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WEATHER. "
(U. S. Weather Bureau lurecaat.) . .
Cloudy, warmer, probably showers to- ine only evening paper
night and tomorrow; minimum about 43 jll Washington With the
degrees; Sunday probably fair. Tempera- A 6 xt C
tures—Highest. 44, at noon yesterday; ASSOCiated rreSS NeWS
lowest, 39. at 6:30 p.m. yesterday. and Wirephoto Services
Full report on page A-ll. r
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CALLES AND THREE
AIDES EXILED TO
0. S. AFTER COOP
Mexican Ex-President Ac
cused in Train Bombing
Fatal to 12.
SURPRISE ARRESTS
CAUSED BY LEFTISTS
Former Cabinet Officers Among
Those Placed on Airplane
for Texas Stop.
d a n irr* nr\TTKin
Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, vow I
in his S9th year, rose to the his
torical position of Mexico's strong
est ruler from humble birth as a
peon in absolute poverty. He
fought in 1910 as a revolutionary
against Porfirio Diaz.
He first became President in 1924,
but previous to that he had main
tained President Alvaro Obregon in
power. Afterward he made Emilio
Portes Gil, Pascual Ortiz Rubio and
Gen. Abclardo Rodriguez Presi
dents in succession. It was his ap
proval which gave the presidency
to Cardenas, the present Chief Ex
ecutive of Mexico, in 1934. They
split, more than a year ago, on
questions of labor policy.
(Copyright. 193B, by the Associated Press !
MEXICO CITY. April 10.—Gen.
Plutarco Elias Calles. for 11 years
the "strong man” of Mexico, was ar
rested today in a surprise coup by the
government. With him were arrested
three of his principal advisers.
All four were placed aboard an air
plane carrying them to forced exile
In the United States.
Federal troops and secret police
agents went to the homes of the four
tn on cVinrtlv affop miHninKf ♦ r\ nsolro
the arrests. In addition to Calles. they
arrested Luis Morones, former min
ister of labor; Luis Leon, former min
ister of the interior and agriculture,
and Rafael Melchor Ortega, former
governor of Guanajuato.
Calles and his three former aides
were held under guard throughout
the remainder of the night. Then
they were taken to the central air
port and placed aboard a tri-motor
airplane which took off for Browns
ville, Tex., at 8:12 a m.
Blamed in Bombing.
The arrests followed the publica
tion of charges by the left wing of
the Chamber of Deputies that Calles
was responsible for the bombing of
the Vera Cruz train last Monday in
W'hich 12 persons were killed.
The Leftists also claimed that he
was fomenting anti-government agi
tation in an attempt to provoke the
intervention of the United States in
Mexico.
Ostensibly. Gen. Calles had re
frained from political activity since
December, when he returned from six
months’ voluntary exile in the United
States after losing his control over
the nation’s politics last June.
The government, however, appar- j
ently feared he was trying to regain
his old political power through the
Regional Confederation of Workers
and Peasants, which has been con
trolled by Morones.
As a result. Gen. Lazaro Cardenas,
the President of the republic, or- J
dered the arrests, which were carried
out with the strictest secrecy.
Denies Political Interest.
Calles was interviewed only yester
day by the Associated Press at his
Santa Barbara ranch outside the cap
ital. At that time he denied any in
terest in politics and it was obvious 1
that he had no premonition of his I
Impending exile.
At midnight, Gen. Rafael Navarro,
commander of the military zone of
the Valley of Mexico, threw a strong
force of troops around Santa Bar
bara.
Gen. Navarro and three officers en
tered Calles’ bed room, where the for
mer President, for four days past, had
been ill with influenza.
Navarro said: “By the orders of
President Cardenas, you must leave
Mexico because the conditions of the
country so demand.’’
Calles replied: “I am your prisoner,
since I have no forces, and you may
take me to an airplane or before a
firing squad. I consider that the con
ditions of the country are due, not to
me. but to the government itself.”
While waiting for the military escort
to arrive at Santa Barbara and take
(See CALLES, Page 2.)
FORECAST EXTENDS
HOPE FOR EASTER
Long-Range Prediction Sees
Sunny Skies Sunday, but
Rain Tonight.
Sunday probably will be a good day
for Easter bonnets, as far as the
weather is concerned.
In other words, clear skies more
than likely will brighten the Capital's
Easter parade—but that’s a long-range
forecast, made today, when more rain
was in sight for the immediate future.
