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PLEDGE OP DEFICIT
CUT UNREALIZED
Figures Indicate Year to
Show Expenses Gain
Again on Income.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
With only 80 days left in the pres
ent fiscal year which ends on June
30. the condition of the Treasury is
not in accord with expectations. Presi
dent Roosevelt’s promise that this year
the deficit wouli by comparison with
last year show a drop has not been
realized.
If recovery is here or on the way,
the official figures of the Treasury’s
condition show a puzzling increase in
expenses instead of a diminution.
Thus, using round numbers, here is
the way the Treasury stands:
1. Expenses are $5,546,000,000, as
compared with $5,238,000,000 Just a
year ago.
2. Receipts are $3,199,000,000, as
compared with $2,980,000,000.
Thus, the Government is taking in
about $219,000,000 more than it did
a year ago, but it is spending $308,
000.000 more than it did a year ago.
So it is running behind its year-ago
situation by about $90,000,000. This is
reflected in the official figures for the
deficit now as compared with a year
ago. Here it is:
Deficit a year ago, $2,258,000,000.
Deficit this year. $2,347,000,000.
3 Billion Deficit Likely.
Since the Government is running
behind last year with increasing speed
and since the bulk of the revenue pay
ments on income taxes have already
come in, the chances are the deficit
will run over $3,000,000,000 for the
present fiscal year and if it finally
does show up a bit behind last year,
the difference will be relatively small.
The fact remains that the United
States Government for four successive
years-will have had deficits in excess
of $3,000,000,000.
The public debt figure Is the mo6t
disappointing of all. It is now at $21,
437,000 as compared with $28,855,000,
000 a year ago.
This is larger than the President
anticipated in his budget message
when he said that the Federal deficit
would be $31,351,000,000 by July 1,
1937. So the Federal Treasury is way
behind its own official predictions.
Doesn’t Include Total.
The public debt figures do not, of
course, Include the contingent lia
bilities, that is, the securities issued
which are guaranteed either as to in
terest or principal or both by the Fed
eral Government. That's another $4.
600.000,000.
The worst aspect of the Federal
figures is that the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. is no longer a drain
on the Treasury but is actually pour
ing in money out of repayments from
the railroads and banks. Also the
Public Works Administration is not
causing much of a drain as it, too, is
using a revolving fund.
The real crux of the difficulty is the
way the W. P. A. or Works Progress
Administration expense is climbing
up. It is runnnig at the average of
about $45,000,000 a week. These ex
penses since last November have been
about $744,000,000. The W. P. A. is
far more expensive than direct relief,
in fact almost twice as heavy.
Another evidence of the fact that
business is getting better is that the
receipts from customs duties are $303,
000,000 as compared with $265,000,000
a year ago. But all these improve
ments which reflect increased receipts
are more than offset by the heavy
expenses the Federal Government is
incurring.
Cut After Election Possible.
It may be, of course, that after the
election the New Deal will begin
sharply to curtail its outlay. To dimin
ish the spending now it is feared might
Interfere with the New Deal’s oppor
tunity for victory in November. Once
that victory is achieved, however, there
will be a sharp tapering off all along
the line. This wlil be compelled by
reason of the rapid rate of rise in the
public debt if not by the public senti
ment for economy that probably will be
built up m the campaign itself.
Now the figures given in the above
paragraphs do not in any way include
the soldier bonus, which will not be
disbursed until after July I. As for
the A. A. A. the Treasury always kept
processing tax collections ahead of
payments to farmers, and when the
A. A. A. was declared invalid, this sit
uation was reversed and it did cut
down on receipts. But, on the other
hand, the payments to farmers are
about the same as they were last year
and still the expenses of the Govern
ment as a whole are higher than a
year ago.
(Copyright, 1936.)
Irvin S. Cobb
Latest Hollywood Fight
Between Riskin and
Ruskin Was Thriller.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 14.
--Naturally I have hot, Southern
blood, which seems to be the hottest
there is, although down home I never
noticed it. But.
up North, if
trouble impend
ed, people would
speak of my hot.
Southern blood,
when all the
time I thought
I was having a
nervous chill.
Being thus all
hot-blooded-up, I
adore fighting, if
somebody else
does it. Since
our movie heroes
always stage
their combats in
some- utterly secluded spot, such as
a cafe or a night club, I hurry hither
and yon to be present when an em
bittered star satisfies his honor by
bouncing a special order of sweet
breads under glass with mushrooms—
20 minutes, 90 cents—off some rival’s
classic profile.
