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WEATHER.
(D. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair and continued cool, with lowest
temperature about 46 tonight; tomorrow
increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer:
showers tomorrow night. Temperatures
today—Highest. 63, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 44,
at 3 a m. Full report on page A-2.
Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18,
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
Mean* Associated Press.
P6th YEAR. No. 34,345,
WASHINGTON, D. C„ FRIDAY, MAY 13, 19.38—FIFTY PAGES.
Entered e> second class matter 'I'UDI' U f'f VTC!
post office, Washington, D. C. .1 JiltiO.
SENATE KILLS NYE RIM
TO LIFT ARMS EMBARGO
AFTER WARNING BY HULL
Possibility of Real
Danger in Spanish
Crisis Cited.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
GROUP VOTES 17-1
Nve Plan Would Have
Allowed Shipments to
Loyalist Forees.
BACKGROUND—
Embargo provisions of present
neutrality law were invoked in
early days of Spanish civil war and
have been effective ever since. .4s
sentiment mounted in this country
for Loyalist cause, and it became
apparent that the embargo actually
was of considerable indirect value
to the rebel forces, agitation began
for lifting of the ban. Senator Nye,
sponsor of this move, also was one
of sponsors of neutrality law.
(Text of Hull Letter on Page A-3.J
■ v I he Afucinted Press.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee responded promptly to Secre
tary of State Hull's expressd opposi
tion today by shelving, on a 17-to-l
vote, the Nye resolution to lift the em
bargo on arms shipments to Spain.
Secretary Hull wrote the committee
♦ hat any proposal which contemplates
a reversal of our policy of strict non
interference * * * would offer a
real possibility of complications.”
Chairman Pittman of the Foreign
Relations Committee said the commit
tee move mean: that action on the
Nye resolution had been "postponed
♦ indefinitely." This usually is tanta
mount to killing a resolution.
It was not immediately disclosed
Which member of the Foreign Rela
tions group had voted against delaying
action.
Senator Pittman said he thought it
was a fair assumption that the lan
guage of Secretary Hulls communica
tion indicated that the State Depart
ment is considering possible later re
vision of the neutrality act.
Senator Pittman said he had ar
ranged to permit Senator Nye. Re
publican. of North Dakota, who now is
out of the city, to appear before the
committee next week to make any
statement he wishes on behalf of the
resolution.
Reconsideration Unlikely.
The chairman asserted, however, it
was highly unlikely that the com
mittee would reconsider its action.
Secretary Hull told the Senate com
mittee in his communication that
'from the standpoint of the best
interests of the United States in the
circumstances which now prevail. I
would not feel justified in recommend
ing affirmative action on the resolu
tion under consideration.”
Reconsideration of the present neu
trality legislation. Secretary Hull said,
should be delayed until effects of the
law can be viewed in its broader
aspects, "rather than to rewrite it
piecemeal in relation to a particular
situation."
"It is evident." Mr. Hull wrote the
committee, “that there Is not sufficient
time to give study of such questions
In the closing days of this Congress.”
The Nye resolution would have
called for repeal of the congressional
act. placing an embargo on arms
shipments to Spain, as well as modifi
cation of the neutrality law to permit
the President to revoke the embargo
he proclaimed under it. **
Terms of N.ve Plan.
Mr. Hull pointed out in his com
munication that the Nye resolution
would lift the embargo in respect
to shipments to only one of the
parties of the Spanish civil war.
Senator Nye said previously that it
was designed to permit shipments of
arms to the Barcelona government,
but that the embargo would remain
in force against such shipments to
the insurgents.
The shipments would be permitted
on a "cash and carry” basis, with
the purchasers paying for the arms
in this country and then transporting
them in foreign ships.
"Even if the legislation applied
to both parties,” Secretary Hull said
in his communication, "its enactment
would still subject us to unnecessary
risks we so far have avoided.
"We do not know what lies ahead in
the Spanish situation. The original
danger still exists.”
Mr. Hull emphasized that any
changes that might be made in the
neutrality law should be based on
lurther efforts to keep this country
out of what he termed “a dangerous
European situation.”
