Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. 1U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy; probably showers tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight: colder tomor- row. Temperatures—Highest, 78, at 3:30 pan. yesterday; lowest, 57, at 7 am. today. Fuil report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 @ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fhening “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 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 119,410 ] d second ¢ office, i s matter Washington, y D WASHINGTON, D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1931—FORTY-FOUR PAGE (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. INSURGENT ATTACK REPORTED NEAR AT PUERTD CABEZAS Sandino Said to Have Large Number of Men on Nica- raguan Border. AMEPICANS EVACUATED FROM HONDURAN TOWN Honduran Revolt Apparently Broken—U. S. Warships at Strategic Points. By the Associated Press, PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua, April 22 —Persistent rumors of an impend- ing attack by Nicaraguan insurgents ©n Puerto Cabezas led to additional pre- | cautions for the safety of this banana | plantation center and Americans liv- | ing hereabout. Workmen here and along the coast | have resumed cutting of bananas wmlci patrols of the Guardia, reinforced by detachments from Managua with ma- chine guns and ammunition, search: the jungles for insurgent bands. : Gen. Augusto Sandino was said to be at Altamirano, on the banks of the Yoro River, which forms the northern boundary of Nicaragua, with a large Rumber of men. | The U. 8. . Asheville, with American | and foreign women and children ref- ugees from down the coast, is sailing | from here, with the aircraft carrer | Langley 1eported ready to replace it. | The U. S. S. Rochester, with Rear Ad- | miral Arthur Smith aboard, is arriving here from Bluefields. President Moncaco, a Managua dis- patch said, characterized those respon- sible for recent rajds in the coast sector as “not civilized” “We feel | those who still follow banditry and who BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. 1 | VIATION history was written at | the White House today. when, | before President Hoover and | aviation notables of the world, | Jim Ray, lanky and tactitur test pilot, landed an autogiro or “wind- | mill plane” in the south White House grounds to receive, with Harold F. | Pitcairn, the Collier Trophy for the | | greatest American acronautical achieve- | ment of the past year. Ray's landing was one of the most spectacular ever mede in the Capital. i “Drops” on White House Lawn AUTOGIRO MAKES A PERFECT LANDING AS HOOVER LOOKS ON. CANNON, IN LETTER, GHALLENGES NYE PROBE AUTHORITY “Functions of Grand Jury” Seen in Attempted Inquiry in Virginia Campaign. QUESTION IS RAISED ON BISHOP’S HEALTH | "Committce Makes Correspondence | Public—Investigation Blocked | i Year Ago. | | By the Associated The Senate Campaign Funds Commit- | tee made public letters from | Bishop James Canon, jr. of the | Methodist Episcopal Church South, chal- | {lenging 1its authority to investigate his ‘,campalzn expenditures in 1928. | The churchman contended the consti- | tutionality of the Senate committee's | inquiry into the use he made of $65,000 | furnished by E. C. Jameson of New York to defeat Gov. Alfred E. Smith, the | Democratic presidential candidate, in; toda tion.” Bishop Cannon said the resolution introduced by Senator Glass, Democrat Virginia, under which the committee | has been proceeding, attempted to make { the Senate group “assume the functions {of a grand jury | The committee also made public cor- | spondence of Chairman Nye, Bishop | Cannon and the bishop’s physician, Dr. | L. Sexton. concerning the church- | nan’s physical condition and his ability » appear before the commiitee, News Reports Cited. In a letter to Dr. Sexton, Chairman | Nye pointed out newspaper reports of {Bishop Cannon's appearancs before | various church organizations and said: “These things tend to make it appear | He brought his big machine down in the face of a briskeand rapidly veering wind to a perfect landing on a sloping bit of lawn surrounded by towering trees and the south portico of the White House. The actual landing was made two attempts, and Ray brought the machine to a_stop on the do slope after it had rolled less than 10 feet. He was warmly congratulated by President Hoover, Orville Wright. men R m t0 { 1.5, T0 RECOGNIZE SPANISH REPUBLIG Stimson Instructs Laughlin, kill in these hours of Nicaragua's travail | and efforts