Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1931 — Page 1

DROUGHT BILL TO BE VOTED UPON TODAY isgruntled Senate Is Ready to Pass President’s Compromise. NO DOUBT ON OUTCOME Minority Leader Robinson May Be Repudiated By Democrats. BY RAY TUCKER Time* JStafT Corrr*nond*n t WASHINGTON. Feb. 14-Op-ponent* of the $20,000,000 drought relief compromise had worn themelves out today as a result of a week’s vocal opposition, and were ready to bow to its inevitable passage by the conservative coalition headed by President Hoover and minority leader Robinson <Dcm., Ark.). An agreement for a vote this afternoon has been negotiated, and iherc was no doubt of the outcome. But it is a complaining and disgruntled senate that will pass this additional $20,000,000 appropriation for relief in the drought and stormstricken areas. May Repudiate Robinson Not in many years has a piece of legislation progressed to certain passage and signature by the President amidst so much criticism from ihose who will vote for it. Interest now centered on the number of Democrats having the courage to repudiate formally their leader, Robinson, who negotiated the agreement with Hoover's spokesman and the latter’s Democratic friend and boss of Robinson's home state, Harvey Couch. The number of the discontented and deserting Democrats has been estimated variously at from ten to fifteen. Though Robinson is expected to win a floor victory through passage of his and Hoover’s compromise, it may prove a hollow one. His colleagues insist it means the death of his desire to be the Democratic presidential nominee next year. Defended by Friends His friends, however, defepd both Robinson and the agreement on the ground it is the best that can be wrung from the administration and its overwhelming majority in ihe house. As scheduled to pass, the agreement appropriates $20,000,000 for loans to “individuals” in the areas struck by drought, hail and storm, to provide credi* for the formation or strengthening of agricultural credit and farmer loan corporations and to aid farmers in 1931 crop production or for “crop rehabilitation.” Under the latter phrase it is contended by everybody, and admitted by the administration, that food, clothing and medicine may be bought. BANK JANITOR IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION Charles Parr, 54, Was Wounded in Broad Ripple Holdup. Charles Pair, 54, janitor at the Broad Ripple state bank, who was ; hot by bandits who attempted to rob the bank Thursday, still was in a critical condition this morning, city hospital physicians said. Search for the bandits thus far has been futile. They are thought to have fled south from the city, perhaps by now having Cached Kentucky. 1 EGGS ARE GIVEN AWAY Demand Lacking at 15 Cents a Dozen, Makes Free Offer. By United Press WEST FRANKFORT. 111., Feb. 14. —A West Frankfort merchant offered 500 dozen eggs to his customers free of charge today. Eggs have been selling here for 15 cents a dozen, and even at that price there has been no demand for them. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 15 8 a. m 16 7 a. m 14 9 a. m 16

KEY TO WORLD PROSPERITY IS IN HANDS OF CAPITALISTS

Thi* t* th third of a tris on “Th Road to Bettor Timm” hr a noted Authority on international affairs. BY WILLIAM rillLir SIMMS Seripos-Howard Forelm Editor Overproduction, it is charged, is what Is the matter with business. Overproduction, they say, is the cause of the price collapse, diminished buying power, lowered demand and unemployment. Others, however, claim underconsumption is at the base of the trouble—that something is radically wrong with a system which permits too much flour, sugar, coffee and cotton to pile up in one corner of the world while millions are starving and going naked in another. The market is plenty big. they assert, if the capitalist powers only the talent and common sense o develop it There are roughly 2.000.000,000 people in the world. Os these, a bare 500.000.000 enjoy a comparatively decent standard of living. The rest barely are able to keep body fnd soul together. They irequently

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Youth Dies in Crash Few Hours Before His Wedding

RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 14.—A Valentine day wedding, which was to have been the leading social event of the season in Richmond, was , , . . . _ „, , _ _ . broken up today when George Maurice PefTer Jr. 23, of Piqua, 0., the bridegroom, was killed in a collision of the auto in which he was riding, and an intcrurban freight train. The collision was head-on, two miles east of Richmond. Thad Braffet, Richmond, driver of the auto, and John Rubens. Piqua, the other occupants, both were injured seriously, but will recover, physicians said. ' PelTer was to have been married at 4 this afternoon to Miss Dorothy

