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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938

OUTLINE PLANS FOR VACATION SAFETY WORK

Police to Watch Unguarded Water Bodies in City to Prevent Drownings.

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 71

HOOVER LEADS Rains Cut County Corn 3500 HUNTING flanting by 25 Per Cent;

Crop Benefits to Increase KIDNAPED BOY Wallace Projects Farm ‘Many Fields Unworkable Aid as Means to Boost Because of Moisture, G-Men Direct Posse Search Buying Power. Says Abbott. In Florida Lowlands for roc a, Jimmy Cash.

Hollywood's First June Bride

Even with normal weather from now on, Marion County farmers

WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.).— | Department of Agriculture officials

RAIN HAMPERS EFFORTS

Little Hope Remains That Child Is Alive; Ransom Bills Described.

PRINCETON. Fla., June 2 (U. P.). |

— Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived in Florida today to take personal command of the hunt for the kidnapers of 5-year-old Jimmy

Cash Jr. ; The chief of the G-Men arrived by plane as hundreds of men, organized into armed posses, searched. the Everglades, the keys and the farmlands of southeastern Florida in a beating rain for the boy who was kidnaped last Saturday night. Mr. Hoover's presence added weight to reports that a break in the case may be approaching. Neither the chief G-Man nor his assistants would comment on such reports. Mr. Hoover, who has been directing the manhunt for the kidnapers from his Washington headquarters, established the center of the hunt in the Miami offices of the FBI—25 miles from the home of James B. Cash Sr., where the blond little boy was sleeping when the Kidnaping occurred. With Mr. Hoover here, to capture the man or men who kidnaped the Cash boy, collected $10,000 ransom and then failed to return the child, assumed new Intensity despite the rain.

G-Men Are Silent FBI officials guarded their activities with secrecy, but a large number of agents were massed at Miami.

Federal agents brought in a Neero—believed to be the owner of ine house where one of the three ransom notes was found Sunday night. One version of the case said the kidnapers sought to have the man deliver the note directly to Cash, but were refused. Finally, they thrust the note under the door of the Negro's shack, later leaving another note at the Cash home to direct the father there. : Mr. Hoover gave no indications of his plans, other than to say he may remain here several days. Although the numerical strength of the posse had risen to 3500 before the rain set in, more than half of that number abandoned the hunt because of the storm. With Mr. Hoover's arrival, volunteers again began to join in, many garbed in slickers and hip boots. The men, armed with deer guns, pistols, and clubs, systematically were plodding through the semitropical growth of southeast Florida in a painstaking search for clue. Ground Becomes Marsh

the drive

The posse included farmers, trapvolun-

erans, fishermen, everglades’

pers, Seminoles and other

teers, The ground fast was becoming a

huge marsh as the rain continued, slowing the work and perhaps obliterating some of the clues the GMen had hoped the possemen would uncover, Printed lists of the serial numbers of the ransom money were circulated today. Reports, without confirmation, circulated that the G-Men were near a solution. They had questioned over 30 men and were subjecting at least three to an intensive grilling in their headquarters in Miami, All hope for the life of the 5-vear-old child had nearly vanished. The search that got under way at dawn was the biggest one ever organized in Florida and probably in the United States.

Troops Held Ready

Against the possibility of mob violence. Governor Cone had authorized the use of National Guardsmen, and the military authorities were in a position to pour troops into the district quickly. Expert swimmers recruited and directed by State Fire Warden G. J. Stokes began diving in all inlets along the coast and in rock searching for a body. Robert J. Dill, State WPA administrator, telegraphed from Jacksonville, that WPA workers could have time off to ald in the search and as a result several hundred of them joined. All night the radio carried appeals to members of various organizations—the Isaak Walton League, the American Legion, the Spanish-American war veterans and others to volunteer.

Car Reported Seen With Screaming Child

WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P).— Washington police today were instructed to watch for a tan Ford sedan, bearing Florida license plates, containing a ‘‘tall, slim” man and a screaming child. Citizens reported seeing the car in neighboring Bethesda, Md., headed toward Washington. Police officials, acting on the report, decided to question the car's driver, if possible, in belief the child might be kidnaped Jimmy Cash.

