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NEUTRALITY BILL DEBATE 1S BEELN Discretionary Powers for President in Foreign Wars House Issue. BACKGROUND— As war clouds pile up over Eu- rope, congressional forces have be- come increasingly desirous of weav- ing into laws of the United States some guarantee against our becom= ing unmnecessarily involved in troubles of other nations. During past Congress, temporary legislation aimed at this objective was approved. This year, legisla- tion designed to be permanent was placed on calendar of things to be done, with first accomplishment being Senate approval of so-called cash-and-carry bill of Senator Pittman. Pending in House is bill giving greater degree of discretion to President. A permanent neutrality bill started through the House today amid a bristling discussion of whether the President should hayp broad discre- tionary powers in #atters relating to foreiga w Without adopted a hours’ debate ure First record vote the House resolution permitting 10 | on the neutrality meas- | a however, it listened to the chairman of its Rules Committee, | O'Connor, Democrat, of New York, raise a question of whether the bill | might not involve America in conflict | instead of keeping 1t free of embroil- | ment | Criticism of Mayor La Guardia of New York and Americas womanhood in German newspapers was injected | into the debate by Representative Rogers, Republican, of Massachusetts, Quoting from newspaper accounts of statements in the press regarding & recent meeting addressed by the New York ma Mrs. Ragers said: This historic Alezandria dwelling, wnere a brother of Gen. the new home of John L. Lewis, president of the Committee for Industrial Organizati THE EVEN on. Historie Home Acquired by Lewis Robert E. Lee once lived, is to be of the United Mine Workers’ Union and generalissimo Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Downham now liv there. —A. P. Photo. seems, was the piece de resistance for the tour because it was built and oc- cupied by the physician-general to the Revolutionary Army and personal physician to Gen. Washington. It was understood that Lewis had his eye on another home in Alexandria withdrawing in the face of fire. This move, members of the society de= clared, would solve the whole embar- rassing situation and the show could 80 on. But they reckoned without John L. Lewis. “I have taken this opportunity be- cause so few people in the United | States realize what the German press | is saying about American woman- | thood! ™ s a s« I am not rattling | any sabers, but I do know that the | manhood of the United States bitterly resents the attitude of the (German) government.” Conviction of People. Representative Knutson, Republic- an, of Minnesota, one of the few re- | maining members who voted against | America’s entry into the World War in | 1917, arose to protest what he termed cenviction of a great people “at an ex parte hearing.” | “I don't think we should take cog- nizance of all these old women’s tales that come to us from across the sea,” he asserted. The House bill retains virtually in- tact provisions of the temporary act, Wwhich expires May 1, forbidding loans, | credits and exports of arms and am- | munitions to fighting countries It also would permit application of America’s neutrality program to for- | eign civil wars which might spread to other count The bill would place trade in articles | that'might be used for war purposes ' basis. vessels could not carry such ma ls. Their shipment on foreign vessels would be forbidden un- til title to them had passed out of American hands. These prohibitions would be imposed | under “such limitations and exceptions | as the President may prescribe.” That language is absent from the Senate bill. Chairman McReynolds of the Foreign Affairs Committee con- tends it is necessary so as not to stran- gle American trade when there is no possibility its continuation might drag the Nation into war. Without it, he says, the restriction would apply to traffic with Canada on th Great Lakes if the Dominion were allied with Great Britain in a war, Tour (Continued From First Page.) of the old homes, under the sponsor- | ship of the Rector’s Aid Society of St Paul's Episcopal Church, was post- poned from April 3 to May 15. Would Let Lewis Move. This stratagem, it was announced, was for the purpose of letting Lewis move out of the old Dr. Brown house at 212 Fairfax street. This house, it FOUND. R_M. 2533, Star t_setting: Wed. Columbi | Part of garn nesday evenipe. Reward Apartment_North IRISH SETTER No. 24185 A S PARROT, green. 