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WINANT ASKS AID.
TO TEM GROW
International Session To!c
Need of Trade Pacts.
Elected President.
BY BLAIR BOLLES.
Social justice for the world's 14,
000,000 textile worker^ and their 50,
000,000 dependents awaits universal
adoption of moves to break down com
merce barriers such as America’s trade
agreements, John G. Winant, former
chairman of the Social Security Board,
told the 200 delegates to the World
Textile Conference today in his first
appearance before them as president of
the meeting.
Immediate action is essential, Wi
nant said, to bring about this social
justice, which, Harold B. Butler, secre
tary general of the conference, later
explained would be built on higher
wages, shorter hours and the univer
sal abolition of child labor and of
women’s night work. Child labor
is prevalent in 27 countries, Butler
said. He is president of the Inter
national Labor Organization in Gene
va. which arranged the conference.
'T suppose no one would dispute
the fact that the fundamental eco
nomic and social problems of modern
industrialism are international in
scope,” Winant, whose exhortations at
Geneva last Summer inspired the con
vocation of such a conference, told
the representatives of 24 nations,
gathered in the Departmental Audi
torium.
International Action.
“Above all others, however, the tex
tile industry seems to involve inter
national repercussions which demand
international action if we are to
achieve improved social standards. In
the light of this situation the trade
agreements program in whieh the
United States is now engaged takes
on a special significance.
“We are endeavoring to do our part
toward reversing the rising trend of
world trade barriers, which have been
literally wiping out world trade, by
adhering to policies of equality which,
if universally applied, would lead to
vast improvement in the whole world
trade situation. This, in my opinion,
is a matter which well merits the at
tention of this conference.”
Winant held up for the conferees
the experience of the United States as
a model of the way to improve work
ing conditions for the textile laborer,
whose work-week now consists of 40
hours, against a 54-hour week in
effect before the adoption of the
N. R. A. textile code. He was unani
mously elected president at the close of
yesterday's opening session.
The uncontested choices of the con
ference as its three vice presidents are
F Kitaoka of Japan, representing the
government delegation; H. C. Oerstad
of Denmark, representing the employ
ers' delegation, and Arthur Shaw of
Great Britain, representing the work
ers’ delegation.
States’ Competition.
“Competition between the Siates oi
the United States is not unlike compe
tition between nations," Winant said.
••In the United States we are able to
develop legislative controls which,
even after the legislation itself disap
peared. have had a lasting effect in
raising social conditions in the indus
try.
"Is it unreasonable to believe that
■what has been accomplished in this
countrv through legislation may not
likewise be accomplished throughout
the world through the co-operative ac
tion of all countries?”
A rapid-talking translator rushed
to the rostrum as soon as Winant had
finished and repeated the speech in
French. This dual-language system
is to be carried on throughout the
conference, w'hich will last tw-o weeks.
The number of countries represented
was increased to 24 this morning by
the arrival of Constantine A. Ouman
gky as an observer for the Soviet. He
Is the counselor of Moscow's Washing
ton embassy.
Roosevelt Message Read.
The broad purpose of the conference
was outlined at the outset of the meet
ing yesterday by a message from Presi
dent Roosevelt, read to the assemblage
by Harold B Butler, secretary general
of the sessions and president of the In
ternational Labor Organization.
"We have much to do,” wrote the
President, who expressed his regrets
at being unable to attend in person.
“The conference which is about to
meet will discuss vital problems as
they affect one of the world’s oldest
and most highly competitive industries,
and one upon which the welfare of
more than 12,000.000 people depends.
"The task is not easy. I know that
no decisions are expected to be reached
by this preparatory conference, that
no conventions or resolutions are to be
adopted by it. But I am confident that
this open meeting of minds, this op
portunity for free and frank discus
sions of the problems of the industry
in a spirit of good will, cannot but
have a far-reaching effect upon the
ultimate prosperity of the industry and
the well-being of the millions whose
livelihood depends upon it.”
Secretary Perkins, who announced
that the President had designated her
as his personal representative before
the conference, and Secretary Roper
then expanded upon the White House
message to explain the position of the
United States in the textile industry
and to urge the delegates to reach an
agreement on how to revive the in
dustry on a world-wide basis.
"Labor the world over is looking
to this conference to point the way to
a program of balanced development for
the textile industries of the world,”
Miss Perkins said.
World Program Objective.
“Our objective must be to develop
a world program so that the industry
may better support the people de
pendent upon it and so that the people
of the world may be more adequately
clothed.”
Unrestricted trade, widened markets
and improved industrial technique
which will make available textile fab
rics at the lowest possible cost are the
essentials to broadening the scope of
the industry, Roper said.
"I have found great encouragement,”
Roper continued, “in the progress ac
complished by the United States to
ward stabilizing the textile industry
through improving the relationship
between the employers and the em
ployes, which makes possible more effi
cient production and assures social
Justice.
“The hours of work have been
leMened and the employers as well as
the workers have thereby been bene
fited. The shortened hours of produc
tion have rendered possible improve
ment in industrial technique and per
mitted a broadened opportunity for
work, because of which unemployment
ha* been lessened.
