Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 3. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, not much change in temperature, lowest tonight about 48 degrees; gentle variable winds. Temperatures—Highest, 67 at noon today; lowest, 46 at 5:30 a.m. today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Full report on page A-11. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 @h Entered as sec post office, W 2300 0UT INSTRIKE No. 33,230. BAR AUTO FACTORY| 10 ALL EMPLOYES Toledo Chevrolet Pickets Stop Even Office Workers. CLOSED SHOP ISSUE DENIED BY UNION HEAD A. F. of L. Organizer on Way to Washington to Confer With Green. By the Associated Press TOLEDO. Ohio, April 24 —Strikers at the Chevrolet Motor Co.'s branch factory here tightened their picket lines so closely today that not even the firm's office workers and foremen were able to enter. Hugh Dean, in charge of manufac- turing operations of Chevrolet, said that more than 2,300 men are affect- ed by the strike, which was called yesterday by the United Automobile Workers' Federal Union. How many of them are actual strikers was un- determined. but Fred Schwake, busi- ness representative of the union, claimed 90 per cent of the employes ond class matter ashingion, D. C. Retires ATTERBURY IS SUCCEEDED BY MARTIN CLEMENT. WILLIAM W. ATTERBURY. By the Associated Press. | president of the Pennsylvania Rail- | road Co. and was succeeded by Martin | W. Clement, 53, vice president. | Atterbury, who has been ill since last August and would have retired | next January under the company's regulations, was no. a candidate for re-election. Atterbury nominated Clement, and said his successor is “unquestionably the ablest railroad | executive in the country.” Atterbury will continue as a mem- ber of the board. PHILADELPHIA, April 24— Wil- | liam W. Atterbury today retired as | WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1935—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. GRAVELLY PONT AT LOSES COMMITTE VOTE D. C. Group Will Report Bill Ordering Board to Make Selection. ALL AMENDMENT EFFORTS REJECTED Representative Smith of Virginia Pleads Against Condemnation of Proposed Airport. After a controversial. two-hour ses- | sion behind closed doors, the House District Committee today unanimously supported its Airport ‘Subcommittee | in its condemnation of the Grave! Point airport site and voted unani mously to report to the House the! | subcommittee bill authorizing ap- | pointment of a commission to select | | an airport site for Washington. The full committee refused to amend | ! its subcommittee bill in any par-| CoLoRS ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION I'DE;(E To ENTER Teiis PICTURE IN THE ART SHow | fl mvr’fl ”h " o Sfar THAT ReausTIC| CoNCEPTION OVCHT To GET ! ticular in spite of a 45-minute plra: | by Representative Smith of Virginia | that the committee indorse the Grav- | elly Point site. ! The committee even refused a re- | }quest of its chairman, Representative | Pact of Aviator | And Woman to Die HARRISON BONLS ¥ Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,256 Some Returns Not Yet Received. () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT ASSIGNS 60 AGENCIES TO PLAN WORK FOR 3.500,000 'Three New Units Also Created to Aid in Spending $4,000, 000,000 for Relief. 'WALKER TACKLES TASK HERE OF FORMING CLEARING HOUSE President Expected to Head Allotment Board—Membership Announce- ment Due Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. Building his $4,000,000,000 spending machine. President Roose- velt today listed 60 Federal agencies that will devise projects intended to put 3,500,000 men to work in the coming year. Frank C. Walker arrived from New York, meanwhile, to set up the “clearing house” for project applications Tomorrow the President evidently plans to name the all- important “allotment board” to recommend how the immense fund can best be used. He personally is expected to head the board, with Harry Hopkins—Federal emergency relief director—an Three new agencies were announced by the President to su important member. plement the job-making task of the 60 already at work, one to g; headed by Eexfo_rd G. Tugwell for “rural resettlement,” another for rural electrification and another for elimination of grade crossings. Mr. Roosevelt recalled in press conference that more than 31,009,000.000 in applications already had been examined by the Public Works Administration. Many of these and the expansior of the Civilian Conservation Corps are ready to be started. T 3 Walker Silent on Plans. GERMANPROTESTS W. A. and the relief administratior were not formal applications, anc¢ that detailed information must by Note Said Not to Touch on Specific Points Raised by Der Fuehrer. submitted to Walker. He would saj i | Plunge Into