Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1939 — Page 3

USE OF 18 AND. FIREMEN

Safety Board Head Urges Departments to Provide Inspectors.

Leroy’ J. Keach, | Safety Board

president, said today he will recom- | §& mend to the Board at its meeting ||

and firemen e smoke in-

Tuesday, that poli be drafted as part { spectors. This plan is part \ a three-point program of smoke abatement outlined at a meeting of City officials and 30 representatives of clubs, railroads and building and apartment owners at City Hall yesterday. + Coming as the first indication of the new Board’s smoke abatement policy, the progra approved by representatives at Youmans meeting, includes: 1, Designation of 60 firemen and an undecided number of police as smoke inspectors. (They are to enforce existing City | smoke regulations which define | “legal” densities). 2. Formation of! a Municipal Smoke Control Advisory Board of representatives of property owners,

factories, clubs and railroads, to co- |{

capacity with the Safety Board 3. Immediate smoke reduction in all public buildings to “set the pace” for a general smoke abatement program throughout the City.

"Firemen Would en or Up’

operate in an ea

In outlining the plan of enforcement, Mr. Keach explained that police and firemen would serve in lieu of additional personnel to the City Building Department's present smoke inspection force of three. - Police probably would be used to ‘ detect violations. Firemen would follow up with adh on firing, this to be suppleme y free instruction from the City Combustion Deent.

Habitual offenders would be liable |

to prosecution under the antismoke ordinance, Mr. Keach said. th police and firemen would receive several weeks training from J Clinehens, City Combustion engineer, and two of his aids who compose the City’s total smoke inspection force.

Full Time Inspectors Sought

Mr. Keach said the plan could be put into operation immediately after its approval by the Safety Board. The plan was suggested after Roy O. Johnson, Smoke Abatement League counsel, told the group that “we will never abate smoke in Indianapolis until we have enough full time men. to do the job.” “This means a force of two engineers and six full-time inspectors, as is'now required by the antismoke ordinance,” he said. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board president, and Smoke Abatement League | president, attributed the prevalence of influenza, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases in Indianapolis in part to smoke and soot. | The group approved the program outlined by Mr. Keach after considerable discussion| of the present smoke situation. City Council members who attended Pledge co-opera-on.

DETECTIVES "WOUND MAN AT SOUTH BEND

SOUTH BEND, Feb. 24 (U. P.).— Andrew Botcher, 26, of McAdoo, Pa., was in critical condition at Epworth Hospital today from a police bullet Found which seared the tip of his un Botcher was shot yesterday as he fled from two plainclothes detectives whom he had asked for money, they said. Officers said he would be held on a vagrancy charge. One of the bullets struck the pavement and a splinter hit Mary Piechowski, a bystander, in the leg. ‘The injury was

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VaLetta Sparrow at her basement

IMOVE TO ERASE BUTSCH ALIASES:

Judge to Rule on Tuesday; Attorney Says Defendant Wrote Him in ‘Code.’

A motion to strike aliases for William Ray Butsch from the indictment charging he murdered and robbed Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig, was taken under advisement today by Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers. Judge Myers said he will rlue on it Tuesday. A motion made yesterday to quash the indictment on grounds of insufficiency was withdrawn, but will be submitted again Tuesday, Attorney Edward Ryan said. Mr. Ryan and Robert Carrico, appointed as pauper attorneys for the 57-year-old ex-convict, said they have no ideaghow he will plead when he is arraigned. “He gave me a note today,” Atforney Ryan said, “and explained to me that it would tell me how he feels about the whole thing.

Always Writes ‘In Code’

“T looked at it and it seemed to be written in shorthand. I remarked to him that it was in code and he replied, ‘Yes, I always write in code to my lawyers and friends.’ “I have no idea what the note says.” Crimimal Courtroom was crowded again as the attorneys argued technicalities. Attorney Carrico said the aliases were prejudicial and said he assumed they were put there to influence the jury. He said the defense was willing to state that the defendant’s true name was William Ray Butsch. Trial Deputy James A. Watson said: “The State is happy to learn the true name of the defendant. Over a period of some weeks we have believed his name to be William Ray Butsch but we have found many aliases and are finding more. “He is known throughout the entire United States and other countries and Wwe can’t blame him for

not wanting his identity known un-

WAGE-HOUR ACT STARTS BARING

First Criminal Indictment Handed Down by Grand Jury in Boston.

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — The Wage-Hour Act, in operation four months today, is begininng to bare

¢ |its teeth on three legal fronts.

