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| “From Press to Home Within an Hour” ‘The Star’s Carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Cloudy with snow or freezing rain to- night: probably ending tomorrow morn- ing; lowest temperature about 26 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 27, at noon today; lowest, 18, at noon yesterday. Full report on page A-4. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foening Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 11, 12, 13 Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,588 Entered as second class matter SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1934—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. ** (®) Means Associated Press. No. 32,834. TWO CENTS. past office, Washington, e MOTOR R CHERS Pz ALCEPT PLAN OB BOARD 10 SETTLE | ABOR GRIEVANGES Settlement Is Expected in Several Hours as Leaders and Administration Heads Confer to Avoid Strike. GOVERNMENT WOULD CHECK UNION’S LIST Crisis in Auto Industry Delayed for Third Time as Leaders Re- port Progress—14 Factories Working Out Shorter Hour and Higher Wage Schedules. By the Associated Press Automobile manufacturers, confer- ring with Hugh S. Johnson and other administration officials in an effort to prevent a strike in the industry. issued a statement today saying they had agreed to appointment of an im- partial board to pass on labor griev- ances, but they charged again that the labor unions intend to obtain a dominant position Despite the statement, administra- tion officials expected a settlement of the dispute within a few hours. The manufacturers spoke in reply to reports that settlement of the strike depended only on willingness of the management to let the Gov- ernment check the union member- ship claims with pay rolls and say whether they are correct. “Won't Disclose Authority.” *“If that is the only remaining is- sue,” the statement said, “let there be no misunderstanding as to what it means. “It means that the union refuses to tell the manufacturers whom the union represents. It wants the right to act for employes without disclosing their authority from them. It is like & lawyer saying to you, ‘I have a client who is suing you. I won't tell you who it is, but I will bargain for im." % “No outside agency can check the union claims against the pay roll, can come to any fair decision without disclosing the names to the manu- facturers. i “The unions’ refusal to say whom it represents is just another indication of its purpose to dominate industry. “All the union would have to do is coerce men into signing union appli- cations,” the statement continued. Denies Discrimination. “The public should know that this refusal on the part of the union to say whom the union represents is the same issue of union domination in another form. “The union said that if it tells the manufacturers whom it represents, there will be discrimination against union members. On the contrary the manufacturers have agreed to an im-| partial board to pass on any cases »of alleged discrimination and to have its findings reviewed by a board created by N. R. A. Thus, there is no warrant for the unions’ claims that there will be discrimination.” Observers held the opinion that the last paragraph strongly suggested the basis for agreement would avoid the holding of elections in the plants at | this time and instead would involva submission of union lists to both the Government and the manufacturers under an absolute pledge of non-dis- crimination against the men whose names would thus be revealed. Officials, however, refused to say that this was the basis of the plan they were trying to put through. Lists Held Available. Meanwhile, William Collins, union representative, reaffirmed the position ©of the labor delegates in an informal statement to newspaper men. He said the union does have lists of its mem- bership and will give them to the Government but not to the manufac- turers. “The manufacturers have lost sight of the fact,” Collins said, “that the unions have given a list of their mem- bership or have one available for any Government representative who may | be decided upon to represent the Gov- ernment. 4 “In view of the general policy in the past and the present of automo- bile manufacturers of discrimination against any union or truly repre- sentative collective bargaining dele- gate, the position of the union is that (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ROOSEVELT SIGNS PHILIPPINE BILL Full Freedom to Be Given Islands ‘Within 10 to 12 Years. President Roosevelt this afternoon signed the Tydings-McDuffie bill granting independence to the Phil- ippines. This bill will automatically bring about full independence in 10 to 12 years and gives the Philippine Legis- lature until October 1 next to accept it and call for a constitutional con- wention. By the terms of the act the United States agrees to withdraw its mili- tary from the