Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1938, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow, with mod- erate temperature; gentle northerly winds. Temperatures today—Highest, 77, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 59, at 5 a.m. Full report on page A-2, Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 16 86th YEAR. No. 34,392. 1L DUCE ADVISES FRANCO EASE UP ON SHIP BOMBING Italy Calls for Moderation in Rebel Attacks on Foreign Ships. PERTH-CIANO PARLEY DETAILS ARE REVEALED . British Envoy Assured Measures Already Taken to Satisfy Raid Protests. BACKGROUND— Italy and England signed Medi- terranean pact April 16, which was to adjust their interests in that area, but it was not to go into force until a “setlement” is reached in Spain. Meanwhile, Britain and France have striven to obtain with- drawal of foreign volunteers from both sides in order to smooth the way for the application of the pact. Ev the Associated Press. ROME, June 29.—A spokesman for the Fascist regime declared today that Italy had advised Gen. Francisco Franco, the Spanish insurgent leader, to use “moderation” in his efiorts to prevent British and other foreign ships , from bringing supplies to government Spain. The spokesman, the noted editor Virginio Gayda, said, however, that Italy approved of the bombing of ves- sels carrying contraband, but dis- claimed any Italian i therefor. In an inspired article in the Giornale | d'Italia, Gayda disclosed the content of the conversation last night between . the Earl of Perth, Britain's Ambas- sador, and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Measures Already Taken. The editor said Ciano told Lord Perth that Franco already had taken & series of measures to give the Brit- ish government satisfaction with re- gard to the long list of bombings of British ships, against which London has protested vigorously. These measures, Gayda said, were: First, Gen. Franco had given orders that British ships should not be at- tacked while navigating. Second, he had ordered that the British flag be respected as far as pos- sible in Spanish government ports. Third, Gen. Franco was willing to name free ports in Western Spain (Insurgent held) where “honest traf- fic” would have free entry. Bombings Held Justified. Gayda said the bombings were fully Justified and asserted that “the Span- ish command has not bombed British ships, but contraband ships.” ‘The Fascist spokesman denied that Lord Perth had “menaced” Italy in any way or brought up the question of “Italian responsibility for the bomb- ings.” No doubt, said Gayda, the British Ambassador talked about Spanish af- fairs “with calm words” and “invited” the Italian government to use its ‘in- fluence in persuading Gen. Franco to change his aerial war policy.” Insinuations that Italy was directly “responsible for the bombings were strongly denied. “The conduct of the war and the employment of equipment must be left exclusively to the will and decision of the Spanish commanders,” Gayda wrote. British Warships to Mallorca. LONDON, June 29 (#).—Two Brit- ish destroyers, the Imogen and the Isis, were ordered suddenly to Mallorca today from Gibraltar, The admiralty described the move- ment as “routine” in connection with the Nyon anti-piracy patrol. The Italian-operated airplane base at Palma, Mallorca, is the source of many of the insurgent air raids on the coast of government Spain and British | chipping in Spanish waters. is 150 miles east of Spain. Observers connected the move- ment of the destroyers with reports from Rome that Premier Mussolini had interceded with Insurgent Generalis- simo Francisco Franco in an effort to halt attacks on British vessels Both Mussolini's action and the admiralty's were believed to be results of increasing pressure on Prime Min- ister Neville Chamberlain at home to do something to stop the attacks. While warships are privileged to call at Mallorca at any time, it was believed the present movement was in the nature of a “gesture” to com- mand the insurgents’ attention and at the same time quiet opposition in Parliament. Opposition members of Parliament have been getting more and more sarcastic in asking where the British Navy was while ships flying the Union Jack were being sunk. Mr. Chamberlain was heckled by the opposition again at today’s session of the House of Commons, Pressure on Chamberlain. Renewed bombings yesterday of Bpanish government ports, where mounting damage to British shipping has inflamed a large section of British public opinion, put pressure on Mr. ‘Chamberlain to find a solution of the WAr or a means of stopping the attacks. As a chief supporter of insurgent Gen. Franco, Mussolini