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WEATHER Vir9inia Fair, eligtitly colder in southeast portion Sunday; Monday fair, slowly riling temperature. The Home Merchant Deterres Your Support BUY AT HOME. VOL. XXXVI XO. 31 NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1931. COTS TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE CENTS DAILV QUICK AC II SEEN LEGGE TO RESIGN Princes Continue Journey by Air LIMA, Peru, Feb. 14. (JPh-T EFFECT OF BUSINESS SLUMP IS REFLECTED Relief Chief Hoover Signs Bill, Ending Gales Lash Coast Of Virginia; Ships Are Driven Ashore FOR VETERANS ILL; FROM Prince of Wales and his party will DPPOSI WILTS AFTER MARCH 4TH II CROWDED PRISON Extra Term Threat Cra SMDS BY Speaker Longworth Determined continue their goodwill visit to South America tomorrow In a trl-motored plane, escorted by two military machines. Their next stopping place Is Arequipa.

Luncheon will be eaten on the plane which will be piloted by Homer V. Farrls, manager of the operations division of the Pan-American Grace Airways. This afternoon the Prince visited the plant of the newspaper El Comereio. Earlier, the Prince had his first ride In a suburban motorbus. "I never thought they were go comfortable," he said.

MEASURE MADE Li to Force 50 Percent Loan Proposal Through the House on Monday. Report Hospital Will Be Closed nOIDOniED FISHING DOCK 01111 A Chairman of Federal Body Plans to Renew Connection With International Harvester Company. HAS HELD POST SINCE APPOINTMENT IN 1929 I ADMINISTRATION FOES IN SHORT Til AFTER BOTH BRANCHES VANISH SMACK CREW SAVED OF UN TRIP Agreement to Expedite Measure EXILED ROYALISTS ITS FIL PASSAGE Superintendent of State Penitentiary Says Employment Problem, Not Unemployment, His Chief Worry. PRISONERS COMING IN AT RATE OF 30 A MONTH Believes Greatest Factor in Promoting Contentment is Plenty of Hard Work. RICHMOND, Va, Feb.

14. It's not unemployment but the employment question that bothers Major Rice M. Vouell, superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary and a member of the Eastern-Southern Conference on state labor. Other "employers" have reduced their forces during the last year as result of the depression but Major Assures Prompt Handling in the Senate. Three Craft Driven Into Shore NORFOLK, Feb.

14. VP) A report that the Cayce Hospital a Virginia Beach, would close March 1. could not be verified today, but Edgar Cayce, who is In charge of the hospl.al said word had come to him that I. V. Weisbrod, attorney for the Blumenthal Brothers, of New York chief hackers of the institution, had made the statement that it would close on that date.

Mr. Weisbrod, Mr. Cayce said, was at Virginia Beach two days this week. He had not, however, conferred with Mr. Cayce.

He left either last night or this morning It was said at the hotel where he sopped. Speed of New Ferry Line to Cape Charles Cut in Half by Adverse Wind; Service is Postponed. EUROPE OP TO Finis Written to Stormy Ef WASHINGTON, Feb. U. (JP) With Speaker Longworth determin Handling of Wheat Has Been Signal For Frequent Attacks.

CHICAGO, Feb. 14. JP) Alexander Legge will retire from the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board srhortly after March 4 to reenter the International Harvester Company. It had been reported that Mr. Legge would resign before many months, but this action was not e-enerallv exnected to occur so soon ed to force the veterans' 60 per cent forts to Appropriate Aid, Finally Ending With Compromise.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. VP) RECAPTURE THRONES Early Morning While Fourth is Disabled by Stiff Southwest Blow 1 NORFOLK, Feb. 14. Coast guard headquarters here tonight received a radio message from the cutter Mascoutin stating that she was standing by the abandoned fishing smack Beauty St.

