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Sunday Star TH DAILY EVENING EDITION WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair, with mild temperature today, colder tonight; tomorrow cloudy, colder, probably followed by rain; shifting winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 63, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at 7 a.m. yesterday. Full Report on Page B-3. Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys WASHINGTON, D. C, (P) Means Associated Press. No. 1,563—No. 33,178. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTY Entered as second class matter ELSEWHERE post office, Washington, D. C. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1935—100 PAGES. =* ROOSEVELT CONFRONTED BY THREAT OF UPRISING IN SENATE ON WORK-AID L] Demand Seen for Report on Bill Soon. | Belligere nt Left in Congress ' Menaces President’s Control Last Half o f Term Sees 20,000,000 Per- DELAY CAUSED | sons Asking U. S. Aid—1936 Election IN COMMITTEE House Hearing on Bonus to Open Tomorrow. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. On the eve of his second anniver- sary in the White House, President | Roosevelt still faces a determined Senate in the fight over the work- relief bill. Meanwhile, the House Ways and ‘Means Committee is preparing to start hearings tomorrow on soldiers’ bonus legislation—just as unwelcome from the point of view of the White Heuse. And within a few days the Senate Finance Committee is to launch its {nvestigation of the operation of the N. R. A, the hub of the New Deal. Committee Delays Measure. For more than a week the adminis- tration has been sitting on the lid, so far as the work-relief bill is con- cerned, using the Senate Appropria- . tions Committee to hold that measure in abeyance How much longer the lid can be held down is a question. Unless there is a meeting of the com- mittee to consider the relief bill, in preparation for reporting it again to the Senate, there is likely to be a roar in the Senate itself over the tac- tics of the administration leaders. When the bill was recommitted, following the adoption of the McCar- ran prevalling-wage amendment which is opposed by the President, Senator McNary, Republican leader, said on the floor of the Senate: “I want it understood that when the joint resolution goes back (to the committee) prompt action will be taken by the committee in bringing out a bill to relieve distress.” Compromises Reported. That was more than a week ago. During the week there has been talk of “concessions” and “compromises” in connection with the prevailing wage amendment. with frequent con- ferences among Senators supporting and opposing the prevailing wage amendment. In the meantime there has been no meeting of the committee to_consider the bill. It was rported that the adminis- tration was waiting for the country to be heard from. From the Sena- tors it appears that comparatively little has been heard from ‘“back home” regarding the amendment, and the messages regarding it have been pretty evenly divided for and against. The latest proposal, emanating, it s said, from administration sources, was a substitute for the McCarran amendment. which would call for payment of the prevailing wage on work relief projects, where the pay- ment of the security wage might beat down the wage scale of industry. This would be applied particularly where public buildings are under construc- tion as part of the relief program. Predictions were made last night that this might eventually become the sub- stance on which a compromise will be based. It has not, however, so far been accepted by the supporters of the prevailing wage. Claim Situaticn in Hand, Claims were made in administra- tion quarters the situation is in hand. This means ‘hat enough Senators will be found finally to vote for the bill permitting the President to pay the “gecurity wage,” estimated at an aver- age of $50.a month, for the 3,500,000 men whom it is planned to employ on work relief projects, to be paid for out of the proposed $4,000,000,000 work relief fund. If the administra- tion has the votes it may be expected that a move will be made before long to get the bill back into the Senate. But until such a move is made, skep- ticism lingers. ‘When the bill is taken up again in the committee for consideration, a move is likely to be made again to cut the appropriation to a sum needed for direct relief, leaving the work-re- lief proposal for future consideration and action. That is a course which has been advocated by Chairman Glass. And such an amendment was lost originally in the committee by tie vote. It is not satisfactory to the administration, however, which has insisted that the two proposals be car- ried in the same bill. Yesterday was again a day of con- ferring among the Senators in small BY THEODORE C. WALLEN. | The New Deal