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FRANCE FORESEES BALANCED BUDGET Bonnet Is Rushed to Paris From Cherbourg to Pre- sent Program. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 28.—Georges Bonnet, finance minister in the new French | government. came back from the United Statas today to seek a bal- | anced budget for his nation’s money | s, Bonnet was recalled from his post &3 Ambassador at Washington as soon as the new cabinet of Camille Chau- temps was formed. He would have preferred to stay there, but the second People’s Front government has hung on him its hopes for solving financial crisis. He was called immediately to see Camille Chautemps, the new premier, and then take his financial proposals before a full cabinet meetinz. A spe- cial train sped him to Paris after he landed at Cherbourg from the liner Queen Mary. Hotels May Close. Chautemps, meanwhile, gwerve restaurant, hotel and cafe own- ers from their decision to shut down July 3 in protest against nation-wide application of the 40-hour week. They egreed, however, to confer again July 1, Bonnet's undersecretary e Bru- net annoimced his goal was a bal- anced budg He asserted the first failed to I8 Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SALOON. AMILIES, it seems, are going sour on maids who previously have found them completely trustworthy. The trend (one instance amounts to a trend with us) is supported by the story of a feud now being fought out between a prom. inent pair and their maid. The subject of the feud is & bar recently set up in the home; one that for more than 20 years has been con- vivial without acquiring anything so professional looking as a bar. The maid does not approve. The one way she can settle with the family for outraging her sense of the pro- prieties is to call the thing a saloon. She calls it that, too, every time she answers the phone. “Yes,” she says, “Mrs. Blank is in the saloon. I'll call her.” The Blanks get pretty angry about it, but you can't fire a maid who's been around more than two decades, even if her attitude does leave th. 1 with a lot of explaining to do to strangers who call on the telephone. X x ¥ % AND— step—balancing the ordinary budget— | could he taken vea | Vincent the retired finanee minister, estimated the ordinary| budget deficit at 4.600.000.000 francs $200.000.000). The cor treasury deficit of both th and extraordinary b estimated a* 36,12 (about §1,600,000.00), That total, Brunei said, could be balanced n three years. The regu- lar budget of about $2,211,000.000 does not include the extraordinary ex- penses, most of which are for defense. Bonnet was expected to present his declaration of policy to Parliament to- | morrow along With projecis to increase | taxation and reduce expenditures emps meanwhile summoned gation of hotel, restaurant and | owners to a conference in a new effort to prevent a nation-wide closure. Trouble Is Inherited. ‘This first n trouble of his gov- ernment was rited from that of | his predece: Socialist Leon Blum, whose Peoples Front & demand for vir powers to mect the financia ublicatinn of a decree of government, exiending the work week to the hot brought widespread protes's from op- erators, who threatened to close their businesses rather than operate un- | der it As Bonnet zets has been | ,000,000 francs 40-hour | industry, ied the special train he told in wers he was “more than ever convinced of the necess! for Franco-Americ: co-operation.” | The retiring Amba r was full | of enthusiasm for the United Siates, | and said, “Fr I would have pre- | ferred to stay % FARM TENANT AID IS HOUSE ISSUE| Questions of Degree of Paternal- ism Follow Report on Measure. By the Associated Press. The dezree of Government super- Vision over proposeq farm tenancy | loans became a major issue today'in House debate. The House Agriculture Committee | epproved a bill authorizing $85.000,000 in loans to ten. arecroppers and farm laborers for the purchase of farm homes during the next three years. A group led by Representative Bier- | mann, Democrat, of Iowa, offered an amendment to let the Government purchase, improve and resell farms to tenants. The latter would have to Eerve a five-year trial, supervised by Federal agents, Other salient points in the commit- tee bill: Borrowers would have 30 years to retire loans at 3 per cent annual interest. Loans would be extended only to tenants and on farms approved by county committees of three farmers, appointed by the Secretary of Agri-| culture. Borrowers would be