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i WEST VIRGIB' cloudy tonight with light sho and possibly in tonight: colder lion tonight afternoon. Mostly Sunday Sunday portion north por- efJ er Sunday VOLUME L.XXX. FINAL EDITION VETERANS'AID CUT APPRfVED BYPRESBENT CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, Slash of to Go Into; Upon ffect DETAILS AMOUNCED Concessions Refused by Budget Director in Talk to leaders Texas Youth Guilty In Death of Plane Pilot BROWNSVILLE. April 1 Dodson. 17-year-oltt high school boy, charged with murder in the staying of a flying instructor, was found guiltv by a district court jury today and sentenced to eight years imprisonment.

The jury found the San Bcnito youth guilty of the fourth count of the indictment which alleged he furnished arms and aided in the murder plot. The youth was indicted on murder charges in the slaying, 1,000 leet in the air. of Lehman Nelson, aviation instructor, and subsequent suicide ot hi; student, Erin McCall, schoolmate of Dodson. During the trial the prosecution read a statement Dodson made to officers after the double tragedy. It purported lo revenl a plot of four school boys, including Dodson and McCall.

to steal Nelson's plane for a pleasure flight into Mexicu. 8 PAGES I I CKXTS STORM PRISON TMO Ex-Convicts Are Held After Fede'ral Jail Is Raked by Builds GUARDS ANSWER FIRE May Have Been Scheme to Affect Wholesale Break, Authorities Believe USE PLANE TO SEVENTY-THREE DIE IN SOUTHERN GALES Hundreds of Others Hurt in Four States by Two-Day Storms; Property Loss Placed at Million; Fear Floods WASHINGTONApril 1 President Roosevd today ordered reductions in vet rans allowances totalling approxi ately 000. Using the ext ordinary power vested in him byfhe economy act, the chief executes shortly 1:30 p. signeoVie order drafted i by Lewis DougW. director of the budget, and T.

Hines, veterans administstor, who were present when ARREST IN FATAL CAR CRASH MADE I EAVKNWOR1H. Apt il 1 i I t'ec'prol authorities l.oped lo est at a preliminary today whether a two-man aerisl attack on the Leavenworth penitentiary a msd Prank or an aboitive plot to r6lea.se ct J.OOO prisoners. docketed for arraignment on charges of firing from Glen Ferris Man Held OM Manslaughter Charge in Woman's Death an plane on federal prison guard; down ana inmates with intent to i and Uon i i a to i about whole- 1 delivery ol NEW ORLEANS, April 1 (UP). --March winds thai roared out the month left at least 73 dead. 300 injured and property damage of more than $1.000,000 in six states today.

Mississippi, where 42 were dead and 200 injured, bore Ihe brunt of the twisting winds Ihiit struck also in Texas. Louisiana. Arkansas, Missouri and Alabama. Hundreds of farm homes were wrecked, leaving the occupants dead, injured or homeless. Drenching rains followed in the wake of the storm, adding today to the discomfort ot refugees and danger lo the injured.

The reduced r.i?s are effective July C. Coleman. Glen Fen is. will lace fore Justice of the i The men who swooped low over the prison times, laying down a ba-- ra.se rifle fire each time, were I Lynn S. Barlow.

35 years old, and his i the 'j A Barlow. 40 years old. Alter their air raid, ihey brought their yer.r.! old of plane to earth at the Fort Leavpri- be- worth airport and submitted quietly E. S. son on Monday on a charge ot' "Making public the lowered sched- I rToT CGn a i 1 vies of allowancs, the President is- no sued the lollowig statement: "In connectionwith the publication a a veVrs automobile at Hughcstoi! on Wednesday today of the reflations having to do! Coleman.

a vv.ilchman for fro i tro-Mctatlurgical company at Alloy, is veterans bneflls. I do not want any tofeel that he and his comrades are eing singled out to make sacrifices. "On the contary. I want them to know that the egulntions issued are but an intejiralpart of our economy program embraing every department and agency the government to which every employee is making his or her ccntribtion. "I asked thm to appreciate that riot only doeslheir welfare but also the welfare every American citi- i and Arnold Smith.