is rounding out fts | second year this week end with nearly | 20,000,000 persons looking to the Fed- | eral Government for assistance in one | way or enother and President Roose- | velt staking his prospects for re-elec- tion on the chance to cut down unem- ployment sharply in the next year or 18 months. | In view of the constitutional ad-| vancement of inauguration day from | March to January, Mr. Roosevelt has | | already entered upon the second helf of his administration. Since he is| | more acutely on the defense than at| | any other time, Mr. Roosevelt was Te- | garded as at his turngng point. The | more extreme liberals of the Demo- Seen Staked to Employment. cratic and Republican parties were be- coming vocally impatient and serving warning on New Dealers that the President would have to reckon with, a radical presidential candidate next year unless he “turned definitely to the left.” Mr. Roosevelt, in line with his strategy from the start, is not expected to jump to either side. In the present temper of the radicals, this will have the negative effect of widening the gap between them and the President. Cloak room gossip in that quarter is already surprisingly hostile. It is objected that Mr. Roosevelt no longer consults with the Senate liberals as he did. It is protested "(Continued on Page 4, Column 4) | DECLINE IN POUND CLOSELY WATCHED FOREFFECTONULS. |Equalization Fund Stops Drop in Currency, Quiets Fear of “War.” By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 2—The i | world’s chief monetary measuring | | sticks were jumbled like jack straws | today as the British pound fell to a | record low in Paris and to the lowmti in several years in New York. World financial and trade centers anxiously sought to learn whether it | was merely a flurry in the foreign ex- | change markets or whether England had started a deliberate program of depreciation in search of & new ad- | vantage in worl{ trade. | Reassuring word came from London | late in the day, in the form of re- ports from London’s Wall Street that the British equalization fund had at | last stepped into the foreign exchange market to halt the plunge of the | British currency. This fund, created to guide the | course of the pound after it was catapulted from the gold standard three and a half years ago, shrouds its operations in greatest secrecy, but best informed financial circles usually have a fair idea what it is doing. And the reports from the city tended to set at rest fears in leading money centers that a “war” of depreciation between the pound and the doliar | | might be engendered. Gold, Silver Rise. The decline of the English money unit was accompanied by a sharp rise in the price of the two chief monetary metals—gold and silver—in the London market. The British cap- ital is the chief free market for gold, and the yellow metal there touched an unprecedented price of 146 shill- ings, 10%; pence, equivalent to $35.37 an ounce. This reflected chiefly the decline in the value of the English | currency in terms of gold. | But silver, affected by other fac- tors, as well, advanced in leading markets around the world. Rising a full cent in New York to 57% cents an ounce, the highest in seven years. The pound declined 4 cents in New York to $4.77'%, making a decline of some 10 cents in little more than a week. and more than 16 cents since the first of the year. It has recently been holding around $4.863%, its old parity with the dollar before either was devalued. Leading to hopes that the two currencies might be definitely stabilized at that level. France Concerned. The decline in the British money has been of most concern to France, and the other European countries which have been maintaining their currencies at pre-depression levels. The pound touched at record low in Paris, in terms of the present French franc, at less than 72 francs, in con- trast with its old parity a fraction above 124 francs. Persistent depreciation of the pound, it is felt in prominent banking circles “(Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. Family Treated Year for $24 In Socialized By thte Associated Press. OGEMA, Wis, March 2.—Mother can have a new baby, father can have his lumbago looked after, and junior his tonsils removed or measles treated—all for $24 a year. Such are the possibilities at Ogema’'s health center, pioneer ex- periment in socialized medicine, where members are cared for on & yearly fee basis. 