Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair; cooler late tonight and tomorrow; gentle to moderate southerly winds. Temperatures —Highest, 66, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 52, at 4:00 a. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Full report on page 13, .m. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ch ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING RDITION ¢ Foening Star. Yesterday's Circ ulation, 124,756 Entered as seco post office, Wa No. 32,482, nd class matter shington, D. C WASHINGTON , D. C, THURSBDAY, APRIL 6, 1933—FORTY-SIX PAGES. %k (P Means Associated Press. TWO CENT ARRON SEACHERS FND O BUBBLING ON SEA SURFACE Boatmen Report Discovery Near Scene of Naval Dirigible’s Plunge. ADDITIONAL WRECKAGE PICKED UP BY CRUISER! Pathologist Predicts Bodies of Dis- | aster Victims Will Appear Drring Day. By the Associated P NEW YORK, April 6—Third district naval headquarters announced tcday; that an unidentified Coast Guard patrol boat had reported finding a second large oil slick and “oil bubbling to the surface” in the Atlantic Ocean at a point 214 miles west of Barnegat Light- ship. The Navy tug Kalmia was proceeding to the scene to investigate, it was said. The Kalmia had previously been ordered to the vicinity of the disaster to await instructions regarding possible salvage of the wreck of the dirigible Akron. Report of the second oil slick was re- ceived at headquarters here shortly before 11:30 am. Previously the finding of an oil slick nearer the locality where the Akron crashed had been reported. MORE WRECKAGE PICKED UP. Cruiser Finds Wood Fragments, Life Raft and Radio Tube. LAKEHURST, N. J., April 6 (#).—The cruiser Portland reported to the naval air station today the finding of addi- tional wreckage from the U. S. S. Akron, which sank in the ocean off Barnegat Light Tuesday morning with a loss of | 73 lives. A message from Lieut. Comdr. James | L. Fisher, mooring officer at the air station, who is aboard the Portland, re- ported the finding of wood fragments, a life raft and a radio tube. The search for bodies of the 71 missing crew mem- bers was without success. Lieut. Comdr. Fisher’s report to the station by radio follows: “Search vessels have picked up empty gas tank, spare radio transmitting power tube intact in its shipping crate, life raft from airplane compartment of Akron, some wood fragments, appar- ently from Akron, bumper bag from J-3. AN articles being assembled on board Portland. Will be returned to Lakehurst for investigation.” PLANES RENEW SEARCH. Efforts Are Centered on Area Off Dela- ware and Virginia. CAPE MAY, N. J., April 6 (#).—Ten Navy planes soared away from the Coast Guard base here this morning to renew their search for traces of the airship Akron and its crew. They headed Southeast bent on con- centrating their efforts in the area off the Delaware and Virginia shores. Coast Guard officials said mnaval and Coast Guard vessels were cruising in strategic positions in this area to co- operate with the planes in the search and to aid them in case of mishaps. Coast Guard planes remained at the base, their pilots “standing by,” ready to fly at a moment’s notice in case of emergency. ‘Wide Expanse Criss-Crossed. Patroling huncreds of square miles | of sea and coast line yesterday, planes met with complete failure. They criss- crossed a wide expanse off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts, between | Barnegat, N. J., and Winter Quarter | Lightship, off the Maryland-Virginia | boundary line. Today. it was planned to press the! search further South. 1 Discovery of wreckage of part of the Akron by members of the Coast Guard was reported late yesterday. Sev- eral pieces of balsa wood covered with | brass and fabric were found about 25 miles off Beach Haven, N. J. Expects Discovery Today. It was turned over to the commander | of the Coast Guard destroyer Cunning- | hem for examination. | Dr. Robert Kilduffe, pathologist at an Atlantic City hospital and an au-| thority on drowning cases, said he be- | lieves the bodies would appear today. He said the low temperature of the water and the heavy clothing worn by | the men combined to keep the bodies submerged for a longer time than dur- | ing warm weather. AFTER HAVANA RACE Missing Craft Sighted as It Nears Cuban Port—All Other Entrants Are Accounted For. By the Associated Press H HAVANA, April 6.