Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1933, Page 1

The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow, somewhat cooler tomorrow; moderate east or south- east winds, shifting to northwest by to- morrow afternoon. Temperatures—High- est, 65. at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on Page A-16. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 he & e WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Star. Yesterday’s Circulation, 122,102 No. 32491, Eirrimee “Wa Entered as second class matter shington, D. ( WASHINGTON, D. 'URDAY, APRIL 15, 19 —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. *¥ (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. MACDONALD SALLS, HOPING T0 REACK AGCORD ON DEBTS Daughter and Four Experts Accompany Statesman on Voyage to U. S. GERMANY’S SPOKESMAN | IS ALREADY ON SCENE| Legislation Empowering Roosevelt to Make Tariff Trades With Nations Being Drafted. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 15—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, accompanied by his daughter Ishbel and four economic experts, sailed today for Washington to talk over world problems with President | Roosevelt. The MacDonald party left Waterloo station, London, at 8:18 a.m. for South- ampton and embarked on the steamship Berengaria for New York. Messages of good will from President Roosevelt and King George were de- livered to the British statesman as he left port. “I1 am looking forward to having long talks with President Roosevelt and with hopes that, between us, we may be able to do something that will be of benefit * to the world es a whole,” MacDonald said as he boarded the train. He hopes to engage In a candid dis- cussion of the war debt which his ‘country owes the United States, as well as other matters, Despite a hopeful be- Hef that he will come bick with a moratorium on the June 15 payment, | the prime minister realizes this must ; be expected. The experts accompanying him are 8ir Robert Van Sittart, permanent head of the foreign office; Sir Frederick Leith Ross, chief economic adviser: A. E. Overton, Board of Trade member, and J. A. Barlow, the prime minister’s | ‘principal secretary. BENNETT TO STAY 3 DAYS. Makes Tentative Arrangements to Spend | April 25 to 28 Here. OTTAWA, April 15 (#).—Premier R. B. Bennett has made tentative grrange- ments to spend April 25 to 28 in Wash- ington to talk over world economic problems with President Roosevelt. An indication of how radically trade between Canada and the United States has fallen off is shown in these statis- from the tes | solicitor general. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY. April 15.—Jose- phus Danjels new United States Ambassador to Mexico, arrived here at 10:45 a.m. today. A reception at the reilrcad station was without incident. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Avril 15.—Police disclosed today that an attempt had been made vesterday to wreck the train on which Jesephus Daniels, the new United States Ambassador, is on the way to this capital. The plot wes discoyered in time and the traifi, although delayed two hours, was not damaged A section of the rail was taken out | izing ever: ATTEMPT MADE TO WRECK DANIELS’ TRAIN IN MEXICO iSection of Rail Taken Out of Track Over, Which U. S. Ambassador Was Traveling to New Post. near the town cof Morales, 50 miles north of Monterrey Railroad police discovered the break and began an in- vestigation immediatel ‘They announred at that the rail had been bent and broken by a sudden change in temperature, but after the break was repaired the train proceeded | very slowly, with men ahead scrutin- inch of the rcadway. The place where the rail was re- moved is in an entirely peaceful dis- trict, removed from sections in which there has been some antagonism Mr. Daniels’ appointment. This morning police armed with rifies guarded the American embassy o:d 200 piainclothesmen were on duty at the railroad station. Early in the morning a special train carrying a number of police left the station here | to meet the Ambassador’s train 30 miles | outside the city 1.6, BIEGS NAMED SOLICITOR GENERAL Collier Becomes Indian Com- missioner—Curley’s Name Is Withdrawn. By the Associated Press, President Roosevelt today nominated James Crawford Biggs of North Caro- lina to be Solicitor General of the United States. He also sent to the Senate the nomi- nation of John Collier of California to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs, | James