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Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight, with minimum about 35; - moderate northwest winds. Tempera- tures today—Highest, 55, at midnight; lowest, 46, at 10:30 a.m.; 50 at 2 p.m. From the United States Weather Bureau report. T hetuils"on Puver A" Closing New York Markets, Page 20. 88th YEAR. No. 35,038. Roosevelt Split With Garner on Trade Act Seen President Opposes One-Year Limitation . To Agreements Law BACKGROUND— In 1937 Congress extended to June 12, 1940, administration’s authority to megotiate reciprocal trade agreements without con- gressional ratification. Opposi- tion to low-tariff aspects of pacts developed last summer, chiefly "in agricultural West. President Roosevelt has emphasized need for program as fundamental part of foundation of any world peace. By J. A. O'LEARY. A split between President Roose- velt and Vice President Garner over & proposal to limit extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act to one year was seen today as the President told reporters he believed it would be very harmful to the Nation if the trade agreements ex- tension bill were so limited. The Chief Executive spoke at & press conference shortly after it was reported on excellent authority that Vice President Garner was supporting a one-year limit amend- ment. Administration supporters in the Senate predicted they would be able to defeat the last-minute effort to limit the extension bill, and as de- bate was resumed at 11 o'clock this morning they still hoped to pass late today the resolution extending the rct for three years. There was a bare possibility the fight over the one- year limit and other remaining amendments might force a Saturday session. Opposes Battles Every Year. Mr. Roosevelt said it was not good for the country to have a scrap over tariffs coming up every year. Such a scrap, he said, is essentially what is involved in discussiens in Congress of the Trade Agreements Act. In the first year of whatever ad- ministration is in power in 1841, he said, it would be very harmful to the whole United States te have to bring up the trade agreément issue again. | That was true, he declared, whether | it would be a Republican or Demo- | cratic administration, a Republican | or Democratic Congress, and regard- less of who the individual may be | who will head the national adminis- | tration next year. ‘When a tariff is up for considera- tion, he said, agriculture and in- dustry are in a state of confusion because they do .not know what-is going to be done, and economic activity of the country feels the effect. The President told reporters he had heard yesterday afternoon of a | proposal in the Senate to limit to 3 « LOS ANGELES. — SURVIVE Britain and France May Create Joint Parliament Aim Would Be Pagtfi?rship “*No Aggressbr-Wield.. Dare to Chalfenge’ i By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 5—The possibil- L 2 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. SLAVGHTER — Eleven-year-old Chloe Davis and her father, Barton Davis, grocery manager, shown last night aftéer the child had been questioned on:the slaying of her mother, two sisters and a brother. —A. P. Wirephotos. -, 6irl Coolly Describes Hammer-Slaying of Four in Family " "Precocious, Slang-Talking Child Blames Mother or-Two Killings By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 5—Chloe British Bomb Warships af German Base ~ Damage Is Believed’ Caused to Four At Wilhelmshaven By the Associated Press, LONDON, April 5.—British air- craft bombed a formation in the Jade estuary ‘'Thursday afternoon, the Air Ministry announced today, with damage to four destroyers be- lieved caused. The Jade estuary is at the en- trance to the strategic North Sea German base of Wilhelmshaven, which the British also scouted. The ~Air Ministry’s communique said: “During yesterday afternoon a formation of British aircraft of the bomber command penetrated the enemy defenses in the Jade Estuary and successfully reconnoitergd the naval base of Wilhelmshaven. “An enemy warship was observed near Wilhelmshaven and attacked with bombs. Farther south four enemy destroyers were also attacked and damage was believed to have been done. “No damage or casualties were suffered by the British aircraft, all | of which returned safely to their! base.” Nazi Patrol Attacks Repulsed, Say French PARIS, April 5 (#).