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QUIZ Detective to Question North Carolina Woman Friend of Accused Husband. A young woman friend of former Fireman James L. Landis, 23, probably will be questioned at her home In North Carolina today in an effort to shed new light on Landis' activities prior to the time he was charged with the murder of his estranged wife, Mrs, Blanche Gertrude Landis, 22. Detective Sergt. William J.

Liverman of the homicide squad was to leave for an unannounced destination In North Carolina today to interview the girl. Investigators said the young woman left Washington at about the time Landis was arrested in connection with the fatal beating of his wife 10 days ago. Girl's Name Withheld. The girl, whose name was not revealed. will be questioned with a view to uncovering a motive for the murder.

In a suit for separate maintenance, filed in District Court last August. Mrs. Landis charged her husband was spending money on the entertainment of other women while failing to provide her with the necessities of life. At the time of his arrest Landis was under orders from the court to pay his wife $45 a month maintenance. Mrs.

Landis was found, beaten and dying, on a lonely section of Twentyfourth street N.E. about 3 a m. on Thursday, March 24. Her skull had been crushed with stones. Admitted Drive With Wife.

Landis at first claimed an alibi, but later admitted he was with his wife at the time she was injured in a leap from his moving automobile. A coroner's jury held him for the grand Jury and a murder charge was lodged against him. The grand jury has not acted in the case as yet. Landis, a rookie fireman attached to the fireboat station, was dismissed from the force. He had slipped away while on duty, he admitted, to take his wife for an early morning ride, leaving and returning unnoticed to the station house.

Police suspected him after seeing blood on his shirt apd under an ear. i HANGAR FIRE LAID TO LEAKING TANK Blaze at Airport in Miami Destroys 14 Planes Valued at $700,000. Bj the A'cciated Press. MIAMI. April tonight blamed an airplane's leaking fuel tank for a hangar fire at the Municipal Airport, which destroyed 14 ships, valued by insurance adjusters at $700,000.

The watchman who discovered the blaze, Harry Andrews, 54, said it started in a plane owned by a Miami sportsman flyer which had been brought in a short time before with tasoline stains on the fuselage, apparently from a leak. Fed by a series of explosions, the fire spread rapidly. Firemen were hampered by nitrate gas. formed by burning on the wings. The $20,000 hanear and the usual accumulation of expensive planes inside were reduced to charred skeletons.

Nothing could be salvaged. Among the planes destroyed were an experimental ship, valued at $250,000, in which Maj. Alexander P. De Seversky set many speed records; a $120,000 Lockheed Electra, owned by M. L.

Benedum, Pittsburgh oil magnate. in which Jimmy Mattern hunted the Russian flyers last in the Arctic, and a $65,000 amphibian owned by Gar Wood, Detroit speedboat racer. TENNESSEE POWER ACT IS UPHELD BY COURT State's Highest Tribunal Finds Towns Can Borrow to Build or Buy Plants. Bs the Associated Press. NASHVILLE.

April 1935 statute authorizing municipalities to go into the power business was upheld today by the State Bupreme Court. Enacted to help promote the T. V. A. and P.

W. A. programs, the act empowers cities and counties to operate power systems, borrowing money to build or buy them if necessary. It was attacked by two utilities, the Tennessee Electric Power in a suit against Fayetteville, and the Kentucky-Tennessee Light and Power in cases against Paris and Clarksville. Because of similar plans for public power systems, eight other Tennessee municipalities intervened in support of the act in the Fayetteville case.

Golden Anniversary. SEBRING, April 2 cablegrams and letters from many parts of the world arrived for Gen. Edward John Higgins, former commander of the Salvation Army, and Mrs. Higgins, who celebrated their golden wedding anniversary today. Gen.

Higgins is 73 years old, his wife 71. Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, April 3, 1938. PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN.

Chiang becomes dictator as China charts long war. Page A-l Insurgent bombs miss 4,000 men returning to Spain. Page A-l Foreign oil companies map fight to regain properties. Page A-5 NATIONAL Reorganization fight due to go on. despite concessions.

Page A-l Murphy hastens to join parley on seized plants. Page A-l A. P. of L. head assails Non-Partisan League.

Page A-2 Chrysler seeks to have legality of dealers' contracts upheld. Page A-3 King bill on recreation merger indorsed by co-ordinator here. Page B-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Retired physician beaten, robbed on way from race track. Page A-l Police to question North Carolina girlj today in Landis case.

