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WEATHER. / “From Preaa to Home (U B Wftthfr Bureau Foreeist.^ \ WV7*s L * WW 99 Generally fair and colder tonight and tr ittun an Hour tomorrow, lowest temperature tonight The Star’s Carrier system covers every about 26 degrees; frrah north winds city block and the regular edition is toJaTPr<™e^eS48. a* ^ p m', yesterday! delivered to city and suburban homes FUli report on page A-3. as fast as the papers are printed. , , I M 1 1 n n 1 n 1 1 Saturday’s Circulation, 110.936 Last Weeks Markets, rages 9, 1U, 11 Sunday’s Circulation, 124,171 m . -mJ . " — I.. No. 32.732. "y^uiSl"”n.mt>Vo._ _op> .. Pre.., TWO CENTS. More Than 13.000 Institu tions to Enjoy Benefits of U. S. Assurance. OFFERS ARE ADVANCED FOR UTILIZING SURPLUS F F. C. Will Issue More Than $800,000,000 in Debentures. Public Works Taxes End. Bv the A«5ocia'ed Pipss. A new banking era begins today with a new year which opened speculative v.'ias of new financial moves and closed an epoch stamped indelibly with a Nation-wide bank holiday. Lock-stepped with 1934 is a national Insurance of deposits in more than 13. 800 institutions 99 [ier cent of all tanks, according to Jesse Jones. Recon t ruction Finance Corporation chair man. and 97 per cent of all bank ac counts. in the estimate of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Outstanding also is a New Year offer - In:; of Government help for banks with surplus fund Simultaneously, taxes I ringing m >300.000.000 annually are lifted. Still closely veiled amid other devel opments. President Roosevelt - mone tary program moves toward its com jr.odity dollar goal. Gold buying is scheduled to continue—may possibly*ex rand- anu silver coinage under the in ternational agreement is in its infancy. Jones announced the R. F. C.'s plan of "co-operating with the banks which hate issued preferred stock to the F F. C. ’ Will Purchase SMM.uOO.OOO. The debentures. Jones said in a tele gram to Hit banks, "are fully and im cnnditionally guaranteed both as to in terest ana principal bv the United F'ates and are exempt from all taxa tion except surtaxes, estate, inheritance and gift taxes now or hereafter im posed" by tile Federal or State govern ments or their subdivisions. "The Reconstn ction Finance Corpor ation " Jones said, "has authorized the purchase of more than $800.000 000 in preferred stock and capital notes in ap proximate!? 4.500 banks. This lias been irrde possible through the leadership of President Roosevelt and the co-nper fl’inn of governmental and State agen c.es and the banks themselves. "One result of these investments is that approximately 90 per cent of all Kirks in the I'nued States are today members of the Federal Deposit Insur ance Corporation and each individual deposit in 'hese banks is fully insured up to $2,500. “It is the purpose of the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation to continue its preferred stork program until all banks in the United States have had opportunity to put themselves in a strong capital position. “The strengthening of all capital i Structure of banks together with Fed eral deposit insurance should dispell all i fear of depositors State Banks Turned Back. “Credit must be a\ailable If agricul ture and industry are to prosper. As a means of co-operating with the banks which have issued preferred stock to Ihe R. F. C despite their large surplus investment funds, the R. F C. is offer ing them its 21 , per cent debentures maturing December 14 1935. These de bentures are fully and unconditionally guaranteed both as to interest and urinciple by the United States " Jones' statement followed close after * presidential proclamation turning »ai k to State officials control of hun dreds of Stale banks over which Mr Roosevelt extended Ftderal control when he declared the national bank iniiriav Marrli fi The offer of the Reconctruetion finance Corp ration debentures, it was explained unofficially, did not concern ihe borrowing limitation of $4,075,000, »no flxpd in the R F. c. enabling act. The extent of the debenture issue is not limited and is to be determined only t>y the amoun' of money needed from this source. The new debentures, maturing De cember 15. 1935 will ghe to the banks which have is tied their preferred stock to the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion opportunity to invest their surplus funds m a guaranteed field, an invest Otenl outlet f r funds hitherto restricted bv laws demanding guaranteed securi ties. Insofar as the Reconstruction Finance C "poration i'self is concerned, the new (Oontinued on Page 2. Column 8.) r PEPPIN HAS HOPES OF ESCAPING DEATH Granted Reprieve Pending Court Appeal. By the Aysoriahri Preys. DENVER. January t.—Walter Rep pin. 18-year-old New Jersey youth who has been sentenced to death in Colo rado's letha! Eas chamber, had a strong hope for life a.s the new year dawned. More cheerful than he has been at an-.’ time since Gov. Ed C. Johnson refused to commute his sentence to life imprisonment. Reppin today told Warden Roy Best he was confident the State Supreme Court would reverse the tiinl court. (Reppin was sentenced to die before next Sunday, but it appeared certain nttnmeys. who have befriended him. , would perfect the appeal and obtain i an automatic stay of execution. I Philip Hornbein and David Rosner, r Denver attorneys who are acting in hrhalf of Reppin. said Gov. Johnson had assured them that if it was neces sary to grant a reprieve to allow time for filing the appeal, such action would L be taken. Reppin was sentenced to death for 1 slaving a Colorado Springs taxi driver. > If he is legally executed he will be the first person to die in Colorado's new lethal gas tanx. x Because of the New Year holi day there will be no late editions of The Star today. -' (Ihieago Baby Born 1 Seconds Past 12 (ilaimnl First in 3t J — Bv the Associated Press. CHICAGO. January 1.—When they get around to comp> M.ug "firsts" in the New Year. Mrs. Amanda Kunde. 25, of Suburban Berwyn, would like it known that her son was the first born in Chicago in 1934. He first saw the light of day —or rather night—in the lyma in hospital one-quarter minuie past midnight this morning in tern seconds later, so the d<“' r« say a boy was bom to Mrs Ed ward Sehrieber. Both mothers and sons are do ing well. I TO NEW YEAR WET. | Liquor Flows Freely at Pub lic Parties, Despite Dis trict's Continued Aridity. Washington rested today, with high hopes for the future and no regrets for the past, after the gayest New Year c\e celebration since the long, lean yes* ■ of the depression began. t Ithough repeal lifts not become ef fective in the District, it was. by all odds the wettest New Ypar eve in years, with hotels, night clubs, restaurants aril other centers of nocturnal gayetv jammed with noisy merry makers. Downtown streets were thronged. despite an annoying, drizzly sort of rain that set in early in the evening: and. throughout the city, private parties were m progress in hotels, apartments and homes. Official Washington, however, wel comed the new year the year of hope— quietly and without swank. Reception Is Abandoned. Absent was the customary White House reception, which in past years drew thousands of citizens to the Exec utive Mansion for the privilege of hav ing their hands clasped by the Presi dent. Absent, too was the colorful New Year breakfast of the Secretary of State President and Mrs. Roosevelt, along with ail the members of their official family watched the old year fade into the past quietlv, casually. The Chief Executive and the First I-ady. with a group of young people around them, had a rasual luncheon with Vice President and Mrs. Gamer. After the meal was over, half of the guests had to run for a 2 o'clock train. to get back to collpge Left to watch tbe exit of 1933 with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt were their son, James, who had a touch of influenza: his wife. Betsy; her sister. Barbara Cushing, and young John Roosevelt. Cabinet Parties Quiet. Attorney General and Mrs. Cummings had a quiet house party; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Mrs. Wallace ! held a family reunion; Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Mrs. Ickes enjoyed i a homey day with their son, Raymond; ; Secretary of Commerce Roper and Mrs. Roper had a tea for friends of their daughter. Grace. Virtually the only reminder of the kind of New Year eve the Capital used to enjoy, in the days before the depres sion. was the dance given by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean for her two young sons at her home. Friendship. Back in the old days, when Alice Rooset elt Long worth was “Princess Alice," the McLean dances were re garded as almost official. There the “princess” used to dance the old year out and the new one in, and young Washington has been doing it ever sine e. After the White House luncheon. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Garner retired to the former's upstairs study, where through the smoke from their cigars, they discussed the coming session of Congress. While the President and the Vice President talked. