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RAIL RELIEF PLAN
Roosevelt Is Expected to
Ask Advisers to Work
Out Early Program.
By the Associated Press.
Prseident Roosevelt soon may hand
to a special committee of his ad
visers the task of devising a pro
gram of railroad refinancing and re
organization, participants in his cur
rent railroad conferences said today.
The committee, expected to be
drawn from among the 14 men at
tending the White House meetings,
would be asked to work out as quickly
M possible methods of aiding the most
flancially-distressed carriers.
The 14 men went to the White
House Tuesday to diagnose railroad
ills. They were invited to return at
11 a.m. today to suggest the next
steps.
The Tuesday meeting brought to
Mr. Roosevelt’s attention these fun
damental elements in the railroad sit
uation :
Freight volume is far below normal
and will not pick up until general
business gets better.
One of the heavy and presently in
escapable costs to the roads is fixed
charges on capital investments, which
can be reduced only through reor
ganizations or refinancing.
Railroad business has been hard Hit
by truck, bus, ship and barge com
petition.
Hull
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fldently believed in the sanctity of
treaty obligations In common with
other nations, it has assumed a solemn
obligation not to resort to force as an
Instrument of national policy.
"All this,” said Mr. Hull, "gives us
a moral right to express our deep con
cern over the rising tide of lawless
ness, the growing disregard of treaties,
the increased reversion to the uses of
force and the numerous other ominous
tendencies which are emerging in the
sphere of international relations.”
Principles Outlined.
Mr. Hull outlined the principles "to
which our Government adheres in the
formation of its foreign policy,” prin
ciples to which he said all nations
could subscribe, no matter what their
form of government. These princi
ples, contained in a statement which
he had issued July 16, 1937, he said
he had transmitted to “every govern
ment of the world.” An overwhelm
ing majority of these governments,
he added, had joined in affirming
their faith in these vital principles.
Mr. Hull listed nine as most impor
tant principles, indispensable to a
•atisfactory international order. These
Were:
The constant advocacy and practice
of peace; abstention from the use of
force in pursuit of policy and from
Interference in internal affairs of
other nations; peaceful negotiation
and agreement to settle international
disputes; the sanctity of treaties and
observance of international agree
ments; modification of treaties, when
reed arises, by orderly processes; re
pect for the rights of Jier nations
and international law; promotion of
economic security through the re
moval of trade barriers; the limitation
and reduction of national armaments,
and apart from the question of al
liances with others, each nation
should be prepared to engage in co
operative effort, by peaceful and prac
ticable means, in support of these
principles.
The Secretary of State, faced by the
happenings in Europe and in Asia
today, did not mince words in discuss
ing conditions. Either, he said, these
principles outlined by him must be
vitalized or "international anarchy
based on brute force will inundate the
world and ultimately sweep away the
very bases of civilization and prog
ress.” That is the crucial issue today,
be said.
Describes Peace Steps.
Mr. Hull described the steps which
this country has taken, since the
present conflict between Japan and
China began, to prevail upon both
nations to desist from the use of
armed force. Last August, he said, he
declared that “we did not intend to
abandon our nationals and our in
terests in China,” and he has fre
quently reiterated that statement.
Mr. Hull said the determination of
the Government to stand by nationals
abroad was based not only on a spe
cific and elementary duty of Govern
ment toward its citizens, but also on
other and broader considerations.
“To waive rights and to permit inter
ests to lapse,” he said “in the face of
their actual or threatened violation—
and thereby to abandon obligations—in
any important area of the world, can
serve only to encourage disregard of
law and of the basic principles of in
ternational order, and thus contribute
to the inevitable spread of interna
tional anarchy throughout the world.”
Urges Adequate Defense.
Turning to the question of adequate
national defense, Mr. Hull told his
world audience:
"In a world in which the rule of
force has not yet been firmly and
surely supplanted by the rule of law,
Wants to Look Her Best
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Stout-hearted Si/lva Davis, who underrcent a delicate spinal
operation in Kansas City in an effort to overcome paralysis,
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it is the manifest duty of a great
nation to maintain armed forces ade
quate for its national defense.
"The responsible heads of our naval
establishment offer convincing rea
sons in support of the program, now
before the Congress, to render ade
quate the means of our national de
fense.”
“It is my considered Judgment,"
added Secretary Hull, "that, in the
present state of world affairs, to do
less than is now proposed would lay
our country open to unpredictable
hazards.” He urged, too, that a failure
to arm adequately would make it
difficult for this country to command
proper respect for the rights' of
Americans abroad without resorting to
the use of arms.
With regard to co-operation with
other nations in the cause of uphold
ing fundamental principles of justice
and morality and peace among nations,
Mr. Hull said:
"The maintenance of these prin
ciples that are of concern to all
nations alike cannot and should not
be undertaken by one nation alone.
