Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and ‘somewhat warmer tonight; showers tomorrow and cooler. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 77, at 4 p.m. yesterday; Jowest, 47, at 7 a.m. toddy. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 @b ¢ Foening Star. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday's Circulation, 115266 Sunday’s Circulation, 124,511 . st FEntered as sec post office, Wa 85 matter ond _cl ston, D. ¢ ashi WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY, APRIL B 20, 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. FHP TWO CENTS. - U. . TAKES SAFETY STEPSINHONDURAS; Minister at Tegucigalpa Pre- | dicts Revolution Will Be Suppressed Soon. CRUISER MEMPHIS RIDES AT ANCHOR OFF LA CEIBA Rebel Forces Reported Composed of Unemployed, Communists and Criminals. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 20 (#)—Ameri- cans and foreigners of all nationali- ties were represented in no danger as a result of the Honduran revolt in an announcement issucd today by the United Fruit Co “Our advices indicate sporadic uprisings at various points, on the north coast of Honduras,” Said the announcement. “Every considera- tion thus far has been shown in treatment of Americans and all for- eigners. We have no reports indi- cating any danger to foreign men, ‘women and children at any point. At all stations operated by us United Fruit Co. ships are standing by as a precautionary measure, but it is not anticipated that it will be nec- essary for them to evacuate Ameri- can or other citizens.” By the Associated Press. FORMER PAGE WINS FIRST APPEAL IN SUPREME COURT |Attorney Reilly Obtains New Trial for Colored Man Convicted of Slaying Policeman McDonald. Attorney James F. Reilly today won |was tried twice on the charge of §hoot- i o5 Su-|ing tae policeman. The jury at the his first case In the United States Su-| Ing tae policeman. TAc SR fg, nd preme Court, where he once served as|a'yu e was being selected for the second a page, and literally snatched flom the| trial,” counsel tor ;hc dcren;h:x‘;t wey;: r ldridge, col- | up to the bench and requested the cou il Chnjr.'”nfdhsm" f,d (gfl | to include in the examination of pro- ored, convictd of the murder of Harry | g0 ctive jurors a question regarding ra- J. MacDonald, Washington policeman, | cial prejudice. According to the brief, in July, 1920. Aldridge, sentenced to| the lawyer for the defense told the be cxecuted on May 8, was granted a | Court information hadcome to him in- i dicating there may have been such & new trial on Reilly's representation that | prefu af |\ E U8 0 o neof the ju- the trial court erred in refusing 1o |rors at the previous trial. v question prospective jurors as to whether | _The trial judge, however, disallowed ense counsel noted they would have any racial prefudice in | A Gours ot “Arpedls a case where the defendant was col- | later upheld the conviction, and, fol- ored and the deceased a white police- | lowing that defense counsel applied to man the Supreme Court for a review. The Reilly, 28 years old, was appointed by | court consented to review the case on the court to defend Aldridge. the sole question of whether the jury Justiee McReynolds dissented from |should have been examined relative to the opinion, asserting no one knows | racial prejudice precisely what constitutes tace preju-| Alfred Scott Aldridge was one of two {dice, adding that the trial judge and | colored men who had heen taken into| { the appellate court should be sustained | custody by Policeman McDonald in the | in their attitude that there was no vll’cr:]r;nfi"gl:;;clmgce?m‘:pdslhqm;mge':r, | I y afi ridge’s | early one ning in e minCes Rty iTectnk Aldridges | o N TGt IE Y ot ced s FEwo men | The optnion was read by Chicf Justice | in an automobile with him. After they | Hughss. had gone several blocks, a shot was 1o his brief to the United States Su- | fired. wounding the officer. Before coj- preme Court, when tHe case was pre- | Japsing. the policeman fatally wounded sented, Reilly pointed out that Aldridge ROVAL SANESE WALKER ASSALED SEEDAKOTA PLAINS BY .0.P.GTY CLUB SPANISH PEASANTS| WILL BE GIVEN LAND OF GREAT ESTATES New Republic to Indemnify Present Owners by Float- ing Internal Loan. MOVE PLANNED TO WIN SUPPORT IN ELECTIONS | DONT S Universities Reopened in Madrid as Exiled King Picks Fon- tainbleau as Residence. BY CAMILLE LEMERCIER. By Cable to The Star MADRID, Spain, April 20.