was believed here to be in a position to influence the Burgos government to stop its attacks on British merchant ships, or to consider mediation efforts. Advices from Rome said it was be- lieved the attacks might cease as a result of the conference because Mus- solini wants to smooth the way for Prime Minister Chamberlain at home and wants the Anglo-Italian Easter pact made effective as soon as possible. Fresh raids on government cities by Insurgent aircraft yesterday came less than 24 hours after the Spanish gov- * ernment announced it was holding in abeyance its threat to retaliate, per- haps on Italien cities, until it could see the effect of a neutral commission instituted to investigate whether bombings of civilians were justified by military objectives. » Mallorca ~ Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. trainer, Dolly Jacobs, while the Potomae Yards en route to win The “greatest show on earth” to| millions of circus fans—Ringling Bros. | and Barnum & Bailey’s Combined Circus—positively has folded its tents for the 1938 season, but will be back on the road again next year, it was announced today. The announcement followed an all- night conference of circus officials as their three-section train of perform- | ers and equipment sat forlornly in | the jungle of railway tracks that | ch Circus Folds Up But Will Tour Again in 1939 Satan, 21-week-old black leopard of the Ringling Bros.- Barnum & Bailey Circus, is taken for an airing by its pretty WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDItTON ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1938—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ##» Its Tents, circus train is held up in the ter quarters. —A. P. Photo. make up the Potomac Yards in Alex- andria, Va. Its tour cut short by a wage dispute, the circus train was halted here while officials decided whetner to attempt to keep the show in opera- tion this year or to give up for the time being and return to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. George W. Smith, general manager of the circus, made the announce- (See CIRCUS, Page A-3) NYE IS LEADING LANGER BY 16,000 Burdick and Lemke Also | Seem Assured of Victory in Primaries. By the Associated Press. FARGO, N. Dak., June 29.—United States Senator Gerald P. Nye in- creased his lead over Gov. Willilam Langer for the Republican senatorial nomination to approximately 15,000, when votes from a third of North Da- kota's precincts in yesterday's pri- mary election were tabulated today. Usher L. Burdick and William Lemke, North Dakota's Representa- tives in Congress. also seemed assured of renomination in the Republican | column, | Mr. Burdick, indorsed by the Non- | Partisan League, of which Gov. Lan- | ger is the titular head, and Mr. Lemke | were maintaining favorable leads for | congressional posts in & six-cornered | contest. Returns from 980 of 2,260 precincts gave Gov. Langer 40,506, Senator Nye, 56,356. For Congress, Mr. Burdick had 23,182 and Mr. Lemke, 22,656, to lead their closest opposition by almost two to one on returns from 446 precincts. In the Republican governorship race, Senator Nye's teammate, Lt. Gov. T. H. H. Thoresen held approximately 9,000 votes lead on returns from 759 precincts which gave him 39,185 votes | to 30,543 for Commissioner of Agri- culture and Labor John N. Hagan, Langer-L%uegue candidate. In the mocratic races regular or- ganization candidates were holding a lead over a slate of “progressives.” Senatorial Candidate J. J. Nygaard, John Moses for Governor and How- ard I. Henry and Max Strehlow, con- gressional candidates, hold sizable leads over the “Progressive” opposi- tion. Returns from 229 precincts gave Halvor Halvorson 1,776, E. A. Johans- sen 352 and Mr. Nygaard 3,860. For Governor, 228 precincts, Mr. Moses 5,655, Oliver Rosenberg 290. For Congress, 228 precincts, Alfred S. Dale 2,234, Mr. Henry 2,603 and Mr. Strehlow 2,445, MARKET CLIMBS 10 NEW LEVELS Swift Upswing Advances Some Issues to Peak Prices for Year. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 29—Buying again swelled to record-breaking pro- portions for 1938 in the New York Stock Exchange today, hurling prices of leading issues up $1 to $6 a share, many to peak prices for the year. Building material, steel, agricultural, chemical and various industrials led the advance, but it broadened to in- clude virtually the entire list, with rails i and utilities registering the widest | gains in months. The turnover approximated 2,700,- 000 shares, largest for any day since October. After wavering for the past two days, the market resumed last week's advance with striking vigor. In the last hour United States ad- vanced more than $3 to above $56, Bethlehem Steel nearly $4 to- close to $60, Chrysier nearly $4 to above $59, Westinghouse Electric jumped $6 to $8 and a similar advance carried Dupont above $119; Union Pacific was up $4 to $82 and Santa Fe $3 to $33; Johns-Manville jumped nearly $5 to $92 and American Telephone more than $2.50 to above $142. Both Mont- gomery Ward and Sears Roebuck ad- vanced about $3 to new highs for 1938. Dow Chemical surged up $10 to $130. Brokers said the fact that the list had been able to absorb a large vol- ume of profit-taking sales in the past two sessions without losing any sub- stantial part of last week's record- breaking advance prompted a fresh buying wave. Commission houses re- ported large buying from out-of-town branches and abroad. Brokers pointed out, however, that aggregate business volumes were still far below last year at this time, and the advance in the market must be construed as a gamble on substantial business recovery by next autumn. Summary of Page. Page. Amusements C-12 | Radio ....___A-8 Comics __C-10-11 | Short Story..B-7 Editorials ___A-10 | Soclety . ___ B-3 Lost & Found.C-4 | Sports _C-1-2-3-4 Obituary A-12 FOREIGN. 11 Duce urges Franco to ease bomb- Page A-1 Sandys is called by British court on defense leak. Page A-1 Loyalists and rebels deadlocked on Valencia front. Page A-2 Japan's textile firms stampede for last cotton. Page A-3| stars shine. Page C-4 Yangtze River boom held, Chinese| EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. declare. Page A-4| Editorials. Page A-10 [ This and That. Page A-10 NATIONAL. : Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Kennedy gives lie to magazine ar-| petters to The Star. Page A-10 ticle. Page A-1| David Lawrence. Page A-11 Market climbs to new.highs for June | Frederic William Wile. Page A-11 recovery. Page A-1| The Capital Parade, Page A-11 Don Budge to meet Bunny Austin in | Jay Franklin. Page A-11 Wimbledon finals. Page A-1|Lemuel Parton, Page A-11 MISCELLANY. WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Vital Statistics. Page B-2 P. W. A. allots $3,000,000 for purchase | City News in Brief. Page B-2 of War Department site. Page A-1| Nature's Children, Page B-11 Relatives seek details of mysterious| Cross-word Puzsle. ‘Page C-10 drowning of D. C. man. Page B-1| Bedtime Story. Page C-10 Two North Carolinians killed in colli- | Letter-Out. Page C-10 sion of auto and hearse, Page A-2| Winning Contrast. Page C-11 » . Scheid trailed slaying victim, prosecu- Today's Star tor tells jury. Page B-1 Jury being completed in Scheid mur- der trial, Page B-1 Grand jury to get evidence in police shooting of colored man. Page B-1 SPORTS. American League slugging gives it edge in All-Star game. Page C-1 Fans of Cleveland and Brooklyn pro- test All-Star team choices, Page C-2 Lavwrin favored over Dauber in rich coast turf race. Page C-2 Quarterback plucked from obscurity may make Gophers great. Page C-3 D. C. title tennis proving tame as usual § SANDYSISCALLED BY BRITISH GOURT ON DEFENSE LEAK Tells Turbulent Commons of Order to Appear for Army Probe. MUST BE IN UNIFORM TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE Churchill’s Son-in-Law Charges ‘Gross Breach of Privileges’ of Parliament. BACKGROUND— Pgrliamentary question by Dun- can Sandys, son-in-law of Winston Churchill, in regard to reported in- adequacy of Britain's supply of army anti-gircraft guns, led to alleged threat by Britain's attorney general to use drastic Official Se- crets Act to force Mr. Sandys to tell source of his information. Sandys demanded investigation of the threat, revealing the “leak” in British defense secrets. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 29.—Britain's po- litical storm over the Official Secrets Act was intensified today when Dun- can Sandys, central figure in the tur- moil, told a turbulent House of Com- mons he had been ordered to appear before a military court. Mr. Sandys, conservative member of the House and son-in-law of Winston Churchill, declared this was “a gross breach of the privileges of this house.” It was Mr. Sandys' charge in the House Monday that the attorney gen- eral had threatened him with invoca- tion of the Secrets Act, usually used against spies, unless he divulged the source of certain information, that brought the controversy into the open and aroused criticism weakening the position of the government. Framed Question for Commons. On the basis of this information Mr. Sandys had framed a question to be asked in Commons concerning alleged deficiency in Britain's defenses against aircraft. The military court was in- stituted yesterday to inquire into this leakage of information considered