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Death Claims Gen. Edwards

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Maj.-Gen. Clarence R. Edwards By United Press BOSTON. Feb. 14. —MajorGeneral Clarence R. Edwards, retired, who became a hero of two w'ars during thirty-nine years of military service, died at 7:06 a. m. today. The w'ar-timc commander of the Twenty-sixth (Yankee) division. known to his doughboys as “Daddy,” was 71. Death followed closely a second operation performed Friday to relieve an intestinal disorder against which the celebrated soldier had waged a gritty, monfh-lontrTight, at Phillips house of Massachusetts general hospital. Three times calls went forth for volunteers to submit to blood transfusions. Os hundreds of offers, those of three of the general’s former .doughboys were accepted.

FIREMAN KILLED FIGHTING BLAZE Loss Is $50,000 When Box Plant Burns. CINCINNATI, w, b . 14 —One fireman was killed and three others injured early today when they were trapped under a falling wall while fighting a fire at the H. B. Smith Paper Box Company plant on the waterfront here. Damage was estimated at $50,000. Edward Braebender. 37, who was killed, was buried under the debris and several hours elapsed before his body was recovered. Those injured were Edward Heffron, 36; John Oldiges, 46, and John Mullen, 27. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind, 11 miles an hour; temperature, 16; barometric pressure, 30.43 at sea level; ceiling, overcast at 5.000 feet; visibility, 10 miles; field good. Bullet Taken from Jaw y Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind.. Feb. 14. A bullet which he had carried imbedded m his jawbone for twentythree years Is now carried in a pocket by Elza Walker. A doctor took it out in an effort to prevent blindness. The lead was in the shape of a dime when removed.

lack enough food to eat or clothes! to wear. Here. then, are 1,500.000,000 people— thre quarters of the inhabitants of the globe—eager to buy, but prevented from doing so by man-made conditions. They have been held back constantly by a : penny-wise, pound-foolish system, the central idea .of which was to make money by exploiting low wages j and backwardness—a system which j does its utmost to speed up mass production while obstructing mass ability to buy the things produced. If the great trading nations of the world would adopt a policy cal- j culated to improve the standard of j living of this billion-and-a-half of potential consumers, they soon would have to increase production to take eaye of demand, instead of j suffering periodical hard times and unemployment because of an unmarketable surplus. This Is not idealism. It is practical business. t; Last year 10.000.000 Canadians j 'spent approximately Sl.250.000.0lK) j for foreign products, or about $125 i per cap^.

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DICTATOR OF SPAIN QUITS Republic for Nation Near as Liberal Forces Oust Cabinet. By Lnticd Press MADRID, Feb .14.—After years of dictatorship, martial law and rebellion, Spain appeared today to be moving toward a Republican form of government with such rapidity that the political victors themselves were uncertain what the next move in the constitutional regeneration of the country would be. Within the space of a few hours the government of Premier-Gen-eral Damaso Berenguer resigned and the king received a decree suspending the parliamentary elections scheduled for n ext month. The next logical development appeared to be the convocation of a constitutional assembly to draft, a constitution replacing that of 1876, under which the country still is governed. Convention Demanded King Alfonso began consultations immediately after the cabinet's res - ignation with leaders of the Liberal party, who forced Berenguer’s resignation, and also with the duke of Maura regarding the formation of anew government. The duke of Maura expressed the opinion that a coalition government would be formed. Briefly summarized, the events leading to the situatioh occurred as follows: Count Romanones, Liberal leader and former premier, informed Berengucr the Liberals would not collaborate with the parliament which the government expected to elect in March. The count demanded a constitutional convention. The elections already had been boycotted by Republicans and Socialists. King, Premier Confer Berenguer said that the Liberal statement did much to clarify the situation, and called an extraordinary session of the cabinet this morning. King Alfonso conferred with the premier before the cabinet met in Berenguer’s sickroom, where he has been confined for some time. Ihe cabinet submitted its resignation to the king, who accepted it. The cabniet also submitted a decree to the king and the premier with the initiation of a violent press campaign as soon as censorship was lifted. The human interest aspects of the revolt at Jaca, frontier town in which the Republicans launched their movement in December, and at Cuatro Vientos airdrome, where such popular figures as Ramon Franco and Pablo Rada led the uprising, were stressed, and sympathy was created for the men killed in the revolt, FACE BOOZE CHARGES Two Are Held After Police Raid; 100 Quarts of Beer Found, Anne Howe. Apartment 1, at 1137 ; North Meridian street, and a soldier-gallant from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, who is alleged to have | tried to pour out a gallon of whisky during a police raid on Anne's apartment Thursday night, 1 faced blind tiger charges today. Police say they found one hundred quarts of beer in the flat. The soldier is Samuel Elsie.