required to keep ! their farms in repair and to follow | farming practices that would prevent soil exhaustion. Liberal rehabilitation loans would | finance farming operations and re- | finance indebtedness. Funds for such ' loans would be made available from ' relief appropriations. Expenditure of $50.000.000 during the | next three vears would be authorized | for purchase angd retirement of un- productive land. | The Resettlement Administration would be renamed the Farm Security | Administration and would carry out | the tenancy program. Epworth League Elects. CAMP SPRINGS, Md. June 28 (Special) —The Epworth League of Bell's M. E. Church has elected Ralph Payne, jr., president; Faye Hutchin- #on, first vice president: Charles Sturgess, second vice president; Leona Wilcox, third vice president; Ells- worth Webster, fourth vice president; Regina Payne, secretary, and Helen Sturgess, treasurer. Congress in Brief TODAY. Benate: Routine business. Post Office Committee decides whether to call Postmaster General Farley in strike mail inquiry. Labor Committee considers wage- hour bill Joint Committee seeks agreement on $1,500,000,000 relief bill. House: Debates farm tenancy bill. TOMORROW. Senate: Probably will continue on Interior Department supply bills or confer- ence reports on other appropriations. Hearings probably will continue on District tax bill. House: . Considers rivers and harbors au- thorization bill. Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee considers fisheries credit act bills, 10 am. Houze District Committes inspects proposed abattoir site in Bennings, 10am > Monday being a nice day for domestic stories, you might not mind a bit of case history on the same servant. She came into the family when both she and it were voung and neither of them were 50 prosperous as they are today. Seems, looking back, she always, has been a sort of hellion on the phone. Even in those ancient days when people would call and ask 1f she was the maid, she let fly with an embarrasing answer which went like this: “Yes, I'm the maid. And I'm the laundress, And the cook. And I take care of the furnace, I even mow the lawn.” * %ok x JUDGE A JUDGE in one of the local courts lost a traffic case the other day. but don’t jump to conclusions until you have heard the whoje story. The lad before the occupant of the bench was known to the latt«; an acquaintanceship that colored the whole moment with more than ordi- nary informality. “What's your allowance per week, David?” the judge asked. “Fifty cents,” said the boy. “Well,” said the judge, “I'm going to fine you $6.50, but instead of letting vour father pay it, I want you to bring it to me in 25-cent installments every week.” “I can’'t do that, your honor,” said the boy. “It would cost me 30 cents bus bare to get down here and back. Besides, my father isn't paying this fine. T've got the money with me; money I've saved out of my allowance and what I've earned.” The jurist admitted defeat. took the $6.50 and the case was closed. ¥ % ok ok DISTRUST. AUNT MARGARET HUGHES, who “™ runs a hostelry catering to Wash- ington vacationists not so far from here. recently found a startling streak of distrust in maid she'’s had for years. Aunt Margaret wanted some new flat silver, and, so the pattern would be right. she gave a butter spreader to & Washington guest who was going to make the purchase here. The arrange- ments for the deal were hardly com- pleted before the maid came in to announce that the butter spreader was missing. Aunt Margaret, somewhat embar- | rassed, explained the situation. “Oh, all right,” said the maid, “but T just wanted every one to know that 1 counts the silver after every meal.” * % ok ox PULMOTOR. Favorite citizen of Bethany Beach, 30 far as one cynical Wash- ingtonian who goes there is con- cerned, is a woman who is quite vociferous in local civic association doings. Lots of things the associa- tion does with its money fail to meet. her approval. One of them happens to be the purchase of a pulmotor, designed to pull the ocean out of any lungs into which it may seep. The lady thought that was a crazy investment and every time it's mentioned she snaps out with: “Ha, spending money that way. And we've never had a chance to use it.” * x % x CHEATED? R/IARTHA STRAYER, the writing lady, says she's a very unsenti- mental person. We wouldn't know about that, Martha, but, if you say so, O. K. However, Martha goes on to say that others are more matter of fact than she is, notably a bride she once saw drive up with a friend