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WEATHER. L4 Fair and slightly warmer, temperature about 45 degrees morrow cloudy and warmer. ‘Temperatures—Highest, yesterday; lowest, 41, at 6:15 Full report on page B-20. Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages 17,18&19 No. 33,204. HARRISON OFFERS BILL T0 EXTEND TENURE OF NRA Senator Says Business and Labor Should Know What Is Planned. OPERATION LIMITED TO INTERSTATE TRADE President Green of A. F. of L.| Backs Measure, but Adds De- mand for 30-Hour Week. The administration bill extending the life of N. R. A. for two years was | introduced in the 3enate today by | Chairman Harrison of the Finance | Committee, who acied almost imme- | diately after Senate investigators had | heard vigorous American Federation of Labor support for President Roose- velt's plea to continue the recovery | law. Senator Harrison. in introducing the bill drafted along lines recommended by Mr. Roosevelt and Donald R. Rich- | berg, N. R. A. chairman, said it was| essential that both business and labor | should know “what is planned regard- | ing extension of the N. R. A" | Labor Behind Plan. | Shortly before. William Green had | put the federation he heads squarely behind the extension plan, but manded simultaneously a 30- work week law | “The bill limits the operation of the N. R. A. to interstate commerce,” | Senator Harrison said. He added | that in his opinion it should be so | limited, and every provision of the Jaw which might be held unconstitu- tional by the courts should be elimi- nated. Section 7-A of the present law, which guarantees the right of collec- tive bargaining to the workers, re- mains unchanged. he said. The provisions relating to monop- olies and enforcement of anti-trust | laws have been changed, however, he ' said | “In my opinion,” Harrison stated. | “the bill will be changed still fur- ther as in regards to monopolies.” He explained that the bill did not do away with all price-fixing under | the code. Two Kinds of Codes. The bill provides only two kinds of | de- hour 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) 59, Entered as second class matt post office, Washington, D. with lowest tonight; to- at noon am. today. er G 25-to-1 Shot First, With Blue Prince Running in Second Place. J. H. Whitney’s Tho- mond Third—Golden’ Miller Falls at Fence. By the Associated Press. AINTREE, England, March 29.— Reynoldstown, & 25-to-1 shot, owned and ridden by Maj. Noel Furlong, | today won the ninety-seventh run- ning of the Grand National Steeple- | chase. Blue Prince was second and John Hay Whitney's Americanmwned{ Thomond, 2d, third. ! Golden Miller, the heavy choice and winner last year, fell the first time | around the course after being up with | the leaders during the early stages of the race. | Reynoldstown, which receded in the | wagering during the last few days, | was never far off the pace, as Uncle Batt. a rank outsider, showed the way at the half-way mark. Reynolds- town in fifth place and steadily | moved up during the latter stages| of the journey. Blue Prince, also an outsider, is owned by Lady. Lindsay. Thomond 2d, third also last year,| led over the final jump, but failed badly in the final 30C-yard dash to the finish line. Reynoldstown pulled | away after the final fence .to win by three lengths. while Blue Prince | “(Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) @b Reynoldstown Wins at Aintree;| U. S. Residents Get Half Million | | total of $570,000. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1935—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. Four Holding Sweeps Tickets on Victor Get $142,000 Each. Drawers of American Entry Thomond to Re- ceive $47,000 Each. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, March 29.—When Reynoldstown won the Grand National at Aintree today. the victory meant | that four American-owned tickets in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes won a | | the WORK-RELIEF BILL FACES NEW DELAY INWALLAGE FIGHT Effort at Modification May Postpone Action Until Next Week. SECRETARY OBJECTS TO FARM AMENDMENT Confers With Buchanan After Senator George Attacks Fitness for Office. By the Associated Press. Vigorous objections from adminis- tration officials to the final form of Gouverneur 96 Sixteenth BIGGER LUMP SUM ASKEDBY CITZENS More Equitable Distribution of City Costs Asked as Hearings End. After hearing a final plea from organized citizens of the District that | the Federal Government bear a more | equitable share of the expenses of | the National Capital, the Senate sub- ; committee on the 1936 District ap- | | propriation bill expects to close its | hearings this afternoon. The arguments in support of a Teed Glad He Played Hunch and Sold Ticket to Gambler. | Because Lester B. Teed, 27-year-old i Government Printing Office linotype | operator, played