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Evening star., 1936-03-05
i. S. CEASES FIGHT
T0CONDEMNL LAND
Appeals From Court Bans
on SIum Clearance Method
Are Withdrawn.

The New Deal today withdrew its
fight to win Supreme Court approval
for Federal condemnation proceed
ings in low-cost housing projects in
a sudden decision to transfer to local
governments responsibility for acquir-
ing land.
The shift in policy was made
known by p W. A. housing officials soon
after Solicitor General Stanley Reed
asked. and received, Supreme Court
permission to withdraw Government
appeals from lower court decisions
forbidding Federal condemnation for
slum clearance and low-cost housing
projects.
Condemnation Ban Remains.
This action. growing out of projects
IN Louisville. KY, and Detroit, left
In effect the prohibition against Fed
eral condemnation proceedings.
While reminding that the existing
decision against the Government ap-
plies only to the Sixth Circuit Court
of Appeals area, p. w. A. housing
officials acknowledged no further Fed
eral suits will be filed.
Wherever municipalities are unable
to defray all the costs of acquiring
land for low-cost housing projects the
Government will render financial as
sistance, housing officials said.
"The Governments action today
does not affect the current slum clear
ance and housing program in any
way" they said.
TIL. future housing policy, hinging
on obtaining land through local hous-
ing authorities, however, is being
worked out in the bill which Senator
Wagner of New York now preparing
for introduction in the Senate.
Housing Projects Unaffected.
The 40 slum clearance and low cost
housing projects now being constructed
by P. w. A. at cost of $4,000, 900
remain unaffected. Eight condemna-
ton proceedings had been brought by
the Government during the past Is
months, two in Atlanta, two in Mont
gomery, Ala, three in Cleveland and
one in Indianapolis. In each of these
cases the land was condemned by
agreement with the owners as q
method of obtaining title.
In the District Of Columbia the one
condemnation case pending never
actually reached the court. Property
owners in Southwest Washington,
where P. w. A. was planning q slum
clearance project, brought action in
the District Supreme Court and sue
ceeded in thwarting the Governments
move.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
WIRES DESTROYED,
LOBBY UNIT SHOWS
Senate Probers, Under Fire,
Defend Their Seizure
of 100000.
BY REX COLLIER.