Joseph, six miles east of Cape Henry. The crew of the smack had been taken off by the smack With a few strokes of his pen. President Hoover tonight wrote finis to the relief dispute. after the end of the present term of Youell, for the tame, reason, he be 1 STATE Ell Seeds of International Intrigue Reported Being Sown in Dozen Capitals; Carol is Example, As he penned his signature to tha lieves, has had to increase bis ''pay roll" at the rate of about 30 a month. He can't "layoff" men without violat Joseph Mary, and another smack, the ing the state law which sends them to him sentenced to do "hard labor," Interior Department supply bill to which the $20,000,000 drought loan fund had been, added fear, of an extra session of the new Congress after March 4 lessened.

SE and, at the same time, he Is faced with the threat of Increasing restrictions upon the type of work the prisoners In approving the measure, the PROHIBITION AS ISSUE I1 1932 Battling against high seas and an adverse wind, the Pioneer steamer of the Peninsula Ferry Corporation, rossed Chesapeake Bay from Norfolk to Cape Charles and returned yesterday In what was Intended to be the maiden voyage of a regular service with three trips a day. Harbor conditions, however, combined with the rough weather to make landing impos.sSble, though two women boarded the Pioneer from a small boat at Cape Charles. As a result, the regular service was postponed indefinitely though officials of tho line said it is probable that re-dredging of the slip at Cape Charles will be done shortly and the service etarted soon. Vice-Mayor W. West and the Rev.

Fred G. Davis, a former Eastern Shore resident, made the trip as representatives of the City of Newport News. They boarded the Pioneer at the local harbor, where it had been tied up overnight, and were aboard when she returned again to this city to tie up. The Pioneer cast loose from the President at one and the same time may be permitted to do. Discussing present conditions and outlook for the future.

Major Youell, who has managed the state penal in message stated, but did not say now many men were aboard. Marine records here show the Beauty St. Joseph to be a motor vessel of 88.2 feet in length and carrying a crew of twelve. She is listed as owned by Frank W. Wllltsson of 16 Fulton Market, New York.

She was built in Essex, in 1928. Shortly after 9 o'clock tonight the Mascoutin sent another radio message stating that the Beauty St. Joseph had sunk five and one tenth miles east of Cape Henry. The Mascoutln's master said he was standing by to warn stitution since May 1922 and never has been faced with any serious difficulty in maintaining discipline, admits the seriousness of his problem but remains quite optimistic about It. "I believe," he says, 'that It is be Frederickshurg Man Disagrees With Thomas W.

Ozlin That Wet-Dry Platform Should Be Avoided. Congress. Mr. Legge became chairman of the board July 1, 1929. At that time, it was stated he probably would not retain the post more than a year, as the International Harvester Company, which loaned him to the government, desired his return to its service.

Mr. Legge then felt a yea-was all he could devote to the chairmanship. Frequent attacks on Mr. Legge's handling of the wheat situation have been made by representatives of farm groups and othera. To all critics, he replied vigorously.

But many of iis associates believed the -attacks Influenced his decision to retire from public service, which, in his opinion, does not always receive merited popular support. Until Mr. Legge accepted the Farm Board chairmanship, that he knew would throw him -into sometimes violent controversy with former close associates of the grain trade his native taciturnity had shrouded him almost completely from th public eye. He was averse to Interviews, glad enough to meet his callers but likelier to question than be questioned. To photographers he said a firm "no." A new Alexander Legge came, to existence as guiding genius of the (Continued on Page 16) LONDON, Feb.

14. VP) In a dozen continental capitals, royalists are stirring the yeast of international intrigue in the hopes of emulating the example of the dashing King Carol of Rumania, whose coup d'etat recovering his throne, captured their fancies. Checkmated by the treaty of Ver sallies and in some Instances by their own actions, which led to their abdications, kings and their followers are maneuvering in virtually all capitals, listening for some semblance of a "call from their people." Best known perhaps, and probably the least worried, is ex-Kaiser Wilhelm at Doorm; he saws wood and says nothing about his return to power. Royalists In the fatherland rarely miss a chance to clamor for his return, but in Qua! d'Orsay, Whithall, Wllhelmstrasse and high circles of the other powers, Wil-helm's return "to Berlin is outside the realm of possibility. cause we kep our prisoners busy that we have avoided the difficulties in NORFOLK, Feb.

