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WEATHER. (U. B. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight, probably ending tomor- row morning; slowly rising temperature tonight, lowest about 40 de; est, 42, at 12 noon yes- terday; lowest, 37, at peratures—High ‘Tem- Full report on page A—9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 — No. 32,465, Entered as soccond class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 1.5, TO BE ASKED 70 JOIN EUROPE IN PEACE PROPOSAL Mussolini’s Formula Won’t Be Forced on Nations, MacDonald Says. BRITON WILL MAKE PLEA FOR FRENCH ACCEPTANCE Dispatch From Paris Says More Friendly Relations With Italy Seem Likely. By the Associated Press. ROME, March 20—The new Mus-{ golini peace plan will not be limited to | Great Britain, France, Germany and Ttaly, but will embrace the whole conti- pent and even the United States to a certain extent, Premler Ramsay Mac- | Ponald sald in an interview today. The British statesman made the statement before leaving for Paris, to wurge Premier Edouard Daladier of . France to approve the project. He bid Farewell to Signor Mussolini and French Ambassador de Jouvenel. Sir John imon, British foreign secretary, re- nains in Rome for further sight-seeing. “We are not proceeding with an idea of two or three agreeing and imposing this agreement on others,” Mr. Mac- onald said. DAsked regarding the part of the United States, he replied: “We are not overloking the United Etates by any means. We need her, too. The American Government will be kept fully informed concerning the negotiations.” “Evolutionary Process.” He repeated a statement made Sat- urday that the situation in Europe is dangerous, but added that “along with the dangers there also exist great op- portunities to do something effective to wve them.” re!lx\‘(; MacDonald called the working out of the Mussolini plan “an evolu- tionary process.” He said it would be presented to each nation in accordance With that nation’s particular conditions. “The proposition we have in mind is to create conditions of real peace, whicil will rise from the satisfaction of various nations who are in a position to disturb it. We are out, not for an"impused peace, but for an agreed peace,” he said. Mr. MacDonald exclaimed against xcessive nationalism. e)‘"We have got to save Europe and the world and have got to 1t our nationalisiic ideas into the whole scheme of which we are a part. We all recognize the tremendous urgency of getting & better atmosphere into the international situation,” he added. He deciared reported sumriaries oOf the Mussolini plan dlspgmched abroad were “sheer imagination.” Four Leaders May Meet. Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany and Premier Daladier are gxpected to join Mr. MacDonald and Signor Mus- Solini in a later conference in Northern Jtaly if it is decided further details hould be discussed. It is understood ;’IL MacDonald will ask the French premier his views on such a conference. The French and German govern- fments already have copies of the Mus- ini project. An official announce- ent said it proposed ‘“collaboration of four powers in an effort to pro- ote, in the spirit of the Kellogg pact d & ‘no force’ declaration, a long riod o? peace for Europe and the a’xr??e “no force” declaration Wwas ed by the four powers last Decem- wmd indorsed simultaneous equality ‘armaments for Germany and security or France. The agreement brought ymany back into the dlsa‘rmsmcm onference after a four months’ absence tecnuae its arms equality demands were tisfied. lm%r;‘e world’s principal problems can be solved 1if the governments and the ples listen to Rome, Signor Musso- m declared in a speech ye;tere‘ay. ssing a commercial federation :ldeg{leng }%N‘E. he said Fascist wisdom was the only solution for the present 4lls and again predicted all Europe would be Fascist within a decade. Features Not Disclosed. The particular features of the Mus- #olini geuce project were not made ublic. They were baséd on his dec- ration in a speech last October 23 that collaboration of the four powers was the only hope for permanent peace » Europe. ”(A P:‘l’ns dispatch said the French fcabinet will consider the Mussolini plan today. It declared that even if bet- ter relations between France and Ger- many failed, a more friendly relation- ip between France and Italy seemed kely.) ‘Both Pol pius and_King Victor Emmanuel l:cc“_cd the British states- men yesterday in private audiences. At luncheon at the Quirinal Palace the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) PERUVIANS REPEL COLOMBIAN ATTACK Government Bulletin Reports Heavy Losses Suffered by Enemy. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, March 20.