islands and to later on discuss the question of eventually withdrawing the naval forces and base. The President affixed his signature to the independence measure shortly after noon. Standing about his desk at the time were Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate and for many vears leader of ‘the in- dependence movement; Senator Tyd- ings of Maryland and Secretary of War Dern. The pen used by the Manner of Running Displeases Thieves, Who Slay Victim By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 24—Two robbers accosted Morris Krinsky, 38, a laundry truck driver, took $28 from him and ordered him to run from them as fast as he could. Krinsky ran, but not in a man- ner that suited them. They shot twice, both bullets striking him. Krinsky died in a hospital early today. ROOSEVELT ASKS ENACTING OF JOB | | | | | | | intermittent unemployment | a practice that necessity will compel INGURANCE PLAN Advises Doughton It Would Assist in Retarding Economic Crises. By the Associated Press. The task of enacting a job insur- ance plan against future economic slumps was added today to the grow- ing congressional work-sheet. President Roosevelt was specific in directing the job done. He said. first, that such legislation would fulfill a promise made in the last Democratic party platform. Secondly, he declared sound the general principles of the Wagner- Lewis bill. A Ways and Means Sub- committee promptly resumed hearings today on this measure. In a letter to Chairman Doughton of the House Ways :nd Means Com- mitiee the Chief Executive wrote that while unemployment insurance alone would not make unnecessary other re- lief for the future jobless he believed it would act as a stabilizing device to retard economic crises. Encourages State Systems. The first big industrialist to heard by the subcommittee—Gerard Swope, president of General Electric —opposed the bill and criticized the proposed 5 per cent Federal tax on business employing more than 10 per- sons. He spoke a few hours before Mr. Roosevelt’s letter was received yes- terday. ‘The measure is designed to encour- age States to set up their own sys- tems. Wisconsin is the,only one now | having such a law. ‘The employer would pay his unem- ployment insurance tax into the Fed- eral Treasury, and would receive re- bates on his income tax for whatever he paid out during the year through State systems or company set-ups. The bill is so drafted as to require actual payment of benefits to unem- ployed before any refund could be ob- tained. thus forestalling any evasion through “mythical” unemployment in- surance plans. Text of Letter. “We have in the past,” Mr. Roose- velt said, “relied almost entirely upon private charities and public treasuries to sustain the costs of seasonal and This is us to change to a very substantial degree.” The text of the President's letter follows: “I have received your inquiry about my opinion on H. R. 7659, a bill levy- ing a Federal excise tax upon large employers, but allowing them to de- duct from their tax, amounts con- tributed pursuant to unemployment insurance laws that have been or may be passed by the several States. “I need not tell you that for a long time I have advocated unemployment insurance as an essential part of our program to build a more ample and secure life. The loss of a job brings discouragement and privation to the individual worker and his family. “If an insurance or reserve fund has been accumulated, even a small pay- ment from it at such a critical time will tide over the worker and keep | up his morale and purchasing power. “The benfits of such a system will not be limited to the individual, how- ever, but will extend throughout our social and financial fabric. We have in the past relied almost entirely upon private charities and public treasuries to sustain the cost of seasonal and intermittent unemployment. Stabilization Is Seen. “This is a practice that necessity will compel us to change to a very substantial degree. There is no reason why they should assume the entire burden of meeting a foreseeable loss, the major cost of which ought to be computed and borne like every other cost of a business. “Of course, unemployment insur- ance alone will not make unnecessary all relief for all people out of wm’k) for the entire period of a major eco-’| nomic depression, but it is my confi- dent belief that such funds will, by maintaining the purchasing power of those temporarily out of work, act as a stabilizing device in our economic structure and as a method of retard- ing the rapid downward spiral curve and the onset of crises. “I am interested to see that the bill before your committee seeks to ™ (Continued —an‘Plze 2, Column 1.) severe economic | SENATE T0 ACCEPT 59 FEDERAL PAY RESTORATION PLAN Expected to Act Favorably on House Position This Afternoon. VETERANS’ ALLOWANCES SETTLEMENT IS SEEN McCarran, Leader for Full Salary, Willing to Agree to New Compromise. With the