—The Re-| publican government will soon lssue ccrees for its projected land reform. | Big tes are to be divided up and! given to the peasants. The present proprietors are to be indemnified. For | this purpose an internal loan will be | support for the new government in the BET THEY IDE STEP LIKE WEAK SISTERS AS WE DID! forthcoming elections to the constitu- tional assembly. During the course of the first Sunday after the clections which tolled the knell of the Bourbon dynasty Madrid | offered one of those strange contrasts | which surprise nobody here. While | ANNAPOLIS JUDGE in order to make sure of the peasant American officials today pushed for- ‘ward precautionary measures to protect their citizens from the backwash of revolution along Honduras' northern coast, although official reports failed to show that any American thus far had been injured. Nevertheless, the cruiser Memphis, | By the Assoclated Press. having rushed north from Puerto Cl<: PORTAL, N. Dak., April 20.—Speed- bezas, Nicaragua, stopping briefly en|ing across North Dakota prairies, the rToute at the American-built city of Puerto Castilla, rode at anchor off La | first glimpse of the United States today. Ceiba, the largest seaport of the trou-| En route to ¢Washington and New bled coastal area, while the cruisers| York, King Projadhipok, first reigning ‘Trenton and Marblehead were speeding | Asiatic monarch to visit this country, across the Caribbean from Cuba to'and Queen Rambai Barni gazed upon other Honduran coast towns, where!vast stretches of wheat lands, much they were expected to arrive tonight. of it freshly sown with Spring crops, Offictal tches showed that as their special train carried them to- nvoluua:ud:p:ume:aks be:tn snuré‘:‘; ward the end of their long journey. afternoon and spread along Northern | Richard Southgate and Stanley Horn- Honduras in the areas behind the prin- | beck, re President Hoover and EKing and Queen En Route Across Continent After Border Welcome. King and Queen of Siam got their | cipal fruit-experting seapor.s of Tela, Ceiba nndnl;uzrw Castilla. G Apparently it was in support of presidential aspirations of Oep:. Gregorio | Ferrera. N | U. S. Consuls Anxious. ! Minister Lay at Tegucigalpa tele- graphed the State Department that no | revolutionary force had yet come nearer than 30 miles to any other principal seaport, and predicted that the rising | health would soon end. The rebel forces, he | said, o be made up of un- employed, Communists, the riff-raff and | criminals’of Northern Honduras. Nevertheless, the American consuls at | the coast towns have considered the | situation sufficiently dangerous to ask | that warships be sent. i Minister Lay said loyal troops had regained possession of Progreso, 65 miles from Tela, after the rebels had raided presenting Secretary of State Stimson, respectively, extonded greetings as their majesties arrived late last night at this interna- tional boundary town from Vancouver, | British Columba. Queen Il With Cold. The King, who has been suffering from malaria and bronchitis since | shortly before disembarking at Van- | couver, appeared to be in fairly good as he received the official Ameri- can Reception Committee, but the Queen failed to appear. She was re- ported ill with a cold. A large crowd had gathered here de- spite the late hour in an effort to catch a glimpse of the royal couple. Mr. Southgate, who is acting chief of the division of international confer- ences and protocols, in extending the greetings of President Hoover, said: “I have been directed by the Presi- it, robbed the Bank of Honduras branch |dent to extend to your majesty and to there, requisitioned arms and supplies | Her Majesty the Queen a most cordial and ' commandeered railroad rolling | Welcome to the United States, and to stock with which they advanced to Ura- | assure your majesties of the pleasure co, 40 miles from Tela. with which the people of this country The minister said Puerto Cortez, west- | Will receive their royal visitors. The ernmost of the fruit ports, had not been | President and Mrs. Hoover trust that affected. your majesties’ stay in this country will He added that American consuls at|be in every way enjoyable, and they ask the ports had been instructed to take |ms to say that they are looking for- all possible measures to protect Ameri- | ward with the keenest anticipation to can and other foreign citizens. | your majesties’ visit to Washington.” Managers of the American fruit com- | Operation in New York, “(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ” - After his arrival in Washington, the PORTUGAL TO BEGIN | :n coeratich on bis eve. whicn is the DRIVE FOR MADEIR “To come from Siam to the border | purpose of his long trip to this country. | The King's train is due in St. Paul Trawlers Fitted With Guns to Aid| in Blockade to Starve 1 |1ate today and in Chicago tomorrow Greetings were extended the Ameri- can people in a statement by the King Island Rebels. By the Assoclated Presc, LISBON, Portugal, April 20.