Bluefield Daily Telegraph from Bluefield, West Virginia • Page 1

lit The telegraph Daily PAUL MALLON H. I. PHILLIPS ELY CUlBERTSON KIRK SIMP80N West VlfBlnls! cloudy with slowly rising Wednejday, probably light rain Wednetday afternoon or nlflht in north Thurtday trally fslr and colder probably tnow flurries Irt the Volume'XLI1I. No. 41.

Bluefield, W. Wednesday Morning, March 13, 1938. Price Five Cent! V.EMIZELflS FLEES TO LITTLE ITALIAN OF Rebel 'Flagship' Conveys Fiery Revolt Leader And Family To Haven GOVERNMENT VICTORY APPARENTLY COMPLETE Strife-Racked Greece Begins Moving Slowly Baok Toward Normalcy; Rebel Destroyers And Submarines Taken Over By Royal Forces Copyright, 1935, The Associated Press Athena, March 12. Fiery Eleu- therlos Vcnlzelos his 12-day Insurrection against Premier Panayoti Tsaldaria' government nn end, tied from his native Crete today to Kiitiv haven on the little Italian Island of Cassos. The crulfier Avcroff.

"flagship" or the rebel fleet, conveyed Vcnlzelos, his wife and several other revolt chieftains to the 23-rnile-square islet, and afterward radioed the government that It was continuing to Greece. With Veuizelos' flight, and the smashing of tho rebels' land forces in Macedonia the government's victory apparently was complete. The strife-racked Hellenic republic, its business and economic life at virtual stands still since the Insurrection flared, began moving slowly back toward normalcy. Regain Sea Forces Recapture by loyal forces of the Averoff. which was expected to an-: chor' off Phaleron tomorrow, completed the reconquest of the insurgents' sea forces, which for several days held Athens and its seaport, Pireaus, in fear of bombardment.

Earlier in the day the rebel de stroyers Psara and Leon and the submarine Nereus were taken over by loyal forces. The rebel submarine Katsonis arrived at the Italian island of Patmos to be interned with all her complement. An official announcement said the toll of both sides in the land operations 'in Macedonia was only 10 dead and 91 wounded, iijdicating to observers here that the rebel resistance, collapsed once General George Klondylis. loyal generalissimo, got his weatherbound offensive under way. A long expensive struggle before 'the Greek government to rehabilitate itself after the insurrection.

There was no "official estimate as to the monetary cost of tho 12 days revolt and its consequence economic effect. Completes Debacle The flight of the 71-year-old Venizelos, whose scholarly appearance masks years of rough-and-tumble participation in the turbulent struggles of Greek politics, completed the debacle that began with the rout of the Macedonian land forces. Crete, which reports said Venizelos had declared an independent state, came back quickly to the loyal side, government representatives taking possession of all posts of authority. Also back under the rule of Athens were "the islands of Chios and Sainos which fell to the rebel warships last week. Jubilant crowds cheered posters announcing their re(Turn to Page Ten) CUBA GAINS UPPER HANDjrSTRIKE Government Starts Making Good Threat.

To Break Re volt; Terrorists Face Penalty Of Death High Curb Waters, Snow Road Traffic Rivers And Streams In North And Central Section Of State Cover Highways HEAVY SNOW IS REPORTED THROUGHOUT SOUTH AREA Road Commission Bulletin Says Travel Conditions Probably As Bad As In Past Two Years; Auto Travel Uncer tain And Difficult Swollen Streams Carry Flood Menace To Many Lowland Communities TOWNS IN MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS ARE ISOLATED Coal Mines In Pennsylvania Flooded; Waters Near Flood Stage At Pittsburgh; School Buses Unable Negotiate Highways, Classes Halt Havana March 12. (JP) of striking workers came back to their Jobs today as President Carlos Mendleta's government, backed by the strong hand of army Commander Fulgenclo' Batista, started making good its threat to break the revolutionary strike seeking dleta's overthrow. With the death toll of the week end's violence climbing to 12, the administration Issued stern warnings to terrorists, saboteurs and the 'ike that death would be the penalty for their offenses. Government employes also were Informed that two-to-ftve-year prison terms might be meted out to them if they joined the strike. Despite efforts of strike leaders to keep the revolutionary movement alive, Batista's army and navy made considerable headway in rounding up commercial and publle employes and getting them back to their jobs, promising them they would be protected.

