Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1937, Page 12

A—12 ¥x WINANT ASKS AID T0TEXTILE GROUP International Session Told Need of Trade Pacts. Elected President. BY BLAIR BOLLES. Social justicq for the world's 14,- 000,000 textile workers and their 50, 000,000 dependents awaits universal adoption of moves to break down com- merce barriers such as America’s trade agreements, John G. Winant, former chairman of the Social Security Board, told the 200 delegates to the World Textile Conference today in his first appearance before them as president of the meeting. Immediate action is essential, Wi- nant said, to bring about this social justice, which, Harold B. Butler, secre- tary general of the conference, later explained would be built on higher wages, shorter hours and the univer- sal abolition of child labor and of women'’s night work. Child labor is prevalent in 27 countries, Butler said. He is president of the Inter- national Labor Organization in Gene- va, which arranged the conference. “1 suppose no one would dispute the fact that the fundamental eco- nomic and social problems of modern industrialism are international in scope,” Winant, whose exhortations at Geneva last Summer inspired the con- vocation of such a conference, told the representatives of 24 nations, gathered in the Departmental Audi- torium. International Action. “Above all others, however, the tex- tile industry seems to involve inter- national repercussions which demand international action if we are to achieve improved social standards. In the light of this situation the trade agreements program in which the United States is now engage on a special significance. “We are endeavoring to do our part toward reversing the rising trend of world trade barriers, which have been literally wiping out world trade, by adhering to policies of equality which, 4f universally applied, would lead to vast improvement in the whole world trade situation. This, in my is a matter which well merits tention of this conference.” Winant held up for the the experience of the United & model of the way to 1 ing conditions for the textile laborer, whose work-week now consists of 40 hours, against a 54-hour week in effect before the adoption of the N. R. A. textile code. He was unani- mously elected president at the close of yesterday's opening session. The uncontested choices of the con- ference as its three vice presidents are F. Kitaoka of Japan, representing the government delegation: H. C. Oerstad of Denmark, represeqting the employ- | ers’ delegation, and Arthur Shaw of Great Britain, representing the work- ers' delegation. States’ Competition. “Competition between the States of the United States 1s not unlike compe= tition between nations.” Winant said. | “In the United States we are able to| develop legislative controls which, | even after the legislation itself disap- peared, have had a lasting effect in raising social conditions in the indus- | try. “Is it unreasonable to believe that| what has been accomplished in this country through legislation may not | Jikewise be accomplished throughout the world through the co-operative ac- tion of all countries?” | A rapid-talking translator rushed | to the rostrum as soon as Winant had | finished and repeated the speech in| French. This dual-language system | is to be carried on throughout the | conference, which will last two weeks. | The number of countries represented | was increased to 24 this morning by} the arrival of Constantine A, Ouman- | - a5 an observer for the Soviet. He | sky % 1 15 the counselor of Moscow's Washing- | ton embassy. Roosevelt Message Read. | The broad purpose of the conference | was outlined at the outset of the meet- ing yesterday by a message from Presi- dent Roosevelt, read to the assemblage by Harold B. Butler, secretary general of the sessions and president of the In- | ternational Labor Organization. | “We have much to do,” wrote the President, who expressed his regrets | at being unable to attend in person. “The conference which is about to meet will discuss vital problems as they affect one of the world’s oldest and most highly competitive industries, | and one upon which the welfare of more than 12,000,000 people depends. “The task is not easy. I know that no decisions are expected to be reached by this preparatory conference, that no conventions or resolutions are to be adopted by it. But I am confident that this open meeting of minds, this op- portunity for free and frank discus- | sions of the problems of the industry in & spirit of good will, cannot but‘ have a far-reaching effect upon the | ultimate prosperity of the industry and | the well-being of the millions whose livelihood depends upon it.” Secretary Perkins, who announced | that the President had designated her as his personal representative before | the conference, and Secretary Roper then expanded upon the White House message to explain the position of the United States in the textile industry and to urge the delegates to reach an agreement on how to revive the in- dustry on a world-wide