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Evening star., 1933-05-01
PERU UNDER SIEGE
WITH HLEADER SLAIN
President Sanchez Cerro and
3 Others Dead d-Gen.
BenaVideS Takes Oath.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru, May Peru was under
a state Of siege today as national
mourning was decreed for President
Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, who was as
sassinated by a revolutionary yesterday
as he was accepting the plaudits of the
public in an army review.
Gen. Oscar Benavides assumed his
duties as head of the state. having
been chosen as permanent President by
the Constituent Assembly.
Theatrical performances, movies,
sports events and all kinds Of public
manifestations were suspended through
out the nation, and everywhere flags
were at half-staff.
The new President received the i'm
mediate support of the old ministry
every member Of which agreed to re-
main in office until the emergency has
passed and the executive has had an
opportunity to select q cabinet OF MS
own.
Assassin Is Slain.
freSlQ6QC OdIlCIl6Z NcIIO Wdo AAACS
by Abelardo Hurtado de Mendoza, who
was Immediately slain by guards. Two
soldiers were killed, and six soldiers
and two civilians-one Of them wom-
an-injured in a riotous outbreak i'm
mediately after the assassination.
Gen. Sanchez Cerro was slain only
16 months after he became President
at Jorge Chavez Park, where he had
just finished reviewing a parade OF
10000 army recruits. A message wa
sent today to the eastern army, en-
gagged in fighting with Colombian
troops for the possession Of the Leticis
border strip. stating everything u
normal at home.
Hurtado de Mendoza, described as 8
revolutionary, jumped on the running
board Of the Presidents automobile a
the latter started to drive away from
the park. He fired several shots into
the Presidents body. The PresidentIs
(Continled ON Page 5, Column 2.)
Evening star., 1933-05-01
NEW YORK PLACES TAX
ON RETAIL SALES TODAY
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, May 1.-Potential
dollars from the States new per ceht
retail sales tax began dropping into the
yawning Golfers of the New York State
Treasury at the opening OF business In
the stores today.
For the next IA months the popula-
ton of $4,000 900 persons will pay taxes
on nearly everything it buys-except
important foods, land, gas and elec-
tricity.
Nevertheless prices on many articles
were unchanged today; prices OF others
were slightly higher. The / per cent
tax is actually q tax by the State on
the right of a merchant to do business
He must pay a tax of one cent for
each dollars worth of furniture. cloth.
ing. automobiles. building supplies and
other tangible personal property ne
sells, with the few eceptions. The
total yield to the State is estimated at
Ssap00. 900 70 10000 600.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
Mounted POLICE JAIL
12IN JOBLESS MARCH
10000 New Orleans Unemployed
Stage Demonstration in
Front of City Hall.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, May 1.-Mounted
police arrested about IL men and dis
pcrsed a crowd of the unemployed who
staged a demonstration in front OF the
City Hall here today.
The demonstrators took up positions
before the City Hall and a nearby Of
flee building in which c. A. Stalr
chairman of the State Relief ADMINS
tration, maintains offices, after marcn
through downtown streets.
Police estimated about 10000 people
Joined the parade, most Of them unem-
ployed and some curious spectators.
Leaders of the unemployed said the
march was organized as protest
against 81. so day as the basic pay 1or
those given jobs by the relief organi-
Zation.
Only one arrest occurred, as the march
proceeded in orderly and sometimes JOG
ular fashion, but the crowd later ignored
police orders to move on after taxing
up positions in the vicinity OF City Hail
and the mounted police moved on the
sidewalks. During the clash a large
plate glass window collapsed under
pressure of the crowd, but no one was
AurC.
The crowd milled wildly when man
carving a banner reading unemployed
Of New Orleans demanding wage !or
their families-all for one and one Tor
all" refused to move and policeman
took the standard away from him:
After retreating for several BLOCKS, the
crowd sighted Rene Pourcine, chairman
of the Grievance Committee OF the un-
employed, who had been in conference
with State Chairman Stair. He was
hoisted to the shoulders OF the cro"o
and a second parade was started.
order was restored in the streets when
Pourcine requested his followers to
maintain quiet while he went into con-
ference with Mayor T. Semmes Wa!ms-
lev in City Hall. The police allowed the
demonstrators to assemble IN orderly
fashion in Lafayette Square, fronting on
the Municipal Building.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
Special Dispatch to The Star.
cuESTERTOWN NJ