Page A-2 Navy. Department announces promotion of 465 lieutenants. Page A-8 Sultan's departure inspires speculation as to successor. Page B-l District health group yrges standards for public buildings. Page B-l Federation supports municipal parking lots proposal.

Page B-l Group health row here may presage national controversy. Page B-l D. C. tax law amendments urged by Commissioners. Page B-l Huge parade to mark Army Day here Wednesday.

Page B-2 SPORTS. Jones ties for 30th and Cooper tops masters' golf. Page B-6 Nats rout Millers despite poor slab work by Ferrell. Page B-7 Boat yards going at full blast as big season nears. Page B-8 Rosslyn bowlers giving full support to city tourney.

Page B-9 Vet G. U. nine opens tomorrow with ace sophs on bench. PageB-10 Sun Egret takes Rowe Memorial at Bowie in easy style. PageB-11 MISCELLANY.

Obituary-. Page a-12 Shipping news. PageA-13 PART TWO. Editorial Section. 4 Editorial articles.

Pages C-l-S Editorials and comment. Page C-2 I Letters to The Star. Page C-3 John Clagett Proctor. Page C-4 News features. Pages C-4-5 Automobiles.

Page C-6 Dick Mansfield. Page C'-6 Stamps. Pagp. c-6 In bridge circles. Page C-6 Cross-word puzzle Page C-7 Military and news.

Page c-8 Civic news. Page C-9 Parent-teacher activities. Page C-9 Educational. PageC-10 Vital statistics. PageC-11 City news in brief.

Page C-ll PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Pages D-l-10 Well-known folk. Page D-5 Barbara Bell pattern.

Page D-8 Women's clubs. Page D-ll PART FOUR. Financial, Classified. D. C.

securities steady. Page E-l Stocks improve. Page E-l Retail trade gains. Page E-l Dow-Jones stock averages. Page E-l Lost and found.

Page E-3 Service orders. Page E-3 Classified advertising. Pages E-3-14 PART FIVE. Feature Section. Amusements.

Pages F-l-2 Radio programs. Page F-3 Art notes. Page F-4 Books. Page F-5 Music. Page F-6 Children's page.

Page F-7 FLANNAGAN IS NAMED FOR NEW HOUSE TERM 9th District Virginia Democrats Avoid Fight Over Endorsing Glass and Byrd. By the Associated Press. BRISTOL, April of Virginia's "fighting congressional district today nominated Representative John W. Flannagan, ardent New Dealer, for a new term and side-stepped a fight over indorsement of United States Senators, who have frequently differed on questions of policy with the Roosevelt administration. The Resolutions Committee report, adopted without the need of a recorded vote, praised and indorsed the national and State Democratic administrations without mentioning the names of President Roosevelt, Senators Glass and Byrd and Gov.

James Price. Representative Flannagan, the only person mentioned by name in the resolution, was lauded for his service and re-election predicted. The harmonious convention session was in contrast to that of 1936, when the Senators were given a strong indorsement after a floor battle and a recorded vote. V. A.

to Be Forum Topic representative may speaks tomorrow. "The Tennessee Valley Authority, Its Administration and the Need for a Congressional will be the subject of an address by'Representative May of Kentucky in the National Radio Forum tomorrow at 10:30 pm. The Forum is arranged by The Star and broadcast over Station WMAL and a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Co. stations. Mr.

May is chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, which handled the legislation creating tha T. V. A. and all legislation amending the original act. Chairman May, frankly a critic of T.

V. A. as it has been operated, has made a thorough study of this governmental agency, set up at the request of President Roosevelt. He was among those who early demanded a congressional inquiry into the charges brought by former Chairman Arthur E. Morgan of the T.

V. A. against the other members of his board. Since President Roosevelt dismissed Chairman Morgan from office, Mr. May has continued his demand for a congressional inquiry.

Chairman May insists that there must be no investigation. Only the fullest kind of an Inquiry, REPRESENTATIVE A. J. MAY. he contends, will satisfy the American people.

The Kentucky Representative is conversant with T. V. A. from the days of ita origin. WOULD ACCEPT RECRUITS AT British War Minister Also Splits Artillery Into Two Branches.

