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The Washington times., 1938-10-04
Maestro Too TGLkGtiUe:
Toscanini Prisoner
To Guard His Tongue
Italy WOn'tLet Conductor Leave in
Fear He'll Tell Too Much
By FRANK GERvASI
f0--t-AA saaaN

ROME Oct. NS)-Arturo Toscanini will not be per-
med to leave Italy because he is every takave man"
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&c H A MBERLAIN.
URGED TO CALL.
ELECTION N 0 ".
Premier Is Opposed to
Test, However
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'hol da general election next
month.
They expressed confidence that
the government would be returned
for another five years with an
overwhelming majority on the
basis of the Munich agreement.
The Washington times., 1938-10-04

RATES By MAIL FOR VIRGINIA. MARY
LAND, WEST VIRGINIA AND
NORTH CAROLINA
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RATES BY CARRIER IN WASHING.
TON. D. c., AND SUBURBS
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
PWA Profits
Reported at
IS Million

G.N.S). The Public Works Ad.
ministration division of accounts
reported to Secretary of Interior
Ickes today that the Government
has received more than IS million
dollars profit from PWA bond
sales and interest on securities.
In financing the old Public
Works Program, the Government
paid an average of 23s per cent
on borrowings, while states, mum.
cipalities and other public bodies,
which borrowed from PWA, paid
4 per cent.
The total of all interest col
lected through March 81 last, was
$22, $40, 204, while the profit to the
Government from bond sales
amounted to $12,858,566, a total
of $35 $685. ITO.
PWA has sold to RFC $601,-
818,061 worth of securities in
municipal bonds, posted as col
lateral for PWA loans on public
projects. The RFC has sold $432,-
10000 worth of these bonds to
the public,
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U. S. GUARANTEE bill SEEKS US.
FOR RAILS OUT RAIL OWNERSHIP

G.N.S), President Roosevelt to
day frowned on proposals that the
Federal Government guarantee
railroad bonds after individual,
carriers have gone through re
organization proceedings.
How about cotton COM
panies, automobile plants and
steel companies that might be
coming out of reorganization?"
the President asked at his press
conference.
Generally speaking, Mr.. Roose
welt pointed out, it is the general
practice to appraise bondholdings
at market value. He made an ex
ception in the case of such a
great emergency as existed in
1930-33, when State insurance
commissioners agreed to permit
bookkeeping on a basis of actua,
values because, obviously, the
market values at that time wert
below actual values.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he was still
working on his railroad message
to Congress. John j. Policy, presi
dent of the Association of Ameri
can Railroads, was to return tt
the White House this Afternoon
for the second time in "a hours tt
supply data.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
MILITIA TIRES
OF NAz| EMBLEM

DENVER, April 8 G.N.SO Off
GERS of the Forty-fifth Division
of the National Guard today pre-
pared a protest to the War De.
partment over their insignia, de.
spite the fact the same emblem
was worn by Coronado's troops
when he marched through the
Southwest 400 years ago.
The insignia, in use since lorna
ton of the division after the
World War, is a swastika.
Many officers and men be-
lieve the public looks upon the
emblem as representative of
Nazism," Capt. Gen. Alphonse P.
Ardourel, commander Of the
Colorado National Guard, ex-
planned. cit is very glaring and
we don't like it."
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Dr. Roosevelt
Boss Keeps Mcintyre
From GridirOn Fete

Col. Marvin H. Mcintyre, presi-
dental secretary who went 20
Naval Hospital yesterday for OBJ,
Servation and rest, will not be
able to attend the Gridiron Club
dinner tomorrow night, according
to a statement made by the Presi-
dent himself today.
The President was asked whether
he had heard anything from lis
secretary since entering the hos
pital, and replid that Colonel Nc
Intyre was feeling clipper and
was anxious to attend the Grid,
iron dinner, but that he would
have to remain in the hospital on
the urgent advice of his two doc,
tors.
The President then mentioned
the names of the doctors-Dr
Ross T. Mcintyre, White House
physician, and Or" Franklin D
Roosevelt.
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Government ownership Of rail
roads was proposed in a bill in
troduced in the Senate today by
Senator Ernest Lundeen of Min
neSota, one of two Farmer-Labol
Senators.
This bill would exchange
Government bonds for railroad
securities as the basis Of the
transfer.
In introducing the measure, Sen
ator Lundeen declared:
The railroads have broken
down just as they broke down
during the World War. The
Government put them on their
feet and gave them millions of
dollars. They put the people
through this wringer just as
they did before the war and now
they have broken down again.
In my opinion Government
ownership is the best way out.
IF we can send money for
wandering warships to NEEDLE
in world affairs, we can get the
money to- take over the rail
roads,"
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Cotton Probe
Set Monday

