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“From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone . National 5000 to start immediate delivery. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forscast.) and this , colder 48, at 2 pm. lowest, 5, at 8 am. yes- mn'npunnma . No. 1355—No. 31,722, ROOSEVELT,ASVET, MAY RUN AGKNST HOOVER, DRY, V'3 But Both Parties May Shun| Positive Stand on Liquor in Campaign. SMITH-RASKOB PLAN OPPOSED BY LEADERS G. 0. P. Hopes for Minority Split on Issue—Capper Forecasts Re-election. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Fifteen months in advance of the Re- publican and Democratic National Con- ventions, it looks like a race between President Hoover and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for thg- presi- dency. Hoover will be regarded as the dry candidate and Roosevelt as the wet.|, ‘However, the Republican party platform will go no further than a declaration for law enforcement, in all probability, and the Democratic platform—uniess there 4is a tremendous sweep in the interim toward the wet side—will ‘be neutral on prohibition, or at most suggest ‘wisdom of resubmitting the eighteenth amendment to the 3 ld Not Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democratic National Comimttee one Del , whete e are wet, last night: “I am not in favor of making national ;:.hmuan a national issue at this time. country is not ready for ir.” ‘Wet Cause Mast Gain. further in strength catic National Convention in 1832, the ‘Th itic | the and unemployment. He said that it was an indication that a great body of inde- pendent voters ‘in_this country side usually with the Republican party. Predicts Hoover's Re-election, “They belicve,” said Senator Ca 2 “that the country is better govemm the Republicans than by the Democrats. I have no hestitation in saying that President Hoo':. will be renominated lfl; ;:udu: he 1.1 b): re-elected.” ust as many ol the dry Democrats today admit that Gov. Roosevelt. 4 wet, is out in the lead today for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination, so most of the wets in the Republican see no chance of heading off ent Hoover. Furthermore, they will sup- port him when it comes to the election campaign, as the dry Democrats will support_Gov. Rooseveit. The Democrats are intent upon em- | z.hnum'. if they can, the economic | ues, including tariff, water power and | particularly the depression in business and unemployment that has existed and continues to exist. That is, all those Democrats who do not follow Raskob | and Smith in this matter of making | prohibition the major issue. Gov, Roosevelt has gone along with this idea of emphasizing econcmic issues. Thereby he has gained still further commanding position for the Dem cratic nomination. He is in the saddle at present in New York Democratic politics He is well liked in many of the Southern States where D:mocratic | Jeaders are satisfied he will not em- issue. At the " (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) % POLITIC AT PARLEY i Senator La Follette Explains| n Entered as second class matter post office, ‘Vashington, Aerial Maneuvers Here to Be Curbed By Poor Facilities Only One Section of Near-| ly 700 Planes Will Be Based in D. C. Lack of adequate ' airport facilities in the National Capital is going to rob this city of a large part of one of the greatest aviation demonstrations ever held in the United States. When the | mightiest military air force assembled in this country, totaling nearly 700 planes of all types, completes more than two weeks of field maneuvers to test the country's aerial defenses next May, less than one-fourth of the great air force will be able to base here. It had been hoped that the entire force, organized as the first air division ever assembled in the United States, would be able to visit the Capital for three days, including Memorial day, as the closing event in the maneuvers. Study of the local facilities, however, has forced the Air Corps to break up the division into four portions, only one of which will be based in the Capital. This unit will be based at Bolling Field and will include division headquarters detachment, the 1st Pur- suit Wing and press and photographic planes totaling about 160 planes. Other units are to be assigned as ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PROGRESSIVES BAN Program in Radio Forum Address. Progressives of both political parties are meeting here next Wednesday and Thursday, not to form a third party, but to lay plans for correcting legisla- Radio Forum, arranged