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BRITAIN SPURNS FRANCE’S PLEA
10 ffl BUILDINGS
“Big Push” Carried Into
Grand Central Area of
New York.
MOVE LAUNCHED AFTER
TERMS ARE REJECTED
Banks and Department Stores Are
Included in Latest Walk
out Orders.
B.4CKGROL\ D—
Home life and business activities
alike are feeling effects of bitter
dispute between management and
labor in building service activities
in New York City.
Starting week ago Monday in
comparatively small area, strike of
elevator operators, janitors and
other building employes has spread
over large portion of world's great
est city. Although wages and hours
of employment are at issue, greatest
controversy has centered over
closed-shop demand of union.
Seeking solution are Mayor La
Guardia and Assistant Secretary of
Labor McGrady.
By the Associated Tress.
NEW YORK. March 10.—Under the
opening salvo of the building workers'
"big push,” William D. Rawlins, ex
ecutive secretary of the Realty Ad
visory Board on Labor Relations, said
today his group "is ready to accept
any reasonable agreement which will
work to eliminate abuses and sub
standard conditions in the industry.”
Rawlins declared that "the union
Is no longer fighting for the men, but
for power to crush the city."
Two hours after the lid was declared
off, following 10 days of fruitless ar
bitration, the union announced that
its strike had affected about 900 addi
tional buildings in the vital Grand
Central area of the citv.
7,#00 Men Declared Out.
Seven thousand men, Union Leader
James J. Bambrick estimated, walked
out during the two hours.
Bambrick set the figure of total
buildings affected at 4,200, which was
far in excess of police estimates. He
estimated that 2,200 buildings had
settled with the union, about half con
ceding the closed-shop clause of the
agreement and the rest granting a
•‘preferential shop,” the rehiring.
Eventually, of only union men.
At the same time Bambrick issued
sn ultimatum announcing that the old
demands of a closed shop, $2 a week
raise and 48-hour week would become
effective again.
In many buildings at least tem
porary failure to '‘pull” workers was
experienced by the "flying squadrons.”
Employes in the 38-story building at
551 Fifth avenue, who were said by
the union to be ‘TOO per cent or
ganized,” refused to leave despite a
half hour's argument with strikers.
Men Declared Desperate.
On the subject of seeking a “gen
eral” city-wide strike, which Bambrick
has been considering, the leader as
serted: "The men are exasperated. If
something isn’t done soon, I don't
know what will happen.”
He said he was still “holding under
advisement” the possibility of asking a
Nation-wide building employes’ strike.
The "Tenants' League in Defense of
the Strikers,” a new organization of
tenants sympathetic to the strikers,
called a mass meeting for tomorrow'
night at Mecca Temple.
A representative of a broadcasting
station complained to Bambrick that
radio artists were unable to appear be
cause all elevator service had been
suspended. Jambrick sent, he said,
one operator to serve the station.
The tall cluster of buildings com
posing Rockefeller Center was unaf
fected. The union was not organized
there.
Pickets patrolled streets before
many banks and insurance offices.
Several large office buildings on
Broadway, Fifth avenue and Madison
avenue were tied up by initial sorties
of the strikers. Office employes,
grouped in lobbies and on the curbs,
aw'aited replacements to man aban
doned elevators.
The long-delayed thrust at the
Grand Central area resulted, the
union said, in immediate abandon
ment of vertical transportation in the
Paramount Building, an aerial land
mark at Times Square, the lofty Per
shing Square and Fred F, French
Buildings.
Roiled by the refusal of operators
of New York’s skyscrapers to accept
Mayor P. H. La Guardia’s proposals
to end the nine-day-old walkout, the
union named department stores, ho
tels, banks and insurance companies
as their immediate points of new at
tack.
Bambrick addressed much of his at
tack at the “moneyed interests” he
said were trying to break union labor.
He appealed to all union workers and
sympathizers to withdraw their de
posits from banks they may suspect
of opposing the strike.
The Realty Advisory Board, an or
ganization of building operators, told
the mayor yesterday that “modifica
tions" would be necessary before they
could agree to his plan.