If the billion and a half less fortunate® of the earth were on a Canadian basis, their trade would be worth $187,000,000,000 per annum to the United States and other exporting nations. That is ten times the present (Turn to Page 7)

FASHIONS DIRECT FROM MIAMI TO YOUR BOUDOIR

HUNDREDS of Indianapolis women know more—much more—about fashions as they are and will be than they did a week ago. And the answer is that they have been reading Amos Parrish's department every day on The Times home page. The Parrish feature, the highest type of its class in the countrytoday. starts its second week Monday, with an "added attraction." That’s a personal letter from Mr. Parrish to all his Times readers, right from the winter fashion capital of the nation— Miami. "What they're wearing here in V

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1931

1 Helen Augustine, daughter of the Rev, and Mrs. R. Howard M. Augustine. Her father was to officiate and scores of guests were Present for 1 the event, which was to have been held in the Presbyterian church of which he is stor * * * * * pEFFER S father i„ present of the Piqua National Bank and Trust JL Company. He liad ordered an expensive limousine as a wedding gift and the family was to have been present. J The accident occurred early this morning on the National road. i The three young men had gone out from Richmond for a short time, i and were returning. -

Revelations to Result in Search for New York ‘Higher-Ups.’ B'j Lnited Press NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Revelations that a police lieutenant, on a $4,000 yearly salary, and his mother deposited $237,837 within six years and withdrew $212,498 of that amount in the same period will bring a determined search for higher-ups believed to have received New York police vice graft money, it was promised today. Referee Samuel Seabury made the promise after hearing such testimony Friday during his inquiry into the conduct of the magistrate’s courts of New York City, just after Magistrate Jean Norris, first njoman magistrate in New York City, had testified she had altered court records which tended to show she had been harsh in her judicial judgment. Pickings Are Good Critical examination of Lieutenant John W. Kenna, in authority over 1,000 policemen in a district in which he himself admitted were more than one thousand speakeasies, was preceded by a description of the area by Inspector Alexander C. Anderson. “It is good pickings,” Anderson said of the district which includes, he said, such industries as “garment making, fur center, theaters, vagrancy, gambling and 1,000 speakeasies. “It’s between Fourteenth and Eighty-sixth streets from Broadway to the Hudson. “In the old days when the police captain paid for his job and afterward got his money back, this district was called a juicy steak and from that, I suppose, ten<'* _l oin.” Mother Defends Officer Kenna’s personal bank accounts showed deposits of $45,442 in the six year period. He explained them with: “My mother gave it to me.” His mother, questioned about her personal deposits of $192,000 in the same period, accounted for $120,000 with: Bonuses from money she lent Harlem Nogroes to play policy games; rent from Harlem tenements; nursing; selling sewing machines. Also, she said, her son gave her his salary check which went into her bank accounts. She could offer no explanation for the $70,000 unaccounted for except to say that she still had the first S2O she earned, and that she always had saved. Records wexc introduced to show that prior to the six-year period she had saved something less than $5,000. PICK GOLF WINNERS Ten Girls Selected for Free Lessons. Winners in The Times Free Golf Lessons Contest were decided today by the judges, A. C. Sallee, superintendent of parks; Lee Emmelmann, of the Em-Roc Sporting Goods store, and Dick Collins, of A. G. Delaware street. The first group of ten will start their lessons Monday evening at 6 o’clock at the Smith-Nelson Golf Academy, second floor Board of Trade building. Further details will appear in later editions of The Times today and in Monday's editions. The first lucky ten are: Maurine Rudolph. 607 North Delaware street. Mildred White, 234 Bankers Trust building. Myrtle Lamkin, 812 North Camp- | bell avenue. Claire E. Thompson, 405 North Euclid avenue. Wilma Lee Taflinger. 1514 East ! Twelfth street. Geraldine Relander, 2153 Dexter i street. Lois A. Johnson, 601 North Arlington avenue. Goldie Straub. 427 North Chester street. Elinore M. Young, 4123 North Capitol avenue. Pat Cronley, 617 North Delaware street.

