Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow; probably light, frost, with lowest temperature about 40 degrees tonight. Temperatures—High- est 47, at noon today; lowest, 40, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page A-11, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 33,216. Kntered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. . 4 BILIONS RELEF T0BE HANDLED BY " ™ EASTIN AGENCES Roosevelt Explains Delay in! Announcement of Details. No. Battleax Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) | BERLIN, April 10.—The same me- | dieval battleax which fell on the necks of the two noblewoman spies six | weeks ago lopped the heads today | | from two men accused of “a crime | CONFERS WlTH FECHNER | committed of political hatred.” | | sally Epstein, a 28-year-old Jew, | !and Hans Ziegler. 34-year-old Aryan, | ON EXPANSION OF C. C. C. |went to the execution block in | | Ploetzensee Prison's gloomy cougp | A | vard for the slaying of Horst Wessel, President Plans to Direct Work- the martyred bard of Nazism. | Once more the 67-vear-old official | | executioner donned his top hat, kid | gloves and tailcoat to perform his gruesome task. | The two prisoners had been in- | formed at 6 o'clock last night to pre- | pare “for your last 12 hours.” Shortly before 6 am. the prison ! Aid Expenditures Per- sonally. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. The major part of the $4,000,000.000 work-relfef program will be carried out by existing agencies, President Ch Roosevelt said today. Discussing the undertaking at his regular press conference. he said he hoped to have the work-relief drive at its operating peak by November. | Delay in announcemcnt of the de- taiis of his plan. Mr. Roosevelt said. | is due solely to what he described as purely mechanical details. Plans for developing a smooth-run- | ning machine through existing agen- cies is taking considerable time, he ex- | plained. The agencies for weeks have been receiving requests for allocations of money, and. the President said. it is going to take a long time to pass on these requests. and to get various types of work under way. Cites $600.000,000 for C. C. C. By way of explanation. the Presi- dent mentioned the provision for al- lotting $600.000.000 for an expension of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He said that first of all. before young men can be enrolled. the additional camps must be chosen and the build- ings constructed to house the men. That will take time. The President conferred with Rob- ert Fechner. director of the conserva- ticn camps, this morning. in an effort 1o work out a schedule to follow in expanding the camps up to the limits made possible by the work-relief money. In puilding up these camps. the President is planning as far ahead as July, 1936. He said today he doubt- ed if the money allotted for this pur- pose will be sufficient. After today's conference Fechner #aid the number of camps would be increased trom 1.431 to 2.916. Silent on Agencies. Mr. Roosevelt did not attempt ta enumerate the agencies that will han- dle the work-relief program. but said there will be at least a dozen of them. As for the men who will occupy high positions, the President showed no inclination to make public their names or even to say he had decided upon sll of them. It has been said in informed sources that three men sure to have places on the board are Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator: Harold L. Ickes. public works administrator, and Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under- recretary of Agriculture. The Presi- dent said nothing regarding this re- port, however. Since his return to Washington he has made it plain he proposes to be the actual head as well as the titular head and that he personally is going to assume the responsibility for this largest money-spending program in the peace-time history of the Gov- ernment. Another detail being worked cut is the arranging of the work throughout the country so as to take care of as many people possible in a stated area. In other words, the President’s aim is to avoid moving workers to jobs far away from their homes. Therefore the work program will be planned so as to not. take men more than 30 miles Aaway from their homes. Otherwise. as explained by the President. it would be necessary to build houses for the workers. - | Job Increase Expected. The President made it plain he plans to spend all he can before July | 1.1936. At the same time he is hope- | ful that when the big machine gets | well in motion and industry and busi- | ness commences to feel the effects that there will be a substantial increase in | employment. and that it will not be | “(Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) J MURDER ABOARD SHIP | T | Chinese Sailor Said to Have Slain | Fellow Countryman Over Debt. | HONOLULU, April 10 (#).