1Its organization, prompted by group action to fill a long-felt need for a resident doctor, the center is a work- ing example of a theory that has stirred storms of universal medical controversy over a new deal for the al ing. After only three months of opera- tion, the center in this timber-land village has doubled its charter mem- bership of some 80 families and single persons. Head of the one-doctor clinic is genial Dr. B. M. Rinehart, an ex- . Medicine Center perienced general practitioner. He said that not only is the already showing results in the better- ment of the general health of this community of 1,044 persons, but also the books show it will be profitable for him. And he gets his money— cash in advance. His brief experience with the center so far, he said, leads him to believe “voluntary health insurance in some Xon;xl is t,]he solution to the medical problem in the rural and sparsel settled sections of the Nation.” e Rates for Dr. Rinehart's service are $12 yearly for an adult, $20 for a married couple and $4 for each de- pendent child. No family can be BOLIVIA INVADED BY PARAGUAYANS, CAPTURING TOWN Chaco War Scene Shifts as Army Pushes Far Into Interior. By the Associated Press. ASUNCION, Paraguay, March 2.— munique tonight announced Para- guayan forces have crossed the Para- piti River to begin their long- expected invasion of Bolivia proper, after wiping out the Bolivian gar- rison of 300 men stationed at Tama- chindy. The invading foices captured the town of Yuquy in Bolivia, the defense ministry said. To the south, it reported, Para- guayans continued pressing at the de- fenses of Villa Montes, Bolivian army base, having pushed the defenders back half a mile in some places. The communique said 2,000 Gua- rani Indians living north of the Pa: piti and Izozog region had joined and cattle. Three Other South American Na- tions, However, Reject Plan. By the Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, March 2.—Chile’s President today suggested that South American nations intervene to end the Chaco war. Three South Amer- ican nations lined up to oppose any punitive action against Paraguay. which rejected the peace plan of the League of Nations. President Arturo Alessandri, in an interview at Santiago, urged that Argentina, Chile and other nations end the long, bitter war “through quenching it with persuasion or by force.” Chile and Argentina, he said, bear most of the responsibility. Trujillo Asks Intervention. (A dispatch from Santo Domingo sald President Rafael L. Trujillo had dispatched telegraphic messages to all American capitals informing them he had asked President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico to join him in seeking con- certed efforts of all governments to mediate the Chaco conflict. Geneva League representatives for an invita- tion to American neutrals to make enother attempt to end the war. Eighteen previous efforts by the neu- trals and the League have failed.) Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, which once allied to whip Paraguay in one of South America’s bloodiest wars, stood together against further League sanctions against her. Uruguay Opposed Move, An arms embargo imposed on the Chaco combatants at the League’s behest has already been lifted from Bolivia by some dozen nations, be- cause it accepted the League's plan. It is maintained against Paraguay, which refused it. Paraguay has re- signed from the League. Uruguay today declared flatly she would not consider any new punitive measures against P y. Argen- tina already had taken the same stand. Brazil, while not a League member, is known to be in agreement. Sorzano Retains Power. Argentina reiterated its demand for satisfaction for the killing January 10 of an Argentine Indian on the border by Bolivian soldiers. La Paz dispatches indicated Presi- dent Jose Luis Tejada Sorzano, pushed to power in December after the Bolivian Army ousted Daniel Sal- amanca, would continue in power, even though Franz Tamayo, Sala- manca’s elected successor, was sched- uled to take office Tuesday. The Bo- livian Crigress meets Sunday to study the matter. Armies of Paraguay and Bolivia Governor’s Sister Weds. charged more than $36 a year. Dues must be paid in advance. For these fees members receive treatment in general medicine, minor surgery, obstetrics, tonsillectomies and the like, but not hospitalization, major surgery nor consultations with specialists, AUSTIN, Tex., March 2 (#).—Miss Hazel Elizabeth Allred, sister of Gov. James V. Allred, and William Bayard Stokes, jr., of Galdewater, Tex., were married today A Paraguayan defense ministry com- | the Paraguayan troops with horses CHILE MOVES TO FORCE PEACE. | reported growing sentiment among | NEW CLUES HINT MURDEROR SUICIDE INDAVIDSONDEATH Solicitor Discards Accident Theory After Probe of Pinehurst Case. HUSBAND OF HEIRESS TO BE GRILLED AGAIN Investigation Casts Doubt on Be- lief Woman Died From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. By the Associated Press. PINEHURST, N. C, March 2— Solicitor Roland Pruett, after 24 hours of investigating the mysterious death of pretty Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson, jr., heiress of the late E. M. Statler, said tonight he had evidence indicat- ing “either murder or suicide,” and