“Wages and general working condi
tions have been bettered. I firmly be
lieve that the Congress/^* courts and
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Textile Conference Discussions
The leading figures in the first day’s session of the international meeting called to stabilize
the ivorld’s textile industry were, left to right, Secretary Perkins, Jaromir Necas of Czechoslo
imkia. the temporary chairman; John G. Winant, president of the conference, and Secretary
Roper. —Harris & Ewing Photo.
; the executive responsibility ha-ve com
; bined to aid the employers, who are
determined to keep the advantages
which they have attained.”
Courteous answers to these talks
were given by a number of govern
ment delegates from the foreign
countries.
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Spain
(Continued From First Page.)
into play as insurgent troops fought
fiercely toward Bilbao, Inflicting heavy
casualties.
Defending government troops fought
their way to the top of La Cruz (the
Cross), a 4.600-foot peak in the Can
tabrian Mountains which the insur
gents must take before starting a
downhill advance to Bilbao. Much of
the fighting centered around Durango,
16 miles from Bilbao.
Planes operating with insurgent
Gen. Emilio Mola's forces in the Bil
bao sector bombarded towns behind
; the lines, with 800 casualties reported
j in one air raid on Durango.
I Meanwhile, in Havana, the Cuban
j government announced it would co
operate with Mexico in seeking some
; means to end the eight-month-long
bloody conflict.
Ordered to Leave Homes.
The civil population of Ochandiano
was ordered to evacuate their homes,
an insurgent communique reported to
day, as Gen. Mola's insurgent army
advanced to within a mile of the
Cantabrian Mountain village.
Counter - attacks by government
troops were repulsed in heavy fighting,
the insurgents insisted, with the in
surgent war machine moving slowly
toward Bilbao.
Basque defenders were declared to
have suffered heavy losses in the
mountain campaign, in which insur
gent officers said 11 machine guns
w-ere captured.
The communique admitted the Bil
bao government was rushing reinforce
ments to front lines, but asserted the
insurgent drive was ' progressing.”
Renewed reports of dissension among
the civil population in insurgent Spain
were brought to Bayonne by travelers.
They declared one officer and 17 en
listed men had been executed at Sala
manca as a result of a plot against
Gen. Franco's regime. The soldiers,
they said, were opposed to the pres
ence of Italian volunteers in the in
surgent armies.
General Mobilization.
BAYONNE. Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, April 3 </P).—General mobili
zation has been decreed throughout
the Basque country, informed quar
ters declared today, as Bilbao forces
fought a life-and-death struggle to
keep back an insurgent drive on
Durango.
Thousands of defenders were said
to have been rushed to the front from
Bilbao. Durango lies about 15 miles
from the Basque capital, east and
slightly south, in the center of pre
cipitous terrain.
Authorities in Bilbao were reported
hampered by the presence of 90,000
refugees who had fled their moun
tain homes ahead of the insurgent
advance.
Officials were working feverishly to
organize the defense territory.
Start Fincher Movement.
WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES
AT ANDUJAR, Spain, April 3 (^).—
Government troops splashed through
rain and mud today on the Cordoba
front, seeking to attack the insurgent
army from two sides.
Their commanders hoped to exe
cute one of the most crushing defeats
of the civil war in the tumbled terrain
northwest of Cordoba, the provincial
capital.
Rain kept airplanes grounded yes
terday but the militiamen pushed
doggedly ahead. Reports from the
front said the main body of one
column had advanced nearly 5
miles closer to Villaharta, occupying
Buenavista Mountain, while the ad
vance guard was within 4V2 miles of
the town at dawn today.
(Reports to Madrid from the front
said the government force already
had captured Villaharta and threat
ened to cut the nearby Cordoba road,
the communication line between the
Insurgent army and its chief base,
Cordoba City).
Rebels Report Advances.
VITORIA, Spain, April 3 UP).—
Basque separatists and government
militiamen were reported today to
have launched a desperate counter
attack in a futile effort to halt Gen.
Emilio Mola’s drive on Bilbao.
The retreat of the Basque defenders
was followed up by the insurgent
forces which reported to this insurgent
field headquarters the establishment
of a front between Gorbea, about 18
miles southeast of Bilbao, and Mon
drago, a few miles east of Gorbea.
Mola's men remained in their
trenches yesterday on lofty vantage
points in the mountains walling
Bilbao and returned the fire of the
charging machine gunners and rifle
men.
When the government lines broke,
the insurgents clambered over the top
and moved to fresh positions.
The insurgents were reported to
have occupied an important position
in the southern sector of the
Santander front, but it was not
identified.
(Madrid dispatches told of a gov
ernment drive from Santander, west
of Bilbao on the Bay of Biscay Coast,
which had reached within 30 Ailes of
Burg06, former capital of insurgent
Spain.)
The Madrid fronts were reported
here as quiet with the exception of a
small government attack on the
Partridge Hill positions of Franco’s
men northeast of Los Rozas which was
reported repulsed. Las Rozas is only
a few miles northwest of Madrid.
