Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1937, Page 1

. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) ’ Partly cloudy and colder tonight, mini- mum temperature about 24 degrees; to- morrow cloudy; gentle to moderate north- west and west winds. Temperatures— Highest, 43, at noon today: lowest, 38, at 1.30 a.m. today. Full report, page A-12. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. SATUEDAY'S SUNDAY'S Circuiation, - 138,286 GHEINS (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 150,146 @h WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1937T—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. %% AS CRISIS IS AWAITED ROOSEVELT IS WON 10U.5. PAY BOOST, WFCARRAN HINTS Nevadan in Cheerful Mood After Conference on Measure. |PARLEY MAY RESULT IN CHANGES IN BILL Closing New York Markets, Page 18 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. (P) Means Associated Press. 85th YEAR. No. 33,879. FLOOD PERILS CAIRO M SPLASHING G TAKES FGHT DVERLFOOTWALL TOCOIRTTOON I~ ¢ 25 [WEAS 1S 450 WORKERS [ A )N LA PATRUIL_‘&A_RRIBADE final Method for Peace, Reaches Record Height of However. 59.50 Feet and, Lashed by | Wind, Waves Break| Against Superstructure. WOMEN AND CHILDREN ORDERED TO QUIT CITY | Will This Dike Hold? u.s CoNsTITuTIoNAL LUNCH &z 7ron P R L LUTAS & & — S “SIT-DOWN” PETITION ' BEFORE FLINT JUDGE Lewis Hits Du Pont and Morgan | as Coughlin Upholds Labor in Broadcast. Probationary Appointments Are Suggested to Insure Effi- ciency. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. There is a strong likelihood that Senator McCarran’s bill providing wholesale pay increases to Federal em~ ployes, particularly those in the lower brackets, will receive administration support. This was the impression of the Ne- vada Senator after a logg conference with President Roosevelt at the White House today. While Senator McCar- ran would not quote the President or even directly commit him on the sub- Ject, the Senator left the White House | with the impression that the Presi- dent appeared to be favorably in- | BACKGROUND— | Bitterness and discord mark beginning of second month in General Motors strike. Trouble began late in December when United Automobile Workers of America asked to bargain with G. M. C. as sole collective agency. G. M. C. refused and “sit-down” strikes began in plants of come pany. Finally about 100,000 work= ers were idle. Opposing sides, G. M. C. and John L. Lewis' Com= mittee for Industrial Organization, have refused to get together for Paducah, Ky., Becomes Ghost Town as Evacuation Is Carried ~ [ . ] i Out as Health Measure—Levee North of Tiptonville, Tenn., Gives Way, Aiding New Madrid AR AN BY the Associated Press. 3 Creeping yellow waters sloshed over the walls of Cairo, Ill.—prime danger | spot in the 1,200-mile battle against | the river—as the flood-girt city’s army | On this 3-foot bulkhead, built of lumber and filled with earth, Cairo, 1ll., has staked all to keep out the raging Ohio. On the other side of the town the Mississippi, also far out of its banks, is whirling against an earthen levee. As if there wasn't already trouble enough in that place! of defenders, 4,500 strong, awaited *zero hour” today behind a barricade 18 inches thick. Lashed by wind and a swift current eround the river's bend, waves broke over the lower ramparts of the 60-foot concrete seawall and drummed omi- nously against the frail 3-foot super- structure crowning the main barrier. With the cresting Ohio at the all- time record height of 59.50 feet, 6 inches from the top of the concrete bulkhead, only a mud-boxed wall a foot and a half wide remained to stave off the threatened deluge. All women and children were ordered | to leave the city at once. It was the second evacuation. Some had drifted back, cheered by reports that no im- mediate danger impended. Meanwhile, definite encouragement | In the presence of his terrified 14- | convicted Trotzkyists, condemned to in Cairo’s grim battle against inunda- tion came from veteran Government Forecaster W. E. Barron, who said the | ©Ohio River would cease its threatened | rise at 60 to 60': feet. More complete information from upstream points caused the observer to revise his earlier prediction. . Early Crisis Seen. Mounting waters warned of an early erisis. Throughout the freezing night, in the glare of floodlights, levee sen- tinels patrolled the walls looking for spots or leaks. Below, inside the sunken city, relief crews slept to conserve ‘their strength for the heralded climax—almost any hour now. A single exit, at the north end of the V-shaped city, was left open to the 4,500 defenders in the event flight be- ! comes necessary. Boats stood by, ready to evacuate meveral hundred of the “last ditch” fighters, but the main route of escape ‘would be through the heavy steel gate at the northern embankment. A major crevasse in the Ohio side wall, it was said, would transform the atill dry city into a watery graveyard 20 feet deep—within a few minutes. Falling steadily in the north, the 60 billion tons of Ohio River flood waters poured into the Mississippi | River at a rate of nearly 3,000,000 cubic feet per second. | Sharp Rises Below Cairo. River gauges below Cairo registered the ponderous influx with sharp rises. Today's chart read: City. Flood stage. Today. Cairo, IIL 40 feet. 59.5 Memphis 34 46.2 Helena, Ark. .. 