—A govern-| ment bulletin said today that the Pe- ruvian forces repelled a Colombian at- gack late Friday on the Cotuhe River, @ tributary of the Putumayo in the disputed border region between the two ountries. b Battle was reported unofficially to have been fought at the town of Buenos Aires, up the Cotuhe River from Tarapaca, where the first Peru- vian-Colombian clash occurred Febru- ary 14, (A he Peruvians fled after a Co- Y:r:':&nt attack on Buenos Aires late Friday, leaving large supplies. The Co- Jombians reported one of their own goldiers killed nndmstlxd wou::ded and enemy plane s own.. ‘n‘l'he Pe}l"ugmn report, sald Colombians suffered a large number of casualties while the Peruvians “had not a single casualty.” It said a Colombian gun- boat was seriously damaged by a Peru- wian aerial attack. The Peruvians withdrew to a second | Labor, and Senators Wagner, Costigan, ‘Bogota, Colombia, dispatch re-!| | preparation for the new vault to hold live, after temporarily checking a much larger force, and prevented the Colombians from crossing the river. Badio Programs on Page A.-ll Duke’s Death News Withheld to Allow MacDonald Fete By the Associated Press. ROME, March 20.— Today's mewspapers published for the first time news of the death on Sat- urday of the Duke of the Abruzzi, cousin of the King. The an- nouncement was withheld last week so there would be no inter- ference with the reception of Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain. Premier Mussolini, in a tele- gram of condolence to the duke's brother, revealed that the duke, knowing death was at hand, had gone to Somaliland to die there. PRESIDENT 10 ASK UNEMPLOYED FUND Message to Congress Is Ex- pected to Request $500,- 000,000 for States. By the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt is expected by his close advisors to send a message to Con- gress within the next few days recom- mending an emergency unemployment Telief fund of $500,000,000 for direct grants to the States. ‘The President also probably will in- clude in his immediate emergency pro- gram a $40,000,000 appropriation out of unexpended funds in the Treasury to begin his gigantic reforestation program. These proposals, which the President regards of immediate urgency, will be submitted to Congress in a special mes- sage, probably as soon as the House passes farm relief legislation, expected by Wednesday. Permanent Program Later. A more permanent and far-reaching program of relief for the jobless will be submitted later, probably based upcn legislation introduced today by Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, for liberalizing construction loans through the Reconstruction Corporation. The $500,000,000 proposal for direct relief was submitted to the President by the committee which has been study- ing the proposal for him, composed of Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Democrat, of Colorado, and La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin. It provides for administration of the fund under a relief director responsible solely to the President himself. The money would be advanced from the Reconstruction Corporation, under ad- ditional borrowing power conferred upon it by the bill. First Direct Relief Move. The legislation will mark the Fed- eral _Government’s first move in the field of direct relief. It is drafted along the lines of the old La Follette-Costigan bill which the Senate rejected in the last session for the Wagner loan measure. ‘Whether the President would include any of his reforestation program in the immediate emergency plan had not | been definitely determined. It was be- | lieved by his advisers, however, that he would propose appropriation of a| $40,000,000 unexpended balance in the| Treasury to start the plan. NAZIS HUNT ARMS IN EINSTEIN HOME Rumors Bring Futile Berlin Raid; Death Plot Against Hitler Bared at Munich. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 20.—As a result of rumors that arms and ammunition were hidden in Prof. Albert Einstein's country home at Caputh, near Berlin, police and a detachment of National Socialists searched the house today, but found nothing. MUNICH, Germany, March 20 (#).— ‘The federal commissioner for the Munich police chief informed the press today an attempt on the life of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, planned by one German and two Russian Communists, was pre- vented by the watchfulness of the popu- lace and police. The chancellor, who came to his former Nazi headquarters here for a short visit, returned today to Berlin. Early this morning three men were observed arriving at the Wagner Monu- ment near Hitler's home here where they deposited three hand grenades and some ammunition. While a passerby notified the police, they escaped in an automobile. The police commissioner stated that if & single shot was fired against mem- bers of the new government, even if it missed its mark, there would be “un- paralleled chaos and the greatest = rom which no authority in the world could prevent.” Chancellor Hitler left for Berlin at 7 am. by alrplane, arriving there at 9:15 am. Fatally Hurt in Air Crash. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 20 (#).— Ulmer Forester, 25, employe of the Knoxville Journal, was fatally injured today as a plane piloted by Betty Lund Steele, noted stunt fiyer, crashed near McGheetyson Airport. Mrs. Steele sut- fered a fractured jaw and possible in- ternal injuries. Wallace Boulineaux, another passenger, was slightly hurt. he WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. RANCE EXPECTED | ; 0 VOTE PAYMENT FOR U. 5. SHORTLY Daladier Awaits Majority, Believed Nearly Ready to Bare Stand. UNLIKELY TO REQUEST VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Holds Back for Assurances of Enough Support to Pass Resolu- tion Rushed in Committee. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 20.—Premier Edouard Daladier, it was believed in the Cham- ber of Deputies lobbles today, is ready to declare shortly for the payment of the $19,000,000 owed the United States. The premier talked lengthily with Forelgn Minister Paul-Boncour yester- day regarding the problem, which was brought to issue by Deputy Rene Rich- ard’s resolution in the Chamber. For- mer Premier Edouard Herriot expected to push it through the Forelgn Affairs Committee within a week. M. Daladier, it was thought, is un- likely to make the payment a question of confidence, but would give it govern- ment support the moment he is satis- fied the Chamber majority is available. Resolution Pressed. Immediate discussion of his debt pay- ment resolution is to be demandea by Deputy Richard in an effort to push payment through the Chamber and Senate as soon as postible. M. Richard, who has been suffering from grippe, said he planned to obtain the necessary 50 signatures for imme- diate discussion as soon as he is well. It is expected that the signatures wil be obtained easily. The deputy declared that he was ukl.ngb:nmn T view of the urgency of the debt question. An article stressing the necessity for rapid action had been written by M. Richard for Le Journal. Louis Jean Malvy, chairman of the Finance Committee of the Chamber, who hitherto has been hostile to pay- ment, today restricted himself to saying that it was up to the committee to de- cide. Approves Lobbying. The matter was forced before the government by the resolution presented in the Chamber Saturday. Daladier was understood to have approved the lobbying carried’ on in favor of pay- ment by Herriot and Paul Painleve. The resolution was presented with the approval of M. Herriot, who previously declared this would not be done unless the Chamber appeared certain to ratify it. His cabinet was overthrown by the Chamber last December 14 because it demanded payment. The semi-official newspaper Le Temps interjected an observation that making the payments to propitiate Ameriea or as a gift in time of trouble would be unworthy of a great people. The rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany and fears of frontier troubles with his Nazi storm troops were used as arguments for payment by leaders. Mm. Herriot and Painleve both urged clearing up differences with the United States as soon as possible to bring the two repubiics in closer accord and “make democracies safe.” The Richard resolution described the United States as having been “struck” by & severe money and credit crisis and urged the payment as an act of inter- national solidarity. “I placed myself on the grounds of opportuneness, seeing that things have chanj since last December. The re- spective positions of the United States and Prance in the world are too im- portant to allow any misunderstand- ings,” he said. KING MAY VISIT POPE Royal Apartment Being Redeco- rated at Vatican. 'VATICAN CITY, March 20 (#).—The royal apartment in the goverror's palace is being redecorated and prelates are discussing the possibility of a visit by the King and Queen of Italy at the beginning of the Holy year, which starts next month. They will stay in Vatican City three days, it was said, while making visits to St. Peter's Cathedral and other basilicas established for the Holy year pilgrimages. QUIET CITY VEXES HIM Paris Chief, However, Continues ‘War Against Noises. PARIS (P).