Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1935, Page 2

A—2 xx LA FOLLETTE ASKS INEOVE TAXBOST Amendment Urged to Slice Bigger Sums From Big Salaries. By tha Associated Press Senator La Follette, Progressive, of | Wisconsin, said today that he would | offer an amendment to the income tax | law boosting the normal levy from to 6 per cent and advancing the sur- tax on top bracket incomes all along the line. Saying he was following the dis-| closures on salaried incomes supplied | by the Securities and Exchange Com- mission, La Follette asserted he would offer the amendment to the 1934 in- | ternal revenue act “as soon as I get| & chance.” His proposal was suggested to the| Senate as an amendment to the pink | slip repeal measure recently. but was | defeated. | ‘The move comes as the Securities Commission already has revealed that the yearly salaries of about 750 of the Nation's business chieftains aggregates | around $12,000,000. Five persons in the number of | those whose salaries were reported get more than $100,000 each an- nually; 7 between $75,000 and $100,- 000, and 29 from $50,000 to $75,000. The average is around $16,000. Here is the way the La Follette | gmendment would raise the income surtax: From $780 to $1,020 on a net income of $16,000; $1.260 to $1,680 on $20,000; | $2,240 to $3,060 on $26.000; $4.640 to What’s What Behind News In Capital Administration Spend- ing $2,400,000,000 Short of Goal. | BY PAUL MALLON. S SPENDTHRIFTS, the New Dealers are proving to be something of a disappoint- ment to themselves. They have succeeded in encoursg- ing a rather general impression that they are good-time Charlies with the money bags. Yet somehow or other | they always wind up their fiscal years by spending a couple of cool billions less than they expected to. President Roosevelt promised last | year to run the Treasury $7,300.000.000 into the hole. Congress authorized him to do it. At the end of the year | he had succeeded in driving it in only to the extent of $4.900,000,000. | | That was $2,400,000,000 short of his | | goal. You can get a good line now on how he is coming out this year by checking the figures for the first three quarters of the fiscal year, ending April 1. He had then dished out about $5,000.000,000, and his program for the entire year calls for $8,500,000,~ 000. This indicates his hoped-for deficit of $4,800.000,000 will turn out to be $2.800,000,000, which is about $2,000,- 000,000 short, $6.570 on $38,000; $7,700 to $11,160 on | $50,000; $15980 to $23,040 on $74.- 000; $28,000 to $38,760 on $100,000; $533,000 to $658,260 on $1,000.000, and from 59 per cent to 71 per cent | on income of more than a million | a year. Information reaching the Securities | Commission today was that of the | salaries reported, 145 were those of | heads of companies. The total in this classification was $5.065,110, or ®n average of around $35,000. MRS. 7MAUD E: SEE-LEY OF TAKOMA PARK DIES Funeral Services for Government Employe Will Be Held Monday. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md. April 6.— Mrs. Maud Estelle Seeley, 21 Den- wood avenue, who died yesterday in Sibley Hospital, Washington, was for many years a resident of this place. | Funeral services will be held Mon- day afternoon at 2 o'clock at Hines Funeral Home, 2901 Fourteenth street, ‘Washington. Interment will follow in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Seeley was a clerk in the Treasury Department. She is sur- vived by her husband, Harold J. See- ley; a brother, Jesse C. Johnson, jr.; four sisters, Mrs. Blanch L. Thomp- | son, Mrs. Geneva Plummer and Mrs. Dorothy V. McGowan of Wash- ington, and Mrs. Jessie A. Reitnauer | ©of Yonkers, N. Y. JOHN BETTEKER DIES IN NEARBY MARYLAND @peclal Dispateh to The Star. GLEN, Md., April 6.—John Bet- teker, 74, for 40 years a resident of | this vicinity, died Thursday night at | his home here, following a prolonged | illness. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ida Betteker, formerly of Chilli- cothe, Ohio, and one son and three daughters: Mrs. Eli J. Lloyd, Mrs. Aubrey E. Ferrel and Murray L. Bet- | teker, of this place, and Mrs. Arthur | 8. Stephens of Washington. | The funeral will take place at 9 o'clock Monday morning from St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Rockville, | burial to be at Beach City, Ohio. Mr. Betteker was a native of Ohlo. EFFICIENCY RATING SYSTEM CHANGED BY This failure is due entirely to the deficiency in spending. His income | 18 Tunning true to the line he marked out. The three-quarters figures show receipts of $2,800,000,000, which will make the whole year's receipts come out at around $3,700,000,000, as esti- mated. Rate Must Be Doubled. But to carry out his spending pro- gram, he would have to double the existing rate of expenditures for the remaining three months of the year. Even Harry Hopkins, biggest spender who ever hit this town, cannot do that, unless he starts throwing away dollar bills from the top of the Capitol dome. | The spending rate this year has | been about $555,000.000 (not billions) & month, and this rate probably will | be maintained for the remaining three months of the fiscal year. If Mr. Roosevelt wants to punish any one for letting money go un- spent, he can start with Jesse Jones. The R. F. C. was supposed to touch | the Treasury till for $400,000,000 this vear. Instead, Jones has given the Treasury $137,000.000. Therefore, his | spending calculations are off more | than half a billion so far. | The A. A. A.-ers hoped to run $660,- 000,000 behind the processing tax re- ceipts, but have succeeded in run- ning only $167,000.000 behind. Mr. Ickes fell half a billion short of his estimates. Mr. Farley's deficit is near- ly $20,000,000 less than he anticipated, Interest being paid on the public debt is $300,000,000 below estimates. Hopkins figured he would get rid of $1,700,000,000, and he has disbursed $1.200,000.000. You can trust him to get rid of the rest before the end of the year. The man in the street who has been trying to lay aside a couple of dollars jor an Easter hat may not appreciate this self-disappoint- ment of the New Dealers. Also, the tarpayers, who were drained March 15, may suspect it is mot realistic. There seems to be some- | tion and re-election because of his | thorough knowledge of the Demo- | | remain THE Uncertain—Long Fight Delays It. By the Associated Press. James A. Farley will conduct the re-election campaign of President Roosevelt next year, and at the proper time will resigr as Postmaster Gen- eral in order to give undivided atten- tion to political affairs, according to close friends. This, it is said, is in accordance with the wishes of the President, but when Farley will step out is problem- atical, certainly not while he con- tinues to be the object of attack by Senator Long of Louisiana, it is em- phasized. Farley Declines Comment. Farley has repeatedly declined to comment about his future. Friends said he planned to discuss the matter with the President again in the near future, but that Farley already had been given to understand that the President wanted him to handle his campaign for renomina- cratic national set-up and his organ- | ization ability. | He was represented as willing to | comply with Mr. Roosevelt’s wishes | in the matter of either leaving the | cabinet or handling the 1936 cam- paign. It was added that Farley had | indicated some time ago he would | withdraw from either post if it suited his “chief,” but had been urged to in both capacities to finish Jjobs he had undertaken. | Governor Race Out. Incidentally talk of Farley run- ning for the New York governorship is out for the present, friends say. In Actress Is Found Beaten, Warning Written on Back Assailant Identified One of Pair in Earlier Attack. as By the Associated Press. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, April 6.— The strange adventures of Barbara Leonard, 30-year-old film actress and wife of Jack Leonard, pianist, reached a new climax yesterday when the woman was found insensible and scantily clad in the bath room of her home, with the words, “last warning,” scrawled on her back. Mrs. Leonard last Mowday told police two men entering her home through a ruse, beat and tied her and placed her into a clothes closet. She later was found, nearly suffocated, by her brother. Two days later, after she announced she intended to attend all police show-ups of criminals in the hope of recognizing her assailants, she said she received a note warning her not to_“recognize anybody.” Mrs. Leonard, revived and rushed to the Beverly Hills Emergency Hos- pital, said: “I had gone into the bath room | and closed the door when suddenly it was opened and a man entered the room. How he got into the house, I do not know, but I thing he was | one of the men who bound, gagged | and robbed me last Monday. She said he grabbed and choked her until she fainted. MELLON ART PLAN FVIDENGE N TRIAL List of Paintings Included even after giving away those stamps. | | utility of early Egyptian safety pins, | the first place that campaign also | comes next year, and it would not be | possible for Farley to carry on a po- | litical fight of, his own while working for the national ticket. | Too, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman fis | expected to seek a third term, and he is a friend of both Postmaster Gen- eral Farley and President Roosevelt. in Proposed Gift to U. S. Admitted by Court. | By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 6.