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Newspaper Page TextPut Off Going If you read Want Ad today mod put oft rolnt to' check up until tomorrow the chance re ten to one you HI be too late.- Remember thousand! of eyes arc on these adi dully. So you better hurry. The Weather Tribune Forecast: Fair tonight, with 1 r o t Thursday, Increasing clondlneM followed by rain. Temperature. Highest yesterday M l.otrrst this uornlng ... 34 Precipitation last U hra, .02 EDFORD Full Associated Presi' Fall United Preu Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1938. No. 19. mm M S ,1 I The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937, by The North American News " paper Alliance, Inc. INGENIOUS FINANCING PLAN IN PROPOSED PRIMING BILL CITIES' STATES WOULD SELL PUBLIC WORKS BONDS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO GUARANTEE INTEREST WOULD AVOID OUTRIGHT INCREASE IN DEBT LOAD WASHINGTON, April 13. The curt, two-page bill drawn at the president's orders to embody hts pump-priming scheme is the shortest, and one of the moat Ingenious New Deal measures over devised. Among other things, It provide for the creation at a brand new type of security, skirts the dan ger of an Increased government debt, and makes It possible for private dol lars to prime the pump In some other fashion than by the gorging banks' purchases of United States bonds. Unless the president has already torn up the draft measure prepared for him over the week-end. the re ports outlining; the new pump-prlm-lng scheme have been somewhat mis leading. The $1,500,000,000 of RFC lending to anyone who will use the money, the expanded WPA program, the gesture In the direction of hous ing these have all been correctly ex pounded. But the nubbin of his pro gram the additional 91 ,600,000,000 which Is to be spent on public works by statiM and cities has a new and remarkably interesting twist to It. It has been supposed that the $1, 500,000,000 of public works money would be dstrlbutcd In non-interest bearing, fifty-year loans to states and municipalities, which would be re quired to repay the principal at the rate of 2 per cent annually. Actually, the program embodied In the draft bill la Just the opposite. Instead of lending money to the (Continued on Page Six) PRESBYTERY SELECTS GRANTS PASS, April 13. iP) Dr. H. S. Reichard of Grants Pass was eltacted moderator of the Presbytery of southern Oregon holding Its con cluding two-day sessions this after noon. Rev. Wm. o. Faucet t of Row burg is retiring numerator. Also elected were. Rev. E. E. Rosen kelde of Malln. stated clerk: Rev. H T. Mitchelmorc of Bandon, perma nent clerk: Rev. Thomas Robinson of Oakland, temporary clerk; and Rev. John W. Hoyt of Med ford, reporting clerk. The 21 'Presbyterian minister and 18 elders attending were to elect one from each group this afternoon to at tend the general assembly. East Oregon Town Destroyed By Fire CRANE. Ore.. April 13. (API plans to rebuild this tiny town. 30 mile southeast of Burns, were launched today as It emerged from the ashes of a 20.000 fire. The postofflce. a bnrber shop, cleaning establishment and four resi dences were destroyed with ft garage In which fire broke out Sunday. Mall and equipment from the post office were saved. Wot blankets pre sented the spread of flames to the Denman hotel. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Walter Leverette lamenting his failure to get his car tagged and Officer Ray Sloneker trying to make up for It by cnalktng his pants leg. Cappy Lee Bown telling of the steady habits of his police officer Frank Beers. Flomic Seherrer and Juanltn Yerton siting and oohttii over pansy bouquets brought them by Fred Scheflel. Joe E Wood inquiring good-naturedly why no one was present to let him and associates Into the ColC for a nocturnal meeting. Sit. Harold Howard a:..: D uty ?herf Bill Grenbember scurrying off en ft secret mission. MACHINE PLUNGES FROM. HIGHWAY AT SEVEN OAKS Maurice O'Brien of San Francisco Suffers Pos sibly Fatal Injury Ernest Schwarts Also Injured Maurice Edward O'Brien, 40, of the Mendeli apartments, 415 Jones street, San Francisco, received a fractured skull at 2 a. m. today when the automobile he was driv ing plunged