1. The first criminal indictment

= |under the act has just been obtained

Times Photo. work bench, “ve near the furnace.

Finds Profits In Novelties

For Wide Sale

Valetta Sparrow spent four years learning vocational cooking at Tech High School and then promptly carved what appears to be a career for herself carving wood. Miss Sparrow, a 17-year-old blond, has created a business and seems in a fair way of creating a fad or something more permanent in costume jewelry. . The vocational cooking field wasn’t so fertile when Miss Sparrow left school and one day she was at the home of a friend, John Foster, 105 N. Gale St. He is a draftsman and has a workshop in the basement of his home, She learned to cut patterns in

wood on a jigsaw and soon was cut-|La

ting names of her friends into pins for them to wear. The idea caught. Now she has incorporated her business, calling it Novelties in Wood, has a workshop in the basement at her home, 849 N. Linwood Ave, and has banked about $300 earnings. For three weeks preceding Christman, she filled orders that earned her $25 a week profit. She now has sales agents in Evansville and Cleveland, O., and is going to expand more. She set up her own cost accounting system, incorporated so she could buy the metal fasteners wholesale, and does all the work herself. “It’s just a matter now,” she said, “of getting new ideas for the pieces. I think it’s going places.” Miss Sparrow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sparrow, neither of whom is proficient in woodwork= ing, and she had never worked with machines before this project.

der the allas names as someone might recognize them.” Prosecutor Watson charged Butsch had been married in Louisville, Ky., under the name of John R. Hoffman; that he had collected damages from a grocery under the name of Frank E. Smith; had used the namé of Thomas Edwards to get a job in Illinois, and that he also had been known as William R.

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Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths |Speeding .... 11 (To Date) —— 0 ......... 9 Fekies 1938 fi Argh City Deaths (To Date) 1939 1938 .

ss0csecee 6

Running preferential streets ...

Running red lights ...

Drunken

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10

Feb. 23 Injured ......

Accidents .... driving ...e Dead ...ce000

Arrests ...... 37|Others ......, 16

MEETINGS TODAY

Social and Educational Conference, Indiana Farm Bureau women, Murat Tem-

vie. Federation of Community

I ai oils civic Clu papel meeting, Hotel Washington,

oe

2

0 Exchanke Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash-| soy

Merchants’ Association, Washington m. Salesmen’s Cheb, OL Hotel Washi a Sigma, luncheon, Hotel WashingtO a dinner, Hotel

mE a Bays Gann, i shinglon, 6:30 5 Incheon, Columbia Club,

Ee erve Dfficery As Association, luncheon, Board Se Delta Theta, Tuncheon, Canary Cot-

tage, ita’ Ta u Delta, luncheon, Columbia Club, no

MEETINGS TOMORROW

INDIANA SOCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, meetin ool Hotel, 10 a. m. Alliance Sy se, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon . Town Hall, meeting, English’s, 11 a. m.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Sherrill A. Nicholas olas, 24, of 424 N. California St.: Beulah Edwards, 25, of 1702 Brooker John W. Manwaring, 30, of R. Box 72; Mary A. Neg ey, 24, of 1115 N. Jefferson Ave.

Skinner, 29, of 312 N. LaSalle|

st . Dorothy Louise Swain, 23, of 5230 E. ashington . rsh, 22. of 3155 E. Wash‘peton Pott Bu Pat h Schneider, 21, of 269 8. Clarence 5 hn 41. of 2535 Shelby

Bd 5 i. Margaret McCrae, 43, of 1027 E. Rayen amin H. Crews Jr., 23, owl Riley: bema St. Thompson, 24, of ‘1402 N. Ala-

ma nard W. Bise, 25, of 3029 Ruckle St.; bi 3 Mary MPrances Redford, 18, of 735 N. Pennsylvania St.

BIRTHS

Boys Ivin, Prances Johnson at Coleman, * fra. [Avs Wi ttenbers, a at ‘City : m, Ruth Lewis, at Lily,

: gress: capital stock, 250 shares of $ Ww. G.

I NDIA NAPOLIS

Girls

William, Eileen Fly, at 2133 gxtord, “ Sisrachel, Clara Davis, at 1230 8. ShefFloyd, Maxine Collins, at 832 N. Tiiinols. James, Margaret McKinney, at 517 W Vermont, Samuel, Louise Jenkins, -at Coleman, Lawrence, Lottie Toppe, at St. Vincent's, Henry, Helen Osterman, at St. Vincent's.