Raked by barrage of criticism
following disclosure of its mass ex-
animation of 100000 private tele-
grams, the Senate Lobby Committee
today sought to show this action was
justified because utility interests de-
stroyed important lobby" kilograms
Through interrogation of repre-
sentatives of the Crew-Levick Co.,
subsidiary of Henry L. Doherty's
Cities Service Co., the committee
brought out that numerous kilograms
reporting on a widespread campaign
by company employees against the
Wheeler r-Rayburn holding company
bill last year were burned or other
wise destroyed"
Chairman Black charged that not
until the committee had obtained
copies of the kilograms from the tele-
graph companies was it able to obtain
any information from Crew-Levick
admitting existence of such messages.
Vigorously Quizzed by Black.
N. G. Williams, division sales man.
ager in the Washington area for
Crew-Leyick, testified, under rigor-
GUS examination by Chairman Black,
that orders were sent out to all en-
ployes to get their relatives, friends
and others to send letters and tele-
grams opposing the holding company
bill.
Each branch of the firm was in
structed to make reports twice a day
by telephone or telegraph on letters
secured, kilograms sent or promises
obtained"
1t was large number of such tele-
graphic reports that company officials
destroyed, it was testified
rs it just coincidence that SINH
lar kilograms sent in this campaign
all over the country by subsidiaries
of the Cities Service Co. were de-
stroyed?" inquired Black.
Chambersburg Salesman on Stand.
II don't know" replied Lloyd s..
Cook, a salesman for Crew-Levick of
(See LOBBY, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-03-05
ZEPPELIN ON TEST
TRIP IN DENSE FOG
Hugo Eckener Reports Wouldn't
Believe It Worked So
Well.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
March 5.-The immense new German
Zeppelin, LZ129, took off in a dense
fog this morning for test flight over
Lake Constance and surrounding ter
ritory, with Comdr. Hugo Eckener at
the controls 1t landed after hours
and 50 minutes in the air.
The famed commander of the Graf
Zeppelin, reported to officials on the
ground he wouldn't have believed it
could work so we'll" The first fight
was made yesterday.
The Lz129 had IS persons on board
today, including Ernerd Pick of the
Zeppelin Works at Akron, Ohio
Pick announced the LZl29 had been
insured for 6,500.000 marks (about
$2,600,000, all with German firms.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
j. s. WILL RETIRE
3OM|LL|ON ACRES
TO PROTECT SOIL
Wallace Outlines New Farm
Conservation Program
to Leaders.
100000, 900 ACRES ARE
LEFT FOR MAIN CROPS
Moderate Payment" to Be Made,
Secretary Says-Share Crop
pers to Get Cash, Too.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, March 5-Removal
from production Of approximately So
100000 acres of soil. depicting crops
and an increase Of that amount In
soil building crops was disclosed to-
day by Secretary Of Agriculture Wal
lace as the 1885 goal of the admsis-
tration's soil conservation program.
A broad outline of the program was
submitted by the Secretary in state
ment read simultaneously before re-
gional conferences of agricultural
leaders here and at Memphis, Tenn.
The removal. Wallace said, would
reduce the soil depicting acreage from
a yearly average of 300.000,000 acres
to 270.00O,O00 acres in 1896. This, he
said, would be ample at average yields
to provide the Nation supply of food
and fiber to domestic consumption in
the 1920-l92s period.
270,000, 900 Acres Left.
Farm leaders here said the 270,-
900 ,0c0 acres left in the production Of
major crops would be approximately
the same amount farmed last year
under the A. A. A. crop reduction pro-
gram. Similarly, the 30.000,000 acres
to be devoted to legumes and similar
crops approximates the number of
acres retired last year.
A classification of crops into two
divisions-soil building and soil ex-
hausting-has been worked out and
will be submitted % the two meetings,
said Wallace.
A two-point system of conservation
payments was proposed, the Secretary
said.
Moderate Payment"
First, moderate payment would be
made for each acre, up to maximum.
planted to soil-conserving crops.
Second, a larger soil-improvement
payment per acre would be made for
land shifted from soil-depleting crops
to soil-conserving crops, with the pro-
vision that this payment be made only
up to specified percentage.
The actual amounts which could be
paid farmers per acre would vary ac-
cording to the productivity of the soil.
said Wallace. In the South it would
vary according to the soil-depleting
crop from which diversion was made.
Farmers renting for cash would re-
ceive the entire payment. In the case
Of farms occupied by share tenants or
share croppers, the proposal was for
the division of payments between land
lords and those actually occupying the
land.
S470,00O, 900 Available.
The definite top" available for the
conservation program this year, said
Wallace, was 100000.
IF soil payments are made at the
rate of IS cents to ST an acre, these
payments would total from SIS, 900 900
to 100000" the Secretary ex-
planned.
Allowance has to be made for ad-
ministrative expenses in Washington
and in the field. On this basis, there
would be left for distribution as soil
improvement payments somewhere In
the neighborhood of $3.50 900, ,000."
This $3.50, 1000 900, divided among the
100000 acres to be shifted to less
Evening star., 1936-03-05
TIRESA[EPRACTICE.
ORDERED STOPPED
F. T. c. Tells Goodyear to
Halt Price Favoritism to
Sears-R0ebuck.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Trade Commission to-
day ordered the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co. Of Akron, Ohio. to cease
and desist" from discriminating in
price between Sears. Roebuck & Co.
and Goodyear's retail dealer customers
for automobile tires.
P. w. Litchfeld. Goodyear presi-
dent, announced Immediately his COM
pany would appeal the decision to
the Federal courts.
Were it permitted to stand" he
said, the decision would wipe out
a widely used trade practice under
which substantial proportion of the
country's total retail business Is done.
Contract Expires in 1912.
The company is ordered to stop
selling the tires to Sears, Roebuck
"at net realized prices, which are
lower than the net realized prices
at which the said respondent (Good-
year, sells the same sizes of tires
OF comparable grade and quality to
individual tire dealers or other pur-
chasers."
At present, Goodyear has a contract
with Sears-Roebuck expiring in 1912
which. the commission has alleged,
gives that company benefits that have
resulted in the destruction of small
retail dealers, to whom the purported
80 11V---
Evening star., 1936-03-05
CUTS IN D. c. BILL
BACKED BY TAbER
AS GOOD FOR CITY
Admits He Has Not Read
Report of Hearings
on Measure.
ASKS HOUSE TO GIVE
"FAIR" CONSIDERATION
Says Health Items Slashed Be-
cause Money Not Econom-
ically Spent.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