33 years old of J.en, depend upn the maintenance of Dixie. Fayetle county, were returnii" IS" 51 of their government and from Charleston a time. Colr- Inat they aisobcar mind that every man said he thought the accident w.is citizen in evffy walk of life is being caused by someone throwing a rock upon, directly or otherwise, through the door worth airport to arrest. Each lime as the plane tupped be- I low the level of the 40-foot walls spattering the administration building with bullets, guards returned the lire. I The plane was untouched.

1 Major General Stuart Meintzelman. Leavenworth commander, noted accused by officers of being thedri'-er I the commotion and ordered the militia of the car that struck the woman as she walked along the road. He was arrested at the Glen Ferris p'ant Friday evening. Lieutenant A. M.

Long, of the Montgomery scale police detn lunent. said a piece of found at the scene of the accidenl matched the glass in the ritht door ot Co'eman's automobile. The prisoner trld tiie ofiieer that he Communication lines still were ii many parts the ilrickon and was feared many more persons might h.ive been killed or in- in isolated farming sections of the sparsely settled regions. Texas counted 23 dead from Thursday night's tornadoes, Arkansas one and Louisiana eight. Five persons were injured in Missouri.

Yesterday the series of cyclonic winds swepl eastward across Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama. Many injured are not expected lo recover. Flood menace was added to lhe to hold any plane landing there. When sur- rom -he plane touched earth, soldiers rounded it and met no resistance the occupants.

The prisoners refused to a They had no gun when arrested. Authorities were the opinion they threw their weapon from the plane before landing. Warren Fred G. Zerbsl said the barrage occasioned no unusual disturb- LAWYER NAMED DRY FORCE HEAD V. Dalrymple Woodcock in Charge of Lajv Enforcement WASHINGTON April 1 I I A V.

Dalrymple. a i i a a day tiok command of i i tion enforcement. He was unpointed last i a by Al- torrey General Cummings to replace Amos W. W. Woodcock, i i i director lor the past three years 'nserl lawyer named The Baltimore Sun a a has been tendered an a i pn assistant a general other hazards as the Mississippi river approached lhe danger slage at Memphis.

The combined effects of Ohio river floods and a inch rain in western Tennessee scnl the river to a stage of 33 feel last night and the Memphis weather bureau forecast a three-foot rise to a foot above flood stage today. WITNESSES ASK RATE REVISIONS Action ot Legislature on Ulilily Control Favored by Hotel Men Hotel managers from ali sections of the slate, resuming their testimony before the house of delegates special WIDEN POWER FOR BANK QUIZ Senate Committee Asks Authority to Examine Morgan's Books SEEK FULL PUBLICITY Slock Measure Should Be Stronger, Congressman Informs Croup WASHINGTON. April 1 mate Banking and Currency committee today voted unanimously to ob- ain for its stock market investigators dditional authority to compel J. P. Morgan and company to open its ecordr for examination.

Ferdinand Pecora, investigation ounsel, informed the committee thai he famous private bank had ques- oned his authority. The resolution still must be ap- roved by Ihtt senate before Mr. ecora may to the Morgan of- ce lo demand data which he he firm is attempting to withhold. There are rumors that attempts may be made to block the Morgan inquiry when the issue comes before the senate. But no developments so far appear to justify whispered charges.

To Consiiler Harriman Probe The senate judiciary committee will consider the request Senator Costigan. Democrat. Colorado for investigation of the last adminis tration's seven-month delay in inst luling action afler irregularities wer discovered in the Harriman Naliona bank of York. i The bank now is in the hands of i i i investigating committee Fri- conservator and its former head nay afternoon were unanimous in ex- W. Harriman.

is under bond i pressing opinion that the lepisla- charges of falsifying its records, 'lire should take some slep toward I Aroused congressmen lodav sough Weatherman Taken Part In April Fool Pranks "April fool!" cried the Weatherman Saturday as he took a major role in celebration of the customary period for playing pranks. Probably the brightest day of the year dawned on "All Fools' day, with early birds of both the feather human variety chirping gaily under the influence of a bright sun and what appeared to be a clear sky. The temperature over night had reached a high of 79 degrees. Minutes later it was raining. A rainbow of bright formed in the western sky.