—Victor | 1n a bloodless battle with revolutionaries | in the Azores Islands, the government | moved today to re-establish its author ity in Funchal, Madeira, where a rebel | junta has been in control for more | than a fortnight The fishing trawlers Portugal | Gualdino, Azvedo Gomes and Mai Christina, all fitted Wit bg guns ready to sail for Madeira wday to aid in tightening the bloczade about the islands and starve out the rebels | Two destroyers also -had stcam up, | and the steamship Carvalho Araujo | was being transformed at the arsenal | into an emergency auxiliary cruiser t> aid in a determined cffort to bring the island capital back under th> hom: gevernment rule The Azoics vict without firing a s’ beats thr:atened island ports one by ore and thcy cepitulat:d. Portu- | guese troops eniered the cties and| \ere said in a government communique | 10 bave b2en roceived with acclaim by | 1esidents. [ APPLE BLOSSOM FETE | SET FOR MAY 56 Authorities at Winchester Report) was accomplished | of. The government | 11,000,000 Trees Will Be | in Full Flower. By the Assoctated Press. WINCHESTER, Va, Shenandoah apple blossom festival will be held here May 5 and 6 when the| 11,000,000 apple trees in Virginia, West Vlrfinb and Maryland are expected to be full bloom. Miss Patricla D. Morton of Win- hester, lete as more than 100 princesses, nmenunl ughout Southern regal court. lelson F. Richards, director general festival, after a careful survey the blooming tlne'l.: of the United States,” he said, “is to approach the home of a friend, where, seven years ago, the Queen and I spent many happy weeks,” the King said “I bring back a cordial recollection of the courtesies shown to us on that oc- casion, and I look forward to renewing associations then formed, as well as to availing myself of the skill of your sur- geons, whose mastery of medical science is renowned throughout the world “We have sensed the underlying sym- pathy that has characterized the feel- ings of the people of this Republic to- ward my country, and at this threshold I would voice the reriprocal good will of theSlamese nation.” AMERICAN TO SEEK JAPAN- U. S. HOP PRIZE the Associated Press, TOKIO. April 20.—Thomes Ash, jr., American fiyer, registered today with the newspaper Asahi as the first con- testant in its prize offer of $25.000 for the first forcigner to make a non-stop flight between Japan and the United States Ash has taken over the monoplane City of Tacoma, which was left here last year by Harold L. Bromley, after Pe failed mn attempts at a transpacific fight. The monoplane, renamed the Pacific, is being reconditioned Ash's father lives at Enfleld, Hart- ford, Conn By 1POLICEMENW SillFT CHIFFONIER QOFF MAN WHO SHIFTED ON SHIFTY RUG April 20 _1ne Frank Butts Rescued When Telephone Operator Gets Distress Call Over Fallen Instrument After Crash. | Prank Butts, who had occasion to and Butts hallooed a call of distress | shift the chiffonier in his home at 1820 England, will preside over the Queen Shenandosh VIIL, while Clydesdale place last night, put his foot on a sliding rug. The ch‘lgt‘mler shifted. When things quit falling Butts found himself pinned, helpless, to the floor beneath the heavy o Mn:nnury hout or, -wmea A shou the \hcnnm that he wo in the house. Within reach of foot was a telep starid. Butts {Breakdown of Office Charged as Mayor Is Ready to File Original Reply. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20.—Mayor Walk- er's defense of his administration was ready for delivery to Gov. Rousevelt to- day, but scarcely had it been finished | than he found himself subjected to at- | tack from a new quarter. | The latest criticism came from the! | City Affairs Committee of the National | Republican Club, which charged “break- |down and demoralization of the city government.” The first bill of com- | plaint filed with the Governor—that to which the mayor has drawn up his re- | ply—originated with the City Affairs Committee, a group which has no rela- |tion to the Republican Club despite a | stmilarity in namcs. Both call upon the | Governor to remove the mayor from of- | fice. The report of the committee of the | Republican Club attacks the mayor in | s private life as well as in his official position. “Little Time Given Job.” “There have been two troubies with Mayor Walker,” the report reads. “In the first place he has, as the world knows, given little time or attention to his job. “He has joked, junketsd to race| tracks, sat up all night at wild parties, entertained Hollywood and ignored the | clty's problems. We have no concern | with Mayor Walker's private escapades | except in so far as they interfere with his public duties. The mayor of New York | has no right to allow the vagaries of his private life to interfere with reasonable | attention to the responsibilities of his | great office.” | The second objection to the mayor, the report said, is that he “is an in- tegral part of a political machine which is interested in bullding up its own power and filling the pockets of its members rather than in governing the city well.” The City Affairs Committee, to whose charges the mayor wrote his reply, last night asked Gov. Roosevelt's permission to file a rebuttal before he takes action. CRAIN PROBE POSTPONED. Iliness of Attorney Untermyer Delays Proceedings One Day. NEW YORK, April 20 (#).