—An fronic Oriental murder brought the | roving Japanese freighter, Rashin Maru. into Honolulu harbor today. Officers said Yan Shu Fa, 44-year- | ©old Chinese sailor, stabbed and killed Chan Tsua Men, 28, Chinese coal passer, | A year-old eight-yen debt. owed Yan | by the chief fireman. a relative of Chan. started .a family feud which | was climaxed with the stabbing Tues- | day night aboard the Rashin Maru. | ‘The sallor waylaid the coaler on the | lonely poop deck as Chan went on | watch, officers related, stabbing him in | the leg and chest. Yan was turned over w;edeul officers here. | e T0 AVERT STRIKE tervene in Rubber Indus- try Controversy. By the Associated Press. Secretary Perkins said today that President Roosevelt had directed her 'to try to avert the threatened Akron, Ohio. rubber strike Miss Perkins told reporters she had discussed the situation with Mr. Roosevelt last night. and already had had some conferences regarding it in New York. What her next step would be, how- ever. the Labor Department chief de- clined to disclose. | “Anything I would tell you now might not be true an hour hence,” she said There were indications. however, that Miss Perkins might call a confer- ence here of representatives of the in- dustry and the American Federation of Labor. She said she hoped to see Coleman | Claherty. Federation organizer at Akron. when he came here this week to confer with William Green, A, F. of L. chief. VOTE TO END TODAY. Will Count Ballots diately After Poll. AKRON, Ohio, April 10 (#) —The last cay of strike balloting in Akron’s troubled rubber industry arrived today and no peace offerings were evident on_either side. The only hope of heading off a strike of several thousand rubber workers in the Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone plants seemed to lie in the possibility of some sort of Federal ' zction. Representative Dow W. Harter of Akron_has written a letter to Presi- dent Roosevelt, presumably concern- ing the strike. In Washington. Har- ter said he expected to go to the White House today to see if there is any answer, The strike vote at the plant will close at 6:30 tonight, and officials of the union will start | counting the ballots at 8:30 a.m. to- morrow. Balloting at the Firestone nlant will end at 8 o'clock tonight, and the counting will start two hours later, officials said. Union workers at Goodyear already have voted to g0 out on strike. The United Rubber Workers' Union, which has conducted the strike vote, is demanding recognition, abolishment | Unions Tmme- Goodrich | of “company unions,” a collective bar- gaining election and a 30-hour week. | The Goodrich and Firestone com- | panies have refused to permit employe elections in their plants, challenging ! the authority of the National Labor Relations Board to order such elec- tions. SCHWARZKOPF GETS WASHINGTON, D. C. Nazis Behead Two for Murder Of Horst Wessel, Martyr-Bard Falls for Jew and Aryan in Crime of “Political Hatred” )\ EVE OF PARLEY Hitler Refused Appeal. director enjoined Ziegler and Epstein to prepare for the last act of justice. The prisoners donned brown jackets and, with their hands chained to their backs, were led to the block. Confirmation of the death verdict passed last June was read from an improvised stand in the prison court- yard. The condemned men were then told that their appeal for clem- ency had been rejected by Reichs- fvehrer Hitler. Wessel was shot to death Jan- uary 1, 1930. as the outcome of an altercation with his landlady. Six Communists have been sentenced to terms up to six vears for the crime. Ali Hoehler, one of the defendants, who died while serving his term. te tified he fired the fatal shot, but did so in self-@lefense. ROOSEVELTACTS NEUTRALITY PLAN UPATWHITE HOUSE | Directs Miss Perkins to In- President and Hull Will Con- fer Today on Nation’s Future Policy. By the Associated Press. A new neutrality plan for the United States in the event of a future war | will be discussed by President Roose- | velt and Secretary Hull at a confer- ence arranged for this afternoon. In his first press interview in several weeks Mr. Roosevelt smiled avay questions on the neutrality plan or uvon the attitude of this Government to the European situation. There was an intimation that the facis speak for themselves so far as the position of this Government toward the European crisis is con- cerned. Mr. Roosevelt so far has declined intervention in the troubles of the Old World except to restate what he terms the American policy of being a good neighbor New Bills Studied. Members of the Senate meanwhile studied informally bills introduced yesterday by Senators Nye. Republi- can. of North Dakota and Clark, Democrat. of Missouri, authorizing the President in war-time to restrict the issuance of passports to nationals seeking to enter war zones and clamp- ing restrictions on loans by citizens of this country to belligerent nations. A similar bill has been introduced in the House by Representative Kloeb, Democrat, of Ohio. The State Department has had a neutrality plan under consideration for some time. No details have been given. Plans for the conference were dis- closed on an assertfon that the Navy Department had been content to “run down rumors” of collusion among shipbuilders, instead