Government attacks on the Cor
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Specialist Says Fear of Dis
grace Is Hampering
Fight on Disease.
Bf the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, April 3.—Concealment of
cancer symptoms by victims who fear
"disgrace" is hampering the fight
against that disease. Dr. Bowman C.
Crowell, Chicago specialist, said in an
address prepared for delivery at a
public health meeting last night.
"Naturally cancer occupies a large
part of the attention of our organiza
tion because * * * it causes the death
of about 120,000 people a year in this
country alone," Dr. Crowell said. "That
means about 4,000,000 people in the
United States have cancer today.
Cure Held Possible.
"This is an appalling figure, and
much larger than it need be, for much
cancer ran be prevented and cancer
is curable if treated in the early stage.
"Your family doctor can tell you
how, if you ask him.”
Dr. Crowell said “cancer is not con
tagious" and “not directly hereditary,
although evidence is accumulating
that a predisposition to the disease
may be inherited."
"It is no disgrace to have cancer.”
he added. "There are many people
who have delayed seeking treatment
for the disease and have concealed
symptoms which might be indicated,
with the belief that it is a disgrace
to have cancer.
Early Investigation.
He said skin abrasions, slow-healing
sores, prolonged indigestion and un
usual discharges should be investigat
ed by competent doctors, as “pro
longed irritation frequently leads to
cancer.”
“Cancer always starts as a lump or
an ulcer,” he added, "and it is while
cancer is in one spot, before it has
spread to surrounding tissues, or
through the lymphatics or the blood,
that cancer is most susceptible to
cure.” * * *
"Surgery, X-rays and radium are
the recognized methods of treatment
• * * and a surgical procedure may
completely eliminate cancer of the
breast in its early stage."
Crowell was principal speaker at
a health meeting sponsored by of
ficers and fellows of the American
College of Surgeons holding a district
convention here.
COTTON INDUSTRY
HELD IMPROVED
—
Secretary Perkins Reveals Upturn !
in Employment and Pay Rolls
in Domestic Field.
By the Associated Press.
Secretary Perkins disclosed today an
upturn of employment and pay rolls j
in the domestic cotton textile industry, j
The Secretary said February em- 1
ployment in American cotton mills was
estimated at 437,000 persons, topping
a monthly average of 425,000 for 1929
Weekly pay rolls for February, she
said, were estimated at $6,373,000,
compared with a weekly average of
$3,040,000 in 1932, $4,168,000 in 1933
and $4,560,000 in 1935.
The average work week for cotton
textile workers, MiSs Perkins said, de
clined from about 49 hours in June
and July, 1933, to 38.9 hours in Feb
ruary, 1937. Hourly earnings, she ex
plained had climbed from about 21’/2
cents in the Spring of 1933 to an
average of 39 cents in February of this
year.
MRS. PROCTOR DIES
E; t Stall Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va„ April 3—Mrs.
Emily C. Proctor, 66, wife of the
late John L. Proctor, died yesterday at
her residence, 732 North Washington
street.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Frank Ballenger and Mrs. Vir
ginia Woodridge, and two sons, Gamer
and George Proctor.
Funeral services will be held at the
home at 11 a.m. Monday and inter
ment will be in Bethel Cemetery.
doba front and in the Orgiva sector,
25 miles southeast of Granada, on
the Southern Mediterranean Coast,
were likewise said by the insurgents
to have been beaten back.
Face Mass Slaughter.
MADRID, April 3 (P).—Fifteen
thousand insurgent soldiers, described
in government reports as mostly
Italian, were reported facing today
possibly the greatest mass slaughter
of the Spanish civil war in a military
trap on the Cordoba front.
The insurgent force, already having
retreated more than 15 miles after an
unsuccessful siege of Pozoblanco, a
mineral land stronghold of the Ma
drid-Valencia government, was said to
have been caught more than 20 miles
northwest of Cordoba City, its princi
pal base of supplies.
Government capture of the town of
Villaharta yesterday, in one of four
salients south and southwestward from
Pozoblanco, placed Madrid’s jubilant
‘•milicianos" in a position to dominate
the only main road connecting Cor
doba with the mass of Gen. Gonzalo
Queipo de Llano's men.
Occupation of the road would iso
late and subject them to concerted
thrusts of government cavalry, tanks,
infantry and planet.
/
Hauptmann Case
Still Closed Year
After Execution
%
By the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. J„ April 3.—A stethe
scoped doctor stepped back from
Bruno Richard Hauptmann a year
ago tonight and said: “This man is
dead.” The ensuing year has pro
duced nothing official to challenge
the justice of the sentence that was
carried out.
In the records of Hunterdon County,
scene of the Lindbergh kidnaping
and Hauptmann's subsequent trial,
the case is marked ‘'closed.'’ The last
echo of the Hauptmann trial was
stilled only a week ago w hen a perjury
indictment against a defense witness
was dismissed.
In State police headquarters at
Trenton, the voluminous Lindbergh
file is occasionally increased by letters
giving “tips" or “new evidence." All
are checked out as routine police
work, but none of them has stood up.