Cloudy and probably occasional
rains today and tonight is the pre
diction. Tomorrow is expected to be
fair and slightly warmer.
Yesterday’s maximum temperature
was 44 degrees at 11:30 a.m., while the
lun woo Ob v*uv y-ill. a lie uUUls
mum this morning was 41, recorded
at 8 o'clock.
An inch and a half of rain has
fallen here so far this month, with '
0.66 of an inch being recorded in the
last 24 hours. 1
The cherry blossoms were still hold
ing up well despite the continued in- 1
clement weather. They are expected 1
to present a "fairly good" show by
Sunday. ' i
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40 Penitent Drunks Sentenced
To Sober Tryst in Church Pew
- i -
Young Judge Reminds
Offenders That Day
Is Good Friday.
Stronger Penalty Due
Any Who Return
After Easter.
Church instead of Jail was the “Good
Friday sentence" handed out In Police
Court today to 40-odd penitent drunks.
Judge Edward M. Curran, who came
to the bench three weeks ago at the
age of 32, greeted the first imbiber
haled before him with the surprising
question:
"Do you know what day this is?”
The man blinked, but kept his wits
about him. He might have replied,
"The morning after the night before,”
but said, instead:
“Good Friday, your honor.”
“And what church • do you be
long to?”
"To the Catholic Church, your
honor/* the man replied.
“Well, then, if I withhold sentence
will you go to church today and spend
at least 15 minutes being sorry?”
The defendant agreed with alacrity.
JUDGE CURRAN.
and the next stepped into the dock.
The prisoners were brought in five
I or six at a time. The five who fol
lowed may or may not have taken
their cue from the first man.
The fact remains, however, that
(See CHURCH. Page 4.)
ZEPPELIN ARRIVES
Motor Trouble Brings Shift
to Shorter Course
Over France.
BACKGROUND—
Germany's new dirigible, the
Htndenburg, is nearly twice the
size of the veteran Graf Zeppelin
which was forced to land at Tou
lon, France, several years ago after
cruising for 24 hours with disabled
engines. The Hindenburg left
Friedrichshafen on its first trans
Atlantic flight March 31, arrived at
Rio de Janeiro April 4, and started
the return trip April 6. It traveled
by way of the Netherlands and the
English Channel to avoid crossing
over French territory.
French officials said at the time
that permission to fly over France
would have been given, but that (he
request was received too late to be
answered.
Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.!
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germeoy,
Anril 1A _li — _U
landed here today at 6:30 p.m. (12:30
p.m.. Eastern standard time), com
pleting a round trip to Rio de Janeiro.
The big airship made its landing
way ahead of schedule, due strangely
enough, to motor trouble. It had
been scheduled to come into its home
port tomorrow morning, after a flight
around the coast of France and up
the English Channel.
However, engine difficulty was ex
perienced as the Hindenburg passed
over Morocco co its way north, and
the ship changed its course to cut
across France coming home. •
Reports that the Zeppeline was hav
ing trouble were not confirmed offi
cially for a long time. Fort 14 hours—
since it first became known that the
Hindenburg had asked the French gov
ernment for permission to fly over
France on the shortest route to Fried
richshafen—the officials had denied
reports of engine trouble aboard the
ship.
Reports One Motor Dead.
Capt. Hans von Schiller, commander
of the Graf Zeppelin, companion ship
to the Hindenburg, said the new Zep
pelin finally reported early today that
one motor had gone out completely,
and that the second was functioning
improperly.
Capt. Von Schiller said the French
government had granted permission to
the Hindenburg to use the regular
route of the Graf Zeppelin up the
Rhine Valley "as an exception, for the
ship was in trouble.”
He said the Hindenburg was now
making 105 kilometers an hour, com
pared to its average of from 120 to 140
on the outward flight.
The Hindenburg was over Barce
lona, Spain, when it sent its first
morning report at 8 o’clock (2 a.m.
Eastern standard time). Originally
due in Priedrichshafen tomorrow
morning, the Zeppelin was expected to
reach its home base here this after
noon.
Remain on Slower Pace.
Dispatches from correspondents
aboard the ship did not mention any
difficulties, but remarked that the
Zeppelin was making only 80 kilo
meters an hour, instead of the 120 to
140 kilometers an hour, averaged on
the outward journey, the ship’s first
flight to Brazil. This reduced speed,
iirect advices from the Hindenburg
said, was caused by strong head winds.
