Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Showers and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow showers; minimum tonight about 52; cooler tomorrow night. Tem- peratures today—Highest, 50, at 10:30 a.m.; lowest, 45, at 7 am.; 47 at1p.m. From the United States Weather Bureau report. Full details on Page A-2 ‘From Press to Home. Within the Hour’ h Most people in Washington have The Star delivered to their homes every evening and Sunday morning. Late New York Markets, Page 14. kintis) e s n 88th YEAR. No. 35,0 36. WASHINGTO D. ¢C, Germany Ready For 'Blitzkrieg’ Against Allies Awaiting Signal . From Fuehrer, Says Goering By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 3.—Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, chief- tain of Germany’s mighty air force and Adolf Hitler's No. 1 aide, de- clared today that “the Fuehrer has mobilized all resources” for a de- cisive blow “in the west” against the British and French. (In Paris, a French government spokesman commenting on Field Marshal Goering’s declaration, said today, “We are ready for just such a possibility.”) Marshal Goering gave no hint as to when the signal for a “blitzkrieg” ‘would be given, saying only that Hit- ler would decide when the time had come to “end the war.” “Having their rear and flanks se- cure,” the field marshal said, “the German armed forces in one firm bloc are facing Britain and France in the west. “It is here that the decisive blow must be struck and for this decisive blow the Fuehrer has mobilized all resources.” Third Statement in 12 Hours. It was the third declaration within 12 hours by high Nazi leaders of their confidence in German victory. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Propa- ganda Minister, German people is determined to make it, as the Fuehrer said, the most brilliant victory of German history.” Robert Ley, leader of the Nazi labor front, told army and party leaders at Kassel, “German victory is self-evident, we don’t discuss the prospect of victory—it is before us to grasp—it is here.” The speech was delivered before 2 heiling audience of fledgling air- men on the heels of another German bombing sortie against the British naval anchorage at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands. Addresses Youth. told propaganda | officers last night, “the will of the | New Aerial Atfack :On British Convoy \Reported by Nazis German Warplane Shot Down Off Northeast Coast, Say English - REYNAUD FACES TASK of dickly composing all cabinet divergences; relations no better with Daladier, whose party still holds aloof. Page A-4 “Germany will strike a deadly | BRITAIN REFUSES recognition of blow when Hitler is determined to | end the war,” Marshal Goering told the nation. (and Europe over all German radio stations) in his one- hour address to an audience of Hit- ler youth assembled in the Air Min- istry’s festival hall. Marshal Goering indicated that the Fuehrer has a lightning war— like that used to crush the Polish armies—in store for his British and French enemies. The war was “forced upon Ger- many,” he asserted, ‘“but we smashed the Polish Army in 18| days * * *. We struck a blow which our enemy will hardly for- get. “When the time comes we shall | strike a blow at the western pow- | ers with the same strength.” Speech Radioed to Schools. Frenzied “heils” from the assem- bled youth marked Marshal Goe- ring’s pronouncements. He empha- sized his points by pounding on the table in front of him. A radio hookup carried the field marshal’s words to all German schools. Marshal Goering said that the Reich had no threat at her rear (apparently a reference to the Ger- man-Russian non-aggression pact) Marshal Goering appealed to Ger- man yjuth to contribute in spirit and deed to the “biggest German victory.” He lauded them”as the bearers of German “greatness, honor and liberty.” He expressed the opinion that vic- tory would be comparatively easy because the Reich is, he said, fully prepared inwardly and outwardly, in both military and economic ways. Outlines Rise to Power. ‘The marshal outlined the rise to power of the Nazi party and its leader, Hitler, culminated in 1933, saying that then the odds before that year were against it because the country seemed hopelessly split into many camps. But, he added: “As we won the internal struggle 80 we shall certainly win this exter- nal fight “I personally hold the opinion that the internal struggle, though fought by different methods, was more difficult than our present fight” Yolunteers Reach France PARIS, April 3 (P —Seventeen young American college men, 12 of them from Harvard, arrived today to serve with the ambulance corps of the American field service. The News of the Day The Star every evening and Sunday morning is in the homes of the people of Wash- ington and suburbs who shop in Washington stores. These families read The Star during the leisure hours for a full and reliable account of all of the news of the day and to see what the Stores have to offer. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Evening Star. 2nd Newspaper._. 3rd Newspaper._ 4th Newspaper Yesterday’s Circulation The Evening Star Tuesday, April 2, 1940 158407* Tuesday, April 4, 1939_153,894* ‘Wang regime in China; Far East policy is unchanged, Butler tells Commons. Page A-4 SCANDINAVIAN STATES divided on effect of tighter blockade; Danes see new war of nerves; Nor- wegians optimistic. Page A-5 BY the Associated Press. German and British warplanes fought over the North Sea today, the Nazi official news agency claim- ing the Reich's warplanes had “suc- cessfully” attacked merchant ships in a British convoy this noon and the British Air Ministry announcing that a German plane was shot down off Britain’s northeast coast shortly before 1 p.m. A British Spitfire plane—said to be the first British fighter shot down in the defense of the British coast since the war began—was the victim of an engagement with a German Heinkel plane off the coast of York- shire. The convoy attack, D. N. B. (German news agency) said, oc- curred in the northern part of the North Sea, but there was no ampli- fication of the dispatch, which came soon after a German high command communique reported success in a new air raid last night on Scapa Flow. The convoy attack today was the second in two days. The British Ad- miralty declined to comment on the DNB announcement. Besides the German raider which was shot down—the 51st German aircraft listed by the Air Ministry as felled along Britain’s coast since the war began—British planes pur- sued a bomber believed to be Ger- man which flew over the Shetland Islands. Nazis Shot Down on Front. Both British and French reported having brought down German planes on the western front. The French officially declared their planas had downed two Nazi planes and perhaps a third, but there wuas uncertainty as to how many the British accounted for. The Royal Air Force headquarters in France announced that two Ger- man planes had been driven down and one of its own machines shot down in an air battle over the Saar River sector, but unofficial reports in Paris credited the British with destroying three Messerschmidts out of a squadron of nine. One French plane was forced to land in Lux- embourg, the French command said. Whether the R. A. F. headquarters and the Paris sources were referring to the same aerial action was not clear. The German high command com- munique today reported that air fighting on the western front had resulted in the shooting down of three enemy planes while two Ger- man planes were said to be missing. Artillery exchanges were noted west of the Vosges Mountains in the Nied and Bitche sectors. British sea and shore defenses were on the alert following (See PLANES, Page A-3) Finland Not to Hold Olympics This Year By the Assoclated Press. HELSINKI, Finland, April 3— Antii Kukkonen, Minister of Educa- tion Propaganda, said today it would be impossible for Finland to organ- ize the Olympic games this year “because of the abnormal situation prevailing - between the great powers.” Bulletin The Senate this afternoon de- feated, 42 to 35, the La Follette amendment to require public hearings on the detailed items in ® Returns from newsstands not de- ducted and ne returns included, 4 reciprocal trade agreements be- fore they are put into effect. | Comics Reed of New York Balks At Census Income Questions ¥ By the Assoctated Press. Representative Reed, Republican, | of New York refused today to answer census questions regarding his in- come, but Census Bureau officials, undisturbed, said they would fill in the answers for him. “To answer such questions would be in violation of my oath of of- fice,” said Mr. Reed in returning his absentee census form to the su- pervisor at Jamestown, N. Y. He not been sanctioned by Congress. i The first question he protested asked whether his salary was over $5,000; the other asked whether he had $50 income from other sources. Since a Representative’s salary is $10.000 and his mileage and other Psllownnces exceed $50, the Census Bureau knew the answers in any event. Public Is Co-operating. Officials said it was part of stand- ing instructions to enumerators to fill in, when they can, whatever in- formation they fail to get from citi- zens, As for private citizens, the bureau said jubilantly that not one case of resistance to questions had developed REPRESENTATIVE REED. - so far in the decennial