that he had discarded the possibility of an accident. ‘The solicitor said he had uncovered strong evidence pointing to both murder and suicide, adding, “I am not prepared to say which.” Earlier in the day the solicitor cast doubt on the original diagnosis of death from carbon monoxide poison- | ing, and sald a careful check of that | angle was under way. First Reports Prove False. ‘The 22-year-old bride of two months was found slumped in the door of her automobile in & closed garage early Wednesday morning | after spending practically all night with her husband and friends at a charity ball and, later, a night club. First reports said she was still alive, beneath the steering wheel, and that she died at a hospital when resuscita- tion efforts failed. Later it was | brought out, however, that she was found, dead, in a kneeling position on the running board, her face on her arms, which were spread along the car’s floorboards. Considerable ventilation clearance under the doors and the size of the three-car garage first led him to doubt the gas poisoning theory, Pruett said. | Inquest Resumes Tuesday. An inquest begun the day of the | tragedy adjourned after brief testi- | mony, and has been postponed several | times since. It is to be resumed | iTuudly, when Solicitor Pruett said { he planned to requestion the dead | | woman's husband and others who are expected to return here Monday from Mount Kisco, N. Y., where the | young millionairess was buried today. Absence of the Davidson household and friends at the funeral and de- parture for their homes late today of the solicitor and other investigating officers brought a .lull to this exclu- sive resort community after three of the most tense days in its history. Officers planned little or no activity tomorrow, but the full swing of the in- vestigation was expected to be re- sumed with the return of the solicitor Monday. He and other officers con- nected with the case live in nearby towns. Dinner May Give Clue. Tha solicitor revealed that he ex- pected to probe what happened in the Davidson household a short time before the tragedy and events between the dinner at the Davidson home about 8 o'clock Tuesday night and | the next morning. Between the dinner and the dis- covery of the body, the Davidsons, with | their house guests, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis | Campaigne of Montclair, N. J., attend- ed a charity ball and had a spaghetti dinner at a restaurant near here from 2 to 4 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Davidson, friends said, appear- ed in good spirits at the ball and there purchased a painting at an auction for $35. Following the visit to the restaurant the Davidsons and the Campaignes returned home, the solicitor said he had been informed, and went to bed | shortly after. The Davidsons were | said to have occupied separate rooms upstairs, while the Campaignes were single room downstairs. n 2) U. S. PACT DENOUNCED Rumania Names Other Nations in Ending Trade Treaties. BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 2 (#)—Rumania today denounced ex- isting trade agreements with the United States, Japan, Latvia and Norway. In 1934 the United States shipped goods to Rumania valued at $5,000,- 000, mostly automobiles and oil well supplies. By the Assoclated Press. The wife of the President disclosed yesterday that she had turned into philanthropy from her commercial radio broadcasts alone almost half as much money as the Government paid Mr. Roosevelt for a year’s work. questions put to her as a review of two years plentifully filled with activities no First Lady ever did before, she gave an itemized account of $36,000 paid the Priends’ Service Committee for her radio talks :n’c'unnll,:y 14 and ufleeembu l:.. 934. presiden salary $75,000. She listed expenditure of her earn- ings as follows: “One-half year’s salary to Miss Elsie Clapp, teacher at the Reedsville, W. Vs, subsistence homesteads, $3.500; » Mzrs. Roosevelt Turns $36,000 Radio Pay Over to Charities First Lady Defends Relief Program and Recalls High Lights of Two Years of the New Deal. CAMPBELL CHEATS DEATHAT DAYTONA Collapse of Motor Covering| Nearly Causes Crash in Speed Try. (Wirephoto Page A-4.) By the Assoclated Press. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March 2— All unbeknown to the crowd of 50,000 or more lining Daytona’s shining sands, Sir Malcolm Campbell played a tight little drama with death in the cockpit of his mighty Blue Bird speedster today and came out shaken, bruised, but still determined to smash tomorrow his own speed record of 272 miles an hour. Campbell made nothing like that today, but he was roaring on the way to the 300 miles an hour that is his goal when the weirdest accident of his 30 years of driving occurred. Speeding at 233 Miles, Speaker’s Watch Is Martyr to Zeal In Call for Order By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, March 2. —Oklahoma Assemblymen were shouting to be heard. Speaker Leon C. Phillips was pounding for order with his gavel. There was a smash, a tinkle of flying glass. “There went my watch,” mut- tered the red-naired speaker. He continued to pound for order. HOLMES WEAKER: OXYGEN TENT USED | Physicians Express Concern as Former Justice Fights for Life. He was speeding 233 miles an hour. A little more than a mile from the middle of the 11l:-mile course, the Blue Bird, thundering beautifully, the sun pouring down, the beach gleaming, was waging the battle of his life last | calendar permit, and we anticipate | when suddenly the cowling on the pight against a formidable and unre- | right side of the motor tore loose. The heat from the exhause pipes had melted the blue enameled motor covering. The wind caught it, whip- ped it loose. In an instant exhaust fumes, deadly carbon monoxide gas, poured straight back through the shell of the car into the cockpit where he was wedged in.| 94th birthday is next Priday, had| The heat was so great that his first | been encouraging. but later in the day | thought was “My God, I'm on fire.” The car swerved, and he fought for control. It crossed the black oil streak officials had carefully laid down | the course for his guidance. The tires threw the oil soaked sand up into his face. “It was the closest squeak I ever had,” said the British speed king as he climbed wearily from the cockpit later. “I_hope I'm never that close again.” The drama was Campbell’s alone in those moments, for as he flashed down the south run, gaining speed with every turn of the wheels, there was no outward evidence of his danger except the swerve of the wheels, the sudden slackening of speed. He cut the motors down, and went through the measured mile on the south run, which has always been his fastest in the past, at 188.186 miles an hour. He turned his car at the south end of the course, and mechanics bolted back the heat-twisted, scorched cowl. “I knew that I had no chance for any kind of speed,” he said. “But the crowd expected a show and I thought I should do my part.” Accident Repeated. He started back. He did 208.212 in the measured mile. Blue Bird was soar- ing again, when suddenly the left side of the cowling, now white hot, col- lapsed and he was in the same des- perate situation. Again he cut the motors as the fumes poured in on him, and coasted through the rest of the way, blistering hot, blinded by the gas, deaf from the roar of the motors that were bellowing straight into the cock- pit, blackened with oil and soot. ‘The best Campbell was able to aver- age two ways on any one mile today was 205.363. made in the mile north of the middle mile of the course. for incorporation of Reedsville -Co- operative, $111; for handicraft, $6,- 000; for Logan County, W. Va., health work, $6,000; scholarships for girls at Kentucky and West Virginia edu- cational camps, $500; general work of Friend’s Committee, $3,000.” Total, $19.111.60. “The 60 cents is tax on checks,” she interrupted herself to explain. For “most historic” and “most humorous” high lights in her diary jottings of the past two years'in the White House, Mrs. Roosevelt turned o S Ba em 3 “My hus 's inaugural address. I think the passage where he said, | Beneath an oxygen tent set up by his physicians, former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court lenting foe—bronchial pneumonia. | The attack, begun a week ago, had sapped the remarkable vitality of the venerable jurist to such an extent last | night that physicians for the first time publicly expressed their concern. Earlier yesterday reports from those !in attendance on the jurist, whose his condition became worse and a consultation of physicians was held. Age Proves Handicap. personal physician to Holmes, issued the following formal bulletin: “After a consultation with Dr. Longcope and Dr. Ecker, we find the justice a little weaker than he was yesterday, and in view of his very |advanced age, this is a disturbing condition.” Dr. W. T. Longcope of the faculty | of Johns Hopkins University Medical | School was summoned here from Bal- timore for the conference. Dr. Lewis C. Ecker, the third consultant, is from this city. The three had held a simi- lar conference last. Thursday, when Holmes suffered a slight relapse. Finds Condition Unchanged. About 10 o’clock last night Dr. Clay- tor returned to the Holmes' residence | visit to the bed room on the second floor. On emerging from the house he reported the sick man's condition “unchanged.” Mark Howe, a former secretary to the retired justice, who accompanied |Dr. Claytor to his car before Te- turning to the ‘house, told reporters the physician did not expect to re- turn _during the night unless there (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) ATTEMPTING