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G. U. TO BESTOW
HONOR ON QUEZON
Ceremony Tonight to Climax
Observance of Found
ers’ Day.
Pounders’ day honors of Georgetown
TTniversity will be bestowed upon
President Manuel Quezon of the
Philippines at a colorful academic
ceremony tonight at 8:30 o’clock in
Gaston Hall.
Two well known Georgetown profes
sors, Dr. D. Percy Hickling, specialist
lr> nervous diseases, and Charles Al
bert Keigwin of the law' school, also
have been singled out for honors.
Very Rev. Arthur A. O’Leary, S. J.,
rector of the university, will confer
a doctor of laws degree on President
Quezon, who hastened back to Wash
ington last night from a visit in
Mexico to attend the founders’ day
celebration. He is being honored by
the university, Dr. O'Leary said, as
the first president of the new'est gov
ernment and democracy.
Diplomats to Attend.
Mrs. Quezon and Resident Commis
sioner Quintin Paredes of the Philip
pines will be among the large group
of invited diplomats. Government
officials and alumni who will attend
the convocation and the reception
which follows in the Carroll parlors.
The university is conferring a doctor
of science degree upon Dr. Hickling,
who is professor and head of the
department of neurology and psychia
try at its school of medicine. Prof.
Keigwin, a former Assistant U. S.
Attorney for the District and also
formerly special assistant to the At
torney General before the World War,
will receive a doctor of laws degree.
Ancient Bell to Toll.
An interesting feature of the cere
mony will be the tolling of the oldest
Catholic church bell in the country
In memory of the founders, among
whom Archbishop John Carroll of
Baltimore ranks first. Each day on
founders’ day the old bell is taken
from the college archives. It has been
in Georgetown's safe keeping for more
than a oentury and was taken from
the first English Catholic church in
this country, established in old St.
Marys City, Md., in 1643.
The vice rector of the Catholic Uni
versity of America. Right Rev. Msgr.
Patrick Joseph McCormick, has been
assigned the duty of calling the names
of the founders. The Georgetown Col
lege Choir, under the direction of
Dr. Edward P. Donovan, will chant
their praises.
The university, oldest Catholic in
stitution of higher learning in the
United States, was founded in 1789,
although its earliest antecedents trace
back a century before that date to the
early schools established by Jesuit
missionaries in Maryland.
ROOSEVELT TO DRIVE
INTO COUNTRY TODAY
Confer* With Morgenthau and
Bell in His Study During
Morning.
President Roosevelt planned to
abandon his desk this afternoon and
motor for a couple of hours in the
nearby countryside.
During the forenoon in his study
he conferred with Secretary of Treas
ury Morgenthau and Director of the
Budget Bell on Government receipts
and expenditures. The President ex
pects the assessment to be in com
pleted form Monday. At that time he
will put everything else aside and
begin writing his revised budget mes
sage and relief plans to be transmitted
to Congress.
The President also talked today with
Joseph E. Davies, Ambassador to
Russia, who returned to this country
for a brief vacation about a week ago;
John Winant, former head of the
Social Security Commission, who has
been presiding over the textile con
ference here, and Hi-. old Butler. Eng
lish director of the International Labor
Office, who has been attending the
textile conference.
TWO DIE HERE FRIDAY
Willett Marcus, 21, and John H.
Cummings, 27, both colored, will be
electrocuted at the District Jail next
Friday for the murder January 4, 1935,
of Joseph R. Wushnak, 42-year-old
meat track driver, whom they shot in
an attempted hold-up.
Wushnak, an employe of the Auth
Provision Co., was shot in the 1000
block of B street northeast, and died
four days later. The gunmen were
traced through a felt hat dropped by
Cummings at the shooting scene.
Gets 120 Days for Theft.
George W. Pack, 26, colored, 1318
W street, who has a record of nine
convictions for stealing newspapers,
was sentenced by Police Judge John
P. McMahon yesterday to serve 120
days in jail for the theft of several
magazines from a downtown hotel.
Papers’ Arrival
Highlight of Dull
Nearby Election
By a Stall Correspondent 01 The Star.
CHEVY CHASE, Md„ April 17.—
The magazines and periodicals in the
Brookfield Pharmacy, 6423 Brookfield
road, suffered most as the vote for
three members of the Citizens' Com
mittee of Martin’s Addition hit an all
time low Tuesday night.
Only 30 votes were cast in the dis
trict which includes about 200 eligibles
and has recorded nearly 175 votes in
a contested election, according to
Ralph Chase, election Judge.