The $25,000 reward is still unpaid,
but one house of the Legislature has
already voted to appropriate the
money and indications are the long
delayed payment may come soon.
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, whose en
trance into the case created such a
furor when courts were weighing
Hauptmann's appeal, still holds to his
belief that the execution did not solve
the case. The extent today of his
private investigations, once wide
spread, is not known except for spo
radic rumors and reports of “new evi
dence."
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HEALTH CONFERENCE
WILL OPEN MONDAY
Noted Medical Men of North
America to Discuss
Problems.
Distinguished medical authorities
from all parts of North America and j
several from Great Britain will dis- j
cuss public health problems at a
conference beginning Monday at the
auditorium of the United States 1
Public Health Service.
The program Monday will be de
voted to the Conference of State and
Provincial Health Officers of North
America and will open four days of
discussion here. The last two days
will be devoted to the Thirty-fifth
State and Territorial Health Officers'
Conference with the Surgeon Gen
eral of the Public Health Service,
Dr. Thomas Parran.
The program for Monday and Tues- I
day was arranged by Dr. A. J. Ches
ley, secretary of the Minnesota De
partment of Health. Chairman of
the general sessions Monday will be
Dr. Earl E. Brown, secretary of the
Kansas State Board of Health and
president of the conference.
Among the speakers Monday will
be Dr. Thomas Anwyl-Davies, direc
tor of Whitechapel Clinic, London;
Dr. Ambrose J. King, assistant medi
cal officer of Whitechapel Clinic; Dr.
R. E. Wodehouse, deputy minister,
Department of Pensions and National
Health, Dominion of Canada: Dr.
Parran; Dr. Rufus Cole, Hospital of
Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Donald B.
Armstrong, National Health Coun- i
cil: Dr. R. V. Rohweder, National j
Safety Council, and others.
LIQUOR STORE HELD UP
$226 Taken by Bandit Who Forces
Two Into Back Room.
Armed with a nickel-plated re
volver, a tall man walked into the
Benjamin Franklin Liquor Store at
926 Seventeenth street last night and
robbed the proprietor, Robert J.
Franklin, 45, of 1801 Calvert street,
of $226.81.
After rifling the cash register, the
bandit forced Franklin and a colored
porter into a back room and escaped.
Gen. Dawes Predicts 1937
and 1938 Will Be Peak
Prosperity Years.
b> tfte Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 3—Gen. Charles
Gates Dawes surveyed the stock
market yesterday and predicted 1937
and 1938 "will probably cover the
peak years in this present period of
prosperity."
The Chicago banker and former
vice president of the United States
advised an audience of financiers to
seek a more conservative investment
field for trusts in bonds and high
grade mortgages.
His prediction of the boom years
was his third notable forecast since
September, 1935, when he said a de
cided expansion in demand for dur
able goods and steel would signalize
the ending of the depression. Later
he foresaw the current climb of steel
production toward the Nation's ca
pacity.
Burden on Trustees.
“Responsibilities of a greater mag- '
nitude than ever before now rest upon j
trustees in connection with common
stock holdings or proposed purchases,”
he told the Midwest Regional Con
ference of the Robert Morris Asso
ciates, an organization of bank credit
officials.
"When I say ‘now’ I am referring
to this year and next, which two years
will probably cover the peak years in !
this present period of prosperity.
"Nothing is more inevitable during
the latter portion of periods of pros
perity than for masses of our popula
tion to flock to speculative excesses.
At such times, as in 1929, high inter
est on prime securities may exist for
a short time, coincidentally with a
stock market boom, but both are then
short-lived.
Time to Make Changes.
“Such a period, however, is still
quite a time in the future, in my
judgment. There is still a reasonable
time to make changes in trust stock
holdings. Many a trust fund will fare
better in the long run by losing inter
est in keeping investment funds in
cash until interest rates on prime se- j
curities have their inevitable rise than I
by investing in stocks at their present j
range of prices.
"All trustees with responsibility for j
common stock holdings need to resist
the force of inertia at such a time as
this and with reasonable diligence seek
constantly to improve the stability of
their security holdings.”
Gen. Dawes said that during the j
depression, w-hen interest rates on
high-grade securities were phenome- i
nally low, trust officers were forced to j
invest in some common stocks for cur
rent income.
With bond and mortgage returns '
increasing, he added, the transition
to more conservative investments can
be made at this time with less loss of ■
principal than would be possible later.
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LIEUT. GOV. KELLY HERE;
YOUNGEST OF HIS RANK
Massachusetts Official Pays Visit
on Way From Honeymoon
in Florida.
The Nation's youngest Lieutenant
Governor, Francis E. Kelly, 33, of
Boston, is observing the Capital's po
litical scene today during a stopover
here, en route from Florida where he
has been on a wedding trip for the
last five weeks.
Kelly and his bride of a few weeks
called on President Roosevelt yester- 1
day at the White House. Today's
plans call for visits to Massachusetts
Senators and Representatives at the
Capitol.
