Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1931, Page 2

"R_2 15 T0SETREGORD FORDAY S BUSNESS $3,000,000,000 to Be Re- i ceived or Expended by * Treasury Tomorrow. By the Aseocinted Pross. ‘More than $3,000,000,000 will be re- celiel or expended by the Treasury tomorrow in the largest Government finanoial transaction since the World war,§ At that time $2,095,261,150 will be received and $1,139,000,000 paid out as the result of income tax receipts and | the sale of bonds and certificates of indebtedness to retire Treasury obliga- tions. Payments for the first quarter of 1930 income taxes are Que tomorrow and . Treasury officials expected them to total $525,000,000. For the corre- sponding period last year the amount ‘was '$628,000,000. A reduction this year is expected on account of the business depression al- though the tax rate is 1 per cent larger than last year on personal incomes, A cut in the rate for 1929 incomes was not continued by Congress. Money Raising Plans. ‘The Treasury will sell $1,510,261,150 in -securities tomorrow but actually will receive $660,193,650 less than that amount in money. All of $594,193,650 | in 12-year 3% per cent bonds and $72,482,500 in Treasury certificates of indebtedness will in effect be traded for that amount of maturing 31, per . @ent Treasury notes. One issue of certificates for one year, fotaling $623,891,500, and bearing 2 p nt interest, will be sold and the pro- eds us>d to retire the remainder of $he $1,109,000,000 of Treasury notes. < Another issue of certificates for six fhonths, bearing 1's per cent interest, wil provide $300,176,000 in cash to mieet payments on the additional loans @n the veterans' compensation certifi- eates. © In addition, the Treasury will pay 0,000,000 interest on the public debt. + Officials will watch the income tax feceipts closely in an effort to determine How much deficit the Governmeént will Have at the close of the present, or 1831, year, on next June 30. Estimate of Deficit. the = At the close of business March 11, the Government already had a $427,684,000 @eficit, having collected $2,157,473,665 #nd expended $2,585,157,665. % The receipts were approximately $275,000,000 less than for the same riod of the previous fiscal year while expenditures were about $97,000,000 decline in receipts has used by a drop of $83.000,000 in in- me tax thus far in fiscal year, fhe total being ,195,805,495, while Sustoms receipts, which have declined &eadily for a_year, have amounted to @nly $269,147,346 since last July 1 as €ompared with $303,521,043 in the same period of previous fiscal year. $65,800,000 in Sinking Fund. ‘ Meanwhile, Government expenditures fncreased to $1,628,076,799, & jump of %pmm‘my $100,000,000 ovet the pre- us year, and ordinary expenditures Bitea Vit $3.200,455.70 i, year. 280, “last year. —In the present fiscal Sentenced | 14,950 last year, ftarcely beyond the mere necessities, the Hime on his feet financially.” ve the farmer the greatest !?"rhe general ggl.lclu have been form- carried out without change. This Corporation and the Cotton Stabiliza- fion mcultum marketing act so as to g;e e Stabilization in Crisis. emergencies” by the speaker. tion activities than to the major ef- & tendency on the part of the ther than the activities designed to “Such stabilization operstions are the ill effects of the world-wide econom- Steadying influence for the country as ymour wheat and’cotton farmers to 3 Benefits Offset Losses. fimes over in the benefits, not only to % The full text of Mr. Stone's address Pf today's Star. 5:¥ear-0ld Kansan p=3 | 3K P. Butler, 55 years old, was se denced o -served three penitentiary sentences I An application for fpronounced. Brice, Joplin (Mo.) policeman, Sthe Federal prison Leavenworth for v, PLAN FOR DEBENTURE (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) it does, 30,000,000 people, unable has come when the rest of the Z:The board has been following and “lll efits from the agricultural marketing ib"ffl by the board as a whole,” he gj-p,l‘loe‘s\ pu;ucuurly to the present op- ration. Our client is the the greatest possible benefits. * Ttabilization was put under the head ‘haps due to the fact more Tts, 0f the bosird in helping to develop ublle, particularly business men, to Tect the basic ills of the farm in- Gonfemplated in the act, and their use fc stagnation on the price of our com- 8 whole and are carrylng part of the make the necessary adjustments in + “Any losses sustained in these opera- eur sgricultural producers, but to the B A Mnder Habitual Criminal Act. life imprisonment today | fof-other offenses and n ar- % He served two terms in the Missouri fand the other for the robbery of a finterstate transportation of a stolen uirements as com- ON EXPORT OF CROPS ”b:‘y the products of ather industries gn‘r:rymc:rn::t“ hope for prosperity until will continue to follow & policy auunexg Mr. Stone said. heretofore adopted will of the Grain Stabilization farmer, and we are administering the Béerd will continue to do s0.” of, “temporary measures designed to deal publicity has been given to the stabili- in organized agriculture, there has dge our work on temporary measures lustry,” Mr. Stone explained. findoubtedly has resulted in minimizing Modities. They have served as a rplus burden in the period required production. tons ere being compensated for many Public generally.” 