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A-4 HOOVER CALLS ill ON APPROPRIATIONS 'Congressional Leaders Are ! Asked to Stick to Economy [ Program and the Budget. ' f Continued From First Page ) “Increased civil aervlce pensions, $20,- 000.000. "Increase in civil aervlce pay, SIOO,- ©OO.OOO. “Education, $100,000,000. “Total $1,735 000,000. Income la About 4 Billions. "The present Federal Income is ap proximately $4,000,000,000 per annum and such a program would imply an in crease in taxes of 40 per cent. “In addition to the above list, other projects are being urged, but are not regarded as Imminent, which would Impose a further expenditure of fully $1,500,000,000 per annum.” The merits of the various proposed additional appropriations and authori sations were not gone into at the con ference today, it was explained. The President desired merely to call the attention of the congressional leaders and the chairmen of committees at tending the breakfast to the fiscal con dition of fee Treasury. Touch on Tariff Bill. The situation regarding the tariff bill, trhich was considered at a White House breakfast given by the President to the Senate and House leaders, was taken up today only incidentally, it was said. Those attending the breakfast were: Senator Watson of Indiana, the Senate Republican leader; Chairman McNary of the Senate agriculture committee, Chairman Jones of the Senate appro priations committee; Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee, Rep resentative Tllson of Connecticut, the Rouse Republican leader; Chairman Snell of fee House rules committee. Chairman Hawley of fee House ways and means committee. Secretary Mel lon of the Treasury, Undersecretary Mills of the Treasury and Director Roop of the Budget Bureau. Speaker Longworth and Representa tive Will Wood, chairman of the House appropriations committee, were invited to attend the breakfast today, but were out of town and unable to be present. Speaker Longworth. however, was a guest of the President at luncheon to day, having returned to Washington too late to attend the breakfast. It is understood that fee President went over much the same ground with the Speaker as with the other Republican leaders this morning. Tariff Jam Halts Passage. The House has already passed and lent to the Senate seven appropriation bills during the present session of Congress. It has three more of the annual supply bills to pass and prob ably another deficiency bill. Owing to the legislative jam over the tariff bill, not one of these bills has been taken up for consideration in the Senate yet. The President’s wamirg regarding the Governments finances was In ef fect* a warning to the Senate not to add to the total of the appropriation bills passed by the House, and to the House to keep the appropriation bills still to come down to the budget limit. Os the seven appropriation bills now waiting action in fee Senate, four are on the Senate calendar, having been reported favorably from the appropria tions committee. They are fee Agri culture, Treasury and Post Office, State, Justice, Commerce and Labor and first deficiency bills. The Interior Depart ment bill, the first to be sent to the Senate by the House, is still awaiting consideration in committee because Sen ator Smoot, who is handling fee tariff bill on the floor of the Senate, is chair man of the subcommitteer of the appro priations committee in charge of feat bill. He has been unable to give the time necessary to its consideration In committee. Tariff Prospects Brighter. The War Department bill, also passed by the House, is awaiting fee return of Senator David A. Reed, chairman of the military affairs committee, from fee London Naval Conference, where he is serving as a member of fee Ameri can delegation. The seventh bill sent to the Senate by fee House, fee first deficiency bill, has Just been received and is before fee appropriations com mittee. The prospects for early action on the tariff bill have brightened in the last few days, it is said, and the President was so Informed today. He has been apprehensive that fee appropriation bills might be so delayed as to make it embarrassing for the Government. The expectations are, however, that all the bills will be put through in time to take care of fee Government’s needs. Tilson Gives Opinion. Representative Tilson, following fee White House conference, said that every appropriation proposed would 1* carefully scanned in the House and that economy in Government appropriation would be the rule in the House. Senator Watson said, too, that every effort would be made to keep appropriations down in the Senate. Senator Smoot declared that if strict observance were not given to the budget estimates and appropriations limited, It would be necessary to increase taxes next year to meet a deficit Ail expressed the opinion that fee White House conference would have a good effect and call the attention of Congress and the country to the need for economy. The budget estimate sent to fee Con gress by the President when the session opened last December called for a total appropriation of $3,830,445,231. This Is a decrease of $145,696,419 compared with appropriations for the current fis cal year. More recently, several additional estl Bring Out the Best in Your Furnace When you fill it with Superior Anthracite your furnace begins to give you greater satis* faction than you have ever known before. For Superior Anthracite—sootless, smokeless and long-burning—brings out the best in your heating plant. 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VIENNA, Austria, February 24.