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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers and somewhat cooler today; tomorrow, cloudy and colder; fresh west- erly winds. Temperatures—Highest, 89, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 52 at 6 am. yesterday. Full report on page A-9. (#) Means Associated Press. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 1571—No. 33,234. FUROPE ALARMED BY GERMAN PLANS' ~ FARMERS T0 REVIVE U-BOATS chsiemanrencs ! Chairman Tells Jefferson Banquet Roosevelt Is Economic Sanctions Against Still on Top. Nazis May Be In- By the Associated Press. The WASHINGTON, D. C, NEW DEAL CRITICISM SCORED BY FARLEY; CHEER LONG Roosevelt Program Tar- get of Kingfish and Reno at Des Moines. I By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—Directly| DES MOINES, Iowa, April 27.—A WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY ROW ON LYNCHING BILL THREATENS SERIOUS DEADLOCK Democratic Groups’ Battle May Jam Whole Program MORNING, APRIL 28, 1935—110 PAGES. Sunday Starc * HOW T STRING WEATHER MAKES THE WEEDS POP UP! N\ Copy Not for Sale by FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS Subscriber or Newsstand Newsboys TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE U.S, SHIFTS EFFORT OFF PUNP PRIVING T0 0BLES RELEF Rermanent Support to 5,000,000 Declared Chief Aim Now. assailing Republican leaders including | two-gun bombardment of _criticism of Administration. Herbert Hoover, and such dissenters as | was loosed upon the national Demo- Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, | cratic administration today by Sen-i‘ Postmaster Gen. Farley tonight closed | ator Huey Long of Louisiana and Milo | | an excoriation of Roosevelt opposition | Reno, president of the National Farm voked by Powers. TLLQNA Ty =N BONUS AND RECOVERY {HELP TO NEEDY PUT ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION | with the assertion an election tomor- IS DENIED IN BERLIN | Fall's overwhelming Democratic vic- | tory. | To charges by “political foes of the | administration that the President is lno longer a popular idol,” Farley re- torted that “the President’s hold on Spokesmen Admit Proposal Con- sidered—Disclosure May Cancel Anglo-Teutonic Naval Talks. | % fF VY, ks destroyed.” The chairman of the Democratic By the Associated Press. National Committee spoke at a Demo- |row “would see no change” in last | | the country is too close to be threat- | LONDON, April 27—Confirmation from the German defense ministry that U-boat construction is a part of the Reich's armament program jolted Europe today and created the pos- sibility of three-power conferences to consider a new violation of the Ver- sailles treaty. Informed quarters indicated that formal steps would be taken by Britain, France and Italy to hold consultations on the naval develop- ment which caused a new war scare in European capitals. Reliable sources in London claimed Hitler had already begun laying down the keels of 12 small submarines pre- paratory to launching a more exten- sive construction program, but this was denied by a spokesman for the Berlin defense ministry. May Cancel Talks. cratic banquet in celebration of the 192nd birthday anniversary of Thomas Jefferson. On the program with Far- ley at this largest Democratic conclave | since the 1932 convention were Sen- | ator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky, the 1932 keynoter. and Miss Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Contending “Franklin D. Roosevelt (Continued on Page 3, Column 5. | | Holiday Association, before a cheer- ing throng of Midwestern farmers here. The Roosevelt agricultural program | was the favorite target of the ora- | torical blasts, but outwardly there was | no encouragement for a third party movement, whose crystallization some political prophets hid anticipated in the platform meeting of the Louisiana | dictator and the corn belt chieftain, who led the farm holiday “strike” a year ago. Long assailed the administration for burning up “the surplus when it found people starving in the midst of too much food,” and as a remedy for this “depressing situation” offered his share-the-wealth program. This proposal to give every family a $5.000 homestead and annual in- come of from $2,000 to $2,500 evoked (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) U.S. DANGERSEEN INNEARBY SLANDS J HOWARD KILLED VAR SAILOR SAYS | MEASURES BLOCKED | All Efforts to Clear Obstacle Fail. | G. 0. P. Gleeful Over Situation. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Democratic-controlled Senate has a bear by the tail—the Wagner- Costigan anti-lynching bill—and can’t let go. This measure threatens to delay consideration of the soldiers’ bonus bill, .and back of that, it may dam up the whole administration program. That the anti-lynching bill would pass the Senate if it were brought |to a vote is confidently predicted by its supporters. determined minority, composed of Democratic Senators from the South, who are threatening to filibuster until snow flies, if necessary, to prevent a vote. The Senate sought in vain during !its short session yesterday to dispose | of the pending motion to bring up the bill for debate and action. It finally took a recess until tomorrow, after voting down, 37 to 28, a motion There is, however, a | == > \ S (L] nTurr;' = ~ 4 U.S, STARTS DRI ON JEWEL RACKE Childless Women | Of Germany Face Citizenship Loss Reports of Legislation ST SN SO g \JNCON TiRton o ONRSS~F NONST) 7 IMCONSTi T U | AHEAD OF BUSINESS 110,500,000 Off Rolls by July, 1936, Is Goal—Roosevelt Goes on Radio Tonight. BY THEODORE C. WALLEN, ‘The administration, in its efforts to put 3,500,000 jobless to work in the next year on public funds, has shifted the emphasis of its spending cam- paign from “pump-priming” to relief, This fact was made clear yesterday as the key men of the New Deal per- fected the organization to handle the $4,800,000,000 works-relief fund. Leading New Dealers have con- PROBERS WIL ASK KINDLEBERGER GO cluded, it was said, that the United States must prepare to support 5,000.« 000 to 6,000,000 unemployed per- manently where it used to carry 2,000,000 to 3,000,000. In the expenditure of the original $3,300,000,000 public works fund, the motivating influence was to prime the pump of private expenditure by get- ting the public money into quick cir- culation through huge public projects. The Government was deemed justified in risking large losses in doubtful i bi vill ider | : 3 . The British cabinet will consider to_adjourn. Thieves Who Hold Loot for, Indicate Men Must Garnett’s Removal Also Will | projects so long as the money was the matter of U-boats Wednesday. Seizure of British, French Ex-Reserve Officer Wounded | | The effect of this action was to The most immediate subject of speculation here was the effect that| submarine construction would have on the forthcoming Anglo-German | naval talks. In some quarters it was| feared they might be abandoned al- | together. ] : ?“nh‘:nythw“ \;:ldefizms h;;'e tlig‘ (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) eel that the na | Areas in Emergency Urged by Air Head. Professor and Committed | Suicide, He Declares. By the Associated Press. leave the motion to take up the bill | pending before the Senate. N. R. A. Law Delay Sought. To add to the discomfort of the administration forces in the Senate | is a proposal, strongly backed by both | | Republicans and Democrats, to post-; Ransom Will Feel Grip of Law. BY REX COLLIER. Versailles treaty are just as dead as Maj. F. M. Andrews, chief of the powerful new General Headquarters the military and air clauses which shes 43 "po o “uag revealed last night to scrapped with the sudden announce- ments of March 16 which brought the German army and air force into the open. One diplomatic source expressed the opinion a new effort might be made by France to get the three powers to agree on a program of economic sanctions against Germany as one method of trying to halt Ger- | many’s increase in the manufacture of armaments. Need of Action Seen. | have told a House committee that in {an “emergency.” the United States “must be prepared to seize” British and French islands near American shores. | Appearing at a secret session of the | House Military Committee, the printed transcript of which was made avail- able, Andrews made his statement in supporting the Wilcox air base bill. The measure would authorize & half dozen strategic Army aviation centers. The General Headquarters Air chief declared that “even with Canada neu- LOS ANGELES, April 27—Shreds of mystery still hanging about the bizarre slaying of Paul Ivar, ecceN- | ears a5 demanded by the President. tric Hollywod dress designer, Were|myis proposal, which is being carried | partially cleared away today when 8., the White House over the week sailor, only survivor of the dinner| opq by Chairman Harrison of the party preceding the tragedy. Was | pinance Committee, is for the passage ‘;‘:"dh‘nd Questioned abcard a battle- of g joint resolution extending the Elp hete existing N. R. A. law until next Feb- The sailor, N. C. McDermitt, told ruary or March. In the meantime, it sheriff’s officers that William Howard. | j5 areyed, the Supreme Court would former Naval Reserve officer, Shot|paye opportunity to pass on the con- Ivar, and then went to a nearby A. in var house where he wounded Henry Bolte, | Srationality of the 3 1. £, 15 Vo on. a sociology