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IS. FUNDS ASKED
Vinson Suggests Financial
i Backing for Experiments
With “Aerial Mine.”
By the Associated Press.
A movement to have the Govern
ment finance experiments with "very
devilish'' aerial bombs developed yes
terday In the House Naval Committee.
Chairman Vinson suggested that
part of a $15,000,000 experimental fund
recommended for the Navy by Presi
dent Roosevelt be made available for
'tests of a mysterious "aerial mine”
which Lester P. Barlow. Stamford
(Conn.) inventor, said would force
drastic revision of the administra
tion's $1,050,000,000 naval expansion
program.
Mr. Barlow, w'ho first used aerial
bombs during the Pancho Villa cam
paign in Mexico, told the committee
Friday a fleet of bombers 3 miles in
the air could "blanket” an area the
size of the District of Columbia with
the new mines in three or four min
utes. He said they could render bat
tleships ineffective by destroying their
smaller auxiliaries.
Tillson Urges Tests.
John Q Tillson, former Republican
leader of the House, told the commit
tee Mr. Barlow's invention appeared to
be "a very devilish machine,” and
that it should be tested thoroughly.
Last year the Court of Claims
granted Mr. Barlow a judgment for
’more than $600,000 against the Gov
ernment in connection with the use
of earlier bombs developed by him
during the World War. Congress has
not yet appropriated the money to
• pay the judgment, but Mr. Barlow has
offered to assign patent rights on the
new' "aerial mine” to the Government
if payment is made.
The inventor disapproved of Mr.
Vinson's proposal on the ground it i
would not protect his rights.
"I would not even dare put my ideas
in the Patent Office," he said.
Charges Other “Thefts.”
Mr. Barlow told the committee he
could produce many other civilian
inventors whose ideas had been
"stolen" by the Government.
* Mr. Vinson put in the record a
letter from the Navy's judge advocate
general asserting Mr. Barlow's "aerial
mine” seemed to be still in the idea
Etage.
The committee heard B. M. Gancy,
Philippine editor assert the United
States soon would have to go to war
with Japan.
Louis W Hilbert, jr„ 23-year-old
spokesman for the Baltimore Peace
Congress, testified that an "apprecia
ble minority" of American youths were !
"100 per rent pacifist" and would not
fight for their country under any cir
cumstances. He opposed the pro
jected naaal increase.
Millard W. Rice, legislative repre- |
tentative of the Veterans of Foreign ■
Wars, indorsed the naval expansion.
Chairman Vinson expressed hope !
that the committee would approve the
diu oy me ena oi next wee*. I
Trade
(Continued From First Page.)
■atand unalterably for general limita
tion and reduction of armaments.
There will not be military disarma
ment with economic appeasement."
U. S. Attains Concessions.
Secretary Hull said that in the 16
trade agreements thus far signed the
United States has obtained conces
sions on hundreds of. agricultural
items. He cited the case of hog prod
ucts. on which concessions have been
received in virtually every agreement.
He replied to the argument that
trade agreements result merely In inr
creased imports without any corre
sponding advantage for exports, citing
1937 figures showing that imports
increased by $661,000,000 over 1936,
while exports increased $890,000,000.
The Secretary said "the jiending ne
gotiations with the United Kingdom
may play a vital role" in "economic 1
appeasement,” because the foreign
trade of the United States and the
United Kingdom constitutes more
Uian a quarter of the entire trade of
the world.
Sir Willmott Lew’is of London told
the institute a "steady, cautious move
ment forward in the field of recipro
cal trade agreements is undiluted
common sense—horse sense, if you
prefer that phrase."
This statement from the British
Journalist was regarded as signifi
cant by institute leaders in view of
Secretary of State Hull's pending ne
gotiations for a United Kingdom
United States trade agreement.
“I believe the agreement almost in
sight." said Sir W'illmott, "deserves the !
support of the government and the
people of my own country. It should
be, and can be, a contribution to the
cause of the power of reason and ac
commodation in the affairs of great i
states at a time of tention; and it
can serve as a deterrent by example
of the abusive exercise of domestic
jurisdiction, now too general in the
world.”
Sir Willmott said that if the agree
ment is made it will be in the face
of strong opposition in his country.
* “There is no reason to be aston
ished,” he said, ‘‘at the vigor with
which certain groups in the United
Kingdom are asserting their doubts
and misgivings.
“An American audience does not
need to be told that tariffs, once
established—and for some years Eng- !
land has been a protected country— ■
Inevitably create new vested interests,
Where Japan Seeks Harbor
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Mexico
(Continued From First Page.)
domestically-mined silver was slashed
on January 1. 1938, the price of Mex
ican-mined silver was left intact.
Whether this had any direct con
nection with forestalling the Jap
anese negotiations which are under
stood to have run over the past two
months could not be learned.
A United States official recently in
Mexico was told by a highly placed
Mexican official that the agrarian
program there was so important that
it could not be allowed to fail for
lack of money and that the Cardenas
regime will not be too particular about
where the money comes from or the
ideology of the country providing it.
Tl#re is much grumbling by the
Mexican peasantry at the slowness in
getting started on the Cardenas
agrarian program. There is not suf
ficient money to advance credits to
peons for farm equipment, seeds, etc.,
with which to work the broken-tip
estates of the former big land owners.
In the cities a curtailment of public
works has thrown thousands out of
jobs. The discontent within the Car
denas regime itself is said to be much
more threatening than such outbreaks
as that of the Gold Shirts recently.
Money is an absolute essential to the
regime.