The polls were open four hours to
receive the 30 votes, an average of one
ballot every eight minutes. To relieve
boredom, the election judges thumbed
through detective stories and current
fiction found on the store’s magazine
rack. The high light of the evening
was the arrival of early editions of the
morning papers, which were snapped
up iWore they were placed on sale.
James J. Hayden received 30 votes,
and the other two candidates, John P.
Hennessey and Joseph Y. Houghton,
29 each. All were incumbents without
opposition and were in bed before the
votes were counted.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
In recess.
Senate Judiciary Committee meets
to fix date for closing court Mil hear
ings. gp
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
CORRECTION.
THE informant who told us about
Mrs. Meigs’ Siamese cat made
a slight mistake and wants to
apologize for it iwe hope). She
thought the word “dara,” Anally in
corporated into the cat’s name at the
suggestion of the Siamese Legation,
meant “sweetheart”! Having already
called the cat Pinkie, the monnlker
turned out to be Pinki-dara.
The trouble is, “dara'" means “star,”
which is all for the best. We prefer
to think of a pinkie star rather than
a pinkie sweetheart.
REAL ESTATE.
Mr. and. Mrs. Oliver Murray
drove down to Port Royal. Va.,
last Sunday and came back to re
port they were vastly impressed by
two things—a remodeled home be
longing to a Star expert on foreign
land military) affairs, and the
town jail, which had pasted on its
cell bars a big sign. ”For Rent.”
* * * *
UNPRETENTIOUS.
rFHE Murrays supply us with an
other item, this one canine. Seems
they thought this talk about special
gadgets to push a cocker spaniel’s
ears out of the oatmeal was a lot of
high falutin’ nonsense. Their own
cocker. Sally by name, merely has
her ears tucked back into a collar
when the dinner hour rolls around.
UNEARNED INCREMENT.
"'T'HE interest on our $5 deposit
* amounts to $12.57," announced a
member of the District W. C. T. U. at
a recent meeting here. "I have here
a check for $17.57, of which S5 was
principal, the balance interest," she
said, holding up the slip of paper as
evidence of the rather startling
statement.
Then came the explanation. Several
decades ago when the Woman's Chris- j
tian Temperance Union moved in its
new hearquarters the business agent
forgot to collect $5 left on deposit
with the gas company. Nobody thought
anything about it until the company
was going over some old accounts re
cently and discovered the deposit
had never been repaid. It promptly
dispatched a check, $5 for principal,
the rest as computed evidence of its
appreciation of the faith that would in
spire any one to leave $5 lying around
the place that long.
* * * *
TICKER.
'T'HE largest time-piece owned by an
individual in the city of Washing
ton is back from a Spring vacation,
you'll be glad to know, and is again
putting out the time of day down to
the split second, or rather to the
public.
Gadget is that huge street clock at
the corner of Wisconsin avenue and
M street northwest, and it belongs to
B. Agee Bowles, who was formerly a
banker, but personally owned the
clock in front of his bank. What with
Winter's rust and all that the clock
had to be given a Spring cleaning
recently, but is now back on the job,
although we still don't know whether
Mr. Bowles goes around to wind it
himself, for exercise, or has some one
else attend to that detail.
* * * *
FAIR EXCHANGE.
After laboring vainly for some
time to extricate herself from a
tight parking space out in Chevy
Chase the other day, a lady was
hailed by a stranger who was sit
ting in another car parked across
the street. He was busy attempt
ing to placate a small baby with
a bottle of milk.
“Lady," he said, “if you’ll come
over here and give this baby his
bottle, I’ll get your car out.”
She did, and the baby lay cooing
in her arms, while father went
across the street, wiggled the car
into the clear.
T T T ^
MYSTERY.
A YOUNG lady who ponders the
mysteries of the newspaper
world writes in to tell us that a
friend named Kilmer Bartz, a base
ball star at Woodrow Wilson High
School, has seen elaborate write-ups
about himself in all the local papers,
and can’t quite understand how it
was done. Says he has never seen a
newspaper reporter, and is at a loss
to know where they collected all
their facts, most of them spotlessly
accurate.
The answer, lady, is that sports re
porters are psychic and can tell all
about a man’s early childhood, his
ambitions and probable Latin aver
ages by watching him pitch a round
house curve. Psychic, that is, except
when it comes to discovering who will
win a prize fight, horse race or base
ball game. When those questions
come up their powers become so in
tensified that the often are attuned
with another world, one in which
things don’t happen according to the
laws that govern our own sphere. If
you don't think so, ask some of the
people who have spent the last few
years betting on Maxie Baer.
