Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Pa' wly cloudy and slightly warmer; tomc rrow, cloudy and warmer, probably TRIN ; moderate northeast, shifting to !, winds. Temperatures—Highest, 43, 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 32, at 8 am. ye jterday. g Full report on page 6. = No. 17:405—No. 32,072. — Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. < A APANESE PI KIANGWAN IS POUNDED BY ARTILLERY, PLANES, TANKS AND INFANTRY Night Club Diners Leave Cabarets to Tune of Cannonading Report Enemy Forces in Retreat. FIGHT DUE NEAR FOREIGN COLONY Chinese Repulsed in Attempt to Cross Woosung Creek. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, February 20— Night club habitues came out of Shanghai's crowded cabarets early this morning to the tune of can- | nonading on the northern front. The cabarets lock their doors at 10 p.m., with the patrons in- side, to get around the curfew established in the International Settlement early in the hostilities between China and Japan. The locked doors are advertised as & drawing card. AIl customers in- side who lack passes must remain there at least six hours until the curfew is off. Lightning-like flashes of silver- colored fire from the artillery on the battle front, illuminating the black sky, added zest to the home- ward journey of the bon vivants. SENATORS OPPOSE BOVCOTT OF APAN the Whi River. | s o in the Whangpoo RIVE. . |Hope President Hoover Wil border of the International Set- Disregard Petition of Peace Advocates. By the Associated Press Japanese headquarters said | their soidiers entered Kiangwan,' objective of the great Shanghai | offensive, under a smashing at- tack today by Japan’s artillery, | tanks and airplanes against the | dogged Chinese defenders. Whole Chinese artillery units had been blown to bits by the| bombardment, the Japanese said. | At the Woosung end of the battlefront another artillery duel tlement was imminent, Japanese and Chinese soldiers _takmg up positions in the Chapei area. A devastating bombardment by big guns and bombing planes ploughed up Chapei as the Japanese launched the second phase of their offensive by swinging down on the Chinese Chapei positions from the rear Line Straightened Out. Successful in yesterday’s fighting in straightening out their line all the way from Chapel to Woosung, the Japanese started the second day of the battle BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Hoover will disregard the petition addressed to him by President | | A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, New- ton D. Baker and other prominent peace advocates that the United States join with the League of Nations in from materially better positions. They started it with a bombardment which made yesterday’s artillery action seem popgun. Thegepgc“enmed to be no chance that Kiangwan could hold out much longer, as the Japanese had established them- selves in force on three sides. Chapei Attacked From Rear. Meanwhile, the battered old Chinese guns at the Woosung forts showed sur- prising life. Eayly today they started pounding the Japanese fleet in the Whangpoo. The warships sent back as good as they got, maneuvering in the darkness with every light covered in crder to make it as difficult as possible for the gunners ashore. B In directing their attack on Chapei from the rear the Japanese were car- Yying out their original plan, which was to crack the Chinese middle at Kiangwan and then mop up the two ends of the 16-mile front. | Since the action started the Chinese positicns have been raked by artillery and blasted by huge airplane bombs, but there has been little hand-to-hand{ fighting. The Japanese pushed ahead from one to two and a half miles, and they did it with a minimum of bay- onet work Veting Light in Japan. The Japanese held their general elec- tion vesterday and war bulletin boards competed with poliing places for the public attention. The vote was light. The Tokio government prepared its answer to the recent appeal of the Council of the League of Nations and it was authoritatively said that it con- tained some “plain speaking” about China’s action in calling for a special session of the League Assembly. Fighting was revived in Manchuria when 500 Chinese attempted to capture (Continued on Page 4. Column 4.) TWO DEATHS LINKED IN PHILADELPHIA 0117 | Police Make Effort to Connect Slaying of Watchman With Second Crime. By the Associated Press. i LANSDALE, Pa., February 20.