A. Donohoe to be Federal judge for Nebraska, and Clifton Mathews to be djstrict attorney of Arizona. The President also formally with- drew the nomination of Mayor James Curley of Boston ‘o be Ambassador to Poland, as the mayor requested yes- terday. Navy Paymaster Named. Christian J. Pecples, who holds the | permanent rank of rear admiral at| present and is head of the naval supply depot at Brooklyn, N. Y. was nom- inated to be paymaster general of the | Navy with the same rark. Admiral Peoples has served in the Supply Corps since 1900. The paymaster general also | is chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. - | The ncmination of Biggs came as| a surprise to some on_Capitol Hill who | had understood Felix Frankfurter, dean of the Harvard Law School, was to be But others said they Court Makes Sure Wife Beater Will Dig Dirt 60 Days L By the Associated Press. HYANNIS, Nebr., April 15— For the next 60 days the life of Herb Cook, Whitman, Nebr,, is likely to be just one spadeful of dirt after another. Cook, charged with wife-beating, pleaded guilty in County Court here and was sentenced to 60 days at hard labor. Judge Kreamer ordered that in case there was no other work available, Cook must dig a hole 8 feet square; next day di another and fill the first hole, and each succeeding day transfer the dirt from one to the other of the holes. MESSAGE SIGNED “AKRON" ASKS AID Bottle Picked Up on Jersey Beach Yields Note on Paper Napkin. By the Associated Press, BEACH HAVEN, N. J., April 15—A canister-shaped bottle, containing a purported message from some members of the crew of the U. S. S. Akron, was picked up on the beach at the foot of Second street today. Doubt that the message was authentic WAS expres: by Chief Boatswain's Mate Thomas L. Beer of %the Coast ! Guard staticn at Beach Taven Terrace, ted Stal the United States $449,612,145 | had been informed some time ago that 2 miles north of here. worth; for the calendar year 1932 Can- ada’s imports from the United States were $263,549,346 and the exports were $162,630,779. PREPARATIONS HASTENED. Dr. Luther, German Spokesman at Conversations, Already on Scene. By the Associeled Press. Preparations for the Roosevelt eco- nomic conference with world powers took on a faster pace today as the date for their opening came gloser. One noted foreign statesman already is on the scene. Dr. Hans Luther, new German Am- ‘bassador, who will represent his coun- try in the talks with President Roose- wvelt, arrived yesterday. He will pre- sent his credentials to Mr. Roosevelt next week. Meanwhile, American tariff experts are framing legislation soon to be pre- sented to Congress which would give Mr. Roosevelt wide power to make recip- rocal tariff agreements with various nations. Such legislation would be a chief weapon in seeking international betterment at the World Economic Conference in London about June 15, for which the approaching Washin ton meetings with individual repre- sentatives are but the preliminaries. ‘A memorandum delivered yesterday to the American Government by the French embassy said: “The French government feels very gratified at the excellent initiative taken by President Roosevelt. It con- siders these preliminary conversations between representatives of the principal interested governments a practical me- thod to insure an efficient preparation of the World Conference and a step towards its success.” In another long consultation with their economic aides at their sides, Secretary of State Hull and Sir Ronald | Lindsay, British Ambassador, yesterday went over much of the ground that will be covered in the Roosevelt-MacDonald conversations, basing their conversation on the program of the World Economic Ccnference. D. Luther, former president of the | Reicnsbank, will call on Secretary Hull today preparatory to being presented at| the White House. He declined to make any statement to the press yesterday, | saying he must remain silent until his credentials have been presented. CHICAGO DRIVE STARTS T0 GET TEACHERS’ PAY Civic Leaders Urge Public to Buy Tax Warrants in Campaign Recalling Wartimes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 15—Citizens of Chicago were asked today by civic lead- ers to come to the Tescue of the city's 14,000 unpaid teachers by buying 1932 school tax warrants to be sold during a campaign_organized along the lines of the wartime Liberty Loan drives. The appeal went out last night at a meeting -called by Fred W. Sargeant, chairman