GOERINGS HAVE DAUGHTER BERLIN, June 2 (U. P.).—Frau Goering, wife of Wilhelm Goering, Aviation Minister, gave birth to a daughter today. Mother and child were doing well.

| prepared today for a gigantic farm-

| | aid program to bolster the purchasling power of six million farmers,

| Tentative plans drawn by aids of |

Agriculture Secretary, presumably [ab his direction, call for a Federal lending-spending farm program involving $1,300,000.000 to $1,400,000,-

will plant between 25 and 30 per cent less corn this year than nor‘mally, County Agent Horacg Abbott said today. [ Heavy and continual rains, he | said, still have made fields unworkable over a large part of the county, and corn still cannot be |

SCHOOLS SET EXERCISES

Children Off Streets in

Parents Asked to Help Keep

any

pits, |

000 in the next 12 months. planted. He said there is a limited amount of early maturing corn seed available which, if planted soon, would mature before frost. The normal planting time was May 1. Most of the corn that is in, he said, is almost choked by weeds. He said that in the southeast part of the county hand labor is being employed where fields are too wet for machines.

RAILROADS AND CITY TO CONFER

Road Officials and Works Board to Join in Parley On Elevations.

CHICAGO, June 2 (U. P.).— Private crop experts today | forecast for 1938 the largest | U. S. wheat crop ever harvested, the average estimate being 1,077,000,000 bushels as compared with the previous record crop of 1,009,000,000 bushels in 1915. After the estimates were released, wheat prices on the Board of Trade declined to near the season's low.

Direct aid to farmers in soil con- | servation payments, rural relief, | purchase of surpluses, subsidy and parity payments, to be either obligated or paid in the next year, will total approximately one billion dollars. In addition, Government agencies expect to lend farmers up to 350 million dollars for storage of surplus wheat, cotton and corn. The Farm Security Administration plans to loan farmers approximately 100 | million dollars to make crops and | buy farms.

Railroad officials are to confer with the Works Board tomorrow oa Three factors influenced the De- | the proposed South Side track eleva- | partment in planning the most com- | tions. It was understood they would prehensive farm program ever un- discuss the possibility of a Federal | dertaken bv the Government: i grant to help finance the railroads’ | 1. Prospects of another bumper | share of the $3,500,000 project. | crop added to huge surpluses from City Engineer Henry B. Steeg now last year. is preparing application for PWA 2. A drop of nearly one-third in| funds to pay 45 per cent of the market prices of farm products duv- | City's share in the project. ing the past vear. | Application cannot be submitted | 3. The decline of farm purchasing | until President Roosevelt's recovery | power to 74 per cent of prewar. bill is passed by Congress. Bumper Crops Predicted Railroad officials have said they have no money to pay their 50 per cent of the project's cost.

Weather reports indicate the most | favorable planting season this spring | in many years. Raih, or lack of it. | may change the outlook this summer, but present indications are for crops as large as last year. Officials predicted the June crop forecast would be “considerably above” the May estimate of 754,153,000 bushels for winter wheat. A comparable spring wheat yield would send total production above one billion bushels. Corn planting virtually has been completed under unusually favorable conditions. Acreage probably will approximate that which last vear produced a crop of 2,645,000,000 bushels. A carry-over of 300 million bushels from last year was forecast. Surpluses, prospects of bumper crops and the industrial depression have forced farm prices to the | lowest point in four years, the De- | | partment said. Prices dropped from | [128 per cent of prewar on May 15, | 1937, to 92 per cent on last May 15. | Government payments, under the | ~. . i program. would constitute approxi- | hn Soman = mately 15 per cent of estimated total | > :

| farm income this year of seven bil- | [R —. "ol c Pores to | lion dollars. 3 ckless trolley line

ATTORNEY GENERAL dent, said today. y, RULES FOR SCHOOLS

Two Railroads Involved

Railroads involved are the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Indianapolis Union Railway. The County plans to ask for PWA grant to help pay its per cent share. By statute, City must pay 34 per cent. A resolution has been introduced before the City Council authorizing Works Board application for a Federal grant. y Under present plans, tracks would be elevated over S. East St. and over Madison Ave. Several years ago, a project calling for extension of the elevation all the way to Churchman Ave. fell through because the cost was prohibitive.

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Civic Club to Ask Hearing On Trolley Route

A committee representing newly-formed State-Minnesota

the St. public Board estabacross presi-

No definite date has been set for

Works Board, he said. was organized last night. Its members, most of whom live in the Min-

the trolley line.