To unconfirmed reports in French
aviation circles that the pistons, or a
:onnecting rod, of one of the Hinden
jurg’s engines had broken, German
officials replied that the Zeppelin could
navigate, even with three of its four
:ngines out of commission.
TIFF “PUNK”
O’Brien Plan Pledges Con
tinuance of Reciprocal
Trade Agreement Act.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
A tariff plank for the Republican
national platform, pledging the G. O.
P. to continuance of the reciprocal
trade agreement act with perfecting
amendments, has been prepared by
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of
the United States Tariff Commission
and a Massachusetts Republican. Al
ready his proposal has stirred up a
hornet's nest.
Chairman O'Brien said today he
planned to go to the Republican Na
tional Convention in Cleveland and
make a fight for the inclusion of his
tariff plank in the party platform.
O'Brien sent copies to the Republic
an members of the House Ways and
Means Committee and of the Senate
finance committee, wmcn nanaie
tariff legislation.
Representative Treadway of Massa- j
chusetts. ranking Republican member j
of the House Ways and Means Com- J
mittee. came back with a Stirling reply ;
that if he were a member of the com
mittee on resolutions at the national
convention he would never permit
Chairman O'Brien to be heard on such
a proposition.
Take It to Democrats.
Representative Harold Knutson of
Minnesota, another Republican mem
ber of the Ways and Means Commit
tee. said in a reply to O’Brien:
"Take your plank to the Democratic
National Convention. That's where it
belongs.”
Senator Capper of Kansas, Repub
lican member of the Senate Finance '
Committee, said:
"I do not believe any such plank j
would be accepted by the Republican 1
National Convention in Cleveland. Out:
in my part of the country the farmers
don't like the way the reciprocal trade !
agreements entered into by the Roose-:
velt administration are working. They j
| allow the entry into this country of
more foreign farm products.’’
Capper was one of those who voted
for the reciprocal trade agreement
law, giving the President the right to
make these trade agreements, but he
j does not like the way some of these
agreements have worked out.
Another Republican member of the
Finance Committee declared that
Chairman O'Brien was “merely in
the name of Republicans offering
something favored by the Democratic
administration.” This member, al
though he did not wish to be quoted,
declared himself flatly against the
proposal.
Sees Hard Sledding.
Chairman O’Brien admitted today
that hie tariff J
have hard sledding at the national
convention. He said he planned to
fight for it, however, and predicted
that he would have some Republican
support for it.
"This question of tariffs and tariff
policy is of vital importance to the
people of the United States,” said
O'Brien. "I want to see the Republic
an party, of which I am a member,
adopt a sound tariff plank. What
does the party want to do? Go back
to the old Republican tariff plan?”
In the draft of hiS tariff plank
O’Brien said, in part:
"Experience has shown that to frame
an old-fashioned tariff bill and let the
rest cf the world take it or leave it, is
no longer an adequate answer. Such
tariff making wrecked the administra
tions of two recent Republican Presi
dents, Hoover and Taft, besides sub
jecting the business of the country to
interminable delays and uncertainties,
all of which reacted on the party in
power. A repetition of this experience
we ought not now to invite, as we
(See TARIFF, Page 5.)
Representative Would Save Life
By Banning “Suicide Tango”
ay tne Associated Press.
To save the lives of persons prone
x) the blues, Representative Karl
Stefan of Nebraska Is seriously con
sidering a demand that the Hun
garian "suicide tango” song be barred
’rom the United States.
He said today he would determine
vhether the song, which Is called
‘Gloomy Sunday,” and narrates the
voes of a suitor whose girl failed to
ieep a Sunday rendezvous. Is really
is depressing as reported.
"If It Is,” he said, “I shaU bring
his fact to the 'vttentlon of Congress,
’erhaps we’ll ban it In America.”
He exhibited press reports which
elated how the tune was prohibited
in Hungary after police attributed a
number of strange suicides to its
melancholy strains.
The Representative then related
how this week a copy of the song had
been found on the body of 13-year-old
Floyd Hamilton, jr, discovered hang
ing in his home at Sturgis. Mich.
"Every one knows,” said Stefan,
“the effect music has on people. In
this country, where there’s a radio In
the majority of homes, this thing
might have a terrible consequence.”
