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WEATHER. “From Press to Home ,m tU. B. Westher Buret u FOrecast.) rr -.L • ,i tt »* CMdy, Mowed to rwln todwy .od *“h‘n «*• Hour” possibly tomorrow; much colder this aft- The Star Is delivered every evening and •moon and tonight. Temperatures— Sunday morning to city and suburban Highest, 72, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier serv 14, at 5 a.m. yesterday. / Ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. Pull report on page A-9. ** so ou« s*«t OP) Means Associated Press. ^• 1 1 ^ ^ 1 ~ ~ "7 Vf_ 1 r-1'j_vr. Q9 G9Q Entered as second class matter 1004-,™ papfq ** FIVE CENTS I TEN CENTS -IN o. -1. XN O, 0_,0—O. post ctfice. Washington. D. C. -*-GU J- -£Vt.JXXLiO. f jjj WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE RAILWAY WORKERS ASK PAY RETURN, IGNORING ROOSEVELT TRUCE PLEA Score “Dirge” of Lines in Pay Plea. ASSERT LABOR IS VICTIMIZED Renewal of Parley Here Tomorrow to Seek Accord. Railway labor leaders, representing more than one million employes, to day flatly rejected the proposal of the railway managers that the existing 10 per cent cut in W'ages be continued until April 30, 1935. They demanded that full pay be restored July 1 in accordance with the existing agree ment. thereby ignoring the proposal of President Roosevelt that the status quo be continued another six months to avoid a bitter controversy at this stage of national recovery. The action of the railway labor leaders on top of the threatening strike in the automobile Industry In tensified anxiety in the administra tion over the whole problem of labor relations. The railroad wage problem is out side Gen. Johnson's province. Joseph B Eastman, Federal co-ordinator of transportation, wno was appointed by the President to mediate in the wage dispute last year, expressed disap pointment at the impasse. “I had hoped they would be able to settle their differences,” he said. He said that he had not been called into the discusssions, but that if the President should decide to intervene he would, of course, be glad to as sist in attempting a settlement of the controversy. Meet Again Tomorrow. After considering the rejection by the unions, the committee of nine railway managers announced they would meet the labor unions again tomorrow. It is believed that they will endeavor to obtain the friendly intercession of the President. It was observed that in rejecting the proposal of the managers that the present pay cut be continued until April 30. 1935, and insisting on res toration of pay on July 1. the labor leaders have put both parties in a position to compromise on the con tinuation of the status quo for six months. However, the 15 per cent cut in basic wage rates, of which the man agers gave notice in February as a substitute for the present 10 per cent deduction, is another important ele ment in the negotiations. Under the proposal of the mangers submitted Thursday, this cut would be sus- 1 pended, of course, but would be left for bargaining purposes when the wage question was reopened after January 1, 1935. After three days of conference, the railway labor leaders yesterday after noon delivered their demand that the 10 per cent cut be wiped out and basic rates be restored on July 1. The nine managers withdrew and a little more than an hour later pre sented their reply in the form of a brief statement ready by W. F. Thiehoff, chairman of their com mittee. Rejection a Surprise. Th# statement said: “Your rejection of our proposal has come as a surprise and a shock to us, especially in view of the request of the President of the United States made upon your association and our committee to preserve the status quo in the railway situation in the in terest of national recovery. Your action precipitates a serious situation and makes imperative a considered statement of our position. ‘‘We will meet with you again Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock ” The managers then withdrew. The several hundred members of the Railway Labor Executives' Associa tion sat silently for a few minutes until A. F. Whitney, their chairman, adjourned the meeting. The President’s request that the status quo be extended for a period of “at least six months” came in February, following the notice given by the railroads of a 15 per cent cut in basic wage rates on July 1 for the period of one year. The proposal laid before the con ference here Wednesday by the com mittee of managers consisted of four points: •T. That further action under the ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) ------ - EX-SENATOR PINE OUT FOR GOVERNOR Oklahoman's Platform “Honest, Intelligent. Aggressive. Eco nomic Government." By the Associated Press. OKMULGEE, Okla., March 17.