Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1940, Page 5

Berlin Expecting Molotoff Visit fo Forge Ifalian Tie Belief Persists in Spite Of Tass Denial Soviet Premier Will Make Trip By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, Associated Press Foreign Correspondent. BERLIN, March 23.—Official Ger- many apparently is convinced that Russia’s Premier and Foreign Com- missar, Vyacheslaff Molotoff, will at last visit Berlin to. cement anew the recently formed Berlin-Moscow friendship and remove any obstacles to Russian-Italian co-operation for the duration of the European war. Tass, the Soviet official news agency, issued a statement in Mos- cow describing rumors abroad con- cerning Molotofl’s proposed visit as “devold of any foundation.” The Tass statement, which did not dis- count the possibility of his ¢oming soon, was interpreted here as a move to counteract reports that he already was in Germany. Men usually well informed put the date of Molotoff’s likely arrival all the way from next Tuesday to & fortnight hence. Ciano May Make Visit. It was believed possible that Ttaly’s Foreign Minister, Count Ga- leazzo Ciano, might be in Berlin at the same time, although it could not be learned definitely whether negotiations had progressed far enough to permit this. If and when Molotoff comes to Berlin it may be taken for granted that a three-power understanding concerning Southeastern Europe will result, according to which Russia, Germany and Italy, without giving up their ideologies and without tie- ing themselves beyond the dura- tion of the present war, will agree: 1. To keep the Balkans at peace, and 2. To consult the Balkan na- tions themselves on the kind of arrangement necessary in South- eastern Europe after the present war to ensure a stable peace. After the Brenner Pass confer- ence between Fuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini last Monday, sources in Berlin usually well-in- formed said it had been agreed that Russia would join the Rome-Berlin axis in a political, non-ideological maneuver by which Russia would aid Germany's war effort by supply- ing raw materials without actually becoming a belligerent. Rome re- ported that Hitler and Mussolini agreed to forge a barrier of neutral states around Germany in the south- east with Russia’s help, thus making Germany invulnerable to attack from that quarter. Ribbentrop Stays in Berlin. German officials for the most part went home or to the countryside today for a brief Easter vacation believing that Molotoff would come, although authorized sources re- mained as non-committal about rumors to this effect as they had been about the meeting at Brenner Pass Monday. They would neither affirm nor deny, except to say that no political events of magnitude | were in prospect “during Easter.” | Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop is remaining in Berlin over Easter—another indication that | he is working on something more | than a routine matter. Although yesterday was Good Friday and a legal holiday, the Foreign Minister’s personal staff worked feverishly. Political circles believed these aides were arranging details for reception of the Soviet Premier. At the Russian Embassy the cau- tious reply to inquiries was: “The exact date for events in the offing is not yet set.” There were other indications that the Foreign Office and the Russian Embassy were pre- paring for a Molotoff visit. It was understood that the Ger- man, Russian and Italian govern- ments were taking their time about closing their three-power agreement to permit a crystallization of the re- sults of the French Cabinet change and other developments. Teleky Visiting Rome. Meanwhile, official Germany re- garded the visit of the Hungarian Premier, Count Paul Teleky, to Pre- mier Mussolini this week end as the natural outcome of a desire by na- tions having a special friendship |- with one another to remain in close touch in these fateful days. According to Diplomatisch-Poli- tische Korrespondenz, semi-official mouthpiece of the Foreign Office, Count Teleky wanted to discuss with Mussolini the Danubian question as affected by the Brenner conference. This organ admitted that certain Balkan nations may have tried to | use the occasion of a major conflict | among Germany, Britain and France to try to settle their own scores, but wise statesmanship counsels against such a course, it said. Southern Conference Program Is Announced By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 23.—The program for the second Southern Conference for Human ‘Welfare to be held here April 14, 15 and 16 was announced today by Howard Lee, executive secretary. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be the featured speaker, appearing Monday night, April 15. Aubrey Williams, director of the National Youth Administration, will speak on the Monday night program also. Co-chairmen of a panel of labor and industry are Mark S. Ethridge, general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, and ‘William Mitch, president, district 20, United Mine Workers. Maury Maverick, mayor of San THE SUNDAY - STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH %4, 1940 -PART ONE. FASTER EGG HUNTING SEASON—And Joyce Schaffer and Ellen Rosser were two of the lucky ones at the annual Easter egg hunt held yesterday by the Sidney Lust Bethesda (Md.) Theater. Joyce, 4, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Schafter, Bethesda, and Ellen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Rosser, ¢ Chevy Chase. Easter (Continued From Pirst Page) _ last night. Rome, in Central New York, and Pulaski, Watertown and Malone in the north, could not be reached by automobile. The wind drifted highways shut as fast as snow plows opened them. Tempera- tures were expected to reach zero or below. The Easter observance here will begin early today in Protestant and Catholic churches, where extra holi- day services are planned to accom- modate overflow g¢rowds. At the White House, too, the day's activi- ties will start early. Mrs. Roose- velt was to be out in time to par- ticipate in' the sunrise ceremony of Knights Templar in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Roosevelt to Attend Church. Although his recent cold is much better, President Roosevelt prob- ably will be confined to his rooms by the raw weather. It has been his custom on past| Easters to attend services at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church. Mrs. Roosevelt planned to attend the church whether or not the Presi- dent accompanies her, ‘The fact that Easter this year is the earliest since 1913 apparently failed to reduce the throngs of out-. of-town visitors here for the holi- day. Hotels were comfortably filled, as were rooming houses and tourist camps. The ¢hefry blossoms, which draw the peak numbers of spring sight-seers each year, are not ex- pected to bloom until next week. The ceremonies at Arlington will include chorus numbers and music by the United States Marine Band, a sermon by the Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John at Wilmington, Del,, and the depositing of a cross of lilies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Mrs. Roosevelt, acting in behalf of the Knights Templar. Early Masses Arranged. Early masses were to be observed in the Catholic churches and early communions and services in Protest- ant churches. Special musical serv- ices were scheduled for 8 o’clock to- night in many Protestant churches. Bishop James E. Freeman will preach at the festival service of holy communion in Washington Cathe- dral at 11 o'clock. Holy communion services will be held at 7:30 and 9:30 o'clock this morning and a festival evensong service at 4 o'clock this afternoon. singing of the Easter mass from the Vatical in Rome will be broadcast from 6 to 7 o'clock this morning by station WJSV, which also will broad- cast the Arlington services, begin- ning at 7:30 o’clock. More than 100,000 Washington children are preparing baskets of Easter eggs in anticipation of to- morrow’s public egg-rollings at the White House, Zoo and on the Capi- tol lawn. The usual fair-weather crowd at the Zoo is something un- der 50,000 and that at the White House a few thousands over this total. Gates to Open at 9 AM. At the White House egg-rolling | $a the gates open at 9 a.m. for admis- sion of children under 10 years of ‘The blessings of Pope Pius and the | age. No adults will be admitted unless accompanied by children. The musical program follows: From 9 to 10:30 a.m. the Alexan- | dria High School Band; 10:30 to | noon, Police Club Boys' Band; 12 to 1:30 pm, Montgomery County High School Band; 1:30 to 2:30, Na- tional Training School Band; at 2:30, the University of Rochester Glee Club, and from 3 to 5, the United States Marine Band. The public will be admitted be- tween 3 and 5 p.m. with the grounds to be closed immediately afterwards. The White House will be closed to visitors throughout the day. Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt are ex- pected to greet the egg-rollers from the south portico during the day. Troops of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Girl Reserves will be on hand to help in arrangements. There will be an interne from Emergency Hos- pital and two nurses, in addition to an ambulance and two more nurses from the Red Cross. Baskets Given to Children. Easter baskets were presented to children of Friendship House, 619 D street SE., yesterday by members of the 1939 Chapter of “The Twenty,” Wilson Teachers College girls’ club. Taking part in the cergmony were the Misses Ruth Merritt, president; Dorothy Gross, Charlotte Decker, Jane Cobb, Helen Conard, Regina Lavins, Dorothy Peake, Capitola Broughton, Margaret Bittinger Tee- ple, Martha Catlin Pierce, Mary Ab- bott Mills, Frances Spiva, Norma Eliason, Ethel Merritt, Eleanor Smith, Sarah Regar, Eleanor Corbin, Edith S8imon, Wenona Barger, Lillian Smith and Mrs. W. W. Cookson, 3r, faculty adviser. British Won't Cut All U. S. Food Imports The new British general order for licensing of all foodstuff imports | does not mean that food imports | from the United States will be cut | Off .entirely, a statement issued by the British Embassy here yesterday explained. The Embassy quoted a staiement issued in London, emphasizing that | the object of the licensing order is to regulate the British trade in food- stuffs “according to the needs of consumers and resources in foreign exchange available for making pur- chases.” The statement added: “There is a wide range of food- stuffs and other agricultural prod- ucts which it is essential for the United Kingdom to obtain from overseas. The United States is nor- mally an important source of a number of these products, and it is the desire of the United King- dom government to continue to draw on that source to the full ex- tent that present conditions permit.” — e e Combating the Pain of Arthritis Thousands suffering_from arthrit| have found help in Mount: eral Water, direct Springs, Arkansas, Mildly Alk ._Indorsed b; I'm a musician . . . and I'd never realized what the loss of normal hearing could mean to me. Ordinary hearing aids restored SOUNDS to me, but I could no longer distinguish Two-year-old Mary Ellen receives an Easter basket from Ruth Merritt, president of the 1939 Chapter of The Twenty of Wilson Teachers College. The basket was one of those presented to the children at Friendship House, 619 D street S.E., yesterday. Donovan __(_Contlnued From First Page.) the Central Labor Union, an affliate of the American Federation of Labor, who is labor’s representative on the District Unemployment Com- pensation Board, and Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal, who has planned to return to private law practice as soon as Congress dis- poses of pending plans for reorgani- zation of the District government. List Expected to Grow. Other names are being mentioned, and it appears likely,the list wil continue to grow, with indications that increasing support will be given to demand for appointment of a “real” resident of Washington, meaning someone who has lived here for some years and is well acquainted with local problems. Existing law requires appointment of a person who has been a bona fide resident of the District for at least three years and who has not claimed legal residence elsewhere during that time, The current civic demand for a “real” District resi- dent, it is said, goes beyond this legal requirement but not necessar- ily for the appointment of a native. Early action onighe naming of Mr. Allen’s successor is urged from many sources because of the many problems now facing the District, including those of city finance and budget, particularly since Commis- sioner Melvin C. Hazen, 72-year-old president of the board, is expected to be away from his desk perhaps sume weeks, recovering from an ill- ness. Hc is now at Doctor’s Hospital where he has been under treatment since Tuesday for a digestive ail- ment. It is said he has been ad- vised to take a rest of some weeks. Hospital agents reported yesterday there was little change in his con- | dition, although he was resting com- | fortably. Allen to See Roosevelt. Mr. Allen, who will resume his post as vice president of the Home Insurance Co., next month, is ex- his successor with President Roose- | velt before retiring as Commissioner. | It is anticipated he will suggest early action. Maj Donovan, in former years, declined to be considered as a can- wished to preserve his retirement suggested that he might be granted & leave of absence from his present post if named a member of the Board of Commissioners, so that he You're missin{ .rome{,/ffnq every day you wait Why defer the pleasure of having real Catlin furniture in your home? During our anniversary sale you'll find prices that are in many cases LOWER than ordinary furni- ture! 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