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Germany Is Willing
Tg 'Respect' British
Empire, Nazi Writes
Colonies and Free Hand
-In Europe Declared
“Hitler's Terms
■**
“ By WALLACE R. DEUEL.
Chics co EUlly News Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN. July 22.—-Wnat purports
tq;be a glimpse of four of the terms
on which Germany is ready to make
peace with England is provided by
the Frankfurter Zeitung in a front
page article today by its able editor,
Dr*. Rudolph Kircher.
The four terms, as summed up by
Dr. Kircher. are as follows:
1. The Reich to get back “its
colonies.”
2. Italy's "national demands” to be
satisfied.
8, England's “unholy influence on
the continent” of Europe to be
eliminated.
4. On the other hand, “this
people Uhe English), its legally ac
quired possessions and its ' func
tions in the world should be re
spected."
Dr. Kircher does not undertake
to explain these terms. Other infor
mation available here, however, pro
vides some indication of how they
might be met. In the colonial re
adjustment which Germany de
mands, for example, the Reich
might be willing to accept an ar
rangement by. which it receives the
equivalent of its pre-World War
colonies, rather than precisely the
very same areas. It should be em
phasized. at the same time, that
this is the absolute and irreducible
minimum of colonial readjustments
which Germany would be willing to
consider, and that the Reich's de
mands might be much greater.
Illegal Acquisition Charge.
Point 4 is particularly vague be
cause at one time or another Nazi
spokesmen have charged that virtu
ally all of England's possessions
without exception have been illegal
ly acquired.
Dr. Kircher does not pretend, fur
thermore, to be speaking with the
authority of the Retch, and the
terms which he outlines would, in
any event, constitute only the be
ginning of any peace settlement
w-hich Hitler would be likely to con
sider at this time.
There are two principal obstacles
to the conclusion of peace now, Dr.
Kircher writes—the British ruling
class, “from (Prime Minister)
Churchill to (Lord Privy Seal) Att
lee. from the conservatives to the
labor politicians.”' and President j
Roosevelt.
Without saying so openly. Dr.
Kirchner seems to imply that if the
British ruling class should be driven
from power, and a new regime set
up. this could be arranged relatively
easily. He intimates this should be
more than possible, and that the
Reich would heartily welcome such
a development.
Writing of what he says is Presi
dent Roosevelt's share in the re
sponsibility for the war and its con
tinuation, Dr. Kirchner says most i
Americans are not aware of just how
great the President's “guilt'' is.
Probe of Roosevelt Expected.
“We do not doubt, however," the
writer goes on, "that in the coming
months before the presidential elec
tion, the role of Roosevelt, his ad- |
ministrators and his ambassadors. |
with Mr. (William C.i Bullitt at 1
the head, will be more carefully in
vestigated by his opponents. Nor
do we doubt that the material for
such a study will be lacking."
Dr. Kircher's article is the only
open indication afforded thus far of
any of the terms on which
Hitler might be ready to'
make peace with England, and
it should be repeated that Dr.
Kircher holds no special warrant
enabling him to speak for the Reich
government. There is, however,
reason for taking seriously his as
surance—echoing Hitler's own—that
the chancellor does not wish to de
stroy the whole British Empire.
For quite apart from idealistic j
considerations, which may or may ;
not appear as they would in London,
there are extremely practical rea
sons for Hitler's not wanting to de
stroy the British Empire. Above all,
if the "real war" against England is |
launched and the far-flung empire,1
deprived of its nerve center, its!
heart and its pocketbook, breaks up,
Who will profit by this breakup?
Others to Benefit.
Whoever can get first to the pieces
of property left lying around loose,
presumably. And who will that be?
The United States in the Western
Hemisphere, probably Japan in the
Far East, Russia in the Middle East
and possibly Italy in the Near East
and North Africa. Germany, at
any rate, might, having won the
war against England, be left with
precious little to show for it and
with the non-European world cer
tainly no better a place for the
Reich to live in than it was be
fore.
Germany is hardly in a position
now to take over any considerable
share of the overseas British em
pire, even if It wished to do so. Until
Germany may be in such a posi
tion, there are iughlv practical, as
well as sentimental, reasons for
wishing to refrain from shaking the
overseas portions of the empire loose
from England itself, which a mili
tary defeat of England would be
liable to have the result of doing.
(Copyright, 1940, Chicago Daily Newi, Inc.)
Nazi Economist Expects
No Reparations for War
NEW YORK. July 22 UP) (Via Ra
dio).—The German radio yesterday
quoted an article by Dr. Joseph
Winschuh, German economist, pre
dicting that the victors in the pres
ent war would impose no reparations
in gold or manufactured goods from
the vanquished.
Instead, the economist was quoted
as saying Germany would have re
stored “what it was robbed of” in
raw- materials and valuable rights.
