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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly colder, lowest tem- perature about 37 degrees tonight; tomor- The only evening in Washington wit! aper the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. row fair: light frost tonight. Tempera- tures—Highest, 69, at 1:30 p.m. yester- day: lowest, 44, at 7:15 a.m, today. Full report on page B-19. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 Che Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,486 Some Returns Not Yet Received Fntered as secy post office, Wa No. 33,209, ond class matter ashington, D. C. | WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1935—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ¥ (#) Means Associated P TWO CENTS. re PAN-EUROPE PACT LOOMS IN EDEN'S TALKS INWARSAW British and Poles Agree to Maintain “Close Contact” on Situation. FRENCH ARE HOPEFUL OF NEW PEACE BASIS Participation of Poland and Reich Believed Eased by New |France Will Issue Gold Coins to Give Nation Confidence 'Hoarding Expected, but No Serious Result Is Anticipated, By the Associated Pr PARIS, April 3—The jingle of gold coins soon will be heard in France | for the first time since the World | War to give Frenchmen confidence that the yellow metal is still the soundest medium of exchange. The mint already has struck off specimen pieces of 100 francs each, { which will be the only denomination. The coin bears on one side the head of Marianne, symbolizing France, wearing a winged helmet. The re- verse side depicts branches of olive and oak and a sheaf of wheat. The coin weighs 6 grams. Credits for issuing 1,000.000.000 francs worth of the gold pieces are Plan. (Copyrisht, 1935, by the Associated Press.) WARSAW. April 3.—Great Britain and Poland today agreed to “the de- sirability of maintaining close con- tact” on the European situation. with authoritative quarters indicating a pan-European security system as a likely result. The agreement was reached with Polish statesmen by Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal. as he concluded two days of conversations concerned with the general peace of Furope and prepared to depart for Praha and more conferences. Communique Tssued. The was Assued ‘During his stay in Warsaw, Capt Anthony Eden. British lord privy real. was received by the President of the Polish republic and by Marshal following communique Pilsudski. Capt. Eden had. in addi- tion. several conversations with M Joseph Beck. minister of foreign effairs. “He gave M. Beck an account of the recent exchanges of views which the British ministers have had in Berlin and Moscow upon the basis of the London communique of March 2. “During the conversations, which were cordial in tone. Beck gave Eden the views of the Polish government upon matters set forth in this com- munique and upon present interna- tional situations in generrl Purpose Is Fulfilled. “It was agreed that these exchanges of views. which were exploratory in character. had well fulfilled their purpose. The desirability of main- taining close contact in regard to future developments in the European situation was emphasized.” From sources considered reliable it included in the 1935 budget. While the Government expects there may be considerable hoarding of the new currency, it believes ch hoarding in small amounts is less serious than the hoarding of bullion The new coin will be somewhat smaller than a United States 25-cent piece. OLD COUPLE SLAN, THROWN IN WELL | Fredericksburg Pair Mur- dered at Home by Night ‘ Robbers. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va.. April 3.— The murdered bodies of an elderly and well-to-do farm couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Coleman, were found this morning at the bottom of a well behind their ransacked home near Massapomax, in Spotsylvania County, about 12 miles south of here. Both the 65-year-old woman and her husband., 75, had been brutally beaten about the head and fired upon at close range with a shotgun, be- lieved to have been Coleman’s. The husband had been shot in the face and right shoulder and the wife in the right leg. Death in each case. however, was believed to have been due to skull fracture. Virginis State Police, county of- | ficials and neighbors of the pair today were watching highways and combing | the neighborhood for the murderers. believed to have killed their victims was learned that Capt. Eden was | after robbing them. told by his hosts that they would WOHAN ACCUSED OF WURDRR PLOT CLAMS FRANE.P “Gunman” Sought in Alleged Conspiracy to Kill Hus- band and Rob Bank. | \ | 1 