—Repulse of at- tacks by reinforced German patrols on French outposts between the Nied and Saar Rivers yesterday was reported today by French militaty sources, which also noted lively ar- tillery exchanges in several sectors. The dispatches made no mention of casualties in infantry skirmishes, but acknowledged that four men had been killed by German artillery fire in the Nied-Saar sector. (The German high command said that about 15 French sol- diers were killed by German shock troops in a raid near ‘Saarlautern, which is between the Nied and Saar Rivers.) Heavy artillery fire from m sides, was reported east of the 3 sefle River on the extreme northefft of the front. Along the Rhin& German loudspeakers. continued to| blare pacifist propaganda at the French lines, The French high command’s morning communique said merely: | “Nothing to report.” 15 Frenchmen Reported Slain. BERLIN, April 3 (#).—Some 15 ‘| French soldiers. ‘were -killed 1 a | skirmisty’ with German sheck troops hich raided an _enem{ position ;;nn Seazlau @ the western| font, ‘the- Ge?‘?ln ‘higheomitand | reported today. DNB, official German news agency, described the fighting as “vesy bloody,” but said the Nazi casualties THE PR BETTER OR WE SEPARATELY ¢ ESIDENT St AVORITE = BUT GARNERS PoLLs ENo By NELSON SHEPARD. Secretary Ickes’ search for a man with sufficient “iron in his veins” to fill the vacated post of director of the Bureau of Mines in the In- terior Department has ended, it was announced today, with the appoint- ment of Dr. R. R. Sayers of the United States Public Health Service as acting director. Dr. Sayers was named to succeed Dr. John W. Finch, director of the bureau since 1833, the circumstances of “whose resignation and “accept- ance of it last January 31 caused dhe of Ahe loudest repercussions in the Interior Department since Mr. Ickeés- took office, the former Bureau of Mines di- ‘In_acéepling the resignation of | Il ) ( “‘ Dr. Sayers Named Director Of Bureau of Mines Public Health Service Senior Surgeon Takes Post Vacated by Dr. Finch | a noted mining expert, Secretary | | Ickes said he had done so because | | Dr. Finch did not have “enough iron in his veins” to control his own bureau. He charged a “littls clique” of civil service men ap- | pointed by former President Hoover Wwas running the bureau. Resident of Alexandria. The new acting director, whose home is in Alexandria, Va. has been a senior surgeon of the Public Health Service, in which he has served since 1914. Mr. Ickes an- nounced he is to take over his new position immediately. Dr. Sayers { s being “detailed” by President Roosevelt on the recommendation of the Secretary. _Dr. Sayers comes to the bureau (See MINES, Page A-4) rector, who was & Republican and Pelley lose;;;flfl tAgainshExtradifion; Lawyer fo Appeal _ Writ of Habeas Corpus Boston Communists Arresied for Defying Dies Commitiee Frankfeld and O’'Dea ‘From Press to Home Within the Hour’ Most people in Washington have The Star delivered to their homes every evening and Sunday morning, THREE CENTS. MAY BoTH mzuc President Would Let 'Bureaus Operate Free \0f Curb by Courls Speed Is Sacrificed, He Says, When Usual Procedure Is Followed | | By JOHN C. HENRY. | President Roosevelt today inter- posed an implied objection to the | pending Logan-Walter bill provid- | ing for broadened judicial review of the operation of certain quasi- Judicial Government organizations. | In discussing the bill at a press conference, Mr. Roosevelt empha- sized that he has not read the meas- | ure itself and is unaware of its | present status. He made clear, | however, that he feels there are certain objections to submitting ad- ‘mimstrative agencies of the Gov- ernment to continuing restrictive | action by the courts. In amplifying his position, he de- clared his feeling that if depart- ments of the Government, includ- ing the quasi-judicial agencies, are | required to transact all their bu | ness in accordance with the usual practices and procedures of party with the most money oppor- tunity to slow up procedure to an unconscionable degree. the | courts it would result in giving the | In courts | U. . Proposes Arbitration on 0il With Mexico Note Delivered to Ambassador Here For Settlement BACKGROUND— Controversy has smoldered be= tween United States and Mezico since latter’s seizure in March, 1938, of foreign-owned oil prop- erties in carrying out nationali- zation of country’s resources. American Government urged