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WEATHER. ^andXh^ ™erSm; to- CTT ^ The only evening paper morrow, mostly cloudy; gentle, variable M>'■ in Washington with the (I I 1 %7 Associated Press News run report on page A-i3. j ■ ■ and Wirephoto Services, Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 V_✓ -9 &™uu.AnTB 135,997 148,886 - ■ ■ - —. - . ___ <8ome return* not yet received.) S5th YEAR. No. 33,970. SgSg tSaSa-B-g_WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 3, 1937-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. *** .. TWO CENTS. DIVORCE FINAL, EDWARD SPEEDS TO JOIN FIANCEE “Hurry,” Ex-King Is Admonished by Phone. WINDSOR CATCHES EXPRESS TO TOURS Happy as a Schoolboy, He Carries Gifts to Betrothed. BACKGROUND— Foundations of British empire shaken last year by romance of King Edward VIII with Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, who obtained divorce. from her ship’s broker hus band. Ernest Aldrich Simpson, last October on charge of infidelity. Abdication of Edward in Decem ber was preceded by sensational struggle with Prime Minister Bald win over his insistence upon marry ing the American-born divorcee. British opinion suffered deep schism over right of King to marry below his rank while still holding throne linking England with her dominions. Bt the Associated Press. SALZBURG. Austria. May 3.—Ed ward of Windsor, loaded down with edelweiss, suitcases and smiles, trav eled toward France and Wallis Simp eon tonight on the Arlburg Express. He is due at Tours tomorrow. He was as happy as a schoolboy. It was as If he were again the carefree Prince of Wales the world knew so well. In his arms when he boarded the express after a motor ride from St. Wolfgang were two packages for Mrs. Simpson, freed from her second mar riage today by the London Divorce Court. One of the packages was crammed with edelweiss, the white mountain flower that grows on the most dan gerous crags. Mountain climbers— Edward Is one of them—risk their lives sometimes to get it. In the other package was a dirndl, the Austrian name for the colorful costume worn by the peasant women. 17 Suit Cases in Private Car. Seventeen suit cases were scattered helter-skelter through the duke's pri vate car. Edward talked by telephone to his beloved, near Tours, France, this morning, after he had heard about the issuance of Mrs. Simpson's final decree. She told him to "hurry.” He did. The change in his mien, once he reached the station in this medieval city of musical fame, was immediately apparent. Twenty-tw’o weeks ago he came here In voluntary exile, stepped off the train to take a few turns up and down the platform. He was haggard and worried. He had just abdicated the greatest throne in the world. Today he fairly sprinted along the •unny platform, radiating happiness. He wore no hat and he had, per haps, the best coat of tan that Aus tria has produced this season. Obviously his health was much im proved. He has stayed strictly away from night clubs since December. Has Tea at Salzburg. Arriving at Salzburg after his motor ride from his remodeled St. Wolfgang mansion—and, incidentally, a last look at his favorite countryside—Ed vard had tea at the Grand Hotel. Then he got a haircut, carefully in structing the barber, before enterting the train. Before he left he received a tele gram from President Miklas of Aus tria. who is in Budapest. The Presi dent. replying to the duke's message of thanks for Austrian hospitality during his stay, expressed hope he would come again. Just before noon the telephone rang In the remodeled Pension, Appesbach, where the former King of a quarter of the world has spent the last of the lonely exile that began last December. Called to Telephone. Edward was putting on his moun tain-climbing togs. He went to the telephone: learned Mrs. Simpson had been finally divorced from Ernest Aldrich Simpson In London. Immediately he called the Chateau de Cande in Prance, and in a few minutes he was speaking to his fiancee. Then, just at noon, the duke an nounced he was leaving at once for Tours, near the chauteau. There was no disguising his elation. The telephone talk, however, was long and serious. Members of the duke's household said Mrs. Simpson urged him to "hurry.” He fitted ac tion to her words. Edward's crisp orders galvanized the house into action. His packing, for the most part, was completed, but the last details were rushed. Bags were piled Into the duke's car in time for him to catch the 4 o'clock express from Salzburg. There, a spe cial car w'as moved into the station shortly before noon. A small truck took some of the luggage from St. Wolfgang. Planned to Wait. Edward, it was disclosed, had made earlier plans to wait until tomorrow' before going to Prance. But Mrs. Simpson's words changed his mind. With the necessary orders given, the duke rushed hatless from the villa (See SIMPSON, Page A-3.) MRS.NORTON UP TODAY LOS ANGELES. May 3 (/P).