In less than an hour the dark clouds drifted away and the sun JSgain beamed down. "April fool!" cried the Weatherman a second time as the sky again became overcast, to remain so most of the day. NAZI BOYCOTT OF JEWS CUT; GUARDSHOPS Limit lo One Day Only as Sign of Strength; May Continue Drive PATROL BY PICKETS WOMEN'S DEATH PUZZLES POLICE Bodies of Two Are Found in Portsmouth Apartment; Suicide Discounted PORTSMOUTH, April Stores Are Closed Propaganda Reprisal; Streets Crowded BERLIN, April 1 storm troops, a ded by thousands of brown-shirted party members, look posts (oday throughout the business sections of German cities to enforce a 24-hour boycott against all Jewish business activity. The rumble of trucks, placarded with anti-Semitic slogans, and the today said i a called to share 'in Hines and Oouglas, a summary against window, or by I something that the wheels had thrown of the new rguljtions, estimated thr lav ings at $40,000.000. "While it appreciated that many thousands wll be adversely affected," they slated, 'no estimate as to exact numbers car be given until the re- I without t.

Both said they cirove naking an investigation. Smith s'lid he was almost asleep at the time of the accident, a.id his first knowledge of it was when the glass lt are adequately cared al Hugliestoii on Saturday afteraoon states next Friday. at 2:30 o'clock, with burial there. The states are Arizona. Californi "It can bt said, however, that all men who acquired their disabilities in toe military or naval service and the of those die Irom i inr disabilities for.

"Also that the more seriously disabled war veterans are entitled either to a pension or hospital or domiciliary care." The new regulation! contain almost 30 printed pages. The Hines-Douglas summary disclosed Jfcat the rates to be paid (or war time disabilities are lor 10 per cent. $8 monthly--25 WASHINGTON. April I A i -cent. $20; 50 per cent.

$40: 75 per cent, Heads of the nation's lailroad svstem and 100 per cent. $80. I a TM' labor leaders were summoned to the White Hcuse toriay by President Roosevelt to talk over emergency lee- i L--tation providing for a federal co- ordinator to the carneis out of I their troubles Rosevelt had before Nm a carefully out program by 1 ance among the convicts, and the pris- Roosevelt "little c-ibinei" and his on was quiet. The four-passenger Curtiss-Wr ight cabin plane was stored under guard at the Fort Leavenworth airoorr. At Denver it was reported Lynn and A.

N. Barlow left Thursday on a trip to Leavenworth, said to be for the purpose of meeting another brother, Theodore, scheduled lo be released from the prison. Beer Is Legalized In Nineteen States forcing a revision downward of i i rates. Their testimony related i to telephone, gas and electric poweif "ha rges. This line of i was provoked 1 Delegate A.

J. Lubhner. oi Mercer to put still sharper teeth in Fresiden Roosevelt's i 'to stop the i i i i i of American lion dollar ac- copied. Mr. a experienced in i ion i i i and iiarcolic enforcement a work, gave no immediate i i a i i the as to whether federal I i ates policies would be chans-'-'- A Ihe beginning ot the Roosevelt administration Mr.

Woodcock announced federal agents henceforth would concentrate on large-scale a a and i i of illicit alcohol and whiskey, and would pay liltle attention to speakeasies and I tim minor bootleggers. He reiterated this I pfthev in an order issued jusl before i vestors by stock salesmen. The Presidenl's proposed blue sk 1 a was before the house committed who persistently asked interstate commerce where testi nolel men witnesses, if. in i opiri- mon.v revealed lhal about $25,000,000, 00(1 of worthless or "undesirable" securities had been sold in Ihft the i a should consider at lh( a i a session for purpose of revising the i i gci.era'ly Witnesses werr almost a i i i 5 opinion that the legislature should lake action. The i a Fridav a le, meet again earlv ne.x't week.

a i a Rush n. Holt said lhal he would announce later the for lhe nexl hearing. Public Sentiment Sought expressing the since the World war. Over a period of 14 years $203 By The Associated i i legal 3.2 beer Hist six days Legal beer of 3.2 per cent alcoholic I away, Mr. Dalrymplc's forces also i content may be sold in at least 19 have the rimy of keeping this btver- i age out of stales which do not want it.

er issue usl his resignation was a vo.ster- i view of the committee's oprn let- day. to Governor on Thursday Mr. C'umimrigs said ho had every I Rail Men Called In By Chief Executive Connecticut. Delaware. Illinois.

