Weather Forecast V* Increasing cloudiness; light rain or snow ^ ^ V di- late tonight and tomorrow; not quite so M yM I A, ^ Established ill 1852 cold tonight; lowest about 34. Temper- M M B^ atures today—Highest, 41, at 1 p.m.; fl B B B Bs Most people in Washington have The 29, at 6:45 a.m. W * lowest, ill B~ Star delivered to their homes every fuii details on Page A-2. evening and Sunday morning. Closing New York Markets, Page 20. J ■ — .— —— — ■— .. _———W) Mean# Associated Press. """ 88th YEAR. No. 35,023. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940-FIFTY-SIX PAGES. *** " THREE CENTS. I ------—-- -i_______ Reynaud Forms No Democratic Candidate Has House Unit Cuts Income Tax Enough Votes, I ekes Says New 'Victory' Secretary Is Cautious About Farley, Wage-Hour and /it’s A fine\ Yield Up 31% But Sees Third-Term Efforts Continuing PROPOSITION, MARV.IFYOU By NELSON M. Cabinet SHEPARD. to a definite expression of his own IT Secretary of the Interior on N.LR.B. Funds CM GET Ickes, views the “unconditional” can- Over Last Year a leader of the Roosevelt third-term didacy of Postmaster General Par- r'ACR033. ) * Premier to Retain movement, said today that none of ley. the prominently mentioned Demo- “Mr. is all Labor Board Called Farley right,” he said, S S' Still Won't cratic Equal candidates for the presidency cautiously. “Any one has a right to _ or Foreign Ministry; can RECORDS control enough votes at the be candidate. He is a fine fellow.” 'Overstaffed'; Bill's Campaign to enlarge Spending Needs, convention to win the nomination. He also declined to whether Daladier War Chief say i He made the statement in Mr. Total Sliced 19 Million u.5.Supreme. reply Farley should resign the chair- ■ || COURT | to a question as to his Morgenthau Says CLOSER SOVIET TIE to Nazi- opinion of manship of the Democratic Na- -TTT ,11, -rut1 the chances of By the Associated Press. « Vice President Gar- tional Committee if he carries out By the Associated Press. Fascist axis expected in Berlin; the ner, Secretary of State Hull, Post- his Contending National Labor Russian envoy believed carrying expressed intention of seeking Secretary Morgenthau said today master General Farley and Federal the Relations Board was “overstafied” message to Stalin. Page A-4 nomination at Chicago. All he that preliminary estimates of annual Administrator McNutt. Security would say was. “Jim will do the and that a “confused administrative income tax collections were running AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS con- In to another reply question, Mr. appropriate thing in situation.” 31.2 per cent ahead of last year and tinue to arrive to aid Finland; Ickes any problem” existed in the Wage-Hour declined to give an opinion “comfortably ahead” of President unit stays indefinitely, assigned to whether Denies He Wants Division, the House the Democratic National Chairmanship. Appropriations^ Roosevelt's budget estimate. patrol and reconstruction work. Convention Asked if Mr. Farley’s announce- would draft President Committee asked Congress today to V—=--73S The Treasury Secretary said at a Page A-4 Roosevelt. ment came as a surprise or a shock trim next year's fund for those press conference that telegraphic re- “You to the Roosevelt third-term KEW BOMBING STYLE set by might want a girl to marry backers, ports from regional collection offices as indicated in some Mr. agencies. British in Sylt raids, says Maj. you,” he parried, “but that is no quarters, showed collection of $621,000,000 of Ickes replied that The committee an Eliot; attack hour after hour first assurance she would have you.” "self-serving re- proposed income taxes in the first 20 days of war. B-9 porting in some had of kind in this Page Third-Term Effort to Go On. newspapers” appropriation of $2,843,000—$337,000 March, compared with $473,000,000 sought to that ft convey impression. under President Roosevelt’s budget in the same last the Associated Press. Mr. Ickes reiterated his belief that period year. By Mr. Ickes disclaimed that he was the liberals in estimate—for the Labor Board, and March collections are always the PARIS. March Paul the party would con- to be 21.