Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1931, Page 1

\J WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness, with lowest tem- perature about 38 degrees tonight; cloudy torhorrow and somewhat warmer. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 44, at noon to- day; lowest, 34, at 7 " 1 report on page 3. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 am. today. The bening Sta WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o S1132. e WS Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, THREE MORE VIKING SURVIVORSRESCUED FROM IGE BY SHIP Trio Described Merely as‘ “Johnson, Kean and Best” in Meager Report. 20 PERSONS STILL LISTED AS MISSING =EEE ! Easterly Gales Shrieking Across | Nova Scotia Hamper Com- munications. By the Astociated Press NEW YORK, March 18.—One body from the sealing ship Viking was found today near the spot in White Bay, Newfoundland, where the ship sank Sunday night, Bowring Bros, Ltd, ship owners, were ad- vised this afternoon from £t. John's, Newfoundland. E By the Assoclated Press. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, March 18—A storm whipping across Nova | Scotia today plagued a world seeking definite word concerning the fate of the | sealing ship Viking and its company of 144, A brief wireless dispatch said three men had been picked up from an ice | floe by the sealer Boethic, bringing the ; list of those known to have been saved | o 124. Three others, including Harry | Sargent, Boston explorer, were picked up last night by the steamer Sagona after they had all but despaired of Tescue. c Those saved by the Boethic today were “Johnson, Kean and Best,” ac- cording to the wireless word. They are believed to be . Johnson, master watch, of Conception Eay; Alfred Kean, mate, of Brookfield, Newfoundland, and a Newfoundlander known only as Best, who was assisting the three Americans —Varick Frissell, New York; A. G. Penrod, New York, and Sargent—in the making of sound movies among the sealers. 20 Are Still Missing. ‘With these additional rescues the list of missing, still numbering 20, includes Frissell, Penrod, W. J. Rcach, chief en- gineer, and three engineers, six firemen, seven sealers and one stowaway. Bowring Bros.,, Ltd., owners of the Viking, which exploded and sank off La Barbe Island Sunday night, an- nounced that ships cf the sealing fleet to which the Viking belonged, had re- turned through Bell Isle Strait and were searching today through the waters in which the Viking went down. “We believe there is scme chance of finding a few more survivors,” the com- pany said. Hepe had not been abandoned for the Americans, Frissell and Penrod; but each ing hour without word of them the chances of their being alive more and more remote. It was believed that the search by the several ships through the bay today would de- termine definitely there were any more survivors. Gales Hit Communications. Easterly gales shrieking across Nova Scotla were demoralizing communica- tion lines and hampering the move- ment of news dispatches from here. ‘Wireless stations, too, were choked with messages. Presumably the temperature in the vicinity of White Bay where rescue ships are moving about was normal. The temperature here this morning was 28 above zero, with a normal barometer reading 30.12. Medical assftance and food supplies reached La Barbe Island last night from St. John's, affording relief to the 118 known to be there. There have been no reports of any bodies being discovered. Among the missing was Edward Cronin, 12 years old, of St. John's, one of the two stowaways. The other stowaway, Michael Gardner, reached Horse Island. The missing list also includes the names of the ship's doctor, W. J. Roach; Chief Engineer J. Murphy, Second En- gineer P. Parnell, Third Engineer H. Hanniford, six firemen and seven sealers. The cause of the blast, which appar- ently hurled many to their death and sent scores of others over the side to escape the flames, has not been deter- mined definitely. One possibility ad- vanced to_ explain the explosion was that the boiler let go under a high steam pressure raised to drive the ship through the ice. The other was an explosion of blasting powder used to| clear a channg in the ice. LEE BOULEVARD WORK ENJOINED Van Every Heirs Hold State Failed | to Begin Work Within Time Specified. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY HOUSE, March 18.