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Evening star., 1939-04-02
100000 10 View
Blossoms Today
II Skies Are Clear
Crest Of Thronqs
Pouring Into City;
Weather Colder
(Picture on Page A-3.)

Cloudy skies we're on order as
a backdrop for the radiant beauty
of the Tidal Basin cherry blossoms
today.
The crest of the crowd that Is
annually drawn to Washington by
the blossoms was expected to reach
the city by train, plane. bus and
automobile today. The weather.
cloudy and somewhat colder, the
Weather Bureau forecast-was ex-
pected to reduce the number Of
visitors. however.
If skies should clear, however. the
number of visitors is expected to
soar somewhere near the 100000
figure predicted by the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee of the
Board Of Trade. Roadways near the
Tidal Basin were jammed with
traffic yesterday as thousands made
their pilgrimage to the blossoms
At least 18 special excursion trains
will pull in at Union Station. Eight
of these trains are coming from
New York City. eight from various
points in West Virginia and two
from Pennsylvania.
Bus lines and airlines said they
expected extra traffic today, but
were making no advance arrange
ments. None of the transportation
companies reported unusually heavy
traffic yesterday. but it was ex-
planned that the peak is usually
reached on Sunday during cherry
blossom time.
w. M. Kochenderfer of the hotel
association said he estimated that
$4,000 persons were housed in local
hotels over the week end Rooms are
available in more than so per cent OF
the hotels. he said.
At the Tourist Camp. J. S. Knode,
manager, said that his quarters were
occupied about IS per cent. About
100 trailers were in the camp, he
stated.
The Housing Bureau of the Cherry
Blossom Festival Committee said
reservations for rooms in private
homes had been coming in steadily
yesterday.
Police prepared to handle huge
crowds In the Tidal Basin area to-
day. Capt. Patrick Carroll of the
park police said he would have go
men on duty in the congested area.
The metropolitan police prepared to
lend hand in nearby streets.
Capt. o. j. Letterman will COM
mand a special detail of foot patrol
men chosen from all precincts. These
men will be on duty near Fourteenth
street and Maine avenue. Sixty
policemen from the Traffic Bureau
will be distributed on nearby streets.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

his father -in-law, received a broken
jaw, and two brothers-in-law. Al
bert B. King. 80, and George H.
Skinner, 30 all of Four Corners, es-
capped with cuts and bruises.
Worley Cheeks, 16, of Travilah,
driver of the truck, and two children,
Sherill Cheeks. S, and Warner
Checks, 3, were not injured in the
accident, which occurred at a turn
in the two-lane road mile south
west of Travilah on the road leading
TO the Potomac River.
Youth Is Charged.
Montgomery County police charged
the Cheeks youth with operating a
truck without a license and man.
slaughter. He was released on bond.
In one of the District crashes, in
which three automobiles and a truck
were involved, Howard c. Reed, 63,
of Tuxedo, Md, received injuries
which resulted in his death before
he could be removed to hospital.
According to police. Mr.. Reeds
car struck parked automobile,
glanced off and ran into the rear of
truck parked at Twenty-fourth
street and Benning road NE. which
then bumped another car parked
Immediately ahead.
The force of the collision with the
truck drove the steering wheel of
Mr.. Reeds car into his chest, and
he died at a corner drug store as
(See TRAFFIC, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Police Search for Youth
Who Fell From Bridge

Harbor police early today were
searching the Potomac in an effort
to locate John Connolly, %, bus
boy, of 49l I street SW., who was
believed to have drowned last night
after he crawled over the railing on
the south end of Highway Bridge.
Young Connolly was employed for
about a month in a restaurant at
the Virginia end of the bridge. He
waited around after he finished work
last night, and His fellow employees
tried to take Him home in an auto
mobils ~H pulled away, however
>had ran toward the bridge. The
youths two friends followed in their
car. but dropped behind in the
trafflc.
Gordon Larisey, one of his fellow
employees. said he saw young Con-
nelly hoist his body up on the railing
and roll over. Meanwhile, Edward
Kettner of 1908 Twenty-fourth
street NV. and the bridge tender.
Frank Vogel, got rope and ran to
the railing. They threw an end to
the youth, but he could not reach it.
Police notified relatives of the
youth, who was unmarried.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
CHERRY BLOSSOM BOOMS
Motorist Stobs
Pedestrian
Gliding Him