PRELIMINARY HEARING WILL BE HELD MONDAY Mrs. Lyddane at Liberty, While Her Husband Declares His Faith in Her Innocence. Claiming she is the victim of a “frame-up,” Mrs. Anne Lyddane, 36-year-old secretarial employe of a Rockville bank, was at liberty today | under a charge of conspiring to mur- ;dvr her husband, Francis S. Lyddane, ! while Maryland and District police sought a “Philadelohia gunman” al- leged to have been employed in a weird double-murder and bank robbery plot Opposed to the “frame-up” conten- tion of Mrs. Lyddane are signed state- ments obtained by Washington de- | tectives from John Martin Boland, 42, well known to police here, and John “Googy” Carnell. Rockville bartender, naming Mrs. Lyddane as promoter of an alleged plot to slay her husband and a Darnestown, Md., woman and {loot the Farmer's Banking & Trust | Co., where Mrs. Lyddane is employed. | Boland in Rockville Jail, Boland, with a long police record here, is in the Rockville jail under the Joint murder conspiracy charge, and Carnell also was being held as a State witness. The latter has served terms at Lorton Reformatory for house- breaking and grand larceny. Although warrants made out late vesterday by Montgomery County au- thorities named only Lyddane as an intended victim of the alleged scheme, Washington police declared the con- fessions of Boland and Carnell named Mrs. Arthur Beall of Darnestown as a second target of a lurid murder plot engineered by Mrs. Lyddane. Mr. and Mrs. Beall were interro- gated by investigators. but could throw no light on the case. $750 Payment Claimed. According to the police description of the alleged confessions, Mrs. Lyd- dane had made one payment of $750 for the murder of Lyddane and had promised to pay $3,000 for each of the two slayings. tion, it was alleged, she agreed to give | | bery could be arranged. As a further considera- | Boland the keys to the bank so a rob- | N\ PLAY AROUND EVERYWHERE | W N " IAF ) Miete ! I e . PALMISANO SNAG ELLENBOGEN Bl Approval of District Job In- Waould Give Admission Glass Proposal Expected to | surance Measure Is { Deferred. ] Approval of the Ellenbogen unem- | ployment compensation bill for the District was deferred by the District Committee today at the insistence of Representative Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland. It was agreed that a motion by Representative Ellenbogen. Democrat, of Pennsylvania, to the effect that a revised bill be substituted for the original measure and that the full committee recommend passage of the new bill to the House should lie over until the committee meets again next ‘Wednesday. Ellenbogem is author of the proposed legislation and chairman of a subcommittee which conducted hearings on it, . Baltimore Charity May Benefit by | Morro Castle Fee Owners of Burned Ship Proceeds to Needy. | | By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, April 3.—The Morro Castle may make retribution for the 134 lives its burning claimed Shortly after the charred hulk ar- rived here vesterday ior scrapping. a move was made to charge a curious public admission to see it and give the proceeds to charity. While the shell of the once proud Ward liner rode at the pier of the Union Shipbuilding Co.. which bought it, G. J. McVicar, vice president of the company, said: “It is our intention to confer with officials of the Community Fund, and, if agreeable to them, we will place our yards at theig disposal on April 13 and 14. ’ “They may charge either an ad- mission muz tollection, +the ent nt to be ugg? by them. RELIF DEADLOCK * BREAK SEENNEAR End Dispute on Sum w 3 Assured Labor. JAMES ROOSEVELT FRIEND IS LINKED 10 SHIP 10 PLEA {Wrote to Howe Outlining Good Effect of Bath Firm Contract. | | |PROBERS READ LETTERS OF INSURANCE AGENT :Nyc Quizzes Witness of Effort to Stir Up Japanese War Scare | to Aid Bills. By the Associated Press. Evidence that a friend of James Roosevelt, son of the President, inter- ceded at the White House for naval ship building jobs for the Bath (Maine) Irorn Works Corp. was intro- duced today before the Senate Muni- tions Committee. Previously, Chairman Nye had as- serted a “Japanese war scare” was | appropriation before Congress | _A letter written by Roger S. Mac- | Grath, agent of the New York Life Insurance Co. to Louis McHenry Howe, secretary to President Roose- | velt, said: | “The psychological effect of the | administration awarding to the Bath Iron Works contracts for two new de- stroyers will be looked upon very fa- vorably by the people of Maine, and will be very helpful in the upbuilding of the Democratic party in this State.” Letter Sent in 1933, The