Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional rain this afternoon and probably tonight; colder tonight; lowest temperature about 36 degrees; tomorrow fair and colder. Temperatures—High- est, 58, at 8:45 a.m. today; lowest, 36, at noon yesterday. Closing New York Markets, Page 14 85th YEAR. No. 33,865. Full report, page A-15. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. PEACE TALK OFF IN NEW DISPUTE, STATES MARTIN < “Stay-Ins” Remain. G. M. C. Refusal Indicated. CONFEREES MEET ONLY 5 MINUTES U. A. W. A. Head Says Men to Continue to Hold Flint Plants. BACKGROUND— The United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, presented workers’ grievances and demands to Gen= eral Motors Corp. last month. Recognition of U. A. W. as sole bargaining agency for the workers major demand. Others were for higher wages, shorter hours. Gene eral Motors refused to see union representatives as sole bargaining agents for workers and impasse developed. Sit-down strikes began, closing many G. M. C. plants and putting more than 115,000 out of work. Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan brought opposing sides together for talk Thursday and agreement was reached to begin settlement megotiations today. Workers agreed to leave plants; G. M. C. agreeing mot to reopen them. Evacuation of rlants halted yesterday when wunion charged G. M. C. with bad faith in promis- ing to negotiate with Flint Alliance. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, January 18.—Homer Martin, President’of the United Auto- mobile Workers of America, announced today after a brief meeting with high General Motors officials, that “the conference is off.” Martin made his statement as he and five associates left the conference room in the General Motors building | where negotiations to end widespread | strikes were to have opened at 11 a.m. The General Motors executives des- ignated as conferees in the negotia- tions, headed by William S. Knudsen, | forces. Identified as Paroled Convict. ‘The same source stated that finger- | executive vice president, were in the room only five minutes. Knudsen and his associates, John Thomas Smith, general counsel, and Donaldson Brown, chairman of the Finance Committee, refused to comment when they emerged from the room. Martin's terse statement indicated that General Motors had refused to open negotiations because strikers continued to occupy two Fisher Body plants in Flint. All Negotiations Off. The U. A. W. A. president said that | “at the present moment all confer- ences and negotiations are off; there are no further conferences scheduled | north was interpreted as a portent | established by fingerprints at Tacoma, HOMER MARTIN. MATISON LAYER DECLAREDKNOWN |Fingerprints Said to Identify Kidnaper as Paroled Ex-Convict. B3 the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, January 18—The long-expected “break” was believed near today in the search for the swarthy kidnaper and killer of 10-| year-old Charles Mattson as Federal agents concentrated suddenly in Southern California. A dramatic swing in the manhunt to this region from the scene of the crime in Washington, 1,200 miles of impending developments. Adding emphasis was the report | from an authoritative source thntf Harold Nathan, Federal agent in charge of the search at Tacoma, had sped here by airplane and taken per- as an ex-convict paroled from prison who was in the Pacific Northwest re- cently, returning to this section sev- eral days ago, Identity was reported Wash., where the son of Dr. W. W. Mattson was seized at his home De- cember 27. A week ago today the boy's stabbed and bludgeoned body was found in snow-covered brush-| land near Everett, Wash. | Nathan, a check indicated, arrived | yesterday amid great secrecy from Portland, Oreg., where he boarded a with General Motors.” He said he planned no further | meeting with Gov. Frank Murphy, | whose efforts to bring the union and | the corporation into an accord np-f parently were set at naught by velopments over the week end. Martin said the union would stand | firm on its refusal to order stay-in | strikers to leave the General Motors | plants at Flint. He added that no | attempt would be made to return | strikers to three plants which were | vacated Saturday in accordance with the truce arranged by the Governor. Despite charges that the strike truce had been violated, the union conferees, Martin, Wyndham Morti- mer, first 'vice president of the union, and John Brophy, director of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- | tion, arrived at the General Motors | Building shortly after the scheduled | hour for the conference today. | Murphy Postpones Departure. Gov. Murphy, postponing his de- parture for Washington to attend the | Roosevelt ceremonies, talked with | ‘both sides by telephone today but re- | mained in his hotel here. | When the union representatives | arrived at General Motors' offices | they were escorted to the conference | room where C. E. Wilson, general | assistant to Knudsen, talked with | them for half an hour before the! corporation conferees made their | brief appearance. Fate of the settlement negotiations, | which under the truce were to have (See STRIKE, Page A-4.) GUN WOUND FATAL T0 STORE MANAGER Body Is Found in B.efrigeutorj After Door to Establishment Is Forced. ‘With a wound in his head and a shotgun lying beside him, Clarence N. Burton, 39, manager of an A. & P. store in the 5500 block of Connecticut avenue, was found dead today in the establishment's refrigerator. A cer- tificate of suicide was issued by the coroner’s office. Burton, who had managed the store for several years, left his rooms at 8817 Legation street about 6:30 a.m. to go to work, occupants of the house said. Half an hour later four employes reporting for work found the front and back doors of the store locked from the inside. They summoned T. E. Raley, district supervisor. Raley called a policeman, who forced a door. Near the gun, one shell of which had been fired, was a bit of card- board on which had been hastily scawled “T. J, Burton, Monday Point, Va." Police believe the address is that of Burton's father. Nothing else was written on the cardboard. Burton, police were told, was es- tranged from his wife. Friends said | today | MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 18.— ' | almost decapitated. plane after quietly leaving Tacoma by train. A man registered as “H. Nathan” at a Los Angeles hotel de- clared he had no comment to make. | Two men were held for questioning | in this area. One, Joseph ' Mitchell, 35, a vagrant, was in the | Culver City jail after refusing to answer certain questions asked him by police. He was found carrying a canvas knapsack in which was a boy's | sweater and several newspapers de- tailing the kidnaping. Another Reported Seized. Another man was reported to have been seized by Federal agents and subjected to a lengthy questioning in a jail of a suburban community. He | was taken in custody at Compton. John M. Hansen, Federal agent in charge here, would neither deny nor affirm the arrival of Nathan nor ad- mit the second suspect had been iden- tified. | Dr. Mattson said in Tacoma, he | (Sce KIDNAPING, Page A-4) | COUPLE FOUND SLAIN; | JEALOUSY IS BLAMED Bodies Are Discovered Behind Montgomery, Ala., Cemetery, Brutally Cut. By the Associatéd Press. The bodies of a young white woman | and man, brutally slain, were found | today behind Oakwood Cemetery, ap- | parent victims, Coroner M. P. Kirk- patrick said, of a “jealous man.” | The woman, apparently in her | ’teens, was identified tentatively by the coroner as Dora Bullard, a textile mill employe. Her throat was slashed. ‘The man, wearing a belt with the initial “N,” apparently was around 30 | years of age, Kirkpatrick said. He was The bodies were found by John Mos- ley, who lived near the spot, as he started after cattle. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 18.—A dozen Guernsey cattle feasted today upon the bovine equivalent of fresh strawberries in January—alfalfa hay as green and fresh in Midwinter as when it was cut last October—as Prof. Oscar Erf described an experiment which may revolutionize the feeding of dairy herds. The luscious green grasses came from a 25-ton Clark County silo which Erf, an expert in Ohio State Uni- versity's animal husbandry depart- ment, converted into s gigantic test tube for trying his method of pre- serving alfalfa in dry ice. ‘The purpose, he explained, was to improve milk production, the nutri- tional factors of milk, and the health the couple had no children. The of dairy cattle during the Winter @h WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. RETURN OF REICH [0 LEAGUE 1S SEEN RESULT OF TREATY Proposed Pact Held Likely to Bring Germany Back to Geneva. TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY WOULD BE GUARANTEED Far-Reaching Accord May Follow Conference of Goering and Mussolini. B1 the Associated Press. ROME, January 18.