DEATHS

Marvin Hanna, 7, at Riley, eidephanyls Ella Willie Bishop, 67, 33 Keystone, cerebral hemorrhag Lydia Ella Janes, 15, fe ‘Methodist, cardio vascular renal disease. Rosa Ann Spradiing. 80, at 1027 Gilbert, cerebral hemorrhage Kate Fag Torrence, 80, at 317 Belle Vieu, sarcom Marg Bl R. Barrett, 68, at 454 N. State, Seren hemorrha Thomas Dugan, 5. at 1019 8S. West, coro-

nay occlusion Dorle 18, at Long, typhoid

tha Prater, Henry Sifford Seid, 52, at st. Vincent’s, broncho-preum prs 8 Love TN ‘at 1961 Cornell, lobar Paul Wilson, 13, at Riley. hemophilia. eodore Carson, 77, at 1470 S. Illinois, cerebral ap oplexy Richard Henry Neff, 74, at Methodist, Sofonary thrombosis. Mar, Walker: 80, at 1427 N. Delaware, Carrie

a or 57, at Methodist, mitral stenosis.

Louise Shake, 78, at 5215 N. Keystone, mitral insufficiency nae e Cleo nis, 46, at City, chole-

Baal “Parker, 54, at Long, cerebral hemorinage. William C. Vehling, 60, at 1137 W. 31st, coronary occlusion.

qerebral

' INCORPORATIONS

Trimount Clothin, Co,, Inc. Mass. ; registration 0 trademarks, “Clipper othes’” and “The Shape class

38: cloth ing. W. B. Rodden bery So Cairo istration of trad “Hoy I ®kias. class 45: foods rade ior of foods. Merchants Distilling Corp., Terre Haute; change of Tesiderls gent to Frank Mayr Jr., 1535 8. 1st St., Terre Haute. Thor Contract Purchase Corp. South Bend; amendment changing name to Automatic Home Products, Inc. Hlinois corporation; duce ahd retiné

horn Oil Corp. Indiana ard Food Pro Dod Inc. Indi j registration of trademark, a ass 45: foods and ingredients of f son anice-Rumley Corp.,, La Porte;

Boston,

anap-

00das. dis-

r anization: capital $100. par

sige, $00 Yarling Dairy, Inc., Jeol ganization; capital

Associated “Collection Service, Inc., 110

dore . Brown.

Merriivile Lumber and Coal Co., R. Crown Point (Merrillville): dent agent, ckinson, san

alue: lumber business Russell Ww. Dickinson. J Jessie M. Bis

nson:

(meats;

*| ital stoe

KL ‘Salatang Boston

na® American Security Co. of Columbus, | Denver

10% St., Muncie; resident agent, |! mi Floyd_J. Habein, George H. Nixon, Theo- M

Inc., Tesi New ad0 pai | OMA

Morris Glassman, Jack Evanson, Sara Evanson, Anna Glassman. Spiker’s Furniture Co.. Tho. 2 E. Main 8t., Gas City; resident agent. J. . C. Spiker same address; tapiia) stock, 50 shares of ‘| $100 par value; retailing furniture, wall aints; Fes Townsend, Jo! D , O. Spike! ent Cigar Dn Ine. 318 8. yiaberty Muncie; resident , age nt. Willie 2426 8S. Walnu Mun cie; A

t., George, 100 shuts. Eo ar value: cigar e A. Ge

i Base. Floyd Miller, ‘Pete Morin Otho

Traffic Eye, Inc., Indiana amendment 0 Line capital s Delis: to 5000 shares no par Yalue,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

)rneeeBY U. 8. Weather Breau cme!

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and slightly colder tonight with lowest temerature about 15; tomorrow increasing cloudiness -and rising temperature, probably becoming unsettled by night.

Sunrise....... 6:25 | Sunset....... 5:31

February 24, 1938 TEMPERATURE 7a Miceoosss 80 1p. Mieseeoss. 81

BAROMETER

Preci Rats 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation since Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Fair and colder tonight; tomorrow, increasing cloudiness with risin temperature, rain or snow in southwes and extreme portions.