44 56.5 | ‘Vicksburg .. 43 452 New Orleans - 7 15.1 The 46.2 reading at Memphis, re- corded by the United States Weather Bureau, was 1.6 feet lower than re- ported by the United States Engi- neers’ gauge. The latter reading was 1.2 feet above the record high-water mark of 1913, Meanwhile, the Weather Bureau in Washington forecast generally fair weather for the next 36 to 48 hours over the flooded Mississippi and Ohio Tiver basins, W. J. Moxom, chief of the Flood (See FLOOD, Page A-2.) FAR WEST STRUCK BY NEW BLIZZARD Schools Closed in Portland as Snow Piles More Deeply on Choked Highways. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Februsry 1.— Gales whipped another Winter storm down the Pacific Coast today, striking Portland, Oreg., with a terrific bliz- gard and piling snow deeper on al- ready choked highways. All schools were closed in Portland. Btreet cars still running pushed through 10 inches of snow. The Weather Bureau warned ships from the Canadian border to San Francisco and predicted storm condi- tions for most of the Far West by some of them cut off by previous storms, faced new difficulties. A rescue party, fighting to reach Rawhide, Nev., received unverified re- ports that two of 30 persons snow- bound there for two weeks were dead. The Great Northern Railroad’s three-car electric train, which nor- mally runs from Moscow, Idaho, to Spokane, Wash., arrived at Spokane r days late after plows ahead of it, 4 ol Wirephoto. GIRL SEES FATHER KILL WUIHERi {Maryland Man Then Turns Gun on Himself—Failed | to Pay Alimony. BY the Associated Press. | FREDERICK, Md., February 1.— | | year-old daughter and an aged neigh- j | bor who tried vainly to interfere, | Greenbury F. Grove, 52, shot and | killed his estranged wife at her Jef- | ferson home today, then turned the gun on himself and committed sui- cide. | | Grove was to have been cited for contempt of court today for failure to | pay accumulated alimony and counsel fees of $34, arising from a divorce suit filed by Mrs. Grove October 28. George W. Fawley, 80, the neigh- bor, told Sheriff Roy M. Hiltner he heard screams from the Grove home. ! He went to the house and found Grove | | struggling with his wife. She was at- | | tempting to keep a pistol away from | | her husband, Fawley. said. | Grove overpowered her and stized | the gun, despite the aged man’s at- | tempts to aid Mrs. Grove. The| daughter Edna, 14, stood a few feet from the scene screaming as Grove fired twice into his wife's temple and once into her neck. “I saw that I'd better be getting out | of there,” Fawley said. “It would | have taken two or three men to stop | As Fawley ran through the door, Grove fired two bullets into his own | head, toppling to the floor a few feet | from his wife's body. Three other Grove children were away from home at the time. Har- old, 8, left the house for school a few minutes before Grove arrived. Charles, 16, and Richard, 15, both were working in Frederick, about 8 miles from Jefferson. Grove and his wife had lived apart since the divorce suit was filed. | Neighbors told police Mrs. Grove kept the house tightly locked, as a rule, because she feared her husband might harm her. The kitchen door was un- locked today, however, Fawley told the officers. Fawley summoned Sheriff Hiltner, Magistrate Walter Shinn, acting cor- oner, and State’s Attorney Sherman P. Bowers to the scene. —_— PLANS RUSSIAN TOUR Ambassador Davies to Obtain Facts on Progress. MOSCOW, February 1 (#)—United States Ambassador Joseph E. Davies announced today he would make two extensive trips this month in order to, obtain first-hand information on the economic and industrial progress of the Soviet Union. “I want to see for myself the prog-, ress that has been made,” said the Ambassador, who arrived only last month. - ment: “Impossible now name final SOVIET PLOTTERS KILLED INMOSEOW 13 Are Executed by Firin91 Squad, Official News Agency Reports. BY the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, February 1.—Thirteen die for treason and sabotage, were | executed by a Soviet firing squad, the | Tass (officlal Russian) news agency, | announced tonight. In a brief statement, Tass said: “The sentence of the military col- | legium of the Supreme Court of the U. 8. 