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7 laimi i oil wary I i THE WEATHER Thundertorm, colder Thursday cloudy ind colder on Friday Thursday, March 31, 1938. 107th Year. No. 331 On Guard for Over a Century 22 Pages Three Cents mfit 40 Injured as Mob Attacks Policemen in Plant Strike Riot Reorganization Bill Is Speeded Through to House Debate Today; Roosevelt Attacked by Senators Tornadoes Hit in Five States; 28 Lives Lost Hundreds Injured as Storms Cut Across Center of Nation Two Schools Razed and Students Hurt City Considers Pay Slashes to Meet Dole Cost Council Kills Raises for 5,000 in Cutting Budget $577,000 School Salary Boosts May Feel Ax Today Lockjaw Is Fatal to Six Recipients of Cancer Serum Spearhead of Dictator Fight Tells Why Bill Imperils You WASHINGTON, March 30 What Senator Burt Wheeler was in the fight to preserve the Supreme Court last summer, Rep. Samuel B.

Pettengill. Indiana Democrat, niRy well be in the fight now looming in the House to block the so-called "Dictatorship Bill," or Roosevelt reorganization plan. He wdll be the spearhead. Rep. Pettengill spoke recently In Detroit before the Economic Club of that city.

Several days ago he addressed the membership of the National Grange. His remarks then have a grave significance on the impending battle in the House. He told the farmers: "The Grange has not agreed with the President on everything. It refused to coerce the courts by the sheer weight of puppet judges. Committee O.K's the Substitutions Lower Chamber Now Receiving Protests Against Plan Public Kept in Dark, Representative Sayt WASHINGTON.

March 30 The House today cleared the way for consideration of the Government Reorganization Bill at noon to morrow. Fast breaking development marked the second phase of President Roosevelt's attempt to push through the legislation which is designed to give him broad powers to "streamline" the executive department. They included: 1 The House Reorganization Committee voted, 7 to 2, to report four substitute House bills for the measure approved Monday by seven-vote margin in the Senate. 2 Senator Edward R. Burke, Nebraska Democrat, a leader of the successful fight against Mr.

Roosevelt's court enlargement plan last year, moved in the Senate to send from 75,000 to 100,000 expressions of opposition to the bill to the House. 3 The House agreed to take up the substitute measure tomorrow. General debate will be limited to six hours, with the reading of amendments scheduled to begin Friday. Leaders planned to call a session Saturday to complete action. 4 The National Grange sent letters to all members of the House, charging that the bill in its present form would be a "blov to the cause of popular government," vesting "unwarranted" powers in the President and reducing Congress to the status of a "mere spectator." The American Federation of Labor also sent protests to Representatives.

Ratification of the substitution proposal In committee was along party lines, with minority mem- TVA Inveitif ition Voted in Home Paf 2 KANSAS CITY, March 30 Devastating tornadoes lashed across five states today and tonight, killing at least 28 persons and seriously injuring hundreds. The storms first tore at the tri-state corner of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, dipped into Northern Arkansas then whipped up the Illinois River Valley of Central Illinois. Eight persons were killed in Columbus, a southeast Kansas town of 3,500. At least six died in a sundown storm around South Pekin, 111., a town which felt the storm severely. Property damage was heavy all along the slanting path of the tornadoes.

KANSAS Eight known dead: At Columbus, Joan Griswold. 3 years old, and Barbara Griswold, 14 months; a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crain; Jerry Grayson, 1, Mrs. Louis Canficld, 65; Mrs.

Clara Garrison and Jerry Garrison, an elderly unidentified man. It was reported that 12 of the 174 children in the Highland Park Consolidated School in Columbus had been killed. More than 100 more were injured in the town and martial law was declared. Hospitals were jammed. In several other Kansas towns teachers saved children from harm by hurrying them out of wooden school buildings.

ILLINOIS-Eleven known dead: At South Pekin, Otis L. Freed, Mrs. John Houston, Mrs. Homer Sellers, Mrs. Roger Morris, Ralph Temple, Hilco Johnson; Ruth Schwa rtzentraub, Deer Creek; Clyde Brillhart.