to reconstruct the quake- | torn. area are not civilized.” he said. | “Even if previously they have enjoyed ! some favorable opinion, they have now | fallen from the world’s respect.” AMERICANS REMOVED. Women and Children Evacuated in Honduran City. By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 22. —Fear of an attack by a rebel band the bishop is merely making sport of the committee.” Bishop Cannon, in his reply, said his | physician advised him he would en- danger his life by doing the prelimina; bers of the cabinet and other dis- work necessary to an appearance before | D.A.R.RAPS SOVIET rowing how he expended the funds. The bishop said his activity as pre- siding officer of his church's general missionary conference in New Orleans, i to which Nye had made reference, was | “purely perfuncta In a later letter, | Bishop Cannon said if the committee | decided to continue its investigation | Teachers’ Allegiance Oath Virginia was “open to very serious ques- | - {Gas Gives Out on Return Trip Will PARTIES ¢} ARE ASLEEP WAITING FOR THE ECHO! EN OUTE TO PAR | American Says Germans Shoot Projectiles From Rome After Fast |From Berlin to New York London-Italy Flight. | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, April 22—Half-hour | transatlantic mail service with com- mercial rockets oS the carriers, was pre- dicted today by G. E. Pendray, vice president of the American Interplane- tary Society, who has just returned from conferences in Germany with leaders of a similar society. He said German scientists predict that in two years rockets powered by liquid fuel will fly across the Atlantic every half hour, carrying 50 pounds of { mail or merchandise. | “When I left Germany a few weeks |ago plans were complete for sending By the Associated Press HESTO! ril 22.—Offi- cials at the airdrome here this after- noon received word that Capt. Frank Hawks, racing tack on a round-trip flight between here and Rome, had been forced down 87 miles scuth of Paris by lack of fuel. The plane was not damaged. He will continue his flight tomorrow. TRIED FOR ROUND TRIP. operating nmear La Lima, banana and | sugar settlement in the Cortez zone, has | led to evactuation f American women | and children to Tela, now considered | safe from molestation by the revolu- | tiomary forces. The principal rebel activity today ap peared to center abcut San Pedro Sula, key city on the railway line between the capital and the coast. A large forcz of government troops has been L fl&g«, - o ,g;ut. ‘eter C. Ceyer, American naval attache, has gone to San Pedro Sala to seek a conference with the rebel lead- ers in the hcpe of assuring a neutral | zone in the area. The legation has ar- | ranged for such a zone. | With only two instances of renewed | fighting reported, there is widespread | feeling here that the revoit is near termination. One of yesterday's clashe: occurred ¥hen government troops and | rebels engaged in a skirmish four miles | from Tela, the rebels being driven back | don | empire was willing to begin diplomatic | relations with the new government, it into the mountains. Government troops arrived at Corozito, banana settlement, in time to repulse | a rebel attack, killing two and wounding several otners in a brief battle. All danger of an attack at Trujillo was considered past, with the rebels reporied entirely cleaned cut of the region. REVOLUTION TADES. American Minister Reports Honduras Tranquil. Associated Pr American galpa, reported t ment today that t tion to the saf Northern Honduran co ing to fade, o combats ha he been reported a wk ious area du last Only in the § ] Puerts Tebelled in the T cts had scatte Te d into t tan Pe attempting o Tara, a veteran rev leader of th: known to b sictance to Government for dmiral Arthur St. Clair Sm ving dispatch from Rear Admiral C. 8. Kempff, commander of Cruiser Division, No, 2, at Trujillo Admiral Emith’s dispatch said “Commander spccial service squadron visited Cape Gracias a Dios, Nicaragu today; found conditions Guiet; no bar dits here since April 15 hension ashore of pos: bandits, though 1 consider this unlikely Conditions at Blueflelds and Puerio Cabezas reported quiet.” His message said the cruiser Memphis By the Associated Press. vith the Honduren government | Secrtary | formally carry out his instructions by calling at the Spanish foreign office ! today. E that the Burks was lifted and | | ! Prohibition Men Fail to Find Any One Who Will Rent Envoy at Madrid, to Call at Foreign Office. Secretary Stimson announced today {that Ambassador Laughlin, at Madrid, | ! would extend