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THE 'EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D . €., MONDAY, "AP};}L 14, 193%. FIRST REAL SPRING SUNDAY TAKES THOUSANDS OF WASHING TONIAN AROUND THE CITY., The Japanese cherry blossoms, awaiting just such a day, came out in all their glory yesterday, and it is photograph at the left was taken late in the afternoon. At right, visitors at the Zoo. where the largest crowds attend in the early spring and fall. imated that 75,000 persons journeyed to Potomac Park to view them. The Washington Star Photos. LiEbt T :t:?!:::! i HERBERT HOOVER RADIO CUP. D. B. Carson. who supervises the licensing and operation of all radio stations in this country, holding he Hoover cup. which has been awarded to Donald C. Wallace of Minneapolis, Minn., for the best all-around amateur station. Copyright Ly Harris & E Famous Irish tenor, John MeCor- mack. sails aboard the Leviathan. He will 'spend the summer ia Ire. land, returning to the United States in September. Copyrizht e PLANT 7 T FROM HOME OF NANCY HANKS. Representative and Mrs. William E. Wilson of Indiana assisting the Wahington Boy Scouts in planting a tree at the Lincoln Memorial Saturday. The tree was secured by the Evansville, Ind., Boy Scouts from the home of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lin- col National Photos MACDONALD WARNS :;Spring, Flame of Vivid Coloring, {PARKS CONFERENCE MOSCOW DELEGATES Lures All D. C. to Out-of-Doors, (QVERS WIDE RANGE Will Halt Conference at First Old, Young, Men, Women and Children Desert Prograin to Be Held in Gettysburg| in May to Include Many | Homes for First View of Nature at Her Lovliest : Cherryblossom Lure Breaks Record. Speakers. PRESENTS A CANE TO THE PRESIDENT. A. J. Shell of Wise countr. Virginia, came to Washington Saturday and made a trip to the White House to leave presents for the President and Secretary Slemp. Shell's ifts were Harris & Ewing. ‘5 FIREMEN INJURED WHEN TANK EXPLODES Another Is Hurt While Respond- ing to Second" Blaze in Arlington County. President Selects Committee To Foster Life in Great Outdoors Health Week Opens April 27, District Officials Declare The week of April 27 to May 3, inclusive, was proclaimed Health week by the Commis- xioners in the following procia- mation ixsued today: “Whereas the bealth of its in- habitants ix of paramount im- portance 10 the welfare of a city, and the responsibility is that of each citizen ns well ax that of the community, we, the nmissioners of the Distriet of Columbia, at the request of he Washington Council of So- cial Agenciex, herchy set aside the week of April 27 10 May 3, inciuxive, ax Health week, and next all citizens of the Dix- trict of Columbia to lend their p-operat to the movement for the proper observance of thix week. “The object of Health week ix twofold—to bring to the pub lie the knowledge of the health resourcex and needs of the city and to sponsor in the District of Columbin the program of th National IHealth Council for an annual examination ax a poxi- tive health measure for every individual in order that he the blexsings of Emphasizes Great Value of Open Air Recreation and Urgent Need of Federal Policy Of Co-ordination. Sign of Propaganda, Premier Indicates Bluntly. QUESTIONS ARE OUTLINED| pinx {lined the sp. |deep green golf 1i In were singing, frogs croaking It looks like sprin 1 do decla caid Mr. Washing*on : conquer mptation whil agrant breez bed- om Mrs. Wasl and_about, garden Miss Wash attire of 1 heliotrope and | Falls and | The program ot terngon | fourth national conference on state lon the warm rocks that line the river | parks Gettyburg, Pa., to be held b Thousands of othe sought = nd 2 411 cover a wide! the roads nearby Maryland and May sl will it pder Virgini The 16th street pike be- | FangEe th three pric onfer- . \yond Silver st as!ences, Barton Payn bad the the d | aft Autos were two or three ! ab; without a b %k anywhere ort H phrey road and the fax pike were crowded to ca- ty Far into Maryland spring 1ed to have come earlier. Wash- ington auteists found the country- side and lawns far greener than those of the District or discussion of the Thousands visited (ireat £h5ad " lolled through the sunny ribbons of cherry blossoms | s Carpets of Special Dispatch to The Star CLARENDON, Va, of a chamical tank about aced in use at a firc destroyed the home o her, at Penrose station rday morni resulted five of Arlington coun depart Clarendon responded to Deciaring yrded by our for aterways, 1 great characte — awas 50 April - 1way. soft, ab a great cha bl er over plosion be spread the tock Creek Park birds than Rakowsky Discusses Anglo-Russian Relations in Broad Way. rican Furtherin for such lass with e ks merican 2 presidern 1 John spr i neral im in this count e chance for rn Presiding | oflicers at in additic to Judge Payne will David Whit- of Seattle, Senator Peter Nor- of South Dal Dr. Henry C of Chi and Horace d of Harrisburg, Pa., pres- 1e American Civie Associa- of the Parks, pub tion’s Cational Conference e anounced tod attentic ou Ry the Associated Pres LONDON, April sian conference today when Premier MacDonald took the rtunity to warn the soviet delegates 1gains in bolshevik ganda dur or another nap o ot 2 for_amother nap. e and any was Th barely lo-Rus- s conference i from