—'W. B. Pine, former United States Senator, today announced his candidacy as a Republican for Governor on a plat 'orm of •'honest, intelligent, aggressive, •conomical government.” The Okmulgee oil man's announce nent apparently definitely removed jonjecture that Lew Wentz, former millionaire highway commissioner of Ponca City, might make the race. Pine was the first Republican to place his name on the gubernatorial ticket, and political observers considered he would have the support of the party's State organization. A host of Democratic candidates already is in the field to supplant William H. (Alfalfa) Murray, who cannot succeed himself, under the constitution. However, Murray has picked Tom Anglin, Speaker of the House, to succeed him. He will be opposed by J. C. (Jack) Walton, oust ed as Governor 10 years ago and now corporation commissioner: Represen tative E. W. Majland. Lieut. Gov. Rob ert Burns, and others. k ALEXANDER F. WHITNEY, Rail Labor Executive Chairman. ROOSEVELT BACKS NEW INDUSTRIAL LOANS PROPOSAL Gov. Black of Federal Re serve Submits Idea to Leaders in Congress. By the Associated Press. A plan, approved by President Roosevelt, for extending long-time Government credit to private industry was submitted to congressional leaders yesterday with word that tomorrow President Roosevelt will formally rec ommend Its enactment. Regional banks would be set up in each Federal Reserve district, capi talized by the Government at $140. OOO.OOO. for loans direct to industry or through banks, with the latter guaranteeing 20 per cent of them. Gov. Black of the Federal Reserve Board submitted the plan in tentative form yesterday to Chairmen Fletcher and Steagall of the Senate and House Banking Committees. Only a few hours earlier the Senate Committee had held up action on an alternative plan submitted by the Reconstruc tion Corporation. Fletcher said Black was confident $300,000,000 could be pumped into industry almost immediately under the plan. It could be put into opera tion. he added, as soon as Congress gave the word. New Industries Predicted. He predicted. Fletcher told news paper men. that the proposal would start a number of new industries which are only awaiting a supply of credit and would “give a lot of new employment." Original capital for the banks would be furnished by the Treasury, Fletcher said, out of the profits from gold devaluation. The banks would have authority, however, to issue de bentures to obtain additional capital. It was to await submission of this plan, that the Senate Committee ear lier in the day held up action on the private credit plan submitted by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Asked if the R. F. C. proposal was in conflict with his. Black said: "I don't know anything about that plan. The Secretary of the Treasury has approved what we are doing.” The Senate Committee also held up action on the R. F. C. plan to finance .foreign trade, but approved the re mainder of the corporation’s recom mendations for extending its power in other directions, including authority to compromise claims to speed the re organization of railroads. Measure Divided. Despite a two-hour session with Jesse H Jones, chairman of the Re construction Finance Corporation, the committee decided to make two bills out of the omnibus measure submitted by the R. F. C. Thursday, approving the non-controversial items in one, and leaving the others for future con sideration in another. Jones contended there was r.o con flict between his and the Reserve Board plans for loans to industry, and that it was only a clarification of the R. F. C.’s present power. The com mittee, however, decided to wait for submission of the Reserve Board plan Jones told newspaper men afterward the bill would only permit the R. F. C. (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) LEGISLATOR TRIES ANEW TO GET EXPENSE MONEY Beaten in First Two Maneuvers, Davis Attempts a Third in West Virginia. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON. W. Va„ March 17. —The Legislature has ground along for 116 trying days and “Uncle Abe” Davis, one of the weary members, is positive it's about time the State furnished some eating money beyond the annual $500 pay. Today he got his colleagues to petition Gov, Kump to hand each legislator $300 from a special fund. It’s the third time Davis, a veteran of many sessions, has tried to get ex pense money for himself and the rest of the lawmakers. First he put through a resolution celling for payment of extra mileage The State auditor wouldn't stand' for it. Then he drew a resolution mak ing the House a committee to investi gate something or other and collect expenses. The auditor wouldn’t stand for that either. Now Davia has tried another course. 