letter was dated July 12, 1933. Eugene Thibault, secretary-treas- | urer of the Bath Iron Works. de- scribed MacGrath as a “friend” of James Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. A compromise settlement of the bitter controversy over labor require- ments in the $4,880,000,000 work re- lief bill predicted today by a con- gressional leader in close touch with the situation. Declining to be quoted by name, he said administration forces were anx- ious to avoid resentment that might result from an attempt to win victory by force. The prediction that a compromise would be reached, probably today, came after a conference by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Demo- cratic leader: Vice President Garner, | House Demoerats .appointed to help |settle congressional - differences dver | Thibault declared MacGrath was | “just an insurance agent trying to build up business. “You may recall,” MacGrath wrote. “that it was at my suggestion and request that James Roosevelt spoke in Bath, Me., last October (during the | presidential campaign), after our | State election here, and I may say that this part of our campaign in Maine aroused considerable interest and support for the President not only in the City of Bath but throughou: | the State, and we were almost able to carry the City of Bath for the Presi- dent. which normally has been a Re- publican stronghold for years.” Cites Subsequent Awards. ‘The letter pointed out that the | Bath company was then building one | destroyer and was bidding on two more. ; Previously W. 8. Newell, president stirred up to help pass every naval D.C. BILL CARRYING BIGGER LUMP SUM IS REPORTED UT Amended to Meet Needs of Schools, Police and Fire Protection. U. S. SHARE OF DISTRICT COST TOTALS $8,317,500 Senate Appropriations Group Adds $3,452,215 to Amount Voted by House. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Carrying $42,760,619 and with the Federal share raised from $5.700.000 to $8.317.500, the 1936 District appro- priation bill came out of the Senate Appropriations Committee today with emendments to meet essential hous- ing needs of the school system, better police and fire protection and many cther urgent maintenance items re- stored As it came from the House. the bill had been carved down below the budget estimates to a total of $39.- 308,404, and with the Federal obliga- tion held to the current Jump sum figure ot $5,700,000 Recognizing the pleas of ecivic eroups and local officials during three weeks of hearings. the District sub- committee heaced by Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, added $3.- 452215 to the total. of which $2617.« 500 is covered by the recommenda- tion the Federal Government bear a more equitable share of maintaining the Nation's Capital Reported to Senate. The Appropriations Committee to- cay approved the decisions of the Thomas subcommitiee with one ad- dition, and reported the measure to the Senate. where it will be taken up at the first opportunity. The committee report revealed the addition of a $1615.500 new school building program, as well as the addi- tion of more than $300.000 to increase the size of the police force by 141 men including uniforms and equipment, to | reduce crime and combat the rising tide of traffic accidents The Senate committee not only re- stored the $87.500 knocked out by the House for continuing the character education movement. but allowed sev- | eral other maintenance increases for | the schools, including an additional 1 $30,000 to operate community centers. Other important increases were From the gasoline tax fund, $340.000- for three purposes: Q. by materials, and sippliet fo'create highway work for men on the relief roll, $125,000: the bill, and Senator McKeller of of the company, had testified he was Tennessee. a Senate conferee. | awarded two destroyer jobs a few The leader who predicted an early K weeks after the date of the MacGrath settlement said he believed the com- letter. He did not mention the in- promise proposed yesterday by Senator | surance agent as having any connec- Glass. Democrat, of Virginia, event- | tion with the award. ually might be accepted. Glass sug- A second MacGrath letter. this one gested requiring that 25 per cent— airected to Thibault on July 31, 1933, Leave in Stolen Car. The robbers drove off in an auto- mobile belonging to the couple. A car answering the same description and containing two colored men was seen last night going toward Rich- mond at Thornsburg, about 5 miles south of the Coleman farm. ‘Wwelcome arrangements: defimjely ad- | vancing European peace. Some ob- servers believed