nose-count- ing which began yesterday. “It's almost too good to be true,” said one official after checking prin- cipal citf®s by telephone. He and others had been worried about the Ppublic’s possible reaction to criticism of some questions as too personal. The census takers hit their stride todav—all except a few with tired feet in Pittsburgh who quit because there were “too many hills.” The enumerators—more than 120,000 of them—took the field yes- terdey and found that infinite va- riety went with the job of counting noses at 4 cents per. Some Queries Baffle President. The Nation's No. 1 citizen, Presi- dent Roosevelt, didn’t come off with flying colors. He knew most of the answers but there were some about White House servants, agricultural matters at his Hyde Park estate and other details of the two estab- lishments that stumped him. He had to refer them to aides. Census Director William L. Austin “counted” the President in person, assisted by Raymond C. Connelly, a district enumerator. Vice President Garner had no trouble. Not satisfied with reporting there was no mortgage on his prop- erty, he volunteered: “I don't owe nobody anything except love and affection.” Census officials reported they en- countaged little difficulty arising from the campaign of Senator Tobey, Republican, of New Hampshire, who has been criticizing the questions on earnings as an invasion of privacy. In speeches he has urged people to refuse to supply the income informa- tion. Speech Helped, Says Official. William F. Lehmann, Detroit area manager, said he thought Senator Tobey's final speech Monday night “was a help rather than a hindrance to us.” The only large “revolt” threat re- ported was in Lawrence, Mass., where women who had listened to Senator Tobey planned a “silence strike.” It collapsed when the dis- trict superior explained to the women the purpose of the census and the secrecy in which informa- tion is held. New Hampshire, Senator Tobey’s (See CENSUS, Page A-3.) Hoare Declared Slated To Become Air Chief .By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 3.—The authorita- tive Press Association said today that it is expected that Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Privy Seal, will succeed Sir Kingsley Wood as Air Minister in a forthcoming shuffie of the cabinet, The association said it believed that cabinet change would be an- nounced almost immediately. Sir Arthur Salter is considered the most likely successor to Sir John Gilmour, who died Saturday, as Minister of Shipping. Summary of Page. Amusements, B-10 B-18-19 Editorials . A-10 Page. Obituary - A-12 Radio . _...B-18 Serial Story B-13 Society .. ._ B-3 Sports _.A-15-17 Woman'’s Page, B-12 Finance . .A-14 Lost, Found, B-13 Foreign Germans report new air attack on British convoy. Page A-1 Reich ready for “blitzkrieg” in West, Goering says. Page A-1 ‘Yugoslavs O.K. use of waters by Nazi ships. Page A-2 Reynaud faces task of composing cabinet rift. Page A-4 Recognition of Wang regime refused by Britain. Page A-4 Scandinavians divided on tighter blockade effect. Page A-§ National Army appropriation cut $67,000,000 by Housg group. Page A-1 Boston Communist refuses to answer Dies Committee. Page A-1 Wisconsin vote seen setback to third- term drive. Page A-1 Congressional move to question Bul- litt thwarted. Page A-8 Census takers find public generally co-operative. Page A-1 Hoyse group reports four Wagner Act amendments. Page A-1 Cleanup forces end Pendergast rule in Kansas. Page A-3 8 said the two income queries had| Wisconsin Voie Is Held Setback For Third Term Dewey Stock Boosted; Roosevelt Defeat Seen In Vote for Garner NEW YORK.—Roosevelt delegation seen assured as Garner forces lose to organization; Dewey wins only G. O. P. contest. Page A-3 KANSAS CITY.—Fusion forces end Pendergast rule, electing Mayor, Judges, seven of eight councilmen. Page A-3 By G. GOULD LINCOLN, Star Staff Correspondent. MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 3— Thomas E. Dewey, New York’s tight- ing district attorney, stands today the leading contender for the Re- publican presidential nomination as a result of his victory yesterday in the Wisconsin contest for dele- gates to the Republican National Convention. On the basis of returns from 2,079 of the State's 3,011 precincts, the slate pledged to the New York prose- cutor was running an average of 60,- 000 votes ahead of that pledged to Senator Vandenberg of Michigan in the four delegates at large races. Comparable leads were reported from the district, contests. The Roosevelf’ third term drive, on the other hand, met a distinct check. For while the President defeated Vice President Garner, both in the presidential preference vote and in the