“Our first solicitude should be peace
and the welfare of this country,” ne
said, ‘‘and the real test of the advisa
1 bility of making any changes in the
statutes now In effect would be
w-hether such changes would further
lend to keep us from becoming in
volved directly or indirectly in a dan
gerous European situation.”
POLISH AVIATORS
START LONG FLIGHT
Leave Los Angeles for Mexico
City on Trip to Warsaw After
Two-Hour _ Delay.
the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. May 13.—Delayed
more than two hours by an early
morning fog. five Polish fliers took off
in their American monoplane at 9:15
a.m. (Pacific standard time) today
on the first leg of a 16,500-mile flight
to Warsaw.
* First stop is Mexico City, 1,620
miles distant. They expect to remain
there overnight, then continue non
stop to Panama City.
Their course is down the west coast
of South America through Peru and
Chile, across the continent to Argen
tina and northward to Natal, Brazil.
4 ‘
Chinese Report Powers Promise
Help to Get Arms Into China
- A
Aid Pledge Is Declared
IT on Behind Scenes
at Geneva.
BACKGROUND—
League Council convened Monday
with many problems on agenda.
Ethiopia disposed of first with re
lease of all League members to rec
ognise Italy s conquest of Haile
Selassie’s empire. China now to be
considered. League last fall urged
League members to aid victims of
Japanese aggression, but China
seeks more tangible assistance.
By thr Associated Press.
GENEVA. May 13—Chinese sources
said today that China had obtained
from League powers, particularly Brit
ain and France, an agreement for
I credits for purchase of arms and also
assurance of aid in getting the arms
i into China.
Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, China’s
suave delegate to the League of Na
tions Council, was said to have ob
tained the agreements in behind-the
scenes negotiations.
Details were not announced to the
Council, and arrangements concerning
safe delivery of the arms in China—
for use in the war against Japan—
were said to be secret.
Credit Offers Rejected.
Dr. Koo was understood to have re
jected earlier offers of credits and in
sisted on receiving also pledges that
the powers would see that the muni
tions purchased reached Chinese ter
ritory safely through Britain's Hong
Kong or France's Indo-Chtna.
Julio Alvarez del Vavo, govern
ment Spain's foreign minister, im
posed another obstacle to the Anglo
French program for the session by
placing before the Council a resolu
tion demanding an immediate end of
tiie 27 nations Non-Intervention Com
mittee in London.
The resolution caused surprise since
TOLL RISES TO 60
Second Insurgent Bombing
in 19 Hours Killed 12
This Morning.
BACKGROUND—
Several weeks npn Barcelona was
subjected to insurgent raids which
took lives o/ more than 800 and
stirred protests by Pope Pins, Sec
retary oj State Hull and other
world statesmen. At that time
Franco warned he would continue
to bomb the Loyalist capital until
it surrendered.
H' ihe Associated Press.
BARCELONA. May 13.—Bombed
twice in 19 hours, this capital of gov
ernment Spain today counted 60 dead
and about 150 wounded as the cost of a
new wave of insurgent aerial attacks.
A dozen persons were killed and 40
injured this morning when six big
Junkers swept in from the Mediterra
nean at about 16,000 feet, split into two
groups and bombed the southern por
tion of the city.
Many bombs fell into the sea. but
caused casualties even there. About
20 men and women gathering mussels
were wounded.
The small craters left in Barcelona’s
streets indicated that the bombs were
not so large as those used in the fierce
attacks which took hundreds of lives
in March.
An unfinished concrete building
used as an air attack refuge was struck.
The explosion ripped the reinforced
concrete, killing one and injuring oth
ers of the group that had sought safety
there.
The raid was quickly over and even
before signals ended the alarm peo
ple resumed working, strolling or
drinking in the cafes.
Defense officials said they expected
further attacks soon.
Forty bombs were dropped yester
day. resulting in 48 deaths and injury
to more than 100 persons.
Rebels Take Key Town.