The broadcast quoted from an,
aricle by Dr. Winschuh entitled
"Looking Backward From the Year
2000.”
It said that again, as in the
World War, the United States was
thought to be the “greatest profi
teer" and gathered almost all the
world's gold, until gold came to be
valueless outside the United States
and the European economic ex
change system won over the trade
of -flouth America. Finally, the
Unlied Sates, finding no other use
for Us vast gold reserves, used its
gold to decorate public buildings
and street lamps.
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WASHINGTONIANS AMONG THE INDIANS—Some of the leaders of the Commissioners’ West
ern party were Inducted into the Blackfeet Indian Tride at Glacier National Park. Shown here
(left to right) are Mrs. Chief Bull, William King, named Bear Walker; Thomas P. Morgan, jr.,
named Eagle Head; Chief Wades in Water, Commissioner David McCoach, jr., named Big Lake;
Chief Bull Child, George H. O’Connor, named Big Tiger; Chief Winged Feather and Flying Higher.
Three Baltic States
Petition Moscow for
Union With Soviet
Parliaments Speed Plans
For Property Control
On Russian Lines
By the Associated Press.
RIGA, Latvia, July 22.—Commu
nist Parliaments of Estonia, Lat
via and Lithuania speeded plans
today for state control of property,
industry and banks after voting to
petition Moscow for membership in
the Soviet Union.
Approval of the petitions, with
which delegates were expected to
depart for Moscow later in the day.
was regarded as a foregone con
clusion and the union was accepted
as an already accomplished fact, j
Festive crowds danced and pa
raded in the streets of Riga and
dispatches from the Estonian and
Lithuanian capitals of Tallinn and
Kaunas told of similar celebrations
there.
Incorporation of the three little
Baltic? states into the Soviet Union
was foreshadowed last week end at
parliamentary elections in which
Communist candidates were unop
posed.
Actually the three sister repub
lics have been under Moscow’s
thumb since last fall when Rus-;
sia demanded and obtained mili-j
tary bases *nd other concessions i
from them prior to the beginning'
of the Russian-Finnish war No
vember 30.
Russian domination was complet- :
ed June 17 when the Red Army
staged a bloodless invasion after
demanding the right of passage
through the three countries.
Absorption of the states into the
Soviet Union will eliminate them
as buffers between Russia and Ger
many in the Baltic Sea.
Simultaneous Action.
The decision to unite with Russia
was taken by the three parliaments
at simultaneous meetings yesterday
afternoon in halls decorated with |
Red flags and portraits of Josef
Stalin. Russian representatives at
tended the sessions.
Cries of “Long live Stalin” rang
through the halls as the parlia
mentarians voted to Join their coun
tries again to the nation from which
they won independence only 22
years ago.
The three nations have a total area
of 65.243 square miles and an aggie
gate population of about 5,500.000.
divided as follows: Lithuania. 2.500,
000; Latvia, 1,900.000, and Estonia,
1,100,000.
The Stockholm newspaper Stock
holm Tidningen said in a dispatch
from Riga that German, Austrian
and Jewish political refugees would
be given an opportunity to acquire
immediate Latvian citizenship by
placing themselves at the disposal
of the Soviet and indicating their
willingness to join the Red Army
at a meeting today.
From Helsinki came reports that
a small number of Estonians had
fled to Finland rather than remain
in a Sovietized state.
The Russian press printed ac
counts of jubilation with which citi
zens of Latvia, Estonia and Lith
uania greeted the action of their
parliaments. Representatives of the
three nations watched the annual
Red Square sports parade in Mos
cow. in which 30.000 athletes and
units of the Red Army participated.
Supreme Soviet Expected
To Approve Requests
MOSCOW, July 22 ISP).—An early
session of the Supreme Soviet, Rus
sia’s Parliament, is expected to
approve the requests of Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia for mem
bership in the Soviet Union.
The addition of the three states
will increase Russia's Baltic Sea
front, as well as her land frontier
with Germany. Their 5.500,000 in
habitants will boost the Soviet pop
ulation to around 190,000.000.
With the three Baltic states
members of the Soviet family the
number of independent allied re
public in the Soviet Union will be
increased to 15, compared to 11 a
year ago. A 16th, the Moldavian
Republic created from Bessarabia
and Northern Bucovina ceded by
Rumania, is expected soon to be
formally proclaimed.
The first of the newly added ter
ritory was the Karelian-Finnish
Republic, carved.out of the area
obtained from Finland.
Congress in Brief
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will be in recess.
Military Affairs Committee may
hold executive session on selective
military service bill.
House:
Considers private calendar.
Appropriations Subcommittee re
sumes hearings on national defense
program, 10 am.
