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Evening star., 1938-04-11
CONGRESS IN BRIEF
TODAY.

Appropriations - House considers
congressional appropriation bill.
ostmasters-Senate considers bill
to expand power of Congress over post
master appointments.
Naval-Senate Committee continues
hearings on expansion program.
Civil Liberties Toilette Commit
tee resumes investigation Of Associated
Industries of Cleveland.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Program uncertain.
Civil Service Subcommittee, execu-
tive, II am, to consider changes in
Government retirement law.
Judiciary Subcommittee hearing at
1920 am. on bill to establish an ad-
ministrative court of appeals.
Banking and Currency, executive,
10:30 am, on amendments to the
Trust Indenture Act.
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
further considers long and short haul
freight bill.
Naval Affairs Committee, hearing at
10 am. on the naval expansion pro-
gram.
House:
Debates legislative appropriation
bill.
Labor Committee considers new
wage and hour bill, 1890 am.
Banking and Currency Committee
considers Patman bill, 1890 am.
Judiciary Committee considers mis-
cellaneous bills, 1890 am.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee considers bill providing for
control of venereal diseases, 10 am.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
SEES Il BILLION
ASCOST OF FLEET
Bone Offers Estimate at
Hearing-Editor Tells of
Europe War Fears.
BY the associated Press.

BY tie associated Press.
Senator Bone, Democrat. of WASH
ington, told the Senate Naval Com
mittee today present naval expansion
programs will call for an expenditure
Of $500, 100000.
Senator Bone brought out this esti-
mate in questioning William Griffin,
editor and publisher of the New York
Enquirer, who testified in support Of
the pending sl,121 oo0,O Navy bill.
Mr.. Griffin said the proposed bill
lion-dollar expenditure would be "the
best investment Uncle Sam ever
made"
The New York editor. who toured
Europe last year, said David Lloyd
George, wartime premier of England.
told him everything points to a new
war" in Europe this summer He said
Mr.. LloydGeorge told him the United
States might have halted the World
War by forcing peace conference in
1915 or 1916 if it had been prepared
with large navy, army and air force
President LIE Brun Of France, blamed
the Hoover debt moratorium for
Frances failure to pay her obliga-
ton to the United States, Mr.. Griffin
said. The editor told the committee
Lord Robert Cecil predicted England
would never pay her war debt to the
United States
Dean Thomas H. Healey of the
School Of Foreign Service Of George
town University, told the committee
prospects FOR world peace are brighter
now than have been for years.
Dean Healey opposed the naval ex-
pansion bill, declaring The United
States should not do anything. even
indirectly, that would give impetus te
the ornaments race"
Present warfare is local in its nature
and not likely to bring a general war,
he said. A victory by Gen. Francisco
Franco in Spain will enhance rathe,
than retard the prospects of world
peace, he predicted.
Germany's absorption of Austria
has removed another possible source
of a general war, Dean Healey said
Italy's annexation of Ethiopia, he
added. was not of enough Importance
Ito justify event fifth-class war"
Evening star., 1938-04-11
MRS. MARY E. SMOOT
DIES IN HER RESIDENCE
Native of Easton, Md, Had Lived
in D. c. Many Years-Prominent
in Many Activities.

