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Evening star., 1935-04-23
$457,7%,261 NAVAL
FUND APPROVED
Administration Forces Ac.
tion on Bill to Permit
Construction.
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

Administration pressure has forced
the House Appropriation Committee to
abandon the proposal of the subcom-
mittee drafting the Navy appropriation
bill for the fiscal year 1896 to cut In
half the 2s,3so. 900 for "A replace
ment ships as recommended by the
budget with a proviso that contracts
should not be let for the IL new ships
until February, 1886.
The bill reported today carries a
total Of $457, ,7S6,26l. The budget esti-
mate was $4s5, 5,443,847. The budget
estimate exceeds current appropria-
tions by Sl74.s79, ,098 and the commit
tees recommendations is $27,657, $50
less than that amount. Including the
reappropriation Of $500 900, the COM
n1ittee reduction y figured at $20,-
157,5S6.
Vinsen Isaas Protest.
The bill Is reported win allow the
Navy Department to let contracts and
start work In industrial yards on the
entire "a new ships to replace worn
out vessels now In service. The ap-
preparation carried in the bill, how
ever, Is cut in half. 50 that II this
work is started promptly after July I
1t will be necessary to come back to
Congress next December asking for Q
supplemental appropriation. The
time limit for not permitting con-
tracts to be Let before February, 1896,
has definitely been cut from the bill,
as originally written.
The administration pressure which
forced these changes was led by Chair
man vinson Of the House Naval AZ
fairs Committee, who was supported
in his protest by the Navy Depart
ment. It was claimed that the bill
as drafted by the subcommittee was
contrary to the Presidents program
to have the Navy quilt up to treaty
strength.
If it had not been for the dis
closure, printed exclusively in The
washington Star last week, that the
subcommittee proposed to slash the
new construction program" said
Chairman Vinson today, I'VE would
have had no intimation of this
drastic action with the bill being
brought in at noon today for Inn
mediate consideration and the con-
struction program would have been
delayed six months"
Representative Vinson Is satisfied
with the altered bill. He considers It
CONTINUED on Page S, Column -
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Ne,o Clue to Life Expectancy
Reported Found in Lens of Eye
National Academy of Sciences Hears
DR.. Felix Bernstein's Method of
Determining Physiological Age.

the physiological changes brought
about by the normal process of aging
One Thermometer Of age" is the
degree Of hardening Of the lens of the
eye. Everybody shows some signs of
1t at or before the fiftieth year. As
It progresses the eye Is no longer able
to make suitable accommodations for
reading and glasses are necessary. The
condition is known as presbyopia or
"old-eyedness." DR.. Bernstein found
that the degree Of hardening can be
measured quite exactly and that it is
a fair indicator Of the physiological
as contrasted with the chronological.
age of the body. Thus the hardening
process may have progressed as far
in one man OF so as In another of
so. Assuming, as DR.. Bernstein does,
that this Is q fair index Of the other
bodily processes, the two would be of
about the same physiological age and
entitled to expect an equal number
of years remaining-assuming the alb
sence Of accidents.
DR.. Bernstein and his students have
Continued on Page 4, Column ~
Evening star., 1935-04-23
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
War horses will not be missing
from the field Of battle In the next"
war.
Despite the Army's motorization
and mechanization program, replacing
many horses with armored scout and
combat cars, Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
chief Of staff, assured the House and
Senate Military Committees that old
time cavalry Is stil necessary.
"Motorization and mechanization
permit rapid concentration Of troops
ON the battlefield" Gen. Macarthur
said in outlining the machine age
war" program, but after you reach
the battlefield the fastest element Is
the man on q horse.
-"Our program is to- obtain q bal
ance 20 that We can move large COM
mands under cover Of darkness 100
or 400 miles In q night, ready for
battle. We are progressive, but not
radical We are not discarding the
horse. He still has certain important
uses in an srmy."
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Berlin RECHECKS
LEAGUES REBUKE
Experts Prepare Path for
HitIer's RebuttaI to
Allegations.
By the Associated Press,