By the Associated Press. LONDON. April Leslie Hore-Belisha, traditionbresktng war minister, hns handed his critics another Jolt by publicly advocating that the age for army recruiting be lowered from 18 to 17 years. Hore-Belisha now is deep in the formidable task of streamlining Army and finding men to fill it. When Socialists raised a storm in the House of Commons yesterday over Mr.

Horr-Bflisha. I enlistments, the war minister answered: be quite frank, I can see no reason why a man should not be allowed to eni list frankly and openly at the age i Of 17." The Socialists protested that many youths under 18 were being accepted into the army because they lalsely stated they were 18. Their amendment to the army bill to prevent recruits from enlisting unless they produced birth certificates was defeated, 121 to 61. The newest armv order divides the royal artillery into two branches in line with Hore-Belisha's program to modernize and mobilize the army. They will be known as the field branch and the coast branch.

The field branch would have lighter pieces to take abroad in case of war and the coast defense heavier guns primarily for defense. Army Will Be Mobile. When Britain's Army crosses the English Channel if it should go to another war in Europe it will not be burdened with cavalry, horse artillery or the unwieldly equipment that hampered it' trek to the front in 1914. Hore-Belisha's new fighting machine will be compact, swiftly mobile, largely mechanical. Regiments that formerly clattered into action on horseback will move up to the front in tanks and armored cars.

Artillery units will drag their guns into position with small, powerful tractors. Most infantrymen will man machine-gun pasts, instead of trying to pick off the enemy with rifles. And the private soldier will not exhaust himself tramp.ng country roads or struggling through muddy fields with a 90-pound pack on his back. Army trucks will carry most of the soldiers' equipment. The 43-year-old war set British recruiting records by tempting young Britons with higher pay.

better living and better a fighting army that can be moved anywhere swiftly to match the highly trained troops of Europe. Reorganizing Reserve. He is occupied now on a plan to reorganize Britain's "strategic reserve," to create a "pool" of brigades and revamp the organization of army divisions. The role of the "strategic as defined by the war minister, is reinforcement of internal security, defense of territories overseas and cooperation in defense of territories of any allies we might have in war." The reserve needs a more central position, and Hore-Belisha is knitting a new defense scheme from the cumbersome system that has not been changed since the World War. To increase mobility he is replacing the existing divisional type with two different types, with variations within types, along German lines.

Britain's army at home has five divisions of nine battalions two of them machine-gun battalions. The new divisional types will be: A motorized division, based on the light machine gun. A mechanized armored division, based on the tank, consisting of two mechanized cavalry brigades and a tank brigade. Would Step Up Battalions. A motorized division's peace-time six battalions would be stepped up to nine battalions in war time, supported by artillery and other guns.

Each division's mechanical transport company would be able to "lift" one infantry brigade. Carrying a brigade at a time, army trucks making two or three trips could move a division 60 miles a day. Each anti-tank company is handing over its guns to the artillery ana will become a machine gun company. Artillery will have fire units of 12 guns instead of six, less personnel and greater concentrated fire another German policy. Surplus heavy machine-gun battalions are being converted to light machine-gun battalions to form the nucleus of motorized divisions.

Equipped with guns, they will be used with other surplus infantry to increase the number of divisions. Creation of new divisions is limited by the number of new field brigades, artillery and other divisional troops that can be produced. With thousands of troops locked up In India, currently the pivotal point of the whole army plan, Hore-Belisha wants more "fluidity in resources," so India could reinforce Egypt or Palestine quickly or vice versa. So, he is tightening staff co-operation between India and the war office. He wants to reduce the army in India by several units and transfer expeditionary force from England to the middle east.

In case of trouble, troops would not have to pass through the Mediterranean or Red Sea where enemy warplanes might sink transports. THREATENS TO LEAVE BABY ON DOORSTEP Note Found in Mail Box Demands That Farmer Place $200 Under Stump. the AssocUted Press. FREEMAN, S. April Z.

Wipf, a farmer living near here, reported to authorities today he had found a note in his mail box warning him to "leave $200 in a tobacco can under a stump in the southeast corner of the northwest 40 acres or will leave a baby on your The note was written on the back of a bill advertising a high school play given Head of Cancer Clinic Dr. T. A. Neal, 10 of whose patients died in the past four days after being injected with a serum for the treatment of cancar, is shown at his desk at Orlando, Fla. He said 13 of those affected had been given injections from a single bottle of the serum made in A.