—Jean Chiappe, police chief, is trying to cut down noise in Paris streets, but he admits he gets nervous when the city is too quiet. “I am constantly seeking for a reas- onable equillibrium; but in my warfare against noise, I must remember that a noisy city is a healthy city. Citles are like children, and experts become anxious when the child is silent and the city is mute.” No less than 8,216 persons have been prosecuted in six months for unneces- sary noise. WORK STARTED ON FOUNDATIONS OF NEW VAULT FOR TREASURY Contractors Will Place Supports Under Part of Heavy Granite Walls of Building. New foundations will be placed under part of the heavy granite walls of the Treasury Department, to a depth of 20 feet below the present foundations in hundreds of millions of dollars. Work on this new foundation was started today by the John W. Cowper Co., which has the $334,290 contract for constructing the vault. Little progress was made early in the day on account of the heavy rains, but work will be pushed along as rapidly as weather per- mits, and it is expected the vault will be completed and ready to hold its fabu- lous sums of money by the first part of next T, The”x‘crundaunn is to be placed under parts of the Treasury Department lar method of “unde: ing” will be used. Holes will be dug beneath the present foundation walls at intervals, and new concrete foundations will be laid there one part at a time. The old vault, which now occuples part of the space in the northeast court of the Treasury ent to be used for the new vault, been emptied of mum:;ey !un“‘::elore the Guvernm‘ ent. entered upon new program of “ex- on” of the currency, but it has to be brought back into use to accommodate some of the new money. It will be emptied again later, how- ever, and will entirely torn away to make way for the new vault. The walls of the new vault will be impenetrable, 21, feet thick, filled with those walls were the vault will come up.to the foundation wall itself. The regu- reinforced steel and concrete, and cov- ered on both outside and inside with steel and iron. Fhemny W!‘l:! SUNDAY MORNING RDITION r——— OFFICE oF JAMES A FARLEY CHAIRMAN NY STATE COMMNTEE 4 CAnN TS!QHE HOW HAVE THE MIGHTY SHRUNK! NEW RAINS SWELL OHIO VALLEY FLOOD Eight Dead as Thousands Flee From Waters in Tri-State Area. By the Assoclated Press CINCINNATT, Ohio, March 20 —New rains today swelled the already over- flowing mighty Ohio River and its tributaries whose floodwaters have driven thousands temporarily from their lowland homes and taken at least eight lives. Prom Parkersburg, W. Va., south- ward to Louisville, Ky., the Ohio has rolled from its banks and flooded thou- sands of acres in the tri-State region formed by Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. At Newport, Ky., just across the Ohio from Cincinwati, 2,000 persons were left temporarily homeless in the thickly populated ‘“bottom-land.” Hundreds more in Ohio River towns retreated before the advance of overflow waters. At Gallipolis and Martins Ferry, Ohio., the stream was rising rapidly. At Cincinnati, the river was slower, but river-front lands were inundated and transportation hampered. Five feet of water swirled through the main street of Pomeroy, Ohio. Naval Reserve radio stations were called upon to maintain communica- tions within the stricken area as some land telegraph wires were washed out. American Legion posts and relief agencies were organized to care for the sufferers. Threaten Downtown. In Cincirmati, the flood waters by late morning had crept up in the down- town section, to near Third street. In the eastern part they slopped over Eastern avenue, a main highway, and went a mile or so inland from the Little Miami's banks. To the west, the waters crawled up to Sixth street in the bottoms, and in between they en- croached wherever a valley opened be- tween Cincinnati’s hills. Conditions were far worse in the Kentucky towns across the Ohio, in the bottom lands between the river and the hills. For 10 blocks or more waters encroached on Newport and Coving- ton, Ky., and the swollen Licking River cut off all but one bridge between the two. Bellevue, Dayton, Bromley and Ludlow all felt the river's force. The home of Samuel G. Fisher crumbled before the flood in Coving- ton, Ky. All up and down the streams families moved out and boats plied in stiff curents to save them and their belon, . Del'ctll:g!mwled southward with the Two Drowned in Auto. 1t struck first at Gallipolis, Ohio, tak- ing Mrs. John Harrison, 40, and her daughter Ailee, 7, as their autgmobile went over a bank. At California, Ky., a skiff overturned near a power transformer and Gale (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Why Hesitate? Why hesitate to buy the things you need when in most cases your present salary will buy much more at today’s low prices than a higher salary bought at “previous” high prices? Why not resolve to do your share, as loyal Americans have always so courageously done in every national emergency? Why not begin right now, with confidence, courage, careful liberal spending? - Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Sunday Star. .. 