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Gen. Inonu Faces
Difficult Task as
Ataturk Successor
Dictator Was in Midst
Of Modernization
When He Died
By DEWITT MACKENZIE.
ANKARA, Nov. 19,-Turkey's new
president, Gen. Is*iet Inonu, is
facing perhaps the most difficult
task of any of the world's leaders
as he takes over offue through the
death of Kamal Atatvrk.
Ataturk was a genius, a tremen
dous driving force, and withal he
was the Idol of the masses.
When the end came he was in the
very midst of his revolutionary mod
ernization of the country—an up
heaval that called for the discarding
of religious, political and social cus
toms which had existed far centuries.
Bevond that the international
situation as related to Turkey is
delicate and vastly important. The
great Nazi politico-ecoiomic drive
to the East has reached <his country'.
-Many Turks also look fearfully to
wards, Italy, feeling thit Mussolini
may have an idea of ofientation in
this direction.
Iron Hand Needed.
All in all. the hand tlat takes the
wheel relinquished by Ataturk, the
lone worker, must be an iron one.
This is particularly necessary since
there are strong politWal cross cur
rents which have been kept in con
trol only by often rutlfless force.
Turkish politics so«etimes have
taken violent trends in the past!
and many men have suffered for 1
revolt against the powers that were.!
Gen. Ismet Inonu is credited with
being the strongest man of the coun
try. This is a desifpiation which
he will have ample qiportunity to
substantiate for he Till encounter ]
plenty of opposition if the political
wiseacres are right.
Pending his demaist ration one
can only say that he is quite a differ
ent type from his late chief. For
one thing, up to this juncture, he
hasn't shown himself inclined to
the ruthlessness of lis predecessor.
Observers are watching with intense
interest to see how tie general will
act if and when he i; called on to
use the strong arm.
Inonu Good Oiganizer.
Inonu is in his late 50's and has
the highest possible reputation both
as regards his private and his pub
lic life. In appearance he is small
and slender and he has an intel
lectual face. He is good on organi
zation and administration.
For years he was Ataturk's closest
associate, if one may employ that
term in connection with a leader
who was a one-man government.
The two fought together in the
World War. Inonu being Ataturk's
chief of staff at Gillipoli, where
Ataturk made big history by pre
venting the allies from capturing
the vital peninsula.
After Ataturk came into power
Inonu was for years his premier.
Then in 1937 came a falling out. It
appears Ataturk felt Inonu was in
terfering too much with the for
mer's foreign policy. In any event,
Ataturk applied a bit of the iron
fist and Inonu lost his job.
Inonu Remained uiet.
A lot of people thought Inonu's
career was finished. He remained
a member of the National Assembly,
but beyond that he kept very, very
quiet. Some shunned him, fearing
to incur the displeasure of Ataturk
if they were friendly with the ex
premier.
Then came Ataturk's grave illness
last June. One of the first things
he did was to send for his almost
lifelong associate. From that time
until the end Inonu was with his
dying chief frequently.
It was obvious that they had made
their peace. Gradually the politi
cians and foreign diplomatic corps
Fensed that, the mantle of the great
reformer was descending on the
shoulders of Inonu. Now they are
watching to see how well the gar
ment fits.
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Mrs. Roosevelt-Appeals
For Democracy Aid
B* the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Nov. 19.—Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, opening a
lecture series sponsored by the Pub
lic School Teachers' Association,
called upon her listeners last night
to take an active part in promoting
democracy and helping to form "a
fesponsibile public opinion.’’
"We in democracies will have no
fear as long as we as individual
titizens are responsibile and really
Ictive in promoting democracy, in
jiaking democracy meet the needs
>f all the people,” she asserted.
"People who are uphappy will
turn to anything. People who have
no one to turn to who will listen to
them are discontented.”
Turning briefly to the United
States’ world policy, Mrs. Roosevelt
Said:
"There has been a lot of talk about
seeping to ourselves. I am not so
sure that we are going to be able
to continue our own lives without
feeling the effects of what is going
on in other nations. It is up to us
to form a responsible public opinion
tor it will carry a lot of weight in
;he world.”
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New York Seeks to Tax
Fee Received From U. S.
(Jy the Associated Press.