—A temporary in- unction stopping the work by the Vir- nia State Highway Commission on the of the right-of-way for the Lee Bou E. B. Van Every was today granted by Judg> Walter T. McCarthy of the local Circuit Court, who is holding court in Farfax, Va. The injunction was granted on the | |IGNORANCE OF LAW WINS RELEASE FOR AUTOIST AT FALLS CHURCH strength of the contention of the Van Every heirs that an agreement whereby a free right-of-way was to_nave been given through the property has expired in that the work was not started at the time specified The State, through Attorney F. S. Mc- Candlish and Charles Pickett of Fair- tax, contend that Van Every in his life- time signed an agreement whereby the State would be allowed free right-of- | way through his property. haénncemdlsea. St pon being notified of the grantin of the injunction Sheriff ng:ard 1{ Flelds proceeded to the scene of the State's activities on the Van Every prop- erty to order that work be sto, & further order of the court 0 i Attorneys for the State will, it is un- derstood, move to dissolve the injunc- tion and file a cross bill asking that the agreement be enforced. The 200-foot right-of-way through the Van Every property would consume approximately four acres of that land. The estate is located in Arlington County between Shelly road, Brookvale avenue, Glebe road and Clarendon ave- nue, Van Every A— {Crime Laid to Discharged COURT vard through the estate of the late | Slain in China MRS. VERA WHITE. MRS. VICTORIA MILLER. 2 AMERIGAN WOMEN MURDERED N CHINA Servants—Skulls Frac- tured by Hatchets. By the Assoclated Press. HONGKONG, China, March 18.—Mrs. Vera Mosebar White of Battle Ground, Wash., and Mrs. Victoria Marian Miller, whose mother lives at 1108 East Olym- pic avenue, Spokane, Wash., were slain in their sleep Sunday night at Yannan- fu. They were missionaries of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission. ‘The crime was attributed to Chinese servants at the mission, who had been discharged. The husbands of the wom- en had gone on business to Talifu, 150 miles away. A message to the United States lega- ticn here from Consul Harry Stevens brought word of the killings. ‘The skulls of both women had been fractured by hatchets. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. White were not mo- lested. Yunnanfu authorities were searching for the assailants, but had made no arrests. Husbands Mission Officials. The murdered missionaries are wives of two officials of the Yunnan mission, | maintained at Yunnanfu, capital of the Yunnan Province, by the General Con- ference of the Seventh Day Adventist g:mkrch, with headquarters at Takoma rk, Mrs. White, the wife of Rev. D. R. White, is a surgical nurse, and formerly served in the Adventist sanitarium at St. Helena, Calif. Her father, Frank Mosebar, was formerly connected with that institution, according to informa- tion received this morning from the | offices of the General Conference. Rev. | ‘White is secretary and treasurer of the | mission _ Mrs. Miller's husband, Rev. C. B, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) SEVERE QUAKE NOTED HERE LASTS 4 HOURS Georgetown U. Savant Holds It Probably Was in Korea, 5,000 Miles Away. By the Associated Press. A severe earthquake disturbance be- ginning at 3:13 a.m. and lasting for four hours was recorded today at Georgetown University. | Father Sohon, seismologist, said the disturbance reached its greatest inten- | sity at 3:50 am. but continued until | 7 o'clock. 1t appeared to be north- westerly ‘and more than 5000 miles away, which, Father Sohon said, would put it probably in Korea. LOS ANGELES CRUISES |Navy Dirigible Leaves Lakehurst and May Come Here. LAKEHURST, N. J., March 18 (#).— | The naval dirigible Los Angeles left {this morning on a day's training cruise | bomb was discovered in the Marti Thea- WALKER ACCLSED OF MSFEASHNCE ON TEN CAARGES Gov. Roosevelt Makes Public Allegations Against New York Mayor. WASTEFUL, INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION IS SEEN Noted Clergymen and City Affairs Committee Join Attack on Executive. By the Assoclated’Press. ALBANY, N. Y., March 18 —Charges preferred against the administration of Mayor James J. Walker of New York by the City Affairs Committee and made public by Gov. Roosevelt today, allege misfeasance in office in 10 spetific cases. The charges said the Mayor had managed his office in the government of the city “in a wasteful and in- competent fashion.” Departments Cited. The charges were contained in a letter to which was attached a memorandum containing allegations of failure to act in instances involving the Board of Standards and Appeals, the department of licenses, condemnation proceedings, health department, director of budget, department of