The Nebraskan said he had written
to New York for a copy of “Gloomy
Sunday," which tells how the broken
hearted suitor writes his unfaithful
sweetheart that if she ever keeps the
tryst she’ll find a eeffln and wreaths.
in ASSAILS
RELIEF POLICY AS
CRUEL AND STUPID
60 Per Cent of Invented
Work Is Needlessly Ex
pensive, He Asserts.
CANAL, SHIP PROJECTS
NOT TO SHARE IN FUND
Bulk of $1,500,000,000 to Be
Used by W. P. A., House
Unit Told.
BACKGROUND—
The New Deal's uses for the
ti.000,000,000 appropriated by Con
gress a year ago in work relief act
have been targets for criticism and
ridicule. The Florida Ship Canal
iS the dpllfPSt. mifth ni/\9
Fletcher, but anathema to the cel
ery growers south of the supposed
course of the canal. Passama
quoddy’s effectiveness has been
questioned by engineers, and the
project drew laughs when it was
disclosed that period furniture was
to be supplied the houses around
the plant.
Bj the Associated Press.
In a slashing attack on relief pol
icies, Hugh S. Johnson said the work
relief program is 'as cruel as it is
stupid” in a report issued today
shortly after the House Appropriations
Committee had received “positive as
surances” from Harry L. Hopkins that
none of the new $1,500,000,000 relief
appropriation would be used for the
Florida ship canal or^the Passama
quoddy tide-hamessing project.
Johnson's criticisms were set out in
his final report as New York City
W. P. A. administrator, a post he gave
up last Fall.
Conclusions by the former N. R. A.
chief included:
"Sixty per cent of this invented
work is a needlessly expensive and
__
“The only argument is that it pre
serves time against the humiliation of
home relief. Yet to go on work re
lief, the rules require that a man first
go on home relief. To get there he
must submit to the equivalent of a
pauper’s oath and a most humiliating
inquisition.
Claims Ostracism Risked.
"If a man on home relief finds a
fugitive dollar in private employment
he risks ostracism from any kind of
relief.
“It is as cruel as it is stupid, because
the area of available relief money no
where near covers the area of desti
tution and the vast waste occasioned
by this ill-informed dogma subjects
the whole Government to amply Justi
fied ridicule, and insistence on it not
only deprives tens of thousands of
people of relief, but Involves the Gov
ernment in more inconsistencies than
loyal ingenuity can excuse.
“The money should be disbursed as
direct relief except for worthwhile and
necessary work on a basis of cost
competitive with contemporary public
construction.
“More than half of all this effort is
prodigal pretense justified by nothing.
“I note the reiteration that new
Government relief plans will be ’all
work and no dole.’ If it is, imagina
tion must become more fanciful still,
disregard of expenditure more prodigal
QhH nro inal oaeiilin Man. 1 _ I
ous. X earnestly hope that such will
not be the case.”
Cites Interference.
Condemning what he termed inter
ference in getting the work program
started in New York. Johnson told
Hopkins:
“By actual count. 90 per cent of my
letters asking various authorities and
rulings were unanswered and I was
consistently unable to reach you on
the telephone unless I almost literally
turned in a riot call.”
The assurances given by Hopkins
relative to the proposed use of the new
relief appropriation were revealed by
committee members.
The relief administrator, who spent
two days before a subcommittee in a
hearing on President Roosevelt's re
quest for $1,500,000,000 for next year,
has completed his testimony, but it
will not be made public officially until
the committee reports the relief bill
to the House.
Committee members quoted Hopkins
as saying all the proposed appropria
tion would go to his Works X»rogress
Administration except for a limited
sum to Rexford G. Tugwell’s Resettle
ment Administration.
Republican members immediately
asked that Tugwell be called, but
i/iiauuiiu oucnan&n saia it naa not
been decided whether any further
hearings would be held.
Hopkins, committeemen said, testi
fied the proposed appropriation prob
ably would not last through next year
unless business absorbed a large por
tion^ the unemployed. He was re
(See RELIEF, Page 4.)
Mrs. Atwood, Golfer, Mother.
CHICAOO, April 10 (/P).—A 7-pound
13-ounce girl was born today to
Mrs. Philip T. Atwood, women's West
ern golf champion In 1933. Mrs.
Atwood was the former June Dorothy
Beebe.
Caster itlusit
Mankind’s celebration of
the season of resurrection
has inspired some of the
world's greatest music.
Much of the best of this
music will be played and
sung in Washington churches
on Sunday.