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But the Lewis silence and the char- acteristic Lewis aggressiveness came to the fore this week. His counter-attack in answering the siege was an assault which has momentarily beaten back | all the fine plans laid for his anti- quarian demise. He relinquished, without fanfare, the old Dr. Brown house on Fairfax street and with equal modesty filed a deed to the Robert F. Downham home on the southeast corner of Washington and Oronoco streets. He had held & lease on the Brown house. Where the Brown house had been touted as the prize of the tour before, now it develops that the Downham home is the *“real McCoy.” Without the Downham house, it seems, the tour will be like a circus without ele- phants. This old home was built shortly after the Revolution by Philip R. Fendall. This appears to be all of historic in- terest Fendall bequeathed to posterity through the old house. His name did not even get in the biographies of the day. Light Horse Harry’s Oration. Fame came, however, when Light Horse Harry Lee is supposed to have made his famous oration within the walls of the old house at the time of George Washington's death. According to tradition—and tra- dition in Alexandria is almost as potent as an affidavit of fact—citizens of the city gathered in the Fendall home to make arrangements for the funeral of Gen. Washington. Although the re- port never has been authenicated, Lee | is said to have arisen and delivered his oration. Another tie-up with the Lee family is the fact that the Lees at that time owned all the lots on Washington street between Princess and Oronoco | (then spelled Ornika) streets. Edmund I Lee built his house opposite the Fendall house. Customs House Site. The old house is of brick, covered with frame, a building custom in those days. The grounds adjoined those of the old Christ Church rectory, where Gen. and Mrs. Washington attended services. Fendall had his law offices in the southwest corner of the lot. Up to 1870, the old Customs House stood on this torner. It was built prior to the Revolutionary War and was in use up to 1812. It finally collapsed in 1870 The Fendall, or Downham. house was regarded by members of the so- clety as a choice morsel to be snown in the tour this year, and now that it has been literally snatched away just when programs were to have been printed and final arrangements made for the tour, sponsors are all a-flutter. Of course, they can now show off the old Brown house—if the Lewises move out in time, or Mrs. Holland re- lents. But neither Mr. nor Mrs. Lewis would comment on when they intend to occupy their new home. Everybody even remotely connected with the tour and the Geal which made Lewis the new owner of the Fendall house maintained a frigid silence when questioned today. The feud betwen Lewis and Mrs. Holland started severpl weeks ago sed to let her name be used on the same list of homes to be shown with Lewis’. She divulged that she had previously re- fused to sit at the captain’s table on a boat because Lewis was there. She objected, she declared, to Lewis' prin- ciples and not to the man. Just what effect the new deal is go- ing to have on the showing of the old homes by the society no one was will- ing to say. They maintained a seem- ingly serene silence, but two of the women admitted they are waiting for the return of Mrs. Holland from Flor- ida. They consider it her fight, However, the tour of homes sched- uled by the Alexandria Association on April 17 will go on its undisturbed way, 15 homes being on the list to be shown. They consider themselves for- tunate, one officer of the association said, that Lewis did not choose to buy 8 home on their list. They did not say what, if anything, would have happened. Mrs. Ward Brown, whose artistic home at 123 Prince street is on the association tour and who is an officer in the association, commented: “I don’t know what is going to hap- pen, but I'm glad our association is not mixed up in it.” —eis e D’Annunzio 74 Today. ROME. March 12 (#).—Gabrielle D'Annunzio, poet-hero of Italy, cele- brated his 74th birthday anniversary % —not because he had any intention of | Lewis at the time was in De- | Townsend (Continued From First Page.) Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, who called the court’s attention to the Supreme Court’s rule that appeal bail is to oe alolwed only when a substantial ques- tion of law is involved. “Unless your Honor thinks there is & substantial question of law here, I see no reason why this defendant should be released on bond,” Garnett declared. “I see no reason why this case should not be treated just as any other.” “Well, I do,” responded Justice Gor- don. “There is no way this could be disposed of until long after the de- fendant had served his entire sen- tence.” When Dr. Townsend arrived at the District Courthouse this morning with Hanson and his other attorney, Joseph DR. TOWNSEND, Shown leaving Supreme