hospitals, the dock department and the Sinking Fund Commission, recalcitrant officials and the grand jury, Magistrates’ Courts and the Police Department. “He has failed properly to administer the government of the City of New York in the interests of the people,” the charges said of Mayor Walker. “He has ignored conditions of inefficiency and corruption, and if, under public pres- sure, he has initiated investigations, he has allowed such investigations to lapse without report or resuit. He has ap- pointed unworthy men to public office and kept in office unworthy men sub- ject by law to his removal.” Incompetence Charged. “His conduct of the office of mayor since he took office on January 1, 1930, has been incompetent, inefficient and futile, with the result that the local machinery of government has failed to function properly and the administra- | tion of the city has been brought into disrepute.” The charges also allege the mayor “has brought the administration of the city into disrepute by daily neglect of | the affairs of office, by careless standards of public life and by complete indifference to the inefficiency and dis- honesty of appointed subordinates.” “Nothing more clearly reveals the incompetence, ineffectiveness, unfitness and grave dishonor of the mayor asi the highest public official of this city,” the memorandum states, “than his re- these courts, recently revealed by the inquiry set on foot by the Governor, were commonly known long before this inquiry was instituted. At no time did the mayor make the slightest attempt to correct existing conditions in a field in which his is the appointive power, nor did he display the slightest inter- est in a situation which was bringing the law into contempt, denying justice to the people, and destroying the confi- dence of the citizens in the integrity of their courts and, therefore, of the whole substance of their government.” SEABURY CALLS CRAIN. District Attorney to Discuss Plans for Hearing. NEW YORK, March 18 (#).—The charges against Mayor Walker, aimed at his re moval from office, are said to be similar to those lodged against District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain by the! City Club. Under the city charter the | Governor may suspend the mayor for 30 days pending investigation. Upheld by Gov. Roosevelt in his right to continue, Commissioner Samuel Sea- bury has summoned Mr. Crain and his attorney, Samuel Untermyer, to confer with him tomorrow and formulate a plan of procedure in the hearings. John | Kirkland Clark, Mr. Seabury’s counsel, also will be present. As the hunt for the slayers of Vivian Gordon languished, Patrolman Andrew G. McLaughlin, who first arrested her, was suspended from the force. Offi- cials said he would stand trial on his refusal to testify regarding evidence that he banked $35,800 in two years on a $3,000-a-year salary. The organs of Georgia Gray, vice graft witness, who died under puzzling circumstances, still are under analysis for traces of poison. Her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Doolittle, claimed her body yesterday and planned to return it to Augusta, Ga. BOMB FOUND IN THEATER Cuban Firemen Prevent Explosion at Santa Clara. HAVANA, March 18 (P).—A large ter at Santa Clara last night, but fire- men smothered it before it exploded. Meanwhile, Rafael Funes, a fireworks | expert, was sought by Capt. Hidalgo, directing an inquiry into the bomb fac- tory found yesterday by the govern- ment in San Sebastian street. Police believed the Cuban bombing ring had | over New York, Philadelphia and pos- | sibly Washington. been dealt a telling blow with the raid on the house, which they padlocked. Special Dispatch to the Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., March 18— Thomas B. Sisk, 65 years old, lived in the mountains of Virginia until within a month or so ago, when he purchased a second-hand automobile in Culpeper and traveled to Fairfax County, where he purchased a home in the bright lights of Dunn Loring. Sisk had never been to Washington, so decided to ride to town to see the sights. His journey was a short one, for in the town of Falls Church he ran afoul of the law. At the mayor's court last night Sisk presented an unusual defense. He stated that he had not in- tentionally broken the law, but he had 2 Court Room Turned Into School for Virginia Moun- taineer First Time From Home. never seen a traffic light, so was quite unaware of his offense when he ran through the red light. Called on for his driver’s license or ownership card, it transpired that he not only did not possess one, but didn’t