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Evening star., 1936-01-07
OIL BAN BY FEB. |
RUMORED IN PARIS
British General Staff Is Re.
ported Pressing for New
Sanctions.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS. January THE British
general staff was reported unoflcially
today to be pressing for application
of an oil embargo against Italy, hold
ing that the Fascist warfare in Ethi-
opia must be halted at any cost.
A probability of addition of this
penalty to the present sanctions
against Italy by the League of Ma
tions before February l was foreSeen
in diplomatic circles.
A spokesman for these quarters,
however, voiced hope that Italy would
come to terms before such a result
could arise from the mid-January
meeting of the League Council.
Nine. Genevieve Tabouis, informed
French commentator. asserted in the
newspaper L'Oeuvre that the British
general staff backed the proposal for
an oil embargo-which some Italian
sources have said might spread the
East African strife to Europe-oe-
cause:
l. If the Italians were badly beaten
(See WAR, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-01-07
FIRST SUPPLY BILL
Of 81 IS REPORTED
Independent Offices Meas
ure Totals SS79,743,0OO.
Estimates Cut.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Carrying a total of 1919. .743.905, the
independent Offices appropriation bill,
the first of the big supply measures
which provides support for two dozen
Government activities during the fiscal
year 1887, was reported to the House
today.
The amount is SAT COL .861 less than
the estimates. The committee. how
ever. has authorized the use of unex-
pended balances of former appropria-
tions and in this way has provided the
full amount of the budget recon-
mendations except in one instance.
That is in the case of employees COM
pensa ton benefits to enrollees of the
Civilian Conservation Corps, where a
reduction of $25O,O0O was made IT.
view of the contemplated reduction in
numbers
Through the use of unexpended bal
ances the committee has, without in
creaSing the budget, provided in
creased funds for three activities:
An increase of $1,000 for the Ma
tionai Mediation Board for salaries
(See APPROPRIATIONS, Page ST.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
BY WILLIAM S. TARVER.

One hundred and thirty-f1ve of the
Nations major railroads joined today
in a District Supreme Court suit to
test the constitutionality of the 1885
railroad pension legislation.
Affiliated with the railroads in the
suit, which asked a permanent in
junction against operation of the two
laws by which the last Congress
sought to correct flaws in the uncon
stltutional railroad retirement act of
1884, were the Pullman Co., the Rail-
road Express Agency and the South
eastern Express Co.
Expressing the hope the case will
be decided on its merits before March
/, the effective date of the new law,
counsel for the railroads refrained
from asking for temporary restrain
ing order or injunction.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
BY REX COLLIER.

Although conceding ''the love If
money is the root of all evil" j. p.
Morgan, international financier, bull
warked by an impressive corps OF
associates. told the Senate Munitions
Committee today that Germany's
ruthless submarine warfare-nOt Nor
gan's money-was to blame for Amer
ica entry into the World War.
Appearing in a spectator packed
caucus room in the Senate Off1ce
Building. the portly banker. with one
of his partners. Thomas w. Lamont.
and former fellow banker. Frank
A. Vanderlip, skillfully parried bar
rage OF questions from Chairman
Ny. intended to expose financial
reasons" for the great conflict.
Further Statements Ruled Out.
A smoothly functioning publicity
organization kept correspondents sup
piled with Morgan's view Of the sub
ject under investigation, and when
Morgan himself read carefully pre-
pared printed folder which he termed
personal statement to the COM
mittee. Senator Clark, Democrat, Of
Missouri objected to what he termed
stump speeches"
On the theory that Morgan has sue
ceeded in getting before the committee
an irrelevant" defense of his actions
in the World War, the committee ruled
against reading any further state
ments unless previously examined by
the members.
Morgan at Ease on Stand.
Morgan appeared completely at ease
as he made his second appearance
before the Senate committee. His
debut in this respect was before the
Senate Banking Committee in 1888.
when he won front-page Photographic
prominence by posing with a circus
midget on his knee during a COM
mittee recess.
With a view to avoiding circus
atmosphere today, Nye cleared the
hearing room of photographers after
permitting them brief session behind
/ the committee table as Morgan. La
mont and Vanderlip swQre to tell the
| truth.
| QulLLCu dUUul ali docVl lloll lAl AAl
prepared statement to the effect that
| he agreed during the early days OF
| the war, to assist the allies with every
/ lawful means, Morgan denied this was
in conflict to President wilson's neu'
trality policy.
Morgan admitted that the Paris
/ firm of Morgan. Harjes & Co. was
naturally mpathetic" to France.
The banker insisted repeatedly,
/ however, that his firm always had
adhered rigidly to the American Cow
ernment's neutrality program.
Vandenberg Voices Challenge.
Doesn't Mr.. Morgan's statement
| about being willing to help the allies
win the war show that the Morgan
company had no neutrality?" inquired
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, oi
Michigan.
Lamont volunteered that his firm
might not have been entirely neutral
lin thought
Nor in action" Vandenberg sug.
gested
Lamont reiterated that his firm had
always 0bided by neutrality policies
and laws.
Vandenberg asked if money, having
the power to purchase materials oi
(see MUNITIONS, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-01-07
SUBSTITUTE MEASURES. WEIGHED
TO SUPPLANT OUTLAWED A. A. A.;
ENTIRE NEW DEAL is JEOPARDIZED
1876 Railroads Join IN Suit
Attacking Pension Legislation
Pullman and Express Companies Affili-
ated in Action to Test Constitution
ality-Permanent In junction Asked.