this meant discard- ing the Eastern pact, at least in name, but improving its mutual as- sistance aspects to fit the individual national needs. to build the Franklin street viaduet | across the railroad tracks between |Eighth and Ninth streets northeast, $200,000, and to draw plans for a new | Pennsylvania avenue bridge southeast, $15,000. $238.250 for Water System. Palmisano, who was acting as chairman of the meeting, first sug- gested the delay on the grounds not enough members were present to con- sider sueh important legislation. Also, he said. delay had been requested by Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of The cry of “frame-up” was echoed i by one of the so-called intended mur- der victims, Francis Lyddane. Wel- coming his wife yesterday afternoon upon her release in custody of her attorneys, Lyddane, through the law- | | vers, joined with her in declaring she | BOTH PARTIES HAL ! spokes- | - ELEGTION RESULT In London a government ” - Maryland th B f the . - |7 The body of Mrs. Coleman was dis- | is the innocent victim of tricksters. aryland, another member o pesie Gl s b man said a preliminary examination | e PoE T hen the colored | Beyond that neither would discuss COmMittee Who was unable to be pres- 000000 earmarked for loans and "I took up the matter of allotting From the separate Water Depart- of British diplomatic conversations in Berlin, Moscow and Warsaw con- vinced the government a security plan with enforcable provisions against ag- gressors must be constructed during the conference at Stresa Capt. Eden talked for 10 hour: terday to Polish leaders an to his departure today, visited the foreign office, where he talked to Beck, and the British embassy. Both Poles and British expressed pleasure at the talks. The likelihood of a pan-European security arrangement was generally regarded as the most important pos- sible result of the Warsaw confer- | ences. | More Acceptable to Reich. Such a broad peace system would be more acceptable to Germany and Poland, these quarters pointed out. and would be more flexible than the proposed Eastern security pact. | The British diplomat started early | today to make his final calls| on Polish statesmen before leaving | ves. prior | hired man. Tom Blackton. reported for duty. Blackton found that the house had been broken into and ran- sacked ‘While the house obviously had been searched and furnishings displaced, there were no signs of a struggle and the couple’s bed room was in com- paratively good order. When recov- ered. Mp. Coleman's body was fully clothed. while that of his wife was clad only in underclothing. Blackton called for Mr. and Mrs. Coleman. but received no answer. He searched in the yard and discovered Mrs. Coleman’s body in the 40-foot well Blackton had last seen the couple alive when he went home after com- pleting his chores last night. The hited man summoned Coleman’s son- in-law, Oscar B. Scott, who lives about | two miles away, and county authori- | ties were notified. Body Found Under Water. Coleman’s body was not discovere d ul the sensational case. which has cre- ated a stir in the Maryland town and vicinity. The attorneys, Kenneth Lyddane, a cousin of the husband, and Robert Peter. jr.. former State's attorney, said that in response to Mrs. Lyddane’s “demand,” she will be given a preliminary hearing next Mon- day before Police Court Judge Donald A. Delashmutt, at Rockville. Sted- man Prescott, former State's attor- ney and now State Senator, conferred with Peter today with a view possibly to enter the case in Mrs. Lyddane's behalf. Rumors Probed for 10 Days. Washington and Montgomery Coun- ty police had been investigating ru- mors of the alleged plot for more than 10 days and had been shadowing Mrs. Lyddane, Boland and Carnell. Meas- ures were taken secretly to protect Lyddane and Mrs. Beall against pos- sible violence. ‘Mh was decided to arrest the three tonight for Praha, the last capital | peey removed from the well. The man | had been advised that the “Phila- on his long itinerary. Informed quarters saw in recent developments indications of Poland’s withdrawal from the sphere of Ger- | man influence and a revival of close | relations with France. This tendency was emphasized by an announcement by the foreign office that Pierre La- val. French foreign minister. would be invited to visit Warsaw when he Journeys to Moscow late this month. AUSTRIA UNEASY. Fears German Action Will Spur Hungary. (Copsright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) VIENNA, April 3.