know that one was required. Mayor Daniel decided, in view of the | Ohio, | blades, unusual nature of Sisk's defense, to dismiss the charges. The court was then turned into a school room and Sisk was given a few minutes’ intensive in- struction in the traffic laws, with the advice to avold the bright lights of Washington until he had familiarized himself with a few fundamentals of the drivers’ codes 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. R “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s cairier system covers every :it{ tion i3 deli * block and the regular edi- vered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,556 ¥ (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. AL S, DAUGHERTY | GFIS TLYEARTERM {Also Draws $5,000 Fine and| Is Ordered to Pay Cost of Prosecution. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, March 19.—Mal 8. Daugherty, former president of the defunct Ohio State Bank, convicted March 4 of mis- appropriating the bank’s funds, today was sentenced to 10 years in the Ohio Penitentiary, fined $5,000 and ordered | to pay the cost of prosecution. Judge Charles Bell overruled motion for a new trial prior to passing sentence. Defense attorneys stated that they would immediately appeal. Judge Bell granted a 20-day stay of execution requested by defense counsel, who indicated they would file bills of exception. It also was indicated that the 15 other indictments against Daugherty would be nolled. Daugherty, a brother of Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General in the Harding cabinet, was named in 16 in- dictments, returned by the grand jury after an investigation of the failure of the Ohio State Bank. He was con- on an indictment charging mis- application of $5,350. An investigator for the State said his work was hampered. by the fact that certain records of the Midland Bank, which formed a part of the bank, were missing. The Midland Bank came into national prominence during the Teapot Dome oil scandal when the Senate ut- tempted to obtain certain records of the bank in its efforts to trace money al- leged to have passed hands in the Tea- pot Dome deal. One loan, made by Daugherty to his wife, was for the purchase of the Jeff Smith estate. Smith was a figure in ‘Washington during the Harding admin- istration. THREE MEN ESCAPE BLADENSBURG JAIL Prisoners Believed Aided From Outside in Fourth Break in Six Months. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., March 18— Said to have been aided by friends on | the outside, who brought tools with which to sever the jail bars, three| colored prisoners escaped from the Bladensburg jail early today. The jail, which is unattended at night, also contains three other prisoners, two of them white men, who did not avail themselves of the oppor- tunity offered to make their getaway. When Jailor George Wiseman went to the lock-up this morning, he found the bars cut and bent, and hacksaw sledgehammer, pickaxe and 10 chisels lying beneath the window. ‘The men who escaped were Wallace Burley, Arthur Davis and Andrew Rich- ardson, all colored, of Washington. They had been arrested within the past two days on charges of transportation of whisky. The Bladensburg jail, which is & small tw-room affair, has been broken into four times in the past six months. . Boz.i y-Fender Works Burn. SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa, March 18 (®).—Fire of unknown origin early today destroyed the garage and body- fender works of Robert E. Mertzler, causing a loss estimated at $50,000. Biggest Troop Movement in History How 820,000 American Troops Were Handled in the Dark for Meuse-Argonne Battle Read General Pershing Tomorrow in The Euening Star THREE MEN K | min MAL S. DAUGHERTY. LLED WHEN HOTEL BURNS Several Guests and Firemen Hurt in $200,000 Blaze at Lenox, Mass. By the Associated Press. LYNN, Mass., March 18.—Three men were burned to death and guests and firemen were injured in an early morn- ing fire that wrecked the Hotel Lenox. Five guests were hurt, four of them being burned seriously, as flames swept upward, through the interior of the five- story brick building. The dead have been identified as Arthur M. Young, 50, of Lynn and St. Albans, Vt; Arthur Harvey, 47, day clerk of the hotel, and Martin Travers of Lynn, a factory foreman. The identi- fication of Travers was made tentatively after policemen and firemen determined that no one else was missing. Four Guests Burned. Four guests suffered serious burns. They were Florence Curdo, Frank Nel- son, Lottie Clifford and Mrs. Mabel Eaton, all of Lynn. The fire