Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast) Generally fair and slightly warmer to- night and tomorrow, except local thun- dershowers tomorrow afternoon. Tem- peratures—Highest, 79, at noon today; lowest, 69, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-8. New York Markets Closed Today Entered as second class matter post office, Wa No. 33,667. shington, D. C. ROOSEVELT CALLS Men of Jefferson’s Type Required, He Says in Ad- dress at Monticello. SAME QUALITIES OF 76 HELD NEED AT PRESENT Confident Relighting of Spirit ‘Will Come and Lovers of Democ- | racy Will Be Developed. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of Tne Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 4— ‘ Standing reverently on the portico of | Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, President Roosevelt today | delivered an Independence day oration | appealing for leaders of the character and spirit of the author of the Decla- | ration of Independence to meet the| problems of the present “to maintain true freedom in this Nation.” A large gathering heard the address. | Mr. Roosevelt declared the problem: ©f 1936 call as greatly for the continua- tion of imagination and energy and| capacity for responsibility as did the| age of Jefferson. and he added with emphasis that it is not beyond me; power of the people of this country to i relight the sacred fire of fundamental | freedom. He contended there are mf limitations upon the Nation's capacity to accomplish this, “except the| strength of our Nation's desire and | determination.” However, Mr. Roosevelt spoke as one who has confidence that this relight- ing of the spirit of freedom will com=> about and that lovers of freedom and | gdemocracy like Jefferson will be de- Veloped. He shid he is not one who is inclined to believe that the spirit of such men as Jefferson was the spirit | of a golden age, gone and never to be | repeated. | Glass Lauds President. It was plain to be seen that the President was pleased by the com- parisons to Jefferson in the remarks of Senator Carter Glass and Stuart | Gibboney, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, who Ppresided. Mr. Roosevelt was introduced by Benator Glass, who said: | “Virginia greets him because of his | high position; Virginia greets him | because of his high courage and in- | comparable patriotism, and Virginia greets him because he professes that | love of humanity and the plain people that characterized ThorTaS YEfrerss Mr. Gibboney said “Mr. Roosevelt, You are a worthy successor to Jef- | ferson and we acclaim you for the | devotion you have shown in your pub- lic life for the common people. Jef ferson fought for equal opportunity for all and against all special pr ilege, the same as you have. You have been Jefferson’s worthy successor in | the fight you have made for the | Ppeople.” | Scene Is Inspiring. ‘The words of the President seemed to be inspired by his standing amd the scenes whica inspired Jefferson and which he loved so well. | Amplifiers carried the voice of the President to the far corners of the great crowd assembled on the smooth Jawns of the historic estate. However these thousands of people, mostly from this section of Virginia, were not Mr. Roosevelt’s only listeners. He was heard by millions throughout the land through the medium of a Nation-wide radio hook-up. In the group of promi- nent persons seated near the Presiden® as he spoke were Mrs. Roosevelt, Post- master General Farley, Secretary of Interior Ickes; Marvin H. McIntyre, one of the President’s secretaries; Miss Marguerite Leland, the President's private secretary; Senator Glass and Senators Harry F. Byrd of \Virginia, and Hattie Caraway of ‘Arkansas, Gov. George Peery of Vir- ginia, Representative Howard Smith of Alexandria, Va. Judge R. Walton Moore, Assistant éecremry of State; Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secre- tary of Labor; Charles West, Under- secretary of Materior; and J. M. John- son, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Mrs. Roosevelt was attractively at- tired in a white dress and a red and blue silk scarf, which combination of colors gave her a patriotic tone. In lauding the character and great- mess of Jefferson in his opening re- marks, the President said there are periods of history when one man| seems great because those who stand beside him are small, but that Jeffer- #on was great in the presence of many great and free men. The President