Illinois—Generally fair and colder tonight; tomorrow cloudy with rising temperature, probably rain in south Nostion: Lower Michigan—Generally jar tonigh and tomorrow, AK onsiderably colder tonig! rising temperature tomorrow SE onight

Ohio—Fair, slightly colder tonight; tomorrow increasing clou er in southeast A Ttion iness, SHgPly colaKentucky—Fair, sli Bil cold tomorrow Increasing. clouds fess r tonight: Solder ’ mn Southeast, portich f Tollow wed by n central a in afternoon or at night. Bd west portions

WEATHER IN’ OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station Amarillo, Tex. 5 8 oy 3084 Te Pr Bismarck,

7 a. m. an. 1.. wl Cases setae ries 2:05

elen Shelbyville: Jd ' stock, 1000 shares |!

by the Justice Department. 2. Half a dozen civil suits have been brought by the Wage-Hour Division against employers, including some “runaway” northern manufacturers now operating in ‘the South; in four of these, injunctions have already been issued to restrain further violation of the act. 3. Individual employees in at least four states have filed private suits against employers for double the amount of the wages allegedly withheld from them illegally.

been referred by the Wage-Hour Division to the Justice Department, which has assigned agents and attorneys to work on them. Assistant Attorney General Joseph E. Brill, formerly on the staff of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in New York, is in charge of this activity.

More Money Awaited Other civil cases are being worked up by George A. McNulty, assistant general counsel of the "Wage-Hour Division, and Irving J. Levy, chief of the Division’s litigation section. This activity will be accelerated after Congress completes actionona

\ | deficiency bill providing the Wage-

Hour Division with more money. To date, Messrs. McNulty and Levy have been compelled, for lack of help, to go into the field and press in person the few injunction cases so far brought. The Wage-Hour Division is not collaborating in the individual suits by workers. The law authorizes any employee to go into “any court of competent jurisdiction” and sue for his unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime .compensation— plus an equal amount as damages, plus courts costs and reasonable attorney fees. Such suits have been filed in Cincinnati, O.; Paterson, N. J.; Rockford, Ill, and Terrebonne Parish,

In the Louisiana case, for example, Harold J. de Coux, a timekeeper at a baling station, charged that he worked 12 hours a day and seven days a week and thus piled up 208 overtime hours between Oct. 24 and Nov. 30. * He said his base pay was $21 a week, and that he should therefore have been paid 715 cents for each hour worked in excess of 44 a week, or. $148.72 for the 208 hours. So he asked the Court to make = company pay him double that sum, or $207.44, plus $500 for his lawyer.

Vote Boston Indictment

The first criminal case brought under the Wage-Hour Act resulted in an indictment by a Federal Grand Jury at Boston yesterday against the Brown Stitching Contract Co. of Lawrence, Mass, and its treasurer, Nathan Brown. The defendants will -be arraigned next week on charges of failing to pay minimum wages and falsifying their records to cover up this failure. The company stitches women’s shoes. Under the law, violators of the wage-hour standings are liable to a fine of up to $10,000 and, in case of second offense, imprisonment up to six months. The first civil suit brought under the act, an injunction case filed last month in Fayetteville, N. C., was cleaned up yesterday when the Central Weaving & Spinning Corp. agreed in U. 8. District Court to a consent decree wherein it pledges compliance with the wage and hour standings.

Improper Records Charged The Government had charged

.|that the company was paying less

than 25 cents an hour and keeping improper records. It asserted that “one purpose of establishing the de-

®|fendant’s plant at Fayetteville was

to enable defendant to obtain a fayorable labor differential.”

a by consent decrees in two Phiadelphia cases, involving a paper-

chemical manufacturers.

HOPKINS TO MAKE ‘PEAGE’ TALK TONIGHT

Speculation Rife on Content ‘And ‘Politics’ Involved.

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 24 (U P.) —Commerce Secretary Hak holds out the New Deal's olive branch to business in his first major speech as a Cabinet member tonight.

der auspices of the Des Moines Economic Club, a select, nonpartisan discussion . group of -business and professional men. The speech will be * | broadcast over an international

930 to 1015 and Europe from 9: .. m. (Indian Time). P apolis Reports from Washington conflicted .as to its probable. content. Some said Secretary Hopkins would emphasize a need for good feeling between business and Government. Others said he would offer a specific program, including tax revision, a new deal for utilities and railroads

-|and a revision of labor policies.

The _ political significance of his choice of Des Moines for delivery of the speech created nearly as much speculation as its content. Iowa is his home state—he is a native of Grinnell—and a report has persisted during the past week that he has been dickering for support in Towa as a 1940 Presidential can-

Glassman & Eya

didate, despite denials of Iowa ts invols el

TEETH IN COURT)

Several other criminal cases have :

imilar injunction suits were set-| ,

box manufacturer and a group of}

Secretary Hopkins will speak un-

"| CBS network to the United States, |

Debt Nears 40 Billion;

Permanent Relief Plan Studied.