51,209 24,867 17,395 42,262 3d Newspaper Toul ALy The reason that The Star, day after day, carries such a large volume of advertising is due to the fact that The Star is read every evening and Sun- day morning in the great ma- jority of all the homes in ‘Washington and suburbs, ‘ | 38 Billions Now Available in Banks As Buying Power By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—The American Banker says that at least $38.000,000,000, or 88 per cent of the money on deposit in the Nation's banks, had become available as purchasing power by today after having been tied up in the banking holiday. Of the remaining five billions still tied up in banks awaiting permission to reopen, completion of examinations, reorganizations and recapitalizations will release a major portion within a com- paratively short period, the pub- lication said, “and losses in liquidation may be less than a billion dollars, or less than 2% per cent of the banked funds of the country.” AIR CRASH PROBERS L EAVE FOR SGENEe2z:2 Military Burial at Arlington Cemetery to Be Given Three Victims. Three Army officers on duty in the Capital were killed instantly late yes- terday afternoon when a fast Army transport plane in which they were re- turning to Bolling Field from Spartan- burg, 8. C, crashed and burned near Petersburg, Va. They are: Lieut. James A. Willis, jr, assistant operations officer at Bolling Field and former White House aide, the pilot. Maj. James A. Willis, sr., of the Judge Advocate General's Department, father of Lieut. Willis. Maj. John A. Parker, also of the Judge Advocate General's Department. Lieut. Willis was unmarried and lived at Bolling Field. His father, who is survived by his widow and a daughter, lived at 1824 Ontarfo place and Maj. Parker made his home at 1841 Colum- bia road. Maj. Parker was a foot ball player at the University of North Carolina for a number of years, playing center. A few years ago he was made an honorary doctor of science by the university. Cause Will Be Probed. While grepznt!om were being made at Petersburg today to bring the bodies to Washington for military burials in Arlington National Cemetery, an acci- dent investigating board appointed by Lieut. Col. Barton K. Yount, command- ing officer at Bolling Field, was on the way to the scene of the crash to in- terrogate witnesses, examine the wreck- age and to determine the cause of the crash, which occurred in rain and foggy weather. The board is composed §§ Maj. Ernest F. Corps, 0] Stanley M. Umstead, Air Corps, engi- neering officer at the local field. Be-| cause of the continued thick weather, which is believed to have been respon- sible for the crash, the members of the board were unable to fly to Petersburg, but “left Bolling Field by automobile this morning. According to Associated Press dis- patches from Petersburg, the plane crashed with the motor running, beside United States Highway No. 1, from Washington to the South, and instantly burst into flames. Lieut. Willis was (Continuell on Page 2, Column 7.) POLICE DRAGNET SET IN KIDNAPING CASE Hope to Ensnare Holders of 15- Year-Old Peter Myers, Jr. By the Associated Press. ‘WARREN, Ohio, March 20.—A police " | ment leaders were present. CABINET TO SPEAK IN RADIO FORUM President Roosevelt’s Official Family Will Be Intro- duced to Country. The nine men and one woman, who, as the mambers of his cabinet will be the chief field lieutenants in President Roosevelt's attack on the common problems of this country in blazing the way for economic recovery, will make their official debut to the American public in a series of talks for the Na- tional Radio Forum, according to an announcement made today. The Forum | is arranged by The Washington Eve- ning Star, and broadcast by the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. The radio appearances of President 's official family in this forum open the se- s member of the cabinet will spe Monday night, thereafter, until the zeries ends, These members of the President's of- vital interest to the country at large, dealing directly with the program of the administration and the magnificent leadership of the President himself. Each one of the cabinet heads has a well defined function and responsibility in promoting the President’s program. Each will, on this occasion, attempt to explain, candidly and clearly just what is being attempted in carrying th country through its present crisis. Views Are Important. Considering their relationship with the Chief Executive and their Eespec- tive important roles in the command of attack, what these et officers will have to say to the American people in this forum will be of the highest importance. Announcement of the particular sub- Ject to be discussed by each of the speakers in the “cabinet series” will be made later. In arranging the series the regular order of the cabinet mem- bers will not be followed. April 3, Willlam H. Woodin, Secre- tary of the Treasury, who is now recog- nueduoneoxmermhermotge day for his management of the ad- ministration’s plan for the strengthen- ing of the banks, will address the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) e ame s VON HINDENBURG HOST Ambassador Sackett Guest at Ino-. well Luncheon. March 20 (#).