battle for delegates to the National Committee, the Garner vote approximated 30 per Democratic primary. President Roosevelt polled 209,071 65,522 in 2,028 precincts. The Garner vote was entirely an anti-third term vote, for that was nerites against the President. Roosevelt Defeat Seen. If anything like that percentage of the vote in the Democratic party for a third term in other States, elected, but would be decisively beaten next November, should he run. The ousting veteran Socialist Mayor Hoan, in favor of his 32-year-old Republican opponent, Carl F. Zeidler, was regarded today as another sign that the swing away from the “left” is not only continu-~ ing, but has gained momentum. The vote in the Republican primary ran well up with that in the Democratic primary, reversing what happened in the presidential pri- mary of 1936, when Mr. Roosevelt of Milwaukee's Senator Borah in votes cast. four candidates for delegate at large pledged to Dewey ran far ahead of the slate committed to Senator Vandenberg. The vote in 1,860 precincts stood: Dewey slate—Secretary of State Zimmerman, 128,465; Ralph Nelson, 114,541; Quincy Hale, 109,339; Al- bert J. O'Melia, 107,038. Vandenberg slate—Lt. Gov. Wal- ter Goodland, 76,601; Fred H. Claus- sen, 69288; Edward Richardson, 69.257; Michael G. Eberlein, 66,584. Incomplete returns from the dis- trict deiegate races showed Mr. Dewey threatened with the loss of only 1 of the 20 seats. He was assured of 14 seats and his candi- dates were leading those of Sen- ator Vandenberg in five other con- tests. Not Directly Entered. Senator Vandenberg and Mr. Dewey were not entered in the presidential preference vote. Although the President led Mr. Garner by about 3 to 1 in the preference vote, entry of rival Roose- velt delegate slates gave the Vice President a chance to win two dis- trict delegate contests. Four delegate at large posts were split between the Roosevelt-Farlgy ticket, indorsed by National Com- (See POLITICS, Page A-3.) Bulletin CLEVELAND, April 3 (#).—An Army pursuit ship from Selfridge Field, Mich., crashed in flames into the side of a house in sub- urban Euclid, killing the pilot, to- day. The plane carried the Army identification PA-T1. Today’s Star Garner forces lose to organization in New York. Page A-3 Waterway expenditures threaten economy setback. Page A-§ Washington and Vicinity Arlington federation asks M street parking restrictions. Page B-1 List of “fire traps” in District de- manded by Schulte. Page B-1 Wy Editorial and Comment This and That. Answers to Questions. Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Alsop and Kintner. Frederic William Wile. Charles G. Ross. Jay Franklin. Sports Griff sure Vernon will star after year on farm. Page A-17 Hoppe earns 3-cushion cue title at age of 52. ~ Page A-17 Chavez may fight Scalzo here if Perrin can't be signed. Page A-18 Pose, Argentine golfer, serious threat in Masters’ Tourney Page A-19 Miscellany Nature’s Children. Service Orders. Bedtime Story. ‘Winning Contract. Letter-Out. Uncle Ray's Corner. Cross-Word Puszle. Vltll’ Statistics, Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 cent of the total vote cast in the ! votes to Vice President Garner’s | | fined and given short jail sentences | the sole issue made by the Gar-| refuses to support the President | the President not only could not be | had a tremendous lead over the late | In the Republican primary, the | ¢ Foening Star WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1940—FORTY PAGES. () Means As: sociated P THREE CENTS. Old Faithful Spouts on Schedule Post-Dispatch Is Fined $2,000), Labor Relations Bill Staffmen Sentenced to Jail Editor Coghlan, Cartoonist Fitzpatrick ‘ Found in Contempt; Managing Editor Escupes‘ | BY the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, April 3.—The Post- Dispatch was fined $2,000 and two | executives of the newspaper were today by Circuit Judge Thomas J.| Rowe, who found them in contempt | of court for editorially criticizing dismissal of an extortion case in his | court. The individuals were Ralph Cogh- lan, editor of the editorial page, who | was fined $200 and sentenced to 20 days, and Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, na- tionally known cartoonist, $100 fine | and 10 days in jail. A contempt citation issued against Managing Editor Ben H. Reese was dismissed on the ground he had no responsibility for the editorial com- ment. Joseph Pulitzer, president of the Pulitzer Publishing Co., publishers | in of the Post-Dispatch, appeared in court to answer for the company. | | a three-hour trip—to file it with Mr. Coghlan and Mr. F{tzpatn’ck; were immediately taken into custody | by the sheriff. Mr. Pulitzer issued a | statement in which he said: “The is- | sue will be carried to the Supreme Court of Missouri.” i Attorneys for the newspaper pre- | | pared an application for a writ of habeas corpus and were to drive to the State capitol at Jefferson City— | the Supreme Court. | Judge Rowe told Jacob M. lLashly, | one of the newspaper's attorneys, | he had no desire “to rush them to | Jail.” Sheriff James J. Fitzsimmons | previously had told the defendsnis | that if a sentence was imposd he would not take them to jail un:il their attorneys had time to act.