professor, and then com- | gress in enactment of a more perma- mitted sulcide. Nent Taw | pone the rewriting of the bill to ex- tend the N. R. A. law for another two The same diplomatic circles ex- | tral, the enemy has the following bases pressed the opinion that the powers hardly could permit Germany to con- avail and Miquelon, French islands near tinue to spring new sensations week | Newfoundland; Bermuda, the Baha- after week without doing something | mas, Jamaica, Trinidad, British Hon- | about it. It was felt in these quarters | duras, and the lesser Antilles: that Britain was now more in a mood to accept economic and financial sanctions. Any plan for application of sanc-\ tions would be placed before the League of Nations Council at Geneva for the powers would act under League auspices. Reports of U-boat construction first came to public attention through news- papers, two of which published stories that 12 submarines of 250 tons apiece were under construction in German shipyards. The Versailles treaty specifically limited the German Navy to 6 battle- | ships, 6 cruisers, 12 destroyers and 12 torpedo boats. Submarines were held inadmissible even for commercial pur- poses. VICKERS FIRM SUSPECTED. Sale of Patent Rights to Germany Indicated. BERLIN, April 27 (#).—Germany | today officially admitted submarines | were being “considered” in connec- tion with plans to rebuild the navy. | but spokesmen either denied or side- | stepped questions concerning reports | that U-boats were actually under Democrat, of Florida, has said he hmi “We had just finished dinner,” he | had “reasonably certain assurance” it | construction. A recent official visit of repre-| sentatives of the British armaments | firm of Vickers, Ltd., was believed in} foreign military circles to furnish| clues to the rumors that orders al- | ready had been placed for subma- |, peryvian troops by 100 instructors | i |from *“a certain Asiatic power” was These military experts recalled that | o en by testimony of Maj. Hugh J. | rines. several weeks ago they were invited | by officials of the Reichswehr minis- | try to meet the Vickers representatives socially. When they evinced interest in the purpose of the visit, both the | Germans and Englishmen shut up like | clams. | | The experts now believe the Vickers men may have been here to sell sub- 1. Bombing Urged at First Move. “To insure against air attacks being launched from any of these bases in time of emergency,” he said, “they must be kept under surveillance to discover any evidence of preparation of such bases; and we must be ready to bomb such installations as soon as they are discovered. “If the situation is sufficiently vital to require it, we must be prepared to seize these outlying bases to prevent their development by the enemy as bases of operation against us.” Andrews did not explain what he considered an “emergency.” but prior to reciting his list of possible enemy | bases, declared: “With Canada involved on the side of a hostile coalition, many land bases and sheltered water bases are available.” At another point, how- Canada, unless forced to do so, would ever join a coalition against the United States.” Bill Has Been Approved. ‘The Wilcox air base bill has been approved by the Military Commitiee. Its author, Representative Wilcox, met with President Roosevelt’s ap- proval too. At another point in the closed-door hearings on the measure, the Wa~ De- partment’s concern over the training Knerr, also of the G. H. Q. air force. “There is a danger spot in con- nection with the Panama Canal,” Knerr said, “that I recently received some information about, which I con- sider reliable. “You notice that the southern tip of Florida is about 1,000 or 1,200 miles able”: Newfoundland, St. Pierre from the Panama Canal. If you go apartment when Ivar was shot. Re- turning, he said he fled when he saw Ivar dying in the arms of the de- signer’s invalid foster mother. | The sailor was exonerated of any participation in the crime, but he | was held in the ship’s brig for hav- ' ing been absent without leave. Rothstein Angle Checked. Ivar's alleged boasts of a connec- tion with the late Arnold Rothstein, slain New York gambler, was another fentastic circumstance remaining to | be checked by investigators. Acquaintances of the designed said Ivar had bragged of having been en- trusted by Rothstein with $1.000.000 in “hot” money. They reported Ivar had told of spending a large portion of that sum and having said “but Arnold got killed just before he found out what I did.” McDermitt's story indicated money | might have been the immediate motive. although officers previously had un- | covered a fantastic array of circum- | stances which they said indicated { | ever, he