8. R. was carried out February 1. Listed by Last Names. | The 13 convicted defendants—on | whom sentence was passed Saturday after a lengthy trial before three judges—were listed by their last names in the declaration. Details of the executions were not given. The prisoners, convicted of treason and sabotage in the trial in which 17 confessed plotters were punished by the highest Russian tribunal, had appealed despairingly to the presi- dium of the Communist Executive Committee, their last resort. 72 Hours Legal Interval. When the committee rejected their pleas for clemency yesterday it be- came a virtual certainty they must die by 3:15 a.m. tomorrow (8:15 p.m. E. S. T. tonight)—72 hours after the | military collegium of the Supreme Court pronounced sentence. That was the legal interval dur- ing which the government’s tense an- nouncement, “The court’s verdict has been carried out,” was expected. Four of the defendants—Karl Ra- dek, most prominent Russian pub- licist; Gregory Sokolnikoff, former So- viet Ambassador to Great Britain; M. S. Stroiloff and V. V. Arnold, who had said he was once an American citizen, escaped with prison sentences. The judges said these four had been guilty only of “political” crimes, not of terroristic acts, and sent Ar- nold to prison for eight years, the others for 10. Doomed Held High Places. Many of the men sentenced to die once held high places of trust in the Soviet government, among them Gregory Piatikoff, former assistant commissar for heavy industry; L. Ser- ebryakoff, former assistant commis- sar of communications; 8. A. Tatay- chak, former head of the chemical industry; J. A. Livacitz, former vice commissar of railroads, snd J. N. Drobnis, former secretary of the Mos- cow Soviet. The others were N. I. Muraloff, M, 8. Boguslavsky, former member of the presidium of the Moscow Soviet; B. O. Norkin, former hedd of the munitions trust; J. D. Turok, former chief of . exploitation of the Perm Railway; A. A. Shestoff, I. J. Grashe, G. E. Pushin and I A. Kniazeff, former chief of the southern railways. Star Will Receive Funds for Red Cross Flood Relief The Evening Star will assist the American Red Cross in raising the immense fund necessary to care for the thousands of sick and homeless in the. Ohio-Mississippi flood area. Although the District of Columbia has far exceeded its quota of $120,000 the National Headquarters today made this announce- goal for funds; only limit Red Cross assistance must be maximum generosity American people; raise promptly largest possible amount.” f The Star will receive and acknowledge in its columns con- tributions of Washingtonians. Chapter, American Red Cross, for to the cashier, The Evening Star. Make checks payable to District flood relief. Bring or mail them Those who desire to submit their, contributions directly to the American Red Cross may send District Chapter, American Red or deliver ci Cross, 1730 E street. ash or checks to the any kind of mnegotiations. The Secretary of Labor, realizing seri- ousness of situation, has atttempted several times last few weeks to bring opponents together, each time has been rebuffed. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Febuary 1.—Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, saying he saw “advantages” in General Motors’ court action for an injunction to bar sit- down strikers from its Flint, Mich., plants, nevertheless asserted today that | “this thing will be settled in a con- ference.” | “It is in this direction.” he added, | “that all of my efforts are heading.” He declined comment on a wvisit to his apartment by William A. Fisher, president of Fisher Body Co., whose plants in Flint have been occupied oy strikers since December 30. Informed sources said Murphy conferred aiso with union leaders. The Governor announced he was discounting press conferences be- cause of the delicate nature of his | dealing with parties to the strike. “Advantages in Court.” Murphy told newsmen “there are advantages in letting rights be pursued in the courts. It will be helpful to both the participants and the public.” Union attorneys said the Genesce (Flint) County court action con- cerned “the most important and far- reaching legal question in the history of the labor movement.” Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola sum- (See STRIKE, Page A-4.) TEMPERATURE DROP T0 24 DEGREES DU | Rise Tomorrow to Be Not Much Above Freezing—January Seo- ond Warmest on Record. A drop in temperature to 24 de- grees was predicted for tonight by the Weather Bureau, with a rise of “not much above freezing” tomorrow. The day will be partly cloudy, reports said. Last month lacked but a three-de- gree daily average of being the warm- est January on record, the Bureau an- nounced. In January, 1932, the temperature was 13.4 degrees above daily average. This January the excess average was 104, making it the second warmest January on record since 1863, when first records were kept. No rain or snow was predicted for “at least” 36 hours. Only moderate winds are expected. Summary of Page. Amusements B-16 Comics B-12 Editorial ....A-8 Financial __A-17 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ...A-12 FOREIGN. Court of Appeals refuses Hawailan nobleman $67,000. Page A-2 Veterans' groups of France, Germany urge peace moves. Page A-4 Priest casualties in Spain placed at 50 per cent. Page A-2 Japan eased by Hayashi's progress toward cabinet. Page A-12 NATIONAL. Flood water sloshes over Cairo seawall a8 “zero hour” nears. Page A-1 Six month’s overtime Federal work valued at over $7,000,000. Page A-5 Parkers’ petition against indictments denied by court. Page A-2 Wartime tax and industrial control urged by Connally. Page A-6 Leaders confident ef peace as maritime voting begins. Page A-S Page. B-12 -16 Puzzles Radio . Short Story..B-9 Society -. B-3 Sports ___A-20-21 Woman's Pg. B-10 '| WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Mother held for grand jury in death of daughter from burns. Page A-1 Bishop Cannon’s 1929 blast read to court, Randolph works for bill to relieve jail congestion. Page B-1 PFourth week end traffic death boosts toll to 14. Page B-1 Independent offices supply Jll O. K.'d in House Committee, B-1 |CANNONBLAST | Bishop Believes He Can Deal in Stocks and Remain Unspotted. | he can deal in the stock market and | still keep “unspotted from the world,” according to a statement ready today | libel suit against Representative George Holden Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts. | The statement, contained in a | four-page printed circular sent by | Bishop Cannon to his friends in 1929, was read before Justice Jennings Bailey and a jury in Federal District | Court by Roger J. Whiteford, attorney for Tinkham. In the circular, | Bishop Cannon. | taking cognizance of widespread leged “bucket shop” in New York City, declared that stock tradinz was not gambling as he understood the word. He captioned the statement, “Unspotted From the World,” with a parenthetical explanation that this was the title of an editorial hlast against him in the Richmond News Leader. Cannon contended that buying and | selling stocks was not different from buying and selling real estate or other property, and pointed out that all | trading contains “some element “of | chance.” The latter fact, he stated (See CANNON, Page D BOILER BLAST FATAL | Passerby Killed in North Carolina and 8 Persons Hurt. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, February 1 (#).—A saw mill boiler exploded near here today instantly killing Thomas Williams, 58-year-old passerby, and injuring eight other men, four seri- ously. Raymond Drawhorn, Marshall Hall, Fleet Penner and an unidentified man were brought to a hospital here for treatment. Four others were less severely burned. The explosion was at I. L. Viason's mill, which was demolished. Today’s Star 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 Headline Folk, - Page A-9 This Changing World, Page A-9 Dorothy Thompson, Page A-9 FINANCIAL. Jersey Standard boosts gasoline. Steel operations gain. U. 8. bonds arift lower (table). Acceptance rates increased. Stocks irregular (table), Curb list narrow (table). SPORTS. Braddock spurns Schmeling for half- million Louis bout. Page A-20 Brown Bomber held handicapped by sluggish brain. Page A-20 University of Virginia softens its ath- letic code. Page A-20 Freddie Miller fights Joe Temes here tonight. Page A-20 Kiefer, swim ace, won’t consider turn- Page A-16 Page A-16 Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-18 Page A-19 Page A-13 Page A-13 Page B-11 Page B-11 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-11 City News in Brief, Nature’s Children, Bedtime Story, Betsy Caswell, Dorothy Dix, ‘Winning Contract, & AT ACCUSERS READ W orker on Relief Train, Trapped, Travels to Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio. February 1 (#).