In- confidence in Mr. Dalrymple's ability diana. Kentucky. Maryland. Minne- i ''to meet the exacting rccsuirements o'f sota.

Missouri, Montana, Nevada. New- Jersey. New York. Ohio. Oregon.

his i i posl lhe Wilson a i i a i embers a i a Mr. a supervised federal I i in repard enl'orcement in I i i I i a a Mich- a upon executiv Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. Previously he had had charge of rn- foreernent of a i laws in the High Court Grants Stephenson Appeal The state supreme court Saturdav allowed an appeal lo Clarence Ste- phensin, Logan Negro, from a life sentence imposed by the Logan counfy circuit courl for the slaying ol Mrs. Mamie Thtirman. the wife oil a Logan policeman, last summer.

Stephenson contended in his petition, seeking to set aside a conviction of flrst degree murder, that the commissioners excluded Negroes from the list of persons called to serve on the grand j.jry which indicted him. Eight other reasons were also as- among them exceptions to rulings by the court i his trial Mrs. Thurman's body was found in a ditch up on Trace mountain portation authorities alter lays ol I Louisiana. April 13- Vermont Mav i a i and Wyoming. May 18: West Virginia.

June He is a to pet. But he 19, and North Dakota. 1. flr'l to talk it all over i the Pennsylvania, Washington and Some of these will p.ermit sale be- I cause all the legislation has been passed, other because there nre no i i i and still others i i i islands. Since 1925 i has because only the fixing of tax rates I prartucd law in Caiiloriiia.

remains to be completed. In Delaware the beverage may be I rr sold only the city of Wilmington: i hree Men Are blain In in Maryland sales will be permitted only in Baltimore and two counties Five other states have set dates on -which the sale will be lesal. They are June 23. her throat had been cut and two bullet wounds were in her head. Berkeley Springs Gets Thanks From Roosevelt BERKELEY SPRINGS.

A i 1 a to Governor K'lmp, here. Roosevelt acknowledges i appreciation Berkeley Spring! i i i i to i to establish a summer i House here but says He not resentatives of those ino--t i a i terested--the investors, tlv- operators and the men ho depend on lhe roaHs for a Ip-ing. The President called to his the men responsible tor 'Jie of action--Secretary Roper. I Joseph B. Eastman of th.

mvrstate commerce commission. Solawn. and A. A. Berli rail txDt-rt.

1 im-itet! tc, the i House I for th 1 Pacific: Donpid Richbei counsel State May Lose Sum In Reforestation Plan WASHINGTON. April 1 A I President Roosevelt should order all unobligated federal aid funds lurned over to his forest conservation program. West Virginia lose Virginia Home Robbery LACR'OSSK. Va A 1 A I Three men were i and one was belivcd mortally in a robbery ot' a i a home in Mecklen-t I county i mnc'; south of herel last, night. I The dead a Ben L.

Cannon, 77 years and i two nephews, Thomas Camion. 5(j years old, and i Cannon. years old A brother, Willis A. Cannon. 81 years old.

was a to a PetersbiirK i a i The i a balanc-e to pr the late alternoen parley ir.fludcd I state's i in the a i rie- arl Gray, president of the i I partment's allotment approved bv the lasi a i a eonstru'-- tion is $44.801. In a i i West con- The a of public rnacls its i i offices to to approve i a cmstruc- tion projects on i a airl i "ds would used i a I ford: and I. H. i i a preMdeiil a i a i policy is i of the New York Central. Under the reforestation measure, the I president may i these unobli- gated road to meet expenses oi bullet wounds i head.

im-estigalinn indicated a the i lers enticed Ben Cannon to lhe i on a pretense ol 'he a lie was shot lo a in the smokehouse a i a i him to include in his extra session call a i which open the way for i i a bills anti i reply on Friday i i consent to consider any "olher matter" until the fiscal are settled it considered a commiltee i ascertain to I hen. author- Tin-- consideration was enhanced bv i he a nf Delegate Holt, is- a the receipt of Governor 'vunipV reply Mr, Holt said a i he dtsappoinlt'd in lhe governor's land "because I consider Ihe i i proolcm ol' equal i a i any other the state." One witness, C. Heath, manager of the Monroe hotel al Parkcrsburg. a "il is more i a to Hi" pirple of the state to have a rc- i in i i rates a it is to i taxes reduced." There was general agreement amonr; the hotel men. loo.