14. WV-Losing Virginia that have been experienced In other states. If you have men lying their way in a stiff southwest gaie, which brought heavy rains, three ships were driven, ashore before daybreak this morning and another became disabled when her engines broke down. arouna lor Z4 hours a day with nothing to do except think up mischief, they're slip here at 8 o'clock, and landed a half-hour later at Pine Beach, where going to find plenty of It. But after a man has spent ten hours a day at Coast guard headquarters also was Feb.

14. () Former State Senator C. O'Connor Goolrick said today that party leaders "along with thousands of individual Democrats, recognize that prohibition will be the paramount issue in the next presidential cam (Contin-ied on Page 2) advised that one of Its 7a foot patrol boats was ashore near Virginia Capes it took on board a party of city officials from Norfolk and Suffolk, together with other persons who were out to make the maiden voyage. Mr. West estimated that between 300 and 400 people were aboard.

She left Pine Beach at 9:27. Once out in the dif JUDGE SEES RAIDED but was in no danger. Two of the ships Nelson Line steamer Fort Armstrong and the fishing In circles which have remained paign," and that "the issue cannot be supplanted by any economic issue upon which the two parties may di trawler Salvadore were cast upqn the was disposing of the greatest special session threat that has arisen and was sending to the statute books the first of the nine regular annual supply bills which must be enacted if an extra-session is to be prevented. He signed the measure less than half an hour after it had come fb him. Dispensing with the usual formality of sending the bill to the budget bureau and the Interior Department for their- perusal and approval, scanned the- main contents of the lengthy document and signed it.

Only his two Walter Newton- and. Lawrence Richey, and another White. House employe were present- A rapid-fire series of developments swept the measure from the Senate to the House, down the length of Pennsylvania Avenue during th day. The Senate, ending an eight-hour, filibuster yesterday with au agreement to vote today, adopted it after three hours more of sizzling debate, fiorty-five minutes sufficed for the Spme democrats assailed it but tho- disposition seemed to be, as in the Senate, to accept it in lieu of broader relief provisions which some favored. With the relief measure out of the way, some senators regarded the key log in the legisative jam removed.

Along with the Interior bill, the Senate had passed the legislative supply bill during the day. This, however, went to conference for reconcil talon of differences between the Senate and the House. Originating as a proposal to give the Red Cross $23,000,000 to care for the needy unemployed and drought much buffeting, tho ficulties multiplied. Rain, sleet, and vide." loan proposal through the House -Monday, administration opposition in both branches today apparently had crumbled. Quick action was assured In the Senate also, an agreement having reached by proponents of both parties to Jam it through unchanged in time to prevent possible pockei veto.

It will have to-reach President Hoover's desk February 23 to remove this possibility. -While not disputing Secretary Mellon's statement denouncing: the proposal, expected to call for an outlay ranging from $700,000,000 upward, Longworth declared the Bach-arch compromise would give relief to the veterans and that no one could do more than guess how much money would be involved. In the Senate. Vandenberg and Couzens of Michigan, Republicans, assailed the treasury secretary's de-nounciation of the plan and gave notice that they would block other legislation unless action was had on the measure. On the other hand.

Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, said the ame attacks were' leveled at Mellon when he opposed the $3,500,000,000 bond Issue plan to cash veterans' certificates. Warnings were Isued by Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee and Chairman Hawley of the House Ways and Means Committee that either increased taxation or bond issues would be required to finance the Increased loans. Both pointed to the prospective $300,000,000 treasury deficit at the end of the fiscal year, and to the growing expenditures and diminishing revenues. Hawley said a proposal to refund maturing bonds aggregating Is now pending. Representative Frear, Republican Wisconsin, a Ways and Means Com mittee member, proposed a scale o.

