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Evening star., 1935-01-12
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Bulges in White House
and Treasury Roofs
Due to Budget Row.
BY PAUL MALLON.

IT CAN now be related that the
backStage preparation OF Presi-
dent Roosevelts new budget was
i not a very peaceful affair.
Certain bulges may still be
noticed in the Treasury and White
House roofs, caused by the concus-
sion of conflicting opinions among
Mr.. Roosevelt's budget scientists.
The main conflict ,oas oper the
$4,000, 900 900 lump sum relief dp-
preparation. The budget advisers
are supposed to haze contested
generally against lump sum.
They thought some general break
do,0n of its proposed use should
be offered.
The only reason one was not Of
fered was because the emergency re-
lief agencies declined to submit esti-
mates to the Budget Bureau. Some
agencies (the A. A. A., particularly
replied that they could not tell Of
their spendings in advance. Others
professed ignorance as to what Mr..
Roosevelt was going to do about their
operations next year.
There was nothing left to do ex-
cept to take a rough lump sum guess
and it will have to stand until MT
Roosevelt decides exactly what he is
going to do about each emergency
bureau.
The fault of the lump sum system
is not the political one which Con-
greSS is howling about. Budgeteers
did not even consider the possibility
that Congress might call Mr.. Roose-
velt a dictator for trying to get all
that money without strings on it.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
HOUSE APPROVES
$777,237,562 BILL
First Of 1885 Appropriation Meas.
ures Was Sent to Senate
Yesterday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House sent the first of the 1886
appropriation bills to the Senate yes
terday, and voted $777, 7,237 ,562 for a
score or more of independent Govern
ment agencies.
Most of the money goes to the Vet
erans' Bureau, which gets S705, ,420,-
900, an increase of Sl58,67l ,904 over
this years allowance.
In all, the measure called for q net
Of $135,843, 800 more than the 1885
bill, despite the fact the new measure
did not carry s8e9. CTS 400 for emer-
gency relief and public works and
$525 ,000. 900 for stricken agricultural
areas, included last time.
New agencies, such as the Securities
and Exchange Commission and the
Communications Commission, ac-
counted for some Of the increase.
A major fight on the floor was
averted by last minute compromise
whereby the Appropriations CON-
mittee agreed to let the Securities
Commission have 100000 instead
Of the $1.679,2 ,244 it first recommended.
The Securities Commission asked
100000 and the budget recon-
mended $2,370,00O. Protests fol-
lowed, with Chairman Rayburn of the
Interstate Commerce Committee serv-
ing notice he would fight the cut.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
PARIS REFUSES
GERMARCHERS
Communists Wait Outside
City and Will Try to
Enter Later.
BY the Associated Press.

oy Tic AsSOCihtcu EESoo
PARIS, January l2-Police clashed
today with 1900 Communists, mem
bers of a hunger army" attempting
to march on Paris.
A wall of mobile guards turned back
the attempted invasion lust west OF
the city's outskirts. The demonstra-
tors engaged in a general scuftle with
the gendarmes, but found themselves
no match for their opponents.
Quickly dispersed, the Communists
said they would make another attempt
to enter the city later today after they
had been reinforced by additional
marchers from the neighboring de-
partment of Seine-et-Oise.
The Communist party organized the
advance on Paris from four sides as
a gesture to compel the government
to extend the dole to thousands Of
unemployed who they asserted are
receiving no aid.
The marchers began to converge
upon the city yesterday. En- route
they experienced considerable hard
ship from bitterly cold weather, and
this morning they tramped through
the Winters first snowfall.
Official figures show 1884, per-
sons are on the dole. The Commu-
nists and French Federation of Labor
however, assert the actual number OF
unemployed is much larger, because
many towns have no relief system and
many who are out of work are ineli-
gible for relief because they are prop
erty owners or are the parents Of en-
ployed children.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
ENLARGING POWERS
Old. c. HEADS OPPOSED
Pleasant Plains Citizens Fear
Politics Would Result From
Proposed Change.

Opposition to the proposed enlarge
ment of powers of the District Com
missioners was expressed in q reso-
luton adopted last night by the
Pleasant Plains Citizens Association,
meeting at the Monroe School.
The action resulted from letter
of Charles H. Houston Of the Board
of Education to the Commissioners,
protesting the proposed control of the
School Board. Members expressed
similar views with Mr.. Houston's let
ter and believe great danger would re-
suit, since, they claim, politics would
become involved in the school set-up.
Another resolution adopted urges
Congress to restore all school items
that have been stricken from the 1896
District budget. A committee of three
was named to present the resolution to
the Senate and House subcommittee
on District Appropriations. On the
committee are j. A. Du Bale, Mrs.
Ethel H. Grubbs and Mrs. r. M.
Kendrick.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
PROBATION OFFICER
CITED FOR CONTEMPT
Justice Proctor Gives A. A. Steel
Ten.Day Suspended Sentence
for Interruption.