of the Citizens' Committee, and attended by about 200 representa- tives of almost a score of civic organi- zations and Mayor Edward J. Kelly. A few hours before checks covering salaries for the last of June, 1932, had ‘been mailed teachers. As a starter for the drive, Sargeant reported that subscriptions for $3,100,- 000 of the warrants obtained by an- other committee would be applied. “The school board adopted a resolu- tion yesterday to seek legislative au- thority for a 10-year $50,000,000 bond issue to be used as collateral for loans from the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration to meet the $30,000,000 back |in Washington's diary and correspond- | relics of the pe: $y due school teachers, Lo Prankfurter could not be persuaded to_take the assignment, | Biggs was a member of the North Carolina Superior Court until 1911, and since has been practicing law in Raleigh. Helped Gardner Fight. | He is a former chairman of the State Board of Elections, and in 1920 man- aged O. Max Gardner’s unsuccessful campaign for Governor against Cameron Morrison. His legal career also includes the | teaciing of law at the State Universit. and Trinity College, now Duke Uni- versity. He is a past president of the State Bar Association. In 1917-18 he served as Assistant At-| rney General in the Federal Govern- ment’s suit against the Southern Pa- cific Railroad. An aggressive Democrat, Biggs has had some part in every political cam- paign since he became of age. He was especially active in behalf of the candi- | dacies of Gov. Smith and President | Roosevelt. He was a Roosevelt elector. Class Valdictorian. The 61-year-old lawyer was the val- dictorian of his class when he received | his bachelor of philosophy degree at the University of North Carolina in 1893. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. | Zeta Psi and the Society of the De- scendants of the Mayflower. | Donohoe was nominated to succeed | Judge Joseph W. Woodrough, who a | few days ago was confirmed judge of the eighth Federal circuit. = ha. been a prominent attcrney of O'Neill, Nebr. Matthews is a native of Louisana.| He went to Arizona ebout 25 years ago and is described by Senator Ashurst of that State as “one of the ablest law- | vers in the country.” He is frcm Globe. | INNOCENT MAN FREED RobertE. Coleman Gets Liberty on Confession of Murder. ATLANTA, Ga. April 15 (#).—Rob- ert E. Coleman, 26, who served four years of a life sentence in a chain gang for the murder of his wife—a crime he did not commit—was free today. | Twenty-four hours after police an-| nounced that James Starks, Negro burglar, had confessed the slaying. Gov. Talmadge pardoned Coleman and recommended that the State reimburse him for his imprisonment. Coleman. leaving the chain gang last night, went to the home of relatives to see his 5-year-old son. to Exp | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., April 15.—George Washington's false teeth will leave their place in the display cabinet in the University of Maryland dental school next week for exhibition at the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. The teeth have reposed since 1875 under a glass bell in the dental school and rarely have they been taken out for exhibit. They were given to the school by Dr. John Allen, who obtained them from a grandson of Dr. John Greenwood of New York, maler of the set. Many references to his teeth appear ence, Dr. Greenwood advised him on ’ The bottle was found by A. K. Paul. Removing the tightly screwed cap, h¢ found the following written on a paper | Sect napkin in lead pencil and in good handwriting: | “We are adrift way out here. quick or it will be too late. dead east by the sun.” The message was signed “U. 8. S. Akron.” The message was turned over to Coast Guard officials. LAKEHURST PROBE ENDS. Come | We are | Navy Court Resumes Next Week in D. C. LAKEHURST, N. J., April 15 (#).