—The possibility of a far-reaching accord to guaran- tee European territorial integrity, was reported today in informed Fascist circles, following the conferences be- tween Premier Mussolini and Her- mann Goering, Nazi air minister. The pact is considered a forerunner to Germany’s return to the League of Nations. Goering left for Naples this morn- ing to pay his respects to Crown Prince Humbert, after renewed dem- onstrations of Italo-German cordiality. While Goering was en route to Naples, German Ambassador Ulrich von Has- sel left by train for Berlin to report the results of the conversations per- sonally to Chancellor Hitler. The importance of these results was indicated by Von Hassel's making the trip himself rather than entrusting them to telegraphic code. At the same time Sir Eric Drum- mond, the British Ambassador, left for London after conferring with For- eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Talk With Eden Likely. Although some British circles said he was going to attend the wedding of his friend, the Duke of Norfolk, others thought he would confer en| route with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who will leave shortly for Geneva. He was expected to report to Eden on his conversation with Ciano which was understood to have dealt with Goering's visit and the Italian reply to the latest British request to halt volunteers to the Spanish civil war. Reliable informants said both Ger- many and Italy would like to see Eng- revised treaty. Would Preserve Status Quo. ‘The new Locarno pact to replace one prints had identified the man sought | inoperative since Hitler remilitarized | the Rhineland last year would, it was | felt, bring Britain, Germany, Italy,! France and Belgium into renewed agreement to preserve the status quo of Europe. Fascists thought the new treaty would be based on Italo-German co- operation and the recently signed gen- tleman’s agreement between Italy and Britain to respect each other’s in- fluence in the Mediterranean. One result, Fascist observers con- sidered, might be a satisfactory solu- | tion of the question of intervention in the Spanish civil war. Should this work out, they said, the | way would be clear for Italy to take her WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION OIL CONGESSIONS GIVENL.S.FIRMS {Iran Also Grants Right to Construct Longest Pipe Line in World. BS the Assoctated Press. 18.—Newspapers announced today two,j concessions had been signed by the | Iran government with American com- | panies for oil developments in North | and Eastern Iran, including the right | to construct the longest pipe line in | the world to transport oil from both | day, the fourth fatality resulting from | sections moved to higher ground as| | Iran and Afghanistan. | | of the Inland Exploration Co. re- | | cently given huge oil concessions in | | tofy to be reduced after 15 years to | 100,000 square miles by elimination | . of non-oil-bearing areas. 1 At the same time the Iran Pipe Line | Co. was given the concession for con- | struction of a pipe line 1,700 miles | long, cutting across Iran and Eastern Afghanistan to the Caspian Sea. The | company is also a subsidiary of the | { Inland Exploration Co., controlled by Seaboard Oil Co. The Amiranian Oil Co. gave an un- dertaking to bring production as soon as possible to 40,000,000 barrels an- nually. | Negotiations for the two concessions were conducted by Charles C. Hart, former United States Minister to Iran, and Frederick C. Clapp of New York, technical adviser. On December 30 it was announced | (See ROME, Page A-2.) VON OSSIETZKY GETS NOBEL PRIZE MONEY ‘“Mystery Woman” in Oslo Re- ported Emissary of Attorney in Collecting First Part. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 18.—Karl von Ossietzky, “German pacifist, has ob- tained the first part of his Nobel Peace Prize money by conferring a power of attorney upon the lawyer Kurt Wannow, it was learned today. Simultaneous reports from Oslo i quoted the newspaper Aftenposten as saying Mrs. Alexandra Kreutzenber- ger, “mystery woman” who appeared there to collect part of the $37,000 prize, was a bonafide emissary of ‘Wannow. The newspaper said police Sus- picions of Mrs. Kreutzenberger, which , Tesulted in the taking up of her pass- port, had been aroused because Von Ossietzky failed to inform German au- thorities in Oslo of his moves. Only a small part of the Nobel Prize so far has been brought from Oslo, the friends said. They were attempt- ing to get in touch with Wannow to make sure Von Ossietzky does not run foul of German exchange laws, which require that all money held by German citizens abroad must be placed at the disposal of the gov- ernment. — Infantryman Drowned. COLON, Panama, January 18 (#).— Pvt. Peter Jones of the 14th Infantry was drowned today when he attempted to rescue another soldier who fell into the ocean near Chagres during coast patrol maneuvers. Jones was a former resident of Cameron, W. Va. \Cattle Are Fed Fresh Alfalfa In Winter by Icing Process as fresh as they obtain in the Summer. The silo was filled last October 3 with uncured, fresh-cut alfalfa, & layer of dry ice being inserted every foot as the steel cylinder was filled with the chopped grasses. Prof. Erf and other agricultural ex- perts joined Farmer A. G. Bookwalter in opening the container. The c alfalfa, packed at a cost of about $1.75 a ton, showed no signs of deteriora- tion, said Erf. “Apparently the grasses were almost as rich as the day they went into the silo in the three important food fac- tors green alfalfa contains—chloro- phyll, which develops hemoglobin in lates reproduction, and carotin, the element responsible for the valuable vitamin A in cow's milk,” Erf as- "(See OIL, Page A-2) {DEAD MAN IS THOUGHT SCOUT OF OLD WEST| | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, January 18.