—Members of the erew of the yacht Cyrnosure, which ar- | rived late last night in the race from St. Petersburg, Fla., today reported they had sighted the missing yawl Ironde- quoit yesterday far to the west of Ha- vana Harbor and that she probably ‘would arrive today. Much uneasiness had been felt for the boat and her crew with all the rest of the fleet of 11 little craft either in port or accounted for, and all ships had been requested to keep a lookout for her. The first of the fleet arrived in Havana early yesterday morning. The Irondequoit is under the com- mand of her owner, G. C. Tacot of ‘Tampa. EXHIBITION GAME OFF Griffmen and Brooklyn Dodgers ‘Will Meet Tomorrow. ‘Bad weather caused postponement of | he added, were outlined to him by offi- Probe of Disaster Open at Lakehurst Monday. HAS BROAD POWERS Authority Is Along Lines of General Court- Martial. Rear Admiral Henry V. Butler, com- ant of the Washington Navy Yard, will head the board of investigation into the loss of the naval airship Akron ADMR. BUTLER NAMED HEAD OF AKRON INQUIRY BOARD to|} when the tribunal assembles Monday | at Lakehurst, N. J. | This became known today at the| Navy Department when the Judge| Advocate General's Office announced | that Rear Admiral William W. Phelps, | commandant of the third naval district | at New York, N. Y., originally picked | to head the board, will be unable to serve due to illness, | Secretary Swanson in a formal order | to the investigating board, instructed that it give its opinion “as to whether any offenses had been committed or REAR ADMIRAL BUTLER. serfous blame incurred” in the loss of the ship. Because of the projected trial flights of the new dirigible U. S. S. Macon, Comdr. Garland Fulton, the Navy's lighter-than-air expert, orig- inally scheduled as a board member, has been replaced by Comdr. Sydney M. Kraus, manager of the naval air- " (Continued on Page 5, Coiomn 6. PICKS LOCAL MEN FORREFOREST ARMY District Welfare Board Head Begins Choosing 500 for Civilian Corps. Selection of the 500 unemployed Washington men to be recruited into President Roosevelt's reforestation army was begun today by Leroy Halbert, Hiead | of the emergency relief division of the| District Board of Public Welfare. At the same. time, machinery was| being set up in 16 other cities for enrollment of the remainder of the | 25,000 men allotted to the first division | of the new Civilian Conservation Corps. | Under the recruiting method decided upon last night, at a series of con- ferences which Mr. Halbert and other District officials held with representa- | tives of the Labor Department, the first | step will be compilation of an eligible list from among the names of the thou- sands of persons who have received aid from the relief division. The same method will be followed in the other cities. Applicants to Be Weeded Out. Orce the list of eligibles is completed, | the men named will be queried as to| whether they wish to enlist in the army of forest workers. If the number of men desirous of joining the corps ex- ceeds the W n quota of 500— and the general expectation is that it will—a “weeding-out” process will be instituted by the relief division's sccial workers. o The recruits will be given two weeks’ training in Army posts to be designated by Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, com- mander of the 3d Corps Area. It is expected they will be sent to emm‘ Fort George G. Meade, Md., or Fort Humphreys. Va. The Maryland post has been tentatively allotted 3,570 men, to be sent there from all recruiting points in the 3d Corps Area, while the Virginia fort’s tentative quota is 950. | 1t is considered unlikely any of the| recruits will be trained at Fort Myer, | Va, there. While the District men, along with 1,000 from Baltimore, are being trained | in the 3d Corps Area, the recruits selected in the other cities will be under- going similar training at military posts in other parts of the country. | Must Be Unmarried. ‘Would-be forest workers will have to meet the same requirements here as else- | where, according to Mr. Halbert. All| applicants, he said, must be unmarried United States citizens, between 18 and i 25, who, being jobless, have been receiv- | ing assistance from the relief division or | some other charitable agency. Prefer- | ence will be given, he said, to men who are willing to contribute a major portion of their $30-a-month allowance to de- pendent relatives. These requirements, cials of the Labor Department. When the office of the relief division was opened at 9 o'clock this morning, | a crowd of about 200 persons was o) hand. This was just an “every-day” throng, however, according to Mrs. Hal- bert, and at least 9 out of 10 persons were seeking the kind of aid the relief division