WEATHER. (U. β. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Pgir with lowest temperature about 30 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy with slowly rising temperature, followed by rain. Temperatures—Highest. 46, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 34, at 7:15 em today. Pull report on page A-14. CJo»iag Ν. Y Market», Page» 12 &Ί3 The only evening paper in Washington with th£ Associated Press News and Wirephoto services. Yesterday's Circulation, 131,553 Some Re tu r ni Not Yet Received. Wl DO OU· MtT ντΛ QQ -IOQ Entered as second class matter .NO. Οό,ΐΔΟ. p0st office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. **** Of) Mean· Associated Press. TWO CENTS. AMELIA EARHART FLYING OVER CALIFORNIA AFTER OCEAN HOP FROM HAWAII —— Λ Completes Hop of 2,400 Miles Over Water. RACED STORM TO CALIFORNIA Reaches Speed of 150 M. P. H. in Fast Flight. BULLETIN. SAN FRANCISCO, January 12 (A1).—The Mackay Radio re ported at 10:49 a.m. (P. S. T.) today that Amelia Earhart Putnam, flying from Honolulu to Oakland, said she had sighted Santa Cruz, 75 miles Bouth of here. 8» the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. January 12 — Half way to the Pacific Coast on her hazardous flight from Honolulu, Amelia Earhart Putnam raced with » storm today to keep a rendezvous with the California morning sunshine. Over the last half of the 2,400-mile Stretch—one never flown alone before by any flyer—the 36-year-old blond who "soloed" over the Atlantic, sought to outwit the storm gods. She fought her way steadily along the steamer lanes throughout the night, seeking favorable winds at one alti tude and then another. Miss Earhart may stretch her coast ward dash to Salt Lake City, Utah, if weather and fuel conditions are favor able. her husband, George Palmer Putnam, announced in Honolulu. The New York publisher, who was staying up all night to receive the cryptic reports of his wife's progress, explained that in this way Miss Ear hart might break her own non-stop distance record set in July, 1933, with a dash from Los Angeles, Calif., to Newark, N. J Putnam added at once, however, that the aviatrix intended to stop at Oakland and would continue past Oakland only if conditions were "most favorable." Keassnring Ο. K. Flashed. At intervals she flashed a reassur ing "O. K." The storm gods flooded her take-off field late yesterday and spattered her shiny monoplane with the red mud of Wheeler Field as she bumped and swayed down the treacherous run way. Unappeased. they gathered their forces in the tempest cauldrons off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and prepared to drench the coast States with rain and snow The weather report at Oakland Air port, her intended destination, was for clear weather in the morning, but probably rain in the afternoon as the Vancouver Island storm rolled south ward. At Half-Way Mark. il was anucipaiea, nowever, mai Miss Earhart might reach the airport by 9 a.m., (Pacific standard time) or shortly thereafter, should she hold the steady pace achieved in the early hours of her flight. The aviatrix her self, after 7 hours of flight, estimated she had come half way. This was in line with the Oakland estimates. She took oil on the flight scarcely a month after Capt Charles T. P. Ulm, George Littlejohn and J. L. Stall ing were lost in an attempt to reach Honolulu from California. But the woman who set records not only for women but for the world at large by her trans-Atlantic flights, disdained all warnings of foolhardi ness and took off m spite of the •torms. The Winter season, with its unset tled weather and unpredictable storms; lack of pontoons to permit the plane to sit down on the water; the inaccessibility of the plane's radio equipment and the unnecessary risks attendant on so long a solo flight, were some of the arguments advanced against the blond air transport execu tive's project. Prank A. Flynn of San Francisco, a member of the National Aeronautic (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. (All times Eastern standard time.) FRIDAY, JANUARY 11: 10:15 pm.—Took ofT from Wheeler Field, near Honolulu. 10:21 p.m.—Heading for Diamond Head, altitude 2,000 feet. 11:15 p.m.—"Everything Ο. K." SATURDAY, JANUARY 12: 12:40 a.m.—"Flying 8,000. Weather overcast outside." 1:15 ajm.—Flying at 3,000 feet through fog. 3:15 am.—"Everything Ο. K." At β,000 feet, over low clouds. 8:40 a on.—All well, flying at 6,000 feet over low, scattered clouds. 4:19 am.—"All Ο. K." Thanked husband for broadcast greeting. 4:48 am—"AU Ο. Κ." β: 15 ajn.—"I should be almost hall way. Ο. K." At 8,000 feet. 8:57 ajn.—"All Ο. K." 6:17 am.—Flying in scattered clouds with visibility good; "Ο. K." • :50 am.—Scattered clouds continue; •visibility fair. "All Ο. K." 7:15 am.—"Flying at 8,000 feet; overcast; visibility fair." 7:49 am.—"Am still Ο. K." 9:15 am.—"I'm becoming quite tired." 10:40 am.—"All is well." Cat Fulls Wire in Pipe. MONROE CITY, Mo., January 12 (Λ*).—Dorothy Jones, 14, and her pet cat solved a perplexing problem of how to lead an electric wire through a 40-foot conduit. The girl tied the wire to the leg of the cat and called tabby from the I other end. Earhart à An Associated Press Wircphoto from San Francisco showing Amelia Earhart examining her high wing monoplane at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, in preparation for her flight across the Pacific. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. SOCIAL LAW DRAFT LEFT TO CONGRESS President to Offer Only Broad, General Plan to Legislators. By the Associated Press. Although President Roosevelt will lay a broad general program for social security before Congress next week, congressional leaders understood to day he would place on them the re sponsibility of drafting the detailed legislation. Under this procedure it will be left to Congress to decide, for Instance, whether the pay roll tax to finance unemployment insurance will be 3 or 5 per cent, and whether the fund will be financed entirely by em ployers or partly by employes. Generally, It is understood the re port of the Committee on Security, which the President will lay before Congress, will point toward a bill of the kind introduced last session by Senator Wagner. Democrat, of New York and Representative Lewis, Democrat, oî Maryland on unemploy ment insurance. Pension Plan Guarded. Recommendations on old-age pen sions were being even more closely guarded. Speculation has centered on monthly pensions of (40. but there has been no reliable confirmation. The report was said, however, to leave the door open to a system under which the Government would pay either one-half or one-third of the old-age pensions, with the States paying the balance. Estimates of the cost for the first year vary from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000. With additional proposals for ma ternity aid, health Insurance and an nuity system for workers, the program was said to involve a long-range plan which would not become fully effective for a generation. Some Workers Excluded. Out of a White House conference yesterday congressional leaders gained these impressions: That the unemployment insurance system will cover only industrial work ers of the lower wage classes and that agricultural workers, railroad em ployes. school teachers, domestic help, municipal employes and higher paid workers will be excluded. That employers of 10 or less persons will be excluded. That the Federal Government should be custodian far all funds, with ad ministration left to the States. Levy on Worker· Opposed. Some conferees argued that employes should contribute perhaps 1 per cent of their salaries to unemployment in surance, but Secretary Perkins, chair man of the Security Committee, op· posed this. The Wagner-Lewis bill provided for a S per cent pay-roll tax from which all contributions to a State Insurance fund could be deducted if the State law were approved by the Secretary of Labor. The bill provided a minimum compensation to unemployed workers of $7 a week, or their normal pay for 24 hours of work. Gen. Calles Is 111. LOS ANGELES. January 12 (/P).— Gen. Plutarco Ellas Calles, former President of Mexico, must undergo an operation for a gall bladder ailment, Dr. Verne C. Hunt said today. "Gen. Calles will be operated upon," said Dr. Hunt after a visit to the el derly political leader's beside late last night. 'His condition is improved. He bad a fair day." J NAZIS TELL JEWS TO LEAVE SAAR Residents Say They Have Been Advised to Return After Vote. I I (Copyright. 10.15. by the Associated Press.) SAARBRUECKEN. Saar Basin Ter ritory, January 12— Jewish residents of the Saar Territory said today they had been advised to go to Germany tonight and return next week, after the voting is over in tomorrow's plebiscite. They said they were "advised" to return with passports stamped show ing they had abstained from voting in the plebiscite. The "advice," they said, came from the Nazis. Under the conditions men tioned, they said, they may escape re prisals if the Saar returns to Ger many. The Jewish population of the terri tory is small, amounting to only one half of 1 per cent. Meanwhile Nazis and Communists, bitter irreconcilables, looked forward to a supreme test in tomorrow's Saar plebiscite. For Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and his followers the balloting will repre sent the first trial of their policies in a free election. Communists and Socialists view the vote as a last stand against the European dictatorships which one after another have crushed their power. Leaders of the (Nazi) German front express hope the plurality in favor of the Saar's reunion with the Father land will reach 90 per cent. Such a victory, they believe, would strikingly confirm the overwhelming indorse ment accorded Hitler in the Nazi-con trolled election last August. The vigorous efforts made by the German front to realize its hopes are interpreted here as an indication of the Brown Shirts' determination to show the world that elections in Ger many are not influenced by force. A plurality of only 65 or 70 per cent, some circles believe, would in dicate strong anti-Nazi sentiment in the territory, for many Saarlanders who are not sympathetic with the Hitler regime are expected to vote for reunion with Germany as a patriotic duty. GARAGE STRIKE PEACE PROSPECT BRIGHTENED St. Paul Union Men and Employ ers Continue Conferences. Board Again Meets. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, January 12. — Prospects for settlement of the garage workers' strike in St. Paul appeared brighter today, representatives of union men and employers said as they continued conferences. Meanwhile, the Regional Labor Board resumed meetings with both sides in the Minneapolis strike, in which seven men have been shot and wounded in disturbances the past week. Pour men were wounded In a skir mish at one garage here yesterday. L. E. Baker, president of the Trl Motor Co. plant was shot through the hand when a group of strikers and sympa thizers entered the place in an effort to persuade four mechanics employed there to Join the unira. Three other men were slightly wounded when A. P. Crounse, vice president of the firm, a special police deputy fired a gun. Crounse and Baker were severely beaten. Lut Wednesday three other men were shot and wounded at another shop. Union men ask wage and hour ad justments and recognition of their union· \ Brisk Business Department store sales in Washington for the month of December were up 20.9% over the same month of a year ago. This increase was the largest for any city in the Fifth Fed eral Reserve District, in which Washington is located/ Yesterday's Advertising (Local Display.) Line·. The Evening Star. 49,360 2nd Newspaper. . .. 20,039 3rd Newspaper... 15,980 4th Newspaper... 15,407 5th Newspaper... 11,537 Total (nAtSSS.) 62,963 The thorough coverage of its circulation makes The Star the first advertising choice of Washington mer chants who are sharing in this Increased volume of re tail cales. 1 PLANS DISCUSSED TO MEET ADVERSE DECISION ON GOLD Move to Increase Supreme Court Membership Consid ered Among Senators. GOVERNMENT VICTORY IS HOPE OF OFFICIALS "Chaos" Stressed Again in Final Arguments if Ruling Upsets Present Order. Br the Associated Press. Just In case the Supreme Court should rule against the Government In the momentous gold clause case, some Senators are discussing legisla tive plans to avoid what one leading advocate of a cheaper dollar called the "ruination of everything." "There has been discussion and un doubtedly a program will be ready." said Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, but he quickly added: "We have every confidence the Su preme Court will sustain the admin istration and the Congress. An ad verse decision would have such a widespread effect it would ruin every thing." More Court Members Discussed. Thomas told newspaper men that one idea under tentative discussion, of which he was not the author, would provide for increasing the member ship of the Supreme Court by two or three to make more certain the re covery program would "get a new deal." A prominent member of the Bank ing Committee, however added that the committee had not discussed the impending decision. Upon the decision hang the fate of the New Deal monetary program and the question whether there shall be an increase of some $69,000,000.000 in private and public debts. After Chief Justice Hughes had asked further questions about the Government's rights in relation to contracts, the court heard final arguments yesterday in the last of five gold cases. The complainants challenge the Governments power to abrogate clauses calling for payment in gold or its equivalent. In brief, the question is whether a $1,000 gold security should be worth $1.890 In the new, de valued currency, or Just $1,000. 1 President Roosevelt and Treasury officials declined comment, though fiscal officers were known to be watch ing the case closely. Moet officials who would say anything predicted a Government victory. There was much unofficial specu lation as to what would be done if the decision went the other way. Some thought the Treasury would continue to pay dollar for dollar, face value, in the new currency until Congress ordered it to make a change. Some others suggested the President might take control over the currency, as he did shortly after assuming office, by proclaiming another emergency. The verdict cannot come before February 4, according to those fa miliar with the procedure of the high est tribunal. Attorney General Cummings closed aiguments yesterday with a suggestion the court might want to order a re argument. He requested the case be kept open for that purpose. Explains Government Decision. He has contended "chaos" would fol low an adverse decision and in sum ming up yesterday asserted: "Permit me to say that what was done was not done thoughtlessly, but after the most careful, painstaking study and consideration and with con secrated devotion to deal rightfully with all our people. * * * The course (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) GOLD HIGHER IN JAPAN Exchange Bates Not Affected by Purchase Price Change. I ΤΟΚΙΟ, January 12 OP).—The finance ministry announced today an increase in the government's gold pur chase price from 2.95 yen (about $8.26) per gram to 3.09 yen (about $8.65). The new price, effective today, still is well below the world price, and will not aSect exchange rates or Interna tional commerce. The finance ministry action merely means the government is paying more to the domestic producers who are forbidden to export the metal. COME ON BiLL-Wê i Gotta Get on the Trail again y U. S. Planting of Vast Tree Belt In Midwest to Start in Spring —————————— 4,000,000 Saplings Will Be Used in Launching Project to Conserve Mois ture and Provide Windbreaks. I j (Copyright 1935 by the Associated Press ) Four million trees will be planted next Spring, it was announced today, as a start on the Forest Service's vast shelter belt designed to sweep from Canada to the Texas Panhandle. The American Tree Association de clared that 23 of 30 planting areas had been selected tentatively, each calling for planting of 139,000 trees in strips 5 miles long and 10 rods wide. They will be established in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla homa and Texas. Meanwhile, the Forest Service has collected sufficient