started in a miniature golf course in the first floor of the hotel building, located at the corner of Ex- change and Broad streets. In the rooms above, fire and police officials estimate Lthere were more than 50 persons, guests and employes of the hotel. ‘The cause of the fire was undeter- ed. The loss was estimated at pos- sibly $200.000. Dramatic scenes were enacted in the early morning darkness as the flames shot upward through the hotel. At the rear of the hotel firemen spread life nets and some of the guests saved them- selves by leaping into them. Firemen Search Ruins, Others made their way onto fire es- capes and clambered down as far as the second floor, where they were res- cused by firemen. Otbers leaped from the second floor, suffering cuts and bruises. Firemen and policemen removed many by interior stairways and an ele- vator that could be operated for a time up to the third floor. Firemen continued their search for other possible victims as the forenoon progressed. PRESIDENT JOVIAL ONVACATION'S EVE Executive Light-Hearted as He Prepares to Sail for West Indies in Morning. President Hoover will leave Washing- | ton late tonight on his vacation trip to the Caribbean, aboard the battleship Arizona, to be gone about 11 or 12 days. In anticipation of the rest and change of air and scenery in store for him, Mr. Hoover was in a genuinely light-hearted mood. His enthusiasm was very ap- parent as he went about the work of cleaning up his desk and receiving a few callers. He has had liftle time for play or idleness during the two years | he has been at the White House, and naturally is looking forward to this sea trip with all of the enthusiasm of a boy going on a picnic. ‘Will Forget Business. President Hoover contends that it is his intention to forget all about busi- ness and to do no work on this voyage. Mrs. Hoover is not to accompany the President on this expedition, but she will be at the Union -Station tonight to wave “bon voyage” to him and his companions, She will leave Washing- ton tonight to visit her son Herbert, jr., who is recuperating from an illness at Asheville, N. C. Peggy Ann and Herbert, 3d, the older of the three Hoover grandchildren, who have been making their home at the ‘White House since last Fall, were taken to Asheville to visit their parents and {will be brought back to Washington when their grandmother returns. New Men Listed. President Hoover's party will include Secretary of Interior Wilbur and Sec- retary of War Hurley, Lawrence Richey, one of the presidential secretaries; Col. Campbell B. Hodges and Capt. Russell Train, military and naval aides re- spectively; Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, and Mark Sullivan |author and newspaper writer, and the | following newspaper correspondents: J. Pred Essary, Baltimore Sun; Al- fred Kirchhofer, Buffalo Evening News; Theodore C. Alford, Kansas City Star; Richard V. Oulahan, New York Times; Robert S. Pickens and Edward J. Duffy, Associated Press; Raymond Clappe: United Press; George E. Durno, Inter- national News Service; William Flythe, Universal Service; Thomas F. Healy, Philadelphia Public Ledger; Edward T. Folliard, Washington Post; Willlam P. Simms, Scripps-Howard Service; P. J. McGahan, Philadelphia Inquirer; Rus- sell Gerould, Boston Herald, John Her- rick, Chicago Tribune; Roberi S. Allen, Christian Science Monitor; Theodore C. Wallen, New York Herald-Tribune, and J. Russell Young, Washington Star. In addition there will be six camera- men and several Secret Service op- eratives. Jose Espinosa of the steno- graphic staff of the White House has been selected by the President to ac- company him. Will Arrive at 5 AM. ‘The President will board the battle- ship Arizona, which has just been re- conditioned and modernized at the Norfolk Navy Yard, at Hampton Roads at a point near the Old Point Comfort | dock. ‘The journey to Point Comfort from here will be made on a special train to arrive there about 5 o'clock to- morrow morning. He will not leave the train until about 7 o'clock. It is thought that the battleship will | be heading for the sea about 8 o'clock | tomorrow mornirg, and according to the present itinerary will arrive at Porto Rico, which will be the first stop, late next Sunday. Because of the in- ability of a vessel of the size of the Arizona to enter the port of San Juan, MORROW T0 LEAVE LONDON WITHOUT PART INNAVY PAGT Neither U. S. Nor Japan to Participate in Franco-Ital- jan Arms Agreement. SENATOR MAKES CLEAR ATTITUDE OF AMERICA Treaty to Be Confined to Three European Nations and Will Not Affect Present Policies. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 18—United States Senator Dwight ‘W. Morrow concluded his mission to London in connection with the tripartite naval agreement to- day and prepared to continue with Mrs. Morrow on the European holiday which he interrupted to confer with British cabinet officials. The conversations in which Senator Morrow participated at the forelgn of- fice yesterday and today were consid- ered from the British viewpoint to have had a satisfactory conclusion. No U. S. Representative. The new Anglo-French-Italian naval agreement is to stand as a strictly Eu- ropean matter. Its formal drafting will be started tomorrow, but neither Mr. Morrow nor any other representative of the United States will be present offi- cially or unofficially, and neither will | Japan be represented. | This arrangement was a result of the exchange of opinions between Mr. Morrow, Foreign Minister Henderson and A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty. Japan to Stay Out. The naval agreement will be made effective after its g by an in- terchange of notes among Britain, |Pnnce and Italy, or by issuance of identical statements by the three gov- will in no ernments concerned, and T of a five- way assume the power agreement. A member of the staff of the Japa- nese embassy in Paris had been in- structed to come to London in connec- tion with the drafting of the naval agreement, but it was understood this was merely to have him present if the United States participated. Since the United States is not to be r:mflenlfld stand |W. & J. STUDENT BODY aside. 1421 Men at Pennsylvania Col- lege Seek Removal of President. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Pa., March 18—The entire student body of 421 men at ‘Washington and Jefferson College walked out of the assembly meeting on a “strike” today after 350 students had continuance of Dr. Simon S. Baker as president of the institution. Dr. Baker has been president of the college, one of the oldest in Western Pennsylvania, for the past 10 years. ‘The walkout occurred Dr. Baker arcse in chapel to make his customary announcements. Student leaders said the petition asking his removal would be submitted to the board of trustees of the college today. The petitioners said 35 members of the faculty sup- ported their action, though no moves were planned by the faculty. an unsympathetic attitude toward the students, particularly against members of the college athletic teams. It also cited his enforcement of rules the stu- dents characterized as “childish,” am them one forbidding the wearing of corduroy trousers on the campus. $10,000,000 RED CROSS DROUGHT GOAL PASSED Fund Exceeded by $5,000 as Work Is Gradually Being Completed in Some Localities. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The Red Cross campaign for a $10,- 000,000 drought relief fund today reach- ed its goal, with a total of $10,005,000. President Hoover issued a proclama- tion asking for $10,000,000 January 13, and the fund collecting was begun immediately. ‘The funds were being expended in drought relief as they were collected. At the peak of the demand, Febru- ary 28, approximately 2,000,000 persons h’:dlgfl counties of 22 States were being aided. ‘When the goal was reached, it was reported the emergency had already been met in some southern localities, and the Red Cross was gradually with- drawing from the field. RACE NEWS FIRM BOMBED ST. LOUIS, March 18 (#).-—The eighth floor of the Buder Building, which houses the offices of the Empire News Co., a racing information service, was demolished here today by a bomb explosion. The building was damaged to the extent of probably $50,000. No one was injured. The bomb was placed in the corridor | of the eighth floor and the explosion demolished three offices, breaking the floors and doing damage on the floor beneath. ‘The blast, occurring at 7:11 am., awakened guests in the American Hotel nearby and was heard for a number of blocks in the downtown district. Seventy-two windows were broken in the Buder Building. COmREE Ten Feared Lost on Ship. PORT ERIN, Isle of Man, March 18 (®).