expressed the opinion that in 1776 the fathers of the Constitution seemed to have caught the fire of greatness from one another and that all became elevated above the common run of mankind. Source of Greatness. Mr. Roosevelt then declared that the stirring of a new sense of freedom ‘was the source of their greatness. He pointed out that they were enjoying the taste of the first fruits of self gov- ernment and freedom of conscience; that they had broken away from a system of peasantry, from indentured servitude; that they were finding that they could build for themselves a new economic independence. ‘The President seemed to be speak- ing in defense of his New Deal policies when, speaking of Jefferson and his fellow patriots, he said, “Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought 1o be. They used new means and new models to build new structures.” The President said the world has never had as much human ability as it needs and a modern democracy in particular needs, above all things, the eontinuance of .the spirit of youth. By way of emphasis he added that Jefferson was only 33 when he wrote the Declaration of independence. These exercises at Monticello, while dmpressive, were not long drawn out as is frequently the case on patriotic o i @h WASHINGTON, D. C, Helen Jacobs Captures Title At Wimbledon in 3-Set Match Overflow Crowd Sees Frau Sperling Bow at 6-2,4—6, 7-5. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, July 4— Helen Jacobs finally captured the elusive all-England tennis champion- ship today, defeating Frau Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling of Germany and Denmark in the final round, 6—2, 4—6, T—5. The American champion had to stave off a courageous rally by Frau Sperling before she could win the title for the first time. Four times pre- viously Miss Jacobs had reached the Wimbledon final only to be beaten, twice by Helen Wills Moody and twice by Dorothy Round. Miss Jacobs’' triumph followed the hollow victory scored in the mea's singles final yesterday by Fred Perry of England. Perry, winning the title for the third successive year, con- quered Baron Gottfried Von Cramm of Germany, 6—1, 6—1, 6—0, after| the blond teuton had suffered a severe | (See TENNIS, Page A-4) MISS HELEN JACOBS. 50000 TICKETS ON SWEEPS TAKEN Police Raid “Largest Dis-| tribution Center in This Country.” By the Associated Press. HOLIDAY TRAFFIC CLAIMS 3 LIVES Veteran Sailing Captain Hit- Run Victim—Ten Injured in Crashes Today. ‘Three persons were killed, one by a NEW YORK, July 4—With the |hijt-and-run driver, and 10 persons arrest of 10 persons police and postal inspectors contended today they had | struck a heavy if not crushing blow at | the largest distribution center in this country for Irish Hospital sweepstake | tickets. * | They said a series of raids last night, netted $2,500.000 worth of tickets and | records of the names of thousands of agents. The tickets, which the officers declared to be genuine, were on the Cambridgeshire race sched- uled for October. Through questioning of one of those | arrested. who gave his name as Mi- chael Hayes and his address as Dubli the investigators sought to substant; ate a belief he was connected directly | with the administration of the sweep- | stakes. women gave New York addresses. The officers carted away a patrol wagon load of confiscated tickets and other paraphernalia from the back room of a jewelry store, which was among the.places raided. The prison- 15 were charged with violating the aw forbidding use of mails for lot- teries. . BOY IS NEAR DEATH FROM 3-STORY FALL 8-Year-Old William Jones Victim of Accident at 1489 Newton Street. Eight-year-old William (Buddy) Jones, a pupil at Sacred Heart School, was reported near death in Emer¥ency Hospital today after he fell from the third-floor landing of a fire escape at the rear of his home at 1489 New- ton street. Buddy, who had been playing with other children, went upstairs to get a drink of water from his mother, Mrs. William L. Jones. He had been warned against going on the fire es- cape, and as he left his apartment he ran toward the corridor exit to the emergency ladder, apparently with the idea of teasing his mother. Buddy slipped under the railing of the fire escape and clung for a few moments to the iron flooring. He lost his hold, however, and plunged into the concrete areaway. Neighbors picked up the child and hurried him to Garfield Hospital. He later was transferred to Emergency. | At the latter institution Buddy was | said to be unconscious and “sinking fast.” His tather is a branch manager for the Postal Telegraph Co. ———lg Barefoot Parade Greets Rain. MANCHESTER, Tenn., July 4 (#).