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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) westerly. Temperatures—Highest, 71, at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 47, at 5:45 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second cla: ‘Washingt No. 32,479. post _office, ) WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FRANCE OBJECTS 10 FOUR NATIONS IMPOSING WILL 0 REST OF EUROPE Counter Proposals for Peace Insist on Protection of Poland and Members of Little Entente. SUGGESTIONS DRAFTED AT MEETING OF CABINET British Place Stress on Disarma- ment in Offering Changes in Mussolini Project—Press mghtl British Aviators Cross Mt. Everest For the First Time World’s Highest Moun- tain Top Never Before Viewed by Man. By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, April 3—Mount Ever- est, highest mountain in the world, was crossed by airplane today for the first time in history. ‘Three Englishmen, financed by Lady Houston, England's “Lady Bountiful,” have been preparing for months for the daring adventure of looking down from the air upon a peak where men have never trod. Recently, after all the prelimi- naries had been arranged, they set up their camp as close as possible to the independent state of Nepal, and during the past few days they have made a series of test flights across that forbidden land, always in the direction of the snow-capped mafix‘ngm. rt; the Marquis of e party are the uis o Clydesdale, Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes, Flight Lieut. McIntyre and Col. E. P. Etherton, secretary of the expedition. From their base at Purneah, 160 miles from Everest, they planned carefully the flight in a light plane from which they hoped to photo- to Call Up for Discussion Any Problem Presented. By the Associated Press. PARIS. April 3.—Counter-pro- posals to the Italo-British four- power peace plan were drafted at today’s cabinet session. They were based on the French insist- ence that the project must pro- tect Poland and the Little En- ftente, which should be consulted in affairs interesting them. The cabinet definitely rejected the idea of any four-power di- rectorate which would seek to im- pose its will on the rest of Europe. The main idea of four-power collaboration already had been ac- cepted by France as a basis for discussion. This acceptange was decided on March 21, wheh sug- gested modifications of the Mus- solini scheme were sent to Rome. graph the giant. SENATE TAKES UP JHHOUR-WEEK BILL Measure to Be Reported in House With Unanimous Committee Approval. By the Associated Press. Legislation to establisa a 30-hour work week was taken up by the Senate for consideration today at about the same time that it emerged from the House Labor Committee with unani- The little entente which France seeks o protect is made up of Czechoslovakia, oslavia and Rumania. e French reply to the pact pro- posal, it is understood, refuses specific mention of article 19 of the League it a violator of the coverant, also are included. Article 19 empowers the assembly of the League from time to time to “ad- Vise the reconsideration by members of the League of treaties which have be- come inapplicable and the considera- tion of international conditions whose continuance might endanger the peace of the world.” BRITISH 'STRESS ARMS. By Cable to The Star d, 3.—Great different from the ol ro- osed by Premier Benito Mussolini of taly on March 18, during his confer- ence in Rome with Ramsay MacDonald, rime minister of Great Britain, and is foreign minister, Sir John Simon. Stress is laid not upon revision, but vpon disarmament and the ve stages whereby Germany may obtain arms equality. On the question of four-power con- sultation, the new British proposal wa- ters down Mussolini’s original idea to wirtually an enlargement of the Anglo- French consultative pact following the Lausanne Reparations Conference. All powers were invited and free to jo the Anglo-French consultative pact. All did—and that killed it. The gist of the new British sugges- tion implies the right of the four pow- ers to discuss any European problem, #including revision.” When they had weached a decision, the other interested powers could be asked to join. There-‘ upon all would proceed to the League of Nations to present it with their de-| On the question of territorial revisicn, | ‘however, the British attitude seems to| be that the four powers would under | no circumstances begin revision talks themselves, but should merely guarantee that, if any other power wishes to raise it, then the four powers would be pledged to see that it receives a fair and adequate hearing on the floor of the League under article 19. | It is only fair to point out, however, | that the British do not seem to enter- tain much hope of any revision of territorial frontiers maturing in the near or even distant future, and that the watering down of the original Rome four-power proposals by the latest Brit- ish counter-suggestion has made Musso- lini's original suggestion not only un- objecticnable, but even unimportant. (Copyright. 