—80th of the orthodox churches in Jugoslavia and Bulgaria have thrown their influ ence with the world-wide reaction against what is regarded as an un merciful drive against religion and con fiscation of church buildings in the So viet Union. While Soviet leaders exhorted the red army In the war on religion in Russia yesterday the Jugoslavs prayed for their persecuted brothers. Protest was sent to all Greek orthodox churches, and also to the Archbishop of Canterbury, urg ing that the world “unite to help end the martyrdom of the Russian people, which is greater than the suffering of fee early Christians.” Orthodox churches In Bulgaria also held protest services. Soviet dispatches meanwhile deny that all churches are being closed in Russia and declare that more than 300,- 000 edifices are still open. pastorshTt SOVIET RELIGIOUS POLICY Attacks From Pulpits Are Prelude to Concerted Protests on March 16. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. February 24 —The re ligious policy of Soviet Russia, termed “persecution” by Christian and Jewish leaders of Europe and the United States, yesterday was attacked from the pulpits of various churches and synagogues in New York as a prelude to fee concerted protest which will begin in earnest three weeks hence. Despite the designation of March 16 by the heads of several denominations as the date for universal prayers for cessation of anti-religious activities in Russia, many pastors and rabbis made the subject the theme of their sermons yesterday. APPOINTMENT IS URGED. President Hoover today was urged by Representative Thatcher of Kentucky to appoint James G. Yaden, now chief of the examining division of the Civil Service Commission, to succeed William C. Deming, who has tendered his resignation as Civil Service Commis sioner. Senator Robsion of Kentucky already has appealed to the President in behalf of the promotion of Mr Yaden. Representative Eaton of New Jersey today asked the President to appoint Louis Fisher, a native of Trenton, N. J., who is now secretary of the appoint ments division of the commission, to succeed Mr. Deming. Pope’s Grandniece Baptized. VATICAN CITY, February 24 OP).— The grandniece of the Pope, Maria Pia, daughter of Count Ugolini, was bap tised this morning at St. Peter’s bv Cardinal Merry Del Val, high priest of the Basilica. The Pope sent his special benediction and a miniature with an autographed dedication. mates of appropriation have been sent to Congress. At the Treasury Depart ment it was said to day the indications are for a surplus of about $145:000,000 The three regular appropriation bills which the House still has to pass are the Navy, the District of Columbia and the legislative bills. The outcome of the Naval Conference may have some effect on the Navy appropriation bill if it is concluded in time. I THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ MONDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1930. Early Blossoming Os Cherry Trees Not Helped by Weather Despite prevailing warm weath er the cherry trees show’ no signs of blossoming early. Charles HenUxSc, chief of tha horticultural division of the Of fice of Public Buildings and Pub lic Parks, said today that It requires from a week to 10 days from the time the buds show signs of bursting until the period ‘ of full bloom Is reached, as a general rule. The earliest single-bloom cherry blossoms have come into their prime was on March 20, 1927. The yellow Jasmine, peeping forth near the tea house at Halns Point, in East Potomac Park, Is expected to be in bloom about the middle of this week, with favorable weather. The forsythia Is expected to be In bloom in the parks in another couple of weeks if the weather remains favorable. FLORIDA REPUBLICAN ATTACKS CALLOWAY Statement Urging Dry Law Repeal Held Not Representative of State’s Sentiment. By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., February 24. —C01. Wilbur C. Brown, chairman of the Re publican committee of Hillsborough County, declared here Saturday that E. E. Calloway, State committee chairman, did not represent the sentiment of Florida Republicans in a recent state ment he Issued urging repeal of the prohibition laws. Further, he charged Calloway with issuing the statement through “a desire for publicity." Mr. Calloway announced Thursday that he would call a meeting of his organization to act on a plank for re peal of the prohibition amendment. -.0. GEORGE A. BARRY DIES. California Publisher Is Victim of Heart Disease at 84. SANTA MONICA, Calif., February 24 (JP). —George A. Barry, 84, Civil War veteran and founder and publisher for 21 years of the Monrovia, Calif., Daily News, died here yesterday of heart dis ease. Barry was born in Pittsburgh, Pa , and with the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted with Knapp's Pennsylvania Battery. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Harriet H. Barry, and two sons. 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Cotton said the State Department had taken no action on the Russian mat ter, and that neither Borah’s original query of Moscow nor the Soviet answer had been placed before him. Senator Borah announced after communicating with the Soviet gov ernment that he had been informed that all but three of the Jewish rab bis held by the Soviet had been released. SOVIET REPLIES TO BORAH. Tells Senator Rabbis Do Not Face Execution. By the Associated Press. Senator Borah has received word frbm Moscow that of 14 Jewish leaders reported arrested and sentenced to death at Minsk, Russia, for counter revolutionary activities, all but three have been released. This Information came to theJdaho Senator and chairman of the foreign relations committee, in a cablegram from Maxim Lltvinoff. the Soviet’s act ing commissar of foreign affairs. Os the three still held. Borah said, there was “no danger of execution." 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