Sea. nothing of his plans pending & con- ference at the White House. The “rural settlement” program calls for expansion and intensificatior of rural rehabilitation work carriec on for the past year by the A. A. A and F. E. R. A. It will include moving farm fam- ilies from submarginal land, loant and other assistance in establishing them in new areas, creation of new communities depending jointly or |farm work, semi-industrial employ- ment and extension of work center: By the Associated Press. The Senate Finance Committee i | | | | tory were suspended yesterday as part | ’ggmmis;mn and the Washington | A ' r"’"" ", M'”mx F" er of the men on the first shift struck. s b T Chicago Market Shut as Says He Planned to Hines Informs Committee Closed Shop Denied as Issue. U ported Soon. | i | | Ellsworth Kramer. president of the | i dne Jeubcommitiee (oML adoptecias | $1,000,000,000 Would 7 | Plan Made to Add 31,700 Howe at once and will'be on the | : Be Saved by It. cials of the concern asserted that was | calendar for consideration on the nex b S A | e ; : District day. i | that Richard Smith, 28-year-old the controversy's principal issue. 1 a H dies Air i \ - ) Y R. P. Briggs, election official of the | s House Stu . Representative Smith, it is under- ~CHICAGO, April 24 (¥:—The Chl-| pjymeda aviator, and Mrs. Doris, Automobile Labor Board, announced | Base Funds. stood. made a savage attack on the | cago Board of Trade. world's largest | qrepaway, 21, vanished in a rented strike. | By the Associated Press. l m?(ny before the subcommittee. Smith baum Grain Corp. for reorganization | : i = Meanwhile the board continued to! The Army swung today into a drive | 2sl ed the full committee to report = s ;\akmg their own lives. .nflalrs‘ that the Patman and Vinson | watch the strike closely, as did leaders | to virtually double its actual fighting | g‘?‘:lmfl‘: d“:;‘;"r‘li’h‘e"’:xggx"“;fl‘t‘;’;‘""8:,';,:?:2F:f’::;d?flgkafl“;o:&md‘ - John G’“”z “]’:d ed““;‘h‘”“k; ;;"" [cash payment plans would cost $1.-| of the American Federation of Labor | gyrength. As the first move in the | E ittee | | Girectors just before the starting | Tisthaway planned 1o “bes, borrow, | 000:000.000. roughly, more than the 9 - | Harrison compromise. among its members. & | - — — —_— . 2 5 % o Although the 2300 have pay en-| | Norton of New Jersey, that the mem- velopes due Friday. the pickets re- | | bership of the proposed commlsfilon' i In Crash Revealed fused today to let even the employes | ibe increased from seven to nine, to i of the paymaster’s office enter lhe‘ |include representatives of the Na- | & plant. General operations of the fac-; | tional Capital Park and Planning ) ] Rosenbaum Firm Asks local union, denied that the union de- — i substitute for l(lhk; Sm“""‘—“’“‘“}i-" | . z oint, measure, Wi reported to the ioatt :“}::‘l";"“;‘] i}f:“(,dofnh"apn?‘“:]i;;“} i House at once and will be on the| Reorgamzatlon. | By the Associated Press. pany, 8! | ALAMEDA, Calif., April 24.—Fears that an employes’ representation elec- | | subcommittee report, which he con- grain market. was closed today by its | o concluded its bonus hearings today | tion scheduled for today had been| | tended i based upon conelusich | directors until tomorrow, as an atter | eved ‘otan by the statement | ¥iUb testimony by Brig. Gen. Frank postponed pending settlement of the i math of a petition filed by the ROSen- | of g friend they had contemplated | T- Hines, administrator of veterans' | i g had acted adversely on his first bill. :?fi t%ifi:’?x‘r’xmtg?lefnk;;xi"lel:;;gnénaxgi:s‘ program—which Congress has author- | Representative Norton, at the con- | 89N Was to have sounded over the | or steal” a plane to dive into the| federation with which the local union | i2ed in a bill appropriating $20,000,000 ! clusion of the executive session, re- | Pits. A ocean. | Chairman Harrison, author of the | Postponement was ordered “until a| " Smith recently was divorced and | compromise, announced at the con- | fused to make any announcement as v _ | for the purpose—the War Department Is afllliated, said there was grave dan- |, ounced that the enlistment of | | 31,700 men from 18 to 35 will begin | July 1. The announcement came as the Na- | tion’s legislators, told by a House lead- | i er that war clouds are “hanging over ger the strike might spread to other automobile plants. In New York. Alfred P. Sloane, j president of General Motors Corp., said the corporation would not sign an agreement for a closed shop. Dillen on Way to Capital. Prancis J. Dillon, organizer for the | the country's fighting machine—the | American Federation of Labor in the auto industry, headed for Washington | to discuss the strike with Green. “The situation is more dangerous than it has been for some time, with the General Motors Corp. taking the