Prudence and common sense dictate
that, where this and other nations
have common interests and common
objectives, we should not hesitate to
exchange information and to confer
with the governments of such other
nations and, in dealing with problems
confronting each alike, to proceed
along parallel lines—this Government
retaining at all times its independence
of judgment and freedom of action.
For nations which seek peace to as
sume with respect to each other at
titudes of complete aloofness would
serve only to encourage, and virtually
invite, on the part of other nations
lawlessly inclined, policies and actions
most likely to endanger peace.”
Defends Neutrality Policy.
The Secretary defended the fail
ure of the President to invoke the
new Neutrality Act in the case of
the Japanese conflict with China, in
sisting that to have done so would
have not been in the interests of
fundamental principles of peace.
The foreign policy of this country,
Secretary Hull said, is an open book,
and the department is always ready
to furnish members of Congress with
information, it was impossible, how
ever, he said, for this country to give
to every government in the world a
blue print of every detail of the policy
of this country in the advance of
world happenings.
INTERIOR CAFETERIA
COMPLAINTS LISTED
Survey Reveals Coffee Situation
Is Critical—High Cost of
Salads Also Hit.
Interna! strife among employes over
the quality of the coffee served at
the Interior Department cafeteria
was but one of many problems to be
submitted today to the Welfare and
Recreational Association, operator of
the concession.
In a survey conducted by Lodge 228
of the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employes, 45 employes com
plained of the "bitterness” of the
brew, while 48 demanded that a
second cup be served free with meals.
Other "peeves” were expressed over:
High cost of salads, with a scarcity of
the 10-cent variety: din created by
clashing of dishes and trays; slowness
with which the lines of customers
move; “too starchy” special lunches:
lack of choice of soups and the lack of
variety in the Friday fish menu.
London and Glasgow, Scotland, will
be connected by a direct air-service.
FRANK C. LYNCH, JR.,
HEADS MIDSHIPMEN
Kansas City (Mo.) Youth Made
‘Five-Striper* to Serve
Through June Week.
Bjr the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS. Md., March 17.— ]
Frank C. Lynch. jr„ Kansas City,
Mo., today was named "five striper,”
or commander, of the midshipmen
regiment at the Naval Academy for
the period from March 22 through
the annual June week ceremonies.
Mr. Lynch, football and basket ball
player and member of the track team,
is the present "five striper,” heading
the second group of midshipmen of
ficers
J. K. Leydon, Philadelphia, Pa„
who was the first group "five striper,”
will be the regimental subcommander
when Mr. Lynch takes over with the
final group.
Regimental staff officers who will
serve under Mr. Lynch in the final
group include J. P. Fitzpatrick, Brain
tree, Mass., adjutant; P. G. Chultz,
Jr., Roswell. Mass., operations officer;
R. K. R. Worthington, Oakmont, Pa.,
signal officer; J. Adair. Williamsville,
N. Y., ordnance officer; J. E. Mans
field, Freewater, Oreg., commissary
officer; D. A. Ball, Temple City, Calif.,
supply officer; S. C. St. John, Pough
keepsie, N. Y„ national color bearer;
E. J. Bryant, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,
regimental color bearer; D. K. Sloan.
Jr., South Williamsport, Pa., chief
petty officer.
W. F. Jennings, Centralia, Wash.,
will be in command of the mid
shipmen’s bugle corps during the final
period. He commanded the corps
when Mr. Leydon was In command of
the regiment.
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revealed in the finding of the body
of an Arab villager in a ravine south
of Haifa, Palestine. It had been rid
dled with bullets and the tongue cut
out to show that the victim was con
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ILL MOTHER KILLS
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Oldest, 16, Spared—Woman
Previously Convicted of
Slaying Husband.
By the Associated Press.
CENTER, Tex., March 17.—A
mother who told officers she was ill
and unable to provide for her family
killed six of her seven children at a
lonely farm home near here last night,
kissing each of them good-by before
and after shooting them as they slept.
District Attorney Warlow Lone said
he would file murder charges against
Mrs. Lillie May Curtis, 38, who was
under a five-year suspended sentence
for slaying her husband, Robert
Curtis, 44, in 1936.
The slain children were: Marcle
Jack, 5, boy; Margie Ree, 7; Robert,
9; Billie Burke, 10, girl; Gloria Jean,
11, and T. O. Curtis, 13.v
Justice of the Peace Ben Eddins,
who returned an Inquest verdict of
“death at the hands of Lillie May
Curtis” in each case, said the children
were lying dead in their beds in one
room when he arrived at the scene
about midnight.
Mr. Lane said Mrs. Curtis in a
statement to him said, “I was unable
to care for them, that is, not physi
cally able and not able in the way of
money. I had not undressed when
I went to bed, and X was thinking
about killing them when 1 went to
bed. I knew it was wrong to kill
these children. I did not kill the
oldest one (James Travis) because he
is big enough to work for himself.”
The statement, Mr. Lane said, also
told how the mother moved the young
est child from a bed in another room
and placed him with the others.