Mexico Seeking Loans.
It is likewise known that the Mex
ican government has been "shopping
around'' for a loan for some time. It
had tried to raise money in London
and in Boston, among other places,
with concessions held out as added
inducement.
The Bethlehem Steel Co. proper
ties which are the proposed subject
of a Mexican-Japanese deal are on
the Rio de las Balsas, in the State of
Michoacan. with fairly easy rail con
nections with Mazatlan, in the State
of Sinaloa to the North. The deposits
are said to be abundant, but with a
high content of sulphur. Although
the Bethlehem Co. ha? not seen fit to
detelop the properties yet, it is hold
petuation, and critical of any return
to freer conditions.
"If all the tariffs, the quotas and
restrictions of other sorts too numer
ous to mention, now existing in the
world were to remain as fixed as
fate, there would be an end sooner
or laier of all but a minimum of in
ternational trade, and an end. I fear,
to any hope of raising world living
standards.”
Edward A. O'Neal, president of the j
American Farm Bureau Federation,!
said in a speech today the proposed
agreement with the United Kingdom
offers a "real test whether industry is
going to take a purely selfish attitude.”
“The proposed agreement,” O'Neal
said, "offers the largest opportunity:
yet presented to secure concessions
for our agricultural exports in the
largest potential market, in retun for :
concessions to the United Kingdom
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ing them in reserve for the future
when it might become more economic
than it is today to work them.
Mazatlan is the only feasible port
of shipment for the ore. To secure
adequate harbor facilities there it
would be necessary to build several
docks and to dredge parts of the
harbor. The question of the division
of these expenses between the two
governments is said to be all that is
holding up the negotiations in Mexico
City at this time.
Fishing Fort Reported Sought.
Rumors have 'been heard around
Washington of late weeks about
mysterious mappings and soundings
by Japanese in Mazatlan Harbor. An
American resident making inquiry was
assured that the only interest which
the Japanese had was in making a
survey of Mazatlan as a possible fish
ing port.
While the story cannot be confirmed
officially here it is no wilder on its
face than the one which recently sent
parts of the American fleet hurrying
out of San Diego Harbor to search
f<fr Japanese spying boats, disguised
as fishing vessels, which were sup
posedly prowling the West Coast.
Coincidental with the State De
partment investigation, a private in
quiry elicited the information that
the main outlines of the story are
Hill. A Congressman who had spent
much of his time in Mexico and an
Army officer who had excellent and
trustworthy sources In that country
had identical information. A pos
sible variant in one story was that
the iron ore property was "a mountain
of iron, capable of supplying Japan's
needs for the next hundred years."
From 20.000 to 30,000 Japanese
might be employed on the project,
what with improving Masatlan Harbor
and building smelters -and tap-line
railways. This number would exceed
any other Japanese colony which has
been founded in Mexico or in South
America during the last few years.
(Copyrisht. 1938. by New York
Herald-Tribune. Inc.)
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ROBBER SLAYS CLERK
IN LYNCHBURG STORE
Grocery Employe Shot Through
Heart as He Attempts to
Resist Hold-Up.
By the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va.. Feb. 19.—At
tempting to resist a colored robber in
a neighborhood grocery store here,
Grover Cleveland Clements, 48, cleric,
was shot through the heart tonight,
dying before he could be taken to a.
hospital.
After sending a bullet through
Clements’ body, the bandit turned the
pistol on J. G. Burruss, the proprietor
of the store, and ordered him to hand
over the store’s money. Burruss said
he thought he took about $75.
Police armed with riot guns rounded
up nve suspects within a short time. !
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FIRST FEDERAL EXPECTS
TO OPEN THIS MONTH
Plans Made to Pay 85 Cents on
the Dollar to Old Fidelity
Shareholders.
Officials of the First Federal Sav
ings Ac Loan Association are push
ing plans to open some time this
month, to make available to share
holders of the old Fidelity Building
A Loan Association 85 cents on the i
dollar, either in cash or in First Fed- !
eral shares.
No date has been fixed as yet for
the opening of the First Federal.,
Many details are being worked out
and officials plan to have everything
in readiness before the announcement j
C.C.C. WORKER HELD
IN FATAL STABBING
Enrollee to Be Turned Over to
Fairfax Authorities in Death
of Colored Man.
Be a Staff Correspondent ot The Star.
FORT BELVOIR. Va„ Feb. 19.—
Walter Holliday, 24-year-old colored
Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee,
accused of fatally stabbing James
McLee, 22, another colored C. C. C.
worker, this afternoon, was being held
in the guard house here tonight for
Fairfax County authorities.
Holliday, captured by military po
lice while hiding in a W. P. A. bar
racks several hours after the slaying,
was arraigned before an Army board
of inquiry tonight, but the board
adjourned without making any state
ment other than that the prisoner
would be turned over later to civil
authorities.
It was said that Hnlltdav na. nnl
-UJ3P— JTAltr UiNJi.
called to the witness stand, nor did
he make any statement during the
hearing, which was attended by Dr.
C. A. Ransom of Falla Church, Fair
fax County coroner.
The attack on McLee occurred In
the colored C. C. C. barracks late to
day. He was taken to the poet hos
pital, where a S'/2-lnch pen knife
blade waa found lodged at the base of
his skull. He died 45 minutes later.
It was explained thit while the
slaying occurred on a Federal reserva
tion, military officials have no au
thority over the C. C. C., and to
night’s inquiry was but a routine pro
ceeding preparatory to surrendering
the Drlsoner to countv authnritiM
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