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- wiped out. . mcres. . considered questionable. <o er end th . and things_therein ated Subscri 51!!5::’ of JlnulrMfl'i 7. COLD AGAIN GRIPS CALIFORNIA CITRUS 50 Per Cent of $500,000,000 Crops Now Estimated Destroyed. BY the Associated Press. 10S ANGELES. January 23.— Devastating cold laid siege again early today to the $500.000,000 citrus fruit empire of California. Growers, exhausted by a three-day fight against the worst freeze since 1913, relighted ofl heaters generally when temperatures hit the danger point before midnight. Already 50 per cent of the crop in orange. lemon and grapefruit groves was estimated destroyed by frost. Last year's total production from the 250,- 000 acres of citrus trees was valued at $112,000.000. Four workers were burned fatally in accidents with smudge pots which have consumed upward of 2,000,000 barrels of oil this week. The coldest weather today in Southern California was forecast for Imperial Valley, 19 to 23 degrees. A record low of 17 degrees was recorded there yesterday. Desert Region Damage High. ‘The reclaimed desert region, a Win- ter vegetable garden, has nusuinod $3,000,500 crop damage this month. Citrus and tomato crops virtually were Half of the early canta- | loupes and watermelons were lost. A high ceiling of clouds made heat- ing difficult last night in groves out- side Los Angeles. After midnight Redlands reported 24 degrees, one | degree less than the forecast minimum. | At Highland it was 25 degrees, l! Upland 23, at Ontario 25. This morning’s cold was less severe than yesterday's, which broke a 67- year Weather Bureau mark at San Bernardino with 17 degrees, but it was a menace to fruit on thousands of Even trees were endangered. Orange County agricultural authori- | tes announced every carload of fruit | sent from there must be checked and fruit from heated orchards will be More firing probably will be neces- sary tonight and Sunday morning. Elsewhere in the Far West the worst Winter freeze in decades eased it gTip. | Rescue Efforts Pressed. | Rescue efforts were pressed in be-J half of three marooned groups. | Eighteen persons were snowbound | near the Bunker mine, Inio County, Calif. They included two Piedmont, Calif., society women, Louise Kellogg and Annie M. Alexander. Seventy-six of one hundred and forty men at a North Central Utah C. C. C. camp were reported stricken with influenza. Snowplows attacked | drifts to reach them. Eighteen sheep herders were ma- | rooned near Winnemucca, Nev. At Portland, Oreg., because of the | maritime strike, union lnngshoremnn unloaded 750 cases of medicine bv hand to combat influenza and cold. | ‘There were no fires in a strike-bound | vessel for winch operation. | In suburban Seattle, Mrs, J. M Miles heard a commotion in a rabbit pen. Investigating she found a full- | grown cougar, driven by the snow out of the high country in search of food The cougar fled—and so did Mrs. | Miles. | At Los Gatos, Calif., Mrs. George ! Spray. wife of the manager of the | Elysium nudist colony, said she ex- | pects the usual week-end visitors. ‘They will have to break an inch and 8 half of ice in the swimming pool if they want to take a dip. WANDERBIRDS ON TRIP St 1 The Wanderbirds Hiking Club will meet tonight at 11:30 o'clock at Union Btation to board a special coach for New York, wherz they will spend to- | morrow seeing Radio City and tour- ing Manhattan Island. They will re- turn the same day. | Arrangements should be made through Miss Rose Marie Petta, 1651 | Lamont street. | For those unable to make the trip & hike along the towpath has been ! ° arranged, starting at Cabin John at 10 am. tomorrow. LOST. IAH PINAWMYG lold vl mi ermnnl apers. Reward. Potomlc 2111- 1020 pshur_st. n.e. 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MOVING VAN wa Trom Atlante: pointe e dnnr insured; low rates. 7. AT EICHBERG'S 1e wlllhlell for RETORN LOAD Toute; owner- Metropolitan auction, 1227 storage, bills motor No C.U OH JANUARY ";lh d re ord coach. motor N Oldmnhllrd m-eh ‘motor No. m @ service as one costing $500. “jnsurance _money." E 1) experience L AmAL R!PORT OF IOXIBON! INC., [INGTON. The, unaummzd being nmecuvm the d & malority of the trustees Dll!fl !M! 1st day of January. 