basis. “Labor the world over is looking to this conference to point the way to & program of balanced development for the textile industries of the world,” Miss Perkins said. World Program Objective. the at- conferees States as | | | “Our objective must be to develop | a world program so that the industry may better support the people de- pendent upon it and so that the people of the world may be more adequately clothed.” Unrestricted trade, widened markets and improved industrial technique which will make available textile fab- rics at the lowest possible cost are the essentials to broadening the scope of the industry, Roper said. “I have found great encouragement,” Roper continued, “in the progress ac- complished by the United States to- ward stabilizing the textile industry through improving the relationship between the employers and the em- ployes, which makes possible more effi- cient production and assures social Justice. “The hours of work have been leasened and the employers as well as the workers have thereby been bene- fited. The shortened hours of produc- tion have rendered possible improve- ment in industrial technique and per- mitted & broadened opportunity for work, because of which unemployment has been lessened. “Wages and general working condi- tions have been bette: I firmly be- opinion, | mprove work- | Roper. THE EVENING S AR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 19 3 7. Textile Conference Discussions The {eadinq figures in the first day’s session of the international meeting called to stabilize the world’s textile industry were, left to right, Secretary Perkins, Jaromir Necas of Czechoslo- vakia, the temporary chairman,; John G. Winant, president of the conference, and Secretary —Harris & Ewing Photo. | the executive responsibility have com- |bined to aid the employers, who are | determined to keep the advantages which they have attained.” Courteous answers to these talks were given by a number of govern- ment delegates from the foreign countries. Spain (Continued From First Page.) into play as insurgent troops fought flercely toward Bilbao, inflicting heavy casualties. Defending government troops fought their way to the top of La Cruz (th Cross), a 4,600-foot peak in the Can. tabrian Mountains which the insur- d takes | gents must take before starting a address prepared for delivery at a | downhill advance to Bilbao. Much of the fighting centered around Durango, |16 miles from Bilbao. Planes operating with insurgent en. Emilio Mola's forces in the Bil- | bao sector bombarded towns behind the lines, with 800 casualties reported (in one air raid on Durango. Meanwhile, in Havana, the Cuban | government announced it would co- | operate with Mexico in seeking some | means to end the eight-month-long bloody conflict. Ordered to Leave Homes, The civil population of Ochandiano | was ordered to evacuate their homes, an insurgent communique reported to- | day, as Gen. Mola’s insurgent army |advanced to within a mile of the Cantabrian Mountain village. Counter - attacks by government troops were repulsed in heavy fighting, the insurgents insisted, with the in- surgent war machine moving slowly | toward Bilbao. Basque defenders were declared to have suffered heavy losses in the mountain campaign. in which insur- gent officers said 11 machine guns were captured. The communique admitted the Bil- bao government was rushing reinforce- ments to front lines, but asserted the insurgent drive was ‘‘progressing.” Renewed reports of dissension among the civil population in insurgent Spain were brought to Bayonne by travelers. They declared one officer and 17 en- listed men had been executed at Sala- manca as a result of a plot against Gen. Franco's regime. The soldiers, they said, were opposed to the pres- ence of Italian volunteers in the in- surgent armies. General Mobilization. BAYONNE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, April 3 (#).—General mobili- zation has been decreed throughout the Basque couatry, informed quar- ters declared today. as Bilbao forces fought a life-and-death struggle to keep back an insurgent drive on Durango. Thousands of defenders were said to have been rushed to the front from Bilbao. Durango lies about 15 miles from the Basque capital, east and slightly south, in the center of pre- cipitous terrain. | Authorities in Bilbao were reported | hampered by the presence of 90,000 | refugees who had fled their moun- tain homes ahead of the insurgent advance. Officials were working feverishly to | organize the defense territory. Start Pincher Movement. WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES | AT ANDUJAR, Spain, April 3 (A).