BOYS OF WOODWARD
SCHOOL DINE TONIGHT
Students to Attend Annual Dance
and See Presentation of
Play at Y. M. C. A.
The annual banquet and dance of
the Woodward School for Boys will
be held tonight In the Y. M. C. A.
auditorium, 1736 O street, Fred L.
Dawson, chairman of the committee
in charge, announoed today.
The program Includes an address
by Dr. Allen Stockdale and presents*
. tlon of a play, ‘"Hie Valiant,” by
members of the senUr English class.
TELEPATHY PUT
TO TESTAT DUKE
Clairvoyanre Is Also Dem
onstrated by Dr. Rhine
of Faculty.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
DURHAM, N. C., April 17.—Has
man some mental eye which can see,
however dimly, through stone walls
and regardless of distance?
Can one read another’s mind, de
prived of such clues as Intimate ac
quaintance, facial expressions and
voice inflections?
These questions are being put to
a rigid scientific test in the psycho
logical laboratory of Duke University
here. Dr. Joseph B. Rhine of the
Duke faculty and his assistants dem
onstrated their methods and told of
their latest findings yesterday at a
meeting arranged by the National
Association of Science Writers and
attended by Dr. Irving Langmuir,
noted chemist and vice president of
the General Electric Co.
Something to Telepathy.
Their findings indicate, in brief,
that there is something to both clair
voyance and telepathy. At least,
neither the science writers nor Dr.
Langmuir could put a finger on any
obvious flaw in their procedures, no
body questions the honesty and sin
cerity, and Dr. Rhine and his as
sociates and some of their foremost
experts on statistical methods in the
world have checked up on their
mathematical treatment of their re
sults.
Chance apparently is ruled out, for
this mathematical analysis shows the
chances are one in the biggest figure
anybody ever imagined—10 to the
1,200th power, or 10 followed by 1,200
cyphers—against some of the things
happening that have happened in
that Duke laboratory. And that is
several times the number of all the
atoms in the universe.
Anecdotally there have been in
numerable instances of clairvoyance
and telepathy. Almost everybody
knows, in his personal experience or
that of his immediate family, of very
queer things that have happened. Un
fortunately, however well substan
tiated, these anecdotes are not valid
scientific evidence because there is no
way of ruling out the factors of coin
cidence, of unconscious mistakes in
reporting, etc. A valid test requires
that every factor be controlled—and
that is exactly what the Duke psy
chologists are doing.
Perhaps it is well to insert here
that none of the science writers,
with one possible exception, showed
the slightest abih.y in either of these
occult lines. I myself was a woeful
failure a* telepathic reading, making
the remarkable score of 100 per cent
wrong, but showed up a trifle above
the average on clairvoyance.
Procedure 1s Simple.
The procedure is basically simple
enough. Dr. Rhine has a special
pack of 25 cards, the size of ordinary
playing cards. On the faces, how
ever, are printed geometrical figures
in place of the playing card symbols.
There are five stars, five crosses, five
squares, five circles and five waves.
The subject of the experiment, with
the pack face down, matches the
card without looking at them with
these five symbols. Now. by pure
chance with a large number of trials
five cards should be matched cor
rectly on an average for each trial.
There is one chance out of five that
the card I match with a star will
itself carry the star symbol.
This is exactly the result obtained
with many thousands of trials with
a card shuffling machine. One pack
is shuffled and the cards laid face
up. Then the second pack is shuf
fled and the cards laid face up against
those of the first pack. One card
out of five will be correctly matched
on an average for a hundred trials
or more. A man or woman, with no
clues, should do no better nor no
worse than the machine.
But suppose for 100 trials one
matches an average of seven cards
correctly. Supposing he does it for
a thousand trials or, as in the case of
one of Dr. Rhine's subjects, gets an
average of 9 correct out of the 25.
If this happens it is considered evi
dence that something has come into
the picture to abrogate the laws of
pure chance. The more cards one
matches correctly and the greater the
number of the trials, the less the like
lihood that the matching is follow
ing the mathematical laws of prob
ability.
* May Be Miles Apart.
Telepathy is tested in much the
same way. except the two work to
gether. One knows the card which
the other calls. Generally persons
gifted in these faculties do as well
but no better at telepathy as at pure
clairvoyance. It doesn't make any
difference whether the two are sit
ting across the table from each other,
in two different buildings on the
campus or miles apart.
The abilities differ enormously
from person to person, most every
one succeeding no better than chance.
