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WEATHER
(V. 9. Weather Bureau Forecast.) The only evening paper
Rain tonight; tomorrow rain, probably jn Washington with the
changing to snow and colder; lowest . . , n v.
temperature tonight about 3P. Tempera- Associated rreSS JNeWS
tures Highest, 54, at noon oday; lowest, and WirephotO Services.
36. at 6:15 a m. today. r
Full report on page A-ll.
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RIVERS GO HIGHER WITH 153 DEAD IN U. S.
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EAST FACES PANIC AND DESPAIR;
POTOMAC FLOW MAY BE RECORD
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Property Loss
Estimated at
225 Million.
$400,000,000 AID
BEING STUDIED
3 Bay State Cities
Guarded Against
Looting.
Two full pages of
up-to-the-minute photo
graphs of the flood’s
aftermath — Pages A-6
and A-7.
(Copyrlsht. 1036. by the Associated Press.'
Panic and desperation
built new and grave prob
lems today for the civil
and military authorities
of the Eastern States,
struggling amid still
rising flood waters which
left miserable homeless
by the hundred thousands,
an estimated $225,000,
000 in property damage
and at least 153 dead.
In New England, in the Ohio
Valley, through Pennsylvania,
New York and the rich region
of the Potomac, floods raced on,
submerging industrial cities,
ousting householders, spread
ing ruin.
$400,000 000 Use Studied.
The New Deal, with President
Roosevelt directing the disaster
fighting forces, considered pour
ing nearly $400,000,000 into the
12-State area to aid flood suf
ferers and to check such disas
ters in future years.
Militia and police, fingering
guns and clubs, patrolled Spring
field, Northampton and Lowell,
Mass., against threatened out
breaks of looting.
A new Connecticut River crest
menaced Hartford and other
cities already hit by the waters.
At Lowell and elsewhere citizens |
fld before the angry Merrimack.
Lewiston, Me.. Crowd in Panic.
National Guardsmen were
called to calm a panicky crowd
near Lewiston. Me., which heard
false reports that the Gulf Is
land Dam above the city had
collapsed. Several persons were
„ hurt.
Flood veterans of the debris- 1
filled Ohio battened down in
Marietta. Ohio, and other cities
as the great crest which left 17 ;
dead or more in the Wheeling
Martins Ferry area and routed
upward of 20,000 persons from
their homes, arrived. The river,
however, fell far short of Mari
etta’s record, set in 1913.
' Federal Lockmaster John Rankin !
said the river would remain stationary
tor several hours and then fall.
Eight to 10 feet of water, which j
" (See NATIONAL. Page 4.)
LOW RIVER AREAS
DODGE FLOOD LOSS
Potomac Moves Swiftly Into Bay,
but Depth Fails to Exceed
High-Tide Stage.
The Potomac River, unruly and de
structive in its upper reaches, was on
good behavior on the lower end and
remained within bounds in the South
ern Maryland and Northeastern Vir
ginia section. The water was moving
swiftly but its depth was no more than
„ at high tide, according to reports.
> At Port Washington the high tide
reached the Army docks but did not
lap over on dry ground. The Naval
Proving Ground, near Indianhead,
was on high land.
At Leonardtown and Colonial Beach
a high tide was noted but residents
failed to get excited.
State police at the Waldorf sub
station said they did not expect any
further high water or flood damage.
The 10-mile width of the Potomac at
Indianhead precluded any possibility
of flood danger, they said.
WOMAN RECOVERING
AFTER FLOOD RESCUE
Mrs. Eva Dell Myers, Who Clung
to Roof 16 Hours, Soon to
Leave Hospital.
Mrs. Eva Dell Myers, 50-year-old
widow, who was saved from the Po
tomac at Olen Echo yesterday, in the
most sensational local rescue of the
flood, today had almost completely re
covered from the ordeal of clinging
to the top of a water-surrounded shed ,
for 16 hours.
At Walter Reed Hospital, where she
was taken after being brought ashore, i
her condition this morning was re- i
ported as ‘‘very good.” She expected j
to leave the hospital
today,
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Flood Relic—High and Dry
The Potomac tossed this boat up on the railroad tracks a
short distance above Washington. E. C. Passeno is shown start
ing salvage operations today, one of dozen of owners who faced
similar tasks. —Star Staff Photo.