—Police of Lansdale and Philadelphia joined today in efforts to solve the slaying of Samuel Forte, night watchman in a factory here, and Norman R. Bechtel in Philadelphia. While funeral services for the 45- year-old watchman and father of 10 children were being held, Capt. Harry Heanley of the homicide squad of Phila- delphia said an investigation would be made of the possibility there might have been some connection between the two deaths. Chief of Police Samuel Woffinden of Lansdale said he believed Forte might have been slain because he planned to leave a religious cult and join his old church. Heanley revealed that Bechtel was a member of a secret organization, but said it was not a religious group. Bechtel was stabbed and beaten to death after driving to Philadelphia from Lansdale. Forte was strangled and left hanging last Wednesday in a locker room of the ‘Werner Foundry Co. here. STAR AND BABY GUARDED Esther Ralston Arrives in New York After Baltimore Threats. NEW YORK, February 20 (®.— Esther Ralston, former motion picture actress, was given a police guard today when she arrived with her infant child from Baltimore, where she said she had received kidnap threats. An officer met her at the Pennsyl- vania Station and escorted her to a hotel, where a patrolman was assigned to_watch her room. Miss Ralston said shé expected to remain in New York until police had | boycott of Japan.” an economic boycott of Japan, if Japan is proved the aggressor in war with China, should he follow the advice of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee; Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader of the Senate, and other prominent members of Congress. Senator Borah said last night he did | | not question the good faith of Presi-| dent Lowell and the others, but added | that he believed the entry by the United States into any agreement to boycott Japan was a sure way to war. Believes Congress Against Boycott. ‘The Republican leader of the Senate, Senator Watson, asked: “Why should we link ourselves with the League of Nations, of which we are not a member? Furthermore, this pro- posal to establish an economic boycott against Japan or any other nation is a | matter which would have to come be- fore the Congress. In my opinion, there is not the slightest probability that Copgress would declare an economic In informed quarters it was said last night that there seemed no likelihood that the President would undertake to recommend to Congress the establish- ment of an economic boycott; certainly not unless different circumstances should arise. It was argued that with a strong sentiment in Congress against the United States becoming involved in the controversy in the Far East, the ad- ministration would not be inclined to such procedure unless, indeed, Japan (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) DARTMOOR IN UP;OAR British Convicts Disciplined Break Raise Disturbance. PRINCETON, England, February 20 (#).—Dartmoor Prison, where mutiny | broke out recently among dangerous convicts, was seething with unrest to- night. Fifty ringleaders of the mutiny, who are kept in solitary confinement, with three empty cells separating them from each other, raised a pandemonium of shloluls, curses and banging of their cells. The uproar had occurred for several nights, arousing the villagers of this nearby place. They were greatly alarmed last night, but the authorities said they were ready for any eventu- ality. Police and troops were avail- in U.S.Pieace Move Abancloned for Pr esent. NO NEVV NOTES CO NSIDERED Stimson: Weighs Ap- peal of Manking for Anoth er Effort. By the Associatec | Press. The State D'epartment has met so many rebufl's in trying to bring peace In Shajighai that it has abandoned act ive overtures pend- ing a more fwtvorable opportunity for the extemsion of good offices. China’s appemal Friday to the department foi-* another effort on the part of th 2 United States to persuade Japar. to discontinue its military aggre ssion has not been answered, b uf Secretary Stimson has it unde1? consideration. Nelson T. Johnson, the Ameri- can Minister to China, and the French, Britis!a and Italian Min- isters to Chipa, made a final at- tempt at ‘ecmciliation Friday before the expiration “of the Japanese ulldimatum. They callad on the Japanese Minister at Shanghai and were assured by him that “matters rest yvith the Chinese Johnson advised the State Depart- ment yesterday ‘that he and his asso- ciates also reitefy ited the warning given repeatedly by Ch nsul General Cunning- ham at Shangipei within the last two weeks