Police today were searching for
motorist who leaped from his
automobile at Massachusetts and
Wisconsin avenues NV. last night
and stabbed Harold P. McDermott,
43. of 3701 Massachusetts avenue
NV, an employe of the Veterans
Administration, after Mr.. McDer-
mott demonstrated with him for al
most running him down.
Mr.. and Mrs. McDermott left
their apartment to walk to nearby
Mount Alto Hospital to visit a
friend Crossing Wisconsin avenue
Mr.. McDermott was almost hit by
an automobile going east on Massa-
cnusetts avenue
Mr.. McDermott called out. What
kind of driving do you call that?"
The motorist stopped his car,
jumped out and stabbed the pedes-
trian in the neck with a pocket
knife Then he returned to his car
and drove away.
The wound in the neck required
two stitches to close. The McDer-
motifs were able to furnish police
several numbers of the motorists
tag.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
5Pct. Corporation Tax
Urged by Citizens
Federation
Substitute Of Income
For Property Levy
Recommended

A 5 per cent net income tax on
corporations in the District-ex-
cepting only public utilities and
non-proflt firms-was recommend
ed by the Federation of Citizens
Associations last night.
simultaneously. the Federation
favored substitution of personal
net income tax for the present in
tangible property levy-this latter
tax being held "antiquated and un-
just" and the object of lodging and
evasion.
The Federation's action came in
the form of approval of report by
A. M Edwards. chairman OF the
Committee on Fiscal Relations. A
vote came after an hour and half
of hectic debate.
In support of the corporation tax
Mr.. Edwards presented figures tend
ing to show that many District
agencies need more operating funds
than are now available. and that, in
addition to providing these. the cor
poration tax would obviate the ne
cessity of an additional tax on Dis
trict residents.
Income Tax Substitute Urged.
Substitution of a personal income
tax for the intangible property tax
was voted "in view of the recent
Supreme Court decision on income
taxes"
The resolution in part follows:
81. Any additional tax burden
placed on the residents of the Dis
trict, beyond taxes already approved
by the federation, must be justified
by evidence that the 1910 District
budget is too small to provide ade-
quately for the needs of the District.
20. The substitution of new tax
IS.a r7TT0ID TT0N Douo A-d)
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Device Thot Records Voices
In False Alarm Calls ested

Department was informed that a
false alarmist had been taken into
custody by police and that his voice
had been matched with the voice on
one of the old records.
The suspect turned in four false
alarms recently, 1t was understood.
The status of such evidence in
court has not yet been established
but it may be before the current case
is disposed Of. At any rate, 1t was
felt that the existence of the device
would prove a strong deterrent to
those on the lunatic fringe who like
to watch the engines 60.
The device is a telecord dicto-
graph. It has been installed in the
room on the fifth floor of the District
Building, where the nerve center Of
the Fire Department is located. 1t
operates as follows:
The phone on the Fire Depart
ment switchboard rings. The op-
orator plugs In the switch and ut the
(ses ALARMS, Page A-l20
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Two Relief Heads
Resign, Protesting
Lack Of Funds
Miss Hill and Miss Honkins
Quit After Criticism
By Lewis Report
BY DON S. WARREN.