increases in personal income taxes to meet the prospective deficit. His resolution would provide an increase of one per cent in the surtax on incomes up to $10,000 and the rate on Incomes between $100,000 and would become II per cent, with 25 per cent of -those in excess $500,000. In a statement, he said Mellon had overestimated the prospective loans to be made The formal Ways and Mean Committee report on the proposal submitted to the House late today by Representative Bacharach, "Republican, New Jersey, said: "There was unanimity on the rrt committee that some kind of slslation bearing upon this question should be enacted by this Congress. After giving full and careful consideration to all four plans, the committee rejected them and agreed upon the bill herewith submitted." Explaining that it provided for increasing the loan value of the certificates to $1,712,000,000 the report said approximately $325,000,000 already had been loaned, and that the treasury estimate of the full amount was based upon the assumption that beach, the former on the North Carolina coast between Point lookout aud Corebank and the latter at Dam SHOW FOR HIMSELF snow, driven by a roaring wind The statement was In reply to that lashed the Pioneer's prow all the of Thomas W. Ozlin, vice chairman a few miles below Virginia Beach.

The Mallory Line steamer Mailemak loaded way to the Eastern Shore and re of the Democratic party of Virginia, who exprtssed the individual opinion duced her speed by half. 7 Arrival, scheduled for 11:30, was delayed un with nitrate from Hopewell went ashore off Rock Landing shoals in the ARI1AT01IS earlier this -week that it woutd be folly for Democrats to go -Into- the Jurist Attends Matinee Staged loyal to the claims of the Duke of Guise to the "French interest is centered on the Intended marriage of Henri, Count-of Paris, to Princess Isabella great granddaughter of'Dom Pedro II, one-time Emperor of Brazil. Only in the most fervid royalist circles does the duke's clal mto the French throne receive for he and his son are exiled from French soil. The Duke of Guise inherited pre tentions to the French, throne upon the death of Phillip, Due d'Orleans, in 1926. James River.

The Oriental Navigation Company's next campaign on the wet-dry issue, Ignoring a chance to win the election steamer, Oritanl, became disabled 150 by Earl Carroll's Cast; Decision Deferred. on economic questions. miles off Cape Fear and the coast guard cutter. Modoc was ordered from BY RAINS FLOODED "It Is true," Mr. Goolrick said, "as charged by Mr.

Ozlin, that national Wilmington, N. to assist her. Her CHICAGO, Feb. 14. (JP) Legal leaders are seeking to place the party (Continued page 2) til 1:30.

At Cape Charles it was found impossible to make a landing on account of sand having drifted into the slip, and the added fact that the tide was at the ebb. The steamer anchored for a brief period off Cape Charles and was met by an oyster boat, which put the two passengers aboard and took about 15 others to the Cape Charles shore. Pormal ceremonies at Cape Charles, which were to have Included addresses by former State Senator G. Walter Mapp, Mayor E. Jeff Robertson of Norfolk, and Mayor Dize of Cape Charles, were postponed.

Ih addi-(Continued on Page 16) 200 Inhabitants Flounder FAMOUS COMMANDER approval of police censorship of Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book" was postponed at least until next Tuesday by Municipal Court Judge Justin F. McCarthy today. Three male principals of the cast and 25 chorus girls arrested in a police raid upon the show last night, were arraigned this morning before Paris, whence King. Carol flew to snatch the Rumanian throne, houses thousands of "white" Russians who are biding their time, hoping for the collapse of the Soviet regime. Vienna shelters ex-King George of Greece and Prince Wilhelm of Wied, former Albanian emperor.

