines of every type and vintage, trailers included. Many motorists made return trips to Balti- more, unable to find hotel accommo- dations in Washington. Still more re- mained in Baltimore overnight, in- tending to make the trip to the Cap-| ital today. | Despite pessimistic observations that | the cherry blossoms are blanching and | that some of the blooms are falling | off, park officials say they still are! near their peak. | Within a few days, however, the | single blossoms will fade fast and | leave the stage to the double-blossom | variety, scheduled to bloom in about a week in East Potomac Park. 2-Pound Baby Thrives. ST. LOUIS, April 17 (#)—A two- | pound baby boy born Monday to Mrs. Lester Peflerman was thriving today | in a hospital incubator. | Attending physicians described the infant as “a lively little fellow,” who | is gaining daily. He was 121 inches | in length at birth. The baby, fed| with a medicine dropper, weighed 33| ounces today, a gain of 1 ounce since& birth. APRIL 18, 1 Ev Star 337—124 PAGES. Sunday Morning and ery Afternoon. i e FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS WOULD NTIT JOE, R FINGERS OUT 7 T O THE Hofi:s ! T, [T i % e 0 ) — [IF ‘;}llmhfllflmfl L — SAVING THE DYKE! Dr. Luther Attacks U. S. Critics 'Of Nazis in Beer Party Speech GONGERTED ACTION | Criticizes Writers and Speakers Who Charge Some Sections of German y Are Cool INLABOR FIELD HIT Sibley, Addressing Editors, to Hitler. . Urges State Laws to By the Associated Press, Dr. Hans Luther, retiring German Ambassador to the United States, at- tacked American critics of Nazi Ger- many last night in an unexpected speech to members of Congress and newspaper men attending his annual bock beer party. “You must accept Germany as she | is,” he said. “You may not like some of the things about her, but you must recognize her as a strong and unified country under the leadership of a man who has the courage and the wisdom to lift it out of a grave emer- | gency.” Approximately 300 guests, seated at tables in & room of the embassy dec- | orated as a Bawarian beer garden, heard the Ambassador. He had risen | | | recently I have been made melancholy | Oppose It. Enactment of State laws to make illegal any “concerted action” on the part of employers or employes, through lockouts or strikes, was pro- posed by Harper Sibley, president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, in an adcress vesterday after- noon at the final session of the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors “The laws of the States should be extended,” Sibley said, “to include provisions directed specifically against concerted action, whether or not ac- companied by disorder, directed by individuals, groups or organizations to bring any degree of coercion through economic channels upon the public or upon public agencies or authorities. “Any concerted action for such a to acknowledge a toast with the re- | quest that he be accorded ‘“freedom of speech.” With flushed face and emphatic gestures, Luther criticized writers and speakers in this country who, he said, have sought to convey the impression that some sections of the German people are unsympathetic to the re- gime of Adolf Hitler. “My chief aim during the four years I have spent in the United States, has been to give your people a better understanding of mine, their hopes and their ambitions,” he said. “But FEDERATION BACKS K TAX INCREASES Opposes Auto Weight Levy and Change in Lump- Sum Policy. Six proposals for increased District taxation now being studied by the House District Committee, esuma!,edl to bring in about $2,600,000 in addi- tional revenue, were approved in prin- ciple last night by the Federation of Citizens' Associations, in recognition of the need of meeting the anticipated $6,000,000 deficit in the next fiscal | year. Some changes in the pending bili were recommended. At the same time, the federation opposed the suggested repeal of sub- stantive law which requires that the Federal Government should pay 40| per cent of the costs of the Capital. A declaration that the proposed $5,- 000,000 Jump sum payment would be neither adequate nor equitable was adopled a week ago at a special meet- ing of the federation. Acting on a report by L. A. Car- ruthers, chairman of its Committee on Fiscal Relations, the federation approved in general terms the adop- tion of increased taxation on insur- ance companies, corporations, a tax (See FEDERATION, Page A-20.) Of Father to Another poignant chapter in the age-old emotional conflict between mother love and paternal discipline will be written in Police Court to- morrow, when 1l-year-old Fred Storm is called on to tell how his father spanked him for staying out beyond his bedtime. Robert E. Storm, 50, gray-haired District engineer, was-arrested yester- day on an assault warrant sworn to by his divorced wife and mother of his son. At liberty under $100 bond after being finger-printed, Storm, obviously touched deeply by the charges that he had been brutal to his son, readily admitted he spanked Fred at their home, 1681 Columbia road, Tharsday night. “L love the boy,” Storm said, “but things had reached the point where he was becoming unmanageable. He was deflant and sneering at orders to do things. I just had to do something. “Mend Your Ways.” “Before I spanked him I told him, ‘listen here brother, you came in late tonight, but that isn’t the reason you are getting spanked. That is just the last straw. This is the result of what you have been doing all along and you have to learn to mend your ways. " After he put his son to bed, Storm said, the lad slipped out of the