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A—2 x»x» CORCORAN OFFERS PRE-VIEW TONIGHT Prizes to Be Conferred for | Winning Oils Part of Bi- ennial Exhibition, Artists and art lovers from many parts of the country will be guests of the Corcoran Galley of Art tonight at & private pre-view of the Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, which opens to the public tomorrow Foreign diplomats, Government of- ficials, private cltizens and other of the gallery have been in- ¢ the Board of Trustees of the lery join with representatives of the art world in viewing the no- table exhibition—heralded as the| Jargest in the history of Corcoran | “biennials.” Among those invited to attend are | trustees and other officials of most of the great art galleries and similar in- stitutions i America. The exhibi- tion is regarded as an outstanding American art event. The guests will have an opportunity to see for the first time four prize- winning pictures, selected recently by s distinguished jury of artists for the W. A. Clark and Corcoran awards. Officials Will Present Awards. Cash prizes totaling $5,000 and three Corcoran medals and an honorable- mention certificate will be presented to the quartet of artists during the evening by officials of the gallery. The winning artists are Edward Hopper of New York, who will re- ceive the Clark first prize of $2,000 and the Corcoran gold medal for his +Cape Cod Afternoon”; Guy Pene du Bois, New York, who will be given the second Clark prize of $1,500 and the Corcoran silver medal for his “Meditation,” a figure painting; Fran- cis Speight, New Hope, Pa., who will be presented with the Clark third prize of $1,000 and the Oorcoran bronze medal, and Bernard Keyes, Boston, whose “Snakey,” a portrait of a bar- tender, won fourth Clark prize of $500 and the Corcoran certificate of honorable mention. Several members of the jury are expected to be present. The jury was headed by Willlam J. Glackens of New York, and included John Steuart Curry of Madison, Wis.; Daniel Gar- ber of Lumberville, Pa.; Richard Lahey of this city, and Willlam M. Paxton of Boston. It is known that Lahey and Paxton plan to attend, and Garber has indicat®d he will try to be present. Chairman Glackens and Curry will be unable to come here for the event. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is ex- pected to visit the show and meet the winning artists this afternoon. 405 Artists Contribute. According to C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the Corcoran Gallery, there are in the show 461 paintings by 405 artists in 28 States, the Dis- trict of Columbia and the Virgin Is- lands. This is an increase of 33 over the exhibition two years ago. The paintings were chosen from more than 2,000 submitted for considera- tion of the jury. The pictures have been installed in 14 galleries on the second floor of the institution. The building has been decorated with palms and other green- ery for the ocoasion, and an orchestra will play during the evening from s part of the lobby near the foot of khe grand staircase. The exhibition will be open to the public beginning tomorrow and con- tinuing through May 9. e SYNAGOGUE SECTION MAPS RELIGIOUS DRIVE Rally to Be Held as Part of Cam- paign to Overcome “Indif- ference” Here. A Washington section of the United Synagogue Committee to Overcome Religious Indifference has been organ- dzed, 1t was announced yesterday. The group is headed by Morris Stein and L. Kalichstein, co-chairmen, and Mrs. A. Dietz and Mrs. J. Kaminsky, Fo-ehairmen of the women's division. The committee will hold a rally at | Adas Isracl Synagogue, Sixth and I streets, at 8 p.m. Monday, with Dr. Ysrael Herbert Levinthal, rabbi of the Brooklyn Jewish Center and chair- man of the Jerusalem Synagogue and Center Committee of the United Syna- [Bogue, as speaker. Members of the local committee are: Joseph Wilner, president of Congrega- tion Adas Isreel; Paul Himmelfarb, president of Congregation B'nai Israel; Mrs. 8amuel Benjamin, Max M. Bern- steln, Meyer Brenner. H. Felter, Nathan Hankin, A. W. Kahn, Rabbi Bolomon H. Metz, Max A. Ostrow, Louis Rosenberg, Rabbi Henry Segal, Mrs. Leon A. Tashof, 8. B. Weinstein and Max Zweig. Windsor __(Continued From First Page.) mattress which the former British | ;nonnrch has insisted on taking with | im The Duke’s valet, Anton, is in charge of arrangements for the de- parture Mcnday, but castle attend- | ants disclosed Edward himself has at- | tended to packing a portion of his documents and letters, including the | communications received from Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. The Enzesfeld chef, who has dis- tinguished himself with apple strudel | and other Austrian culinary spe- cialties, is to accompany the Duke | to St. Wolfgang, taking along his favorite kitchen equipment. LACKS EASTER WARDROBE. Mrs. Simpson Unable to Get to Parls for Shopping. MONTS, France, March 27 (#).— Mrs. Wallis Simpson will wear what are, to her, old. clothes on Easter Sunday. | She has been unable to get to Paris | for an Easter wardrobe, her friends at Chateau de Cande said today. But then, they added, the Duke of Wind- sor’s fiancee plans nothing special for Easter, anyway. Air Mapping Extensive. Since 1832, when air photography Wwas begun in Canada, 481,000 square miles of Dominion territory have been mapped by this method. Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. In recess. Leaders confer with President Roosevelt on sit-down strikes. ,) | man peered in the car a moment, saw Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. “LINK.” HE Wayside factory has just re- | ceived—by chain letter, you might say—the February issue of Time and Tied, publica- tion of inmates at the Lorton Re- formatory. The feature article pur- ports to quote a mythical prison char- acter, “Old Yegg,” on the subject of Abraham Lincoln. Describing a fa- mous address by Lincoln to an au- dience at Cooper Union, N. Y., “Old Yegg" records the speaker's effect on his listeners as follows: “When he sat down the audience shouted and raved. ‘Honest Abe' was in their hair. An'. bein's it was a &% Natiori-wide hook-up, Abraham Lin- coln waltzed in with the Republican nomination, an’ was elected President by a.landslide.” “Old Yegg"” describes Lincoln's court room technique thus: “When Abe put some weasel fink witness on the grease, he made 'em sizzle. With his sad face seldom foldin’ into a smile, lanky Abe looked like he had & perpetual bug on. 4 * ok ko SOUND EFFECT. Vernon Bailey, who was with the Biological Survey for 40 years be- Jore his recent retirement, attended a moving picture the other night entitled “The Wapiti of Jackson Hole.” The picture was distrib- uted by the Department of Agricul- ture, and among other things showed a Wapiti (elk to you) bull THE EVENING FREEDON OF PRESS ABOLTION SOLEAT Nazi Newspaper Launches Lampaign to Check “Inter- national Press Terror.” BACKGROUND— Germany twice protested remarks of New York's Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, widely quoted in news- papers, deemed derogatory by the Nazis to Reichsfuehrer Hitler. La Guardia urged a chamber of horrors at the New York World’'s Fair to include a flgure of the “drown- shirted fanatic who is menacing the peace of Europe.” BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 27.—A campaign to abolish BEuropean newspaper freedom a8 & check to “the international press terror” was launched today by Ger- many’s controlled press, without men- tloning the La Guardia incident, under the direction of Wilhelm Welss, presi- dent of the National Journalists' Asso- ciation. In a special edition of the newspaper 12 Uhr Blatt, which published con= tributions from 20 European editors, Weiss declared “the real revolutionaries of European press reform no longer adhere to the principle of freedom of the press. This freedom fis, in reality, defended only by reactionaries of a past epoch.” “Nazi Germany has made it impos- sible for the German press to slander foreign nations or incite their leaders,” declared the newspaper, without men- tioning specific incidents. In an introductory editorial the news- paper, edited by Wilhelm Fanderl, a Nazi party member, quoted a ‘“noted German authority,” believed in news- paper circles to be Paul Josepn Goebbels, Reichsminister ‘of press and propaganda, as having complained about an anti-German campaign abroad. 8uch attacks should be opposed with good will, “but lacking this good will, with all the means of the power of a modern state, is even better,” he was quoted as saying. The article was captioned, “How can standing in the middle of his harem of cows. Right in the middle of the close- up the Wapiti let out a roar, all bull and a yard wide, that brought Mr. Bailey to his feet. He'd never heard one before and went racing around after the show to congrat- ulate Dr. Olaus J. Murie, who is @ big game investigator for the Bio- logical Survey, and acted as com- mentator on the sound reel. Dr. Murie had confessed later, “That noise might fool another bull Wapiti,” said he, “but never a cow. How was it done? Well, we tried everything, even a goldfish bowl. Finally I hollered into a wastebasket, and that was it.” * % ok % MESSAGE. 'ARL LOMEN, the Alaskan “rein- deer king,” who is spending a few months ir Washington, told a cor- respondent of ours a story about a trip up the Buckland River in the Arctic last Summer, inspecting rein- | deer herds. He wanted to ship tons | of reindeer meat to Seattle, but was | worried about the shipping strike and had no late news on the situation. Pinally he decided to send an Eskimo runner down to Nome for the mail. He called in a young buck, explained he wanted to find out if there was any mail in his box at Nome and sent the boy on his way. After a tough seven-day trip to Nome, a tougher one coming bacl the Eskimo raced into camp one evening. “Plenty of mail in box,” he panted. “You better hurry down, see for your- self, Maybe all need answers.” ® Xk X x MORE MAIL. 