Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1935, Page 2

A—2 sx DENOGRAT DEE UNDER SCRUTIY Party Seeking $700,000 to Pay Off $511,000 Deficit and Aid in ’36. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. How does the party in power coilect money to pay off its campaign deficits? This question now may be asked about the national administration, inasmuch as it has been raised in Ohio as a consequence of the Hop- | kins-Davey controversy. The Democratic national adminis- tration has & deficit of about $511,000 and wants to raise a total of $700,000 | 50 as to carry the work of the na- tional organization well into the 1936 campaign. i The Democratic State Committee | of Ohio had a deficit of about §9,000 | prior to the inauguration of Gov. | Davey and the reports from Columbus | are that this sum was collected in small amounts from various indi- viduals who might have been looking forward to the acquisition of con- tracts for the sale of goods to the | State Relief Administration. National Custom. | Gov. Davey has told the Ohio legislators that he had no knowledge of the solicitations complained of. but that the custom of soliciting What’s What Behind News In Capital Hopkins-Davey Row on Relief Seen as Minor Fracas. G Hence the New Dealers are not taking the Hopkins-Davey mud-slinging contest as seriously as the words being emitted by both par- ticipants would indicate. To them, it has some of the elements of relatively good political fun. Unnoticed nationally, Ohio’s Governor Davey and Reliefer Hop- kins have been shooting paper wads at each other for months. It began when Hopkins demanded, soon after Davey's inauguration, that Ohio pay a larger pércentage of relief costs. Hopkins wrote scorching letters to Davey which were answered at a similarly rising temperature. Hopkins pointed out the Federal Government paid 78, 83. 80 and 78 BY PAUL MALLON. RAFT and libel are hard words, except when used in anger by politico-statesmen. per cent of the Ohio relief load in/ four recent months. He demanded that Ohio pay at least $2,000,000 monthly, or about 20 per cent. Davey met that demand with a re- fusal, accompanied by charges that THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, money to pay off deficits and to go the Ohio relief set-up was inefficient, to businesses of various kinds was in | full of red tape and run by Wash- conformity with what has been done | ington, although the State had the nationally from time to time. | responsibility. He asked Hopkins to Inquiry here discloses the fact that | take it over two weeks ago. At that very little of the Democratic National | time, Hopkins refused on the ground Committee’s deficit has been paid off | that it was the State’s job to run re- | lief, When the final test came Deputy Sheriff W. W. Clark sygceeded in carrying little Gerald Brown, 10, back into Chancery Court at Camden, N. J., March 19, despite the lad’s screaming protests. They boy objected and that one of the principal reasons why is that a certain individual in | the White House, namely, the Presi- dent himself, has laid down some pretty stringent rules which make | it difficult for the money-raisers to | get the necessary funds. Mr. Roosevelt, for instance, is rep- | resented as believing that a contri- | bution of $1,000 would be about right if it could be got from about 700 men. | There have, of course, been larger contributions and no doubt will be, but the Democratic chieftains have been advised that the raising of $700,- 000 by 700 individual contributions | would be least objectionable. Adjournment Awaited. ‘The word has come, too, from the | White House that money-raising had | better be deferred until after Con- gress has adjourned because there is always the possibility that some of to a court decision awarding him to outside. Later he submitted to court order. his mother and broke loose, dashing —A. P. Photo. TRODPERS RESIT \ b ppe The situation attracted national at- tention only when Hopkins picked up a mud pie full of graft charges and | hurled it at Davey and “certain high officials,” saying they were shaking down businessmen, and Davey replied with a charge of Ibel. sippi After Dynamiting Stationed in North Missis- Season Precisely Spring is here today—and with weather in keeping with the season. The season of flowers and bird songs arrived officially at 8:18 a.m. It was the instant when the sun, in its northward passage, crossed the Tropic of Cancer, Spring Brings D. C. | |recovery ‘ seol