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Evening star., 1935-03-16
SYMPHONY DRIVE
SETS DAILY GOAL
Good Progress Made by 500
Workers in Campaign for
Sustaining Fund.

With substantial sum already
subscribed on the opening day of the
National Symphony Orchestra's drive
for a 100000 sustaining fund. Dr.
William Mcclellan, chairman of the
Mems Committee, expressed conf
dence today the daily quota in the
campaign will not be less than s10,-
900.
"One hundred thousand dollars is
comparatively small amount TO
raise when one considers the advan-
tages it will bring" DR.. Mcclellan
said, and I. for one. see no reason
why the money cannot be raised in a
city that must retain its status as
the cultural center of America"
Committee members we're enthusi-
astic at their first full meeting, at
headquarters in the Carlton Hotel
yesterday. when reports Of progress
were submitted by the 500 volunteer
workers who started canvaSSing the
city as the drive got under way.
March 25 Victory Day.
March IS. the closing day of the
campaign, has been designated as
victory day. BY that time it is ex-
pected that the 500. .000-which will
enable the symphony to pay its mu-
sicians a living wage. provide more
concerts in Constitution Hall, addi-
tional children's concerts and a series
of outdoor Summer programs-will be
subscribed
Among those attending the meeting
yesterday were DR.. Mcclellan, Mrs.
Tracy Dows, Mrs. j. ]. Kennedy, Mrs.
Barton E. Yount Mrs. Eugene Byrnes,
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory S. Land, Mrs.
Oliver W. Strunk. G. Thomas Dunlop.
Paul Wilstach. Mrs. Walter Bruce
Howe, Dean Henry Grattan Doyle,
Mr. and Mrs Harold w Marsh. Miss
Carlina Sheridan, Miss Cornelia Perrin.
Mrs. Herbert Wollner. Miss Mary
Lootes. Mrs. William Wootin. Miss
Deborah Dows. Mrs. Arthur Mallott,
Mrs. Newell Campbell, Mrs. William
Lockwood Mrs. Phillip Benton. Mrs.
Miriam Hilton, Mrs. Inglass Sard and
Mrs. r. H. Dunlap.
Program to Be Dedicated.
D. j. radio joel kaufman will
dedicate his regular radio program
Tuesday night to the National Sym
phony Orchestra. One of the features
will be a message from DR.. Hans
Kinder. director of the symphony.
who will be unable to deliver an ad-
dress in person as he will be con-
Quoting a concert of the National
Symphony in Baltimore that evening.
DIR. Mcclellan and others prom
inently identified with the drive are
expected to speak on the program.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
CHILEAN EDUCATIONAL
MISSION TO BE FETED
Georgetown University, Embassy
and Pan-American Union
Will Be Hosts.

The Chilean Educational Mission
visiting America at the invitation Of
The Carnegie Endowment for Inter
national Peace will be entertained
here next week by Georgetown Uni
versity, the Chilean Embassy, and
the Pan-American Union. The dele
CATION will arrive here tomorrow. A
tea will be given in their honor at
the Pan-American Building tomorrow
afternoon.
On Monday evening the American
Council on Education will tender a
large dinner, which will be attended
by Secretary of State and Mrs. Hull,
Secretary Of the Interior and Mrs.
Ickes. prominent leaders in education
and officials of several Government
departments.
Members of the delegation are
Senor Don Juvenal Hernandez. rector
of the University of Chile; Senor Don
Domingo Duran. former minister of
education: Senor Don Gustavo Lira,
dean of the faculty of engineering;
Senor Don Dario Benavente, director
of the School of Law: Senor Amanda
Labarca, representative of the govern
ment and Senor Don Raul Ramirez,
professor at the College of Education,
University of Chile.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Another sour one now in circulation
is that the A. A. A. has insufficient
money to meet the third payment on
the corn-hog contracts. Whoever
started this one failed to read the
A. A. A. law 1t is so worded that
such a situation never can arise.
The Treasury may advance A. A. A.
funds for payments on contracts and
then reimburse itself later from proc
esslng tax receipts. Therefore the
A A A can pay until the Treasury
itself runs dry.
Rumor- Spreading General.
The business of rumor- spreading Is
not confined to marketeers.
Whenever any particular group can
not find out what the New Deal is
going to do on an issue. it usually in
vents a rumor that the administra-
ton will do such and such. This flc-
titious story arouses administration
officials, who then announce what
their real course will be. The fic-
titious story merely act as a bonfire
to smoke the Government out.
AS q TOSulL, IhcIS uS SChS'aby
more rumors in Washington than
StdrlingS
The system is not particularly new,
but brisk activity has given 1t in
creased prominence lately. (You may
recall that President Roosevelt's hold
ing company message was inspired by
planted rumors that he would with
draw the legislation)
Plumbers Efficient.
No neater plumbing job was ever
done in Congress than the one the
plumbers did in the Senate Appro-
priations Committee.
When the relief bill came out Of
that committee, it contained a
strange provision permitting Mr..
Roosevelt to put the Government
into any business. except the plumb
ing business. It specifically required
him to let all relief works plumbing
out to private firms. All lobbyists
gasped at the provision with envy
and wondered how it got into the
bill
The truth seems to be that the
labor group fired that Congress
siondl pipe line for the plumbers.
The industry is highly organized.
The labor boys knetD the proui-
sion Uould guarantee them
union Ddoe scale for plumbers,
epen it they failed to get the pre-
railing ndge for carpenters, ptds-
tererS, etc.
Therefore, Labor Senator McCar-
ran threw the Stillson wrench into
the bill for the plumbers. after his
prevailing wage amendment was de-
feated.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
Staying of Assassins in Shrine
Horrifies Pilgrims to Mecca

