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421,000 to Undergo
Field Training in
Army This Year
Considerable Increases
In Funds Due to Be
Asked, Craig Says
By the Associated Press.
Some 421,000 officers and men, War
Department officials estimated yes
terday. will undergo intensive field
training this year in probably the
largest scale maneuvers the Army
has undertaken in peacetime.
A record $689,391 was earmarked
in the War Department's annual ap
propriation for the bulk of expenses,
and Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff,
said Congress probably would be
asked for “considerable increases.”
Maneuvers involving large bodies
of troops, air forces and teaming
with the Navy are “essential,' Gen.
Craig told a House committee, to
prepare the Army “to execute its
mission in national defense.”
War games of the First Army, one
of the four major units into which
the Nation’s land defense forces are
divided, will involve the largest num
ber of men. Approximately 45,030
regulars and National Guardsmen
will be concentrated at Plattsburg.
N. Y„ August 13-27, and about 22,000
at Manassas, Va„ August 5-19.
Industrial Area Defense.
Maneuvers of the First Cavalry
Division of Texas will test the de
fense of an undisclosed industrial
area against air raids and a joint
exercise with the Navy and Marine
Corps will be directed toward re
pelling a simulated landing on the
Pacific Coast by a hostile sea force.
Added to these and other held
maneuvers for the regulars, guards
men and reservists are the annual
summer citizens' military training
camps and the field training given
selected college students in the Re
serve Officers Training Corps.
Already this year, troops in
Panama and the Philippines have
tested defenses of their outposts in
maneuvers under simulated war
conditions. The Army's 3d Divi
sion will stage a division maneuver
at Fort Lewis, Wash., in May. The
remainder of the important field
exercises are carded after July 1.
Most Expensive Training.
The War Department earmarked
$382,650 for extra expenses for the
year’s training, plus $106,741 for
transporting officers and men, and
$200,000 for expenses of the par
ticipation of four National Guard
divisions in the 1st Army maneu
vers.
These full Army war games are
much the most expensive of all
field training because of the num
bers of men involved. In addition
to the National Guard outlay, offi
cials estimated $199,000 would be
required for expenses of the regu
lars.
An extra $75,000 was budgeted for
cost of the air raid defense of an
industrial city, aside from normal
expenses of the troops and planes.
The most spectacular of military
maneuvers, this exercise is expected
to result in the Army 's heaviest con
centration of anti-aircraft artillery
in addition to employment of 200
or more warplanes.
U. S. Salesmanship
In Latin America Hit
B> tbe Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.—Dr.
Herbert E. Bolton, head of the Uni
versity of California History De
partment, criticized American busi
ness today for failing to “take pains
to send more capable salesmen to
South and Latin America."
He told the League of Nations As
sociation of Northern California last
night that Germany and England
were outselling the United States
because their salesmen “learn Span
ish and take the effort to acquaint
themselves with South and Latin
American customs."
Dr. Bolton and Mrs. Burton W.
Musser of Salt Lake City, chairman
of the Women's Committee at the
recent Pan-American Conference in
Lima, Peru, appeared on the associa
tion platform here to answer the
question: “Was the Lima Conference
a Success?”
Both answered in the affirmative.
Sale Planned to Mark
Grave of Merchant
B» the Associated Press.
DANVILLE. Ind., March 4.—Dan
ville’s citizens, who saved Store
keeper Joe Hess’ business for him
in the depression by holding a “Joe
Hess” day and buying handkerchiefs
at $10 each, socks at $5 a pair,
and the like, are going to hold
another “Joe Hess” day March 11.
Mr. Hess, who operated his busi
ness on such a liberal credit basis
that he nearly had to close up, died
recently. All business establish
ments here closed for the funeral.
He was buried beside his wife in
South Cemetery.
F. Brewer Hadley, who purchased
the Hess stock, said he had set
apart a portion of it to be sold to
the citizens on the second “Joe Hess”
day. Proceeds, Hadley explained,
will be used to mark the graves of
Joe and his wife.
Argentine Navy Stages
South Atlantic Review
By the Associated Press.
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina,
March 4.—The Argentine navy, sec
ond only to that of the United
States in the Western Hemisphere,
staged a full dress review on the
Southern Atlantic today.