—The tale of the millions Andrew W. Mellon | paid out here and there to assemble an art collection he hopes to give to the public—a story just now being !told in full—is accepted by the Tax 24 MILLION RELIEF | FUNDS HELD STOLEN Boere of Apocais ss yart of the a- | | The whole list of paintings, which deeds of gift disclosed cost $19,010.115, was put before the board over Gov- | Counsel for New York Probe | ernment objection yesterday just as the 80-year-old millionaire himself Makes Charge in Reply ended five days on the stand. The | to Hopkins. hearing now is in adjournment until | Tuesday. ‘ | | By the Associated Press. Facts Gradually Told. NEW YORK, April 6.—Testimony | Throughout the hearing, in which | that approximately $24,000.000 a year | the Government seeks to assess Mel- | s bein_g stolen by grafters and | lon $3,089,000 extra on his 1931 in- | chiselers” was cited by Chief Counsel | come, details of the collection in- | Lloyd Paul Stryker last night in reply | tended for a national gallery in Wash- to Federal Administrator Harry L. ington have been bared little by little. Hopkins' criticism of the New York | The art treasure question reached relief investigation. lits climax after an Internal Revenue Stryker contended Hopkins passed | Bureau ruling of this week that the | | premature judgment when he de- 'A. W. Mellon Educational and Charit- ;nounced critics of such white-collar 1 able Trust, to which the pictures | relief projects as “boon-doggling” and | were given, is not tax exempt. | | eurythmic dancing as being “too| Prank J. Hogan, Mellon's counsel, | damned duml?' to appreciate the finer | brought out from Charles Russell, things of life deputy commissioner of internal reve- | “The point which is apparently nue, that the ruling reversed a deci- overlooked,” said Stryker, “is that the | sion of 1933 holding the trust was | record contains the clear admission ot taxable. Then over objections of | | of the director of the whole program | Robert H. Jackson, bureau counsel, | | in this city, Mr. Hodson, that approx- | he had introduced the full list of imately $24,000,000 a year of the tax- | paintings. | payers’ money is being stolen by | : i £ Y $18,209,250 in Three Years, | grafters and chiselers who are im- | | properly and {llegally upon relief.” It showed $3,241.250 worth of pic- Stryker pleaded for indulgence for tures were given in 1931, $6.065,000 those “who do not understand ‘boon- | worth in 1932 and $8903,000 worth | doggling,’ ‘eurythmic dancing.’ the last December. Jackson argued against admission, the population trends of the second 'saying the trust organization “creates millenium, etc.” and declared the nothing,” but Presiding Member testimony showed that many such| Ernest Van Fossan of the board held projects had been discontinued be- the matter admissible. | thing in such suspicions. Mr. Roosevelt's habit of overesti- mating expenditures for his advance | budgets serves several useful purposes. It keeps the spending enthusiast quiet | in and out of Congress. It gives an | ;:;gt’:%mfism TALMADGE INSISTS | ! [ i1 scoreD BY D.v. A, Heap, HOPKINS “GET OUT”, 1 FEW T0 GET J0BS BYFALLAFL SAYS Any Work Given Will Be on Relief Projects, Green Predicts. By the Assoclated Press. The American Federation of Labor sees poor prospect of further industrial re-employment before Fall, and ex- pects that the only jobless who will get work in the meantime will be Government program. “Prospects for further re-employ- ment before next Fall are slight,” said William Green, A. F. of L. president, in a monthly survey. “It is clear now that we canont expect this year's Spring busy season in industry te bring the further progress in putting | the unemployed to work. “Whatever work is given to the 11,000,000 unemployed will be that furnished on a relief basis through | the Government $4,880,000,000 pro- | gram. | “When nearly one-third of our wage |and small-salaried workers must either go without work or accept work |on a charity basis, we may expect serious consequences to the morale of our entire Nation.” ‘The business upturn which started in September, he said. ended in Feb- ruary. That upturn, he added, gave jobs to 639,000, but this gain dropped | in February, when total employment was only 519,000 above February last year. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy and colder with lowest temperature about 36 degrees tonight: tomorrow fair and continued cold; moderate northerly winds. Maryland—Cloudy, colder in east and central portions tonight; tomor- row fair, Virginia—Cloudy and colder, prob- ably rain in extreme south portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy. West Virginia—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably rain in southeast portion tonight;™ colder tonight. North and Middle Atlantic States— Fair over north and rain over south portion, except rain or snow in moun- tains early part of week and rain over south and rain or snow over north portion again about Thursday. Mod- erately cold first half of week and temperatures moderating somewhat latter half. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Degrees. Inches. .. 29.93 29.86 29.86 Yesterday— 4 pm... 8 pm. ... Midnight .... Today— 2989 30.00 30.04 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon tnd- - Highest, 51, 5 p.m. yesterday. Lowest, 40, 10:45 a. today. Record Temperatures This Ye. . Highest, 80. on March 21 Lowest, —2, on January 28 Humidity for Last 24 Hours, (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 93 per cent. at 3 a.m. today. Lowest, 69 per cent, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday. ) Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. « 10:01am. 4:25am. 10:37p.m. 4:58 pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. 5:47am. 5:45am. 6:36pm Moon, today.. 7:20am. 10.45pm. Tomorrow. 10:47am 5:14am 11:24 p.m. 5:46 p.m. Sets. Sun, today... 6:35 p.m. Sun. tomorrow those aided by the $4,880,000000 EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1935. FARLEY WILL quIT TOHEAD CAMPAIGN {Date of Resignation Still Mother Loses Son’s Love | | inflationary buoyancy to business | sentiment. And no matter how many | CIVIL SERVICE —(Continued From First Page) | and if below that figure they may be promoted not beyond the middle | salary; if the rating is fair they are to be reduced one step if above the | middle salary of a grade, while un- satisfactory calls for dismissal. Under the new plan, too, it is in- tended to get away from the old “average” provision, in which the billions he spends, the fact that he peclares Nation Has Failed to spent less than expected makes the | spending appear to be conservative, ratings of employes in one unit were made to conform to those of another unit in the same establishment. | The new plan was developed joint- ly by the Research Division of the Civil Service Commission and com- mittees from the various departments, along with the Council of Personnel Administration, composed of person- nel officers throughout the govern- ment. It was finally approved by the\ council yesterday afternoon by unani- | Noises drifting out from the relief bill conferees indicated that Senator Carter Glass has at last met his match in shrewd stubbornness, if not in studied irritability. The formidable foe is Chairman (Buck) Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee. | Buchanan Masculine. Mr. Buchanan has a high-pitched mous vote and by the commission voice, but do not let that fool you. itself today. It is declared that it will | He wears the smallest-sized shoe you save thousands of dollars in clerical | have ever seen on a man, but that work. fact may be subject to misinterpreta- Complex System. The old rating system has beel yigorously condemned by employes, ! who contended it was so complex it permitted juggling and when the wholesale dismissals were on in the government two years ago, Secretary Ickes disciplined some heads in one bureau, whom he charged had wrong- fully applied it. In contrast to the simple chart now to be used, the old graphic rating chart contained 15 service elements and the employes ‘were generally rated on a half a dozen or more of these. These major ele-| ments were broken down into about 45 or 50 subheads each. This new service rating plan was | given extensive trials before adoption. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess. House: Completes action on McSwain anti- war profits bill (noon). | Military Committee hears addition- #l witnesses on measures to improve Army Air Corps. YESTERDAY. Benate: Adopted conference report on $4,- 880,000 relief bill. Debated food-drug bill. Finance Committee heard that coal eode authority sought to mulet St. Louis consumers of $3,000,000. House: Approved several amendments McSwain anti-war profits bill. Ways and Means Committee gave final approval to social ’ucum.y bill, -l tion also. A more accurate under- tanding of him may be developed rom the stories, whether true or not, that he once carried a small pistol and that he knows the rudiments of poker which cannot be learned from | books. The conference was a constant clash between the personalities of Glass and Buchanan, with Buchanan adequately holding his own. Old political stage hands paid little attention to the ezuberant claims made by both Republican and Democratic orators about the recent sectional elections. The best Michigan authorities be- lieve the results there may have in- dicated that Mr. Roosevelt could not carry that State today. Inasmuch as he did not carry it last November, this deduction is hardly sensational. The Chicago election meant little because the Republicans did not present their best candidates, did not try. Too many local personalities were involved in these two sections, and elsewhere, to warrant any worth- while national conclusions. A Republican wag has condensed his interpretation of the history of the four years 1933 to 1936 into the shortest, although not necessarily the most trustworthy, volume of all cur- rent political works, as follows: 1933—F. D. R. School Worker Injured. Walter Day, 24, of 722 I street southeast, suffered a dislocated elbow and arm and hip injuries yesterday when he fell from the roof of the Anacostia High School to the floor below. The school is under construc- tion at Sixteenth and Ridge streets southeast. . Care Adequately for Dis- abled Soldiers. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, April 6.—Commun- ism and “capitalists who too easily forget those who fought for them™ were attacked yesterday by Volney P. Mooney, jr., Santa Monica, national commander of the Disabled American Veterans, in an address before the California Legislature. Asserting the Nation has failed to care adequately for its disabled sol- diers, Mooney placed most of the blame on “capitalists and the press.” About Communism, he said: “You ask me if I think the Com- munism question is serious? Certain=- ly it's serious. Certainly it's a men- ace. Wouldn't you say it was menacing when 60,000 rounds of ammunition and hundreds of guns have been stolen from Government arsenals during the last few months and traced to these subversive forces? ‘When thousands of men are known to be drilling in secret under the direction of Communists or Fascists?” By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, April 6.—Gov. Eugene | Talmadge yesterday said it was “common rumor” that Frances Per- to quit the cabinet and he thought Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop- | kins “ought to get out.” “I hear she (Miss Perkins) is about to retire and the best thing for the Nation is for Hopkins to be out of there,” Gov. Talmadge said. The Governor was aroused by the national relief administrator’'s state- ment that Georgia should “think of its own school children a little bit."” It was construed to mean rejection of Georgia's application for a $2,- 500,000 relief donation for common schools in this State. Gov. Talmadge assailed Hopkins in bitter tone, saying “Let him go back to being a charity broker; that's all he's kins, Secretary of Labor, was ready | Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. 1 Georgia Governor Reports Labor | Secretary Also Ready to Quit. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): | Month, January February March April . May June July .. | August September October | November 237 | December .. 332 Weather in Various Citi 1935. . 527 237 333 54 Ave. 3.55 Record. 709 ‘82 6.84 '84 884 91 913 '89 10.69 10.94 10.63 14.41 17.45 8.57 8.69 1.56 fes. ‘00 '86 28 ‘34 ‘85 '89 ‘01 Tempera- az ture. Stations. o anramorvg T Te—— Abilene Tex. Albany, N_ Y Al Mrs. Helen Virginia Villapiano, ARMY DAY PARADE MUSTERS 30,000 18th Anniversary of U. S. Entrance in World War Commemorated. (Contirued From Pirst Page.) possibly, but that was one time T | didn't vote wrong!” “We consider ours the mosi impor - | ant votes we ever cast,” declared Lun- | deen and Knutson together. “I'll bet continued Knutson, “that 90 per ce: of those who voted for war in 19 would vote against it tomorrow if th | coular” Forty Bands in Line. Forty bands timed today's par? who sat in District Supreme Court vesterday afternoon and sobbed as her 8-year-old son, Albert J. Sardo. jr. | (inset), testified he stopped loving her when she left him and his father. WORLD ECONOMIC - PROGRAM URGED