BEATTY UNCHANGED
Medical Bulletin Says Improve
ment Is Being Maintained.
LONDON, March 10 <£>).—Today’s
medical bulletin on the condition of
Earl Beatty, former admiral of the
fleet, ill for several weeks, said that
the slight improvement noted yester
day was being maintained.
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Hughes Attends
Funeral Services
For His Messenger
Justice Van Devanter
Also Pays Respects
to Colored Man.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.
Forsaking his official duties for an
hour, Chief Justice Hughes today at
tended funeral services for Edwin O.
Burke, his colored messenger at the
Supreme Court.
Associate Justice Van Devanter and
several .officials of the court also at
tended the services, which were held
at St. Augustine’s Church, Fifteenth
and L streets.
Burke, who was 58, had been at the
Supreme Court for 20 years. He served
as messenger to the late Chief Justice
Taft and was assigned to Chief Jus
tice Hughes when he succeeded Taft.
The Chief Justice had developed a
(See HUGHESTPageT2.)
LAffSMl
FOR VOTES OPENS
Hamilton Is Field Marshal.
Fletcher Seeks $1,000,000
Battle Fund.
By the Associated Press.
The begininng of a big push for Gov.
Alf M. Landon—with red-haired John
D. M. Hamilton in the role of field
j marshal—today added interest to the
I race for the Republican presidential
! nomination.
The political scene also was enliv
i ened by the first State-wide primary—
; being held today in New Hampshire—
to select national convention delegates,
J and pre-primary activity elsewhere by
members of both major parties.
Party financing matters also were to
the fore. Chairman Henry P. Fletcher
of the Republican National Committee
| is out to get $1,000,000 from 1,000.000
! Americans to help finance the forth
coming campaign against President
Roosevelt.
The committee will sell $1 "partici
pation certificates.” Fletcher ex
pressed hope the plan would become a
permanent method of financing the
| party by “rank and file" contributions.
Hamilton Resigns Post.
Hamilton, executive assistant to
Fletcher, announced his resignation
from that post yesterday in order to
j tour the Nation for Landon. This
move was widely regarded as heralding
: a more aggressive drive to gamer con
; vention votes for Landon.
Hamilton, who will remain m omee
; as the committee’s general counsel,
i was one of the first Landon-pledged
| delegates from his home State of
Kansas. He now plans a tour as "na
tional organizer for the Voluntary
i Committee" working for Landon sup
port.
He declared the campaign for Lon
don's nomination "is shaping up
! splendidly.”
Borah Supporters Active.
The supporters of Senator Borah of
Idaho also were hastening their pre
convention strategy. The New York
State Borah-for-President Committee,
headed by W. Kingsland Macy, filed a
certificate of incorporation.
The Idahoan also entered the Penn
sylvania presidential preference pri
mary and laid plans to take to the
hustings soon in Ohio and Illinois.
Supporters of the President and his
foe, Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Geor
gia, will lock horns again tomorrow in
another presidential primary test. The
(See CAMPAIGN, Page-vX)
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BANDITS GET $17,000
HOLLYWOOD. Fla., March 10 (^P).—
Five bandits today invaded the Hol
lywood Country Club, swank night
resort, and fled, sheriff’s deputies were
told, with between $17,000 and $18,000.
There were no guests at the club
during the robbery.
Binding the eight employes, after
forcing them to remove their trousers,
the bandits took the money from the
safe and escaped.
One of the employes later freed him
self and his companions.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Robert Clark
said he was told J,here was a large
amount of money, in excess of a nor
mal night’s receipts, because today
was pay day.
ROBINSON STRIKES
BACK AT RELIEF
Aims Barbs at G. 0. P. High
Command, Liberty League
and du Ponts.
CHARGES SUPPRESSION
AND FACT DISTORTION
Declares Attempt Is Made to
"Make Political Foot Ball Out
of Unfortunate Unemployed.’’
By the Associated Press.
Declaring the Republican high com
mand and the American Liberty
League are attempting to “make a
I political foot ball out of the unfortu
nate unemployed,” Senator Robinson,
Democrat, of Arkansas today launched
a New Deal offensive against critics
of its relief program.