But it's hard enough for me to
get in touch with a waiter, let alone
a good plate-tossing contest. Today
the war correspondents report two
brisk battles on the Hollywood front
and I'm absent as usual.
In the main bout both gladiators
were script writers, proverbially a
tigerish breed. Believe it or not, a
Mr. Riskin tangled with a Mr. Rus
kin, the presumption being that (me
of the gentlemen regarded the other
as a typographical error.
(Copyrlcht, 1930, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
N
What’s What
Behind News
in Capital
Pan - American Parley
May Give Neighbor
Policy Fire Test.
BY PAUL MALLON.
I^HE Roosevelt good-neighbor pol
icy is beginning to get ft little
involved, upstairs. In the ques
tion of who Is good, and how
good. The State Department branch
of the official family, for Instance,
was much perturbed on the inside a
few days back about having to go to
the assistance of an undemocratic
Latin-American neighbor, Dictator
Carlas of Honduras.
Within the family It was well un
derstood that State Secretary Hull
suffered considerable anguish before
sending a destroyer after a couple of
American boats suspected of smug
gling arms from Mexico to Honduras.
Officials around chimed in on
his sigh of relief when the de
stroyer failed to find the smugglers,
if any. Thus the help proved in
effective and the point of the issue
was dulled.
An official explanation was issued
that an investigation had disclosed no
violation of American laws, and thus
the department was able to call the
whole thing off.
On Neighborliness Border.
The Honduran dictator, Mr. arias,
may be said to be the last neighbor
in the last house down by the railroad
tracks in the hemisphere, as far as
Mr. Hull is concerned.
Mr. Carias has just finished a four
year term as President, and has In
duced his assembly to extend his term
another six years, without going to
the trouble of having an election.
The only way his opposition can
submit him to the people is at the
point of a gun. According to all re
ports, members of the opposition have
made excellent preparations to that
effect. The betting around here is
that they will not be long, whether or
not those two particular boats ar
rived in Honduras with the Mexican
arms.
It will be denied officially, of
course, but there was only one
reason why Mr. Hull was not in
clined to be particular about Mr.
Carias’ neighborhood record. The
Pan-American Conference is in the
offing and the Latins are sensitive
neighbors.
What may prove to be far more
serious is the fact that some others
down in that end of the neighborhood
have hinted that they have bigger
ideas than ours about running the
forthcoming neighborhood confer
ence.
Big Brother Role Difficult.
Frankly, their suggestions are get
ting out of hand. Internal Latin
American politics is beginning to creep
in. In proposing the conference, it
was. and still is, the intention of this
Government to confine it solely to
peace pacts. But Chile, for some
time, has been worried by Argentine
armament purchases, especially air
planes. So the President of Chile, in
his response to President Roosevelt,
suggested that the conference take
up the question of limitation of arma
ments in this hemisphere.
Our armament limitations have al
ways been dependent solely on activi
ties in the eastern and western ends
of this neighborhood (England, Eu
rope, Japan). It has no natural rela
tion to South American armaments.
If we ever get mixed up with the
southern lads, we would have to play
the role of big brother, which is even
more difficult than good neighbor, at
times.
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Just to make matters more compli
cated, Guatemala also has come for
ward with a plan for a mutual assist
ance pact and establishment of a per
manent court of justice for this hem
isphere.
You can imagine what the Senate
would do to that embarrassing idea.
The current official family here
likes the Latins, but not enough to
enter any mutual assistance pact
with them beyond mere consulta
tion. And it distinctly does not like
pence courts after what the Senate
did to the last one. This one would
be worse because we would have to
make advance commitments, such
as probably a promise to refer to
third parties the disputes which
might arise with Pan-America over
our defense measures in the Pacific.
Another unbright idea is the sug
gestion of certain other Latin Ameri
can nations that diplomatic procedure
prevail on the Conference Agenda
Committee. This would mean majority
rule. If that ever happened, we
would have one vote, the same as the
tiniest nation. Furthermore, a ma
jority would not be on our side in de
ciding many subjects to be discussed
at the conference, as the suggestions
have indicated.
Consequently, subjects for discus
sion will be selected by unanimous
consent, or Mr. Roosevelt will move
his Interest to another neighborhood.
