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MliM-ll ifjo. Gave Cermak Blood RESTING BEFORE INAUGURATION Martial Law Mouse Advances Salary Cut Bill to Accept Amendments Arms Embargo Not Handicap, Says Japan Tdcyo Seems To Regard British Decision As Too Bad for China General Effect Is To Replace U. S. With Britain In Villain's Role Attempt Is Made In House To Reconsider Bill Barring Married Women From I. jl.f j'J I In Germany Is Declared Hindenburg's Move Is 'To Protect People' From Red Menace Communist Leaders Throughout Country-Placed Under Arrest BERLIN, Feb.

28. OP) A hefty blow was struck at Communism In Germany by a decree President Von Hlndenburg signed tonight placing the nation under virtual martial law ''to protect the people from Communist danger. The decree was approved at a cabinet meeting at which Wllhelm Qoer-ing. minister without portfolio and commissioner for the Prussian ministry of interior, reported to his colleagues on the Incendiary fire which damaged the Reichstag last night and on the recent raid on Karl Llebknecht house, the Communist headquarters In Berlin. The emergency measure taken by the government to cope with th situation fell short of martial law only because of the desire to keep the army out of politics.

Extraordinary powers to safeguard against disorders were placed in the hands of police. Meanwhile Communist leaders throughout Germany were placed under arrest. The arrest order affected Communist members of the Reichstag, but it was impossible to determine how many of them had been seized as many went Into hiding. In Hanover 140 Communists were arrested and in Hamburg 150. Party headquarters throughout the country were raided, and subversive literature and weapons seized.

NEW YORK. Feb. 28. MV--Oeneral Motors Corp. today announced that the number of its employes in the United States Increased 2,917 in January, the fifth consecutive monthly gain.

In the past five months employment by the company rose 29.293. This new picture of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken at their country estate at Hyde Park, N.

where they rested prior to transferring their residence to the White House. (Associated Press photo) Roosevelt Formally Announces Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor She Will Be the First Woman Ever to Serve As Member of President's Cabinet Her Name in Private Life Is Mrs. Paul Wilson Liebold, Ford's Secretary, Wakes Up In Hotel Room In Traverse City "Just Woke Up," He Phones, Adding That He MCi A1 as "Exhausted Some Alarm Caused By His Disappearance Mr. Roosevelt ofTrrcd ni comment whatever 'on his choircs. simply in forming newspapermen in his study at the residence hrre that Miss Perkins and "Dan" Roper would complete hb cabinet.

He treated the woman member on exactly the same terms as the men. Coriey As Ambassador? Apparently well founded reports that Mayor James J. Curley of Boston, would be the next ambassador to Italy brought neither affirmation nor denial from Mr. Roosevelt. He replied to queries that "nothing has been done at all about that nothing has been taken up about the embassies." He expects to announce the choice diplomatic assignments next week after consultation with Senator Hull, of Tennessee, his secretary of State.

The Ename of Jesse I. Straus, New York merchant, continues to be mentioned for Paris or Havana. Robert W. Bing ham, Louisville publisher, is kept at the premier London assignment. Spending the day quietly at the Krum Elbow estate on the Hudson.

Mr. Roosevelt devoted himself principally to final preparation of his Inaugural address. (Continued on Pai 9) Kick On S. Insull's $6,000 Pension CHICAGO, Feb. 28.

The $6,000 a year pension Samuel Insull collects while a fugitive in Greece brought a Refusing Senate Judiciary Committee Will Recommend Today An Amendment To Constitutional Convention Bill To Give County Representation Instead of Ten Delegates Appointed by Governor As Originally Planned MONTPELIER. Feb. 28. (JFh-An attempt was made today in the lunii iiiucc vi i Assembly to reconsider the bill, killed last night, which would bar married women from employment by the State unless they were "sole support of dependents." The move, made by Moore of Goshen, was defeated when the House refused reconsideration by a large majority on a vlve voce vote. Only a few items remained on the calendar for the afternoon session, and it was hurried through and the members went to committee sessions.