American recognition to ;me new Spanish government. The recognition was to be extended on instructions of the Secretary. The Ambassador in his report to the faid he had arranged to May Send Madariaga. ‘With the annbuncement by the Lon- foreign office that the British | was felt in Washington that the prin- cipal nations of Europe and Latin America were now 2greed in regarding the change of government as an ac- omplished faci. The State Department today had not | been approached with regard to the | appointment of Salvad 1 not s, de Mada ed scholar and author, to be < nish republic's firs. Ambassador o ashington. Although diplomatic name of a ne to the Ambassador bmitted procedure incident ik dealis incxperienced not regarded chances of € cceptance by the Uni name were submitted a: y-appointed 11 known at the ago, on a 1 VIOLENT WINDSTORM SWEEPS LYNCHBURG One Home Unroofed, Five Others Damased—Debris and F. Trees Litter Streets afterncon, badly damazing nces, br ng down trees g debris in the ets. No o 5 ured. The roof of the house of C. L. sed high in the Three adjacent residences were par- y unroofed. and Embargo on Imports From Russia Asked. Impatience with Congress for failing to act on the Oddie bill providing for an embargo on Russian imports was ex- | pressed today in the report of the Legis- lative Committee of the National So- ciety, Daughters cf the American Revo- lution, urging & campaign to “arouse the public to the real menace of Soviet dumping.” Again opposing Tecognition of the | Soviet, the committee report, rendered | by its chairman, Mrs. Fred C. Morgan, likewise indorsed findings of the special House Committee on Communist Ac-| tivities. Representative Fish of New York, chairman of that House group, will address the D. A. R. session Priday. Legislation to require school teachers to take the oath of allegiance, restric- ticn of immigration from Latin America and support of military training in schools and universities also was de- manded in the report. Election Chief Topic. : spirited _electioneering behalf of nine A of vice dent general. Patton of P didate for h in: afternoon the will be receiv White y President a . Hocver. rst time in the history of the he pages have been invited by First Lady” to assist her in receiv- Denunciation of “Soviet dumping” in country was voiced vigorously in Morgan’s Teport. During_the past year we have had an cbject lessor: in the damaging effect of permitting commodities produced by organized slavery to be received in a country st important factor in smic welfare,” the report stated ect of tis Gumping is not only ze our markets, cripple our and but at the same time the hold of an un- upon us. Teachers' Oath Asked. ical a: the le inued on Page 4, Column 1.) EX-PRESIDENT WARNED Paraguayan Request to Schaerer to Leave. ION, Paraguay, April 22 (@) 1 of police has notified th guayan president leave the country, conseguence of a bance Sunday at Luque. Par; Schaerer, t sumably tionary d pr istur iLEONARDTOWN REFUSES OFFICE FOR DRY AGENT HEADQUARTERS| to U. S., So They Stage Raids. which recognizes the working | add to our problems of | In these days | Tord to be penny wise and { Sp¢ » de. | here, is dead b de- | * oath |son climbed over some prize flowers of Indorsed |a D. A. R., the cme State organ- | 4 to just why |Jast night as the latter 3 islation” and | w.th this mental attitude on the | jai here and a charge of first degree | Disturbance Prompts Eduardo despite his challenge of its authori he would like to be given an oppor- | tunity to argue the legal question in- | | volved. Views of Physicians. | “While my physician here indicates I | may not be strong enough to take up | the work of examining in detail my bank accounts and my files and. pre- | paring for an appearance before the ! committee on factual matters invelved | in the investigation,” he said. “vet he | thinks it is possible I may be able to meet the committee with or without | counsel for the purpose of this legal discussion any time after May 11.” “An examination of Senate resolution | 403 (the Glass measure).” Bishop Can- non aid in one letter, “clearly indicates that the attempt is made to authorize | your committee to assume the functions | of a grand jury, first by inquiring into the violations of any provisions of the | Federal corrupt practices act and sec- | ond, to investigate fraudulent conver- | sion to private uses of any campaign | funds. H “Investigation of such matters, the | Supreme Court has ruled, is a matter for | | the courts and not for Congress * * *” | Challenge Is Second. This is the second time Bishop Cannon has challenged the legal right |of a Senate committee to investigate {the manner in which he spent the ! | money turned over to him by Jameson | |in 1928, 9 ago he blocked a similar | by Committee. The Glass resolution was designed to give the Nye committee power which | { the Lobby Committee did not have and | the Cannon case was called to the at- tention of the Campaign Committee | by Representative Tinkham, Republican, | Massachusetts, shortly after the passage | | of the Glass measure. 