Robinson, in a speech from the
Senate floor, entered the relief con
troversy at a time when Republicans
were demanding a Nation-wide in
vestigation of the W. P. A. The
Democratic leader asserted the Re- j
publican National Committee and "its j
corporate affiliate, the Du Pont Liberty j
League,” were engaged in a "desperate
effort to throw mud on the relief pro
gram by holding up certain projects
! to ridicule.”
j Defending white collar projects,
Robinson said the league and the G,
O. P. leadership were "suppressing,
distorting and misrepresenting the
facts.”
“They aim at President Roosevelt,"
he declared in a 7,000-word address,
“but in reality they hope to ridicule
and drive back into the soup lines the
great number of unemployed men and
women who are simply asking an op
portunity to earn a living for them
selves and their families in the old- j
fashioned and respectable American
way."
Cites Local Sponsorship.
He cited criticisms that local re
sponsibiiity was creasing aown ana
said that “in virtually every case”
local officials themselves sponsored
the projects on the ground that they
would be "of lasting benefit to their
communities."
Robinson asserted the administra
tion had "consistently and persistently
tried to keep politics out of relief” and
that no matter what charges were
hurled at Harry L. Hopkins, the ad
ministrator, the "record speaks for
itself.”
“Undoubtedly in some jurisdictions,”
he added, "blunders are being made,
and it is the privilege and duty of
right-minded individuals to expose and
correct maladministration wherever
ana whenever it is exposed or can be
brought to light. The point is that
sound corrections can only be based
on facts. They cannot be made if
the facts are perverted or misrepre
sented.”
Robinson said the Liberty League
and Republican National Committee
had singled out 100 of 170,000 projects
and described each in the "worst light
possible.”
Aims Barb at Du Ponts.
Discussing some of the projects criti
cized, Robinson said the $1,349 allo
cated to paint fire hydrants in Wil
mington, Del., was requested by Mayor
Walter W. Bacam, a Republican, who
W'as quoted as saying city funds were
too low to permit the expenditure for
this "necessary project.”
“Just think of that!” Robinson com
mented. “After 12 years of Republican
prosperity, Wilmington was in such
financial straits that it was too poor
to buy some Du Pont paint for its
fire hydrants.”
The Senator also placed similar evi
dence in the record in defense of
the "now famous” $25,000 dog pound
in Memphis; the project for repair
ing shoes of needy children of Mineola,
Long Island; the teaching of sewing
and cooking to needy housewives in
(See ROBINSON, Page A-2.)
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Albert H. Hooker Dies.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., March
10 </$>).—Albert H. Hooker, 71, widely
known scientist and technical director
of the Hooker Electro-Chemical Co.,
died in suburban Lewiston yesterday.
Republicans Abandon Strawn9
6Symbol’ in Lobby Probe Fight
BY CARLISLE BARGERON.
Although Silas H. Strawn, Chicago
lawyer, has raised plenty of money for
the Republicans in the past and is
even now a member of their Finance
Committee, no Republican Senator is
willing to go to the bat for him in
his present issue with the Black Lob
bying Committee.
He has made himself the symbol in
the opposition to the Black commit
tee's wholesale seizure of telegrams.
Although some observers had agreed
this was an excellent opportunity for
the Republicans to give weight to their
charge that a "reign of terror” exists,
cautious Senate Republicans, after in
formally discussing the matter, have
decided it is a “hot potato," and they
plan to have nothing to do with it.
Apparently this is the attitude of the
Republican National Committee, which
has remained quite silent on the sub
ject.
The result is that Senator Black,
chairman of the committee, who was
obviously concerned for a few days,
was most jubilant yesterday after a
set-to with Senator Steiwer of Ore
gon, who did make so bold as to
question the scope of the subpoenas
L
which the committee had Issued.