A prelude to the impending battle
in the House over the "Blantonized"
appropriation bill for the District
came today in the form of a tribute to
the work of the subcommittee which
framed the measured by Represent
ative Taber of New York.
Taber, ranking Republican member
of the full Appropriations Committee,
defended the cuts made by the sub
committee and appealed to the House
to give the bill fair" consideration.
He admitted, however, he had not
read the report of the hearings on
the bill and that he was not an expert
on District affairs.
Taber opened his speech by declar-
Ing it Is traditional for the press and
various organizations in Washington
to "berate" every chairman of the
subcommittee on appropriations which
handles the District supply bill. He
also pointed out that a storm of pro-
test followed the House action sew
eral years ago in passing the four
Mapes tax increase bills.
What Committee Did for DC.
everywhere I've looked I have seen
articles indicating that the daylights
had been cut out of the District
funds" he said. Il do want the House
and the people of the District to
know what this committee has done
for them"
He then explained that the bill calls
for 81 $50. .2l0 in excess of the appro-
priation for the current fiscal year,
and that it raised the Budget Bureau
total by $908,283.
Il believe the subcommittee studied
the situation In the District and the
cuts recommended represented money
that wasn't necessary in the interest
Of the District"
Health Cut Was Economy.
Representative Smell, minority leader
of the House, interrupted Taber to
point out that the criticism that i'm
pressed him related to the cuts in the
items for the protection of public
health. Those are things that the
people Of the District have to pay for. +"
he declared. why can't we give it to
them?"
Taber explained that slashes were
made in the public health items be-
cause the subcommittee did not be-
lieve money appropriated for that
purpose was being spent economically.
Representatives Bankhead, majority
leader, pleaded with the House not to
offer amendments increasing their
recommended appropriations without
fair consideration of the needs.
Mrs. Norton to Lead.
A fight to rectify some of the ma jor
injustices in the "Blantonized" 1887
District appropriation bill was expected
to be started in the House today when
amendments to the measure are con-
sidered.
Efforts are to be made, it Is under
stood, to restore the Federal obliga-
ton toward the expenses of the Ma
tion's Capital to the $5,700.000 figure
appropriated for the current fiscal
year, and to increase a number of
(See SUPPLY BILL, Page s.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
NORWEGIAN FEARFUL
HIS LAND MAY JOIN WAR
Former Premier Charges Big Pow
ers Increase Danger and Urges
Scandinavian Stand.

By the Associated Press.
OSLO. Norway, March 5.-Dr. Johan
Ludwig Mowinckel, former premier of
Norway and former president of the
League of Nations Council, charged to-
day that the big powers were increas-
ing the danger of war. He said the
conditions under which Norway en-
tered the League of Nations we're bro
ken by the big powers armament and
secret treaties.
He made the statement in a vigor-
Gus debate in the Storting (Parlia-
ment) concerning Norway's obliga-
tions toward the League.
1T is doubtful" declared the vet
eran statesman, "as to whether Nor
way can continue her traditional neu-
trality and maintain her isolation If
war breaks out.
If there Is war, all Scandinavian
countries should issue q joint declara-
ton refusing to follow Europe's war
path"
Evening star., 1936-03-05
STRIKE SPREAD ORDERED.
Bambrick Prepares to Call Out Areas
Not Yet Affected.

NEW YORK, March S (P).-Carry-
ing out his promise of fight to the
finish following unsuccessful peace
negotiations, James j. Bambrick, leader
Of the building workers strike, today
ordered his district lieutenants to pre-
pare to call out employees in three Sec
tions of the city, one of them the big
midtown Office building area.
In the midtown or Grand Central
district are located some of the city's
largest skyscrapers, notably Rookie
feller Center, the Empire State Build
ing and the Chrysler Tower.
Orders for the strike call also went
out to field operatives in two other
sectors as yet unaffected by the walk
out-Harlem and Washington Heights.
Tomorrow, Bambrick declared. the
strike zone would be extended to
Brooklyn and Queens He added that
he had been notified by officials of
the hotel employees union that work.
ers in some of the city's largest hos
telries would join the walkout to-
morrow
Decline to Arbitrate.
Earlier real estate owners, through
representatives, declined to arbitrate
on the closed shop issue, one of three
demands the union is making.
To the realty interest. Mayor La
Guardia, who has strenuously sought
Q settlement of the strike, said:
II want to appeal to the real estate
interests to consider this offer
THE minute the arbitration offer is
accepted the union will call off the
strike and go back to work. I cannot
see how any reasonable persons can
reject any such offer"
THE union is prepared to carry this
fight to finish,' Bambrick said. I'VE
will now redouble our efforts.
THE unions offer to arbitrate was
rejected. The union. in the interest
of the general public, offered to take
the entire matter, involving points of
dispute, and send it to an arbi-
traitor =
IF the real estate industry will ac-
cept that offer, we are confident that
the various banks and the principal
real estate owners will Immediately see
the fairness of the offer. If they will,
in the interest of the general public.
accept our offer at arbitration, we will
Immediately call off the strike"
Operators Stand Fast.
So far as real estate operators are
concerned, negotiations are at an end,
said Walter Gordon Merritt, counsel
to the Realty Advisory Board on Labor
Relations.
He said the board would not con-
slider arbitration of any sort, and in
reply to the mayors appeal declared:
IF he wants us to go down to City
Hall again, We will naturally have
to CO."
Commenting upon the unsuccessful
parley which broke down early this
(See STRIKE, Page A.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
ENGAGEMENT REPORT
is DENIED BY MRS. SABlN
"Unfounded and Untrue" Social
Leader Says of Dispatch She
Would Wed Davis.

