Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and possibly temorrow morning, followed by fair; minimum tem- perature tonight about 48 degrees. Tem- peratures—Highest, 59, at noon today; lowest, 44, at 5:45 a.m. today. Full report on page A- Closing New York Markets, Page 13 No. SIX “GIFT" BOMB SUSPECTS FALL TOCLEAR TRAGEDY Postal Inspectors Release Men in Wilkes-Barre Explosions. FINGERPRINTS FOUND ON DEADLY PACKAGE 33,583. post office, Wa Cemetery Sexton Who Was Killed Said to Have Testified Against Accused Dynamiters. BACKGROUND— In 1931 two postal employes. at Easton, Pa., were killed by a bomb mailed in connection with the an- thracite miners’ controversy. A cigar box was used in construction of the bomb. Trouble in-the coal district had been smouldering many years. By the Associated Press. WILKES-BARRE, Pa, April 11.— Six suspects, questioned all night in the “Easter-gift” bombings which killed one man and maimed four other persons, were released by post office investigators today. Among those questioned was a for- | mer miner in whose home police said | they found a cigar box similar to the ones in which the Good Friday bombs | were mailed. | At Philadelphia, Chief Postal In- | spector John W. Johnston said his | men and State investigators uncov- ered “very important” clues, including | fingerprints found on the death-deal- | ,ing packages. Cemetery Sexton Marked. 12, Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. 3 Killed in Clipp Jose Iturbi Among 20 Hurt Brazil Plane Sinks After Crash in Trinidad Take-Off. Small Boat in Path of Giant Air Liner Causes Collision, Bj the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, April 11.—The 19- ton airliner Brazilian Clipper sank to- day after collision with a fishing boat in the harbor of Port-of-Spain, Trini- dad, drowning two passengers and | the steward, and injuring possibly a | score others, including Jose Iturbi, world famous pianist. Radio messages to Pan-American Airways’ divisional headquarters here reported others of the 18 passengers and seven crewmen were rescued from the partially submerged queen of the South American skyways. The dead: E. Roman Martinez, 52, export man- ager of Eagle Pencil Co, New York; passenger. Eric R. Brogh of London, England, passenger. Amadeo Lopez, dining steward, of Miami, Fla. Swerves to Miss Launch. The big airliner overturned as Pilot Wallace Culbertson of Miami swerved in & vain attempt to avoid striking a small launch directly in the path dur- ing the dawn take-off. The plane's left pontoon struck the launch, plunging the Brazilian Clipper | over into the water. A “crash” boat | from the Pan-American seadrome 1m-i mediately put out and picked up the survivors. It was in almost the same spot where | the Brazilian Clipper was damaged | last December, when a gust of wind nosed the plane over during a landing. Besides Capt. Culbertson and Stew ah WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1936—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ## er Accident; JOSE ITURBI, Injured. MRS. MAXWELL RICE, POLIGE SEEK CLUE 10 STRANGLER OF NEW YORK WRITER Authoress Was Assaulted by Her Murderer, Autopsy Shows. FOUNTAIN PEN FOUND TO BE VICTIM'S OWN Fingerprints Are Sought on Sash Used to Throttle Wife of Radio Official. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 11.—An autopsy established today that Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton, writer and wife of a broadcasting company executive, was criminally assaulted before she was strangled with her pajamas in the bathtub of her East River apart- ment, Dr. medical assistant the an- ‘Thomas Gonzales, examiner, made | nouncement as the sole potential clue |to the slayer—a fountain pen—was | cast aside by police. Assistant Chief Inspector John A. Lyons said the pen, found on Mrs. | Titterton's bed, was established defi- | nitely as the woman’s own property. born husband of the victim had been unable to identify it, and police at first by the slayer. treated with a silver nitrate solution in an effort to find the slayer’s finger- prints. No Clean Fingerprints Found. Lewis Titterton, a National Broad- | | casting Co. executive and English- A sash made from her plj:mls.‘ knotted double around her neck. was { TIME MARCHES ON! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto . Services. [ ! Yesterday’s Circulation, 138,495 (Bome returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. N AN () I Y ” ( LAl | Early Easter Paraders Warned | To Keep Umbrellas at Hand Weather Bureau, However, Promises| Sunny Afternoon—President and | PLANTS “ARMING” FOR LABOR WAR | BACKGROUND— RELIEF INQUIRY PUSHED AS HOUSE SEEKS CANAL FUND G. 0. P. Senators Demand Full Accounting—Ask for Salary List. ICKES-HOPKINS ROW RENEWAL FORESEEN Lawmakers Want Names of All ‘Workers Who Make Over $1,200 Annually. Administration of Federal relief of meedy unemployed, either through made work or cash dis- tribution, probably will be point of major attack by Republicans in November elections. In recent months, even Demo- crats, particularly in Senate, have been loudly critical of works pro- gram, charging graft, politics and inefiiciency. Administration re- quest for $1,500,000,000 for work relief is now pending in House. Work on $200,000,000 Florida ship canal was started last year with relief funds; this Winter Senate refused to authorize project in regular appropriation bill. By the Associatea Press. | Senate Republicans were laying the groundwork today for an investigation of relief, while in the House moves | were under way to extend the Public Steel Worker Testifies Be- Works Administration and revive the Florida ship canal. The minority party member pre- pared many questions with the idea fore Senators on Ohio Conditions. (See CLIPPER, Page 12.) Saje in crash. After working throughout the night | = = = = and morning following the discovery | of the body late yesterday, detectives | of asking them when Senate hearings begin on President Roosevelt's request for a $1,500,000.000 relief appropria- Mrs. Roosevelt to Attend Church. new looked forward Detectives said they were con- vinced Michael Gallagher, cemetery sexton, who was killed by a bomb, had | been marked for death. Some in- vestigators took the view last night the explosive was meant for another | Gallagher who was involved in sev- { eral mine union disputes. | They pointed out that Gallagher | {and Thomas Maloney, one of the four | {injured, had been close friends and dthat in mine disturbances Gallagher {had appeared as a witness against per- sons accused of dynamiting and had | ireported thefts of explosive from the cemetery. Mine War Figures. State police and local authorities, however, stressed the fact that most | of the victims of the Good Friday tragedy were figures in mine wars | which kept this region in turmoil for | several years. A judge, a former sheriff, the um- pire for the Anthracite Conciliation | ¢;ryum where convention sessions are | the State Department head that the f Board 2and a mine superintendent | were on the death list. For this rea- | son Gov. George H. Earle and Attor- | eqpy gfternoon, with several hundred | £ght.” ney General Charles J. Margiotti, also factars in the coal medistion, we",to the oHuse Office Building as the | during committee hearings on neu-! | police would allow. A delegation was | trality legislation and made public | then expected to take the workers’ | today for the first time. While near- put on their guard. The rectory of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, home of the venerable Msgr. J. J. Curran, nationally known for twoscore years as a champion of miners, burst into flames in the midst of the bomb turmoil. Police and in- surance investigators said that while | there was only & “remote” possibility | the rectory was set afire by a bomb, they would continue their investiga- tion. Six bombs were mailed from down- town Wilkes-Barre Thursday night. A | service station attendant reported see- ing several men slouching in an auto- mobile. One got out and mailed some- thing. The car sped away. Luzerne County authorities also WORKERS MARCH T0 WHITE HOUSE Secretary Given Legislative Petition—New Contingent Delayed at Bel Air. A delegation of the Workers' Alli- | ance of America today presented a | petition outlining their legislativet wishes to Marvin H. McIntyre, secre- | HULL SAW LITTLE CHANCE FOR WAR General Conflict Unlikely, | Secretary Said Prior to Rhineland Crisis. By the Assoctated Press. A January statement by Secretary Hull that the chances were “9 out of 10" against a general war” was made tary to President Rosevelt, after a parade of 500 marchers to the White | House from the Government audi-| being held. i Another parade was planned for the | marchers planning to march as close | petition to Congressmen's offices. Meanwhile, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, was informed by telegram that 17 more busloads of delegations were 5 miles this side of Baltimore on their way to Washing- ton. They were described as being in | an “ugly” mood as the result of