4 Green Warns Auto Firms to Act. PEACE IS HELD UP TO MAKERS 100,000 Wait Walk out Order on Wednesday. I By the Associated Press. Responsibility for deciding whether the workers of the automobile In dustry—an estimated hundred thou sand of them—shall go on strike this week was described by the American Federation of Labor last night as resting with the manufacturers. Awaiting the results of a meeting of employers' representatives in New York tomorrow. William Green, president of the federation, issued a statement asserting the trouble which threatens the industry is "directly traceable to the attempt of the manu factuers to impose company unions upon their workers." Watch N. A. C. C. Action. Green said of the automobile con troversy: "We shall do all we can to avert the strike because we do not wish to see ‘.he President's recovery program hindered or halted by an industrial disturbance of such far-reaching pro portions. "The American Federation of Labor will await with increasing interest the decision ot the Automobile Chamber of Commerce, a self-constituted or ganization of automobile manufac turers. as to whether or not there shall be peace or industrial strife and struggle in the automobile industry." The workers ask. he said, that they be permitted to elect their own rep resentatives for collective bargaining by secret ballot and the reinstatement of all workers who have been **dis charged, dismissed and discriminated against" because of membership in a federation union. Concurrence Withheld. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, has proposed the es tablishment of a mediation commit tee for the industry as a compromise plan for solution of the controversy. The manufacturers' spokesman, who conferred with Johnson, declined to make any promises to the N. R A chiel until the New York conferences had been held. Green outlined the demands of the workers without mentioning the John son proposal, and added: "It is difficult to understand how the automobile manufacturers can de fend themselves at the bar of public opinion If they refuse to concede these requests of their employes. The American Federation of Labor, con scious of its responsibility, is exercis ing every effort possible to prevent a strike and to bring about a settlement of the controversy.” Johnson canceled a week-end trip to New York to apply himself to the conciliation of the automobile dispute. President Watches Results. President Roosevelt himself, while he kept in close touch with develop ments in the automobile industrial trouble, was described as leaving all decisions to Johnson. The latter Informed the Chief Ex ecutive by telephone that he hoped to solve the automobile problem. What shape the automobile, dispute will take is expected by N. R A. officials to be revealed in develop ments outside of the Capital in the next few days. For the workers’ part, mass meetings in the Michigan auto mobile centers today will decide their collective reaction to the proposal by Johnson for a mediation committee in the industry. The manufacturers at New York will consider Johnson's offer. Their (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) ..i - —. ■ m . FIVE HURT AS AUTO HITS STREET CAR Car Knocked From Tracks Into Station, Which Falls on Three. Five persons were injured, one se riously, shortly after midnight when an automobile crashed into a street car at Sixty-first and Dix streets northeast, knocking it off the tracks and into a waiting station, which collapsed on its three occupants. Chester Dowell. 19, of 2606 Uni • versity place, was the most seriously injured. The others hurt were Rich ard Walker, 17. of 1758 P street* Robert Lusby, 22. of Suitland. Md.; Dennis Edwards, 14. colored. 100 block of Addison avenue northeast, and Wilbert Lancaster. 17, colored, Fairmount Heights, Md. Police were unable to learn imme diately who was driving the automo bile. They were told, however, that its occupants. Dowell. Walker and Lusby, were returning from a dance at Seat Pleasant. Md.. at the time of the crash. The machine, which the young men had borrowed from a friend, struck the front end of the street car, sending it spinning Into the waiting station beside the tracks. Edwards, Lancaster and Ha thorne Cave, colored, also of Fair mount Heights, were in the station waiting for a street car. “I don’t know what hit me.” said Edwards. “All I know is that all of a sudden the station fell in on us.” All the injured were taken to Cas ualty Hospital, where Dowell was placed on the operating table imme diately. The extent of his Injuries could not be ascertained at once, however. C INSULL SATISFIES GREECE AND SAILS TD SEEK A REFUGE Fugitive Virtual Prisoner of Sea Until He Finds Friendly Port. GOVERNMENT PERMITS DEPARTURE ON VESSEL Former Utilities Magnate Recov ers From Shock of Return to Port for Severe Quiz. (Copyright, 1084, by the Associated Press > PIRAEUS, Greece. March 18 (Sun- ! day).