Weather That Fita | St it pe oo g o e T D. C. THURSDAY. ALLOWEDBYAA A All Spring Planting Curbs Lifted by Wallace, Citing Drought. By the Associated Press. Agricultural Adjustmert Adminis- tration officials expect the acreage planted to wheat to expand by from 900,000 to 2,300,000 acres as a result of Secretary Wallace'’s action in red moving all restrictions on sowing of Spring wheat. Wallace announced yesterday that Spring wheat farmers, instead of re- ducing acreage by the 10 per cent which was decreed last Fall, will be allowed to plant their full acreage and make a larger reduction in their 1936 plantings. Threats of a 1935 drought and & desire to avoid a wheat shortage led the A. A. A. to this decision, Wal- lace declared. He characterized it as a “duty of Government and the farmers” to protect consumers from 8 shortage. He also said it was a Cites Subnormal Figures. tinues,” the Secretary said. He pointed to figures showing the pre- cipitation percentage of normal dur- ing January and February to be: Idaho, 67; Nebraska, 61: North Dakota, 65; South Dakota, 70; Oklahom: 83; Oregon, 71; Texas, 102; Utah, 68 and ‘Wyoming, 57. “Adaptation of the wheat program is one of a series of steps taken by A. A. A, first to help the farmers through the worst drought on record and conserve the Nation's food supply in 1934, and second to complete the from consequences national food supplies,” the A. A. A. | said. Wallace's announcement followed { quickly after the year's first crop re- 17,847,000 acres of Spring wheat, as planted in 1934. “duty of Government and consumers” | to protect farmers from the piling up | of surpluses and resulting low pdcea.‘ i “The drought quite definitely con-‘ Kansas, 83; Montana, 61; | SPETHERTOVEN of | | port showing farmers intend to plant | | compared with the 18,521,000 acres MARCH 21, 1935. WHEM EXPANS'[]N Swedish Prince at Studio Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto. as a director, STRACHEY FACES CHARGES TODAY Emma Goldman and Coun- tess Cathcart Cases Re- called by That of Briton. - | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 21.—The United | States Government today considered shunting John Straciey, British au- 1 thor and lecturer, along the path trod away from America by Emma Gold- man, Countess Vera Cathcart and other Europeans deemed inimical to American institutions. Charged with giving misstatements | to immigration officials as he entered | the country, Strachey, scion of a dis- tinguished English literary family, came to Chicago to answer the immi- | gration department’s charges today. Other Fights Recalled. Sicvard Bernadotte, who recently relinquished rights to the Swedish crown, is shown, left, with Lionel Barrymore at Hollywood, Calif. met yesterday at a film studio, where the prince will begin his duties soon The two CORCORAN EXHBIT | Famous Artist to Attend Private Art Showing "Saturday Night. FEugene Speicher, internationally famous artisi, whose painting, “Red 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 Bushels, The Secretary estimated that the | Moore,” won the first W. A. Clark prize of $2,000 tnd the Corcoran gold gency relief headquarters is that sev- eral people may get soiled in the cur- | rent melee, but no one will get hurt. the contributors might think their contributions would have some influ- ence, however slight, on the kind of legislatior. being passed that affects + their businesses or interests. But the $1,000 apiece in these days of the New Deal is a generous contri- | bution even for men in the business world, especially as redistribution of wealth and income looms in the offing. And where could 700 men be found in all the United States who did not have some interest in pending legis- lation, ranging all the way from N. R. A. to income tax rates? Relief Admissions. Every one close to the Government knows there has been a certain amount of favoristism, inefficiency and red tape in relief. Such things are | always hard to prove, but all admit | they exist. They could hardly be | avoided in the emergency handling of that much money. | The only argument is about how { much money is inefficiently spent. | Every one has his own idea about that. You may be sure, however, that The assumption at Federal emer- | of Two Dykes. | By the Associated Press. | | GREENWOOD, Miss, March 21—/ State troops shouldered guns on North | | Mississippl levees near here today as an aftermath of a wild night in | which two dykes were blasted and | private guards and