'WWHICH reminds us that even Mr. Michael T. Finnan, who is sec- retary of the National Association of Letter Carriers, has trouble with his mail. It's always getting mixed up with letters intended for C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of National Capital Parks HOME GROWN. A young man driving a swanky roadster carrying New York tags drove up to a fashionable hotel on Sizteenth street the other day, with a flourishing rubber plant en- sconced in the tire wells on each front fender. “I just grow my own tires,” he remarked languidly, as he stepped from the car and turned it over to the doorman. * X ¥ % INFLUENCE. {OR motorists swamped in the | annual Spring scourge of parking | tickets (we figure that Spring rnskea! traffic policemen more inclined to jounce around town on their motor cycles and ticket-writing becomes something of a lark) we have at last a solution. It was evolved by a young news- paper chap who writes pieces up on Capitol Hill. Yesterday he was in a rush to return to his office, parked his car in a “no parking” zone. Just | as he was walking across the street he heard a motor cycle buzz, stop, saw an officer dismount and whip out his ticket book. Pencil polsed in hand, the police- a copy of the Congressional Record and a large congressional envelope lying on the front seat. Back into | the pocket went the ticket book, back on his motor cycle went the officer. | “Bureka,” cried the reporter, and proceeded to his typewriter. * X Xx % MYSTERY. ONE of our home operatives has | been staring gloomily out the window for the last two days and not until this morning could he be persuaded to break down and admit all. Now he tells us the trouble is he is convinced he’s losing his grip, Got up at dawning the other morning and was walking around the room pulling on his tie when he suddenly stopped in front of & mirror. Usually it is his habit to knot his tie first, then walk to a mirror to check up on it. This time he looked in the glass as he was about to begin tying, dis- covered he was all mixed up. Tried two or three times, getting square | the Cathedral Choir of men and boys, the European press serve peace?” Easter (Continued From First Page.) in a row for them, since they were en- dangered by last year's floods. The smudge pots around the Tidal | Basin were still smoking today as they did all day yesterday, when the mer- | cury remained around the freezing mark. Up to 9 o'clock this moming Wash- ington had had 14 hours in a row of below-freezing temperatures, the tem- perature having dropped under 32 at 7 o'clock last night. This morning's minimum was 25, re- corded at 2 o'clock. Yesterday's “high” was 40 at 2 pm. It was 30 at 8:45 | today. Outdoor Rites Tomorrow. Outdoor sunrise services tomorrow at 7 am. at the Sylvan Theater on the Monument Grounds are expected to draw large throngs, including digni- taries and public officials. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held in the Departmental Auditorium. Hymns will be sung by the Schola Cantorum of the National Capital Parks, under direction of Maestro Ar- turo Papalardo. An electric organ will provide the accompaniment. Dr. Anson Phelps tSokes, canon of ‘Washington Cathedral, will lead the group in reciting the Lord’s Prayer. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of National Capital Parks, will greet the public. With similar services scheduled in parks throughout the country, the Na- tional Park Service estimated that millions of Americans will take part or hear descriptions sent over the radio. Bishop Freeman to Speak. Bishop James E. Freeman will de- liver the Easter day sermon at the choral evensong service in the Great Choir of Washington Caghedral at 4 o'clock tomorrow. He is ‘scheduled to return today from California, he delivered the “Chanter day” ad- dress at the University of California. Right Rev. Charles Fiske, former Bishop of Central New York, will be the preacher at celebration of holy communion at 11 a.m. Festival music will be furnished by directed by Robert G. Barrow. Sunrise memorial services will be conducted by the Grand Command- eries of Knights Templar of Virginia and the District at 7:30 am. in the amphitheater at Arlington. Between | 8,000 and 10,000 persons are expected ' to attend. | Parade to Amphitheater. 1 The Marine Band, Right Eminent | Sir C. Byron Lear, representing the | Grand Master of Templars, and Grand Comdr. Arthur C. Shaw will head a parade from the west gate to the | amphitheater. Past Grand Comdr. E. | E. Thompson of the District is chair- | man of the committee in charge. | “A Legend of the Grael,” a miracle | play by Douglas Horton, will be pre- | sented at the evening services at the | First Congregational Church., At 11| am. services Rev. Howard Stone An- | derson will preach on “The Easter | Falth” | Hundreds crowded the Franciscan | Monastery last night to witness a por- | trayal of the funeral procession of Christ, performed annually by the Franciscan community. The Easter story was related by| Father Capstrain of Rutherford, N. J. in the auditorium of the monastery. In Pranklin Park several hundred persons gathered at an {mprovised altar to participate in Good Friday services conducted by the Catholic Evidence Guild. Rev. Charles A. Hart, | professor of philosophy at Catholic University, directed the service. MUSSOLINI ASSAiLED BELGRADE, March 27 (®)—A crowd of several hundred students and workers, shouting “down with Musso- lini,” smashed windows in a demon- stration last night against the new Yugoslav-Italian pact. | The demonstrators concentrated in | the central district of the city, but police quickly galned control of the situation. Government spokesmen meanwhile emphasized that agreements reached between Italy and Yugoslavia would not disturb Yugoslavia'’s obligations to the Little Entente. calling St. Elizabeth’s to engage a room, he hit a decent fore-in-hand. Promptly untied it and repeated knots, bows, upside down effefts and everything else for his efforts. Finally, |in one last desperate effort before \ again, then once more. It was easy the second and third times, but he still broods. A STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937. 