Both from time to time profess to hear rum Sea of Mud, Viewing Dam-; age Brought by Deluge WELLTON, Feb. 14. VP) The 200 inhabitants of this little Mormon settlement floundered In the mud tonight, gazing ruefully at what OF WORLD IR DIES Judge McCarthy who, combining relief measure would up as one which nrst-nand theatrical experience with judicial, knowledge, decided to attend the matinee performance today would add $20,000,000 to the seed and feed loan fund iof drought stricken farmers. The Sen ate had been assured, however, by Major General Clarence R. Ed- ASSESSMENT CA Secretary Hyde that loans from the $20,000,000 might be used for pur wards, of 26th Division, Passes at Boston.

chasing food. During its transition from a gift OSTOi to a loan fund, the proposal encountered strenuous opposition. The BOSTON, Feb. 14. (IP) Major General Clarence Edwards, com Red Cross announced it would not mander of the 26th (Yankee) Division in France, has "gone west" The veteran commander of New England's own division In the World War blings of the call fom their nationals.

Journalistic ears, attuned to the Graustarkian propaganda of "Mittel Europa," discount these "calls from the native land," and authoritative persons In the affected countries stifle broad, yawns, either ignoring the reports or Issuing blunt denials. In London, ex-King Emanuel of Portugal has become reconciled to the loss of his throne, content to live the life of a suburbanite. He never discusses the Portuguese political situation. Londoners by the thousands have passed a well groomed middle aged man and failed to recognize the former Portuguese monarch. His public appearances are confined to attendance at Wimbledon's international tennis matches, where he sits in the royal box when it is not in use.

The tribulations of Amanullah of (Continued on Pag 2) died soon after daybreak today at the trouble was due to a breakdown in her engine room. i The Salvadore struck the beach only about .100. yards off shore and her crew of 11 were rescued by the crew of the Dam Neck shore coast guard station under command of Captain H. M. Holmes.

The coast guardsmen reached the stranded ship In surf boats and had little difficulty in taking eff the crew. The trawler, one of several engaged in fishing oft the Virginia-Carolina coast, the beach twice before the ship finally became helpless and sent up rockets to attract the attention of the coast guardsmen, who were patrolling the beach. It was about 4 o'clock this morning when the beach patrolmen saw her red flares of distress and answered with similar signals from the shore. The. alarm was given- and every man at the Dam Neck station was summoned to his post.

Despite the high sea that was running', the coast guardsmen launched their non-sink-able surf boats and started to the assistance of the helpless ship. They reached the side of the stranded craft aftei a stiff battle and succeeded in taking off every man on board and then landed them safely on the beach. The rescued men were given hot food and "lothlng at the Dam Neck station, and tonight they were sleeping under warm blankets. The Salvador, according to last reports, probably can be saved. The vessel is of 18 net tons and is owned by Joseph Ponzo of Boston.

She was built at that place in 1925. The Fort Armstrong left Norfolk yesterday for an Francisco in ballast She has 32 in her crew and operates regularly between west coast ports and Norfolk and Baltimore. She struck the beach nose first and Is only 100 yards oft shore. Coast guardsmen from the Point Lookout and Corebank stations reached the side of the stranded craft this afternoon but her crew declined to leave Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 71 years old.

A. spirit of mourning descended upon all New England with word of and determine for himself whether police charges of obscenity were warranted. "This court needs lay advice on this matter," Judge McCarthy said, and appointed Attorney Payton J. Tuhoy, his lifelong friend, under the legal expedient of "amicus curiae," as a friend of the court, not forgetting his own amateur dramatic efforts 6ince college days. "In order to best pass judgment on the puoiic interest and protect the investment of the producers," said Attorney Tuohy, "may I suggest that your honor attend this show in company with whatever persons you may uesignate?" The judge, accompanied by his "amicus curiae," Mrs.

McCarthy and close friends, attended the matinee. From this group the court said he hoped casually to learn their unbiased opinions without letting them know his pui-pose in inviting them. Meanwhile ha continued the case until Thursday, asserting 'that interference with his jurisdiction would be considered contempt of court. The show concludes a five-week run next Saturday and continues its road trip. It has already had run of 73 weeks.

the holders of the 3,397.973 eertifi-J the passing of the beloved leader. accept the $25,000,000 gift The Senate passed It, but the House rejected it. An extra session of Congress was threatened by Senate Democrats and they made the gift proposal one point in a six phase relief program which Democratic Leader Robinson announced they would insist upon to the extent of forcing an extra meeting. President Hoover at this juncture outlined his reasons for opposing the gift proposal and within a few days an agreement was reached out of which came the $20,000,000 addition to the drought loan fund. The measure was vigorously assailed in the Senate by a group of Democrats and independent Republicans.