two of their number having been arrested and then released in Bel Air, Md,, after a dispute with a restaurant keeper. Maich Is Orderly. The march tc the White House was | orderly.. Some of the marchers shout- | ed folk songs with words they impro- vised, Some carried banners. The | public today by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was coupled with a warning from United States must not let the “false impression” go out that “we will not Hull These views were given by ly four months old, they far pre- ceded Germany's rearmament of the Rhineland which added a new Euro- pean crisis to the Italo-Ethiopian War. Hull also told the committee that, because of changing world conditions necessitating new neutrality rules, the United States intended to “urge other nations to join us at the earliest op- portunity in re-examining and re- stating and revitalizing neutral rights under international law as they ex- isted prior to the World War, as nearly as we find it consistent and as other nations might find it consistent to do so0.” woud contem- 'PROBE BOM failed to find any clear fingerprints in man place, along the East River in midtown Manhattan. Willlam O'Rourke, assistant district attorney in charge of the investigation, said traces of footprints had been noticed in the bed room. Like the fingerprints, however, they were smudged. “The investigation apparently is at | & standstill pending the laboratory examinations,” said O'Rourke. O'Rourke and 25 aides questioned a BING OF U. S. CONSULATE Explosions During Good Friday Service Spread Apprehension in Santiago. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Cuba, April 11.—Two powerful bomb explosions, one in the doorway of the American Consulate, | spread apprehension through Santiago today after a day-long Good Friday service mn which Provisional President Jose A. Barnet participated. The first bomb caused slight dam- age at the American Consulate last night, the main door of the building bearing the brunt of the explosion. The second bomb burst in the home of Postmaster Pelayo Recio. No casu- alties were reported. . The bombing of the consulate was the second in little more than a year, the previous incident also having caused little damage. The Bank of Nova Scotia, in the same building as the apartment on fashionable Beek-: Easter Music Pages B-8 and 9 | Umbrellas and raincoats should be kept in readiness by early Easter | paraders tomorrow, but the prospects | for a sunny afternoon seemed good ! today as the Capital prepared for | an elaborate display of finery. | ‘The forecaster predicted possible showers during the forenoon tomor- row, but said the skies will clear and temperatures Wwill rise later in the‘ day. The mercury is expected w; reach the high 50s. While those inclined to show off Spring outfits to a promenade, and motorists antici- pated a drive through the park to see the cherry bloosoms, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt and thousands | of other Washingtonians prepared to | attend church services. | The White House family will at-| tend special services at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church both in the morn- | ing and afternoon, and if the weather | 1s favorable, will drive into the coun- | try and possibly enjoy a picnic supper. The cherry blossoms, park authori- ties said, will present a “fair showing,” | although many of the Japanese trees | have passed the peak of their beauty. | (See EASTER, Page 3. THOMAS SIDWELL, EDUCATOR, DES Founder of Friends’ School" Remained Its Leader Until Last lliness. Thomas W. Sidwell, founder and principal of Sidwells’ Friends School, | died at his home, 3901 Wisconsin ave- nue, at 1 am. today. Mr. Sidwell had been seriously 1l for several weeks, more than three weeks in Emergency Hospital. He would have been 77 years old on May 16. Funeral services for Mr. Sidwell will be held in the Friends Meeting House at 2111 Florida avenue, at 3 p.m. Mon- EDEN FORESTALLS PARLEY COLLAPSE Powers, Far From Agreed| on Conciliation, Postpone Showdown on Rhine. BACKGROUND— Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia had already caused one European crisis, when Hitler, realizing his op- portunity, struck boldly to regain pre-war prestige for Germany by reoccupying the Rhineland. France, her fortifications front- ing Germany virtually impreg- nable, now fears refortification by the Reich, and summoned a con- ference of the Locarno powers to By the Associated Press. J. P. Harris, Portsmouth. Ohio, steel | worker, testified before a