Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1933, Page 2

* | ; 3 s s, i i { & Democratic Leaders Rely on| . Majority—Action Deferred Until Menday. § % By the Associated Press. {Action on a resolution giving the Byegident authority to detlare arms embgrgoes was: postponed until Mon- @y’ with ‘the Houss m .~eess today. Democratic leaders predict the reoehi- ton, will be pessed. fThey rely for safety on the huge ‘Demofratic majority, and in order to “keep -that in line Chairman McReyn- | olds of the Foreign Affairs Committee | yesterday read cn the floor a letter from Yy Hull saying the legislation would, “strengthen the position of this Government in its international rela- tions.” Fish Leads Oprposition. The pppasition, led by Representative Fish, Republican, of New York, centered on the Republican side, but it found some Democrats sv g awey as nu- | merous minority speakers sailed into] the measure. | Prophecies of war and internal dis- | gension mingled yesterday with bitter | words gharging personal interest and concealment of facts as the House pre- pared to wind up debate. | Representative McFadden, Republic- | an; of Pennsylvaniz, who was cast out | .“of party councils because of his opposi- | -tion ‘to. President Hoov foreign pol- oy, was in agreement with many Re- | + publieans on bhargo resolution. em- bargo plan * and predicted that 30 days aiter it is en-| acted “we will witness a declaration of | war against the United States by Japan.” | To_this Representative Bloom, Demo- | crat, New York, replied “tommyrot,” | adding that the State Department did| not have in mind Japan or any other nation. | Domestic Dissension Seen. | Representative Wadsworth, Repub- | lcan, New York, former Senator, de-| clared. he foresaw domestic difficulties | should ‘the PreSident decide a foreign | nation was an aggressor and invoke ar embargo egainst it. i “Clothe the Fresident with the power | %3 decide which' nation should be dis-| “cfplined and you invite all the sym-| s in this country of that nation to protest,” Wadsworth said. “This thing means dissension among the peo- | ple of the. United States.. Go very| slowly, gentiemen, before you endanger | the contentment and happiness of the| Americgn people.” H There . was, too, a former professor | at Yale, Representative Bakewell, Re- publican, of Connecticut, who asked: “How can we sit in judgment and de- Ny one an aggressor nation with- | out al lasting and menacing en- mities?” Representative Black, Democrat, of ; New York, arose to retort that Bake- well aptly named ‘professor,’ but that hé £hould bé named ‘professor of | munitions’ since he represents a muni- tions-manufacturing district.” ; s teit SEWER CONSTRUCTION HARDEST HIT BY _APPROPRIATION CUTS (Continued From First Page.) Jjobs, which otherwisé would have been «done, will be postponed: X street from Rock Creek to Twenty- fourth street, Twenty-eighth street from Olive street to Dumbarton avenue, Olive street from N street to a point between Dumbarton and Twenty-ninth streets, Eighth street southeast from lvania avenue to M street, H from North Capitol to First - street, Alley of Sguare 237, L street from Nirth to Tenth street and alley of Square 369, South Carolina avenue southeast between Third and Fourth | streets. item for suburban sewers is even more savagely slashed. The fig- ure in the bill is $175,000. A com- parable figure for 1933 is $601,000. This reduction, amounting to $426,- | 000, will fean cutting cut all paving | in eadvance of highway construction, | Jobs totaling $174,790, and also the fallowing jobs: Stormwater sewers between Forty- | sixth and Brandywine streets and Forty-fourth and Albemarle streets; inj Fourteenth street northeast between | Michigan avenue and Randolph street; in" Legation- street between Thirtieth | street and Thirtieth place; the Stick-| foot Branch stormwater sewer in Sher- | idan road between Elvans street and Jasper road; in Nebraska avenue be- tween Daniel road and Rittenhouse | street; in Brandywine street between | Forty-eighth street and Asbury place | and in Asbury place between Brandy- ‘wine and Chesapeake streets; in Kana- | ‘wha street between Nevada avenue and | Chevy Chase Parkwi in Chevy Chase Parkway between Kanawha and | Jenifer streets; and an outlet sewer in | South Dakota avenue between Allison | and Decatur streets. | ‘The item last on the above list was intended to allow a settlement east of the B. & O. Railroad tracks near the| Eastern Star Home a connection with the sewer system which it now lacks. The appropriation for sewers to be buiit under the as ment and permit system in the bill is $75,000. A com- parable figure for 1933 is $203,000, of Wwhich it is expected, however, that only | $243,000 will be spent during the 1933 fiscal year. This is the class of work which is done at the request of property owners, and the cost of which is assessed | against the properties abutting the sewer. Therefore, an ircrease in the| amount of this apropriation would not | mean that the yers as a whole | ‘were being call meney, and conve: appropriation saves the general tax payers nothing. The net result, as d, is that a nu: a cut in the ber of are willing to pay for them will not be allowed to have them. The Sewer De- partment is now at work Givising some standards to guide it in deciding which of the applications tg accept, and which of them to refuse. It now estimates that it will have calls for about $146.