— Forty Manchester citizens were so pleased with the drought-breaking rain that, led by Mayor Wright Hickerson, they paraded barefoot in a celebration The other seven men and two | injured in Fourth of July traffic ac- cidents on highways in nearby Vir- ginia and Maryland. Other accidents in and near Washington during the past 24 hours have resulted in injuries |to 12 persons, one of them a pneu- monia patient on his way in an ambu- lance to the hospital. Capt. B. P. Worrell, veteran sailing vessel skipper, died in Gouldman Hos- pital at Colonial Beach, Va., today after being hurled into a ditch by a hit-and-run driver. He was found be- tween Oak Grove and Rollins Fork, 18 miles from Colonial Beach, by David Dodd and Lee Dodd, brothers. | They took him to the hospital, where he died 10 minutes after being ad- | mitted. Mayor J. A. Myers of Colonial | Beach, acting coroner, issued a cer- | tificate of death caused by an automo- | bile operated by a person of unknown identity. A Richmond rayon-mill worker, Charles Clarke, 23; was killed and three companions were injured when a car in which they were en route through Washington to Baltimore fig- ured in a triple collision 3 miles north of Fredericksburg, Va. early today. Clarke died instantly when the car in which he was riding sideswiped two southbound machines and overturned down an embankment. Ladora Wilson, 20, colored, 901 Rhode Island avenue, was killed and seven other colored persons were in- Jured in a head-on collision on the Rockville-Frederick pike near Rock- ville, Md. ‘Those injured in the Fredericksburg crash were taken to the Mary Wash- ington Hospital in that city. They are Mr. and Mrs. Mary Demuth of Baltimore, who possibly sustained a fracture of the skull; Miss Irene Furry, Dumbarton, Va., fractured leg, and William Demuth, also of Balti- more, body cuts. ‘The Wilson woman was riding in an automobile driven by Henry Amerson, colored, 1203 rd street, when it was struck, pojghe say, by a machine operated by Walter Giddings, colored, of Rockville. Amerson received a broken left arm, cuts about the face and head, while two persons riding with him and four occupants of Giddings’ car were slightly hurt. Giddings, who was un- injured, was arrested on a manslaugh- ter charge. 12 Others Are Injured. At least 12 persons had been in- jured in other traffic accidents in or near Washington during the past 24 hours. Three adults and two chil- dren, all from Washington, were in- jured in a three-car collision on the Washington-Marlboro pike at Forest- ville, Md.,, last night. They were treated at Casualty Hospital. Those hurt were Albert Raber, 36, of 221 Jefferson street, cuts; Mrs. Pearl Raber, through the wet city streets. (See TRAFFIC, Page 2. DAVID LAWRENCE To Analyze the Platforms David Lawrence, whose dispatches are printed regularly in The Star, has been m: aking a special study of the platforms adopted by the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. has written a ser He ies of six special articles on the subject of these party campaign proposals. IN THIS SERIES HE IMPORTANT PLANKS WILL ANALYZE THE OF EACH PLAT- FORM, WRITING IN DETAIL AS TO PLANKS: Old Age and Unemployment Insurance Administration of Relief Agriculture Labor Foreign Trade Policy The Constitution—Change in Form of Government The Extension of the Merit System And the Many Other Campaign Principles of Great Interest to All Our Readers. READ THIS IMPORTANT SERIES OF ARTICLES Beginning in The Star on Monday, July 6th 3 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SATURDAY, CROP-WILTING HEAT INCREASES HAVOC ACROSS MIDWEST Fears Mount as Blazing Sun Remains in Place of Promised Rain. SOUTH AND NEW ENGLAND | ENJOY LIGHT SHOWERS No Immediate Hope, However, of General Downpour to Check $250,000,000 Loss. BACKGROUND— Alarmed by drought, the Depart- ment of Agriculture has established a live stock feed agency to advise Jarmers where and how to obtain fodder for their stock. Headquar- ters at Kansas City will open Wednesday. The 1. C. C. has cut Jreight rates on needed feeds. Secretary Wallace, already allotting $5,000,000 to purchase cattle, said this sum might grow to $30,000,000. The R. A. seeks authorization to loan from its $1,425,000,000 relief fund. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 4.— Crop-wilting heat spread new havoc across the ‘Western plains today. Fears—temporarily allayed by actual or predicted rain for several days— | mounted with the mercury in the drought belt. | A blazing sun beat down on parched | prairies as the corn crop entered -“ critical three-week period. Extremely high temperatures were registered yes- | terday in the Missouri Valley and the | Central plains. Norfolk, Nebr., record- ed 111. Omaha had 110—the highest ever noted at the weather station there in July. Pierre and Mobridge in | South Dakota reported 104 and Bis- marck, N. Dak., 96. Unseasonably warm weather, meteor- ologists warned, would blanket the Midwest. | There were scattered showers in Southern States and portions of New | York and New England yesterday. | | More precipitation was indicated for inches fell in the Gonzales region, | parts of Wisconsin and North Dakota SCene of death-dealing floods three —one of the most adversely affected States. Loss Put at $250,000,000. But there was no immediate hope | of a general, saturating downpour to halt crop losses that have already been estimated at more than $250,000,000 for the Nation's major agricultural sections. City dwellers shared some of farmers’ concern after Agriculture Department economists in Washing- ton said the weather’s effect on corn would determine the future price of meat they must buy for their tables. Corn, they pointed out, was used to feed meat animals and was a major factor in the prices they bring at the markets. Reports to the grain trade told of a deficiency in June moisture in almost all of 200 reperting points in | 11 Central States. Market men also heard crop de- terioration had broadened in the Western Canadian Provinces, with reports from Southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan of large areas where not more than 25 per cent of normal harvest was in prospect. But profit-taking held grain prices in check after sensational advances ‘Thursday. Only one North American market pit was open for trading today, that at Winnipeg. Opening prices there dipped, the July future yielding 7g-5; at 86%-75 in profit taking. At Liver- pool futures were firm, closing 1 to 2 pence higher. Heavy rains cheered sections of the drought-dried South last night and fresh showers followed today. Damage in the South and Southeast has been estimated at $150,000,000. Catholics to Pray for Rain. Catholics in Nebraska prepared to pray for rain at the behest of the bishop of the Lincoln Diocese. He urged the faithful to offer their sup- plications for an end of the crisis during the first two Sundays of July. Planters in the alliance district of the same State armed themselves with clubs and combed the fields in a war against another crop menace—jack rabbits seeking water. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace disclosed at Des Moines the volume of distressed cattle to be purchased by the Government would be determined by the future seriousness of the sit- uation. While ready to buy up to 1,000,000 head, he said such an ex- tensive pre m for removing the an- imals fi barren ranges might not Pprove necessary. He said in an interview the A. A. A. was proceeding with a 1937 soil con- servation program without waiting for the outcome of the November election. Lists Factors in Situation. Among the considerations, he said, were: How severe will the drought be and what changes will be necessary to meet conditions created by it? How much of the new seedings of clover and other grass will survive the drought and the grasshoppers? Will it be possible or practical to insure any control over corn produc- tion through payment of higher bene- fits for land shifted from corn to grass then for land' shifted from oats to grass? ‘Will it be possible to work out any plans for future corn lands, either in connection with the ever-normal granary idea or as a type of crop in- surance? OIL LABOR REWARDED department granted by the Shell Oil Co. yester- day. ‘The raises are retroactive to June 1. | under water. BACK FROM THE WARS! ¢ Zoening Star JULY 4, 1936 —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##% The only evening pdper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,782 (Some returns not yet received.) (#) Means Associated Pri TWO CENTS. ~GENERAL JOE ROBINSON, l HlMSgLE PINNED THI$ N ME.! DIS;_RICT CoLuMBiA 7 AN HT TENS FLODD AREAAGA 26 Death Toll