— Government troops splashed through rain and mud today on the Cordoba front, seeking to attack the insurgent army from two sides. Their commanders hoped to exe- cute one of the most crushing defeats of the civil war in the tumbled terrain northwest of Cordoba, the provincial capital. Rain kept airplanes grounded yes- terday but the militiamen pushed doggedly ahead. Reports from the front said the main body of one column had advanced nearly 5 miles closer to Villaharta, occupying Buenavista Mountain, while the ad- vance guard was within 42 miles of the town at dawn today. (Reports to Madrid from the front said the government force already had oaptured Villaharta and threat- ened to cut the nearby Cordoba road, the communication line between the insurgent army and its chief base, Cordoba City). Rebels Report Advances. VITORIA, Spain, April 3 (#).— Basque separatists and government militiamen were reported today to have launched a desperate counter- attack in a futile effort to halt Gen. Emilio Mola’s drive on Bilbao. The retreat of the Basque defenders was followed up by the insurgent forces which reported to this insurgent | field headquarters the establishment |of a front between Gorbea, about 18 | miles southeast of Bilbao, and Mon- drago, a few miles east of Gorbea. Mola’s men remained in their trenches yesterday on lofty vantage points in the mountains walling Bilbro and returned the fire of the charging machine gunners and rifle- men. When the government lines broke, the insurgents clambered over the top and moved to fresh positions. The insurgents were reported to have occupied an important position in the southern sector of the Santander front, but it was not identified. (Madrid dispatches told of a gove ernment drive from Santander, west of Bilbao on the Bay of Biscay Coast, which had reached within 30 rhiles of Burgos, former capital of insurgent Spain.) The Madrid fronts were reported here as quiet with the exception of a small government attack on the Partridge Hill positions of Franco's men northeast of Los Rozas which was reported repulsed. Las Rozas is only a few miles northwegt of Madrid. lieve that the Congressfihe courts and Government attaciis ron the Cor- CANCER SPEEDED BY CONCEALMENT Specialist Says Fear of Dis- grace Is Hampering | Fight on Disease. | B¥ the Assoctated Press. | | SEATTLE, April 3.—Cohcealment of | | cancer symptoms by victims who fear disgrace” is hampering the fight against that disease, Dr. Bowman C. | Crowell, Chicago specialist, said in an | | | public health meeting last night. “Naturally cancer occupies a large part of the attention of our organiza- tion because * * * it causes the death of about 120,000 people a year in this | country alone,” Dr. Crowell said. “That means about 4,000,000 people in the | United States have cancer today. Cure Held Possible. “This is an appalling figure, and much larger than it need be, for much cancer ean be prevented and cancer is curable if treated in the early stage. “Your family doctor can tell you how, if you ask him.” Dr. Crowell said “cancer is not con- | tagious” and “not directly hereditary, | although evidence is accumulating |that a predisposition to the disease may be inherited.” | “It is no disgrace to have cancer,” |he added. “There are many people | who have delayed seeking treatment |for the disease and have concealed symptoms which might be indicated, with the belief that it is a disgrace | | to have cancer. | Early Investigation. He said skin abrasions, slow-healing sores, prolonged indigestion and un- usual discharges should be investigat- ed by competent doctors, as “pro- | longed irritation frequently leads to cancer.” | “Cancer always starts as a lump or an ulcer,” he added, “and it is while cancer is in one spot, before it has| spread to surrounding tissues, or through the lymphatics or the blood, that cancer is most susceptible to clre BRvis -y “Surgery, X-rays and radium are the recognized methods of treatment * * * and a surgical procedure may} completely eliminate cancer of the | breast in its early stage.” 3 Crowell was principal speaker at | a health meeting sponsored by of- | ficers and fellows of the American | | College of Surgeons holding a district | | convention here. 'COTTON INDUSTRY ‘ HELD IMPROVED Secretary Perkins Reveals Upturn | in Employment and Pay Rolls [ in Domestic Field. BY the Associated Press. Secretary Perkins disclosed today an upturn of employment and pay rolls | in the domestic cotton textile industry. The Secretary said February em- ployment in American cotton mills was | estimated at 437,000 persons, topping | a monthly average of 425,000 for 1929 | Weekly pay rolls for February, she said, were estimated at $6,373,000, compared Wwith a weekly average of $3,040,000 in 1932, $4,168,000 in 1933 and $4,560,000 in 1935. The average work week for cotton textile workers, Miss Perkins said, de- clined from about 49 hours in June and July, 1933, to 38.9 hours in Feb- ruary, 1937. Hourly earnings, she ex- plained had climbed from about 212 cents in the Spring of 1933 to an | average of 39 cents in February of this | year. MRS. PROCTOR DIES 5: ¢ Staft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. April 3.—Mrs. Emily C. Proctor, 66, wife of the late John L. Proctor, died yesterday at her residence, 732 North Washington street. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Frank Ballenger and Mrs. Vir- ginia Woodridge, and two sons, Garner and George Proctor. Funeral services will be held at the home at 11 a.m. Monday and inter- ment will be in Bethel Cemetery. | | doba front and in the Orgiva sector, 25 miles southeast of Granada, on the Southern Mediterranean Coast, were likewise said by the insurgents to have been beaten back. Face Mass Slaughter. MADRID, April 3 (#)—Fifteen thousand insurgent soldiers, described in government reports as mostly Italian, were reported facing today possibly the greatest mass slaughter of the Spanish civil war in a military trap on the Cordoba front. The insurgent force, already having retreated more than 15 miles after an unsuccessful siege of Pozohlanco, & mineral land stronghold of the Ma- drid-Valencia government, was said to have been caught more than 20 miles northwest of Cordoba City, its princi- pal base of supplies. Government capture of the town of Villaharta yesterday, in one of four salients south and southwestward from Pozoblanco, placed Madrid’s jubilant “milicianos” in a position to dominate the only main road connecting Cor- doba with the mass of Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Llano’s men. Occupation of the road would iso- late and subject them to concerted thrusts of government cavalry, tanks, | private {eral of the Public infantry and plands. Hauptmann Case Still Closed Year After Execution| BY the Assocated Press. TRENTON, N. J,, April 3.—A stethe- scoped doctor stepped back from Bruno Richard Hauptmann a year ago tonight and said: “This man is | dead.” The ensuing year has pro- | duced nothing official challenge | the justice of the sentence that was carried out. | In the records of Hunterdon County, | scene of the Lindbergh kidnaping | and Hauptmann's subsequent trial, the case is marked “closed.” The last echo of the Hauptmann trial was stilled only a week ago when a perjury indictment against a defense witness was dismissed. In State police headquarters at | Trenton, the voluminous Lindbergh | file is occasionally increased by letters | giving “tips” or “new evigence.” All are checked out as routine police | work, but none of them has stood up. The $25,000 reward is still unpaid, | but one house of the Legislature has | already voted to appropriate the money and indications are the long- delayed payment may come soon Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, whose en- trance into the case created such a furor when courts were weighing Hauptmann's appeal, still holds to his belief that the execution did not solve the case. The extent today of his investigations, once wide- spread, is not known except for spo- radic rumors and reports of “new evi- to | dence."” WILL OPEN MONDAY | Noted Medical Men of North America to Discuss Problems. Distinguished medical authorities from all parts of North America and several from Great Britain will dis- cuss public health problems at a conference beginning Monday at the auditorium of the United States Public Health Service. The program Monday will be de- voted to the Conference of State and Provincial Health Officers of North America and will open four days of discussion here. The last two day will be devoted to the Thirty-fifth | State and Territorial Health Officers’ Conference with the Surgeon Gen- Health Service, Dr. Thomas Parran The program for Monday and Tues- day was arranged by Dr. A. J. Ches- ley, secretary of the Minnesota De- partment of Health. Chairman of the general sessions Monday will be Dr. Earl E. Brown, secretary of the Kansas State Board of Health and president of the conference. Among the speakers Monday will be Dr. Thomas Anwyl-Davies, direc- tor of Whitechapel Clinic, London; | Dr. Ambrose J. King, assistant medi- cal officer of Whitechapel Clinic; Dr. R. E. Wodehouse, deputy minister, Department of Pensions and Na!mnal\ Health, Dominion of Canada: Dr.| Parran; Dr. Rufus Cole, Hospital of Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Donald B.| Armstrong, National Health Coun- | cil; Dr. R. V. Rohweder, National | Safety Council, and others. [ | LIQUOR STORE HELD UP | $226 Taken by Bandit Who Forces | Two Into Back Room. Armed with a nickel-plated re- volver, a tall man walked into the Benjamin Franklin Liquor Store at | 926 Seventeenth street last night and robbed the proprietor, Robert J.| Franklin, 45, of 1801 Calvert street, of $226.81. After rifling the cash register, the bandit forced Franklin and a colored | porter into a back room and escaped. ' == FINANCIERS URGED 10 CONSERVATISM Gen. Dawes Predicts 1937 and 1938 Will Be Peak Prosperity Years. B the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, April 3.