'BABY IN FLOWER BED | RESULTS IN TRAGEDY | i 74-Year-0ld Hagerstown Man| Shoets 24-Year-01d Father to Death After Quarrel. Md., April 22 4, of St. James, use his 17-month-old The neighbor, John H. 74, shot Irving to death stood on his neighbor. Rowland, aged back porch. The aged man is held in | murder will be filed against him today. The men lived side by side in a dou- ble house. Several days ago the young- ster, permitted by his parents to play ’m the yard, crawled into the Rowland flower bed next door. Rowland announced his intention of erecting a fence and was preparing to do so yesterday evening, according to neighbors, when there were words be- tween him and Irving. Rowland told the police Irving threatensd to “beat me up if 1 bullt the fencs Rowland said he went to the house, loaded a shotgun, cocked both barrels and put the stock to his shoulder and that when he lowered the gun he had his finger on tize trigger and both barrels went off The charge struck Irving in the body. The wounded man was brought to the hospital here and several blood transfusions were resorted to, but he died early today. George Schamel, St James storekeeper, told the police Rowland_had purchased a dozen shot- gun shells an hour before the shooting. i | Hawks Made Hop Down in 5 Hours | and 20 Minutes. ROME, April 22 (#).—Capt. Frank Hawks, aviation speedster, took off from the Centocelle Airport at 1:42 pm. (7:42 am. E. 8. T.) for Paris on a return flight to London, where he was | due “about tea time.” | “So lcng, boys,” he shouted above the roar of his motors as a group of avia- | tors cheered him on his way. | Hastens to Dinner. The low-winged monoplane which carried him across the American con- tinent faster than any other man rolied down the runway, gathering speed, took off smoothly, circled in a bank and darted off to'the north. Hawks intended to fly along the codst toward Paris, possibly halting there for fuel if headwinds deplete his fuel sup- | ply, but he would rather race right| through to London without stopping. It seems more important to him than anything else that he be on time for a | dinner to be given in his honor by the London Aero Club this evening. Fiew Down in Five Hours. flew herc from England this in 5 hours and 20 minutes, rising to 23,000 feet above the Alps and fiying through atmospheric conditions | which were not perfect for his purpose. | If he makes as good time on a return fiight, he will reach Heston Airport, | outside London, at 7:02 pm. (1:42 p.m E. S. T.). London Summer time now, so that would put him there at 6:42 pm. by the city clocks Expert fyers who saw him off. how- er, thought his time would nct be so fast on the way back, for there is al- ways wind resistance on a wesiward flight . SPANISH PRESIDENT HITS ENVOYS’ CRITICS He morning Madrid Paper Had Published Of- fensive Allusions to U. S. and Portuguese Ministers. By the Associated Press. MADRID, April 22.—President Niceto | Alcala Zamora has asked the press tore- frain from criticizing diplomatic repre- sentatives of foreign countries. He stated that the question of judging foreign | diplomats was the duty of the govern- ment alone and he lamented attacks against diplomats in a Madrid paper. He added that diplomats had the full confidence of their governments and | also of the Spanish government. He| apologized to those offended by the| press in recent days. The newspaper El Crisol yesterday | criticized Mello Barreto, Portugu Minister, and also alluded, in a veiled way, to Irwin B. Laughlin. United States Minister, alleging that Mr. Laughlin had on'a number of occasions used uncomplimentary terms when re-| ferring to the members of the re- | publican government The government resumed the election program today, but has not vet decided the exact date on which to ballot for a constituent as- sembly. Officials are attempting to stimulate | public construction to relieve unem- ployment, but no_detailed solution has been reached. Governmental depart ments generally are completing their | reorganization and the entire country continues quiet. { FRANCE ARRESTS 4 SPYS | STRASBURG, France, April 22 (P).