off the Pacific highway at a curve about two miles north of Central Point. Critically Injured, with the entire front of his head caved in, he Is not expected to live, Dr. W. G. Bishop, his attending physician, said this afternoon. He Is confined in Community hospital. O'Brien's companion In the car, Ernest Schwarts, 43, of 387 Ellis street, San Francisco, sustained three fractured ribs on the left side of his chest and severe body bruises, Dr. Bishop said. Otherwise he was uninjured, and his condition Is not serious, the physician reported. Recovery Hone Dim. O'Brien was conscious only at times this afternoon, and was suf fering hemorrhages at the mouth, Dr. Bishop said. Little hope was held for his recovery. The two men were speeding north ward to BelUngham, Wash., to at tend the funeral of O'Brien's father when the accident occurred. Schwarts told Deputy Coroner Herb Brown, who rushed them to the Commu nity hospital. Driving a Buick coupe. O'Brien negotiated part of the curve before the car started to wobble. Schwartz told Brown. It then shot off the left side of the highway, lea ped over a f ou r - too t d t tch and crashed Into a fence bordering the orchard of A. V. Carlson, Schwarts explained. Car Demolished. The machine was hnlted mo mentarily on top or the fence, with Its two front wheels off the ground, then ifc smashed on through and Into the orchard. The car was almost entirely demolished. Schwarts told Brown that the ma chine was traveling at a high rate of speed, and that It was Impossible to make the curve. He said he had driven to Ashland, and that O'Brien had taken the wheel there. Schwarts Is a close friend of O'Brien's and had accompanied him merely for the ride. The accident happened at the end of the long straightaway north of Central Point. At Seven Oaks, the road bends to the right on the flat, there being no bank to the high way at that point.. Schwarts Called Aid. Deputy Coroner Brown said that when he arrived at the scene, O'Brien was laying on the ground 10 feet from the car, and Schwarts was sit ting on the edge of the highway tillable to move. It was first believed that Schwarts suffered a broken back, but examination showed htm to have only a bad back bruise. State Police Officer Frank Beers, who Investigated the accident, said that Schwarts climbed through the fence and over the ditch to reach the highway. There he yelled for help, attracting the attention of a fanner and his wife, who live near by. The farmer, after going to the scene, Immediately telephoned the tate police office. Sheriff Freed On Larceny Charges OREGON CITY. April 13. (AP) Sheriff E. T. Mass and his chief tax depxity. Jessie Paddock, were freed of charges of larceny of public funds yesterday when Circuit Judge Carl Hendricks slsned orders voiding In dictments. Assistant Attorney-General Francis Wade recommended the action be cause he said prosecution would con stttute a needless expense. Mass had been Indicted on untried charges of larceny of $41,000 and !f637. His son. Deputy Howard Mass. recently was acquitted of a Joint indictment on the latter charge. I INCH SNOW MELTS FAST ilN KLAMATH SUNSHINE KLAMATH PALLS. April 13. (AP) j A strong north wind dropped the i thermometer to 30 degrees here last night and deposited an Inch of snow over the Klamath basin. Brieht sunshine today promptly 'melted the snow. Weather Northern California: Fair tonight and Thursday, hut rain tol iv ex treme southeast portion with snow over the Sierra-Nevadas, slightly warmer In the interior Thursday; fresh northwest wind off the coaM. i Oregon: Fair tontcht with frosla 'In the interior. Thursday increasing cloudiness followed by rain in rest (portion: moderate changeable wind be coming southerly and Increasing loff the coast Thursday. TURN! Thurston's Spook . Breaks Date With Skeptical Friends NEW YORK. April 13. (AP) Joseph Dunnlnger, president of the universal council for psychic research, today announced the late Howard Thurston had failed thus far to keep a promise to return from the spirit world. Dunnlnger said he and five companions, all skeptics of psy chic phenomena, had kept a vigil last night over a glass case con taining an. image of Raraeses the Second. Before Thurston's death