has been administering all along. i The first camp to be put in operation —and the one to which the Washington recruits will be sent—will be in the George Washington National Forest, between Luray and Edinburg, Va. The Forest Service is prepared, however, to put men to work immediately at other camp sites in Pennsylvania, Northern New England, the Carolinas, Column 5.) " (Continued on Page 2, MACDONALD IS GIVEN FORMAL INVITATION | British Premier to Sail in About 10 Days for Conference With President Here. By the Associated Press. | Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | of Great Britain today was formally invited to visit President Roosevelt in Washington to talk over world prob- lems. | The State Department, in a brief| | announcement, said: | “The President's invitation to Prime Minister MacDonald was handed to | the British Ambassador thi§ morning. “Arrangements are being made for simultaneous release of the text in Lon- don and Washington.” ‘While details of the invitation were withheld pending release of the text, it was_understood that the British Prime Minister plans to sail in about 10 days for a visit to Washington dur- the exhibition game between the Griff- men and Brooklyn Dodgers of the Na- tional League scheduled for today. The same teams will meet at Griffith Cladium tomorrow, starting at 3 o'clock, ing the Baster recess of the House of Commons. | afterncon, and after forcing employes because of crowded condmonma | Jersey license plates, as well as of the | BANK I SUTHEAST ROBBED OF 51000 Mechanics Savings Branch Is Fourth of Chain to Be Victimized. Five bandits, two of them armed with sawed-off shotguns and two carrying revolvers, held up the Washington Me- chanics’ Savings Bank branch, at Eighth and G strects southeast, this and customers into the back of the office escaped with approximately | $10,000. Leaving one man at the steering wheel of their brand-new sedan, four of the robbers sauntered into the bank shortly after 1 o'clock. Couldn’t Reach Gas. Separating inside the door, the bandits apparently took pains to cover 21l parts of the banking room, one of them concentrating on the customers and the others giving their attention to the four employes on duty. One of the customers, a woman, fainted as the bandits, brandishing their guns, ordered every one to the rear. Revived following the hold-up, she collapsed again in a hall separating the banking office from the rest of the building. Although the bank, like other branches of the Washington Mechanics’, was equipped with tear gas devices, the robbers moved so swiftly that none of the employes was able to get within striking distance of the control, J. C. Williams, teller, attempted to set off the gas, but one of the bandits, prodding him with a revolver, ordered him to “step back.” Loss Is Insured. ‘The same robber forced Williams to open the vault while the other bandits compelled the other employes to line up against the rear wall. While the customers were being forced to the rear, one of the robbers climbed over the counter. At the same time, another strode to the back, opened the gate leading behind the counter nd closed in from the rear, while the ?the{ man stationed himself toward the ront. Although it was not definitely known exactly how much money the bandits obtained, officials of the bank said theirs| first rough estimate was about $10,000, | all of which was fully covered by in- surance. After scooping paper money and change into shopping bags, the robbers ran from the bank, jumped into their automobile and sped away. A specta- tor whose name could not be learned immediately, trailed their car through the southeast and northeast sections of the city and out Bladensburg road as far as Mount Olivet Cemetery, where he was finally outdistanced. Descriptions of the car, bearing New robbers, were broadcast to police in all | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) e ROOSEVELT TO SEE " FIRST BALL GAME President Promises Griffith He Will See Nationals Play April 12. Commenting that base ball has done as much as any other sport to main- tain the morale of the American people | during the depression, President Roose- veit today promised Clark Griffith, president of the Washington Base Ball | Club, that he would attend the open- ing game at American League Park on April 12, between the Nationals and the | Philadelphia Athletics. Griffith presented to Mr. Roosevelt a No. 1 season pass for all American League games and John A. Heydler gave the President a similar pass for the National League, of which he is the | president. Both passes weére in hand- some leather cases. Griffith also left for Mrs. Roosevelt a large black Mo- rocco purse, inscribed with her initials, and containing a special pass for her- self and her friends. The President inquired of the base ball magnates as to the beer situation 8t base ball games this season and was advised by Heydler that the pre-pro- hibition policy providing for serving of beer at bars in the back of the stands would be revived. Griffith pointed out, however, that there would be no beer sold at the American League Park here because of local restrictions, which were in effect prior to prohibi- tion and which will be continued. Heydler said there would be no peddling of beer by the bottle in the grandstands of the base ball parks. Griffith said the President evidenced his deep interest in base ball and his familiarity with players by inquiring concerning some of the old-timers of the Washington team, including Sam ORI, REDUTION N DISTACT FUNOS SCORED BY CAPPER Declares School, Health, Public Welfare and Police Cuts Are Unwise. $5,700,000 U. S. SHARE DESCRIBED AS T0O LOW Senate Subcommittee Will Meet Tomorrow to Map Procedure on Measure. The drastic reductions that have been made in many municipal activities and also in the Federal contribution in the 1934 District appropriation bill was deplored today by Senator Capper, Re- publican, of Kansas, a member of the subcammittee that will consider the bill in the Senate. “I am not in sympathy with the cuts made in the amounts for schools, health, public welfare, police work and other essential activities,” Senator Cap- per said. “I think it is a great mistake,” he added. Senator Capper, who formerly was chairman of the Senate District Com- mittee for a number of years, also said he regarded the lump sum of $5,700,000 recommended by the Budget Bureau and approved by the House as the Fed- eral contribution for the coming year as “ too low and not a fair proportion.” Subcommittee to Meet. The Senate Subcommittee on Ap- propriations will meet at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow to outline the procedure it will follow in handling the supply bill, which passed the House yesterday, carrying $31,967,442 of regular~appro- priations. The new chairman, Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, will preside. The new bill is more than $10,000,000 under current appropriations snd the Federal contribution is $2,075,000 below the current figure. 3 The subcommittee will decide tomor- row on the extent of the hearings, which probably will start Monday. Sen- ator Thomas indicated he thought two or three days would be sufficient for hearings, in which case the bill might be ready to be reported by the end of next week. Favors Liberal Contribution. While not ready to comment on what action he thought should be taken with respect to the Federal contribution, Senator Thomas said he has always fa- vored a liberal appropriation, on the theory that this is the Nation's city rather than the city of the people of Washington. He indicated that he re- gards the control which Congress exer- cises over the Capital as a factor en- ter! into the consideration of the question. In addition to Senator Thomas, the members of the subcommittee are: Senators Glass, Bratton, Copeland, Coolidge, Nye, Keyes, Dale, Carey, King, Tydings and Capper. The last three are ex-officio members chosen from the Senate District Committee. Meanwhile the Board of Education is convening in special session this afternoon to consider the problems pre- sented by the slash in school estimates, and a _mass meeting under auspices of the District Congress of Parent- Teacher Associations is to be held at Roosevelt High School tonight to pro- test the reductions in school and Ii- brary items. The School Board is meeting at 2 o'clock in executive session and as a committee of the whole to discuss the effects of the House bill, which contains $3,633,000 less for school pur- poses than current appropriations. The parent-teacher congress, in ai {::I‘gg;g Lhel mass 1uiueeung tonight, has various civic grou delegations. el $1,675,000 Fund Added. The only changes made in the bill by the House were the addition of $1,675,~ 000 to the amount recommended by the Budget Bureau. Of this sum, $1,040,- 000 will come out of the surpius gaso- line tax revenues to provide for such emergency construction as the Presi- dent may approve, and $635,000 for ex- tensions and improvements in the water service. These additions were made in amend- ments recommended by the Appropria- tions Committee—the only