The suit attacked the new legisla-
ton on substantially the same grounds
as were advanced in the District Su-
preme Court and the United States
Supreme Court against the old rail-
road retirement act
The first years payment by the
railroads under the law, it was stated,
would be S58,O0O,0Oo. but by 1860 the
tax would have increased to S269, ,000,-
600.
The railroad retirement act OF 1884
based on the commerce clause of the
Constitution. was declared unconsti-
tutional by the Supreme Court in
May of last year.
Congress rushed through two sub
Stitute laws designed to meet the lack
of power under the commerce clause.
One act provided an excise tax on the
(See RAILROADS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1936-01-07
3 POLICEMEN KILLED
IN STRIKE RIOTING
Worker Also Is Slain in Gun
Fights in Buenos Aires
Disorders.
By the Associated Press.


BUENOS AIRES, January T.
Three policemen and a striker were
killed today in disorders attendant
upon an attempted general strike in
which street cars and busses were
burned and strikers engaged police in
gun fights.
The four were killed in a gun fight
in the suburb of Villa Urquiza when
strikers attempted to halt trans and
omnibusses.
Another policeman, bus conductor
and several strikers were wounded.
Passengers on one street car were in
jured when the strikers fired it and
several other cars and busses were
burned.
Independent bus drivers. participat-
ing in the 24-hour strike called in
sympathy with some 10000 stone
masons who have been holding out for
three months, attacked non-striking
employees of the large British h-owned
tram and bus lines.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
POLICE PRESS HUNT
FOR KIDNAPPED BABY
Demented Woman Fails to Reveal
if She Threw Boy
Into River.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January Police
officials grimly persisted today in a
theory that 10-month- Jackie
Horowitz was abducted by demented
woman and that she pushed him into
the East River to drown.
The incoherent babblings of Gussie
Friedman, As, failed. however, to solve
the mystery. and the police were un-
able to prove that little Jackie is dead.
Policemen, dragging the river, did
not find the body of the child, but
even the distracted parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Horowitz, had about given up
hope that Jackie might still be found
alive.
The child disappeared Sunday to-
gether with the baby carriage in
which he had been left on an East
Side sidewalk.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
Security Law
Fears Are
Expressed.
WHITE HOUSE
STILL SILENT
Cry to Change Con
stitutiOn Raised
Anew.