—The - | ness of Samuel Untermyer, counsel for District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain, caused a postponement today of Ref- eree Seabury’s inquiry into the conduct of the district attorney’s office The hearing is to be resumed tomor- row. COMPANION SLAYS TWO “Black Hand” Feud Is Blamed by Philadelphia Detectives. PHILADELPHIA, April 20 (#).—Two men were shot to death by & companion early today in the Manayunk section of the city. Their slayer was captured by police after an exchange of shots. The slain men were Vincent Ventre and Antonio Begossi. Antonio Lei, 40, who police say ad- mitted firing the shots, was captured by & policeman. After_questioning Lei, detectives said they believed the shooting culminated a “black hand” feud and attempt to ex- tort morey from Lei, Among articles found in Ventre's pockets, police said, were papers which appeared to be credentials of a secret soclety. into the transmitter. In a Jiffly a telephone operator had informed No. one was badly 1820 Clydesdale place, hurry. ‘When the reseryes arrived they found Butts still a captive and in him learned he was none the worse for comfortable 't hle" lhl.(dl;: 1,000 persons were piously singing a royal hymn in the Church of San| " URGES CLEAN UP SLIDES 500 FEET DOWN SIDE OF STONE MOUNTAIN. IS SAVED Man Signals With Matches From Narrow Marco, in the heart of the city, a crowd of more than 100,000 gathered in a great Madrid cemetery to honor the | memory of an old republican and So- | cialist leader, Pablo Iglesias. | i Corporations Are Represented. i This was the first public manifesta- | tion held since Iglesias’ funeral in 1925. gpecial Dispatch to The Star. Friends and followers poured from the | > four corners of the city and marched | ANNAPOLIS, April 20.—The forma- in_ perfect order past the splendid |tion of a Law and Order League in mausoleum of the famous Socialist Anne Arundel County. to administer its leader. own law on undesirables, was recom- 'All corporations, from the powerful e ralway syndicates to the modest unions | Mended to the pecple by Judge Robert | Moss In his charge to the grand jury of knife grinders and hawkers, were at the opening of the April term of represented. | (Copyright, 1931) coust ive SR UNIVERSITIES REOPENED. Judge Moss said Anne Arundel | County is the dumping ground for Bal- | timore and other large cities, and that, | when a person became too vile to | stay in the larger cities, he found his | Town Is Criminal Dumpingj Ground for Large Cities, Moss Declares. Students Return to Classes for First| Time Since Before King's Fall. MADRID, April 20 (#).—Students oli all classes returned to their school rooms in Madrid today fof the first time since the deposed monarchist government closed the universities prior to the recent balloting. A dispatch from Brussels said Belgium today recognized the republic. Other countries which have recognized the new republic, according to the an- nouncement here, are France, Mexico Portugal, Uruguay, Cuba, Chile, Argen- tina, Turkey, Czechoslovakia and Jugo- slavia. Church Problém Studied. Italy and the Vatican may delay recognition, but provisional President Niceto Alcala Zamora has made it clear he desires no friction with the Catholic Church and will try to give the Vatican 1o reason for withholding recognition High churchmen are known to be way down into this county. | “It is my beMef,” Judge Moss said, | | “that six men and five women bent | upon law and order could clean up this town in six months. It is my contention that the county is chuck | full of dives and gambling joints, many | of which harbor youths.” | Judge Moss also said he wished the | | President had the power to permit the | | legal sale of liquor for a period of six | | months. "1f such were the case, Judge | | Moss said, so many people now boot- | legging would be thrown out of em- | ployment that every person would have | to sleep with another keeping watch | over him with a gun to protect him from robbers, | The judge also took a slap at birth control” and at what he termed the “spending age,” holding these are sure signs of decay in any government. privately