in D. c. Many Years-Prominent
in Many Activities.
Mrs. Mary E. smoot, 80, widow OF
John D. Smoot, died yesterday at her
residence in the Pelham Courts
Apartments. She had been i'll about
five weeks.
For many years resident of this
city, Mrs. Smoot had been prominent
IN number of activities here. She
was a charter member of the first
board of lady managers of the Episco-
pal Eye. Ear and Throat Hospital:
was member of the Washington Club
and the Maryland Society of Colonial
Danes of America.
Previously she also had been promi-
nent in activities of St. Johns Episco-
pal Church, Georgetown, and the
Aged Women's Home. Mrs. Smoot mad
lived in Georgetown for many years
following her marriage. She was a.
native of .Easton, Md.
Surviving are daughter. Miss
Julla d. Smoot; three sons, Lloyd D..
Alden and Francis LeB. Smoot; five
grandsons and a great-grandson.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Wednesday at the EPISCOPAL
church of the Epiphany. Burial will
be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
Hero MOllrned
By 20 SURVIVORS
Of Ship Blast
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, April 11.-Saved by
the timely arrival of three tankers, 2s
OF the 81 crew members who survived
an explosion aboard the Greek
steamer Mount Kyllene today mourned
the death of the hero whose ingenuity
accomplished their rescue.
The explosion-its origin still un-
determined-split the Kyllene in two
200 miles north of the Azores Satur-
day morning.
Radio Operator Papa Theodorou
quickly rugged up an emergency wire
less set aboard the foundering fore
part of the vessel and sent out sos
calls that brought three tankers
the Kaia Knudsen, Inverlee and Athel-
foam, to the scene.
The last man to leave his post,
Theodorou drowned when he leaped
for a lifeboat and missed. Heavy seas
prevented his rescue.
The second victim, according to re.
ports to the Radiomarine Corp, ap-
parently was killed in the explosion.
The Kyllene, bound from Amster-
dam for United States Gulf ports and
Japan. was 412 feet long, with = gross
tonnage Of 5,318.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
STRIKER SEIZED
AT WHITE HOUSE
w. P. A. Seamstress Tries to
See President-Po|ice
Take Her in Custody.

Mrs. Edna Cratty's lone picketing
OF the White House came to an abrupt
halt shortly before noon today when
the W. P. A. seamstress was taken
into police custody after attempting
for more than two hours to talk to
President Roosevelt about relief condi-
tions in her home community of
Valley Spring, Long Island
The 28-year-old mother of two
children, who conducted a single
handed sit-down strike in the White
House executive Office recently after
she was refused audience with the
President, was led away by two Off
GERS from the Woman's Bureau.
When she appeared this morning,
White House officials ordered the Sc
cret Service to deny her entry to the
lobby Of the offices. and she began
pacing in front of the Office building,
periodically resting on the grass.
After a small crowd began gather
ing, the Secret Service called the
Woman's Bureau
Secret Service officers said no
charges would be placed against Mrs.
Crafty unless she refused to leave the
city.
Mrs. Crafty earlier told reporters
she intended to stay here until I am
permitted to see the President"
There are thousands of people
throughout the country who are wait
ing for my message after see him, -
she added. Il only want 10 minutes
of his time and know he would see
me if he knew I was here, but they
won't let me in"
Mrs. Cratty's principal complaint
which she wants to place before the
President, is the recent II per cent cut
in her monthly pay check from the
Works Progress Administration. She
contends her present pay of s504G a
month is inadequate to support herself
and her two children.
She said she had slept in her parked
automobile on the streets for the last
tIlIeG IllSIlto. ldSI lllsllV llel Sdl was
parked at Seventeenth and K streets
NV. II was fairly comfortable" she
said 1T was pretty chilly, but !
didn't mind"
Mrs Crafty, who has been on relief
work for three and half years, says
her desire to see Mr. Roosevelt is not
only to discuss her own personal prob
lem with him, but other things "of
Importance to the American people"
During Mrs. Cratty's recent visit to
the White House she used comfort
able overstuffed chair in the executive
Office lobby for her "sit-down," saying
she wouldn't leave until she saw the
President. On that occasion the White
House sent for Aubrey Williams, then
acting W. P. A. administrator, who
came to the White House and talked
to her, after which she was persuaded
to depart
Mrs. Crafty said today that nothing
has happened since her talk with MIR.
Williams. Il am going to stay until l
see the President, even though they
have denied me entrance to the build
ing"
Evening star., 1938-04-11
Fascists Welcome News.

