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to debtors and creditor alike, and pre-
venting uncontrolled imitation or de-
fiation.
Z. Support the building of farmer
owned and armer-controlled cooper
atives as matter of sound national
policy.
Credit Facilities Urged.
8. Maintain ample rural credit IA
cilities. Transfer greater power to
cooperative associations and bor-
rowers. Provide crop insurance and
maintain interest rates at the lowest
possible level.
8. Center all land use problems in
the Department of Agriculture. We
oppose the transfer of the Forestry
Service to any other Department of
Government.
10. Consider consumer interest and
seek to expand consumption OF all
American-grown farm products.
The Grange program. which also is
to be submitted to the National Agri-
cultural Conference meeting tomorrow.
was accompanied by the following
statement:
I'VE do not agree with those who
believe that it is possible to revive
legislation that has been declared un-
constitutional simply by restating its
purpose. Neither do we support those
who hold that all corrective agricul-
tural legislation is doomed. The
Grange believes that we can under
the Constitution and recent decisions
of the Supreme Court provide work.
able program Of value"
As the administration worked on
its plans, it was confronted today by
q warning from the Senate Agricul-
ture Committee. A majority of the
committees members expressed the
belief in interviews that any program
for regulating crops in conjunction
with soil conservation would be un-
constitutional under the decision by
which the Supreme Court invalidated
A. A. A.
The interviews, however, disclosed
that strong sentiment for eurtailing
the Supreme Courts power to veto
legislation exists within that COM
mittee. which will handle any substi-
tute program.
Substitute Expected Shortly.
President Roosevelt said yesterday
he hoped to obtain a substitute for
the A. A. A. shortly. He did not 60
into detail.
Eleven of the eighteen members of
the Agriculture Committee. including
most of the ranking members, ex-
pressed the opinion, first voiced by Sen
ator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska,
that such a conservation-crop control
plan would be invalid under the courts
opinion.
Seven members expressed outright
or qualified support for the Norris
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proposal to curtail the courts power
to invalidate legislation, though they
did not agree on the method.
Most of the others felt that some
way to help agriculture could be found
within the constitutional limitations,
even as defined by the Supreme Court.
There was little agreement, however,
as to how it might be done.
Chairman Smith was one Of those
who supported the Norris idea that
the plan favored by the administra-
ton would be unconstitutional. He
took violent exception, however, to the
Nebraskan's proposal for curtailing
the courts powers.
The veteran South Carolinian con-
tended the farm problem could be
handled by State compacts, instead Of
through Federal legislation, together
with system of agricultural banks.
Smith suggested that the cotton
States could band together to control
the production of that commodity;
the wheat States to regulate that crop,
under the constitutional provision for
compacts between the States.
Those who agreed with Norris that
the plan now believed to be in the
making in administration circles
would not get around the Supreme
Courts opinion included, in addition
to Smith:
McNary, Republican leader of the
Senate: McGill. Democrat, of Kansas:
Schwellenbach, Democrat, of WASH
ington; Thomas, Democrat, Of Okla
homa; Murphy, Democrat, Of Iowa;
Bulow, Democrat. of South Dakota;
Frazier, Republican, of North Dakota;
Norbeck, Republican. of South Dakota,
and Pope, Democrat, of Idaho.
Agree With Norris.
Those agreeing with Norris on the
need for limiting the courts power
were Schwellenbach, Thomas. Frazier.
Norbeck and Pope. Senator McGill
said he also would agree If nothing
else could be worked out.
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DEATH TOLL ON lob
PUZZLES PROBERS|
Investigators Claim Number
Who Died of SiIicosis De-
fies Computation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GAULEY BRIDGE, w. Va, January
1S.-Two men who nave studied tne
building of the $l0,000,00O Hawks
Nest hydro-electric tunnel were OF the
opinion today the actual number OF
men who contracted the lung disease,
silicosis, on that job may never De
known.
George S. Couch, counsel for Rine-
hart e. Dennis of Charlottesville,
Va, the firm which built the giant
conversion tunnel through the noun
tains. said in Charleston:
After the contractors paid the
claims of a number of men who proved
they suffered the effects Of the disease,
everybody in Southern West Virginia
seemed to have silicosis. Nobody
on earth will ever know how many
persons contracted it."