Suave Mr. Sumner Welles, Assist
ant Secretary of State, has been des
ignated unofficially as neighborhood
mediator. He is making an effort to
quiet every one down. However, his
experiences so far have convinced
many a topnotcher here, if not Mr.
Welles himself, that "the policy of the
good neighbor" may turn out to be
just another good phrase.
(CopTTlSht, 1930.)
V. F. W. OFFICIAL DIES
National Liaison Officer Succumbs
in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, April 14 (IP).—
Oscar R. Murray, 41, national liaison
officer of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, died in the Soldiers' Home at
Sawtelle, a suburb, yesterday. He
entered the hospital March 34 for am*
putation of an arm necessitated by a
shrapnel wound.
Murray served in the World War as
a member of Company H, 305th In
fantry. Interment will be mads in the
Soldiers’ Home Cemetery Friday with
full military honors.
ARTIST IS CLEARED
III TITTERTON CASE
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Police Decide Horstmann
Not Man Seen Near
Author’s Apartment.
£7 the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 14.—A Green
wich Village artist was eliminated
from the baffling Nancy Evans Titter
ton murder case today after police de
termined he was not the tall, blond
man seen near the strangled author’s
apartment.
Herman W. Horstmann, 26, was
questioned after he was arrested on a
charge of violating the Sullivan gun
carrying law, but Assistant Chief In
spector John A. Lyons said:
"He is out of the picture completely
and has no bearing on the case what
ever.”
Horstmann has light brown hair. A
midtown modiste had told police a
tall, blond man had given her two
worthless checks, and neighbors of
Mrs. Titterton in exclusive Beekman
place had reported a man of similar
appearance in the vicinity.
Little Interest in Convict.
Officers also expressed little interest
in a former convict whose name was
supplied by Quincy, Mass., police as
a possible suspect.
Lieut. George W. Fallon of Quincy
advised New York authorities the
man had attacked a woman and left
her in a bath tub there in 1927 and
that he committed a similar crime in
Auburn, N. Y.
wnue detectives pushed a wide
search for strangers seen at various
times in Beekman place, police scien
tists worked in their laboratories for
the fourth day examining articles
found In the Titterton apartment.
Inspector Lyons said, however, he
had heard nothing of a report that
three blond hairs had been discovered
on a bedspread.
Mrs. Titterton, author of magazine
stories and the wife of a National
Broadcasting Co. executive, was as
saulted and strangled last Friday in
the Tltterton's fashionable Beekman
place apartment.
Her body, nude except for stockings,
was found later in a bathtub there.
Microscope Mud Test.
Under powerful microscopes, police
chemists compared three lumps of
mud found on the bed with mud from
the shoes of an unnamed man em
ployed in the apartment building.
Fifteen other detectives sought to
trace a 13-inch piece of cord, which,
Assistant Chief Inspector John A.
Lyons said, was taken to the apart
ment by the slayer. It was found un
der Mrs. TittertoD's body.
The name of a former convict was
supplied to the investigators as a pos
sible suspect in the case. Police
Lieut. George W. Fallon of Quincy,
Mass., said this man, who attacked a
woman and left her in a bathtub in
Quincy in 1927, now is a resident of
New’ York City.
The New York American, in a copy
righted story, said that laboratory
investigation by the police had dis
closed three strands of sandy-colored
hair on the counterpane of the bed
on which Mrs. Titterton was attacked
before her death.
a ate ouauuo ui xxaxx wnc xxut vxaxuxe
to the human eye, the paper said, but
were discovered by use of a micro
scope.
Their presence on the counterpane,
the American said, has caused the au
thorities to redouble their efforts in
the search for a tall sandy-haired man,
whose actions in the Beekman place
neighborhood have aroused suspicions.
A man answering such a description
called on two occasions recently at
the door of the Countess Alice Hoyos,
who lives on the floor below the Tit
terton apartment. Each time he asked
for a different person.
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Bonus
fContinued From First Page.)
as a good investment and receive
promises of co-operation to that end.
The Secretary explained the first
three steps in the huge task of han
dling the bonus claims are nearing
completion, and have required the
closest co-operation between the Vet
erans’ Administration, the Treasury,
Federal Reserve banks and Post Office
Departments.