Senate com- mittee today that the Wheeling Steel | Corp. was “arming” to meet possible | labor trouble. He took the stand after Jokn M. | Carmody of the Labor Relation Board | told of “rumors” that “the Ford com- pany is shot through with labor spies.” Harris said the arming included recent purchases of 24 pistols, sup- | plies of gas and night sticks, together with an increase of the company po- lice force. He was testifying before the Senate | Labor Subcommittee which is holding hearings on industrial labor condi- tions. Harris said first news of the “arming” came to him “in the latter | part of July, 1935.” Doubling Pelice Force. At that time, he said, he received word from an employe in an outlying plant of the company that the man- agement was doubling the police force and getting deputizations where pos- | sible for their police to carry arms on ! duty. The mayor of Portsmouth, he said, refused to deputize the company po- | lice in the city. “But they won't stop with one re- quest,” Harris asserted. “They will| keep on trying and if the city counci]—«‘ men don't repeal the ordinance on which the mayor based his refusl they | will be told they will lose their jobs.” Knowledge Not First Hand. | Carmody emphasized he had no first- hand knowledge of whether spies were | employed in the Ford factories at Detroit, but gained his information while investigating other labor matters in that automobile center. tion for next year. Senator Steiwer, Republican, of Oregon, paved the way with a demand for the names of all Works Progress and Resettlement Administration em- ployes drawing salaries of $1,200 a year or more. Steiwer introduced resolutions call- ing upon Harry L. Hopkins and Rex- ford G. Tugwell, the respective admin- istrators, for the information. Demand Canal Funds. Hopkins' recent testimony before the House Appropriations Committee that none of next year's relief fund would go to the Public Works Admin- istration, the Florida ship canel or the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project in Maine brought immediate reaction. Members of Congress paraded before the committee demanding further funds for P. W. A. and seeking to pro- vide for continuation of the ship canal. The P. W. A. is authorized by law to continue another year, but President Roosevelt's program contemplates no new money for it. Several hundred million dollars from this year's fund will be available to complete work al- ready underway. Appearance of Florida Congressmen before the committee asking allotment of further money for the ship canal signified that another attempt will be made to get congressional approval of that $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 project. The Senate racently turned down a new appropriation for the canal, to which President Roosevelt had allo- cated $5,00,000 by ezecutive order. “Hopkins or Ickes” Controversy. A possible revival of the question whether Hopkins or Secretary Ickes, public works administrator, should ad- DETROIT. April 11 (#).—The charge | that automobile factories here main- | | New York delegation was to have | brought American flags, but the New Yorkers were in the party delayed at | “Naturally, this plate any changes suggested by war experience,” he said. minister public works funds developed as the dissatified House members urged | the consulate, was not affected by last night's attack. map @ policy of defense and cen- pointed to the fact that one of the sure. (See BLAST, Page 2.) day. Interment will be made in Rock Creek Cemetery. NAVY YARD BLAST FATAL TO CIVILIAN Joseph Roith, Ordnance Man,| Dies of Injuries From Explosion. Burned from head to foot in an explosion that shook the mine-testing laboratory at the Navy Yard yester- day, Joseph Roith, 49-year-old civilian ordnance man and ex-Marine, died in Providence Hospital at 3:15 am. today. Meanwhile, R. L. Watkins of Vienna, Va., a civilian instrument-maker, who was overcome by smoke, was reported recovering. The blast—said to have been the second in which Roith was hurt within the last 10 years—will be investigated Monday by a Navy board of inquiry. The laboratory, filled with high ex- plosives and chemicals, was wrecked by the explosion and Roith’s clothing was burned from his body. First re- ports said he had been blown through & window, but this could not be con- firmed. Roith, who lived at 1000 East Capi- tol street, had been employed at the Navy Yard since 1918. A veteran of the Boxer Rebellion in China, he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Lee Roith; two sisters, five brothers and his parents. Except for one brother—John Roith, 2 Eighteenth street southeast—all the dead man’s relatives live in Bloomer, Wis. ‘Watkins, who was working with Roith at the time of the explosion, has been at the Navy Yard since 1906. Arrangements for Roith’s funeral were being made today. DEBS TO BOW TO EDWARD British King to Hold Garden Re- ceptions July 21 and 22. LONDON, April 11 (#).