seed of acclimated species to provide about 100.000,000 seedlings for planting in 1936. Designed to provide windbreaks for cultivated land, the project was in dorsed by President Roosevelt and set in motion with an allotment of $1,000,000 in 1934. When completed It will provide a belt of trees planted in the 10-rod-wlde strips over a 100 mile-wide area. Trees are to be planted in 19 rows with intervals of about 6 feet. The outside rows will be such trees as chokeberry, kumac and willow; the next rows Russian olive or mulberry, osage orange or apricot; the next rows of green ash, American or Chinese elm, oak, hackberry, Texas walnut, black locust or pecan, and the center rows of cottonwood, willows and black locust. Paul H. Roberts, acting director of the project, said in an article in the Forestry News Digest, publication of the tree association, that plans for 1935 "provide for planting the favor able places first, using past experi ence and study as a guide." Work next Spring, he added, "will be distributed so as to yield the best possible results of a demonstrational or an experimental nature." The association estimated that 140 man-days of work will be required for each mile, or a total of 21.000 man days on the areas contemplated. Ad ditional employment is expected in nursery cultivation of young trees and in surveying other areas. "The function of the project is to establish tree shelter belts in the rela tively treeless Middle West to reduce the destructive effects of wind, thus conserving moisture, stabilizing the productiveness of the land, developing game and recreational resources and making the countryside a better place in which to live," Roberts declared. M DEMANDED IN KIDNAP THREAT Police Reveal Children of Boston Banker Guarded for Two Months. By the Associated Press. NEWTON, Mass., January 12.—A threat to kidnap the 6-year-old son of Thomas P. Beal. president of the Second National Bank of Boston, was revealed today. Demands for $25.000 and warnings that Thomas P. Beal. Jr., would be "destroyed" unless immediate pay ment was made, were first received by the Beal family two months ago. An unobstrusive but heavy guard of State and Newton police have been at the Beal home, 47 Lawrence road, in the exclusive Chestnut Hill sec tion, since receipt of the first threat ening letter, and special guards have protected the boy and his sister, Ju dith, 7. Work Secretly Two Months. Federal agents and postal Inspectors have been working on the case sec retly for the last two months, during which telephoned threats, repeating the first written demand, have been received. All police agencies engaged In the Investigation were agreed today that the letter and subsequent demands were not the work of cranks. The first letter was said to explain in detail the method by which Beal was to pay the $25.000. The phone calls were reminders of the details contained in the epistle. State police, who revealed the kid nap threat early today, would not dis cuss the case further. Both Children Guarded. The 6-year-old son of the bank president Is being accompanied by a special guard constantly and is not allowed to leave the family grounds even for school. Similar precautions are being taken for Judith. Floodlights were placed on the roof of the Chestnut Hill home. Every foot of the estate is reached by their rays and any person, moving even in the sheltered driveways, would be im mediately thrown into relief. Mrs. Beal is the former May L. Morgan, New York and Boston social reglsterite. Beal Is the third member of a fam ily which has become internationally famous in the banking world. His grandfather was assistant to Secretary Chase of President Lincoln's cabinet and his father was once president of ! the bank Beal now heads. Manufacturer Dies. LIMA, Ohio, January 12 (JP).—Frank O. Wright, 63, retired vice president of the Ohio Steel Foundry Co., died here yesterday. He formerly lived at Oil City, Pa., where he was connected ι with the American Steel Foundry Co. 4 A. F. OF L EXPECTS SLIGHT 1935 GAINS Report Predicts 1,000,000 of 11,000,000 Jobless Due to Get Work. Bj the Associated Press. Gradual business improvement In 1935 was forecast by the American Federation of Labor in a report pub lished today. But it estimated the up swing would mean jobs for only one out of about every 11 workers now un employed. It placed the number of jobless at 11,459,000 and said there was prospect for employment of only 1,000,000 of them. Adoption of the proposed 30-hour week throughout industry would pro vide work for another 4,000,000, the federation's monthly report of busi ness conditions said. It added that President Roosevelt's program aiming to employ 3,500,000 on Government projects was the only other immediate hope of reducing unemployment. The report found that business was better in 1934, but labor made no "sig nificant gains." "Industrial profits increased, busi ness failures decreased and the busi ness community was In a better posi tion to carry on profitable business activity at the end of 1934 than at the beginning," said the summary. It found that general recuperation "un questionably is progressing through out the business community." On the other hand, it reported, aver age workers' real wages were lower than at the start of last yfear, at which time individual income was described as still being t813 below the amount needed to keep a family "in health and decency." Sailroad Official Dies. - PATCHOGUE, Ν. Y„ January 12