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(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight, probably ending tomor- row morning; warmer, with lowest tem- perature about 48 degrees tonight; slight- 1y colder tomorrow. Temperatures—High- est, 47, at noon today; lowest, 37, at 3 am. today. Full report on page A-1l. Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages 17,18&19 Entered as secot post_office, Wa No. HOLSE PPROVE COFERENCEPLN ON WORK RELEF Only Senate Action Remains to Rush Bill to Roose- velt by Plane. 33,211. ‘COMPROMISE’ PLEASES DEMOCRATIC LEADERS Measure Declared ““Putrid, Rotten and Foul” by Short, Repub- lican, of Missouri. By the Associated Press. The conference agreement on the $4,880,000,000 work-relief . program was approved today by the House. ‘The vote for approval was an-| nourced as 317 to 70. Senate action alone remained to speed the bill to President Roosevelt. Only an hour’s debate preceded House acceptance of the conference report containing the compromise agreement on the controversial work issue in the proviSion allocating $900,- | 000,000 for non-Federal projects. House clerks prepared immediately | to carry the huge money bill to the other end of the Capitol, where Sen- ate leaders waited to press its approval. Democratic chiefs obviously were pleased at the “compromise” reached over the provision which would have required that one-third of the $900.- 000.000 allocated for non-Federal proj- | ects should go to “direct work.” ! ‘They were particularly pleased that the work requirement had been re- | duced to 25 per cent and the word | “direct” eliminated, claiming there | were very few types of projects on | which “indirect” work would not ex- | ceed that figure. Short Condemns Bill. Before the House voted it heard Representative Short, Republican, of Missouri describe the bill as “putrid, rotten and foul.” Short followed Rep- | resentative Taber, Republican, of New | York, who contended the “object of this bill is to have projects under way | a year from next Summer, when they | can have an effect on the election.” | Taber quoted from what he de- | scribed as a “Democratic campaign | paper” named the “Window Seat” this statement, in connection with the bill: “Don't forget that this expenditure will practically assure President Roosevelt’s re-election.” There were some Democratic hand- claps when he read that séntence, but | no one interrupted him as Taber | added: 1 “That is the object of this bill. It's| raw; raw.” | He claimed, too, that “we are going to be assured of incompetent admin- istration” because Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator; Secretary Ickes and Rexford Guy Tugwell, Under- secretary of Agriculture, would have ® hand in it. After the Senate acts, the bill prob- ably will be placed aboard an airplane and sent southward for President Roosevelt's signature. Funds Near Exhaustion. Sending the completed measure by plane to the President, who is fish- ing off the coast of Florida, wis pro- posed because existing relief funds are described as near exhaustion. Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, said yesterday his organization had only enough money to last the rest of this | week and possibly the first half of . next. . Speed also was wanted because the (pontinued on Page 4, Column 3.) JONES’ GOLF PLAY ELECTRIFIES CROWD One-Time King Shoots 33 in| Splendid Comeback at Augusta. By the Associated Press. AUGUSTA, Ga., Aprii 5—Bob Jones, the one-time king of all the golfers, electrified the crowd today by making a marvelous recovery and shooting the first nine in 33, three un- der par, in the second round of the $5,000 Augusta national invitation tournament. Henry Picard. Hershey, Pa., con- tinued to set the pace for the all-star field, shooting the outgoing nine of his second round in 35, one under par. He had a 67 yesterday, five under par. His 27-hole total of 102 gave him a two-shot lead over his nearest rivals, Jimmie Hines of New York and Willie Goggin of San Francisco. | Hines, with a 70 yesterday and out- | ward 34 today, had 104. | Ray Mangrum of Texarkana, Tex, | who was tied with Goggin and Gene | Sarazen for second place with his | first round 68, lost a little ground | by taking 37 for his first nine today and had a total of 105 for 27 holes. TAX COLLECTIONS INCREASE 39 PCT. Revenue Bureau Reports Gain of ©102 Per Cent in Florida. By the Associated Press. An increase of 39.7 per cent in in- come tax collections in March over the same month last year was reported formally today by the Internal Rev- enue Bureau. Reports from the 64 collectors in the United States showed total collec- tions of $321,726,348, compared with $230,348,080 in the same period last "“c«nmmloner Guy T. Helvering said the increase in receipts of income taxes occurred in every collection dis- trict except Hawail. Thirteen districts reported increases of more than 70 per cent over last year, these being led by Florida, which showed a gain of 102 per cent. Thirty districts showed an increase in wections of 50 per cent or more, he nd class matter shington, D. C. Julian Wins Bet Farmer Who Got Horses Had Auto By the Associated Press. William A. Julian, Treasurer of the United States, wasn't touched by the recent letter from the Volin, 8. Dak., farm boy which brought two old artillery horses to his father. He told about it today. i “Piffle,” he sald ‘to his special assistant, G. C. Emerson, when the story was made public. “T'll bet you $100 to $5 that the ily owns an automobile.” 