Court after being sentenced. —Star Staff Photo. A. Cantrel, he was met by a battery of moving picture cameras and oblig- ingly posed for them. With him also was a publicity man, who handed out his prepared statement to newspaper- men. trial, Justice Gordon reviewed much of the testimony given during Dr. Townsend’s trial three weeks ago. Testimony Stressed. He laid particular stress om testi- mony by John B. Kiefer of Chicago, former Townsend aide, that an agree- ment was reached at a board of di- rectors meeting the previous April that Townsend should walk out of the committee hearing at the psychological moment. Kiefer had told the jury the move was intended to secure favor- able public reaction and publicity and was regarded as a ‘‘masterpiece of strategy.” “When Dr. Townsend took the stand he denied that he had ever agreed to such a plan,” Justice Gordon declarad. “But whether he willfully walked out of the committee hearing was sub- mitted to the jury with proper instruc~ tions and the jury found he was guilty as charged in the first count of the indictment. I see no reason to change the jury's verdict.” Kiefer and another Townsend aide, Dr. Clinton Wunder of New York, were indicted for contempt along with their chief, but renounced Townsend in open court and pleaded guilty be- fore Townsend’s trial, in which they were the principal Government wit- nesses. Each was placed on proba- tion, In his prepared statement Dr. Townsend referred to the Bell Com- mittee members as “men who cared more for their political fortunes than they did for the welfare of the people they were sworn to serve. “My contempt for such characters has increased with the months that have passed since my ’walkout,” and will continue to increase as I contem- Plate the extent to which they would 0 in their efforts to stop the reform I have advocated, and which is sweep- statement added. At another place he said: “Try as they can to imprison me, they can’t imprison that idea. The tide is defi- nitely turning, and my ‘erackpot’ idea is becoming the idea which will save America from economic serfdom. * * * ‘The Townsend pian, which has been introduced again in Ocnnufi,ulh for In overruling the motion for a new ! ing the Nation for a second time,” his | 8 maximum pension of $200 monthly to every person over 60 years of age. Charges Persecution. He charged that the sole purpose of the committee was to persecute him and blacken his character so that the public would not take his plan seri- ously. Referring to his walkout, he stated: “I would do the same thing tomor- row, should the occasion arise under similar circumstances. I feel that it was the only horlorable thing to have done. I, a layman, was alone against the picked lawyers of the House. * * * Just that evidence which the com- mittee wanted was to be brought out and nothing else. There was no right of cross-examination or of defense to the calumny being heaped upon me 50 unjustly. “Can you imagine such a thing in free America? I could, as the | situation was real to me, and I decided | that it was time to put a stop to such | a disgraceful proceeding for the benefit | of suffering humanity in general. I do not regret the act, as I did stop the persecution.” Gas Light (Continued From First Page.) company to sell its holdings to the public and end its “foreign” domina- tion of the local operating plant. That plan has been pending before the Securities and Exchange Commission since last Summer. The trust now owns 109,000 of the existing 130,000 shares of common stock in the Washington Co., or about 84 per cent. The proposal of the Washington Co. to tie the purchase of the suburban companies from the trust into the proposed nancial reorganization brings up an old issue. When the trust last August filed with the Federal agency its proposal to sell its 109,000 shares local spokes- men declared that as a condition pre- cedent to that move it expected the ‘Washington Co. to buy from the par- ent trust the two suburban concerns. The District commission, while hav- ing no control over the proposed sale by the trust of its shares, let company officials know they would consider purchase of the two r burban con- | cerns on the merits of that case, with- | out involving the other. $3,000,000 Issue Proposed. | Last August the Washington Co. proposed to sell $3,000,000 of pre- | ferred stock to raise funds first to be | able to pay cash to the parent for the suburban concerns, and second to pro- vide funds for company expansions. At a hearing on the proposed pur chase of the suburban companies, offi- |cials of the Washington Co. were | asked by the commission if the trust would accept preferred stock, instead of cash. A company spokesman said 1t would not. Testimony showed that the Alex- andria company