by The Star and broadcast over a nation-wide radio net- work of the Columbia Broadcasting mmn%. he stated, is not to be “even a itical conference in the ey ovara.ihe formulation of 8 son: & the formul of a con- structive legislative program to be pre- %’Ml ‘gor at ;r‘:nmxt ses- “round tables” ent and m-ld the “sounder economic planning” and to the it distress and thel of future inability to find a liveli- 113!!1:-. he said, lt\;ve “escaped attempts pose upon them an eco- nomically sound public control.” The conferees will consider means of estab- lishing effective control or of setting up alternative methods of Government operation. Agriculture, suffering from “almost constant since the close of umn: war,” must be relubfl;u&d = that purchasing power of e farmer can be ruwm{ the radio audience was advised. Tariff Law Scored. e Progressive leader characterized Hawley-Smoot tariff as “the pro- tective tariff policy fun mad.” A tariff policy that will maintain justly eco- omic needs of the country is needed, he Senator La Follette criticized what he termed the “growing executive and ju- during the past dicial usurpation”* decade. “The record of the last Congress— and, for that matter, of many pre- ceding Congresses and administrations —shows that little has been done to solve these problems,” the Senator stated. “Unless we succeed in formu- Jating a conav.rucuvafl!)mum, there is no hope that more will be done by the next_Congress. “This program must be definite and specific, for we cannot cope with tre- mendous economic problems with catch words or with vague panaceas. It is, therefore, our earnest hope that next week's conference will result in clari- fying our objectives and in laying the foundation for formulating sufficiently detailed measures to_challenge the in- (Continued on Page 3, Column 7. MITCHELL FORCED DOWN Attorney General and Son on Air Trip South. SAVANNAH, Ga., March 7 (#).— United States Attorney General William D. Mitchell and his son, Bancroft Mitch- ell, landed at the municipal airport to- day when the trimotored Naval plane in they were traveling countered squally weather. The plane is piloted by Lieut. W. M. glllon and Lieut. P. M. Trapnell, Navy yers. | . Mitchell said, he was “going South for a few days” He indicated his trip would be resumed when th: weather permitted, ARMED AND MASKED BANDIT ROBS ADMIRAL H. V. BUTLER IN GARAGE Recently Appointed Commarndant of Navy Yard Gives Up Pocketbook at Point of Gun. Rear Admiral H. V. Butler, who will ‘become commandant of the Wi - ton Navy Yard next month, was up and robbed of $10 by an armed and masked bandit Jast night. The hold-up occurred in an the rear of the admiral’s home, Q street. Admiral Butler had just D\ltbhchk car ‘The bandit, instead of flecing, ordered the to “beat it.” He kept his istol at his victim until the itter reached the end of the alley. Admiral Butler ran around the block and into his home, where he telephoned headquarters. News of the rob- bery was brosdcast and, within a few minutes, radio-equipped automobiles the | bearing & half-dozen or more policemen reached the admiral’s home. Admiral Butler gave police a detailed description of the bandit. Despite the fact man wore a mask, the admiral “dtl'l‘;‘ he was confident he could Police searched the neighborhood, but no trace of the robber was found. h Mr. Mitchell reported to the Presi-| | ganization. he WASHINGTON HOOVER WILL VETO WAGNER WORK BILL CALLING IT FAILURE Executive Says Measure Will Not Help in Emergency and May Do Damage. DOAK TO BE INSTRUCTED TO WORK OUT NEW PLAN President Holds New Yorker’s Pro- posal Would Destroy Present Employment Service. President Hoover announced in a | statement made public last night that | he would give a pocket-veto to the so-called Wagner bill for improvement of public employment agencies. In Mr. Hoover's opinion this legisla- tion would be a serious blow to labor during the present crisis. However, he stated that he would ask the Secretary of Labor to co-operate with the various interested organizations to draft a plan for presentation to the next session of Congress which will avoid the difi- culties presented by the Wagner bill. This bill introduced by Senator ‘Wagner, Democrat, of New York, was passed during the closing days of Con- s5. ‘"M:r, Hoover, in his statement explain- ing his objections to this legislation, said he had very earnestly studied it in | an effort to find a method to make it | of use in the prescnt employment situa- tion. He found that it would not be helpful principally because it abolished the Who?! of the well