TO EVICT AID FAMILY CHARGED Rooming House Proprietor Says Fumes Which Overcame Boy Were for Insects. Accused of attempting to evict a relief family by using a fumigating candle, Sterling Riley, 27, proprietor of a rooming house at 478 Sixth street, was arrested last night and held for investigation. According to Mrs. Katherine Lewis, 36, she and her two children, Clyde, 7, and Alvin, 3, were forced to stand by an open window for nearly 45 minutes while the candle was burn- ing. Alvin eventually was overcome and had to be carried out of doors to be revived. Mrs. Lewis and the children were at home alone at the time, but upon the arrival of the husband police and a rescue squad were called. Members of the family charged that Riley had attempted before to force them to leave. Riley’s explanation was that he was fumigating a room against insects. Organizations . Civic News..... Society .... Amusements .. ) Features. . .Part Four .Part Five .Page 9, Part 4 The only thing we have o fear is (Oontinued on Page 7, Column 2.), Sports ages B-7 to B Lost and l"eunfil’m A-9 Afterwards Dr. Thomas A. Claytor, ' | at 1720 I street and made a 15-minute | GARNETT PLEDGES - J0PROMPT TRIALS Al Pending Cases to Be Heard at This Session, Crime Probe Told. A promise to bring to trial all of the |30 pending gambling cases at the | present term of the District Supreme | Court was made to the Special Crime | Investigating Committee of the House | vesterday by United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. | In a report to Representative Ran- dolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, i chairman of the Crime Committee, | Garnett pointed out that all cases are | being tried as rapidly as possible. His report is regarded as an answer to the criticism of Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, that | there has been an undue delay in the ‘ prosecution of certain cases. Calendar Held Speed Gear. Citing the various gambling cases, Garnett said: “These cases are being tried as promptly as the condition of the court docket and the district attorney’s | putting them all to trial within the | present term of the court. | ‘Our experience is, however, that | it takes at least two days to try each of these cases, and to put on two of them a week practically ties up our criminal docket entirely with the gambling cases for that week. It has beenn my rule usually to give the de- fendants who are in jail the first op- portunity for trial.” In an accompanying memorandum, dated February 19, Garnett listed 31 indictments pending at that time. In one of these cases trial was concluded last week, and resulted in the convic- tion of Thomas Ryan. Frank Pape, Peter T. Pape, John Midolo, and the acquittal of Joseph Castell and Francis J. Smith. Some of the same men were involved in three other indict- ments. | Other Cases Reviewed. Garnett also gave Randolph a resume of the status of other gambling | cases and the dates when they are | scheduled to be brought to trial Among the first of these, involving Thomas W. Simon and Wilbur Dorsey, indicted March 21, 1934, will be brought to trial March 18. Garnett explained the delay in this case was due to Dorsey, who until recently had been a fugitive from justice. Some of the indictments in the gambling cases, Garnett revealed, date | back to April 18, last year. There were two indictments on that date, |two July 2, one August 1, another | August 15 and another August 29. | Others were handed down October 1 and 4, November 14, December 7 and 14 and two December 28. Since Jan- uary 1, this year, Garnett said, 12 in- dictments have been handed down. The committee will resume hearings tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., with Inspector William G. Stott, chairman of the Po- lice Trial Board, as the witness. He will be questioned about Police Trial Board cases in the last two years, especially with reference to the action of the Commissioners in setting aside recommendations of the board. A cursory examination of the Trial Board records by John R. Fitzpatrick, committee prosecutor, shows that since November the Commissioners have substituted fines for dismissals recommended by the Trial Board in three cases involving officers found guilty of intoxication while on duty. VENIZELOS BACKS REBELS, BOMBED IN FLEENG SHIPS BY GREEK PLANES War Vessels Steaming Down Aegean to Meet Former Premier, Subjected to Shower of Explosives. TSALDARIS ULTIMATUM THREATENS NEW ATTACK Uprising Laid to Followers of Gen. Plastiras, Dictator for a Day in 1933—All Nation Un- der Martial Law—Government Retakes Salamis Arsenal. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, March 2.