A survey of government departments revealed that many posts had been filled with new employes, while numbers of old employes were seeking to get their Jobs back, Government officials almost unanimously opinion that the backbone pf the strike, which started with the workout of some 300,000 students end teachers, had been broken, Most commercial establishments both wholesale and functioning ggatn. although, their stuffs slightly below normal. Deliveries' pf SUC'J essential? foodstuffs, including ice, milk and oread, were renewed, although, on cirtailed, hasjs, and gasoline stations were beginning to open again, "rs planned to reopen tonight, while were operating at about 60 Percent pf normal. By Tho Associated Tress Flood waters from rivers and streams in northern and central West Virginia swept over ecoreB of highways Tuesday night, Isolating many sections from automobile travel, forcing suspension of classes in some schools, inundating lowlands and causing considerable property damage. Boosted by heavy rainfall the last 24 hours and snowfall, the rivers surged higher hourly, menacing many communities, threatening to wash out bridges, cut olf water supplies and halt rail and bus service Heavy snowfall was reported generally through southern West Virginia as the mercury tumbled, and stages of the Ohio, Kanawha, Elk, New Greenbrier and Gauley rivers roso hourly.

In the Fairmont area, streams were rising at the rate of six Inches tin hour. Traffic on the Clarksburg- Fairmont highway was halted by high water at White Rock, a few miles south of Fairmont. Road Bulletin A bulletin issued'by the road commission said: "Travel conditions in West Virginia are probably as bad as they have been in two years, Both floods and snow have combined to produce a condition that makes auto travel very difficult and uncertain. The roads are thick with a heavy slush and if much'colder weather comes chains will be necessary for all motorists." Several inches of snow covered highways in southern West Virginia. At Huntington, the Ohio river roee six inches hourly, with the crest not expected by rivermeii before Thursday.

Lowland sections of the city were inundated. The river stage was about 38 feet, and many of the city would be flooded should! if. reach between 47 arid .50, feet, The Monongahela river 'was rapidly approaching the highway at Kivesvillo, threatening to block traffic to Morgantown. At Charleston the Kanawha river rose to 22 feet, 12 feet under flood stage and the Elk river at Clay was up to 16.5 feet, where 1.22 inches of rain fell. Flood Stage A stage of 34 feet, two below flood stage, was forecast at Parkersburg, with a crest of 44 feet for Point Pleasant.

Forty-four feet Is flood stage at Point Pleasant, where the Kanawha joins the Ohio river. In Tyler oounty rural schools, classes were suspended due to rising flood waters which covered highways to a depth of four feet at some places, and mail service on country routes were crippled. Wheeling and tho upper Ohio valley was threatened by floods after 60 hours of steady rain pushed the tributaries of the Ohio over their (Turn to Page Ten) PLANS CREATION OF POWER AUTHORITY Charleston. W. March 12.

(JP) creation of a power authority of the state of West Virginia similar to that created in New York by Franklin D. Roosevelt Is planned oy Senator Earl Smith, (Democrat of Marion). He said today he will call within the next two weeks a meeting of the special committee named to study water power development in the state, especially those angles covered in a bill he introduced, which he said was prepared for him by Samuel Wilson, secretary of the New York water power commission. HO USE MASSES ILL PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR H0LC LOANS Washington, March 12. With only two votes against it, the house passed today the measure which provides an additional $1,750,000,000 for the Home Owners' Loan corporation to help mortgage burdened home owners'.

The bill was sent to after repeated attempts to raise the $1,760,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 were beaten. Members of the banking committee gave assurance again and again that the bill provided sufficient funds to help deserving home owners in distress. Even so, the committee Itself had added $250,000,000 to the $1,500,000.000 originally in the measure. It also wrote in a provision that new-applications for help might be filed for SO days after the bill becomes law. Only eight of two score amendments were accepted.

One pf the last adopted boosted from $25,000 to $50,000 the limit on up to 20 percent by the federal housing administration made by private lending agencies for repair Mid provement of commercial structures. Asserting that If the government guaranteed these loans, $200,000,000 be handed the bankers of the country, Representative Hancock, Democrat of North ed the entire section be lifted out of the bill, Toe $200,000,000 the amount provided in the housing act tot oration loans on The bill would open the fund to commercial modernisation BAN ON UTILITY Message To Congress Brings Quick Protests From Two Utility Groups PRESIDENT SUBMITS 12-POINT WORK PLAN Rain-swollen streams surged to flood and near-flood stages throughout the tri-elate area late last night. Shortly before mld-nlght the U. S. weather bureau reported 26.5 feet at "the point," where the Allegheny unites with the Monongahela to form the Ohio river.