1]l be found in the Editorial Section QUART GETS LIFE TERM b3 po. AS CITY, Kans., March 14 (®). 3 the State’s habitual criminal act, Jestdd many, times. Thy Butler after the life :]e'n!:vn-c.é !\'l'z Egimunuary. one for the slaying of fpostal substation. He was confined in fmotor car. mxo‘l,soo Feet to D;uh ROCKY MOUNT, N. C, March 14 (P).—Jesse Exum of Atianta, 33-year- Damages Refused For Crash Dreams; Sleeper Pays $750 By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., March 14.— Nightmares are not very con- vincing evidence in a court of law, L, W. Ham found today. Ham sued O. W. Brown for 85,900 damages, alleging he was injured when Brown's car col- lided with his, and the memories of the accident were so poignant he dreamed about it, leaping out of bed and spilling a kettle of boiling water on himself. A superior court jury, however, awarded Brown 8750 on a cross complaint, Stanley J. Padden, Brown's attorney, introduced evi- dence indicating intoxication and not nightmares caused Ham to upset the boiling water. LOSS OF $2,000,000 IN RHEEM CRASH SHOWN IN REPORT (Continued From First Page.) as far as possible to determine at this time, may be somewhat lowered later by the discovery of duplicate claims on the company's books. These duplications resulted from the alleged improper re- lease of trusts. ‘The meeting of creditors in District Supreme Court yesterday, when the trustees were elected, was temporarily disrupted_ when the mention of the name of Edmund D. Rheem, vice presi- dent of the bankrupt concern, brought forth hisses and jeers from some of those present. Creditors Hiss Rheem's Name. After the trustees had been elected, Fred J. Eden, referee in bankruptey, asked if any one twanted to question officers of the concern. “What ones are here?” asked. The referee replied that Mr. Rheem was in attendance. This announcement was greeted by cries of “Where is he?” and scattered hisses, mostly by women. Several creditors left their seats and scanned the room for Rheem, but it was learned he had been left in an ante room by his attorneys. After sou::. discussion, it was decided to postphone the examination of Rheem by the creditors until next Baturde: at 10:30 o'clock. No Dissent on Cr. ‘itors. Rheem is now at liberty under bond following his arrést several weeks ago on & charge of embezeling $162,000 in notes which had been left with his firm for safekeeping by the owners. It was also understood yesterday that the Department of Justice &nd the United States attorney’s office have reached the final stages of their in- vestigation of the affi of the bank- rupt company. Despite efforts on the part of some attorneys to secure a postponement, some one the election of the trustees was put( through without a dissenting vote. Maj. Peyser and Mr, Blair had served as receivers, while Mr. Doyle was their counsel. ‘They were placed under a collective bond of $100,000. Pollowing the election of the trustees, the lawyers involved adjourned to another court room, where a committee was appointed to inquire into the status of the released trusts. This com- mittee, which- will advise creditors with- out charge, consists of Paul E. Lesh, Louis Ottenberg, E. C. Dunton, Lucien Mercler and W. W. Millan. . FOUR SHOT IN RIOT OF 1,100 PRISONERS IN WALLS OF JOLIET (Continued From First Page.) refusing to march to their cells, milled about the hall and then rushed into the open. Warning shots fired from the walls sent them to cover, and 60 of the leaders ran for the kitchen. Leaving it thoroughly wrecked, they went on to the dining hall, smashing furniture, tearing tables and chairs from the concrete floor and hurling them through windows. Two fiber furniture shops were also demolished and a fire was started in one cell house but was quickly extinguished. The limestone cell blocks, although 75 years old, are virtually fireproof. Injured Men From Chicago. While the 60 ringleaders were smashing the shops, guards herded the less riotous mob of convicts back to their cell block. Sentries hidden in posts at the end of each tear bombs to force the prisoncrs into their own cells. The hidden sentry boxes with rifie slots were recently in- stalled by Warden Hill. All four wounded convicts were sen- tenced from Chici Albert Yarbeck, 23, sent up May 7, 1929, for assault with intent to rob, died in the prison hospital. Joseph Kwoka, 20, a life termer for robbery since February 5, 1931, may die. George Jakowanis, 24, admitted June 5, 1929, for robbery, and Michael Kasseli, 41, admitted October 23, 1930, after conviction as a bomb salesman in Chicago, were not seriously wounded. Forty-three ringleaders