Hearings to Be Held.
A subcommittee of the House of
Representatives Labor COMMITTEES in
Washington will hold hearings on a
resolution by Representative Marcan-
tonic, Republican. of New York, ask
ing an investigation.
Marcantonio declared ats men died
Of thew asting lung malady, caused
by breathing dust of silica sand, and
$500 others still are i'll.
William S. Wysong, member of the
State Legislature, who had the law
amended to make silicosis compensate
under the workmen's compensation
act, said a congressional committee
will have a hard time" finding out
haw many victims there were. He
asserted a legislative committee was
unable to do So
Finished Two Years Ago.
The tunnel was completed two years
ago for the New-Kanawha Power Co.
During the drilling the valuable
glass sand was discovered and it was
"mined" and saved for future use.
At Summersville, 81 miles away. H.
c. White, an undertaken, denied Mar
cantonios declaration that some OF
those who died were dumped into a
corn field"
He pointed to a little graveyard on
his fathers farm, and said that there
was no other place to bury them"
OF the 80 persons in the graves
marked by wooden markers-White
said none of the death certificates
gave silicosis as the cause of death,
although some listed pneumonia.
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Naval
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tonnage limitation; that offensive war
ships should be abolished or drastically
reduced. to assure non-aggression, and
that al. nations we're entitled to adjust
their own building programs.
A. Japanese spokesman asserted the
breakdown of the conference was due
mot to adamant opposition by the
japanese. but adamant opposition by
other delegations to japanese propo-
sitions."
1T is our earnest desire not to make
international feeling any worse" he
asserted.
Unless an atmosphere Of naval
competition is created by others, we
do not intend to start it."
An announcement that Soviet
Russia has appointed Capt. Antzigl
Chiaunski as naval attache to London
aroused speculation that Russia might
participate in future negotiations.
Capt. Chiaunski served as Soviet naval
expert at the Geneva Disarmament
Conference.
4No'oA CAPc1 10 VI oIlllSI news
papers emphasized that under the
circumstances, Britain must recon-
slider its stragetic position in the
Orient.
Speculation centering around the
future status of Britain's fortifca-
tions included the question of restora-
ton OF the Hongkong base. which has
not been improved for II years.
British observers also asserted
japanese withdrawal from the Naval
Conference would kill definitely any
possibility Of an Anglo-Japanese
understanding which had been re-
ported recently to have been dis
cussed informally.
CuANrEc nENyrr,r vrrnr
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JEFFRIES TO SPEAK

Commissioner Charles H. Jeffries
Of international headquarters of the
Salvation Army in London, England,
will speak at meeting at O'Clock
tonight in the Salvation Army Temple,
606 E street. Maj. James Asher,
divisional commander, will preside
The commissioner is accompanied
on his visit here by Lieut.. Commits
sioner Ernest I. Pugmire, commander
of the Southern territory, and mem
bers of his staff. During his so years
in the Salvation Army. Jeffries has
been in charge of work in the British
Isles and elsewhere.
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LAWYERS WIDOW
SUCCUMBS AT s.
Mrs. Mary A. P. Worthing-
ton Dies After Illness of
Several Months.

Mrs. Mary Arabella Piatt Worthing-
ton, IS, widow Of Richard T. WORTH
ington, died last night at her home,
1924 Morrison street. She had been
Ill several months.
A native of Mack-a-Cheek, Logan
County, Ohio, Mrs. Worthington was
q descendant of line Of American
pioneers, dating back to the Hugue-
nots. She was the daughter of the
late Gen. A. Sanders Piatt, who served
in the Union Army during the Civil
War. Her mother was the late Mrs.
Hannah Ann Piatt. She was a niece
of the late Col. Dom Piatt. at one
time editor Of the Washington Capital.
For the last 40 years Mrs. Worth
ington has been resident of this
city. Her husband was q grandson of
Thomas Worthington, at one time
Governor Of Ohio. The late Mr..
