Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast) Showers this afternoon and tonight, lowest temperature tonight about 50 de- grees; tomorrow fair and colder. Tem- peratures—Highest, 66, at 3 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 50, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page A-16. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 tered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 33,198. @b WASHINGTON, D. C, FRENCH DELAY REPRISAL AT ENGLAND’S REQUEST; IL DUCE ARMING 220,000 Staffing Rhine Million P:epared to March Frontier Is Pushed. FRANCE SEEK PENALTY TALK A“'l‘(‘(‘S to l)ol)al(" (Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press.) | = ROME, March 23.—Premier Musso- Economic Stel)s | lini as minister of war today ordered | Z the recall of the entire military class | Privately. o men. This brings Italy’s armed | strength to about 675,000 which. to- | | gether with more than 400,000 Fascist | militia, Italians ready to mcve under arms. An official communique announcing the recall followed a sweeping sieec | by Il Duce to the nation on the 16th | anniversary of the founding of the BULLETIN. PARIS, March 23 (#).—The three-power conference here be- | tween France, England and Italy, announced this afternoon that “complete unity of purpose” among As 1911 Class Is Summoned Mussolini Fires Nation With Announce- ment Italy Is Ready for Any Threat of War. collaboration is based upon some mil- lions of bayonets.” The communique also followed a statement of the undersecretary of war on Thursday that the class of of 1911, estimated at about 220.000 | 1913, which would have been dismissed | in the next few days, will be kept under arms. Since each class comprises more ‘otals more than 1,000,000 than 200,000 men, and there will be| three classes under arms at one time, Italy will have in uniform around 0,000 men ready to move on instant notice. Today's communique stated that the their governments was apparent from the day-long conversations on German rearmament. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 23.—With her mili- tary staffing of the Rhine frontier offi- cially confirmed, France proposed to- day at the three-power conference here a public discussion of penalties for Germany before a meeting of the League of Nations. It was understood, however. that Capt. Anthony Eden of Great Britain had induced Pierre Laval, the French foreign minister, to delay any action against Germany and to go more cau- | tiously than the French had planned. The penalties proposed by France were understood to be economic in the main (possibly economic blockades). It was reported Eden succeeded in establishing an agreement that such drastic measures should be debated privately during the meeting of the powers at Como, Italy, in order to lessen European friction. Meeting Is Postponed. ‘The three-power conference in Italy consequently was postponed until the first week in April to await Eden’s return from Moscow and the League Council session to be held afterward. The strengthening of the eastern frontier garrisons was described as a “purely technical rearrangement of defense forces,” came during a meeting of the superior council of national defense presided over by President Albert Lebrun and attended by the premier and minister of war Meanwhile, the foreign minister sought to pull together the three- power front of which England ap- peared to be shying by sounding the warning of new German demands to Capt. Eden and Fulvio Suvich, Italy's undersecretary for foreign affairs. Their much-heralded meeting, con- stituting three-power conversations in advance of Sir John Simon’s visit to - Berlin, opened at the foreign office this afternoon. The three power representatives discussed the groundwork of policies that may divide Europe into the old system of two armed camps, or gather all nations into mutual defense against an aggressor, as the result of the Reich’s decision to rearm. Differ on Ta France and Britain admittedly dif- fer on tactics, but Laval, in private | talks with Eden and Suvich tried to smooth out the difficulties prior to the formal opening of the talks at 11:15 am. The diplomats, assembled to discuss | policies prior to the visit of British | Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon to Hitler in Berlin, talked over the| problems even during lunch in an ad- | Joining room at the foreign office. Laval was eager through Eden to| &tiffen the attitude of Sir John toward Hitler. Laval is understood to have told Eden that France is unalterably op- posed to any discussion on the return of Memel or any other territory to the Reich, a question the French expected Hitler to raise in Berlin with the British foreign secretary. France Moves Troops. As the conversations proceeded | France moved