'l take $1 of that at those odds,” countered Emerson. Whereupon, a neighboring post- master was appealed to to settle the friendly controversy. Today came the reply. Julian won. MELLON RESENTS RULINGTO TAXART ‘Political Persecution’ Seen| in Move to Levy on Gallery Here. SOCIAL SEGURITY MEASURE 1S GIVEN FORMAL APPROVAL 17 Democrats on Commit- tee Vote to Report Bill. G. 0. P. Abstains. MAJORITY POSTPONES GAG RULE DECISION Official Estimates Place Taxes to Carry Out Provisions at $1,800,000,000 in 1949. | By the Associated Press. Final, formal approval was given by the House Ways and Means Commit- tee today to the social security bill. ‘The 17 Democrats present voted for a motion to report the measure to the House, while the 7 Republicans voted “present.” Representative Lamneck, | Democrat, of Ohio, was absent because By the Associated Press. | of illness. A PITTSBURGH, April 5—The dis-. The Democrats, in a later meeting, closure that the Government thinks | however, deferred until later in the Andrew W. Mellon’s proposed $50,- : day a final decision on whether to ask ! leaders to let them bring the bill up 000,000 art gallery in Washington is | under a “gag rule.” It was indl(:ludi not exempt from taxation brought the | the committee’s request would be for | assertion from his counsel today thtj- rul rmitting consideration only | impl: “political perse- ' of affiendments offered from the floor ruling 1ssmply more “potca pese- o SNt o Word of the Internal Revenue Bu-| Cost Estimates Made. a v trust niza- = Meanwhile, official calculations that reau'sdeclaioh po e DR |the bill would mean $800,000.000 in tion, to which Mellon already has| .o ov "1 1037 and a minimum of turned over $19,000,000 worth of "“‘-tl.aoo.ooo.ooo by 1840 beougtitinew!| tures, came while the 80-year-old|enorgy'to'the fight over the measure. millionaire himself was testifying in The figures were prepared by Ways his $3,089,000 income tax hearing. | and Means Committee experts. Calling Mellon back for the fifth Republicans immediately seized VASHINGTON, D. The only evening in Washington wit I aper the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Star C, JOE, IT'S NoT MY FAULT. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1935 —SIXTY-TWO PAGES. ### MAYBE Nor, JOE, BUT YOUVE 0 HEL E UP AGAINST | | | oB/,vso//r{,"- (i FLIGHT T0 BOLIVI BARRED TOFLYERS Leder Contusion |\ ANTLTRUST ST Ten U. S. Aviators, Four Well Known Here, Are Grounded in Peru. day, Robert H. Jackson, counsel for the Revenue Bureau, indicated he may complete cross-examination before closing the seventh week of the hearing. $10,000,000 Offer Revealed. Further development was expected of testimony by Mellon that a com- petitor of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. in 1927 offered him $10,000,000 for 100.- 000 shares of stock in the firm. securi= ties which he sold for $500,000 to the Union Trust Co. in 1931 and claimed a capital loss of $5,600,000. The Union Trust transaction, the Government claims, was a “shadow sale” to evade tax payments. After reading a copy of the bureau ruling on the art gallery, Frank J. Hogan, Mellon’s chief counsel, said: “There's nothing strange, new or surprising about this. It's simply part and parcel of the political perse- cution that has motivated the whole Mellon case.” The possibility of a further tax appeal involving millions of dollars was hinted by a close associate of the former Treasury Secretary, add- ing the whole plan for a national art gallery might be placed in “seri- ous jeopardy” if the courts upheld the decision. Previous Letter Rescinded. The ruling, dated April 3, 1935, and signed by Charles Russell, deputy commissioner. announced the re- scinding of a letter of March 8, 1933, which had held the contributions to the A. W. Mellon educational and charitable trust, would be deducted in computing income tax. In his cross-examination of Mellon yesterday on the sale of the coal | Frank E. Taplin, Cleveland business {man and president of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., offered to buy the Mellon interests in Pittsburgh coal