HENDAYE. Prance, May 13 (4>).—
The insurgent 5th Division today cap
tured Fortanete, key point in the
crescent-shaped front between Teruel
and the Mediterranean on which the
insurgents are driving southward to
ward Castellon de la Plana and Va
lencia.
Fortanete, approximately the half
way point on the 85-mile line from
Teruel to the sea, fell to Navarrese
troops commanded by Gen. Sanchez,
said insurgent dispatches, in a gen
eral offensive that has captured nearly
600 square miles in three days.
Farther west Gen. Garcia Escamez'
15th Division stormed and captured
the Hermitage of San Cristobal, in the
Corbalan sector about 10 miles north,
east of Teruel. Government lines
were reported to have caved in from
Teruel to Corbalan.
Insurgent troops advanced swiftly
southward from Allepuz, on Sanchez'
right wing, while on his left, in the
Cantavieja sector, Gen. Garcia Va
lino's battalions stormed 5,000-foot,
snow-capped Monte Tavaruela, dis
lodging government militiamen and
straightening the front between Porta
nete and Iglesuela del Cld.
The new line of Gen. Franco's east
ern offensive runs from Teruel along
the highway northeast through Cor
balan to Elpobo, where it swings east
across country to Allepuz and then
follows mountain roads southeast
through a half dozen villages to
Alcala de Chivert.
r ~ v
DR. V. K. WELLINGTON KOO.
Spain was at the council table only by
invitation and her delegate was ex
pected merely to protest non-interven
tion without asking concrete action.
The Council named a committee of
five—delegates of Britain. Prance.
China. Soviet Russia and Rumania—
to draft a resolution reaffirming pre
vious League declarations on China's
war with Japan and also a new’ state
ment of sympathy for China to be
acted on later by the full Council.
Halifax Thanks Koo.
British Foreign Secretary Viscount
Halifax, alter yesterday's meeting of
the League of Nations Council, thank
ed Dr. Wellington Koo for his unex
pectedly mild speech against the
Anglo-French demand for freedom to
recognize Italy's conquest of Ethiopia.
Chinese sources said Dr. Koo had
replied:
"And Hong Kong?"
Th* "realistic" weapons China was
(See LEAGUE, Page A-3 )
SLATTERY GIVEN
WESTS POSITION
Interior Undersecretary
Quits—New Appointee
in Agency 30 Years.
President Roosevelt today accepted
the resignation of Charles West as
Undersecretary of the Interior and
immediately announced the appoint
ment of Harry Slattery of South Car
olina as his successor. Mr. Slattery
now special assistant to Secretary of
the Interior Ickes. is 51 years old and
has been in the Interior Department
for nearly 30 years. He has been first
assistant to Mr. Ickes since 1933.
The nomination of Mr. Slattery went
to the Senate shortly after the White
House announced Mr. Wests resigna
tion.
Stephen T. Early, a White House
secretary, said the President was look
ing around for a new post for Mr. West,
former Democratic Congressman from
Ohio, but as yet had not selected one
for him.
Secretary Ickes several months ago
discharged Mr. West's assistant, a rela
tive of the Undersecretary, and other
wise reduced Mr. West's office staff.
The Ohioan, who has spent the last
two months making political speeches
over the country, was said in official
quarters to have been considered at
one time for appointment as controller
of the currency, but opposition from
Secretary Morgenthau was reported to
have disposed of that possibility.
At the time of his appointment to
the Interior Department, Mr. West
was engaged primarily in liaison work
between the White House and Con
gress. a task since shared to some
extent with James Roosevelt, son and
secretary of the President.
Mr. Early said the need for this
liaison work has almost entirely dis
appeared, since 90 per cent of it has
been performed this session by the
President himself through his regular
Monday morning conferences with
leaders and in telephone conversa
tions.
The undersecretaryship was a new
I See NOMINATION, Page A-4 )
NAVAL MEASURE
PASSED BV SENATE
ON VOICE VOTE
Billion-Dollar Expansion Bill
Goes to White House
for Approval.