developed Federal | Employment Service and would set up | an entirely new plan by subsidies to the States from the Federal Treasury. Long Delay Is Seen, The President very frankly explained that even were there no other objections to the Wagner bill plan, it could not be made effective for many months or even years. By way of illustrating this the President added, “it is not only changing horses while crossing a stream, but the other horse would not arrive for many months. This situation alone required that legislation be deferred, as 1t will not hel, emergency, but will do_great dama; Mr. Hoover attached to his public statement the adverse views of Attorney General Mitchell and Secretary of Labor Doak. The views of the Attorney Ge were to the effect that l: this bill neral 1 new service along new lines. Mr. Mitchell added, “that months must elapse before substantial progress could be made in setting up the new service. ‘The State authorities would have to be consulted, the action of State Legisla- tures awaited, and when some progress had been made in setting up new ncies to ald employment, the re- strictive provisions of this act such as that for apportionment of funds, would deprive the system of flexibility and hamper efficient action in the present emergency.” Blow to Present Service. i | i dent also that it is obvious that the act by its terms would have th effect at this time, when labor is in greatest need of assistance, of destroying the employment service now being main- tained in the Department of Labor and making it impossible for months to! come to replace it with a working or- In his adverse report to the Presi- dent, Secretary of Labor Doak said this bill seeks to destroy the present Federal Em&loymem Service by substituting Federal subsidies to the 48 States for conduct of separate agencies based upon population, not upon need. Moreover, he reported that the bill destroys the interstate phase of service to labor movement, submits labor to the idiosyn- cracies of State politics and gains noth- ing for the worker. . The President’s statement contain- ing his disapproval of the Wagner bill follows in 1ull: “1 have given earnest study to the so-called Wagner bill for improvement of public employment agencies, in an effort to find a method to make it of use in the present employment aitua- tion. I find upon study, however, that if I _would prevent a serious blow to H TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Local, National Poreign. Educational News—Page B-4. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. American _Legion—Page 6. Army and Navy News—Page 6. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 6. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Soclety Section. PART FOUR—12 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation—Page 5. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— and | Screen | N age 7. | Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 7. [ Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 7. | Praternities—Page 8. i1 News of the Clubs—Page 9. | Organized Reserves—Page 9. | Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 10. ID. A. R. Activities—Page 10. | Radio—Page 11. iSerial Story, “Manhattan Night” { Page 12. | At Community Centers—Page 12. PART FIVE—6 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Pinancial News and Classified Adver. tising. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Section. Art and Artists—Page 19. In the Music World—Page 20. Reviews of the New Books—Page 21. | Cross-word Puzzie—Page 22. GRAPHIC SECTION—$ PAGES. Worla Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins; ._and Mrs.; Mutt and Jefl; Reg'lar Fellers; Little Or- phan Annie; Brutus; the - { tlon 2 WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Sundiny Star, . D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1931—116 PAGES. ## (M NOT ASKING You ToDO ANYTHING, BuT LooK £ VIEWING THE PROMISED TAND! WIFEDIESINLEAP AS MATE RETURNS Mt. Rainier Man, Who Hus-i band Says Left Durham | Hotel Room, Is Held. By Ahe Associated Press. DURHAM, N. C, March 7.