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Evening star., 1933-04-13
HOME BARRICADED AGAINST HELP
FOR TWIN BABIES SERIOUSLY ILL
Parents, Opposing Tumor Operation for One, Have
Boiling Water as Weapon

105 degrees. Although the symptoms
seemed to indicate no more than a
severe cold the doctor said he could not
be sure until further examination.
This morning he returned with a
policeman and found the door locked
and jammed from the inside with
brace. and all the windows locked and
braced. The parents called out that they
had big pot of water boiling on the
stove and intended to pour it over the
first one to force an entrance.
A neighbor who was in the house
shortly before it was barricaded said
the parents had placed the twin babies
in small room and locked the door,
Doctors who examined Helen Vasco
for the Children's Court reported an
operation was imperative to remove a
malignant tumor underneath an eyelid
which it was feared might reach the
brain and cause death The parents
became terrified when they were told
the operation might necessitate removal
Of the eye
Vasco. a laborer. receives small wage
for part-time work given him by the
local unemployment Rslief AGENCY
Evening star., 1933-04-13
GOER|NG PRAISES
MUSS0L|N| PLAN
Says Il Duce's Proposal Is
Only One That Will Give
Europe Peace.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, April 13-The Mussolini
! four power peace pact, Capt. Hermann
Goering, minister without portfolio in
the German cabinet, told newspaper
men this morning, 'is the only one
which can give Europe necessary peace
for several decades"
He said the pact had been completely
accepted in Germany and he hoped ut
would not be modified by attempts of
other powers, and that the negotiations
would return to II Duce's primitive idea,
which should be fulfilled"
He declared that Chancellor Hitler
already had expressed to the Italian
premier his own appreciation of this
courageous and genial act.'
Capt. Goerlng admitted that his visit
to Rome was official, but said it con-
cerned an intensiflcation Of aerial COM
munication between Italy and Germany
and also his desire to extend an in
vitation to Gen. Italo Balbo, Italian air
minister, to visit Berlin after returning
from a group flight to Chicago. which
he will head. He said Gen. Balbo had
accepted.
Gen. Balbo will head flight of 20
Italian airplanes to the Century of
Progress Exposition in Chicago.)
He voiced IAN affinity in thought and
sentiment existing between Fascism and
national Socialism" and said Chan
cellor Hitler and I advocate cordial
Italo- German collaboration, since be-
tween the two countries exist no diff
ferences worth Mentioning
Capt. Goering expressed satisfaction
''for having heard II Duce say that
Italy and Germany have the same
friends and the same enemies" and
declared that the revolution in Ger
many could not have been accomplished
had not the Fascist example existed.
He affirmed that Germany is no peril
to any nation.
HEDMANr w TIC uAHT cEEAr
Evening star., 1933-04-13
NEW POWER LINES
AT SHOALS FOUGHT
Legislators Told Construc-
ton Would Be a "Sheer
Waste of Money"
BY the Associated Press