Unauthorized and unfounded" was
the declaration made today by Mrs
Charles H. Sabin, prominent social
leader. in answer to press dispatches
of yesterday announcing her engage
ment to Mr.. Dwight w. Davis.
The purported engagement was first
announced by New York newspaper,
but was almost as quickly denied by
Mrs. Sabin, who at present is residing
In Washington.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
MOVE TO OVERRIDE SEED
LOAN VETO DEFEATED
Senate Agriculture Committee
Asks $50, 900, 900 From Relief
Funds for Farmers.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate Agriculture Committee
rejected motion today by Chairman
Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina
to report President Roosevelt's veto
of the $50000,000 seed-loan bill to
the Senate for a vote to override
The vote was to 8.
The committee adopted substitute
proposal that the President be re-
quested to make Immediately avail
able $30,000,000 in emergency re-
lief funds for 1896 seed loans to
farmers. This motion carried by an
8-to-1 vote.
Mr.. Roosevelt has said 10000, 600
would be allotted, but so far has
allowed only $7,000.000.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
u. S. Buys Ne,u Canadian Siluer;
Whole Output May Be Absorbed

cent an ounce higher than that quoted
in New York.
The Secretary said it was per
fectly possible" that similar arrange
ments might be negotiated with South
American silver-producing countries.
This Government now has an ar
rangement with Mexico to purchase
that republics entire output Of the
newly mined metal.
The buying Is done IN pursuance Of
the silver purchase act requirement
that Treasury stocks Of the metal be
built up to one-third those Of gold
or until the price reaches Sl.2s IN
ounce-the coinage value.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
TWO CHILDREN BURNED

WAvERLY, Tenn, March S B.--
Two Children month-old girl and
2-year-old boy-were burned to
death last night when fire destroyed
their farm home 12 miles west Of here.
Their mother. Mrs. Walter Mccoy,
was visiting at . nearby neighbor,s
house when the house caught IRE
from an undetermined source. She
rushed back, but the terrific heat pre-
vented her from entering the build
ing, where the babies had been left
asleep In their beds.
Evening star., 1936-03-05

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, March 5.-Emperor Hiro-
hito charged Foreign Minister Koki
Hirota today with the task of at
tempting to form new cabinet to
liquidate Japan's governmental crisis
precipitated by last weeks militarist
attack on the Okada ministry.
The foreign minister was sum-
moned to the palace this afternoon
after the elder statesman, Prince
Saionji, was received by the Emperor
IN an audience and recommended that
Hirota be named to head a govern
ment to replace that of Premier Kei-
suke Okada.
Hirota's efforts to form a cabinet
progressed rapidly and at 10 pm. he
announced that cabinet posts were
nearly half filled as follows: Premier
Koki Hirota; foreign affairs, Shigeru
Yoshida; navy, Osmai Nagano; war
Count Juichi Terauchi: finance, Eiichi
Baba. president of the Hypothec Bank
and justice, Naoshi Obara.
New Privy Seal Keeper.
Outside the cabinet. Kurahei Yuasa
was named to succeed the late Wis.,
count Admiral Makoto Saito, assas-
sinated last week, as lord keeper OF
the privy seal. Tsuneo Matsudaira
was named minister of the imperial
household to succeed Yuasa.
The father of the new war minister
Terauchi, was the late famous field
marshal, Count Masakata Terauchi
the first japanese governor general OF
Korea, war minister in four cabinets
and premier from 1916 to 1918.
Earlier, Prince Saionji had con-
ferred with Admiral Mineo Osumi,
minister of the navy, and Gen. Yoshi-
yuki KaWashima, minister of war,
presumably seeking the views of the
army and navy concerning appoint
ment of Hirota to the premiership.
The foreign minister asked the EN-
peror for time to reply to the COM
mand that he seek a ministry, and
left the palace. He was the En-
peror's second choice, Prince Fumi-
marc Konoye having declined the re-
sponsibility Of the premiership on
grounds of i'll health.
Selection Surprise.
Hirota was distinctly surprise
selection, not having been mentioned
previously in speculation over the
premiership.
Although he has sometimes opposed
expansionist plans of extreme mill
tarists, Hirota has been popular with
the majority Of army and navy ele-
ments, and the. strong statement OF
foreign policy he made to the Parlia-
ment January 81 strengthened these
ties.
Moreover, his youthful connections
with patriotic societies apparently
made him acceptable to powerful
Right wing groups. Hirota, as for
eign minister in the Okada ministry,
which continues in office until a new
/Coo TApAN pace A
Evening star., 1936-03-05
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Morgenthau said today his
agreement to buy newly mined
Canadian silver through the Bank
of Canada was expected to absorb
the Dominion,s entire output.
The production was estimated by
Treasury officials at about 10000, 900
ounces per year.
Morgenthau said the Treasury would
Ak the price to be paid for the metal
rather than to be governed by the
prevailing New York price. The
Treasury figure Is about one-fourth
Evening star., 1936-03-05
Consulate Refuses
Douglas Fairbanks
WeddingCeremony