—Samuel Insull pulled another ace from his sleeve early today and sailed for points unknown aboard a grimy Greek tramp steamer which he had made virtually a kingdom ol his own. Ordered back by the Greek govern ment after a 75-hour false start, the steamer Maiotis sailed again at 1:25 a m. without being required to tell any one where it is going. Engine trouble halted the steamer in the outer harbor soon after it sailed, but this was merely a tempo rary setback at worst, since it was learned Insull had three days in which finally to depart. The engine was fixed after a short time and the ves sel churned onward. As real master of the ship himself (he chartered it. and is. therefore, its temporary owner) Insull. the 74-year old fugitive from justice and former Chicago utilities czar is the lone ar biter of his destiny so long as he is on the high seas. Demand Wireless Report. Greek port officials made only one demand—that he wireless them where he is going to land, if he chooses to land Port authorities demanded only that he enter no Greek ports, to which Insull could readily be expected to agree. While it was widely believed he was headed for •‘somewhere east of Suez,” probably Abyssinia, he obviously gained a trump trick by not being re quired to tell w'.iere he Is going The momentary halt because of en gine trouble encouraged an already spreading rumor that Insull might seek a more trustworthy conveyance and effect a transfer at sea. A Greek newspaper reported fhe American yacht Vulcher left Istanbul. Turkey, without serving the usual no tice of destination, and might take In sull off the Maiotis somewhere in the Mediterranean. It was also rumored that the ship might try to land at Monte Carlo. Visas Secured. It was learned that the Greek gov ernment Mieceded yesterday in procur ing visas for Insull in countries north of here, and suggested that he leave Greece by train, overland—a sugges tion which Insull promptly rejected The Maiotis was in port barely six hours after plodding slowly back at the call of Greek authorities who claimed Insull violated regulations by his sensationally dramatic secret de parture Wednesday. Port physicians and Insull’s per sonal doctors examined Insull again during the stay in port and certified that the fugitive was in good health, despite a reported heart attack earlier in the day when he discovered for the first time that he was being re turned to Greek soil. The captain of the Maiotis said In sull was cheerful and happy. He did not leave the boat. Mrs Insull. his constant com panion during the latter months of his year-and-a-half stay in Athens, bade her husband farewell in private and hurried back to Athens with Mrs. Couyoumjorlou, wife of a Bagdad merchant. Asked about Greek reports that she was bitter toward the United States. Mrs. Insull said: “Why should I be bitter toward America? I've been , away so long." Upon the departure of Insull’s ves sel alien control officials and the port captain addressed messages to the premier, the foreign minister and the minister of marine, giving the time of arrival and departure. “After examinations, the Maiotis departed, carrying Insull. according to government instructions,” the mes sages said. Provisions Piled Aboard. The Maiotis took on a large supply of fuel and provisions here, and it was assumed she could replenish her stocks without risking Insull’s capture at any number of small ports on the Mediterranean. Insull said before sailing that he expected to land at Djibouti, a small, colorful port on the Gulf of Aden, in French Somaliland, entry to the bar ren sandy wastes and fertile valleys (Continued on Page 6. Column 5.) /O0E, MOW OH^ EARTH DO YOU \ KEEP'EM \tjjZJ - $ ' 'V. ■ ,,'V/^'4 ^ry-fT' SENATE'^ FOLD «i ylfll '(housTf010 A CAPITOL TIILL ENIGMA. CAPPER URGES END Of BUDGET RULE Senator Says City Heads Can Handle Finances. School Cuts Hit. Removal of District estimates from the jurisdiction of the Federal Budget Bureau was urged last night by Sen ator Capper of Kansas in a radio speech in which he deplored the cutting down of school building ap propriations in recent years, and de clared local officals are in a better position than Federal authorities to know the city's needs. The Kansan, who has been an ac tive member of the Senate District Committee for more than a decade, painted a vivid picture of children being taught in buildings recom mended for abandonment 26 years •go. of the continued use of tempo rary portables of oversized classes and part-time schedules. His plea for a return of more ade quate annual allotments for school buildings was a timely one, since the District Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee Is !n the midst of framing the supply bill for the next fiscal year. The Senator spoke from Station WJSV. Difficult to Get Funds. After giving detailed figures on the present class-room shortage in ele mentary, Junior and senior high schools. Senator Capper concluded: “I believe that it will be very diffi cult, if not Impossible, to obtain ade quate appropriations for school con struction unless the District budget is removed from the consideration of the Budget Bureau and submitted di rectly " to Congress by the Commis sioners.” The Senator emphasized that the District finances its own government (Continued on Page 2. Column 6.) -• STANDARD OIL HEIR’S WEDDING HELD LEGAL _ Court Refuses to Upset Marriage of James McDonald, 3d, After Elopement. By the Associated Press. REDWOOD CITY. Calif.. March 17. —The marriage of James McDonald. 