| After the sentence he took them to his office in the Civil Courts Build- | 8. Twor editorials and a cartoon (See POST DISPATCH, Page A-4) | N.L.R.B. CanCompel Written Contract, Court Declares Sixth U. S. Circuit Ruling Reverses Stand in Seventh By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, April 3.—Reversing 8 stand taken by the Seventh United States Circuit Court of Appeals in denying a National Labor Board order against the Inland Steel Co., the Sixth Circuit tribunal today held the N. L. R. B. could compel a written contract between employer and employe in matters of col- lective bargaining. = Granting an_inforcement decree against the H. J. Heinz Co. of Pitts- burgh, Pa, the court cited the In- land Steel decision ot January 9, but also two others—by the Second and Fourth Circuits—in which the opposite view was taken. “We are in accord with the rea- soning and the conclusions reached by the Second and Fourth Circuits,” said today's unanimous decision, “and therefore approve the board’s conclusion that respondent (Heinz) violated (sections of the Wagner Act) by not embodying the under- standings reached in a signed agree- ment.” The Tth Circuit Court held the Wagner Act was “barren of any express language requiring a signed agreement.” Commenting on this in today’s opinion, Judge Herschel W. Arant wrote that “if the view of the Tth Circuit were accepted it does not follow that the board's order is invalid. We are of the opinion that the order is more obviously Jus- tified (by a section) which requires the poard, when it has found an employer guilty of an unfair labor practice, to serve an order requir- ing such persons to cease and de- sist * * * and take such affirma- tive action * * * as will effectuate the (statutory) policies * * *” The court also said that a com- pany’s “refusal to execute a writ- ten agreement at the request of the union * * may well have left employes suspicious of its good faith and with a sense of insecurity.” ‘Whether written agreements must culminate collective bargaining has been & matter of dispute. This was a principal issue of the “Little Steel” strike of 1937. Today’s decision affirmed an order against H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh. The National Labor Relations Board had instructed the company to cease alleged domination of an inde- pendent organization and to desist from refusal to bargain with the A. F. of L. Canning and Pickle Workers’ Union. The court noted that the general plant superintend- ent and foremen engaged in “con- duct antagonistic” to the union. Permanent Invalids Wed GLENDALE, Calif., April 3 (P— Romance hurdled a major obstacle as Miss Louise Lorene Jones, 29, and Walter E. Ulrich, 38, both ad- mittedly permanent invalids, were married in & wheelchair ceremony. Dies Probe Witness Refuses to Identify Harvard Communist Young Boston Red Leader Says Student Would Be Put ‘Under Pressure’ By the Associated Press. The Dies committee met defiance today from a young Communist | leader, Thomas O'Dea of Boston, who refused to disclose the name of the secretary of the Young Commu- nist League at Harvard University. The witness appeared before the committce as president of the Young Communist League of Massachu- setts. Although the committee previously had voted contempt citations against other Communist leaders who re- fused to give information and the House had taken steps toward prose- cutions, O'Dea did not hesitate a moment when J. B. Matthews, com- mittee investigator, asked him for the name of the league secretary at Harvard. “I refuse to answer because it would subject that person to eco- nomic pressure,” he declared. “He would be deprived of the opportu- nity to obtain employment and his rights under the Constitution would be violated.” The Young Communist League leader flew here last night, at the expense of the Dies Committee, with two other Boston Commun- ists summoned by the committee for questioning. ‘With him came blond Miss Anne Burlak, administrative secretary of the Communist party in New Eng- land, and Philip Frankfeld, execu- tive secretary. Took Course in Printing. O'Dea was the first witness. He said he had gone eight