—Gen. Charles Gates Dawes surveyed the stock market yesterday and predicted 1937 and 1938 “will probably cover the peak years in this present period of prosperity.” The Chicago banker and former vice president of the United States advised an audience of financiers to seek a more conservative investment | field for trusts in bonds and high | grade mortgages. | His prediction of the boom years | was his third notable forecast since | September, 1935, when he said a de- cided expansion in demand for dur- | able goods and steel would signalize | the ending of the depression. Later he foresaw the current climb of steel production toward the Natio ca- | pacity. Burden on Trustees. “Responsibilities of a greater mag- | nitude than ever before now rest upon | trustees in connection with common | stock holdings or proposed purchases,” he told the Midwest Regional Con- ference of the Robert Morris Asso- ciates, an organization of bank cred officials. “When I say ‘now’ I am referring to this year and next, which two years will probably cover the peak vears in this present period of prosperity “Nothing is more inevitable durir the latter portion of periods of pros- perity than for masses of our popula- tion to flock to speculative excesses. | At such times, as in 1929, high inter- | est on prime securities may exist for | a short time, coincidentally with a stock market boom, but both are then short-lived Time to Make Changes. | “Such a period, however, is still | quite a time in the future, in my | Jjudgment. There is still a reasonable time to make changes in trust stock holdings. Many a trust fund will fare better in the long run by losing inter- est in keeping investment funds in cash until interest rates on prime se- curities have their inevitable rise than by investing in stocks at their present range of prices “All trustees with responsibility for common stock holdings need to resist the force of inertia at such a time as this and with reasonable diligence seek constantly to improve the stability of their security holdings.” Dawes said that during the on, when interest rates on high-grade securities were phenome- nally low, trust officers were forced to invest in some common stocks for cur- rent income. | With bond and mortgage returns increasing, he added, the transition to more conservative investments can be made at this time with less loss of principal than would be possible later. ! LIEUT. GOV. KELLY HERE; | YOUNGEST OF HIS RANK Massachusetts Official Pays Visit on Way From Honeymoon I The Nation’s youngest Lieutenant Governor, Francis E. Kelly, 33, of Boston, is observing the Capital's po- litical scene today during a stopover here, en route from Florida where he has been on a wedding trip for the last five weeks, Kelly and his bride of a few weeks called on President Roosevelt yester- day at the White House. Today's plans call for visits to Massachusetts Senators and Representatives at the Capitol. Kelly polled 876,000 votes at the last election, more than ever previously re- ceived by a Lieutenant Governor in the Bay State. his friends said The couple will leave for Boston tomorrow night. FUGITIVE CULT HEAD'S SURRENDER PRESSED Los Angeles Prosecutor to Confer With Attorney of Father Divine's Leader on Coast. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 3.—Efforts to affect the surrender on Mann act charges of John W. Hunt, alias “St. | John the Revelator,” were intensified | today by Federal District Attorney | Peirson Hall. Hall planned a conference with Hugh MacBeth, colored attorney for white, 33-year-old Hunt, fugitive West Coast leader of the Father Divine religious movement. Hunt is accused of bringing Delight Jewett. 17, from Denver to his Beverly | Hills mansion and betraying her, promising she would become ‘“the Virgin Mary,” mother of a new Mes- siah. She now is in New York. MacBeth expressed belief Hunt will appear before the Mann act case is presented to the Federal grand ju: “No law enforcement agenc; said, “will have any difficulty findin any of the followers of Father Divine. in Florida. Sanity Tested LOVE HEARING OPENS IN LOS ANGELES. | | MRS. HELEN WILLS LOVE, Who went into a strange coma lasting over 150 hours after her conviction last month of QUEZON GEFENDS FILIPINO- ARMY Building Citizens for Peace, Not War, He As- serts. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 3—Common- wealth President Manuel Quezon re- plied today to charges he was mili- tarizing the Philippines with the con- tention he was building a citizen army of peace. The Filipino leader defended the islands’ new military program before the Foreign Policy Association, which had criticized the organization de- veloped under direction of Gen. Doug- | las MacArthur. The compulsory military training of youths, Quezon said, is modeled after that of Switzerland and is supple- mented by only a small professional force. RECEIVER TO FILE MIDAMERICA SUIT Official for Van Sweringen Estate Demands “His Right"” to Pur- chase Control. BY the Assoctated Press. CLEVELAND, April 3-—J. Paul Thompson, receiver for the partner- ship estate of the late O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, announced late yes- terday he had served formal demand on George A. Ball and George A. Tomlinson that they “protect his right” to purchase econtroling interest in Midamerica Corp. through exerc of a purchase option they gave the Van Sweringens at the time Midamer- ica was organized This demand, Thompson said, wa | & preliminary to filing of a suit by hin | within the next week for a court order | directing Ball and Tomlinson to sell to him control of Midamerica under terms of the option | Thompson is a court | ceiver to protect the int |itors of the Van Sweringen partner- ship. Among these creditors are the | liquidators of the Union Trust Co. and appointed re- s of cred- Country’s Rule Scouted. “Who can serious contend that in our rapidly growing nation of at least 15,000,000 & mere 10,000 regular sol- diers—some engaged in police duty | of the constabulary and others in ordinary military tasks—can ever con- stitute a special privileged class that can rule the country?” he asked. Terming laughable an assertion that the program represented “a covert the slaying of her secret hus- band, as she appeared in court in Los Angeles yesterday for a sanity hearing. She was taken to court in a wheel chair —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MRS. MARY C. PETERSON DIES OF LONG ILLNESS Widow of Former Consul Came | to Washington 60 Years Ago. Mrs. Mary C. Peterson, widow of | August Peterson, former Washington from Norway and Sweden and later a prominent patent lawyer here, died yesterday after a long ill- ness at her home. 1431 Chapin street ; M- | Ohio, came consul to Mrs. Peterson, formerly Elhinny of Middlepo! this city 60 y fore to ago, some time be- marriage, 1G brother-in-law and sister, the late Maj and Mrs. Joseph T. Power. Mr. Peter- son died about 30 years ago while en route from Sweden to this country and was buried at sea ! Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Law- rence L. McKay, who formerly was Mrs. Frank Radelfinger, and a grand- daughter, Mrs. Liston P. Bethea, both of this city. Funeral services will be } am. Monday in the Hi home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen will officiate. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. RED CROSS TRANSFERS AQUATIC SCHOOL SITE ‘Will Be Held at Camp Letts, Near Edgewater, to, Accommodate her th d 10 funerat More Enrollees. The Red Cross Aquatic School. held annually in Maryland, will be trans- ferred this year to Camp Letts, at Edgewater, near Annapolis, in order to accommodate an enrollment that has increased each year Benjamin H. Gammage. director of the school. which will be held June 13-23, said facilities of the camp were obtained through a co-operative ar- rangement with the District Y. M. C. A. Gammage is field representa- tive of the National Red Cross First- Aid and Life-Saving Service. Red Cross instruction at Camp Letts will include water safety and rescue, proper handling of boats and canoes, water front protection, first aid and accident prevention. Most of the en- rollees, expected to number more than 100, will be water sports leaders from the District, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Among them are camp counselors, playground leaders, teach- ers, directors of aquatic programs, first-aid instructors and life guards. ROCKIES’ WILD LIFE CONSERVATION URGED Wendell Last of Geographic Society Lecture | | Chapman, in Series, Reveals Need. Conservation of wild life in the Rocky Mountains was urged last night by Wendell Chapman, naturalist and game photographer, in the last of the National Geographic Society’s 1936-7 series of lectures in Constitution Hall. | “More protection is needed for the rare and useful forms of wild life found | in this region, if they are to survive,” } Chapman said. “Many animals face | extinction unless the public co-operates | in measures already taken for their defense.” His talk was illustrated with mo- tion pictures taken when he and Mrs. | Chapman visited wild life regions of | Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and | Canada. This is the $40,000 “throne car” for Father Divine, under construction at Pasadena, Calif. The car, to have a raised throne of ollower w.Divlue. Hunt is soug oo glush in the back, was ordered t on a Hann act charge. by John W. Hunt, 33-year-old —Coflyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | conspiracy to keep the United States in the Philippines,” Quezon said 1t was “the best evidence that we getting ready to depend upon our- selves for our own protection and not upon the United States.” “The charge that our national de- fense plan is ‘intended to strengthen the military power of America in the Western Pacific in the event of war with Japan’ is not only groundless but mischievous.” To Go Right Ahead. Only destruction of the Japanese navy, he said. would permit the trans- portation of Filipinos in an offensive With the aim of giving the islands better and more capable citizens, Que- zon said he would go ahead with the military training even if he knew his country could not be defended against a first-class power Ma). Gen. William C. Rivers, U. S. retired, a man with long service der the Philippine civil authorities at Manila, said he believed the Philip- pine Islands “too far from our West Coast and too near to Japan, for the United States to be able to defend the Philippines.” He labeled as advised suggestions for construction of a United States naval base at Manila A ill- Exposed