—No royal courts, at which fluttering debutantes are presented, will be held this year, but King Edward instead will hold two garden receptions at Buckingham Palace July 21 and 22. It is understood the debutantes will pass before King Edward and make their bows just as Bel Air. The Workers’ Alliance includes W. P. A. workers, share-croppers and un- empioyed. Along with the new relief program, its principal demand is for enactment of the Frazier-Lundeen sociui security bill with much larger unemployment benefits than the pres- ent social security act provides. The second annual session of the alliance was formally closed last night at the Government auditorium. It left an immense amount of work in the hands of a new National Ex- ecutive Board. The reorganized al- liance is an amalgamation of several different employment groups, includ- ing Socialists and Communists and others, but the president, David A. Lasser of New York, declared there will be domination by no single clique or bureaucracy. National headquar- ters of the organization are to be moved here from Milwaukee. The home here has not yet been selected. Five measures were authorized last night by the conference to be sup- ported: The Frazier-Lundeen unem- ployment and social insurance bill, Marcantonio relief standards bill, 30- hour week, American youth bill and the workers’ rights amendment to the Constitution. Plans for the future were laid down by the alliance in the form of both a “program of action” and resolutions. The national Executive Board, con- sisting of representatives of the par- (See ALLIANCE, Page 12.) By the Associated Press, BROOKVILLE, Pa., April 11.—A posse of 100 men, called out by a screaming fire siren, blocked roads and railway lines today in a search for the killer of Katherine Bracken, 45-year-old telegrapher, in her rail- road signal tower. The woman, on duty alone last night, was beaten and slashed to death in the Brookville tower of the Pittsburgh-Shawmut = Railroad, her body dragged down the tracks and thrown over a 12-foot bank. arm was badly cut and her clothing was in tatters. Coroner Gilbert Hulme of Jefferson County said Miss Bracken had been criminally assaulted, and asked for they would at a royal court. , an autopsy. Woman Telegrapher Is Slain In Struggle in Tower House Her skull was fractured, her right | chart. Danger in Extremes. Stressing the need for co-operation between Congress, the State Depart- ment and the President to avoid any steps that might “jeopardize” our neutral position, Hull said: “If we create the impression that we are too extreme in either direction, we can get into trouble—this means either extreme internationalism or ex- treme nationalism. “Some countries might g2ain the (See HULL, Page 2.) LINER FACES BOYCOTT Santa Rosa Work Barred by Cali- fornia Longshoremen. SAN PEDRO, Calif., April 11 (#).— A longshoremen’s boycott, placed in effect by the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, faces the liner Santa Rosa on arrival here Monday to dis- charge a 1,500-ton cargo. The Grace liner was declared unfair to organized labor at a meeting of the federation’s Southern California District Council, which considered the replacement of several men in the deck crew at New York recently. The men, members of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, struck for a | West Coast wage scale and were re- placed by members of the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union, which recently ousted the Sailors’ Union as “radical.” State troopers said a wandering tramp may have invaded the tower and killed the telegrapher, who had been 19 years in the service of the road. They added more than one man may have been involved because Miss Bracken was a large woman, weighing 170 pounds, and there was evidence of a violent struggle. William Leddy, coming to relieve Miss Bracken at the tower, found the little room a wreck. He told troopers chairs were overturned and there were bloodstains on the desk and train He left the tower quickly and s few moments later discovered Miss Provisional President Barnet, hold- ing office until the inauguration of