Townships Are Banned From It is opposed by citizens living

: . | west of Shelby St. in the Minnesota Abandoning Operations. st area. They attended last night's

| organization meeting and a ‘“misTownship advisory boards cannot | Understanding” arose, Mr. Perry legally force abandonment of | Said. schools by refusing to budget ade-| Other officers of the new organiquate funds for teachers’ salaries, | ?tion are Dale Colville, first vice | Attorney General Omer Stokes president; Gecvrge Lang, second vice ' Jackson ruled today. | president; Mrs, Sue Harris, secreIn cases where a township is tary, and Fred Smith, treasurer, [trying to “freeze out” teachers by | refusing to pay salaries, the teach- | ers can force payment of the! minimum salary authorized by law, | the opinion said. Mr. Jackson asserted there are | | methods by which township trustees | ' |can abandon schools but these | wo PIA 7-year-old child today | methods are definitely outlined in | told of seeing her rather and mother | existing statutes. . | die from bullets fired by her uncle. { “It may be that a failure to ap- | h Mary Louise Kunze, playing in

| propriate a sufficient sum to pay | ef home, heard a shot, she told po-

|all teachers employed in a town. | lice, ran to the door, saw her mother Her father,

fo : : ny | lying on the ground. | ship would operate to prevent, Pay- | Mayor of Three Forks. was hiding behind a tree. She said she saw

| ment of any individual! teacher in| s ; XCOS! iii 2 Sum in excess of a MINIMUM pe; uncle John Kunze, step-brother of August F. Kunze.

| wage scale,” the opinion said. ry raise his rifle and shoot her father in the back. Kunze, who battled

FARMERS T0 VOT | police before he surrendered, said ON FEDERAL ACTION | his step-brother declined to appoint

him to a city job. WABASH, June 2 (U. P.).—Wabash County farmers will vote on approval or disapproval of the Federal government's agricultural program here tomorrow night. The meeting will be “strictly nonpartisan,” according to Howard Halderman, a spokesman.

CHILD SEES UNCLE

THREE FORKS, Mont., June 2

“RAGS-TO-RICHES’ SLAYER CONVICTED

DETROIT, June 2 (U. P.) .—Mrs. Julia M. Barker was convicted today of slaying Mrs. Edith Mae Cummings, who rose from indigence to real estate riches and then fought poverty. Mrs. Barker was convicted on a manslaughter charge which carries a penalty of imprisonment up to 15 years. She showed no emotion 12 when the verdict was announced. 16 | Judge Ira Jayne said he expected 10 | to pass sentence “within a week.” 12! The verdict convicted Mrs. Bark11| er of going with Mrs. Cummings 11 | last January to a remote area to 16 | interview a farmer about a 11 | mortgage. Parking their car, the 11 | women trudged across a snow18 | swept, field, where, the state de13 | clared. Mrs. Barker shot her life16 | long friend in the back. They had 10 | quarreled over a land fraud deal 12 'in Kentucky, the state claimed,

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| will be dismissed June 10.

Summer Months.

Schoel, city and civic organizations today outlined safety measures to protect 62,000 Indianapolis public and parochial schonl children during summer vacations, beginning June 10. Public elementary and high schools are to be dismissed at 10

a. m. June 10, Summer recess for Catholic high school pupils is to begin Saturday, and grade schools

Theo H. Dammeyer, Safety Board president, announced today that police cruisers “will watch as closely as possible all unguarded streams and pits in the city in order to prevent drownings” among vacationing children. His announcement followed an Indianapolis Safety Education Council request that the Board provide patrols to eliminate water fatalities.

Parents’ Aid Asked

At the same time, William A. Evans, schools safety director, recommended parents’ co-operation 'n the campaign to reduce the child traffic accident toll “by keeping

children out of the streets.” He

urged that

| on vacant lots. | Meanwhile. officials apolis’ six high schools planned commencement services for the city’s record number of graduates, totaling more than 2845. The Park Board is awaiting School Board action on its request for permission to use 10 school grounds for handicraft work and games during the summer vacation. Activities, directed by City recrea-

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{tion and WPA employees, would | supplement the regular municipal rk system's summer program for youth. Swimmers Warned

