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Evening star., 1937-04-17
u. s. HALTS ARMS
SALE TO SOV|ETS
Opposes Materials Supply
for Construction of
BattIeship.

The Government has halted a plan
OF Soviet Russia to purchase materials
in this country for a battleship.
Two American corporations, whose
names were not disclosed, have been
informed through the State Depart
ment that while export of such
| materials might be permissible under
the licensing provisions of the neu-
traliy act, the United States disap-
proves Of the transaction as q matter
of policy.
The departments Arms and NUM-
tions Control Board was informed
early in March that the two companies
held contracts with the Soviet gov
ernment for the delivery OF designs,
materials and equipment for the con-
struction OF one battleship in the
Soviet Union.
They asked whether export licenses
would be necessary for such shipments
Fall Within Neutrality Act.
They were told by Joseph c. Greene,
chief Of the Munitions Control Board,
that barring unforeseen changes in
present treaties and statutes the ship
ment of such items abroad would fall
under the provisions of the neutrality
act prohibiting exports of arms, am
munition and implements of war" ex-
cept under Government licenses.
He held that such materials would
! constitute a disassembled vessel of
war.
Under ordinary circumstances, re-
sponsible persons said, such licenses
automatically would be issued to a
country not engaged in hostilities un-
less the equipment involved some mill
tary secret, the preservation of which
would be in the interest of national
defense
| Offlcial told the corporation repre-
sentatives, however, that considera.
tions of Government policy dictated
two primary objections to the granting
OF licenses in this case.
1t was emphasized that exactly the
same objections would apply If any
other country, rather than Soviet Rus
sia, were involved.
Navy Test Provided For.
One specification of the provisiona
contract, it was pointed out, provided
that the United States Navy shoule
test and inspect the guns and armol
for the contemplated battleship be.
fore they could be delivered. One o.
the requirements under the proposed
| Hat no ha nf
inch caliber.
The corporations were told that /
has been long standing policy Of thi
government to disassociate itself en-
tirely from the promotion Of expor
trade in munitions. Under such cir
cumstances, 1t was said, the Govern
ment felt that the Navy should no
be called upon to make any such tests
Omcials held that the export Of 16
inch guns might create a situation
inimical to American interests, sine
the size Of guns lately has been tn
subject of international discussions.
The two corporations involved wer
said to have made no further ap
proaches concerning the matter. tt
date they have not applied for expor
licenses for any of the materials in
volved
Unless the export Of 16-inch nava
guns Is prohibited by the war-tim
espionage act-which protects militar.
and naval secrets-or a provision gov
erning such items is added to tn
neutrality act, responsible persons SAT-
that if applications for export license
are filed they probably would have t.
be granted.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
FUND DRIVE ADVANCES
Nearly Third of $e5 900 Raised

Nearly Third Of $e5, 900 Raised
by Goodwill Industries, Inc.
Nearly one-third of the $65 5000
sought by Goodwill Industries, Inc, in
Its campaign for funds already has
been donated. it was announced yes
terday at the groups first report
meeting.
Records showed s21, 1881 already COL
lected. OF this figure, $1s,785 was
turned in by the Special Gifts Com
mittee, Of which James c. Dulin, tr.,
Is chairman.
A letter from Bishop James E. Free
man commencing the services Of
Goodwill Industries was read by
Ernest H. Daniel, general drive chair
man.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Gets 120 Days for Theft.

George W. Pack, 26, colored, 1918
W street, who has a record Of nine
convictions for stealing newspapers,
was sentenced by Police Judge John
P. Mcmahon yesterday to serve 12O
days in Jail for the theft Of several
magazines from a downtown hotel.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
REAL ESTATE

NE II d Z II =.
Mr.. and Mrs. OliDer Murray
droue do,Dn to Port Royal, Va,
last Sunday and came back to re-
port they tuere paStly impressed by
tho things-d remodeled home be-
longing to a Star erpert on foreign
fand military affairs. and the
to,vn Jail, ,Dhich had pasted on its
cell bars a big sign, For Rent"
Evening star., 1937-04-17
UNFRAMED INCREMENT

THE interest on our SIS deposit
amounts to s12.57," announced a
member of the District w C. T. U. at
a recent meeting here. Il have here
a check for sl757. of which SIS was
principal, the balance interest she
said. holding up the slip of paper as
evidence of the rather startling
statement.
Then came the explanation. Several
decades ago when the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union moved in its
new headquarters the business agent
forgot to collect SIS left on deposit
with the gas company. Nobody thought
anything about it until the company
was going over some old accounts re-
Gently and discovered the deposit
had never been repaid. 1t promptly
dispatched a check. IS for principal,
the rest as computed evidence of its
appreciation of the faith that would in
spire any one to leave IS lying around
the place that long.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
RUMAN|A ALERT,
FEARS NAz| COUP
Stir Created by Banishment
of Nicholas Adds to
Tension.
BACKGROUND