secret. Mr. Sandys told the House today he was ordered to appear before the court in uniform in his capacity as an of- ficer in the territorial army tomorrow morning “for the purpose of giving evidence.” Prime Minister Chamberlain then announced that Leslie Hore-Belisha, secretary for war, would ask the Army Council to suspend the court pro- ceedings until the House Committee on Privileges had reached a decision on the affair. House Thrown Into Turmoil. Mr. Sandys’ announcement threw the House into turmoil. Clement R. Attlee, leader of the Labor opposition, declared the military action was “an | affront to the House.” Sir Percy Harris, Liberal, said the army inquiry had “been announced with almost indecent haste.” Mr. Chamberlain said the constitu- tion of the army court was ‘automatic” procedure and did not come within the Jjurisdiction of either Mr. Hore-Belisha or government. Challenged by Mr. Sandys, Mr. Hore- Belisha denied he had ever suggested that the former had been lacking in his duty as an officer. Mr. Sandys is a second lieutenant of the London Anti-Aircraft Brigade of the Royal Artillery, in the territorial army (cor- responding to the National Guard in the United States). Breach of Trust Charged. Mr. Hore-Belisha, around whom the | storm swirled, denied any intention of trespassing on the prvileges of Com- mons, but said the court “has to ascer- tamn if and how an officer of the British Army has committed a breach of trust.” The Privileges Committee, including such men as Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Attlee, Mr. Churchill and Sir Archi- bald Sinclair, the Liberal leader, met late today, but after an hour's dis- cussion adjourned until tomorrow. The war ministry selected “Big Bill” Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside to head the military court of inquiry to learn who had been “spilling the beans” on secrets of Britain's anti-aircraft de- fense, Mr. Sandys charged the threat to invoke the Official Secrets Act was made when Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell, at request of the war ministry, sought to learn where the Parliament member had secured the information upon which he pro- posed to base the question concerning an alleged shortage of anti-aircraft guns to defend 45,000,000 Britons. Critics of the government said Prime Minister Chamberlain was wor- ried because Mr. Sandys' question would have disclosed a grave inade- quacy in anti-aircraft preparedness. Reading Advertisements It pays to read the adver- tising columns of The Star where the display of the most attractive and greatest variety of merchandise is always to be found. Look over the ad- vertising in The Star this evening and do vour shop- ing if you can in the morn- ng. _Yesterday’s Advertising Local Display The Evening Star The Star is the shopping guide in the great majority of all the homes in Washing- ton and nearby Marylau and Virginia. ¥ R 4 ’ %) e\ (T AS A WA OFFERL BUT AUBREY, YOU VE ) GOT To WATCH YOUR. | \AS A PARTY MAN! STEP ON THIS WPA POLITICAL AID STUFF REMEMBER WHAT | WALKED [NTO! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 138,544 (S8ome returns not yet received.) () Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. B PRESDENT N FLOOD MEASLR Approved ‘With Reluctance’ as Roosevelt Doubts Value of Some of Projects. B the Associatea Press HYDE PARK, N. Y, June 29— President Roosevelt announced today that he had signed the $386,500.000 reluctance.” “It is unnecessary for me to em- phasize the importance of carrying on |a large and continuing program to eliminate floods, lessen soil erosion, continue reclamation, encourage re- | forestation and improve navigation,” the President declared. “But the bill I signed is not a step in the right !dlreeuon in the set-up provided for general Government planning.” “I am in doubt,” President Roosevelt said, “as to the value of some of the projects provided for, and it is unwise to place recommendations to the Con- gress solely in the hands of the Engi- neer Corps of the Army in some cases and of the Department of Agriculture in other cases.” The bill provides for a five-year pro- gram of flood control works construc- tion, for which $375,000,000 is au- thorized to be appropriated. addition, the measure authorizes $10,- | 000,000 for examinations and surveys | by the War and Agriculture Depart- ments and $1,500,000 for surveys by the Federal Power Commission. The | bill carries no appropriation itself. | The flood control program would | extend from the Merrimack River in | the East to the Williamette in the West and down to the Lower Mississippi River Basin, 'RED SOX LEADING GRIFFS, 3-1, IN 2D Foxx and Cronin Hit Home Runs in Opening Inning Off Leonard to Give Team Edge. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON, June 29.—Jimmy Foxa and Manager Joe Cronin hit home runs off Dutch Leonard in the first inning and the Boston Red Sox were leading the Nationals here this after- noon in the second inning of the opening game of a series. TAX STUDY FILED AWAY UNTIL BALLOTS ARE IN Pennsylvania Commission Fears Report Would Be Used for Politiql Purposes. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 29.— Chairman John H. Dent today tucked into a pigeonhole until after the No- vember election the report of a legis- lative commission that has been study- ing the effect of taxes on industry in Pennsylvania. “I'm afraid the finding of our com- mission might be used for political purposes if we made a report before the November election,” said Mr. Dent, a State Senator from Westmoreland County. He said the report probably would be submitted to the regular session of the Legislature in January and made public then, The subject of the commission’s investigation already has been raised as an issue in the fall campaign. Re- publican candidates for State-wide offices have claimed “excessive taxes and restrictive industrial legislation” were driving industry from Pennsyl- vania. The commission was created by the 1937 Legislature to determine whether such contentions had any basis, JOHNNY GOODMAN WEDS Schoolday Sweetheart Is Bride of Golf Champion. OMAHA, Nebr, June 29 (P).— National Amateur Golf Champion Johnny Goodman of Omaha and Miss Josephine Kersigo, his schoolday sweetheart, were married here today. Both are 28 years old. The marriage, at St. Stanislaus Church, of which the bride is a member, was attended by sbout 400 friends of the couple. They will live here after' a two-week honeymoon omnibus flood control bill “with some In| | French to Use Death Penalty To Halt Spying By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 29.—The French gov- ernment today issued a decree estab- lishing the death penalty in peace- |time for certain forms of espionage. | The law was designed to halt the growing number of spy cases in France in recent years. Sentences of penal servitude for life, hitherto reserved for wartime espio-| nage offenses, also were made applicable | to peacetime convictions in a new | drive which authorities said emulated | Germany's recent counter-espionage activities. There has been a huge increase in | espionage arrests in France in recent | years. In the Strasbourg area—near the German frontier—there were 250 | convictions on espionage charges in 1937, BUDGE ADVANCES TOTENNIS FINALS Will Meet Bunny Austin at Wimbledon After Easy Victory. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, June 29.— | Don Budge, holder of the world's four major tennis titles, stroked his way into the finals in defence of his all- England championship today when he defeated Ferenc Puncec of Yugoslavia, 6—2, 6—1, 6—4. He will meet Eng- land’s H. W. (Bunny) Austin in the finals. There was no stopping Budge. Pun- cec was good, but it was like Henry Armstrong fighting Joe Louis. When Don went to the net he left poor Puncec helpless and scratching his head. Only in the third set did the Red let down. Then he stayed on the baseline until Puncec held a 4—2 lead and twice was within a point of a 5—2 advantage. Deciding it was time to swing into ac- tion again, Budge went to the net and Qquickly completed a record of having advanced to the finals without the loss of a set. Austin, England’s No. 1 player, ad- vanced to the finals with a 6—2, 6—4, 6—0 victory over Henner Henkel of Germany. After dropping his first game, Aus- tin took five in a row, driving the ball beautifully off his forehand and vol- leying superbly. Upset by the wind and with no power in his usually hard service, Henkel was unable to hold his service. Summaries: Men'’s singles, semi-final round— H. W. (Bunny) Austin, England, defeated Henner Henkel, Germany, Mixed doubles, fourth round— Alejod Russell, Argentine, and Freda James, England, defeated D. W, But- ler and Mary Heeley, England, 7—S5, KENNEDY DENIES ROOSEVELT STORY Envoy Gives Lie to Article Saying President’s Son Helped Get Post. | By the Associaved Press. NEW YORK, June 29.—Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador Britain, today denounced as a “com- plete unadulterated lie” an assertion in a current magazine article that James Roosevelt, son and secretary of the President, helped get him his am- bassadorial post and helped him as well to become “the premier Scotch whisky salesman in America.” o ‘The article, by Alva Johnston in the Saturday Evening Post, dealt mainly with young Roosevelt and his career as an insurance salesman. Mr. Kennedy commented on the story as he sailed for his London post. Reading the section applying to him he commented with a grin: “I admit I am the Ambassador, but I deny that I am the premier Scotch whisky salesman in this country., I do like, however, to be the best in everything.” “Unadulterated Lie.” Reading further in the article, he added he never had bought “one cent's worth of insurance from Jimmy Roose- velt.” He had needed nobody’s help in getting public positions. he said. “Kennedy,” he said, “is able to get along pretty well without help from any one.” The Johnston article, he went on, “tries to make me out a phoney, but if all of it is as true as the part I have read about myself it is a complete, un- adulterated lie.” The Ambassador said he had been amused to hear that process servers had a difficult time in reaching him with papers in a $1,000,000 suit brought against him and others by J. Edward Jones, an oil man, remarking, “the papers reported every day exactly Wwhere I was.” He added his counsel had been served with a summons on his behalf. Mr. Jones claims damage to his busi- ness by the Securities and Exchange Commission, of which Mr. Kennedy formerly was chairman. ‘JIMMY'S' INCOME HIGH. Estimates Put His Earnings at $250,000 to $2,000,000, James Roosevelt, 30-year-old son of President Roosevelt, has an annual in- come of $250,000 to $2,000,000 from insurance sales, Alva Johnston writes in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post, citing insurance men as his source of information. The Johnston articles, entitled “Jimmy’s Got It,” says “New York insurance men usually figure his in- come about $250,000 a year, while in Boston they give him as much as $2,000,000 & year. At any rate, if he keeps on forging ahead at his present (See KENNEDY, Page A-3.) , 6—1. J. 8. Oliff, England, and Mrs. Bobby Heiner Miller, South Africa, defeated F. H. D. Wilde and Mrs. Whitemarsh, England, 6—1, 8—6. ‘Women's doubles, quarter - final round: Dorothy Andrus, New York, and Sylvia Henrotin, France, defeated Joan Saunders and Valarie Scott, England, 6—0, 6—2. Mrs. Bobby Heime Miller and Miss M. Morphew, South Africa, defeated Freda James and Kay Stammers, Eng- land, 6—4, 6—2. Men's doubles, third round: J. B. Sturgeon and G. L. Tuckett, England, defeated Ladislaus Hecht and Roderich Menzel, Czechoslovakia, PALESTINE]EW HANGED 19-Year-0ld Was Convicted of Ambushing Arab Bus. JERUSALEM, June 29 (#).—The first Jew condemned to death under the Holy Land's emergency military regulations was hanged today at Acre. He was 19-year-old Benjamin Jo- seph, of Polish origin, who was con- victed by a military tribunal of am- bushing an Arab bus last April 21. Jews had attempted vainly to win intercession from Sir Harold Alfred McMichael, high commissioner for Trans-Jordan and commander in chief for Palestine, to save the youth from the gallows. R Dr. Gregg Forecasts Network Of Robot Weather Watchers By THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. OTTAWA, June 29.—Hundreds of brass-brained, steel-boned weather observers stationed as eternally sleep- less blizzard ‘and hurricans sentinels throughout the Arctic and in the paths of Caribbean tempests were envisioned before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting here today, by Dr. Willis Ray Gregg, chief of the United States Weather Bureau. These almost incredibly alert watch- ers of the malevolent forces of nature at the far outposts of the habitable world would suicide flights into the stratosphere and radioing back data on the tem- perature, humidity, wind direction and velocity. and cloud density at great heights. At the same time Dr. Gregg de- scribed a new system of rain fore- casting over short intervals, made possible by the meteorograph flights, which a year ago was little more than & wild dream but which has developed 50 rapidly that daily use is being made of it in experimental storm pre- dictions. Sturdier robots, built on the same principle as the mechanical strato- sphere explorers, may be set up us permanent stations on the ground, to Great | $3,0000000.