New York State appealed to the
Supreme Court yesterday in an
tfTort, to tax the salary received by
m attorney from the Federal Home
Dwners’*Loan Corp.
The Supreme Court recently held
that the Federal Government could
lax the income of employes of the
New York port authority.
President Roosevelt has recom
mended that the Federal and State
Governments be given the reciprocal
right to tax the salaries of each
others employes and the income
from one anothers.
Attorney General John J. Bennett,
Jr., asked the high tribunal to review
n decision by New York courts that
the $2,246 salary received in 1934
by James B. O'Keefe of New York
■was not subject to a State income
tax.
Among other things. Mr. Bennett’s
petition contended that the New
York Court of Appeals erred "in
failing to hold that the functions
of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp.
were not essential to the preserva
tion of the Government of the
United States and that, consequently,
the Salary received by the taxpayer
was not immune from taxation by
^ie State of New York.”
Siam's Royal 'G-Man'
Guest of Hoover at
F. B. I. Graduation
Prince Chalermbol
Travels Far to See
Agents in Action
His Royal Highness, Prince Chal
ermbol, of Siam, who is head “G
man” of his native kingdom in the
Far East, today completed a jour
ney half-way around the world to
see America's G-men in action at
headquarters, and promptly accept
ed J. Edgar Hooer's invitation to
witness graduation of 38 police of
ficers from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation's National Police
Academy.
Prince Chalermbol, cousin of the
king of Siam, was accompanied by
Siamese Minister Phya Abhibal
Rajamaitri. The pair headed a list
of distinguished guests invited to
witness the awarding of diplomas by
Attorney General Homer Cummings
and Mr. Hoover in the “great hall’
of the Department of Justice.
Interested In Exploits.
The youthful-appearing prince
had read much of the F. B. I. and its
crime detection exploits and desired
to meet Mr. Hoover and inspect the
criminological laboratories and
training facilities. He may use the
F. B. I. as a model in developing
his own investigative force.
The recipients of diplomas today
represent 38 State, County and
City police agencies in various parts
of the country. They have just com
pleted a three-month course in prac
tice and theory of detecting crime
and catching criminals.
Private John F. Dent, of the
Prince Georges Conty, (Md.) police
department, and Sergeant James
Cowan of the Virginia State Police
were among the graduates.
Fulton Oursler, editor of Lierty
magazine: Lawrence M. Taylor, as
sistant superintendent of the Illi
nois State Highway Maintenance
Police, and Director Hoover were to
address the graduates. Mr. Taylor
is president of the graduating class.
Qualify as Instructors.
The engraved diplomas signify
that each of the alumni is qualified
to organize and conduct police in
struction courses in his jurisdiction.
Tine graduates will bring to 297 the
total of police department repre
sentatives who have attended the
nine sessions of the academy since
its inception in July, 1935.
The men have been trained in
police organization and idministra
! tion. investigations, enforcement
procedure, firearms use. first aid.
: statistics, report writing and scien
j tific crime-detection technique.
Alumni of the academy are in
j every State of the Union, two terri
torial possessions and two foreign
I countries. Nearly 100 of the gradu
! ates have received promotion as a
result of their training and 130 are
conducting police training schools.
Members of Class.
Members of the graduating class,
in addition to President Taylor. Pvt.
Dent and Sergt. Cowan, are Capt.
Lawrence A. Abbott. Springfield.
Ohio: Detective Maurice J. Ahern,
New Rochelle. N. Y.; Traffic Direc
tor E. O. Bauer, jr.. Baton Rouge,
La : Identification Officer Edgar E.
Black, Vincennes. Ind.; Pvt. Alex
Brebner, Lake Forest, 111.; Capt.
Raleigh D Bristow. Owensboro. Ky.;
Detective Parker R. Clamp. Ander
son. S. C.: Patrolman Rossa E. Cou
ture, Fall River. Mass.: Capt. Wal
ter Eckert. Indiana State police;
Deputy Sheriff John W. Fahey.
Ramsey County. Minn.: Chief of
i Police Lou W. Gammell, Reno. Nev.;
! Marshal Dewey Hall, New Albany,
Miss.; Officer James Herring,
i Dothan, Ala.: Sergt. J. W. Jessup,
Mount Airy. N. C.; Lt. D. T. Lambert,
North Carolina State highway pa
trol; Sergt. Henry E. Madden. New
port, R. I.; Patrolman Roy C. Malm
; borg. Salt Ste. Marie, Mich.; Chief
of Police C. C. Maxey. Waco. Tex;
Lt. Henry J. McGann, Hartfoiti.