Manned by approximately 400
officers and 10,000 men, the navy’s
48 warships maneuvered before for
eign Minister Jose Maria Cantilo,
Naval Minister Rear Admiral Leon
Scaso and other high officials.
President Robert M Ortiz, recover
ing from grippe, was unable to
attend
Pifty-eight bombing, pursuit and
observation planes roared overhead
as the navy's two battleships, of
marly 28.000 tons each, five cruisers,
two gunboats, 16 destroyers and
three submarines passed in review
with gunboats and other small
craft.
British Engineer III
BALTIMORE, March 4 OP).—Fred
C. Bishop, 57. engineer of Great
Britain's Coronation Scot, stream
lined train sent to this country for
a good-will tour and exhibition at
the New York World’s Pair, was
“very sick” at Union Memorial Hos
pital here today. He collapsed yes
terday after returning from the
train’s first test" run, to Washington
and back.
YOUNG MANNEQUIN—Patricia Wilder, 9-year-old daughter of
the Rev. A. J. Wilder, pastor of St. Andrew’s Church, shown yes
terday modeling a child’s dress at a style show given for the bene
fit of the church. Senora Dona Sally Hunter de Crespo, wife of
the First Secretary of the Ecuadorian Legation, also is pictured
modeling in the show.
Liquor Store Robbed
Following Order
To Fake Address
Two Bandits Get $100;
Plan to Loot Other
Places Seen
Two armed colored men. who, po
lice believe, set out to rob several
liquor stores, apparently were satis
fied with their first haul because
the other stores were not disturbed.
Victims of the hold-up were Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin Auerbach, whose
liquor store at 1311 North Capitol
street was robbed of an estimated
$100.
The bandits, according to Mr.
Auerbach, entered the store after
the delivery boy had been sum
moned to deliver two cases of beer
and a quart of whisky in half an
hour. The proprietor said he was
suspicious and sent the boy imme
diately.
Address a Fake.
The delivery boy, returning after
the holdup, said the address was a
fake and he had run into several
delivery boys from other stores seek
ing the same house. Police believed
the bandits were preparing to rob
other stores and had called the boys
out so there would be fewer employes
in the store when they attempted
their holdups.
Mr. Auerbach said the bandits,
one of whom wore dark sun glasses,
pushed him against the counter and
then ordered him to go behind it
and lie on the floor. One robber
held him down at gun point while
the other attempted to open the
cash register.
The wife of the proprietor, fright
ened by the bandits’ threats to shoot
her husband, finally showed the
man at the cash register how to
open it. The bandits left with the
day's receipts and Mr. Auerbach's
wallet. It was the second time the
store had been robbed within the
year.
Holdup Admitted.
A 29-year-old colored man, de
scribed by police as a narcotic ad
dict, was being held for investiga
tion at the Second Precinct last
night after police said he signed a
written confession admitting he had
held up and robbed Richard Lloyd,
a Rutherford, N. J., insurance execu
tive Wednesday night.
The man was taken to the pre
cinct yesterday by Officers J. T.
White and P. S. Ball when his wife
complained that he haa become un
ruly and threatened to kill her. The
officers said they noted he answered
the description given by Mr. Lloyd
and that on being questioned he
admitted forcing Mr. Lloyd to drive
from Seventh and Rhode Island
avenue N.W., where the insurance
man had been sitting in his car
writing a letter, to Fifth and S
streets N.W. where Mr. Lloyd was
robbed of $25.
Man Is Held in Death
Of Woman in His Home
By the Associated Press.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March
4 —Frank Freyer, 50, was held here
today on an open charge. Police
Chief Julian Warner said, after
the badly bruised, nude body of
Miss Dorothy Boener, 30, formerly
of Chicago, was found on a blood
stained bed in Freyer’s home near
here.
Chief Warner and State Detective
Art Keller said they arrested Freyer
after finding bloodstains on his
clothing and in his automobile.
Freyer, Chief Warner said, told
authorities the woman had been
living with him two years. He
maintained, Chief Warner added,
he and Miss Boener came to the
house intoxicated Thursday night
and that she struck her head on a
safe in a fall in his kitchen.