P. Wirephoto. Supply for Treating Cancer Patients Is Tested by Medical Officials. By the Associated Press. ORLANDO, Fla April officials announced today tetanus toxin had been found in two vials of a supply of serum used for injection treatment of in cancer patients who died this week.

Dr. Horace Day, president of the Orange County Medical Society, said the vials were selected at random from a consignment received by Dr. T. A. Neal and It was believed the entire shipment was contaminated.

E. F. Bolte. retired vice president of the International Harvester died early today. Eight women and a man died previously.

Four other patients were in hospitals. Coroner Eugene Duckworth, conducting a separate Inquiry, said Dr. Day reported to him theiserum was known as and was manufactured by the Bio-Chemical Research Foundation of Philadelphia. "I will ask officials of the Biochemical Research Foundation of Philadelphia, manufacturers of Rex under the Canadian ensol formula, to come to Orlando to testify at the said Mr. Duckworth.

Dr. Day. Dr. W. G.

Workman of the United States Health Service and Dr. J. N. Patterson, director of the State Board of Health Laboratory at Jacksonville, tested guinea pigs. They injected serum from the two vials into two groups of guinea pigs, giving the second group simultaneous injections of anti-tetanus toxin.

Several of the first group were dead this morning and others showed symptoms of tetanus, said Dr. Day, while the group receiving the anti-toxin showed no ill effects. FRENCH ARBITRATION OF STRIKE BALKED Citroen Auto Factory Heads Reject Basis Accepted by Delegates. Py tl'f Press. PARIS, April 2 of the 10-day strike in aviation and metallurgical plants ran into a snag tonight when the management of the Citroen automobile factory refused to accept government arbitration on the demands.

In a letter to Vincent Auriol, cabinet minister assigned by Premier Leon Blum to handle the strike situation, the Citroen management declared the wage controversy should be settled according to existing, laws. Blum immediately" conferred with Citroen officials after delegates had accepted the proposed basis of an accord, which provided: That the plants be evacuated at once by the strikers: that the management pay employes back wages which had been held up more than a week by the strike, and that the government arbitrate the differences between the employers and employes. About 20,000 workers, demanding collective bargaining contracts and in some cases slight pay increases, were occupying factories. ENGINEER HELD NEED U. S.

Reclamation Head Says Profession Must Have a Social Conscience. the Associated Press. OMAHA, April needs engineer to meet the modern challenge of drought, dust and floods. John C. Page, United States reclamation commissioner, told the Nebraska Engineering Society here tonight.

Mr. Page, a former Nebraskan, asserted in an address prepared for delivery engineers must have- broad, social vision to qualify as leaders this new era which will emphasize engineering profession must make its influences felt further than the drafting he declared, it cannot unless it applies its thought to social and economic problems and lends its influence and leadership to their correction. times cry loudly for the engineer with a focial conscience, both la the service of the Government and In private FINAL LABOR SPLIT A.F.L. Reorganization Move Ordered by Green Called for This Week. By the Associated Press.

HARRISBURG. April final parting of the ways neared tonight for Pennsylvania's American Federation of Labor and Committee for Industrial Organization unions, held together long after similar splits in other Unions loyal to William Green and the American Federation of Labor will gather here April 7. 8 and 9 to reorganize the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. This became necessary after Mr. Green revoked the 40-year-old charter of the its officers refused to expel unions affiliated with John L.

C. I. The officers, including President John Phillips, pleaded with Mr. Green for In Pennsylvania because. they asserted.

80 per cent of the federation, including the powerful United Mine Workers of America, had gone under the Lewis banner. Mr. Green's dictum left the State without a welded unit of labor organizations. C. I.

O. Perfects Organization. The C. I. O.

unions promptly formed the Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council. This week they perfected their organization by choosing Mr. Phillips to head it. adopting a constitution and jumping into the political fight pointing toward Pennsylvania's May 17 primary. They indorsed Lt.

Gov. Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in opposition to the Democratic State Committee's candidate, Charles Alvin Jones, PiLsburgh lawyer. Organized labor, always a factor in Pennsylvania, thus assumed a vital part in the bitter current primary. United States Senator Joseph F. Guffey, long a Pennsylvania Democratic leader, came out for Kennedy in a bolt from the regular organization gubernatorial choice.

Guffey Makes Clean Break. Senator Guffey went on to make it a clean break from the committee by turning against Gov. George H. Earle, committee candidate for the United States Senate, and indo-sing Mayor S. Davis W'ilson of Philadelphia.