0y IH0 ASSOClateo FreSS.
BERLIN, April 23.-Wilhelmstrasse
experts, returning from their Easter
holidays, today began checking over
the allegations of the Geneva resolu-
ton condemning Germany's rearma-
ment moves. They were preparing the
way for Reichsfuehrer Hitler's eX-
pected rebuttal statement.
A foreign Office spokesman's COM
ment that IAN additional reply" prob
ably would be made soon encouraged
the belief that Hitler would return d.
rectly from his mountain home ct
Hauswachenfeld to interject q new
factor into the European situation.
Both foreign Office and propaganda
ministry spokes,nen professed to be ig-
Eorant, however, Of when Der Fuehrer
planned to arrive In Berlin.
Since no newspapers were published
yesterday because of the Easter Mon
day holiday. the press had not yet had
an opportunity to comment On for
eign reaction to Hitier's brief note Of
April 40 informing the powers whose
representatives conclrred Ia the
League Of Nations Council resolution
Of Germany's rejection Of their act.
The official news agency received
numerous dispatches from foreign
capitals, however, describing the tenor
of official sentiment The French COM
ment was described as Comparatively
calm"
The foreign Office spokesman who
announced the likelihood that Hitler's
supplementary retort would be forth
coming soon said Der Fuehrer's COM
munication would "seize upon this op-
portunity to pick the Geneva resolu-
ton to pieces in detail and while so
doing restate our position"
Evening star., 1935-04-23
COTTON TAX FATE
BEFORE U. S. COURT
Future Of Crop Reduction Plan
Hinges on Test Case in
Massachusetts,.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 23-The constitu-
tionality Of the cotton processing tax,
an excise opposed by. many textile
manufacturers, was up for argument
before the full bench Of the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals today.
On the outcome Of the test case
rests the future Of one Of the princi-
pal programs of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, cotton
crop reduction, and Of the A. A. AS
power to levy similar commodity taxes.
The appeal was taken to the court
by the Hoosac Mills Corp. from . de-
cision of Judge Elisha r. Brewster OF
the Federal District Court, who up
held the constitutionality Of the
A. A. 4. and It's power to levy the
processing tar
Evening star., 1935-04-23
French ''WGr Babies'' Enter
Army, Swelling 1t by l2O,O 900

stationed in France to 10000, most
Of whom are garrisoned In the east
ern section Of the country. Until
after several months Of training,
however, few Of the new conscripts
are expected to work with the French
frontier regiments. p
Special masses were being held In
churches throughout France for the
departing youths, who, under the
present cabinet, are expected to serve
18 months, perhaps more.
Many of the new conscripts are
university students who are getting
their first taste Of the world outside
of classes. Others already have been
working for years.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Meeting With Success.
Worm Invasion Halted.

RIVERSIDE, Calf, April 23 R.-
Beleaguered by an invasion Of mil
lions Of large 3-inch moth worms,
ranchers Of the Ccachella Valley be-
leved today they had gained the upper
hand in the desperate. battle to save
their crops. no.. ..-.
Twelve miles Of trench have been
plowed along the foothills east Of Palm
Springs to trap the migrating worms
as they crawl from the hi1s, now
denuded Of vegetation, into the cult
waited areas.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
LAURA INGALLS, TO HOP
Hopes to Smash Amelia Earhart's
Record Tomorrow,

LOS ANGELES, April 23 R.-
Weather permitting, Laura ingalls, will
take OF tomorrow morning for New
York on her second attempt to smash
Amelia Earhart's tranScontinental fly
ing record for women of II hours I
minutes 30 seconds.
Miss ingalls, $4,000 low-wine
monoplane has undergone q thorough
overhauling since its return from
Aamosa, Colo, where she was forced
down by duststorms last Tuesday and
her first attempt.
"There was enough dust In that
motor to I'LL the cockpit" she said.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
so HURT AS MEXICAN
TRAIN is WRECKED
Excursion Party and Switch En-
gine Crash Near Mexico, d. r.
Several Expected to Die.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, D. F., April "a
Twelve persons were In hospitals with
serious injuries today and 80 others
were suffering from minor hurts as
result of train wreck near here yes
terday, caused by the collision Of an
excursion train and a switching en-
gine.
Physicians said some of the injured
probably would not live.
The excursion train, with approxi-
matesly 500 passengers, was en- route
to this city from Toluca when the
accident occurred near San Bartolo,
II miles north of this city.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
SLEEPING BOY WHO SLEW
MOTHER WILL FACE JURY
8-Year-0ld Texas Lad Shot Her
After Walking Into Room,
Father Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