Senate all set to accept | the House five-and-five plan of Gov- | ernment pay restoration this after- noon, the two branches of Congress at last are on the verge of an agree- ment on this question after more than two months of parliamentary ma- neuvering. The outlook also is bright for settle- yment of the differences between the |two houses on war veterans' allow- | ances, which must be done before the pay question can be sent to the White | House, since both are in the Inde- pendent offices appropriation bill. | Temporarily Sidetracked. When the Senate met at noon the Government pay and veterans’ ques- | tions were sidetracked temporarily to | give Senators in charge of the inde- | pendent offices bill more time for in- formal conferences in the hope of working out an agreement on the vet- erans’ amendment. For this reason the Senate proceeded with debate on the Bankhead cotton bill, but leaders planned to call up the Government | salary and veterans’ proposal later in | the afternoon ‘ It is understood that the Senate group holding different views are en- deavoring to settle the conditions under which World War presumptive | disability cases would be restored to | the roll. This is said to be the chief | stumbling block remaining the | way of a final agreement. When the bill comes up Senator | McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada plans |to make a preferential motion to | concur in the House pay provision, which calls for restoration of 5 per | cent of the cut as of February 1, and |another 5 per cent on July 1. This | would leave one-third of the cut in effect, but it could be restored by the President on July 1 or next January, if commodity prices have reached the | necessary level. Senator McCarran led the fight for full pay restoration, and the Senate last month adopted his proposal by a vote of 41 to 40. The House, how- | ever, later adopted the modified five- and-five plan, which administration leaders in the Senate also favored, and Senator McCarran believes the Government employes would rather see an agreement reached on that in e Freezing Rain or More Snow Due in Washington Tonight Temperature of 26 Predicted—350 More Men Put to Work to Clear Slippery Intersections. Still blanketed by the deepest Spring | program. Pending arrival snow in 10 years, Washington was | promised snow or “freezing rain,” the thyeatened today by either more snow | men were kept busy clearing intersec- or “freezing rain.” | tions. | Notified of the storm threat by Despite rising temperatures through Weather Bureau forecasters, District | the night, streets and highways were officials began mobilization of their | slippery and both driving and walking forces for another battle to keep the | were extremely hazardous streets as nearly clear of snow and | Falls and traffic accidents. as usual ice. or both, as possible. Although ap- | under such circumstances, were nu- proximately 500 men worked until | merous, but none of them had seri- after midnight clearing downtown | ous consequences, so far as reports to streets, the officials had an additional | police indicated. force of about 350 on the job this The most seriously injured victim morning, ready for the worst that the | of any of the mishaps was Mrs. Rufus | Weather Bureau might have on its! inue (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) | of the | [ | basis than have the uncertainty con- | tinue. | May Agree in Several Days. The general belief prevailed that | within a few days at least the veter- ans’ program will be worked out sub- stantially along the House lines, but with some further last-minute Senate | modifications. Senate leaders. it is | known, are trying to make this pos- sible on the Senate floor this after- 'noon to avoid the added delay of a | new conference. But if it is found | | impracticable to thresh out the re- maining differences in Senate debate, |a conference with the House will be asked. The essential difference over vet- erans at this time is said to revolve ! around the wording of the section by | which the House seeks to restore World War presumptive disability | cases to the compensation rolls at 75 | per cent of former payments. The | Steiwer-McCarran amendment adopt- | ed by the Senate last month would re- | store these cases at full compensation. While the 75 per cent House basis | corresponds to the percentage fa- vored by Senator Byrns, administra- tion supporter, Byrnes' proposal did not go as far as the House amend- ment, because his amendment would only restore these cases pending re- view. Whether a majority of the Senate will agree at this time to com- promise on less than the House lan- guage is problematical. Wants to Rewrite Amendment. Senator Steiwer also wants to re- write the House veterans’ amendment before agreeing to it, to make sure the clause providing for 75 per cent compensation for presumptives will be construed as affecting the | rights of some service-connected | veterans. Senator Steiwer does not | believe the House intended to affect | not any service-connected cases, but is afraid the phraseology of the amend- ment might do so. The Borah amendment, which sought to continue the 15 per cent pay cut next year on all Government salaries in excess of $6,000, was at- tached to the veterans’ amendment in the Senate, but is not in the House | veterans’ amendment. If the Senate, | therefore, concurs in the House pro- vision the Borah proposal would be abandoned. SCIENTISTS GATHER TO WATCH MAKING OF 200-INCH LENS By the Associated Press. CORNING, N. Y., March 24.