Text of Roosevelt Message
President Asks $500,000,000 Increase '
In Export-Import Bank Capital
This is the text of President
Roosevelt's message to Congress
asking for $500,000,000 increase in
the capital and lending power of
the Export-Import Bank:
To the Congress of the United
States:
As a result of the war in Eu
rope, far-reaching changes in
world affairs have occurred which
necessarily have repercussions on
the economic life both of the
United States and of the other
American republics.
All American republics in some
degree make a practice of selling,
and should sell, surplus products
to other parts of the world, and
we in the United States export
many items that are also export
ed by other countries of the
Western Hemisphere.
The course of the wrar, the re
sultant blockades and counter
blockades, and the inevitable dis
organization, is preventing the
flow of these surplus products to
their normal markets. Neces
sarily this has caused distress in
various parts of the New World,
and will continue to cause dis
tress until foreign trade can be
resumed on a normal basis, and
the seller of these surpluses is
in a position to protect himself
in disposing of his products.
Until liberal commercial poli
cies are restored and fair trad
ing on a commercial plane Is re
opened, distress may be con
tinued.
Asks Easing of Restrictions.
I therefore request that the
Congress give prompt considera
tion to increasing the capital
and lending power of the Export
Import Bank of Washington by
$500,000,000, and removing some
of the restrictions on its opera
tions to the end that the bank
may be of greater assistance to
our neighbors south of the Rio
Grande, including financing the
handling and orderly marketing
of some part of their surpluses.
It is to be hoped that before
another year world trade can be
re-established, but, pending this
adjustment, we in the United
States should join with the peo
ples of the other republics of the
Western Hemisphere in meeting
their problems. I call the atten
tion of Congress to the fact that
by helping our neighbors we will
be helping ourselves.
In Interests of All.
It is in the interests of the pro
ducers of our country, as well as
in the interests of producers of
other American countries, that
there shall not be a disorganized
or cutthroat market in those
commodities which we all ex
port.
No sensible person would ad
vocate an attempt to prevent the
normal exchange of commodities
between other continents and the
Americas, but what can and
should be done is to prevent ex
cessive fluctuations caused by
distressed selling resulting from
temporary interruption in the
flow of trade, or the fact that
there has not yet been re-estab
lished a system of free exchange.
Unless exporting countries are
able to assist their nationals, they
will be forced to bargain as best
they can.
As has heretofore been made
clear to the Congress, the Export
Import Bank is operated by direc
tors representing the Departments
of State, Treasury, Agriculture
and Commerce, and the Recon
struction Finance Corp.. and is
under the supervision of the Fed
eral loan administrator, so that
all interested branches of our
Government participate in ant
loans that .are authorized, and
the directors of the bank should
have a free hand as to the pur
poses for which loans are author
ized and the terms and condi
tions upon w-hich they are made.
I therefore request passage of
appropriate legislation to this end.
Nine More Merchants
In Alexandria Face
Sunday Law Hearing
Charges of Violations
To Be Heard Tomorrow
In Police Court
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va„ July 22.—
Nine more local merchants have
been summoned by Inspector Thorn
ton J. Goods of the State Labor
Department to appear at Police
Court tomorrow on charges of vio
lating the State’s Sunday "blue law.”
Eight merchants were summoned
a week ago. Two were found guilty
and decision on six other cases was
reserved until July 30.
The State law, with certain ex
ceptions, limits sales to “necessi
ties.” —
Those summoned to appear to
morrow and their businesses are
Gus Kutrotsos of the 400 block of
King street, shoe shining and hat
cleaning establishment; Mrs. Ida
Goldberg, 1600 block of Mount Ver
non avenue, delicatessen; T. R.
Brown, 3900 block of Mount Vernon
avenue, bakery; George A. Emmart,
3900 block Mount Vernon avenue,
drugstore; S. Guy Duncan, service
station at Henry and Cameron
streets; D. D. Squires. 700 block of
North Washington street, service
station; James Worley, auto laun
dry at 800 block of Gibbon street;
C. A. Harris, drugstore; D. E. Vozo
las, 700 block of King street, valet
service.
Service station operators were re
ported to have been accused of
washing automobiles.
Mr. Goods warned last week that
church organizations and private
citizens had made complaints. He
said the law would be enforced if
upheld in the first test cases in
Latvia's Former
Chief Reported
Gravely Wounded
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 22.—An Exchange
Telegraph (British news agency)
report from Goteborg quoted Swed
ish sources today as saying that
Karl Uimanis, former President of
Latvia, was gravely wounded and
in a hospital at Riga.
Before transforming Latvia into
a socialist republic and petitioning
for membership in the Soviet Union
the country's new Communist rulers
decreed the ouster last week of 62
year-old Uimanis. who helped write
the Latvian declaration of inde
pendence in 1918.
D. C. Pastor Addresses
Church Summer School
FREDERICK, Md., July 22.—The
Rev. Oscar F. Backwelder of Wash
ington addressed the fifth annual
summer school of the Maryland
Synod, United Lutheran Church,
here today.