Conn.: Deputy Sheriff Joe Neely,
,ir„ El Paso County, Tex.; Chief of
Police Ed J. Nickolite, Columbus.
Nebr.: Chief of Police Jacob J. No
vak. North Chicago. 111.; Sergt. Clare
Parker. Elyria. Ohio; Sergt. D. P.
Phillips. Union City, Tenn.; Pitrol
' man Lester D. Price. Pierre. S.Dak.:
Chief Deputy Sheriff John W.
Reindl, Menominee County, Mich.;
1 Sergt. Dorse Rost, Hannibal, Mo.;
| Sergt. Michael Shea. Erie, J*a.; Lt.
Starling E. Shumate. Martinsville,
j Va.: Supt. of Identification Fred
erick W. Smith, Kitsap County,
Wash.; Chief of Police fames W.
Tonra. Brookline, Mass.; Patrolman
Millard E. Tyree, Becklqp, W. Va.;
Lt. Egbert De Witt Wingt). De Kalb
County. Ga.; Patrolman Fred W.
Wolfe. Rock Hill, S. C., and Deputy
Sheriff John S. Wootten, Sumter
j County, Ga,
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Chicago Grain
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—Major frac
tional decline of wheat prices today
wiped out most of the advance built
up during the entire week.
Persistent small lots selling, much
of which was liquidatiqfi of Decem
ber contracts which blcome deliv
erable in two weeks, depressed the
market. The selling, though not
large, had telling effect in an
otherwise thin trade In the face of
meager buying intertft. A net de
cline of t* to 5g certts at Liverpool
was about in line wifh expectations.
Domestic export business re
mained quiet, with no sign of re
vival except through the possibility
of increased subsidy. Rumors that
negotiations for a substantial sale
to British millers were not con
firmed but many traders expressed
belief removal of Ihe 6-cent duty on
American w'heat itiports into Great
Britain would have little immediate
effect on trade especially if all other
wheat eventually, is admitted duty
free also. |
Belief was oppressed, however,
that with Russia out of the export
market for the time being and new
Southern Hemisphere wheat not yet
available, importing countries were
more or less depmdent upon North
America and the Balkans.
Liquidation of December corn af
fected that market with the Decem
ber contract losing more than a
cent at times. Deferred delivery,
however, showed only fractional
losses, being steadied by the holding
tendency of producers.
Oats and rye were s eady while
lard declined only a few cents.
Around mid-season, wheat was
5b-1 cent lower compared wdth yes
terday’s finish; December, 6314;
May, 65s*. and com w«s *4-1 cent
down; December, 467/a; May, 6014. ^
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ARTIST’S CONCEPTION OF WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT—The new $9,
880.000 air terminal at Gravelly Point is expected to look something like this in
1940. The intricate-appearing system of runways and taxi strips in the center will
be on filled ground. The administration building, with high control tower, in the
center of the field, is flanked by hangars. Behind it is the proposed home of the
Civil Aeronautics Authority, divided by a wide automobile parking area from the
Mount Vernon Highway. The edge of new Bolling Field is visible across the Po
tomac River to the right, with the Capitol in the center background. The group of
buildings across the Mount Vernon Highway from the C. A. A. Building, at the ex
treme left, is the new $1,000,000 highway research laboratory of the Bureau of Public
Roads.
Lawyer Group Seeks
To Save Spain From
'Munich Pact'
Meets Here Today
To Press Demand on
Lifting Embargo
In an endeavor to prevent the
dismemberment of the legally con
i stituted rovernment of Spain by
another ‘Munich agreement." some
200 prominent lawyers, jurists and
teachers of law will arrive in Wash
ington toda; to attend a conference
designed to legalize the lifting of
the embargo against Spain.
Labelled the ‘‘Conference of the
Lawyers Committee on American
Relations With Spain” and held in
the Mayflower Hotel, the sessions
will begin with a dinner tonight
and will run through three ses
sions—morning. afternoon and eve
nin{—tomorrow.
ytmong those scheduled to address
th« dinner are Senator Gerald P.