for $100 a share. Jackson asked, when in 1931 he decided to dispose of the stock, whether he had asked - if Taplin wanted it. “Certainly not,” was the reply. ART TAX RULING EXPLAINED. Treasury Holds Mellon Gift Must Be Donation to Escape Levy. Treasury officials said today that Andrew Mellon's proposed gift of a "$50,000,000 art gallery to Washington is not exempt from taxation because it would be simply a ncminal trans- fer to a corporation, the Mellon Trust, still controlled by the donor. Information that the Bureau of Internal Revenue had made this rul- ing was given out at Pittsburgh. It was pointed out here that the bureau recognizes donations to art galleries and the like as legal deduc- tions. However, the point in this case, it was emphasized, is that the bureau cannot recognize a donetion as such until it is actually made. ‘The question of these deductions, it was said, is an issue in the income tax suit now being tried against Mel- lon in Pittsburgh. INDIANS SCOFF CHICAGO, April 5 (#)—What the nine full-blooded Navajos enroute to ‘Washington for a “pow-wow” with the chief of Indian affairs said when they stopped off in Chicago and took a look at the sky-line was something like this: f “Do-do ha ni ca ho tah dah ni sini nita 'h.” Which, meant: “I don’t belleve it.” their interpreter said, Threat on -President’s Life Sends Man By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 5.—Thomas F. Murphy, 29, a laborer, of Cambridge, Mass., was arrested by United States secret service agents today on a charge of sending a threatening letter to President Roosevelt and after ar- raignment was committed to a psycho- pathic hospital for observation. Murphy was held in personal bail of $5000 after arraignment before United States Commissioner Harry F. Guterman. He was examined by Dr. George F. Houser of the Boston State Hospital, who signed the papers com- mitting him for observation. ‘The physician's report said Murphy was suffering from hallucinations of persecution by a former employer, upon the estimates as providing new support for their contention that the (bill puts too heavy a burden on busi- ness. The minority members of the Ways and Means Committee talked over the figures in a meeting pre- liminary to a conference of the 103 | Republican House members tonight. They indicated that if it were pos- sible, they would try either to elimi- nate the taxes, to reduce them or to pestpone their effective dates. | _ The Democrats on the Ways and | Means Committee already have de- | feated on several occasions attempts | to reduce the tax requirements of the bill. In its final form the measure levies two types of taxes on pay rolls: One for contributory old-age annuities and one for unemployment insurance. The old-age ahnuity taxes start at 2 per cent on January 1, 1937—half paid by the employe and half by the employer —and rise 1 per cent each three years to a total of 6 per cent on January 1, 1949. 3 Per Cent on Unemployment. The unemployment insurance taxes —also on pay rolls—are all paid by the employer and begin at 1 per cent on January 1, 1936, and increase 1 per cent a year to 3 per cent on January 1, 1938. The committee experts calculated | the unemployment insurance tax | would cost the employer $200,000,000 | | next calendar year, $400,000,000 in 1937, $600,000.000 in 1938 and each year afterward. They figured the annuities tax! would cost the employer and the em- ploye each $200,000.000 in 1937, $300,000,000 in 1940, $400,000,000 in 1943, $500,000.000 in 1946 and $600,- 000,000 in 1949. Thus, they calculated, the total tax burden would be $200,000,000 in 1936, $800,000,000 in 1937, $1,000,000,000 in 1938, $1,200,000,000 in 1940, $1,400,- 000,000 in 1943, $1.600,000,000 in 1946 and a $1,800,000,000 minimum in 1949. $98,438,000 More Needed. Republicans also said that in addi- tion to those sums, it would be neces- sary to get $98,438,000 out of general tax receipts next fiscal year for other Pphases of the bill. That total includes $49,750,000 for | old-age pensions to the needy; $24,- 750,000 for dependent children; $10,. 000,000 for public health and $3,800,: 000 for maternal and child welfare. In future years, the cost of old-age pensions for the needy would decrease, but after the next fiscal year there would be a Federal appropriation of $49,000,000 annually for administra- tion of unemployment insurance un- der systems set up by the States. May Halt Sales Tax Drive. Congressional tax leaders believe | the social security bill will enable | them to beat down with ease any re- newed drive for a Federal sales tax. ‘They had anticipated that some at- tempt might be made to put through a levy on manufacturers’ sales when Congress finally gets around to extend- ing the nuisance taxes which will ex- pire around June 30 and which now return about $416,000,000. But yes- terday Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee remarked: “I don't think you'll hear so much talk about a sales tax this Congress. This social security bill may force the States to raise some money for old- age pensions and other things. In fact, they won’t get any Federal as- sistance unless they do. “And my idea is that a lot of States will want to preserve the sales tax fleld as their own to raise that neces- sary money.” to Mental Ward Murphy was arrested at his Cam- bridge home this morning by Secret Service Agent John J. McGrath, who had been assigned to investigate a letter received at the White House threatening the President’s life. Although the letter, mailed March 27, bore no signature, there was a re- address. ‘The letter, which was several pages in length, concluded with the threat, in bold letters: “I will assassinate you if I don’t receive any answer.” i C. McCarthy, assistant ‘When arraigned, Murphy 3 “I made & mistake, that's all. The best way out is—I want to | ‘Ten American airplane pilots and | mechanics, four of them well known |in Washington, were grounded Lima, Peru, today, subject to fines of $500 each, as the State and Com- merce Departments sought to keep the | United States from being involved in | serious diplomatic difficulties with the | warring South American republics in | the Gran Chaco. ‘The 10 men were flying to Boliva in four big Curtiss Condor airplanes which the 8tate Department was in- formed originally had been built to the order of the Bolivian government as hombardment airplanes. Exporta- tion of the planes was prohibited whén the United States clamped a ban on the shipment of munitions to the South American belligerents. Military Designs Alleged. An Associated Press dispatch from Santiago, Chile, today said that it had beén reported in Lima that the planes were intended for military use in the Chaco war, despite the fact they were allowed to depart from the United States on the condition they were for transport use only. The order halting the flight, it was said, relieved Chilean officials, who (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) TRIO ACCUSED OF GRAFT SEEK TO VOID P. W. A. Ask Charges Be Quashed Ground Two Acts Are Unconstitutional. Three Californians indicted here re- cently on P. W. A. graft charges in connection with an alleged change in specifications for a Texas irrigation canal, asked District Supreme Court today to quash the indictment on the ground the acts of Congress author- izing the P. W. A. and the N. R. A, are unconstitutional. This demurrer to the indictment was filed by Attorney George P. on | Hoover, representing Harry W. Cole, president of the California Redwood Association; Leonard C. Hammond, president of the Hammond and Little River Lumber Co., and’ James P. Barrie, a Hammond engineer. The demurrer sets forth 33 reasons, which, the defendants contend, invalidate the indictment. The three Californians were indicted with four other men by the special | grand jury last month. It is alleged they conspired to alter specifications for a $4,000000 canal in Willacy | County, Tex., so as to realize a profit for themselves of $400,000 from the P. W. A money to be used in the project. COUNT COUNTS HIMSELF OUT OF PRINCESS’ LIFE Danish Nobleman Says He Is Not Suitor of Barbara Hutton Mdivani. By the Associated Press. SAXKOEBING, Denmark, April 5. —The wealthy young Danish Count Kurt Haugwitz today counted him- self out as a suitor for the hand of Princess Barbara Mdivani. “All stories of my connection with Guide for Readers .B-2-3 1-3-3-4 |House Democrats | Move to End Floor 0. . ACCUSES T | Bankheud Illness - and | Taylor Irregularity Behind Gesture. by Credit Group. By the Associated Press. A small group of House Democrats {Justice Department Charges Contempt of Injunction | Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,754 Some Returns Not Yet Received. (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FRENCH MOVE TROOPS TO GERMAN FRONTIER; ITALIANS ARM 40,000 New Trenches Ordered I)y Paris in Move to Reinforce Garri- sons on Reich Border. MILITARY MANEUVERS MARK DAY IN EUROPE AS PEACE IS DISCUSSED Austria Reported Ready to Make Show of Rearming Plans—Hitler Pacts on Non-Aggression Reported. By the Associated Press. Military moves occupied a large part of Europe today as statesmen prepared for next week’s security conference at Stresa The French moved 32,000 troops up to advanced positions along the German border, increasing the reinforcements of the border garrisons by about 60,000 men. New barbed wire and trench fortifications were ordered built. ’ While Premier Mussolini retired to prepare a European security proposal to present to the French and British at Stresa, the Italian Fascist militia began a movement of volunteer mobili- zation