The school, which opened Satur
day, will close Friday. A religious
drama was presented at Hood Col
lege last night for visiting church
members.
A sunset service will be held to
morrow at High Knob in Gambrill
State Park.
Police Court In recent years the
law has not been enforced here.
Establishments classified as "com
munity necessities" are generally
regarded as including restaurants
and drug stores. Filling stations
also are specifically exempted in the
State law.
Thirteen grocers who had been
operating on a seven-day-week basis
announced Saturday they would
close on Sundays.
Relatives Find Amnesia Victim,
Missing for Twelve Years
By the Associated Press.
ELKTON, Md„ July 22.—Richard
A. Walmsley, former assistant treas
urer of the Colonial Trust Co. in
Baltimore who disappeared in 1928,
came home last night, an apparent
victim of amnesia.
Mr. Walmsley left the trust com
pany at the close of business June
11,1928, and vanished. His accounts
were in perfect order.
Shortly afterward, his father, A.
B. Walmsley, resigned his position
as assistant general freight agent
of the Erie Railroad and spent a
small fortune traveling across the
country in search of his son. Three
years ago, the elder Mr. Walmsley
died.
*
Relatives said they learned July 2
that a man answering Mr. Walms
ley’s description had been working
in Raleigh, N. C., for the last eight
years under the name of Russell
Walker. Mr. Walker’s employer vis
ited here and established the defi
nite identification.
Last night, Mr. Walmsley saw his
mother for the first time in 12
years. Relatives said his memory
had not fully returned, but that
he was convinced his name was
Walmsley , and that he formerly
worked for the Baltimore bank.
He said he vaguely recalled spend
ing “several years’’ on a boat, but
could not remember details. He was
23 at the time of his disappearance.
Bullitt Says French
Relations With U. S.
Remain Unchanged
Envoy, Roosevelt Guest
At Hyde Park, Begins
Report on Conquest
By th* Associated Press.
HYDE PARK. N. Y„ July 22 —
Ambassador William C. Bullitt, who
is giving President Roosevelt a le
port on what has happened to
France, asserted today that the re
lationship of the American Gov
ernment to the new Petain govern
ment was ‘‘exactly the same" as to
the former French regime.
He said no question of American
recognition of the government es
tablished by Marshal Petain had
arisen because "we never had broken
off relations.”
The diplomat, a guest at the Pres
ident's home here, returned from
Europe Saturday and began his re
port to the Chief Executive in Wash
ington last night.
Surface Just Scratched.
"There’s an awful lot to talk
about,” he told reporters. “We just
began to scratch the surface last
night.”
Mr. Bullitt aasserted, too, that he
had heard no mention of any pos
sibility that the United States might
recognize the French committee of
exiles formed in England after
France's capitulation to Germany.
He said he had not discussed it with
the President. -
Talking with reporters at the
temporary White House, the envoy
said Robert Murphy, American
charge d affaires in France in his
absence, was located at Vichy, the
seat of the Petain government, with ,
a staff of about 20.
Describing the difficulties of op
erating from Vichy, a resort town
with a normal population of 17,000.
Mr. Bullitt said he had sent the
President three weeks ago a long
and "extremely important message”
and that Mr. Roosevelt had informed
him that three sections of it never
had been delivered.
Messages Delayed or Garbled.
He said, also, that it took three
weeks for a message to reach him
in France. With only four teleg
raphers in Vichy to handle the
communications of the entire French
government and press corps, Mr.
Bullitt said, many messages were
delayed or came through in garbled
form.
In response to a question, the Am
bassador said he had not discussed
the question of whether he would
return soon to his duties in France.
Mr. Bullitt said he could not un- I
derstand why French assets in the
United States had been frozen, but
that he assumed it was on the |
same basis as in the cases of other :
nations occupied by Germany and
would not affect Franco-American \
relations.
He called the refugee problem
“very tragic,” and said 10.500.000
Dutch and Belgian refugees were in i
the unoccupied portion of the
country.
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bullitt j
talked for several hours at the
White House last night.
The Embassy still has a force of
120 in Paris to look after American I
interests and handle diplomatic ,
business for various other nations.
Another group is at Turin, where
the French government was tem
porarily situated.
President to Attend Funeral.
Before departing for Hyde Park
last night, Mr. Roosevelt received
word of the death yesterday of his
92-year-old aunt. Mrs. Dora Delano
Forbes, at Balmville. N. Y.
Mr. Roosevelt will drive to Balm
ville this afternoon to attend the
funeral. The President's wife and
his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano
Roosevelt, sister of Mrs. Forbes, will
accompany him.
Barring unforeseen international
developments, Mr. Roosevelt expect
ed to stay at Hyde Park through the
middle of the week, returning to
Washington Thursday to greet the
refugee royal family of Luxembourg.