President-elect Miguel Mariano Gomez May 20, came to Santiago yesterday to join 40,000 persons in Good Fri- day services. Extra police and soldiers were on guard throughout the city, in connec- tion with his visit, but the bombers made their attacks despite the in- creased vigilance. Police, soon after the explosions, ar- rested the chauffeur of an automobile which they said was being driven through the streets without lights and at an excessive rate of speed. Three passengers leaped from the car at the approach of the police and escaped. Authorities said the auto- mobile was stolen from a garage, but whether it had any connection with the bombings was not immediately disclosed. ROBINSON ANNOUNCES RACE FOR RE-ELECTION Arkansas Senator Opposed by Three Others in Primaries August 10. By the Assoclated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 11.— Senator Joe T. Robinscn of Arkansas today gave formal notice of his in- tention to seek re-election to the Senate by filing his party pledge with the State Democratic Committe, and the corrupt practices pledge required by Arkansas statute with the Secre- tary of State. Both papers were received by mail from Washington, entering him in the August 10 primary. Three others previously had an- nounced for the Democratic leades's Senate seat—J. Rosser Venable, Little Rock; Thornesberry A. Gray, Bates- ville, and Cleveland Holland, Fort Smith. CHINA RENEWS PROTEST NANKING, April 11 (#).—The Chi- nese foreign office sent a second pro- test to Moscow today against the mutual assistance pact recently signed between the Soviet Union and the Mongolian National Republic. ‘The protest repeated the former Bracken’s body. The town's fire alarm was sounded, assembling & crowd of citizens and officers in & few minutess stand of the Chinese government and contended the treaty disregards 1924 Russo-Chinese treaty recognizing Chinese sovereignty over Outer Mon- the | docked. Fifty-three years ago Mr. Sidwell founded Friends School. During all the time he remained its directing head. From a small beginning in the old Priends Meeting House, at 1811 I street, Friends School became a leading educational institution in the Nation’s Capital, with thousands of graduates. Was Friend and Adviser. As head of the school Mr. Sidwell made it his business as well as his pleasure to become & friend and ad- viser of the hundreds of boys and girls who attended. Included in the long list were the children of Presi- dents, foreign Ambassadors and members of the cabinet and Congress as well as leaders in the professional and business life of the city. Mr. Sidwell founded Friends School as a co-educational, non-sectarian in- stitution, pledged to “stress simplicity, sincerity and friendliness in its ac- tivities and relations.” From its small beginnings, it grew until its en- rollment was more than 300. New buildings in I street were constructed (See SIDWELL, Page 12.) SEVEN ARE RESCUED IN CRASH OF SHIPS Avalon, Calif. —One Taken to Hollywood Hospital. €5 the Assoclate- Press. AVALON, Calif, April 11.—Seven persons were rescued at sea last night when the steamship Catalina rammed the $80,000 yacht Arbutus 7 miles out from Avalon. The big steamer, bound for the mainland in a heavy fog, struck the 76-foot cruiser squarely amidship. ‘Walter Leeds, a guest with his wife of the yacht's owner, Leroy Edwards, prominent Los Angeles attorney, was knocked unconscious, his head cut, by the crash. As the damaged vessel slid free of the Catalina’s prow, gunwales already awash, Capt. Otto Behrens of the Arbutus and a crew of three launched a lifeboat. The Edwards party rowed to the steamer’s side and were taken aboard. An ambulance rushed Leeds to a Hollywood hospital after the Catalina Yacht Rammed by Steamer Off | Britain continues to invite Hit- ler to agree to an air force limita- tion pact, but Der Fuehrer insists this is impossible in view of the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance pact. (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, April 11.