A suspended sentence of 10 days i'm
prisonment was imposed upon District
Probation Officer Amos A. Steele when
he appeared in District Supreme Court
before Justice James M. Proctor yes
terday while allegedly under the in
f1uence of liquor.
After sentencing Steele to serve 10
days in Jail, Justice Proctor lifted the
sentence and ordered the man taken
home and placed under the care Of
his physician. Steele said he had been
i'll for 10 days and had left 0 sick bed
yesterday to come to the court room
Justice Proctor was imposing o sus-
pended sentence on William H. Moquin,
1912 Calvert street, who had pleaded
guilty to a charge of embezzlement,
when Steele interrupted.
"I want to see If he can make resti-
tuition" the probation oflcer declared.
"You are drunk" Justice Proctor
said, "Get out Of this court room" A
deputy marshal attempted to remove
Steele and the latter resisted by grab
bling the rail at the foot Of the bench.
Justice Proctor then imposed the con-
tempt sentence. Moquin was placed
on probation.
Evening star., 1935-01-12

The only unexpected thing about
the budget reaction was the way Wall
Street took it. The money boys were
apathetic. Apparently they did not
know what 1t meant. There are indi-
cations they do not know yet. The
inf1ationary possibilities, or probabili-
ties, were completely ignored, although
the budget last year sent the boys of
on an imitation spree with much less
cause.
The opinion seems to be groUing
on the inside that the Nep Deal
can run the public debt up in
definitely during the nert three or
four years without infdttondry
trouble. Apparently Wall Street
beltepes 1t, but England cannot
understand such American
optimism.
The London reaction to the budget
message was one of wonder. Britain
now Is balanced except for a few
tricks, such as the omission Of her
war debt to us and certain money
snitched on the sly from her stabiliza-
ton fund
Mr.. Roosevelt has not used all his
budget tricks yet. He has one big
ace in the hole, and you will see 1t
whenever the Treasury going gets
rough. ~
It may be denied now, but arrange
ments once were actually made during
the preparation of the current budget
for including $2,s11, 100000 bookkeep-
ing profit which the Treasury has
accumulated out Of dollar devaluation.
It would have made the budget look
much roster II the debt could be re-
duced by that amount.
After an inside row, 1t was decided
to leave the theoretical gold profit out
this year, but It was evident to Ill
Evening star., 1935-01-12
SOUTHEAST URGES
ACTION ON BRIDGE
Letters Sent Congress on Replace
ment Of Pennsylvania
Avenue Span.

Early replacement Of the Pennsyl-
vania Avenue Bridge across the Ana
costa River was urged today by the
Southeast Business Mems Association
in letters to members of the House
Subcommittee on Appropriations in
charge Of the 1896 District supply
bill
The 1886 budget estimates carried
an item of $4,000 for a survey and
engineering investigation looking to-
ward replacement of the bridge. but
the association declared the bridge
is in such dangerous condition steps
should be taken to renew it without
delay An annual appropriation Of
$250,00O was suggested.
The association declared preten-
tious span is not desired, and called
attention to the fact that the resi-
dents of the southeast pay approx
mately 155 per cent Of the taxes
collected in the District, but get in
return only about per cent of the
tax revenues spent for improvements.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
HOME BOARD VOTE
LOST BY BLANTON
House 127 to % Against Reduc.
ing Fund to 81 as Blow at
irregularities"
BY the Associated Press.