Mr. Wilson had announced for the Senate from Mr. Kennedy's Harrisburg headquarters. Pennsylvania's C. I.

O. groups claim 508.000 members. A. of L. unions claim 400.000.

Mr. Lewis had said he can muster 800,000 Pennsylvania votes. In the 1934 gave Pennsylvania its first Democratic Governor in 40 votes were cast. At Hazleton, in the heart of Pennsylvania's great anthracite regions, mine union officials announced Mr. Lewis would speak there probably May 14, three days in advance of the primary, In behalf of Mr.

Kennedy's gubernatorial candidacy. Michigan Society Plans Dance. Members of the Michigan State Society, meeting yesterday in the office of Representative Dingell, decided to hold a spring dance at the Wardman Park Hotel April 29. Frenzy Fiction Readers Form District CTub Enthusiasts of the eerie in fiction are banding together in the District. A new club has been formed by readers of scary Action for the purpose of drawing together people who enjoy such literature.

A group of 16 Washingtonians elected officers last night and chose as the club name The name is a tribute to a particularly hair-raising and effective story of that name by H. P. Lovecraft. James Robinson Small was elected as the first president of the Other officers include Mrs. Everil W.

Murphy, vice president, and Edward F. Hopper, secretary-treasurer. William J. Foster, 2821 street N.W., is chairman of the Membership Committee. Members appointed a committee to draw up a protest to the office of the United States attorney because of the permanent ban issued by that office on one of the magazines devoted to weird and eeries tales.

Members complain that now they have to go to Maryland or Virginia to get the publication. I REGULATES EATING Rats Fight for Vitamin Food Before Seeing or Smelling It. By STEPHEN J. McDONOUGH, Associated Press Science Writer. BALTIMORE, April 2.

Evidence that the stomach has a brain, or a very similar regulator, was reported today before the closing session of the Federated Biological Societies. Three Johns Hopkins University scientists found this deep-seated director of what is best to eat in experiments on rats. They declared that it probably also works on man, or would if given the chance. It is not the result of thinking about what to eat but is an overwhelming drive to secure what is necessary but missing in the diet. Dr.

Bruno Barelare. Dr. L. Emmett Hole, and Dr. Curt P.

Richter made the discovery by withholding various foods, including vitamin the vitamin which prevents nervous disorders and beri-beri, from a group of rats. Fight to Get Portions. They soon developed nervousness and ate large amounts of fatty foods, disdaining carbohydrates. But when a pan containing vitamin was brought toward them they went into a wild scramble to get it, without having had a chance to see or smell it. "When an effort was made to take it away the rats fought to keep it, using both front paws to hold on to the pan until they could get the Johns Hopkins scientists said.

Dr. Richter added that he had found the same phenomena in female rats during three mating, after mating and during the time they were nursing their litters. An adequate diet composed of 11 different foods was available to them in separate pans throughout the experiment. All of the female rats behaved in almost exactly the same way. While they were pregnant they consumed vastly larger quantities of fat, protein and carbohydrate, and much more salt, sodium phosphate and calcium, while their appetites for wheat germ oil and cod liver oil remained about constant.

While nursing their young they greatly increased their intake of all foods, more than doubling the amount, until nursing ceased. This is evidence. Dr. Reiohter declared, that there is some driving force in the selection of food if it is given a chance to operate. Surgical Shock Treated.

A new method of preparing a patient for an operation and helping to lessen the shock of it was announced by Dr. Stephen Karady of McGill University, Toronto, Canada. One cause of surgical shock, he declared, is 'he release of histamine, a poisonous substance, from the body tissues, caus- ing a fall in blood pressure and a decrease in the circulating blood. He found, however, that the poison is its own cure. By progressively increasing doses of histamine given over a 10-day period the shock was greatly lessened and the volume of circulating blood was increased.

Rickets, the bone-bending disease due to lack of vitamin is also a hereditary disease, Dr. Louise Pearce of the Rockefeller Institute ior Medical Research told the biologists, indicating that parents who have or have had rickets musi be particularly carelul to protect their children against it. By breeding a strain of rabbits, she declared, it was possible to develop a group in which severe ncket deformities developed which were similar to those which occur in human De mgs. NAZI ENVOY TolTALY NAMED; TWO SHIFTED Secretary of State, Hans von Mackensen, Gets Rome Ambassadorship. Ky the Associated Press.