- 000 worth of cof work in 1934 and that it wi tions for $71.0 $160,000 for department is the employe a not be er, and the money will be a variety of ways. TWo em- ployes will retire during the year and their places will not be filled. The pay of two foremen, now on “whole-cost work.” will be charged againct the jobs they are doing, instead of the salary nd one other mainte- for the considered indispens- | nsferred to one of the tions. reductio cut in Sew in employment er Department iations, , is in the work dtemrs. A rule-of-thumb method of ca culating, coften employed, i3 to esti- mate that every laborer makes $1,000 Jor 12 months’ work, and that of the work appropriatjons, balf gwe to local ia! and average working season in the depart- ment is six months, 5o that every $1,000 of 8 inches and was still falling at 9 |gency clause and will become effective cut in a working appropriation deprives one local man of a job through the six months’ working season. The cuts in the werking - appropriations outiined #&bove amount to $724.000, and should, therefore, be expected to deprive 724 men of employment for six months, 4 on to pay any more | far | D ly resigned. the Mayflower. Dr. R. HAN3 LUTHER (left), newly appointed German Ambassador to the United States, holds his first conference with Herr Rudolf Leitner, counselor of the embassy, shortly after his arrival at his apariment in Luther was formerly chancellor of the German government. He succeeds Frederick Wilhelm von Prittwitz, who recent- THE EVENING Ambassador Assumes Duties DR. LUTHER HOLDS FIRST cominxcz HERE. —Underwood Photo. CUBAN TERRORISM COSTS SEVEN LIVES Reserves Held in Readiness to Aid in Quelling Any New Outbreaks. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, Cuba, April 15.—Seven | persons have been slain in two days of political terrorism in the Havana area An epidemic of bombings ended quickly after the slaying of three Cuban youths by police yesterday. Rounding | up of persons suspected of anti-govern- ment activities continued relentlessly, however. - Police halted and searched automobiles and raided residences, | throwing dozens of suspects in jail. The Spanish embassy moved to pro- tect its nationals, and other foreign representatives wers expected to follow suit. L This action came after two young Cubans were suddenly found shot and killed hortly after being turned over to “expert”* or plainclothes police. Suspected Youths Shot. Abilia and Albert Daussa, 25 and 23 years old, sons of J. M. Valdez Leon, Cuban government paymaster general, were believed by police to have sup- plied bombs used in Thursday night's series of 17 explosions. Shortly after their arrest, shots rang out in the ex- clusive Vedado section of Havana. Uni- formed police rushed up to find the youths fatally shot. Each was shot in the head and body. A brother, Ramiro Daussa, has been serving sentence since last year on ter- rorist charges, and the father was also placed under arrest last night. The third Cuban youth slain by po- lice was Manuel Garcia, 19, who died last night. He was among youths fired upon by police when they fled from a street corner. Child Dies in Bombing. Reserves were held in readiness to aid in quelling any new outbreak. Riot | squads at all police stations were armed | with machine guns and sawed-off shot- ns. g“’I‘he moving picture houses last night were poorly patronized after word spread that bombs were found in two of them. A 3-year-old child was killed and four other persons wounded by the series of bombings. Two government men and another oppositionist were the others slain in the 48 hours. “DICTATORSHIP” BLAMED. Menocal Denies Opposition Took Part in Cuban Disorders. sibility for bombings in Hav to “dictatorial government’ Mario G. Menocal, former President of | Cuba, now a political exile and leader | of an organized opposition to President Machado. Declaring “the terrorist plan is posi- | tively alien to the policy of the organ- | ized opposition,” Gen. Menocal said in | statement a& his home here last night, | ny intimation that would connect my | name or that of the organized opposi- tion to these bombings is false and slan- derous.” Continuing, he said: “The sole respon- zibility for this situation is dictatorial government which has carried the Cuban people to the state of despair in which they live toda; U. 8. WON'T INTERVENE. Hull Says Relations Will Be Those of One Nation to Another. Secretary Hull said at the Department tcday in response to ques- ticns that the administration is giving no thought whatever to intervention in Cuba. He emphasized that relations of this country with the republic to the south will be those of one sovereign nation with another. The administration expects soon to appoint a new Ambassador to Cuba, which would provide a means of exer- cising friendly good offices and obtain- ing complete information about dis- turbances there. For this post John Cudahy of Mil- waukee and Francis White, now As- sistant Secretary of State in charge of | Latin American affairs, have been mentioned. OPPOSE OIL REFORM Association Against Plan to Di- State [ | vorce Pipe Lines and Producers. 1 TULSA, Okla., April 15 (#).