a lucky hunch, he; had $18,000 working for him at in- terest today even though the horse on which he had drawn an Irish Sweepstakes ticket fell on a jump in the Grand National at Aintree, Eng- | land. Teed had received several offers for | all or any part of his ticket on| Tapinois, one of the favorites. At | about whether he is going to run for the codes of fair competition—the volun- | fairer apportionment of the cost were tary code and the limited code. It made by Edward F. Colluday, speak- carries no licensing clause. The pen- | ing both for the Citizens’ Joint Com- alties imposed have been considerably | mittee on Fiscal Relations Between reduced from existing law in accord- | the United States and the District of ance with suggestions of the President. | Columbia, and for the Municipal Fi- The Mississippi Senator predicted | nance Committee of the Board of the legislation would be expedited and | Trade. ‘would be written into law before June Colladay headed a special commit- 16 when the existing law is due to | tee of the Citizens' Joint Committee. explre. Others on Committee. The bill introduced by Harrison | is still in tentative form, he said. The | Other members of this special group Finance Committee, before who were designated recently by Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the which | Green appeared in connection with Executive Committee of the Citizens | Joint Committee, are: its N. R. A. investigation, has not vet had an opportunity to consider the measure. However, in an execu- James G. Yaden, president of the session today which Richberg Federation of Citizens’ Associations, | . the committee determined vice chairman; Robert J. Cottrell, sec- that it would be better to have the retary; L. A. Carruthers, George E. terms of the proposed bill made Sullivan and Jesse C. Suter of the | public Federation of Citizens: John Locher, | Impression Corrected. Frank J. Coleman and John C. Col- Harrison said an impression has Poys, Central Labor Union: Mrs. Har- grown up that his committee merely vey W. Wiley and Mrs. Horace J. was _conducting an investigation of | Phelps, District Federation of Wom- the N. R. A. under the Nye-McCarran | €n’s Clubs: Mrs. Richard W. Hogue reservation, This is an error, he said, | 8nd Mrs. Esther H. Horne, Voteless because the committee, while pressing | District of Columbia League of Wom- its investigation of all the charges | €n Voters; Claude W. Owen, Edgar contained in the reservation, at the | MOrris, Thomas P. Littlepage and B. same time was intent upon preparing | M. McKelway, representing the Board legislation for continuation of the N. | of Trade. R. A. Harrison said the committee | _Those designated to represent the 1.C.PROSECUTING would hold both morning and after- noo nsessions hereafter until it has completed its investigation and has | the bill ready for report to the Scnate. ! Green's testimony before the Sen- | mte committee today refuted reports | that labor had abandoned the 30- | hour week plan in order to get N.| R. A extended. { The heavy-set leader of organized | workers read a prepared statement contending the recovery program was “the only plan which is available to us at this time for the rehabilitation of our economic system.” But he diverted from his prepared testimony to say that to make the re- | covery program “fully effective,” the | Black bill must be passed, putting the | six-hour day and five-day week into | all codes. | Refuses to Name Choice. Chairman Harrison asked whether labor would prefer the extension of N. R. A or the 30-hour-week bill. “We have no reason to make a choice,” Green replied. “But if there was a choice?” Har- rison persisted. 3 “There is no choice,” Green replied, #tubbornly. “We ask for both.” This was one of the few interrup- tions in Green's prepared statement. | ‘The committee and an overflow crowd | listened quietly during the reading of ‘ most of the document. | Green outlined four fundamental purposes of N. R. A. from labor's standpoint. He said the most im- portant was the right of collective bargaining provided by section 7-a. “I shall not pretend,” he said, “that labor has received the benefits which | were intended from section 7-a.” But he added that N. R. A. was “the first step in the establishment of real collective bargaining” and “as such it must not be underestimated; as such it has served a great purpose.” N. R. A, Green asserted, has given millions of workers “the legal right (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.} SHIP WITNESS GASSED Morro Castle Wireless Man Is Found in Fume-Filled Room. NEW YORK, March 29 (#).