—Dis- tinguished scientists from all over the country gathered today to see the cmt:;; of a cycllo-pean lens for the world’s largest telescope. Molten glass for a 200-inch lens will be poured tomorrow at the Corn- ing Glass Works—an operation which has attracted the interest of the whole world of sclence. The delicate task of molding the glass will be the big- gest job ever attempted by officials and artisans who have turned out glasses for astronomers around the globe. After the gigantic mold is filled with molten glass, it will be cooled gradually in special annealing ovens. The cooling process is expected to take nearly 10 months. ‘Then the arduous and difficult job of grinding will begin. Dr. George Ellery Hale, director of the California Institute of Technol- President was givon to Mr. Q/ue'am ogy where the telescope wfllfe lo- cated, heads a long roster of dis- astronomers and scientists. Among those here for the event are: Sir William Bragg of England, not- ed British scientist, who has been lec- turing at Cornell University; L3 J. Briggs, director of the United States Bureau of Standards; Walter S. Adams, director of the Mount Wil- son Observatory, Pasadena, Calif.; Dr. C. A. Chant, director of the Dunlap Observatory, Toronto, Canada; Dr. Max Mason, president of the Rocke- feller Foundation, New York City; Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of Geophysi- cal Laboratories of Carnegie Institute Washington, D. C.: H. J. Lulcheo Stark of the Observatory Council of the University of Texas, for which the Corning Glass Works is now an- nealing an 8l-inch disk; Otto Struve, director of the Yerkes Observatory of Chicago and the MacDonald Observa- tory of the University of Texas; J. W. Pecker of Pittsburgh and Charles J. Stillwell of Cleveland, representing the disk grinders. f GRAND JURY HLDS XY FFCALS County Engineer and Dele- gate to House Also Ac- cused at Annapolis. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 24—Six | members of the Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County, indicted yesterday by the grand jury on charges of malfeasance and misfeasance in office, assembled at the court house here today as Sheriff R. Glenn Prout discussed the bond to be required with the States | attorney. John A. Bromley, county engineer, | also indicted for malfeasance and | misfeasance, came to his office and | then left for Baltimore accompanied | by Commissioners C. Addison Hodges, | second district, and J. Edwin Wilson, | seventh and eighth districts, and a delegation to discuss the location of | a road with the State Roads Com- | mission. | Five Indictments Returned. | Five indictments were handed | down by the grand jury, three against | the six commissioners, one against} Bromley and the other jointly against Bromley and Zach Johnson, chair- man of the Anne Arundel County delegation in the House of Delegates. Elmer E. Parkinson of Annapolis, president of the commissioners, and Hodges, Wilson, Louis H. Kelly, fourth | district; F. Guy Kelly, fifth district, and Severn K. Arnold, third district, were named in the indictments. One indictment charges the six| commissioners with malfeasance and | misfeasance in office, “with having expended the sum of $7,420 unlaw- fully in the purchase of a power shovel, and for concealing the rans-| action from the taxpayers by not mak- | ing the proper entries on the records of the county, and not being reported to the auditor for the county.” on or about August 13, 1932, The other two indictments against the six commissioners do not men- tion malfeasance or misfeasance, but deal with reports of magistrates. Justice’s Salary Up. One of these indictments euarges the commissioners with having paid | Albert H. Dogge. a justice of the peace in the fifth district, “his sal- ary of $40 without first requiring the said Albert H. Dogge to make report of his criminal cases under oath on or about the month of Jan- uary 1, 1933, and each and every month thereafter up to January 1 1934, “The other indictment makes a similar charge in connection with the reports of Louis M. Hopkins, justice of peace in Annapolis. Bromley was indicted for mal- feasance and misfeasance in office “for not making any report of the purchase of a power shovel for $7,000 on the books of his office and for not giving the information to the auditor for