A complete, detailed sum
mary of the musical pro
grams of the various
churhes will be carried in the
Feature Section
I of
utyf Stinting 9tsr
TOMORROW
?
^OW IF THE F*05TS\
DONT Come ALONG
AMD SPJLLTHE BEAMsI ^
Jailer Aids Beard, Off to Cell,
In Obtaining Liquor License
Prince Georges Official Joins Hastily
Formed Firm as Nominal Associate
Just "to Help Sam.”
iu* puiauuu uackiijr iUUilCU U V
Sam Beard, en route now to Atlanta
penitentiary, with the help of Jailer
Oliver Ford of Upper Marlboro. Md..
today held a license permitting the
gambling king’s Upper Marlboro hotel
once more to serve wine, whisky and
beer. The document was issued late
yesterday by the Prince Georges
County Board of License Commis
sioners at almost the same time Beard
boarded pis prison train in Union
Station.
Ford explained he joined the enter
prise, launched 10 days ago after the
hotel had suffered a four-day drought. |
as a mere nominal associate so ’ Beard
could get his license." The incor- j
porators also Include Mrs. Lillian
Beard, wife of the pudgy man whose
15-year overlordship of Washington
| gaming was ended last Spring with a
conviction tor conspiracy, ana nis
brother. William J. Beard.
The dry-spell at the Marlboro Hotel,
on the outskirts of the Prince Georges
county seat, began when Beard dis
charged his manager, George Doolis.
The liquor license went with Doolis,
for the beverage permit was issued in
his name
When the Doolis license was sur
rendered, the ex-manager and Beard
are said by police to have argued so
vociferously that police were forced to
separate them. The authorities ques
tioned Beard and say they asked him
to leave town. Not long after, the
gambler hit on the corporation idea
as a fool-proof means of keeping the
license no matter what happened.
Beard, smiling and in good spirits—
and without handcuffs or other marks
(See BEARD, Page 27)
ROOSEVELT FACES
Arrival This Afternoon to
Find Mass of Mail and
Detail Matters.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
A mass ol mail and accumulated
; departmental papers awaited President
I Roosevelt today when he arrived back
: in Washington from his vacation
i cruise in Southern waters.
President Roosevelt's special train
arrived in Union Station at exactly
1:30 p.m. He was given a warm wel
come by Mrs. Roosevelt and several
members of his official family in addi
tion to several hundred citizens.
With Mrs. Roosevelt on hand to
greet the President were Vice Presi
dent Garner, Secretary of State Hull,
Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau,
Attorney General Cummings. Secretary
of War Dem, Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace and Undersecretary of In
terior West.
President in Good Health.
The President appeared on the rear
nlotfnrt« KrnivinH a cmilinn 1 m
parently the best of health. He was
wearing a gray soft hat, a gray suit
and no top coat despite the chilly
weather.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the others in
the official group boarded the Presi
dents train and greeted him in the
drawing room of his special car. About
10 minutes later, with Mrs. Roosevelt
by his side, the President drove to
the White House.
The President plans to confer im
mediately with administration assist
ants, checking what has happened in
(See ROOSEVELT, Page 4.)
GERMANY’S LONDON
ENVOY SUCCUMBS
Von Hoesch, Heart Stroke Victim,
Had Been in Conferences on
Bhine Situation.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 10— Leopold von
Hoesch, Oerman Ambassador to Great
Britain, died in London today from
heart disease.
The 55-year-old Ambassador, who
had been busy with Joachim von
Rlbbentrop in a series of conferences
and negotiations with Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden since Germany’s
occupation of the Rhineland, returned
last night, apparently in good health.
Embassy attaches said he had “been
feeling aU right recently,” but suf
fered a heart attack at 9:30 am. (4:30
a.m., E. S. T.) and died 15 minutes
later.
Von Hoesch started his diplomatic
career in the German Legation at
Peiping in 1907. He served the Lon
don Embassy for years before the
World War, and was German Am
bassador in Paris in 1924.
He has been the Reich Ambassador
in London since 1932, joining von
Rlbbentrop, Adolf Hitler's special
ambassador at large, in the negoti
ations over Germany’s violation of
the Locarno and Versailles treaties
by remilitarisation of the Rhineland.
I
ONE KILLED. 4 B
Judge and Former Sheriff
in Pennsylvania Escape
Deadly Packages.
BULLETIN’.
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 10 uP).
—State officials said at 2:35 p.m.
they were notified a second death
has occurred in the bombings at
Wilkes-Barre.