“First, the Veterans’ Administra
tion computed the amount due qpch
veteran and furnished a voucher for
the amount to the Treasury disbursing
office, which made out the checks
used for payment of amounts of less
than $50. Then the plates used for
making out the checks were sent to
the Federal Reserve Bank, which
made out '.he bonds and registered
each one.
“The bonds and checks are now
being made up into packages to be
turned over to the Post Office Depart
ment for registry, so that they can
be mailed out June 15. Each package
requires a return receipt requiring the
signature of the veterans, as the bonds
are nan-transferable.
<00,000 More Ready Soon.
"We estimate that 2,000,000 of the
registered packages will be ready for
mailing June 15, and most of the re
maining 700,000 for which applica
tions have been received will prob
ably be in the mails by the end of the
month. Claims on which correspond
ence is necessary before they can be
certified, and which have been re
ceived during the past few weeks, may
require somewhat longer, but will be
handled as quickly as possible. Special
forces are at work to facilitate hand
ling of the applications.”
Special disbursing offices will be set
up near each of the 11 Federal Reserve
districts to handle payment of the
bonds. Checks may be handled
through any commercial channel, in
the same manner as an ordinary
check but the bonds will be cashed
through the special disbursement
offices after Identification of the vet
eran has been made.
The special disbursement offices will
operate through between 200 and 300
postofflces throughout the country, but
veterans in smaller towns not desig
nated to cash the bonds also may re
ceive cash payment through their
local postofflces.
How to Obtain Money.
“If the veteran lives in a city
where the post office has been desig
nated to cash the bonds, he can ob
tain his money by properly identifying
himself. That will apply to cities with
first class post offices and to some
cities with second class offices.
“If the veteran does not live In
one of those cities designated, he will
go to his local office, identify him
self and execute a transfer. The
postmaster will forward the bands
to one of the designated offices and
a check will be mailed to him.”
Those attending the meeting today
besides Secretary Morgenthau were
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director
*
Democrats Lead
For First Time in
Pittsburgh Annals
130,545 Register as
G. O. P. Enrollment
Lists 125,718 Total.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, April 14 —The city
registration books closed today with
the names of 130,545 Democrats and
125,718 Republicans enrolled.
Registration officials said it was the
first time the Democrats showed a
plurality in Pittsburgh’s political
history.
Noble Matthews, a member of the
commission, said the Democratic in
crease consisted mostly of changes in
party affiliation. The city uses the
permanent registration system, requir
ing a voter to enroll only once, but to
record any change in party choice.
SPEEDED BY JURY
“No Bill” Expected in Lind
bergh Kidnap “Confes
sion” Case.
BACKGROUND—
Main sensation during last days
of fight to save Bruno Richard
Hauptmann from execution for the
kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lind
bergh, fr„ was “confession" of Paul
H. Wendel, middle-aged New Jer
sey man, that he was the true kid
naper. "Confession" was intro
duced in case by Ellis Parker, Jer
sey detective, who aided Gov. Har
old G. Hoffman in efforts to "crack’’
case.
Wendel, arrested and charged
with the crime, immediately de
nied "confession,” charging he was
himself kidnaped in New York,
taken to Brooklyn and tortured for
10 days until he signed the paper
saying he was the man who com
mitted America's most famous
crime.
By tne Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. J.. April 14 —The
Mercer County grand jury ordered a
continuous session, without a lunch
eon recess, today In an effort to end
speedily Its Investigation of Paul H.
Wendel, whose repudiated "confes
sions" delayed the electrocution of
Bruno Hauptmann.
Indications in reliable quarters
were that a "no bill’ would be re
turned. freeing the former Trenton
druggist of a murder complaint in
connection with the kidnap-slaying
of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., for
whose death Hauptmann died in the
electric chair.
The Jury meeting followed a third
futile attempt to get the New Jersey
Legislature to investigate the Lind
bergh case.
a resolution by Assemblyman Basil
B. Bruno for an inquiry into the
acts of all officials connected with
the case, including Gov. Harold G.
Hoffman and the State police, was
tabled by the Assemby last night. 57
to 1. Two similar resolutions met
defeat a week ago.
Whispers of “politics” were heard
as the grand Jury resumed its study.
The most persistent was that the
grand jury would adjourn without
taking action until after the primary
elections, in which Hoffman is op
posed for delegate at large to the
Republican National Convention be
cause of his activities on Hauptmann’s
behalf.