quite disturbed over the estab- | lishment of the republic and the possi- | bility of its developing policies unfavor- able to the Catholic Church. However, they are not making public declarations | to that effect, and the government con- | tinues to indicate its attitude ‘will not be enmity to any creed or church, but | liberty and freedom for all religions. | Women to Demand Rights. Spanish women have decided to de- mand equal rights under the new re- publican regime. Prisoners in Madrid jails have de- cided on a hunger strike and announced | that they will refuse to leave their cells unless they are granted full amnesty. BALTIMORE DAIRYMAN WOUNDED BY BANDITS; Collector, Shot in Back by Two Attempting to Hold Him Up, May Die. By the Associated Press. | BALTIMORE, April 20.—John Ander- | less they are granted full amnesty, .| son, 34, a collector for a dairy, was Puerte. Del Sol. principa) section of | Shot and probably fatally wounded to- Madrid, with senoritas of Republican | day by two robbers, who attempted to families selling pictures of the executed | hold him up while he was making his | Capts. Fermyn Galan and Garcla Her- | | stepmother of the boys, | of the boys. Ledge; Lost Shoes, Shirt and Socks in Descent on By the Associated Press. | ATLANTA, Ga. April 20.—Prank Trainor, who said his home was in | Bristol, Me., £lid 500 feet over the steep | side of Stone Mountain last night, but‘ was unhurt. ‘Trainor was taken from a narrow ledge half way down the mountain by a rescue party of more than 200 per- sons who saw him signaling with matches seven hours after he had tum- | bled over the precipice. | His socks were worn away by the de- | scent and his shirt and shoes were | gone. juntil I fall off.” Steep Incline. ‘Trainor and his wife had been riding in an automobile near the mountain Sunday afternoon with a man named Grifith of Decatur, Ga. Mrs. Trainor later told police her husband told them he “was going to climb this mountain The wife sald she and Griffith then left for Atlanta, thinking Trainor would follow later on a street car. Seven hours later Decatur residents saw his match signals. They let down ropes from above and hauled him off the ledge. He said he remembered “sliding about 50 feet.” Trainor said he and his wife were | en route from Florida to Rhode Island. BOILING LYE BURNS MAN AND TWO SONS Stepmother Arrested After) Hammer Also Is Used on Sleeping Victims. | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20.—Boiling lye | and water were poured on Samuel | Alsenson and his two sons—Harold, 11, | and Martin, 14—as they slept early to- | day in their Brooklyn apartment. Po- ice arrested Mrs. Minnie Aisenson, whom they | found in a nightdress in a courtyard. Detectives said neighbors informed them the stepmother had been jealous A year ago she married Aisenson, who is 42 and a printer, bringing to his house her own child, now 4. Police were called' to the apartment by neighbors, who heard Aisenson's screams. They found him in the hall, | trying to beat down the locked door. | His body was badly seared. Inside the two children were ulmusti as badly burned. In addition, they had VAN DUZER T0 AID TRAFFIG SURVEY Engaged by Park Commission to Lay Groundwork for Count in City. ‘The District's new director of traffic, William A. Van Duzer, who takes office July 1, today was engaged by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission on a per diem basis to aid in formulating a traffic survey in the metropolitan area, and to examine at first hand conditions in the city. This action was taken, following a conference between Mr. Van Duzer and Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice chair- man and executive officer of the com- mission. The conference was also at- tended by Charles W. Eliot, 2d, direc- tor of planning of the commission, who is also secretary of the Metropolitan Highway Committee. which is arrang- ing for the traffic count, beginning July 1, in an area within a 20-mile radius of Washington. In his new duties with the commis- nandez, “martyrs” of the Jaca revolt, | for the benefit of Garcia's widow and Fermyn Galan's mother. The pictures were autographed by President Alcala Zamora. About $1,000 was raised. KING PICKS FONTAINEBLEA Live Near Paris Temporarily. Plans Visit to England. PARIS, April 20 (#).—Alfonso of Spain will establish the seat of his exile at Fontainebleau, a litttle more than 15 " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) i U. S. STEEL ADOPTS PENSION FOR HEADS James A. Farrell, President, to Be Retired at 70 in 1933 Under New Plan. w By the Associated Press. HOBOKEN, N. J.. April 20.