were locked up tonight in solitary confinement, with irons on hands and feet. The riot spoiled the Saturday after- noon half holiday for the prisoners and gave 25 visitors in the administration building a panicky hour. Several women among them became hysterical as they waited to learn the fate of relatives and friends within. Prison Thought Overcrowded. The prison, an antique stone castle, dominating a ridge at the northern edge of Jolist, was built originally for 800 convicts, and houses now about 1,800. Col. Frank D. Whipp, State superin- tendent of prisons, who arrived here from Springfield shortly after the rebellion was suppressed, said recently the peni- tentiary and its companion, the new prison at Stateville, across the river, were 40 per cent overcrowded. ‘The most serious outbreak of recent ars occurred May 5, 1926, at the teville Penitentiary, when seven desperate criminals killed Deputy War- den Peter M. Klein and escaped. All but one were subsequently captured; four were hanged, one was shot to death as he tried to escape from the county jail here, and one was shot dead in Chicago. NEVADA SENATE PASSES SECRET DIVORCE BILL Companion Measure to That for Six Weeks' Residence Would Obviate Need of Particulars. By the Assoclated Press. CARSON CITY, Nev., March 14.— The Nevada State Senate today by & vote of 15 to 1, with one absent, passed a BSenate bill providing for secret hear- ing of divorce cases and abolishing the necessity for particulars being recited in divorce complaints. The bill now goes to the Assembly. It is & companion measure to the six weeks’ residence bill, which is now in the hands of the Senate Public Morals Committee, and is designed to make the getting of a divorce in Nevada simpler, easier and more secret. The bill pro- conceal corridor fired warning shots and tossed | THE SUNDAY IGANADA LEADS WAY WITH RUSSIAN BAN Dominion Acts as Stimson Launches New Study of Soviet Situation, BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. What may develop into a North American boyest® of trade with Soviet Russia—imj as well as export—has Just beea infMated by the government of Canada. The Dominion, by order in council, now embargoes the entry of all goods from the Communist “rcoublics,” shutting off profitable sales of such items as Russiain furs, anthracite coal and timber in the Canadian market. Realization that Moscow plans to flood not only the Dominion, but all other countries in the world, with “sweated” and raw materials led the new nnett government at Ottawa to take the drastic steps put into effect March 1. On the eve of Canada’s embargo, Russia was scheming to dump $10,000,- 000 worth of anthracite in the Domin- lon in exchange for Canadian agricul- tural machinery. Ca action was coincident with the announcement at Washington that the State riment is embarking u & “study” of our Russian policy with & view to possible change in it. ‘This writer can state on the most eminent uthority that nothing more 1 at the back of Secretary Btimson’s head than to conduct an objective fact-finding in- quiry. It is as if President Hoover had appointed another commission—consist~ ing of the Secretary of State, his re- search assistant, Mr. Klots, and the new Assistant Becretary of State, Mr. Rog- ers—to dig up and report upon all and sundry connected with present-hour Russia, in so far a8 her relations with the United States and the rest of the A Are concerned. Becrttary Stim- son's view is that Russia has become a grips with it in the best interests of this country. Before he can do so in- telligently he needs more facts than, he admiis, he has had time to absorb during his first two years as Secretary of State. Col Stimson insists that his forthcoming “study” is not being under- taken either with the avowed purpos of preparing for diplomatie 1elations | With Rusisa or in order to adopt & more antagonistic attitude toward the Soviet. Apparently he is “open-minded.” Canada Bars Goods. Meantime, while the State Depart- ment “studies,” Canada acts. The Do- minion’s tariff laws, recently enacted, clothe the government with power to prohibit the importation of goods from any country not a party to the treaty of Versailles. Premier Bennett on Feb~ Tuary 27 accordingly promulgated an order in council giving effect to an em- bargo on Russian imports, whether they come from Russia directly or indirectly. It is notorious that certain neighbors of Russia are buying her chelely made manufactured products, repacking and relabeling them, and dumping them abroad as wares originati in the coun- try that really imported them from So- viet sources. Canada intends to bar such pseudo non-Russian merchandise. Under the Dominion’s embargo, Can- ada will keep out Russian anthracite coal, wood Duln,£ulpwood, Jumber, tim- ber of all kinds. asbestos and furs. Mainly Russia sent furs and anthracite coal to Canada. Coal wae landed in the maritime provinces of New Bruns- wick and Quebec at such low rates that it found its way profitably into