—Mrs. Violet Wells Norton came to Federal Court today to learn the penalty for naming Clark Gable, screen actor, as the “father” of her 13-year-old Eng lish-born daughter. She was convicted of mail fraud by a jury which held Gable never had been in England. Pour courses were open to Judge George Oosgrave—pro bation, deportation, jail or fine. r - To Be Reunited MRS WALLIS SIMPSON. DUKE OF WINDSOR. LO | Map Plans to Shell Rebels as British Continue Evacuation. BACKGROUND— After many months of attempting to take Madrid, Spanish rebels in recent weeks have directed main drive on Basque area, Loyalist stronghold in northern part of country. Gen. Franco arrived Sat urday to command push on city. Meanwhile, thousands of non combatants endangered in city ap pealed to outside world for help. Nine British merchant ships went to rescue children. The ships ar rived Saturday and Franco an nounced he would not respect the breaking of his rebel blockade by the ships. By the Associated Press. ST. LEAN DE LUZ. France, May 3.—Scores of Italians from 'an in surgent army column today were re ported trapped at Bermeo, on the Bay of Biscay coast about 8 miles from Bilbao. A Basque officer, reaching Bilbao, (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) 6,000 FILM STUDIO WORKERS IDLE AS STRIKE SPREADS; 3,500 Assigned to Picket Duty as Actors Arrange Conferences. GUILD WILL ARRANGE TALKS WITH PRODUCERS .“Dress Rehearsal Over,” Says Union Leader as Lines Are Thrown About Theaters. BACKGROUND— Demanding a closed shop and recognition, newly formed Feder ated Motion Picture Crafts, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, on Friday night called strike of four unions. Now 11 unions are out. with 6,000 workers idle. Members of Actors’ Guild may later become involved, com pletely tying up production and throwing 40,000 out of work. Bt the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD. May 3—Six thou sand studio workers were swept into the spreading film industry strike to day as guild actors arranged a week's delay in joining the walkout. The 6.000 members of 11 unions of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts were not to report to work this morn ing, and 3,500 of them were assigned picket duty. Basis of the dispute, which first flared into a strike last Friday night, is the Federated Crafts demand on nine major companies for sole bar gaining rights. Saying “the dress rehearsal is over,” Charles Lessing of the crafts ar ranged picket lines not only at the studios, but at Los Angeles theaters, showing their product. And for the first time in years, the United States’ $2,000,000,000 motion picture industry faced a serious pro duction stoppage. Two thousand actors and actresses, some unknown, others famous, but all aligned with the Screen Actors’ Guild, attended a meeting last night to vote on strike questions. Guild Seeks Conferences. Like the federated crafts, the guild Is seeking a closed shop. It hesitated, however, at a decision which would throw 40,000 persons out of work and stop a weekly pay roll of $1,500,000. Instead, Secretary Aubrey Blair an nounced, the guild instructed its di rectors to begin conferences with pro ducers on Wednesday and report re sults to a general meeting Sunday. The producers had already agreed to negotiate. “Our principal demands and prac tically all for free-lance players, small parts, extras and bit players,” said Blair. “The only things asked for people in higher-wage brackets are working conditions and hours that would aid small players get more em ! ployment.” It requires 75 per cent approval by the senior membership of the guild, Blair said, to call a strike or order players not to pass through picket lines. Pending negotiations this week, all votes have been held up. Only 1,200 of the guild’s 5,600 mem bers are “seniors,” earning $250 or (See STRIKE, A-3.) GARBO SCHEDULED IN COURT TODAY There Is Doubt, However, She Will Appear to Answer Debt Charge. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES. May 3.