years to St. Joseph's School in Amesbury, Mass,, and was graduated fram the high school there in 1933. He was without work for a year and then went for two years to Wentworth With 4 Amendments Reported fo House Smith Group Also Will Push Own Measure By Petition BACKGROUND— Smith committee in House has been investigating National La- bor Relations Board since last fall, with public hearings in progress from time to time be- tween December 18 and Feb- ruary 28. In preliminary report majority of commitiee recom- mended drastic changes in Wag- ner Act. House Labor Commit- tee has been considering these and other amendments. By CARTER BROOKE JONES. The House Labor Committee re- ported out today a bill proposing four amendments to the Wagner Act. The amendments would give a majority of any craft union the right to recognition as a bargaining agency; allow employers to petition for employe elections to settle dis- putes between unions: increase the membership of the National Labor Relations Board to five members, and uphold contracts already en- tered into between employer and workers. The committee voted to approve a bill which Chairman Norton had just introcuced as a parliamentary maneuver. This embodied (ne amendments ¢ »hich the cominit tee had agreed. Meanwhile the * ing committee, w bill providing mor e amend- ments to the Labor Ac’ —inecluding abolition of the prescnt board and substitution of a new three-man board and separatien of the prose- cuting and judicial functions of the tribunal—made plans ‘o bring up its measure by petition of the Fouse membership. Mrs, Norton to Push Measure. Mrs. Norton announced after tae executive meeting of her committee that she would, as instructed by the committee, first seek to pass the measure under suspension of the rules. Failing in that, the would exhaust every other means, she said, first asking the Rules Committee for a closed rule under which the bili could be considered withcut amendment. ‘The vote on approval of the Nor- ton bill was 13 to 8. Representative Hoffman, Repub- lican, of Michigan, made & futile ef- fort to insert an amendment to abolish the present board. Another amendment which lost, proposed by Representative Rams- peck, Democrat, of Georgia, would have included in the Wagrer Act the definition of an agricultural worker contained in the Social Security Act. A motion by Representative Rams- peck, which the committee approved, instructed the chairman to use all possible parliamentary procedure to get the bill considered by the House. While Mr. Ramspeck took the position that this superceded an adopted motion by Representative Welch, Republican, of California yesterday, instructing the chairman to ask suspension of the rules, Chair- man Norton said the suspension was the first “parliamentary procedure” to be tried. “And the chairman will use that method first,” she added. “Would you say,” a newspaperman Th investgnt- 1o a (See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-3.) (See LABOR BOARD, Page A-12) Notes Scattered by Fire Here Land New York The “gold notes” scattered here by the Post Office Department fire several years ago have landed a 34-year-old securities broker behind the bars in New York. Used by the Treasury during the World War as gold transfer certifi- cates, the pieces of paper, in $10,000 denominations, have bobbed up in- termittently over the country since the fire, lending false hopes ot sudden riches to those into whose hands they came. They were in old General Accounting Office rec- ords raked by the fire and had been canceled. In New York, last night, the As- sociated Press said, Louis Spinelli, the broker, was charged with at- tempted grand larceny after police reported he Broker in Jail “notes” with a supposed value of $30,000 in a business deal He said he purchased them from a “refugee” for $15,000. Detective Robert Kelly of the bomb and forgery squad, who ar- rested Mr. Spinelli in his East Forty- second street office, said the broker gave the three notes to an out-of- town business man who was seek- ing to negotiate a loan, with the understanding that the business man would sell them. Instead, the businessman, whose identity was not revealed, went immediately to police. Mr. Spinelli, asserted De- tective Kelly, has been arrested five times, once on a homicide charge, but never convicted. The Detective said Mr. Spinelli was wanted by Reading (Pa.), police as a fugitive. » Army Funds Cut §67,357,660 by House Group Alaskan Air Base And 439 Planes Deleted From Bill By the Associated Press. The House Appropriations Com= mittee, source of most of this ses- sion’s economy moves, recommended to the House today an Army appro- priation of $785.999.094—a sum $67.