—Divorce- ment of pipe lines from integrated oil companies as suggested by President Roosevelt was opposed as “disruptive of present orderly marketing methods” by oil men attending the annual meeting of the ation yesterday. | A resolution adopted by the directors [fof the associztion declared such | eventuality would be “of no possible value to the producers of oil.” | " Congress was urged not to enact a| | bill introduced recently by Representa- |tive Disney, Democrat, of Oklahoma, | seeking to apply the commodity clause of the Hepburn act to interstate pipe ines. | ARKANSAS GETS SNOW Eight-Inch Fall Expected to Pro- | tect Fruit From Cold. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., April 15 (&) hdlf to the materials. The | —This section of the Ozarks will have | passed by the Senate yesterday with a |a white Easter. Snow reached a depth |a.m. today. | The snow, however, was credited with saving the Northwest Arkansas fruit | crop from the threat of ireezing The only other heavy Easter season | snowstorm here fell to a deptn of 4 inches on April 14, 1874, | then.” | “I have not examined the question of | Greenleaf made plans for creating a| | the privileg2 or so-called privilege, if | parkway along Columbia Island when | 1AMI, Fla., April 15 ().—Respon- | any, attaching to the communications | that erstwhile shoal in the Potomac | i na is laid | sent to the Senate respecting the Sen- | River was scarcely above water. by Gen. | ator from Louisiana,” Ashurst said, “but | the engineers pumped up sand and ideontinent Oil and Gas Associ- | an | LONG SEEKS RULES * CHANGE IN ATTACK Brands Louisiana Charges “Claptrap” and Raises Privilege Issues. By the Associated Press. Formation of a proposed change in Senate rules governing receipt of peti- tions assailing the reputation of its members was begun last night by Sen- ator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana after he had branded as “claptrap” chargs made Thursday by a group of Louisi- anans who petitioned for his removal. The rule amendment probably will b submitted Monda: the Judiciary Committee, to which the Senate yes- terday referred the anti-Long petition for study as to whether it or similar ones in the future should be treated as privileged matter and thus be made available for publication. Addressed to Garner. ‘The Louisiana petition, signed by for- mer Gov. John M. Parker and a score of others, was addressed to Vice Presi- dent Garner and referred by him to the Elections Committee. It thus became public property. Long said in the Senate yesterday that a study of the authorities had con- vinced him such petitions were priv- ileged and newspapers could not be blamed for printing their contents, but suggested the Senate should determine the question. “I think that is a proper suggestion,” said Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, who moved the peti- tion be taken from the Elections Com- mittee and referred to the Judiciary Committee. Robincon said Long had raised the question whether the Senate had a right to “receive such a petition.” “I think it is important,” Long said, “that the Senate should determine whether or not documents of this char- acter sent here are privileged. If they are, we should amend our rules. If they are not, then we should take such action as is appropriate.” Disagrees With Long. Chairman Ashurst of the Judiciary Committee disagreed with Long's con- tention that the petition was privileged, buf added: “If in the Senate—and I apply this admonition to myself—we were more careful respecting the tender subject of human character and the repu‘ation of | other persons who cannot answer here | we would have more sympathy extended to us when we find ourselves the ob- jects of calumny, as we all do now and STAR, AMBULANGE DRIVER IS FINED IN CRASH $50 or 45 Days in Jail Im- posed for Violation of Traffic Rules. A fine of $50 or 45 days in jail was imposed todey in Traffic Court on | william McCeney, operator of the Casualtiy Hospital ambulance which Sgured in a collision at Thirteenth street and New York avenue last night with an automobile driven by United States Commissioner Needham .| Turnage. | McCeney, who lives in the 1400 | block of Scuth Carolina avenue south- | east, was fined by Judge John P. Mc- | Mahon on a charge of disobeying a traffic signal. He was alleged to have driven through a red light, contrary to a recent regulation of the District Commissioners which provides that am- | bulances must first halt before pro- ceeding through such stop signs. No one was injured in the crash. although both vehicles were damaged considerably. Says He Heard No Siren. The ambulance was going west on New York avenue, en route to the 706 block of Eighteenth street, where a woman had been reported ill, while Commissioner Turnage was driving north on Thirteenth street. The commissioner said he heard no warning siren and had proceeded on a green light almost into the center of the intersection when the crash oc- curred. He said the ambulance was moving across the intersection against a red light and narrowly missed an other machine on Thirteenth street be- fore striking his"own car. Commissioner Turnage said he neither saw nor heard the other vehicle until it was almost on him, and could not determine if the ambu- lance was speeding. Dr. J. R. Passa- lacque was riding in the ambulance. Appeals for Safe Driving. The accident occurred about a month after an ambulance from Emergency Hospital struck a private car while moving through the downtown section, killing a baby in the latter vehicle and severely injuring his parents. It was this accident which led the Commis- sioners to pass a ruling limiting the to 30 miles an hour, and providing that they must stop before proceeding through red lights. Commissioner Turnage expressed the some action to insure s2fe driving on the part of their ambulance operators. LINCOLN MEMORIAL LANDSCAPER DIES James L. Greenleaf, Nationally Known Architect, Was Former Fine Arts President. By the Associated Prese. STAMFORD, Conn., April 15.