Worthington formerly practiced law
here and at one time was law clerk in
the Patent ONCE. Mrs. Worthington
was a member of the Dolly Madison
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution.
She is survived by three sons and
five daughters as follows:
James T. Worthington, Mrs. Anne
w. Newton, Mrs. Elizabeth w. Co.'S
tello and Mrs. A. j. Robertson, all of
Washington, D. c.; Sister Aureau of
the Order of Sisters of Charity, and
Eleanor Deb. Worthington. both of
Baltimore; Capt. A. Saunders Worth
ington, Falls Church, Va. and Lieut..
Jacques Piatt Worthington of Albu-
querque, N. Mex. Another son, the
late Julian G. Worthington, died dur
ing the World War.
Funeral services will be held in the
Church OF the Blessed Sacrament at 8
am. Friday, following brief services
at the residence.
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LANDING IN STREET

LOS ANGELES, January IS (P.-
A student aviator flying over Holly
wood made a forced landing yester-
day on a busy boulevard. lodged traf-
fic, careened through a vacant lot
and crashed into a parked motor
car.
The pilot, Robert Horn, 19, a junior
college student. received a broken
nose and facial bruises.
Horn was $500 feet above Holly
wood when his planes motor went
dead. He made a skillful landing in
the center of street as automo-
biles Scurried for the curb.
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of navalism. and that perhaps is where
sires to destroy militarism and at the
same time perpetuate navalism, when
the war has shown that of the two,
navalism might be made the more op-
pressive of the two branches Of mill
tary service. Under a liberal govern
ment. navalism or militarism would
not be a menace, but under a reac-
tionary government such as Great
Britain might have, it could be made
a serious menace to the happiness and
freedom of mankind"
Clark brought out that in a letter
to House on May 16, 1916, President
Wilson said America had come to "the
turning point" in her dispute with
Great Britain over interference with
neutral shipping.
British Course Criticized.
"1t seems to me that we should get
down to hard pan," Wilson wrote THE
at least temporary removal Of the
acute German question has concen-
trated attention here on the altogether
indefensible course Great Britain is
pursuing with regard to trade to and
from neutral ports and her quite in
tolerable interception Of mails on the
high seas carried by neutral ships"
Wilson said either America must
make a decided move for peace, or,
postponing that, must insist that Eng
land respect rights of neutrals.
In another letter on July %, 1916,
Wilson commented I'VE have cabled
Page (American Ambassador home
from London for vacation in which
it is our hope he may get back little
way at least to the American point
of view." The committee previously
had read letter from Lansing to
Wilson charging that Page was pro-
British.
Il am. I must admit" Wilson wrote
House, about at the end of my
patience with Great Britain and the
allies. This blacklist business is the
last straw. I have told Spring Rice
British Ambassador) so, and he sees
the reasons very clearly. Both he
and Jusserand French Ambassador
think it is a stupid blunder. am
seriously considering asking Congress
to authorize me to prohibit loans and
restrict expectations to the allies
1T is becoming clear to me that
there lies latent in this policy the
wi, to prevent our merchants get
ting a foothold in markets which
Great Britain has hitherto controlled
and all but dominated. Polk and
are compounding very sharp note
I may feel obliged to make it as sharp
and final as the one to Germany on
the submarines. What is your judg-
ment? Can We any longer endure
their intolerable course?
Correspondence Revealed.
The hearing yesterday afternoon
was devoted to testimony" by Sena-
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tor Clark regarding correspondence
some of 1t hitherto unpublished-in
official quarters Sover this country's
struggle to remain neut pl in the
early days of the World War.
A letter from James w. Gerard,
then Ambassador to Germany, to Sec
retary of State Lansing declared Ger
many was about ready to halt the
sinking of merchant ships without
warning in 1915, but German authori-
ties became convinced the United
States had a secret agreement with
Great Britain, and, therefore. de-
cided to 60 ahead with their unre-
stricted submarine warfare.
Gerard advised Lansing he thought
Germany was about to offer to sink
no merchant ships without notice and
putting crews. etc., in safety. II Eng
land would disarm merchant ships,
but now, since the Presidents letter
to Stone, both the chancellor and
Won Jagow say they are convinced
that America has secret under
standing with England and nothing
can be arranged"
Wilson Letter to Stone.