—Acute uneasi- ness over the integrity of Austria’s eastern frontiers, resulting from Ger- many’s sudden repudiation of the mil- itary restrictions of the treaty of Ver- #ailles, was manifest here today The anxiety prevailing in some quarters is that Germany, by “wreck- ing” the structure of Versailles, has &trengthened immensely Hungary's hopes of territorial revision. Such hopes are most likely to be realized 8t the expense of Austria. because (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) PRESIDENT’S KIN BETTER Warren Delano Robbins Consid- ered Past Pneumonia Crisis. NEW YORK, April 3 (#).—Warren Delano Robbins, cousin of President Roosevelt and United States Minister to Canada, who was taken to Doc- tors' Hospital Sunday with pneu- monia, was reported by Mrs. Robbins last night as being “a little more relieved.” Guide for Readers Amusements Comics .. Features . Finance . Lost and Found y. Short Story. Society .. Sports . ..A-lo-u-li had been thrown into the well first and his body lay under water at the bottom. Neighborhood gossip reputed con- siderable wealth to the elderly couple, | who lived in a comparatively isolated farming section, at least half a mile | from their nearest neighbor. Cole- | man was known to be thrifty and suc- | cessful in working his large farm. He was a native of the community and Mrs. Coleman was his second ! wife, having married him about 10 years ago. Coleman’s daughter was | by his first wife. | Coleman’s shotgun had been stolen | by his murderer, and officers ex- | pressed the opinion this gun had been | turned upon the couple. No one could |be found who heard the shot. The | attack presumably occurred some time before last midnight. |~ Priends said Coleman came | Fredericksburg yesterday on business | and drew a small amount of cash from | the bank. The farmer was known to | have given employment recently to several colored laborers in grubbing. repairing fences and other chores. The | colored men had been laid off from | & nearby road job. Commonwealth Attorney E. R. Car- | ner has taken charge of the investi- | gation, assisted by Sheriff M. L. | Baynes. |delphia gunman”—in reality a local ex-convict known to police—had ar- rived in the city and was “ready to do the job.” Police here assert that Carnell and Boland claimed they had no intention of taking part in the killings. The | arrested men are alleged to have told investigators the third man was to | have slain Lyddane on March 26, but | the plans went wrong. | When arrested, it was declared by Detective Sergt. Robt J. Barrett, Bo- land had in his pocket a description | of Lyddane and the tag numbers of | his automobile. Insured for $13,000. Bairett said Lyddane carried a | $13,000 insurance policy on his life. Lyddane is a clerk in the State liquor | dispensary at Silver Spring. | "Carnell, according to Washington et police on his (Continued on Page 3, Col Malaria Kills 54,000. COLOMBO, Ceylon, April 3 (#).— | Official figures issued today showed | that deaths from the malaria epidemic | which swept the island totaled 16,000 in February. In all, 54,000 persons have succumbed to the disease since November. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 3.—A gradual increase in restaurant prices through- out the country to meet rising food costs was predicted today on the basis of the general 10 per cent rise in menu prices in New York City this week. During the past six months, organ- jaztions of restaurant managers have been laying the groundwork for price increases, and both in New York and Chicago there have been upward ad- justments of charges, it was declared by Paul Hinkel, president of the So- ciety of Restaurateurs, an organiza- tion of the larger restaurants in the | New York metropolitan area. In Chicago the rise was gradual and has been under way for Te Increased Restaurant Prices Throughout Country Predicted time, Henkel said, but in New York, where 4,500,000 meals are served daily, the prices were raised over- night by an average of 10 per cent in most of the city’s restaurants. ‘Two other large cities which re- ported price hikes to Hinkel this week are Boston and San Francisco. Organizations in large and small cities throughout the country have inquired of methods used in increas- ing prices, and two policies have been recommended generally. The first has been a gradual in- crease without announcement over several months, and the other is an abrupt increase, prefaced with an an- nouncement of the intended rise about two weeks previous to the effec- tive date, ‘ onday evening. when word was re- | ntil after the woman's corpse had |Ceived that Mrs. Lyddane allegedly | ! ent at today's meeting. This course was not agreed upon, however, until debate