— The Navy court of inquiry investigating the destruction of the U. S. S. Akron and the subsequent loss of the blimp J-3 adjourned today, closing its study of the Lakehurst phases of the twin disasters. The court adjourned without report- ing any findings in either crash. Judge Advocate Ralph G. Pennoyer announced as court closed that the J-3 inquiry was officially terminated. The court will study the evidence, he said, and report its decision to the Secretary of the Navy. Heroism Revealed. The court will resume its study of the Akron crash at the Washington Navy Yard Tuesday, Pennoyer added. Bureau of Aeronautics officers and offi- cials of the Good Year-Zeppelin Co., manufacturers of the Akron, are to testify. Lieut. Comdr. Jesse L. Kenworthy, jr., acting commandant of the air station here, was the only witness in the court’s brief final session here today. Kenworthy in his testimony placed on the 1ecord a tale of heroism in connec- tion with the crash of the J-3 and the rescue of five of its crew. He said he had been informed that after the crash, when a New York poliee plane taxied to the rescue, Lieut. Comdr. D. E. Cummins, who was in command of the blimp, waved the rescuers away and told them to save others first. This| they did and when they returned for | Cummins he had disappeared. MACON MAY HOP MONDAY AKRON. Ohio, April 15 (#).—The, U. 8. §. Macon will not make its first | flight before Monday, Capt. Alger Dresel, skipper, announced today. Capt’ Dresel said Monday's flight would depend upon weather develop- ments between now and 11 p.m. (East- ern standard time) Sunday. FIRST PRESIDENT’S FALSE TEETH TO BE EXHIBITED AT CHICAGO Dental School of Maryland University Will Send Set, osition. |the care of them and repairs to the plates. | Dr. Greenwood, in one letter. sug- gested cleaning the teeth after eating. |as port wine discolored the ivory carv- |ings. He said if the teeth grew black, | they should be rubbed with chalk or | cedar stick. J. Ben Robinson, dean of the dental school, believes the teeth were | worn probably from about 1792 to 1798. | The upper set are fastened to a silver Jffld, the lower ones dangling from the | uppers by the same round gold springs, | which kept them together in Wash- ington's mouth. | Carved from ivory and held together by plates, rivets and springs, they are riod before dentistry was a profe to! | used to the apparent docility of the| | turn of engines and freight cars not 1 SIX BRITONS' TRIAL ' CALLED FRAME-UP BASED ON TERROR Allan Monkhouse, Defendant, Catches Court Off Guard to Make Accusation. STATEMENT CAUSES SENSATION AT HEARING Chief of English Engineers Is Second to Make Vigorous 1 Defense at Moscow. By the Associated Press, MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R, April 15— Allan Monkhouse, chief of the six British engineers on trial here on charges of espionage, sabotage and bribery, dramatically protested to the Soviet court today that the whole trial was “a frame-up against the Metro- politan-Vickers Co. engineers, based on evidence of .terrorized prisoners.” “After listening to the statements of Soviet citizens yesterday and the day before,” he asserted at the opening of today's session, “it is perfectly clear to me that this case i3 a frame-up hgainst the Metropolitan-Vickers Co. engineers, based on evidence of ter- rorized prisoners. “I know from my own experience when I was arrested and subjected to 18 hours’ continuous examination——" he vontinued. But at that point he was interrupted by presiding Judge Vassili Ulrich. The judge ruled Monk- house, who spoke in English, had no right to make the declaration at this time. Caught Court Off Guard. Catching the prasacution and court entirely off guard, Monkhouse arose in the prisoners’ dock, and. in Russian, | requested permission to make a state- ment. Judge Ulrich nodded assent. Monk- house. a gray-haired, middle-aged, square-jawed 6-footer, stepped before the judge's table. He got only as far as the words “terrorized prisoners” when Judge ! Ulrich interrupted in Russian. | Judge Ulrich rejoined: “Declarations | are not permitted and you may say! everything you wish in your last' speech,” evidently referring to the ques- ticning the court gives every prisoner | just before the verdict is announced as | to whether they wish to say anything further. Monkhouse, however, continued in English: “I know from my own ex-| perience when T was arrested and sub- jected to 18 hours’ continuous exam- ination——" ‘ Judge Ulrich interrupted with: *I cannot permit you to make a statement in behalf of all the accused British! prisoners. You will be questioned to- day or tomorrow since you wish to make a declaration and will have an opportunity then to say what you wish."” Monkhouse's action, which was the | s vigorous attempt of the British to fight back at charges made against them, threw the court room into mo- mentary confusion. Gasps of surprise swept the audience which had grown | Englishmen during the first | of the trial. . b After saying, during his examination by the prosecutor today, that one of the | Russian