Astoria: Luther Riggs, Mount Sterling; Val Stev ens, Venice; unidentified farmer at Morton. More than a hundred were Injured as the storm also struck Tremont, Eureka, Rushville, Belleville and North Alton. Property damage was extremely heavy at South Pekin, with rows of homes blown down. The only hospital at Rushville was destroyed. State police were mobilized to meet the disasters.

ARKANSAS Five known dead: Mr. and Mrs. F. angler Dugger, Mrs. Lige Garrett and an unidentified man, all killed when their homes near the Miller farm community were smashed.

Dozens of houses were razed in the northern part of the state. Flood warnings were issued after a Central Arkansas cloudburst. MISSOURI Four known dead: John Allen, 81, a farmer at Shaw; Mrs. John McCormick and two children of the William Cornelius family, all of Ncclyville, in the Ozarks Mountains. Dozens were injured.

Tornadoes hit the central part of the State around Columbia. There was widespread damage by wind and hail in Marion and Shelby Counties. A A None known dead, but at least 14 injured in the northeastern counties. Four children were hurt when the frame school at Oglesby fell on them. Rescuers dug them out.

Fifty-six other children had escaped before. Father Stabbed by His Son, 8 Rescues Mother in a Domestic Tragedy FLINT, March 30 Rushing to the defense of his mother, eight-year-old Charles McLaughlin stabbed and seriously wounded his father, Arlon McLaughlin, 44, manager of the Genesee Ice Fuel late Wednesday night. Deputy Sheriff Clark Thompson reported that the small boy was awakened shortly after 11 p. m. by screams of his mother, Alice, 28.

Grabbing an ice pick, Charles found his father attempting to choke Mrs. McLaughlin. McLaughlin, suffering stab wounds in the back, was taken to Hurley Hospital, where his condition as pronounced serious. 13 Patrolmen Hurt at Screw Factory 5,000 Throw Bricks and Clubs When Workers Leave Persons Seized; U.A.W. Offers Peace Forty persons, including 13 policemen, were suffering from injuries Wednesday evening, follow-mg a riot, the third this week, v.

Inch broke out at 4 p. m. at the Federal Screw Works, 3401 Martin Ave. Meanwhile, Walter Reuthcr, president of the West Side Local, United Automobile Workers, sent a telegram to Marshall T. Boden.

treasurer of the company, offering to call off the strike if the company would call off police and strikebreakers and settle down to immediate negotiations. The strike began Monday when workers refused to accept a pay cut. A scuffle occurred at 7 a. m. Wednesday when police escorted workers into the plant.

Patrolman Abraham J. Matten was injured. Officers to Take Statements Assistant Prosecutor William L. Brunncr and Sergt. Lloyd Doan, of the Homicide Squad, went to Harper Hospital Wednesday evening to take statements from five who had been injured badly In the rioting.

One of them, Percy Keys, 34 years old, of 455 Benton a strike sympathizer, was said to have received a fractured leg, a broken spine and numerous other injuries. His condition was said to be critical. Homer Martin. U. A.

President, also visited the hospital. Keys refused to talk to Brunncr and the. other four men declared that they had taken no part in the strike and were merely spectators. The other four men to be oucs-1 tinned are Wilfred Groulx. 22.

of 411 Auburn Alton F. Wagner, 29. of 3413 Gilbert Henry Stephens, of 1412 W. Forest and Henry Barber, 34. of 213 Fairand Park, Highland Talk.

Others Injured Seriously Others Injured seriously in the rioting are Anthony Wowrzynila, 45, of 6844 Mercier John Shallis. 34, of 1195 S. Grevfriars Wilfred Drew, 32, of 4001 Auburn Pontiac; John Francis, 39, of 1210 St. Aubin Joseph Kantuck, 31, of 13477 Distel John Harris, 50. of 3447 Woodward Max Hop.

witz, 35, of 279 Alfred and Edward Pernod, 32. of 0119 Chene St. All received first aid treatment at the U.A.W.'s emergency hospital across the street from the plant. Three physicians in charge there declared that they had treated 21 others for minor in-juries. The injured policemen are Scigt.