to transfer to the Rhine | area half of the garrisons now sta- | tioned on the Italian frontier. A common front was sought by all of the diplomats, but France already | is committed on the negotiation of a | pact with Russia, for which Laval will | g0 to Moscow. England is understood to prefer the | postponement of any Russian pac ne- | gotiations until the question is scttied whether Simon can induce Hitler to return to the League of Nations and reduce Reich armaments to a figure that might be approved in later arms limitations conventions. Additional French diplomatic plans in the line of Russian support are well advanced, it was said in informed quarters. The Franco-Russian accords already are prepared for the visit to Moscow of Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and it was believed Pranco- Russian mutual aid may be an ac- plished fact before the end of April. GERMANY IS HOPEFUL. Expects Favorable Results in Simon Parley. BERLIN, March 23 (#)—From a frank discussion of the pending im- portant European questions the Ger- man government expects favorable results, high political quarters inti- mated today, and with that end in view Sir John Simon, British for- eign secretary, will be given a cordial | welcome. Sir John, Capt. Anthony Eden and British experts will come to Berlin tomorrow preparatory to talks with Adolf Hitler on questions covered in the Anglo-French conversations in London last month. These high quarters in the capital were eager to impress upon the watchful European scene that “no sensational developments are expected from the Simon visit, the purpose of which is primarily to clear the air and remove stubborn prejudices.” The thorny Memel and other ter- ritorial questions, for instance, are not to be touched upon in the Simon- Hitler talks, according to one in- formant. % | Fascist party in which he said Ttaly | recall of the 1911 class was a “meas- was ready “for any threat of war” ure of precautionary nature.” | and punctuated it with the remark | _Since the Ethiopian situation does “Our desire for peace and European; (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SENATE EXPECTED MARYLAND'S LAW 10 AMB(]NUS{ MAKERS WRANGLE Hearings and Discussion of House and Senate Unable | but the confirmation | | Tax, However, Would 1 Require Time. By the Associated Press. Jubilant supporters of the bopus, | | flushed with a sweeping House vic- tory, made their plans today to move on the Senate. Despite the Roose- velt administration’s opposition, they expressed every confidence they would win agamn, and place upon an un- willing President’s desk a bill calling for immediate payment of $2,000,000,- 000 to World War veterans. | Private polls indicated they would succeed and that the Senate, by a | narrow margin. also would vote the bonus. Whether it would choose the | Patman new currency bill remained ' | to be determined. What would hap- | | pen after a presidential veto also was | for the future to decide. Administra- {tion men have been predicting the ‘Sennte would uphold a veto. ’ New Taxation Prospect. \ President Roosevelt made no com- ment on the bonus, though his re- marks vesterday on taxation recalled his warning that for every collar above budget estimates Congress spends it should provide a dollar of revenue through taxation. He said| to Agree on Tax Program. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, March 23.—A weary Maryland Legislature today set about untangling the worst legislative snarl of years. Yesterday's whirl-wind develop- ments found the Legislature agreed on only one thing—that funds must be provided for relief and provided at once. But, all yesterday the House and Senate fired broadsides across the State House corridors at each other. The Senate passed on third reading and sent to the House the bill pro- posing a tax on gross sales of utility companies. That tax formed one of the components of the Senate plan to raise relief revenue. The House wasted no time in killing the bill. And the Senate, knowing the House already had turned thumbs down on its measure—which went through the | Upper House by a 22-t0-6 vote—went calmly ahead with the other parts of its program. Situation at Standstill. So, when the Senate adjourned early this morning, its Finance Com- yesterday that ‘he question of levying | mittee still had the 2 per cent sales new taxes depends on how much | tax bill which the House has passed money Congress appropriates. He | as its way of solving the problem of added, smiling, that this was not a raising relief revenue. Leaders of ! threat. | that committee indicated that the bill w;m a whoop, Democrats and Re- | would remain just there until the publicans joined yesterday to deal | Senate was convinced that the sales two blows at President Roosevelt, first | tax was