to a church door. As the two girls got out of the cab, she distinctly heard the bride say, “What? Did he charge us 50 cents just to come down here?” * % % % ADVICE. UMMER reading from the Depart- ment of Agriculture, in case you're considering a new kind of household pet, is a leaflet called “Care of the Chameleon.” It seems that “Kammie” might well be allowed to run loose on a screened porch in Summer, but should have his own cage or apartment in Winter, He positively must have some flowers growing in water in his cage—some- thing like a narcissus or a water hyacinth. He drinks only by lapping drops from the leaves. He likes meal worms or cockroaches for food, and spectfic directions are given for growing cockroaches (loud groans!). No such advice needed in this climate, particularly in Summer. WARSHIP BRiNGS TROOPS TO RIOT-STRICKEN ISLE By the Associated Press. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, June 28.—The warship Essex rushed to Tobago yesterday as riotous strikes which have swept Trinidad the past week threatened & new instance of violence at the Island of Ward. Two platoons of marines were aboard the Essex. All laborers on Ward Island were expected to strike today. The marines were deemed necessary to assure order. Quiet prevailed here yesterday, after a week of violence which cost 14 lives. Oil workers, busmen and other laborers are on ‘strike for & 40-hour week and increased wages, THE EVENING STAR, “"WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1937, ROOSEVELT BACK; EMIOYED OUTING Returns to Desk After Night Spent on Yacht After Island Visit. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt returned to his desk today with a deep tan and in the best of spirits after his three-day “party harmony” outing on Jefferson Island, in Chesapeake Bay. The President, without commenting on the outcome of the “harmonizing” conference in the seclusion of the island, made it evident he thoroughly enjoyed himself. Mr. Roosevelt arrived back at the White House at 9:30 a.m., having made a leisurely cruise from Jefferson Island aboard the presidential yacht Potomac. It was after 5 p.m. yesterday when he left the island and nearly dark when the yacht headed into the Potomac River from the bay. The vessel an- chored below Mount Vernon, resuming its journey early today. One of the President's first duties on his return was to let it be known that he was not contemplating send- ing a Supreme Court nomination to the Senate today. There had been a rumor to the effect that he probably would send up the name of a suc- cessor to Justice Van Devanter, who retired early in June. Backs Granary Plan. The White House said President Roosevelt may lend his support to the | ever-normal granary plan, sponsored by the Department of Agriculture, through letters to be sent later in the week to Chairman Smith of the Sen- ate Agriculture Committee and Jones of the House Agriculture Committee. These letters, it was pointed out, would take the place of a message to Congress. The President was repre- sented as reiterating his stand against further messages at this session except minor ones dealing with routine af fairs. There is every reason to know the President is still eager for Congress to dispose of his Supreme Court en- | largement proposal and his plan for reorganizing the executive branch of the Government. | Has Many Engagements. ‘The President was faced with a long list ot engagements today, which in- cluded conferences with James A MofTatt, formerly head of the Federal Housing Administration and now head of a large oil company, who has just returned from a business trip to the | Far East; Chairman Landis of the Securities Exchange Commission; Miss Josephine Roach, Assistant Secretary | of the Treasury; Representative Vor- his of California, Robert Lincoln O'Brien, who decently retired as chair- man of the Tariff Commission, and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. The President announced he had made no engagements for the after- noon, s he could give his attention to catching up with his mail and clearing his desk of routine papers which accumulated during his three- day absence at Jefferson Island. The President will leave Wednes- day morning for Wilmington, Del., to attend the wedding of his son Frank- lin, jr, and Miss Ethel du Pont. He will go from Wilmington to his home at Hyde Park, N. Y., where he will! remain until the night of July 5, | when he will head back for Washing- | ton. GIRL SCOUTS ENGAGE IN ENCAMPMENT PLANS Members From 