But one subject time after time
matched 15 out of the 25 cards cor
rectly and on at least one occasion
matched all 25. The ability quickly
deteriorates, the best performers after
a few months falling back to pure
chance again. Narcotic drugs inter
fere with it badly, but after a decline
it can be restimulateo by caffeine.
All this, of course, is very far from
the ghoulish atmosphere of the seance.
There are no dim lights and filmy
draperies, no mysterious voices out
of the darkness. The rooms are bare
and well lighted. There is no emo
tional element in the performances.
Nobody can get very excited about
matching decks of cards a hundred
times. No directions are given. The
matcher follows the hunch of the
moment, or just lays the cards down
at random without any hunches.
Experiments duplicating and con
firming Dr. Rhine’s results now have
been reported from five other col
leges in the United States and from
several in Europe. The field is known
as “parapsychology.” The first Issue
of its quarterly professional journal
was out today, giving accounts of the
confirmatory results and the back
ground of the subject.
Have Hands on Something.
Somehow or other Dr. Rhine and
his associates seem to have gotten
their hands on something—whatever
its nature, and they make no specu
lations whatsoever—that is outside
ordinary human experience.
A natural question, of course, is as
to what advantage possession of this
faculty would be at a stud poker
game. A fellow who could read an
ace in the hole wouldn’t have to
work for a living much longer.
But for those who might be hesi
tant to try their luck against any
of the science writers in the future—
against such a An as myself, for
OF JUNIOR HIGHS
70 Pet. of Poll of D. C.
Teachers See Goal Missed,
Parley Told.
Only about 30 per cent of 130
Junior high school teachers here who
have previously taught in elementary
school feel that the junior high solves
or facilitates the solution of the prob
lems it was designed to correct, Dr.
Thomas H. Briggs, professor of edu
cation at Columbia University, told
the first general session of the junior
high school conference last night.
Speaking at the Langley Junior
High on the evaluation of the past
of the junior high, Dr. Briggs sub
mitted to the group the opinion of
some of Washington’s Junior high in
structors as revealed In a question
naire he sent them.
“That does not mean that 70 per
cent of the teachers think the Junior
high is a failure," he said. “Rather
it means that they have not been
sufficiently convinced.”
Crowded Schools Blamed.
Many of the replies charged that
congressional parsimony and over
crowded schools were nearly defeat
ing the purpose of the Junior high in
the District, he said.
The weak point in the whole set-up.
Dr. Briggs thought, is the curriculum
which must be revised. This can only
be done when unite are larger and
experts are free to take up the prob
lem, he said.
Touching on the elimination of "un
desirables" from the schools, which
some of the teachers had pointed out
as a difficulty. Briggs suggested the
modification of the courses so that
there would be something good for
everybody.
“We cannot throw them out upon
society or Industry which cannot ab
sorb them now,” he said. “We will
have to make some provision for them
in the schools.” Applause followed
his remarks.
A panel of three other speakers gave
additional talks of five minutes each
before the meeting was thrown open to
discussion from the floor.
High-Speed Tempo Hit.
Dr. F. B. Gruen, professor of sec
ondary education, declared that the
enrichment of curriculum with more
"general courses" was far more im
portant than getting the child through
school a few months sooner. He was
seconded in his attack on time econo- ;
my by William G. Carr, director of |
Research Division of the National Edu
cation Association. Condemning the i
high speed modern tempo, Carr de- I
dared:
"We have sped up eating until we
have become dyspeptic, we have sped
up recreation till we have become
neurotic; let's leave the kids alone and
let them have a little more time."
Prof. C. O. Williams of Pennsyl
vania State College, thought that
junior highs would be a bit more suc
cessful and the instruction would im
prove if there were less organization
and administration. He felt that the
whole program of secondary education,
of which the junior high is a part,
should be unified.
The session was opened by selections
from the Gordon Junior High School
Orchestra under the direction of Helen
C. Shaw. The audience was welcomed
by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend
ent of schools. Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the Board of Edu
cation, presided.
The second general session was to
be held at the school this morning.
Blossoms
(Continued From First Page.)
and “specials" are expected to bring
in a heavier load of visitors.
Reservations Exhausted.
Reservations at practically all hotels
have been exhausted, according to the
Greater National Capital Committee
of the Board of Trade, and tourist
houses also are caring for their share
of strangers.
Special traffic arrangements have
been made to take care of motorists
between Washington and Baltimore,
with plans laid to keep the main
artery between the two cities open.
Fifty-flve members of the Baltimore
police traffic squad will go on duty
at 8 a.m. to aid motorists en route to
the cherry trees. The special detail
will include 40 motor cycle officers
and 15 patrolmen.