Oliveri, D. C. Entrant,
Cards 75 in Public Links
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. July 22—Par defied
the early finishers today as the
36-hole, two-dav qualifying round
of the 19th annual national public
links championship opened at the
Rackliam municipal golf course here.
Scores were in the low 70s for the
most part, and 5 of the first 21 men
to finish reported 72s, one over
regulation figures.
The 72 shooters included Jimmy
Johnson, Detroit; Walter Gilliam,
San Mateo, Calif.; Lester Jankoski,
Summit, N. J.; Billy Korns, Salt
Lake City, and Jack London, jr„ of
Oklahoma City. Andrew J. Oliveri
of Washington had a 75.
Latvian Envoy Refuses
To Surrender Legation
Alfred Bilmanis, the scholarly
Minister of Latvia, today joined
Washington’s group of diplomats
without countries. He announced
he would refuse to surrender his
legation although his homeland has
voted to join the U. S. S. R.
Dr. Bilmanis told newspaper men
he considered the absorption of the
three Baltic states—Latvia, Estonia
and Lithuania—into the Russian
Union a case of ‘‘unprovoked ag
gression.” He said he would ask
the State Department for continued
recognition of his status as Latvian
Minister.
If his request is granted, he would
join the Ambassadors and Ministers
of Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Nor
way, Denmark, Belgium and the
Netherlands as diplomats repre
senting countries that exist no more.
The Minister of Lithuania, Povilas
Zadeikis, withheld comment. Estonia
is represented in the United States
by Johannes Kaiv, acting consul
general, whose headquarters are in
New York City.
Resolution on Soviet
'Agreement' Rejected
By the Associated Press.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee today rejected a resolution
by Representative Fish, Republican,
of New York calling on President
Roosevelt to inform the House
whether there was any secret agree
ment between the United States and
Soviet Russia.
Committee action followed a letter
from Secretary of State Hull saying
this Nation had no secret under
standing with Russia.
Court Holds Judge Can Change
Sentence Before Term Is Begun
A judge can change a sentence,
making it more severe, if he alters
the record before the prisoner has
left the courthouse,' the United
States Court of Appeals here held,
in effect, today.
The case arose when Frank M.
Rowley, who pleaded guilty on May
3, 1938, to' two indictments on dif
ferent charges of procuring mis
carriage, was sentenced to.one year
to 18 months on each indictment,
to run concurrently.
Half an hour later, after the man
had been held in an elevator block
at the courthouse, the justice who
had sentenced him recalled him and
said: “I intended to say consecu
tively. Change that (sentence) to
consecutively.”
Rowley went to Lorton Reforma
tory, where last Thursday he com
pleted j serving the time equal to
the concurrent sentences and
sought release by habeas corpus,
contending he had begun to serve
the sentence before the correction
was made by the trial justice and
therefore, since it increased the pen
Tax Experts Draft
Bill Designed to Ban
'War Millionaires'
Defense Problems May
Prolong Congress Session
For Many Weeks
By tbe Associated Press.
Administration tax experts brought
out today the first rough draft of a
bill to “prevent war millionaires.” ,
It was an “excess profits” tax, to
be levied on surplus revenue. Treas- 1
ury and congressional workers indi- j
cated the measure of "surplus” |
would be either “normal earnings” or 1
“reasonable return on capital in
vestment,” depending on the indi
vidual case.
President Roosevelt last spring
urged some measure to forestall en
richment of manufacturers who1
would get huge contracts to build 1
airplanes and other weapons for the
Army and Navy.
One of the major question marks
on the bill was whether it would
supplement or repeal the new 7
per cent profit limitation on Gov
ernment airplane and warship con
tracts. Indications were that it
would replace existing legislation.
Details Withheld.
Pending study by the House Ways
and Means Committee, for which
the draft was made, experts de
clined to discuss the measure's con
tents in detail.
The experts pointed out that the
excess profits taxes tried during the
World War and for a while after
ward were based either on "normal
earnings" alone or on "reasonable
return." Neither method was found
fair in all cases.
The rates to be charged have not
yet been determined. One informed
source said that rates would depend j
on “how much mc*iey they want
to raise.”
The Treasury, which considers
the excess profits tax one of the
most complex drafting jobs ever
tackled in a single tax bill, has
called in two outside experts to help
its already large staff. They are
Randolph Paul, a private tax lawyer j
of New York, and Roswell Magill.I
former Treasury Undersecretary
now teaching law at Columbia Uni
versity.
Expert Gives General Idea.
One expert gave this general idea
of how the tax will work:
Company "A” has averaged $100 - !