DEATH TOTAL HITS
Clean-up Started as City
Fears Disease and
Water Shortage.
(CopyrUht. 103S. by th« Associated Pres* >
PITTSBURGH, March 20.—Flood
deaths in this steel metropolis
mounted suddenly to 45 today as
thousands of workers, worried by
threats of disease and water shortage,
began cleaning up debris-laden streets
and buildings.
Police and rescue crews, plodding
knee-deep in mud through suburban
areas, uncovered hourly new evidence
of the startling loss of life In the
Pittsburgh area’s greatest flood.
Most of the lives lost were by
drowning, but some persons died in
fires and explosions, aftermaths of the
inundation.
The metropolitan death list brought
the total for Western Pennsylvania
to 69. including 15 lost in the flood
at Johnstown.
The yellow waters of the Monon
gahela and Allegheny Rivers, which
meet here to form the Ohio, were
receding and the Weather Bureau
predicted that by noon they would
be 20 feet below Tuesday night's crest.
Shortage of Drinking Water.
Fear of a drinking water shortage,
bringing with it the danger of pestil
ence, grew as water company officials
said the reserve supply wras nearly
exhausted.
It could not be replenished for 48
hours, they said, although a few
pumping' stations had been started.
Hospitals, many of them overflowing
with persons Injured in the catas
trophe, were at a loss to meet such
m emergency.
The South Hills, a residential sec
tion of about 200.000 persons, has been
without water since Tuesday night!
Water company employes were dis
tributing water from tank trucks.
The food situation, on the other
hand, was excellent. More than 1.000,
000 pounds of foodstuffs were being
rushed to the city and officials said
that although there might be Incon
venience, no one would go hungry.
City welfare workers, reinforced by
State and Federal agencies, swung Into
rehabilitation activities. Red Cross
workers aided the needy, and National
Guardsmen patrolled wreckage-strewn
streets. «
Flood waters concealed for more
than 24 hours the bodies of six chil
dren and a woman, found last night In
a home in suburban Etna. The seven
had -died in a fire that swept through
a dozen homes.
Some of the conditions that followed
(See PITTSBURGH, Page 4.)
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BUILDING WRECKED
AS TANKS EXPLODE
No Casualties Are Discovered
After Chemical Blast
in Harrisburg, Pa.
Sr the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 20.—An
explosion of three chemical tanks
wrecked a three-story brick warehouse
In the flooded industrial district of
flarrlsourg today.
Police said they did not believe there
were any casualties.
Fred W. White, standing on a near
ly bridge at the time, rested he saw
:our men In two boats 50 feet from the
warehouse just before the blast. He
laid he did not know whether the ex
)losion caught them.
Police said they feared two more
anks might explode. Aided by Na
ional Guardsmen they cleared ap
iroximately 1,000 persons off the Mul
lerry Street Bridge over the Pennayl
ania Railroad yards, 200 feet a«i|.
NICE VISITS SCENE
OE FLOOD DAMAGE
Maryland Executive Calls
otHS^islature to Take
Emergency Action.
i By the Associated Press.
POINT OP ROCKS. Md., March
20.—Scenes of utter desolation greeted
Gov. Harry W. Nice In Western Mary
land today as the executive, accom
panied only by a State trooper, ar
rived unexpectedly for an inspection
tour of the flood-stricken Potomac
Valley.
Thousands of homeless citizens
looked eagerly to the Governor for
j rehabilitation aid as the murky wa
i ters of the historic river receded
grudgingly from scores of battered
cities and towns between here and
Cumberland.
In his first official act after arriv
ing on the scene. Gov. Nice issued a
formal statement calling on tl|e State
Legislature to take emergency action
He asked that a $3,200,000 bond issue
be authorized for repair of highways
and bridges.
Arriving here at 7:30 a.m., the Gov
ernor found water 10 feet deep in the
streets. He conferred first with
Charles L. Blentlinger. school prin
cipal, who had organized relief work,
and promised the State's co-opera
tinn.
The Governor watched milk being
served at the school building to the
young children of homeless families.
He inspected the National Guard
and American Legion emergency
kitchens and the Lutheran Church,
where 25 woman refugees spent the
night on cots furnished by the Red
Cross.