of getting at the facts, was made to the Senate Muni- tions Committee today by Senator Vandenburg. Republican, of Michigan Vandenberg said bids of the Bethle-" hem Shipbuilding Corp. on the same | type of cruiser had jumped $3.500,000 in six months without “adequate” ex- planation. Land Statement Cited. His assertion grew out of a state- ment by Rear Admiral Emorv S Land, chief of construction, that the “rumors of collusion were all traced to one man.” - Previously Land had indicated he meant Laurence R. Wilder. head of Gulf Industries, an independent ship- builder. “No inquiry was made into the phys- ical fact of the bidding itself2” Van- denberg asked. When the admiral replied the de- | partment had examined the bid forms, the Michigan Senator added: “It appears that when the Govern- ment was about to be defrauded and the reason for it is collusion, the Navy Department was satisfied to run down | the source of the rumor and not in- ¢ Foenin - WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION / WEDNESDAY, APRIIr 10, 1935 3 FRENCH CONCLUDE RUSSIAN- ALLIANCE ‘;Planned as Reserve Check ‘ Against War if General Treaty Fails. SOVIET ALSO SIGNS | REICH TRADE PACT MacDonald and Simon Fly to Stresa—Stop at Paris En Route. | By the Assaciated Press. { The announcement of an agreement between France and Soviet Russia for | | mutual defcnse came with unexpected | NEW STORY ON.BRUNO | vestigate these prices.” A further attack on statements by A. P. Homer, Washington marine ar- | i . chitect, was made by Land and by | D UFRECats Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson. | Contentions. Evidence before the committee indi- | Bs thaAssosiated B cating Homer had “inside information” | e e . | on naval building plans was flatly con- | TRENTON, N. J., April 10.—Col. H. | tradicted by both officers, who were | Norman Schwarzkopf. State police | called to give their views on the $238,- superintendent, received today from | 000,000 building program of 1933 and the Department of Justice a report | g3y containing Rev, Michael J, Kallok's | story that he saw Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the vicinity of the Lindbergh home. | After reading it, the State police | head. who directed the search for | the Lindbergh baby kidnaper. an- nounced “nothing important has de- | veloped.” He did not make its con- tents public. but said the report con- tained nothing not told in press dis- patches from Milwaukee, where the priest said he became acquainted with Hauptmann at a riding stable on the | outskirts of Princeton, N. J. The priest, now of Cudahy, Wis., was pastor of St. Michael Archangel | Church in Trehton from 1926 to 1931. Receives Report From Justice Emphasizes Denial. Speaking emphatically Robinson | s said: “I never discussed shipbuilding with Mr. Homer at any time or any place in ‘my whole life.” 1 Homer had been variously repre- sented as a paint salesman and one- | time associate of President Roosevelt | in the lobster business. i Both_admirals. sitting together at | “(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) TRAFFIC TOLL INCREASE | BLAMED ON DRINKING, Russia Requires ‘With Parachutes in Training By the Associated Press. | MOSCOW, April 10.—Millions of young Russians, both men and -wom- en, must make parachute jumps and study airplane motors, under an order issued today. ‘The order makes “militarv and technical” training compulsory for all young Komsomols—members of both sexes, between the ages of 16 and 24, who belong to the junior organization of the Communist party—and young working people not affiliated with the tion. There are nearly 5,000,~ 000 in the ranks of the Komsomols alone. The training prescribed includes “at least one jump with parachute from a parachute tower during 1935”; no less than 30 hours study of airplane » u suddenness to diplomats preparing for the cvening of conferences tomorrow at Stresa, Italy, directed toward es- tablishment of a pan-European se- curity system The Franco-Russian agreement was explained as a secondary check against war in case the proposed pan- European system fails to designate the “aggressor nation” in the event ot hostilities. | Even as the bi-lateral military agreement between France and Russia ras annourced, Russia concluded a | bi-lateral trade treaty with Germany. |und Russian commentators said this | | suggested it might be necessary for ! Eastern FEuropean nations to make their “own deals.” TAKES PACT TO STRESA. ! French View Understanding as Model For Others. PARIS. April 10 (P)—France took to the Stresa conference today an agreement with Russia for mutual assistance in case of attack. With this she intends to reinforce whatever general security system may be devised in the tripartite conversa- tions. The Franco-Russian understanding was viewed by the French as a model for other agreements to be based on the League of Nations covenant and set up as a second line of defense for Eu- ropean peace. The pact will be signed when For- eign Minister Pierre Laval visits Mos- cow, April 23. Have Plan for Danube Pact. The foreign