Flmory L. Hudson, and Patrolmen Charles Smith, Milton I. Chenant. Matthew Yoie. Ford Belcher, Daw K.

Shinicl, Lyle D. Burgess, Vincent Yesudovich, Melvin D. Leroy Dickenson, Floyd H. Wattman, Moody W. Smith and William Barr.

J'lrasi; Turn to rape 7 Column 1 Pike Slashes Due in Bonded Liquors Plenty of Four Year Old Stuff Ready for Market LANSING, March 30 Retail prices of bonded whisky will fall sharply, beginning Friday, because large stocks placed in bond when prohibition was repealed are now coming onto the market. The State Liquor Control Commission, in announcing the new price list effective April 1, said that the price of standard brands of four-year-old, bottled-in-bond bourbon whisky would fall from $4.90 and $5.20 a quart to $3.25 and $3.10 a (Jiart. The price of standard brands of bonded rye will fall from 53.25 to $2.75 a quart. The commission's new list contains 287 items of liquor, 75 of which have been reduced in price. Prices on only 11 items have been raised.

Thirty new brands will be offered for sale in Detroit only. Distribution will be extended outstate as rapidly as individual brands demonstrate that they will sell. Roosevelt Tours Army's No. 1 Post FORT EENNING, Ga March 30 (A. Over the rolling acres of the nation's greatest military reservation, President Roosevelt drove today to view the latest gadgets in modern warfare and the crack 29th Infantry, whose 2,000 men comprise the only war-strength regiment of the Army.

As planes roared overhead, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt toured miles of the 97.000-acrc post, home of the famous school that trams America's infantry officers. Th visit was climaxed rn inspection rf niore than 6.000 officers and men. 'Purchase' Retort Starts Bitter Fight President's Statement on Wires Is Called 'Disrespectful' Charges by Wheeler Bring a Sharp Clash St'ul to FYfe Prpet and Chicas-o Tribune WASHINGTON, March 30 President Roosevelt's statement yesterday citing the passage of his government reorganization bill as proof that the Senate could not be "purchased by organized telegrams" brought out bursts of indignation and counter-charges that rocked the Senate for an hour today. Senator Hiram W.

Johnson, California Republican, touched off the explosion when he shouted: "This shows on the part of the President a complex a deep disrespect of the Senate. What Does He Mean "Did he mean that the Senate could be purchased only by promises of projects in particular states or by marshals or other officials in particular localities?" In a violent free-for-all that ensued Johnson and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, said the President's statement justified every expression used in connection with the reorganization bill in the four weeks of Senate debate. The expression most frequently used in that debate was dictatorship. When challenged by Senator Sherman Minton, Indiana Democrat, to name a project that had been used by the Administration for vote-buying purposes, Wheeler ignored the Senate rules, which probit one member from impugning the motives of another.

Million-Dollar Froject "One of those projects was a project in the State of Idaho for something like a million dollars." said Wheeler. He was referring to Senator JameS Pi Pone. Idaho Democrat and a hydro-electric pow er and irrigation project on the Snake and Boise Rivers. The project had been rejected by the Bureau of Reclamation, by the Bureau of the Budget, and by the House Appropriations Committee. Pope voted against the Wheeler amendment requiring congressional approval to make presidential reorganization orders effective, and four days later President Roosevelt transmitted to the Senate a supplemental estimate of $1,000,000 to begin construction on the project.

Denies Such a harge Pope demanded to know whether Wheeler's statement, implied that the project had any connection with the reorganization bill. Wheeler said that he made no such charge. "I was simply saying that it was a coincidence," Wheeler declared. Then he declared that the President's "implication was that possibly they (Senators who voted against reorganization) were, being purchased, whereas those who voted on the other, side were men who could not be purchased." Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois Democrat, who supported the reorganization bill, suggested that President Roosevelt's use of the worn "purchased" had been misconstrued, although the President had confirmed the use of the term and authorized reporters to put it in quotation marks.