Construction of power transmission
lines as provided in the Roosevelt Ten
nessee Valley program was asasiled as
sheer waste of money" in testi-
money before the House Military Com
mittee today by E. A. Yates, vice presi-
dent of the Commonwealth and South
ern Corporation.
Yates, also vice president Of the six
Southern companies of the Common
wealth group, said the power companies
have system of lines ample to alb
sorb all electrical energy produced at
Muscle Shoals or at the Cove Creek
dam which would be constructed by
the Tennessee Valley Authority ere
ated in the administration bill.
He said the six power companies al
ready have surplus capacity of
1000, 900, 900 kilowatt hours year in
excess of the present demand.
The six companies discussed by Yates
included the Tennessee Power Co., Ala
bama Power Co., Georgia Power Co.,
Mississippi Power Co., South Carolina
Power Co.. and the Gulf Power Co. in
Florida.
Will Suggest Changes.
Before Yates began his testimony he
was introduced by w. L. Willkie, presi-
dent OF the Commonwealth and Southern
Corporation. Willkie said he was mot
protesting" the administration plan for
utilizing the Government Muscle Shoals
property to begin vast Tennessee Basin
development, but that his witnesses
would suggest modification.
Yates discussed the formation Of the
six companies, all of which are linked
by transmission lines. He said they
serve 1,678 communities in 10000
square miles, or sc per cent of the area
OF the six States He said the COM
panies have 100000 electric customers.
He said there were 78 municipal power
same area and that SO of them pur-
chased their power from the power
companies. In the last decade, Yates
said, the power companies have pur-
chased 307 municipal operations.
THE average monthly bill to Gus
toners by these municipal operation
was s3.35 for Is kilowatt hours" Yates
testified. Since their acquisition by
the power companies. the same amount
of power has cost S2.22."
$4,000 Miles of Lines.
He said the area was served by $4,000
miles of transmission and distribution
lines.
There is provision in the bill for
transmission line between Muscle
Shoals and Cove Creek" Yates said.
1T is estimated it will cost $6,000,000 to
build The operation of Cove Creek in
coordination with the power company
would obviate entirely the necessity Of
building that line.
I'VE feel there is no need of building
any transmission line. To my mind it
would be sheer waste of money Amy
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1933-04-13
$153,530 R. F. C. LOAN
VOTED TO MARYLAND
Gov. Ritchie's Request for Federal
Assistance to Seven Coun-
ties Approved.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Maryland today received its first al
lotment of emergency relief funds from
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton, $153,530 being voted the Governor
of that State for use in seven counties
during April and May.
At the same time, the corporation
granted $4,000 to Maine for use in
three political subdivisions during
April; Kentucky. $1,51a098 for use
throughout the State during May, and
Ohio, $290,718 for use in 10 political
subdivisions.
The loan to Maryland marked the
first application from Gov. Ritchie for
Federal assistance. The corporation
announcement did not give the names
of the counties involved nor did 1t go
into details other than to say that the
Governor had certified that funds avail
able were insufficient to meet relief
needs.
Evening star., 1933-04-13
First Lady Slides
Into Mud as Horse
Stumbles in Park
Escapes Injury in Early
Morning Accident Near
Lincoln Memorial.

When her horse stumbled in West
Potomac Park early today, Mrs. Roose-
velt slid off into a mud puddle, but
escaped injury. The incident occurred
during a ride with two friends before
breakfast, on the bride path between
the Lincoln Memorial and the pole
grounds
Mrs. Roosevelt treated it very lightly
when she returned to the White House
Il fell off very gracefully right into
the mud" was the way she described it.
Mrs. Roosevelt was riding Dot" her
favorite mount. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, personal
friend and Miss Marguerite LIE Hand
private secretary to the President, on
her morning canter. They had left
the Riding and Hunt Club on Twenty
second street, where Mrs. Roosevelt
keeps her riding horses, shortly after
7:30 o'clock and were enjoying the
bracing morning air, galloping along
the bride path, when Dot" lost her
footing on the slippery ground. and
before she could regain her stride had
gone down on one knee, thereby causing
Continued on Page 2, Column 1)
Evening star., 1933-04-13
bA|LL|E-STEWART
GETS S5-YEAR TERM
DishonorabIe Discharge From
Army Also Is Ordered
After Court-MartiaI.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, April 13.-Lieut. Norman
Baille- convicted by court mar
tial of violation of the official secrets
act. was sentenced today to dishonor-
able discharge from the army and to
five years penal servitude.
The young officer of the aristocratic
Seaforth highlanders, member of a dis
tinguished military family, was charged
with having sold military secrets to a
foreign nation.
Charged Money Received.
During the court martial the prosecu-
ton charged that he had sold his
country for ESQ or more" receiving the
money in the mail from Otto Waldemar
Obst of Berlin.
His defense was that the money had
come from German girl named Mary
Louise, whom he had met while he was
on leave in Germany. He denied be-
traying secrets of the army.
King Confirms Findings.
The King himself confirmed the
findings of the court, but Baillie-
Stewart will escape the shame of being
"drummed out" of the army, for that
old ceremony of degradation is no
Continued on Page 2 Column %
Evening star., 1933-04-13
ROOSEVELT MESSAGE
PROJECTS 2 BILLIONS
FOR SMALL HOME AID
Text Of Message