N}e. who will speak by a special
loig-distance telephone arrange
ment from Bismarck. N. Dak : Frank
I F Walsh, lawyer: Dr. William A.
Ueilson. president of Smith Col
lege: Dr. Mary E. Woolley, presi
dent emeritus of Mount Holyoke
College; Dr. Harry A. Garfield, son
of former president Garfield, and
Justice James H. Wolfe of Utah.
Dodd One of Speakers.
Others who will speak either dur
ing the dinner or at the discus
sions tomorrow will be former Am
i bassador to Germany William E.
Dodd; Jay Allen, correspondent;
Dorothy Parker, writer, and Prof.
Malcolm Sharp of the University
of Chicago.
Topics to be discussed include
“Why the Embargo Should Be
Lifted Now,” "Spain and the World
Scene.” "The Historical Background
of the Spanish Conflict” and "Spain
and the United States.”
Expected to take part In the dis
cussions is Dr. Fernando de los
Rios, Spanish Ambassador.
In sending out a call to lawyers
i throughout the country to attend
I the conference. Paul J. Kern,
chairman of the committee and
i president of the New York Civil
Service Commission, said:
"There are the clearest indica
tions that the powers whose pact
at Munich made possible the dis
memberment of Czechoslovakia
have a similar dispensation pre
pared for Spain.
See Latin American Threat.
"This committee is firmly con
cinved that this is a matter which
vitally concerns our country be
cause of the serious challenge pre
sented to the economic security and
integrity of the Latin American Re
publics — security and integrity
guaranteed by the Monroe Doc
trine.”
Mr. Kern pointed out that both
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Hull have repeatedly emphasized
the necessity for adherence to the
rule of law rather than the rule
of force in international relations.
"It is tragic and ironical,” Mr.
Kern added, “that our policy with
respect to Spain flouts those very
principles and constitutes the re
pudiation of our traditional for
eign policy rendering aid to estab
lished governments faced with in
surrection.
"Spain must not be the victim of
a second Munich.”
Members of the committee will
seek an audience with Secretary
Hull on Monday to present the
views of the conference as decided
during the discussions.
Teacher Applicants
To Take Examination
Approved candidates for positions
as teachers of speech correction and
health and physical education in the
colored schools will take written ex
aminations Monday at 9 a.m. at
Miner Teachers College. Georgia
avenue and Euclid street N.W.
Physical examinations will be
given the following day at 8:30 a.m.
at the Monroe school, Georgia and
Sherman avenue* N.W.
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Sniper
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a man with whom he had lived, he
had been dressed in brown—one of
the points in Mrs. Brown's descrip
tion of the assailant.
The suspect told the investigators
he had been in jail at Rockville. Md..
for the last two weeks, but jail rec
ords did not show he had been in
custody. When arrested, he was
dressed in white, but police found
he had brown clothes and dressed
him ih them for his appearance be
fore Mrs. Brown today,
j Officials urged the public to re
port to police immediately any in
formation or suspicions that might
help lead to the snipers capture,
and the public was responding this
morning.
Calls from residents of the Rock
Creek Park area led to the arrest
by sixth precinct police of a white
man. a W. P. A. worker, who aroused
suspicion as he picked up golf balls
in the vicinity of Sixteenth street
and Rock Creek Ford road N.W..
and sent officers on a hunt for a
colored man reported acting sus
piciously around "Vinegar Hill," a
colored settlement near Sixteenth
street and Concord avenue. Police
questioning the W. P. A. worker did
not list him as definite suspect be
cause the sniper is believed to be
colored.
There were no reports of the
sniper being active last night. Police
investigating a report that a col
ored man of similar description had
jumped on the running board of an
automobile driven by Miss Edna
; Grunewald. 17, of 4000 Cathedral
i avenue N.W., and been frightened
1 away when he speeded up. decided
■ there was no connection with the
Killer's activities.
Boy Is Bullet Victim.
The general excitement and fear
aroused by the recent shootings was
indirectly responsible for the acci
dental shooting of 12-year-old Jo
seph Steer in his home, at 6315
Florida street, Chevy Chase, Md.,
last night.
His father. Henry B. Steer, was
going to choir practice and had to
drive through a lonely section of
the park. As a precaution, he loaded
his revolver and put it in his pocket.