While it still would be possible to force and extra session by a fili Thousands of his military subordinates and friends who hoped for his return to health after he became ill from intestinal trouble a month ago, were grief stricken. A second -oper ation to remove an obstruction which Waterworks Taxation Suit Set For Wednesday Due to De-! fense Lawyer's Illness. Postponement from Monday until Wednesday of the suit of the City of Newport News in Warwick Circuit Court for" correction of allegedly erroneous assessment of the property of the waterworks commission lying in Warwick County has been granted by Judge Hutcheson, of Charlotte Courthouse, designated to preside at the trial. Request for postponement was made by Capt. Charles C.

Berkeley, of this city, special counsel for the county. It was requested on account of the illness of. Meriwether Arml-stead, of Williamsburg, associated with Captain and Commonwealth's Attorney P. St. G.

Wilcox In the defense. Mr. Armistead expects to be able to appear in court by Wednesday. The waterworks tax case has had a inns drawn-own course. It relates was left of their belongings after a torrential rain lossened a protecting dike, releasing a six-foot wall of water.

The body of the one known flood victim, Mrs. P. Llewellyn, of Stockton, was-taken to Yuma, Ariz. She was drowned, last nigh, when, the racing flood swept from the highway the automobile in in which she was riding with her husband and daughter. The body was found a mile and a half from Ae scene of the accident, half buried in silt and debris.

Weilton experienced another' near panic late today when a second downpour of cloudburst" proportions fell to the- west. While flood waters cut again through the highway leading to Phoenix and drove back repair crews, the torrent left Weilton virtually untouched. Sheriff J. C. Hunter of Yuma County said all white persons known iO have oeen in Weilton when the flood struck had been accounted for.

He was unable to say whether any residents of the Mexican settlemen. were missing. The Mexicans flea wildly before the water and severa. families apparently had not been united. The torrent swept a 250-yard wide path through the town to a four-foot depth inside the three principal business houses and back-lashed from' an oil-eurfaced higti way embankment to a depth of eigh.

feet In the west end of town. Two dozen tourist camp collages and numerous Mexican shacks were swept away or undermined and wrecked. The more substantial structures suffered weakened foundations and some were thrown ou. of line, but none toppled. 2F RAI HIS caused his illness was performed yesterday.

Although attending surgeons held hope for his recovery, he never rallied and died after having been unconscious for several hours. Tributes came from those who served under him In France, military and naval officers and a host of public officials uttered words of profuse 1 HAIf TDK DURIED Earthquake Alarms Residents of Azores Early Morning Fire Spreads From Vacant Building to Grocery Store. to the assessment against the water praise for the man and his qualities. Late today his body was borne- to the state house, where in the historic Hall of Flags, it was placed under a guard of ho from the 26th Division. Tomorrow It will lie in state.

A private funeral service for members of his family and state officials will precede departure of the body for Arlington National Cemetery. There It will be placed beside those of his wife and only daughter. Miss Bessie Edwards. Mis Edwards died while engaged as an army nurse in 1918. works property for the year lvzu.

'ine tax in 1930 and in "succeeding years will be apportioned in ratio to the (Continued on Page 16) at that time. The vessel was in no (Continued on Page 16) LISBON. Portugal, Feb. 14. (yP) An earthquake In the Azores alarmed the inhabitants there today but did little damage.

Reports from- Ponta Delgada said furniture was banged around and some walis were cracked but after a moment of panic the people went about their oruinary business as the shock subsided. buster against the eight remaining regular appropriation bills, leaders looked hopefully to the relief compromise as a deterrent. Some Democratic opposition flared forth in the House in the brief debate that preceded adoption of the compromise there, but the general disposition seemed to be to accept It in lieu of any broader provision which some advocated. The signatures of Presldfnt pro-tem Moses of the Senate and Speaker Longworth of the House were attached to the Interior Department Jill, which carried the compromise. Immediately after its adoption and it was dispatched to the White House.