Representative Whitney of Eden was permitted to withdraw his bill H. 77, relating to salary reductions as the matter was already taken care of in the bill H. 236 advanced to third reading by the House this morning and which would provide reduction of from live per cent to 20 per cent in salaries of State officials and which also gives wider powers to the governor In the discharge of appointive officials and State employes. Representative Noonen of Panton asked reconsideration of the bill which would permit the commissioner of education to delegate a deputy commissioner to act in certain duties that now legally can only be done by the commissioner. The bill had been refused advancement this morning on protest of Noonan.

The representative from Panton then proposed an amendment which covered his objections to the bill tnd they were adopted by the House and the bill was advanced to third reading. The amendment would permit the commissioner to delegate a deputy or helping teacher to consider appeals made from towns In the matter of transportation and om other disagreements, the Judgment of whom would be final in the care. A i Al Smith Gives 1 Opinion He Advances To Senate Committee a Broad Program for Economic Recovery Not for President-Dictator WASHINGTON. Feb. 28.

his own homely phrases and familiar East Side words. Alfred E. Smith. Democracy's 1928 presidential candidate, today sketched before the Senate finance comr.iittee a broad program lor the improvement of economic conditions. At ease and puffing on his perpetual cigar.

Smith mixed with bursts of smoke proposals for sweeping expansion of public works to aid the Jobless, recognition of Russia, settlement of war debts on the basis of trade increases, tariff revision and consolidation of transportation agencies into a unified system. For Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who goes into the White House at which he aimed five years ago and whom he opposed at the Democratic convention last June, Smith advocated broad powers to reorganize the government and observed that he did not believe this would make the executive a dictator. "I'm not in sympathy withall this talk about dictators, monarchs and kings when you give the president power to run the government as a private undertaking." Smith explained as the crowded committee room listened attentively to his comment. The former New York governor sat at the head of the table in adding his views to those of other national notables on whom Senate Democrats have called for suggestions to provide data lor the use of the incoming administration in coping with the depression. The hearings were closed today, but will be resumed about March 15, with the committee under the Demo cratic chairmanship of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, sponsor of the resolution under which It is functioning.

(Continued en Page 13) TO LET BOETTCHER DEAL WITH ABDUCTORS DENVER, Feb. 28. Leeway to deal with the kidnapers of Charles Boettcher, 2nd. was given today to Claude K. Boettcher, multi-millionaire father of the missing broker, by the withdrawal of police from his home and that of his son.

A conference between Police Chief A. T. Clark and Mayor G. D. Begole to determine whether police should fctire altogether from the more than io-weeiw-oja Kianaping mystery and allow the elder Boettcher to conduct independent negotiations was postponed.

Clark said he wanted to see what developments withdrawal of officers from the homes would bring. TO SPEED ACTION ON BANKRUPTCY BILL WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. (JP) House party leaders agreed tonight to expedite action tomorrow on the LaGuardia-McKeown-Hastings bankruptcy reform bill with a view to sending it to the White House for President Hoovers approval.

The measure would allow individuals, farmers and railroads to make voluntary readjustment of their debts without recourse to formal bankruptcy and is considered by Its proponents as one means of easing the present economic situation. An age-old tradition was broken recently in Sarajevo when for the first time in the four centuries of its existence women were permitted to enter the famous Begova Dzamija to take part in the fourth centenary celebration in honor of the mosque's builder. Dr. R. S.

Mosely, young in. em of the Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami, gave a pint of his blood in a transfusion operation to help Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago. (Associcted Press Photo) Late Bulletins Say Mayor Cermak Rests Comfortably MIAMI. Fla- Feb. 28.

UP) Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago has responded well to medical suggestions and Is Improving, a bulletin issued at midnight by Dr. Karl Meyer of Chicago said. The bulletin: "Mayor Cermak has rested In comfort and quiet the last three hours, he has rested welL His breathing In not labored and he shows no evidence of cardiac or respiratory collapse. We have given him no opiates. He asked for bromides to help him sleep.

He responded very well to medical suggestion that he go to trclt's largest banks under control. Only a few hours after Fcrd the alarm was spread letters were received this morning by oHcers of two Dearborn banks contaln-his resignation from their directorates. The letters were postmarked in Pontiac. only a few miies from Detroit, yesterday afternoon. No definite clues to his whereabouts had been uncovered, although the trail was leading to northern Michigan, when Harry Bennett, chief of the Ford service department, received the first telephone call from Liebold tonight.

