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ALFONSO’S AONT
ASKS HIS RETURN
Demands Restoration as
King Because of Aid
Given Franco.
the Associated Preas.
PARIS. April 13.—Former King Al
fonso's 73-year-old aunt demanded
last night that he be restored to the
Spanish throne in reward for finan
cial aid to the insurgent Gen. Fran
cisco Franco.
"All the royal family have given
their last cents to Franco,” the aging
but vigorous infante Eulalie said. She
added that her nephew has given
"nearly $10,000,000” in the civil war
against the Spanish republican gov
ernment.
Herself once banished from Spain
by Alfonso, for publishing memoirs of
life at court, the Bourbon princess
nevertheless considers him "the great
eest patriot that ever lived in Spain.”
"Now they must call him back to
the throne—they must give him his
reward for what he has done,” she
demanded.
The time, she admitted, "of course,
is a little early for my nephew to re
turn, with all this battling going on—
but he’ll get back, don't worry.
"Franco will put Alfonso back on
the throne as soon as possible. I gave
him all my belongings and all my
property. He's got to win.”
(The insurgent chieftain has indi
cated that he will set up a military
reign if he overthrows the present
Spanish government and later will
consider restoration of the monarchy.)
Prince Juan, heir apparent to the
throne which his father, Alfonso,
lost in 1931, when the republic of
Spain was founded, is now in Rome.
But the infante didn't know just
where Alfonso is—“He’s around some
where, digging up more money for
Franco, I guess.”
Her sudden outburst was typical
of the outspoken princess who shocked
the Spanish court in 1893 when she
suggested Spanish blunders had ren
dered Cuba hostile to the crown, that
the island was as good as lost as a
colony and that it would be wise to
sell to the United States.
Despite her sometimes pointed re
publican statements, she insists always
that she is a firm royalist, but realizes
that times have changed and that
Kings must change with them.
When a son went to work in a
tractor factory as an inspector she
bought him a pair of overalls.
ALLEGED JULIANO
CONFEDERATE TAKEN
Arrest of Colored Man Completes
Round-up of Raid
Suspects.
The police round-up of Victor A.
(Toots) Juliano's alleged confeder
ates had been completed today with
the arrest of Joseph Haynes. 48, col
ored, 90 block of Sixth street, sought
since Saturday, when Juliano was
taken in a raid on an establishment
In the 1400 block of Eleventh street.
Haynes was picked up by Detective
Sergt. Earl Hartman and Detective
Joe Comiskey at Tenth and O streets
as he was getting into an automobile
about the time Juliano, Beatrice Jef
fries, 29. and Raymond Jones, col
ored, were being arraigned yesterday
before United State Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage.
Haynes later was taken before
Turnage and pleaded not guilty to
charges of setting up a gaming table
and operating a lottery. He was re
leased under $3,000 bond.
Hearings for Juliano, Haynes, Jones
fend the Jeffries woman were set for
May 5. Juliano was allowed bail on
charges of conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws and with operating a
lottery, and Jones and the Jeffries
woman on lottery and gaming table
charges.
Commissioner Turnage set April
16 as the date for hearings for 10
other men and women arrested in
Saturday’s raids.
TOWN IS FLOODED
RAYMOND, Wash., April 13 (JP).—
Eighteen inches of water was driven
into downtown stores early today by
a gale blowing off the ocean into Will
apa Harbor.
The flood covered an area five blocks
by two at high tide. Heavy rains Mon
day raised the Willapa and South Fork
Rivers, which meet at Raymond, at
the east end of Willapa Harbor.
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Sounds Kill SnaKes.
CHICAGO (A3).—Air drills annoy
humans, but they have a more deadly
affect on snakes.
Several reptiles succumbed to the
raucous sounds produced by the ma
chines as workmen installed steam
pipes in the Lincoln Park snake house.