tradition in saving the lives Of the
monarch and his son.
There was widespread apprehension
that tribes may seize upon the Incl
dent to provoke a revolt against the
iron rule of Ibn Saud, Napoleon OF
Arabia"
Two Of the assailants were killed
by the bodyguards before they reached
the spot where the King stood. The
Ernir Saud struggled with the third.
staying his sharp weapon, until pistol
shots laid him dead.
King Ibn Saud, sometimes called
the Cromwell of the Arabs, and who
conquered the ancient kingdom OF
Yemen, Is of the Wahabi people. the
fanatical Puritans Of the desert tribes
men.
He Is master of a territory about
o third the size of the United States.
with . population Of 100000. His
prestige was increased in the great
world Of athe Moslems by successive
conquestssof rival kingdoms.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
HOP FAILS;
WILL TRY AGAIN
Low Oxygen Supply Brings
End to Stratosphere Flight
at Cleveland.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March l6.-Wiley
Post, forced down at Cleveland yes
terday while attempting record
breaking transcontinental fight
through the stratosphere. will try
again.
Only minor trouble prevented him
from completing the Los Angeles
New York span in less than eight
hours, the aviator said on arrival here.
He predicted mail and passenger
planes soon would follow his trail.
Posts oxygen supply ran danger
ously low as he streaked over Western
Pennsylvania. so he planned to de-
scend to b, eathable air and fly on.
Dropping from the sub-Zero strato-
sphere. however, the plane plunged
into the cloud belt and condensing
moisture fculed two cylinders of the
Winnie Macs engine.
The nearest airport was Cleveland,
so went to it." he explained.
Transferring to regular air liner,
Post arrived at the Newark Airport
IL hours and SO minutes after leav-
ing Los Angeles.
Frank Phillips, Oklahoma oil man
and backer OF the fight, said to Post
at a New York hotel: I'll back you
until We make this flight in seven
hours. It's up to you to prove we
can make this stratosphere flight
practical
He would have passed out in few
minutes, Post said. had he not nosed
his plane downward while it was more
than 10000 feet in the air.
IF that hadn't happened" he said,
II would have made it into New York
in z hours and 40 minutes.
I'm convinced now that any trans
port plane could do the same thing,
provided they sealed the cabin and
supplied the passengers with an ade-
quate supply Of oxygen"
Plans Other Flights.
Post plans to stay here three days,
then return to Cleveland. When the
wheels of the plane reach there from
Los Angeles-he deliberately drop
ped them and landed on fuselage
skids-he and the Winnie Mae will
make two more flights for records.
These, Post said, will be an altitude
climb at Bartlesville. Okla. and his
third attempt to span the continent
in seven hours. The first effort
ended in a Western desert and Post
charged someone had sabotaged his
plane.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Continued From First Page)
adopt the Russell amendment. II Is
absolutely certain the President Is go
ing to reduce the wage scale outside OF
relief work
Portly Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat. of Nevada ended the argument
for his amendment after a long day
of debate by assailing Senator Wag-
ner for his shift to the administra-
ton proposal. Wagner earlier had
defended his position, saying the
compromise gave protection to the
going wage" scales and fixed the re-
sponSibility on President Roosevelt.
Forty-four Democrats. five Repub-
licans and one Progressive voted
against the McCarran amendment;
19 Democrats. l8 Republicans and
one Observation-Disclosures of
Minnesota-voted for.
Roll Call on Amendment.
The vote rejecting the McCarran
amendment:
Those voting for:
DemocratS-Bone Bulkley, Cope
land, Costigan, Donahey, Lonergan.
Long, Maloney. McCarran. McGill,
Murray. Nicely. Reynolds. Schwellen-
bach, Thomas of Oklahoma, Truman,
Van Nuys. Walsh and Wheeler-l9.
Republicans-Barbou Borah, Cap
per. Carey, Couzens, Cutting, Dick
inson. Frazier, Hastings. johnson,
McNary. Norris, Nye. Schall, Steiwer,