this sunshine—in clothes and suntan —is what they'll be wearing all over America next summer, wherever and whenever there is sunshine,” declares Mr. Parrish. That should be tip sufficient to all the fashion-knowing women of Indianapolis. Read this special article on The Times home page Monday to be up to the last second on coming fashions. van MR. PARRISH'S articles next week will be especially interesting. covering as they do a wide variety of subjects on sash-

CHICAGO COPS HALT CARROLL SHOW IN RAID Earl’s Brother, 2 Comedians and 28 Chorus Girls Are Arrested. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 14. Earl Carroll’s musical comedy, “Sketch Book,” in one scene of which an almost nude girl and three men stood in a bath tub and threw water at each other, was raided and stopped Friday night by police. The manager, James Carroll, brother of Earl, two comedians and twenty-eight chorus girls were arrested. They were taken in patrol wagons to a police station and charged with taking part in an obscene performance. Bonds of SI,OOO each were set by Judge Francis Borelli, who released the performers on their own recognizance. The raid was conducted by Thomas Scanlon, deputy commissioner, acting under orders of Commissioner John Alcock, whose investigator, Henry Melvin, had seen the show, which opened three weeks ago. Carroll and others connected with the show declared the raid was not justified and believed it was due partly to scenes ridiculing the Chicago police department. Comedian Blames Hoodoo Date William Demarest, comedian, blamed the closing to the fact it was Friday, the thirteenth. The twelfth scene of act one was being staged when the police appeared. Don Howard, a star, was in the center of the stage crooning “Song of the Moonbeams.” He was surrounded by scantily clad girls. Scanlon marched down an aisle, followed by six uniformed policemen. Through another door and down another aisle marched Captain Williard Malone, also leading six officers. The orchestra continued playing, but Howard stopped singing. The girls stared. The officers strode on to" the stage. Scanlon announced dramatically that the show was over. The curtain descended. Girls Scold Officers While the customers left, getting their money back on the wa£, the actors, manager, and girls were taken through the stage entrance to four patrol wagons. The girls protested they went, scolding the officers Tor taking their jobs away from them. At the police station, the girls, many of them still in their stage costumes, literally “sw 7 armed all over the place,” a blushing policeman related later. Judge Borelli, called by John J. Garrity, theater manager, hurried to the station and released the prisoners, one after another, with orders to reappear at 9 a. m. today. “I am at a loss to understand this raid,” Garrity said. Scene Pokes Fun at Cops “Unless,” he added, “it was because of that scene in the Chicago cabaret where a cop comes in, pays no attention to a dead man on the floor, and arrests one of the customers for parking his car too near a fire plug.” The Grand opera house, where the show was playing, is across the street from the city hall. Another scene w'hich Garrity hinted the police “might not have liked" portrayed a New York speakeasy. Two men walked in. Recognizing each other as Chicagoans, they immediately drew guns and shot each other. In filing his complaint, Melvin did not, however, specify any pari ticular scene, but it was under- ! stood he did tell Alcock that “the entire show 7 is filthy.” CLOTHING STORE ROBBED Burglars entered through a front window 7 and removed clothing and cloth valued at S6OO from a tailor- ! ing establishment at 8 West Ohio street, Edw r ard G. Barthel, operator, of 520 North Meridian street, told police today. Sunday Daaices Barred EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 14. | Sheriff William Habbe announces I that public dancing on Sunday will | not be permitted in Vanderburg • county.