three years ago today, Dunnlnger explained, the magician gave hlra the image with a promise that he would return from the spirit world, break the glass case and knock the Image down. T GIVE UP PENNY OF MOVIE-MADE COIN LOS ANGELES, April 13. Brewery owner Arthur L. Bernstein says his stepson. Jackie Coogan, "isn't going to get a penny" of the fortune Coogan amassed as a child movie actor. Coogan, estimating that (4.000.000 is due him from his mother, the for-, mer Mrs. John Henry Coogan, has sued her and Bernstein for that amount. The case reaches court next Wednesday, when Judge Emmet Wil son hears a motion for an Injunc tion against the mother and step father transferring or disposing of any of the property In question. Jackie, sitting In his modest home In West Los Angeles, figuring out ways to earn a living for himself and hts prettty bride, Betty Gmble. took time to display several newspaper clippings telling of his earnings 10 years ago. , Jackie claims that when hia father waa killed in an automobile accident near San Diego In 1935. his mother told him his fortune as a child actor had been Invested and would be turn ed over to htm when he was 21. Now that he Is 23, he wants the money. DEFENDERS STALL JAP WAR MACHINE SHANGHAI. April 13 (AP) Em ploying European military tactics with Increasing skill, or. when necessary, the big swords of their ancestors, the Chinese, temporarily at least;,- have stalled the Japanese war machine on the central China front. The real test of the new Chinese resistance, however, Is yet to come, with numbers, geographical position and Improvement in training of sold iers among the factors In China's favor. Japanese reinforcements are con tinuing to pour into Shantung pro vince, and this probably means a smashing drive to regain what is left of Talerhchwang. embattled southern Shantung town. Chief credit for the recent Talerhchwang victory Is given to ir regular Chinese units who demoral ized Japanese communications along the Tlentsin-Pukow railway. If these irregulars operated according to plan, then it was the highest form of strategy. In the opinion of foreign military experts here. GRAND CHAMPION LAMB OWNED BY BOY FARMER SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. April 13 (AP) The coveted ribbon for the grand champion lamb of the Inter state Junior livestock arid baby beef show was awarded today to 18 -year-old Severa Wllford of Santa Rosa, Calif. A sister of Wllford 'a newly -crowned grand champion lamb won a similar award at the Great Western Livestock show in Los Angeles last year. Wll ford Is a future farmer of America. MAHONEY SPEAKS AT GRANTS PASS MEET GRANTS PASS. April 13. (API Willis E. Mahoney, candidate for Democratic nomination for United States senate, last night urged a three-point recovery program here: Farm products tariff. Townsend pen sion, and a wage-hour bill. PhtlanlhropM files MANCHESTER. N. H.. April 13 (API Frank Pierce Carpenter. 92. philanthropist, banker and manufac turer, died here today. It Is estimat ed his charities amounted to 4 000, 000. He was president of the Amos kcag Paper Mill. Fire On Rioters LUCKNOW. India. April 13. fAPl : Three persons were killed and about : 100 injured today when police fired into crouds In an attempt to halt j rioting between Hindus and Moslems. The rioting began after a Moaiem had 1 attacked a Hindu girl. LUCAS LEAD IN NATION ME Gov. Horner's Candidate Holds Commanding Mar gin Over Igoe for Demo cratic Choice As Senator WASHINGTON. April 13. (AP) A presidential boom started In the house today for Governor Henry Horner of Illinois on the strength of his apparent second victory over the Kelly-Nash Chicago democratic or ganization. Representative Arnold (D-Hl.), an nounced he wanted to call attention to the availability of Horner as a presidential candidate in 1040. "In my opinion Henry Horner is the greatest man in this country to day and he should be president of these United States," Arnold said. CHICAGO. April 13. Scott W. Lucas, backed by Governor Horner's recently developed power In Illinois Democratic politics, assumed a grow ing lead for the party's senatorial nomination today over Michael L. Igoe, adherent of the faction domin ated