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 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.” ■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■' • 11 ■ 1 ■ — 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, --> - -> — 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. ^ 4 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. 7\ Sniper 'Continued From First Page.!_ 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 V 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. * 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. — — • 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. -« 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. f 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. ■ ■■ • 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, - -« — 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. ■ ■ — - • ■ ■ ■■ 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.) -:-• 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. 1