1.5, PROBERSVISIT Gather Data on Pittshurgh Accident for Formal Inquiry Soon. BY the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 27.—Depart- ment of Commerce officials massed grim evidence today for a formal in- quiry in the crash of the Transconti- nental & Western Airlines’ luxury liner that killed 13 persons. They declined to say when the hear- ing would begin and withheld any opinions they had formed about the plane's sudden plunge Thursday eve- ning a few miles from an airport. Coroner W. J. McGregor, who had been investigating the crash, said he would hold an inquest “as soon as pos- sible.” The Federal {investigators spent hours at the scene of the crash on a gently sloping hill. As they ended their work, T. W. A. employes removed the motors and instruments and burned the wreckage. Ice Formation Blamed. Officials of the airlines and Dr. John J. McLean, director of the Allegheny County Airport, where the plane was headed, announced they believed an ‘“‘unusual” formation of ice on the wings had caused the crash. A company statement said: “The crash was due to the plane passing through localized but very severe icing formations. * * * A heavy deposit of ice formed on the leading edge of the ailerons, which control lateral balance, and caused the plane to go completely out of control * * * within a very few minutes.” The statement added that the im- pact had failed to dislodge the ice, which gave the first clue to the cause | of the plunge. To Seek Improvements. L. G. Fritz, Eastern region super- intended of the airline, said the com- pany would immediately attempt to develop equipment to prevent a recur- | rence of the tragedy. He added: “Never before in tests or in sched- uled flying has ice formed on the ailerons to an exten' that interfered with normal flight. “However, the unusual ice forma- tion causing this accident indicates that protection must be extended to include ailerons.” The liner dived to the ground in view of another T. W. A. incoming plane, the “Flight 6,” piloted by Capt. A. M. Wilkins. He said Pilot Larry Bohnet apparently had started to make a left turn, but the ship spiralled and | then nosed straight down. Vice President J. B. Walker of the airlines said Bohnet had told the ground operator a few minutes before the wreck that his plane, coming in from Newark, was ready to land. He | said there were a few minutes of | silence, then the report of the crash | from Wilkins. \JURY HOLDS DRIVER | INTRAFFIC FATALITY Coroner’s Group Deliberates Less Than Minute in Berger i | { Case. Jack Berger, 21, of 1315 Park road, driver of the car which fatally in- jured Lawrence Jackson, colored, at Georgla avenue and Barry place last Wednesday, was held for the grand | jury yesterday by a coroner’s jury, { which deliberated less than a minute. | _ Testimony of witnesses showed | Berger’s car knocked Jackson about 40 | feet onto the hood of another auto- mobile. { _Sergt. Willlam J. Liverman testified Berger told him his driver's permit | was under process of revocation and for that reason he did not stop after the accident. Berger was arrested at his home following the accident, after imchard Powell, colored, 780 Irving | street, told him he had “better give himself up to police.” Powell testi- where | fied he was employed by Berger and | regime, | was driving abreast of Berger's car | when the accident happened. Powell also testified both he and Berger had | been drinking before the accident | | occurred. Jackson, who lived at 716 Rock | Creek Church road, died in Freed- | men’s Hospital Thursday. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald said Berger was the first motorist held | for the grand jury in a traffic accident | since February 4. W. H. JOHNSTON, 62, IS TAKEN BY DEATH Former International Head of Machinists’ Union Was Long Il William Hugh Johnston, 62, former international president of the Inter- national died last night after a long illness at his home, 3515 New Hampshire ave- nue. In 1924, Mr. Johnston was chair- man of the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action, the group which nominated the Progressive party’s La Follette-Wheeler ticket in the presi- dential campaign. Mr. Johnston was president of the International Association of Ma- chinists from 1912 to 1926, with head- quarters in the Machinist Building. | He retired in 1926 after suffering a | stroke of apoplexy. During the World War Mr. Johnston went abroad with the late Samuel Gompers and the Labor Mission and lectured on labor matters in England, | Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Widely known both . in this country and abroad, he had made Washington his home since 1909. A native of Canada, Mr. Johnston learned the machinist trade at Provi- dence, R. 1., when a young man. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Harriett L. Johnston, and a sister, Mrs. Fred Warburton, the latter of Providence, R. 1. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Hines’ funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will be |in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Boy Found Buried in Trench. NEW YORK, March 27 (#)—The body of 6-year-old Joseph Vacirca, jr., who had been missing since yesterday afternoon, was found today buried in an excavation almost in front of his home in the Bronx. The police said they believed the child was buried accidentally by a cave-in of the trench, which had been made by W. P. A. ‘workmen for & w|§er main, i AR CRASH SCENE Association of Machinists, | Mother and Sons at Russell Inquest D.AR.UNTBACKS TEACHER FREEDOM | Richard Ham, who held the revolver that accidentally killed his playmate, Robert Russell, is pictured with his mother and brother in the District Morgue at today’s inquest in Robert’s death. | Left to right are Patten Ham, 10, Richard, and their mother, Mrs. Willilam Ham. —Star Staff Pfi?ja. | | 1 EASTERFN RELIION I51E Civil War, Arms Races and German-Vatican Contro- versy Disturb World. | By the Assoctatea Press. Church bells throughout the Chris- tian world will peal tidings of the risen Christ tomorrow—but to world torn by war, the thought of war and by religious conflict. Christ himself, knowingly on the way to his death on the cross, spoke to His disciples of “wars and rumors of wars,” of brother that *“shall be- tray the brother,” of censure for the church. And today: Nations everywhere pace of armaments. Civil conflict gripped Spain, brother against brother. Catholic and protestant alike were engaged in controversy with Nazi Germany over the question of re- liglous freedom Pope Pius XI drafted an encyclical | to the Catholics of Mexico, beseeching | them to hold fast to the faith in the face of conflict dating back to the conquistadores of the sixteenth cen- | tury. speeded the Unrest in Palestine. The Jew, in Poland, in Germany and eisewhere, trod an uneasy path. In the Holy Land of Palestine there was unrest. In Spain those who follow the cause of fascism or monarchism gathered in insurgent centers to worship. In Ma- drid territory and in the Basque coun- try of the north Christians who sup- port the republican regime gathered also to give thanks for the resurrec- tion. The church has become an issue in the war—the insurgents professing to | be her protector; the government con- Escrlp!ing certain church property and | {charging that Catholic priests are | fighting against Madrid. | Pope Pius has inferred his favor for | the insurgents, fearing the government would spread communism. ‘The Pontiff, preparing to participate tomorrow in Easter services in St. {Peters Cathedral after long iliness, within the past two weeks issued his latest exhortation against Communist theology, which he feels is an enemy of both religion and the welfare of nations. | He followed quickly with attack |upon the Nazi government of Ger- | many, which he charged had taken away the right to control religious education of youth. He warned, | without naming him, that Chancellor | Hitler would be regarded as a ‘‘sense- less prophet of absurdity” if he sought to become spiritual head of the Ger- | man state. | Dispute in Germany. For four years now, German Catho- lics have disputed with the Nazi| fearing conscription of | Echurch lands and vigorously deter- | mined to retain the right of religious | ;uulrucuon for Catholic youth. i German Protestants, too, have dif- | fered with Hitler over administra- | ton of the German Evangelical | | Church. Last week Hitler aides | sought a truce, but Protestant lead- ers declared they were determined to continue the fight to keep the gov- | ernment out of church affairs. The papal message to Mexican worshipers today was for a nation where church conflict has long existed. | | In recent years the dispute hu; centered about an apparently grow- | | ing socialistic tendency in Mexico, | the church fear of communism—and, | | a5 in Germany, the fear it may lose control of her youths' education. Strikes, directed against Jewish | employers in many cases, disturbed Poland. Latest decree in Germany | was one barring Jews from labor- | service advantages. OPERATO RS OF LIFTS | Warrants for Three Sought in| Drive Against Those With- out Licenses. Beginning a drive against unli- censed elevator operators and the owners of the buildings in which they are employed, Assistant Corporstion Counsel George D. Neilson, in Police Court today, applied for warrants against three owners and three opera- tors. He refused to reveal their names, however, until the warrants are served. There were actually eight warrants applied for. These charged one vio- lation each against the owner and elevator operator in two apartment houses and two cases against the owner and elevator operator in a hotel. The two charges resulted from calls at the hotel on two consecutive days by members of the building inspector’s office. The fine assessable in such cases runs from $10 to $100. There have been many complaints throughout the city recently