Bennett had directed the search, verified the fact that his caller was the missing secretary, then switched the call to Edsel Ford, who is president of the Ford Motor Co. It was later that Liebold talked to Henry Ford. Rumor Nazis Plot Wholesale Massacre BERLIN. March 1. (Wednesday) (Pi Ash Wednesday dawned with a stillness today belying a tension which caused hundreds of the wildest and most fantastic rumors concern ing the coming week-end, when Reich stag elections will be conducted.

Reports credited to vague "travel ers fleeing from Germany" have been circulating in various European capi tals, but, as far as is apparent, these rumors are not founded on facts risible in Berlin. By piecing together fragments of Nazi speeches, coupled with some of Minister Wilhelm Goerlng's recent orders, that the police should be ruthless with leftist elements, a ground can be possibly found for some of these rumors. The London Herald reported Today that what it called an amazing Nazi plot had been formed in Germany to "carry out during the coming week-end the most staggering massacre the world has known." The Herald said further: "A quarter million Nasi storm troops, including desperate characters over whom even Chancellor Adolf Hitler cannot exercise control, will. It is stated. Invade the large towns of Prussia and slaughter all progressive leaders and Jews of whom, both men and women, a long list already has been prepared." Form a habit ot reading the clas- slfied ads dally you will benefit.

Representative Luce of Massachusetts was elected tonight permanent chairman of the Republican conference to succeed Haw-ley of Oregon, retiring. Hooper of Michigan, was elected vice-chairman and Clarke of New York, secretary. The new congressional committee elected tonight includes: Goss, Connecticut: Bcedy, Maine; Foss, Massachusetts, and Gibson. Vermont. The new committee on committees, which will select a steering committee of seven before the extra session of the new Congress includes: Merrltt, Connecticut; Beedy.

Tread-way. Massachusetts; Tobey, New Hampshire; Gibson, Vermont. i Deadlock Develops In Motor Vehicle Bill Conference MONTPELIER, Vt. Feb. 28.

A deadlock had developed today between the conference committees of the House and Senate which are considering the Ilonso bill relating to motor vehicle fee reduction and change in date of registration from January 1 to July 1. The bill as passed by the House called for 25 per rent reduction in fees, one-fourth and three-fourths year registration and a change in date. The Senate amended the measure to delete everything but the three-quarter year registration. The committee of conference has had several sessions but could reach no agreement, it was said, and today the impasse continued. The committees will meet again tomorrow In hope of reaching an agreement satisfactory to both Houses, it was said.

Several States Extend Emergency Aid to Banks (By the Associated Press) Banks in several commonwealths functioned Tuesday under the protective hands of their state governments, which exerted stabilizing influences through legislative and administrative acts. At Washington Senator Borah said he believed Congress must give Its attention in the future to the subject of Federal guaranty of bank deposits. In six states New Jersey, Kentucky. Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Arkansas officials of banking institutions took advantage of safety valve measures sanctioning restricted withdrawals. Kansas legislators hastened toward enactment of a bill permitting banks and creditors to formulate reorganisation plans which, with the approval of 80 per cent of the general creditors and the state banking department, would be binding upon all general creditors.

The limitation in most instances was set at five per cent of deposits. In Pennsylvania emergency legislation required banks to obtain authorization of the state banking secretary to limit payments of their holdings. The Delaware assembly enacted three laws designed to conserve banks assets and protect depositors, while In Maryland Governor Ritchie announced extension of a banking moratorium which was to have term inated yesterday. Business transactions in Ohio went on scarcely impeded although more than 150 banks there were compelling depositors to accept but a small per centage of their funds. After suspending operations for four hours while its trustees debated possible lines of action, the Cincinnati Stock Exchange reopened for trad ing.

The Detroit News said that plans for establishing the two New Ford-sponsored banks in that city had encountered an obstacle in the refusal of New York banks to grant a loan to the First National Bank of Detroit, one of the institutions involved. Late News Briefs WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company today was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission to "borrow sn additional $2,234,800 from the Reconstruction Corporation. HANCOCK.