—George Alagna, 28-year-old wireless operator of the burned Jiner Morro Castle, whose testimony in the subsequent inquiry excited controversy, was removed to Bellevue Hospital today from the gas- filled kitchen of his Jackson Heights apartment. Alagna declined to talk. He is said to have been morose over his unem- ployment since the investigation of the Morro Castle disaster last Fall. | who attended. A (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) WOMAN DECAPITATED BY HANGMAN’S NOOSE Mrs. Sarao Put to Death With Two Others at Montreal for Killing Husband. By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, March 29.—The hang- man's noose decapitated Mrs. Thomasina Theolis Sarao, 46, today as she was executed for murdering her husband. according to a witness Newspaper men were barred from the execution by the Quebec Attorney- General's Department. A few minutes before Mrs. Sarao dropped through the trap, Leone Gagliardi, 30, and Angelo Donofrio, 19, were hanged on another scaffold for the same crime. RATTLER BITES GIRL SHREVEPORT, La., March 29 (®). —Bessie May Sandifer, 21, of Epps, La., walked t¢ her hen house at dusk yesterday and thrust her hand into a nest. The fangs of a 5-foot rattlesnake hit the thiri finger of the young wom- an’s left hand. Her screams attracted her husband, working 'n a nearby field. He killed the snake. which had nine rattles. Admitted to a hospital here, the pa- tient today was pronounced in se- rious condition. Death Ends Reunion of Pair Separated More Than 40 Years By a Staff Corespondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 29— John A. Ahern, 76, who was reunited with his wealthy sister, Miss Cath- erine C. Ahearn, in Topeka, Kans., last week after the two had been separated for more than 40 years, died this morning at his sister’s resi- dence, 915 Prince street. The brother had been back at his sister's home here less than since he had been located at a transient camp at Topeka. He was in ill-health at the time he located. Miss Ahern, who has spent of her time during recent ye first, he was all for playing his luck. | but yesterday he got “cold feet” over the high stakes involved and accepted & gambler’s invitation to come to New York and talk over a deal. The gambler offered Teed $18,000. “Even a millionals the gambler told (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) MACHINERY IS HIT A | Procedure Easily Influenced and Broken Down, | Roberts Says. BULLETIN. ‘The Special Crime Committee of the House will end its formal hearings this afternoon, Chairman Randolph announced. The com- mittee will spend the next several weeks drafting its report to the House. William A. Roberts, people’s coun- sel before the Public Utilities Com- mission, told the special Crime Com- mittee of the House today that the District’s prosecuting machinery is, in effect, easily influenced and break.si down under pressure. He advocated that all prosecutions be placed under the corporation coun- sel, whom he described ‘as the attor- ney general of the District. “The prosecution machinery of the District is inefficient,” Roberts de- clared. “It is easily influenced and breaks down .under pressure every time it has a function to perform.” Roberts, who has made a compre- hensive study of the organization of the District government as a mem- ber of a special committee named by the Senate for that purpose, suggested a series of other changes he said would improve the present set-up. Public Safety Unit Asked. Specifically, Roberts urged the crea- tion of a Department of Public Safety to include the police, Fire and Police Departments and the Department of Weights, Measures and Markets, headed by a civilian; a joint com- mittee of the Senate and House to deal with both the legislative and financial affairs of the District, and & unified police force. A joint Legislative and Appropria- tion Committee of the Senate and House, Roberts pointed out, would (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) eling in the United States and Europe, went to Kansas 10 days ago upon receiving word that her long- lost brother, who left Alexandria Officials of the transient service at ‘Topeka quoted Miss Ahern as saying her brother originally left home be- cause the family wanted him to take & Government job. His sister is his -through a higher price on products | By the Associated Press. The tickets held on Reynoldstown were made out to: Ray Gold, 64 Jessup place, Bronx, New York. Ann Goldberg, 4906 Rorer street, Philadelphia. Mabel Leitzelman. Olney, Il i “5 Glasses,” 1321 North Monaker street, Philadelphia. i Each of these tickets pays £30,000— about $142,500. the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill to- Three American tickets were held on | & Thomond IL the horse that came in | 43Y Were reported to have delayed third, and each of these tickets pays | further congressional action on the approximately $47.500, & total of | measure until next week in the hope $142,500 for these three. that it can be modified. They are: | The leagglf who made this disclosure J. Thomas Roszkl, 329 East Twenty- | decllnedlgo into detail, and asked fourth street, New York. | that newspaper men refrain from “Clear Sailing.” 