G.N.S) The Senate Agricul-
ture Committee will begin it's in
vestigation of the American Cot
ton Cooperative Association on
Monday, Chairman Smith CD Of
South Carolina announced today.
Witnesses will include officials
of the A. C. C. A. and managers
of the various cooperatives in the
South. Oscar Johnston, vice presi-
dent of the Commodity Credit Cor
poration and managers Of the
Cotton Producers Pool, will be the
first witness, Smith said.
E. F.. Creekmore. vice president
and general manager of the A. c.
C. A., will testify later in the
week.
In a report submitted to Sena-
tor Smith by Lawrence West.
brook, special Investigator for the
committee, it was charged that
the A. C. C. A. had "ungraded cot.
ton from $2.75 to $3.50 a bale
causing serious losses to growers
and to the Government"
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Firm Rules Out
"WOven by Hand

GN.S.) Entering into a stipu-
lation with the Federal Trade
Commission, John Hand & Sons,
Inc, Paterson IN. j. manufac-
turers Of tie fabrics, and its sales
agents, James RoSenthal and Rob
ert j. Wright, trading as Rosen-
thai & Wright, New York, agree
to discontinue certain misleading
representations in the sale OF
their products, the commission an
nounCed today.
The respondents stipulate they
will cease employing the phrase
women by hand" or the word
woven" in connection with the
words "by Hand" or with the
perturbation Of a hand or in any
other way so as to imply their
products are woven by hand or on
a hand loom, when such is not a
fact.
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SENATE DEFEATS
HOUSE INCREASE.
IN LIQUOR TAX
Final Vote on Measure
Expected by NightfaII

G.N.S.) Moving swiftly to-
ward final vote on the $780,.
100000 tax bill by nightfall, the
Senate today rejected by voice
vote a House provision which
would have added 25 cents per
gallon tax on distilled spirits.
The bill now carried provisions
to continue the present Federal
tax of 81 per gallon on distilled
spirits. The move to keep the
House provision in the bill was
made by Senator Frazier (R) of
North Dakota, who claimed the
wealthy" liquor industry could
we'll afford to pay the proposed
increase.
OTHER AMENDMENTS
Other amendments to be voted
upon are:
/. BY Senator LaFollette (P)
of Wisconsin, to boost Surtax
rates in the brackets below
$4,000, lower the personal ex-
enption upon married persons
from $4,000 to $4,000 and upon
single persons from $1,000 to
$500, and to hike the normal
tax upon personal incomes from
4 to 6 per cent.
2. BY Senator Pope CD of
Idaho, to put excise taxes on
manufacturers of farm products
to raise $212,000,00O for distri-
button to farmers as compensa-
ton for cooperating in the gen.
eral farm program Of the RooSe-
welt Administration.
3. BY the committee, to re-
peal the stamp tax on sales of
produce for future delivery, af-
fecting transactions upon COM
modify exchanges.
CLARK PROPOSAL
Senator Clark CD of Mis-
souri, said he may offer an
amendment to tax income from
Federal, State and local bond
issues.
A battle also will be waged over
the House provision to exempt
northern white pine, Norway pine,
Engelmann spruce and western
white spruce from the present i'm
port tax of $3.50 per 1000 board
feet. The Finance Committee
recommended approval of the
House provision, with the excep-
ton of Engelmann spruce.
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Gigantic Relief Program
To Go to Congress Soon

happened" he said, suggesting
that the causes are:
Purchasing power in the
hands of the consumers failed
to keep pace with production.
Tremendous increase in in
ventories.
THE failure of the promising
building revival because of riS-
ing costs and unwarranted in
creaSes in prices"
Large segments Of the popula
ton are living in poverty. Hop
kinS said. They have inadequate
clothing, live in miserable houses
and are without adequate medical
care and they have no purchasing
power to keep the economic ma
chine going"
BEGINNING OF SECURITY
Millions of Americans are liv
ing in homes that are unfit from
every point of view unfit fol
human habitation." he said. Pow
erty in the rural areas he charac
terized as widespread Amos
every industry has been hit b!
the slump.
ITO sum up" he said, ''the
Federal relief program now in
operation while needing integra-
ton and expansion in some re-
spects, does represent a subStan-
tiaI beginning of dignified and
adequate security program.
1.-The Governments work pro-
gram in the future should be
integrated with the unemploy-
ment insurance systems and the
employment service. By that I
mean that these major pro-
grams to aid the unemployed
must function as complement
airy parts of a comprehensive
unemployment relief plan"
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
3 Girls Disappear;
Police Hunt Asked