a i "every- i else has dropped from 33 to 50 tier cent i cosl. utility costs have not declined." Several hotel men said had requested the Chesapeake Potomac Telephone company to hargcs. but no of such "wall paper securities' for every person in the nation have been i i Congressional conferees, emphatic in their -denunciation of such a situation, proposed strength- i several sections of the bill for federal stock selling regulation. Hit Foreign Securiiiu A number of congressmen believed (he publicity requirements should be made applicable to a outstanding securities, although administration advisors explained these provisions had been intended to apply only to stocks and bonds issued lhe bill becomes law. Representative Woiverton.

Republican. New Jersey, was anxious for formal regulation of foreign secunlv salef in this counu-v. It was testified a $12,000.000.000 worth of securities ol other nations have been sold in the United States since 1919. The witness Walter H. Miller, chief of the foreign loan division of the commerce department, a i a very percentage" of these securitie worthless.

Mr. i believed the i as now i would buyers of foreign secunlies because it imposes reg- a i on American selling agents and because Ihe stale a could and would" prolest informally large i now are murdered. The bodies of the women. Mrs. Dorothy White McCormick.

19-year- old divorcee, and Miss Muriel How- Trd, la years old. were found lying in the bed of an apartment they had rented but a day before. Although there was no evidence of a struggle, a police theorv of der was strengthened by the fact the sale houses, echoed through Berlin streets for hours before official opening of the boycott, Political police today segregated the Berlin bank account of Professor Albert Einstein, confiscating 25,000 marks cash and stocks valued at 5,000 marks Poiice declared they were apparently juslilied in i suspicions that the money was intended" to finance preparation of acls of high treason. Simultaneously the Prussian of science issued 9 statement commenting scathingly or. Professor resignation.

The world famous scientist accused of participating in "atrocity propaganda" abroad. "The academy has no reason to fe- siate- McCormick. door was ajar when the bodies were lound yesterday. Coroner Ross Moore. after an autopsy, said the poison that caused death might have been contained in food, candy or a beverage.

Prosecutor Emory Smith called relatives and friends for questioning and instructed the Iwo men who found lhe bodies when they came to grt-t keep a "date" to appear with Mrs. i ment said McCormick's former husband. John Eleventh hour orders of Ihe government passed nn through Nazi party leadeis confined hovcott to the nexi. 24 hours, but failed (3 dampen e'-thusiasm for the deplete closing of every Jewish piar-a of business as a warning against "fun IKH atrocity propaganda" was the purpose of the mass action. Storm troopers were told that if today's demonstration failed to silence criticism abroad, further steps would be taken next Wednesday.

The bo- colt will be iifted temporarily after the Nazis have demonstrated their The boycott vas imposed. In full at 10 a. m. Nazi ,,5 ose( but seen they would remain lockeci. in the day.

only of tiie curious sightseers surrounded the AS dsy wore on. however the crowds grew so dense that the The men are Waller Gore, 21 years old and Hiram Schmeller, 22 years old. Investigators who said they first b- ifved the women had died from an overdose of a sleeping potiorj. have considered the possibility that the women, might have taken the poison 4y mistake. Residents of the apartmenl.building aid they heard a piano, in the wom- n's suite soon after the place was ented.

None sav the women yesler- lay, so far as police could determine. the Railway Labor Execjtives asso- i ciation: Hrnrv Brucre. New York fi- nar.cir.l authority: Frederick H. Prince, ami Philip Stochstr.n. ot ton; Raymond Moley.

secre- a of state and economic lo the President: Robert Jjckson. associate of Prince: J. J. Pelley. president ol the Now New Ha and Harlford: and Daughter of Ambassador torestry project.

To EniJ Maddening Pain CLARKSBURG. A 1 I A I i a i from a i of an nslhma attnck. i i a i years old. a i I shot i i I to a a id hi', home i i other i dialled in the i a yards away. a i seized a placer! muzzle a a i i a a the invitntion in addition to the fa that Berkeley Spi ings is but 100 miles by muter on highway from the capital.