The Presidents message to Congress
on refinancing of home mortgages fol
lows in full:
ITO the Congress:
''As a further and urgently neces-
sary step in the program to promote
economic recovery, 1 ask the Con-
gress for legislation to protect small
home owners from foreclosure and
to relieve them of a portion of the
burden of excessive interest and
principal payments incurred during
the period of higher values and
higher earning power.
Implicit in the legisla tton which
I am suggesting to you Is declara-
ton of national policy. This policy
is that the broad interests OF the
Nation require that special fAfs-
guards should be thrown around
home ownership as guarantee of
social and economic stability. and
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1933-04-13
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSONidltN itoo'
HASTINGS, N. Y, April 13.-Mr
and Mrs. John Vasco barricaded their
little house against police today and
threatened to pour boiling water on
any one who attempted to force en-
trance in an effort to bring medical
attendance to the Vasco's twin babies.
The Vascos' trouble with the author
tiles began when a children's society
agent sought to have an operation per-
formed to remove a malignant tumor
from the eye of 2-year-old Helen Vasco.
The parents, recent immigrants, re-
fused to permit the operation and the
matter went to Children's Court, where
Judge George Smythe ordered that 1t be
performed. but stayed his order pending
decision by the appellate division of the
Supreme Court, which was expected to
be rendered today.
Last night Helen's twin, Anna, fell
sick and the parents called police, who
| summoned DR.. Michael Bender. He
found the baby with temperature q
Evening star., 1933-04-13
FARM REF|NANC|NG
MEASURE PASSED
House Approves S2,000,'
100000 Bill as Senate
Nears Price-Fixing Vote.

BY six votes the Senate today
handed the administration its first
defeat, inserting a cost-of -produc-
ton guarantee into the big farm
relief bill
A coalition of Democratic and
Republican independents put it
through in the face of repeatedly
registered administration disap-
proval.
BY the Associated Press.
The administrators $4,000, 900 ,0Ot
farm mortgage ref1nancing bill wa.
/ passed today by the House and sent tt
the Senate, which is considering it a.
an amendment to the general farm re.
lief measure.
The bill was approved after three
days of debate in which opponents. lee
by Representative Boileau, Republican
of Wisconsin unsuccessfully sought tt
have the Frazier imitation bill passed as
a substitute
senate Approaches vote.
While the House was approving the
important mortgage legislation, the
Senate approached vote on strongly
supported amendment to the relief bill
under which farmers would be prom
ised high enough prices to cover theil
cost of production.
This the administration has op-
posed.
The mortgage measure passed by the
House authorizes the Federal lano
banks to issue $2,000,000 OF farm loan
bonds at a maximum interest rate OF 4
per cent
These bonds are TO be used, first. to
exchange for or purchase outstanding
farm mortgages; second, to make new
loans on farm mortgages, and, third
after the expiration of one year, II the
bonds are not required for the first two
purposes, to refinance at lower interest
any outstanding issues of Federal farm
loan bonds.
$50 100000 Is Authorized.
1t also authorizes the land banks for
five years to grant moratoriums to farm
borrowers and $50,000,000 Is authorized
for this purpose.
The interest rate on all outstanding
and new mortgages held by the land
banks is reduced for five years to AZ
per cent and grants a moratorium on
the payment of principal for five years
A total of SIS 100000 is authorized for
this provision.
The maximum limit on loans by the
land bank mortgage loans is increased
from $25, 900 to $50,000.
The land banks are authorized to
make direct loans to farmers where
borrowing facilities are not available.
The Senate set o'clock as the time
for voting on the price-fixing plan
which was written into the Roosevelt
farm relief bill by the Agriculture Com
mittee. Administration leaders said
they were confident they could muster
sufficient strength to reject it.
Would Guarantee Cost.
Advocated by John A. Simpson, presi-
dent of the National Farmers Union
the price-fixing plan would seek to
guarantee the farmer at least the cost
of production on that part OF his crop
going into domestic markets.
Wallace contends the Simpson plan
feature would be difficult to administer
Use of the plan, however, would be
optional, like the other provisions in
cluded in the bill, each designed to
raise the farmers purchasing power.
Evening star., 1933-04-13
ECONOMY THREATENS TO CRIPPLE
DISTRICTS MODEL PENAL SYSTEM
Institutions to Which States Turn for
Guidance Would Be Overcrowded and
Undermanned With Further Cuts.


was adopted as a model by many
States bent on reforming their own
systems. But it will be model sys-
tenn no longer if the House bill is
translated into law.
The system is built on the maximum
possible freedom from restraint and
the occupation of the prisoners time
in useful occupations, designed not
only to keep his hands and mind busy
while he is segregated from the rest
of society, but also to fit him for the
economic struggle which will beset
him as soon as he returns Lorton
is known as the prison without walls.
AS a matter of fact, it has a walled
inclosure, but the name still repre-
sents its spirit. In the walled in
closures 60 the prisoners who will not
- (ContinfIed On page GoItTmn ~
Evening star., 1933-04-13
FORMER HAGERSTOWN
BANKER FOUND SLAIN
York, Pa, Man Is Discovered in
Home With Bullet Wound
in Head.