that Js pan could not avold s large measure of responsibility for the “jeopardy to f breign life and property at Shanghai” i n ithe impending battle. The Japanes @ rriinister reiterated that Japan was mepely trying to protect Japanese interc»Sts and the foreign set- tlement. An_appeal ‘Fas also made to Gen. Tsai Ting-Kaf, 'tlie Chmese commander in chief at Shemyzhai, by Capt. William Mayer of the A.y erican Army and Brit- | ish, French ar M Italian army officers, | Johnson advise: 1 The foreign o Hicers asked the Chinese general to prof ect the Yangtzepoo sec- tion of the 1 ntexnational Settlement against artiller;;’ fire. No New No tes Considered. The general rep lied that shells falling in that section we re a response to Jap- anese artillery fime: He said he would not fire in that ¢lirection again if as- sured that no olaj >anese artillery is in position in the sief tlement area. Johnson and Cu nningham at Shang- hai and Ambassa jor Forbes at Tokio probably will not, “be sent any new in- structions over t he: week end. No new notes are under consideration at the State Departmen !. Secretary Stimisc n refused to make any comment today on the petition sent to President Hooi cer by Newton Baker, former Sea retary of War, and many prominent educators urging that the United Stat ec join with members of the League of 1iations in any efforts which they may make to enforce an economic boycott 11igainst Japan. ———— RAIL WORK:"TO INCREASE Missouri-Pacific Shops More Men. CHICAGO, Fewrtigry 20 (®.—L. W. Baldwin, presiderit . of the Missouri Pa- cific Railway lires, in a letter made public here tonigiat 1 :aid that shop work will be increased 1{) per cent on the lines this month. Baldwin said th e employment in- crease was “due tq the successful con- ference and agr R>ment on wage re- ductions last mo nth” Union railway workers last monik: accepted a 10 per cent pay cut. New England Col i Year's Record. BOSTON, Februag » 20 (). —New Eng- land in many loca'¥.fles tonight saw the mercury drop to fhe lowest point of the year, with sith-zero temperatures prevailing generally in Vermont and New Hampshire. Ni >wport, Vt., report- to Add able if needed. ed the lowest mark ' with 20 below gero. A novel plan for putting dollars and men to work without delay, through creation of a “home improvement loan fund” for employes, has been instituted by The Evening Star Co., with such prompt and concrete results that wide interest has been aroused among of- ficlals concerned with the unemploy- ment problem. Edward G. Bliss, chairman of a sub- committee on creation of jobs of the District of Columbia Employment Com- mittee, has voiced his approval of the plan and is preparing to commend it to other employers who are desirous of contributing something definite toward relief of unemployment and promotion of business in Washington and vicinity. Although announced only two weeks completed investigation of the threats. ago, The Star's plan has had the effect 4 DOLLARS AND MEN PUT T() WORK BY STAR’S LOANS TO E}VIPLOYES Home Improvement Fund Set Up Provid 'fing Jobs and Business for District Tradesmer n. already of assuring work for a variety of tradesmen who ¢ jtherwise would not have landed the ¥ Toe, insddition to stimulating busines 1 to a proportionate degree and provids ig needed improve- ments to employes’ | homes. As inaugurated by~ The Star, the plan involves the estabHs hment by the com- pany of a special fu .nd for loans to em- ployes, with no 7 ;pcurity other than character. for use in improving their homes. The loans are to be paid back to the fund withiw _,~a year, in monthly or weekly installme; 1its. Moderate bank- ing interest rates § e charged, and the interest is comput xd on the average monthly balances. The “improvemer :fs for which loans are available in« :lude painting and papering, general ' liousehold repairs or alterations and pv achase of home fur- D. |at the scene within a few minutes, but nishings. It is aim of the company to lend money 31;231 for undertakings that will involfre emplaym!nt for labor. (Continued cix. Page 3, Column 1.) WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ‘;’VASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORN. NG, FEBRUARY 21, 1932—124 PAGES. ## “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington hon.es by ‘The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. UP) Means Associated Press. e Sunday Star FIVE CENTS ITEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS| ELSEWHERE CENTER OF CHINESE LINES 2 G oot 2y = 