3d. of Hillsborough, heir to a Standard Oil fortune, and Alicia Brezee Mc Donald, after an elopement to Ne vada June 7, 1832, was held legal to day by Superior Judge Franklin Swart. Judge Swart's decision sustained a demurrer brought by Harold Caul field, attorney for the young wife, to annulment proceedings instituted by McDonald’s mother, Mrs. Beulah Martin, Hillsborough society leader. Mrs. Martin had contended the marriage at Elko, Nev., when her son was 18 and Alicia 16. occurred with out her consent and was therefore illegal. Nevada law sanctions mar riage of minors. Whether the birth of a child to Mrs. McDonald In San Francisco last week was an element In the decision i was not disclosed. DRINKS LEGAL IN KENTUCKY WHEN HEALTH IS INVOLVED I - By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky„ March 17 — The old saying that the Kentucky colonel had to have his toddy for his health’s sake was written into law today, and he can now get it by the glass in his hotel, restaurant and club, or buy it at his drug store. The State prohibition amendment, modeled after the famous eighteenth amendment, still stands, but it excepts medicinal liquor, and the law that Gov. Ruby LafToon signed today, per : mits the sale under permit of: "Any liquor containing any per cent of alcohol which Is used as a curative, alleviative or palliative for bodily disorders or bodily pain, or as a tonic or stimulant for nervous or mental fatigue, or other necessities of the human body.” The permits for sale by the glass and in unbroken packages are yet to be printed, but whisky went on sale In several hotels in Louisville and other cities in the State today at 30 to 40 cents a drink, as the proprietors hastily got permits by wire. Chair man John B. Lewis of the State Tax Commission said the printed forms for the permits will be ready next week. Meanwhile under the new law phy 4 sicians may prescribe without limit for bona fide patients and any person over 21 years of age may write hit own prescription for not more than a quart each seven days or a pint each four days. However, he. or she. must write on the prescription that T am not addicted to the habit of drink and have not within six months prior hereto, been convicted of drunken ness.’’ The cost of liquor, at drug stores and any other stores that may obtain per mits is expected to come down, since the new law removes the 50 cents a pint tax on medicinal whisky. The drug store prices for medicinal whisky have been $1.75 a pint, for the lowest grade "blended” whisky up to $4 »or the “bottled in bond’’ variety, com pared to bootleggers’ prices of II a pint and upward. In Louisville and a number of other cities in the State some drug stores have been selling whisky and wines without the formal ity of prescriptions ever since the eighteenth amendment was repealed, but the hotels had held oil. Kentucky is to vote on its own State amendment at the November. 1935, election, under a resolution adopted by the 1934 General Assembly which passed the new liquor control act. a Train Kills Boy Waiting for Food Tossed by Crete Children Playing ‘Horse' on Tracks Fan to See Fast Freight. By the Associated Press. GREENUP. Ky„ March 17—Albert Stapleton. 11. is dead, killed by a train while waiting for food members of its crew’ tossed to him each day as they thundered past his home. The youngster and his brother George. 12, went down to the tracks early to await the train and the food. They played "horse'' with wornout brooms. A slow freight came by. and they tried a new game—holding the brushy ends of the brooms on the rails to feel the wheels thump, thump, 5 over them. So Interested were the boys that , (Continued on Page 2. Column 1.) —-•- — FRANCE REJECTS Note to Britain Asserts She Will Not Disarm While Germany Builds Army. | By the Associated Press. PARIS. March 17.