1937, LELIA GORDON NOYES. President lg ‘Trustee. JAMES F. ‘Trustee. Digtrict of Columbis, s lia Gol he undersigned, { Washington, he matters e ‘true 1o the nowledge and ntents th best of belief. my information. LELIA GORDON NOYES. ibed and sworn to be(ore ‘me this ARt S et | attitude in economic matters, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Rainey Portrait Presented to State Senator Dietrich of Illinois (left) as he presented a portrait of the late Speaker Rainey to Gov. Henry Horner (center) for the State of Illinois. Hans Schlereth, the artist, is on right. The presentation was made at the reception of the Illinois State Society at the Willard Hotel last night. —Star Staff Phatu. HALT ARMS RACE BLUMTELLS REICH Premuer to Make Demand First Condition for Economic Aid. By the Associated Press, PARIS, January 23.—Premier Leon Blum will ask Reichsfuehre Hitler to halt Germany's “feverish” | armament program as the first con- | dition for economic assistance from | | France, authoritative sources said to- | | day. ‘The Soclllist premier will make his request tomorrow in an address at Lyon when he will disclose pending plans for a Franco-German political and economic agreement. Flanked by 16 cabinet ministers, Blum will lay down five suggestions | for stabilizing the troubled European situation which, informed sources pre- dicted, may be answered by Der Fuehrer at the German Reichstag ses- sion six days later. The proposals were expected to in- clude: 1. Cessation of the Nazi rearma- ment program. 2. Adoption of a “conciliatory” at- titude toward Europe’s political prob- | lem as the price of French economic help. 3. Immediate publication of national defense budgets. 4. Publicity for arms programs, fol- lowed by limitation and eventual re- duction. 5. Formation of a European “united front” around mutual guarantees of assistance between England France. Blum's speech, directed to all Euro- pean nations, will deal principally with a French request that Germany | work with the Paris government in restoring confidence on the continent | with a promise of a benevolent French it was said. ‘The occasion for the foreign policy | declaration will be a public banquet organized by the Popular Front gov- ernment in honor of the re-election of Andre Febrier as a member of the | Chamber of Deputies. The cabinet will accompany all parties in the Popular Front. Ministerial Council sessions have been called for Monday and Tuesday | to debate pending negotiations be- | | tween French and German diplomatic representatives for increased economic co-operation. The discussions are expected to be climaxed with direct conversations be- | tween French officials and Reichs- minister of Finance Hjalmar Schacht early next month. | Strike (Continued From First Page.) I am sure that a way will be found | te solve it fundamentally in the near future.” Willing to Negotiate. After reiterating that the corpora- tion was willing to negotiate with the union, but only after “sit-down"” strikers have left the two plants they still occupy at Flint, Mich.,, Sloan said: “The present deadlock cannot go on | indefinitely. Our men wish to work. They are prevented by a small group of sit-down strikers and their leaders, who are willing to jeopardize the country’s recovery in order to impose dictatorship on our industry and our people. “Our duty is plain. We have a re- | sponsibility to our employes. This strike is costing the employes of Gen- eral Motors a million dollars a day in wages. everything possible to save them from further loss of income and from being thrown on relief. * * * “In the meantime, so far as our ability to carry inventory will permit, every effort will be made to afford as much work as possible to our employes, who are out of work through no fault | of their own. “Mr. Knudsen is returning to De- troit today to see how far he can put this policy into effect.” Statement Puzzles Leaders. Sloan declined to elaborate upon his | statement and his exact meaning puzzled some leaders of both pro- strike and anti-strike groups. One person who has been active in opposing the strike but declined to permit the use of his name said he did not interpret Sloan’s statement as meaning that any attempt would be made to tty to reopen strike-closed plants. He sald he believed the cor- poration president meant that as many workers as possible would be assigned to taking inventories, but he pointed out that only a comparatively small proportion of those idle could be engaged in this work. A similar view was taken by the U. A. W. A. president. Aboard a train headed for Detroit, Martin told newsmen that the union would “re- sist” any attempt to reopen plants closed by strikes. He added that “General Motors would be unable resume operations in-any of the and | the | premier, together with delegates from | Our duty to them is to do closed plants as long as