Through With Horses
Peggy Hopkins Joyce as she arrived in New York from Eu
rope yesterday, still wearing bandages over leg injuries received
when horses drawina her sleigh ran away and crashed. Vivian
Jackson, to whom she was to have been married, icas killed in
the accident. Miss Hopkins declared she “never wants to see
another horse.” —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Chemists
(Continued From First Page.)
minute quantities, causes marked ac
centuation of such characters as the
growth of combs on roosters.
Up to the present two male hor
mones, occurring in nature, testosto
rone and androsterone, were known.
The first and most powerful was ob
tained directly from male glands,
while the second was a decomposition
isolated from male urine. Curiously
enough, the new substance obtained
from females is much more potent
than androsterone and may even be
equivalent to testosterone.
Valuable Drug Promised.
I Variations of both the previously
known substances have been made syn
thetically, but since they do not occur
in nature. Dr. Marker said, cannot be
j considered as real hormones. The dis
covery announced today not only pro
vides a drug which may be of great
medical value, but promises to shed
[ light on the basic nature of sex differ
ences and the way hormones act.
Dr. Marker believes that the sex
hormones which are having an in
creasingly important role in medicine
do not act primarily as physical stimu
lators of specific organs, but that they
act by chemical combinations within
the body.
The theory of chemical action, he
stressed, is supported by the experi
ments conducted by himself and his
associates, which show that when
various sex normones are aumimsierea
they cannot be recovered in true form.
They come out as decomposition prod
ducts, showing that they have entered
chemical combinations in the body.
River Polluted With Acid.
More than 3,000,000 tons of con
centrated sulphuric acid, causing dam
age of more than $10,000,000 a year,
W'ere being poured into the Ohio River
by its tributary streams flowing past
the mouths of abandoned coal mines,
it was reported by Dr. W. W. Hodge
of West Virginia University. This acid
was produced, he said, by the contact
of water and oxygen with the iron sul
phides and fool’s gold in the aban
doned mines. It destroyed all fish and
aquatic life, made the water unfit to
drink and was on the way to making
the Ohio and its tributary streams
desert rivers.
The danger now is being overcome,
he said, by W. P. A. workers in seven
States, who have already closed nearly
50,000 of the abandoned mine open
ings. Water still escapes from them
into the rivers, but with a much
smaller sulphuric acid content.
A chemical called methyl bromide
is twice as efficient a flame extin
guisher as the carbon tetrachloride
now commonly used, It was reported
by Dr. John C. Olsen of the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute. Because of the
small amounts required, it promises
to be of great value for fire protection
in airplanes.
Establishment of the existence of a
sixth vitamin in the extremely com
plex vitamin B family was reported by
Dr. R. G. Bender of the Borden Co. |
Research Laboratories. Lack of this
substance, he has determined, causes
a curious growth-stunting effect, ac
companied by nerve affliction in rats
which ultimately proves fatal. The
effects on the human system remain
to be determined.
Table salt rich in vitamin B is
promised by researchers reported
this morning by Dr. L. R. Cerecedo
of Pordham University. He found
that certain synthetic sandlike ma
terials which are used extensively for
softening water are able to take up
the vitamin from cereal or yeast ex
tracts and to liberate the substance
again upon treatment with a solution
: of salt and water. When the water
I is dissolved the salt residue is ex
1 tremely rich in the vitamin. Mixing
with more salt gives a material which
can be used on the table.
The vitamin in the amount of salt
ordinarily shaken on food, Dr. Cere
cedo said, will more than make up
for that which is lost in the cooking
of green vegetables. The daily intake
of salt eaten in this way, he said,
would have the same vitamin con
tent as is found in three yeast cakes.
Dr. Cerecedo reported in a second .
paper on the vitamin B requirements I
of white mice, compared with hu- |
mans. In order to remain in good I
health this animal requires an amount j
of the vitamin a day equivalent to |
1 ten-millionth of its body weight—or i
10 tunes as much as is required for
a man.
ROPER TO ADDRESS
MEMBERS OF A. P.
Secretary's Talk Will Precede
Convention of Newspaper
Publishers' Association.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 13.—Daniel C.