Touring the town. Nice conferred
with and questioned officials of the
Red Cross, Salvation Army, American
Legion and National Guard, all aiding
in the rehabilitation work.
Yesterday, after receiving tele
graphic pleas for financial assistance
from Cumberland, he wired the State’s
congressional delegation to seek Fed
eral funds. One thousand families
were homeless in Cumberland, and
losses ran into millions of dollars.
Reaches Depth of U Feet.
Leaving Maryland's second largest
city, the flood crest swept down
through the valley and on to Wash
ington, ripping out bridges and inun
dating town after town. Here, the
water reached a depth of 30 feet in
Main street.
The Governor planned his arrival
to coincide with the serving of break
fast by three National Guard field
kitchens. Over half of the 600 resi
dents were driven from their homes
and were totally without resources.
Dr. E. C. Kefauver, Frederick 1
County health officer, ordered every
resident innoculated today against
typhoid fever.
Lieut. Col. Elmer Munshower, rank- '
ing National Guard officer, made plans
for a provisional government in the ]
community until the water has gone ‘
(See MARYLAND. Page 3.)
SIX BURNED TO DEATH
fire Destroys Plantation House.
One Critically Hurt.
BASSETT, Ark., March 20 (/P).—Six
persons were burned to death and a
seventh was critically injured when
lire destroyed a plantation bouse near
here today.
The dead were Edgar Meeks. 30;
his wile, about 27; their two children,
aged 2 and 6; Meeks’ father-in-law,
a Mr. Green, and Green's son, age 12.
Mrs. Green received treatment at
a neighbor’s home for serious cuts and
burns suffered when Meeks hurled
her through a window of the four
room house in an effort to save her
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45.9 Ft. Above
Low Mean Set
by Run-Off.
HIGHWAY SPAN
AGAIN OPENED
Airport and Tidal
Basin Areas Are
Still Covered.
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With damage estimated
at a quarter of a mil
lion dollars, Washington
turned to unusual tasks of
relief and reconstruction
along its flood - lashed
borders today, as the sub
siding but still swollen
Potomac River surged
toward the sea after a
record - smashing ram
page.
The largest volume of water
on record flowed past the city,
when the crest reached here
late yesterday, sending water
against the emergency dike
along the Mall and forcing fam
ilies in unprotected low-lying i
sections to flee to upper ground.
Officials plan to remove the dike
as quickly as possible.
As the debris-strewn river con
tinued to unfold a mute story of
destruction along the upper
reaches of the ordinarily placid
Potomac Valley, citizens and of
ficials here took stock of houses
wrecked along the river and the
neighboring canal, of families
rendered homeless and of dam
age wrought to public works.
All agreed the worst of what
was described as a “major
flood” was over, so far as Wash
ington and vicinity is concerned.
The diminishing body of the,
river was not expected to return
completely within its banks for
another 48 hours.
Water Volume Sets Record.
When the flood crest roared
down upon Washington between
8 and 7 p.m. yesterday, it hurled
at the city a volume of yellow
water larger than that of the
historic flood of 1889, officials
declared. The level was higher
it Chain Bridge, but tidal con
ditions below Georgetown kept
the height somewhat lower than
that of the ’89 high water.
Highway Bridge was reopened j
today and Chain Bridge may be
ready for use again by Monday,
jnless more serious repairs are
needed than are now estimated.
Engineer Commissioner Dan I.
Sultan said today.
An extensive program of clean
ing up flooded areas was
started promptly today as a com
bined force of more than 700
men of the city Refuse. Sewer
and Highway Department were
set to work in an attack on the
aeDris.
Highway Bridge was opened as ,
water receded from roads near
its Southern terminus, permit
ting traffic to go to Lincoln Me
morial Bridge and then turn
left to Virginia territory.
Span Withstands Poundhig.
Highway Director H. C. White
hurst found that Chain Bridge
withstood its test of the ava
anche of water surprisingly
well, so far as he could tell from
;he superstructure, the piers this
norning still being under water.
Workmen began repairs to the
flooring and railing and a very
careful examination later will be
nade of the piers and abutments
A) determine what repairs will be
necessary. The bridge was badly
shaken by the water and floating
;rees which smashed into it at
intervals and until late yesterday
nfficials feared the old span
night be carried away.
When the crest sent turbulent waves
(See FLOOD, Page 5.)