by the hSSoclhteu FIeSs.
After Representative Blanton,
Democrat, Of Texas threatened to
"impeach" members Of the Home
Loan Bank Board, the House yester-
day rejected 127 to % an amendment
by the Texan to reduce the board s
salary and expense appropriation for
next year from $264,043 to 81.
Earlier, Representative Sweeney, an
Ohio Democrat, had proposed an In
vestigation Of "irregularities" in ad-
ministration Of the home loan laws.
II am. going to ask the President
to remove the present members of
that board, and If he doesn't then
I'm going to exercise my prerogative
as a member Of Congress and come
here on this floor and impeach them,
Blanton said.
We've got to stop this autocratic
rule of public business. You've got
to show these bureau chiefs that
they've got to respect the Representa-
tives in Congress"
After once approving Blanton's mo-
ton on voice vote, the House heard
Representative Woodrum, Democrat,
of Virginia term Blanton's proposal
"ridiculously, silly and childlike" and
then voted 1t down.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
new PACT PLEASES
FRENCH OFFICIALS
Held to Create With Italy EN-
tente Cordiale" and Virtual
Non-Aggression.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 12.-High Official
circles interpreted the recently con-
cluded Franco Italian accord today as
creating a combined entente cor
dale" and virtual pact Of non-ag-
gression.
The text Of the consultative agree
ment between the two nations Just
made public provides that France and
Italy shall consult each other for the
maintenance of peace whenever cir
cumstances require, and shall settle
all questions arising between them
by diplomatic negotiations or arbitra-
ton within the League Of Nations.
The cooperation" clause Of the
document was viewed by persons close
to the government as establishing q
relationship between the countries
similar to the Franco British under
standing before the World War.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
HOLD.UP MURDER
CHARGED TO TWO
Cummings and Marcus to Answer
for Death of Wushnak,
Meat Wagon Driver.

. Charges of murder and robbery were
placed last night against John H.
Cummings, colored, 27, 700 block of
Seventh street. and Willet Marcus,
colored, %, 1900 block of Minnesota
avenue northeast. The latter is
charged by police with having accom-
panied the former when he allegedly
shot Joseph H. Mushnak, meat wagon
driver, during hold-up last week in
front Of grocery store at 100 B street
northeast.
While the bandits who held up
iWushnak failed to get anything from
him, they admitted. police say, that
they previously held up and robbed
William H. Clark, 1104 o street. Po-
lice say that they also have admitted
other robberies. but no other charges
had been placed against them today.
OF those arrested in a general
roundup only five others are still held,
Is having been released. While none
of the four has yet been charged, po-
lice claim that they have admitted
several hold-upS and will face these
charges as soon as details are COM
pleted. One Of these men, it is said,
insisted that he was the man who held
up Hyman Layen, manager of a
grocery at 500 Fifty-sixth street north
east, when the latter failed to make a
positive Identification at lineup last
night.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
M'LE0D TO OFFER
PAY BILL AGAIN
Will Press for Restoration
When Deficiency Bill Is
Presented in House.

When the deficiency approximation
bill, carrying additional funds for the
current fiscal year, is presented to the
House. Representative Mcleod, Repub-
hcan, of Michigsn, plans to offer
again his amendment TO restore full
basic salaries to Government employees
as Of January l.
Mcleod explained that he expected
the rejection of the amendment when
it was offered yesterday during consid.
Grafton of the independent offices ap-
preparation bill. That, he declared,
was a mere technicality and only
marked the first skirmish in a deter
mined fight by some of the most In.
nuentlal men in the House and Sen.
ate. The merits Of the proposal, he
said, were not touched upon in yes
terday's reversal.
Other Bills Introduced.
In the meantime, other members
Of the Appropriations Committee ard
Democratic leaders have introduced
a number Of bills providing for the
full restoration of salaries or the re-
peal OF the economy act by direct
legislation entirely independent of ap-
preparation bills.
These other direct proposals are
made as follows:
BY Senator McCarran, for repeal
of the Government wage cut.
BY Senator McCarran for restor-
ing the basic rates of compensa-
ton. Both of these have been referred
to the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee.
BY Representative John W. Nc.
Cormack of Massachusetts,.
By Representative John J. Boylan
Of New York.
By Representative Glenn Griswold
Of Indiana.
BY Representative Ernest Lundeen
of Minnesota.
By Representative j. Will Taylor
Of Tennessee.
All Of these House bills have been
referred to the House Committee on
Expenditures of which Representa-
tive John j. Cochran Is chairman.
Committee to Be Called.
The House Committee on Expendi-
lures will be called into an organi.
zation meeting early next week, at
which these various bills will be given
a preliminary survey and discussion.
Chairman Cochran, while entirely
in sympathy with pay restoration eff
forts, has taken a firm stand in sup
port Of the Presidents recommenda.
tions. He has promised to give care
full study to the bills. He pointed out
that appropriations have been made
for the current fiscal year On a budget
basis. and if new legislation for salary
increases over the budget and appro-
priations are made it will be nee
essary to provide additional revenue
to meet the payroll increase.
A poll Of the Senate Civil Service
Committee showed majority in favor
of pay restoration as proposed in the
McCarran bill, and a meeting of the
committee is promised for next week
to report out the bill.
In the meantime strong sentiment
is developing in the House for legisla-
ton making the 100 per cent salary
restoration retroactive to January !,
on the ground that the price Of conn.,
modities essential to life has been
greatly increased since the economy
bill was passed two years ago.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
OVERSIGHT PLEA
In CUTTEN CASE
Attorney Tells Grain Futures
Commission of Woman Secre-
tary's Mistake.