and alarm The injured Ballston and Arli ' A. C. Owen, wrenched back cuts about the hands and les Gessford, scalp wound d A. Shefr, burr rry, another Bal injured later in e on which he was response to an alarm from Falls Church struck a rut in the road throwing him against a lantern on the vehicle, receiving a cut on the or men e Cherry Arlin scented special committed f under way r to bring about all ¢ interested obje President oy s the Country ax many of our people should be our objective concerned lead must be and taken by the national s Our national government is alr cerned in mar s of it, but in un i r. In the administra- tion of national parks. national forests, wild life reserves and unreserved do- main, the government holds almost un- | limitcd opportunities for this form of ublic service. The function of the fed- eral government in the construction of highways, in the study of the.propaga- weretaries | 1o and’ protection of game animals, birds and fish, has a very decided bear- recre Sgtol S poss putteri ordinatin x tivit tion The the great increase decade of the Jor recreation spirit there an need policy of co-ordinati iso is anxious to | R L an put the outdoor sriunities within that will be separated by dis- The g enag or 1 as weil as the | ed 100 miles, thus | wealthy { ON MURDER CHARGE every night in an open park amid President is to consist of & flowers and trecs. Weeks of the War Department, Work ing upon the recreational facilit open | Declare Mrs. Eleanore Williams, Colored, Confesses Slaying of the Interior Department, Wallace to our people. Spouse With Ax. beck ta, r Cowles MacFaria ident of tion Gov. Gifford P vania will be the the closing se engaging i % ‘ in England negotiations, whi tend over many The labor prem manner after w and bluntly told would not countenar wny sort from the Ru ‘The premicer's statement was tempered and made more when he pointed out that he w propa- from departments in n had donned a fluffy should Ereen tarple or | Hundreds took to trounced off to church, |Riding parties were If there was anybody in the city [€Very park who didi’t answer the call of nature | Base Ball Park Packed. faned unofficial * census takers | Tpe pace ball park had an attend- d e d the y long | iohsliio ot ed over |ance which gladdencd the hearts of roads in the mits | the proprietor: where the hand of man has protected | But perhaps the great nature. The jam on the Speedway, |Was to be found on suc |caused by the super attraction of the | Promenades Connecticut an cherry blossoms, almost set a record. | Sachusetts avenues. Here walk There waen't . bridle path in Rock | maidens, two by two, with hats that T e \which wasn't filled with | outshone the forsythias and dresses hikers. The waiting line at the first |that made the crocuses jealous. It tee on all three public golf courses |was like a parade of shop girls on was a fearsome thing. the main strect of a mill town after | a | church on Baster morning. Here also e HIPeAT AT, | trod the lonesome and curious swains | Th were many who courted —specialists in that type of beauty ing away from the most popular | that blooms in the boudoir. haunts, There are many Spots in| The pulms on many lapels put Washington where she ogles in ob-|tone of religious coloring into seurity, One of these is the new |crowds. { park recently donated to the | Otherwise the day might have been | District by Charles C. Glover along | mistaken for Haster. | Ioundry run, now a glorious flood- | It should perhaps be reported, lest 1 the confer. | tide of dogwood. Hundreds of au-|injustice be donc the record of Wash- ed the confer- | ought this rural retreat yes- |ington, that the churches were packed at both morning and evening services gt s thei the saddle. numerous in < gton weeks of last Pennsyi- principal speaker n on M 8. The of the conference is realiza ‘hot hear, ABsm head; Ch: W. Broo Robert B man, was when the riding in oming th his provaganda 1 visitors somewhat them overnment 5 of | o those attraction ine the | ccted by acceptable s not de- ussians he s political ORDER WOULD HALT BONDSMEN RUNNERS Measure Before Oyster Designed to Prevent Practice Now Employed Here. manding anything from the would net demand from a mission v z this country made it very p Rukovsky and the other Russi gates that at the first indic shevik propaganda method: he as a veteran socialist is very a halt in the Anglo-Russian ne would be called. a of the Agricultwre Department and Has Diversified Control. in to M The premicr tion of bol- | 1P = with which familiar, ations al the | te roads, Police of the fourth precinct yes and terday found the mutilated body of | James Williams, colored, forty-two years old, in his residence at 908 Desmond court southwest, and Outline of Work. mpfire Girls, athietic with a view to general in plans for increased ope ties among the people Mr. Coolidge unnounced Mr. Mack emce together at the foreign office, where the delegates will strive to reach a set- tlement of the outstanding question onald, who c the partment. The proposal is | which cuused a damage estimated ut tment this afternoon. It was ar- | the biological survey. the bureaus of i the Boy Scouts. the Girl Scouts, other like agenci 4 | tions that finpinge on this question—for | 165 KD oo was put forward | fostered by