Hull Voices Appeal for Joint Efforts to Restore ‘ Stability. i | By the Associated Press A plea for adoption of a compre- hensive international economic pro- gram as a prelude to peaceful solu- tion of the world'’s econcmic problems was made today by Secretary Hull. In a statement outlining the ob- jectives of the United States in ne- gotiating reciprocal trade pacts de- signed to lower tariffs, Hull declared it was necessary to restore the world's economic stability before peace, dis- armament. unemployment and other major problems could be solved. | mother, No Conference in Sight. In reply to questions, however, Hull said he knew of no diplomatic dis- cussion now in progress which might be designed to result in a call for an international economic conference. | *“The experience of most parts of the world in the last few years in | their attempts to promote and pre- serve political stability, disarmament, peace and other necessary interna- tional relationships, undoubtedly by | this time has demonstrated the great | difficulty of making progress in these vastly important undertakings while a large portion of world population is unemploved and feeling the serious [pinch of economic distress,” he de- clared. | —Star Staff Photos. SARDO BOY'S FATE STUDIED BY COURT Child Renounces Love for Mother in Her Suit for Custody. | And now the court must decide if 8-year-old Albert J. Sardo, jr. is to be given -into the custody of the mother he says he doesn't love any more, or remain the ward of his grandfather, as he wishes. Yesterday afternoon the boy turned calmly to Justice Oscar R. Luhring in District Supreme Court, where the guardianship issue is being fought out, and said he had ceased to love his Mrs. Helen Virginia Villa- plano. when she left his father. Albert J. Sardo—now dead. Boy Ignores Mother. “She doesn't love me—if she did she wouldn't have left me,” he said. As Albert left the stand, the mother, weeping, made an impulsive gesture toward him. He ignored her. Mrs. Villapiano was remarried within two weeks after she was divorced from Sardo in Reno. The boy stayed with his father, and since the latter was killed in an automobile accident in February, has been with his grand- father and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. William Sardo, in Chevy Chase. The mother sued to regain his custody. Albert told the court he didn't like his mother’s new husband, Dr. Joseph Holds Need Is Urgent. |of 50,000 soldiers, cadets, vetera | and members of patriotic organ‘z tions. Similar Army day demonstr tions were in progress all “over th country. High official of the Government an-! members of the foreign diplomatic | corps occupied a reviewing box on Constitution avenue between Seven- teenth and Fourteenth streets. Officials in charge of the demon- stration were disappointed by the inability of President Roosevelt to attend, but Vice President Garner Speaker Byrns, cabinet officers and ranking military officers were present Ma). Gen. Robert E. Callan, com- mander of the 3d Corps Area, was grand marshal of the parade, while Maj. Edward S. B heim, jr., was in charge of arrangements for the demonstration, staged under auspices of the Military Order of the World War. Line of March, The column was headed by Maj Ernest W. Brown, superintendent, and a platoon of Metropolitan police. The starting time was 1:30 p.m. and the parade moved from New Jer- sey avenue and B street southeast to Constitution avenue and thence west to Seventeenth street. The parade was organized follows: First division: Army, Navy and Ma- rine Corps units, led by the United States Army Band. Second division: National Guard and Organized Reserves, led by the band of the 121s; Engineers. Third division: R. O. T. C. and Cadet Corps, led by the Georgetown University R. O. T. C. Band. Fourth division: Veteran and p. triotic organizations, led by the Wast ington Gas Light Co. Band. Reviewing Stands Erected. as All units formed 12 abreast, with not more than 40 s between ranks, and the parade required about an hour and a half to pass a given point. Reviewing stands have been erected along the line of march and 25 cents for children and 40 cents for adults was charged. except in stands 0ppo- site the official reviewing stand, where | tickets were 99 cents The Army Corps was represented in the ground parade by an airplane and detachment from Boling Field One of the most modern pursuit airplanes, a P-26, mounted on a streamlined trailer and was towed in the parade. accompanied by a detachment of Air Corps Soldier: from Bolling Field, marching unde command