amendments offered that the House would accept. They were agreed to solely because Chairman Buchanan of the Appropria- tions Committee explained that the use of the gas and water fund surplus would provide work for hundreds of men who otherwise would be denied employment. Final consideration of the bill occu- pled less than an hour. Consideration was resumed about 2 o'clock, shortly after the House had accepted the con- ference report on the District beer bill, and 55 minutes later the bill was passed without a record vote. Except for the committee amendment increasing the Water Department ap- propriation, only one other change was sought. Representative Smith, Demo- crat, of Virginia, who took a leading part in the fight on the floor to re- store items eliminated from the con- ference agreement on the original 1934 bill by the Budget Bureau, offered an amendment to increase from $312 to $480 a year the allowance to dairy in- spectors who use their own vehicles. ‘The amendment was rejected, how- ever. Seek Tax Reductions. Shortly before the final vote, Chair- man Buchanan and Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, both de- clared that the reductions in the ap: propriations paved the way for the Commissioners to make a substantial decrease in the tax rate in the coming fiscal year. Blanton declared the levy should be reduced from $1.70 to $1.50, and pointed out that if the Commissioners failed to order the cut, Congress should do so. Chairman Buchanan said he believe the present $1.70 levy is “exorbitan “Under the provisions of this bill, and the saving of money by the re- ductions we have made,” said Blanton, “it will be possible for the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia to re- duce the tax rate in Washington from $1.70 to $1.50 per hundred on both real property and personal property, and still have plenty of funds out of, (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) Tax Office Is Bombed. Rice and Joe Judge. He was advised that Rice is the only one of the old- timers mentioned who is still with the Radio Programs on Page D4 | HAVANA, April 6 (#).—A bcmb ex- ploded today in the tax collection of- fice, injuring & child, a watchman and \( z N i DR f’ /\\\\\\" q 4 [ Acciviry ARCactToL "¢ oNTINVE! WlTH Tl (((((/ 2 4\“7~%‘{¥‘A/ Dy, 23 Sa~ STt OMGRES (NG RODSEVELT VIEWS ARMY DAY PARADE Celebration Brings Colorful Display of Military and Patriotic Units. Washington was the center of all Army day celebrations today as a pa- rade of 82 military and patriotic units assembled in the vicinity of Peace | Monument shortly before 1:30 o'clock | to dip their colors in salute to the | Commander in Chief of America’s | armed forces, President Roosevelt, as he | reviewed the colorful line of march from | the presidential stand on Constitution | evenue at Sixteenth street. ‘Throughout the Corps Areas of the United States similar observances on a smaller scale were commemorating to- day the sixteenth annive of this Natlon’s entrance into the World War in acknowledgment of the Army's achievements in peace as in war. De- spite warm April showers earlier in the day, the preparations for this gala observance in the National Capital went forward without interruption. ‘White House Prepared. President _Roosevelt, accompanied probably by Mrs. Roosevelt and mem- bers of their family, was prepared to leave the White House for the short drive to the reviewing stand in time to arrive just as the head of the paraue reaches Fifteenth street and Pennsyl- ania avenue and turns south to round the corner of Constitution avenue. In | the reviewing stand with the com- mander in chief will be Secretary of War George H. Dern, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the Army; Maj. Gen. Ben. A. Fuller, commandant of the Marine Corps, and other high military officials. Whether the President would reman | until practically the last unit has passed, as he did during the inaugural parade on March 4, or leave after tne first of the four grand divisions passes was not known early today. This would | depend upon weather conditions, it was believed. Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, veteran of the immortal 2d Division of World War fame and commander of the 3d Corps Area of the Army, was the grand marshal of the parade, which is the largest military show of its kind held in the Capital for many a year. This official observance of Army day was sponsored by the Military Order of the World War, with the co-operation of the 3d Corps Area headquarters in Baltimore. After today's military spec- tacle. the official observance will close with the annual banquet of the Military Order of the World war at 7:30 o'clock in the Mayflower Hotel. Gen. Malone will be the principal speaker and many military episodes have been planned during the course of the banquet. Close Formation Ordered. Marching in the close formation of Regular Army troops, the units were grouped in four divisions commanded by Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, Lieut. Col. George E. Ijams and Brig. Gen. Wiliam E. Horton. As during the inaugural pa- rade, the colors were massed at the head ot each division. This proceaure was followed not only to add to the effect, but also to make it unnecessary (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Improved Trading. The better sentiment in re- gard to business generally offers the merchants a much improved field for their mer- chandise. Today's advertise- ments reflect the worthwhile news of today’s buying oppor- tunities. Yesterday’s Advertising. (Local Display) Lines. 31,374 16,440 7,181 3,168 2,653 The Evening Star. 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper 4th Newspaper 5th Newspaper (Other four newspapers) Total 29,442 The Star’s circulation carries the news of these opportunities Man Asleep 13 Days After Anaesthetic Is Given by Dentist By the Associated Press, PHOENIX, Arix, April 6— Arthur H. Jones lay unconscious for the thirteenth day today, af- ter he had been given an an- aesthetic to have two teeth ex- tracted. Attending physicians described his case as one of the strangest in medical history. Jones, head of a Phoenix stock brokerage firm, sat in the dentist’s chair, inhaled deeply of the an- aesthetic two or three times and lapsed into the sleep which holds him. Physicians explained that in rare instances the texture of brain cells governing consciousness are so delicate that even a mild an- aesthetic weakens them, some- times destroys them. They were unwilling to predict whether Jones could be returned to consciousness. STOCKS IN RALLY AS RAILS ADVANCE {Market Opens With Gains and Active Trading in All Groups. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 6.—Stocks rallied briskly in the early trading today as rail shares, reversing their recent down- ward trend, advanced under active buy- ing. Overnight gains for leading issues ranged from $1 to more than $3. Securities of Chicago & North Western Raflway were strong after Wednesday's weakness. The road said it was pre- pared to meet all its financial obliga- tions May 1 and that about 87':% of its $6,555,000 5% debenture bond issue, maturing on that date, has been de- posited under the plan for paying half in cash and half in 5% general mort- gage notes. Chicago & North Western debenture 4s rose $40 per $1,000 par value bond. The common stock opened 75 cents higher at 24, on a block of 1,500 shares, while the preferred firmed $1.25 to a quotation of $3.50. Delaware & Hudson was up $3.75 to $48.37, Union Pacific $1.75 to $64 and Santa Fe $250 to $40.62. American Telephone rallied nearly $3 to around $93, while American Can, U. S. Steel, Corn Products, Case and American To- bacco “B"” gained $1 to $2. Grains Higher. CHICAGO, April 6 (#).—In a rush of buying, wheat and corn jumped more than a cent a bushel today the moment trading began. Killing frosts in Kan- sas and a rise in securities were out- standing factors. Opening %-1% up, wheat continued to mount. Corn started at 1:-11, gain, and later held near the initial limits. APPEALS COURT DENIES MAJ. SHEPARD REHEARING Highest Tribunal Last Resort in Fight to Escape Life Term in Wife's Death. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, April 6.—The Tenth Fed- eral Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday slammed another legal door in the face of Maj. Charles A. Shepard, Army phy- sician, in his search for a way out of hfi conviction of the murder of his wite. With one dissenting vote, the court denied his petition for rehearing of his lost appeal from his conviction and life sentence. His next step, if he decided to take it, is directly to the Supreme Court of the United States. Appellate Judge Orie L. Phillips, who dissented, held that prosecution state- ments were made “under circumstances which cast grave doubts on their re- liability.” The majority opinion held, however, that prosecution evidence seemed to | prove Shepard's guilt conclusively. DENIED JOB,'OPENS FIRE CHICAGO, April 6 (#).