— Police, co-operating with the military authorities here, have arrested four Al- study of | capt. | McIntosh of the Fairfax County, Va, police. striped denim garments worn by the | | bloodhounds had found up the newest tvpe rocket by liquid | fuel,” said Mr. Pendray. “German sci- entists, working secretly on the rockct, seem to have solved the basic problem of sending rockets soaring for miles into the sky by liquid power. Our trouble here has been that the dry fuel now used does not yield sufficient power for the long flight.” “The Germans have charted the course from & field in Germany to a field in the vicinity of New York, where the projectiles will land,” said Mr. Pen- dray. “A pa.achute will be used for the landing. The same rocket will then be shot back across the Atlantic over another course with a cifferent cargo.” ENBREYCAPTURED AFTER AL BREAK "Police Find Bandit Walking South of Alexandria—One Man Still at Large. P: Calvin Embrey, 20-year-old bandit, who led a spectacular escape from Lorton Reformatory yesterday, was captured early this afternoon on River road, two miles south of Alex- andria. Embrey surrendered calmly to H. J. Durer and Officer Carl He was still clothed in the Lorton prisoners, Worn out, scratched and bleeding from his 24-hour flight through the underbrush ahead of armed guards and bloodhounds, Embrey was sauntering along the road when the police closed in on him. He was identified im- | mediately and started back to Lorton. Man Still at Large. Capture of Embrey, sentenced to 14 years for the hold-up of a Mount Ver: non Savings Bank messenger, leaves only one still at large of the four who caped in a sensational rush from the prison garage to an_automobile be- | longing to John Bischoff, one of the | prison_officials. He is Lawrence Sulli- van, sentenced for larceny. The other two, William Wright and Robert Wells, serving terms for grand larceny and robbery, were captured soon after the quartet left the machine near Accotink when a tire blew out. Half an hour after the quartet had escaped police found Bischoff's auto- mobile deserted on the roadside near Accotink, Va., and within 15 minutes two of the fugitives. Embre woods. (Cont y, however, fled through the toward Fort Humphries, Va. ued on Page 2, Column 2.) RASKOB, AL SMITH Leaders Discuss Democratic Finances—Chairman Re- peats Wet Aims. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 22.—Three lead- ing figures of the Democratic party— John J. Raskob, Joustt Shouse and Al- fred E. Smith—conferred here today on the party deficit. | Mr. Raskob, chairman of the Demo- | cratic National Committee, said the con- | ference had no other significance, and candidates or policies were not to be | discussed. Mr. Shouse is chairman of the Executive Committee. Won't Resign, He Says. | Mr. Raskob said he had no intention of resigning, declaring demands for his | resignation had come from dry Dem- | ocrats not connected with the National Committee. “Not one national commit- | teeman or committeewoman has asked ! my resignation,” he said. ug‘ | The only flaw in Mr. Raskob's ptéiure | of Democratic success in 1932, he said, is the possibility the party may not see the necessity of setting itself forth prop- erly on the prohibition question. The | party platform, he insists, must pledge !its representatives in Congress to sup- | port a resolution amending the Consti- | tution to afford the people an opportu- | nity to decide the prohibition question | for' themselves. Finds Less Opposition. | There is not the opposition to his pro- | hibition plan that there was before it | was understood, Mr. Raskob said. He expressed the belief the business depression was ended. The prob- | lem, he said, will be to guard against its | repetition. He believes that will be one of the three live issues of the next | presidential campaign. | “Republicans and Democrats should | state clearly what they stand for,” he |said. “There are three live subjects | to be decided at the next election—pro- hibition, the tariff and establishment of an economic balance that will not only restore prosperity but make impossible | the recurrence of depressions of such | grave severity as that through which | we_have just passed.” |~ The Democratic chairman does not | believe improvement of business condi- | tion will benefit Republican chances. |“It is my firm belief,” he said, “tha }the Republican party is ¢hot to pleces.” ILILLIAN PAGE, ACTRESS boat,” Recalled by Tragedy at New York Hotel. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 22—Lillian Page | Greer of Chicago, a showgirl, who made er last Broadway appearance | “Showboat,” plunged to death from a | window on the twenty-second floor of | her hotel in Fifty-first street early | today. Two friends, also showgirls, called on Miss Greer early last night and later the three went to the room of Jack Horowitz to play cards. About mid- night, while Horowitz was out of the | room, Miss Greer complained of feel- ing ill and crossed to the window. A | moment later the other girls heard her |scream and saw her plunge through | the window. Miss Greer was known on the stage as Lillian Page. Her home was at 1250 ot ke ) SHOISEHEET DIES IN 22-STORY FALL| Broadway Appearance in “Show-| in! | Stone_street and she was married to| Max Lipsey, who lives at the Knicker- {bocker in Chicago. A telegram found {in her room said: “Money will reach you Tuesday.” COURT REQUIRES McLEAN TO SAY| IF HE IS D. C. OR MEXICO RESIDENT |Wife’s Counsel in Maintenance Suit Given Right to An- swer in Reference to His Divorce Case. Edward Beale McLean, newspaper publisher, must advise the District Su- preme Court where he claims residence, whether in Mexico or in the District of Columbia, according to a ruling to- reported all quiet at La Celba and Tela, | Special Dispatch to The Star. Honduras, while the Marblehead, at| LEONARDTOWN, Md., April 22— Puerto Cortez, advised that government | Plans of prohibition authorities to es- officials at San Pedro Sula were some- | tablish a headquarters for hern whet worried, but that the cruiser's| Maryland operations here ® e presence had a good effect on morale. | yesterday when agents from more - and Washington were un to find any one who would rent ther £n office. They expect to establish za office Radio Programs on P;le C7 i | here with a small clerical force and 10 men. Three men already are here. ‘The town does not like the idea of having a base of enforcement opera- Retired Teacher Dies. GALESBURG, TIL, April 22 (). day by Supreme Court Justice Jesse C. satians, three of whom are alleged to | Adkins, have confessed delivering plans of fron- tier fortifications to Germany. The court, at request of counsel for Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who is suing for maintenance for herself and Miss ¥. Lillian Taylor, a public school teacher for 50 years until her retire- ment last August, died today. She was a graduat> of Mount Holyoke College and author of s2h-ol text books. tion here. The agents made three ralds yester- | day in €t. Marys County, destroying es many and arresting William Mat- tinglas ‘The 'investigations, which are con- tinuing, are said to reveal that the conspirators tried to steal the new French machine gun model of 1924 and 1925 to deliver to the Reichswehr, three children, held that the answer of McLean in which he stated ihat while he is residing in the District he has legally commenced a suit for divorce in Mexico against his wife, was too indefi- nits. He allowed McLean’s counsel 10 days to amend the answer. ‘The court clearly intimated that Mc- Lean must select the place of his resi- dence and that the amendment should ot out the provision of the Mexican law so that the court might see if he was proceeding legally prosecution o dkins. been enjol . McLe: TepresentDby Attor- | lower house. neys Peyger, Edelin & PeyseMgand his wife by~Attorneys Nelson T. $artson sociation will be ex-officio heads of and Albert W. Fox. i AUTOISTS CONPLY WITHNEW PARKING RULEONFIRST DAY Inspector Brown Satisfied With Very Small Number of Violators. POLICEMEN TO INFORM PUBLIC OF REGULATION Arrests in Restricted Zones to Be Deferred Until Motorists Learn Change in Law. The new and drastic prohibition against all automobile parking in the heart of Washington's congested zone between 8 and 9:30 a.m. which went into effect today met with “reasonable compliance,” it was announced by In- spector E. W. Brown in charge of the Traffic Bureau. Inspector Brown with his assistant, Capt. B. A. Lamb, made personal ob- servations in the restricted zone during the no-parking period, and both said they were satisfied with the results, even though there were a number of violations. No arrests were made, how- ever, the violators escaping with a warning. A majority of the violators, Inspector Brown observed, were among motorists from other States, who were unfamiliar with the new regulations. Nearly all of these cars were parked in the vicinity of hotels and apparently had been on the street all night. Will Delay Arrests. Inspector Brown