—The legal machinery was geared today to raise the curtain on a court room drama starring Greta Garbo—in person. But there was still doubt as the first spectators gathered whether the legendary Swede actually would come out of seclusion. The actress is defendant in a *10,500 suit. It was brought by an assignee of David Shratter to recover three loans the former Berlin film producer said he advanced her in 1924. At the time, Garbo was a *300-a week player in European pictures and rated “obscure.” Last October, Garbo was quizzed for a deposition in which she denied Shratter had ever given her financial assistance. Her replies then were mostly “No.” She said she was under 21 in 1924 and Maurice Stiller, her former di rector, made arrangements for her film engagements, for "I was a little too young to determine those things, I think.” Sea Floor Guides Navigators In Invention Described Here The bottom of the sea replaces the starlit skies in an entirely new sys tem of navigation made possible by a new instrument developed in the laboratory of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey here. It was described by its inventor. Dr. H. G. Dorsey, before the Acoustical Society of America meeting at the Bureau of Standards this morning. By a vast improvement on the old sonic depth finder the hills and abysses of the sea bottom literally are made visible to the navigator. In limited areas, such as Chesapeake Bay or the Gulf of Mexico, the inven tion promises to do away with "dead reckoning,” the necessity of which in foggy weather has been a bugbear of navigators for centuries. The sonic depth-finder method, which replaced the old lead and line method of determining sea depths about the time of the World War, de pended on the fact that a measurable interval, dependant on the distance traveled, intervened between the time a sound signal was sent downward through the water and the time Its echo returned from the eea bottom. In the instrument developed by Dr. Dorsey the echo on its return sets up an extremely minute electric current which is multiplied by an amplifying tube to the magnitude where it will light a neon lamp. In front of this lamp is a rotating disk with a single slot. The disk whirls around 20 times a second. The position In which the slot passes in front of the light varies directly with the time taken for the echo to return. The disk can be marked with depth figures, like the face of a clock. Consequently the navigator, seated in front of the disk, can read off a constant record of the depths of the bottom over which he is passing. Variations of one or two millionths of a second are appreciable. A Coast and Geodetic Survey ship, traveling at full speed of 10 knots, can get a recording for every 10 inches of sea (See NAVIGATION, Page A-8.) ^ GET MODERN,EAMON, GET MODERN. ^ 'ibVJ SHOULD N’T CLUTTER. UP A NICE NEW CONSTITUTION WITH HORSE AND. BUGGVSTOFRTr-^r fpRESiowTDE Valera's PfOPoSLD CONSTITUTION FOR IRELAND •Crtrte BY THE PEOPLE ONLY, THROUGH REFER ENDUM, can the national f CONSTITUTION BE AHEND £P. the sovereignty RESIDES IN THEM, AS their illimitable AHD /HPPEEASIBLE FLIGHT. J Fictitious Sales to Each Other to Cut Income Levy Charged. Bt the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 3.—'Two of the Nation's biggest industrialists and financiers, Pierre S. du Pont and John J. Raskob, appeared before the United States Board of Tax Appeals today, on a charge that they engaged in fictitious stock sales to each other to establish losses in their 1929 income tax. Accompanied by a dozen or so attor neys, Du Pont and Raskob, business associates for many years and two of the leaders in the organization of the American Liberty League, were among the first to arrive at the hear ing room in the old Federal Building across from City Hall Park. Richard L. Disney, a member of the United States Board of Tax Ap peals, presided at the hearing. The two multi-millionaires sat together in a corner of the hearing room behind counsel. The cases against Du Pont and Raskob were severed, The Du Pont case came up first. It was expected that it would last for several days, to be followed by the Raskob case. The cases against Du Pont and Raskob have been in adjudication for many months. Government's Charge. The Government charges Du Pont owes an extra assessement of *617, 316 and Raskob *1,026,340 In their 1929 tax. It contends the two financiers sold stocks back and forth—known as “wash" sales—at losses, to establish (See TAX, Page A-2.) Model Plane ‘‘Run* Away." BUFFALO, N. Y., May 3 (/P).