Roper, Secretary of Commerce, will
be the guest speaker at the luncheon
of the Associated Press members at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel next Mon
day.
His acceptance of the Invitation
was made public yesterday by Prank
B Noyes, president of the Associated
Press and publisher of The Washing
ton Star. His subject will be an
nounced later.
The address is a feature of the an
nual Associated Press meeting, which
precedes by one day the convention
of the American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association.
About 600 editors and publishers
have expressed intention to attend
the 1 o’clock luncheon.
The business meeting, opening at
11 a m., will elect eight directors, f.ve
to succeed those whose terms have
expired and three to fill additional
directorships created at the last an
nual meeting.
JAPANESE LABOR
BENEFITS CITED
Textile Parley Delegate Up
holds Paternalism in
Factory System.
Japanese laborers who toil eight
and one-half hours a day and re
ceive the benefits of their paternalism
which is a part of their country’s fac
tory system, are better off than labor
ers in other parts of the world whose
working day is eight hours, Juitsu
Kitaoka, representative of the Jap
anese government at the World Tex
tile Conference, said today.
In a defense of the Japanese sys
tem of providing textile workers with
lodging in company dormitories within
the factory ground area, which had
been bitterly criticized by James Bell,
British workers’ representative, Ki
taoka said:
“I can assure you that if there is
any limitation of freedom, it is Just
like the practice of girls’ schools—
that is, to protect their morals.
Speaking by example, the girls are
requested to return to the school by
9 o clock in the evening or that they
go out in groups except when they
go to a definite destination.
Have Leisure Time.
"I have said that under these cir
cumstances eight and one-half hours
a day can give to the workers living
in the dormitory more leisure time
than eight hours’ work can give to the
workers living in the private homes.”
Kitaoka promised the delegates to
the conference, who are meeting be
hind closed doors at the departmental
auditorium, that he would speak more
definitely on Japan's stand on the
suggestion that all the world textile
mills operate on a 40-hour week when
the conference is again brought out
into the open. Japan is the chief op
ponent of the short work week and
the principal competitor of the old
line textile countries, such as Great
Britain, Prance and the United
States.
Have Sanitary Lodging.
"It is not without reason," Kitaoka
said of the Japanese factory, "that
many of the employers are rather
proud that they supply not only clean,
sanitary lodging and nourishing food
but also playgrounds, recreation halls
and supplementary schools at very
low charge or completely gratuitously,
so that the young girls can save an
important part—sometimes more than
half—of their wage for their dowry.”
Meanwhile, Robert West, an ad
viser to the men representing Amer
ican management at the conference,
said that reduction of working hours
in United States textile mills increased
labor costs only 12 per cent, although
it has been estimated that the in
crease would be 37 5 per cent. West
said that dividends on investment
were just as high on the 40-hour week
as on the 55-hour week, and he add
ed that capital available for plant
improvement after the introduction
of the 40-hour week as 70 per cent
higher than formerly.
JEFFERSON PLAN HIT
Restaurant Men Oppose Memorial
at Tidffl Basin.
The directors of the Washington
Restaurant Association voiced vig
orous opposition yesterday to location
of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial on
the proposed site at the Tidal Basin,
declaring they believe the present
plan would cause an irreparable loss
to one of the Capital's most beautiful
parks.
The restaurateurs pointed out the
plan would call for destruction of
most of the cherry trees around the
basin, which "would be a tremendous
esthetic, as well as economic and
commercial, loss to the city."
The directors said other locations
could be obtained which would be
more suitable for the memorial.
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Mooney Arguments Prolonged.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 13 </»»).—
Court observers expressed belief today
that a week will be necessary to com
plete arguments now in progress before
the State Supreme Court in an effort
to secure the freedom of Tom Mooney,
convicted bomber, on a writ of habeas
corpus.
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London hospitals had 1,500 influ
enza patients at one time recently.
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DEFEATPREDICTEO
Fall of Hayashi Government
Seen in General Election
April 30.