By the Associated Press.
WILKES-BARRE. Pa., April 10 —
Bombs sent in the mail killed a man
and injured four others today and
authorities interceDted othpr tanmtas
one addressed to a judge and one to
a former sheriff.
Michael Gallagher, 50, a cemetery
caretaker, was killed a few hours after
Thomas Maloney, president of an in
active mine union, and his two chil
dren were seriously hurt by an
explosion.
Apparently marked for death were
Judge Benjamin R. Jones of Luzerne
County and former Sheriff Luther
Kniffen.
The explosives were sent in the
guise of Easter presents.
Grave fears were expressed for
Maloney and his 4-year-old son. His
17-year-old daughter. Margaret, was
less seriously hurt when the nitro
glycerin bomb exploded and sent
kitchen furniture flying.
Gravely hurt in the explosion whteh
killed Gallagher was his son-in-law,
Clinton Lehman, a school teacher.
The bomb addressed to former
Sheriff Kniffen was delivered at his
home but, warned by the other ex
plosions, he sent it back to the post
office where it was opened without
damage.
JEWELRY SHOP ROBBED
Thieves early today smashed the
window of Castelberg's jewelry store at
1004 F street and looted display Jew
elry valued at $2,,’83.
Valuation of the jewelry was made
by Charles G. Gallagher, manager of
the store.
20,000,000 Chinese Starving
As Famine Follows Red Army
ay toe Associated tress.
CHUNKING, Sze-Chuan Province,
China, April 10.—At least 20,000,000
persons are starving in this western
moat province of China, as famine
has followed Red armies which have
devastated this once plenteous area.
With a majority of the province’s
northern counties plundered to the
last chicken, and even seed grain
gone, terrible hunger and disease
exist through about 30 per cent of
the province’s 70,000,000 people.
Vernacular newspapers print grue
some accounts of the sale of human
flesh, obtained by robbing graves, of
cannibalism and of the sale of chil
dren by starving parents.
Authorities in the larger centers
report an alarming Increase in the
/
NAVY YARD BLAST
Mine Testing Laboratory
Rocked—Explosives
Menaced by Fire.
Two civilian employes were injured
seriously when an explosion rocked
the two-story brick mine-testing lab
oratory at the Navy Yard early this
afternoon.
Fire trucks rushed to the scene
and spent nearly an hour extinguish
ing the blaze, removing high explosives
and spraying the first floor with chemi
cals.
The injured were:
Joseph Ross, civilian ordnance man,
reported severely hurt.
R. L. Watkins, civilian instrument
maker, overcome by smoke. He was
taken to public health hospital in old
Post Office Building at Twelfth street
and Pennsylvania avenue for treat
ment.
Building Full of Explosives.
The building was full of high ex
plosives and chemicals.
The first-floor experimental lab
oratory was wrecked. Several win
dows were shattered by the detonation.
The inside walls and window casings
were charred.
The laboratory is used for the test
ing of all mine ingredients, explosives
and powder.
aiuie man six nre irucKS, including
chemical apparatus, rushed to the
scene.
Cause of the explosion was not de
termined immediately.
THRONG GREETS DISC
AT JOURNEY’S END
Giant Telescope Casting Reaches
Pasadena—To Be Trucked
to Mount Palomar.
By the Associated Press.
PASADENA. Calif., April 10.—The
20-ton disc for the Mount Palomar
200-inch telescope arrived safely today
at the end of a 3.300-mile train jour
ney across the Nation.
me special ireigm irain carrying
the largest glass casting in the world
completed the last leg of its run from
San Bernardino, Calif., to Lamanda
Park, Pasadena suburb, at 8:30 a.m.,
Pacific standard time.
Preparations were started to load
the casting on a low-backed truck to
carry it 8 miles to the building on
the California Institute of Technology
campus, where for the next three or
four years it will be ground and
polished.
A crowd of about 2,000 saw the train
complete its slow, guarded run from
Corning, N. Y.
Capt. Clyde S. McDowell. United
States Navy officer and supervising
engineer of the $6,000,000 astronom
ical project, said there was every, indi
cation that the lens was in perfect
condition.
One Dies in Hotel Fire.
BLOOMSBURG. Pa, April 10 (/Pi.—
One woman burned to death and two
other persons were injured, one seri
ously, in a fire that damaged Fisher’s
Hotel early today. Firemen found
the body of Mrs. William Lehman, 50,
of Bloomsburg, an employe of the
hotel, and mother of five. Mrs. John
J. Fisher, 62, wife of the owner, was
in a serious condition from burns.