dcfendants had not told the truth, John Cushny asked the court’s permission to make a declaration, but Judge Ulrich refused his request. “I want to make a declaration now,” Cushny, a black-haired, 35-year-old vet- eran of the British Army Air Corps, de- clared when the prosecution had fin- ished with him as a witness. “No,” said M. Ulrich politely, “our rules of procedure prevent any declara- tion by you at this time and I cannot make an exception in your case.” % soucdahnot allow me to speak?” rejoines ushny, wh lored Y, 0 speaks fluent “I have explained the rules to you,” snapped the judge. “I do mot propose (Continued on Page 2, Golumn 4.) MOSCOW SAYS JAPAN PLANS RAIL SEIZURE Izvestia Declares Preparations Are Made to Take Chinese Eastern on May 1. By the Assoclated Press MOSCOW, April 15—Izvestia, Soviet government organ, published a special | dispatch from Chita, Siberia, today charging ‘Japanese circles” in Man- chukuo have decided upon definite seiz- ure of the Chinese Eastern Railway May 1, which is one of the Soviet Union’s main holidays. The Chinese Eastern Rallway was built through Manchuria by Russia more than'30 years ago for access to the Pacific Ocean. It has been jointly operated in the past year by Russia and Manchukuo. The Chita dispatch said Japanese al- ready are preparing the ground for the action by making demands for the re- belonging to the Chinese Eastern Rail- way. It added that these were with- |drawn by the Soviet government dur- ing suspension of traffic due to the Manchurian conflict, the destruction of bridges and the arrests of Soviet citi- zens in Manchukuo. Japanese dispatches said recently Manchukuans blocked all traffic into Manchukuo at the northwest entrance from Siberia. The Russians were ac- cused of holding rolling stock on the Soviet side and also of transporting war materials to Vladivostok, the seaport opposite Japan. PLAN REMARRIAGE Gail Borden, Skater, to Wed For- mer Wife in London. LONDON, April 15 (#).—Notice of their intended remarriage was filed at the London register office today by Gail Borden, New York figure skater and member of the United States Olympic | team, and his former wife, Margaret Rossiter Borden, formerly Henry of Philadelphia. They said the date of the marriage and honeymoon plans had not been decided. The couple parted in the United States some time ago, Radio l’roxn-; .—; i’:le B-12 ] BY JOVE, T HAPPENS To THE FAIR SEX ToO!EH, ROOSEVELT BACKS to Protect Pay Levels Also Considered. By the Associated Press. A vast employment project, under- taken through a two or three-billion dollar bond issue, and definite steps to maintain wage levels are to be advanced in Congress within the next 10 days by President Roosevelt. The drive to put men back to work will be made through public ccnstruc- | tion, with attention directed at getting it extended to State, city and county projects. wage levels involves creation cf Federal wage boards to supervise shorter work- ing hours and prevent unwarranted pay | cuts. Confers With Senators: President Roosevelt discussed & plan to add the prcposal for wage boards to the 30-hour-work-week bills pending in Congress at a conference yesterday | with Senators Wagner, Democrat of New York; La Follette, Republican of Wisconsin; Cutting, Republican of New Mexico, and Costigan, Democrat of Colorado. ‘The understanding is that Miss Fran- ces Perkins, Secretary of Labor, will place the administration’s wage board plan before the House Labor Commit- tee within a few days. Constitutional problems in connecticn with a Federal minimum wage now are being studied. Mr. Roosevelt was represented as be- ing anxious to speed progress on this labor legislation even though the pub- lic construction employment program is held up for & few days. One of the concerns felt by the ad- ministration is that while 85 or 90 per cent of the employers in a given line of work may be willing to adhere to agree- ments for a fair wage scale, they are as one of the largest crowds of Easter fourth Libert; 14 deteated by the other 10 or 15 per cent | 8 o er v loan 4% bonds, but the who cut in under them. Administration leaders are aware that | governmental and private retrenchment | Washington Hotel Association and the | programs tend to reduce personnel and, therefore, are determined to promptly to spread work where it is needed. La Follette Offers Plan. The plan for protection of | This is the seventh of a series of articles on the effect of proposed re- ductions in the pending