CHESTERTOWN, Md. May IA
plot Of ground 2 feet square, decided to
20 local citizens 40 years ago, stands as
q mute witness to an interesting bit OF
political machination in the olden days
that would do credit to the latest brand
Of city ward political maneuvering.
In running lines on the property OF
Thomas w. Eliason, jr., selected by the
Post once Department for q new
$4,000 Federal building here. engineers
unearthed the story Of the 2-foot plot,
which once lay IN the corner OF the
Eliason property, but which now re.
poses under concrete in the middle Of
the street at the intersection Of Calvert
street, Park Row and Spring avenue.
Prior to 1896 the lot was owned by
John Hall, q local politician and inn
keeper. The town charter, which now
provides that voters must also be tax
payers, then stipulated that voters IN
the town elections must own real estate.
Hall, therefore, just prior to an i'm
portant election, decided Q feet In the
corner Of bis property to 20 men : q
Evening star., 1933-05-01
MORGAN CALLED
IN STOCK INQUIRY
PeC0ra Notifies Davis of Plan
to Call All Members
of Concern.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the
Senate Banking Committee, announced
today that ]. P. Morgan and all other
members of the banking firm bearing
his name will be subpoenaed for re-
sumption OF the Senate stock market
investigation tentatively fixed for
May %.
After q conference with Chairman
Fletcher, Pecora said the committee
would begin its open investigation Of
private banking with the internation-
ally famous House of Morgan and fol-
low with inquiries into Kuhn, Loeb SS
Co. and Dillon-Read &, Co.
He has notified John w. Davis,
counsel for the Morgan firm. that
Morgan, Thomas w. Lamont and other
partners should be ready to answer
subpoenas.
All members Of the firm will be sub
poenaed, he said, and at least Morgan
and Lamont definitely will be called
upon to testify.
The committee counsel also disclosed
that Otto H. Kahn, senior partner OF
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Clarence Dillon
Of Dillon-Read g. Co. would be sub
poenaed.
The Morgan inquiry alone will re-
quire several days.
The committee counsel said that all
% questions originally submitted to the
Morgan firm have been answered and
the replies analyzed by his staff.
I'VE now have accountants examn-
ing the records of these three firms
every day from morning to night,
Pecora said.
The counsel is studying records Of the
three firms from 1927 to the present,
going into interlocking directorates,
fiotation Of foreign as well as domestic
issues and operations in utilities Sc
curities.
Already, he said, the investigation
has taken in Drexel & Co., the Morgan
firm OF Philadelphia, and later will in
clude the London and Paris connections
of the Morgan house.
Among things being Investigated are
joint syndicate accounts in which the
private banks have participated togeth-
er with other firms and other banks.
Pecora indicated 1t might be necessary
| to continue the investigation after the
| congressional session Is over.
Meanwhile House action, probably
this week, on the administrations Sc
curities regulation bill pending before
| the Interstate Commerce Committee
was predicted by Representative Byrns
of Tennessee, the Democratic leader.
Byrrs said he expected the legisla-
ton to be reported ito the House either
tomorrow or Wednesday"
The measure has been before sub
committee for three weeks. It has
undergone considerable revision, but
Rayburn is Withholding the changes
until after action by the full commit
tee.
We want to send the securities bill
| to the Senate aS soon as possible,
Byrns said. TT is an administration
measure and somewhat controversial. It
Will take the legislative right Of way in
| the House as soon as reported"
| The Senate Banking Committee has
reported its securities bill. but House
action Is planned drst -
Evening star., 1933-05-01
INHERITED MENACE OF CANCER
MARKS CERTAIN PARTS OF BODY
Woman Scientist Also Discovers Disease Tends to
Identical Types.

Slye said. I'VE have long known
that 1t can be bred into or out Of Q
family tree, but now, with this latest
datum, II you were to ask, say. for
red mouse, with q long tail and long
ears, which would grow fat In middle
life and die at age Of cancer OF
the chest wall, such . mouse could be
produced. It would take time, but It
could be DONE"
To produce cancer, Prof. Slye
continued, the individual not only must
be Of a canceroas strain, but must also
be subjected to some injury, such as
blow or chronis irritation. in the part
Of the body In 'bhich the susceptibility
to the disease fSs.
Prof. Slye's I work probably VIII
be used by scie1tists In an attempt to
breed cancer ott Of the human race
and Of preventilk 1t meanwhile by pro-
tecting the ards in which the tndi-
.yidual Is suscet tt,bae. ----
Evening star., 1933-05-01
RAIL RELIEF MESSAGE
LIKELY TOMORROW
President Returns Co-Ordinator
Bill to Advisers to Work Out
Details in Dispute.
By the Associated Press