6y CIie ASSOCIHteU IIcSS.
GREENVILLE, Tex, April 23.-
Grand jury investigation was planned
today In the case Of Jackie Glenn
Darden, 8-year-old boy, accused Of
Staying his mother while walking in
his sleep.
s. p. Darden, the boys father, said
he was awakened before dawn yes
terday by the discharge Of q shotgun.
II jumped from bed" he said
Jackie Glenn was standing about 18
inches from his mothers bed, with
the gun in his hands. He was asleep
and I shook him to awaken him. He
did not know what had happened"
Evening star., 1935-04-23
new DUSTSTORM HITS
ARID PANHANDLE AREA
Merchants Forced to Turn on
Lights and Motorists to Drive
Cautiously.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BEAVER, Okla, April 23.-A new
duststorm swirled into the arid Pan
handle today, forcing merchants to
turn on their lights and motorists to
drive cautiously.
Visibility was limited to less than
two blocks.
Local showers and moderately warm
weather were predicted for the rest of
the State by Harry Wahlgren, Federal
weather man, at Oklahoma City, which
had trace of rain overnight.
Nearly an inch of rain was reported
overnight near Wakeeney, Kans., In
the northwest sector.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
BY the Associated Press.

BY Gll6 ASSOCidCeU Z 1coS.
PARIS, April 23.-The swelling OF
Frances Army by 10000 men started
today Is green conscripts to that num-
ber began their departure for prelim-
mary training barracks. The move
ment will take two days.
The youngsters, many Of whom are
"war babies" are expected to get
intensive training with various regi-
ments throughout France, while the
$1,000 trained conscripts, who origi-
nally we're to. return to civilian life
May IS. will be held over to help COM
plete Frances eastern Notifications.
The new conscript contingents
bring the ofllcial estimate Of soldiers
Evening star., 1935-04-23
U. S. POWER PLANT
HALTED BY COURT
Federal Judge Grants Injunction
to Duke Firm in P. W. A.
Case.
BY the Associated Press.

GREENvILLE, s. c., April 23.-
Greenwood County, 8. c., and Secre.
tary Ickes were enjoined from con-
struction Of q public power project ON
the Saluda River with Public Works
Administration funds In q decision OF
Judge H. H. Watkins in United States
District Court today.
Judge Watkins granted the request
OF. the Duke Power Co. for an injunc-
ton against the project. The P. w. A.
had allotted $1,000, 900 for the proposed
hydro-electric plant.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The rate at which one grows old Is
inherited, DR.. Felix Bernstein Of Co.
lumbia University told the National
Academy Of Sciences, meeting here
today.
At the same time DIR. Bernstein de-
scribed a tell-tale clue In the lens Of
the eye by which the probable life his
tory Of any individual of middle age
can be predicted, barring accidents.
It long has been believed that the
span of life Is inherited In some COM
plex way. Members of some families
seem to have an established tendency
to long lives while members of others
die early.
The thesis, however, has been es-
pecially difficult to prove since death
may be due to so many accidental
causes, not the least of which Is in
lection by disease germ and these
micro-organisms play no favorites.
If there were no accidents everybody
might expect to live until cut of by a
brain stroke or a heart stroke due to
Evening star., 1935-04-23
ANAL GAMATED STEEL
INSURGENTS BARRED
Workers' National Convention
Refuses to Admit Faction to
Meeting in Pittsburgh.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, April 23.-Approxi-
mately so members Of the so-called
insurgent faction Of the Amalgamated
Association Of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers were barred from the organi-
zation's national convention today.
Marching to the Amalgamated's
headquarters, where the convention Is
being held, the group sought admit
tance, but they were met at the door
by Edward W.. Miller, international
vice president, who said: "You are not
delegates. You cannot get into this
convention
Evening star., 1935-04-23
JAILED IN jewel THEFT
Society Women Held After
$65, 900 in Gems Are Found.