—France tonight rejected the latest German proposals for disarmament and m3de it clear, in a note to Great Britain, that she refuses to disarm in the face bf "Ger man rearmament.” The French communication, which was unanimously approved by the ! cabinet and will be presented in Lon 1 don Monday, demanded as a condition for a reduction in French forces guar antees of security, chiefly from Eng land. That Germany Is ready to "con tract to the farthest conceivable limit and in no case make an appeal for force” was set forth in the German disarmament message to Prance. It was published here tonight. Treaty Rejection Stressed. This note emphasized that Ger many can no longer accept the arma ments level fixed in the post-war Versailles treaty and declared that Great Britain and Italy have recog nized this point. French reaction to Chancellor Hit ler's memorandum brought forth the tContinued on Page 3. Column 3.) TWO GIRLS BEATEN TO DEATH, TWO HURT Father Sought After Hammer Attack—Another Child Ex pected to Die. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 17.—The wife of John McHale, 31-year-old Bronx C. W. A. worker, returned home to night to find their 4-year-old daugh I ter Helen lying dead in a blood ' stained crib and their other three j children, all girls, lying unconscious in j beds nearby. Police, summoned by her screams, called an ambulance and rushed the three children to a hospital, where one of them, Agnes. 18 months old, died a few hours later. , Detectives said the children had ! been beaten with a 2-pound car ! penter’s hammer. They immediately ! began a door-to-door search for Mc Hale in the neighborhood. They immediately began a door-to door search for McHale in the neigh borhood. McHale left the house early in the evening after an argument with his wife, Margaret, after attending a Saint Patrick’s day dance. Mrs McHale left shortly afterwards to get some milk for the children at a neighborhood store. When she re turned she found the children beaten and Helen dead. Mrs. McHale told police her hus band spent five or six days ;n the hospital for treatment for alcoholic psychosis about two months xgo. Hospital officials said that Mar garet. 5 years old. was expected to die, while Anna had only a fair , chance of recovery. P Tllfl m PILOT KILLEDINKH Lieut. Richardson, Reserve Officer, on Test Flight Pre vious to Carrying Mail. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 17.— Lieut. R. G. Richardson. Reserve Corps pilot recently recalled to active service to fly the airmail, was killed today in the plunge of his plane from 1.000 feet. Richardson, on a test flight, was carrying no mail. His death came as orders went out for resumption Monday of the Army's airmail service. This was the eleventh fatality among Army flyers since the War De partment took over transportation of the mail less than a month ago. Two Similarly Killed. Richardson, formerly a co-pilot for United Air Lines, was reported by Army officers to be flying a single motored biplane of the P-38-E type. Lieuts Frank L. Howard and Arthur R. Kerwin. jr., crashed to their deaths in the same type of ship March 9 near the edge of Cheyenne. They also were on a test flight. Today's disaster occurred 3 miles from the airport and about a mile southwest of the Francis E. Warren Military Reservation. Soldiers from the post there ran to the plane, but were prevented by flames from reach ing the body, which was found in a sitting posture in the forward cockpit. The plane burst into flames imme diately on striking the ground and was reduced to a metal skeleton. Mrs H D Alexander, who saw the plane fall, said the flyer was about 1.000 feet In the air when she saw the ship in what she described as a ' "queer maneuver.” Mrs. Alexander said the ship was flying with its tail down and went into a spin. The pilot, she said, seemed to be struggling to right the craft when suddenly, after he had apparently succeeded, the ship dived straight down and smashed, nose first. Weather Had Cleared. The weather here, following snow flurries and a drop in temperature overnight, had cleared away and the mercury was rising at the time of the crash iate today. Lieut. Richardson had been called I into active service only last Thursday j to augment the staff of Army airmail { pilots stationed at Cheyenne. A former employe of the United I Air Lines at the Cheyenne airport, i he had been working in a filling sta j tion here since he was recently laid j off by the commercial company. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Richardson, who lives here. TWO KILLED INSTANTLY IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Car Crashes Into Concrete Abut ment on Highway 5 Miles From Petersburg. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., March 17.