had never paid a divi- dend and that it had not been able to pay interest on the greater part of an $800,000 debt. The Hyattsville Co. paid a quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share in 1933 and 1935 and in 1936 a dividend of 25 cents per share. Marcy L. Sperry, president of the | Washington company, told the com- mission the company had four objec- tives in the proposed program: “To effect a wider distribution of the com- vany’s stock, with possible local con- trol; a rearrangement of its capital structure, a refunding of certain obli- gations to effect substantial savings in interest charges, and a better cash and operating position.” Bonds 80 Per Cent. The company now has a heavy load of bonds as opposed to stock. This was & principal argument for enactment of the law permitting the company to expand its stock issue. Roughly, bonds now constitute about 80 per cent of the capital structure and stock about 20 per cent. Sperry said if the pro- Posed plan is approved the ratio would be roughly 60 and 40 per cent. Owners of a large portion of the outstanding common stock paid as high as $120 per share for it. Par value is $20. In recent times the bid has been running about $84 and the asked price about $86. A dividend of about $18 per share per year has been paid, but this is measured against the $20 par value. Experts have explained in recent months that interests represented by the trust stood to take a loss of somewhere near $4,000,000 in its de- clared move to dispose of its control in the Washington company. The trust was created some years ago, after investigation by the commission of the several “foreign” holding com= panies which had controlled the Wash- ington company. That investigation culminated with an order from the United States District Court that foreign holding companies must dis- pose of their interests. SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT Convicted two weeks ago of making a criminal assault on a 14-year-old Langley Junior High School pupil, Edward J. McGee, 23, father of three children, was sentenced late yesterday in District Court to from 6 to 30 years’ imprisonment, the maximum possible under the law. In imposing sentence, Justice James M. Proctor denounced McGee for his act and said he deserved an even more severe sentence. y NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937. ROOSEVELT BEGINS STAY AT COTTAGE Large Crowd Greets Him on Arrival at Warm Springs. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Btaft Correspondent o1 The Star. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 12.— President Roosevelt is here vacation- ing for two weeks at the modest little white frame cottage on the slopes of Pine Mountain, which he affection- ately calls his “other home.” Mr. Roosevelt was given a rousing homecoming as he left his special train this morning. A large crowd of citizens, officials, representatives of ‘Warm Springs Foundation and many who had come in from the surround- ing country greeted him. Lively airs were played by the Warm Springs Band, and khaki-clad young men from the C. C. C. camp nearby served as guards and sentinels along the roadways leading to the station. Mr. Roosevelt, who showed no ill effects from his 721-mile journey from and told his “friends and neighbors” how happy he was to be with them again for a short period. Before getting into his waiting au- tomobile to drive to his cottage, the President stopped to chat with W. G. Harry, Mayor of Warm Springs, who had carefully memorized a brief speech of welcome; Henry H. Rebill of Green- ville, Ga., an old friend of the Presi- dent, who frequently visits him here and delights the President with South- ern yarns, and James Woodward of Columbus, another old friend. The weather was mild and clear and the countryside was picturesque with the many thousands of peach trees bursting into bloom. Bullitt Overnight Guest. A few minutes after this station demonstration the President was mo- toring over the hard dirt road to his mountain-side cottage 2 miles away. With him were his Ambassador w France, William C. Bullitt, who will pe | an overnight guest; Mrs. James Roose- velt, wife of the President’s eldest | son, who will rejoin the party some-l time next week; Miss Marguerite Le | Hand, the President's personal secre- | tary, and Marvin H. McIntyre of the | White House secretariat. It did not take the President long to change to old clothes and arrange to drive his own car to his 1,000-acre | farm about three miles from Warm | | Springs. This car of the President’s |is a rather aged and dilapidated af. fair and so constructed as to make i possible to be driven entirely by hand. The President, peculiarly enough, is | devoted to the car. He finds it com- | fortable and