vandals mreaz-i ened to meet in open battle. The Nation's major flood threat | shifted to Tallahatchie and Leflore | Counties after several hundred men | overpowered guards on a Tallahatchie { River levee 1 mile west of Philipp, | blasted it with dynamite and tan blew another dyke near Mace, in Tal- | additional acreage would harvest be- | medal in the Fourteenth Biennial Ex- tween 10,000.000 and 30,000.000 | .. bushels more. Spring wheat is nor- | aibition of Contemporary American | mally about one-fourth of the total | Oil Paintings, which opens Sunday at wheat crop. Any surplus of wheat | the Corcoran Gallery of Art, will be which may accumulate will be taken among several thousand invited guests care of by the “ever-normal” granary ' dew plan, or the storing of reserves to l)e‘:,,‘ll::l‘:me ;:;e\uv. ob e axtibtiing " held against lean years, he said. | Saturday night. 1 Spri ith th ress of e e enomens here ™ just | | _Secretary Wallace said that while| Jonas Lie, noted New York artist, about on schedule. ""h“‘ supplies had been reduced 10 |who was chairman of the jury which bringing the so-called “vernal equinox.” That astronomical event marks the beginning of Spring. according to astronomers. The Weather Bureau dates the season more conveniently from March 1. Up to date this has been a nor- | | { about normal, none of the factors! celected four of the 428 pictures in | | had been removed. | He said that, consequently, the ad- ministration was preparing to place in effect the ever-normal granary | awards, also has advised the gallery of his intention to attend the opening ! view. Two other members of the jury | | —Victor Higgins of Taos, N. Mex., and | MELLON ART GIFT AGAIN IN HEARING at Income Tax Case in Gotham. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 21.—The $19.000,000 art collection with which Andrew W. Melion hopes to endow a national gallery in Washington is due to come back into his income tax hearing with the testimony of a titled English art dealer and critic. To get back to the collection—the full extent and purpose of which was first disclosed during progress of the financier's tax case—it may be nec- essary to transfer the hearing to New York, where Lord Duveen will testify concerning the price of four great paintings Mellon bought in 1931 Presiding Member Ernest Van Fos- szn of the Tax Board of Appeals had indicated today that such might be done when the testimony is com- pleted in Pittsburgh. Frank J. Ho- gan, Mellon's counsel, had informally asked that the board go to New York | A furor, reminiscent of past depor- | tation controversies, arose after Stra- chey’s arrest last week following a lecture in suburban Glencoe, recalling the long legal fights Emma Goldman and Countess Cathcart made to avold deportation. | Both were wunsuccessful. Emma | Goldman was sent back to Russia in | 1919 during a drive by Attorney Gen- | eral A. Mitchell Palmer against ad- vocates of subversive doctrines, an | exile from which she shortly fled, de- | claring Soviet Russia robbed its people of freedom. Countess Cathcart, on grounds of moral turpitude, was sent away from American shores, as have been a host of others. Strachey termed himself an “intel- lectual Communist,” denying charges | he advocated overthrow of the Gov- ernment by force, and both American and British Communist party officials were quick to deny he was a party member. B Defense Counsel Supplied. To his defense have come a number | of liberals, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which offered him legal counsel to fight the charges. The union retained Arthur Garfield Hays, noted New York attorney, to represent Strachey. Secretary Perkins, bombarded by petitions concerning Strachey’s arrest, declined to comment on the case and referred all queries to the Immigra- tion Department. Strachey, a former member of Par- liament and nephew of Lytton Stra- chevy. British biographer, called the incident “a joke,” saying he planned to leave the country soon, anyway at the end of his lecture tour. He announced he would give a lec- x\:re tonight entitled “Why Deport HARLEM QUIETER, BUT POLICE BUSY Coloied Bands Attack Whites plan. Loans to Cover Storage. | George Harding of Philadelphia—have | \\"yeey not only to hear Duveen, After Riot—Reply on indicated they will attend. The re-| but also Eugene G. Grace. president In the old days of Republicanism |sncopy Congressmen and others have and old-fashioned Democracy, money | not been able to find very much in | lahatchie Coonty. When officers heard the vandals was acgepted from all sides without asking too many questions. The rub always came when the contributor tried to find out what happened to his investment. Usually the receivers of the contributions were somewhere between the Government and the contributors. and it was difficult to pin the collector down to anything when it came to getting a favor from Government or the party in power. Free With Appointments. This Democratic administration, of course, has not hesitated to give diplomatic appointments—ambassa- | dorships and ministerships—to per- | sons who have contributed liberally to the campaign fund, but it is in- sisted that there is no possible rela- tionship between a campaign con- tribution and an appointment. Also it would, no doubt, be found upon careful scrutiny that some of the | concerns which have Government | contracts and make large sales hap- | pen to have in them rien who have upon occasion contributed to the Democratic party’s campaign funds or | to help retire deficits incurred in the last two campaigns. ! But at the moment, nobody is pro- | posing to look into these things from a national viewpoint, and it is a. matter of considerable puzzlement here as to why Gov. Davey was select- ~ ed for attack on a mere $9,000 which doubtless he knew as little about as | the high officials here do about the | ways and means devised by the solici- tors for the Democratic National Committee. It is rumored, inci-| .. dentally, that national politics may have had more to do with it all than | L appears on the surface. Gov. Davey | has been criticizing the national ld-i *ministration’s handling of relief. Next | vear there's a presidential election and Ohio is always an important | . pivotal State. It might have been deemed wise by the chieftains here | “ to eliminate Mr. Davey from the | picture so that he would not have much to say about the conduct of # the Democratic campaign in the * Buckeye State. Inquiry Suggested. ° Anyway, the Hopkins-Davey episode will not have been futile if it leads to ¢ a thorough inquiry as to how the provable form, else there would have been & congressional investigation long before this. Another reason there has mot been an investigation is that Congressmen generally Dbelieve Hopkins (whom they do not like) has tried hard to be fair-minded. He has not been entirely free from political influence, but neither has he been noticeably amenable to it. For instance, Hopkins has not played | ball directly with Postmaster General Farley at any time, although occa- | were planning a wholesale dynamiting | of levees, private guards were given machine and riot guns and told to “shoot to kill” in the event of an at- tack. Appeal to Governor. Authorities hurriedly appealed to | Gov. Sennett Conner for State troops. | | He immediately ordered out se\‘erll‘ | detachments. The soldiers were pa- trolling a wide area today. Four hundred men descended | quickly on the Philipp Levee, over- powered the guards and blasted a 40- | | | which contributed to the 1933 surplus | the show for the W. A. Clark cash | such as the loss of foreign markets, | prizes- and the special Corcoran | Case of John F. Sleight First of Kind on Record in Capital. | Any surplus would be stored on the | farm under Government loans until | the following crop year when a fur- | ther reduction in acreage would be { made to bring the total supply to normal. ‘The Crop Reporting Board esti- | mated national plantings of 18 crops, | not_including cotton. at 285.775,000 acres, compared with the extremely | bt e i | short harvested acreage of 244,486,000 A partner in what the Government | acres in 1934 which resulted from termed “automobile snatching | heavy abandonment during the grow- | maining members, Henry Lee McFee | | of Woodstock, N. Y.. and Richard E. | Miller of Provincetown, Mass., will be | | unable to be present. | | Second Prize Winner Abroad. | i | Frederick Carl Frieseke, whose work, | “Girl at Piano,” won the second Clark | | prize of $1,500 and the Corcoran silver medsl, is abroad. The gallery has | |not been notified whether the other prize winners, Henry E. Mattson of Woodstock, N. Y. and Kenneth M. Adams of Taos, N. Mex, will come | here for the show. Mattson's “The Lo ‘mu season because of drought. company” was convicted by & & JUry | Tne Secretary denied that the de- Beacon” was awarded third Clark sionally he has felt what might be | called the Farley influence, as relayed | {00t hole in