There was no record vote on It In the House. The Senate's approval was given by 67 to 15. In thu branch, the vote was preceded by a -evere attack upon the program in which Senator iw rah of Idaho, a leader of the Rep 'ican Independents, called for atUi-ional legislation. Solon Waives Immunity By Speaking Outside Of Capital cates in force would take full advantage of the new values. It suggested that estimates of the cost range begin at $375,000,000 and added that only about 50 per cent of the veterans would be expected to seek loans.

Minority Leader Garner said In a statement Mellon's attack on the plan had not materially influenced the llouto membership. He has thrown his support to Speaker Longworth. while the majority leader. Til son of Connecticut and Chairman Hawley are withholding judgment until time to vote. Many conservative Republicans have promised their support to Longworth, who has the aid of Chairman, Snell of the rules committee.

Although four ways and means committee members voted adversely on the proposal. Speaker Longworth paid he had not heard of any one who would lead the opposition or that there waft any substantial effort to be made to defeat it. Under the procedure to be employed for the bill's passage, it will require a two-thirds majority, the same that is necessary to override a presidential veto. The certificates were granted the veterans in 1924 over President Coolidge's veto. "For a long Longworth said, "I have tried to avoid a cash settlement which would wholly or part deprive the veterans of their service certificates.

To this end 1 have been trying to get an Agreement Involving a loan and have said that if the ways and means committee would report out a bill carrying such a plan, Iwould give it every opportunity for passage before the end of the session. "I have had that opinion for the three or four weeks and I have fiA- same opinion now." Speaker Longworth characterizezd Secretary Mellon's letter as a "technical statement with which he would find no fault. "I have the highest regard for the secretary of the treasury and his ability," said the speaker, "and ir he makes a mistake it is not vithont an interest in sound finances for the government. "At best, the cost of this plan Is a I do not doubt that any estimate the secretary of the' treasury makes is on the side of his views fis to the soundness of government finances." "I am not disputing the secretary, am 6lmply stating my position." Mongrel Dog Is Given Probation Cabinet Of Berenguer Falls; King Plans Royalist Ministry ported tonight to be considering the EAU CLAIRE. Feb.

14. "Duke," a nondescript mongrel, was placed on probation today. "Duke" bit a neighbor boy last week. The police were sent to shoot him, but his master, Louis Sevcrson, 11, covered the dog with his body and prevented the police from firing. Louis went Into court today and Ms pleas won probation for DAILY PRESS BUREAU.

HAMPTON. Va, Feb. 15. (Sunday) Fire of undetermined origin destroyed an unoccupied frame building here early morning and leaping the narrew thoroughfare of Fulton Sreet, virtually destroyed another together with Its contents. The full' ex'ent of the damage ha not been definitely fixed, but it has been roughly estimated at $6,000 or more.

At 2 o'clock the fire was under control. The flames were discovered at 1:40 A. M. in a vacant two-story building at Locust and Fulton Streets. The fire had gained considerable headway when the firemen were summoned.

This 'building owned by George Walker, was destroyed. Mr. Walker said he valued the building at- $1,800 but carried Insurance. The flames, driven by a northerly wind, spread across the street, to a wo-story frame structure owned by Wilson Brothers, In the lower story of which they operated a grocery store. The upper floor was occupied by M.

(Rabbit) Wilson and his family. This building was practically destroyed, and considerable damage was "done to the stock of merchandise, The owners 'could not be reached to learn whether they carried Insurance. Together with the damage to the stock. It was estimated by, observers that the damage to hlhs hullding would reach between $4,000 and $5,000. DUBIOUS COP FINDS ELEPHANTS IN TRUCK making an address for the good of the public." "The name Insull Is so closely associated with greedy power companies that no one should be deceived," LaGuardla continued.