N. Feb. 28. (IF) Mrs. Lllla Cabot Perry, mother of the wife of Joseph C.

Grew, United States ambassador to Japan, died today. She was about 70 years old, Mrs. Perry was known as an artist and author. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.

(JP) Presl dent Hoover today signed the $16. 00,000 appropriations bill for the legislative branch, carrying among its major items salaries for senators and representatives during the next fiscal year. BOSTON. Feb. 28.

(JF) Payson Smith, state commissioner of education, said today the legislature should conduct a sweeping investigation why An An TwmU praH. 40 other states do not permit grad uates of the Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery, to prac- tice. MONTREAL. Feb. 28.

OP) Stock worth $500. purchased here by a man wanted In connection with a Toronto bank holdup, has been seized In Nashua, New Hampshire, police said today. BOSTON. Feb. 28.

UP) George K. Manson. chief engineer of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, today said more than 80" per cent of the "new Investment" in bulldlnss of the company, had been made during a period of high costs. Twenty-five tombstones dating from middle ages, which were discovered last year in a subterranean passage under the Jewish cemetery In Worms, have been set up In the cemetery Itself. They cover four centuries, and most of them are well preserved.

Clinics for sick plants were held In a half dozen Wisconsin counties dur ing the last year. for or to be to i i State Employment The Move, However, Is Defeated By Large Majority Viva Voce Vote and the Measure Remains Killed MONTPELIER. Vt Feb. 28. (Tt An amendment to the bill providing calling of conventions for adoption rejection of proposed amendmenti the Constitution of the Uniterl States, submitted by Congress ti convention, will be recommended to the Senate tomorrow by the committee on Judiciary.

The committee, meeting before the brief afternoon session of the Senate, announced that it would recommend that instead of appointment ten delegates by the governor for and against adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment, one delegate appointed from each county. The bill would further be amended to provide that the governor shall, within 60 days after such amendment has been officially transmitted from the United States to this State, issue a call for election of delegate? a convention. The bill In Its present form, provides that the governor shall ten days after notification issue the Call. The only measure Introduced in th Senate at its afternoon session was the House bill relating to collection of taxes. The bill provides that town treasurers shall post notices calling upon taxpayers to pay their respective taxes upon or before the date fixed by vote of the municipalities, with a discount at the rate of four per cent upon taxes paid in advance of such date.

The bill was referred to the committer on municipal corporations. The committee on education voted to report favorably wih recommendation of amendment the measure relating to establishment and abolition of kindergartens, and the public health committee will report favor ably the House bill relating to practice of dentistry. (Continued on Page 2) Selby Holds "War Council" Vermont and New Hampshire Dairymen Attend Meeting At Springfield, Where Milk Prices Are Being Slashed SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 28. JTs Springfield's milk market situation was in a state of turmoil tonight over conflicting reports concerning the state of the New England market.

Howard W. Selby, manager of the New England market. Howard W. Selby. manager of the New England Dairies.

was in the city and held a "war with prominent dairymen from Vermont and New Hampshire. So far as reul-bc' learned, there were no Ma-ssachusetts men attendirj; this meetfng. The news that the Connecticut milk price has dropped to 4 1-2 cents a quart, F. O. B.

point of delivery, was causing much concern as was the belief that the plan of New Englani Dairies to induce the Bellows FalH (Vt.) Co-operative Creamery to Join its organization would fail. It is believed that the local will be dropped from its present five cent level, to 4 1-2 or even 4 cents shortly. A statement from 'James F. Mac-Lennan, manager of the Bellows Fall-Co-operative was received tonigh which denied charges made Saturday by Mr. Selby.

The tenor of the reply was interpreted locally to mean that the Bellows Falls Co-operative would not Join New England Dairies and this news was also breaking down the courage of the local distributors. Price cutting on the part of independent dealers and stores is increasing at an alarming rate, according reports, and this factor was beint; taken into consideration as the millt price for March was being considered. Milk is selling as low as six cents a quart at stores and eight cents a quart delivered. Store chains are selling at eight cents a quart and the major distributors are charging 11 1-2 cents. F.

SECRETARIES BUYING NEW SUITS HYDE PARK, N. Feb. 28. (T President-elect Roosevelt is havins lot of fun Joshing his secretaries about their new suits. The arrival here today of Louis M.