His 10-year-old daughter, Jean,
brushed against him in such a way
as to dislodge the pistol, and it fell
to the floor, discharging a bullet as
it hit. The bullet inflicted a super
ficial wound in Joseph's side and
lodged in his arm.
The hunt for the mad sniper as
sumed a "do or die" aspect yesterday
when ballistics tests showed the
bullets which killed Mr. Murray
and wounded Mrs. Brown were fired
from the same gun as those used in
the other shootings last week.
Mr. Murray, 60, a W. P. A. deputy
foreman, of 7574 Fourteenth street
N.W., was shot six times in the left
side and back. Mrs. Brown, 40, a
widow and chief sorter at the Am
bassador Laundry, who resides at
1320 Harvard street N.W., suffered
a bullet wound in the hip. She is
recovering at Georgetown Hospital.
They were attacked on Grubb
road, extension of Beach drive, about
half a mile south of the East-West
Highway, as they were driving along
the "short cut” en route to a dance
in Silver Spring, Md. Mrs. Brown
said the colored assailant forced
them to stop at pistol point, took
Mr. Murray's wallet and, when he
found only $5 in it and she told him
she had no money, started shooting.
He fired 11 times.
Wallet Discovered.
Police discovered the wallet about
100 yards away from the scene yes
terday, identification and other
cards in it torn and scattered over
the ground.
In addition to possible finger
prints from the wallet, police found
three footprints at the spot where
Mr. Murray was forced to stop his
car. Plaster casts were made of
these, in the hope they might help
to identify the killer.
They were the first definite clues
discovered in connection with the
supposed maniac's attacks. He had
left no trace last week when he
wounded John G. Clements, 23, of
the 6100 block of Fourteenth street
N.W., and the next night killed Ed
ward Roper, 31, colored, 327 C street
S.W., and wounded his woman com
panion. The victims last week were
shot without warning as they sat in
parked automobiles in the park sec
tion, and the survivors could give
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Policing of Old Canal Adds
To Burden of Park Force
Acquisition of the old Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal as a recreation area
will spread the already widespread
activities of the United States Park
Police over a large area.
For now that the office of Na
tional Capital Parks has jurisdiction
, of the narrow canal right of way.
stretching 184 miles to Cumberland,
Md . it will be necessary to protect
it and that's the job of the park
( police.
Frank T. Oartside. assistant super
intendent of National Capital Parks,
said today it likely would be neces
sary to detail at least two men to
the upper reaches of the canal. One
will likely be stationed at a point
half way to the western terminus of
the waterway and the other prob
ably at Cumberland.
The more than 20 miles of the
canal now' being improved in the lm- 1
i
Airport
(Continued From First Page.)
the total available for the airport job
to $9,886,561.
The Army clamshell dredge Hen
ning was at Gravelly Point today.
The suction dredge Dalecarlia is at
the Army engineer wharf near the
Eleventh Street Bridge across the
Anacostia River, where it is being
put into condition to start work
next week.
Col. R. S. Thomas, Army engineer
for the local district, said the larger
Army suction dredge Talcott. now
in the James River, may be returned
here next month.
Test Borgings Made.
Col. Thomas said the Army dredges
will continue in operation through
I the winter, but that the bulk of the
I filling work probably will not get
under way before next spring when
the Army effort will be augmented
by contract dredging on a large scale.
Although this afternoon's cere
mony marks the official start of
work, Col. Thomas said Army engi
neers already are at work making
test borings with a view to locating
deposits of solid sand and gravel
which will be used to make the fill.
The Washington Board of Trade
today appointed a committee of four
to represent it at the airport cere
mony. The group is headed by
Edwin C. Graham, who was presi
dent of the board in 1927 when it
first went on record in favor of the
Gravelly Point project; Clarence A.
Miller, chairman of the Aviation
Committee, and John F. Victory and
Chester H. Warrington, members of
the committee. Mr. Victory, secre
tary to the National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics, also will
represent the Aero Club of Wash
ington, of which he is president.
Mr. Warrington is past president of
the Washington Air Derby Asso
ciation and past president of the
Sportsman Pilots’ Association.