oil companies to seck settlement di- rectly with Mexico. Agreement has never been reached either on plan for co-operative working of the properties or on evaluation. United States has warned Mezico that continuance of dispute may seriously disturb American-Mez- ican relations. By the Associated Press. Secretary Hull said today the United States had proposed arbi- tration to Mexico to settle the two- year-old dispute over Mexico's expropriation of American oil prop- erties. Mr. Hull said a note had been delivered by the State Department to the Mexican Ambassador, Cas- tillo Najera, to this effect. Beyond saying that the note sug- gested arbitration, Mr. Hull said he could not go into any details con- nected with it. The State Department head said { he could not say whether any ob- servations had been received from Mexico on the subject. The United States and Mexico are signatories of the 1929 inter-Amer- ican treaty of conciliation and arbitration. The United States proposed the same method in 1938 to Mexico to setile the controversy over the ex- | propriation of American agrarian Eprupeme:_ Mezxico replied then by | suggestirg instead that a joint | commission evaluate the claims and | fix the compensation. The State De- | partment agreed to this. The oil controversy has been car- ried on since March, 1938, when the expropriation decree was put into effect. The two large American | oil groups interested in Mexico, the | Standard Oil of New Jersey and | the Sinclair. carried on direct ne- | gotiations with the Mexican govern- | ment which thus far have been un- | successful, Mezico contends that the oil ques- tion is a domestic matter and not ubject to international action. The | Mexican Supreme Court has upheld | the expropriation and ordered evaiue ation and compensation for the properties within 10 years. Evaluation is now under way by | Mexico alone, the oil companies have ing declined to participate in the | of law. he pointed out, there are | either a plaintiff and defendant or | a prosecutor and defendant and. by the system in effect. either of | ‘t_hese parties can prevent expedi- | tious disposition of the court’s busi- | | Davis, 11, described by an amazed ity of a joint Parliament to eap| : Z: o 1 growing British-French unity. was | psychiatrist s “the cmelest-blooded,-] eral wounded. H mentioned today as the allies drove | coolest individual I ever met,” told.| It said also that German engineers forward with their plans to buy' up| police today with a mixture, of slang | had hauled 325 French freight car: German markets. thiey.cannot bottle | that 'she beat to death her mother | and 4 locomotives into German ter work. one year extension of the system of negotiating tariff reductions by international agreements. National Good Pointed Out. were limited to one dead and sev- Dismissed' priso"er (Ordered Remanded Seized for Refusing To Answer Questions Mauretania Is Efited 1t is best to talk about the pro- posal, Mr. Roosevelt asserted, from what ‘he called a novel point of view in Washington in a campaign year—the point of view of the na- tional good. That 1s almost unheard of, he said, | and takes the trend of thought back | to something almost overlooked in these days—the national good re- | gardless of party. We all know, he continued, that tariffs are a headache to any Con- gress and any party. If tariff con- siderations are recurring every year, | he said it would be a very bad thing | for the country as every oné had | seen what happened during fariff debates, Regardless of party, the Chief Ex- ecutive said, the bill in its present form seems to him to be a very good thing for the country. A reporter re- marked that a one-year extension would not disturb the present trade agreements, of which 22 are in ef- fect. No, Mr. Roosevelt agreed, but it would bring up the subject next Yyear. Shortly after the President had spoken against the one-year amend- ment at the White House, Senator ‘Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts, who will sponsor it, announced he | will do so “as a friend of the tem- | porary continuation of the recipro- cal trade agreements authority rath- er than as an opponent.” “This debate and the various votes | with respect to this matter have already clearly evidenced that & majority is unwilling to deny an extension of the ex- isting delegation of authority from the Congress to the Executive, lest such a denial