the heart of the Dominion, as far west as the Toronto industrial region. Canada's sales to Russia are negligible. They consist for the most part of agricul- tural implements. It is hardly neces- sary to place & formal embargo on Ca- Dadian exports to Rusisa. These, under the ban.on imports from there, will cease automatically, Ottawa zonsiders. They were less than $2,000,000 in value last_year. The American industrial and banking STAR, WA 1. BULDING AEA Progress of Huge Program Pleases Executive—815 Working on Plans. architect of the Capitol. There the President saw the rising House Office Building and the site for the Supreme Court, where excavation is to start to- morrow morning. He viewed the great stretch of Capitol Plaza stretching away to Union Station, where many build- ings have been torn down to make way for a beautiful vista and eventually, a reflecting pool to mirror the Capi dome. The President returned to the White House about 4 o'clock. Many Changes Due. Detailed study of the program for Washington _affords an idea of the changes that will begin to take shape within the next year. “world problem.” He wants to come to | interests which have been making big money out of trade with the Soviet Union openly favor diplomatic recogni- tion by the United States, and make no secret of their attitude. The State De- partment denies they are fomenting anything in the nature of a concerted drive for establishment of Washington- Moscow relations. Ts Bone of Contention. Secretary Stimson finds that Russia has become almost as bitter a bone of contention in this country as prohibi- tion. There are pro-trade and pro- recognition groups and there are anti- trade and anti-recognition groups. The Russian-American Chamber of Com- merce in New York is probably the most active influence in favor of recognition and unrestricted trade with the Boviet. Col. Ivy Lee, the “millionaire press agent,” who advises the Morgans, the Rockefellers and the Harrimans on “public relations,” is an ardent recog- nitionist. ~ Paul D. Cravath, eminent New York corporation lawyer, i8 an- other. The American FederAtion of Labor is the spearhead of the anti- recognition camp. President William Green told last week's Progressive Con- ference in Washington that the Soviet aims at the destruction of organized labor everywhere and that American r]eca;nmon would promote these de- signs. In the last fiscal year of which there is record (1929-30) the Soviet bought $149,223.000 worth of stuff from the United States. It consisted of cotton, non-ferrous metals, rubber products, paints, dyes, chemicals, rosin, metals, machinery, oll, electro-technical prod- uets, telephone and telegraph parts, marine equipment, passenger coaches, motor trucks, motor cycles, motor boats, agricultural machinery and supplies (tractors and accessories), office equip- ment and appliances and a wide variety of miscellaneous wares. The $149,223,- 000 sales fn 1929-1930 were 38.6 per cent larger than in 1928-29. Agricultural implements, machinery and cotton were by far the heaviest items. Imports From Russia. Russia in 1929-30 sold us $31,017,050 worth of goods and raw materials. ‘They consisted of furs, lumber prod- ucts, anthracite coal, manganese ore, casings, fish products, rags and bones, recious metals, flax, tow and hemp; licorice root, bristles, matches, dried mushrooms, rugs, art and handicraft products, confectionery, seeds, horse- hair, santonin, motion picture film, minerals, crude drugs and some food- stuffs. The 1929-30 Russian sales in the American market topped those of the year previous by a mere fraction of roundly 1 per cent. One item in our “exports” to Russia, not tabulated in. trade statistics, is prob- ably more important than all the $145,- 000,000 worth of Soviet purchases put together. That item is the “brains” which Americans are supplying to the Communists to aid in the materializa- tion of their gigantic five-year indus- trialization plan. Many hundreds of high-salaried Yankee engineers, factory foremen, designers, architects, techni- cians, chemists, road builders and man- ufacturing experts of all sorts are now in Russia directing the Soviet's feverish scheme to turn a nation of peasanfs into a race of industrialists. European countries, which have a vivid close-up of the impending Russian dumping dan- ger, bitterly resent this assistance which the United States is rende: viet. Europeans assert that are becoming the chief constructors of the “PFrankenstein monster” which some day, if Moscow'’s plot eventuates, will deal deadly blows to industrial countries everywhere. It is expected that Secretary Btim- son's “study” will include a survey of what has happened in other places vides that &il papers in a divorce com- plaint with the exception of the judg- old commercial filer, fell 1,500 feet to his death on a flying fleld near Tar- boro today when his parachute split as ded in an exhibition jump. tors said the parachute opened but failed to hold him. A second para- L he