Detective Keller said he traced a
trail of blood from the automobile
into the kitchen, on steps leading
to the second floor, in the bath
room and in a spare room upstairs.
$345,000 Income
Too Small, Duke
Must Economize
By the Associated Press.
NEW CASTLE-ON-TYNE, Eng
land, March 4 —The Duke of North
umberland, 26-year-old bachelor
who draws $345,000 annually from
coal royalties, is economizing—tem
porarily quitting his 200-room castle.
The largest single owner of coal
properties in England, the duke is
moving to the 20-room Lesbury
House nearby.
Heavy taxes and declining royal
ties dictated the move, he said.
Death duties on the estate In
herited from his father are estimated
at $5,000,000, during the 12-year
period following his death in 1930.
Harrington Outlines
'Merit System'
Devised by W. P. A.
Plan Will Parallel
Classified Civil Service
In Its Structure
By the Associated Press.
Col. P. C. Harrington, adminstra
tor, said yesterday W. P. A. admin
istrative employes were being placed
under a P. W. A. "merit system.”
A provision for classified civil
service for W. P. A. advocated by
both Col. Harrington and Harry L.
Hopkins, former administrator, was
eliminated from the W. P. A. appro
priations measure at this session of
Congress.
Col. Harrington said the new
merit system would closely parallel
the classified civil service in ap
pointments, job ratings promotions
and dismissals. He added that it
would set up a "straight-line” ad
ministration designed to provide
more effective supervision of W. P. A.
with a minimum of overhead cost."
The plan already is in effect in
the national headquarters here and
is being extended to the regional
offices.
Col. Harrington said of the plan:
“While, under the terms of the
supplemental relief appropriation
act administrative employes of the
W. P. A. cannot be placed under
civil service, it is my purpose to es
tablish a merit system for the W. P.
A. which will operate as nearly as
possible in accordance with the civil
service standards and practices.
“We are intending to install a
sound salary classification scheme,
establish minimum qualifications for
various positions and develop com
prehensive training, rating 'and
promotion programs.”
He said he contemplated no drastic
reductions of administrative per
sonnel.
'Racket War' Mapped
By Keystone County
By the Auociited Preu.
UNIONTOWN, Pa., March 4 —
State and county peace officers
mapped a “war on rackets” at a
two-hour conference behind closed
doors today in the wake of a grand
jury expression of amasement over
“the situation that exists” in Pay
ette County.
President Judge Harry A. Cottom
tolc1 the law enforcement heads that
in the last three or four years cer
tain untoward incidents had oc
curred for which the people were
not responsible and that as a result
throughout the Nation "this county
has a reputation of being unlaw
ful.”
District Attorney James A. Reilly
did not disclose plans mapped at
the conference to meet the “situa
tion,” but he did announce selection
of Attorney Samuel Felgus as ape*
cial rackets prosecutor and a shake*
up in his own staff “for the purpose
of increased efficiency.”
r
Unions and Hotels
Still Deadlocked in
Strike Negotiations
Exchange of 4 Wires
Fails to Reopen
Parley
The hotels end the striking em
ploye unions were still deadlocked
last night after an exchange of four
telegrams failed to bring about re
sumption of negotiations on the
strike affecting two hotels and
threatening eleven others.
The Hotel Association, according
to W. M. Kochenderfer, an officer,
maintains that the telegrams from
the union asking for an appoint
ment to continue negotiations were
not authorised by the local joint
executive board, representing the
three striking locals of the Hotel
and Restaurant Employes Interna
tional Alliance and Bartenders In
ternational League of America, and
designated by the National Labor
Relations Board to be the bargain
ing agency.
uutci nniunv.
"We want a direct request from
the group that walked out on the
negotiations last Monday." Mr.
Kochenderfer explained. “The two
exchanges of telegrams have been
an effort to get us together on the
basis suggested by the Labor De
partment conciliator."
Samuel Levine, attorney for the
unions, contended that the tele
grams were backed by the inter
national office of the union. The
second telegram, he said, was signed
by M. Garriga. international vice
president, who has come to Wash
ington to attempt settlement of the
controversy.
Position “Untenable.”