indeed a “last resort.” in approving the bonus, and, second, | | in voting 0 pay with newly-vrinted money. The final vote for the Pat- man bill conta‘ning these provisions | was 318 to 90. | Roosevelt leaders in the Senate do not look for a direct and conclusive | test on the issue for at least six weeks. Chairman Harrison ot the Finance Committes said “reasonable” | hearings would be held. At nresent his committee is tied up with N. R. A. | hearings. Talk of Compromise. After the Hcuse action, new talk of an administration compromise | cropped up, but there was nothing official to show it was anything but speculation. Veterans' organizations | have said bluntly they would accept nothing but immediate cash payment. | | Indications were that if a com- | promise is to be proposed, based on paying off veterans in actual need, it would not be made at least until after the Senate Finance Committee has concluded hearings. At that time, Harrison may seek its adoption, some observers think. Even so, a test on the Patman bill still would have to be met. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, has indicated an intention to propose the Patman measure. He could offer it as a substitute for any administration ‘compromise. The Senate situation was further confused by the currency expansion | provisions of the Patman bill. Some | | believed this feature would make | | enemies, while others, including offi- | cials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said it was attracting unexpected support. By the slim margin of three votes, " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) TORSO MURDERS LINKED BY SCOTLAND YARD | Believe Canal Victim Was an Ac- complice of Perpetrators of “Trunk Crime No. 1.” | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, March 23.—A theory that the Brentford Canal “torso victim” was an accomplice of the slayers in Brighton’s “trunk crime | No. 1” was considered today after the long questioning of a convict in | Wandsworth prison. Scotland Yard saw links connecting three gruesome finds in Britain—the woman's torso in a trunk at Brighton last Summer, a man’'s severed legs under a railway coach seat in Water- loo station, February 26, and a man’'s torso in a gunny sack in the Grand Union Canal at Brentford Tuesday. The theory has arisen that the canal victim was an accomplice: in the Brighton crime and was slain in strikingly similar fashion because he had threatened his associates. The Brighton crime was referred to as the “trunk crime No. 1,” because two trunks with women's torsos were found. { < As the Senate adjourned at 12:15 am. today, an informal conference committee went into session, faced with the task of prying loose the legislative knot. Two hours later that committee reported that it had an " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) HOPE IS ABANDONED FOR HOWE’S RECOVERY | Pleurisy Adds Complication to Grave Condition—President’s Trip Uncertain. By the Associated Press. All hope for the recovery of Louis McHenry Howe, first secretary to President Roosevelt, has been aban- | doned by attending physicians. Howe's condition became more grave late yesterday when complications set in. in addition to the bronchial and car- diac attacks which sent him to his bed more than a week ago. Members of his family are with him. President and Mrs. Roosevelt maintain a close watch on the sick room on the second floor of the White House. Because of Howe's condition, the President held in check all plans for a fishing trip off Florida which he had intended to begin this week end. MacDonald’s Daughter in Port. VICTORIA. British Columbia, March 23 (#).—Miss Sheila MacDonald, younger daughter of Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain, arrived here yesterday from the Antipodes on the motor ship Niagara, en route to Hollywood. She will visit friends in the United States for a month. He suffered an attack of pleurisy ¢ Foening Star ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SATURDAY, MARCH HOOVER'S LETTER CHARGESNEW DEAL - CHOKES RECOVERY Business Ready to Advance, but Is Held Back by Pol- icies, He Writes. CALLS FOR REBIRTH OF REPUBLICAN PARTY Views Expressed to California Chairman Say Liberty of Thought and Action Must Be Preserved. | By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 23.