—James Leal Greenleaf, 76, nationally krown landscape architect who laid out the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in ‘Washington, died last night in a hos- pital after a two-week illness. One son, Donald L. Greenleaf of New Canaan, Conn., survives. He was born in Kortright, N. Y., July 30, 1857, and was graduated from the Canaan Monday with burial in Somer- ville, N. J. INTERESTED D. C. WORK. Memorial Bridge Project. James L. Greenleaf was a member of the Fine Arts Commission from 1918 to 1927 and had much to do with development of the Arlington Memorjal Bridge project and improvement of the grounds around the Lincoln Me- morial. H. P. Caemmerer, executive secretary I should say as a_sidewalk or curb- | stone opinion that I perceive no privi- | lege attaching to such communications. | Thfi]se who publish them do so at their | peril.” RETIRED HIGHWAY | _ INSPECTOR IS DEAD Thomas N. McNerney, 73, Came to Capital 30 Years Agu—l‘unera]1 Will Be Held Monday. | Thomas H. McNerney, 73, retired | highway inspector for the District, died | vesterday at his residence, 3820 Warren street. Mr. McNerney was born at Lock- | | haven, Pa., the son of Thomas C. and Catherine McNcrney. He came to Weshington about 30 years ago and was appointed inspector in the High-~ way Department in July. 1905. He re- tired in September, 1929. | Mr. McNerney is -survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth McNerney. Funeral services will be held Mon- | day at 8:30 o'clock, at Hysong’s fu- neral establishment, followed by mass | |at 9 o'clock, at St. Ann's Catholic Church, 4400 Wisconsin avenue. Bur- fal will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. SLAYS RANCH WOMAN WHO SIDED WITH WIFE Californian, Facing Divorce, Shoots Down Mother of Six and Takes Own Life After Flight. By the Associsted Press. VACAVILLE, Calif, April 15.—After slaying Mrs. Will Poppin, 25, mother of six children, by riddling her with shot- gun slugs at her ranch home near here, police today said Fred Caballero, 29, fled to Yolo and killed himself. Caballero, officers reported, used the shotgun to commit suicide at the home | of a friend, Louis Miller, by leaning on the barrel and sending a charge through | his body. The slaying and suicide last night, the official report said, climaxed family quarrel Caballero's wife, a sister-in-law of M Poppin, filed a divorce complaint against him here yesterday. Authorities shid Mrs. Pop- pin had sided with the wife in the diffi- culties that led up to the divorce action. Tax Moratorium Bill Passed. ‘ SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 15 (#).— An Assembly bill providing a 60-day | tax moratorium beginning April 20 was | vote of 31-0. The bill carries an emer- ot of the ccmmission, said today that Mr. | Later gravel from the bed of the Potomac River to build it up to its present size. Mr. Greenleaf was succeeded as the | lardscape architecture member of the| | commission by Ferruccio Vitale, who died recently. A great lover of the seenery surrounding Washington, Mr. Greenleaf took an active interest in the beginning of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, which is to run along both sides of the Potomac River in the region of the Capital, and was an exponent of maintaining the scenic beauty of Great Falls and not permit- ting power development there He prepared the general scheme for Greater Arlington, contemplating the extension eastward to the Potomac Riv- er of Arlington National Cemetery, and this, Mr. Caemmerer said, was approved by the Secretary of War in 1921, sIX BRITONS’ TRIAL CALLED FRAME-UP BASED ON TERROR (Continued Prom First Page.) WASHINGTON, peed of ambulances on emergency calls | opinion that local hospitals should take | Columbia University School of Mines in | 1880. Funeral services will be at New Greenleaf Helped Develop Arlington | IR Solicitor General JAMES CRAWFORD BIGGS. —Harris-Ewing Phot SATURDAY. to. 500 CHINESE SLAIN, JAPANESE DECLARE After Battle South of Great Wall. By the Associated Press | CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, April 15.| —Japanese reports from the new the- | ater of war south of the Great Wall of | China. said today 500 Chinese were | killed in a battle 12 miles southwest n!