between Ellenbogen and Palm- isano had become somewhat heated, the former insisting that immediate "nuun was advisable. | | | Holds Plan Economical. “The committee may bring honor and distinction to itself and Congress " may do likewise by approving this | legislation,” Ellenbogen said in mak- | ing his motion. “The bill is drawn in | accordance with administration plans | for a national security program. and we had the aid of members of the | President's Special Committee in the | drafting. Not a line is contained here that has not been considered by these experts. “We believe the bill adapted to the | peculiar conditions of the District and | we believe it will afford the District | a means of saving money in the end. | They are now paying about $2,000,000 yearly for unemployment relief and we have drawn this measure so that as many as reasonably possible may become eligible to its provisions.” Asked if any direct opposition to the | legislation had been ! Fllenbogen said, “we have met prac- | tically all opposition uncovered at the | hearings with a single exception. Em- ployers favor the bill, but would like to have employes contribute. The subcommittee feels, however, that the employes will contribute most heavily under the bill as now drawn without any direct tax being placed upon them. Furthermore, we feel that un- employment relief is a part of cost of production, idle workers being just as legitimate an overhead expense as idle machinery. Railroads Criticized. Upon Palmisana’s insistence that action be deferred, Ellenbogen charged that the real objectors are the rail- roads. “We may as well bring it out in the open,” he said. “The railroads want to be exempt from this legis- lation. They just didn't have the guts to appear before the committee and say so. I received one short communication from the Baltimore & Ohio, but when I asked them to appear before the committee for questioning they refused.” Palmisano denied, however, that he was acting in the interest of the rail- roads, hut rather for his colleagues from Maryland. “Purthermore, I think we ought to hold up all local legislation of this kind until the national program is enacted,” he declared. “Before that is through Congress it will be butchered so that enactment of a local law will make a laughing stock.” “We ought to have a District law whether or not there is any national legislation,” Ellenbogen maintained, “and unless District matters are brought on the floor early in a session, they fail to receive sufficient con- sideration. But if it is the sentiment of the committee that action be post- poned temporarily. I will ask that my motion be held over until next Wed- nesday.” " This request was granted. - .. Dean Boys’ Uncle Wins. OKEMAH, Okla, April 3 (P).— Another member of the Dean family has turned up a winner. Harry Dean, uncle of the famous base ball brothers, “Dizzy” and “Daffy,” was elected councilman from the third ward in the city election, ‘ ) encountered, | Democrats Joyous Over Chi- cago Vote—G. 0. P. Cites Michigan Success. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Republican victories in Michigan | and a Democratic landslide in Chicago | featured State and city elections held in half a dozen States yesterday and Monday. | The G. O. P. declared itself | cheered by the Michigan results, where Republican candidates won. | even in Detroit. The Democrats. on the other hand. point with pride to | the enormous lead which the Demo- cratic candidate for mayor of Chicago Progresive opponents., Mayor Edward J. Kelly, who became mayor of the (Windy City following the assassina- | tion of the late Mayor Cermack. lead | his nearest opponent, Emil C. Wetten, Republican, by 631,579. Wetten re- ceived only 166,571 votes, and Newton Jenkins, Progressive, 87.726. Republicans Divided. The Democratic organization in Chicago demonstrated again its strength. while the Republicans. since the beginning of the mayoralty cam- paign have been disorganized and | fighting among themselves. Upton Sinclair’s “E. P. I. C.” plan— End Poverty in California—defeated in the State elections last November, sought to stage a comeback in its old divided as to the outcome. the 15 council seats contested for E. P. I. C. apparently has won one | and placed 10 other E. P. I. C. candi- dates in the run-off. Out of the 10 municipal judgeships, the E. P. I. C. faction appeared to have elected three i candidates, placed one in a run-off and to have lost the other six. Oppo- nents of Sinclair and his plan insist that, in view of the big votes rolled |up by Sinclair in Los Angeles last | year, the results are a virtual victory | for the anti-Sinclair candidates. Mayor Howard Jackson of Baltimore won renomination handily in yester- day’s Democratic primary, over the closest of three rivals, Charles E. | "(Continued on Page 4, Column 4 FISHING LUCK POOR, ROOSEVELT REVEALS Plans to Anchor Off Conception Island, Continuing His Cruise Rest of Week, By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, April 3.