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WEATHER. (Ο. β. Weather Bureau Portcast.) Cloudy and colder, preceded by rain today; tomorrow fair; moderate north east, shifting to northwest, winds. Tem peratures—Highest, 54, at 3 p.m. yes terday; lowest, 34, at 5 ajn. yesterday. Pull report on Page A-5. (A>) Meant Associated Pre»». WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys No. 1,560 No. 33,157. SMCffiTc! WASHINGTON, D. C„ SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1935-NINETY-EIGHT PAGES. « FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE KIDNAP TESTIMONY ENDS IN STATE FIGHT ON ALIBI; BRUNO WOULD REAPPEAR Λ ^——— Case Expected to Go to Jury Tuesday. MRS. MORROW LAST WITNESS State's Final Figlit on Testimony on Woods. βτ the Assoelâted Press. FLEMING ΤΟΝ. Ν. J.. February 9 — The case against Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh baby murder was completed today, five weeks and three days after it began. With Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, the baby's grandmother, as one of the witnesses, the case ended—except for the legal oratory which will last through Monday and part of Tues dav—on a note of sharp contradiction. The final day's testimony concerned Itself not with Hauptmann. the Bronx carpenter accused of horrible crime, but with the memory of two persons dead—the little Isador Fisch and the Morrow maid servant. Violet Sharpe. *ho committed suicide. When it was not seeking to show that neither Fisch nor Miss Sharpe had any guilty knowledge of the kid nap murder of March 1, 1932. the etate In iti last day of rebuttal testimony, ripped at the "lumber" evidence which the defense has pre sented. Hauptmann. never demonstrative, eat through the final day of the trial which may mean his life, showing little emotion. Mr». Lindbergh Present. In contrast with the defendant *f»re Mrs. Morrow and her daughter. Mrs. Anne Lindbergh, who sat through both sessions today display uig λ.υτ:a iiiicicsL in nu iiir proceed ings. Mrs. Lindbergh, the baby's mother, was making her second appearance in the old Hunterdon County courtroom. She was one ol the first witnesses of the State. Col. Lindbergh, on the other hand, hns been a constant court attendant, •itting behind the State counsel's table in a position from which he could look almost squarely at the witnesses a.< they paraded. 141 of them, through 29 court day3 of teetimony. The presentation of evidence came to an abrupt close at 2:37 p.m., when the State announced it had finished it* rebuttal evidence and the defenst. headed by Edward J. Reilly of New York, announced It would off°r no •urrebuttaL Justice Thomas W Trenchard called a recess until Monday, when Anthony M. Hauck, Jr.. one ol the assistants of Attorney General L»avid Wilentz, who is conducting the State's case, will make the first summafion Hauck will outline the points which the prosecution has made through the testimony of the 88 witnesses it called to the stand. Hauck does not expect to require more than an hour and a half. Reilly, for the defense, will follow He is expected to require most of the remainder of the day. Wilentz will cpeak for the State Tuesday, and the case should go to the jury of eignt men and four women by midalter tioon of that day—Lincoln's birthday The charge to the Jury by Justice Trenchard is not expected to require more than 45 minutes. Last Witness Called. Mrs. Morrow was the last witness, a tragic touch to a trial that has attracted attention around tne world. She testified, however, not as the grandmother of a baby murdered, but *s the employer of an English servant girl whose name had been repeatedly drawn into the case as having pos •ibly had gruilty knowledge of the crime. Mrs. Morrow, widow of a Morgan partner, who also was an American Ambassador and Senator, testified that the servant, Violet Sharp», wai at the Morrow home in Englewood the night of the kidnapin·? up to about 7:45 o'clock, and that she returned to the home about 11. The kidnaping was from the Lindbergh home at Hopewell, many miles distant. At the conclusion of Mrs. Morrow's testimony, the defense moved for a directed verdict ot acquittal, which Justice Trenchard promptly denied Chief Counsel Reilly said: "So that ""(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) VIRGINIA'S WORKERS BACK ON 1929 KEEL Employment Figures Indicate 130,000 Wage Earners—New Industries Credited. Br the Associated Press. RICHMOND. V·.. February 9 — Good fortune plus a stable State gov ernment and a sound policy of en couraging suitable types of industries to locate in Virginia were mentioned today by Maj. Prank P. Evans, stat istician of the State Industrial Com mission. aa having aided in bringing employment in this State back to 192S levels. Nearly completed figures for 1934 were the basis for Maj. Evans' esti mate that at least 130,000 wage earn ers in Virginia are at work—as many as were reported during the last oi the so-called boom years. He said that certain industries, notably new rayon plants which started operations in the State in 1929 and 1930 in spite of the depression, pros pered through the leaner years and compensated losses in some other lines Figures gathered by the Industrial Commission indicate, Maj. Evans said, that mercantile employment as well as factory employment now is gain ing lost ground. « Accused Wants to Make Final Appeal to Jury Personally Hauptmann Reported Opposed to Plan of Reilly to Sum Up Case Alone, Wants Others Included. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON. N. J.. February 9 — Bruno Richard Hauptmann. on trial for the slaying of the Lindbergh baby, wants to make a final, personal appeal to the jury. It was learned tonight that Haupt mann had asked one of his counsel if the court regulations would permit him to address the jury himself before the talesmen retire to consider a verdict. His counsel expressed doubt that the statement would be permitted. Should a conviction result. Haupt mann may be permitted to make a statement before sentence Is imposed, however. Hauptmann, meanwhile, was report ed opposed to the plan of his chief counsel, Edward J. Reilly, to sum up his case alone before the Jury. Reilly. the Brooklyn attorney ac corded the privileges of the New Jersey courts through courtesy, said after a conference with the presiding judge today that he would sum up for the defense. His colleagues. New Jersey attorneys, are not expected to par ticipate. Hauptmann, a member of his de fense staff disclosed, was opposed to (Continued on Page 5. Column 4Γ) Illness of Speculator Changes Plans for Hear ing This Week. By the Associated Press. Ben Smith, widely known Wall Street speculator, sought by the Sen ate Munitions Committee for ques tioning. was reported yesterday by committee sources to have been found, critically ill, in an unnamed hospital. Reports from New York, however, said Smith's attorney. Jacob Gould Schurman. announced there was no mystery about Smith's whereabouts, that he was in the Herkness pavilion of the medical center there and would appear before the committee as soon as his doctors permitted. The informtion on Smith being located came soon after an an nouncement was made that a new development in the committee's In-1 quiry into asserted collusion among J major shipyards in bidding on naval construction compelled a change in plans for beginning the examination tomorrow of officials of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Members of the committee said Smith had not been served with the subpoena issued Friday. His name has been coupled with a swift change in ownership of the New York cor poration in the Summer of 1933 un der circumstances the committee felt indicated there had been "inside knowledge" of big spending of Federal money slated in the shipyards. Company Chairman Called. Committee counsel announced Wil liam Flock, chairman of the board of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., had been summoned for questioning WUIUilUW Hliu 1.11ML nUIUCI rcigu president of the Newport News com pany, had been advised to come Tues day. "Correspondence and other matter has been disclosed," said F. W. La rouche, counsel for the committee, "which bears on relationship of the 'big three' companies in bidding on naval construction." He said Flock and others would be questioned, but said uncertainty as to whether the others could be inter rogated tomorrow made It necessary to withhold their names. The abrupt change in procedure under which questioning of the New port News Co. was set back a day (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) BILL WOULD LIGHTEN LAST PROPERTY LEVY South Carolina Representatives to Press Companion Measure to Cut Tax. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C.. February 9—A concerted legislative effort to reduce or abolish South Carolina's sole sur viving statewide tax on property was announced today. Representatives J. D McCullough and H. P. Beam of Greenville said they would introduce a duplicate of a bill offered in the Senate last Thursday to remove as much of the 5-mill property levy as the condition of State finances July 1 will permit. Proponents of the plan said they hoped the levy could be reduced 2 % mills this year and that the balance could be removed in the near future without resorting to a general sales tax to offset the entire abolishment of State property levies. Smuts Says Policy of Prac tical Co-operation Binds Two Countries. By the Associated Press. CAPETOWN, February 9.