might be taken as a vote of censure of the reciprocal trade agreements program and a re- buke to the President and to Secre- Gas Company Coniract Boosts Pay Roll $125,000 A new wage scale, carrying a total annual increase of $125,000 for 1,503 employes; will be put into effect by the Washington Cas Light Co. April | 14 as the result of a new contract signed with the District of Colum- bia Gas Workers’ Union, it was learned today. ‘The highest wage increase is a S-cent-an-hour raise for the com- pany’s outside workers. Every em- ploye except those in a supervisory capacity is affected. The union is an independent union modeled on the industrial scale, taking into membership all the company’s work- ers, meter-readers, gasmakers, serv- ice men and the clerical staff. The union contract is a revision of an agreement originally reached between the company and the union in October, 1937, and amended an- nually since then. It was signed two days.ago by Marcy L. Sperry, president of the company; Magruder- W. Huff, president of the union, and Robert M. O’'Connor, secretary of the union. 2 up by blockade. A front page story in the Daily | Mail said the idep of a British- | French Parliament to- deal with broad questions of common concern: | already had been taken up, but that it still was in a visionary. stage. The newspaper, however, said dis- cussions were understood to- have taken place here and in Paris to at- tain the most intimate co-operation between the allies to fuse them “into one military and economic force not only during the war, but also when peace comes.” The objective, it said, is a per- manent partnership “which would make the two great empires so pow- erful a force for peace that no ag- gressor would dare challenge” it. Monnet to Confer With Cross. Georges Monnet, France’s new Minister of Blockade, was due here today to confer with Ronald H. Cross, British Minister of Economic Warfare, as the two nations united themselves even more closely in economics and culture. The Board of Trade disclosed they had reciprocated on increased facil- ities for importing the products of each other’s empires. Eudcation ex- perts studied ways of teaching French to British children and Eng- lish to French children. In secret session next Thursday, | the House of Commons will debate methods of plugging leaks in the blockade of Germany which Prime Minister Chamberlain said yesterday would “drain” the lifeblood out of our enemy.” Financial circles said that “Enco” —the Brtish official abbreviation for the English Commercial Corp., Ltd., Britain’s newest blockade weapon— would be a bold effort to recover trade lost to the Germans in the last 20 years by selling British products to Southeastern Europe and by buy- ing up supplies there that Germany wants for her war machine. Balkans Principal Sphere. The technique is patterned on that of the great trading companies which laid the foundations of Brit- ain’s commercial supremacy in-the 17th and 18th centuries. ‘The new trading corporation was announced in Parliament yesterday by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who said it was organized primarily to deal with the Balkans but would be authorized to trade anywhere. “Enco,” to be registered April 15 with Lord Swinton, former air min- ister, as chairman, is expected to be a permanent agency. Chiding Girl for Pose, Mother Finds Her Dead By the Associated Press. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, April 5.—Mrs. H. P. Hughes saw 2-year- old Carol Jean' lying at the curb and thought her daughter was play- ing a prank. “I'm going to spank you for get- ting dirty,” she called gaily. - Editorial and baby brother, but insisted the | -ritory from_an unspecified sector of _Justice Jesse C. Adkins in District Court* today dismissed a writ of fatal bludgeoning of two younger | no man’s land despite rails blown- ibaheas corpus and ordered William sisters was done previously by. the | mother, . | “. Intertuptlpg only to demand bottled beer and lemon pie, the 80- pound, strong-armed girl led ques- | tioning officers through conflicting | versions during which she referred |to her grocery manager father. as | “nuts” and her anemic mother as a believer in “demons.” § Police Capt, Edgar Edwards ex- pressed belief that the girl; ap avid book reader with the imaginative mind of a 16-year-old, alone was re- sponsible for the deaths of Mrs. Lolita Bjorkman Davis, 36; Daphne, 