—Ten lives were feared lost today when the small steamer Citrine of Glas- gow ran ashore and turned turtle off Bradda Head, a bold cliff on the South- west, Coast. Only two men off the boat are known to have reached shore. Radio Programs on Pl-le AN (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Paper Manufacturer, 91, Dies. ‘WATERTOWN, N. Y., March 18 (#). —George W. Knowlton, 91 dean of New | York State Paper Manufacturers as president of the Knowlton Brothers, | Inc., died last night. Four Killed in Explosives Plant. WITTENBERG, Germany, March 18 (#)—The superintendent of an explo- sives factory and three workmen were BONUS 70 REQUIRE NEW §200,000,000 AS DEFCIT GROWS Treasury Faces Necessity for Raising More Cash as Ap- plications Rise. INCOME TAX RECEIPTS FALL OFF $5,000,000 First Day’s Revenues Lag—TU. 8. Drops Refinancing Plans—Ts $437,515,713 Short. By the Assoclated Press. Confronted with a Government in- come outpaced by expenditures, finan- cial minds today cast about for s method of shortening the distance be- tween the two. The picture was presented clearly. On March 16, the Treasury had an actual deficit of $437,515,713. In addi- tion to this, there was a demand yester- day from the Veterans' Bureau for $500,000,000 to meet loans of veterans’ compensation certificates. On the other side of the ledger were lagging income tax receipts. The first day’s collections dropped $5,000,000 under the first day of a year ago, te & one per cent increase on normal income taxes. The for Monday, March 16, showed $13,100,362, as compared with $18,148,963 for the last filing day last year. ‘Tomorrow Indicative. ‘This, however, was not considered b; s, S e St rece! W, to the records for the second and third days after the closiig date last year, &y&: udh(“l’z ‘would l"l o bette: ’I:x‘ whicl ve & T in- dklcfinn of the trend. than prese: be it would be at least $500,~ 000,000 at the end of the Teca: ‘Sear, e 30. He said either a tax increase or a slice in the amount put aside for the sinking fund would be necessary. He l.léd tgfl‘ regard a tax increase favorably WALKS OUT ON STRIKE | = signed a petition protesting against|the fiscal out at the rate of 200,000 weekly, a sharp increase, as the new machinery limbers up with use. The veterans administrator also told Secretary Mellon $1,000,000,000 would The petition charged Dr. Baker had | nity their certificates. Hines mensd $90,000,000 would be required this Week to meet loans and ing value of certificates, loans have been granted 282,874 veterans for sums totaling $104,035,366. Checks Speeded Up. Ijams disclosed that checks were issued much faster between March 7 and March 15 than in the preceding week, with a total of about 160,000 against 100,000. He expressed the be- lef 200,000 would go out weekly unless “the brakes are applied.” Bureau officlals said 1,700,000 vet- erans had borrowed on their certificates under the former law which allowed them 22.5 per cent. They declined to estimate how many of the 1,372,006 applicants under the new law were “repeaters” although expressing the be- n::tmoet of them had borrowed in the P The increased loan value of certifi- cates, Ijams said, has brought more applications for certificates from vet- erans who previously had not sought to ebtain compensation for their war service. There also have been more ::?:esu for disability allowances, he U. S. ENVOY DENIED VISIT TO PRISONER killed today in a blast ‘while they were moving equipment of the plant to a new site. The cause of the explosion was not determined. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 18.—Sound and sight radio broadcasts will be inaugu- rated in the metropolitan area about April 1, an announcement today said. Arrangements are being made by WGBS, a broadcast station on 254 meters, and W2XCR, a television trans- mitter station on 147.5 meters, to broad- cast aural and visual programs, The plan is somewhat to in SOUND AND SIGHT BROADCASTS DUE FROM NEW YORK BY APRIL 1 WGBS to Send Aural Programs in Conjunction With W2XCR Television Transmission Next Month. operation in Chicago, where WMAQ and WBIO operate short-wave tele- vision tlrwu nd!n conjunction with some of their sound programs. Television Lnnmr owned by the Jenkins Television Corpo- ration, while WGBS is a general broad- ting ' station. American Automobile Representa- tive in Jail in Chile in $2,160,000 Suit. By the Assoclated Press. GO, Chile, March 18.—Wil- liam 8. Culbertson, American Ambas- sador, was twice refused permission to- day to visit L. K. Bethune, general manager in Chile of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, in the jail cell where he is held In 2 $2,160,000 suit against his company. Brusadelli & Manni, automobile dis- tributors, brought the suit for commis- sions on 5,500 automobiles which they have sold. Bethune is a citizen of At- lanta, Ga. After his second failure to get - mission to see Bethune, the Ame Ambassador went to Barros Castanon and his inter- vention, but the minister said a local law permitted the holding of foreigners incommunicado.