(Copyrieht 1896, by the Associated Press.l
A belief that much more of the New
Deal is as good as dead gripped many
of its strongest supporters today as
they studied with dismay the Supreme
Court decision which wiped out A. A. A
as completely as N. r. A.
With the Capital in confusion, the
vast A. A. A. farm control machinery
ground to full stop. The flow of cash
to farmers. which has totaled $1.127,-
600 900. halted. Salaries of $500 full
time A. A. A. employees and many
part time workers were cut off. Col
lection of processing taxes stopped.
Several Republicans hailed the de-
cision calling it an opportunity for
their party to return the country TO
constitutional government"
Security Fears Expressed.
Most New Deal leaders reserved
comment for the time. But Senator
Byrnes. Democrat. of South Carolina,
one Of the highest in New Deal coun-
cils. expressed conviction that the
court as now constituted would kill
the vast social security program, pride
of President Roosevelt.
Another high Democratic Senator,
who preferred to remain anonymous,
said the courts attitude spelled in
valuation for the Guffey coal control
and Wagner labor relations law.
There was even talk among New
Dealers that the $4,000. 100000 work
relief program. which like the social
security law has not been challenged
in the courts, would go "out the win
dow"
Other major laws. not tagged New
Deal legislation" also fell under the
shadow of doubt. Senator Bankhead,
Democrat of Alabama. assailing the
A. A. A. decision as poor law" ex-
pressed belief the court would also
rule his cotton control law invalid.
Democrats and Republicans assumed
that such crop control measures as
the Warren potato act and the Kerr
Smith tobacco bill. would be ruled un-
constitutional The railroad pension
oNt liitO AuCotAOil'
President Roosevelt was silent as
doom overlook or threatened much of
the program which, only last Friday,
he challenged his foes to try to re-
peal. A secretary said there would be
no comment for several days.
The Secretary took pains to point
out that there were two opinions to
be studied-the majority and the mi
nority.
The former. read by Justice Rob-
erts, declared in uncompromiSing
wordage that the whole farm admin
istration, it's processing taxes and
giant control system were an uncon-
stitutional invasion of States rights
"a scheme for purchasing with Fed
eral funds submission to Federal
regulation of a subject reserved to the
States"
Invades States Rights.
"The act" Justice Roberts said.
"invades the reserved rights of the
States. 1t is statutory plan to regu-
late and control agricultural produc-
ton, a matter beyond the powers dele
gated to the Federal Government. The
tax, the appropriation of the funds
raised, and the direction for their
disbursement are but parts of the
plan. They are but means to an un-
constitutional end"
The dissent, read by Justice Stone,
disputed this view-saying, Courts
(See NEW DEAL, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1936-01-07
AUSTRIAN LEADER HINTS
CABINET CHANGE LIKELY
Propa ganda Chief Intimates
Tighter Grip Needed by Fed
eral Government.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated ereSS.
SALZBURG. Austria. January T.
Federal Propaganda Chief Walter
Adam dropped an intimation in an
address today that another Austrian
government reconstruction soon may
be necessary.
The Catholic teachers whom Adam
addressed gathered an impression
that a still greater concentration of
authority was believed essential to
overcome opposition of Austrian Nazis
and outlawed Socialists to the govern
ment.
Adams hints of cabinet changes
gave renewed stimulus to rumors that
Chancellor Kurt SchuSchnigg was
weary of his responsibility.
Another report, however, was that
Schuschnigg was willing to continue
as chancellor if given greater author
ity. and that in this connection he
was considering taking over the min
istery of foreign affairs.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
DRIFTS BALk EFFORT
TO RESCUE MINERS
Families Marooned by Snow
Without Food-C. C. C. Men
90 Miles From Goal.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. January Z
Stubborn snowdrifts baked effort
today to reach a remote Wyoming
ranch house with food for II maroonet
coal miners and their families. snow
bound three days ago with meage
supplies.
A rescue party of C. C. c. worker
struggled over snow-piled trails with
a heavy tractor. once completely COW
cred by a snowslide. Still 20 mile.
away the tractor chugged at a snail'
pace through drifts that slowed prog
ress to one mile for every 10 gallon
of gasoline.
A threatened blizzard prevented a
least temporarily an attempt to Fl,
food to the ranch.
Subzero cold and the impending
storm added to the difficulties of th'
ground party. Norman Gonzales. O
c. C. camp educational director, ex'
pressed doubt the ranch could b
reached today or tomorrow.
The marooned miners and thef
families trapped by the storm at theI
mining camp high in the Wyominl
National Forest, fought their wal
through 10 miles of deep snow u
reach the ranch shelter.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
A. A. A. EMPLOYEES
ARE IN QUANDARy
Nearly 5000 Here Awaiting
Decision Over Pay and
Jobs Future.
BY J. A. FOX.