which, it was estimated, would total more than 40.000 men Austrian military borders buzzed with unconfirmed reports that Austria was about to make a first public appearance in her avowed process of rearmament. Meanwhile, Germany was understood to be prepared to give a pledge of refraining from war through a series of non-aggression pacts with neighbor countries, offering to accept her present boundaries for at least 10 years. Great Britain was said to be hopeful of restraining France from making the League of Nations’ special council session, April 15, a demonstration against Germany. - New Trenches Dug Hitler Suggestion For 60,000 Soldiers For New Pact Series set out secretly today to try to do something about the party’s floor | leadership. |1t had filed a suit in the Federal Their movement was prompted by Court at St. Louls charging 15 de- |the continued illness of Representa- fendants with criminal contempt of tive Bankhead of Alabama, the regu- an injunction obtained under the | larly elected floor leader, and the “ir- anti-trust laws against the National | regularity” of Representative Taylor #Retail Credit Association in October, | of Colorado. acting floor chief. Bank- 1933. | head thus far has been unable to at- | _ The action was filed this morning. | tend sessions of Congress. !the department said, before Federal Although the malcontents declined Judge Davis. i i | to talk for publication, or to say pud- The charges resulting in the injunc- |licly what their remedy was, other tion.” a statement said, “were that the members understood their plan might '8ssociation and its members. which be to try to get Representative O'Con- | Include a large majority of the local nor of New York, chairman of the Tetail credit reporting agencies Rules Committee, or some other lead- throughout the country, had divided By the Associated Press. floor leader. Democra porary the country into regions and assigned g ARG R | one region to each member, and that, | was even some talk about declaring the floor leadership vacant, but ‘majority opinion of the group it- self was against that. NEGROES ORDERED ON JURY LISTS {Alabama Governor Acts on Receipt of Decision by Supreme Court. By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 5— | Gov. Bibb Graves today announced that he had written circuit judges and | solicitors that the United States Su- | preme Court decision in the Scotts- | boro case meant the names of Ne- groes must be placed in the jury boxes |in the State. The Governor’s announcement was a formal statement describing his ac- tion after receiving official copies of the United States Supreme Court de- cision. The Governor said he was also | going to ask the Legislature when it reconvenes April 30, to enact such leg- islation as may be necessary to cover dumping and refilling jury boxes in Alabama. i Rights Infringed. The United States Supreme Court, in setting aside death sentences im- posed on two of the colored defendants in the Scottsboro case, held that Ne- groes were “systematically” excluded from jury rolls in Jackson and Mor- gan Counties, infringing on the consti- tutional rights of the defendants. Regarding pending cases, the Gov- | eronr said if the question of the ab- sence of Negroes' names from the Jjury rolls was raised, the case could be continued or nolle prossed until | the jury boxes were refilled to meet constitutional requirements and new indictments drawn. The Governor's statement, in part, oldings of the United States Su- preme Court are the supreme laws of the land. Whether we like the de- cisions or not, it is the patriotic duty of every citizen and the sworn duty of every public officer to accept and (Continued on Page 3, Column 4. MAN KILLED, 151 HURT IN TEXAS TORNADO Rain and Hail Storm Damages Farming Area—New School Destroyed. By the Assoclatell Press. EAGLE PASS, Tex., April 5—An unidentified man was killed and 151 persons injured by a storm 12 miles north of here last night. Eighty houses were blown down and more than 100 others damaged. There also ‘wis hail and rain. Sweeping the Quemado Valley, a farmihg ‘drea, the ca and nurses were dis- mau.m Quemado from Eagle Pass several hours before |in order to enable each member to | enjoy a monopoly of the business in | his region, they agreed among them- | selves to refuse to deal with non- | member competing credit agencies.” 