by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and National Committeeman Patrick A, Nash. Lucas, serving hia second term tn the national house from the district of the late Speaker Henry T- Ralney, held a lead of 28.036 with 988 of the state's 8,286 precincts reported In yes terday's primaries. Igoe, United States district attor ney at Chicago, scored heavily In the Cook county bailiwick of Nosh-Kelly forces, but the Havana congressman more than made up the difference tn the '"downstatc" vote. State Senator Richard J. Lyons of Llbertyvllle, bitter foe of the New Deal, was assured of the Republican senatorial nomination. The Democratic vote, In 7,211 pre cincts, was: Lucas 674.388; Igoe 649. 533. Horner forces likewise claimed a victory In County Judge Edmund K. Jareckl's lead over John Prystalskl, Nash-Kelly entry, on the basis of In complete returns. Both Democratic factions, although vowing support of the Roosevelt ad ministration, engaged in the faction al fight on cries of "bossUm" leveled at each other. WITH THE INSURGENTS IN SPAIN, April 13. ( AP) The Insur gent drive toward the Mediterranean quickened Ita pace today on tne southern sector and Generalissimo Franco's troops captured Chert, only 14 miles from the coastal city of Vinaroz. The insurgents, commanded by General Miguel' Aranda. also occu pied the entire Sierra Monte del Tur mell and the Sierra de Valdancha. rugged highlands lying north and south, respectively, of the vital high way from Morella through flan Mnteo to Vinaroz. Chert, three miles north of San Mateo, was strongly defended by gov ernment infantry, supported by artll 'lery and airplanes, j On the front further north the in surgent command announced today a crushing defeat was Inflicted upon :B strong government force that coun ter-attacked in the Balaguer sector. Huulan Jewel stolen LONDON, April 13. ( AP) An un determined amount of Jewelry be longing to the Russian imperial fam ily was stolen today from the home of Sir Harold and Lady Anastasia Wernher. Thorpe Lnbenham Hall, in Leicestershire. Lady Anastasia Is the eldest daughter of the Russian grand duke Michael. FRANCO OUICKENS MARCH TO COAST Stream Purification League Not Hitting at Mining Mud O RANTS PASS. April 13 (AP) Rufus Holman. state treasurer and president of the Oregon Stream Pur ification league, by letter today de fined Intent of the sponsors of a proposed initiative to preserve "nat jural purity" of Oregon waters, The question was prompted here by debate whether mud such as is dis- charged by gold mines would be termed natural. Legislative and legal battles have been fought recently along the Rogue river over m'nlng mud. j "The natural purity of the waters 'of our lakes and flowing stream," Offers Cornea l,,, UNI fill 'l,,,S3a laaaBBBkatV ; -,- pyfti Albert Kessell (above), doomed to be one of the first persons executed In the new lethal ga chamber In San Quentln, Calif., prison revealed he had bequeathed the cornea of his left eye to the Rev. U. E. Harding of Portland, Ore. FINANCE COMMITTEE UNUSED PROFITS TAX WASHINGTON. April 13. (P) president Roosevelt urged congress to day to retain the principle of the bit- terly.dlsputed undistributed profits tax, but. met stubborn resistance from the senate .finance committee. Attacking provisions of the senate tax bill which would eliminate the undistributed profits tax opposed by business and substitute a flat capi tal gains tax for the graduated sys tem now employed. Mr. Roosevelt wrote chairman of the senate finance and house ways and means commit tee: "The repeal, of the undistributed profit tax and the reduction of the tax on capital gains to a fraction of the tax on other forms of Income strike at the root "of fundamental principles of taxation. "Business will be helped, not hurt, by these suggestions." Chairman Harrison (D.-Miss.) of the finance committee, gave out the communication and commented terse ly: "The senate conferees will insist in conference on the amendments adopt ed by the senate." Life Sentences For Bathtub Murderers SEATTLE, April 13. (AP) Life sentences were imposed yesterday by Superior Judge Donald A. Mc Donald on Dell and Claire Richard son, convicted in the "bathtub mur der case." They were convicted of the slaying of Dell's bride, the for mer Clara Compton of San Fran cisco, who died of pneumonia and a head Injury last fall after sub mersion in a tub of scalding water. The Richardsons attorneys served notice of appeal to the state su preme court. PALMBERG tTcOACH ASTORIA BASKETBALL ASTORIA. April 13.