BERLIN, April appointment of State Secretary Hans von Mackensen as Germany's Ambassador to Italy was announced today. Dr. Herbert von Dlrksen, heretefore Ambassador to Tokio. wras appointed Ambassador to London. Maj.

Gen. Eugene Ott, military attache at Tokio, succeeds Dr. von Dirksen. Count von Weiszaecker, political expert in the foreign ministry, was elevated to Von post of secretary of state. Dr.

Ernst Woermann, counselor of the emba.ssy In London, was named to the foreign office ministry with the title of undersecretary of state. The appointment of Gen. Ott marks the first time since the World War that Germany has sent a general to Japan as Ambassador. Gen. Ott has been military attache at Tokio since April, 1934.

Prior to that time he was eGrman observer attached to the Japanese Army. Before going to Japan he was a departmental chief in the war ministry at Berlin. SKELETON IDENTIFIED; WIFE HELD AS SLAYER Jury Holds Invalid Was Faces Quick Trial. By the Associated Press. POCAHONTAS, April coroner's jury returned a verdict today that a skeleton found in a storm cellar at a farm home near here was that of Will Hekner, 43.

It held he came to his death at the hands of his FO-year-old wife "in a manner to this jury The jury recommended that Mrs. Hebner be held for trial. She is in custody on murder charges. Coroner H. G.

McNabb said he expected a special term of Circuit Court to be called immediately. Mrs. Hebner was arrested at Miami, following discovery of the skeleton on a farm she formerly occupied. She denied the slaying. Three witnesses before the jury said a belt found around the skeleton was Hebner's.

Body Found in Mill Bace. PULASKI. April 2 body of Albert Whitaker, about 35, an unemployed electrician, was found late today face downward in an old mill race near here, officers reported. Dr. R.

F. Thornhill, county coroner, reported death was due to drowning and indicated no Inquest was New Divorce Basis Seen in Chemical Reaction of Brain By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, April new cause of divorces was announced today before the Federated Biological Societies. Dr. Richard J.

Block of the New York State Psychiatric Institute declared that the chemical makeup of the male brain is greatly different from that of the female. Thus it appears that the psychology of women cannot be the same as that of men. not because of environment or education, but because the chemical reactions inside their skulls are different, he declared. HITLER WILL SEE AIR MIGHT Display Ever Planned in May, to Be By Associated Press. ROME, April air force intends to stage greatest aerial display ever for the benefit of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler when he visits II Duce In May.

Officials said the exhibition would be Three hundred land and sea planes, divided into 10 squadrons, will drop live bombs of various sizes along a stretch of Mediterranean Coast near Rome, the announcement said. Then, flying in formation, they will attack assigned objects. All movements will be directed by radio from the ground. Inter-plane communication by radio will be used to coordinate the attack maneuvers. Targets with the appearance of camouflaged warships, troops, ports and industrial zones will be constructed for the bombing show.

Aerial acrobatics and a formation parade of 400 planes were planned to round out entertainment for Hitler. SMATHERS REPORT DENIED BY FRIENDS Story Senator Would Accept Appeals Court Judgeship Promptly Denied. A report published in an Atlantic City paper yesterday that Senator Smathers. Democrat, of New Jersey would all likelihood" accept a judgeship in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, brought a prompt disclaimer from friends of the Senator in the Capital. They pointed to the most important constitutional prohibition against a member of Congress taking an office created by legislation in which he has had a part, the judgeship in question having been set up by a bill now awafting President Roosevelt's signature.

It was added that "Senator Smathers is too active a man for such a job at this time in his GARDENS TOBESEEN IN GEORGETOWN TOUR Annual Pilgrimage to Be for Benefit of Child Welfare Work. Plans are being made for the annual Georgetown garden pilgrimage. April 30 and May 7, for the benefit of welfare in it was announced last night bv Mrs. Robert Whitehead, chairman of the committee in charge. Among the outstanding gardens to be seen are Mrs.

F. Lamont Belin's Evermav estate at 1623 Twentyeighth street and Dumbarton Oaks, the garden of Robert Woods Bliss. Many gardens will be open to the public during these two days, according to Mrs. Robert Goodale of the committee, who says some places never before listed in the annual pilgrimage will be opened. Crittenton Home Plans Tea.