Howe, his political secretary with a new outfit caused Mr. Roosevelt to drop business temporarily and call in newspapermen to have a look. Yesterday Marvin H. Mclntyre, another secretary, showed up in new clothes. "You know Mac does get a suit a year, chuckled Roosevelt.

but I am informing you that LouU has a new suit. I think it is the same old tie and socks but take a look at the suit." avji I "Yes and a new tie and new socks." i growled the veteran Howe as he am- bled into the room, showing the socks. "An absolute revolution," commented the President-elect. "The first dawn of prosperity," retorted Howe. $250,000 BREACH tfTirrifrvn A NEW YORK.

Feb. 28. (IP) Th? $250,000 breach of promise suit brought by Gretchcn van Zandt Merrill of Boston and Cape Cod, against Cecil Stewart. New York, was withdrawn today. Counsel for Miss Merrill, without disclosing a reason, asked to have the case withdrawn after a Jury had been seated in supreme court to hear it.

Miss Merrill had contended ah abandoned a lucrative business to prepare for marriage, only to discover Stewart had married another i woman. Stewart had denied TOKYO. Feb. 28. (JP-Oreat ain't announcement of an arms embargo against Japan and China was Interpreted by Japanese authorities today as meaning a handicap lor Chin only.

This Interpretation wis based cn the ground that so far as arms are concerned Japan la self-sufficient. Nevertheless, keen resentment agt the embargo was expressed In uncial circles. A government spokesman ald mat as long as the embargo Is Impartial and la confined to nnisnro. munitions there Is little likelihood of trouble, but if restrictions are applied to Japan alone the government will have to consider the question of seizing arms shipments to China. In general the effect of the announcement of the British embargo was to leplace the unitea suurs with Britain In the role of the villain In the present international drama no far as the Japanese are concerned.

Adhesion by the United States to the League of Nations committee which will continue attempts to settle the Slno-Japanese controversy caused little comment here. A foreign office spokesman said: "Since the league adopted recommendations (for settling the conflict) largely In consideration of America's well known desires, th United State hardly could withheld a measure of support. However. Its adhesion cannot enable the committee to alter events in Manchuria and deflect Japan from Its fixed policy there." In official and business circles there was uneasiness lest the embargo turn out to be only the first Instance of pressure against Japan, with the possibility of eventual economic sanctions. Any such action, many Japanese believe, would mean war.

China Doesn't Like it NANKINO. China. Feb. 28. Chinese spokesmen today asserted uc nwsn rmoaw on arms nipmrnu wvnna ana japan raeani an Increase In the power of "Japan tsn military aggression.

These commentators said the embargo would not help the cause of peace. It was polnled out that Japan Is well-equipped 'lth arms and China Is practically without them, and unless Chin ran obtain weapons she will be helpless. Jap anese Hold Half of Jehol Also, Their Attacking Columns A Approaching Mountain Passes Which Protect Capital City (By the Associated Press) The latest from the Slno-Japanese front: Chlnchow The Japanese claimed control of half the province of Jehol, with their attacking columns approaching the Important mountain passes which protect the capital city. suichung The Chinese defense line at Shamaoshan. 15 miles from the Manchurian border, was smashed after a two-day battle marked by the heaviest fighting thus far in the Jehol campaign.

Pelplng -The Japanese alrplan farrier Hosho, equipped for 28 planes, was reported oft Chlnwangtao. London George Lansbury. Labor party leader, urged Joint action by Oreat Britain and the United States in an arms embargo effective against Japan alone. Tokyo The British arms embargo aflectlng both China and Japan means a handicap only for China, Japan-es authorities said, as China neetfs arms more than Japan does. WANTS U.

S. TO JOIN IN ARMS EMBARGO LONDON. Feb. yp George Lanjbury. leader of the Labor party, urged today that Oreat Britain ar.d the United States act together on an embargo on arms shipment effective against Japan a'one.

Mr. Lansbury thought that such an embargo ahould be extended to "cover everything in the matter of finance, credits and goods which would assist the Japanese in any way. ITe said that his party agreed entirely with the attitude of Senator Borah of the United States, as reported hrre. to the effect that America could not follow Britain in declaring an arms embargo agalrst China and Japan. (In Washington yesterday Mr.