ro,,,peaod Uopdaphorr o-l xxYI,;to
Ia.
Farmer-Labor-Shipstead--l.
Grand total for-38.
Against the McCarran amend
ment, Democrats:
Ashurst, Bachman, Bailey, Bank
head, Barkley, Bilbo, Black, Brown,
Bulow, Burke, Byrd, Byrnes, Clark,
Connally, Coolidge. Dieterich, Duffy.
Fletcher, George, Gerry. Glass, Gore,
Guffey, Harrison, Hatch, Hayden,
King, Lewis, McAdoo; McKellar, Min
ton. Moore. Murphy, O'Mahoney,
Pittman, Pope, Radcliffe, Robinson.
Russell, Sheppard, Smith, Thomas of
Utah, Trammel and Wsgner-44.
Republicans-Austin, Gibson, Hale.
Keyes and Metcalf-5.
Progressives-La Follette-1.
Grand total against-50.
Pairs were announced as follows:
Davis. Republican, Of Pennsylvania,
for. with Logan, Democrat, of Ken
tucky. against; Overton, Democrat, of
Louisiana, for, with Norbeck, Repub-
lican. Of South Dakota, against;
Adams, Democrat, Of Colorado, for,
with Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland.
against.
1t also was announced that Sena-
tor Caraway. Democrat, of Arkansas.
would have voted aye if she were pre-
ent
Evening star., 1935-03-16
Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
TODAY.
Senate.
Debates relief bill.
House.
In recess.
Interstate Commerce. Committee
hears witnesses on holding company
regulation.
YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Defeated McCarran prevailing wage
amendment to relief bill and adopted
substitute.
Finance Committee heard S. Clay
williams testify that continuation of
N. r. A. would require relaxation Of
antitrust laws.
House.
Passed $4,000, 900 Agriculture ap-
preparation bill.
Interstate Commerce Committee
heard opponents Of holding company
bill.
Labor Committee approved Senate
passed bill to give each State at least
$4,000 for public employment Offices.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
DUSTSTORM HITS
G STATES IN WEST
Soil Drifts Like Snow in
Blizzard as Damage
Mounts Killed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March ia
birding. choking duststorm, borne
on capricious March winds, left the
Plains State deep in CRIME and sand
today.
Whipped by winds that reached
velocities as high as So miles an hour.
the billowing, dun-colored clouds of
dust swept across the eastern sections
of Wyoming and Colorado, the west
ern portions OF Nebraska and Kansas,
Oklahoma and Texas.
Relief for Wyoming and Nebraska
was not Slow in coming, however. In
the wake of the gale, which had sent
some residents to their storm cellars.
rain and snow moved in from the
Northwest
The storm bore down on the area
yesterday afternoon. taking the joy
out of two days of unseasonably mild
temperatures. Visibility was cut TO
less than 100 feet: street lights we're
turned on in midaftenoon; traffic
was paralyzed.
Sits Into Tight Buildings.
At Goodland. Kans., dust sifted into
buildings heretofore unaffected by
ordinary storms. At Hays, Kans.,
spectators at a basket ball tourna-
ment we're held in the building for
two hours because of the intensity
of the storm.
w. S. Leonard, Wichita, Kans., was
killed near Hutchinson. KanS. He
was struck by motor car when he
sought to warn other motorists after
his own machine had been wrecked.
A short time later three men were
injured when their automobile crashed
into the wreckage of Leonard's car.
Motor busses were stranded on the
highways in Western Kansas.
The soil drifted against obstructions
like snow in a blizzard. Airplane
pilots said the dust extended upward
to 12,0c0 feet, making visibility 90.
Oil Rigs Blown Down.
Nine oil rigs and eight belt engine
houses in the oil field near Florence.
Colo, were blown down. At the Bald
coal camp in the same vicinity, the
powder house was smashed and eX-
plosives scattered.
The damage to wheat fields could
not be estimated. but reports from
Kansas and Oklahoma said the FIELDS
were not blowing as bad as the week
end storms of February %. After that
storm the Federal Erosion Service
estimated 34000.00O acres had been
damaged in six States.
At Guymon. Okla, far out in the
States panhandle, schools we're closed
when breathing became difficult.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
House Members
Son Pleads Guilty
In Traffic Court