5 Agreement Alleged. The defendants also were charged, | Ithe statement said, “with having ar- | | ranged and agreed to prevent non- | member competing agencies from ob- taining information from business es- tablishments which were members of the credit association, and in that manner seriously intérfering with non- member competitors in procuring credit report material. “These practices were prohibited by the decree entered by the court on October 6, 1933, and all agreements, ciation and its members which made the boycott of non-members effective were required to be canceled and ab- rogated.” The credit agency and business es- tablishment members are located at Mobile, Ala.; Seattle, Wash.; Spring- field, Ohio, and Wheeling, W. Va. Defendants Are Named. ‘The defendants listed were Guy H. Hulse, E. Dewitt, W. H. Jernigan, J. S. Merrill, Frank B. Speidel, Prederick & Nelson Co. of Seattle, Was| & Co. of Springfield, Ohio; George Merchants’ Co-operative Association, all of Wheeling, W. Va.: Merchants’ National Consumers’ Credit Reporting Corp., National Retail Credit Associa- tion, Seattle Retail Credit Association and Springfield Retail Credit Bureau, Inc., of Springfield, Ohio. GOLD REPORT DENIED Dutch Officials Say Currency Standard Is Unchanged. AMSTERDAM, April 5 (£)—A re- port originating in Paris that the Netherlands had left the .gold stand- ard was categorically denied today by lands Bank, who reiterated that his country has no such intentions. | A Paris report that a shipment of | Netherlands Bank gold to Paris had | been refused by the Bank of France | because it did not conform with the required fineness standard was also denied. Bnn:im Take Pay Roll. GLOUCESTER CITY, N. J., April 5 (#)—Two robbers stole a $2,200 pay | roll today from Charles Craig. The money was for 150 women employed at the Nannette Manufacturing Co. plant. Lord Mayor of Somewhere in Washington there are a cross, star and sash, part of a decoration bestowed upon the Right Hon. Alderman Alfred Byrne, T. D., Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, by His Holiness, Pope Pius XI—and the Lord Mayor, who is sailing for home tomorrow, wants the treasures back. In a confidential message to The Star today from P. T. Kelly, traveling companion to the Lord Mayor, it became known that the decorations were missing after he had displayed them to a roomful of admirers last Priday in the Mayflower Hotel. They were valued at $10,000. “Prior to his departure from Wash- rules and contracts of the credit asso- | ; Rand | Stifel & Co.. George Taylor Co. and ; President J. A. Trip of the Nether- | On Reich Frontier The Justice Department said today ! By the Associated Press. NANCY, France, April 5-—The Franco-German frontier teemed with warlike activity today as France moved reinforcements to her border fortifications and linked her chain of steel and concrete fortresses with barbed wire and trenches. Approximately 32,000 troops. belong- ing to the 6th, 7th and 20th Army | Corps, stationed at Metz, Besacon and | Nancy, were rolling up to the advance positions. Added to the forces transferred from the Italian frontier, the rein- forcements will increase the strength | of the border garrisons stretched from Switzerland to Belgium by about 60,- 000 men. ‘The troops were put to work at once building barbed-wire obstacles and digging trenches along undefended stretches between the new concrete | blockhouses and forts. | Reservists Instructed. At the same time several thousand reservists, now carrying out exercises in the vicinity, are being instructed with active army units in the duties they will be called upon to perform in war-time as “covering forces.” In connection with army stafl’s entire plan to tighten up frontier defenses and make them impregnable in case of attack, experiments were carried out with warning sirens to determine their efficiency in spread- | ing an alarm. The sirens are similar to those used in Paris as a warning | to the civil population of the approach of danger from the air. At least 10,000 men in the Metz region are being used to strengthen the fortifications and aid the reser- vists to become familiar with their | functions should they be called upon | to man the frontier defenses. Artillery Moved. consisting of 2000 men, has been | moved from Verdun to Thionville, border. They reinforced an aviation squadron and Infantry battalion al ready stationed at Thionville. ‘The 26th regiment of Infantry, | consisting of 5,000 men, moved from Nancy, has taken up its position at Bitche, fortified position on the old Franco-German frontier. The regi- | ment was accompanied by several | thousand reservists attached to it for | training. | Bitche is the northern end of the | permanent series of subterranean for- tifications designed as the main shotk line behind the network of machine-gun nests strung along the frontier. It was reliably reported the Su- perior Military Committee of the | The 39th Horse Artillery regiment, | Opposed in London By the Associated Press LONDON. April 5.