2 A\SE ( NERCHANT KILLED BY HOLD - P ME AS SON LOOKS ON Pair Fire Without Warning, Loot Victim’s Pockets and Make Escape. While his 17-year-old son looked on | helplessly Anton Ruppert, 63, propri- | etor of the Vermont Meat Market, was | shot to death last night when two! colored bandits held up his establish- ment at 1900 Eleventh street. The merchant was slain without waming when a bullet was fired through his head as he turned his back on the pair to enter a refrigerator to obtain meat they had ordered. | ‘The bandits looted the pockets of their victim and the cash register then escaped on foot. Mr. Ruppert's brother, Otto Ruppert, ad died Priday, and the family was gathered at his bier, at the home of his | daughter, Mrs. Maurice J. Conley, 3434 Thirtieth street, when they were ad- vised of the tragedy. Threaten Victim's Son After the killing the bandits threat- ened the victim's son, John Ruppert, with the gun, ran from the store and turned west on T street. There they | joined a third colored man who stood at the mouth of an alley at the rear of the store and the three then ran away, one through the alley and two along T | street to Twelfth, then turning north. The son, dazed and shaken, made no attempt to pursue them, but called the police from a telephone in the store. | Police emergency and radio cars were found no trace of the bandits. The son was able to give only a meager descrip- tion of them. Melvin Jackson, colored, a delivery boy employed by Ruppert, Who was re- turning to the store from an errand, saw the bandits run out of the store. He was too far away to identify them in the darkness. The two Rupperts were in the store, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—22 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges, Page B-4. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Public Library—Page 4. At Community Centers—Page 5. American Legion—Page 5. Disabled American Veterans—Page 5. Naval Reserves—Page 5. ;\‘:wmme.;—,sue 6. eterans of Foreign Wars—Page 6. Serial Story, “Spite wue"—Pm 7. Army and Navy News—Page 7. Marine Corps News—Page 7. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 8. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Soclety Section. Kathleen Norris' Article—Page 9. ‘Women of Diplomacy—Page 10. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amusement Section — Stage, Screen, | House. Music and Radio. Music News—Page 3. In the Motor sworld—P;ge 4 Radio—Page 5. District National Guard—Page 6. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 7. Aviation—Page 7. Spanish War Veterans—Page 7. PART FIVE—# PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—I12 PAGES. Pinancial News and Classified Adver- Dfl Activities—Page 12 . News of the Clubs—Page 12. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 12. PART SEVEN—32 PAGES. Magasine Section. Notes of Art and Artists—Page Reviews of New Books—Page 30. Highlights of History—Page 31. ‘Those Were the Happy Days—Page 32. GRAPHIC SECTION—18 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—8 PAGES. Keeping Up With the Joneses'; Tarzan; Mr. and Mrs.; Moon Mullins; The Soul; 'lar Fellers; Little Annie, ’nd Mutt and Jefl, Timid Orphan Brown Announces Hoover Will Enter FEDERATION FIGHTS Primary in Ohio FISGAL - [NEQUITIES From Post- master General Removes All Uncertai Statement ‘The first open battle move of Presi- dent Hoover's renomination campaign soundeq yesterday with assurance from the White House that he will enter the Ohio primaries. Postmaster General Brown, groomed | as_the campaign manager of the Re- blican National Gommittee, made own the President’s decision after a long conference with the President, which included luncheon at the White Just returned from a recon- naissance of conditions in Ohio, his home state, Brown reported political pointers favorable for his filing Upon many fronts, meanwhile, the big guns of the tic candidates (Continy Column 4. SIMON KANN DIES OF HEART ATTACK. Department Store President Succumbs at 70, Follow- ing 2 Weeks’ lliness. Simon Kann, president of the S. Kann Sons Co. department store, died | at his home, 2029 Connecticut avenue, | at 1 o'clock this morning. Mr. Kann had been ill two weeks with a heart affection. He was 70 years old. Mr. Kann had been in business here 38 years. He came to Washington when his father, Solomon Kann, found- ed their business, which now is at Eighth street and Market space. He succeeded to the presidency of the firm when his brother, Sigmund Kann, died several