6HCh X hGRUUND-
In 1881 slender, gay Prince Mich
olas, younger brother OF King Carol
OF Runldnia, eloped with Helen
Dumitrtscu, comn,oner. Sir years
later, on April 9, 1897, Rumdnian
government bdnished him, stripped
him OF all royal titles, for refusing
to gipe up his 1oite. They hdve a
child, 2. Carols none-too-sapory
record OF friendship ,pith Nine. Lu-
pescu has helped Nicholas cause
,rtth Rumdnidn people. Foes of
Carol seized on Nicholas ertle to
tor,ent discomfort
Evening star., 1937-04-17
UNPRETENTIOUS.

THE MurrayS supply us with an
= other item, this one canine. Seems
they thought this talk about special
gadgets to push a cocker spaniels
ears out of the oatmeal was lot OF
high falutin' nonsense. Their own
cocker, Sally by name, merely has
her ears tucked back into collar
when the dinner hour rolls around.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Holden BANQUET Speaker,

1R010oH OHIqueI oPedAe1'
DR.. George M. Holden, president
general Of the National Society Of the
Sons Of the War Of 1912, will be prin-
cipal speaker tonight 1T dinner meet
ing Of the local chapter to be held 1t
$50 p.myAt the Cosmos Club.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
VAN DUZER AIDE TO WE'D
Secretary to Be Married to Po-
liceman in October.

Miss Eleanora Wall. who as secre-
tary to Trafic Director William A.
Van DuSer spends most of her time
typing traflc regulations, is going to
marry Trafilc Bureau Policeman Adam
Arney. who spends most Of his time en-
forcing them.
Arney Was assigned to Van Du1er's
once during the automobile tag rush.
It was announced yesterday they will
be mani ID In October. 49,,
Evening star., 1937-04-17

Senator Black Recuperating.
Senator Black Of Alabama today was
recuperating from an attack Of in
huenza. A secretary said, however,
the Senator would be confined to his
home for several days.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

TODAY.
In recess.
Senate Judiciary Committee meets
to fix date for closing court bill hear
tngs.
Evening star., 1937-04-17

and specials" are expected to bring
In q heavier load Of visitors.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
FEDERATION BACKS.
SIX TAX INCREASES.
Opposes Auto Weight Levy
and Change in Lump
Sum Policy.

Six proposals for increased District
taxation now being studied by the
House District Committee, estimated
to bring in about S2600,000 in addi-
tional revenue, were approved in prin-
ciple last night by the Federation Of
Citizens Associations, in recognition
of the need of meeting the anticipated
s6000,000 deficit in the next fiscal
year. Some changes in the pending
bill were recommended.
At the same time, the federation
opposed the suggested repeal of sub
stantive law which requires that the
Federal Government should pay 40
per cent of the costs of the Capital.
A declaration that the proposed S.
100000 lump sum payment would be
neither adequate nor equitable was
adopted week ago at special meet
ing of the federation.
Acting on a report by L. A. Car
ruthers, chairman of its Committee
on Fiscal Relations, the federation
approved in general terms the adop-
tion of increased taxation on insur-
ance companies, corporations, tax
(See FEDERATION, Page A-2O)
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Physicians deSpaired of saving
Bakers life. He was placed under an
oxygen tent last night as his strength
ebbed. Hoover said three bullets tore
into the agents back and stomach
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
director sent Baker a telegram of en-
couragement, assuring the agent that
he knew he had done the best job
possible under the circumstances.
Hoover disclosed here, at the same
time, that the Topeka plant" was but
one of half dozen that were being
maintained by his agents in Kansas,
Ohio, Michigan and New York in the
hunt for Robert Suhay and Alfred
Power, bank robbery fugitives.
Few Men Put on plants"
eve had no idea where Suhay and
Power might turn up Hoover said.
"All we could do was wait and hope
that they might call at one of the sew
eral places under surveillance"
He pointed out it is impracticable to
assign large number of agents to
such plants as they would attract
attention and defeat their purpose.
Baker and another agent were on
duty in the lobby of the Topeka Post
Office. with the knowledge and CO.
operation of postal authorities, he said.
Baker was not a novice at law en-
forcement work, Hoover said, although
he had been a special agent of the
F. B. 1. only few months. Before
coming with the bureau he was a
deputy sheriff in Yuma, Ariz
Cousin Jailed in Brooklyn.
The two agents were assigned to see
who was getting certain letters which
had been mailed from New York City
Evening star., 1937-04-18
CONCERTED ACTION
IN LABOR FIELD HIT
SibIey, Addressing Editors,
Urges State Laws to
Oppose 1t.