—President Ties ai ak day. Chancellor Hitler and other govern- ‘Tomorrow night Mr. and Mrs. Sackett will be Minister von L2l “From Press to Home Within an Hour” ‘The Star’s Carrier system covers, city block and the regular emu%‘;f'fl delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 119,610 Sunday’s Circulatior, 130,090 [ANGARA DEFIANT, 1S ELEGTROCUTED FOR CERMAK DEATH Regrets Photographer Is Not Present to Take Picture of Execution. DENOUNCES CAPITALISTS AS ONE OF LAST ACTS Italian Refuses to Have Consola- tion of Spiritual Adviser—De- clared Sane After Autopsy. By the Assoclated Press. RAIFORD, Fla., March 20.—Giuseppe Zangara, the little Italian immigrant who hated all government, was electro- cuted at 9:15 a.m. (Eastern standard time) today for murdering Mayor An- ton J. Cermak of Chicago in an at- hefixpt to assassinate President Roose- velt. He went to the chair with the same defiant calm he had maintained since the night he fired wildly into & crowd assembled in Miami February 15 to ex- 5:& & greeting to the then President- “Not Afrald,” He Declares. It was 9:11 am. when he entered the death chamber, barefooted and dressed in striped trousers and white shirt open at the neck. Two guards accompanied him, but as he approached the chair, Zangara said, “Don’t hold me, I no afraid of chair’ The guards released him and Zan- gara took his seat as though he were sitting down for a lunch, first striding over to Superintendent L. F. Chapman and handing him a sheaf of papers on which he had inscribed, “Here is that I have been writing.” Zangara referred to the book on his life which he said he had started after his arrest in Miami. “I no afraid that chair, see?” he re- peated as he surveyed the 30 witnesses and attendants in the room. And then as the straps were adjusted about his hands and legs he said, “No cameraman here? No one here to take picture?” Supt. Chapman replied “No” just be- fore the attendants placed the metal cap on Zangara's head. Denounces Capitalists. “Lousy capitalists!” Zangara shouted b"it_gly. h en he repeated, “No pictures, capi- talists! All capitalists, bunch— crooks.” D e d Attendants started to complete prepa- rations for the electrocution and Zan gara said evenly, “Good-by. Adios to all (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) RAIL MEN CONFER WITH ROOSEVELT President Believed to Have Dis- cussed Plans for Transhporta- tion Reform. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt today took up the railroad problem in a conference with railway executives with a view to early congressional action. Those attending the White House conference included J. J. Pelley, presi- dent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford; F. E. Williamson, president of the New York Central; Carl Gray, president of the Union Pacific, and Prof. A. A. Berle, an advisor of the President. The group maintained strict silence on its conversation with the President, but there was a rather definite hint that Mr. Roosevelt had some railroad legislation in mind for early considera- tion by Congress. This same group consulted with the President last Summer before he made his railroad speech at Salt Lake City, in which he proposed that the Government announce its intention to stand behind the national transportation system until it was again on & going basis. In the same speech he called also for a na- tional transportation system in which rail, air and water methods would be united. New York Crime Decreases. NEW YORK, March 20 (#).—Crimes of violence decreased 2.6 per cent in New York City in 1932, from 1931, Ed- ward P. Mulrooney, police commis- sloner, reported yesterday. Arrests for 16 and 20 years were higher in 1032 than in 1931, his report said, but ar- rests for violent crimes between these dinner guests of Foreign Neurath. ages showed “a substantial decrease.” BEDRAGGLED, WET SPRING GETS OFFICIAL BUT Washington’s Floral Costume Still Mud-splattered, But COLD RECEPTION Rain Is Blessing in Disguise. Spring is here—cold, rain and sleet notwithstanding. At 8:45 pm. today will come the moment of the “vernal equinox,” when the earth on fts annual journey around the sun moves into such a position that like new-fallen snowflakes and there is a morning chorus of amorous. birds in the city rows, although many of the Spring visitants are late in arriving from the South. Officially, the drab, depressing Winter is done any & few days of warm sun- shine will transform the woods and parks with the