31 Nations Meet in New York Au- gust 9 to 23. Plans are being completed at na- tional headquarters of the Girl Scouts here for the first international en- | campment, to be held in New York | August 9-23. The meeting, to be known as the Silver Jubilee Camp, will draw girls | from 31 nations. Congress has passed a bill waiving payment of visa fees, of head tax and | certain customs duties for delegates from foreign countries. The measure was sponsored by Senator Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas and Representa- tives Caroline O'Day of New York and Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu- | setts. Mrs. Herbert Hoover is national president of the Girl Scouts and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is honorary Ppresident. to ! Capital Man Honored. Dr. O. E. Baker of Washington yes- terday received an honorary doctorate from the George August University faculty of mathematics and natural science in Qottingen, Germany, ac- cording to an Associated Press dis- patch. The award was in connection with the 200th anniversary of the uni- versity's founding. REGION 2. NEW YORK New jEnsey >4 TReorfey REC O] moidNIIMY visws> _wo -3 10ANg"! “ of 350-Acre Jamboree City WORLO JAMBORE? TROOD| FORLIGN CONTIGENT 3€9 SCOUTS REPALSEUT- ING 22 COUNTRIES W 1) 1 This map shows the assigned location of every contingent of the Scout army, by regions and States. Boys from Washing- ton and- vicinity are in region 3, shown near the Lincoln Me- morial. The colorful Sea Scouts w vill be quartered at Haines Point. BUDGE ADVANGES, GRANT IS BEATEN Californian Trounces Mc- .Grath as Austin Ousts Georgia Player. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, June 28— | Don Budge, America's red-headed Davis Cup ace, eliminated Vivian Mc- ' Grath of Australia, 6—3, 6—1, 6—4, in the quarter-finals of the all-England tennis championships today, but his tiny compatriot, Bryan M. (Bitsy) Grant of Atlanta, fell before the sound strokes of Henry Wildred | (Bunny) Austin of England, 6—1, T—5, 6—4. Frankie Parker, youngster from Milwaukee, gave the United States two semi-finalists in men's singles when he defeated the third seeded Heinrich Henkel of Germany in a | stunning surprise, 6—3, 7—5, 4—8, | 4—6, 6—2. | Baron Gottfried von Cramm. seeded | second to Budge, outlasted the veteran | Jack Crawford of Australia in the re- | maining quarter-final, 6—3, 8—86, 3—8, | 2—6, 6—2. Budge in Top Form. Budge, still in top form, romped through McGrath, seeded No. 7, al- | most as he pleased and continued his | remarkable record of not losing a set in the current championships nor in the Queens Club tournament which | preceded them. | The Australian made frequent use | of clever drop shots in an effort mf halt the lanky American's progress DU PON toward the finals, but Budge, when he tried, easily reached them. Grant put up a good fight against Austin but the Briton packed far too many guns. The Atlantan had a chance only in the second set. but | after gaining a 5-2 lead he could not halt Austin’s counter rally and the Englishman ran off five games in suc- cession. Helen Jacobs Wins. Budge's triumph came after Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Calif, the de- fending title holder, and Alice Marble, United States champion from 8Sa Francisco, had gained the quarter- finals of the women's division. Miss Jacobs trounced Miss A, A Wright of Great Britain, 6—0, 6—3, and Miss Marble won from Rollin Couguerque of Holland, 6—0, 6—2 Dorothy Andrus of Stamford, Conn, and New York was eliminated, how- ever, by Jadwiga Jedrzejowska of Po- land, 6—0, 6—2. T GLIDER HELD ON GROUND BY WEATHER By the Associnted Press. ELMIRA, N. Y, June 28.—Unfav- orable weather conditions today caused Richard C. du Pont to delay his take- | off on an attempted 180-mile glider flight to Wilmington, Del. Rain and lack of wind also kept on the ground some 40 other motor- less craft. poised here for the opening event of the Eighth National Soarings | Comest Du Pont, holder of the American distance and altitude sailplane records, hoped an improvement in conditions might permit his taking off this afternoon for Wilmington, where he is to attend the marriage of his cousin, Ethel du Pont, to Franklin D. Roose- velt, jr. To Evict By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, June 28.