THREE DIE IN BLAST
lix Business Concerns Wrecked,
With $75,000 Loss.
TEXARKANA, Tex., March 20 C4>).
-Three persons were killed today
vhen an explosion, followed by Are,
wrecked six business concerns in the
iandAat business district here, caus
ng a loss estimated at $75,000.
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RELIEF IS RUSHED
BY WHITE HOUSE
President Delays Trip-Again,
Calls Leaders to Parley
on Flood.
President Roosevelt again delayed
his vacation departure today to remain
in personal command of the Federal
mobilization to aid flood sufferers.
Although satisfied the Capital has
escaped the full force of the disaster.
Mr. Roosevelt deemed it advisable to
remain in the White House at least
for another 24 hours.
While the Government considered
spending a total approaching $400,
000,000 to aid those m distress and
check similar disasters in future, the
President summoned to his desk this
morning Secretary of War Dern, chair
man of the Emergency Flood Commit
tee; Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
chairman of the American Red Cross,
and Gen. Malin Craig. Army chief of
staff.
Flood Control Bill Pushed.
Meanwhile, a Senate committee
drafted Army engineers to work out
a bill authorizing $300,000,000 for
flood control throughout the Nation.
The Works Progress Administration
already has allotted $18,000,000 for
flood relief and rehabilitation. Bills
also were pending to spend $5,000,000
to $10,000,000 more in Pennsylvania
alone.
Before the President summoned his
flood relief advisers, he was repre
sented at the White House as being
concerned chiefly with overnight re
ports regarding the rising Ohio River.
Army reports to the White House
also indicated the only real concern
at the moment was in connection with
the Ohio River below Wheeling, W. Va,
The lowlands along the river, particu
larly in the vicinity of Covington,
Ky.. and Cairo. 111., will be hard hit
today or tomorrow, it was predicted.
The President felt relieved at Army
reports that the Mississippi was not
likely to overflow to any extent.
Response Pleases President.
The President obviously was pleased
at the response to his proclamation
yesterday asking generous contribu
tions so the Red Cross could raise
a $3,000,000 relief fund. Admiral Gray
son told Mr. Roosevelt this morning
(See PRESIDENT.'Page 2.)
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HELEN JACOBS FINED
IN LONDON SPEEDING
Police Say Automobile Was “At
tached to the United
States Embassy.”
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 20—Helen Ja
cobs. American tennis star, was fined
El ($5) today for speeding in what
police described as an automobile "at
tached to the United States Embassy."
Miss Jacobs’ attorney claimed that
ihe was returning from tennis prac
tice and did not know of the 30-mile
speed limit in the area where she was
summoned.
The attorney also said that Miss
Jacobs, who is a friend of Henrietta
Bingham, the daughter of the United
States Ambassador, had not claimed
Iiplomatic immunity, although her
trial had been delayed because police
thought the question of Immunity
night be involved.
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Pittsburgh in Panic
Over False Report
Of Span’s Collapse
Br the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. March 20.—A
false police report that the
crowded Sixteenth Street Bridge
had collapsed threw Pittsburgh
into a short panic today. The
Associated Press reporters who
reached the bridge found it safe,
with traffic moving over it.
Every available policeman and
ambulance in the city had rush
ed to the span, after Police Supt.
Jacob Dorsey’s office had re
leased a report the bridge had
fallen into surging flood waters
with five lanes of traffic.
The bridge connects the North
Side with downtown Pittsburgh.
In explanation of the erroneous
report, Dorsey said some one had
telephoned it to his office. He
ordered all other bridges closed j
until the report was proved false.
CAMPAIGN IN OHIO
Idahoan Assails New Deal
and G. 0. P. Machine of
State in Speech.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 20 -
Hammering the Roosevelt New Deal
with one hand, the Republican ma
chine of Ohio with the other. Senator
William E. Borah of Idaho launched
his campaign for delegates to the
G. O. P. National Convention in an
address here last night.
To the 3.000 who had gathered in
the auditorium the Idaho Senator^
spoke as the apostle of the common
man and the defender of afl'all busi
ness. His address was passionately
earnest rather than “rabble-rousing"
m its temper and delivery.
Senator Borah had reached this
flood-ridden and snow-covered State
after a long, hard, roundabout trip,
omy to be plunged into conferences
with his supporters up to the very
hour of the mass meeting.