Flood stage Is 25 feet 'We expect the crest will be 28 feet and It will be reached about 4 o'clock Wednesday morning," the bureau reported. "That stage will remain steady for a time and then waters will start to recede." By The Associated Press Steadily rising rivers, swollen hy heavy rains and melting snow In the mountains, carried flood dangers today to lowland communities in northern West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. Many highways were flooded. Some towns, in the mountainous regions of northern West Virginia were isolated from automobile travel. Rural schools in the same sections had to suspended classes.

Coal mines in southwest Pennsylvania were flooded, and many miners put out of work temporarily. Tributaries of the Monongahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio were running bank-full. The waters were nearing flood Btage in Pittsburgh at "The Point" where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers converge, forming the Ohio. The situation at a glance: of downtown buildings in the "triangle" financial section were threatened with inundation: tbe Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks, along the Allegheny, were at the point reached 22.6 foot and a half, feet from- flood-level; hours of steady rain caused rise in the Ohio' ffeatUer forecaster; i ''0 reach tie foot stage feet, is flood etage. Middlebonrne, (W.

buses were unable to negotiate highways covered by four feet of and classes were suspended in some schools. Mall service was crippled, but some carriers continued deliveries on foot, walking miles over circuitous routes. rising at rate of six inches an hour; automobile traffic halted on most roads into city because of high water on sub- burban roads; considerable, property damage reported at several communities. Charleroi, report 15 foot rise in the Monongahela within 48 hours; merchants at nearby Belle Vernon prepare to move stocks from cellar storage rooms. of the five principal highways blocked by high water; water flooded pumping station at water plant in town of Cairo, putting it out.

of commission; railroad, bridge In Cairo threatened by rising waters; rail and tiuter urban operation with only slight difficulty. COW, LONG Menwhile, General Johnson Promises Plenty To Say In Battle Of Epithets; Goes Into Seclusion 85 Drug Stores Get Permission To Sell Rum On Prescription Washington, March 12 A widening cleavage between Father Coughlln and Senator Long was' seen today In latest renewal of the spectacular battle of epithets between them, on one side, and General Hugh 8. Johnson on the other. most part, the. priest and the senator preach the.same economic, doc on one point, taking, their face value, they iwere widely apart today.

That point was the supporting President Roosevelt. Long has lost no opportunity to lambaet.tbe administration with accusations of broken promises to redistribute the wealth. Coughlln last renewed and reaffirmed '1932 slogan of "Roosevelt or ruin," This a long period In which the supposition by many here was that the priest was rapidly nearing a-position of outright opposition to the administration. There was without verification as to whether the White House had been in touch with Coughlln since Johnson's first speech attacking him'and Long, and It was pointed out that the reflnanciig move announced at toe treasury over tbe week-end was in conformity with Coughjiu's views, Johnson jpreparjng to return to the attack it) the immediate future "with plenty to went IntP eeculslpn' awaiting, he said, poWtariCfH to lead nationwide campaign to exterminate the influence Action Of President Is Con strued As Broad Endorse ment Of Rayburn BUI Which Gives Companies Five Years To Close Shops Washington, March 12. With tho flat dictum that "to avoid governmental socialism" congress must ban all except public utility holding companies, President Roosevelt today sent to the tapitol a twelve-point plan for dealing with the subject.

Slashing sharply in tho Bame special message at what he called organized "propaganda" against tho porjected legislation, the president was met with a renewed salvo of opposition. In a matter of hours alter delivery of his message, two utility groups hit back asserting that he had "prejudged" the case and expressing "astonishment" at his words. Mr. Roosevelt left little doubt, however, that the weight of the administration would be thrown behind tho effort to push through utility holding company legislation at this session. After hitting at what he called to exploit the most far-fetched and fallacious fears," which, he said, left him "un Impressed," Mr.