BY tho Associated Press.
CANNES, France, April 23.-Police
today announced they had found
jewelry worth 1,000,000 francs-about
$65, ,000-in strong box hidden in the
hotel room Of London society wo-
man, Mrs. John Circuit.
The search was conducted with
Mrs. Circuitt in jail, where she had
been placed on q charge Of stealing
q $4,000 vanity case from Mrs. Harold
Laurence of New York.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
SPREAD Of TOLEDO
AUT0STR|KE SEEN
Green Cites Growing Re.
sentiment Against Automo.
bile Labor Board.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Grave danger" that the Toledo
automobile strike might spread to
other auto factories was seen today
by William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
The workers In the Toledo plant
Of the Chevrolet Co. decided among
themselves for the walkout this morn
ing" he told reporters.
They had participated IN an elec-
ton by the Automobile Labor Board
which showed that 1900 out Of 1900
employed favored the United Auto
Workers Union as the bargaining
agency"
Resentment against the Automobile
Labor Board. headed by DR.. Leo VOL
man, was growing among the auto
workers, Green said.
The boards most recent tally Of its
election results showed that less than
10 per cent Of the auto workers IA
vored the federation as their collective
bargaining representative.
60O workers Walk Out.
TOLEDO, April 23 R.-Part of the
first shift Of l,l00 men at the Toledo
Chevrolet plant went on strike this
morning, after the company had re-
fused union demands for increased
wages and q signed union contract.
Fred Schwake, representative of the
United Automobile Auto Workers
Union, said that 600 men quit theil
jobs. Workers, who refused to quit
were sent home by Hugh Dean, In
charge Of plant operations. There
was no disorder.
Dean announced that the plant will
be closed indefinitely. The plant nor
mally employs about $500 men.
The union, according to Schwake
is asking higher hourly wages, mini
mum scale and revisions of seniority,
The company has refused to sign the
contract submitted by the union. w.
s. Knudsen, executive vice president
of General Motors yesterday submitted
counter proposals which the union re-
fused.
Knudsen explained at the conclusion
of the conference, that the manage
ment had gone much farther in the
way Of concessions than had originally
been considered.
The company submitted to the con-
ference a proposal which included a
S per cent general wage advance, re-
adjustment of wages In the higher
levels throughout the plant, seniority
rights and other concessions. The
company refused to consider the closed
shop, Knudsen said.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
MOFFETT LIKELY
T0KEEP POSITION
Housing Administrator Un.
derstood to Have Changed
Resignation Plans.
BY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

After being offered q leave of alb.
Sence of two or three months to make
business trip to the Orient, Federal
Housing Administrator James A. Moi.
fett is understood to have changed hi
mind about resigning.
President Roosevelt and Mofeti
were to talk the matter over at lunch.
con in the Presidents office, after
which Moffett was expected to give
out an announcement saying he viii
not retire, but will take q vacation to
clean up some private business anc
then return to his duties with the
Housing Administration.
Resignation Rumors.
For some time there have beer
rumors that Moffett was eager to re.
tire and give his attention to his OWL
personal affairs. About q week ago
after a conference with Mr.. Roosevelt
Moffett said he put the matter oi
resigring up to the President and tina,
the latter had asked him to give him
a week or two to think 1t over.
In the meantime the President.
idea of thinking it over was to induce
Moffett to remain as one of the key
men in the New Deal administration
It Is known that the President
thinks very highly Of the housing ad.
ministrator not only of his persona,
ability, but Of the results thus fal
produced by Moffett's agency. The
President is confident this agency has
done much toward bringing about
improvement In certain lines Of bust
ness and that the results viii be
greater and more noticeable as time
goes on.
Meeting With Success.
Mofett's work in encouraging home
modernization and new home building
is meeting with such success that the
President would not want to make q
change in the head Of this agency at
this time.
While on this leave Of absence the
work of directing the Housing Admin
istration will be turned over to one
Of Moffett's present aides.
Evening star., 1935-04-23