With officials deep in conferences
trying to chart their future course,
employees of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration came back to
their desks today. slightly bewildered
by the sudden turn that threatens to
throw them into the ranks of the job
less. They were not even certain that
they still are on the pay roll.
Approximately $500 workers here
and 700 in the field were on the
anxious seat. with no one in a position
to do more than express belief that
the problem would be smoothed out.
At the office of Administrator Ches-
ter c. Davis conference that lasted
until midnight last night, was re-
sumed after breakfast today, but pro-
duced no information.
Everybody is human-something
arded. That was as far as any one
went.
Funds Are Studied.
At the Treasury the legal depart
ment was studying the Supreme Court
decision that toppled the ambitious
farm aid structure in an effort to de-
termine just what funds may be avail
able for the payment of expenses
There had been report that formal
notice had been served that no salary
payments would be made on January
Is, but this was denied. There has
been no decision on this point, it was
emphasized.
The Treasury itself has a large
group of employees involved in the de-
cision. these being members of the
staff of the Bureau of Internal Reve-
nue. who are identified with processing
tax collections.
McCarI Ruling May Be Sought.
At the A. A. A. it was said some-
thing would have to be done quickly.
as it is nearing time to begin prepa-
ration of the midmonth pay roll. {:
was thought possible that an early
submission would be made to Con-
troller General McCarl, as to the
800 A A J0PS Paoe 4l
Evening star., 1936-01-07
Wallace Calls
Farm Leader
Farley.
BILL REVIVED
BY McNARY
Congress Gears Up
to Act-Long
Session Seen.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Drought. jobleSS millions unable
to buy food, loss OF foreign markets
had made the farmers lot hapleSS
By May, 1888. Lou prices led to
burning crops and farmer strikes.
The NeW Deal hit on the A. A. A.
as means OF restoring the price
leUel, preventing SurpluSeS and re-
harding the farmer through funds
raised by a tar on processing his
product, rather than through
straight subsidy doled from the
Treasury. Professors at once made
loud objection to the tar. and yes
terddy that tar proved the undo
ing OF the UGSt program. The Su-
preme Court held that neither the
Secretary OF Agriculture nor Con-
oresS could FIR lepy on manu-
tactured commodities for the bene-
fit OF one group.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
Of P. WA.
UP TO CONGRESS
Staff Kept Intact to Finish
Present Jobs and Pending
New Legislation.
BY NELSON SHEPARD

It's activities restricted by the budg-
ct to completion of projects already
begun, the future of the Public Works
Administration, one of the principal
New Deal emergency agencies, today
hinged largely on the possibility of
new legislation in Congress.
There is no fear of any immediate
or early reduction in p w AS huge
Washington staff as a result of the
budget situation. it was declared by
officials speaking in the absence of
Secretary Ickes. who is on an official
trip to Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands. Completion of projects al
ready scheduled. including several
thousand Federal construction projects
and nearly $50 housing projects. will
keep P w. A. running at top speed
for the greater part Of the year, it was
asserted.
Secretary Ickes. it was said. antici-
pated before he left Washington last
week that new estimates for P. w. A.
and relief would be omitted from the
budget, due to the uncertainty of fu-
ture needs. The Presidents recon-
mendations for appropriation of s4O5.-
000.000 for additional public works,
confines these expenditures to specific
projects. as well as to specific de-
partments.
May Seek Permanent p. w. A.
Omission from the budget of any
recommendations for new loans and
grants from P. w. A. to cities and
States for building projects and the
omission also Of new money for P.
w. A. housing projects it was figured,
would result in introduction of bills
seeking to establish p w. A. on a per-
manent basis.
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, who has consulted frequently
with Ickes on housing legislation. is
preparing to introduce his proposed
bill to create a permanent housing
administration, with an appropriation
that may reach $1,000, 100000 Ickes
has publicly Endorsed the bill and
hopes to see it enacted. Representa-
tive Better of New York already has
introduced bill in the House author
izing $700,000,000 for p w. A. con-
Struction.
If the Presidents budget recommen-
dations aye carried out there will be
(See P. w. A., Page A-4)
Evening star., 1936-01-07
MORGAN DECLARES
GERMANY FORCED
j. S. TO ENTER WAR
TeStifieS His Firm Assisted
Allies, but Favored Neu-
traIity at Home.
LAMONT AND VANDERBILT
ALSO QUIZZED BY NYE
Reading of Statement Criticized
by Senator Clark as Stump
Speech"

BACKGROUND
Senator Nye and his tellow mu-
nitions investigators hope reueld-
tionS about Morgan tUQr loans uiH
prompt demand tor passage Of
Nye-Clark neutrality bill. more
drastic a "peGce-at-any-p price"
measure than the administration
proposal. For eight months Nye's
men hare been searching Morgan
and State Department files TO build
up the Munitions Committee case
Diplomatic supervision attended
reading OF some State Department
records after British and French
governments objected Before
American entrance into World War
Morgan e. Co acted as American
agents for Anglo-French purchases.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January Hog farm
ers, stripped of the production con-
troll and benefit payment program by
the Supreme Courts invalidation of
the A. A. A., today witnessed one Of
the most spectacular market price
rises within the memory of veteran
live stock men.
The big Chicago market was COM
pletely disrupted. Trading for time
was virtually at standstill. Some
commission agents, representing pro-
ducers. demanded that the full $2.25
per hundredweight processing tax
voided by the court be added to the
market price. \
Evening star., 1936-01-07
Hog Prices Soar as Tax Ends,
Cotton Futures Break Sharply

In the confusion a few sales were
put through at so to go cents higher
tina Monday. The early top scared
to s10.25, representing gain OF 70
cents per hundredweight since the
courts decision.
Conservative buyers were out of the
market. With asking prices all out
of line, most big packers who had
moderate hog supplies direct, decided
to ride out the squirt in sellers de-
mands and await a return to the
normal supply and demand status.
Other livestock markets reflected
the sharp advance. The upturn at
(see MARKETS, Page1p.)
Evening star., 1936-01-07
Utilities Leader Dead.