house and rode on his bicycle to the home of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Hoff- man, 1428 R street, who married again shortly after she was divorced in 1936. Storm was granted sole cus- tody of the lad after obtaining the divorce, he said. Storm also married again. Aftorney Jean Boardman, ocounsel ] . Court Will Decide on Right Spank Son, 11 FRED STORM. for Storm, said he will contend a parent has a right to punish his child for disciplinary purposes and has the right also to determine the method of punishment. “Tried to Reason With Him.” “Fred had been naughty for weeks,” Storm declared, “but I realized what brought that about. I had tried in every way to reason with him. He had not had a spanking for over a year. But he is a child who is hard to manage. “Day after day at dinner I would (8ee BPANKING, Page A-2.) § purpose, whether through strikes or lockouts, actual or threatened, should by suggestions I have read and heard of political disunity in my fatherland. | “Nothing can be farther from the | (See LUTHER, Page A-3.) be made expressly illegal, and dealt with from that point of view,” Sibley y continued. “To be justified, action by employers or employes should UF fl A R ARRIVE relate solely to the working conditions which are in question.” . 1] . Property Right Held Basic. = e | Vigorously opposing the sit-down g | strike, Sibley said “The right to Forty-sixth Congress 0pens | strike, so long as it does not endanger < 2 the public interest or impose upon Tomorrow N|ght in Con- | others intolerable hardships, is funda- 2 " mental. The right to the: possession stitution Hall. of property by its owners, free of trespassers, is equally fundamental.” Five thousands Daughters of the| Sibley proposed that labor union American Revolution gathered in :}’IOHH{S l:lsub}ec;w the same restric- % | tions legally as those of corporations, Washington today for their iorly-slxth;wmch tfiet et (;&: e annual Continental Congress, “'mCh}comributed to a political campaign opens tomorrow at 8:30 pm. in Con- | fynd. He advocated legislation to stitution Hall. “outlaw every form of coercion and Americanism, aid for youth and edu- | intimidation.” cation in citizenship are the topics | Employes of governments and pub- featuring the program which con-|lic utilities should not be allowed to tinues through Friday evening, when | strike, Sibley said, but should be neld the congress closes with a banquet, at | amenable to an orderly procedure for which the United States Marine Band | settlement of all disputes through will play. arbitration. “The opening of the congress Mon- That business leader declared that day will be the usual brilliant and | “before approaching werkers, every colorful assemblage of D. A. R. offi- | promoter of an organization of work- cers and the thousands of delegates,” | ers should, as a matter of law, be Mrs. William A. Becker, president | required to establish as of public general, said yesterday. The triennial excitement attending election of a new president general will be absent this year, for Mrs. Becker's term has another year to run. However, seven vice presidents general and one honorary vice presi- dent general will be chosen by the congress. Mrs. G. M. Griner of Wash- ington, is one of 11 candidates for the vice presidencies. Mrs. Becker will open the cere- monies tomorrow with a talk on “Liv- ing for the Ages,” after a procession of the national officers and groups of escorting pages. Senator Moore, Dem- ocrat, of New Jersey, will sound the keynote of the congress in his speech or “Youth.” National Defense Meeting. Several hours before the official opening, however, the national defense meeting of the D. A. R. will be held in the Mayflower Hotel ball room, with Mrs. Vinton Earl Sisson, chair- man, presiding. This session, which begins at 2 pm., will be featured by talks from four men conversant with international af- fairs and problems as they concern the United States. Early arrivals for the congress gath- (See D. A. R, Page A-5.) Herman J. Williamson, 32, who gave an address in the 200 block of Twelfth street southwest, Washington, was to have a hearing in a Baltimore Police Court this morning on a charge of attempting to drown his estranged wife in a Baltimore stream yester- day afternoon because she refused to return to live with him. The wife, Mrs. Mae Williamson, 29, is the mother of Williamson's three children. The husband was arrested after he allegedly thrust Mrs. William- son’s head under the water several times in an effort to force her to agree to come back to him. The couple separated some time ago and Mrs. Williamson went to Baltimore to live with her sister and brother-in-law, taking the children. record his identity, the activities which he will undertake, and the nature and purpose of the organization he will promote.” Moment Held Important. “You are meeting in Washington in an extremely interesting moment,"” Sibley told the editors. “The moun- tain at the eastern end of Pennsyl- vania avenue is in labor and no doubt will deliver in due course. “Meanwhile, last Monday the Su- preme Court again made history. The five decisions concerning the validity of the Labor Relations Board were rendered—four of them by the well " (See EDITORS, Page A-3.) M’CREA FOR MAYOR DETROIT, April 17 (#)—Duncan C. McCrea, Wayne County prosecutor, who aided in convicting a number of men accused of Black Legion crimes in the past year, announced today he would be a candidate for Mayor of Detroit next Fall. Announcement by Mayor Frank Couzens that he will not seek re-elec- tion has resulted in the entry of sev- eral candidates. D.C. Man