Today, following further planning
with the members of the Borah Com
mittee, the Senator will go to Chicago,
where he is to open his campaign for
the Republican presidential nomina
tion against Col. Frank Knox.
It is his purpose to return again to
Ohio for a series of speeches in April.
Borah assailed the Roosevelt admin-1
istration for the huge Federal bu- I
reaucracy with which It has saddled j
the country. He attacked its huge ex
penditures which, eventually, must be
paid for by the American people. He
denounced the "policy of scarcity”
which has been the foundation of its
farm program. He criticized the
N. R. A., which, he declared, had sus
pended the operation of the anti-trust
laws and permitted the building up of
monopoly
American business, he asserted, has
improved since the Supreme Court of
the United States struck down the
N. R. A. and farm prices have ad
vanced since the court threw the
A. A. A. into the discard, too.
In his address and in an Interview
which he gave to the press before the
meeting in the auditorium last night,
Senator Borah not only broke with
the Roosevelt administration in many
important particulars but he laid a
number of ghosts.
“I am not in favor of inflation,"
the Idaho Senator declared, “and
never have been. Neither do I favor
deflation. I should like to see a stable
dollar."
In this language the Senator made
his first reply to attacks which have
been raised against him on the ground
that he was an inflationist, particu
larly among the conservative Republi
cans of the East.
Another ghost which the Senator 1
sought to lay was the frequently-re
iterated charge that he is not sincerely
a candidate for the presidential nom
ination but is merely seeking a posi
tion of Influence when it comes to
(.flee BORjj^. Page t\
Star Will Receive Donations
for Flood Relief
The Star, in order to facilitate the raising of flood relief funds for
the Red Cross, has arranged to receive donations from citizens of Wash
ington toward the <3,000.000 emergency fund called for by the President
as head of the American Red Cross.
The Star has contributed <100 to start its collections.
The quota for Washington, allotted to the District of Columbia Chap
ter of the Red Cross, is <25,000. The chapter has launched the fund by
contributing <1,000 from its own treasury. This was supplemented by
individual gifts totaling more than <1.100.
Contributions made through The Star should be sent to the cashier
of The Star, Star Building, Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Make checks payable to “D. C. Red Cross."
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m PER CENT TAX
House Subcommittee Ten
tatively Adopts Figure
for Undivided Income.
By the Associated Press.
A House Ways and Means subcom
mittee decided tentatively today to ap
ply a flat 221- per cent tax on the net
income of corporations limited in pay
ing out dividends “by reason of State
and Federal or contractual strictures.”
Corporations in this category would
not be subject to the proposed new
levy on undistributed corporate profits.
President Roosevelt had suggested that
present corporation income taxes be
repealed and supplanted by levies on
undistributed earnings and a tax on
dividends.
Chairman Samuel B. Hill said the
rate was not conclusive, but was de
cided on to provide a “working basis.”
Details still remain to be worked out,
he said.
Hill had no estimate cn the num
ber of corporations now under limi
tations as to issuance of dividends.
He said the 22'- per cent was an
arbitrary rate; that the subcommittee
felt that if it were too low it might
offer an inducement to some corpo
rations to show a capital deficit on
their books in order to keep free of
the tax on undivided corporation
earnings.
Existing corporation income taxes
average about 15 per cent.
Treasury expert? have proposed 33 *2
per cent on undivided income.
(The President has suggested that
$620,000,000 additional Federal reve
nue be raised by a tax on dividends
and undistributed net income of
corporations. In addition, he has sug
gested $517,000,000 be produced over
two or three years through new and
broader processing taxes and a
"windfall” levy on unpaid or refunded
A. A. A. processing taxes.)
Hill said the agreement on a t flat
rate for corporations, which are re
stricted by State and Federal law and
contract obligations in issuing divi
dends, was subject to possible modifi
cation "after our staff has worked out
further details.”
MARYLAND BILL ASKS
$150,000 FLOOD RELIEF
Senator Ximble Preparing Meas
ure for Introduction in
State Legislature.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 20.—A
bill authorizing the State Board of Aid
and Charities to spend $150,000 in
the flooded areas of Maryland was be-1
lng drafted today by Senator Robert
B. Kimble (Allegany), for presenta
tion to the Legislature.