years ago. Mr. Kann was a native of Baltimore, where he formerly was in business with his father. tablishment of his own at Towson, Md. He was known among his associates for his charity, having been a contributor to various philanthropic enterprises. He is survived by his widow. MAPES BILLS STUDY NEAR COMPLETION Bureau of Efficiency May Make First Reports This Week. The United States Bureau of Effi- ciency, it was learned yesterday, is near- ing completion of the analysis of the Mapes_tax bills it undertook at the di- rection of the Senate District Commit- tee. The first of the series of reports on the results of the study probably will be submitted to Senator Capper within a week. Others will follow as they are completed. The study was started six weeks ago of the income, estate, auto weight and increased ghsoline taxes. If any con- clusions have been reached, they have not been disclosed, and rmbtbly will not be made public until the reports are in the hands of Senator Capper. — e MISSISSIPPI VALLEY PERIL BELIEVED OVER By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn. February 20—A lot of water is coming down the Mis- sissippi River, but official observers said there was no cguse for alarm from present indications. Swamp lands along the banks of the river are inundated as always during moderate high water, but the squatters move back to the hills and walt for the water to subside. Today the Mississippl was reported falling at and above Memphis, and on the rise south of Memphis to the Gulf. upper river, official observers said the improved levees could hold the present supply of water, and from present indications it will not approach the flood of 1927, He also had an es- | | | | | DELAYS A TAD Citizens Join Wide Attack on Plan to Cut U. S. Con- tribution. The Pederation of Citizens’ Associa- tions last night joined the widespread fight againdt the bill pending in the Senate providing for a $3,000,000 reduc- tion in the annual Federal contribution to the District by gomng on record in favor of return of the 60-40 or some other “equitable” ratio of fiscal re- iations. Opposition also was voiced against any increased taxation that has for its object a cut in the Federal con- tribution. The federation, however, deferred its views on the four Mapes ' tax increase bills. pending completion of the study of these measures by the Bureau of Efficiency. The course of action of the federa- tion was charted by L. A. Carruthers, chairman of the Fiscal Relations Com- mittee, who presented two reports. one on fiscal relation and the other on the Mapes bills. The fiscal relations report was adopted without discussion. The report on the Mapes bills, however, was discussed for more than an hour, | and when finally adopted one para- graph had been completely deleted and a minor amendment made in the phraseology of another. Decreased Aid Opposed. The report on fiscal relations fol- lows: “There is pending in the Senate of;ne the United States H R. 6,285, being an act of the House of Representatives to | repeal the present substantive law gov- erning the fiscal relations between the United States and the District of Co- lumbia. “Your committee is opposed to_ this act and asks for a return to the 60-40 ratio or the adoption of some other equitable ratio in determining _the amount of the obligation of the Fed- eral Government to the District of Co- lumbia, but under no condition should the Federal appropriation be decreased.” The committee’s report on the Mapes bills as adopted follows: “There is pending in the Senate of ntinued on Page 2, Column 2.) N CARS DITCHED IN TUNNEL Pennsy Wreck Delays Trains on ‘Washington Run. BALTIMORE, February 20 (#).—Two cars of a freight train’ were derailed in the Hoffman street tunnel of the Pennsylvania Railroad here tonight, blocking traffic for several hours, dur- ing which Pennsylvania trains on the New York-Washington run were routed over the Baltimore & Ohio Tracks. ( PRESIDENT WILL LEAD NATION IN CEREMONIES TO LAUD WASHINGTON [ Hoover to Open 9-Month Cele- bration Before Joint Session of Congress Tomorrow. (12,000 WILL SING “AMERICA” IN BROADCAST AROUND WORLD Highest Officials to Attend Ceremonies on Capitol Plaza—Colorful Parade to Be Held in Alexandria. America’s greatest tribute to her greatest hero, George Wash- ington, to be expressed in a nine-month celebration of his humble birth 200 years ago on Wakefield farm, will be launched officially tomorrow with extraordinary ceremonies of oratory and song op Capitol Hill. Assembling on