ions for spring and home decorations. Monday's story will tell of the lovely new prints out of which charming dresses will be fashioned for spring wear—dresses, ensembles, blouses, jackets, scarfs and trimmings. There’s anew softness to fashion, Parrish asserts in his Tuesday article. You’ll see it in a frock with a softly draped neckline, a dress with pleating, fagotting, or other soft details. man DRESSES with matching jackets will be his theme for t Wednesday, and on Thursday he’ll

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\ Details of the crash could not be learned, because of the serious condition of the two survivors. ;*** * * * SEVERAL serious accidents have occurred in the vicinity, however, whirl, i= a nor, nf ....... , . . “ * ,?” ° „ f * ‘ ' int " Urba " tr,C,!S e cemer 01 me road. believed BrafTet misjudged the distance from the interurban's light to the side of the car. An array of gorgeous and costly gifts remained in the Augustine 1 home as a pathetic remtndei of the gayety that was to be.

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Although pretty Ina Claire, stage and screen favorite, told interviewers in Chicago that she and John Gilbert, screen actor, are living apart because she “would rather be his mistress than his wife,” she announced on arriving in Los Angeles Friday night that she and Gilbert have agreed to a separation. (Story on Page 3).

CURTAIN RISES ON 1931 MOTOR SHOW

A fnll section of auto show news in this edition. Motordom of 1931 paraded today before Hoosier eyes as the curtain lifted on the twentieth annual automobile show at 10 a. m. at the state fairground. The show will be open daily from 10 a. m. until 10:30 p. m. through Thursday night. Autos, big and little, and of every hue mixed by an artist’s palette, awaited visitors in their booths. Speed lines, with a minimum of wind resistance, featured many of the models shown. Every pocketbook will find an automobile to fit it. New decorations with softer lighting effects will greet visitors at this year’s exhibit. Approximately thirty automobile and truck firms are exhibiting at the show with additional booth space occupied by accessory and specialty companies. “Buy now if you want to speed up prosperity,” is the slogan of the motor car companies showing models at the show. “Car pick-up” vies with “business pick-up” in the sales talks at each booth. Announcement was made by E. G. Henry, show manager, that the College. Central and Illinois car lines will run special trams marked “fairgrounds” to carry visitors direct to the show. “Motorists driving to the show will find ample parking space in the building opposite the 1931 exhibition at the fairground. The charge is 25 cents for parking, day or night,” Henry said.

CHANCES OF SOLDIER BONUS LEGISLATION GROW DIMMER

BY MARSHALL M NEIL Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Though assailed by Treasury Secretary Mellon, the soldier bonus bill still stood strongly before the house today, with the probability that it would pass that body.

go into detail about dresses that are—or look—two-piece. “Glass Curtains and How to Drape Them,” the Parrish topic for Friday, will bring a world of interesting information to the homemaker. And, as a climax to a week of fascinating chat about styles, the Saturday department will tell of styles which today are going back to the days of a century, two, or three centuries ago, for new ideas. You’ll keep pace with fashions if you read Parrish in The Times every day. So get the Parrish habit today, just by turning to the home page. , TA

State officials aided in clarioning the show’s opening this morning with visits to the fairground. HUNT MISSING GIRL Child, 10, Disappears on Way to School. By United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal. Feb. 14.—Scores of police and private citizens searched the hills back of San Diego and across the border in Mexico today for trace of the 10-year-old Virginia Brooks, who disappeared last Wednesday while going to school.

Get This Diet Following the air interview of Howard Thurston, magician, over WKBF and his appearance at the Lions and Caravan Clubs, where he discussed a diet that would build up all people, many requests have reached The Indianapolis Times for copies of this chart. Thurston has left with The Times a limited number of these diet charts. As long as they last, The Times will mail them to any one who accompanies his request with a stamped addressed envelope. Send your request to The Times, Editorial rooms.