—Mrs. Trucie Daniels, 46-year-old mother, leaped to her death from ine tenth floor of a 1 hotel early today when her hushand, returning from - business trip, found a man leaving her room. Police sald there was no doubt ner death was a suicide. The other man, identified as C. B. Calvert, a Mount Rainier, Md., attorney, was charged with violating the State hotel law. Calvert was known here as the special master appointed in connec- receivership proceedings , issued tement, saying he saw Calvert his wife’s room rhortly after 2 m . He said he told his wife there was nothing ieft for them to do but separate, and left the room. A few minutes later he heard the crash of her body on the roof of a ball room | adjoining the hotel proper. It was clothed only in a green night gown. Mrs, Daniels’ body was seni to her home at Nashville, Tenn,, today. One | of her sons is a Raleigh phctcgrapher | and thé other is a student of photog- | .r:&hy in Illinois. Daniels is a traveling sman. Calvert Takes Blame. By the Associated Press. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., March 7 (#) —C. B. Calvert, named in connection with the suicide of Mrs. Trucie Daniel at Durham today, was here tonight en ;g:(e to his home in Mount Rainier, Apparently grief-stricken, he was re- luctant to discuss the tragedy. “There is & woman involved,” he said, “and there is nothing I can say save that the fault was mine. My work was finished, my report filed, and I just al- lowed myself to drift.” Calvert referred to his work as spe- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) s 4,000 EXTRA POLICE GUARDING NEW YORK Night Force Augmented to Rid City of Banditry—Chain Stores Watched. By the Assoclated Pres NEW YORK, March 7.—Four thou- sand extra policemen augmented the regular Saturday night force of 6,000 men guarding the city tonight in con- tinuation of Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney’s drive to stamp out banditry. Last Saturday night 18,500 men patrolled the streets of the five boroughs, but the commissioner found he duties of many of these men over- lapped. ‘The 10,000 policemen tonight were aided by 600 patrol cars and 200 motor cycles. Chain stores and other likely | books themselves. establishments for hold-ups were closely guarded. Thirteenth Street Flooded by Broken Main at Park Road Several blocks in the vielnity of Thirteenth and Park road were flooded under a foot of running water early this morning. when a water main broke at the street in- tersection. Within a few minutes complaints of flooded basements were being received from home owners, especially at Thirteenth and Lamont streets. Half an hour after the main had broken Thirteenth street was under water for two blocks south and the water was over the side- walks on Park road for a block i west Police were forced to de- tour traffic around the flooded area, An emergency crew from the water department was called out at about-1:30 o'clock this morn- ing, but it was not believed that the break would be brought under control for several hours. - SCHOOL FARE SALES HIT ANOTHER SNAG { 1 |Requirement of Teachers’j Signature Termed “Non- sense” by Officials. Characterizing the procedure as “non- | sense,” school officials ‘'stated yesterday that after the first week they would re- fuse to comply with a request by the Public Utilities Commission that teach- ers be instructed to sign all 3-cent fare ticket books to be purchased by school children. Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent cf schools, said that the teachers would be Tequired to sign the ticket books during the first week of the low fare use “simply to prevent further delay in getting the 3-cent fare going.” Demand Made Friday. After that, he declared, “such non- sense” will not be tolerated. According to Mr. Kramer, the Public Utilities Commission notified the schcol officers late Friday, after complete statement of the 3-cent fare adminis- tration had been sent out to the school field officers, that in addition to requi ing teachers to sign every single appli- cation for books of tickets, its regult tions would demand that the teachers also affix their signatures to the ticket This double signa- ture would be required for every fare book transaction ‘whether the tickets are bought in 10-ticket books or 40- ticket books. Incensed over what he considered a | waste of time and unnecessary red tape, Mr. Kramer telephoned the Utilities Commission on receipt of that latest requirement, ‘asking for explanations. Earl V. Fisher, executive secretary for the commission, subsequently visited the school offices in the Franklin Ad- ministration, where he defended the lengthy procedure. Mr. Kramer asked why the presentation of countersigned identification cards, which he said the school tem was willing to r-ovide ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Real American Army Begins To Fight / First-hand account of participation by independent U. S. force in decisive battles of the Great War told this week by the A. E. F. GENERAL Exclusively in The Evening Star Pershing Formally Takes Army. Preparations for St. Mihiel Offensive Begun. Concentrating Half a Million Men. o “No peace until Germany is completely crushed, Pershing tells Foch. St. Mihiel Transferred to American Command. Last-minute Move by Foch to Break Up Independent U. S. Army. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE STAR TODAY. DON'T MISS A SINGLE INSTALLMENT OF THIS GRAPHIC STORY. ; sty il Commander-in-Chief— PERSHING Command of First U. S. QUMES, STORMS * BATIER AT EARTH |Snow Mantles Prairie States as Dixie Shivers in Winds Following Rain. By the Associated Press. | The globe was battered from within and without yesterday by storms, rag- ing rivers and earthquakes. Mariners over much of the Atlantic called up all their skill to fight danger- | ous gales. Storms raged in the North | Bea, flooding flat lands along the Eng- lish coast and imperiling ships. In the United States a blizzard swept the Prairje States and the Great Lakes region, blocking highways, snapping poles and slowing traffic of all kinds. Snow covered much of the northwest winds, swept down into more to come. warned shipping capes to Jacksonville, Fla. Peasants trembled as earth shocks demolished buildings in Bulgaria, Jugo- slavia, Greece and South Siberia. In 8:rbia a shepherd and 200 of his eheep died in a mountain slide. Il-te. with railbeds damaged in many cases. In Prance the Seine, Marne and other rivers overflowed as rccent rains and snows rushed toward the sea. The strests of Ile St. Louis were running streams. Th: Rheims territory was menaced, whil> ‘deep water cut off the highway - connecting St. Remy and | Moncetz. GULF CROPS THREATENED. | Cold Wave From Rackies Is Menace to Farmers. NEW ORLEANS, March 7 (#)— Drought farmers in the Gulf Coast States shivered in relief today as wintry windstorms cleared skies that had drenched the clodded earth. Around Fayetteville, Ark., however, sev- eral inches of snow gave promise of damaging budding fruit and early vegetation. The storm tore down three buildings |and a disturbance centered near Bos- sler City, Northwest Louisiana, killed a cow and lowered the temperature to a degree that may menace young crops. Cold Wave From Rockies. The entire South fell into the grip of | the cold wave from the Rockies. It | was preceded by a general rain last night, averaging an inch. The Valley | States were blanketed with snow, which extended into Arkansas. The prediction was for frost as far south as | the Gulf Coast tonight and in North- west Florida if the high winds subside. ‘The Mississippi Delta farm agents | looked for no serious damage-to young 'BOY.SLASHED BY MAN THOUGHT INCENDIARY Barn Burns to Ground, With Loss Set at $6,000—Police Seek Youth's Attacker. | Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Running to his father’ flames of a second incendiary fire in five hours on the farm broke out last night, Melvin Wheeler, 14 years old, Colesville, Md., was attacked with a knife by an unidentified colored man believed to have fired the barn. ‘Wheeler broke away after his cloth- ing bad been slashed, the knife grazing his ribs, and ran for a shotgun, but the colored man escaped. ‘The barn was burned to the ground with a loss of $6,000, the blaze, visible for miles, attracting hundreds of spec- tators to_the scene from neighboring towns. Piremen from Silver Sprin Kensington and ' Sandy Spring wer from spreading to the house, close by, only after a hard battle. A number of cattle and a horse were saved from the barx, but all the other contents were oyed. Earlier in the day a corn house was set afire in another part of the Wheeler property. Last night young Wheeler noticed flames coming from the barn and, without waiting to call his father. Harry Wheeler, ran to the barn. colored man, knife in hand, attacked him as he neared the burning structure. Montgomery County Policemen Charles Barnes and George Windham began an inve tion of the case and sent out a “lookout” for the colored man, who was fully described by the boy. The police were forced to establish fire lines during the fire to keep back the crowd. Wit ‘The Wheeler house was burned to the ground two years ago. of | able ‘Throughout the Balkans trains were | ‘The | six miles up a steep path to a high TRAFFIC LAWS DUE FOR OVERHAULING UNDER NEW REGIME Officials to Study Changes! ment Is Created. TITLING OF MOTOR CARS FAR-REACHING REFORM Fifteen Additional Employes to Be Selected—O01d Left Turn to Be Restored. + The Co-ordinating Committee recom- mended by the Traffic Advisory Couneil | will soon be put to work