The reference apparently was to a
letter President Wilson had written
to Senator Stone Of Missouri, then
chairman of the Senate Foreign Re-
latiois Committee, at time when
Wilson told friends he was concerned
over Senator Stones opposition to ad-
ministration policies in connection
with the European war.
Other documents told Of Germany's
protests to the United States over al
legged preferential treatment accorded
Great Britain in permitting American
manufacturers, through the agency Of
j. p. Morgan g. Co.. to sell munitions
and other war supplies to England and
France.
In a letter to Lansing, President
Wilson on December 81, 1915, wrote:
Stone clearly indicated that he
thought we were bearing too severely
on the Teutonic allies and were not
pressing Great Britain as strongly as
We should in insisting upon our trade
rights. I'hope you will find it pos
sible as soon as you return to Wash
ington to ask Senator Stone to come
and see If something cannot be done
to change his attitude. as 1t will
otherwise make the situation one
which will be hard to handle"
Wilson replied: This is indeed not
little disturbing, but think it
comes from other quarters than the
Senator's own personal thinking. : . .
I shall have a talk with the Senator
at the earliest possible moment after
my return and shall try my best to
make the situation as whole so clear
to him that he will take our view
OF it."
Senator Clark commented during
the reading of numerous letters re-
garding our course Of neutrality that
apparently the United States never
took seriously Great Britain's inter-
ference with our neutral trade. and
that protests made by our Govarn-
ment about seizures and searches
were deliberately verbose" and in
sincere.
A stern letter from Count Won
Bernstorff. German Ambassador, to
Secretary Of State Bryan asserted
that in view of Americas lenient at
titude toward Great Britain, "the i'm
perial embassy must, therefore. as
sumo that the United States Gov
ernment acquiesces in violations Of
international law by Great Britain"
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SCHOOL EXPERT HERE

DR.. Harl r. Douglass, professor OF
education at the University Of Mime
sofa, has come to Washington to aid
the American Youth Commission,
American Council on Education. in a
study designed to redirect high school
goals and courses.
DR.. Douglass is a specialist in Sec
ondary education, and has written
several books in that field. DR.. Doug
lass was accompanied to Washington
oy Mrs. Douglass and their two daugh-
ters. who are making their home at
the Hotel Roosevelt.
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CHANGES DENIED HERE.
Status Quo to Be Maintained by Pa.
cific Fleet.
Bv the Associated Press.

cific Fleet.
Bv the Associated Press.
An official Navy Department spokes-
man said last night that the Navy has
no new plans for changing the status
quo in the Pacific provided in the
Washington naval limitations treaty,
which expires next December 81.
This statement was made with ref
erence to published reports covering a
Pacific naval base program for Ameri-
can possessions involving Guam, Wake,
Midway and the Aleutian Islands.
The official said a sizable naval
station had been maintained for years
at Guam and still is in operation
under the terms of the treaty.
It was stated that until the treaty
expires no consideration would be
given to any possible alteration in the
present status quo, which prohibits
fortification and establishment of new
naval bases.
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Keech to Address Alumni.

Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman
of the Public Utilities Commission,
will address meeting of the Alumni
Association of the Washington College
of Law at the college at pm. to-
morrow,
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Of Gauy Bridge, W. Va, whose family Is
while working
deaths adopted and her only
hospital.
Palmer who made preliminary investigation of the
Republican,
bringing Committee
Palmer hundreds have died others
stricken"
of 169 tunnel
had destroyed all relating the bodies buried the
belongs Harris Ewing Photos.
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House Diary Excerpt.
STEAMSHIPS,

MEDiTERRANEAN and an Eurspe-De
Luxe service on famous express liners via
the smooth Southern Route
ITALIAN LINE. GA 9Th Ava, New YSkk.
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Townsend
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for the movement, centered on the is
sue of placing Townsend party can
didates in the coming presidential,
congressional and State elections.