The measure would empower the
State Board of Public Works to make
the fund available. It would be spent
for medical and food supplies and
any other necessity required for the
rehabilitation and restoration of flood
sufferers to their homes.
Senator Kimble said he was plan
ning to request that the 1 per cent
gross receipts tax be continued for
30 days, with, the first $150,000 col
lected earmarked for the flood needs.
SPRING IS USHERED IN
WITH COLDER FORECAST
tain Tonight and Tomorrow
Likely tb Be Followed
by Snow.
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The vernal equinox ushered in the
first day of Spring this morning as
the Weather Bureau predicted rain
tonight and tomorrow, followed by in*
:reasing cold and probable snow.
The current forecast said, "Rain
onight and tomorrow, probably chang
ing to snow, accompanied by colder
aeather." Increasing easterly winds
ire expected to swing into the north
it northwest tomorrow.
The low tonight should be about 38
degrees. The minimum last night
sru 35 degrees.
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TO FORM MILITARY
ALLIANCE IN CASE
GERMANYJALKS
Eden Before Commons Tells
of Agreement Between
Britain, France, Belgium
and Italy.
LEAGUE OVERHAULING
PART OF PROPOSAL!
Provision Also Made for Buffer
State and Zone From Which
Reich Troops Would Be Imme*
diately Withdrawn—Germany
Objects to That. However.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 20.—The
House of Commons was told to
day that the four remaining Lo
carno powers have agreed to
join in a virtual military alliance
if Adolf Hitler refuses to con
sider proposals to re-establish
the security of Europe.
The proposals—agreed to by
Great Britain. France. Belgium
and Italy—were published in a
white paper submitted to the
Commons as Anthony Eden,
British foreign secretary, began
an explanation to the Lower
House.
A German spokesman, shortly
I after the proposals were made
public, said the plan “might
form a basis for discussion if
certain unilateral parts like the
police zone and The Hague Court
reference were eliminated.” He
declared Germany must be
treated as an equal and would
not tolerate foreign troops on her
cnil
The plan envisages an international
conference to overhaul the League of
Nations and greatly widen its scop*
from existing limitations.
Provision was also mad: to set up a
buffer zone against Germany along the
Franco-Belgian borders. The zone
would be occupied by international
troops, including British and Italian
forces, until a new security treaty
could be drawn.
Withdrawal Zone.
The proposed zone would be 20 kilo
meters wide, from which German
troops would be withdrawn. The pro
posals demand that movement of Ger
man troops into the Rhine zone must
be suspended while French and Bel
gian governments suspend sending
forces into zones adjoining their
frontiers.
“I venture to think the Commons
will consider the proposed arrange
ments to create a sense of security
during the period of negotiation are
fair and reasonable," Eden said to the
members, “and indicate the spirit In
which the question has been ap
proached by the French and Belgian
governments.”
The proposals are subject to ratifi
cation by the four governments par
ticipating. The British. French and
Belgian cabinets have already ap
proved.
London diplomatic quarters are
awaiting official reaction from the
German government.
In an annex, the four powers agreed
that should Hitler spurn the plan,
Great Britain and Italy, as guaran
tors of the Locarno pact, immediately
would Inform France and Belgium
that they would come to their assist
ance in a manner jointly approved.
This duty, however, would be recip
rocal and would oblige France and
Belgium to come to the assistance of
Italy and Great Britain to resist un
provoked German aggression.
The general staffs of the nations
(See LONDON," Page fj “
CASHIER AND BANDIT
SLAIN IN BANK HOLD-UP
Burglars Hidden in Building Am
bush Employe at Blooming
dale, Ind.
By the Associated Press.
BLOOMINGDALE, Ind.. March
20.—Wood Carter, assistant cashier,
and an unidentified bandit were shot
and killed in a gun fight during tha
hold-up of the Bank of Blooming
dale today.
Carter was ambushed by the ban
dits when he arrived at the bank
this morning. Police said the hold
up men apparently were hidden in
the bank, having obtained entrance
during the night.
The bodies of Wood and the un
identified man were found by Leon
idas J. Brown, cashier.
As far as known there were no
witnesses to the shooting.
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Sports_ D-l-2-3
Women’s Features-C-6
Washington Wayside-D-8