added: “It is noi believed | Ivar and Howard were “strange men who led strange lives.” Went to Apartment for Dinner. | - McDermitt's story, as made public | by Deputy Sheriff’'s Ray Rowe and G. | A. Morford, showed Howard and the | sailor had gone to Ivar's apartment | for dinner. said, “when Howard said to me: “Go | downstairs and wait in the car for me: | I wapt to talk to Paul.” | “SoI went down to the garage where | the car was kept and walked around for a while,” McDermitt continued. “Suddenly I realized that there was Howard in the car, driving off. “He hollored at me about meeting it, he was speeding away so fast. | “I went back upstairs. I intended | borrowing some money to get back | to San Pedro. I asked the apartment | house clerk to let me in the apart- | ment. He did. Saw Body on Floor. him somewhere, but I couldn't catch | McDermitt said he was outside the | "Harrison said yesterday he had al- imdy been in touch with the White House on the matter, but he would | make no statement until he reported to his committee tomorrow morning. The Democratic leader, Senator | Robinson, of Arkansas, said he ilhought something along this line might be worked out. He reserved | opinion, however, until he should se ! just what the proposal involves. In the meantime, sentiment favor of such a course seems to be growing on both sides of the chamber. Much will depend, of course, on what the President has to say on the mat- ter. The present law expires on ! June 16. With a hard fight in pros- | pect over the bill to extend the N. R. A, and the anti-lynching and bonus measures both likely to take considerable time, it is argued that adoption of a resolution extending the N. R. A. until next Winter might be an effective solution of the problem. | Senator Borah of Idaho, Senator ;©f effective prosecution of the tnm-; Opposed but Old ones Nye of North Dakota and others in- N. R. A. should pass now unless it | carried strong provisions against price-fixing and monopolistic ten-* dencies. Any joint resolution would, of course, be open to amendments of | that chara | Sidetracking Move Fails. | | which would give the Federal Govern- ment power to punish lynchers in the | various States, won a tactical victory (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) | FILM EXECUTIVE FINED | Jed Harris to Serve Extra Time for Ignoring Speed Summons. PASADENA, Calif, April 27 (#).— Jed Harris, well-known Broadway play producer and now a film executive, paid a $25 fine for speeding today | and was sentenced to serve a three day term in jail starting next Satur: in | Supporters of the anti-lynching bill, | | day, for failure to answer the sum- | mons. | Having smashed the big-time kid- { naping syndicates, the Justice De- | partment’s Federal Bureau of Investi- gation has set out to break up an- other type of ransom racket—the “re- covery” of stolen jewels. bonds and other valuables in return for a reward and promises of immunity from Pprosecution. The opening guns in the new battle, launched under authority of recent legislation, will be fired tomor- row in New York City, where the | Government will summon before a special grand jury a group of Miami, Fla., police and prosecution officials, private detectives and convicted jewel robbers. The grand jury will inquire intc evidence in connection with the theft of $200,000 in jewels from Mrs. Mar- garet Bell at Coral Gables last Janu- ary, that there was “an apparent conspiracy” to divide the reward of- ered for return of the jewels and xtend leniency to the robbers. National Drive Started. In an interview yesterday. J. Edgar | Hoover, director of the bureau, de- | clared the Miami case is but one de- velopment in a Nation-wide drive be- |ing made against a type of racket ! that has cost robbery victims and in- surance firms tremendous sums of money. “Operations of this nature.” Hoover said, “appear to reflect the contin- uance and growth of an ancient type !of crime, involving the stealing of | valuables, the arrangement for lack | | |inals, the return—through devious, | sist that no measure to extend the ; complicated and often unknown chan- | | nels—of the stolen property. and the | payment of rewards in varying guises | by either the victims of the insurance | companies liable for the losses. | “It is unnecessary to point out the cter offered from the floor. | undesirable and dangerous character | | of activities of this kind. It is obvious these operations involve the com- pounding of felonies in a manner | which constitutes the active aiding |and abetting of criminal bands to continue depredations without appar- ent fear of punishment and with con- siderable profit to themselves and their criminal and quasi-criminal asso- ciates. Action Is Promised. “The Federal Bureau of Investiga- | tion intends to pursue intensive in- vestigative efforts against this rapidly increasing phase cf crime, with a view to bringing to justice all who have hitherto escaped successful prosecu- tion.” This racket, Hoover asserted, ex- nds not only to the theft of jewels rom private owners, but to the rob- | bery of banks and other institutions marine patents. Gen. Hermann Wil- | he!lm Goering's air ministry is building airplane motors on plans obtained from American and British interests. | PARIS SEES SHOWDOWN. | French See Germany's Move As Awakening Britain. PARIS, April 27 (#).