attitude it does,” Dillon said. “The strike here just grew overnight be- cause the men are dissatisfied.” ‘The company yesterday offered the strikers a general wage increase of 5 per cent, recognition of seniority rights and a willingness to meet with representatives of the employes. union contract, repeatedly calling for | a closed shop, the five-day week, a| 10-cents-an-hour minimum wage and | abolishment of the “speed-up” system | was turned down. Company officials | said that 60 per cent of the employes | had been receiving more than 60 cents an hour. PRODUCTION UNAFFECTED. General Motors Head Says It Can Go | On for While. | DETROIT, April 24 (A —W. S| Knudsen, executive vice president of | General Motors Corp., said today the closing of the Toledo plant of the Chevrolet Motor Co. by a strike is hav- | ing no effect on production schedules | of Chevrolet or Pontiac cars. The To- | ledo plant manufactures transmis- ! sions. | Knudsen declined to say how many transmissions the companies had on hand or to estimate how long produc- tion could continue. Other General Motors plants also manufacture Chev- rolet and Pontiac transmissions, he said. i “It depends en the duration of the affair as to whether it would have any effect,” he said. The company has not filed a request for a hearing before the Automobile Labor Board, Knudsen said. Offices of the American Federation of Labor here declined, in the absence of Francis J. Dillon, general organizer for the auto industry, to say whether spread of the strike to other Chev- rolet plants was regarded as likely. Dillon, & spokesman said, planned to confer with Secretary Perkins in ‘Washington this afternoon concern- ng 100 cases of alleged discrimination againsy workers by General Motors Units. DEPARTMENT STORE SALES UP 43 PCT. Sharp Gain Here Announced by Roper—Tourist Increase Is Indicated. Department store sales in the Dis- trict last week were 43 per cent bet- ter than during the same week a year ago, Secretary of Commerce Roper reported today. This increase accompanied a Nation-wide retail business change for the week, be- cause of pre-Easter demand, the Sec- retary added. Bank clearings, however, declined 9.5 per cent below the previous week, but bettered the same 1934 week by 15 per cent. The report shows Washington's building permits aggregated $302,400, compared with $245,750 for the pre- vious week, and $264,105 for the same ‘week a year ago. The tourist influx to the Capital for the Easter holidays show a consider- able increase as reflected by a number of visitors to Smithsonian Institution, The | | enth clags privates. This is the firsti | Europe.” gave attention to two bills to | | spend $570,000,000 on other parts of | Navy and air bases. The House planned further debate | today on the larger of these two bills— | the $460,000,000 appropriation for the Navy for the next fiscal year. It is ! the largest regular supply bill for the | Navy in 15 years. Chairman Cary had said preparedness for defense was nec- essary in view of world conditions. He said “war clouds” were hanging over Ejurope, with nations “building the greatest war machineries” ever. Air Bases Proposed. House Military Committee, meanwhile, went on record today with advice to the House to set up a chain of strategic Army air bases. The cost of new bases and of strengthening old ones was estimated at $110,000.- 000. The committee stressed they would be purely defensive. i The report said at least one sta- tion each should be maintained in the | Atlantic Northeast, Atlantic South- | east and Caribbean area, Pacific| Northwest, Alaska and .the Rocky' | The | Mountain area. “It is impossible to depict in Isn-} guage,” the report said, “the destruc- | tion of life and property that might | result from an air attack against this | Nation unless we are fully prepared | to defend ourselves.” | The rookies to be recruited for the | Army beginning July 1 will be sev-| action to increase the Army from 118,750 to 165,000 men as authorized. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of stafl, explained to congressional com- mittees that 46,250 new men would mean nearly a 100 per cent increase in actual fighting strength, since the | Army’s overhead and non-combatant assignments already are sufficient to take care of the added men. Others Will Be Added. In addition to the 31,700 to be enlisted in the July 1 drive, additional personnel of specialized nature will be assigned to various army branches later. Amy officers said the new enlist- ments would diminish relief or unem- ployment rolls. ‘To make fullest use of the $20,000,- 000, the War Department planned to recruit the men as close as possible to stations to which they will be as- signed. The recruits will be assigned to existing units, increasing the strength of companies of