of Capt. F. B. Valentinc Air Corps. ‘The plane, a iow-wing, single-seat: monoplane, is capable of a maximum speed of more than 235 miles pe hour. It was pointed out that, shoulc it take off from its trailer at the start of the parade, it could react Chicago by the time the parade dis- banded. With the radio equipment which the ship carries, the pilot could, during his westward flight, keep post- ed on the details of the parade he had deserted. Maj. Martin F. Scanlon. command- ing officer of Bolling Field. has made arrangements for the public to visit the local Army flying post during the afternoon. Officers of the field will be on duty to show the visitors the various functions and activities. The parade was described for radio listeners this afternoon by an- | nouncers aloft in airplanes and a | blimp, and transmitting their ac- counts to ground stations by short wave. anta. Ga Atlantic Gity Baltimore,” Md. been all his life, anyway.” “The money he is dishing out doesn’t belong to him,” he continued. “It proportionately belongs to Georgia. It's the people’s tax money. “It is unbecoming of any one to say that we go barefooted down here be- ey Attends School at 84. BERKELEY, Calif., April 6 (®.— Going to school is just an old story for Francis O. Mower, who at the age of 84 years considers himself the oldest living member of Phi Beta Kappa, National Scholastic Honor Soclety. Mower attends no less than five classes a day at the University of California here, a practice he started three years ago whem he re- tired from high school teac! decided to resume the early education A many government officials can under- | he received at Bates College, Maine, | stand the old Gaelic tongue better | from which he graduated in 1876. | than English. don’t think about the children.” TP 01d Gaelic Understood. Aged Scots report that when visiting The Euening Star Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. == === === Order l?orm-————j | Name .. | GOVERNMENT TO-DAY Price $1 at The Evening Star Business Office, or by mail, postpaid ! Street | | | | | | ! g and | the Irish Free State they find that | Mis blessed recently by the Most Rev, Dr. .Cullen, alo. N. ¥ Charleston’ 8.C Chicago, Ill. . 3 cause we have no shoes and that we | El P: 8. i apolls Jacksouville.Fia Kansas City Los Louisville. ami, Fla. Minneapolis New Orleans New York. N. Oklahoma Cit: el Portland, Me Portland. Ore; Raleizh. N. C. Salt Lake City | San Antonio. Cloudy FOREIGN. (7 a.m.. Greenwich time. today.) Stations. ‘Temperature. Weather. A6 Cloud 8t. George: 8an " Jua; Havana, Cuba_ . Colon, Canal Zone New Houses Blessed. Sixty-two new municipal houses in Bagnalstown, Irish Free State, were A “The necessity, therefore, was never more apparent for the various countries of the world to give imme- | | diate attention to the matter of adopting a sound and comprehensive | economic program, both domestic and | | international, and carrying it forward to the end that the normal processes of domestic and international finance and commerce may be restored and tens of millions of unemployed wage- earners may be re-employed. “This would afford a solid founda- tion on which to rebuild stable peace Y‘n-ni political structures.” Lieut. D. S. Campbell “Bails Out” When Plane Goes Into Spin. HONOLULU, April 6 (#).—The eve of Army day brought Caterpillar Club honors to Second Lieut. Daniel S. Campbell, United States Army, yes- terday. Lieut. Campbell “bailed out” in a parachute and floated safely to earth‘ after his pursuit plane went into a | tail spin at 10,000 feet during maneu- vers several miles from Honolulu. | “Federal Interference” Hit. i HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 6 () — | Asserting recovery was near, Dr. Neil | Carothers, professor of business ad- ministration at Lehigh University, said in an address here last night it would be permanent if Federal “interfer- ence” with business stopped. | G. Villapiano of Asbury Park, N. J., who, he said, had struck him on one occasion. He also denied that rela- ives were influencing his testimony, saying he was appearing of his own free will. Letters Are Introduced. Endearing letters written by Albert to his mother, and introduced by At- torney Julian Richards, her counsel, were turned against the womaff when the boy said he only wrote them at the dictation of his father, and not because he wanted to. The elder Sardo was represented by | Ringgold Hart, who introduced char- acter witnesses to prove the fitness | of the grandfather to keep the boy. Justice Luhring took the cdse un- der advisement. LIKES 37-LETTER NAME Resents Move to Change It to Glafkos Protopappas. PONTIAC, Mich. (#).