—Reports Ger- many is building submarines were seen in French naval circles tonight as of- fering the opportunity to force “a showdown” on the whole status of the German navy. including her demands for 35 per cent of the British tonnage. Naval experts said the disclosure might “well prove of inestimable bene- fit for military France in awakening naval Britain to the dangers of Hit- ler’s armaments policy.” KING LEOPOLD URGES LOWER TARIFF RATES Says Nations, Like Individuals, Cannot Live Healthily Be- hind Closed Doors. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, April 27—King Leo- pold of the Belgians pleaded today for free international exchange of goods »through lowered tariff walls in a speech opening the World’s Fair here. Leopold, alluding to the Belgian economic crisis and measures taken to meet it, including currency devalua- tion, said: “It is unhealthy for nations, like individuals, to live behind closed doors and windows. “Tariff walls conflict ironically with the nation’s desire for an interchange of goods. Belgium has set an example of economic renovation which it di @ires to be followed.” ‘ 5 “As 1 stepped through the door- i | South an equal distance you come (0 | o™y " 00 Paul on the fioor, all “I thought the matter was all fixed |Of huge quantities of bonds. money BERLIN, April 27.—Just being born in Germany will not be enough for' ‘full-fledged” citizenship in the third Reich, it appeared tonight, even though both parents are German. Informed quarters said new citizen- ship legislation announced today by Wilhelm Frick, minister of the in- terior, would require every German woman to bear the Fatherland at least one child and every German man to serve his army term before full citizenship is conferred. Service to the people and the state, Frick said, opens the road to citizen- | ship only to “German-blooded” people. “Racial kinship to the German| people is one of the main prereg- uisites for becoming a citizen,” Frick said, and acknowledgment of citizen- | ship will be by “a letter of citizen-| ship” which Reichfuehrer Hitler alone | can_award. Bear Arms. | “Enemies of the state and unworthy | law enforcement machinery of the | elements | right,” the minister said. will be deprived of this| This was Be Sought by House Crime Inquirers. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Removal of Karl Kindleberger, as- sistant United States attorney, in charge of Police Court prosecutions, | put out into circulation with a mini- mum of delay. The problem of un- employment was expected to show gradual improvement as the public works progressed. Meantime, the Federal Government helped the States * carry the relief burden. Little Planned Expenditure. ‘The view was held that any build- ing project that put idle to work and consumed materials added to the as well as United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett will be sought by | | ture. | exception to this rule in the sense the Special Crime Committee of the House as a result of its two-month investigation of vice and law enforce- ment conditions here. The final draft of the approved being | | whipped into shape for consideration committee report which is of the full District Committee Wed- nesday, it was learned last night, ex- presses the belief that Kindleberger and Garnett should be -emoved in the interest of increased efficiency in the District. The immediate removal of Garnett total stimulating industry. There was little attempt at planned expendi. ‘The short-lived C. W. A. was an that the administration, through this | agency, sought for a few months tc | reach the jobless directly. Officials feel that, while the $3,300,- 000,000 may have helped to pump new energy into the general economic system, it failed to relieve the un- employment problem substantially | Technological advance in industry was held responsible in a degree for this situation. The N. R. A, in a special investigation of conditions in the auto- mobile industry, reported amazing dis« placement of manpower by new labor- saving machinery. The Roosevell left wingers, sponsors of the