37 using his name. But as he talked, | street. New York. % | Secretary Wallace was in a conference | Erin Go Bragh, | with Chairman Buchanan of the street, Buffalo, N. Y. | House Appropriations Committee. == i fGWnllace had objected openly to the eorge amendment. under which the D. C.Sweeps Holder mone appropriated in the big bill - could be used for administration of Gets $18,000 Despue the farm adjustment act. B George Is Angered. | F(ulure of Horse senator Georee, Democrat, of Geor- | gia, made a bitter assault in the | Senate vesterday upon Wallace for stating his opposition publicly. In re- ply, Wallace ~ent a letter to Buchanan explaining his position, but Buchanan | had not made the letter public. | . The understanding was that House | leaders would attempt to reopen the conference in the hope of eliminating the provisions which were obnoxious ! to administration officials. Department of Agriculture officials felt pressure from processors would become so great that soon all benefits would be paid from the works money fund and the processing tax cast| wholly aside. George Blasts Wallace. Senator George said Wallace had | demonstrtated his “unfitness to serve in the cabinet.” Wallace earlier had declared George’s proposal would enable farm- ers “to dip their hands into the Treas- ury,” but his letter, designed to ex- pand and explain this statement and allay the specter of an increased processing tax on cotton textiles, was not sent until after George made his speech. The thumping Senate attack on the Secietary was joined by Senators Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, and Metcalfe, Republican. of Rhode Is- land, who compared Wallace to “eco- nomic quack doctors.” Meanwhile, sentiment grew in the House Agriculture Committee for over- | turn of the processing tax in favor of partial return to the McNary-Haugen equalization fee plan, whereby farm- ers were paid a straight bounty consumed domestically. The only evening Baper in Washington ‘with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,877 Some Returns Not Yet Received (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FAR EASTERN PACT T0INCLUDE U, 5. 1§ REPORTED SOUGHT IN MOSCOW TALKS Plan for Six-Power Accord Is Attributed to Maxim Litvinoff in Conference With British Delegate. |EDEN IS PRESENTED TO DICTATOR STALIN { Improvement in Anglo-Russian Political and Economic Rela- Johnson Writes Speech to End 7 Battle With Father Coughlin CAR LIABILITY BILL Former Blue Eagle Chief, Who Says “No” to Senatorial Race Questions, | Hints He May Change Mind. | By the Associated Press OKMULGEE, Okla., March 29— Gen. Hugh Johnson's senatorial am- bitions—if he has any—were laid aside temporarily today as he prepared a final blast at Father Coughlin to be given Saturday night over the radio. “This is going to dispose of the controversy,” Johnson said of his reply to the Detroit priest, with whom he has been carrying on an extended debate over the air. The former Blue Eagle chief didn't care to talk about what he was going to say. In fact, he didn’t care to talk “many things — particularly Senate against Senator T. P. Gore next Fall. Johnson's announcement that he was coming back to Oklahoma to live gave credence to the report that he said when told Johnson was coming back to the State. “We welcome all immigrant and all red-blooded Amer- | icans, especially those returning after a long absence. We always welcome | the wanderer's return, and well kill | the fatted calf if we can rustle the calf. and if we can't. well kill the maverick or little dogie and celebrate | the last round-up.” | Johnson, should he run. probably would do so with the backing of the national administration, which has been heckled by the outspoken Gore. | Johnsen also would be welcomed on | the Senate floor as a counter irritant to Senator Long of Louisiana, whose | vicious attacks on the President have | caused the administration many bad moments. | Johnson has been spending most | of the time here in the back yard of BATILE RENEWED District to Give Senate Data on Accidents Caused by Non-Residents. Armed with figures showing 24 per cent of the traffic accidents here in the last year involved cars driven by non-residents, District officials laid plans today to ask the Senate to re- store to the District utomobile finan- | ~ial responsibility bill the section re- quiring non-resident drivers to in- sure settlement of claims. The measure was passed by the House yesterday after adoption of an amendment by Representative Nich- ols, Democrat, of Oklahoma, reliev- tions Indicated—Trade Ques- tions Due to Be Taken Up in Conversations Tomoriow. (Copsright. 1935, by the Associated Pres:. | MOSCOW, March 29.