BY the ASSoclated Press.
PARIS, March 5.-Attaches of the
United States consulate refused today
to marry Douglas Fairbanks, ST., movie
actor, and Lady Ashley, former act
resS.
The consulate officials told Fair
banks that they did not have the right
to perform the ceremony.
Previously French authorities had
refused to make an exception for Fair
banks and Lady Ashley to the French
laws governing marriages.
Friends Of Fairbanks said the actor
intended to try to get the ceremony
performed in some other European
country.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
BULLETIN

COPYRIGHT. 1896. by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 5.-A high gov
ernment official said today that
Germany and italy are seriously
considering denunciation of the
Locarne pact on the ground that
1t had been violated by the other
contracting parties.
This source said that interna-
tional developments next week will
determine whether they will make
an actual joint denunciation. and
If so what consequences they will
draw from their announcement.
The Locarno pact. a series Of
seven treaties signed in 1925, guar
antees the safety of Western Eu-
rope and provides for mutual as
sistance by the signing parties
against aggression. Parties to 1t
are Germany. Great Britain,
France. Belgium, Italy, Poland and
Czechoslovakia.
Evening star., 1936-03-05

Treasury Undersecretaryship Not
to Be Filled at Present.
BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Morgenthau said today
the post Of Undersecretary Of the
Treasury will remain vacant for an
indefinite period.
The Treasury head is planning to
leave Washington late this month,
simultaneous with the Presidents
planned fishing trip, for a short va
cation. He plans to visit Sea Island
Beach in Georgia.
Evening star., 1936-03-05

VIENNA, March R.-Viktor
Klima, a Nazi engineer, was sentenced
to five years imprisonment today when
found guilty Of attempting to blow up
a long-distance telephone exchange
and gas mains in q terroristic plot.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
CALL FOR TROOPS
SENT GOVERNOR IN.
NEW YORK STR|KE|
Gov. Lehman Refers Appeal
of Apartment DweIIers to
Police Commissioner.
SPREAD TO MIDTOWN
AREA is IN PREPARATION
Bambrick Declares Zone Will Be
Extended to Brooklyn and
Queens Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.


ALBANY, N. Y, March 5-About
a dozen appeals for National Guard or
increased police protection have been
telegraphed to Gov. Herbert H. Leh-
man by apartment dwellers and real
estate owners involved in the building
service employees strike in New York
City, the Governors Office reported
today.
Lehman referred the requests for
further police protection to New York
City's police commissioner, Lewis j.
Valentine, his secretary, Walter T..
Brown, said.
Brown did not disclose names OF
any of the persons appealing to the
Governor.
STRIKE SPREAD ORDERED.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
H|R0TA, WAR FOE,
CALLED TO FORM
CABINET IN JAPAN
Foreign Minister Is Recon-
mended to Emperor by
Prince Saionji.
BACKGROUND

BACkCROCND-
Modern Japan faced its great
est crisis last Wednesday tphen
1000 Army insurgents, striking
quietly before daybredk. killed
three government officials to "re-
mope corrupt influences from
around the throne" Premier
Okada, at first believed slain Nth
the others, escaped when the as
sassins shot his brother -in-law
by mistake.
The uprising gre,o out OF in,pa-
tience OF young militarists with
relatively conservative policies OF
the elder statesmen. Selection OF
Foreign Minister Hirota to form
nep cabinet vie,oed as concession
to demands for naUal equality and
more aggressive policy on Asiatic
mainland.