ROME. April ii (P,.-Fascists today
welcomed news of Great Britain's re-
quest that the Ethiopian question be
placed on the agenda OF the League
of Nations.
They saw in the move a promise
of final and complete recognition OF
Italian sovereignty over Ethiopia,
which 20 states already have conceded
either through formal declarations or
by accrediting diplomats to the King
Of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia"
De Jure Recognition by IL.
The Italian government lists IL
nations which 1t considers to have
accorded formal de jure recognition
Of the empire. They are Germany,
Switzerland, Austria (since united
with Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia,
Albania. insurgent Spain, Poland,
Japan, Manchukuo and Yemen.
Equivalent recognition through ac-
crediting diplomats is considered to
have been given by nine states-Chile
Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Ire
land, Nicaragua, Belgium, Turkey and
Grece.
Eight nations, including France and
Britain, but not the United States, are
listed as having given de facto recog-
milton.
Agreement in Rome.
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzc
Ciano and the Earl Of Perth, British
Ambassador, yesterday reached fina,
agreement on terms of an Italo- Brit
ish treaty to settle outstanding differ
ences between the two nations.
1t was believed the treaty would
cover these principal points:
l. A British undertaking to work
through the League Of Nations for
recognition of Italian sovereignty in
Ethiopia.
2. 1taly's agreement to withdraw
her troops from Spain.
3. Reaffrmation Of mutual recog-
milton of each others interests in the
Mediterranean, and extension of this
to include the Red Sea.
4. Return of Italy's Libyan gar
rison to a peace-time basis.
5. A British promise to respect
1taly's right of passage through the
Suez Canal to her East African pos
sessions.
8. Agreement to refrain from radio
propaganda attacking one another's
interests.
Evening star., 1938-04-11

The Atlantic storm has moved north
ward to southern Greenland. Godthaab
$3.50 INCHES. with trough extending
southwark to the east of Newfoundland
eastward over the Province. of Ontario,
Moosonee. 3g.34 inches. with q trough
extending southwestward to Northern
Texas; Pressure is relatively low. over
British Columbia and Alberta. Prince
George. B. G, .o.70 inches. Pressure, is
high over the Atlantic States and be-
tween the mainland and Bermuda. At
lantie City, n. J., 30.4: inches, Pressure
Mountain region. Puebla Colo. 1910
inches, while a high-pressure area Is mov-
ing east-southcastWard over northern
Manitoba. Churchill, 3O,0s inches. Dur
ing the last "a hours there has been some
light precipitation over the northern
Rocky Mountain region and the western
portion OF the middle Plains. Precipi-
tation occurred also in portions of south
eastern Canada. Temperatures have
moderated in the Lake region, the Central
Valleys and the Southern States.
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harrer's Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today
ReDOrt for last ~ H0urs
Evening star., 1938-04-11
RIOT PENALTY STANDS
Baltimore Union Oficial' Again
Rebuffed by High Court.

The Supreme Court refused today
to stay its mandate refusing to re-
view the conviction Of Harry Cohen,
Baltimore Teamsters' Union business
representative, who is under a three
month penitentiary sentence for riot
ing during taxicab strike in De-
cebre, 1886.
The court last Monday announced
its refusal to pass upon the decision
against Cohen by the Maryland Court
Of Appeals. After this action, coun-
sci for Cohen asked for a stay pend
ing the filing Of a petition for re-
hearing.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
NEW H0N0RS WON
BY D. c. CHEMISTS
DR.. CottreII and DR.. Pigman
Receive Awards for
Research Work,

DR.. Frederick G. Cottrell, local
chemist and inventor, and DR.. Walter
w. Pigman. assistant chemist of the
sugar division of the National Bu.
reau of Standards, have won new
honors for outstanding research work
in different fields of chemistry, it was
announced today.
DR.. Cottrell, who, during the World
War, helped perfect a process that
cut the cost of helium gas from s1,7O0
to l cent foot, was awarded the
Evening star., 1938-04-11
ROSE M. JONES DIES
IN NORTH CAROLINA
National Committeewoman for
G. o. P. From State Had
Relatives Here,