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs Garner had a chat of their own in the First Ladv's sitting room. _ All in all. it was a different kind of Ne.v Year eve a better, happipr kind. To thousands, it seemed more like the dawn of a new era than the mere pass ing of another year. Parties Held Late. And those who went in for the old f.i hioned. pre-depression kind of gayety—well, many of them were still at it when what would have been going-to-work time rolled around. A late as 6 a m for instance, traffic whs heavy on most of the city's more important thoroughfares. But midnight, of course, was the hour. Automobile horns, sirens, whistles, gun reports—just about every kind of noise known was let loose as a welcome to the new year. Indoors and outdoors—It was aU the same. Everybody spemed determined to make it the noisiest New Year eve on record. Virtually all the hotels, night clubs and restaurants reported heavier busi ness than in years. On the whole, prices were slightly lower than usual. The Willard. Shoreham, Kennedy Wamn and Wardman Park stayed open unti Ithe wee. small hours, as did most of the others. Midnight shows did a rushing busi ness. and so did the taxicab companies. Many motorists, for more or less per sonal reasons, left their cars at home or else parked near the scenes of the celebrations they attended. The official attitude of the police was (Continued on Page 27 Column 8.) ISPIMI Four Million Are Claimed to Have Been Restored to Work by Year End. I - I BLUE EAGLES REMAIN UP;! ORIGINAL PACT EXPIRES | — Flouting of Labor Phases of Law Among Most Serious Problems Facing Administration. By the Associated Pres*. The N. R. A. today set itself a task ! 1 of regimenting—before the end of January, If possible—the wages and! hours of Industries employing between four and si* million workers. Taking stocks as the year ended, the Recovery Administration estimated "some 4.000,000 workers have been restored to gainful employment” and that basic wages had been raised and maximum hours reduced in Industries employing between 18 and 20 million people. Thus, said N. R. A., the 182 Blue Eagle codes thus far created cover the biggest part of the most important in dustries, while the hundreds of codes remaining to be prepared are centered mainly upon less important groups. Tens of thousands of Blue Eagles continued on display today, despite the expiration yesterday of the original Presidents re-employment agreement under which some 3,000,000 employers won the right to fly the insignia. tsenenis Recorded. Most of those blanketed by the orlgi ' nal agreement have since been covered by mandatory codes. President Roose velt has invited all not so covered to continue the voluntary agreement until May, but those not desiring may take down their Blue Eagle and go back to unregulated wages and hours unless covered by a mandatory code. The N. R. A. in its review', recorded testimony by many leading industries of benefits received under the Blue Eagle, and spoke of business reforms ranging irtm bans on child labor and the sweat shop to high standards hi advertising. Almost simultaneously. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said in a New* Year message that the future looks "bright and re assuring." The codification of industry, he said, has laid a foundation for "an economic order in keeping with mass production requirements.*’ The new rear he added, should bring an ap proximate return to normal economic and industrial conditions.” Cognizant of some trouble ahead, j however. N. R. A. administrators today j conceded action would have to be taken ; along many lines. However, the future was looked upon bv the recovery officials with a strong show of confidence and the review they issued did not go into the troubles known to lie ahead. The list that fol , lows records some of those acknowledged by the N. R. A. leaders: The industrial law's guarantee that workers may unionize freely and with- J out interference has been directly flouted by a growing list of leading in-1 dustriaiists, and not one has yet been : disciplined. This failure is encourag ing still more employers to make light j of labor phases of the law. A; increasing number of small em ploye.* complains that the codes fail j | to protect them from powerful com petitors and monopolistic practices. Obedience to code terms is admittedly j lacking in Thousands of cases, discipline Is b: .r.g into this "chiseling” slowly, and i final ic cess is not yet assured. Th*’ reduction of work hours ordered by the codes, while in most, instances all that Industries can now stand, can : not give sufficient re-employment for the long pull and still shorter hours I will have to be obtained. Modification* Planned. I A I*ember of the codes are officially j consit!**:**d "bad.” and will have to be : revised to eliminate practices which j are coil rarv to public interest. Congress will have much to say about j these points and more, and the admin- j istration which was not ready a few j weeks ago to offer remedial legislation ; of its < ■ n. has definitely committed it- j self now to sponsor modifications of i the hid , ,trial act to compromise with the strongest objectors to present shortcorr.!igs. Both Hugh S. Johnson and his re sponsible aides freely admit defects ? and hav e constantly reiterated that j j they are experimenting with open i minds, refusing to be restricted by old I economic laws unless new' undertakings j ! prove failures. On one point they insisted: The I achievements so far outweigh in their minds all failures and disappointments. French Town Feels Quake. BAYONNE. France, January 1 UP-— A strong earth shock was felt along the Basque coast shortly after 5 o'clock thU i morning. Houses were shaken, but no damage was reported. Fire Razes City Block. HASTINGS, Fla., January 1 UP-— Fire early today razed an entire block i in the business section here. Origin | of the blaze was undetermined. Fire I men said damage would run into thou 1 sands of dollars. ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF ITALY FACES DRASTIC REVISION IN 1934 By the Associated Press. ROME, January l.—Italy moved be hind Pi-emier Benito Mussolini today into a year in which the entire eco nomic structure of the nation is to be revolutionized through corporatism. Under the system, to be inaugurated officially early this month, law-making powers are to be given corporations or guilds—each representative of a sphere of endeavor and the whole centered in a national council. The council in time will take the place of Italy's parliamentary insti tutions. Every phase of industry and com merce will be self-governing, but Mus solini and the council will be in gen eral control. 11 Duce says, however, that private Initiative will not be throttled. It will be regulated ar.d subordinated to the interests of the nation, he explains. A I Great pains have been taken to dis I pel anv idea that the group price fixing authority established under the new svstem might have a disastrous effect upon existing business or seri ously depreciate the value of private property. In addition to the fact that the cor porations will have power to set obli gatory "fair selling prices” for the out put in their fields, it is recalled that the government, some time ago estab lished a control over opening of new manufacturing concerns and it la thought likely this control will pass to the interested corporations. To offset fears that such power of veto would, in the hands of the con stituted Industries of a field, give these a monopolistic privilege which might be used to the detriment of the buying public, there is the fact that the state has the controlling vote in each cor i poration. ___ JANUARY l 1934. First in White House Line Again,1 Although There's Ao Reception House Painter Merely Afraid President Might ('hange His Mind. Wan If ho Has Headed l.ist Five Years, Wears Same Lucky Necktie. J W. Hunnefeld, who five times has been first in line for the new year White House reception, w’as on hand again this morning, although there was no reception, because he was afraid the President might change his mind and hold one. Mr. Hunnefeld. who lives at 25 C street northeast is a hou~e painter by trade. He explained his presence by saying it had just become a habit with him to take his position at the White House gate new year morning. Besrir.es, he "wanted to be sure the President had not changed his mind " Arriving at the unusually late hour of 10 o'clock, Hunnefeld was shortly sur rounded by members of the White House staff and the White House police force, who recognized his handle-bar mustaches and stopped to chat and ex change greetings. He was wearing the same gaily-col ored necktie he had worn at ali pre vious receptions. He said he was not superstitious, but still he considered the tie his good-luck piece and only wears It on New Year day. J. W. HUNNEFELD. —Star Stall Photo. LA GUARDIA LAKES OFFICE AS MAYOR -j Plunges at Once Into Work, Despite Holiday—Induc tion Is Private. By th« Associate Pre*». NEW YORK, January 1.—Fiorello H. j La Guardia planned an early plunge to day Into the business of being mayor of New York. Sworn in as the city's new chief ex- , ecutive a few minutes after midnight, j the man who ended Tammany's reign j of 16 years announced he would leave J his home at 8:30 a m. to assume the i duties of his office. The first official act of the mayor will be to swear in his new police commis sioner, Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan. After that will come several confer ences, an exchange of New Year greet ings, an address before the Board of Aldermen, a press conference at 4 pm., then brief visits to the various cijy de partments before he calls it a day. La Guardia, 52-year-old wartime Air Corps major, climaxed his long career of public office by an overwhelming vic tory over Tammany Hall last Novem* her. Early todav in the home of Sam uel Seabury. who was his closest ad viser during the campaign, he took the oath with only his wife and a few friends, including his barber, present. The ceremony was private, the mayor said, because he “hadn't the heart” to ; have the Induction take the form of a festive occasion while 100,000 families | are without work. The barber, Frans i Giordano, was especially invited by La Guardia. He has been the mayor's j barber for 25 years and saw service with him overseas. NEW YEARKNIFE FIGHT SENDS FIVE TO HOSPITAL Two May Die of Wounds in Sacra mento, Calif_Two Detectives Injured. By th* Associated Presa. SACRAMENTO. Calif., January 1.