the county on or about the year 1932.” Icebreaker Sails to Rescue. LENINGRAD, March 24 (P)—The jcebreaker Krassin sailed last night in | the Manchukuo education department an attempt to rescue the 89 members of the S. S. Cheliuskin party ma- rooned on ice in Bering Sea. The icebreaker is to go by way of the Atlantic Ocean, the Panama Canal and the Pacific through the Bering Straits—a voyage which will require about 48 days as compared with the three months which would have been needed under the original plan of go- ‘Alleged Operations in Cities ing by way of the Su: Canal. HLLONPROT = B DOAETYBAED Service Stock Described to Committee. By the Associated Press. Robert E. Healy, chief counsel of the Federal Trade Commission, today | told the House Interstate Commerce Committee that Henry L. Doherty, 14 BURNED TO DEATH AND 80 ARE INJURED =l ‘ll‘m\! NAVAL AIRPLANE ERepresentative McFarlane {Charges House Group’s Re- port Was “Whitewash.” By the Associated Press. A charge of “whitewash” was plas- tered today by Representative Mc- | Farlane, Democrat of Texas, on the | report of a House investigating com- mittee which found naval airplane profits to be moderate and recom- mended no changes in procedure. The Texan spoke as he prepared a minority report on the naval sub- committee’s study into the Navy's air- plane purchases since 1926. McFarlane charged that both the | Congress in purchasing their equip- ment” without competitive bidding. “When you get the report from the Investigating Committee on Military Affairs it will not be a whitewash like the majority report on another com- ittee,” he added, explaining that by ‘another committee” he meant the naval affairs subcommittee. Calculating that $761511,776 has been spent for aviation in general from 1929 through 1933, he said the | “equipment has not stood up.” “The Army's recent unforturnate experience in carrying the mails shows | primarily the lack of proper equip- | ment,” McFarlane added. | “Yet this bunch of pirates have had the audacity to come before this | Congress and before our committee | and attack the administration, calling the President’s advisers ‘traitorous.’ “They have very recently organized a lobby. It is going to charge Wash- | ington with a slush fund in excess of $10,000. * * * utility magnate, made a personal profit of $19,000,000 in dealings with the Cities Service Securities Co. stocks. | A congressional investigation of al- | legations made in a letter by Dr. Wil- | liam A. Wirt of Gary, Ind.. that “brain trusters” were seeking to overthrow | the Government was advocated mean- while by Representative Bulwinkle, Democrat, of North Carolina. Bulwinkle, a member of the Inter- state Commerce Committee, before which the letter was read yesterday by James H. Rand, jr., chairman of | the Committee for the Nation, said he would introduce a resolution either today or Monday calling for the in- | quiry. | Marland Favors Probe. | Representative Marland, Democrat, of Oklahoma, also told reporters he favored the investigation to learn “just who these men are who claim to be making decisions for President Roosevelt.” Bulwinkle said the investigation probably would be conducted by a subcommittee of the Interstate Com- merce Committee. Chairman Rayburn said he did not | plan to call Dr. Wirt in connection | with the Fletcher-Rayburn stock ex- | change regulation bill before his com- mittee. Appearing before the committee to urge strengthening of the information provisions of the revised Fletcher- Rayburn bill, Healy said that in a period of three years the Cities Serv- ice Securities Corporation sold $1.100,- 000,000 in securities and only $80,000,- 000 went into new capital. Asserting he was not hinting the remainder was embezzled, Healy said the balance was first used to make a market price for the stock on the New York Curb to make investors think it was an active stock and worth the price. | Healy gave this as one of many ex- amples as to the need for regulation (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) “We have the same group that con- 1{0]5 air _transportation selling all | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) POLICE CHIEF SLAIN AT TOURIST CAMP Shots Fired Through Window During Gun Battle Near Reidsville, N. C. By the Associated Press. REIDSVILLE, N. C., March 24— A. J. Fair, chief of police at Leaks- | ville-Spray, was killed in a gun battle | at a tourist camp about 10 miles south | of here early today. Details of the | shooting were not available imme- | diately. First reports reaching here said a | man named Gordon shot the chief | through a window of a tourist cabin. Each was said to have fired several times. Chief Fair, 49 years old, was mar- ried and had four children. He was | off duty and had been away from | home, Leaksville police said, since | Thursday. The tourist camp Wwhere | the shooting occurred has no tele- phone and county officers went there | to investigate. e DROWNED FLEEING FIRE HAKODATE, Japan, March 24 (®). —More than 150 bodies were wuhed' up on the beach near Hakodate today, | confirming fears that persons were drowned Wednesday night fleeing from a fire which destroyed most of | the city. | Police eftimated the dead may reach | 1,200 with the finding of additional SOVIET CHARGES SEIZING OF BOOKS IN MANCHUKUO Protests Taking of 10,000 Vol- umes From School Library in Harbin. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, March 24—A charge that a Russian school library has been seized by authorities in Manchukuo has been made the basis of a new Soviet protest. A dispatch from Khabarovsk, U. 8. S. R, reported last night that and police had seized “for inspection™ 10,000 volumes in a raid on the school, a technical institution at Harbin. The school is operated by the Rus- sian administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway for Soviet employes. In his protest, Julius Rudy, the Soviet manager of the railway, said the Manchukuo department of edu- cation would be held responsible for bodies in the ruins. l IN LYNCH Victims Trapp BURG FIRE ed in Transient Hotel Maintained by U. S. Funds—Many Hurtin Leaps. FRENZIED MEN TEAR BARRIERS FROM WINDOWS WITH HANDS Flames Started by Boilin o g Grease. Spread Rapidly as 190 Sleep on Upper Floors. By the Associated Press. LYNCHBURG, Va., March 24 —Fourteen persons were burned to death and at least 80 were injured in a fire that swept the Federal Transient Bureau here shortly before dawn today. A list of dead given out included James Alexander, Jack PROBE ASSAILED Swift, Howard Lloyd, James Lowe, Robert Auger, James Roberts, Walter H. Moore, one unidentified. Other dead included James Miller, William Lewis, Willie Williams, Willie Brooks and Frank Stuart, all colored. One other body could not be identified as white or Negro. | Addresses of the dead men were not available. A list of injured included a Mr. Rittenhouse, Pat Smiley and E. E. Wine. No addresses were given for these. Some of the bodies were charred apparently beyond hope of | recognition. Lynchburg Hospital, where 70 patients were admitted, | reported that possibly one-third of them were seriously burned. | Fourteen Negroes were carried to Virginia Baptist Hospital. | Power facilities were cut off at Memorial Hospital by the fire | and tthis institution was unable to help in the emergency treat- | ment. | Grease boiling over on a hot stove was blamed for the fire— | the worst remembered in Lynchburg’s history. William Rash, | the cook, said he had begun preparing breakfast for the 190 | occupants of the building when the grease boiled over on the | stove andgquickly set fire to the wooden ceiling. The cook said he grabbed a bucket of water and dashed it on the blaze. This did no good. He then emptied two fire | extinguishers without effect. | Meanwhile Rash’s assistant, C. H. Fizer, and the night watch- | man, James Webb, turned in the alarm. 190 Sleeping Upstairs. | Two stories above the fire, sleeping on cots only a few feet apart, lay 190 men—the white transients in one section of the double building and the Negroes in the part nearest Twelfth street. At that time the fire was making headway in the basement. < At the 1irst call of “fire,” the men became panic stricken. A high board wall surrounded the windows of their sleeping quarters and the men began tearing this down to leap into the street. Some dived to the street 15 feet below. Others clung to the window sills and dropped. FRANCE PROPOSES BRITISH ALLIANCE Reaches Out for Wartime Set-up as She Sees | Germany Rearming. By the Associated Press. Policemen reported seeing some of the men clinging to trolley wires before they fell. All those who jumped were badly hurt. Many had broken legs and arms in addition to burns they had sustained. Fire Door Open. The five spread with amazing speed. Eating through the wood floors, it | continued to the top of the building before firemen could get it under con- trol. The firemen said that within | 10 minutes after trucks arrived, floors PARIS, March 24—France, seeing at the rear of the building collapsed. her chances of keeping Germany dis- | armed slipping steadily away, is grop- ing today toward a resumption of the old pre-war entente cordiale with England. With an answer to Britain's recent disarmament proposals—an answer |- which made clear Prance’s refusal to disarm without adequate guarantees— | Paris is known to have suggested in a secret communication that revival of | the entente cordiale, with its unwrit- | ten but powerful implication of Brit- ish assistance for France against Ger- many, would solve the problem. Declared “Incénclusive.” Great Britain holds little hope that France will modify her security de- mands as a basis for a disarmament | treaty and the British cabinet appar- ently is at a loss as to how to pro- | ceed with efforts to save disarmament. This was learned in official circles | today as oral communications