They will attempt to direct motor
ists out the Frederick road and
through Ellicott City, wherever pos
sible, to relieve congestion on the more
direct route.
This move was decided on earlier in
the week when District officials con
ferred with Maryland authorities
about the heavy burden placed on
the Baltimore boulevard.
Additional traffic officers also will
be on duty at entrances to the Capi
tal and throughout the city, and park
police officials announced “every avail
able man" will be out to keep cars
moving.
Traffic around the Tidal Basin, as
usual, will be one-way and clockwise,
a schedule designed to keep machines
from becoming entangled.
While some of the petals have fallen
to the ground, the blossoms ara still
close to their peak. Pinkish at first,
the blooms are gradually blanching
out.
In some places the green leaves of
Ihe trees are beginning to show
through the blooms, signalizing the
beginning of the end, as far as these
Oriental blooms are concerned.
Around Hains Point, about the week
after next, the double-blossom species
are expected to burst into flower.
instance, who for 10 trials made an
average of 7 correct matches, which,
I was told, was slightly significant—
there is no need to worry.
In the first place Dr. Rhine finds
that even the most accomplished
subjects do quite poorly when a regu
lar deck of 52 paying cards is used.
Why nobody knows, except that
there are so many factors entering
into the situation.
In the second place, the effect of
other drugs would indicate, even a
couple of bottles of beer would re
duce one of slightly more than aver
age competency back to the ranks of
the normal.
But with the simplicity of condi
tions and the rigidity of controls the
Duke psychologists challenge a
skeptical world to find an explana
tion—and they will be the first to
welcome wiybody who can show
where thejgtre wrong.
Lindberghs Greeted in Yugoslavia
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh as they alighted at Zagreb, Yugoslavia, en route back
from their recent air trip into Asia. They are escorted by army officers at the Zagreb airport.
___Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
U. S. HALTS ARMS
SALEMVIETS
Opposes Materials Supply
for Construction of
Battleship.
The Government has halted a plan
of Soviet Russia to purchase materials
in this country for a battleship.
Two American corporations, whose
names were not disclosed, have been
informed through the State Depart
ment that while export of such
materials might be permissable under
the licensing provisions of the neu
trally act. the United States disap
proves of the transaction as a matter
of policy.
The department's Arms and Muni
tions Control Board wras informed
early in March that the two companies
held contracts with the Soviet gov
ernment for the delivery of designs,
materials and equipment for the con
struction of one battleship in the
Soviet Union.
They asked whether export licenses
would be necessary for such shipments.
Fall Within Neutrality Act.
They were told by Joseph C. Greene,
chief of the Munitions Control Board,
that barring unforeseen changes in
present treaties and statutes the ship
ment of such items abroad would fall
under the provisions of the neutrality
act prohibiting exports of "arms, am
munition and implements of war," ex
cept under Government licenses.
He held that such materials would
constitute a disassembled vessel of
war.
Under ordinary circumstances, re
sponsible persons said, such licenses
automatically would be issued to a
country not engaged in hostilities, un
less the equipment involved some mili
tary secret, the preservation of which
i would be in the interest of national
defense.
Officials told the corporation repre
sentatives, however, that considera
tions of Government policy dictated
two primary objections to the granting
of licenses in this case.
It was emphasised that exactly the
same objections would apply if any
other country, rather than Soviet Rus
j sla, were involved.
Navy Test Provided For.
One specification of the provisional
contract, it was pointed out, provided
that the United States Navy should
test and Inspect the guns and armor
for the contemplated battleship be
fore they could be delivered. One of
the requirements under the proposed
contract was that the guns be of 16
inch caliber.
The corporations were told that it
has been a long-standing policy of this
government to disassociate itself en
tirely from the promotion of export
trade in munitions. Under such cir
cumstances, it was said, the Govern
ment felt that the Navy should not
be called upon to make any such tests.
Officials held that the export of 16
inch guns might create a situation
Inimical to American interests, since
the size of guns lately has been the
subject of international discussions.
The two corporations involved were
said to have made no further ap
proaches concerning the matter. To
date they have not applied for export
licenses for any of the materials in
volved.
Unless the export of 16-inch naval
guns is prohibited by the war-time
espionage act—which protects military
and naval secrets—or a provision gov
erning such items is added to the
neutrality act, responsible persons said
that if applications for export licenses
are filed they probably would have to
be granted.
FUND DRIVE ADVANCES
Nearly Third of *65,000 Raised
by Goodwill Industries, Inc.