} Taitowying. About 1,500 Chinese sur- vivors were reported fleeing toward ‘Yungping. The battle occurred about 20 miles south of the Great Wall Japanese troops advanced into that section of North China proper from Chiehling- kow, a Great Wall pass about 25 miles inland from the Yellow Sea. k The Japanese apparently were aiming to expel all Chinese troops from the triangular are® formed by the Great Wall and the Lwan River. It was comparatively quiet today along the remainder of the Great Wall front where other offensives had been launched by the Japanese. Japanese general headquarters an- nounced that the Chinese were making a general retreat from the district east of the Lwan river, largely as the result of recent heavy air bombardment. | | INVALID RESCUED IN FIRE AT HOME $4,000 Blaze Sweeps King Resi- dence at 5800 Eastern Avenue Northeast. An invalid was assisted to safety last night when fire damaged the home of William R. King, 5800 Eastern avenue northeast. Handicapped by the fact the nearest fire plug was so far away that they had to use all but 200 feet of their 5.000- foct hose lines, firemen had some diffi- culty extinguishing the blaze. The flames, which damaged the house to the extent of approximately $4.000, is be- lieved to have been caused by an over- heated furnace. X The invalid, Mrs. Nellie Dennis, who lives with the Kings, was assisted from the dwelling after members of the fam- ily discovered the flames. Other occu- pants of the house, after making a futile attempt to extinguish the fire, telephoned an alarm. Members of the family, with the ex- | ception of Mr. King, an Internal Reve- nue Bureau employe, were seated in the living room when they detected the | odor of smoke and traced it to the cel- lar. Mr. King's son, William King, had | fired the furnace only a short time be- fore. NORTH IRELAND FEARS " RIOTS IN ANNIVERSARY Easter Week” Rebellion of 1916 | Forbidden by Government. | By the Associated Press. | BELFAST, Northern Ireland, April 15.—Fears that a proposed ccmmemo- ration tomorrow of the “bloody Easter { week” rebellion of 1916 will “give rise | to grave disorder and will promote dis- }aflemm" led the government of | Northern Ireland today to prohibit lgntherings which had been arranged | for Belfast, Armagh, Londonderry and | Newry. Throughout the Irish Free State to- morrow the event will be observed by gatherings in cemeteries in which are buried those who lost their lives in the unsuccessful attempt to free Ire- land from England by the force of arms. President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State was one cf the leaders of this revolt and the death sentence against him ultimately was canceled. to make an exception in your case. You will have a chance, as will all the de- fendants, to make a declaration just | before the court retires to consider the verdict.” ;'ch.'y well then, I will wait,” Cushny al On the stand Cushny spoke calmly and clearly. He has been in Russia with Metropolitan-Vickers since 1927, The prosecutor asked him about mis- haps to machinery at the Baku elec- trical station in 1928 and Cushny said mistakes by Russian workers caused damage to the boilers, Calls Witness a Liar. E fendants, formerly employed in San Francisco and Chicago by the Westing- house Electrical Co. “Thornton told me in 1932, Olyenik said, “that the damage at Baku was done deliberately and that Cushny did 4 “He's a liar!” Cushny shot back. “That's not true,” Thornton cried from his seat in the prisoners’ dock. The prosecutor went after Cushny again, trying to wring from him an admission that he had discussed politi- cal or economic conditions in Russia in any but the most general terms. This attempt was not entirely success- ful. ARRIVES IN .HOLLYWOOD Star of “Maedchen in Uniform” Gives Impressions of U. S. HOLLYWOOD, April 15 (#).—Doro- thea Wieck, young film star from Ger- many whose role in “Meedchen in Uni- as soon as the Covernor signs it. An amendment provides that in the char- | tered city and county of San Francisco, | which is on a cash basis, taxpayers shall | pay 50 per cent of their taxes due April 20 and 25 per cent in May and 25 per ‘cent in June, ' 2 g form” won her a screen contract in Hollywod, arrived yesterday with a number of impressions of America. Ice cre2m scdas ranked high with her, but the Indians were a big disappoint- ment. She said the colored spirituals were the purest folk music she heard. Then the prosecution called the Rus- | sian, Olyenik, who is one of the de- | FLEE AFTER BARRICADING HOME AGAINST MEDICAL AID FOR YOUNG CHILD (Continued From First Page.) time. Yesterday, in response to his plea, a police guard was placed about the house and he raised the barricade, announcing he was reconciled to havin the operation performed, should the ap- pellate division decree it. He disclosed, however, that his wife still was unready to give her approval. Physicians have diagnosed Helen's affliction as a tumor on the retina of the left eye, and have said that if it is not removed it would cause death. An operation, the doctors said, might cause blindness. Judge George Smyth, of the West- chester County Children's Court, on application of an agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren, ordered the operation, but stayed its execution for a ruling from the ap- pellate division, which is expected early next week. J. W. LINK DIES AT 66 Civil Engineer Was Native of Richmond, Va. CHICAGO, April 15 (#).