state, municipal and private | $2,000. | s chenn s FORT MONROE HOTEL wnged to Open COrTesponc h plants, public rouds and others. | clubs, ample, the various sportsme Hoover of the merce Department neck. The apparatus was en route to 3 b Gictial s | a fire in the barns of H. E. Hoylane and A coretary Tovsevelt ¢ it ment, cattinee tecvensin x| %070 1 s of H. 12 Hoylan ARl o agencie al bureaus—the na- | The committee it the War De- | tional service, the forest lonce with all state, munic s in many of the . | commissions | | There are als civilian organiza- | i -ope ir activi- n's asso- ntaining hundreds of thou-| WAr and spread through | Department Favorable to An order designed to prevent appoint- | e > tween the two cou joined with M. Rakovsky, head of the soviet delegation, in outlining the work to be The British prime n plained that the meetin ome of the note \Minister Tchitcherin Russia recognition de jur ference, he said, was'a of that act and in nowise altered the st that the recognition which had -n granted was unqualified. granting soviet The con- Liquidation of Paxt. of the past two countries, the had to be considered. relations of The liquidation rela- tionship of the premier stated as well as the peaceful the future M. Rakovsky Donald's welco was translated sed Anglo-Ru even broader lines ish prime minister. ~pokesman laid stréss upon the theme f the future peace of Europe and nes sity for disarmament, inci- ntally referring sympathetically to league of natio He assured British that Russia desired close financial and commercial relations with this country N B All the outstanding questions, in- luding the debt question, he id, must be secttled and the old treaties revised. M. Rakovsky and Arthur Ponsonby, undersecretary for foreign affair: who .as vice president of the confer- ‘nce will act as substitute for Pre- mier MacDonlad, agreed to arrange the agenda this afternoon in private sessfon. Thereafter the public will be replying to Mr Mac- \ing _address, which into Russian, discus- n. relations along s 'than did the Brit- The Russian complement | th the confer- only through the communiques ssued Lo the press. Two Sets of Instructions, According to the Daily Telegraph the soviet delegation has two sets of instructions, one, of a formal nature, from the Moscow government, and the other from the communist inter- national. The latter, the paper says, stresses among other things that no must be concluded unless very | soviets, but that| effort be made to strengthen isting ties between Moscow and | ommunist organization in Great stated from the same Source the communist international warned the delegates that the Brit- ish police were not to be trusted, and that, while asking protection against counter revolutionaries, the delegates should themselves organize a guard of their communist friends. The policemen detailed to safeguard the members of the delegation while {in London, according to the Daily Mail, recently were engaged in track- ing down bolshevist propagandists here | Police on Guard. | Police were posted throughout the { Whitehall district and the vieinity of Downing street, where the confer- ence began. A memorandum has been sent to the premier by a number of leading Lon- don bankers, ratting forth the con- A ditions under which, in taeir opinion, Russia’s credit can be restored. [h Times says the memorandum “is lucid apd irrefutable and should greatly strengthen the hands of the xovernment in the difficult negotia- tions." The labor Daily Herald calls the memorandum, “astonishing,” and de- clares that ‘“‘publication of such docu- ment at such a moment is obviously intended to embarrass the govern- ment.” The banker's conditions in- clude, in addition to the recognition of public and private debts, the res- | titution of the private property of foreigners, and the cessation of anti- | foreign propaganda. = - CALLS WOMAN’S PARLEY. Committee Seeks to Stimulate In- terest in Politics. The woman's committee for political action recently organized here has called a national conference of women of all parties to take place in Wash- ington, May § to 11. There are two objects of the con- ference, according to the committee. To stimulate women to creative abilty in politics and to afford a medium through join in the progressive movement. The following are members of the | advisory board of the committee: Carrie Chapman Catt. New York; Ida Clyde Clarke. New York: Zona Gale, Wisconsin; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, New York, and Julla Marlowe, New ork, which women can | {bondsmen employing so-called “run- |ners” to visit police stations to ar- range for the release of prisoners is before Commissioner Oyster for approval. As soon as he passes on it copies will Le sent to all captains. In substance, the order provides that prisoners shall only be inter- viewed by duly qualified bondsmen or by agents of bonding companies clothed with power of attorney to sign bonds. The order reminds captains that {there is no intention of depriving prisoners of the right to consu't re atives or attorne; This right, the order states, shall at all accorded. ““The object is that only duly qual- ified bondsmen, and not runners, shall be the persons permitted to interview prisoners in connection with the application for bonds." X-RAY EXPERT