Mrs. Rose M. Jones, Republican, ma
tional committeeWoman of North
Carolina and wife of John r. Jones,
the only Republican solicitor Of that
State, died today in hospital at
North Wilkesboro. N. c., it was
learned through the Associated Press.
Mrs Jones was a sister OF Attorney
Robert H. McNeill, 1912 Garfield street
NV, and Mrs. c. C. Dimmette, 6227
Ninth street NV
Besides her husband, brother and
sister, she also leaves another brother
and five sisters, who live in North
Carolina. Mrs Jones was daughter
of the late Rev. DR.. Milton McNeili,
Baptist minister.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
new PARKING METER
LOCATIONS PLANNED
Traffic Advisory Council Meets
Thursday to Map Placing
of Coin Boxes

The District Commissioners Traffic
Advisory Council will meet Thursday
to consider locations for the parking
meters authorized in the District ap-
preparation act for the coming fiscal
year.
The measure provides for a trial
period ending July l. 1899, when park
Ing meters will be placed in an area
equal to the perimeter of four city
squares.
The meeting will be held at 8 pm.
IN the board room of the District
Building.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
English Novelist Dies.

LONDON, April II (P,.-Edgar Jep-
son, "A, English novelist, died today
following stroke Starting in 1895,
when he published "Sibyl Falcon" J."
Jepson wrote some SIS books over a
period of more than 40 years. Many
of them were mystery stories. His
son. Selwyn, also is a novelist and a
moving picture scenario writer.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
CROWLEY TO BE FETED

Karl Crowley, who is retiring as
Solicitor General of the Post Office
Department to enter the Texas guber-
material race, will be guest Of honor
at dinner Thursday night at the May
flower Hotel. Postmaster General Far
ley will be toastmaster and high Gov
ernment omcias will attend.
Mr.. Crowley leaves ONCE Friday, the
nth anniversary Of his appointment
Evening star., 1938-04-11
MEDICAL THEORY
Mexican officer Will Discuss
1nfantile Paralysis Control.

DR.. Donate Perez Garcia, lieutenant
colonel in the Mexican Army Medical
Corps and specialist in spinal dis
eases. has arrived here to introduce a
revolutionary theory" in the cure Of
infantile paralysis and syphilis ac-
cording to an announcement by the
Mexican Embassy
He was to disclose the results of his
experiments at q press conference to-
day.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
c. J. BRENNER SUICIDE
IN HIS.HOTEL ROOM
Purchasing Agent for U. S. News
Had Been Declared Suffering
From Ill Health.

With bottle of poison beside him.
Clarence Joseph .Brenner, 35, pur-
chasing agent for the United States
News, was found dead yesterday in
his room in a hotel hear Union Sta
ton. Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid issued a certificate of suicide.
Mr. Brenner, who lived at 3l5 Evarts
street NE, left note addressed to
his wife, Ruby. reading: This may
be terrible shock to you-my mind
is gone
Mrs Brenner said her husband left
home early Saturday, apparently in
good spirits. He paid two days rent
when he registered at the hotel the
same day The Brenners had been
married almost 10 years. Police said
Mr.. Brenner had been in i'll health.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
BIRTHS REPORTED

Maxton and Helen Lee girl.
Ashby and Margaret Clayton, girl.
Frank and Margaret Windsor. girl,
Robert and Marion Weston boy.
Henry and Barbara Harper. boy.
Eooeft and Cugerthia Hayes, girl.
Exum and May Roberts, boy.
John and Frances Clark, boy,
Roscoe and Mary Bowie, boy.
Milford and OrenteS Bailey, gtri.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
SOLDIER IS SLAIN

DETROIT, April IL (Pi.-Pvt. John
D. Zero, 25-year-old soldier stationed
at the United States Army post at
Fort Wayne (Detroit) was shot and
killed today when he failed to obey a
command to halt after he had escaped
from the post hospital.
The post officers told Foster Knob
loch, deputy coroner that Pvt. Zero
had been mental patient and had
been confined under guard to the
posts pSychopathic ward.
Evening star., 1938-04-11