His first telegram, he said, was
sent to the 13 hotels which are par
tially unionized. The message said
the position assumed by the hotels
in refusing to consider negotiating
on the closed shop, principal point
at issue, was “untenable and out of
keeping with the purpose of the
conciliator's request” for the con
tinuation of negotiations. The
telegram requested a reply by 5 p.m.,
stating a place mutually agreeable
for resumption of negotiations.
Mr. Kochenderfer, however, said
the methods of negotiation were not
discussed in the exchange of tele
grams and added that the Hotel
Association had every intention of
picking up the negotiations where
it left off, the point at which the
closed shop issue arose.
The second telegrams in both
cases were reiterations of the first.'
with the hotels sending the last
answer.
Congressmen Inspect
Charleston Harbor
By the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, S. C, March 4 —
Thirteen members of the House
Naval Affairs Committee and four
naval officers of the Hepburn Board
inspected at first hand here today
waterways suitable for a proposed
$25,000,000 Southeastern naval air
station.
The visitors viewed the broad ex
panse of the Cooper River and Lower
Charleston Harbor. Afterward Chair
man Vinson, Democrat, of Georgia,
remarked: "This is the best water
we have seen.”
The visitors arrived here from
Savannah, Ga., stopping briefly at
Parris Island this morning to in
spect facilities there for the base.
Mr. Vinson suggested to city of
ficials that complete briefs be filed
with the board bearing on every
phase of each proposed site here.
HOUSEWARMING AT EXCHANGE—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was among the guests at the
housewarming tea given by the Self-Help Exchange at its third and latest building, 1428 U
street N.W. Shown, left to right, are Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr„ wife of the Secretary of the
Treasury and a director of the exchange; Mrs. Roosevelt. Hugh V. Keiser, president of the ex
change, and Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, chairman of arrangements for the tea.
—Star Staff Photo.
Harbor Board Urges
Rules Limiting Use
Of Horns, Whistles
Regulation Banning
Unnecessary Noises
Is Drawn Up
Reminiscent of the Commissioners’
anti-noise campaign of two winters
past, the District Harbor Regulations
Committee has recommended adop
tion of a ban on the unnecessary
sounding of horns, whistles, bells or
sirens on watercraft in the harbor.
Copies of the final draft of the
rules, as agreed to by the committee,
of which Roland Brennan is chair
man. were sent yesterday to officials
of the Bureau of Lighthouses and
the Bureau of Marine Inspection and
Navigation of the Commerce De
partment for their comments.
Before the rules may be pro
mulgated by the Commissioners,
they must be approved by the Secre
tary of War, the Park and Planning
Commission and the National Parks
Service.
Under the final draft, watercraft
in the harbor would not be permitted
to sound horns or other signals ex
cept for purposes of navigation, for
festive occasions or for public cere
monies.
Among other features of the final
draft are the following:
That all visiting craft of 26 feet
or over in length must be registered
with the harbor master if they are
to stay in the port over 24 hours.
Vessels and boats having regular
berths and anchorage assignments
Tanks Are Tougher—
World War Shells
Just Bounce Off
By the Associated Press.
Army tanks are getting
tougher—shells are bouncing off
their sides.
The bouncing shells were
described by Maj. Gen. C. M.
Wesson, chief of ordnance, in
House committee hearings on
Army appropriations.
Asked if the old 37-millimeter
guns of World War days were
still effective, he replied:
"It does not get the modern
tank. As a matter of fact, I
have seen projectiles fired from
this gun against a tank and
have seen them rebound.”
would need to register only once a
year.
Sale of gasoline in the harbor,
except from locations on the shore,
would be prohibited unless vessels
dispensing gas are self-propelled,
and they would have to be approved
by governmental agencies.
Advertising signs carried on vessels
using the harbor would be subject to
restrictions as to size, and permits
would be required.
To Offer Air Training
In keeping with the President's
announced plan to enlist colleges in
the training of aviators, representa
tives of the Navy Department will
visit the University of Maryland
Tuesday to offer students an oppor
tunity to join the Naval Reserve
training course, it was announced
yesterday.
Commissions in the Naval Reserve
are offered to students who take
advantage of the training.