—A model airplane with 6-foot wingspread and one-cylinder engine caused police a headache today. It got away from Kenneth Wood ward at a model contest, flew several miles and nose dived through the roof of a house, startling the family. Policemen retrieved the ship and re turned it to Woodw’ard. Boy, 13, Drowned Trying to Recover Base Ball FYom Pool Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., May 3—An attempt to retrieve a base ball which had bounded into a pool left by recent rains at the edge of this city cost the life late yesterday of Vincent Cox, 13. The lad stepped into a hole where the water was consider ably over his head and drowned before two smaller companions could get assistance. The body was recovered 10 minutes later. Efforts at resuscitation were futile. Coroner H. G. Toknin held an inquest unnecessary. Hatch Amendment Looms as Favorable Choice of Senate Group. BACKGROUND— Apprehensive that the bulk of his legislative program would be nulli fied by the conservative members of the Supreme Court on the ground of unconstitutionality. Pres ident Roosevelt asked Congress February 5 for authority to name a maximum of six new judges unless those over 70 retire. Recently concluding seven weeks on hearings on the measure, Sen ate Judiciary Committee is re ported 10 to 8 against the bill. Re fusal of administration to consider any compromise presages long and bitter fight on Senate floor, with both sides still claiming ultimate victory. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Hatch amendment to President Roosevelt's court bill, providing for a flexible number of Supreme Court jus tices and authorizing the President to appoint only one additional justice each year, instead of six, loomed as a (See JUDICIARY, Page A-2.) Summary of Today’s Star Page Amusements _B-9 Comics_B-14 Editorial* — _A-10 Financial ...A-17 Lost & Found A-S Obituary_A-12 Page Radio_B-18 Society .B-3 Short Story .. B-2 Sports A-14-15-16 Woman's Pg. B-13 FOREIGN. Prices of coronation seats take a slump. Page A-3 Loyalists rush biggest warship to Bilbao battle. Page A-l Divorce final, Edward speeds to join fiancee. Page A-l Vpn Neurath and Mussolini may form publicity alliance. Page A-4 NATIONAL. Court upholds processing tax; security decision delayed. Page A-l Pierre du Pont and Raskob face U. S. tax counts. Page A-l Pilm strike spreads with 6,000 idle in Hollywood. Page A-l Economy moves gain momentum as House hearing opens. Page A-l Housing officials from 20 cities push Wagner-Steagall bill. Page A-2 Parker co-defendants plead guilty as trial opens. Page A-2 Harlan killing to be probed by La Follette group. Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Sea floor and not stars may guide future navigation. Page A-l Letts refuses execution stay for Jor don. Page A-l Boy. 17, dies saving brother, 11, from train. Page A-l Unable to pay room rent, jobless woman shoots self. Page A-2 Greenbelt workers to air complaints at hearing today. Page A-3 Churches not to single out burlesque here. Page A-8 Man accused of assaulting two women on trial at Rockville. Page A-3 R. B. Mahany, journalist and diplo mat, dies. Page A-12 Score hurt, four seriously, In week end traffic. Page A-12 Engineers completing permanent D. C. flood control plans. Page B-l Airport Commission to hold closed meeting Thursday. Page B-l Housewives oppose dayllgh saving time here. Page B-l A. P. G. E. flies libel suit against N. P. P. E. in court here. Page B-l Roosevelt urged to seek mediation in Spain. Page B-l Grand jury gets police extortion charge. Page B-l EDITORIAL AND COIVtMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence., Page A-ll Paul Mallon. Page A-ll Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll Constantine Brown. Page A-ll Lemuel P. Parton. Page A-ll SPORTS. DeShong's poor slab form chief worry of Nats. PageA-14 Slugger Terranova vs. Boxer Stralges is card tonight. PageA-14 Bucs and Tigers are backing up betting odds. Page A-14 Pompoon’s failure upsetting to Derby wiseacres. Page A-14 Americanism being fostered by Junior Legion base ball. PageA-15 U. S. and Australia confident in Davis Cup net war. Page A-18 FINANCIAL. Bonds are narrow (table). Page A-17 Building rises in South. Page A-17 Stocks edge up (table). Page A-18 Curb specialties gain (table). Page A-19 Steel earrings soar. Page A-19 Sounder market basis seen. Page A-19 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Page A-2 City News in Brief. PageA-13 Shipping News. PageA-13 Winning Contract. Page B-7 Young Washington. Page B-8 Nature’s Children. Page B-8 Bedtime Story. Page B-18 Dorothy Dix. Page B-l3 Betsy Caswell. Page B-13 