original | taken as an obvious indication that|ang Kindleberger was recommended i S pump-priming thesis, laid the failure | jews would be denied citizenship in|in the tentative draft of the report, cmenypw dissension in the high com- | the forthcoming regulation. HOUSE THREATENS REVOLT ON TAYES New Levies Not Only Are ‘ May Be Cut. By the Associated Press. Congressional leaders threatened to | balk yesterday at any insistence that | new taxes be voted this session. In fact, several members of the tax- originating House Ways and Means Committee expressed the mnclusion} | that it not only would be possible to avoid new taxes, but even to reduce or eliminate some existing levies. | They adopted that attitude despite Secretary Morgenthau’s warning to! | the Senate Finance Committee that enactment of bonus payment legisla- | tion would bring recommendations for | new inheritance levies raising $200,- | 000,000 to $600,000,000 annually. | | In the first place. these House tax | | students conceded there was strong | | doubt a bonus payment bill would be enacted. Secondly, they said that| even if it became law, there would be no need for new taxes. Vinson Sees No Danger. committee counsel, but the commit- tee itself, . was said, modified this proposal so as to merely indicate these two officers should be replaced. Other Charges Minor. This was one of the major revisions made by the committee patrick’s report. The other changes are understood to have been minor in character and designed primarily to take the “sting” out of certain other recommendations. The committee’s views with respect to Garnett and Kindleberger are to | be given to Attorney General Cum- mings some time this week by Chair- man Norton of the House District | Committee and Representative Ran- dolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, who headed the Special Crime Com- mittee. The conference between Mrs. Norton, Randolph and Cummings was tentatively fixed for 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, but it was repotred the date had been changed. Kindleberger was brought into the Crime Committee’s investigation as the result of a case he nolle prossed which involved one of his friends, Edward Buckley, former Central High School foot ball star, who is now practicing law here. Aside from Garnett's office, the re- port is urderstood to cover rather comprehensively conditions in the Police Department as developed dur- ing the investigation. recommendation, in so far as the Po- lice Department is concerned, is that all officers above the grade of captain be retired after reaching 60 years. This recommendation will directly affect Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown and Inspectors Thaddeus R. Bean and | Albert J. Headley. Group Split on Garnett. in Fitz- | The principal | | prepared by John R. Fitzpatrick, | mand. They charged that the pur- pose of the plan was defeated when }the aim to concentrate expenditures lin a limited period was frustrated | by the haggling over the merit of | projects. | Pump-Priming Secondary. { ‘The scheme now, in any event, re- verses the emphasis to relief and con- | servation. The plan to relegate pump- priming to a secondary position is | already taking form, it was pointed | out yesterday, in several initial steps | for the expenditure of the new $4.- | 800,000,000 fund. To begin with, there | is to be a census of the unemployed | so that the Administration may tell at a glance where the need is greatest Further in support of that thesis, the country is being divided into ad- ministrative districts so funds may be | allocated on the basis of need. In | marked contrast with the administra- { tion of the first fund, money is to be | rationed to sections. As a result, | funds will be withheld from Detroit | it conditions remain brisk there, tc leave more for the stricken New Eng- | land textile, regions, where more mill closings are bringing increased unem- | ployment | So far as consistent with the Presis | dent’s opening message to this Con- | gress, the present plan is to give re- lief in the form of work. This is the | explanation of the “small works” pro- | gram which is a part of the new or- ganizatéon. By some it is considered ‘fi successor to the C. W. A, White House Explanation. The White House explanation of this phase of the program is as fol- | lows: “If in the process of making and carrying out allotments sufficient em- ployment in a given area is actually | not provided, the existing machinery of | visualize how “I have been informed that a | DIo0dy. The old lady (Mrs. Ada certain Asiatic power has right now about 100 instructors training the Peruvian army. It is interesting to many of those are aviators. Canal's Bombing