carried failed to open, ment roll are to be sealed and that only the cause of action need be stated in the complaint unless the defendant de- mands a bill of particulars. Judges would be fores party demags it. where Russia has contrived to secure diplomatic re ition. His Ambassa- dors and Ministers in Europe have plenty to report on that scofe. They . Stimson that in every capital in which a Russian Soviet em- on under the e roof. by literally swarme of 50~ iplo- ai Foundation in downtown Weshington ‘will soon be laid for the Department of Labor at Fourteenth street and Con- stitution avenue, the Government Audi- torium, ld&?lnln( the Department of Labor on the east facing Constitution avenue; the Interstate Commerce Com- mission at Twelfth and Constitution avenue, the Post Office Department at Twelfth and Pennsylvania avenue, run- ning southward to join the 1. C. C. Building and the Départment of Justice Building_ between inth and Tenth streets, Pennsylvania and Constitution venues. Following these the founda- tion for the new Archives structure, which 18 to go on the site of Center Market, probably will be Iaid late this Summer or early Fall Demolition work is under way in the square bounded by Constitution avenue, ‘Thirteenth and Thirteen-and-a-Half streets and Ohio aveniue, where a pro- cess new to the Federal building pro- gram here is being employed. A huge steel ball, weighing two-and-a-half tons suspended on the end of a heavy chain, and operated by a large traveling crane is being used to literally knock the brick walls of bulldings to pleces. This method was 8o speedy that it re- quired only 50 minutes to utterly de- molish an entire bullding at the corner of Thirteenth street and Ohio avenue. The same method is to be used by the Washington Iron & Metal Co. in de- molishing the other brick buildings of the entire sites for the “Government Auditorium. Hard Task Encountered. ‘Workmen of the same company are hard at werk also on one of the most intricate jobs of dismanteling yet pre- sented in the Government program—in the old substation of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co., at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. The huge electric motor generators in this place are being taken down, and removed from the building. With $15,000,000 available for use between now and July 1, 1932, work will go forward rapidly this Summer on new bulldings in the Capitol group with an authorized cost of upward of $35,000,000. These include: ‘The BSupreme Court Bullding, the new House Office Building, the Library of Congress annex, the extension of the Capitol grounds to the Union Station, the rebullding of the north elde of the Senate Office Building and the erection of a new wing along the east side of the bulldlnfiepumng in a sub- way garage at the Senate Office Build- ing, removal of the Botanic Garden, erection of an exhibition conservatory and other structures; relocation of the Barthold! Fountain, cutting through the new “Loulsiana” avénue from Union Station to Pennsylvania avenue and creation of Union Square, where the Botanic Garden now is, widening B street, which has been renamed Consti- tution avenue widening D street north of the Capitol and First street east of the Capitol. Supreme Court Building. ‘Work is to start tomorrow morning on excavations for the Supreme Court Building under an $82,000 the G. B. Mullin Co! the superstructure are expected to be ready by June 1. For acquisition of the new site for the Botanic Garden, $1,004,190.68 has been expended. The land has all been purchased and is about one-half cleared. Bids are to be opened May 1 for con- struction of the main conservatory, with an appropriation of $875,000 for this purpose. The main conservatory i8 to be built on the site between Maryland avenue and B, First and SBecond streets. now occupied by a gasoline station and an apartment house, a colored church which has been demolished, and a number of small houses which are being torn down, On the plot of land directly south of that, until recently occupled by a stone yard and colored school, the fa- mous Bartholdi Fountain now in stor- ege will be placed. This fountain was removed from the Botanic Garden two years ago to make way for the ap- proaches to the Meade Memorial. There is & special appropriation of $5.000 for placing this fountain. It will probably be done this S8ummer, For acquisition of the site for the Library of Congress Annex, just east of che present structure and south of the Shakespearian Bullding, $600,000 has been appropriated. Such of this prop- erty as could not be purchased through private sale is now in condemnation proceedings. The architect of the Cap- itol is having work started at once on lans for the new library annex, with 1,000,000 appropriated for aun::f the structure and $6,500,000 authorized. House Office Building. The structural steel work is going up rapidly on the new House Office Build- ing, with all of the steel to be de- livered by April 11 and all