Declaring that drowning econstitutes a major vacation hazard, Mr. Evans warned against swimming and wading in unguarded bodies of water and lauded the Safety Board's resolution to co-operate. School officials predicted an unprecedented summer school enrollment. More than 700 were enrolled last summer. High school courses are to be offered at Shortridge, Tech, Manual and Crispus Attucks from June 13 to July 29. Elementary subjects are to be taught at School 2 and Crispus Attucks. The Park Board is to erect play

the group's appearance before the | The Club |

| nesota St. area west of Shelby St.,! | have signed a petition asking for |

SLAY HER PARENTS

the Mayor. |

ground equipment as soon as school |is dismissed. Schoa nurses, workling under the City Health Board lare to serve at recreational centers. They are to report child ac-

| when the fall semester opens. | Congestion in City schools will [be relieved considerably when school is resumed in September, School Board members predicted.

Congestion Relief Seen

Enrollment of about 400 East Side pupils at the new Howe High School in Irvington is expected to relieve crowded conditions at Tech High School. Completion of the new Washington High School addition this summer will effect abandonment of several portable structures there. However, officials predicted, several portable structures still will be required. The new Crispus Attucks addition also is to be completed by fall. Relief will be afforded students where formerly 2100 pupils were housed in quarters built to accommodate 1000. Increased enrollment at the new junior high school at School 26 (also is expected to provide better | conditions for Negro pupils. Further plans for relief of crowded conditions in City high schools; | hinged on WPA action on School’ | Board requests for Federal aid. | The Board has submitted requests

| for 45 per cent grants which would | | aid in financing construction of a I said.

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neighborhood families | join in providing recreation centers |

| cidents to the schools’ safety office | fimo!

RECOVERY BILL may pass Senate today. NO NEW BONDS to be issued this quarter. FARM BENEFITS may rise to $1,300,000,000 in year. JUSTICE BLACK called “master of jurist’s art.” PRESIDENT addresses Annapolis graduates.

HOLLYWOOD, June 2 (U, P.).—Celilia Parker, the movie colony's first June bride of the year, and Dick Baldwin, young leading man, The two, who fell in love on a movie set eloped to Ventura yesterday and were married at the mission San

were on a honeymoon today.

Buenaventura.

Blast in Mine Kills 1, Injures Seven Others

BULLETIN PITTSTON, Pa. June (U. P.).— Six miners were burned to death and six injured today in an anthracite mine explosion a mile underground. Two more men were missing.

PITTSTON, Pa. June 2 (U. P). | —One miner was killed and seven | others were burned in a mine ex- | plosion a mile from the mouth of | the Butler slope of the Volpe Mining Co. colliery near here today. Nine others were recued. Identity of the dead man could | not be established until his body | was recovered. Seventeen workers were in the section where the blast occurred.

DERANGED FATHER KILLS 2 CHILDREN

Bludgeons Youngsters and Wife in Frenzy.

CHICAGO, June 2 (U. P.).—Less | than 24 hours after his release from state institution, a deranged todav beat his two small children to death and battered his wife with a hammer as they slept. The victims, Leonard Jaksus, 5, and his 18-month-old sister, Elean- | or, died from crushed skulls, which | police say were caused by Charles | Jaksus, 51, who was parolled to his wife yesterday from Kankakee State Hospital. Their mother, Anna, 29, suffered a possible skull fracture and a broken jaw. She fought off her husband and called police who took him to a psychopathic ward for observation.

BUREAU FORECASTS FAIR WEATHER HERE

TEMPERATURES

62 64 66 67

10 a.m... Ham... . 12 (Noon). a. 1pm... The Weather Bureau today forecast fair weather tonight and tomorrow, with warmer weather tomorrow. Rainfall here during the 24 hours ending at 9 a. m. today measured .44 of an inch, the Bureau

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Times Special WASHINGTON, June 2.—The conduct of Senator Minton was criticised for a second time today by the American Civil Liberties Union in a letter addressed to the Democratic Senator as chairman of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee. His use of a Presidential order to inspect income tax returns was condemned. Previously the organization censured him for introducing a bill to curb the press by providing fines and imprisonment for publication of untruthful news. Obtaining Treasury information by Presidential order leaves no opportunity to appeal to the courts and therefore is “out of line with the spirit, if not the letter, of our constitutional guarantees,” today’s letter stated. “The Civil Liberies Union,” it continued, “would regard as improper only those practices which are as-

Civil Liberties Union Raps Minton in Tax Procedure

sociated with misrepresentation of

| public opinion through coercion, deception or fraud.”

| 000 requested.