minister and Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandid also carried with them a formula for a Danubian pact containing what informed ci cles described as a satisfactory defini- tion of non-interference by one state !in the affairs of others. The Franco-Russian agreement is designed to provide a secondary check against war should the nations sub- scribing to a general security pact fail to agree on designation of the “ag- FLLENBOGEN BILL DELAYED INHOUSE 'Jobless Compensation Measure Must Await Action on National Security. | | The Ellenbogen unemplovment com- pensation bill struck another snag in the House District Committee today which will delay its favorable report to the House until definite action has been taken on proposed national se- curity legislation. Despite determined efforts of Rep- resentative Ellenbogen. Democrat. of Pennsylvania, to have the bil} placed on the calendar, the committee. by a vote of 6 to 4. agreed to wait for House action on the administration’s national security bill before again | considering his measure. { Meanwhile, House Ways and Means Cotamittee Democrats abandoned their attempt to demand consideration of the national social security bill under a g Tnet reached (hat decision afier & special attempt had been made to get President Roosevelt to indorse every prevision of the measure so it could be protected against amendments on “he floor. To Ask Resolution. gressor”’ nation in the event of hostili- | ties. The fact would give either nation the right to call on the other for military. naval or aerial assistance in case she were the victim of aggression. Based on League Covenant. It would be based on Articles 10, 16 and 17 of the League of Nations cov- enant. It was said the pact would be left | open, at least technically, to the ad- herence of other powers. | Flandid and Laval departed for | Stresa at 9:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. Eastern standard time). Besides their mutual assistance and security pact proposals, the French delegates carried the text of a protest against German rearma- ment. BRITISH CARRY S?('l'l“’l‘\' I’I,AN; to Join System Policy Is Accepted. LONDON, April 10 (#).—Prime Min- ister Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, left by special airplane today for Paris on their way to Stresa, Italy, and the opering tomorrow of the Tripartite Conference on Europe’s peace prob- | lems. ¢ Tke two British statesmen will spend the remainder of the day in Paris, departing from there for Italy on a night train. Carry Security Plan. With them they carried a plan for an all-inclusive European security system, which they will proopse to the French delegation and their Italian hosts. An authoritative source stated the British will inform the French and Willing If Their | Italians they are willing to have Great | Britain become an active member of the system to a limited extent if the other two powers will accept Great Britain’s policy of mediation. Any agieements, however, will be subject 10 the approval of Parliament, in-| formed gquarters were told. The British cabinet discussed the situation briefly during its regular meeting _after a conference between “(Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) POST AGAIN DELAYED Weather Unfavorable for Cross- County Stratosphere Hop. Youths to Leap motors, training in marksmanship and in some cases airplane and glider pi- loting. Anti-gas drills also have been provided. Al those who during 1934 quali- fied for the first grade of the order known as “ready for labor and de- fense” must during 1935 train’ for the second grade. In the country the young people must study the care of horses and tractors, and girls must pass tests giving them at least a “minimum of military knowledge” re- quired to be classes as “ready for so- cial defense.” Every Komsomol official must be- come an airplane or glider pilot, a crack marksman, an accomplished p-rszhui:n jumper or an automobile or ver, « President of Lumberman's Cas- ualty Co. Scores Inadequate Control of Liquor. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 10.—James S. Kemper, president of the Lumber- men's Mutual Casualty Co.. blamed “inadequate control of the liquor traf- fic” for the rising tide of traffic acci- dents today in his annual report to policyholders. “The most serious problem with which the company has had to deal in 1934 was the tremendous increase in the number of street and highway accidents,” he said. “On a Nation- wide basis fatalities increased 16 per come increased in 1934 to $18,307,575, a rise of $2,303,377 over the previous year. and that net earnings amounted to $3,026,616 LOS ANGELES, April 10 (#)—Un- suitable weather conditions held Wiley Post to the ground today and added another day's delay to his projected cross-country stratosphere flight. In similar fashion Laura Ingalls heid in abeyance her plans for & speed dash to New York in her new mono- | plane | Post’s present intention is to hop mitting. Guide for Readers Amusements . Comiecs ... Finance ... Lost and Found . Radio ports . % ‘Women'’s