--IAP) Wally Palmberg. who set a northern divis ion scaring record in the 1038 basket ball race of the Pacific coast con ference, wes elected basketball coaoh of Astoria high school. By its action, the school board spilt fwtball and basketball coach ing assignments. George .Emlgh re taining the football post. THE DALLES. April 13. (API Charles B. "Pud" Reese, 75. city mar shal and more than 50 years resident of Antelope, stock country center In southern Wasco county, died yester day. I Holman wrote from Portland, "would contemplate the absence of chemicals, garbage, sewage, etc., but would not Icontemplate the shsence of earthly sediment. We know that It Is natural jfor all streams to carry earthly sedi ment and sometime the water la naturally quite heavily Impregnated with earthly sediment during fresh ets, particularly, which is not injur ious to fish in that It does not ex haust the oxygen In the water. whlln on the contrary sewage, chemicals, etc do exhaust the oxygen tn the water and are injurious to fish and offensive and dangerous to recrea tional tjm of the water by human " F TO FACE STRIFE Cabinet Gives Approval to Chamberlain's Pact With Italy Premier Daladier Voted Power for Decrees By the Associated Press Great Britain and France, Europe's democratic partners, both surveyed Europe's turmoil today from new positions of strength. The British cabinet gave approval to the friendship pact which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has en gineered with Italy and which. It haa, been indicated, will be signed Sat urday. The senate today voted by 288 to 1 to give Premier Edouard Daladler'a "national defense" cabinet powera to govern France by decree until July The chamber of deputies previ ously had approved the decree powers bill. Senate approval completed parlia mentary action on the measure clothing the new premier lth un usual powers to cope with the re public's acute financial and labor problems. Daladier turned immediately to fight the strike movement as hia first step toward jmttlng France's house In order. With publication of parliament's action In the official gazette tomor row, Daladier automatically wlll be gin governing by .decree of the coun cil of ministers, the cabinet meeting with President Albert Lebrun. Daladier, determined to end "pol itical strikes," told the finance com mittee one of his first decrees would make a government-controlled vote of workers necessary before a strike could be declared. Chamberlain's "personal touch'- to the sealing of a new British-Italian accord, hia dispatch of War Secretary Leslie Horo-Bellsha to confer with Premier Benito Mussolini In Rome April 23, also was approved by the British cabinet. MOO PLEADS . FOR TOWNSEND WASHINGTON. April 13. (AP) Senator McAdoo (D., Calif.) has asked President Roosevelt to pardon Dr. FranciB E. Townsend, old age pension advocate, who faces a 30 day Jail term for contempt of a house committee. McAdoo disclosed his request today In a letter to Attorney Oeneral Cum mlnga asking him to give his con sideration to the proposal to save the elderly California physician from the Jail term. McAdoo. describing Townsend as a "respected citizen of California," said he believed he was "ill-advised" In defying a house committee which was Investigating his old age revolv ing pension plan last year. The supreme court last Monday denied Townsend'a petition for a re view of hts conviction on the con tempt charge. Several members of congress, also have suggested a presidential par don. King Vidor Weds Ex-Script Girl HOLLYWOOD. April 13. ( AP) King Vidor, film director, and Betty Hill, former scriDt girl, were mar ried In Mexico last July, friends dis closed today. They said Mrs. Vidor. her son Robert Hill, and the director's moth er. Mrs. Charles Vidor. would accom pany him to England where he will film "The Citadel." Vidor Is the former husband of Eleanor Boardman and Florence Vi dor. Poison