Variety Club Dinner
Aids Welfare
Proceeds from the fifth annual
dinner of Tent No. 11 of the Variety
Club of Washington, to be held at
7:30 o’clock this evening at the
Willard Hotel, will be devoted to the
club's welfare activities, it was an
nounced last night.
In a drive to lower the mortality
rate among premature infants, the
club, made up of theater men and
women, uses its welfare fund to buy
incubator units for hospitals and
private use. The club has also pro
vided free motion pictures to insti
tutions in and around Washington
and has furnished free lunches to
under-priviliged school children as
well as two-week summer camps for
children and their mothers.
no conclusive description of their
assailant.
Seeking the co-operation of the
public in tracking down the killer,
MaJ. Brown announced the District
would pay $300 reward for informa
tion leading to his capture, and
State’s Attorney James H. Pugh of
Montgomery County said he would
recommend that the county commis
sioner approve an additional $290
reward.
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mediate vicinity of Washington will
be more carefully patrolled from
headquarters in the Interior Build
ing. Mr. Gartside said.
This will put additional strain on
the already inadequate force de
tailed to police not only all parks 1
in the District, but the Mount Ver
non highway as well as land already |
acquired for the George Washington
Memorial Parkway, which, when
completed, will stretch from Great
Falls to the neighborhood of Mount
Vernon on both sides of the Po
tomac River.
There is a total of 80 officers and
men on the force now and consid
erable amounts of overtime are con
stantly being run up by policemen
at the parks office. Theoretically
the men are on 8-hour shifts, but
the shifts generally run 12 hours
because enough personnel is not
available, Mr. Gartside said.
North Dakota
State Society
To Meet
A large number of the members
of the North Dakota State Society
have made reservations for their
first meeting of the fall. Mrs.
George Scannel, secretary of the
society, is chairman of the Com
mittee on Arrangements, assisted by
Mrs. Sidney Wardwell, Miss May
Disbrow and Mr. Lynn C. Paulson.
The meeting will be a Sunday
midday breakfast tomorrow at Hotel
Twenty-four Hundred Sixteenth
Street, and is in the nature of a
North Dakota historical function,
honoring Statehood Day. An appre
ciation of North Dakota will be giv
en by Dr. John L. Coulter. Greet
ings from the four corners of the
State will be extended by Mr.
Charles D. Hamel. Mr. Melvin Hil
dreth. Mr. Percy Crewe and Comdr.
Homer N. Wallin. Invitations have
been sent to members of the dele
gation in Congress.
The musical program will include
solos by Miss Selma Last and Mr.
Ernest Livingston, as w'ell as the
singing of North Dakota songs by
the assembly.
Past presidents of the State So
ciety. founded in 1907, have been in
vited to receive and include Senator
Lynn J. Frazier, MaJ. J. G. Hamil
ton, Col. C. A. Lounsberry. Mr. Rob
ert W. Farrar, Mr. Rolla P. Currie,
Mr. Lorin C. Nelson, Mr. John M.
Hancock. Col. Frank White, Mr. E.
C. Wright, Mrs. Percy Crewe, act
ing president. Mr. Charles D. Hamel,
Mr. Allan Gray. Mr. Percy S. Crew'e,
Judge E. T. Burke, Dr. John L.
Coulter, Mr. Sidney Wardwell and
Mr. Paul E. Shorb.
Miss Hazel B. Nielson, president
of the society, has named members
to serve on the Social Committee,
including Mrs. Julian Simpson. Mr.
Francis Brooke, Mr. Robert Burke,
Mrs. A. C. Coates, Mr. Theo W.
Cook. Miss Agnes Eggers, Mrs. Stan
ley Gaines, Mr. T. O. Kraabel, Miss
Claire Sand and Mrs. Edwin White.
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Drinks Kerosene, Baby
Is Critically III
A 22-month-old colored boy is in
critical condition at Gallinger Hos
pital today after having swallowed
a quantity of kerosene.
According to his parents, the
child, Morris Wills, was playing in
the kitchen of his home, 1625 Kra
mer street N.E., when he found a
jug of kerosene beneath the stove.
Unobserved, he drank the fluid.
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Green to Talk at G. W.
Philip L. Green, research director
of the radio division in the U. S.
Office of Education, will speak be
fore the Inter-American forum of
George Washington University at
Columbian House on the university
campus Monday at 8:15 p.m.