had 24 traffic offi- cers, foot men and motor cycle men scattered throughout the forbidden parking zone to enforce the parking ban, and these men will be kept on duty regularly in this area during the morn- ing rush period. Within a few days, after drivers have had a reasonable time to become familiar with the no- parking area, instructions will be given them to arrest all violators. In the meantime, the officers will conduct a campaign of education and merely warn offenders to get out of the restricted zone until after’ 9:30 o'clock. “For a new and unusual regulation,” said Inspector Brown, “I think there was reasonable compliance.” “Naturally, there were a number of cars parked in the restricted area. We expected that because of the &:t number of visitors in Washington. - ‘parau\'ely. only a few bore District li- cense. tags, which shows that the public in general is co-operating in this new experiment to relieve traffic congestion.” Other Spaces Fill Early. Inspector Brown also observed that as a result of the parking ban, p.rm spaces on the fringe of the restri area where one and two-hour is permitted from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., up much earlier than usual, and that there appeared to be an abundance of parking space in the business section shortly after 9:30 o'clock. The parking spaces filled rather rapidly, however, between 10 and 11 o'clock, but vacant places could be found on nearly every block, and as a result much of the cruis- ing in search of a place to park was eliminated. ‘The principal obstruction to a more general compliance of tne regulation this morning, according to Inspector Brown, was due to motorists who came into the restricted area between 9:15 and 9:20 o'clock, and remained in their cars so they cculd drive if an officer approached. This does not constitute compliance with the regulation, he said, as the purpose is to keep all parked ve- hicles out of the area until 9:30 o’clock so moving traffic may have the full ad- vantage of the streets. Inspector Brown said he observed, too, that a number of trucks, par- ticularly those of the light delivery type, had backed into the curb in the restricted area to load or unload mar- chandise. This method of parking light trucks is forbidden, he declared, as the rules require them to park parallel within six inches of the curb. A truck backed into the curb, he ex- plained, may obstruct two lanes of moving traffic, whereas it will only obstruct one if parked parallel. Traffic . officers will be given special instruc- tions to watch for such violations. Physicians Complain. ‘The only complaints received at the Trafic Bureau when enforcement of | the no-parking regulation began, came from several physicians, who were in a quandry as what to do with their cars if called on a professional case into the forbidden parking area. Inspector Brown advised them that such cases constituted an emergency, and if they parked he thought arrangements could | be made with the officer to overlook the violation. Such cases, he pointed out, would have to be settled on their in- dividual merits, as traffic officials did not contemplate issuing an order giv- ing physicians blanket authority to park between 8 and 9:30 a.m. in the re- stricted zone. ‘Taxicab service at the hotels in the no-parking area has been affected seriously, it was said, because public vehicles come under the ban as well as private cars. Cabs are not permitted on the hotel hack stands until after 9:30 o'clock, but Inspector Brown said he did not think the cabs would be in- terfered with if they did not remain longer than several minutes in front of a hotel while waiting, on call, for a passenger. Inspector Brown and Capt. Lamb plan to continue their personal obser- vations in the no-parking zone for several days, and both believe that compliance will be more general as the public becomes more familiar with the regulations. CUBAN HOUSE APPROVES POLITICAL AMNESTY ACT By the Associated Press. HAVANA, April 22.—The House of Representatives, in session since 3 p.m. yesterday, early today approved a law granting ,general amnesty to all those accused of political crimes, amended to exclude those charged connection with the attempt on President Mach- ado’s life February 23. Earlier in the night the Senate ap- proved creation of the National Sugar Institute, which will have the power to agree to any stipulation of an interna- tional covenant without the ratification of Congress being necessary. The au- thorizing measure now goes to the Members of the National Export A'.hl; Sugar N