Police were asked today to aid
in the search for three missing
District girls, last seen by their
parents last night and believed by
them to have gone away together.
The three are Margaret Pick
ford English, 10, of 406 Second st.
N. W.; Mary Frances Fink, IA, Of
the same address, and Agnes
Lukota, 10, of 401 Fourth st. N.
w. Their disappearance was re
ported by John w. English, father
of one of the girls.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
GOebbels Predicts
Colonies Return

NUREMBERG, Germany. April
8 0.N.SO.-"The colonial problem
will be solved, but wnen and how
we do not know" That asSur-
ance. voiced by Propaganda Minis.
ter GoebbelS in an Austrian plebis-
cite election speech here, was be.
fore the German people today as
a renewed prediction Germany
will regain her lost colonial pos.
sessions.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Florida POstpOnes
Boxer EXtraditiOn

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, April 8
G.NS0 Action had been delayed
for at least so days today on ex-
tradition of Ben Brown, middle,
weight boxer, to Virginia, to face
seduction charges.
w. Branch Cone. secretary OF
Governor Fred P. Cone, said NO
Virginia officials we're present and
evidence was found insufficient to
warrant extradition at a prelimi
nary hearing Yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Virginia Voters
Told of Poll Tax

The Democratic Absentee Voters
Bureau of the Democratic Nation
al Committee, 1406 G st. N. W.,
today notified Virginia voters they
must pay their poll tax by May 7
The primary election will be held
August 2, general elections No
vember 8. Applications for Off
cial ballots, free notary service
and additional information is sup
piled by the bureau. Mrs. Hor'
tense Sirmon is Virginia State
chairman for the bureau.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Probe of Murder
Shifted to Ohio

GAINESVILLE, Ohio, April 8 e.
INSTRUMENTATION of the road
side murder Of Arthur Rowland
29-year-old Holidays Cove (W
Va musician and actor, shifted
to this city today where the vic.
TINS blood-smeared automobile
was found Tuesday morning.
Sheriff Dan Ferguson, OF Han.
cock county, expressed the belief
Rowland was murdered by a per.
son we'll acquainted with the vic.
tim. Rowland'S body was found
face down in a thicket near
Bridgeville, Pa, Monday right, a
bullet wound in his left temple.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Food Unfit to Eat,
He Asks Divorce

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 8
QN.S0 Henry PiaSecki, "a, took
one look at the meal his 18-year-
old wife had cooked for him. He
put the plate on the floor in
front Of his dog. The dog shifted
twice and walked away.
Authority for the claim was
Piasecki's landlady, Miss Anne
Fourier, on record today in Mid
dlesex county probate court. testi.
flying for him in his petition for
a divorce.
The Judge took the case under
advisement.
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Relief Plans
Soon Go to
Congress
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the so-called Woodrum amend
ments which requires that the re-
lief budget be broken up into y
monthly allotments. He pointed
out that it was impossible to tell
in advance the needs for specific
future months.
SILENT ON LAGUARDIA
To other questions, his answer
was that he intended to tell Con-
gress.
Queried about a visit he expects
later in the day from Mayor
Fiorello LaGuardia, of New York,
and a committee from the United
States conference of mayor on the
subject of relief, the Chief Execu-
tive said he had no advance in
formation as to the nature of their
desires.
Plans for the general attack
against the recession threw again
into the limelight Harry Hopkins,
WPA chief who is slated to head
the projected department Of vel
fare which would be set up under
the pending reorganization bill.
HOPKINS IN CHARGE
Under this Setup, Hopkins as
full fledged member of the en-
larged Cabinet would be in charge
of handling existing WPA and
PWA setups. This would give him
the handling of the entire spend
ing system of the Government,
for both direct and work relief.
The comprehensive spending
program was we'll received in Con-
gress, for there have been insist
ent demands there for renewed
pump printing. Moreover, this is
a campaign year, and it was
pointed out that peak spending
under the projected program
would be reached as members of
Congress up for reelection swung
into the final days of their cam
paign.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Plans
Fought by Citizens

Meeting in the Southeas st
branch Public Library, the newly
organized Fort Davis Citizens As
ISOLATION last night adopted a
resolution opposing construction
of apartment buildings alon g
Highwood Drive in the recently
developed section. The organiza-
ton also voted to send delegates
to the coming conference on the
District suffrage movement and
discussed highway and sewer needs
for the neighborhood.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Germany's Steel
Output Tops i. S.