DULUTH, Mimi, January R.-
Alexander w. Hartman, II, leader
in the Minnesota utility field for a
half century, dieo here yesterday fol-
lowing q heart attack while playing
bridge with friends. He was vice
president of the Minnesota Power &
Light Co. ~
Evening star., 1936-01-07

Perry, night Vatchman at the apart
ment, out of testifying were made
during Perry's testimony. He testi
fed the two came to the apartment
two days after the arrest of Zioncheck
and that Bishop told him two police
men already have lost their jobs and
something will happen to you if you
come down and testify"
Zioncheck was arrested BY Officers
T A Brown and J. T. Ensor, eighth
precinct The officers testified they
tSee ZIONCHECK. Page p
Evening star., 1936-01-07
LINER DOCKS SAFELY
AFTER REPORTED SOS.
Another Ship, Drifting With
Rudder Damaged, Making Way

to Port in Wales.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January THE Cunard-
White Star liner Ausonia arrived
safely today at Essex.
An earlier dispatch from the Ex-
change Telegraph Agency had said
S o S messages we're picked up last
night at Brest, France. from the Au-
sonia. reporting she was in difficult
ties, and the S. S. Pearlmoor, signal
ing her rudder was damaged.
The Pearlmoor, a Ashton British
steamer of the Moor Line, sent out
an S. S from the Irish Sea Sunday
night, but Lloyd's received message
from harbor officials of Barry, Wales.
yesterday saying the vessel was due
there later.
Evening star., 1936-01-07
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Immediate new farm legislation was
the problem of the administration and
Congress today as an aftermath of
the sweeping 6-to-3 decision of the
Supreme Court holding the agricul-
tural adjustment act unconstitutional.
While the White House still with
held comment on the situate created
by the decision. Chairman Jones of
the House Agriculture Committee
issued statement which indicated
new law would be sought without
delay.
At the same time. with the N R A.
and the A. A. A.. two principal meas
ures of the New Deal, thrown out
of the window by the Supreme Court
and with the likelihood of other laws
going the same way, the question of
a constitutional amendment validating
the new deal idea pushed itself to
the fore.
Wait for Word.
Supporters of such a constitutional
amendment, amcng them Senator
CoStigan, Democrat, of Colorado were
only awaiting word from the White
House whether to go forward with
their plans.
Undoubtedly constitutional
amendment would take time. even if a
two-thirds majority of both houses
could be obtained to pass the resolu-
ton submitting such an amendment
to the States for ratification.
Demand for a constitutional amend
ment would take the whole issue
squarely into the approaching national
campaign.
Even if no such an amendment is
openly advocated by President Roose-
welt, the invalidating of the New Deal
laws undoubtedly will become a major
campaign issue, it was predicted to-
day.
Wallace Calls Leaders.
Meanwhile. Secretary Wallace issued
a call for farm leaders to confer with
him Friday and Saturday, with a view
TO shaping a program to replace the
A. A A
At the same time A. A. A. field Off
GERS were ordered to halt all activities.
4AACoc OIOClS d UIdk6 W
those yesterday stopping benefit pay
ments and tax collections. So far as
new adjustment programs-proposed
for 1886 and subsequent years-were
concerned, they might well never have
existed
Jones Cites Tariff.
The statement issued by Jones, in
dicating clearly that he is in favor of
attempting new legislation reviving
the A. A. A. in some form, was as fol-
lows:
Il cannot believe the Supreme Court
means to say that national tariff is
(See LINCOLN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-01-07
TRAFFIC TOLL FIVE

Man Hit by Street Car Dies in
Hospital.
The Districts traffic toll for the
new year reached five today-three
more than for a similar period last
year-when Charles Jackson, 38. col
ored, 1418 Sixth street, died in Gal
linger Hospital.
Jackson's skull was fractured yes
terday when struck by street car
at Eleventh and G streets. The car,
police said, was operated by Daniel F..
Hartnett, 715h Eighth street south
west.