Oversight by a newly employed
female secretary and "contributory
negligence" Of the Chicago Office Of
the Grain Futures Administration
were cited as extenuating circum-
stances in the failure Of Arthur w.
Cutten to file reports on his grain
trading operations in 1880, it was ex-
planned at hearings before the Grain
Futures Commission this morning.
The explanation was offered by Or
vile Taylor. counsel for Cutten, In
admitting the charge that required
reports for that year were not filed
At the same time Taylor denied en-
phatically three other charges, namely,
that Cutten had attempted to manip-
ulate the grain market; that he had
attempted to conceal his operations
and that he had fled false reports
in 1881.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
Bank Grants Loan
On Unpaid REWARD
In ConUict Capture
Stranger Gets $50 on
Application for Fund
From State.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, January Ia
Down to his last 16 cents, an un-
employed stranger and his four
motherless children came to Jack
son yesterday, called at a local bank
and left it with a $50 loan on one
Of the oldest pieces Of collateral the
bank ever has accepted.
His collateral was a yet unpaid
reward for supplying information
leading to the capture of John
Beavers. escaped life-term convict, at
Clarendon, Ark, last November "A.
Though the legislative appropria-
ton for payment of rewards has been
exhausted, the bank agreed to take
over his application. which has been
approved by the State Penitentiary
and will present it for collection when
the Legislature makes another appro-
priation for capture rewards, probably
next year.
Tomorrow the stranger, p. W. Lamb,
a button-cutter when he has work to
do. will pack his family, ranging from
9 to IS years Of age, and will pro-
ceed to the Colorado River where he
hopes to make a living by digging
shells and selling them to novelty
factories.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
NEVIS RESUMES
c. j. PRESIDENCY
World Trip Reveals High
Favor for President and
N. R. A., He Says.

DR.. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., resumed
the presidency Of Georgetown Uni
versity today after his return from q
four month trip around the world, on
which he reported enthusiastically he
had found evidence everywhere OF high
regard for President Roosevelt aid the
New Deal.
The Georgetown president left here
as an American delegate to the inter-
national Red Cross conference at
Toxic. In Japan he decided to make q
good will trip to Georgetown alumni
centers. He expressed qualification
that in Toxic. Shanghai, Hongkong,
Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, Arabia,
Egypt and the 10 large cities and
capitals he visited in Europe, he was
met by delegations Of Georgetown
alumni.
1T made me think that the sun
never sets on Georgetown SOIL" Dr.
Nevils said.
Regard for President.
Two things that impressed the
Georgetown official perhaps more than
anything else on his trip was the uni
versal regard for President Roosevelt
and the lack Of friendliness between
the nations of the world. Everywhere
he said, great hopefulness was ex-
pressed in Roosevelt's powers Of re-
covery.
This seems especially true in Eng
land" Dr. Nevils said. "As some one
in London put it. You people are GER
tainly getting your moneys worth out
of that man."
A disheartening phase of trip
around the world. however, was 'the
f4almost universal suspiciousness of one
nation of another. While this seems
greatest in the Far East, 1t is also true
| of most of the European countries"
In Rome, where he was given an in
formal and private audience with Pope
Plus, he said the pontiff had greatly
deplored this unfortunate condition
throughout the world"
To his Jesuit colleagues at George.
town he brought tidings that Pope
Plus was in the best Of health and has
| all the vigor of a man half his age.
Proclamation Published.
DR.. Nevils said that during his stay
! in Rome the official Vatican paper
Observatore Romano, published in full
on the first page President Roosevelt's s
Thanksgiving proclamation, and many
| favorable comments were heard, espe-
cially from high ecclesiasts, that
America was the only nation that has
so laudable a custom with such high
| official sanction.
It was in Rome that DR.. Nevils re.
ceived assurances from Jesuit head.
quarters that he would be continued
in the presidency after his return t
| Georgetown.
He was greeted last night by Rev
Arthur A. O'Leary, S. j.. acting pres
ident during his absence, and mem.
bers Of the faculty. Father OLeary
the first native Washingtonian to pre-.
side over Georgetown in 140 years
will now be able to devote his full
time to his regular duties as professor
of ethics, chairman OF the faculty oi
philosophy and Riggs librarian.
DR.. Nevis complimented him high.
ly on the success Of his brief admin
istration.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
CATHEDRAL RITES
WILL HONOR LEE
Sponsors of Fund Drive for
Stratford Hall Will At.
tend Services.