46 FIGHTING SHIPS,
950 PLANES PROVIDED
Roosevelt Expected to Seek Funds
for Immediate Beginning
of Construction.
By the AssLrlsted Press.
The Senate passed and sent to the
White House today the administra
tion’s billion-dollar naval expansion
bill. Passage was on a voice vote.
The measure, pending in Congress
since February, authorizes construc
tion of 46 new fighting ships, 26 aux
iliaries and 950 airplanes. Funds to
carry out the program must be appro
priated later.
Separate bills originally were passed
by both chambers. A joint commit
tee worked out a compromise carrying
i authorizations estimated at $1,090,
1 000,000 and this was approved in the
House by a 67-to-31 vote Wednesday.
Three new battleships and two 20,
000-ton aircraft carriers are provided
by the compromise bill. The battle
ships will be limited to 35,000 tons
unless the President finds that larger
vessels are necessary in the interest
of national defense. On such a find
ing, ships of up to 45,000 tons could
be built.
The bill also carries authorization
for a $3,000,000 dirigible provided the
President finds one is needed.
President Roosevelt is expected to
ask Congress before adjournment for
funds to start work on some of the
vessels.
--•-—
FACES TRIAL IN THEFT
OF $280,000 PAINTINGS
___
!
Suspect Accused of Receiving
Two Stolen From Castle of
Sir Edmund Davis.
Bt 'he Att'>ci«ted Frees.
ASHFORD. England, May 13.—
George Owen. 38. accused ' with other
person* not in custody” of breaking
; into Sir Edmund Davis' Kentish Castle
! and of receiviriff two paintings from.
a *500.000 burglary April 23. was com-'
| milted U> trial today on the latter
: charge.
The court decided no evidence had
been offered on the burglary charge
and ruled that Owen be discharged on
that count.
The two painting* concerned in the
accusation on which Owen will *tand
trial were valued at *280,000 and he
was accused of receiving them, know
ing they had been stolen.
RAILROADS RENEW
FARE BOOST PLEA
Eastern Lines Mail Petition to
I. C. C. for Reconsideration
of Half Cent Increase.
| By 1fce Associates Pres*. .
Eastern railroads have decided to
, ask the Interstate Commerce Commis
| sion to reconsider its recent denial of
permission to Increase passenger coach
fares from 2 cents to 2.5 cents a mile,
informed persons said today.
The petition reportedly was mailed
from New York May 11, but it had
not yet been made public at the
I. C. C., and officials declined to say
whether it had been received. Other
persons, however, said they had re
ceived copies.
The I. C. C. denied a ’-i-cent in
crease in Eastern passenger coach fares
by a vote of 8 to 5. The requested
increase woud have yielded the East
ern carriers about $30,000,000, they
estimated.
HOLIDAY IN HOUSE
Adjournment Until Monday la
Voted—Many to Go on Trip.
House members took an extra holi
day today after working 10 consecu
tive hours to pass the new relief and
public works bill.
At the end of a series of roll call
votes yesterday, they decided just be
fore leaving the chamber at 9:15 pjn.
to adjourn until Monday.
■
Summary of Today's Star
Page. Page..
Amusements. C-4 Radio _C-5 ]
Comics C-14-11 Short Story.B-l7
Editorials .. A-l# Society_B-3
Lost & Pound C-5 Sports_C-l-S
Obituary ...A-lt Woman’s Pg-A-16
FOREIGN.
British cabinet shake-up prospects
growing. Page A-4
Japanese bomb path of troops toward
Lunghai. Page A-4
Mexico may set oil properties' value
arbitrarily. Page A-4
Constitution drawn for world union of
Protestants. Page A-7
NATIONAL.
King will ask for probe of relief under
Hopkins. Page A-l
Old Guard stages bitter fight to de
feat Pine hot. Page A-l
Roosevelt approves Government broad
casting station. Page A-7
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Donovan recommended by Collins for
District Commissioner. Page B-l
Twenty-one from D. C. to graduate
from Naval Academy. Page B-l
SPORTS.
Nats hear pennant bee bussing as they
start trin.