TO TALK. ‘Women to See Slides in Final Can- cer Lecture. Dr. E. A. Merritt, director of the X-ray laboratory at Garfield Hospital, is to be the speaker at the Women's City Club tomorrow night at a meet- ing which will conclude the cam- paign of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Dr. Merritt will illustrate his talk on cancer control with slides devel- oped in_his work. The public is in- vited. Dr, A. Frances Foye will pre- side. precinct | | times be | body wi | i rested Mrs. Eleanore Williams, his wife, who told the officers she killed him with an ax Friday in self-aefense. The woman declared that she and her husband had a disagreement last Thursday and the following morning she went to Police Court to get a warrant for his arrest. A neighbor told the man of the wife's action, and when she returned home, she told the police, he attacked her. She struck him with an ax, knocking him on the bed, and fearing he would get up and renew the attack, her story continued, she dealt additional blows. The taken to the morgue, where an inquest was to have hean held this afternoon. The woman is being held at the fourth precinct station. SMITH YB_OOM FORESEEN. ‘Will Be Launched at State Con- vention, Report Says. ALBANY, N. Y.. April 14.—Indications that @ strong presidential boom for Gov. Smith will be launched at the democratic state convention hers tomorrow were given today in pre-convention talk at the capitol D. Cady Herrick of New York. as temporary chairman of the convention, is expected to make some reference to the official democratic attitude toward the Smith boom. Gov. Smith himself will say nothing regarding either the prospective boom or the talk which he is to give at the gonvention. state: the campfire associations. nd Girl Scouts, the conserva- | aps and thousands of others n order to handle this matter prop erly, to adjust the widely separated viewpoints and interlock the interests concerned efficiently, there should be u | definite and clearly preseribed nationai policy. The whole matter, being nation- wide in its scope, demands such han- dling. The object to be secured should, therefore, be to promulgate national | policy, which should not merely co-ordi- | nate under federal guidance all activi- ties in behalf of outdoor recreation, but{ also formulate a program to serve as a | guide for future action.’ ment of the committer in Istatement, which said “Particularly within the the outdoor recreation spirit among our people has increased rapidly. During this period there have been put forward projects—federal, mu- | Ricipal, State and private—to expand and conserve throughout the coun- try our recreational opportunities. It almost idle to emphasize their value to the countr: The physical igor, moral strength, and clean sim- | plicity of mind of the American peo- |ple can be immeasurably furthered ! formal | |t st decade, | | | by the properly developed opportu- n’ties for the life in the open, af- | DEBT STATUS HELD | NOT OPEN TO CHANGE i i |U. S. Indicates It Will Oppose Move to Reduce Position as Creditor. | tions in which it was revealed that the | | kingdom will be unable at present to| | arrange for refunding its debt of $61,- | 587,136 to this government, on account i of “economic and financial conditions.” The mission left without making further headway than to state its position and carry with it a letter setting forth the American view. Iceberg Mile Long Sighted. NEW YORK, April 14—Passen- | gers on the liner Nieuw Amsterdam, which arrived yesterday from Rotter- | dam, told of having sighted, off Cape Race, an iceberg more than a mile long, and with two towering pinnacles 200 feet high. The United States coast guard cutter Modoc of the in- ence with the kingdom iof the Herbs,) Sinational ice patrol, was tralling Croats ana Slovenes, whose debt com- the berg and regularly reporting its mission has just domcluded megotia- position to ships, The American government has in- dicated it expects no debtor power to take action which “will result in plac- ing the United States in a less favor- able position as a, creditor than that which it now occupies. This was made plain in_correspond- | by the department July i Erection of $1,000,000 Struc- ture on Historic Site. The Old Point Comfort Hotel Com pany has applied to the War Depari- | ment for permission to erect a hotel, to cost not less than $1,000,000, at Fort Monroe, Va., on the site of the historic Chamberlin Hotel, destroyed by fire several years ago. ~ The company has been informed that the department favors the erec tion of a hotel on the reservation and will open the privilege to general competition. Notice has been given that bids for necessary license will be received Under the is author in question purposes for a period of th law the Secretary of W ized to lease the propert for hotel fifty years, RAISE ON NEW HAVEN. Higher Pay Granted Firemen and Engineers. NEW HAV] Conn., April 14 The New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad has reached an agree- ment with the grand officers and com- mittees representing the engineer: and firemen whereby the road grants a 5 per cent increase in wages and certain modifications of the workingz rules, based on the settlement reached Saturday on the New York Central road, it was learned last night. ' .