Features ...B-10-11 | off tomorrow at dawn—weather per- | Instead of recommending a “gag rule " the Ways and Means Commit- tee Democrats decided instead simply to go before the Rules Committee with *he request for a special resolution making the bill in order., and doing anvthing else the Rules Committee saw fit The successful fight for the delay of the Ellenbogen measure was led by Representative Patman, Demo- crat, of Texas, supported by Rep- resentative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland. Both insisted there was no necessity for hasty action on a District measure which might con- flict in some way with national leg- islation. Patman also made the point that the District Commissioners had not yet reported on the bill Various parliamentary tactics were resorted to by Ellenbogen in his at- tempt to get a favorable report. His support, however, was insufficient to overcome the opposition to immediate taction. Those who voted against re- porting the bill at this time, in addi- tion to Patman and Kennedy, were Representaflves Reed, Republican, of Illinois: Quinn, Democrat. of Penn- sylvania: Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland. and McGehee, Democrat, of Mississippi. The four who voted against the delay were Ellenbogen and Representatives Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia: Hull, Republican, of Wisconsin, and Wood, Democrat, | of Missouri. | Debate Is Protracted. Final action of the commitiee was preceded by a protracted debate par- ticipated in chiefly by Patman, Ken- | nedy, Palmisano, Ellenbogen and Rep- | resentative Nichols, Democrat of | Oklahoma. Patman, Kennedy and Palmisano literally shelled Ellen- | bogen with questions about the meas- |ure. Patman and Kennedy both ex- . plained they were not opposed to un- | employment compensation, but de- clared they were unfamiliar with vari- ous features of the Ellenbogen bill. | Ellenbogen. however. pointed out that | action on the measurc was deferred by [the committee last week to give all | 7 Continued on P 1$30,000,000 FRAUD CHARGED TO SIX | Former Offici tees' System Service Corp. Indicted. s of Chicago Trus- By the Associated Press. ment charging use of the mails in a $30,000,000 scheme to defraud was re- turned today against six former of- Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The indictment, containing 15 counts, each of which carries with it a maximum penalty of five years' im- Jrisonment and $1,000 fine, named Joseph C. Corcoran, 51, of Chicago | and Birmingham, Ala., founder of the | system; Dennis J. Corcoran, 46, brother of Joseph and vice president |of the firm: Frank J. Gibbons, 51, Chicago, president and director; Jacob G. Born, 54, Birmingham, director, secretary and treasurer; Frank D. Nicholson, 45, Chicago, auditor; L. J, Medinah, salesmanager. 4 rule” forbidding amendments. | CHICAGO, April 10.—An indict- | ficials of the Trustees’ System Service | Corp. by 8 Federal grand jury before Star —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. RN AN\ JUST ONE CAT AFTER ANOTHER! | | Fearing Parental Reprimand, Girl Tries to End Life By the A ted Press MINNEAPOLIS, 10— Jean Fleury, 13, was found last night lying in the kitchen of her parents’ home here with ullet wound in her neck, which ce said. was self-inflicted. earby stood an ironing board On i* was a dress that had been scorched in the process of iron- ing The girl's small brother told police that the girl had burned her dress and was afraid her parents would scold her. D.C.GROUPTOAD SLUM CLEARANCE Ickes Selects 21 Civic Lead- ers to Co-operate With P. W. A, Minn., April By the Associated Press A committee of 21 residents of Washington to act in an advisory capacity to co-operate with the P. W. A in development of slum clear- ance and low rent housing projects in the Capital was announced today by P. W. A. Administrator Harold L. Ickes Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is hon- orary chairman. Clarence Phelps Dodge, president of the Washington Community Chest. is chairman. and other members include business and professional leaders of the city. Members of the committee are Judge James A. Cobb of Washington Municipal Court, Stanton C. Peeie, former district attorney; William J. Flather, jr., banker; J. Bernard Wyckoff, business manager, Nation's Business; Frederic A. Delano. chair- man of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission; Rev. An- son Phelps Stokes. Canon of Wash- ington Cathedral: Joseph P. Tumult; | lawyer and former secretary to Presi- | dent Wilson: Joseph D. Kaufman, | president-treasurer of D. J. Kaufman, Inc.; Dr. Wairen Fales Draper, as- sistant surgeon general, United States Public Health Service; Mrs. Archi- bald Hopkins, president Washington Home for Incurables; Col. U. S. Grant, II1, Army engineer: Rev. Robert W. | Brooks, pastor of Lincoln Congrega- { tional Church; Maj. Campbell C. Johnson, chairman of the Inter-racial | Committee on Recreation: Leifur | Magnusson. American representative, | International Labor Office of the | League of Nations; Laurence Frederick Schmeckedier of Brookings Institu- tion, Mrs. Anne Archbold, Mrs. Rob- | ert Woods Bliss, Mrs. C. Carroll Glover, jr, and Mrs. Florence D. Stewart, executive secretary of the Washington Committee on Housing. o 'MOTHER AND THREE STABBED TO DEATH Bodies Found in Philadelphia Home and Husband-Father Wounded. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 10—A | mother and her three children were | | found stabbed to death in their South | Philadelphia home today. Marco, 55, wounded. The bodies, discovered when police | broke into the house at the request”of school authorities investigating the | failure of one of the children to report | for classes, were sprawled in the din- | ing room. The throats of all had been | slashed, and there were other cuts about the bodies. | The dead were Mrs. De Marco, her | daughters. Janet, 20. and Olga, 15, and her son, Eddie, 6. | Police said they learned De Marco. | a peddler, had been brooding over the | loss of his home some time ago. Acts in Consul's Arrest. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 10 (#).—The Italian Minister to Cuba flew to Santo Domingo today in con- nection with the arrest of Amadeo Berletta, the Italian consul in the | Dominican Republic. Barletta was | arrested April 4 on undisclosed | charges and was reported to have been held in jail ever since, F The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. l WE 00 OUR PaRY Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,549 Some Returns Not Yet Received TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Pre: BAN ON ENFORCED N.R A PATRONAGE ASKED OF SENATE (Civil Service Body Cites } Mandatory Provisions of | | S 104114 14/0040 1174 Proposed Law. CHANGE IN WORDING OF BILL IS EXPECTED | Phraseology of Relief Law Also | | | Said to Permit Discretional Appointments. BY J. A. FOX. The Civil Service Commission has | moved to prevent the National Recov- | erv Administration and those groups \that SHANSONTOPUSH AVAL HOSPITAL Will Seek Work-Relief Funds to Erect Needed Struc- ture Here. Secretary Swanson revealed todav he will ask for public works funds for construction of a new $3,500,000 naval hospital here. in conjunction with a program now being drawn up for pres- entation to the group that will spend $4.000.000.000 for work relief The war-built shacks that now house patients at the Naval Hospital would be torn down and new build- ings erected on Constitution avenue opposite the Lincoln Memorial, under the plan Rite Already Provided, ‘The National Capital Park and Planning Commission in ite tentative program for buildings in the North- west rectangle. bounded by E street, the Potomac River, Seventeenth street and Constitution avenue, has made provision for a mnew naval hospital | and also. on the river side of the hos- pital, for a naval museum Congress already has authorized construction of the new naval hos- pital here. but has not made any funds available. Swanson declared he is considering a new Navy Department building. but no plans have been made and no estimates of cost. Congress has not authorized the erection of a new Navy Department. but it is considered pos- sible that it may be built under the new public works set-up. The Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission, in its Northwest new War and Navy buildings York avenues. Testing Basin Likely. Another item of interest to Wash- inclu- works program is This would be used for scientific research into various marine problems, parficularly those The present testing basin at the Washington Navy Yard is deemed obsolete and repeatedly the chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair has urged that a new inglon being considered sion in the public a new testing basin. for of hull design. testing basin be provided speedily. Swanson today declined to reveal the exact site chosen for the new testing basin. It is known, however. near Fort Myer, Va., | Cabin John Bridge. I tion is required. rec- tangle plan, has suggested that the be grouped around Virginia and New the Navy has examined sites and in Mary- land near Conduit road, not far from A rocky founda- | flowirg from it from being maintained mandatorially on a patronage-ap- pointment basis. This was made known foday when it was admitted that the commission called to the attention of the Senate Finance Committee the word- ing of the proposed legislation to con- tinue the Lfe of the N. R. A, which would have brought about this condi- tion, in contravention to efforts to extend civil service to those emer- gency agencies likely to be more or less permanent. As drafted. the bill “authorizes and directs” the President to appoint th huncreas of officers and employes en-® geged on recovery functions without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws and to fix their salarie without regard lo the classification act. Wording Is Explained, The commission explained fo the Senate committee that use of word “directs” arbitrarily would take away from the President the right to put any position he might desire under civil service or to regulate their sala- ries under the classification act. The ola N. R. A. act simply authorized the President to make appointments and fix salaries as he saw fit. The Attorney General has heid that this language was permissive and thus cleared the way for the President to bring under civil service any of those groups created under the N. R. A. he might desire. In view of the Civil Service Com- mission’s representations. it is expected that the new recovery act wordinz will be made to conform. At the same time. it was said tha the phraseology of the new $4.880.