Kelly polled 876.000 votes at the last
election, more than ever previously re
ceived by a Lieutenant Governor in the
Bay State, his friends said.
The couple will leave for Boston
tomorrow night.
FUGITIVE CULT HEAD'S
SURRENDER PRESSED
Los Angeles Prosecutor to Confer
With Attorney of Father
Divine's Leader on Coast.
B? the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. April 3.—Efforts
to affect the surrender on Mann act
charges of John W. Hunt, alias “St.
John the Revelator," were intensified
today by Federal District Attorney
Peirson Hall.
Hall planned a conference with
Hugh MacBeth, colored attorney for
white. 33-year-old Hunt, fugitive West
Coast leader of the Father Divine
religious movement.
Hunt is accused of bringing Delight
Jewett. 17, from Denver to his Beverly
Hills mansion and betraying her,
promising she would become “the
Virgin Mary.” mother of a new Mes
siah. She now is in New York.
MacBeth expressed belief Hunt will
appear before the Mann act case is
presented to the Federal grand jury.
"No law enforcement agency,” he |
said, “will have any difficulty finding
any of the followers of Father Divine.” '
Sanity Tested
LOVE HEARING OPENS IN
LOS ANGELES.
MRS. HELEN WILLS LOVE.
Who went into a strange coma
lasting over 150 hours after
her conviction last month, of
the slaying of her secret hus
band. as she appeared in court
in Los Angeles yesterday for a
sanity hearing. She was taken
to court in a wheel chair
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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MRS. MARY C. PETERSON
DIES OF LONG ILLNESS
Widow of Former Consul Came
to Washington 60
Years Ago.
Mrs. Mary C. Peterson, widow of j
August Peterson, former consul to
Washington from Norway and Sweden
and later a prominent patent lawyer
here, died yesterday after a long ill- j
ness at her home. 1431 Chapin street j
Mrs. Peterson, formerly Mary Me- |
Elhinny of Middleport, Ohio, came to 1
this city 60 years ago, some time be
fore her marriage, to live with her
brother-in-law and sister, the late Maj
and Mrs. Joseph T. Power. Mr. Peter- ,
son died about 30 years ago while en
route from Sweden to this country and
was buried at sea.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Law
rence L. McKay, who formerly was
Mrs. Frank Radelfinger. and a grand
daughter. Mrs. Liston P. Bethea, both
of this city.
Funeral services will be held at 10
am. Monday m the Hines funeral
home. 3901 Fourteenth street. Dr. W. i
Sinclair Bowen will officiate. Burial
will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
RED CROSS TRANSFERS
AQUATIC SCHOOL SITE
Will Be Held at Camp Letts. Near
Edgewater, to, Accommodate
More Enrollees.
The Red Cross Aquatic School, held
annually in Maryland, will be trans
ferred this year to Camp Letts, at
Edgewater. near Annapolis, in order to
accommodate an enrollment that has
increased each year.
Benjamin H. Gammage. director of
the school, which will be held June
13-23. said facilities of the camp were
obtained through a co-operative ar
rangement with the District Y. M.
C. A. Gammage is field representa
tive of the National Red Cross First
Aid and Life-Saving Service.
Red Cross instruction at Camp Letts
will include water safety and rescue,
proper handling of boats and canoes,
water front protection, first aid and
accident prevention. Most of the en
rollees. expected to number more than
100, will be water sports leaders from
the District. Maryland, Virginia. West
Virginia. Pennsylvania. Delaware and
New Jersey. Among them are camp
counselors, playground leaders, teach
ers. directors of aquatic programs,
first-aid instructors and life guards.
ROCKIES' WILD LIFE
CONSERVATION URGED
I
Wendell Chapman, in Last of
Geographic Society Lecture
Series, Reveals Need.
Conservation of wild life in the
Rocky Mountains was urged last night j
by W'endell Chapman, naturalist and ;
game photographer, in the last of the !
National Geographic Society's 1936-7
series of lectures in Constitution Hall.
“More protection is needed for the
rare and useful forms of wild life found
in this region, if they are to survive,”
Chapman said. “Many animals face
extinction unless the public co-operates
in measures already taken for their
defense.”
His talk was illustrated with mo
tion pictures taken when he and Mrs.
Chapman visited wild life regions of
Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and
Canada.
Throne Car for Father Divine
This is the $40,000 ‘‘throne car” for Father Divine, under construction at Pasadena, Calif. The
car, to have a raised throne of plush in the back, was ordered by John W. Hunt, 33-year-old
follower Divine. Hunt is sought on a If inn act charge. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
01 ON CEFENDS
Building Citizens for Peace,
Not War, He As
serts.
By ttie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 3.—Common
wealth President Manuel Quezon re
plied today to charges he was mili
tarizing the Philippines with the con
tention he was building a citizen army
of peace.
The Filipino leader defended the
islands’ new military program before
the Foreign Policy Association, which
had criticized the organization de
veloped under direction of Gen. Doug
las MacArthur.
The compulsory military training of
youths, Quezon said, is modeled after
that of Switzerland and is supple
mented by only a small professional
force.