by the District | Commissioners to draft a set of traffic | regulations to be promulgated by the | District Commissioners after the new traffic law goes into effect next July 1. As ¢ ended by the council, the committee would consist of representa- tives from the Department of Vehicles .and ‘Traffic, the Highway Department, the Police Department, the Public Utilities Commission, the corporation counsel’s office and the office of the director of Public Buildings and Public Parks. As yet, there is no department of vehicles and traffic, but a repre- sentative of the present traffic organi- zation is expected to sit in with the | committee drafting the new tions. Drafting of regulations for titling of motor vehicles under the terms of the new law, selection of additional per- sonnel for the new decpartment of } vehicles and traffic, and designation of | the special parking spaces for official use adjacent to Federal -buildings de- manded by the new act are other activities that will get underway soon in preparation for the District’s new deal in traffic matters. Will Add to Force. Fifteen additional employes are to bz selected for the new department. These include the executive engineer, to bave charge of the new department; seven chxckers, who will work in the field, making traffic counts and report- ing on traffic conditions generally, and additional help in the way of office engineers, clerks, stenographers and typists. All of thtse, with the possible exception of the executive engineer, ;m.l be :h:;alm:ma !].luu of eligibles urnishe vil Service » mission, | i o 2 S v jwi T section 6, of tbe mew act, which “mm_pnm ers to “maks, madify, re- peal and enforce usual and reason- - tions cone hicles, and the issuance and revocation, and to exercise any power or perfc any duty imposed on the director of traffic, which office is hereby abolished.” The present situation is that the trafic director has power to initiate traffic regulations and that unless he does so the Commissioners are powerless to put any regulation into effect. One of the regulations considered as certain to b> adopted is a return to the old system of making left turns, instead of the present rotary turn.| This is one of the regulations in the model municipal ordinances recom- mendzd by the Traffic Advisory Coun- cil. It is not expected that there will be any other ra changes, at least at first. | Three Agencies Cited. The set-up of the new traffic or- ganization as recommended by Dr. Miller McClintock, ‘Harvard University traffic sprcialist, puts three agencies under the District Commissioners. ‘There is the Traffic Advisory Council, consisting of the executive engineer of the department of vehicles and traffic, and 12 representative citizens. Then ccmes the department itself, under the executive engineer, and then the co- ordinating committee ref:rred to above. Under the executive engineer there are four main divisions — engineering studies -and plans; operators licenses; registration, title and financial respon- sibility, and installation and mainte- nance of signs and signals. One of these functions, that of financial responsi- bility, will not be exercised at this time, since Congress did not pass legis- lation affecting the financial responsi- bility of automobile drivers. There was pending before it the so-called safety responsibility bill, but this failed of enactment. The most far-reaching of the new departures will be the organization hav- ing.to do with the registration of titles of motor vehicles, Commissioner Her- bert B. Crosby. who has executive con- trol over the District’s traffic matters, said that the District had the reputa- tion of being a mecca of stolen automo- biles, owing to the absence of any such law being passed. Of the 120,000 au- tomobiles registered in the city, there are many which have ‘identification numbers filed off, Commissioner Cros- by said, and are otherwise of doubt- ful ewnership. Owners of all cars must satisfy the new department of a | title | | i clear title before the certificate of will be issued. May Check Up Cars. | It has been suggested that before | the certificates are issued some check of the mechanical condition of the car be made and that no car be registered (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Man Charged With Unlocking Jail ANDERSON, S. C., March 7 (#).