—With a plan | for United States' collabpration with other powers in the Far East, reported- ly under discussion, Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy “seal, faced Joseph Stalin. Soviet chief, in the | latter’s private office in the Kremlin | today. | A high source said that Foreign | Commissar Maxim Litvinoff had sug- gested to Eden the formulation of a Far Eastern pact to include the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, China and France, and that Stalin. | too, supported this suggestion. i Stalin Receives Eden. i I Stalin today received Capt. Anthony | Eden. British lord privy seal, in his | private office in the Kremlin. The British envoy was accompanied ¢into Stalin's presence by Lord Chil- | ston, the British Ambassador to Russia. There they encountered Vyacheslaff Molotofl, president of the Union Council of People’s Commissars: Litvinoff and Ivan Maisky, the Rus- sian Ambassador to London. They immediately began, with the aid of interpreters, the discussion of the European situation. Relations Are Improved. Capt. Eden and the Ambassador entered the Kremlin enclosure in an | automobile, driving through the main | entrance of the wall—the Boroff ing non-residents of the financial re- | Iiskiye Gate—on the side opposite from sponsibility feature, but retaining the l Lenin’s tomb, riding directly to the language which would prohibit them | wing of the court building where will seek the senatorship. | the cottage home of his mother, Mrs. Today his answer still “No,” | Elizabeth M. Johnson. Working at a with the reservation that “I have the | card table, he had been writing and right to change my mind any time | rewriting, all in long hand, passages Byrns Is Questioned. Plied with questions at his press conference as to the reason for the relief bill delay, Speaker Byrns pointed to Buchanan, sitting on a nearby leather lounge, and remarked: “Ask him.” ust because it ain't” was Bu- “(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) MOTHER AND 2 DIE AS 7 ESCAPE FIRE Apartment House Victims Are Trapped Seeking Passage to Sun Porch. WOBURN, Mass., March 29.—Three persons, a mother and two children, were burned to death, in a fire that swept a two-family house in the Shakers Glenn section, 3 miles from the center of the city, early today. Five other members of the Mercon family, the father, John T. Mercon, and four sons, Francis, 24; Vincent, 19; Paul, 16, and Lawrence, 13, escaped. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Doubleday and | their three children, occupants of the first floor apartment, also escaped. The fire was discovered by Double- day, who was awakened by crackling flames. He aroused members of his own family and then rushed to the four-room Mercon apartment on the upper floor in an effort to awaken them. The father and four boys of the Mercon family reached a rear bed room window and fled to a sun porch, thence to the ground. Mrs. Meercon and her daughter, Vir- ginia, Sergt. Willilam H. Queeney of the Woburn police said, were trapped in the rear bed room, off the sun porch, as they made efforts to reach the porch. The baby, in an adjoining bed room, burned to death in a baby carriage. CO-ED HELD IN SHOOTING FREED ON $2,500 BOND Lois Thompson of Northeastern State Teachers’ College Denies Chinese Student Assault. By the Associated Press. TAHLEQUAH, Okla., March 29— Lois Thompson, }:e-ry.mwld North- eastern State Teac! ’ College co- was freed under $2,500 bond m::; after she pleaded not guilty when ar- raigned on a charge of assault with intent to kill Daniel ~haw, Chinese student at the college. Sanford Martin, county attorney, filed the charges shortly after W. W. Miller, the girl's counsel, urged such & move 50 he could obtain her release on bond. She betrayed no emotion as she answered “not guilty” to the charge, filed béfore Justice of the Peace J. M. , | Boling. 1 damn please.” From Washington, Senator Gore sent & “‘welcome home” to Johnson. “Oklahoma’s gates stand ajar.” Gore | of the speech he will give Saturday night over a Nation-wide hook-up. Johnson plans to leave today for | Chicago and may go on to New York. BELGIUM DROPS GOLD STANDARD emier’s New Deal Pro- gram Contemplates De- preciation of Currency. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, March 29.—Premier Paul van Zeeland today proclaimed a new deal for Belgium, with the value of the gold belga cut “a maximum of 30 per cent” and with sweeping eco- nomic and monetary reforms to be rushed into effect. Political observers expected Parlia-!