Congress was represented in TRAFFIC
Court today through the son of a
Representative who was a defendant.
and the secretary of a Senator who
appeared as counsel for one Of his
employers constituents.
The Representatives son was Thain
Farley, son of Representative James
I. Farley Of Indiana. The son plead
ed guilty to a charge of reckless
driving and the case was continued to
March 28 for sentence.
Young Farley, VINO gave his ad-
dress as the Roosevelt Hotel. was
arrested at Seventeenth and H streets
by Policeman G. F. Swank
w. E. Mcdonald, secretary to
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina,
appeared as counsel for Nathaniel
B. Blomberg of Asheville, N c.. who
pleaded guilty to charge Of driving
while intoxicated and was sentenced
upon the recommendations Of Assis-
tant Corporation Counsel George D
Nelson to pay fine of 500 or serve
60 days in jail. Blomberg was de-
tanned at Police Court pending re-
ceipt of the money from relatives.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
SCLARA GREACEN,
U. S. LAWYER, DIES
Was One of First Women Ad-
mitted to Practice Before
High Court.

Miss Clara Greacen, one of the first
women admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Court,
died early today at her home, 1925
Fifteenth street, after a prolonged
illness. She would have been 68 to-
morrow.
A native of Kalkaska, Mich, Miss
Greacen came to this city more than
40 years ago. She was an employe of
the Government for AZ years. having
retired last July from service with the
General Accounting Once. Prior to
entering service with that Govern
ment branch. she was employed as
attorney for the Treasury Department,
which position she also held with the
accounting office.
Miss Greacen was graduated from
the Howard University School Of Law
and the Washington School Of Law.
She was q member Of the Women's
University Club and Women's City
Club, and the Christian Science
Church.
Besides her sister, Miss Voc Verne
Greacen, with whom she lived. she is
survived by another sister, Mrs. A. z.
Fowler, of Lakeland. Fla.
Tentative funeral arrangements call
for services here Monday, with tntera I
ment in Michigan.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
GERMANY FORCES
ARMY TRAINING
Hitler Serves Notice on
World Reich Is Ending
Treaty.
Continued From First Page.)


at London included plan for West
ern European air defensive alliance.
in which Germany would be linked
with Britain, France, Italy and Bel
gium.
The German contention, from the
first, was that this invitation to her to
join an air alliance presupposed her
ability to cooperate on an equal plane
with her cosignatories, and hence
made it necessary for her to have an
air force.
Gen. Goering's sudden step to let
the world know Germany already has
an air force and intends to make it a
better one was considered in German
quarters as a logical aftermath OF the
London proposals.
Before the French Chamber Of
Deputies yesterday Premier Pierre
Etienne Flandin presented his plan to
increase the term of conscript service
in the French Army from one year to
l8 months and, subsequently, TO two
years.
This was necessary. he explained
because Of Germany's vast rearma-
ment" In violation of the peace
treaty.
Frances Contention.
Before the Chamber voted to ap-
prove the project. F1andin contended
that France now has only 278. .00O
men available for service on the con-
tinent. while Germany has 100000
lin barracks and Immediately avail
able. who are augmented by numerous
semi military formations"
In 1886, Flandin argued. Germany
"as everybody knows, will have
600 900 men"
Jean Fabry, president of the French
Chambers Army Commission, declared
the German Army had been strength
ened in one year from 10000 to 6G0.-
| 900. asserting the Reichswehr had
been increased from 100000 fthe
treaty figure) to 400 1000 and the nom-
inal total of 100000 police in barracks
doubled
Criticized in England.
German rearmament also was sharp
~ NlNIIlICu tiiC NbltC pa
per" issued last week, in defense OF
increased 1885 estimates for the army
navy and air force, which asserted the
Reich's action inrearming might even
tually imperil the peace of the con-
tinent
French May Protest.
A dispatch from Paris this week
said French government officials were
considering making representations &c
Berlin concerning Goering's fortnight
disclosure Of an air force on the
grounds that it constituted overt vio'
lation Of the Versailles treaty.
The French. 1t was indicated. eX-
pected to get British and Italian CO.
operation in the representations which
it was admitted in Paris, would almost
certainly avail little Of practical value
but might gain some tactical advan-
tage by exposing Germany's violation
of the pact to the world.
At Rome and at London. 1t wa:
recalled, French negotiators obtained
Italo-French and Anglo-French enun'
citation of the principle that no natior
can modify arms limitation obligations
by unilateral action.
That statement, 1t was understood
was designed to apply primarily tt
Germany.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia, March 16.-
The frenzied prayers of 100000 pill
grims Of Islam's faithful were directed
to Allah today to gain forgive
ness for the sacrilege of blo0dshed in
the Kaaba Shrine when three assas-
sins were shot to death in an at
tempted staying of King Ibn Saud.
1t was feared that grave repercus-
sions were inevitable among the Arab
tribes whose feelings are inflamed both
by the outrage yesterday, the Moham-
medan day of rest, and by the viola
ton Of the ban against bloodshed
within the Yelled City.
The ban, 1t is held, was laid down
by Mohammed himself, and Is en-
phasized In the Koran, holy book for
more than zoo, ,000, 900 of the faith.
The soldiers who slew three men
Of Yemen as the King and his son.
the Emir Saud. were threatened In
the 300-year-oldt thri1e, must be cere-
monially ahsolys1 for breaking the
Evening star., 1935-03-16