the strikes | continue in the 17." Robert C. Travis, union organizer at Flint, repeated assertions by union | leaders that the “sit-down” strikers would not leave the two Fisher body plants there until the strike has been settled. | “The only way to get us out of | those plants is to pull us out,” Travis | sald. “The General Motors walk-out at Washington did not frighten us. | The company refused to negotiate at Toledo & year ago until the men lere back at work—but it did.” Lewis, head of the Committee rur Industrial Organization, which is di- recting the U. A, W. A. strike, told | newsmen he could not “undertake to interpret President Roosevelt's words,” then added: “I do not think. as some have sug- gested, that the President intended to rebuke the working people of America | who are only attempting to secure | their rights guaranteed to them under the law.”> @ o' i Lewis declared that labor has “dem- onstrated” that it has “ample con- fidence” in President Roosevelt and that “perhaps we have confidence that in the end the President will do | what is necessary.” Senator Holt, Democrat, of West | Virginia, said it was “most brazen” | for Lewis to declare that Mr. Roose- | \ei! should support the C. I. O. chief in the automobile strike. Lewis sup- ported the President in his campaign for re-election last Fall. “Certainly it should not be a ques- ticn of party support, but should be a question of right and wrong.” Holt | commented. “The statement of Lewis | is tyvpical of the man. If given the power, he will continue such demands upon all public officials that he has supported.” | Sloan repeated the company’s oft- stated position that “the unlawful oc- ‘tuplnon of our plants by sit-down strikers who have no right, in law or reason, to hold possession of them” was the obstacle to negotiations be- | tween General Motors and the union. | “General Motors is willing to bar-! grin collectively when it receives back its plants,” he said. | Ford Aide Meets Knudsen, Knudsen was met upon his arrival | this morning by Charles E. Sorensen, general manager of the Ford Motor Co. The two left the station together after Knudsen said: “We are going ahead as far as possible in the re-employment of men.” He promised a full state- ment later in the day. Shortly after Knudsen and Sorenson had left the station, Martin and | Wyndham Mortimer, first vice presi- dent of the U. A. W. A, arrived from ‘Washington. Martin said he would leave ¥t noon | for Toledo, for a conference with | Glen McCabe, president of the Flat | Glass Workers’ Union. | ‘The conference, he said, would re- late to a possible settiement of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. strike. Martin also said he would address a | mass meeting in Toledo tonight. “If Mr. Sloan will cut out trying to double-cross us and get down to| collective bargaining.” Martin said, | “we can settle this strike and the men | can be back at work in 24 hours.” Dealers Affected. More than 85000 General Motors dealers and new-car salesmen have been affected by the strike. Of this| number 17,000 are dealers. It Wwas pointed out that none of the dealers | has been seriously affected, and will not be for at least three months. “It is a boon for some of the dealers,” it was stated, “for it permits them to get rid of their used cars, which have been stacking up under the heavy new- car sales of the past year.” | The deadlock in the West Coast maritime strike affecting 40,000 work- ers reached its eighty-sixth day. City and county officials in San Francisco ! appealed Tor congressional action to end the dispute and mapped plans to request presidential intervention. Violence marked the controversy when 33 men were arrested in San Francisco after a fight between union stevedores and members of a rival organization. Four men were seized after 400 strike sympathizers rioted at Inglewood, Calif. San Francisco officers jnvaded head- quarters of the rival stevedore group, headed by Lee Holman, who has not been recognized by shipowners, and seized several pick handle clubs and two dirks. A majority of the arrests were made there, Offshore shipowners flatly rejected a “final” peace offer by the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, and renewed a previous offer which the stevedores had turned down. Prospects of settling the Minnesota lumberjack strike were considered bright. At Rochester, N.. Y., more than 400 hotel service employes, on strike since December 21, reacned an agreement with operators. A two-day strike in the Pirestone Steel Products Co. plant at Akron, Ohlo, involving 