| ment, to which Van Zeeland an- nounced the program, to give the gov- ernment a vote of confidence by a majority of 40 or 50 members. Van Zeeland stated: “The currency level would not be the same as today, but in no case would it be more than 30 per cent below the present level.” And he added that the new regime will go into effect Monday, with a pro- visional cut of 25 per cent in the belga’s value. Suspends Payments. ‘The premier’s announcement cracked the European gold bloc, for the com- prehensive program he announced in- volves the suspension of gold payments by Belgium pending an international agreement on currency policy. ‘The premier announced the under- taking of great public works schemes. the favoring of industrial production by all possible measures, reduction in taxes, the guarantee of bank deposits and a desire to resume diplomatic and commercial relations with Russia. Although Van Zeeland and his gov- ernment seems assured of a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies on this program, lively opposition is expected in the Senate. Parliament is expected to debate day and night throughout the week end, including Sunday, before the vote is taken. ‘Wrecked by Depreciation. ‘The xz‘-muwl program is a re- sult of vy blows dealt Belgian in- dustry by countries with depreciated currency. By the government’s action Belgium is off the gold standard, although she intends to return when (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Guide for Readers WAR PRICE CEILING PENALTIES URGED Baruch Would Punish Both Buyer and Seller to En- force Maximum. By the Associated Press. Employing the purchase of bootleg liquor as an example, Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier, told the Senate Munitions Committee today | he would hold a maximum price on all products in war time by enforcing | a penalty on both buyer and seller. To a crowded committee room the smiling chairman of the World War Industries Board explained his plan | this way: “I propose to have a penalty en- forced on both the buyer and the seller. I don't know whether any- body in this room ever bought bootleg liquor. I did. Reveals Stock Offer. “But if there had been a penalty on the buyer as well as the whisky maker and seller, I wouldn’t have bought it.” Previously, Baruch—on the witness stand for the third day—testified that Ben Smith, Wall Street operator, had telephoned him in France in 1933 that he had reserved 5000 shares of New York Shipbuilding Corp. stock for him on the prospect of getting Gov- ernment_business. | Baruch explained he did not take | the stock because he declined to buy into a proposition involving Govern- ment business. The mention of Smith recalled pre- vious commitiee testimony indicating Smith, co-operating with the Cord in- terests, had bought control of the ship- building company soon after President Roosevelt took office. | At that time, members of the com- mittee interpreted the transactions as indicating Smith had “inside knowl- edge” of contemplated big outlays. It was developed that the first al- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) By the Associated Press. MILAN, Italy, March 29.—Wartime profiteers in Italy will be stood up against a wall and shot, Premier Mus- solini’s newspaper, Popolo d'Italia, said today. ‘The newspaper, after chronicling a serious rise in prices in the last few weeks, said: “Those, who decided to launch themselves in wicked adventures are mistaken if they think there is any possibility today of renewing the greedy profits of the past. “Rather it is better they should know formally that whenever the pos- sibility of war profits arises we will begin immediately to place some per- sons against the 3) in the first two from operating a car in the District | if claims for damages have not been satisfied within 30 days. Traffic Director Van Duzer today cited figures to uphold his contention that elimination of this section would be a serious obstacle to the whole insurance plan. Of the 1,800 non- residents involved in accidents last | year, he said, 888 were from Mary- land and 500 from Virginia, both of which States have compulsory insur- | ance laws with the non-resident clause, If the bill is enacted in its present form, thousands of drivers from these nearby States would drive their car: into the District daily and be exemnt from the responsibility while in Washington which is required in their own States. A count in December and January shows 20 per cent of the cars on Washington streets bore out-of-town tags and this percentuge is considerably higher during the Summer months. Adopted by States. Corporation Counsel Prettyman also | Stalin has his office. Soviet circles said earlier after an ’hour aad a half conference between Litvinoff and Capt. Eden, that there was a “noted improvement in both the political and economic relations between Soviet Russia and Great Britain.” The Soviet sources did not indicate on what grounds the further improve- ment of the Anglo-Russian relations was' based during the discussions as Eden probed into the possibilities of peace for Europe. % Dicuss Main Problems. The two talked over “most of the outstanding problems in political rela- tions.” they stated, and