—Former Premier | Eleutherios Venizelos, “grand old | man” of Greek politics, threw his | strength behind a swiftly executed re- | volt tonight as darkness brought a halt to a running battie between five rebel warships and the loyal air force. Venizelos, who has been living in | retirement in his native Crete since his unsuccessful attempt to defeat ‘Premier P. Tsaldaris at the polls. de- | clared himself in support of the rebels in'a violent anti-government speech at Crete. | The five bomb-scarred warships were steaming down the Aegean to- | night toward that island, presumably | to pick up Venizelos. Warns of Bombardment. A government demand for surren- | der tlimaxed the dey of fighting by sea and air. Tsaldaris warned that unless the rebels capitulated they would be subjected to an intense bom- bardment tomorrow ‘Three bombing planes were pre- pared for a take-off at dawn armed with 200-pound bombs. Fortresses at Crete were ordered to open fire on the warships if they showed up there. The changes in the cabinet were announced following the resignation of the minister of the navy. Gov- ernment troops were poured into Athens and Greece was under martial The possibility of revolt in Crete, despite the apgarent failure of the uprising last night in the Athens area, caused alarm in government quarters. No Estimate of Casualties. A request for time to consider an offer of meditation was the last word Tom the rebel warships. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded. The commander of airplanes which attacked the fleet at sea issued a re- port claiming two direct hits were made on the warship Averoff and that a destroyer apparently was disabled and was being towed by the Averoff. (Dispatches from Spain indicated Prince Eugene Lascaris, pretender to the Greek throne, had known a revolt was brewing and had been in touch with rebel elements since yesterday.) Reports from Crete tonight said the governor of the island had demanded | that Venizelos, who has been living {in retirement there, declare his atti- | tude toward the revolution. Premier Tsaldaris telegraphed a | direct appeal to Venizelos to keep | clear of the revolutionaries. He wired his hope that the liberal leader “will not sympathize with the crazy at- tempt of a few officers.” The rebel fleet, which fled from the | Athens harbor after government forces had recaptured Salamis arsenal, was reported this evening off the Island of Melos, some 70 t: 0 mi (Continued on Page 3, |SABER-PIERCED YOUTH MAY BE FATALLY HURT | Medical Student Grieves That Fencing Duel Caused In- jury to Friend. By the Associated Press DAYTON, Ohio, March 2.—Robert | Zolg, 24, lay near death tonight, wounded in a saber duel with a friend. Physicians said it was improbable he would live. His lungs were punc- tured by the thrust of a saber wielded by Larry Libecap, medical student at the University of Cincinnati. Co-captains of the University of Dayton fencing team in 1933 they found themselves matched last night. Almost equal in skill, they battled furiously for points that would de- cide the match. The points of their weapons had been blunted according | to regulations, but Libecap said he had not known Zolg had not donned | the body padding customary in such & | match. By the Associated Press. Irritated at having his testimony cut short, Arthur Kallet of New York yesterday hurled the term “American Hitler” at Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, when he was refused per- mission to criticize Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, during a Commerce Subcommittee hearing on the latter’s food and drug bill. Kallett, secretary of Consumers’ Research, Inc., of Washington, N. J., sought to put into the record, as he did in the last Congress, an assertion that Copeland had given a radio talk advertising a medical commodity ob- jected to by the youthful looking pure food advocate. “Your testimony is finished,” Clark snapped,-while a crowd of more than 100 spectators stirred in their seats in the large caucus room of the Sen- ate Office Building. “All right,” Kallet retorted, rising from his seat, “if you intend to act the American prototype of Hitler, and Clark Is Termed a “Hitler” At Hearing on Food-Drug Bill leave thousands of Americans in jeop- ardy.” “If you do not conduct yourself in an orderly manner,” Clark said, his voice rising and his face reddening, “you will be ejected from the hear- ing.” Kallet returned to his seat and soon left the room. “I will state for the record,” Clark concluded, “that the witness spoke for 50 minutes, more than twice as long as any other.” Kallet protested that provisions of the Copeland bill were not sufficiently rigid to prevent dissemination of in- jurious and dangerous foeds and drugs. Particularly he urged that ad- ministration be taken from the Sec- retary of Agriculture; saying that of- ficial was also spokesman for produc- ers, the farmers. Their interests, he sald, often are in conflict with con- sumers, More than three-score men and “(Continued on Page 3, Column 32,