The pink slip which you filed with
your income tax this time never will
be made public. All congressional
authorities are ce.tain that the re-
pealer will be passed by Congress
some time before adjournment. Even
the Progressive Senators fighting
against it will privately admit they
have little chance of stopping the re-
pealer. They can fiibuster for a
while, but not from now until the
end of the session, against Q small
bill like that.
The Treasury is planning to make
the slips public in October, so Con-
gress has lots OF time.
johnson Turns Writer.
Gen. johnson may get rich out of
failing the pied pipers, He is
swamped with contract offers, has
signed three luscious magazine con-
tracts md is publishing a book. His
spokesman says he is so busy he will
not have time for much radio work.
His Office here is as big and as busy
| as Huey Longs. Political meteors
come up fast, and disappear the same
way.
Senator Byrnes Is. CO. is carrying
his arm in a sling because he tried
to stop a dog fight. 1t was not con-
nected in any way with recent
radio affray.
There are 81 separate and dis
tinct code authorities functioning
under the construction code.
Well known ex Senator Fess
| (Ohio) may be seen daily in the
Congressional Library studying po-
litical history.
The oonusites have had no sue
cess whatever in their efforts to
smoke the White House out on what
it will accept in the nature of
bonus compromise. The answer is
that it will not accept anything as
long as it believes the Senate will
sustain a veto.
Certain code authorities believe
they can notice that the Senate
N. r. A. squabble is beginning to
hurt business. Some manufacturers
are holding back production slightly,
because they can produce goods more
cheaply If the N. r. A. is discon-
tinued.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
EX-0FFICER KILLS SELF

MIAMI, Fla, March is R.-A
coroner's jury yesterday returned
verdict of suicide in the death Of B.
F. Ranger. IS. found shot in his nov
city factory Tuesday. The widow will
take the body of the former naval
officer to Newport, r. l., their former
home, for burial.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
A. A. A. Plagued by
Rumor 1t Will Terni-
nate Cotton Loans.
BY PAUL MALLON.

"HE A. A. A. would like to start
campaign to plow under
every third rumor. The latest
i one which has sprung up to
annoy the officials Is the
erroneous story that cotton loans
might be stopped. This yarn is sup
posed to have been largely responsible
Tor the recent break in the cotton
market. The administration has in
vestigated to learn who started 1t and
has fair idea of the identity Of the
culprits, but no proof.
AS a result, the A. A. A.-ers are
prodoing Chairman Jones of the
House Agricultural Committee to hur-
ry along his bill requiring reporting
system for the cotton markets, similar
to the one now in force on the Grain
Exchange This would enable the
Government to know which operators
are short or long and likely to profit
by tanning bad rumors. They say
this reporting system has virtually
stopped rumor tanning on the Grain
Exchange
Evening star., 1935-03-16
LIQUOR PERMIT FOUGHT
Citizens Head Opposes License for
3513 18th st. NE.

Opposition to an application for an
on-sale beer and wine permit for an
establishment at 35l3 Twelfth street
northeast was voiced today by M. M
Mclean. president of the Brookland
Citizens Association.
The application was filed by George
Christian De Perini. The Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board. at the re-
quest of the Executive Committee of
the association, will hold public
hearing, set for March 25. The pro-
test was based on the nearneSs of the
place to the St. Anthony's Catholic
Church and parochial school and the
Brookland School.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
ALIEN LAND BILL O. KID
Arizona Senate Patterns Measure
After CALIFORNIA;.

PHOENIX, Ariz. March Is tP).-
The Arizona Senate. acting as a COM
mittee of the whole yesterday recon-
mended passage for an alien land bill
patterned after the law in effect in
California. prohibiting ineligible aliens
from owning and cultivating land in
Arizona or cultivating on a share crop
basis.