~ the Associated PreSS.
President Roosevelt's message to Con-
gress asking for railroad legislation is
expected by Democratic leaders to be
submitted tomorrow.
1t was disclosed at the White House
today. however, that the President has
returned the tentative bill to advisors
to work out details still in dispute.
The unofficial Railroad Committee Of
the President has agreed on the gen
eral principles providing for a Federal
co-ordinator to guide the roads through
reorganization in the interests Of
economy.
Secretary Of Commerce Roper heads
the railroad staff Of advisers to Mr..
Roosevelt.
The bill will be referred to the House
Interstate Commerce Committee when
it reaches the Capitol. Chairman Ray
burn is preparing for hearings.
Efforts will be made to expedite House
action to make way for legislation to
be requested by Mr.. Roosevelt for au.
thority to negotiate reciprocal tariff
agreements with foreign countries.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May IA "spotting
tendency in cancer, that is. q tendercy
TO develop a certain type Of cancer in
a given part of the body, which also
follows the laws of heredity, was de.
scribed today by Prof. Maude Slye Of
the University Of Chicago.
Prof. Slye has spent 23 years In
an isolated laboratory on the university
campus, studying mice, which are sim
liar to human beings in susceptibility
to diseases, in an effort to learn the
why and cure of the disease.
Her researches, she explained, have
covered more than 100 generations. to-
taling nearly 117,000 individual mice.
both cancerous and non-cancerous
families. Some years ago she proved
the tendency to cancer and also the
immunity to cancer are inheritable.
"Genetics offers the greatest hope IN
medicines battle against caAlcer." Prof,
Evening star., 1933-05-01
MORE STATESMEN
ARRIVE THIS WEEK
Roosevelt to Hear Central
Europe's Side of Arms
Controversy.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

OhOWNs
The parade Of foreign Representatives
who are coming to Washington to dis
cuss with President Roosevelt worlc
economic and political questions is con.
tinuing this week.
The Argentine representative, Thomal
lie Breton, arrives this afternoon, and
assisted by Ambassador Espil, will begin
his conversations with the President
and the American economic experts TO-
morrow.
The Italian representative, Guido
Jung, minister Of finance, arrives to-
morrow and will call upon the Presi.
dent and Secretary Of State HUI
Wednesday. Hitler's spokesman, DR.
Hjalmar Schacht, president of thu
Reichsbank, arrives in Washington Sat.
urday and will remain in the Capita.
several days.
The last two delegates are represent
ing what Is called the Central Euro
pean group Of powers. Politically
speaking, Italy and Germany are ir
harmony, because both powers are en-.
deavoring to bring about revision o1
the Versailles treaty, and believe only
such revision can contribute to 9
successful ending Of the Limitation OF
admitted the Economic Conference
Jung Experienced Economist.
The head of the italian government
Signor Mussolini, has not sent to Amer.
lea any of his important political stars
However, Signor Jung Is an experienced
economist and will undoubtedly throw
a good deal of light on the economic
questions which will come up at the
London Conference.
Signor Augusta Rosso, the italian
Ambassador at Washington, will discuss
with the American representatives tht
political aspects Of the internationa
question. Rosso Is undoubtedly the
best qualified man to speak on these
subjects because for several years he ha.
been Mussolini's principal spokesman
at all international conferences ant
especially at the Limitation Of Arm:
Conferences at Geneva. He know
thoroughly his chiefs ideas about dis
armament and will be able to speal
authoritatively with President Roosevelt
ana SECRETARY HUI.
italy has paid her installments ant
has never made any official protes
against these payments. But the In
stallments due next month are heaviel
than ever before, and Italy would lik'
to be tn the same position as the othel
debtor nations should the President de-
eide q reconsideration Of the debt ques'
ton Is necessary.
Believed FavorabIe to Truce.
Heretofore, italy has not adopted an!
retaliatory or discriminating measure
against American goods and It is pos
sible Jung will accept . tarid truc'
with more eagerness than the othe
nations.
Itaiy's situation In regard to tn
United States Is less complicated thai
| that Of the other European nations
Furthermore, the Italian goyernmen
Continued On 3ege 2, Column ~.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
II LONG LIST OF AILMENTS FAILS
TO WIN NEW DELAY FOR DAVIS
Senator Must Face Trial
for Lottery June II,
Judge Decides.
Diabetes, Ulcers, Asthma,
Gall Stones and Heart
Trouble Mentioned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May Trial Of Sena-
tor James ]. Davis Of Pennsylvania. on
an indictment charging he caused In
terstate shipment Of lottery tickets in
connection with Loyal Order OF
Moose prize distribution. was set down
for June IL by Federal Judge Henry
w. Goddard today.
The cases against Theodore G. Mil
Ter and Raymond Walsh, also under
similar indictments, was set down Tor
the same date.
Charles H. Tuttle and Joseph E
Davies Of Washington, d. c., urged q
longer postponement Of the trial.
Tuttle presented afIidavits from DR.
John w. Shirer Of Pittsburgh, and DR..
w. G. Klugh of Hot Springs, Ark, Ger
Evening star., 1933-05-01
Mayor Hopes to Raise Funds by
Taxes in Chicago.