—J. Willlam Link, 66, a civil engineer, died at his home yesterday following a lingering illness. A native of Richmond, Va., Link was & member of the American, Western and Boston Societies of Engineers. A widow and a daughter survive. Fu- neral services will be held Monday. Maryse Hilz in Korea. SEOUL, Korea, April 15 () —Maryse Hilz. French woman pilot who is fiying has|to Tcklo, arvived here tonight from Shanghal. 11,500 Survivors Reported Fleeing | | Meetings Commemorating “Bloody | APRIL 15, 1933. HEARING ON SHOALS MEASURE NEAR END House Committee to Receive Views of U. S. Operation Advocates Today. | By the Assoctated Press. | Completion of hearings today on the Roosevelt Tennessee Valley development | plan was hoped for as the House Mili- | tary Committee called in advocates of Government operation of Muscle Shoals. Representatives of power and fertilizer | companies have been appearing in op- | position. Representatives of these interests yes- | terday joined in a demand that Con- | | gress take out of the plan all provisions | | implying possible Government competi- | tion with their industries. | Spokesmen for each told the com- mittee their industries were expanded | far beyond present consumption levels | | and that only with the aid of a subsidy | | from the Treasury could the Govern- ment compete at Muscle Shoals. “Don’'t scrap a_private industry.” urged Charles J. Brand, secretary of the National Fertilizer Association. “If you are going to put the Government into competition with us, buy existing | plants.” W. L. Willkie, president of the Com- monwealth & Southern Corporation, | said six Southern companies of the | | group had outstanding senior securities of $400.000.000. “I give as my deliberate judgment that if this plan is carried out, the value of these securities eventually will be destroyed,” Willkie testified. Judson King, director of the National Popular Government League, will b2 one of the chief witnesses today i | favor of the proposal. . |SEIZURE OF BREWERIES ‘ DECLINES DURING MARCH 118 Compares With 1,679 in Cor- responding Month Last Year. Beer Taken Also Drops. | By the Associated Press. | _ The leniency which Attorney General | Cummings suggested had been shown | recently toward beer violators of the | prohibition laws was evident in the | March report of the Prohibition Bureau. | . Seizures of breweries totaled 118 dur- ing the month, as compared with 143 in February, and 1,679 in March of last year. A similar decline in the seizure of beer itself was shown, with a fall to 66,412 gallons in Myrch from 126,868 the preceding month and 172,269 in | March, 1932, State and Federal agents together grabbed 157,682 gallons of spirits during March, as compared with 114,323 in February, and 156,131 in March of last year; 24,774 gallons of wine against 14,934 and 47,877, Cases placed on the docket during the month by State and Federal officers totaled 7,142 against 5,624 in February and 17,630 in March of last year; aver- | age prison sentences, 153 days, against | 122 and 184: average fine, $105, against $139 and $176. Use of padlock proceedings also de- | clined, with 438 permanent injunctions being granted against 765 and 810. 'COOPER TO PRESENT ' BANK PLAN TO AWALT| | Commercial National Reorganiza- tion Proposal Approved by Committee of 20. Col. Wade H. Cooper, president of the Commercial National Bank, which is in | | the hands of a receiver, plans to present | | to Controller of the Currency Awalt, as | | soon as possible, a plan for reorganiz- | | ing the bank, which was adopted yes-| terday by a committee of 20 business men. The committee was appointed by Col. Cooper as a result of a mass meeting of depositors at the Mayflower Hotel, and developed the plan at a lengthy meeting yesterday afternoon. The action of the committee was said to be unani- mous. Col. Cooper said today he would not discuss details of his plan for the | present. RHODE ISLAND AVENUE BUS ROUTE IS CHANGED Revision in Line Effective Tomor- Utility Company *Announces. A change in the route of the Rhode Island avenue bus line, effective tomor- row, was announced by the Washington Railway & Electric Co. today. The line will be rerouted west of Logan Circle via Rhode Island avenue | to Fifteenth street, south on Fifteenth | street to H street, west on H street to new bus stand at Eighteenth and H | streets, near side of Eighteenth street. On the eastbound trip busses will be routed north on Eighteenth strect to I street, east on I street to Fiftcenth street, morth on Fifteenth street to | Rhode Island avenue, east on Rhode Ic.sllnd avenue to regular route at Logan ircle. Transfers between the Capital Trac- tion cars and the Rhode Island avenue busses will be accepted at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue and at | Eighteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Transfers between the Burleith- Trinidad and Foxhall Village-Potomac Heights and the Rhode Island avenue row, | New Mayor ELECTED IN CHICAGO AS CERMAK'S SUCCESSOR. EDWARD J. KELLY, A civil engineer and long a leader in Democratic politics in Chicago, who has been elected mayor by the Chicago City Council. Kelly succeeds the late Anton J. Cermak, who died of wounds suf-| fered when he was shot by an assassin who attempted to kill President Roose- velt. The new mayor will be 58 years old May 1. Although always interested | in politics, Kelly's speeches usually were | ‘b(‘fore commissions as he fought for some civic improvement. He was pres- ident of the South