The refusal of Dr. John F. (Jafsie)
Condon to accept an invitation to
appear before the grand jury was
accepted as final.
CONtTnUWGINS. E. C.
QUESTION FOR LANDIS
Must Decide in Next Two Weeks
on Return to Harvard Law
Faculty.
Within the next two weeks. Chair
man James M. Landis of the Securi
ties and Exchange Commission will
have to decide his annual Spring
problem— wheth
er or not to re
sign and return
to the law faculty
of Harvard Uni
versity.
At present the
chances are in
favor cf his re
maining until the
major legal prob
lems facing the
commission are
settled in the
courts, unless
considerations of
James m. Landis, a personal nature
intervene, Landis
said today.
“I have always considered the
teaching of law my profession, and
my work with the commission here, in
which I am very much interested, of
a temporary nature,” the chairman
stated. -
“However, if I am to return to Har
vard in the Fall, I must decide in the
Spring in order that arrangements can
be made for the change. It has be
come an annual Spring problem with
me."
This is the third year that Chair
man Landis has been on leave from
the university, where he is a pro
fessor of legislation. His present term
as head of the commission expires this
year.
POLICEMAN INJURED
BY BERSERK PATIENT
A colored patient at Galllnger Hos
pital went berserk early today, smashed
windows and chairs and used an iron
chair rung to assault one of four
policemen required to subdue him.
Policeman R. G. Kirby, fifth pre
cinct, was treated for a wrist injury
after the attack by the patient, Lin
wood McNeil, 36, colored, 1500 block
of Ninth street.
Kirby's companions finally subdued
McNeil and took him to another ward.
of the Veterans’ Administration;
Daniel W. Bell, director of the budget;
William S. Broughton, commissioner
of the public debt; Harold W. Brein
ing, assistant to Gen. Hines; Thomas
Kirby, legislative chairman of the
Disabled American Veterans of the
World War; Ray Murphy, national
commander, and Col. John T. Taylor,
director of the National Legislative
Committee of the American Legion.
A
MISS SILVESTER,
NURSEJES HERE
Funeral Services Set Today
for Widely Known Owner
of Sanitarium.
Miss Jane Boyd Silvester, widely
known nurse and operator of a nurs
ing home here for many years, died
at her home in the Mendota Apart
ments yesterday
; after a long ill
ness.
Miss Silvester
was graduated in
nursing at Johns
Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore. Sub
sequently, she
took a post-grad
uate course under
Dr. Weir Mitchell
, in Philadelphia.
In 1903, she
opened a nursing
i home on Thir
Leentn street near
Mist Silvester. cilfton street,
several years later moving to 2005
Kalaroma road. She continued the
sanitarium there until about a year
ago, except for the World War period.
During the war she joined the Army
Nursing Corps and was stationed at
Fort Porter, N. Y.
Miss Silvester was a granddaughter
of the late Dr. Richard W. Silvester,
a prominent physician of Norfolk, Va.,
who lost his life caring for the sick
during the yellow fever epidemic of
1855. His wife and two sons also con
tracted the disease and died while
aiding him in his work.
Funeral services were to be held at
4 pm. today at Miss Silvester’s resi
dence. Rev. Dr. Herbert Scott Smith,
rector of St. Margaret’s Episcopal
Church, and Rev. Dr. Charles T. War
ner, rector of St. Albans Episcopal
Church, were to officiate. The services
were to be private. Burial will be at
Norfolk tomorrow.
Surviving Miss Silvester are two sis
ters, Mrs. Lydia Silvester Draper and
Miss M. Genevieve Silvester, and a
nephew, Dr. Richard Lee Silvester, all
of this city.
MAYER TO SUCCEED
RILEY AT WARDMAN
_
Former Washington Hotel Man
ager Leaving for New York to
Head New Yorker.
Prank Mayer, resident manager, will
become general manager of the Ward
man Park Hotel tomorrow, succeeding
George Vincent Riley, who has re
signed to become resident manager of
the Hotel New Yorker, in New York
City. Riley had been associated with
the Wardman for eight years.
Riley, who had previous training in
several other large hotels, was first
resident manager of the Wardman,
becoming general manager on the ap
pointment of George E. Allen, former
vice president of Washington Properties
and general manager of both the
Wardman and Carlton Hotels, as a
District Commissioner.
A native of New Bedford. Conn..