Roosevelt added: Nesessary System "Except where It is absolutely necessary to the continued functioning of a geographically integrated operating utility system the utility holding company with Its present powers must go." But the words flung back by opponents of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill generally to ban public utility holding companies in five years were both heated and strong. One of Che warmest fights of the seaslon appeared introspect. Among the -reperoussions from the presidential' mewage The American Uy Investors, thrpugh its president Htign.S.,Maglll, tonight, that the president's message, hade the effect of giving impetus to the Wheeler-Rayburn bill, which he called "autocratic," "destructive" and "unconstitutional." The president's he a state of mind that "cOoly disregards the pleas of the people in the exercise of their constitutional right to petition their own government for a redress of grievance." Prejudices Case The committee of public utility executives, through a statement of its chairman, Philip H. Gadsen. asserted: "In order to offset the rising tide of protest which is coming from hundreds of thousands of investors in public utilities from all over the country before we have had an opportunity to offer any defense or objections to this bill, the president sends a message to colngress today which seeks to prejudice the case." Senator Norrls, Nebraska's independent Republican, said the presidential message was "dandy" and to Page Ten) SAMUEL INSULL IS FREED OF EMBEZZLEMENT COUNT Chicago, March 12.

Icsull, hopefully awaiting word, that state and government would abandon, further attempts to fix criminal responsibility for tbe collapse of his utility empire, today held up celebration of his latest court victory. The aged financier, acquitted last night by a criminal court jury on charges of embezzling $66,000, took bis leisure quietly at his hotel. Assistant State's Attorney Wiibert F. Crowley indicated another charge of embezzlement pending against In- and bis brother, Martin, would be 4ropped, "It Is not likely that we will try them," he said. United States District Attorney Dwight Green declined to disclose whether theh'' government would abandon a bankruptcy law violation 'case against but sojd It had not been set for trial.

Charleston, W. March 12. (JP) Permission to begin selling whisky Immediately on doctors' prescriptions was mailed by the liquor con- trot commission today to eighty-five drug stores. J. A.

Washington, executive secretary of the commission, said all of the applications so far received were approved and mailed. He declined to announce the names of the stores but said they are In all parta of the state, Including all of the larger cities. The list will be announced only after the job has been completed, he added. The eighty-five applicants are among those to whom application blanks were mailed Saturday, and a number of other blanks were sent out today. Stocks of Intoxicants already on hand are all the stores may sell under tho permission, but no tax will be levied on it by the state.

The commission is still studying the problem whether it can allow the druggists to purchase new stocks when the present supply Is ed, Washington said. "The commission had a number of hearings about that today," he explained, "and we may be ablo to announce a decision eoon." OF SERVICEJRADES Richberg Submits List Bringing Most Of Enforcement Difficulties; Inquiry Into N. R. A. Continues STATES TWO-YEAR Jones, Finance Committee Head, Calculates From Best Figures Available WILL LEAVE BALANCE OF NEAR HALF MILLION Kid Canfield, Noted Reformed Gambler, Dies At Microphone BRUNO HAUPTMANN TELLS Death Strikes While Famous SPIRITUAL ADVISER HE HAS NOTHING TO CONFESS Washington, March 12.

(fl 3 difference of opinion In administration circles over how many codes should be dropped In revising NRA was Indicated today by Donald Richberg in advising the senate finance committee to "do the big Job and let the fringes wait." Richberg expresed tho personal view that a great many of the codes for service trades, with all their enforcement difficulties, could be dropped and still leave 75 percent of the nation's workers under the blue eagle. "But I want you to hear those who feel more strongly, than I do that there should be something done in this field," Richberg told tbe committee. Chairman Harrison of. personal views 'on which codes should be discarded after the committee had tried for four days to get a Specific list from the director of the national emergency council who appeared as a spokesman for the administration. Richberg said he would Uot write into the law which industries should be regulated and which should not.

but would draw the line by a definition of interstate commerce that wofild "stand up" In the courts. He submitted a list of seventeen service trade codes, covering about 3,000,000 employes, which ho said had brought of the neforcement difficulties. He added, however, thut these groups Included some of tho worst employment conditions; The bigger industries In the list were barber shops, laundries, cleaning and dyeing, hotels and restaurants, motor vehlclo storage, advertising, bowling and billiards, real estate, brokerage, and beauty shops. There was apparently less est In Rlchberg's fourth appearanco before'the committee than during the first three days. Only part of the senators attended the hearing and there were no persons Btandlng along the wails.

As a result. Richberg had a. little easier time getting in a few words of his own between Questions. In submitting the list of service trade codes, Riobberg said the list had given rise to "the major complaints" but that "on the other side of the picture we have approxi- (Turn to Page Ten) N. W.