—Two men were instantly killed early this i morning when the car in which they were riding crashed into a concrete ( abutment on the Petersburg turnpike. about 5 miles from Petersburg. They ! were: D. F. Tyler, 50, Norfolk, and Thomas W. White, 65, Forest Hills, N. Y. They were discovered by W. D. Whitaker of Richmond, who passed | the scene a short while later. Whit ! aker notified Colonial Heights police, j Police found the car. which was headed south, completely demolished, and both men dead. The accident occurred within a ' short distance of the spot where John H. Hayes, jr., of Richmond, was killed ■ in an automobile accident last Sun I day. DIPLOMAT’S WIFE DIES — Manuel Trucco, Chilean Ambassa dor, Was En Route to Santiago. Mrs. Manuel Trucco, wife of the Chilean Ambassador to the United States, died yesterday in Santiago. Chile, according to an Associated Press dispatch. At the Chilean embassy's chancery. 2154 Florida avenue, it was said the Ambassador had left for Santiago by airplane yesterday, hoping to reach his wife’s bedside before she died. Mrs. Trucco had been 111 for some time. 4 ARMY 10 RESUME FLYING MAILS ON SYSTEM OF EIGHT LINESJOMORROW Plans Are Announced After Foulois Receives Zone Commanders' Assurances That They Are Prepared. ‘TRAITOROUS ELEMENTS’ HIT BY RICKENBACKER — War Ace Urges Roosevelt to Purge His Official Family of Aides Who "Misadvised" Him on Cancellation of Airmail Contracts. By the Associated Press. The Army will fly the mails again tomorrow, with routes reduced to a skeleton, but nevertheless extending from ocean to ocean. Coincident with this announcement, America's premier war-time ace. Col. Eddie Rickenbacker asserted yester day that President Roosevelt should *‘pu:„e his official family of traitor ous elements which misadvised him on cancellation of private airmail contracts.” The man who sent 26 enemy planes plunging to the French terrain, made this statement before the Senate Post Office Committee in a continuation of the testimony taking in which CoL Charles A. Lindbergh and Clarence Chamberlin Friday attacked annul ment of the contracts. Eight Routes Laid Out. Eight routes «ere penciled across a map of the United States at the War Department for the resumption of air mail carrying by the Army. It was scheduled to begin tomorrow at 12:01 am. The routes follow: New York to Chicago: Chicago to San Francisco; Boston to New York; Chicago to Dallas; Salt Lake City to San Diego: Salt Lake City to Seattle; Cheyenne to Denver, and New York to Atlanta and Jacksonville. Army planes were grounded last Sunday after *he President had as serted that deaths among the flyers must stop. Since then intensive preparations have been taken to re sume flying on a curtailed schedule which would assye the aviators’ safety. The War Department first said nine routes would be flown, including Chi cago to St Paul. Later, however, the Post Office Department said service on this line would not be undertaken now. Rickenbacker is vice president of North American Aviation. Inc., parent company of Eastern Air Transport, Western Air Express and Transconti nental & Western Air. Inc., for which Lindbergh is technical adviser. These three companies held mail agreements prior to the cancellation ol all domestic awards on February 19 because of the Post Office Depart ment's decision, since vigorously dis puted. that the contracts wer# awarded through fraud. Guided by “Divine Spirit.” But. Rickenbacker said the loss was not that of the aircraft industry or the air transportation industry. “That is incidental." he said. “That can be wiped off the slate and for gotten. We can forget we ever owned an airplane. He said “the question” was that “millions” might doubt because of the cancellation that other of the Presi | dent's accomplishments—“The N. R. I A . C. W. A., gold content and many more”—might prove as "big a mis take” as the contract action. He said that up until the mall epi sode the President "has been guided in a great • measure by the Div ine Spirit.” For this reason, he said, he urged, the elimination of the “traitors, few in number. I presume, who have mis advised. or advised, without giving (.Continued on Page 5. Column 4 ) COURT FORBIDS WOMAN TO SPEND OWN FORTUNE Daughter-in-Law of Browning Held to Have Created Irre vocable Fund. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March 17.—Mrs. Fan nie Coddington Browning, daughter in-law of Robert Browning, the poet, was forbidden to spend the principal of her own fortune of $325,000 in a Supreme Court decision handed down today in Mineola. It is in an irrevocable trust fund, which she herself created, the court decided, and she cannot get a cent. She established the fund on Febru ary 7, 1931, but since then, the court action disclosed, she has changed her mode of living and old friendships have been repudiated. Mrs. Browning, who is 77 years old and makes her home in London, began an action here last year against Percy S. Weeks of Oyster Bay and Schuyler M. Meyer of Huntington, trustees of the trust deed, to get cony trol of the principal. She said Meyer had not told her it was irrevocable. The trustees demanded instruction | from the court, and today's decision : is their answer. 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