Nearly one-third of the $65,000
sought by Goodwill Industries, Inc., in
its campaign for funds already has
been donated, it was announced yes
terday at the group's first report
meeting.
Records showed $21,881 already col
lected. Of this figure, $18,785 was
turned in by the Special Gifts Com
mittee, of which James C. Dulin, Jr.,
1s chairman.
A letter from Bishop James E. Free
man commending the services of
Goodwill Industries was read by
Ernest H. Daniel, general drive chair
man.
Senator Black Recuperating.
8enator Black of Alabama today was
recuperating from an attack of in
fluenza. A secretary said, however,
the Senator would be confined to his
home for several days.
Holden Banquet Speaker.
Dr. George M. Holden, president
general of the National Society of the
Sons of the War of 1812, will be prin
cipal speaker tonight at a dinner meet
ing of the local chapter to be held at
<:10 pm^gt the Ooemoe Club,
Change in Name
Costs Motorist
$10 or Ten Days
Colored Man Signs
Hawkins Instead of
Dawkins to Card.
A slight change in his name from
Dawkins to Hawkins cost Otis Daw
kins, 23, colored, 625 Fourth street,
a sentence of $10 or 10 days in jail
when he was arraigned before Traffic
Judge Walter J. Casey yesterday on
a charge of obtaining an automobile
registration card by misrepresentation.
Dawkins, it was testified by Pvt.
Gamer L. Norris of the eighth pre
cinct, was stopped at Wisconsin ave
nue and Warren street, where he ex
hibited two permits under the two
names, claiming both were his. The
policeman said Dawkins told of be
coming involved with a finance com
pany. thereby losing his car and his
credit. Later, it was testified, Dawkins
purchased a new car under the name
of Hawkins and secured a new permit
under that name.
The defendant said "the man who
made out the papers for my new car
used Hawkins and he went to so much
trouble I just decided to sign that
name Of course, I then had to get a
new registration card to match.”
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RUMANIA ALERT,
FEARSNAZI COUP
Stir Created by Banishment
of Nicholas Adds to
Tension.
BACKGROUND—
In 1931 slender, gay Prince Nich
olas, younger brother of King Carol
of Rumania, eloped with Helen
Dumitriscu. a commoner. Six years
later, on April 9, 1937, Rumanian
government banished him, stripped
him of all royal titles, for refusing
to give up his wife. They have a
child, 2. Carol’s none-too-savory
record of friendship with Mme. Lu
pescu has helped Nicholas' cause
with Rumanian people. Foes of
Carol seized on Nicholas’ exile to
foment discontent.
By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Rumania. April 17.—
The Rumanian government, fearing a
pro-Nazi coup, was ready for any even
tuality today as political repercussions
of the banishment of ex-Prince
Nicholas created tension.
Officials were apprehensive that the
banned Rightist “Iron Guard.” an
gered because its representatives were
not consulted before Nicholas was
exiled for refusing to renounce his
commoner wife, might challenge the
government.
In a special session the cabinet au
thorized the government to "repress
with the strongest measures” any po
litical disturbances.
Critic of Carol Awaits Trial.
Tension was partially relieved by the
release of Prof. Alexander Gerota, who
publicly opposed the government’s ac
tion stripping Nicholas of his royal
rank. Gerota was released pending
trial.
(In Belgrade. Yugoslavia, dispatches
from Rumania declared a wave of
protest against King Carol’s associa
tion with Magda Lupescu had swept
the nation after Nicholas was read out
of the royal family. Reports said Prof.
Gerota was arrested because he as
serted in his magazine, My Creed, that
Nicholas’ marrige to a commoner was
a minor matter compared with the
King’s long association with Mme.
Lupescu.
New Party Formed.
After the government ban guardists
formed a new party, "all for the Fath
erland," with Gen. Zizi Contacuzino
as president, and this group, they
contend, was entitled to representa
tion at the crown council meeting that
decreed Nicholas’ ouster.
Rumanian law provides that all rec
ognized political parties shall have
a voice in the council.
Government officials asserted, how
ever, that the guardists were not in
terested in the former prince’s fate,
but were seizing the incident as a po
litical pretext.
VAN DUZER AIDE TO WED
Secretary to Be Married to Po
liceman in October.
Miss Eleanors Wall, who as secre
tary to Traffic Director William A.
Van Du ter spends most of her time
typing traffic regulations, is going to
marry Traffic Bureau Policeman Adam
Arney, who spends most of his time en
forcing them.
Arney was assigned to Van Duzer’s
office during the automobile tag rush.