700 men, ended by union order. Fed- eral officials sought peace in Libbey- Owens-Ford Glass Co. and gas work- ers’ strikes at Toledo, Ohio. A strike of municipal electrical workers in Chicago plunged most of the city's streets into darkness for nearly, three hours last night. Strik- ers raised the spans of 38 of Chicago’s 55 bridges, disrupting street car and automobile traffic in the downtown section. Union officials suspended the strike pending negotiations Monday on demands for restoration of the 1932 wage scales. Striking East Coast seamen have been granted s hearing by Na- | pursuit planes must carry, machine guns, flares and nearly a | | are the Seversky Aircraft Co., | others. | from the Severskv Co., HUGHES WILL SEEK' ORDER FROM ARMY Land Plane Record Holder to Enter Competition for Pursuit Craft. DAYTON, N.A).—The Ohio, January 23 (NA. amazing land plane distance speed record set by How:. ard Hughes—seven and a half hours from the West coast to Newark— was not simply the gesture of a mil- lionaire sportsman. Col. Frederick L. Martin, commanding officer at Wright Field, has disclosed that Hughes plans to enter the competition for Army pu suit planes on which bids are to be opened April 1. Col. Martin is second only to Brig. Gen. A. W. Robins in Army procure- | ment, at the Materiel Division head- quarters in Dayton. Hughes has been a frequent visitor to Dayton in recent months, conferring with Army engi- neers on features desired in the pro- posed purchase of pursuit planes. The greatly increased speed of bombers purchased last year, and now being delivered to the Air Corps, has increased the speed requirements of | other types of combat planes, for, ob- | viously, altack and pursuit planes must be faster than bombers. The Boeing bomber that crashed late in 1935 at Wright Field flew there non-stop from the Boeing plant on the West Coast at 233 miles per hour. Its successor, the first of an order of 13, reached Davyton for test last week. Army officers at Wright Field have been impressed by Hughes' record of 332 miles an hour, only 20 miles an ' hour less than the world land speed mark he set at Santa Ana, Calif., n 1 The transcontinental mark was lowered by Hughes nearly 20 per cent under his own record, set a year 2go. of 9 hours, 25 minutes. Utmost secrecy has surrounded the Hughes Aircraft Co. plant at Bur- | bank, Calif, where the pursuit plane to be entered in the Army contest is under construction. It is said to re- semble closely the Hughes racer, but is more sturdily built for the addi- | tional load of about 1,000 pounds that including score of accessories not on racers. Expected to compete with Hughes for & sizable order of pursuit planes the Chance Vought Corp., the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corp., the Con- solidated Aircraft Corp., and perhaps The last order for pursuit planes was for 77, costing $1,636,250, placed last Summer. This craft was a develop- ment of a racer, Maj. Alexander De Seversky, former Russian war fiyer, built l]ong lines of his record-break- | ing amphibian. Hughes is due to visit Wright Field within a week for further conferences | with officers and engineers concerning | the competition. (Copyright. 1937. by the North A Newspaper Alliance, Tne.) "o " STOLEN JEWELS FOUND | $60,000 Worth Tnken in Boston Last November Recovered. BOSTON, January 23 (#)—State | police headquarters announced last | night it had recovered $60,000 worth | of jewels taken by masked, armed rob- | bers in a $125,000 robbery at the home of William Kennedy, wealthy Boston ‘;n:rchlnt, in Southboro last Novem- | ber. At the same time, Capt. John F. Stokes, chief of State detectives, said two brothers, proprietors of a small | Boston jewelry store, had been arrest- | ed as accessories after the fact to the robbery. He named them as Frank Ciampa, 24, and James Ciampa, 29. Two men and & woman already are in custody as a result of the robbery, TAXI DRIVER ROBBED James Breen, 1229 Massachusetts avenue, taxicab driver, was robbed of 3$8 early today by a colored man who held a razor against the back of his neck. Three colored bandits, one armed with a pistol, help up William A. Stewart, 1745 L street, an employe of a filling station at Sixth and C streets southwest, and robbed him of $52 last night, police were told. Theft of 3 $140 ring from her home ‘was reported by Mrs. Catherine Scott, 3300 Chain Bridge road. Quarterly Confesence. LEONARDTOWN, Md., January 23 (Special) —Dr. G. Ellis Williams, dis- trict superintendent, will be the guest speaker at Mount Zion M. E. Church tomorrow