— Thankful that his shouts for aid were | heard “before I got to Memphis,” 18- | year-old Lafayette Ermelin of Phila- delphia prepared today to return to his home after spending nearly 24 hours in |a locked express car attached to a Bishop James Cannon, ir., believes | | at the trial of the bishop's $500,000 | flood relief train. Ermelin, released from the car when the train was halted here, said he was helping load relief supplies at Phila- | delphia Saturday night. | “I must have bumped by head and | been knocked out, because when I woke up the car was dark and we were moving,” he said. “I guess I was pretty dizzy, but I i criticism of his dealings with an al- | counted 10 stops—and at each one I | kicked on the door and yelled, but | nobody came,” he told railway police. | Ermelin said he broke open a case in the car to get clothing, but was with- | out food until his plight was discov- ered here late Sunday. He was fed at the railway station. “But I am lucky I got out of here,” h- said. “That car I was in was | headed for Memphis.” STATEUTILITY FEE 1S RULED INVALID |Supreme Court, by 5-to-4 | Decision, Upsets Statute of Washington. BULLETIN. The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional today a move by Texas to limit production of natu- ral gas in the Panhandle field and to allocate the amount among the various producers. day a Washington State law imposing a fee on railroads and other public penses of regulating them. The decision was 5 to 4. Justice Roberts, Van Devanter, . Sutherland, McReynolds and Butler voted against the law. Justices Cardozo, Chief Jus- Stone dissented from their views. It was the first opinion this term in which Justice Stone participated. Il since October 13, he returned to the bench today for the first time. Roberts, who delivered the majority opinion, said the State had not proved that the tax exacted from the rail- road did “not exceed what is reason- able needed for the service rendered.” Justice Cardozo, who delivered the dissenting opinion, said that “to show that the revolving fund was used as a common pot for the regu- lation of public utilities generally, ir- respective of their special function, does not make out a case of wrong to raflroads considered as a separate class.” The tax had been challenged by the Great Northern Railway Co., which (See COURT, Page A-2.) Mother Is Held Sobbing dismally, Mrs. Mattie Mar- tha Bray was led away to jail today after a coroner’s jury held her re- sponsible for the death of her 21- year-old daughter, Dorothy Fenwick, who died Saturday of burns at Gal- liger Hospital. The testimony at the inquest was accompanied by the sobs of the dis- traught 43-year-old mother, who sat with a damp handkerchief clasped across her face. The defendant stood on her constitutional rights and de- clined to make a statement in her own behalf at the conclusion of the hearing. Miss Fenwick’s story of how she received the burns was given the jury by Sergt. Joseph Daglish of the police homicid# squad. Swathed in bandages, with her eyes swelled The Supreme Court held invalid to- | utilities to be used in defraying ex- | tice Hughes and Justices Brandeis and | MELLON LETTERS SENTTO CONGRESS President Asks Acceptance | of Art Collection Be | Provided. President Roosevelt today sent to Congress the recent exchange of let- ters between Andrew W. Mellon, for- | mer Secretary of the Treasury, and | himself concerning the gift from Mel- | lon of works of art worth many mil- | lions of dollars to the Federal Gov. | ernment, and asked Congress to pr | vide acceptance of the “magnificent collection. | In a brief message the President | 1auded the high purpose of the offer, describing the works of art as con- stituting one of the finest and most | valuable collections in existence, con- | taining only objects of the highest standard of quality. He commended the matter to the consideration of Congress for the enacting of appro- priate legislation for acceptance of the gift under Mellon's terms. Attached to the message were copies of the correspondence of several weeks ago between the President and Mel- lon. The President in his statement informed Congress that the Attorney | General and the trustees of the Smithsonian Institution have con- ferred with representatives of the necessary legislation with the appro- priate committees of Congress. Praises Donation. | Roosevelt said: “It is with a keen sense of appre- | ciation of the generous purpose of the donor, and the satisfaction that comes with the knowledge that such a splendid collection will be placed at the seat of our Government for the benefit and enjoyment of our people during all the years to come, that I | submit this matter to the Congress.” | In the correspondence between Mel- lon and the President the terms of the formal offer and conditions under | (See MELLON, Page A-2) _— JAPANESE EMPEROR ENTERTAINS QUEZON President of Philippines on Way to U. S. to Discuss Trade Relations. By the Assoctated Press. hito today received Fresident Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Common- wealth in audience and tendered him a luncheon at the imperial palace. Quezon came here on his way to t! United States to discuss trade matters at Washington, possibly to continue to London for the coronation of King George VI next May. Among guests at the Emperor's luncheon were Prince Takamatsu, Hachiro