Riley is a graduate chemist. He served
overseas in the World War, entering
hotel work on his return. He was
formerly employed at the Manor
Richelieu. Murray Bay: the Royal Vic
toria, Nassau: the Roney Plaza, Miami,
and the Stacy Trent, Trenton.
Mayer, who has been employed at
the Wardman for the last four years,
is a native of Great Britain. He was
formerly manager of the Chastleton
for two years. He is active in the
Hotel Association of Washington. He
is married and has one daughter.
SIGNALS UNHEARD,
BUS TRIAL IS TOLD
Survivors of Rockville Tragedy
Deny Warning Was
Received.
By the Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md., April 14.—Sur
vivors of the school-bus grade crossing
accident at Rockville a year ago offered
a Circuit Court jury today testimony
denying they had heard warning sig
nals before a speeding train rocketed
into their loaded vehicle.
Fourteen children, all students at
Williamsport High School, were killed.
Eighteen damage suits, asking amounts
ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, were
filed by parents of the students as an
outgrowth of the tragedy.
The suit of Mrs. Bertha Emerson,
whose daughter, Pearl was among
those killed, came to trial first. Par
ents of the dead children each are ask
ing $25,000, two others seek $20,000
for injuries and two more ask $5,000
expenses caused by injuries.
Headed by Miss A. Louise Funk,
their teacher, 10 students of the high
school took the stand late yesterday.
Some testified they were asleep when
a Baltimore it Ohio express ripped
through the bus. Others, however,
said they were awake and heard no
warning whistle or bell.
Miss Funk added she likewise had
heard nothing indicating a train was
approaching.
NIGHT SESSION HELD
IN TOWNSEND QUIZ
House Members, in Los Angeles,
Hear Data on “Important
Matters.”
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 14.—A secret
midnight session of the congressional
subcommittee investigating the Town
send old-age pension movement re
ceived information on a "matter of
grave importance," James R. Sullivan,
the committee’s counsel, said today.
Sullivan said witnesses began telling
their stories shortly before midnight
in the committee’s hotel suite, and the
session did not break up until 2 o'clock
this morning.
Public hearings will be held start
ing tomorrow or Thursday, SulUvan
declared, adding that arrangements
are being made to find a hall large
enough for the crowds expected.
So important was the testimony at
the night sessions that committeemen
took only a few hours for sleep and
then set out at 7 am. today for an un
disclosed destination, said Sullivan.
The committeemen. Representatives
James Gavagan, Democrat, of New
York, and Samuel L. Collins, Repub
lican, California, were accompanied by
Federal Investigators when they left
their hoteL
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Mr. Hopkins Risks $2
HARRY HOPKINS,
Works progress administrator, who handles hundreds of mil
lions for the Federal Government, snapped at Bowie Saturday
as he risks %2 on the final day of the race meet.
—Wide World Photo.
—
WHITE HOUSE FETE
AMTS 48,528
Number Is 2,500 Short of
Record Crowd at Last
Year’s Egg Rolling.
White House gardeners today began
their annual task of clearing and
restoring the south lawn after 48,528
persons attended the Easter egg
rolling there yesterday. This total
was 2,500 short of last year's all
time attendance record.
As usual, the wide lawn was lit
tered with debris—broken eggs by
the thousand, scraps of paper and
discarded baskets. The grass had
been trampled into the damp ground
and destroyed in some places.
By noon yesterday, almost 18.000
children and their escorts had en
tered the grounds, and the crowd
grew rapidly throughout the after
noon. The gates were thrown open
to the public for a concert by the
Marine Band in the late afternoon.
One of the features of the cele
bration was the "lo6t and found de
partment” for wandering children,
conducted by the Girl Reserves and
Girl Scouts.
All but two had been returned to
their parents when the gates closed
at 5 p.m. These Capt. Clarence Dal
rymple of White House police sent
hom» in police cars.
President Roosevelt, tanned and
smiling, emerged on the South bal
cony shortly after 2 pm. Although
his words were inaudible to the crowd,
he spoke into the microphones for
radio and sound news reels, saying:
“I am very glad to see you all here
today. I am very glad that this fine
custom of egg-rolling on Easter Mon
day has been kept up. And I am also
glad that there are still so many
young people in the world.”
The President came out with Mrs.
Roosevelt and his son Elliott. Mrs.
Roosevelt previously had made two
circuits of the crowded lawn.