—Andy Frain, cencessionnaire in charge of ushers at most of Chicago’s important sporting events, narrowly escaped assassination yesterday as he stood in the grill of the Chicago Stadium. Evidently enraged because of his in- ability to obtain a job in Frain's usher's corps, an unknown assailant rushed into the grill and started firing wildly. The bullets flew aroud Frain and none took effect. Witnesses said the assailant fled into an ever-increasing num- ber of Washington homes, to a waiting automobile and was driven away. s OFFGALS RUSHED * BY BEER DEALER Permits to Handle Beverage Here Limited to Already Established Places. The rush for permits to sell beer, which began last night after President Roosevelt had affixed his signature to the Palmisano-Tydings beer bill, con- tinued today as applicants besieged the District Beverage Board and the superintendent of licenses for the pa- pers which will allow them to sell beer of 3.2 per cent alcoholic content after midnight tonight. ! A last-minute change in the beer regulations was adopted by the Com- missioners to proliibit the sale of beer by restaurants within 200 feet of churches. Under the mew regulations, such permits will be issued only to restaurants in existence when the act takes effect and then only if the restan- rant does ot also come within 200 feet of & t:lll:uv:. private or school. Although any one sell beer in the . Distric tely after the clock has struck 12 tonight, Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the Board of Commisisoners stressed | the fact that the law will be strictly enforced, and that no one will be al- lowed to sell uniess the license is ac- possession. The Beverage Board was working at top speed to get the licenses out to qualified places dur- ing the day. When they are issued they will be sent to the establishments by policemen. Dance to Test Law. The first legal test of the new law apparently will come at midnight when beer will be “given away” at a_so-ceiied “beer inaugural ton Auditorium promoted as a money- making venture. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride has held that under the act and regulations, this would be illegal. The regulations make the gifi of beer at a dance to which an admis- slon fee is charged a “sale.” Since all violations of the act or regulations must be prosecuted by the United States at- torney, however, the Commissioners turned the matter over to District At- torney Leo A. Rover. Mr. Rover later announced that any one at the ball serving, selling or giving away beer will be arrested. Paul C. McElroy, in charge of the so-called ball, said that he was willing to meet the issue, as he believed the courts would never sustain such a construction of the act. Under the law, the Auditorium can- not be given an “on sale” license be-| cause it is not a restaurant, hotel or bona fide incorporated club, and “off sale” license would not permit patrons to drink the beer at the ball. At midnight also two cases of beer will be on their way to the White House, the gift of a local brewery. A hardware store was included with those that received an “off sale” license. Applications Returned. Sitting until 2:30 o'clock this morn- ing, the Beverage Board considered 94 applications, rejected 6, granted 16 and sent the rest back to the applicants to correct errors made in filling out the | forms or failures to fill in blanks. The application blank, consist ing of eight pages, lists 39 questions, (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) JAPANESE ADVANCE NEARS CHINWANGTAO So-Called “Limited Objective” In-| vasion Approaches Important Treaty Port. By the Associated Press. SHANHAIKWAN, China, April 6— The Japanese so-called “limited objec- tive” invasion of North China proper today was approaching the important treaty port of Chinwangtao, 10 miles southwest of here. Japanese reports said the Japanese and Manchukuan troops were advan ing on the coast city from Shihmen hai, which the Japanese seized April 1. A Manchukuan force occupied Haiyan, chen, north of Chinwangtao early today. Fighting Lessens. , China, April 6 (#).—Va- rious rej from the northeast section of N China sald Sino-Japanese fighting in that area was lessening to- day and flu: the Chinese garrison was res a ) Japanese planes were reconnol westward to the Lwan River. ‘The Chinese government refused per- ml‘l-m to a party of llgotuunfl-lc, h‘tg cl many Americans, to go to parochial 5 with a permit can | t immedial ball” at the Washing- |, DAVIS T0 CONSULT WITH CERMANS ON FCONOMIG PARLEY Disarmament Also to Be Discussed With Reich Leaders. AMERICAN FIRST SPECIAL ENVOY TO CALL ON HITLER U. S. Spokesman Confers With Herriot on General World Sit- uation Before Leaving Paris. BY the Associated Press. PARIS, April 6.