—Stock- holders of the Corporation today adopted the proposed pension plan, under which James A. Farrell, president, and for several years a leading figure in the steel industry, | would automitically retire on reaching the age of 70, or in 1933. Mr. Farrell was the first to advocate the new plan before the annual stock- holders' meeting today, pointing out that the old plan had been unatisfac- tory. Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the! Finance Committee, sald he and Mr. Farrell had spent considerable time in perfecting the new plan. “I think that the gension is the greatest thing that this corporation has done with res&ecv, to the welfare of its men in the history of the corporation,” Mr. Fargell said. Compensation under the new plan will be materially greater than it was under the old arrangement. FRANCE MAPS DEFENSE PARIS, April 20 (#).—Measures for and extensive fron- fenses were adopted at 8 meeting of the cabinet umed by President 5 The cabinet selected May 6 as Gl osition, at United States Steel | or the International | assembl. rounds 1n the Guilford residential sec- i tion. Anderson was shot in the back | He was unconscious when taken to'a | bospital and efforts of police to obtain information from him failed. William Adams, a gardener, said the shot was fired by one of the two men, { who apparently “followéd the collector {in a green automobile. He said he heard a shot and saw one of the rob- bers, apparently between 25 and 30 | | years old, get into the car as it was | driven away. Anderson was lying on | | the sidewalk | “Whether the robbers obtained money | :frcm the collector was not determined. | 'YOUTHS FACE QUIZ | IN JAYNES SLAYING/ Two Arrested at Richmond With Arms and Burglar Tools in Car. | i | { ‘Two youths, held for investigation b: Richmond police, were to be questioned | by Washington detectives today in con- nection with the murder of Mrs. Eliz- abeth S. Jaynes, slain April 8 in the| Garden T Shoppe hold-up. The quiz ‘was to be conducted by George Darnell and Robert J. Barrett, who were accompanied to the Virginia | capital by Sheldon Fairchild of the | Underwriters’ Detective Bureau. | The young men—John Kelly and | Charles Crew, both 20 years old—were riding in an automobile bearing District | license plates at the time of their ar- |rest. They were armed, according to police, and a set of tools of the type used by burglars was found in their car. An employe of the tea room, which is at 1835 Columbia road, is said to have told police a photograph of one of the men resembles one of the two bandits who staged the robbery. The license tags, police sald, were h;l;ead to a “James Coneby, 941 Grant P " Austrian Assembly Head Die: y. AR oS been beaten with a hammer. Mrs. | open on Sunday in violation of Aisenson was arrested as she limped out of the courtyard. Police said she had jumped from the rear window of | her apartment, spraining her ankle. | Physicians said Aisenson was burned | from head to waist and might not re- | | cover. SUNDAY MOVIE CAUSE AGITATES PARLIAMENT Ancient Blue Law Invoked Arouses Action for Measure to Make . Sabbath Shows Legal. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 20.—Every member of Parliament who could get there was | in his seat early this afternoon as the House of Commons met to decide whether British movies should remain an- cient blue law recently invoked by the advocates of a “pure Sabbath.” The debate begun about 3 o'clock, and, so great was the interest in this issue, the discussion was expected to t far into the night before the House would take a free vote on the second reading of a measure legalizing Sunday | deals with the movies. . sion, Mr. Van Duzer will lay the ground- work for this traffic count in the metropolitan area, Col. Grant explained, as he has had extensive experience in this field. Will Examine Report. Col. Grant sald Mr. Van Duzer will “pick up some of the threads of the study in the McClintock report,” which traffic situation in Washington. The colonel explained that the District’s new traffic chief will examine the McClintock report, which was prepared at the instance of the commission by Dr. Miller McClintock, head of the Erskine Bureau of Traffic Research, Harvard University, to ascer- tain if Mr. Van Duzer can develop any more recommendations, to be made to the District Commissioners, before they make their final traffic set-up provided for under the new legislation. Mr. Van Duzer has. been given head- quarters in the Navy Department Build- ing, at Seventeenth street and Consli- tution avenue. ‘Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, is chairman of the Metro- politan Highway Committee, sponsored by the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, which will supervise the traffic count in the Greater Wash- ington area, starting July 1 and ex- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) *HOW CUTE SHE DANCED,” FATHER WRITES, KILLING THREE CHILDREN Man Applauds Child’s Last Effort Before Poisoning Her and Two Others; Blames Separation From Wife. By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 20—The bodies of Webster L. Wainwright, 64, and his three small children, whom he killed before hlnftnnguh}l’mseelf, were found early today ome. Po\'liu were quu'-l&t:h;g his ch".