Park Board in Chi- | cago and thus in charge of the area | | where the world's fair will be held this Summer. —A. P. Photo. BUDGET APPEALS CONTINUE MONDAY District Civic Groups to Plead for Restoration of Vital Items. | Speakers for local civic groups Mon- day will continue their appeals to the District subcommittee of the Senate| Appropriaticns Committes to réstore to | the 1934 appropriation bill some of the | important items cut out by the Budget | Bureau when it revised the messure. | The original bill, which died Merch 4 when Congress failed to ratify the conference report,” carried $36,291.647, | with a Federal contribution of $7,600,- 000. In its present form the bill totals only $31,967442, with a Federal con- tribution of $5,700,000. Strong arguments in support of a more equitable F:deral contribution | and for adequate funds for essential ac- | tivities were presented yesterday by the | | Board of Trade and the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Other groups appeared in advocacy of specific items that have been eliminated. Senator Thomas, Democrat of Okla- homa, subcommittee chairman, expects to complete the hearings Monday, after those citizens who could not be heard yesterday have testified. Later in the week the subcommittee will begin de- | liberations to decide to what extent the House figures should be changed. 15 PER CENT U. S. CUT IS EFFECTIVE TODAY 6 2-3 Per Cent Reduction in Addi- ticn to Old Slash Made by Government. Today was the first Government pay | day eince the new economy act went | into effect, and most Federal employes | here found their envelopes reduced by | 15 per cent under their pay of last| | June. i The cut applied today was 635 per | cent in addition to that of last year. The old economy ac¢t, which was in effect from last July 1 to April 1, had made a reduction of 8'5 per cent gen- | erally throughout the Government | service, while the new act brings the | total reductions to 15 per cent below the last June pay. While most of the Government de- partments paid today, a few paid off yesterday on acount of the half holi- day today and it was understood that a few more would wait until Monday. Variations in the percentage of pay cuts’ resulted in various branches of the service, because in some bureaus of the Government in addition to the so-called legislative furlough, a num- ber of employes have been forced to take administrative furloughs, so their cuts were larger. TEXARKANA, Ark., April 15 (#).— Two masked robbers entered St. Ed- ards’ Catholic Church here late last night and after menacing Rev. T. H. Lillis and Rev. Joseph A. Murray of St. Louis with pistols escaped with sacred vessels and money valued at about $1,- Olflo.u The two priests were locked in a closet. Convicted of Murder. HOOD RIVER, Oreg., April 15 (#).— A Circuit Court jury here last night convicted William J. Moore, 24, of first- busses will be accepted at Fifteenth and | K streets, west side of McPherson | | Square. I degree murder for the death of Harold F. O’Connor, young Brooklyn, N. Y., tourist. | Secretary of the Navy Swanson has | recommended that the usual year's pay not be given the 215 June graduates of the Naval Academy who will leave the service without being commissioned. This was learned today when a letter to Speaker Rainey of the House was made public. Navy Department officials explained that it the Secretary’s recommendation is enacted into law it will wipe off the statute books a law of some 30 years' standing, providing for one year's re- muneration should a newly graduated ensign on probationary status be dis- charged. Navy officials pointed out that the prospective graduating class in_June numbers about 435, and at least 215 of .these, under the law enacted last year, will go out without commission. By the ordinary procedure they would be given a year’s pay, but the Secretary esti- mates that by changing the legislation, the Federal Government would be saved SWANSON OPPOSES YEAR’S PAY FOR NAVY ACADEMY GRADUATES 'Secretary Would Withhold Money From Those Failing { to Get Commissions. the same amount for the next two or three years. The new law provides that those graduating from the Naval Academy will serve in a probationary status for two years, when they are given re- vocable commissions as ensigns. Ef- forts are being made by the Navy De- partment to have those graduating from the Naval Academy granted bachelor of science degrees, so that they might take post graduate courses in civilian colleges to fit them better for civilian life. This legislation failed in the last session, as it passed the Senate but did not secure House ap- proval. It is expected that a bill to this end will be introduced shortly with Navy Department approval. ‘The question of taking away the an- ticipated year’s pay from surplus grad- uates has been introduced and a hearing is scheduled before the House Naval Committee on Tuesday. Due to lack of vacancies in the Navy, several hundred men slated to gratu- ate from the Naval Academy in the $156,000 for the current year and about as naval of t next three years or go, will never serve Mcers, 3 3 | 1500 Y FER 1055 OF OSTIONS 60 Doctors, 1,381 Enlisted Men and 60 Nurses Face Bureau Dismissal. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) More than 1,500 of the medical per- sonnel ¢f the Bureau of Medicime and | Surgery, Navy Department, who are cn duiy throughout the country, stand Jjeopardy of losing their jobs, it was learned today, because of the reduction in the number of patients of the Vet- erans’ Administration hospitalized in naval hospitals. While officials explained that -efforts are being made to pay these persons out of funds other than those of the Veterans’ Administration, if pessible, they conceded that no remedial answer has yet been reached. There are 180 officers and 1381 enlisted men of the Navy's hospital corps and some 60 nurses, women, who face separation from their jobs by July 1. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery offi- | cials asserted that a way may be found to transfer this group to the mnewly organized reforestation civilian conser- vation corps, which the Government will furnish medical and hospital care. Another remedy is seen, officials said, in the likelihood that President Roose- velt may direct that a certain number of Veterans’ Administration patients be kept in naval hospitals. Under the President’s economy pro- gram, veterans who cannot trace their disability to service in the Nation's armed forces will no longer be hospital- ized, as they have been, sifice shortly after the World War until the present time. The Naval Hospital here and similar institutions throughout the Na- ton have cared for as high as 60 per cent of patients in the institutions sent there by the Veterans' Administration. E. B. W'LEAN FILES ACTION IN POST CASE Asks District Supreme Court to Maké Him Party to Papér Company’s Suit. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Edward B. McLean, former publish: of the Washington Post, today ‘asked the District Supreme Court to ‘make him a party to the suit of the Inter- national Paper Co. which resulted in g\etappomlment of a receiver fot the ost. George B. Fracer, attorney for Mc- Lean, pointed out that under the will of McLean’s father he has an interest in any proceeds that might be deriveA from the sale of the paper and also contended that under the will the Post cannot be sold without McELean's consent. The International Paper Co. is one of the Post's largest creditors. Several weeks ago it filed a receivership ‘peti- tion and the court named Benjamin S. Minor as receiver for the paper. is now being operated under his rection. B — GOOD FRIDAY HOLIDAY DELAYS WEDDING RITES Dudley D. McDonald and Mrs. Ber- tha Leathers Finally United, but Miss Boat. A Washington couple, whose Good Friday = wed intentions - almost failed to matérializé because of Mary- land's legal holiday yesterday, prepared to leave Baltimore today on a belated honeymoon. ¥ The couple—Dudley D. McDdnald, 4800 block Illinois avenue, andMrs. Bertha Leathers, 1831 Second -street northeast — arrived in Baltimore late yesterday infent on getting married, but found all the courts closed, due to the holiday. A Baltimore County marriage license finally was obtained at Towson, but they struck another snag when several ministers refused to perform the cere- mony owing to the fact that the bride had been divorced from her first: hus- band in Mexico. T By the time the ceremony was. per- formed in Lutherville by Rev. E. Frank Fielding, pastor of St. James' M. E. Church, the couple missed the boat on which they intended to sail for Florida on_their honeymmmx The groom's family here declined to * believe he was married, blaming the re- pert on practical jokers, —— ALIMONY PROMISE GETS MAN, 72, OUT OF JAIL Warrant Was Finally Served . He Overstayed One of Series . of Sunday Visits. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 15.—Hel . Reece, 72, of Pittsburgh and Buflnlgr{';’s free today after a week spent in jail because he was back $760 in his ali- mony to his estranged 70-year-old wife, Mrs. Katie N. Reece. He promised late yesterday to pay $100 immediately and to “catch up” on the remainder in the next two months. Reece was arrested last week end after several months of Sunday visits to Buffalo. He would arrive and leave on Sunday, officials said, because™he knew sheriff’s deputies could not serve the warrant they held on that day. Last Sunday night he overstayed his time by five minutes and walked into the arms of a waiting deputy. PHILIPPINE DELEGATES LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON Insular Senate President and Seven Others to Discuss So-Called Independence. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 15.—Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Insular Senate, with seven other Filipinos will sail on the Ile de France Monday to discuss’ in Washington what Mr. calls the “so-called independence” act passed by the United States Congress last January. Mr. Quezon summoned the leaders, who arrived here today, and they de- cided on the trip, The party consists in addition to Mr. Quezon of Sergio Osmena, Senators Molasco and Belosco, Representative Barona, Gov. Formosa of Cagayan, Felipe Josen, labor leader, and Carlos Romlo, editor. BAND CONCERT. . By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant: March, “The University of Dayton,” Panolla Overture, “Russlan and Llldmlil:h‘" gotte “The Old Refrain”. Excerpts from musical Desert So Habenera, ‘hinhilita” Valse es;;nlnole‘ ““Tne Star Spangled Banner, .Fritz Kreisler