The Union construed the tax order as indicating the Committee's intention to make retaliatory use of information against witnesses and thus causing them to hestitate in expressing opinions regarding pending legislation. The Indiana Senator's management of the Committee was viewed “with satisfaction,” however, in that he has not sought to go “beyond the legitimate functions of the senatorial inquiry as was done under the chairmanship of Senator Black in issuing subpenas” for income tax returns. Signing the Union's letter were Harry F. Ward, chairman; John Haynes Holmes, vice-chairman; Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel; Roger N. Baldwin, director, and Osmond K: Fraenkel. Senator Minton declined to comment. He predicted his Committee will receive additional funds before Congress adjourns, but said he doesn't expect the $25,-

JAPS SLIP FROM CHINESE TRAP

THE FOREIGN SITUATION SHANGHAI—U. 8. and Britain seek use of Yangtse River, LOS ANGELES—Van Camp officials indicted in alien boat probe. LONDON—British seek armistice

‘No New Bonds in June,

‘Morgenthau Declares

WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.. —Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced today that the Treasury will not borrow any new money in its June quarter financing program. + Secretary Morgenthau said that the Treasury would make an

dollars in notes coming due June 15. The 250 million dollars ‘in tax date bills coming due on June 16, 17 and 18 will be retired out of cash. The entire bill program would result in a net reduction of 200 million dollars in total outstanding bill issues by Aug. 31. The total will then be $1,300,000,000.

Defends Stabilization Fund

Secretary Morgenthau defended the Treasury against charges the two-billion-dollar stabilization fund was used to aid depreciation of foreign currencies to the detriment of American trade. Stabilization fund operations have been under attack from Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.). | “There has been a contrary | effect,” Secretary Morgenthau said. “You have only to look at the trade figures and you will see that our export trade is the only bright spot in American business. «The stabilization {und, plus the tripartite monetary agreement and the reciprocal trade agreements have’ provided the American exporter with a more advantageous competitive position.”

in Spanish war. GENEVA—Chinese protest Japanese bombing of Canton. WASHINGTON — Japan yields to U. S. protest on property, OTTAWA — Canadian Senator attacks St. Lawrence plan. MOSCOW-—Russians deny signing pact to aid China. MEXICO—Cardenas says revolt is over, (Page 11.)

U. S. and Britain Seek

To Reopen Yangtse

SHANGHAI June 2 (U. P.).—The trap set by Chinese to annihilate the Japanese forces of Gen, Kenji Doihara along the Yellow River failed and today the Chinese themselves were threatened with encirclement at Kaifeng on the Lung-

| hai Railway line.

Japanese reports said that their troops were converging on the town of Lanfeng from the east and west and threatened to outflank the city of Kaifeng, last obstacle in the drive of the Japanese to reach the junc-

tion of the Peiping-Hankow Rail- |

way. The Chinese admitted that the Lanfeng situation was increasingly critical because of the rapid advance of the Japanese from Kweiteh and Japanese reinforces ments which reached Gen. Doihara across the Yellow River. In Shanghai, it was revealed hy Consular authorities that F. P. Lockhart, counsellor of the U. S. Embassy, had presented to the Japanese Embassy and Consulate notes protesting against conditions on the lower Yangtse River. The Japanese have closed the river to

foreign traffic, claiming that Chi- |

nese mines endangered shipping. The notes were identical to a protest delivered in Tokyo by U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. British consular officials said that Great Britain had taken “parallel” action to that of the United States. American interests in China suffered additional losses when an American ship was pirated at the mouth of the Yangtse near here. The ship was the S. S. Dollar of the Dollar Steamship Lines which was seized while en route to Shanghai from the Yangtse River ports. The newspaper Nichi Nichi reported today that 20 Soviet cavalrymen crossed the frontier and penetrated deep into Manchukuo territory where they were repelled by border guards.