Women's city net play to be held at
Army-Navy Club. PageC-2
Terp-Navy stick tilt tops college card
tomorrow. Page C-3
FINANCIAL.
Bonds hold near peaks (table).
Page A-17
Freight loadings down. Page A-17
More financing planned. Page A-17
Stocks sell off (table). PageA-lg
Curb shares ease (table). Page A-19
Trade hesitant. Page A-19
EDITORIALS. ,
This and That. Page A-19
Political Mill. Page A-lt
Washington Observations. Page A-lt
Answers to Questions. Page A-lt
The Capital Parade. Page A-ll
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Lemuel Parton. Page A-ll
MISCELLANY.
Shipping Newt. Page B-lt
City News in Brief. PageA-H
Vital Statistics. Page A-13
Nature's Children. Page B-lt
Bedtime Story. Page C-12
Letter-Out. Page C-lt
Crossword Puszle. Page C-lt
Contract Bridge. PageC-11
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LIVED BEFORE \
^HER TIME! j
BITTER FIGHT ON
TO BEAT PINCHOT
Ex-Governor’s Leaders See
Victory Against Old
Guard in Primary.
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of Th« Star.
PHILADELPHIA, May 13—The
desperate struggle for political control
in Pennsylvania now underway ia not
confined to such stalwart New Dealers
as Senator ‘'Joe" Guffey, Gov. George
Earle and his Philadelphia contractor
friend. Matthew H. McCloskev. Jr., and
David Stern, Philadelphia publisher.
John L. Lewis is making a bid for a
place in the political sun for his
Committee of Industrial Organiaation.
backing Thomas Kennedy. Lieutenant
Governor and secretary-treasurer of
the United Mine Workers of America,
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination.
Old Guard Republicans, among
them “Joe" Grundy, former Senator;
."Joe" Pew, the party angel, and Jay
^Cooke. Philadelphia city Republican
chairman, are making a desperate
fight to nominate their candidates
for Oovemor and Senator—Judge
Arthur H. James of the Superior
Court and State Senator G. Mason
Owlett, respectively.
In order to accomplish their aim
and retain control of the G. O. P. in
this State, these Old Guard leaders
must beat former Gov. Gifford Pin
chot, who Is campaigning for the
gubernatorial nomination, and Sen
ator James J. Davis, who is seeking to
succeed himself in the upper house.
Bitter Fight On.
The Republican row is not as pic
turesque as the Democratic: no
charges of graft and corruption are
flying between the G. O. P. candidates.
Nevertheless the light Is intense, it is
bitter. Both sides claim victory.
Unlike his earlier campaigns. Mr.
Pinchot has the backing of nearly one
half of the Republican county
organizations. The best he could
count in the past was two county
organizations—for the Republican
organization has always opposed the
veteran progressive, who was a fol
lower of Theodore Roosevelt. Today
he has the support of practically the
whole party organization in Allegheny
County, which includes Pittsburgh,
and in Washington County, Erie,
Northumberland and many others,
according to his managers. Philadel
phia has always been a tough nut for
Mr. Pinchot to crack. Today he has
five large wards out of the 51—and he
never had but one before.
Judge James is called the Repub
lican organization candidate, how
ever, and the organization is count
ing on running up a big vote for him.
The organization men say he will
have a lead of better than 150,006 in
Philadelphia County over Mr. Pinchot.
The Pinchot people, on the other
hand, say that Judge James' lead In
the city of Brotherly Love will not
exceed 75,000.
The reason Mr. Pinchot has the sup
port of Republican organization leaders
in Philadelphia and other counties—
who were his opponents In the past—is
because these leaders are tired of being
"out” and in the minority—not because
they love Mr. Pinchot any more. They
believe that they can win with Mr.
Pinchot in the November election
against the Democratic nominee no
matter who he may be. There are
2,6000 division committeemen In Phil
adelphia and about 1,400 of them have
no political jobs and their tongues
are, figuratively speaking, hanging out.
If the G. O. P. comes back into power
they figure they can get Jobs. The old
guard leadership has been dishing
them up a set of candidates in the
last three elections who failed to win.