ground dedicated by the Revolutionary patriot and soldier for the legislative heart of a Nation he had helped to found, highest dignitaries of that Government will join with those whom Washington was pleased to call “the people” in paying rever- ent homage to their first President. The signal for the formal opening of the long planned ob- servance will be an address by President Hoover before a special joint session of the Senate and House in the chamber of the latter, where will be gathered the principal executive and judicial officers of the Federal Government, Governors of the States and diplomats from many foreign lands. Immediately thereafter the official assemblage will adjourn to | the inauguration-famed east front of the Capitol for a huge popular | demonstration on the plaza, a notable feature of which will be a round-the-world broadcast of the singing of “America” by a massed chorus of 10,000 children and 2,000 adults. Will Go to Alexandria. Moving on to the historic shores of Virginia over the newly com- pleted Arlington Memorial Bridge and Mount Vernon Boulevard, President Hoover will review a patriotic parade in Colonial Alex- andria and then lay a memorial wreath on the Tomb of Washing- ton at hallowed Mount Vernon. Major events of the morrow will be climaxed with a Colonial costume ball at the Mayflower Hotel. An official prologue to the opening program will be a colorful folk-masque, Wakefield, by Percy Mackaye, tonight at 8 o’clock in Constitution Hall. The noval production which will depict symbolically | spiritual forces being produced under joint auspi | trict of that motivated Washington in his achievements is ices of the United States and Dis- Columbia George Washington Bicentennial Commissions, | official sponsors of the entire Bicentennial program. The production will be repeated February 25 and 26. The ceremonies today and tomorrow will be forerunners of a long list of major and collaterial events, concluding next ‘Thanksgiving day with a Nation-wide memori culmination of seven years whose honorary head is the whose members include Senators, 1 Churches to Washington's ligious memorial al service. The program is the of planning by the Federal commissiow, President of the United States and Representatives and others. Add Tribute. devout character will be the inspiration for re- services in many of the city's churches today. Among special Bicentennial services listed by the local commissicn |are morning programs at the Co Connecticut avenue and N street; east; National Memorial Univer: streets; Takoma Park Baptist street; Douglas Memorial M. northeast; Epworth M. Carolina avenue northeast, | G streets. |~ Annual Washington birthday anni- versary services of the Sons of the Rev- olution in the District of Columbia will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G street. Right Rev. Robert E. L. Strider, Bishop of West Virginia, will preach the sermon and the following ministers will assist: Right Rev. Philip Mercer Rhinelander, chaplain of the society; v. George W. Atkinson, associate | chaplain; Rev. Ze Barney Phillips, rector of the Church of the Epiphany and chaplain of the Senate, and Rev. D. Freeland Peter, canon of the Washing- ton Cathedral. Organizations joining with the Sons of the Revolution in the | service include the Society of Colonial Wars, Daughters of the American Revo- lution, Sons of the American Revolution, | Children of the American Revolution | and the Colonial Dames of America. ‘The public is welcome. Rites Set for Tonight. E. | at 8 o'clock at Grace Episcopal Church, Ninth and D streets southwest, with seven other community churches parti- cipating; at Thomas Hamilton Lewis Memorial Methodist Protestant Church, Kansas avenue and Fourth street; at Episcopal Church of the Advent, Second and U streets, with other congregations participating: at Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church South, Thirteenth street and North Carolina avenue north- east, and at Takoma Park Baptist Church. The Washington Monument will be the focal point of commemorative rites by many patriotic organizations tomor- row. From early in the morning until late in the afternoon there will be a pilgrimage to the famous shaft partici- SPRING SCENIC EFFECTS STOLEN BY FREAKISH WINTER WEATHER New Season Begins for U. S. Meteorologists March 1, Although Its Official Arrival Is 30 Days Off. By the Assoclated Press. The 1932 American travesty entitled “Winter” has 30 days more to run on its calendar contract before folding up on