Presidents of 23 volunteer women's circles aiding in the work of the Florence Crittenton Home will be entertained at a tea to be given at the institution tomorrow afternoon by the Big Sisters, one of the volunteer organizations. Miss Beatrice Hodgson of the Aid Society will be guest speaker. All A. F. L.

Affiliates Told to Withdraw From for C. I. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor yesterday ordered all A. F. of L.

affiliates to withdraw from Labor's Nonpartisan League, which he said had attracted "droves of crusading radicals and Communists," and to shun any ticket put forward in the name of an independent political labor party. In a letter to officers of all A. F. of L. national and international unions, State and city federations and central labor unions.

Mr. Green called for strict adherence in forthcoming primary and congressional elections to the Federations traditional nonpartisan political policy. He particularly warned A. F. of L.

members to be on guard against candidates nominated by Labor's Nonpartisan League, which he called a "ventriloquist's dummy for the Committee for Industrial Qrganization Aimed at Pennsylvania. Coming directly after a similar reaffirmation of nonpartisanship by the Railway Labor Executives Association, spokesmen for the powerful railway labor brotherhoods. Mr. Green's rejection of the C. I.

political prozram may have an important bearing on the outcome of elections in a number of States in which the C. I. O. is politically active. The order to withdraw' from the league was aimed particularly, it was said, at C.

I. activities in Pennsylvania, where John L. Lewis, C. I. O.

leader, is backing a labor ticket headed by Thomas P. Kennedy, secretarytreasurer of the United Mine Workers, for Governor, and in New York, where the American Labor party, a C. I. O. political unit, has been operating as an independent labor party.

In Pennsylvania Mr. Lewis' first objective is to capture the Democratic gubernatorial nomination for Mr. Kennedy and the senatorial nomination for Mayor S. Davis Wilson, a former Republican. Destroys Labor Front.

The A. F. of withdrawal from Labor's Non-partisan League, which was formed in 1936 to mobilize labor support for the re-election of President Roosevelt, also tends to destroy the.solid labor front on which New Deal-indorsed candidates were counting for support in the fail congressional elections. Mr. Green made it clear that members of the Federation would not be influenced by party labels, but would be guided solely by the attitude of candidates toward the legislative and economic policies of the American Federation of Labor.

Mr. Green also assailed ihe opposition to the A. F. of wages and hours bill. The league, Mr.

Green contended, was nothing more than a C. I. O. agency, of which the United Mine Workers was the principal "financial agency," having contributed in the last six months of 1937. Its chief purpose, he added, was to promote "the personal political ambitions of C.

I. O. C0-0PERATI0NASKED FOR CLEAN-UP WEEKS D. C. Householders Are Urged to Paint, Repair and Modernize Homes April 11 to 23.

Householders of the District were urged yesterday by the Commissioners to make special efforts to beautify the city during the period from April 11 to 23 by painting, repairing and modernizing their houses, planting gardens and removing trash and rubbish. In their annual proclamation of "clean-up weeks" the city heads placed special emphasis on removal of rubbish and appended an appeal from the city refuse division that these operations be done in accord with the law and regulations. In fact, officials recalled that fines up to may be levied for violations of the rules. For instance, a warning is issued against placing of grass cuttings, leaves or other debris in streets or alleys for the "whitewing" force or the alley cleaners to remove. They added that a "reasonable" accumulation of leaves, grass cuttings, small twigs and branches and like burnable material would be collected by the trash collectors, but that such material must be placed in receptacles or tight bundles that one man can handle.

THE WEATHER REPORT District of and moderately cold today; tomorrow mostly cloudy and slightly warmer; moderate to fresh northwest winds today Maryland and and moderately cold today; tomorrow mostly cloudy and slightly warmer. West cloudy, not so cold today; tomorrow cloudy. Weather Conditions Last 31 Hours. The disturbance that developed over the Southeastern States Baturday morning has continued to move rapidly east-northeastward with increasing intensity and was centered Saturday evening about 200 miles east of the Virginia Capes, with lowest pressure about 20.50 inches. Pressure continues low alone the Labrador coast.

Resolution Island inches. A disturbance of slight intensity is moving rapidly southeastward over the Red River of the North Valley. Pembina. N. Dak.

20 82 inches. Pressure continues relatively high southeast of Bermuda. St. Georges 30 04 inches, while a high-pressure area is moving eastward over the west Gulf States. Dallas.