The Pinchot people say it is obvious
what many of these division commit
teemen will do on election day next
Tuesday.
Philadelphia has a sales tax which
affects 30,000 merchants, not to men
tion all the people who buy. Mr. Pin
chot has promised to get rid of this tax.
Fourteen members of the City Coun
(See PINCHOT, Page A-5.)
NATS, SOX SCORELESS
Wee Ferrell and Wilson Opposing
Hurlers.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
BOSTON, May 13 —The Nationals
and the Boston Red Sox were scoreless
in the first two innings of the opening
game of a series here this afternoon.
Wes Ferrell was on the mound for
Washington and Jack Wilson for the
Red Sox.
• I
Cut-Rate Barber
Unable to Pay
Fine Is Jailed
By ;h- Associated Pres*. '
CUSHING, Okla., May 13.—W. L.
Tennyson, a barber who went to jail
when he couldn’t pay a $35 fine lor
charging only 35 cents for a haircut,
still was in jail today despite an Okla
homa Supreme Court order for his re
lease on bund.
Walter Matthews, Mr. Tennyson’s
attorney, was raising a $100 bond to
get Mr. Tennyson out of the Still
water Jail—so the barber could con
tinue to defy Oklahoma's barber price
fixing law ”bv charging 15 cents if he
wants to." He went to jail Wednesday.
The State Supreme Court granted a
writ of habeas corpus yesterday and
directed Sheriff F. F. Fisher to show
cause by May 18 why Mr. Tennyson
was being held. The County Court
had ordered the barber to post $500
bond to assure that he would not vio
late a restraining order prohibiting
price cutting.
A test of the State law which per
mits associations of barbers in cities
and towns to fix minimum prices now
is before the State Supreme Court.
DARANYI MINISTRY
QUITS IN HUNGARY
Stronger Government Expected
to Be Formed to Fight
Bite of Naziitm.
B» the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST. May 13 —The cabinet
of Premier Koioman Daranyi, con
fronted by an expanding Nazi move
ment, resigned tonight.
Admiral Nicholas Horthv, Regent of
Hungary, immediately summoned Bela
Imredi. minister of economics. After
the audience Imredi announced he had
been asked to form a government.
The cabinet met briefly for a final
session, after which Daranyi visited
the Regent and submitted the resigna
tion which Horthy accepted.
Previously it was understood Daranyi
would recommend Imredi as head of a
new. stronger government capable of
combating the rise of Naziism in
fiungary.
Earlier the government's anti-Jewish
bill, which would restrict Jewish par
ticipation in trade, industry and the
professions to at most 20 per cent,
was passed by acclamation today in
the Chamber of Deputies.
Approval by the upper house was
regarded as assured. Enactment would
mean that some 30,000 Jews would
lose their jobs in the flve-year period
allotted for putting the 20 per cent
principle into effect.
BOARD TO ACT QUICKLY
ON REICH HELIUM PLEA
Munitions Control Group to Meet
Soon to Weigh Request,
Roosevelt Says.
By the Associated Pres*.
President Roosevelt said today there
would be a meeting very soon of the
National Munitions Control Board to
act on Germany's request for helium.
Under the law the six cabinet offi
cers constituting the board must
unanimously approve the helium sale
and the President has no power to
intervene.
Secretary Ickes, a board member,
has withheld his consent on the
ground of lack of assurance that the
gas will not be used for military pur
poses. The helium was asked for use
in a trans-Atlantic passenger Zeppe
lin.
IN WIFE’S DEATH
Norfolk Investigator Says
Woman Did Not Write '
Suicide Notes.
Ur tnt Atsoclsled Press.
NORFOLK. Va.. May 13 —Coro
ners Investigator Leon Nowiuky said
today that two notes indicating con
templation of suicide were not writ
ten by Mrs. Audrey Sharpe Abdell, j
whose bruised body was found in the
gas-fllled kitchen of her home and
whose merchandise broker husband
is charged with murder.