On one occasion she was presented
with a basket of Spring flowers by the
Girl Scouts, and cm another she ad
dressed a few remarks into a micro
phone.
BOMBS TERRIFY
Blasts Near President’s Re
viewing Stand Scatter
Crowds.
Bj the Associated Press.
MADRID, April 14—A series of
small bomb explosions near the Presi
dent's reviewing stand threatened to
cause a near-panic today during a
military parade in celebration of the
fifth anniversary of the founding of
the Spanish Republic.
Several persons were trampled upon
as the crowd, terrified by the loud ex
I plosions, fled.
The explosions echoed through the I
streets of the capital like machine gun j
fire, but actually the effect was pro
duced by a series of petards.
Diplomats Hear Blasts.
Police and assault guards rushed In
the scene and soon brought the crowd
under control.
The explosions occurred near the
box where diplomats and their guests
were viewing the parade, but none
was injured.
Among the spectators was Claude
Q. Bowers, United States Ambassador
to Spain, who heard the explosions.
The threatened panic was placed
under control quickly, and the parade
continued without interruption.
Spain celebrated the fifth anniver
sary with jubilant observances by Re
publicans throughout the country.
Great Crowd Present.
A great crowd, despite drizzling rain,
watched a parade of artillery, infantry
and cavalry here while Premier Manuel
Azana and Acting President Diego
I Martinez Barrio, holding office until
a successor to the deposed President
j Niceto Alcala Zamora is elected, took '
salutes. Republican flags flew through
out the capital.
Heavy precautions were taken to
keep the day peaceful.
Soroptimists to Hear McSwain.
Chairman McSwain of the House
Military Affairs Committee will be the
speaker at the Soroptimists’ luncheon
at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Willard
Hotel.
Plagiarized Winning Essay
Confuses Cantor’s Contest
By the AssocUted Press.
NEW YORK, April 14.—An 18-year
old Missouri farm boy who won and
then lost Eddie Cantor's (5,000 peace
essay contest because he had plagiar
ized almost every word from an article
by a college president, still had grounds
for argument today—but wasn’t in the
mood.
Cantor, the comedian, failed to spec
ify In the announcement of the contest
the essays should be original compo
sitions. He merely called for “500
words or less expressing your answer to
the question, ‘How can America stay
cut of war’?’’
Lloyd Lewis, the winner-loser, whose
entry was picked by four college presi
dents as the best of 212.000 frankly
admitted yesterday he copied it freon a
magazine article by Dr. Frank King
don. president of Newark (N. J.) Uni
versity.
"I didn't think I was doing anything
wrong,” said Lloyd. "There was noth
ing in the rules about it. I just looked
up a lot of magazine articles on the
same subject in the library and then
picked out what I thought was best.”
Lloyd, who lives near Plattsburg.
Mo., never had been more than 50
miles away from his home until he was
brought to New York a few days ago
to be feted as the winner.
In Newark, a woman member of the
New Jersey Council of International
Relations, happened to read Lloyd's
prize-winning entry and noted a sim
ilarity to the article by Dr. Kingdon.
“I don’t think the boy thought he
was doing anything that wasn’t on the
square,” Cantor said.
The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH
THERE are signs that the coming campaign Is going to have
some of the frills of a real war. Both sides are already break
ing out with marked symptoms of spy fever.
me National Labor Relations Board accuses
industry of hiring 40,000 to 135,000 detectives,
supplied by some 200 detective agencies. It is
claimed that they are employed to terrorize
workers in an attempt to keep them from organ*
izlng for collective bargaining.
The Resettlement Administration says it has
discovered that Republican National Committee
stool pigeons are representing themselves to be
newspaper men in order to find out what goes on
in that special bureau of the New Deal clinic.
When volunteers oiler their services, without
presenting credentials from an authoritative
source, there is a tendency to as “How do we know
Aii.t LwwBrtK they are not spies from the enemy camp?
It spy hunting Is on before the conventions meet, by election
day we may count on white, red and other colored “papers," each
side accusing the other of simply appalling atrocities.
(COPTTiCht, 1930
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Difference of Opinion in
House Military Commit
tee Ends Quiz.
By the Associated Press.
Differences of opinion in the House
Military Committee forced an abrupt
discontinuance today of its investiga
tion into charges that Army surplus
goods were diverted from charitable
purposes to private business channels.