HleQdl presented
annually by the
American Insti-
tute of Chemists
for Outstanding
service to the
science of chem
lstry."
DR.. P g m a n i,
who has con-
Quoted important
research into the
optical properties
OF the sugar at
the Bureau of
Standards, was
awarded a fellow
shin bv tho Labor
Evening star., 1938-04-11
for Last fS Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 50. at 4 pm. yesterday; year
aGo. AZ.
Lowest, "a, at $50 am. today; year
ago, "a.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest "a. on March %.
Lowest. Is. on January 2S.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 50 per cent. at $40 I'm. today.
Lowest "a per cent at $3.50 pm. yes
terday.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED bv United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow
High -------- b:17 am. 500 am
Low ---- 1928 am
High -------- 5:42 pm. 1894 pm
Low ---------- 1903 pm. 1855 pm
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
sun. today .--- 5.39 $40
Sun, tomorrow - 5:37 6:41
Moon. today -- 3:47 pm. 3:37 am
Automobile lishts must be turned on
one-haf hour after sunset)
Evening star., 1938-04-11

and the late Mr.. and Mrs, John r
Mclean. He has been residing for
some time in Colorado Springs, Colo,
where he has been handling business
interests of his mother. The Misses
Meem returned about week ago after
spending several weeks in Florida as
the guests of Mrs. Mclean and her
daughter, Miss Evalyn Washington
Mclean. Young Mr.. Mclean joined
his mother and her guests in the South
and returned to the Capital with them.
Mr.. Mclean and his bride will make
their home in Colorado Springs, fol-
lowing their wedding.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Fairfax.

Francis Elmer Owen. 25, and Dorothy
Lnclile shickle. 2l. both Of Baltimore
joseph ,Gloyd Dif1endal. 25. and Katherine
ElIzsoeth Ella n smithson. 2l, both Of Baiti.
Milton Young Berry jr.. 81. R. F. D..
Fairfax and Luella Parsons. % Fairfax
Maurice Lee Wright. 33. and Edith Berths
Gates: 20. both Of Bethesda. Md
Ralph Milton Bailey, "a. and Mary Isabelle
7,e Pltta. :;;i; both Of Washinston. D, G
Helen Louise Stanton. 30. both Of Wash.
lnston. D. C.
Vernon Louise Brockm.n. "a. and France.
Louise Merryman. 2l. both Of Balti-
more. Md.
Rockville.
John A. Worsham. 80. and Anna Marie
Burleigh: .1s. both OF Clarendon. Va.
John Arnold Gayhardt. jr.. 25, and Dor.
othy Eleanor Eberwein 81. both Of Bal.
Vivian franklin Butler. 81, and Pearl M
~ Butler. 81, both OF Richmond. Va.
Chader Bradley. 30, and Isoline Williams
-, 80, both of Washington.
Walter Kozak, 26. Shamokin. Pa. ane
Ruth Laura Newell. "a, Vendergrift. Pa
Andrew MacFarlane Knappen, %, wash.
ington. and Marjorie Mary Oslon. 26
Horace Derwood Farrar. %. and Eleanor
noGs, g.; Holt; i: both Of Richmond l., W:
,oSn. ~. both Of washington. 49, ,,.u,,
John nrs.h A. worsham nm, a and Anna Marie
thy Eleanor Eberwein, 81. both Of Balti.
more
Evening star., 1938-04-11
Feodor Chaliapin Ill.

PARIS, April II P).-Attendants of
Feodor Chaliapin said today the singer
was suffering with kidney trouble and
spent a very bad night" Doctors
were in consultation at noon. He is IS.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
THE WEATHER REPORT


Maryland
West Generally
Evening star., 1938-04-11
DOUBLE BLOSSOMS
ARE SHOWING COL OR
FLORAL Show to Be at Best for
Easter Sunday if Sunshine
Continues, Gartside Saws

oAIAAues, 0drLS1Qe Says,
Tne double-blossom Japanese cherry
trees, found In the vicinity Of Hains
Point IN East Potomac Park, are be-
ginning to show color, Frank T.
Gartside. acting superintendent of the
National Capital Parks. announced to-
DAY. He promised that, with good
weather, the floral show will be at its
best for Easter Sunday.
He made the prediction after David
saunders, chief of the horticultural
division Of the National Capital Parks
made personal inspection tour of the
trees this morning. After Wednesday
Mr.. Gartside said, the blooms will be-
gin coming in force.
Some OF the visitors have informed
the park authorities in the past that
they consider the double blooms
superior to the single blossoms around
the Tidal Basin.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
Question Placed on Agenda.