Enactment of State laws to make
illegal any concerted action" on the
part of employers or employees,
through lockouts or strikes, was pro-
posed by Harper Sibley, president of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, in an address yesterday after
noon at the final session of the annual
convention of the American Society
OF Newspaper Editors
The laws of the States should be
extended" SibIey said. ito include
provisions directed specifically against
concerted action, whether or not &C
companied by disorder, directed by
individuals, groups or organizations to
bring any degree of coercion through
economic channels upon the public or
upon public agencies or authorities.
Any concerted action for such a
purpose, whether through strikes or
lockouts. actual or threatened, should
be made expressly illegal, and dealt
with from that point of view" sibley
continued. TO be justified, action
by employers or employees should
ASAoeS oOASiy W VIC "Ol MILK
which are in question"
Property Right Held Basic.
Vigorously opposing the sit-down
strike, Sibley said The right to
strike, so long as it does not endanger
the public interest or impose upon
others intolerable hardships, is funda-
mental. The right to the. possession
OF property by its owners, free of
trespassers. is equally fundamental"
Sibley proposed that labor union
moneys be subject to the same restric.
tions legally as those of corporations,
which the law prevents from being
contributed to political campaign
fund. He advocated legislation to
outlaw every form of coercion and
intimidation"
employees OF governments and pub
lie utilities should not be allowed to
strike, Sibley said, but should be held
amenable to an orderly procedure for
settlement Of all disputes through
arbitration
That business leader declared that
before approaching workers, every
promoter of an organization of work.
ers should. as matter of law, be
required to establish as of public
record his identity, the activities which
he will undertake, and the nature
and purpose of the organization he
will promote"
Moment Held Important.
I. you are meeting in Washington
in an extremely interesting moment"
Sibley told the editors. The noun
tain at the eastern end of Pennsyl-
vania avenue is in labor and no doubt
will deliver in due course.
Meanwhile, last Monday the Su-
preme Court again made history. The
five decisions concerning the validity
of the Labor Relations Board were
rendered-four of them by the we'll
(See EDITORS, Page A3)
Evening star., 1937-04-18
Court Will Decide on Right
Of Father to Spank Son, IL

Another poignant chapter in the
age-old emotional conflict between
mother love and paternal discipline
will be written in Police Court to-
morrow, when 11-year-old Fred
Storm is called on to tell how his
father spanked him for staying out
beyond his bedtime.
Robert E. Storm, so, gray-haired
District engineer, was>arrested yester-
day on an assault warrant sworn to
by his divorced wife and mother of
his son.
At liberty under 500 bond after
being f1nger-printed, Storm, obviously
touched deeply by the charges that he
had been brutal to his son, readily
admitted he spanked Fred at their
home, 1881 Columbia road, Thursday
night.
II love the boy" Storm said, "but
things had reached the point where
he was becoming unmanageable. He
was defiant and sneering at orders to
do things. I just had to do something.
'Mend Your Ways"
before spanked MIN TOLD MIN,
listen here brother, you came in late
tonight, but that isn't the reason you
are getting spanked. That is just
the last straw. This is the result of
what you have been doing all along
and you have to learn to mend your
ways"
After he put his son to bed, Storm
said, the lad slipped out of the house
and rode on his bicycle to the home
Of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Hoff-
man, 1923 r street, who married again
shortly after she was divorced in
1896. Storm was granted sole GUS
tody of the lad after obtaining the
divorce. he said. Storm also married
again.
Attorney Jean Boardman, counsel
Evening star., 1937-04-18
5000 DELEGATES
Of D. A. R. ARRIVE
Forty-sixth Congress Opens
Tomorrow Night in Con-
stituti0n Hall.