Black silenced him quickly with in
nuendo that Steiwer was worried
about “his friends,” accompanied by
a denunciation of those "men in high
places” who have “pillaged the coun
try.” Steiwer did arise again to say
he was not worried about any of his
friends and was only concerned with
the breadth with which the commit
tee wrote its subpoenas, but he made
no attempt to come back to the fray.
It was learned that Steiwer had
been warned by Republican influences
to keep out of the matter, because ex
one high Republican influence ex
pressed it: “It may be reprehensible
conduct on the part of the committee,
but we will make a serious mistake
if we put ourselves in the light of
defending Silas Strawn or the Amer
ican Liberty League.”
One Republican said: “The country
is against all of these men the Black
committee Is after. It won’t do us
any good to attempt to defend them.
The country’* feeling is that any
means Justifies the end.”
Senator Borah, who is in a class
by himself, has submitted a resolution
(See Q. O. rM Page 2.)
; WRE\X
telun’L
Post Office Insists Coughlin 1
Cards Pay Full First-Class Rate
Pledges Erroneously Accepted as
Third-Class Matter Bear Signatures
or Typewriting, Bulletin Says.
The Post Office Department today j
insisted on full first-class postage j
charges on cards addressed to Royal j
Oak, Mich., headquarters of Rev. j
Charles E. Coughlin, according to a
notice in the Postal Bulletin. Post
masters were warned against the
practice of accepting bulk shipments
of “pledge” cards at the third-class
rate.
While it was not specifically stated,
the reference was to matter having to
do with the National Union for So
cial Service, Father Coughlin’s or
ganization.
“The attention of postmasters is
directed to the fact that great quan
tities of printed pledge cards, bearing j
written signatures on one side and
filled out in typewriting on the other
side, are being accepted for mailing in
bulk parcels addressed to Royal Oak, j
Mich., prepaid at only third-class
postage,” the bulletin stated. I
"Such cards are charged at postage j
of first-class rates. When such par- !
cels are dispatched short-paid they j
must be rated with the deficient post- I
age at the office of addressee and !
the same collected from the addressee, i
This causes additional work and de- j
lay and subjects the postal service to j
much criticism which could be
avoided if postmasters required the
proper postage to be prepaid at the
mailing office.”
It was said at the department that
Father Coughlin has been paying the
deficient postage, but that so much
additional work was entailed at the
Royal Oak office, the postmaster there
asked the notice be put out.
_ . I
m INDICTED
Attempt to Evade Income
Levy of $414,525 Is
Charged in Chicago.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 10.—An indict
ment charging Arthur W. Cutten, fa
mous grain trader, with a “wilful at
tempt to defeat and evade an income
tax” for 1929, amounting to *414,
525.54, was returned by the Federal
grand jury today.
The indictment also named Wil
liam E. Gatewood, formerly an In
ternal Revenue agent, charging he
aided Cutten in the alleged tax dodg
ing.
Cutten, self-styled “speculator,”
was called "the Nation’s biggest
grain trader” in hearings before the
Grain Futures Administration, which
a year ago issued an order disbarring
him from American grain pits.
U. S. Appeal to Be Heard.
Yesterday the Supreme Court of
the United States agreed to hear the
Government's appeal from a decision
of the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals which stayed the disbar
ment.
It was disclosed a week ago that
United States Distrii t Attorney Mi
chael Igoe, after more than two years
of investigation by Internal Revenue
agents, would ask indictments based
on Cutten's income in the years 1930
and 1933 as well as 1929.
The Government's charge, Igoe
said, was that the grain trader's
complicated market transactions con
cealed approximately $1,200,000 in
hidden income.
Two Witnesses Missing.
The indictment, returned before
Federal Judge Charles E. Woodward,
came as the Internal Revenue agents
were hunting for two missing wit
nesses. The two were brokers’ clerks
who failed to appear before the
grand jury with subpoenaed records.
Judge Woodward fixed bond at
$35,000 for Cutten and $10,000 for
Gatewood. He then issued bench
warrants for their arrest.
Cutten was in a hospital, said by
his attorneys to be ‘‘lying at death’s
door." Yesterday the lawyers an
nounced he had “refused a Govern
ment offer to compromise,” but Dis
trict Attorney Igoe denied any offer
had been made.