10; Deborah Ann, 7, and Marquis (Mark), 3, in the blood-spotted Davis home in Southwest Los An- geles yesterday. “Conked” Her Mother. The girl's latest story was that her mother killed the little girls, then tried to burn herself on a mat- tress but failed and Chloe then “conked” the woman with a claw- hammer at the mother’s request. After that the girl said she beat her moaning brother to death. The flippant sixth-grade youngster was held on a suspicion of murder booking after she unhesitatingly led officers through the rooms. Capt. Edwards said he anticipated an early solution of the death drama, with helpful questioning of the girl by her father, Barton Davis, 51, who moved here with his family five years ago from Grand Rapids, Mich. Once during the questioning the (See SLAYINGS, Page A-3.) up at 14 different points. . Ellicofl_(flty’ Fire Wrecks Four Buildings BY the Assoclafed Rrdss. > 1 05, s r %5 o ELLICOTT CITY, Md., April 5— Four bulldingd A" thé ‘business sec- tjon -were .wrecked today by wind- nnéd flm"&»flfil é}ogfl,l_fl persons from their quarters and block traffic on Frederick road and the Columbia pike. Five fire companies from Ellicott City, Catonsville, Savage and Jes- sups fought the blaze, which was discovered about daybreak by a Chinese laundryman. The fire affected an entire block, badly damaging a church. Dutch Tugboat Lost In German Mine Field By the Associated Press. MALMO, Sweden, April 5.—The Netherlands tugboat Hoek van Hol- land and three sand dredges today were reported “afloat but lost” in a German mine fleld off Trelleoorg on the Southern tip of Sweden, The entire crew of 14 was rescued by the German ferry boat Treussen Thursday night after a difficult en- counter with ice and high winds. Experts said the mine hazard was too great to attempt the recovery of the tug and her dredges and they might be sunk by mines. Summary of Page Radio - -C-10 Serial Story B-14 Society Page. Amusements, B-1€-17 Comics __C-10-11 -A-10 Finance ___.A-19 Lost, Found. C-6 Obituary .._A-12 Foreign British bomb Nazi destroyers at Wil- helmshaven. Page A-1 Britain and France may establish joint Parliament. Page A-1 France may make Red propaganda capital offense. Page A-3 ‘Yugoslavs reported refusing to guard Nazi ships. Page "A-4 Norwegian passenger ship bombed 8 times by Nazis. Page A-6 National : U. S. proposes arbitration of Mexi- can oil issue. Page A-1 President would let bureaus operate free of courts. Page A-1 Final vole due today on extending Trade Agreements Act. Page A-1 Silver Shirt leader loses extradition fight. Page A-1 Taft first choice of Ohio G. O. P., Service Orders. with Bricker second. Page A-2 But Carol Jean was dead—killed, by an automobile, Physiclans form group to study care for- needs. Page A-6 Today’s Star Pittman rejects plan to probe “white book” charges. Page A-5 Stassen denies attempt to influence delegation. Page A-9 Washington and Vicinity Record Army Day parade here to- morrow is predicted. Page B-1 Sports Masterson, scorned at start, now is impressive. Page C-1 Rocksie, Hi Ho and duel of riders spice horse show. Page C-2 Tech is hopeful, though diamond squad green. Page C-3 Editorial and Comment This and That. Answers to Questions, Letters to The Star. ‘David Lawrence. Alsop and Kinter. Frederic William Wile. Constantine Brown, Charles G. Raoes, Miscellany Vital Statistics. City News in Brief, Nature's Children, Page A-: Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 PageA-11 Page A-11 Page B-2 Page B-2 Page B-2 Page B-6 Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. Winning Contract. dley Pelley, Silver Shirt leader, reémarided to the North Carolina #uthorities. Pelley faces imposition of a sen- tence of one to two years, suspended five years ago, after he was con- victed of violating the State law against fraudulent sale of stock. Pelléy's “attorney, T. O'Conpell, announced he would ap- peal’ to the District Court of Ap- peals. Justice Adkins said Pelley could be released meanwhile on making a new appeal bond in the same amount of his present bond— $5,000. At one point in the closing argu- ments Mr. O’Connell became so vehement in pressing points which the court had excluded that Justice Adkins threatened him with con- tempt of court. ‘The decision followed a hearing which lasted most of two days. Indicated a Fugitive. Justice Adkins, in holding that Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat had been justified in ordering Pelley's extradition, said the record and Pelley’s own admission indicated he was a fugitive from North Carolina when his arrest first was sought last October. The defense had disputed this contention. Before giving his decision, Justice Adkins refused to permit Mr. O'Con- nell to question Chairman Dies on what defense lawyer called a “mysterious conspiracy to railroad” Pelley to jail. Representative Dies and Robert Barker, an investigator for the Dies Committee, had been subpoenaed this morning. They were before the grand jury in another case when the habeas corpus proceed- ing was resumed and they were not required even to go to Justice Ad- kins’ court. The justice instructed Mr. O'Connell to outline what he intended to prove by these wit- neses and then held that such tes- timony was not relevant to the ex- tradition. Thinks Arrest Instigated. Mr. O’'Connell said he wanted to show that Mr. Dies had instigated the arrest ot Pelley in the commit- tee room after the head of the Si'ver Shirts had testified about two weeks ago “that Martin Dies said publicly he was going to North Carolina to have the suspension of that sentence lifted.” Justice Adkins said that in his judgment such testimony was not admissible at & habeas corpus hear- ing based on an extradition pro- ceeding. One Trawler Reported Sunk-in German Raid By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 5.—German aerial attacks on five British fishing traw- lers in the North Sea Wednesday were reported belatedly tqday to have resulted in the sinking of one, Uncle Ray'’s Corner, Cross-Word Puzzle. the 208-ton Gorspen. The crew was saved. . Edward | to appear before Justice Adkins| The Dies committee announced today the arrest of two Boston Com- munist party leaders, Philip Frank- feld and Thomas F. P. O'Dea, who | had been cited for contempt because of their refusal to answer committee questions. by a deputy United States marshal outside committee rooms in the House Office Building They were arrested on warrants issued by United States Commfssioner Need- ham C. Turnage. Committee officials said the action was taken to forestali what might be protracted extradition proceed- ings if the two should leave the District and return to Massachu- setts. It was explained the United States attorney’s office suggested this pro- cedure pending certification by the House of the committee’s contempt citation against the two men. Refused to Identify Students. Mr. ODea recently refused to tell the committee the names of Har- vard students whom he said were members of the Young Communist League and Mr. Frankfeld declined to answer a single question before the committee yeasterday unless he was permited to read a resolution denouncing the investigators. Earlier, Mr. Dies said he had “very reliable inforgnation” that the Com- "(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-3) The two were taken into custody | | ness. Sees Goverment Hindered. Everyone would probably agree, | he continued, that it would be un- fortunate to slow the workings of | Government in that fashion. Asked if he believed there is ang | distinction between the new and | older Government agencies, since some of the latter have been elimi- nated from jurisdiction of the pending act. Mr Roosevelt said he would be interested to know on what grounds such action had been proposed. The President returned to his ex- ecutive offices for today's press con- ference after several days of fol- lowing a modified schedule in the ‘White House proper. Listed among his callers during (See BUREAUS, Page A-6.) Chinese Lifeline Town Bombed by Japanese By the Associated Press. CANTON, April 5.— Japanese naval headquarters announced to- day their planes had bombed Ping- ma, destroying military warehouses and a fleet of junks. Pingma is on the inland highway through Kweichow Province devel- oped by the Chinese as an econoinic lifeline after the loss of the Kwangsi road last fall. One American By the Associated Press. AINTREE, England, April 5— Tradition that the favorite seldom wins the Grand National held true today when Lord Stalbridge’s Bog- skar, a 25-to-1 shot, came from out of the pack to defeat the highly regarded MacMoffat in the 102nd running of the world’'s premier steeplechase. With Sergt. M. A. Jones of the Royal Air Force handling the reins, Bogskar carried 144 pounds over the 4 miles 856 yards in 9 minutes 20% seconds