—America and Britain, working together, could keep the lid clamped down on the Pacific, the world's new danger spot, Gen Jan Smuts said here tonight. "If Japan knew that, treaty or no treaty, there existed In fact a policy of practical co-operation between the British and American groups," he told the South African Institute of Inter national Affairs, "that knowledge of itself would In all probability suffice to ensure peace in the Pacific." Threat to World. Asserting Japan's present policy holds within it the possibility that virtually the entife world may be come embroiled in the Pacific, the South African soldier and states man said: "The Dominions desire the closest association possible between Great Britain and the United States in world affairs for their own future security. "They look partly to the United States, for they feel sure that what happened In the Great War would happen again, and that in any grave crisis of the future and in any hour of danger those two groups would be found side by side, treaty or no treaty." Recommends Patience. At the same time. Gen. Smuts de clared the "sensitiveness" of Asiatic nations necessitates a "double dose of charity" on the part of Europe and America. "Japan's situation calls for a large measure of patience, good will and co-operation between the United States and the British Common wealth," he said. ROOSEVELT DRAFTS HIS FINAL PROGRAM Special Message This Week Being Formulated—May Ask Per manent N. R. A. By the Associated Près». President Roosevelt began work yes terday on formulation of a final pro gram for the new N. R. A. to be pro posed to Congress In a special message this week. He conferred for an hour with Don ald R. Richberg. chairman of the N. R. A. Policy Committee. In all likelihood the President will ask for a two-year extension for the National Recovery Administration and the establishment of its fundamental principles into permanent law. Richberg in his talk with the Presi dent also went over other problems coming under his attention as Federal co-ordinator of the emergency activi ties of the Government. Wallace's Uncle Resigns. ST. PAUL. Minn., February' 9 (Λ^·— Dan A. Wallace, an uncle of Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, to day resigned as editor of two farm publications, the Farmer and the Farmer's Wife. He had been with the papers for 29 years. Audience Greets President Attending Play, "Dodsivortli" By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt last night did the unusual /or him by attending the National Theater to see Walter Hu ston and Pay Bainter star in the successful play "Dodsworth," by Sin clair Lewis. It was the second time the President had attended a theatrical performance here since he entered the White House. He had planned to see the play, which depicts life of a Midwest married couple In Europe, Wednesday, but because of engage ments, was unable to go until last night. The President went into the theater shortly before the play began, leaning on the arm of his son Elliott. The audience, apparently, was taken by lurprise. As the orchestra stiuck up the "Star Spangled Banner," the crowd'» attention was directed to the box in the front balcony, where the Roosevelt party was arriving. Recognizing the President, the audi ence applauded and cheered. Mr. Roosevelt bowed and smiled. Besides his son and daughter-in law, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, the Pres ident was accompanied by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Col. Henry Roosevelt, and his wife; Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, sr., widow of the former Secretary of the Interior: Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal sec retary, and Miss Grace Tulley. Several White House aides and secret service men also accompanied him. Between acts attention was focused on the Roosevelt party. Mr. Roosevelt smiled and waved to friends In. the audienc* I ROOSEVELT MS SUMO PACIFIC DEFEMGRAM Proposed Sum Will Be Shared Equally by Army and Navy. $11,000,000 TO BE USED FOR HAWAIIAN AIR BASE Money Is to Come From $300, 000,000 Labeled for Normal Federal Works. A $40,000,000 national defense pro gram, centered in improved Army and Navy strongholds in the Pacific, was revealed yesterday by Congressional leaders to have received administra tion approval. The money will be shared equally by the Army and Navy. Chairman of the House Military and Naval Com mittees said it was part of a $300, 000,000 public works fund inserted in the 1936 Government budget with the consent of President Roosevelt and the Budget Bureau. While the Navy was reported as prepared to spend some of its $20,000 000 along the Atlantic, mast of it would be used for shipyards, drydocks and bases on the Pacific Coast and at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, and Coco Sola, Canal Zone. Details of the apportion ment of the money are being with held. but it was learned most of it would be spent in Hawaii and on the West Coast. The Army plans to use nearly $11. 