Country s Ttule Scouted.
"Who can serious contend that in
our rapidly growing nation of at least
15,000,000 a mere 10,000 regular sol
diers—some engaged in police duty
of the constabulary and others in
ordinary military tasks—can ever con
stitute a special privileged class that
can rule the country?" he asked.
Terming laughable an assertion that
the program represented "a covert
conspiracy to keep the United States
in the Philippines," Quezon said it
was "the best evidence that we are
getting ready to depend upon our
selves for our own protection and not i
upon the United States.”
"The charge that our national de
fense plan is 'intended to strengthen
the military power of America in the
Western Pacific in the event of war
with Japan’ is not only groundless
but mischievous.”
To Go Right Ahead.
Only destruction of the Japanese
navy, he said, would permit the trans
portation of Filipinos in an offensive.
With the aim of giving the islands
better and more capable citizens, Que
zon said he would go ahead with the
military training even if he knew
his country could not be defended
against a first-class power.
Maj. Gen. William C. Rivers, U. S.
A., retired, a man with long service
under the Philippine civil authorities
at Manila, said he believed the Philip
pine Islands "too far from our West
Coast and too near to Japan, for the
United States to be able to defend j
the Philippines.” He labeled as ill- j
advised suggestions for construction of
a United States naval base at Manila.
Exposed Salient Seen.
“With Japan between the United
States and Manila, all our Congress
could build at Manila would be an
exposed and indefensible fortified
salient—a salient which would be in
easy range of Japanese air bombers
from nearby Formosa and from the
Bonin Islands and from Japan itself,”
said Gen. Rivers.
The general maintained that Japan
has no desire to forcibly annex the
Philippines, contending such action
would damage Japan's trade with the
Philippines and also divide her fleet.
Stephen P. Duggan of the Institute
of International Education told the
meeting that if the provisions of the
independence act regarding trade with :
the United States "were to be en- ;
forced as they now stand they would ;
probably spell the economic ruin of
the Philippines."
The act provides that the free trade
now existing between the United
States and the Philippines shall re
main in force for the first five years
of the Commonwealth. In the sixth
year. 1941, a tax of 5 per cent would
be levied by the Philippine govern
ment on all exports to the United
States and an additional 5 per cent
for each of the remaining years of the
Commonwealth. When independence
is attained the full American tariff on
foreign goods is to be imposed upon
Philippine goods.
THE WEATHER
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District of Columbia—Rain begin
ning late tonight or tomorrow; not
much change in temperature; lowest
tonight about 45 degrees; moderate :
winds, mostly easterly.
Maryland—Rain, beginning late to
night or tomorrow; not much change
in temperature.
Virginia—Cloudy, occasional rain
today and in west portion late tonight; ;
slightly warmer in extreme southwest!
portion.
West Virginia—Rain probable to
night and tomorrow; slightly warmer
in east and south portions tomorrow.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear today.
Report for Last 21 Hours.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 pm. _ 81 2P.S5
5 p.m. __ 58 2P.P2
Midnieht _ 51 2P.06
Today—
4 a m. - _ 47 UP OP
>^am. _ 45 30.12 ,
Noon . . 52 30.11
Record for Last 21 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.'
Highest, 63. at 3:30 p.m. yesterday.
Lowest. 43 at 5a.m. today.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Hiehest. 78, on January P.
Lowest. IP. on February 28.
Humidity for Last 21 Hours.
<From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 54 per cent, at 5 a.m today.
Lowest, 25 per cent, at noon today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey )
Today. Tomorrow.
High _12:30 a.m. 1:38 a.m.
Low __ 7:17 a.m. 8:15 a.m.
High _ 1 on P.m. 1 :5f> p.m.
Low 8:06 p.m. P:02 p.m.
The San and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today _ 5:51 0:33
Sun tomorrow 5:45) 0:34
Moon, today 12:52 a.m. lo.4()a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1937. Average. Record.
January _ _ 7.83 3.56 7.83 '37
February _ 3.33 3.27 0.84 ’84
March _ 1.50 3.75 8.84 '5)1
April _ — 3.27 9.13 '89
Mav _ 3.70 10.0!) '89
June _ 4.13 10.5)4 *00
July _ 4.71 10.03 '80
August _- 4.01 14.41 ’28
September _ -_ 3.24 17.45 ’34
October _ - 2.84 8.57 '85
November _ _ . .. 2.37 8.05) ’89
December 3.32 7.50 '01
Weather in Various Cities.
