Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
SAVES
WRECK Of CABINET
Tells Former PremierS That
Scandal Does Not In
voIve Parties.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 19.-Premier CASTOR
Doumergue was believed to have avert
ed the wreck Of his cabinet today by
spreading the words the boys must be
good"
The veteran statesman made light
ming decision at railroad station last
night and sent his friends to tell for
mersPremiers Andre Tardieu, Edouard
Herriot and Camille ChautempS and
party leaders that Tardieu's charges
that Chautemps and Radical Socialists
knew the late Serge Stavisky was
swindling the country must be limited
to controversy between Tardieu and
Chautemps, without involving parties
designations Threatened.
Resignation OF Herriot and other
Radical Socialists from the cabinet
was threatened because of Tardieu's
charges, which, they claimed. broke
the political truce under which the
Doumergue cabinet was created in the
grave days of last February.
Doumergue then boarded a train for
a vacation at Tournefeuille. smiling as
ever and refusing any comment on
cabinet friction.
Because he has the whip-hand
threat OF dissolution of Parliament,
for which Deputies are not ready, Dou-
mergue is expected to maintain the
truce between the parties.
Chautemps and Tardieu were
brought face to face last midnight at
stormy session of a Chamber of Depu-
ties committee investigating the col
lapse of Stavisky's Bayonne municipal
pawnshop.
Shocked by Suicide.
Pale and broken by the shock Of
the suicide Of his niece yesterday
Chautemps denied Tardieu's charge
that he forged Tardieus name to a
Stavisky check stub for 100000 francs
(about $19,50o).
Chautemps accused Tardieu Of
seeking to strike at the national gov
eminent and cause a breach of the
truce with q view to bringing about
dissolution (of the cabinet. His
(Tardieu's) deposition can be con-
sidered the first act in an electoral
campaign"
A committee Of the Radical So
cialist party is considering whether
Edouard Herriot, former premier, and
four other radical members OF the
present cabinet can remain in 1t with
Tardieu.
Both Tardieu and Herriot are min
listers without portfolio in the Dou-
mergue government, formed by a
truce between political parties during
the grave crisis of last February.
Two cabinets had been forced out
by the Stavisky scandal, one of them
headed by Chautemps.
Name Declared Forged.
Called in to testify before the In
vestigating Committee concerning the
check stub, Tardieu said Chautemps
had forged his name.
Then Chautemps was summoned,
only a few hours after his niece had
killed herself. Friends said she
brooded over charges made against
the family as a result of the scandal.
Chautemps demanded proof of al
legations made by Tardieu, The lat
ter failed to produce the proof, but
stuck by his guns. Then Chautemps
denounced him.
Radical Socialists claim Tardieu
broke the truce by his charges.
Questioned as a former minister of
the interior, Tsrdieu said ne did not
know StaviSky, but that his radical
Socialist successors tHerriot was the
hrStb knew who Stavisky was and
what he was doing.
The check stub. he claimed, was
part of a scheme Ito get something
on me"
Public Lost Millions.
Stavisky's operations cost the pub
lie millions, overthrow two govern
mentS, bringing France at one time
on the verge Of civil war, and an in
vestigation Of them has been splotched
with murder and several suicides.
The Doumergue government sue
ceeded the cabinet of Edouard Dsla-
der. which resigned February after
troops had fired on rioting citizens in
the streets. Daladier only nine days
before had succeeded ChautempS.