—A rose by any other name might smell as sweet—but not to Glafkos Pappa- theodorokomoundoronicolucopoulos! ‘The man of letters—count 'em, 37— waxed wrothy at a conspiracy on the part of his children, abetted by the school teachers, to shorten the family name to Protopappas. Stella, 16, one of the seven children, drafted the ab- breviated form of the full name which, she explained, was built by the addi- tion of a name with each generation. Legally, Glafkos s the old name stands—from “Pap” to “Los.” Pennsylvania A Is Pennsylvania avenue to lose its proud title of the “parade ground of America”? ‘The magnificence and splendor of numerous gala occasions that reached their height in wild and colorful demonstrations on the thoroughfare were memories today as a major pa- rade ignored the historic boulevard for the first time in Washington's his- tory. Sentimental oldsters murmuringly protested as they watched the care- free soldiers in the Army day parade swing along Constitution avenue while the immemorial boulevard of tri- umphs, the Avenue, stood compara- tively silent and deserted. ‘The joys and hopes, the misery and the heart aches, the wars snd woes of the United States have all been re-echoed along the blocks of the wide boulevard. Inaugural parades | |and nresidential funeral processions, the Armistice and world series vic- tory, marchers and Lindberghd venue Ignored By Parade for the First Time paraders—Pennsylvania avenue, the parade ground of the Nation and one of the earth's historic streets, re- sounded to them all. The stately boulevard, with its solid | front of impressive Government build- ings, long pulsated with the life and vigor of the ountry, with a landmark in every block to mark some step in the forward march of the United States. The Avenue was not always great. Once pigs squealed in mud-rooting glee where now cabinet officers walk. But soon its day of glory came, and it seemed immortal. Patriots pre- dicted it would stand as a symbol longer than the Forum of Rome. ‘What would be the consternation of President Grant today to see the khaki troops walk past, not on the Penn- sylvania avenus down the length of which he headed a splendid parade | to celebrate the street’s then new mil- lion-dollar paving of wondrous wood 1] The Military Order of the World War will hold a banquet and dance at the Mayflower Hotel tonight in honor of Army day. Speakers at the banquet will include Chairman Shep- pard of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Student anti-war strike leaders an- nounced they would picket the con- centration points of the parade and hand -out circulars urging R. O. T. C. and Cadet Corps members to refuse to march in the military demonstration. Miss Jean Scott, chairman of the Cen- tral Strike Committee, made the an- nouncement. Among entertainments planned for participants in the Army day celebra- tion is a special “open house” program at the Knights of Columbus club | house, Tenth and K streets. SLAYING IS LAID TO JEALOUS RAGL ‘Chicngo Labor Official Shoots Wife's Friend, Then Beats Her With Blackjack. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 6.—Jealousy, th | authorities said today, promptc | Thomas Cronin, president of local 704 | of the International Brotherhood of | Teamsters to slay William Bahnfleth. 43, after a bitter quarrel in Cronin's home _ Bahnfleth was shot four times last night while Cronin's wife and 9-year- old son, Thomas, jr., looked on. Police said the labor official became en- raged over his wife's friendship for the victim, and that a quarrel ensue” when he found Bahnfleth at his home last night. Cronin fired the four shots after beating Bahnfleth with a blackjack, police said, and was beating his wifc with the blackjack when police, sum- moned by a maid, arrived. Mrs. Cronin told police Bahnfleth had been friendly with her since her' estrangement from Cronin for two years prior to last July, and that since she returned to Cronin, Bahn- fleth had been a welcome guest in their home. Bahnfleth, an oil salesman, is sur- vived by a widow, Elizabeth, and two children, residing in California. | | Ac.tr?n Londofl Bound. HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (#).—Helen. Vinson, the first Hollywood actress to be signed by Michael Balcon, British fllm producer, during his talent hunt here left yesterday by airplane for New York en route to London. Miss Vinson will appear in one picture, 8 story of Devil's Island, before returns 'u to Hollywood. 4