the embankment late yes- terday. | today of taking property without right cision to increase wheat acreege re- to him by the highest third parties. Farley does not know it and Hop- kins hopes the Postmaster General never will find out, but one influential F. E. R. A. official (an engineer) is not only a Republican, but once or- ganized a Hoover Club. Hopkins’ Tactics. Hopkins' tactics are designed to keep his own feet dry. He has stopped every previous publicity surge about |P. E. R. A. graft by announcing suspicious circumstances himself, fore any one else could. He has set up a thin skeleton organization here, employing 600 persons. He has asked the responsibility for the final han- dling of the money over to the States. This decentralizes his responsibility for graft. Under such a system there minimum of notice; this is admitted privately by the F. E. R. A. officials, but they insist it is the only way to get quick action and preserve State rights. Contrast this with the P. W. A. sys- tem. Secretary Ickes attempts to avoid graft through a highly centralized Washington set-up, thus increasing An onlooker, Bedford Jacks. 23, | suffered a broken leg when a flying | | fragment struck him below the knee. | " The water cascaded through the | | crevasse, overflowing several thousand | acres of fertile land in Tallahatchie and Leflore Counties, inundating Philipp, a towh of 200 population, and blocking highways. Reports circulated during the last | ! few days that farmess, feeling the levee system was protecting certain | areas from floods at the expense of others, planned a general dynamiting. | Prevents Overflow. 1 Opening of gn artificial crevasse | lessens the water pressure and pro- | | tects river and cross-river lands from | | overflow. | A dynamite blast a week ago tore can be a maximum of graft with & a hole in the highway crossing the | | levee at Dry Bayou, but did not dam- | age the dyke. It was reported the | vandals were on the way there last | night when guardsmen were ordered { out. | Although the major flood threat | was believed passed in this section, | dynamiting would still release above- | flood-stage waters on farm lands. because the automobile seized con- |sulted from an expectation of in- red tape to the point where the efi- | Militiamen from Grenada, Cleve- ciency of his organization is curtailed | land, Jackson, Canton and Vicksburg if not destroyed. | were concentrated in the area. 175 THE BEST 1C0ULD 0O The high water, coursing downward * national Democratic deficit is met and < 1f it arouses a continuing curiosity as # to the identity of the past and future | « contributors and their business con- | 7 nections and what their relations to| .« governmental action ot legislation | * happen to be. | - All this is discouraging to the col- " lectors. For, if the truth be known, « national policies of the kind the New “ Deal professes are incompatible with « the outpouring of funds from the ! over-privileged people in business and » finance who always have furnished < and probably always will furnish the 2 main ingredients of every campaign « chest. ? So it does look as if the collection | : of the Democratic national deficit has | . not been made any easier by Mr. 7 Hopkins' expose. But then, with the : national administration going in the| . red between $2,000,000,000 and $3.- ! 000,000,000 & year, it is & bit difficult « to understand why a little matter of ! $511,000 of party deficit should worry + anybody in Washington. (Copyright. 1935.) —_— LUNCHEON SLATED Bandy Spring Fire Auxiliary to Give Spelling Bee. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SANDY SPRING, Md., March 21.— March 29 is the date announced for the monthly luncheon sponsored by the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire nt. A reserve fund of $50 was voted for the next year’s premium on the fire- men’s accident policy. A committee of Mrs. A. Douglas, Mrs. Thomas Hyde 4th and Miss Beatricé Moore was named to make arrangements for a spelling bee for Much of the opposition to the pend- ing bank bill has come imperceptibly from banking sources. A committee representing the powerful American Bankers’ Asso- ciation has been holding a series of quiet conferences with Gov. Eccles of Federal Reserve. The bankers wanted certain changes and succeeded in gaining some, but the biggest: change they got was one excessively distasteful to them. This relates to open market opera- tions. The bankers contended that bank governors should