infantry, cavalry and engineers to 120 men, almost double the present roster. The Army'’s actual fighting strength, not counting non-combatant units such as Medical Corps, is approxi- mately 50,000 men. The bill calls for an eventual increase of 46,500 combatant troops. to the action of the full committee on the airport matter, referring all in- quiries to Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee in charge. Today's action was the culmina- tion of more than two months of ex- | haustive hearings and field inspection trips by members of the subcom- mittee. The alrport bill as reported to the House provides for creation of a com- | mission of seven members to select | mission of three members to establish | and maintain an airport on the site | so_selected. | By its condemnation of the Gravelly | Point site it is considered in aviation | | circles, that the committee has or- dered the commission to ignore this site in making its selection. Mem- bers of the subcommittee, including Chairman Rancolph. however. declare that they have not closed the Gravelly Point site to consideration, but had | merely voiced their opinion that the | site is not suitable. Gravelly Point Favoted. The Aero Club of Washington. | cents lower at the start, but within a five people near here today. chapter of the National Aeronautic Association, at a meeting last night | again went on record in favor of the ! Gravelly Point site for a permanent ' airport. In notifying Chairman Norton of its action, the club, through its presi- dent, Chester H. Warrington, asked that the House District Committee give full consideration to the new | Smith bill providing for establish- ment of an airport at Gravelly Point, The club listed the following argu- ments in support of the Gravelly Point site: facilities for seaplanes, its cost per acre is less than any other practical site, it has unobstructed approaches | 5 and allows for runways of 4,000 feet, | Were satisfied. and it affords opportunity for unlim- ited expansion. DIRECTOR WOULD OUST SCHOOLS’ SLUGGARDS| Too Many Pupils in Class Be- cause They Have Nothing Else to Do, He Says. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, April 24—Sluggards would be dropped from school to re- lieve present overcrowding under & proposal given the City Council. J. W. Smith, director of St. Paul high schools, proposed that pupils in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth | grades who are more than 16 years old and who fail in three subjects two successive semesters be dropped. “There are too many students in St. Paul high schools who are just attending classes because they have nothing else to do,” Smith said. The council took the matter under advisement. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 24—While premiers, princes and other potentates from distant possessions were flocking here to congratulate King George on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his reign, the mayor of one South London bor- ough attracted attention today by turning down an opportunity to greet his sovereign. ‘The Borough Council of Bermondsey voted last night to uphold the de- cision of Mayor Weightman not to join in the congratulatory ceremonies. The reason the mayor gave was that the expenses for his junket to meet the king “would rob 30 poor crippled children of a week’s holiday by the sea. The action struck a discordent note laccording to the report. A in the publicity of the directors of the Mayor, Thinking Declines Journey to Meet King of Children, jubilee, who have been stressing the idea that numerous charities will bene- fit_as a result of the celebration. Between the national and local au- thorities and voluntary organizations plans have been launched to make rare the individual who will be unable to remember May 6—accession day— as a special occasion. Some 740,000 recipients of unem- ployment assistance relief will draw an extra half-crown ¢ ally 62 cents) as their prizes on t anni- versary. Extra jubilee relief to poor law applicants will be magde by each 5 «for the an airport site and for a second com- | 1t is the largest available | area in or near the District, it offers | time to be designated by the directors | pending clarification of legal pro- blems" arising from the action of the | | Rosenbaum Corp., one of the largest | grain houses in the Nation. | Federal Judge W. H. Holly, before whom the grain company sought re- | organization in a petition yesterday, | { refused to modify an injunction re- | straining the Board of Trade from | | suspending the Rosenbaum Corp. from membership privileges. Action to Protect Market. Halting trading apparently was an emergency action to protect the mar- ket from an operation that might arise in the situation. Directors of the board, after a pro- | longed special