Accused of Attempt To Drown Estranged Wife Yesterday afternoon Williamson went to see his wife and persuaded her to take a walk to “talk things over,” the wife said. Mrs. Williamson told police she ac- companied her husband and he avoided busy streets, leading her through fields and down deserted pathways. The wife said her husband “acted queerly” and kept trying to persuade her to agree to a reconcilia- tion. At a spot where Jones Falls flows through a residential section of Balti- more, Mrs. Williamson said her hus- band suddenly seized her by the throat and threw her over the river bank. Williamson, it was said, then jumped down the bank into about (See WILLTAMBON, Page A-4) SENATORS IRKED BY PLAN T0 RASE FARMLOAN RATES “Sheer Nonsense,” Says Wheeler, as Borah Joins Attack. LAND BOOM FEAR OF MYERS RIDICULED Burden Already Holding Back Raural Recovery, Senators Declare. BACKGROUND— Federal land bank loans were cut from 4% per cent to 3% two years ago as an “emergency” meas- ure and it is proposed now to con- tinue the rate two years more after July 1. Opposing this “easy-money” pro- gram, Gov. W. I. Myers of the Farm Credit Administration said it costs the Treasury $31,700,000 an- nually. B3 the Assoctated Press | A flierce congressional controversy | developed yesterday out of an admin- | istration proposal to increase farm | interest rates as a means of prevent- | ing an inflationary “land boom.” Senators Borah, Republican, of Idaho and Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana quickly challenged the sug- gestion by Gov. W. I. Myers of the | Farm Credit Administration that the | emergency 3!, per cent interest rate lon land bank loans be permitted to expire July 1. | Wheeler, who forced the low emer- gency rate through the Senate, char- ‘acterized as “sheer nonsense” Myers’ statement that its continuation might stimulate a harmful land boom Borah, calling attention to the administration bill to relieve farm tenancy, said the “best way to handle farm tenancy” is “to make it possible for the farmer who now owns his farm to continue to own it.” The two sharp senatorial statements were inspired by Myers testimony before the House Agriculture Commit= tee Friday against continuing the emergency 3!; per cent rate for two years longer. Fear of Land Boom. “It appears quite possible,” he told the committee, “that if the Fedeggl land banks continue to finance the purchase of farms at an artificially low interest rate it may have the effect of stimulating a land boom and ultimately may have a far-reaching |and undesirable effect on the whole | structure of land values in the United States.” | Wheeler quickly seized on the proe posal as a new argument in his battle against the Roosevelt court reorgan= | ization bill. Asserting there was no better way for the Government to help farmers !lhan by providing low interest rates, |the Montana Senator said “it isn't | necessary to pack the Supreme Court | or to change the Constitution in order | to help the farmer of this country ! get out from under the load of debt he bas been carrying.” Wheeler added that the interest move was in conflict with the ade | ministration claim that “the only thing standing in the way of assisting | the farmers was ‘nine old men’ on the Supreme Court.” “This demonstrates the insincerity of the Department of Agriculaure and the head of the Federal land banks in carrying on their reprehensible propa= ganda against the court in order to | cover up their own mistakes,” he added. Price-Fixing Results. “It should be borne in mind that | everything that the farmer has to buy went up in price as a result of the price-fxing methods adopted under the N. R. A.; and those prices did not | come down even after the N. R. A. was | abolished, but have continued to in- crease “To raise the interest rate on the farmer is unthinkable.” Borah also stressed the price of things the farmer must buy. His statement follows: “Governor Myers lays stress on the fact that the farm index price is back again nearly to where it was in 1930. | But what was the condition in 1930 and in 1928 and 1929? Farm tenancy Was growing at a rapid rate, farm mortgages were being foreclosed, and tax sales were on a large scale. “In addition to that, taxes are higher. The prices of things which the farmer has to buy are higher. The implement trust is still doing business at the old stand. We now have in Congress a farm tenancy measure. It proposes to start with an appropriation of $50,000,000, which will not be a drop in the bucket if it is to be effective. Is it not far better, in dealing with this question of farm tenancy, to make it possible for the farmer who now owns his farm to continue to own it? That is the very best way to handle farm tenancy. The present increase of farm tenancy is very great. “In addition to that, let me say, that the farmer cannot pay an ine terest which Gov. Myers calls a business-rate of interest. It is not in the business. And, unless we find some way by which to give the farmer a lower rate of interest, there is no possible way to stop the spread of farm tenancy.” SUGAR PARLEY HOPEFUL U. 8. and Cuban Delegates Ex- pect Parley to Succeed. LONDON, April 17 (#).—United States and Cuban delegates to the International Sugar Conference ex= pressed optimism tonight on the chances of the parley's success, at the end of the second week of meetings. The experts, who are trying to se- cure an agreement on export quotas for the sugar-producing nations, hoped to bring Russia and Java into line next week. Those two countries had asked higher quotas than others thought they were entitled to. ¢