Borah, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, said that 'to put an arms embargo -on China and Japan is to take sides with Japan under the conditions and circumstances that now NATHAN L. BLACKMER SUCCEEDS SEN. HULL NASHVILLE, Feb. 23. Governor Hill McAlLster today appointed Nathan L.

Bachman cf Chattanooga, former Justice of the Tennessee supreme court, as Unl'ed States senator to succeed Cordfll Hull, named secretary of State In the cabinet of President-elect Roosevelt. Judge Bachman is a Democrat. GEN. CHI SURRENDERS CHIHFENG, IS REPORT TUNGLIAO. Manchuria.

March 1. Wednesday) (P) General Shi Wrn-Hua. commander of the Chinese cavalry force defending Chlhfeng, comtn.m-Icatlon center of Jehol provinci, was reported today to have announced his submission to the Japanese-spooacred Manchukuo government. FREE PRESS CLASSIFIED ADS TATf storm of debate today at the annual Senate Speeds Work stockholders' meeting of the Peoples' a a Gas. Light and Coke Company.

KJIi Appropriations Two other Insuil operating com-: panics have voted this week to con- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. UP) With tinue pensions of the same tVl 4, to the fallen utilities kLng. The Pco-! but thrM fuJ orking days of the pies' Company likewise will continu- cccsion left, the Senate today speeded DETROIT, Feb. 28.

(P Ernest O. LUV-li, Henry Fords general secretary who suddenly dropped from sight 38 hours before, "found" himself tonight In a Park Hotel room in Traverse City, many miles away from the home to which he started at 11 a. yesterday and never reached. By telephone, he toM Mr. Ford that he "Just woke up." that he had no idea of how far he had driven and that he was "totally exhausted." Associates believed he was suffering from the strain of two weeks of unremitting work on Detroit's complicated banking situation.

He has long been in charge of Ford Motor Co. fiscal policies and was charged with most of the details of a pending plan for reorganizing two of De- up its work on appropriation bills and lenders served notice that night ses- cions probably will be started tomorrow. It passed without debate the navy supply bill and returned it to the House for action on some minor amendments. It adopted the conference on the $104,000,000 agriculture department measure, after the House gave in on an unimportant change and sent It to the White House It adopted a partial conference agreement on the army bill carrying $370,000,000. but the House tomorrow must act on several items still in disagreement.

These include the Senate amendments providing for placing Jobless youths In citlzeni military training camps for one year and $82,500 for purchasing remounts for officers. It rejected the conference report on the billion dollar Independent offices Dill, insisting on the higher Senate fund for the trade commission to permit conclusion of its pow er utilities, economic and anti-trust inquiries. The bill now goes back to confer ence which had compromised at $800,000 as against $1,101,000 provld ed by the Senate and $510,000 by the House. HYDE PARK. N.

Feb. 28. (T President-elect Roosevelt broke precedent tonight with the selection for Ant tlm rt a unman for thi u. n.mH u. Pr.nru Tr.

kins. New York commissioner of labor. hia gecreUry of labor. The next pre complete with the announcement also of Daniel C. Roper, of South Carolina, as secretary of Commerce.

Earlier in the day he gave out the name of the veteran Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, as his attorney general. Both Senator Walsh and Mr. Roper were the leading figures in the unsuc-cewful campaign of William O. Mc- Adoo for the Democratic presidential nomination In 1924.

McAdooa an nouncemmt of the switch of Califor nia's vote at the Chicago convention, assured Mr. Roosevelt's nomination. Walsh was active for Roosevelt's nom inatlon In 1932. Miss Perkins has served in public office in New York under both Governors Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D.

Roosevelt. She was formerly a member of the state industrial commission. Her advice has been sought frequently on labor problems by congressional committees at Washington. Market Lamb Tells How He Was Shorn WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.

() Soon after It had been voted more time to complete its slock market investigation, the Senate banking committee today heard Edgar Brown, of Potts-ville. describe himself as a "shorn, market lamb" and tell how It happened. The Senate approved the Costlpan resolution to continue the inquiry until the end of the first regular session of the next Congress without dissent. Brown said he answered an advertisement of the National City Company in 1928. and a company representative came to see him.