Senator Lewis said the President meant to say that Senators could not be frightened or intimidated by telegrams. Dictionary Meaning "For the benefit of my distinguished friend, the Senator from Illinois," Wheeler said, "I wish to read from the dictionary the meaning of the word It says it means 'buying for money or its Wheeler said that he had received telegrami from the American Federation of Labor, the railroad brotherhoods, officials of the Veterans Bureau in Montana and farm organizations. All opposed the bill, he said. "Docs the President mean that those organizations purchased the votes of United States senators?" Wheeler demanded. Big New Cluster oi Stars Reported CAMBRIDGE.

March 30 (A. Harvard astronomers announced today discovery of a gigantic cluster of stars in the southern sky, apparently belonging to no known class of cosmic systems, and perhaps revealing the existence of an entirely new group of star systems in the universe. This island of stars, resembling a football in shape, is located in the southern constellation Sculptor. Its light is so faint that individual star members can be detected only through powerful telescopes 19 Are Snowbound CALGARY. March SOMA.

Ni v. ere snow bound today en a. nam (at Oven, Alta. The City Council, facing a financial crisis on by an increasing welfare load, eliminated all next year's salary and wage Increases, totaling $368,000, at its budget session Wednesday. Pay cuts for municipal employees loomed as a possible solution to the increasingly gloomy situation.

A hurried conference was called for Thursday morning by Mayor Reading for a discussion of the welfare problem with the Council and financial officers. In addition, scheduled salary Increases of $457,000 in the Board of Education budget appear doomed at Thursday's budget session. Several councilmen have indicated that they would like to put that money into the capital-cost fund so that at least part of the new building program could be carried out. $577,000 Rakes Killed Wednesday's action brought the total cut in pay raises to $577,000, including the $209,000 lopped off Tuesday night by suspension of the "step" increases under the Griffenhagen Plan. The Council's action means that all employees, including policemen and firemen, scheduled for increases under the budget as approved by the Mayor, will not get raises.

All wages and salaries as provided in the current budget will remain the same for the next fiscal year. About 5,000 employees are affected. City Controller John N. Daley told the Mayor late Wednesday that the City probably would reach its borrowing limit before the end of the fiscal year, July 1, and that revised estimates of G. R.

Harris, welfare superintendent, indicated the necessity for borrowing $4,500,000 in addition to the $1,000,000 expected from the State to support the welfare and WPA loads. Families on Relief Detroit's peak welfare load of 57,000 families in 1934 was passed several weeks ago and there are now families on welfare and 45,000 on WPA projects. Budget Director David V. Addy told the Mayor that pay cuts for City employees might be found necessary to enable the City to operate until July 1. "Welfare and WPA neccessities will require $6,000,000 between now and the end of the fiscal year," Daley said.

"Harris' financing was estimated on the basis of a normal 16,000 case load. Today he found it necessary to revise his estimate on the basis of 40,000 families through April, May and June. On this basis we will need $5,000,000 for welfare alone." $500,000 Is Expected Mayor Reading said that he had been assured that the State would advance its April allotment of $573,000 for Wayne County in a few days and that almost $500,000 of that amount would be allocated to Detroit. Harris estimated that the welfare costs of the City were $60,000 a day. Addy explained that the City already had borowed $3,000,000.

a third of it for WPA financing, and that its bonding limit of $8,000,000 would be reached through the financing necessary for welfare and WPA until July 1. Please Turn to Page 7 Column 4 Rich Sultan's Divorce Is Just a Lot of Talak SINGAPORE, March 31 (Thursday) (A. The fabulously wealthy Sultan of the Malay State of Johore was reported today to have divorced his Scottish sultana, the former Mrs. Helen Wilson. Acting under Mohammedan law, the Sultan was reported to have repeated the word "talak" (get out) four times, making effective the divorce.

and taken to a hospital. Officers said that he would recover. G. H. O'Neal, of Trumbull, chief machinist's mate, the third man to reach the wing, appar ently perished.

The others, presumably trapped in the cabin, were Lieut. L. O. Crane, of Nashville, Aviation Cadet W. H.

Lear, of Davis, Navigation Pilot B. I. Windham, of Kirbyville, and Radioman V. A. Luciana, of Baltimore.