GENEVA. April II P,.+n COM
pliance with request from Great
Britain, the Leagues secretary general
ordered the question of recognition of
1talys Ethiopian conquest placed on
the provisional agenda for the session
Of the Council opening May g. 1t
must be approved by the Council in
its opening meeting.
At the same time Britain's note to
the League was ordered communicated
to all members OF the Council and to
Halle Selassie, the deposed and exiled
Emperor Of Ethiopia.
The British move. asking that
"the consequences of the present
situation in Ethiopia" be placed on
the agenda, was considered certain
to result in discussion at the May
council meeting, since such a re-
quest by Britain never has been re-
jected
The League Assembly in October
1885, declared Italy an aggressor
against Ethiopia. This led to League
sanctions against Italy.
League members were pledged not
to recognize the results of the Italian
conquest.
Evening star., 1938-04-11
SEEKSO.K.
ON |TALY'S EMPIRE
Requests League Council to
Take Up Question at
May 9 Session.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated PreSS.
LONDON. April 11.-Britain today
started League of Nations machinery
to obtain recognition for Italian ETH.
opia, and reliable quarters indicated
Prime Minister Chamberlain's long
sought agreement with Italy virtually
was ready for signing. England asked
that the League Council, meeting May
9, consider the Ethiopian question.
Informed sources said an off1cia
statement on the weeks of Anglo-Ital.
ian negotiations to end two and one.
half years of embittered relations coulc
be expected at the beginning of next
week
Agreement Already Reached.
1t was no secret in diplomatic cir
cles that the agreement already hac
been reached, to be drafted formally
this week. 1t was likely to provide:
l. A British undertaking to work
through the League for recognition OF
Italian sovereignty over Ethiopia.
2. Italian agreement to withdraw
troops from Spain.
3. Reafirmation of mutual recoeni-
ton OF British and Italian interests
IN the Mediterranean and extension
of this policy to the Red Sea.
4. Return of Italy's Libyan garrison
to peacetime basis.
S. A British promise to respect
1talys right of passage through the
Suez Canal to her East African Dos
sessions.
6. Mutual agreement to refrain
from radio propaganda against each
others colonial interests.
Aid Denied Loyalists.
Meanwhile. Frances new Premier,
Edouard Daladier. moved to make his
own bargain with Rome as Mr.. Cham
berlain announced in the House of
Commons that the Spanish govern
ment's appeal for arms had been re-
jected.
British action in Geneva took the
form Of a request that "the conse-
quences Of the present situation in
Ethiopia" be placed on the agenda
for the council session.
Britain probably will invite the
League to free member states from
their obligations not to recognize the
war-forged Ethiopian domain.
Major Object of Policy.
BY such recognition, II Duce would
achieve what has been one of the
major objects of his foreign policy
ever since weary, disillusioned Halle
Selassie, deposed Ethiopian Monarch
sailed into exile May 4, 1896, in 8
British warship.
Mr.. Chamberlain was questioned in
Commons regarding the British move
at Geneva
Sir Percy Harris, Liberal askeC
whether this meant Britain was giving
lead to other nations. Mr.. Cham
berlain refused to commit himself
despite a storm Of Labor cries, An.
swer! Answer"
Evening star., 1938-04-11

BACKGROUND
The National Labor Relations
Board found the Republic Steel
Corp. guilty OF violating the Wag-
ner Labor Act in decision issued
Saturday. The decision listed eight
counts, including responsibility for
the death OF three strikers in riot
at Massillon, Ohio, last July.