WOULD DROP N0RTHF0RK TRAINS Charleston, W. March 12. (JP) to discontinue passenger traliiB on the Northfork branch, between Northfork aud Grumpier, lh McDowell county, was asked of the publio service sion'today by the Norfolk and Western railway. It also asked authority to operate a train between Wayne and East Lynn every other day. P0II1 PRESIDENT TO GO ON FISHING TRIP Finds Returns From Net Income Tax, Passed To Replace Gross Income, Problematical; People In Higher Brackets To Pay More Charleston, W.

March 12 Tho legislature today gave the executives of the state government the authority to spend approximately $46,532,808 In tho next two years after collecting it through taxes reenacted, some of them with reduced rates. The appropriations are provided In tho budget bill passed by both houses early this morning. The legislature adjourned sine die immediately afterward, having completed tho regular session Sunday morning. Senator Luther B. Jones, Democrat, Boone, chairman of the senate finance committee and a member of the conference committee which worked out a compromise between house and senate differences on tbe appropriations, said today the budget for the next two years is balanced.

"A balanced budget, of course," ho said, "Is theoretical. It has to be based on estimated revenue from the tax acts, and no one can know exactly what the taxes will bring in until the end of the year. Available Figures "But from the best figures available, we calculated that the revenue bills will bring into the state treasury approximately $46,991,000, which theoretically would leave the state a balance of about $450,000 at the end of the bleunlum." The expenditures of $46,632,698 include, he explained, the biennial budget provisions adopted this morning and the $2,000,000 previously provided In a separate appropriation for schools for the rest of the year, Which administration leaders said Is, to meet all- teachers' salaried and maintenance costs, "On the new tax rates," Senator Jones said, "we. estimated the reduction In the surtax' aid theaters, or amusement tax, will amount to $1,400,000. Net Income Tax "The net Income tax, passed to replace the old gross Income taxi Is' problematical.

It provides graduated rateu, so that people In the higher brackets of income will pay more; for instance, for some people who in the past have paid 1 percent, tho rate will be 3 percent. "What it will do to the 'average however, would be hard to figure. we can't teil whether It will bring in as much or more than the old gross Income tax. We tried to fix it so that It will raise about the same amount that the old tax did, but we can't be sure about that" bill carries appropriations of $3,000,000 a year for relief, to supplment federal funds, the same amount spent by tbe state last year. Chairman James Kay Thomas, Democrat, Kanawha, of the IIOUBO finance committee, said this and the extra $2,000,000 tor schools made the (Turn to Page Ten) Trenton, N.

March 12 Bruno Richard Hauptmsnn told his spiritual adviser today he had "nothing to confess" about tho Lindbergh baby kldnap-slaylng. The Rev. D. G. Werner, of New York City, whom Hauptmann selected asked Hauptmann to confess if he were guilty of tho crime, "I have nothing to confess," he quoted Hauptmann as saying.

"If I had anything to confess I would have done It long ago In order not to go through these long trials." Mr. Werner's visit with Hauptmann at the death house In tbe state prison was his fourth. He said he found Hauptmnnn "full of courage," hoping for another trial. State Commission Denies Motion Of Coal Operators For Cut In Power Rates Of Old Dominion Company K1I An A I AO iirnhAf jlTuro-io-P Ten) Richmond, March 12. The state corporation commission today denied the motion of the Virginia Coal Operators association for an Immediate 18 1-2 percent cut in the power rates of the Old Dominion Power company.

The commission did, however, grant motions of the comnlaint requiring tbe company to fi)jj its annual for 1934 Prior- to March IS and March the dead- in the recently mmH April set for fufthM hwrings the- case, coal Wrjilnia -hftYo All- Plans Annual Trip South Qfi spite Delay And Rebellion At Capitol; Vetoes Vogue Set By Presidents' ADVAiMC GUFFEYJMAL BILL Subcommittee Approves Bill To Make Coal A Utility; John L. Lewis Says Operators Promote Strike Talk Card Sharp Voices Warn- in To 'Sucker' 'GAMBLING DOES NOT PAY' LAST WORDS OVER Washington. March 12 in one quarter of the capital a senate sub-committee late today approved the Guffey bill to make coal production a public utility, another heard a labor chief accuse Appalachian soft coal operators of promoting strike talk as a means of Increasing this month's sales. "You're playing with fire!" was the shout directed at operators by John L. Lewis, president of tho United Mino Workere, at tho Joint wage conference drawing up new wage-and-hour contracts to succeed those expiring March 31.