—An 80- year-old man who died in Kings Coun- ty Hospital January 7, today was ten- tatively identified by police as Robert Merritt, a scout with Willlam F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody during the Indian wars of the 1870s and 1880s. Police said they were attempting to locate relatives and were communicat- ing with the War Department to see if a burial place would be provided in one of the national cemeteries. Papers found in Merritt's effects indicated he~ had enlisted in the 1st United States Field Artillery at Albany, N. Y., May 4, 1875, undeér the name of Alfred Frazer and later re- enlisted under the name of Merritt, which they said was his right name. He had lived in a Brooklyn rooming house for some time. Summary of Page. Puzzles .B-7, B-13 Radio Short Story..B-11 Finance .___A-13 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary FOREIGN. Proposed pact seen due to bring Reich back into League. Page A-1 Britain seen ready to make war debt settlement. Page A-3 36 Ontario fugitives hunted after prison riot. Page A-3 Fears grow for safety of 21 Americans at Sianfu. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Ohio River overflows banks at many points. Page A-1 Mattson kidnaper, identified, sought in California. Page A-1 Peace talk off in new dispute, Martin announces. Page A-1 Indiana railroad strike spread thought likely by union. Page A-5 Ritter, ousted judge, appeals to Su- preme Court. Page A-19 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Nearly 1,000 seamen mass in protest at Commerce Building. Page A-1 Record crowds pouring into Capital for inauguration. Page A-1 Silverman indictment attacked from new angle. Page B-1 D. C. optician on trial with 8 others in Milwaukee. Page B-1 Dr. Cottrell to receive Washington science award. Page A-3 Page. Amusements B-10 ‘Woman'’s Pg. B-12 Virginian, 77, dies of injuries; son, 35, held. Page A-4 Trader death probers to sum up find- ings tomorrow. B-1 Petition for McNeil parole to be heard tomorrow, ? Page B-1 ¥ FORECAST | LS, Two Air Crashes Thought Caused By Ore Deposits Uranium May Have Affected Wireless, Says Expert. By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif,, January 18. TEHERAN, Iran (Persia), January | —Vast deposits of radio-active ore in | the airline route over Newhall Pass, a mining engineer suggested today, may have been responsible for two plane crashes and the loss of 16 lives within a month. Earl E. Spencer of Chicago died to- the forced landing of a Sait Lake-Los The Amiranian Oil Co.. a subsidiary Angeles air transport near here last | Tuesday. The other victims were Martin |1and enter the Italo-German line-up, ' afghanistan, has been awarded a con- | Johnson, famed explorer; James A. D a rapproachement which might have | cession covering 200,000 square miles | Braden, sopal charge of swiftly mobilized | the effect of bringing In France for & in parts of six provinces, the terri- | A. L. Loomis, Omaha . | Cleveland manufacturer, and investment banker. Wireless communication aboard both doomed transports possibly was affected by millions of tons of ura- nium, a radium-filled mineral lying just below the surface of the Newhall hills, said Charles Stanley. A United Air Line transport crashed | December 27, killing 12 occupants, and the Western Air Express ship last (8ee CRASH, Page A-2.) 'PRESIDENT, PARTY TOATTEND CHURCH Special Services at St. John's to Precede Inauguration Ceremonies. Keeping alive the custom he estab- lished four years ago, President Roosevelt will attend a special service | at St. John's Episcopal Church, just across from the White House, before | starting for the Capitol morning. Accompanying him will be Mrs. Roosevelt, all the members of the immediate family, and cabinet offi- cers and other heads of Federal estab- lishments with their wives. This service was arranged at the request of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Rev. Endicott Peabody, headmaster at Groton when Franklin Roosevelt was a student, and still in charge there, will be the principal offi- ciating clergyman. He will be as- sisted by Rev. Oliver Hart, rector of St. John's; Rev. Frank Wilson, rector of the Episcopal church at the Roose- velt Hyde Park home, and Rev. H. 8. Wilkinson, rector of St. Thomas’ Church, which the President attends here. Wednesday EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 