laughs off all references | to its lack of luster and its rattling. | When here the President never | misses his daily swimming in the waters of Warm Springs pool. This pool, large and entirely covered by glass, was donated to the foundation by Edsel Ford. The journey from Washington af- forded the President an opportunity to relax and also to have a long talk with Ambassador Bullitt, returned to this country from Paris a week ago. Be- cause the President’s time was so |taken up with other matters, it had been impossible to find time for a con- ference before. Car New for President. At the end of the private car was a cozy lounge room This car, the Henry Stanley, was a new one to th President in his many travels. His old car, the Pioneer, is now on the Pacific Coast temporarily, in posses- sion of Mrs. Manuel Quezon, wife of the President of the Philippines. Mr. Roosevelt's new car, besides contain- ing the lounge room, with an adjoin- ing observation platform, has two staterooms in addition to a larger stateroom with a private shower for the President’s use; a kitchen, pantry, kitchen crews' quarters, and a dining room large enough to seat eight people. At Union Station before his de- parture frem Washington yesterday afternoon were Secretary of State Hull, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Sen- ator Black of Alabama and Rear Ad- miral Cary T. Grayson, retired, chair- man of the American Red Cross. Mrs. Roosevelt was unable to be with the President on this visit to Warm Springs. A week ago she began a lec- ture tour, making it impossible for her to rejoin Mr. Roosevelt before his return to the White House, despite the fact that their thirty-second wed- ding anniversary will be on St. Pat- rick’s day, March 17. It is understood & small party will be arranged by the President’s associates to celebrate the anniversary. This is the first vacation the Presi- dent has taken at Warm Springs | since the Fall of 1935. He was pre- | vented from making his annual pil- grimage last Fall because he was Jjourneying at that time to the inter- American peace conference at Buenos | Aires. RAIDERS DISCLOSE LOTTERY FORGERY Seize Plates From Which Fake Sweepstakes Tickets Were Said to Be Printed. BY the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 12—Assistant United States Attorney Henry M. Leen today announced postal inspectors had raided a printing plant in Springfield, Mass.,, and seized the original plates from which it was charged millions of fake Canadian National Sweepstakes lottery tickets had been printed. The seizure today followed the arrest in Boston yesterday of a man booked as John P. Cooley of Longmeadow, a suburb of Springfield, on a charge of transporting lottery tickets. United States Attorney Francis J. W. Ford said a $5,000,000 lottery, drawing thousands of dollars weekly from New Englanders had been exposed. He said a ‘“beautiful young blond,” resi- dent of Portland, Me., had described the lottery and its 50 New England agents. His assistant, Leen, said the printer was not arrested in the Springfield raid today, but had volunteered in- formation to Postal Inspectors Tenny= son Jefferson and Ralph Dakin, who made the raid. eation gets needlonsly . . somfortable while the at sause. Don't suffer oot PILE.-FOE today for guaranteed rowits. At Poesiss Do other good drupgists. Washington, appeared deeply touched | Germany’s Envoy Drops Nazi Salute In Greeting King BY the Assoclated Press. LONDON, March 12.—German Am- bassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, who shocked Great Britain by giving King George the Naz salute on tvio occaslons, reverted to custom yester- day and shook hands with the King and Queen. Then he and his wife—who also shook hands with the royal couple— stayed for tea at Buckingham Palace. The procedure amazed Von Ribben- trop’s fellow envoys. The two Nazi salutes to the Kng, in February, brought newspaper criticism, but German spokesmen stoutly insisted a uniform rule had been imposed re- quiring representatives to raise the arm on all official occasions. Since Von Ribbentrop is handling Germany’s campaign here for the re- turn of her former colonies, observers thought Berlin might have ordered an exception to avoid annoying the Brit- ish government. o Protest (Continued From First Page.) for Mrs. Smolar. He visited the United States Consulate at once, where he was assured vigorous efforts would be made to have the order rescinded. Ambassador Dodd was armed with the front pages of both Berlin and provincial newspapers which assailed Mayor La Guardia, American Jews and conditions in general. A spokesman said the nature of the representations did not, ordinarily, call for a formal reply from the Berlin government. Smolar, explaining he did not be- lieve