The reply was tiate-s March 22. Iii addition to i i a i the state legislature pa'-sed a resolu- I tion to the rame purpose May. The i i a i vas "xtended to Miss May through Senator Byrd. of Virginia, one of the nation's leading apple growers. RIVERS-WEATHER Dark clouds a hid the sun Saturday afternoon brought a toreeast The ihermomclpr re-id 61 at 1 p.

m. Friday's a i was 79. Sun Gem Thief Sentenced I A I A i 1 i a i a i a i Sldmor. I a was I slate a i to a i a grand a the of $225.000 i a MSI- tors to i a i Beach. i -fhp rlefViisp i i to 40 years in he i sV' "fl when nc pleaded seeking damages total, entering and a $3.250.000 Thev a i i because the company a i to provide proper against pushed tiie I i ,1 stick a i i He diert i The widow, one a i anrt M- -ons i i Federal Regulation In Coal Fields Advocated Siliea Case to Start 1 MORC.ANTOWN.

Apnt i a i head of the United i Workers of A i a arivoealed federal a i of Ihe eoal i in a Mitchell day observance before i today. He rlecl-i-ecl lhe llnitm i never a i i i a workers i coal i a a and stale police were on i meeting. FAYETTEVILF.E, A i I i A A two weeks of a i a Johnson has rested his case a a i a and Dennis Company, of Charloltesville. seeking damages for silicosi.s he says he acted POWC a nC Wk relict. Trlephonr 'ul Denied M.

Donahue, manager of the i hotel, told the committee thai he knew of no i i and hi 1 had made one request oi a i i for a reduction and I i was ricnipu. "I wrote lo the Chesapeake a Polomae Telephone company ask- i it reduce its charges and the reply came back a its rales were fix-jH Ihe i service commis- CKifi and i could not make any cliannes," he said Delegate i asked Mr. Donaj line if he did nut i lhe commission would a a reduction in rales, if the telephone company were to i a lower tariir. just as it does in cases of a i a and oilier i i lie.s, who i lower a i at i limes. The witness replied a he believed the commission would approve reduction if the company requested it.

Briseoe W. Peyton, a a of the Kanavvha hotel, and O. C. Lowe manager of Radnor hotel, also appeared as witnesses. Mr.

Peyton told the i a the position of the hotel men had Freight Rate Probe Ordered by I. C. C. WASHINGTON. April 1 A I i a commerce commission today ordered an i i a i to determine whether and to what extent reductions in freight rales should be required.

The i i a i was ordered a consideration of a i i lite.d a few days HSU by a i a coal and organizations. They a general study of Ihe rate i a view lo reductions in lhe a i on all basic commodities. Women Will Get More Posts, Says Randolph WASHINGTON, A i 1 A Representative Randolph. Democrat of i W. Va is following the lead of President Roosevelt in giving women greater pnlronage recognition and soon be more lady postmasters congressional i i Mr.

Randolph today recommended a i of Mrs. Ada Steincr as acting postmaster at Berkeley I Springs and said he would recommend her i a as postmaster Farm Abducted by Band LANSING. April 1 CAP). -K. Landis, clerk of the Kansas state rison here, was kidnaped today on le highway between Lansing and eavertworth.

by four men in motor car who did not Mrs. andis. and two young women also ding in the clerk's automobile. Landis was returning from Laven- orth where he had gone to deposit hecks in a bank. Prison officials said they believed the kidnapers erroneously believed the clerk had gone lo Leavenworth for the institution nav- Mrs.

Landis. who was accompanied by her daughter. Florence, and another young woman, drove squads of Nazis a i doorway flaunting thejr Swastika emblems! the milling light hardly visible mobs. customers had to their way these crowds. RcDorls from other cities indicated similar activities were in progress evcrj where in Germany.

Guard at Geneva GENEVA. Switzerland. April 1 heavy police guard and flre- men wilh hoses ready lor action to, her machine here and reported kidnap- ing She said four occupants of a black sedan wilh a Missouri license had driven beside the Landis automobile, drawn revolvers, and forced her husband lo accompany Ihem. Landis had made a trip lo Leaven- day guarded here against a and anti-German demonstration. the German consulate threatened Communist The consulate is of the secretariat Nations on quai oposite the offices of the League of Woodrow Wilson, i i i a i a i a Sun a rn.

ets B'23 p. rn. Moon rises 12:16 p. 7 ct. m.

a 1 p. m. a i day fit Max. i a 79 Mm l-'rirlay 54 River Staitrs The P. a -i a a Falls.