1933.) FLOOD DANGERS SHIFT T0 SOUTHERN IOWA Riverside Park at Cedar Rapids Converted Into Muddy Lake as Dike Crumbles. By the Assoclated Press. DES MOINES, April 3.—Iowa’s flood peril moved from the northern to the southern section of the State today as streams overflowed into parks of two citles. Riverside Park at Cedar Rapids was converted into a muddy lake as a sand- bag dike along the Cedar River was washed away in the West Side business district Four feet of water flowed over the ‘Waukonsa Park district, north of Des Moines, and the city's amusement cen- | ter, Sycamore Park, was inundated as the Des Moines River went on ram- page. The stream also was out of its banks at Boone. The Cedar River at Vinton had risen . to within a few inches of its high- water mark of 1929. Bliss to Return From Argentina. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 3 (®).—United States Ambassador Robert ‘Woods Bliss is returning to the United Committee said he planned to report the measure to the House immediately. It was called up in the Senate by Sen- ator Black, Democrat, of Alabama, author of the measure, who told Sena- Borah, Republican, of Idsho, he te today. . labor working longer measure would prohibit the ship- ment in interstate or foreign commerce e in ;&dwmeltemlormmthefiemte make o specil Chcebtion. of the car a 5 exception_of can- ning and packing of perishable articles where the -seasonal character of the product and a lack of available labor would make it dificult to comply with the short work day. Under such circumstances, the Secre- tary of Labor would have authority to exempt those products from the gen- eral provisions of the bill. e BOMB FAILS TO STOP PASTOR GIVING SERMON Tllinois Minister Continues Preach- ing After Pause as Blast Show- ers Audience With Glass. By the Associated Press. ‘TAYLORVILLE, Ill, April 3—Divine ces were interrupted, but not | stopped, when a bomb shattered one window of the First Baptist Church n:ld showered the congregation with glass. The explosion occurred during last night's worship at the First Baptist Church. The pastor, Rev. J. R. Hast- ings, was delivering his sermon at the time. He paused—spoke quieting words —and then continued to the end of his address. No one was injured. Officials said they believed the bomb- ing was in retaliation of remarks Mr. Hastings had made in reference to the trouble between coal miners. At the morning services he announced his acceptance of a call to a Moline, I, church. e DAVIS DISCUSSES PLANS FOR CONFERENCE IN PARIS By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 3.—Norman H. Davis, Ambassador at large from the | United States, met Aime Joseph de | Fleuriau, French Ambassador to Great Britain, today to discuss plans for Mr.| Davis’ visit in Paris. ‘The conference preceded the resump- tion of talks between Prime Minister RECH BARS EATS | FOR FLEEING S FUNDSARESELZED Police Stamp to Be Required on All Passports Start- ing at Midnight. RENEWAL OF BOYCOTT CONSIDERED UNLIKELY Nazis Content With Order Par- alyzing Trade Saturday and Lull in Hostile Reports Abroad. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, April 3.—Without offering any explanation, the government an- nounced today that beginning at mid- night no one will be allowed to leave German soil without special permission of the police stamped on his passport. For several days reports have told of an exodus of Jews in considerable num- ber to neighboring countries. At Koenigsberg today the authorities or- dered all passports withdrawn from Jews living in East Prussia. ‘The newspaper Taegliche Rundschau reported this afternoon that a train had been halted by police near Dresden to prevent “an exodus of Jews to Czecho- slovakia.” Considerable sums of money were confiscated, the newspaper said, but Jewish passengers were permitted to return to their homes in Germany. Jews Being Excluded. ‘The one-day boycott ended, Berlin seemed normal today with business go- ing on as usual, but measures against Jews in professional life are taking shape. The number of Jewish lawyers permitted to practice in Berlin was tentatively limited to 35. At Frank- furt-on-Main the number of Jewish brokers on the stock exchange was tentatively reduced from 33 to 8. There were dozens of arrests at vari- ous places as the Nazi drive against political opponents was renewed. At the towns of Oberingelheim and Hein- stadt, near Mayence, there were reports of the attempted assassination of non- Nazi mayors. Twenty-six Communists were ar- rested at Erfurt, and at Brunswick and PFrankfurt-on-Main the presidents of the universities were placed under “pro- uc_lf.’llve arrest.” LEE e newspaper usgabe printed & dispatch from Brandenburg today that Friedrich Ebert, son of the first President of the German Republic and local Socialist leader at Brandenl A had been manhandled in a fracas whis (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) % MITCHELL WILL 60 ON TRIAL APRIL 17 U. S. Judge Sets Opening Date for Ex-Banker Ac- cused of Tax Evasion. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 3.—Federal Judge | John C. Knox today fixed April 17 as the date for opening the trial of Charles E. Mitchell, former head of the National City Bank, on an indictment charging him with attempting to defeat and evade the income tax law as to 1929. The Government claimed that $573,- 312 in income taxes should have been paid by Mitchell for 1929, but he re- ported a loss of $48,000 for the year and paid no tax. Mitchell, in testimony betore the Senate Banking Committee, claimed the loss resulted from the sale of bank stock to his wife, but the Government alleges that the sale was not bona fide. Mitchell was not in court today when the date for trial was fixed on motion of United States Attorney George Z. Medalle. The motion was opposed by Max D. Steuer, counsel for the banker, who was represented by Irving J. Levy of his office. BORAH’S BROTHER DIES NEW ORLEANS, La., April 3.(#).— Charles Frank Borah, prominent local attorney, father of Federal District Judge Wayne G. Borah, and a brother of United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, died at his home here today after a week's illness, He was 65 years old. A native of Fairfield, Ill, Mr. Borah came to this State in 1890 and entered law practice at Pranklin, La. President Taft; in 1907, named him as head of Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Davis on to Paris tomorrow. the plans for the World Economic Con- | ference this afternoon. | The American representative will go | the New Orleans “naval office,” which later became the Bureau of Customs. His son, Judge Borah, and his widow, the former Miss Fannie Thomas, sur- vive. Private Episcopal funeral serv- ices will be held here this afternoon. MRS. ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCES BEER TO BE PERMITTED IN WHITE HOUSE Statement Asserts That She Hopes Legalization of i Beverage Will Aid Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today | issued a statement saying there would be no ban against legalized beer in the | White House. The statement, signed merely “Elea- nor Roosevelt,” follows: “When it is legal to serve beer in any | Government house, it will naturally be proper to do so for any one who desires it at the White House. |, “I hope very much that any change States on furlough at the end of this|in legislation may tend to improve the month. yet designated a successor to Mr. Bliss, but it was said that he does not expect to return as Ambassador. Race Betting Is Legalized. CONCORD, N. H. April 3 (P.—A bill legalizing betting on horse races in New Hampshire automatically became President Roosevelt has not present conditions and lead to greater temperance. There has been a great | deal of bootlegging in beer, and once it is legal this will be unprofitable and I hope that a” great many people who have used stronger things will be con- | tent with legal beer so that the cause of temperance will be really served. “No matter what the legislation, I myself do not drink anything witn al- law today upon the failure of Gov.|coholic cofitent, but that is purely an John G. Winant either to sign or veto the measure, individual thing. I should not dream of imposing my own convictions on Temperance Cause. other people as long the law of the land. Questions brought out that Mrs. Roosevelt had no intention of permit- ting beer to be served in the White | House until the District beer bill is en- | acted. She sald she had not the slight- est idea whether there were any beer steins in the mansion. At her press conference, Mrs. Roose- velt showed her attitude was that the residence, as a public building, belongs in a way to all who come there. As hostess in this Executive Mansion, when beer becomes legal, she sees no reason for not serving it to guests who want it. subject of beer was as they live up wl APRIL 3, 1933—TWENTY-EIG¥™ “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 119,552, Sunday’s Circulation, 130.829. TUGES. ®kxx U Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. REMEMBER. DEAR, OLDER foLks FIRST! INSTRUCTIONS LAID - ONVETERANS' CUT Field Workers to Carry Out President’s Order for $400,000,000 Saving. By the Associated Press. Instructions to fleld workers were prepared today by the veterans ad- ministration to carry out President Roosevelt’s order for a cut of $400,- 000,000 in annual benefits paild to war veterans. The Chief Executive’s action hits all along the line, with officials indicating that new construction at veterans hospitals will be held up unless the im- provements already are under way. Some institutions may even be closed if conditions warrant. $100,000,000 Biggest Saving. The biggest savings, about $100,000,- 000, will come through removing from the benefit lists all veterans whose in- Juries or sickness are non-service con- mected, unless the victims are totally