Washington Observations. Page A-8 The Political Mill Page A-8 David Lawrence. Page A-9 Paul Mallon. Page A-9 Constantine Brown. Page A-9 Jay Franklin. Page A-9 Dorothy Thompson. SPORTS. Bosox deal angle hinted in swap of Indians and Browns. Page A-10 Outlook for pro foot ball next year is rosy. Page A-10 Hoya quint faces league-leading Pitt basketers. Page A-10 Uncertain pitching, infield worrying Pilot Prisch. Page A-10 ‘Yank netmen to open Davis Cup cam- paign on Coast. Page A-11 Owens, Lash at top in all-America track ratings. Page A-11 Flashy ring program on at Turner's Arena tonight. Page A-11 Sam Snead, 24, ex-caddie, brilliant winning Oakland golf. Page A-12 FINANCIAL. Bonds are irregular (table). Page A-13 Steel operations gain. Page A-13 Probe of stock values urged. Page A-13 Auto stocks slump (table). Page A-14 Curb List Mixed (table). Page A-15 Chilean bond plan scored. Page A-15 MISCELLANY. Young Washington. City News in Brief, Nature's Children, Bedtime Story. Dorothy Dix. Winning Contract, Page A-9 | ¢ Foening Star Y e S 1/ /,’Zc’ 1 OHID OVERFLOWS AT MANY POINTS ‘Serious Flood Conditions Feared—Residents Flee Lowland Sections. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, January 18.—The | 980-mile Ohio River, overtaxed by heavy rains, overflowed its banks to- day, causing fears of serious flood conditions from its source at Pitts- | burgh to the mouth at Cairo, IIl. | .Hundreds of residents in lowland Red Cross officials established relief headquarters. Factories took precau- | tions to guard against damage to ma- | chinery. Flood Expert W. C. Deveraux pre- ‘dickd the water would rise 6 feet and more above flood stage through- out most of the river valley. At noon | the water stood just short of 54 feet in Cincinnati, two feet above flood by midweek, The tributary Muskingum and Lick- ing Rivers overflowed their banks near Zanesville, blocking highways. Mari- etta, where residents take high water as a matter of course, repeated its pe- riodic process of boarding up store fronts and moving equipment to upper floors. A crest of 42 feet predicted there would send water through the city’s principal streets. ised to minimize the danger of disas- trous flood conditions, comparable with that in the Pittsburgh area last St. Patrick's day. MIDWEST FLOOD DANGERS. i High Waters Are Breaking Through | Levees. | Bs the Assoctated Press. | CHICAGO, January 18 —Turbulent rivers overburdened by Winter rains cut deeply into levees today to revive fears of widespread floods in parts of the Middle West. Hundreds of men patched weakened levees in Missouri and Arkansas where flood conditions were acute. Many streams which broke their banks and inundated thousands of acres in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois last week renewed a climb toward flood stages. Charles L. Blanton, W. P. A. super- visor, termed conditions in South- | 2astern Missouri critical. Fresh “shock troops” joined an army of 1,500 work- ers, most of them W. P. A. employes, in an effort to stem the raging St. Francis River's assault on levees. Blanton reported levees near Hol- comb, Kennett and Senath, Mo., were in bad condition. Waters rose to with- in six inches of the 1935 high water mark and exceeded that of 1927. Relief agencies sheltered more than 250 fam- ilies evicted from their homes by flood waters in Stoddard, Butler and Dunk- lin Counties. In Northeastern Arkansas the White T (See FLOODS, Page A-5.) MONEY BILL APPROVED The House Coinage Committee ap- proved today an administration bill to extend to June 30, 1939, the Treas- ury’s gold stabilization fund and the | President’s authority to alter the gold content of the dollar. Slaying Before By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 18.—Police investigation into a real-life killing mystery enacted last night in the Manhattan Opera House, now featur- ing Max Reinhardt’s huge stage pro- duction, “The Eternal Road,” focused today on six persons in s banquet crowd of 1,500. The dead man, Frank Cicero, 33, of Stamford, Conn., was stabbed twice during a violent argument arising over his alleged interruptions of a speech by Grover A. Whalen, former New York police commissioner. knife was not found. Police narrowed The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ek e e | stage, and promised to go to 58 or 59 | i A forecast of freezing weather prom- | SATURDAY'S Circulation, () Means Associate Wallace Discloses Purchase by U. S. of 179,520 Dozen Eggs By the Associated Press. Aides of Secretary Wallace sald today the Federal Govern- ment had bought 179,520 dozens of eggs in its program to boost the price thq farmer receives. Wallace announced the egg- buying program Saturday be- cause of an ‘“unusually sharp drop” in recent weeks in the wholesale