Unwilling to continue administra-
ton of relief to Washington thou
sands of needy families with what
they termed inadequate funds. Miss
M. Alice Hill and Miss May o.
Hankins will leave on June 80
their posts of director and assistant
director, respectively, of the public
assistance division.
Their designations were accepted
with deepest regret by the Board
of Public Welfare, meeting in spe-
cial session yesterday afternoon.
The board. in a formal statement,
heaped praise on the two onicials
for their five years service and
"deplored" circumstances which
'impelled" their designations.
The development came as sequel
to the investigation of the District
relief situation made for the ad-
vice of Congress by Burdette G..
Lewis, in which he called for the
custer of Miss Hill and criticized
Miss Hankins for failing to oppose
some of Miss Hills policies.
The two officials stated in their
ioint letter of resignation they had
not resigned earlier because they
wished to stay to answer any ques-
tions raised by the investigation
and for this reason dated their de-
parture for June 30, the end of this
fiscal year.
FOresee No Increase.
They declared present appropri-
alton limits had made 1t impos-
sible" to carry out a relief program
adequately or efficiently and they
saw no prospect for increased funds
for the new fiscal year. Reports
on Capitol Hill are that no increase
over the present 100000 for relief
will be recommended in the report
of the House District Appropriations
subcommittee. headed by Repre-
sentative Collins. Democrat, OF
Mississippi. The 1910 budget report
is to be offered to the House Thurs
day.
Expressing disillusionment over
the prospect and predicting that
further curtailment of public as
sistance will be necessitated. Miss
Hill and Miss Hankins declared they
could not assume the responsibility
for another year.
While their efficiency was attacked
in the Lewis report, the investigator
agreed in one section Of his volum-
inous hearings with the contentious
of these officials and the welfare
board that the case work staf1 was
capable, but overloaded with relief
cases. and that funds should be ap-
propriated for the care of needy en-
ployable persons as we'll as the un-
employable. Mr.. Lewis proposed
elaborate reorganization plans and
called for a considerable increase In
funds.
Mr.. Lewis declined last night to
make any statement on the develop
ment aside from saying, Il am now
out of the picture except that I am
interested to see what happens to
my recommendations"
Possibility that Elwood Street. di-
rector of the Board of Public We'll
fare, may give up his post here was
(See D. c. RELIEF, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-04-02
By ALFRED TOOMBS.

A gadget installed by the Fire De-
partment to insure accuracy IN the
handling of fire alarm calls appears
destined to prove the neatest trap
yet developed to snare false alarm
artists.
The device records the voice of
every person who calls the Fire De-
partment by telephone to turn IN
an alarm. Police and fire marshals
suddenly have discovered that it can
be used to make the false alarmers'
activities as dangerous as noun
tain goats morning gallop.
For some months now, the device
has been in operation, taking down
the voice of every person who called
the department. 1t was put in to
make sure the telephone operators
got the correct addresses when fires
we're reported.
But yesterday, the range Of use
fulness Of the voice "ingerprinting"
device seemed to expand. The Fire
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Hitler Counters Births h Cha||enqe
With Threat to Kill Naval Treaty.;
London Undeterred> Pushes Bloc
Will Not Tolerate
EncircIement,
He DECLARES
European Situation:

HITLER ACCEPTS BRITISH chal-
lenge of anti-aggression bloc with
threat to kill naval treaty; will not
tolerate encirclement. Page Al
LONDON UNDETERRED BY Fueh-
rers blast. expedites formation OF
stop Hitler" bloc; navy experts
confident of superiority. Page Al
BROADCAST OF FUEHRER S
speech. intended chiefly for Amer
lea, cut by countermanding order;
news held up for hour and half.
Page Al
WAR POSSIBILITY REDUCED by
recent events in Europe. Pittman
believes; door to peace is seen IN
Chamberlain pledge to Poles.
Page Al
HITLER SPEECH REGARDED in
Poland as effort to break ties with
Britain: Poles intend to resist seiz-
ure of Danzig. Page Al
ITALY AND GERMANY believed
slowing down expansion drive in
face of stronger stand by France
and Britain Page Ais
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Average U. S. Wage Of $2,066
In Washington Revealed

The average per capita wage of
Government workers here is $2O66
annually, but more than so per cent
of the employment is in the salary
brackets from $1,000 to 81, 800, a re-
port yesterday afternoon from the
Civil Service Commission disclosed.
The tabulation. the first made in
several years, was based on SAM
pling study of $4,000 wage cards
selected at random. Explaining that
numerous departments, committees
and individuals had asked for the
figures. the commission said person.
mel totals as Of December 81, 1887,
had been used, but that the conclu-
sions were believed to be relatively
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Banker Saves Frohmun
From Home Custer

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 1:-Just like
one of his old-time melodramas,
Daniel Frohman, 88-year-old dean
of the American theater, was saved
from being elected from his home
today because the mortgage fell due.
The hero of the skit was banker,
Henry Bruere. president OF the Bow
cry Savings Bank. The bank holds
a $24000O mortgage on the Lyceum
Theater, in which the producers
studio apartment is located.
Told the studio held everything of
sentimental value to Frohman, the
banker said he could remain as long
as he lived.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Among Features
In Todoy's Star
Sports Ashore