BERLIN, April &C erm a n
steel production in January
passed for the first time that OF
the United States, according to
the Reich statistical office. 1t
gives the figures as Germany
$4,000 tons; United States.
l ,760, 900.
German pig iron production in
the same month was given at only
$4,000 tons below the American
| figure.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Lubricants Firm
Cleared of Blame

0.NS.) The Federal Trade
Commission today dismissed its
complaint charging American Lu.
bricants Co., Inc, of Dayton,
Ohio, with certain unfair methods
of competition in connection with
the sale of motor oils. The dis
missal was ordered because testi-
mony and evidence did not sustain
the allegations.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Neutrality Held
Strait Jacket

1.N.S.) The neutrality act
was described as a strait
jacket" before the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee by
Senator Johnson (R.) of Cali
fOrnia, testimony during an
executive session revealed to-
day.
JohnsOn's remarks, made
during consideration of the
$1,121,00O,OOO naval expan-
sion bill were:
"The neutrality law is a
classic example of being
placed in a straitjacket for an
unpredictable future. After
the Administration got it, it
didn't dare invoke it,"
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
'EASIER R ULE S
SEND FILA LOAN
ACTIVITIES UP
40 Per Cent Increase
Cited by Mcdonald

0.N.S) Federal Housing Ad
Illustrator Stewart Mcdonald to
day credited the loosening Of regu
lations governing FILA mortgages
for the 40 per cent increase in
business transacted by the Gov
ernment's loan agency in March
1898, over the same month last
year.
RECORDS BROKEN
Breaking all monthly records
for FILA, a gross business of more
than 500, 100000 was recorded
for March, Of which sos, 161 200
was in home mortgages, he said.
The registered increase in the
building field by private contrac
tors was credited directly to the
liberalizing of FILA mortgaging
regulations which particularly
struck at insurance restrictions
and permitted mortgages up to 90
cent on homes under $4,000.
IMPROVEMENTS CITED
A total of $137,773, $50 in home
mortgages has been written since
the regulations were changed,
compared with a little over $114,'
600, 900 in March 1887.
A number Of property improve.
mentS were involved as well as
new construction.
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Speaking as a graduate of an
agricultural college, wallace
painted a dreary picture of the
South and its farmers from the
Civil War days until the New
Deal 1naugurated itsS farm relief
program. He emphasized that
the science of agriculture has
just begun"
I'VE shall develop new strains
OF cotton, better methods of
crop rotation, better breeding
Of livestock and a new science
of nutrition" he said.
WARNS FARMERS
He warned, however, that from
time to time, and especially dur.
ing the next year or two, we shall
see tremendous efforts on the
part OF certain demagogues to
create diSunity among farmers. u
They have no interest in the
general welfare of all farmers,
Wallace asserted. "They are
only interested in creating con-
fusion out of which they can
rise as heroes or martyrs. These
INSCRIPTIONS men not only hate
Roosevelt, they hate anE who
has genuinely tried to help the
farmers.
ONLY WEAPON
Against these demagogues
and those that stand behind
them, the only weapon is educa-
ton The most important
thing of all Has to do with
training Of leadership in making
decisions, not merely on the
basis Of a community or a
county or state or a region, but
on the basis of welfare of the
entire country"
Striking at troubled European
politics, he emphasized also that
educational training would "save
this country from those who come
from other continents to challenge
our democratic way of life."
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In Congress To-day

Senate.
Meets at liza. m.
Resumes tax revision debate.
Received Lodge amendment re-
vising social security payments.
House.
Meets at noon.
Resumes consideration Of Gov
eminent reorganization bill.
Flood Control Committee con-
|tinues flood hearing.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08