—Well-informed sources said today that Reichsfuehrer Hitler of Germany gave Sir John Si- mon. Britain's foreign secretary, an aide memoire during their Berlin con- versations in which he proposed a system of bilateral non-aggression pacts for Germany on a 10-year basts These same sources, however, said the British government regarded these proposals as a backward rather than a forward step toward the goal of European security. It was explained that the British feel that such bilateral pacts which do not include the principle of mutual assistance against an aggressor nation, do not go as far as the Kellogg pact ind the Locarno treaty and that there- fore such proposals do not constitute anything of value toward the building up of a new mutual guarantee security system. Co-operation Doubted. Despite the publicity Berlin officials are giving Hitler's proposal. there ! were no indications here that the British expected further co-operation from Berlin at the present time. Au- thoritative British said they regarded Hitler’s aide memoire as a restate- ment of the policy he outlined before Sir John went to Berlin and that it therefore was an old story. England will do its utmost to re- strain France from making the League of Nations Council session April 15 a demonstration against Ger- many’s conscription move, official cir- cles said. Although the Council meeting was called to consider France's appeal against the Reich's rearmament move, it was said Great Britain would in- sist that negotiations go forward for a general European armaments and security understanding so long as there is any hope of their success. Cabinet Meeting. The scene of the aggressive British peace campaign switched today to Whitehall, where a special meeting Credit Association of Mobile, Ala.; | Which is 20 miles from the German of cabinet ministers was expected to | decide upon the next steps for mak- | ing the Franco-British peace propos- als effective. After 13 crowded days of talk and travel by Sir John Simon and Capt. Anthony Eden, lord privy seal, it now appears to be the British govern- ment’s responsibility to suggest a line of action to France and Italy. Eden, who interrupted his air trip home at Cologne last night because of a stomach disorder, was expected | to appear before a group of minis- | ters especially interested in foreign affairs to make his report soon after his arrival. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Chamber of Deputies is planning a as well as Sir John may go to the program through which the eastern continent soon, well informed quar- frontier can always be covered in | ters said. if a meeting of the powers | case of sudden attack by a mass of | can be arranged in which Germany | about 400,000 men. est secrecy over the troop movements. but asserted reports of large trans- | fers were “‘exaggerated.” Italy Sentences 18. ROME. April 5 (#).—The special tribunal for defense of the state today sentenced 18 anti-Fascists to prison terms of 3 to 8 years each. Dublin Seeks Treasures ‘Lost’ in Washington decorations and papers dealing with same, some person in their admira- tion of the cross, star and seal, which is part of the decoration which goes with the Knighthood of St. Sylvester, took them with the apparent inten- tion ‘of returning them soon after- ward. But they never have been seen since and his honour feels the loss sadly.” Mr. Kelly feels that some practical joker was at work, for he continues: “If the practical joker who has these treasures will return them to R. L. Polllo, manager of the Mayflower Hotel, he will see that they are packed, insured and returned safely to Dub- lin to the lord mayor.” ington,” Mr, Kelly wrote, “my lord let me into his ce, and in- formed me hile showing Mr. Pollio this morning called in his staff and a_thorough in- vestigation o | Authorities were maintaining strict- | will participate. MacDonald's Part. Some reports sav the prime min- ister will attend the Stresa conference or the meeting of the League of Na- tions Council April 15, but more re- liable information is that his attend- | ance at least at Stresa is out of the | question. Since Great Britain, through Simon | and Eden, made direct explorations of the situations in the four Eastern European capitals, her recommenda- tions are likely to dominate the Stresa proceedings. Preliminary decisions on the steps to be taken to bring Germany and Poland into security and armaments agreements with their neighbors prob- ably will be communicated to Paris and Rome even before the powers gather at Stresa. -— ‘KIDNAPERS GIVEN DEATH Convicts Sentenced to Hang for Abductions in Prison Break. SAN RAFAEL, Calif., April § (#).— Death on the gallows, a Superior Court jury has decided, is the price Alex McKay and Joe Kristy, San Quentin convicts must pay for kidnaping mem- bers of the State prison board last January 16 in an attempt to escape. Each was convicted on 11 counts, including kidnaping and kidaaping for the purpose of robbery, both of which carry the death penalty under California’s drrth new law,