The latter was identified as P. C. Rummel. Then began. Brown said "frenzied financing." He told how he would borrow money from banks putting up bonds he had previously bought as security and then repeat the process all over again.

One $105,000, he testified, came from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles. This, he said, was arranged by an employe of the Los Angeles branch of the City Bank. "I bought bonds for a while," Brown said. "Then I went to Rummel and complained they aeemed to be losing in value. "He aald: 'It's your own fault.

Why don't you buy atocks?" So that was agreed upon." "Did he buy Pecora asked. Brown took a deep breath and replied: "Did he buy stocks!" with an emphasis that brought a shout of laughter from the spectators crowded Into the room. "It was my own fauU," Brown continued. "I swallowed the hook, line, sinker and all." MRS. PEARODY VISIONS DEFEAT OF REPEAL RALEIGH.

N. C. Feb. 28. Mrs.

Henry W. Prabody. chairman of the Women'a Natloi.al committee for law enforcement, told a mass meeting of women here today the organization has high hopes that a minimum of 30 States will refuse to vote for repeal of the 18th amendment. Describing North Carolina as a "pivotal Stt'' In the repeal battle, Mrs. Peabody said she believed it would be among those opposing repeal.

At her suggestion, the meeting named a committee to lodge with the Legislature a protest ajalnst any change in existing pronation laws. HARVARD CLUB ADMITS WOMEN TO PRIVILEGES BOSTON. Feb. 28. VP And now the Harvard Club.

Within recent months several Boston clubs, for years exclusive to males, admitted women to their privileges. Today members of the Harvard cnib were notified the club's board of governors was considering whether a ladies' dining room would add to the usefulness and incidentally, financial welfare of the club. payment, bringing Insull's yearly stipend to $18,000. "I would like to know what Sam Insull did with the money raised from the sale of tock," a stockholder shouted aftei W. Paulin, an other Investor, had completed a long speech opposing the pension.

Shouts of "gang rule" and "crooks" promptly arose throughout the meeting. Adjournment ended the discussion. Almost complete reorganization of the company's directorate was accom- pllshed at the meeting. James Simp- son. chairman of the board, was re- talncd.

AIME. RAT.S AN. CHIEF BELMONT BENEFICIARY NEW YORK, Feb. 28. (JP) A daughter.

Madame Consuelo Balsan. was named chief beneficiary In the American and French wiHs of her mother, Mrs. O. H. P.

Belmont, filed in surrogate's court today. Mm. Balsan, formerly Duchess of Marlborough, receives the residue of the estate, the amount of whicn was not published. The National Woman's Party, of Washington. D.

of which Mrs. Belmont was once president, received the only bequest of any organization. $100,000. Harold S. Vanderbilt, a son.

wa given "Marble House," the Newport residence of his mother; his brother. William K. Vanderbilt. received a chapel in Woodlawn cemetery and the Paris residence at 9 Rue Monsieur. SHOE WORKERS STRIKE AT LYNN CONTINUES LYNN.

Feb. 28 Wi A strike of approximately 4.000 shoe workers here continued today while union leaders and some factory officials negotiated for settlement of wase disagreements which caused the walkout yesterday. Three hundred employes of the Reliance Shoe Company returned to work after that concern granted a 12 -1-2 per cent increase in wages but workers In other factories left their posts to Join the strike ranks. Agreements between strike leaders and other factories were expected soon. The Gelkr Shoe Company obtained a temporary injunction in Salem Superior Court to restrain the strikers from picketing Its factory cr interfering with its employes with whom it has individual contracts.

1 Republicans to Name Snell For Speakership; Gibson On New Congressional Committee WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. (JF) Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York unanimously was nominated tonight by Republican members-elect to the next House for the speakership at a party organization conference.

In view of the certain election of a Democrat as speaker, SnelL who has been minority leader during the past two years, will continue in the same position. While the Republicans laid plans for the new Congress the Democrats were continuing their campaigning In the speakership race with the outcome uncertain. The Democrats caucus Thursday night and probably will nominate either Representative McDufne of Alabama. Rainey of Illinois, or Byrns of Tennessee. charges..