Crossword Pueele. Page B-l4 Letter Out. Page B-15 A EXECUTION STAY DENIED JORDON Justice Letts, However, Promises to Consider Ap plication of Counsel. Justice F. Dickinson Letts of Dis trict Court refused today to stay the execution May 1* of Thomas Jordon, convicted last year of murdering Mrs. Lizzie S. Jaynes in the Garden-T Shop hold-up six years ago. He stated, however, that he would give further consideration to the ap plication for a stay made by Jordon's attorney, John M. Holzworth, who, Friday, asked the United States Court of Appeals to order District Court to entertain a motion for a new trial based on newly-discovered evidence. Holzworth claims to have unearthed evidence Indicating that Mrs. Jaynes' slayer was a tall, fair man. Jordon is short and dark. in ms application for a stay, the attorney accused authorities of sup pressing this evidence at the trial. Assistant United States Attorney Roger Robb vigorously denied that it had been suppressed, saying it did not come to the attention of his office uijtil 10 days ago. He added that he resented the “slanderous implications” of Holzworth's statements. The so-called newly discovered evi dence consists principally of a police report made shortly after the slaying and statements by a woman to whom Mrs. Jayne is said to have described the killer. Robb described this evidence as “un reliable hearsay.” adding it would nbt be competent should a new trial be granted. “I am authorized by the District attorney to say that we see no reason why a stay should be granted.” Robb declared. "The District attorney has informed the pardon attorney of the Department of Justice, however, that he is at liberty to request a stay should he decide that facts disclosed by his investigation warrant it.” Although executive clemency for Jordon has been refused, investigation of the case has been reopened by the Justice Department. Justice Letts said he considered the application premature, and that, should the pardon attorney deem a stay advisable, that official should re quest it. The jurist called attention to the petition pending in the Court of Ap peals and said Holzworth was asking the District Court to substitute its Judgment for the judgment of the President of the United States or of the Court of Appeals. HINDENBURG SAILS FOR U. S. TONIGHT Giant German Dirigible Will Leave Frankfort on First of 18 Round Trips. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST. N. J„ May 3 — Comdr. Charles E. Roeendahl hurried new arrangements today at the naval air station for berthing the giant Ger man dirigible Hindenburg, which will sail tonight from its home port, Frank fort-On-Main, for the first of 18 round trips here this season. The ship, scheduled to arrive and leave here Thursday, will have a new commander, Capt. Max Pruss, who was schooled under Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dr. Hugo Eckener and Lud wig Duerr, the airship designer. Under command of Dr. Eckener and Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann, the Hinden burg made 10 round trips last year. PROCESS TAX HEED VALID AS SECURITY RULING IS DELAYED U. S. Levy on Coconut Oil for Philippines Supported by Court. A. & P.“SHORT-WEIGHT”. APPEAL IS DENIED Government Given Right to Sue to Recover Russian Money De posited With Belmont. BACKGROUND— . The validity o) the social security act has replaced the Wagner act, recently upheld, as the chief prob lem facing the Supreme Court. The coconut oil tax was one of the earliest pieces of New Deal legislation. Coconut oil is a chief ingredient of soaps not made with meat fats, and the Philippines are the chief source of oil used in America. The tax has been fought mainly because it raises the cost and price of coconut oil soap and thus narrows the market for it. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Validity of Federal processing tax on coconut oil, expected to yield mil lions of dollars annually for the benefit of the Philippine Islands, was unanimously upheld today by the Supreme Court. The court did not announce its de cision on the legality of the social security act, and a ruling on this vital case cannot be handed down before May 17, when the justices will return from a two weeks' recess. In an action of local interest, the court rejected a petition by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. for review of its conviction in Police Court for selling "short weight" products. This has the effect of affirming the con viction. Another opinion granted the Gov ernment the right to sue to