Slayer's Appeal Dismissed COLUMBUS. O., April 13. (AP) The Ohio supreme court today dis missed the appeal of Anna Marie Hahn. convicted Cincinnati poison slayer, and sentenced her to die in the electric chair May 4. The court held there mas no con stitutional question Involved in her appeal. Mrs. Hahn had been scheduled to die March 10. but her appeal to the supreme court automat irslly stayed the electrocution date. General To Retire WASHINGTON, April 13. (API The war department announced to day retirement of Major Oeneral An drew Moses, effective June 30. Oen eral Moses, who will reach the retire ment age of 64 June 6. has been in command of the Hawaiian depart ment. Ha i now tnrouta to Kw Tork, Convict Whitney Makes Breakfast On Mush, Bread OSSINING. X. T.. April 13. (AP) Richard Whitney, former president of the New York stock exchange, was initiated into the dally routine of Sing Sing prison today when he. arose at 6:30 a.m., and sat down to a breakfast of corn meal mush. 9 Whitney, who entered "the big house" yesterday under a 8-10 year sentence for grand larceny, passed his first night in an an cient atone cell block fairly com fortably. Guards said he slept, or appeared to sleep, eight or nine hours. He was permitted to exercise Briefly in an open yard before he went to a mess hall for breakfast, tn addition to the corn meal mush he had bread and coffee. The luncheon menu was boiled ham and cabbage, potatoes, stew ed apples and cocoa. R. RETER RESIGNS OF Raymond R. Refer today announced his resignation aa vice-president and general manager of the Pinnacle Packing company. ' It was learned that the following also had resigned: Frank Isaacs, fore man of packing plant No. 1: Clarence Pankey, foreman of plant 8; Samuel Wade, chief engineer of cold storage plant No, 4: Al Collins, chief me chanic of plant 3: and Edward Good man, head carpenter. Reginald H. Parsons, company pres ident, said he would serve aa general manager for the tlnf being. Mr. Reter stated that he would establish his own fruit packing and marketing business here, details of which would be announced later. All of the resignations, it was un derstood, were in effect today. Mr. Reter had been with the com pany since 1827. He Is considered one of the state's leading authorities on fruit packing and marketing. Prominent In west coast fruit mar keting circles. Mr. Reter is president of the Oregon-Washlngton-Callfornia Pear league, a director of the Oregon- Washington-Callfomla Pear bureau and executive secretary of the North Pacific Advisory Board of the Amer ican Association of Railroads. Mr. Reter also has been Identified with civic activities here and was in strumental in organizing the valley's first "Pear Blossom Week" last year. Mr. Isaacs said he had definite plans for the future but was not ready to discuss them. Others who resigned had no comment to make or could not be reached immediately WHEN WIFE UNHID PORTLAND, April 13. (AP) Be cause the school board had no Job for Max Krone's wife, the Northwest ern University musician lost an op portunity today for a 13030 Job as director of music in Portland's pub lic schools. Krone was offered the post and the board presumed he had accepted it. when, after the vote, Krone said his wife must have a Job, too. The board rescinded Its action and turned to consideration of two other candidates. Chester Duncan, Van cotiver. Wash., and Robert B. Walsh Portland. Workers League President Dies EUGENE. April 13. (AP) Harry H. Johnson. 50, president of the United Workers league here, candl date for the Democratic nomination for state representative and a cham plon of the "common man," died suddenly in a hospital here last night following a heart attack brought on by a sligM arm injury. Mr. Johnson, a WPA worker, suf fered the arm injury while at work on a university WPA project late yesterday. Physicians said the heart attack was caused by the shock of the injury. Martin Invited To Pershing Wedding SALEM. April 18. (frf Oen. John J. Pershing, commander of the Amer ican troops during the World war. today invited hia old claMmate, Gov ernor Martin, to attend the weddliig of hts son, Francla Warren Pershing The wedding will be held In New York April 22. but the