—Manuel Latusa’'s efforts to drill a well to get water for his flower garden—once ending with a fire—have produced a geyser which is threatening to rout | the entire neighborhood. Latusa lives in the Little Farms Sub- division near Harahan. Several weeks | 280, a meighbor helped him dig the | first well. Something gushed out ! that smelled like gas. A match was | stuck to it; it was gas. | The fire that followed blazed for hours before it was smothered with mud. Yesterday Latusa sunk another well, | Gas, Mud, Water Threaten Digger of Well about five feet from the first. At 80 feet there was a hiss, and a stream of muddy water, pushed by gas pres- sure, shot up. While Latusa and neighbors watched the spectacle with awe and admira- tion, well No. 1, quiescent since the fire, “cut loose” and continued for several hours. Last night there was gas, mud and water all over the place, and well No. 2 was continuing strong. spouting two feet or more above the ground out of | a four-foot-wide hole. Latusa walked several blocks away to light a cigarette and remarked: “If it keeps up. it looks like we'll have to move out.” 20 TROOPS 1N 34 TROOPS in " ECONOMY DRIVE §200.000, 000 SHORT $100,000,000 Above Re- vised Estimate. By the Ascociated Press. Treasury figures indicated today | that the administration’s economy short of its goal. When President Roosevelt instructed all departments last April to cut ex- penditures sharply, he revised his bud- get to a figure $295,000,000 under the January forecast Treasury reports showed, however, that expenditures from last July 1, through June 24, were $7.883,000,000, compared with a revised budget of $7.781,000,000. Thus the year's spending already has gone $102,000.000 above the re- vised estimate. At the current rate it will increase another $100.000.000 | or more by Wednesday, the end of the fiscal year. While expenditures have not been kept within the April figure, revenue also has been above estimates made at that time. Receipts were $5,213,000,000 through June 24, and are expected by Treasury officials to reach about $5,280,000,000 by Wednesday, or $56,000,000 over the revised estimate. This figure would be $550,000,000 under the January estimate. ‘ Officials attributed the decline un- der original estimates to failure of income tax receipts to meet expecta- tions, litigation tying up rail retire- ment and windfall tax collections and a sharp drop in expected gift tax revenue. On the basis of these estimates, this year's deficit would total about $2.- 670,000,000, exclusive of debt retire- ment, compared with a revised esti- mate of $2,557,000,000 and an original estimate of $2,248,000,000. That deficit would bring the public debt to about $36,300,000,000. Approach of the fiscal year's end focused attention also on plans for next year's spending. Year's Spending Already Is; campaign will fall about $200,000,000 | N 1LORIOA “GEORGIA N.6S CARGLINA 34 TROOPS 10TROOPS IN"M" /' 20 suirs Faom L3 SECTIONS OF ThE COUNTRY SOVIETS DISCOUNT STORY OF ARREST Levaneffsky Rumored Busy on Plans for New Trans- Polar Flight, By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 28.—Official quar- ters discounted today reports that Sigismund Levaneffsky, noted Soviet pilot, had become involved in the latest wave of arrests in Russia. ‘These persons declined to say where Levaneffsky had been since his last known flight three weeks ago. but it was considered possible he might be engaged in secret preparations for a second Soviet trans-Polar flight to the United States. Neither Levaneffsky nor Gen. Y. I. Alksmis, chief of the Soviet air force and vice commissar of defense, was present last Friday at an official re- ception for Dr. Otto Schmidt and his returning party of Polar aerial ex- plorers. So far, the general'’s absence has not been explained. Levaneffsky became well known in the United States when he flew Jimmy Mattern from Siberia to Nome, Alaska. Mattern was forced down in Siberia on his 1933 flight around the world, Alexander Aroseff, president of Voks —the society for cultural relations with foreign countries—is another whose arrest is currently rumored. Alksnis served in the defense com- missariat with the late war marshal, Michail Tukachevsky, and had been reported in difficulty with the au- thorities a few days ago. The reports died down temporarily, however, when he was drafted to sit on the court that condemned the war marshal and seven other Soviet war lords to die for treasonable con- spiracy with an unnamed foreign country. In his ordinary course of duties as head of the air force Gen. Alksnis would have been present at the re- ception for Schmidt, as would have Levaneffsky because of his prominence as a Soviet airman. ‘D. C. MAN