Arita, foreign minister in the Hirota cabinet; Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, military sdviser to the Philip- pine government, and United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Responsible For Fatal Burns to Daughter shut and scarcely able to move her lips, the girl made a statement to Sergt. Daglish before she died, but she was unable to sign it because her hands were so badly burned. The police sergeant said he took only a brief statement because the girl experienced great pain when she talked. Dorothy said that on the morning of October 18, she was cook- ing breakfast for her mother and stepfather, Samuel Bray, 60, in their home, 439 K street. “I got up about 6:30 o'clock,” the dying girl was quoted as saying, “and was cooking breakfast for my mother and stepfather. My mother had beea drinking and there was a quarrel be- tween her and my stepfather. She slapped him andghe threw her down. (See BRAY, Page 4-2) donor and will be glad to discuss the | In further praising the gift, Mr.| TOKIO, February 1.—Emperor Hiro- | | clined. “My ideas expressed in this pay bill” Senator McCarran said as he |left the White House, “seemed to {find a co-operative expression.” | _There is no doubting the fact the Nevadan, who is laboring to bring about more adequate pay for a large number of Government workers, left | the White House in a happy frame of mind. Changes Forecast. It is thought likely that McCarran may write some new ideas into the Iblll as a result of his encouraging | conference at the White House to- | day. He said that besides affording adequate increases to the employes in the lower pay brackets he wants the bill to be the means of effecting ‘greater efficiency in the classifled | service of the Government. “My purpose will be to guarantes | efficiency,” Senator McCarran ex- | plained. “In the first place, when per= |sons are appointed to the classified | service after passing the necessary exe | amination, they will be given to under= i stand that they must keep on their | toes and maintain a high efficiency | record and that because they have | once been appointed that does not | mean they are to be supported by the | Government for the rest of their | lives.” Senator McCarran suggested in this connection something in the form of | probationary appointments. In other “‘ords, those appointed to the service after taking examinations would have | to maintain a certain degree of ef- ficiency for a certain term of years before getting out of the probationary class. Source of Idea. While the Senator did not say so, | the impression was gained that this | idea was inspired as a result of his | talk with Mr. Roosevelt today. The pay increase bill Senator Mc- | Carran has introduced provides for a minimum salary of $1,500 for Gove ernment employes. The greatest in= creases in pay would be in that group. For those getting more than $1500, increases up to $3,600 are provided, but the upward revision is not quite 50 liberal as for those now receiving less than $1,500. The bill also pro- vides for changing the method of arriving at efficiency ratings by abol- ishing the present system and tu ing the matter over to the Civil Serv- ice Commission. LINDBERGHS LEAVE IN NEW MONOPLANE Cairo, Egypt, Is Believed Destina- tion of Couple as Trip Is Started. By the Assoctated Press. LYMPNE, England, February 1.— Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took off today in their new airplane for a destination described by airport officials as “probably” Cairo, Egypt. “We do not know their exact desti- nation, but we believe it is Cairo,” an airport official said. “We understood Col. Lindbergh is making a long-dis- tance flight.” The American flyer flew his new light touring monoplane to Lympne from Reading, where he had had minor alterations made at the factory. He was joined by Mrs. Lindbergh at Lympne, where the plane was closely guarded. Earlier he had circled his Seven Oaks home near Weald, Kent, as Mrs. Lindbergh and their son Jon waved to him from the garden. It was a pre-birthday flight for the famous aviator who came to England with his wife and little son December 31, 1935. He will be 34 on Thursday. ‘The first report of the flying colonel’s journey came to airport offi cials from Calais, France. The Lind- bergh plane circled the city a half hour after leaving Lympne, officials said they were informed. A strong southerly wind was blowing as the flyers took off on the first stage of their 2,218-mile air journey to Cairo. It was not known where they would land. The Lindbergh plane has a cruising range of approximately 1,000 miles. e Italy Sends Envoy to Burgos. ROME, February 1 (#).—Roberto Cantalupo, Italian Ambassador to X d envoy to the Span- b Pascist at Burgos today.