between the two governments proceeded in an effort by Great Britain to get a more | definite statement on security from | France than was given in the French note yesterday. It ‘was stated in British official | quarters that these exchanges through the respective Ambassadors, which | began Monday and were responsible | for the delay in the publication of | the note until yesterday, had been “inconclusive.” | U. S. Position Is Sought. In view of the startling nature of the French communication, which | ~as published last night, it was re- | ported in Paris today that Geneva | disarmament circles and the British | government are considering putting | out feelers in Washington to deter-| mine the American position toward | guarantees of security. The Paris arms note maintained that “if established violations endan- ger the security of a state, common action by the powers should be used for the benefit of the threatened na- tion.” It bluntly added that the world dis- darmament conference at Geneva may as well be considered at an end unlessy British guarantees of aid against an aggressor are forthcoming. The PFrench desire to restore the old (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) UNKNOWN SOLDIER MEMORIAL LOOTED OF VALUABLE MEDALS Tre trophy room of the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier has been looted of nine medals, worth several thousand dollars, Col. Charles G. Mortimer, U. S. A, retired, who is in charge of Arlington National Ceme- tery, reported today to police. ‘The medals, all of which have been received since dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, were kept in a glass-inclosed case on the second floor of the trophy room. The open- ing of the case and removal of the medals had been carefully done . in order to smoot': over all traces of the theft until an actual check of the medals was made. The medals, authorities agreed, are very valuable since many of them were ot gold, others were of silver and bronze. all damages. ' Col. Mrm“lr'r said the actual time of the theft could not be determined since the room was open to the pub- lic, but that in his opinion they had been removed some time y. The medals in almost every case had been especially cast for presen- tation in memory to the Unknown Soldier and are easily traceable, au- thorities agreed, due to the individual wording and design. Among the organizations whose medals were removed are the National Auxiliary United Spanish War Vet- erans, Society of the Daughters of Cincinnati, Disabled American Vet- erans of the World War, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Dames of the Loyal Legion of United States of America, National Society of New England Women and Descend- ants of Signers of the Declaration of lfldfl)'ndnne‘ A fire door separating the white and Negro sections we not closed, it was said. If the door had been shut, the fire probably would not have spread to the other part of the building. Several of the bodies were found in the Negro apartment. The fire cast a lurid glare on the snow which covered the city, and the bitter weather added to the suffering | of the persons who werc forced to flee the building. Meanwhile would-be rescuers, in automobiles and on foot hurried to the scene. ‘The Lynchburg Bureau was one of several camps set up throughout the State to care for homeless persons. It was administered as a Federal emergency relief measure. Sees Men Leaping. Patrolman Allen, on duty at Twelfth and Main streets, heard shattering glass and saw smoke spouting from the windows. He turned in an alarm. Then he saw men jumping into the street. Men jumping from the back of the building fell to a concrete area- way. Many lay groaning and writh- ing and the snow was blood-stained. Allen telepponed for ambulances and borrowed trucks from a nearby bakery to take the men to hospitals. Most of the men had on little or no clothing. Over one hundred were herded into the Salvation Army cita- del across the street and clothing was provided there. Some of the men { who made their way down the nar- row stairway to the street had slight injuries. Adjt. L. N. Phelps provided break- fast for the men, many of whom had been trampling about barefooted in the snow-covered streets. As soon as firemen could enter the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) AMADOR, PRESIDENT OF LEAGUE, EXPIRES Panamanian Succumbs at Paris After Short Illness—Rites to Be Set Later. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 24.—Raoul Amador, president of the League of Nations Council and son of the first president of Panama, died last night after a short illness. He was 59 years old. His mother, Maria Amador, his wife and a few friends were present at the deathbed. Funeral arrange- ments have not yet been made. Amusements ...... Army and Navy.. Church News. Comics ..... Features Financial Lost and Foun Radio ....... 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