000 profits in a certain period of i
"normal earnings” (probably a pe- j
riod of three or more years prior
to 1939). Next year, it earns $200,- i
000. It pays the regular income and
other taxes. In addition, it pays a
tax on its extra or "excess” profits
over the $100,000 "normal” profit,
with some minor exceptions. That
may leave, for instance, $75,000 sub
ject to the excess profits tax. The
tax on this portion, judging by what
was tried in 1917, would be between
20 and 60 per cent.
Company "B” has an investment
of $1,000,000 in factories, ware
houses and equipment. In this case,
the “return on capital investment”
theory might apply. A 1918 law
that tried this theory allowed profits
equal to 8 per cent of investment,
or $80,000. The excess profits tax
applied to all money earned over
that figure. The rates ranged from
30 to 65 per cent.
Girl Held in Shooting
Of Father at Cottage
By the Associated Press.
CHESTERTOWN, Md„ July 22 -
Sheriff Robert E. Lee today quoted
15-year-old Elvira Esling of Balti
more as saying she shot her father
at a summer cottage near Rock
Hall last night after he became
abusive and “threw the dinner on
the floor."
The father, John E. Esling, 50
year-old tinsmith, was brought to
the Kent-Queen Anne s Hospital last
night with a bullet wound in the
abdomen. Hospital attaches de
scribed his condition as “good.”
Placed in custody of the sheriff s
wife, Elvira sat tight-lipped and pale
today, refused to answer questions
and declined to amplify her first
statement to officers.
State's Attorney Harrison W.
Vickers said no charge had been
placed against her pending the out
come of her father's wound.
Eskimos Given
All Reindeer in
Alaska by U. S.
Trouble over reindeer in Alaska,
which has caused hard feeling be
tween Eskimos and white settlers
almost ever since the animals were
introduced from Sibera in 1892, has
been ended by the Department of
Interior.
The Office of Indian Affairs has
counted all the deer and for $795,
000 bought them up from white
owners to distribute among the na
tives.
The reindeer census was taken by
ski-equipped airplane and by dog
team treks over tundra, where ma
rauding wolves are increasing so
rapidly that the deer population is
in peril. The Eskimo system of
herding is expected to protect them.
It turned out that 82,500 reindeer
were located and granted to a na
tive population of 18,000,
alty, the amended sentence placed
him twice In jeopardy for the same
(second) offense. He claimer fur
ther the elevator was a place of
detention within the meaning of the
law.
United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran and Assistant United
States Attorney Arthur B. Cald
well conceded that if Rowley had
begun to serve the sentences, as
originally pronounced, it was beyond
the court’s power to make the
amendment. But they said his
place of confinement had not yet
been determined.
District Court discharged the
writ of. habeas corpus and remand
ed Rowley to servte out the rest of
the second sentence and today the
appellate tribunal, to which Rowley
took the ease, found no error in the
lower court’s finding and affirmed
its ruling.
The case was heard in the United
States Court of Appeals by Asso
ciate Justices Harold M. Stephens,
Justin Miller and Wiley Rutledge.
Justice Rutledge wrote the opinion,
in which the others joined.
D. C. Delegation
Back From Jaunt
To Coast Fair
The Commissioners’ special train
of Washingtonians came out of the
West yesterday bringing tales of In
dian chiefs, movie stars and hos
pitable Mayors.
In almost every city they visited,
members of the party related, they
were met by the Mayor and shown
about the city. Superintendents in
each of the ntaional parks they
visited also took them on tours of
inspection.
On their three-week trip, they
went to Yosemite and Glacier Na
tional Parks and the South Rim of
the Grand Canyon: inspected Bon
neville Dam: were carried on a tour
of the Los Angeles Harbor; lunched
with movie stars, and, of course,
visited what they crossed the con
tinent to see, the San Francisco
Exposition.
Staying overnight in Seattle, some
of the travelers, including Commis
sioner and Mrs. David McCoach, jr.,
visited Victoria, in British Columbia!
while others used the time to see
Mount Rainier National Park.
Among the cities they visited were
Santa Fe. Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco. Portland, Minneapolis and St.
Paul.
McCarran Is Converted
To 'Home Rule' for D. C.
Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada, said today his experience
in handling District nomiantions on
Senate committees had made him a
convert to the movement for “some
sort of home rule for the people
of the District."
Commenting on the action of the
Democratic convention in recom
mending suffrage for the residents of
Washington, the Nevada Senator
said he told the platform drafters
at Chicago that his recent service
on subcommittees in charge of the
nofftmations of Juvenile Court Judge
Fay L. Bentley and Public Utilitv
Commissioner Riley Eigen had con
vinced him Congress is not in a posi
tion to pass on these local questions.
The Eigen reappointment has been
confirmed by the Senate, but the
nomination of Judge Bentley is still
awaiting subcommittee action. Sen
ator McCarran said he was awaiting
the return of other members of the
Bentley subcommittee.