Sports Ashore
With summer just around
the corner, the great out-of-
doors is calling baseball fans.
golfers, tennis racketers and
all the other followers of fair
weather sports. Therefore,
starting today, The Star pre-
sents a Sports Section in tune
with the season and, for your
convenience, easier to find in
the paper. It's six big pages
lead the E Section of today's
edition.
Sports AfIoot-
Sailors and anglers. ahoy!
Don't miss the special Boating
and Fishing pages in the
Sports Section. From now on
The Star will feature news Of
doings on river and bay in
Sunday and week day editions.
Turn to E Section, pages 4
and 5.
Finonce-
Beginning today The Star
moves its Financial Section
into Section B, pages II to 13.
In observance of the 10th
birthday anniversary Of Cliff
ford K. Bergman, Star car
toonist, The Star presents on
page S, Section C, the unusual
tributes of some of his ad-
mirers-from President Roose-
welt to fellow artists.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Broadcast of Fuehrer's Speech
Cut by Countermonding Order
News Delayed w Hours by Severance Of
Communication With WiIheImshoven

many while Hitler spoke. although
an hour later a recording of the
address was broadcast in full along
with a description of the days
events at Wilhelmshaven, where a
new German battleship was
launched. This recorded broadcast
was that of Hitler himself and was
not read by some one else.
The unusual cutting off of the
broadcast, combined with an unex-
pected delay in direct telephone and
telegraph communication from Will
helmshaven. caused considerable
surprise abroad Telegraphic dis
patches were delayed approximately
an hour and half. all news being
bottled up at Wilhelmshaven.
The abrupt broadcast termination
and the equally unusual Interrupt
ton in the flow of telegraphic news
Evening star., 1939-04-02
U. S. Trade Agreement
With Turkey Signed
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey, April L.
United States Ambassador John v.
A. MacMurray and the Turkish
minister of economy. Hush Tchakir,
formally signed today the Turkish
American trade agreement initiated
last year.
The pact carried United States
trade expansion into Turkey in COM
petition with spreading German eco
nomic influence there. The State
Department in Washington an
nounced the agreement was based
on the principles of unconditional
INSTRUMENTATION treatment and
free foreign exchange, the two Amer
lean trade weapons in direct con-
trast to Germanys barter and
blocked exchange methods.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Partial tert OF Reichstuoh-
rer Hitler's speech UiN be
found on page As.
LOUIS P. P.LOCHNER,

Associated Press Foreisn Correspondent.
WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany,
April 1.-Reichsfuehrer Hitler de-
risively threw back the Anglo
French anti-aggression challenge to-
day but avoided going beyond the
intimation he might cancel Ger
many's naval treaty with Great
Britain.
Germany will stand neither for
intimidation nor encirclement,' he
declared to $4,000 men and women
of Wilhelmshaven and its vicinity in
a 62-minute address after he had
witnessed the launching OF Ger
manys second $4,000 : ton battle
ship this year, the Won Tirpitz.
In his passage on the 1885 Anglo
German naval treaty, under which
Germany agreed that her tonnage
would not exceed IS per cent of
Britain's Hitler said:
II once concluded naval agree
ment with Britain. was animated
by the fervent desire that We might
never again have war with Eng
land.
IF, however, that wish does not
exist on the other side. then the
practical preconditions for conclud-
ing such a treaty have vanished" !"
Heaped Scorn on Britain.
On the whole the Fuehrer con-
tented himself with heaping scorn
upon Britain, of which he said:
For 300 long years she has acted
IN a virtueless manner, but only
now in her old age she speaks Of
virtue
Poland and the Anglo-French Of
fer of military assistance if her
independence were threatened were
mentioned only indirectly with the
warning by implication to Poland.
He who is willing to pull the
chestnuts out OF the fire for others
must expect to get burned"
There also was an indirect refer
ence interpreted as aimed at either
President Roosevelt or Secretary
of State Cordell Hull when the
Fuehrer, in describing Germany's S
efforts at economic expansion, as
serted:
I'VE won't take orders in this
matter from any European or extra
European statesman
The chancellor spoke outside the
Wilhelmshaven Rathaus from. be-
hind a bulletproof glass screen at
the end of busy day.
Some said the glass screen, re-
sembling a bank teller's window, was
placed before the Fuehrer as a pre-
ventive against any cold breeze
striking his chest.
Broadcast Broken.
Only those in the immediate audi
ence heard his address as it was
delivered because scheduled short
wave broadcast abroad was broken
lust after he started to talk. Later,
however. a recording of his voice
was broadcast in Germany.
officials said the failure OF the
short-wave transmission was due to
technical reasons.
Hitler proclaimed anew that the
0see HITLER, Page A-160
Evening star., 1939-04-02
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. April Arrangements
were made to broadcast Chancellor
Hitlers Wilhelmshaven address to-
day to the United States-even
though it was not being broadcast
generally-but the program sud-
denly ceased after the Fuehrer had
spoken only two sentences.
Tonight it was understood that
countermanding order cut off the
broadcast of the speech. That or
der was executed after Hitler had
started speaking, and it reversed a
last-minute grant for such trans
mission. Previously it had been an
nounced there would be no broadcast
at all as Hitler spoke.
Broadcasting officials here had laid
the trouble to technical reasons
For reasons unexplained, the
speech was not broadcast in Ger
Evening star., 1939-04-02