AIDS IN SEARCH FOR DROWNED SISTER AND FRIEND Refusing to leave until the bodies of his sister and a friend were recov- ered from the Potomac River, Ray- mond S. Beale, 3202 Nineteenth street, and his fiancee, Miss Marie Dorsey, today were aiding Charles County (Md.) deputy sheriffs and fishermen in dragging the waters near Shadyside. Mrs. Elizabeth Bechhold, 28, also of the Nineteenth street address, and Walter J. Lloyd, 50, a supervisor at the National Training School for Boys, were drowned on a fishing party Saturday night when the man pulled the woman into the river as he accidentally fell from a small motor boat. The body of William C. Zirkle, 42, steamfitter for the Washington Gas Light Co., who was drowned on an- other fishing trip near Shadyside, also was being sought. Mrs. Bechhold and Lloyd were on a fishing trip with Beale and Miss Dor- sey. Lloyd, Beale later recounted, was moving toward the front of the small craft to join Mrs. Beechold as the party prepared to return. Thrown off balance as a swell rocked the boat, he seized Mrs. Beechold and pulled her overboard with him. Answering the screams of his sis- ter, Beale dove into the rough waters, grabbing her just as she went down. She seized him about the neck and fought madly, he said, forcing him to release her. Exhausted and hampered by a heavy woolen sweater and shoes, Beale gave up until he could regain his breath. Meantime, Lioyd's yells—“For God's sake bring the boat here!”—oceased. Drowned. RAYMOND BEALE, Attempted rescue. Miss Dorsey, the only member 6f the party unable to swim, attempted to paddle the boat toward the scream- ing trio, but the craft was swept from its course by wind and water. Unable to see her friends, and the yells having stopped, she kept on paddling. Reaching shallow water, Miss Dor- sey got out and waded to the shore- line. Her calls for help brought fish- ermen, but she was unable to tell them what had happened because of hr hysterical condition. The fisher- men brought her back to normal by slapping her in the face. Nearly an hour later, Beale, who had been searching further for his sister's body, swam ashore. Mrs. Bechhold had only been out of bed since Thursday, having been il with influenza for two weeks. Beale and his flance refused to leave the Maryland beach resort until the bodies of the missing couple had been recovered. Miss Dorsey is em- ployed as s cashier at the Hecht Co. Lloyd has been sttached to the MISS MARIE DORSEY, Paddled Ashore. training school for some years. He was in charge of the school garden and & cottage housing 50 boys. A native of Maryland, he owned a cottage at Shadyside, where he fre- quently entertained friends. He is survived by two brothers, Clarence H. Lloyd of Rock Point, Md, and Eugene Lloyd, Wayside, Md., and two sisters, Mrs. Christine Middleton, Wayside, and Mrs. Julian de Court, Baltimore. *Mrs. Bechhold was the divorced wife of Lewis Bechhold, Oleveland, WALTER J. LLOYD, Drowned. formerly attached to the Naval Hos- pital here. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. G. M. Betz; another brother, Jack Beale, and two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Hamilton and Mrs. Hilda Doby, all of Washington. Zirkle, who lived at 1921 Sixteenth street southeast, also fell overboard as he was returning from a fishing trip. Capt. James Hathaway of Shadyside dove into the river and attempted to rescue him, but ecould Dot keep Bim &Scat. GERMANS DEMAND- TRADE PRIVILEGES Goering Tells World Cham- ber of Commerce Delegates of Economic Position. By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, June 28.—Adolf Hitler ap- plauded today while Nazi Germany, through her highest apostles of eco- nomics, made known to the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce her de- mand for a share in the world's raw materials and its trade. Col. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, virtual dictator of Germany's four- year plan for self sufficiency, and Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, her economic min- ister, apoke out to the 1,500 delegates from 40 countries to seek & German place in the economic sun—and the return of war-lost colonies. Der Fuehrer led the applause from the President’s box. He sat flanked by Goering and by the I. C. C.'s world president, F. H. Fentener Van Vlissingen of The Neth« erlands. Hitler Draws Attention. Curious eyes from all over the world, including the United States, were on Der Fuehrer as he gave a snappy Nazi salute and seated himself. Nazi uniforms