and Property | Loss Now Estimated at $3,500,000. By the Associated Press. CUERO, Tex. July 4—New rains upstream early today poured another | burden of water into the sprawling Guadalupe River. which already had | forced 200 families out of their homes at_Victoria. | Fresh downpours of more than 3 | days ago, but river probably rescue workers said the | wauld unload into the | | Gulf of Mexico before the new rise the deciding factors in the Revolu- could reach Cuero or Victoria. | 26 Reported Dead. | The death list stood at 26. Property losses were estimated at $3.500,000 by | | farmers, live stock keepers, business | men and home owners. Thousands of | acres of fertile farm lands were flooded. |Of the program, as are other brief the orest passed | radio glimpses of America on- the | $6 more than | Fourth of July from Chicago, San | .Ab-Victoria, where last night, the river 31%; feet, the higl on record. All the lower portion of the town was About 25 families were | marooned and rescuers in boats pnd-! dled through the swift waters to rescue 146 persons. | Some of those marooned refused | to leave the water-filled homes. At one place three Negroes were found | huddled on the roof of their dwell- | ing, refusing to abandon it. Relief Forces United. The Red Cross, National Guard | units aad local officials united to aid | the 200 families forced out of their | homes. They were sheltered in| tents. | As the waters subsided in other | sections farmers looked out over once- green fields and saw their cotton and corn crops leveled, their lands deeply eroded. In the Cuero area alone, more than 25000 acres of farmland was covered. In the rich cattle coun- try around Victoria, hundreds of head of live rtock perished in the flood. —_— TALMADGE IN RACE Georgia Governor Qualifies as Can- didate for Senate. ATLANTA, July 4 (#).—Gov. Eugene Talmadge qualified today as a candi- date for United States Senator, to oppose Senator Richard B. Russell, jr., | of Winder. Charles D. Redwine of Fayetteville, president of the State Senate, qualified for Governor of Georgia as a Talmadge candidate. POPE DISCUSSES U. S. Audience Is Held With Arch- bishop Amleto Cicognani. CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, July 4 (#).—Pope Pius granted an audience today to Archbishop Amleto Cicog- nani, apostolic delegate to Washing- ton, and discussed with him condi- ticus in the United States. Japan Dates Air Maneuvers. TOKIO, July 4 (#).—Extensive aviation maneuvers to test air de- fenses on the coasts of Northern Kyushu and Southern Korea were an- nounced today by the war department. The maneuvers have been set for late September or early October. They will be under direction of Field Readers’ Guide Death Notices Editorial England to Hear | Liberty Bell Toll | InFreedom E cho\ Radio listeners in England. where the Fourth of July is just another | Saturday, may be surprised today to hear the tolling of the famous Lib- erty Bell, which 160 years ago sig- naled the separation of the United States from Great Britain. The tolling of the Liberty Bell, reading of the Declaration of In-| dependence and a description of the fateful Boston Tea Party are three of the events scheduled during a 30- | minute program starting at 2 p.m., which will be transmitted by short wave to England for rebroadcast over the British Broadcasting Co. stations. The description of the Boston Tea | party will be made from the wharf where the party, which was one of | tion, occurred. The declaration and sound of firecrackers to go with it will come from New York, and the | ringing of the Liberty Bell from Phil- adelphia. A two-minute program from the Capitol portico here is part | Francisco, Denver, Cleveland and Princeton University, where the A A. U. track and field meet is being held. STEEL COMPANIES DRAWBATTLELINES Pledge Entire Resources to| Combat Attempt to Or- ganize Workers. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Following the strategy set forth by the American Iron & Steel Institute, the United States Steel Corp. and the Republic Steel Co. today pledged their entire resources to combat the com- mittee of Industrial Organization in the latter’s attempt to organize the 500,000 employes of the steel in- dustry. The two concerns and their subsidiaries number more than half those employes on their rolls. ‘The United States Steel pledge was made in a statement under the name of William A. Irvin, president of the corporation, ap- pearing in the United States Steel News, a corporation publication. As in the institute’s full-page news- paper advertisement of last Wednes- day, the corporation statement defined the issue as one of closed shop vs. open shop and declared the company committed to the “principle of the open shop.” T. M. Girdler, head of the Republic Steel Co., issued a similar pronounce- ment on behalf of his concern. Keeping pace with this aggresive- ness on the part of the defense, the Organizing Committee of the C. I. O. pushed its plans for two impressive pro-labor demonstrations tomorrow at Chicago and Homestead, Pa. In the lat- ter community arrangerhents were made to greet 25,000 workers in the steel industry, a majority of them (See STEEL, Page 4.) | brators. CRACKERS INIRE FVE N 12 HOURS Girl, 2, and Boy, 13, Are Among Those Hurt Early in Day. ‘The Fourth was not 12 hours old be- fore five persons, a 2-year-old girl, a | 13-year-old boy and three adults, had | been injured here and in Alexandria | by firecrackers tossed by careless cele- | Two others were injured when firecrackers went off in their hands. ! Eli Bryant, 26. of 624 Tenth street | southwest, and his daughter, Dolores Anne, 2, were burned when a colored boy threw exploding firecrackers as they were walking in the 200 block of | Fourth street southwest. They were | treated at Emergency Hospital. Those injured in Alexandria were Andrew Zell, 200 East Windsor avenue, | who was struck under his eye by frag- ments of a firecracker which broke | his eyeglasses, and Mrs. H. J. Thomas, % 206 North Fairfax street, hit on the | face and leg by a firecracker tossed | from a passing truck. | Some boys had been throwing un- | lighted firecrackers from a window in the 500 block of A street southeast { and Louis Persell. 13, of 417 A street | southeast and several playmates had | been scrambling for them. As Louis stooped to pick one up a lighted one landed on his back and exploded. He | was treated at Providence Hospital. | Billy Shotter, 11, of 4108 Twentieth | street northeast, and Lionel Bradford | of Fairfax, Va., were burned on the | fingers when firecrackers beat them | to the throw. TABOR CREW WINS IN BRITISH REGATTA Kent Beaten by Four Lengths in All-American Final for Thames Cup. Ey the Assoclated Press. HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England, July 4—Tabor Academy of Marion, Mass., today won the Thames Chal- lenge Cup in the royal Henley regat- ta, defeating Kent (Conn.) School by four lengths in an all-American final. ‘The Tabor eight was clocked in 7:44 for the Henley course of 1 5-16 miles. After Kent had whipped Browne and Nichols School of Cambridge, Mass,, in the first semi-final, Tabor easily won from the Kingston Rowing Club, last British survivor, by a length and three-quarters. A crowd of 15,000, including Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, saw Kent earn its trumph over Browne and Nichols in 7 minutes 49 seconds for the Henley course of a mile and five- sixteenths. Tabor was clocked in 7:42 in winning from Kingston. The Zurich (Switzerland) Rowing Club captured the,Grand Challenge Trophy, beating the Leander Rowing Club by a length and a quarter in 7:25. First Trinity of Cambridge won the Ladies’ Plate competition, defeat- ing Clare College, Cambridge, by two- and-one-half lengths in 7:48. McCarl Blocks Effort to Collect e |From Dying Federal Embezzler A tortured conscience is the only repayment John M. @ornell can offer the Government for stealing $20,000. In October, 1916, Cornell, a Navy that “his duration of life is from three to six months, and furthermore, it is our opinion that he will never be able to begin or undergo the sentence.” So the Navy Department wrote the been | General Accounting Office, asking if any money he might have coming from the Government could be seized to offset his shortage. Unofficially, the department was in- formed, it was amplified, that as “Hastings” he had taken out a war risk insurance policy and that he was also entitled to compensation for disability, on account of his war serv- ice, if he saw fit to claim it. One of the last decisions rendered by former Controller General McCarl brought the case to light yesterday. In it, he held that the insurance, designed for a beneficiary, could not be taken in event of Corneli’s death. Any allowances he had claimed might be applied on the debt. But the Vete- rans’ Administration saild he had sought none. Cornell awaits the