It was announced yesterday they will
be muffed in Ootober.
10 AID WELFARE
Social Work Conference Is
Told of Crisis by David
C. Coyle.
The present social order in America
has reached a crisis and must be
changed to bring about a new balance
between freedom and authority, Da
vid Cushman Coyle, consulting engi
neer, author and lecturer, declared
last night in an address before the
joint conference of the Washington
Council of Social Agencies and the
Maryland State Conference of Social
Welfare.
Freedom has disappeared from the
present social order, he said, and the
country must be reborn into a new
social order under which the new
authority would protect the liberties
of the people, force a better distri
bution of income, control the rela
tionships of the people with the laws
of nature so that the country will
have resources that will last indefi
nitely, and develop power to control |
vast economic empires
The present crisis, Coyle said, was i
brought on by technology getting so
far ahead of social arrangements and
the great growth of concentration of
wealth in vast corporations.
Between Two Rackets.
“Technological unemployment has
become a fact since the war.” he de
clared. "Men have been thrown out
of work and natural resources used
up. Freedom has disappeared. Just
try to set yourself up in a small busi
ness. The rackets of the underworld
will get you. Try establishing a large
business and the rackets of the upper
world will wipe you out.”
Under the new social order the dis
tribution of income to aid the poor
is essential, he said. The economic
framework of the new order would
be partly capitalistic in nature, with
big business surviving, “’like a captive
elephant." The great non-profit in
stitutions would increase in size and
effectiveness and the Government
would take over the big monopolistic
industries, while small businesses
would be increased greatly.
At the conclusion of his talk, Coyle
was asked if the real solution lay in
the theory of production for use rather
than production for profit. He re
plied he didn’t believe that was true,
explaining there must always be “an
unplanned area for the top level of
human genius."
Capt. Rhoda Milliken. head of the
Police Woman's Bureau, told the con
ference yesterday that social workers
are overlooking the sociological im
portance of the policeman in giving
aid to families in need. She pointed
out police officers have close contact
with groups and individuals who
should be receiving help from social
welfare agencies.
Unionised Social Workers Urged.
Jacob Fisher, youthful associate
editor of the magazine Social Work
Today, told the joint conference at
a luncheon yesterday that social work
ers in the public relief field should
be organized into trade unions. He
declared union organization in this
field holds a positive value, particu
larly for the untrained social worker,
in such problems as adjustment of
wage and hour scales and dismissals.
Fisher said that because of their
different social settings, antagonism
exists between labor and the social
welfare field, and contended that or
ganization of social workers along the
same lines as labor would go far in
“bridging the gap" between the two
fields.
Round table discussions were held
yesterday on such problems as schools
and family case work: the place of
the institution in a program for child
care; deliquency. child care and rec
reation, public health, medical care
and general public assistance, and un
employment compensation and case
work.
Elwood Street, director of public
welfare for the District, presided at
a general meeting on social security
provisions for old age, children and
the blind.
The conference was to close today
with a general meeting at 10:30
a.m. and a luncheon session at which
Paul Kellogg, editor of the Survey,
was to speak.
RACE VANS CLASSIFIED
I. C. C. Declines to Go Into “Boe
ing Game.”
The Interstate Commerce Commis
aion i* not going into the racing game.
A ruling today by the Brueau of
Motor Carriers said, in effect, that
the vanning of race horses or polo
ponies is not subject to the rate
fixing provisions of the motor carrier
act. This transportation, however,
comes under the hours of service and
safety provisions of truck traffic
generally.
The bureau exempted the racers
and polo ponies under the clause ex
uding live stock carriers from the
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FOR 2
Bilbao Defenders Claim In
surgents, Led by Ger
mans, Halted.
BACKGROUND—
Fighting in the Teruel salient,
where the insurgents sought to cut
off Catalonian food supplies to Va
lencia had been fierce and bloody in
spots since the seige to conquer
Madrid began. The Basque capital
of Bilbao, now reported saved, at
least temporarily, teas recently re
ported in imminent danger of
Franco’s advancing forces.
B$ the Associated Press.
Opposing armies in Spain concen
trated their warfare in two widely sep
arated sectors today, the northern Bay
of Biscay coast and at the doorway to
Madrid in the south.
Today ended the ninth month of
war.
Basque defenders of the important
manufacturing and shipping center of
Bilbao—“the Pittsburgh of Spain"—
declared they had halted insurgent ad
vances commanded by German officers.
Reinforcements Denied.