District appropriation bill. The same old story—cutting out needed work and laying off efficient personnel—characteristic of all the 1934 appropriation bill as it left the House of Representatives—is true of the appropriations for the Sewer De- partment, althcugh in some particulars the cuts are made with a severity not felt in other departments. The bill will result in a general setback in the progress of municipal sanitation, if it is enacted into law as it stands. A large list of sewer construction jobs, which would have been done had | a normal appropriation bill passed, will remain undone. These are in each case | jobs decided upon after careful study ,and engineering investigation. A list | of some of them sppears later in the 'SEWER PROJECTS HARDEST | BY CONGRESS' SLASHING STREA HUGE JOBS PLAN Creation of Federal Boards| HIT Lack of Funds to Continue Upper Potomac Interceptor Line Means Year Delay. Less Cleaning and Repairs. | story. The elimination of any money | for continuing construction on the Upper Potomac interceptor sewer will | delay for another year the department’s | program of removing sewage from the Potomac River. Less work will be done on cleaning and repairing old sewers, | and the department will be forced to | trust to luck that some of them will not fall altogether during the year. | The item for cleaning and repairing | sewers is cut from the present ap- propriaticn of $221.000 to $195,000. | The first figure mentioned is adjusted | te absorb the 15 per cent cut in sal- | aries, so as to make the two figures comparable. This difference of $26,000 | will be made up by laying off personnel | so as to absorb about $10,000, and the | balance will be absorbed by buying less | material and doing less cleaning. For construction of main and pipe sewers, the figure in the bill is $100,000. | The comparable figure for the current | year is $204,600, or more than | twice as much. | _This_will mean that the following ' “(Continued on Page 2, Column 1. CAPTAL EXPECTS BGEASTERCROWD Reservations at Hotel Ex- | ceed Past Years—Special | Services Planned. Washington will be host over the week end to what was estimated today visitors in history. Augustus Gumpert, secretary of the | Greater National Capital Committee of | the Washington Board of Trade, esti- | mated that the Easter crowd will ex- |ceed 75,000. He based his esiimate on At yesterday's conference, Senator @ check of railroads, bus companies La Follette advocated a six-billion-dollar | and hotels, all of which reported a bond issue for public construction, but no agreement was reached on the ex- tent of this program. Previously Sec- heavy .movement of visitors to the | Capital for the week end, with the retary Perkins had advocated attacks |hotels expected to be filled to capacity on the economic situation_ through a by tomorrow. “two or three billion dollar public works | program- and by “fxing & bottom to| HOtels reported that there are not wages by some device.” |so many school and other groups in “I think uLe“Pr;s‘:fi;l‘lxt‘ will favor an | the city as in former years, but the extended public s’ PrOgTam.” | number of individual reservations is said Senator Wagner, after the White (pe jargest in the history of the city House meeting. | for a like occasion, and they will more La Follette asserted that “we have got to establish some bottom for wages lest | the bottom be knocked out.” The public works proposal was dis- | cussed with the President yesterday by Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, and Charles M. Hay of St. Louis. They urged that preference be given to con- structions involving human labor even if the cost were more. CONVERTED RUM RUNNER IN U. S. SERVICE BLOWS UP Tri-Motored Coast Guard Patrol Boat Catches Fire After Explo- sion and Sinks at Wharf. By the Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Conn, April 15— The tri-motored Coast Guard patrol boat No. 822, a converted rum runner, blew up at her wharf at the Coast Guard base here early this morning, caught fire and sank. No one had been aboard the craft since yesterday afternoon. The cause of the explosion could not be deter- mined, but it was believed gasoline fumes that had accumulated in the bilges might have become ignited. Coast (Guard officials said they would raise the craft to determine, if possible, if this theory is correct. SUGAR BARGE WRECKED Overturns in River With $30,000 Cargo Aboard. NEW YORK, April 15 (#).