Sponsors Of the effort to obtain
funds for Stratford Hall, which the
Robert E. Lee Foundation hopes to
dedicate in October as a debt-free
memorial to the great Confederate
leader, will attend services in his
honor tomorrow at the Washington
Cathedral.
Among the sponsors named today
are Senators Glass and Byrd of Vir-
ginia, Assistant Secretary of State r.
Walton Moore, Gist Blair, David E.
Finley, Rear Admiral Cary T. Gray
son, former Senator Blair Lee of
Maryland, Judge John Barton Payne,
Armistead Peter. Sd; Henry B. Spen-
Ger, Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes and
DR.. william Holland Wilmer.
Bishop James E. Freeman will con-
duct the services and DR.. Douglas E.
Freeman of Richmond. biographer of
Lee, will deliver an address.
$4,000 Sought.
The memorial services will be pre-
paratory to the drive to obtain funds
for the old Lee mansion in WeStmore-
land County, Va, only miles from
Wakefield, birthplace Of George
Washington. The ladies of the Rob-
ert E. Lee Foundation, who are be-
hind the movement to obtain funds to
purchase Stratford Hall, need $50 600
so that the 1,l00-acre estate can be-
come q debt-free memorial to Gen.
Lee
Although the foundation dislikes to
describe the Embarrassing movement
as q campaign" or drive" the ef-
forts to obtain money will begin Janu-
ary 19, Lees birthday. Checks or
money orders may be made payable
to David E. Finley of the Committee
Of Sponsors, at 730 Fifteenth street.
Immediately after the services at
the Cathedral tomorrow, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, 1887 K
street, will entertain the sponsors at
their home. Mrs. Brooke is one OF
the sponsors.
Estate Being Farmed.
The Robert E. Lee Foundation has
been organized five years. Mrs.
Charles D. Lanier of Greenwich,
Conn. is the president. For the
past three years the foundation has
been operating Stratford Hall as a
going institution" with Maj. Gen.
B. F. Cheatham. q. S. A., retired,
as resident superintendent.
Crops and live stock are raised on
the old estate, which was bought
from the Charles Stuart family, and
money raised from these endeavors
pays the cost Of upkeep.
The foundation feels that Stratford
Hall should be maintained as a ma
tional shrine in tribute to Gen. Lee
and in no respects does the organi-
zation view its work as a distinctly
Southern movement. The foundation
comprises persons throughout the
country who are interested in
preserving for posterity the old home
stead of one of Americas greatest
sons.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
DILLlNGER ENRAGED
BY ARTIFICIAL FACE
Piquett Tells How Bandit Acted
When He Saw Himself in
Mirror After Operation.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 12.-The new
face John Dillinger had made for him
self displeased him so much he acted
like he was going to shoot everybody"
his attorney. Louis Piquett, said in
Federal Court, where Piquett is on
trial charged with conspiring to har-
Dor the late No. public enemy.
After his face had been altered by
plastic surgery, Dillinger looked in a
mirror and spared no words in ex-
pressing his dissatisfaction with the
result
Il tried to cheer him up," Piquett
said yesterday. He acted like he was
going to shoot everybody and I tried
to tone him down. ! told him it looked
wonderful"
Evening star., 1935-01-12
ASHES SET AUTO AFIRE

PITTSBURGH. January II R.-
Very tidy is James -Balsley, and he
leaves no ashes lying around his eel
lar-but today he wishes he had.
Taking his wooden ash boxes, he
put them in his automobile to be
hauled away. The ashes we're still
hot, though, and some Of them burned
through q box and into the back of
the car.
Firemen had to put the blaze out.
who participated in the discussions
that its ultimate use would not long
be delayed.
Incidentally, Mr.. Roosevelt custo-
marily refers to the gold profit Is
"the kitty" Any poker player knows
what that means.
(oopyrisht. 1e3Sl
Evening star., 1935-01-12
PUBLISHER OPTIMISTIC

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, January II
R.-Steady improvement of general
business conditions during 1885 was
predicted yesterday by Lee w. Max
well of New York, chairman OF the
board Of the Crowell Publishing Co. He
came here for q conference with
Charles J. Bevan, vice president, and
to visit the local plant.
"The present volume Of advertising
contracts indicates 1885 will be sub
stantially better for US than 1884" he
said