Chairman McSwain told newsmen
the vote to discontinue the inquiry
was unanimous. The committee sud
denly went into executive session on
motion of Representative McLean. Re
publican. of New Jersey after hearing
testimony from W. Frank James, for
mer ranking Republican member of
the committee from Michigan and now
employed as committee investigator.
The chairman indicated no report
on the investigation was contemplated
at this time and there would be no.
further hearings unless the committee
reversed its action.
McSwain in Clash.
The session yesterday was marked
by a tilt between Chairman McSwain
and Representative Maverick. Demo
crat, of Texas, who insisted the
committee members did not "know
what it was all about,’’ and he held
that Lieut. Col. William R. Gruber,
who testified last week, did not get "a
fair deal.”
The clash between the two came
during McSwain’s questioning of Maj.
Gen. G. Van Horn Moseley, former
deputy chief of staff and now com
mander of the 4th Corps Area.
Moseley substantially corroborated
Gruber’s testimony that they heard re
ports in the War Department of plans
to divert War Department surpluses
Intended for charity to private busi
ness channels.
Both testified they notified James.
Session Ends Abruptly.
Representative Rogers, Democrat,
of New Hampshire suggested if James
could provide information he should
testify—to which Maverick agreed.
McSwain said James would be given
an opportunity to testify and then
requested the committee's permission
for James to question Moseley. Rep
resentative Merritt. Democrat, of New
York raised a point of order that
the House was in session and Mav
erick moved adjournment of tha
committee. McSwain banged hia
gavel and the session was over until
today.
The investigation centers around
action of the committee in accept
ing a resolution in February, 1932,
authorizing the War Department to
sell surplus goods below cost for dis
tribution through the American
Legion to the needy and destitute.
ICE CREAM MAKER
FACES HEALTH TRIAL
High Is Charged With Violation
of District Sanitary Regu
lations.
Luther W. High, president of the
High Ice Cream Co. of 1324 Half
street southeast, today was charged
in Police Court with violation of the
District health regulations by keeping
unclean ice cream cans and tables at
his plant.
The company, which operates retail
stores throughout the city, is being
prosecuted by the District health offi
cer as part of a campaign. J. S.
Simms, inspector for the District
health officer, called George Neilson,
assistant corporation counsel, and ap
plied for a warrant for the arrest of
High.
By agreement between Neilson and
attorneys for the ice cream manu
facturer the case was continued until
April 22 when called before Judge
Edward M. Curran to Police Court to
day.
Neilson said company officials had
attempted to forfeit collateral at the
police precinct, but that all cases in
volving unsanitary conditions will be
brought into court and prosecuted.
Philip Rosenfeld, attorney for the
ice cream company, issued a state
ment to which he said the inspector
for the Health Department came to
the plant on Half street at a time
when remodeling and rebuilding was
to progress. Rosenfeld said he did
not believe the court would And his
client guilty of violating the health
regulations under the conditions as
they were at the time of the in
spector's visit.
MRS. ROOSEVELT PLANS
TO WITNESS CAMPAIGN
Announces at Press Conference
She Will Accompany Presi
dent on Trips.
Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany the
President on all of his campaign trips
whenever possible, she announced at
her press conference yesterday, but
she will make no campaign speeches.
Denying reports that the President’s
speeches in the next few weeks will
be “campaign barnstorming.’’ Mrs.
Roosevelt predicted "the campaign
this year will be Just about the same
as other campaigns."
Six students of the Todhunter
School graduating class, in which
Mrs. Roosevelt is interested, will be
entertained at the White House
over the week end. They will arrive
on Friday.
I Day in Congress |
TODAY.
Senate:
Hears arguments on Impeachment
charges made against Federal Judge
Ha Is ted L. Ritter of Florida.
Lobby Committee hears Stanley F.
Morse, Farmers’ Independence Council.
House:
Takes up Senate bill authorizing
$10,000 to engage counsel for Senate
Lobby Investigating Committee.
Appropriations Subcommittee meets
on deficiency appropriation bill, carry
ing $1,500,000,000 relief item.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Impeachment trial of Judge Hal
sted L. Ritter.
, 'Senate Appropriations Subcommit
tee may meet to mark up changes in
District appropriation bill.
House:
Considers Federal Insurance de
posit bill.
Subcommittee on appropriations
continues hearings on deficiency bill,
10 a.m.
District Committee meets, 10:30
•on.
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