— Knives wielded in a street light climax ing a Filipino New Year's celebration in front of a lower downtown dance hall early today sent five men, includ ing a police officer, to hospitals with stab wounds. Two may die. Those most seriously stabbed were: Joe Pacheco. 19, expected to die. Robert Koopman, 28, expected to die. Detective Frank Gessner, two-inch stab wound, left shounder. Darse Bowers, 18, stabbed tn left chest. John Millar, 22, stab wound right arm. 53, SLAIN IN HOME Husband Reports Finding of Nude Body on Bed—Two Colored Men Quizzed. By the AssocULed Preea. CRISFIELD, Md„ January 1. The nude body of Mrs. Margaret Brumbley, 59-year-old farm woman, was found by her husband, Fred Brumbley, early to day. She had been stabbed. Brumbley told Somerset County au thorities he discovered the body lying across the bed when he returned to their home at Marion Station, near here, from Crisfleld shortly after mid night. Sam Jones, colored, and his son, James, were taken Into custody and held for questioning. They live on a nearby farm and witnesses said Jones had been seen in the vicinity of the Bnimble.v home yesterday. Dr. George Coulbourne. who exam ined the body, said Mrs. Brumbley had not been attacked. Brumbley told authorities he had discovered the back door locked and. believing Mrs. Brumbley was at one of the neighbors, sat on the back steps waiting for her. After about half an hour he decided to try to force the windows and then discovered the front door opened. He said the family never used this door. Lighting a lantern, he went up stairs to the room occupied by his wife and himself and saw his wife's body. Officers were summoned and began their investigation. Coroner Fred Holland said that who ever murdered the woman apparently opened the front door by forcing the latch and went to Mrs. Brumbley’s' room, where she probably was prepar ing to retire. She was struck with a sharp instrument in the temple. Hol land said he believed an oyster knife had been used. An investigation revealed that noth ing had been stolen from the house. -« ■— - - TWO HELD IN SLAYING OF ELKIN, N. C„ GIRL HIGH POINT, N. C.. January 1.— Blaine Norman, 26, and his 20-year-old brother Taft were arrested early to day charged with slaying Leota Child ress. 18, near Elkin Saturday. 1 The 18-year-old foster-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warwick W. Tilley, promi nent Wilkes County residents, was shot when she surprised robbers and at temoted to telephone for help. Blaine Norman ia employed here on a C. W. A. project, and Taft was lo cated in Lexington. Both have police records. More than $600 and valuable papers were taken from the Tilley home. fc DAY HARD AT WORK President Foregoes New Year Holiday to Complete Budget Estimate. In the quiet seclusion of his private study on the second floor of the White House, President Roosevelt is today engaged in putting the finishing touches to the budget estimates to be submitted to Congress in a few days and giving his attention from time to time to other Important business of the Government. From all appearances there will be nothing in the form of a holiday for Mr. Roosevelt today. He struggled with this momentous task throughout yesterday and until after midnight last night, and. according to his own admission, it is doubtful if he will have ver;. many free moments today. No arrangements for celebrating the birth of the new year were made for the White House fast night and none had been made for today. Mr. Roose velt did, however, take a recess from his labors last night to join the mem bers of the family and some guests long enough to sit and see a motion picture, and later, when the bells and other noises were acclaiming the usher ing in of the new year, he stopped work long enough to exchange greetings with members of his family and guests. Reception Called Off. Fortunate for the President, in the face of the tasks now facing him. there will be no new year reception at the White House which would have necessi tated his stopping work several hours to stand in line with the First Lady to shake hands and extend greetings to thousands. It was after 9 o'clock when Mr. Roosf vclt arose and after a hurried breakfast lost no time in becoming absorbed in his work. The New Year day dinner at the White House will be at 7 o'clock tonight, the customary hour for the eve ning meal of the present occupants of the White House. There will be several intimate friends on hand for this feast and afterward the President will have a .conference with his party leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives for the purpose of discussing informally the legislative program of the coming session and plans for quick and har monious action, with a view of speed ing along the hoped new deal of the administration. To Meet Republicans. The President has indicated he will hold a similar conference for tfie group of Republican Senators and Representa tives but the date for this conference has not yet been decided upon. It probably will be held after Congress has gotten under way. Among the other major problems fac ing the President today, on which he must act shortly, is the preparation of an executive order which will decide whether the Federal employes are to have any or all of their pay cut re stored. The White House has indicated that the President hopes to issue his order by tomorrow, but this is by no means certain. MILK PRICE CUT Small Chicago Dairies Act as Agreement Expires. CHICAGO, January 1 (A*).