Five thousands Daughters of the
American Revolution gathered in
Washington today for their forty-sixth
annual Continental Congress, which
opens tomorrow at $50 pm. in Con-
stitution Hall.
Americanism, aid for youth and edu-
cation in citizenship are the topics
featuring the program which con-
tinues through Friday evening, when
the congress closes with banquet, at
which the United States Marine Band
will play.
The opening Of the congress Mon
day will be the usual brilliant and
colorful assemblage of D. A. R. OIL
GERS and the thousands of delegates, u
Mrs. William A. Becker, president
general, said yesterday.
The triennial excitement attending
election of new president general
will be absent this year, for Mrs
Becker's term has another year tc
run. However, seven vice presidents
general and one honorary vice presi-
dent general will be chosen by the
congress Mrs. G. M. Griner Of Wash
ington, is one of II candidates for the
vice presidencies.
Mrs. Becker will open the cere-
monies tomorrow with talk on "Liv.
ing for the Ages" after a procession
Of the national officers and groups OF
escorting pages. Senator Moore, Dem
ocrat, of New Jersey, will sound the
keynote of the congress in his speech
or Youth"
National Defense Meeting.
Several hours before the official
opening, however, the national defense
meeting of the D. A. r. will be held
in the Mayhower Hotel ball room,
with Mrs. Vinton Earl Sisson, chair
man, presiding.
This session, which begins at 2 pm,
will be featured by talks from four
men conversant with international af-
fairs and problems as they concern
the United States.
Early arrivals for the congress gath
(See D. A. r., Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-04-18
BLOSSOM VISITORS
TODAY EXPECTED
TO BREAK RECORD
Throng Of More Than $780,.
600 in Prospect-Fair
Day Is Forecast.
TRAFFIC AUTHORITIES
SEEK TO BAR TIE-UPS
Elaborate Plans Are Made-De.
tails From Nearby Cities to
Assist Local Police.

A forecast of mild weather with
little prospect of rain before nightfall
promised a favorable reception today
for huge throng Of cherry blossom
visitors expected to surpass last Sun
days total of more than 250,0OO
Elaborate plans have been made
to prevent traffic jams like those which
resulted here last Sunday when an
all-time high of $4,000 visitors con-
verged on the cherry trees fringing
the Tidal Basin.
The 213,000 estimate was by the
park police. Other estimates placed
the number of visitors in Washington
at between 250,000 and 100000
With weather prospects more favor
able, there was every indication that
larger numbers would be in the city
today. Last Sunday visitors slept in
Union Station or huddled in parked
automobiles after they were unable to
find accommodations.
Special Traffic Details.
Police OF Washington and neighbor-
Ing cities planned special details to
direct traffic on the approaches to
Washington and in the city proper
Park police hoped to profit by their
experience of last week end and keep
the traffic moving at a somewhat
faster rate around the Tidal Basin,
in a clockwise direction,
Last Sunday the desire of some
motorists to stop while they looked
at the blossoms resulted in jams blocks
long.
The weather forecast calls for
CLOUDY and warmer weather today,
followed by showers at night or to-
morrow: cooler tomorrow" The mer-
curry rose to SO yesterday afternoon
under sunny skies as many week end
visitors crowded into the city.
Park police said last night that the
greatest tratfic problem about the
Tidal Basin Is clearing automobiles
and busses from the area after they
have made the circuit.
Street Made One Way.
Seventeenth street will be one-way
for north-bound traffic from its
southern terminus at the John Paul
Jones Statue at least as far north
as Pennsylvania avenue Details for
guiding traffic approaching the BIOS
som area were not announced
Yesterdays traffic in Baltimore gave
ample evidence of the presence of the
tourists.
North Baltimore arteries were laden
with machines from New York, New
Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware and
points as distant as Maine and Quebec
There were machines of every type
and vintage, trailers included. Many
motorists made return trips to Balti-
more, unable to find hotel accommo-
dations in washington. Still more re-
manned in Baltimore overnight, in
tending to make the trip to the Cap
ital today.
Despite pessimistic observations that
the cherry blossoms are blanching and
that some of the blooms are falling
off, park officials say they still are
near their peak
Within a few days, however, the
single blossoms will fade fast and
leave the stage to the double blossom
variety. scheduled to bloom in about
week in East Potomac Park.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
DR.. Luther attacks u. Critics
Of Nazis in Beer Party Speech
Criticises Writer'S and Speakers Who
Charge Some Sections of Germany
Are Cool to Hitler.