000,000 to begin constructing an $18,000,000 air base in Hawaii. The remainder would be allotted for coast and harbor defenses, including anti aircraft guns, and for erection of officers' quarters and barracks at Army posts. The money is to come from the $300,000 000 labeled for normal Fed eral public works in the 1936 budget. Naval Maneuvers Planned. The decision to use mast or tne ι money In the Pacific was said to j have been influenced by the fact the fleet has been concentrated in Pacific j waters during much of the past two years. Important Naval maneuvers are planned during the Summer in the ! Hawaii. Alaska and Puget Sound de- ; fense areas. Navy officials stressed before the Naval Committee that facilities for , handling the fighting vessels on the ' coast are inadequate. They directed attention particularly toward the lack of facilities large enough to care for battleships. Since questions of authorizations for projects are Involved, Chairman Buchanan of the Appropriations Committee said the Naval and Mili tary Committees were being consulted on items to be Included in the $300,- j 000.000 fund. Chairman McSwain informed Bitch- ■ anan yesterday that the Military Affairs Committee already had ap proved at a secret session the $11.000.000 outlay for Hawaii, as contemplated bv the Army. Coast Second Line of Defense. This "world's largest air base." as it has been termed in Japan, would be one of a chain beginning in Alaska and ending in the Panama Canal Zone. It would make the Pacific Coast the second line of de ] fense. The Army's proposals before the House Military Committee show that, in all, President Roosevelt's projected expenditures for national defense have passed the billion-dollar mark, thus providing for an unprecedented peace-time expansion in the land, sea and air services. The strengthened military outposts would fit into a $405,000.000 Army modernization program involving Army personnel expansion by at least one third. and a mass increase in aircraft by 2.320 planes. It would require a $90.000.000 Increase over the War Department budgetary allowance, which previously had been boosted $48,516.675, to a" total· of $312,235,811. Program Is Defensive. With the Navy g allowance In creased by $186,853.499 to a total of $489.871,347, and the P. W. A. allot ment for naval building, most ol it unexpended, the projected expendi ture goes into 10 figures. Congres sional leaders said that, while this program, if approved by Congress, would constitute the Nation's largest peace-time national defense program and might take first rank for size in current world expenditures, it was definitely "defensive" and a construc tive source of wide employment. At the same time, it developed that President Roosevelt has commissionea A. Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney General and later alien property cus todian, to draw up a program to give the United States a merchant marine equal to any in the world. Ocean mail subsidies to American ship com panies would be supplanted by direct subsidies on the order of American import tariffs. The proposed Army modernization expenditures is about double the aver age annuel appropriation to the War Department for military purposes. The military_outlay,_as advocated in "Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) SUSPECT IN HATCHET MURDER IS BOOKED Young Englishman Remanded to Appear February 14 on Kamler Charges. Bt the Associated Press. NASSAU, N. Y„ Bahamas, February 9.—The Bahamas' first violent death in many years brought a 25-year-old Englishman into prisoner's dock today, charged with slaying Fred Kamler. swimming instructor, on January 24. Kenneth Johnson, also knowr. as Victor Humphrey, a native of Birming ham. England, who came here from Montreal. Canada, last July, was re manded to appear in court Febru ary 14 Kamler, formerly employed at pools in Miami. Fla., and at Coney Island, ! Ν. Y., was found dead on harbor I rocks, his skull split eight times with 1 ρ hatchet. \ THE MOUNTAIN GOES TO MAHOMET! Supreme Court Will Pass Down No Rulings To morrow. By the Associated Press. The Supreme Court's awaited-for weeks gold decision will not be an nounced tomorrow. For a second time the high tribunal yesterday departed from its usual course to let it be known that its next regular opinion day will pass without the announcement of that I tensely awaited verdict. The nine astute members of the bench met for their customary Sat urday consultation. For nearly five hours they were closeted in their closely guarded discussion room. Then while his colleagues climbed into waiting automobiles. Chief Justice Hughes repaired to his office and sum moned the court's clerk. Charles Ε Cropley. Their conference was brief, j Cropley returned to his own office. | crowded with newspaper men. Sensing the suspense which gripped the group, he leisurely seated himself behind his desk, lolled, back in his chair with easy informality, and, at last said: •'There will be no statement, but I arr authorized to say that no opinions will be announced on Monday." "That means no opinions of any kind?" a newsman asked. "Thet's it.'