Pharmacists to Meet
Details of the new Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act and the responsibility
of the pharmacist toward it will be
outlined by Dr. Robert L. Swain,
deputy State food and drug com
missioner of Maryland at a meeting
of the Washington branch of the
American Pharmaceutical Associa
tion at 8 pm. Monday at its head
quarters, 3215 Constitution avenue.
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Atlantic Waterways
To Link Meeting With
Ship Canal Opening
Delaware Development
Lauded as Important
Intracoastal Aid
Before ending its sessions today,
the Atlantic Deeper Waterways As
sociation voted to tie up its next
convention with the formal opening
of the Chesapeake fc Delaware Ship
Canal, an important link in the
intracoastal waterways system.
President J. Hampton Moore
urged adoption of the resolution, ex
plaining the completion of the
canal, at a cost of $2,900,000 this
fiscal year, would culminate the as
sociation's first work. Election of
officers was to be the final business
of the sessions at the Willard Hotel.
Glenn S Reeves, port development
engineer of New York; Frank L.
Bolton, president of the New York
State Waterways Association, and
Thomas E. Lyons, chief of the
Transportation Division. Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
were speakers today.
Col. Francis B. Wiley, New York
Division engineer of the Army Engi
neers. told the convention to keep
fighting for waterway improvements
which they believed were advisable.
He urged continued persistence in
the association's efforts to have a
canal opened across New Jersey to
connect the Delaware River with
Raritan Bay.
The proposed St. Lawrence water
way project was condemned as ''fu
tile'' by Cornelius H. Callaghan,
manager of the Maritime Associa
tion of the Port of New York, in an
address last night. He asserted the
project would be "economically and
commercially unsound.' that it
would divert traffic from other
transportation routes and unbalance
freight rates and that it would cre
ate navigation hazards. He pre
dicted the "danger" would force un
derwriters to increase insurance
rates, and added that the cost of
the project has been underestimated
by one-half.
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Relief Ship's Arrival
Reported to Donors
Notification of the safe arrival in
Barcelona of the relief ship Erica
Reed carrying a cargo of wheat,
clothing and medical supplies was
received here yesterday by the
Washington Friends of Spanish
Democracy.
The North American Committee
to Aid Spanish Democracy, through
its 150 chapters, supplied the relief
cargo, valued at $250,000, which
sailed on the Erica Reed from New
York on November 1. Local Friends
of Spanish Democracy raised more
than $11,000 in cash, in addition to
4 tons of clothing and foodstuffs.
The captain of the ship reported
that two Spanish insurgent vessels
hailed the Erica Reed in the Straits
of Gibraltar but said the vessel was
not molested.
Bishop Francis J. McConnell,
chairman, and the Rev. Herman
Reissig, executive secretary of the
Medical Bureau and the North
American Committee, urged the
continuance of shipment of sup
plies during the coming winter,
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C. U. Professors
To Occupy Pulpits
Pulpits of Washington's Catholic
churches will be filled tomorrow by
professors and instructors of Catho
lic University in preparation for
Catholic University day—the first
Sunday of Advent—set aside an
nually for the contribution of the
faithful toward the maintenance of
the university.
Catholic University is the pon
tifical institution of learning in
America.
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Gets Army Commission
The War Department announced
that George Raymond Farrell, 422
Cumberland avenue, Chevy Chase,
Md., has been appointed a first
lieutenant in the Medical Depart
ment of the Officers' Reserve Corps.
Cuba Would Join
U. S. Against Attack
From Overseas
Interests of Hemisphere
To Lead Relations,
Says Batista
By CARLOS J. VIOELA.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—If overseas
aggression involves the United
States in a war of self-defense, or
of defense of another American na
tion, Cuba, which sided against
Germany in 1917, would again act
in sympathy with its northern
neighbor, Col. Pulgencio Batista,
"strong man” of Cuba and chief of
its army, declared in an interview.
"Cuba,” he said, "will act in her
international relations in a manner
calculated to further the interests
of the whole Western Hemisphere.
In common action by all the three
Americas lies our strength. There
fore, if war were brought to the
Americas by an overseas enemy,
Cuba would be glad to let American
warships use her territorial waters
and port facilities, just as she would
help ships of other American nations
in the same way. Cuba would not
feel that by doing this her national
sovereignty would be affected. On
the contrary, she would feel proud
to co-operate in the task of the
common defense of the Continent.”