The prosecutor said she placed a
.22 caliber pistol at the heart of each
child, beginning with the 13-year-old
one and ending with the youngest,
and that apparently none of the chil
dren awakened.’
District Judge T. O. Davis called
the grand jury promptly.
The district attorney said James
Travis was awakened by his mother
after the shooting and sent to tele
phone Sheriff Sample. When the
sherifT arrived, the boy told him the
direction his mother took to the
woods.
The gun was found under the steps
of the home.
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JUST PLAIN MISTER
Kay Francis' Next Husband, a
Baron, Objects to Title.
HOLLYWOOD, March 17 OP).—
Don't address Kay Francis’ next hus
band as “baron.”
“I'm plain mister,” said nobly-born
raven Erik Angus Bamekow today.
He and Miss Francis plan to wed
next autumn. A German war flyer,
he is 41, has been in the United
States since 1922 and will receive
citizenship papers soon.
He has been married once, Miss
Francis four times.
U. S. Bureau Hires
‘Only Red-Headed’
Girls, Senate Told
By the Associated Piyss.
One Government bureau em
ploys "(wily red-headed girls,”
Senator Ellender, Democrat, of
Louisiana, told the Senate yes
terday.
Criticising the administration
of the civil service, he said he
had been Informed “that promo
tion often Is made upon good
looks.”
His information about the red
heads, he said, came from a girl
employe. He said the titlan
haired bureau .Was “some division
in the Navy or War Department,
I can’t remember.”
EVERGLADES HIDE
ME LOST BOYS
Lack of Drinking Water in
Area Causes Concern
for Safety.
Bs the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., March 17.—Three of
four boys who ran away from home to
go deer hunting Monday are lost In
the Everglades. Veteran woodsmen
shook their heads today when discuss
ing their chances for survival.
Those missing are Paul De Guenther,
14; Barrett Jones, 17, and Roy South
ern, 16. With Howard Shaw, 15, they
set out Monday afternoon in the Jones
automobile without telling their fami
lies, taking two rifles, a shotgun, a
pistol, some clothing and canned food.
The three who are lost set out afoot
into the ’Glades, leaving Shaw at the
car to fish in a canal. They were to
meet at nightfall.
When his companions failed to ap
pear Shaw stayed there for fear of
missing them. He was found asleep
in the car Tuesday morning by search
ing authorities.
Lack of drinking water in that
area caused grave concern for their
safety. Vast areas of the Everglades,
under water during the summer rainy
season, are correspondingly arid in
the winter, and there have been no
rains recently.
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HOOVER CHARGES
His Criticisms of Parole
System Held 'Lurid’ and
'Inaccurate.’
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 17.—J. Edgar
Hoover’s criticisms of the working of
parole systems were denounced as lurid.
Intemperate and Inaccurate last night
at a meeting of reform penologists,
which included Warden Lewis E.
Lawes of Sing Sing Prison.
One of the greatest obstacles to penal
progress, Executive Secretary William
B. Cox of the Osborne Association said,
is ‘‘the state of mind engendered in
the public by the Intemperate and
often inaccurate statements by Mr. J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, relating to
parole."
"Although Mr. Hoover states that
he believes in the principle of parole,
the lurid tone of his utterances has
given a widespread impression that
parole itself is a menace and there is
a growing sentiment throughout the
country for abolition.”
Mr. Lawes, remarking that he had
been called a "sob-sister warden,” said
that in the last five years about 100,
000 paroled convicts had led decent
lives, but thaft publicity had been cen
tered on the 100-odd others who had
committed atrocious crimes.
“Dillinger, Karpis, Baby Face Nelson
and a few others constantly are held to
be examples of the typical offenders,”
he said.
People are given the impression
that the average lawbreaked is either
a murderer at heart or has already
killed somebody. I am Inclined to be
lieve that those men could probably
never have been rehabilitated and
prison”1101 haVe bC*n released fro“
Announce* for Senate.
PORTLAND, Oreg., March 17 OP) —
Willis E. Mahoney announced his can
didacy today for the Democratic
nomination as United States Senator
Charles L. McNary, Republican lead
er in the Senate, defeated Mr Ma
honey in 1936 by fewer than' 5,500
votes.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., March 17.—
Ann Carlo, former "strip tease”
dancer now heading a vaudeville
troupe, said yesterday she was sepa
rated from her husband and manager,
Emmett Callahan, and "the divorce
will come later.”
"I still admire him very much but
when two people just can’t get along
in double harness It's time to try
single,” she said. "Mr. Callahan has
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left for New York and I don’t expect
to see him again."
Mias Corlo la appearing with a
patch over one eye. The master of
ceremonies In her show announced it
was the result of an Infection.
MINISTER TO SAIL
Radu Irimescu. newly appointed
Rumanian Minister to the United
States, will arrive with his wife in
New York on April 7, it was announced
today by the Rumanian Legation here.
Mr. Irimescu is sailing from Trieste
on March 24.
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