—Norman H. Davis, special representative of President Roosevelt, will go to Berlin tomorrow to be the first foreign statesman aside from permanently assigned envoys, re- ceived by the Hitler government. Although Davis did not g0 to Ber- lin during his three months’ tour of Europe last Fall, he was credited with obtaining the promise of the other powers for arms equality for Germany. This agreement brought Germany back into the Disarmament Conference, from which she had withdrawn. Disarmament and plans for the economic conference to be held in Lon- don are expected to be the principal matters for discussion between Davis and the German government leaders. Avoided War Debts. French ministers here, it was said, have sought to touch on the war debt problem in conversations wif Da but he sidetracked the mue:.h i Andre de La Boulaye, new French Ambassador to the United States, will represent France in economic conver- sations with Premier MacDonald of Great Britain and President Roosevelt in Washington, a government spokes~ mg‘n\;fl:’%tsmmed the pean e general Euro] situation with former Premier Herriot, & leading exponent of the payment of defaulted war debts interest to America, in Herriot’s office in the Chamber of Deputies. Herriot May Visit U. S. Premier Daladier and Foreign Minis- ter Paul-Boncour have no intention at this time of going to America, the spokesman said. The matter has not been discussed, it was added. ‘The spokesman said the government feels De La Boulaye eminently capable of speaking for France, assisted by mm who will leave for America ly. The conversation with Mr, Davis, Wwho was accompanied by Hugh Gibson, United States Aml to Belgium, gave rise to the suggestion in chamber quarters that M. Herriot, as the most available person, might go to Wash- ington for the economic talks in the event France decides to send a special representative. PREPARE TO RECEIVE DAVIS. Von Hindenburg and Hitler to Greet American Ambassador. BERLIN, April 6 (#).—President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler will receive Norman H. Davis, American Ambassador at large, when he reaches here Saturday. Foreign Minister von Neurath will give a luncheon for him. It is un- derstood that Mr. Davis plans to leave on Sunday. COOL TO MACDONALD PLAN. British Press Shows Little Enthusiasm For Visit to U. S. LONDON, April 6 (#).—Premier Ramsey MacDonald’s projected 6,000~ mile round trip for only a few days’ talk with President Roosevelt stirred (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. —_——— SRS FOUR PERSONS HURT AS AUTOS COLLIDE Two Machines Crash Head-on on Baltimore Road Near Beltsville. Four persons were injured, three of them critically, when an automobile from Baltimore collided head-on with a machine occupied by two woman tourists from Upper Montclair, N. J., on the Washington-Baltimore Boule- vard near Beltsville about noon today. The four were taken to Casualty Hospital by two passing motorists and the Bladensburg rescue squad. Miss Jean Sawyer, 18. of Upper Montclair, N. J, who was riding in a machine driven by her mother, Mrs. Edith Sawyer, 46, was one of those most seri- ously injured. Preliminary examination at the hospital showed that she has con- cussion of the brain, a possibly frac- tured skull and cuts about the face. Her mother received a severe leg in- Jjury and lacerations about the face. The condition of Andrew McGuire, 35, of the 1700 block of Wilkins avenue, Baltimore. was likewise described as critical. He received emergency treat- ment for a fractured skull, compound fractures of a leg and arterial bleeding. Mrs. Margaret McCabe, 40, of the 100 block of North Fulton avenue, Balti- more, received possible concussion of the brain and a fractured skull. She was riding in the machine with Mc- Guire. Police said as far as they could de- termine the Baltimore automobile was driven by Miss Mary Burns of the 200 block of North Fulton avenue, who, al- though it was saild she had been seri- ously injured. could not be local immediately after the accident. Her brother, Prank, was the fourth passen ger in the machine and escaped with slight injury. h machines were demolished, and police were at a loss to find a cause for the collision. It occurred on a straight stretch of the wide highway. J'np-nneu Steamer Sinks. TSINGTAO, China, April 6 (#).—The small Japanese steamer Kyodo Maru No. 36 sank off Shantung Peninsula to- day 10 minutes after striking a rock. It was feared that all aboard were lost, but the number of passengers and crew not be learned