have power to direct any Government bond-buying programs. They thought the bill should be liberalized in that respect. Instead, the House Banking and Currency Committee eliminated en- tirely the authority of governors in that respect. As it stands now, the bill gives the Federal Reserve Board full authority over open market oper- ations, providing that it consults a committee of five bank governors. There was a time when bankers had some influence in Washington. Shame on Gold Default. ‘Treasury officials finally are becom- ing shamefaced about their default of gold payments to Paname. A change of policy may be announced shortly. In view of everything the United States has said to the world about the sanctity of treaties and international debts, the Treasury refusal to pay Panama her canal rent in gold makes the State Department feel foolish. The has been about the effect & Panama payment would have on the T question of foreign holders of Ui bonds, but the Treasury lawyers will get around residents of the Sandy Spring com- School. munlt!on”rflblt‘h!flm W comrsghiass) from the myriad tributary streams of Upper Mississippl, today threatened | | the Yazop River Valley in the victnity | of the Honey Island section, a mile | east of Belzoni. Eighty convicts worked at Swifton, where officials said there would be a | “tough battle on hand until Satur- | day.” Falling Rapidly. The Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers along the watershed of North Mississippi were falling rapidly, but conditions were unimproved in Talla- | hatchie County south of Glendora, where 40,000 to 50,000 acres of farm land are covered. A threat of flood stages on the Mississippi River less- ened. Nearly 20,000 persons were still homeless in Missouri and Arkansas, but the danger in that area was less- ening as the crest of the St. Francis River moved southward. | VAN ZEELAND MAY HEAD NEW BELGIAN REGIME | Catholic Party Member Widely Known in U. 8. Discussed for Duty of Forming Cabinet. By the Assoclated Press. BRUSSELS, March 21.—Political circles forecast today Paul Van Zee- land, member of the Catholic party and personal friend and technical counselor to King Leopold, would be entrusted with forming a new national cabinet to succeed that formerly headed by Georges Theus, Van Zeeland is vice governor of the National Bank and widely known in the United States, where he has fre- quently lectured. He is known to be persona-grata to the Laborites. i Observers, who expect the veteran Paul Hymans to be dropped from his post as foreign minister, say the new government probably will includ mostly young element Albert de Veze, to remain as of he is the inspirer of the frontier forti- fluuonplnwiummm tained property mot in any way con- nected with the car. It was the first conviction of its kind ever secured here. As a result of the verdict Assist- ant District Attorney David A. Hart served notice on all concerns en- gaged in the repossession of suto- | mobiles that they will be subject to prosecution if they fail immediately to notify the purchaser of the car when personal property is found in it. The man convicted today was John F. Sleight, a partner in the Wash- ington Automobile Reference Co., 300 block of Pennsylvania avenue south- east. The testimony was to the effect that an automobile belonging to Ed- ward Robey, an engineer employed by the Treasury Department, was taken i from a Government parking lot at 119 D street northeast on a conditional bill of sale when Robey is claimed to | have failed to have promptly made payments on a set of tires purchased | from a concern other than the one llrom which the automobile was bought. Micrometers in Car. | In the car at the time it was taken, | g0 bS 0 DO bl | according to Robey and other wit- | nesses, were six micrometers belong- | ing to the Robey Deisel Engineering Co. These were valued at $65. Although Sleight denied having himself taken the car, his partner, John J. Hunter, testified that he and another man seized the car, the for- mer admitted that he was at the garage when the car was brought in and Robey testified that when he talked with Sleight on the telephone next morning, Sleight told Robey “I took your car.” | The micrometers, it was declared, | have never been recovered and Sleight | claims that he never saw them. INDIA FEELS QUAKE CALCUTTA, India, March 21 (#)— A severe earth shock was feit here to- day occasioning anxiety lest there be a Tepetition of the disaster in Bihar Province in January, 1934, in