delicate green of new- sprung grass covering the sordidness of the mud patches and the resurrec- tion of the leaves and blossoms re- the gray Lenten garb of brown . Actually, Weather Bureau (P) Means Associated Press. crimes in general between the ages of | TWO CENTS. CONFEREES ACCEPT 32 BEER AND WINE; BORAH PLAN OUT Agreement Reached on Alco- holic Content of Bever- ages to Be Legalized. SENATE READY TO ACT AT ONCE ON REPORT Consideration Is Not Expected in House Before Tomorrow, However. Senate and House conferees on the national beer bill agreed this afternoon on the House figure of 3.2 per cent jalcoholic content, the Senate conferees | receding frem the Senate provision for 3.05 per cent. The House conferees agreed to leave in the Senate amendment providing for wine as well as beer, limited to 3.2 per cent. The conferees knocked out the Borah amendment, which would have pro- hibited the sale or gift of the beverages | to minors under 16. Report Goes to Senate. The agreement of the conferees was | announced by Senator Harrison, Demo- |crat, of Mississippi, at 2 o'clock. He 1said the report would be submitted to |the Senate when it reconvened at 3 o'clock and would be taken up for con- | sideration immediately. Even if the Senate acts on the report this afternoon or this evening, how- ever, it is not expected to be taken up In the House until tomorrow. The conferees appointed by the Sen- ate were Senators Harrison, King of Utah, Walsh of Massachusetts, Reed of Pennsylvania and Couzens of Michigan. The House conferees were Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means | Committee and Representatives Cullen of New York and McCormack of Massa- chusetts, Democrats, and Treadway of Massachusetts o vania, Repusi Watson of Pennsyl. 'REICHSTAG TO MEET; PRECAUTIONS TAKEN Safety Measures Are Drafted in Preparation for Assembly Tomorrow. and lcans. By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, March 20.—Strict precau- tions for public safety were being taken today in preparation for the assembly tomorrow of the German Reichstag elected March 5. Persons living near the Potsdam Gar- rison Church, where the opening cere- monies are to be conducted by President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler, have been asked not to leave their homes ‘;hne]“;he Pprogram is being carried out. also was requested tha ’be’;‘hrown. q! it no bouquets | € opening in the church, where the | former Kaiser worshiped and Prederick the Great and Priedrich Wilhelm are buried, will be another revival of im- perial days. The Reichstag will then move to the Kroll Opera House. Nazi leaders have predicted the Reichstag will take a vacation of up- ward of two years, leaving the chan- cellor and his cabinet in full control of ithe government. The 81 Communists elected will not be allowed to take their | seats. This will gi ) | clear majority. give Hitler's Nazis a LIFE INSURM.JCE FOUNDER REPORTED NEAR DEATH James W. Stevens, 82, Suffers Stroke While Under Embez- zlement Indictment. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 20.—James | Stevens, 82-year-old founder of t‘h”e { Illinois Life Insurance Co., now under | indictment on embezzlement charges, was reported near death at his home today following an attack of apoplexy. His illness was reported in Court today at a hearing called on a motion asking dismissal of indictments ch.rgm?nsuvem and his two sons with embezzling $1,000,000 from the insur- ance company. His attorneys said the elderly finan- cler suffered a stroke Saturday. They sald he was unconscious today. Indictments against the father and sons charged they weakened the once prosperous insurance concern by mak- ing loans to themselves and to their properties and by declaring several million dollars in dividends—mostly payable to themselves—while the com- pany was pmng up & $7,000,000 deficit. i Reports by the receiver disclosed the Stevens and LaSalle hotels, also cone trolled by the family, borrowed $13,- 000,000 from the insurance firm on coi- lateral said by auditors to be worthless now. Negotiations were under way for the Tllinois Life's business to be taken over by the J. 5. Kemper insurance interests. | CHANG’S HOME BOMBED Ichinue Marshal Had Been Warned to Help Repel Japanese. SHANGHAI, China, March 20 (#).— | The home of Chang Hsiao-Liang, re- tired commander of the Chinese Army, was damaged by a bomb today, but no one was injured. He lives in the French S Tew days ago the marshal recel ew days ago the Mved a threatening letter demanding contri- bution of one-third of his fortune to nv:::;e ce against Japanese in- | CONSUL GENERAL DIES PARIS, March 20 (#).—H. P. Starrett, . United States consul general at Algiers, Algeria, died Saturday night, it was learned here today. He suffered an at- tack of appendicitis. Starrett had