an astonished sudience which has been left alternately warm and cold— mostly warm. Then comes Spring, facing a bad spot on the bill, because most of its scenic effects already have been stolen and used by the long-whiskered old man who lost most of his usual bluster in staging his three months’ show this year. The Weather Bureau commentators won't wait for March 21 to write off the Winter performance as one break- ing records of a hundred years' stand- ing. Their Spring begins March 1, and they are satisfied. they used up so much paper and ink jotting down the idio- syncrasies of a Winter gone mad. Heat records, cold records, wet records, snow records—all kinds of records have been put down in the books. February makes the sixth month of abnormally warm weather. And it will probably continue abnormally warm until after March 21. “The weather.” says Joseph B. Kin- cer, Weather Bureau meteorologist, “forms habits just like we human beings. It gets used to being warm or cold and it's hard to change. This is not a forecast, but it looks like it will continue to be well above normal average temperature for awhile.” Portunately, no serious damage has been done by the warm, Spring-like spells which have swept the country east of the Rocky Mountains. Fruit buds have been held in check and Win- ter wheat—almost two months ahead of schedule—has suffered little. Copious rainfalls and heavy sno; Patriotic services will be held tonight | in|Senate will be ushered in venant-First Presbyterian Church, Christ Church, 620 G street south- salist Church, Sixteenth and S Church, Piney Branch road and Aspen Church, Eleventh and H streets E. Church South, Thirteenth street and North and Concordia Church, Twentieth and pated in by representatives of civic and military bodies and by descendants of Revolutionary patriots. Activities at the Monument will be- gin at 8 oclock, when 48 flags will be raised at the base, under direction of the office of public buildings and public parks. At 9 o'clock a White House wreath will be placed at the foot of the obelisk, after which other floral tributes by individuals and organizations will be laid there. One of the outstanding offerings will be from the Washington National Mon- ument Society, through the persistent efforts of which the Monument became an actuality. The society will hold its annual meeting tomorrow afternoon. Other floral pieces will be placed by the Association of Oldest Inhabitants, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Daughters of 1812, the Knights of Co- lumbus, the District Federation of Pa- triotic Observants, the District Depart- ment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Sons of Union Veterans and the District Department of the Grand Army of the Republic. Masonic Clubs of the District of Co- lumbus will hold brief exercises and place a wreath at the Monument at 10 o’clock. Old Bell Will Peal. In the afternoon, at 3 o'clock, addi- tional wreaths will be brought to the Monument by a delegation representing the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Revolution, Children of the American Revolution, and the District Department of the American Legion. Miss Helen Harman, State regent of the District of Columbia Chapter of the D. A. R, will preside. The old Northern Liberty Bell, used many years ago as an alarm of fire, will again tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock when the Association of Oldest Inhabitants holds its 67th annual oele- bration in the old engine house on H street. The bell will be given 200 strokes by George Bruff Jackson. Allen C. Clark, president of the Columbia His- The program will be broadeast by the program cast Columbia radio chain. ‘The District Department of the American Legion will attend a mass tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at the Church of the Immaculate Con- ception, Eighth and N streets. The Legionnaires will proceed from the church to Mount Vernon, where a wreath will be laid on the Washington tomb. Latin America will pay its respects to ‘Washington at a special session of the governing board of the Pan-American Union tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in the Pan-American Building. ‘The Capitol ceremonies will begin promptly at noon. Half an hour in ad- vance of this hour the House will be to order by . Rev. Dr. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House, will offer invo- cation. Then the membership of the to lower (Continued on Page 2, Column &) (Contipued on Page 6, Column 1) ¢ 17