—Energetic seeking chairman of the $5.105,000—or $1,080,000 less than for income taxes because an- tinue their efforts to secure a third biggest took the Democratic National the nual Reynaud today formally term for the President. Committee, budget figures—for Wage-Hour returns and at least first- and in this connection took a helm of the French as wallop Division. quarter installment payments are government “I haven t second he at L. W. any choice," (Chip) Robert, committee The recommendations were in- due on March 15. Premier and Foreign Minister in a said. ‘I'm very constant. The official, with whom peo- he has had many corporated in a $954,189,700 bill for Senator Morgenthau declined to ple who want the President for a tilts in the broadened “win the war“ coalition past. Mr. Robert had needs of the Labor Department, the say by what margin the collections third term will continue their cabinet drawn from the Socialists efforts spoken in somewhat derogatory Federal Security Agency and four would exceed budget estimates, regardless of any other candidates.” fashion regarding the Secretary and other related agencies during the which are made only on an annual on the Left to groups of the Right. Secretary returned such Ickes, recently rumors. fiscal year beginning July 1. The and not a monthly basis, but added Edouard Daladier, whom M. Rey- from a California where he was “I trip, wouldn't have the chairman- total was $11,798,942 below the Pres- that there was "not a chance” of the naud succeeds as Premier, stayed credited with Democratic if it uniting ship were offered to me on a ident’s recommendations and $19.- excess equaling the $460,000,000 of In the new ministry as Minister of forces in that State behind conven- silver -- platter,” Mr. Ickes said. He 118,170 less than the amount avail- additional revenue asked by the National Defense. M. Reynaud's tion delegates to be for Mr. added that Mr. pledged Robert was “merely able for the current fiscal year. President to pay for emergency na- former in the Finance Roosevelt, commented on portfolio facetiously sounding off’’ again. He also in- La Guardia Arrives tional defense costs and to help keep Lamoureux. and State Grants Fund Cut. King Personally Statement Ministry went to Lucien politics candidates generally in timated that Mr. Robert, whom he Farley's the Treasury under its $45,000,000,000 the first conference he has Most of the reduction below the Five in Inner Cabinet. press referred to as the “Georgia cracker” statutory debt limit. held in more was accounted for a Presents than a month. He re- and the “Georgia was “wear- budget by $10,- Maundy five minis- peach,” To Ask Billion and Half Still Favors New Taxes. M. Reynaud and other fused to be bells in 000.000 cut in a $245,000,000 item for Considered Blow to pinned down, however, ing his cap.* Asked whether he still ^ters constitute the inner war cabi- grants to States for old-age assist- to Poor favored new Money taxes despite comments of net. ance. B* the Associated leading Press. members of Chairman Arthur J. In W. P. A. Funds Congress that the higher The five are: Daladier; Camille Testimony — Third-Term Drive LONDON, March 21. King tax collections obviated the need for Chautemps, Vice Premier; Cesar Altmeyer before an appropriations VI for the first Justice Gordon Asks„ George time in his new taxes, the Secretary asserted: Ship subcommittee made re- Campinchi. Navy Minister; Senator Mysteriously public today, distributed Conference reign personally Maundy “In words of one syllable, I stand Laurent Eynac, Air Minister, and vealed that the Social Security Mayors' Announcement He Will money t'-d iy to 45 poor men and a on the President's until he Raoul Armament Minister. Board favors variable Federal grants message Dautry, Sees 1,400,000 Forced xike number of women at the an- in Race Elates it.” Fills With Water Police to Round to States for in- Stay changes M. also set a “war Up old-age assistance, cient ceremony at Westminster Reynaud up He added that he had no stead of the present system of Off kolls 1 reason committee” composed of himself, July Abbey. Queen Elizabeth accom- Garner Backers to believe that the President would Min- matching State payments. him. Chautemps, Daladier, Colonial panied withdraw his for new taxes. In Baltimore Harbor Numbers Backers Mr. Altmeyer told the subcommit- By the Associated Press. request ister Georges Mandel and Finance The sovereign usually is repre- By G. GOULD LINCOLN. At the same F. H. La time. Secretary Mor- Lamoureux. tee that the board felt the grants Mayor Guardia of New sented the of Canter- Minister by Archbishop Postmaster General Farley's “with- genthau repudiated proposals to use should be related to the economic ca- York came to to council” | Washington today bury and the only previous personal some of the *2,000,000.000 in the A separate “economic Bernstein's Also Calls for Arrest and need of the out reservation” announcement of Panamanian, pacity individual in recent times were also was established, similar to ask Congress and President Roose- appearances Treasury's stabilization fund to avoid States. those of V in 1932 and Ed- his presidential candidacy in Spring- Britain's ministerial economic war- With for Of Persons Who Bail velt to at George the debt limit.