YORK, Pa, April I'D. ]. Sprecher,
formerly associated with the Hagers-
town Bank g. Trust Co., Hagerstown,
Md, was found dead In his home today
with a bullet wound in his head
His son, Daniel, discovered the body
in the cellar For 18 years Mr.
Sprecher was manager of branch
bank of the Hagerstown Bank & Trust
Co. He came to York two and one-half
years ago and has been operating a
grocery store here
Evening star., 1933-04-13
JAPAN CONTINUES
DRIVE SOUTHWARK
Armies Combined With Manchu-
kuoans, Extend Lines Steadily
Against Strong Chinese Forces.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PEIPING, China, April l3.-Reports
reaching here today indicated that the
combined Japanese and Manchukuoan
drive south of the Great Wall and east
of the Lwan River was steadily being
extended.
The combined armies were reported
attacking Chinese troops in the vicinity
of Haiyang, with the latter offering
stout resistance. Chinese civilians were
said to be fleeing southwark.
japanese bombers were reported In
Chinese dispatches to have damaged a
Peiping -Mukden railway bridge over the
river. while 80 japanese flyers inflicted
heavy damage in raids south ol
Lengkow
Evening star., 1933-04-13
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 13.-Dr. John
P. Buwalda, head Of the department OF
geology of the California Institute OF
Technology, has warned that Southern
California will have great earthquake
maybe in 10, maybe in 100, maybe in
1000 years"
He made the prediction last night to
a group of 300 leading engineers. meet
ing under the auspices of the Los
Angeles sector Of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers. The lessons
of the earthquake last month were dis
cussed not only by Mr.. Buwalda, but
also hK HagIy q. Wood chief Of the
Evening star., 1933-04-13
GERMAN-vATICAN PACT SEEN.
Pope Administers Communion to Won
PaDen and DOllfuss.

VATICAN CITY, April 13 (P.-Pope
Plus XII personally administered COM
munion to Franz Won Papen, vice chan
cellor of Germany, and to Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss Of Austria in the
Sistine Chapel of the Vatican following
Holy Thursday mass today.
Prelates insist that a concordat be-
tween Germany and the Vatican will be
negotiated as a result Of Baron Won
Papens visit with the Pope yesterday.
They said the Vatican and the three
German states-PrusSia, Bavaria and
Baden, which have existing concordats
were satisfied with those agreements,
Continued on Page 2, Column D.
Evening star., 1933-04-13
SECOND FACULTY POST
ACCEPTED BY EINSTEIN
Famed Scientist Takes Chair of
Mathematical Physics of
College de France.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, April 13-Prof. Albert Elm
stein was reported today to have ac-
cepted the chair of mathematical
physics in the College de France,
Paris.
The newspaper Petit Parisien said
the acceptance would not prevent the
famous Jewish physicist, an exile from
Germany, from joining the University
of Madrid faculty also. Madrid re-
ports said he had accepted that post)
A government bill creating the chair
said DR.. Einstein would find here the
tranquility necessary for work"
Evening star., 1933-04-13
WALKER BANNS REMOVED
Former Mayor Is Eligible to Be
Married at Any Time.

CANNES, France, April 13 R.-
Banns for the marriage of former
Mayor James j. Walker of New York
and Miss Betty Compton have been
removed from the board at City Hall,
the necessary legal time having elapsed
today.
They now are eligible to be married
at any time, but the ceremony IS un-
likely until April 18 at the earliest, be-
cause of the Easter holidays. Mr..
Walker is averse to the marriage during
HOLY week
Evening star., 1933-04-13
JOINS FEDERAL RESERVE

RICHMOND, Va, April 13 Cp).-The
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond to-
day announced the Fiderity Trust Co
of Baltimore has been admitted to
membership in the Federal Reserve
System.
Evening star., 1933-04-13
CHARLES E. MITCHELL
INDICTED SECOND TIME
Former National City Chairman
Accused of Evading 1880 Taxes
of $156,791.O9.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. April ia second in
dictment against Charles E. Mitchell,
former chairman of the National City
Bank. was handed up to Federal Judge
Frank j. Coleman today, charging eva
e,on of income taxes of sl56,7 O9 for
~ ysax 1880
Evening star., 1933-04-13
BEER FOR HOUSE CAFE

Sales Start TOMORROW TOT flTSt
Time in 80 Years.
Beer will be sold tomorrow in the
House restaurant for the first time in
80 years, it was announced this after
noon by Representative Kramer, Demo-
crat, of California, chairman Of the
House Subcommittee on Accounts.
To the subcommittee was referred
the question as to whether beer should
and could be sold in the House res
taurant without a license. In its re-
port, the committee held that license
would not be necessary, and no fur
ther action will be required for the
restaurant to lay in a supply.
Evening star., 1933-04-13
Reich Guards Kill Three.