CHICAGO, May / @-A drive to
end the money worries of Chicago's un-
paid school teachers is under way.
Armed with new legislative authority
to take over properties of which tax
payments are delinquent, County Treas:
urer Joseph B. McDonougn has opened
the drive with publication of the names
of some of the city's alleged tax dodgers
or their agents. They are to be notified
that they must pay or have county re-
ceivers appointed for their properties.
In this manner Mayor Edward ]. Kel-
ley hopes to raise the funds to pay the
cityS teachers.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
STEAL BIRD BATH
Vandals Also Take Bushels Of Jon.
quils From Prize Garden.

EVANSTON, ILL.,, May R.-van-
dals spoiled the bathing season for the
feathered friends of Mrs. Raymond c.
Wieboldt last night.
They carried of 300-pound bird
bath along with several bushels Of jon
quils from her prize garden.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
U. S. ATTACHE IS DEAD
William 8. Dowd Has Heart At
tack in Toxic Street.

TOXIC, May R.-William 8.
Dowd Of New York City, commercial
attache of the American Embassy, col
lapsed in a Toxic street today and died
Of heart disease.
Evening star., 1933-05-01

The Stars Carrier system covers every
city block and the regular edition Is
delivered to city and suburban homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
TEACHERS PAY SEEN

Continued on Page S, Column
Evening star., 1933-05-01

Continued On Pege 2, Column ~.
Evening star., 1933-04-30
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Beck
Hosts at Luncheon Today
Mrs. Sumner Wenes TO Be Hostess at Tea
This Afternoon In Her Country
Home.

residence in Woodley Park in commence
ration of the battle of Manila Bay, May
l, 1898.
Miss Ellen Van Wyck was the honor
guest at luncheon given at the Rus
sian Troika yesterday by her colleagues
In the Veterans Administration. Mrs..
M. A. Ostrow and Miss Gladys Gross
were in charge of the arrangements for
the party. which was a tribute to Miss
Van Wyck on the occasion of her re-
tirement from the bureau.
The annual luncheon of the Month
cello Chapter, D. A. R., was held Thurs
day at the Shoreham. The long table in
the main dining room was decorated
with Spring flowers. After the luncheon
the members and guests adjourned to
the main parlor Of the hotel, where o
social hour was held.
The guests Of honor were Mrs. Harry
Colfax Grove, State regent; Miss Helen
Harman. vice president general; Mrs.
Henry B. Joy, national recording secre-
tary general D. A. r. and president Of
Founders and Patriots, and Mrs Howard
L. Hodgkins, former vice president gen.
eral.
Evening star., 1933-04-30
Painter of The Nazarene"
Sponsoring Exhibition

Col. and Mrs. Henry Stanley Todd
will spend this week for the first show
ing of the formers painting, THE
Nazarene," which he has loaned to the
Washington Federation of Churches for
exhibition in the National City Chris
tian Church. Col. Todd was stationed
In washington on the general staff of
the Army during the war and is show
ing the picture first in the National
Capital exhibitions, to be followed in
other cities and other countries of the
world.
DR.. Charles Haddon Bloom of New
York arrived yesterday to act as cura-
tor for the picture and will be at the
National City Christian Church, while
the picture is on view, to give o history
of the painting. DR.. Bloom will be
the guest of his brother and sister-in-
law, DR.. and Mrs. w. Knightson Bloom,
IN their home at 1901 Argonne terraces
during his stay In Washington. -
Evening star., 1933-04-30
Minister to Denmark
Mexican Diplomat's Guest