regard- ing unlicensed and incompetent ele- vator operators, it was stated in the corporation counsel’s office. Consequently, a drive has been in- augurated for the inspection of all buildings having elevators, with orders that where an unlicensed operator is found both he and the building owner shall be charged, the operator fot run- ning an elevator without s license and the building owner for permitting him to do so. | | train in New York and did not arrive | | doctor’s arrival. | dinner with his playmates. She con- | WILL BE ARRESTED | | turned. Dr. Russell came later from | Shooting (Continued From First Page.) when Richard had guns, he was to have no cartridges, and when he had cartridges, he was not to have a gun, | but he was permitted to fire blank cartridges.” The jury deliberated only five min- utes before returning a verdict of “ac- cidental death.” Richard owned at least 12 guns, purchased from mail order houses with checks given him by his mother, it was testified. Richard is the son of William F. Ham, 2621 Woodley road, chairman of the board of the Potomac Electric Power Co. The first witness to appear before the coromer’s jury was Detective Sergt. Jeremiah Flaherty of the homicide squad. He testified that Richard had sald he didn't know the pistol was loaded when he playfully pointed the weapon at his friend and ordered him to “stick 'em up.” Flaherty showed the jury the guns he found in Richard’s room. They included two sautomatic pistols, ap- parently of .33-caliber, one old-type revolver, the fatal gun—a .22-caliber revolver—one .38-caliber automatic, one nickel-plated revolver, which also seemed to be of .32-caliber, and a single toy pistol. He also had four muskets and a shotgun, it was brought out. Got Weekly Allowance. He said Mrs. Ham told him the boy was given a regular weekly allowance, out of which he saved money to buy guns from a mail order house. When he had accumulated enough to make a purchase, according to Flaherty, he turned the cash over to his mother and she would give him & check to cover the price of the firearm. The detective said Richard told him he examined the gun after the Rus- sell boy had been shot and found it fully loaded. Richard, Flaherty said, then unloaded the weapon. In re- sponse to & question from Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald, the detective said he had been unable to learn when and by whom the gun was loaded. The victim was the only son of Dr. Albert E. Russell, 1870 Wyoming ave- nue, a physician of the United States Public Health Service. The shot was fired in the front bed room of the third floor of the Ham home at 2621 ‘Woodley road. Investigators were told that young Ham had been inspecting the gun col- lection with Russell and Richard’s brother, Patton Ham, 10. When the gun went off the Russell boy slumped to the floor with & wound in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead a few minutes later by Dr. Harry M. Kaufman of the Shoreham Hotel. Robert, Richard and Patten Ham had attended Mrs. Cooke’s School, | 2344 Massachusetts avenue, yesterday | and then went to the Ham home for dinner. It was just after dinner that they went upstairs to look over the gun collection. Robert celebrated his 11th birthday last Monday. He was born in Barre, vt. The boy was in the sixth grade at Mrs. Cooke's School and would have graduated this Spring. He excelled in his studies, his father said, and also played the piano well. Fishing was one of his greatest hobbies. Father Brought Him Gift. In 1027, when he was only a year old, Robert was taken by his parents to the White House Easter egg rolling. His photograph was carried in Wash- ington newspapers and & national news magagine at that time. President Coolidge played with him for a few | moments | Robert had gone with his mother to | Good Friday services at noon yester- day at St. Stephen’s Church. His| father was to have returned at 1:37 p.m. from Barre, Vt., but missed a | here until 5:45 p.m. | Meanwhile, Robert went to the Ham | home to play, and his mother rested in the Russell apartment, awaiting the Robert telephoned here at 4 p.m. and asked if he could remain for sented reluctantly, because she wanted | him to be home when his father re- | | the train, bringing rod and reel as a gift for his son. Dr. and Mrs. Russell were stricken | with grief over the tragedy. Dr. Russell Silicosis Expert. Dr. Russell, who is attached to the Industrial Hyglene Division of the Public Health Service, is on his fifth tour of duty here, having returned almost two years ago from Knoxville, Tenn., where he was assistant health director of the Tennessee Valley Au- thority. He came into prominence through his work in industrial hygiene, par- ticularly in the study of silicosis. He has investigated the results of sili- sosis in mines, quarries and various in- dustrial establishments in all parts of this country, and has represented the United States in conferences abroad | on industrial hygiene. old (Continued From Pirst Page.) a combination of gold and mercury ob~ tained during gold refining. The five arrests were announced this week at Denver by Rowland H. God- dard, head of the district Secret Serv- ice. Secret Service operatives flled a charge of