—Expira tion of the Government’s milk agree ment for Chicago today was followed by an announcement of the Chicago Milk Dealers’ Association that a number of smaller dairies were cutting the retail price from 11 to 10 cents a quart. At the same time the "big four’’— the Boman, Borden, Wieland and Wanzer dairies—which requested the association to maintain the price level established by the Federal code, were reported to be considering some price cutting tactics of their own by bringing the rate per quart down to 9 cents. * I PLANS WITH CHIEFS Silver Policy May Be Out lined by President in Con ference Tonight. By the Associated Press. Congressional leaders were agreed to day that the pledge nf almost a third of the Senate to stand for free coinage of silver has thrust bimetallism forward as the major issue before the session beginning Wednesday. President Roosevelt will meet tonight 1 at the White House with eight or more Democratic chieftains from the Senate and House, and from this conference new majority plans for the session may emerge. Observers feel the talk almost cer tainly will turn at one point to the silver question and the administration's attitude, thus far guarded, made clear. A growth of inflation sentiment be . hind the silver drive. Congressional leaders say. has made the money ques tion so predominant a note as to over shadow even such Important and per: j plexing issues as taxes, appropriations and conflict over President Roosevelt's i recovery program. Smooth Session Forecast. Even in the face of this powerful ' silver bloc development, however. Demo cratic leaders are confident that the session beginning this week will follow the leadership of President Roosevelt, Administration spokesmen forecast a smooth session, with quick action of the Chief Executive's recomendations. and adjournment by May. Other leaders, however, predict more troubled waters ahead. Speaker Rainey, in an article written for the Associated Press, says "there will be no dramatic incidents” during the session. There will be, he adds, no "attempt to interfere with the recovery program,” although it "may be neces sary to grease the wheels' a little at the approaching session.” Terming the President's new silver (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) NAZI PRINCE BANISHED FROM AUSTRIA 'FOREVER'; Alleged Conspirator Against Doll- I fuss Government Arrested and Ordered Deported to Germany. By the Associated Press. KLAGENFURT, Austria. January 1 — ; The Nazi Prince Bernhard Von Sacli- j sen-Meiningen, who escaped from Aus trian authorities and fled to Italy with | his pretty wife three weeks ago, was back in jail again today—but not for long. Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss him self ordered that the Prince be deported to Germany. Held at Villach, west of 1 here, he was told he would be banished I from Austria "forever ” The prince was arrested as he at - 1 ! tempted to slip back into his romantic l castle near here last night. It was from the castle that both he ; and the princess escaped. They had ! been arrested for alleged conspiracy against the Austria government. She was held prisoner in the castle. He was allowed to return there from a concentration camp to “wind up his ' | personal a flairs.’’ Then they both ran I away to Italy. AMERICANS COMPETE THIS WEEK 1 FOR 32 RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS By tha Associated Press. SWARTHMORE, Pa , January 1.— Thirty-two American Rhodes scholars will be selected through examinations to be taken this week by 651 candidates, the largest number in the history of the competition. Created under the will of Sir Cecil J. Rhodes, the scholarships provide a yearly stipend of approximately $2,000 for two years at Oxford University and a third at any approved European Uni versity. Ohio, which had the largest number g of applicants, has already eliminated all but 19 of 45. New Yorl? has 35; Pennsylvania, 24; New Jersey, 15, and Connecticut, 10. Eight districts, composed of six States each, will select four scholarship recip ients apiece. District committees will make the final selections on January 8, sitting in Boston. Philadelphia, At lanta, Chicago, Des Moines, New Orleans. San Francisco and Spokane. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College. Is the American Secretary to the Rhodes trustees. A ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS WOODIN RESIGNATION, NAMING MORGENTHAU Acting Secretary for Weeks Sworn in Today at Simple Cere mony in White House Study. ILL HEALTH FINALLY COMPELS PREDECESSOR TO QUIT CABINET Letter Expresses Deep Regret "That He Must Leave Post; President Praises Service in Reply. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., of New York, who has been Acting Secretary of the Treasury for the past several weeks, was sworn in today as Secretary, succeeding William H. Woodin, whose resigna tion, effective today, has been in the President's hands for several days. Mr. Woodin has been in ill health for more than half a year, during which time he has been away from the Treasury Department, and it was because of his physical condition that he asked the President to permit him to retire to private life. The ceremony of administering the oath to the new Treasury head was performed in the President's oval room study on the second floor of the White House during the forenoon in the presence of the President and members of the Roosevelt family, Mrs. Morgenthau, Henry Morgenthau, sr.. and other members of the Morgenthau family. The ceremony was brief and informal. The oa*h was adminis tered by F. A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury Department. Tf xt of \\ oodin s Letter. In announcing the change at the White House, the President made pub lic the following letter from Mr, Woodin asking for permission to resign and the President's reply: “Tucson, Ariz.. December 13, 1933. “Dear Governor: “It is with great regret that I am compelled to tender you my resignation as Secretary of the Treasury, to take effect at your convenience any time be fore January 1. "The state of my health will not per mit me to remain in this position. "I cannot express what a wrench it is to me to leave your official family, and you must know how proud and happy I have been to have served you. "With great admiration and affection, "Faithfully vours. "W. H. WOODIN.” To the Preside lit, The White House. President's Reply. The Pre icient's letter in answer to this follow?: “The White House. Washington, D. C.. December 20, 1933. “Dear Will: “That you feel you must definitely leave the Treasury post by the end of the year is, of course, a great sorrow to me. but I am even more saddened by the thought that the throat is still giving trouble. I know, however, that it is of the highest importance that you shelve all official cares and that, with your fine courage and constitution, you will soon get wholly well. Remember that when that day comes, you are wanted and needed in the service of the country. Your calm, practical and courageous action in the difficult days of last Spring and Summer will alwava be remembered “All of us miss you greatly and all of us send you our devoted regards. "Henry Morgenthau. jr.. will go in on January 1 and I am happy in the thought that you so strongly approve the choice. •'Take care of yourself. “Faithfully- and affectionately vours, “FRANKLIN E>. ROOSEVELT “Hon. William H. Woodin, Tucson, Ariz." Mr. Morgenthau had been adminis tering the affairs of the Treasury De partment for more than a month since when he was named Acting Secretary when Mr. Woodin's failing health ne cessitated his leaving Washington for the Arizona climate. At the time Mr. Morgenthau became Acting Secretary he was governor of the Farm Credit Administration. He has been a close advisor of the President throughout, and besiri is a warm personal friend and a nt .oor in Duchess County, N. Y. COLDER WEATHER TONIGHT PREDICTED Minimum Temperature of 26 and Little Rain Is Fore cast. The new year was greeted bv rain today, but forecasters predicted fair weather, with lower temperatures, for tonight and tomorrow. The Weather Bureau forecast was for little ram, generally fair and colder tonight and tomorrow, with a mini mum temperature of about 26 degrees. “A cold wave warning has been Is sued for parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.” it was said at the bureau, ‘ but this won't affect the Wash ington area to any serious extent. We'll feel the edges of it, of course, but that's about all.” The mercury rose to 59 at 4 a m. to day. 4 degrees higher than at 3 p.m. yesterday. The lowest temperature was 48, recorded at 9 p.m. Postmaster Is Suffocated. THIENSVILLE, Wis.. January 1 OP).—Postmaster John M Albers. 47, suffocated in a fire which destroyed the postoffice and his home New Year's eve. Firement found him in his bed room, but efforts to revive him were unavall ing. Mrs. Albers and her two children were in Milwaukee attending a new year watch party. Guide for Readers Page. Amusements ... .C-8 Comics. C-5 Features .C-4 Finance .A-9-10-11 Lost and Found.A-7 Radio . C-6 Serial Story .C-6 Society . B-2-3 Sports .C-l-2 • t