— Former President Herbert Hoover told California Republicans today the recovery “theories of this administra- tion do not work” and the country must decide between a government based on American principles of lib- erty and one “of regimentation and bureaucratic domination.” “We stand on the threshold of a great forward, economic movement,” the former President said in one of his rare statements since leaving of- fice, “if only the paralyzing effects of mistaken governmental policies and activities may be removed.” Hoover's statements were made in a letter to Sherrill Halbert, president of the Califronia Republican Assembly meeting here. Halbert had requested Hoover, titular head of the party to prepare a message for the meeting. Theodore Roosevelt, jr, mentioned in some quarters as a contender for the Republican presidential nomina- | tion in 1936, will address the gather- | ing tonight. Raps Scarcity Theory. Hoover was unable to attend per- sorally because of earlier arrange- ments calling for his attendance at the Charter day exercises of the Uni- versity of Califronia at Berkeley. The administration’s theories “are no longer a propagandized millenium; they are self-exposed,” the former President said “The present conception of a na- tional economy based upon scarcity must in all common sense be reversed to an economy based upon production, or workman, farmer and business man alike are defeated.” He called for an energetic rebirth of the Republican party, adding it Fas the greatest responsibility since the days of Abraham Lincoln “to raise the standard in defense of fun- damental American principles.” Text of Letter. The text of Hoover's letter to Hal- bert follows: I am glad to comply with your re- | quest for a message to your forth- | coming meeting. The Republican party today has the greatest responsibility that has come to it since the days of Abraham Lincoln. That responsibility is to raise the standard in defense of fun- damental American principles. It must furnish the rallying point for all those who believe in these prin- ciples and are determined to defeat those who are responsible for their daily jeopardy. Two Issues. 1. The American people have di- rectly before them the issue of main- taining and perfecting our system of orderly individual liberty under con- stitutionally conducted government, |or of rejecting it in favor of the newly created system of regimenta- tion and bureaucratic domination in which men and women are not mas- ters of government, but are the pawns or dependents of a centralized and potentially self-perpetuating govern- ment. That is, shall we as a Nation stand on the foundations of Ameri- canism, gaining the great powers of progress inherent in it, correcting abuses which arise within it, widen- ing the security and opportunities that can alone be builded upon it? Before us is the sink into which first one great nation after another abroad is falling. America must look today, as in the past. to the creative im- pulses of free men and women, born of the most enterprising and self-reli- ant stock in the world, for productive genius, for expansion of enterprise, for economic recovery, for restoration of normal jobs, for increased standards of living, for reform of abuse of gov- ernmental or economic powers, and for advance from outworn modes of thought. The freedom of men to think, to act, to achieve, is now being ham- pered. 2. The American people have a right to determine for themselves this fun- damental issue, and it is solely through the Republican party that it can be presented for determination at the ballot box. To accomplish this the country is in need of a rejuvenation and vigorous Republican organization. | That transcends any perso; interest "(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) Washington Girl in Group To Be Presented to King By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 23.—Eighteen American matrons and debutantes will be presented by Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife of the United States Ambassador, at royal courts March 28 and 29, it was announced today. The names of those to be presented to their majesties, King George and Queen Mary, at the first court follow: Mrs. Jesse Isador Straus, wife of the Ambassador to France; Mrs. Gas- par Bacon of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Miss Mary Pye Hutcheson of Houston, Tex. Miss Jeanne Millet, New York City; Miss Carolyn Nash, Cartersville, Va.; Miss Anne Richardson of Mississippi, Miss Stellita Stapleton, Washington, D. C. Miss Jean Watts, Lynchburg, Va.; | Mrs. Medley G. B. Whelpley of Con- necticut. L At the second court the following will be presented: Miss Virginia Bell of New York, Mrs. Maturin Livingston Delafield of Hewlett, Long Island; Mrs. Dudley Dwyre, Denver, Colo., wife of the American consul at London. Miss Mildred Booth McKinney. Richmond, Va.; Miss Allison Osborne of Illinois, Miss Joyce De Levis Priz- er, New York; Mrs. Harry G. Sledel, Providence, R. 1. Mrs. T. Walter Seligman, New York City; Miss Elizabeth Tweedy of New Jersey. Ambassador Bingham will present Ambassador Straus at the first court. This presentation will not be with the debutantes and matrons, but will be a more formal introduction as Straus is attending the first