By th* Associated Press.
TOKIO. April 13.—A majority of
political forecasters in the Japanese
press predicted today a decisive de
feat for the government of Premier
Gen. Senjuro Hayashi in the general
election set for April 30.
The consensus of political opinion
was that the government would face
a House of Representatives fully as
hostile as the old one dissolved March
31. In that event it would be faced
again with a choice between dissolu
tion and its own resignation.
Military Faction Silent.
As the campaign moved toward its
half-way point the powerful military
faction, which pushed the govern
ment into the present contest, re
mained silent.
Observers saw Indications of rest
iveness among army leaders, both be
cause of the anti-militarist trend of
the recent parliamentary session and
the admitted weakness of the Hayashi
cabinet, which had army approval, if
not active support.
Some close observers expressed be
lief the fighting services would take
a strong stand against the parties and
parliamentary institutions in the event
the government is defeated. They
have insisted that the nation cannot
tolerate the slow-moving processes of
party politics when faced by a seri
ous crisis afhome.
Big Parties Opposition.
The three big parties opposing the
cabinet—the Mtnseito, Seiyukai and
Shakai Taishuto—held 397 seats in
the House which was dissolved. They
expect to elect 440 of the 466 members
in the House.
Only 72 candidates belong to small
parties avowedly supporting the gov
ernment.
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Nature Film to Be Shown.
Howard Zahniser of the Bureau of
Biological Survey will address the
American Business Club at a lunch
eon at 12:30 pm. tomorrow at the
Hay-Adams House. He will show films
of beavers and birds.
Y. W. C. A. Board Meeting.
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone was elect
ed chairman of the Advisory Board
of Trustees of the Y. W. C. A. yester
day, and Paul E. Shorb and Bernard
Wyckofl were elected members. The
board meeting was held at the Y. W.
C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K
streets.
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ACADEMY OF ECONOMICS
WILL HEAR BRITISHER
Sir Charles Morgan Webb Will
Address Group Tomorrow
Night
Sir Charles Morgan Webb, often
referred to as the historian of the
British-managed currency, will ad
dress the fourteenth meeting of the
Academy of World Economics on "The
World Monetary Problem" at 8:30
p.m. tomorrow in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Auditorium.
After the address by Sir Charles,
who long has been connected with
the British civil service, there will
be a general discussion from the
floor by representatives of various
diplomatic corps and Government
official circles.
Announced participants include
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma; Dr.
E. A. Goldenweiser, chief of the divi
sion of research and statistics, Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System; Dr. Charles O. Hardy of the
Brookings Institution and Prof. Josef
Salterer of the Georgetown Uni
versity School of Foreign Service.
GOODWILL INDUSTRY
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
Progress of Organization Aiding
Handicapped Cited in
$65,000 Drive.
With more than 160 Washington
citizens present, including members
of the clergy and civic and charitable
groups, Goodwill Industries yesterday
launched a campaign 'or 865,000, to
be used for equipment and main
tenance projects.
At a luncheon in the Willard Ho
tel Mrs. Georgette Ross Howard, lec
turer, commentator and lifelong resi
dent of Washington, praised the or
ganization for the progress it has
made and appealed to those attend
ing to co-operate In the campaign.
"In 18 months Goodwill Industries
has grown from an organization with
only three temporary employes to one
employing more than 60 handicapped
men and women who are unemploy
able elsewhere," she said.
William O. Tufts, president of the
organization, stressed the Importance
of personal contact In the campaign
and assured the audience that “Good
will intends to treat other appeals in
the city in a friendly manner, and
that we are not seeking to take ad
vantage of any other group.”
The co-operation of his group was
offered by Clarence Phelps Dodge,
president of the Community Chest.
Mrs. Samuel Herrick, chairman of
the Campaign Residential Commit
tee, reported 325 Washington women
organized for the drive.
The luncheon attendants applaud
ed the announcement that the Dis
trict Council of Social Agencies had
accepted Goodwill's application for
membership.
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