Salient Seen. “With Japan between United States and Manila, all our Congres could build at Manila would be an exposed and indefensible fortified salient—a salient which would be in easy range of Japanese air bombers from nearby Formosa and from the Bonin Islands and from Japan itself,” said Gen. Rivers. The general maintained that Japan has no desire to ibly annex the Philippines, contending such action the ! would damage Japan's trade with the Philippines and also divide her fleet Stephen P. Duggan of the Institute of International Education told the meeting that if the provisions of the independence act regarding trade with the United States “were to be en- forced as they now stand they would probably spell the economic ruin of the Philippines.” The act provides that the free trade now existing between the United | Guardian Trust Co,, the Midland Bank |of Cleveland and New York banks with whom the Van Swe deal in their financial ope This development was negotiating | the top holding corporation Van Sweringen railroad empire | he and Tomlinson formed after buy |at auction control of the Van Swer |ingen enterprises in September, 1933, w are | Washington Produce. CHICAGO GRAIN Ecmé\ro;i 3 —He of grain futures in in 1er world ma wheat he in eight ye ghest pr: rn to a nev was about 3 cents, Al Bue cents, and nost 6 cents advar s Aire sterda t Liverpool. plus 3 cent times in Winnipeg today, we ant de- velopments in the world price rise in which Chicago values actually lagged behind Importir nations, particularly Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were reported have hases cash cents 2 to last 500,000 t by Spain by traders. bushels of Ar was given States and the Philippines shall re- | main in force for the first five years of the Commonwealth. vear, 1941, a tax of 5 per cent would be levied by the Philippine govern- ment on all exports to the United States and an additional 5 per cent for each of the remaining years of the Commonwealth. When independence is attained the full American tariff on foreign goods is to be imposed upon Philippine goods. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Rain begin- ning late tonight or tomorrow: not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 45 degrees;, moderate winds, mostly easterly Maryland—Rain, beginning late to- | night or tomorrow; not much change in temperature Virginia—Cloudy, occasional rain today and in west portion late tonight; slightly warmer in extreme southwest portion. West Virginia—Rain probable to- night and tomorrow; slightly warmer in east and south portions tomorrow. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. Yesterday— fpm Midnight ‘oday— +am, Xam. Noon 5 Record for Last 21 Hours. m noon yesterday to noon today.) f p.m. vesterday s Year. Record Temperatures T Highest, 76, on January Lowest. 19, on February Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon vesterday to noon today.) Highest, 54 per cent, at 5 &.m. today Lowest, 25 per cent, at noon today Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Geodetic Survey.) Toda 12:3 Coast and a.m In the sixth | | has risen 20 cents | was associated h trade | the possibility of developm corn market “squeeze” in May available here now gossip of of a Corn on is far less tracts outs |out that Argen | tying the dema | could be used onl | for delivery on con | Oats and rye rose in sympathy with the leading grains. Soy beans w bid 23;-3'. s higher at ne record highs Pr ons slightly About midsession wheat was higher compared with yester: ish; May, 144': July corn was 1! cents 1.281¢; Ju 1.197 ce rose al fin- and May, up CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. April 3 Unit - | 3.00 down 1:00 p'm 806 p.m The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sun. today 1 Sun tomorrow Moon. today Automobile lights must one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. i34 10:30 a.m. be turned on Monthly Capital (current month to date): Month. 1937, Ave January February March 9 0 l 8 4 89 December 3 Weather in Various Cities. femp. Rain- h.Low.fall. 84 0.01 Weath'r Cloudy Rain Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Snow Cloudy Clear Clear Rain Cloudy T Stations. Baro. H' ] 5 Tex Atlantic City Baltimore, Md. Birmingham Bismarck, N.D. Boston, Buffalo, N. Y. Charleston, §.C. Chicago, TIL Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland. ' Ohio 0.01 0.32 0.08 0.02 Denver, Detroit il Paso, Talveston, ‘elen furon, ndianapolis 3 Wash Spokane, 3 TARRPA, 0.0 B D 30.08 63 43 ___ Cloudy ‘01 | NEW YORK PRODUCE. NEW YORK. April 3 t steady. Mixed colors, ; exchange st precipitation in inches in the and ht. fir 118 14 Broilers. Leghorn crosses, . fow v | Reds. Leghorn, 19: roosters. | Rocks colored ducks. ‘1 Dress poultr changed. steady to firm. Prices un= U. S. TREASURY NOTES. (Reported by Chas. D Barney & Co.) Rate_Maturi Bl offer B pr. 15 METAL MARKET. ¢ YORK. April 3 (».—Copper electrolytic spot and future, 17.00; §40. Tin_ steady: spot - an 1 ] steady. export. earby. 62.621a: future. Aher metals nominally unchanged.