"If you plunge this great industry into Industrial warfare, let the responsibility bo on you." In reporting favorably on tho Guffey coal bill tbe senate sub-com- mlttee'neverthelees recommended a number of amendments. One of them would provide allocation of production on the basis of 1934 production. In addition to giving coal a public utility statuB tho bill would set up a commission to regulate production and fix prices, and provide for purchase of $300,000,009 worth of sub- marginal coalfields at a national reserve. The report was made public by Senator Neely, Democrat, West Virginia, chairman of the sub-committee, who presided at the lengthy and spirited hearings on tbe measure. Many southern coal producers attacked its constitutionality and said it Would throw tho Industry Into chaos.

The bill's plan' for the allocation of production was the chief taruet of-attack at the hearings. Before being amended by the subcommittee, the measure provided that production be allocated to districts and to mines on the basis of a mean between 1919-1934 production aud 1934 production. Another change approved by the sub-commHtee was the Increase of the size of the natldnal coal board, which would administer the industry, from five to nine members, of whom two would represent the producers and two the miners. The subcommittee also voted to (Turn to Pago Ten) MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC SYSTEM LEADS VOTING Chattanooga, March 12. (JP) A proposal to put Tennessee Valley Authority power into Chattanooga Drama That Has Filled Spectacular Life Present When Final Summons Came; Devoted Recent Years To Exposing Crooked Oames Kid Canfleld, reformed gnmblor, vaudeville performer, and notorious for his skill In handling a deck of cards, collapsed while speaking over radio station WH1S last night and died before medical aid could be summoned.

Drama bad filled this man's We and ho died In a spectacular tolling Bluefleld people that "gambling does not pay." Canflold bad known tho thrill that comes with winlnng fortunes. In his time he has faced desperate criminals over card tables, when a slip In his tricks would havo meant murder. He had addressed audiences numbering thousands, and theatres filled dally, but never beforo had ho spoken over a radio station. He spoke to the announcer about his nervousness as ho stood ready for his program and then when tbe red light flashed, indicating that he was on tho air, he started in his stage of Bluefield. take it from a man who has gambled with tho best of them, it is a crooked game and the sucker has no chance," he roared.

Tho microphone blasted and tho engineer at tho transmitter cut the VOIUMC. Sucker Is Marked "Gambling does not pay," Kid Canfleld continued, "it is a game run by professional crooks In which Kid Canfleld waB to tell the "boys let me tell you a story He toppled, righted himself and then crashed head-first to the scarlet-rugged floor of the studio, taking tbe microphone with him. Kid Canfield breathed but a minute or so after that. Studio attendants carried him to a couch and hurriedly called a physician. Kid Canfleld had ended his career before the doctor arrived.

Heart failure, was the verdict. Another program went on the air, with minimum delay. Dance music, it was, as transcribed by one of the world's greatest orchestra's and the. listeners of WHIS did not know that death had interrupted the story that Kid Canfleld was to tell the of Bluefield." As far as anyone knows, the sudden death of Canfleld, while Bpeak- ing over a radio station, WAB the first of its kind ever to happen. Twenty or thirty spectators were watching the broadcast.

Billed At Theater Canfleld was In Bluefield to appear at the Rialto theater today and tomorrow in connection with a motion picture of his life and an expose of gambling methods. He had paraphanalla of elaborate design, crooked dice, marked cards and (Turn to Page Ten) RELIEF BILL TI Later Meets Determined Effort Of Insurgents To Clip i through a municipal electric system, Fund In Half; Defeat Long's' lnt0 tt commanding leadto- Amendment preasioa-experience. Washington, March J2. splte delay and rebellion at the can- Itol. President Roosevelt plane to leave, the capital late this month for that annual fishing trip in tbe warm blue waters Florida's coast.