the same now, although there has
been an increase in employment.
The average annual salary of Gov
ernment employees as a whole is
sl,871, the report showed. The Dis
trict average is more than 5000
above that for the field, which is
$1838. This national average is
pulled up by that for the Postal
Service, which is $2,026. Excluding
postal workers, the figure is $1,783.
The commission said the averages
NAV be slightly higher" than would
be the case if the records covered
all executive agency employees. Be-
cause Of certain exclusions. 1t In
l5e0 WAGES, Page A.10)
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Charles Hamil-
ton, "a. of Four
orn S, Md.
was ins t a n tly
killed when his
ar collid e d
head-on with a
truck in a heavy
rain near Trav-
ilah, Md, last
night.
Mr.. Hamilton,
a bricklayer, was
thrown against
the windshield
and died of a
head in jury.
Harry King, 81,
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Three Killed , Six Huri
In D.. {. and Nearby
Traffic Crashes
Man on Fishing Trip Is
Victim, Another Dies in
Four-VehicIe Collision

Three persons were killed, two in
Washington and one in nearby
Marvland, and six others were in
jured as traffic accidents took heavy
toll yesterday.
On fishing trip with three rela-
tives the first day of the season,
Evening star., 1939-04-02
SOC, 900 Herring Is Haul

COLERAIN, N. c., April l (R.-
Chowan River fishermen made a
near-record haul of a half-million
herring today in an unprecedented
early season run.
The fish brought one-half cent
each.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

tSee FEDERATION, Page A-A
Evening star., 1939-04-02

(See BROADCAST. Page A-l5)
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Weather Forecast

Partly cloudy and somewhat colder to-
day; tomorrow, cloudy followed by light
rain. Temperatures esterday-Highest,
50, at pm; lowest, AZ, at 4 am. Full
report on page Az.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

(See LONDON, Page Al
Evening star., 1939-04-02

(See D, c. RELIEF, Page A-3O
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-23
Wood Used
For Furniture

Ever since our rowing pioneers
settled down long enough to want
furniture, it has been made large
ly from wood. The United States
has been fortunate in having a
goodly supply of various kinds of
wood suitable for furniture manu-
facture, according to the U. S.
Forest Products Laboratory, Madi-
son, Wis. Except for mahogany,
little wood has been imported for
this purpose.
Of the kinds Of wood most often
found in furniture today, oak, red
gum, maple, birch, and yellow
poplar are used in the largest
amount. OF course walnut Is
Americas most popular wood and
mahogany is always a best seller.
But these woods are so carefully
and skillfully used in eneers that
a smaller quantity goes farther
and is more conspicuous than is
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-23

the case with some of the other
woods. Styles change in furniture
so that woods have their ups and
downs.
Very attractive, moderately pric-
ed furniture is made from oak. red
cuff. maple, and birch. There are
many other interesting specially
woods used in articles OF furniture.
Fer example, those with character
istic odors, like red cedar are used
for Notwithstanding chests. Color
is also a highly valuable charcter-
istic
Hardwoods, Or woods o m
broad-leaved trees, are used most
in the manufacture OF furniture
although some OF the softwoods
or "conifers" are used, particular
" in kitchen furniture.
Furniture manufacturing is a
good illustration of decentra lied
enterprise, for practically every
state is engaged in making flrni-
ture. New York manufacturers en-
ploy aboat 10000 people, Illinois
and North Carolina employ about
$4,000 each; and Michigan, famed
for it's large output of furniture,
employs $4,000. California, al
though not a top-ranking state III
furniture production, has 299 manu-
facturers employing about 1900
people