Aiming at establishment Of an ac-
tual third party, the Townsendites all
ready are making plans for advanc-
ing a slate Of candidates In the Cali
fornia primaries in May. Sheridan
Downey, Sinclair candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor of California, has been
reported as political manager in that
State and may emerge as one of the
party candidates.
It was this course of action that
was condemned yesterday by Repre-
sentative McGroarty, CALIFORNIA; 73-
year -old poet laureate, who has
served as No. / man for the program
at the Capitol.
"The Townsend strategy had been
agreed upon as supporting regular
party candidates who announce them
selves In favor of the old-age re-
volving pension scheme" McGroarty
said. ANY action in placing third
party candidates in the election race
will make the whole movement po-
litical and sound its death knell. It
Is ill-advised and suicidal No surer
way exists for breaking up the whole
Active Opposition.
In addition to expressing this opin-
ion openly to DR.. Townsend and thus
forcing q clean break on that major
issue, Representative McGroarty also
has said he will actively oppose
Townsend's political plan by per-
sonally advising Townsend clubs In
California against supporting third
party slate.
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Stain has his G.P.U. (secret DO
lice) operating in America, and
such warning as keeping a
healthy distance from American
workers" is no idle threat.
Last year, while my articles
were being published, I was visited
in New York by three men, all
Communists. Two of the group
were Of the bruiser type, the third
was perhaps a student. They eau
toned me:
ut will not be healthy for you
to remain in this country"
Since then. I have had several
unmiStakable signs that the
Stalinists would be only too glad
to have me delivered to the North
Carolina police, those capitalist
police which they are fighting
all the time in the name of COM
munism.
But I have an unfaltering faith
in the intelligence, loyalty and
humanity of the American worker.
This Is the first of a series of
articles by Fred E. BeGU.
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reader should be made acquainted
with the circumstances which led
to my present report.
I had lived and worked in So
Wet Russia for three years. I went
there as a fugitive from North
Carolina where had been active
as the leader Of strike in Gas
tonia.
Series OF Articles
About a year ago I published a
series of articles exposing the
slavery and tyranny of the Stain
list system. I am still a fugitive,
with a 20-year sentence hanging
over my head. What part of the
world 1 am in must be my secret.
My articles of year ago Gre
ated a stir among all classes Of
people. AS was to be expected,
the Stalinists in this country at
tackled me viciously.
Many Of the Communist fanat-
les, who dream Of the day when
Stain will raise the red flag over
the White House, and when the
rivers of our land will choke with
the bodies of unbelieverS, would
not admit that I was telling the
truth.
And the Pinks, who deliver
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FRED BEAL (bottom whose second series of articles
the dsusionng of American workers in Russia begins
today At top typical group of red pilgrims the steam
ship York. sailing to Russia in May 1881 Virtually oil
back in this country and glad of it. Morris Leshay num
Der y had bury with his hands his father (number
p in the land which they expected to be Utopia but which
proved to be country of misery for the worker Interna
tonal News Photos.
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KILLINGS
BLAMED ON
PR0WLER
D.C.TnvestigatorScoffs
at Theory Mother
Slew Babies, Self

PITTSBURGH, June 20 Q.N.S).
Eleanor Feely, 80, and her two
children, Robert, 5, and Janice, 3,
were murdered probably by
prowler. B. ]. Creel, Washington
ID. c. criminologiSt, asserted last
night before he left for Columbus,
Ohio, on a personal business mis-
sion, police revealed today.
Creel, called into the investiga-
ton by Martin j. Feely, husband
and father of the victims, to dis
prove the theory of local investi.
gators that his wife killed the chill.
dren and herself, probed the cir.
cumStanceS of the mystery three
days. He maintained:
II believe it is not only psy-
chOlOgically, but physically, i'm.
pOSsibl, for Mrs. Feely to have
strangled her two lovely children
into insenSibility, pierced their
temples with an ice pick and
then end her own life."
"The crime is one without
reason, absolutely senseIeSS. The
motives usually found are lack
ing. We have had crimes Of this
kind before and in almost every
instance they have been laid to
prOwler who strikes in one
place, fleeS, and may turn I'D
again in a similar crime"