Envisaged. “In fact, in making a comparison of what you have in South America and the number of aircraft that are flying in South America, it is not be- yond the realm of possibility that some fine morning we may read of the fact that there has been a successful raid against the Panama Canal as the initial step prior to the declaration of war.” From Col. Walter Krueger, acting head of the War Plans Division at the time he appeared at the hearing, the committee received word, more- over, that “we must focus our atten- tion westward.” “As you know,” he said, “there has been recently a change in the inter- national situation which has, of neces- sity, focused the attention of those of us who are particularly charged witn responsibility for planning to the westward, to the Pacific. “In other words, we have got to be more conscious, in a more specific way, of a threat from that direction.” RELIEF SET-UP SCORED Politics Charged by Missourian Resigning Office. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 27 (#)— Asserting the present national relief set-up “makes possible a vast political machine,” George H. Vineyard re- signed today as Buchanan County chairman of the Missouri Relief and Reconstruction Comumittee. | | , lon 0. by some friends,” Har- | Wharton, Ivar's foster mother) was | ro en .- and securities. Usually the valuables (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | lait | B 1 Dooked” bV at e oL R et (OMhE couth: |,and asked: ‘Who are you?' “I told her I was a friend of Paul's, I saw there had been a shooting al- though I hadn't heard any shots. | 8o I thought I'd better get out of | "(Continued on Page 4, Column 6. 'AMELIA EARHART HONORED IN MEXICO Union of American Women Be- stows Medal on Famous Avia- trix for Air Pioneering. By the Associated Press. MEXICO, D. F., April 27.—On be- half of the Union of American Wom- €n, Amelia Earhart was awarded to- night a gold medal honoring her for her flight across the Atlantic and her Tecent one to Mexico. In presenting the medal, Miss Caro- lina Rosas, assistant secretary of the council of the organization, said: “You flew the Atlantic to prove a woman could do it. You now come to Mexico to strengthen the ties between our peoples. I greet you and pin this medal over your brave heart in the name of the 200,000 members of the Union de Mujeres Americanas.” The presentation was made at a meeting of the Bociety of Geography and Statistics and was witnessed by Senora Adelaida 8. de Cardenas, wife of the President of Mexico. Miss Earhart is tuning up her plane daily while studying the bility of & non-stop flight t@ New b “Battle” Und By the Associated Press. AN PEDRO, Calif.. April 27.—A mighty United States fleet of 153 war craft was all set tonight for maneuvers over some 5,000,000 square miles of water to test the Nation's defense against attack on its Pacific area. Never before has so powerful a naval force been under sealed orders for such a series of maneuvers. The theater of operations is from the Aleutian Islands, which stretch far to the West of Alaska to within a few hundred miles of the Asiatic Coast, down to Midway Island, the outpost 1,200 miles west of Honolulu, thence to Hawaii and the American coast. The 153 ships of war will move from three bases here, and at San Diego and in Hawaii this week, the majority of them getting under way Monday. Next Friday, May 3, the secret prob- lem known as No. 16, denoting it is the sixteenth in a series of annual war plans tested by the fleet for the Gerieral Board of the Navy, will actu- ally start. 1In Alaskan waters an invading force will be organized by Vice Admiral Arthur Japy , - commander of the fast-striking scouting force of the fleet. Along the Pacific Coast Admiral Harris Laning, commander of the powerful battle force, will or- ganize for defense. Just what the composif of these forces will be has disclosed - EMighty U. S. Armada to Start er Secret Orders | by Admiral J. M. Reeves. commander |in chief of the fleet, who is chief | umplire. Twelve dreadnaughts will be in- volved: The New York, Oklahoma, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ten- nessee, New * Mexico, Mississippi, Idaho, West Virginia, Maryland and California. For the first time in its history th2 Navy will have four aircraft car- riers in action, the new Ranger, the mighty Saratoga and Lexington, and the old Langley. Thirteen heavy cruisers and five light cruisers will participate. There will be 25 submarines. The Battle Force will send its 29 destroyers and the Scouting Force its 28, including two of the new vest-pocket cruiser type, ‘Dewey and Farragut. ‘Then there will be the minecraft, the tenders, base force craft of supply and repairs, and the auxiliaries. Aerial