—With $30,000 worth of sugar aboard, the su- gar barge A. M. Andrews was rammed and overturned in the East River today by the motor barge Ili No. 102. The accident happened at the dock of the American Sugar Refining Co. at the foot of South Third street, Brooklyn. where the Andrews, loaded with 7,500 100-pound bags of sugar, was tied up. than make up for the absence of the pilgrimage groups. The weather man’s news was not cheerful. however, with rain forecast for tonight and tomorrow and tempera- tures low enough to keep a raw bite in the air. Blossoms Not at Best. The cherry blossom display, one of the chief Easter attractions of the Cap- ital is not at its best, but there still are vestiges around the Tidal Basin of the show that attracted thousands last week end. The Office of Public Buud- ings and Public Parks estimated that the display is only about 25 per cent of the full show of last week end. ‘The cherry trees around Hains Point have not come into bloom, and are not expected to be at their best for at least 10 days or two weeks. __Two great Easter sunrise services will (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) RATE ON LIBERTY - LOAN'TO CONTIN |White House Says Treasury Will Not Call Fourth Issue of 41/, Bonds. By the Associated Press. Today is the day for calling the Treasury evidently is not going to take such action. | The fourth Liberties, aggregating | $6,268,095,250, are callable on October |15, but notice must be given six months preceding that or any subsequent in- terest date. The White House said yesterday the Treasury had no inten- tion of acting today. Financial circles had expressed hopes the new administration would call at least part of the bonds and announce a substantial refunding operation for the Stay on Present Basis. The passing today means that the bonds will continue on the present 41, per cent interest basis indefinitely. In addition to the fourth Liberties there are outstanding $1.933,212,400 of first and converted Liberty bonds which were callable in 1932, | The Government had planned a re- | funding operation nearly two years ago, | but when the additional adjusted com- | pensation insurance loans to World | War veterans were approved and the | market turned unfavorable, the project was laid aside. Point to Low Money Rates. | ~Financial interests had pointed to low money rates at this time as offer- ing inducement to the Government to | convert some of the outstanding long- | term debt into bonds carrying ?n v in- a n suggested that part of | the huge short-term debt now l‘l?n.oun!- ing to approximately $6,600.000,000 could be carried along with the re- funding operation in long-term securi- | ties reducing the short-term paper to | totals more easily handled. |FLEE AFTER BARRICADING HOME AGAINST MEDICAL AID FOR CHILD | Parents Disappear With Girl When Legal Action Is Threatened to Force Operation for Tumor. By the Associated Press. HASTINGS, N. Y, April 15—The home of John Vasco, besieged by the curious since the start of a court fight to -determine whether his 2-year-old | daughter Helen shall undergo an opera- | tion for removal of a growth on her eye, i was deserted today. Neighbors said the family locked up the place and left at 5 am. in an auto- mobile. None of the neighbors knew where they had gone, and none was able to say whether they left in a taxicab or a Heading into the dock, the Ili got|private automobile of friends. The car caught by the tide. drew up to the house, Vasco, his wife and their three children, Mary, 11, and the twins, Helen and Anna, emerged, locked the door, entered the automobile and drove away. They took none of their personal effects. Since the question of whether Helen should undergo an operation went to the appellate division of the Supreme Court for decision, the Vasco home has been besieged by the curious. Crowds have driven and walked through the muddy street in which the house stands and many have congregated in the yard and even peeked in the windows. { | | i HONEY INFLATON DEFEAT PREDIETED N SENTE TODAY KReady to Vote on Silver and Remonetization Amendments. FINAL FARM PROGRAM ACTION TO BE DELAYED Credit Expansion Rather Than Currency Is Declared Favored by President Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. The currency inflation issue was defi- nitely before the Senate for determi- nation today, with Democratic lead- ers predicting defeat of the expansion proposals when the votes are taken, probably late this afternoon. Topping off increasing congressional talk of inflation as the needed