—Great Britain's diplomats won a breathing spell in negotiations for European peace today, awoiding a complete collapse of con- ciliation in the twofold crises after the nations clashed almost to the break- ing point. Serious and dangerous disagreements among the great powers still dom- inated the peace, however, as the statesmen who had been conferring in the League of Nations center dur- ing the week returned to their homes for the Easter holiday. Bitter differences persisted between Britain and France, not only over how to hasten a settlement of the Italo- Ethiopian conflict, but also over the fundamentals of Europe’s attitude to- ward Germany's remilitarization of the Rhineland. Britain, in a conference of the Lo- carno powers which lasted until near midnight, neverthaless, won from both France and Belgium acceptance of the view that conciliation with Germany had not failed and that a new effort should be made. * Next Meeting in May. ‘The Locarno nations’ representatives decided to await the May meeting of the League Council for their next session, while Britain approached the Nazi Reich again for a settlement. The League’s Conciliation Commit- tee of 13 kept its hands on the Italo- Ethiopian conflict, but was in ad- journment wuntil next Thursday, Britain having yielded in its earlier demand that the committee remain in session until a decision was reached. Salvador de Madariaga of Spain, chairman of the committee, decided to attempt to open peace talks between Italy and Ethiopia Tuesday, with the Sanctions Committee of 18 hovering (8ee GENEVA, Page 5.) e D.A.R. TOHEAR PRESIDENT | | Roosevelt Accepts Invitation to Speak Here April 20. President Roosevelt today accepted an invitation to speak before the an- A Coast Guard patrol boat arrived in time to save the Arbutus from | sinking and towed it into Avalon Bay. nual convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution assembling tained labor espionage systems was made on several occasions at hearings conducted by the President’s Auto- mobile Labor Board two years ago. While the rumor of “spies” in the Ford Motor Co. has been circulated frequently in labor circles here, no charges involving the Ford Co. ever were taken up by the Labor Bcard, which was headed by Dr. Leo Wolman. CUTTER SHIFTS HUNT FOR PILOT AND BRIDE Alaska Lighthouse Keeper Re-| ports Seeing Plane “Flying Close In.” By the Assoclatea Press. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 11.— The search for two honeymooning fiyers, Pilot Albert Almoslino of Seattle and his bride, turned north of here today with the Coast Guard cutter Alert prowling the rugged, indented shoreline of Revillagigedo channel. A report from the lighthouse keeper at Three Points that he sighted Almoslino’s pontoon-equipped plane “flying close in” Sunday afternoon swung the hunt away from Northern British Columbia waters. ‘The cutter Cyane, northbound from Seattle, was ordered to search Lowe Inlet on Granville channel in British Columbia. With the Almoslinos seven days overdue on a flight here from Seattle, Coast Guardsmen became convinced they lost their way in a storm Sunday afternoon and either crashed or landed. FOUR-STORY PLUNGE AT HOSPITAL FATAL Woman, 56, Patient 24 Days, Had Undergone Operation at Baltimore Institution. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, April 11.—Mrs. Cath- erine Wright, 56, was dead today, vic- tim of a four-floor plunge from a hos- pital here. Mrs. Wright, Baltimorean, either fell or jumped from a bath room on the fourth floor late last night. She had been a patient for 24 days and had here on Monday, April 20. ) | the earmarking of $700,000,000 for P. W. A Once before, when the question arose whether Ickes or Hopkins should carry the load of spending the $3,880,000,000 appropriated last year, Mr. Roosevelt | stepped in to smooth out the situation. | House members who carried their | demands to the committee yesterday | were Representatives Beiter, Demo- crat, of New York: Green, Democrat, of Florida and McFarlane, Democrat, of Texas. They are the nucleus of a sizable bloc, working closely with Sen- ator Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona and some others in the Senate to obtain funds for Ickes' P. W. A. Fight Threatened. The backers of Secretary Ickes called a meeting for Monday to map strategy for a floor fight if the com- mittee does not earmark for the P. W. A. some of the relief money requested, or at least make other provision for it. These developments followed a sharply-worded final report from Hugh S. Johnson as former New York City W. P. A. administrator, saying the work relief program was “as cruel as it is stupid.” Speaking of Johnson's indictment of the relief program, Senator Barbour, Republican, of New Jersey said it “emphasizes the contention I have already made, that no more money should be voted for relief until we know it will be properly used.” Readers’ Guide Church News Comics Cross-word Puzzle Easter Music __ Editorial . Finance - ‘Washington Wayside undergone an operation. [} Women'’s Features ..