‘u’xefu:l' Blancha: . & ] :v’ll-:: w.err? mentioned in notes left by ‘Wainwright. The notes revealed the children had been poisoned before dawn yesterday. ‘Wainwright also had clubbed and hang- ed two of the children, Rosalind, 11, and MMM 9. Jacqueline, 4, died of d to the police, et He also addressed letters to two brothers. In one note he wrote: “Poor Richard, cne of the best boys ever born. . .. To think that Rosa- lind is such a darling girl. . . . There never was & man that loved a child think of AEINOTEOFD.A R URGES PROGRAN OF“ANERICANS” Mrs. Hobart, President Gen- eral, Opens 40th Congress in Annual Address. DRY ISSUE MAY ARISE DESPITE OPPOSITION Mrs. Hoover Joins in Welcome to 4,000 at Flag-and-Flower- Decked Hall. “America must have a program of its own which will unite the people of this Nation for Americanism,” if they are to bave a “better country,” Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president general of the National Society Daughters of the Afncrican Revolution, declared today in her key-note address at the convening of the fortieth Continental Cqngress. “Work” is one of the cures for what ails the United States at this time, Mrs. Hobart emphasized in calling attention to the activities of Communist leaders in “taking advantage of unemploy~ ment” to “stir the minds of sympa- thizers toward hatred of the United States Government and opposition to those who own or manage business.” It was a combatant program that the D. A. R. leader placed before the Con- gress, one calling for renewed vigilance against pacifism, increased naval con- struction, support of the Government's foreign and domestic policies and the enlistment of youth in patriotic move- ments. Nearly 4,000 delegates assembled in the flag-and-flower decked Constitution Hall heard the message of their official leader after Mrs. Herbert ‘Hoover, wife Applause Greets First Lady. Mrs. Hoover received the satisfaction comes turmoil and strife. In the wake of strife comes violence. lence unseats government.” . Hobart's outline of how a “better country” was to be ht about left no doubt in the minds of assembled delegates that it required first the “whole-hearted service of every man and woman worthy to be counted an American” in combating “the lead- ership of Communists who have come to this country to make it another Soviet Russia.” Strangely enough, it was to the na- tion inspiring the Communist propa- ganda she so bitterly assailed that the D. A. R. leader pointed as an example in reminding the Continental Congress that if a “better country” is desired there must be cohesion. “The Soviet Union has it,” she said, referring to the deprivation of its citizens in order to carry out the five-year plan. ‘Throughout her address Mrs. Hobart was frequently interrupted by applause as she appealed for support of the “principles of our forbears” and as- sailed, one after another, the traditional foes of the D. A. R. as the common foes 6f America. New Navy construction to the London naval treaty limit was advocated by the president general as a protection for ocean trade and the requirements of national defense. “With this in mind there is every Justification for our building up to the London naval treaty requirements,” she declared. Both the Army and the Navy, she emphasized, have qualified as “peace institutions.” Gains in Atheism Cited. As some of the things showing the “trend of the times” which should cause “astonishment,” Mrs. Hobart listed “gains atheists are making in their attempts to de-Christianize Christ- mas and Easter,” the “grasp Commu- nism is getting in election booths, in open-air meetings, in front of factories, in book stores, in school rooms, on the streets,” and the “daring of Socialists in organizing clubs in 158 or more col- leges, in allowing their national repre- sentatives to ride down the streets in “Truth” in referring to Federal ex- penditures for national defense and preparedness was urged by Mrs. Hobdrt, who declared that the sum should be compared, with the total Government (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) News of D. A. R. Full reports of the D. A. R. Convention, April 19 to 26, inclusive: . Mail—Postage S., Mexico mn‘:admtwlml:_r. representative at Constit Hall er The Evening Pre- paid U. and Canada e 3 SE S