4.1 feet, Increase in Prices Foreseen With Approval for Giant Farm Measure WASHINGTON, April I i House, pressure today brought the administration's Farm pro- xram close to a vote of approval the senate a i committee. Speedy action was urged by President Roosevelt in a two-hour conference tatr yesterday i committee members who have been a i for a week and threatening to rewrite the bill designer! to surplus crop production and i a prices to prewar levels. falling. ,2 of an Inch rain; at Charleston, 8 feet, pool. The New at Rattford, 2 feet, ri.sjng; of an inch rain; at Hinton.

3 cnee expressed) belief a favorable re- slafiouary, .33 of an inch ram. The port would he voted by Monday. The Ohio at Point Pleasant. 16.3 feet, a I indication was that the measure "would ing, .14 of an inch rain: at Huntinuton, go before the senate in substantially 19.8 feet, tailing, .18 of. an inch rain: the form in which it passed the house at Cincinnati.

30 feet, falling, at Pitts- President Roosevelt burgh, 14.7 lect, tailing. (send his farm m- congress nn Monday and it will be combined in the senate i the price- increase measure. The debt relief plan, it was i i a reported wif Icenter around direct federal lonns to farmers, i a i many rnortgags i government-, backed bonds, and arrangements a sciitini; down of indebtedness. Rooseyrlt leaders in the house and senate, wr lie expeeling some resistenee to the combined a airl i a Chairman Smith after the confer- are optimistic over i a approval perhaps by the end of next week. Enactment of the bill, they predict, will result in substantial increases in farm commodity prices coupled i a general rcduclion of iritfj-est rates throughout the nation on all lype.s is expected to nortgage relief bill to of mortgages.

Pennsylvania Oprralor.s Vt'ill Form Sales Agency ALTOONA. A i 1 1 A i of the a i a Coal Pi odlieers a.ssueial ton i today on a a sales a to a i i a lo App a a i a Coals, Inc. Organization n't" the agency, (he a of which was declared legal hy the i Stairs i court in the ease of A a a i a Coals, a discussed by operators last i i The eommitlee has i i to report i two The prop by the ope a a ed as discussed alors oiilrl operale in field possibly for Md aiiri West worth for payroll officials said. Roosevelt Discusses Muscle Shoals Plans WASHINGTON. April 1 A White House conference todav brought I an agreement on legislation for development of the Tennessee vallev, including restoration of the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, power and nitrate plant.

President Uoosevell talked over the program with congressional leaders and cabinet officers involved in the project. Some details remain to be worked out but a message to congress some time next week is in prospect. The bill of Senator Norris, Republican. Nebraska. 1'or establishment of a government board to operate and control the giant Muscle Shoals properly is the basis of the administration program.

which was barricaded against traffic Hugh Wilson, the United States minister to Switzerland, who lives in money yesterday, the same building which houses the consulate, was forced to go out the back way because the front door was barred. Normal access to the secretariat also was blocked. Senate Excludes Beer for Capitol WASHINGTON. March 31 senate adopted an amendment lo the District of Columbia beer bill to block the sale of beer in any federal building, including the capitol at Washington. With" lhal.

Ihe sena'e forthwith pnsrod the bill to regulate the manu- faciiirc and of 3.2 beer and wire in lhe capital--designed as a "model" lor the nation. Opponents said it was "ludicrous" in view of the senate's decision that i per cent beer non-intoxical- telephone. Says Gas Charier Favorable A gas i i his i i i problem because of the large a consumed in his hotel Mr Peyton expressed Ihe opinion that the charge of Ras in is as low as in any city in lhe i Sta'os. He pays the mnmit'acturcr's rale of 22Vi cVnls a 1.000 i feet, he sniri. Mr.