to acknowledge a toast with the re-
quest that he be accorded freedom
of speech"
With flushed face and emphatic
gestures, Luther criticized writer's and
speakers in this country who, he said,
have sought to convey the impression
that some sections of the German
people are unsympathetic TO the re-
gime of Adolf Hitler.
My chief aim during the four years
I have spent in the United States,
has been to give your people a better
understanding of mine, their hopes
and their ambitions" he said But
recently have been made melancholy
by suggestions have read and heard
OF political disunity in my fatherland.
Nothing can be farther from the
(See LUTHER, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1937-04-18
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
DR. Hans Luther, retiring German
Ambassador to the United States, at
tackled American critics of Nazi Ger
many last night in an unexpected
speech to members of Congress and
newspaper men attending his annual
book beer party.
you must accept Germany as she
is" he said. You may not like some
of the things about her, but you must
recognize her as strong and unified
country under the leadership of a
man who has the courage and the
wisdom to lift it out of a grave emer-
gency."
Approximately 300 guests. seated at
tables in room Of the embassy dec
GRATED as a BNarian beer garden,
heard the Ambassador. He had risen
Evening star., 1937-04-18
DC. Man accused of attempt
To Dr0,vn Estranged Wife

Herman J. Williamson, 80, who gave
an address in the 200 block Of Twelfth
street southwest, Washington, was to
have a hearing In a Baltimore Police
Court this morning on a charge Of
attempting to drown his estranged
wife in a Baltimore stream yester-
day afternoon because she refused to
return to live with him.
The wife, Mrs Mae Williamson, 20,
is the mother of Williamson's three
children. The husband was arrested
after he allegedly thrust Mrs. William
sons head under the water several
times in an effort to force her to
agree to come back to him.
The couple separated some time
ago and Mrs. Williamson went to
Baltimore to live with her sister and
brother-in-law. taking the children.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
2-Pound Baby Thrives.

ST. LOUIS, April II (P).-A two
pound baby boy born Monday to Mrs
Lester Pefferman was thriving today
in a hospital incubator
Attending physicians described the
infant as "a lively little fellow" who
is gaining daily. He was 1914 inches
in length at birth. The baby, fed
with a medicine dropper, weighed 80
ounces today, gain of l ounce since
birth.
Evening star., 1937-04-18

DETROIT, April II (P.-Duncan
c. McCrea, Wayne County prosecutor,
who aided in convicting number of
men accused of Black Legion crimes
in the past year, announced today he
would be a candidate for Mayor OF
Detroit next Fall.
Announcement by Mayor Frank
Couzens that he will not seek re-elec-
ton has resulted in the entry Of sew
eral candidates.
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Yesterday afternoon Williamson went
to see his wife and persuaded her
to take a walk to talk things over"
the wife said.
Mrs. Williamson told police she ac-
companied her husband and he
avoided busy streets, leading her
through fields and down deserted
pathways. The wife said her husband
acted queerly" and kept trying to
persuade her to agree to reconcilia-
tion
At spot where Jones Falls flows
through residential section of Balti-
more. Mrs. Williamson said her hus-
band suddenly seized her by the throat
and threw her over the river bank.
Williamson, 1t was said, then
Jumped down the bank into about
Csc WILLIAMSON, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-04-18
SISTERS PLEA WINS
CLEMENCY FOR TEXAN


tence of Man Convicted
of Fraud.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 17.-After his
sister, Gladys Rowntree OF this city,
had related the hardships her family
had undergone since he was sent to
prison, the sentence of Louis U. Rown-
tree of Houston, Tex, was reduced
from one year to six months by Judge
Vincent L. Leibell in Federal Court
today.
Rowntree and his brother, Carlisle,
were convicted Of taking about $780,
600 from cotton traders by falsely de-
claring the money was to be used in
cotton futures transactions. Louis
Rowntree was sentenced to one year
and a day, his brother to five years.
Louis Rowntree had served four
months, pending an appeal, when his
sister wrote to the judge, relating
how her father had died and telling
OF an illness which confined her moth
er to a hospital.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
By the Associated Press,

TORONTO, Ontario, April IL
Premier Mitchell Hepburn urged 3,70O
General Motors strikers at Oshawa,
Ontario, tonight to forget about the
United Automobile Workers of Amer
lea and to send a workers committee
to his Office to make peace with the
company.
This message to the workers, who
walked out April 9, when the company
refused to recognize the John L.
Lewis union as their collective bar
gaining agent, followed the collapse
of Hepburn's second effort to arrange
settlement between the company and
union officials.
Hepburn blamed the failure of his
conciliation efforts on Homer Martin
(See OSHAWA, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-04-18

by a cousin of Suhay, who was under
investigation. This cousin, Joe Heckl,
was arrested in Brooklyn after the
gun battle and, Hoover said, has con-
fessed sending Suhay and Power
warning that G-men were close on
their trail.
There were numbersof patrons in
the post office and the agents did not
tSee OMAN, Page A-4)