It was the second of the big bombing planes to be lost at sea in the maneuvers and the fifth of its kind wrecked in. Pacific nival operations this year, with an mutated total dtdlh lid; 21. The Ill-fated Navy bomber was on dofcr.se scouting duty. ORLANDO, March 30 (A. Six women died today from lockjaw after being given injections of a scrum for the treatment of cancer.

Five other women were in hospitals with serious cases of tetanus. They, too, had been given scrum injections. Physicians said that all were treated from one bottle which apparently had become contaminated. They expressed fear that other patients also had been given injections from the same bottle, but hail not determined how many. Dr.

T. A. Neal, of Orlando, said that the injections were administered from a bottle of fluid, called Ensol, at his clinic. He said that 10,000 injections had been given through the clinic in two and a half years "with remarkable success and with no previous ill effects." In Kingston, Dr. Henry Connell, who discovered the Ensol treatment for cancer and announced his findings in 1935, said; "I am convinced one bottle of Ensol became contaminated after it left Kingston; other bottles in the same shipment have been used at Orlando without harmful results.

The dead were listed as Mrs. Jack Sweetman, Mrs. L. J. Jackson, and Mrs.

W. R. Thompson, all of Orlando; and Mrs. Elizabeth Sunderburke, of La Grange, N. Mrs.

W. C. Braswell, of Holopaw, and Mrs. H. B.

Harnage, of Cocoa, Fla. II Duce Boasts of War Power Shouts That Italy Is Ready to Fight ROME. March 30 A.P.1 Pre- mipr Mussolini cave the world a detailed picture of Italy's great war macnine loaay anu aeciarea that it was ready to take the of fensive, tr necessary, 10 aeiena me interests of the empire. In an address to the Senate, hroadeast to the world. II Duce described Italy's submarine fleet as the largest In existence, saia that the nations air force was anion? the hest and pictured a possible army of 9,000,000 men- all under his own supreme command.

He declared that by arming further, regardless of cost, he intended to "assure general peace, but above all 'our 'Beot Drfcnte Ik Offenxe' The primary purpose of th: Army, he said, was for defense. He added, however, that "defense must not be taken in its limited sense: Often the best defense is offense." Italv wants peace. Mussolini continued, hut rejects illusions." Placing the horrors of civilian bombardment squarely before the Italian people, II Duce advised all those "who could organize their evistenre in small towns and vil lages" to move from the cities, warning them that once war oe-ean mobilization needs would not permit mass movement. He made it clear mai ma au-viro was nart of his preparation of the whole nation for a possible war. Warns of War Moves If war comes, he said, Italy will carry it through the air to the enemy's towns and cities because "we must dominate the skies and weaken the morale of peoples." "Our best defense is to be an offensive.

The war from the air must be conducted so as to destroy whatever arrangements the enemy already has made," he added. He declared that the nation had 876 factories employing 580,000 workmen producing armaments and that the workers "have displayed perfect discipline." Adding to the martial spirit of the day, anti-aircraft reserves were dispatched to strategic centers throughout the country. Fascists interpreted the display as a warning to France, which in the last two weeks has been the principal target of Italian indignation. Publishing Official Made Radio's Temporary Czar WASHINGTON, March 30 (A. The National Association of Broadcasters tonight selected Mark Ethridge, of Louisville, general manager of the Lo i i 1 1 Courier-Journal and Times, to be temporary "boss" of the radio industry unui a successor is selected.

The N.A.B. decided last February to appoint a salaried president who would have powers over the industry corresponding roughly to those of Will Hays in the movies and Judge K. M. Landis in baseball. Two Years in Iron Lung MIAMI BEACH.

March 30-(A. Fred B. Snite. still 1 smiling after two years in an iron i iiiiig. will nigh! the second anmveisary of his con-! fmenient with a gay charity i party featuring a boxing shw.

Write or Wire Your Congressman If you want to beat the Dictator bill Who he is and your district Will be found on Page 3 Norris Jailed as a Bigamist First Wife Freed as 'Memory' Returns John Norris, forty-one-year-old former detective, and his first wife. Mrs. Frances Norris. changed places in the County Jail Wednesday, when Mrs. Norris testified before Recorder's Judge John P.