DACRAU. Germany April 13 (P.-
Guards today killed three Communists
and wounded one, who were attempting
\ 10 escape from Q concentration eanan
Evening star., 1933-04-13

Overcrowded penal institutions,
manned with an insufficient number
of guards, with all of the dangerous
consequences of such conditions likely
to follow along in their wake, face the
District of Columbia in 1884. if the
appropriation bill for that year is
passed in the same shape in which it
came from the House.
For many years penologists have
been in the habit of coming to Wash
ington to study the penal sdminis-
trative system built up by the late
Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph and
by Capt. M. M. Barnard, the present
superintendent of penal institutions. It
Evening star., 1933-04-13

This is the fifth of series OF
articles on the effect OF proposed
reductions in the pending District
appropriation bill.
Evening star., 1933-04-13

Fair tonight and tomorrow, with slowly
rising temperature; light frost in exposed
places tonight; gentle to moderate north
and northeast winds. Temperature
Highest, So, at noon today; lowest, 35, at
6 am today. Full report on page g.
Evening star., 1933-04-13

Continued on Page 2, Column 2.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-06-01
City News Items

Mr.. and Mrs. Gregor Schwarz-
bauer and son, Joe, and daughter,
Frances, visited at the Steve
Schwarzbauer home Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. Peter Spoden, and Mr.. and
Mrs. William Tule, of st. Paul,
visited in Sank Centre Monday
with Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Schwarz-
bauer.
Maurice Arneson, student at
Crozier College, Onamia, arrived
home Wednesday to enjoy the va
cation with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. ]. Arneson.
Mrs. F. Shulze arrived Saturday
from Arlington to spend the sum-
mer with her son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Shulze and family.
George Schuck and Jos. Frank
left Saturday evening for a trip
over the Iron Range and other
northern points. They returned
home Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Arneson.
of Cincinnati, Ohio, arrived in
Sank Centre Saturday evening.
called by the serious illness of the
lady's father, T. ]. Flahaven.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-06-01
Must Adjust Corn and Hogs to
Lower Demands

A warning to the effect that farm
ers must adjust the production of
corn and hogs to the greatly de-
creased demand for pork and lard
from foreign countries is contained
in a long review of the hog-price
situation just received at University
Farm, st. Paul, Mimi, from the
United States Department of Agri-
culture.
1.-THE slump in annual hog exports
during the last ten years." says the
statement, "is equivalent in terms
of hog meat to around six million
acres of corn. Our export loss
since 1929 is equivalent in weight to
1,825,0O0 hogs and to 100000 acres
of corn in hog meat"
At the same time the production
of corn and hogs has been held at
about the usual levels. Farmers
have been producing as if there had
been no falling off in pork and
lard demands abroad.
In view of these facts, the state
ment says: "a permanent improve
ment in the national farm income,
therefore, depends much upon
sound solution of this combined
corn-hog surplus problem. The for
eign outlet for the equivalent of
from seven to nine million hogs has
been wiped out during the past ten
years and there is little prospect Of
re-expansion in the next few years.
Yet there still has been no apprec-
liable adjustment in either corn or
hog production to this greatly
changed demand. It appears that
there may actually be a tendency
to increase production, despite our
precarious situation. The present
large corn supplies could easily
stimulate heavier feeding. And the
general rise in all prices due to in
f1ationary causes, without perman-
emily lettering the farmers posi-
ton with relation to prices of other
things, also provide temptations to
increase the output. But increas-
ing production in defiance of the
current sales outlet would plunge
hog prices to still lower depths in
relation to prices of other things.
eff American farmers are to
realize the highest possible returns
from their hog enterprise in the
days to come, it is necessary to
solve in some manner this two
handed problem of adjusting both
corn and hog production. Although
prices of hogs may rise and US
ually do rise along with prices of
all commodities in a more or less
generally revival, the hog farmer
still will be kept from getting the
largest possible return so long as
there is this lack of balance be-
tween production and consumer de-
mand for hog products.