which 8,000 lives were lost. No damage was caused in Cal- | creased foreign sales because of the | European situation. It was aimed solely at protecting domestic con- sumers, he said. COL. HOWE SINKING, ROOSEVELT IS TOLD | Physician. Reports Secretary Is Weaker Today Than Yesterday. President’s prize of $1,000 and the Corcoran bronze metal, and Adams’ “New Mex- | ico Landscape” was given the Clark | | fourth prize of $500 and the Corcoran | honorable mention certificate. | A number of the 353 artists whose | paintings were accepted by the jury | for inclusion in the exclusive exhibi- | tion probably will mingle with the | | representatives of Washington official world and other guests of the gallery | | at the preliminary view. This occa- | | sion invariably is an outstanding so- | cial as well as art event in the Cap- | ! ital. Gallery to Be Decorated. | Entrance will be by way of the New | York avenue doorw i The visitors will be directed by of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. Earlier in the hearing. in which the Government is seeking to support an added assessment of $£3,089.000 on Mellon’s 1631 income, it was brouzht out that four valuable masterpieces were bought in that vear. Much of the $139.000 refund which Mellon claims is actually due him is based on the value of these paint- | | ings. He held there should have been no tax because he disposed of the old masters to the Mellon educational jand charitable trust, through which he expects to create a Washington | art gallery which will rival those of | Europe. The paintings purchased in 1931 were from the Hermitage collection in Petrograd and included Raphael’s “Madonna Alba” and others, with the total price announced as $3.241,250. Grace is expected to testify con- cerning the value in 1913 of the stock | of the McClintic-Marshall steel-fab- concerned attorneys throughout this, the fifth weck of the hearing. Asks for Bonus PATMAN EXPLAINS BILL FOR VETERANS. | Little hope was held out todav for | 8igns’ to the starting point of the in- | | the recovery of Col. Louis McHenry A Spection tour: Gallery “A" to the Howe, President Roosevelt's secretary, | West of the Clark wing. on the second | B who is growing gradually weaker at floor. Galleries “A,” “B.* “C" and | | the White House. | “D” have been reserved in this wing | A report made this morning to ' to provide additional space for the | President Roosevelt by Dr. Ross E. current show—which is the largest MelIntyre stated Col. Howe was sink- | ever held. From these galleries the | | ing. The physiclan sald that while \ guests will proceed through the Clark | Howe was weaker today than yester- | galleries to the second-floor exhibition | day, he had a restful night and seem- | rooms of the main building, where the | | Both the President and Mrs. Roose- velt have spent much time during the past few days at the bedside of Sec- Tetary Howe. The President is mak- | ing few engagements because of the | grave condition of his friend and as- | soctate. Mrs. Howe has been in almost con- stant attendance upon her husband for several days and his son Hartley, & newspaper man in Boston, and Mrs. Charles Baker of Champaign, Ill, a daughter, arrived at the White House yesterday. President Roosevelt has planned to leave Washington Saturday night for a brief vacation cruising about the Florida Coast. While not yet can- celed. definite arrangements for the trip are being held in abeyance. Theater Host to Boys. Members of the Capital City Boys' Club, Inc., will attend a local theater tomorrow night in a body as guests of the theater management. The group is to meet at the McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church, 900 block of Massa- cutta, nor had any reports been re- celved from the interior. : chusetts avenue, at 7 p.m., an there to the theater. P fntw e Wil ¢ Evening Star Offers Its' Readers This Worth-While It BOOK explains the permanent ‘ departments of the Federa! Frederic J. Haskin || Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read Price $1 at The Evening Star Business Office, ot by mail, postpaid it. Order today. | remainder of the exhibition has been | i hung. | The gallery will be especially deco- | | rated “for the event. Laurel roping | will be twined around the tall columns | | in the atrium and will be draped about | | the walls. Palms and ferns will deck | the grand staircase. A string orches- | tra will play throughout the evening. | It was announced today that Mrs. | Carl Mose, wife of the sculptor who formerly was an instructor in the Corcoran Art School, will serve as| | hostess to groups desiring a special | escort during the exhibition, which will be open to the public, beginning next Sunday at 2 p.m., until Sunday, May 5. This free service may be ar- ranged for by communicating with the gallery. DAIRYMEN ORGANIZE NEW GROUP IN COUNTY Montgomery Producer - Distribu- tors Enlist 27 in Protec- tive Body. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 21— Twenty-seven milk producers of this county have organized as the Milk Producer-Distributor’s Association of ‘Montgomery County, it was announced toda Ayvmhnee Committee “to develop policies and protect interests of pro- ducer-distributors of milk,” chosen at a recent meeting, include Thomas Kelly.of Darnestown, ; John Hargett of Germantown and Mrs. Charles Offutt of Poolesville. Temporary officers of the assocla- tion are Alden A. Potter of Cabin John, charman, and Mrs. Rathael Offutt of Potomac secretary. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Ochestra this evening in Stan- ley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. bandmaster; Anton Zimmermann, Pointner, assistant leadc:: By the United States Marine Band tomorrow at 3 pm. in the band audi- torfum, Marine Barracks, Capt. Tay- lor Branson, leader; Arthur 8. Wit- eenh.!emdm«. (] REPRESENTATIVE WRIGHT PATMAN Of Texas as he points out the chiet features of his bonus bill, now be- fore the House. The bill would pay ex-soldlers a $2,000,000,000 bonus immediately through the is- suance of new currency. —A. P. Photos. Troops Awaited. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 21.—Harlem breatted more easily today after a night of comparative quiet while its Merchants' Association awaited Gov. Herbert H. Lehman's reply to an ap- peal for troops to prevent further dis- orders Roaming bands of colored persons assgulted white persons. smashed win- dows and hurled rocks at automobiles in New York's great Negro center last night, but 500 police kept them on the run. The Harlem Merchants’ Associatior. i many of whose members suffered in | the rioting and looting of stores Tues- | day night, told the governor the out- break had been “long fomenting.” but |that local authorities had “done | nothing.” | Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia named a committee of 11, six of them colored, | and private life, dignitaries of the art , ricating firm, the point which has|to determine the causes of the dis- order and the preventives for fur- ther trouble. The district attorney's officc. meanwhile pushed its own in- quiry. | With one person dead. three re- | mained in a sericus condition at the Harlem Hospital, where 34 were on | the injured list. Other scores had ! been hit by stones and clubs. Ten | were shot. Officials agreed a radical organiza- tion had started the trouble by spread- ing false reports that a colored man had been beaten to death. MOUNT RAINIER SEEKS ANNIVERSARY CONTEST Competition Will Be Held Among i Pupils Pending Cele- j bration. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., March 21 —A slogan contest among the school children of this town will be staged as a preliminary to the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration on April 15, it was decided last night. Although details of the contests have not yet been completed, decision | to hold the competition was reached at a meeting of the Celebration Com- mittee last night. | Prizes will be given the winners | and the best slogan used on buttons and banners. The contest will close | about 10 days before the celebration. Harry J. Miller, head of the Cele- bration Committee, said it has been detided to make the affair strictly local. Prominent town residents who have places on the program include Leo E. George, Arthur C. Keefer, J. C. Rogers and Karl Bock. Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Resumes consideration of 000,000 work-relief bill. House. Listens to more bonus debate, Banking Committee continues hear- ing on omnibus bank bill. Interstate Commerce Committee hears opponents of holding company control. YESTERDAY. Senate. Debated work-relief bill, passing two amendments somewhat restricting presidential power. PFinance Committee heard Clarence Darrow attack N. R. A, House. Debated bonus. Interstate Commerce Committee heard more attacks on proposed hold- ing company regulation, Willlam Green urged passage of Wagner-Connery labor disputes bill before Labor Committee,