recover a sum of money deposited by a Rus sian corporation with the late August Belmont. New York private banker. Lower courts had held the Govern ment could not maintain the suit. Sutherland Reads Opinion. The unanimous opinion in the processing tax was delivered by Jus tice Sutherland. After pointing out that the Philip pines occupy a dependent status in relation to the Federal Government, thereby giving Congress greater power to legislate for their welfare than it would have in the case of a State, the opinion added: congress has power to create a local legislature for the Philippines; and it has done so. Congress has power to authorize the Legislature to Impose taxes for all the lawful needs of the islands, and to appropriate the proceeds for such uses and in such amounts as the Legislature may de termine and this it has done. Con gress has power to appropriate the moneys here in question, and cause them to be paid from the National Treasury into the Treasury of the Philippine Islands: and for this it has provided. It would result in a strange anomaly now to hold that Congress had power to devolve upon the Philippine government the author I ity to appropriate revenue derived from local taxation as the Govern ment saw fit, but that Congress was without power to confer similar au thority in respect of moneys which lawfully will come into the Philip pine Treasury from the Treasury of j the United States or from other I sources apart from taxation. It is true, as already appears, that the uses to which the money is to be put are not specified. But in all in stances where funds shall come into the Philippine Treasury, we may in | dulge the presumption, in favor of ! a responsible and duly-constituted leg islative body, that the funds will be appropriated for public purposes and not for private uses. "Whether the payment to the Philippines of the large sums of money which will flow from this tax is un warranted in fact; whether the pres ent or prospective needs of the islands require it; and other queries directly * (See RULING, Page- K-2.) 14 BAKERIES CLOSED Kansas City Strike Cuts Off 80 Per Cent of Supply. KANSAS CITY. May 3 UP).—Four teen of this city’s largest bakeries were closed today by a strike of union bakery workers demanding higher wages and union recognition. Frank Rushton, president of the Kansas City Wholesale Bakers’ Club, said 90 per cent of the metropolitan bread supply was cut off. Pickets paced in front of closed bakeries. About 1,500 persons were estimated to be out of work. Bakers demanded a weekly wage in crease of $5. Employers countered wdth an offer of only $3. Members of the newly organized Inside Bakery Workers' Union, an affiliate of the Bakers Union, comprising wrappers, leers and others, demanded recog nition. Youth, 17, Gives Life to Save Little Brother From Train In a split fraction of a second, as the Royal Blue, crack Baltimore & Ohio flyer, thundered toward him, Bernard F. Day, jr., 17, decided yesterday to sacrifice his life to save that of his 11-year-old brother, Paul. Forfeiting his own chance to leap to safety, Bernard whirled, grabbed his younger brother and hurled him from the tracks Just as the Royal Blue struck him. He died instantly. The brothers, sons of Precinct De tective Bernard Day, were returning to their home at 2927 Yost place northeast when they stopped on the railroad tracks near the South Dakota avenue viaduct to allow a northbound freight train to pass. Ahead of them raced their brother John, 15. The thunder of the freight train drowned out the rumble of the ap proaching passenger train as Bernard and Paul stood unheeding in its path. 'Bernie—watch out!” John shout ed, but his voice was lost in the roar of the trains. The "Royal Blue” was only a few yards from Bernard when he saw it. "Bernie was calm. He must have known there wasn't time to warn Paul,” said John. "He just pushed Paul with all his might and it seemed that just at that moment the train (See DAY, Page A-2.) P1A. EXTENSION Ickes Makes Plea as Body Weighs Measure to Pro vide Funds. WOODRUM BELIEVES OPPOSITION UNLIKELY Sees No Conflict With Economy Program—Ways to Cut U. S. Cost Studied. BACKGROUND— As tax revenues fell below esti mates, definite movement began at Capitol to effect economy in appro priations. Among suggestions has been flat 10 per cent cut in all appropriations or 15 per cent impounding of ap propriated funds, with spending at discretion of President. As previously, Federal relief Is largest item threatening bugetary plans. President requested $1, 500.000,000; organized local gov ernment groups sought more, but apparently have been defeated, leaving issue now one of reduction or staying at presidential figure. Extension of the active life of th» Public Works Administration for two years was urged today by Secratarv of Interior Ickes before a House appro priations subcommittee considering a measure to permit the Federal works ! agency to use its $150,000,000 revolv ing fund to finance new projects dur ing the next two years, beginning i July 1. Except for the liquidation of proj ects under construction, P. W A will i expire June 30 unless Congress acts. The P. W. A bill was considered by the subcommittee preliminary to hear ings on the relief-emergency appro priations bill, which Representative Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia, has suggested might be trimmed $500,000. 000 to reduce relief spending for next year to an even $1,000,000,000 in view of the current economy drive. Woodrum said the subcommittee probably would not reach the relief bill before Wednesday. Sees No Conflict. He told newsmen as the P W. A. I hearings convened that there was J little disposition on the part of the | committee to oppose continuation of | the agency for the period specified. He said the pending bill did not conflict with President Roosevelt's economy program, because it did not call for a new appropriation. "Any fight,” Woodrum said, "prob i ably will center on propositions to | make additional appropriations.” He has written 32 agencies asking that they go over their budgets again and see what items can be reduced. Representative Beiter. Democrat, of New York, who said a House ”P. W. A. bloc” of 227 members favored the proposition, appeared before the com mittee to urge earmarking for P. W. A. of $300,000,000 of relief funds for the next fiscal year. Beiter said his group w-ould not seek direct appropriation of any new funds. Says Early Action Unlikely. In saying that he believed Congress might make the $500,000,000 relief cut, Woodrum asserted there was no pros pect of early action. Meanwhile, a Senate Commercs Subcommittee decided to hold hearings later in the session on the Maloney bill, which seeks to reduce unem ployment by regulating the hours of labor in industry in accordance with the number out of work, as found by a periodic unemployment census. Whenever more than 8.000,000 are unemployed, industry would be re i quired to adopt a 30-hour week, which would be extended on a graduated j scale to a 40-hour week as the number | of unemployed went down to 2.000.000. The 40-hour week would be required as long as there are 2.000,000 or less out of work. The census would be taken in 1937. 1940 and every two year* l thereafter. Chairman Overton of the subcom mittee said the date for hearings would be announced after Senator Maloney, Democrat, of Connecticut, drafts cer tain amendments. Replacing School Hazard*. Declaring he did not believe any member “wants to economize at the expense of the health, safety and lives of school children," Senator Schwel lenbach. Democrat, of Washington, ottered a resolution today requesting P. W. A. to lighten the requirements for local participation in projects for the replacement of hazardous school buildings. Following the school explosion tragedy at New London, Tex , recently, Schwellenbaeh had P. W. A. submit a list of pending applications for new schools where existing buildings con tain hazards. Schwellenbaeh said there are ample funds in the P. W. A. revolving fund to go forward with the projects. The purpose of his resolution is to set aside rules which limit P. W. A. funds to employment of relief labor, plus 15 per cent. He told Senator Nye his resolution would enable P. W. A. to provide grants equal to 45 per cent of the projects, where an emergency condition can be shown. The resolu tion wall come up later. Whether State and local govern ments are able to meet a larger share of the cost of work-relief projects next year is likely to be the decisive factor in determining whether Congress will make a deep cut in the relief estimate. In starting the move to slash $500, 000.000 from the estimate, Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, took the position that if the States met 50 per cent of the cost of projects, a btllion-dollar Federal outlay would be ample. Works Progress Administrator Hop kins, who is expected to defend vigor ously the amount recommended by tha President, met the economy argument# with the statement yesterday that in (See ECONOMY, Page A-7.)