the La Guardia case was con- nected with the expulsion order, said: “The Gestapo evidently wanted to get rid of me as early as last December.” Away Three Months. The newspaper man, a member of the Foreign Press Association, explained he had been away from Berlin for about three months, returning a week |8go. He pointed out the order was dated “just as I was leaving, and officials found us gone when they tried at that time to present it to us.” When he returned last week, Smolar said the hotel where he was stopping, in accordance with German law, reg istered him with the police. Then the secret police official, “who was polite,” paid his visit, the correspondent added. No details were given. * Ambassador Dodd, on the State De- partment’s mission, remained in the Wilhelmstrasse only half an hour. The ambassador, it was believed, might bolster his protest not only with clippings of the current press, but | with a considerable file of clippings showing that long before the present incident prominent Americans been subjects of unfavorable comment because of their Jewish blood. The time for the interview was set rect orders from Washington, had at- tempted vainly to contact Von Neu- rath yesterday. Among the exhibits Dodd was un- derstood to have ready for Von Neurath was one accusing the State Department of handling the case in “shilly shally” fashion, while others attacked social conditions in the en- tire nation and the social manners of Amencn:)s at home. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency said today that in January of 1936 Gestapo gents took up Smolar's passport after hey had raided his hotel room in Berlin. The passport later was re- turned with apologies. SLAYER DIES IN CHAIR MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 12 (#).—Chester Arkuszewski, 25-year-old confessed murderer, was executed in the electric chair at the Indiana State Prison early today. Arkuszewski pleaded guilty to mur- der in commission of a robbery in connection with the fatal shooting {last July of Ignatz Pazuchoski at Laporte and, under the Indiana law, the death sentence was mandatory. LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS had | after the ambassador, acting on di- | DICKSTEIN URGES BREAK WITH REICH Legislator Assails “Un- | American Activities” of Nazis in This Country. By the Assoclated Press NEWARK, N. J,, March 12.—Repre- sentative Samuel Dickstein, Democrat, of New York urged last night that the | United States quit diplomatic rela- tions with Germany unless the Nazis stopped what he called “un-American activities” in this country. | “There is no use having peace with a so-called friendly government when | that government is overrunning the United States with spies,” he said at & meeting sponsored by the Non- sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Cham- pion Human Rights. Tossing verbal barbs at Secretary of State Cordell Hull for apologizing for the speech in which Mayor Fiorello | H. La Guardia of New York called Adolf Hitler a “brown-shirted fanatic,” Dickstein asserted: “Uncle Sam has had an apology | coming from Hitler for a long time, | And even if we got it I would not be- | lieve 1t.” | The Representative had told the House Rules Committee in Washing- | ton yesterday that “Mr. Hitler is try- | ing to create a world war.” | “I only started to tell the House | | committee what I know,” he said last | { night. “I'll finish telling them next | | week. | “We must pass laws to keep Nazis in | Germany where they belong. Uncle | Sam has been & sucker too long. He | | | | must clean house. He must make it a | crime for any Nazi to come here and | stir up racial hatred and undermine | democracy.” DENIES LEADING NAZIS. DETROIT, March 12 (). — Fritz | Kuhn, former chemist for the Ford Motor Co., denied last night the as- sertion of Representative Dickstein, made before the House Rules Commit. |tee in Washington, that he is the | | designated leader of Adolf Hitler's | German government in the United | | States | He also denied that the organiza- tion is building up a uniformed army | in the United Sigtes; that Hitler fur- nished him large funds to propogandize | and organize in this country, and that his organization has taken an oath of allegiance to the Nazi government, | (FUNERAL RITES TODAY FOR GEN. SAMUEL HOF Body Will Be Cremated and Ashes Taken to West Point for Burial. Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Sam- | uel Hof, 66, U. 8. A., retired, former | Army chief of ordnance, who died | Wednesday in Walter Reed Hospital, are being held this afternoon in the | chapel there. The body will be cre- | mated and the ashes taken to West | Point, N. Y., for burial at the United States Military Academy. 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