or permanently disabled. Those totally or permanently disabled, even though not rendered so by service, will receive only $20 a month as compared with $40. The new allowances, effective July 1, for service connected cases are cut a flat 20 cent and a new system of five nlm;a of disability established. The new ratings and allowances: Ten per cent disability, $8 monthly; 25 per cent, $20; 50 per cent, $40; 75 per cent, $60, and 100 per cent, $80. Cases to Be Reclassified. In-between ratings such as 41 per cent disabled are discontinued, and all such cases will be reclassified. All payments for temporary disabilities of a non-service character and free hospi- talization for such disabilities will be eliminated. Under one regulation veterans of the Spanish-American War, Philippine In- surrection and Boxer Rebellion and the widows and children of World War (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) LEADERS OF CONGRESS RELEASED IN CALCUTTA President - Elect of Nationalist Group and Gandhi’s Son Are Among Those Released. By the Associated Press. CALCUTTA, India, April 3 —Pandit Madan Mohan Maliviya, president-elect of the Indian Nationalist Congress; Ram Das Gandhi, son of the Mahatma, and about 50 other Congress members wer‘e released today from the Bengal gaol. They were arrested last Thursday while en route to Calcutta to attend a banned annual session of the Congress. About 150 others, including Mrs. Nellie Sen Gupta, English wife of & leader, were arrested Saturday trying to hold a Congress session. BANDIT PLEADS GUILTY Admits Part in $13,000 Bank Rob- bery at Gallipolis, Ohio, GALLIPOLIS, Ohio, April 3 (P)— John Kritco, 21, of Cleveland, one of the three men who robbed the First National Bank here last Tuesday of $13,000, pleaded guilty to robbery today. Judge W. R. White reserved sentence in the hope that Willilam Burke, 36, an- other of the trio who allegedly held up the bank, would be captured. Robert W. Jones, third member of the gang, died in Findlay yesterday from bullet wounds inflicted by an offi- cer who sought to arrest him in con- nection with the bank hold-up. SLAIN BY NEPHEW Former North Carolinian Wounds Kinsman in Gun Fight. CODY, Wyo., April 3 (#).—Jack Spicer, 45, former North Carolinian, was killed and his nephew, Arch Royal, 30, was wounded critically in settlement of a trival quarrel with revolvers yes- terday. ‘The shooting followed an all-night country dence which the men attended. Spicer and Royal officers said, had words over a minor matter and Royal was asked to leave the Spicer ranch, which he had made his home for the last six years. Royal was wounded three times. His uncle was shot through the When the broached to Mrs. Roosevelt last week, it was recalled by a New York news- paper that she had helped Mr. Roose- velt win one of his first political vic- tories by serving beer, crackers and cheese at midnight suppers while he was an Albany legislator, heart. Spicer came to the Cody country about 20 years ago from Traphill, N. C. He was married, but had no children. Radio l’rolnrn on Page B9 Air Crash, Killing 15, Probed as Work Of Insane Person| British Police Trace Clue That Man Set Fire to Channel Plane. By the Associated Press. SALFORD, England, April 3.—Au- thorities were investigating today the sensational possibility that Albert Voss, English passenger aboard the ill-fated airliner City of Liverpool, may have set the fire, while mentally deranged, which resulted in the plane crashing in Bel- glum last Tuesday and the death of all 15 persons aboard. Coroner A. H. Flint, who will direct an inquest into Voss's death, said, how- ever, it was difficult to reconcile such a theory with the fact that Voss had his 16-year-old schoolgirl niece, Miss Lottie Voss, aboard with him. Flint said he understood that some time ago Voss attempted suicide. Ap- parently Voss fell from the liner nearly 2 miles before it crashed near Essen. Mourners were assembling for the fu- neral here yesterday when police held up proceedings. PRESIDENT NAMES BOWERS AS ENVOY Sumner Welles Nominated to Be Assistant Secretary " of State. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt today nominated Sumner Welles of Maryland to be As-| sistant Secretary of State and Claude G. Bowers of New York to be Ambas- sador to Spain. The two appointments further filled out the State Department staff, which is now almost entirely in Democratic control. Welles served in the department dur- ing the Wilson administration. Bowers 1928 Keynoter. Bowers, a writer, delivered the key- note of the 1928 Democratic convention. He is the fourth to be chosen for the diplomatic corps. It is understood the President has under serious consideration the ap- pointment of Warren Delano Robbins, chief of the protocol division in the State Department, to be Minister to Canada. Francis White, who has been an as- sistant Secretary of State in Charge of Latin American affairs, appears slated for a high diplomatic post and has been mentioned as