governor will not attend. Pershing and Martin were graduat ed from the U. a military academy at West Point in 1867. Martin served under Pershing during the war aa ft major general. MANAGEMENT PINNACLE FIRM $3930 JOB SPURNED NEW DEAL WORKS AT TOP SPEED ON RELIEF PR0GRAM Reach Apparent Agreement at Long Night Confer ence Public Works Spending Main Feature On Radio Thursday Time has been reserved on NBC, CBS and Mutual Radio chains for a proposed 46-mlnute fireside chat Thursday by President Roosevelt, beginning at 7:30 p.m., roast time. WASHINGTON, April 13. (A P) President Roosevelt signed to day the G)ass-8teagall bill per mitting the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation to lend $1,500, 000,000 to Industry and munici palities. The president made the meas ure a law Just prior to a final conference with senate and house advisors on the recovery-reltef message he will send tn congress tomorrow. , t T7 ACUIMnTAM lnrM 11 IDi President Rdpsevelt and till eco nomic advisers wonted at top speed today to complete a new recovery and relief program, apparently agreed upon at a lengthy night confer ence at the White House. While the conferees did not dis close details, it was Indicated the keystone probably would be a pro posal to spend 11.600,000,000 on pub lic vorfc aa a means of reviving" business and industry. Message Tomorrow. This would be in addition to i $1,250,000,000 relief appropriation, which would let the works progress administration carry a peak load of unemployed from next July 1 to February 1, 1930. Both the public works and relief proposals wera to be covered in a presidential message to congress to morrow noon. Its first draft was gone over by the five oablnet mem bers and three other administration officials at last night's three-hour meeting. The president will have a final talk on the message with congres--slonal leaders at 5 p.m. (EST.) Those Invited were Barkley of Kentucky and Rayburn of Texas, Democratic leadors of senate and house, respectively; Chairmen Glazta (D., Va.) and Taylor (D., Colo.) of the senate and house appropriations committees, and Senator Byrnes (.D., S. C.) and Representatives Cannon (D., Mo.) and Woodrum (D., Va.) of those committees. Radio Talk Planned. Official White House sources bad disclosed earlier that the message would discuss not only the state of affairs in this country, but also touch on conditions abroad. It probably will be followed to morrow night by a 46-miriute "fire side chat" In which the president may explain to the nation his views on the general economic situation and the reasons for hia new pro gram. Cabinet members who went over the message with the president were Secretaries Hull, Ickea, Wallace and Morgenthau and Postmaster General Farley. Present also were Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the reconstruct ion fi nance corporation: Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, and James Roose velt, the president's son and secre tary. Absent were the Democratic con gressional leaders, Including Vice President Garner, who has been widely reported as looking with dis favor on any renewal of heavy gov ernment spending. While the white-haired. Influential Texan remained publicly silent, Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference yesterday that he and Garner had not had- an argument over "pump priming" or anything else when they met st a legislative conference Mon day. There had been reports that Gar ner had sharply expressed his dislike of "spending for recovery" plans, creating a coolnew between himself and "the boss." as he calls the presi dent. Hosch Defendant In Smashup Suit At.BANV. Aml 13. (APt Dr. . P. Hosch, Bend, who withdrew aa a candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for ttovernor. was made a de fendant today In two suite based on sn automobile accident near sew last January 16. Mrs. Llla Barber asked damages of 15.050 and her son, Russell, soughs $10,500 for lujurlea alleged to hava been received when Dr. Hoseh's auto mobile crashed into their trsller car. MADRID, April 13. (APt Berafin Alvsrez Qulntero. 67, Spanish play wright and member of the Royal Academy of Languages for more than a half century, died here yesterday.