- 000,000 work-relief act will allow the President to make civil service ap- pointments in his discretion. The act reads that he “may’ make appoint- ments without regard to civil service and fix pay without regard to the classification act, but here also the Attorney General has heid that ine legislation is permissive Urge C While the work-relief measure was under consideration about two months ago the Civil Service Reform League wrote the President and urged that any personnel appointed to administer this huge fund should be from the civil service registers. the argument being advanced that the public would have far more confidence in the dis- bursing methods applied if it was known that political preferment was not to guide selection of the workers involved. At that time, the President re- sponded that he had taken the mat- ter under consideration and that the Civil Service Commission had pre- pared an amendment to the law which would bring about the desired end It developed today that the com- mission had prepared an amendment which would unquestionably have given the President the right to make merit system appointments. but that when the Attorney General held thet the bill as worded was permissive that the amendment became unnecessary. For those positions that may be cre- ated without regard to the classifica- tion act the salaries will be fixed under the scale set up by executive order nearly two years ago. When the wide divergence of salaries between the old line and new agencies led the President to move to harmonize them. the ivil Service, RADIO-DIRECTED FLIGHT TO SEA IS PLANNED Final Test Plane Before Establishment | Swanson said he also hoped to get | fund- for naval bases. dry docks and other necessary equipment. and that “he department has not yet finally made up its list. | S SO T NN for Pan - American | 10 KILLED IN THEATER 50 Others Injured as Roof Col- lapses at Canton, China. CANTON, China, April 10 (#).— | At least 10 persons were killed and | more than 50 seriously injured today !in collapse of the roof of the Capital | Theater. Many women and children were among the victims. The dead and injured, trapped by he falling roof, were crushed beneath | ¢ heavy beams. Firemen extricated scores. The audience was witnessing a pmatinee exhibition of a Chinese talking picture. of Trans-Pacific Service. By the Associated Press. ALAMEDA, Calif.. April 10.—A flight out to sea completely directed by radio was planned today as the final test of the big Pan-American clipper before it takes off for Honoluiu |in a trans-Pacific crossing preparatory !to the establishment of commercial air_service to China. Operations officials of the Pan- | American Airwaye announced the sea. plane would cover approximately 1.000 miles in zig-zag fashion in the cruise. mainly to test new radio compass equipment developed by their en- 5 gineers. i : |~ The four-motored craft complete Gas Blast Kills 10. | other tests yesterday in an eight-hour TOKIO. April 10 (#)—The Rengo | flight over the California Coast line (Japanese) News Agency correspond- | as far south as San Diego. - The take- ent at Daire, Kwantung, reported to- |off was made with a gross weight of choukuo. The husband and father, Tony De day 10 persons were killed and 50 in- 41,000 pounds in a 1500-foot run of was found ecritically | jured in a gas explosion at the large | 30 seconds under adverse conditions. | Fushun colliery near Mukden, Man- | ‘The Hawaii flight will not be made ! until next week. Casino, Swanky Rendessonis - Of Smart Set, Soon to Close By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10—The days of the 40-cent cup of coffee at the Central Park Casino are numbered. The swanky gathering place for New York's ultra-smart set, where they wouldn't think of charging less than a dollar for a ham on rye, is on the verge of being closed by Park Commissioner Robert Moses. Moses was upheld yesterday by Justice Edward S. Dore of the State Supreme Court in his contention that | the Casino's lease should be ter- minated because its prices are out | of proportion for a restaurant in & public park. | The court denied an application llor & permanent injunction against Moses which was sought by Sidney Solomon, head of the corporation which operates the Casino. There- fore, unless an appeal to a higher court is successful, Moses will be free | to close the present Casino and pos- |sibly reopen it later under a more | modest scale of prices. The resort was a favorite rendese vous of former Mayor James J. ‘Walker. , »