Guards'Middlemen'
In Prison Smuggling,
New Head Charges
Ohio Warden Reports
Gambling, Sales of
Liquor, Narcotics
! By the Associated Press.
I COLUMBUS. Ohio. March 4—Evi
dence that Ohio Penitentiary guards
acted as •'middlemen" in an intra
prison “banking system" through
which convicts obtained an "amaz
ing amount " of cash for gambling
and the purchase of liquor and nar
cotics was reported today by Acting
Warden William P. Amrine.
Mr. Amrine said that he had defi
nite proof that both poker and dice
games had flourished within the
105-year-old institution, and that
although no open gambling oc
curred. “sometimes large amounts of
money changed hands.”
Cash is forbidden prisoners, but
Mr. Amrine said he learned that
I they could obtain it from outside
I sources through some guards who
charged a 25 per cent commission
He said guards also had been in
strumental in obtaining cash for
prisoners from their penitentiary
drawing accounts on which funds
are kept for purchases from tne
commissary.
Pursuing his investigation, which
resulted in the suspension of War
den James C. Woodward. Deputy
Warden W. J. Walker and two
guards. Mr. Amrine said he learned ,
that “three or four truck loads" of
State records were burned at the
prison power house before former
Gov. Martin L. Davev left office.!
Six Persons Injured
In Nearby Maryland
Automobile Crashes
Upper Marlboro Attorney
In Serious Condition
At Providence
One motorist was injured seriously
and five other persons received slight
injuries in multiple car collisions
in nearby Maryland last night.
Robert Henry Robinson. Upper
Marlboro attorney employed in the
Prince Georges County Land Rec
ords Office, was in serious condition
at Providence Hospital with injuries
received when his car collided head
on with another automobile near
Suitland, Md.
Mr. Robinson possibly received a
fractured skull, a cerebral concus
sion and internal injuries.
Mr. and Mrs. Mason L. Love of
Route 4. Anacostia, D. C.. occupants
of the other car. were reported by
State Policemen Joseph N. Ford and
Donald Graham to have been treat
ed for less severe injuries by a physi
cian and allowed to return home.
Mr. Love is said to have suffered a
fractured breastbone and lacera
tions and Mrs. Love had severe
lacerations on the head.
rog Blamed ror Collision.
Fog last night was blamed for a
three-car collision on the Lanham
Severn road in Prince Georges
County, Md.. in which two men and
one woman received slight injuries.
Man' K. Stevens, 28, a nurse at
the Children's Sanatorium. Glenn
Dale, Md., and John A. Somers, 23,
of Laurel, Md , who police said were
drivers of two of the cars involved
in the smash-up, received lacera
tions of the face and body.
George J. Somers, 42. of Laurel, a
passenger in one of the cars, also
received lacerations of the face. Mar
vin Peddicord, 22, of Glenn Dale,
Md.. identified as the driver of the
third car, was not injured. All the
injured persons were treated by a
Glenn Dale physician.
Police said Miss Stevens. Mr. John
Somers and Mr. Peddicord all were
charged with reckless driving, and
in addition, Miss Stevens was
charged with operating an automo
bile with expired District tags, and
Mr. Somers with operating with an
expired operator’s license.
Held After Collision.
Melvin Justin. 22, of Burtonsville.
Md.. was being held under $1,000
bond, or $274 collateral, by Prince
Georges County (Md.) police after
he is said to have attempted to
escape after his car was in collision
with another automobile on Arundel
street in Hyattsville last night.
Police said Justin's car ran into
a pole at Arundel and Garfield
streets after striking a car driven
by Martin A. Ruddy of 830 Balti
more boulevard. Riverdale. Justin
possibly received a broken npse and
lacerations of the face.
Streptococcus Fatal
To Father Toomey
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 4— A three
months’ fight against streptococcus
viridans, a rare blood infection, end
ed in death today for the Rev. Jere
miah Toomey. 41. professor of moral;
at Dunwoodie Seminary, Yonkers.
N. Y.
The Jesuit priest died following a
long series of blood transfusion'
More than 1.000 persons in all part^
of the country answered a radio
and police teletype appeal for blood
donors.
Father Toomey's physician. Dr
Harold X. Connolly, said only ono
person in 100 recovers from the
disease.
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