dotted the ranks of his followers. Only last night, at Wurzburg, Hitler had his own say on the Reich's short- age of raw materials. Then he de- clared Germany would welcome an insurgent victory in Spain because, “As it is generally known, we try to buy ores everywhere.” Spain is rich in the minerals that Germany needs. It was Goering who sounded the Nazi colony keynote, with the declara- tion it was “intolerable” for the Reich to be dependent economically on other nations. The ever-resplendent air minister sounded Nazidom's determination to be self-sufficient fust 18 years to the day since the formal signing of the treaty of Versailles stripped a cone quered Germany of her colonial em« pire after the World War. Goering told the opening session of the ninth session of the chamber of commerce “You may be sure Germany will continue to bring up the colonial problem until her urgent and legiti- mate desires regarding colonies are fulfilled.” “Furthermore” warned Goering, “Germany is working with all her energy on the undertaking known as the four-year plan.” “Just as Germany must be able fin- ally to rely on her own strength—and on that alone—to defend her terri- tory, s0 must she be self-supporting economically if she is to preserve her independence, honor and in- ternational prestige,” said Gen. Goering. “To depend upon the more or less willing assistance of others is simply an intolerable state of affairs for 8 nationally conscious people that wishes to live.” Defends Arms Program. Goering defended Germany's huge rearmament program with fts at- tendant needs for raw materials as & necessity. “When it proved im- possible to induce other countries to follow the German example and disarm, Germany, in order to se- cure full equality of rights, had no other choice than to rearm,” he satd, However, he added: “As far as it depends on Germany there will not be another war." After an extensive eulogy of Nazi achievements, Hitler's first lieutenant turned o world trade, telling the assembly of business men from all over the world “In national Socialist Germany the | term world trade is not taken as meaning international economic ine terdependence in itself. Their na- tional market represents the economic patrimony of each people and every national policy begins at home. “On the other hand, there can be no doubt but that consistent applica- tion of the principle of economic self- sufficiency of all gtate would in the long run be detrimental to all peo- ples.” PROTEST DISMISSAL OF U. S. EMPLOYE Letters of Lodge 31 Charge Sec- retary Wallace With “Union Discrimination.” Charging ‘“union discrimination™ against the Agriculture Department an open letter has been addressed o Secretary Wallace by the Executive Committee of Lodge 31 protesting the dismissal and “attempted blacklist- ing” of Louis Matosoff, chairman of its Grievance Committee. This is one of the lodges suspended by the American Federation of Gov- ernment Employes, whose members are lining up with the C. I. O. through the newly-formed United Federal Workers of America. The letter, 6,000 copies of which have been circulated, asks for Mato- sofl’s reinstatement, “elimination of anti-union letters from his personnel record and a thorough-going investi- gation into the aspects of discrimina- tion and anti-union policy existing in the department.” LABOR BOARD ACC_USED OF KEEPING 2,000 IDLE Rev. Reginald B. Naugle, Philadel~ phia Lutheran minister, accused the National Labor Relations Board today of depriving 2,000 workers of their livelihood because of its “dilatory tac- tics.” I refer to the failure of the board in the case of the Apex Hosiery Co. of Philadelphia, either to recognize an election which was held at the in< stance of the employes and with strict- est impartiality, or order a second elec- tion under the auspices of the board immediately,” the minister, who is in Washington, wrote to the board. When an employe election June 24 resulted in an overwhelming majority vote for affiliation with the A. F. of L. National Association of Hosiery Workers, the minister wrote, the Com= mittee for Industrial Organization, whose American Federation of Hosiery Workers received only 82 of 1494 votes, called a sit-down strike, which now is in progress. “Your failure to take action in the matter, in view of the tragic breake down of law enforcement in the city of Philadelphia, constitutes mal- feasance in office, approval of lawless- ness or disregard of the fundamental principles of the Wagner act,” Rev. Naugle told the board, 2 ¢