— Newton Orr was arrested here today and charged with unlocking all the cells in the cdunty jail while intoxicated. Five prisoners, held on minor. charges, escaped. ®) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS EN CENTS |T ELSEWHERE NEW APARTMENTS 10 BE RAZED FOR WAR-NAVY OFFICES Three Large Buildings on ! Due July 1 When Depart- | Land Selected for Govern- ment Structures. SITE OPENS NEW AREA IN MALL DEVELOPMENT Triangle Now Occupied by Other Smaller Houses and Gas Station, Development of the new area west of the White House to match up with the public building program on the Mall triangle, east of the President's home to the Capitol was announced by the Public Buildings Commission yes- terday. Definite location of the new War and Navy group somewhere in the triangle, west of Eighteenth street to Twenty- third street between New York avenue and B street, now Constitution avenue, was fixed by Senator Smoot, chair. man of the commission, and Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the commission, following months of study of several gefieral areas. The exact squares on which the War- Navy group will be erected depends upon architectural studies, started z the supervising architect’s office as the best arrangement of the group to meet space requi ts of these two dzfiqnmenu in the area selected, which will probably be north of Comstitution avenue _between Eighteenth and ‘Twenty-first streets. Houses to Be Rased. Three apartment houses of recent that this structure is of a that will it in with the Government ?‘lfldmmulfl'fllmhdfi- urbed. $3,200,000 to be spent in re- modeling ‘and extending the Naval Hos- p'x::thhIch-dlotnlmwuth Members of the commission ®fd other Ouv!momul officials said last mtmzmwmda owned land to be taken and w ity amamtbmwfi control (Continued on Page 2, BOMB EPIDEMIC AROUSES HAVANA 140 Blasts Include Attempts to Kill Machado and Senator. BY the Associated Press. HAVANA, March 7.—With more than two score bombings in the last forts night, the Cuban government is direct- ing every effort to stamp out these oc- currences. Ranging from small firecracker affairs called by the Cubans “petardos,” because of their ineffectiveness, to large bombs capable of doing considerable d ] the explosions, which punctuate n s regularly as a clock, bave the National Police System—famed for its efficiency—hot after the property damage has run into many thousan of dollars. g - Dozens of arrests have been made, but the police thus far apparently have not been able to get at the bottom of the bombing ring. ) After a long series of minor bombings in theaters and night clubs the placers of infernal machines undertook a more serious program, The Union Club, headed by President Machado, was blasted, and shortly after- ward the main aqueduct of Havana was damaged. Then came a succession of harmless explosions occurring principally 2t street intersections. The bombers finally invaded the presidential palace, attempting to assassinate ~President Machado with a dynamite-filled In the past two days there have 11_bombings in Havana. Still another bombing occurred today. An explosive which was set off in the rear of the home of Senator Wilfredo Fernandez, Reina and Escobar streets, practically wrecked the building. Senator Fernandez is a prominent Liberal and strong supporter of Presi- dent Machado. WALKER TO TAKE REST New York City Mayor Ready for Trip to California. NEW_ YORK, March 7 (#)—Mayor James J. Walker will leave at 5-0'clock tomorrow afternoon for California to rest. On the advice of physicians he X"'m“"' return until the middle of pril. Walker will spend most of his time on the Palm Springs estate of Samuel Untermyer. He is traveling westward with Mr. and Mrs. Abraham C. Blumenthal. Blumenthal is a real estate buyer for the Fox Film interests. SLAIN VETERAN BURIED ON PEAK; CARRY COFFIN 6 MILES ON FOOT Friends Expect Bitter Legal Battle Over Death of Edward Burracker in Virginia. called and were able to save the fire)" Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va., mountain ridge, mourning relatives and neighbors today bore the coffin contain- ing the remains of Edward Burracker, whose lifeless was found by a mountain to rest in beaten ittle clear! leral of the 36-year-o an who died of sHotg hose murder has resulted 4n of two hostile camps tain folk, was held from his mountain top. g:flzbors and the curious attended the bored up almost precipi fastness” with thelr dead the mourners followsd home near Skyland, and his coffin 'wi March 7.—Struggling | carried mountain a truck, from which it was taken and to the foot of the carried to the grave prepared on the A of relatives, In relays sturdy mountain men la- burden as in stumbling any halts for rest were made crest of

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