Children Rescued in Fire.
NYACK, N. Y,, March 10 (A>).—
T|wenty-two children enrolled In a
private school were carried to safety
by firemen today when fire destroyed
Rossier House, one of the largest
buildings at the Clarkstown Country
Club la ufper Nyack.
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VERMONT UTILITY
ACCUSED BYICKES
Offering Inducement to City
to Abandon P. W. A. Loan
Is Charged.
By the Associated Press,
In a new attack on opponents of
P. W. A.’s $78,000,000 municipal power
program, Secretary Ickes said today
the Central Vermont Public Service
Corp. had offered inducements to
Brandon. Vt., to abandon its P. W. A.
power allotment.
The public works administrator, who
simultaneously accused the Duke Power
Co. of a ‘‘deliberate’’ delay in appealing
a P. W. A. victory in a Greenwood.
S. C., contested power allotment, made
public what he said was a photostatic
copy of a letter from the Vermont
company to the Board of Selectmen of
Brandon.
Bill Reduction Offered.
In the letter, W’hich the document
showed to be signed by Albert A. Cree,
vice president, the company offered to
pay various expenses incurred in con
nection with the P. W. A. allotment—
provided it was dropped—and to re
duce its bill for street lighting.
Ickes was asked whether he had re
scinded the $163,000 loan and grant to
Brandon.
"It has not been rescinded yet,’’ he
sniu. jl uuu 1/ uiuiik wt uavc cvci
heard from them."
Brandon Allotment Attacked.
Ickes recalled that the Brandon al
lotment was one of several now under
attack In the District 'of Columbia Su
preme Court.
Asked if any other power companies
had made similar attempts to induce
cities to abandon P. W. A. allotments
for municipal systems, Ickes said:
“This is the first one that has come
to light, but I haven’t a suspicious na
ture and it might be an Isolated case.”
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MORS SWORN
FOR RITTER TRIAL
Federal Judge’s Hearing
Will Be Opened by Body
Next Month.
By the Associated Press. r
For the twelfth time in history, the
Senate today transformed itself into
a solemn court of justice to hold an
impeachment trial.
As a preliminary to the trial—prob
ably next month—of Federal Judge
Halsted L. Ritter of the South Florida
district, impeached by the House
March 2 on charges of allowing ex
cessive receivership fees to a former
law partner, the Senate was sworn as
the trial court, as provided in the
Constitution.
Three members of the House—Rep
resentatives Sumners, Democrat, of
Texas: Hobbs, Democrat, of Alabama
and Perkins, Republican, of New
Jersey, all members of that branch’s
Judiciary Committee—appeared 'Jid
read the four articles of impeachment.
Judge Must Answer.
Judge Rii ter was given until Thurs
day to appear before the Senate bar
and make his answer. This is just
another formality, however, as the
jurist is expected to be given until
March 30 or thereabouts to make his
formal reply, after which a date is
cof tho trial
With solemn ceremony. Vice Presi
dent Garner was sworn as presiding
judge by the dean of the Senate—
Senator Borah. Republican, of Idaho—
the oath being:
"You do solemnly swear that in all
things appertaining to the trial of the
impeachment of Halsted L. Ritter
United States district judge for the
southern district of Florida, now pend
ing, you will do impartial justice ac
cording to the Constitution and laws
So help you God."
The Vice President then adminis
tered a similar oath to Senate mem
bers who will serve as jurors.
Summons to Be Served.
Chesley W. Jurney, sergeant at
arms, was charged to serve a sum
mons on Judge Ritter which read, in
part, as follows:
"You, the said Halsted L. Ritter,
are therefore summoned to be and
appear before the Senate of the
United States of America at their
chamber in the city of Washington
on the 12th day of March, 1936, at
1 o’clock afternoon, then and there to
answer to the said articles of im
peachment and then there to abide
by, obey and perform such orders,
directions and judgments as the Sen
ate of the United States shall make
in the premises according to the Con
stitution and laws of the United
States."
Jurney was expected to serve the
summons on Judge Ritter at a down
town hotel.