Van Camp Accused Of Aiding Japanese

LOS ANGELES, June 2 (U, P). —Government investigators, encouraged by the action of a Federal grand jury in indicting five officers of the Van Camp Sea Food, Inc., prepared for a finish fight today against operators of alienowned fishing boats. These men have had an opportunity to co-operate with us but they have completely ignored our repealed warnings,” U. S. District Attorney Benjamin Harrison said. “We are prepared to take drastic measures to correct this situation.” The indictment, returned yesterday, charged Gilbert C. Van Camp, president of the company bearing his name and the largest of its kind in Southern California, of conspiring to license boats owned by Japanese under the names of American citizens. The indictment said that 186 shares of stock had been transferred to the ownership of Genkichi Koishi, an alien Japanese and one of the six defendants named, by the Van Camp company without a monetary exchange. Government. agencies have been inquiring for several months into (Continued on Page Three)

OIL COMPANIES AND OFFICERS GET FINES

13 Firms and 11 Executives To Pay $40,000 Each.

MADISON, Wis., June 2 (U. P.).— Judge Patrick T. Stone fined 13 major oil companies and 11 executives $15,000 each and a total of $25,000 costs today when they pleaded nolo contendere to charges of antitrust law violations. miss the indictment against 27 other executives of the companies which entered pleas, and began plans for bringing to trial Sept. 26 still other companies and their executives who did not join in the “no contest” agreement,

Charges involved in the cases dis- |

posed of today were covered in a second indictment returned by a Federal grand jury here alleging | that the defendants adopted uniform jobber contracts and policies in violation of the Sherman Anti- { Trust Act. | Judge Stone announced that he would hand down his decision June |9 on motions of some of the same | companies and executives for a new | trial on charges of conspiracy to [raise and fix prices. Their convic- | tion on this charge followed a four months trial which ended here Jan. 22, 1938.

FT. HARRISON'S CCC CAMP TO BE CLOSED

WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.).— Thirty-three Civilian Conservation Corps camps on military and naval reservations in 15 states will be disbanded before July 1, it was learned today. Disbanding the camps does not mean the men now occupying them will be released or that the program will be curtailed, officials said. An equal number of projects will be oponed in other localities under ihe supervision of the Interior Department. The camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, is in the list to be dropped.

"HEARING JUNE 17 ON S. EAST ST. PAVING

The Works Board is to hold a hearing June 17 on the proposed improvement of S. East St, from South to Sanders Sts. A primary list of damages to be awarded property owners has been adopted. Dissatisfied property holders may protest at the hearing. All but 10 of the 86 residents have optioned their property to the city. Damages total $259,269.25.

THIEF SURPRISES LADY PAPERHANGER

Pearl Ferrell is a lady paperhanger and today she was hanging paper in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Dozier, 2358 Wheeler St. Mrs. Dozier was in the back vard and Miss Ferrell thought she was alone. She was amazed, she told police when a closet door opened in the next room and a Negro man, accompanied by a suit of clothes later identified as those of Mr. Dozier, entered the room and ran out of the house and away. Police said the suit was valued at | $25, {

The Government moved fo dis-

Recovery Bill Total May Be $3,700,000,000

(Editorial, Page 12)

WASHINGTON, June 2 (U, P.) == The Senate today boosted publie works funds in the recovery bill to 965 million dollars, an addition of 100 million dollars which brought | the total of the bill to date to $3,422,000,000,

Addition of the extra 100 million dollars for PWA made it likely that the total funds carried by the bill when it is finally approved by the Senate will exceed $3,700,000,000. The 100 million dollar PWA fund was restored to the bill by Senate vote after it had been originally placed in the measure by the House and then eliminated by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The senate thus far has made these major additions the recovery bill; rR parity payments, $212,000,«

ex- | change offering for the 618 million |

Rural electrification, (additional). PWA, $100,000,000 (additional).

Row With House Possible The Senate also

$75,000,000

increased

the | Works Progress Administration toe | tal by 175 million dollars. But this | Was for the purpose of carrying the | WPA program for one month longer than the House bill provided The Senate changes carried the prospect of a possible bitter House« Senate conference row over the new | provisions, Rep. Clifton Woodrum | (D, Va.), House floor manager of | the measure, said he opposed the | parity payment provision and indicated he might also oppose the Senate's 125 million dollar allote ment for direct relief purposes. Rep. Woodrum asserted that “this is a relief bill, not a farm bill.” and said he did not not believe the farm amendment accorded with President Roosevelt's wishes. It was expected, however, that despite Rep. Woodrum's opposition, the farm parity fund would receive | strong support from the House farm bloc.

| Backs Parity

Fund | A positive indication of House farm bloc support came from Rep, Marvin Jones (D. Tex.), House Agri-

[a cut the item to $25.000,000