Peyton, added, however, a if his gas costs continued, he would have In to the use coal alt he did mil wish lo do so Mr. Peyton said a he has his own i power plant, and besides using lhe electric in his hotel, he sells to several business places situalcd inside of his own block. post masl ersh ips. Mr. a also recommended loday lhe a i nf Leo as postmaster at Ridgeley i a county.

The post i department torlav announced appointment of Fred R. Adams as postmaster at Silver i a class i jr. Wclzell county' Winiiie Ruth Judd Makes i iw i Thc bm Il sp1f was a without final Move lo Save Life a record vole; and the "HOPS" far ex- FLORENCE. A i April I A orde the "ayes" Attorneys for Winnie ron- vu-ied "Irunk" murderess condemned to hang April 21. i begin their final a to save their client's life Mon- da.v.

After a conference wilh the woman they announced a motion i be filed before Superior Judge Howard C. Speakman, in Phoenix, asking a i verdict and jlidgmeitl against Mrs. for of Mrs. Agnes Anne Leroi be set aside. If i is denied they a to appeal to the Arizona supreme courl.

a i i in this the counsel stated they had not abandoned plans to carry the case to lhe United States court. as a utility and i i i a This area has i of a i a 100,000.0011 Ions a i a Flyer Killed in Auto PHOENIX. A April A -Mrs. Jessie Chapman, aviatrix of Las Angeles and Chicago, was killed and her companion. Mrs.

Gladys Wood of Detroit, was injured seriously in an automobile accident ir.iles west ot Phoenix early today. Thtir machine collided with a reason our i rannol cross ock," Mr. Peyton a i He was "We do not operate for this Ihe bl not prepared to say whether his power cost him more a il would if he bought from the Appalachian Elec- Iric Power company. He was ol the opinion, he said, that it would cost i less, if he purchased his power. Tale of Relenting Father Recalled AsLigh Burns in Baltimore Mansion BALTIMORE, litiht in the old historic Mount again burns with The number April 1 Walters Vernon glnw.

just plainly as it dirt a score of years aao when, as Baltimore's fnvoriie legend allhough he had stantialc this Others Are Mr. Lowe testified figures to sub- that his hotel also has its own eteclrical plant and that he also uses coal as fuel, having deserted gas months ago, as tContinucd or Page 8, Column the light was supposed to be a symbol of welcome from a relenting father nisfinorimnt to 110 longer is any mystery the hsht but the legend lingers on The house Slid the adjoining art gallery have been willed by Walters' heir.s to the cily and carelakcrs keep Ih light burning sentiment's sake Recently the light went out. Caretakers soon replaced the globe but the stories were started again. Ulder residents recalled how a leg- end had sprung up in the early days mansion on of the century a William T. Wai- Place once.

tery. wealthy railroad builder, who construcled lhe home in lhe fash- 'onablu i i disinherited i daughter because she married against his wishes. He later forgave his daughter, the story ran, but pride kept him from communicating with her. He placed the light to show her she mi placed ight return. It burned day and night.

the years sped by. Ihe father As died, and his daughter died, but the light continued to burn. And today although the home will be thrown open to a public curious about its rich furnishings and art treasures, the light. hum sake ot sentiment. the light.

hums, on-- just for the volume, but Senator Pitlman. Democrat. Nevada. president prctempore declared the measure was passed. The house already has parsed a local beer bill, but has to consider thr matter again inasmuch as the senate amended il in several respects.

Another amendment adopted would prevent-sale to motorists at barbecue stands. Otherwise the measure wax proved as reported by committee, permitting sale of consumption on the premises al hotels, bona flde rertau- ri'nts and Hubs. State Concerns Warned In Rewriting Insurance Marian Justice, deputy state insurance commissioner, said Saturday that regulations prohibilinjj the rewriting of flre and casualty insurance policies after companies have failed, without collecting new premiums from policyholders, would be enforced. Mr. Justice said that several iiuur- snce flrms had failed in the last year.

In Komp cases, he said, it has become praclice for jgents to new policies in some other company and pay the premiums for the unexpired terms from own pockets That is a violation of the rebate Jaw, hi- said, and agents of the department expect to prosecute all such Insurance agents are subject revocation ot Iheir licenses and policyholdors. if they know of the act. may tie fined. The action was taken, Mr, Justice as a protection to the agents themselves, because the payment of the extra premiums represented a Peavy drain on their.