Scallen that she and Norris had been married in Rockville, June 12, 1916. Judge Scallen ordered Norris held in $5,000 bond on a charge of bigamy and released Mrs. Norris, who has been in jail since March IS on contempt charges because of her evasive answers at the examination of Norris, Appearance of Mrs. Norris in court followed a message which she sent to the Judge Wednesday morning that her memory, which had been "hazy" r.bout her marriage, had returned, and she was willing to talk. Within a short time she had signed a warrant charging Norris with bigamy.

First intimation that Mrs. Norris was tiring of jail came Tuesday when she asked Assistant Prosecutor Rlaph K. Garber to arrange for an interview with Judge Scallen. On the stand Wednesday, Mrs. Norris said she had been advised as to what to say when she testified on March 18.

Assistant Prosecutor Garber said he would conduct a thorough investigation to learn who had advised her. Norris stood mute when arraigned and his attonrey, Sam Wellrr, asked that examination be waived. As this meant that Mrs. Norris might have to stay in jail as a material witness, Garber asked the judge to deny the motion and demand an immediate examination to put Mrs. Norris' testimony on record.

Mrs. Henrictte Micheles Norris, 27 years old, mother of an eight-week-old son, whom Norris married in Michigan City, Aug. 4, 1936, signed the original complaint. The first Mrs, Norris, who celebrated her forty-second birthday in the County Jail on March 24, is the mother of two children, John. 18, and Helen, 15.

Norris lost his police job March 2 for accepting $20 from a holdup victim on the pretext that the money would be used to help find the bandit. Diet Changes to Add Years to Life's Span BALTIMORE. March 30 (A The addition of 30 more years to the life span of man by diet changes was foreseen today by scientists of Cornell University, reporting before the American Institute of Nutrition. This stretching of the traditional threescore years and ten is possible by restricting the high- energy foods eaten in the early years of life and living more slowly but vastly longer, Dr. C.

M. McCay, Dr. L. A. Maynard and Dr.

G. Sperling declared. Red Crosses Are Target for Rebels, Says Doctor NEW YORK, March 30 (A. Dr. Irving Busch, who served as chief surgeon and commandant of American hospitals in Spain for nine months, said today the Red Cross was a favored target of insurgent bombers.

"We always kept the Red Cross under cover," he said. "The red shows up very well from a great height and makes an excellent target. We always throw mud over the crosses on the ambulances. The hospitals in Spain have been bombed regularly and that's not just talk." Justice Brandeis 111 WASHINGTON. March 30 (A, Associate Justice Louis Brandeis.

who ij suffering from a tight f.i-H. remained away the Supreme Court bench tody fcr the second consecutive session. it 1 a eed with the coer cion in the farm bill. It disagrees with certain tu. pending execu- 'J tive reorganization bill.

"In these dif A ferences It ques tions only the wisdom of policies, not the motives of men. And I am certain it would be as nnick tndnv. as It wan in l'ettcngill 1933, to support President Roosevelt on every sound administrative policy designed to check this new deflation. Clinging to CniiHtitution "But there is one thing the Grange will not surrender to anyone. In this worldwide insanity of personal government, in this madhouse filled with dictators sending millions to their doom, it clings to the Constitution of the United States as to a mighty rock in a weary land.

"God grant that when the fever of these troubled times shall pass, constitutional government and its checks and balances of an independent court and an independent Congress will have saved our own dear land from the fate of millions abroad who thought there was something better than liberty. "Two months ago, on Jan. 20, I debated the reorganization bill with Mr. James Roosevelt on the Town Hall of the Air program. I said then and I say now that there are many duplications and much confusion in the executive bureaus that ought to be remedied.