end in a Naval tal. FAR SKES AD .G CELEBRATON OFJLY FOURTH Rain Predicted Late Today, but Thousands Make Trips Over Holiday. FIREWORKS TONIGHT FEATURES PROGRAM Display Will Start at 7:15 Unless Showers Prevent—Band Will Play. A warm sun and clear skies—con- ditions that promised to prevail most of the day—favored the Capital today as it began celebrating the Fourth of July in befitting fashion. A discordant note found its way into the otherwise ideal forecast, however, when the Weather Bureau predicted a possible thundershower for this area either late this afternoon or early this evening. Threats of rain had little effect on thousands of Washingtonians who began week end excursions with the slamming of desks and closing of offices yesterday afternoon and by automobile, train, boat and plane streaked for beach resorts and Sum- mer camps to take advantage of the extra day afforded by a Saturday holiday. Official Washington, including the President, members of his cabinet and other high ranking officers, will not join in the festivities. The President was_scheduled to deliver an address at Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monti- cello, Va,, while most of the others also were out of the city. From the first popping of firecrack- ers by small boys and girls in the suburbs early this morning, until the mammoth display of patriotic pyro- technics scheduled for tonight on the Washington Monument Grounds, every minute of the day will be filled with programs arranged by patriotic and civic organizations. Oratory and eulogy of the founding fathers who gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence 160 years ago will not be lacking, but for the most part the Fourth of July program of a generation, or even a decade ago, has given way to brief parades and briefer speeches. On the program at the Washington Monument tonight, five minutes has seen set aside for the reading of the Declaration, 10 minutes for the ad? dress of the “speaker of the occa- sion,” Senator Radcliffe of Maryland. In keeping with modern ideas of a “sane” Fourth, fireworks dispiays will be staged by experts, not only at the Monument celebration, but at others arranged in communities throughout the city. But for those who insist on shooting off their own fireworks, the American Red Cross and health department officials have issued special warnings to insure a minimum toll of burns and Fourth of July casualties. To give vent to youthful energies, however, an elaborate series of ath- letic events and group games has been arranged by various community or- ganizations, including the annual 10- mile marathon sponsored jointly by the District Department of Play- grounds and the Takoma Park Citi- zens’ Association, the winner of which will receive the three-year competi- tive trophy awarded by The Evening Star. The marathon was to start at 1 p.m. from a point on the Mount Ver- non Boulevard and finish at Fourth and Van Buren streets in Takoma Park. While Washingtonians besieged offices of the American Automobile Association for road information, the packed excursion trains to Atlantic City, N. J, and ogher nearby resort spots, indications were that Wash- ington would also be a mecca for many excursion parties eager to visit the Capital over the week end. Ho- tels reported reservations were “brisk” and many of them expected to be comfortably filled despite the general exodus. Marine Band to Play. The celebration at the Washington monument will be held unless rain is actually falling at 7 o'clock, 15 minutes before the program is sched- uled to start, officials announced. A 30-minute concert by the United States Marine Band will be followed by a procession of flags, in which Boy (See FOURTH, Page A-11) ! TRIAL CLEARS BRITON Soldier Had Been Charged With Assaulting Japanese. PEIPING, July 4 (#).—Pvt. Herbert Cooke was acquitted today by a Brit« ish consular court of a charge of as- saulting Sakai Onishi, friend of a Japanese soldier, fatally injured May 26. An attorney for Cooke proved to the satisfaction of the court the British private was not present when Onishi was attacked. (Cooke was held for trial after the court denied Japamese claims Kisaku Sasaki, the Japanese soldier, was as- saulted “by a foreign soldier wear- ing a British uniform.”) No 35:30 Today Due to the holiday, The Star will not issue the 5:30 and Night Final sports editions today. . Subscribers to these editions will receive the regular city edition.