(Treasury Statement, Page 27)

WASHINGTON, Feb, 24 (U. P.)— The Treasury deficit today is well into its third billion dollars for this fiscal year and the national debt is about to overflow 40 billion.

Roosevelt now is reconciled to a record of eight successive deficit years when his second term expires. That conclusion is inescapable in view of Administration promises that there will be no new tax bill at this session.

ing by a combination of new taxes and considerable economy would be a balance achieved by a tremendous and early business boom, accompanied by some reduction of Federal expenditures.

Income Increase Sought

Mr. Roosevelt wants this to be “at least an 80 billion dollar nation.” He explained that in his annual message to Congress last Jan. 4. He meant that the national income, the sum of taxable wealth we produce annually, should rise from its present level around 60 billion dollars to at least 80 billion dollars. On the basis of the latter figure the budget almost would balance itself, assuming that a business boom were accompanied by an expansion of private employment and a proportionate reduction in New Deal relief spending. - Treasury revenue must beat back from its 1937-38 depression retreat before it can be said that the process is under way. The Treasury for this fiscal year is in the red almost three dollars for every one dollar it was in the red one year ago. Revealing figures from the Treasury report for this fiscal year through Feb. 20, 1939, are as fol-

lows: iE _ This Year Last Year National Debt.$39,832,000,000 $37,616,000,000 Expenses ..... 5,746,000,000 4,692,000,000 Receipts ..... $8,603,000,000 3,808,000,000 Working Bal.. 2,760,000,000 1,227,000,000

Altmeyer Indorses

Byrnes Bill Principles

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U. P)). —Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board today indorsed the principles of a broad program designed to increase and stabilize benefit payments to idle workers and needy dependents. Testifying before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee, Mr. Altmeyer said the proposals developed from a comprehensive study of the problem by the Committee went even further than the Board’s recommendations for expanding the security program, “The proposals,” Mr. Altmeyer said, “are proposals that the Board believes are looking in the right direction.

‘Sets Better Standards’

“First, they are in line with the Board’s proposals and go beyond that point in establishing more definite standards and more liberal standards. “Second, the proposals would make grants to ‘states in accordance with their economic capacity,” Mr. Altmeyer added. He referred to a provision which would require the Federal Government to go beyond a 50-50 matching basis when the average per capita

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. NATIONAL AFFAIRS SENATE unlikely to restore Guam base authorization. LUDLOW, Larrabee join G. O. P. in vote against Guam. TREASURY deficit past three billion, debt 40 billion. TOWNSEND plan vote to be forced in House. PUBLIC WORKS DEPART- ~ MENT bill hearing begun. REORGANIZATION bill finds foe in first day. ROOSEVELT visits St. Thomas to get his mail, HOPKINS may make “peace” talk at Des Mo! tonight. . WAGE-HOUR Division fights on three legal fronts.

F.D.R. RETURNS TO WAR’ FLEET

Visits Virgin Islands, Reads Mail, Goes Back for Final ‘Battle.’

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 24 (U. P).— President Roosevelt rejoined the fleet in the Atlantic east of the West Indies today after a brief visit at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he attended to his mail from Washington. The Chief Executive, aboard the cruiser Houston, was expected within the next 24 hours to witness the decisive action between opposing sections of the battle fleet, divided for the purpose of testing the defenses against invasion, Earlier dispatches from the Houston indicated that the “war” was under way, marked by clashes between scouting units. The following dispatch from the Houston to temporary White House offices dated yesterday gave this information:

“On Thursday in order to receive mail pouch from Washington, the U. S. S. Houston ran in to the harbor of Charlotte Amalie, inlet of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Governor Lawrence Cramer came on board to pay his respects and a number of the Presidential party went ashore to visit the many improvements that have beeen made on the island since the President's last visit here in 1934. “In the late afternoon the Governor and Mrs. Cramer accompanied by a number of island officials and their wives, came on board the Houston for tea. Weather continues excellent.”

income of a state is below the average national per capita income. Senator Byrnes (D. 8. C.), Relief Committee chairman, revealed that a provision had been added to his bill designed to provide benefits up to $30 a month for approximately 800,000 persons who are physically handicapped and unable to work in private industry or on Government projects. Senator Byrnes’ bill would merge the WPA, the Public Works Administration, the Civilian Conservations Corps, and the National Youth

Administration into a new Public

Works Department.