The 41-year-old husband. J, Clif
ton Abdell. denying knowledge of the
notes, waiyed preliminary hearing
today and was held for grand jury
action.
Mr. Nowiuky declined to divulge
the contents of the notes, but a
neighbor, Mrs. Lola Dorman, said she
believed they were the same ones
found by Mrs. Abdell in her home
Tuesday morning, the day before her
death.
The neighbor said Mrs. Abdell
turned the notes over to a probation
officer of the Juvenile and Domestic
Relations Court and. frightened by
her discovery, purchased extra safety
latches for doors in her home.
Mrs. Dorman said one of the notes
was addressed to "Clifton and Bobby,"
Mrs. Abdell s sons. As she remembered
the contents, Mrs. Dorman said, they
stated. "I am going away on a long
trip and not coming back," remind
ed the boys to "love and obey" their
father and said, "Some day you'll un
I demand."
i Abdell was arrested yesterday on
| his return from Washington. Mr.
, Nowiuky obtained a warrant charg
ing him with 'murder by assault and
! asphyxiation." The coroner s inves
: tigation said Mrs. Abdell s face was
| bruised, her right eye blackened and
; that other bruises and scratches on
her body indicated foul play.
LOCATED IN HOTEL HERE.
Norfolk Man Seemed Distressed at
News of Wife’s Death.
At request of Norfolk authorities,
Washington police located Abdell at
the Harrington Hotel shortly after
midnight Wednesday and notified him
of the death of his wife. He ap
peared greatly distressed at the news,
which was brought him by Detective
| Sergt. T. M. McVearry.
Abdell checked out of the hotel at
1 a.m., saying he was returning im
mediately to Norfolk. He first made
a long-distance call from a pay sta
tion in the lobby and asked the desk
clerk if he had received any telegrams.
Capt. Ira Keck of the local Detec
tive Bureau said Norfolk police had
requested that detectives here check
Abdell's movements while in Washing
ton. He registered at the hotel at 11
a.m. Tuesday and little could be
learned of his movements between that
time and his departure ffom the hotel,
Capt. Keck said.
GIRL IN GRAY IDENTIFIED
Body That of Corapolis, (Pa.)
• Girl, Her Sister Declares.
NEW YORK. May 13 (/P).—"The
girl in gray” was identified in the
morgue today as Pearl Louise Braden
of Corapolis, Pa., by her sister, Mrs.
Evelyn Cape.
Mrs. Cape broke into tears when she
was taken before ther body of the 16
year-old girl who died last Friday
after drinking poison in a restroom
of the Midtown bus terminal.
She told detectives her sister dis
appeared last November.
Navy Waives Observer Ban
To Help Train Argentinians
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
The Navy Department is prepared
to waive the interdiction put on for
eign naval observers to follow opera
tions of the fleet, in order to enable
Argentine naval officers to be trained
in the American Navy.
This change of policy is due to the
insistence of the State Department
that Argentine naval officers be af
forded the opportunity to get ac
quainted with our naval strategy And
high-aea operations.
Until 1921 foreign naval officers were
permitted to. follow maneuvers of the
United States Navy. A number of
foreign naval observers were taken as
guests on board the flagship or other
vessels.
After 1921 this policy was changed.
No foreigner was allowed on board a
United States war vessel, and this In
terdiction was scrupulously observed,
especially during the war games.
The Argentine government ap
proached the United States Govern
ment last year and asked that a num
ber of Argentine senior officers be per
mitted to undergo a course of practical
training with the American Navy. This
was in keeping with the good neghbor
policy and with the thought that some
time, if necessity arises, the South and
North American fleets might have to
co-operate in a common cause.
The request of the Argentine gov
ernment was received with little en
(See NAVY, Page A-4.)
a
KING TO REQUEST
PROBE OF RELIEF
UNDER HOPKINS
Bares Plan After McCarran
Says No One Dares Ask
W. P. A. Inquiry.
WOULD PLACE FUNDS
UNDER SECRETARYICKES
Byrd Leads Fight to Restrict
Roosevelt's Control Over
Spending Huge Sum.