the steel work completed by May 9. The entire building is to be completed, except for some painting, in December, 1932, Just when the extension of the Cap- itol Grounds to the Union Station will be completed and the cutting through of the new Louisiana avenue from the station to Pennsylvania avenue, is de- pendent upon how long it will take through condemnation to acquire sev- eral parcels of land. These include two squares on the north side of Pennsyl- vania avenue between First and Third streets, a part of the old Census or Emery Building between First and Sec- and streets north of B street, and a part of the property of the Acacia Life Co. The Continental Hotel Corporation has sent in a deed for approximately eight square feet, which must be taken from their property. The architect of the Capitol expects that work will start this Summer on a portion of this new avenue. Other work on the extension of the Capitol grounds is held up by the pre- liminary work that must be done by the street railway companies in re- locating their tracks. The street car tracks are to be confined to C street | ¢ and First street, east. Mr. Lynn ex- pects to be able to start on the subway et Rl i ol st a4 matic” and ‘“commercial” attaches, a relentless propaganda against “capital- ism” and in favor of “world revolu- M. Flandin, minister of finance in the present Prench cabinet and minister of commerce uder the late Tardieu premiership, is a leader of an all-Euro- pean movement to proclaim the same sort of embargo on Russian goods that Canada has now imposed. In his opin- jon, there is not the shadow a doubt that the world will have cause to' rue the day it hesitated to put Soviet prod- ucts under a cast-iron ban, for Mos- cow's brazen p! m, Flandin declares, is to undermine to hold di- bassy or legation now exists there 18 by demoralizing their markets with the vorce cases behind closed doors if either earried products of forced Russian labor, (Copyrights 1991.) HINGTON IPRESIDENT TOURS [ARCH 15 1931 —PART ON Architects Turning Out Building Daily MORE' THAN 800 MEN WORKING ON PLANS FOR STRUCTURES. GENERAL view of a working room at the office of the suj These men are turning out plans tect of the Treasury. rvising archi. T A new Go ernment building each 24 hours. Eight hundred and fifteen men are working on the plans. Below, wreckers using a steel ball swu: the walls of a buildl for a new structure. at Thirteenth ‘The walls of the entire building were razed in by & derrick to tear down hio avénue in preparation 0_minutes. —Star Staff Photos. street and garage at the Senate Office Building about June 1. In June or July construction work will be started on the rebuilding of the north side of the Senate Office Buildfng corresponding to the west and south fronts, s0 as to present a better ap- arance to visitors when viewed from nion Statlon, and on the new wing along First street northeast, to square up the Senate Office Building. While both of these construction jobs will go along simultaneously, the effort will be concentrated on the north front so as to get that completed as toon as pos- sible because that will cause the most inconvenience to Senators. There 15 an appropriation of $2,000,000 for these improvements on the Senate Office Bullding. There has been some confusion in the public mind as to just what part of B street, extending from Lincoln Memorial on the north side of the Mall, past the Capitol, has been renamed Constitution avenue as a_tribute just before his death to the Dean of the House, Representative Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin. Constitution ave- nue extends from the river west of the Lincoln Memorial to the dividing line between the northwest and the north- east, at the Capitol grourds. The widening of B street, now Con- stitution avenue, is provided for in the | Arlington Memorial Bridge act. It is to be widened to 80 feet under Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3rd, the engineer offi- cer in charge of such work for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. From FPirst street north- west, where it reaches the Oapitol grounds, as they are being extended, to the Benate Office Bullding at Dela- ware avenue, B street is to be widened to 72 feet, under the direction of Mr. Lynn. He will also have charge of widening First street northeast, from B street to the Union Station plaza to & width of 56 feet, and of widening D street, where it cuts through the Capi- tol grounds, extended to 40 feet, prob- ably from New Jersey avenue to First street northeast. HOOVER TO LEAVE DURING WEEK FOR PORTO RICO VISIT (Continued From First Page.) was in charge of the Naval Observatory here, ‘The presidential trip comes as a sur- prise. It is understood that when Mr. Hoover learhed yesterday that the modernizing of the Arizona had been completed and that the ship was scheduled for a “shakedown” cruise, the idea of making the journey appealed to him. After this trip the Arizona will join the battlefleet on