Only three convictions and one
resignation before trial have resulted
in the 11 impeachments prior to this
one. A two-thirds vote on any one of
the four articles of impeachment
against Judge Ritter will be required
to convict. Conviction automatically
carries with it removal from office.
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FORMER ALLIES
SPLIT ON ACTION
AGAINST HITLER
Sarraut “Talks to German Peo
ple”—Pleads to Others for
Aid in “Peace Fight.”
CHEERING CROWDS HEAR CHIEFS
ASSAIL TREATY DENUNCIATIONS
Eden Tells Locarno Conferees England
Prefers to Study German Proposals
Before Taking Action.
(Copyright, lO.'td, the Associated Press )
PARIS, March 10.—France and Great Britain split today on the method
of dealing with the international emergency which has arisen through Ger
many's sending troops into the Rhineland, the British refusing to follow the
strong course of action proposed by the French.
Great Britain suggested negotiations with Reichsfuehrer Hitler on hi!
proposals for new peace treaties.
France declared against negotiations so long as the troops remained at
their new outposts along the French frontier.
Great Britain refused to entertain the idea that troops must be removed
before friendly discussions could be undertaken.
Belgium and Italy sided with France.
These developments took place rapidly in a day packed full of diplo
matic and political action.
Flandin Makes Plea at Conference.
Pierre-Etienne Flandin. foreign minister, first broached the subject
of combined action, within the League of Nations, to force German troopa
away from the border, at a conference of representatives of Great Britain,
Belgium and Italy.
He declared that France would negotiate only if the troops were evacuated
He suggested that if Germany refused, that the four nations concerned join
In asking the League Council to act.
Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, turned his back on this
suggestion.
After three hours of this conference. Flandin went before the Senate to
assert the French position. At the same time. Premier Albert Sarraut wens
to the Chamber of Deputies to make a public appeal to the members of the
League to "fight for peace."
Berlin Hails British
Support for Study
Of Hitler Proposal
(Copyrieht. 1930. by the Associated Press.) ,
BERLIN. March 10.—The Third
Reich expressed gratification officially
today over Great Britain's attitude
toward the German march across the
Rhine and willingness to consider the
new treaty proposals which accom
panied the violation of the Locarno
pact.
The public pronouncements of
Britain's Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin and Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden were declared by foreign
office spokesmen to be a cause for sat
isfaction after responsible German
officials first took an opportunity to
I study yesterday's House of Commons
debate.
"The main thing is that the British
cabinet will seriously consider the
German proposals,” a high foreign
office official said.
Apparatus of League.
"We have full understanding for the
fact that the British government is
not alone master of its decisions and
j that the whole apparatus of the
| League of Nations must be set in mo
tion before Britain's final answer can
be given.
"This we have often enough ob
served in connection with the Italo
Ethiopian conflict, when it was evi
dent frequently that the British gov
ernment was ready for a course of ac
tion. but it had to go through the
whole eamut of League 'instances’ be
fore complete action could result.
‘‘This necessity to go hand in hand
with other members of the League also
explains why the British attitude at
present is one of reserve. The main
j thing is that no doors have been
closed and that all possibility for ne
gotiations is left open.”
This official attitude also was re
flected in the noonday B. Z. Am Mittag,
a widely circulated daily newspaper
which observed, obviously inspired by
authorative sources, that:
‘‘Germany has again made an offer.
Her hand has been stretched across
the Rhine. England has seized this
hand and is trying to serve Europe.”
Semi-official Germany, reflecting a
note of wariness over foreign reaction
to Hitler’s bold rearmament of the
Rhineland, showed increasing interest
in both the League and the Reich's
war-lost colonies.
Nazi Press statements, seemingly
made with the knowledge or the orders
of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels’ propa
ganda ministry', left a distinct impres
sion that Germany finds threats of
comparative isolation uncomfortable.
Officials, nevertheless, explained
again that future developments along
this line depend on what others do.
(See’ BERLIN, Page A-4.)