conspiracy to violate the Federal gold act of 1934 agalnst one of the five, Harry D. Williams, forestall- ing his freedom under bond yesterday at Billings, Mont,, whare he was ar- rested. TREASURY PLANS SILVERDEPOSITORY 1$600,000 Strong Box of Steel to Be Constructed Near Academy. BY the Lssociated Press. The Treasury, seeking greater pro- yesterday that it intends to construct a squat steel and concrete depository near the West Point Military Acad- emy. With more than $1,000,000,000 of gold already transferred to the new gold depository near the Fort Knox, Ky, military reservation, officials said bids on the $600,000 strongbox for silver probably will be asked in | the next few weeks. Although a specific site at West Point has not been finally selected, officials said this probably wil be done shortly. Under present plans, the flat-roofed depository will be situated in the center of a four-acre tract surrounded by a high steel fence. It will hold 2,000,000,000 ounces of silver. This is about $900,000,000 worth at current rates and is approxi- mately double the Treasury's present holdings. The building, made of steel rein- forced concrete will have space for office workers, regular guards and a force of machine gunners. The latter will be stationed in concealed niches in the wall. Assayers’ and other offices will be in the front of the one-story building, which will measure 150 by 250 feet. The Fort Knox depository is only 105 by 121 feet. Steel Vaults Planned. In the silver depository, between 16 and 20 steel vaults will be situated in the rear. will be through a heavy steel door. Plans for the depository, authorized under the 1936 construction program, were drafted by Walton Clark of the Treasury Procurement Division. Offi- cials estimated the building can be | completed about a year after the con- tract is let. They said West Point was selected as the site because of the protection provided by the Military Academy and :tcceluibmly to transportation facil- fes. 'CUMMINGS DENIES F.B. 1. PARTICIPATION G-Men Not Involved in Court Bill Hearings, Attorney Gen- eral Asserts. Attorney General Cummings today denied published reports that Justice Department agents have been investi- | gating witnesses called before the | Senate Judiclary Committee during | the current Supreme Court bill hear- | Ings. “The agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have not had a thing Cummings announced. Earlier J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau, had declared: “There is | not a scintilla of truth in it.” Joseph B. Keenan, Assistant to the | Attorney General, who was named as “the man in charge” of the inquiry, also denied the accuracy of the re- ports, which were quoted in Paul Mal- lon's column in yesterday's Star. Keenan, part of whose assignment at the Justice Department is to handle administration legislation, said the er- roneous reports may have arisen be- cause of assistance he has given the committee in arranging the order of witnesses. He said he has rendered this co-operation at the request of the chairman of the committee and by di- rection of the Attorney General, and that such aid is “customary” and has been rendered frequently in the past in connection with legislation in which the department was interested. Senator Burke, opponent of the President’s court plan and a member | of the committee, to whom reference | was made in the article, said he had | no criticism to make of Keenan's ac- tivities, which he described as “above- | board and proper.” 'R. S. BILLUPS RETIRES AFTER LONG SERVICE Honored by Fellow Employes After 37 Years With Labor | | J Department. After 37 years’ service in the Labor Department, the longest record of any present employe, Robert S. Billups was retired yesterday from his position as | an economist and statistician. At a farewel party tendered by fel- low employes, Billups was presented with a traveling bag and electrical toasting machine and a floor lamp. Dr. Isadore Lubin, labor statistics commissioner, presented the gifts from Billups’ associates and spoke highly of his record in the depart- ment. Billups lives on & small farm in Franklin Park, Fairfax County, Va. but said he hopes to do some travel- ing before settling down on his farm. He will be on leave until June, when his retirement becomes effective offi- cially. Births Aid Toy Industry. The increasing number of births in QGermany is proving & boon to the country’s long-depressed toy in- dustry. \ tection for its silver hoard, disclosed | The only entry to these | in the world to do with the matter,” | lLetter of Support Received by President of D. C. Education Group. ‘The position taken by the Education Association of the District with rela- tion to freedom of teaching in Wash- ington's public schools has been in- dorsed by Mrs. Adelaide H. Sisson. chairman of the National Defense Through Patriotic Education Commit- | tee of the Daughters of the American | Revolution, it was learned yesterday | Inaletter to Miss Grace Lind. pres | dent of the Education Association, Mr | Sisson said | "I wish to express to you my sincere | appreciation of this clear-cut state- | ment and to commend you upon this |stand. Tt gives exactly the point of b ;vicw that I have