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Ludlow and Larrabee Join With Seven Republicans, Give Reasons.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Both Democratic Congressmen from the Indianapolis districts joined the seven Indiana Repubiicans in the

coalition which defeated the Guam fortification plan 205 to 168, the House roll call showed today. Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) supported his stand by a statement in which he termed the construction of the proposed five million dollar naval base at Guam a “war provoking measure.” Rep. William H. Larrabee (D. Ind.), who deserted the Administration for about the first time since his bonus vote, declared he turned down the Guam plan because he didn’t want to add ammunition to enemies who are charging the Democrats with keing too warlike. The entire Indiana delegation voted for the 53 million dollar Naval Air Base Bill, after the Guam expenditure had been removed. Itj passed 368 to 4. Democrats who supported the Guam plan were Reps. William T. Schulte, John W. Boehne Jr. and Eugene Crowe. Republicans voting against it were Reps. Charles Halleck, Robert S. Grant, George W. Gillie, Forrest Harness, Noble J. Johnson, Gerald W. Landis and Raymond Springer. Rep. Boehne termed the charge that building a naval base at Guam is “warlike” as being “without foundation.” “The plan did not propose a single gun for Guam,” he pointed out.’

TABER ASKS DEFEAT OF REVAMPING BILL

Charges New Measure Is Attempted ‘Face-Saver.’

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U. P.). —Rep:. John Taber (R. N. Y.) a leader of the House coalition which last year blocked President Roosevelt’s Government Reorganization

Bill, today urged defeat of a new compromise reorganization measure. Rep. Taber charged that the new bill introduced yesterday by Rep. John J. Cochran (D. Mo.) was “only a front and a face saving device” for the Administration. He said the bill was “so badly conceived it should be defeated.” The measure proviges for reorganization of execltive departments with 16 units specifically exempted. It also would authorize budgetary control of independent agencies and appointment of six

Senators Expecied to Accept House Vote On Guam Air Base as Definite Rejection; President Believed Reconciled to Deficit

Representatives Throw Out Far East Plan, 205 to 168.

(Editorial, Ps Page 18) WASHINGTON, ON, Feb. 24 . Pp),

—The Senate, ready to consider

National Defense legislation, re< ceived today a bill setting up a 75 million dollar program for’ acquisi= tion of materials vital to conduct of war. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Elbert: Thomas (D. Utah) was approved unanimously by the Senate Military Affairs Committee. : It was introduced as Chairman Walsh (D. Wash.) of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee forecast = that the Senate will uphold the House's refusal to authorize a five million dollar naval air base at Guam. Senator Walsh, whose Committeswill handle the $48,800,000 bill which authorizes 10 new Atlantic and Pacific naval and air bases, said “the emphatic vote in the House on the: |Guam question ends it for the. present.” Influential Senators, including. Administration Senators, agreed: with Senator Walsh that the 205 to 168 roll call vote in the House had definitely killed the five million! dollar Guam project for the present.’ Senator Walsh’s Committee early next week will begin consideration of the naval base bill, but Senator Walsh indicated he would make no effort in the committee to restore the Guam authorization.

Administration Defeat Seen

“For the Senate to insist on the authorization in view of that record vote would lead to an impasse,” Senator Walsh said. “I don’t see any advantage in pressing the question: in the Senate.” Defeat of the Guam proposal was interpreted as another defeat for. the Administration in the two=-month-old 76th Congress, although President Roosevelt did not directly support the plan. The White House implied, however, that the authori« zation to improve Guam’s strategie. value might be useful in seeking to" make Japan more amenable to Ameriean diplomatic representa= ons. ‘In preparation for the start of Senate debate on the 358 million dollar Army Air Corps Expansion Bill, Senator Downzy (D. Cal.) proe posed a “unique method of finance. ing public deficits and likewise the, public economy in the event of war.” Senator Downey's bill, which may’ be introduced early next week, calls upon the Treasury Secretary to set up in the Treasury books a national credit to pay all Federal debts not met by regular Government reve-" nues. The House sent the Naval Air Base Bill to the Senate by a stand ing vote of 368 to 4, after defeating the Administration on the Guam issue.

Democrats to Force

Townsend Plan Vote

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U. P.).— Democrats controlling the House Ways and Means Committee, it was disclosed today, plan to vote an unfavorable report on the Townsend. old-age pension plan under strategy: to force Republicans to record their

administrative assistants to the President.

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