But I also said then that I would 'much prefer to discuss ways and means to get the millions of hlle men and billions of idle dollars back to work 'Relief Lines Are Longer' "That was two months ago. Today the relief lines are longer, the unemployed greater, the public debt increasing, the railroads closer to bankruptcy, farm commodities sinking in value. "In the face of these tragic facts, when every policy and program should hinge on one question WILL IT PUT MEN BACK TO WORK? Congress is forced to fight for its constitutional rights, if not its very existence, in resisting demands for more and more power. Please Turn to Pay 3 Column 1 Cow Shed Named in Rum Complaint Cross-Table Dancing Is Among Charges Cross-table dancing, serving of liquor to intoxicated patrons and other alleged violations of the liquor laws were charged Wednesday against the Cow Shed, a liquor establishment with a Class license, located at 30 Clifford in a complaint to the Liquor Commission by police. The complaint brings to 131 the number already referred or to be referred to the commission by police this month.

Lieut. Kennedy Laurence, of the Vice Squad, charged that Patrolmen Russell Moore, John Lee and Jack West, and Policewoman Ruth Peters had seen liquor being served to patrons already drunk; had observed men patrons dancing with women not at their own tables, and had seen the cigaret girl drink with patrons. The alleged violations, it is charged, occurred in the sight of the manager, Robert Page. The Liquor Commission will hear the case April 15. Proposed Sunday Closing for Auto Agencies Is Hit A hearing on the proposed ordinance to close all auto sales companies on Sundays will be held before the Common Council Friday.

"It looks like the first step to ukh" u.1.1 ut nit', ruinrai'iiitM John A Kror.k. Other members of the Council whether rich law would the Th ontmaitce has r.j.i it3 first and second" reading. if bers Rep. John Taber. of Nevr York, and Charles L.

Gifford, of Massachusetts, voting against. Gifford later charged: "This committee never had one single day of public hearings on the bill. They were held in secret for 14 days and we were never allowed to give the public one iota of information." Bertram! Snell, of New York. House minority leader, charged that the Administration was engaged in a "deliberate attempt to deceive" the public into believing that the House bill retains the office of comptroller general, with present pre-auditing powers, whereas it actually makes him a "mere creatine of the President." 'Save Your Money' KALAMAZOO. March 30 In an open telegram to his constituents in the Fourth Congressional District, Congressmen Clare B.

Hoffman today advised them not to spend their money for telegrams urging him to oppose the reorganization bill. "Always have been, am now and always will be opposed to that bill or any other which tends to create dictatorship. Save your money," said the telegram. Greta Garbo to Quit in 1940, Friend Says NAPLES, Italy, March 31 (Thursday) (U.P.) Greta Garbo was reported today to have told a friend, before sailing for Tunis, Tunisia, with Leopold Stokowski, that she would retire from the screen in two years and then perhaps get married. "There will be no marriage for at least two years owing to con-traits and engagements in Hollywood," she was quoted as telling a Mrs.

Caruso, sister of the owner of the hotel where Stokowski stayed in Ravello. Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Alden, Ruth 11 Around the Town 4 Chatterbox 10 Collyer, Bert 15 Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle IS Editorial 6 Financial Id Foreign News 4 Good Morning 6 Guest, Edgar A. 6 Ufv the Dopester 3 I Wish to Report 10 Lippmann, Walter 9 National Whirligig 6 Newton. Dr. Joseph Obituaries IS Qudlen, Robert 6 Radio Programs 15 Screen Second Guess 14 Serial, "Lessors in 21 Society State "News 15 Theater Stdiib'ics vd the News 3 Five Fliers Believed Killed as Ship Falls in War Games Bomber Dives into Ocean Near Honolulu; Two of the Crew Reach Shore HONOLULU.

March 30 (A. A naval bombing plane crashed at sea today with a probable loss of five lives, lending a note of tragic realism to a great mock battle for the control of Hawaii. Flying low in a heavy rain squall, the twin engined fighter crashed off Waianae, on the northwest side of Oahu, principal island of the Hawaiian group. Witnesses said that the plane struck at tremendous speed. Seven men were aboard.

Three of them apparently succeeded in climbing out on a wing nf the partially submerged wreck. One of these. Radioman G. .1. u'liw-tt.

150 yards to shoie, H. F. Baitz. of Houston, Tpx machinist's mat, v. as washed unconscious.