at 11 a.m. After the service he will preside over the second quar- terly conference. tional Labor Relations Board over op- position of old line leaders of the Seamen’s Union. The seamen asked strikers in all affected Eastern and Gulf ports and the maritime unions ‘on the West Coast to ratify a resolu~ tion calling ship workers pack to their Jobs, late | D. C., SATURDAY, 13 NEW TREATIES UP FOR APPROVAL President Expected to Urge Ratification of Good Neighbor Pacts. BY the Associated Press, Officials predicted today that Presi- dent Roosevelt shortly would ask the Senate to approve 13 “good neighbor™ pacts with South and Central Ameri- can countries. ‘These treaties and conventions must be ratified by the.Senate to become effective, ‘Two of them already have been dis- patched informally to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for study. One of these is a treaty with Panama, replacing an agreement which has governed relationships be- tween the two nations since 1903. Under it the United States would abandon its right to intervene in Panama and agree to a larger rental | for the Panama Canal. Opposition has been expressed in some quarters. Sanitary Convention, ‘The other is a sanitary convention with Argentina. It provides that em- bargoes may be placed against the importation of animal or plant prod- | ucts from regions affected with or exposed to plant or animal diseases | or insect pests. At present such an | embargo would be placed against the | entire country instead of just the in- | fected zones. Western Senators have served notice they will oppose the Argentine pact vigorously. | Pacts of Recent Parley. State Department officials said Felipe Espil, secretary general of the | recent inter-American conference at Buenos Aires, had forwarded au- | thenticated copies of the 11 pacts | signed by the 21 American nations at | that historic meeting. These will be sent to the Senate shortly. The officials said that, since these and the pacts with Panama and Ar- gentina all embody fundamental prin- ciples of the administrations “good neighbor” policy, they could be con- sidered by the Senate most advantage- ously as a unit. President Roosevelt and Secrelary Hull have designated the agreements signed at Buenos Aires as epochal | steps in guaranteeing this continent’s | future peace and prosperity. No ap- + preciable opposition to their ratifica- | | tion has appelred CURRAN CRITICIZES LAX STREET CARS Motorman Is Fined $15 by Judge' in Failure to Obey Traf- fic Signal. | Fining a motorman $15 for failinz to obey & traffic signal, Police Court Judge Edward M. Curran criticized the Capital's street car operators in general for breaking the law at light- controlled intersections. The motorman, Joseph Daniels, was arrested on Connecticut avenue Thurs- day by Policeman H. L. Thompson. He pleaded not guilty. “There is not a day goes by that I myself do not see street cars trying to beat the lights,” Judge Curran said in commenting on the case. “Street cars are subject to the same | regulation with respect to lights that govern other vehicles, and their prac- | tice of crossing against the red or on the amber light must stop.” | The magistrate added that most other vehicular traffic. including busses, observes the regulations with respect to street crossings controlled by traffic signals. | 'ATTORNEY DENIES | | PARTIN SMITH PLOT, | Received “Not One Cent” From | Ex-Governor's Son, He Says } at Extortion Trial. ! By the Associated Prese. | NEW YORK, January 23.—A. Henry Ross, Brooklyn attorney, denied in General Sessions Court yesterday that | he participated in a plot to extort $12.500 from Alfred E. Smith, jr., son | of the former Governor. | Ross and Max D. Krone, a private detective, are accused of extortion. | The attorney asserted he received “not one cent” of money which Smith said he paid to settle a tareatened suit | growing out of his relations with | Catherine Pavlick, blond stenographer. | Ross sald he agreed to repm!n!l | Miss Pavlick at her request because |she was “worried” about her condi- |tion. This was on June 16 1933, and | he withdrew from the case on June 22 after talking with Smith, he said. | “Miss Pavlick showed me an affi-| duvit she had signed which told of | her affair with Smith,” he said, “and |she said that everything in the affi- | davit was true. I told her that Smith | should take care of her and she wanted | me to act for her and I agreed.” The attorney said that a week later, | | in answer to a letter, Smith came into | | his office “nervously smoking a ciga- | rette.” Smith, Ross said, admitted | being intimate with Miss Pavlick and asked the attorney to help him. STAGE LURES PENSIONER | CHELAN, Wash., January 23 (#).