Pressman Found Dead
In Gas-Filled Kitchen
Ralph S. Wirsching. 53, a press
man employed in the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving, was found
dead last night in the gas-filled
kitchen of his home, 3934 Twenty
ninth street. Mount Rainier, Md.
Relatives said he had been des
pondent over the death of his wife.
Mrs. Mary Alberta Wirsching, a
month ago.
He is survived by two sons. Stan
ley and Jack W'irsching, both of
Mount Rainier. A native of Ohio,
he had lived in or near Washington
for 29 years.
Annenberg Gives Up
To Start Term for
Tax Evasion
Publisher Must Serve
ThVee-Year Sentence
At Lewisburg Prison
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 22—M. L. An
nenberg surrendered to the United
States marshal today to begin e tri?
to the Federal penitentiary at Lew
burg, Pa., where he must serve a
three-year term for evasion of in
come taxes.
Chief Deputy Marshal Joseph 7V
bln said Annenberg appeared at th»
Loop office of his chief counsel,
Weymouth Kirkland, and that the
marshal's office was advised by tele
phone.
Marshall William H. McDonnell
went to the lawyer’s office and
started immediately by automobile
for Lewisburg with his 63-year-old
prisoner, who once ruled the turf
news field as one of the Nation's
wealthiest men.
The marshal said he and Deputy
Joseph Thinnes would drive the 270
miles to Lewisburg in McDonnell's
coupe. The commitment papers had
been prepared and waiting.
Spent Week End With Family.
Annenberg, Philadelphia publish
er, thus began paying in time his
debt to Uncle Sam for criminal vio
lation of the income tax laws. He
also has paid $800,000 as first in
stallment on an $8,000,000 settle
ment he agreed to make on civil
income tax claims.
Annenberg spent the week end
with his family in Philadelphia,
then surrendered on the day his
stay of execution expired. He was
sentenced July 1 by Federal Judge
James H. Wllkerson who later
denied him probation.
Mr. Kirkland said he understood
the marshal would take Annenberg
to the Federal prison farm at Milan.
Mich., by tonight and proceed on to
Lewisburg tomorrpw.
Meanwhile, United States Attor
ney William J. Campbell said he
would move in court today or to
morrow to dismiss remaining
charges against Annenberg and
Joseph E. Hafner. bookkeeper for
the Annenberg corporate setup.
Other Charges to Be Dropped.
Hafner pleaded guilty to aiding
and abetting Annenberg in the tax
evasion and was sentenced to five
months in the Cook County (Chi
cago) Jaii, a term he was due to
begin today.
Mr. Campbell said he also would
move to dismiss charges against
14 individuals and companies as
sociated with Annenberg. The
Government agreed to such dismis
sals when Annenberg decided to
plead guilty in April to a charge
of evading $1,217,296 in taxes on
his 1936 income. That was one
count of a six-count indictment
which accused him of failing to pav
taxes, penalties and interest total
ing $5,548,384 for the rears 1932 to
1936.
Among those to be dismissed was
Annenberg's only son, Walter.
Helen Jacobs Forced Out
Of Tourney by Injury
B' thr Associated Press.
SEA BRIGHT. N. J.. July 22—A
shoulder injury today forced former
National Champion Helen Jacobs of
Berkeley, Calif., to default In the
opening round of the 53d annual
invitation tennis tourney of the
Sea Bright Lawn Tennis and Cricket
Club.
Patricia C. Cumming, Westfield.
N. J.. advanced to the second round
as a result of the withdrawal of
the second-seeded American player.
Hope Knowles, Philadelphia, was
the first player actually to win her
way into the second round as she
blasted Mme. Sylvia Henroting of
France out of the competition, 6—3.
6—4.
British Raw Material
Position Seen Improved
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 22.—An authorita
tive parliamentary source said to
day the British cabinet has decided
that improvement in Britain's raw
material position warrants restora
tion of full allocation of raw mate
rials for exports.
Restriction of home consumption
is “necessary to maintain these ex
ports." the source said.
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau >
District of Columbia—Generally fair and continued warm tonight
and tomorrow; gentle winds mostly northwest gnt
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia—Generally fair and rnntim.ed
tomorrow'iafternoont°rn0rrOW *°r Widely scattered thundershowers
Pressure Is high over the Southeastern
States and relatively high over New Eng
land and the north Pacific Coast. Chatta
nooga. Tenn 1.023.0 millibars (30.21
Inches), and Eastport. Me., and Tatoosh
Island Wash., 1.017.3 millibars <30.04
inches). Pressure remains low over the
Southwestern States and the Plateau re
gion and a minor dusturbance is moving
slowly eastward over Montana. Yuma.
J I;'■«"it-5 milllbtrs <20.75 inchest and
Bjntnis. Mont.. 1.018.8 millibars <20.85
inches). There have been scattered show
ers and thunderstorms in the Dakotas and
^^ N£* Ehklknd and the
Southern States Temperatures continue
United "stiteJ •lmost genergUy over the
Report for Last 21 Hours.
u.ii.rH.. Temperature. Barometer.