to finish a good three lengths in front of L. Scott Briggs’ jumper, who also was second last year. The time was only one-fifth of a second off the record established by Dorothy Padget’s Golden Miller in 193¢ MacMofTat, heavily played at 8 to 1, had 6 lengths to spare over J. R. Neill's Gold Arrow, a 50-to-1 chance. Arthur Sainsbury’s Symae- this was fourth in the field of 31. The two American-owned entries, Mrs. Louis E. Stoddard’s Milano and John Hay Whitney’s National Night, failed. Only Two Sweeps Prizes, Bogskar’s victory in the Grand National sent only two large prizes across the Atlantic to the United States and Canada from the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, advices from Dublin revealed. Owners of the two tickets which drew the big prizes of £30,000 (currently about $107,250) { % Bogskar Wins Grand National; Hits ‘Sweeps’ each, were August Ruggiere of New York and R. A. Coppen of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Jones did not start to make his move with Bogskar until the last furlong. Then, as cry of “Who's ahead” swept through the crowd estimated at more than 100,000, the 7-year-old son of Werewolf-Irish Spring started after Gald Arrow and MacMoffatt, the leaders. Gold Arrow and MacMoffat took the second from the last fence like & team but then, as Gold Arrow fell behind, Bogskar came storming up. He was leading as they came to the final jump, took it beautifully and came down the home stretch as though he owned it. “It was like riding in a wheel chair,” said Jones after the race. H. C. McNally’s Royal Danieli, sec- ond to. the American-owned Bat- tleship in 1938 and co-favorite, raced with MacMoffat and Gold Arrow most of the way. Two fences from home he fell on his head and had to be carted off the course. Miss Paget’s Kilstar, the overnight favorite, faltered at the third fence the first time around. After that he never was in the race. Milano, oniy one of the American horses to make any sort of a bid. was out of it by the time the fisld reached the canal turn on the sec- ond circuit, National Night went down at the fence before the water Jump the first time around. i To Quit Honolulu Today | By the Associated Press. | HONOLULU, April 5—Usually re- liable sources said today Britain's swift liner Mauretania would quit Honolulu at noon to resume her secrecy-shrouded wartime voyage, | apparently to New Zealand or Aus- tralia to pick up troops. The spacious passenger ship was | being made ready here for depar- | ture. A crew of 410 was aboard, 250 of them in the' culinary service—a | fact which lent credence to the | theory she would enter transport duty. | One crewman expressed the | opinion the vessel would pick up a | British naval escort on leaving Hawaii. Protecting craft hovered |on the horizon on the trip from the Bahama Islands to the Panama Canal, he said, but none had been seen between the Canal and Hono= lulu. Crew members, who were granted shore leave after the liner made a i surprise docking here yesterday, said |the vessel was operating under | sealed orders. They expressed the | beliet, however, the huge vessel, one | of the largest ever to enter Honolulu | Harbor, would sail some time today | after loading fuel and water. | Murdered Sailor Stole Ship Funds, Court Told By the Associated Press. MANILA, April 5—John R. Pir- schar, United States sailor whose disappearance in February brought murder charges against four Fili- pinos, had deserted his ship with $2,900 in postal funds, a Navy officer testified today. ‘The development came in prelim= | inary hearing of the four, Authorie ties said one has confessed that they shot the sailor, weighted his body and dropped it into the sea Febru= ary 27 Comdr. H. B. Hansen, captain of Olonsapo Navy Yard, testified that Pirschar, a native of Birmingham, Ala,, was postal clerk on the U. 8. 8. Marblehead. Comdr. Hansen said he was advised February 22 that Pir- schar had fled with the ship’s postal funds. Despite efforts of naval divers, Pir« schar’s body has not been recovered, Boating and Fishing News from the waterfront and from the fishing grounds will be found today on Pages C-4 and C-5. This expanded service to yachtsmen and fish- ermen will be found each Fri- day with Malcolm Lamborne, Jr., writing boating news and George Huber tipping off the fishermen where the fish are biting best, in The Evening Star

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