Temp. Rain
Stations. Baro. H’h.Low.fall. Weath’r
Abilene, Tex. 29.68 84 0 Cloudy
Albany. N. Y. 30.00 48 30 0.01 Rain
Atlanta. Ga. . 30.00 74 40 Clear
Atlantic City 30.00 02 44 Cloudy
Baltimore. Md. 30.08 02 40 0.01 Cloudy
Birmingham 29.00 74 52 Clear
Bismarck. N. D. 25).80 32 20 0.08 Snow
Boston. Mass.. _ 29.5)4 42 32 0.32 Cloudy
Buffalo. N. Y. 30.12 30 28 0.08 Clear
Charleston. S.C. 30.04 78 54 Clear
Chicago. 111. 30.02 42 32 0.02 Rain
Cincinnati, Ohio 30.02 54 38 Cloudy
Cleveland. Ohio 30.12 38 30 .. Cloudy
Columbia. S C. 30.04 74 52 Clear
Denver, Colo. 29.70 08 32 Cloudy
Detroit. Mich. 30.12 44 20 _ Cloudy
51 Paso. Tex. 29.72 78 4 8 . Clear
Galveston. Tex. 25).HO 08 02 Clear
'plena, Mont. 29.92 40 30 Clear
Turon. S. Dak. 25).82 30 30 0.70 Snow
ndianapolis 30.02 4 8 38 Rain
Jeattle Wash 2!).02 50 42 0.10 Rain
‘Spokane, Wash. 25).5)4 50 30 Cloudy
r&aipa Fla. 30.02 74 00 Cloudy*
W<|pH . D. C. 30.08 63 43 __ Cloudy
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RECEIVER TO FILE
MIDAMERICA SUIT
Official for Van Sweringen Estate
Demands “His Right’’ to Pur
chase Control.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. April 3 —J. Paul
Thompson, receiver for the partner
ship estate of the late O. P. and M. J.
Van Sweringen, announced late yes
terday he had served formal demand
on George A. Ball and George A.
Tomlinson that they “protect his
right'1 to purchase controiing interest
in Midamerica Corp. through exercise
of a purchase option they gave the
Van Sweringens at the time Midamer
ica was organized.
This demand, Thompson said, was
a preliminary to filing of a suit by him
within the next week for a court order
directing Ball and Tomlinson to sell
to him control of Midamerica under
terms of the option.
.Thompson is a court-appointed re
ceiver to protect the interests of cred
itors of the Van Sweringen partner
ship. Among these creditors are the
liquidators of the Union Trust Co. and
Guardian Trust Co., the Midland Bank
of Cleveland and New York banks
with whom the Van Sweringens dealt
in their financial operations.
This development came on the heels
of reports here and in New York that
Ball, who owns 90 per cent of Mid
america. was negotiating for sale of
the top holding corporation of the
Van Sweringen railroad empire which
he and Tomlinson formed after buying
at auction control of the Van Swer
ingen enterprises in September, 1835.
Washington Produce.
BUTTER 04 ycore I-pound print*. 4
1»-pound print:, 4.: tub. 11 on -core 1
pound prints. 4 1; U-Pound prints. 44. tub.
4n
MEATS- Choice beef 1' calves. 10
veal. Id. lamb. 41 pork loin "l. fre-:,
ham. 4.4; smoked ham. 40. .sliced baco’
44 slab bacon, 'l'' compound, i4 iarc
J \1
LIVE 8TOCK P — :
Ha!*': medium hog,, t ♦ *» heavies. KaO1,*.
rotiRhs. daV calve* halo iamb Gain
Prices paid shippers—Net ? o.b. Wash
ington. by the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural
Economic.*
EGGS— Market on U. S Government
graded extras :4 cent lower All other
grades steady at unchanged price
Current receipts. 41 to 41 *2 cent*- hen
nery whites. 44 t0 44J2 cent--, a few at 4’ :
cents. Government graded and dated
white eggs 'net prices paid shippers f. o. b
Washington 1; U. S extras large 41’j
cent.*: U S. extras, medium-’ 4*4*4 cents.
U. S .‘tandard^ large 4.'. cent-.
LIVE POULTRY — Market generally
steady a* unchanged price F w! co -
ored heavy. IT to 1 o cents Leghorn
L'l to 14 cents: chickens. Rocks and
crosses ail *izes mostly 41 to 44 cen* -
a few a* 44 cents Le :. -r.. . 1 ■. to • i
pound.*, and up 4»» t^ 41 ceir old cu.iv
4A to .40 cents each turkeys, old her.
lti to is cents: old toms ]cents.
CHICAGO GRAIN
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO. April 3 —Heavy buying
of grain futures in Chicago as well as
in other world markets lifted May
wheat here to equal the highest price
m eight years and May corn to a new
12-year peak today.
The maximum early rise in wheat
was about 2 cents, and in corn almost
3 cents.
Almost 6 cents advance in wheat at
Buenos Aires yesterday and 2 cents
at Liverpool, plus 3 cents at times In
Winnipeg today, were significant de
velopments in the world price rise In
which Chicago values actually lagged
behind.
Importing nations. particularly
Great Britain, Prance. Germany, Italy
and Spain, were reported to have
made extensive purchases of cash
wheat, principally from Argentina,
Canada and Australia within the last
24 hours. The taking of 500,000
bushels of Argentine wheat by Spain
was given special attention by traders.
There were also reports that bread
prices had been raised in Argentina
and Great Britain.