— Contract troubles bobbed up yester- | day to dampen the theatrical urge of | C. C. Fleming, the “pensioner” of Chelan's Townsend plan experiment. “Well, mother and I could turn actors, I guess,” said the 63-year-old spender when he learned a theater man indicated he might be “inter- ested” in booking the couple. But Isom Lamb, Chelan County Townsend organization manager and donor of the $200 to Fleming, ob- jected. He said he held a contract that provided neither of the Flemings could be “gainfully employed” during the 30-day test. Aim With Spoons Bad. IRONWOOD, Mich. (#).—The din- ner-table trick of flipping two spoons into a glass tumbler had dire results for Raymond Wanke, 14. He flipped 80 hard a spoon split his left eyeball. TODAY. In recess. House Ways and Means Committee continues reciprocal trade agreement hearings. Senate Civil Liberti Committee JANUARY 23, 1937. Royal Honeymooners Princess Juliana of Holland and Prince Bernhard married at The Hague January 7, enjoying the Biesterfeld, zu Lippe- skiing at the Polish Winter sports resort at Krynica during their —Copynght A P Wirephoto. honeymoon. Women Advised to Unionize To Change Attitudes of Meni BY the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 23.—Rev. Clin- ton C. Cox proposed today that women “unionize to get men away from their present idea that they are doing a girl & favor when they take her out.” The Presbyterian minister said he intended to suggest this to his Sunday night audience at the Drexel Park Presbyterian Church when he dis- cusses “A Study of Modern Business Conditions and Women Who Think More of Virtue Than Position.” Rev. Cox said the growing attitude of men toward women is illustrated | by the following story: “A young chap, seeking advice from his uncle, related he had taken a girl out to dinner and a show. ‘Should I kiss her good night?’” the nephew asked. “‘No,’ replied the uncle. ‘Don’t you think you have done enough for her for one night?'” ! ‘Women's new-found freedom and modernism have turned out to be something of a green persimmon, Mr. Cox averred. “Women don't want men to treat love and marriage as casually as is the present tendency,” | he said, | gested the “Women should unionize to change this tendency,” he said. “The lone girl, who prefers to stay at home rather than go to a show with a man if she has to pay with a kiss. can't single-handed bring about a changed attitude. She is more liable to be a wall flower or an old maid.” But reform, like charity, Cox. should begin at home. “unionized” said Mr. He sug- to: 1. Stop swearing. using vulgar lan- guage, telling off-color stories. 2. Cultivate modesty. 3. Stop necking. 4. Skip the cocktails. §. Powder the nose, certainly. but ! cultivate mind, charm and personality. %5k A—3 TRADER SHOOTING QUIZISGONTINUED ‘Wife and Son of Utilities Man Allowed to Go Home After Long Questioning. E) the Associatec Press. SNOW HILL, M4, January 23.-- Mrs. Jeannette Trader and her zon Richard, 18, were at their home at Stockton, today after being questdoned at length in connection with the death of Clarence J. Trader, Stockton utili- ties man and husband of Mrs. Trader. Meanwhile, State's Attorney Thomas | P. Johnson was expected to make a statement shortly, following a confer- | ence with other authorities investigat- ing the death of Trader, found uncon- scious in a bed room in the house of his estranged wife. Several days ago Johnson predicted that there would be “important developments” in the | case soon. Shortly after the questioning of the two ended yesterday and while they were still in the sheriff’s quarters in the jail, the prosecutor said nc | charges had been placed against either | mother or son. Richard had been in jail since Thursday night, undergoing lenyhy questioning. Mrs. Trader came to Snow Hill to see her son yesterday, but was re- fused permission to see him. Later she returned with a constable living | near her home, and she was then | questioned. Later in the day the mother and son were allowed to see each other. Johnson said that in a Pocomoke City hardware store had identified young Trader as the man to whom he sold a pistol last | September. Johnson said Trader de- nied buying a pistol, but admitted he had bought an electric bell. | a former clerk CLUB HEAD RESIGNS At a meeting of the Washington Transportation Club Thursday at the Raleigh *Hotel. G. M. 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