the discussion was conducted with “the same spirit of frankness and sincerity” as yester- day’s. It was pointed out that after yes- terday's talk it was said that the Statesmen found no points of dis- agreement, although it was likewise understood no definite proposals were then presented by either party. Whether proposals bearing plans | dent operator in the event that the ing the pointed out that every State financial | for joint action for the guarantee of responsibility law contains the non- | European peace were placed on the regxi_:ent clause. | table today was not mentioned. e non-resident section stricken | out would have the traffic director | Fenile Bntutiome: aghs. act as attorney for non-resident| In the conversation slated with drivers so service could be made on | Litvinoff tomorrow, Eden will discuss him in actions growing out of acci- | the development of British Soviet dents. The plaintiffl would be re- | trade relations. quired first to file in court sureties| The question of Soviet propoganda for reimbursement of the non-resi- in England has not been raised dur- discussions, an authorized case should fail. and this should in- | Russian spokesman said in response | clude a reasonable attorney’s fee, the | to & question. amount to be fixed by the court. No- | Both British and Russians say con- tice of the service with a copy of the | ferences are being conducted in the process would be sent to the non-|light of “clarification” obtained by resident operator by registered mail | Sir John Simon, British secretary of by the plaintiff. The defendant would | state for foreign affairs, and Eden in be allowed reasonable opportunity by | their recent Berlin talks with Hitler. the court to defend the action and i British spokesmen say further that no judgment of default could be the London peace plan is still the granted for at least 20 days. The Senate is expected to ask for a conference with the House in an effort to retain the original language. ‘The amendment was approved in the (Continued on Page 12, Column 3. Father Murders Five Of Nine Children as He Faces Loss of Job By the Associated Press. TARNOW. Poland, March 29. —Stanislas Pypene, a farm hand near here, murdered five of his nine children yesterday, because, he said, he was too poor to keep them, local police reported today. He killed them with a kitchen knife. Pypene told the police he was to lose his job April 1. War Profiteers to Be Shot In Italy, Says Il Duce Paper ;hyx or, better still, two days be- This statement coincided with an order sent out by the Fascist party secretary, Achille Starace, to all pro- vincial secretaries to watch the in- crease in prices to ascertain how much is due to natural economic rea- sons, such as new import regulations, and how much to speculation on the m'rlopun and African political situa- ‘The ¢ircular says, “Consumers must collaborate with us by informing us of abuses which persons try to justify with alarmistic and absolutely un- founded rumors. Since all this is real energetic intervention ? but be salutary.” basis of discussions and the Russians mention “conclusions” to which the Berlin clarifications are leading. These clarifications, observers point | out, must be interpreted as meaning | either there is still believed to be a | chance of bringing the German view- | point into harmony with the others, or it has been definitely decided that it is impossible to reconcile the di- vergent positions. Hope for Security Plan. In the latter case, hope has been | expressed that Great Britain might enter into a security arrangement with other powers on the basis of | ideas embodied in the London project. ‘Eden said in a speech last nigh British foreign policy is built aroun the League of Nations. Litvinoff like- wise referred to the League last night and declared that if one state was threatened by danger of war, all states should consider themselves threatened. Capt. Eden will attend the ballet tonight and tomorrow will be a lunch- eon guest of the Litvinoffs at their country house, 30 miles from Moscow. Litvinoff’s warning that “the dai ger of war is hanging over Euro) echoed in the ears of Capt. Eden as he continued his conferences. Litvinoff, speaking at a lavish ban- quet last night in honor of the young British diplomat, repeatedly stressed the gravity of the situation with which Europe is now confronted. “The overwhelming majority of states is at the present moment pro- foundly anxious for the preservation of peace,” the foreign commissar said, then added significantly: “There may be a few exceptions, but the danger spots are at least lo- cated.” Elderly Pair to Wed. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 29 (#)—George Yesberger, 78, and Mrs. Esther Mitchell, 69, will be married here today at an open meeting of the Three-Quarter Century Club, an or- ganization of 3—yeu-ow. o