The activity in May corn, which
has risen 20 cents in the last month,
was associated with trade gossip of
the possibility of development of a
corn market ••squeeze" in May. Corn
available here now for delivery on
contracts which expire that month
is far less than the volume of con
tracts outstanding. Traders pointed
out that Argentine corn, while satis
fying the demand for cash grain,
could be used only in small quantities
for delivery on contracts.
Oats and rye rose in sympathy with
the leading grains. Soy beans were
bid 234-3’_ cents higher at new
record highs.
Provisions rose slightly.
About midsession wheat was ; a 1' i
higher compared with yesterday’s fin
ish: May, 1.44'*: July, 1.28T*, and
corn was l,2a2'l cents up. May,
1.28'|; July, 1.19\.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
CHICAGO April 3 'United State?
Department rf Agriculture >.—Hors—Re
ceipts. 2.0o0. including 1.800 direct: ma:
ket nominally steady normal top 1«».2<»:
shippers took none: holdover. 500: con -
pared week ago. good and choice. 25-35
lower: others and pigs uneven 50-1 mi
lower: medium grades, under iso pound
showing most loss: packing sows. 15-: .
lower
Cattle- Receipts TOO; calve* reccin’
loo: compared Friday las’ week. hea\ •
steer.'. 75-35 higher most advance on
shipper kinds, top 35 higher af 10 75 new
high and equal to 107.5 peak, choice
heavies and medium weights very scarce
buik of crop being fairly well lnrened mi*
still short-fed yearlings and lights tha/
sold off 75. extreme instances 50: all
steers scaling over 1.70u pounds at sul -
stantial price premium over comparable
kinds averaging I.oon pounds down be^t
light yearlings. 14 5o: licht steers, lorn
few tvpirai yearlings above 12.50 bti k
meager crop long-fed heavies. 1 1 5n-15 * •>
heifers steady to 75 lower merely good
grades of! most prime os 1-pound heifers
topped at 17.00: bulk 10.75 down: cows
weak to shade lower common beef and
cutter grades very draggy bulls. io-’~>
lower, and vealers. 5o to 1 00 off. closing
at 10.00 down.
Sheep—Receipts 1 500: for week end
ing Friday. 4.5oo directs compared Fri
day last week, fat lamb.s. 35-50 lower: fat
sheep. 75 lower: daily supply fat lamb
75 to 00 per cent Colorado fed: small
proportion arriving clipped, no springers
offered fat sheep seasonally scarce; ’np.
fat. woolea lambs, midweek 17.85: clos
ing practical top. 12.50: bulk fed wooled
lambs 12 15-12 40: clippers 1025-10>:»
fat ewe supply, mostly natives, best a*
week's opening. 7 25. closing at 7.00 bii.it
for week 5.75-0.75: throwouts, most.
4.00 down
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
NEW YORK. April :! I!P\.—Eggs. ftO.ft.Vt.
about steady. Mixed colors, dirties No 1.
22-22*4 whites exchange standards "P.—
'a: fancy mediums including premiums
25-20*.2 exchange mediums. 24*a other
mixed colors and whites, all brown and
duck eggs unchanged
Butter f5.fi 1 ?♦. weaker. Creamprv. higher
than extra. H.'l'i-iitU extra '02 score*.
3314: firsts (88-01 scores* 32-33: sec
onds <84-87 scores*. 30*4-3134: central
ized fOO score*. 32*4. , .
Cheese 102.737 cuiet and unchanged.
Live poultrv. bv freight, firm. Fowls,
colored. 10-20: Leghorn. 18: roosters. 12;
turkeys 17-25: ducks. 14
Bv express firm. Broilers. Leghorn. 2 I :
Rocks 24: Reds 21 crosses. 33: fowls,
colored. 20: Leghorn, 10: roosters. 12:
ducks. 14. „ _ .
Dress poultry steady to firm Prices un
changed.
U. S. TREASURY NOTES.
'Reported by Chas. D Barney & Co.)
Rate—Maturity Bid Offer.
3 Apr. 15. '37 100 1-32
3*4 Sept. 15. *37 101 0-32 101 11-32
25b Feb. 1. ’38 101 20-32 101 22-33
3 Mar. 15. '38 102 H-32 102 8-32
27/« June 15. '38 102 13-32 102 15-32
2V2 Sept. 15. *38 102 0-32 102 11-33
Pa Mar. 15. ’30 100 5-32 100 0-32
2V« June 15. ’30 101 17-32 101 21-33
13b Dec. 15. ’30 00 20-32 100 2-32
15« Mar. 15. '40 100 4-32 100 8-32
P2 June 15. ’40 00 10-32 00 23-32
Pa Dec. 15. *40 00 17-32 00 21-32
p. Mar. 15. '41 00 14-32 00 10-33
1% June 15 ’41 00 3-32 00 7-32
P/4 Dec. 15. 41 08 10-32 08 20-33
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METAL MARKET.
NEW YORK. April :i Up.—Copper
steariv. electrolytic spot and future. If 00:
export Ki.tn Tin steady: spot and
nearby li'-Mi-' j: future. fl2.nnaH2.12' i.
■ther metals nominally unchanged. •'