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Continued on Page 8, Column %
Evening star., 1935-11-01

A mob scene brought down the cur
tain on the 1885 edition of Washing
tons Halloween spectacle last night
after a colorful and smoothly flowing
procession of marchers and floats filed
up Constitution avenue before an
assemblage estimated at 125,000.
Unscheduled and almost unheard OF
in a city that has more than its share
of parades, the final act swept police
off their feet and disconnected the
judges to such an extent that they had
to abandon the task of completing a
prize list.
Evidently every person on the side
lines had a relative among the 1888
participants in the walk from Sixth
to Seventeenth streets or else the spec
tators had a very personal interest in
just how the awards were distributed.
At any rate, the boundless en-
thusiasm of the crowd, which broke
through the ropes and filled the street
in front of the reviewing stand, was
checked only after police doused the
lights along the avenue.
The crush came as the last Of the
paraders passed the rose-strewn throne
from which Queen jeanette Williams
and her court witnessed the festivities.
Several women tainted when caught in
the press and a number of children
Evening star., 1935-11-01
WEATHER DELAYS START
OF SPEEDY AIR SERVICE
American Airlines Postpones
Flight to Cut Time From
Capital to Chicago.

Weather conditions postponed the
Inauguration today of the American
Airlines' direct high-speed service be-
tween Washington and Chicago. which
will cut the flying time between the
two cities to four hours. The flight
will be made tomorrow.
A modern Douglas transport plane
will take off from Washington Air
port at 2:06 pm. and make stops at
Cincinnati and indianapolis before
arriving at Chicago at 6:l2 pm. ac-
cording to Weir Cook, District sales
manager for the line.
The flight will originate daily in
New York. leaving the Newark Airport
at 1890 pm. and arriving here at
154 pm. EaStbound, the planes leave
Chicago at 1l:l5 am. and reach
Washington at 4:26 pm.
Evening star., 1935-11-01
SHIFT Of 100000
lends GLENN DALE
HOSPITAL WORRIES
Funds Diverted From Sew.
age Plant to Assure Job
of Completion.
TRANSFER OBVIATES
REVISION OF PLANS
Blue Plains Project Will Not Be
Affected, Check-up on Bids
Reveals.

construction Of the adult tubercu-
losis hospital at Glenn Dale, Nd,
without any reduction in the size or
facilities of the institution as original
iy planned, was assured today with
approval by the Public Works Admin
istration of a transfer of $500 900 from
the loan for the District. sewage dis
posal plant
District officials stated the transfer
of the Blue Plains sewage plant funds
would not mean any revision of plans
for that development check-up on
bids for work there, they said. showed
original estimates of cost would be
about that much in excess of actual
expenditures.
Approved by Ickes.
Secretary Of the Interior Ickes, P.
W. A. head, late yesterday announced
he had approved the transfer Of
funds. This statement came as
great relief TO District officials. who
had feared it might be necessary to
revise the hospital plans unless ad-
ditional money was forthcoming.
The situation arose last month
when it was found the low bid for
the main building at Glenn Dale was
S883,000 or s188,000 more than had
been estimated year ago, when esti-
mates were prepared. This indicated
the District must apply for more
money or leave of some facilities
MANNED for the hOSDital
One reason given for costs Of the
hospital being greater than estimates
was that Federal officials had ruie d
that District P. w. A wage rates were
applicable to the work at Glenn Dale.
Capt. York Comments.
In the case of the sewage plant.
estimates of costs also were made a
/ year in advance. but wage rates here
have not changed appreciably.
/ 1T may be that estimates for the
sewage plant we're somewhat too ho-
eral, just as those for Glenn Dale were
not liberal enough" said Capt Robert
E. York, Assistant Engineer Commas
sioner
Both the hospital and sewage plant
are being built out of loans to the Dis
trict from the P W. A The sewage
plant was estimated to cost $4,000 900
and the hospital 81 100000. The shift
in funds will reduce the estimated cost
of the sewage plant to s3,80O,0oO. and
increase the estimated cost of the hos.
pital to sl,700,000.