and farm price of eges. A fund of $200,000 is available for egg buying which so far has been confined to the East. SEANEN PARATE TOPROTEST BIL Mass at Commerce Depart- ment in Demonstration Against Copeland Act. (Pictures on Page B-1.) Nearly a thousand grim-faced sea- men, marching under banners attack- ing the Copeland “safety-at-sea” act, massed at the Commerce Department today while their leaders conferred with Secretary Roper in an effort to get “justice” for the crews of Amer- ican ships. streets northeast before dawn, after an all-night trek from Baltimore in the rain, the vanguard of the seamen was York, Philadelphia, Norfolk and Bos- ton before the procession started. Parading out K street, south on Third and along Constitution avenue to the Commerce Department, the demonstrators marched silently and orderly under the supervision of scores of uniformed police. A lone bugler dressed in oilskins blew an occasional tune, providing the only music. Many of the marchers carried placards, some of which pro- claimed “blacklisting” and “dog col- lars are for dogs and not for seamen.” Man in Silk Hat Leads. At the head of the line of march | & burly seaman—wearing a frock coat and silk hat and carrying a sign announcing he was a “ship owner"— {led a smaller man, representing a seaman, by a chain and collar. Refused permission to meet in the | Labor Department Auditorium, the | marchers filled Fifteenth street be- | tween Constitution and Pennsylvania | avenues while a committee of seven was given an audience with Roper. After what was described as a “sym- pathetic conference” with Roper, the committee was expected to go to the White House. Spokesmen for the sea- men said they had protested to Roper ship subsidies bills and had been as- sured by the Secretary that he is in favor of full congressional investiga- tion of their complaints. . Roper told the committee he has no authority to suspend operation of the Copeland act. “The Secretary told us that he had | the solicitor of the Commerce Depart- | ment and the Attorney General look into the Copeland act to determine ‘whether its operation could be sus- | pended,” said S. M. Blinken, counsel | for the Joint Strike Committee in New York and a member of the committee | which interviewed the Secretary. “He was told that he had no authority to suspend the act or any of its sections. “Secretary Roper told us that the Commerce Department has received more than 16,000 individual protests from seamen against the Copeland act.” Headed by Joseph Curran, chairman of the New York Strike Committee, and Patrick Whalen, leader of the Baltimore strikers, the committee con- sisted of Albert Lannon, New York: R. M. Jones, Masters, Mates and Pilots’ Union; Paul Rothman, Ameri- can Radio Telegraphers’ Association; S. M. Blinken, Joint Strikers’ Maritime Council, and Ralph Emerson, Marine Cooks and Stewards’ Union. A prepared statement distributed before the delegation appeared before Roper said the “main objections center around those sections of the Cope- land and ship subsidy bills, which provide the permanent discharge book regard to revocation of certificates of efficiency and to the establishment of a maritime commission. “We are here to present certain amendments to the bills which have been drafted by the unions and in- dorsed by tens of thousands of sea- men. We indorsed the resolution of (See SEAMEN, Page A-2.) —_—e Ex-Kaiser Reported Better. BERLIN, January 18 (#).—Asso- ciates of the Hohenzollern family said today former Kaiser Wilhelm, living at Doorn, the Netherlands, was recover- ing from a cold and his condition was “not alarming.” 1,500 Diners Mystifies New York Police fusing to quiet down when Whalen arose to speak. Two men from the adjoining table, where 10 were seated, came over to the Cicero table to protest against Cicero’s alleged interruptions, police said, and the fatal melee started al- most immediately. Chairs, bottles and dishes went flying, and suddenly Cicero slumped to the floor with two stab wounds in his chest, just under the heart. The killing occurred at 11:30 p.m., at the height of a dinner given in honor of Barney Shapiro, executive director of the Affiliated Ladies’ Ap- parel Carriers’ Association and presi- dent of the Garment Truckmen's Benevolent Asseciation of New Jersey. Swiftly responding to an anonymous call, more than 50 detectives and police “bottled up” the 1,500 cele- brants until nearly 2 am. At that hour the majority was permitted to leave and police finally took 10 per- Westside police station for the 10 were re- 135,553 (Some returns not yet received.) Assembling at Fifteenth and H| | augmented by delegates from New against sections of the Copeland and | and to the arbitrary powers given in | SUNDAY'S Circulation, 148,730 TWO CENTS. THRONGS POURING