Chances for the $700,000,000 measure, which provides that veterans may borrow up to 50 per cent on their adjusted compensation certificates at 412 per cent interest, finally passing congress and getting presidential approval were, however, seemed dimmer than before. Indeed, there was suspicion among senators today that there would be no bonus legislation, but that the bill would either die in conference or meet a veto. Mellon’s five-page statement against the bill, issued late Friday night, pointed the way for either of these courses. After a day which saw the house ways and means committee report out the bill over the dissenting votes of the four leading Republican members, and after Speaker Longworth emphatically had said he favored the measure as it stands and wants it passed, Mellon declared, in a letter to ways and means Chairman Hawley <Rep., Ore.), that the treasury could not stand the strain. "Aside from the merit or dement of the proposal,'* Mellons letter

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TWO DROWN IN CLOUDBURST; SIX MISSING Deluge in Arizona Sweeps Auto From Highway. Wrecks Homes. BRIDGES TORN OUT * —■ ■ Telephone, Telegraph Lines Disrupted by Force of Storm. By United Press YUMA, Ariz., Feb. 14.—Two persons were drowned and at least six others were missing today as a result of cloudbursts which swept the hills back of Welton. Ariz. The known dead, as yet unidentified, were members of a party of four whose automobile was swept, from the road by floodwaters. Bodies of the other two had not been recovered at daybreak. Four other persons, believed missing. were living in tourist camps which were swept away by the torrents. The water poured out of the hills for a distance of one-half mile with a maximum width of 300 feet and swept directly through Welton before losing force. A mile and a half of the Southern Pacific tracks was reported washed out at one point. Water flowed down the Welton streets four feet deep, sweeping away several tourist cabins and * dozen small houses. Seventy-five automobiles, including a Pacific Greyhound stage full of passengers, were reported marooned two miles east of town. Two bridges, one in towm and one nine miles east of Tacna, were torn away. At Tacna trains were stalled on each side of the town. Communication lines here were disrupted, but shortly before midnight service was resumed temporarily with Yuma and then went, out again.

How the Market Opened

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Further selling reduced prices fractions to more than a point in many issues on the New York Stock Exchange today in fairly active turnover. A few issues made gains, including Auburn Automobile, which was up 2 points at 17814; Worthington Pump, up 1, at 94U, and a few others up fractionally. Heavy selling came into Radio Corporation and the issue broke nearly a point to 18. This unloading was induced by decision of the* United States circuit court of appeals “Upholding a lower court that patent pooling among Radio Corporation, General Electric, Westing - house Electric, American Telephone and several other companies in manufacture of radio tubes was in violation of the Clayton anti-trust act. General Electric opened unchanged at 481*, where it held in the early trading. Westinghouse Electric opened at 98, off V 2, and then eased to 97Vi. American Telephone was down Y> at 19214. United States Steel opened at 145 ?s, off y s , and then eased below the 145 mark. Allied Chemical dipped to 16314, off V 2. American Can 11614, off 14, and Columbian Carbon 102, off 1%. HOG PRICES UP 10 TO 20 CENTS AT YARDS Sheep, Lambs Hold Steady; Veals Move Downward. The pork market at the local stockyards today ended the week's trade at higher levels, with prices ranging 10 to 20 cents higher and mostly 10 cents up. The bulk, 100 to 3CO pounds, were selling at $6.60 to SB. Early top sold f or $8.20, Receipts were 2,000. Holdovers 237. Cattle market mostly nominal, with a litle change. Receipts were estimated at 50. Vealers were largely 50 cents lower than Friday's best time, selling at $10.50 down. Receipts w r ere 100. Sheep and lambs qutably steady, with agoo and grade of lambs selling at $8.75 down. Receipts light at 50.

said, "the important consideration is the amount of cash that can be obtained by the treasury through borrowing without disorganizing the finances of the government and adversely affecting the security market. "We are confronted with a probable deficit of not less than half a billion dollars.’ This, incidentally, raised the deficit estimate about 8175,000,000 since the last official treasury statement. "Revenues of the government steadily are falling behind not only the figures of last year, but below what we reasonably expected to receive at the beginning of this year." the letter went on "If the bill in its present form becomes law, the funds to be provided must be raised either in the first instance or at a comparatively early date by long-term bond issues.” Congressmen, proponents • the bill, however, have, claimed bond issues would not be necessary. The secretary's letter, it was understood. was given White House approval before being released to the pres.'