British court without having attended any King's levee, which is the formal way men are “presented” to the King. * 23, 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. You BoYs Run ALONG AND PLAY AND DoNT KEEP BOTHERING ME! W\ “ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. oty Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,442 Some Returns Not Ye: Received TWO CENTS. SILVERINFLATION TABLED IN SENATE FIGHT OVER RELIEF Thomas Threatens New De- lays, However, to Works Bill. s Associated Press. NEW MOVES PLANNED TO SPEED MEASURE Norris and La Follette Join 38 Democrats in Blocking Okla- homan's Rider. By the Associated Press. ‘The Senate today voted to lay aside the Thomas silver inflation amend- ment to the $4,880,000,000 relief bill. ‘The ballot was 40 to 33 on a motion by Democratic Leader Robinson to table the amendment. This parlia- mentary step of “tabling” was equiva- lent to eliminating the silver proposal from consideration ‘ . . i = = . \Epidemic of “Dust Pneumonia” ‘The move was the first drastic step taken by Democratic leaders to speed passage of the long pending relief measure by preventing undue debate ROOSEVELT SIGNS | on amendments considered by them Brings Colorado Red Cross Call Six Dead in Two Towns and 100 Re- ported Il in Farming District Half Buried Under Silt of Freak Storms. not germane. New Delays Loom. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Ok- lahoma, author of the amendment providing mandatory purchases of sil- ver as a basis for currency, threatened new delays, however. with other amendments and parliamentary ob- jections. He spoke six hours for his amendment yesterday. The tabling vote came after Thomas had objected to an agreement to vote SLANDS CHARTER |Hull and Filipino Leaders See Last U. S. Action By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo, March 23— Alarmed at the growing list of “dust pneumonia” victims after this week's “black blizzard” officials of Baca County, in the southeast corner of the State, waited today for help from the Red Cross and the Colorado Board of Health. Six were dead at Springfield and Lamar, Colo.; 100 were reported seri- ously ill and the once-thriving farm- ing district was desolate today, half- buried under the silt heaped up by the freak storms. An appeal for Red Cross workers to be sent at once to the afflicted area was dispatched to the Red Cross headquarters at St. Louis by E. S Transue, a disaster-reliet agent of i the organization. To determine whether the dust was the actual cause of the six deaths or only a contributory factor. the State Board of Health was makihg an in- vestigation today. As reported here, the list of dead includes Mar; Sloan, 19, and Charles W. Winters. 38, both of Springfield; Mrs. E. F. Duvall, 31, and Ora Man- ley, 17, both of Lamar; James M. Martin, 75, of Utleyville, and Dale Waterman, infant, of Elder. Baca County health authorities re- ported more than 100 persons seri- ously ill from lung infection, assert- | edly brought on by the dust storms. In some sections, the dust was 6 feet deep and live stock on many ranches has perished Gov E. C. Johnson telephoned Springfield physicians last night, after learning the seriousness of the situa- tion, to offer equipment and nurses to help care for the sick. Previously, Kenneth Welch, P. E R. A. administrator in Baca County, obtained permission from State head- quarters here to move stricken chil- dren from dust-torn prairie ranches to private homes at Springfield. so they could be given better medical attention Some remote highways in the county, Welch said are impassable and doctors cannot get their patients to the county’s only hospital at Lamar. Harve Adamson, county supervisor for the Rural hehabilitation Depart- ment of the F. E. R. A, reported last night that .nany residents of the county are ‘“bewildered.” He said he made a hurried trip over Baca County and found farms and ranches deserted and, in some places, deep drifts of sand and dirt virtually covering buildings and farm equipment. The storms in the last four days have been so severe that street lights have been in use throughout the day to safeguard motorists and pedes- trians. on Independence. BY J. RU Surrounded by a group of Govern- ment officials and high officers of the Philippine government President Roosevelt today signed the certifica- tion of the recently drafted Philippine constitution, thus bringing independ- ence for the islands another step nearer realization. This was the last action necessary by the United States for establish- ment of home rule government in Manila November 15. In signing the certification, the President made a brief talk to those about him in which he said feelings of cordiality, sympathy and loyalty enimated the people of the United States as well as those of the