the West Coast. President Hoover will make eight speeches between April 13 and June 17, according to an official announcement made af the White House yesterday. He will make four of these addresses in Washington, and the other four will call for a rapid swing through the East and Central West. Besides these public pearances, the President will review nnual national encampment of the Army of the Republic on June 16 in imbus, Ohio. The first speaking engagement is the annual meeting of the American Red Cross in this city on April 13. The following day, Pan-American day, he will ‘address the Pan-American Union incident to the observance of Pan- American day. On May 4 he will ad- dress the International Chamber of Commerce at the United States Cham- ber of Commerce Bullding here, and an May 21 he will address the celebration marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Red Cross. The President will then start on his out-of-town appearances. These will be a Memorial day address at Valley Forge, Pa,, on May 30; the convention of the Indiana Republican State Edi- torial Association at Indianapolis June a pitalistic” countries ' 15, the dedication of the memorial at Marion, Ohlo, to Warren G. Harding, and the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial at Speingfield, 1L, on June 17, UNTERMEYER AIDS - DEFENSE OF CRAIN New York District Attorney Faces City Club Charges of Incompetency. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—Samuel Untermyer, New York attorney, an- nounced today he would act as counsel for the defense of Thomas C. 'T. Crain, Manhattan's 70-year-old district attor- ney, charged with incompeteney by the City Club. Earller in the day, Judge Samuel Seabury, designated by Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt to conduct the investiga- tion into Crain's acté in office, an- nounced he had retainéd John Kirk- land Clark as chief counsel to assist him. Untermeyer revealed his decision to defend the aged prosecutor in a copy of & letter he had sent to Crain to that effect. ‘The letter also revealed that Siegfried Hartman, who will be nssoclated with Untermeyer in the defernse, had writ- ten to the Governor, protesting the appointment of Séabury as investigator. Clark is president of the State Board of Law Examiners and has taken part in many investigations. As an after- math of the Rosenthal murder scan- dals, he prosecuted and convicted four police inspectors and assisted Robert Moses, Moreland Act Commissioner, in the investigation of the City Trust Co. failure two years ago. Seabury announced a staff would be selected at once but was silent on Crain’s protest to Gov. Roosevelt regard- ing Seabury’s appointment. ‘The district attorney's objections were based on the contention Seabu was a member of the City Clul filed the original charges, and that 1'?1‘"’ of the accusations were made by m. DIES AT AGE OF 97 Veteran Attributed Health to Dose of Sand and Kerosene. HASTINGS, Minn., March 14 (#)— Austin Knapp, whose health formula was a spoonful of sand and a sip of kerosene, died today. He was 97 years old. Knapp, & Civil War veteran, lived alone, ed his own meals, and had been ill but a few days with a severe cold. Recently Knapp attributed his good health for the it 40 years to his daily dose of sand and kerosene. R .. Noonday Lenten Service New York Avenue Presbyterian Church 12:20 to 1:00 O’Clock Speaker This Week Beginning Tomorrow Dr. Carl C. Rasmussen Memorial Lutheran Church Auspices Federation of Churches Open to All You Are Invited to Attend N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N MORROW T0 STUDY PACT WITH DAWES Senator Asked by Stimson to Discuss Treaty of France and Italy. By the Associated Press. Conferences which Senator Dwight Ambassador DAwes in London at the suggestion of Becretary Stimson may result in & change in present plans t6 place the Pranco-Itallan naval aécord in final form. Secretary Stimson said yesterday he had wirelessed the Senator, who is en Toute with Mrs. Motrow to Burope on the Leviathan, asking that he discuss the entire question with Ambassador Dawes upon his arrival in London, Suggestions to British. ‘The Secretary, in studying the basis of agreement resulting from the British- Frano-Italian negotiations, has reached some conclusions which he desires com- municated to Ambassador Dawes and which eventually will reach the British foreign office in the form T, 0 S the évent these su red. highly prob= proposed , it was consides able here last night that the conference of experts of the five prin« cial naval powers, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, ce and Italy, 0 draft the ment in final form, mmm or abandoned. 