—President Roosevelt's fishing luck wasn't so good off Long Island in the Bahamas group, and he planned today to drop anchor off Conception Island, where he fished on his way to Puerto Rico last July. ' The President apparently was going ahead with previous plans to continue his cruise through the remainder of the week. In & message to Marvin H. McIn- tyre, his secretary here, the President described his piscatorial attempts off Long Island thus: “Have been fishing all morning Long lsland, Very ll".lc‘llu‘-k." rolled up over his Republican and stronghold, Los Angeles. Opinion is| out of grants to States be spent directly for iabor. Public Works Administrator Ickes had demanded that the one-third requirement be thrown out of the bill on the ground that it would disqualify many desirable projects. Meets Early Estimates. In connection with the Virginian's suggestion, official estimates of the amount of direct labor that would be required on different types of projects were recalled. All the estimates given in_committee hearings on the relief bill indicated more than 25 per cent of costs would go directly to labor. House and Senate conferees were unable to reach an agreement in two meetings yesterday. Glass plainly was irritated as he rushed out of the second of the un- successful conferences. His face was flushed, his white hair rumpled. He said he didn't know what the next move would be, but that he would not make it in any event. OHIO STUDENT ARRESTED 'FOR ATTACK ON MAN, 55 | Refuses to Name Others Accused of Tarring and Feathering Writer in Cemetery. | By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Ohio, April 3.—A tarring | and feathering amid tombstones of a | cemetery resulted in the arrest today of one of five Ohio University frater- nity youths. Sherifl Charles Stratton said Rob- | ert C. Moore of Cleveland, a junior | and president of Pi Kappa Alpha Fra- ternity, admitted he was one of five ! youths who took Harley Thompson, 55, an insurance salesman, to the cemetery and applied tar and feathers | as punishment for articles Thompson allegedly wrote about the fraternity | men in the Ohio Examiner, a publi- | cation. | The sheriff said Moore declined to name the other four youths Thomp- | son charges picked him up off the | street and took him in an automobile to the cemetery. | to the Bath Iron Works contracts for the two destroyers with the naval authorities while I was in Washington | the week before last. “I also wired the President directly {and also Claude A. Swanson, Secre- | tary of the Navy, urging that all pos- | sible consideration be given to your ! bids and the placing of these con- tracts with the Bath Iron Works.” Hoover Case Cited. Evidence that an effort had been made to have President Hoover award | destroyer jobs to private yards in preference to the Government navy | yards as an inducement for votes in the last presidential election also was introduced. A letter sent to Newell by J. W. | Powell, president of United Drydock | Co., one of the smaller yards. under | date of September 30. 1932, was presented. | “This morning Gerrish Smith | (president of the National Council of | American Ship Builders) and I | (Powell) called on Ted Sanders at national Republican headquarters in New York and made an oral state- ment to him on the political effect on the employes of the private ship yards {of the award of the three destroyers |to navy yards and requested him to use his influence with the President | to direct construction of the three remaining vessels in private yards." The Sanders was Evereit San- ! ders, former secretary to President Coolidge and then chairman of the Republican National Committee. Con- tinuing, the latter said: “He stated that he did not know | whether his influence would have any sonal impression is that he will try to have the President award these three vessels to private ship yards.” Meanwhile, Eddie Rickenbacker, | World War flying ace, declined an in- vitation to appear before the House Military Committee to testify on leg- ! islation to strengihen the Army Air | Corps. He expressed the opinion an- | other trip to Washington would be fruitles Nye | dence _had been duced by the (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) de