Ambassador to Cuba, which has been occupied by Harry F. Guggenheim of New York. Guggenheim has resigned and now is on his way to Washington. President Roosevelt also named Joseph W. Woodrough of Nebraska to be a judge in the Eighth Federal Cir- cuit Court of Appeals. Customs Collector Chosen. The President also sent to the Senate the nomination of Harry M. Durning of New York to be collector of customs at_the Port of New York. Woodrough, a Federal district judge in Nebraska, was named to the bench by President Wilson, He was recommended for the mew post by Arthur Mullen of Omaha at the time that Mullen recently refused the appointment to fill the vacancy in the eighth circuit. Mullen was the floor leader for the Roosevelt forces at the Chicago con- vention. Selection of Durning, & Bronx man and intimate friend of the Bronx Dem- ocratic leader, Edward J. Flynn, was viewed at the Capitol as illustrating transfer of final word in New York City patronage from the hands of Tammany Hall to the Bronx leader. Flynn, with his followers, supported President Roosevelt in the Chicago convention. DAVIS TO 'i'AKE REST Senator, Recently Operated On, to Spend 2 Months in South. PITTSBURGH, April 3 (#).—Sepator James J. Davis, recovering from an ap- pendicitis operation, expects to leave soon for a two-month rest in the South, Dr. John W. Shirer, his physician, re- ported last night. ‘The doctor said Davis’ recovery has been very slow, due to diabetes, and that the rest is necessary to gain strength for a second operation, adding it the Senator is now suffering from stom- ach ulcers. He sald Davis would probably leave Wednesday. Senator Davis was operat- ed on March 10, HOUSE DISACREES OND. . EERBL Bars All Senate Changes and Asks Conference; Mem- bers Picked. ‘The House today disagreed to all Sen- | ate amendments to the District beer bill and asked for a conference. The conferees appointed for the House are Chairman Norton of the House District Committee, Represent- | ative Palmisano of Maryland, sponsor of the bill; Representative Black of New York, who has been active in put- ting through this legislation—all Demo- crats; Representative Stalker of New York, ranking Republican member of the District Committee and the only | man_who opposed reporting the bill to the House. and Representative Whitley, Republican, of New York, who sup- ports the bill. A short time later, the Senate ap- mll.‘nfied its conferees as follows: Sena- 3 ocrat, Maryland; Il‘,:vm:ul mo‘c'f-t. Tilinois, and Carey, publican, Wyoming. Tydings will communicate this aft- ernoon with the House members to fix a time The principal issue between the Sen- ate and the House is over the prohibi- tion placed in the bill by the Senate forbidding the sale of beer on any Gov- ernment property, which would include the cafeterias in the Capitol and the various Government buildings. ‘Won by Decisive Vote. By a decisive vofe, the House refused for a conference. bill was under consideration in the House. In a stubborn effort to prevent this prohibition being wiped out in confer- ence between the Senate and House, Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, made a preferential motion in the House today to agree in the Senate amendment. He was defeated on two votes, onc a standing vote of 113 to 62 and the other a roll call of 195 to 150, The bill was brought over to the House from the Senate immediately after the House opened. Chairman Norton of the District Committee arose for the purpose of moving to send the bill to conference and disagreeing with the %Senate amendment when Representa- tive Blanton secured the floor on a question of personal privilege. Mr. Blan- ton’s question was about the debate on the medicinal liquor bill last week. He was allowed an hour in which to dis- cuss his “personal privilege.” Ready to Rush Action. The District government will make all possible speed consistent with rules to be prescribed by Congress in granting permits for the sale of beer here, under the measure, Dr. Luther H. Reichel- derfer, president of the Board of Com- missioners, declared today. Just how soon it will be possible to promulgate the necessary rules and regulations and to issue permits to eligi- ble applicants, however, the Commis- sicner said, could not be forecast now. He and other District officials anticipate that it may require as much as a week following final action by Congress on the beer bill to complete the adminis- trative work called for in the bill as it now stands. EMPLOYER l-:OUND SLAIN CHICAGO, April 3 (#).—George Rusu, 45, was found beaten to death today in a bed room at the rear of his soft drink parlor. Police said Nicholas Valenski, a jan- itor, who slept with Rusu, admitted killing his employer with the object of robbing him. The janitor first maintained he awoke this morning to discover Rusu's bat- tered body lying in bed beside him. to accept this amendment when the |/ Russia May Give 3 U. S. German Trade Owing to Attacks ReprrisalsThreatened Qver| Attitude Toward Organi- zations and Individuals. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, April 3.—A possibility that Soviet Russia may transfer to the United States some of its purchases heretofore placed in Germany was voiced today by the Soviet government's chief economic organ, For Industrial- ization, in warning Germany that it risks trade reprisals if attacks on Soviet economic organizations and Soviet | citizens there continue. | The newspaper declared recent ln!l-] Soviet _activities in Germany in the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) MICHIGAN GIVES REPEAL FIRST TEST IN BALLOT TODAY Vote on Convention Dele- gates by Districts Spurs Hopes' of Drys. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 3.—Michigan blazes an unmapped trail today as the first State to elect its constitutional conven- tion for consideration of the amend- ment to repeal national prohibition. An estimated 900,000 vates will 100 delegates to the convention, one for each of the 100 Representative districts. In each district there are two candi- dates. One is pledged to vote for rati- fication of the repeal amendment, the other for retention of the eighteenth amendment. Thus, when the conven- tion assembles on April 10, it will have no deliberative function to perf only a formal recording of the senti- ment by the voters at the polls. ‘Wets Won in November. Although this is the first opportunity voters anywhere have had to render a decisive verdict on natlonal prohibition, State prohibition was a clear-cut issue at the polls last November—and the wets won, re| the “bone dry” clause in the Michigan constitution by a vote of 1,022,508 to 475,265. ‘That was done by a Detroit's vote weighing balance. Today, however, vote in each district standing alone, thechlnouformmgmmn- ately less and are basing their hopes principally on that that the vote by In today's election Wayne County (Detroit), which casts approximavely {.;u ‘&f popuh.rmvote, etects only 21 of 100 delega eGov. William A. Comstock, address- Democratic rally, asserted that 's vote will determine the ultimate tion. 4 “If we turn about by going dry the country will never get the amendment off the books.” WISCONSIN ACTS TOMORROW. iscons| pass official judgment on B s ementimei. fomottow, with the of the State’s Anti- Saloon League frankly pessimistic of the outcome. The Rev. Warren Jones, State su- perintendent of the league, said he conceded that the repealists would win. He said there was no hope for prohi- bition in Wisconsin in an election at which delegates to the State’s eighteenth | amendment convention are chosen from the State at large. If the delegates, he added, were chosen by districts there might be some possibility of over- coming wet majorities in Milwaukee and other cities in the eastern part of the State. Fifteen delegates are to be named | to the cenvention, which will meet at Madisen April 15. Names of 30 candidates, 15 dry and 15 wet, and none identified with any party or political faction, appear on the ballot. The voter with one mark may vote for all the repealists or all committed to support the prohibition amendment, or he may select 15 indi- viduals from both groups. ‘Wisconsin repenled‘:;; State prohibi- tion act in a referend four years ago with a vote of 350,337 to 196,402. P e AR LR Kidnapers Submit Terms. NEWCHWANG, Manchuria, April 3 (#).—Chinese pirates who recently kid- naped four British officers of the steamer Nanchang, today sent back afoot an engineer named Pears, bearing their terms for the release of his companions. Belgian Rulers in Italy. BRINDISI, Italy, April 3 (#).—The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived incognito today on the way to Egypt and the Holy Land. While they are in Ttaly they will visit their daughter, Maria Jose, wife of Crown Prince| Humbert. . By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 3.—The corner po- liceman whose shrill whistle controls the tempo of traffic may soon be ele- vated to the rank of musician—and he won't have to take lessons either. His whistle “made the grade” into the realm of music yesterday when it rent the air during the rendition of a sym- phonic compositicn by an orchestra. A s(fi:&ely audience applauded enthusiastic- ally. The whistle was manipulated by the internationally known conductor, Ru- dolph Ganz, who blew it loudly and frequently as he led the musicians through Jacques Ibert's ultramodern composition, “Paris.” The whistle, he [uld. added background to the sections | i, POLICE WHISTLE 1S ELEVATED TO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROLE Dignified as Musical Instrument in Chicago Program. Saxophoné Also Introduced for Share of Honors. portraying the Latin Quarter of the French capital. The occasion was the annual Chicago concert of the International Society of Contemporary Musicians, at which new compositions are introduced. A similar concert is held yearly in New York. ded another touch to the anz modernistic trend of the concert, when | will be he included a saxophonist in the per- sonnel of his orchestra. The audience liked that, too. Local critics said it was an innovation—the first time a saxo- phone had moaned in a symphony or- chestra. two American com- The works of posers, Wesley Laviolette, Chicago, and Aaron Copeland, New York, were in- cluded in the program. ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR ENAGTMENT OF FARM MORTGAGE RELIEF MEASURE Proposes Issuance of Bonds Running as High as Two or Three Billions to Aid Re- financing. SPECIAL MESSAGE ASKS SPECIFIC LEGISLATION President’s Plan Would Give Agri- culture Benefit of Decreased Principal, Lower Interest Rates and Extension of Time to Care for Indebtedness. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Franklin D. Roosevelt today called upon the Congress to pass legislation to aid in the re- financing of farm mortgages. The President’s proposal calls for the issuance of a great bond issue, running perhaps as high as $2,000,000,000 bearing interest at 4 per cent. These bonds are to be substituted for farm mortgages the country over, giving the farm- ers the benefit of somewhat de- creased principal, much lower in- terest rates, and an extension of time in which to care for their indebtedness, or may be used for new loans. In a special message which was read in both Senate and House the President stressed the need of going to the aid of the American farmers through the ree financing of their indebtedness. At the same time the President struckeanother blow for t.h;g:;.:nae of his farm-relief bill, now pe: in the Senate, which is designed to increase farm prices. ‘Specific Legislation Asked. asing power and to broaden the credit structure for the benefit of both the producing and com= suming elements in our population, I ask the Congress for specific legislation relating to the mortgages and other m forms of indebtedness of g:m‘ the Nation,” said Mme me . pri very you The. legisiation now pending. you. The lej now which seeks to raise agricultural com= modity prices, is a definite step to en- able farm debtors to pay their indebt= edness in commodity terms more close- ly approximating those in which the indebtedness was incurred; but that is not enough. “In addition the Federal Government should provide for the refinancing. of mortgage and other indebtedness so as to accomplish a more equitable read- Justment of the principal of the debt, & reduction of interest rates, which in ficlent time to favmers to them the hope of ultimate free owner- ship of their own land. I seek an end to the threatened loss of homes and productive capacity now faced by hun- dreds of thousands of American farm families.! Would Aid Home Owners. “The legislation I suggest will not impose a g‘:n‘y burden upon the Na- tional Treasury. It will instead provide a means by which, through existing agencies of the Government, the farm owners of the Nation will be enabled to refinance themselves on reasonable terms, lighten their harassing ens and give them a fair opportunity to eturn to sound conditions. “I shall presently ask for additional legislation as a part of the broad pro- gram, extending this wholesome prin= ciple to the small home owners of the Nation, likewise faced with thiy threat. “Also, I shall ask the Congress for legislation enabling us to initiate practical reciprocal tariff agreements to break through trade barriers and establish foreign markets for farm and industrial products.” The farm mortgage bill was intro- duced shortly afterward as an amend- ment to the farm relief bill during that measure’s consideration in the Senate. The Senate Committee on Agriculture today voted into the administration farm relief bill the so-called Simpson pro= duction costs guaranty plan, and cone cluded their work on that measure, (Continued on Page.2, Column 4.) . WOODIN WILL SPEAK TONIGHT ON FORUM Nation-Wide N. B. C. Network Will Carry Talk on “Banks and the Treasury.” Secretary of the Treasury Woodin to- night will deliver the first of a series of addresses, in which all the cabinet officers will be heard in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Star and broadcast over a Nation-wide net- work of the National Broadeasting Co. “The Banks and the Treasury” will be the topic of Mr. Woodin's talk, to be heard through the facilities of WRC at_10:30 o'clock tonight. By reason of his direction of the Na- tion’s financial reconmstruction program, no member of the Roosevelt adminis- tration has occupied a more prominent place in the spotlight of public atten- tion, and his address will be of fore- most interest to the radio audience, It his first radio address since be- coming a cabinet member, and in it the personable Secretary is expected to take the people of the country into his confidence and explain frankly just what the Government is doing in the :mm.u of salvaging the banking struc- ure. Secretary Woodin will be followed in later weeks by other members of Presi= dent Roosevelt'’s cabinet.