BACKGROUND—
Administration again is relying
principally on pump-priming
spending to combat new depression
and increasing unemployment. As
companion efforts, provision has
been made for renewed loans to
business by R. F. C. and modifica
tion of much criticized Neu- Deal
theories of taxation.
Bi the Associated Press.
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah
told the Senate today he would ask
shortly a congressional investigation
of the administration of relief under
Harry Hopkins, the works progress ad
ministrator.
Senator King made this statement
after Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada said "No one dares to ask an
investigation of W. P. A.”
Senator McCarran said that if he
controlled relief matters, all funds
would be spent under Secretary Ickes
and the Public Works Administration.
"Then no one would point a public
finger of scorn,’’ the Nevadan said, as
he lauded Mr. Ickes’ administration
of P. W. A.
When Senator King said he would
ask the W. P. A. inquiry. Senator Mc
Carran said in an undertone:
"It won't get very far.’’
Would Curb Spending.
Anti-administration Senators, mean
while. demanded restrictions on Presi
dent Roosevelt's control over the $3 -
000.000,000 relief and public works fund
voted by the House in a noisy night
session.
Senator Byrd. Democrat, of Virginia,
frequent critic of administration meas
ures. conferred with some of his col
leagues on the possibility • earmark
ing’' the bulky bill to limit thfc uses to
which the money could be put.
But Senator Adams, Democrat, of
Colorado, chairman of an appropria
tions subcommittee handling the legis
lation. predicted it would reach the
Senate floor by the middle of next
week without important changes.
Democratic leaders, retaining hopes
of mid-June adjournment, expected
Senate passage in another week.
The {louse approved the measure
last night. 329 to 70. after an unsur
1 cessful three-dav fight by Republicans
voted for the bill, while 11 Democrats
to modify it. Twenty-five Republicans
were among the opponents.
Bulk of President's Plan.
The bill appropriates $1,250,000 000
for W. P. A. work relief. $965,000,000
for a new public works program under
P. W. A., $175,000,000 for rehabilita
tion of needy farmers. $75,000,000 for
the National Youth Administration
and $25,000,000 for Federal public
buildings.
It also authorizes loans of $500.
000.000 from a P. W. A. revolving fund,
construction of $35,000,000 worth of
public buildings, and use of $100,000,
I 000 in R. F. C. funds for rural elec
trification.
Altogether it embodies the bulk of
President Roosevelts $4,500,000,000
program to combat the recession by
expanding employment and purchas
ing power.
Many House Democrats who sup
ported the measure were back “on
the reservation” after revolts earlier
in the session against the wage-hour
and Government reorganization bills.
Twice the powerful majority killed
a Republican proposal to turn admin
istration of relief back to the States.
More than 50 other amendments also
were defeated.
Representative Fish. Republican, of
New York remarked that a “well-oiled
steamroller" was in operation.
Only twice were administration
forces upset. They failed to kill an
amendment to make farmers who are
in need of work and not on relief
rosters eligible for employment on
rural W. P. A. projects. They were
unable to keep rural-minded legislators
from adding $40,000,000 to the $60,
tSee RELIEF, Page A-3.)
50 WOMEN PROTEST
SPENDING MEASURE
Delegation Invades Senators’
Offices to Demand Defeat of
All but Relief Items.
By the Associated Press.
Fifty women from New York. New
Jersey and Connecticut invaded the
Senate Office Building today to make
known their opposition to the lending
spending program.
Besieging Senators in their offices
and committee rooms, they demanded
defeat of all proposals except those
to provide direct relief. '
They called first on Vice President
Garner. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of
New York, spokesman, said Mr.
Garner told them he was ‘ not a
legislator,” but thought it was a
"great thing" for them to express
their views because “we want U>
hear all sides.”
Later the group talked to Sena
tors Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska:
Truman, Democrat, of Missouri;
Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, and
Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp
shire in Senator Burke’s office. They
planned to meet with Chairman Glass
and other members of the Senate
Appropriations Committee during the
day.
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