- 357,660 below President Roosevelt’s recommendations. In addition to that reduction, the committee also cut $42,840,500 from the $87.780,500 in contractual au- thority sought by the War Depart- ment for the fiscal year starting July 1. “The committee does not believe that the accompanying measure may be further appreciably reduced without doing actual hurt to the military establishment,” the group told the House. Elimination of $12,734,060 for a proposed cold weather air training base at Anchorage, Alaska, and of all but 57 of 496 new airplanes sought for a so-called “rotating ree serve” accounted for more than half the cut in budget recommend- ations. New Weapons Provided. On the other hand, the Army ap- propriation measure as recommend- ed by the committee would provide $103,710,000 for new equipment—de- scribed by Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, as the Army’s “great objective.” This total included $61,~ 250,000 for “critical” needs such as anti-aircraft artillery, semi-auto- matic rifles, tanks. anti-tank guns and artillery; $12,000000 for sea coast defenses, including fixed and mobile guns; $18,500,000 for augmen- tation and replacement of motor vehicles for both the Regular Army :and National Guard, $2,260,000 for | harbor defense boats, Air Corps | crash boats and similar craft used | by the Army and $9,700,000 for air- | planes for both the Regular Army | and National Guard. | Congress learned the “carrying charges” of the expanding Army Air Corps would total $1,180,000,000 for the next five years. Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Air Corps, gave that esti- mate to a House Military Appropria- tions Subcommittee during testi- mony on the War Department's | budget for the year starting July 1. The record was made public today. Gen. Marshall told the subcoms Mittee earlier that any major de- “velopments in the European War | “should be paralleled by added pre- | cautions in this country.” Marshall Asks Safeguards. “If the situation grows more desperate,” he recommended, “we | should add to the numbers of sea- soned troops in the Regular Army and to the strength of the National Guard. If Europe blazes in the late | spring or summer, we must put our | house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere.” Gen. Marshall emphasized, how- | ever, that procurement of “critical” | cquipment such as ammunition, | semi-zutomatic rifles, tanks and ar= | tilery for a force of 1000000 men was the Army’s “great objective” jand should take precedence over personnel increases. The Army’s top-ranking officer testified that $316,000,000 would be required for the purpose. Of that amount, he said, $76,000.000 would be needed to complete the “critical” equipment of the Regular Army and National Guard at their present strength. Only $37,000,000 was asked at this time, Gen. Arnold flatly declared the Army’s planes were costing too much and said the Air Corps recently gave the National Academy of Sciences a contract to “get the best brains in the country to go to work on that one problem of how to get cheaper airplanes.” Citing one instance where the war abroad had contributed to higher (See APPROPRIATIONS, Page A-4) Two Killed as Navy Plane Crashes Near Norfolk By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., April 3.—A Navy scout bomber crashed “wide open” today on a concrete road ig Norfolk County, killing its two occupants. The fiyers, from the Norfolk Naval Air Station, were K. L. Willingham, aviation chief metalsmith, and P. Delsatti, aviatfon machinist, third class. A witness said the ship plummeted vertically from about 600 feet and the pilot opened the throttle midway in what appeared an efort to bring it out of the dive. The plane was being piloted by Willingham. Delsatti was in the rear seat as a passenger. ‘Willingham, the Navy Department said, was a native of Akron, Ala, and had been in the service since May, 1924. Delfatti, who was born in Klamath Falls, Oreg., enlisted in November, 1936. Delfatti is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Delfatti of Norfolk. "Perseveres’ in Peace, Turkey Tells Brifain By the Associated Press. ANKARA, April 3—Turkey told Great Britain today she “perseveres in her decision to remain outside the war.” The Turkish pesition was outlined by President Ismet Inonu and For- eign Minister Sukru Saracoglu in a 90-minute conference with the Brit- ish Ambassador, Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen, who is leav- ing for London soon to report. An officlal spokesman said the Ambassador was informed that “Turkey does not intend to enter war against Russia” and that she 1s “firmly determined to live peace- fully and work for the maintenance of peace.”