his statement after evi- | | On the day the United States Fleet maneuvers are scheduled to begin in the North Pacific the senior American naval officer in the Orient will make a good will visit to Yokohama, Japan, it was disclosed today. Secretary Swanson announced that Admiral Frank B, Upham, commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet. who re- cently served here as chief of the Bureau of Navigation, will be aboard the cruiser Augusta on May 3 to visit Japan. The Augusta will be accom- panied by the cruiser Detroit. Secretary Swanson said the Navy Department has received numerous letters expressing disapproval of the 1¢ fleet maneuvers in the Hawaiian-Alaska-Puget Sound area, starting next month. The cabinet officer, however, declared: “J don't think they're justified.” 1t is customary for the Asiatic Fleet A U. S. Asiatic Fleet Commander Plans Good-Will Visit to Japan to make an annual good-will tour to Japan, the Secretary said. He insisted there is no more justification for ap- prehension over naval maneuvers in the Pacific now than in previous war games. The American naval maneuvers were announced & vear ago, he said, before Japan denounced the naval treaty. Admiral Upham's visit to Japan, in the opinion of the Secretary, ought to dispel any impression that the American naval maneuvers are an unfriendly act to Japan. The Jap- anese propose to hold their own naval maneuvers after the United States, but at no time will the two fleets be within 2,000 miles of each other, Swanson said. The destroyers of the United States Asiatic Fleet, accompanied by the Black Hawk, will visit Kobe, Japan, as another index of Japanese-Ameri- can ’flu Secretary said. {effect on the President, but my per- | ce had been introduced by the | ment fund. $238.250 was restored to the bill for improvements to the water system. including installation and re- pair of meters in order to eliminate | discrimination in water rents between | consumers with meters and those on | a flat-rate basis. In working out one of the most com- prehensive local supply bills in recent years, the Senate group also restored | essential operating expenses for hos- | pitals and other public welfare | agencies, together with additional | health needs that were not considered | by the House In contrast to the House bill. which was $1,066,000 below the Budget Bu- reau estimates, the Senate measure exceeds the estimates by $2.385.797 and is larger than the appropriations for the current fiscal year by $6.175.941. $185.000 Added for Schools. The Appropriations Committee ap=- proved all the recommendations of the subcommittee and went further by adding $185000 to the school | building program to purchase a site for the long-needed Jefferson Junior | High School in the Southwest. The | other items inserted by the subcom= mittee and approved by the commit- |tee to provide better housing for | school children are: Bunker Hill, four rooms and space for four additional rooms to replace present school, $115.000 For beginning a vocational school for girls to replace the old Dennison | School on S streel, on District owned !land, between Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Upshur and Allison streets, $140,000, with authority to enter into coatract | up to $280,000. For an addition to the Ketcham | School, eight rooms and assembly- | gymnasium, $155,000. | To prepare plans for a new senior | high school on the site already owned |in Manor Park, $40,000. For a 10- room addition and gymnasium to the Paul Junior High School, $190.000. For an eight-room addition and gvmnasium at the Truesdell School, | removing old structure, $155,000. | For a seven-room addition to the | Roosevelt Senior High School, $81,000, To complete the Woodrow Wilson | High School and improve the grounds, | $70,000. To improve the Armstrong High School and remodel the present gym- nasium, $115,000. To improve the stage and corridors | (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) . THREE PERISH IN FIRE AT BRONX TENEMENT Two Burned Seriously and Seven Families Escape Early- Morning Blaze. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 3.—Three per- sons lost their lives and two were seriously burned in a fire which swept & Bronx tenement early today. The victims were members of the family of Willlam Doppio. Members of seven other families escaped. The dead were: Mrs. Mary Doppio, 44, and two children, John, 23, and Florence, 11. The father, William, 42, and a son, Nicholas, 14, are in Elncoln Hospital in a critical condj lon. The fire started in a first-floor market owned by the Doppio family, #