A hurried call for reinforcements
from the Basques was denied by the
Spanish government because "not a
single man can be spared from other
fronts.” Serious coal and food short
ages aggravated a tense situation in
Bilbao. Factories were closed.
Insurgents again pumped shells into
the heart of Madrid One struck a
Jail, killing a prisoner, wounding five
others: two other shells wounded sev
eral persons.
Government troops shelled Insur
gent positions in the University City
and Casa De Campo, suburb* of Ma
drid. Insurgents held their strong
holds despite repeated counter-at
tacks.
Heavy Teruel Offensive.
Infantry, artillery, tanks and planes
were thrown into a heavy offensive
against the Teruel salient, 150 miles
east of Madrid, seeking to drive In
surgents back into the Aragon prov
inces.
At Huesca, provincial capital of
Aragon in the northeast, Catalan
troops attacked another flank of In
surgent Gen Francisco Franco's army,
trying to force a ring of steel around
the city and force its surrender.
TERUEL FORCES STRONG.
Infantry, Artillery, Tanks and Plane’
Attack Franco.
MADRID, April 17 (/Pi.—Govern
ment infantry, artillery, tanks and
planes were hurled today against the
Teruel salient, with which Gen. Fran
cisco Franco had hoped to sever the
"life line" between Valencia and the
government ally, Catalonia.
In a surprise maneuver the Madrid
Valencia forces were reported to have
made a long advance, intended to en
circle Teruel, about 150 miles east of
here, and force Franco's warriors to
retreat back into the Aragon prov
inces.
At Huesca, the northeasternmost
Aragon provincial capital, on the oth
er flank of Franco's far-flung army,
Catalan troops pressed attempts to
ring the city and force its capitula
tion after eight months of siege.
An air ministry communique said
the airmen blasted at insurgent posi
tions at Mount Santa Barbara. Gordo
Hill and Celedas, all near Teruel.
Artillery positions around Teruel, as
well as in the Teruel cemetery, the
railway station and barracks, were
similarly attacked.
INSURGENT LOSSES HEAVY.
Government Reports Advance on Bil
bao Definitely Halted.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, April 17 (/?).—Waves of insurgent
troops, attacking with German mili
tary tactics, broke today against stub
born Basque defenders of the strate
gic mountain peak of Saibi, 5 miles
from Durango, government dispatches
to the frontier reported.
The Agence Espagne (official gov
ernment news agency) reported the
insurgent advance, directed by Ger
man officers, had been halted defi
nitely, thus saving Bilbao, the Basque
capital, and Durango. 16 miles south
east of Bilbao, at least temporarily.
“Terrible losses" were inflicted on
the insurgents, who were attempting
to close in on the seaport where food
supplies have been choked off by en
circling land forces and the insurgent
naval blockade, the agency declared
Activities Halted by Rain.
The official insurgent communique
concerning operations in North Spam
said only that all activity had been
halted by "a tempest of rain.”
The strategic mountain peak, guard
ing Basque plains that stretch toward
the capital, changed hands at least
three times during bitter day and night
fighting as planes swooped over the
rugged battle line.
Insurgent communiques early in the
engagement said from 700 to 1,000
government troops were slain in the
battle, much of it hand-to-hand fight
ing with bayonets and grenades.
Hoping to lure provision ships into
food-pinched Bilbao, the Basque gov
ernment offered cash prizes for food
bearing vessels that run the insurgent
naval blockade.
Prizes for Skippers.
Skippers arriving today would re
ceive 5,000 francs (1220) with the
prize diminishing 1.000 francs each’
day thereafter.
Captains of all the British food
ships in St. Jean de Luz. however, re
mained in port waiting orders from
their owners in the face of Britain's
refusal to protect her shipping inside
Spanish territorial waters.
The refugee-swollen population of
Bilbao, “Pittsburgh of Spain.” was said
to total more than 350,000 persons
facing near starvation conditions.
Situated 8 miles up the River Ner
vion, Bilbao's docks are reachable by
ocean vessels, and in peace-time the
city enjoyed a thriving trade with the
world in iron and iron ore. most of it
mined with British capital.
JOINT CONCERT
Wesleyan and Maryland Glee
Clubs to Sing Tomorrow.
COLLEGE PARK, Md„ April 17
(Special).—A joint concert and dance
will be presented by the glee clubs
of the University of Maryland and
Wesleyan University in the gym
armory here at 8 o'clock tonight.
Wesleyan clubs have won the na
tional competition twice and during
the last 10 years have been awarded
the New England championship four
times.
The University of Maryland Wom
en's Glee Club will join In the final
dumber. £