session last night, were * | reported to have instructed attorneys | | for the exchange to petition to have the injunction set aside. ‘The Baltimore, Kansas City and St. | | Louis grain exchanges followed the action of the Board of Trade in delay- | ! ing the opening. but the Minneapolis and Duluth exchanges opened as | usual. | Minneapolis wheat was 1'. to 173 few minutes around '> cent of this! initial loss was regained. | Yesterday’s Trade Accepted. | An early statement was issued by the board that trades of the Rosen-| baum Corp. made yesterday have been ! accepted by the clearing house and | would be cleared. The grain company's action in seek- | | ing reorganization marked the first| time that a firm of such charflcter[ has sought relief from debts under | | the bankruptcy act. Under ordinary | | bankruptey proceedings an auto- | matic suspension from privileges of | the trading floor would follow, with | reinstatement after directors of the | board had been shown all ubllgn!ions; Pending further notice, gongs that | ordinarily start offers and bids for grains were silent, and brokers moved | uneasily about in groups on the ex- change floor. with the grain pits standing empty. Usual Song Absent. A picturesque incident during lulls of trading in times past has been for brokers to sing popular tunes. One of the most often heard chants on such occasions was the ancient Ger- man melody of “O Tannenbaum,” the brokers’ version being “O, Rosen- baum.” No such merry singing was heard today. Later attorneys for the Board of Trade and the Rosenbaum Grain Corp. conferred in Judge Holly's chambers. According to trade ad-| vices, it was mutually agreed that all trades of the grain firm will be closed out as of today. No further trading will be done under its name until reorganization was finally ef- fected, it was understood. The ques- tion of suspension from the board was not passed upon by the court. FORMAL PETITION FILED. Rosenbaum Corporation Applies for Reorganization. WILMINGTON, Del., April 2¢ (#). —The Rosenbaum Grain Corp. today filed a petition in Federal Court for reorganization under section 77-B of the Federal bankruptcy laws and ap- pointment of temporary trustees. The corporation stated its assets are about $6,000,000 and its liabilities $3,970,000. The bill holds the firm is solvent, but unable to meet obliga- tions. An order was sought in the action to restrain the Chicago Board of Trade and Board of Trade Clearing Corporation from suspending the cor- poration. ‘The corporation’s bill states the firm was organized in 1901, is engaged in the business of buying and selling cash grain and acting as brokers for customers trading in grain and stocks. merket under present | tomobiles survived. A warning was given in the bill that | and the dumping of any quantity of grain | right Mrs. Trethaway is separated from her | husband. | A widespread search for the couple, | who flew away from an Alameda sir- | port a week ago, has been futile. { FVE VRGNS DEIN3EARCRASH Only One Person Survives After Accident Near Appomattox. By the Associated Press. 1 APPOMATTOX, Va. April 24—A i three-car automobile accident killed | Only one occupant of the three au- Bodies of four of those killed were burned beyond | recognition. The dead: 1 W. Dabney Anderson, 46, Vera, Ap- | pomattax County ! A. L. Mattox, 38, Big Island, Bed- ford County. | Miss Bobby Mattox. 25, Big Island. | Miss Sallie Rose Chappell, 33, Big | Island. | An unidentified woman, another oc- | cupant of the Mattox automobile. Richard T. Hess of Richmond, driver of one of the cars, was the| only survivor. He suffered cuts and | bruises but his condition was not con- | sidered serious. Anderson, a rural mail carrier in Appomattox County, the driver of an- other one of the wrecked automobiles, was pulled from the wreckage by John | Cyrus of Spout Springs. The acci- dent occurred in front of the Cyrus | home. Anderson was fatally burned and died shortly after the accident. Hess was able to give only a few de- tails of the accident. He said a car passed him going west a few moments before the crash. He reported the car that passed him was in collision with a car coming east. Hess told State police he was unable to clear the wreckage when he came upon it and his car crashed into the other two automobiles and the wreckage COTTON TAX FATE UP TO HIGH COURT Decision at Boston on Constitu- tionality to Be Appealed When Given. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 24—The final de- cision on the constitutionality of the cotton processing tax, questioned by receivers for the Hoosac Mills Corp., will be given by the Supreme Court, regardless of any decision of the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals here. The agricultural adjustment act and the processing tax, recently bitterly attacked by Northern textile manu- facturers, were assailed yesterday be- fore the full bench of the United States Circuit Court. Receivers for the Hoosac Mills ap- peared to appeal Federal Court de- cision that they must pay $81,000 in g and floor taxes. Their counsel argued that the act delegated legislative powers to an administrative officer in violation of the Constitution in encroachment upon State's ts. Regardless of the decision of the court here the case will be fought through to the Supreme Court, coun- sel for both sides declared, 4 | through the committee also by early I clusion of Hines' testimony, that the committee would meet tomorrow in | executive session in an effort to report out a bill to the Senate. | The veterans' head, who has held | | his post through Republican as well | as Democratic administrations, sub- | mitted to the committee a mass of | statistics on the cost and effect of the various bonus plans, but he did not | ! express his own views on them. | Cash Payment Favored. | He did, however. speak favorably |of a suggestion that the Harrison Emelsure provide for cash payment of the surrender value of the certificates, | instead of offering negotiable bonds. | Hines said this would be simpler from | an administration point of view and would make no difference in the Gov- ernment’s ultimate obligation. He told the committee the Patman plan would call for an appropriation or an issue of new money of $2,201,- 934,000; the Vinson plan, $2,263,545,000, and the Harrison plan, $1,199,636,000. Hines' estimates of the cost of the various proposals were of particular significance in view of the warning yesterday by Secretary Morgenthau that any additional large expenditures outside the budget must be met by new taxes. Harrison Sees Early Action. Chairman Harrison previously had predicted an early breaking up of the jam in his group—a conges- tion which has been holding up two of the administration’s major meas- ures, the social security legislation and the bill to extend the life of| N.R. A, | The Mississippian forecast that the committee would get the bonus bill out of the way tomorrow and begin work immediately on N. R. A. exten- sion. He said he hoped to get that next week and start consideration of the social security program. Hearings on N. R. A. and social se- curity have been completed by the committee. Almost every day since the first of the session the committee has been holding open hearings on these and the bonus proposals. From now on it will spend most of its time in exec- utive session until the three bills are before the Senate. Incomplete surveys indicated that. barring shifts in sentiment, there are on the committee probably not more than half a dozen Senators who would vote for the Patman or Vinson cash bonus bills in place of the Harrison measure, which involves an offer of negotiable bonds to the veterans. On the other hand, there are almost as many who are considered likely to op- pose any bonus measure, including Harrison's. Ready to Vote Out Plan. Between these two extremes, the great bulk of the committee's 22 members apparently was ready to vote out the Harrison proposal for advancing the maturity date of the adjusted service certificates and of- fering negotiable bonds up to their current e. Genius Class Crashes Magazines With Poems and Fiction Stories| By the Associated Press. SAN JOSE, Calif., April 24.—The “genius class” at San Jose State Col- lege has lived up to its name. Dr. Carl Holiday, professor of Eng- lish, disclosed today that members of the class—25 sophomores and juniors selected because of their outstanding work in freshman composition—had sold 14 poems, 4 articles and 1 story. A full-length drama by a member of the class was presented three times to full houses. The students were told to “go o it” and write whatever they wished, Dr. Holliday said. “At first,” said Dr, Holliday, “ ) By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 24 —Official sources disclosed today that Great Britain has acknowledged receipt of Reichsfuehrer Hitler's note “rejecting” the Geneva resolution condemning Germany's re- armament moves. The note was said to have been couched in customary diplomatic lan- | guage and to have made no reply to | the specific points of Der Fuehrer's communication. \ No Further Move Planned. It was learned the government plans to proceed no further unless Hitler follows out his reported intention of sending to the powers a more extensive note which might require a response on specific points. The government’s formal acknowledgement of last week end’s note from Hitler was delivered | to the German embassy. The situation created by the Geneva action was said not to be likely to ! interfere with the Anglo-German ! technical conversations to be held here some time next month. Tentative plans for the conference called for several experts to represent each na- tion, but no political problems will be considered. Navy Plans Opposed. | The British are still opposed to a ! German navy as large as Hitler de- sires, but feel the actual size of the | fleet must remain a matter for decision at a forthcoming general naval con- | ference, whenever it may be held. | VETERANS SEEK TO KEEP PEACE. French and Germans to Hold Con- ' versations May 5. PARIS, April 24 (#).