so often expressed. | and as national chairman of this com- | mittee I have contended that such an attitude should receive the support of both educators and the public. It is one of co-operation and not an- | tagonism.” In its statement, drawn up recent- ly, the association contended the oath of allegiance to the Constitution makes unnecessary such special re- strictions as the ‘“red rider.” The | statement reads, in part “We believe that the American form of government gains in the respect |and admiration of people in propor- | tion as it is brought into open con- trast with other world forms. “We believe that the teacher must be left free to consider all existing forms of government in order properly to give to the American child an un- | derstanding of and love for our own. We feel, therefore, that certain re- strictions now being advocated dan- gerously encroach upon the rights of free men and women guaranteed under our Constitution. “We believe that the present oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States is sufficient to insure the above and provide an adequate basis-for prosecution in case of viola- | tion.” Mrs. Sisson asked permission print the statement in the April iss: of the National Defense News. (Continued From First Page.) important mercury mining lands to the south followed swiftly, however upon the government's Guadalajara successes northeast of Madrid. ‘The first reports of the Alcala attack were brought to Madrid by eye-wit- nesses, who were unable to give the extent of any deaths or the damage Communications with the city were cut off. The attack was staged as govern- ment guns were reported biasting at Navalperal de Pinares in a drive on the important insurgent stronghold at Avila, 50 miles west of Madrid and | slightly north. Government attacks on Aravaca and Majahonda sectors were repulsed, insurgents reported. The bombs struck an off-chord for | Madrid’s songs of victory based on | recent successes in Guadalajara Prov- { ince and near Pozoblanco, on the | southern front. ! Feel War Tide Turned. | The populace felt the tide of war | had been turned. Roistering “milicianos,” their non- descript uniforms still smeared with trench mud, sang and shouted a joy- ous refrain in the city’s bars and cafes—on Easter leave—while their comrades on the western front were reported to have established advanced outposts in the drive toward Avila. ‘ The government force reached a | point near Navalperal which is only 15 | miles east of Gen. Francisco Franco's strategic base at Avila. | Newspapers blazoned claims that Franco's long weeks of pressure on the government stronghold at Pozoblanco 150 miles south of Madrid, had been cracked in a mass rout of his troops. These recent developments, together | with Gen. Jose Miaja’s crushing ! counter-drive against Franco's Gua- | dalajara army, turned the shell-scarred | capital's Easter week end into a season | of gaiety. The press reports said government | artillery was battering insurgent con- | centrations at Navalperal. | The shells were planted ahead of the | government outposts near the fringe | of the town. | In the Pozoblanco drive on the q‘ southern front the insurgent army was | sald to have been hammered back al- | most to Alcaracejos, about 8 miles {west of Pozoblanco, in Cordoba Province. A dawn counter-attack by | the rebels today was crushed, govern- | ment commanders reported. | The atmosphere in Madrid con- | trasted sharply with the tenseness of |a little over a fortnight ago when | Franco’s legions — the government | called them an Italian army of 30,000 | —were rolling down through Guadala- | jara Province, threatening to close the | last open segment of the ring of siege | lines about Madrid. | That drive was halted before when | it had reached a point about 40 miles northeast of the city and a fierce | counter-offensive hurled Franco's | motorized war machine mack to a line | about 60 miles away. | The conquering government militia in Guadalajara today were taking a “well-earned rest,” said Miaja, the Madrid commander in chief. Things were going “distinctly well,” the general said. He wore a broad smile—this man who in the dark early | davs of last November whirled on in- | terrogators and snapped: “What do you mean they are going to take Madrid?” He declined other comment on the government’s military moves on the far-fllung fronts | Madrid Situation. | In broad outline, Madrid's situation was the best since Franco’s men ar- rived at the capital’s gates a little over 42 months ago. Until 15 days ago the war, for Madrid, was a dogged but sometimes discouraging defense. Today the spirit of offensive warfare seemed to have been infused in both Madrid's civil population and her military defenders. However, the people were still con- scious of the fact that Franco's armies have not yet been dislodged from the Jarama River sector at the southeast- ern edge of the city as well as the other siege lines. | When that element of danger was pointed out, they recalled with a shrug that the situation had stood like that for months. A point of danger even closer than the Jarama front is the University City, and the West Park area, only eight blocks from the heart of the business district. Y