Rose From Sergeant.
The colonel is a sturdily built,
swarthy man of medium height in
his late thirties, who. five years
ago, after the revolt that put an
end to the presidency of Gerardo
Machado, rose suddenly from the
rank of sergeant to the supreme
command of Cuba. He is currently
referred to as ‘dictator" of that
country, but this he denies with
warmth, asserting that Cuba has a
constitutional government. that
President Federico Laredo Bru was
freely elected and that there is
complete freedom of speech in the
island republic.
Col. Batista was interviewed in
his midtown hotel suite, where he
is staying on this, his first official
visit to New York. A squad of
motor cycle police stood ready in
the street to escort him on his
official errands, and a few uniformed
patrolmen kept watch in the hotel
lobby, while plainclothes men and
a State trooper guarded the Cuban
chief's suite and had all packages
opened out in the hallway before
being brought inside, to prevent any
attempts on his life.
The colonel had just submitted
good-humoredly to a barrage of
questions from a girl reporter for
a tabloid, who wanted to know
all about the Cuban's love life. He
answered her readily, with a wide
grin and quick gestures, although
his eyes followed her with a puzzled
look when she left.
Asked about Nazi penetration in
his country. Col. Batista replied
that, so far, it is negligible, but that,
if it should be tried. "Cuba would
know how to deal with it."
Wants Harmony.
The island republic, the colonel
said, wants to live and work in
harmony with the United States
and with all the nations of this
hemisphere. Cuba, he added, has
no designs on any of her neighbors
| and does not contemplate any pol
| icy toward foreign-owned property
there that could bring about ani
mosity and ill will. His country. Col.
Batista declared, is hard at work
trying to better the lot of the ma
jority. and for this purpose it has
adopted a program of modern re
forms. He cited as an example
Cuba's new criminal code, "which
treats the criminal as what he is—
a sick man who needs attention.”
When the subject of the forth
coming Pan-American Conference
at Lima. Peru, was brought up. Col.
Batista said that the Cuban delega
tion is going there with an open
mind and will do all it can to co
operate with the others and get con
crete results.
"How does Cuba feel about the
Pan-American League of Nations
proposed by former President Tru
I jillo of Santo Domingo?" he was
asked.
"In general. I can say that Cuba
will back any movement that will
strengthen the bonds among the
American nations.” he replied, "but
I don't think mine and other coun
: tries feel very enthusiastic about
! this proposed league of nations.
Look at what became of the other
one at Geneva.”
Trade Rslatinns.
“How about trade relations be
tween Cuba and the United States?"
“As you know, a reciprocal tariff
agreement was signed in 1934
whereby we made concessions on
more than 400 items of American
origin and granted duty reductions
on them of from 20 to 60 per cent,
while the United States, in turn,
gave us large tariff reductions on
sugar, rum and tobacco, covering
about 90 per cent of Cuba's exports
to your country. At the present time
we are giving thought to possible
modifications in this agreement that
would give us both added advan
tages. I don't expect any trouble
at all when the time comes for offi
cial discussion of these changes.
Meanwhile, we are bending every
reasonable effort toward increasing
trade with one another."
In 1929. before the depression.
Cuba bought $128,000,000 worth of
American products and sold $207,
000.000 worth to the United States.
Although last year's figures were
far below those. Col. Batista be
lieves that the near future holds
possibility of a return to the more
prosperous days.
“Say,” he told the writer, “that I
carry with me the deepest impres
sion of the American officials’ and
peoples’ courtesy to me and that I
wish sincerely to be afforded an op
portunity to reciprocate."
(Copyright. 1918. by the North Amerlcu)
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
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Center to Give Course
In Dress Design
The Roosevelt Community Center
will hold a course of 12 lessons in
dress design under the auspices of
the Girl Scouts Mondays from 3:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the teachers
dining room at Roosevelt High
School. The course will be open to
all girls of Scout age.
Meanwhile the Eckington Players
are holding tryouts for their tourna
ment play Tuesdays and Fridays at
the Langley Junior High. Beginners
in the contract bridge group will
hold their opening meeting there
Monday at 8 pm.
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