Philip- pines in working out together what he termed a great experiment which will continue until the ultimate with- drawal of the United States sover- eignty and the complete independence of the islands. Must Be Ratified. Mr. Roosevelt's part in this formal- ity was his signing of the certifica- tion taht the constitution as pre- sented by the Philippine Constitu- tional Convention conforms with the | provisions of the Tydings-McDuffie independence act. This constitution | must now be ratified by the Philip- | not later than 1 o'clock on his and all other pending amendments to the bill. Thomas then offered the silver rider in modified form, eliminating two of the six provisions in his former amendment The Robinson motion to table Thomas’ first silver amendment was carried with the votes of 38 Demo- crats, Senator Norris. Republican, of Nebraska, and Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin Nineteen Republicans and fourteen Democrats opposed the motion. Long Is Another Threat. There was no apparent hope among the Roosevelt forces that the relief measure could be passed before Mon- day. when the possibility of further speechmaking by Senator Long will be raised by his return from Louisiana The Thomas amendment would provide for Government purchase of 50,000,000 ounces of silver each month and issuance of silver certificates to | pay the cost of relief. He still had the floor when the Senate adjourned last night and as- serted he would offer the Patman bonus bill as an amendment to the relief measure if his silver rider is turned down. The Patman bill, passed in the House by a huge ma- jority yesterday, provides for pav- ment of the $2,000,000.000 bonus by new currency. LEAPFROM BRIDGE “POWERDIVE" LAST pine electorate and for that purpose Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy, who at- tended today’'s ceremony, will set a date as soon as possible and set the “If this debate is to continue in- machinery in motion. | definitely and amendments not in any The constitution as certified pro- | sense germane are offered, it may be- vides for a commonwealth government | come necessary to test out the will of to govern the Philippines for the 10 | the Senate by motions to lay these Robinson Hints of Test. Robinson declared: KILLS WOMAN, 48 FOR PILOT COLLINS Miss Martha Avord Sher- Noted Military Test Flyer | man Recovered From River Killed in Spectacular Plunge by Policeman. i of “Mystery Plane.” After leaving her pocketbook, coat, B the Associated Press. hat and gloves on Key Bridge, a| FARMINGDALE, N. Y., March 23. woman identified as Miss Martha | —James H. Collins, noted test pilot Avord Sherman, 48, of 302 Clifton | of military airplanes, has made his terrace, leaped to her death off the last “power dive.” bridge this morning. | Screaming earthward at more than A sister, Miss Dorothea Sherman | 400 miles an hour, he straightened out of the same address, confirmed the |5 new Grumman fighting ship with | identification through a description a”snap which he knew from experi- years before complete independence | is established. | dication today the final separation | might be postponed. To the assembled officers, Mr. Roose- velt announced he would name Claro M. Recto, president of the Constitu- tional Convention, to be a justice of the Supreme Court of the Philip- pine Islands to fill a vacancy caused by the recent resignation of Justice Thomas A Street. Mr. one of the leading patriots and states- men of the Philippines and who was | a dominating factor in bringing about the adoption of this constitution by | the convention, was among the Philippine statesmen present at the | signing, and was congratulated by | those present. Congratulates Convention. As the President signed the certi- There was some in- | Recto, who is recognized M‘ | amendments on the table. “I know it isn't customary. but this bill has been before the Senate a { long time and those for it ought to take | concerted action to secure its passage.” He said he would like to vote on amendmen uch as Thom | their merits,” but that it was { to the country, to the President and to the Senate” to offer them as riders | to the relief measure. Glass Speaks for Consumer. Thomas contended the relief bill | propeses to spend more money than there is in circulation in the United States; that the dollar is “getting \drarer instead of cheaper,” and that | “the whole United States policy is a policy of deflation.” Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, | said he could not agree with the theory | that it was the duty of Congress to raise the price level “fictitiously.” He fyrnished by police. The woman's body was recovered by Policeman Carl G. McCormick of No. 7 precinet, who reached the body in a rowboat manned by a boy, Aus- tin Thompson, after it had floated about 100 yards down the river. ;enne would leave him momentarily | up the quiet life of an aviation writer. | But the engine and propeller tore unconseious. He had told friends it | would be his last dive before taking ! Resusitation efforts of No. 1 res- | joose from the plane. The craft spun cue squad proved futile. The woman | n.o.e tha mile and half to the was pronounced dead by Dr. Charles ne " fication, he said: | said there were 130,000.000 Americans “I am happy to state that the con- | Who “want to eat bread and meat: no stitution submitted to me on behalf of | one here ever speaks for the eon- the Filipino constitutional convention ' sumer. | for certification under the Tydings-! “The Senater raises the inference McDuffie independence act, conforms | that he wants the West to raise beef- | steak and sell it to the East at & | with the provisions of the act. h “The members of the convention are Price less than it costs,” Thomas re- | congratulated on the satisfactory com- | plied. Buono of Casualty Hospital. An automobile driver's permit bear- “nx the name of Miss Martha A. | ground, carrying Collins to his death Collins, 33, was an Army-trained |fiyer. He had been a classmate of Sherman was found by police in the | ooy Gharjes A. Lindbergh at Brooks | woman's pocketbook. She was de- scribed as being 5 feet tall, wearing a |and Kelly Fields, Tex. pletion of the task so important and | _Meanwmlv. President Roosevelt at significant in the life of their people. | his press conference re-emphasized “In the event of ratification of this | the Government's intention of putting constitution, the authority granted to 3.500,000 persons to work as soon as the commonwealth government will | the relief bill is passed. permit exercise by the Filipino people green dress, brown shoes and stock- | ings and having dark hair. A note saying “Please take these things to Miss Sherman, 302 Clifton | Terrace,” was found with the woman’s belongings. Police were told that the woman lived with two sisters, Misses Dorothea and Caroline B. Sherman, at the Clifton Terrace address. Her family home is said to be at McLean, Va. Bystanders on the bridge first noticed the body floating face down- ward beneath the structure. ! “Siamese” Twins Boy and Girl. OSTROVA, Czechoslovakia, March 23 (#)—The birth of “Siamese” twins at nearby Peterhofen was disclosed yesterday. The Star Tomorrow will publish the first authorized account and survey of Arulrew W. MC”O’I'S Gift to the Nation's Capital including his Gallery of Old Mast- ers and Endowment for making ‘Washington one of the World's Great Art Centers. The test shortly before dusk yes- |terday was the tenth and last dive Gemanded of the “mystery plane” by Navy inspectors. Lieut. Comdr. Navy spokesman, Andrew Chinkley, wreckage said the fiyer asked them to pull him out and then said: “Never mind wiping my face. done.” Only a few days ago he brought his wife and small son trom Okla- homa City to live in Garden City. How a $50,000 mystery plane went to pieces when sent into & power dive by James Collins here in 1928 was re- called by Naval Air Station pilots to- day on learning of the noted pilot's death. Collins had gone into a side slip at more than 11,000 feet and was hurtling earthward at terrific speed when at about 7,000 feet he cautiously began to ease out of the dive. It was at this point the ship began to break up, everything giving way with a rendering crash, Collins related afterward. He sald he was stunned by a blow on the temple and next recalled blindly struggling to get out of the plane with- out loosening his safety belt. After finally freeing himself, Collins I'm barely clearing the trailing wires and torn wings. Collins fell nearly 2,000 feet before avoid the falling ship. T said Collins was | killed outright, but two civilians who | were among the first to reach the | dove headfirst through the wreckage, | opening his parachute, taking care t.ax | of general control, subject only to a | few important exceptions, of their lo- | cal affairs. | “During the period of the Common- | wealth there will remain with the Gov- | ernment of the United States author- ity commensurate with and necessary for or appropriate to the ultimate re- sponsibility of sovereignty. | | “Animated solely by feelings of cor- | diality, sympathy and loyalty, the peo- ple of the United States and the people | of the Philippine Islands have been conducting together a great experi- ment, and during the period of the | Commonwealth government this ex- periment wili continue until the ulti- mate withdrawal of the United States sovereignty and the establishment of | complete independence.” In the group to witness this historic | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 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