—French and German veterans who confronted each | other in the trenches in the last war | will hold private conversations in Paris May 5 in continuation of their efforts to relieve tension between their countries. | The National Union of Combatants | voted in its annual convention at Le Touquet today to enter into discus- sions with veterans of other countries in the cause of peace. It warned, however, that these efforts would be wrecked if Germany continued a policy of “prestige beyond reason.” 45 THOUGHT MINE TOLL Flooded. South African Shaft Two Bodies Recovered. JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africa, April 24 (@) .—Forty-five miners were believed to have perished today when a sudden inrush of water flooded the lower level of the New Machavia gold mine near Potchef- | stroom. Only two bodies were recovered, | those of a European and a native. | Trapped in the mine were two Furo- | peans and 41 natives. Officials directing rescue work as- | serted it would take at least 24 hours to pump the water from the lower | levels and they believed it unlikely the | men would be found alive, were rather sheepish about submitting material for actual publication, but I said we wanted only writers who would try to break into the period- icals. “One sophomore had five poems ac- cepted in 10 days—a record for any | writer. “Of all the students the story writ- ers were the least successful, not for lack of technical excellence, but be- cause they dote on the tragic ending— and magazine editors don't.” Dr. Holliday, himself a writer of more than 20 books, said the project was so successful that hereafter it will be & tegular part of the English curriculum, L in such communities. Officials said they hope to put the major portion of the farm families now on relief rolls back on a self- sustaining basis through expansion of this program. Tugwell will retain his post a: Undersecretary of Agriculture and wil be solely responsible for this new unit 200 Classifications of Work. The President has not decided whom he will place in charge of rura electrification. Outlining some of his plans at hit regular press conference, Mr. Roose- velt showed a list of more than 20¢ classifications of work contemplated under the job-making undertaking The projects fell into eight general classes, as follows: 1. Highways, including grade-cross- ing elimination. 2. Assistance to clerical and profes- sional workers. 3. Loans or grants to political sub divisions. 4. Rural rehabilitation and relief in stricken agriculture areas, 5. Rural electrification. 6. Housing, including low-cost con- | struction in urban and rural areas, reconditioning and remodeling. 7. Civilian Conservation Corps. 8. Sanitation, soil erosion preven- tion and reforestation. These tasks were allocated to more “(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) — -— ARMY FLYERS’ BODIES HUNTED IN CALIFORNIA Plane Drops Out of Formation to Crash Into Waves of* Monterey Bay. By the Associated Press. WATSONVILLE, Calif., April 24— The bodies of two Army flyers and wreckage of their observation plane were hunted today in the waters of Monterey Bay, into which they plunged yesterday afterncon while on a training flight. The dead men were Pvt. Russell E. Laird, 29, of Bakersfield, Calif., & sec- ond lieutenant of the Air Corps Re- serve, and Pvt. Bernard F. Rygwalski, 29, Cleveland, Ohio. Their plane crashed into the waves 200 yards from the beach after it had dropped out of a formation of five from Crissy Field, San Francisco. Its motor smoking and apparently stopped, the plane went into a long glide toward shore, hit the water, nosed over and sank immediately. Both Laird and Rygwalski got free |of their plane, but disappeared. MONTANA MAN HANGED Slayer-Robber Is First Legally Executed in Miles City. MILES CITY, Mont., April 24 (#).— Henry John Zorn, 26-year-old slayer, was hanged here early today in the first legal execution this cow town has seen. He was convicted of killing Lester C. Jones, a member of the Montana Industrial School faculty, during an attempted robbery at the institution Jast August 12. He was arrested a few days later at Minneapolis, Minn. He refused to make a statement. Guide for Readers Amusements . Comics . . s 1 A-17-18-19 Short Story. 5 Society . .B: -4 A-14-15-16 ‘'omen’s Features....B<10-11 -