8 I Degrees. Inches.
4 p m- 00 30.04
£ P.m. - £9 39 i o
8und2;i,-ht - 80 3011
1 5:5::::::::::::: & 38-?}
Noon - #2 30.00
2 p.m- 04 30.00
4 Pm- 90 29.98
£ P.m. . __ £7 an 00
To12ymidnliht_ 82 30:<>3
4 am- 80 30.03
8 a m- 85 30.08
Noon - 92 30.04
Record for Last 2t Hours.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 96. 4 p.m. yesterday. Year
®£0, 71.
Lowest, 78, 5:15 a.m. today. Year
l|0. n*;.
Record Temperature! This Tear.
Highest. 97. on July 20
Lowest. 7. on January 29.
Humidity for Last 24 Houra.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 90 per cent, at 3:50 a.m. today.
Lowest. 39 per cent, at 4:30 p.m. yes
terday.
River Repert.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Orest
Falla today.
Tide Tablet.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High _ 9:47 a.m. 10:27 a.m.
Low _ 4:25 a.m. 5:07 a.m.
High _10:13 p.m. 10:55 pm.
Low __ 4:44 p.m. 5:23 p.m.
The Sun and Meon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today- 6:00 7:28
Sun. tomorrow_ 5:01 7:27
Kaon, today_ 9:10 p.m. 8:10 a.m.
Automobile ltghta must bo turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Ca»,L’r*clBlt‘t,°" ln lnchM *" the
caDitai (current month to date):
Janu^rr n Ave. Record
Februarv-HI J'g JAi
March -HI .|f
vft'1 -5 J5 3 27 9.13 -89
Jtina-212 3.79 10 69 -89
•Tulv -2 413 10 04 '00
Alienist-2 <8 «*1 10 03 '80
Severn!,.... 4.01 >4 41 '28
OrtihTrb - -— 3 24 17.45 '34
d2cmhTI - --- 2 37 8 09 '89
December -- 3.32 7.68 '01
Weather in Various Citlei.
_ . Temp Rain
Abjlene .."SSSRi %hJ^- f*U
a&-::M 2? 74 0 05 §S7
Baltimore*!' M ,8? ?jj ~
Birmaham 30.21 92 09 I" cloud?
Bismarck, 30.no 98 64 0.07 Clear
5f.5ft2.-~ 3203 64 0 18 Cloudy
5;';10- 30.08 81 69 0.09 Cloud?
Butte.- 30.03 89 46 _ Clear
Charleston 30.15 94 75 ... Cloud?
Chicago-30.09 96 72 .. Clear
Cincinnati. 30.15 97 71 ... Cloud?
Cleveland. 30.12 93 ’ 73 ... Cloud?
Columbia.. 30.15 75 .. Clear
Davenport. 30.06 95 72 C'ear
Denver.. 30.00 88 .. " clear
Des Moines 30.03 95 71 _ Clear
Detroit... 30.09 95 73 ... CloudT
Huron- 29.97 103 71 0.45 Cloudy
Ind n polls 30.15 92 71 _ Cloudy
Jacksonville 30.18 92 71 Clear
Kansas C. 30.03 91 74 " ci*ar
Los Angeles 29.91 88 52 _ Clear
Louisville . 30.18 95 74 ' Cloude
Miami_30.12 90 78 005 clear
Mplv-St. P 29.97 99 74 _ Cloud?
N. Orleans 30.15 91 79 ” clear7
New York. 30.00 90 74 ' Cloudy
Norfolk . 30.09 96 76 riea?7
Okla. City 30.03 89 73 Cloudy
Omaha_ 30.03 98 73 r ear
Phllad'phla 30.06 98 74 - Rain
Phoenix 29.77 111 si 1“ cloudy
Pittsburgh- 30.12 93 71 013 Cloudy
Portl’d.Me. 30.03 71 58 ClSSdy
Raleigh- 30.12 99 77 _ Clear
St. Louis.. 30.12 90 72 _ Cloudy
S. Lake C. 29.91 96 66 _ Cloudy
San Diego 29.88 74 59 _ Cloudy
S Francisco_ 69 58 _ Cloudy
Seattle ... 30.03 75 56 0.03 Cloudy
Spokane.. 29.97 84 66 ... Cloudy
Tampa .. 30.15 92 76 ... Cl*ar
WASH..D.C. 30.06 96 78 _ Cloudy
FOREIGN STATIONS.
(Noon. Greenwich time, today.)
Temperatures. Weather.
Horta (Fayal). Asorea.. 78 Claud?
(Currant observations.)
Havana. Cuba_ 77 Cloud?
Colon. Canal Zone_ 76 Rsla
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