Fisher suffered minor burns.
number of dead bodies of homeless
and unidentified persons who have
crawled miserably into the towns,
hoping to find morsels of food, but
finding only disappointment.
In Chungking, which is well out
side the famine area, the number of
such dead persons has totaled about
2,000 in recent weeks.
Authorities face an appalling task,
with virtually no funds for it. Only
about 1,000,000 Shanghai dollars
(about $297,000) has been raised for
famine relief.
The price of rice, the staple food
of the province, has jumped 40 per
cent and is going higher because of
the increasing scarcity and hoarding
by those who have it. This means
hardship to additional millions out
side the famine area.
I
U. S. URGED TO IN
AMERICAK NATIONS
DEFENSE ALLIANCE
President Ubico of Guate
mala Offers Plan to
Roosevelt.
FOR CONSIDERATION
AT SUMMER PARLEY
Mutual Protection From Foreign
Aggression Through Monroe
Doctrine. Policy Aim.
(Copyright. 1906, by the Associated Press >
A concert of American nations,
pledged to mutual assistance in case
of foreign aggression, has been pro
posed to President Roosevelt by Gen.
Jorge Ubico, President of the Republic
-_l _
The plan, presented for considera
tion by the All-American Peace Con
ference to be held this Summer at
Bueno6 Aires, in effect would call
upon all the nations of Central and
South America for their adherence to
the Monroe Doctrine.
To preserve peace among the Amer
ican nations themselves the Guate
malan chief executive suggested a
permanent court of inter-American
justice, modeled generally after the
World Court at The Hague, with
jurisdiction to settle by arbitration
all disputes among them.
Suggested Draft Covenant.
President Ubico’s proposals were
submitted in the form of a suggested
draft covenant, included in his for
mal acceptance of President Roose
velt's invitation to the conference.
They first must be approved by the
conference Agenda Committee before
they can become a part of the pro
gram.
He advocated a general treaty of
“solidarity and mutual co-operation."
It would be an organic system of
inter-American legislation designed to
maintain peace, promote commerce,
advance the development of commu
nications and contribute to the cul
tural and social welfare of the re
spective countries.
Such a treaty would be based on
the doctrine that common continental
interests exist among the American
i republics "and that those interests
i require them to maintain a solidarity
; of principles fundamental to their
i existence as members of the interna
! tional American community.”
Assistance Clause.
The proposed mutual assistance
clause says:
"Considering interventions or ag
gressions by any foreign power against
any of them a danger to the integrity
and sovereignty of the nations of this
continent, they obligate themselves to
place all their resources in defense of
the rights of the injured party.”
The succeeding article would pro
claim that the "mutual co-operation
herein pledged constitutes in Itself
an association of the American re
publics, with sufficient powers for the
maintenance inviolate of American
rights and interests.”
Senor Don Adrian Recinos, Guate
j malan Minister to Washington, ex
i plained that acceptance of this pro
; vision by the other nations would con
stitute multilateral adherence to the
Monroe Doctrine, now a fundamental
principle of United States foreign
By proclaiming the doctrine. Presi
dent Monroe delivered a warning to
powers outside the Western Hemis
phere to “keep hands off'' the nations
in the American continent.
Feeling of Resentment.
Hitherto, some resentment has been
manifested by some Latin-American
governments because it was felt that
the United States had assumed
through the doctrine to act as the
guardian of the New World.
President Roosevelt's “good neigh
bor" policy is designed primarily to
remove any such feeling.
President Ubico’s suggested draft
would authorize the creation of a
“permanent court of inter-American
justice with jurisdiction to settle
whatever conflicts may arise among
the signatory republics.” The or
ganization procedure and rules to
govern the court would be formulated
by a separate convention.
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS
WILL SUPPORT LANDON
Crupper Predicts Enthusiastic In
dorsement of Kansan by
State Convention.
The Republican State Convention
in Roanoke. Va.. tomorrow will "en
thusiastically indorse" if it does not
formally “instruct” for Gov. Alf M.
Landon of Kansas. Joseph C. Crupper
of Virginia predicted before leaving
here for the convention.
Crupper said that all district con
ventions of Republicans in Virginia
heretofore have favored strongly the
nnminatfnn nf tha ffarueax OfiVPmnr
for President.
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