action will involve 466 air- craft of the various observation, patrol, scouting, fighting, torpedo and bombing squadrons. The Marines will be seen in land- ing operations. About May 23 the vessels will put into Pearl Harbor and Hawaiian ports for a stay of perhaps a week. Another phase of the maneuvers will follow, with the fleet working its way back to the Pacific Coast to reach San Diego by -W* 10. Representative Vinson, Democrat of Kentucky, still expressing confidence the bonus would be paid, put his argument against new taxes in figures. “There already is a sinking !um‘lI into which money is being paid to| retire the bonus certificates in 1945. If the present sinking fund payments of $112,000000 a year are continued the next 10 years, there will be no added cost whatever in paying the bonus. “Secretary Morgenthau says it will cost a lot of money to pay off the bonus. He doesn't add that it will| cost more not to pay it.” Only presidential insistence, other committeemen said privately, would bring a new tax bill out of the com- mittee. They added that even an immediate decision to levy new taxes would prolong the session of Congress a month and a half to three months, because of the time necessary to draft a revenue bill. Two Alternatives Given. Consequently, they added, the Pres- ident would be presented two alter- natives: Either to keep Congress in session, or to pass the new tax ques- tion over to the next session for further surveys as to”whether the re- turns from present taxes would con- tinue to rise as they have been re- cently. It generally was agreed, however, that most of the present ‘“nuisance” taxes which expire June 30 could be continued without stimulating ex- tended debate. These produce around $420,000,000 a year. Already, however, some committee- men are making surveys to see if even some of these nuisance taxes may not be dropped. One, for instance, is & tax on fur and fur-trimmed coats costing over $75. # B It is known that the committee’s | the F. E. R. A. will be continued in views with respect to United States order to take up the slack through Attorney Garnett are not going to be | creation of local work on very small supported by all of its members. | projects which, because of their size, While a majority of the committee ' could not be cleared through the works allotment board.” has already approved the report, as revised, Representative Werner, Re- | publican, of South Dakota, said he would not agree with the proposal for the removal of Garnett simply trict Code. Werner pointed out that it is not any more necessary for a United States attorney to be intimately fa- miliar with all statutes in the District Code than it is for a newspaper owner to know all the details of the news- paper profession. Werner is a news- paper publisher. Incidentally, Werner said, he had not received a copy of the committee report and was completely in the dark as to its recommendations. He did not attend the three-hour committee | meeting Priday et which the report was adopted and has depended on the newspapers for information as to the developments. The committee’s report will be made public as soon as it is presented to the full District Committee. Upon ratification by this committee it will be transmitted to the House in com- pliance with the resolution authoriz- ing the inouiry. Taxi Victim Asks $25,000. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 27 (#).— Julius Chastain, in a $25,000 damage suit filed today against a taxi com- pany, said a passing cab knocked his be- | cause he admitted his lack of knowl- | | edge of certain provisions in the Dis- It is pointed out that the Presi- | dent’s successful flight to keep his | “subsistence_wage” provision in the SHOWERS FORECAST; 89 SETS YEAR HIGH Rush of Midsummer Heat Brings Out Double Blooms of Park Cherry Trees. Showers and cooler weather was the outlook today after a Midsummer temperature of 89 at 5 p.m. yesterday set a record for the year and resulted in the first heat prostration. Harrison M. Fuller, 34, of 341 Ine graham street was the first heat vice tim. He was treated at Casualty Hospital after he was overcome while sitting in his automobile in the 800 block of Seventh street. His condi- tion was not believed serious. The warm weather brought out the double-blossomed cherry trees in Po- tomac Park in all their beauty, ate tracting hundreds of sightseers. ‘The Capital’s other floral displayss— the dogwood in Rock Creek Park gaml along the Mount Vernon Memogisl dinner pail out of his hand and into his face and a fractured jaw, & de- stroyed eye and Joss of two teeth re- sulted. Highway, the redbud and the crabw apple blooms in Anacostia Park—ajssi have been brought out by the warm- weather.