Mr. Insull while pretending to be speaking In the. Interest of the public was really plugging for the sale of stock. His. speech was made on time paid for by a firm of stock brokers.

Had Mr. Insull's speech been given to any newspaper under the same circumstances and the same auspices It would have had to been labeled advertisement, on the top and at the bottom of each column. "Mr. Insull made statements the other evening on the 'radio under ne protection of distance, which he would not dare and could not make while looking any consumer of current in the face. "He made wilful misstatements oi facts, painting a rosy picture of public utility success which was followed by a sales talk of the stock brokers firm In whose time he was speaking.

And Mr. Insuil talks of others misleading the public!" WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. W) Disclaiming a desire for congressional Immunity, Representative LaGuardla went outside the House office building today to accOse a public utility magnate of having made "deliberate misstatements of fact" in a recent radio speech. The New York Republican stood on the steps of the building to answer an address broadcast Wednesday night by Martin J.

Insull. While a score of newspapermen listened, talking movie cameras turned and curious clerks left their offices to see what was happening LaGuardla referred to a statement attributed to Insult by saying: "In order that this powerful magnate may not have an opportunity of statement that I am making this charge under protection of congressional Immunity, I am making this charge not on the floor of the House, but on a public street In the City of Washington. Insull, he said attempted to appear In the role of an important pers MADRID, Feb. 14. The year-old cabinet of Premier Pamaso Berenguer resigned today, forced to this action by country-wide opposition to its electoral program, and King Alfon-son set about the difficult task of forming another ministry.

He met tfltn a serious obstacle however, when the powerful Constitutional party announc ed It would not participate in any government that did not Include all political factions. The King had at fli-st planned a "concentration" ministry of Royalist leaders. Thus, unless Alfonso agree to a "National" cabinet embracing Republicans, Socialists and othe' groups, he apparently faces a ministry composed largely, of Liberal party leaders with perhaps some Conservatives. This would leave the Socialists, Republicans and Constitutionalists as disgruntled as they were when Premier i Berenguer was In power according to political observers. Some military groups were even re The action sent to me wm.t HouRe the first of tho nine regular supply bills which must be before March 4.

With this break in the jam. Senate leaders confidently forward tonight to early aniro-el of the others which have up during the protracted dispute between the Senate and the admiii-" tratlon over relief legislation, although the veterans row gvo prospects of a new tie-up. Six davs of savage debate ed Senate action but in the only 13 votes lined up In Senator Robinson, who l'i drive for Approval ct the hn f'1! compromise Ifsut-d a awmcr-t lnr summarizing drousht re'tcf Kr tion for this sf-ssiom He otaicd fS9.0i'0.000. Senators B-nnh. ocrat, Knttiky.

ld iCost-ciitd en ra i'; possibility of another dictatorship. They were represented, however, as being willing to give the polidclant until Monday to fl.id a solution. The decision of the Constitutionalist party not to support the concentration cabinet was conveyed to the King by Its leaders, Sanchet Guerra and Melquiades Alvares, the latter also chief of the Reformist g'-oup. Alvares told the Monarch that in his opinion the only solution of the crisis lay in a Constitutional convention 'with a power superior to and Independent of the King." In the meantime Alfonso had sen hurriedly to Cartagena for Admiral Juan BautUta Axnar, who was mentioned prominently as a possible choice to succeed General Berenguer. Admiral Aznar was minister of the navy when Prlmo De Rivera seized the power In 1923.

The admiral Cartagenia within an hour after receiving the King's Wlrani. DOVER, N. Feb. 14. "What's under the canvass?" asked Trooper John Hanley tonight of the driver of a heavily loaded truck which he viewed with 'Elephants," said the driver.

"Oh yeah?" replied Trooper Hanley lifting a corner of the canvass anticipating, no doubt, a seizure of wet gooow. "Put elephants they were. Two of them, destined for an American Legion carnival at Wilkes-Barr..