£. T0BUY SITE FOR WAR BUILDING P. W. A. Allots 48 Million for Department Projects in All Parts of U. S. MORE THAN 4 MILLION FOR VIRGINIA, MARYLAND D. C. Officials Anxiously Await Action on List of Three Local Structures. In one of the largest construction programs in recent years in rehousing Army personnel and providing new structural facilities, the Public Works™ Administration today allotted $48,000,» 000 for the use of the Quartermaster Corps, War Department, at posts in 28 States and the District of Columbia. A $3,000,000 allotment was made for purchase of land and initiation of plans for the new War Department Building in Washington, authorized by the last session of Congress, The new structure is to be located in the area between C and D streets and Twenty-first and Twenty-third streets N.W. It will be included in the proposed development of the section east of the Potomac River and imme- diately north of Constitution avenue. Ultimate cost of the building, including purchase of the site, will be $10,815,000, Meanwhile, District officials anx- lously awaited final action by P. W. A. on three of the long list of construc- tion projects which the District has sought P. W. A. loans and grants. Ex- treme nervousness was in evidence in several quarters since the District Building is aware that all projects using the new Federal money must be started by January 1. Approved by Examining-Board. Plans for construction of the three projects urgently sought—a new Mu- nicipal Court Building, estimated to cost $1,500.000; a new Juvenile Court structure, for which $550,000 is sought, and a new general medical ward build- ing for Gallinger Hospital, estimated to cost $750,000—have been approved by P. W. A. examinining boards, The District Commissioners told Chairman King of the Senate District Committee today that because of time limitations “some excellent projects” have to be passed up in formulating the new program of public improve- ment to be financed out of the P. W. A., advance of $18,150,000, authorized in the enabling act passed at the last session. In enacting the new P. W, A. Act, which prohibits expenditure of P. W. A. funds for Federal comstruction in Washington, Congress had diverted $6,000,000 to start construction of a new War Department Building and one for the Social Security Admin- istration. These funds were allocated by Congress to the Procurement De- partment of the Treasury. The $3,000,000 allocated by the P. W. A. for the new War Department Building today was under the specific direction of this congressional au- thorization. Maryland and Virginia. From the $45,000,000 for strictly Army construction purposes, posts in Maryland were allotted $2,599,560 and new construction at Virginia posts accounts for $1,959,600. Today's allotments by the P. W. A. for both Federal and non-Federal projects brings the total to $390,210,~ 358 since June 22, when the new pump-priming program was launched. They account for 751 Federal projects and 1,797 non-Federal or municipal projects. The amount of allotments provides for a total of $458,920,757 in construction costs to stimulate the heavy industries. Fort George G. Meade, largest of the Army posts in Maryland, was al- lotted $900,000 for the construction of additional barracks to house 575 soldiers and a new school building for the training of Army cooks. At the Hbolabird Quartermaster Depot, $853,« 560 will be spent for barracks to ace commodate 600 enlisted men and res- idences for 100 officers and quarters for 24 non-commissioned officers. A $846,000 allotment will be used at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds to con- struct barracks for 300 enlisted men, 16 non-commissioned officers and a school building. Fort Myer, Va., received a lump al- lotment of $284,500 for new barracks to accommodate 200 enlisted men agd an addition to the post hospital. Fort Belvoir Gets $985,000. Other posts in Virginia shared as follows: Fort Monroe, $335,000, addi= tional barracks for 300 men, and $355,~ 000 to modernize the post hospital, and Fort Belvoir, $985,100 for new barracks accommodating 375 men, new quarters for 18 non-commissioned officers, quar=- ters for 25 commissioned officers with additional garages and shops. Fort Belvoir, just below Alexandria, was formerly known as Fort Humph- reys. This new Army program, officials said, will go far toward correcting the worst housing conditions at these posts. Chairman Andrew J. May of the House Military Affairs Committee said during the hearings several months ago on the P. W. A. appro- priation bill, “We have worse slums in the matter of Army housing in perhaps half the posts in the country than we have in many of the cities.” Largest of the allotments made was for a 600-bed capacity addition to the Fitzsimmons General Hospital at Denver, Colo., which will cost $3,750,~ 000. Second largest was $3,406,900 for new barracks and hangars at Chanute (See P. W. A, Page A-3) Norris Supports Pope. BOISE, Idaho, June 29 () —Sena~ tor Norris, independent, of Nebraska urged today renomination of Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho in the Au- gust 9 primary. In a letter to the Boise “Pope for Senator” Club, Mr. Norris said, “His defeat would be & distinct loss to the Page A-4) !