1 the lcux:yn suggestions 'orm EREE T 3 & - ness to lay them before the Ambassador. In Touch With Senators. As information “was received from Europe during and after the negotia- tions for an Italo-French settlement, Secretary Stimson kept in constant touch with Mr. Morrow and Senators Reed of Pensylvania and Robinson of &r;;w. and discussed his ideas with The attitude of the United States is that the agreement between France and Italy on the naval problem was & ques- tion mainly concerning the powers, and that the United Btates was too remote to be directly involved. Thi Japanese share a similar viewpoint. All the consideration the United States has givén the agreement has been neeemhty of mA?hericm slgna any changes e Washington don naval treaties which would Senate action. ture and or Lon« require $i i RACE HORSE KILLED, 75 SAVED IN FIRE (Continued From PFirst Page.) ment was aided by volunteer forces from Bladensburg, Cottage City and Glendale, Md. The combined depart- ments extingulshed the fire after a two-hour fight. At the height of the blase, flames more than 30 feet into the air. Several of the horses were scorched as they were led from the path of the Screams of the panic-stricken animals could be heard a mile away as the stable boys jerked open the doors and led them out. Stables H and I were burned to the ground, while 10 other stables in the vicinity of the first turn, all one-story wooden structures, were threatened. The gulrwra actually rased contained about 0 horses. Approximately 45 other l'n‘lgills were removed from nearby El es. Starts at Nightfall, The fire originated in stable I, at about 7:45 pm. It was discovered by Albert Johnson, colored night watch- man, who turned in an alarm. The flames spread within a few minutes from stable I to stable H. The former stable contained ‘Winfrey and Woods Garth. The latter structure was occupied by the racing stock of Richard Pending, superine tendent of the track; Mr. McGovern and B. Foley. ¥ Amoqnul theca.un h;r:u ;onnv:;d ‘were ma een, Gnome A panion and Pending’s Pride, owned by Pending, and Hacky H. of the McGovern Stable. The rest of the horses were “selling platers.” * Risks Lite to Save Horse. An unidentified race track hanger. was_credited with his life eflmmm s 1o have. esilapeed ‘Was man and horse. m man fled i 8 i 52,5 e The Me- vern horses had been racing in Florida. Firemepy ‘Wwere u fort to ‘capture an un seen attempting to rifie thi track émployés who lived in —— ful in an ef- you lothes of stables. o . ] The Roman ‘flumun diocese \Neollhhh Oatholie di in the Am , and was erécted in' 11, - directed mainly toward avolding the | in to saturnalia of extravagance publican administration meets the ¢on demnation idge’ ) i SO gnon Y GUA' March 14 continue to be félt in the flm of Amatitian, with considerable 5 population. LARGER U.S.FUNDS UPHELD BY JONES Increase in Appropriations, Aside From Emergencies, Held Natural Growth, Emphasising that appropriations necessarily advance as the Nation grows, Benator Jones, Republican, of ‘Washington, chairman of the Appropri- ations Committee, last night defended the record of the session just ended, showing that, aside from extraordinary expenditures to meet emergency condi- tions, the allotments for other require- ments represent only & normal increase. Senator Jones declared appropriations At the 1ast sessioh were made After careful consideration and without ex- travagance. At the same time two Democratic members of the Appropriations Com- niittee, Senator Harris of Georgia and Benator McKellat of Tennessee, issued statements attacking Appropriation tendencies in recent years. ‘Would Abolith Bareaus. In the course of his statement, Sen- “The appropriation of $200,270 for the Bureau of Efficiency is & waste of the peopie’s mongy. e Bureau of Effciency is like a fifth wheel to & wagon and ought to be abolished. This vngk 18 done by the General Accounting lce. “The 8 ation for the PFederal i ppropri ished. “The most of the comm d x&,nmm bureaus wu luh“e.aw .\'v'se W. Morrow of New Jersey will have with | Jargel, point. out specife actually opposed; they can not do Why Entourage the Blues? Stressing the fact that as the coun- nds its Activities are proaden. must_keep with developments. “We had nearly forgotten the ‘bil- lion dollar Congress’ when some of our eritical friends mentioned it,” the AT BOWIE STABLES | creased in employed and rescued unfortunate economic situa- now suffe der? em] ent an il nator m';rn of Oeoflrm ranking minority member on the A) tions Committee, declared th from standpoint 6f apj to meet them, “we time when a warning should be sound- ¢d and in no uncertain tones.” Deplores Wagner Veto. Senator Harris asserted that “the of the Re- of the people of also deplored the our President’s veto of Senator Wagner's bill on unemployment relief. Continu~ ing his Senator Harris sald discussion of appropriations, the horses of | Hq eans & tax of about $81 one of the 122,735,046 people nited States. It is a tax of about $405 on every umuy in the X amily in- how this lected it will eventually come out of the lrocnu a living. mended appropriations for $27,7 1701.07 more than of those who must toil for President Hoover recom- “The last two yi 's administral uthorizations 1 Quakes looi Guatemala. CITY, Guatemala, (#)—Violent