· "How about Tuesday?" "I said Monday." Cummings Sees Roosevelt. Cropley went on to make it plain that he was speaking only of opinions, that "orders" may be handed down, j announcing whether other cases will or will not be reviewed by the court. Just as was the case a week ago, the Capital had become keyed up to the expectation of a Monday decision. A short statement by Chief Justice Hughes last Saturday abruptly pro vided the anti-climax. While the court was meeting. At- ' torney General Cummings spent two hours with President Roosevelt going over the plans which have been drawn up for immediate action in the event that the decision goes against the Government. Informed of the court's further delay, he declined to com ment. The Government's plans for action, if necessary, were ready a week ago. the product of many hours' consulta tion between Treasury. Justice De partment and Reconstruction Finance Corp. experts. The Government, it has been made clear, is ready for any eventuality the opinion may produce. May Come Any Day. Although Cropley's half-laughing answer to questions on the possibility of a verdict on Tuesday, was hardly taken as an indication of what is In prospect, the chance remained that ί Continued on Pace 3. Column 1.) SETH Schooner Carrying Phillips Lord Reported Safe After Bat tling Storm. Ry the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. February 9 — The Duke of Gloucester, third son of Britain's King George, was swept into an unscheduled adventure today when the cruiser Australia steamed fjr a spot 300 miles north of Tahiti, where the radio broadcast schooner Seth Parker was battling a storm and ap parently riding it out. The cruiser—a unit of the Austra lian Navy with the duke as a pas senger—turned off her course after Phillips Lord, entertainer and master of the widely publicised schooner, sent out a stream of messages saying he believed his vessel was in danger be cause of heavy seas. The schooner, a four-master, did not send out SOS calls, however. At 1:35 p.m. (Eastern standard time) the radio of the Seth Parker was heard to say "Everything Ο. K. now." It added, however, that the "owner" didn't think so. The sender expressed the belief "he (the owner) should go to sleep now. Has been up all night." An hour later the schooner's wire less reported the situation was the same The cruiser, taking the duke to Tahiti from Australia, was about 200 miles frcm the Seth Parker when she turned off her course to offer as sistance. t « c « Horse Su minons Aid to Woman, 111, On Isolated Farm By the Associated Press. BAKER, Oreg., February 9 — By virtue of good fortune or plain, ordinary horse sense. Mrs. George HoHoway was recovering today from a critical illness. The Holloways live on' an iso lated farm. Mrs. Holloway be came so critically ill that her husband dared not leave her to summon a physician. He decided to use his dog and his hoiee in lieu of telephonic communication. Holloway pinned a large note to ; the saddle. Then he set the dog to barking furiously at the horse's heels. Within an hour the note was taken from the saddle by a trav eler who immediately responded to the call for help. PUBLIC DOMAIN ENTIRELY CLOSED Roosevelt Withdraws Re maining Land in Prepa ration for Conservation. By the Associated Press. In preparation for a Nation-wide conservation program. President Roosevelt yesterday withdrew all re maining public land from use. His order, completing that of last November, affects about 1.200.000 acres, and puts the final touch on withdrawal from settlement, location, sale or entry of the entire 165.695.000 acres of public domain. The November order was to make MArniKla mm-Anntinn r\f QA ΠΛΠ AAA acres as permanent live stock grazing area under the Taylor act. The President said yesterday's withdrawal, applicable to 12 States, was "pending determination of the most useful purposes to which they may be put in furtherance of the land program and conservation and de velopment of natural resources." Held for Conservation. He added that this land, not suited to profitable growing of crops, was destined for the conservation and de velopment of forests, soil, and other natural resources, the creation of grazing districts, and the establish ment of game preserves and bird refuges. Although the Interior Department has not yet made final selection of the 80.000,000 acres of grazing land. Chairman Deroun. Democrat of Louisiana of the House Public Lands Committee has introduced a bill to extend it to the remaining areas suit able for live stock. Little of the land withdrawn yes terday was grazing acreage, and of ficials said much of it would be used for forest end game preserves. A (.Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) STRIKE TIES UP BOATS 20 Out *f Service at Baltimore. Pay Boost Asked. BALTIMORE, February 9 (Λ5).— Twenty tugs were out of service here as deckhands and firemen on towboats went on slrike late today. The men demanded higher wages, it was said, though officers of shipping companies said they were not sure what the strike action was about. SIR· UPTURN SHOWN IN SURVEY U. S. Chamber of Commerce Reports January Gain After 1934 Advance. By the Associated Press. A current and continuing Im provement in business, which already lifted 1934 industrial production 25 per cent higher than the low year of 1932, was reported yesterday by the United States Chamber of Commerce "The increase in production has been accompanied by a corresponding improvement in employment." the chamber said in its weekly review. "Our manufacturing industries alone in December. 1934, gave employment to 1.300,000 more wage earners than In December. 1932. The manufacturing pay rolls for last December were at least $190,000,000 more than for the same month two years before. "All of the statistics yet available indicate that instead of showing a moderate seasonable recession, which is normal, employment in manufac turing was maintained in January at the December level, and pehraps rose higher. 1929 Power Use Exceeded. "Among the statistics appears re markable use of electric power, which in January this year exceeded use in January. 1929. At the end of January coal was moving by railroad in greater volume than at this time of year since 1931. "So far as checks drawn on bank apposas supply an iiiutx 01 general business activity, they were 15 per cent over the total for January, 1934. "In a period of recovery unevenness is usually a sign of progress. This may be cold comfort for those In dustries which do not at once share the general improvement. "The face of the statistical record which we now have behind us for re cent years, however, suggests that, barring the Intervention of disturb ing artificial and arbitrary influences, there is ahead more improvement in the durable goods fields and renewed advance in the Industries that offer products for immediate consumption." Legislation Vital Factor. In the legislative field the chamber said the Roosevelt administration was still the "dominating factor" against demands In Congress for the bonus, inflation and the 30-hour week. The review noted a "decided tend ency toward greater deliberation in the consideration of pending meas ures" based on the reluctance of leg islators "to do anything that might interrupt the current improvement in business conditions." "Administration proposals continue to pile up in unexpected and un precedented proportions," the cham ber said. "Holding company, banking, industrial and transportation legisla tion. all of the first magnitude, hav^ been added to the crowded congres sional docket. "In Congress itself, demands are being pressed for Immediate payment of the bonus, inflationary legislation and for a 30-hour week in industry. "With none of these latter proposals is the administration in sympathy and its influence In legislation may still be regarded as a dominating factor." Bandits Attack Mexican City. VERA CRUZ. Mexico, February 9 OP).—A group of bandits attacked the town of Chalma, near Chicontepec. today, killing the chief of police. Moisture Already Stored Ends Drought Effects in Wide Area By the Associated P. ess. The weather man reported yester day enough moisture for Spring crops already was stored in the ground in most of the vast area ravaged by drought last year. Making this disclosure, J. B. Kincer, chief of the Weather Bureau's Cli mate and Crop Division, also ex pressed cautious optimism about the prospect for further relief from drought conditions. Official weather records, some dat ing back more than a century, showed that the years immediately following a drought usually have enough rain fall to produce good crops. The area which Kincer is watch ing to see if history repeats itself comprises the Mississippi and Ohio β t Valleys and a wide belt east of the Rocky Mountains. The sections which haven't yet re ceived sufficient rain to assure Spring crops, he said, are Western Minnesota. North Dakota, the eastern half of Montana, eastern portions of Wyo ming and Colorado, most of South Dakota and Nebraska, the western portions of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and most of New Mexico. Kincer said they usually receive needed moisture In Spring snows and rains. Even if weather conditions through out the Midwest are greatly Improved this year, he is convinced that thou sands of acres of land now under the plow should not be in cultivation. In this class he placed 40 per cent of those sections where the annual rain fall is less than 20 inches. η RELIEF BILL DUE FOR MM TEST GNSENATEFLOOR "Prevailing Wage" Amend ment to Offer Problem in Holding Majority. EFFORT TO FORCE CUT IN TOTAL GAINS FORCE Adams Pushes Fight for Reduced Sum—Revolt Surprise* Party Leaders. BY G. GOl LD LINCOLN. With the administration battling deperatfly against the McCarran "prevailing-wage" amendment, the fate of President Roosevelt's work-re lief bill hangs in the balance. The first showdown of strength is expected to come in the senate Ap propriations Committee tomorrow, when a motion will be made by Sen ator McAdoo of California to recon sider the committee's action voting the amendment into the bill. The real test will come, however, when the bill reaches the Senate floor. It will be difficult to hold a majority in line against this amendment, which has the backing of organized labor. And if the Senate should pass the amended bill and send it back to the House, and a record vote could be obtained, there is grave doubt the House would hold out against it. Second Test Looming. Another test of strength for the administration is due to come in com mittee also when Senator Adams of Colorado offers in somewhat modified form his amendment to cut the total appropriation carried In the bill from $4.880,000,000 to $2.880.000,000. This amendment was defeated in commit tee last week by a tie vote, 10 to 10, with four members not voting. The revolt in the Senate committee ana in me isenaie nseii against me work-relief bill and the broad powers which it gives the President has been a surprising shock to the administra tion. The adoption ol either the Mc Carran amendment or the Adams amendment, or both, might mean the death of the work-reliei plan. The McCarian amendment would permit the work-relief plan to go forward, but on a much modified scale. The President and his supporters contend the adoption of the McCar ran amendment, which would compel the payment of the "prevailing wage" ; for similar work in private industry, ι would make impossible the object of i the legislation—the taking of 3,500, | 000 workers off relief rolls and plac j ing them on payrolls. Four Absent During Vote. The McCarran amendment was ί adopted by a vote of 12 to 8 in com j mittee, with four members absent and ι not voting. The four absentees were ί Tydings of Maryland, McKellar of Tennessee and Overton of Louisiana, ι Democrats, and Nye of North Da ! kota. Republican. Tydings and Mc Kellar definitely will vote against the McCarran amendment. Overton has been absent on account of illness. If present he has been rated for the amendment. Whether he can be ! voted by proxy or will send a proxy ! is a question. Senator Nye was out of the city yesterday. It is claimed in some quarters that he will sup port the amendment. The administration is counting definitely on winning over several of the seven Democrats who orig inally voted for the McCarran amendment. One of them. McAdoo, has already shifted and is making the motion for reconsideration. The other six Democrats who supported the McCarran amendment are re ported to have been Copeland of New York. Thomas of Oklahoma. Russell of Georgia, McCarran of Nevada, O'Mahoney of Wyoming and Truman of Missouri. If the votes of Tydings and McKellar are cast against the amendment, and those of Nye and Overton for it. it will be necessary lor the administration to persuade three Democrats to shift their orig inal positions on the amendment, or two Democrats in addition to Mc Adoo. Administration leaders declare their confidence that this can be ac complished. But they are not over looking any steps which may be necessary. Adams Plan Vote Close. Tvmi xrgaiu ιυ iiic /\uhins amena ment to cut the appropriation, which would mean virtually a continuance j for the next year of the direct relief system instead oi the work relief j planned by the President, the situa j tion in committee is very close. The ! same four absentees failed to vote on j this amendment as failed to vote cn McCarran's amendment. Tydings ia ; counted for the amendment, and so is Overton. On the other hand. Mc Kellar may be expected to support the administration and so may Sen ator Nye. McKellar was called to the White House yesterday and when he left he «.Continued on Page 3. Column 6.) i EXECUTIONER EXECUTED Official Shot by Catalonian Gang ster's Friends in Cafe. BARCELONA, Spain, February 9 1 (VP).—Threats of vengeance against the executioner who put the famous Cata lonian gangster, Aranda, to death last December, were carried out here today. A group of gunmen, supposedly friends of Aranda, mowed down the executioner as he sat In a cafe. In conformity with Spanish laws, hia j identity has not been revealed even in death. Guide for Readers General News Part One Editorial Part Two Society Part Three Amusements Part Four Finance Part Five Lost and Found — Page A-9 Stamps Page 11, Part Five Radio Page 6, Part Four Sports Pages B-7 to B-ll ft