Brig. Gen. Francisco J. Aguilar, mill
tary attache at the Mexican embassy,
will entertain at dinner at the Shore
ham this evening in honor Of Mrs.
Ruth Bryan Owen, recently appointed
United States Minister to Denmark.
Sonora Aguilar, due to illness, will be
unable to attend. Hostess duties will be
performed by Sonora Padilla Nervo,
wife of the Minister resident counselor
of the Mexican embassy. The guest list
is composed principally of outstanding
representatives Of women's activities in
Washington.
An unusual touch of sentiment en-
hances the dinner tonight, due to the
fact that Gen. Aguilar's parents, Senor
Don Leandro Aguilar. and wife of
Mexico City, and Mrs. Owens father,
the late william Jennings Bryan, were
firm friends for many years prior to
the death of the great commoner.
In addition to the host, hostess and
honor guest, the party will include the
Danish Minister, Mr.. Otto Wadsted and
Mrs. Wadsted; Frederick P. Hibbard Of
the State Department, COL and Mrs
Alfred T. Smith of the War Department,
Sonora de Prieto, wife of the Cuban
military attache; Sonora Alicia Treserra,
wife of the third secretary Of the Mexi-
can embassy; Mrs Charles Burnett, wife
of Col. Burnett, U. S. A.: Mime. Patricia
Bennett Dimitriu, wife of Secretary
Dimitriu of the Rumanian legation; Mrs.
E. H. Daniels, president of the Political
Study Club; Miss Irene Juno, Miss Alice
Heaven, president Of the Womans' City
Club, and DR.. Anita Boggs, president,
R,,reau NJ Commercial EconomicS.
Evening star., 1933-04-30
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Hostess
To Secretary Perkins and
Feminine News Writers
First Lady Climaxes Usual Busy Week With
Buffet Supper Party at the
White House.

ed the departing guests she showed not
trace Of fatigue. Thursday was an
other particularly full day, closing with
an official dinner, followed by pro-
gram of entertainment. The Congress
sional Club silver jubilee, with its two
day program, also caught Mrs. Rcose-
welt at their Friday breakfast. and she
kept many other engagements besides
those within the White House.
It was a graceful act when Mrs.
Roosevelt ordered the entire lower floor
Of the mansion be kept open for tour
lists, a much farther reaching act than
appears at first mention. The visitors
grew into thousands, entering by the
east doorway and leaving by the north
front door, There were bankers, law
yers, manufacturers and other men and
women in the larger affairs of life, and
then hundreds of students, girls and
boys and farmers and simple tradesfolk
who had saved up their money to come
Passing in and out Of the mansion, Mrs.
Roosevelt never failed to stop and pass
a word with those near her.
A picturesque little page that must
60 down in history was the tea Mrs.
Roosevelt gave for the officers and
sailors on the fishing smack Gertrude
L. Thebaud, which the chesty Capt. Ben
Pine brought to anchor at the navy
yard that he might join the host of
lobbyists and put in word for the tariff
on fish. Mrs. Roosevelt had visited the
little vessel earlier in the day, and on
the return call the captain in command
and his various other officers were taken
to the second floor Of the White House
for tea Their boast was that they had
seen all the rooms, had seen the Presi-
dents gallery of ships, and as one en-
thusiastic captain declared, "She is not
only the First Lady in the land but she
Is the finest as we'll"
Evening star., 1933-04-30
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
Returns to Boston
From Southern Trip
Former Secretary and Mrs.
Hurley Visit William and
Mary College.

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, widow Of the
late President, and a party Of seven
were guests in Staunton, Va. Thursday,
stopping for lunch there. The party,
en- route to Boston from a motor trip
South, also made tour Of historic
homes and gardens in Virginia.
The former Secretary Of War and
Mrs. Patrick ]. Hurley have gone to
William and Mary College, where the
former cabinet officer will deliver an
address.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, with
their daughter and son, are spending
the week end with Mrs. SCOTS par
ents, DR.. and Mrs. William Holland
Wilmer of Baltimore, formerly of Wash
ington, in their country home In Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. James Griswold Wentz has as
her guest over Sunday Miss Grace Hol-
brook of New York.
Col. and Mrs. John c. Butler Of
Rectortown, Va, are at the Carlton for
a few days.
Mr.. Alexander Legge, former chair
man of the Federal Farm Board, is
stopping at the Willard.
The Misses Howry have returned from
Miami Beach, where they spent a por-
ton of the season. They were enter
tanned at tea before coming North by
Mrs. Lloyd M. Shepard, who was hostess
In her home on Hibiscus Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Stuart Hodge OF
Mount Pleasant have returned after a
visit to their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Murray OF
Westfeld, N. j.
Mr.. John Barrett, former director
general Of the Pan-American Union and
former United States Minister to Argen-
tina, is at the Strath Haven Hotel IN
Miami Beach, Fla, for several weeks be-
fore coming to Washington. Mr.. Bar
rett has just returned from a trip
through South and Central America.
While in Florida he Is making q num-
Der of lectures throughout the State on
American topics.
Mrs. William H. Schofield, president
of the New Hampshire Society Of the
Colonial Danes of America, has arrived
at the Carlton for the biennial meeting
of the National Society Of the Colonial
Danes, to be held at the Carlton from
Nay / to + ,--.,--- A.-.a-.- l.