Tbe tentative decision, made known today, adds another Roosevelt veto to the vogue set by former presidents, in recent mewt have stuck so close to, the White House when congress was In session that they could ajmpst have walked back to Washington in a day If anything had happened to their train or motor car. Neyerthelow, Mr, Roosevelt not pair baa the Florida Journey In mind but seriously considering a crosscountry trio this summer to the California exposition at San prom Present Indications, Page Teal Washington, March 12 administration leaders herded tho relief bill through two tost votes today, only to meet later with a dtermined Insurgant effort to clip the proposed appropriation to hajf Us size. The majority chiefs succeeded In downing with a 76-5 vote an amendment by Senator Long, Democrat of Louisiana, to set aside a billion dollars of the fund' to provide college educations for needy youths. Then they mustered a 56 to 32 vole to beat an amendment proposed by Costlgan, Democrat of Colorado, which would have broadened the terms of the bill to include "useful public works," especially state, municipal and other non-federal projects. The measure then ran Into a sletce of debate led by Democrats both from the agricultural sections ar I big city states, From both came or, of the value of the measure to the unemployed In their respective types of communities.

After Senator' Byrd, Democrat of Virginia, made publio a report from the treasury showing that $1,500,000.000 Of the $3,300,000,000 public fund appropriated two years ago remained unexpended, Senator Copeland, Democrat of New York, opened the battle to cut tbe new relief outlay to $1,880,000,000. Byrd favors a $1,000,000,000 appropriation. "We are not going to buy our way to prosperity," Copeland told the senate, are going to buy our to poverty." Senator Long predicted that "ninety-five percent" of 'the big relief fund would be wasted. Senator Tyd- Ings, Democrat of Maryland, who lives near Baltimore, joined Copeland in hla argument that millions to be spent dn western power, legation ad soli erosion projects, would not on relief (Turato Page night as tlie count of the cote cast in today's power bond referendum passed the fway murk. With IS out of 33 precincts reported the vote stood at 8,776 for bonds and 3,569 against.

PRICE ADVANCES THREE-F0LD IN PAST EIGHT MONTHS St. LOUIB March 12. Those little pigs that went to market last year are missing now, and the consumer is paying three times as much for spareribs as he did eight months ago. The situation that brings moans to the housewife is greeted with smiles by the farmer. Curtailed receipts attributed partly to the government's HOC reduction program, end partly to last summer's drought, today had brought a high of $9.60 Iter hundredweight on the St.

Louis hog market. This compares to a $3,60 top on June 1. 1934. Several factors, other than the increase in-the live prices, help to make the housewife grimace. To the live quolatlon is added $2.25 per hundredweight processing tax which pay for the reduction program, end a butchers' profit that Is tending up ward from 30 percent because of decreased sales.

gparerlbs which last June sold for five cents a pound in St, Louis have jumped to 16 cents; pork loin from 12 1-2 to 21 cents; and bacon from 13 to 21 cents. Of the 16 cents paid for sparer)bs 1-2 cents goes to the payment of the processing tax, It ls'4 1-2 cents in the case of bacon and 4 7-8 cents for loin. Hogs receipts are from 40 to 60 percent under tbe same time year. The AAA removed 6,000.000 pigs and sows from porduetlon and rising feed prices after tbe drought caused to dispose of entire herds, ST AT 250 Union Miners Strike In Labor pispute; Dismissal Of Two Mine Workers Causes Trouble Williamson, W. Itfareh 12.

(JP) No. 3 mine of tho Fordaon Coal company at nearby Stono, shut down today after 250 union miners struck In a labor dispute. L. Skeen, general superintendent of the mine owned by the Henry Ford Interests, asked what tbe company would do about resuming operations, referred to the striking workmen and said; "It's up to them." The mine has no contract with the United Mine Workers of America. Skeen said it had not been signed because of the union's demand of the "check-off" system by which the company would deduct union dues from the men's salaries.

Skeen, added, however, that the company pays Its men more than the union scale which prevails in the district. "The union has acted; It's now up to Skeen," suld W. F. Horn, who said he wus spokesman for tbe union. The miners refused to work, he said, because of tbe dismissal of the motorman and brakeman of a mine motor.

They were accused of disobeying orders but Horn said the dispute originated several days ago after a coal loader refused to move, to another job. The crew of the motor (engine that hauls the cpal cars). were ordered not to deliver cars to' him, and did so anyway, said Skeen, "We hire the men to work for us, aud we expect them to do as they are told," ho added. "If they; don't, we have to let them go," Horn pointed out that the' loader who bed been ordered to shift to another job refused to do so only after a union committee told him he did not have to do so unless the pany would guarantee Mm the same wages he had been getting, Skeen said the mine had wares Meroh 1 to a haslo minimum of $5 a day for miners, 40 day higher than the scale, and the pay of raised two cents a ton to if Tfels. compares, be sftljj, with, ft eeale of 443 cents per.