ZION IL is a DUH ana
proposed "to do somebody
else's work"
Also the firebrand of
the Marine Corps pre-
dicted the program will
never be completed.
II feel that this navy
will never be built because
the people will wake up to
the bluff that is going on
and stop it before a keel
is laid.
"They will wake up to
the fact that it is being
promulgated to do the
work for somebody else,"
Butler said.
Speaking before the SEN
ate Naval Affairs Com
mittee, considering the
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Britain to Train
Youths AS Filters

LONDON, April 8 U.Ns0.-A
British air defense cadet corps of
10000 boys from IA to 10 years old
will shortly be inaugurated. it was
announced today. The youths
will be trained for immediate serv.
ice in event of war.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
ELECTRIC POWER FILES

U.N.S.) Electric Power & Light
Corporation of New York, a princi-
pal subsidiary of Electric Bond
and Share Company, yesterday
filed registration under the public
utility holding company act Of
1895,
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ASKS INTEGRATION

conditions are serious" he testi-
fled.
ASKS IMMIGRATION
Hopkins made an appeal for
what he termed an "integrated"
program of social welfare in which
the social security program now
under way would be the center.
He said steps toward public health
improvement, slum clearance and
better wage standards would be
necessary.
He also expressed a hope that
practically all industrial workers"
would be able to bargain collec.
lively. People out of work should
also receive regular benefit checks
from the new system.
las against peak of 27,000,-
900 persons in the winter Of
1933-'34," Hopkins said, there
are at the present time about
10000, 900 men, women and chill
dren receiving public assistance.
This represents over 6,000,-
900 householders. Over the last
five years this figure has varied
from 100000 to 100000
people receiving assistance from
public funds each month"
BUYING POWER SLOW
There is no single cause" Of
the present business slump, Hop
kins commended. Something haI
The Washington times., 1938-04-08

If the Washington Navy Yard
is not equipped for this tremen.
dously expanded gun factory pro.
gram, Admiral Leahy indicated
the gun factories would be in,
creased as to machines and per
sonnet.
NOT INTERESTED
He explained that private steel
manufacturers are no longer in
terested in naval guns and that
the Navy has no other place to
rifle these great new weapons,
The Navy Yard will, in addition,
build guns for the ships of the
regular naval program.
Four large new battleships will
be under construction by the end
of this year; and probably two
more cruisers, all of which will
have to be supplied with guns.
The battleships will carry 16-inch
guns. it is understood, and the
Washington Navy Yard is one
of the few places in the world
where such large rifles can be
turned out.
NEW PROGRAM
The new battleShip building pro.
gram is now a part of the race
against Japan, it is openly con,
coded; and the so-called "escala,
tor clause" in the London treaty
will be invoked.
This means that if one nation
goes up in it's individual battleship
Size-all can go up. In the case
of the United States, the increase
may not be more than two hun.
dred or three hundred tons-but
at any rate no particular pains
will be taken to keep the ships at
that tonnage.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Navy Yard Ready
To Produce Guns
In Huge Program
admiral Ledhy Says Private Plants Are Not
Interested in Construction
By EARL GOODWIN

All the BIC guns, and probably most of the smaller ones IN
the new expanded naval building program will be built in the
Washington Navy Yard it announced today at the White
House by Admiral William Leahy chief of naval operations
who talked with the President company with Assistant Sec
rptarv of the NAVY Charles Edison.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08

BILL Butler termed himself military solatonis" and
rdculed what he termed hystera" for huge ornaments
programs
Speaking directly of Japans military movements in the
Orient and rumors that she eventually will turn toward
the United States Butler said:
by the time Japan could get here with her navy
air force she would be damn weak could knock
her down with feather"
The Washington times., 1938-04-08
Wallace Says Life
On Farm Improved
By New Deal Plan
Warns That "CertGin DenGgOgues" VIII
Atten1Dt to Create DisunitU

BATON ROUGE, La, April 0NS) .-Dedicatng several
buildings at Louisiana State University today Secretary
Wallace said the life of the farmer will improve as wears On
by because of the agricultural experts and leaders, developed
by land grant agricultural colleges.
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Naval Expansion Bill Bluff,
Asserts Gen. Butler

0NS) In his own inimitable style, Maj. Gen Smedey
Butler of the Marines retired today let loose broadsde
at the 900 naval expansion bill with the blunt
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nomic structure today even If
conditions are serious" he teSti-
fled.
The Washington times., 1938-04-08

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