step to start a real march toward busi- ness recovery, Senators Long, Demo- crat, of Louisiana, and Wheeler, Demo- crat, of Montana, moved to add silver to the currency by amending the Roosevelt farm relief program. ‘The Senate was driving ahead with the price-lifting section of the farm bill today, and votes on the Long and Wheeler amendments were due before that section is disposed of. Long pro- posed the purchase of $100,000,000 in silver, against which currency would be issued. Wheeler advanced as a substitute for Long’s plan the remoneti- zation of silver at 16 to 1 with gold. Robinson Sees Defeat. Indications were that any inflationary scheme that President Roosevelt might approve would be toward credit in- flation rather than currency. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, predicted defeat of the Long and Wheeler moves. He added, how- ever, that such a vote would not mean that the Senate was against inflation, but that inflation should be consid- ered separately and reported on first by _a committee. . Inflation was recommended to the Senate by its ‘Agriculture Committee in reporting) the Roosevelt farm pro- gram. The committee argued that cur- rency expansion was the only hope for “substantial and permanent relief for agriculture.” Mr. Roosevelt himself is moving to counteract deflation by creat more Jobs and holding up wage level His aides are rounding huge g\lbllc ‘works program involving several ilions. Federal wage boards may be set up to stop severe wage slashes. ‘The more than a score of ments, including the various ary gpnnu. will program until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. . 4 By agreeing to finish the price-lifting section of tge bill before going .into ! the farm mortgage refinancing section, the Senate put off for a time a deeci- slon on the amendment by Sepator Republican, of North Dakota, refinance mortgages at 112 per cent interest through a bond issue, with the stipulation that if a ready market is not found for the bonds, they shall be converted into currency to finance the program. Vote Is Balked. The vote expected yesterday on the Prazier proposal was balked by general debate on the bill as a whcle, largely because of long speeches by Senators Bankhead. Democrat, of Alabama; Fess, Republican, of Ohio, and Capper, Re publican, of Kansas, Bankhead and Capper indorsed the farm measure, while Fess opposed it, at one time remarking “there isn't a fun- damental principle under which we have ben operating that this bill dcesn’t violate,” and that it would “create a bureau equal to if not greater than any in Washington.” Amendment by Robinson was adopt- ed to change the date for making the proposed processing tax effective. The change, which Robinson explained was recommended by the administration, would make the tax effective at the beginning of the marketing year after it was proclaimed, instead of taking ;filect immediately, as set forth in the Robinson said this was sought so the farmer could get the benefits and provide time in which the consuming industrial areas. through advantages expected from increasing farm buying power, could be enabled to meet the increased prices. On completing work on the com- modity provisions, the Senate will turn to the mortgage plan sent from the White House and passed Thursday by the House as an individual bill. is provides for refinancing farm debts at 41, per cent interest through a $2,000,- 000,000 bond issue and $400,000,000 in other funds. FIRE IMPERILS 200 Headquarters of Chinese Associa- tion in Sacramento Burns. SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 15 (#).— Headquarters of the Chinese Benevolent Association were destroyed and five ad- joining stores damaged in a general alarm fire here last night that took the life of a 70-year-old Chinese and threatened death to nearly 200 others. The building, a city landmark for al- most 40 years, was used in part as a home for elderly Chinese members of the society. Firemen said as many as 300 often were housed there. Unofficial estimates placed damage at $30,000. News of D. A. R. Full reports of the D. A. R. Convention, April 16 to 23, inclusive: Mail—Postage paid U. S, Mexico and Canada A Foreign ...... .§1.00 Leave orders with Star representative at Constitu- tion Hall or The Evening Pre- The situation finally became so an- noying to the family that Vasco barri- caded the home to all visitors for a " (Continued on Page 3, Column 5) Star office, 11th St. and Pa. Ave. NW. é b