Texas. 30.20 inches. Pressure is relatively nigh over the middle Rncky Mountain region. Yellowstone Park Wyo 30.20 Inches, and Is high and rising over the Cambridge Bay region. Coppermine.

District of MacKenzie. 30.50 inches During the last 24 hours there have been rains in portions of the Middle and South Atlantic States and southern portion of the middle Gulf States, while snow flurries occurred in portions In the Lake region. Temperatures have fallen rather generally in the Atlantic States and the Ohio Valiev, while they have moderated in the Plains States. Repert Until in p.m. Saturday.

Midnight 50 12 2 a.m-50 2 4 a.m- 40 4 P.m._48 0 a.m-47 0 p.m._47 8 a.m. 47 8 pm. 45 in am. 47 in pm. 42 Record Until 10 P.M.

Saturday. Highest. 56. at 1 a.m. yesterday; year ago 63.

Lowest, 42. at 10 p.m. yesterday; year ago. 47. Record Temperatures This Year.

Highest. S4. on March 22. Lowest. 18.

on Jsnusry 28. Tide Tables. (Purnlshed by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow. High- 0:48 a.m.

10:32 a.m. Low 4:00 a.m. 4:44 a.m. p.m. 11:0.3 p.m.

Low 5:30 p.m. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches In the Capital (current month to date). Month. 1038.

Average. Record. January 2.84 3.55 7.83 2.37 3.27 6.84 1.78 3.75 8.84 '91 April 3.27 0.13 May- 3.70 10.60 '80 June 4.13 10.04 '00 July 4.71 10.63 '86 August 4.01 14.41 '28 3.24 17.45 '34 October 2.84 8.81 '37 November 2.37 8.89 '89 December 8.33 7.88 '01 River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah clear at Harpers Perry late yesterday. The Run and Moon.

Rises. Sets. Sun. today .5 30 Sun. tomorrow 5 5(1 33 Moon, today a m.

Automobile lights must be turned on onehalf hour after sunset. Weather In Various Cities. Precio 7:30 Max. Min. Sat to Sat- Fri.

7:30 urday. night, pm Asheville. N. 52 40 Atlanta Ga 50 40 40 0 Atlantic City N. J.

40 44 44 io Baltimore. Md. 40 40 4s nn5 Birmingham. Ala 54 40 40 94 Bismarck. Dak.

44 10 40 Boston. Mass 50 30 40 BufTslo. 32 32 30 0 Chicago. Ill 30 30 .34 Cincinnati. Ohio 30 34 34 00 Cheyenne.

Wvo 44 0 Cleveland. Ohio. 34 32 3s 0 05 Dallas. Tex 54 30 52 Davenport. Iowa.

30 20 34 Denver. Colo 40 10 40 Des Moines. Iowa 3R 24 30 Detroit. 30 32 .32 0 01 Duluth 32 10 32 El Paso. Tex 04 30 Galveston.

02 52 00 0 05 Helena. 40 22 44 Huron. S. Dak 44 24 Indianapolis Ind 34 30 Jacksonville. Pis.

02 70 52 3R Ksnsas City. 40 20 44 Little Rock Ark 54 30 52 Los Angeles. 70 50 72 Louisville. Kv. 30 30 30 Marquette.

Mich. 30 20 "0 0 13 Memphis. Tenn. 52 40 50 Miami. Fla.

02 74 70 Mlnneapolls-8t. Paul .12 10 .32 Mobile. Ala. 00 54 50 0 52 New Orleans. La.

04 50 (to 0 90 New York. N. 40 40 40 North Platte Nebr 52 10 50 Omaha Nebr. 40 24 44 Philadelphia Pa. 40 44 44 Phoenix.

Ariz. 00 44 70 Pittsburgh. Pa. 30 34 34 Portland. Me.

40 30 411 Portland Orec. 02 42 HO Rapid City. S. Dak. 40 12 40 3 Lake City.

Utah 50 24 40 St. Louis. Mo. 30 32 30 3an Antonio. 04 42 HO I San Dleto.

Calif 74 52 00 Francisco. Calif. 50 SO 54 Santa Pe. Mex. 511 20 50 3avannah.

Oa. 74 00 02 23 Seattle. Wash. 00 40 00 Springfield. 38 32 31 Tampa.

Pla. 83 73 ll tf fjg.