INTO CAPITAL FOR INAUGURAL FETE FORECAST RECORD Temperature in High 30s Ex- pected Under Possibly Clear Skies—President at Work on Speech. DRESS REHEARSAL HELD AT CAPITOL | Those Who Will Participate in Ace tual Ceremonies of Inducting Roosevelt and Garner Asked by Senator Neely to Perform in Order to Avoid Possibility of Hitch. d Press. With the- inaugural trek to the Capital in full swing and heralding a record-breaking throng, the Weather Bureau today issued a forecast of “cold and disagreeable” for Wednese day’s ceremonies. It is still too early to predict as to rain, it was said, although the chill, intermittent fall of the past 24 hours is due to end late today or tonight and be followed by temperatures in the high 30s. But rain or sunshine—and there are those who'l bet on the famous “Roosevelt luck” for the latter—the crowd is moving in from all points. Estimates of the number who will see Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched on his second term in the White House run from a modest 100,000 to three times that many. Address Being Prepared. As early arrivals jammed hotels and | disregarded the weather to spread | through the gaily-decorated downe | town section, President Roosevelt cone tinued work on his inaugural address and at the Capitol last-minute prepe | arations were being made for the ace tual induction. At 3 o'clock this afternoon, Senator Neely of West Virginia, chairman of the Congressional Committee on Are rangements, ordered a ‘“dress ree hearsal” on the east front of the Capi« | tol, where the President and Vice President take the oath | Al of those who will participate in | the actual ceremonies—or their reprae Isentam'e.s—wnh the exception of the President, were asked to go through the rehearsal, in order that there might be no last-minute hitch. Two of three Coast Guard cutters | ordered here for the inauguration | docked at the Navy Yard this morning, | They are the Ponchatrian and the Cayuga. The Mendota is due.from | Norfolk late this afternoon. Three | hundred men and officers from the | cutters will march in the parade. In addition, 130 cadets from the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn., | will arrive by train early Wednesday morning. Fifty enlisted men of the | Coast Guard also will be brought hera to act as special guards at the Trease ury Building tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. by The President will take the oath | from Chief Justice Hughes shortly after 12 o'clock. Unless there is rain, the Dutch Bible which has been in | the Roosevelt family for generations will be used. It will be opened as it was four years ago to that passage of | Corinthians, which says: | “Though I speak in the tongue of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or & tinkling cymbal.” Before the President is sworn, John Nance Garner will take oath as Vice President there, thus breaking a trae | dition. Customarily, the Vice Presie | dent is inducted in the Senate Chame | ber. | After the President repeats his oath, | he will deliver the inaugural address | and then proceed to the White House | in time to receive the vanguard of the marchers, who by that time will be | under way. Interest in Address. Unusual interest was being evinced |in the turn that would be taken by | the President in his address. Dee livered under far happier economic conditions than was that of four years ago, when he called fo the people of this Nation for courage in a black hour, administration leaders believed he would point to his ree election majority as, in effect, a .vice tory for principles transcending party lines, much as did Andrew Jackson when, in 1829, diverse elements were brought together in the present Democratic party. This, 1t was felt, would be in fitting vein, and in keeping more= over with the “Jacksonian simplicity™ on which the inaugural ceremony has been pitched, even to the selection of the Hermitage, Jackson's Tene nessee home, as a model for the ree viewing stand in front of the White House. Early arrivals congregated about “the Hermitage,” rubbing their eyes (See INAUGURAL, Page A-2.) ——————— e FOOD PRICES IRK TOKIO Opposition Complains Military Ex« pense Oppresses Nation. TOKIO, January 18 (#).—Political leaders opposed to the foreign and financial policies of Premier Koki Hirota’s government, joined forces to= day to halt food price increases. Prices have risen between 10 and 30 per cent this month. “The government failed to adjust its financial policy, resulting in a rad< ical increase in military expense and thereby oppressing the nation,” Minw seito party leaders declared. Officials in the finance ministry declared, however, the price boosts were only part of a world-wide move= ment. They predicted control over foreign exchange might be strengthe ened. \