Moley Opposes New Tax Plan
On Ground That It Is Unsound
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 10.—Raymond
Moley, editor of Today and former
Undersecretary of State in the Roose
velt administration, in an article in
his magazine last night criticized the
administration proposal to place a
high tax on corporate Income not im
mediately distributed.
“The Federal Government needs
new revenue to replace the processing
taxes and to pay the bonus,” he wrote.
“But this scheme is not the sound
way to get it. Fortunately there are
already signs that Congress Will not
blindly follow the line laid down by
the White House and the Treasury.”
i
He said proposal to prevent tne
accumulation of corporate surpluses
by a prohibitive tax of about 33 Ya
per cent” Is analagous “to levying a
prohibitive tax upon individual life
insurance premiums. Surpluses are
the life insurance policies of business
firms.”
‘ Had American industry entered
this depression stripped of all sur
pluses, scores of the biggest of corpo
rations could not have survived,”
Moley wrote. “* • * Better let a
comparative few get away with eva
sions which are on the borderline of
good business judgment than to un
dertake to destroy all possibility of
prudent corporate thrift.”
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termination to get a clear and prec.s<
decision on "the agonizing problems ol
the strength of right against might."
Sarraut declared that if Reichs
fuehrer Hitler was justified in vio
lating the Locarno treaty, "then wi
must turn resolutely toward military
alliances and armament races, and
let us admit it frankly, to war madt
by the strong when the time favors."
' Taking his cue from Hitler, “wht
spoke to the French people over the
head of their government,” Sarraul
talked "to the German people.”
He asked the Germans "if you would
have confidence in France signing ne\»
treaties if she had just torn up old
ones? Howl then, can the French
have confidence in the fresh negotia
tions that Germany proposes?"
The premier declared that Franct
"does not refuse negotiations that make
for peace in the future." but "cannot
treat when dominated by violence and
when signatures are repudiated.”
He said France was resolved to "join
all her strength to that of othei
members within the League and tc
reply to the veritable assaults on in
ternational confidence, faith in treaties
collective security and peace.”
Asks Assurance From Hitler.
"France," he said, "is ready to treat
with Germany once respect for inter
national law has again been assured
"The future of European peace is at
stake.”
Sarraut outlined the history of the
signing of the Locarno pact and ol
British and French efforts to organizi
peace machinery during the last year,
but stated that Hitler let it be known,
‘F’irst. that he would hesitate long
before signing and that he never would
sign.”
The deputies burst into cheers when
Sarraut referred to “the profound im
pression of horror” France had re
ceived from the World War.
He said that Hitler himself had de
clared that the peaceful settlement of
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j Germany by plebiscite, was "the last
important difference between France
and Germany."
Denounred Treaty.
Then. Sarraut went on. two month?
later the Reichsfuehrer denounced the
arms clauses of the Versailles treaty,
The premier declared that what Hit
ler had done “no nation could accept
so long as there is justice.”
By the time the government declara
tions were completed both deputies and
senators were cheering.
When Foreign Minister Flandin fin
ished his declaration, the whole Senate
rose as a body to applaud.
The Senate immediately ordered a
debate Thursday on the Franco-Soviet
pact—on which Hitler based his abro
gation of the Locarno treaty—and
leaders predicted a quick and prac
tically unanimous ratification of the
mutual assistance convention as a re
ply to Germany.
During the three-hour conferenca
Eden argued for a thorough ex
amination of Hitler’s peace offers be
fore any drastic steps be considered in
the League.
Eden and the other two conferees.
Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium
and Ambassador Vittorio Cerruti of
Italy, heard Flandin uphold the stand
of Premier Sarraut, that France would
refuse "to negotiate under a menace.”
The French representative demanded
the German army be withdrawn from
the Rhineland before any negotiation*
should be undertaken with Hitler.
The four conferees and their 22 ad
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Judge's Wife Found Shot.
HILLSDALE, Mich., March 10 (<4>)
Mrs. Mark D. Taylor. 28, wife of the
Hillsdale County circuit judge, died
early today of a bullet wound which
Coroner Frank T. Aldrich said "from
all appearances” was self-inflicted.
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